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__label__wiki	0.898721	0.898721	Democrats elect Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney to lead campaign arm As incoming DCCC chief, Maloney will have one of the trickiest jobs in Washington after the Democrats’ down-ballot trouncing at the polls last month that left Republicans between five and seven seats away from the majority. He will have to convince dozens of new candidates to run in a potentially unfavorable environment and in districts that have yet to be drawn. Maloney will be immediately inserted into the center of an ideological debate that has gripped House Democrats since Nov 3., with the caucus’s warring factions pointing fingers at each other over exactly why they’re staring down a shrunken majority come January. Many moderate Democrats — who largely supported Maloney for his ability to win in a Trump-won district — are demanding a new party message that veers starkly away from the GOP’s attacks on socialism and progressive slogans like “defund the police.” Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, are dissecting the internal gears at DCCC, arguing that the operation needs to rely on more diverse staff and consultants, devote more resources to get-out-the-vote efforts and completely rethink its digital operations. Many progressives, particularly lawmakers of color, had flocked behind Cárdenas, who proved to be a prolific fundraiser and organizer as he built the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s campaign arm, BOLD Pac, from the ground up. And he staked his campaign on a vow to Democrats’ increasingly apparent struggles with Latino. The party suffered surprising losses in heavily Latino seats in Florida, Texas and California. Rep. Tony Cardenas speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP \| J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Cárdenas was vocal about reforming some of DCCC’s practices, including ending a contentious policy that banned the organization from hiring any consultant that has helped a primary challenger of a sitting Democrat — a practice that enraged progressives. Maloney has acknowledged concerns with messaging and said he would reconsider the DCCC blacklist, though he has been mostly restrained — both publicly and privately — in his assessment of DCCC’s miscalculations. “The smart thing for the DCCC chair to do is to say, I don’t know what happened until I’ve really had a chance to dig into the numbers,” Maloney said in a recent interview. As chair, Maloney will have an additional task of shepherding members through the decennial redistricting process, which is fraught with politics and internal bickering, particularly in states that are on track to lose a seat. Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that the Census Bureau will almost certainly not be able to release its reapportionment data in December, delaying states ability to draw new maps. It’s entirely possible that redistricting alone creates enough red-friendly seats to place Republicans in the majority in 2022. The GOP has total control of the process in many key states, including Texas, Florida and North Carolina, which could have a combined total of 82 seats. Heather Caygle contributed to this report. How UK protesters are taking the spark of Black Lives Matter back to their hometowns Students May Not Be Allowed To Return To University For Five Weeks After Christmas To Prevent Spreading Coronavirus Round Campus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line780
__label__wiki	0.693415	0.693415	You are here: Home Page > Social Sciences > Never Enough Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit Neil Gilbert Removes the veil of scientific authority that has obscured the prevailing assumptions about the severity and implications of poverty, inequality, and social mobility in the U.S., along with the presumed benefits of universal social policies. Highlights the distortions of international comparisons on these issues and illustrates the significant variations in the definition and measurements of them by drawing a firm distinction between relative and absolute measures of poverty and social mobility. Illustrates the tendency for progressive academics studying social problems such as poverty, rape, hunger, or inequality to reframe the definition and measurement of these problems. Uses hard data, stripped of subjective filters, to come to controversial and counterintuitive conclusions about social mobility, income inequality, social welfare spending, and other core elements of the progressive agenda. Likely to cause a stir within the academy, generating some controversy and ruffling some feathers. Proposes a neo-progressive agenda that would focus on the true challenges we face in the 21st century. In this landmark work, Neil Gilbert addresses the long-standing tensions between capitalism and the progressive spirit. Challenging the contemporary progressive outlook on the failures of capitalism, Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit analyzes the empirical evidence for conventional claims about the real level of poverty, the presumed causes and consequences of inequality, the meaning and underlying dynamics of social mobility, and the necessity for more social welfare spending and universal benefits. A careful reading of the research reveals that these issues are far less serious than contemporary progressive claims would have the public believe. Progressive leaders, however, remain firmly wedded to the established social agenda, which conveys a vision of the good society that disregards the historically unprecedented and wide-spread abundance in the advanced post-industrial countries. Meanwhile, the progressive agenda inadvertently caters to the corrosive effects of insatiable consumption and the commodification of everyday life, from which modern capitalism profits. The analysis suggests that it is time to resist the material definition of progress that stands so high on the current agenda and envision alternative ways for government to advance society. 1. The Progressive Spirit 2. The Affluent Society: Poverty Amid Abundance 3. No Longer A Massive Affliction: Are you Blind? 4. The Root of All Evil: Poverty to Inequality 5. Inequality Amid Abundance: What's the Harm? 6. Social Mobility: Going Up and Coming Down 7. The Arc and Ladder of Mobility 8. Universalism: Taxing and Spending 9. A Neo-Progressive Agenda Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkleey Neil Gilbert, PhD, MSW, is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley. He served as a Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, was twice awarded Fulbright Fellowships, and served as a Visiting Scholar at the International Social Security Association, where he was a member of the Advisory Board on Social Security Research. Gilbert is Chair of the Board of Directors of Seneca Family of Agencies. His numerous publications include 14 books and 17 edited volumes. Combatting Child Abuse Politics of Welfare Louise Tillin, Rajeshwari Deshpande, K. K. Kailash Transformation of the Welfare State Urban Youth and Photovoice Melvin Delgado Creating Aging-Friendly Communities Andrew Scharlach, Amanda Lehning The Cracked Mirror Gopal Guru, Sundar Sarukkai Community Psychology and Community Mental Health Geoffrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, Jose Ornelas Broken Three Times Joan Kaufman John Aldrich Social Work Live Carol Dorr Social Sciences > Social Work > Welfare & Benefit Systems	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line783
__label__wiki	0.955128	0.955128	You are here: Home Page > Arts & Humanities > Music > Researching the Song Researching the Song A Lexicon Shirlee Emmons and Wilbur Watkins Lewis, Jr. Singers are faced with a unique challenge among musicians: they must express not just the music, but the lyrics too. To effectively communicate the meaning behind these words, singers must understand the many references embedded in the vast international repertoire of great art songs. They must deal with the meaning of the lyrics, frequently in a language not their own and of a culture unfamiliar to them. From Zelter and Schubert to Rorem and Musto, Researching the Song serves as an invaluable guide for performers, teachers, and enthusiasts to the art song repertoire. Its more than 2,000 carefully researched entries supply information on most of the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. The authors explain the meaning of less familiar literary terms, figures, and authors referenced in song while placing songs in the context of larger literary sources. Readers will find entries dealing with art songs from the German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, South American, Greek, Finnish, Scandinavian, and both American and British English repertoires. Sources, narratives, and explanations of major song cycles are also given. Organized alphabetically, the lexicon includes brief biographies of poets, lists of composers who set each poet's work, bibliographic materials, and brief synopses of major works from which song texts were taken, including the plots of all Restoration theater works containing Purcell's vocal music. The more performers know and understand the literary elements of a song, the richer their communication will be. Researching the Song is a vital aid for singers and teachers in interpreting art songs and building song recital programs. Shirlee Emmons is a voice teacher of considerable renown and has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Boston, and Rutgers Universities. She is author of Tristanissimo (1990) and co-author of The Art of the Song Recital (1979) and Power Performance for Singers (OUP, 1998). She is an Obie award winning singer and the first and only female Chair of the prestigious American Academy of Teachers of Singing. Wilbur Watkin Lewis is a music educator with many years of experience as a performer. He maintains a private studio and teaches General and Vocal Music in the Elizabeth, NJ Public School system and has taught at Rutgers-Newark University and Bergen Community College. He began his study of art songs twenty-five years ago while a student of Shirlee Emmons and Stanley Sonntag. "This volume is meant to fill a void in the current literature surrounding research on unfamiliar or hard-to-find terms, concepts, and people in the area of the art song.... This book does an admirable job."--Brad Eden, Fontes Artis Musicae "This lexicon of Western classical art song explicates literary references (mythological, historical, geographical) and technical terminology associated with the poetic texts of this vast repertory. Intertwined alphabetically with the more than 2,000 topical entries are biographical sketches of poets whose lyrics classical composers have made into song. Curiously, the entries do not regularly refer to specific songs, thereby relinquishing numerous opportunities to point out thematic connections between songs that a student opening the book might be unaware of. The authors' presentation is well researched, concise, and clear; and their rationale for bringing the topical and biographical material together within a single volume has much to recommend it in terms of convenience. Especially for libraries that support active vocal studies programs, this book may well give much useful service."--Choice "This comprehensive lexicon will prove of assistance to the studio voice teacher and to singers at all levels of accomplishment. Communication of the essence of poetry and drama is essential to the singing art. Researching the Song offers explanations of the mythological, historical, and literary references that serve as foundation for the Lied, the mélodie, and other art-song literatures. A valuable addition to the singer's library."--Richard Miller, Professor of Singing, Oberlin Conservatory of Music "From the first entry AAWHERE to the last ZWEIG, this remarkable, scholarly lexicon will prove a treasure trove of inestimable value to singers, teachers, and everyone interested in a thorough understanding of the many, and often obscure, literary references found in the poetry of the world's greatest song literature."--Russell Oberlin, Countertenor, Thomas Hunter Professor of Music Emeritus, Hunter College of the City University of New York "The authors of this encyclopedia of song have offered a labor of love in explaining every conceivable reference, allusion, and personage found in the song repertory, each with bibliographic citation. This book will replace a whole shelf of reference works for singers, accompanists, and their teachers and is a Dictionary of Cultural Literacy for the song lover. Our deepest thanks!"--Lindsey Christiansen, Professor of Voice, Westminster Choir College of Rider University "Researching the Song is an invaluable reference guide for anyone interested in the art song repertoire. The lexicon will prove indispensable to voice teachers, singers, and all who are interested in classical vocal repertoire."--Journal of Singing "For the first time ever, a reference work designed to help singers discover the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references in poetic song texts. The user-friendly Researching the Song by Shirlee Emmons and Wilbur Watkin Lewis is a must for the library of every singer, voice teacher, coach, accompanist, and program planner."--Dr. Robert C. White, Jr., Adjunct Professor of Voice, New York University and Mannes College of Music Analyzing Classical Form William E. Caplin The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception Sascha Frühholz and Pascal Belin Solfege and Sonority David J. Xiques Jazz Composition and Arranging in the Digital Age Richard Sussman and Michael Abene The Singer's Guide to Complete Health Anthony F. Jahn On Staff Donald L. Hamann Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music Sharon Mabry The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music Roger T. Dean Robert Toft The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin Understanding French Verse The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, and Stacy Wolf The Broadway Song Mark Ross Clark The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith Arts & Humanities > Music Arts & Humanities > Music > Applied Music > Voice	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line784
__label__cc	0.633914	0.366086	Skip to content Go to main navigation Press release Regulatory Heat 1 June 2017, 12:40 CET 2 min Vattenfall invests in innovative heat storage in Berlin Vattenfall will invest almost 100 MEUR in Germany’s biggest power-to-heat plant. In the coming two years, the company will invest almost 100 MEUR in a new power-to-heat asset as well as in gas-fired heat-only boilers in Berlin’s Spandau district. After commissioning of the new facilities, the hard-coal-fired Unit C of power plant Reuter can be taken off the grid as planned. With a total capacity of 120 MWth, the power-to-heat asset will broaden Vattenfall’s existing experience in the use of future-oriented power-to-heat technology on a large scale. “In February this year we took the final investment decision on the construction of the new combined heat and power plant in Berlin-Marzahn. With our second big investment decision this year for the district heating business, we confirm once more our commitment to our Berlin base and support the local government in their ambition to reach climate neutrality for Berlin by 2050,” says Tuomo Hatakka, responsible for Business Area Heat at Vattenfall. Vattenfall‘s new-built project includes besides the power-to-heat boilers, which uses electricity to generate district heating, also heat-only boilers fired by natural gas. The construction works at Spandau’s Otternbucht street are planned to start in autumn this year. Commissioning is planned for 2019. The decision for the Reuter project in Berlin is in line with Vattenfall’s strategy and the climate protection agreement with the City of Berlin. Vattenfall consequently progresses towards a total phase-out of hard coal in Berlin by 2030. Gunther Müller, spokesperson of the board of Vattenfall Wärme AG in Berlin, confirms: “Our district heating is an important player in Berlin’s energy transition. The power-to-heat asset in Spandau will not only optimise the dispatch of the CHP plant Reuter West, but also enable the use of electricity from renewable energy sources to generate climate-friendly district heating in the future.“ This investment is one of the projects under the umbrella of WindNODE, the north-east German model region for intelligent energy. Within the framework of the programme‚ Schaufenster intelligente Energie (SINTEG), the Ministry of Economics and Energy sponsors in total five model regions in Germany, where solutions are being developed for an intelligent energy supply of the future with growing shares of renewable energies. The investment decision is conditional on the change permit becoming irrevocable in accordance with Germany’s Emission Control law. Vattenfall discloses this information pursuant to the Swedish Securities Market Act. Vattenfall’s Press Office, telephone: +46 8 739 50 10, email: press@vattenfall.com Vattenfall invests in innovative heat storage Copy url https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/pressreleases/2017/vattenfall-invests-in-innovative-heat-storage-in-berlin News Heat 19 November 2020 3 min Heating of Amsterdam: every source needed Vattenfall's largest heat grid in the Netherlands is located in the Amsterdam area. Presently the main heat source is gas, but plans are to use all available fossil free heat sources to rep... [Missing text '/newslistpagetemplate/NewsItemPage' for 'English'] Press release Technology and development 22 October 2020, 08:00 CET 1 min Vattenfall and Aker Carbon Capture to achieve negative emissions in bio CCS-projects News Heat 14 September 2020 3 min AI steered district heating - a success in Gustavsberg Smart algorithms enable optimisation of district heating in an apartment building. Vattenfall's digitisation project in Gustavsberg shows lower costs, reduced carbon footprint and more satis... Go to footer Go to main navigation Tel.+46 (0)8 739 50 00 Fax.+46 (0)8 17 85 06 Vattenfall country sites Poland (IT) About Vattenfall Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20,000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernised our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. 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__label__wiki	0.949759	0.949759	Home This Week in Haiti News & Analysis On Vertières Battle Anniversary, Demonstrations to Demand Jovenel’s Resignation Continue On Vertières Battle Anniversary, Demonstrations to Demand Jovenel’s Resignation Continue Kim Ives - On Nov. 18, demonstrators set fire to a building during demonstrations demanding President Jovenel Moïse resign. Credit: AP Marking the 10th straight week of massive nationwide demonstrations and popular-barricade-produced dysfunction, thousands across Haiti marched again on Mon., Nov. 18, 2019 to demand President Jovenel Moïse’s resignation on the 216th anniversary of the Battle of Vertières, the epic and pivotal 1803 clash where barefoot former slaves defeated French colonial troops to win Haiti’s Jan. 1, 1804 independence. In the capital, Port-au-Prince, at least four people were wounded by gunfire: a journalist, a police officer, and two protestors. In St. Marc, demonstrators burned an American flag, and in Cap Haïtien, a enraged crowd burned a container with three people inside after a security guard shot an adolescent in the head. As of the evening of Nov. 18, the official (but some say conservative) toll of the continuous demonstrations is 77 dead, 219 injured, and 315 arrested, according to the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Jovenel Moïse (right), with his resigned but acting Prime Minister, Jean Michel Lapin, at a Vertières ceremony at the National Palace on Nov. 18. Credit: AP For the anniversary, President Moïse held a ceremony at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, unable to travel to the Vertières monument in Cap Haïtien, as tradition dictates. But the Haitian police and embryonic army did hold the usual military parade on Palace grounds. In his speech for the occasion, Moïse again denounced an ill-defined “sistem pezesouse sa a” (this system that squeezes and sucks) which “causes hunger and insecurity.” Again calling for dialogue, he had the temerity to proclaim that “we all agree on what the problem is, we just have differences on how to solve it.” A funeral for five slain protestors – Jean Belleville, 34, Lolo Isnor, 23, Vaudreuil Bernard, 25, Pierre Yasmine, 15, and Poustin Wilson, 36 – was held on Nov. 19 at the capital’s Sacred Heart Church in the Turgeau neighborhood. In a demonstration after the funeral, protestors set ablaze two trucks. Haitians have dubbed the weeks of mass protest “Ayiti Lòk” – Haiti Lockdown – which has resulted in severe shortages of food and other supplies. “We are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis,” Jovenel Moïse told Reuters in an exclusive interview on Nov. 14 at his home in the well-to-do Pétionville neighborhood of Pèlerin 5, in the hills above the capital. “We need international support to get through this crisis.” Only the renegade Chinese province of Taiwan – recognized as a country by only 16 nations, of which Haiti is one – announced that it would continue to send food aid. The island has provided Haiti with 8,600 tons of food supplies so far this year, a Taiwanese official claimed. “According to the latest Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) report, 3.7 million people are currently experiencing crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told the Xinhua news agency. “This includes one million people – out of a total population of 11 million – facing emergency levels of food insecurity.” On Nov. 19 at Sacré Coeur church, mourners at a funeral for five slain protestors. Credit: AP The UN World Food Program issues the IPC report to classify cases of food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide and identify their causes. If things continue in Haiti as they have in these past months, the UN estimates that more than four million Haitians will be food insecure by March of next year, Dujarric said. “Most businesses and schools in the country have been closed since mid-September, due to ongoing protests and unrest,” he concluded. “Food insecurity is on the rise.” One of the most ominous developments of late for Moïse is the second mass demonstration by Haiti’s police officers in the capital on Nov. 17. The cops are demanding better work conditions, a salary increase, and the right to form a union. On Wed., Nov. 20, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, is scheduled to fly to Haiti to meet with Moïse and several opposition leaders, including Sens. Youri Latortue, Joseph Lambert, and Evalière Beauplan, to encourage that they all sit down together and dialogue to reach a solution, a course Moïse proposed yet again in his Nov. 18 speech. But the Haitian people and opposition steadfastly reject this proposal, saying that the time for dialogue has long since passed, and resignation is Moïse’s only option to unblock the situation. At the Nov. 19 funeral for the five slain protestors, a prominent opposition leader, lawyer André Michel said: “We are not going to have endured over 150 killed and hundreds of wounded to now go negotiate with Jovenel Moïse.” André Michel Jovenel Moise Kelly Craft Previous articleHaiti Protests Invoke the Nation’s Founder to Condemn a President Tainted by Scandal Next articleQuelle serait la mission de Kelly Craft en Haïti ? Kim Ives Journalist. Filmmaker. Jan. 15: Haitian Diaspora Plans Anti-Moïse Protests in Multiple Cities Across the U.S. and Canada Haitian Regime Announces It Will Hold Elections and Constitutional Referendum This Year. The Opposition Rejects the Plan	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line795
__label__cc	0.674944	0.325056	Editorials Lively, insightful commentary on contemporary issues facing spiritual practitioners. Reviews Book, film, and audio reviews of contemporary Gaudiya media, as well as a wide variety of media of interest to the spiritually minded. News News from around the world with an emphasis on alternative press that is especially relevant to spiritual practitioners. Classroom Excerpts from classical Gaudiya texts, with and without commentaries, hosted by teachers with whom readers can interact and ask questions. Philosophy Philosophical articles on Gaudiya Vaisnavism that focus on the tradition’s scriptural conclusions as well as its feeling for the nature of ultimate reality. Published on December 27th, 2012 \| by Harmonist staff Sanga: Varnasrama, Bhakti, and Vaishnavi Gurus Q. What role does varnasrama dharma play in the bhakti tradition of Sri Caitanya? A. From the Caitanya Vaishnava perspective, varnasrama and bhakti are distinct paths. Varnasrama is concerned with dharma (religiosity), artha (economic development), kama (sense enjoyment), and ultimately moksa (self-realization)—from morality to mukti. Bhakti, on the other hand, is not concerned with the desire for any of these four goals. It is concerned only with prema, ecstatic love of God (Krishna), within which self-realization is a by-product. Indeed, the principal Caitanya Vaishnava texts repeatedly deprecate desires for any of these goals because they understand them to be impediments to attaining prema bhakti. The Bhagavad-gita makes this point in its concluding words, sarva dharman parityaja mam ekam saranam vraja. Here Krishna says that one should forego the path of dharma (another name for the path of varnasrama) and take refuge in him through engagement in Krishna bhakti. The Srimad Bhagavatam says the same thing at its onset: dharma projjita kaitavo ‘tra. It tells us that the text of the Bhagavata has nothing to do with varnasrama. Sri Chaitanya-caritamrta echoes these two earlier texts when it states that desire for dharma, artha, kama, or moksa constitute “cheating,” ajnana-tamera nama kahiye ‘kaitava’dharma-artha-kama-moksa-vancha adi saba: “The darkness of ignorance is called kaitava, the way of cheating, which begins with religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation.” Furthermore, the Bhagavatam repeats this idea again and again and develops it considerably. Ultimately it showcases the milkmaidens of Vraja as the highest ideal of Krishna bhakti in the context of their violating the laws of varnasrama in the most extreme manner. This is the climax of the entire text. In the Srimad Bhagavatam the dharma or karma marga of varnasrama is replaced with paro dharma, or prema dharma. The moral law of the dominate socio-religious system, with all its restraints, is replaced with the guidelines of the bhakti marga, thus opening the realm of ecstatic love of God to all and making the Bhagavatam a veritable New Testament of the East. Sri Rupa Goswami also begins his treatise on uttama bhakti, Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu, with the same emphasis when he writes that the path of bhakti is not “covered” by the karma/dharma marga-karmady anavrtam.1 His idea is that forgoing the strictures of varnashrama should not be thought of as a fault for those engaged in Krishna bhakti. If one thinks that bhakti’s efficacy is dependent on adherence to varnasrama, one’s bhakti is “covered by karma.” In other words, the requisite faith in the efficacy of bhakti herself required for treading the path of uttama bhakti is lacking in one who thinks that without adherence to varnasrama dharma, bhakti in and of herself will be incomplete. Q. Thakura Bhaktivinoda writes about “Daiva varnasrama.” Can you comment on this concept? A. Bhaktivinoda coined this phrase in an effort to right the wrongs of varnasrama abuse. Such abuses centered on a determination of varna strictly on the basis of one’s birth, which resulted in a class of brahmanas who held a monopoly on religious blessings, even when such brahmanas’ personal conduct was often irreligious. Daiva varnasrama, by contrast, speaks of a determination of one’s position in society/varna and the realm of religion/ashrama on the basis of one’s qualities and actions, as opposed to merely one’s birth in a particular family. Also central to daiva varnasrama is the idea that Vishnu bhakti is the goal of life and thus Vaishnavas directly pursuing this ideal are above the varnasrama system. They are brahmanas in essence and more. Thus a varnasrama system that determines varna by a person’s qualities and actions and also respects bhakti is a daiva varnasrama socio-religious system. Bhaktivinoda Thakura considered the opposite of this system, where varna is determined solely on the basis of birth and Vaishnavas are considered to be without any varna and thus spiritually inferior to varnasrama brahmanas, a form of adaiva varnashrama. During the time of Bhaktivinoda, smarta brahmanas, who considered Advaita Vedanta’s understanding of moksa to be the highest ideal, ruled the Hindu religious life of Bengal. They identified varna, and thus social interaction and religious privilege, on the basis of birth, and they taught that one must first take birth in a brahmana family and in that life also embrace sannyasa in order to attain enlightenment. Thus they had little regard for the Gaudiya Vaishnavas, who mixed freely with one another regardless of birth on the basis of their mutual faith in bhakti and who held prema bhakti as the highest spiritual ideal. At Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s request, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati took steps to speak out against adaiva varnashrama. One way he did this was by instituting the upanayana ritual in conjunction with giving Vaishnava initiation. The upanayana ritual involves imparting the Gayatri mantra and the sacred thread to brahmana boys, which in turn qualifies them to learn ritualistic procedures and ultimately administer such procedures themselves—to take up the occupation of a priest and conduct varnasrama rituals. This is the heart of the varnasrama initiation ritual. Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati gave the Gayatri mantra, which also has deeper Vaishnava implications, and the sacred thread, to his male disciples along with the Vaishnava initiation mantras, which he gave to his female disciples as well. He did this to say in a visible manner that Vaishnavas are at least brahmanas and thus should be respected by all members of the varnasrama society, a social and religious status in society that Gaudiya Vaishnavas did not enjoy at the time. He also did this in an effort to encourage his students as to the nature of their initiation and the path of bhakti as well as to stop members of the varnasrama community from offending Vaishnavas by thinking less of them. This procedure of course was also intended to state publicly that prema bhakti was the highest ideal, one that lies beyond the purview of varnasrama dharma. It is worth noting that Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati instituted this to make a point that previously was made by Gaudiya Vaishnavas in the opposite manner. Bhaktivinoda Thakura himself is the prime example. He did not wear the sacred thread. Indeed, the dominant trend among Gaudiya Vaishnava initiates, following a tradition of hundreds of years, was that upon receiving Vaishnava initiation, initiates who had previously received the sacred thread within varnasrama dharma took off the thread upon receiving Gaudiya Vaishnava initiation. This was thought to be a way of saying that Vaishnava initiation transcended the jurisdiction of varnasrama. The difference between these two approaches to accomplishing the same task lies in Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati’s effort to bring Gaudiya Vaishnavism into mainstream society. At that time Gaudiya Vaishnavism was marginalized from mainstream society and Gaudiya Vaishnavas resided primarily in the holy dhamas. On the order of Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati made efforts to establish places of worship and centers of Gaudiya Vaishnava culture in urban India. Not only did he want to say that Gaudiya Vaishnavism transcends the jurisdiction of varnasrama dharma, he also wanted to expose the misconception of adaiva varnasrama, which was prevalent in mainstream society. Despite these two different approaches, one thing is crystal clear. Receiving the sacred thread and participating in the upanayana ritual is not inherently part of Gaudiya Vaishnava initiation. Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati’s combining of the upanayana ritual with the imparting of Vaishnava initiation was based to some extent on Gopala Bhatta Goswami’s Sat Kriya Sar Dipika.2 However, this manual, as explained by the author himself, was written for Gaudiya Vaishnava householders who were already initiated and had thus received the appropriate Vaishnava mantras. The innovations and bold preaching of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati aside, Thakura Bhaktivinoda’s daiva varnasrama is well grounded in the text of Srimad Bhagavatam. While the Bhagavata is one-pointed in replacing varnasrama dharma with prema dharma, it nonetheless speaks of a form of varnasrama dharma that is dependent on bhakti, as well as a varna system that is not exclusively determined by birth. In the first canto we learn that varnasrama dharma is considered a waste of time because in and of itself it does not awaken interest in Krishna, concerned as it is with many gods and goddesses, material advancement, and moksa.3 However, we do find that at least in a superficial sense varnasrama does sometimes awaken interest in Krishna and a semblance of bhakti. And the Bhagavata teaches that unless those on the path of varnasrama develop such interest in bhakti and attraction to Krishna, they will not be successful in fulfilling the material ambitions they seek. Thus some participants, realizing they will not acquire the result they seek through varnasrama dharma without bhakti, develop a mere shadow of Krishna bhakti for the purpose of material acquisition. Only those who do so are successful, while others merely waste their time. However, varnashrama can also be participated in for spiritual emancipation rather than for material gain. This is done by following the duties of varnasrama dharma with enlightenment as one’s goal, without attachment to the incidental fruits that accrue as a result of following the system’s guidelines. Is this also a waste of time? The Bhagavata teaches that although self/atma knowledge does accrue through niskama karma, or detached action within varnasrama dharma, actual realization of Brahman is only possible with the help of some form of bhakti.4 In the seventh canto we find a more detailed description of varnasrama dharma. Therein the qualities and duties the four varnas and ashrams are listed. At the end of the description of the symptoms of the varnas we find the following verse: “If one exhibits the symptoms of one of the varnas described earlier, even if that person has appeared in a different varna, he or she should be designated according to the symptoms exhibited.”5 Thus the Bhagavata describes a form of varnashrama dependent on bhakti for its efficacy, as well as a varnasrama dharma in which varna is not determined solely on the basis of one’s birth. This is a very different varnasrama dharma from the adaivic varnasrama in which bhakti is not understood to be required for the system to be efficacious and one’s varna is set in stone at birth. Such daiva varnasrama has been designed by Krishna himself even while he states that one cannot attain him by it. And he has thus emphasized forgoing it and treading the path of bhakti.6 It is a form of dharma designed for those who do not yet have faith in uttama bhakti. It organizes society in consideration of the psycho-physiological makeup of its members and assigns duties accordingly in pursuit of material well-being. It also promotes religious life by establishing four ashramas, or stations of life, to be embraced at different times as one’s life progresses. Thus it seeks material psychological balance, or horizontal growth, as well as spiritual upliftment, or vertical growth, by way of teaching that one’s progress in any field is dependent on the satisfaction of God. Thakura Visvanatha Chakravarti comments that those cultivating pure bhakti should not attend to the karmic duties of varnasrama. However, it is possible for devotees, especially householder devotees living within a varnasrama social system, to do so without attachment to these duties so as not to unnecessarily disturb the social environment.7 Varnasrama dharma does not give bhakti—paro dharma—but it is possible that its adherents may at some point be fortunate to meet a realized Vaishnava and through such association develop faith in uttama bhakti.8 My guru, the most venerable A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, felt that the world would be better off if its present-day social systems were replaced with varnasrama dharma’s socio-religious system. He also felt that varnasrama sensibilities could prove useful in engaging students in bhakti in consideration of their psychological and physical makeup. He expressed concern that those following Sri Caitanya on the bhakti marga, which leaves varnasrama behind, may not be following it that closely, and in such circumstances they would do well to get support from varnasrama’s emphasis on morality. This sensibility was also shared by Thakura Bhaktivinoda. Seeing persons forego the prevailing varnasrama dharma and immaturely adopt renounced life and babaji vesa only to succumb to moral impropriety in the name of treading the bhakti marga, the Thakura felt that such persons should have remained householders within daiva varnasrama and from there pursued bhakti. We should note that this idea more or less echoes the words of Krishna himself, “As long as one is not satiated by fruitive activity and has not awakened faith in the efficacy bhakti, one has to act according to varnasrama dharma.”9 However, Srila Prabhupada also acknowledged the following: “Unfortunately, the varnasrama dharma system has been lost.… Although we may try to revive the perfect varnasrama system, it is not possible in this age.”10 And Sri Krishna’s statement, of course, applies to a varnasrama society that does not exist today. Thus for the most part we are left with hearing and chanting about Krishna, with moral support derived from sadhu sanga, increasing taste for bhakti, and the rejection of all that is unfavorable to the culture of bhakti. But can one not perform dharma, artha, and kama as service to Krishna and in this way mix varnasrama and bhakti? Not quite. Sri Krishna tells Uddhava, a person with natural faith should constantly hear topics about me, should sing and remember me which purifies the world, and enact my exploits and birth. He should perform dharma, kama, and artha as service to me. Having taken shelter of me, he will attain permanent bhakti to me, whose form is permanent.” Sri Visvanatha Chakravarti comments on these two important verses thus: “For serving me, one should perform dharma—giving cloth and food to brahmanas and Vaishnavas on my birthday or on days for worshipping guru, who is also my svarupa. One should perform kama, acts for oneself, in the form of obtaining prasadam, garlands, sandalwood, betel nut, and cloth from the assembly of Vaishnavas. One should perform artha, collecting items for service to Vishnu and the devotees.” Such dharma, artha, and kama is nothing but bhakti herself, not varnasrama dharma.11 Choosing to refer to this approach as daiva varnasrama for the sake of preaching is not objectionable. Q. Some say that on the basis of varnasrama considerations, Gaudiya Vaishnava women cannot serve as gurus in the lineage. Can you comment on this? A. Unfortunately, some Gaudiya Vaishnavas today mistakenly think that the imparting of the sacred thread and gayatri mantra is essential to Gaudiya Vaishnava initiation. Because these are typically not given to women, they believe that female Gaudiya Vaishnava initiates are only “half-initiated,” and thus restricted in terms of the measure of their participation in Gaudiya Vaishnava ritual life. Furthermore, on the basis of this misunderstanding, they claim that female Gaudiya initiates cannot serve the community in the capacity of guru unless they are siddhas, while male initiates can serve in this capacity even when they are not siddhas. One wonders how one who is only half-initiated can ever attain the status of a siddha! Such distortions of Vaishnava dharma should be exposed for what they are. They constitute nothing more than the kind of bigotry found in adaiva varnasrama, and this led by persons born outside of the entire varnasrama system! This sexism also flies in the face of hundreds of years of precedent, in which we find many female Gaudiya Vaishnava gurus. I have seen the following citation from the Agama texts and a particular translation of it cited in support of the idea that imparting the sacred thread is essential to Vaishnava initiation: dvijanam anupetanam sva karma dhyayanadisu yathadhikaro nastiha syac copanayanad anu tathatradiksitanam tu mantra-devarsanadisu nadhikaro ‘sty atah kuryad atmanam siva-samstutam “Even though born in a brahmana family, one cannot engage in Vedic rituals without being initiated and having a sacred thread. Although born in a brahmana family, one becomes a brahmana only after initiation and the sacred thread ceremony. Unless one is initiated as a brahmana, one cannot worship the holy name properly.” The above translation is Srila Prabhupada’s. He cites these two verses in his purport to Caitanya-caritamrita 2.15.108 to support the idea that despite the fact that harinama is independent of initiation in terms of its capacity to reveal itself, initiation is nonetheless mandatory for those engaged in nama-dharma. He adds his purport into his translation when he says, “Unless one is initiated as a brahmana, one cannot worship the holy name properly.” The “holy name” is not mentioned in these verses, nor is “brahmana initiation.” Nor is the upanayana ritual of varnashrama stated to be a prerequisite for worshiping Krishna, neither his name nor form. “Brahmana initiation,” however, is a term Srila Prabhupada used to refer to Gaudiya mantra diksa (Vaishnava initiation). In this he followed the system of Bhaktisiddhanta and called his initiated men and women disciples “brahmanas” and more. Thus in his translation he is merely saying that one must receive Vaishnava initiation in order to worship Krishna (who is nondifferent from his name) properly. And although these verses speak of arcana, or ritualistic deity worship, when studied in context, Srila Prabhupada has used them to refer to chanting harinama to further emphasize the point that Vaishnava initiation is essential. Srila Prabhupada has taken these verses from Sri Jiva Goswami’s Bhakti-sandarbha.12 There Sri Jiva has cited them to stress that deity worship requires that one has received the appropriate Vaishnava mantra (initiation). A literal translation of the verses is telling: Brahmanas who have not undergone the sacred thread ritual are not eligible to engage in the prescribed brahminical duties, such as study of the Vedas. They become eligible only after being invested with the power to do so through undergoing this ritual. Similarly, those (aspiring Vaishnavas) not yet initiated are not eligible to chant mantras and worship the deity. Therefore, one should make oneself fortunate by accepting (Vaishnava) initiation. Sri Jiva Goswami explains that in context these verses tell us that just as brahmanas cannot perform Vedic rituals (which Vaishnavas are not interested in) without undergoing the upanayana ritual, similarly Vaishnavas cannot engage in deity worship (which, unlike Vedic rituals, is a principal limb of the body of bhakti) without receiving Vaishnava initiation, nor can they chant the initiation mantras before receiving them through the initiation ritual. The verses do not say that Vaishnavas must receive the sacred thread, as some have grossly misunderstood. With this misunderstanding, such persons think they have found support for their premise that women Vaishnava initiates cannot serve as Vaishnava gurus. They think that Vaishnava initiation in the full sense is dependent on receiving the sacred thread, and because women do not receive it, they are not even fully initiated themselves, what to speak of being qualified to bestow it upon would-be male disciples. I cite this misunderstanding as only one example of how some contemporary Gaudiyas conflate varnasrama with uttama bhakti in an effort to bar saintly Vaishnavis from the service of initiating disciples. One who receives Vaishnava initiation is glorious. Such devotees are not bound by varnasrama considerations. To think that they are is to embrace a form of bhakti that is covered by consideration of the karma marga. This is not uttama bhakti as taught by Srila Rupa Goswamipada. Uttama bhakti is jnana karmady anavrtam, unencumbered by jnana, karma, yoga, or anything else. It is a completely independent path. While other paths are dependent on bhakti, bhakti herself is independent. If varnasrama dharma generated bhakti in its participants, the self-manifesting nature of bhakti would be compromised. Any initiated Gaudiya Vaishnava, regardless of race or gender, is perfectly equipped to pursue Krishna prema, and as much as any male members are qualified to initiate disciples, so too are any women members. This is also the opinion of Srila Prabhupada, who stressed qualification, be one a man or woman.One may be less than a siddha, but without a reliable taste (ruci), one is not safe enough in spiritual life to help others without some risk to one’s own spiritual well-being and subsequently the spiritual well-being of disciples. To serve as guru one should have a taste for bhakti, the medicine of sadhana having transformed into one’s favorite food, and have comprehensive knowledge of tattva, krsna tattva vetti. Srila Prabhupada states, “In our material world, is there any prohibition that a woman cannot become professor? If she is qualified, she can become professor. What is the wrong there? She must be qualified. That is the position. So similarly, if the woman understands Krishna consciousness perfectly, she can become guru.”13 Pujyapada Sridhara Deva Goswami concurs. When asked if women can be gurus he replied, “Yes, if she sincerely feels that she can help others, she may.”14 Brs. 1.1.11. [↩] This book was written for Gaudiya Vaishnava householders, both those living within or outside of a varnashrama socio-religious system. It describes ritual observances for marriages, funerals, name-giving ceremonies, the sacred thread ceremony, etc., all of which parallel the same ritual procedures found in varnashrama. The difference in the ritual procedure, however, is that Gopala Bhatta Goswami has adjusted the rituals so that they are all oriented towards Vishnu bhakti by way of eliminating the propitiating of other gods and goddesses and replacing it with worship of Vishnu. Thus he has provided varnasrama-like rituals for Gaudiya Vaishnavas for these common household observances. [↩] SB 1.2.8. See also the commentary of Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakura. [↩] SB 10.14.4, 1.5.12, and 1.5.17. [↩] SB 7.11.35 [↩] In Bg. 4.13 Sri Krishna says that he created the system of varnashrama (srstam kartaram). However, in this verse he also states that he has nothing to do with it (akartaram). Furthermore, the entire Bhagavad-gita is a concerted effort on Krishna’s part to awaken faith in the efficacy of bhakti, and thus it is about foregoing varnasrama, jnana, yoga, etc. and dedicating oneself exclusively to bhakti. [↩] Sarartha-darsini tika on SB 7.15.2. The spirit overall is that while the two, bhakti and varnasrama, can coexist, whenever the absolute consideration of bhakti comes into conflict with the relative consideration of varnasrama, the latter should be transcended with adherence to the former. We find this example in the lila of Sri Caitanya, which appears in the context of a varnasrama social-religious system. [↩] SB 11.20.11. [↩] SB 11.20.9. [↩] Teachings of Lord Kapila, verse 14. [↩] There is a type of “varnasrama dasyam,” in which the auspicious duties corresponding with one’s nature/varna within varnasrama dharma are offered to Krishna. However, Rupa Goswami does not accept such offerings as angas of bhakti and thus does not consider this an expression of uttama bhakti. It is an example of bhakti covered by karma. See Brs. 1.2.185-186 and the commentaries of Jiva Goswami and Visvanatha Chakravarti. [↩] Bs 283. [↩] Interview 6/18/76. In this interview Srila Prabhupada says that the standard for men and women is the same. He stresses comprehensive knowledge of Krishna tattva. [↩] Conversation 8/05/81 [↩] Harmonist staff Impediments to Devotion → Conquering the World → Sanga: Sakhya or Madhurya → Prayojana → 15 Responses to Sanga: Varnasrama, Bhakti, and Vaishnavi Gurus Swami B.A. Ashrama Thank you so much for this, Swami Tripurari! This is the essential understanding. Regarding who is qualified to serve as guru, Mahaprabhu told Ramananda Raya, “yei krsna tattva vetta, sei guru haya“: Whoever understands Krishna in truth is guru. Srila Prabhupada also said this: Prof. O’Connell: Is it possible, Swamiji, for a woman to be a guru in the line of disciplic succession? Prabhupada: Yes. Jahnava-devi was Nityananda’s wife. She became. If she is able to go to the highest perfection of life, why it is not possible to become guru? But, not so many. Actually one who has attained the perfection, she can become guru. But man or woman, unless one has attained the perfection…. Yei krsna-tattva-vetta sei guru haya. The qualification of guru is that he must be fully cognizant of the science of Krsna. Then he or she can become guru. Yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei guru haya. In our material world is it any prohibition that woman cannot become professor? If she is qualified, she can become professor. What is the wrong there? She must be qualified. That is the position. So similarly, if the woman understands Krsna consciousness perfectly, she can become guru.” (Conversation 6/18/76) swami bv tripurari Thank you Maharaja. There does seem to be a lot of confusion out and about on the issues discussed in the article. And the issues are fundamental ones and thus very important to understand. One of the major thrusts of Srimad Bhagavatam is to distinguish varnasrama dharma from bhakti and advocate the latter. Even while it dedicates several chapters in the seventh canto to explaining the duties, etc, of varnasrama, it does so only to contrast it with bhakti and awaken faith in her that one might forego varnasarma. And the milk maidens of Vraja are of course showcased as the ideal of devotion. Amara dasa Gaudiya Vaishnavas seem to have no problem applying varnashrama indiscriminately when it comes to matters of parentage, race, nationality and so on, but trouble still emerges in the matter of gender–women and gender minorities such as gay people. I wonder how much of this is just a matter of social and spiritual evolvement and whether or not Gaudiyas will one day be just as indiscriminate toward gender as they are with parentage, etc. Citta Hari dasa That this issue is even an issue reveals a fundamental lack of understanding of the basic definition of uttama bhakti as defined by Sri Rupa in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (1.1.11) as well as a misunderstanding of the qualification for serving as a guru. Hopefully this article will educate the devotees so they will not perpetuate such misunderstandings. Thank you, Citta Hari. That is precisely the point, isn’t it? You’ve boiled it down to its essence in one sentence. mitam ca saram ca vaco hi vagmita. ishan das This is quite a long piece so I will have to take it in increments and respond as such. Re: ” Bhakti, on the other hand, is not concerned with the desire for any of these four goals. It is concerned only with prema, ecstatic love of God (Krishna), within which self-realization is a by-product.” It is true that in Gita Krishna instructs us, “Manusyanam sahasreshu..”, , “out of thousands who become perfect, hardly one knows Me in truth..”. However, to say that self-realization is a by-product of ecstatic love of God……… I would be more inclined to say that self realization is incomplete without ecstatic love of God. And further that real self-realization is ecstatic love of God, i.e., that real self-realization and ecstatic love of God are inseparably one and the same thing. I believe that I understand the intention behind the above statement, viz., to indicate that if we are persuing self-realization without aspiring for pure bhakti, this is an aspect of kaitava dharma, self-centered aspiration. Whereas if we are aspiring for pure love of God and achieve it by grace, liberation from material entanglement will come unsought, without separate endeavor. Re: “Sri Rupa Goswami also begins his treatise on uttama bhakti, ……….. His idea is that forgoing the strictures of varnashrama should not be thought of as a fault for those engaged in Krishna bhakti.” I do understand that prema bhakti can stand independent of varnashram consideration, and that for the purpose of this discussion it is meaningful to present such conclusions with their references. Still I believe it may be also important to point out that the advice of Krishna in Sri Brahma Samhita is to perform all of his duties of creation (his prescribed job/ocupation) in a spirit of devotion in order to become perfect. In other words, as Krishna says in Gita, “All that you do should be done as an offering to Me.” Along this line, we can recall that when Arjuna takes up his bow in response to “sarva dharman parityagya, mam ekam saranam braja”, he is not engaging in rasa-lila. He is working in this world in a seemingly very worldly way, but doing so on behalf of Krishna, under the order of Krishna. Generally we refer to pure devotional service as consisting of the 9 forms indicated by Prahlad Maharaja. But certainly working in this world under the order of Sri Guru is as good as working directly under the order of Krishna – pure devotional service. And this “under the order of Krishna” is a very important aspect of devotional service. This is because we have observed devotees who have, on the plea of bhakti being independent of social considerations (dharma), engaged in all manner of asocial (criminal) interaction, without the blessings of sri guru. Therefore although bhakti stands independent of varnashram considerations, one should only proceed with the blessings of the bonafide acharya for guidance in activities enacted on this earthly plane. The spirit of my comments is not to disagree with what is being put forward in this discourse, but only to add a few discriminations and precautions that may have been omitted as extraneous to the overall intention of the speaker’s remarks. Respectfully….. “All that you do should be done as an offering to Me.” There is an important difference between this idea and suddha bhakti, and both ideas are mentioned in the Gita. In suddha bhakti we first offer ourselves to guru and Krsna. Then we do whatever is expected of us in their service. In other words, we offer ourselves rather than the things that we do. This constitutes a change of identity from the get go.Then the things we do are part of having offered ourselves. And among the nine limbs of bhakti padasevanam includes serving the guru and sadhus, doing their bidding. Regarding Brahma in his samhita, BVT considers his work with regard to creation gauna vritti bhakti, indirect bhakti. I suppose it could also be seen as niskama karma yoga in which the fruits of one’s actions are offered to Bhagavan that in turn can lead to suddha bhakti. Visvanatha Cakravarti refers to this as pradhani bhuta bhakti, whether it is jnana or karma “predominated by bhakti.” But I would consider one engaged by a Vaisnava sadhu in tasks relevant to one’s disposition in the context of a devotional mission—one also chanting and hearing etc.—to be engaged in padasevanam. Thank you. The fine scalpel of your enlightened intellect can tease apart these intertwined issues in a manner that is intellectually satisfying and opens the door for practical application. Respectfully. Kula-pavana I find it almost comical that in a lineage which ostensibly strives to develop madhurya rasa as the highest expression of love for God, there are people who think and argue that women are somehow inherently incapable of performing the role of spiritual masters in their disciplic succession. And who is the ultimate guru in our line? The highest concept of guru-tattva revealed by Srila Rupa Goswami and other associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was that Srimati Radharani is our ultimate guru. So if anything, one could say that it is ‘unnatural’ to have male gurus teaching their disciples madhurya rasa. But of course we know that this knowledge and realization transcends such bodily concepts… but maybe it only transcends such concepts for men? Hmmm… that’s where the comical element is buried… It may be inappropriate to comment as I have not read the material (above) dealing with female guru-ship, but Lord Caitanya has stated that anyone who is conversant with the science of Krishna is fit to be guru. Of course we have seen repeatedly in these Harmonist discusssions that the preaching posture of the acharyas, going back even to Lord Caitanya and the six Goswamis, and thereon downward, has always been a function of the social and religious atmosphere of the time. And therefore regardless of siddhantic conclusions – the mode of presentation may take on different shapes – just for the purpose of progressive preaching. ‘yei krishna tattva vetta sei guru hai’ implies that any one who knows the tattva can do upadesha but again for initiation the haribhakti vilas notifies the maryada.’===avaishnavo gurur nasyat vaishnavo svapacho guru’but really can a swapach start his parampara.chakravartipad writes yes but again there is maryada.no acharya denies the vedic statement.so hari bhakti vilas says a brahmana can initiate people of all varna but aksatriya shouldnt initiate a brahmana but can initiate kshatriya and below him.otherwise he will incurr sin. if one says about narrtam das thakur then in his time there was a meeting with learned brahmana community and they had given unanimous decision.This is an exception ,cannot become rule.president can pass through red light that doesnt mean anybody can pass.if one thinks himself as narrottam thakur then he can do. Gaura Kishora dasa baba was born in a vaisya family. Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati were not born in brahmans families. Neither was A.C. Bhaktivednata Swami Prabhupada. On this site we consider them acaryas, and their contribution and attainment mandates such. Furthermore there have been a number of women gurus in the Gaudiya sampradaya. But the overarching point in this connection raised in the article is the citation from the Bhagavatam that informs us that one’s character determines one’s cast over one’s birth. By invoking this verse such varnasrama considerations are not transgressed, should a so-called outcaste exhibit the qualities of an acarya. And again, bhakti transcends varnasrama, but in a varnasrama society one may make relative concessions to varnasrama dharma for the sake of social order. This is what Visvanatha Cakravarti is doing in the instance your cite. The mandate that a brahmans by birth should initiate to one extent and other castes to another limited extent when applied to the bhakti marg (for which such injunctions are not originally intended) is a relative consideration, not an absolute one. As for the idea that rules rule over exceptions, this breaks down considerably as varnasrama itself becomes more and more marginalized in Kali-yuga. Upon meeting Srila Prabhupada, none of us were conversant with any of these fine points – the letter of the law, etc. But our personal response was overwhelmingly, “This person has something, some quality that is so meaningful, that I will cast aside all previous considerations and gratefully put myself at his total disposal so that I can perhaps imbibe that which he carries.” Surely when a vaishnavi appears who also carries this flavor of elevation, kindness, and devotion, those who are seekers will forsake the social considerations that would serve to disuade them from drawing closer to the fire – just as we did. I must admit that I am not actually intellectually conversant/fit enough to enter into such a high level discussion. However it occurs to me that to the degree that the real qualifications are absent, the letter of the law becomes the guiding light. And when the real qualifications are radiantly apparent, no amount of law, legislation or rhetoric will disuade a sincere soul from drawing closer. Those who show the most concern in the form of raising objections seem to have mundane investments behind those objections. But it is good that someone can counter their misplaced concerns in order to quell the tide of social unrest and confusion, thereby opening the door for broader participation of the social body. One challenge, however, is that the average individual might not have the intellectual background, inclination or abiltiy to draw conclusions from such a discussion; whereas the intention in airing these issues is to widen the threshold to a greater range of participation. The discussion, then, seems to be more of an in-house affaire, so that we can have clear conceptions of the guidelines by which to administer and expand our institutions. At the same time, history shows us that institutionalization is generally accompanied by a deterioration of the initial spirit that prompted the institution to come into being. As an example we have it in “the news” recently that the pope, as head of the Catholic church, the representative of Christ, has resigned. With all of their legislation and logic, the church has arrived at a position wherein the empowered represetative of God is elected to his post by those of lesser spiritual acumen, with the contingency that if the going gets rough, the confidential servant of God can resign his post. One point is that the real thing will always be in opposition to the status quo. The material creation is a holding tank or prison house for delinquent souls. And the real acharya is always an embarassment to them and a thorn underfoot, gender aside. That they should raise their voices in discordent refrain should not be a cause for surprise. swamiji,the hari bhakti vilas is compiled by our own acharya and sanatan goswami writes commentary on it.also i have so many examples but i wont be able to write all here.all the acharyas have written elaborately for example take bhagvatm 7.11.– ‘savanaya kalpate’ if you see the jiva goswami commentary he writes that should that svapach==dog eater be gien the right to do somyagya because he has chanted lords name.there he writes the same thing as sridhar swami that the ‘savnaya kalpate’ menas to show his pujyatva,that he will get respect.but regarding doing yagya he requires ‘janmantara’that is change of birth.implies that he has to take birth from brahmina,has to get savitri sanskar,then study and tehen allowed to do that.also he mentions that just like a brahman born child is not allowed to do yagya because of birth but after attaining upnanayana and shastric knowledge so that svapach also requires the rebirth but can he given savitri janma ,no , because the only sanskar for a shudra is vivah,marriage and not anything else. like this so many examples are there. this is mentioned by our acharya only But you miss the larger point of our acaryas, Sri Jiva and Visvanatha Cakravarti. 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__label__cc	0.668457	0.331543	Airbus buys just over 50% of Bombardier CSeries division Buy now it's official, Airbus buys over 50% of the Series and is going to shift some assembly to Mobile, Alabama plant. Tough luck Boeing! (www.financialexpress.com) עוד... Wolfgang Prigge Sam Johnson לפני 3 שנים 21 It is time that we realize we are in an international market and have been since the Japanese started giving us cars that we wanted not what Detroit attempted to force us to buy. We must learn to compete in that world market. It is not easy and will not be easy in the future but we cannot continue the way we have been. It is just not working. SmokedChops לפני 3 שנים 10 My guess is there will be some uncomfortably heated meetings in Chicago. "Why did we not consider this?" Randall Kimm לפני 3 שנים 1 GREED...XENOPHOBIA AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST STUPIDITY. Ant Miraa לפני 3 שנים -1 hardly xenophobia Do you have any kind of idea what the term xenophobia means? It is essentially how Trump won the Presidency of the United States. He has openly stated America must come first to the exclusion of all other parties. What do you call erecting a fence along the Southern Boarder,so why would your so called" friends" in Canada get pasted with a 300% tarrif. You were so afraid that Bombardier you did everything in your power to prevent the C-Series. Irrational fear of others and supporting paranoia is a form of xenophobia. It is a psychotic disorder which is clearly a serious problem. However, I seriously doubt you understand the meaning of "big words". What on earth possessed Boeing and Embraer to try and destroy Bombardier? America is no longer trusted to be a reliable ally of Canada. We are NOT your friends. Boeing and President Trump must realize that Canada among others is finally fed-up with the bullying, lying and cheating. America does not honour its treaties with Canada and the other members of the G-20. We must seriously press the United States not to persist with this action. If we are talking about Boeing price fixing their aircraft do not have uniform pricing. For example the RCAF bought its 5th C-17 for more than a 25 million dollars over what Britain and Australia paid for theirs. That's discrimination which is a strong characteristic of Boeing's corruption of the world's aviation marketplace. America is not a nation in the conventional sense, but operates like a business run by a megalomaniac and his private army. Mike Boote לפני 3 שנים 14 One word comes to mind. Checkmate. If Boeing thought pushing this issue was a way to take over Bombardier, clearly they were wrong. John Kilcher לפני 3 שנים 11 Hah, Trump is trumped yet again! As for Boeing, what goes around comes around. kamaole לפני 3 שנים 3 what a delicious end run around the inexplicably obtuse boeing attempt to slow down or stop the c series wonder-bird. Boeing could not make a case on the merits of the plane, so tried, and today seems to have failed to prevent the c series from flying in America. I did not see this ploy coming, so the surprise is tasty. Torsten Hoff לפני 3 שנים 17 Delta had to have known this dal was in the works when they said they would not pay the tariffs the CSeries was supposed to be subject to. I'm surprised everyone kept a lid on it. I would suspect that high level discussions have intensified this month with the Airbus announcement. Leaders in all firms were probably forwarned if they let the cat otta the bag the offending party would be immediately terminated - no questions. You are finished in this profession. The word out of Toulouse is nous, les francophones, devons rester ensemble ou nous allons sûrement nous accrocher séparément mhstone1 לפני 3 שנים 4 touche' DAVID MCKIE לפני 3 שנים 6 Love it. Now I hope the RCAF starts looking at European built interceptors. fred wyse לפני 3 שנים 3 Never assume blindly that any Executive Team possesses the wisdom to lead a company to victory. Kodak and Polaroid helped invent --and then perfected-- digital megapixel photography. And they buried it. Those decisions cost the good workers hundreds of thousands of jobs. ibid. notmanyifany לפני 3 שנים 3 Boeing has old and unhappy history after buying DHC in 1986, losing a bunch of money on the venture, then selling to Bombardier in 1992. Looks like they've now rubbed salt in to their own wounds with an own goal! http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/23/business/company-news-bombardier-agrees-to-buy-de-havilland-from-boeing.html djames225 לפני 3 שנים 12 Airbus just kicked Boeing and the US Government where the sun doesn't shine, and it looks great! Commonly referred to as the lower hatch at the end of the digestive system. matt jensen לפני 3 שנים 6 Oooh, love that sound of Boeing's board hittin the floor On the other hand, US gains jobs at the Airbus plant which frankly, may mean the US government will make more in tax revenue than they would have in duties. This could actually make more sense to the US government. djames225 לפני 3 שנים 1 The number of tax revenue jobs gained would never come close to what the tariffs would have brought in..that and, if the tariffs had stuck, Bombardier could/probably would have pulled out of the US all together, killing jobs and tax revenue..this isn't what the US Government was looking at.. I'm betting they would hope Bombardier Aerospace collapses and Boeing moves in for a takeover kill..If you think the Canadian people would put up with that after what Boeing did, think again. RECOR10 לפני 3 שנים -15 With luck, we will not tariff the be-jesus out of them and toss NAFTA to the curb. "NOW" tariff the be-jesus out of them, not "NOT"...I am all for competition, but when the GP leaves our shores...that should be some VERY costly money for the parent company. Now, if the idiots in DC would only let us repatriate some of our money we could see some changes...(oh, and crush all the Unions). Tariff the bejesus out of them for what?? If placing tariff's on products coming into the US because they weren't fully "Made in America" is your answer (which it seems to be from recent posts), you best start looking in the US's own backyard..automotive wiring harness's (among other things) made in China, components made in Europe, engines made in Europe..ie oh look, Boeing uses Rolls engines that aren't "Made In America" better slap a huge tariff on them.. Merely bias as Boeing wanted to mimic the american military and rule the airline production world. Capitalistic Hegemony. Try looking at the source for components for the F-35 upon which we supposedly will be betting our national defense. How many electronic sub-components came from the other side of the International Date Line? The F-35 is DEAD IN CANADA Oh I know joel..there is no such thing, anymore, as "Made In America" and a whole lot of people got to start seeing that...and Boeing did not. True, that said, as an American..I will only fly on American craft when I have the chance. But, all of my cars are German as I will not support the UAW in any way...go figure.... m f לפני 3 שנים 9 51% of the C series was already made in America before this announcement. So you're free to fly on it I suppose. The 320 line in Alabama is made by Americans so that's good too. Embraer sources 53% of their aircraft from the US, so you're also golden there. The Chinese ARJ21 is basically an MD-95, American design and tooling with General Electric engines. All aircraft are multinational, which is why trade wars, and statements like yours, are short sighted. Your "American craft" isn't even "Made in America"...it's "Assembled in America"..so get your head out of the perverbial clouds...that must mean that Airbus, Embraer and Bombardier are "American Craft" because they too are "Assembled In America". You are an idiot of an incomprehensible magnitude. Not directed at m f. I recall reading back in the late '80's and I can't recall just how this occurred, but, vaguely, for Boeing to get into aircraft manufacturing in China, a deal was made in that China now makes the majority of high speed ball bearings used in the powerful jet engines prevalent in today's aerospace world. n9341c לפני 3 שנים -2 The punitive tariffs imposed by the US has absolutely NOTHING to do with "not Made in America". Read and understand before responding you dolt. This is about a government subsidized enterprise price dumping its products on the biggest market on the planet. Excuse me?..perhaps you should read INTO other folks posts, who I was replying to, before responding and calling people names...here are a pair of glasses so you can read the post I was replying to!!.....HTH do you or anyone else at Boeing know how much Delta paid..I don't see you standing on that high horse of yours spewing off about Boeing's $64 Bil in subsidies they have received or their "dumping" of those 737's at $22 mil to "block" Airbus.. Perhaps you should also look up the meaning of the word subsidy and the meaning of "investment into a partnership"..HUGE difference. Kenneth Schmidt לפני 3 שנים 8 The only changes we will see is a lack of competition as there would be only one economical source of aircraft in the U.S. if as you suggest "tariff the be-jesus out of them". This situation only exists because one company (Boeing) got the Government to levy high and unreasonable tariffs against an other company (Bombardier). A company that has no product to compete with Bombardier in the 100 seat market. Wolfgang Prigge לפני 3 שנים 5 http://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/aerospace/opinion-airbus-sends-a-thank-you-card-to-donald-trump-and-boeing Yvon Dionne לפני 3 שנים 7 Didn't see this coming WOW Jeff Phipps לפני 3 שנים 11 Would love to be a fly on the wall in Boeing's boardroom the next few days. Tried to kill BBD CSeries and just sent her into the arms of your arch rival. If Airbus is smart they will leverage the program to make a CS500 too and concentrate on a better A321 to head off Boeing's MoM initiative. I still hope Cnada cancels the Super Hornet order for good measure! The Superhornet deal is gone. Canada refuses to negotiate or even speak with a Boeing rep. The government was looking at some clapped-out Aussie F-18's. That's just delusional because you will blow your own budget just keeping the first generation F-18s airworthy. Spend the money on a quality fighter you can actually build in Canada. The next fighter we buy should be new yet proven in combat. Personally I am voting Typhoon. The problem is that they all have assets and defects. The trick is finding the right aircraft for a large multi-role mission. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bombardier-sells-majority-stake-in-c-series-to-airbus/article36610340/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& Here's a newer text in French: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201710/16/01-5140218-airbus-sallie-a-bombardier-pour-la-c-series.php http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/airbus-to-buy-majority-stake-in-bombardier-cseries-program-1.3634867 sam kuminecz לפני 3 שנים 2 wouldn't surprise me if Boeing starts partnering with EMBRAER on a future project, they already helped with the KC-390 and EMBRAER helped with engine technology with the 737 MAX. Tom Lipa לפני 3 שנים 2 If you study history, hearken back to the '50s and the CF-105 Arrow. This was an advanced aircraft that many felt threatened the US (Boeing) aviation industry even though Avro was unable to sell the Arrow to any foreign government. Then Boeing, through its contacts in the US military, convinced the Canadian government to scrap its Arrow project and buy the Boeing "Bomark" missile. The Diefenbaker government terminated the Arrow project, destroyed the line and the tooling, and ordered the flying prototypes destroyed. In that one brilliant move, the Canadian aerospace industry was destroyed - overnight. Many of the engineers were then recruited to the US Space program and moved to Florida. As a bit of trivia, look at the cockpit design of the Arrow, and compare it to the cockpit design of the SR-71, and you will see where the Canadian aerospace industry went. canuck44 לפני 3 שנים 3 Opening up production in AL will also solve some of Bombardier's production problems. With a second line, delivery times will be shortened which in turn will help sales. Delta and JetBlue to start, but look for this to be a popular aircraft in China where the government has mandated a hub and spoke configuration on all airlines to ensure smaller markets are served. This will be huge and Boeing has nothing to compete whereas Airbus now has a complete single aisle line from the Bombardier Regional Jets and Q-400 to the A321. While the former are not part of the package, one will feed off the other. Opening production in AL will not solve any of Bombardier's production problems. Their recent delays were due to quality control at Zodiac and slow production rate of GTF engines from P&W. The benefit of a second line won't be realized until the supply chain catches up. What will make an impact is Airbus' ability to negotiate better deals with suppliers and offer support and expertise to possibly speed up delivery of those supplies. patrick baker לפני 3 שנים 1 boeing truly overstepped, over looked and over reacted. Boeing also lacked, since the demise of the Mc Donell douglas/boeing 717 an airframe in this class, so see the goof they made by not scoffing up bombardier just to fill the hole in their product line, Ed Sal לפני 3 שנים 1 Canada should (re)start production of cutting-edge military aircraft with the same gusto as during the development of the Avro Arrow. This time around, 'though, no meddling or bullying from the Americans should be allowed to interfere. Canadian politicians who subvert the operation, Diefenbaker-style, should be held to treason since it involves national security. Alas, the existing people in charge are unfit . . . I certainly think you are spot on with Diefunblunder. Building a high performance aircraft can bankrupt a small nation. I admire your confidence in our technology. However, it's not that easy. The Americans spent close to a trillion dollars by developing the F-22 and the F-35 Lightning ll. The Air Force wants a new ICBM Program. It's so expensive the joke is that they should hire the Chinese to design and operate the system for the US. Now they need another trillion to build a better bomber. The US Navy wants to spend trillions on a new surface and sub-service fleet. It is so expensive to replace the Trident platform that two companies merged in Groton Connecticut where the "boomers" are produced. European nations enter into joint technology agreements like the British, Germans and the Italians did recently and nearly bankrupted the project from cost overruns in the process. Canada doesn't possess the capital or essential technologies in order to produce a world beater. Orenda Engines of Malton,Ontario was the last facility that manufactured the forerunner of the J-79 that went on to power F-4's and the F-104's. Now you have the Russians.They are generally pretty good at stealing foreign designs. As are the Chinese. It's remarkable that all their newer fighters look like the designs were stolen from Lockheed, Boeing, General Dynamics and the list goes on. Sadly the Arrow was cancelled because of the excessive requirements the RCAF wanted like internally stored air-to-air missiles....getting the idea.This is the late 1950's and no one else on earth could beat that airplane. This scared the heck out of USAF and their insane bomber program run by the lunatic Gen.Curtis Lemay. America talked Canada out of building this Mach 2.5 fighter because this moron drank the "kool-aid" then threw about 25,000 Canadian's out of work, that day broke my fathers heart. America immediately naturalized these engineers. Take a look at the Delta series of fighters built with good old Canadian, ahem, American know-how. Now look at a picture of the Arrow...tell me that the Delta winged fighters the USAF rushed into production weren't lousy knock-offs from the Canadian Avro Arrow Fighter Program. The CIA sold us the useless Bomarc Missiles and the even more useless Voodoo that was prone to going into unrecoverable pitch-up accidents in most flight envelopes. I have spoken to the first Canadian who flew the Voodoo CF-101, his comments were less than flattering. In the end America got what it wanted. A passive and a subservient neighbour who will buy all the military garbage they don't use and sell it to the DUMB Canadian's. Look at the expense Bombardier went through to see this project through to completion, it nearly destroyed the company. We simply cannot afford to pay for a new all Canadian Fighter. That dream died when Diefunblunder killed the Arrow....no thanks to the CIA who stole our best minds in a typical brain drain. NASA, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Republic, Bell, General Electric, IBM, Litton, Raytheon and General Dynamics stole our very best minds.I will never forgive America's previous or current behaviour and yet we see it again with Boeing, however, Airbus got the goose that layed the golden egg. Boeing you can take that email message down to all Canadians and stick it in the lower hatches of your collective digestive systems! YES AMERICA WE'RE REALLY PISSED THIS TIME, NO MORE! You are NOT a FRIEND, you're trade practices are dishonourable. You are no longer trusted because you violate the terms of all of your treaties. Why should anyone deal with you anymore. If you can't win you bend the rules like Boeing just tried to do. Eventually no one else on earth will deal with you. Again sorry for the length. Not a bad write-up Randall..a few key notes thou...The main reason the Arrow was crushed is because Diefenblunder (great name btw) sold out to the US...Avro Canada could take titanium and make an origami swan with it at their Toronto area facilities..the US companies could take titanium, and make a square box with it...see where this went? Orenda Engines is still around to this day as it was bought by Magellan Aerospace and became Magellan Repair, Overhaul and Industrial. As for Canadian firms getting together and designing and fabricating a world class fighter, I think it can be done and not cost trillions of dollars. Remember that the US loves throwing money around hand over fist (look at how much they threw at the F-35 and still had a troubled craft) As for the US stealing away a great number of our best aircraft minds, they thot they did, but not all of them. rapidwolve I certainly appreciate your excellent contribution to this "string". I really like the points you raise and thanks for the outstanding contribution about Orenda. I also appreciate the outstanding commentary in the Squawks you bring to this forum. Nicely Done! RK. Hi rapidwolve, my cause for concern regarding the building of a home grown multi-role mission profile. Our biggest problem is building a power plant that can withstand many strikes by the enemy. Israel immediately removes all of the pre-installed junk by Boeing. They rebuild it with their electronics and computers, they essentially have a skeleton of the airframe. Next, Israel is forced to buy engines from the US, we would be in a similar situation and believe me because the Americans have parts for export we would be burned by them for dumping the Boeing aircraft program. The Swedish Air Force nearly went under developing the high performance multi-role Gripen. I also remember that they lost at least 6 aircraft and several highly trained test pilots in the process. I dislike this design because it has been plagued with lots of setbacks. It's a nice looking fighter. I dislike it because it has had no combat experience. The Swedish Defense Department has a liason with NATO. Their role is to defend Sweden and that's all they will do. The Swedish parent company of the Gripen has no alliance with Western Europe. That's why we need the Rafael or Typhoon because we will gain support if they build a new facility in Canada to assemble fighter aircraft.Additionally, we might just get a free trade deal with the EU instead of the Americans. We will have partial access to the factory and technology of Airbus.This cannot but be a huge break for Bombardier. I actually believe that the CS-500 will be made. The Rafale or Typhoon are Canada's to sieze. Both have their merits and flaws. But both have successfully engaged Quadafi and were among the first to pummel ISIS first. I like the Typhoon to be the next fighter in the Air Force. Our current fleet of F-18's are basically held together with duct tape, crazy glue and hay bailing wire to keep the whole mess from falling apart. Canadian pilots deserve the equipment necessary for safe operations. We cannot uphold our military commitments. That is the problem with our government. These politicians dither and argue as our Air Force and Navy are essentially stranded in a state of being "combat inefective". Apologies again for the length. Alex Szkabarnicki לפני 3 שנים 1 It hasn't been approved by the feds yet... or at least until somebody gets paid off under the table. There goes more Canadian jobs to the USA... Why are more Canadian jobs going to the US?..Mirabel isn't closing and the "assembly line" in AL is just that..no fabrication, just assembly for the US market. Peter McGrath לפני 3 שנים 1 Maybe I'm missing something, but Airbus (a French company) buys a stake in Bombardier (a Canadian company) and why would you think the "Feds" (U.S.) have to approve it? WALLACE24 לפני 3 שנים -3 The tariff worked and AL is laughing all the way to the bank. Maybe BA should move to AL or a neighbor state. A country that resorts to protectionism will always be poorer in the end. As the USA has such a huge economy it will be slower to happen, but this is where it's going to. No, actually, a country with a government that subsidizes a private businesses then allows that business to PRICE DUMP on the biggest market in the world will be poorer in the end. Oh Canada, please stick to manufacturing hockey gear. You are sadly inept elsewhere. NOTHING was subsidized you blathering idiot...and HTH do you know what the final sale price is to Delta???...PRICE DUMP is what Boeing did for United and those 737's they sold them at $22 mil a shot, not $84 mil a shot!..there is a huge difference between investment and subsidy and any loans, not investments, to Bombardier ARE NOT interest free, which subsidies are...HINT BOEING got slapped by WTO for getting over $800 million in FREE SUBSIDIES from Washington state..and that was just in 1 year. READ replies to your other posts and stop insulting folks like a school yard dumbass!!! You are an idiot. I suppose you think we live in igloos and get around on our trusty Bombardier Snowmobiles. You are a typical of the American ignorance about Canada. It is absolutely phenomenal. Your idiotic statement proved my point Your knowledge of our peoples and indigenous industries is appalling. What country flew the first jet powered Avro passenger airliner to New York ? If you guessed correctly. N9341c clearly like most poorly Americans know very little if not zero information about Canada. He forgot something else while standing on his porcelain throne..China now has the biggest market. A country that has a leader/congress that puts the country first over their or their party's re-election will also do better. Hopefully we are getting there. Remember Nero playing the fiddle? I dont know where you get the idea the tariff worked?...It costs Boeing, and now the US Dept Of Commerce, more in the long run for a triff that should have never been...do we see countries placing a tariff on Boeing jets coming into their countries because of the over $64 Billion in subsidies Boeing has received in the past 15 yrs? NO BA wasn't going to sell them planes anyhow. But the taxpayers got something. I've heard the long run bs all my life. What are you yammering on about?...if Bombardier (I don't know who the H you are calling BA) had still been stiffed with those tariff's (actually Delta would have and refused) Bombardier could have pulled up stakes in the US and said adiaos..that's a whole wack of jobs gone and a whole lot of empty buildings..and for what?...Greed and stupidity...perhaps an international committee should be called to investigate the subsidies Boeing received(s)..then both Boeing and the US Dept of Commerce would both have mud on their faces! BA is boeings stock symbol. Your entitled to your opinion. The long term is Now. I've watched jobs and maufacturing disappear for 50 years. Time to quit doing the same thing and expect a different result. So I'm ok with change. If your not that's ok with me. The US got very lucky it worked out the way it did. This is the best case scenario that was orchestrated by Bombardier, Airbus and possibly Delta. This brings jobs and money to Alabama, but how many will be laid off at Boeing when they lose MAX orders and intl. government contracts? They're playing with fire and just got burned. It's especially ironic that it was Boeing's lobbying that allowed them to replace thousands of union jobs with non-union workers in South Carolina, and now Airbus is using those same loose laws to do this. "The long term is Now" - makes no sense. You seem to think manufacturing jobs are the definition of success in an economy. It's not the 50's anymore, the world is changing away from human manufacturing thanks to automation and AI, and it sounds like you're not okay with that. Do you think it might have been smarter to let things be instead of getting into a lather over tarrifs from the great promoter of the concept behind free enterprise...America wants open markets for...her products only. Lol yea it's pretty ironic isn't it. As for letting things be, that's a good question. It's hard to say if Airbus would have made this transaction regardless of the tariffs, but I believe they would have, maybe not this soon but eventually. The decision to open a line in AL certainly wasn't in the books prior to this though. So in that sense it's a win for them. Bombardier made a tough, smart play here. It's not easy giving up control of your flagship product. Mad respect. You will probably live to see how important manufacturing (human or automated) is when world wide supply chains break down which is almost inevitable. Look how crazy it gets just when Mother Nature throws a hardball. Everyone looks at the future differently. Worrying about a few airliners brand names means little. They can all be parked again in a heartbeat. In the mean time I'm going flying today and enjoy the view and freedom. I must not have been clear. I never meant to say manufacturing wasn't important to the world. It's the manufacturing JOBS that are growing fewer and articially propping them up is a bad idea. Let automation take them and put those resources into finding better jobs. In the mean time we need to work on solving the real possibility of running out of jobs for everyone. I have no clue what your talking about with the inevitable breakdown of worldwide supply chains. Are you implying they are going to collapse and we'll be incapable of importing goods? If that ever happens then something much worse has already occurred. That is my point sir. At some point any supply chain can be curtailed for a variety of reasons. If your basic economy is totally dependent on a supply chain things get bad fast. The world is not one big happy family and never will be. I think we have beat this thread to death. Lol You don't understand how supply chains work. They don't rely on one source for each step. That's the reason the would DOESN'T come to a screeching halt when massive natural disasters and wars occur. What you said is the opposite of reality. Rapidwolve, save your comments on this one. Showing early signs of brain death. Incoherent statements and general yammering and unheard of acronyms seal the deal on this defective unit. Larry Zimmerman לפני 3 שנים -4 Does this mean the CSeries will feature automated flight controls by Airbus? If so, I'd rather drive. This has been one of the best "string'" this year . Nicely done Wolfgang! Clearly Sir, you are an IDIOT.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line802
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__label__cc	0.730312	0.269688	Medical Billing and Coding Schools Train to Become a Medical Biller and Coder Tag Archives: How to Become a Medical Biller and Coder in Cottonwood AL 36320 Find Medical Billing and Coding Schools Near Me in Cottonwood AL 36320 How to Become a Medical Biller and Coder near Cottonwood Alabama Now that you have made a decision to enter the healthcare profession by enrolling in a medical billing and coding school near Cottonwood AL, it’s important that you find the right school so that you receive the necessary education to ensure your success. As you no doubt know, healthcare is among the fastest growing fields in the United States, and more and more options are available both on campus and online to obtain the training that you need. But just where does one begin? Many future students begin by searching for programs that are within travelling distance of their residences and then comparing cost. Or they may surf the internet looking for online classes and go with the cheapest one. But while cost and location are relevant issues when making your determination, they should not be the only ones when researching medical billing and coding schools. Such qualifiers as accreditation and reputation need to be taken into account as well. We will review a checklist of questions that you need to ask the medical billing and coding courses you are assessing in order to learn what you must know prior to making your selection. But first, let’s take a look at what medical billers and coders do and the educational and certification options available. Medical Coder Job Duties Medical coders work on the forefront of the billing systems for Cottonwood AL private practices and hospitals. They have the responsibility to review the medical records of patients and assign universal codes to all services provided. These services can be for medical, diagnosis or dental procedures, or any equipment or medical supplies used. There are multiple codes that are used in the conversion, including: CPT codes (Current Procedural Terminology). ICD codes (International Classification of Diseases). HCPCS codes (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding). Medical coders use information from sources including nursing and physician notes, patient charts, and lab and radiology reports. Medical Coders must not only know what services were provided in total for accurate reporting, but must have a working knowledge of all private payer and government regulations that influence coding as well. Inaccurately coded claims may result in services not being paid for, services being paid at a reduced rate, or the physician or facility being penalized for improper or fraudulent billing. Since improper coding can in fact cost Cottonwood AL doctors and hospitals many thousands of dollars in revenue annually, a good medical coder is a vital asset for any healthcare team. They can operate in any type of healthcare facility, including private practices, clinics, hospitals and urgent care centers. It is not uncommon for professional medical coders to working from home as an independent contractor or offsite employee. Medical Biller Job Summary As important as the medical coder’s function is, it would be for naught without the contribution of the medical biller whose labors produce revenue. Medical billing clerks are very important to Cottonwood AL healthcare organizations and are literally responsible for keeping them in business. Often the coder and biller can be the same man or woman within a medical facility, but they can also be two independent professionals. When the coder has performed his or her job, the biller uses the codes provided to fill out and submit claim forms to insurance carriers, Medicaid or Medicare. After they have been adjusted by the appropriate organization, patients can then be charged for deductibles or additional out of pocket expenses. On a regular basis, a medical billing clerk can also do any of the following: Verify medical insurance coverages for patients and assist them with billing concerns or questions Follow up on submitted patient claims and appeal those that have been denied Function as a mediator between the medical provider, the insurance companies and the patients for correct claim settlement Produce and oversee Accounts Receivables reports Generate and handle unpaid patient collections accounts Medical billers not only are employed by private practices, but also Cottonwood AL hospitals, urgent care facilities, nursing homes or medical groups. They may practice in any kind of healthcare facility that relies on the revenues generated from billing patients and third party payers. Medical Coder and Biller Education and Certification It’s essential that you receive your training from a reputable school, whether it’s a trade school, vocational school or community college. While it is not a requirement in many cases to obtain a professional certification, the school you choose should be accredited (more on the benefits of accreditation later). The majority of colleges only require that you earn either a high school diploma or a GED to be eligible. The most expedient way to becoming either a medical coder or biller (or both) is to earn a certificate, which normally takes about 1 year to finish. An Associate Degree is also an option for a more comprehensive education, which for almost all programs requires two years of studies. Bachelor’s Degrees in medical coding and billing are not abundantly available. When your training has been completed, although not mandated in the majority of states, you may want to acquire a professional certification. Certification is an excellent method for those new to the profession to show prospective Cottonwood AL employers that they are not only qualified but committed to their career. Some of the organizations that make available certifications are: American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). Board of Medical Specialty Coding (BMSC). The Professional Association of Healthcare Coding Specialists (PAHCS). American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Completing an accredited medical coding and billing course, together with attaining a professional certification, are the most effective ways to accelerate your new profession and succeed in the rapid growing Cottonwood AL medical care industry. Online Medical Biller and Coder Training If you are looking for convenience and the flexibility of attending classes in your home, then choosing an online medical billing and coding course might be a good option. They can be especially attractive to individuals living in Cottonwood AL who anticipate going to school while continuing to work or have other commitments that make attending classes on campus challenging. And as an additional advantage, online programs are in many cases less expensive than the traditional classroom alternatives. Costs for such items as tuition, commuting and study materials may be decreased or eliminated. But be careful, as not all online schools are reputable. For that reason it’s important to verify that the online program you select is accredited to ensure a premium education. We will address the benefits of accreditation in the next section. Just make sure to establish that any online college you are considering is accredited by one of the national accrediting organizations, such as the Council on Higher Education Accreditation. So if you are disciplined enough to commit yourself to this type of learning, then earning your degree or certificate online might be the ideal choice for you. Points to Ask Medical Coder and Biller Training Programs Now that you have a better idea what a medical biller and coder does, as well as what education options are offered, you need to begin the process of evaluating colleges. But since there many training options offered at community colleges and vocational, technical and trade schools within the Cottonwood AL area, you should have a prepared list of questions to analyze each one. And when you include all of the online colleges that offer medical coding and billing classes, the task can become somewhat formidable. As we have already addressed, cost and location are going to be important factors, particularly if you have a limited budget and will be driving to classes from your Cottonwood home. And whether or not the program and school are accredited must be part of your vetting process as well. So let’s take a look at some of the additional questions that you should ask the colleges you are reviewing so that you can evaluate each one and make the appropriate choice. Is the Program Accredited? It’s essential that the school and program you choose are accredited by a highly regarded accrediting agency, for example the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools. If it’s an online school, it might also obtain accreditation from the Distance Education and Training Council, which focuses on distance or online education. Not only will accreditation help ensure that the training you get will be of superior quality, it may help with your future employment also. Many Cottonwood AL healthcare facilities will only employ entry level applicants that have completed an accredited medical coding and billing training program. And financial aid and student loans are in many cases only offered for programs that have earned an accreditation. What is the Program’s Reputation? Before enrolling in a medical coding and billing school, check out what its ranking and reputation are compared to other colleges. This is particularly relevant if you have no experience in the field, since potential employers will mostly be relying on the quality of your education. As we have addressed, making sure that the program is accredited is an initial step. Checking with school rating organizations, for example U.S. News and World Report, can confirm the quality of the school also. An alternative is to call a few Cottonwood AL healthcare organizations that you may be interested in working for and find out which schools they suggest. Bear in mind that even when the school itself does not have an outstanding reputation, its medical billing and coding program may still be highly regarded. Is there an Employment Placement Program? Finding a job in Cottonwood AL after graduation in your new profession can be difficult without the support of a job placement program. Check if the schools you are looking at have job assistance programs and what their job placement rates are. A rapid and high placement rate is an excellent indication that the coding and billing school has a significant network of healthcare employers where they can refer their graduates. It also suggests that the college’s graduates are sought after in the marketplace. Where is the School Located? If you are anticipating commuting to class from your Cottonwood AL home, then the location of the college will be of prime importance. Of course if you choose an online medical coding and billing program, then the location of the school will not be a factor. One thing to bear in mind is that if you go to classes at a junior or community college, most require a higher tuition for pupils that reside outside of their districts. So you may want to first research those schools that are within your local area. What is the Overall Cost? Medical billing and coding training courses can fluctuate in cost based on the type of credential obtained and the length of training furnished. Just keep in mind, tuition is not the only cost of your education. Expenses also include such items as the cost of supplies, books and commuting. Financial aid might be obtainable to help offset a portion of the expense, so be sure to get in touch with the school’s financial assistance department to find out what is offered in Cottonwood AL. Naturally if you decide to enroll in an online school, some of these additional costs, particularly for commuting may be reduced or even eliminated. Are Classes Available that Fit your Schedule? Many students keep working while attending school and need a convenient class schedule. If you can only go to classes at night or on weekends near Cottonwood AL, confirm that they are available at those times. If you can only enroll on a part time schedule, make certain that the school you pick offers that option. Also, find out what the process is for making up classes missed due to illness, work or family responsibilities. Considering Medical Billing and Coding School near Cottonwood AL? If you are considering enrolling in and attending a billing and coding school near Cottonwood AL, following is some relevant information about the area that may aid in your decision making process. Cottonwood, Alabama Cottonwood is a town in Houston County, Alabama, United States. One source said the town incorporated in 1901,[3] although the 1910 U.S. Census stated 1903. It is part of the Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 1,289,[4] up from 1,170 in 2000. Cottonwood is located in southern Houston County at 31°3′13″N 85°18′9″W / 31.05361°N 85.30250°W / 31.05361; -85.30250 (31.053646, -85.302409).[5]Alabama State Route 53 passes through the center of town, leading north 14 miles (23 km) to Dothan and southeast 7 miles (11 km) to the Florida state line. Malone, Florida, is 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Cottonwood. As of the census[8] of 2000, there were 1,170 people, 485 households, and 323 families residing in the town. The population density was 212.9 people per square mile (82.1/km2). There were 548 housing units at an average density of 99.7 per square mile (38.5/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 69.06% White, 29.06% Black or African American, 0.68% Native American, and 1.20% from two or more races. 1.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Find the Best Medical Billing and Coding Course near Cottonwood AL Choosing the ideal medical coding and billing degree or certificate program is a crucial initial step to help ensure your success in this exciting specialty of healthcare. Medical coding and medical billing are two of the fastest growing professions in the medical sector. Because of this, there are a lot of trade schools, junior colleges and other institutions that provide training and education in medical coding and billing. As we have covered, you can elect to attend classes either on campus or online. It’s also important that the school you pick has an accredited program with an exceptional reputation within the medical care community. But however you decide to receive your training, by adhering to the previous guidelines and posing the appropriate questions, you will be better qualified to assess your options and choose the right school. And with the appropriate training, you can achieve your career goal to become a medical coding and billing clerk in Cottonwood AL. 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__label__cc	0.685185	0.314815	Current Issue : Publication Ethics and Policy Publisher and Sponsorship International Journal of Technology (IJTech) Two-Steps Slotting Method in Magnet Edge of PMG for Wind Energy Harvesting Title: Two-Steps Slotting Method in Magnet Edge of PMG for Wind Energy Harvesting Tajuddin Nur, Marsul Siregar Corresponding email: marsul.siregar@atmajaya.ac.id Published at : 17 Dec 2020 Volume : IJtech Vol 11, No 7 (2020) DOI : https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v11i7.4554 Nur, T., Siregar, M, 2020. Two-Steps Slotting Method in Magnet Edge of PMG for Wind Energy Harvesting. International Journal of Technology. Volume 11(7), pp. 1442-1450 Export to BibTeX and RIS BibTeX : Get BibTeX file (.bib) RIS : Get RIS file (.ris) Tajuddin Nur Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jl Sudirman No 51 Jakarta 12930, Indonesia Marsul Siregar Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jl Sudirman No 51 Jakarta 12930, Indonesia Email to Corresponding Author This paper focuses on the study of how to decrease the value of the cogging torque in an Inset Permanen Magnet Generator. The permanent-magnet generator of an integral slot number with 24 slots and 8 poles was selected and investigated for the purposes of this study. The cogging torque of the permanent-magnet generator can be minimized by combining two slottings in the magnet edge with a gradually inclined surface end. The electromagnetic simulations and analysis of the permanent-magnet generator studied were performed using numerical analysis by means of FEMM 4.2. To obtain a faster computation, FEMM 4.2 was combined with LUA 4.0 programming. Using FEMM 4.2, it was found that by applying two-step slotting in the magnet edge combined with a gradually inclined surface end, the cogging torque of the permanent-magnet generator selected can effectively reduce the cogging torque of the machine by approximately 98.14% compared against the initial magnet model. It can be concluded that the integration of the two-step slotting in the magnet edge and the gradually inclined surface end can effectively reduce the cogging torque of the permanent-magnet generator machine. Furthermore, decreases in the density of the magnetic flux in the core of the permanent-magnet generator can also be found. Cogging torque; Finite element; Integral slot number; Permanent-magnet generator The application of permanent-magnet generators (PMGs) in our daily lives is now becoming more attractive and can be used with robotics, electric vehicles, wind turbines, and many other applications. Any PMG has some merit over other types of electrical machines. Wind power generation has recently been increasing in popularity because it is clean, has a low production cost, is abundant, and because market volume has tended to significantly increase compared with other energy sources. Using PMGs in renewable energy systems has benefits including high performance and efficiency, simplicity, and reliability of construction. However, the most important issue for PMG applications is the presence of cogging torque (CT). The CT in any PMG is impacted by the interaction among the magnetic flux force from the rotor core and stator teeth or stator slot in the stator core of the machine. The CT in electrical machines and in PMGs can produce noise, vibration, and many other complicated conditions that might appear in the machine application system. Over the last few years, much research has addressed these issues and sought to reduce and overcome the CT of Permanent Magnet Synchrounous Machine. Furthermore, many techniques for CT reduction have been proposed and developed worldwide; these reports are well documented (Chen et al., 2010; F.Scuiller, 2014; Zhou et al., 2015). Other CT-decreasing techniques have been reported in research, such as using a fractional slot number and phase, optimizing the magnet pole arc (Chen et al., 2010; F.Scuiller, 2014; Zhou et al., 2015), skewing stator slots or magnets (Chabchub et al., 2012; Ling and Nur, 2016), optimizing the stator slot opening width (Bianchi and Bolognani, 2002), applying a dummy slot in the stator core (Chabchub et al., 2012), and shifting magnet slotting (Chen et al., 2010) at the magnet edges of the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (Dosiek and Pillay, 2007). However, the most effective technique for lessening the CT in PMG is combining two-step slotting with shaping the magnet edge in terms of a gradually inclined surface end (GISE). Two-step slotting at the magnet edge and shaping the magnet on the magnet surface provides more frequent interactions between the magnet fluxes in the rotor core and the stator slot opening of the machine. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new technique for CT reduction in any PMG and to prove that employing the combination of TSS in the magnet edge with GISE in the magnet edge could effectively lessen the peak CT value in any PMG. The new technique of CT reduction can be applied to both integral slot numbers and fractional slot numbers; however, in this work, the analysis of PMGs focuses on the integral slot number. The authors have selected a PMG structure with 24 slots and 8 poles. Figure 1 illustrates the magnet structure of the PMGs, which is the initial structure. Figure 3a shows one-step slotting (OSS), and the Figure 3b presenst TSS. From Figure 1 it can be observed that the initial magnet structure is a conventional magnet structure, which means no slotting was applied in the magnet structure of the machine. Figure 3a demonstrates the use of OSS on the magnet edge, while Figure 3b shows the application of TSS on the magnet edges of the PMG. All PMG structures have been studied and contrasted in this paper. The three structures for a 24 slot/8 pole of PMG are analyzed and compared in this paper. In general, the magnet rotor in any PMG is similar to that used in surfaced-mounted permanent-magnet rotors. The difference between the PMGs studied in this paper and a surface-mounted machine is the iron tooth or rotor teeth within the rotor core. As a surface-mounted machine, the permanent magnets in the rotor core of the machine are the main causes of the magnetix flux in a PMG. In the PMG structures studied, the magnets of the machine are buried in the rotor core, leading to a compact and strong rotor construction compared against surface PMGs. The structures of PMGs proposed in this study are shown in Figure 3b. Figure 1 Construction of the Initial Structure (IS) of PMG Figure 2 Classification of cogging torque (CT) reduction techniques for PMGs. This paper recommends combining TSS with GISE to reduce CT for the proposed PMSM. In comparison with the performance of the initial structure, the ability of the PMG to harvest electrical energy from wind can be improved by around 98.14%. Using the FEMM, it was found that the CT of the PMG proposed as much as 98.14% in contrast with the PMG of the initial structure. It can be concluded that combining TSS and GISE effectively reduces the CT of a PMG. The combination of TSS and GISE on the magnet edge significantly decreased tangential flux. It can be concluded that combining TSS and GISE in PMGs enhances the energy harnessed from wind power. Thank you to the Atma Jaya Catholic University especially the Engineering Faculty for supporting this research. Bianchi, N., Bolognani, S., 2002. Design Techniques for Reducing the Cogging Torque in Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Motors. In: IEEE Transaction on Industry Application, Volume 38(5), pp. 1259–1265 Chabchub, M., Ben Salah, I., Krebs, G., Neji, R., Marchand, C., 2012. PMSM Cogging Torque Reduction: Comparison between Shape of Magnet. In: First International Conference on Renewable Energy Vehicle Technology, pp 206–211 Chen, N., Ho, S.L., Fu, W.N., 2010. Optimization of Permanent Magnet Surface Shape of Electric Motor for Minimization of Cogging Torque using FEM. In: IEEE Transaction on Magnetics, Volume 46(6), pp. 2478–2481 Dosiek, L., Pillay, P., 2007. Cogging Torque Reduction Permanent Magnet Machine. In: IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, Volume 43(6), pp. 1656–1571 Ling, J.M., Nur T., 2016. Influence of Edge Slotting of Magnet Pole with Fixed Slot Opening Width on the Cogging Torque in Inset-Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine. Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Volume 8(8), pp. 1–9 Nur, T., Joe, L.E., Siregar, M., 2020. Novel of Cogging Torque Reduction Technique for Permanent Magnet Generator by Compounding of Magnet Edge Shaping and Dummy Slotting in Stator Core. International Journal on Advanced in Science Engineering and Technology, Volume 10(3), pp. 1191–1199 Scuiller, F., 2014. Magnet Shape Optimization to Reduce Pulsating Torque for a Five-Phase Permanent Magnet Low Speed Machine. In: IEEE Transsaction on n Magnetics, Volume 50(4), pp. 1–9 Siregar, M., Wohon, D.R., Nur, T., 2020. A New Technique to Reduce the Cogging Torque of Integral Slot Number in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine. International Journal on Advanced in Science Engineering and Technology, Volume 10(4), pp. 1436–1443 Zhou, Y.Y., Li, H., Meng, G., Shou, S., Cao, Q., 2015. Analytical Calculation of Magnetic Field and Cogging Torque in Surface-Mounted Permanent–Magnet Machines Accounting for any Eccentric Rotor Shape. In: IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Volume 62(6), pp. 3438–3447 T1 - Two-Steps Slotting Method in Magnet Edge of PMG for Wind Energy Harvesting AU - Marsul Siregar,Tajuddin Nur JO - International Journal of Technology DA - 2020/12/17 DO - https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v11i7.4554 UR - https://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/article/view/4554 Who cite this paper Acknowlegement Copyright © 2017 Faculty of Engineering International Journal of Technology IJTech secretariat, Engineering Center Bld., 2nd Fl. Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia Depok 16424, Indonesia.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line807
__label__cc	0.52329	0.47671	Breaking Bad Review – “Confessions” S5E11 You know the deal.. there will be spoilers. Breaking Bad‘s “Confessions” started right off with a confession… of sorts. Like most dialogue in the show and particularly this episode, the confession is only a half-truth. The “loose end” still running around, Todd, calls Walt from a cell phone off of Route 66. He leaves a voicemail and is so polite. That Todd is really a gem. He, much like Jesse, addresses Walt as “Mr. White” and is cordial enough to consider his “retirement”. He then confesses to Walt that Declan and he had a disagreement. But he leaves out some very important stuff. That Declan was murdered, that Declan’s whole crew was murdered, that Lydia called the hit and and that Todd and his Uncle’s Aryan gang stole Declan’s meth lab. He also neglects to say that he, Todd, is now the meth cook and that the cook will be coming back to Albuquerque. I still believe that this could become a factor in the DEA’s investigation, if there is one. Todd and the two head guy’s of the Aryan gang eat at a diner while Todd excitedly divulges the details of the train heist. The one he wasn’t supposed to talk about. To anyone! And of course the other two are eating up his wild tale. And I say tale because Todd leaves out the most important part of the heist: Drew Sharp’s murder. The older men joke about Todd being like Burt Reynolds in a 70’s film called Hooper, about a stuntman who is the best in Hollywood. Todd is far from Burt Reynolds. Todd could never pull that look off… even if he can jump off a moving train. Todd’s Uncle and cohort ask Todd if he is ready to run his own lab and Todd assures them that he is. Is Todd really ready? He started a fire at his last cook and no longer has Walt to guide him. Todd being the cook will not work out well. The two older Aryans go to the restroom and one of them wipes his bloody shoe with a wet paper towel and then flushes it. Sloppy. Dirty. Not a Gus. Not a Heisenberg. These guys will be caught or they will continue to play a dirty game. I’m still guessing that the final showdown will be between Walt and the gang. I believe the shot of them driving the barrel of methylamine to the Land of Enchantment will be known as classis in Breaking Bad. We then come to Jesse in the interrogation room. We see the asshole cops questioning him from his perspective in fast motion. Then Hank enters. From this moment on, this episode was a roller coaster. Such suspense. Hank turns off the video tape. Hank then offers Jesse the deal: He knows the Heisenberg is his brother-in-law… so Jesse must give up Walt and then his own charges will disappear. Hank reads the situation very well. He predicts problems with Jesse and Walt. But Jesse easily throws the last encounter he had with Hank in his face, recalling when Hank beat the living shit out of Jesse. Hank then says something that becomes very important for Jesse, “He really did a number on you, didn’t he?” Well of course he did. He’s done a number on everyone. Hank then tries to empathize with Jesse and the relationship they both have with Walt and their hatred for him. He asks Jesse if he wants to talk and Jesse says, “Not to you.” Does this mean that he will talk to someone else? It’s a possibility I will not reject yet. Saul enters the interrogation room and he is not happy. He also infers that Jesse was told about Hank’s revelation. We cut to Walt on his cell phone (is it the second cell phone?) demanding Saul use the money Walt paid him to bail Jesse out. Walt Jr. comes home and asks Walt about his whereabouts the night before. Walt uses make-up to cover his bruises from his fall. Walt Jr. tells Walt that he is going to Marie’s because she needs help with her computer. And then Walt stops his son from leaving. If you watched “Talking Bad” Sam Jackson said that Walt doesn’t play his family, but he does! He plays Walt Jr. by choosing the moment when Marie is going to tell Jr. about his dad’s drug business to confess his cancer is back. The Heisenberg has worked his magic on his son just to ensure that his reputation isn’t damaged. Hank comes home and tells Marie that he didn’t tell the DEA. She is very upset. Hank’s pride gets in the way and he tells her he needs to follow his leads. We cut to the White bedroom. Skyler asks Walter if he is “sure” and he assures her “it is the only way”. He sits down on the bed and Skyler has a video camera set up in front of Walt. Is this about to be the worst sex tape ever, you ask? No. It is Walt’s confession, homage to the pilot episode and Walt’s selfie video-taped confession. But that was back when Walt was still Mr. White. This is Heisenberg’s confession laced with the weavings of Mrs. Heisenberg. Also, Walt’s middle name is said again. Hartwell, in case that ever comes up. Skyler and Walt wait at a table in a brightly colored Mexican restaurant in silence while festive music plays in the background. Hank and Marie sit with them and the tension is thick. Everyone is sitting stiff and staring at each other. And then in the most uncomfortable, yet much needed way, the server Trent welcome the group in a very excited way. Can anyone say a w k w a r d? Not the family dinner I’m used to. Walt tells the Schraders that this meeting is not about the business or a confession, but rather about the safety of Walt Jr. and luring him is not going to work. There is a lot of back and forth about the investigation and the children’s safety and Walt’s cancer. And then Marie says the most extreme thing possible. Walt should commit suicide. To which Hank and Skyler both say no, obviously for much different reasons. Hank tells Walt to be a man and then Walt and Skyler leave, leaving the DVD of Walt’s confession on the table. I am hoping because of this discussion and what winds up being on that tape, this is the last family moment we see. Nothing good can come for anything like that again. UPDATE: After re-watching the episode, I notice during this scene that Skyler and Walt are both wearing white while the Schrader’s are wearing dark colors. Good vs Evil? Who should we be rooting for here? It’s been something viewers have been asking themselves for years. Hank and Marie go home and watch the tape. It begins with Walt saying that if the tape is being watched, he is dead and has been murdered by Hank himself. He then so intricately goes into the details as to why Hank is the ring leader of the meth empire. He links Hank to the drug bust he and Walt went to in the first episode, to Gus Fring as his partner, to the money used to pay for Hank’s medical bills, Hector Salamanca, Walt’s children staying with Hank and that Hank used Walt as his cook the whole time. Hank quickly realizes this is Walt’s threat if Hank continues the investigation. Hank also figures out that Marie knows about the specific amount Walt mentions in the tape. Hank now knows that he can very easily be pegged as the Heisenberg because his medical debts were paid with meth money. Saul and Jesse are in the desert waiting for Walt. A tarantula crawls by. The last time we saw a tarantula was when Todd kept the one that Drew Sharp had been keeping in a jar, just like Walt holds on to his murder victims “trinkets”.This tarantula is loose here because the secrets are out, or they will be. Walt arrives and checks Saul’s car for bugs. Jesse and Walt discuss Jesse’s meeting with Hank. When Saul mentions that Jesse’s antics cost Walt a lot of money, Walt asks Saul to step away. Walt then suggests to Jesse that if he wants to be happy, he should start over and not look back. He then mentions the man Saul knows who can create new lives. Walt tells Jesse it would be a “clean slate.” Walt says that he wishes he could do the same. But now we know, that the future scenes are exactly that: somehow they have “switched” and Walt has opted for a clean slate. Jesse sees through Walt and tells him to drop the act. Jesse knows that he needs to leave or Walt will kill him, just like Mike. Jesse flips Walt’s own words on him saying “Tell me you NEED this!” Jesse breaks down and Walt gives him an awesome hug. It was a sincere moment in acting. Jesse is broken and Walt is still playing Jesse for a fool, or so he thinks. At the car wash, Walt assures Skyler their plan worked. As he talks to her, he is standing in the shadows and his silhouette looks incredibly ominous while Skyler sits in the light. When She turns to look at him, half her face is covered in shadows. The imagery is a beautiful way of saying that without Walt, Skyler wouldn’t be bad. At the station, Gomez asks Hank why there are DEA agents following Jesse. Hank tells him to remove the agents without explanation. At this point, Hank is at a standstill with his investigation. Saul and Jesse discuss the importance of the call Saul will make for Jesse’s new life. Saul calls and asks for a new dust filter for his Hoover Max Extract PressurePro model 60. Ya know, in case you need to know that too. Saul gives Jesse money to start his life while Jesse lights up a joint from his pocket. Saul gets very stern about not smoking pot. Jesse is clearly nervous about starting over. Is it because of what he is leaving behind? Is it the uncertainty of the future? We will never know. Saul gives Jesse a phone in case anything happens. Jesse is not happy with the Hello Kitty phone. Seriously? Thank you to the Heisenberg Chronicles for this one. Jesse says he wants to go to Alaska. Maybe Jesse is a fan of “Into the Wild”. As Jesse leaves Saul’s office, Huell very quickly takes Jesse’s baggie of weed out of his pocket. Since there was so much speculation on this on the net tonight, I wanted to show the baggie being taken. Jesse is a smart guy. He did not jump to conclusions. As Jesse waits for his ride to Alaska, he looks for the baggie, but realizes it is gone. He looks at his pack of cigarettes and realizes this isn’t the first time that someone has taken something out of his pocket. He realizes the ricin in the Roomba couldn’t have been ricin and that Walt really did poison Brock. He chooses not to take the ride in the red mini van, but walks back to town. Jesse in a rage busts into Saul’s office and confronts him about Huell taking things out of his pocket. Saul tries to reach for a gun, but Jesse is quicker at grabbing it. Jesse then clarifies that the ricin cigarette is what Huell stole. Aaron Paul’s acting in this scene is phenomenal. He is so scary, so outraged it is palpable. That is the face of a desperate man. Saul admits the ricin was lifted but that Walt made him. He also claims to not know about Brock being poisoned. Jesse steals Saul’s keys and as he leaves, Saul calls Walt. Walt then speeds to the car wash and tries to act cavalier to Skyler, talking inanely about the latch on the soda machine. He opens the machine up and gets a gun out of the bottom. The gun is frozen. Would a frozen gun really work? I’ll tell ya, I’m not gonna keep my guns in the freezer. It’s just not trusty. Then in the last scene, Jesse pulls something that I’m not sure whether to cheer or yell W.T.F.?! He speeds to the White residence (saying house sounds too weird), takes a gas tank out of Saul’s trunk, kicks in Walt’s door (like Hank threatened to do earlier in the episode), and starts spreading the gasoline throughout the living room. AHHHHHH! What will happen now? It is doubtful Jesse will be able to pull off torching the house. It isn’t burnt in the flash-forwards. Will Walt’s children strike a chord in Jesse’s heart? Will he narc Walt out? Will Walt kill Jesse? I don’t know, but I do know that this episode was fantastic! I am super stoked for next week. Hush Comics gives “Confessions” an A +, for Heisenberg coming back in true form, for the return of the Hello Kitty phone, ultimate suspense throughout, and for the phenomenal acting that Aaron Paul put on as the tragic Jesse Pinkman written by Adrian Puryear Adrian Puryear Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon, and Breaking Bad are the best things to ever happen to me. I'm only a Three on MeowMeowBeenz. 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__label__wiki	0.887843	0.887843	01/30/2020 San Antonio Spurs DeMar DeRozan pours in 38 points as San Antonio Spurs edge Utah Jazz to halt three-game skid DeRozan's 38 points is the most he's scored this season and the most points he's ever scored in a Spurs uniform. https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/NBA_Global_CMS_image_storage/58/74/nba-logo_1otf1c2u207hs1pmrjqq1ba5h5.png?t=-1893933906&w=500 By Benyam Kidane @BenyamKidane DeMar DeRozan poured in a season-high 38 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 127-100 win over the Utah Jazz on the road, snapping their three-game losing streak. DeRozan connected on 11-of-19 shooting from the field, knocking down 16-of-19 attempts at the three throw line, adding five rebounds and five assists on the night, in the process, he surpassed 1,000 points for the 10th straight season Over 1️⃣K points in 1️⃣0️⃣ straight seasons cc: @DeMar_DeRozan pic.twitter.com/oQJphxZ5k0 - San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) January 30, 2020 Dejounte Murray was the only other Spurs starter to score in double figures, finishing with 16 points and with LaMarcus Aldridge missing his second game in a row with a sprained right thumb, the Spurs' got plenty of big contributions from their bench, with five players finishing in double figures on the night. Patty Mills led the second unit with 18 points, while Marco Belinelli, Rudy Gay and Derrick White all scored 10 points apiece. The Spurs took control of the game in the first half, racing out to a 70-62 lead, the second-most points they've scored in a half this season, but the Jazz refused to go away, as Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and Jordan Clarkson combined rally the Jazz down the stretch. DeRozan scored 21 of his 38 points in the second half, including 10 in the fourth quarter and as the Jazz cut the deficit to just five points with two minutes remaining in the game, the Spurs guard answered the call, knocking down a clutch jumper and going 3-of-4 at the free-throw line in the final 50 seconds to seal the win. "DeMar was fantastic," head coach Gregg Popovich said post-game. "He scored and kept us in the game without LA being out there. He deserves a lot of credit." "It's always good to win."- Coach Pop That about sums it up 👌 #GoSpursGo 📺: FSSW \| @spurs pic.twitter.com/rAnv46iuQ1 - FOX Sports Southwest (@FOXSportsSW) January 30, 2020 Mitchell led the Jazz with 31 points on the night, while Gobert continued his dominant form, recording 17 points and 19 rebounds. Jordan Clarkson chipped in 20 points off the bench. It's been a tough week for DeRozan, following the death of Kobe Bryant, but he's let his basketball do the talking, turning in two huge performances after scoring 36 points against the Chicago Bulls two nights ago. "That was my mentor, my idol, learned everything from him, toughness, inside and out, how to study film, you name it on the basketball court I got it from Kobe," DeRozan said post-game. "It's been tough. One thing I know he was one of the toughest people I ever came across and through this time I know he'd definitely want everybody to go out there and give it their all in whatever it is that they're doing." "He was the epitome of that. It speaks volumes from everybody who has the strength to go out there and continue to play, because its definitely something he'd want." With the win, the Spurs move to 21-26 on the season as they prepare for a tough stretch of games with seven of their next eight games on the road, including games against the Lakers, Clippers, Blazers, Nuggets, Thunder (2) and Jazz (2). Meanwhile, the Jazz have now lost two games in a row and sit fourth in the West at 32-15.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line819
__label__wiki	0.937764	0.937764	Somali PM reserves 30% of parliament seats for women in upcoming poll Women’s groups welcome move, but say implementing it in time for Feb. 8 vote will be challenging Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble. (Twitter) GAROWE, Somalia, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a measure long demanded by women's rights campaigners in the Horn of Africa nation. While welcoming Saturday's announcement by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, some women's groups cautioned that implementing the measure in time for the Feb. 8 poll would be challenging and depended on the commitment of clan leaders. Somalia has been riven by civil war since 1991, and due to the fragile security situation, elections consist of clan delegates choosing members of parliament as opposed to a one-person, one-vote electoral system. Roble made the quota pledge after talks with female lawmakers - who currently hold 24% of the 329 seats in Somalia's lower and upper houses of parliament, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). "Somalia Prime Minster his Excellency @MohamedHRoble assured that the Federal Government of #Somalia is committed to ensuring a 30% quota for women in both houses of Somali parliament for the upcoming elections ...," government spokesman Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu said on Twitter on Sunday. Somalia Prime Minster his Excellency @MohamedHRoble assured that the Federal Government of #Somalia is committed to ensuring a 30% quota for women in both houses of Somali parliament for the upcoming elections after meeting with women legislators in both Houses of the Parliament https://t.co/d6kkNJ4bqi — Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu (@MOALIMUU) January 10, 2021 Ensuring that clan leaders nominate enough women representatives will be vital to securing the full 30% quota, women's activists said. "The seats are shared among clans ... we want assurances that we will reach our target of 30% women in the next parliament," said Suad Salah, co-founder of LeadNow, a grassroots movement aimed at increasing women's political voice. Somalia has high rates of child marriage and gender violence, including rape and female genital mutilation (FGM). The United Nations says 45% of women are married before 18, while 98% have undergone FGM. Women's rights groups say a stronger voice at the top would have a trickle-down effect, helping women at the grassroots level fight abuse, discrimination and inequality. Ruqiya Muhiyadin, 38, who is aspiring to run as a candidate in the capital, Mogadishu, also expressed concern over whether the clan leaders would choose women candidates. "Initially we doubted we would get our share in the next parliament. I appeal for our cultural leaders to consider the PM's latest pledge for women." (Reporting by Mohammed Omer; Writing by Nita Bhalla; Editing by Helen Popper.) Two injured in hand grenade attack on voter registration centre in Sool region - HOL Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says military raided his home - Reuters Somali PM lauds role of media, urges more vigilance - HOL Somaliland President sends strong rebuke to Somali gov't and opposition figures - HOL Uganda: 35 years under President Yoweri Museveni - AFP UN chief Antonio Guterres declares he will seek second term - AP Landmine explosion kills 2 in Somali capital - Anadolu Agency QRCS implements two general surgery campaigns in Somalia - The Peninsula Qatar	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line826
__label__cc	0.689689	0.310311	Come out to the coast, we'll have a few laughs. Night #10: The Intruder (1975) October 10, 2017 October 9, 2017 / hintonblogs Directed By: Chris Robinson “Which is better, lock us in or out?” Sometimes you have to throw caution to the wind and sometimes you have to stumble across YouTube channels that collect largely undervalued horror flicks. Sometimes they’re hidden gems and sometimes they remain forgotten for a reason. Usually though, you can always find something worthwhile in them. The Intruder is billed as a sort of proto-slasher and I guess that’s true. John Carpenter didn’t release Halloween until 1978 though Bob Clark’s fantastic Black Christmas had come two years earlier, already by this point we were pretty deep into the Giallo genre out of Italy. We had already seen The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Deep Red and Bay Of Blood which famously went on to “inspire” Friday The 13th (Though the filmmakers deny this, there are several moments lifted directly). Really though it owes more to something like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None as a group of people on an island get offed one by one. The reasons don’t entirely matter, except to say there’s the hunt gold and the reading of a will that has brought 11 people together. Getting people together like this is always a recipe for a fun time and The Intruder kind of delivers. It’s nice to see a slasher movie that’s devoid of teenagers for one thing although it is also largely devoid of blood, with nearly all the kills taking place off-screen. What it does offer instead is 70s character actors mostly sitting in rooms waiting to be offed next. This isn’t hyperbole either, there is a stretch of the movie that’s just people sitting around and looking bored in what’s probably meta-commentary for watching this movie. Ok Ok, that’s a little unfair on my part. It isn’t boring per se but it is fairly uneventful. Perhaps we (or I) am just used to a quicker pace and silly teen hijinks and maybe a touch of hysteria wouldn’t go amiss. As it is, everyone takes the group being killed off in their stride. Oddly, it also informs us how many days in we are and at what time, as though we were watching Zodiac or something. The greatest moment, however, comes at exactly the one hour mark, where the music kicks in and we’re treated to a prolonged display of white guy Karate. I have no explanation to this (Particularly as one of the participants is the guy who played Bluto in Robert Altman’s Popeye) other than…well no, I genuinely have no explanation for it. Hilariously, the display also ends in the impalement of both (innocent) men who had taken their karate battle to a barn roof. It totals up to about 3 minutes of screentime all told, but I would be surprised if I see a more entertaining 3 minutes this month. Alas, that’s the sole highlight of The Intruder which isn’t really scary or interesting. It also introduces the cardinal sin of introducing the killer before the end without ever really explaining who he is (I did have to double-check that he wasn’t the XL pornstar John Holmes) or really giving hints as to who it might be throughout the movie. I guess it’s only really a problem because the movie signals that it’s all vaguely supernatural but seemingly can’t make up its mind until the very end with the most eye-rolling ‘twist’ ever (The killer had a secret twin brother all along!). So, all in all not a great way to spend an hour and twenty-six minutes. But man, three of those were glorious. 31 Nights of Frights, Horror, Movies, Reviews ← Night #9: Hell House LLC Night #11: Sleepaway Camp II (1988) → @emnode @AllHaleNathan1 @KayReneeESQ @Phil_Lewis_ Hahahahahahahahaha oh no I'm so offended that someone called me W… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 13 minutes ago @ChuckieG16 @Bianca17737904 @thomasQPX @_aribeaux_ @sig570 @meganaudreyc @Phil_Lewis_ Chuckie baby you still think… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 minutes ago RT @ZODIAC_MF: FRIEND OF MINE SENT ME A PIC OF HIS PS5. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT AN UGLY FUCKING MONSTROSITY IT IS. LOOK AT THIS GIANT-ASS XFINIT… 11 hours ago RT @MintysGigGuide: was it REEEEALLLY worth it tho? https://t.co/XKLN0AuYxB 13 hours ago @SharonVeal13 @BookOfShady @FINALLEVEL @Eminem Eminem. 14 hours ago Follow @hintonwrites Night #31: Suspiria (1977) Night #30: The Haunting (1963) Night #29: Hammer House Of Horror: The Two Faces Of Evil (1980) Night #28: Demons (1985) Night #27: The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (1974)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line827
__label__wiki	0.584869	0.584869	Robert Green attempts to resurrect the Holliehoax There have been distinct stirrings from the once-moribund Hollie Greig hoaxers’ camp of late, most notably from Robert Green. Readers will recall that Mr Green gained a small amount of national prominence a few weeks back, when it was revealed in a Sunday Times article that Chief Constable Veale of the Wiltshire Police had contacted him in relation to Mr Veale’s attempts to skewer Sir Edward Heath, post mortem: The police chief in charge of the sex abuse inquiry into the former prime minister Ted Heath has been in personal email contact with a campaigner who was jailed for harassing people he falsely accused of paedophilia, The Sunday Times can reveal. Mike Veale, the chief constable of Wiltshire, emailed Robert Green, of Warrington, two weeks ago in response to an email Green had sent him. Veale wrote: “As ever thank you Robert.” The words suggest the pair had communicated previously and will cast fresh doubt on the evidence that Veale’s force has gathered, which the chief constable has reportedly described as “120% convincing” that Heath was a paedophile. Green is an activist closely involved with fraudulent allegations in Scotland in the so-called Hollie Greig case, in which claims that a girl with Down’s syndrome had been abused were found to be false. He was jailed for 12 months in 2012 for harassment. Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, said: “It seems strange that, during a live sex-crime investigation, the chief constable is communicating with someone who has previously been jailed for making false sex-crime allegations against people.” As one might imagine, Mr Green was not delighted at being described as a conspiraloon and liar [There’s a difference? —Ed.], and so wrote an “open letter” on David Icke’s web page, which we are certain the editors of The Times scour regularly, looking for hidden journalistic gems. In this, he explained that the Holliehoax WAS TOO real, and he had letters from various people that proved it, etc. and so on and so forth. A few days later, a letter which appeared to have been written by Mr Green appeared in the Comments section of the excellent Barth’s Notes blog: Now that Chief Constable Mike Veale has published his report on Operation Conifer, with his customary display of dignity, professionalism and clarity, it may be an appropriate time for me to disclose some details of my limited involvement in the investigation. As readers may be aware, the Chief Constable and I were recently subjected to a nasty, poorly-researched and inaccurate attack by the Heath-supporting Sunday Times. It included a cowardly and baseless smear against the evidence of Hollie Greig, undeniably a brave victim of multiple sexual abuse. Despite being furnished with all the independent expert and police evidence fully supporting Hollie, the ST was thus gutter journalism of the lowest kind. I suspected that I was included in the attack, which was primarily aimed at undermining the gallant Chief Constable, because of the quality of the evidence that I had been able to relay to him, during the course of our correspondence. This is how it all came about. Over seven years ago, following the publicity surrounding the unlawful arrest and imprisonment I suffered in Aberdeen over Hollie`s case, I was invited to meet Dr Joan Coleman, a specialist in the field of child and ritual sexual abuse of impeccable reputation. Amongst other details, including some relating to Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith, she offered some evidence about Sir Edward Heath. Although I was naturally not party to any depth of information, I did learn that evidence against Sir Edward had been provided by no fewer than five witnesses, all of them totally independent of each other. I can say that due to the consistency of aspects of the content of the various statements, it would be impossible to deny that such evidence must be wholly credible. Now, here in October 2017, it is interesting to recall that had I not been snatched from an Aberdeen street in February 2010, it is possible to imagine that such valuable evidence would never have seen the light of day. In the meantime, I do ask readers to continue their support for Chief Constable Mike Veale and his team, who will have done much to restore public confidence in the police`s determination to investigate serious allegations of sexual crimes against children, without fear or favour. Now that Mr Green seems to have found a police ally in Chief Constable Veale, it looks as though he’s getting just a little cocky, and has (as we predicted) decided to take another kick at the can. After all, why not? He’s been mentioned in the country’s “newspaper of record”; he’s become chummy with his very own lantern-jawed, pink-skinned, shiny-shoed policeman, who writes to him respectfully and asks him what he thinks about Satanic abuse and things; and he’s been out of prison a good while and has forgotten what porridge tastes like. A couple of days ago, someone named “Jane” called a phone-in radio show on LBC to harangue the on-air host about the Hollie Greig case. He seemed politely nonplussed, and said he’d “have to look into that”—we’re sure he was making frantic slashing gestures to his technicians, urging them to move the mad bint off the air so he could go on with his show. Mr Green somehow caught wind of this incident, and has written to the host himself to follow up: From: Robert Green Sent: 23 October 2017 19:02 To: nick@lbc.co.uk Subject: Hollie Greig case Dear Nick, With regard to your recent call from Jane, you mentioned on air that you would look at this issue further. As the initial campaigner on this horrific case, I should be very pleased to assist you with any further information, including independent expert witness evidence, including supportive documentatiofor [sic] Hollie from the police. Unfortunately for LBC, your colleague Alex Salmond is heavily implicated in concealing the case, having been found on 26 May 2011 by the Information Commissioner of twice breaching the law in trying to cover up the Hollie Greig case. Moreover, Mr Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon came within 24 hours of facing a criminal charge of contempt of court on 11 July 2011, for continuing to ignore Commissioner Kevin Dunion`s ruling. I am also in possession of a letter sent on behalf of Mr Salmond dated 14 February 2014, in which your colleague attempts to deceive his own constituency secretary, Neil Bailie over his proven breaches of the law. This is a cover up case of Jimmy Savile proportions and I trust that you will allow your listeners to learn of the true facts behind this case. My cooperation with LBC on this matter is assured. To those who might be thinking right now, “But doesn’t this violate his gagging order?” we would say, “Yes. Yes, it does”. And that is why we have forwarded the link and a screenshot to the relevant authorities. Sadly for Mr Green, the police department to which we’ve sent this material is not located in Wiltshire, they have not been on a strange and misguided witch-hunt against a dead man, and they don’t consider Mr Green an expert in anything save harassing and slandering innocent individuals. Tough rocks, that. 24/10/2017 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Belinda McKenzie, criminal charges, Hollie Greig hoax, Joan Coleman, Mike Veale, Operation Conifer, restraining order Mike Veale resigns following allegations of serious misconduct Belinda teams up with Green in Heath ‘Satanic’ smear campaign ‘Nick’ charged with perverting the course of justice, fraud ← Tracey Morris arrested over threats to hostel staff Robert Green tests his luck, challenges Salmond to debate Holliehoax → 129 thoughts on “Robert Green attempts to resurrect the Holliehoax” Keekee says: He’s obviously bored with life then, but not half as bored as everyone else is with him. Anne sacked him years ago, she spoke to him like shit. Cover up blah blah blah, secrets and threats blah blah blah. Robert Green Robert Green riding through the Glen, blah blah blah. What happened Greeny, didn’t the Ted Heath thing give you enough mileage? I bet Malkie’s jumping up and down with so much excitement just now I bet a bit of wee came out. And where does Belinda fit in to all this? Just a bit of wee? My guess: directly behind him, whispering encouragement in his ear. So, they had all this evidence, but Robert never ever produced any of it in court, just a scrap of paper. The Sherrif told Robert if he wasn’t careful he’s be in the soup, Roberts reply was with a funny kind of laugh, oh that’s alright I’ve been in the soup before. Six months they gave him to produce evidence, and he produced nothing. Anyway Robert pleaded guilty in the end. I guess he’d had enough of CoCo Pops in prison, Oh this is going to be sooooo boring all over again, I just hope next time he goes to prison he remembers to take some clean pants with him, as last time I me he forgot. Then there was that phone call some one recorded, that was taken off YouTube in rather a hurry, where Robert was heard saying nasty things about Anne Greig, I wonder if Belinda is going to do another funny dance. I just hope Malkie changes his pants and I expect I’ll get called Slaaaaagy Maaaagie again. Why can’t Robert and Belinda go and investigate Steiner schools instead. Belinda knew nothing, she never even read the poilce report, just kept making up stupid story’s as usual, and I bet she pushed Robert under a bus again Ok a lot Charlie Veitch says: Robert Green wrote the 48 Laws of Power and some plays Babs, can I ask you to clarify what you said on the previous page about Kevin Weaver being Tracey Morris’s partner? To repeat what I asked at the end of the last post, for anyone who missed it, would someone please be able to email LBC to fill them in on the truth? I’d do so myself but this isn’t my area of expertise and I know there are a number of very eloquent Holliehoax experts/veterans among us. 3rd Person Singular says: Is the real Charlie Veitch a fan of Green too, do we know? It’s boring in Warrington. Best thing about Warrington is the M62 which takes you to Liverpool. He must have been ecstatic to get to go all the way to Aberdeen! Warrington does have The Museum of Policing but I expect that’s not much of a thrill these days for Robert. How’s this? I’m totally open to tweakage suggestions before I send it! Sent: 24th October 2017 Subject: ‘Jane’, Robert Green & the Hollie Greig Hoax Dear Mr. Ferarri It has come to my attention that you’ve been contacted by one Robert Green (see email dated 23.10.17, 7:02pm), urging you to follow up on a comment you made to a caller (‘Jane’) in a recent radio broadcast, who made a number of remarks regarding “the Hollie Greig case”. You told her you would look into it. These articles from reputable newspapers reveal the basics of the “case”: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13062006.One_devastating_fantasy__the_impact_of_an_internet_scandal Of course, it isn’t my place to tell you what to think or believe as regards this case but it’s only fair to point out that Mr. Green has been, shall we say, somewhat economical with the truth. The Hollie Greig case was proven beyond all doubt to have been a cruel hoax which wrecked the lives of numerous innocent people and their families. A list of names of alleged abusers transpired to include several people who did not exist and Mr. Green was unable to stump up one single scrap of evidence to support his claims in court, despite having had six months to find any. Mr. Green was given a 12-month prison sentence for harassing innocent members of the Scottish community in which Hollie lived, his second such conviction. He has also been revealed as a discredited source in the recent Ted Heath fiasco, as covered in both the Times and Private Eye: http://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1455/news https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/fresh-doubt-over-heath-sex-inquiry-rx7cpzptw The ‘Holliehoax’ was an example of what is known colloquially as ‘satanic panic’, a particularly nasty modern form of medieval witch-hunting in which incredible, unfeasible allegations of ‘satanic ritual abuse’ are made against innocent people by unscrupulous groups of individuals with their own sinister alterior motives. It has hurt a number of communities over the years and has been roundly discredited. It has often been covered by the mainstream media, including the BBC. Here are some examples, in case you’re not familiar with the phenomenon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-modern-witch-hunt/2015/07/31/057effd8-2f1a-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html?utm_term=.56bb8aa50b85 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/4602302.stm https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=eF8W1YVsS5g https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=8y_LFXbzIo0 Moreover, Mr. Green is widely regarded as a hoaxer and an ill-informed, dishonest and manipulative conspiracy theorist with links to David Icke and a number of discredited SRA hoaxers. It should also be noted that he is bound by a gagging order and would be breaking the law were he to speak about the HG case on your show. [Name redacted] Fabulous!! 🙂 Thanks, EC 🙂 In the meantime, people can also send messages to Nick Ferarri via his LBC page, should they feel so inclined: http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrari Tracey Ireland says: #Psycho Raymond Throatwobbler-Mangrove says: “Tick fukendy do one of em one’s???? Lol” Yeah, thanks for clearing that up for us, Mark. Is that actually English? Ethel the Aardvark says: Justin/Sam/Steved/anyone else – are any of you familiar with Cathy Kezelman? http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/the-disputed-memories-of-child-abuse-activist-cathy-kezelman/news-story/fb0b24837c3955ad1ff441029e88f7c3 https://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/4958561/cathy-kezelman-hits-back-over-false-memory-claims Mr. Apostrophe and his little friend 'E' says: Tracey Morris, YOU’RE gonna be fucking sorry you forgot about us. It’s going to be a LONG SENTENCE for you, you slimy little bastard. (See what I did there?) Costa del Troll says: Haven’t got a clue, Mary. Sorry 😀 Headless chicken update… The aforementioned video, for anyone who was fortunate enough to miss it: And this is the “admission” that Maggs Shaw O’Neill is an expert on the Hollie Greig hoax. Which of course means that she runs a blog about the Hampstead hoax. Where would we be without you, Defective Costa? ROFL! (This is Kristie Sue’s own screenshot and her own underlinings) Only whats in the media, but her mother and brother both think she’s not ‘being accurate’ in what she’s saying, she had ‘no memory’ of any sexual abuse by her father and her torture at the hands of a pedophile ring led by her grandmother until she underwent repressed memory therapy- sound familiar? Publicly she is starting to become a bit of a millwheel around the neck of the commission, too many people are beginning to doubt both her story and her suitability to be involved in the Royal Commission as an expert witness Partners in their “Activism”. Probably 2 years ago they were doing “whatever” in their activism Not in a sexual relationship sense. And the Action Man is the little doll he looks a bit like with his hair cut and pretends to be. Well they both start with a H, and both have an e in them, and…. um and… Well thats it really, but its about as close to facts as she’s likely to get… I’m not sure which videos you have linked, but there is one where Mark Daly of the BBC speaks of why he could not proceed with a documentary about the Hollie ‘case’. Of course, after which the usual accusations were levelled at Mark, who has made extremely good documentaries, re child abuse, some groundbreaking, but knew that this had no substantiation. I’ll see if I can find the right one, if you were not aware of that. Really good email, isn’t it ‘ulterior’, tho ? Not that I’m a hot at spelling 🙂 Oh bugger, yes it is ‘ulterior’. In my defence it was half past three in the morning, lol. Thanks – I’ll amend that before sending. They all ready know the truth like most people, I believe last year or the year before, Mumsy was being a pain in the arse and they told her to go away Mark Daly has some recordings of talking not to Robert Green at Anne Greigs house, that uncovered the truth, that’s why Mark Dally and the Panorama team walked away because it was utter rubbish, too many inconsistencies, unfortunately Robert knows this ant won’t let Mark release any of ot All this has been done before, it’s just going round in circles, what should really be investigated and put and end to, it why so many people lie about institutional child abuse, force vulnerable people to say they’ve been abused when they havn’t. In that Ted Heath thing, some one made an allegation that he was abused, but used three different names for three different allegations of abuse, how is that helping anyone? The Hollie Greig shit is all done now, Robert and Belinda are wasting their time. All the evidence is there, it’s a pile of crap, It’s all been talked about before, the interesting thing and should of been looked into was why wasn’t Hollies Uncle investigated more before he killed him self? Yet another repressed memory nut-job. It’s amazing that people in positions of power still fall for this BS after 30 years even though they have the Internet at their fingertips. Of course it’s nothing at all to do with making money from selling books and going to speak at conferences is it Cathy! SN …. 🙂 I am making alot of mistakes, I’m struggling to do anything useful, so I’m very happy to have been of some tiny assistance 🙂 This mob think if they shout and scream and stand outside somewhere in a “demonstration” shouting rude things at people, that suddenly authorities will simply cave into their bullying and ignore the law. And whatever happened to the appalling Angela Power-Disney’s campaign to ‘release’ the idiot Rupert?. She’s all mouth isn’t she. The one time she could be arsed to do something as in the recent family court case where the mother lost her case and there was a suicide. The bunch of them: Kiss of Death. Surprised she hasn’t summoned up her pals in the Paramilitary or the IRA (can’t remember which side she was- all I know is she sent one lot packing from her garden although Why The Fuck they wanted to be in this shrew’s garden is anyone’s guess) Disturbingly the Australian Royal Commission seems to be running off track. I’m surprised they haven’t lauded Fiona Barnett although that may be a step too far. Also odd characters keep cropping up such as Mark Tedeschi QC (who has had a terrible falling out with his son the concert pianist Simon Tedeschi). Seems to be considered a brilliant prosecutor but has come under intense criticism recently with some cases, accused of twisting evidence. Now being sued for malicious prosecution in a very big case by a man found innocent of murder after his appeal. There is an extraordinary backlash and it’s a very concerted one and that includes Carol Kezelman who was appointed by a government probably just wanting the whole child abuse thing to disappear. They keep referring back to a 90’s Royal Commission in NSW where the Judge accepted and praised the evidence of Elizabeth Loftus and creeps like Barnett have been sitting seething ever since claiming “pedo’ cover-ups etc but the bloody Commission was about bent police and many were discovered and prosecuted including 2 who accepted large bribes to drop cases from a now deceased man. # One aspect of the 90s Royal Commission was a lunatic NSW MP who began naming names in Parliament of so-called VIP ‘pedos’ claiming cover-ups -it was almost a carbon copy run of Geoffrey Dickens claptrap. But in doing so she managed to name one judge who had been arrested 20 years earlier for possibly importuning a teenage boy in a station toilet- he committed suicide the following day. ## This stupid woman also described the exact plot of an Australian film :The Everlasting Secret Family which had been fed to her by a convicted pedophile who just wanted to cause havoc as he admitted later. ### The same MP had 2 twin gay sons and apparently gay groups threatened to expose them as not only being part-time rent boys but having sex with underage boys. Both fled Australia and have never returned. These lunatics have victims and many are not their intended targets. Top work Spiny,I suspect that will firmly see the matter filed under F for “Fake news”,Fraudulent Falsehoods”,”Feckin Ejits”or simply good old”FFS”. Allegedly Angela only got involved in the recent family court case with the suicide because she and her daughter were being paid for diesel, childcare and food. Angela’s son had to sleep on the sofa and give up his bed to a mother that had recently given birth. Angela could have given up her own bed. Plenty of times I’ve slept on the floor if I’ve stayed overnight at someone else’s home. It’s no big deal. The boy slept on the sofa! Whoopie do… I doubt any good will come of the demo, you never know. The only people getting arrested though will be the demonstrators’. Angela for sure is the Kiss of Death. Kezelman’s “recovered memories” of abuse come from her association with Liz Mulliner and her odd ‘Heal 4 Life’ foundation based in NSW’s Hunter Valley where Mulliner claims there is an active Satanic abuse ring operating. Mulliner was a top theatre agent with many artists like Cate Blanchett & Russell Crowe and she herself had “therapy” and “recovered” memories of her father, a Guy’s Hospital administrator who according to her, ran a pedo satanic ring. The main accuser of actor Robert Hughes “recovered ” her memories of his alleged abuse at a “Heal 4 Life” retreat. The fact Hughes’ wife was also Mulliner’s theatrical agency partner seems to be co-incidental. After Hughes was convicted Mulliner demanded stars like Blanchett & Crowe leave the agency run by Hughes’ wife but they ignored Mulliner and remain with her. Heal 4 Life is planning to set up “retreats” in the UK. They have had $Millions in government grants. Thankfully with all its faults modern civilization has evolved away from mob rule and has gradually come down from the tree and established non violent methods of initiating change. The Morris attempt to cut through due processes by flaming torch,bully tactics and flicking the “V”at “Da system” will only ever land her in deep shit and rightly so. Seems the recently noted quiescence in Loonyville may have been but a prelude to a storm.Great news for voyeurs and pop corn shares. This disturbing video at least needs to redone with an appropriate graphic before being eventually consigned to the digital shredder. But do I still get a C+ for effort at least? Thank you, Mik 🙂 Great work Spiny. From what i know of Nick Ferrari he doesn’t seem to be the kind of person who would have much time for conspiraloons. I give you an A—yes, it’s all been done before, frustrating as that is, but we know these people are “delusional, irrational, obsessive, and odd”, and they’ll take any opportunity to try and restart their bizarre hoaxes. Their hope is that they’ll find people who weren’t paying attention first time round, who they can manipulate and use for their own purposes. If we can nip that in the bud, so much the better. Breaking: Facebook no longer “a Jewish conspiracy run by MI5 to brainwash the sheeple” What a nasty little person: Lol yes that had me stumped also. Must be some kind of fruitloop code. You always come out with some great gifs Mik7777 But not so well known for her use of the English language. Thankyou, FG. I agree, EC. Well put. Blimey ! Costa's Piles of Poo says: Nice letter Spiny!! Good Job! Yes, Mik is our reigning GIF king. 🙂 Google Hoaxtead says: Nice little hissy fit starts building up from 9:45 onwards… When she says she’s gonna take out the parasites, does she mean she’s going to kill them or has she planned a nice little trip to the zoo followed by a picnic in the park or something? I’m sure it must be the latter. After all, would they allow someone who makes death threats to be around children? As I said to Kristie Sue, she’s about two years late and 10 quid short on the Maggs thing. Yes, some of us knew someone by that name very briefly—a couple of months at most—but she never had anything to do with setting up or running this blog. In fact, I’m not really comfortable naming her here, because I believe she’s disassociated herself from anything to do with either the Holliehoax or Hoaxtead. I don’t know her well enough to begin to guess why, but that’s really her business, not anyone else’s. Of course, Malky is utterly besotted with the woman for whatever reason, but that cannot be helped. Tertiary syphilis is a terrible thing. Do you know, it never fails to amuse me that these people rant on about us “taking this much time and effort”…when in fact, what we’re doing is responding to the enormous amount of time, effort, and energy they have put in to set this thing alight and keep the embers hot. My question would be, “What is making these loons put so much time and effort into proving something which has been disproven and debunked over and over again. What do they get out of it? Who is behind them? What are they hiding?” The fact that we are more stubborn and determined than they are only speaks to our dedication to the truth: that the people of Hampstead are innocent and have been victimised by a bunch of losers who have their own sinister reasons for wanting to believe that children have been raped, murdered, and eaten. Yes – sorry, EC – I won’t mention her again. We’ve had our chuckle at Kristie Sue’s hilariously incompetent attempts to play detective and Paedogilvy’s determination to make his spurned crush look like hatred and now it’s time to move on, methinks. Christ knows these nutters provide us with enough (unintentionally) entertaining material for us to be able to pick and choose anyway! Oh, I’m not upset with you, not at all. I’m really annoyed with Kristie Sue, but then that’s natural. I think she evokes that response in many people. And canines. As you say, her incompetence is hilarious, and I’ve been having a good chuckle over her idiocy too. 🙂 The guy who made the video would probably like that. I think Mel Shaw did say Abraham et al’s fantasty to do with Hampstead was a hoax. She also slated Power-Disney very early on. Just got an FB notification. It’s official – a photo of a middle-aged man snogging a scantily clad 13-year-old girl “doesn’t go against any of our specific community standards”. There goes my faith in humanity. https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/torture-and-the-hampstead-sra-hoax-myths-busted/#comment-83454 Sadly, though, she still idolises Brian Gerrish. Yes very true. But has he ever visited her in prison? Seems its a technical term of some kind possibly relating to not being able to find the right hole when absolutely bladdered. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thebothy/fuckin-pyshed-tae-fukendy-fuck-fuckin-shyte-t499.html It’s because:- 1. They have nothing better to do. 2. They have spent years on these hoaxers and don’t want it all to have been a waste of time. 3. They want to be part of some “alternative ‘celebrity'” drama. 4. It makes them feel as though they are important. 5. For the likes of Angela etc. it’s a way to make a bit of cash of the side for sharing other peoples posts on fb. On Twitter there isn’t a lone person giving her any attention. 6. …..I’m sure there’s many more reasons. Oh, Catherine tried trolling me the last day or so, sounds very bitter. daisies2017 says: Another of Angela’s ‘admirers’, friend of TM. Lee Shannon angel power disney you really need to fuk ur mouth up u gave bby H clothes and changing bag and damandin them back you say ur there for that bby but tske stuff bk the child doesnt need fuk all from yous we are bby H family so dont you talk about any1 are my family u wanted t and p to stay there so u could get the money from them and Niki Tenkids Laverty has spoke the turth about you ur s fuking key borad worrior I think my shorthand was much more understandable than that post back in the day. 😂 Disgusting, I reported it also but didn’t get the notification yet. Catherine’s blipped on our radar before: “Bronny’s ‘Catherine O’Connell’ mate/sock is on Alanson’s page, echoing the freckle-faced one’s hilarious claim that Abe’s ‘RawHempStars’ channel is an RD sock: My God, I’d love to see the look on Abe’s face when he sees that 😀” ~ Common Porpoise, 14/02/16 https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/a-challenge-to-alan-alanson-back-up-your-claims-or-go-home/#comment-21511 Also on that same thread: El Coyote: “The wee man will be hopping up & down in rage…” Common Porpoise: “The original claim on Humpty Brompty’s blog: ‘Abraham Jemal Christie – with the Raw Hemp Stars banner – definite. Report!!’ It’s the use of the word ‘definite’ that seals the magic for me 😀” Sam: “Catherine looks like she would enjoy a good night at Biddie Mulligans.” Sam: “Catherine is right on the ball. She’s just discovered the Robert Green case and tried to telephone him in prison but they had no knowledge of him. All done and dusted a few years ago poor thing.” Charlie Zant: “Honestly, this woman is as thick as two short planks. Is there actually anything between her ears?” And she features in a post about Butlintwat here (from 17th Dec 2015): https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/twitter-mob-descends-on-butlincat Gotta love those key borad warriors 😀 I’ve posted her the link to this thread, lol. This is the video where she’s been trolling me: OK, this was posted to me on that ‘heavy breathing’ video. I’ve tried to read it three times now and I just keep zoning out after the first three sentences. Can someone give me the gist? Best summary wins a night out with Angela… Two big names supoorting her peter mcclelland and mark tedeschi who obviously belive the repressed memory crap. She is giving advice on policy and funding. Angela and cohorts spread nastiness and lies but small time crazy affecting a few unfortunates. Cathy is big time crazy. Blah blah blah blah.. he wants you on his couch. So my initial impression was correct – he IS a wanker. Basically, he says: “Spiny, I love you, I have a crush on you and I want to take you back to my place to ‘meet Jesus’.” How’s that? If I win the night out with Angie, do I have to pay? And should I bring a few packets of fags to keep her calm? Latest update from the world of bollocks: ‘Coincidentally’ at the same time as Tracey Morris and her mates will be live-feeding their Regina Ceoli protest? #Hmmmm 😀 Oh dear, Kristie Sue won’t like her minion’s comment about her heavy-breathing hero! This is gonna be a hoot 😀 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! The stupid is killing me! 😂😂😂 https://archive.is/UG4nc LMFAO! Can someone please sit that drooling fucktard Paedogilvy down and explain to him in words that a 3-month-old lobotomised chimp would understand that the above was posted in reply to a Spiny Norman comment? https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=rrvbDTKeKj0&lc=z23kjtxzhmy4clzspacdp4350nflrv1f3ancsjaev1hw03c010c LOLOLOLOLOL!! “So nowhere here does Calum Ross mention Spiny..” Ogilvy you’re a sandwich short of a picnic. Calum Ross’ large comment was IN REPLY to SPINY. You never even looked at the video! Bless… can you understand now? Calm yourself doon tae a frenzy noo.. The guy’s totally lost it, Jake. Now he thinks that there are 18,000+ people trying to hack his blog, lol: https://archive.is/etR7h Don’t forget your roller-skates, in case you have to make a quick getaway. Hashtag barrel-scraping Seriously, how desperate for friends must she be to be supporting someone like Eugene Lukjanenko? LOL http s://ww w.facebook. com/eugene.lukjanenko/videos/10156647858402004 And stuff some rolled up newspaper down the back of your kecks, Raymond, to stop her pinching your arse. I beg to differ, Angie – you are most definitely ‘special’. Why would anyone want to hack his blog? LOL! It’s becoming a carbon copy of this one, with posts of our comments all over it now anyway. Immer Beobachtend says: Ah dinnae ken, hen! The guy’s a wee barmpot. Liza McRadley says: Och, he’s a total radge. #Daft sod Subject: Alex Salmond and the Hollie Greig case With regard to my previous email, may I propose a very simple method of highlighting the true facts and resultant issues before your listeners ? I would like to suggest a live public debate with Alex Salmond on LBC over the Hollie Greig case in general and his involvement in it. I am also wiling to take any questions from members of your audience. I would also stress that I would neither ask for nor accept any payment whatsoever from LBC for my contribution. My only motive is to place information before your listeners in order to enable them to make up their own minds about this extraordinary matter. Since my false arrest and subsequent unsound conviction, which are currently being in the process of being formally challenged, I have spoken widely and publicly across the UK, including Scotland and on radio about the case, my only restrictions being that I should not repeat the accusations relating to the identities of those named by Hollie, nor should I seek to make contact with any them. The other many issues have been presented openly by me without any problems at all. I look forward to your response and trust that Mr Salmond will not avoid the opportunity I have offered to him of facing me. She’s associated with THAT mob??? Didnt know that, they are seriously lala land- and seriously dangerous too, anyone who even hints they should be investigated for inappropriate behaviours (and theres plenty of those associated with H4L) gets the full treatment, threats of lawsuits, counter accusations of criminal acts, public smear campaigns, all on a mob that is functionally identical to the Hampstead claims…. I still wonder about Robert, I only saw the press footage, but to me he just seemed so bewildered by it all and the recovered memorys thing was strongly discredited even then, and apart from that there was no evidence at all…. That is the most disturbing thing about these ‘recovered memory’ mobs- there is serious evidence that they never happened, and people can go to jail based on them… even if they are found innocent, the stain remains on that persons life forever after, and that can be just as bad if not worse than the actual jailing Yes, she blocked me on Twitter ages ago. Apparently doesn’t like any kind of reality intruding into her little fantasy world, LOL. I’m sure Nick won’t pay any attention to that email after receiving the one from Spiny! http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1934561/satanic-ritual-child-sex-abuse-claims/ “Dr Christine Edwards, who has a PhD in psychology science and has completed a number of evaluations of Heal for Life, said Ms Mullinar’s comments about satanic ritual abuse and the lack of a team of health professionals in the organisation left the organisation, and Ms Mullinar, vulnerable to criticism. ‘‘She’s a strongly religious person. With the belief in God comes the belief in Satan, but when she’s put in government submissions for funding I’ve said straight out to her, ‘Don’t write about satanic ritual abuse because there’s not enough evidence to support it. You don’t want people to think you’re a ratbag’.’’ Not enough evidence? – try nada, nil, zip, zero… http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2561269/cessnock-centres-excessive-discussion-of-cults/ “In July this year, the commission confirmed it would not investigate the handling of a number of allegations that were based on the ‘‘recovered memories’’ of a sexual abuse survivor who became a staff member, who alleged other sexual abuse survivors who were also staff members had engaged in satanic ritual abuse involving people staying at the centre.” Great, people with false ‘recovered memories’ start treating others and guess what they find?- MORE false recovered memories…. And not just in private therapy sessions- but group sessions… (and we have all seen the ‘super soldiers’ like APD’s reactions in group claims- they all end up trying to oneup each other) Interestingly (and perhaps rather worryingly) is that these ‘satanic cult’ claims- in which babies were killed and eaten, coerced sexual activities etc were in the media just prior to the Hampstead hoax… did Abe get his ideas from this mob’s media coverage? Geordie? Sure. says: Alanson, you ignorant far right racist twat. LOL The Rothschild’s what? And which Rothschild are they talking about? Or to put it another way, shouldn’t the fucking “master race” know how to use apostrophes? The emails that were read in court between Hughes’ accuser and her agent were very disturbing. The accuser actually states that the money the agent was negotiating to sell her story (long before Hughes’ arrest and very similar to Rolf Harris) was not nearly enough and she wanted much more so she could set herself up as a film producer in the USA. It was basically an agreement to make the story of abuse much more sensational. Her dedication to Liz Mulliner- who also happened to be her agent is unshakable and she has given workshops at Mulliner’s ‘Heal4Life’ retreat which is like a 5-star country club all paid for by donations or government grants (the grants have now dried up). Completely unqualified people take alleged victims through these ‘repressed memory” scenarios. Not even a psychologist is on hand (which may require paying them a significant wage when those running the “memory” course work for free). There have been so many calls for inquiries of Mulliner’s actions but the sensations seem to die down each time. Unfortunately for the victim she has also tried to sue Hughes’ theatrical agent wife- not sure how that works, suing relatives – but has hit a blank wall as she lives in Singapore where she operates her agency from and a local court threw out the lawsuit. As for the agent, I’ve been hearing very disturbing tales. Just gossip and rumours which can of course be completely fictitious but for some reason the name “Max Clifford” comes to mind. Dontcha just love the mindset of these people : they accuse all & sundry of murdering 100s of babies and eating their flesh, of mass raping babies and children. They stand outside churches and scream profanities and abuse at startled parishioners and publish the names and addresses of innocent people basically calling upon others to attack them (Rupert Quaintance- draw blood?). They publish and re-publish the images of 2 genuine child abuse victims (abused by their mother’s boyfriend as she sat by as he threatened to bury them in the desert) despite the guarantee of anonymity of these genuine vicitms and so on. But call them out as liars and provide real evidence of their lies they scream “troll” and “slander”. She really is begging to go to jail. There will still be starving children and rape & abuse victims Deborah Mahmoudieh because lazy ignorant sods like you sit at your PC ranting and a’raving all day & think you have actually dome something. Has this Jesus RSVPed that he will be there? Juts another bullshit quote or to use today’s parlance -Fake News. https://www.quora.com/Did-Winston-Churchill-say-something-about-Germany-extricating-her-economic-power-from-the-worlds-trading-system. “The quote appears to have been invented in 2001 by a man named David Pidcock, a convert to radical Islam who blamed the 9/11 attacks on a Jewish conspiracy to discredit Islam and undermine the West. The book ‘Propaganda in the Next War’ was published in 1938, and there is no trace in any reputable catalogue or bookshop of there being a second edition ever published….The Churchill Centre, which holds a 13-million-word digitised archive of Churchill’s writings, confirmed on request back in 2006 that nothing resembling the quote is held in their files.” What Churchill actually said (to me personally) was that “one day there will be thing called the Internets where all manner of fruitcakes and fuckwits will reign supreme and spread their vicious loony lies and I expect you Ghost of Sam, when you grow up, to be on the ball and dispute each & everyone of them and state the truth and for God’s sake, do not go a’sailing with anyone called ‘Heath'”. He then asked me to “pour me another G&T love” and suggested I join him in his bath-tub. I thought Hitler was a secret Rothschild and the war (all wars actually) were Rothschild plots? . Their story changes all the time. Given statically its pretty much a dead cert that it wont end at all well,it may be wise to check your life insurance cover,that your will is in good order and notify all psychiatric hospitals as to your inside leg measurements so that the straight jacket does`nt chaff too much. Good luck sir,its been a privilege serving with you. Pingback: Robert Green tests his luck, challenges Salmond to debate Holliehoax \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH I will tune in for a laugh promptly at around 5.30pm gmt onThursday by which time her technical team should be getting quite close to working out if her mic is on or off. This one has all the makings of a right old giggle,up there with the lampshade episode. Some bloke down the pub told me that both World Wars were really False Flag events and all of the dead and injured people were actually just crisis actors. He said that it must be true as he read about it on the internet. LMFAO! 😀 The Vintage Video Revival club says: 😀 Ooh, you little tease, WW. 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__label__wiki	0.936644	0.936644	Hooks and Harmony Melodic pop and 80s music - especially for you. Desert Island Discs Whatever Happened To…? The Greatest Albums of the 1980s A Second Listen Album review: Identical Suns By Peter Lee On 13 July 2015 In Reviews The Internet is an amazing thing. It’s created pen pals, marriages, business dealings, debates and in the case of Identical Suns, a songwriting collaboration. Rene Rodriguez and Todd Stanton were acquaintances in the Mike Viola Facebook group. The two discovered that they both had a passion for songwriting and began writing, first via old-school technology – Stanton sent Rodriguez a phone recording of a song. Rodriguez wrote lyrics to it, recorded a new version, and emailed it back to Stanton, and the songwriting process was born. (Read my interview with Rodriguez and Stanton.) The result is an eponymous debut by the duo, who are the core of the group Identical Suns. Possessing voices that sound like the Smithereens’ Pat DiNizio and Matthew Sweet, both Stanton and Rodriguez share lead vocal duty on the 10 songs, which are marvelously crafted pop gems that will keep you humming long after the CD has stopped playing. The opener, “Baby I’m Down,” hooks you with a nice chromatic chord progression in the refrain, and “Show Me a Sign” has a memorable descending bass line played with an electronic keyboard. What Rodriguez and Stanton have done (with the help of Stanton’s family and drummer Mitch Trompeter) is nothing short of amazing. They’ve created a cohesive album that is mixed like the two were in the same studio the whole time – even though they recorded their parts some 2,000 miles away from each other. “The Turn” is a 21st-century version of the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” with a mini-suite of song snippets. And “After the Lullaby” is a charming, majestic acoustic ballad that ends the album perfectly. Let’s hope that this isn’t a one-time collaboration and those emails will keep traveling back and forth, clogging the Internet with more delicious pop music. Identical Suns: The Interview 'Jealous Sun' - David Myhr Desert Island Discs: Live at La Bonbonniere, Candy Butchers Acousto De Perfecto - Mike Viola La Vita Nuova, Maria McKee Review: ‘Here,’ Teenage Fanclub Album of the Year: Soundshine, David Myhr Album of the Year: The Furry White Album, Famous Groupies 80s aimee mann andrew curry beach boys beatles blondie david myhr duran duran elton john explorers club grammy jellyfish joy division kelly jones maria mckee michael jackson mike viola music nick drake paul mccartney prince queen r.e.m. radiohead taylor swift teenage fanclub the cure the nines top 40 u2 I Don't Hear A Single Power Popaholic PowerPop Square The Hits Just Keep On Comin’ Too Poppy Brad Delp Discography Site Spectacular Bid Book The Death and Life of Mal Evans The Way to Churchill Downs Hooks and Harmony Copyright © 2021.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line835
__label__cc	0.733045	0.266955	HOWARD ON MORTGAGE FINANCE Commentary on current mortgage finance issues A View on Affordable Housing May 3, 2018 May 3, 2018 ~ jtimothyhoward Last month the head of a Washington D.C.-based affordable housing organization asked me to attend a meeting in the Hart Senate Office Building to give my views on “Corker-Warner 2.0” and its potential effect on low- and moderate-income mortgage borrowers. As I presented my perspective and arguments, a Senator with whom I had not met before seemed interested in and intrigued by them, and asked me if I could write them up. I did, and sent the resulting paper to the Senator’s staff. Since affordable housing has been a key sticking point for reform legislation in Congress, I thought readers of this blog would be interested in the text of the paper, which I’ve reproduced below. The need for reform For the past several decades the U.S. has had two general sources of financing for conventional (i.e., non-government guaranteed) home mortgages: depository institutions and the international capital markets. Depository institutions finance home mortgages using consumer deposits and purchased funds; capital markets investors finance them by purchasing mortgage-backed securities (or MBS). In the mid-1970s three-quarters of all home mortgages were made and held by depositories, mainly thrift institutions. Two successive thrift crises—the first in the late 1970s triggered by deposit deregulation and the second in the late 1980s triggered by asset deregulation—caused that system to collapse. Thrifts’ share of home mortgages financed plunged from 57 percent in 1975 to just 17 percent in 1995. Financing by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sourced from the international capital markets, filled almost the entire gap. At the end of the 1990s, Fannie and Freddie either owned or guaranteed more than 40 percent of all home mortgages, up from less than 5 percent 25 years earlier. In the early 2000s, during a time when the Federal Reserve and Treasury were embracing free market principles and declining to regulate new lending practices or mechanisms, private-label securities (PLS) emerged as an alternative to mortgage securitization by Fannie and Freddie. PLS placed few limits on the riskiness of the loans they would accept, and as a consequence issuance of PLS increased rapidly. In 2004, more new mortgages were being financed by PLS than by Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie Mae MBS combined. Easy, ample and low-cost borrower access to mortgages through unregulated PLS issuance fueled an unsustainable housing boom that continued until the fall of 2007, when the PLS market finally collapsed amidst an avalanche of delinquencies and defaults. We now have nearly ten years’ worth of performance data on mortgages financed just prior to the crisis by PLS, FDIC-insured depository institutions, and Fannie and Freddie. These data leave no doubt as to where the flaws in the mortgage finance system were. Cumulative loss rates on the PLS that were outstanding at the end of 2007 exceed 25 percent, and loss rates on home loans made and held by depository institutions as of the same date exceed 12 percent. In contrast, loss rates on year-end 2007 loans held or guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie barely exceed 4 percent. Capital markets investors and Congress understood what had happened in the PLS market—where an absence of regulation allowed both primary market lenders and Wall Street securities issuers with no capital at risk to make money off mortgages that had little chance of being repaid—and they reacted accordingly. Congress responded with the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which required lenders to apply an “ability to repay” rule to mortgage borrowers and, through the “qualified mortgage” (QM) standard, effectively prohibited the most risky mortgage products and loan features that proliferated during the PLS bubble. Investors simply abandoned the PLS market due to its inherent conflicts of interest, and they have not come back From 2004 through 2006, the PLS market had been financing nearly two of every five new home mortgages in the country. When it suddenly imploded, that left the commercial banks, Fannie and Freddie, and the FHA to pick up the slack. All were under stress because of the overheated housing market, calling into question how, and even whether, the mortgage market could continue to function. What happened at this point is disputed, but compelling evidence supports the notion that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made a policy decision to use what he termed “the awesome power of the government” to force Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship—without statutory authority, against their will, and while they remained in compliance with their regulatory capital requirements—because, as he told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, “[Fannie and Freddie] were the only game in town,” and with mortgage credit drying up, they “more than anyone, were the engine we needed to get through the problem.” At the same time, Treasury seems to have found in the turmoil of the financial crisis a unique opportunity to strengthen the competitive position in the $10 trillion home mortgage market of the commercial banks it regulates, at the expense of Fannie and Freddie and the capital markets investors to whom they sell their securities. As soon as the companies were put in conservatorship, Treasury required them to shrink their combined $1.6 trillion mortgage portfolios by 10 percent per year (later increased to 15 percent per year), even though the spread income from those portfolios helped offset their credit losses. Shortly afterwards, Treasury and the companies’ conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), used highly pessimistic estimates of future losses to justify recording $320 billion in non-cash expenses that exhausted the companies’ capital and caused them to draw $187 billion in senior preferred stock they did not need and were not allowed to repay. Then, just as the artificial losses that caused this alleged “bailout” were about to reverse (as they did, in only 18 months), Treasury and FHFA agreed to a “net worth sweep” that required Fannie and Freddie to pay all of their net income to Treasury in perpetuity, ensuring that they would remain in conservatorship until Treasury and advocates for the banking industry could come up with a plan to replace them. Affordable housing borrowers are critically dependent on a low-cost and efficiently functioning secondary market. Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, Fannie and Freddie had been able to support these borrowers by using cross-subsidization to price their credit guarantees more advantageously, and by purchasing nonstandard affordable housing loans for portfolio. Today, Fannie and Freddie’s portfolios are less than one- third their former size—because of Treasury’s directive to shrink them—and they operate with guaranty fees set artificially high by their conservator, FHFA, not based on the riskiness of the loans they guarantee but instead, in the words of the agency, to “reduce their market share,” and “encourage more private sector participation.” Since the mid-1990s more funding for mortgages has been provided by capital markets investors than by depository institutions, so primary market lenders use the cost of selling into the secondary market to determine their quoted mortgage rates. Increases in the cost of the credit guaranty process, i.e., MBS guaranty fees, therefore get passed on to all borrowers, whether their loans are sold or not. Dodd-Frank reformed both the PLS market and primary market mortgage lenders through the QM standard and the ability-to-repay rule, and regulators have raised banks’ capital requirements. Only Fannie and Freddie remain unreformed, because advocates for the banking industry insist not on reform that benefits the financial system and homebuyers but on reform that benefits the competitive position of primary market lenders. With the PLS market dormant, Fannie and Freddie are virtually the sole means of tapping the capital markets for money to finance conventional mortgages. Holding this financing channel hostage to banks’ demands that it be restructured in a way that makes it more costly and less efficient—for the patently false reason that its current structure is a “failed business model” that caused the financial crisis—has had severe negative consequences for the mortgage system as a whole, and for affordable housing borrowers in particular. Congress and Treasury are the only entities that can remedy this situation. Support for affordable housing The government can increase the availability and lower the cost of mortgages for affordable housing in three ways: (a) fostering the development of a secondary market system that provides the lowest-cost mortgages to the widest range of borrower types, consistent with an agreed-upon standard of taxpayer protection; (b) setting mandatory affordable housing goals, and (c) devising and implementing subsidy programs that assist underserved populations. Taking each in turn: A credit guaranty mechanism that expands borrower access Advocates for commercial banks have sought legislative replacements for Fannie and Freddie for nearly a decade. Their idea in the 2013 Corker-Warner bill was a cumbersome bureaucracy called the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation; today the new version of Corker-Warner calls for multiple credit guarantors with explicit government guarantees on the securities they issue. Both versions, however, offer self-serving solutions to invented problems, and fail because Fannie and Freddie’s business model, with its proven track record of providing efficient and low-cost access to capital markets funding, works far better than the proposed alternatives. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, there are weaknesses in this model that can and should be remedied. The companies need a new and more effective capital standard; they need better (and less adversarial) regulation, and they perhaps also should have utility-like limits on their returns, as a risk-control measure. These reforms can be done either in legislation or administratively. Whichever course is followed, however, the most critical aspect of Fannie and Freddie reform for access and affordability will be the capital standard. The capital standard imposed upon Fannie and Freddie, or any credit guarantor, must strike a careful and deliberate balance between a very high level of taxpayer protection on the one hand and the cost and breadth of access to mortgages on the other. Too little capital will expose the taxpayer to potential losses; too much capital, or a standard that does not tie capital to credit risk, will distort guaranty fee pricing and impede the flow of capital market funds into mortgages, for affordable housing borrowers in particular. Fortunately, Congress already has addressed the issue of credit guarantor capital, and come up with the right answer. Section 1110 of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 states, “The Director [of FHFA] shall, by regulation, establish risk-based capital requirements for the enterprises to ensure that the enterprises operate in a safe and sound manner, maintaining sufficient capital and reserves to support the risks that arise in the operations and management of the enterprises.” A true risk-based capital standard for Fannie and Freddie, consistent with HERA, will result in the least amount of unnecessary capital, the lowest average guaranty fees, and the greatest flexibility to use cross-subsidization to support the affordable housing community, while still providing an extremely high level of taxpayer protection. FHFA has not yet implemented the capital provision in HERA, likely because it and Treasury have chosen to manage Fannie and Freddie in conservatorship in a manner consistent with ultimately winding them down and replacing them. That is a serious policy mistake that needs to be corrected by Congress, or by Treasury itself. To implement the risk-based standard in HERA, Congress or Treasury first would pick the stress environment it wants the guarantors to be able to protect against. (The 25 percent nationwide decline in home prices used in the Dodd-Frank stress tests for banks would be a likely candidate). FHFA then would use Fannie and Freddie’s historical data to project default rates and loss severities during this environment, by risk category—at a minimum, combinations of loan-to-value ratios and credit scores—and the resulting stress loss amounts would be the basis for setting the companies’ new capital requirements, at the risk-category level. Fannie and Freddie’s experience during and after the 2008 financial crisis suggests how they would have to capitalize against a future 25 percent home price decline. With their loans and MBS at the end of 2007, and the (low) guaranty fees they then were charging, 2 percent capital would have been more than enough to absorb all of the credit losses on those books of business. FHFA of course will set the actual stress capital levels. It also should impose a minimum capital ratio, which will benefit affordable housing borrowers by making it impossible for Fannie or Freddie to drive their required capital below that minimum by unduly favoring pristine credits. A true risk-based capital standard for Fannie and Freddie, endorsed by Treasury as meeting a rigorous stress standard for taxpayer protection, would obviate the need for an explicit government guaranty on their mortgage-backed securities. Moreover, if catastrophic loss insurance were necessary to enhance Fannie and Freddie’s credit quality (to hold down their MBS yields), private insurers could provide it; with true risk-based capital, insurers would know the precise thresholds, by risk category, at which their loss coverage would kick in, and could price for it accordingly. Mandatory affordable housing goals The potential impact of mandatory affordable housing goals for Fannie and Freddie, or any credit guarantor, is limited by the fact that these companies do not originate mortgages; they only can guarantee the loans primary market lenders make. Even so, housing goals can be used to create incentives for secondary market companies to channel the benefits of capital markets financing to subcategories of underserved borrower. A regulator should have the authority to impose penalties on a credit guarantor if, in any year, its percentage of affordable housing business—either overall or in an underserved subcategory designated by Congress—falls short of the percentage originated in the primary market that year. Housing goals also can be used to promote cooperative initiatives with state and local governments, nonprofit institutions and community housing groups to create custom-tailored products for targeted housing needs on a smaller scale, although for this to be effective a credit guarantor will need to be able to hold some number of these loans on its balance sheet, since many will not be eligible for securitization. HERA contains a robust set of housing goals for Fannie and Freddie, which would be maintained in administrative reform of the companies. Mandatory credit guarantor housing goals may be more difficult to include in new legislation, given the political disagreements over their appropriate role. Subsidy programs that support underserved populations The bank-promoted bill currently being drafted in the Senate Banking Committee relies almost exclusively on direct subsidy programs to assist affordable housing borrowers, funding these programs with a ten basis point Mortgage Access Fee. Supporters of this mechanism are correct that direct subsidy programs are more efficient, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, than the cross-subsidies historically done in the secondary market through charging lower-risk borrowers higher guaranty fees so that guaranty fees for higher-risk borrowers can be reduced. But the draft Senate bill errs in presenting direct subsidies as an alternative to cross-subsidies, rather than as a complement to them. The two are independent; direct subsidy programs do not in any way lessen the importance of doing as much as possible to support affordable housing through an efficient credit guaranty mechanism. The draft Senate bill also proposes to assess the Mortgage Access Fee only on loans that have secondary market credit guarantees. This creates two problems, both of which can be fixed by assessing the fee on all new mortgages. The first is transmittal leakage. Because a credit guarantor’s ten basis point Mortgage Access Fee will be added to its guaranty fee, the same amount also will be added to the mortgage rates quoted by primary market lenders, for the reason noted earlier. But these ten basis points paid by the borrower only will enter the affordable housing subsidy pool if the loan receives a credit guaranty; a lender that keeps a loan in portfolio also keeps the borrower’s ten basis points. A Mortgage Access Fee on all new mortgages will avoid this leakage (and windfall for primary market portfolio lenders), and ensure that all monies collected from the fee go to their intended beneficiaries. The second problem with a Mortgage Access Fee charged only on loans financed in the secondary market is that it unnecessarily ties the subsidy programs that benefit from such a fee to legislative mortgage reform, which will be challenging to enact. A Mortgage Access Fee on all new mortgages would be less controversial as a stand-alone measure, and thus more likely to be implemented. How best to address the needs of the affordable housing community in mortgage reform is no mystery. But that hasn’t been the goal of secondary mortgage market reformers—it’s dominance of the $10 trillion residential mortgage market by large primary market banks. With Fannie and Freddie banned from political activities, these banks have been free to distort the record, define the objectives of secondary market reform, and put forth reform proposals that benefit themselves. Advocates for affordable housing, as well as community banks, realize this, and are responding with fact-based rebuttals and alternatives of their own. That’s a very good thing. If large primary market lenders are allowed to dictate how the capital markets-based financing channel is structured and operates, homebuyers in general, and affordable housing borrowers in particular, will pay a steep price in both cost and access. < Previous The State of the Debate Next > Some Pre-comment Comments 157 thoughts on “A View on Affordable Housing” Pingback: May 2018 - GSE Links ruleoflawguy says: the hindes/jacobs appeal in 3rd circuit has been “calendared” for 9/5/18. this means that a merits panel will have been assigned to this case and will have had at least 4 weeks prior thereto to read briefs and prepare. if one of the three judges of the merits panel desires oral argument then that will be scheduled, presumably in early September as well. we do not know yet which judges will comprise the panel. I agree with Tim that hindes/jacobs presents then strongest claim that the NWS is beyond the authority of fhfa as conservator (which is not to say that the conserve/preserve argument was not strong, in my view). so assuming that oral argument is requested (which I would think is a safe bet), this will be an important argument to follow. rolg I found the fact that the Bhatti case decision came out 1(?) week after Lucia very interesting. Not so much that he didn’t “reconsider” after Lucia came down, but he did, realized it made a problem and wanted to get out of Dodge quickly. I was thinking that when it came down he quickly put out his decision so he wouldn’t have to get tangled into the can of worms opened by Lucia. Maybe I am wrong, but is it not curious he puts out his decision just a week after Lucia, the day after a holiday when people are thinking about other things? How long was he sitting on Bhatti? Then all the sudden – it seems – he puts out a decision. Was he working like mad on the 3rd, 4th? Probably not, unless he wanted to get it out. I think he knows the case has merits, but is punting. Now perhaps that is good, this probably will never be settled until the Supreme Court, and now the appeal can get started and we are that much closer in the long run. ROLG, I looked up the appeals process for the third circuit and it said that oral arguments are rarely granted . If one is not granted does the 9/5 date you gave mean that is the day the panel meets to discuss or do they decide that day? Thanks. As Tim indicated , this is the most straight forward case and if briefs are read before hand , a decision could be made on that date. It says the Third circuit doesn’t always issue written opinions but may just come out with a ruling. @jerry the calendar order was ambiguous as to the exact date of any oral argument, if indeed the panel wishes to hold it. I would think at least one of a three judge panel would want oral argument in this case, in which case there will be oral argument. even if there is no oral argument, the order said the merits panel may meet on another day during that first week of September. if there is no oral argument and the case is not rescheduled, then 9/5 would be the day for the panel to decide the case among themselves and allocate the opinion writing duties. this opinion would likely not be released until well after the first week of September. see http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/legacyfiles/2015_IOPs.pdf (see 5.5.3 as to timing). (Judge) Kavanaugh’s net neutrality dissent also suggested he’s skeptical about the Supreme Court’s so-called Chevron doctrine, a 1984 precedent that said courts should tend to defer to federal agencies’ regulatory decisions when the agencies are interpreting ambiguous statutes. A move by conservative justices to overturn Chevron could lead to far tighter restrictions on federal regulatory powers. He opined and voted CFPB was unconstitutional. Birdcamp says: Unfortunately nothing like any of this has yet to make any difference. J Barnes says: May I ask a naïve question? What stops the government from exercising the warrants and keeping them forever ? If they cancel the senior preferred and start sharing the profits with shareholders (79.9/20.1) and paying dividends to junior preferred , would it not be a solution that may stop all the law suits and allow a quiet, long term, no hurry, healthy capitalization? Is it not a win-win-win solution? wins the government, wins the stakeholders, wins the people that need mortgages. So my question is whether there is a legal impediment for the government to own 79.9 of the GSEs? jtimothyhoward says: Canceling the senior preferred, allowing the companies to recapitalize, and having the government exercise the warrants (and then sell them, not “keep them forever”) are the primary elements of the Moelis plan. There is no legal impediment to the government doing that, but to date the administration has not decided that’s what it wants with Fannie and Freddie. I and many others believe it is the best solution for the financial system and homebuyers, but the large banks and Wall Street interests oppose it–they prefer a “bank-centric” secondary market, which will give them more control over and profitability from the residential mortgage market as a whole–so we remain at impasse, with Congress unable to decide what to do and the administration unwilling to. I continue to believe that the most likely catalyst for action on secondary mortgage reform will be a victory for the plaintiffs in one or more of the lawsuits. anonrabbit says: Re: Litigation as a catalyst, We have 3 interesting decisions coming up in the next 0-6 months with Bhatti, Saxton, and Collins. I say interesting because it seems the judges are open to the idea that the NWS was ultra-vires or there was a constitutional issue with FHFA. Curious how optimistic you are if at all with regards to the outcomes of these decisions? I don’t have much confidence in my ability to handicap these cases. I believe the plaintiffs have the facts and the law on their side on all of them, but in a regulatory case of this magnitude the government gets a lot of deference. I’m glad there are numerous cases under different theories of the laws; it improves our chances of winning one of them. I like the constitutional cases, because they have less judicial wiggle room. And I’m still holding out hope for the appeal in the Jacobs-Hindes case; that was my original favorite, and I haven’t given up on it. Austin Manierre says: Tim – What do you think is the biggest reason behind the inaction from the current admin.? Simplistically, it seems they think that at this point, why not just wait it out until Corker/Hensarling are no longer in office. Thanks, curious to get your thoughts. Mnuchin knows that the current Congress is not going to act on Fannie and Freddie. At the end of April he said, “I just don’t think this is going to be a focus in this Congress. But we will come back to this next year, and this will be a big focus of mine post-the elections.” I hope that’s the case, but Mnuchin also said the administration would get mortgage reform done “reasonably fast” over a year and a half ago, and here we sit. The reality is that the status quo is quite comfortable for Treasury. Through FHFA, it controls Fannie and Freddie, and continues to sweep all their income into its coffers. It’s easy for Treasury to wait for some reason to initiate something (e.g., Congressional activity, or an adverse development in one of the court cases). martinvargas1989 says: We lost Bhatti. Unbelievable. https://www.scribd.com/document/383362380/Bhatti again, another district court judge masquerading as j alfred prufrock. this will go up on appeal, but to paraphrase bellichik, it’s on to hindes/jacobs, Saxon and collins. I’m obviously disappointed by this ruling, and had a couple of reactions to it–one specific and one general. My specific reaction is that, unlike the decision in the appeal of Perry Capital, which was based on contorted logic and deliberate misquoting of the HERA statute, Judge Schiltz’s ruling on whether plaintiffs had standing to bring the suit seemed to me to be reasonable. He said, “Plaintiffs have no coherent theory for how their injury—a Third Amendment that, in Plaintiff’s view, is unduly favorable to the President–could have resulted from the President having too little control over FHFA. Nor do plaintiffs have a coherent theory as to why giving the President more control of FHFA will lead to him renegotiating the Third Amendment so that it is less favorable to himself.” And while I’m not qualified to assess Judge Schiltz’s legal arguments in support of his statement that even absent the issue of standing he still would have ruled for defendants on the merits, I didn’t find those to be unreasonable either. My general (and bigger) concern relates to the first several pages of the decision, which show Judge Schiltz continuing the pattern of judges in the net worth sweep cases completely buying into the government’s argument that, to paraphrase, “Lending policies by government-sponsored companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac resulted in massive losses during the financial crisis; Treasury heroically saved them with an $187 billion bailout, and now greedy hedge funds want to recover the value of their investment by suing the government. They tried and failed to get the net worth sweep declared illegal as an APA violation, and now they’re trying to get the same result through this lawsuit.” (Judge Schiltz called this “killing the tree [to] kill one of its fruits).” It has now become clear that plaintiffs’ counsel in their initial filings in all of these cases did not react aggressively enough to the lies put out by Treasury and others about their handling of Fannie and Freddie during the crisis; those lies now have become embedded into the historical record, and plaintiffs are paying the price. The strategy by plaintiffs’ counsel not to attack the government’s actions or motives for the conservatorship in the initial filings (which it has changed in the more recent motions and amended complaints, but the damage has been done) was taken consciously, for what appeared at the time to be good reasons. Back then I had several conversations with plaintiffs’ counsel urging them to be more aggressive in challenging the government’s version of the 2008 takeovers. Their reason for not doing so went along the lines of: “it will be very difficult to win a challenge against the 2008 conservatorship decision because the courts grant great deference to regulators during a time of crisis, and if we call too much attention to the results of what FHFA and Treasury did to Fannie and Freddie after the conservatorship (i.e., running up their losses with non-cash expenses and forcing them to take so much senior preferred stock that they owed more each year in non-deductible senior preferred stock dividends than they ever had made in after-tax earnings), it will weaken the case we’re filing on behalf of the junior preferred holders, because the government’s argument then will be, ‘the net worth sweep really didn’t prejudice your clients, because the original terms of the PSPA would have made their shares worthless anyway’.” I understand how plaintiffs counsel could have thought that, but we’re now seeing how allowing the “false narrative” to become entrenched is backfiring. Framing plaintiffs’ cases as an opportunistic attempt to game the legal system for selfish financial advantage—as opposed to seeking a justified judicial remedy for the premeditated theft of all of the assets of two private companies who were operating in compliance with their capital standards at the time Treasury bullied them into conservatorship—gives any judge air cover to accept virtually all of the arguments made by the government in a motion to dismiss, and to grant that motion. Judge Schiltz showed early on that he would be no exception, when he essentially rejected the plaintiffs’ version of the facts in this statement: “Plaintiffs’ assertion that Fannie and Freddie could have remained solvent without the help of the federal government is dubious…but the Court is required to treat it as true at this stage of the litigation.” @Tim as always, spot on. it is interesting to note that in saxton oral arg, one judge asked fhfa counsel a question about what the judge said was Ps strongest argument, that fhfa director was under the direction of treasury in violation of HERA. this claim is the polar opposite of the unconstitutionally structured/fhfa independence argument, which judge schiltz notes suffers from a logical inconsistency…that if fhfa director was more subject to direction of POTUS, that would not have led to a NWS that was less advantageous to a POTUS controlled treasury. on other hand, having a fhfa director that was all too subject to treasury’s direction (notwithstanding not being subject to POTUS’s direction) would have been an argument judge schiltz would have seen more sympathetically from his logical point of view. but of course that is an argument pressed by Ps in saxton, not bhatti. but lastly, since when must a constitutional violation be premised upon whether its logic is manifest to a judge? if an agency is unconstitutionally structured, then it is unconstitutionally structured. 1. Many judges use “moral” excuses to subconsciously cover their flaws in legal argument. 2. Schiltz’s argument for 4+ year acting director is very weak. If he were right, no future senate confirmation of any cabinet staff is mandatary. Tim , I agree with you that plaintiffs counsel under estimated the,wrong but widely accepted, belief that the GSE were in desperately need of rescue at the time of the 2008 crisis. Also counsel under estimated the effect of the propaganda leitmotifs such as “failed business model” , ” taxpayer protection” , ” Fannie & Freddie caused the crisis”, “Greedy hedge funds” . You can delete a sentence from a computer at once, but it is very difficult to deleted an impression from a mind. The shareholders of FnF are victims of a propaganda scheme. I am not surprised at Judge Schiltz ruling against plaintiffs for the unconstitutional structure based on his leaning in oral arguments. The big surprise and disappointment for me was the ruling on the appointments clause. It seemed like in oral arguments that he recognized that there was an issue with the appoints clause in this case but wasn’t comfortable with the remedy. With the Supreme Court ruling on the appointments clause I thought for sure that they gave him the remedy he was looking for and it was all but assured that he would rule for the plaintiffs. It feels like another case where someone “got to this judge. What justification does he make in his opinion that the appointments clause was not violated. Does he make a reasonable argument to you when someone is in office for almost 5 years without being approved by Congress? agree totally. it is as if he wrote his opinion before Lucia came down and was too “otherwise engaged” to reconsider. I don’t know how he can call the tenure length of an acting director without potus/senate confirmation to be nonjusticiable when SCOTUS held that a recess of 10 days was presumptively too short for a recess appointment…and clearly justiciable. hll7575 says: Any idea when Judge Schlitz will likely rule on the case? Thanks! my latest piece, on the effect SCOTUS opinion in SEC v Lucia should have on Judge Schlitz’s analysis of the Appointments Clause claim in Bhatti: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4184507-fannie-freddie-investors-get-ready-bhatti Your analysis is sound, and I certainly hope Judge Schiltz (everybody calls him Judge Schlitz, like the now-defunct beer that “made Milwaukee famous,” but he spells his name Schiltz) agrees with it and rules in favor of the plaintiffs, and against the net worth sweep. As we all keep saying, we only need to win one of these, and the SCOTUS opinion in SEC vs. Lucia clearly raised plaintiffs’ odds of winning the Bhatti case. Skal, to that. thanks! and yes, I admit to a misspent youth drinking cheap beer, and I have fixed the judge’s name. If Bhatti decision is to reverse the net worth sweep and the government appeals the decision, would the reversal of the net worth sweep be completed and Sr. Preferred stock retired or would they have to wait for the appeal decision? Also, thanks again for your analysis of the Bhatti case and the relevance of the appoint clause decision by SCOTUS to this case. appeal puts lower court decision in abeyance until all appeals finished That’s what I thought so even if a positive decision, this could go on without resolution for awhile until all appeals exhausted. Thanks for the info….. Good Morning Tim, as we get close to the end of Mr Mel Watt term in the office of FHFA, I wonder how is the procedure to replace him. Has a new director to be confirmed by Congress before Watt steps out ? or can an acting director, appointed by the president, take over FHFA without being confirmed by Congress? In another words: is there any chance that Mr Watt continues running FHFA beyond Jan 1st? I’m not the expert on this, but I believe that if the president declines to reappoint Watt when his term expires he then can appoint a successor on an acting basis, pending confirmation by the Senate. But perhaps someone who knows how this process actually works can and will correct me. as I recall HERA permits director to name an acting director to replace him, pending potus nomination and senate confirmation (which was the handoff between Lockhart and Demarco) anoneeeemoose2.0 says: you must have missed this post addressing that paper https://howardonmortgagefinance.com/2018/03/21/the-state-of-the-debate/ scotus ruled yesterday afternoon that SEC administrative law judges have been appointed in violation of the Appointments Clause. those cases that were adjudicated by unconstitutionally appointed SEC judges must be retried. if you read the transcript of judge schlitz in the bhatti oral argument, you heard him struggling with the remedy that he would have to grant were he to find that fhfa acting director Demarco was unconstitutionally appointed. (no senate confirm; acting in office >4 years). The remedy required of judge schlitz would be to invalidate NWS. this strong decision (7-2) should help him understand that a constitutional violation requires invalidation of the decision (NWS) made by the unconstitutionally appointed officer. Click to access 17-130_4f14.pdf brolinwalters says: Let’s privatize… Looks to be the multiple guarantor route. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000164-2324-dbdc-a96d-373e4e2a0000 I wouldn’t read too much into this. It is a very broad policy document from the administration’s Office of Management and Budget, with 34 “Government-wide Reorganization Proposals” covering a diverse range of issues and departments. The one that addresses Fannie and Freddie (“Reform Federal Role in Mortgage Finance,” beginning on page 75) is a summary of what’s been called “Corker-Warner 2.0,” that already has failed to generate any support in Congress. I suspect most followers of this blog now understand that policy in the Trump Administration is driven by the president, and influenced by a very small group of insiders. I doubt that whomever wrote the OMB document had access to either the president or Treasury Secretary Mnuchin when he or she put the mortgage finance section in it; they just wrote what seemed to be the most current idea circulating on Capitol Hill at the time (and is now outdated). We’re going to have to wait to hear from Mnuchin, or one of his key deputies, to learn what direction the administration wants to take in mortgage reform (I doubt the president will engage in or take the lead on this); anything prior to that will just be noise. By the way, I’ll be leaving on vacation tomorrow, so I may not be able to respond quickly to comments made over the next ten days or so. thanks Tim as always, and try your best to answer as fast as you can. I read ‘mortgage finance section’ as ‘mortgage science fiction’! I am a little more positive on this OMB piece. on the one hand, yes it is an omnibus “better government” piece that is and has been obligatory since VP Gore set out to fixing government after he invented the internet. so one can expect it to be likewise ignored upon delivery. yet this has none of the corker/mba liquidate/break up FnF casuistry. and best of all, the important pieces, exit from conservatorship and rebuild capital, do not need congressional approval. nothing wrong with a proposal that has a lot of nonessential items that require congressional approval if congress’s inaction can be anticipated. @peter while this analysis is so wrong it is hard to know where to begin, let me both begin and end by saying you have ignored treasury’s 80% warrant position. if you see this reply and then later tim deletes both your post and my reply, you will know why. i feel i must reply now however to make sure no one reads your post and relies upon it. Jack Brungardt says: I enjoy reading your comments regarding the GSEs. I have what I believe is a simple question, but one in which the answer has never been clear to me. It’s a basic “accounting” question regarding the conservatorship. IF (and I preface I’m not in the hopeful camp it will happen) the government determined they have been paid in full regarding the PSPA liquidation preference what would happen to the $120 billion senior preferred amount that currently sits on FNMA’s balance sheet as of March 31, 2018? I’m assuming there would be a debit entry to remove it, but what is the other side of the entry, what is the credit to? I’ve been in corporate finance and restructurings for over 25 years, but admittedly I’m not familiar with governmental accounting and was all most embarrassed to ask! Any light you can shed would be appreciated. Thank you, Jack Fannie publishes a consolidated balance sheet each quarter–both in its 10Q or 10K and near the end of its quarterly earnings press release. If you check either of those, you’ll see that at the end of the first quarter of 2018 the offset to the $120.8 billion in Treasury’s senior preferred stock is an entry called “accumulated deficit” (which at March 31, 2018 stood at $129.7 billion). Should Treasury’s senior preferred stock be declared paid in full or cancelled, the accumulated deficit entry would be reduced by an amount equal to the cancelled or deemed to be paid senior preferred, and there would be no net effect on total stockholders’ equity. @FannieGate101 says: Good morning. FHFA is inviting interested parties to submit comments regarding new capital requirements for the GSEs. You may already be planning on doing so, but your supporters would highly encourage you to participate. As always, thank you for your contributions. https://www.fhfa.gov/Media/PublicAffairs/Pages/FHFA-Issues-Proposed-Rule-on-Enterprise-Capital.aspx while we await tim’s comment to the proposed rule, it seems to me that fhfa has made a good faith effort and analysis. just from a headline/30,000′ viewpoint, it points out that the proposed capital for fnma of $171B would have exceeded the FC cumulative losses of $167B. without getting into the details of whether all FC losses were actual or policy driven, how can anyone congressional member of an oversight committee say that this is insufficient? I’ve just now downloaded FHFA’s notice of proposed rule making (NPR) on Fannie and Freddie capital. I’m very glad they’ve done this. I’ll read it as soon as I can (it’s 368 pages), and definitely will submit a comment on it. Comments are due 60 days after the NPR is published in the Federal Register, so I doubt I’ll have anything until sometime during July (I’m leaving for my trip to Iceland in ten days). here is what I need your help on. table 2, p. 69 states: Lifetime Single-Family Credit Losses on the Dec 31, 2007 Guarantee Portfolio using Current Acquisition Criteria* $21B 1.5% Proposed SF Credit Risk Capital Requirement using Current Acquisition Criteria* $30B 2.1% …Relative to Lifetime Credit Losses $9B 0.7% so if the capital requirement is tied to loans that the GSEs are currently permitted to securitize and guarantee, it seems the GSE capital requirement being proposed is much lower. I don’t understand if fhfa is proposing its rule to apply to current acquisition criteria, or to historical acquisition criteria. I’ll want to read the entire document before I comment on parts of it. My intent is to go through it carefully as soon as I can, although with other current commitments I have I can’t give an estimate as to when I’ll be able to complete that review. I will, though, begin making blog comments on the FHFA capital proposal well before I submit my official comment to FHFA. Because this is most important stuff, I wish you could make your opinion known to Treasury, GSEs, FHFA, CMLA, Congress, etc. understood. and in my usual fashion i have raced through it to get the gist. my purpose is to see if what fhfa has proposed could be consistent with a moelis blueprint-type recapitalization. this is where i stand: fnma: risk based capital 9/2017: $115B table 5 p.72 minimum leverage 2.5% assets: $83B table 7 p. 73 minimum leverage bifurcated: $60B table 7 p. 73 so i see the most stringent capital requirement under fhfa proposed rule as $115B for fnma (pro formo 9/2017). which seems obtainable by the capital markets, given the cash flows being generated. the moelis blueprint envisioned $150-$180B of core capital (common and preferred stock) being raised for the GSEs in connection with its recapitalization proposal. of course, the feasibility of raising this amount in the capital markets has been enhanced given the GSE tax rate has been reduced by about one third since the blueprint release. the fhfa proposed rule’s most stringent capital requirement calls for $180B on a combined basis (table 5, p.72). larsoncapitalgroup says: Josh Rosner’s thoughts: https://www.scribd.com/document/381737512/GF-Co-FHFA-s-Proposed-Capital-Rule I’m a little puzzled by this note from Josh. I generally agree with his overall assessment of the FHFA capital proposal—which he calls “a good start,” and “not being so onerous as to reduce the economic viability of their mandated mission to ensure liquidity to the primary mortgage market”—but he then spends the bulk of his piece objecting to the fact that “FHFA will not implement the capital requirements while the GSEs are in Conservatorship and will, instead, wait for Congress or the Administration to affirmatively act on GSE reform,” arguing that “Such a position is in direct opposition to the requirements of the HERA law and, again, ignores that Congress has acted and given it direction in the HERA law.” All of that is true. The problem is that Treasury and FHFA interpret HERA differently from how Josh does, and so far the Treasury/FHFA interpretation has prevailed in every court case decided to date. Fannie and Freddie cannot be recapitalized as long as the net worth sweep remains in force or until the conservatorship has ended, and FHFA cannot end either the sweep or the conservatorship without Treasury’s approval. For those reasons, I’ll take the half a loaf FHFA has given us: beginning a substantive dialogue about the right way to capitalize the companies post-conservatorship, if, whenever and however—i.e. legislatively or administratively—that happens. As I noted shortly after the FHFA capital proposal came out, I’m going to take my time going through and analyzing it before I write my comment letter (which I’ve got a couple of months to do). But I do have a preliminary reaction to it: it is extremely, and I would say unnecessarily, conservative. I’m going to withhold judgment as to whether the average 3.24 percent “estimated risk-based capital requirements as of September 31, 2017” for Fannie and Freddie shown in Table 1 of the summary document would make the companies “unviable” (I suspect not), but I will make arguments for how and why that number could be reduced without materially increasing taxpayer risk, and at the same time significantly lowering the cost and increasing the availability of mortgages to the large majority of homeowners Fannie and Freddie were chartered to serve. I recognize, of course, that there is a political dimension to the recapitalization of Fannie and Freddie, and that there will be some threshold capital percentage below which it will be very difficult to go, irrespective of the merits of the arguments for doing so. Building on the “Rule of Law Guy’s” observation, the range of dollar capital numbers for Fannie and Freddie as of September 2017 given in the FHFA summary table—from $154.1 billion without a deferred tax asset reserve to $180.9 billion with one—is virtually identical to the $155 to $180 capital range in the Moelis recapitalization plan released just over a year ago. I doubt this is coincidental, and it suggests we now are seeing some serious “fleshing out” of a pathway to administrative reform of the companies, if only for informational purposes. And it’s interesting that given the fundamentally high credit quality of the mortgages Fannie and Freddie finance, the only way to get to a 2.75 to 3.25 percent average capital number is to add a host of conservative buffers, a few of which are redundant. Hopefully some of those can be worked down as the discussion moves forward. @ tim there are two “check the box” aspects to the proposed rule. first, fhfa points out that the total capital required under the most stringent test is greater than FC cumulative losses. this is a nod to the senate banking committee and house financial services committee, saying this is a prudent rule given a “100 year flood” scenario. second, as you mention, this proposed rule is feasible insofar as the moelis blueprint intimates that it is confident capital in the range of this amount can be raised by the GSEs (even on pre-tax bill cash flows). whether any of this is intentional or serendipitous is a fielder’s choice. but i am pleased these boxes have been checked. William Maloni Sr. says: ROLG–Because most of them have no idea about the core issues or the GSE history and have little time to learn about the risk based capital naration and how and when the GSEs employed same. Or that the final government-approved GSE RBC product, way back when, was the result of a year plus back and forth between Tim Howard and Paul Volcker (who had by then retired from the federal government after his Fed Chairmanship and was a consultant), after TH–our blog host–spent months designing Fannie’s RBC model. Since the FHFA report is not a “one pager,” few in Congress iwll read it, but that won’t stop many from criticizing it for reasons we all hear from current know-nothings. Midas79 says: I also doubt that anyone in Congress will personally read all 368 pages, but the summary is only 3 pages of text and 3 tables, easily digestible in just a few minutes. The fact that the last 100-odd pages give a template for Congress to work with, if not adopt wholesale, is a bonus. @midas/bill remember fhfa has the statutory authority under HERA to adopt this regulation. if there is to be an administrative solution, you are witnessing the writing of one more page of the roadmap. if this rule is adopted, fhfa and treasury “could” then decide to implement a recap financing strategy (think moelis blueprint) to position the GSEs to comply with the rule as a means to exit conservatorship. all of which might get congress of its duff. so congress can read this release or not as far as i care. schneider363 says: It has been a little bit since we’ve heard from you….can you review https://www.brookings.edu/research/shifting-the-risk-of-mortgage-defaults-from-taxpayers-to-investors/ when you have time and let us know your thoughts? I know you are critical of the CRTs due to the risk they can pose in times of stress and buyers not buying them despite the yield they might receive which ends up counter to the entire “process ” of truly transferring risk to the private sector. Is there a better way to actually transfer risk without having the model of tranches in your opinion? I understand and applaud your efforts for writing your book; it’s truly one of my favorites. Also can you address at some point your thoughts on whether or not there truly needs to be a government guarantee backstop or if there is adequate capital behind collective G-Fees and PMI to cover a catastrophic event? Penny for you thoughts and thank you for all you do. I’ve edited this comment, but thought I would use it to address why “it’s been a little bit since” I’ve posted or commented. I haven’t commented on the Brookings piece on CRTs because it didn’t say anything new about them, and I don’t have anything new or different to say about the article. I also don’t have anything new or different to say about whether there needs to (or should) be a government guaranty on conventional mortgages—I’ve discussed this issue at length and in detail both in posts and in previous answers to questions. I started this blog a little over two years ago because I believed I could use my knowledge and experience from Fannie Mae to inject verifiable facts and add informed analysis to a dialog on mortgage reform that I thought had become (and continues to be) dominated by misinformation and flimsy rationales for policy objectives supported not for their merits or workability but because they favor powerful constituencies. Since then I’ve been able to address most of the topics I’d identified when I began the blog; my positions on these topics—and my basis for and reasoning behind them—have been set forth and fully explained, and, through the archived posts on the blog, are available to anyone interested in them. The blog is now at a different stage of its evolution. It’s clear to me that the opinion leaders of what I call the Financial Establishment—who support mortgage reform that will benefit large banks and other influential interests, at the expense of higher costs and diminished availability of mortgages to low- and moderate-income homebuyers and increased risk to the financial system—by now are aware of the facts I’ve put out, and understand the arguments I am (and others are) making about the best way to reform the system. But they’ve been able to insulate themselves from the effects of these facts and arguments, because they’ve done such a good job getting the media to accept their invented versions of the problems of and solutions for the secondary market that they don’t feel they have to respond to challenges to their fictions; they can ignore them and not be called to account by anyone in a position to threaten their credibility. Repeating the same points over and over—whether in posts or in answers to comments—thus is of no benefit. If this battle is to be won, it won’t be because of a groundswell of public opinion; it will be because the right facts and arguments have reached and made an impression on those in a position to determine what reforms actually get implemented. That is a “behind the scenes” process that readers of this blog (or others) unfortunately can’t see. As to the blog itself, now that I’ve addressed the bulk of the issues I thought needed correction or clarification when I began it, future posts are most likely to be done in response to events, issues or new developments about which I think I might have something of value to add. The timing of those—and hence the blog posts associated with them—is not predictable. And while I will continue to respond to questions and comments, as I said in a note last year I will respond to them “selectively, based on whether I think the question, and the answer I have for it, will be of interest or informative to an audience that extends beyond the person who asked it.” All of this means there may be times when the blog is pretty quiet for a while. (And on that score, between the 24th of this month and early July I’ll be driving around Iceland in a Land Rover, and probably away from reliable internet for much of that time.) Tim, thanks for your reply. I understand your not wanting to comment unless it adds value to the whole beyond one person…I sincerely hope you enjoy your trip in Iceland and I too hope the “behind the scenes” process is underway and that in the future the truth will ultimately prevail. Win, lose or draw, your timely dissection of the “Congressional Wisdom” centered on GSE Reform has been a calming force, again, regardless of the outcome. Thanks for letting us vent. Bon Voyage, Tim. p.s. If you want to recreate your Icelandic excursion after the fact, hop on to Montreal and you can whip around in my Supercharged RR between November and March, same driving conditions, better food 🙂 GSE bond price manipulation probe. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-opens-criminal-probe-trading-080102316.html?.tsrc=applewf i encourage you and your readers to read the hindes/jacobs reply brief in the 3rd circuit: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8b4p333o0hmmru/Document.pdf?dl=0 while it is strong throughout, it is particularly noteworthy in that it refers to an admission made by treasury counsel in the saxton appellate oral argument that it “might” be ultra vires for fhfa as conservator to cause FnF to violate their charters (her example in saxton was if FnF were to originate loans). see p. 9. hindes/jacobs is arguing that because the NWS violates delaware corporate law (and therefore the charter of any delaware corporation that issues it), it is ultra vires and therefore HERA’s anti-injunction bar does not apply. this would permit a court to entertain jurisdiction and void the NWS if it finds that the NWS in fact violates delaware corporate law. i would hope that hindes/jacobs counsel hammers fhfa and treasury in oral argument before the 3rd circuit (which hindes/jacobs has requested that the 3rd circuit hold) about the saxton admission, to make it clear that treasury counsel has already conceded that fhfa as conservator cannot use the anti-injunction to preclude a federal court from determining whether the NWS is a valid-issued security. and if fhfa/treasury counsels don’t concede that in hindes/jacobs oral argument, how exactly would they now resist this conclusion. I agree that the Jacobs-Hindes reply brief is very well argued, and that its reference to Treasury’s own statement in the Saxton oral argument as to what constitutes ultra vires activity for FHFA is a strong point. It’s an unfortunate fact that in all of the net worth sweep cases, plaintiffs’ counsel has to make nearly ironclad arguments to have a chance of a ruling in their favor, given the clear reluctance of the judges in these cases to find against the government in a $100 billion-plus lawsuit. Yet the shear number of cases being filed, under various theories of law, works in plaintiffs’ favor. As the plaintiffs’ briefs get better and better, as here, the odds continually rise that in at least one of these cases either a lower court or an appellate court will find itself unable to come up with a rationale for ignoring such obvious evidence of premeditated and unlawful wrongdoing on the part of Treasury and FHFA in expropriating, without compensation, the assets of two shareholder-owned companies for its own financial and policy purposes. Making it to trial alone would be a major victory at this point and could even prompt administrative action. @bird i am in your camp, bird. the most obvious way for govt to win hindes/jacobs is for merits panel to find that HERA preempts state law with respect to what determines whether FnF has issued a valid security while in conservatorship. federal preemption is discussed in reply brief and there would appear to be no grounds for merits panel to find preemption. it is not like HERA said that the conservator has authority to issue securities having terms at odds with governing state corporation law. but i am hopeful that first, 3rd circuit sets case for oral argument, and then hindes/jacobs pounds away during their opening oral argument at proposition that defendants have already agreed that violating the FnF charter is ultra vires action by fhfa as conservator. just pounds away at it…and when fhfa/treasury counsel stand to argue, one would hope a judge simply asks, “well counsel, what do you have to say to what Ps have to say about violating charter being ultra vires for conservator?” it wont be an easy rebuttal for them. fnmasupporter1 says: Thanks for your work and great comments / informative blog. I am not a lawyer, but the Jacobs-Hindes Reply Brief seems to touch on these three points in its text, among other things: 1. NWS should be voided; 2. Concept of illegal Takings; and, 3. The Senior Preferred should never have been issued. “Here, FHFA’s actions directly violated those very state law charters by issuing stock with terms not permitted under the governing state laws. Thus, the acts were ultra vires. Even if FHFA were correct that it was acting in the Companies’ interest (a specious proposition), such acts are Case: 17-3794 Document: 003112939803 Page: 17 Date Filed: 05/24/2018 10 nevertheless outside the powers HERA grants because they are not within the Companies’ own limits on their power. This is precisely the situation Treasury confesses Section 4617(f) would not protect.” This seems to be the first case that I am aware of that argues all three major issues. This argument appears well thought out and supported. I hope that the court will find merit in the Reply Brief. Any further comments? Again, thank you. IAmJ_1 No, other than to reiterate that I always have felt the Delaware suit was the cleanest and most straightforward challenge to the net worth sweep–with its claim that sweeping all of Fannie and Freddie’s profits to Treasury, foreclosing the possibility of dividends to any other class of shareholder, is an illegal feature of the senior preferred stock under Delaware and Virginia law, making the net worth sweep void and unenforceable–and the reply brief adds valuable legal arguments in support of this core point. Tim and Rolg Good evening. Did you have a chance to read the new complaint filed by Joshua Angel, a well known corporate specialized lawyer acting on his own? @j b waste of time. one claim is breach of government’s implicit guaranty. btw, i have never heard of him. As ROLG noted, the basis for Mr. Angel’s suit is a claim that Fannie and Freddie junior preferred stock carries a “Federal Government implicit guaranty” of dividend and principal payments that the Third Amendment violates. Angel first raised this issue two years ago in a paper titled “Government Perfidy and the Mismanagement of the GSEs in Conservatorship.” On March 1, 2016 he sent this paper to the Fannie and Freddie boards, requesting that they “seek and obtain clarification from outside counsel” on his claim, adding that, “I have engaged counsel to commence suit against you and the Company for class redress for breach of duty and breach of contract.” In a subsequent letter to the companies’ boards dated April 19, 2016, Angel reiterated his threat to sue, and attached a draft complaint. I read that complaint and recall thinking at the time, “that’s a real long shot.” He finally filed his suit (rewritten but substantially similar in content) this past Monday, and I still feel the same way about its prospects. i found this reference in footnote 2 to a table in the regulatory capital footnote 12 (F-55) in the fnma 2017 10K: Statutory minimum capital requirement(2) (2) Generally, the sum of (a) 2.50% of on-balance sheet assets, except those underlying Fannie Mae MBS held by third parties; (b) 0.45% of the unpaid principal balance of outstanding Fannie Mae MBS held by third parties; and (c) up to 0.45% of other off-balance sheet obligations, which may be adjusted by the Director of FHFA under certain circumstances. leaving aside the off-BS items, this 2.5% of BS asset requirement seems sensible to me, and i assume it has been adjusted upward since the FC. i realize you have stated that fhfa needs to do a real world risk-based analysis, as instructed by HERA, which it hasnt done yet. but wouldnt 2.5% be a capital requirement that would balance well the interests of the taxpayer in minimizing risk exposure and the interest of the homeowner in paying a non-inflated guaranty fee? speaking of which, just saw this item re watts’ testimony today before senate banking committee: “The FHFA director also said the agency is planning to propose a risk-based capital and minimum leverage capital rule for the GSEs that would replace the standards in place prior to the conservatorship. While the rule would be suspended while the GSEs are in conservatorship, Watt said it’s important for the agency to propose a rule based on current operations.” The risk-based capital and minimum leverage ratios would be an excellent step; I hope that as FHFA does these it is transparent as to the process it is following. It needs to be based on some defined stress environment, and be clear (and reasonable) about the treatment of guaranty fees and admin expenses during the course of the test. It’s really not hard to do properly, if that indeed is FHFA’s intent. (My concern is that, as with the Dodd-Frank stress test FHFA runs each year, Treasury insists that FHFA follow a methodology that effectively backs into the “bank-like” capital number supporters of the banks would like to see). On your first comment, the 2.50% on-balance sheet capital number and the 0.45% off-balance sheet number are the minimums from the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992; they have not been updated since the crisis. ICBA Statement on Capital Proposal from FHFA Director Mel Watt Washington, D.C (May 24, 2018)—Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement on a proposal from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt to develop new risk-based and minimum-leverage capital rules for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “ICBA strongly supports FHFA Director Mel Watt’s comments regarding the development of a new risk-based capital and minimum-leverage capital rule for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ICBA has vocally urged Director Watt to require the government-sponsored enterprises to develop and implement a recapitalization plan, as required by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. Establishing these capital standards for both GSEs is the first step in that process, which ICBA hopes will eventually lead to their full recapitalization. “Only a strongly capitalized secondary market can protect taxpayers and provide the liquidity needed to support the mortgage market. Community banks count on the liquidity that the GSEs provide to help meet the home-lending needs of their communities. ICBA looks forward to continuing to work with policymakers to ensure housing-finance reform meets the needs of all borrowers and lenders.” I know it’s hard for a bunch of lawyers to fathom, but maybe you shouldn’t make a law about the best % of risk and instead let the equity markets decide if the companies are properly managing for risk… when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. How well did the equity (or debt) markets evaluate the risks of private label securities and CDOs prior to the crisis? There is in fact a happy medium between over-regulation and no regulation. Were there no regulations in place then? Do we think the people who created CDO cubed are going to be stopped by a law? I have my doubts. Further, not much has structurally changed since then, we’ve just got more debt in the system in different areas! Should be fun when it unwinds. FHFA may have heard your comments on Credit Risk Transfers. Direct quote from the their report released today: “Moreover, initiatives such as credit risk transfer transactions confer risk management benefits but impose costs that could reduce Enterprise earnings.” “Header: Barriers to Investor Participation in Credit Risk Transfer Transactions Body: This credit risk transfer market is relatively new and evolving and relies on ongoing investor interest and ability to purchase the credit risk. FHFA has previously identified several statutory impediments which, if addressed, could avoid unintended consequences for some types of investors and thus help to expand investor participation in Enterprise credit risk transfer transactions. FHFA continues to believe that these statutory impediments should be removed.” Full link to the report: Click to access FHFA_2017_Report-to-Congress.pdf This is all pretty general. And FHFA still hasn’t addressed the fundamental problem that exists with securitized CRTs: if investors only buy them when they expect to make an attractive return on the capital they invest–i.e., when their combined interest payments and return of principal comfortably exceed any credit losses they expect to have transferred to them–how could issuance of these securities ever be effective for Fannie and Freddie as a means of managing their credit risk? Good morning. I wanted to get your thoughts on this new piece of information, as the Treasury has been mostly tight-lipped regarding future plans. #MBASecondary18 Craig Phillips discusses reg reform. Launch of single security is very important and the administration and Treasury fully support the enterprises and common security platform… universal security, June 2019. — Faith A. Schwartz (@faithschwartz1) May 21, 2018 As always, thank you. more of phillips today: Treasury Official Sees Major Impact from Single Security By John Bancroft jbancroft@imfpubs.com A key Treasury Department official suggested that issuers of non-agency MBS may someday participate in the common securitization platform being developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Craig Phillips, counselor to the Treasury, said the industry has made a lot of progress toward the launch of the single security that is scheduled for June 2019. “Industry preparedness is about an eight or nine on a scale of 10,” he said during remarks at this week’s secondary market conference sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association in New York. Phillips characterized the CSP as “reform-agnostic,” suggesting that it will be an important part of the MBS infrastructure regardless of how Fannie and Freddie are eventually reformed. While the platform is currently owned by a joint venture between Fannie and Freddie, the Treasury official said issuers of non-agency MBS may someday be able to invest in the venture and use the platform. Treasury wants to encourage the growth of the non-agency MBS market through regulatory reform, Phillips said. That includes streamlining disclosure rules and overhauling bank capital rules that discourage participation. one of the nagging little problems of the private label securitizations done before the financial crisis was that all of the documentation was “standard” but not really “uniform”. meaning, if you were buying PLS mbs, unless you read the docs you couldnt be sure there wasnt a weird term in the docs that might affect the waterfall in ways that you did not understand. no investors really read the docs since they thought if they bought enough mbs, the diversification would net out any anomalies that may be in a particular underlying doc. it is no surprise that phillips, who used to run morgan stanley’s mbs desk, would be in favor of a single mbs security governing not just FnF but also all bank securitizations that may be done down the road. just as a treasury security is fungible except for maturity and interest rate, so will be all mbs (assuming there is a fed backstop to all mbs…although a FnF guaranty will achieve better pricing than any private label mbs that is just relying on internal pool credit support). and it sounds like FnF might even get paid a fee for the use of the platform…wouldnt that be a surprise! There’s nothing new in any of Phillips’ comments. The common securitization platform (CSP) is being built as a utility, currently to accommodate the securitization of Fannie MBS and Freddie PCs, but potentially to be used by other security issuers as well. As Phillips says, for the latter to happen will require a directive either by Congress or the administration (with the latter likely triggering additional lawsuits). Since the CSP project as it stands now benefits Freddie at the expense of Fannie, I’d been expecting to see suits from Fannie shareholders challenging it; I suspect the reason we haven’t has to do with the lack of success to date in plaintiffs’ lawsuits against the net worth sweep. Perry Cap. LLC v. Mnuchin, 848 F.3d 1072 (D.C. Cir. 2017) (Brown, J. dissenting in part) “I cannot conclude the anti-injunction provision protects FHFA’s actions here or, more generally, endorses FHFA’s stunningly broad view of its own power. Plaintiffs — not all innocent and ill-informed investors, to be sure — are betting the rule of law will prevail. In this country, everyone is entitled to win that bet.” The LAST sentence hits other judges really hard. I think that as a judge of many years, she read their mind. for ROLG or anyone else, Does anyone know the last time Chuck cooper, argued in court? The Saxton case in district was previously argued by a different attorney. Is it typical to change up the litigator on appeal? @elliot he who pays, says. any trial depends upon discovery of facts more than perry mason dramatics, and there already has been developed a thorough set of facts in the court of claims action, which is available to all counsel who sign a confidentiality agreement. if the litigated claim is treasury coercion over fhfa at time of signing of NWS, i could see additional depositions relating to who did what to whom at that time relating to that event. but the firm which probably has the best handle on the facts pattern at time of NWS is cooper’s firm. Good afternoon. I have been listening for, at least, a couple of years the arguments about the difference between “may” and “shall” in legal instruments. So far several judges concluded that “May” is permissive and “Shall” is mandatory, and then they think that FHFA has the “option” of restoring the companies to sound financial shape. But, I wonder if anyone argued that Congress could not have used “Shall” and was forced to use “May” because it could not be mandatory for FHFA to achieve a result that did not depend only on its will. I mean you cannot make mandatory for an entity to be successful in business because it depends on many factors that are out of the control of that entity. Such factors are market conditions, competition, natural disasters, economy in the rest of the world , etcetera. Stepping in the shoes of Congress, one can say: “you may succeed putting the companies in solvent condition, or you should try to put the companies in solvent condition”. But, again stepping in the shoes of Congress, one cannot say: “you shall succeed in this business”. This is because of the uncertain nature of business and because of the factors that FHFA cannot control. I wonder if “may’ instead of used as permissive was , in fact, used as and expression of possibility. Do you know if this point was made by plaintiffs? Thanks for your work fighting for the true on this sad chapter of US judicial history. manwithplan01 says: J Barnes, Judge Brown in dissent addresses this. “The Court makes much of the statute’s statement that a conservator “may” take action to operate the company in a sound and solvent condition and preserve and conserve its assets while a receiver “shall” liquidate the company. It concludes the statute permits, but does not compel in any judicially enforceable sense, FHFA to preserve and conserve Fannie’s and Freddie’s assets however it sees fit. See Op. 21–25. I disagree. Rather, read in the context of the larger statute—especially the specifically defined powers of a conservator and receiver set forth in Subsections 4617(b)(2)(D) and (b)(2)(E)—Congress’s decision to use permissive language with respect to a conservator’s duties is best understood as a simple concession to the practical reality that a conservator may not always succeed in rehabilitating its ward. The statute wisely acknowledges that it is “not in the power of any man to command success” and does not convert failure into a legal wrong. See Letter from George Washington to Benedict Arnold (Dec. 5, 1775), in 3 THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 192 (Jared Sparks, ed., 1834). Of course, this does not mean the Agency may affirmatively sabotage the Companies’ recovery by confiscating their assets quarterly to ensure they cannot pay off their crippling indebtedness. There is a vast difference between recognizing that flexibility is necessary to permit a conservator to address evolving circumstances and authorizing a conservator to undermine the interests and destroy the assets of its ward without meaningful limit.” (page. 83- https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/66A4E1FEF4BB8401852580CE005620C3/$file/14-5243-1662090.pdf) “But, I wonder if anyone argued that Congress could not have used “Shall” and was forced to use “May” because it could not be mandatory for FHFA to achieve a result that did not depend only on its will.” this is exactly what judge brown wrote in her dissent in perry. Cooper offered a different argument: (1) showing an instance of ‘may’ elsewhere in HERA where if the action wasn’t performed by choice it would be absurd and (2) that ‘may’ can mean ‘is allowed to’. if you listen to the saxton oral argument, both cooper and the 8th circuit judges referred to an 8th circuit case, cedarminn. while the holding was unrelated (relating to timeliness of a conservator’s or receiver’s rejection of a burdensome lease), there is language in the case that made clear that the 8th circuit in that case thought the conservator (under FIRREA with the same exact “may” language as HERA) was required to preserve and conserve assets….which is what the conservator turned receiver in cedarminn was doing…rejecting an uneconomic release in order to preserve and conserve assets. now fhfa and treasury counsel argued that this language was tangential to the holding in the case (they didnt use the word “dicta” but that was their point), but the judges seemed to think that Ps were appropriately arguing the cedarminn case to the effect that the 8th circuit has precedent that “may” is not discretionary in the manner that the other circuits had found. I finally have been able to listen to the Saxton oral argument. I think that overall Chuck Cooper did an excellent job representing plaintiffs’ position–particularly his emphasis on the importance of having an opportunity to explore the factual record at trial in order to determine whether FHFA/Treasury’s actions were ultra vires (rather than allowing a judge to conclude that they weren’t based on Treasury and FHFA’s egregious and unrebutted misrepresentations of that record in their filings and arguments). Still, I wish Cooper had found a way to make the same point about “may” versus “shall” that judge Brown did in her dissent: whereas you can say a receiver “shall” liquidate a company, you can’t say that a conservator “shall” rehabilitate a company because it may not be possible to do so. That’s such a simple and powerful concept, and in my view it makes the government’s interpretation of HERA–that Congress intended “may” to mean that FHFA acting as conservator can do whatever it wants with Fannie and Freddie, with no definable boundaries (at least the Saxton judges were unable to elicit any from the government’s lawyers)–ludicrous by comparison. Tim/ROLG Is there any other lawsuit where the dissent of Judge Brown can be used as argument on the interpretation of “may” and “shall” on the issue of NWS based on the statute of HERA.. I am not a lawyer but the interpretatioin/ position of Judge Brown and your interpretations makes a compelling argument for the plaintiffs. In the revised filing of plaintiff in Judge Sweeney’s court did they include NWS as illegal and unconstitutional? Thanks a lot for all your hard work. @anon/tim there is a certain amount of weakness in arguing to a new court that the dissent had it right in a previous court. i admit the logic of the use of may in the case of a mission that can’t be guaranteed to be successful is powerful, and frankly i think cooper did use this logic in an altered fashion in his briefing and argument when he said that the conservator cannot “abandon the conservator’s mission” to preserve and conserve…another way of saying the preserve/conserve mission is obligatory even if the word may is not. cooper took a calculated chance in his reply brief to focus on the 8th circuit cerdarminn case (https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/956/1446/326280/) where you will find this language: “Fourth, the importance of retaining an independent right to repudiate contracts is exemplified by the distinct missions of the conservator and receiver. That Congress intended conservators and receivers to have different missions is clear. RTC as conservator of a failed institution was empowered to take action necessary to restore the failed thrift to a solvent position and “to carry on the business of the institution and preserve and conserve the assets and property of the institution.” 12 U.S.C.A. § 1821(d) (2) (D). As receiver, on the other hand, RTC was empowered to liquidate the institution.” so without getting bogged down parsing the relative permissiveness of the word may, cooper used this 8th circuit acknowledgement of a conservator’s “mission” as the touchstone for his argument. when you add this language in a case, that at least one judge thought distinguished the 8th circuit from the other circuits which have found in favor of fhfa, to the concern raised twice by the panel that this understanding of “may” resulted in the nationalization of FnF, then you have an oral argument that cooper is likely to be pleased with. I wasn’t suggesting that Cooper refer to the language in judge Brown’s dissent; just that he make the same point as she did about “may” versus “shall” in this context. The government is winning net worth sweep cases it shouldn’t be winning, and it is doing so by making very simple (albeit incorrect, and often inaccurate) arguments, and repeating them. Plaintiffs counsel, in my reading, has been making more logical legal arguments and losing. I’m not suggesting they abandon their logical or nuanced arguments, but I do think supplementing them with some simple and clear ones on key aspects of the case would be well advised. Wish Mark Calabria could appear in court to speak to the meaning of ‘may’ in HERA. judges at two times asked defendants’ counsel if this is a case of “not worth anything then, not worth anything now,” but shareholders are still paying for the shares. D counsel did not know how to react (at one point cayne said he was thinking he would stick to the legal issues), and i am not sure where the judge was going with this: cynicism it seems, but directed at Ps or Ds? but for a fact pattern that smells bad, yes perhaps Ps counsel might direct the judges’ attention more to the bigger picture, and beyond the dictionary definition of a single word.. I know that plaintiffs counsel is frustrated with how both the government and the courts have been treating the facts in this case. At this stage of the proceedings–which is a motion to dismiss–the courts are duty-bound to take plaintiffs’ statement of facts as true. But they clearly are not; many of the judges’ questions are couched in the context of the “bad facts” the government has succeeded in injecting inappropriately into this case. It’s possible that plaintiffs counsel is being too literal in adhering to the “basic principle that every first year law student has been taught” of taking plaintiffs’ statement of facts as true in adjudicating a motion to dismiss, but I don’t know what other realistic alternative it has. The government isn’t playing by the rules, and the judges are letting it get away with that. Brown is correct in her conclusion but not in her logic. The use of “may” does not have in any prima facie sense the import of the possibility of not succeeding. In other words, it’s not cogent to argue that “may” was used instead of “shall” in order to acknowledge the reality that it might be impossible to restore the entities to a sound and solvent position. Her reasoning was, since conservator might not be able to restore the GSEs, it couldn’t be said that the conservative “shall” save them. I think she was lead down the garden path. Consider, “may” merely means that it’s permissible that the conservator run the business to that end, one of solvency. That is, the conservator is permitted to do what is necessary to restore the GSEs. Such a prima facie interpretation is narrow. Single propositions usually are! “May” does not address what the the conservator may not do. Accordingly, it’s logically fallacious for defendant(s) to argue: since FHFA may conserve assets, it needn’t conserve assets. NOTE: That’s an argument from silence that takes on an enormous burden of proof. That my sixteen year old “may” go out with her friends tonight does not imply she may also stay home and raid dad’s wine cellar. To find out what the conservator may not do, we have to look elsewhere. It’s not implied by “may.” A better analogy might be, “you may water the garden while I’m away.” From that proposition we cannot rationally deduce that permission has been granted to do other things, like having a party for instance. But even more glaringly, we surely may not deduce that in addition to watering the garden, you may also mow over and destroy the garden! there is a legal phrase, bad facts make bad law. for many years “may” has been associated with what statutory conservators do, without controversy because conservators were trying to conserve and preserve. no bad acting conservators, no bad facts. here comes a coerced conservator and a bad fact pattern, a conservator trying to accomplish a treasury-directed policy objective of shutting down FnF, and shoehorn it into the word “may”…hence the bad law relating to what “may” means that is perry and the other misguided APA decisions. “You may stand up” does not imply “You are allowed sit down” or “you are allowed lie down” or “you are allowed to eat” or anything else. I think cooper has this covered in a new filing in the Saxton case: “When Congress says that an agency “may” do one thing, it does not simultaneously give the agency license to do the opposite. “ there is an interesting interplay between saxon in 8th cir and bhatti (federal district court within 8th circuit). judge schlitz is hearing 3 principal claims in bhatti: unconstitutional structure of fhfa (which he appears to think little of as per oral argument), appointments clause violation where acting director demarco acted over 4 years of his 5 year term without presidential appointment and senate consent (which he thought more highly of), and an unconstitutional delegation argument (if “may” means that a fhfa director can do anything while acting as conservator, then this is an unconstitutional delegation by congress of legislative power to an agency). the unconstitutional delegation argument means that even if saxton panel find that may means what perry etc have found it to mean, judge schlitz may find that this judicial reading affords the fhfa director too much discretion. now, whether schlitz waits for the saxton court to rule first on the meaning of “may” or not is hard to say, especially since he can rule on the other two claims, which were not argued in saxton before the 8th circuit. Congress does not hide an elephant in a mouse hole. (I don’t remember the case.) G. Buckman says: Correct Mark. “Congress … does not alter the fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague terms or ancillary provisions–it does not, one might say, hide elephants in mouseholes.” Whitman v. American Trucking Association, 531 U.S. 457, 468 (2001). This doctrine is an exception to the textualism approach to constitutional interpretation. Good morning. It’s no secret that Jim Parrott of the Urban Institute has #TBTF bank clients. As a matter of fact, just this morning, Josh Rosner claimed to have heard it straight from the mouth of the horse that Bank of America had Parrott on payroll. Why is it that the Urban Institute, if wanting to be taken seriously in the mortgage reform discussions, isn’t required to disclose which #TBTF banks are influencing their opinions from a financial standpoint? Parrott personally told me, BAC is a client as are private mortgage insurers. He also told me #WellsFargo was (is?) a client & several #TBTF banks have him come in when @ncrc @CRLONLINE @civilrightsorg @NAACP “bus people to the banks” in effort to calm those groups. Disclosure? — joshua rosner (@JoshRosner) May 16, 2018 Rosner is really going to town on Urban Institute and their lack of financial disclosures. https://twitter.com/JoshRosner/status/996748877284958209 As I mentioned I would, I’ve gone after this issue as well, on a somewhat different tack from Josh’s. I sent a note to a senior person in the Urban Institute hierarchy calling attention to and giving my critique of the latest Parrot-Zandi piece, quoting from the comment I made about it on my blog and also pointing out that it repeats Treasury’s fictitious rationale for the net worth sweep, notwithstanding the fact that discovery in the Court of Federal Claims has unearthed numerous communications from Parrott admitting the real reasons for it—to keep Fannie and Freddie from recapitalizing and to perpetuate the conservatorships. I concluded my note by saying, “My reason for writing isn’t to complain about the paper, but to make sure the leadership of the Urban Institute knows its name is on a deliberately slanted (in my view) and knowingly inaccurate advocacy piece. I suspect that’s something the Urban Institute neither wants nor supports.” The person to whom I wrote acknowledged the legitimacy of the criticism and said they would “take this up.” So I know the Urban Institute’s leadership is aware of and I believe now focused on this issue. Tremendous! Very grateful for your work. copperriver01 says: Sorry I see Rule-of-Law already posted. I would be a shame and sham if the American court system does not allow at least one trial out of the many cases dismissed when the case is of this stature and with good cause and merit. Just would not be America if all cases were dismissed. plaintiff deserves its day in court! MFS says: I assume you expected the news that Michael Bright would be tapped to head Ginnie full time but wonder if you see broader administrative implications with this announcement? https://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/trump-taps-ex-corker-aide-as-head-of-ginnie-mae I don’t, no. Those who follow the industry closely have been expecting this appointment for some time. Sure liked what I heard in the Saxton hearing. Judges were clearly open to the possibility that the 3rd amendment was ultra vires. Also would guess that Cooper’s last utterance, ‘Surely I get to try these matters!’ was a good conclusion and fell on sympathetic ears. Let’s hope. http://media-oa.ca8.uscourts.gov/OAaudio/2018/5/171727.MP3 to hear the transcript. this was a promising oral argument…as was perry, so caution is in order. this was the first time that i recall that the non-legal point was made by a judge that, my golly, the NWS “nationalized” these companies. finally a judge was (one hopefully assumes) finally concerned that a conservatorship/receivership statute was converted into a nationalization statute without clear authority from congress…sort of an astounding premise that those so advanced in the legal community to become federal appellate judges normally overlook. cooper for Ps was excellent, cayne for fhfa meh, and wright for treasury, dont get me started. net net, the judges were troubled by the extent of fhfa/treasury claim that any act pursuant to a conservator power was authorized even if antithetical to the conservator purpose. at least these judges were independent thinkers. we shall see. just a tidbit addendum if i may on saxtion oral argument in 8th circuit. at one point, a male judge (stras or benton) asks cayne for fhfa to react to what the judge refers to as the Ps strongest point, that fhfa was under the direction of treasury in direct contravention of HERA. in his reply, cayne states that he has never considered this to be a strong point for Ps at all. rule #1…never gratuitously contradict the judge. of course, cite alternative authority, make a counterargument, but never say to a judge, in effect, you’re off base. all cayne said was, gee there was a two-party negotiation, and the NWS was the arms-length result…which of course is a question of fact. given Ps well-pled complaint, cooper reiterated in rebuttal that surely he had the opportunity to prove at trial whether fhfa was improperly under treasury’s direction…that very question of fact the male judge seemed interested in. so again, for fear of reading too much into the oral argument, this sounded like there is at least one judge who thought Ps should go to trial on fact question whether fhfa was improperly under direction of treasury. supplementary tidbit addendum if i may. when you listen to the saxton oral argument, fhfa counsel cayne starts his argument, as he should, with recitation of the three other circuit courts that have rejected P’s APA claim that fhfa exceeded its authority as conservator. and then you hear a male judge cut cayne off and say in effect, yes, but now mr. cayne you come to the 8th circuit and you must now confront our 8th circuit case, CedarMinn. CedarMinn, construing FIRREA, upon which HERA is based (and in material part copies verbatim), is a 1992 case that has favorable language for Ps insofar as it speaks of the statutory conservator’s “mission” and “duties” as in “parallel” with the common law conservator. (the perry majority rejects use of common law conservator duties to inform what fhfa as conservator “may” do). to see how Ps are trying to use CedarMinn, see saxton Ps reply brief: http://gselinks.com/Court_Filings/Saxton/17-1727-0020.pdf @p.7 ” This Court’s decision in RTC v. CedarMinn Building Limited Partnership could not be more clear: a conservator’s “mission[ ]” is “to take action necessary to restore the failed [financial institution] to a solvent position and ‘to carry on the business of the institution and preserve and conserve the assets and property of the institution.’ ” 956 F.2d 1446, 1453 (8th Cir. 1992) (quoting 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(2)(D)).” cayne tried to distinguish CedarMinn, and the judges didnt seem all that eager to go down cayne’s path. how much CedarMinn informs the judges view on saxton is the wildcard in this case, as the other circuits have no reason to accord an 8th circuit case with any particular precedential value, unlike the 8th circuit itself. i have never seen this before, and i am not sure what the 5th circuit will do with collins, but the 5th circuit accepted on an interlocutory appeal the all-american case, alleging that the cfpb is unconstitutionally structured. collins had oral argument awhile back, and Ps asserted two claims: that the NWS violates HERA under APA (like perry), and that fhfa is unconstitutionally structured. the fhfa and cfpb are very similarly structured, with fhfa director even more independent arguably because of HERA’s anti-injunction bar. so essentially the same claim is at issue in the same circuit in two different cases at the same time. you would expect some sort of coordination at the instance of the chief judge, and since collins was argued already, collins should come first…and yet a merits panel decision in collins on the constitutional claim may not be agreeable to all of the other 5th cir judges, including those who will comprise the merits panel in all-american. one possibility is that collins is put on hold and all-american goes to briefing and argument en banc (or collins is reargued en banc). of course if the collins merits panel rules in favor or against Ps on APA claim, then that could come down with the constitutionality claim held in abeyance. who knows. ted olson is on briefing on all american and will likely argue. 1. Dico Akseraylian, a spokesman for PHH, confirmed that the company did not petition the Supreme Court. 2. Judge Shiltz may be praying the 5th Circuit to do something similar to that done by DC Circuit. Otherwise he would have to rule the organization of FHFA was unconstitutional. (by Appointment clause) 3. Single director problem is far more worse. If unconstitutional, the original C-ship is voided. 4. Arguments by Judges Henderson and Cavanaugh were more powerful, may find friendlier ears in 5th circuit. 1. the appeal was granted in all-american some 3 days before the PHH cert petition needed to be made. PHH won reversal of penalty based on statute, didnt need to pursue unconstitutionalilty structured claim. ted olson on both cases. i can see olson saying to PHH that you dont have to pay my fee for a cert request if i am going to argue claim again in a circuit other than DC. 2. judge schlitz will have to decide the (strong) appointments clause claim at some point since not raised in collins. 3. single director claim is arguably worse for Ps in front of judge schlitz as well. in the oral arg transcript, you can see his dislike of a remedy that would invalidate everything fhfa has done since demarco and before watt (even though collins P just focused on NWS). appointments clause claim remedy (assuming bright line remedy of 2 year cutoff borrowed from recess appointments clause in const) would invalidate NWS but not PSPA and first two amendments. 4. as is judge brown’s dissent in perry. we shall see. GSE Reform says: Hello Tim, years ago when you released the Mortgage Wars, you held a talk at Politics & Prose bookstore in DC. (Here’s a link to those who want to see video https://youtu.be/kQAKx9nXg7g) Tim, are you considering doing another solo talk/lecture? The event itself would draw key industry insiders and would spark great discussions. I hadn’t considered a talk or lecture, but I’d now be more inclined to appear at events discussing the follow-on to the “mortgage wars,” which is really how I view the last ten years of the banks trying to take over Fannie and Freddie’s business, for their own competitive benefit and for made-up reasons that are readily rebuttable. The banks have done a very thorough job of cementing their fictional view of the causes of and remedies for the financial crisis in the media, the Congress, the mind of the general public and even, it seems, the court system. Those of us who know what actually happened–and what needs to be done to create a future mortgage finance system that works for homebuyers and not the banks–need to do a much better job communicating these things to those in a position to make a difference in the reform process. would you have any interest in meeting with, for example, a member of the house financial services committee? if so, perhaps you can email me with your contact info and i might be able to set that up. I’ll send you a note. Perhaps it’s time to work with Bethany McLean on a long form piece? Jim Parrott and Mark Zandi published another paper about the GSEs. It seems to try to address arguments for release from conservatorship, scaling back CRTs, etc. Click to access gse_reform_is_dead_long_live_gse_reform_2.pdf Is any of this worth responding to? One of the worst claims, imo, is that they don’t think Treasury can amend the terms of the SPSPAs to cancel/redeem/etc the seniors because of restrictions on the government’s ability to “compromise a debt”. But the seniors aren’t debt, they’re equity! Parrott and Zandi have done a number of papers for the Urban Institute, but this one, in my mind, is unique, in that it substitutes politics for policy in a way that does not do credit to the institution that published it. I intend to make this point to the Urban Institute’s leadership. Parrott and Zandi justify their political speculation by writing the following set-up paragraph early in the paper: “Since the early days of the recent Great Recession, conservatives have been highly critical of the role that the GSEs play in the housing finance system. They attribute a significant portion of the blame for the crisis to Fannie and Freddie and bemoan the increased importance of the two institutions in the years since, arguing that they distort the mortgage market and create excessive risk for the taxpayer. To address these concerns, a conservative director of the FHFA will likely take steps to reduce the GSEs’ role in the market.” Parrott and Zandi both know that Fannie and Freddie didn’t cause the crisis (Zandi wrote a paper explaining that) and also that they don’t distort the market or create excessive risk for the taxpayer. But they don’t say that, as any actual policy analyst would. Instead, they say that since “conservatives” believe these things (because that’s what advocates for the banks, including Mr. Parrott, keep telling them), and since this is a conservative administration, it therefore follows that the inevitable course of administrative mortgage reform will be to reduce the companies’ “dominance” in the market (and let banks pick up the slack). Through this artifice, the policy merits of everything that follows become irrelevant, and don’t need to be addressed. And what follows is a bunch of teeth-gnashing assertions and slanted analysis to justify Parrott and Zandi’s contention that the only possible outcome of “reform” is either what the MBA has been pushing for the last couple of years or something even worse for homebuyers. And if mortgage rates go up 90-100 basis points and the availability of conventional mortgages to lower-income borrowers shrinks to a fraction of what it was pre-crisis, well, there’s unfortunately nothing that can be done about that. It’s complete nonsense. I don’t plan to respond to this paper directly—other than the note to Urban Institute leadership mentioned earlier—but I do know some who intend to, and I’ve offered to help with suggestions and comments. Thanks for your response. It’s good to hear (judging from your last sentence) that you are not alone in resisting the narratives in that paper. Parrott and Zandi’s apparent shift in tactics is just another strange turn in this saga. Their continued insistence on, ahem, “Parrott”ing the false narrative by couching it in terms of “some conservatives think this” while being aware of its falsity should be embarrassing. If being conservative was all it took to shrink or gut the GSEs, it would have happened already during Trump’s term. It all sounds like a “No True Scotsman” fallacy to me. Bk Lawyer says: Tim – What did you think of the discussion by Parrott & Zandi that: “A solution often suggested is to amend the terms of the relevant agreements to reduce the GSEs’ obligations to the taxpayer. However, it is not at all clear that the law allows for such a move. Under 31 U.S. Code § 3711 and 31 CFR 902.2, the government can only “compromise a debt” owed the taxpayer when the debtor cannot pay, the cost of collection is prohibitive, or there is significant doubt as to the government’s liability to prove that the debt is owed. It would not appear that any of these circumstances apply here.” I didn’t think much of it, for two reasons. First, Fannie and Freddie’s senior preferred stock is not ” a debt owed to the taxpayer;” it is a confiscatory dividend-paying (not interest-bearing) security Treasury granted to itself after it forced the companies into conservatorship while refusing to tell them (or Fannie, at least) the terms of the “assistance” they would be given. Many commentators have said that Treasury could cancel the senior preferred at any time it wishes, and I agree with that. Which brings me to my second reason. I have lost count of the articles written by Mr. Parrott–some co-authored by Zandi, others not–that contain arguments for why anything other that what he would like to see happen to Fannie and Freddie either isn’t legal, isn’t feasible, runs counter to some obscure rule or precedent, or will end up disadvantaging homebuyers, relative to what he wants to do. I tend to be skeptical about reasons why something can’t be done that are advanced by people who don’t want to do it. navycmdr (@navycmdr) says: Any Chance you are in the running to succeed Mel Watt as Director of FHFA ? IMF NEWS TODay … Wed May 9, 2018 … A former Fannie Mae executive, who worked for the government-sponsored enterprise pre-takeover, is being mentioned as a possible White House pick to succeed Mel Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sources told IMFnews. As more details become available, we’ll let you know… If so, I’m being considered without anyone having spoken to me about it. If the rumor is true it’s likely to be someone else, but I don’t know who (nor do I have a good guess). Then time to throw your own name in the hat!!! I really hoped that was you. F1greenwest says: As a shareholder of gses, you have my support as president and CEO of Fannie Mae, you have my votes! your experience and knowledge give me the assurance that you are the best executive for any of the gse’s and, of course, for FHFA. In my opinion, you are the best qualified person to find the best role for these companies that, ultimately, is the best for his shareholders and taxpayers. One of my ex-Fannie Mae colleagues says that the “former Fannie Mae executive” mentioned in the IMF News item as a possible successor to Mel Watt is Adolfo Marzol, who I know well. He was hired from Chase Mortgage into Fannie’s capital markets group in 1996, then moved to a position in the single-family guaranty business before becoming chief credit officer in 1998. He left Fannie not too long after I did, and shortly thereafter got involved—first as a consultant then as an executive—with Essent Group, a Bermuda-based mortgage insurer and reinsurer. Last May he was named Senior Advisor to Secretary Carson at HUD, where he is now. Adolfo knows the mortgage business, and Fannie and Freddie, well, and in my view would be a better choice as FHFA director than any of the other people whose names have been bruited about for the position. I agree Tim’s knowledge and insight regarding FnF is second to none . We all appreciate your work and insight and I apologize to ask but I am curious, are you a shareholder? If so which? Again sorry to ask. I own no shares of Freddie Mac, and discussed my holdings of Fannie when I began doing the blog (in February 2016). Enough time has since passed that it’s probably worth repeating: “When I left [Fannie] I held common shares and vested stock options, all obtained as compensation there…I sold no shares, and took shares (not cash) upon exercising stock options, until Fannie Mae completed its earnings restatement in December 2006. From January through June 2007 I sold approximately half of my and my family’s holdings of Fannie Mae common stock. I held the rest when the company went into conservatorship, and in August 2009 sold half those shares and used the proceeds to buy Fannie Mae series N preferred stock (picked because it was the last preferred stock issuance the company did when I was CFO). I have done no transactions in either the common or preferred shares of Fannie Mae since then.” That’s still true, and I’d add that Fannie’s common was trading at around $70 per share when I left, so at today’s prices my holdings of Fannie common and preferred are not a significant percentage of my financial assets (i.e., I’m not doing the blog in the hope of financial gain). With respect to the TS, given his 180 from bullish release to sheepish we’ll see, he’s about as in charge of GSE’s as you are Glen. POTUS decides if and when GSE’s come out to play because clearly TS has been given a time out. As to the advice to pick up some more, reckless also given the aforementioned fact. Try handicapping this POTUS. This is purely a political play with a clock fast approaching midnight. This is one step worse than a coin toss because along with the loss probabilities, inactivity is also a leading percentage making a winning toss a two step political parlay. An unbelievably thin margin of success on GSE. (oh, and for good measure, chuckle, the coin holder is paid billions of bloody dollars in perpetuity to just stand there and hold a supposedly worthless coin) Taken from “Taken”……..Good luck, G Fred Milbank says: And who is going to take on the interest rate and prepayment risk of fixed-rate mortgages? That was the key role of the Fannie/Freddie between 1981 and 2008. This is an important aspect of the reform debate that the supporters of banks either are unaware of or willfully ignoring. Pre-crisis, Fannie and Freddie supported 30-year fixed rate mortgages in two ways: by issuing fixed-term debt (both callable and non-callable) to investors, and using the proceeds to buy these loans, and by putting low-cost credit guarantees on pools of 30-year mortgages so that capital markets investors could buy them without having to worry about the creditworthiness of the underlying borrowers (which they had no way of assessing). When Fannie and Freddie held mortgages in portfolio (and at one point they had a combined $1.65 trillion of them), they took the interest rate and prepayment risk. But they managed that risk with callable debt and derivatives, which they constantly “rebalanced” to keep the durations of their funding closely matched with the estimated durations of their assets. On their MBS, it was capital markets investors who took the prepayment and interest rate risk. As I noted in this blog post, Treasury required Fannie and Freddie to greatly shrink their portfolios, for no reason other than the banks had traditionally opposed them (claiming the companies had an “unfair funding advantage” over banks, which is blatantly false—banks’ government-insured consumer deposits, which make up the bulk of their funding, have rates much lower than Fannie and Freddie debt). Today Fannie and Freddie’s portfolios total less than $500 billion, so that’s $1.15 trillion in demand for fixed-rate mortgages that the “reformers” have caused to disappear. Now they want to go after the fixed-rate mortgages supplied by capital markets purchasers of Fannie and Freddie-guaranteed MBS, by making the credit guaranty process (unnecessarily) more costly. If successful, this would have two results: first, driving more fixed-rate loans onto the balance sheets of banks—who can earn very wide spreads by funding them with mismatched short-term consumer deposits and purchased funds without incurring any capital penalty, because the Basel III capital requirements don’t penalize banks for taking interest rate risk—and second, making bank-friendly (and consumer-unfriendly) adjustable-rate mortgages relatively more attractive by pushing up guaranty fees, which get added to the cost of fixed-rate loans. I am hoping the affordable housing groups and community bankers can drive these points home to members of Congress and Treasury. What the banks want is a much more expensive, more restrictive and riskier mortgage delivery system than we had pre-crisis, for no reason other than to further pad their (already fat) bottom lines. “…by making the credit guaranty process (unnecessarily) more costly” if there is a treasury mbs guaranty (even assuming that it kicks in after FnF goes insolvent), wouldnt the process become less costly? What the banks are offering is a package: require Fannie and Freddie to hold an unnecessarily high percentage of capital that will push their guaranty fees up 25 basis points (which benefits the banks, by both driving more loans onto their balance sheets and giving them wider funding spreads on those loans), then add a paid-for government guaranty to cut 10 basis points off that total (which will benefit the banks as well, by lowering the capital risk weight on the F/F MBS they hold from 20 percent to zero). My proposal is a true risk-based capital requirement for F/F, endorsed by Treasury as meeting the government’s high standard of taxpayer protection and backed, if needed, by private catastrophic risk insurance. The latter will deliver a considerably lower all-in mortgage cost to borrowers. pauljon4 says: djone204 says: Thank you for both advocating for good policy, and posting this informative piece in a public forum. This is especially important because, as you remind us, the GSEs are “banned from political activities, these banks have been free to distort the record, define the objectives of secondary market reform, and put forth reform proposals that benefit [only] themselves.” Your remarks are brief–a necessity given your intended audience. The parsimony that makes this so rhetorically effective, though, necessarily precludes fine detail. Would you mind expanding a bit on this: “the draft Senate bill errs in presenting direct subsidies as an alternative to cross-subsidies, rather than as a complement to them. The two are independent; direct subsidy programs do not in any way lessen the importance of doing as much as possible to support affordable housing through an efficient credit guaranty mechanism.” How, in practice, do direct subsidies and cross-subsidies work? Have you had any requests from elected officials or their staffs to elaborate on this or other aspects of this (very tight) piece? A direct subsidy is a payment of cash to a targeted borrower type for a specific purpose, such as buying down the mortgage interest rate or assistance in making a down payment or paying closing costs. You might think of these as “hard” subsidies: cash is collected from one source, and paid to another. In contrast, cross-subsidies might be termed “soft” subsidies, where no money changes hands. The way these have worked in the past is that a large number of lower-risk borrowers are charged guaranty fees that are moderately higher than is warranted by the riskiness of their loans (although they don’t know that), so that guaranty fees on a smaller number of higher-risk borrowers can be significantly lower (helping them afford the loan), without the credit guarantor being any worse off. As I mention in the post, both types of subsidies have their roles, although direct subsidies need a significant amount of administrative infrastructure to determine which specific individuals get the subsidies, for what purpose, and how much. As for requests from elected officials or their staffs to elaborate on the piece, my policy is not to publicize or comment on those. I find I can be more effective in getting people to agree to meetings (or discussions) if I keep both them and their content confidential. alex333 says: Thank you again for your contribution of time and energy on this well written thought. Brian McGrail says: Thanks Tim, I always learn something new about housing finance every time I read one of your articles. You have the force of clear and honest reasoning behind you. It’s hard for your opponents to disagree with your factual statements without resorting to obfuscation and rumors. Mr. Happy :) says: A heart felt thank you for your continued work on mortgage finance issues and for being a much needed voice of truth and reason. As an aside, how do you see the common securitization platform fitting in to the future of mortgage finance? Specifically, can you foresee the GSEs (or FHFA) allowing originators use of the CSP for a fee in order to offer their own MBS product? The role the common securitization platform (CSP) will play will depend on when the secondary market of the future is decided upon and implemented. The CSP may well be completed and in operation before that time, in which case I would expect, if Fannie and Freddie are retained in some form, both companies would keep using it. I would be surprised if either of them opens it up to other issuers for a fee, however. Great job!!! I hope you will allow us (readers of your blog) to copy and paste this article and send to our respective house reps and senators. Certainly. It never hurts for constituents to send articles to their members of Congress. Most such missives don’t make it past the staffers, however, and for that reason there also are people who will be sending the paper (with a title, my name as author, my former affiliation, and date) directly to senators and representatives they know personally. What a great piece. Here’s to hoping you and others are finding more than just a few powerful folks, up on The Hill, willing to truly listen and LEARN. Thanks again for your amazing efforts! Diogenes says: Come what may, you’re a true patriot Tim, thank you! Thank you Tim for your much needed truth, integrity and clairvoyance! Cloudyskies says: What you advocate here sounds great, but what fail-safe covenant would protect this from future politicians meddling with what has proven to work, politics being what it is? Having to worry about politicians meddling with a sensible secondary market reform proposal AFTER it has been implemented is what’s known as a “high quality problem.” Let’s get the sensible reform implemented first. Thank you for the true narrative! The Director Digs In Comment on FHFA Capital Re-proposal First Quarter Takeaways How We Got to Where We Are jtimothyhoward on The Director Digs In ruleoflawguy on The Director Digs In Ron on The Director Digs In Some Simple Facts A Pattern of Deception The Economics of Reform A Three-Year Retrospective Comment on FHFA Capital Proposal Response to FHFA on Credit Risk Transfers Fixing What Works Thoughts on Delaware Amicus Curiae Brief Argument from Perry Capital Amicus Curiae brief Treasury, the Conservatorships, and Mortgage Reform FHFA guaranty fee questions Howard's Links "The Mortgage Wars" – available on Amazon Howard book talk – Politics and Prose video	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line841
__label__wiki	0.9278	0.9278	Cowboys Announce ‘Unfortunate’ Diagnosis on Blake Jarwin Injury Heavy on Cowboys By Zack Kelberman Updated Sep 14, 2020 at 5:33pm Getty Blake Jarwin Affirming what was feared Sunday night, Blake Jarwin is done for the remainder of the season. The Dallas Cowboys announced Monday the fourth-year tight end suffered a torn ACL in their Week 1 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. Jarwin, 26, will undergo corrective surgery and be fully recovered in time for the 2021 campaign. “It’s pretty clear that Jarwin is unfortunately going to have to have his ACL repaired, and we all know what that means. Obviously a tough loss for us,” Cowboys VP Stephen Jones conceded on 105.3 The Fan, via the team’s official website. Jarwin, who made one catch for 12 yards, went down in the first half against the Rams, crumbling to the SoFi Stadium turf while running a route. The injury was of the non-contact variety and he was quickly ruled out for the remainder of the game — two dreaded signs. Jarwin took an MRI that crystallized his prognosis. A 2017 undrafted free agent, Jarwin carried into this year league-wide hype as the successor to future Hall-of-Famer Jason Witten. No sooner did Witten have both feet out the door this offseason than did Jarwin receive a four-year $24.2 million contract extension, taking home $9.2 million guaranteed, more than double the one-year, $4 million pact Witten received from the Las Vegas Raiders. Although overshadowed by a supporting cast that boasts Amari Cooper, Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Gallup and CeeDee Lamb, Jarwin developed tangible chemistry with quarterback Dak Prescott and owned legitimate breakout potential. “I know he’s a great asset to this offense,” Prescott said after the game, via ESPN. “Would hate to lose him for the rest of the year if that’s the case.” Follow the Heavy on Cowboys Facebook page for the latest breaking news, rumors and content! Replacing Jarwin Fortunately, Dallas boasts an extremely deep offense that flows through its collection of stud receivers and Pro Bowler Elliott. Jarwin was a distinct fourth option in the passing attack, so his loss is hardly insurmountable. The next man up on the depth chart is 2018 fourth-round pick Dalton Schultz, who had one catch for 11 yards against the Rams. Behind Schultz are blocking specialist Blake Bell and undrafted rookie Sean McKeon, who was inactive Sunday. The Cowboys also have Cole Hikutini on the practice squad. An ever-cryptic Stephen Jones suggested amid his radio hit Monday that he could scour the open market for additional help, though it appears the in-house talent will get immediate dibs on Jarwin’s snaps. “We were going a little heavy there before with McKeon and certainly it’ll be his time to step up with Dalton and Bell obviously playing an even more important role going forward,” Jones said. “And certainly look to keep our tight end numbers in place. We’ll look to see what’s out there at tight end as well.” READ NEXT: Cowboys HC McCarthy, QB Prescott React to Controversial OPI Call in Rams Loss Follow Zack Kelberman on Twitter: @KelbermanNFL Dallas Cowboys, Football, NFL Follow Heavy on Cowboys ↓ Jarwin went down sans contact in Sunday's loss to the Rams.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line843
__label__wiki	0.816143	0.816143	Raiders Sign Rookie DT, Cut Veteran WR Heavy on Raiders By Austin Boyd Updated Dec 11, 2020 at 3:03pm Getty Lee Autry of the Las Vegas Raiders. The Las Vegas Raiders have needed help on the defensive line after Maliek Collins got hurt and Daniel Ross was released. They may have found it in the brother of a former starter for the team. The Raiders announced the signing of rookie defensive tackle Lee Autry to the practice squad. Autry is the brother of former Raider Denico Autry, who now plays for the Indianapolis Colts. Denico played four seasons for the silver and black and was part of the team that made the playoffs back in 2016. He had 2.5 sacks that season. Lee Autry is shorter but weighs more than his big brother. Denico is more of a defensive end while Lee is a defensive tackle. He played college football at Mississippi State and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Chicago Bears in the offseason. He’s bounced around on a couple of teams and might actually have a shot to get some playing time with the Raiders. ALL the latest Raiders news straight to your inbox! Subscribe to the Heavy on Raiders newsletter here! Sign up for the Heavy on Raiders Newsletter! Marcell Ateman Cut In order to make room for Autry, the Raiders had to cut wide receiver Marcell Ateman. The team had too many wide receivers on the practice squad, to begin with, so letting one go makes sense. However, Ateman has stuck around the team for three seasons now. He was part of Jon Gruden‘s first draft class since returning to the team. The wide receiver has even gotten a decent amount of playing time. He’s opportunities to earn a spot on the roster but hasn’t ever taken great advantage of it. He had five catches last season for 116 yards. While the Raiders are letting him go now, it wouldn’t be a surprise if he’s back on the roster at some point within the next year. Mic'd Up: Marcell Ateman – Week 14 vs. Steelers – 12.9.18Exclusive footage of Raiders wide receiver Marcell Ateman as he was wired for sound versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. Visit https://www.Raiders.com for more. Keep up-to-date on all things Raiders: Subscribe: http://rdrs.co/youtube Download our app: http://rdrs.co/2ZqD6b Follow: https://Twitter.com/Raiders Like: https://Facebook.com/Raiders Shop at Raider Image: http://rdrs.co/shop Start your free trial of NFL Game Pass: http://rdrs.co/bHuv17 #Raiders #PITvsOAK #NFL2018-12-11T04:37:12Z Raiders Are Facing Denico Autry This Week Coincidentally, the Raiders are set to face Denico Autry this week as they are hosting the Colts. He’s been a lot more effective for Indianapolis. He had a nine sack season in 2018 and is in the midst of a six sack season. He’s developed into a solid pass rusher for the team. Autry is one of a few pass rushers the Raiders let get away who have had success elsewhere. The Colts weren’t always known for their defense thanks to having Peyton Manning and then Andrew Luck for years. However, they’ve put together one of the best defenses in the NFL this year. The Raiders are going to have their hands full and Autry could be in a good day if Trent Brown doesn’t play. Las Vegas had one of the best offenses around for most of the season but haven’t looked overly impressive the last two weeks. The Colts aren’t a great team to play if you’re trying to turn things around on offense. That said, Gruden has proven that he can take advantage of even the best defenses. Time will tell if he can work his genius against Indianapolis. READ NEXT: Derek Carr on Raiders Teammate: ‘He’s the Best in the World’ Football, NFL Get more good stuff from Heavy on Raiders ↓ Unlock the latest Raiders news, rumors and exclusives — direct to your inbox. Join Heavy on Raiders! Follow Heavy on Raiders ↓ The Las Vegas Raiders are looking to the brother of a former player to get some help on the defensive line.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line844
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Next > Last >> Government housing priorities need to be clarified 10 Dec 2020 9:46 AM \| Anonymous “Government prioritisation of house prices above the supply, quality and affordability of housing would be a serious concern and would lock in intergenerational inequality, poor productivity and low incomes,” says Infrastructure New Zealand Policy Director Hamish Glenn. “On Tuesday the Government suggested that retaining and even increasing house prices could become a focus for the Government, something that was not signalled prior to the election. “The principal issue with the Government turning its focus to house price increases, or even house price stability, is that the cost of new housing has already inflated well above what it actually costs to deliver a home. “In 2017, Infrastructure New Zealand showed that new housing could be integrated with infrastructure services and delivered at scale in Auckland’s south for under $400,000. “That homes are selling for around twice this amount reflects choices made by central and local government, including to constrain land and density and to limit both infrastructure investment and the ability of developers to access infrastructure finance. “In seeking to protect, let alone increase, house prices, the Government locks these artificially high housing costs in and is effectively asking new homeowners to cover the cost of poor policy. “More troublingly, if the reason the Government wants to lock in artificially high housing costs is because it wants to protect the investment portfolios of people who already have homes then we as a society need to take a very long look at ourselves. “We have to ask whether this is fair, whether it meets the needs of New Zealanders now and into the future and whether determining prices is the right role for Government. “We know that New Zealanders are already paying proportionately the most in the OECD for housing. We know that high rents to pay for large mortgages are consuming the discretionary income of those who do not own property, while increasing property values make homeowners richer, exacerbating inequality. “We also know that the attractiveness of housing investment, partly due to confidence that government will not let prices fall, is attracting capital away from more productive uses leaving the New Zealand economy uncompetitive and incomes low. “If there is a risk today to the financial sector from house prices being allowed to return to levels reflecting what it actually costs to deliver housing, then we need to ask, firstly, whether it is right that we ask the next generation to cover the costs of poor decisions by the previous generation. Second, we need to ask whether doubling down at this stage simply makes the problem greater further down the road. “Rather than seek to manage prices to levels reflecting past failed policies, the Government should accelerate its own Urban Growth Agenda, which contains a raft of sensible policies to reduce barriers to affordable housing. “Better still, the Government could articulate exactly what it wants to achieve in housing, translate that into the number of homes we need, where and when and incentivise and support local authorities to help it achieve its objective. “Doing so would improve health and educational outcomes, increase the disposable incomes of families, redirect capital to more productive uses and make New Zealand a fairer and more inclusive country,” Glenn says. For further information and comment contact Hamish Glenn on 021 034 7229 Infrastructure sector’s top issues and priorities for the new Government 02 Dec 2020 10:05 AM \| Anonymous “The infrastructure sector remains hopeful that the Government can deliver on its vision for New Zealand, but quick action on strategy, planning, skills and funding commitment is required,” says Hamish Glenn, Policy Director at Infrastructure New Zealand. Two weeks ago, Infrastructure New Zealand’s ReBuilding Nations Symposium brought together over 800 infrastructure industry leaders across two days to examine how the country can ‘Build Back Better’. In each session, polls were run with the support of Technology Sponsor Beca to gauge industry priorities and concerns. “The clear message from the sector was that the Government must move quickly to demonstrate how it is going to achieve its priorities. “While four out of five respondents felt somewhat or very confident that New Zealand’s leadership has a clear vision for action in our post-COVID recovery, half were not very or not at all confident that the country can deliver its infrastructure pipeline. “Over 40% of attendees said that a lack of strategy and planning would hamper our future development. This was followed with equal concern about lack of capability, capacity, and skills and insufficient funding and financing. “Delegates were asked if they thought our country will make the changes necessary to transform and build back better. A quarter did not think so but just over one-half still believe we can – if we get going immediately. “Infrastructure New Zealand Chair Andrew Stevens summarised things best in noting that many of the challenges we heard over the two days of the conference could have been quotes from five years ago, that’s how little has changed,” said Glenn. In response, Infrastructure New Zealand today releases six Policy Priorities for addressing the challenges in our infrastructure system and accelerating the shift from talking to action: Establish a National Vision with National Strategic Outcomes Build an Infrastructure Strategy designed to achieve the outcomes Reform our planning system to align outcomes with spatial planning, funding, and governance Develop the skills and human capital needed to deliver the infrastructure pipeline Commit funding using incentives, price signals, private capital, and beneficiary pays wherever possible Revise governance to ensure organisations charged with infrastructure delivery have the scale, capacity, capability and desire to implement. Rupert Hodson, Beca Northern Regional Manager said, “We are encouraged and excited about the opportunities ahead of us. “This conference has highlighted that we have the policy framework largely in place and the road map to complete it; we know what the challenges are, and the government has set the aspiration to build back better. “The challenge for us all now is to grab the opportunity, use the tools we have available and get on with doing it. We’re in this together, and we look forward to what the next few years bring,” said Hodson. To see the entire Beca poll results on topics such as infrastructure resilience, the housing crisis, resource management, and more, click here. To see a copy of Infrastructure New Zealand’s latest report on how the Government can integrate planning and investment to achieve its National Vision, click here. Reaffirmed road pricing benefits demonstrate the need to take action and implement “Today’s release of a study showing the benefits of road pricing in Auckland is a step in the right direction, but if we don’t take action and move to implementation, we will be having the same conversation again in another five years,” says Hamish Glenn, Policy Director at Infrastructure New Zealand. “The Congestion Question's Phase Two report shows that tolling strategic corridors on the Auckland road network would lead to an 8-12% network improvement, similar to traffic flows during school holidays. “This result is unsurprising to anyone familiar with this topic – Stockholm saw sustained 20% reductions in flow after its scheme was introduced – and is consistent with earlier reports on road pricing in Auckland over the last 15 years. “Unfortunately, the only thing that has changed in that period is that congestion has become worse. “Congestion is not only a problem in Auckland, as Wellington is facing very similar problems going forward, with an even more restricted physical landscape. “The Government should investigate how an Auckland solution could be implemented in other regions or indeed nationwide. “The time to act is now. Not only is congestion continuing to worsen, our increasingly efficient vehicle fleet is paying less and less into the National Land Transport Fund, meaning there will be less money to maintain our existing network. “The Government needs to consider how road pricing schemes could integrate with broader road user charges for non-fossil fuel vehicles in the future. “Our Government has an unprecedented mandate to solve the long-standing issues we are facing. We hope they find the courage to seize the solutions that we have known about for a long time,” says Glenn. In 2015 Infrastructure New Zealand featured insights into the successful road pricing scheme in Stockholm, much of which informed today’s report. To learn more about why and how the Stockholm approach to road pricing worked, click here to watch a presentation from Jonas Eliasson, former Head of Stockholm City Transportation Department, that he gave for one of our past Building Nations Symposiums. Hamilton City Council wins Infrastructure New Zealand Excellence in Social Impact Award 19 Nov 2020 9:14 AM \| Anonymous Hamilton City Council’s Te Awa River Path Project won the 2020 Infrastructure New Zealand Excellence in Social Impact Award, sponsored by Downer at the ReBuilding Nations Gala Dinner last night. The project repaired and restored a 2.4km section of the Te Awa River Ride path which runs along the western side of the Waikato River, while creating employment for 50 people who had lost jobs due to COVID19. Award judge, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and award-winning social and sustainable procurement expert Alice Bray said the Te Awa River Path was an excellent example of an infrastructure initiative that has gone above and beyond to enable outstanding economic, social and cultural outcomes. “Te Awa River project captured the heart of the Excellence in Social Impact Award. Hamilton City Council went above and beyond to provide for those facing unemployment due to COVID19, partnering with their supplier base, other government agencies and their community to create lasting economic and employment outcomes for their region. The swift action and leadership taken by all involved in the Te Awa River project resulted in positive change for the 50 individuals impacted, their whānau and wider community. COVID19 required us to band together to support each other, a mission that this project absolutely succeeded in.” Hamilton City Council (HCC) was granted funding by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Provincial Growth Fund in June 2020 to enhance a section of the much-loved Te Awa River Ride Pathway, which connects key destinations and green spaces throughout the city and provides important recreation opportunities for Hamiltonians. HCC sourced workers for the project from the Ministry of Social Development, with a focus on employing those who were out of work due to the COVID19 pandemic. Another aim of the project was to provide workers with skills they could use in future employment. 17 workers completed HCC’s five-day Road Ready training programme aimed at preparing workers for careers in the construction sector and equipping them with transferrable skills they could use for life. Recognising the importance of the Waikato’s awa (rivers and waterways) to Iwi, HCC partnered with Waikato-Tainui and Ngati Haua Trust to deliver the training programme and project. Infrastructure New Zealand Board Member and award judge Tracey Ryan said the Te Awa River project demonstrated a clear intention and genuine impact, “Hamilton City Council achieved a range of outcomes with the Te Awa River Path project – enhancing the environment to make Hamilton a great place to live, work, play and visit, while providing immediate support and recovery to people who had lost jobs due to COVID19. HCC also provided an important boost to the local economy by letting 100% of the contract value to local businesses.” Hamilton City Council was chosen from 18 other entries to win the Infrastructure New Zealand Excellence in Social Impact Award, sponsored by Downer. Several other projects also received special awards: Auckland Council-owned Healthy Waters and Māori SME Height Project Management for their Sustainable Outcomes Toolkit, a user-friendly resource to help procuring organisations identify social outcomes opportunities, embed them in the tender process and evaluate and measure them. Citycare for their partnership with the Student Volunteer Army to fund community impact projects and their commitment to creating employment opportunities for Māori and Pasifika, the long-term unemployed, the disabled, youth and women prisoners finishing their sentences. Special Award - Contribution to the Industry Mates in Construction for its contribution to the construction industry in reducing the over representation of suicide and poor mental health. For further information and comment contact Sarah Lang on 021 733 434 Resource management reforms must support outcomes 18 Nov 2020 11:26 AM \| Anonymous “To achieve the outcomes the Government wants, it will have to define them, publish them and incorporate them in a new combined strategic and land use planning Act,” says Hamish Glenn, Policy Director at Infrastructure New Zealand. Infrastructure New Zealand has released a new white paper today at the Building Nations Symposium in Auckland. The report outlines how the New Zealand Government can shift from a largely budget-focused and inputs-based system to an aspirational goal-setting system which promotes outcomes and wellbeing. “It’s one thing to say we want healthy, affordable homes, or to have a productive, net-zero carbon economy, but without a strategy for achieving these goals, we will never get there. “We have looked at a number of leading jurisdictions overseas. Three Governments pursue an approach targeting outcomes and wellbeing similar to the aspirations of New Zealand: Scotland, Ireland and Hong Kong. “They each apply the same basic formula and this provides important insights into how New Zealand can not only aspire to, but actually achieve, the outcomes everyone wants. “First, the Governments clearly identify and define the national strategic outcomes they want prioritised. “Second, they develop an integrated spatial and investment framework which translates the outcomes into a real-world representation of what is required to achieve the vision. “Third, they ensure the investment required to encourage and incentivise development in alignment with national direction is funded. “For New Zealand to achieve outcomes, we need to do the same. “We need the priority outcomes the Government wants to achieve clearly defined and articulated. We need infrastructure to be integrated with spatial and land use planning to understand future needs, and we need commitment to implementation. “A barrier we face, however, is that neither the Resource Management Act in its current form, nor the recent recommendations of the review panel support this type of approach. “Misalignment of vision, strategic and land use planning and of planning with investment will impede the Government’s outcomes aspirations. “New Zealand will remain dependent on regulation to stop what we don’t want. What we need is a system where we incentivise and enable what we do want. “To shift New Zealand to a system of government which not only aspires to but achieves outcomes and wellbeing, the Government should: Urgently develop a set of National Strategic Outcomes which collectively represent the Government’s vision for wellbeing. Direct the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission / Te Waihanga to develop its infrastructure strategy with a view to enabling the National Strategic Outcomes. Complete reform of resource management statute, bringing together strategic and land use planning and developing dedicated environmental protection statute. “With the right approach New Zealand can leverage COVID investment to build back better and provide all of government, business and individuals with the leadership needed to achieve shared objectives,” says Glenn. Building Nations recognised as New Zealand’s leading Corporate Event 28 Oct 2020 9:21 AM \| Anonymous Infrastructure New Zealand’s flagship event Building Nations won the Best Corporate Event Award at the New Zealand Event Association Awards (NZEA) at the Civic Theatre’s Winter Garden last night. More than 105 entries were received for the highly coveted awards, recognising Building Nations as one of New Zealand’s leading business events. Infrastructure New Zealand Board Chair, Andrew Stevens said the award was testament to the efforts of the Infrastructure New Zealand team, “It’s hard to believe how far we have come, from our very first Building Nations Symposium at Villa Maria in 2006 with a mere 40 delegates, to the premier event on the infrastructure calendar that attracts so many delegates only a handful of venues in the country can accommodate us.” Stevens also reiterated the importance of Building Nations’ sponsors in consistently delivering a high-quality event, especially premier sponsor ANZ ,“This award is for our sponsors as much as it is for Infrastructure New Zealand. Without their support, an event like Building Nations just wouldn’t be possible – especially in a year as turbulent as this one.” Building Nations 2019 was also a finalist in the Best Local Government Event and Best International Event award categories and Infrastructure New Zealand Event and Member Services Director Sally Bunce was a finalist in the Established Event Professional Award, recognising her skill and experience in delivering high-end events. Infrastructure New Zealand interim Chief Executive John Rae said Sally consistently raised the bar each year at Building Nations and the other events she facilitates for Infrastructure New Zealand. “Sally has an exceptional understanding of what it takes to deliver a highly complex and high-profile conference programme while seamlessly managing suppliers, sponsors, presenters, and delegates. Her innovation and professionalism have given our events a ‘wow’ factor and made Infrastructure NZ well known for its quality delivery, industry leadership and expertise.” Building Nations is New Zealand’s premier infrastructure event, attended by 700+ private and public sector infrastructure leaders. ReBuilding Nations 2020 will be held at Henderson’s Trusts Arena on November 18 and 19, with the theme of Building Back Better. Infrastructure New Zealand Excellence in Social Impact Award finalists demonstrate best practice in enabling lasting community and social outcomes Infrastructure New Zealand has announced the finalists of the 2020 Excellence in Social Impact Award, sponsored by Downer, recognising infrastructure projects that have gone above and beyond to enable outstanding social, cultural and/or economic outcomes for our communities. The finalists have shone a spotlight on best-practice in social impact and provide an exemplar to other organisations in what can be achieved, says Margaret Devlin Infrastructure NZ Board member and award judge, “Infrastructure New Zealand wants to normalise social impact in infrastructure projects. With the significant volume of projects coming to market to contribute to New Zealand’s economic recovery from Covid-19, we have a huge opportunity to make a meaningful difference for our communities.” Infrastructure NZ Board member and Award judge Tracey Ryan said it was pleasing to see the broad range of impact initiatives underway across the sector, “That we had 19 strong entrants in this award is powerful evidence of the step change happening in the sector to use infrastructure projects as a lever for broader social, economic and cultural outcomes,” said Tracey. The finalists are: Hamilton City Council’s Te Awa River Path project, which repaired and restored a section of the Hamilton Cycle Trails while providing employment to 50 people who had lost jobs due to the Covid-19 crisis. Watercare’s Central Interceptor is delivering a lasting legacy for Tāmaki Makarau and their workforce, by supporting social enterprise Make Give Live; establishing a Dig Deep literacy programme to help members of the workforce build reading and writing skills; establishing and funding the Morningside Urban Market Garden; developing a Mana Whenua laundry service; providing opportunities for Māori and Pasifika through a youth internship programme and creating the Wānanga Māreikura programme to empower wāhine Māori. City Rail Link’s (CRL) Progressive Employment Programme supports Māori and Pasifika youth transition into work. CRL partnered with Lifewise, Rising Foundation and Te Ara Rangatahi to deliver a 19-week programme which helps rangatahi build skills and gain confidence in the workforce. Auckland Transport and Makaurau marae demonstrated a step change in supplier diversity by tendering the Makaurau Marae Carpark project only to Māori and Pasifika businesses through He Waka Eke Noa. Downer celebrates 150 years in New Zealand this year and has a strong history of social impact. EGM Strategy and Development, Duncan Kenderdine, says “Downer is focussed on building a stronger New Zealand and we see social impact as a key element of the way we do business. It was clear from the calibre of entries in the award that each would have a transformational impact on their local community. In a year with many challenges, it helps to share the load and keep our communities healthy and in meaningful employment." Award judge, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and award-winning social and sustainable procurement expert Alice Bray said the calibre of all entries was high, “My hope is that this award solidifies where our sector is going, inspires us to think bigger, and challenges us to partner together for impact.” Peer Review judge Dr Seán Barnes, Director, Social Procurement, Akina Foundation said the award celebrates how far the sector has come and challenges us to continue, "Aotearoa is increasingly looking to use social procurement as a tool to deliver greater social and environmental outcomes through infrastructure spend, and the Infrastructure NZ Excellence in Social Impact Award is timely to showcase the success being achieved. The finalists demonstrate real leadership, the different ways impact can be achieved, and show us what is possible moving forward." The winner of the Infrastructure New Zealand Social Impact Award, sponsored by Downer will be announced at the ReBuilding Nations Gala Dinner on Wednesday 18 November. Time for independent review of harbour crossing options 07 Oct 2020 12:37 PM \| Anonymous “The reopening of eight lanes of traffic on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge is a welcome sight and provides the opportunity for a considered and independent examination of all Waitematā Harbour crossing options by the Infrastructure Commission,” says Hamish Glenn Policy Director at Infrastructure New Zealand. “That a steel strut some 6 storeys high could be manufactured, transported and installed into one of New Zealand’s most heavily utilised and critical infrastructure assets in such a short period is something to celebrate. “It buys the Upper North Island some time – time which must be spent wisely if Auckland is to limit future disruptions to travel and the national economy is to be supported into the future. “A review into the transport and wider infrastructure demands of the Upper North Island will need to be initiated by the incoming Government with some urgency. “Current expectations are that some form of loading restriction will need to be placed on heavy vehicles using the bridge by around 2030 as the structure reaches its maximum safe weight limit. By 2046, some 27,000 trucks are anticipated to want to cross the harbour every day. The additional time and cost to use the Western Ring Route is estimated at $40 per trip, or around $400 million per annum. “To have a new crossing operational by 2030, critical decisions on that crossing’s form and alignment will need to be made within the term of the next Government. “If a harbour crossing solution is required by 2030, as available evidence suggests, this will impact imminent decisions on the Northern Pathway project. We may be better off bundling the pathway project into a comprehensive multi-modal option and providing for active modes on either the new structure or, as proposed in 2010, repurposing a lane of the existing bridge “These are ‘now’ decisions, not future decisions. They will impact not just transport, but infrastructure and development across Auckland and wider economic activity in the Upper North Island. “They need to be coordinated with a long term plan for the economy, society and the environment. “It is appropriate that the Government’s specialised infrastructure advisor Te Waihanga – the Infrastructure Commission evaluates the options for a new crossing to ensure the best long term decision is made for all New Zealand. “Should the crossing be just rail, just road or both? We will need to understand how we move across the harbour, particularly in a new post-COVID world. “What solution will unlock developable land and help address Auckland’s housing crisis? The last detailed published analysis of harbour crossing demand was in 2010, in the midst of the GFC. Since then, we’ve seen record population growth, a new district plan and now a National Policy Statement on Urban Development. “What form should that crossing take and where should it land? Recent analysis has shown that an additional crossing which does not address the issue of constraints at the northern and southern approaches to the bridge will have a limited impact on network flow and resilience. Are there other alignments which could remove or reduce the dependency on these corridors and could they help achieve wider transport and economic objectives for the region? “The Infrastructure Commission has the experience and independence required to answer these questions – which are bigger than Auckland, bigger than transport and bigger than any single Government – with the best available information. “The next Government should instruct the Commission to rigorously analyse options which will best meet the needs of New Zealanders now and into the future,” Glenn says. Regional infrastructure partnerships worthy of cross party support “City and regional infrastructure partnerships would go a long way to depoliticising investment decision-making and supporting regional development,” says Infrastructure NZ Policy Director Hamish Glenn. “Today, ACT announced its intention to establish partnerships between central and local government to fund and deliver agreed infrastructure programmes. “The proposals are consistent with Infrastructure New Zealand’s 2019 Building Regions report which sets out comprehensive reform for how the country plans, funds, and delivers infrastructure. “Partnerships would empower regions to deliver infrastructure according to a 30-year plan which they would co-develop with central government. “Central government would monitor performance and provide funding where regional and central goals aligned. “Flexible funding through shared GST, increased user charges, as well as existing tools such as local rates, central government funding, and PPPs, would give regions certainty about their options and allow them to strategically plan development according to both future demands and possible revenue. “Ideally, these partnerships would be aligned with the Infrastructure Commission’s 30-year strategy and implemented via a reformed planning system. “It’s pleasing to see political momentum growing for new incentive-based approaches to solve New Zealand’s longstanding growth and development challenges. “We cannot as a country expect to overcome the issues of the past and recover from COVID using the same approaches which gave rise to simultaneous housing, transport and water crises. "A partnership approach which improves infrastructure decision making, supports regional development and enables collaboration with local government should be a priority for all political parties," says Glenn. Consensus welcome but RMA reform only part of the solution “Labour’s commitment to replace the RMA means there is now agreement across the major parties to reform our most contentious piece of legislation. But it is vital that this once in a generation opportunity for reform actually enables improved environmental and development outcomes,” says Hamish Glenn Policy Director at Infrastructure New Zealand. “It is very pleasing to see that, regardless of who wins this month’s election, the new Government will move forward with replacing the Resource Management Act (RMA). “The RMA is the Act which is supposed to both protect the environment and enable development and use of natural resources, including providing housing and infrastructure to support growth. “Yet almost 30 years following its inception, the RMA, and the two other planning laws (the Local Government Act 2002 and the Land Transport Management Act 2003) have, between them, resulted in worsening environmental performance, an infrastructure deficit and seriously unaffordable homes. “The Government should be commended for initiating the Resource Management System Review chaired by Hon Tony Randerson QC which usefully recommended that the RMA be replaced. “However, the Panel’s proposal is a much more complex statutory framework comprising no less than six Acts – the existing LGA, LTMA, and Climate Change Adaption Act, plus a new Natural and Built Environment Act and Strategic Planning Act to replace the RMA, and a Managed Retreat Climate Change Adaptation Act. “Adding more legislation to an existing complex mix of laws to be implemented by an under resourced and fragmented local and central government system potentially makes matters worse, not better. “It is critical that the implementation agencies in central and local government have the capacity, capability, resources and incentive needed to deliver better results. “These issues sat outside the Panel’s Terms of Reference, but will need to be considered by the next Government. “That Government must be able to lead the planning system with a clearly articulated vision and set of priorities which are implemented via aligned funding and empowered governance arrangements,” said Glenn. 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__label__wiki	0.779439	0.779439	African News, Celebrity Gists, Gist, Gossips, News, Politics Governorship candidate ejects IDPs living in his houses for voting Buhari The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, on Wednesday confirmed that he has ejected all displaced persons taking shelter in his houses in Shinkafi for voting the APC in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. Shinkafi made the confirmation in Gusau at a news conference organized by a coalition of some political parties in the state protesting against the elections. According to NAN, he said “I have asked all the IDPs residing in my Shinkafi houses to immediately pack out because they are not serious in life. “These are people who had to leave their villages due to insecurity caused by a government that could not provide such basic necessity to them, yet they went and sold their votes at the last elections trying to bring back the same gang,” he claimed. According to NAN, he said in spite of earlier advice to the displaced persons “to vote out those who failed them in the past years”, they still did. He claimed that the Internally Displaced Persons allowed themselves to be bought over during the election by “the people who failed them.” Shinkafi said the coalition would not support the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) and all security chiefs in the state to handle the March 9, governorship and state assembly elections. “This is because we have no confidence in them and their ability to be fair and just to us,” the APGA governorship candidate added. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the coalition is comprised of the PDP, APGA, ACCORD, NRM, APP, ADC, NPP, DPP and YPP. I can’t fail, I didn’t lose, the results will be corrected- Akpabio, vows to challenge his loss In court Adoarable Photos Of Dabota Lawson And Her Daughter In Mother-Daughter Photoshoot	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line872
__label__wiki	0.527128	0.527128	A cross-sectional survey on the impact of irrelevant speech noise on annoyance, mental health and well-being, performance and occupants’ behavior in shared and open-plan offices This cross-sectional survey has compared subjective outcomes obtained from workers in shared (2⁻5 occupants) and open-plan (+5 occupants) offices, related to irrelevant speech, which is the noise that is generated from conversations between colleagues, telephone calls and laughter. Answers from 1078 subjects (55% in shared offices and 45% in open-plan offices) have shown that irrelevant speech increases noise annoyance, decreases work performance, and increases symptoms related to mental health and well-being more in open-plan than in shared offices. Workers often use headphones with music to contrast irrelevant speech in open-plan offices, while they take a break, change their working space, close the door or work from home in shared offices. Being female, when there are more than 20 occupants, and working in southern cities without acoustic treatments in the office, make it more likely for the occupants to be annoyed by irrelevant speech noise in open-plan offices. While, working in southern cities and with acoustic treatments in the office makes it more likely that noise annoyance will be reported in shared offices. Finally, more than 70% of the interviewed in open-plan offices were willing to reduce their voice volumes when advised by a noise monitoring system with a lighting feedback. A cross-sectional survey on the impact of irrelevant speech noise on annoyance, mental health and well-being, performance and occupants’ behavior in shared and open-plan offices / Di Blasio, Sonja; Shtrepi, Louena; Puglisi, Giuseppina Emma; Astolfi, Arianna. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. - ISSN 1661-7827. - ELETTRONICO. - 16:2(2019), pp. 1-17. Titolo: A cross-sectional survey on the impact of irrelevant speech noise on annoyance, mental health and well-being, performance and occupants’ behavior in shared and open-plan offices DI BLASIO, SONJA SHTREPI, LOUENA PUGLISI, GIUSEPPINA EMMA ASTOLFI, ARIANNA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16020280 ijerph-16-00280-1.pdf 2a Post-print versione editoriale / Version of Record Visibile a tuttiVisualizza/Apri	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line876
__label__cc	0.570944	0.429056	ERNESTO MALLO CRIMEN EN EL BARRIO DEL ONCE PDF July 19, 2020 admin Politics Buy Crimen en el Barrio del Once / Crime in the Neighborhood of Eleven: El by Ernesto Mallo () by Ernesto Mallo; (ISBN: ) from. The unusual writing style, once I got used to it, only helped in the forward . Ernesto Mallo’s Needle in a Haystack is a wonderful, terrible, tragic book. It is a. Beware. The 18th of January, Editorial Siruela will release in Spain Crimen en el Barrio del Once (Crime in District Eleven), Siruela Author: Groll Tojak Country: Uganda Genre: Science Uploader: Zurn Goodreads helps you keep track crimne books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo. Jethro Soutar Goodreads Author Translation. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. But above all he knows how to narrate. Sent bariro investigate a double murder, he arrives at the crime oncd to find three bodies. Two are clearly the work of the Junta’s death squads, murders he is forced to ignore; the other one seems different. The trail leads Lascano through a decadent Argentina, a country poisoned to its core by the tyranny of the regime. The third corpse turns out to be that of Biterman, moneylender and Auschwitz survivor. Read Crimen en el Barrio del Once For free Books by Ernesto Mallo When Lascano digs too deep, he must confront Giribaldi, an army major, quick to help old friends but ruthless in dealing with dissenters such as Eva, the young militant with whom Lascano is falling in love. Born inErnesto Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a former anti-Junta militant who was pursued by the dictatorship. Needle in a Hay Stack is his first novel and the first in a trilogy with superintendent Lascano. Mallo, Ernesto 1948- The first two are being made into films. Paperbackpages. Published August 17th by Drimen Lemon Press first published Comisario ‘El perro’ Lascano. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Needle in a Haystackplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Jan 12, Teresa rated it did not like it. It must be hard to live in a world where every woman is either a whore or a manipulator,or a frigid religious fanatic. And every man is handsome, tough, walks with ernseto genitals thrust forward or in his handand is a sexual target for every female he comes across. Enough with the machismo already! This is a great book for a guy who hates women. However, if you are looking for a good mystery, I recommend Connolly or Sanford. This story is very disjointed with no apparent connection. It bounces It must be hard to live in a world where every woman is either a whore or a manipulator,or a frigid religious fanatic. It bounces around from character to character. I’m sure he ties it all together somehow, but I got so tired of reading the word whore the main character describing his wife that I finally barrrio reading. Not sure where this author is coming from. This is another one that I’m glad I didn’t spend money on. Sorry,but I found it very offensive and I usually have a pretty thick skin. This crossed the line for me. I hope he finds a nice girl someday. View all 3 comments. Sep 25, Carey Combe rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Bettie, Hayes, Laura, Claire. I read a review that said that “the reader will find the book suffocating and yet impossible to put down” and I couldn’t agree criken. CARL JUNG MYSTERIUM CONIUNCTIONIS PDF The unusual writing style, once I got used to it, only helped in the forward momentum of this horrifying, yet eminently believable, story. I know little of Argentine history except for the internal conflict some 30 years ago known as the “Dirty War”. It was astonishing how while the military junta waged a bloody campaign of repression daily life went on more or l I read a review that said that “the reader will find the book suffocating and yet impossible to put down” and I couldn’t agree more. It was astonishing how while the military junta waged a bloody campaign of repression daily life went on more or less as normal. The book has captured this reality astonishingly well. It is not an easy book, but definitely worth persevering with. This is the first in a trilogy, and I can’t wait to read the rest. Jun 03, Tony rated it really liked it Shelves: Like most Americans, I know almost nothing of Argentine history — however, unlike most, I do at least know that there was a very nasty internal conflict known as the “Dirty War” some thirty or so years ago like everything relating to the Dirty War, different people have different ideas on the start and end dates. I knew, in broad terms, that a military junta seized power and waged a brutal campaign of repression against various left-wing elements in society, ranging from armed guerrilla group Like most Americans, I know almost nothing of Argentine history — however, unlike most, I do at least know that there was a very nasty internal conflict crime as the “Dirty War” some thirty or so years ago like everything relating to the Dirty War, different people have different ideas on the start and end dates. I knew, in broad terms, that a military junta seized power and waged a brutal campaign of repression against oncw left-wing elements in society, ranging from armed guerrilla groups to leftist intelligentsia. I know that people were snatched from their homes, the streets, wherever, never to be seen again “disappeared” in the infamous phraseologywhile daily life went on more or less as normal. What I didn’t know is what that era felt like. This first in a trilogy featuring Buenos Aries police Superintendent “Perro” Lascano, takes place in the midst of the Dirty War, and brings it to life. As the book opens, he is called out to look into a report of two bodies lying at the end of a dirt road. However, when he gets there, he finds three bodies — mmallo executed leftists, and a third man completely unlike the others. What follows is a pretty straightforward procedural, as Lascano methodically assembles clues, interviews people, and figures out who the mystery man is malol why he was killed. Of course, his investigation takes him into the murky waters of the junta and its friends, and he has to tread carefully to avoid being disappeared himself. He’s a classic Chandleresque detective, a loner, haunted by the memory of his dead wife, world-weary, etc. The investigation edl particularly clever, as the Lascano is easy able to trace them, literally picking up clues along the way. Bqrrio the lurking danger of military involvement hangs over everything and gives the story a deep sense of menace. The book’s one big flaw is in how it renders dialogue: It’s a really strange decision, and makes dialogue a total pain for the reader. MAKITA 5705R PDF For those with an interest in modern Argentine history, or the international crime fiction, it’s worth making the effort. Nov 07, Nancy Oakes rated it it was amazing Shelves: If you are at all interested in the time period of Argentina’s “dirty war,” you will definitely not want to miss this novel. It is very well crafted and the writing is most excellent. I wrote my thoughts about this book on my reading journal blog — feel free to go on over and take a look. Feb 12, Cherie rated it liked it Shelves: Not an easy story to read, contents not withstanding. The killing and the corruption would be enough, but the kidnapping and disappearing are so blatant and hard to take. A few good men cannot make a difference under the conditions in Argentina during this time in history. There is no chance for them to succeed. They die or have to try to get away. I enjoyed the writing, but struggled with the dialogue. Without parentheses and breaks between lines, it is hard to pick out at first. It adds an eth Not an easy barrjo to read, contents not withstanding. It adds an ethereal quality to the storytelling, making it not quite real. It was a struggle in the beginning, to understand what was going on because there were so many characters and even some ghosts thrown down in the first several chapters. Once I finally got to know bafrio characters and appreciate a few of them, the story was over. This is the last line in the book: May 26, Gregory rated it it was amazing. Ernesto Mallo’s Needle in a Haystack is a wonderful, terrible, tragic book. It is a police procedural–not to be confused with a mystery–and so we know who committed the crime and why, but not how the investigation will go. The setting for the novel is Dirty War Argentina. Lascano is a police superintendent who becomes involved in a case where a body is dumped along with two others. The two were “subversives” killed by the army, but the third was plan from http: The two were “subversives” killed by the army, but the third was planted there to make it seem like all three were together. Lascano quickly realizes they weren’t, and investigates. This eventually gets him noticed by the army particularly one Major Giribaldi, who has just adopted a stolen baby. Meanwhile, he is getting involved with a woman who is wanted by the government for her supposedly subversive activities. It is a depiction of the corruption and impunity of ohce era. LIBRO LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL EXITO DE OG MANDINO PDF BERTIN SEMIOLOGY OF GRAPHICS PDF CATECISMO PARA JOVENES YOUCAT PDF BAHAN RENUNGAN KALBU PDF DISFRAZ JANINA PEREZ PDF DERECHO PENAL DEL ENEMIGO ZAFFARONI PDF LIBRO PARASITOLOGIA MEDICA MARCO ANTONIO BECERRIL PDF LANDAU TEORIA DE LA ELASTICIDAD PDF BROTHER BAS 606A PDF FRANZ KAFKA ZAMEK PDF	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line880
__label__wiki	0.714903	0.714903	Iowa snaps four-game skid to Purdue, 70-55 By Quinn Douglas The last time an Iowa men’s basketball team beat Purdue, Jordan Bohannon was a wide-eyed freshman who was still cementing his role into the starting lineup for an extremely young Iowa team in the winter of 2017. Iowa beat #17 Purdue 83-78 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in January of 2017. Four years later, the Hawkeyes came back into Carver-Hawkeye Arena with a ranking of #4 in the country, looking to snap a four-game losing streak against Matt Painter’s Boilermakers. In fact, the Hawkeyes haven’t come close to beating Purdue in the four meetings since January 2017, with an average margin of … Continued 2020 NBA Free Agency Winners and Losers By Isaac Stolmeier The NBA Offseason is mostly over, KRUI’s Isaac Stolmeier takes a look at 3 teams that won the offseason, and 3 teams that did not. Imagining What’s on Each NFC North Team’s Christmas List By Evan Marquardt At this point, everyone has a pretty good feel for each team’s strengths and weaknesses. If the run defense hasn’t been fixed by now, it probably never will be this season – unless of course, Santa comes early. Given that we are approaching the holiday season, I figured it would be a good time to imagine what is at the top of each team’s Christmas list. (Image via Minnesota Vikings) Iowa Outmuscles the Badgers 28-7, Hawkeyes Win Heartland Trophy for the First Time Since 2015 As an early morning snowfall painted Iowa City white, a steady wind from the north carried the Wisconsin Badgers down to Kinnick Stadium to battle for the Heartland Trophy. (Image via Hawk Central) Welcome to K-pop: TWICE Guide By Zachary LeBoeuf Get ready for seconds this Thanksgiving with the girl group TWICE! Hawkeye Basketball cashes in on Black Friday with 103-76 win over the Western Jaguars By Brendan Budge It was a pretty amazing start to the weekend for Hawkeye fans across the country with big Hawkeye football and basketball wins. (image via USA Today) Watch and Talk: Short Film Selects By David Becker Even with brief run times , short films are often full of depth and immersive subject material that commands the viewers attention. Image courtesy of nerdist.com The Walking Contradiction’s How-to Guide: Summer Cleanse By Alison Schwebach It’s summer, let’s have some fun. (image via dogswalkingvip.com) Watch and Talk: Why Do We Like Horror? Horror movies find new and unique ways to scare us… but is that why we like them in the first place? (Image via filmautonomy.com) 2-Star Review: The Scribbler By Alix Moad Director John Suits delivers an exciting – albeit slightly confusing – film that explores mental illness and the nature of reality. 2-Star Review: Would You Rather I’d rather not. Watch and Talk: 366 Movies in 366 Days Terrible Movies and great movies are all fair game when you have to watch one every day. 2-Star Review: The Overnight If you thought dinner was good, just wait ’till dessert. 2-Star Review: The Human Centipede: First Sequence I’ve made a horrible mistake so you don’t have to. Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic By Shania Schmidt Read the beginning of Sophia Smith’s testimony about her struggles of living as a hopeless romantic. Cinema Spotlight: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By Camden Kent The first film for the Cinema Spotlight: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which stands at the top of director Sergio Leone’s filmography. Recently Spun → View all recently spun tracks on Spinitron → More from KRUI: Columns → Independence Day: Director’s Cut On a holiday that celebrates American Independence, the directors take a moment to reflect on the rich history of political activism in music. We are not free until all of us are free. (image via Bernie Boston/The Washington Star Collection) Vibe? Checked. – An Indie Music Roundup This is a roundup of the worst and my favorite genre of music: male indie artists singing about their manic pixie dream girl of the month. AKA indie pop. (image via DIY Mag) Makeda Scott 21 year- old Makeda Scott was found dead in lake MacBride Monday, June 9. (image via @majaxella on Twitter) Free Duke 28-year-old Tremayne “Duke” Clemons has been falsely accused of a shooting in Coralville, and eight months later is still in jail. He has not been able to post bail or bond even thought he has already been proven innocent. Police raided Duke’s home and took him into custody January 7. He was questioned and was able to prove that he had no connection, but was held in jail. Polices obtained an illegal urine sample, and since Duke had marijuana in his system they felt that they could keep him in custody. Duke’s trial is set for August 17, and he … Continued Sports →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line883
__label__wiki	0.553542	0.553542	JBD and Leafly Make Massive Bongs The Jerome Baker Designs team, close friends and I have had the immense honor of working with Leafly at Martin Blank Studios on bongs like the world has never seen - at least on the scale and in the shape we are making them - as part of the Leafly Sessions. We are actually going to be a series on big bongs with Leafly. We’re calling it the “Massive Bong Series.” And no, we’re not kidding. I had been putting some work into this idea in Hawaii for awhile, and I got a call from Leafly. They wanted to bring us out to Seattle to blow the big bong somewhere. They wanted to film it for their new TV app, Leafly.TV. Leafly brought the awesome film crew Rage Productions out of Bend, Oregon, who often do action sports. Despite this, they thought blowing these massive bongs was an intense filming experience. They were psyched and so were we to be making history. And so, we brought together an All-Star team which included the renowned American sculptor Dale Chihuly’s team-members, Brian Rubino and Darrell Smith. As well, Charles Lowrie, whose original fine art glass designs can be seen at www.transcensions.com, @gmanonfire @ginakarabaglassart @c_tower_studios @glass_smith @ebon_x Before we start crafting the pieces, we first meet like a band coming together for rehearsal. We review every move on a blackboard, including the colors and where we want them to go on the kiln. Every little detail is mapped out before we blow glass. Our studios are like our ballcourt. On these large pieces, we work on average five days - one day prep, four days in the studio. The creation of these pieces is all about bringing people together, and being able to create that piece, that magical moment. There is just one rule: keep it massive. Blowing such massive forms is not easy, and it takes a lot of energy. In general, making glass is about finding the path of least resistance - especially at this size and scale. There is a science to blowing glass. With these massive bongs, we had to problem solve the whole week, and go outside the normal way of doing things. During these sessions, we used custom built jigs, unique materials and molds, as well as forklifts and scissor lifts so as not to break the pieces. So blessed and thankful for everything that converged at the epic Martin Blank Studios. I couldn’t be more thankful to be involved with the crew at Leafly and for their hosting in Seattle. We can’t wait to see the new film! We are looking forward to doing a Massive Bong Exhibit in the New Year. I am making these giant pieces to make a political statement. A piece of glass shaped like this this other piece of glass is not illegal blurred lines of legality and ilelgality i just believe by making the big pieces i made an artistic statement making the medium in glass. The og design on JB bong, shaft with a worktop, art on back of it mostly in the form of marbles, has an ice pinch that doubles as a grip, makes it look sexy, shape of ball , all of those elements create the jb look started in 1991.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line898
__label__wiki	0.88924	0.88924	Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France View ORCID ProfileM. Ford and View ORCID ProfileJ. Vergés Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2019-157, 15 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-157 M. Ford 1Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRPG, , France Roles: [Conceptualization (Equal)], [Data curation (Lead)], [Formal analysis (Equal)], [Funding acquisition (Lead)], [Investigation (Lead)], [Project administration (Lead)], [Validation (Lead)], [Visualization (Lead)], [Writing - Original Draft (Lead)], [Writing - Review & Editing (Lead)] ORCID record for M. Ford For correspondence: mary.ford@univ-lorraine.fr J. Vergés 2Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere, Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, ICTJA-CSIC, , Spain Roles: [Formal analysis (Equal)], [Investigation (Supporting)], [Methodology (Supporting)], [Validation (Supporting)], [Writing - Original Draft (Equal)], [Writing - Review & Editing (Supporting)] ORCID record for J. Vergés In this field study we reinterpret the narrow eastern North Pyrenean Zone, France, as an inverted salt-rich transtensional rift system based on identification of halokinetic depositional sequences across rift platform to distal rift margin domains with a cumulative throw of >2.8 km on steep Cretaceous faults. The rift platform records extension on detached rotational faults above Triassic evaporites from Jurassic to Aptian with uplift and erosion during the Albian. Transtensional Aptian–Albian minibasins align along the salt-rich rift margin fault zone. In the Aptian–Albian main rift large en echelon synclinal minibasins developed between salt walls, although Jurassic diapiric evolution is likely. Upper Cretaceous units locally record continuing diapirism. The Boucheville and Bas Agly depocentres, altered by synrift HT metamorphism, form the distal rift domain terminating south against the North Pyrenean Fault. The narrowness of the Pyrenean rift, shape of minibasins, en echelon oblique synclinal depocentres and folds coupled with a discontinuous distribution and intensity of HT metamorphism support a transtensional regime along the Iberia–Europe plate margin during late Early and early Late Cretaceous. In this model, the distal European margin comprises deep faults limiting laterally discontinuous crustal domains and ‘hot’ pull-apart basins with mantle rocks directly beneath sedimentary cover. Supplementary material: A table summarizing the stratigraphy of the NE Pyrenees and an interpreted Google Earth view of the Quillan syncline and minibasin are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5100036 Evaporites can play a major role in controlling the architecture of external orogenic belts, during both pre-collisional extension and subsequent compressional phases. However, salt can ‘hide’ deformation because of its ability to flow and dissolve. Compressional overprinting can further mask halokinetic structures by squeezing and eventually obliterating diapirs and other salt bodies (e.g. Rowan and Vendeville 2006; Graham et al. 2012; Saura et al. 2014, 2016). High-quality seismic imaging of salt-rich basins over the last 20 years has revolutionized salt tectonic concepts, particularly on rifted margins (e.g. Rowan 2014). This new knowledge is now stimulating a reassessment of the evolution of inverted salt-rich margins preserved in fold-and-thrust belts (e.g. Graham et al. 2012; Espurt et al. 2019; Dooley and Hudec 2020). The challenge is to recognize the imprint of the presence of salt and its influence in both rift and subsequent fold belt evolution. Identifying salt-related stratigraphic architectures, facies distributions and structures holds the key. In this way we can often resolve decades-long controversies and incoherencies in tectonic interpretations and geological histories. In addition, recognition of salt-related stratal geometries can lead to new insights into the distribution and true amount of shortening in inverted salt-rich margins and rifts. As reviewed by Saura et al. (2016), salt structures are well documented across much of the Pyrenean orogen (Fig. 1). The source layer is the evaporite-rich Middle to Upper Triassic Keuper Group, which is well known as the main decoupling level between crystalline basement and Mesozoic cover. Salt diapirs are widespread offshore and onshore in the Basque–Cantabrian and Basque–Parentis domains (Ferrer et al. 2008, 2012; Roca et al. 2011), in the South Pyrenees (Ríos et al. 1943; Serrano and Martínez del Olmo 1990; Lopez-Mir et al. 2014; Saura et al. 2016; Teixell et al. 2016, 2018; Cámara and Flinch 2017) and in the northern external zone and foreland, where the evaporite layer thickens westward to up to 2700 m (Henry and Zolnai 1971; Canérot et al. 2005; Biteau et al. 2006; Serrano et al. 2006). Whereas local studies have reported on the role of salt diapirism during rifting in the westernmost (Canérot et al. 2005; James and Canérot 1999; Labaume and Teixell 2020) and central sectors of the North Pyrenees (Ford et al. 2016; Rougier et al. 2016; Grool et al. 2018), there is little detailed work in easternmost regions. Recent publications on the eastern North Pyrenean Zone have represented the pre-shortening template as an isopach Mesozoic succession above the Keuper décollement with no salt diapirs (Berger et al. 1993; Ducoux 2017) or with narrow diapirs (Clerc et al. 2016). Both models require high estimations of Pyrenean shortening in the North Pyrenean Zone (43% according to Clerc et al. 2016; 58% according to Ducoux 2017). Tectonostratigraphic map of the Pyrenees and Iberia adapted from Vergés et al. (2002) and Angrand et al. (2018). The small rectangle in the NE Pyrenees indicates the location of the area shown in Figure 3. Along the southern margin of the Axial Zone, Ct represents the location of the Coniacian to early Santonian Cotiella extensional system (Lopez-Mir et al. 2014, 2015) and So represents the location of the earliest Cretaceous to early Santonian Sopeira extensional system (Saura et al. 2016). NPZ, North Pyrenean Zone; NPF, North Pyrenean Fault; SZ, Subpyrenean Zone; SPT, Subpyrenean Thrust; NPFT, North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust. In this paper we present detailed analyses of halokinetic features recognized for the first time in Mesozoic depocentres of the Pyrenean Trough in a 50 km long sector of the easternmost North Pyrenees. The work is based on high-resolution mapping and structural analyses. We document the distribution and style of salt features and clarify the role of salt in the evolution of Jurassic to Cretaceous depocentres and in Pyrenean convergence. We identify contrasting halokinetic tectonic styles on the rift platform, in the rift margin fault zone and in the main rift. We will argue that (1) crustal thinning of the European margin was accommodated on steep basement faults decoupled across Triassic salt from transtensional basins in Mesozoic cover, (2) the diapiric history of the eastern Pyrenees aligns with similar histories and behaviours in adjacent Pyrenean, Iberian and Alpine domains and (3) the documented basin and tectonic history is compatible with an Aptian–Cenomanian transtensional regime along the Iberia–Europe plate boundary. Salt-related structures and halokinetic sequences Identifying and interpreting extensional halokinetic sequences and relict salt features that have subsequently been inverted can be challenging. Here we present a summary of key extensional and compressional halokinetic features and terminology following Jackson and Hudec (2017). This paper will demonstrate the occurrence of these characteristic features in outcrop in the study area. The northern Pyrenees is characterized by pre-rift salt (Middle to Upper Triassic Keuper evaporites). Depending on its initial spatial and thickness distribution and the amount of extension, pre-rift salt can decouple basement extension from deformation in suprasalt cover to varying degrees. Decoupling can continue during the full rifting process or can decrease gradually as extension increases and the salt layer thins (Jammes et al. 2010b; Rowan 2014). Our study is focused on the proximal Pyrenean rift domain where basement and cover appear to have remained mainly decoupled throughout the full rift history. Extensional basement faults play a key role in creating accommodation in conjunction with halokinetic activity. Salt diapirs tend to develop above deep-rooted basement faults during extension. During inversion the most intense shortening is located in these salt-rich zones near or above basement faults as observed in other inverted rifts (e.g. Dooley and Hudec 2020). In the study area, depocentres show a range of distinct halokinetic geometries that can be grouped into two types: extensional minibasins and basement detached extensional structures (Fig. 2a). Extensional minibasins are characterized by synsedimentary folding above mobile salt recorded in dip, thickness and facies variations, numerous local, angular and progressive unconformities and onlap surfaces, with local development of wedges, hooks and flaps (Fig. 2a). The width of synclinal depocentres varies depending on stratigraphic thickness and diapir spacing, both controlled by salt thickness and deeper extension. Basement detached extensional structures are characterized by rotational fault blocks with discordant downward termination of strata onto a primary weld or onto top salt. Rotational fault blocks can show dip fans and thickness variations, rollover anticlines or turtle structures and the local development of halokinetic upturned beds or hooks (Fig. 2b). A raft is an extensional fault block that has been completely separated from its footwall and lies entirely on the décollement. The basal salt layer typically forms salt rollers below each normal fault. Salt can contain blocks and debris (blocks, stringers or floaters) of lithologies originally interbedded within the salt or from the base of the suprasalt succession or from subsalt units. The contact between salt and overlying extensional blocks can be lined with docked stringers of varying sizes and lithologies (Fig. 2b). Both minibasins and basement detached fault blocks can record basinward migration of subsidence as represented in Figure 2a and b. Schematic illustrations representing halokinetic features and terminology used for both extensional and inversion regimes. (a) Salt-based synclinal depocentres. (b) Basement detached extensional fault blocks. (c) Contractional behaviour of salt diapirs and adjacent depocentres (adapted from Jackson and Hudec 2017): (i) Synclinal depocentres develop between salt diapirs; (ii) during contraction salt diapirs close owing to dissolution or upward extrusion of salt to form secondary welds; synconvergence depocentres can develop; (iii) further contraction tightens the synclinal depocentres, while erosion removes upper salt and most or all syn-contraction strata. (d) Map of two secondary salt welds, one along a former salt wall and the other on a former salt stock (adapted from Jackson and Hudec 2017). Thrusts and folds accommodate equivalent shortening on either side of the stock weld. The location of the schematic cross-section in (c, (iii)) is indicated. (e) Compendium of main features observed in the study area representing an inverted salt-rich proximal rift margin. Evidence of uplift, erosion and shedding of material from rising diapirs can be found within synrift sediments. This includes the presence of debris flows rich in gypsum debris, euhedral quartz crystals and clasts of older lithostratigraphic units (Fig. 2a). Gypsum is a mechanically and chemically unstable material and therefore gypsum clasts must have been shed from an adjacent emergent diapir. Euhedral bipyramidal quartz crystals of diagenetic origin are ubiquitous in Keuper gypsum throughout the Pyrenees, and they are a useful indicator of where gypsum has been eroded (e.g. Charrière et al. 2004). Clasts of other lithologies in debris flows can derive from stringers or from steep diapir walls. Large (>100 m) olistoliths of older strata with Keuper along their base are found lying parallel to bedding within synrift strata adjacent to Keuper bodies. These are interpreted to have been emplaced as slide blocks shed off the side of an adjacent emergent diapir (Fig. 2a). Harrison and Jackson (2014) describe similar phenomena in minibasins of Arctic Canada. During shortening, deformation tends to focus on weak diapirs. Consequently, secondary welds are preferentially developed in salt-rich fold-and-thrust belts (Rowan and Vendeville 2006; Jackson and Hudec 2017). If squeezed diapirs or secondary welds accommodate inverse displacement they are referred to as thrust welds. Secondary welds and thrust welds are the most common contractional features in the North Pyrenean Zone, with locally preserved pockets of salt along their traces. Typically, secondary welds separate back-to-back minibasins (mapped as synclines) with oppositely younging steep limbs (sometimes flaps) juxtaposed across the weld (Fig. 2c and e). Extensional minibasins can contain different stratigraphies in terms of age, facies and thickness. Juxtaposed rock units can also change rapidly along the weld (Fig. 2d). Figure 2c is adapted from Jackson and Hudec (2017) to show the following evolution. (1) Pre-shortening extensional minibasins lie between passive diapirs. (2) Shortening causes upward and lateral migration of salt to create secondary welds, as minibasins tighten. Minibasins can continue to subside to create young depocentres. (3) Erosion later removes upper levels, preserving tightened minibasins juxtaposed across secondary welds. An example of a characteristic map view of this final configuration is shown in Figure 2d (adapted from Jackson and Hudec 2017). These examples illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing early halokinetic folding from later shortening. The schematic illustration of an inverted rift margin in Figure 2e integrates most of the features that record past halokinetic activity during extension and subsequent inversion as seen in the study area. They include tightened synclinal minibasins separated by secondary welds, partial welds or thrust welds in the proximal rift and main rift fault zone, and inverted extensional fault blocks with strata terminating downward onto a primary weld or into salt on the rift platform. Gentle to moderate shortening was accommodated in thrust welds, secondary welds and tightening of minibasins. Inversion is not evenly distributed, with the most intense shortening located in salt-rich areas usually above major basement faults. There is little reactivation of basement faults as the top of basement remains in net extension. Other outcropping examples of inverted salt-rich rifts are the Flinders Range, Australia (Rowan and Vendeville 2006) and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco (Saura et al. 2014; Martín-Martín et al. 2017; Moragas et al. 2017; Teixell et al. 2018; Vergés et al. 2017). Regional tectonics and stratigraphy Pyrenean orogen The N100°-trending Pyrenean orogen formed during Late Cretaceous to Early Miocene convergence of the Iberian and Eurasian plates (Fig. 1). On the north side of the orogen the North Pyrenean Zone is a narrow north-verging fold-and-thrust belt that developed on the (upper) European plate along with the adjacent Aquitaine (retro-) foreland basin and intervening Subpyrenean Zone. The Axial Zone preserves the highest relief and is characterized by mainly Paleozoic magmatic and metamorphic units organized in a series of south-verging crustal imbricates (e.g. Muñoz 1992). To the south, the south-verging South Pyrenean Thrust belt and the Ebro foreland basin developed on the Iberian plate. The orogeny inverted a complex Mesozoic rift system with an east–west to ESE–WNW trend that linked the North Atlantic via the Bay of Biscay with the Tethys oceanic realm to the east (e.g. Stampfli et al. 2002; Schettino and Turco 2011; Tavani et al. 2018). Mesozoic rifting developed in two phases. From the Late Permian to early Jurassic distributed rifting (Vergés et al. 2019) affected the Iberian plate (Frizon de Lamotte et al. 2015; Leleu et al. 2016; López-Gómez et al. 2019). The exact duration of this early rift phase in the Pyrenees is unclear; however, in the eastern Pyrenees it is thought to have terminated in the late Lias to early Dogger (Bessière et al. 1989). The major rifting phase occurred from the Aptian to Early Cenomanian (Tugend et al. 2014). During the Mesozoic, Iberia was translated eastward with respect to Europe some 450 km (Nirrengarten et al. 2018); however, the amount, timing and location of this strike-slip component and the associated rotation of Iberia are still widely debated (see Mouthereau et al. 2014; Barnett-Moore et al. 2016; Nirrengarten et al. 2018, for discussions). Several researchers have proposed that major sinistral motion took place in the Jurassic along NW–SE lineaments that dissect the Iberian plate and that Aptian–Albian rifting in the Pyrenees had little or no oblique component (e.g. Tugend et al. 2014; Nirrengarten et al. 2018). However, earlier workers placed the principal sinistral motion along the Iberia–Europe boundary during Aptian and Cenomanian transtensional rifting (e.g. Le Pichon and Sibuet 1971; Choukroune and Mattauer 1978; Soula and Bessière 1980; Debroas 1990). The inverted rift system (Pyrenean Trough) is principally preserved in the North Pyrenean Zone. Remnants of mantle rocks and traces of Albian–Cenomanian synrift HT–LP metamorphism occur in the southern North Pyrenean Zone (Metamorphic Internal Zone; Fig. 3). Cretaceous exhumation of mantle rocks and associated thermal events have been attributed either to transtensional rifting (e.g. Choukroune and Mattauer 1978; Debroas 1990; Golberg and Leyreloup 1990; Choukroune 1992; Lagabrielle and Bodinier 2008) or, more recently, to pure shear hyper-extension (Jammes et al. 2009, 2010a; Lagabrielle et al. 2010, 2016, 2020; Clerc 2012, 2016; Masini et al. 2014; Tugend et al. 2014, 2015; de Saint Blanquat et al. 2016). Tectonostratigraphic map of the eastern North Pyrenees with halokinetic interpretation of major boundaries. Based on BRGM maps (Berger et al. 1982, 1993, 1997; Bessière et al. 1989) and new field mapping and using lithostratigraphic groups of Ford et al. (2016) as detailed in Figure 4 and Supplementary material Table 1). Cross-sections A–A', C–C' and D–D' are presented in Figure 5. Cross-section B–B' and a close-up view onto the north of section C–C' are shown in Figure 9. The locations of field photographs in Figure 7 are indicated with yellow circles. BT, Bougarach Thrust; PST, Pays de Sault Thrust; VT, Vingrau Thrust; Sal, Salvèzines Massif; Bes, Bessède Massif. Post-rift lithospheric cooling and thermal subsidence from the mid-Cenomanian to latest Santonian (lasting 7–10 myr) was interrupted by the onset of Iberia–Europe convergence at 84 Ma (Roest and Srivastava 1991; Olivet 1996; Rosenbaum et al. 2002a, b; Schettino and Scotese 2002; Macchiavelli et al. 2017). Orogenesis records early, slow convergence from the Campanian to end-Maastrichtian followed by a quiet period before main collision from early Eocene to early Miocene time (Ford et al. 2016; Rougier et al. 2016; Grool et al. 2018). Estimates of total north–south Pyrenean shortening vary between 165 and 83 km (Muñoz 1992; Vergés et al. 1995, 2002; Beaumont et al. 2000; Mouthereau et al. 2014; Teixell et al. 2016, 2018; Grool et al. 2018). Shortening was principally accommodated during the Eocene in the south-verging South Pyrenean Thrust belt and Axial Zone, with only an estimated 10–20% of total shortening in the northern Pyrenees (Grool et al. 2018, 2019). The Triassic to Oligocene lithostratigraphic scheme used here follows Ford et al. (2016) and Rougier et al. (2016) (Fig. 4 and Supplementary material Table 1). Thicknesses given below are those published for surface exposures. Data were derived from BRGM maps and memoirs (French Geological Survey; Berger et al. 1982, 1993, 1997; Bessière et al. 1989), regional syntheses (Plaziat 1981; Debrand-Passard et al. 1984; Barnolas and Chiron 1996; Beziat et al. 2001; Christophoul et al. 2003) and more local studies (e.g. Aragon 1988; Peybernès et al. 1999; Bilotte 2007) as well as our own mapping. Thin autochthonous cover on the Paleozoic Mouthoumet massif (Fig. 3) comprises two units, which are usually included in basement in our figures. These are the Upper Permian to Lower Triassic fluvial Buntsandstein (<20 m of sandstones and conglomerates) and the Middle Triassic Muschelkalk recording earliest rifting (10–25 m dolomites, thin evaporites and marls). The Keuper Group (Carnian to Norian) consists of thinly bedded mudstones interbedded with gypsum, anhydrite, dedolomitized dolomite (cargneules) and rare black dolomites. In rare field exposures chaotically bedded gypsum and mudstones are rich in euhedral millimetre- to centimetre-size bipyramidal quartz crystals (Charrière et al. 2004). No halite has been reported in the eastern Pyrenees (Azambre and Fabriès 1989). Fragments to large blocks (stringers) of Paleozoic metasediments, Muschelkalk and Liassic strata locally occur in Keuper evaporites. As pointed out by many researchers (Labaume and Teixell 2020, and references therein) the presence of stringers of Muschelkalk within salt across the northern Pyrenees suggests the presence of weak layers (evaporites or marls) within the Muschelkalk itself, similar to that described in the southern Pyrenees (Cámara and Flinch 2017). Bodies of Carnian–Norian alkaline basalts (altered to ophites) and crystalline tuffs typical of the Tethyan domain occur in easternmost Keuper evaporites of Corbières but have not been observed in the study area (Azambre and Rossy 1981; Beziat et al. 2001). Owing to its mobility, Keuper thickness is extremely variable and difficult to constrain. The Keuper is absent across the Carcassonne High to the north and west of the Mouthoumet massif (Fig. 1). Rhaetian carbonates (10–15 m) are very rarely observed in the study area and are therefore not included in lithostratigraphic columns. The Jurassic Black Dolomite Group (400–800 m) has an attenuated, often incomplete Liassic succession (<250 m) of marly limestones, altered evaporites and dolomites followed by black marls, which can behave as a secondary slip horizon (Fauré and Alméras 2006) . A local unconformity (Aalenian–Bajocian absent) is interpreted to mark the end of the first rifting phase (Bessière et al. 1989). Where present, Upper Dogger black dolomites and marls pass upward into shallow-water limestones and breccias (Malm; <300 m) with secondary dolomitization and brecciation (Bessière et al. 1989; Renard et al. 2019). The Neocomian platform limestone succession including algal and rudist limestones (Mirande Group; Fig. 4) can be interrupted by local unconformities (e.g. Upper Valanginian–Hauterivian). It is less than 350 m thick across the North Pyrenean Zone but reaches 600 m in the Serre de Bouchard block north of the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust (Figs 3 and 4). Preservation of the Black Dolomite and Mirande Groups can be locally incomplete owing to a poorly defined phase of uplift and erosion from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Neo-Cimmerian event; Canérot 2008). Outcropping lithostratigraphic units (a) along the north–south cross-section A–A' between Quillan and Salvezines (see Figs 3 and 5) and (b) along an east–west transect north of the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust. (For details see Supplementary material Table 1.) As well as our own mapping, primary data sources are BRGM maps and memoirs (French Geological Survey; Berger et al. 1982, 1993, 1997; Bessière et al. 1989), regional syntheses (Plaziat 1981; Debrand-Passard et al. 1984; Barnolas and Chiron 1996; Beziat et al. 2001; Christophoul et al. 2003) and local studies (e.g. Aragon 1988; Peybernès et al. 1999; Bilotte 2007). The Aptian Pierrelys Group (<900 m) consists principally of shallow-water carbonate platforms (often with rudists) in the study area with shallow- to deep-water black shales defining local deep-water depocentres. The succession is characterized by complex facies and thickness changes with local unconformities (Peybernès 1976; Bessière et al. 1989). From the latest Aptian (Clanseysian) to end Albian–earliest Cenomanian rift basins were filled by deep-water and deltaic calcareous siliciclastic deposits of the Black Flysch Group (>2 km thick) sourced from the east. These depocentres can be bordered by platform carbonates (e.g. Cucugnan, Fig. 4). A mid-Cenomanian unconformity marking the end of rifting is recognized throughout the northern Pyrenees. The post-rift Grey Flysch Group was deposited during a 7–10 myr period of post-rift subsidence in a broad marine basin that covered most of the Pyrenees, with facies recording a gradual shallowing through time (Ford et al. 2016). The >900 m succession of marine carbonates and clastic deposits onlaps and thins northward onto the Mouthoumet Massif (Berger et al. 1997; Bilotte et al. 2005; Bilotte 2007). Facies deepen southward (Bilotte 1985) and record progressive shallowing through time. Sediments continued to be supplied from the east. Youngest beds contain debris flows and breccias (Durand-Delga and Lemoine 1978). Late Cretaceous magmatism produced small volumes of alkaline microsyenite (Azambre 1966) and a nepheline syenite intrusion immediately east of the study area (Fitou, Fig. 1; Montigny et al. 1986). The onset of Pyrenean orogenesis at 84 Ma is marked by an initial deepening of the Pyrenean Trough (Plantaurel Group, Alet Sandstone Formation, sourced from the east; Figs 3 and 4), followed by a transition to continental facies (Aude Valley Group). As the younger foreland basin succession is preserved only in the NW corner of the study area, its stratigraphy is summarized only in Supplementary material Table 1 and is represented in Figure 5a. Detailed information has been given by Christophoul et al. (2003) and Ternois et al. (2019). Oligocene–Miocene deposits in extensional NE–SW-trending depocentres related to the opening of the Gulf of Lion are preserved in the eastern part of the study area (Paziols Group; Fig. 3). Three cross-sections through the eastern North Pyrenean Zone and its foreland. Locations of sections are shown in Figure 3. Location of X–X' on section A–A' is shown in Figure 8a. Section A–A' traverses the whole North Pyrenean Zone, and sections C–C' and D–D' represent the northern North Pyrenean Zone to the Agly Massif, including part of the Metamorphic Internal Zone. The eastern North Pyrenees In the eastern Pyrenees the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust separates the North Pyrenean Zone from the Subpyrenean Zone to the north (Fig. 3). The former is a 16–25 km wide fold-and-thrust belt bordered to the south by the North Pyrenean Fault, which is a major subvertical tectonic feature, generally regarded as the Iberia–Europe plate boundary (Choukroune 1989; Roure et al. 1989). At its eastern limit the North Pyrenean Zone curves anticlockwise into the 60 km wide north-trending Corbieres orocline that links northward and eastward into the east-trending Provençal fold-and-thrust belt (Fig. 1). The structural evolution of the area was the subject of many studies in the 1970s and 1980s (Choukroune 1974; Choukroune and Meurisse 1970; Meurisse 1973; Leblanc and Vaudin 1984; Bessière 1987; Légier et al. 1987; Dauteuil 1988). To the north of the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust, Triassic to Upper Cretaceous strata are preserved on the SE limb of the Mouthoumet Massif, a basement-cored regional anticline (Soulatgé Block; Fig. 3). This northern area is identified as the Mesozoic rift platform. The North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust is a complex salt-rich fault zone. It comprises multiple ESE- to east-trending segments linked by NE–SW-striking faults. Keuper lithologies occur discontinuously along these faults, with notable masses south of Bugarach and Cucugnan villages (Fig. 3). Distinct Aptian–Albian depocentres, preserving between 1.5 and 3 km of Liassic to Albian stratigraphy (Quillan, Cucugnan; Figs 3 and 5), lie along the fault zone, each surrounded by salt welds and diapirs. On the rift platform to the north (Figs 3 and 5), a fragmented Liassic to lower Aptian succession, up to 900 m thick, lies below the strongly erosive, mid-Cenomanian unconformity. Albian strata are absent across this area. To the south in the North Pyrenean Zone a >3 km thick Keuper to Albian succession is preserved. The Mesozoic succession thickens southward across the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust (Fig. 4a), which therefore represents the main northern boundary fault zone of the Mesozoic rift system. Despite Pyrenean inversion the top basement remains in net extension across this fault zone (Fig. 5; e.g. Choukroune et al. 1973; Peybernès and Souquet 1984). As no subsurface data are available, the cross-sections in Figure 5 are based on surface observations. A complete stratigraphic succession is represented at depth below each syncline by laterally projecting surface data down fold plunge where possible. Highest uncertainty is associated with the presence of pre-Aptian units below the Quillan, Cucugnan, Axat and Boucheville synclines. Absence or fragmentation of pre-Aptian units below these depocentres would imply higher Cretaceous extension. The northern sector of the North Pyrenean Zone consists of folded Mesozoic strata and represents the inverted proximal rift domain. The southern sector, consisting of the Agly–Salvezines massif and the Metamorphic Internal Zone, preserves the inverted distal rifted margin (following Vauchez et al. 2013; Clerc et al. 2016; Ducoux 2017). The Agly–Salvezines massif comprises granulite- to greenschist-grade metamorphic rocks intruded by Variscan granitic and granodioritic plutons (Vielzeuf and Kornprobst 1984; Vauchez et al. 2013). Small remnants of Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous strata are preserved in fault zones and as outliers across the massif (Figs 3 and 6). Sediments and basement carry a Cretaceous thermal overprint of c. 350°C (Clerc et al. 2016; Ternois et al. 2019). Metamorphosed Jurassic and Triassic strata recording higher temperatures are preserved in the NE sector of the Massif (Calce area; Fig. 3; Vaudin 1982; Ternois et al. 2019). The Salvezines massif further west is a tight periclinal basement-cored anticline, which refolds Jurassic and lower Cretaceous cover (Choukroune and Meurisse 1970; Demange and Pascal 1979; Figs 3 and 5a). In situ, low-temperature thermochronology data and modelling show that the Agly–Salvezines Massif was buried below at least 2 km of Mesozoic sediment at the onset of convergence (Ternois et al. 2019). The Metamorphic Internal Zone includes the Bas Agly syncline (25 km long, up to 8 km wide) and the Boucheville syncline (30 km long and 5 km wide) that lie to the northeast and south of the Agly Massif respectively (Figs 3 and 5). Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous strata record HT metamorphism with temperatures up to 570°C (Chelalou et al. 2016; Clerc et al. 2015; Ducoux 2017), dated as late Early to early Late Cretaceous (117–92 Ma; Albarède and Michard-Vitrac 1978; Golberg et al. 1986; Clerc et al. 2015). The north-verging Bas Agly syncline has a coherent Mesozoic stratigraphy and is thrust north over the low-grade Tautavel syncline (<250°C; Chelalou et al. 2016) along the Vingrau Thrust (Figs 3 and 5d). In contrast, the Boucheville syncline records a more intense and complex polyphase structure attributed to synmetamorphic deformation and Pyrenean shortening (e.g. Choukroune 1974; Chelalou et al. 2016; Clerc et al. 2016). A 30–40 m wide block of serpentinized lherzolite lies within the Aptian–Albian succession close to the northern margin of the Boucheville syncline (P, Figs 3 and 5a; Demange and Pascal 1979). This is the most easterly of many fragments of upper mantle rocks that occur throughout the Metamorphic Internal Zone, recording exhumation of mantle rocks during Cretaceous extension (Lagabrielle et al. 2010). Although high-temperature metamorphism and intense deformation have largely destroyed evaporitic layers, there is evidence that evaporites were present. Extensive albitization (400–450°C) affected the Agly–Salvezines basement during the early Cretaceous middle Aptian to early Turonian (117–92 Ma; Boulvais et al. 2007; Boutin et al. 2016; and references therein). Albitization and other observed forms of HT metasomatism require the presence of highly saline hydrothermal fluids, which are also necessary for the formation of minerals such as scapolite that occur throughout the Metamorphic Internal Zone (e.g. Boulvais et al. 2007). Previous models for the area (Lagabrielle et al. 2010; Clerc et al. 2016; Odlum and Stockli 2019; Teixell et al. 2018) propose that crustal thinning was accommodated on one or more major crustal detachments. These models focused mainly on explaining the abrupt thinning of crust, the exhumation of mantle lithosphere in the centre of the rift and HT thermal events. The role of salt and the link to proximal margin tectonics were not considered and will be addressed here. Salt-related structures in the eastern North Pyrenees We have subdivided the study area into three distinct zones, the rift platform, rift margin fault zone and main rift (Figs 2e and 5). This section describes in detail characteristic structures from each of these zones. In each case we highlight those aspects of the structure that underpin our interpretation of these zones in terms of salt-controlled extension with reference to Figure 2 and where appropriate, evidence for a strike-slip component during extension. Northern North Pyrenean Zone (proximal main rift) The northern sector of the North Pyrenean Zone consists of open to tight, north facing to upright synclines involving >3 km of Triassic to Albian strata. Younger Grey Flysch strata are locally preserved in small outliers (e.g. Axat syncline; Figs 3 and 5). Regional anticlines are rare, being replaced by north-vergent thrusts or steep tectonic contacts mapped as faults, often with traces of Keuper evaporites (e.g. Puilaurens, Figs 3 and 6). The Saint Paul de Fenouillet syncline is 30 km long and 5–6 km wide and north-verging (Figs 3, 5 and 6). Its axial trace is sinuous and left-stepping, forming a sinistral, en echelon pattern with the Lapradelle and Axat synclines to the west. The axial traces of these folds are rotated clockwise with respect to the overall trend of the zone. To the east, the axial trace of the Saint Paul de Fenouillet syncline curves to NE into the Corbieres orocline, before terminating north of the Devèze block. At least 1 km of fine-grained Albian marine clastic deposits (Black Flysch Group) unconformably onlap older strata on both fold limbs (Figs 3, 5 and 6). Detailed geological map of the North Pyrenean Zone, the Saint Paul de Fenouillet syncline and surrounding areas. (For stratigraphy legend see the Lapradelle–St Paul syncline column in Figure 4, and for key to structures see Fig. 3.) Black unit around Lesquerde represents hematite mineralization. Yellow circles show locations from where field photographs in Figures 7a and b were taken. Kp, Keuper outcrops; BT, Bugarach thrust; B, Bugarach Mountain; Buf, Roc de la Bufferte; Salv. Salvezines basement Massif; RP, Roc Pouyrit. On the syncline's north limb, c. 900 m of Black Dolomite and Mirande carbonates form the prominent Galamus Ridge, in the immediate hanging wall of the salt-rich North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust (Figs 3 and 5). Bedding dips steepen eastward along the ridge (Fig. 6) becoming overturned to the SE of Cucugnan where the strata are overlain in marked angular unconformity by Albian strata (Fig. 5d) recording syn-extension tilting and erosion along the synclinal north limb. Along the central Galamus Ridge in the immediate hanging wall of the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust, instead of a single hanging-wall anticline, a series of small-scale (wavelength <2 km) sinistral en echelon fold pairs plunge some 30° toward N100° (Fig. 6). These folds are again rotated clockwise with respect to the regional east–west trend. All have Keuper in their hinges (Leblanc and Vaudin 1984). These folds can involve either Jurassic units only or upper Jurassic to Albian strata dying out rapidly down plunge to the ESE into Albian Black Flysch. The Galamus Ridge is cut by N60–N70° sinistral faults that are difficult to trace into the Black Flysch (Fig. 6). The orientation and distribution of these second-order folds and faults are compatible with a component of sinistral strike-slip deformation along the Galamus Ridge that predates Pyrenean inversion. Similar en echelon folds are reported in Jurassic strata along the NE margin of the Agly Massif, where they have also been interpreted as recording pre-Pyrenean sinistral strike-slip (Calce region, Figs 3 and 5c; Vaudin 1982; Leblanc and Vaudin 1984). The 15 km long Puilaurens Ridge forms the southern limb of the Saint Paul de Fenouillet and Lapradelle synclines (Figs 5a and 6). Steep to overturned Neocomian to Albian limestones (Mirande and Pierrelys Groups) show up-dip and along-strike thickness variations (Figs 3, 5a and 6; Leblanc and Vaudin 1984). Uppermost Jurassic limestones (j6-n1a, Fig. 6) occur as a thin, incomplete and fragmented level along the faulted southern boundary of the ridge. The overturned western ridge is juxtaposed against subvertical to south-dipping and south-younging Black Flysch of the Axat syncline (Figs 5a, 6 and 7). When traced eastward, this steep boundary juxtaposes the Puilaurens Ridge against Paleozoic granite of the Agly Massif (Figs 3 and 6). Keuper evaporites occur sporadically along this contact, notably at Fosse and Lesquerde (Kp, Fig. 6). At Lesquerde the Puilaurens Ridge becomes strongly overturned to the north to form a flap-like structure involving highly attenuated Jurassic strata with a scapolite-grade thermal metamorphic overprint, and a strongly mineralized contact with basement (hematite; Berger et al. 1993). The easternmost ridge is cut by numerous NE–SW sinistral faults dying out into the Maury anticline, where Albian Black Flysch unconformably overlies steeply north-dipping and north-younging Mirande Group strata (Figs 3, 5 and 6). (a) View and (b) interpretation of the Puilaurens Ridge looking east from Puilaurens Castle showing updip changes in facies and thickness in Lower Cretaceous carbonates. The ridge is bordered to the south by the extractive Puilaurens weld juxtaposing Albian Black Flysch of the Axat syncline. (c) Field photograph and (d) interpretation looking northward from the Salvezines basement Massif toward the Puilaurens Ridge and weld. Locations of both viewpoints are shown in Figures 3 and 6. At the eastern end of the Saint Paul de Fenouillet syncline Black Flysch strata unconformably overlie the NE–SW-trending Devèze block (Fig. 3) comprising Lower Cretaceous units. Albian Black Flysch strata of the Tautavel syncline are juxtaposed against the southern boundary of the Devèze block along a steep strike-slip fault zone. We interpret this boundary as a sheared salt weld, as traces of gypsum are found along its length (Fig. 5d). The highly asymmetric Tautavel syncline is overthrust by the metamorphosed Base Agly syncline along the Vingrau Thrust (Figs 3 and 5) with Keuper evaporites preserved at its western termination (Fig. 3; cross-section C–C', Fig. 5). The North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust is interpreted as the inverted northern rift boundary marked by a network of major salt diapirs that developed above basement-cutting faults at depth. To the south of these major diapirs large en echelon extensional minibasins including Saint Paul de Feouillet and Lapradel developed. The main growth of these minibasins was during the Albian. A zone of major diapirs controlled their southern margins, as evidenced by the Puilaurens weld. The Axat syncline may also have developed as a minibasin between the Puilaurens diapir and a salt wall along its southern margin. The Tautavel syncline is also interpreted as an extensional minibasin with the Devèze diapir along its northern margin (Fig. 5c). Pyrenean shortening was accommodated principally by squeezing of salt walls to create secondary welds and thrust welds as described in Figure 2 and by tightening of synclinal depocentres. The Quillan Minibasin (rift margin fault zone) The Quillan minibasin is located between two salt-rich segments of the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust (Figs 3, 5a and 8, and Supplementary material Fig. S1) and represents a distinct depocentre that developed along the rift margin fault zone. It is is a c. 20 km long and c. 8 km wide, east–west-trending broadly synclinal feature and preserves a cumulative thickness of at least 3 km of Upper Aptian–Middle Albian Black Flysch Group. The eight formations of the Black Flysch group (F1–F8; Aragon 1988) are characterized by rapid changes in thickness, facies and orientation, and are often separated by angular unconformities with onlap surfaces (Figs 4 and 8 and Fig. S1). The succession consists of fine- to medium-grained, marine deltaic to deep-water prodelta calcareous siliciclastic deposits sourced from the east (Peybernès 1976; Aragon 1988). Overall, formations young towards the east and then to the SE (Fig. 8 and Fig. S1). The youngest Upper Albian formation of marls and limestones, rich in olistostromes (up to 300 m), is found only in an overturned, north-vergent imbricate immediately below the Bugarach Thrust (n7c, Figs 4 and 8; Peybernès 1976; Bessière et al. 1989). The Grey Flysch Group unconformably overlies older units. The youngest Upper Santonian marine Labastide Formation is preserved in the east–west-trending north-verging Saint Louis syncline (Figs 4a and 8; Bessière et al. 1989; Bilotte et al. 2005; Bilotte 2007). (a) Geological map of the Quillan minibasin based mainly on new geological mapping and using the stratigraphic subdivisions (formations) of Aragon (1988) for the Aptian–Albian Black Flysch Group. The position of part of section A–A' (Fig. 5a) is shown by X–X'. Equal area sterographic plots of poles to bedding are shown for the western syncline–anticline pair (left) and for the eastern Bezu anticline (right). (b) Schematic longitudinal section from west to ESE along the axis of the Quillan depocentre representing the migration of the Aptian–Albian depocentres above mobile Keuper salt. An interpreted Google Earth view of this area is available in Supplementary material Figure S1. The lozenge-shaped Quillan minibasin is bordered by two north-vergent thrusts (Pays de Sault and Bugarach thrusts; Fig. 3 and 5a). Keuper evaporites crop out abundantly along both faults (Fig. 8a). Discontinuous Urgonian limestones (Pierrelys Group) lie directly above Keuper evaporites in the WNW-trending Bezu anticline along the eastern boundary, and along the eastern and northern borders of the basin. These are unconformably and transgressively overlain by eastward younging Black Flysch formations. In the western sector the east-plunging Quillan syncline and anticline fold the F1 and F2 formations. Their curving axial traces are discontinuous across the base F2 angular unconformity, indicating synsedimentary fold growth. The Quillan anticline disappears rapidly eastward as bedding trends swing clockwise across several unconformities (Fig. 8 and Fig. S1). The north-verging tight Quillan syncline has a subvertical to overturned south flank in F1 and F2. Younger formations (F3–F7 and possibly F8) onlap onto the steep upper boundary of F2. For most of its length the syncline shows an east to SE plunge that decreases eastward (from 40° to 15°; Fig. 8). This upward shallowing fold plunge strongly suggests a syndepositional eastward tilting of the depocentre. We interpret this tilting together with the other features described above to record a salt-related basin evolution as detailed below. With the exception of rare fragments of Jurassic carbonates along the basin's northern boundary, Aptian Urgonian limestones are the oldest outcropping deposits above the evaporites. Although no subsurface data are available, we represent the presence of all stratigraphic units at depth in our cross-sections (Fig. 5a) to minimize the estimated amount of extension. The Black Flysch Formations constitute halokinetic sequences deposited during salt movement. F1 and F2 (1300 m) record an abrupt increase in water depth and sediment delivery from the east into the minibasin (Aragon 1988). This deepening event is also recorded elsewhere along the Pyrenean rift system (e.g. Debroas 1987). The lozenge shape of the Quillan depocentre, even when Alpine shortening has been restored, suggests that the basin was created by sinistral transtension similar to that invoked for the opening of other Aptian–Albian basins along the North Pyrenean Zone further west (e.g. Debroas 1987, 1990; Canérot 2017). Both tectonics and sediment supply could have triggered or accelerated salt movement. The steep southern limb of the minibasin in F1 and F2 is interpreted as a flap structure that developed to the north of the Bugarach diapir and onto which younger halokinetic sequences onlap. The contact between the subvertical F2 beds on the southern flank and the gently SE-dipping F3–F7 beds is difficult to explain otherwise (Figs 8 and 9). Given the considerable level of erosion, we cannot derive more information on the detailed character of this flap structure or its evolution. Overall, the Quillan Aptian–Albian depocentre appears to have migrated eastward between salt walls that limited the basin to the north and south (Figs 8 and Fig. S1 in Supplementary Data), and that were later inverted and squeezed to form the Pays de Sault Thrust Weld and the Bugarach Thrust Weld respectively. The salt walls converge eastward to merge at the eastern limit of the basin marked by the salt-rich and highly complex thrust zone around Bugarach Mountain (B, Fig. 6). In the late Aptian F1 and F2 units were deposited in a western depocentre until all salt was evacuated from below (grounding; Fig. 8b). Subsidence then migrated east during the latest Aptian to Middle Albian to gradually deposit the deepening facies of F3–F8. This model offers a new tectonostratigraphic interpretation of the Quillan depocentre, which is compatible with the northeastward delta regression facies model of Aragon (1988). Similar depocentre migration has been described in subsurface studies of minibasins (e.g. Jackson et al. 2019; Ge et al. 2020). The post-rift Grey Flysch Group unconformably overlies eroded Albian strata and may record the end of salt-controlled tilting of the Quillan minibasin until inversion during the Pyrenean orogeny. (a) Geological map of the Cucugnan to Massac area with detailed stratigraphic columns. (b) NNW–SSE cross-section through the Massac to Cucugnan area (C–C'' in (a) and part of C–C', Fig. 5). (c) Geological map and stratigraphic column of the Serre de Bouchard inlier. (d) Composite NNW–SSE cross-section through the Serre de Bouchard inlier (location shown in (c)). During Pyrenean convergence the Quillan minibasin was shortened by a combination of new folding (Bezu anticline, Saint Louis syncline; Fig. 8a), tightening of synsedimentary folds (Quillan anticline and syncline) and by squeezing and shear of surrounding salt walls to form the Bugarach and Pays de Sault thrust welds. In this type of deeply eroded synclinal depocentre it difficult to quantify the relative importance of purely halokinetic signatures and later contractional strain. The Cucugnan Minibasin (rift margin fault zone) To the east of the Quillan syncline along the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust lies the Cucugnan syncline, an inverted Albian minibasin, preserving >700 m of Black Flysch (Figs 4 and 9a, b; Berger et al. 1997; Bessière et al. 1989). The north-facing syncline is unconformably overlain by Grey Flysch, also folded, and is overthrust and largely hidden by north-vergent imbricates of its overturned south limb (Figs 5b and 9). Along the northern margin of the basin, Albian strata terminate against the basement-cutting Padern Fault and its associated diapir (Picou diapir; Fig. 9a and b). This normal fault was not reactivated during Pyrenean orogenesis and remains sealed below the mid-Cenomanian unconformity. South of Cucugnan the syncline is bordered by a 500 m wide band of Keuper evaporites (Cucugnan diapir; Figs 3 and 9a) whose northern boundary is mapped as the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust. The Cucugnan depocentre terminates to the east against the extensive Keuper outcrops surrounding Tauch Mountain (Bouillin and Magné 1973; Berger et al. 1997). The Black Flysch succession of the Cucugnan Basin comprises platform carbonates in the north that thicken and pass southward into deeper water glauconitic sandstones and marls, rich in olistostromes and olistoliths (Fig. 4b; Bouillin 1967; Bouillin and Magné 1973; Berger et al. 1997). The olistostromes contain abundant clasts of Muschelkalk, Keuper marls and gypsum, with lesser quantities of Upper Jurassic, Neocomian and Aptian lithologies and rare Paleozoic units. Bipyramidal quartz crystals (from Keuper) are ubiquitous. At Roc Pouyrit, a large olistolith (1.3 km long, 50–100 m thick) conformably lies within the vertical north-younging Black Flysch succession (RP in Figs 6 and 9a). It consists of a north-younging succession of Keuper evaporites to Liassic dolomites and marls terminating in a poorly cemented breccia of Liassic to Aptian clasts. An outlier of the Maastrichtian to Paleocene Aude Valley Group (Pech Marty Formation) directly overlies the Cucugnan diapir, preserved in a synclinal closure locally overturned to the north (Fig. 9a and b; Charrière and Durand Delga 2004; Bilotte and Canerot 2006). The 100–150 m succession of continental clastic deposits and lacustrine limestones is rich in fragments of older lithologies from Triassic gypsum to green Albian sandstones as well as containing bi-pyramidal quartz crystals (Mattauer and Proust 1967). These features suggest that the Cucugnan depocentre developed as a minibasin between the Picou salt diapir to the north and the larger Cucugnan diapir to the south. Emergent diapir(s), principally the Cucugnan diapir, fed debris and olistoliths into the depocentre. Post-rift Grey Flysch strata later covered the minibasin before it was folded and overthrust along the Cucugnan salt wall during Pyrenean convergence. The Maastrichtian-Paleocene Pech Marty formation is a remnant of an early syn-orogenic depocentre that developed on or close to the emergent Cucugnan diapir (Bilotte and Canerot 2006). The Soulatgé Block (rift platform) The Soulatgé block (Fig. 3) preserves a stratigraphy and structure typical of a rift platform. The term rift platform is used here to describe a less subsiding area with a thinner evaporite layer lying landward of the main rift and in the footwall of the main boundary fault(s) (e.g. Nalpas and Brun 1993; Stewart and Clark 1999). Lying today on the southeastern flank of the Mouthoumet Massif, the Soulatgé block is predominantly covered by gently south-dipping Grey Flysch Group strata (Fig. 3). Jurassic to Lower Aptian strata can be observed below the erosive mid-Cenomanian unconformity in the Serre de Bouchard inlier and along the eastern edge of the Grey Flysch outcrop between Massac and Padern (Figs 3 and 9). Gentle Pyrenean north- to NW-directed shortening (folds and faults) affects both basement and Mesozoic cover (Figs 3 and 9d; Berger et al. 1997). The area is cut by later NE–SW-trending rotational extensional faults downthrowing to the NW and often rooting into Keuper evaporites (Figs 3 and 9a). The Serre de Bouchard inlier reveals a deeply eroded block of Jurassic to lower Aptian limestones and dolomites up to 600 m thick, dipping 30–50° NW, striking NE–SW and truncating downward onto Keuper evaporites and unconformably overlain by gently dipping Grey Flysch strata (Figs 3 and 9c, d; Kuhfuss 1981; Bessière et al. 1989; Clerc 2012). The preserved tilted block is only 100–200 m high, which prevents further investigation of stratal geometries. This is the only outcrop of the Neocomian Mirande Group north of the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust and it is at its thickest (>600 m) and most complete here. Along the eastern edge of the Grey Flysch outcrop (Massac to Padern, Figs 3 and 9a, b) tilted Jurassic strata truncate downward onto a discontinuous primary weld or partial weld (Figs 9a and b). When post-Cenomanian faults and tilting are restored, these strata lie in extensional fault blocks striking east to NE with southward vergence and separated by small salt rollers (Sauze, Massac, Fig. 9b). These fault blocks have also been deeply eroded below the mid-Cenomanian unconformity so that we can only say that they underwent pre-Cenomanian extension detached along Keuper evaporites. The Serre de Bouchard fault block (Fig. 9c and d) is interpreted as an extensional raft that records Early Cretaceous basement-decoupled extension and subsidence. The Massac–Cucugnan section (Fig. 9a and b) appears to record considerably less extension but in the same style. Preserved stratal geometries at Serre de Bouchard are consistent with a landward-dipping rollover above a SE-dipping listric normal fault (e.g. Fig. 2b; Brun and Mauduit 2008; Jackson and Hudec 2017). The NE–SW trend of the Serre de Bouchard fault block is compatible with the orientation of Massac–Cucugnan fault blocks and with Tauch Mountain structures. These observations indicate that the rift platform underwent significant NW–SE extension and subsidence from the Jurassic to at least the mid-Aptian. However, owing to deep erosion we cannot constrain the precise style, timing and amount of extension. The rift platform then records major uplift and erosion over a period of c. 15 myr (from mid-Aptian to mid-Cenomanian) during which time deformation focused into the main rift further south (Cucugnan, Quillan, North Pyrenean Zone depocentres). The northern limit of rifting therefore migrated south in the mid- to late Aptian in this region. From mid-Cenomanian onward the whole rift records post-rift subsidence with marine strata progressively onlapping northward across the deeply eroded platform (Bilotte 1985). Tauch Mountain (eastern end of rift platform to rift margin) Tauch Mountain is a c. 6 km by c. 4 km Cretaceous klippe directly overlying Keuper evaporites on the southeastern side of the Mouthoumet massif. It lies to the north of the eastern termination of the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust. The NE–SW-trending Couronne Fault separates the inlier into two fault blocks with distinct Cretaceous stratigraphy and different bedding disposition (Tauch unit to north, Roc Fourcat unit to south; Figs 10 and 11). The underlying Keuper evaporites display average thicknesses of 100–150 m and incorporate a chaotic distribution of blocks of Upper Carboniferous metasediments, Muschelkalk and various Jurassic limestones and dolomites. Below the Keuper a thin (20 m) autochthonous succession of Buntsandstein and Muschelkalk unconformably overlies Paleozoic basement. Although its unusual stratal geometries have long been recognized, Tauch Mountain was previously interpreted as an isolated klippe of a northward-verging thrust sheet originating in the North Pyrenean Zone (de Graciansky 1963). (a) Detailed geological map of Tauch Mountain, with Tauch and Roc Fourcat units, based on new mapping and the Tuchan BRGM map (Berger et al. 1997). (b) Four cross-sections across the Tauch and Roc Fourcat units (location shown in (a)). (a) Google Earth view toward the NE of the southwestern side of Tauch Mountain showing main tectonic and stratigraphic units and contacts. (b) Google Earth view toward the west of the SE slopes of the Roc Fourcat unit showing principal stratigraphic boundaries, and dips. Pink dashed lines are top Keuper; red dashed lines are faults; yellow dashed lines are unconformities; white or black fine dashed lines are bedding traces; orange dashed lines represent top of Variscan basement. In (b) the following features should be noted: (1) the hook structure in basal Albian carbonates (n7a-bC), which pass basinward (to SW) into glauconitic turbidites, and (2) the dip fan displayed by Black Flysch strata. The Tauch unit consists uniquely of Aptian platform limestones (Pierrelys Group; Fig. 4) with an estimated cumulative thickness up to 1500 m. The karstified and fractured limestones mainly dip steeply west to NW with some shallow to moderate east to SE dips in the faulted NE sector, suggesting the presence of a north–south-trending, north-plunging anticline (Fig. 10). Strata truncate downwards onto top Keuper, a roughly planar surface that dips gently SE (Figs 10 and 11a). Small blocks of Middle Jurassic limestones lie along this contact and are here interpreted as welded stringers (Fig. 2). Beds are locally overturned close to the Couronne Fault. The NW–SE normal Antenne Fault bounds the NE block where Aptian limestones dip steeply to moderately E to ENE. The Couronne Fault is a listric normal fault downthrowing to the SE with a salt roller in its footwall (Keuper >300 m; Figs 10a, b and 11a). In its hanging wall, the NE–SW-trending Roc Fourcat unit incorporates Aptian Pierrelys limestones, the full Albian Black Flysch Group and lower units of the Grey Flysch Group (Cenomanian) (Figs 4b, 10 and 11b). Stratal units are separated by unconformities and have a total thickness <1000 m. Geometries vary along-strike from a rollover anticline with NW-dipping and fanning strata in the SW and centre (Figs 10b, D–D', and 11b) to strongly overturned, SE-dipping strata in the NE (Fig. 10b, B–B'). The Black Flysch shows a maximum thickness in the centre of the block and records rapid thickness and dip variations with internal unconformities (Figs 10b and 11b). All strata terminate downward onto top salt or against the Couronne Fault. Lower strata also onlap along-strike toward the NE onto an unconformity above docked Aptian and Liassic stringers that line the top salt boundary (Figs 10 and 11b). In the oldest Black Flysch, where strata are vertical, a distinctive halokinetic hook geometry closing toward the NE is preserved (Fig. 12b). Algal carbonates (n7a-bC) lie in the hook's core and pass to the SW into marine glauconitic turbidites (Berger et al. 1997). Three-dimensional schematic illustration of the northern salt-rich rifted margin of the eastern Pyrenees viewed toward the east. The distribution and geometry of Aptian and Albian depocentres and of salt structures change along and across the rift platform, the rift margin fault zone and the main rift. To the right, three schematic cross-sections represent depocentre styles along the margin at the end of rifting (end Albian–Cenomanian). The rift margin fault zone loses definition toward the east. (b) Schematic illustration of Late Aptian cross-section (Quillan) representing the geometries and distribution of Jurassic and early Cretaceous depocentres controlled by early salt mobilization. Omission of stratigraphy across the basal contact of both the Tauch and Roc Fourcat Units indicates a net extensional origin. The overall geometry of the Tauch unit is here interpreted as an extensional turtle structure (Fig. 2b; Hudec and Jackson 2011). Stratal geometries suggest that this Aptian depocentre was surrounded by rising diapirs that progressively lost salt along their flanks during extension to create the anticlinal structure. Extension then migrated basinward to the Roc Fourcat depocentre. Given its younger age, its seaward position with respect to Tauch and its stratal geometries we interpret this depocentre as a younger trough with a landward-dipping rollover above the SE-dipping listric Couronne Fault. It was generated by rafting during the Albian that continued into the Cenomanian. The small hook on the SE flank of Roc Fourcat combined with the thinning, onlapping and overturning of strata toward the NE all indicate the presence of rising diapirs to the NE and east of the Roc Foucat depocentre. In the idealized model shown in Figure 2b the fault blocks to the left of the section represent the main characteristics of the Tauch and Roc Fourcat depocentres that migrated basinward above a seaward-dipping detachment. We correlate the Roc Foucat block with the Quillan and Cucugnan depocentres as they align along the boundary between rift platform and main rift, although the main rift fault zone appears to have nearly died out. Because all tectonic contacts are either extractive or in stratigraphic continuity, it is difficult to detect Pyrenean compression. However, some inversion of the Tauch and Roc Fourcat depocentres is suggested by (1) the periclinal closure at the SW end of the Roc Fourcat Unit (Figs 10a and 12a) showing geometries typical of an inverted basin sidewall and (2) the higher elevation of the mid-Cenomanian unconformity of Tauch Mountain compared with its regional in the adjacent Soulatgé block (Fig. 3). The amount of Pyrenean shortening and any possible post-depositional rotation of Tauch Mountain cannot, as yet, be constrained. Role of salt in the evolution of the northern Pyrenean rifted margin To reconstruct the Mesozoic rift history along the east European margin of the Pyrenean Trough we divide the area into the rift platform to the north (Soulatgé block, Tauch) and the proximal main rift to the south (northern North Pyrenean Zone), separated by the main fault zone with associated minibasins (Quillan, Cucugnan, Roc Fourcat, Fig. 12). The main fault zone becomes less well-defined eastward. These three settings show contrasting synrift halokinetic depositional sequences discussed below. On the rift platform only isolated fragments of Mesozoic strata are preserved and exposed below the highly erosive mid-Cenomanian unconformity. We therefore cannot constrain the true dimensions of the original platform. The Triassic to Aptian succession is organized in basement detached rotational fault blocks above a salt detachment (Serre de Bouchard, Massac–Padern, Tauch; Fig. 12a). Albian strata are conspicuously absent. Stratigraphic thicknesses indicate that significant accommodation was created on the platform during the Neocomian to Aptian. The NE–SW-trending fault blocks are markedly oblique with respect to the east–west rift margin. Displacement vergence was consistently seaward, suggesting a south to SE slope on the Keuper detachment. Development of extensional fault blocks requires weak to moderate decoupling between basement and cover across a salt layer (Withjack and Calloway 2000; Jackson and Hudec 2017). Around the Serre de Bouchard inlier the outcropping Keuper detachment layer is thin (tens of metres), appears to be stratigraphically autochthonous and contains no visible stringers, consistent with low mobility of a relatively thin evaporite layer. In the Massac to Padern sector small salt rollers containing stringers suggest a thicker original salt layer with limited diapirism. The salt layer thickens again significantly to the east, where raft tectonics is recorded by the Tauch and Roc Fourcat units. Numerous floating and docked stringers along the base of these units also record high salt mobility. Up to the mid-Aptian, we can envisage gentle and slow extension in the basement on the rift platform (Fig. 12b) that became increasingly decoupled from the suprasalt cover toward the east owing to thickening of evaporites (Vendeville et al. 1995; Duffy et al. 2013; Jackson and Hudec 2017). Decoupled extensional blocks on a rift platform can be created either (1) by transfer of extension from the main rift boundary fault into its footwall along the detachment layer to accommodate the development of hanging-wall synclinal basins in the main rift (Vendeville et al. 1995; Withjack and Calloway 2000; Dooley et al. 2005; Ferrer et al. 2017) or (2) as a response of the cover to regional widening of the basin regardless of the position of basement faults (Vendeville et al. 1995). Oblique NW–SE extension in the platform cover is consistent with regional east–west sinistral transtension. A similar regime has been described in suprasalt cover adjacent to a salt wall affected by strike-slip deformation in the Dead Sea rift (Alsop et al. 2015). Halokinetic raft structures as seen in Tauch and Roc Fourcat are generally observed on salt-rich passive margins and generated by gravity forces (Brun and Fort 2012; Rowan and Ratliff 2012; Rowan 2014). They can also develop above extending basement with full decoupling on thick salt (Hudec and Jackson 2007; Jackson and Hudec 2017). During the Albian and early Cenomanian the rift platform was uplifted and deeply eroded (Fig. 13a) as rifting intensified and migrated south into the main rift zone (North Pyrenean Zone). From the mid-Cenomanian onward, post-rift strata progressively onlapped from the south across the rift platform. Reconstruction of the Pyrenean Trough along the cross-section A–A' based on lateral correlations between stratigraphic columns presented in Figure 4a. The northern rift platform is represented by projection of the Serre de Bouchard unit. The southern rift margin is represented by Mesozoic stratigraphy at Amélie-les-Bains (location shown in Fig. 1; Bilotte et al. 1979; Casas and Torrades 1986). The proximal main rift comprises long en echelon minibasins (e.g. Saint Paul de Fenouillet, Axat, Lapradelle, Tautavel; Fig. 3a). These show halokinetic depositional sequences and typical diapiric structures such as flaps, wedges and internal unconformities recording gradual subsidence between passive salt walls, which were most active during the late Aptian and Albian. Although Mesozoic stratigraphy can change in thickness between depocentres, similarities in facies suggest that they were not isolated. Sediment was principally supplied axially from the east. Basement-cutting faults at depth are required to create accommodation. Synsedimentary faults in suprasalt cover from this period have not yet been clearly identified. Major salt walls were generally oriented east–west and formed complex networks. Similar extensional minibasins above thick pre-rift salt have been described in the Danish Central graben of the North Sea (Duffy et al. 2013; Dooley and Hudec 2020) and in the High Atlas of Morocco (Saura et al. 2014; Martín-Martín et al. 2017; Moragas et al. 2017). Although our area provides limited data on Jurassic stratal geometries, we propose that diapirs began to grow gently from the Early Jurassic onward. This hypothesis is consistent with recent studies in adjacent Pyrenean, Iberian and Alpine domains that document gentle Jurassic growth synclines developing between passive salt pillows with little evidence of initial reactive diapirism (Graham et al. 2012; Espurt et al. 2019; Labaume and Teixell 2020; Vergés et al. 2020). The northern boundary of the main rift is now inverted along the North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust Weld, a fault zone particularly rich in salt. During the Late Aptian to Albian minibasins developed between coalescing and diverging salt walls and were aligned above a deep basement fault zone that loses definition toward the east (Quillan, Cucugnan, Roc Fourcat; Fig. 12a). Stringers of basement and sub-Keuper lithologies (Muschelkalk) as well as super-Keuper lithologies are found scattered throughout evaporites exposed along this fault zone, recording high evaporite mobility during rifting. The debris flows in the Cucugnan basin indicate that salt diapirs were emergent during Albian and late Cretaceous. The lozenge shapes of Quillan and Cucugnan minibasins and the orientation and organization of pre-Pyrenean second-order oblique folds and faults along the Galamus Ridge all suggest a component of sinistral strike-slip along the rift margin. In summary, a two-phase evolution of the eastern Pyrenean proximal rift margin was strongly influenced by Keuper salt, which increased southward and eastward in thickness and mobility. From the Jurassic to mid-Aptian widespread differential subsidence was controlled by sinistral transtension (Fig. 12b). During this period, the rift platform underwent oblique decoupled extension while synclinal depocentres developed in the main rift zone between rising salt walls. The rift platform was then uplifted and deeply eroded as late Aptian and Albian transtension focused into the main rift zone to the south where minibasin growth accelerated (Fig. 13a). Similar behaviour including migration of deformation toward the rift axis has been simulated in numerical modelling (e.g. Cowie et al. 2005; Brune et al. 2014) and widely documented in the North Sea (e.g. Bell et al. 2014; Phillips et al. 2019) and in other rifts and passive margins (e.g. Brune et al. 2017; Espurt et al. 2012). In this study, in the eastern segment of the northern Pyrenees, six Mesozoic sedimentary depocentres have been analysed (Quillan, Cucugnan, Saint Paul de Fenouillet, Serre de Bouchard, Tauch, Roc Fourcat). Whereas all share a Jurassic to lower Upper Cretaceous succession above Upper Triassic evaporites, thicknesses and stratigraphic geometries are variable from one basin to the next. Evaporite outcrops surrounding the sedimentary basins represent original salt walls sourced from the Keuper layer, which also acted as a decoupling horizon. Salt walls have been squeezed during Alpine compression, to form secondary salt welds or thrust welds. Although Alpine shortening is significant, its contribution is difficult to quantify as syn-orogenic deposits are poorly preserved in the region. We can say that it has done little to significantly alter the original salt-related rift margin geometries north of the Agly–Salvezines Massif. The tectono-sedimentary relations obtained in the eastern North Pyrenean sedimentary basins have been used to constrain the more regional evolution of the proximal rifted European margin. Here, we will explore the significance of the area as part of the Mesozoic plate boundary between Iberia and Europe by discussing the following: (1) the full geometry of the eastern Pyrenean Trough along a north–south transect; (2) integration into a regional tectonic, thermal and plate-tectonic framework; (3) plate kinematic models of the Iberia–Europe plate boundary. Geometry of the Pyrenean Trough along a north–south transect To investigate the structure of the European margin at the end of rifting, we construct a model along the north–south cross-section A–A' (Fig. 13) using stratigraphic columns in Figure 4. This model integrates the depocentres of Boucheville, Axat, Lapradelle and Quillan. We projected Serre de Bouchard stratigraphy onto the section to represent the rift platform to the north. The vertical scale represents non-decompacted sedimentary thicknesses, and the horizontal scale provides the approximate position of depocentres on the rifted margin. Sections are correlated along the base of the Cenomanian level in northern depocentres and the foreland, along the Aptian–Albian boundary level between Quillan and Lapradelle and along top Neocomian level between Lapradelle, Axat and Boucheville depocentres. The link between the European and Iberian Upper Cretaceous successions is made along the base Santonian, which is well recognized at Rennes-les-Bains and at Amélie-les-Bains (Els Banys d'Amèlia), respectively (Bilotte et al. 1979; Casas and Torrades 1986) . These subhorizontal correlations do not take into account palaeobathymetry. Adding palaeo-water depths would increase estimated throw on basement faults. The total cumulative thickness of these stratigraphic logs can sometimes be greater than the height of the vertical succession at the time of deposition; for example, owing to progressive block rotation. This is especially true in basins showing significant halokinetic activity during their development such as Quillan and Serre de Bouchard. In the Quillan minibasin, the depocentre migrated from west to east above the salt layer (Fig. 8b). We therefore place the eastern and western stratigraphic columns side by side correlated on top salt. The Albian uplift and erosion of the rift platform is not represented here. If integrated, it would increase displacement on the rift margin faults. As the thickness of the upper Triassic evaporites is unknown we use a uniform arbitrary value. The Boucheville syncline (Metamorphic Internal Zone) and the hydrothermally altered Salvezines–Agly basement (Figs 3 and 13) represent the distal European rift margin, an area of extreme crustal thinning where mantle was exhumed, providing the heat source and hydrothermal fluids responsible for metamorphism and metasomatism (Vauchez et al. 2013; Clerc and Lagabrielle 2014; Clerc et al. 2015, 2016). In some rift reconstructions, the Salvezines–Agly massif is represented as an exhumed palaeohigh separating the HT metamorphosed Boucheville and Bas Agly depocentres (Vauchez et al. 2013; Clerc and Lagabrielle 2014; Clerc et al. 2016). However, new thermochronology data combined with published P–T conditions for the HT events indicate that the Agly–Salvezines massifs were buried to at least 2 km at the end of rifting as shown here (mid-Cenomanian; Ternois et al. (2019). Despite uncertainties, this reconstruction provides insight into the full structure of the Pyrenean Trough. Top basement and top Keuper descend southward across a series of faults with a cumulative throw of at least 2.8 km matched by the throw for the North Pyrenean Fault to the south. On our cross-sections (Fig. 5) we integrate a more complete Neocomian and Jurassic succession below the Quillan depocentre. If this scenario were integrated into the rifted margin model on Figure 13, it would simply increase throw on the Pays de Sault–Padern Fault and decrease throw on the Bugarach Fault. Integration into a regional tectonic, thermal and plate- tectonic framework The chronology of diapiric activity in the eastern North Pyrenees defined above is here compared and integrated with North Pyrenean thermal events and also with halokinetic and tectonic histories of adjacent Pyrenean, Iberian and Alpine domains (Fig. 14). We have shown that our North Pyrenean depocentres all record main halokinetic activity from the middle Early Cretaceous to the end of the Albian although some diapiric structures are still active to at least Cenomanian times and possibly later. Because Jurassic strata crop out more discontinuously, earlier salt mobilization is more than likely across the eastern North Pyrenean zone. Pyrenean convergence led to the narrowing and closing of diapiric walls and their reactivation in places as thrust welds. This three-step history of halokinetic activity is very similar to that established further west in the North Pyrenean Zone by Canérot et al. (2005) and Labaume and Teixell (2020). In the Pyrenean–Provençal belt of SE France, Espurt et al. (2019) document diapiric activity throughout the Jurassic and during the Albian and Late Cretaceous, with reactivation during the latest Cretaceous–Paleogene compression phase and then during back-arc opening of the Gulf of Lion (Fig. 14). Chronostratigraphic correlation of major diapiric and tectonic activity, metamorphic, magmatic and hydrothermal events across the northern Pyrenees and adjacent areas on Iberian and European plates. On the southern side of the Pyrenees, the Cotiella and Sopeira–Sant Gervàs structures (Fig. 1) have also been redefined as salt-related extensional depocentres. Both localities share good continuity of 3D outcrops. They record very short-lived diapiric activity but of different ages. The Cotiella locality shows a very short episode of roll-over development on north-verging listric normal faults tied to diapirism during the Turonian–Coniacian (McClay et al. 2004; Lopez-Mir et al. 2014, 2015). The Sopeira–Sant Gervàs minibasins are related to a large diapiric province along the Iberian margin (Saura et al. 2016). Despite being side by side and only separated by the north–south-trending Llastarri salt weld, the two minibasins show subsidence ages that follow one another in time: the Sopeira minibasin evolved from the latest Aptian to early Cenomanian whereas the Sant Gervàs minibasin subsided through the Turonian to Campanian, coinciding with the onset of compression in the southern Pyrenees. In a recent paper a part of the Maestrat basin at the SE end of the Iberian Range (Fig. 1, Iberian rift system) has also been identified as a diapiric province (Vergés et al. 2020). Here, the structures around the north–south-trending Miravete anticline record mild Jurassic and strong Valanginian to middle Albian salt tectonics (Fig. 14). Figure 14 shows that late Early Cretaceous maximum diapiric activity can be correlated across all these regions north and south of the Pyrenean Trough. In addition, as indicated in the paper by Vergés et al., this period coincides broadly with maximum eastward drift velocities of the Iberian microplate, itself a result of the opening of the southern segment of the North Atlantic according to the plate-tectonic model of Nirrengarten et al. (2018). Nirrengarten and coworkers evoke transtensional corridors in both the Pyrenean and Iberian rift systems. Although acknowledging high uncertainty in the true distribution of displacement, they propose maximum lateral displacement of Iberia on the latter lineament during the Aptian, with transtensional rifting in the Pyrenean system during the Albian. The existence of regional hydrothermal events and their coincidence in time in the NW region of the Iberian rift system (Cameros Basin) and in the Pyrenean Trough has been documented by Vergés and Garcia-Senz (2001) and more recently by Rat et al. (2019). In the case of the Pyrenean Trough, where hydrothermal activity is widespread along the length of the North Pyrenean Zone (e.g. Incerpi et al. 2020) and is of higher temperature than in the Cameros Basin, there is a first episode during the Jurassic (174–160 Ma) possibly related to a Europe-wide event (Cathelineau et al. 2012) and a second and more intense episode between the early Aptian and the Turonian–Campanian (Fig. 14; 122–80 Ma; Clerc et al. 2015). During this second episode, temperatures reached 500–600°C and local magmatism is recorded throughout the northern Pyrenees (Boutin et al. 2016; Clerc et al. 2016). Although there may have been transtensional rifting along the two major tectonically weak zones, these observations suggest that the Pyrenean rift system was the more active of the two in accommodating the lateral displacement of Iberia. In summary, along the North Pyrenean Zone, the principal phase of passive diapirism (Late Aptian to early Cenomanian) is synchronous with significant thermal, hydrothermal and magmatic events that are related to crustal and upper mantle thinning. The distribution of thermal, hydrothermal and volcanic events throughout the North Pyrenean Zone, during the Cretaceous, and its continuity over Cretaceous time make this narrow transtensional rift domain the best candidate for being the principal plate boundary between Iberia and Europe to accommodate lateral displacements of the Iberian microplate. Plate kinematic models for the Iberia–Europe plate boundary The accepted evolutionary model for the Pyrenean Trough during the 1970s and 1980s required left-lateral strike-slip along the North Pyrenean Zone and North Pyrenean Fault (e.g. Choukroune and Mattauer 1978; Olivet 1996; among others). The numerous slivers of lherzolite cropping out along the North Pyrenean Zone were explained as locally exhumed in pull-apart basins that opened along the strike-slip system. Synrift high-temperature metamorphism was interpreted as generated by circulation of high-temperature fluids above exhumed mantle and along deep-rooted faults in pull-apart basins in a manner similar to that observed today in the Salton Sea basin located along the San Andreas Fault (e.g. Golberg and Leyreloup 1990). Beginning in the 1990s the worldwide analysis of hyperextended continental margins (e.g. Pérez-Gussinyé 2013) with wide bands of exhumed mantle along the most distal domains sparked renewed interest in the lherzolite blocks of the North Pyrenees. This led to reinterpretations of their significance within a pure shear extensional history followed by pure shear inversion during Pyrenean convergence (e.g. Jammes et al. 2009; Lagabrielle et al. 2010; Clerc and Lagabrielle 2014; Tugend et al. 2014 among others). Most of these studies interpreted the lherzolites as remnants of a continuous domain, some 50 km wide, in which the extreme thinning of the crust put lithospheric mantle in contact with the base of the Mesozoic sediments. Although the main objective of our study is not to make a reliable interpretation of the Iberia–Europe plate boundary we have, nevertheless, obtained results that help to better constrain its scale, geometry and evolution for the Cretaceous period. The reconstruction in Figure 13 shows a highly asymmetrical rift with major faults distributed across a wider northern margin whereas the abrupt and narrow southern margin is controlled principally by the North Pyrenean Fault. Published width estimates for the Albian rift system vary widely from 50–60 km (Clerc et al. 2016; Ternois et al. 2019) to 150–200 km (Tugend et al. 2014; Teixell et al. 2018). We estimate that the proximal European rift margin (north of Agly–Salvezines) was some 22–30 km wide (Fig. 13), consistent with Grool et al. (2018) and Ternois et al. (2019). We can obtain an estimate of 30 km for the width of the central rift (including the zone of exhumed mantle) by subtracting the estimated convergence of Macchiavelli et al. (2017) for the eastern Pyrenees (140 km) and the estimated restored width of the rifted margin (111 km) obtained from the well constrained restoration of an adjacent cross-section by Grool et al. (2018), which excludes the zone of mantle exhumation. The total width of the Pyrenean Trough including exhumed mantle before the onset of compression would therefore be around 52–60 km. The narrow width and asymmetrical faulted geometry of the eastern Pyrenean Trough proposed here (Fig. 15) contrasts strongly with recent models showing symmetrical, smooth conjugate slopes on both Iberian and European margins, separated by a continuous domain of exhumed upper mantle (e.g. Teixell et al. 2018; Labaume and Teixell 2020; Lagabrielle et al. 2020, and references therein). In these pure shear models, the extending plate boundary is configured as a region of progressive and ductile crustal thinning involving minor normal faults in the upper crust. Lagabrielle et al. (2020) argue that Upper Triassic evaporites play a crucial role in ‘smooth-slope’ basin evolution by facilitating the gliding of suprasalt sediments downward into the basin centre where they pile up on exhumed mantle. Our detailed observations in the eastern Pyrenees, in contrast, seem to indicate a different history, recording a two-phase transtensional rifting evolution on asymmetrical margins. Initial distributed faulting across a broad area is followed by a seaward migration of faulting into the rift axis. The European margin records strong decoupling on salt and the growth of salt diapirs above major basement faults responsible for thinning the upper crust but we have found no evidence for gravitational gliding of cover into the rift axis. Block diagram of the eastern Pyrenees showing a scale-free reconstruction during the late Early Cretaceous (inspired by the interpetation of Cochelin et al. (2018) of an area about 80 km west of this study). The rift platform, proximal rift and distal rift domains of the Pyrenean Trough are bounded by steep basement normal faults, and the North Pyrenean Fault system is the southern limit of the Pyrenean Trough. The Upper Triassic salt forms a thick and efficient level of detachment and a total structural decoupling of cover and basement. Crustal and upper mantle thinning beneath Boucheville and Bas Agly minibasins, and to a lesser degree below the Agly Massif, led to the direct tectonic contact of upper mantle and Upper Triassic evaporites and younger strata and the protracted HT metamorphic events recorded in those basins (Fig. 14). We interpret all these processes as the consequence of a regional left-lateral strike-slip to transtensional movement along the Iberia–Europe plate boundary during the late Early Cretaceous. Although asymmetry is characteristic of hyperextended conjugate passive margins (e.g. Lavier and Manatschal 2006; Pérez-Gussinyé 2013; Brune et al. 2014; Doré and Lundin 2015; Dielforder et al. 2019), the broader of the two margins is typically 100–200 km wide. Pure shear thermomechanical simulations demonstrate that margin width is mainly controlled by extension rate and by initial lithospheric strength; however, to date, no numerical model has simulated a hyperextended rift of the dimensions proposed here for the eastern Pyrenean Trough. We suggest that the narrowness and internal complex structure along with geological features described above are due to its development in a transtensional regime. The lateral movement of Iberia over hundreds of kilometres was triggered by the opening of the southern North Atlantic during the Cretaceous (Nirrengarten et al. 2018). As was already widely accepted in the 1970s to 1980s, we argue that the Pyrenean Trough was created by this left-lateral transtensional movement (Fig. 15) that was fully synchronous with halokinetic activity and also with most well-calibrated thermal events (Fig. 14). High-temperature low-pressure metamorphism of Mesozoic rocks, alkaline volcanism and metasomatic alterations of basement by HT hydrothermal fluids occur along the southern margin of the North Pyrenean Zone and more locally in the Axial Zone (Poujol et al. 2010; Clerc et al. 2015), often related to specific structures such as, for example, the HT metamorphic minibasin of Boucheville and Bas Agly separated by the LT metamorphic Agly Massif. This could indicate that HT events were restricted to laterally discontinuous regions associated with faults at depth and/or pull-apart basins along the oblique margin in accordance with the transtensional model of Golberg and Leyreloup (1990). We have integrated these key observations into a 3D model of the eastern Pyrenean rift in Figure 15. The narrowness of the North Pyrenean Zone coupled with the highly irregular distribution and intensity of HT metamorphism in the Boucheville and Base Agly minibasins (500–600°C) separated by the less metamorphosed Agly–Salvezines Massif (<350°C) suggest a transtensional regime for the Iberia–Europe plate boundary during the late Early and early Late Cretaceous. In this model, the distal European margin accommodates most of the transcurrent motion and is characterized by deep faults limiting laterally discontinuous crustal domains and hyperextended ‘hot’ pull-apart domains with upper mantle rocks directly beneath the sedimentary cover. We suggest that the proximal rift and platform domains (our study area) accommodated a significant but weaker component of strike-slip. In this paper we have shown that Mesozoic depocentres in the eastern North Pyrenees (1) were controlled by active salt tectonics displaying a wide range of clear halokinetic features, (2) developed in a sinistral transtensional regime, (3) record changing characteristics and evolution from rift platform across the main rift margin fault zone, to proximal and distal parts of the main rift, and, finally, (4) record moderate to minor Pyrenean shortening that was mainly accommodated by squeezing of salt walls. We have dated main halokinetic activity from the late Early Cretaceous to early Late Cretaceous, corresponding to the principal transcurrent rifting event in the Pyrenees. In placing these detailed observations in a regional context, we propose that both detailed and regional characteristics of the salt-rich Aptian–Albian rift system can be best understood within a sinistral transtensional regime. The area that we have analysed has been the site of several major controversies in the past regarding the regional significance of observed deformation and unconformities, which we can now attribute to halokinetic events. On a more regional scale the northern Pyrenees has been the focus in the last 20 years of numerous publications arguing that Aptian–Albian rifts record pure shear hyperextension. These highly influential models have tended to attach little importance to evidence for strike-slip during rifting. We hope our data and discussion will convince the community to reconsider the importance of strike-slip in the evolution of this rift system. These spectacular field examples illustrate the variety and complexity of stratigraphic architectures that can develop in salt-controlled depocentres and also what can happen when they are inverted. They can serve as excellent analogues of salt-rich basins on inaccessible passive margins. Many more salt-related structures and depocentres remain to be investigated and described in the eastern North Pyrenees. Our thanks go to our students and colleagues for numerous discussions and assistance in the field, with special thanks to J. Simonis, L. Menzer, S. Ternois, F. Christophoul, C. Macchiavelli, V. Bernard, A. Dielforder, G. Frasca, A. Teixell, P. Labaume, N. Espurt and B. Laumonier. We also thank our colleagues of the PYRAMID and OROGEN projects for their support and many stimulating discussions. Thanks go to B. Vendeville for his invaluable advice. We thank our editor S. Daly, and C. Jackson and an anonymous reviewer for their enthusiastic and thorough reviews and for their constructive suggestions that greatly improved the paper. MF: conceptualization (equal), data curation (lead), formal analysis (equal), funding acquisition (lead), investigation (lead), project administration (lead), validation (lead), visualization (lead), writing – original draft (lead), writing – review & editing (lead); JV: formal analysis (equal), investigation (supporting), methodology (supporting), validation (supporting), writing – original draft (equal), writing – review & editing (supporting). This work was funded by the French ANR project PYRAMID; the OROGEN project financed by Total, BRGM and the CNRS; the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Grant/Award Number SUBTETIS (PIE-CSIC-201830E039); and Generalitat de Catalunya, Grant/Award Number AGAUR 2017 SGR 847. All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article (and its supplementary information files). Scientific editing by Stephen Daly © 2020 The Author(s). 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__label__wiki	0.659085	0.659085	Jon The Blogcentric All the Shtuff that's fit for ME to print! Tag Archives: Noemie VIFF 2020 Review: Jumbo By Jon The Blogcentric on 21 December 2020 \| 1 Comment A carnival ride is the object of desire of Jeanne (played by Noemie Merlant) in Jumbo. I ended my VIFF with the French film Jumbo. It was part of the Altered States slate. I agree the film was something else! The film begins in an amusement park in a French city. Jeanne Tantois is the park custodian. Her job over there is just her labor. She has a fascination with many of the rides there, but she doesn’t get along well with too many of the men that she works with. She’s a young girl who lives with her parents. Her mother Margarette wonders when she will find the right boy. At home, she creates things like celestial ceiling images or mobiles consisting of a lot of LED lights. There in her room, she lets her imagination run free. She even has a belief that objects have souls, even moving motorized objects. One day, a new ride comes to the amusement park. It’s a 25-foot tall ride set to accommodate 32 at a time. Jeanne cleans the light bulbs, but soon notices the ride, named ‘Jumbo,’ is communicating with her. She’s surprised by it all. Jumbo offers her a ride. She accepts with her riding alone, and she appears to enjoy it in an erotic sense. Over time, she has gotten to have a closer liking to Jumbo. Jumbo communicates with her: green lights for yes, red for no. Soon her liking for Jumbo isn’t just simple. It’s intimate. Not everybody is accepting upon hearing Jeanne’s love for this carnival ride. The other teens from her school including a group of boys poke fun at her. Her boss and the head custodian look at her with huge suspicion or something’s wrong with her. Margarette meets Jumbo, rides him, and is shocked that she could be attracted to an object. However it takes a lot of convincing to her mother that her attraction to Jumbo is real and is her everything. The relationship between her and Jumbo grows. One night she lays down on Jumbo and his oils enter into her almost as if a sexual pleasure. Then the workers at the amusement park are given awards for the best services. Jeanne is given an award for her services with the bullying boys watching from the back. Then the shocking news. Jumbo will no longer be at the amusement park. Jeanne is devastated. Even more so when she learns Jumbo will be transported to an amusement park in Belgium. Her boss makes it clear it’s her attraction to Jumbo that caused their decision. That leaves Jeanne no other choice. She must marry Jumbo before he’s taken away. Margarette and her stepfather are willing to assist her in the marriage. The two perform the rites as both Jumbo and Jeanne accept. All three go for one last ride and get off in time before the bullying boys from her school can get them. Now there have been films about people having feelings of love to objects in the past. However this is something unique as it’s of a young female with an attraction to a carnival ride. This could have come across as a dumb story. However there is such a thing as objectophilia. Writer Zoe Wittock learned of a story of a Florida woman who was in so love with a carnival ride, she tried to marry it. Even then, to make it believable, it required that from a believable character. Jeanne is that character. She herself is a dreamer who likes to draw and is fascinated by lights and stars. She even mentions at the beginning of her belief that objects have souls of their own. It was necessary for her to say something like that for her objectophilia to be believable. Even with the imagination, the film had to make Jumbo come alive as well. If Jeanne sees the soul inside Jumbo, we the audience have to see it too. It works as we see Jumbo come to life whenever Jeanne is around and when Jeanne conveys her emotions and feelings. Plus right at the end, Jeanne’s mother and stepfather have to see Jumbo’s soul for themselves in order for Jeanne to marry it. As bizarrely erotic this story is, it needs to have the scenes to make us believe it and the characters to make it work. And it does. Top credit goes to writer/director Zoe Wittock. Before Jumbo, she wrote and directed four short films. Jumbo is her first feature-length film. It’s also marks her return to film work after a five-year hiatus. A woman sexually attracted to a carnival ride looks like the premise for a bad movie or something completely freakish. Zoe, however, is able to make it work with the story and making the story of Jeanne’s love believable and also giving character to the ride. Additional credit should go to Noemie Merlant. It’s also the believability of Noemie’s performance that keeps Jumbo from being dismissed as a stupid movie. She made the objectophilia believable and not look as freaky as one would anticipate. It’s very surprising to see her play a completely different character than Marianne from Portrait Of A Lady On Fire as well as a different time period. There’s also excellent acting from Emmanuelle Bercot as the mother who has to struggle to accept her daughter’s objectophilia and in the end be encouraging to Jeanne in marrying Jumbo. Jumbo appears like a film that would not win too many awards on the film festival circuit, but it has won one and has received nominations. It won Best Feature Film at the Chattanooga Film Festival, nominated for a New Direction award at the Cleveland Film Festival, nominated for a Best First Feature Award at the Philadelphia Film Festival, a New Visions Award nominee at the Sitges – Catalonian Film Festival and Best International Film at the Jeongju Film Festival. Jumbo has what would first be dismissed as a ridiculous story. What made it work was the actors making the story and the bizarreness believable as we watch. And there you have it! That’s the last of my film reviews of this year’s VIFF! my wrap-up of this year’s Festival is coming soon! Posted in: Entertainment - Film and Movies, Movie Reviews: 2020, VIFF - Festival and Reviews \| Tagged: #VIFFest, AZ Films, Bastien, Bercot, Bouillot, Emmanuelle, Fauves, films, France, Insolence, Jumbo, Kwassa, Louwyck, Merlant, Noemie, Rezo, Sam, VIFF, Wittock, WTFilms, Zoe Movie Review: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) By Jon The Blogcentric on 5 July 2020 \| 1 Comment Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is a story about a painter, played by Noemie Merlant (right) and her hurting subject, played by Adele Haenel (left). With all this free time thanks to the COVID pandemic, it gave me a good chance to catch up on a lot of things undone. One of which was write reviews for films I didn’t review soon enough the first time. One such film is Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. I saw it in its entirety shortly after the Oscars. It’s a film that’s intriguing to watch. The film begins with a painting class for young women. The teacher is Marianne, an acclaimed painter. The students are to paint a portrait of her. One of her students notices one of her paintings: that of a woman with her dress on fire. She asks Marianne what it’s titled. She responds “Portrait of a lady on fire.” The film flashes to years earlier, when a man in a rowboat rows Marianne to a remote island in Brittany. She is commissioned to paint a portrait of a noblewoman named Heloise who is to be married off to Milanese nobleman. Her mother, the Countess, will allow her to stay in the building and be served by the maid Sophie. Painting Heloise will be a tricky thing. She does not want to pose for paintings as she does not want to be married off. She attended a convent, but her sister’s suicide prompted her return and her engagement. Marianne decides it is possible. She just has to act as her companion and remember her features in order to paint her in secret. However Marianne notices the hurt inside Heloise as Heloise tries to jump off a cliff to her death. Marianne successfully stops her. Over time, Heloise learns of Marianne’s artistic passions including playing on the harpsichord. Marianne plays her the Presto of summer for Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Heloise is captivated with it. Marianne finishes the portrait, but feels she has to let Heloise know the truth of why she’s here. Heloise is critical of the painting and Marianne destroys it promptly. To the surprise of her mother, who is about to leave for Italy for some time, Heloise is willing to have Marianne do a portrait of her. Over time as Marianne paints the portrait of Heloise, their bond grows. Especially over the reading of Orpheus and Eurydice. The maid Sophie reveals she’s pregnant and doesn’t want the baby. The two help her have an abortion through violent exercise. Sophie is included in the friendship with the two. The three go to a bonfire surrounded by women as they sing. It’s there Marianne sees Heloise with her dress on fire. Overnight, Marianne is haunted by images of Heloise in a wedding dress. It’s when the two are alone together in a cave that Marianne confesses her love to Heloise. The two share their first kiss. The romance grows as Marianne continues with the portrait of Heloise. Marianne does other artwork too like sketching the performing of the abortion on Sophie and even sketching a naked picture of herself on page 28 in one of Heloise’s books, by her request. However the fun is cut short as Heloise’s mother returns. The portrait is completed and both Heloise and the Countess are happy with what they see. SPOILER WARNING: Ending Revealed In This Paragraph. Marianne is about to leave with her work being completed, but then sees Heloise one last time: in a wedding dress just like in her dream. Marianne says she did see her twice since. The first time in a painting of her with her child and a book open to page 28. The second time was from a distance at a symphony concert. She could see from a distance she was overcome with emotion when the Summer suite of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was played. There’s no question the film is LGBT themed. The film is a fictional story. Nevertheless it does tell a lot in what it shows. It’s a chance meeting between a painter and her reluctant hurting subject. It’s after the mother leaves that the place goes from a place under control to the place the three women can live out the lives they were meant to live. It’s there Heloise can reveal she’s a lesbian like Marianne and she loves her. It’s there when a pregnant Sophie can have her baby aborted at her will. It’s also a place where the common women all gather together at a bonfire and sing. It almost feels like a ‘womyn’s’ film. However it tells more. The women know that once the mother returns, everything will be back to the way it was. Marianne knows her love that was meant to be can’t be. And so does Heloise. We shouldn’t forget that even though this is a fictional story, this was a time when same-sex love was criminalized and abortion was illegal. Another element of the film is how the story tells itself through art. It may be about a painter who’s hired to paint her subject, but it’s like art of all kind is important for the storytelling. It’s also music that stirs emotion. It’s the discussion about Orpheus and Eurydice between the two. It’s the various drawings Marianne did. It’s of the painting of Heloise that would reveal who her true love was. The mix of various forms of art and feeling, both of passion and of hurt, come into telling the story of this film. Even the bonfire song where the women celebrate, but Heloise makes obvious is still hurting inside, plays an important role. The scene where Heloise’s dress is burning, but she acts like she’s unaffected will remind you why it’s not the dress on fire but the lady on fire. This film was out during the VIFF. I only saw the last half of it because I was busy during ushering during the first half. That’s why I don’t include it as part of my VIFF reviews. It was only in February just after the Oscars that I finally saw it in its entirety. I’m glad there was a second chance to see it. It’s too bad it was completely snubbed out of the Oscars. For those wondering what France’s entry for the Oscar of Best Foreign Language Film was, it was Les Miserables and it was nominated. This film however was a nominee for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay Award. Top acclaim should be given to director/writer Celine Sciamma. A lesbian herself, she did a very good job not just bringing her story to life but also creating an array of imagery and adding an atmosphere to it. It’s quite an experience to watch. The acting from the two main actresses, Noemie Merlant and Adele Haenel were excellent too. You could tell as much from their moments of silence as you can from their moments of dialogue. It will also leave you undecided which of the two is the lead actress, or if they’re both the lead actresses. Luama Bajrami is also a good addition to the film. She slowly makes her presence in. The biggest quality of the film is the cinematography from Claire Mathon. Her cinematography added the color and the feel to the film and has a lot to do with its excellence. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is a one-of-a-kind film that showcases great cinematography and allows for the images to contribute a lot to the storytelling. It’s a fictional story that’s very picturesque and worth admiring. Posted in: Movie Reviews: 2019 \| Tagged: Adèle, Bajrami, Celine, Claire, feu, fire, France, Haenel, Heloise, jeune fille, Lady, LGBT Cinema, LGBT Film, Lilies Films, Luana, Marianne, Mathon, Merlant, Noemie, Portrait, Sciamma Follow Jon The Blogcentric on WordPress.com Subscribe To Me! 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__label__cc	0.735378	0.264622	Posted on 19 May 2008 by Joseph Mallozzi May 19, 2008: The Blade Itself Previous Article May 18, 2008: A cure for insomnia Next Article May 20, 2008: Major Hollywood Star Attacked by Rabid Turtles This wasn’t my first time reading The Blade Itself. I actually read it a little over a year ago at a time when I was blazing through a veritable library of science fiction. I was reading almost exclusively scifi because, well, I didn’t know any better. At the time, my understanding of the fantasy genre was shaped exclusively by what I’d read as a kid and the occasionally cheesy cover art that adorned the big hardcover new releases at my local bookstore. In short, if it involved magical elves, grumpy dwarves, and a quest to find “the chosen one”, I was out. Until, against my better judgment, I decided to pick up Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamorra and Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself. And my opinion of fantasy literature changed. Drastically. I was in! This was my initial response to The Blade Itself after reading it for the first time: “In some ways, The Blade Itself reminded me of The Lies of Locke Lamorra. They are completely different books stylistically and in terms of the stories they tell, and yet one thing they share is a wonderfully wicked sense of humor and a willingness not to take themselves too seriously. The Blade Itself also has the added bonus of offering up multiple POV’s and a nice mix of well-drawn characters. As if often the case in books of this sort – and Altman movies – there are certain characters you’ll like more than others. Captain Jezal de Luthar was my favorite, a perfectly contemptible yet charismatic rogue – although I found the inquisitor, Glotka, an incredibly rich and interesting character. I loved his development throughout. I didn’t take a shine to Logen at first, finding him fairly stock and stereotypical, until later in the book when he becomes the fish out of water, the barbarian in civilized society. I enjoyed most of the book, losing interest when the magical elements took over two-thirds of the way through, then finding my interest renewed in the book’s climax. It will be interesting to see what Joe has planned for his characters.” And, boy, does he have plans! But that’s a discussion for another book (namely, the second in this terrific series, Before They Are Hanged). Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed The Blade Itself, in most part thanks to Abercrombie’s characters. Sure, they’re reprehensible in some respects, and yet they all possess a humanity (one might even say vulnerability) that makes them sympathetic. They may be flawed, their actions suspect, their attitudes surprising – but they’re always interesting. And that’s why I think one of the first book’s strongest points also works against it. Abercrombie introduces and develops so many terrific characters that by the time the main push of the story gets going, the book ends and you’re left hanging. Unlike The Lies of Locke Lamorra which is a self-contained story despite being part of a longer series, Abercrombie’s First Law series follows a narrative path similar to George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. The first book is merely a piece to a greater puzzle. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Yes, it can be incredibly frustrating for the impatient among us, but it is also incredibly rewarding for fans of carefully plotted, character-driven adventure. I liked The Blade Itself a lot. But I loved the follow-up, Before They Are Hanged, even more because that’s when the story really kicks into high gear, offering up twists and turns aplenty while turning those accepted fantasy tropes on their head. Well, hopefully, if you enjoyed reading The Blade Itself as much as I did, you won’t need any convincing. So, what did you all think? Author Joe Abercrombie will be dropping by later in the week to field your questions and comments – so start posting! Today’s blog entry is dedicated to blog regular Alipeeps who, I’ve been told, is going through a difficult time. Mackenzie’s Momma writes: “Can you recommend a good restaurant in Surrey?” Answer: Alas, I cannot. Believe it or not, I’ve never been to Surrey. Thornyrose writes: “1) What ARE they doing with that Stargate in the pictures? 2) Will we see the Atlantis expedition become more isolated from Earth? 3) Is there a chance that the secret of the Stargate program will finally be made public back on Earth?” 4) When will we get another guest appearance in the blog by Baron Destructo and/or Cookie Monster. Answer: 1) See Dovil’s post in yesterday’s comment section. 2) With the ships at Earth’s disposal, it’s almost impossible to isolate them completely. 3) That’s possible. 4) Soon. Soon. They’re studying for their finals. Ytimynona writes: “If a show is being cancelled, shouldn’t the network give the writers enough time to write an ending worth being remembered???” Answer: It all depends on the timing. Some shows find out early enough and are able to script a series finale. Others shows find out too late and their fans are left hanging. Belouchi writes: “I was wondering if can tell us or even better show us through the usual daily picture postings of the new starships that are going to be introduced in season 5.” Answer: I posted some interior ship pics last week. Charles Schneider writes: “ Do you think that it will be a June/July premiere.” Answer: From what I hear, it’ll be a July premiere. David writes: “For the 100th episode, will you be making a quick appearance like Brad Wright did in 200?” Answer: Wasn’t planning on it unless I get to play a wraith. Or a gadmeer. Grapesofwraith writes: “Also, looking at what we know on the episodes, most seem to be part of the larger arc. Are there any you would consider as stand alone eps?” Answer: There are a number of standalone episodes that contain bigger arc elements (ie. The Seed, Broken Ties, Whispers, Tracker, The Queen) in addition to your one-offs (Daedalus Variations, The Shrine). DasNdanger writes: “I can’t wait to see the new Wraith ship – I LOVE gooey, icky Wraithy stuff!! Just wish they’d show us how it’s all created…is it something that Wraith produce themselves, or something they’ve created in the lab, like test tube tech, that then grows on its own?” Answer: Check out The Seed for the cryptic answer. Michael writes: “I’d just like to say ‘Thank You’ to everyone at Bridge Studios for their hard work and patience last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I was there on behalf of CinemaSpy.ca and it was fantastic.” Answer: Hey, Michael. Sorry I missed you. Apparently, the press conference went well past my bedtime. Next time you’re in the neighborhood, drop by the production offices. My office is the one with the villainous décor. Patricia Lee writes: “I was wondering if Joe Flanigan’s character, John Sheppard, was named after that producer from the MacGuyer TV show?” Answer: Nope, he wasn’t. Mackenzie’s Momma writes: “I photoshopped some of the pics from the Fuel dinner into a backround and would love to share it with you(as its a joe centric one lol) should I just email you a link?” Answer: Sure. A Honshuu writes: “What do you mean, “if there is another season”?! Are you trying to curse it?” Answer: Every year I worked on SG-1, I assumed it would be the last – and yet, we kept getting picked up. Until the season I optimistically assumed we would be picked up – when we were cancelled. Rhonda writes: “I was wondering how many people are in the city of Atlantis? I wonder because the lights are one in every sector of the city in the long shots. Just seems weird to me that we sent enough personnel to fill the thing. And are the using fluorescent bulbs?” Answer: I’d say there are a good 300 people in the city. They don’t use fluorescent bulbs but do use Ancient-designed low-energy bulbs. Also, they keep the city lit up to scare away the ghosts. Bluejay writes: “Tell us if you read it so i can pass it on.” Answer: Read it today! Boston 3358 writes: “Is the gate heavy?” Answer: Would you consider 6 tons heavy? If so, then yes. Amz writes: “I often find when I’m writing (or supposed to be writing) that it can be really really hard to get started. Then all goes well until someone (like an editor) reads a draft and gets back to me. The rest can go either way. Is that sort of how it works for you too?” Answer: It’s very difficult to get started and to finish. Also, acts I, II, III, and the first half of IV are difficult too. The rest is a breeze. Lis writes: “When do you typically find out if there will indeed be a next season?” Answer: Usually in the Fall. Achaja writes: “I just wonder if this Wraith’s feeding procedure (by hand) have got something with Jesus’s stigmatics?” Answer: Nope. Carl Beckett writes: “…how did Ford operate the jumper to escape in The Seige part III?” Answer: Don’t recall, but Martin had a great explanation. He’ll be at Comic Con in July. Corner him there. Squall78 writes: “I read an article on SCI FI wire about the Season 5 cast changes. The article ended by saying that Jason Momoa hinted that he would only be interested in one more season of SGA and would want to go on to something else. Was he referring to past season 6, or will Season 5 be his last season?” Answer: I believe he was referring to a potential season 6. Anais33 a ecrit: “ 1)Dans cette saison 5 il y’aura des moments d’émotions entre Teyla et John? 2)De quoi avez vous êtez le plus fiére a la fin du tournage de Whispers?” Answer: Oui. Translation: Yes, there will be some “emotional moments” between Teyla and Sheppard this year. Enzo Aquarius writes: “Have you ever thought about coming over to Toronto for our Sci-Fi conventions?” Answer: Score me an invite and, schedule permitting, I’d love to drop by. AnneTeldy writes: “Isn’t that a Milky Way gate?” Answer: It is. Cherish4 writes: “Will we get any scenes in Season 5 of Sheppard bonding with Teyla’s baby?” Answer: Perhaps. MrsB108 writes: “Will any of the core team face darkness within themselves this year?” Answer: Broken Ties. Erika writes: “Hi Joe is there going to be any emotional moments between Ronon and Teyla in season 5? You steered me right in BAMS’R anything at all. I also like Keller and Rodney together anything for them in season 5?” Answer: A firm “maybe” to both. Joebags writes: “More Keller/Ronon romance? No wonder Jason Momoa announced he wants to leave the show!” Answer: No. He’s leaving because you hurt his feelings with your last comment. Nice going. 110 thoughts on “May 19, 2008: The Blade Itself” Trish (aka whovian) says: I leave my lights on to scare away the ghosts too! And it usually works. One question today: Any chance of the team finding a creature on one of the planets that’s pet material? I’m picturing a florescent green Bubba-esque animal that just hangs out all day. Or perhaps a polka-dotted Maximus-ish critter? 😉 dyginc says: If I was writing a review that would appear in EW or the Times I would say something along these lines. Abercrombie dares to create a world with many distinctive characters that don’t play into the regulated formula of some mainstream fantasies. His words rain like a distant song that calls to arms and propels the reader on a multifaceted jaunt. Intrigue, redemption, vengeance, alliances of necessity, torture, politics, betrayal, love, magic, war, heroes, villains, and the grey in-between come to vivid life as worlds collide in an ever increasing pace. Tongue and cheek barbs, double meanings, and inner monologues, create a version of fantasy noir that has rejuvenated what fantasy can be. Abercrombie is a poet that is not afraid to show you cruelty, the biting edge of a sword, and the need to be something of consequence. Buy this book, grab a pint, sit back, and enjoy the ride. People should tip their hat in honor of such a mastermind. I’m not done the book….. Hell I’m not even done the first 100 pages…. ah well what can I do. But so far so good, I agree with what you’ve said in regards to the characters thus far. I’ll give you more of an in depth reaction when I actually finish. ~Penny~ Hey Joe….6 tonnes!!! Nice answer to the comment about Jason leaving becuase of more Keller/Ronon scenes 🙂 2 questions today…PLEASE ANSWER THEM!!! 1) Again, I saw someone make reference to Baron Destructo and Cookie Monster…could you please explain this to me? What/who are they?…I’m new to your blog so I’m not sure… 2) Does the fact that Jason is, or going to be, a new father part of the reason for him considering to leave Atlantis? When/IF he leaves, do you think you would keep the door open for him to return in a guest role? Thanks Joe…oh, I pre-ordered my copy of Continuum today from Chapters, of all places. I’m sure its going to be good! alipeeps says: Thank you for the dedication. It made me smile. Well, actually it made me cry cos I’m a horrendously emotional mess at the moment but once I got done with the weepy moment I smiled. 🙂 I haven’t joined in much with the chat on here in recent months with all that’s been going on in real life but I still read every day, chronically unreliable internet connection in the depths of deepest, darkest Wales permitting, and your always entertaining blog and the generally incredibly lovely people on “the internetz” have helped keep me sane through some really tough times. And now I’m getting weepy again so time to end before I get too maudlin. I’ve not had chance, sadly, to obtain or read this month’s book club selections but I hope to be joining in in discussions again in the future – how about adding another Iain M Banks to the booklist and seeing if he’d be interested in a guest blog? I’ve been lucky enough to meet him at a book signing and he’s a lovely congenial chap (with very good taste in single malt whiskey). If you haven’t picked up his latest SF novel, Matter, yet, I can highly recommend it. Merci encore une fois et a bientôt. Scarym says: Hey Joe. Now that you have had a change of heart on Fantasy, would you consider Guy Gavriel Kay? He is so amazing. Here is his official site. http://www.brightweavings.com/books/sarantine.htm I just love Sailing to Sarantium and The Lord of Emperors. : ) Thornyrose says: Great blog post. Thanks for the full mailbag, even if Joebags’s comment made my stomach lurch. I’ll check out the rumor control sites after posting this I guess. First, this review is being done by memory, since the gremlins seem to have made off with my copy of The Blade Itself. With their track record, it should make a reappearance within the week. I found the opening chapter of the book to be less than compelling, and I began bracing myself for a dull read. It was a pleasant suprise then, when Glotka suddenly appears on the scene. A Torturer? And why is the man such a physical wreck? From this moment on, I found the book to be an addiction rather than a chore. A major factor was the characters. No character (except perhaps Major West) comes off as totally admirable or likable. But all the flaws the characters suffer seem plausible, as do their better features. And while Jezal serves as the rough “center” of all the characters, the way they all move around him comes together very nicely. More than the characters though, I enjoyed the pacing of the book. The characters were introduced and developed with great finesse, as were the plot points. We were teased through the book, but there was a payoff with answers being provided at a satisfactory rate, even as more teases were introduced. There wasn’t an effort to “shove” the world of the Blade Itself, no longwinded expositions saying “these are who these nations are and this is the geography”. Instead, the information we need to flesh out the world the characters occupied is provided in nuggets drawn from the characters’ own background. It requires a bit more effort from the reader to make the connections, but at least the author gives the readers credit for being able to do so. Even if I hadn’t known before starting, by the halfway point it was made fairly clear that the novel would not be a stand alone. The shifting to the South, the introduction of new characters, and new plot twists offer too many thread to be woven together in the amount of pages left. It’s done skillfully enough that I don’t believe a reader could be resentful of the fact that they’ll have to commit to at least one more book before getting the whole story. This has been one of the more pleasurable books I’ve read in the “BotM” club selections. As much as i’ve enjoyed the short stories, I’ve been weaned on the novel format, and this book provided a filling meal. Based on Mr. Mallozzi’s reactions, I can expect another great read when I read the sequel. Before They are Hanged is at the top of my purchase list, and hopefully will be in my hands in less than 24 hours, as I head out tomorrow for a book run. This is a 9.3 out of 10 on my scale, with no serious flaws from my perspective. I’ve only a few questions for Mr. Abercrombie. What conditions do you prefer to write in/under? claustrophobic closet with a single guttering candle to provide light? A sundeck with the birds flying overhead, and classical music playing on the stereo? At odd moments on the laptop whle communing with the muse? Your website indicates Logen was your original main character, the “thinking man’s barbarian”. Have you found any of the other characters to have pushed Logen aside as your most interesting character, or does he still remain a personal favorite? Will one of the sequels to The Blade Itself lay out a map of the world the characters inhabit, or will that be left to the readers’ imagination? Have you considered producing a book of short stories, and are you planning another multi-book series, or have any ideas on a stand-alone novel? In a related vein, do you see yourself staying in the fantasy genre for the foreseable future, or are you interested in trying out other froms of fiction? Thank you for your time and participation in Mr. M’s blog, and I look forward finishing off the First Law Trilogy. RowenaR says: First time poster, and already a question: Is there any chance we might get to see a team that consists solely of non-English speaking people? Or at least get a more international feeling than in the last two seasons (think the German speaking scientist in the background in “Duet” instead of only flag-spotting)? That would be really great. And now I want chocolate and caramel. Waves at Anne … glad you like the F&SF! littlemckay says: I agree that Logen did seem a bit superficial at first, very stereotypical and I was worried it was going to get old and fast, but then it picked up and I enjoyed the character he proved to be. To be honest, I probably preferred inquisitor Glotka just that tiny bit more than Captain Jezal de Luthar just because you got a glimpse of his thoughts behind everything in the italics. One of my favourite parts was quite early on when Frost tells Glotka that Arch Lector wants to see him and he thinks he’s a dead man; his only genuine reaction to it was, “no more stairs”. Just brilliant! That alone said so much about the character. Describing his pain and nature of his disability gave you everything you physcially needed to know, but that thought said so much about the character’s mental wellbeing and just how rough a time he had during his capture. I still cringe at the thought of torture by slowly chipping away opposing teeth…yeouch! I’d never say I have fully converted to the fantasy genre, I still can’t much see the appeal of LOTR – yeah, I know, sacrilege; weirdo; freak; I’ve hear them all, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea. However, I am more open and not so quick to ignore a book just because it’s in the fantasy section. I read The Blade Itself after my mate wouldn’t give up selling it to me and I’m glad I caved as I really enjoyed it. If I remember correctly, I read it in 2 days and I’m dyslexic so that’s unheard of for me normally, especially a book of near 600 (?) pages. I had a major headache by the time I was through, but 3/4 of the way through, how could you possibly put it down??? lol Oh and it looks like Beckett beat me to the Ford question :-S. Sorry for the double question! You as a Wraith? That would be absolutely fabulous! I like it better than any cast announcement you’ve made so far! PS – I’m in the first 3rd of The Blade Itself. So far I’m not really thrilled with any of the characters, but hopefully they will grow on me. I have to say though, if I don’t like, and I mean actually develop a fondness for, any of the characters in a book, I don’t like the book. Regardless of whether the characters are well written, interesting, or thought-inspiring. I have to identify and root for someone in the book or it just doesn’t work for me. Also, I’m not fond of stories where the characters are not interacting with each other for most of the book. I just end up focusing on the one I like and then skimming over the parts where they don’t appear. (Guess this is why I like the team eps best on SGA and why I didn’t like Heroes) Will try to finish and post more soon pg15 says: What’s this about Alipeeps? I have noticed that she’s been absent from the nets lately, and now I hear she’s having a difficult time? Well, being across the ocean from her kind of put a damper on what I can do, but I hope that all is/will be well with her. Ali, if you’re reading this, you have my condolences on whatever it is that’s bothering you. I may not know you well, but from what I have seen I have absolute faith in you working through these difficult times. I wish you well. 🙂 Nika says: Not done the book yet! But did want to say today’s mailbag made me laugh out loud and now my hubby thinks I’m even more insane than he already does. Gee, thanks, Joe. Are you tall enough to play a wraith? 🙂 I can’t really review “The Blade Itself” because I only made it to page 100 before I gave up and turned to “The Android’s Dream”. I guess the book was just not for me. I found none of the characters sympathetic, and after a while, I just put it back on the shelf (next to Before They Are Hanged, which I foolishly bought before even starting The Blade Itself, since I was so sure that I would like it). Well, maybe in a month or so, I will try again. MizMoose says: Firstly, I’d just like to say that your posting schedule drives me (further) insane. I keep missing posts, somehow. I think maybe my brain has a wormhole in it. Or something. 2nd, to comment on something from your previous post, were you aware that “clown college” is how a lot of military folk (including zoomies, I believe) refer to the Grad-level schools run by their branch? When you need a master’s degree to become a Major, you go spend time at “clown college” (unless you’re a friend of mine, who got a mail-order MBA while sitting waiting for flight orders during the Gulf War. Guess he’s a Mail Order Clown (-: .) Lastly, other people’s comments (along with my [still :)] wondering about Fondy’s name origin) make me say yet again, Mr. M., you need a FAQ :-). Well, if it does come to Jason leaving the show, and the show keeps going without him, maybe you could use the opportunity to bring Ford back. I think that would be a nice “full circle” sort of thing, and who knows what new stuff Ford could bring to the table after several years being gone. Not that I want Jason to leave, of course, but if it has to happen, I’d rather him be replaced by someone from back-when rather than yet another new character. TK42ONE says: Well, I find it very interesting that while I could not stand (or even finish) Lynch’s book, I loved Abercrombie’s Blade Itself and Before They Are Hanged. Can’t wait for the third book to come out. So many scenes in his books were just….there. The best. I don’t know how to put it in words. Anyway, just stumbled on your journal here and noticed some Stargate pics. Bonus! Patricia Lee says: Boo, hiss, boo… Joebags!!! Now, now Boys… don’t start any rumors! Lot’s of actors like to try different roles. Jason is a young strapping young man with lots of energy. And let’s not forget his hunky body! If he left, which is no doubt his decision, it would a loss, especially for all us swooning female fans, but the show would go on and I’m sure the “producers” would find a suitable replacement. Let’s not pick up this bandwagon just yet. Beside, season 6 is about 18 months away! No need to sweat something that is just speculation… Hold them there horses!!! fsmn36 says: 4) When will we get another guest appearance in the blog by Baron Destructo and/or Cookie Monster. Answer: 4) Soon. Soon. They’re studying for their finals. snorts I didn’t know certified evil geniuses had to take finals still. I suppose that makes me feel a little better. Thoughts on The Blade Itself tomorrow. For now, it’s back to studying. PS: I think you’re cheating by posting your already-posted initial reactions only. No new thoughts? 😉 dennis pickersgill says: any chance you could find out if a winner has been picked for the super fan commercial? also if they have any plans to release the entries so we could all see them. we (meaning very dedicated fans)submitted one on the puppies dressed as sga characters. thanks for all the backround on the show. The Gadmeer? Hehe. Love their music. 😉 Since I’m severely lacking in funds, I’ve been getting all my books from the library (one of the best institutions on Earth). Sometimes I feel bad that I’m not actually buying the books, but this time my conscience was spared! My library didn’t have The Blade Itself (although, oddly enough, it did have Before They Are Hanged). So I submitted a purchase request and soon thereafter received an email from the library informing me that due to my request, they’ve purchased it. Yay! So, in a way, I DID buy the book…yeah…and I now see that there’s a very decent hold list for it. Anyway, I positively adored The Blade Itself. Aside from Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, I generally don’t read fantasy. I’ve been ignoring your fantasy BOTM selections because of this. However, your high praise of the book coupled with the absolutely GORGEOUS cover (yes, I admit to judging a book by its cover) won me over. I thought the characters were great. My favorite was also Jezal dan Luthar. I just got the biggest kick out of him. He’s such an arrogant weeny. With an excellent jaw line. I loved how he fell for the oldest trick in the book, with his “I’ll show you!” attitude to his training. Hehe. Glokta is such an interesting character…I’d love to read a book about him during his glory days, prior to his torture. I wonder how like (or unlike) Jezal he was. I must admit, however, that towards the end of the book he started to irk me. He became too…I don’t know…”out to get” Bayaz and co. He’s a bit too sure of his intelligence…he needs to fall down a peg or two (granted, he has fallen down a giant cliff in terms of his life experience). I’d say the opposite is true when it comes to Logan. He bored me initially, but slowly started to get more personality. I loved his amazement and sense of wonder when he arrived in the city (pipes and stuff), as well as his disgust. He’s another guy whose past I’d like to learn more about. We all know he’s “The Bloody Nine,” but I don’t think we’ve quite been given enough to know why he’s so feared to the point of being considered only a legend by many. (I mean, we know he’s killed crap-loads of people, but…) So far, Ferro annoys me. Way too one-track on vengeance. I hope she gets more personality, other than “I’m pissed, I trust no one, killkillkill.” I actually really like West. He seemed like the most “good” character. Until he beat up his sister (that threw me for a loop). But hey, he was sorry and has daddy issues. While on this family, Ardee rocks. I hope we see more of her. Brother navigator guy (I can’t remember his name. Why am I thinking Longfoot?) is very annoying to me. Right now he’s reminding me of Tom Bombadil, in a weird way. Ugh. I love the title/name Practical Frost. I don’t really have an opinion on Bayaz yet. But I’m really liking his apprentice…whose name also eludes me at the moment. In regards to the characters, you say, “…they all possess a humanity (one might even say vulnerability) that makes them sympathetic.” I agree. To me, one thing that they all seem to have in common is that they seem very alone in life. They all have issues that make them feel like outsiders. So it’s nice that they’re all banding together now. I have to say, I never felt so bad for Glokta as when he realized that West DID visit him after his torture. The complete change in his attitude when he realized that he DID have a friend was almost heart-breaking. It’s funny, because you mention how this book concentrates so much on the introductions of the characters that so little of the main plot, or whatever, is revealed. Looking back on it, that’s so true. But while reading it, I wasn’t ever frustrated by this, nor even noticed it, really. But I am interested to see where this all leads! Think this would make a good movie? Or are there too many separate parts that the narrative wouldn’t lend itself well to the big screen? Hmm. I guess I don’t really have any questions for Mr. Abercrombie. But good job, man! Who’s your favorite character in the book? Who was the most fun to write? Mackenzie's Momma says: Awww thanks for answering BOTH my questions joe! I emailed the Baron the backround, hope he and TLAME get a kick out of it. I guess I’ll have to take my chances with Surrey, if I find something good I’ll send it your way. BlueJay says: Yay! you read the story. Now to get wraithie over here for some explaining. (Hide all the planks) David… you asked Joe… Welcome to the Blog… I’m sure Mr. Mallozzi won’t mind if I point you to the spam bait link… as far as I can tell the Baron and Cookie Monster are Mr. Mallozzi’s alter egos. He has a wonderful habit of using them to respond to annoying spam emails. Read all about them in the link on the right side of the page called Spambait… http://spambait.wordpress.com/ Also. if you use the search feature on Joe’s page and type in Baron Destructo or Cookie Monster it will bring up all the blog references Joe has written to date. This tool is a great way of finding out if Joe has already answers a question…which over the past few years he has answered most of the ones you’ve asked to date. Check it out. moms2398 says: As always, thanks for the blog. Real Life has been a little crazy for me lately. It’s the end of the school year and my dear daughter seems to have some performance every other night on top of my in-laws having a fire in their house that forced them to move in with me, my darling husband, and two kidlets. Sorry, I’ve been absent. When did this thing about Jason leaving come about? Is this a joke or for real? If it is true, is it legal in Canada to chain an actor in his trailor until he changes his mind? Just curious. I’ll try to keep up in the future. Thanks for the invite. Sorry I missed you, too. I’d love to do an interview sometime. Villainous décor, eh. Should I bring a crucifix and garlic? Joe- When will we find out who won the Get-in-the-gate contest? And in what episode will that licky person appear? head spins Whoa…now THAT’S a mailbag!! (someone had way too much time on his hands today… ) 1. I’m a bit disappointed that Atlantis won’t be distanced from earth – I just like the isolation factor. But I’ll live with it, it’s a minor thing now anyway. 2. It seems there’s going to be a lot more revealed about the Wraith in S5 (new ship, ‘cryptic’ answer to how their tech is produced, new Wraith characters, etc) – looking forward to it. I only hope this represents an embracing of the Wraith, and not a tying up of loose ends so that they can be written out of the show. Can you reassure me…or should I start the letter-writing campaign now? 😉 3. Yes, yes! PLEASE appear as a Wraith! I’ve already got a name picked out for you and everything! 4. If the character of Ronon is ever written out of the show whimper, he can ONLY be replaced by Todd. If Todd has already met a terrible end by then glares daggers at JM, then another Wraith on par with Todd would have to take his place. If this show doesn’t somehow – someway – figure out how to make a permanent ally of an alien race (or individual) with a great (and slightly twisted) sense of humor and high intelligence (not to mention the snazzy wardrobe, beautiful hair, complex social structure and unusual biology), then all hope is lost. I can already imagine the scenarios…Sheppard introducing him to Dracula movies, Keller flirting, Rodney debating on whose hunger is greater, Keller flirting, Teyla exchanging hair care tips…just SO much material there! 😀 5. Thanks for answering my not-really-a-question, question! Appreciate it! If I had known you were in an answering mood, I would have come up with a REAL question, and it would’a been a DOOZY! kicks self 6. psst, Joe…the two male Wraith in SoW and in Midway were the same dudes, no doubt about it (we have the scientific research – and screen caps – to prove it). Just smile and agree with us, or we’ll forever bug you about it. Seems they survived that weenie of a hive crash into the cloning facility, otherwise, how would they have ratted out Todd in Midway? Tricksty fellas, those two. REAL QUESTION: Since the cloning facility apparently wasn’t totally destroyed, will it ever be used again, perhaps as a means for creating a food supply for the Wraith? If brainless clones (Wraith or human) were created, kept alive only by brainstem activity – having no thought or awareness of self – they technically would not be sentient, could not live on their own, and therefore could possibly be a food source, albeit a pretty bland one. Yeah, yeah…I keep trying to figure out ways to feed these poor guys. I have the same problem with strays… 🙄 Take care – and thanks, as always!! It’s just not going to be the same without Jason Momoa. Can’t you pay him off, or better yet contract him for another few seasons, in the season 6 fine print. Like AT had another year on her contract? Anything to keep our Jason. Please….? IMO it’s like Boston legal without, Denni Crane, and Alan Shaw. It’s just not the same. The show would lose a part of itself. What I would call it’s X-factor. The show just wouldn’t survive in the same aspects, without the very horny/rude/funny/human, characters. Nothing to do with BOTM but i hope you read it anyway ^^ “flingslass writes: “Would Australians be there as military personnel or would they be there as part of the scientific contingent.” Answer: Both.” Could we see a scientisit and/or military person stroll past with the flag on his shoulder? (the tag thing they wear, not an actual big arse flag lol) PLEASE? It would be so awesome! Id die from happiness XD Hi Joe, did you guys catch the person who leaked AoT or can we expect a Continuum ‘pre-release’ too? 🙂 —PATRICIA LEE— Thank you fr explaining to me the whole Cookie Monster, etc. thing…it makes a lot more sense now! Plus, they are quite fun to read… OH! You could be the Australian-walking-past-guy! XD Hachi says: I like Jason Momoa quite a bit in his role as Ronon, but I completely understand his desire to explore new horizons. He will have given us several years of his life and being young, probably doesn’t feel the need to stick with guaranteed income and job security, no matter how temporary. A restless spirit, he may just be compelled to stretch his wings and fly free… we should thank him and wish him well. PS – Joe please be a Wraith! Your co-writers/producers too, then we could all try to spot who was who under the make-up! Enzo Aquarius says: Heh, I would love to…if I can find out how to. It would be amazing to see you nonetheless. 🙂 We have a number of conventions including “Polaris” (formerly Toronto Trek, but that’s just a name, it’s a generic sci-fi convention), and Stargate personalities have been here (I think Christopher Judge has been to it, but don’t take my word for it). However, for somebody like you, the ‘Fan Expo Canada’ may be your preference (or even, just going to it 😉 ). It’s a multi-genre convention (sci-fi, horror, comic, anime and gaming) which is pretty big that occurs every August or September at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. I went a few years back and it’s amazing, saw Robert Picardo and Paul McGillion even. Just even going to it is a neat experience. I don’t want to post the URL for risk of this being marked as spam, but you can find the Fan Expo Canada website by simply searching the name on Google, should be the second hit (It’s run by Hobbystar, but the link is on their homepage). – Enzo Aquarius Ddippel says: I believe in season 6 of SG-1 they mentioned that the gate was 60,000 pounds. We’re you just referring to the model that was in the parking lot? or the gate itself. Or do I have my information wrong? 😉 Narelle from Aus says: If you do decide to play the part of the Wraith, as a sign of respect, can you please be the “Life Thucking” Wraith? Should have said “in honour of the Life Thucking Wraith”. It’s taken 30.5 years, but I think I can now officially declare that my brain has run out. Anyone got a spare? when will there be sex on Atlantis? does no one on the expedition ever have lasting relations with people of the pegasus galaxy? Don’t they get lonely? No one has kids with them? or wants to get married? also, i was helping a friend send a care package to her husband and his platoon in Iraq and it got me thinking. when Atlantis is cut-off from Earth, and only gets the occasional visit by ship, that would make mailcall very personal and emotional, even desperate for some of the expedition members waiting and hoping for something from home; favorite food (chocolate!! – missing from the pegasus galaxy), letters and photos FROM home, new Stargate DVDs, hometown newspapers (there is something about the printed word that makes more of a connection than webpage for me). ever thought of incorporating that into the show? Sparrow_hawk says: Here is my review and question for Joe Abercrombie’s “The Blade Itself”: “The Blade Itself” has one of those slightly unsettling openings that plunk you down into the middle of a chase without any actual introduction to the characters or the world. I’m not usually a fan of combat-driven action fantasy, but persevered in the belief that there had to be more to it or Joe wouldn’t have recommended it. I’m glad that I did. The story is told through action rather than narrative and deals more with the characters themselves than with the world in general. The characters are intriguing and the intrigues are positively Byzantine. Three of the main characters bring to mind masculine version of the aspects of the Goddess of Celtic legend: The Maiden, The Mother and The Crone. Sort of an ultimate warrior version: Luthar, the callow and shallow youth; Logen, the world-weary, extremely experienced warrior and shaman (?) and Bayaz, the ancient wise-man/mage who is not a soldier, but nevertheless has played a role in many battles. Glokta seems to be their twisted and distorted reflection: the image of a warrior seen through a glass darkly. Logen especially was full of surprises. He was my least favorite character for the first third of the tale, but by the end had become the one about whom I cared the most. Glokta the Inquisitor was so bitter and his actions so repulsive that I started dreading the chapters that dealt with him. However, I’ve got to admit that his inner dialogue throughout those sections provided some very witty albeit sarcastic humor. Luthar was a bit predictable in his reactions, but that fits his character. All of them have great potential. And I very much liked the way they all gained a “new perspective” – literal and figurative – after traveling through the Tower. But I feel like I have barely gotten to know them. “The Blade Itself” left me hanging. After several hundred pages, all I really know is that a team has been gathered to go to the end of the world to do ….. something. But, surprisingly, I didn’t mind. In fact, I’m really dying to know what that something is! And why did Bayaz need those two particular men? Why did the king mistake Luthar’s identity after the Contest? What is the connection between Luthar’s father and Bayaz? The book poses more questions than it answers, but since it is the first book of a series, that’s fine. However, I like a bit of closure in my fiction. A few tantalizing unresolved loose ends are wonderful as long as there is some resolution of major plots along the way. I’m hoping that this series will be finite or will at least have story arcs that come to a satisfactory conclusion before the characters move on. Most of my questions are related to the plot, so I’ll be starting “Before They Hang” tonight. I put off reading it so my view of the first book wouldn’t be skewed by the second. One question that is nagging at me: Will we get to find out more about Malacus Quai, Bayaz’s apprentice? I’m hoping that there is more to him than meets the eye and that he is not just a plot device. I really like the guy. Respectfully submitted by Sparrow_hawk @ Emily – I feel the same way about most of the characters. I really like poor Quai (Bayaz’s apprentice) and I’m hoping he’ll have a chance to grow up and show his stuff in the course of the tale mynameisNada says: I tried desperately to have The Blade Itself read by today, but grad school and work took up all my free time. Anyway, I am a good third into the book, and I have a question and comment to make. The comment I would like to make is that I enjoy how much time you spend on each character before moving on to the next. It definitely gave me enough time time to get interested in each of them, and just as I was beginning to get a bit restless the next chapter moved onto another point of view. And to add to that, I think this is the first novel in a long time that I have read with multiple perspectives and I have enjoyed the experience-so thank you for that. The question I have is in regards to the quote that opens the book (its from Homer I believe, but I don’t have my book in front of me to confirm this). Anyway, as I’m reading your book, and to be quite honest at other points during the day, my mind constantly goes back to the quote, and I wonder a lot about how an individual is empowered to use a blade, or other weapon, simply by possessing it. Did this passage influence your writing of The Blade Itself in anyway or was it added as an after thought because it fit with the tone of the book? Thanks! I look forward to continuing reading your book. Tim Gaffney says: Last week I finished the SG-1 novel “Barque of Heaven.” It is not to be missed. Most certainly the best of the SG-1 novels. narellefromaus says: Erin said: “when will there be sex on Atlantis?” When? It’s rampant! Teyla and Kanan, Keller and Ronon, Keller and McKay, Chuck the Technician and Zelda the Canteen dish washer, Shephard and McKay. Watch for those scientists in the background who look all concerned about something in the lab and then, a subtle lustful look at each other as the doors close, and cut to McKay in the foreground saying “Oh no. This isn’t good” as a Wraith cruiser is about to attack Atlantis and the ZPM is almost fully depleted. We know what’s going on once those doors close. nods to self There’s nooks and crannies all over that Ancient ship for some last minute craziness before Atlantis is about to be destroyed…again. It’s there. Just look for it. I mentioned I’m in the market for a new brain right? roguemuse says: Hey Joe can you dedicate tomorrow’s blog to my sister ‘Cathain’ as we’ve been unable to talk for two night’s due to my internet sucking? Aqualegia says: Yay to Ronon going… (psst, If you kill him off before the end of this season I’ll send chocolate, lots of chocolate – but no cheating and bringing him back). I suppose you couldn’t get rid of Keller at the same time, she’s boring and whines a lot… Back to Ronon; the only thing I’ve ever liked about Ronon is his very cool gun – so when you kill him off please make sure that Sheppard gets to keep the gun. shiningwit says: The Blade Itself. I’m sure far more eloquent souls than I will be providing sufficient material for Mr Abercrombie to comment upon. For my part I would like to add that I read purely for pleasure and The Blade Itself was a pure pleasure to read. familiar enough to make one comfortable but interjected with brilliant observations on the human process. I have to admit that Glokta was my favourite with his twisted body and outlook being a refreshing change, the inclusion of his thought processes was particularly inspired. The interesting juxtaposition between Glokta and Luthar a kind of before and after picture or “here’s one I did earlier” view of heroics gone wrong was of particular interest as we normally see the hero being a success and legend in his own lunchtime and then training his latest protege to step up for the sequel (or is that just the hollywood treatment?) but here we see what happens when it doesn’t work out how its supposed to and what a refreshing change it was too. I’m looking forward to reading about Arch Lector Glokta. All in all and without going into too much detail Joe Abercrombie is the latest addition to the shiningwit library and in fullness of time will have his own shelf just as soon as he writes enough books to fill one. Long may you write Mr A! I forgot to say wish me luck with my exam today. the future of humanity depends on it. anais33 says: Coucou joseph =) Je poste mon commentaire plus tôt aujourd’hui car je ne suis pas aller en cour..j’aivais vraiment trop mal au dos, mais je vais assayez de prendre un rendez vous au docteur pour ce soir. Je suis trés contente car ce soir je vais avoir un nouveaux portable, le samsung SGH F330! Whaou!!Merci d’avoir répondu a toutes ces questions et notament a la mienne! Sa nous donne des information trés intéréssante! C’est super qu’il y’ai des moment d’amotion entre Teyla et John, j’adore ce couple^^! 300 personnes, sa n’est pas beaucoup, ils doivent trés compétant dans leurs domaines. J’ai une bonne nouvelle Joseph! Je suis une littéraire! Mais j’avais simplement oublier a cause de mon ordinateur ..En faisant mes carton hier (et oui je déménage bientot,snif) j’ai retrouver des centaines de livres dans ma chambre, je ne me souvenais même plus de certain, de plus j’ai fait un magnifique poéme a mon cheri en 10 minute et qui réspécter éxactement les régles du Sonnet..O_O incroyable. 1) A l’excéption Teyla personne de va devenir Papa ou Mamamn dans cette nouvelle saison? 2)Dans cette saison 5 y’aura t’il une scéne qui rendra les téléspectateurs très triste, comme une mort ? Bon ba merci beaucoup Joseph, vous êtes adorable! Enorme Bisouu!! ♥Bonne journée! AmmoMonkey says: Hi Joe. Hope you’ve been enjoying you days off. I was re-watching the entire season 4 recently and was reminded of a question I had the first time I watched it. Why is the Apollo a USS ship while the Daedalus and Odyssey are USAF? Is that something to do with the inclusion of the US marines into the SGC and Atlantis alongside the Air Force? Thanks, Ciao Prior_of_the_Ori says: Any appearance by those Wraith Keepers we heard about back at the end of season 2? The ones that supposedly made their alliances according to that Wraith scientist. flingslass says: Joe, I think I gave Maximus a run for his money on the way home tonight. Try vomiting in some lady’s empty lunchbox that she kindly provided. (She didn’t want it back!) I wish it had been too much to drink but unfortunately it was only gastro. penjab says: Have you read any of Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series? I think those would fall under the Fantasy series. He also wrote The Dresden Files. drldeboer says: Ronon’s character sputtered for a season, then really got fleshed out beginning with Sateda, I think, presently I like him very much. Lets do a season 6 to anticipate missing him in season 7. And now for The Blade Itself that’s buried in my gut and will bleed alot when I pull it out in the next 5 min. First, I think it takes a lot of talent to write a bunch of mostly unlikeable characters! If I had to pick a fave it was Bayaz. The characters, however, were the most interesting part, not the story which I found very hard to stay involved yet had a morbid fascination of what was going to happen next- reading this book was like watching the current Battlestar Galactica- in both cases, I don’t really give a crap about any of the characters, but look to see who’s going to die next. I read fantasy to “escape” and that’s tough when many of the characters are too flawed and too closely resemble people I’ve known in real life (minus the occupation). When I read fantasy I WANT the glamorous, the hero, the brave, the elf… don’t get me wrong, Sword of Shannara type stuff does NOT exclusively define my taste (Drizzt Do’Urden and his elfkin comes closest in recent years). So… took the blows like a woman for this book club but sorry, at present I have no interest in continuing the torture. Happy Writing, Mr Abercrombie, thanks for coming by here. wraithbones says: I know this has nothing whatsoever to do with anything in your blog, but I was curious…. Do you have a Facebook account? If so do you know of any other, actor/actress/writer/director/producer of Stargate that does as well? If not thanks anyway! Chevron7 says: You’ll be proud of me. We had a library thing at Borders tonight. Members could register and come along and select books for the library – whatever they want and the library would buy them. I chose The Blade Itself. I figured that by the time I had caught up to that BOTM it should have been processed. I also bought a Neil Gaiman (American Gods), a BBQ recipe book, Facebook book and a coffee table book on great treks. It was cool. I could have bought a trolley full of books :-). The gadmeer would be a pretty hard act to pull off. Perhaps you could appear partially, like say a hand reaching for something. How’s your hand acting? Only we would know it was you. Cheers, Chev Was just watching the end of Hide and Seek. David Hewlett played it so well. Cool ep. Loved Shep’s line “Now THAT was a Hail Mary” The Fez says: I thought you said that the 100th episode? What’s up with the Replicators and Las Vegas? http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=54491 I hope I’m taking this out of context and that the 100th episode isn’t going to be humorous like people have feared? NeKo said: We would SO be in charge of cricket on the South pier. If you hit it into the drink it’s six and out. 😀 Let’s see todays possible related posts: # “Lost,” season 4 – I guess from the Stargate mailbag. # Janet Talks Gay Rumors, Broadway and Drag Queens – Marc Malkin – E! Online – huh? # Prince’s desert reign at Coachella – ?? where do they get these? 😀 Ruby Caspar says: Ah the Gadmeer… I haven’t seen Scorched Earth in so long but I absolutely love that episode! I loved that it involved a people that SG-1 had already helped, even though we hadn’t met them before – it really brought home the fact that we don’t see everything they do. And fantastic team interaction throughout… Anyway, I was wondering whether the rumours of Las Vegas for the 100th episode are actually true… don’t get me wrong, I would absolutely love it, but part of me can’t help suspecting it’s a joke. Is it? Also, who named Teyla’s baby and what is he called? First…if we get to vote, I prefer you be a Wraith. If you must be a Gadmeer, then please take the assumed form of an Ankaran. Questions for Joe Abercrombie: – how difficult/easy was it to keep the characters straight as you unfolded them? I found I was flipping back to see what I missed with some of them. – the title – “The Blade Itself” was a statement finally made by Bayaz when he insisted Logen take the sword. Perhaps I missed it, but I was looking for something that would bring the sentence to bear…Like King Arthur’s sword, etc. – what was the impetus to introduce contemporary language (expletives like the “f” word) into the dialogue? This was one thing that diverted the book’s timeline and “feel” from something more “medieval – musketeers” in nature. – was there a typo or my imagination? Page 187, the discourse between Jezal and Ardee. She tells him to stop “whinging.” Then a couple of sentences later, Jezal refers to his whining. There were so many possible linkages to literature themes we have been exposed to. Mountain men, warriors, medieval times, crusades, wizards, etc. While some of it was seeming to fall into a “place,” there was so much that pointed to and took another path. This was the challenge and I think one aspect that made it enjoyable. He kept me guessing. Now to make time with the BOTM selections to find time for the next in Abercrombie’s series. The book started with Logen so I thought Logen was to be the principal throughout which was kinda underscored by the statement by Bayaz regard the sword. It was interesting to find Glokta emerge as the more central character particularly since his is the very tortured journey. I found the initial chapters slow to unfold to really grab me until the diversity of the characters became apparent. This entire book was a difficult “life” journey for several of the characters. While there were times to feel the characters’ pain, it was interesting in the unfolding because the characters were not typical. The start of each introduction was somewhat typical and then I found the character was not typical. I was surprised by the end and the new adventures for Glokta. His story contained so many potential paths where it could have ended; yet he keeps on going. I found I was liking this character even though initially he seemed totally gruesome. The entire unfolding of the politics seemed to have some elements we can trace to many societies or politics; the wheeling and dealing and conniving. But it certainly gave the backdrop for the required punishments dealt. I did find some of the contemporary language a little distracting. I know many authors introduce the swearing, but it seemed so out of place in the context of what I had assumed the timeframe/history was. Now I wonder how many books of other timeframes/history anchors that may have had expletives and I did not notice. Leila says: I’m going into surgery today and will be housebound for at least 3 weeks. I could sure use some pics of David Hewlett and Jason Momoa to tide me over and lift my spirits in the coming weeks. I’d add Joe F. but apparently he doesn’t want his pics on here for some reason. Any pics of them on the submerged stargate or soaking wet in prep for the scenes? I hate to hear Jason may leave, but understand that sometimes people want a change, to do something different. That doesn’t change the fact that the fans will all miss him. Amz says: Thanks for the insights into your writing process Joe, it sounds easy once you get started, and struggle through Acts I, II, III, the first part of Act IV and the finish, right? I’ll remember that when I’m trying to start my next piece. Onto The Blade Itself… I didn’t know what to expect with this one, as the only selection for this month’s BOTMC that I could track down. I’m never sure with books part of a longer series whether they will be enjoyable, sometimes (and I find this a fair bit within the fantasy genre) the first book in a series can be a lot of contextualising. But I was pleasantly proved wrong with The Blade Itself, which got straight to the point with it’s beginning images of Logen running through the bush. I’ve noticed a lot of the other comments so far have said the the beginning bored them a bit. Do you think it was because there had been no introduction to Logen as a character we could or should care about? Or because it’s not really conventional. I guess I’m a fan of playing around with narrative style and structure, so I enjoyed the change. In terms of the structure, I enjoyed going from one character to another most of the time. Especially in Adua when we would often get the perspectives of a couple of the characters. The only time I can think of when I didn’t like the shift from character to character was with the introduction of Ferro, which seemed to come out of nowhere. Actually, there were a few things about the Ferro storyline I wasn’t so sure about. In particular I thought the relationship between her and Yulwei was so interesting (and funny) that I would have liked to see it explored a bit more. Also, the way they just turned up in Adua didn’t work for me. I would have liked to have had another section from their perspective before West finds them trying to get into the Agriont. The Ferro section seemed a little under-developed, but I’m hoping that changes in the next books (as is often the case with a series). The characters were definitely my favourite thing about this book. Like you Joe, Jezal dan Luthar was the character that amused me the most by far, and Glokta was great as well. What interests me about Glokta is that he was crippled by torture, and now the only thing he can do that seems to make him feel useful is to torture. Although it seemed towards the end, when West asks for his help, that there is more to him. I also really like Dogman and Grim, both of whom have simple language, but complex emotions. In particular the different voices, tones and narrative styles for each character amazed me. The use of phrasing like “say one thing for Logen Ninefingers” or “why do I do this” (Glokta) or Dogman’s need to relieve himself every time he’s about to ambush others, really gave every character a unique voice. I don’t often notice language being used so well, but in this case I did and I really appreciated it. I’d like to know if Joe Abercrombie consciously came up with the phrases, language styles for each of the characters before he started writing, or if it was something he picked up on while he was writing and then ran with it. Thornyrose commented that: “There wasn’t an effort to “shove” the world of the Blade Itself, no longwinded expositions saying “these are who these nations are and this is the geography”.” I think that’s a really interesting point that I would have missed had you not brought it up. In a lot of the fantasy books I’ve read there have been things like maps, long descriptions and/or political or military discussion to contextualise the world. I think there is a verisimilitude in the way The Blade Itself doesn’t do that, and simply mentions Angland or Gurkhul or the Union in a familiar way. And despite my initial concerns that it would end in a major cliff-hanger, as lots of the book series I have read tend to do, I didn’t find the book very open-ended at all. Sure, there were things not tied up and questions not answered, but there was enough for it to feel like a complete book to me. And that sometimes isn’t the case. That’s about all I can think of right now, but I’m looking forward to more discussion this week. Neb says: I’m confused about ghost in the machine and what the “Season 5 Exclusive Preview (Continued)!” interview said… was Weir written out or just Torri? Will GitM be the last mention of Elizabeth? Is that the end? (I’ll be sad, but I’ll take closure.) Will that be the end of the replicator story line? (I know others complain about it, but I love Niam and Oberoth, oh and I’ve asked this before but if there’s ever a musical episode, can Oberoth have a number? pleeeeaasse?) If Momoa leaves, do you think he’ll come back if you do an Atlantis movie? In Season 5, are there any emotional moments between any two characters that we haven’t asked about yet and you’re willing to tell us? a. loquita says: I noticed in yesterday’s pictures that there is a large dumpster to the left of the Stargate. Then there is a trailer right next to it. Which poor actor has their trailer right next to a dumpster?!?! And what did they do to win that lovely spot? Gilder says: I have a bribe for Jason to stay: more hand-crafted caps to relieve some of the “dreads stress”. Carson's Lemming says: [b]Mister Mallozzi:[/b] With the mentions of all these relationship moments in season five, is there any chance that as of yet there will be some sweet [b]Carson/Teyla[/b] moments in season five and are there any planned? Because I think they are just great together. Thanks. 🙂 “The upcoming fifth season of SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate Atlantis will focus heavily on the Wraith–with a side trip to Las Vegas to commemorate the show’s 100th episode, producers told SCI FI Wire during a visit to the show’s sets in Vancouver, Canada, on May 16. (Spoilers ahead!) Do you realize how HOT it is in Vegas that time of year? All the make-up will melt! 🙁 Laina Babaina says: Hey Joe, I am quite new to your site and I just have a question. I know from experiance that writting scripts are hard. I personaly had to write one for this movie we just finished shooting. And when the Balle Du Fromage cast gets together to write a skit, we end up in fits of laughter and a completely ploticy incorect skit that you couldn’t even show on late night TV. So when the Big Heads sit down to write a script for a show, do you guys end up writting complete nonsense? Or is it all strictly buisness with you guys? I just want a little insight to the genious behind Stargate. If you could answer, that would be amazing! Big Fan, Alaina. pilgrim says: I’m a little nervous about joining in because I’m not the most intellectual of people but I’ll try not to say anything too moronic. Firstly let me say that, like you it seems Joe, I’m not a big fan of the stereotypical swords and sorcery fantasy novels. Many fantasy writers make the mistake of becoming too bogged down in their own mythology and you end up with great reams of exposition and complicated history to wade through. With The Blade Itself there is a mythology and a history there but you never feel that its laid on too thick, bits and pieces of it are slowly revealed as the story unfolds and it has, thus far in the story, never become overly complicated or hard to follow. I also like that the author has steered clear of the overly flowery language that often plagues fantasy novels, something that is guaranteed to leave me grinding my teeth in annoyance. It does take a while in this first book for the greater story to start to reveal itself and I can understand why some people found it difficult to get into but it really is worth the effort once everything starts to fall into place. As others have said, it is the characters that make the story. On the surface we really shouldn’t like them very much – yet you find yourself rooting for them anyway because we see glimpses of the men they could be. Ultimately its their flaws that make them so enjoyable to spend time with, shining examples of heroism tend to be rather boring on the whole. I think Glotka is probably my favourite of the bunch, a torture victim turned torturer, a wonderfully complex character who I found myself desperately rooting for despite him being morally reprehensible. He is utterly consumed by self-loathing. For example his extreme hatred of Luthar is less about Luthar being a thoroughly obnoxious individual, which he is, and more that every time Glokta looked at him he saw himself as he had been before he was crippled and it reminded him not only of what he could have been but also that it was partly his own arrogance that led to his downfall. That self-loathing and constant questioning of why he does what he does adds so much more depth to a character that could easily have been just the creepy torturer. I think if I have one major complaint about the book it is the abrupt ending, now luckily I had taken a leap of faith and ordered Before They Are Hanged at the same time so I could jump right back in but I imagine for a lot of people it was deeply frustrating. Although I can see why Mr Abercrombie chose to leave it at that point in the story it still felt too sudden for me. All in all I thoroughly enjoyed The Blade Itself and its follow up Before They Are Hanged and shall be getting my grubby little paws on a copy of The Last Argument of King’s at the first available opportunity. Regarding The Blade Itself: I think what does shine the most is the characters. Each is unique and fully-fleshed out. Glokta is amusing with his sarcastic inner dialouge and even when he whines, you can’t help but forgive it. At the same time, Abercrombie doesn’t allow us to feel pity for him, because he may be crippled, but that’s no excuse for being a bastard–or someone who does his job without question. While some might say he shouldn’t ask questions, considering his job involves torture, it seems to me having been tortured himself, he has lost all sense of reasonableness. Arresting other people by forcing prisoners to write their names down on the list? Far from honorable or any true sense of justice. Luthar is a stuck up prig (excuse the language), who made me at least, consistently waffle on whether I liked him or not. One minute he was a drunken slob, the next he was actually trying and living up to his rank…but then he goes and stares at himself in the mirror like Narcissus. He’s the kind of character I love to hate. What I really appreciate is the way Abercrombie writes him, it’s obvious he’s growing as a man. And I find sometimes the best characters (and people in general) are those who are truly reformed or have learned from past mistakes. My favorite character (of the main three) actually happened to be Logen. Perhaps because, while more the stereotypical fantasy “barbarian”, he was also the only one who seemed to have any morals, strange as they may be. Sure, he killed people but that is the kind of society in this book. He admitted to mistakes. Imagine my surprise when it’s revealed right near the end that he is something of a berserker (or split personality?). He’s not simply killing because it’s his “job”–there’s something deeper there. I can’t wait to find out what that is. I also enjoyed Major West. Right from the beginning, he was a dedicated officer, a commoner risen to rank who understood what others felt. Again, imagine my surprise in that last exchange between him and Ardee. It certainly explained his sister’s behavior. He went from a moderate character to someone who is able to inflict pain on his own family in such a way. At the moment, I can’t say whether I like the twist or not, but it does bring another layer to his character. I do have to say however, that I don’t like it as a character twist for Ardee. I was enjoying her as the seemingly only independent woman (in the Union) who while maybe out of place, made the best of it. I thought the history of violence against her actually detracted from her personality. Bayaz. Bayaz is definitely one of my favorites. He’s so innocuous, but then he’ll do something no one expects, all the time using his wit to mock them without anyone catching on. He’s a very enjoyable character, and I suspect, after that conversation with Yulwei, that he is destined to become somewhat darker as time goes on. A few others things. One focusses on the Union. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I couldn’t help but notice the similarities to current US events. The rhetoric coming from the Arch Lector and they guy who spoke for the King, Glokta’s no-questions-asked torture, combined with the corrupt “democratic” practice. I don’t mean to claim one way or another for Abercrombie, nor my own opinion, merely that the undercurrents reflect what is often talked about in the news. I also was interested that one of the few (as far as we know) uncorrupt people was the Justice. That the government hated the lawyers because they were actually trying for true, balanced justice. The beginnings of war and the politics and religious leanings of the other lands outside of the Union particularly fascinated me. Unlike you, Joe, I was intrigued by the magical elements (being a fantasy reader long before sci-fi). I found the beginnings of the back plot to be engaging but not over done and out of place (the way I found the back story of The Keep to be). The way the trip into the Maker’s House was written…I haven’t read a scene quite so tense and well done since Gandalf visited Sauruman’s tower. I was very impressed and it created such a vivid picture with its eeriness (especially Glokta pointing out there were no stairs). I was also thrilled by the idea of the Eaters. It seems they gain powers by eating the flesh of man–and perhaps immortality or everlasting youth? When they listed the second law, I wasn’t thinking it would be something touched upon. But what a fabulous inner story. And why do both the Eaters and Bayaz want Ferro? And what is this religious (magical?) cult? And that, I suspect, ties back into why the Maker turned against his brothers and killed his daughter. I’m also interested in just why Bayaz cheated for Luthar. What about Luthar is so key that he needed to win and join the voyage? I really have to agree with Thornyrose’s comment that There wasn’t an effort to “shove” the world of the Blade Itself, no longwinded expositions saying “these are who these nations are and this is the geography”. Instead, the information we need to flesh out the world the characters occupied is provided in nuggets drawn from the characters’ own background. I too find this to be a highlight of the book (going back to how I feel the back plot is kept engaging). All in all, incredibly enjoyable and I can’t wait to check out the next in the series. And one more…I apologize for the spamming of your comments. Questions for Mr. Abercrombie, if he so pleases: 1). Was any of the Union political back story/undercurrents inspired by current events? 2). What was the inspiration for these great characters? Was the plot created first or the characters? How did you imagine them all fitting into the world? 3). I couldn’t help but notice they way in which the Arch Lector chose to “out” Bayaz during Luthar’s celebration dinner, was a play. And even the last words “Our humble purpose was not to offend.” Were the allusions to Hamlet (“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (“If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended”) intentional? Finally, a big thank you to both Joe’s!! Ack! The winks were not intentional. I fail at comments today, apparently. When our “boys” go on these “Missions” and we see them opening up Power Bars are these the real things that you see in stores or are they made by those “Geniuses” in the “Prop Department? Cherish4 says: Oh Joe, you’ve made my day! Not only have you answered my question with a hopeful “perhaps” but you’ve also given a great answer to someone else’s question too, saying that there will be some “emotional moments” between John and Teyla this season. 🙂 If only I could reach through the screen, I’d hug you! 😀 PG15 – Thanks for your well wishes. The support and kind thoughts of people I know and chat to online has been phenomenal lately (and makes me blub, as everything does at the moment). I’ve been pretty absent in recent weeks and months because my sister, who had been fighting cancer for 4 years, began to deteriorate quite rapidly and she passed away at the weekend aged just 36. 🙁 I’m running (well, walking) the Race for Life in her memory next weekend to raise money for cancer charities. I’ve not been feeling up to much in the way of posting online of late (plus the internet connection at my mum’s is rather random) but I am still reading and lurking here and there. Thanks again for thinking of me. 🙂 Wraithworshipper says: Hello, Mr. Mallozzi. I hope all is well with you. About my silly story…I don’t know if you actually read it or were merely trying to get my dear friend to leave you alone about it, and I’m not sure I want to know if it was the former or the latter. Anyway, if you did read it, absolutely no disrespect was intended towards either you or Mr. Heyerdahl. I do not know you personally, nor would I ever place hands on anyone not an intimate friend in such a free and direspectful manner. Look long enough to get caught? Definitely! Take a picture for historical documentation of the event? Damn skippy! Touch? Unless invited, Not A Chance! When I wrote the story, I just wanted to honor and amuse my new friends in the WDC. The WDC is a group of disparate folks who have grown close through fostering an atmosphere of safety to indulge our love of, and obsession with, the Wraith. We’ve also grown close enough to offer support through difficult times in marriages, child rearing, bi-polar flare-ups (I, and others of us, do admit to fighting this debilitating, joy-of-life stealing, chemical-imbalance medical condition.) and potentially life altering disasters, such as the recent arson wildfires in Brevard County, Florida. That’s where I live, and I’m only a few minutes away from das’s sister and family. Her sister’s family was actually forced to evacuate. It was not such a close thing for me and mine. Maybe you could dedicate an extra-special tidbit of info to das and her sister? Anyway, the WDC has become like a second family for some, and for all who come, it’s a place to let the creative spirit fly. Who knows? You might enjoy some of our creative artworks in the form of siggies, banners, wallpapers and most recently introduced, calendars. The calendars even have their own thread lead by Icarium (founder), naamiaiset, LiquidSky, wraithlord, fainne from the Carson Beckett thread, and too many others to name here, who have joined us from all across Gateworld. Alrighty, then…enough said. Best of wishes always for you and all of yours (4 footed, too!), Wraithworshipper PS: Karhedron would like me to remind you, that for some of us in the WDC, preventing set infiltration may require some ‘live ammo’. He’s pointing at me. Gee. Thanks. LOL Luv ya, KarBaby! Now that I’ve offered up all of that, I’m offering myself up, yet again, to whatever vagaries if whim folks may use to judge me. I truly am an admirer of Mr. Heyerdahl’s body of work, including that outside of SGA. His portayal of Todd, and to your writers’ credit, the way Todd has been written, has inspired me (along with the folks in the WDC) to reach beyond my current circumstances to begin to live/learn/find-express myself again. When life has dealt one to many crushing blows, a person can exist as living-dead for only so long. The following is from my PhotoBucket account. Most of my work is CH/Todd-centric. Any verse I write involving CH/Todd, I try to hear in his voice before committing it to the picture. All of my ‘art’ has been a learning experience in how to use photo-manipulation programs and the creation of digital art. Please, keep in mind I did not start any of this until after March 15th of this year when I joined the WDC. Again, all is offered in the spirit of admiration and respect. http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm228/Wraithworshipper/Wraith/Time-IsThereEnough1-1.jpg http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm228/Wraithworshipper/Wraith/SecretBurden-1.jpg alipeeps my condolences and prayers Quote: BlueJay “Now to get wraithie over here for some explaining.” Mr. Mallozzi, I made a rather long post with two links at the end. It probably went to your spam folder. I remember you did mention to das that her post went there, probably because of the links. I forgot that when I wrote the post. It was a clarification/declaration/apology, whatever it needed to be. Leesa Perrie says: Alipeeps – commiserations, I can’t imagine how awful that must be for you, I don’t think anyone can unless they’ve been through something simliar. Allow yourself time to grieve – I know that society tends not to talk about death and so often a person feels alone in their grief or that they need to get past it somehow, but take the time you need. And I hope you raise a lot of money next week. Joe – you might be vaguely interested in this news report about a burger in New York that costs $175! As for Jason Mamoa, we haven’t got Season 6 confirmed yet, and even if (hopefully that will be a when) we get that confirmed, there’s no knowing if Jason will still feel the same way. He might decide he wants to stay a little longer – and that’s assuming there will be a Season 7 as well! Now, I hope we do get a Season 6 and 7 (and 8 and 9 etc and so on) but it’s a bit soon to get all worried or whatever about it!! Lizzieanne says: Re The Blade Itself: I liked being thrown into the chase with the first few pages of the book but after about six chapters into it I wasn’t sure I could go any further with it. It was a bit on the borderline for my taste with the torture and violence. But… then came the fencing Jezal and the introduction of Ardee and there you have it: a beginning of a romance and I’m in. Their relationship lightened the whole mood enough for me to be swept along with everything that came after. I find that most romances in fantasy and scifi book are so poorly done that when an interesting sparky relationship is given I’m really pleased. Glokta the Inquisitor. How could I warm to him? Curiously I did. Maybe it’s because he was totally indifferent to his job. To like the torture would be unforgivable. Hearing his thoughts as he interacted with everyone was very funny. I began to see his world from his perspective. All the other characters I enjoyed in varying degrees as they were introduced. Bayez and Logen together were great. Bayaz offers Logen a cup of tea: ‘There are few ills a good cup of tea won’t help with.’ Logen replies: ‘How about an axe in the head.’ As an English tea drinker that made me laugh out loud. A question for Mr Abercrombie: As you can tell I hate too much violence in a story, especially torture, so I’m really surprised that you won me over with your book. I really loved it. How do you gauge the level of violence used in your writing? Do you have to make a conscious decision how far to go in terms of whether to include graphic stuff or to tone it down for readers of a sensitive disposition? (that would be me 🙂 ). Dr Rodnay McKay says: Pourquoi ne voit-on aucun Français sur Atlantis ??? Il semble qu’il y en ait un dans 4×06 Tabula Rasa, mais à moitié mort, et encore, je suis pas sûr d’avoir bien vu le drapeau !!! C’est pas juste. Est-ce à cause des relations tumultueuse entre nos deux nations ??? 6 tons!?!?!?!!?!?! Did you carve it out of solid gold?! What is the gate made out of for real? Am guessing a steel frame clad with ply and fibreglass covered polystrene for detail? Am i close? I saw a behind the scenes thing where it said it was made out of rubber, but couldn’t tell if they were just jokeing….. can’t imagin rubber (even solid rubber) would weigh 6 tons! I assumed it would have to have some sort of internal (steel/aluminium) frame to maintain the structure? Is the location stargate constructed differently? Do you transport it in several parts, or is it just in one peice on one large lorry? Does it weigh less than 6 tonnes? My first impression was WOW. The story moved at a respectable pace allowing the characters to grow while the action kept somewhat in the background at times playing like a hidden bass line to one of my favorite songs that has a massive build up only to end when you just hear the beauty of the beat . I LOVE that the chapters have titles…I found myself impatient as I read each chapter waiting to find out why it was called what it was called. I think that naming chapters gives the reader a sense of wonderment as to how the storyteller is thinking, plotting, and directing a complex story. I will say that by the time I got to the BLOODY-NINE I was thrown for a LOOP. I had to reread from where Logan is kneeling before the fireplace…what an inspired and astonishing treat! I am left salivating wondering how Mr. Abercrombie incorporates that twist. The characters, in my opinion, were written exceptionally well leaving each individual character standing proudly on their own. Logan was the first voice that was heard and I found myself racing to hear what else he had to say or more think about. And as I previously said, BLOODY-NINE advanced this character onto a whole other level for me. I loved the special attention to Glotka’s inner voice. I felt a kindred link to Glotka the entire book as I sensed I was right there with him, questioning everything, struggling to be worth something to someone, to have relevance when all seems stripped away. One of my favorite inner thoughts was “But we are not prone to nervousness. Perhaps we are the unpleasant things. Perhaps the acts are ours.” That middle line stuck with me until the bittersweet end. I loved his two Practicals…I hope to see more of them in the next two books. Major West at first glance was that endearing fellow you want by your side in battle and like Logan in the end we are privy to a twist on his actions that of course left a chink in his armour and opened up another level for his character. Out of most of the characters, even though you are shown a violent side to him, I think he is one the good guys. There are so many characters in this story I found myself almost keeping a mental checklist of who I thought was trustworthy and who I thought would turn up a tad wicked. I am not so sure of Bayaz…he has touched the Other Side and it should be a very interesting journey for Jezal, the Navigator, Logan, Ferro, and Quai especially when Yulwei said to Ferro, “I did not say to trust him.” I can’t wait to see how Dogman and company figure into the upcoming battles. And Ardee, well she is a mystery that seems tainted with fire. Mr. Abercrombie, here are several of questions. 1) I have read that you had done some work on Musical Acts…I was wondering if you have a song that might have sparked a scene or played in the background as you typed. 2) I was wondering if you have been approached by anyone to make this series into a movie. 3) I was wondering if you had anyone in mind when you were writing Logan. 4) How soon can we see the Bloody Nine back? 5) Can you estimate how many twists you have put in this series so that I can start working out my jaw now since it kept dropping in the last hundred pages. 6) Have you created a map that we can see? 7) Is this series truly only three books long? 8) Who are some of your favorite writers? 9) Do you prefer sugar or no sugar in your tea? alipeeps – I’m very saddened to hear about your sister. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. chev OOps I just realized I pasted what I wrote yesterday…my internet at work just came up and I copied the wrong thing…sorry…plus would someone be so kind to tell me how I make a comment stand out from another…for example…if I wanted to copy a bit of someone else’s post and then comment on that??? But back to the Blade Itself. I wanted to mention how off putting it was at first for two new characters to be introduced so far into the book, Ferro and Yuwlia, since it felt like they had a bigger part to play and I felt rushed to make a judgement on those two. But before Yuwlia left I was enamoured with him…part of me wants to see him have to batal Bayaz…there is just something there. I also wanted to comment on the Contest itself…it seemed as if almost a preview of what is to come. Will Bayaz keep interferring with the natural order of things? I love Logan’s “I’m still alive.” I wonder what Bloody Nine’s montra is. I am really looking foward to reading more of Joe’s books. Mr. Abercrombie, I want to know if the UK version of your book holds anything that we did not get in our version. I loved that your book was not mangled in translation. I have read some UK authors that get a tad butchered trying to make it totally readable to those who don’t know what a car park, for example, might be. I was also wondering if you would be so kind to recommend other UK writers that you enjoy. How much research did you do into swords and battles? narellefromaus said: LOL! It’s like the Olympic village. 😀 Yes, you think those people are just walking down the hallways in the background. shakes head, they’re ducking into the labs, broom closets, transporters. We haven’t even mentioned the Daedalus. Will you be going to see the new Indiana Jones movie and will you (or anyone else from Stargate) be taking notes on the similarities between the movie and the SG1 episode “Crystal Skull”? I know I will. And I think it was exceptionally clever of Scifi Channel to schedule the episode only 6 hours before the theater premiere of the movie. (A local theatre is showing the film at 12:01 on 5/22). Hugs for you Alipeeps. Cancer sucks. Thank you for doing the Race. “The Blade Itself” 10/10 😉 Joe Abercrombie’s blog: 10/10 German book-covers and titles: 3/10 German translation: 9/10 The characters in this book are even better than George R.R. Martin’s well developed, multi-dimensional and flawed protagonists (“A Song of Ice and Fire”) – plus Joe Abercrombie’s books have very funny moments, sad moments, perfectly written battle-scenes and exceptionally great crafted dialogue (I hope, that’s how you say it in English)… ah – and the plot itself is remarkably well built. Großartig. (<- German) One of the best books I’ve ever read. (<- English… hopefully) Question for Joe Abercrombie: Since I gave your book a 10/10… would you consider asking your German publisher to use my name as the title for your next book? “Kriegsklingen”, “Feuerklingen” and “Königsklingen” don’t reflect very much of those books’ content… well, I haven’t read the last book yet (I’m sure it will also be a 10/10 with an extra point for the ending 😉 ), but I’m quite sure, there won’t be any blades belonging to kings that will play a prominent role in it… However, my name as a title for your first book after the famous “Klingen”-trilogy would boost sales beyond imagination… hmmm, my imagination is limited – but yours is not. Thank you very much 🙂 Gracey says: Hi ya’ haven’t posted in awhile..was just curious. I know Vancouver has become pretty busy with tv productions. Do you all get to know other people from other productions? I assume, since you share alot of guest actors, they get to know each other. But what about behind the scenes people? Do they get to know each other, since you’re all in the same biz? It seems in “Hollywwod,” it’s the thing to know people and be seen around town, anything like that in Vancouver? Does Bridge only have SGA, or are there other productions there? Also when you have a guest actor from out of town, does the production pick up the tab for their tranportation and lodging or do the actors pay for that? BTW, I am very excited Bob Picardo is coming full time to SGA, been a fan since China Beach….. I’m new to your blogs and absolutly love them. Have been a devoute follower of stargate since mid season 6 when I stumbled into it on Sci Fi one evening. If you enjoyed The Blade Itself I can almost guarantee you will enjoy the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan. Mr. Jordan recently passed away in Sept. 2007 with one last book to write to complete the series. A close friend is finishing it for him. Question: Is Woolsey going to find some courage in season 5? Off topic, but I spent two hours at Animal Defense League today. My new furry friends: http://www.adltexas.org/forms/pet_detail.php?focus=844 Her kennelmate Louie http://www.adltexas.org/forms/pet_detail.php?focus=28 sum1 says: Dear Joe: Could you please, please, PLEASE kill Keller off the show?!?! She whinges ALOT, she made reference to Zelenka being a PERV and doesn’t it take about 8 YEARS to become a doctor? Keller is 2 young and childish…and very annoying. No wonder Jason is leaving the show…that scene in Quarantine must have been the last straw! There’s a thread on GW called “What Character Should Go”…check it out for more reasons to get rid of Keller. @ wraithbones From what I know, James Bamford, Kate Hewlett (they’re both on my friends list), Jewel Staite, Michael Shanks, Martin Gero, John Lenic, Brad Wright. Send them a request or a message and most times they’ll write back. poundpuppy29 (Erika) says: Thanks for answering my questions a firm maybe is not no. Ok I told you I would give you the results of other tournys if I remembered well here is season 2 and 3 for SGA Stargate Atlantis season 2 results 1st place Runner 2nd place Aurora 3rd place Michael 4th place Duet 5th place The Siege, part 3 6th place Inferno 7th place Allies 8th place Grace Under Pressure 9th place Conversion 10th place Coup D’etat 11th place Trinity 12th place The Intruder 13th place The Long Goodbye 14th place Critical Mass 15th place Instinct 16th place Condemned 17th place The Lost Boys 18th place The Hive 19th place Epiphany 20th place The Tower 1st place Common Ground 2nd place Sateda 3rd place Tao of Rodney 4th place No Man’s Land 5th place First Strike 6th place Sunday 7th place Echoes 8th place The Return, part 2 9th place McKay and Mrs Miller 10th place Phantoms 11th place Vengeance 12th place The Real World 13th place Submersion 14th place The Game 15th place Misbegotten 16th place Progeny 17th place The Return, part 1 18th place Irresistible 19th place The Ark 20th place Irresponsible We are in the middle of season 4 right now http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=54702 I am graduating this thursday from college now I have be an adult or at least try to act like one. Will Keller’s 14 episodes be limited on appearance like Carter’s (please)? Or will she be a more prominant fixture on Atlantis? I hope this doesn’t mean she’lll be going off-world with the team! Sorry, I don’t like her at all — too weak and childish for my taste. I’d hate to see Jason leave. Ronon’s a great character. I especially love his friendship with Sheppard. I can’t say I blame Jason for keeping his options open. I think Ronon is woefullly underused. I’d love to see both he and Teyla be more important members of the team. Maybe they could get some of Rodney’s lines. Speaking of Teyla, are there any episodes or adventures that she will be cut out of due to childcare issues. She’s been sidelined a lot in the past. Please don’t use the baby as an excuse to do it more. A Honshuu says: I think Jen is much better suited to Rodney than Ronon. She knows how to handle McKay and always seems a bit overwhelmed in Dex’s presence. By the way… Thank you, thank you for replying to one of my comments! I must admit that I sometimes doubted that anyone beside a “chosen few” ever got theirs read. Didn’t deter me from reading your blog, though; I love the commentary and must visit every day. Arctic Goddess says: narellefromaus siad: ~You forgot McKay and McKay!!! ~ Patricia (AG) @ alipeeps – So very sorry to hear about your loss…I just can’t imagine what you have been going through. My heart truly goes out to you… hugs Wraithworhipper wrote: Maybe you could dedicate an extra-special tidbit of info to das and her sister? Awww…that’s sweet of you, Wraithie! But JM has been quite patient with me, and has recently addressed several of my questions. The only thing he could do for me is guarantee they will never, ever kill off Todd or eliminate the Wraith, which isn’t gonna happen. So, instead…maybe he can just send me Todd’s knife…or a lock of his hair, whichever is easier… (Ack! Todd’s hair, not JM’s!) Sherwood Forest Maiden says: [quote=19 fsmn36] When will we get another guest appearance in the blog by Baron Destructo and/or Cookie Monster? Joe’s Answer: They’re studying for their finals. snorts I didn’t know certified evil geniuses had to take finals still. I suppose that makes me feel a little better.[/quote] LOL!! 🙂 Knowing that “certified evil geni’ ” (?pl) have to take finals makes my impending economics final more exciting and will give me something to laugh about when the going gets tough!! [quote=Mackenzie’s Momma] “Can you recommend a good restaurant in Surrey?” Joe’s Answer: Alas, I cannot. Believe it or not, I’ve never been to Surrey.[/quote] Is this Surrey in England?? If so I was born there; approx 30 miles from David Hewlett’s birthplace. We could be cousins :O Now there’s a thought!?! @ Alipeeps – I know the days are dark right now, but you will pull through. Mum died 11 yrs ago and Dad’s cancer has been halted. I lived in the same house with Mum and stayed to look after Dad. Enjoy your fundraising walk, it will help in your own emotional recovery. I recently held a pink breakfast to celebrate my birthday and raise funds for the NZ Breast Cancer foundation, I didnt raise much, but every dollar helps and those that need the funds are always very grateful for the help provided by us. The Blade Itself It’s pretty much all been said already! The great strength of the book, and what sets it apart from other fantasy, is the characters, who are so richly drawn and imperfect, anything but simple archetypes of good and evil. I have to admit it took me a while to come to appreciate that, as I’m so used to a band of heroes coming together for an epic journey against all odds. I really liked Logen right off, though. He knows himself. When Glotka was introduced, it was only the BOTM that kept me reading. I don’t like torture or such raging injustice as he was doing to the merchants. But he has his motivations and I can’t say I would be any less bitter or twisted in his place. And, as someone else said, the lighter fencing bits and the attitude of Bayaz came just in time. It’s so hilarious that Bayaz has no idea no one believes he’s the guy shown in the statue. I thought it was courageous to keep adding new characters so late into the book. But somehow I was able to remember and follow them all, unlike in works I’ve read by lesser authors. And that was years ago when my memory was still sound! Hence my question for Mr. Abercrombie: what are your strategies for keeping the characters and their stories straight in the readers’ minds? Amber Hooker says: I FINISHED MY LAST FINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo-Hoo! Granted I still have like four more years in order to get my masters in behavioral analysis, but I’m done for now! On that note I just want to say I hate spanish. I feel better now. Alipeeps~ I want to send my condolences. I know what it’s like to lose a family member and it’s not easy, but, with time it becomes bearable. I’m not sure who said it, but they were right…take the time YOU need to grieve, not what some in society may say is “time enough”. Love and prayers are with you and yours. LOL @das! Eh. I was in a mood today. I can really lay it out there on the table, can’t I? The fires were so hard on the folks here, I can’t imagine what you went through. Wait, I can, too. I did go through it. I spent 8 1/2 years as a long-haul trucker, away from home when stuff hit the fan. As years past have shown us, things could have been so much worse. When I’m feeling like this, I don’t want to cause distress of any kind to anyone. When I’m in a mood like this, I probably shouldn’t be allowed internet access, but I’d definitely leave stripes on anyone trying to take it away from me! Ack! ‘Nough said! Says in a very small voice on the way out the door… (Still think a dedication of something special for you and the sis would be really, really nice.) It’s also a good security feature……makes it look like there are more people there…..and oh hell it looks cool. A Wraithworshipper – My sister was pretty lucky – they had a fire only a few hundred yards from them about a month ago, and now this one which came within a half-mile, give or take. When she first moved to Florida, their house was hit by two hurricanes, and they ended up gutting it (because the water got into the walls) and redoing the entire thing – new roof, drywall, insulation, wiring, cabinets – everything – and that was their first year there. She HATES Florida – the storms, the snakes…now the fires. So yeah, it’s been a hard few weeks for her – so NOT even gonna tell her Jason may eventually leave SGA, not when I just got her hooked on the show (and on Ronon)! I SO hope she watches PtW this week – I mean, if she doesn’t fall for Steve as hard as I did, then she’s no relative of mine!! 😀 Dang, he was one hellava sexy bug, wasn’t he? A sum1 – No killing off Keller – at least, not before she gives Todd a physical… 😀 Considering the last Steve siggie I did, you’re asking me that? I’ll put it back up on the forum to remind you! Elizabeth said: As far as I know Brandon Sanderson didn’t know Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney) personally. He was selected by Jordan’s widow to write the final book, A Memory of Light. She had read his Mistborn series. Jordan had apparently left with his family all of the significant plot points in case he died before the book was written.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line906
__label__wiki	0.790574	0.790574	ACOG Members, please click “Log in here” to access content Log in here > ABOG MOC II Citations and Impact Factor November 2018 - Volume 132 - Issue 5 Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at Obstetrics & Gynecology. Contents: Health Disparities: Original Research Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Incidence of Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States, 2012–2015 Admon, Lindsay K. MD, MSc; Winkelman, Tyler N. A. MD, MSc; Zivin, Kara PhD, MS; Terplan, Mishka MD, MPH; Mhyre, Jill M. MD; Dalton, Vanessa K. MD, MPH Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry, the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and the Program on Women's Healthcare Effectiveness Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan; the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Hennepin Healthcare, and Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; and the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas. Corresponding author: Lindsay K. Admon, MD, MSc, North Campus Research Center, 2800 Plymouth Road, Building 14, Room G100-36, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800; email: [email protected]. Financial Disclosure Dr. Dalton received payments from the University of California San Francisco to provide content expertise during the development of a web-based educational program on early pregnancy failure. This project was funded by an anonymous donor (2012). She has received payments for expert witness work for Bayer in device litigation (2014 to the present). She received a one-time honorarium for participation on an expert advisory panel for Johnson and Johnson (2012). She is an unpaid Merck Nexplanon trainer. The other authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest. The authors thank the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's data partners for their data collection efforts: https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/hcupdatapartners.jsp. Each author has indicated that he or she has met the journal's requirements for authorship. Peer review history is available at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B168. Obstetrics & Gynecology: November 2018 - Volume 132 - Issue 5 - p 1158-1166 doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002937 To describe racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence of severe maternal morbidity during delivery hospitalizations in the United States. We conducted a pooled, cross-sectional analysis of 2012–2015 data from the National Inpatient Sample to define the prevalence of chronic conditions and incidence of severe maternal morbidity among deliveries to non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and Native American or Alaska Native women. We used weighted multivariable logistic regression and predictive margins to generate prevalence and incidence estimates. Adjusted rate ratios and differences were calculated to quantify disparities across racial and ethnic categories. Subgroup analyses were performed to examine the incidence of severe maternal morbidity among deliveries to women with comorbid physical health conditions, behavioral health conditions, and multiple chronic conditions within each racial and ethnic category. The incidence of severe maternal morbidity was significantly higher among deliveries to women in every racial and ethnic minority category compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic white women. Severe maternal morbidity occurred in 231.1 (95% CI 223.6–238.5) and 139.2 (95% CI 136.4–142.0) per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations among non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white women, respectively (P<.001). When excluding cases in which blood transfusion was the only indicator of severe maternal morbidity, only deliveries to non-Hispanic black women had a higher incidence of severe maternal morbidity compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic white women: 50.2 (95% CI 47.6–52.9) and 40.9 (95% CI 39.6–42.3) per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations, respectively (risk ratio 1.2 [95% CI 1.2–1.3], risk difference 9.3 [95% CI 6.5–12.2] per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations; P<.001 for each comparison). Among deliveries to women with comorbid physical and behavioral health conditions, significant differences in severe maternal morbidity were identified among racial and ethnic minority compared with non-Hispanic white women and the largest disparities were identified among women with multiple chronic conditions. Programs for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal morbidity may have the greatest effect focusing on women at highest risk for blood transfusion and maternity care management for women with comorbid chronic conditions, particularly multiple chronic conditions. Racial and ethnic minority women experience a higher incidence of severe maternal morbidity, and the largest disparities exist among women with comorbid chronic conditions. The increasing contribution of preexisting, chronic conditions to cases of maternal death has been recently highlighted as an important mechanism through which racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality may persist in the United States.1–3 There are three means through which this could be the case: higher prevalence of high-risk conditions among racial and ethnic minority women, higher case-fatality from high-risk conditions among racial and ethnic minority women, or a combination of the two. Higher case-fatality rates among non-Hispanic black compared with non-Hispanic white women with select obstetric conditions (preeclampsia, eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, placenta previa, placental abruption) have been described,4 but variation in the prevalence and risk associated with chronic conditions, including multimorbidity, by race and ethnicity has not been comprehensively examined in a national sample of delivering women. Moreover, although catastrophic, the absolute number of cases of maternal deaths, approximately 1,200 women per year in the United States, makes maternal death a difficulty outcome to study.5 Severe maternal morbidity, however, affects more than 60,000 women per year in the United States and is associated with significant disability and cost.6–8 Severe maternal morbidity is defined as a life-threatening diagnosis or the need to undergo a life-saving procedure during a delivery hospitalization.9 Severe maternal morbidity encompasses a broad range of serious health complications that, without prevention and treatment, could lead to maternal death. We designed this analysis to test the primary hypothesis that differences in severe maternal morbidity in non-Hispanic black women reflect increased case morbidity rates in addition to increased prevalence of comorbid chronic conditions when compared with non-Hispanic white women. We conducted a pooled, cross-sectional analysis of 2012–2015 data from the National Inpatient Sample, a nationally representative sample of hospital discharges.10 The National Inpatient Sample is a 20% stratified sample of all hospital discharges in the United States that is compiled by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The sample includes weights to account for the complex sampling and allow for national estimates. The National Inpatient Sample is the largest administrative data source with race and ethnicity data for delivering women. We identified all hospital deliveries that occurred between 2012 and 2015 using standard methods.11 Our analyses included deliveries occurring among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and Native American or Alaska Native women, because these are the racial and ethnic categories available in the National Inpatient Sample. For each year in the study period, approximately 6% of observations had missing data for race and ethnicity and 4% of observations were categorize as other race and ethnicity. These observations were not included in our analytic sample. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project reports that race and ethnicity in the National Inpatient Sample is not missing at random.10,12 We kept with other recent investigators and chose not to impute missing data for race and ethnicity.13 Instead, we used complete case-based analysis. Demographic descriptive data for observations with missing data for race and ethnicity and for observations with race and ethnicity designated as other are provided in Appendix 1, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B169. Severe maternal morbidity was the primary outcome of this study, identified using diagnosis and procedure codes compiled by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).6 The algorithm includes 25 indicators of end-organ dysfunction such as renal failure, shock, embolism, eclampsia, and mechanical ventilation. As specified by the CDC, delivery hospitalizations with a diagnosis code indicating severe maternal morbidity and a short length of stay (less than the 90th percentile as calculated separately for vaginal, primary, and repeat cesarean deliveries) were not classified as severe maternal morbidity. The algorithm does not apply length of stay restrictions to delivery hospitalizations in which hospital transfer or in-hospital death occurred or among those that were identified by procedure codes (blood transfusion, hysterectomy, mechanical ventilation, temporary tracheostomy, and cardiac conversion). We included maternal sociodemographic characteristics based on known or plausible association with the primary outcome, severe maternal morbidity. These included age, median income in ZIP code of residence, payer, rural compared with urban residence, and hospital census region. We grouped payment sources into public insurance (Medicaid and Medicare), commercial insurance, and uninsured or self-pay. Given that Medicare funded fewer than 0.6% of the delivery hospitalizations, we refer to public sources as Medicaid throughout the study. We defined location of residence as rural or urban using the National Center for Health Statistics Classification and Urban Influence Codes.14 The number of observations with missing values for these covariates was less than 2% of all delivery hospitalizations. We examined chronic conditions associated with severe maternal morbidity. These included chronic respiratory disease, chronic hypertension, preexisting diabetes mellitus, chronic heart disease, chronic kidney disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), pulmonary hypertension, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), depression, and identification of at least one substance use disorder.15,16 We generated indicators for chronic respiratory disease, chronic hypertension, preexisting diabetes, chronic heart disease, chronic kidney disease and HIV or AIDS using International Classification of Diseases 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes defined in prior work.17 We identified substance use disorders using published Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project algorithms.18 Pulmonary hypertension was defined using ICD-9-CM codes 416.0x, 416.8x, 416.9x; SLE was defined with ICD-9-CM code 710.0; and depression was defined with ICD-9-CM codes 296.2x 296.3x, 300.4x, and 311. We first used weighted frequencies to describe sociodemographic characteristics across each racial and ethnic category. Differences were compared statistically using Pearson χ2 tests. We then estimated the prevalence of each category of chronic conditions per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations across each racial and ethnic category using adjusted logistic regression models and predictive margins. Adjusted rate ratios and rate differences were calculated using the adjrr command in Stata.19 Rate ratios are a measure of relative disparity that can be easily transformed into a percentage difference by multiplying the ratio by 100. In the context of health disparities, rate differences, the absolute disparity between two rates, are also often used to compare the health of a less advantaged social group to more advantaged.20 The same methods were used to calculate incidence rates and adjusted rate ratios and rate differences for severe maternal morbidity across each racial and ethnic category. We estimated the excess incidence of severe maternal morbidity among racial and ethnic minority women compared with non-Hispanic white women by dividing the weighted number of affected observations by the incidence rate ratio (compared with non-Hispanic white women) and then subtracting these estimates from the total number of weighted cases of severe maternal morbidity for each racial and ethnic minority category. This process was repeated to calculate excess cases of blood transfusion, the most frequent indicator of severe maternal morbidity, among delivering mothers annually in the United States. To test the hypothesis that differences in severe maternal morbidity reflect increased case morbidity rates among racial and ethnic minority women, particularly non-Hispanic black women, in addition to increased prevalence of comorbid chronic conditions when compared with non-Hispanic white women, we estimated the incidence of severe maternal morbidity across deliveries in which no chronic conditions, any (one or greater) physical health condition (of conditions examined: asthma, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, SLE, HIV or AIDS, pulmonary hypertension), any (one or greater) behavioral health condition (of conditions examined of conditions examined: depression, substance use disorder), and multiple (two or greater) chronic conditions were identified. We present the incidence of severe maternal morbidity among women with any physical or behavioral health condition, as opposed to for each of the individual condition listed, because the unweighted number of cases of severe maternal morbidity was low within each racial and ethnic category for a number of conditions, resulting in unstable estimates. Again, we used the adjrr command to calculate rate ratios and rate differences across categories of severe morbidity. We adjusted all models for age, primary insurance payer, median household income for the patient's ZIP code, rural compared with urban residence, and hospital census region unless otherwise noted. We weighted all results to allow for nationally representative inferences unless otherwise noted. In 2015, ICD-9-CM diagnoses codes were available only for the first three quarters. We adjusted the survey weights in 2015 to generate annualized estimates from the first three quarters of data. We conducted all analyses using STATA 14.2 with two-sided P values <.01 considered statistically significant. The University of Michigan Medical School institutional review board determined that this analysis of deidentified data was exempt from review. All analyses comply with the seven methodologic principles recommended when working with data from the National Inpatient Sample.21 The sample consisted of 2,523,528 unweighted delivery hospitalizations among non-Hispanic white (n=1,417,559), non-Hispanic black (n=385,031), Hispanic (n=550,771), Asian or Pacific Islander (n=149,720), and Native American or Alaska Native (n=20,447) women, representing an estimated 13,464,214 deliveries occurring nationally between 2012 and 2015. In total, 40,873 unweighted cases of severe maternal morbidity were identified among non-Hispanic white (n=18,878), non-Hispanic black (n=9,483), Hispanic (n=9,687), Asian or Pacific Islander (n=2,375), and Native American or Alaska Native (n=450) women, representing 218,248 total cases of severe maternal morbidity. Medicaid paid for approximately two thirds of all deliveries among non-Hispanic black (65.8%, 95% CI 65.0–66.5), Hispanic (64.3%, 95% CI 63.3–65.3), and Native American or Alaska Native (60.5%, 95% CI 57.8–63.1) women. In comparison, commercial insurance paid for nearly two thirds of all deliveries among non-Hispanic white women (62.1%, 95% CI 61.5–62.6) and Asian or Pacific Islander women (63.2%, 95% CI 61.4–65.0; Table 1). Cesarean deliveries comprised a higher proportion of deliveries among non-Hispanic black women compared with all other racial and ethnic categories (36.0%, 95% CI 35.8–36.3; P<.001 for each comparison). Table 1.: Sociodemographic Characteristics of Delivering Women by Race and Ethnicity, United States, 2012–2015 (N=2,523,528) Compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic white women, deliveries among non-Hispanic black women experienced a significantly higher prevalence of nearly every physical health condition examined: asthma, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, SLE, HIV or AIDS, and pulmonary hypertension (Appendix 2, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B169). The largest absolute differences in prevalence rates among deliveries to non-Hispanic black compared with non-Hispanic white women were identified for diagnoses of hypertension, asthma, and diabetes (rate ratio [RR] 2.5 [2.4–2.6], difference 312.5 [95% CI 300.6–324.4]; RR 1.5 [1.4–1.5], rate difference 198.1 [95% CI 181.2–215.0]; and RR 1.6 [1.5–1.7], rate difference 55.9 [95% CI 50.5–61.2] per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations, respectively; P<.001 for each comparison. Deliveries among Native American or Alaska Native women also experienced a significantly higher prevalence of many conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, and SLE (P<.01 for each comparison), compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic white women. In contrast, only diabetes was identified at a higher prevalence among deliveries to Hispanic women compared with deliveries to non-Hispanic white women (P<.001 for each comparison). Deliveries to Asian or Pacific Islander women experienced either comparable or lower prevalence rates for each condition examined compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic whites. The prevalence of substance use disorders among deliveries to Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander women was less than one fourth the rate identified among non-Hispanic white women (RR 0.18 [0.17–0.19], rate difference −772.3 [95% CI −792.1 to −752.4] and RR 0.17 [0.15–0.20], rate difference −777.4 [95% CI −804.3 to −750.6], respectively; P<.001 for each comparison) and the prevalence of substance use disorders among deliveries to non-Hispanic black women was approximately half the rate identified among deliveries to non-Hispanic white women: (RR 0.55 [95% CI 0.54–0.57], rate difference −419.4 [95% CI = −438.3 to −400.6]; P<.001 for each comparison). Depression was also identified at significantly higher prevalence among deliveries to non-Hispanic white women compared with deliveries in every other racial and ethnic category (P<.001 for each comparison). Compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic white women, deliveries among all other racial and ethnic minority categories experienced a higher incidence of severe maternal morbidity (Fig. 1). The greatest difference was identified in comparing deliveries to non-Hispanic black with non-Hispanic white women: 231.1 (95% CI 223.6–238.5) compared with 139.2 (95% CI 136.4–142.0) per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations (RR 1.7 [95% CI 1.6–1.7]; rate difference 91.9 [95% CI 84.6–99.2] per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations; P<.001 for each comparison; Appendix 3, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B169). Fig. 1.: Incidence of severe maternal morbidity with and without blood transfusion per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations by race and ethnicity, United States, 2012–2015 (N=2,523,528). All data are survey-weighted and represented as rate per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations (95% CI). Adjusted for age, income, payer, rural vs urban residence, and hospital region.Admon. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Morbidity. Obstet Gynecol 2018. Blood transfusion was the most frequent severe morbidity identified across all racial and ethnic groups. Blood transfusion alone accounted for nearly three fourths of all cases of severe morbidity, ranging from an incidence rate of 98.1 (95% CI 95.7–100.6) to 179.7 (95% CI 172.9–186.4) per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations among non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black women, respectively. When excluding cases in which blood transfusion was the only indicator of severe maternal morbidity, only deliveries to non-Hispanic black women had a higher incidence of severe maternal morbidity compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic white women: 50.2 (95% CI 47.6–52.9) compared with 40.9 (95% CI 39.6–42.3) per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations (RR 1.2 [95% CI 1.2–1.3], rate difference 9.3 [95% CI 6.5–12.2] per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations; P<.001 for each comparison). Hysterectomy was the only severe morbidity other than blood transfusion that occurred at a higher incidence among deliveries to women in every racial and ethnic minority category compared with deliveries among non-Hispanic white women (see Appendix 4, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B169). Deliveries to non-Hispanic black women experienced significantly higher incidence of every severe morbidity examined compared with non-Hispanic white women (P<.01 for each comparison; Fig. 2). The largest absolute differences were identified for heart failure (RR 1.8 [95% CI 1.6–2.0], rate difference 8.0 [95% CI 6.3–9.7]); ventilation (RR 2.5 [95% CI 2.1–2.8], rate difference 6.2 [95% CI 5.0–7.5]); acute renal failure (RR 2.6 [2.2–3.0], rate difference 6.0 [95% CI 4.8–7.2]); acute respiratory distress syndrome (RR 2.0 [95% CI 1.6–2.3], rate difference 5.2 [95% CI 3.9–6.4]); and hysterectomy (RR 1.4 [1.3–1.6], rate difference 3.9 [95% CI 2.5–5.3] per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations, respectively; P<.01 for each comparison). Incidence of the 10 most frequent severe maternal morbidities per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations by race and ethnicity, United States, 2012–2015 (N=2,523,528). All data are survey-weighted and represented as rate per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations (95% CI). Adjusted for age, income, payer, rural vs urban residence, and hospital region.Admon. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Morbidity. Obstet Gynecol 2018. Taken together, these data indicate that, if racial and ethnic minority women experienced severe maternal morbidity at the same rate as non-Hispanic white women, this would result in a 28% reduction in cases of severe maternal morbidity among racial and ethnic minority women (an estimated 8,102 fewer cases per year) and a 15% overall reduction in severe maternal morbidity. Non-Hispanic black women would see the greatest reduction, 41% (an estimated 5,212 fewer cases per year). With respect to blood transfusion specifically, if racial and ethnic minority women experienced blood transfusion at the same rate as non-Hispanic white women, this would result in a 28% reduction in cases of blood transfusion among racial and ethnic minority women (an estimated 6,456 fewer cases per year) and a 16% overall reduction in blood transfusion. Again, non-Hispanic black women would benefit the most, a reduction 41% (an estimated 4,177 fewer cases per year). Among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and Asian or Pacific Islander women, the incidence of severe maternal morbidity among deliveries complicated by physical health conditions, behavioral health conditions, and multiple chronic conditions was significantly higher compared with deliveries in which no chronic conditions were identified (Fig. 3). In almost all instances, racial and ethnic minority women experienced larger increases in severe maternal morbidity when multiple chronic conditions were identified, suggesting increased case morbidity. For instance, in comparing deliveries among non-Hispanic black with non-Hispanic white women, the rate difference for severe maternal morbidity incidence increased from 77.9 (95% CI 70.9–84.9) to 216.9 (95% CI 169.1–264.5) per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations, respectively, in comparing deliveries in which no and multiple chronic conditions were identified (P<.001; Appendix 5, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/B169). Incidence of severe maternal morbidity per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations by comorbidity and race and ethnicity, United States, 2012–2015 (N=2,523,528). All data are survey-weighted and represented as rate per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations (95% CI). Adjusted for age, income, payer, rural vs urban residence, and hospital region.Admon. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Morbidity. Obstet Gynecol 2018. This study quantifies the magnitude of racial and ethnic disparities in the prevalence of chronic conditions among delivering women by race and ethnicity and the differential risk associated with comorbidity and multimorbidity among deliveries to racial and ethnic minority women. Overall severe maternal morbidity, blood transfusion, and hysterectomy were identified at significantly higher frequency across all racial and ethnic minority categories, findings generally consistent with disparities identified in Creanga et al's16 analysis of 2008–2010 data from seven states. These data suggest that, if racial and ethnic minority women incurred blood transfusions at the same incidence as non-Hispanic white women, this would result in a 41% reduction in blood transfusion among non-Hispanic black women alone (an estimated 4,177 fewer cases per year). Blood transfusions at the time of delivery are often associated with obstetric hemorrhage. A significant proportion of obstetric hemorrhages are considered preventable,22 and improved quality of care is considered a key factor in prevention of maternal morbidity and mortality.23 The implementation of safety bundles such as the AIM Program's Obstetric Hemorrhage Bundle24 and protocols such as the maternal early warning criteria25,26 are actionable steps that could be taken to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric hemorrhage.27 Disparities will not be eliminated by improved quality of care alone, however, and additional study is needed regarding indications for blood transfusions among racial and ethnic minority women. For example, racial and ethnic minority women have higher rates of iron deficiency anemia and it is unclear to what degree chronic anemia, which is poorly coded in this administrative dataset, contributes to the higher rates of peripartum blood transfusion identified in the present study.28 Finally, cesarean hysterectomy is driven by prior cesarean delivery. Efforts to support intended vaginal birth among racial and ethnic minority women with help reduce cesarean hysterectomies in future pregnancies. The increasing contribution of behavioral health conditions to cases of maternal death has recently been identified as an emerging concern by several state maternal mortality review committees and in a landmark report from the CDC Foundation, Building U.S. Capacity to Review and Prevent Maternal Deaths: Report from Nine Maternal Mortality Review Committees.29–32 The findings of this study reveal lower prevalence of behavioral health conditions among deliveries to racial and ethnic minority women, but higher case morbidity when these conditions are identified. Racial and ethnic disparities in screening and referral to treatment for maternal behavioral health conditions are understudied, but have been identified with marked consistency across a wide variety of health care services, including within obstetric care.33,34 Health systems must use universal screening and referral to evidence-based treatment for affected individuals.27 As with other chronic conditions, this should involve examining system-level disparities in current screening and referral practices. In addition, clinicians must advocate for eliminating structural disparities in access to care through improving gaps in insurance benefits design and eligibility that may disproportionally affect racial and ethnic minority women.35 The findings of this study also support the need for enhanced screening and timely treatment for racial and ethnic minority women with chronic physical health conditions and particularly for women with multiple chronic conditions.16,36 In other areas of adult medicine, care management programs have helped improve outcomes and lower costs, among other high-risk populations.37 Future work should examine the cost-effectiveness of expanding maternity care management programs that integrate services from preconception planning through the first year postpartum, particularly among women with high-risk and multiple chronic conditions as another mechanism through which racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality may be mitigated. Our findings should be interpreted considering the limitations of our data source and study design. First, we acknowledge that it is possible some women underwent more than one delivery in the study period and each discharge record may not reflect a unique woman. As such, the unit of analysis is a delivery hospitalization, not an individual woman. Second, claims that do not generate a specific payment such as ICD-9-CM codes for chronic conditions may be associated with low sensitivity. As a result, our point estimates for clinical conditions are likely to be conservative. Next, for some categories of severe morbidity, only a small number of cases were identified because these clinical events are rare. As a result, the CIs around point estimates for some categories of conditions, particularly among deliveries to Native American or Alaska Native women, are wide. Finally, we were unable to adjust for certain obstetric risk factors (such as prenatal care access and use, presence of labor before cesarean delivery, or obesity) and certain hospital characteristics. Obesity in particular is an important predictor of maternal morbidity38 and is detected with low sensitivity in this administrative data set.39 Finally, recent work revealed that most deliveries among non-Hispanic black women occur in a concentrated set of hospitals that have higher rates of severe maternal morbidity.40 Although we cannot completely account for this issue, our findings can, nonetheless, inform the design and delivery of efforts to address severe maternal morbidity among racial and ethnic minority women. In summary, we found substantial racial and ethnic disparities in overall severe maternal morbidity among deliveries to non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and Native American or Alaska Native compared with non-Hispanic white women. 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(2021, EN) Why proposing a high-tech solution is no longer gambling but suicide The fear that new technology (= T) will rather inflame the state of mankind (via skewed growth, excessive growth, rebound) than prevent or delay the destruction of essential environmental conditions, has already been put into words by the Meadows team at the presentation in 1973 of the first quantitative world model (Limits to Growth). They therefore preferred a social value shift (i.e. a moral fix) over a technical operation (i.e. a techno-fix) as answer to the rock-hard growth limits they had calculated These doubts were later expressed more clearly in some schools of thought within the sustainability field. Heinberg described the purely technical answer to the climate problem as hopeless: "A gargantuan investment in technology (whether next-generation nuclear power or solar radiation geo-engineering) is being billed as our last hope. But in reality it’s no hope at all". However, in other sustainability schools (e.g. eko-modernism), the techno-fix is embraced precisely out of hope. "Their justification for doing so is that people want a vision of the future that’s cheery and that doesn’t require sacrifice", says Heinberg. The seducing glow of hope on the surface of the techno-fix really shouldn't be compensating the uncertain nature of this way out, especially not in situations where manoeuvering along the edge of extermination is required, but it does. The assumption that a constantly ongoing technological restructuring will enable us to have enough zero-emission energy in time, to continue undisturbed our entire worldwide exchange circus, is a core belief under the existing human decision-making processes at any level. It is alive, strong and tough because those who want to maintain at all costs the current rules of the economic game - i.e. the private, mutual, and institutional owners of movable and immovable assets - are financing like madmen this answer to the climate issue. Both right and left. The Green deal plans are also examples of techno-fix. They are packages of technology change (= dT). In the current climate situation, however, the insight is awakening (see the criticised film of Gibbs and Moore, or scientific articles such as this, or this one very recent) that new technology alone can't sufficiently attenuate emissions in time. But, if you don't apply that insight before the future makes it true, it doesn't help you. The climate movement and most sustainability think tanks are doubting around this issue far too long. One doesn't really think decidedly, keeps spinning and lingering and longing for easy solutions, is of course like everyone else quite energy addicted (the comfort of the cities and the high-carbon lifestyle). The question of whether dT can save us, is far too indefinite to be answered. You can keep sucking on that question for years to come and let the dream continue. But more concretely posed that question does have a clear answer. If you put it this way: "Can dT save us from climate collapse when we maintain the laws and rules that regulate and limit today's socio-economic manners of producing, trading and transporting?", the answer is pertinently negative. The only thing that can save us is that within three to five years we will quit completely the use of fossil fuels. A total emergency stop. And no dT can do that. Take a good look at the most recent high-tech proposal, namely the large-scale development of hydrogen technology to power long-distance transport flows and heavy-duty mobile machinery. This star has been sparkling as a jewel in the sky for decades, but the resulting basic conclusion as it was in 2006: "The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25% for practical use." remains valid to this day (see for example this 2019 video by Real Engineering). Face it: You need two to four times as much energy infrastructure behind hydrogen energy (for extraction, compression, storage, transport/distribution, and conversion) as in case you would make that (electrical) energy directly productive. Okay, the advantage of concentrated local power that hydrogen provides is substantial. Could be handy on a small scale, but when one envisages, as recently many governments do, running all the gigantic transport flows of our current global exchange circus on hydrogen, that's a lunatic plan. Even if you produce that H2 with the most sustainable energy, then that additional energy infrastructure will boost your emissions steeply skyhigh because there is no sustainable energy that is emission-free. The production of infrastructure plus the maintenance will give every form of renewable energy (including hydropower, also wind) a fairly heavy emission burden. And nuclear energy even a very heavy one. In short: The dream of making all heavy long distance transport flows emission-free with the help of hydrogen technology is a soap bubble. For a mega energy transition or mega-CO2 capture infrastructure to be realized in the current socioeconomic set-up will certainly require for decades the whole breadth and depth of the global interaction circus − with all its mining, its long distance long-chain production methods and the necessary global transport flows. And all that mining, processing, and transport will run on fossil fuels for the next five years, because we've got nothing else at this moment (apart of less than 15% renewables). So? From this perspective, the monster error of the sustainability and climate movement right now is that they don't speak out in time against the technology way-out within the current economic rules of play. Everybody knows that such a techno-fix (= dT) without a decades-long very deep dive into the fossil fuel reserves (and with it strong decline in the CO2 absorption capacity of the biosphere) is absolutely unrealizable. So you're just completely implausible if you demand an acute emergency stop on fossil fuel use without rejecting that dT. What's more, the climate movement's call for sufficiency and limitation of life styles (and pursuing social justice at the same time) won't hold water because of the previous contradiction, because you don't attack the basic economic rules in such a way that transformed it could make both sufficiency and social equality realizable. The achievement of those two conditions fall outside the bandwith of behaviour trrajectories of the current national and international economic race. Her pistons are driven purely by expansion and inequality, i.e. the opposite of what you call for.. But beware, with a plate full of incompatible wishes you're classified as a spoiled child who can't choose and so continues to demand everything at the same time. Such talking doesn't arouse the walking. Nobody will follow you. The only path that is consistent with both the call for sufficiency-based lifestyles and the emergency stop on fossile fuel use, is an acute low-tech rural-oriented solution, in which T is regulated from local needs and circumstances. Those who know that, and that's a fairly significant pragmatic part of mankind, want to fight for that because that path is difficult but acutely life-saving and consistent. So start that tune. Then you'll get fanatical backing with which you can tackle opposition. You want to lead, don't you? You can't hang back at a time like this. We're faltering on the edge of extinction, as you say yourself. We need to drop high tech now, and turn against it. We need to get out of the game in which she plays the leading role. j. nijssen, 2020 © 2021 afwendbaar	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line915
__label__cc	0.628912	0.371088	Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation Shigeki Morita, Masahiro Yasaka, Kotaro Yasumori, Yasuhisa Oishi, Toru Takaseya, Hiromichi Sonoda, Takemi Kawara Background: The assessment of intracranial arterial communication is important to prevent a stroke from occurring during an aortic arch operation. Bilateral axillary artery perfusion was used with the left common carotid artery perfusion for selective cerebral perfusion. A preoperative left carotid artery compression test with measurement of the left middle cerebral artery (LMCA) flow was performed to determine how safe it was to interrupt the perfusion to the left common carotid artery. Methods: Eighteen patients who were scheduled for an aortic arch operation underwent the test. Before surgery, the LMCA flow was detected using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. During manual compression of the left carotid artery, the flow velocity of the LMCA was measured and expressed as a percent in comparison to the precompression value. Results: During carotid artery compression, flow velocity of the LMCA was reduced to 56% ± 36% (median, 63%; range, 0% to 100%) of the precompression value. The communication to the LMCA assessed with magnetic resonance angiography showed a weak relationship to the functional flow reserve of the LMCA based on a transcranial Doppler study. The results indicated that morphologic observation with magnetic resonance angiography did not reflect the dynamic nature of the intracranial collaterals. Conclusions: A preoperative left carotid artery compression test with a measurement of the flow of the LMCA is useful to assess the feasibility of interrupting perfusion to the left carotid artery during aortic arch surgery with bilateral axillary artery perfusion. Annals of Thoracic Surgery https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.024 Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.024 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Middle Cerebral Artery Medicine & Life Sciences Thoracic Aorta Medicine & Life Sciences Communication Medicine & Life Sciences Carotid Arteries Medicine & Life Sciences Perfusion Medicine & Life Sciences Axillary Artery Medicine & Life Sciences Magnetic Resonance Angiography Medicine & Life Sciences Common Carotid Artery Medicine & Life Sciences Morita, S., Yasaka, M., Yasumori, K., Oishi, Y., Takaseya, T., Sonoda, H., & Kawara, T. (2008). Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 86(2), 448-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.024 Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation. / Morita, Shigeki; Yasaka, Masahiro; Yasumori, Kotaro; Oishi, Yasuhisa; Takaseya, Toru; Sonoda, Hiromichi; Kawara, Takemi. In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 86, No. 2, 01.08.2008, p. 448-451. Morita, S, Yasaka, M, Yasumori, K, Oishi, Y, Takaseya, T, Sonoda, H & Kawara, T 2008, 'Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation', Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 448-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.024 Morita S, Yasaka M, Yasumori K, Oishi Y, Takaseya T, Sonoda H et al. Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2008 Aug 1;86(2):448-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.024 Morita, Shigeki ; Yasaka, Masahiro ; Yasumori, Kotaro ; Oishi, Yasuhisa ; Takaseya, Toru ; Sonoda, Hiromichi ; Kawara, Takemi. / Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation. In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2008 ; Vol. 86, No. 2. pp. 448-451. @article{236d926f71e445fd867f96df92f0ec6c, title = "Transcranial Doppler Study to Assess Intracranial Arterial Communication Before Aortic Arch Operation", abstract = "Background: The assessment of intracranial arterial communication is important to prevent a stroke from occurring during an aortic arch operation. Bilateral axillary artery perfusion was used with the left common carotid artery perfusion for selective cerebral perfusion. A preoperative left carotid artery compression test with measurement of the left middle cerebral artery (LMCA) flow was performed to determine how safe it was to interrupt the perfusion to the left common carotid artery. Methods: Eighteen patients who were scheduled for an aortic arch operation underwent the test. Before surgery, the LMCA flow was detected using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. During manual compression of the left carotid artery, the flow velocity of the LMCA was measured and expressed as a percent in comparison to the precompression value. Results: During carotid artery compression, flow velocity of the LMCA was reduced to 56% ± 36% (median, 63%; range, 0% to 100%) of the precompression value. The communication to the LMCA assessed with magnetic resonance angiography showed a weak relationship to the functional flow reserve of the LMCA based on a transcranial Doppler study. 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The communication to the LMCA assessed with magnetic resonance angiography showed a weak relationship to the functional flow reserve of the LMCA based on a transcranial Doppler study. The results indicated that morphologic observation with magnetic resonance angiography did not reflect the dynamic nature of the intracranial collaterals. Conclusions: A preoperative left carotid artery compression test with a measurement of the flow of the LMCA is useful to assess the feasibility of interrupting perfusion to the left carotid artery during aortic arch surgery with bilateral axillary artery perfusion. AB - Background: The assessment of intracranial arterial communication is important to prevent a stroke from occurring during an aortic arch operation. Bilateral axillary artery perfusion was used with the left common carotid artery perfusion for selective cerebral perfusion. A preoperative left carotid artery compression test with measurement of the left middle cerebral artery (LMCA) flow was performed to determine how safe it was to interrupt the perfusion to the left common carotid artery. Methods: Eighteen patients who were scheduled for an aortic arch operation underwent the test. Before surgery, the LMCA flow was detected using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. During manual compression of the left carotid artery, the flow velocity of the LMCA was measured and expressed as a percent in comparison to the precompression value. Results: During carotid artery compression, flow velocity of the LMCA was reduced to 56% ± 36% (median, 63%; range, 0% to 100%) of the precompression value. The communication to the LMCA assessed with magnetic resonance angiography showed a weak relationship to the functional flow reserve of the LMCA based on a transcranial Doppler study. The results indicated that morphologic observation with magnetic resonance angiography did not reflect the dynamic nature of the intracranial collaterals. Conclusions: A preoperative left carotid artery compression test with a measurement of the flow of the LMCA is useful to assess the feasibility of interrupting perfusion to the left carotid artery during aortic arch surgery with bilateral axillary artery perfusion. U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.024 DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.024 JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line917
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__label__wiki	0.856809	0.856809	LakersNation Get breaking Lakers News direct to your inbox. Lakers News: Dwight Howard Open to Immediate Trade to Lakers NBA News: Dwight Howard Sticks By Trade Demand Ryan Ward The Dwight Howard trade saga continues with the Orlando Magic failing to convince the superstar center to stay with the team moving forward after meeting with GM Rob Hennigan in Los Angeles on Wednesday. After the news broke of Howard sticking to his trade demand, three options were mentioned by the superstar center to Hennigan according to Jarrod Rudolph of RealGM.com: “An immediate trade to the Lakers, a January trade to the Brooklyn Nets or a clean break at the end of the 2012-13 season. But he was clear that he would not return to the Magic, choosing to leave as a free agent after the season, sources told RealGM.” Along with giving the Magic these options to consider, Howard also let it be known to the Magic brass that he’d never sign another contract in Orlando ever again. Strong words filled with frustration as Howard is the one person is this mess that wants something to get done as soon as possible. At this point in time, the Lakers seem to benefit more than any team in the equation in getting a deal done for Howard. Howard indicating that he’d be open to an immediate trade to the Lakers wasn’t the only promising sign for Los Angeles as he also said he’d be willing to sign with the team after next season via RealGM.com: “During the meeting, Howard informed Hennigan that he would be willing to re-sign with the Lakers at the end of the 12-13 season if the two teams were able to complete a trade.” GM Mitch Kupchak and Lakers VP Jim Buss must have started drooling after hearing these statements as it clearly indicates Howard’s desire to play in Los Angeles long-term. Obviously, anything can happen over the course of an NBA season that might jeopardize Howard’s stance on signing long-term, especially in L.A., but Howard seems sold on the prospect of playing under the bright lights in Tinseltown alongside Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash. Even though it appears that Howard is ready to move on and begin his career in Los Angeles, the fate of the three-time Defensive Player of the Year is in the hands of the Orlando Magic’s front office. It’s no secret that the Magic have been unsatisfied with every trade proposal sent their way for Howard, but after this meeting they may want to cut their losses and make a deal as soon as possible in order to stop the bleeding in Orlando. It’ll be interesting to see if Hennigan and company change their stance in the coming days, and are more willing to make a deal with the Lakers. If so, Howard might be following Nash and Antawn Jamison to Los Angeles to complete the championship puzzle for the Lakers. Lakers News: JR Smith Addresses Impact Of Game 5 Postponement Before teams descended upon Orlando for the NBA restart, there was a lot of discussion on whether or not it was… Corey Hansford D’Angelo Russell And The Desperation For A Lakers Superstar As the clock wound down, the Los Angeles Lakers looked lost. Trailing by two to the Utah Jazz, the play that had been drawn up by head coach Luke Walton fell apart on a botched screen between Julius Randle and Lou Williams…. Trevor Lane 2017 NBA Draft: LaVar Ball’s Antics Reportedly Not Impacting Lonzo Ball’s Draft Stock The NBA Draft Lottery is only a few weeks away with the top picks in the upcoming 2017 NBA Draft set to be determined on May 16… Lakers Rumors & News Recap: Lakers Lose Game One, But There is Promise The first game, although ending in a loss to the Warriors, wasn’t… Arielle Moyal Odds Shark Lakers News: LeBron James Confused By Travel Calls, Wants Consistency The Los Angeles Lakers suffered what is likely their worst loss of the season so far on… Ron Gutterman Lakers News: Talen Horton-Tucker Feels Comfortable In Any Role Following a promising preseason that forced many across the league to take notice, Los… Anthony Davis, Frank Vogel Deny Lakers Had Complacency Against Warriors In what has become a routine this season, the Los Angeles Lakers built up a massive… Frank Vogel: Lakers ‘Outplayed’ By Warriors In Second Half The Los Angeles Lakers got a wake up call after blowing a 19-point lead and losing to… Matt Peralta LakersNation.com Medium Large, LLC © 2009-2021 Medium Large Sports Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line922
__label__cc	0.701139	0.298861	Let's Talk Dirt A discussion of real estate, SC law, title and all things dirt-y. Dig Through the Dirt Recent Dirt One-day error invalidates mechanic’s lien Court of Appeals refiles order setting a timing rule on ATI exemption Holiday wishes for you…. Rollback tax law in SC changes effective January 1, 2021 Will Bay Point Island in Beaufort County be developed? Lydia Davidson on Holiday wishes for you…. Walt Heinsohn on Huge Nexton project takes top… Taylor Hansen on What’s up with this crazy hous… Linda Mathison on SC lawyer disbarred despite va… Department of Insurance Government / Federal Lawyer Stuff Court of Appeals case lets us talk dirt In the midst of COVID-19, it’s a pleasure to return to a simple discussion of South Carolina dirt law. A case decided by our Court of Appeals last week* surrounds the rights of a condominium project’s owner’s association and a successor developer. The Edgewater on Broad Creek is a luxury condominium project in Hilton Head developed beginning in 2002. The developer, Broad Creek Edgewater, L.P. planned to develop the project on 23.65 acres in multiple phases. Phase 1, located on 7.64 acres of the property, consisted of a building containing 23 units and a clubhouse. The developer recorded a master deed in Beaufort County on December 31, 2002. In the master deed, the developer reserved the right to incorporate the remaining 16.01 acres into future phases. The developer failed in the great recession. Its creditors placed Broad Creek Edgewater, L.P. into involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy in May of 2007. The bankruptcy court approved a sale of the additional property to Bear Properties, LLC on May 28, 2008. In addition to the property, the successor developer was given all of the developer’s reserved rights by a quitclaim deed and a bill of sale. Later, Bear Properties assigned all its rights and interests to Appian Visions, LLC, which subsequently assigned its rights and interests to Ephesian Ventures, LLC, the appellant in this case. While the parties are involved in other litigation, this case involves the attempted construction of a pool and tabby walk by the owner’s association on Phase 1. In March of 2010, the association sought a development permit from the Town of Hilton Head to construct a swimming pool. Following a hearing, the permit was granted and the association began construction. Later, the association began constructing a tabby walk leading from the residential building to the swimming pool. Construction was halted when the Town notified the association that an additional permit was required for the tabby walk. Ephesian administratively opposed the permit to construct the tabby walk, alleging the master deed required its approval for any construction. The Town rescinded approval for the development permits, stating that it planned to hold the matters in abeyance until the covenant issue was resolved. In 2011, the association brought suit in circuit court seeking a declaratory judgment as to Ephesian’s reserved rights in Phase 1. The association sought an order that it had a right to construct a swimming pool and other amenities on Phase 1, subject only to the land use requirements of the Town, free of any interference by Ephesian. Although the developer argued that other language created an ambiguity, language focused on by the Master in Equity and Court of Appeals reads: “The Declarant expressly reserves the right to improve the aforementioned property by clearing, tree pruning, constructing additional parking and common facilities, including, but not necessarily limited to recreational facilities, draining facilities, lagoons, and the like, pertaining to The Edgewater on Broad Creek Horizontal Property Regime.” The Master in Equity found, and the Court of Appeals agreed, viewing the facts and inferences in the light most favorable to the successor developer, as is required in considering summary judgment, that the successor developer maintains the right to construct additional amenities in Phase 1, but that this right is not exclusive. The Court held that the master deed was unambiguous in its reservation of a non-exclusive right in the developer. Litigation between the parties is likely to continue, so we may be able to discuss further developments later. Talking dirt law is so refreshing! *The Edgewater on Broad Creek Owners Association, Inc. v. Ephesian Ventures, LLC, Opinion 5724, South Carolina Court of Appeals (May 6, 2020). Tags Appian Visions LLC, Bear Properties LLC, Broad Creek Edgewater L.P., Chicago Title, Chicago Title Insurance Company, Claire Manning, Claire T. Manning, Court of Appeals, COVID-19, CTIC, CTIC SC, Edgewater on Broad Creek, Ephesian Ventures LLC, Master-in-Equity, Opinion 5724, South Carolina, tabby walk, Town of Hilton Head Are RON closings now allowed in South Carolina? iBuyers are jumping back into the water: does that mean the market is safe?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line927
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Unlike other firms that try to settle cases quickly for less money Rush & Gransee, L.C. has the reputation of pushing cases so that our client’s recovery is maximized. Call Robert for a free consultation today - (210) 223-9200 Raul Arnoldo Guajardo Free ConsultationProducts Liability and Workers' Comp McAllen accident attorney Raul A. Guajardo helps clients protect their legal rights in all types of personal injury claims. Our law firm takes pride in providing every client with personal attention, a high standard of legal representation, and efficient and affordable claim resolution. Since opening our Texas-based law offices in 2002, Raul A. Guajardo has successfully represented hundreds of clients in a range of legal matters from personal injury suits and divorce to DWI and federal drug crimes. His clients appreciate his willingness to listen and understand their priorities, as well as his no-nonsense, aggressive approach to fighting for their... Richard Alamia (956) 381-5766 206 W. Stubbs Free ConsultationImmigration and White Collar Crime My name is Richard R. Alamia. I have been practicing law since 1977. I offer free consultations and also accept payment plans. My general practice consists of criminal law (State and Federal), family law, immigration, & civil lawsuits. Marcos Demetrio Oliva (956) 683-7800 223 W Nolana Avenue Free ConsultationBankruptcy John Marshall Law School Marcos D. Oliva was born in San Antonio, Texas and moved to McAllen where he attended James “Nikki” Rowe High School. After graduation he attended Texas A&M University in College Station on full scholarship where he majored in Biomedical Science. After college graduation he attended law school at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. He has been back in Texas since 2004 and now practices consumer and business bankruptcy law. He is admitted to practice law in the State of Texas, the United States District and Bankruptcy Courts in the Southern District of Texas, and the United... Julian Carlos Gomez (956) 682-6959 1300 N. 10th St., Suite 480C Juan G Ramos Hidalgo County, TX Attorney with 5 years of experience (956) 630-7670 612 W. Nolana, Ste 566 The University of Texas School of Law Juan hails from the town of La Feria, Texas where he grew up on a farm and ranch. His upbringing instilled in him the value of respect and a purpose to help others. These values helped Juan as he pursued his studies at the University of Texas Pan American and University of Texas, where he graduated with his law degree. Prior to practicing law in the great state of Texas, Juan had the privilege of working in Washington, DC in the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Treasury Department where he worked on national issues related to... Veronica Valenzuela (956) 994-8711 801 E. Fern Ave. Ste. 109 Free ConsultationInsurance Claims Although the majority of my practice is focused on personal injury and business and civil litigation cases, I also have significant experience with family law and criminal law. Personal Injury. I have filed over 200 claims with numerous insurance carriers for wrongful death, truck accident, motor vehicle accident, pedestrian accident, slip & fall, trip & fall, and premises liability cases. Out of 166 claims that were successfully settled, at least 23 settled in litigation. Business & Civil Litigation. On the Plaintiff side, I have prosecuted: over 25 collection suits (5 against guarantors);... Louis Leichter (866) 293-4065 214 N 16th St #128 Administrative, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Insurance Defense Louis Leichter completed his Bachelor's at Vassar College, his Masters at Florida International University, and then completed his JD at Drake University. Prior to starting a private practice, he prosecuted criminal cases as an Assistant County Attorney for Travis County, Texas. After gaining experience, he opened Leichter Law Firm PC and practices administrative, health and criminal law with a focus in the area of licensure and license defense. He advises clients on disciplinary conduct allegations and helps clients get registered for their profession. He is also a member of TAAP, NAADAC, Sustainers Council, Austin Criminal Defense Lawyers Association,... Joseph Michael Dickerson 1410 W. Dove Business and Real Estate Miriam A. Ayala (956) 627-4051 721 E. Esperanza Ave. Ramon Garcia (956) 383-7441 222 West University Drive Arbitration & Mediation and Employment Ramon Garcia is a personal injury lawyer based in Edinburg. As the founding attorney of the Law Offices of Ramon Garcia, he brings 40+ years of legal experience to clients including a proven track record of success, having recovered half a billion dollars in settlements. 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Ms. Whitworth also represents clients in commercial litigation in both state and federal courts in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas - including, Hidalgo County, Cameron County, Willacy County, and Starr County. Miguel "Mike" Lopez Jr. (855) 852-8964 2007 E. Griffin Parkway Mission, TX 78572 Free ConsultationBusiness, Consumer, Employment and Products Liability Mike began his legal career as a prosecutor at the Hidalgo County District Attorney’s office representing the State of Texas in the prosecution of Misdemeanor and Felony criminal cases. He learned to prepare cases for trial and go to trial on a wide variety of criminal matters. Mike was then recruited by a leading employment law firm, Aaron Pena & Associates in the Rio Grande Valley representing clients in all aspects of employment litigation. During his tenor at Aaron Pena & Associates he learned the civil aspect of litigation. Mike handled cases from the inception of... Ignacio Perez (956) 681-1090 1300 Houston Avenue Katie Pearson Klein (956) 687-8700 1100 E Jasmine Ave Francisco Martinez Jr. (956) 971-0972 3501 N. WARE RD Immigration and Insurance Claims Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law David Windlin Bergquist (956) 331-7881 214 N. 16TH street McAllen , TX 78501 Christopher Ryan Brasure (888) 964-1116 135 Paseo Del Prado Ave Bankruptcy, Business and Consumer Daniel Elijah Vargas (956) 287-3743 220 S 12th Ave Ste A Free ConsultationBusiness, Consumer and Employment Armando M. Guerra Hidalgo County, TX Attorney (956) 616-4641 113 North 9th Avenue As the founder of Armando M. Guerra & Associates, PLLC, Hidalgo County attorney Armando M. Guerra provides legal services for both criminal defense and civil legal needs. Since receiving his license to practice law, Attorney Guerra has been in private practice. Before joining the legal field, he spent time as a computer technician. He is a graduate of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas. Learn more and obtain a zero-charge consultation by contacting his firm today. Robert C Sheline (956) 225-7407 1520 Dove Carlos Andres Garcia (956) 584-1448 1305 E Griffin Pkwy Jesus "Jesse" A. Zambrano Administrative and Business Founding Attorney Jesus “Jesse” A. Zambrano of Zambrano Law Firm in McAllen, Texas has an extensive legal background and a beginning in the banking industry. After finishing his Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) in 2005 and making a name for himself in several prominent law firms, he founded Zambrano Law Firm in 2011. Today, he represents consumers, business owners, and financial institutions in a variety of complex and high-stakes cases. Clients all throughout Texas have come to know Attorney Jesse Zambrano as a truly compassionate legal professional who only wants what is best for them. Legal peers see him as a thought-leader... Cynthia Laura Benavides Weslaco, TX 78596 Administrative, Business and Real Estate Texas Tech University School of Law Antonio Martinez Jr. (956) 683-1090 515 W Nolana Ave Bankruptcy, Business, Consumer and Immigration (956) 661-9992 1801 South Second Street Rafael De La Garza Hidalgo County, TX Lawyer (956) 825-2030 4943 South Jackson Road Business and Immigration University of Houston - Main Campus If you are searching for an attorney in Hidalgo County that can assist you with a complicated legal matter, look no further than De La Garza & Ramirez Attorneys at Law. The attorneys are devoted to helping clients come up with creative and effective solutions to their various legal matters—regardless of if the matter pertains to the field of criminal law, business law, immigration or personal injury. With a proven track record of success in state, federal, and appellate courts, the team has the knowledge and resources to take on even the most complex cases. 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She understands the needs of injury victims as she spent the last nine years practicing criminal law in Brownsville. She represented hundreds of clients over that time. As a result of her experience, Sara has been a chosen speaker for events for Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association, Lubbock Area Bar Association, Cameron County Bar Association, and the State Bar of Texas. Jay Pena Starr County, TX Lawyer with 6 years of experience (956) 266-7858 200 N Britton Ave Rio Grande City, TX 78582 Administrative, Bankruptcy, Business and Consumer I am a 6th generation Texan and blessed because all of those generations were hard-working farm laborers--good people. I was born in the Texas Panhandle, in the small cattle town of Hereford and raised on an onion field in Rio Grande City, right on the Texas-Mexico border. I studied business and economics for almost 10 years before I decided I needed a law degree to complement my profession as a consultant. Along the way, I learned that business, economics, law and onion fields all have one important thing in common: roots. My life is God, family, and my profession, and... Attorneys in Nearby Cities The TechLawyers Lawyer Directory contains lawyers who have claimed their profiles and are actively seeking clients. Find more Hidalgo County Lawyers in the Justia Legal Services and Lawyers Directory which includes profiles of more than one million lawyers licensed to practice in the United States, in addition to profiles of legal aid, pro bono and legal service organizations.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line932
__label__wiki	0.636606	0.636606	In the development of vaccines against coronaviruses like SARS-COV-1 and MERS in the early 2000’s, researchers found evidence of a serious problem. Teams of U.S. and foreign scientists vaccinated animals with the four most promising vaccines. At first, the experiment seemed successful as all the animals developed a robust antibody response to coronavirus. However, when the scientists exposed the vaccinated animals to the wild virus, the results were horrifying. Vaccinated animals suffered hyper-immune responses including inflammation throughout their bodies, especially in their lungs. (Article by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org) This issue is well known. Early in the COVID-19 scenario, Dr. Peter Hotez, of Baylor College of Medicine, testified before Congress about the dangers of accelerating coronavirus vaccine development, saying “(The) unique safety problem of coronavirus vaccines” was discovered 50 years ago while developing the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine.” He went to register that this “‘paradoxical immune enhancement phenomenon’ means vaccinated people may still develop the disease, get sicker and die.” Researchers had seen this same “enhanced immune response” during human testing of the failed RSV vaccine tests in the 1950s. The vaccines not only failed to prevent infection; 80% of the children infected required hospitalization, and two children challenged with the RSV died (see Openshaw, 2005). In April of 2020, Hotez told CNN, “If there is immune enhancement in animals, that’s a showstopper.” There’s been a serious terminology problem with this issue. The problem, of course, is not “immune enhancement,” which sounds like something helpful to the immune system. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The problem is, in reality “disease enhancement”; in fact, that is what it was called in the original RSV study. Disease enhancement now appears to be caused by initial exposure to a pathogen’s proteins, or parts of proteins, which primes the body to autoimmunity. That is “pathogenic priming.” In COVID-19, every protein in the SARS-CoV-2 has at least one epitope that matches human proteins someplace in the human body. About one-third of the epitopes in SARS-CoV-2 virus that match human proteins match immune system proteins. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Briefing Document on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine contains disturbing indications that might be a safety signal on pathogenic priming, especially in older adults. Before those are reviewed, there are fundamental issues with the classification of serious adverse events that reflect the short-term thinking and externalization-of-cost mindset of the vaccine safety science paradigm. The first issue is the categorization of “Serious vs. Non-Serious” adverse events in the study and in the report. To a person experiencing neurologic adverse events including Bell’s Palsy, neuroinflammatory and thrombotic events, these events are not “non-serious” and can, over time, develop into life-threatening conditions that require continuous medical intervention and repeated billable office visits for care. The short-term study excludes any means of detecting whether the initial exposure may play a fundamental root cause role in setting up patients for life-long chronic illness. The vaccine adverse events themselves seen in the Pfizer study may be indicative of pathogenic priming, especially since more serious adverse events were seen with the second dose. The second issue is that the design and analysis set-up of the study are biased against finding adverse events. The report states: “Among non-serious unsolicited adverse events, there was a numerical imbalance of four cases of Bell’s palsy in the vaccine group compared with no cases in the placebo group, though the four cases in the vaccine group do not represent a frequency above that expected in the general population.” The comparison to baseline rates is meaningless because other vaccines are in use in the population. Thus, any risk due to the COVID-19 vaccine adds to or multiplies existing risk present in the population from other vaccines. A 10-fold increase of serious adverse events on second dose in older adults on second dose, compared to 3.6-fold for those under 55 Among the 18-55 year-old participants, there were 370 solicited serious adverse events (SSAEs) in the vaccinated group and 73 in the unvaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 18% experienced SSAEs; in the placebo group, only 3% did, implying that SSAEs can be expected at a rate five times greater in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated. These included severe fatigue, headache, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle and joint pain. Whether these conditions represent instances of pathogenic priming, identifying individuals who are now at higher risk of serious morbidity and mortality if they become infected with SARS-CoV-2 is unknown, but given past studies, seems likely. In the over 55 group, which was a smaller group, there were 60 SSAEs in the vaccinated group and 24 in the unvaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 6.5% experienced SAEs, compared to 1.4% in the unvaccinated, implying a 4.46 times increased risk overall of SSAEs due to vaccination. However, in the older group, the vaccinated group was 10 times more likely to have a SSAE upon receipt of the second vaccine dose than the first dose compared to the 1:1 ratio in the unvaccinated. In the younger group, the vaccinated were only 3.61 times more likely to have second-dose SSAEs than the age-matched placebo group, which had about as many SSAEs in the first and second dose. Animal trials insufficient The patients in the study reviewed were healthy — and thus the spectrum of adverse events is not representative of those that might occur if the vaccine comes to market. In the previous animal trials, the first dose was a vaccine, but the second was natural infection, leading to severe injury and often death. In these human trials, both doses were from the vaccine, so it is also not reassuring that these adverse events did not include the more serious and deadly conditions that afflicted animals. These human trials did not rule out pathogenic priming in any way. Both the Moderna and Pfizer animal studies, which used non-human primates, failed to examine organ sites other than lung, and while they studied potential markers of pathogenic priming, they failed to measure one: interleukin-5 (IL-5), which had been found in prior coronavirus studies to be elevated in conjunction with pathogenic priming-induced disease enhancement. Recalling that animal studies conducted on prior COVID vaccines found pathogenic priming leading to disease enhancement in older animals more than younger animals, older adults may be at highest risk of serious chronic illness due to autoimmunity resulting from vaccine-induced pathogenic priming. Dr. Anthony Fauci has informed the public that these vaccines do not stop transmission. Therefore, the next dose of the viral proteins in the form of a natural infection for these study participants — a SARS-CoV-2 infection leading to COVID19 — may be their last. The study should be extended to long-term follow up, including any further vaccination or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins by infection. So why have the world’s top vaccine promoters, like Paul Offit and Peter Hotez, been warning us frantically about the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine? In this video footage, Offit, Hotez and even Fauci (in an unguarded moment), warn that any new coronavirus vaccine could trigger lethal immune reactions, “vaccine enhancement,” when vaccinated people come in contact with the wild virus. Instead of proceeding with caution, Fauci made the reckless choice to fast track vaccines, partially funded by Gates, without critical animal studies before moving into human clinical trials that could provide early warning of runaway immune responses. Gates (in this video) is so worried about the danger of adverse events that he says vaccines shouldn’t be distributed until governments agree to indemnify against lawsuits. On Feb. 4, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, there were only 11 active CV cases in the U.S., yet the U.S. quietly pushed through federal regulations giving coronavirus vaccine makers full immunity from liability. Are you willing to take the risk? Decide for yourself, based on the evidence. Read more at: ChildrensHealthDefense.org and VaccineInjuryNews.com. Tagged Under: adverse effects, Big Pharma, coronavirus, covid-19, deception, fake shot, harmful medicines, mainstream media, pandemic, Pfizer, pharmaceutical fraud, vaccines Fake shot? Local news airs health care worker receiving empty vaccine Majority of voters say the media BURIED Hunter Biden story to get Joe elected	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line934
__label__wiki	0.641626	0.641626	Graphic Novels Indie Marvel Comics DC Image Go to comixology.com or continue to m.comixology.co.uk You will not be able to purchase on m.comixology.co.uk with a credit card registered in a country covered by comixology.com. FCBD 2016: Captain America #1 FCBD 2016: Captain America Steve Rogers is returning to comics this May, and you can get your first taste on FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. This issue will get you caught up just in time for the release of Captain America: Steve Rogers #1, coming to comics later in May! Three Captain Americas fought shoulder-to-shoulder in AVENGERS: STANDOFF. Now, one rises to take his place at the forefront of the Marvel Universe! Nick Spencer and Jesus Saiz usher in a new beginning for the nation's greatest hero! But that's not all! FCBD CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 will also feature a second all-new story and a special prelude to DEAD NO MORE, giving fans their first look at the blockbuster storyline coming later this year. If you got a chance to bring back someone who died, would you? And how will people deal when ones they thought long dead once again walk the earth? It's the opening salvo of Dead No More, a major storyline coming in 2016! Dan Slott Nick Spencer Javier Garron Jesus Saiz Jesus Saiz Story Arc The Clone Conspiracy Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016-2017) He’s back! The original Sentinel of Liberty returns, with a new shield, a new team, and a new mission! And he’s not the only one who’s back! Like the saying goes-- cut off one LIMB, two more will take its place! HAIL HYDRA! Captain America: Secret Empire Collects Captain America: Steve Rogers #17-19, Captain America: Sam Wilson #22-24. In Cap we trust! But as Steve Rogers ushers in the Secret Empire, what will this new order mean for Sam Wilson? Find out, as a crucial mission brings Sam back out from the shadows - and into the skies once more! Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015-2017) When Steve Rogers was restored to his natural age, he chose one of his closest and most trusted allies to take up his shield. Now Sam Wilson, formerly the Avenger known as Falcon, carries on the fight for liberty and justice as the all-new, all-different Captain America! Secret Empire (2017) Steve Rogers, the original Captain America, has declared his allegiance to Hydra! How can the heroes of the Marvel Universe cope with this shattering betrayal by the most trusted figure among them? And what will this mean for the world? The map of the Marvel Universe changes in ways nobody will expect — TRUST THE SECRET EMPIRE! Captain America (2012-2014) Thrust into a bizarre, inhospitable world far from home, the all-new, high-adventure, mind-melting, tough-as-nails, sci-fi, pulp-fantasy era of Captain America is NOW! Arnim Zola's ambitions leave Captain America stranded in the upside-down territory known as Dimension Z. With no country and no allies, what's left for the Sentinel of Liberty to protect?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line939
__label__wiki	0.816382	0.816382	Aquaman: War for the Throne Just in time for Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa, comes an epic tale of conflict and conquest from the award-winning author Geoff Johns in Aquaman: War for the Throne! Six years ago, he was a surface-dweller, raised as the son of a lighthouse keeper. Then tragedy struck. Destiny was revealed. And young Arthur Curry claimed his birthright: The Throne of Atlantis. But his reign was brief. When darkness threatened the surface world, he rose to meet it. As Aquaman, he joined the team of heroes called the Justice League, leaving the rule of his kingdom behind. But even underwater, the past will not stay buried. A sinister force is pushing Aquaman's two worlds to the brink of war, with the fate of the planet in the balance. If Arthur does not reclaim his throne, the throne may well claim his life... Collecting Aquaman #0, #14-16 and Justice League #15-17, Originally collected as Aquaman: Throne of Atlantis, Aquaman: War for the Throne is an epic tale of conflict and conquest from the all-star creative team of Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, Paul Pelletier, and Pete Woods! Aquaman (2011-2016) Superstar writer Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN) re-teams with artist Ivan Reis (BLACKEST NIGHT) to tell the tale of Justice League founding member Aquaman! But after renouncing the throne of Atlantis, can the former King of the Seas find stability on land? Spinning out of AQUAMAN (2011- ), the King of Atlantis joins forces with the surviving members of his former team--collectively known as the Others--and forms an all-new team of aquatic heroes. The Flash (2011-2016) Barry Allen faces a bevy of bad guys in his constant race to protect the people of Central City! The Fastest Man Alive returns to his own monthly series from the writer/artist team of Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato. Green Lantern (2011-2016) A new day has dawned for the Green Lantern Corps: Hal Jordan is no longer a member and its greatest enemy, Sinestro, is! How will Hal and the universe itself cope -- and what does it mean for the future of the Corps? Superstar writer Geoff Johns continues his defining Green Lantern run with artist Doug Mahnke! Justice League of America (2013-2015) Green Lantern! Green Arrow! Catwoman! Katana! Vibe! Hawkman! Stargirl! They aren't the world's greatest super heroes--they're the most dangerous. But why does a team like the JLA need to exist? Writer Geoff Johns brings readers the answer with this JUSTICE LEAGUE (2011- ) spin-off series!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line940
__label__wiki	0.714783	0.714783	Daily Roundup: Prop 19 Winning in New Field Poll; Cypress Hill Smokeout Announced by David Downs 1. Another poll - this time from Field Research Corporation - shows Prop 19 clearly in the running this election, with a 49 - 42 lead over the opposition, with a +/-4.3 percent margin of error. "With a lot of people considering and reconsidering ... this is probably not as solid a 49 percent (support) as can be," pollsters told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Turnout matters a great deal, and if the young voters don't turn out, it could make a big difference." The counter-attack from the No on 19 campaign continues with the California Chamber of Commerce mobilizing local resources to the fight. The powerful business lobby has already said Prop 19 would make employers tolerate stoned employees, which Newsweek and the text of Prop 19 proves is demonstrably false. Even that might not work, though. The Valley Industry & Commerce Association, or VICA in San Fernando has decided to stay neutral on Prop 19, because, "'We came down to it not being enough of a business issue, in our opinion,' said Greg Lippe, co-chair of VICA’s government affairs committee. Lippe said that while supporters of Proposition 19 say passage of the ballot measure would benefit the state through tax revenues and opponents say its passage would lead to workplace chaos, both outcomes appeared to be uncertain. 'There wasn’t clear evidence to us that it was definitely going to be either,' Lippe told the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. [Via MMJ News] More after the jump. 2. Amendments boosting personal pot possession limits under Prop 19 from one ounce to one pound, and setting state taxation protocols have been filed by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. 3. Reason Magazine covers California's pot-smoking Governor and his latest anti-legalization letter in a great round-up of the California press' cowardly response to impending social change. 4. And USA Today gets annihilated in its comments board for a drive-by potshot at Prop 19 that plays up the "stoned motorist" angle. Register to VOTE here. 5. If marijuana is so addictive and dangerous, where are all the dead bodies seen in alcohol, tobacco or heroin abuse? Paul Armentano of NORML looks at a new The University of Michigan study on the numbers of pot-based ER visits that concludes" “[M]arijuana was by far the most commonly used (illicit) drug, but individuals who used [it] had a low prevalence of drug-related ED visits.” A RAND study published in July reported that fewer than 200 total patients were admitted to California hospitals in 2008 for “marijuana abuse or dependence.” By contrast, an estimated 73,000 annual hospitalizations in California are related to the use of alcohol. 6. The International Cannabis and Hemp Expo went down Saturday and Sunday at the Cow Palace. The standard panels and booths seen at the twelve other cannabis conventions in California were on display, as well as copious “Anyone But Cooley” signage. Los Angeles District Attorney Cooley has said medical cannabis dispensaries are illegal and the medical cannabis industry is mobilizing to fight his bid to be the next State Attorney General, where he would have huge role in guiding medical and recreational cannabis policy in California. Plus, a medical cannabis dispensary from Sacramento ran a No on 19 booth. (Read about stoners against legalization's problems with Prop 19 here.) The Sacramento dispensary also handed out flyers insinuating Prop 19 founder Richard Lee, liberal billionaire George Soros and herbicide maker Monsanto were in a conspiracy to run the weed world. 7. Meanwhile in Spokane, Washington an unarmed pregnant woman was shot during a drug raid, the News Tribune reports. "She attempted to flee out a bedroom window, officers attempted to restrain her. During efforts to prevent her escape, a shot was fired and the woman suffered a minor wound to her upper torso. She fell out the window and received first aid from containment officers stationed at the back of the apartments." Officer say they found an undisclosed amount of crack cocaine, pot and pills. [via Cannabis Culture] 8. Lastly, “Marijuana cannot be the one exception in history of the world that doesn’t go through a scientific process to be approved as medicine,” Kevin Sabet, paid mouthpiece of the White House Drug Czar told the Montana Supreme Court Administrator’s annual drug court conference in Helena covered by the Billings Gazette. “It doesn’t make any sense. ... How can we imagine that a dangerous, illegal drug like marijuana should be voted on by the people? That’s not how we do medicine in this country.” But according to Dr. Julie Holland, author of The Pot Book, America refuses to allow pot to go through a scientific process that could approve it as medicine. Holland says FDA-approved medicinal cannabis studies are routinely blocked by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, which is tasked with demonizing the weed, and prevents any scientific research which could show pot's uses as medicine. Meanwhile in reality: new studies overseas show pot helping with social anxiety, pain, and bladder dysfunction in MS patients. High Times hosts the Cypress Hill smokeout in San Bernadino, October 16, with Incubus, Man Chao, Deadmau5, MGMT and more.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line941
__label__wiki	0.574929	0.574929	AvocadoLove PM 75 Find Yourself » Sequel to Lose Yourself. He was one a boy named Li, but now he's Zuko again... isn't he? Avatar: Last Airbender, K, English, Drama & Angst, chapters: 6, words: 3k+, favs: 286, follows: 244, updated: 12/31/2020 published: 7/18/2011, Zuko 5k+Another Brother » It was a mission of revenge. There weren't supposed to be any survivors, but Chief Hakoda couldn't bring himself to kill the Fire Nation boy. Against his better judgment, he brought him home. A Zuko joins the Water Tribe story. Avatar: Last Airbender, T, English, Adventure & Hurt/Comfort, chapters: 39, words: 325k+, favs: 7k+, follows: 7k+, updated: 7/31/2020 published: 7/22/2008, Aang, Sokka, Zuko, Katara 245Unchained Melody » Sokka is a man of science, and science says ghosts aren't real. So, he can't be dead... Right? Too bad science can't explain why the only person who can see or hear him is Prince Angry Jerk. (Sokka/Zuko) Avatar: Last Airbender, K+, English, Romance & Humor, chapters: 15, words: 60k+, favs: 322, follows: 352, updated: 4/29/2020 published: 2/10/2019, Sokka, Zuko 286The Avatar Makes Three » The end of the war was within reach when disaster struck: Avatar Aang lost his life while energy-bending Ozai. But out of the darkness came one last chance at hope, because the Avatar spirit was reborn… in Aang's instructors. Featuring time travel, meta snarking, and Avatar Zuko, Avatar Katara, and Avatar Toph deciding to screw the rules and end the war their way. Avatar: Last Airbender, K+, English, Adventure & Humor, chapters: 11, words: 47k+, favs: 558, follows: 657, updated: 2/2/2020 published: 11/16/2018 39 Defense Against The Dark Arts With Professor Umino (Chaptered Story) » Book 5 AU: With no witch or wizard willing to take the Defense Against The Dark Arts job except Umbridge, Dumbledore is forced to look elsewhere. He hires a shinobi. (Chaptered story based on my one-shot collection under the same name.) Harry Potter & Naruto, K+, English, Drama & Adventure, chapters: 2, words: 9k+, favs: 112, follows: 162, updated: 7/29/2017 published: 7/19/2017 44Switched Lives » When jounin Iruka is ordered to take on a genin team, Iruka fears he'll do a terrible job. What does he know about children? But there's something about the brat's chuunin-sensei, Kakashi Hatake, that even Iruka's Byakugan eye can't pin down. If Iruka's not careful, his new team 7 of Naruto, Hinata and Shikamaru might just take the village by storm. Naruto, K, English, Angst, chapters: 3, words: 9k+, favs: 152, follows: 103, updated: 5/29/2017 published: 3/11/2014, Kakashi H., Iruka U. 23 Tempest In A Teapot » Or, how Bucky watches his best friend die in his place, wakes seventy years in the future, takes up Captain America's shield, joins a group of super heroes, and finally finds forgiveness in himself. (Based in the Avenger's Movie 'verse) Avengers, K+, English, Adventure & Hurt/Comfort, chapters: 7, words: 32k+, favs: 121, follows: 72, updated: 12/31/2014 published: 3/11/2014 105 Prisoner's Dilemma » After taking the airplane down in the Arctic, Steve wakes to find himself imprisoned as a human test subject. With no idea where in the world he is, his only ally is a fast-talking inventor in the cell next door. Something's off about Tony that Steve can't put his finger on, and it's obvious Tony doesn't fully trust him either. But to escape they may not have a choice… Avengers, K, English, Adventure & Angst, chapters: 6, words: 16k+, favs: 431, follows: 269, updated: 12/31/2014 published: 1/18/2014, [Captain America/Steve R., Iron Man/Tony S.] 40 Every Villain Is a Hero (in his own mind) » Tony is the villain known as Iron Man. Steve is Captain America. Outside work, Steve and Tony are married and do not know each other's secret identities. Some reveals, though, do not have a happy ending. Avengers, K+, English, Hurt/Comfort & Drama, chapters: 3, words: 10k+, favs: 178, follows: 66, updated: 9/30/2014 published: 9/21/2014, [Iron Man/Tony S., Captain America/Steve R.] 142 All The Leaves Are Brown (And the sky is gray) » The Winter Soldier's mission is nearly complete. Howard and Maria Stark are dead, leaving him to dispatch their four-year-old child. One quick twist of the neck is all it will take, but the Soldier finds he cannot do it. So instead of killing Tony Stark, the Winter Soldier takes him away to raise as his own. Avengers, K+, English, Family & Hurt/Comfort, chapters: 11, words: 18k+, favs: 865, follows: 306, updated: 8/15/2014 published: 8/5/2014, Iron Man/Tony S. 3k+ Teach Your Children Well » After Madara final attack on the village, Rokudaime Kakashi uncovers a time-travel scroll. Now he's Team Seven's sensei again. And this time, he's going to do things differently. A time travel fic. Naruto, K+, English, Adventure & Fantasy, chapters: 22, words: 37k+, favs: 6k+, follows: 5k+, updated: 8/31/2013 published: 6/10/2010, Kakashi H., Iruka U. 21 There's Something About Jane » Jane refuses to go to Santa Barbara, even though he seems to know all the key players there. Psych & Mentalist, K, English, Tragedy & Drama, chapters: 2, words: 2k+, favs: 71, follows: 116, updated: 2/10/2013 published: 2/4/2013, Shawn S., Patrick J. 944 In His Shoes » In order to fully understand a man, you must first walk a mile in his shoes. Sokka and Zuko are going to find that out the hard way. Avatar: Last Airbender, K, English, Drama & Adventure, chapters: 19, words: 101k+, favs: 1k+, follows: 802, updated: 5/31/2012 published: 6/5/2008, Sokka, Zuko 37 To Live In The Hearts We Leave Behind Prequel to Rampage. How did SG1 find Toph and Zuko in the first place? Stargate: SG-1 & Avatar: Last Airbender, K, English, Drama & Suspense, words: 3k+, favs: 163, follows: 51, 4/22/2012, J. O'Neill, Zuko 49Mr Eames and the Third Eye After a near fatal reaction to a experimental somnacin mixture, Eames wakes up with the ability to see auras. Inception, K+, English, Supernatural & Angst, words: 41, favs: 62, follows: 90, updated: 12/26/2011 published: 7/23/2011, Eames, Arthur 112 The Boy Who Spoke With Ghosts » No one suspects Arthur. He's too practical, too organized, too sensible to believe in the supernatural. Fusion with The Sixth Sense. Inception Kink prompt: Arthur's real name is Cole Sear. Inception, K+, English, Supernatural & Adventure, chapters: 6, words: 22k+, favs: 359, follows: 110, updated: 6/18/2011 published: 2/11/2011, Arthur, Eames 23 Peace Will Find Us Song was no princess. She was a healer with dust and spots of someone else's blood staining her work apron. And her hero was probably too old for her, and fought like he's simply dancing while his opponents were all too clumsy, too slow to keep up. Avatar: Last Airbender, K, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 1k+, favs: 134, follows: 18, 6/11/2011, Song, Piandao 20 Butterfly Day A split in a disturbed mark's mind leads to two different fates for Arthur and Eames. How much difference can a single decision make? A story where they fall in love, and a story where they don't. But things still just might turn out in the end anyway. Inception, M, English, Romance & Suspense, words: 28k+, favs: 43, follows: 6, 5/1/2011, Eames, Arthur 15 When Somebody Loved Me, Everything Was Beautiful For as long as Eames could remember it had always been he and Darling in his cabin, until the day the real thing showed up. Eames/Arthur Pre-relationship. Limbo fic. Inception, K+, English, Romance & Drama, words: 3k+, favs: 49, follows: 5, 4/14/2011, Eames, Arthur 26 Even Ghosts Can Go Mad AU: Mai may have died that day at the Boiling Rock, but she never left. Mai/Zuko. 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__label__wiki	0.749391	0.749391	Tom Hanks stars in Greyhound. Picture: Supplied Movie guide: What to stream this week by Leigh Paatsch 16th Jul 2020 7:08 AM While cinemas are being forced to make do with mid-strength fare - or are shut altogether - the streaming platforms seemingly have a lock on the most entertaining features on offer. Leigh Paatsch takes a closer look at some of the most prominent movies to liven up the streaming landscape recently. THE OLD GUARD (MA15+) NETFLIX, 123 min Scene from Netflix movie Old Guard, Starring Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, KiKi Layne. Picture: Supplied Big-budget, low-calorie action has long been a house specialty for Netflix Original productions. This new Charlize Theron butt-kicker will definitely appease those who thought highly of the platform's recent hit Extraction with Chris Hemsworth. Theron plays Andy, the leader of a band of immortal warriors whose one job is save the world from its self-destructive tendencies. Andy is tired of centuries of dying and resurrecting repeatedly, and seems to want out just as her posse is admitting their first new member (Kiki Layne) in many generations. Plotting can get pedestrian here - the stakes feel a little low for a tale encompassing political hot spots like Afghanistan and South Sudan - but well-designed fight sequences never drop their guard for a moment. Based on the cult graphic novel series by Greg Rucka. GREYHOUND (M) APPLE TV, 87 min *** 1/2 Scene from Greyhound starring Tom Hanks. Picture: Supplied A lean and meaningful war picture which turns out to be everything the similarly-themed recent cinema hit Midway was not. It is the height of WWII, and in a stretch of the North Atlantic known as the Black Pit, a convoy of American naval supply ships is being stalked by a sizeable pack of German U-boats. The only protection the Allied vessels can hope for comes from destroyers such as the USS Keeling, which just happens to be under the command of a rookie skipper on his first assignment in combat conditions. The movie sticks close to the stressed, yet clear-thinking strategic perspective of Commander Ernest Krause (compellingly played by Tom Hanks, for whom this is a longstanding passion project). This gripping production will definitely appeal to military buffs, but its ability to grip a viewer and not let go is deceptively wide-ranging. Sequences where Krause is on the attack against an enemy he literally never sees are what really stick in the mind here. Another big plus: it's all over inside 90 minutes (a rarity these days!). HAMILTON (M) DISNEY+, 162 min Lin-Manuel Miranda portrays Alexander Hamilton, left, and Phillipa Soo portrays Eliza Hamilton in a filmed version of the original Broadway production of "Hamilton”. Picture: AP This is not a feature movie adaptation of the mega-hit stage musical that has been selling out houses around the world for several years. That will happen later this decade, for sure. No, this is a live recording of the spectacular stage show featuring the A-list company (headed by creator and chief composer Lin-Manuel Miranda) that put this epic endeavour on the map in the first place. This is the version for which a ticket often changed hands for thousands of dollars. So a look-see up close from the comfort of your lounge room just has to be a bargain, right? Kind of. An ambitious biopic of American founding father Alexander Hamilton can easily get the better of those not totally up to speed with their US history. Don't be afraid to press pause and take a breather. ALI & CAVETT: THE TALE OF THE TAPES (PG) BINGE, FOXTEL, 95 min Scene from Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes. Picture: Supplied It is almost impossible to make a bad documentary about legendary heavyweight boxing champ and standout human being Muhammad Ali. While this new one is hardly the most essential of an extensive array of Ali docos, it also cannot fail to entertain or enlighten. Such is the boundless charisma and vitality of the man. The set-up is very simple here. The doco sifts through Ali's 12 appearances on the US TV talk program The Dick Cavett Show, and finds gold just about everywhere. Footage spans the late 1960s through to the 1990s, and while Cavett is not that well known here in Australia, rest assured he is an intelligent and sharp interviewer who got the best out of the bloke they called "The Greatest" time and time again. DA 5 BLOODS (MA15+) Isiah Whitlock Jr, Norm Lewis, Clarke Peters, Delroy Lindo and Jonathan Majors in a scene from the movie Da 5 Bloods. Picture: Supplied Just like with his previous movie, 2018's BlacKkKlansman, decorated filmmaker Spike Lee sneaks in a hard-hitting history lesson behind a seemingly conventional adventure yarn. Delroy Lindo spearheads a quartet of African-American ex-soldiers who return to Vietnam to sort out some unfinished business. While out to honour the memory of a fallen comrade (Chadwick Boseman), the fellas also have a heads-up on some missing treasure that just might make up for the many missed chances in their respective lives. Be patient during a plodding midsection, because the exciting finale is well worth sticking around for. THE DEAD DON'T DIE (MA15+) BINGE, FOXTEL, 104 min Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny and Bill Murray in The Dead Don't Die. Picture: Supplied Welcome to Centerville, where some newly zombie-fied former residents have returned, looking to pick up where they left off while still alive. Oh, and they're rather hungry after taking that dirt nap, too. So begins a deliriously deadpan zom-com looking to have some smart fun at the expense of how dumb a zombie movie thing can be. It doesn't exactly hurt that director Jim Jarmusch has attracted an A-grade cast to this goofy B-movie, led by Bill Murray and Star Wars regular Adam Driver as Centerville's best cops on the case. Co-stars set to chow down or be chomped include Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits and Selena Gomez. LAUREL CANYON (M) DOCPLAY, 160 min Actor Kate Beckinsale in 2003 film "Laurel Canyon". Picture: Supplied This exquisite study of a singular place and time in popular music history is one of the finest music documentaries of recent years. Laurel Canyon is a rustic, idyllic hideaway just kilometres away from downtown Los Angeles. It is here, in the mid-1960s, that an incredibly influential community of singer-songwriters evolved, including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and various members of The Eagles. The roll call does not end there. The use of previously unseen home movies and photographs is spellbinding. Highly recommended. THE VAST OF NIGHT (M) AMAZON, 82 min Sierra McCormick in The Vast of Night. Picture: Supplied What this bargain-basement American indie lacks in polish, it more than compensates for with ideas, intelligence and a determination to deliver. The setting is a small country town in the 1950s, where unexplained electrical interference could be signalling an imminent visit by strangers from parts unknown. If this sounds a little science-fictiony, let's just say this clever tale passes through that realm on the way to something of its own making. Some virtuoso camera shots and the accomplished work of an unknown cast combine for something truly special: close to exactly what a Steven Spielberg might have done if he was just starting out today. Originally published as Movie guide: What to stream this week ‘Upsetting’: Star slams Aussie TV racism Vile poo photo shown in Depp’s court case The real reason why Peaky Blinders star quit Premium Content Splendour in the Past will replace live music festival Hemsworth’s sweet video for mauled boy Premium Content Hoges reveals brutal truth about Crocodile Dundee New Netflix show is a massive letdown movies streaming tv	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line944
__label__wiki	0.985874	0.985874	Gympie Livestream Shed Fire at Woolooga Watch: Winds picking up at Rainbow Beach Simon Poxon Concern over Smerdon Rd high-density development Toddler critical after being hit by motorcycle Toddler critical after Woolgoolga crash by Sally Rawsthorne, The Daily Telegraph 7th Sep 2017 3:30 PM THE mother of a motorbike rider who hit an 18-month-boy says her son is "shattered". The toddler remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital after being hit by the motorcycle in Woolgoolga yesterday afternoon. The toddler was hit when he ran into the street chasing a ball while playing in a front yard in the small coastal town north of Coffs Harbour. The motorbike rider was Woolgoolga local Dylan Tabbs. The boy, who the The Daily Telegraph understands is Sudanese, was taken by road ambulance to Coffs Harbour Hospital with a head injury and abrasions to his body, and then flown to The Sydney Children's Hospital last night. An 18-month-old boy remains in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a motorbike in Woolgoolga. Picture: Seven News According to Mr Tabbs' mother Karen, the toddler and his older sister were playing alone in the yard when she chased the ball they were playing with onto the road. The boy followed and ran into the front guard of Mr Tabbs' motorbike. She said her son, who had at lunchtime today not received an update on the boy's condition, was devastated. "He's absolutely beside himself, he's shattered," she said. "He stopped and rendered assistance to the boy." Mr Tabbs was taken to the hospital where he was drug and alcohol tested, then allowed to go home. Neighbour Leanne Hargrove, who said she held the boy, said he was chasing a ball on his scooter when he was hit by the motorbike. "It's too dangerous and at that time of day too, it's becomes hard to see," Ms Hargrove said. "It is a 50km/h zone and it seems that the child ran out in front of the bike while he was chasing a ball on his scooter." crash editors picks toddler woolgoolga	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line945
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World leading clinicians and experts will join physically in London and online from around the world for an in-depth look at AI within the UK health market, how it can be used to prevent and solve some of the world’s greatest healthcare problems, improve the health of the human race and set the UK AI agenda in healthcare for 2021 and beyond. We work in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and have a big focus on making sure the benefits of AI are distributed globally. A jam-packed two days of health tech goodness! Practical, real-world AI use cases, announcements from tech giants, hear from health tech transformers of tomorrow and a showcase of UK innovation, followed by 15 collaborative hands-on sessions tackling live digital health challenges. Be ready to think like a physician and code like a developer. Meet the AI health brains 2020 DR. WEI FAN Executive Director of Medical AI Labs Dr. Wei Fan is the executive director of Tencent Hippocrates Labs. His main interests are in using various artificial intelligence techniques-based digital therapeutics & digital biomarker for clinical problems, such as motion disorder syndrome (e.g., Parkinson’s disease), cancer radiotherapy planning, heart failure early detection, etc. Dr. Fan received Ph. D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has been working in AI since 1995. He has over 150 top journals and conference papers with h-index of 58. He has received multiple best paper awards in top AI conferences and competitions. He served as the associate editor of ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. TARA DONNELLY Tara Donnelly is the interim Chief Digital Officer at NHS England. She oversees a portfolio of citizen facing digital services, including the NHS website, NHS App and the development of digital services which meet people’s needs, target prevention and offer a personalised experience. 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DiseasesInfertilityAbortion, ThreatenedHydatidiform MoleUterine HemorrhageTwins, ConjoinedFetal ResorptionInfant, Newborn, DiseasesHyperemesis GravidarumFetofetal TransfusionFetal WeightEclampsiaHeredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous SystemObstetric Labor ComplicationsAbortion, MissedFetal MacrosomiaHELLP SyndromeFragile X SyndromeMorning SicknessBody WeightAbruptio PlacentaeWeight GainDown SyndromeInfertility, MaleNeural Tube DefectsUterine NeoplasmsGenetic Diseases, InbornFetal Membranes, Premature Rupture Chemicals and Drugs 28 Pregnancy ProteinsProgesteroneChorionic GonadotropinAbortifacient Agents, NonsteroidalDNAChorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, HumanNeurofilament ProteinsRNA, MessengerAbortifacient AgentsEstradiolCodonIron-Binding ProteinsChlorophyllSinglet OxygenLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesEstriolMisoprostolRelaxinContraceptive AgentsCarotenoidsAnticodonPlacental LactogenFertility Agents, FemalePregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-AClomiphenePhotosystem II Protein ComplexOligodeoxyribonucleotidesFolic Acid Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment 58 Pregnancy OutcomePregnancy RatePregnancy TestsPregnancy Reduction, MultifetalEmbryo TransferUltrasonography, PrenatalFertilization in VitroAbortion, InducedBirth WeightPrenatal CareCesarean SectionReproductive Techniques, AssistedSperm Injections, IntracytoplasmicDelivery, ObstetricPrenatal DiagnosisReproductive TechniquesAbortion, TherapeuticRisk FactorsProspective StudiesInsemination, ArtificialRetrospective StudiesPreconception CareBirth RateOvulation InductionCohort StudiesPregnancy Tests, ImmunologicAbortion, LegalContraceptionInfant MortalityChorionic Villi SamplingOocyte DonationCase-Control StudiesFetal WeightAmniocentesisCryopreservationCrown-Rump LengthFetal MonitoringLogistic ModelsQuestionnairesBody WeightAbortion, EugenicReference ValuesPreimplantation DiagnosisElectron Spin Resonance SpectroscopyRiskOdds RatioMaternal MortalityInsemination, Artificial, 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PrematureReproductive Techniques, AssistedHypertension, Pregnancy-InducedCongenital AbnormalitiesFetal DevelopmentFetal Growth RetardationProgesteroneSperm Injections, IntracytoplasmicBase SequenceFriedreich AtaxiaInfertility, FemaleAbnormalities, Drug-InducedLactationDeciduaFetusLabor, ObstetricDelivery, ObstetricPrenatal DiagnosisMaternal ExposureChorionic GonadotropinDiabetes, GestationalReproductive TechniquesAbortion, TherapeuticRisk FactorsInfant, Low Birth WeightProspective StudiesTrophoblastsAbortion, HabitualChorionAbortifacient Agents, NonsteroidalInsemination, ArtificialMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationFetal DiseasesPuerperal DisordersPlacentationMyotonic DystrophyEndometriumRetrospective StudiesFertilityMultiple Birth OffspringPreconception CarePlacenta DiseasesBirth RateAmniotic FluidInfertilityPregnant WomenTime FactorsOvulation InductionStillbirthGravidityCohort StudiesDNAChorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, HumanParturitionPhotochemistryMaternal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaInfant, Small for Gestational AgePregnancy Tests, ImmunologicLive BirthMyometriumAbortion, LegalPlacental CirculationContraceptionPrenatal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaMothersAbortion, ThreatenedHydatidiform MoleEmbryonic and Fetal DevelopmentNeurofilament ProteinsRNA, MessengerUterine HemorrhageQuintupletsTwins, ConjoinedUterine ArteryAbortifacient AgentsLitter SizeInfant MortalityFetal ResorptionChorionic Villi SamplingContraception BehaviorCorpus LuteumEstradiolCodonOocyte DonationInfant, Newborn, DiseasesChorionic VilliMaternal WelfareAmino Acid SequenceHyperemesis GravidarumCase-Control StudiesEstrusSheepIron-Binding ProteinsCervix UteriChlorophyllSinglet OxygenFetofetal TransfusionFetal WeightEclampsiaAmniocentesisHeredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous SystemFamily Planning ServicesFertilizationObstetric Labor ComplicationsFetal BloodAbortion, MissedPhotochemical ProcessesFallopian TubesCryopreservationCrown-Rump LengthFetal MacrosomiaSmokingCattleHELLP SyndromeFetal MonitoringInfectious Disease Transmission, VerticalLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesEstriolOvaryFragile X SyndromePseudopregnancyLuminescenceMorning SicknessLogistic ModelsEstrous CycleGenetic CodeInfant, PrematureQuestionnairesSpinacia oleraceaMutationFetal ViabilityMisoprostolBody WeightAbruptio PlacentaeAbortion, EugenicWeight GainReference ValuesMenstrual CycleBreast FeedingRelaxinContraceptive AgentsPreimplantation DiagnosisElectron Spin Resonance SpectroscopyRiskCarotenoids Triplets: Three individuals derived from three FETUSES that were fertilized at or about the same time, developed in the UTERUS simultaneously, and born to the same mother.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Pregnancy Outcome: Results of conception and ensuing pregnancy, including LIVE BIRTH; STILLBIRTH; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; INDUCED ABORTION. The outcome may follow natural or artificial insemination or any of the various ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, such as EMBRYO TRANSFER or FERTILIZATION IN VITRO.Pregnancy Complications: Conditions or pathological processes associated with pregnancy. They can occur during or after pregnancy, and range from minor discomforts to serious diseases that require medical interventions. They include diseases in pregnant females, and pregnancies in females with diseases.Pregnancy, Animal: The process of bearing developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero in non-human mammals, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Pregnancy, Ectopic: A potentially life-threatening condition in which EMBRYO IMPLANTATION occurs outside the cavity of the UTERUS. Most ectopic pregnancies (>96%) occur in the FALLOPIAN TUBES, known as TUBAL PREGNANCY. They can be in other locations, such as UTERINE CERVIX; OVARY; and abdominal cavity (PREGNANCY, ABDOMINAL).Pregnancy, Triplet: The condition of carrying TRIPLETS simultaneously.Pregnancy, Multiple: The condition of carrying two or more FETUSES simultaneously.Pregnancy Trimester, First: The beginning third of a human PREGNANCY, from the first day of the last normal menstrual period (MENSTRUATION) through the completion of 14 weeks (98 days) of gestation.Pregnancy Rate: The ratio of the number of conceptions (CONCEPTION) including LIVE BIRTH; STILLBIRTH; and fetal losses, to the mean number of females of reproductive age in a population during a set time period.Pregnancy Trimester, Third: The last third of a human PREGNANCY, from the beginning of the 29th through the 42nd completed week (197 to 294 days) of gestation.Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular: The co-occurrence of pregnancy and a cardiovascular disease. The disease may precede or follow FERTILIZATION and it may or may not have a deleterious effect on the pregnant woman or FETUS.Pregnancy Trimesters: The three approximately equal periods of a normal human PREGNANCY. Each trimester is about three months or 13 to 14 weeks in duration depending on the designation of the first day of gestation.Pregnancy Tests: Tests to determine whether or not an individual is pregnant.Pregnancy Trimester, Second: The middle third of a human PREGNANCY, from the beginning of the 15th through the 28th completed week (99 to 196 days) of gestation.Pregnancy in Diabetics: The state of PREGNANCY in women with DIABETES MELLITUS. This does not include either symptomatic diabetes or GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE induced by pregnancy (DIABETES, GESTATIONAL) which resolves at the end of pregnancy.Pregnancy, Tubal: The most common (>96%) type of ectopic pregnancy in which the extrauterine EMBRYO IMPLANTATION occurs in the FALLOPIAN TUBE, usually in the ampullary region where FERTILIZATION takes place.Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic: The co-occurrence of pregnancy and NEOPLASMS. The neoplastic disease may precede or follow FERTILIZATION.Trinucleotide Repeats: Microsatellite repeats consisting of three nucleotides dispersed in the euchromatic arms of chromosomes.Pregnancy in Adolescence: Pregnancy in human adolescent females under the age of 19.Pregnancy Complications, Infectious: The co-occurrence of pregnancy and an INFECTION. The infection may precede or follow FERTILIZATION.Pregnancy Reduction, Multifetal: Selective abortion of one or more embryos or fetuses in a multiple gestation pregnancy. The usual goal is to improve the outcome for the remaining embryos or fetuses.Abortion, Spontaneous: Expulsion of the product of FERTILIZATION before completing the term of GESTATION and without deliberate interference.Gestational Age: The age of the conceptus, beginning from the time of FERTILIZATION. In clinical obstetrics, the gestational age is often estimated as the time from the last day of the last MENSTRUATION which is about 2 weeks before OVULATION and fertilization.Pregnancy, High-Risk: Pregnancy in which the mother and/or FETUS are at greater than normal risk of MORBIDITY or MORTALITY. Causes include inadequate PRENATAL CARE, previous obstetrical history (ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS), pre-existing maternal disease, pregnancy-induced disease (GESTATIONAL HYPERTENSION), and MULTIPLE PREGNANCY, as well as advanced maternal age above 35.Pregnancy Proteins: Proteins produced by organs of the mother or the PLACENTA during PREGNANCY. These proteins may be pregnancy-specific (present only during pregnancy) or pregnancy-associated (present during pregnancy or under other conditions such as hormone therapy or certain malignancies.)Pregnancy, Unplanned: Unintended accidental pregnancy, including pregnancy resulting from failed contraceptive measures.Pregnancy, Unwanted: Pregnancy, usually accidental, that is not desired by the parent or parents.Twins: Two individuals derived from two FETUSES that were fertilized at or about the same time, developed in the UTERUS simultaneously, and born to the same mother. Twins are either monozygotic (TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC) or dizygotic (TWINS, DIZYGOTIC).Infant, Newborn: An infant during the first month after birth.Pregnancy, Twin: The condition of carrying TWINS simultaneously.Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic: The co-occurrence of pregnancy and a blood disease (HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES) which involves BLOOD CELLS or COAGULATION FACTORS. The hematologic disease may precede or follow FERTILIZATION and it may or may not have a deleterious effect on the pregnant woman or FETUS.Fetal Death: Death of the developing young in utero. BIRTH of a dead FETUS is STILLBIRTH.Placenta: A highly vascularized mammalian fetal-maternal organ and major site of transport of oxygen, nutrients, and fetal waste products. It includes a fetal portion (CHORIONIC VILLI) derived from TROPHOBLASTS and a maternal portion (DECIDUA) derived from the uterine ENDOMETRIUM. The placenta produces an array of steroid, protein and peptide hormones (PLACENTAL HORMONES).Pregnancy, Prolonged: A term used to describe pregnancies that exceed the upper limit of a normal gestational period. In humans, a prolonged pregnancy is defined as one that extends beyond 42 weeks (294 days) after the first day of the last menstrual period (MENSTRUATION), or birth with gestational age of 41 weeks or more.Pre-Eclampsia: A complication of PREGNANCY, characterized by a complex of symptoms including maternal HYPERTENSION and PROTEINURIA with or without pathological EDEMA. Symptoms may range between mild and severe. Pre-eclampsia usually occurs after the 20th week of gestation, but may develop before this time in the presence of trophoblastic disease.Embryo Transfer: The transfer of mammalian embryos from an in vivo or in vitro environment to a suitable host to improve pregnancy or gestational outcome in human or animal. In human fertility treatment programs, preimplantation embryos ranging from the 4-cell stage to the blastocyst stage are transferred to the uterine cavity between 3-5 days after FERTILIZATION IN VITRO.Ultrasonography, Prenatal: The visualization of tissues during pregnancy through recording of the echoes of ultrasonic waves directed into the body. The procedure may be applied with reference to the mother or the fetus and with reference to organs or the detection of maternal or fetal disease.Fertilization in Vitro: An assisted reproductive technique that includes the direct handling and manipulation of oocytes and sperm to achieve fertilization in vitro.Abortion, Induced: Intentional removal of a fetus from the uterus by any of a number of techniques. (POPLINE, 1978)Pregnancy, Abdominal: A type of ectopic pregnancy in which the EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN implants in the ABDOMINAL CAVITY instead of in the ENDOMETRIUM of the UTERUS.Uterus: The hollow thick-walled muscular organ in the female PELVIS. It consists of the fundus (the body) which is the site of EMBRYO IMPLANTATION and FETAL DEVELOPMENT. Beyond the isthmus at the perineal end of fundus, is CERVIX UTERI (the neck) opening into VAGINA. Beyond the isthmi at the upper abdominal end of fundus, are the FALLOPIAN TUBES.Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic: The co-occurrence of pregnancy and parasitic diseases. The parasitic infection may precede or follow FERTILIZATION.Pregnancy Maintenance: Physiological mechanisms that sustain the state of PREGNANCY.Birth Weight: The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual at BIRTH. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms.Embryo Implantation: Endometrial implantation of EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN at the BLASTOCYST stage.Prenatal Care: Care provided the pregnant woman in order to prevent complications, and decrease the incidence of maternal and prenatal mortality.Maternal Age: The age of the mother in PREGNANCY.Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion: An increased number of contiguous trinucleotide repeats in the DNA sequence from one generation to the next. The presence of these regions is associated with diseases such as FRAGILE X SYNDROME and MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY. Some CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES are composed of sequences where trinucleotide repeat expansion occurs.Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects: The consequences of exposing the FETUS in utero to certain factors, such as NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; DRUGS; RADIATION; and other physical or chemical factors. These consequences are observed later in the offspring after BIRTH.Maternal-Fetal Exchange: Exchange of substances between the maternal blood and the fetal blood at the PLACENTA via PLACENTAL CIRCULATION. The placental barrier excludes microbial or viral transmission.Quadruplets: Four individuals derived from four FETUSES that were fertilized at or about the same time, developed in the UTERUS simultaneously, and born to the same mother.Parity: The number of offspring a female has borne. It is contrasted with GRAVIDITY, which refers to the number of pregnancies, regardless of outcome.Cesarean Section: Extraction of the FETUS by means of abdominal HYSTEROTOMY.Premature Birth: CHILDBIRTH before 37 weeks of PREGNANCY (259 days from the first day of the mother's last menstrual period, or 245 days after FERTILIZATION).Obstetric Labor, Premature: Onset of OBSTETRIC LABOR before term (TERM BIRTH) but usually after the FETUS has become viable. In humans, it occurs sometime during the 29th through 38th week of PREGNANCY. TOCOLYSIS inhibits premature labor and can prevent the BIRTH of premature infants (INFANT, PREMATURE).Reproductive Techniques, Assisted: Clinical and laboratory techniques used to enhance fertility in humans and animals.Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced: A condition in pregnant women with elevated systolic (>140 mm Hg) and diastolic (>90 mm Hg) blood pressure on at least two occasions 6 h apart. HYPERTENSION complicates 8-10% of all pregnancies, generally after 20 weeks of gestation. Gestational hypertension can be divided into several broad categories according to the complexity and associated symptoms, such as EDEMA; PROTEINURIA; SEIZURES; abnormalities in BLOOD COAGULATION and liver functions.Congenital Abnormalities: Malformations of organs or body parts during development in utero.Fetal Development: Morphological and physiological development of FETUSES.Fetal Growth Retardation: The failure of a FETUS to attain its expected FETAL GROWTH at any GESTATIONAL AGE.Progesterone: The major progestational steroid that is secreted primarily by the CORPUS LUTEUM and the PLACENTA. Progesterone acts on the UTERUS, the MAMMARY GLANDS and the BRAIN. It is required in EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; PREGNANCY maintenance, and the development of mammary tissue for MILK production. Progesterone, converted from PREGNENOLONE, also serves as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of GONADAL STEROID HORMONES and adrenal CORTICOSTEROIDS.Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic: An assisted fertilization technique consisting of the microinjection of a single viable sperm into an extracted ovum. It is used principally to overcome low sperm count, low sperm motility, inability of sperm to penetrate the egg, or other conditions related to male infertility (INFERTILITY, MALE).Base Sequence: The sequence of PURINES and PYRIMIDINES in nucleic acids and polynucleotides. It is also called nucleotide sequence.Friedreich Ataxia: An autosomal recessive disease, usually of childhood onset, characterized pathologically by degeneration of the spinocerebellar tracts, posterior columns, and to a lesser extent the corticospinal tracts. Clinical manifestations include GAIT ATAXIA, pes cavus, speech impairment, lateral curvature of spine, rhythmic head tremor, kyphoscoliosis, congestive heart failure (secondary to a cardiomyopathy), and lower extremity weakness. Most forms of this condition are associated with a mutation in a gene on chromosome 9, at band q13, which codes for the mitochondrial protein frataxin. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1081; N Engl J Med 1996 Oct 17;335(16):1169-75) The severity of Friedreich ataxia associated with expansion of GAA repeats in the first intron of the frataxin gene correlates with the number of trinucleotide repeats. (From Durr et al, N Engl J Med 1996 Oct 17;335(16):1169-75)Infertility, Female: Diminished or absent ability of a female to achieve conception.Abnormalities, Drug-Induced: Congenital abnormalities caused by medicinal substances or drugs of abuse given to or taken by the mother, or to which she is inadvertently exposed during the manufacture of such substances. The concept excludes abnormalities resulting from exposure to non-medicinal chemicals in the environment.Lactation: The processes of milk secretion by the maternal MAMMARY GLANDS after PARTURITION. The proliferation of the mammary glandular tissue, milk synthesis, and milk expulsion or let down are regulated by the interactions of several hormones including ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; and OXYTOCIN.Decidua: The hormone-responsive glandular layer of ENDOMETRIUM that sloughs off at each menstrual flow (decidua menstrualis) or at the termination of pregnancy. During pregnancy, the thickest part of the decidua forms the maternal portion of the PLACENTA, thus named decidua placentalis. The thin portion of the decidua covering the rest of the embryo is the decidua capsularis.Fetus: The unborn young of a viviparous mammal, in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined. In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after CONCEPTION until BIRTH, as distinguished from the earlier EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN.Labor, Obstetric: The repetitive uterine contraction during childbirth which is associated with the progressive dilation of the uterine cervix (CERVIX UTERI). Successful labor results in the expulsion of the FETUS and PLACENTA. Obstetric labor can be spontaneous or induced (LABOR, INDUCED).Delivery, Obstetric: Delivery of the FETUS and PLACENTA under the care of an obstetrician or a health worker. Obstetric deliveries may involve physical, psychological, medical, or surgical interventions.Prenatal Diagnosis: Determination of the nature of a pathological condition or disease in the postimplantation EMBRYO; FETUS; or pregnant female before birth.Maternal Exposure: Exposure of the female parent, human or animal, to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents in the environment or to environmental factors that may include ionizing radiation, pathogenic organisms, or toxic chemicals that may affect offspring. It includes pre-conception maternal exposure.Chorionic Gonadotropin: A gonadotropic glycoprotein hormone produced primarily by the PLACENTA. Similar to the pituitary LUTEINIZING HORMONE in structure and function, chorionic gonadotropin is involved in maintaining the CORPUS LUTEUM during pregnancy. CG consists of two noncovalently linked subunits, alpha and beta. Within a species, the alpha subunit is virtually identical to the alpha subunits of the three pituitary glycoprotein hormones (TSH, LH, and FSH), but the beta subunit is unique and confers its biological specificity (CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN).Diabetes, Gestational: Diabetes mellitus induced by PREGNANCY but resolved at the end of pregnancy. It does not include previously diagnosed diabetics who become pregnant (PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS). Gestational diabetes usually develops in late pregnancy when insulin antagonistic hormones peaks leading to INSULIN RESISTANCE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; and HYPERGLYCEMIA.Reproductive Techniques: Methods pertaining to the generation of new individuals, including techniques used in selective BREEDING, cloning (CLONING, ORGANISM), and assisted reproduction (REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED).Abortion, Therapeutic: Abortion induced to save the life or health of a pregnant woman. (From Dorland, 28th ed)Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Infant, Low Birth Weight: An infant having a birth weight of 2500 gm. (5.5 lb.) or less but INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT is available for infants having a birth weight of 1500 grams (3.3 lb.) or less.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Trophoblasts: Cells lining the outside of the BLASTOCYST. After binding to the ENDOMETRIUM, trophoblasts develop into two distinct layers, an inner layer of mononuclear cytotrophoblasts and an outer layer of continuous multinuclear cytoplasm, the syncytiotrophoblasts, which form the early fetal-maternal interface (PLACENTA).Abortion, Habitual: Three or more consecutive spontaneous abortions.Chorion: The outermost extra-embryonic membrane surrounding the developing embryo. In REPTILES and BIRDS, it adheres to the shell and allows exchange of gases between the egg and its environment. In MAMMALS, the chorion evolves into the fetal contribution of the PLACENTA.Abortifacient Agents, Nonsteroidal: Non-steroidal chemical compounds with abortifacient activity.Insemination, Artificial: Artificial introduction of SEMEN or SPERMATOZOA into the VAGINA to facilitate FERTILIZATION.Molecular Sequence Data: Descriptions of specific amino acid, carbohydrate, or nucleotide sequences which have appeared in the published literature and/or are deposited in and maintained by databanks such as GENBANK, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), or other sequence repositories.Nucleic Acid Conformation: The spatial arrangement of the atoms of a nucleic acid or polynucleotide that results in its characteristic 3-dimensional shape.Fetal Diseases: Pathophysiological conditions of the FETUS in the UTERUS. Some fetal diseases may be treated with FETAL THERAPIES.Puerperal Disorders: Disorders or diseases associated with PUERPERIUM, the six-to-eight-week period immediately after PARTURITION in humans.Placentation: The development of the PLACENTA, a highly vascularized mammalian fetal-maternal organ and major site of transport of oxygen, nutrients, and fetal waste products between mother and FETUS. The process begins at FERTILIZATION, through the development of CYTOTROPHOBLASTS and SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLASTS, the formation of CHORIONIC VILLI, to the progressive increase in BLOOD VESSELS to support the growing fetus.Myotonic Dystrophy: Neuromuscular disorder characterized by PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOTONIA, and various multisystem atrophies. Mild INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY may also occur. Abnormal TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION in the 3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS of DMPK PROTEIN gene is associated with Myotonic Dystrophy 1. DNA REPEAT EXPANSION of zinc finger protein-9 gene intron is associated with Myotonic Dystrophy 2.Endometrium: The mucous membrane lining of the uterine cavity that is hormonally responsive during the MENSTRUAL CYCLE and PREGNANCY. The endometrium undergoes cyclic changes that characterize MENSTRUATION. After successful FERTILIZATION, it serves to sustain the developing embryo.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.Fertility: The capacity to conceive or to induce conception. It may refer to either the male or female.Multiple Birth Offspring: The offspring in multiple pregnancies (PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE): TWINS; TRIPLETS; QUADRUPLETS; QUINTUPLETS; etc.Preconception Care: An organized and comprehensive program of health care that identifies and reduces a woman's reproductive risks before conception through risk assessment, health promotion, and interventions. Preconception care programs may be designed to include the male partner in providing counseling and educational information in preparation for fatherhood, such as genetic counseling and testing, financial and family planning, etc. This concept is different from PRENATAL CARE, which occurs during pregnancy.Placenta Diseases: Pathological processes or abnormal functions of the PLACENTA.Birth Rate: The number of births in a given population per year or other unit of time.Amniotic Fluid: A clear, yellowish liquid that envelopes the FETUS inside the sac of AMNION. In the first trimester, it is likely a transudate of maternal or fetal plasma. In the second trimester, amniotic fluid derives primarily from fetal lung and kidney. Cells or substances in this fluid can be removed for prenatal diagnostic tests (AMNIOCENTESIS).Infertility: Inability to reproduce after a specified period of unprotected intercourse. Reproductive sterility is permanent infertility.Pregnant Women: Human females who are pregnant, as cultural, psychological, or sociological entities.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Ovulation Induction: Techniques for the artifical induction of ovulation, the rupture of the follicle and release of the ovum.Stillbirth: The event that a FETUS is born dead or stillborn.Gravidity: The number of pregnancies, complete or incomplete, experienced by a female. It is different from PARITY, which is the number of offspring borne. (From Stedman, 26th ed)Cohort Studies: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.DNA: A deoxyribonucleotide polymer that is the primary genetic material of all cells. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms normally contain DNA in a double-stranded state, yet several important biological processes transiently involve single-stranded regions. DNA, which consists of a polysugar-phosphate backbone possessing projections of purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (thymine and cytosine), forms a double helix that is held together by hydrogen bonds between these purines and pyrimidines (adenine to thymine and guanine to cytosine).Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human: The beta subunit of human CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN. Its structure is similar to the beta subunit of LUTEINIZING HORMONE, except for the additional 30 amino acids at the carboxy end with the associated carbohydrate residues. HCG-beta is used as a diagnostic marker for early detection of pregnancy, spontaneous abortion (ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS); ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; or DOWN SYNDROME.Parturition: The process of giving birth to one or more offspring.PhotochemistryMaternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena: Nutrition of a mother which affects the health of the FETUS and INFANT as well as herself.Infant, Small for Gestational Age: An infant having a birth weight lower than expected for its gestational age.Pregnancy Tests, Immunologic: Methods of detecting pregnancy by examining the levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) in plasma or urine.Live Birth: The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).Myometrium: The smooth muscle coat of the uterus, which forms the main mass of the organ.Abortion, Legal: Termination of pregnancy under conditions allowed under local laws. (POPLINE Thesaurus, 1991)Placental Circulation: The circulation of BLOOD, of both the mother and the FETUS, through the PLACENTA.Contraception: Prevention of CONCEPTION by blocking fertility temporarily, or permanently (STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE). Common means of reversible contraception include NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING METHODS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; or CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES.Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena: Nutrition of FEMALE during PREGNANCY.Mothers: Female parents, human or animal.Abortion, Threatened: UTERINE BLEEDING from a GESTATION of less than 20 weeks without any CERVICAL DILATATION. It is characterized by vaginal bleeding, lower back discomfort, or midline pelvic cramping and a risk factor for MISCARRIAGE.Hydatidiform Mole: Trophoblastic hyperplasia associated with normal gestation, or molar pregnancy. It is characterized by the swelling of the CHORIONIC VILLI and elevated human CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN. Hydatidiform moles or molar pregnancy may be categorized as complete or partial based on their gross morphology, histopathology, and karyotype.Embryonic and Fetal Development: Morphological and physiological development of EMBRYOS or FETUSES.Neurofilament Proteins: Type III intermediate filament proteins that assemble into neurofilaments, the major cytoskeletal element in nerve axons and dendrites. They consist of three distinct polypeptides, the neurofilament triplet. Types I, II, and IV intermediate filament proteins form other cytoskeletal elements such as keratins and lamins. It appears that the metabolism of neurofilaments is disturbed in Alzheimer's disease, as indicated by the presence of neurofilament epitopes in the neurofibrillary tangles, as well as by the severe reduction of the expression of the gene for the light neurofilament subunit of the neurofilament triplet in brains of Alzheimer's patients. (Can J Neurol Sci 1990 Aug;17(3):302)RNA, Messenger: RNA sequences that serve as templates for protein synthesis. Bacterial mRNAs are generally primary transcripts in that they do not require post-transcriptional processing. Eukaryotic mRNA is synthesized in the nucleus and must be exported to the cytoplasm for translation. Most eukaryotic mRNAs have a sequence of polyadenylic acid at the 3' end, referred to as the poly(A) tail. The function of this tail is not known for certain, but it may play a role in the export of mature mRNA from the nucleus as well as in helping stabilize some mRNA molecules by retarding their degradation in the cytoplasm.Uterine Hemorrhage: Bleeding from blood vessels in the UTERUS, sometimes manifested as vaginal bleeding.Quintuplets: Five individuals derived from five FETUSES that were fertilized at or about the same time, developed in the UTERUS simultaneously, and born to the same mother.Twins, ConjoinedUterine Artery: A branch arising from the internal iliac artery in females, that supplies blood to the uterus.Abortifacient Agents: Chemical substances that interrupt pregnancy after implantation.Litter Size: The number of offspring produced at one birth by a viviparous animal.Infant Mortality: Postnatal deaths from BIRTH to 365 days after birth in a given population. Postneonatal mortality represents deaths between 28 days and 365 days after birth (as defined by National Center for Health Statistics). Neonatal mortality represents deaths from birth to 27 days after birth.Fetal Resorption: The disintegration and assimilation of the dead FETUS in the UTERUS at any stage after the completion of organogenesis which, in humans, is after the 9th week of GESTATION. It does not include embryo resorption (see EMBRYO LOSS).Chorionic Villi Sampling: A method for diagnosis of fetal diseases by sampling the cells of the placental chorionic villi for DNA analysis, presence of bacteria, concentration of metabolites, etc. The advantage over amniocentesis is that the procedure can be carried out in the first trimester.Contraception Behavior: Behavior patterns of those practicing CONTRACEPTION.Corpus Luteum: The yellow body derived from the ruptured OVARIAN FOLLICLE after OVULATION. The process of corpus luteum formation, LUTEINIZATION, is regulated by LUTEINIZING HORMONE.Estradiol: The 17-beta-isomer of estradiol, an aromatized C18 steroid with hydroxyl group at 3-beta- and 17-beta-position. Estradiol-17-beta is the most potent form of mammalian estrogenic steroids.Codon: A set of three nucleotides in a protein coding sequence that specifies individual amino acids or a termination signal (CODON, TERMINATOR). Most codons are universal, but some organisms do not produce the transfer RNAs (RNA, TRANSFER) complementary to all codons. These codons are referred to as unassigned codons (CODONS, NONSENSE).Oocyte Donation: Transfer of preovulatory oocytes from donor to a suitable host. Oocytes are collected, fertilized in vitro, and transferred to a host that can be human or animal.Infant, Newborn, Diseases: Diseases of newborn infants present at birth (congenital) or developing within the first month of birth. It does not include hereditary diseases not manifesting at birth or within the first 30 days of life nor does it include inborn errors of metabolism. Both HEREDITARY DISEASES and METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS are available as general concepts.Chorionic Villi: The threadlike, vascular projections of the chorion. Chorionic villi may be free or embedded within the DECIDUA forming the site for exchange of substances between fetal and maternal blood (PLACENTA).Maternal Welfare: Organized efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the mother.Amino Acid Sequence: The order of amino acids as they occur in a polypeptide chain. This is referred to as the primary structure of proteins. It is of fundamental importance in determining PROTEIN CONFORMATION.Hyperemesis Gravidarum: Intractable VOMITING that develops in early PREGNANCY and persists. This can lead to DEHYDRATION and WEIGHT LOSS.Case-Control Studies: Studies which start with the identification of persons with a disease of interest and a control (comparison, referent) group without the disease. The relationship of an attribute to the disease is examined by comparing diseased and non-diseased persons with regard to the frequency or levels of the attribute in each group.Estrus: The period in the ESTROUS CYCLE associated with maximum sexual receptivity and fertility in non-primate female mammals.Sheep: Any of the ruminant mammals with curved horns in the genus Ovis, family Bovidae. They possess lachrymal grooves and interdigital glands, which are absent in GOATS.Iron-Binding Proteins: Proteins that specifically bind to IRON.Cervix Uteri: The neck portion of the UTERUS between the lower isthmus and the VAGINA forming the cervical canal.Chlorophyll: Porphyrin derivatives containing magnesium that act to convert light energy in photosynthetic organisms.Singlet Oxygen: An excited state of molecular oxygen generated photochemically or chemically. Singlet oxygen reacts with a variety of biological molecules such as NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; and LIPIDS; causing oxidative damages.Fetofetal Transfusion: Passage of blood from one fetus to another via an arteriovenous communication or other shunt, in a monozygotic twin pregnancy. It results in anemia in one twin and polycythemia in the other. (Lee et al., Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 9th ed, p737-8)Fetal Weight: The weight of the FETUS in utero. It is usually estimated by various formulas based on measurements made during PRENATAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY.Eclampsia: Onset of HYPERREFLEXIA; SEIZURES; or COMA in a previously diagnosed pre-eclamptic patient (PRE-ECLAMPSIA).Amniocentesis: Percutaneous transabdominal puncture of the uterus during pregnancy to obtain amniotic fluid. It is commonly used for fetal karyotype determination in order to diagnose abnormal fetal conditions.Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System: Inherited disorders characterized by progressive atrophy and dysfunction of anatomically or physiologically related neurologic systems.Family Planning Services: Health care programs or services designed to assist individuals in the planning of family size. Various methods of CONTRACEPTION can be used to control the number and timing of childbirths.Fertilization: The fusion of a spermatozoon (SPERMATOZOA) with an OVUM thus resulting in the formation of a ZYGOTE.Obstetric Labor Complications: Medical problems associated with OBSTETRIC LABOR, such as BREECH PRESENTATION; PREMATURE OBSTETRIC LABOR; HEMORRHAGE; or others. These complications can affect the well-being of the mother, the FETUS, or both.Fetal Blood: Blood of the fetus. Exchange of nutrients and waste between the fetal and maternal blood occurs via the PLACENTA. The cord blood is blood contained in the umbilical vessels (UMBILICAL CORD) at the time of delivery.Abortion, Missed: The retention in the UTERUS of a dead FETUS two months or more after its DEATH.Photochemical Processes: Chemical reactions effected by light.Fallopian Tubes: A pair of highly specialized muscular canals extending from the UTERUS to its corresponding OVARY. They provide the means for OVUM collection, and the site for the final maturation of gametes and FERTILIZATION. The fallopian tube consists of an interstitium, an isthmus, an ampulla, an infundibulum, and fimbriae. Its wall consists of three histologic layers: serous, muscular, and an internal mucosal layer lined with both ciliated and secretory cells.Cryopreservation: Preservation of cells, tissues, organs, or embryos by freezing. In histological preparations, cryopreservation or cryofixation is used to maintain the existing form, structure, and chemical composition of all the constituent elements of the specimens.Crown-Rump Length: In utero measurement corresponding to the sitting height (crown to rump) of the fetus. Length is considered a more accurate criterion of the age of the fetus than is the weight. The average crown-rump length of the fetus at term is 36 cm. (From Williams Obstetrics, 18th ed, p91)Fetal Macrosomia: A condition of fetal overgrowth leading to a large-for-gestational-age FETUS. It is defined as BIRTH WEIGHT greater than 4,000 grams or above the 90th percentile for population and sex-specific growth curves. It is commonly seen in GESTATIONAL DIABETES; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; and pregnancies complicated by pre-existing diabetes mellitus.Smoking: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of burning TOBACCO.Cattle: Domesticated bovine animals of the genus Bos, usually kept on a farm or ranch and used for the production of meat or dairy products or for heavy labor.HELLP Syndrome: A syndrome of HEMOLYSIS, elevated liver ENZYMES, and low blood platelets count (THROMBOCYTOPENIA). HELLP syndrome is observed in pregnant women with PRE-ECLAMPSIA or ECLAMPSIA who also exhibit LIVER damage and abnormalities in BLOOD COAGULATION.Fetal Monitoring: Physiologic or biochemical monitoring of the fetus. It is usually done during LABOR, OBSTETRIC and may be performed in conjunction with the monitoring of uterine activity. It may also be performed prenatally as when the mother is undergoing surgery.Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical: The transmission of infectious disease or pathogens from one generation to another. It includes transmission in utero or intrapartum by exposure to blood and secretions, and postpartum exposure via breastfeeding.Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes: Complexes containing CHLOROPHYLL and other photosensitive molecules. They serve to capture energy in the form of PHOTONS and are generally found as components of the PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX or the PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX.Estriol: A hydroxylated metabolite of ESTRADIOL or ESTRONE that has a hydroxyl group at C3, 16-alpha, and 17-beta position. Estriol is a major urinary estrogen. During PREGNANCY, a large amount of estriol is produced by the PLACENTA. Isomers with inversion of the hydroxyl group or groups are called epiestriol.Ovary: The reproductive organ (GONADS) in female animals. In vertebrates, the ovary contains two functional parts: the OVARIAN FOLLICLE for the production of female germ cells (OOGENESIS); and the endocrine cells (GRANULOSA CELLS; THECA CELLS; and LUTEAL CELLS) for the production of ESTROGENS and PROGESTERONE.Fragile X Syndrome: A condition characterized genotypically by mutation of the distal end of the long arm of the X chromosome (at gene loci FRAXA or FRAXE) and phenotypically by cognitive impairment, hyperactivity, SEIZURES, language delay, and enlargement of the ears, head, and testes. INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY occurs in nearly all males and roughly 50% of females with the full mutation of FRAXA. (From Menkes, Textbook of Child Neurology, 5th ed, p226)Pseudopregnancy: An acyclic state that resembles PREGNANCY in that there is no ovarian cycle, ESTROUS CYCLE, or MENSTRUAL CYCLE. Unlike pregnancy, there is no EMBRYO IMPLANTATION. Pseudopregnancy can be experimentally induced to form DECIDUOMA in the UTERUS.Luminescence: Emission of LIGHT when ELECTRONS return to the electronic ground state from an excited state and lose the energy as PHOTONS. It is sometimes called cool light in contrast to INCANDESCENCE. LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS take advantage of this type of light emitted from LUMINESCENT AGENTS.Morning Sickness: Symptoms of NAUSEA and VOMITING in pregnant women that usually occur in the morning during the first 2 to 3 months of PREGNANCY. Severe persistent vomiting during pregnancy is called HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM.Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Estrous Cycle: The period of cyclic physiological and behavior changes in non-primate female mammals that exhibit ESTRUS. The estrous cycle generally consists of 4 or 5 distinct periods corresponding to the endocrine status (PROESTRUS; ESTRUS; METESTRUS; DIESTRUS; and ANESTRUS).Genetic Code: The meaning ascribed to the BASE SEQUENCE with respect to how it is translated into AMINO ACID SEQUENCE. The start, stop, and order of amino acids of a protein is specified by consecutive triplets of nucleotides called codons (CODON).Infant, Premature: A human infant born before 37 weeks of GESTATION.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Spinacia oleracea: A widely cultivated plant, native to Asia, having succulent, edible leaves eaten as a vegetable. (From American Heritage Dictionary, 1982)Mutation: Any detectable and heritable change in the genetic material that causes a change in the GENOTYPE and which is transmitted to daughter cells and to succeeding generations.Fetal Viability: The potential of the FETUS to survive outside the UTERUS after birth, natural or induced. Fetal viability depends largely on the FETAL ORGAN MATURITY, and environmental conditions.Misoprostol: A synthetic analog of natural prostaglandin E1. It produces a dose-related inhibition of gastric acid and pepsin secretion, and enhances mucosal resistance to injury. It is an effective anti-ulcer agent and also has oxytocic properties.Body Weight: The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms.Abruptio Placentae: Premature separation of the normally implanted PLACENTA from the UTERUS. Signs of varying degree of severity include UTERINE BLEEDING, uterine MUSCLE HYPERTONIA, and FETAL DISTRESS or FETAL DEATH.Abortion, Eugenic: Abortion performed because of possible fetal defects.Weight Gain: Increase in BODY WEIGHT over existing weight.Reference Values: The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality.Menstrual Cycle: The period from onset of one menstrual bleeding (MENSTRUATION) to the next in an ovulating woman or female primate. The menstrual cycle is regulated by endocrine interactions of the HYPOTHALAMUS; the PITUITARY GLAND; the ovaries; and the genital tract. The menstrual cycle is divided by OVULATION into two phases. Based on the endocrine status of the OVARY, there is a FOLLICULAR PHASE and a LUTEAL PHASE. Based on the response in the ENDOMETRIUM, the menstrual cycle is divided into a proliferative and a secretory phase.Breast Feeding: The nursing of an infant at the breast.Relaxin: A water-soluble polypeptide (molecular weight approximately 8,000) extractable from the corpus luteum of pregnancy. It produces relaxation of the pubic symphysis and dilation of the uterine cervix in certain animal species. Its role in the human pregnant female is uncertain. (Dorland, 28th ed)Contraceptive Agents: Chemical substances that prevent or reduce the probability of CONCEPTION.Preimplantation Diagnosis: Determination of the nature of a pathological condition or disease in the OVUM; ZYGOTE; or BLASTOCYST prior to implantation. CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS is performed to determine the presence or absence of genetic disease.Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy: A technique applicable to the wide variety of substances which exhibit paramagnetism because of the magnetic moments of unpaired electrons. The spectra are useful for detection and identification, for determination of electron structure, for study of interactions between molecules, and for measurement of nuclear spins and moments. (From McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 7th edition) Electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy is a variant of the technique which can give enhanced resolution. Electron spin resonance analysis can now be used in vivo, including imaging applications such as MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING.Risk: The probability that an event will occur. It encompasses a variety of measures of the probability of a generally unfavorable outcome.Carotenoids: The general name for a group of fat-soluble pigments found in green, yellow, and leafy vegetables, and yellow fruits. They are aliphatic hydrocarbons consisting of a polyisoprene backbone.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line953
__label__wiki	0.612634	0.612634	Plymouth Art Weekender Pick Up a Magazine Open Air Cinema: Celluloid Sail Contributor James McColl writes about Open Air Cinema in the Plymouth in preparation for the first in the season. Film Lovers rejoice! A wave of special screenings is set to hit Plymouth. Starting in May, film fans can expect to see their favourite films back on the big screen and in some cases, for the very first time! Plymouth Arts Centre has partnered with Pop Up Events to bring Open Air Cinema back for 2017, as well as the BFI and Compass Presents to create Celluloid Sail, taking place on the 5th and 6th of May. Across the country, alternative film experiences have become increasingly popular. With increasingly expensive ticket prices audiences expect something special for their cash; Whether it’s being chased by zombies before Secret Cinema’s screenings of 28 Days Later or watching classics on a roof top cinema, the modern cinema goer wants a unique cinematic experience for their night out. In Plymouth, organisations like Pop Up Events cater to these needs and over the course of the year, there will be opportunities to watch classics like The Goonies (12th of May), Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of The Black Pearl (13th of May on the Hoe), Dirty Dancing (16th of September at Royal William Yard) and Ghostbusters (17th September at Royal William Yard). For those new to this type of cinematic experience (sometimes called Expanded Cinema), the concept is simply that you watch films in a fun and unique environment. There are different levels on interaction of course, not everyone wants to be scared to death by a stampeding hoard of zombies before watching a film. Unlike other trends in film viewing -here’s looking at you 3D glasses- it is more than just another expense for the audience, it is about having a unique evening out which watching a film is a part of. Some alternative cinema experiences are held at site specific venues that link in with the film being screened. One such event is the upcoming screening of Wes Anderson’s cult classic Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou showing (6th of May) aboard the tall ship Kaskelot. Archive Footage from BFI Publicity shot from Life Aquatic At these events rather than it being screened in a dark room along the high street, the venue can work in conjunction with the film to build on the experience. As Plymouth Arts Centre states, ‘the films are always carefully chosen to suit the location’. Compass Presents have gone one step further with their cinematic experience and created a whole two days worth of activities to get the family excited and involved with film. The Celluloid Sail tour will be jam packed with nautical fun celebrating coast and sea. During the day, audiences who visit the ship can climb aboard and explore secret spaces in the bowels of the boat and discover footage about life at sea. At night events extend into the evening as light and projection will animate the ship’s sails. Before the ship is transformed into an outdoor cinema for Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, quayside audiences will be treated to a live circus performance on the ship’s rigging. As well as the Saturday night screening, achieve footage will be on display during the day. Presenting incredible film clips relating to Plymouth, and what better way to see historical footage of Plymouth than onboard the sail ship Kaskelot? Tara Sachdeva, creative producer of Celluloid Sail, said: “Britain’s national archives are bursting with unseen content located around the British coast. We are really excited to unveil some of these treasures that show Plymouth’s history and harbour communities.” This will also be a part of the BFI’s ‘Britain on Film’ project, a much larger program working to unlock film heritage for the enjoyment of everyone across the UK. Unlocking Film Heritage has been running sense 2013 and is one of the most complex and largest archival projects ever undertaken. Whether you visit the Celluloid Sail tour or check out the Open Air Cinema, it’s clear that Plymouth has the resources and appetite for alternative cinema experiences. So, if you are film fans interested in Plymouth history or are just looking for an evening out, head down to these screenings so Plymouth can attract even more in the future. For further details about the Celluloid Sail tour and other screenings visit Plymouth Arts Centre’s website.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line956
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__label__wiki	0.822986	0.822986	God Has Provided Singing At Sea About MTQ Rewind with Mark Trammell – Heaven The song “Heaven” was originally a Bluegrass song sent to me by Mark Mathes. I was singing with Gold City at the time and had the task of bringing songs to the bus where we would all listen and decide what we wanted to record. “Heaven” had not been sent to us for review, it was just on the project with the other songs the songwriter wanted us to hear. When I heard it, it was as Bluegrass as Bluegrass can be! I called the writer and said, “I want Heaven.” He said, “What?” Then I said, “…but it won’t be Bluegrass when I’m done with it!” We took the song into the studio and I told the musicians, “I want to completely recreate this song and make it more progressive than Bluegrass but situate it in the middle of a traditional gospel quartet song.” That’s what they did! John 14 comes alive in the song – and it will be a wonderful place! – Mark Trammell Do you have all three versions of “Heaven?” If you have the Gold City recording of “Pressed Down, Shaken Together, Running Over,” the Mark Trammell Trio CD “Love To Tell The Story” and the quartet’s version on “Rewind” …tell us what version you listen to the most! Heaven is available on Rewind for purchase at www.marktrammellquartet.com Winter Special from NQC Alaska Cruise Top 10 Christmas Special from NQC NQC Schedule \| 2018 Mark Trammell Quartet Send an email to Mark Trammell Quartet at: mtmin@marktrammellministries.com Book MTQ by contacting The Harper Agency. info@harperagency.com Copyright 2002-2018 Mark Trammell Ministries. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line965
__label__cc	0.643257	0.356743	Conway Lectures Mathews Byzantine Lectures Graduate Student Invitation Lecture Series Mellon Colloquium Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellowship Workshop Undergraduate Colloquium Annual Events › Following substantial investment in the area of Byzantine Studies at the University of Notre Dame, including the acquisition of the Milton V. Anastos Library of Byzantine Civilization and generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame has established an annual nine-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Byzantine Studies. This fellowship is designed for junior scholars with a completed doctorate whose research deals with some aspect of the Byzantine world. The intent of this Fellowship is to enable its holder to do innovative research drawing on the rich resources held in the Milton V. Anastos Collection, the Medieval Institute, and the Hesburgh Library more broadly. This may include the completion of book manuscripts and articles, work on text editions, or the development of new trajectories of research in one of the aforementioned fields. Towards the conclusion of the fellowship period the fellow’s work will be at the center of a workshop organized within the framework of the Byzantine Studies Seminar. Senior scholars, chosen in cooperation with the Medieval Institute, will be invited for this event treating the fellow’s subject matter. The senior scholars will discuss draft versions of the fellow’s book manuscript or articles or discuss the further development of ongoing research projects. Fellowship application details See our list of current fellows "New Sources of the Self and Self-Determination: Paradigms from Byzantium and the Medieval West" with Byzantine Fellow Demetrios Harper and invited speakers Thérèse Cory and Paul M. Blowers "Medieval Society and the Environment: An Interdisciplinary Workshop" with Byzantine Fellow Lee Mordechai and invited speakers A. Asa Eger and Timothy P. Newfield	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line969
__label__cc	0.58867	0.41133	#396 Jordan B. Peterson on Cain & Abel Examined by Paul Flynn \| Oct 3, 2019 \| Radio Shows On tonight’s programme we look at a talk Jordan Peterson did on Cain & Abel in New Zealand. Is Peterson correct on his view of the Bible which is proving so popular today among many of his followers? #269 What is Reformed Theology? by Paul Flynn \| Jul 22, 2017 \| Radio Shows Why is there so much disunity in the modern Reformed movement? Is Charismatic Theology consistent with Reformed Theology? How is Dispensationalism different to Reformed Theology? Are all Calvinists Reformed? The term is thrown around a lot today, but what does ‘Reformed’ really mean and represent? #268 Tim Keller’s Ballet Dancers and the Regulative Principle of Worship We take a look at the infamous ballet performance that took place at Tim Keller’s church, Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. What is wrong in the video, if anything? How are we to worship God in spirit and in truth? We also play Dr. Joseph Pipa’s response to the video in question. #235 Christmas Vs The Lord’s Day by Paul Flynn \| Dec 12, 2016 \| Radio Shows Can Christmas be lawfully observed? Can Christmas be considered purely a secular holiday? Can someone honour the Lord’s Day and celebrate Christmas this year, as December 25th falls on the Lord’s day? What does the modern church’s love of Christmas, and neglect of the Sabbath, tell us about how we view God’s law in our day? How should we treat subjects like Santa Claus with our children? #232 Songs of the Spirit: What are Biblical Worship Songs? by Paul Flynn \| Dec 3, 2016 \| Interviews, Radio Shows We are joined on today’s show by David Silversides, Minister of Loughbrickland Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and by Kenneth Stewart, Minister of Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. What is the place of the book of Psalms in the worship of God? Can hymns written by men, outside of the inspired Psalter, be used in the worship of God? What is the Regulative Principle of Worship? What is Exclusive Psalmody? Is it Biblical? What was the practice of the early church in regards to this issue? What was the view of many of the Reformers on this issue? Does Exclusive Psalmody promote or hinder the unity of the church? Can musical instruments be lawfully used in the worship of God?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line970
__label__wiki	0.961948	0.961948	Marshall Digital Scholar Home > MJM > Vol. 6 (2020) > Iss. 2 The Opioid Epidemic in the United States: A Call for Practice Change in Pediatric Outpatient Surgeries Emma Bacharach, West Virginia University,WVU Medicine Children's Hospital.Follow Osama AL-Omar, West Virginia University, WVU Medicine Children's HospitalFollow Author Credentials Emma Bacharach MD Osama AL-Omar MD, MBA, FACS Author ORCID Identifier My ORCID ID is: osama_alomar@yahoo.com 10.33470/2379-9536.1279 Conflict(s) of Interest The authors have no financial disclosures to declare and no conflicts of interest to report. Bacharach, Emma and AL-Omar, Osama (2020) "The Opioid Epidemic in the United States: A Call for Practice Change in Pediatric Outpatient Surgeries," Marshall Journal of Medicine: Vol. 6: Iss. 2, Article 9. DOI: 10.33470/2379-9536.1279 Available at: https://mds.marshall.edu/mjm/vol6/iss2/9 MJM Home Acknowledgement to Reviewers All Issues Vol. 6, Iss. 4 Vol. 6, Iss. 3 Vol. 6, Iss. 2 Vol. 6, Iss. 1 Vol. 5, Iss. 4 Vol. 5, Iss. 3 Vol. 5, Iss. 2 Vol. 5, Iss. 1 Vol. 4, Iss. 4 Vol. 4, Iss. 3 Vol. 4, Iss. 2 Vol. 4, Iss. 1 Vol. 3, Iss. 4 Vol. 3, Iss. 3 Vol. 3, Iss. 2 Vol. 3, Iss. 1 Vol. 2, Iss. 4 Vol. 2, Iss. 3 Vol. 2, Iss. 2 Vol. 2, Iss. 1 Vol. 1, Iss. 1 Marshall Digital Scholar \| About \| FAQ \| My Account \| Accessibility Statement	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line982
__label__wiki	0.877185	0.877185	Jordan Middle East Qatar World News Qatar extends $500 million aid package to Jordan: official AMMAN (Reuters) – Qatar has extended a $500 mln aid package to Jordan that includes investments, project finance and job opportunities for Jordanians, an official source in Amman said on Wednesday. Two days ago, Qatar’s Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – with which it is embroiled in a diplomatic row – and Kuwait pledged $2.5 billion to help Jordan. The kingdom’s cash-strapped economy has been hit by regional turmoil and IMF-driven austerity measures triggered a wave of protests over price hikes and subsidy cuts this month that brought down the government. Jordan’s economy has struggled to grow in the last few years under chronic deficits as private foreign capital and aid flows have slipped. The Qatari package includes opening 10,000 jobs for Jordanians in the wealthy Gulf state alongside project finance and job-generating investments in the kingdom, the source said. Wednesday’s pledge was delivered by Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani who met King Abdullah in Amman, the source added. The UAE and Saudi Arabia, together with Bahrain and Egypt, imposed a boycott on Qatar in June 2017, severing diplomatic and transport ties and accusing it of supporting terrorism. Doha denies that and says the pressure is aimed at stripping it of its sovereignty. 0 comments on “Qatar extends $500 million aid package to Jordan: official”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line983
__label__wiki	0.706612	0.706612	Games Calendar About Miketendo64 [Feature] High Praise for Netflix’s High Score! August 20, 2020 3:39 pm Published by Solid Jack Leave your thoughts “Hi-def? High five!” (Sorry Jon, couldn’t resist!) Although I’m not one for “Netflix & Chill,” there is no denying some quality viewing can be found on Netflix and one particular series that has taken my fancy, other than the marvellous Castlevania, is High Score, a six-part docuseries narrated by none other than Charles Martinet! Yes, that’s right, the voice of Mario is on-hand to narrate an informative series all about video games from both the whole of the 80’s to the early 90’s. Sadly for some, Mr. Martinet opts to converse in his usual manner, but it’s still easy listening as Martinet and guests, take viewers on a trip back in time and reveal all manner of details. For instance, did you know that the iconic DOOM series, actually gets its name from a Tom Cruise line in The Color of Money? I for one did not know that and I have no qualms with admitting that. What about the fact Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat is purposefully intended to look and fight like Claude Van Damme. The team wanted to get the man himself involved with their game, but when he declined, they pursued a creative way to immortalise him instead. The series also gives viewers some great insight into the development of Mortal Kombat and so many other titles. If you have ever wanted to know more about Shigeru Miyamoto’s smoking habits, how gates found their way into being Star Fox in the first place, or even learn a little more about Dylan Cuthbert, the man who hacked a Game Boy and went on to impress Nintendo in more than one way, High Score is a must-watch series and it’s not just the details it has to share either that makes it impressive. Martinet might be the main driving talent to the show, but plenty of interviews are on offer, such as Tomohiro Nishikado and the inspiration behind Space Invaders. Viewers also get to hear from Hirokazu Tanaka (former composer for Nintendo), Richard Garriott (Ultima), Gordon Bellamy,Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy artist) and even Tom Kalinske. Although I have read plenty about the console war between Sega and Nintendo back in the good old days, I will never tire of how Hayao Nakayama, CEO of Sega Japan, flew out to Maui, just to pay Kalinske a visit and ask him to lead join the Sega train. Not only did Kalinske accept, but he was also the driving force for helping Sega go to war and make fun of Nintendo wherever possible. So yes, if you wish to watch a series that lets you hear from John Romero (DOOM), talk so patiently about his old days, learn all about how Night Trap went from bad to worse, or hear about the time John Kirby helped to save Nintendo and the creation behind Nintendo Power, then High Score is something you need to watch right now if you haven’t already. It’s nicely put together, I love the opening segment and I honestly wish we get some more of it and that’s why, as I prepare to sign off, I’m already loading Netflix up again and about to watch the whole thing for the third time this week. It’s fantastic viewing that I just can’t get enough of and it gets high praise from those of us on Team Miketendo! Until next time, keep on gaming! Tags: Akira Nishitani, Akira Yasuda, Charles Martinet, Donkey Kong, Dylan Cuthbert, Dylan Cutherbert, Feature, Game Boy, Giles Goddard, Gordon Bellamy, High Score, Hirokazu Yasuhara, Joe Ybarra, John Kirby, John Romero, John Tobias, Mortal Kombat, Netflix, Nintendo, Nolan Bushnell, Richard Garriott, Ryan Best, Shigeru Miyamoto, Space Invaders, Star Fox 3D, Street Fighter II, Tom Kalinske, Tomohiro Nishikado, Toru Iwatani, Trip Hawkins, Yoshitaka Amano Categorised in: Feature, Nintendo This post was written by Solid Jack Achievement Earned: 2 Million Views! Don't miss out on our latest News and Features. Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications by email. View Miketendo64’s profile on Facebook View @miketendo64’s profile on Twitter View Miketendo64’s profile on LinkedIn View Miketendo64 Gaming’s profile on YouTube View Miketendo-64’s profile on Tumblr Miketendo64 Privacy Policy © 2021 Copyright Miketendo64 due to the nature of its content. You must be 18 or over to visit this page	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line989
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__label__cc	0.519455	0.480545	42 results for Palm Springs Cultural oasis Every year fans of modernism descend on Palm Springs for a celebration that treats designers and architects like movie stars. Cocktail in hand, we joined the throng and took in the lasting legacy of California’s mid-century… Architectural acolytes seeking a temple to modernism usually head for Scandinavia but they may now want to go west, too. In the California desert, an old bank has been reborn as an oasis of mid-century style and host to a… Monocle on Design - Apogee architecture We speak to the photographer behind a book documenting the modernist architecture of Palm Springs under the light of the full moon. We also tour the new home of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape… Seeding change Spring feels different this year. But the simple pleasure of caring for your patch (whether it’s a city window box or a lawn in the countryside) remains a powerful pleasure. Since so many people are cooped up at home, we’ve… Inventory / Urban outfitting Each year the Côte d’Azur hosts the property summit Mipim. We sat down with five influential players. Business / Urbanism A life’s worth of travelling informs this South Tyrolean haunt – but it finds inspiration on its doorstep too. So 2013 might not officially be over quite yet but it’s beginning to look a bit last year. With a distinctly impatient bent we check out some of the events, ideas and objects that are set to make 2014 (and Christmas) a… Culture / Arts How to enjoy the journey We’ve gathered insights from the designers, singers, artists, writers and entrepreneurs who travel across the globe year-round. Cartoons meet car-making as Tokyo animators move in with Toyota. Plus, we ask book publishers Harper Studio why it's betting on blogs, and preview tactile new photography book. Culture / Media Get a good night’s rest in Barcelona’s newest openings, feel soothed in Scotland and spoiled in Santiago – and don’t miss out on a Nashville knockout. Monocle also brings you the low-down on travel trends in Russia and the… Squared away Brushed by greenery in the well-heeled area of Higienópolis, the Edifício Louveira apartment block stirs much modernist ardour. Monocle meets the artist who finally found a home there. South Tyrol, the mountainous northern border region of Italy that meets Austria and Switzerland, requires its own air service that reflects the area’s remote beauty, high quality of life and fine traditions. Here’s our… Design / Aviation New flights from Tokyo to Yangon, why the French are lighting up Cambodia, and Japan gets creative. Dating game Arizona’s arid landscape is home to a surprisingly plentiful crop. We meet the medjool-date technicians reaching for the skies in Yuma. Entertaining / Food & Drink Sunny outlook During the monsoon season Oman’s second city turns into a lush oasis in the heart of the Arabian desert. It is ripe for discovery – and ready to give its Gulf neighbours some competition in the year ahead. Business / Travel Bienvenue en Inde Nestled in a corner of India is a town of pétanque and pâtisseries: Pondicherry is home to 7,000 French expats. It’s a microcosm of the flourishing business ties between France and India, but is it ready for major economic… Affairs / Economics Results for 'Palm Springs'	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line995
__label__wiki	0.991632	0.991632	American Jewish History Bringing readers all the richness and complexity of Jewish life in America through carefully researched, thoroughly accessible articles, American Jewish History (AJH) is the most widely recognized journal in its field. Founded in 1892 as Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, AJH is the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States. View TOC Kirsten Fermaglich Adam Mendelsohn Daniel Soyer Nick Underwood Melissa Klapper Dianne Ashton, Rowan University (Editor, 2012–2017) Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Judah Cohen, Indiana University Hasia Diner, New York University Karla Goldman, University of Michigan Eric Goldstein, Emory University(Editor, 2007–2012) Jeffrey S. Gurock, Yeshiva University (Associate Editor, 1982–2002) Ari Y. Kelman, Stanford University Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University David S. Koffman, York University Markus Krah, University of Potsdam, Germany Josh Lambert, University of Massachusetts Eli Lederhendler, Hebrew University Laura Arnold Leibman, Reed College Devi Mays, University of Michigan Rafael Medoff, David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies (Associate Editor, 2002–2007) Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin-Madison Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan Pamela S. Nadell, American University (Book Review Editor, 2000–2010) Julia Oestreich, University of Delaware Riv-Ellen Prell, Emerita Professor, University of Minnesota Marc Lee Raphael, College of William and Mary (Editor, 1982–2002) Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University Gerald Sorin, State University of New York at New Paltz Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania Volume 104, Numbers 2/3, April/July 2020 Copyright © The American Jewish Historical Society.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line997
__label__cc	0.515466	0.484534	Downtown Music Publishing Acquires Interest In Charlie Black Catalog May 16, 2016 /0 Comments/in Featured, Publishing /by Craig_Shelburne Downtown Music Publishing has acquired an interest in country lyricist Charlie Black‘s music publishing catalogs. Downtown Nashville’s Vice President Steve Markland said, “It is an honor to be a part of Charlie Black’s catalogue. He’s been one of the most gifted and celebrated songwriters in Nashville for most of his illustrious career.” Black was named SESAC’s Country Songwriter of the Year in 1979. He received ASCAP’s Country Songwriter of the Year award in 1983 and 1984. He was elected to the NSAI Songwriter Hall Of Fame in 1991. Black’s writing credits include Reba McEntire’s “You Lie,” Anne Murray’s “A Little Good News” and K.T. Oslin’s “Come Next Monday,” as well as BlackHawk’s “Goodbye Says It All,” Earl Thomas Conley’s “Honor Bound,” Alan Jackson’s “Right on the Money,” Gary Morris’ “100% Chance of Rain,” and Phil Vassar’s “Carlene” and “Six-Pack Summer.” Black’s songs have also been recorded by Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Don Williams, Paul Anka, Crystal Gayle, Tanya Tucker, Faron Young, Marty Robbins, Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea, and George Strait. Craig_Shelburne Latest posts by Craig_Shelburne (see all) Eric Church, Jeff Hyde Cheer Their “Record Year” At No. 1 Party - October 12, 2016 IEBA Awards Salute Nashville Venues, Executives, Legends - October 12, 2016 Exclusive: Troy Cartwright Finds His Focus On ‘Don’t Fade’ EP - October 12, 2016 https://musicrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/charliebiopic.png 326 238 Craig_Shelburne https://musicrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MusicRow-header-logo-Mar19B.png Craig_Shelburne2016-05-16 13:08:192016-05-16 13:08:19Downtown Music Publishing Acquires Interest In Charlie Black Catalog Maren Morris And JP Saxe Debut New Track “Line By Line” January 14, 2021 Toby Keith, Ricky Skaggs Receive National Medal of Arts January 14, 2021 Aaron Lee Tasjan Readies Fourth Album For February Release January 14, 2021 Circle Network Returns With New Season Of Debuts And Familiar Favorites January 14, 2021 Sam Carter Signs With Spirit Music Nashville And 2 Mix Music January 14, 2021 The CMA Foundation Announces Programming With New Artist Ambassador Lindsay Ell January 14, 2021 Garth Brooks To Be Honored At 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors In May January 14, 2021 Big Yellow Dog Signs Jamra To Publishing Roster January 14, 2021 Plaid Flag Music Signs Mae Estes January 14, 2021 BREAKING: Greg Thompson Appointed President And Partner Of Big Loud Management January 14, 2021 Willie Nelson Announced As Keynote For SXSW Online January 13, 2021 Off The Record: Show Me The Receipts! January 13, 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line998
__label__cc	0.543422	0.456578	Careers at Minster Our roles Investors in People Insurance Partnerships Our Sector Expertise Sign in to Your Case Specialist biking support Personal Legal Services The claims process Employment Claims Services and Pricing Sign into Ink Can anti-driver impairment & distraction systems help to improve road safety? Every day this week, we’ve been supporting Brake’s Road Safety Week by sharing interesting insights into innovative technologies that aim to improve safety on the road. In our seventh and final instalment, we look at anti-driver impairment and distraction systems – some of which seem like they’ve come straight out of a sci-fi movie! Road casualties caused by drink driving may have fallen significantly over the past 50 years, but according to the Department of Transport, around 220 people are killed in drink driving-related incidents every year. The annual THINK! drink driving campaign targets those who think it’s okay to have a couple of drinks before driving around the festive season, but despite its hard-hitting messages, many people still take the risk… In the UK, the penalties for being caught driving under the influence of alcohol are strict and include a minimum 12-month driving ban, hefty fine and even up to six months in prison. And in addition to this, the everyday consequences of being caught drink driving can also include loss of independence, an increase in car insurance costs, job loss and trouble travelling to some countries like the USA. An alcohol detection interlock system is an in-vehicle breath-test that will disable the car’s ignition if the driver exceeds a pre-defined threshold, preventing driving over the limit. The systems are being increasingly used in commercial operations, and some European countries including France, Belgium and Sweden, even require interlocks to be fitted to public transport vehicles such as coaches and school buses. In Britain, ‘alcolocks’ are a completely voluntary system but are already fitted on National Express coaches – the company installed them on more than 500 vehicles after a two-year trial. Road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart, is also supportive of the introduction of alcolocks in the UK. According to Brake, fatigue is a major contributory factor in road accidents in the UK, with too little sleep affecting driver attention, awareness, reaction time and ability to control the vehicle. Driver Distraction and Drowsiness Recognition (DDDR) technology aims to help prevent accidents caused by the driver becoming drowsy and has been adopted by many major car brands. In-vehicle DDDR systems are designed to detect symptoms of fatigue through changes in eye movement (e.g. slow eyelid closure and blink rate) as well as other head movements (e.g. nodding). If the system detects physical indicators of fatigue, it will warn the driver, indicating that they should take a break. Some DDDR systems also monitor heart rate and brain function as well as changes in steering and braking patterns. Audi’s Rest Recommendation System, BMW’s Active Driving Assistant, Nissan’s Driver Attention Alert and Volvo’s Driver Alert Control are just some examples of DDDR systems in practice. Please click here to read more about how we’re supporting Brake’s Road Safety Week by raising awareness of innovation in road safety technology. Tweet this article Share this article on Facebook Share this article with your LinkedIn network Call us now... 0345 600 6980 (Calls are charged at your standard local rate and may be recorded for training and monitoring. Please have your reference number to hand.) Mon-Fri 9am-5pm “I was relieved. A huge relief.” How we helped Kiley secure his financial future when a gas explosion left him in a wheelchair CSR and events Minster Law Media Centre We use our own and third-party cookies to offer you a better experience. By continuing to use www.minsterlaw.co.uk, you’re accepting our cookies policy. For more information, please refer to our privacy notice and our cookie policy. Minster Law Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under No. 383018 and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. VAT number: 638 3863 06. A list of Directors is available from the registered office: Minster Law, Kingfisher House, Peel Avenue, Wakefield, WF2 7UA. Please note that Minster Law does not accept faxes, by way of service or otherwise. Registered in England No. 4659625. ©2021 Minster Law (Insurance post claims awards UK 2018 Winner) (Minster Law is a bronze level corporate partner with the Spinal Injuries Association) (Minster Law is on the Headway Head Injury Solicitors Directory 2016) (Modern Claims Awards 2017 Winner – Outstanding Commitment to Training) (Personal Injury Awards 2017 winner – marketing campaign of the year) Follow us on Twitter Find us on LinkedIn	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1000
__label__wiki	0.908068	0.908068	All sides criticize grizzly bear report for trophy hunt impasse By Laura LundquistSeptember 11, 2020 September 11, 2020 By Missoula Current An old, female grizzly was relocated to the North Fork of the Flathead drainage from the lower Dupuyer Creek area in May 2019 following a livestock depredation. (Montana FWP Prairie Bear Monitor) After a year of collaborative work, the Grizzly Bear Advisory Council report is out, but citizens and lawmakers are already questioning findings and rejecting recommendations. On Thursday, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks director Martha Williams presented the Grizzly Bear Advisory Council report to the Legislative Environmental Quality Council after Gov. Steve Bullock released the final version. “The Grizzly Bear Advisory Council members embraced a true commitment to collaboration in the interest of identifying common ground on a host of issues facing conservation and management of this iconic species,” Bullock said in a release. “I’m grateful for their hard work and look forward to advancing the implementation of many of their recommendations in concert with partners across the state.” Williams echoed that praise, adding that the report will form the foundation of FWP’s grizzly bear management plan, now being developed. “There’s a lot of work to do to support the recommendations, and it will take significant effort to get there,” Williams said. Council member Nick Gevock, who is also a spokesman for the Montana Wildlife Federation, told the EQC that the council had 18 “incredibly diverse views,” but they were able to come together to reach consensus on a number of issues, the main one being the need for more resources, monetary and otherwise, to manage bears where they are now and to get ahead of grizzly bear expansion. “I think our report will be a really good roadmap for the statewide grizzly plan that FWP has already begun. That’s where we’ll get into a bit more of the sort of nitty-gritty details of future grizzly conservation and management,” Gevock said. “My personal goal is I want to see really tangible things come out of this. I don’t want this to be a report that sits on the shelf and gathers dust.” One thing the grizzly bear council couldn’t reach consensus on was the question of whether Montana should have a trophy hunt once the bear is delisted. The council reached the impasse after hearing from both U.S. and Canadian biologists who observed past grizzly hunting seasons and concluded that hunting promotes hunter satisfaction more than anything else and does little to reduce human-bear conflict. “Grizzly bears are very much a different species than wolves in the sense that they’re solitary animals. So they don’t necessarily learn like wolves (that run in packs),” Gevock said. “Hunting could affect the density of bears in areas. But, at the scale that we’ll be looking at down the road, hunting has not proven to be as much of a deterrent. In other words, a dead bear doesn’t learn anything.” Most of the EQC members had not read the report yet, but some took the opportunity to voice their opinions. Sen. Bradley Hamlett, D-Cascade, questioned what the state intends to do when a grizzly bear kills someone on the plains. In spite of Gevock’s explanation of the science, Hamlett also cited the wolf hunting season as proof that a hunting season is needed to make bears stay away from people, even though most bears already try to avoid people. “I have a real concern with kids out playing in rural areas, and nobody’s ever seen a grizzly bear there before,” Hamlett said. “Also, animals are a lot smarter than most humans give them credit for. If they get pressured, if they know that certain things can happen when they come into areas, they might give that area a go-by.” Rep. Kerry White, R-Bozeman, asked Williams if the advisory council’s lack of consensus meant FWP wouldn’t consider hunting as a management tool in its plan. “We’ve seen when we delisted the wolf, (the hunt) leveled off to a sustainable number. I think it decreased the depredation, maybe because the wolves kind of got smart that they were actually being hunted,” White said. “I think may occur within the grizzly population.” Williams said hunting would probably be considered in the plan, but the plan isn’t written yet. Once it is, it will have to go through public comment. “I understand, to some degree, why (the council members) were not able to come to consensus is that hunting really boiled down to some values questions – I would argue less biological or management – but really came down to values,” Williams said. “So council’s work on that helps highlight that issue for all of us working on this. But I would imagine a plan would still discuss it as an option.” Blowback to the inclusion of hunting in the report has been swift, a preview of the future public battle over FWP’s grizzly management plan. Some people questioned the purpose of the advisory council, calling it a sham from the start. On Wednesday, Livingston-based large-carnivore biologist David Mattson sent an open letter to Bullock, Williams and the advisory council’s facilitators, criticizing the council’s makeup as being slanted toward certain stakeholders and the yearlong process as being politicized and less than transparent. “From what I witnessed, the GBAC was in no small measure constituted and run to promote the removal of Endangered Species Act protections, followed by institution of a grizzly bear hunt, and this despite what was stated in the GBAC Charter,” Mattson wrote. Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the Grizzly Bear State Management Act, sponsored last year by Wyoming Sen. Michael Enzi, to remove the Yellowstone population of grizzly bears from the Endangered Species list. Sen. Steve Daines and Chuck Roady of F.H. Stolze Land and Lumber Company spoke in favor of the bill. “In my experience, those bears that are regularly accustomed to being around humans without a hunting component, such as in Yellowstone National Park, behave very differently than bears that are in areas where they are subjected to hunting,” Roady said in his testimony. Because Roady was also a member of the grizzly bear advisory council, grizzly bear advocates pointed to his testimony as a reason to question his intent on the council. Bonnie Rice, representative for the Sierra Club’s Greater Yellowstone-Northern Rockies campaign, applauded the work of the advisory council related to improving coexistence between people and bears. But trophy hunting would endanger efforts to improve the connectivity needed to keep grizzly bear populations healthy, Rice said. “We are deeply disappointed that the Council did not come out strongly against a trophy hunt which could dramatically set back recovery efforts,” Rice said in a statement. “Failing to recommend against a trophy hunt goes against an overwhelming majority of public comment as well as the position of Tribal Nations who hold the grizzly sacred and strongly oppose trophy hunting.” The council received about 16,000 public comments over the course of the year. Combing through a representative sample of the comments, the Sierra Club found a majority of the comments oppose a hunt, even when only comments from Montana residents were considered. The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project said FWP should pay more attention to the fact that the council couldn’t reach consensus. “Most Montana residents and people across the country oppose hunting grizzly bears,” said Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity senior attorney. “Hopefully, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks will listen to and respect this majority. We’ve spent decades and millions of dollars working to secure a real future for grizzlies in Montana. It makes no sense to return to the days when they were chased and hunted.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1002
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__label__wiki	0.876444	0.876444	SBU News > Stony Brook Matters > Athletics > Cross Country Captain Christina Melian ’16 Goes the Distance AthleticsAthleticsFaculty/Student SpotlightsStony Brook MattersStudentStudent Spotlight Cross Country Captain Christina Melian ’16 Goes the Distance Running is far more than a sport to Christina Melian ’16 — it’s a way of life. Christina Melian ’16 The medical school aspirant and Stony Brook cross countryand track and field star has even left the possibility open for a professional career, or a trip to the Olympics someday, but for now it’s one race and one class at a time. “I’ll always run, even if it’s not competitively, since it’s such a big part of my life,” said Christina, who in 2010 first experienced the proverbial thrill of victory as a freshman, when the “six-peat” America East Seawolves cross country powerhouse was in its final year. As a senior, Christina is back in the spotlight, twice winning America East Performer of the Week in September. Equally exciting to the health science major is that on October 31, Stony Brook is hosting the America East Championships. “We don’t really compete at home too often and it’s not every year you host a conference, so it will be great to have some home support and be able to put on a show for everyone,” she said. She is fresh off one of the most meaningful athletic achievements of her storied career, having won the prestigious Battle of Beantown in Boston in September, defeating opponents from the four nationally ranked teams of Dartmouth, Georgetown, Providence and Syracuse. Christina took the 5,000-meter race in 16:60 and was named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Athlete of the Week and Eastern College Athletic Conference Athlete of the Week. “Winning Beantown has given me more confidence going into future races,” she said. “It has proven that I belong up front with some of the top girls. I want to be one of the big names that people are afraid to race against.” Christina said that her proudest moment as a Seawolf runner was winning the 3,000 meters at the U.S. Junior Championships at the end of her freshman year. That high was followed by an injury that kept her off track most of her sophomore year. “I was heartbroken,” she said. “I felt like I missed so much and doubted whether I would get back to my healthy self again, but I worked really hard on my time off and seeing everyone else racing kept me motivated.” Critical support also came from coach Andy Ronan and academic advisor Courtney Rickard. “Andy is one of the few coaches who was willing to take a chance on me although I wasn’t a top high school recruit back in the day, and I am grateful for that,” said Christina, who was a basketball player until she entered high school. “I only got into running to keep busy in the off season,” she said. Coach Ronan summarized her impact on the Stony Brook athletic program this way: “After Olivia Burne graduated, Christina took over as team leader and her work ethic and performances speak for her. With two years remaining, she has the ability to become one of the most successful athletes in the program, if not in the history of Stony Brook University.” In high school Christina joined the cross country team and loved it so much, she dropped basketball altogether. She became a serious runner as a high school senior when she realized she might be able to continue on the college level. Christina sets the pace at the 2014 America East Championships. Her favorite event is the 5K. “I love how you can get into a rhythm and let the race unfold. It is a very strategic race,” Christina said. On the academic side, running has other benefits for Christina. “Honestly, if it weren’t for running I don’t think I would be nearly as organized,” she said. “It helps me prioritize and manage my time better so that I can excel both on the track and in the classroom.” Christina credits Rickard with helping her make the most of her time at Stony Brook, in planning for the future, and serving as her academic and emotional support system. Even in her health science major, Christina’s research is related to running — it involved studying vibrating platforms that are being used in the athletic training room to help prevent stress fractures. “The initial purpose of these platforms was to help increase bone density in patients suffering from diabetes,” she said. Patients stand on the board for ten minutes a day, allowing for the conversion of stem cells to bone cells and helping to prevent diseases such as osteoporosis. However, it is believed to work just as well in athletes who may be susceptible to fractures. “As part of my research, I will be using the track team as a test group to see if these platforms can actually help prevent fractures. If they prove to work this could be a saving grace for many runners.” Christina also performs volunteer service at Stony Brook University Hospital, and that has reinforced the value that doing the little things for people can really make a difference, such as keeping patients company in between treatments at the Department of Oncology. With her good friend, former Seawolves cross country star Gabe Vasquez, she is also helping to carry on the work of The Supply, a non-profit organization that helps raise awareness about the slums in Kenya. The lessons learned from volunteering will be with me when I pursue my medical career,” Christina said. “As a doctor, I hope to help change the lives of my patients and do the best I can to make a difference, no matter how small that might be.” — Glenn Jochum Rising Country Star Stephanie Quayle to Perform at Staller Center, November 3 Stony Brook Named Among Best In Country to Work for by Forbes COVID-19News HighlightsStudent Spotlight “Seawolves Know Better. Seawolves Do Better” Showcases Students’ Safe and Healthy Behavior The campaign features a series of student videos that highlight the actions they’ve taken to keep themselves and their community safe. CommunityNews HighlightsOn CampusStudent Spotlight FSA Announces New Bookstore Partnership Stony Brook University has teamed up with Barnes & Noble as its official bookstore and campus store provider, offering a more personalized digital experience and other new features to enhance the customer experience. 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__label__wiki	0.715117	0.715117	79-year-old man arrested for stealing chocolates at grocery store \| Inquirer News newsinfo / Metro 79-year-old man arrested for stealing chocolates at grocery store By: Jeannette I. Andrade - Reporter / @jiandradeINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:21 PM February 07, 2012 MANILA, Philippines—A 79-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing a small bag of chocolate worth P36 at a grocery store in Manila. Ricardo Castro, a resident of the Madrid Extension in Tondo, claimed that he simply forgot to pay for the pack of chocolate because he was thinking of his ailing son while he was shopping for groceries at the Ultra Mega wholesale and retail mart at the corner of CM Recto Avenue and Antonio Rivera Street in Tondo. But SPO2 Cody Carmelo, desk officer of the Manila Police District (MPD) Moriones Tondo station 2, said that representatives of the grocery did not buy Castro’s story and filed a theft charge against him before the city prosecutor’s office. Carmelo told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that the alleged theft happened at around 11 a.m., Monday, inside the Ultra Mega store. Castro, he pointed out, was on his way out of the store carrying a bag of groceries when 21-year-old security guard Wilson Bangug noticed something bulging from the septuagenarian’s back pants pocket. When Bangug accosted Castro and frisked him, he allegedly found the P36-chocolate inside the septuagenarian’s back pocket. The discovery prompted him to turn over the elderly man to police custody. “He (Castro) said his son had cancer and that was the reason he was not himself. He said he just forgot to pay for the item,” Carmelo told the Inquirer, adding that the elderly suspect even offered to pay for the item he allegedly stole. But even after his claims, the complainant continued to press the theft charge against him before the city prosecutor’s office where the inquest officer asked Castro for proof of his son’s illness. Castro remains detained at the holding cell of the MPD Tondo station. 2 SC justices refuse to inhibit from impeach-related cases TAGS: bag of chocolate, Ricardo Castro, Senior citizen, Shoplifting, Ultra Mega grocery Duterte Youth slams ‘special treatment’ to UP; wants PUP-DND accord scrapped, too	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1009
__label__wiki	0.616661	0.616661	Nigel Morgan Archiving the work of British composer Nigel Morgan (d. September 2017) Ricercares For Brass Sextet. from the opening of Ricercare IV. The brass sextet of trumpets, trombones and tuba is the standard complement of brass instruments found in most symphony orchestras, the french horns occupying an independent position between woodwind and brass. Such a sextet has its roots in the brass ensembles found in music of the sixteenth century composer Giovanni Gabrieli, in particular his elaborate ricercares written for perfomance in Venetian churches. These four Ricercares look back to those Venetian pieces and also to the origin of the word ‘ricercare’ meaning ‘research or experiment’. But in common with most experimental research this elaborate composition looks forward into the new musical territory that can be explored with computers. Most computer music research focuses on exclusively sonic adventures, but there is a consistent strand of interest in how computers can be a composer’s assistant, generating the complex interaction of the traditional musical parameters of pitch, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, articulation and orchestration. This is the area Nigel Morgan has explored in his work as co-developer of the Symbolic Composer software (one of the longest established commercially available systems for algorithmic composition) and more recently as a research associate and composer in residence with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth. part of the final section of Ricercare I. Ricercares is a particularly significant piece in the development of Nigel Morgan’s work with algorithmic composition, a preoccupation that extends over nearly twenty years resulting in some 60 compositions. Composed in 1994 Ricercares established a number of approaches to writing ensemble music with generative algorithms and intelligent event processors that are now form a library of software tools at the heart of the music that belongs to Instrumentarium Novum. Indeed, Ricercares, written some 8 years before this expanding collection of instrumental scores, can be regarded as part of that collection along with the radical Metanoia of the mid 1980s. In general the trace of algorithmic generation and event processing common to many of Nigel Morgan’s compositions is usually available as downloadable collection of annotated and illustrated score-files. In this presentation of Ricercares, whilst the scorefiles are available to download, a gentle introduction is given alongside music examples to highlight something of this unique approach to music composition. Each of the four Ricercares is based on identical source material. This is a stream of symbols converted from the vector plotting of the generation of a 50 milliseconds burst of white noise. These symbols are then mapped to make a lattice of tonality slots or converted directly to musical pitches. In all algorithmic composition a key issue for a composer is how such numerical material can be mapped effectively to musical parameters such as pitch, note length and dynamics. The Symbolic Composer software provides a many different options and possibilities for such mapping, so one is never stuck with a single solution or direction. What happens in the course of Ricercares is that the source material takes an elaborate journey across newly invented tonalities, to chromatic and unusual pentatonic scales, and finally to whole-tone sequences organised around the cycle of fifths. Pitch melodies are scaled, filtered, randomized, inverted, and transposed. Note lengths are associated directly with particular pitch collections and registers. Dynamics and articulation schemes are created directly from examining segments of the white-noise pattern. The play of instrument activity, contrapuntal variety and silence is often organised by making an analysis of proximity and density of the source material. To explore the individual ricercares, click on the images below: Ricercares was written for the brass section of the English Northern Philharmonia who perform independently as Yorkshire Classic Brass under the direction of trombonist and conductor Chris Houlding. Study Score [pdf] Instrumental Parts [zip] (11mb) Reference Recording – 1 [mp3] 2 [mp3] 3 [mp3] 4 [mp3] Symbolic Composer code [zip] Nigel Morgan Proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1014
__label__cc	0.626256	0.373744	Home » Travel » Flexible flight tickets can be 17 TIMES higher than standard fares Flexible flight tickets can be 17 TIMES higher than standard fares 12/15/2020 Travel Comments Off on Flexible flight tickets can be 17 TIMES higher than standard fares Revealed: Flexible flight tickets can be £1,700 more expensive than standard fares (which can normally be changed for free anyway) A Which? study found a British Airways Heathrow to Barcelona fare for £57 But the same route booked with an economy flexible fare cost £966 A Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York in February next year cost £319 The flexible version costs a whopping £2,031 – an increase of more than £1,700 Flexible flight tickets can cost up to 17 times more than standard fares – prompting accusations airlines are cashing in on unwitting holidaymakers during the pandemic. A flexible ticket – which allows travellers to move their flight date free of charge – can be £1,700 more expensive than standard. The extortionate prices highlighted in a consumer group investigation are being charged even though most airlines now allow standard bookings to be changed at no extra cost. Flexible flight tickets can cost up to 17 times more than standard fares, a Which? investigation has found The biggest percentage increase in price between a standard and flexible fare was for a British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Barcelona in February next year. The cheapest standard seat cost £57, but the same route booked with an economy flexible fare cost £966 – 17 times the cost of the cheapest fare, or 1,594 per cent. However, under relaxed booking rules introduced during the pandemic, BA now allows passengers with standard bookings to change their flight dates for free at any time – meaning there is no need to choose the more expensive flexible option. Meanwhile, a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York in February next year cost £319 for a standard fare compared to £2,031 for a flexible ticket – an increase of more than £1,700. Although passengers might be tempted by a flexible ticket given the uncertainty of travel regulations, Virgin actually allows travellers with standard bookings to make up to two name and dates changes for flights before 31 August 2021. The changes can be made free of charge. The Which? investigation also found that easyJet’s flexible fares can cost 2.5 times as much as a standard fare, while Ryanair’s cost more than three times as much. A table from Which? showing the price of a normal flight ticket compared to a flexible flight ticket The biggest increase in price between a standard and flexible fare found by the Which? study was for a British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Barcelona in February next year. The cheapest standard seat cost £57, but the same route booked with an economy flexible fare cost £966 Despite the higher cost, Which? said both airline’s flexible fare options might actually offer less flexibility than standard fares. In both cases, airlines have waived their flight change fees for standard tickets. Ryanair allows customers with normal bookings to alter flights before September next year, while easyJet allows standard fare passengers to change their dates whenever they like. However, Ryanair requires passengers to notify them of changes no less than seven days before they travel, while easyJet requires 14 days notice. In both cases, the flexible option can also provide passengers with extra luggage allowance. A Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York in February next year cost £319 for a standard fare compared to £2,031 for a flexible ticket – an increase of more than £1,700 TUI does not offer a flexible fare option but has waived its flight change fee for flights departing up to 30 April next year. Jet2 is one of the few airlines that does not offer free flight changes or the option of booking a flexible ticket, although changes to flight dates only cost £35 per booking. Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: ‘After a year that has shown us all the value of flexibility when booking travel arrangements, airlines should be making their flexible booking options as attractive as possible. ‘But while it’s not unusual to see airlines flogging extras of questionable value to their passengers, these excessive prices for flexible fares – which often aren’t that flexible at all, or charge for flexibility that is already on offer in their standard fares – are simply not worth it. ‘Instead, those buying flights should pick airlines with better “book with confidence” policies on standard tickets, like Jet2 and British Airways, so they can easily change their booking if lockdown, travel bans or other disruption mean they can’t travel at short notice. Or better still, book a package holiday, which may provide additional protections.’ A BA spokesman said: ‘We offer our customers a wide range of options to give greater choice and to best suit their individual travel plans.’ A Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said: ‘As is common practice we offer a wide range of competitive fares. Regardless of the fare or product, our current commercial policy supersedes fare conditions which may appear during the booking journey for a customer. ‘Therefore all customers with bookings ticketed up to 31 December 2020, due to travel by 31 August 2021, are able to make up to two changes of dates and/or one change of name(s), with fees waived, for travel all the way until 31 December 2022. Fare difference may be charged, however, this will be waived if the new fare is within the following fare differences: £60 for Economy, £120 for Premium and £350 for Upper. ‘We are constantly evaluating how best to ensure our customers are kept up to date with the latest booking policies, updates and most competitive prices.’ EasyJet and Ryanair were asked for comment. becanFlexibleflighttickets Previous Post:Kelly Clarkson Is Revealing More About Her Divorce on Her Upcoming Album Next Post:Meet Lenny, the lizard with his own cookbook	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1019
__label__cc	0.666633	0.333367	Coronavirus Pandemic: A Time To Stand With The People Powerful Pastor Dies In His Sleep Hours To Deliverance In Anambra Naira Marley: An Inspiration Or Bad Influence To Nigerian Youths? Tony Okonkwo I am a man of big dreams…a product of possibilities – Godwin Maduka Godwin Maduka is a philanthropist who owns a foundation with the aim of reaching out to the needy. In this interview, he talks about what it takes to be a leader, its challenges, and more. Excerpts: It was not long that your foundation was commissioned. What is your vision for it? I believe that all that is not given is lost, and the good book makes us understand that the only metric by which we will be judged is our attitude towards the needy. Every person in need is my neighbour, according to the story of the Good Samaritan. So, the essence of the foundation is to give succour to the needy, especially women, children and the youth. The foundation has been in existence for almost forty years but we want to institutionalize it. We plan on expanding the scope of our charity and structures so it outlives me. More importantly, we want to teach people how to fish instead of just giving them fish. How do you feel about the yearning of youths to take over governance in Nigeria? Being a youth is not just about age. It is a mindset, an orientation. Youthfulness is simply being progressive, being mentally in touch with current realities and always ready to learn, unlearn and relearn. Someone who is in his twenties and yet impervious to change, like a 19th century rock cannot be called a youth. Being a youth implies being upwardly mobile in thinking and perception without being fickle minded. Someone in his seventies can be young at heart. In the just concluded US elections, the top three contenders – Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are all in their seventies. But they all understand where America should be and her special place in the affairs of the world. Nelson Mandela became the President of South Africa at an old age yet he demonstrated a leadership that brought together his nation that was sharply divided and was suffering from the scars of apartheid. Someone can possess such capacity at a young age too and become an effective leader. An example of such is President Macron of France. Bottom line, leadership is all about capacity. So I believe that the field should be made open for both young people by age and young people at heart. There is this notion that philanthropists like you fail in leadership. What do you have to say about this? Leadership is the highest demonstration of philanthropy. It is so because it is the best means of changing a society’s trajectory and affecting people’s lives on a mass scale, not just a particular segment of the society. Leadership is sacrifice. It is self-denial and that is what philanthropy is. Any philanthropy without sacrifice is no philanthropy. Most times what we see in this clime is transactional and self-centred philanthropy. People give because they want something in return, not for love of humanity. I don’t believe people fail in leadership because they are philanthropists. As you know, even people who are not philanthropists also fail in leadership. Therefore, primarily, leadership is about capacity, a reflection of vision, sound judgment, will and humility. Why do you think some leaders fail? Leadership is team effort. There is a very high probability of success in leadership if you have the capacity and the right team, people who can add value to your vision and who have the courage to speak truth to power when you derail, not praise singers, sycophants and court jesters. Leadership is a serious job, and with the myriad of challenges facing Anambra today, it is a tougher call. It doesn’t call for partying. There was this report about your comment on the need to build 21 universities across the 21 local governments of Anambra State. Kindly elaborate on what you were trying to say. The fourth estate of the realm is very vital in the development of every modern society. They act as a check on the excesses of those in power, mirror issues in the society and help start a conversation on them. However, sometimes, the quest to sell overshadows their dedication to proper journalistic tenets. Sensationalism takes over qualitative and investigative reporting. There are what lawyers call literal interpretation and liberal or purposive interpretation. The purposive interpretation tends to look at the intent of the statement or the purpose the statement is meant to achieve, not the literal meaning, and in this case, the intent of my statement is basically my passion and belief in education as the easiest and best means of human capacity development. Actually, people understood what I said literally, hence the sensation and not in the purposive sense of the fact that I want to prioritize education. If you recall, when Dr Tunji Braithwaite was running for presidential election, he would always say that he wanted to relocate the residents of Ikoyi to Mushin and Mushin residents to Ikoyi. People got mad, but then, people understood the literal meaning of the statement rather than the liberal or purposive explanation. He was simply implying that if the rich could have a feeling of the conditions of the poor; it will go a long way in the commitment to bridging the gap between them. There are certain truths and possibilities people find outrageous or may not seem to understand very well, yet at the end it becomes the reality. For emphasis, my idea of educational revolution in Anambra State comes from a keen study I did in the US. I found out that in America, Educational communities drive the economic bases. I took a trip to the Silicon Valley and I discovered how Stanford University is the brain power behind most tech start-ups. I started developing a similar idea which I can localize in my home state. I realize that if we can have educational communities around our economic bases, it will blow up the Anambra economy and double up our GDP in a short while. For example, an educational community with engineering courses as its main focus located around the Nnewi axis will contribute so much to research and development in automobiles and manufacturing. Imagine the deepening of local content and backward integration it will trigger, together with the attendant wealth and job creation. If you have an educational community around Awka, it will stimulate ICT and Technological start-ups. Likewise in the Agricultural bases of Ayamelum, Anambra east and west, an educational community will do a lot in the research of hybrids products and also develop models geared towards Agric-economics and agro processing which is a billion dollar industry. So in a nutshell, I was trying to talk about 21 specialized university campuses. We must revolutionize education to make it useful and that is what we want to do in other sectors. My idea is that I want Anambra to be the educational hub of sub-Saharan Africa. Las Vegas where I live has about 10 universities. I am a man of big dreams and ideas. I did same in Umuchukwu, a village that was on the lowest rung of development and I built a city out of it. I am a product of possibilities. I went to America from the village and excelled beyond measures, and built six world class hospitals in the state of Nevada. I represent hope and inspire people to dream. With my story, it is obvious that regardless of your background, your dreams are valid. You were also reported to have said that you will run Anambra state with your personal income. Is that true? This is another sensational reporting twisted for the purposes of propaganda. I only said that if the condition calls for it, we would also put in our money to make the wheel of governance effective. Since I started my philanthropy, I have built a police station, a magistrate court, high court, constructed roads, built schools, hospitals and electrified my community. These are infrastructure that should be basically provided by the government. In Igbo land, several communities embark on self-help projects that should ordinarily be provided by the government. Imo airport was built with contributions from people. It was a collective project. We don’t always depend entirely on government. You emerged as Anambra Man of the Year and have continued to win awards since you returned from the United States of America. Sometimes people thin influence attracts these awards rather than merit. What is your opinion? There is no need for an inordinate crave for awards. When you touch people’s lives, it would come your way without you angling for it. No doubt, the award culture has been bastardized, but I have never paid for any award. I have received awards in the US, Canada and other countries in the world. Will it not be tantamount to depleting my hard-earned resources if I buy awards everywhere in the world? Actually, there was a time I was so tired of awards and complained to one of my aides and he reminded me that aside from the fact that I richly deserve them, they are necessary because these awards can inspire some other people to do more for humanity. When my story is told at award ceremonies, you never know who is listening or inspired to reach for the star. Ok What is your New Year message to ndi Anambra? The past year has been a very challenging one. The pandemic dealt a very big blow to the world economy. Hundreds of thousands of deaths were recorded, health facilities were overwhelmed and people lost their jobs. Also, companies shut down, some downsized drastically in a bid to survive, and for a country like Nigeria and by extension Anambra State that is largely dependent on oil revenue, it was a gloomy year. The revenue available to government to stimulate economic activities contracted. It was Hellen Keller who said that the world is full of challenges, but the world is also full of overcoming them. The new year is here already. I urge Ndi Anambra not to give up hope. This 2021, we can rest, but we shouldn’t quit. The holy book tells us that if you knock long and hard enough, closed doors shall be opened. 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__label__cc	0.595121	0.404879	HUD PIH Posts Updated “COVID-19 FAQs for Public Housing Agencies” HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) posted an updated “COVID-19 FAQs for Public Housing Agencies” on March 30. The updated set of “frequently asked questions” (FAQs) is based in part on issues raised by public housing agencies (PHAs) as well as provisions in the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.” For many of the FAQs, PIH indicates it will be providing detailed guidance in the near future. The first set of FAQs was posted on March 13 (see Memo, 3/23). The March 30 update has 31 new questions, 5 questions flagged as “Updated” that appear to provide new information, and 12 questions flagged as “Updated” that provide minor updates. The new questions are not, however, indicated as being new. This Memo article summarizes key changes important to residents and advocates. Under the category, “Operational Concerns,” question OC4 (page 6) addresses situations in which a PHA has halted or is considering halting, for health and safety reasons, Housing Quality Standards (HQS) inspections in homes assisted with vouchers. HUD outlines existing HQS inspection flexibilities in various PIH Notices for current residents and indicates it will provide guidance regarding housing chosen by new resident applicants as well. Regarding portability of vouchers, at OC5 (page 7) PIH says PHAs should continue to process incoming and outgoing porting of vouchers in a manner similar to how they are handling all PHA operating issues at this time. Portability refers to procedures PHAs follow when a voucher household chooses to move with their voucher from one PHA to another. PHAs are encouraged to consider processing portability requests through electronic communications, teleconferences, and phone communications to the extent practicable. HUD is not currently considering a waiver of portability regulations or other PIH requirements. OC6 states that the soon-to-be-released CARES Act stimulus payments to individuals and families will not be included when calculating a household’s income. OC8 states that if public housing or voucher households, including households in project-based voucher (PBV) units, obey a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus pandemic and consequently cannot pay the rent due to a loss of income, residents are protected by a new provision in the CARES Act that provides a 120-day moratorium on eviction filings, fees and penalties related to nonpayment of rent. (Presumably if someone is sick due to the coronavirus, the same moratorium would apply, but the FAQ does not specifically state this.) PIH indicates it will issue additional guidance. OC18 (page 10) states that public housing residents who choose to self-isolate must continue to comply with the PHA’s Smoke-Free policy. OC20 (page 11) states that HUD is not considering waivers of the “obsolescence test” if a PHA seeks approval to demolish a public housing property under Section 18 of the Housing Act. (To obtain approval to demolish public housing, a PHA must demonstrate the property is obsolete. See NLIHC’s summary of demolition regulations.) OC25 (page 12) addresses a case involving a landlord telling a voucher household that their lease will not be renewed, resulting in the tenant being evicted. While the CARES Act has a 120-day moratorium on evictions and late fees due to nonpayment of rent that applies to the voucher program, the voucher program does not require landlords to renew a lease. Eviction after nonrenewal of a lease is a matter of state and local law. PIH indicates it will provide additional guidance. OC28 addresses the question of whether a PHA can ban visitors to a high-rise property for seniors. HUD indicates that PHAs have the authority to restrict visitors from public housing properties. If a PHA plans to implement a visitor ban through amended PHA policies, PIH recommends it be done as part of a broader, publicly announced plan to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. PIH also suggests that PHAs and owners review the lease as well as state and local laws to determine the permissibility of banning visitors. OC29 (page 13) addresses PHAs in areas subject to shelter-in-place orders. PIH indicates that PHAs can use alternate methods to collect information for new admissions and interim income reexaminations for reduced wages or hardship exemptions. Alternate methods would include email, mail, or phone. PHAs already have flexibilities for third-party verifications. For example, a resident may call to report they have been laid off from a restaurant job, in which case the PHA should attempt to verify this information with the employer. If the PHA cannot obtain this verification, the PHA can document its attempts and continue with the process to adjust the tenant payment. Under the category “Resident Health,” question RH2 (page 13) notes that if there are positive COVID-19 cases in a building or property, PHAs should convey this information to staff and residents following state and local health department guidance as well as using the communications resources from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at: https://bit.ly/2X24zyU The March 30 update of “COVID-19 FAQs for Public Housing Agencies” is at: https://bit.ly/2UzwAfF More about public housing is on page 4-25 of NLIHC’s 2019 Advocates’ Guide More about vouchers is on page 4-1 of NLIHC’s 2019 Advocates’ Guide HUD Offices of Multifamily and Public and Indian Housing Post Updated FAQs HUD’s Offices of Multifamily Housing Programs (Multifamily) and Public and Indian Housing (PIH) recently posted updated coronavirus-related guidance. Specifically, PIH posted an update to its… HUD Publishes National Physical Inspection Standards HUD published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on January 13 that presents a new approach to defining and assessing housing quality among HUD programs, calling the approach the “National… PIH Informs Public Housing Agency Directors of Extended CDC Eviction Moratorium HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) sent an email to all public housing agency (PHA) directors alerting them to the temporary extension to January 31, 2021 of the Centers for Disease…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1025
__label__cc	0.56742	0.43258	Stock photo of an ambulance in the Netherlands. April 1, 2019 photo: jomahepu@gmail.com / DepositPhotos fireworks accident Paul Koetsier Sunday, January 3, 2021 - 11:08 Two boys expected to lose a hand in illegal firecracker accidents Two boys in the province of Gelderland were seriously injured on Saturday afternoon in separate explosions involving heavy fireworks. Both boys suffered trauma to a hand because of the accidents. “I am not a doctor, but it seems that in both cases the victims will have to lose their hand,” said Paul Koetsier. He works in the police dispatch center for Arnhem and Nijmegen, where the two incidents took place within an hour of each other. One journalist said on Twitter that police were searching for fingers in the Stadseiland neighborhood of Arnhem-Zuid. “We see these kinds of accidents more often on New Year's Day," Koetsier stated in reference to people who sometimes try to set off fireworks which were left on the street. "But in both cases this is the result of setting off dangerous fireworks of the Cobra variety," he told De Gelderlander. The newspaper said that the popular Cobra 6 firecracker contains 25 times the amount of gunpowder which is allowable in commercial firecrackers. There was also a fireworks ban imposed in the Netherlands around New Year’s Eve. That was to create attempt to create some relief for emergency room and intensive care healthcare workers under enormous pressure due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rutte fiercely criticized in debate on allowance scandal; Admits responsiblity	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1026
__label__cc	0.516952	0.483048	CNS Washington, DC Office Interested in Nonproliferation in DC? Follow us at @JamesMartinCNS on Twitter The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) Washington, DC, office works to connect cutting-edge research with the Washington policy-making community. The office has a staff of around fourteen individuals spanning CNS program and thematic areas. The staff includes the CNS Middle East Program Director and the Editor of the Nonproliferation Review as well as a number of other research staff. CNS DC staff are heavily involved in implementing US government grants on important nonproliferation issues, including in relation to North Korea. The DC team includes expertise related to proliferation networks, maritime sanctions, satellite-imagery analysis, proliferation finance, and online and e-learning. The office is currently headed by Dr. Ian Stewart. Dr. Stewart is a nuclear engineer by training and previously worked at King’s College London and the UK Ministry of Defence. At CNS DC, he is focused on increasing the connection between the research and policy-making community on nonproliferation issues. He is also working to expand the use of data (including so-called “big data” and machine learning) in policy making. The office hosts interns in the summer months and occasionally during academic terms. Nonpro Notes Nonpro Notes is a research publication maintained by CNS DC. The DC office includes a sizable conference meeting space that can be leveraged for training and joint projects. The space can also be rented out to external organizations. CNS DC staff are available for media requests. Dr. Ian J Stewart Bridget Leahy 1400K Street NW, Washington DC, 20005 CNS Staff in Washington, DC Shea Cotton Chen Zak Kane Director, Middle East Nonproliferation Program Research Assistant and Office Manager in Washington, DC Jill Luster Senior Project Manager and Research Associate Joshua Pollack Editor, the Nonproliferation Review and Senior Research Associate Miles Pomper David Schmerler Leonard S. Spector CNS Distinguished Fellow Executive Director (DC) Cameron Trainer Research Associate in Washington, DC Jamie Withorne CNS Work Enhancing Nuclear Reactor Security Miles Pomper at the European Nuclear Society’s Research Reactor 2020 conference. Nonproliferation Tools in the Strategic Technology War PODCAST: Ian J. Stewart on the “Sanctions Space” podcast. The Status of the Front End of Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Reviewing the claims underlying recent media reports of KSA uranium mining and milling. Machine Learning Applications in Nonproliferation Assessing algorithmic tools for strengthening strategic trade controls. Unauthorized Flags: A Threat to the Global Maritime Regime A gap in oversight can be exploited for a range of illicit activities. Nuclear Testing Offers Little Scientific Value to the US, Benefits Other Countries July 15, 2020 marks 75 years since the detonation of the first nuclear bomb, the Trinity Test. Transparency and Reporting on Arms Exports within and from the EU Report prepared for the European Parliament.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1029
__label__cc	0.6999	0.3001	Content First Approach with Akeneo Date 30.09.2020 When it comes to managing product information for hundreds of thousands of products across a set of tens of thousands of attributes and multiple locales, built-in product management tools in eCommerce solutions such as Magento and Shopify are no longer adequate for maintaining the catalog. Separate Product Information Management (PIM) solutions such as Akeneo become necessary to ensure smooth catalog maintenance operations. To truly leverage the power of Akeneo, we would need to put ourselves in the shoes of the content manager and think outside the box of how data is stored and Managed within the eCommerce solution so we can keep the catalog as manageable as possible and avoid data duplication or the need for frequent content edits. We recently encountered two interesting cases. While migrating products and attributes, we noticed that we have duplicate naming for attributes. Normally, this is not an issue; but for some attributes we had hundreds of duplications and under the same name, we had thousands of options. For example, we had capacity, and the context can be the capacity of a water kettle in liters or the capacity of flash disk in GB, etc… Putting ourselves in the content manager’s shoes, we asked ourselves: what would happen if we merge all attributes with the same name into one? It would not be easy to select options for products. Within the eCommerce solutions we would create nonsensical product filters that are not specific to the product context. We then thought of keeping them as separate attributes, but generating unique attribute codes so we can distinguish the attribute contexts. It works on the eCommerce level in terms of filters, but for the content manager, when enriching a product or managing attribute groups, they would see a long list of attributes that have the same name. This makes managing content extremely difficult. We extended Akeneo’s attribute table to have another field: context. For migrating the attributes, we included a script that would cross-reference each attribute to the unique category that it belongs to, and populate the context field. We modified Akeneo’s front-end so that when displaying attribute names, it would show the attribute context as well. So, for example, we would see “Capacity (Kettles)” and “Capacity (Flash Disks)” when adding attributes or managing attribute groups. From the eCommerce perspective, we would only export the name of attribute and a unique id, so that the front-end would not include the context. It’s a small change, but it makes a big difference for the content manager. When managing attributes, the content manager would know exactly which attribute they’re updating. When creating attribute groups and families, and assigning attributes to products, there is no more confusion about duplicate names. Some product descriptions contain references to other attributes and variables that are held on the eCommerce solution. For example we have 16 stores that have the same locale, but different brand names. In the product description, we have a reference to the brand. Normally, we can set up different channels in Akeneo for each of the brands, and assign each store a channel, but every time we would need to change the description of a product, the content administrator would then have to make the same edit 16 times. For a large catalog and multiple references to the brand within the product description texts, this quickly becomes unmanageable. Recognizing that there is no need to duplicate content that is 99% the same across multiple stores, we kept a single channel in Akeneo and mapped it to all 16 stores instead. We created the ability to add variables within this text and ensured that after the texts were exported to the eCommerce solution, they are rendered with the values relevant to each store. For each of the products, we have a single text in Akeneo across all stores. The text contains a variable that is dynamically replaced on the eCommerce side. Content manager needs to change the products texts once. The changes will dynamically cascade to multiple stores and have the correct brands in the text. Thinking about how content will be managed, not just stored, is of vital importance. Oftentimes this requires developing custom approaches, and Akeneo is a friendly platform in this regard. Stay tuned for the next article where we’ll discuss 2 more cases: Filters for attributes in descriptions instead of text JSON for images and complex product relations Is Magento/Shopify no longer cutting it for you, when it comes to product information management? 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__label__wiki	0.653405	0.653405	Norfolk Record Society > Publications > The History of The Norfolk Record Society, 1930-2005 The History of The Norfolk Record Society, 1930-2005 This brief history of the Norfolk Record Society has been prepared to coincide with the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of its foundation. The principal source of material for this publication has been the Society’s minute books which exist in an unbroken series from 1930. Available to Purchase Edited By: John Barney	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1031
__label__wiki	0.947854	0.947854	Mastering the demanding art of directing She Stoops to Conquer director Clippard enjoys collaborating to bring stage productions to life Kristin Clippard (right) works with cast members of <em>She Stoops to Conquer</em> during rehersals Wednesday, April 3. Clippard, who has directed numerous plays during her MFA studies at the University of Iowa, will direct the final production of the Mainstage season. The play opens Friday, April 19, in E.C. Mabie Theatre. Photo by Tom Jorgensen. By: Christopher Clair \| 2013.04.05 \| 10:30 am Directing a theater production is a bit of a balancing act. The director must weigh all options, from the minute, in-the-moment acting decisions to whether a big chunk of money is spent on a fabulous set piece. Personalities are managed everywhere: in rehearsals, in production meetings, in design. Kristin Clippard has walked this tightrope many times, and loves every minute of it. Director Kristin Clippard is flanked by Allyson Malandra (as Miss Kate Hardcastle) and Luke Millington-Drake (as Young Charles Marlow), actors in She Stoops to Conquer. Photo by Thomas Eslinger. “It’s satisfying to be the person who can bring a lot of talented people together to create this baby, this new living, breathing thing,” says Clippard, who will direct She Stoops to Conquer, the final production of the 2012-2013 University Theatres Mainstage season. “I love collaborating. I love working with people to find the right solutions, to find the perfect moment that makes everything work.” Clippard, a student in the University of Iowa theater arts department’s Master of Fine Arts program, will direct her eighth play at the UI when She Stoops to Conquer opens at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19. The production runs through April 27 in E.C. Mabie Theatre in the UI Theatre Building. Think maintaining your social network and trudging through online dating is challenging? Not to mention dealing with your dysfunctional family? Step back 240 years to a time when things were just as difficult (but hilariously so). She Stoops to Conquer features an upstanding country girl named Kate Hardcastle and a socially awkward city boy named Charles Marlow. After Charles flubs their first meeting, Kate disguises herself as a barmaid to get to know him better. Meanwhile, another couple attempts to elope with the help of Tony Lumpkin, who attempts to pinch the family jewels of the Hardcastle house. The audience will follow awkward lovers through courtship, see city slickers manage mistaken identities, and watch a family debacle while Kate corrects the mistakes of a night. “It’s a very fun show; the audience can expect to laugh,” Clippard says of the show, which contains adult themes and is not suitable for children. She Stoops to Conquer By Oliver Goldsmith Directed by Kristin Clippard E.C. Mabie Theatre 8 p.m., April 19-20, April 25-27 2 p.m., April 21 Tickets are $17 ($12 for senior citizens, $10 for youth, and $5 for UI students with valid UI ID) and are available through the Hancher Box Office in the Old Capitol Town Center, 319-335-1160, 800-426-2437, www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets. The Department of Theatre Arts is part of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For accommodations at the production, contact the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events visit the new Arts Iowa website. Clippard’s path toward theater arts is a tried-and-true story: as a youth, she and her siblings would put on plays for her grandparents at home; eventually she started doing drama through school. The light bulb moment that the pursuit of theater was tangible happened when she performed the role of Thelma “Mama” Cates (“I always played those roles, because I was tall,” Clippard says) in ‘night, Mother at a state conference for thespians. “Basically the play is about a despondent daughter telling her mother that she intends to kill herself, all the while cleaning the house and preparing her mother for life afterward,” Clippard says. “People came up to me afterward, crying as they were so affected by the play. I couldn’t believe that theater could do that to people. I would never forget that reaction; I was hooked.” Clippard would play a number of varied roles on stage, from Adriana in Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival to a convict in a production at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The Shakespeare tour took her before audiences rural and urban, providing a fabulous experience. “It was cool to perform for students who’d never seen that work before, or for adults gathered in a public library,” she says. Directing was something Clippard knew she could do well; that role has become her primary focus. She has directed some two dozen productions, workshops, and readings, taking the helm of works by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Christopher Marlowe, and the Brothers Grimm. One primary attraction to the University of Iowa’s program was the opportunity to, as she puts it, “do, do, do.” “You’re able to direct a lot of plays while you’re at Iowa, as soon as your first year—that’s not necessarily the norm elsewhere,” says Clippard, who will receive an Master of Fine Arts in May. “I was able to focus on new works here, too. I love Shakespeare, but I was looking for a change of pace, and found that here.” That change-of-pace style will be on full display with She Stoops to Conquer, as Clippard approaches the work from a mash-up perspective. “My approach is about blending the old with the new and seeing the production through fresh eyes,” she says. Christopher Clair, Office of Strategic Communication, 319-384-0900 Kristin Clippard Department of Theatre Arts ui theatres mainstage	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1040
__label__wiki	0.66186	0.66186	Engineering (ENG) Home Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Get ENG/CBET Email Updates Get ENG Email Updates Contact ENG/CBET @NSF on Twitter NSF on Facebook NSF ENG on YouTube Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems Arctic Observing Network (AON) Roberto Delgado robdelga@nsf.gov (703) 292-2397 W7246 Jennifer L. Mercer jmercer@nsf.gov (703) 292-7453 W 7159 Frank . Rack frack@nsf.gov (703) 292-2684 W 7189 The Arctic Observing Network (AON) program encourages proposals to make long-term field observations to detect and understand Arctic system change occurring on time scales longer than the duration of a typical NSF research grant. 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__label__cc	0.671264	0.328736	What we learned from NeurIPS 2019 data NeurIPS has quadrupled in the last five years. This year, we had 6,743 submissions after filtering (down to 6,614 at notification time), amounting to more than 20,000 reviews written by more than 4,500 reviewers. The overall acceptance rate this year was 21.6%, corresponding to 1428 accepted papers. Given this overwhelming growth, we decided to take a look at the data and see what we can learn from it. This post is not a proposal for a new system. It’s about facilitating and informing a discussion about one. Part I: Dissecting the NeurIPS community There were 15,920 authors of submitted papers. (We made a careful attempt to merge profiles to keep a single entity per person in this analysis.) Three quarters were not on the invitation list for the program committee in any capacity — as reviewers, area chairs (ACs), or senior area chairs (SACs). Slightly over 70% of the remaining quarter accepted our invitation to serve on the program committee, which is a good sign. Moreover, the majority of those reviewing also submitted papers — also a good sign. So, does NeurIPS have a free-rider problem? Not a critical one. As the table shows, only about a quarter of those who didn’t accept our invitation to review submitted papers to NeurIPS 2019. About 10% of these authors, however, submitted five or more papers. Altogether, there were only 769 papers (out of 6,743) with at least one author invited to serve on the committee but none of the invited authors contributing to the reviewing process. Let’s now take a closer look at the three quarters who were not on the invitation list for the program committee. About 40% of these authors also didn’t co-author a submission with anyone who was on the invitation list. The acceptance rate in this category (responsible for close to 30% of all submissions) was the lowest — only about one in ten. Interestingly, the initial interest in these papers during the bidding phase was just as strong as in papers from any other category. We will come back to this point later in this post. As expected, those invited to serve in a senior role both submitted more papers and had a higher acceptance rate on average. The table below gives statistics for area chairs. The numbers were somewhat higher for senior area chairs — 5.24 submissions per SAC with acceptance rate of 34.78%. The fraction of reviewers/ACs from academia was around 70%. There were 85 authors with at least 10 submissions. Only six of them are women (7%). Our provisional estimate of the overall fraction of women authors of submitted papers is 13%, almost twice the fraction among prolific submitters. The average acceptance rate for prolific submitters was 24.7%, slightly higher than the 21.6% base rate across all submissions. Finally, here is a breakdown of acceptance rates by primary subject area, in comparison with 2018. This plot is ordered by the number of submissions in each area (see below in this post for a plot on submissions by area). As one explanation for the (statistically significant) differences in acceptance rates we see between the first and last four subject areas, it is not too surprising that the subject areas with the most submissions will have a larger fraction of lower-quality submissions as well. Here is also a composition of submitted and accepted papers by subject area, in comparison with 2018. Part II: Speculative experiments on reducing or limiting the number of submissions There have been many discussions about changing the NeurIPS reviewing model to better handle the growing number of submissions. Let’s have a little fun and use the NeurIPS 2019 data to estimate the consequences of some of the proposals we’ve heard. Editorial screening As an experiment, we wanted to measure the ability of ACs to predict, before seeing reviews, which of their assigned submissions were going to be rejected (for example, due to their insufficient novelty or poor scholarship). The question is whether NeurIPS should consider allowing ACs to reject submissions without review in order to reduce the reviewing load — such editorial screening is common practice at top journals. We asked each AC to provide what they believed to be the bottom 25% of their assigned submissions (5 submissions for most ACs), together with their confidence in each assessment. We received 808 reject recommendations from 50% of our ACs. The table below shows the number of papers recommended for rejection at different confidence levels, as well as the corresponding accuracy — percentage actually rejected after review. Thresholding at confidence level 5 (last row) appears safe but doesn’t yield any appreciable reduction in the number of submissions. Even if one accounts for the fact that only 50% of our ACs participated in this experiment, thresholding at confidence level 5 would eliminate the need to review only <4% of all submissions. Capping the number of submissions Another often mentioned proposal is to cap the number of papers that anyone can submit. The AAAI conference even introduced a cap of 15 submissions per author for 2020 (see their Call for Papers). The plot below shows how allowing everyone to co-author only k submissions (X axis) would have affected the total submission count at NeurIPS 2019. The Y axis plots the resulting reduction in submission volume. For the purpose of this thought experiment — as we don’t know which submissions each author would have chosen to keep given this policy — we gave each author the hindsight of keeping their accepted submissions, up to the allowed k at random. If the author had any remaining submission budget, it was filled with their randomly selected rejected submissions. Capping submissions at 15 (as adopted by AAAI-2020) would have eliminated only <100 submissions, 1.5% of the total. Capping submissions at 10 would have removed 4.3% of the total (saving ~850 reviews) with no significant impact on the resulting program. In summary, perhaps some combination of editorial screening and capping submissions can give a sufficient reduction to make a difference, but more thought about methods of doing this is needed before putting a practice in place. Supply-and-Demand Reviewing Another proposal (here and here) is to use a market system to control reviewing. Only submissions that gather sufficient interest from reviewers are reviewed. The analysis below shows that bids — the way they are implemented currently — are a poor predictor of acceptance. Accepted papers had 5.4 eager bids from reviewers on average (0.72 eager bids from ACs), compared to 5.1 for a rejected paper (0.64 from ACs). Thus a naive policy where only submissions with at least three eager bids are reviewed would have eliminated about a quarter of all submissions but it would have also eliminated a quarter of all accepted papers. The table below breaks this down by author categories, showing that eager bids are remarkably flat across categories. On the flip side, this suggests that all good papers have a good chance of being discovered (consistent with observations in Yann LeCun’s proposal here). Open Dissemination of Submissions under Review A majority (54%) of all submissions were posted on arXiv; 21% of these submissions were seen by at least one reviewer. The acceptance rate in this latter category was 34%, significantly higher than the base rate of 21.6%. For comparison, the acceptance rate for submissions that were not posted was 17%. Unfortunately it’s hard to disentangle cause and effect. One obvious possibility is that papers released on arXiv are of higher quality, since the authors judged them ready to be shared publicly. Another is that this reflects a bias of single blind review, where well known authors are both more likely to have their arXiv paper read and to induce a bias towards a positive evaluation of their work. Part III: Review quality Reviewer Assignment What’s a good proxy for review quality that we can objectively measure? One proxy suggested to us was whether an assigned reviewer is cited in the paper. So what is the fraction of NeurIPS 2019 submissions with at least one cited reviewer? We extracted reference pages from submission files to find out. As it turns out, less than one third of all submissions was reviewed by someone cited in the paper. As expected, being cited in the submission does correlate with confidence. The average confidence of a NeurIPS review was 3.75, with about half of all reviews rated as 4 (confident in the assessment but not absolutely certain). The average confidence of a cited reviewer was slightly above 4, with close to 30% rated 5 (absolutely certain about the assessment, very familiar with the related work) — almost twice the rate in the general review pool. While we had certainly hoped to see higher numbers, 40.6% of all submissions had at least one review with confidence rating of 5, and 94.7% had a review with confidence rating of at least 4. In an effort to improve the assignment, we worked with CMT to allow ACs to recruit external reviewers for specific papers they were handling. If an AC couldn’t find a good match in the general pool, they could send a paper-specific invitation to an external reviewer. More than 40% of ACs used this feature, sending close to 400 invitations (almost 80% of which were accepted). ACs could also manually adjust automatically generated assignments for papers in their stack, hand-picking from the non-conflicted general pool. While most ACs largely kept the assignment they received, 10% of our ACs reassigned at least a third of their assignment — averaging at least one reviewer per paper they were handling. Were ACs more satisfied with reviews if they hand-picked the reviewers? The answer is yes, even though most of these external reviewers were junior. The fraction of reviews rated as “exceeding expectations” grew by a third and the fraction rated as “failed expectations” more than halved in the hand-picked pool. Distribution of Review Length Given frequent complaints about short reviews at NeurIPS, we looked at the distribution of review lengths for NeurIPS 2019, ICLR 2019, and COLT 2019. A lognormal distribution of human-generated text length is to be expected but it’s interesting to see that the parameters match so closely across very different conferences and different review forms. Rebuttals, Discussions, and Acceptance Statistics As an author composing your rebuttal, you probably want to know the probability of your paper getting accepted given its initial scores. What are the odds of your rebuttal shifting the outcome? About 20% of initial scores changed during the discussion phase, translating into at least one score changing for about 50% of all submissions. As decisions were being reached, the average variance went down from 1.27 (pre-rebuttal) to 0.89 (notification time). We also compared the following engagement metrics between 2018 and 2019: The average number of comments per paper during discussion period, the average number of people participating, the average number of characters in the discussion posts. All numbers went up, indicating better overall engagement in this part of the review process. Most significantly, the average length of the discussion thread per paper increased by 10%. Though the data still leaves a lot of questions unanswered, we personally notice the following takeaways: No free-loader problem: Relatively few papers are submitted where none of the authors invited to participate in the review process accepted the invitation Unclear how to rapidly filter papers prior to full review: Allowing for early desk rejects by ACs is unlikely to have a significant impact on reviewer load without producing inappropriate decisions. Likewise, the eagerness of reviewers to review a particular paper is not a strong signal, either. No clear evidence that review quality as measured by length is lower for NeurIPS: NeurIPS is surprisingly not much different from other conferences of smaller sizes when it comes to review length. Impact of engagement in rebuttal/discussion period: Overall engagement seemed to be higher than in 2018. Although we’re sure this will not end our neverending enthusiasm in debating new reviewing models, hopefully this post can help further focus our future discussions on the topic. Alina Beygelzimer, Emily Fox, Florence d’Alché-Buc, Hugo Larochelle NeurIPS 2019 Program Chairs Tweets sent to this account are not actively monitored. To contact us please go to http://neurips.cc/Help/Contact More from Neural Information Processing Systems Conference Predicting Pokemon Battle Winner using Machine Learning Saurabh Charde in AI Enigma The Keltner Channel. A Comparison With the Bollinger Bands. Sofien Kaabar in The Startup Visualizing the Diverse World of Sake James Leung Magic Count with a BigQuery Eric Schmidt in baseballongcp MapReduce Overview Vivek Kumar Singh in System Design Blog What is the difference between training and test dataset? 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__label__cc	0.5979	0.4021	Do you "REALLY" think you will change anyone's mind on the situation that happened? Will you change their mind on gun control or not? "THINK" people.... It was the person. Not the gun. All the standard comments have been made. The only reason such tragedy happens more often in the US is due to gun culture. I truly respect people who want to own weapons for sport (rifles), but with no gun control for hand guns and automatic rifles we would continue to see such tragic events. I hope the government and the lobbyists would sincerely consider changing laws. I understand guns don't kill children, people do, but when you don't have access to guns then people can't kill innocent kids. I'm sure we have as many crazy people as any other country, but we have more such tragedies. Lets pray for the victims and support legislation to stop future tragedies. Congrats. You are officially like Afghanistan. Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, The Congo and 30 other places. See? And Obama voters were worried that America was 'exceptional'. You'e not, you're just like everyone else now. John Maroney Wake up CNN. Ryan Lanza wasn't the shooter. It was his brother, Adam Lanza. As long as people in Gunamerica have guns more scenes like these will occur,the rest of civilized countries just sit back and wait until your next tragedy happens wich is now on a pace of once a month. LogicalSense So you are saying that a gun killed Bil Laden, not a Seal Team 6 member? I am confused. While at it, ban all knives, box cutters, gasoline cans, plastic bags, rope, chain, and ban water too because people drown in it. http://www.ctnow.com/sns-rt-us-china-stabbingsbre8bd065-20121213,0,5848749.story Ignorance is bliss, right? Unfortunately, if you read news outside of the U.S. - you'll find even in countries where owning firearms is illegal – evil acts are still carried out. Even on children. All you would have to do to understand that is bother yourself with a brief search on any major internet search provider. That just shows how arrogent and ignorant you are willing to be to further an agenda you are too ill-informed to truly understand. Archyle Oh you must mean like Mexico........ in the inevitable event appeasement does not work with your enemies, soon you "civilized" country will be part of the Caliphut anyway. You are an idiot. People kill, not guns. Mr. N – You seriously think this guy targeted a school because it is flagged a gun free zone? OK even if it was NOT flagged a gun free zone...who in an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would have had a gun anyways? The teachers??? THe KIDS??? You are incredibly dumb and the poster child for people who think everyone should have guns. Wonder how it feels being a member of the NRA knowing that you're a co-conspirator in these many killings. This person learned to kill. Try violent gaming. Not the method. goingsearching For the first time since he was first elected,I actually believed Our President! His tears were real,and his speech was appropriate.I have a little more respect for him now. JORGE WASHINSEN You can not legislate sanity into anyone.No doubt there will be screaming for more gun control.Most of these nuts have been in some kind of trouble with the law before.Our jails are so full now many are turned out on the street, with never any test done on them for problems, that might lead to a tragic thing like this.The world of instant information has it's blame also. I hope, if we leave it to politicians to make the world safer,lets hope it is a different bunch than we have now making the decisions. The whole world thinks we are dumb with all these guns and I tend to agree with them!  Sorry, but Evil is Evil, and they will find a way to kill. Please explain how there were no mass murders before gun? Tell that to all the people on the middle east killed by car bombs every year, not to mention all the people who died on 9-11 and the OKC bombing. Oh yeah, I'm sure the 6.5 million people who died in the holocaust would disagree as well. Evil will always do it's deed. You Aussie's don't have your guns anymore, but America will always have ours. It's part of our heritage! Is this the result of violent gaming ? The guns were only the medium used. How many people have to die before the states change there gun laws!!! To the families of the victims, my condolensces. I knew, the second I heard this, that the politicking would begin. I live in the "bible belt" and people ridicule our value and our beliefs. Let me say that it is not access to guns, but the complete devalueing of human life that the pagan yanks and westerners in this country practice in all aspects of their existence. You say you do not have to be a believer in god to value life, but say that when a woman is pregnant they can execute their child with no consequences, and then charge someone for killing them and their unborn child....and this double standard is just one example of the utter craziness you embrace as "normal". it really is like two different countries, and the sooner it becomes two the better off both will be..You can outlaw guns and do what you like, just give us everything south of Ohio and Pennsylvania and east of Colorado...we'll do just fine... We will weap for our own! We hardly need a non-American to get online and tells us we are idiots as we are the ones that lose the most children in wars around the world trying to protect citizens of other countries from their own governements. Yes, we have holes in our gun laws, but the last time I checked Aussies can own guns as well. RT @BoutrousTed: Trump pardoning a guy indicted by the Trump Justice Department for defrauding Trump supporters over the fake Trump wall is… Inauguration Day. https://t.co/wAImmYV8uJ nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1050
__label__wiki	0.748876	0.748876	Province honours Chinese-Canadian ancestors Premier John Horgan Email: Premier@gov.bc.ca Wednesday, April 5, 2017 10:20 AM Stephen Smart Cabinet Ministers Deputy Ministers Cabinet Committees B.C. Premier Christy Clark made the following statement after a Qingming Festival ceremony today at Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery to honour Chinese ancestors and British Columbia’s Chinese community for their contributions: “Celebrated for thousands of years, the Qingming Festival is a time for families to pay respect to their ancestors by cleaning the gravesites, planting flowers and offering food. “In British Columbia, we have learned that diversity is a strength. Our rich multicultural society helps nurture acceptance, understanding and mutual respect. It’s more important than ever to continue being an example for the world. On behalf of all British Columbians, I extend my best wishes to all those celebrating Qingming – and my respects to those who came before us.” Connect with the Office of the Premier View the Office of the Premier's latest photos on Flickr. Watch the Office of the Premier's latest videos on YouTube. Listen to the Office of the Premier's latest audio clips on SoundCloud.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1052
__label__cc	0.690653	0.309347	Happy Happy Joy Joy 30 years of Ren & Stimpy Posted by officialericcrooks - August 6th, 2020 Make sure to check out the book "Sick Little Monkeys", watching the documentary "Happy Happy Joy Joy : The Ren & Stimpy Story". It’s sad that Ren & Stimpy is being seen in a negative taboo light 30 years later with the truth about John Kricfalusi being exposed and an upcoming “re-imagined” Ren & Stimpy reboot revival for adults ( Adult Party Cartoon didn’t work so please don’t do it again ) which really needs Bob Camp to take lead. I’ve been a HUGE Ren & Stimpy fan for 22 years since I discovered The Ren & Stimpy Show at Blockbuster Video rentals. And I can tell you that NOTHING made me stop loving this show. John Kricfalusi had been an open secret, he had quite a shady image even back then. John Kricfalusi was rude and bullying people who was even on his blog ( like me ). As a human being, his personal life, he’s DISGUSTING and SHOULD be deplatformed ASAP ( sign those petitions against him please ! ). However there’s a saying in art, “ Let Art Speak for itself. “ That’s why I’m still a Ren & Stimpy / early Spumco fan ( web cartoon era ) . Ren & Stimpy wasn’t just a cartoon that I watched on occasion that I laughed at. As Jim Henson and The Muppets inspired me into puppetry, Ren & Stimpy and possibly Looney Tunes as well inspired me to become a cartoonist and an animator. Also there’s an influence as a satirist, especially a dark satirist. When you find out the influences of an artist, you can see those inspirations within the art. It’s tradition. Great minds think alike ( Except John Kricfalusi’s crimes against humanity of course. ) Ren & Stimpy to me isn’t what it’s always praised to be which is “a very funny cartoon”. Sure Ren & Stimpy is that but to me, it’s also kind of like a creepy pasta Nightmare fuel horror take on Saturday Morning Cartoons. It was like this dark satirical parody of them. That’s what made it interesting in my opinion. With the new documentary on the way, I often wonder regarding John Kricfalusi as an artist. With all of those scenes with Psychopathic characters, those caricatures of mental illness psychosis and outbursts , with aggressive toxic masculine authority figures such as George Liquor or even authoritarianism / fascism / sadism in Ren Hoek himself, was it satire or was it John Kricfalusi confessing himself subconsciously / unconsciously. At least Robert Crumb can admit it with his art. John Kricfalusi would appear as a stand up comedian whenever on camera making exaggerated faces, acting in character and all, but of course behind that mask brings up the question… Characters like Ren Hoek or even Dirty Dog from Weekend Pussy Hunt, how much of those characters was a satirical caricature on authoritarianism and how much was that a part of John Kricfalusi himself. As extreme as his work and Ren & Stimpy could get, nothing compared to the true evils of the sociopathy / psychopathy / dark triad which is John Kricfalusi. John Kricfalusi may not be welcome into mainstream as well as comic cons, but he’s still on social media and he needs to be deplatformed. As for Ren & Stimpy, the legacy shall and it should live on. Especially through fans and artists inspired by the show such as myself. So even though we can learn about the show’s history from the book “Sick Little Monkeys” as well as the documentary “Happy Happy Joy Joy : The Ren & Stimpy Story “, People should have the right to enjoy the show regardless. John Kricfalusi didn’t make the show by himself, in fact he takes more credit than he should. Ren & Stimpy influenced cartoon animation, it influenced the inspiration of creative freedom when art is creator / artist driven, it was original, it’s one of the best things to come out of the 1990s and it is still loved and celebrated by fans and artists alike to this day. Happy 30th to Ren & Stimpy and everyone who worked on it ( except John Kricfalusi and any of his evil minions and yes men. ) #renandstimpy #therenandstimpyshow #renandstimpy30 #renandstimpyshow #therenandstimpyshow30 #happyhappyjoyjoy #cartoon #cartoons #animation #animator #cartoonist #art #popculture #90s #1990s #nickelodeon #Millennial #Millennials #darktriad #toxicmasculinity #narcissisticabuse #cartoonanimation #animatedcartoons #happyhappyjoyjoy30 comic-contest ren-stimpy ren-stimpy-30 ren-stimpy-show ren-stimpy-show-30 the-ren-stimpy-show the-ren-stimpy-show-30	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1055
__label__cc	0.734527	0.265473	Home / Essays / Key Documents of Liberty / 1215: Magna Carta Editions of the Magna Charta can be found in: The American Republic: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen Magna Carta: A Commentary (1914) Magna Carta: Commemoration Essays (1917) Subject Area: Law The great charter of King John, granted June 15, a.d. 1215. John, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons, Justiciaries, Foresters, Sheriffs, Governors, Officers, and to all Bailiffs, and his faithful subjects, greeting. Know ye, that we, in the presence of God, and for the salvation of our soul, and the souls of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honour of God and the advancement of Holy Church, and amendment of our Realm, by advice of our venerable Fathers, Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church; Henry, Archbishop of Dublin; William, of London; Peter, of Winchester; Jocelin, of Bath and Glastonbury; Hugh, of Lincoln; Walter, of Worcester; William, of Coventry; Benedict, of Rochester—Bishops: of Master Pandulph, Sub-Deacon and Familiar of our Lord the Pope; Brother Aymeric, Master of the Knights-Templar in England; and the noble Persons, William Marescall, Earl of Pembroke; William, Earl of Salisbury; William, Earl of Warren; William, Earl of Arundel; Alan de Galloway, Constable of Scotland; Warin FitzGerald, Peter FitzHerbert, and Hubert de Burgh, Seneschal of Poitou; Hugh de Neville, Matthew FitzHerbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip of Albiney, Robert de Roppell, John Mareschal, John FitzHugh, and others, our liegemen, have, in the first place, granted to God, and by this our present Charter confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever: 1. Rights of the church. That the Church of England shall be free, and have her whole rights, and her liberties inviolable; and we will have them so observed that it may appear thence that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned chief and indispensable to the English Church, and which we granted and confirmed by our Charter, and obtained the confirmation of the same from our Lord and Pope Innocent III, before the discord between us and our barons, was granted of mere free will; which Charter we shall observe, and we do will it to be faithfully observed by our heirs for ever. 2. Grant of liberty to freemen. We also have granted to all the freemen of our kingdom, for us and for our heirs for ever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and holden by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs for ever: If any of our earls, or barons, or others, who hold of us in chief by military service, shall die, and at the time of his death his heir shall be of full age, and owe a relief, he shall have his inheritance by the ancient relief—that is to say, the heir or heirs of an earl, for a whole earldom, by a hundred pounds; the heir or heirs of a baron, for a whole barony, by a hundred pounds; their heir or heirs of a knight, for a whole knight’s fee, by a hundred shillings at most; and whoever oweth less shall give less according to the ancient custom of fees. . . . 12. No tax (scutage) except by the general council. No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom, unless by the general council of our kingdom; except for ransoming our person, making our eldest son a knight, and once for marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall be paid no more than a reasonable aid. In like manner it shall be concerning the aids of the City of London. 13. Liberties of London and other towns. And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore, we will and grant that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs. 14. General council shall consent to assessment of taxes. And for holding the general council of the kingdom concerning the assessment of aids, except in the three cases aforesaid, and for the assessing of scutages, we shall cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters, and furthermore, we shall cause to be summoned generally, by our sheriffs and bailiffs, all others who hold of us in chief, for a certain day, that is to say, forty days before their meeting at least, and to a certain place; and in all letters of such summons we will declare the cause of such summons, and, summons being thus made the business shall proceed on the day appointed, according to the advice of such as shall be present, although all that were summoned come not. . . . 17. Courts shall administer justice in a fixed place. Common pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be holden in some place certain. 18. Land disputes shall be tried in their proper counties. Trials upon the Writs of Novel Disseisin, and of Mort d’ancestor, and of Darrein Presentment, shall not be taken but in their proper counties, and after this manner: We, or if we should be out of the realm, our chief justiciary, will send two justiciaries through every county four times a year, who, with four knights of each county, chosen by the county, shall hold the said assizes in the county, on the day, and at the place appointed. 19. Keeping the assize courts open. And if any matters cannot be determined on the day appointed for holding the assizes in each county, so many of the knights and freeholders as have been at the assizes aforesaid shall stay to decide them as is necessary, according as there is more or less business. 20. Fines against freemen to be measured by the offense. A freeman shall not be amerced for a small offence, but only according to the degree of the offence; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contentment; and after the same manner a merchant, saving to him his merchandise. And a villein shall be amerced after the same manner, saving to him his wainage, if he falls under our mercy; and none of the aforesaid amerciaments shall be assessed but by the oath of honest men in the neighbourhood. 21. Same for nobles. Earls and barons shall not be amerced but by their peers, and after the degree of the offence. 22. Same for clergymen. No ecclesiastical person shall be amerced for his tenement, but according to the proportion of the others aforesaid, and not according to the value of his ecclesiastical benefice. 23. Neither a town nor any tenant shall be distrained to make bridges or embankments, unless that anciently and of right they are bound to do it. 24. No sheriff, constable, coroner, or other of our bailiffs, shall hold “Pleas of the Crown.” 25. All counties, hundreds, wapentakes, and trethings, shall stand at the old rents, without any increase, except in our demesne manors. 26. If any one holding of us a lay fee die, and the sheriff, or our bailiffs, show our letters patent of summons for debt which the dead man did owe to us, it shall be lawful for the sheriff or our bailiff to attach and register the chattels of the dead, found upon his lay fee, to the amount of the debt, by the view of lawful men, so as nothing be removed until our whole clear debt be paid; and the rest shall be left to the executors to fulfil the testament of the dead; and if there be nothing due from him to us, all the chattels shall go to the use of the dead, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares. 27. If any freeman shall die intestate, his chattels shall be distributed by the hands of his nearest relations and friends, by view of the Church, saving to every one his debts which the deceased owed to him. 28. Compensation for the taking of private property. No constable or bailiff of ours shall take corn or other chattels of any man unless he presently give him money for it, or hath respite of payment by the good-will of the seller. 29. No constable shall distrain any knight to give money for castle-guard, if he himself will do it in his person, or by another able man, in case he cannot do it through any reasonable cause. And if we have carried or sent him into the army, he shall be free from such guard for the time he shall be in the army by our command. 30. No taking of horses or carts without consent. No sheriff or bailiff of ours, or any other, shall take horses or carts of any freeman for carriage, without the assent of the said freeman. 31. No taking of trees for timber without consent. Neither shall we nor our bailiffs take any man’s timber for our castles or other uses, unless by the consent of the owner of the timber. 32. We will retain the lands of those convicted of felony only one year and a day, and then they shall be delivered to the lord of the fee. 33. All kydells (wears) for the time to come shall be put down in the rivers of Thames and Medway, and throughout all England, except upon the seacoast. 34. The writ which is called proecipe, for the future, shall not be made out to any one, of any tenement, whereby a freeman may lose his court. 35. Uniform weights and measures. There shall be one measure of wine and one of ale through our whole realm; and one measure of corn, that is to say, the London quarter; and one breadth of dyed cloth, and russets, and haberjects, that is to say, two ells within the lists; and it shall be of weights as it is of measures. 36. Nothing from henceforth shall be given or taken for a writ of inquisition of life or limb, but it shall be granted freely, and not denied. 37. If any do hold of us by fee-farm, or by socage, or by burgage, and he hold also lands of any other by knight’s service, we will have the custody of the heir or land, which is holden of another man’s fee by reason of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage; neither will we have the custody of the fee-farm, or socage, or burgage, unless knight’s service was due to us out of the same fee-farm. We will not have the custody of an heir, nor of any land which he holds of another by knight’s service, by reason of any petty serjeanty by which he holds of us, by the service of paying a knife, an arrow, or the like. 38. No bailiff from henceforth shall put any man to his law upon his own bare saying, without credible witnesses to prove it. 39. Guarantee of judgment by one’s peers and of proceedings according to the “law of the land.” No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. 40. Guarantee of equal justice (equality before the law). We will sell to no man, we will not deny or delay to any man, either justice or right. 41. Freedom of movement for merchants. All merchants shall have safe and secure conduct, to go out of, and to come into England, and to stay there and to pass as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and allowed customs, without any unjust tolls; except in time of war, or when they are of any nation at war with us. And if there be found any such in our land, in the beginning of the war, they shall be attached, without damage to their bodies or goods, until it be known unto us, or our chief justiciary, how our merchants be treated in the nation at war with us; and if ours be safe there, the others shall be safe in our dominions. 42. Freedom to leave and reenter the kingdom. It shall be lawful, for the time to come, for any one to go out of our kingdom, and return safely and securely by land or by water, saving his allegiance to us; unless in time of war, by some short space, for the common benefit of the realm, except prisoners and outlaws, according to the law of the land, and people in war with us, and merchants who shall be treated as is above mentioned. 43. If any man hold of any escheat as of the honour of Wallingford, Nottingham, Boulogne, Lancaster, or of other escheats which be in our hands, and are baronies, and die, his heir shall give no other relief, and perform no other service to us than he would to the baron, if it were in the baron’s hand; and we will hold it after the same manner as the baron held it. 44. Those men who dwell without the forest from henceforth shall not come before our justiciaries of the forest, upon common summons, but such as are impleaded, or as sureties for any that are attached for something concerning the forest. 45. Appointment of those who know the law. We will not make any justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs, but of such as know the law of the realm and mean duly to observe it. 46. All barons who have founded abbeys, which they hold by charter from the kings of England, or by ancient tenure, shall have the keeping of them, when vacant, as they ought to have. 47. All forests that have been made forests in our time shall forthwith be disforested; and the same shall be done with the water-banks that have been fenced in by us in our time. 48. All evil customs concerning forests, warrens, foresters, and warreners, sheriffs and their officers, water-banks and their keeper, shall forthwith be inquired into in each county, by twelve sworn knights of the same county chosen by creditable persons of the same county; and within forty days after the said inquest be utterly abolished, so as never to be restored: so as we are first acquainted therewith, or our justiciary, if we should not be in England. 49. We will immediately give up all hostages and charters delivered unto us by our English subjects, as securi-ties for their keeping the peace, and yielding us faithful service. 50. We will entirely remove from their bailiwicks the relations of Gerard de Atheyes, so that for the future they shall have no bailiwick in England; we will also remove from their bailiwicks the relations of Gerard de Atheyes, so that for the future they shall have no bailiwick in England; we will also remove Engelard de Cygony, Andrew, Peter, and Gyon, from the Chancery; Gyon de Cygony, Geoffrey de Martyn, and his brothers; Philip Mark, and his brothers, and his nephew, Geoffrey, and their whole retinue. 51. As soon as peace is restored, we will send out of the kingdom all foreign knights, cross-bowmen, and stipendiaries, who are come with horses and arms to the molestation of our people. 52. If any one has been dispossessed or deprived by us, without the lawful judgment of his peers, of his lands, castles, liberties, or rights, we will forthwith restore them to him; and if any dispute arise upon this head, let the matter be decided by the five-and-twenty barons hereafter mentioned, for the preservation of the peace. And for all those things of which any person has, without the lawful judgment of his peers, been dispossessed or deprived, either by our father King Henry, or our brother King Richard, and which we have in our hands, or are possessed by others, and we are bound to warrant and make good, we shall have a respite till the term usually allowed the crusaders; excepting those things about which there is a plea depending, or whereof an inquest hath been made, by our order before we undertook the crusade; but as soon as we return from our expedition, or if perchance we tarry at home and do not make our expedition, we will immediately cause full justice to be administered therein. 53. The same respite we shall have, and in the same manner, about administering justice, disafforesting or letting continue the forests, which Henry our father, and our brother Richard, have afforested; and the same concerning the wardship of the lands which are in another’s fee, but the wardship of which we have hitherto had, by reason of a fee held of us by knight’s service; and for the abbeys founded in other fee than our own, in which the lord of the fee says he has a right; and when we return from our expedition, or if we tarry at home, and do not make our expedition, we will immediately do full justice to all the complainants in this behalf. 54. No man shall be taken or imprisoned upon the appeal of a woman, for the death of any other than her husband. 55. All unjust and illegal fines made by us, and all amerciaments imposed unjustly and contrary to the law of the land, shall be entirely given up, or else be left to the decision of the five-and-twenty barons hereafter mentioned for the preservation of the peace, or of the major part of them, together with the foresaid Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and others whom he shall think fit to invite; and if he cannot be present, the business shall notwithstanding go on without him; but so that if one or more of the aforesaid five-and-twenty barons be plaintiffs in the same cause, they shall be set aside as to what concerns this particular affair, and others be chosen in their room, out of the said five-and-twenty, and sworn by the rest to decide the matter. 56. If we have disseised or dispossessed the Welsh of any lands, liberties, or other things, without the legal judgment of their peers, either in England or in Wales, they shall be immediately restored to them; and if any dispute arise upon this head, the matter shall be determined in the Marches by the judgment of their peers; for tenements in England according to the law of England, for tenements in Wales according to the law of Wales, for tenements of the Marches according to the law of the Marches: the same shall the Welsh do to us and our subjects. 57. As for all those things of which a Welshman hath, without the lawful judgment of his peers, been disseised or deprived of by King Henry our father, or our brother King Richard, and which we either have in our hands or others are possessed of, and we are obliged to warrant it, we shall have a respite till the time generally allowed the crusaders; excepting those things about which a suit is depending, or whereof an inquest has been made by our order, before we undertook the crusade: but when we return, or if we stay at home without performing our expedition, we will immediately do them full justice, according to the laws of the Welsh and of the parts before mentioned. 58. We will without delay dismiss the son of Llewellin, and all the Welsh hostages, and release them from the engagements they have entered into with us for the preservation of the peace. 59. We will treat with Alexander, King of Scots, concerning the restoring of his sisters and hostages, and his right and liberties, in the same form and manner as we shall do to the rest of our barons of England; unless by the charters which we have from his father, William, late King of Scots, it ought to be otherwise; and this shall be left to the determination of his peers in our court. 60. Liberties to be granted to all subjects. All the foresaid customs and liberties, which we have granted to be holden in our kingdom, as much as it belongs to us, all people of our kingdom, as well clergy as laity, shall observe, as far as they are concerned, towards their dependents. 61. Oath to observe rights of the church and the people. And whereas, for the honour of God and the amendment of our kingdom, and for the better quieting the discord that has arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these things aforesaid; willing to render them firm and lasting, we do give and grant our subjects the underwritten security, namely, that the barons may choose five-and-twenty barons of the kingdom, whom they think convenient; who shall take care, with all their might, to hold and observe, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted them, and by this our present Charter confirmed in this manner; that is to say, that if we, our justiciary, our bailiffs, or any of our officers, shall in any circumstance have failed in the performance of them towards any person, or shall have broken through any of these articles of peace and security, and the offence be notified to four barons chosen out of the five-and-twenty before mentioned, the said four barons shall repair to us, or our justiciary, if we are out of the realm, and, laying open the grievance, shall petition to have it redressed without delay: and if it be not redressed by us, or if we should chance to be out of the realm, if it should not be redressed by our justiciary within forty days, reckoning from the time it been notified to us, or to our justiciary (if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall lay the cause before the rest of the five-and-twenty barons; and the said five-and-twenty barons, together with the community of the whole kingdom, shall distrain and distress us in all the ways in which they shall be able, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other manner they can, till the grievance is redressed, according to their pleasure; saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our Queen and children; and when it is redressed, they shall behave to us as before. And any person whatsoever in the king-dom may swear that he will obey the orders of the five-and-twenty barons aforesaid in the execution of the premises, and will distress us, jointly with them, to the utmost of his power; and we give public and free liberty to any one that shall please to swear to this, and never will hinder any person from taking the same oath. 62. As for all those of our subjects who will not, of their own accord, swear to join the five-and-twenty barons in distraining and distressing us, we will issue orders to make them take the same oath as aforesaid. And if any one of the five-and-twenty barons dies, or goes out of the kingdom, or is hindered any other way from carrying the things aforesaid into execution, the rest of the said five-and-twenty barons may choose another in his room, at their discretion, who shall be sworn in like manner as the rest. In all things that are committed to the execution of these five-and-twenty barons, if, when they are all assembled about any matter, and some of them, when summoned, will not or cannot come, whatever is agreed upon, or enjoined, by the major part of those that are present shall be reputed as firm and valid as if all the five-and-twenty had given their consent; and the aforesaid five-and-twenty shall swear that all the premises they shall faithfully observe, and cause with all their power to be observed. And we will procure nothing from any one, by ourselves nor by another, whereby any of these concessions and liberties may be revoked or lessened; and if any such thing shall have been obtained, let it be null and void; neither will we ever make use of it either by ourselves or any other. And all the ill-will, indignations, and rancours that have arisen between us and our subjects, of the clergy and laity, from the first breaking out of the dissensions between us, we do fully remit and forgive: moreover, all trespasses occasioned by the said dissensions, from Easter in the sixteenth year of our reign till the restoration of peace and tranquility, we hereby entirely remit to all, both clergy and laity, and as far as in us lies do fully forgive. We have, moreover, caused to be made for them the letters patent testimonial of Stephen, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry, Lord Archbishop of Dublin, and the bishops aforesaid, as also of Master Pandulph, for the security and concessions aforesaid. 63. Wherefore we will and firmly enjoin, that the Church of England be free, and that all men in our kingdom have and hold all the aforesaid liberties, rights, and concessions, truly and peaceably, freely and quietly, fully and wholly to themselves and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all things and places, for ever, as is aforesaid. It is also sworn, as well on our part as on the part of the barons, that all the things aforesaid shall be observed in good faith, and without evil subtilty. Given under our hand, in the presence of the witnesses above named, and many others, in the meadow called Runingmede, between Windsor and Staines, the 15th day of June, in the 17th year of the reign.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1062
__label__wiki	0.644246	0.644246	SEARCH BY AGENT Donna Olshan Cynthia W. Crowley Jennifer M. Stutz Barbara Riccardi Emily Chen Nathalie Corro Caroline Mitchell Fitzgibbons OLSHAN LUXURY MARKET REPORT Fill in your address below to receive this regular report via email NYC Residential Real Estate Luxury Tracking Scoreboard Apartments and Townhouses under Contract $4 million and above October 17-23, 2011: 14 Contracts Signed There were 14 contracts signed last week-- the strongest week in the luxury market in almost 4 months. Perhaps the recent strength in the Dow had something to do with it. Five townhouse/buildings went to contract including one that once belonged to a legendary photographer. There was a tie for the No. 1 sale of the week, with two apartments at opposite ends of town asking $17.5 million. One is a 26th floor co-op at the Carlyle Hotel, the other an 11th floor condo at 400 West 12th Street. Apartment 2601/2610 at 35 East 76th Street, The Carlyle, has 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, hotel amenities including twice daily maid service, and a monthly maintenance of $37,946. Apartment 11AB at 400 West 12th Street, The Superior Ink Condominium, also has 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths, plus a 30' media room that could be converted to a 5th bedroom, but its $4,570 monthly carrying charges are a lot less than the Carlyle co-op's. The Carlyle apartment has 60-feet facing Central Park while the Superior Ink Condo unit has almost 50-feet facing the Hudson River. The Superior Ink is the most expensive downtown condo building, and was designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg . Stern's other building, at 15 Central Park West, is the No.1 condo in New York and perhaps the world. The last two weeks have shown the strongest volume this year for townhouses/buildings with 9 contracts signed. The top townhouse sale of the week was 317 West 77th Street, asking $12,999,000, which represented a whopping profit for the seller: it was purchased for $3.8 million in March 2010 and then renovated. It is 19' wide and 6 stories, with over 7,000 square feet that includes 6 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, and an elevator. The other townhouse news is that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's half brother, Olivier Sarkozy, sold 407 East 75th Street, previously owned by the late photographer Richard Avedon. The 25' house with 8,475 square feet, asking $8,995,000, was reduced from $11,950,000 when it started on the market in May 2010. Sarkozy, a Managing Director and head of Global Financial Services for The Carlyle Group, purchased the house in 2005 for $6.5 million, which he renovated but left Avedon's dark room in tact. NYC Luxury Tracking Scoreboard: Sales $4 Million and Above Asking $/sq.ft. Avg. Price: $3,858/sq.ft. Avg. Size : 2,661 sq.ft. Condops * Avg. Price: $1,406 sq.ft. Avg. Size: 6,398 sq.ft. *condop is a co-op with condo rules Total Weekly Asking Price Sales Volume: $131,222,000 Average Asking Price: $9,373,000 Median Asking Price: $8,164,000 Average Discount from Original Ask to Last Asking Price: 9% Average Days on Market: 312 TO VIEW October 17-23, 2011: 9 CONTRACTS SIGNED ON APARTMENTS: Please click here to view the listings. If that doesn't work, please copy and paste the following address into your browser. Alternatively, you can Press Control and Click on the link below: http://media.realplusonline.com/webreports/11122336aca5f5.htm To VIEW October 17-23, 1011: 5 CONTRACTS ON TOWNHOUSES: http://media.realplusonline.com/webreports/1112225d7a3b22.htm Report Prepared by: Donna Olshan dso@olshan.com Private Wealth Real Estate Services Chief of Research ecc@olshan.com CLICK HERE TO VIEW PAST MARKET REPORTS.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1063
__label__cc	0.72069	0.27931	The Hemingway App and Writing Clear Online Content by Dimitris Polychronopoulos The other day I wrote an article for an online publication. After having published more than a dozen articles with them, suddenly one of my posts didn’t meet the publication’s standards. I needed to go back and make it more readable. The chief suggested I use the Hemingway App to clean up the article. So downloaded the Hemingway App to my computer. Then I cut and pasted in the article. The app said that I was writing for Grade 12 and that I had a lot of sentences that were very hard to read. Before long, I improved the readability of the article so an eighth grader could understand it. In the context of helping somebody make an article more readable for online publication, the Hemingway app seems to do the job. Yoast published a compelling article explaining why online content should be clear and easy to read, from a standpoint of search engine optimisation. In this context the Hemingway app helped fix the problem. In other contexts, we would be better off with a human proofreader, especially for academic papers and literary works. Criteria of the Hemingway App So what are the criteria that the Hemingway app uses and how did it help me bring my article from a Grade 12 to a Grade 8 reading level? The Hemingway app uses an algorithm with the following measurements: adverbs, passive voice, simple phrases, hard-to-read sentences, and very hard-to-read sentences. Adverbs should be limited to about one per 100 words or so. The app also seeks to limit usage of the passive voice to once every 100 words. As for the other three measurements, the Hemingway App counts them up and suggests that we eliminate verbosity and long sentences where possible. Just for fun, I tried to use it for Portuguese and Greek to see what would happen. If we use the app in a language that uses Latin script, it will still show which sentences are hard to read and which are very hard to read. The Hemingway app seems to be able to determine how difficult sentences are to read based on the number of words in a sentence. If you don’t use it for English, it won’t feature adverbs, passive voice or simpler alternatives. When I tried it for one of my Greek articles, it must have been all Greek to the app. Nothing at all registered. Hemingway App and the Jabberwocky Using the Hemingway app, Simon Ager tried the Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. So I also tried the 167-word poem, which includes many made-up words. One of those words, galumph, is now in the dictionary as a combination of ‘gallop and triumph’. Two other words, borogove and uffish, have made it into urban dictionaries. A borogove is a ‘shabby-looking bird with feathers sticking up all around’. Uffish is grumpy. The other made-up words never gained such status. Words such as: brillig, slithy, mome, outgrabe, toves, gimble, and wabe. Despite my calculation that about 12% of the vocabulary in the Jabberwocky is made up, the Hemingway app gave the piece a Grade One reading level. Clearly the Hemingway app’s algorithm doesn’t pick up whether vocabulary is made-up or real. Some, including Ian Crouch of the New Yorker, have already reviewed the Hemingway app with Hemingway’s prose and concluded that there are times when Hemingway, along with the rest of us, should use adverbs and passive voice. The Hemingway app isn’t suggesting we ban them altogether. The Hemingway seems more suitable for articles that are trying to please Google. On the Internet, if people find something hard to read, they won’t stay on the page. They will click an article away and move on to something else. Now that I’ve discovered the Hemingway app, I returned to one of my previous posts to see whether I could improve the readability of any of the articles in English on my website yozzi.com. I also wondered how the Hemingway app scale would compare to Yoast’s scale. An example of before and after Hemingway app Take a look at these two articles on humour in foreign languages. The first article is after the Hemingway app. When you scroll down the page, you will see the second article is the original before I discovered the app. Yoast showed the readability of the article before using the Hemingway app to be ‘difficult’, while after using the Hemingway app, the article was listed as ‘OK’. With the Hemingway app, I wrote the article with shorter, simpler sentences and used fewer words for the entire article. The original article was 942 words. The revision was 901 words. The original article had only 43 sentences, of which eight were hard to read and 16 were very hard to read. The revision had 67 sentences of which 11 were hard to read and only three were very hard to read. Despite the weaknesses of the Hemingway app’s algorithm, as a polyglot who writes articles on the Internet in several languages, I’d love to have a version of the Hemingway app for other languages. Where is the Voltaire app? Show me the Cervantes app. As it turns out there are several reviews of the Hemingway app in different languages, but there is so far no equivalent of the Hemingway app in these languages. So I checked with the developers, brothers Adam and Ben Long. Adam responded that they are working on other languages. What other languages have to say about the Hemingway App Here is what some have said about the Hemingway App in different languages: Lemonde reviewed the app and tested a paragraph of Hemingway’s writing on the app. The paragraph consisted of 146 words. They found it to be rated Grade 7, which is ‘good’ readability. It still had three adverbs (zero would have been the ideal) and one very difficult to read sentence. An extra ‘adverb’ was included, since somehow the app concluded that ‘I think’ was an adverb! An audio books blog reviewed the Hemingway app in Italian. There example shows the problems areas of a sample text highlighted in different colours and categorised. This post on Medium shows the same sample text in the Hemingway app as the Italian blog. The author suggests the need to develop a version of the app for the Norwegian market. The author writes that journalists, writers, real estate agencies and business people would benefit the most from such an app. This post in Spanish doesn’t add anything new to explanations already mentioned in French, Italian and Norwegian. It’s fun to read the Facebook comments after the article though, since everybody seems to want a Spanish version. So it’s no surprise that on Quora: somebody asked about any versions of the Hemingway app for Spanish. The alternative suggested is be a Quora user is https://spanishchecker.com On my blog post about writing Spanish better, I suggest Language Tool. Now that I know about Spanish Checker, which I just looked at for the first time, I will give it a go. As I look into tools for Spanish further, I discovered My Stylus and Pro Writing Aid as well. Javier Peñas writes a review of all four Spanish writing tools on his website. In a poor choice of background and font colour, Pedro Costa writes about the Hemingway app in Portuguese. My favourite part of the page is the comment below reading: Olá! Está muito ruim de ler o seu texto! Esse fundo cinza com o branco é péssimo para a leitura, não consegui terminar de ler porque meus olhos começaram a doer. Fica essa sugestão, caso queira que seus leitores voltem para o blog. Indeed I also had a terrible time looking at the text, but at least managed to read the entire post. Pedro links to a fun analysis of the Hemingway app by Mark Lieberman. He goes beyond LeMonde’s test, by putting several pieces of Hemingway’s prose through the test, as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose. He concludes the app is nonsense, since these famous authors do not necessarily score well with the app. In the comments, we read how others say the point of the app is to help people write clear marketing and technical texts. My opinion is that it is all about balance. When we write, we should be humble enough to admit that we can be guilty of verbosity. There are times to be terse. There are times to be colourful. This post in Chinese suggests a variety of tools to help inspire writers and help them organise. It mentions Buzzsumo, Web Clipper, Blinkist, Evernote, Hemingway and Grammarly. The article doesn’t go into too much detail. It says that anything beyond Grade 10 reading level is likely to lose readers on the Internet. As it turns out, I didn’t find a Greek review of the Hemingway app. So I decided to write one myself. Greek speakers, please take a look and let me know what you think. Don’t leave out the Human Proofreader In conclusion, while I feel the Hemingway app is helpful for writing clear web content, I still feel a human proofreader is vital as well. How about you? Have you used the Hemingway app before? What are your thoughts about it? How do you feel the algorithm could be improved? Do you feel the criteria used are valid? Do you know of other apps to help you improve your writing skills? Do you know of any methods that can compete with the Hemingway app in other languages? Any guesses as to the readability of this article? The Hemingway app scores it at the 7th grade.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1065
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__label__cc	0.727852	0.272148	Open Institute Our Value System Responsive Government Open County Subnational Citizen Engagement Open Extractives Community Monitoring Code4Kenya Launch Below the speech delivered by Jay Bhalla, Executive Director of The Open Institute Trust, during the Code4Kenya Launch Event held on the 24th of January 2013. A very good morning to everyone. It’s been slightly over a year and a half since Kenya embarked on its ambitious Open Data Initiative. At the time there were great hopes for the initiative from various quarters. Government Agencies, Civil Society and especially the Developer community. This was going to be the key to unlocking the creation of sustainable applications and applications that would create great impact from solving problems faced by community groups the common citizens to creating profitable business and creating employment for our youth. Unfortunately this did not happen or at least did not happen to a level that equalled the much excitement the initiative received both locally and globally. While we can attribute this to various challenges ranging from resource challenges faced by government in training and marketing the initiative, to challenges of getting government agencies to release data to inadequate legal policy and mechanisms in place in the release of data or to a developer community that though skilled, enterprising and enthusiastic may have lacked the skills to visualize and mine the data or organization both corporate and non-corporate who simple just did not understand what this open data business was all about. I personally think the main challenge was brokering the right partnerships by bringing some or all of these groups together and working towards finding opportunities or finding the challenges that would create opportunities around data. Not necessarily Govt. Data. We must give credit to the Govt for being a catalyst in releasing data even though more can be done but Open Data is not just Govt. Data. I believe it is about putting resources behind initiatives that act as catalysts in the open data and governance space. This is where I believe the Code4Kenya Pilot Program has played that catalytic role. A 6 month program where 4 fellows are embedded as change agents in 3 media and one civil society Organization backed by 4 software developers that over the period of the program were able to change the mindset of these organizations to show them the value of data both outside and within their organizations. I am not going to take the thunder away from the real stars of this program the fellows and developers, I will let them tell their stories and speak of their achievements I will say this though, for a pilot program the achievements have been exceptional be it with challenges mostly around getting access to data. Organizations are brokering partnerships and creating new business and revenue models. There are many lessons learned and we look forward to improving the next code4kenya. I would also like to congratulate the host organizations for taking a chance on this program and encourage them to invest in the applications that have been built and build on the enthusiasm that has been created within their organizations. I hope the other organizations present here today will be inspired to partner, fund, and be part of the next code4kenya fellowship program. As the open institute we are proud to be the implementing agents and project managers for the Code4Kenya Pilot Program and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the two organizations with which this would not be possible the Africa Media Initiative and the World Bank for having the vision in creating and financing this program. Enjoy the Presentations thank you very much. Hot industry news & trends More useful articles Welcome to the Open Institute Website The Power of Open: my reflections Thoughts from NDI Conference: Open Data & Elections Open Africa Summit – Beyond the Hype Sommet Open d’Afrique – Zanzibar October 6-9, 2012 Open Up 2012: Jay Bhalla succinctly tells the OI story GotToVote! A way to bring Open Data to the ground Lessons from KODI: Completing the Job GotToVote SMS Widget hello@openinstitute.com MAIN OFFICE LOCATION 209 State House Road, P.O Box 50474, Nairobi 00100, Kenya The Open Institute Trust “ The Open Institute Trust” is a registered Trust in the Republic of Kenya, No, 1763/1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1070
__label__wiki	0.786724	0.786724	E3 2019 Information Page E3 News 2019 E3 2019 Screens E3 2019 Trailers E3 2019 Hands On and Previews Retro Wrap-Up eShop Reviews Anime of the Past Crowdfunding Spotlight Jeff’s Musings Operation Rainfall Origins Publisher Spotlight Smashing Saturdays About oprainfall Contact Us / Tips Nintendo Download for 12/17/2020 Tales of Series Gets Its Own YouTube Channel AT&T Sells Crunchyroll to Funimation Global Group E3 Info Page Anime of the Past: Kimagure Orange Road Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 Wish List Majikoi! on Steam Today! Look for us on OpenCritic! Great Physical Editions at Physicality Games! Check out our friends across the pond at Visual-Novel.info We are proudly a Play-Asia Partner SUPPORT OPRAINFALL BY TURNING OFF ADBLOCK Ads support the website by covering server and domain costs. We're just a group of gamers here, like you, doing what we love to do: playing video games and bringing y'all niche goodness. So, if you like what we do and want to help us out, make an exception by turning off AdBlock for our website. In return, we promise to keep intrusive ads, such as pop-ups, off oprainfall. Thanks, everyone! By Justin Graham / September 25th, 2013 Kimagure Orange Road is a romantic comedy television series that originally aired from 1987 to 1988 with a total of forty-eight episodes. Produced by Studio Pierrot, the series, based on Izumi Matsumoto’s manga, is a classic love triangle story of a teenage boy whose attentions are drawn between two girls. But there’s something highly unconventional about the boy in question. And yet, he looks so unassuming. Series protagonist Kyosuke Kasuga, a fifteen-year-old student, is an ESPer. Born with special mental powers inherited from his deceased mother, he can perform a variety of acts that a normal person would never be capable of. But the rarity of such powers means that his family has to keep them a secret. Something that hasn’t always been successful, particularly when he also has two younger sisters, the twins Kurumi and Manami, who also have the same powers. And each time their powers have been discovered, they’ve been forced to pack up and move somewhere else in an attempt to start over. Indeed. Kyosuke poses with his younger sisters Kurumi and Manami for their father, a professional photographer. At his new school, Kyosuke quickly becomes infatuated with another student, Madoka Ayukawa; a beautiful girl that can fluctuate from cold and distant to warm and welcoming seemingly at the drop of a hat. But in turn, he also catches the attention of Madoka’s friend Hikaru Hiyama, a bubbly, energetic girl that falls head over heels for him to the point that she commonly refers to him with the English pet name of “Darling.” Caught between the two girls, Kyosuke is forced to navigate awkward teenage life while keeping the family secret. Madoka Ayukawa is warm and friendly when Kyosuke first meets her, but later shows a much different side. Hikaru Hiyama, meanwhile, forms a crush on Kyosuke from almost the word go. Unlike some other television series that have been profiled in this column like Serial Experiments Lain, there really isn’t a strong narrative underpinning events from one episode to the next. The love triangle between Kyosuke, Madoka and Hikaru is the driving force of the show, and by necessity, it’s kept alive through a series of absurd twists and the occasional touch of ESP. If it were to be resolved, then the series would be over. Without a strong serialized narrative, the show falls into a fairly standard pattern of episodic plots. Odd misunderstandings and ESP shenanigans are often the order of the day. And sometimes, there are both at once, such as in the episodes where Kyosuke inadvertently hypnotizes himself, causing his behavior to change from his normal, mild-mannered demeanor into a suave jerk, or perhaps just a jerk. Such escapes are generally resolved in the closing minutes, often to Kyosuke’s embarrassment and confusion. He even time-slips in one episode to stop his hypnotized jerk-self. While Kimagure Orange Road does fall into some of the pits that affect sitcoms, like repeating plot devices, the way that the series executes always keeps things entertaining. Kyosuke, for all of his bumbling, is sympathetic; he has a girl he likes, but there’s a girl that likes him. Is it better to keep pursuing Madoka, who at times seems completely unattainable, or to be more serious in his relationship with Hikaru, who at times can’t be detached from his arm? Though the series does reach a satisfying conclusion, one that involves time travel, memories, and some very dramatic twists, the ultimate question, Madoka or Hikaru, is left unresolved. The final answer wasn’t revealed until the 1988 feature film that brought the series to its true conclusion. Of course, the answer to who Kyosuke ends up with probably wouldn’t surprise most people. Or would it? Not exactly a rock and a hard place, but Kyosuke’s position between the two is often awkward. The Japanese word “Kimagure” can be translated as whimsical, which is truly the best way to describe the tone of the series and the behavior of its characters. There is indeed a very light-hearted whimsy to the series, with Kyosuke encountering obstacles that are, more often than not, farcical, and sometimes outright ridiculous. It’s also descriptive of the way that Madoka tends to shift moods, going from caring to kick-ass and back again. This unfortunate delinquent is learning why you don’t piss Madoka off. The show’s art style is rather standard for anime of the era, but the character designs are all great, suitably matching their respective personalities. Madoka in particular looks natural, warm or cold, while Hikaru has a more innocent look to match the intense strength of her affection for Kyosuke. Kyosuke himself has an everyman appearance; plain without being bland, he’s a nice guy that’s perhaps a bit too indecisive for his own good. Though viewers will undoubtedly come to favor either Madoka or Hikaru as Kyosuke’s love interest, Kyosuke himself is a likeable guy. He’s just trying to live life honestly and finds himself in one awkward situation after another, from undergoing a body-swap with his bratty young ESPer cousin to taking his sister Manami out on a date. Yes, a date. Yes, that actually happens. The context as to how and why is a bit too much to get into here. There are certainly some flat episodes and some gags that repeat a bit too often, but overall, Kimagure Orange Road is a classic series of the 1980s. Light, breezy, and goofy, its cast holds well together and provide consistent laughs. Kyosuke’s love foibles are entertaining to watch, and the nostalgic charm of the show never lets up. Kimagure Orange Road was released on DVD in North America by AnimEigo. The release features the original Japanese with English subtitles. No English dub was produced. The series is not rated, but features adult humor and situations. About Justin Graham Justin joined Oprainfall through…belligerence. (Note to others: This is not a good way to get noticed. This sort of thing only works once.) When he’s not writing about games or waxing nostalgic about anime older than a large portion of the site’s audience, he can be found playing JRPGs or beating up lots of dudes in Dynasty Warriors. 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__label__cc	0.704746	0.295254	Tel 020 8441 2605 or 01442 232272 \| Contact us Joint Mortgages Buy to Let/Let to Buy Specialist Mortgages Protecting Yourself Protecting Your Income Protecting Yourselfadmin2016-02-14T18:41:31+00:00 Critical illness cover pays out a tax-free lump sum to policyholders if, during the term of the policy, they are diagnosed with one of a number of specified ‘critical’ illnesses or conditions, such as: cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, paralysis following a heart attack or stroke, or HIV/AIDS as a result of a blood transfusion. Each Insurance Company has a list of prescribed illnesses and conditions that they offer to policy holders at the outset. These conditions are stipulated in the policy document. Critical illness is, in the first instance, paid out as a living benefit and is usually paid if policyholders survive for a pre-determined period from the date they were first diagnosed with the claimable condition. The time lag for accepting a claim is normally 15 days after first diagnosis. Some plans build in an extra layer, whereby if the claimant dies up to 30 days after diagnosis the proceeds are not then part of the deceased estate. To achieve this the correct split trust needs to be set up, so that the insurance company can pay the proceeds direct to the appointed beneficiary. These factors should be an important consideration of all policy holders in tandem with estate planning. Critical illness policies are often combined with general life assurance policies, and can be written for one person or on a ‘joint life’ basis, i.e. for two people. We would usually never recommend a joint policy as a claim will lead to a pay out to one of the lives assured, but then the policy will have ‘matured’ and there will be no cover in place for the second life assured. There is no investment element to a critical illness policy. How much CIC do I need? As always, this depends on your individual circumstances and goals. For example, if you are taking out the policy to ensure your home is protected, you clearly need to have a policy big enough to pay off your mortgage. However, critical illness payments are often used to convert people’s homes after a serious illness, e.g. the addition of a stair lift, wider doors or a downstairs toilet for ease of access. In these cases we would suggest buying a multiple of your salary-much like Death in Service Cover. If you are unsure, in any way, you should seek the help of an experienced adviser. For more information on critical illness cover please contact us 0n 020 8441 2605 or 01442 232 272. Alternatively click here for our enquiry form. Quick Contact Hemel One Stop Finance Ltd Herts, Email: infohemel@osfg.co.uk Quick Contact London One Stop Finance Ltd. Suite E, Hollies House, EN6 5BL Phone: + 44 (0) 20 8441 2605 Email: infolondon@osfg.co.uk Copyright 2017 One Stop Finance Ltd., All Rights Reserved. \| Cookies and Policy One Stop Finance Ltd is an appointed representative of Quilter Mortgage Planning Limited and Quilter Financial Services Limited, which are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered office: Aston House, Cornwall Avenue, London, N3 1LF. Registered in England and Wales: 6876390	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1074
__label__wiki	0.90698	0.90698	Poll shows strong support for Christie as governor, not so much for president By Politicker Staff • 03/26/13 6:14am New Jersey voters want Chris Christie as the top politician in the state, but they are not so sure they want him running the country. Those are the findings of the latest Quinnipiac University poll released today. Voters approve 70-23 percent of the job Christie is doing as governor, and he leads Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Sen. Barbara Buono 60-25 percent. Voters say Christie deserves a second term by a 66-25 percent margin, with Democrats supporting his re-election 44-23 percent. Christie has a four-month run of 70 percent-plus approval ratings, which Quinnipiac says is the highest score of any governor in the seven states the university surveys. “New Jersey voters rate Gov. Christopher Christie’s performance in Trenton at his now-routine astronomical level. And they think he deserves re-election in November,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a release. “Would he shine as brightly in Washington? New Jerseyans’ views are mixed. Ditto on whether he should run for president in 2016.” N.J. voters said by a margin of 44-41 percent that Christie would not make a good president. Additionally, only 46 percent would like to see Christie run for president in 2016, while 47 percent want to keep him in Trenton. Christie gets a 69–22 percent favorability rating, including 48–38 percent among Democrats. For Buono, 79 percent don’t know enough about her to form an opinion, according to the poll. “Who is that woman? Everybody knows Christie and hardly anyone knows Sen. Barbara Buono, even though she’s running an energetic, endorsement-rich campaign,” Carroll said. From March 19–24, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,129 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones. By a 64–30 percent margin, voters support a law allowing same sex couples to marry, according to the poll. Men support same-sex marriage 60–32 percent, with a larger 68–28 percent support among women. New Jersey voters say 72–22 percent it’s a good idea to decide the same-sex marriage issue by referendum on the November ballot. Obama approval President Barack Obama’s approval rating took a dip. He received a 54–42 percent job approval rating in the Garden State, compared to 57–40 percent Feb. 21. Filed Under: New Jersey Politics, new jersey politics SEE ALSO: State FOP endorses Buono	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1083
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__label__wiki	0.797539	0.797539	Home » Sections » Editorials Australia’s G20 Presidency and the OECD: Joining forces to address the challenge of stronger growth Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and G20 Sherpa Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and G20 Sherpa ©OECD The Australian G20 presidency has made a critical and decisive contribution to reinforcing the effectiveness and impact of the Group of 20 (G20). Under Australia’s chairmanship, the work of the G20 has gained in coherence and strength, which should reinforce our joint efforts to boost and sustain future growth. Our organisation is proud to have contributed significantly to these achievements. Building on the outcomes of the Russian presidency and the Saint Petersburg summit, the Australian presidency has entirely refocused the agenda of the G20 on the need to reignite growth and strengthen the ongoing–but still shaky–recovery by focusing on four priority areas: competition, trade, investment and jobs. This agenda has been very welcome and, one year on, is still (unfortunately) very relevant: the four cylinders of growth which the OECD Secretary-General cites in our editorial–investment, trade, credit and emerging market economies–are still running at low speed and below past trends. Most importantly, perhaps, the social cost of the crisis has become unbearable, undermining the confidence and trust of citizens in everything from governments to markets, businesses and institutions at large. There are still 100 million unemployed in G20 countries and twice as many jobseekers globally. Youth unemployment is sky high and the number of young NEETs (not in employment, education or training) has risen by 5%, or 2 million people, since 2007. These ugly scars represent the social and human tragedy of mass unemployment. Moreover, the gap between rich and poor is at its highest level in 30 years. Stronger growth: An overarching policy principle and goal In this context, strengthening and further developing the growth narrative elaborated by the Russian presidency, was essential. But the Australian presidency went a step further: growth became the overarching principle behind the entire technical and political G20 process. Coupled with a rigorous streamlining of the G20’s burgeoning activities, this approach resulted in an extremely robust, coherent and focused growth-oriented G20 agenda. This result was essentially achieved by crafting comprehensive National Growth Strategies. Australia’s was, in fact, the first presidency to systematically organise the convergence of the different G20 work streams–macroeconomic and structural policies, taxation, financial regulation, trade, employment, investment, etc.–into holistic growth strategies aimed at harnessing all available sources of growth and at activating the full range of policy levers. This approach went a long way towards breaking the silos, which were compartmentalising and isolating the various G20 channels of work from one another, by bringing the various pieces of the “growth jigsaw” together into a transversal, coherent and effective economic agenda. The National Growth Strategies, which will be endorsed by G20 leaders at the Brisbane summit and which will form the backbone of the Brisbane Action Plan for Growth and Jobs, encapsulate, in accordance with specific national circumstances and idiosyncrasies, all the relevant growth-enhancing policy “ingredients”: supporting demand, as well as strengthening safety nets and targeted support, for the most vulnerable; raising productivity by bolstering competition in product and services markets; streamlining the regulatory environment; enhancing the efficiency of trade-enabling services and facilitating trade; and removing obstacles to investment, while promoting more inclusive labour markets, by activating employment policies to boost participation, addressing unemployment and investing in people’s skills and education. Ambitious and quantified policy commitments But the innovative approach engineered by the Australian presidency does not simply boil down to the enhancement of processes within the complex G20 architecture. It is also, and perhaps most importantly, about raising ambition and stepping up commitments. A step-change in the approach was the endorsement by finance ministers, at their meeting in February in Sydney, of a key measurable objective: to achieve, thanks to ambitious but realistic reforms, 2% additional growth by 2018 over a baseline scenario, as defined in October 2013. This was quite simply a strategic masterstroke! Having a specific, well-defined, quantitative growth commitment and objective over the medium term focused minds, provided momentum and direction and galvanised members’ efforts. It also enhanced the public visibility of the G20. The 2% target became a powerful catalyst for ambitious commitments by countries in the framework of their National Growth Strategies. In other words, it became both the cornerstone of the G20 architecture and the touchstone for its efforts. The OECD, a pivotal partner The OECD has made key contributions to Australia’s efforts and initiatives. The OECD, jointly with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), identified the policy gaps in G20 countries hindering the achievement of strong, sustainable and balanced growth, estimated the upside growth scenarios–the 2% additional output–to be achieved by closing those gaps, and assessed the contribution of the almost 1,000 policy commitments submitted by G20 members to reach the 2% objective. This was both considerable and complex work. But it paid off: taking into account, among other elements, our analysis and recommendations, G20 members made tremendous efforts to beef up their strategies. According to joint OECD/IMF estimates, those efforts, if fully implemented, will make a difference and will get us very close indeed to the 2% ambition. If the growth target has become the cornerstone of the G20 architecture, the work and results achieved in the various G20 work streams–employment, trade and investment, in particular–has provided the essential “building blocks”. In all of these areas, the OECD has made decisive contributions. We “crunched the numbers” to make a robust, evidence-based case for reducing the gender gap in female labour market participation by 25% by 2025: our estimates show that this would lift productivity by reaping the full potential of women’s impressive educational achievements, qualifications and skills of recent decades and yield an additional 1.2% to 1.6% output growth over the period. This “25 x 25” strategic objective was endorsed by labour and employment ministers at their meeting in Melbourne in September, and G20 leaders will most probably follow suit in Brisbane. Our approach to trade, through the lens of global value chains, resulted in a discussion on a better understanding of international trade dynamics and influenced G20 policy exchanges in this area. We will continue to explore and deepen our analysis of how countries can make best use of theses changing value chain patterns. Our contributions on long-term and infrastructure investment financing by institutional investors were also acknowledged and will constitute a major component of the agenda of the forthcoming Global Infrastructure Hub. Last but not least, the OECD was a major force behind the quantum leap achieved in the realm of international taxation. Tax base erosion through aggressive tax planning and avoidance, as well as tax evasion, constitutes a serious risk, not only to public revenues but also to tax sovereignty and tax fairness in all G20 countries. It is fundamentally unfair and economically inefficient that citizens in the OECD pay an average top personal income tax rate of 43 %, while some multinationals pay as little as 1% or 2 %. G20/OECD outputs in those areas–the seven Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) action points and the full Common Reporting Standard for Automatic Exchange of Information–will represent major deliverables at the Brisbane summit and a key contribution to the economic resilience agenda, alongside our work in these areas with developing countries, as well as on food security. Excellence and policy relevance The reliance of the Australian presidency on our contributions was once again testimony to the technical excellence and policy relevance of OECD work, and to the dedication, availability and responsiveness of its staff and experts. I would also like to pay a glowing tribute to former Deputy Secretary-General Pier Carlo Padoan for his leading role, since 2009, as our G20 finance deputy and chief economist and thank Deputy Secretary-General Rintaro Tamaki for taking over with talent and dedication when Pier Carlo Padoan was appointed Italy’s finance minister earlier this year. Let me also extend a warm welcome to our new chief economist, Catherine Mann, who will now take on this important job. Let me finally express my personal appreciation for the remarkable progress achieved by a very dedicated, stout and forward-looking G20 Australia team, led by Heather Smith and Christopher Langman–a former ambassador to the OECD!–in the Sherpa Track and Barry Sterland in the Finance Track. The G20 Australia team has achieved great progress by emphasising the concrete measures that G20 countries must commit to in order to boost growth and jobs. The OECD is proud and honoured to have been a partner to Australia and to have contributed to significant policy changes and reforms that will benefit the entire world. We look forward to putting our unique expertise and first-class policy analysis at Turkey’s disposal for its presidency and to inform and support its priorities–inclusive growth, development, SME development–and thus help the G20 to build a more prosperous global economy, and dynamic, inclusive societies. Visit www.oecd.org/g20 © OECD Observer No 300, Q3 2014 Australia Brisbane 2014 special Australia’s G20 presidency: Bringing benefits for everyone Why reform is the right option Culture for local development Lessons for France from PISA 2015 The productivity and equality nexus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1088
__label__wiki	0.672352	0.672352	Woman ‘livid’ over husband’s holiday gift-giving decision: ‘That is so unreasonable’ Emerald Pellot A woman is denying her in-laws Christmas gifts to get back at her husband. She shared what happened on Reddit’s “Am I the A****” forum. The issue arose when her 18-year-old sister found out she was pregnant. She wanted to get her little sister a gift for the baby, but her husband disapproved of the pregnancy and, therefore, the gift. “[My sister] lives with her boyfriend’s parents who have made both her and her boyfriend’s lives a complete hell since finding out,” she explained. My sister and her boyfriend both worked part-time and went to school, but after his parents found out they were pregnant, [they] made their son drop out of school and get a full-time job. They also upped their rent from $400 a month to $800 a month, plus they have to buy their own food, pay the internet and electric bill, can’t take showers all but once a week to save on water and basically are limited to their bedroom.” The user wanted to get her sister a crib that converted into a toddler bed and a day bed as the baby gets older. It was on sale for $199 from $699. “I told my husband I wanted to buy it and he lost his s*,” the user wrote. “Said that he wasn’t going to break the bank to support a child having a child and said [that] she decided to have a baby, she can go get a job and buy a crib. It’s not my job to give her gifts. Mind you, I work full time (more hours than him by a long shot) but he works salary and makes more. I was livid, I’ll admit and immediately snapped back with, well looks like we will be crossing [your] mommy and daddy off the Christmas list because they have jobs and can buy their own gifts.” Reddit users shared their thoughts on the issue. “That is so unreasonable. They are definitely ensuring that the couple can’t move out and at this rate, they may not be able to provide for their baby financially,” one user commented. “He is off his judgmental rocker,” another wrote. “It’s not your husband’s place to dictate your relationship with your family,” a third person added. If you enjoyed this article, you may want to read about this teenager furious over her mom’s “unfair” financial move. More from In The Know: A mid-life crisis led this man to move into his tiny home College student stirs controversy after refusing to “pay it forward” at fast food chain 19 of the coolest puzzles to do when boredom sets in this winter My favorite lip balm for winter sells every minute The post Woman ‘livid’ over husband’s holiday gift-giving decision: ‘That is so unreasonable’ appeared first on In The Know. Bida BEST Live returns with Patrick Fran, Perry Ronquillo The COVID-19 death toll and the level of hospital admissions means it is far too early to speculate about when the lockdown may be lifted or eased, one of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior ministers said on Wednesday. "We are still in a perilous situation," Home Secretary Priti Patel told Sky. "When we still see hospitalisation figures, now standing at over 38,000 people, with the number of people still dying with coronavirus, with the number of hospital admissions increasing, this is no time to speak about the relaxation of measures," she said. As the United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll approaches 100,000, Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Wednesday that the numbers were tragic but that it was not the time to look back at the government's possible mismanagement of the crisis. The United Kingdom's official COVID-19 death toll is 91,470 - Europe's worst death figure and the world's fifth worst after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico. "The numbers are deeply tragic," Patel said. Host Pinky Webb calmly flips her hair as Harry Roque loses temper during live interview Some people need to take a chill pill. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque became visibly annoyed during a television interview today with CNN Philippines host Pinky Webb when the latter asked if he was willing to denounce the government’s decision to terminate its 1989 agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP). The drama started when ... This article, Host Pinky Webb calmly flips her hair as Harry Roque loses temper during live interview, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company. While Australia emerged with few injuries from the epic test series against India, the players' egos suffered heavily in defeat and may take time to recover from their bruising. Pace spearhead Mitchell Starc will head to Sydney for scans on his right hamstring, while opening batsmen David Warner (groin) and Will Pucovski (shoulder) will look to recover from their injury issues before the yet-to-be-confirmed tour of South Africa next month. Other players will return to their teams in the domestic Big Bash League but their welcome will be muted compared to a year ago, when they arrived as winners after whitewashing Pakistan and New Zealand in successive test series.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1093
__label__wiki	0.882986	0.882986	The challenge of the oceanic feeling: Romain Rolland’s mystical critique of psychoanalysis and his call for a ‘new science of the mind’ Ayon Maharaj History of European Ideas 43 (5):1-20 (2017) In a letter written in 1927, the French writer Romain Rolland asked Sigmund Freud to analyse the “oceanic feeling,” a religious feeling of oneness with the entire universe. I will argue that Rolland’s intentions in introducing the oceanic feeling to Freud were much more complex, multifaceted, and critical than most scholars have acknowledged. To this end, I will examine Rolland’s views on mysticism and psychoanalysis in his book-length biographies of the Indian saints Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, which he wrote just after he mentioned the oceanic feeling to Freud in 1927. I will argue that Rolland’s primary intentions in appealing to the oceanic feeling in his 1927 letter to Freud—intentions less evident in his letters to Freud than in his biographies of Sri Ramakrishna and Vivekananda—were to challenge the fundamental assumptions of psychoanalysis from a mystical perspective and to confront Freud with a mystical “science of the mind” that he felt was more rigorous and comprehensive than Freud’s psychoanalytic science. Romain Rolland Sigmund Freud mysticism psychoanalysis Vedānta Sri Ramakrishna Swami Vivekananda Religious Studies in Arts and Humanities MAHTCO-17 Archival date: 2017-09-04	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1094
__label__cc	0.513175	0.486825	Statement on Revised Impact Fee May 26, 2011 // by Paul Doerwald State’s Largest Environmental Coalition Recognizes Senator Scarnati’s Improved Impact Fee Proposal SB1100 Expanded to Include More Environmental Programs; Coalition Still Concerned with Details (Harrisburg, PA) The Renew Growing Greener (RGG) Coalition today recognized Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati (R-25) for expanding critical environmental, conservation and recreation programs in his proposed Marcellus Shale Impact Fee legislation, but reiterated concerns over the amount of revenue generated, programs still not being funded, and funding the existing programs through the Commonwealth Finance Authority (CFA) as the current legislation provides. “After listening to concerns voiced across the Commonwealth, Senator Scarnati has expanded his legislation to fund critical environmental programs, which we applaud” Andrew Heath, RGG Executive Director, said. “This more detailed proposal is a positive step forward, and a marked improvement from the initial concepts released two weeks earlier. Similar to Growing Greener, these environmental programs benefit all Pennsylvanians because they preserve and protect our resources for future generations. Growing Greener is a national model for communities to protect our water, air and land while still growing local economies.” Sen. Scarnati’s proposal does not provide funding for the Environmental Stewardship Fund (ESF), Growing Greener’s source of revenue, while three other Severance Tax proposals being considered do. Other proposals being discussed also project to generate higher levels of revenue. “The Commonwealth is facing a serious situation with the depletion of funds in the ESF. Senator Scarnati’s proposal would allow many programs funded under Growing Greener to continue, but does not cover them all. Adding a portion of the revenue to the ESF would strengthen the legislation by providing funds for programs not covered, such as farmland preservation, the state’s parks and forests and environmental education. These programs are essential and benefit all Pennsylvanians and our shared economy.” The Coalition is also concerned about changing the funding mechanism for these programs. Since 1999, Growing Greener funds have been distributed through the various state agencies; primarily DCNR, DEP, AG and PennVest. Senator Scarnati’s legislation proposes to distribute the environmental programs via the Commonwealth Finance Authority (CFA). Heath stated, “I have significant concerns with the CFA administering the funds. More details and safeguards will be needed to ensure a fair distribution of the funds across the spectrum of environmental, conservation and recreation programs. The current merit based way of funding these programs works – and has worked since 1999. Why try to fix something that is not broken?” Heath concluded, “I see the current legislation as an improvement. We are making progress and that is what matters. The Renew Growing Greener Coalition urges citizens to get involved and voice their views so that the process may continue forward. Sitting on the sidelines is no longer a viable option.” More than 60 Pennsylvania municipalities and counties have passed resolutions urging the Governor and legislature to renew Growing Greener funding. Counties passing resolutions include: Blair, Cambria, Erie, Fayette, Greene, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Philadelphia, Pike, Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Washington, Westmoreland, Wyoming and York. The Renew Growing Greener Coalition is the Commonwealth’s largest coalition of conservation, recreation and environmental organizations representing over 260 organizations and government entities. For more information on the Coalition, visit www.RenewGrowingGreener.org. Previous Post: « Support Keeps Growing Next Post: Support Keeps Growing . . . »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1098
__label__cc	0.707425	0.292575	Corbett Funding Cuts to Environmental Programs Undermine Shale Legislation February 21, 2012 // by Paul Doerwald For Immediate Release: February 21, 2012 Renew Growing Greener Coalition to Legislature: Corbett Funding Cuts to Environmental Programs Undermine Shale Legislation (HARRISBURG, PA) The Renew Growing Greener Coalition, the largest coalition of conservation, recreation and environmental organizations in the Commonwealth, today urged the Legislature to reject cuts to environmental, conservation and recreation programs in the Governor’s proposed 2012-2013 budget. “With Pennsylvania’s land, water and air facing significant threats and impacts due to Marcellus Shale development, we should be increasing, not decreasing, funding for the programs that protect these vital resources,” said Andrew Heath, executive director of the Renew Growing Greener Coalition. “The funding contained in the Marcellus Shale legislation was meant to help address the environmental impacts of natural gas drilling, but there would actually be less funding available for these purposes if the Legislature approves the cuts to environmental, conservation and recreation programs proposed in the Governor’s budget.” Under the proposed budget, the Corbett administration has recommended: Using more than $37.5 from the Environmental Stewardship Fund to pay for debt service, leaving just $23 million available for Growing Greener programs and projects, the lowest amount of funding in recent decades. Transferring $30 million from the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund to the general fund, and permanently eliminating this popular and important conservation and recreation program. This is the largest cut in conservation funding in state history. Diverting $20.5 million in dedicated farmland preservation funding from the cigarette tax to the general fund for 2012 and beyond. “These cuts undermine the progress made in the Marcellus Shale legislation to increase investments in these programs,” said Heath. “We are calling on our legislative champions who support Growing Greener to prevent this from happening.” Together, these programs have supported thousands of park and trail projects throughout the Commonwealth, preserved thousands of acres of family farmland, conserved thousands of acres of threatened open space and protected hundreds of miles of streams and waterways. In addition, they have contributed and leveraged billions of dollars to the Pennsylvania economy by helping to boost tourism, create jobs and generate revenue. Previous Post: « RGGC Statement of Passage of HB1950 Next Post: Proposed Budget Cuts Cast Cloud Over Agriculture Week »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1099
__label__cc	0.668664	0.331336	ONLINE (NEWS) SOURCES Palestine InSight PALESTINE news – PalestinianS LIVING UNDER OCCUPATION – PALESTINIAN POETRY – (every second day) Al-Mizan Center for Human Rights / Dr. Asaad Ramlawi / Eli Cohen / Huwwara Crossroads / Idriss Debby / Mahmoud Abbas / Mahmoud Darwish / Miri Regev / Netanyahu / Ofra Settlement / Oren Hazan / Uncategorized / Yisrael Katz “The earth is closing in on us . . .” (Mahmoud Darwish) December 11, 2018 December 11, 2018 Harold KnightLeave a comment SELECTED NEWS OF THE DAY. . . \| ISRAELI SETTLERS HANG POSTERS CALLING FOR KILLING PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Israeli extreme Jewish groups hung posters of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Huwwara crossroads in southern Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, on Tuesday, calling for his assassination. [. . . .] The posters read “supporter of terrorists” and called for killing (assassinating) the Palestinian President. ___The incident comes as member of the Likud party at the Israeli Knesset, Oren Hazan, had called for imposing closure on the Ramallah and al-Bireh district until the suspect of an attack carried out in the Ofra illegal Israeli settlement, two days ago, is detained. [. . . .] Israeli forces raided several institutions in Ramallah, including the Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa News and Information Agency, allegedly searching for the suspect. More. . . . . . . Related Palestinian journalists, officials protest Israeli army raid of WAFA news agency office . . . . Related Palestinians kidnapped, civilian homes ransacked by Israeli forces . . . . Related Israel shoots dozens of Palestinians in the 19th maritime march in Gaza . . . . Related Palestinian shot, killed by Israeli forces in Hebron \| RAMALAWI: THE OCCUPATION HAS ISSUED A DECISION RESTRICTING VACCINE IMPORTS TO PALESTINE The Israeli occupation authorities issued a decree banning the Palestinian Ministry of Health from importing vaccines, starting from the beginning of the year 2019, said Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Dr. Asaad Ramlawi. ___In an interview with the official Voice of Palestine radio station, Dr. Ramlawi said that the Israeli decree put the supply of vaccinations at risk; the Ministry of Health has resources for just two months of vaccine provision, after which there will be a serious problem if the issue is not resolved. More . . . . . . . Related Mizan Center: Eight patients died due to Israeli travel restriction \| OMAN ALLOWS ISRAELI PLANES TO USE ITS AIRSPACE More . . . . . . . Related Qatari envoy says Gaza airport was proposed, Israel unresponsive . . . . Related Britain’s unreported military alliance with Israel . . . . Related World Zionist Organization Used Israeli Public Funds to Finance Illegal Outpost . . . . Related [American] Evangelical Christian Groups Invested $65 Million to Jewish Settlements COMMENTARY AND OPINION. . . . \| WHY IS ISRAEL FORGING SECRET TIES WITH SUDAN? The past two months saw Israeli official visits to several Arab countries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Qatar Oct. 26 and met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said to discuss the situation in the region. On the same day, Israeli Sports Minister Miri Regev touched down in Abu Dhabi as part of the Israeli judo team participating in international competitions there. Israeli Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz arrived Nov. 4 in Muscat for an international conference on global transportation. ___Moreover, Bahrain invited Nov. 25 Israeli Minister of Economy Eli Cohen for a visit in April to attend a technology conference. On the same day, Chadian President Idriss Debby visited Israel, in a bid to strengthen ties between the two countries, while Chad is hoping to obtain Israeli-made weapons and security assistance as well as benefit from Israeli technologies. ____Amid these Arab-Israeli developments, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Nov. 25 that Netanyahu’s next Arab visit will be Sudan, without specifying a date. The visit comes within the framework of efforts to create short air routes from Israel to South America via Sudan. More . . . POEM FOR THE DAY. . . . “THE EARTH IS CLOSING IN ON US,” BY MAHMOUD DARWISH The earth is closing in on us, pushing us through the last passage, and . . . . we tear off our limbs to pass through. The earth is squeezing us. I wish we were its wheat so we could die . . . . and live again. I wish the earth was our mother So she’d be kind to us. I wish we were pictures on the rocks for our . . . . dreams to carry As mirrors. We saw the faces of those to be killed by the last of us . . . . in the last defense of the soul. We cried over their children’s feast. We saw the faces of those who’ll . . . . throw our children Out of the windows of this last space. Our star will hang up mirrors. Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds . . . .fly after the last sky? Where should the plants sleep after the last breath of air? We will . . . . write our names with scarlet steam. We will cut off the hand of the song to be finished by our flesh. We will die here, here in the last passage. Here and here our blood . . . . will plant its olive tree. –From Adonis; Mahmud Darwish; and Samih al-Qasim. VICTIMS OF A MAP: A BILINGUAL ANTHOLOGY OF ARABIC POETRY. Trans. Abdullah al-Udhari. London: Saqi Books, 2008. Available from Barnes and Noble. 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__label__wiki	0.60608	0.60608	CoWarehousing WMS Portal Liquor – Tobaco Fulfillment FBP Why FBP? FBA Prep FBP F.A.Q. The future of co-working spaces 2018 In recent years we have seen a shift in thinking among companies – no longer are competitors seen as rivals, but rather as potential co-collaborators. We believe the rise of coworking practices have been a sizable part of this movement. But what is coworking and why have so many companies started adopting this approach? WeWork has certainly proven that coworking is big business. Now even the most unlikely high street candidates, from banks to retail stores, are jumping on the bandwagon. Here is everything you need to know… Timesharing Cambridge is a centre for learning and ideas, so it feels only right that ‘Eagle Lab’, Barclays’ flagship incubator, landed there. Before the branch at Chesterton Road was an integral cog within the Cambridge ecosystem, the branch, like many branches before it, became a ghost ship down to a skeleton crew. Banks around the UK told the same ghost story – as business moved online physical branches ceased to exist. Since a refurb in May 2016, the now lively branch has a sleek industrial coworking space, with desks available for rent between £99 and £349 a month. For large companies like banks and retailers locked into long leases with increasingly unprofitable physical properties, coworking partnerships make commercial sense. Head of Eagle Labs Benjamin Storey says “Closing stores generates bad publicity but helping local businesses has the reverse effect.” There are whisperings that other UK retailers will soon follow suit. John Lewis was reported to be mulling over a deal to put coworking spaces into its older stores with poor footfall. A decision will be made in early 2018. Everything is an office Our neighbourhood in Central London is home to almost 8 million sq ft of flexible office space, an increase of 73% over the last eight years. The increase of gleaming coworking spaces from WeWork, valued at $20 billion, puts them in league with Palantir and SpaceX as the most highly valued private US tech startups, runners up to the behemoths of Airbnb and Uber. Startups are increasingly willing to work out of unconventional, often temporary offices – examples of which are springing up all over the place. Ofixu, the self-proclaimed Airbnb of office spaces, is a shining example of a broker that connects workers looking for space with shared offices at a moment’s notice, from as little as £7 per day. Dan Hinden, CEO of Oxifu, believes his and similar companies can play a deeper role than merely providing quiet spaces. There is also a chance to connect Ofixu users who have similar interests or that want to be around like-minded people to create a sharing economy. Loving landlords Temporary, short-term use or ‘meanwhile use’ is fundamental for cities and urban growth. “A lot of offices have empty meeting rooms at night or a bank of desks they’re not using,” says Andrew Cribb, co-founder of 3Space. Often combative commercial landlords and paralysing property developers are increasingly happy about giving over their empty space for ‘meanwhile’ use. Properties that are waiting for planning permission take years to fill with new business. This means property developers with these sites are particularly good targets as there is no other obvious use for the space. 3Space, a non-profit urban agency, is helping provide ways to get more out of buildings that are often poised for demolition or restoration, giving them new purpose as hubs for the community. By working with 3Space, developers can benefit from an 80% discount on their business rates, and avoid the cost of safeguarding these empty sites and putting responsibility on 3Space and their inhabitants. There is a huge branding opportunity for these derelict and unloved spaces to be used again by freelancers and ‘solopreneurs’ looking for their own space to work. Open for all Several startups are hoping to build businesses out of empty space, Haus is one such company making this vision a reality. Kanyit Rayev, founder of the flexible coworking scheme, has started with the hospitality sector. Kanyit says “There are about 200 restaurants in greater London that are only working during the evening period. Haus’ plan is to enter into partnerships with evening venues such as restaurants to create a network of coworking spaces. 100 Wardour Street which opened its doors to Haus on the 10th January is just one of these spaces. The restaurant which is usually closed until 5pm Monday to Friday in Soho is a beautifully designed setting that allows inhabitants to really focus on getting work done 9 till 5. Haus charges just £95 per month, making it the cheapest coworking space in London. We are all social animals at the end of the day. Freelancers and ‘solopreneurs’ who want their own space to work often work in isolation. Coworking spaces are an excellent form of community, allowing discussion of a wide variety of subjects or simply a chance to bounce ideas off each other. For many, coworking spaces are the nearest they can get to a conventional working life. These coworking trends show a serious demand for fresh thinking in this sector and we look forward to seeing which of these coworking space approaches becomes the most mainstream in the year ahead. 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__label__cc	0.694018	0.305982	Lizzo Wants You To 'Remain True To Who You Are'—Watch Her Empowering Billboard Music Awards Acceptance Speech October 14, 2020 – 10:03 PM – 0 Comments By Jessica Sager Parade @ohheyjesssager More by Jessica It’s Doctor Jill Biden, To You! All About the Teacher Who Won President Joe Biden’s Heart—And Ours! Inauguration Day 2021: Is It a Federal Holiday? Why Is It January 20? Everything to Know About Presidential Inaugurations You’ll Want to Read All of These Kamala Harris Books ASAP! 7 Inspiring Titles By and About the First Female VP (Christopher Polk/NBC) Preach, Lizzo! The “Truth Hurts” rapper gave a powerful speech at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards when accepting her Top Song Sales Artist trophy about the importance of loving yourself and speaking your truth. After thanking her team and the Billboard staff, the flute-playing powerhouse got stern about not just women in music and the pressures they’re under, but also suppression on a wider scale in terms of social and racial injustice. “I’ve been thinking a lot about suppression and the voices that refuse to be suppressed,” the “Juice” chanteuse began. “And I wonder, would I be standing here right now if it wasn’t for the big black women who refused to have their voices be suppressed? I just want to say right now, if you’re at home watching this and thinking of changing yourself to feel worthy, this is your sign to remain true to who you are.” Related: 32 Lizzo Lyrics About Self-Love That Will Get You Pumped to Celebrate the Singer’s Birthday! YES, @lizzo! Congrats on your #BBMAs Top Song Sales Artist award. pic.twitter.com/MbyhXG0oV3 — Billboard Music Awards (@BBMAs) October 15, 2020 She continued, “Let me tell y’all something: When people try to suppress something, it’s normally because that thing holds power. They’re afraid of your power. There’s power in who you are. There’s power in your voice, so whether it’s through music, protest or your right to vote, use your power, use your voice and refuse to be suppressed.” Just a day earlier, Lizzo posted a video twerking dressed as “Auntie Sam” to encourage her followers to vote in the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3, 2020 and included a text service they can use to check their registration status and polling places. Auntie Sam out here doin what she gotta do to get y’all to vote! -Text LIZZOBEVOTING to 26797 to make sure you’re registered to vote, confirm your polling location, and get reminders for all your elections. #iamavoter A post shared by Lizzo (@lizzobeeating) on Oct 13, 2020 at 10:37am PDT She wrote in a subsequent post with a photo in the same patriotic gear, “Hey YOU. Have you felt the same disconnect from this country? Have YOU felt like this nation is your house but not your home? It’s because we are on stolen land trying to live within laws written by white men FOR white men in 1787. I see YOU using your power of protest and your freedom of speech. I see YOU unlearning the narrow scope of our history and seeking the truth. ITS TIME TO USE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE. WE NEED YOU.” Related: How to Vote in the 2020 Presidential Election: Deadlines, Absentee Ballots, Early Voting and More Hey YOU. Have you felt the same disconnect from this country? Have YOU felt like this nation is your house but not your home? It’s because we are on stolen land trying to live within laws written by white men FOR white men in 1787. I see YOU using your power of protest and your freedom of speech. I see YOU unlearning the narrow scope of our history and seeking the truth. ITS TIME TO USE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE. WE NEED YOU. DID YOU KNOW? -Approximately four in ten (40%) of eligible voters didn’t turn out to vote in 2016 ?? IF YOU WANT TO VOTE BUT DONT KNOW WHERE TO START: Text LIZZOBEVOTING to 26797 to make sure you’re registered to vote, confirm your polling location, and get reminders for all your elections. #iamavoter Lizzo is nominated for 10 other categories at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, with Post Malone leading with 16, followed by Lil Nas X with 13 and Billie Eilish and Khalid with 12 nods a piece. Next, see all the 2020 Billboard Music Award winners!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1105
__label__wiki	0.794122	0.794122	Final Four Guide: Top 10 Most Instagram-Worthy Spots In Downtown Minneapolis Filed Under:Final Four Guide MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Most travelers don’t leave home without their Instagram-loaded smartphones, mainly out of fear of missing out on showing their followers the fabulousness they’re missing out on. With thousands of Final Four fans heading to downtown Minneapolis in the coming days, you better believe the filters will be flying. Here, in no particular order, are our choices for the best Instagram photo ops in town. 1.) U.S. Bank Stadium Viking Ship 401 Chicago Ave. You won’t have to wander far from all the Final Four action to snap this shot. Located near the corner of Chicago Avenue and South 6th Street, the U.S. Bank Stadium “Legacy Ship” is a sight to behold, complete with a curved video screen sail. (credit: Vikings) 2.) Mary Tyler Moore Statue On Nicollet Mall 700 Nicollet Mall Turn the world on with your smile next to the statue of Mary Tyler Moore, which the late icon dedicated herself in 2002. “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” set in Minneapolis, ran on CBS from 1970 until 1977, and was groundbreaking for its portrayal of a career-driven, single woman. (credit: CBS) 3.) Bob Dylan Mural 1 S. 5th St. One of Minnesota’s favorite sons is immortalized in a towering, eye-popping mural by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. “The times they are a-changin'” is only a few years old, but it’s fast becoming one of Minneapolis’ most treasured pieces of public art. 4.) Schmitt Music Mural 88 10th St. S. Speaking of Minnesota’s favorite sons, Prince inadvertently put the Schmitt Music Mural on the map thanks to the iconic 1977 photo taken of him by Robert Whitman. Prince, who was only 19 at the time, was on the verge of taking the music world by storm. By the way, the transcription on the wall is an excerpt from Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit,” of course. (credit: Robert Whitman) 5.) First Avenue 701 N 1st. Ave. Another Minneapolis landmark that Prince brought international attention to is First Avenue. The concert venue, which was a bus station until the early 70s, has an exterior adorned with stars that are filled with the names of the more-iconic acts that graced the stage. And Prince’s star stands out among them all, as it’s the only one that’s gold. Prince fan Andrew Silva poses for a photo next to his star outside of First Avenue (credit: CBS) 6.) Target Field Glove 1 Twins Way (Near Gate 34) There are a few great Instagram opportunities in and around Target Field, but the most beloved is the enormous gold glove. Warning: If you ever come in the summer, be careful before climbing aboard for a photo — it can get blazing hot! (credit: Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) 7.) Guthrie Theater ‘Amber Box’ & ‘Endless Bridge’ Located about three blocks away from U.S. Bank Stadium, the visually-astounding Guthrie Theater offers photographers two unique vantage points to snap near-360-degree shots of the Mississippi River and its east bank. “The Amber Box,” located on the theater’s ninth floor, is literally a huge, transparent amber box — so feel free to add a filter over the room’s natural one. And the “Endless Bridge” below juts out over West River Parkway, giving the illusion of walking out above the Mighty Mississippi. (credit: CRAIG LASSIG/AFP/Getty Images) 8.) Stone Arch Bridge 100 Portland Ave. Just about a 12-minute walk from the epicenter of Final Four fun, the Stone Arch Bridge is a marvel of civil engineering. Built in 1883, the former Great Northern Railroad bridge offers fantastic panoramic views of the river, the St. Anthony Falls and both banks. 9.) Grain Belt Sign 4 W Island Ave. The Grain Belt Sign on Nicollet Island has always been a favorite subject for visiting photographers, but it has only been a year or so that the 40s-era sign has been re-illuminated after falling dark for over 20 years. LEDs have replaced the neon and incandescent bulbs, but the kitschy magic remains. 10.) Spoonbridge and Cherry 14357 Loring Greenway — Walker Art Center’s Minneapolis Sculpture Garden “Spoonbridge and Cherry” is perhaps Minneapolis’ most iconic — and most wonderfully odd — public art piece, and has been the subject of millions of tourist photos since it was first installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in 1985. (credit: Lydia Grendahl)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1108
__label__cc	0.558449	0.441551	Tag Archives: Side Scrolling Skul: The Hero Slayer Have you ever wanted to rip your own head off and throw it at someone? Of course you have. Who hasn’t had that random urge to decollate themselves and beat their enemies to death with their own severed nugget? Well, Skul: The Hero Slayer is a game that lets you rip off your own head… March 14, 2020 in PC, Review, S. W. Jackson. Symphony of the Night was the game that had everything. Quick combat, exploration, aesthetic style, RPG elements without merciless grind, and a variety of combat styles to tinker with. It is rightfully remembered as one half of the games that have an entire genre named after them, to the degree where even if you haven’t… February 8, 2020 in Alex Cumming, PC, PS4, Review, Switch, Xbox One. The Wonder Boy series did pretty well for itself in the late 80s with half a dozen titles released between the arcades and Sega home consoles. However, it could never really find the type of mainstream success that would carry it past the 16-bit era of the mid 90s. Now, launching nearly 30 years after… August 11, 2019 in PC, PS4, Review, Sandro Luketic, Switch, Xbox One. Super Neptunia RPG Parody is one of the easiest forms of comedy to understand. You take an existing cliché, trope or caricature and make a satiric mockery of it. With the amount of redundancy in the video game industry, the Neptunia series has lots of material to work with, which leads me to the question of why it… July 7, 2019 in Alex Cumming, PC, PS4, Review, Switch. Grave Danger Welcome to the graveyard! Grave Danger is a platformer developed by Joindots and is available on the PS4 for approximately $19.49 CND. Gamers join the spooky adventure with three mysterious outlaws: Dante, Malice, and Elliot. Your mission is to clear your names, as each outlaw is wanted dead or alive by the sinister villain named… April 28, 2019 in Eric Collins, Guest Post, PC, PS4, Review, Switch. Ghoulboy Developed by a small team of three at Serkan Bakar games, GhoulBoy is a retro-inspired action hack and slash game. It is so diligently attuned to the era it emulates that it sometimes brings both the classic charm and imperfections painstakingly into present day. This review is based on the PS4 version which released March… March 15, 2019 in Guest Post, Ian Voegtle, PC, PS4, Review, Switch, Vita. Alwa’s Awakening Alwa’s Awakening is an 8-bit throwback game which has many metroidvania inspirations. Developed by Elden Pixels, a small team of four assembled in 2016, this is their first project. This review is based on the Nintendo Switch version. The game opens with a brief explanation of how the beautiful world of Alwa was enslaved by… November 8, 2018 in Guest Post, Ian Voegtle, PC, Review, Switch. Halloween Forever It’s Halloween and you find yourself looking for something to play that is thematically fitting. You throw on Halloween Forever and start guiding Pumpkin man through the 8-bit adventure unfolding in front of him. You are only a short way into the 2D experience before you are overwhelmed with 80s gaming nostalgia but its 2018,… October 29, 2018 in PC, PS4, Review, Vita. Speed Brawl I absolutely love a good 2D beat-em-up. Throw in a dash of speed and some RPG elements and you would think you would have one hell of a combination. It’s much like adding pickles to a tuna sandwich or canned tomatoes to Kraft dinner. Oh, you don’t do that? Well, I guess not everything works… October 17, 2018 in Fredd Eyles, Guest Post, PC, PS4, Review, Switch, Xbox One.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1109
__label__wiki	0.824281	0.824281	Home/Entertainment/PMTV/IRON SAVIOR release details for new album “Rise Of The Hero” IRON SAVIOR release details for new album “Rise Of The Hero” Sheila February 8, 2014 PMTV Comments Off on IRON SAVIOR release details for new album “Rise Of The Hero” 853 Views German power metal stalwarts Iron Savior will be returning to the album fray at the beginning of March, just two years after the success of their first album back after a four year break, “The Landing” (2011), which saw the band grace the stage of Hammerfest in 2013. Based around singer and guitarist Piet Sielck, the Hamburg based legends have been busy of late, and have quite a few surprises up their sleeve for the new record, now entitled “Rise Of The Hero”….“As usual, the new album was recorded and produced in my own Powerhouse Studio,” says Sielck. “So, what can be expected? A full dose of first-class, heavy music; power metal to the max! We’ve got one really big surprise for you all though, and so far, it’s just been known as ‘The Surprise Track’….. We recently did a cover version of Mando Diao’s “Dance With Somebody” and, whatever works is allowed, right? Originally it was recorded only as a bonus track for the limited edition, but we simply liked it so much that we finally decided to make it a regular album track…..” And he’s not wrong…. Yes Mando Diao’s original is now beautifully ‘Saviorized’, but alongside that you’ll still find 11 crunchy, melodic, powerful metal tracks in best Iron Savior style. Compared to “The Landing”, new material possibly even turned out to be a little heavier this time, but no mistake, the band’s trademark style is still very much alive. “Rise Of The Hero” will be available as a CD, Digipak and limited edition vinyl here, from March 3rd 2014 via AFM Records. And the track listing is confirmed as; 01. Ascendence (Intro) 02. Last Hero 03. Revenge Of The Bride 04. From Far Beyond Time 05. Burning Heart 06. Thunder From The Mountains 07. Iron Warrior 08. Dragon King 09. Dance With Somebody 11. The Demon 12. Fistraiser 13. I’ve Been To Hell (2014 – limited edition bonus track) http://www.iron-savior.com/ Tags afm records IRON SAVIOR Rise Of The Hero The Landing Former Editor, Team Co-ordinator as well as PR, news poster, pass requester, Ex-Scottish Team Leader for PM since 2011 \m/ \m/ Also owner of the infamous Garfield L'arpie, who is a official mascot of RACPA UK. Check out RACPA UK (Rock Against Child Pornography and Abuse UK) http://www.racpauk.org/ @https://twitter.com/SRocktastic Previous Heavy Metal meets heavy metal at Bloodstock 2014 Next The Defiled at the Rescue Rooms, Nottingham – 8th February 2014 ORDEN OGAN – Heart Of the Android IRON SAVIOR new single & video ‘Souleater’ from thier upcoming album Skycrest PYRAMAZE release their new album ‘Epitaph’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line1110

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