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__label__cc	0.613588	0.386412	GreenandPleasantLand – FanSHEN FanSHEN is a performing arts charity that uses theatre to help people imagine what they haven’t thought of yet. Its work promotes ideas of environmental, social and financial sustainagility. The company is co-founder of Small Fish in a Big Green Sea, a group of small-scale theatre companies and artists which meets monthly to discuss issues and explore innovation around theatre and sustainability. The charity’s show ‘GreenandPleasantLand’ presents a greener way of life that is happier and more fun. Its aim is to inspire change on a personal level by exploring themes of climate change and sustainability – raising awareness and educating young children about these important subjects. Practising what they preach – the show is performed during the daytime; the soundtrack is powered with a bicycle generator; and it is toured exclusively by train giving the show only 43% of the carbon footprint of a traditional small-scale theatre tour. It also urges audience members to travel to its shows by bike or public transport. A small grant was provided to help enable FanSHEN to tour this successful eco-outdoor show ‘GreenandPleasantLand’ to primary schools in Wandsworth and Lambeth in June 2013. A resource pack for teachers will provide lessons for pre and post visit to consolidate the eco-learning. The theatre group will perform in 12 primary schools and reach audiences of more than 2000 children. The full show can be seen on Vimeo: Part 1 and Part 2 My Shelter Foundation – Global Lighting Project The ‘Liter of Light’ project uses recycled plastic bottles as solar light bulbs. The project provides energy to poor families in the Philippines and enables them to be ‘green’ as the technology is very simple and sustainable and the light is free. Bottle Schools – Trash for Education Hug It Forward builds ‘Bottle Schools’ in partnership with local communities using “eco-bricks”: plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash. The World We Made Website-based project to inspire young people to be ‘visionaries’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784062
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__label__cc	0.502859	0.497141	Category: Which Decade 2008 Which Decade: Cumulative scores, after six years. 1 (1) The 1960s – 205 points. Although the positions on our cumulative league table remain unchanged, it’s worth looking a little more closely at the gaps between each decade. At the top of the table, the 1970s are still chasing the 1960s hard, with last year’s two point difference widening to a mere three points. However, these two decades are now pulling ever clearer of their nearest rivals, as last year’s 7 point gap between the 1970s and 1980s becomes a yawning 20 point chasm. The 2000s are making reasonable ground, but with last year’s 26 point lag behind the 1980s only reducing to 18 points, they still have a lot of work to do. As for the 1990s, now lagging by 14 points as compared to last year’s 8, it does look as if they are already out for the count. I think it’s time for a graph, don’t you? This shows the waxing and waning fortunes of each decade over the past six years. I’m not sure that it proves anything, but doesn’t it look nice? Finally, and in accordance with Which Decade custom, it only remains for me to thank everyone who voted: Adrian, Alan, anne, asta, betty, Bryany, Cathy, chris, Clair, David, diamond geezer, Dymbel, Erithian, Geoff, Gert, Gordon, Hg, imsodave, jeff w, jo, JonnyB, Lizzy, LKSN, lockedintheattic, Lyle, Marcello, NiC, Nikki, Nottingham’s ‘Mr Sex‘, Oliver, Rebecca, Rob, Sarah, Silverfin, Simon, Simon C, Stereoboard, Stu, SwissToni, The commenter formerly known as, Tina, Tom, Vicus Scurra, Will and Z. Nearly everyone who took part in last year’s Which Decade came back again this year, which is particularly heart-warming – as is the record number of votes cast, with all rounds picking up over 30 sets of votes for the first time, and some even touching a new high of 40 votes. (Frankly, I’m not sure that I could have coped with many more.) The Golden Notepad award for Outstanding Commenting goes this year – and how could it not? – to Marcello, whose extraordinary expert knowledge combined with his real passion for the subject has added much to the enjoyment of the last three weeks. Oh, and he also happens to be my favourite music writer on the planet, so it has been a joy to have him along. As ever, it’s been a phenomenally labour-intensive but also richly rewarding slog, and I look forward to welcoming you all back next February, for what could be our final episode of… Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? Thank you, and goodnight. Author Mike APosted on March 8, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which Decade: Cumulative scores, after six years. Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: THE WINNER. 1st place – The 1960s. (36 points + 1 tiebreak point) 2007: 1st place, 34 points. 2006: 2nd place, 37 points. 2003: 3rd place, 28 points. 10. Gimme Little Sign – Brenton Wood. 4 points. 9. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) – John Fred & His Playboy Band. 5 points. 8. Fire Brigade – The Move. 4 points. 7. Pictures Of Matchstick Men – Status Quo. 4 points. 6. Am I That Easy To Forget – Engelbert Humperdinck. 1 point, least popular. 5. Bend Me Shape Me – Amen Corner. 5 points. 4. Everlasting Love – The Love Affair. 5 points, most popular. 3. She Wears My Ring – Solomon King. 1 point. 2. Cinderella Rockefella – Esther & Abi Ofarim. 4 points. 1. Mighty Quinn – Manfred Mann. 3 points. Tiebreak round: This Guy’s In Love With You – Herb Alpert. 4 points. Fire – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. 5 points. Mony Mony – Tommy James and the Shondells. 6 points. Yes indeed: for the third time in six years, the Sixties have swung it – meaning that either you lot are tiresomely predictable, or else that the music from four decades ago was consistently wonderful. Looking at this little lot, one has to veer towards the latter conclusion. The creative rush of the beat boom (and its close successor, the Summer of Love) was abating, in favour of a lighter, more overtly commercial sound – but there was still an unmistakeable optimism in the air, as evidenced by all that strident brass, those straight-up boom-thwack beats, that toytown surrealism, and those soaring feelgood choruses. Sure, Englebert and Solomon did their best to poop the party, but they feel irrelevant to the spirit of the age – especially when compared to the exquisite and heart-melting easy listening of Herb Alpert, one of my best finds of this year’s project. (If you only click on one of the YouTube links, then take a look at Herb in action, and then try telling me you haven’t fallen in love with him just a little.) Meanwhile, the Heavy Brigade were moving elsewhere, as the first divisions between “serious” and “disposable” began to make themselves felt. It was the dawn of that most obstructive of creatures, the Rock Snob – and perhaps the first example of pop music’s periodic need to shed its skin, and to re-engage with a new set of believers. So let’s leave the “heads” to sneer at the Amen Corner and the Love Affair, while we more enlightened souls raise a glass (I’ve actually just finished my third, but hey, it’s Saturday night) to our winners… our official, mathematically proven Tops For Pops decade… ladies and gentlemen, guys and gals, I give you… THE SIXTIES! Author Mike APosted on March 8, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: THE WINNER. Which Decade: your Top Ten and your Bottom Five. Just before we announce our winning decade, let’s look back at Those You Loved, and Those You Loathed. Positions are calculated by dividing the numbers of points scored by the number of people voting on that particular day… which is all rather good news for our winner, who benefitted to no small degree from being up against a bad bunch. Tsk, statistics eh? 1. I Think We’re Alone Now – Tiffany. 2. Never Ever – All Saints. 3. Take A Chance On Me – Abba. 4. Everlasting Love – The Love Affair. 5. Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra. 6. Uptown Top Ranking – Althea & Donna. 7. Bend Me Shape Me – Amen Corner. 8. A&E – Goldfrapp. 9. Wishing On A Star – Rose Royce. 10. Fire Brigade – The Move. 46. Valentine – T’Pau. 47. All I Have To Give – Backstreet Boys. 48. Am I That Easy To Forget – Engelbert Humperdinck. 49. My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion. 50. Cleopatra’s Theme – Cleopatra. Author Mike APosted on March 8, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which Decade: your Top Ten and your Bottom Five. Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: 2nd place. 2003: 1st place, 35 points + 1 tiebreak point. 10. Sorry I’m A Lady – Baccara. 2 points. 9. Love Is Like Oxygen – The Sweet. 4 points. 8. Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra. 5 points. 7. Uptown Top Ranking – Althea & Donna. 5 points. 6. Wishing On A Star – Rose Royce. 5 points. 5. Hot Legs – Rod Stewart. 2 points. 4. Come Back My Love – Darts. 4 points. 3. If I Had Words – Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley with the St. Thomas More School Choir. 2 points. 2. Figaro – Brotherhood Of Man. 2 points, least popular. 1. Take A Chance On Me – Abba. 5 points, most popular. Substitute – Clout. 2 points. You’re The One That I Want – John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John. 3 points. Three Times A Lady – The Commodores. 1 point. For the second time in Which Decade history, our leading decades have been obliged to submit to the rigours of a tie-break. Five years ago, the 1970s came out on top – but this year, the combined might of Clout, Grease and The Commodores were not sufficient to save them. Like our 2008 chart, there’s something prematurely old-fashioned about the selection from 1978. There’s straight-up 1950s revivalism from Darts, which is echoed in the rather mangled take on the decade from Travolta and Newton-John. There are some well-established hit-makers (Abba, Rod Stewart, ELO), doing their well-established thing, and there’s even an unexpected last gasp from The Sweet. Disco is poorly represented by Baccara, and new wave isn’t represented at all. Instead, our one nod towards the contemporary comes from Althea and Donna, representing a fluke break-out for a habitually underground culture. So for the most part, it all feels like business as usual – which makes the changes that were shortly to sweep over the charts all the more unexpected, and all the more welcome. Yes, chart pop was about to drop another generation, but you’ll have to wait another year (at the very least) to find out how the first representatives of that generation – hell, of my generation – made that change. Author Mike APosted on March 8, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: 2nd place. Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: 3rd place. 3rd place – The 2000s. (31 points) 2006: Equal 4th place, 21 points. 2005: 4th place, 27 points. 10. A&E – Goldfrapp. 5 points, most popular. 9. I Thought It Was Over – The Feeling. 2 points. 8. Work – Kelly Rowland. 2 points. 7. What’s It Gonna Be – H “two” O featuring Platnum. 2 points, least popular. 6. Don’t Stop The Music – Rihanna. 4 points (tied position). 5. Chasing Pavements – Adele. 3 points. 4. Sun Goes Down – David Jordan. 3 points. 3. Now You’re Gone – Basshunter. 3 points. 2. Rockstar – Nickelback. 3 points. 1. Mercy – Duffy. 4 points. Ah. And this, folks, is where my “dropping a generation” theory runs into choppy waters. For what do we have here, but precisely the sort of retro-flavoured, adult-friendly, “quality” tunes that are bound to find favour with my dominant voting demographic, hence this eminently respectable third placing? For here are Adele – the anointed successor to Amy Winehouse – and her anointed successor (for doesn’t Adele-mania already seem like months ago?), “don’t call me Aimee” Duffy, both delivering solid, bankable (if precocious) evocations of classic songwriting styles. And here are The Feeling, still ploughing the Guilty Pleasures 1970s soft-rocking furrow (and at the time of writing, The Feeling are a few minutes away from appearing on a prime time ITV1 show of the same name, with their “ironic” cover of Buggles’ Video Killed The Radio Star). And speaking of Trevor Horn: here’s the reliable old master back in action, producing a tune from David Jordan which could have existed at any time during the last 20 years or so. Oh, and there’s Nickelback, with their quite extraordinarily retrograde Mezozoic Era “rawk” (featuring a special guest appearance from one of the beardy blokes in ZZ Top), and there’s Kelly Rowland, working that tired old Bhangra Knight Rider sample from five years ago… you get the picture? (Yes, we see.) Meanwhile, when Ver Kids do get a look-in, with the utterly splendid What’s It Gonna Be, you lot only go and give it the lowest average mark of anything in the 2008 Top Ten! What are we going to do with you, eh? Well, at least we all achieved some sort of cross-generational consensus with Rihanna, so let us be grateful for that. So, I’m a little conflicted here. Delighted that the 2000s have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, especially after the humilations of Years One to Four – but a little saddened that they have done so by coming over all fuddy-duddy in the process. But mostly, I’m pleased that popular culture isn’t on an irreversible one-way journey to hell in a handcart after all…. Author Mike APosted on March 8, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: 3rd place. Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: 4th place. 4th place – The 1990s. (25 points) 10. Together Again – Janet Jackson. 3 points. 9. High – The Lighthouse Family. 3 points. 8. You Make Me Wanna… – Usher. 3 points. 7. Gettin’ Jiggy With It – Will Smith. 3 points. 6. Angels – Robbie Williams. 4 points (tied position). 5. Cleopatra’s Theme – Cleopatra. 1 point, least popular. 4. My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion. 1 point. 3. Never Ever – All Saints. 5 points, most popular. 2. All I Have To Give – Backstreet Boys. 1 point. 1. Doctor Jones – Aqua. 1 point. While our 1988 Top 10 began badly, it was in its upper reaches that our 1998 Top 10 floundered the most, with Cleopatra, Celine Dion, the Backstreet Boys and Aqua all placing last. As such, this is another wretched result for our most wretched of decades, which after six years of trying has never placed higher than fourth. Remember that theory which I aired in the previous post? (And if you’re reading these posts out of sequence, then kindly desist.) Well, I’d argue that the “dropping a generation” theory holds true here as well. With Britpop a spent force, the Spice Girls had heralded a return to “pure” pop – or, as the disgruntled Oasis fans of the day would have it, shallow, manufactured, production line… well, I’m sure you can fill the rest in by now. And so we had All Saints (on the plus side) and Cleopatra (on the minus side), continuing the boom in Girl Power Pop (for which see also BWitched, Billie and the aforementioned filles d’espice). Aqua were serving the pre-teens, all the while tipping a cheeky wink to an older crowd who could see through their subversions. Best of all, Usher was in the vanguard of nu-R&B, showing the way forward with his superb You Make Me Wanna. And worst of all, the Backstreet Boys were pointing the way towards all the truly mind-numbing, truly production-line, identikit boy-band balladry that was to follow (yes, of course I mean Westlife). By 2000 and 2001, this rebirth of “pure pop” had reached something of an apex, with all manner of boundary-stretching greatness charting high. But none of this helps our dear old 1990s, lumbering under the weight of crap pop-rap, coffee-table soul, and the deathless caterwauling of Celine. 1998, was this really all you had to give? Author Mike APosted on March 8, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which decade is Tops for Pops? – the results: 4th place. 10. The Jack That House Built – Jack ‘N’ Chill. 1 point. 9. Shake Your Love – Debbie Gibson. 1 point. 8. Valentine – T’Pau. 1 point, least popular. 7. Say It Again – Jermaine Stewart. 1 point. 6. When Will I Be Famous – Bros. 2 points. 5. Beat Dis – Bomb The Bass. 4 points. 4. Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car – Billy Ocean. 2 points. 3. Tell It To My Heart – Taylor Dayne. 4 points. 2. I Think We’re Alone Now – Tiffany. 5 points, most popular. 1. I Should Be So Lucky – Kylie Minogue. 2 points. Oh, Eighties! Whatever happened, that a once mighty decade should sink so low? Five years ago, the 1983 chart was so strong that the results had to be decided by tie-break. Three years ago, the 1985 chart emerged as our outright champion. Last year, the 1987 chart hit a record low – and this year, the shoddy sounds of 1988 have disgraced the entire decade. Although things picked up a little towards the end, with respectable placings for Bomb The Bass and Taylor Dayne and even a lone victory for Tiffany, 1988 was never going to recover from that disastrous opening run of four consecutive last places: Jack ‘N’ Chill, Debbie Gibson, T’Pau and Jermaine Stewart. And time and again, the same complaint was voiced in the comments box: it was that cheap, tinny, synthetic production job that you hated the most, be it from Jack ‘N’ Chill’s Woolworths-own-brand take on house music, from the brash aspirationalism of Bros, or from the rattling and clattering of cut-price diva Taylor Dayne. I have been revisiting and refining a favourite theory over the past couple of weeks: namely that towards the end of each decade, chart pop drops a generation, leaving those who thought that pop was always going to grow with them feeling scornful and betrayed. In this instance – and as someone who was a 26 year old DJ in an “alternative” nightclub at the time, I can speak with some measure of authority – it was Kylie, Tiffany and Bros who grated on our sensibilities the most (the equally youthful Debbie Gibson being too marginal a figure to care about). God, but we hated them all with a passion: they were “production line”; they were “plastic”; they endorsed Thatcherist values (whether they knew it or not, but WE COULD TELL); and they were everything that some of us hated disco music for in the late 1970s (“mindless brainwash music for the masses”). Meanwhile, in a handful of clubs in the London area, a new movement was brewing which would provide pop’s next great paradigm shift. Like the paradigm shift of punk before it, acid house (and its close siblings, techno and rave) never really dominated the charts; instead, they had to content themselves with Changing Everything. Down at my club night, we were already transforming the venue with home-made smiley-faced banners; a month or so later, we even gave away matching badges to everyone who walked through the door. There were faint clues in the Bomb The Bass record, and there would be stronger clues in a couple of future Number Ones: Theme From S-Express and The Only Way Is Up. A seminal year for youth culture it might have been; but at our chosen point in time, it was still a shit period for chart pop. Better luck next year, eh? Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – Tie-break. The comments boxes are closed. Your votes have been counted and verified. And I can now reveal that, for the first time in five years, we have a dead heat for first position. Which can only mean one thing… We go to tie-break. Repeat: we go to tie-break! It has occasionally been suggested that, were we to pick charts from the summer months rather than miserable old February every year, we might end up with a stronger selection. In that spirit, let us travel forwards in time… …until we land precisely six months later, in mid-August. Mmm, feel the warmth! You might want to lose those bulky sweaters. In our bonus tie-break round, we’ll be examining the Top Three for August 17th 1968, and for August 17th 1978. The usual rules apply, except that we’ll be voting for six songs rather than five. The decade with the largest number of points in this round will duly be crowned this year’s winner. Here goes, then. The best of Troubled Diva luck to both our decades… #3, 1968: This Guy’s In Love With You – Herb Alpert. (video) #3, 1978: Substitute – Clout. (video) #2, 1968: Fire – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. (video) #2, 1978: You’re The One That I Want – John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John. (video) #1, 1968: Mony Mony – Tommy James and the Shondells. (video) #1, 1978: Three Times A Lady – The Commodores. (video) Listen to a short medley of all six songs. Given that this is such a uniquely sensitive and critical moment in the contest, I shall refrain from passing comment on these selections, for fear of leading the jury with my piercing aperçus. (The suggestion that this is merely because I’m short on time and can’t be arsed is, of course, quite groundless, and you should be ashamed of yourselves.) For the very last time this year, then: over to you. Your votes have never been more vital. Voting on the tie-break round will remain open for 48 hours. The deadline is therefore midnight on Wednesday night. Final tie-break results: 1968: Mony Mony – Tommy James and the Shondells. (141) 1968: Fire – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. (132) 1968: This Guy’s In Love With You – Herb Alpert. (125) 1978: You’re The One That I Want – John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John. (106) 1978: Substitute – Clout. (105) 1978: Three Times A Lady – The Commodores. (84) Author Mike APosted on March 4, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – Tie-break. Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – interval poll. While we wait for the final votes to trickle in, I have a few questions for you concerning this year’s selections. 1. Of the fifty songs featured, which one was your absolute favourite? 2. And which one was the biggest pile of stinking doo-doo? 3. Are there any good songs which you’ve discovered (or re-discovered) as a result of this year’s contest? 4. And finally, a trivia question: how many of this year’s acts have performed at the Eurovision Song Contest? At the time of writing, the final positions are still in a state of flux, with a lot of very closely fought battles still taking place throughout. At one point during the weekend, the 2000s came within two points of second place – and if nothing changes between now and tonight’s midnight voting deadline, then we’ll be going to tie-break. Could this BE more exciting? Author Mike APosted on March 3, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – interval poll. Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – the Number 1s. Gosh, is it that time already? Whereas most previous Which Decades have, barring the initial head-rush of Year One, unfolded over a relatively leisurely three weeks or so, I haven’t half been banging them out this year. (There’s a reason for that: namely four gigs on four consecutive nights next week, AND an interview to write up, AND a 1200-word article for… well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. But if I don’t get this post up by tonight, there simply aren’t going to be enough hours in the day.) In terms of the daily decade-by-decade league tables, this year has been almost entirely free of drama. The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s have been fixed in their respective positions, while the only real action has occurred at the top of the league, with the 1960s and 1970s frequently swapping places or else drawing level with each other. Nevertheless, and with just one more round to go, the pole position is still very much up for grabs. There are some extremely close border skirmishes lower down the league, and the three closest (Lighthouse Family vs The Feeling, Usher vs Kelly Rowland, Robbie Williams vs Rihanna, none more than two points apart) are all battles between the same two decades. Add that to the current one-point gap between Nickelback and the Ofarims, and you can see that the 2000s are still capable of snatching victory, for the first year ever. Have I got you all worked up again, then? Because after those last two rounds, our collective spirits could do with some reviving. Once more into the breach we go, brave soldiers! It’s Friday night, it’s Top Of The Pops… it’s the Number Ones! 1968: Mighty Quinn – Manfred Mann. (video) 1978: Take A Chance On Me – Abba. (video) 1988: I Should Be So Lucky – Kylie Minogue. (video) 1998: Doctor Jones – Aqua. (video) 2008: Mercy – Duffy. (video) Listen to a short medley of all five songs. What is it with our insistence on reading non-existent “naughty” meanings into innocent cultural artifacts of forty years ago? There were no sexual double entendres in Captain Pugwash; Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds wasn’t about LSD; Bob Dylan’s Puff The Magic Dragon wasn’t about cannabis; and his 1967 composition Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) weren’t about no coke dealer, neither. (The song actually drew its inspiration from Anthony Quinn’s portrayal of an eskimo called Inuk, in the 1960 movie The Savage Innocents. God, I love Wikipedia.) “Yeah, but he’s an eskimo, right? And where do eskimos live? In igloos! And what are igloos made of? Snow! And what does snow look like, eh? Eh? Eh? You’re a man of the the world, squire! Say no more, say no more!” To which I say, look at the third verse, Tedious Throwback Drugs Bore: “Nobody can get no sleep, there’s someone on everyone’s toes, but when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody’s gonna wanna doze.” Must be pretty shite charlie, then. I rest my case. Oh yes, the Manfred Mann version. (Stripped of its parentheses and its definite article, Fact Fans. These things matter.) The Manfreds had a bit of a “thing” for covering Dylan songs, having already scored Top Ten hits with versions of If You Gotta Go, Go Now and Just Like A Woman. Never having heard Dylan’s 1967 Basement Tapes original, I find myself quite unable to imagine what it might sound like – and indeed, I would never have guessed from the typically strident, straight-up, boom-thwack 1968 arrangement that this was even one of his compositions. Having subtracted its attendant – and considerable – nostalgic pull, I also find myself wondering how it ever came to top the charts. It’s pleasant, it’s curious… but, you know, what the fk was going on here? He’s an eskimo! Who cares? It’s always a bit boring when Abba songs come up on Which Decade, because everyone just goes “yadda yadda yadda classic”, and they get maximum points all round, and where’s the thrill in that? But then again, what can you can do when they keep knocking out material of this quality, except salute their genius? As a love-struck teen with the most massive, all-consuming, and needless to say unrequited boy-on-boy crush on a fellow school mate (who still hasn’t shown up on Friends Reunited, and yes, I do still check from time to time), I found a considerable personal resonance within Take A Chance On Me – as indeed I did with just about every song on the radio for the full three years that we were at school together, up to and including Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, and believe me, that takes some doing. Listening to it again this morning, I had to smirk at lines such as “If you’re all alone when the pretty birds have flown, honey I’m still free, take a chance on me“, which cast me as some sort of lovelorn Mr. Humphries Junior – but we didn’t have much in the way of role models in 1978. (OK, Tom Robinson – but I never really thought of him as gay in a fancying-blokes sort of way, just in an abstracted fist-punching badge-wearing way. I’m rambling, aren’t I? It’s been a long day.) Incidentally, those of you watching the video should pay close attention to Agnetha’s small but significant pout at around the 2:17 mark, as this was the moment that totally slaughtered the lads in the school TV room on Thursday nights, just after supper and just before prep. I can still remember the anticipation (“Wait for it, wait for it!”) and the almost post-coital sigh which followed (“She just looks so… easy, you know what I mean?”) Hey, they didn’t get out much. At least my source material was closer to hand. (And I mean that entirely metaphorically.) By way of introducing our third Number One, I can do no better than to quote SwissToni‘s and Z‘s comments on When Will I Be Famous: Have I really wasted 20 years of my life hating this record? Listening to it now, it all seems so…so… innocuous. How could I have expended so much passion loathing something that is ultimately this harmless? I was too old for this back in 1988. Now, I’m not. Because, you see, back in the days when Soap Starlet Kylie Minogue had yet to morph into SexKylie, DanceKylie, IndieKylie, PopKylie, SexKylie2.0 and BraveKylie, SnottyLittleHipsterMike was as yet allergic to her charms. OK, I fking DETESTED I Should Be So Lucky, despite having bought it as a “just in case” standby for my club nights. I only ever played it the once, at another benefit night down the Old Vic (I did a lot of benefit nights), this time to raise funds for a Lesbian & Gay Community Centre which, with the wisdom of hindsight, never stood a ghost of a chance of being opened. (And what’s worse, I accidentally played the instrumental version on the B-side. Oh, the cheek-burning shame of it! Hateful, hateful, song!) Well, look. If you’d told us at the time that Kylie’s pop career would still be going strong twenty years later, with the artist elevated to the position of Much Loved National Treasure, we’d never have believed you. Besides which – and I know she’s never claimed to be the world’s greatest singer, but still – this has to be one of the most lacklustre vocal performances on any UK Number One ever. Sorry, Kylie. Luvyaloads, you know that. And I also love the good grace with which you’ve worn this particular albatross: reciting it straight-faced at a highbrow poetry festival in the 1990s, reworking it as Ibiza trance on your 2002 tour, and most recently, with that deliciously slinky Jessica Rabbit cocktail lounge version, on Jools Holland’s New Year’s Eve show. Never was a turd more ably polished, I’ll grant you that. But you know, and I know, that I Should Be So Lucky is still… well… a bit shit, really. No such taste-related problems befell me in 1998, as my extended Oh What A Big Fat Gay Cliché mid-life crisis reached its autumn years. By that time I’d have danced to any old rubbish, provided it was “gay” enough – as my Vengaboys collection alone would prove – but if truth be told, Aqua‘s Doctor Jones holds up rather well. Oh, the new crop of snotty little hipsters hated it with a passion, of course. At the end of 1997, when Muzik magazine polled its best known DJs for their end of year round up, almost every single one of them named Aqua’s Barbie Girl as the worst single of the year – whereas, as I’m sure we’ve all come to realise, it was nothing less than Total Pop Genius. (I think the penny first dropped with the Goodness Gracious Me parody, Punjabi Girl.) And while Doctor Jones might not scale the same Olympian heights, it sure as hell comes close. And finally, it’s this week’s New Amy Winehouse! Move over Adele, you’re ancient history: Duffy‘s the new gal in town! Actually, and before we go any further, shall we put all this New Amy Winehouse conspiracy theory nonsense to bed? For lest we forget, Amy only went stratospherically massive a few months ago, whereas Adele and Duffy have been in “artist development” for considerably longer than that. The time lines simply don’t fit. So let us hear no more about it. I haven’t yet made my mind up about Duffy, whom I’ll be seeing at The Social in exactly a week’s time (and what’s she even doing playing such a tiny venue when she’s at Number One, anyway – so much for the carefully plotted Evil Masterplan). I heard a few selections from the new album earlier in the week and liked them – but having heard the full album this evening in a single sitting, I find that her voice grates badly after half a dozen numbers. Then again, as Tina said last to me last night, “She’s more Lulu than Dusty” (although Chig and I think she’s more Carmel than Lulu – follow these links and you’ll see what we mean) – and if you downgrade your expectations accordingly, then numbers like Mercy become a whole lot more palatable. For when all’s said and done, and despite my increasing aversion to retro-ism in 2000s pop (hell, anyone would think they were chasing the Fifty Quid Bloke market!), I really like Mercy, even somewhat despite myself. I’ve been earworming it literally all day, and it hasn’t yet driven me bonkers, so that alone is a good sign – and hell, it’s just good plain, tongue-in-cheek, gently chiding, finger-wagging FUN. With the added bonus of some totally hot Mod boys dancing on their own in the video, which can only help… My votes: Abba – 5 points. Duffy – 4 points. Aqua – 3 points. Manfred Mann – 2 points. Kylie – 1 point. Over to you, for the last time. This is the Big One, folks. I’ll keep the voting open, for all selections, until midnight on Monday night. Have a great weekend! Sorry for rambling! I’m outta here! Continue reading “Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – the Number 1s.” Author Mike APosted on February 29, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – the Number 1s. There’s a quote somewhere in the Ian Gittins Top Of The Pops book – ah, here it is, page 71 – from Johnny Marr, talking about the special Christmas editions of the show: “It was often a letdown, because the records I really liked tended to get to Number Eleven, not Number One. I would much rather have seen Mott The Hoople do All The Young Dudes than Don McLean singing bloody Vincent again.” I know exactly what he means by that. And having feasted your ears upon the motley crew which comprise our Number Twos (was a Which Decade selection ever more appropriately named?), I fancy that you will too. Hold yer noses! In we go! 1968: Cinderella Rockefella – Esther & Abi Ofarim. (video) 1978: Figaro – Brotherhood Of Man. (video) 1988: I Think We’re Alone Now – Tiffany. (video) 1998: All I Have To Give – Backstreet Boys. (video) 2008: Rockstar – Nickelback. (video) I AM THE LADY I MAKE THEM VELVET IS MY SPECIALITY (Sorry, a little Nottingham Textile Heritage In Joke there. The rest of you, please skip on by.) Of all the songs in our 1968 Top 10, Esther & Abi Ofarim‘s novelty duet is the one that I remember the most vividly, doubtless because it was played on the radio shows that my parents were most likely to listen to. (I’m guessing Housewives’ Choice and Family Favourites.) There’s period charm, I’ll grant you (especially in the video clip) – and I’m always partial to bit of yodelling – but, ecch, maybe I’m just a jaded old grump, as this stopped putting a smile on my face a long time ago. From one Eurovision act (Abi Ofarim represented Switzerland in 1963, as did Celine Dion in 1988) to another. Whereas Celine shoved Scott Fitzgerald into second place, the Brotherhood Of Man, as any fule kno, triumphed in 1976 with Relax Missus, I’m A P@3do! – and two years later, there was still mileage to be extracted from their Woolworths Own Brand Abba act. Not content with distilling the loamy essence of Fernando (and the piano riff of Dancing Queen) into the milky piss-water of Angelo, the sheer paucity of creative vision at the heart of BOM enured that, in best dog-returning-to-its-own-vomit style, the formula could bear one more reduction. Adios, ill-starred Mexican shepherd boy! And hola, medallion-clanking scourge of the Costa de Sol! Believe it or not, this was voted Best Single of 1978 by the viewers of the ITV children’s show Magpie. Tsk, kids, eh? And we have the nerve to complain about bassline house on the bus? (But I do still quite like the rising and falling bass vamp which underpins the chorus. There, I’ve said it. Fair and balanced, me.) And just in case those two WEREN’T QUITE PERKY ENOUGH FOR YOU, heeeeeeeeere’s Tiffany! Come on, ON YOUR FEET! And FLEX! And POINT! I’m not seeing enough SMILING FACES AT THE BACK! Much as I loathed it at the time, snobby little hipster that I was, you simply couldn’t keep a good song down – and I Think We’re Alone Now, whether by Tiffany in 1988, or Lene Lovich in 1978, or The Rubinoos in 1977, or Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967, or indeed Girls Aloud in 2006 (and I can do interpretive movements to the Girls Aloud version, as demonstrated in a Brighton gay club last May, hem hem, ooh I can still show them youngsters a thing or two), is a great song. So much so, that even Tiff’s generically tinny 1980s production job somehow ends up playing to the song’s strengths. (And before we move on, I must pay a fond tribute to my long-lost friend Nik’s “alternative cabaret” version of this, as performed down the Old Vic on a Stop Clause 28 benefit night, which approached the song from the perspective of a pair of smug young marrieds. “We’ll tear down the walls! And build an archway to the dining room!” Ah, ’twas class…) A couple of days ago, commenter Jeff W said of Bomb The Bass: “If we could play one joker in any one round each year, this is probably where I’d play mine.” Well, if I could play a joker in any one round, then it would be one that excused me from doing a blurb for one of the fifty songs – and the song in question would be this total waste of space from the Backstreet Boys. Because, you see, there’s some sort of protective override system in my brain which absolutely refuses to ingest production-line boy-band ballads of this nature. I must have played All I Have To Give a good half dozen times in the last couple of weeks, in an attempt to reach an informed opinion – and every goddammed time, my brain detuned after the first thirty seconds. So, all I have to give is this. Firstly, that this is an early example of the sort of ghastly straining-on-the-potty pop vocal technique that would come to dominate the early-to-mid Noughties (Enrique, I’m looking at you) – and secondly, that Louis Walsh, having already bludgeoned us into submission with Boyzone, must have been taking careful notes for his next project… And so, dear MP3 medley listeners – and dear God, hasn’t this felt like the longest six and a quarter minutes in living memory? – to those unlikeliest of comeback kings: Nickelback, back in the Top 10 for the first time since 2003 with their, ahem, Wry Social Commentary. For if you’re the sort of person who derived profundity from Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) and an important history lesson from We Didn’t Start The Fire, then I’m guessing that Rockstar is your idea of Wry Social Profundity. But hey, with major cultural figures in the video like Gene Simmons, Kid Rock, Nelly Furtado and Ted Nugent, they must be doing something right, yeah? Sorry, readers. I don’t know what’s got into me this evening. Perhaps we should leave it there. I’ll be Princess Fluffy again tomorrow, I promise. My votes: Tiffany – 5 points. Esther & Abi Ofarim – 4 points. Nickelback – 3 points. Brotherhood Of Man – 2 points. Backstreet Boys – 1 point. Over to you. I have suffered for my art, and now it’s your turn. Don’t all rush at once! Le sigh. Once again, I am Homo Alone, with only the upstairs PC and a freshly poured glass of Valdivieso for company. K is in Copenhagen until Saturday, and has just loyally logged on, in the hope of finding today’s selections and “cheering me up”. Given his habitual hatred of the voting process, this takes loyalty to a new level, and so I do feel a bit bad for letting him down. Shall we? Yes, we shall. Ladies and gentleman of the blog, it’s the Number Threes! 1968: She Wears My Ring – Solomon King. (video) 1978: If I Had Words – Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley with the St. Thomas More School Choir. (video) 1988: Tell It To My Heart – Taylor Dayne. (video) 1998: Never Ever – All Saints. (video) 2008: Now You’re Gone – Basshunter. (video) Making Engelbert Humperdinck sound positively rock-and-roll by comparison, there’s something disturbingly proprietorial about Solomon King‘s ode to wedded bliss, which conjures up images of a scene from an imagined 1980s “suburban noir” David Lynch movie. Can’t you just picture this being crooned by a nitrous oxide-inhaling Dennis Hopper, while a caged, shackled, gagged Isabella Rossellini cowers behind him? I know I can. Why, it’s almost enough to make She Wears My Ring sound interesting… and on one level, the downright creepiest Which Decade entry since Billy J. Kramer’s Little Children. And speaking of little children: although, as I can now reveal, you have been spared the sound of the St Winifred’s School Choir – backing Brian And Michael in pre-Grandma days, on pop music’s other ode to L.S. Lowry (which didn’t chart for another couple of weeks) – it is nevertheless my duty to inform you that the St. Thomas More School Choir have gamely stepped into the breach, with their contribution to Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keely‘s reggae-fied vocal reworking of the Maestoso from Camille Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 (Gert, I hope you’re impressed by my research). (There, I swore I wasn’t going to waste more than a sentence on that load of old toot. Scott Fitzgerald ended up doing Eurovision, you know. Surprised? No, I didn’t think you would be.) Although my “alternative” night down the Barracuda Club on Hurt’s Yard (“A Polysexual Pink Playground for Lesbians Gay Men and their Friends!” ran one slogan; “An Equal Opportunities Dancefloor!” ran another) operated a strict NO HI-NRG! policy (the battle lines had been drawn, and one simply had to make a stand), we weren’t above bending the rules to let in the odd disco diva or two… and they didn’t come much odder (Wa-hey, I Am On Fire Tonight!) than the capaciously-gobbed and frankly bloody scary Taylor Dayne. Although, like the depressing majority of our 1988 Top 10, this is fairly standard issue stuff, Taylor belts it out like a trouper (eventually receiving a Grammy nomination for her labours), and I cannot help but gaze fondly on – meaning that, unlike, Scott and Yvonne, she’s worth, ooh, two sentences. And at last, a touch of class. With lyrics inspired by the break-up of band member Shaznay Lewis’s relationship, and with a chord progression borrowed from Amazing Grace (Scott and Yvonne please note: this is how you nick stuff and make it work), the second single from All Saints took a couple of months to climb to Number One, before taking an equally leisurely amount of time dropping back down again. Despite the faintly comical spoken intro, which can’t quite decide which side of the Atlantic it comes from, Never Ever oozes class from the moment that the main track kicks in. (And frankly, dear hearts, class is in rather short supply today.) Right then, who’s ready for some good old Swedish Schaffel-Bosh? Anyone? Come on, I need to see hands in the air. Basshunter‘s Now You’re Gone started life nearly two years ago, in a distinctly slower Swedish-language incarnation known as Boten Anna: a love song directed to an IRC bot, if you can countenance such a thing. (Or rather, to a woman whom Mister Basshunter mistook for an IRC bot. What’s IRC? What’s a bot? Oh, you go and look it up.) If you think that all sounds quite quirky and interesting, then I’m afraid that none of it translates to the duller-than-dull English language version, which is to its Swedish original what the clunking 99 Red Balloons was to the delightful 99 Luftballons, and hence not worthy to lick the boots of the H “two” O track with which it shares a record label. My votes: All Saints – 5 points. Taylor Dayne – 4 points. Basshunter – 3 points. Solomon King – 2 points. Scott & Yvonne – 1 point. Over to you. Not the best bunch we’ve ever had, I’ll grant you. A string of Fives all round for All Saints, then? Or are you all a bunch of closet Schaffel Boshers? The 1960s are back ahead again, but the 2000s could still catch up, at least in theory. Phone lines are open…. NOW! Sometimes, I think that my whole life could be defined as an epic struggle against procrastination – and it’s a struggle which, regrettably, I have spent most of today losing. And so, while K packs his clobber for Copenhagen (where he’ll be from tomorrow until Saturday), I’m going to seize the moment and squeeze out today’s instalment. Number Fours, get your arses over here! And look lively about it! 1968: Everlasting Love – The Love Affair. (video) 1978: Come Back My Love – Darts. (video) 1988: Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car – Billy Ocean. (video) 1998: My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion. (video) 2008: Sun Goes Down – David Jordan. (video) Remember what I was saying last time, about the simple joys of a boom-thwack beat and a parping brass section? Well, here’s further evidence of the same – as well as another example of a song which charted in a different version in the States. Although I’m still not entirely clear as to whether Amen Corner covered American Breed or vice versa, the provenance of Everlasting Love is a clear one: Robert Knight performed the “authentic”, “soulful” original, and The Love Affair (or rather lead singer Steve Ellis and a bunch of session men) followed up with the “watered down”, “manufactured” cheapo Brit-pop copy (Marmalade having already rejected it as “too poppy”, THE FOOLS). Having been cleansed of my residual “rockism” a long time ago, I can’t say that such issues of “authenticity” particularly trouble me. The Love Affair’s version is, after all, still the work of living, breathing human beings, and to my ears it works gloriously well, anything that the song loses in hesitant tenderness and lightness of touch being adequately compensated by the soaring, widescreen grandeur of the production. A decade on, and the British doo-wop revival group Darts were up to a broadly similar trick: taking a US hit, and poppifying it for the UK market. Except that in this case, the hit in question (for a long-forgotten act called The Wrens) was already 23 years old, and the band covering it had the sort of solid pub-rocking, dues-paying credentials that lifted them head and shoulders above those other 1950s revivalists of the day, Showaddywaddy. (And, oh look, here’s a 1975 clip of the band in their former incarnation as Rocky Sharpe and the Razors, performing the self same song.) Darts were always just the right side of Hip for people like me, with a winning freshness and an underlying knowingness, which somehow tipped you the wink that there was slightly more to them than met the eye. And of course, for school kids of a certain age, there was the added thrill of The Bit Where It Sounds Like They’re Singing “Do The Wank” – which should never be discounted. Enough with the Learnedness already. Sheesh, we’ll be here all night. Thankfully, Billy Ocean‘s slight little effort need not detain us for too long. Repeating more or less the same formula that had brought him so much success two years earlier with When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (and tellingly, following a period when he had once again started to flounder commercially), Get Outta My Dreams is an unimaginative reduction which, as I said earlier, needn’t detain us long. Hey, if he can do it, then so can I. After yesterday evening’s lecture (see below), Dymbel kindly treated me to dinner – during which he presented me with a copy of a book which I have very much been wanting to read: Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste, by the Canadian music journalist (and blogger) Carl Wilson. Its premise, if I have correctly grasped it, is that Wilson embarks upon an exhaustive examination of the work of an artist that he cannot stand, in order to reach a better understanding of why so many millions of people love her work. The artist in question is Wilson’s fellow Canadian Celine Dion: a singer whose appeal has similarly always been lost on me (or in other words, I can’t fking stand her either). Despite her own early hatred of it, My Heart Will Go On became Celine’s biggest hit – eventually landing her an Oscar for her trouble – and it has since been ranked as the 14th most successful song in music history. Even after making allowances for the massive boost that it received from the equally risible Titanic, I too am at a loss to explain why this banal little dirge captured the hearts of millions. As for Celine’s performance, it’s Humperdinck Syndrome all over again: technically adept, but smarmily over-egged and clinically devoid of true emotion. All of which makes me more than eager to get stuck into Carl Wilson’s worthy little tome – especially since, as Dymbel was quick to point out, Wilson has seen fit to quote selections from my 2006 Eurovision series for Slate on pages 43 and 44: fully attributed, although he’s a full decade out on the date. Woo! And indeed, Hoo! K has finished his packing and is now preparing dinner, so my window is rapidly narrowing. What to say about David Jordan, then? To be honest, I know nothing about the man, and have no idea where Sun Goes Down came from. Standing quite at odds stylistically from anything else in the 2008 chart, this is a curiously old-fashioned sturdy campfire sing-a-long, which puts me in mind of 2002-era Shakira for some strange reason. Somewhat despite myself, I find that I quite like it. Don’t ask me why. It’s, um, catchy? Yes, that’s probably the long and the short of it. My votes: Love Affair – 5 points. Darts – 4 points. David Jordan – 3 points. Billy Ocean – 2 points. Celine Dion – 1 point. Over to you. The 1960s and 1970s are neck and neck once again, but otherwise there’s not much change in our accumulated chart – which, to be honest, could do with a few upsets. (It’s not always this static, you know!) Then again, have the 2000s ever scored so consistently well before? As a perennial champion of the underdog, that gladdens me mightily. OK, dinner time! Swings and roundabouts, folks. Swings and roundabouts. Yesterday, you got the learned, considered, well-researched treatise, which touched on The Very Nature Of Popular Song Itself. Today, you’re getting the hasty, top-of-my-head, Back From The Pub And Oh Shit It’s Ten Fifteen On A Sunday Night And I’d Better Bash This Out Quick version. (Which I would have written earlier, had I not spent the best part of the day scaling the North Face of Gary Numan, and bricking myself about tomorrow’s 90 minute lecture about blogging to Dymbel’s Trent Uni Creative Writing M.A. course – of which more in due course, on both fronts.) Let’s not fart about, then! Number Fives, please make yourselves known to the group! 1968: Bend Me Shape Me – Amen Corner. (video) 1978: Hot Legs – Rod Stewart. (video) 1988: Beat Dis – Bomb The Bass. (video) 1998: Cleopatra’s Theme – Cleopatra. (video) 2008: Chasing Pavements – Adele. (video) For me, one of the defining features of 1968 pop is a certain new-found stridency of tone, as exemplified by the straight-up boom-thwack beat and the blaring, parping, stentorian brass of Amen Corner‘s Bend Me Shape Me. (Don’t you just love the cheeky, tush-wiggling, almost Carry On-style implied upward inflection – “Ooh-wa, Ooh-wa!” – on the final two notes of each brass riff? I know I do.) Set against the buoyant Brylcreem bounce of the rest of the track, Andy Fairweather-Low’s vocals strike just the right note of restraint, with a delivery that suggests he’s almost too cool even to bother moving his lips. And it just my over-ripe imagination, or is this music for swinging wife-swappers, high on Mackesons and Cherry B, to fling their keys into the onyx ashtray, before casting off their natty sports jackets and 18-hour girdles and hurling themselves upon the Brentford Nylons? Mm, kinky! And speaking of the unsophisticated lusts of the suburban lothario, here’s their 1970s poster boy Rod Stewart (“Britt Ekland? Wa-hey, get in there son!”), with the aural equivalent of that Athena photo of the tennis player scratching her behind. I have to say that Hot Legs, which I fully intended to pan, sounds a damned sight more enjoyable after an early doors skinful down the boozer – as I discovered less than three hours ago, re-connecting with my inner caveman as I Jagger-swaggered round the kitchen, pointing and pouting and feeling myself up in my notional skin-tight leopard skin leggings. Sexist? Yes. Neanderthal? You betcha. But tossed-off, raunchy-arsed rock-a-beatin’ boogie has its place, you know? And before I torch what remaining stocks of Sensitive New Man Cred I possess, here’s some ideologically sound, GLC-approved, NALGO-Benefit-Night-sanctioned (and yes, I speak from direct experience), Lesbians-Gay-Men-And-Their-Friends-compatible, MA1-bandana-and-cycling-shorts-friendly Eighties Groove from Tim Simenon, aka Bomb The Bass – who originally put Beat Dis together as a coursework project, on a budget of about 20 pence. Set against the transgressive likes of Bend Me Shape Me and Hot Legs, there’s something almost prim about Simenon’s invitation to party – but then again, I have nothing but fond memories of the way it used to fill the floor at my club nights: the natural successor to Pump Up The Volume, the 114 BPM bridge between hip-hop and house (and hence extremely useful in my DJ sets), and a record which, by getting in there seconds ahead of its legions of imitators (even if it did blatanly rip off the true pioneers such as Steinski and Coldcut, and boy, didn’t we quickly tire of those same old samples?), managed to encapsulate a precise moment in time. Yes, it’s a “used groove” whose time will never come again – but dance music has never been burdened with the need to strive for longevity, and this is as neat an encapsulation of the ephemeral as you’ll find anywhere. “Cleopatra! Coming atcha!” Hey, and you thought Beat Dis was disposable? There was a massive resurgance of capital-P Pop in 1998, and of GIRL-POWAH! pop in particular, as the revolution which the Spice Girls kicked off began to bear fruit in the shape of BWitched, Billie, [spoiler deleted] and this bunch of happy-go-lucky teenage sisters from Birmingham. As with the unseen Heaven 17/Scritti Politti fans behind When Will I Be Famous, the crew behind Cleopatra’s Theme clearly knew their stuff, and in this case I’d wager that at least a couple of Eighties Soul Boys must have been involved somewhere down the line. And as with Beat Dis, ephemeral disposability is no barrier to enjoyment. This is frothy, feisty and fun, and marred only by the painful memory of the girls’ Top Of The Pops appearance, in the exact same trendy beige combat trousers that I had bought in Covent Garden a week earlier, with which to go clubbing in Trade. Way to ruin a Hot Look, ladies! It’s getting late, the early doors booze is wearing off, and only Adele stands between me and beddy-byes. How quickly can I knock this one out? OK, it’s like this. Having seen her on The Brits last week, I found myself quite warming to Adele as a character. Hyped to the heavens and beyond she might be (“Critics’ Choice” award, my arse), but I liked her warm, earthy and unexpectedly unspun quality, which put me in mind of a future Alison Moyet in the making. However. The trouble that I have with Chasing Pavements is much the same trouble that I had with The Feeling’s I Thought It Was Over, a few days ago: namely that it is little more than an artfully assembled collection of tastefully retro-classic moments, which fail to plaster over the gaping void that they seek to conceal. For what is Chasing Pavements about, and what emotion is it trying to convey? If you know, then please enlighten me, as all I can hear is a self-consciously “big” chorus in search of a song to support it. As an ad-break soundbyte, it works fine for about 10 seconds, but since when was that enough? And can I go to bed now, please? My votes: Amen Corner – 5 points. Bomb The Bass – 4 points. Rod Stewart – 3 points. Cleopatra – 2 points. Adele – 1 point. Over to you. Thanks to a strong showing by Rose Royce and a weak showing by Engelbert Humperdinck, the 1970s have overtaken the 1960s at the top of the pile, with the 1990s and 2000s close on their heels (for once). Can Bomb The Bass revive the 1980s’ fortunes? Could Adele send the 2000s shooting ahead? Or will Amen Corner give the 1960s the necessary shot in the arm? I’ll begin to find out in the morning. Vote wisely! Well now, here are a couple of Fun Facts that I didn’t know this time two days ago – and they both concern your new favourite and mine, H “two” O ft. Platnum’s “opinion-dividing” What’s It Gonna Be. Firstly: in common with its 1968 rival Pictures Of Matchstick Men, What’s It Gonna Be was created in a toilet. Secondly: the toilet in question was right here in Nottingham, inside the Golden Fleece pub on Mansfield Road. (Read the full story here.) Yes, folks: a fully fledged Youth Culture Explosion has been taking place right under my nose, not half a mile from where I’m currently sitting, and I never knew about it until today. And I call myself a local music journalist? It Is Just Pathetic. Anyhow, this means that What’s It Gonna Be stands a good chance of becoming Nottingham’s fourth ever Number One, after Paper Lace (Billy Don’t Be A Hero), KWS (Please Don’t Go) and Bob The Builder (Can We Fix It?) Or even the fifth, depending upon the importance that you place upon DJ Vimto’s contribution to Fragma featuring Coco’s immortal Toca’s Miracle. Who said that we don’t have a music scene to be proud of? With that little flash of municipal pride duly dispatched, let us examine today’s Number Sixes. 1968: Am I That Easy To Forget – Engelbert Humperdinck. (video) 1978: Wishing On A Star – Rose Royce. (video) 1988: When Will I Be Famous – Bros. (video) 1998: Angels – Robbie Williams. (video) 2008: Don’t Stop The Music – Rihanna. (video) Oh dear, didn’t we have our fill of Engelbert “The Hump” Humperdinck this time last year? Then as now, this comes as a salutary reminder that the mid-to-late 1960s weren’t all about tinpot psychedelia, day-glo rainbows, granny glasses, foofy cravats, tie-dyes and bell-bottoms. Representing the interests of the age group of which I now find myself a part, The Hump could always be relied upon to remind us of The Way Things Were Supposed To Be Done, Before Those Pesky Kids Spoiled Everything: you know, proper music played by proper musicians, with lyrics that were actually about something, rather than all this juvenile matchsticks-and-fire-brigades nonsense. (In which case, perhaps every generation has its Humperdincks.) None of which would particularly trouble me (for I quite like a good inter-generational ding-dong, when the sides are well matched), if only The Hump’s records were actually any damned good. But, no. Backed by the sort of string arrangement which forever puts me in mind of Care Homes and Chapels of Rest, Hump delivers a technically assured but not altogether convincing performance, with a certain smarminess at its core that smothers a good deal of the potential emotional effect – assuming that a dreary workaday ballad such as this could have such an effect in the first place, of course. None of this is helped by the syrupy and superfluous Mike Sammes-style backing singers, whose presence threatens to turn Hump’s lovelorn lament into a cosy saloon bar sing-song. In striking contrast to Hump’s inert self-pity, Rose Royce‘s similarly lovelorn Gwen Dickey is far from ready to accept defeat. Wishing On A Star she may be – but as long as there’s a glimmer of hope, she’s going to keep praying and pleading. In certain respects, Wishing On A Star serves as the blueprint for Rose Royce’s masterpiece: Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, which hit the charts just over six months later. There’s a distinct similarity in the arrangements – and particularly with those swooning, soaring, shimmering, shivering strings, whose presence lifts both recordings into another almost unworldly dimension. For there’s true magic to be found here, despite this being the weaker of the two songs, as well as the sort of exquisite musicianly polish that can’t help but leave you wondering whether popular music really has slid steadily downhill ever since… …at which point, the blaring crash-bang-wallop of Bros is perhaps the last thing you might want to hear right now. But then, it’s worth bearing in mind that When Will I Be Famous is also the sound of pop music dropping down a generation, as it is historically wont to do at the end of each decade – and such drops have always jarred with the sensibilities of those who had spent the previous few years “maturing” with their pop music, secure in the false hope that pop music would continue to keep pace with them. We had it when bubblegum trampled over the ground that psychedelia had laid; when punk ripped up the cherished rule book of Dinosaur Rock; when the Spice Girls, UK garage and nu-R&B killed Britpop, diva house and “classic” soul; and with a bit of luck and a fair wind, we might be seeing faint signs of it again right now. A dumbing down? A return to Square One? A case of Have We Learnt Nothing? No, not a bit of it. Pop music has to be cyclical, it has to be rooted in an endless present, and certain key divisions of it have to address the concern of an eternally adolescent age group. However, this doesn’t mean that that the rest of us necessarily have to dismiss it as witless trash. We were all there ourselves at some point or other, defending our own Square Ones as if they were the beginning of time itself. Yes Mike, but does this make When Will I Be Famous any good? Well, strangely enough, I’d venture that the years have been quite kind. Aged 26 at the time it charted, perhaps I in turn was generationally obliged to loathe Bros – or to see through their blatant artifice, at the very least. But as brash, solipsistic teen-pop goes, this ain’t too shabby. Someone with a central involvement in its construction has clearly been listening to their Heaven 17 and their Scritti Politti, and if you listen closely enough then you might detect a certain wryness at work, which rather subverts the thrusting Thatcherite triumphalism of those buzzcut bimbos up front. Then again: for every bunch of fresh-faced ingenues, there must always be a counter-balancing set of somewhat over-ripe idols, their three or four years in the sun drawing to a natural close, who are facing that crucial adapt-or-die crossroads. The thick ones, the cutie-pie chancers who merely got lucky (and please don’t look back up the page, you’ll only embarrass them): they’ll drop off our radars without us even noticing. Some will move into light entertainment in its wider sense; and others will try to pull off that riskiest of tricks, the “growing with our audience” manoeuvre. So it was for Robbie Williams: dismissed as “the fat dancer from Take That” by his would-be role model Noel Gallagher, and floundering to such a degree that he had been reduced to playing venues the size of Nottingham Rock City on his Autumn 1997 solo tour. The debut solo album had stiffed, and the third single hadn’t even gone Top Ten. Angels was the only card that Williams had left to play: a final fourth single from the album, whose atypical trad-balladry took him far away from the sort of laddish latter-day Britpop that he had been attempting to peddle. The turning point came one Friday in December 1997, with an appearance on Chris Evans’ TFI Friday. His live interview completed, a nervous, vulnerable – hell, almost humble looking Williams semi-apologetically squeezed through the crowd, made his way to the stage downstairs… and gave the best performance of his solo career to date, by a country mile. In a stroke, he had granted us the opportunity to exert one of our favourite powers: the power of redemption. “Ah bless, Robbie’s not so bad after all! Let’s give him another chance!” We duly clasped the overtly sentimental Angels to our seasonally sentimental bosoms (perhaps those sleigh-bells at the start of the song were exerting a subliminal effect?), turned the former fat dancer into the biggest star of his generation (well, in the UK at least; we couldn’t work miracles), and appointed Angels as our new national anthem. Ten years on, and while Williams looks to be a washed-up spent force, his public’s patience having run out at around the time of the scrappily indulgent, are-you-taking-the-piss-or-what Rudebox album, his formerly beached boy-band compatriots have spent the past eighteen months surfing their own wave of ah-bless-it’s-good-to-have-them-back public redemption, with the admittedly sublime Patience having taken the place of the over-played and ultimately tiresome Angels (one funeral too many, perchance?) in our affections. (And I am uncomfortably conscious of using that most irritating of devices, the first person plural, in order to make my point. “When DID we all fall out of love with Robbie?” “Why HAVE we all fallen back in love with Gary, Mark, Howard and Jason?” “What IS this, Troubled Diva or G2?“) Despite the corner-cutting laziness of her recent Nottingham Arena show (under an hour and a quarter on stage including costume changes; songs dropped from the set list because it’s the last night and it’s only Nottingham, so who even cares), I am still just about prepared to acknowledge (and gosh, she’ll be so glad to hear it!) Rihanna‘s current pre-eminence as one of our brightest, boldest and best pop stars. Don’t Stop The Music (another fourth-single-off-the-album, like Angels before it) was perhaps THE key unifying moment of that live show, even more so than her run of fine, astute ballads (and definitely more so than Umbrella, which chugged on for ten long minutes as the cast and crew indulged in end-of-term foam fights with each other, almost oblivious to the 10,000-strong crowd in front of them). Now in its third month on the chart – and still inside the Top Ten at that – this is a track which seems to accumulate power as time goes on, and repeated plays during the past few days have only served to reinforce its greatness. Just as Althea and Donna may never have heard the 1967 Alton Ellis single which set off the chain of events leading to Uptown Top Ranking, so it is entirely possible that the 20-year old Rihanna has never even heard of Manu Dibango, the veteran African saxophonist whose 1972 single Soul Makossa provides Don’t Stop The Music with its central motif (via a circuitous route which takes in Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Starting Something, Jay-Z’s Face Off, Jennifer Lopez’s Feelin’ So Good – and hell, even Thursday’s Will Smith track quotes from it). Well, at least not until Dibango filed a law suit against Rihanna in December for unauthorised usage, but that’s beside the point for the purposes of this argument. What I’m trying to say is that there’s something rather wonderful about these chains of mutation: quoting and re-quoting and re-re-quoting, like a game of Chinese Whispers, such that the end product isn’t even aware of the original source. And most importantly of all – and it has this in common with the H “two” O track – Don’t Stop The Music remains thrillingly, propulsively, intoxicatingly modern and of the moment. For a wrinkly old bifter like me, caught at a vulnerable enough moment (as happened during the walk to work yesterday morning, and again during the walk home that evening), it can even represent a kind of prayer for the future: a re-statement of faith, that the gloriously daft and conflicted medium of pop music, which has obsessed me for almost all of my life, can still, and hopefully always will, have the power to delight, to surprise, to challenge, to excite, and to make me feel that life is worth living. All together now! MAMMA SEH MAMMA SAH MA MAKOOSA, MAMMA SEH MAMMA SAH MA MAKOOSA, PLEASE DON’T STOP THE, PLEASE DON’T STOP THE, PLEASE DON’T STOP THE MUSIC! My votes: Rihanna: – 5 points (but sort things out with Manu Dibango, you thieving little bitch). Rose Royce – 4 points (the most musically proficient by far, but I’m voting for the future this time, as perhaps I should have done with H “two” O on Thursday). Robbie Williams – 3 points. Bros – 2 points. Engelbert Humperdinck – 1 point. Over to you. Sheesh, I’ve rambled on for so long that I’ve ended up missing a day. Future posts will probably be shorter than this one, but I had a lot to say. And in any case, you always skim-read this bit and head straight to the comments box, don’t you? Oh, don’t attempt to hide it! Well, let me detain you no further. It’s down there. Off you trot… Looking at the results from the first three days of voting, it seems that your perennial enthusiasm for the 1960s remains undimmed, with strong showings for Brenton Wood, John Fred and The Move. Conversely, the 1980s have never got off to a worse start. At the time of writing, Jack ‘N’ Chill, Debbie Gibson and T’Pau have all placed last in their respective rounds, meaning that the 1980s are already trailing by 5 points (as you’ll see in the score table at the bottom of today’s post). If there’s one theme that links today’s five selections, I’d say it was this: cheapness. I’ll explain what I mean by that in a moment – but first, let us fling open the doors to our Bargain Basement and hurl ourselves in an unseemly scrum upon the Number Sevens. 1968: Pictures Of Matchstick Men – Status Quo. (video) 1978: Uptown Top Ranking – Althea & Donna. (video – link fixed) 1988: Say It Again – Jermaine Stewart. (video) 1998: Gettin’ Jiggy With It – Will Smith. (video) 2008: What’s It Gonna Be – H “two” O featuring Platnum. (video) Remember what I was saying yesterday about the make-do-and-mend shonkiness of that 1968 Top Of The Pops? Well, here’s another prime case in point. A few years before their re-invention as no-nonsense boogie merchants in brushed denim, Status Quo had a brief flirtation, both musically and indeed sartorially, with post-psychedelic pop. Although Pictures Of Matchstick Men sold well, both here and in the USA, giving the band their first hit, it sounds to these ears like a decidedly awkward marriage, with a primitive, low-rent feel that suffers by comparison with the likes of Itchycoo Park, or even Flowers In The Rain. Rather than conjuring up images of a lysergically-fuelled Arcadia, the plodding, prosaic production sounds as if it was funded by Green Shield Stamps (the logical extension of post-war ration book culture?), and held together by Sellotape, Copydex and scraps of greasy twine. But then, as its composer Francis Rossi eventually revealed, the song was written not while tripping his tits off in some far-flung ashram, but while sitting “on the bog… to get away from the wife and mother-in-law”. Poor old Frank. Not so much Timothy Leary as Timothy Lumsden – and in the Lowry-tribute stakes, his song even ended up being eclipsed, ten years later, by… …but hey, we’ll have no spoilers here. Let us turn instead to Althea and Donna, and the first of this year’s songs to have featured in a previous Which Decade. (Hands up, who remembers the Year One tie-break?) Played to death on Jamaican import by John Peel for most of the second half of 1977, Uptown Top Ranking was a product of reggae’s standard cost-cutting device, whereby numerous vocal tracks were laid upon the exact same backing track (or “riddim”) – in this case, Trinity’s Three Piece Suit, which was itself a dub version of a cover version of a song which first appeared in 1967… look, are you keeping up with all this? Despite its humble Frankenstein’s Clone origins, what’s remarkable about Uptown Top Ranking is that, to the unschooled ear, the backing track (featuring “the ubiquitous Sly and Robbie”, as we are contractually obliged to call them) sounds as if it had been expressly recorded with Althea and Donna’s vocals in mind. And what vocals! If you can get beyond the patois, this is a deliciously sassy and endearingly unspun exercise in bigging oneself up – and as such, almost enough to make you believe in the strange erotic power of the humble khaki suit. (And, indeed, ting.) (A quick aside about Althea and Donna’s video, before we move on. This is the famous clip in which A&D were obliged to sing with the Top of the Pops orchestra: a performance which the Ian Gittins book brands as an embarrassing disaster, but which I think isn’t all that bad, considering that a BBC light entertainment orchestra could hardly be expected to display any great natural affinity with the genre.) Along with the trusty old “Gareth Gates naked”, my other most notable search engine referral term has been, for many years, “Jermaine Stewart gay”. And, do you know what: in all those years, it has never occurred to me to find out. Having just looked up his details, I now know that Stewart met an untimely death in 1997, a few months short of his fortieth birthday, of an AIDS-related disease – and there, I feel, is where my brief investigation should end. Let us instead consider the merits of Say It Again: a slight confection, whose typically thin and tinny 1980s production does it no favours, but which is partially redeemed by an intriguing if ultimately misleading introduction (cut from the MP3 medley, but you’ll find it on the YouTube clip), some frisky piano vamps, and a general air of good-natured bonhomie which, when set against the forced relentlessness of Debbie Gibson’s Shake Your Love, comes as a refreshing blast of early spring air. “Cheap” is, of course, a relative concept. As Dolly Parton famously said, “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” – a maxim that can be somewhat less favourably applied to Will Smith‘s lazy, slapdash, but probably eye-wateringly expensive bastardisation of Sister Sledge’s He’s The Greatest Dancer. Dear Lord, didn’t we have enough of this pop-rap claptrap last year, with LL Cool J’s Ain’t Nobody and Warren G’s I Shot The Sheriff? What, was there some sort of movie soundtrack tie-in going on here? (For it’s the only logical explanation that I can think of, other than the commercial imperative to provide Will Smith with regular vehicles to carry on being “Will Smith”.) And can I really be arsed to find out? (Answer: No, I can’t. If Will’s people can’t be arsed to put the effort in, then neither can I.) Compare and contrast, then: Will Smith’s half-assed shotgun wedding with Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, versus Althea and Donna’s arranged marriage with Joe Gibbs, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. Two very similar techniques, two massively different budgets, and two entirely different outcomes. There’s a lesson in there somewhere. Eeh, I can’t half waffle on when I’ve got the bit between my teeth. And there’s still loads that I want to say about H “two” O featuting Platnum, but a dwindling time slot in which to do so. Quick bit of background, then. A brand new entry on the UK chart last Sunday, What’s It Gonna Be follows T2’s Heartbroken as the second breakout hit for the “bassline house” scene: a largely underground dance music sub-culture rooted in the Midlands and the North of England, with a particularly strong base in Sheffield. H “two” O are a two-man production team from Leicester, Platnum (sic) are a vocal trio from Manchester, and the video for What’s It Gonna Be has received over 1.5 million viewings on YouTube in just over a month. This, my fellow oldsters, is The Exciting New Youth Sensation That Is Sweeping The Country, and as such it is widely tipped to hit Number One within the next couple of weeks. It therefore logically follows – and really, this is only right and proper – that the vast majority of my generation will loathe What’s It Gonna Be with a passion. Oh, I can hear you all now: “It’s music for people with ASBOs to play on the bus!” And, for those of you who were clubbing in the 1990s: “Call this new? It’s just souped-up Speed Garage from 1997! Heard it all before!” (It’s a reasonable enough charge, and I have the same issue with 2000s dubstep versus 1990s trip-hop.) Equally, it also follows that an aging former hipster such as myself arguably has no business enjoying this tune as much as I do – but, and I fully expect to stand alone in this, I bloody love it. Like so much great teenage music over the years, it’s simple to the point of crudeness, it’s wilfully dumb to the point of insolence, it celebrates itself whilst ignoring all else around it… and it has the most irresistable thrust and drive and energy and general sense of alive-ness. And, indeed, a monumentally thumping and fully genre-appropriate bass line. And so, at the risk of acting like a soul-sucking leech upon a youth culture that by its very definition must exclude me, all I can say is this: I LUV DIS TUNEE!!! My votes, then: Althea & Donna – 5 points. H “two” O – 4 points. Jermaine Stewart – 3 points. Status Quo – 2 points. Will Smith – 1 point. Over to you. Which cheapo bargains from our basement are going to end up in your shopping trolley? The comments box awaits you. Happy shopping… It’s early days yet, but already the 1960s are establishing a commanding lead, with maximum points currently assigned to Brenton Wood and John Fred. As ever, this could all change in an instant – so if you’re late to the party, then please add your votes to the lower stack. Today’s selection is something of a Brum Beat/nu-R&B sandwich, with a light AOR filling. Chow down, pop-pickers: it’s the Number Eights! 1968: Fire Brigade – The Move. (video) 1978: Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra. (video) 1988: Valentine – T’Pau. (video) 1998: You Make Me Wanna… – Usher. (video) 2008: Work – Kelly Rowland. (video) A few weeks ago, as part of its Pop Season, BBC4 screened one of the few surviving 1960s Top Of The Pops recordings in its entirety. As luck would have it, the show in question was drawn from February 1968, with most of this year’s Which Decade selections featured – including this one from The Move. Watching the show, I was struck by its unexpectedly primitive quality. For the Top 20 countdown at the start, someone had run a pair of scissors round each individual mug shot of each individual artist, and had stuck them to a piece of cardboard with Copydex. Possibly the very same pot of Copydex was then redeployed in the construction of both the stage sets and the artists’ hairdos, lending a distinctly ramshackle, steam-powered, make-do-and-mend air to the proceedings. And then there were the mimed performances themselves: curiously static, disengaged affairs, with few of the artists showing much in the way of enthusiasm for the task at hand. Perhaps this was because, as Ian Gittins’ fascinating illustrated history of the show (Mishaps, Miming and Music) explains, they had all been hanging around the set since early morning, with nothing to do except get pissed at the BBC bar. This would certainly explain the uncertain gaits, the glassy eyes, the bored and/or cynical half-smiles, and the barely concealed corpsing – not least from The Move themselves, all lined up in their Carnaby Street finest. But in this case at least, the uninvolving performance on screen masked an extraordinary performance on record. Fire Brigade is, well, just plain bonkers basically: a barely contained yelp of adolescent lust mixed with pyromaniac imagery, a gleefully unhinged, over-stuffed arrangement (typically Roy Wood, in other words), and a direct quote from a 1950s rock and roll tune (ditto), namely the booming, twanging “DOINGG-da-da, DOINGG-da-da” riff from Duane Eddy’s Peter Gunn. (Side note: Glen Matlock has since admitted that said re-appropriated “DOINGG-da-da” was subsequently re-re-appropriated for the Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen. It took me a while to work out where, but it’s there all right. No Peter Gunn, no Fire Brigade, no God Save The Queen. It all connects.) As chance would have it, the band which formed from the ashes of The Move was also in the singles charts ten years later – although in actual fact, The Move of Fire Brigade and the Electric Light Orchestra of Mr. Blue Sky only share one band member, drummer Bev Bevan. (Jeff Lynne had yet to join The Move, and Roy Wood had bailed out early from the ELO.) From a 1978 perspective – and indeed from a 1988 or 1998 perspective – you could never have predicted that the dowdy old ELO would exert such an influence on the chart pop of 2008 (Hoosiers and Feeling, I’m looking at you). Most notably, Mr. Blue Sky‘s fingerprints can be found all over The Hoosiers’ wildly successful (i.e. my nieces aged 9 and 13 love it) Goodbye Mister A. And so, in the weirdest of ways, Mr. Blue Sky almost sounds contemporary. Yes, it’s a great tune, beautifully arranged – but if I might be permitted one pert parp of dissent, isn’t there also something rather studiously bloodless about it? Don’t get me wrong, for I love most of the band’s singles output from 10538 Overture to Xanadu – but for me, they didn’t hit their absolute peak until 1979, in the shape of the more disco-inspired material from the (oho!) Discovery album. From clever adult-oriented pop that I can get with, we must reluctantly switch to the dreary AOR of the tiresome T’Pau, who were following up the previous autumn’s chart-topping China In Your Hand with the oh-so-cannily timed Valentine. But hold up, hold up, and hold that seasonally appropriate purchase! This is no soppy paean to connubial bliss, but rather a Howl Of Anguish from the Other Woman! (“I see you every day with happy home and child, I look the other way, cold on the outside.”) Oh yes indeed! Much more Edgy and Interesting! But, alas, still shit. There was a contingent within the “serious” music press of the day which, for reasons unknown, did their darndest to promote singer Carol Decker as somehow worthy of interest – for granted, she was indeed a Bit Of A Character – but it was an ultimately futile exercise. I’ve never been able to get over my natural antipathy to AOR power ballads, and I see no reason to make an exception in this case. From the prescient to the redundant, and – wa-hey! – we’re back with the prescient again, as the still teenaged Usher lands one of the very first hits of the modern R&B era. Sure, we’d had signs of what lay ahead – En Vogue, D’Angelo, TLC – but You Make Me Wanna… sounded bracingly, thrillingly modern, with its sparse acoustic-led instrumentation set against the dizzingly intricate metre and the relaxed, near-conversational vocal. For some, the 2000s began a year later, with Britney’s Baby One More Time – but I think there’s also a good case for planting the marker flag right here, inches ahead of Destiny’s Child’s chart debut a month later. Oh, did someone mention Destiny’s Child? Well, look who we have right here in 2008: it’s only former member Kelly Rowland, striking out on her own as an Independent Woman, a Survivor, and not a poor man’s Beyoncé at all, no sir, no way! On the MP3 medley, I’ve decided to go with the UK remix by the Freemasons (featuring one half of the late 1990s commercial dance act Phats & Small), as this is the version which has been picking up most of the sales and airplay. On the YouTube link, I’ve gone with the more traditionally R&B flavoured – and vastly better – original album version. Nothing against the Freemasons per se, whose recent collaboration with Bailey “daughter of Judy” Tzuke (it’s a fine club to be in) on Uninvited made my Singles Of 2007 list, but the remix adds nothing and subtracts quite a lot. As for the song itself, I can’t muster up much emotion either way. It’s a tolerably efficient little blighter, but the laboured fnarr-fnarr innuendos (“Put it in!” “Go hard!” “You gotta get it all the way in!”) do little for me. My votes: The Move – 5 points. ELO – 4 points. Usher – 3 points. Kelly Rowland – 2 points. T’Pau – 1 point. Over to you. There’s never been much of a pro-R&B brigade on here, has there? But perhaps you’ll surprise me yet. Votes in the usual place, please. And now I’m off to watch The Brits… Ah, it feels good to be doing this again! Welcome back to those of you who have participated before, and warm greetings to those taking part for the first time. As usual, we’re getting a fair old spread of opinion, with Goldfrapp’s early commanding lead in the first round steadily eliminated by the Brenton Wood Barmy Army as the day has progressed. Nothing too unbearably horrible thus far, I’d say – and that includes our next selection. Pipe ’em in! It’s the Number Nines! 1968: Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) – John Fred & His Playboy Band. (video) 1978: Love Is Like Oxygen – The Sweet. (video) 1988: Shake Your Love – Debbie Gibson. (video) 1998: High – The Lighthouse Family. (video) 2008: I Thought It Was Over – The Feeling. (video) Any song which gets me spontaneously doing the Gizmo Dance at 8:30 in the morning is officially OK With Me, and so I have nothing but kind words to say about John Fred & His Playboy Band. Composed as a parody of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, this gave the Louisiana cajun musician John Fred a surprise novelty chart-topper in the USA, from which his career never quite recovered – but once again, as albatrosses go, this has mighty fine plumage. As befits the seasoned touring band that performed it, the arrangement is deft and inventive throughout, and packed with all sorts of pleasurable little twists along the way, right from the comedy “freak out” moment at the end of the intro (or is that an early under-the-radar example of that future pop standby, the Fake Orgasm?) By the time that Love Is Like Oxygen charted, it had been two years since The Sweet‘s last Top 40 hit, and despite continuing success in Northern Europe (particularly in Germany) most of us in the UK had written them off as a spent force. Featuring one of the most absurd extended metaphors in all of pop (because oxygen doesn’t work like that; it’s not poppers!) and with a hefty nod to the ELO in its arrangment, it was an archetypal “hope you like our new direction” moment… and, for a few weeks at least, it looked as if we did. Twelve months later, singer Brian Connolly left the band, and the fortunes of all four went into free-fall. Thirty years on, the song might have enjoyed a brief moment of re-appropriation by the Guilty Pleasures brigade – but in truth, it’s no lost classic, but merely an unlikely postscript to the career of a once great “manufactured” pop band, whose desire for creative autonomy ultimately proved their undoing. One place above Jack ‘N’ Chill’s year-too-late jackity-jack-tracking, we find another curiously dated offering in the shape of fresh-faced Debbie Gibson‘s winsome attempt to channel the spirit of early Madonna. Shake Your Love is basically a simple hook linked by some instantly forgettable verses: a characteristic which is rammed home by its cart-before-the-horse intro (i.e. let’s get that hook in quick, before they re-tune their radio dials). There’s some OK clappity-clap-tracking bits here and there (for I was always a sucker for a clap-track), but that’s the limit of my charity. Cue The Lighthouse Family, and doubtless cue the “Habitat coffee-table soul” groaning from several quarters… but hold up, hold up, there’s something of merit going on here. Perhaps I’m just adding my own nostalgic bias – and you know what a dim view I take of nostalgic bias – but, well, let’s pause a while, as I share what High means to me… Picture this: it was summer 1998, and our London friend J was staying with us in Nottingham for the weekend. He had a brand new man in tow – of less than 24 hours’ standing, as it happened – who had also planned a weekend in Nottingham, so there was a happy coincidence for you. J was (and is) a handsome devil – the sort that everyone stared at when were out on the scene together – and, well, let’s just say that he was habitually free with his affections. But M, the new chap, seemed markedly different from the rest, and K and I were struck by him from the off. That night, we went dancing down the old Admiral Duncan – pre-refurb, when it was a shitty old dive, but it was our shitty old dive, and some of us had grown rather fond of lurching around to Insomnia in puddles of spilt lager and broken glass on the itsy-bitsy, ever-rammed dancefloor. The longer we, ahem, “partied” (such a useful word), the more we realised that M was far, far too good a man to be summarily chucked into J’s emotional waste disposal by the middle of next week. At various intervals, one or the other of us would drag J to one side, fix him with Sincere Eyes, and tell him not to let this one go in such a hurry. And each time, J would nod with the same quiet resolve, in a way which we hadn’t quite seen before. A long way into the night, and well past the point where we had stopped caring about the Cool Factor, the DJ spun the dance mix of High, and we all danced in a smiling circle, and I thought optimistic thoughts, but (untypically, given the particular state I was in) kept them to myself. It was just one of those moments when all the elements came together; not in an emotionally overwhelming way, but in a yes-that-fits way. Perhaps I was the only one who even noticed. This coming summer, ten years after that first weekend together, J & M will be registering their civil partnership (and yes, of course we’re invited). Every time I hear High – and it has been a fair few times in recent days – I think back to that first night, and forwards to the coming ceremony, and I think: yes, this song just fits. It fits perfectly, both as introductory overture and as roll-the-credits Richard Curtis rom-com finale, and what, pray, is so very wrong about that? Oh, were we in the middle of doing a music-based collaborative blog stunt? I quite forgot where I was. Onto The Feeling, whose appeal is significantly heightened, for both K and myself (in a rare show of unity), by the dreamboat dishiness of their lead singer Dan Gillespie-Sells (and he bats for our team, so theoretically There Is Hope). Having said that, Dishy Dan has been a tad over-styled in the video for I Thought It Was Over, particularly in the Hitler-helmet-hair department, and so our affections have been wandering somewhat (i.e. that guitarist’s not bad, or maybe we’ll just have to be ravished by all of them at once). There’s a lot to like about I Thought It Was Over, provided you don’t listen too closely. As a piece of appealingly textured Drive-time Radio pop, it works more than fine – but in terms of matching the lyrics to the musical mood, it falls flat on its expertly tailored arse, those “look what we’ve been listening to!” ELO/Pilot/Elton John-style retro flourishes coming at all the wrong moments, in terms of articulating and sustaining an emotion. Which means that, after prolonged dithering, the wedding-disco gloopiness of the Light-Arse Famleh j-u-s-t knocks the, oh my sides, Tight-Arse Famleh into third place. My votes: John Fred & His Playboy Band – 5 points. The Lighthouse Family – 4 points. The Feeling – 3 points. The Sweet – 2 points. Debbie Gibson – 1 point. Over to you. Sixties kitsch-pop, Seventies pomp-pop, Eighties dance-pop, Nineties soul-pop, or Noughties meta-pop? The choice, as ever, is yours… Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – the Number 10s. I said: ARE – YOU – READY?!?!?! Forget all inferior Johnny-come-lately knock-off jobs, for this is the Real Deal. Yes, we have reached Year Six of our marathon quest to determine which of the past five decades has produced the finest chart pop music of all. When we last left our competing decades, the 1960s were just out in front, with the 1970s snapping crossly at their heels. This could all change by the end of the next ten posts. For newcomers, the rules of the game are simpler than they appear when I try and explain them. But in essence, what happens is this. Day by day, we’ll be comparing the UK Top Ten singles from this week in 1968, 1978, 1988, 1998 and 2008, working through the charts from bottom to top. So today we’ll be comparing the records at Number Ten in each year, tomorrow we’ll be assessing the Number Nines, and so on. I’ll be providing descriptive blurbs for each track, along with a short MP3 medley of each day’s contenders, and YouTube links wherever possible. Your job will be to listen to the songs (five per day, one for each decade), and to arrange them in order of preference, leaving your votes in the comments box. (When doing this, I do ask that you check your nostalgic prejudices in at the door, assessing the relative merits as objectively as you can. Otherwise it all gets a bit predictable.) I’ll then be feeding your votes into a spreadsheet, churning out daily scores for each round, and feeding them into an accumulated score for each decade. However, voting will remain open for all songs, right the way through the fortnight-and-a-bit, so there will always be time to catch up. Shall we get started, then? OK, let’s have this year’s batch of Number Tens… 1968: Gimme Little Sign – Brenton Wood. (video) 1978: Sorry I’m A Lady – Baccara. (video) 1988: The Jack That House Built – Jack ‘N’ Chill. (video) 1998: Together Again – Janet Jackson. (video) 2008: A&E – Goldfrapp. (video) I’ll say one thing for the Sixties: as an earworm-producing decade, they are unsurpassed. Every year, during the week of preparation that leads up to the main event, one song from our fifty contenders installs itself as an unshakeable earworm for the duration, and it’s always from the Sixties. Last year, Here Comes My Baby from The Tremeloes ran through my head on an endless loop for days on end, and this year the gig falls to minor league US soulster Brenton Wood, whose addictive Gimme Little Sign was totally unknown to me until just a few weeks ago. This was Brenton’s only UK hit, and also his only significant chart placing in the USA (for who now remembers The Oogum Boogum Song or Lovey Dovey Kinda Lovin?). From the end of 1968 onwards, he would trouble the Billboard Hot 100 no further (although as his offical website proclaims, he “still makes frequent club appearances in the Los Angeles & San Diego area”… God, I’m in danger of morphing into Simon Amstell on the Buzzcocks identity parade). As such, Gimme Little Sign might well be his albatross – but as albatrosses go, this one bears a particularly fine plumage. (I can’t believe I just typed that. Well, let it stand. It’s the best I can manage through this bloated post-prandial fog – as compounded by a birthday weekend spent mostly eating to excess, leaving K and I myself waddling around like a pair of whoopee cushions in sore need of a puncturing. As it were.) Our next three selections are so BPM-compatible that I’ve been able to beat-mix them together, in best Non Stop Disco Party style. We start with Baccara, following up their 1977 Number One Yes Sir I Can Boogie in time-honoured Eurodisco fashion, by slightly jiggling around with its component parts and adding a few new lyrics along the way. To those of us who thought at the time that disco music was Mindless Fodder For The Brainwashed Masses, this was a prime case for the prosecution, our innocent punk-rinsed sensibilities unable to discern the vast cultural chasm between Baccara’s inspidly campy port-and-lemon strut, and the sensual, radical, utterly sublime music that was simultaneously pouring out of the US black and gay undergrounds. Thirty years on, it’s the camp factor which keeps Sorry I’m A Lady just this side of bearable, but in all other respects it hasn’t worn well. And neither has our first selection from the 1980s, in which the UK production team behind Jack ‘N’ Chill jump onto the first-wave “jack track” bandwagon over a year too late, trotting out a tinny Woolworths-own-brand take on the house sound of Chicago. By this time twenty years ago, I had secured a monthly (and soon to be fortnightly) residency at the Barracuda club on Hurts Yard, where our alternative mixed gay night Get Happy was pulling in the emergent crowd that was forming itself in opposition to the newly announced Section 28 legislation. Sure, I played The Jack That House Built – but it was a dance floor filler with the accent on “filler”, and usually dispensed with in the first hour or so. There was plenty of better dance music than this in early 1988, not to mention a major musical paradigm shift which would change everything before the year was through, leaving this slender little cash-in track looking prematurely dated in the process. Onwards we thrust to 1998, where we find three influential figures from the pre-house club scene of some twelve years earlier, proving themselves still more than capable. Aided by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on production and co-composition duties, Janet Jackson – sporting a bizarre new hairdo which looked as if it had been modelled according to the principles of fractal geometry – was on a major creative and commercial roll for most of the Nineties, and this was a prime example: a sighing swoon of a song, with a melodic and rhythmic undertow that was somehow deeply reassuring, like wrapping oneself in warm, freshly laundered towelling… …which is just how many might view the woozy, dream-like tunefulness of Goldfrapp‘s lead single from the forthcoming Seventh Tree album… until they snag themselves on the barbs of the lyric, that is. All drugged up in Accident and Emergency, our Alison seems dimly aware of the circumstances leading up to her admission – can we say “cry for help” here? – but her raw pain is buried beneath the numbing sweetness of the Radio Two-friendly arrangement, to such an extent that, as William B. Swygart says in his spot-on post on the matter (one of several that have recently sprung up around the music blogosphere), you could stick this on the soundtrack to a bank advert and most people wouldn’t even notice. I’m glad that Alison has progressed beyond her Weimar Sex Robot phase; it was cool for its time, but there was always more to her than that, and now we’re beginning to see it again. My votes: Goldfrapp – 5 points. Janet Jackson – 4 points. Brenton Wood – 3 points. Baccara – 2 points. Jack ‘N’ Chill – 1 point. Over to you. A pretty decent opening selection, wouldn’t you say? Hardly the stuff of classics, but I’ll wager that the Goldfrapp track is going be one of the year’s stayers, and it has been good to re-familiarise myself with the Janet Jackson and to exhume the Brenton Wood. But hey, don’t wanna lead the jury! Tell me what you think! My pristine spreadsheet is itching to be filled! Continue reading “Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – the Number 10s.” Author Mike APosted on February 18, 2008 April 5, 2016 Categories Archive, Which Decade 2008, Which Decade Is Tops For PopsLeave a comment on Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? – Year 6 – the Number 10s. troubled diva Blog at WordPress.com.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784068
__label__wiki	0.795931	0.795931	Kit Harington And Rose Leslie’s Relationship Actually Started On The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Set Inside Kit Harington and Rose Leslie’s Real-Life ‘Game of Thrones’ Love Story Game of Thrones lovers Harington and Leslie to marry in real life Jon Snow and Ygritte are dating in real life! Ygritte and jon snow dating in real life Kit Harington and Rose Leslie: a timeline of their relationship Game Of Thrones Cast Talk Sex Scenes – The Jonathan Ross Show Subscriber Account active since. HBO’s “Game of Thrones” may not be known for its happy endings , but so far costars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are living the sweetest fairy-tale worthy love story. The actors played on-screen couple Jon Snow and Ygritte for three seasons, but you may not have realized that they have a real-life romance as well and got married on June 23, after dating for several years. He eventually lives among them as a spy for the Night’s Watch, but he falls in love with Ygritte along the way. They were spotted on a date in a restaurant and the “Game of Thrones” fandom basically exploded. This was the season when Ygritte and Jon Snow became romantically involved. Years later, Harington would admit that he fell in love with Leslie during the months they spent filming in Iceland. While promoting the third season of “Game of Thrones,” Harington told Simone Boyce of Winter is Coming that his on-screen chemistry with Leslie was mostly due to their real friendship. She is eager to keep this relationship out of the spotlight. In an interview with The Standard , Harington spoke publicly about the rumors for the first time. It’s been a busy few months for Kit Harington, a. Jon Snow. Now that Game of Thrones has ended after eight seasons, Kit is now taking time off for himself, via checking into a rehab facility—and his wife Rose Leslie, also a GoT alum, is percent behind him. According to Entertainment Weekly , Kit has been in a Connecticut health retreat for nearly a month—nearly coinciding with the final episode of GoT. Clearly, the two care a lot about each other—but how did their real-life romance start? Here’s everything you need to know about Kit Harington and wife Rose Leslie’s relationship. Kit Harington. photo: Oliver Upton GAME OF THRONES JUNE EPISODE Episode # Valar Morghulis (season finale) Debut: SUNDAY, JUNE 3 ( Long after their bandwagon and his own. Still undoubtedly the red carpet. They kept things quiet, rose. Many a lover of thrones, though it might prefer that cave without. No release date of kit harrington is still rowing that in all. Looking to safely place. If jon snow is he. People slam amy roloffs bf after leslie’s character coldhands, ygritte before her single and. Rose Leslie and Kit Harington went from on-screen couple to real-life husband and wife. Now, Leslie has forbidden Harington from spoiling her about what happens on Game of Thrones , even non-verbally. Go make a cup of tea. Calm down. Harington, who plays Jon Snow, and Leslie, Ygritte in the series, announced their Game of Thrones lovers Harington and Leslie to marry in real life who are both 30 years old, met on set in Iceland and have been together since The on-screen lovebirds made it official off-screen, tying the knot at a Game of Thrones-esque castle in Talk about life imitating art. The couple have been married since According to the couple, their upcoming summer wedding will involve flag football and rugby. Can’t wait for those wedding photos! The gorgeous couple fell in love over Guinness and grits and secretly married in October They have two children together. Carice and her husband Guy welcomed their son Monte in August News of the romance brewing between the actors broke in The couple were first spotted together in Cather de cornelius, twitter more: do you. She is most famous is jon snow and down deep they both northerners and jon came face to incenstual relationships jaime and awkward. There are a car seat her cave was in tragedy, it’s that game of thrones season. Does kit while tormund’s relationship: daenerys targaryen are descendants of. They are hoping for the old-fashioned way. We just mean he brought daenerys targaryen and incestuous hookups that is included as everybody else. Here’s the latest news on Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, Leonardo DiCaprio explaining his visit with the Pope, Prince Harry hitting the town. Subscriber Account active since. Though Harington and Leslie, both 30 years old, have been rumored to be on-again, off-again, truthfully they just seem to be very private people. He eventually lives among them as a spy for the Night’s Watch, but he falls in love with Ygritte along the way. They were spotted on a date in a restaurant and the “Game of Thrones” fandom basically exploded. This was the season when Ygritte and Jon Snow became romantically involved. Years later, Harington would admit that he fell in love with Leslie during the months they spent filming in Iceland. While promoting the third season of “Game of Thrones,” Harington told Simone Boyce of Winter is Coming that his on-screen chemistry with Leslie was mostly due to their real friendship. She is eager to keep this relationship out of the spotlight. In an interview with The Standard , Harington spoke publicly about the rumors for the first time. She’s wonderful. But no, no love affair. I wouldn’t ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road… I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life. With the Emmy Awards coming up on Sunday, in which Game of Thrones earned a whopping 32 nominations for its controversial final season , let’s take a look back at the marriage that the iconic HBO show produced — Kit Harington and Rose Leslie’s romantic union that had them saying “I do” with a fairy-tale wedding in Scotland last June. Interestingly enough, they both shot their very first love scene with one another — a memorable sex scene in a cave — and Leslie’s Ygritte was also the one to declare the endlessly memed line, “You know nothing, Jon Snow. Leslie’s character was eventually shockingly killed by a young boy during a gruesome battle scene between the wildlings and crows at Castle Black in season four, though her romance with Harington lived on off-screen. Read on for more of the couple’s biggest moments:. Their characters fell in love before they did. The two met on the set of Game of Thrones when Leslie played. Game Of Thrones has it all. Complex characters, drama, politics, epic battles and a bevvy of steamy sex scenes. Oh, and let’s not forget about the dragons. Thankfully, the cast members fair better off-screen. Join us in exploring some of the real-life untold love stories from the GOT cast. Keep scrolling to discover who every cast member is dating IRL. Back in season three, Jon lost his virginity to Ygritte. While she was killed off shortly afterwards the on-screen lovebirds tied the knot in Since eloping in the private pair have managed to keep their two daughters’ names secret. The lady of Winterfell and The Jonas Brothers frontman made it official with a surprise wedding in Vegas. The couple originally met on the show and confirmed their engagement in September The wedding made headlines when it was revealed they’d be shutting down production on the HBO show to accommodate literally everyone involved with the series — no, really, it seems like everyone was invited — and again, when an eagle-eyed fan spotted their announcement in the local paper. After an impossibly long wait, and way too much Game of Thrones post-Ygritte RIP the magical day has finally arrived, and the Wildling and the Crow are together forever. According to photos from People, Leslie looked gorgeous in a lacy, long-sleeved gown and breathtaking, delicate veil. Rose Leslie (Ygritte) and Kit Harington (Jon Snow) In real life, Iwan Rheon and his partner Zoe are proud parents to a little one who was born. Harington, who plays Jon Snow, and Leslie, Ygritte in the series, announced their engagement with an unassuming traditional ad in The Times newspaper. The actors, who are both 30 years old, met on set in Iceland and have been together since Ygritte is killed in a confrontation in season four. The couple were reported earlier this year to have bought a 15th-century home in eastern England with a moat, a swimming pool and a banqueting hall. Rose Leslie, is a Scottish actress. DUBAI: Almost 3 of 5 Arab News readers are cool to the proposition that Lebanon sign a peace agreement with Israel, who continue to be technically at war for decades now and with sporadic clashes erupting in border areas between the two countries. About 57 percent of respondents of a Twitter straw poll do not support a possible peace deal between Lebanon and Israel, compared with 43 percent who took the opposing view. Conflict between the two countries peaked in the s when Israel laid siege to Beirut to cripple Palestine Liberation Organization forces who have been attacking Israeli border communities. 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__label__cc	0.741709	0.258291	7" / Coloured vinyl / Post-rock-type Stuff SPACEMEN 3: Walking With Jesus (7″, Earworm EGS01, 2003) - January 20, 2009 - simonminter I was going to say how this record was part of the short-lived ‘Earworm Gold’ series, launched after the demise of the Earworm label proper, but a bit of internet research points out to me that the series was made up in fact of a whole ten releases, all of which I own. My memory surprises me at times in its sheer ineptitude and unhelpfulness. Great sleeve on this one, it’s printed two colour on nice rough card, and houses some spectacularly coloured vinyl – clear gold, with flecks and blurs of yellow and black within. Nothing less, of course, would suit the mighty Spacemen 3, who the keener amongst you will notice actually split up many years before the release of this record. What we have here, then, is demos, unreleased things, completist fodder. And there are a lot of Spacemen 3 completists out there, believe you me. (Speaking of which, anybody who’d like to offer me a copy of their ‘Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To’ compilation, get in touch…) I never tire of listening to the woozy, druggy sounds of Spacemen 3. I wasn’t quite there at the time – I got into them in around 1990 or so. But even in the context of a musical lineage that they obviously slot into with grown-up hindsight (the blues, garage punk, psychedelia) they must have sounded pretty far out there in the shiny pop climate of the mid 1980s. Not that they were ever pop, you understand, but things were simpler back then. There just weren’t as many bands around. Going off tangent, I’ve met Sonic Boom a couple of times over the past years, and he’s either a drug-damaged psychic explorer of a man, or a bit rude. I’m inclined to think the latter, but listening to his records encourages me to forgive him his strange, shifty ways. THE EDMUND FITZGERALD/BILGE PUMP: Noisestar Sessions #05/#06 (12″, Noisestar NOISESTAR-003, 2004) STEREOLAB & BRIGITTE FONTAINE/MONADE: Caliméro/Cache Cache (7″, Duophonic Super 45s DS45-25, ?) 2 thoughts on “SPACEMEN 3: Walking With Jesus (7″, Earworm EGS01, 2003)” Mike Mitchell says: I’m trying to figure out if these tracks are available on any other releases…..do you know? At the very least do you have track timings on this single? Or could you send me a crappy MP3 version of the tracks to compare to all other versions that I have. Thanks in advance! The tracks aren’t available anywhere else. The single sometimes pops up on eBay – it’s worth tracking down if only to see the amazing coloured/speckled vinyl! – simon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784088
__label__cc	0.744662	0.255338	Provinces & Cities Seek partners Post your tradeleads Vietnam Exporters Vietnam Business Forum - The Magazine of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Closely Linking Trainers with Employers 11:49:54 AM \| 14/8/2019 Human resources have basically met socioeconomic development needs and the recruitment demands of local enterprises. Vietnam Business Forum Magazine has an interview with Mr. Le Van Luong, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Yen Bai province, on this issue. Manh Dung reports. How do you assess the current local human resources? In the 2016-2018 period, Yen Bai province-based tertiary schools enrolled 50,407 students, including 4,045 college students, 7,376 intermediate students and 38,986 low-level vocational students. In this period, 15,380 rural workers were supported with vocational training according to the Project 1956). By the end of 2018, trained workers accounted for 54% of the workforce, including 27.8% of certified 3-month trained workers. Farm workers made up 64.8% of the workforce. In 2018, enrollments by vocational schools exceeded the plan. The labor training index, one of 10 component indices of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI), increased over the years. It scored 6.22 points, ranked 40th out of 63 provinces and cities, in 2017, and climbed to 6.6 points, ranked 18th in 2018. The improved labor training index lifted up the overall PCI rankings of Yen Bai province by four grades to the 42nd position in 2018 (compared to 2017, ranked 46th). This showed that businesses were quite satisfied with personnel quality. Human resources have basically met socioeconomic development needs and recruitment demands of enterprises in Yen Bai province. In agricultural and rural areas, trained workers significantly contribute to raising productivity and product quality; developing concentrated farming areas such as orange, rice, bamboo, bamboo shoots, and silkworm; and accelerating the shift from farm labor structure to non-farm labor. Laborer training has provided career opportunities for thousands of local workers each year, particularly employed by South Korean-invested garment producers, tourism and service companies. This has facilitated production and business operation expansions and increase the labor size in existing businesses. The open and lean mechanism is a strong magnet to investors to Yen Bai province. Do you have any human resources training policies to meet employment requirements of investors? What is the vocational training strategy in the next stages? We’ve advised the Provincial People’s Committee to execute policies on local human resource training, including State budget funded for Yen Bai Vocational College in a bid to make it a high-quality school by 2020 (as per the Prime Minister's decision). The college will meet training requirements of key occupations at international level (two occupations), at ASEAN level (three occupations) and at national level (one occupation). The sector will invest in public colleges and vocational schools to meet national key requirements (11 occupations) approved by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to meet high-quality human resource requirements for local socioeconomic development, especially enterprises’ demands for high-quality human resources. In 2011-2020, the province has executed vocational training policies for rural workers under the Prime Minister’s Decision 1956 to train and supply rural human resources to meet scientific and technological transfer requirements, improve productivity and product quality, and supply trained workers for enterprises. In 2018, Yen Bai province approved a scheme on shift of farm labor to nonfarm labor in 2020, with a vision to 2025. Accordingly, in the coming years, the provincial budget is expected to allocate VND10 billion annually to support enterprises to train and recruit employees, focusing for large-scale enterprises, industrial processors, tourism companies and service firms. In 2019, the sector will advise the provincial government to execute labor training support policies to work for local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under Circular 32/2018/TT-BLDTBXH dated December 26, 2018 by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. 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__label__cc	0.734248	0.265752	Home Hotel, Casino & Club News New Multi-Language Web Sites Send Warm Las Vegas Welcome to Non-English-Speaking Guests “Friday Night Live” Poolside Music Series Returns for Third Season at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Free Fan Admission for Bullring Test Session at Las Vegas Motor Speedway March 14 New Multi-Language Web Sites Send Warm Las Vegas Welcome to Non-English-Speaking Guests While a few resorts offer Spanish versions of their main pages, until now no one on the Las Vegas Strip had taken the next step; allowing guests to book rooms online in their own language with no interpreter needed. Now, Spanish and German-speaking guests can plan and book their vacation directly on some of the most popular Las Vegas-resort Web sites. The language-option booking engines were launched this February on all Las Vegas MGM MIRAGE property sites including Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage and MGM Grand. With easy access on the home page via drop-down menus, Spanish and German-speaking visitors enjoy language-specific sites as well as the option of booking their stay in their native tongue. French, Italian and Japanese-speaking guests currently benefit from dedicated Web sites, with plans to add the custom booking engines later this year. Plans also call for the addition of other languages. “Our push to enable visitors to browse and book in their own language confirms our commitment to our guests,” said Lou Ragg, executive director of Internet Operations and Marketing for MGM MIRAGE. Citywide, roughly 12 percent of visitors are from outside U.S. borders, although some properties average a significantly higher percentage than the city-at-large. H. Fletch Brunelle, senior vice president of Hotel Sales and Marketing at Bellagio, said, “This past summer, we peaked at more than one third of leisure customers coming from overseas. It’s a growing trend, and we believe that providing our guests with the capability to book online direct in their own language is a big asset.” The Spanish and German booking engines are already having an impact. The Spanish-language booking engine was used to make room reservations at Bellagio within 24 hours of the site going live. “We know that both domestic and international visitors are taking advantage of our new sites,” Ragg said. “It makes us proud to provide a service that was sorely lacking in the market.” The Web sites of the Las Vegas MGM MIRAGE resorts can be found at www.bellagio.com, www.mgmgrand.com, www.mandalaybay.com, www.mirage.com, www.treasureisland.com, www.montecarlo.com, www.nynyhotelcasino.com, www.luxor.com, www.excalibur.com and www.circuscircus.com Previous article“Friday Night Live” Poolside Music Series Returns for Third Season at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Next articleFree Fan Admission for Bullring Test Session at Las Vegas Motor Speedway March 14	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784091
__label__wiki	0.89974	0.89974	U.S. regulators criticize Tesla over Autopilot role in fatal crash Reuters February 26, 2020 12:55 AM A wheel of a prototype of the Tesla Model 3 in front of the Tesla Gigafactory, in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. July 26, 2016. Image Credit: Reuters / James Glover II/File Photo (Reuters) — The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday sharply criticized Tesla’s lack of system safeguards in a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California and called U.S. regulators’ approach in overseeing the driver assistance systems “misguided.” NTSB board members questioned Tesla’s design of its semi-automated driving assistance system and condemned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for a “hands-off approach” to regulating the increasingly popular systems. NHTSA has “taken a nonregulatory approach to automated vehicle safety” and should “complete a further evaluation of the Tesla Autopilot system to ensure the deployed technology does not pose an unreasonable safety risk,” NTSB said. The board faulted Apple and other smartphone makers for refusing to disable devices when users are driving. It also called on the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration to use its authority to take action against “employers who fail to address the hazards of distracted driving.” The board’s criticism posed a direct challenge to the auto industry’s efforts to profit from partially automated vehicles and the smartphone industry’s quest to keep user eyes on their devices. The NTSB can only make recommendations, while NHTSA regulates U.S. vehicles. NHTSA has sent teams to investigate 14 Tesla crashes in which Autopilot is suspected of being in use but has taken no action against the company. Concerns have grown about systems that can perform driving tasks for extended stretches with little or no human intervention but that cannot completely replace human drivers. “It’s time to stop enabling drivers in any partially automated vehicle to pretend that they have driverless cars. Because they don’t have driverless cars,” NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt said. The Mountain View, California crash — involving a driver who was playing a game on his phone during the fatal trip — illustrates “semi-autonomous vehicles can lead drivers to be complacent … and it also points out that smartphones manipulating [drivers] can be so addictive that people aren’t going to put them down,” Sumwalt added. Walter Huang, a 38-year-old Apple software engineer, was driving his Tesla Model X in 2018 in Autopilot mode at about 70 miles per hour (113 kph) when it crashed into a safety barrier. The NTSB said Huang had been using an iPhone and recovered logs showed a word-building game was active. The probable cause of Huang’s crash was Autopilot steering the vehicle off the highway “due to system limitations and the driver’s lack of response due to distraction, likely from a cell phone game application and overreliance [on Autopilot],” the NTSB said. On prior trips, Huang had intervened when Autopilot steered the vehicle toward the same “highway gore” area. NHTSA said it will carefully review the NTSB’s recommendations. The agency added that commercial motor vehicles “require the human driver to be in control at all times.” Tesla drivers are able to avoid holding the steering wheel for extended periods while using Autopilot, but the company advises drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention. Sumwalt said Tesla allowed drivers to remove their hands from the wheel for up to three minutes under certain conditions when using Autopilot. The NTSB said Tesla added safeguards to require quicker warnings at higher speeds for drivers without their hands on the wheel. Regulators in Europe place limitations on Autopilot use, and Tesla issues alerts in the region for hands-off driving within 15 seconds, the NTSB said. Tesla did not respond to requests for comment. NTSB vice chair Bruce Landsberg called Autopilot “completely inadequate” and noted that Tesla vehicles have repeatedly crashed into large obstacles. Sumwalt said Tesla — unlike five other auto manufacturers — has ignored NTSB safety recommendations issued in 2017. Tesla’s Autopilot is tied to at least three deadly crashes since 2016 and suspected in others. The NTSB in coming days will release the probable cause of a third Tesla Autopilot fatal crash in March 2019 in Florida that showed no evidence the driver’s hands were on the steering wheel in the final 8 seconds before striking a semi-trailer truck. The NTSB also called on cellphone manufacturers to add more safeguards to prevent the misuse of devices by drivers. Sumwalt noted that Apple does not have a distracted driving policy but said it should have one. Apple says it expects its employees to follow the law. (Reporting by David Shepardson, editing by Chris Reese, Sandra Maler, and Dan Grebler.)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784093
__label__wiki	0.792304	0.792304	Trojans display no rust in blasting Santa Clara No one involved with or a fan of Trojan basketball knew what to expect Tuesday afternoon. USC had not played a game in three weeks and had only one full practice and two walkthroughs in that stretch. To make things even more difficult, USC’s opponent switched over the weekend when LMU cancelled basketball activities and the Trojans quickly scheduled Santa Clara. None of these potential difficulties mattered on Tuesday night. USC handily beat the Broncos 86-63, clearing the bench in the final few minutes. The Trojans led wire to wire; they led by 14 at the break, though the margin felt bigger. USC quickly extended the margin to 20 in the first minute of the second half and the lead stayed in the low 20’s for most of the rest of the game. After the game, Coach Enfield admitted he “thought it was a little risky to play Santa Clara” on short notice, but the players wanted to play. “This was not a tuneup game,” Enfield said. “Santa Clara is a very good team and could have beaten us.” Ultimately the coaching staff decided it was more important to get a real game in before beginning conference play, even though that leaves USC with only one full day to prepare for Colorado. The Trojan Defense Was Outstanding. Santa Clara made 36.7% of their shots and were 1-17 from three. Enfield liked the defensive aggressiveness. “The defense was good when it needed to be.” The players “executed our defensive assignments the entire night….They retained our defensive principles,” even though they had only one day to prepare for the Broncos. Max Agbonkpolo defended smaller and quicker guards most of the time when he was in the game and generally did a good job staying in front of his man and harassing the Bronco guards with his length and long arms. The Trojan Front Court Dominated The Mobley brothers and Chevez Goodwin all played very well. The Mobleys combined to shoot 12-16 from the floor, grab 14 rebounds and block 5 shots. They both made a shot from beyond the arc. This was arguably Isaiah’s best game as a Trojan. He made the first two shots in the game, one from about 12 feet and the other a follow up after an offensive rebound. Enfield said that Isaiah has been shooting the ball very well in practice. “He played a terrific all around game,” Enfield said. “He is not being knocked off balance near the basket.” Enfield expects Isaiah to continue to improve and noted that he scored at the rim and made a mid range shot and a three. Chevez Goodwin also had his best game at USC. He was 5-8 from the field and had 5 rebounds. Enfield said that “Chevez runs the floor and is extremely physical. The front line did an outstanding job.” USC outscored the Broncos 44-26 in the paint, continuing a pattern established in the first five game. In six games they have outscored their opponents by 84 inside. The Trojan Bench Looked A Little Different Ethan Anderson did not dress for the game. Enfield said that Ethan “still has a slight back issue” and is day to day. He could play this weekend, though Enfield implied that it is unlikely. Isaiah White got the start in Ethan’s place. Enfield also officially announced that Drake London will not join the team. “Drake will concentrate on football,” Enfield said. He had a tremendous football season and Enfield said it makes sense for Drake to concentrate on football. There were two new players on the bench and they both played in the last five minutes. Freshman Reese Waters made a three and a mid range shot and showed that he will be an offensive force over his Trojan career. On an inbound play under the offensive basket Reese was the inbound passer which would indicate that he knows at least some of the plays. He also handled the ball for a short time when both Tajh Eaddy and Drew Peterson were not on the court. Reese is not a point guard but he is a very good shooting guard and has great size at 6’5”. Enfield said that Reese played well on defense though it appeared he was lost on a couple Bronco possessions and wasn’t sure of his assignment. Josh Morgan came into the game with Reese and played his first minutes as a Trojan. He is very athletic and runs the floor well. After the game Enfield said that under the one time transfer rule in effect this season Josh can play without using up a season of eligibility. For now Enfield sees Josh providing additional front court depth and implied that he would likely not have a major role this year. Boubacar Coulibaly played limited minutes. It is becoming apparent that as he plays more basketball he will develop into a talent. He made a nice shot inside the lane. For The Most Part The Trojans Shot The Ball Well Neither team made a shot from three in the first half, though the Trojans had only one attempt. They finished the game 7-14 from three, the second game in a row in which they made half of their threes. It appears that many opponents will focus on the Trojan inside players which will result in some open looks outside. The Trojans even made their first six free throws, but that didn’t last. They finished 11-18 from the line. There were so many positives in this game that it’s tempting to overlook a few negatives, but there were some. Besides the routinely poor foul shooting the Trojans did not dominate the boards as much as expected, especially on the defensive end. This has been a recurring problem. Drew Peterson picked a good time to have an off game, since his scoring wasn’t needed. He missed his first 7 shots and finished 2-11. The Trojans did a great job protecting the ball in the first half with only four turnovers at the break. They finished with 13, several coming in the last minutes. They also had only 13 assists. Without Ethan, the assists will come predominantly from Drew and the Mobleys. There were a couple of odd stats in this game. In the first five games the Trojans outscored their opponents 52-28 on fast breaks. In this game the Broncos turned the table 14-5. USC also outscored its first five opponents 70-40 on second chance points. In this game Santa Clara won that battle 13-12. Isaiah Mobley And Isaiah White Discussed What They Did During The Quarantine Isaiah White did a lot of stretching and yoga. He spent time with his wife and baby and tried to stay positive. Like the rest of the team, he really wanted to play this game. Isaiah Mobley said he picked up yoga during the break and did a lot of reading. He also did some exercises every day and played video games with some of the guys to keep up the team chatter and chemistry. Overall he said it was a tough period. Conference play begins Thursday night with Colorado in town. The Buffs lost to Arizona on Monday night in Tucson 88-74. Very late in that game star point guard McKinley Wright limped off the floor with a right ankle injury. After the game coach Tad Boyle acknowledged that he “probably” should have taken Wright out earlier. There hasn’t been a follow up report, though Wright was limping noticeably when he went to the bench and then to the locker room. Without him, Colorado is a much different team. If Ethan doesn’t play and the Trojans are playing man defense, the Trojan who has the best chance to keep up with the very quick point guard is Tajh, though he is not a great defender. The Trojans needed this game against Santa Clara and needed a good performance. If you didn’t know the team had been barred from team activities you would not have guessed it watching this game. It’s a testament to the players and coaches. One last note. Two years ago when Santa Clara beat the Trojans at Galen in OT, a Bronco guard named Tajh Eaddy scored 21 points. Tajh is probably the only Trojan ever to beat the Broncos and also play for them when they beat the Trojans.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784098
__label__wiki	0.878109	0.878109	TradesFactor Wins Bunker Labs Pitch Competition All NewsIndustry NewsWorld Modified date: December 3, 2020 CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On November 5, 2020, Tampa-based TradesFactor won the Veterans in Residence Pitch Competition hosted by Bunker Labs. The top prize was $5,000. Approximately 70 entrepreneurs from 23 Veterans in Residence cohorts across the country applied to pitch at the virtual event. Five were selected to compete, including: Brendan Aronson, CFO of Philadelphia-based Paintru April Caldwell, Co-Founder and CEO of Tampa-based fayVen Bryan Jacobs, CEO and Founder of Tampa-based Reveille Meals Joey Mac Dizon, Founder and CEO of Newark-based Mobile Cigar Lounge Michael Zanetti, Co-Founder and CEO of Tampa-based TradesFactor Each entrepreneur had four minutes to pitch their business followed by questions from the judges. TradesFactor serves as a digital passport for trades workers, containing experience and certification data. Companies can search TradesFactor’s database of skilled trades workers to find qualified candidates. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, the TradesFactor platform can predict worker availability, assess productivity and integrate data with existing industry tools. TradesFactor has more than 30,000 users already on the platform. “The entrepreneurs who participated in this pitch competition are inspirational and, given the challenges of 2020, have demonstrated what it means to adapt and overcome,” said Bunker Labs CEO Blake Hogan. “Congratulations to Mike on his well-deserved win. TradesFactor makes a positive impact on people and the economy, and we’re excited to watch the company continue to grow.” The pitch competition was judged by Traug Keller, WeWork’s Director of Federal and Defense Market; Jada Nicome, Bunker Labs’ Virtual Community Director; and John Wensveen, Chief Innovation Director of Nova Southeastern University. The competition was sponsored by WeWork and the Bulova Stetson Fund. About Bunker Labs: Bunker Labs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a national network of veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs dedicated to helping the military-connected community start their own business. Bunker Labs is committed to seeing that every entrepreneur, including small business owners, in the military-connected community has the network, tools, and resources they need to start their own business. Learn more about Bunker Labs: www.bunkerlabs.org About Veterans in Residence: A partnership of WeWork and Bunker Labs, Veterans in Residence is a six-month in-person/virtual incubator and leadership program that provides veteran and military family member entrepreneurs the community, business support, and workspace to help launch and grow their businesses. 125 S. Clark St., WeWork, 17th Floor press@bunkerlabs.org View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tradesfactor-wins-bunker-labs-pitch-competition-301185437.html SOURCE Bunker Labs PR Newswire World News Akamai Technologies To Hold Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Investor Conference Call On Tuesday, February 9, at 4:30 PM ET Blue Bird to Begin Production of Updated Propane and Gasoline Buses with All-New and Exclusive Ford 7.3L V8 Engine Bulletin from MAG Interactive's annual general meeting CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, announced today that... Business World Reviewer Staff FORT VALLEY, Ga., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- This spring, Blue Bird will begin production of its propane and gasoline Vision school buses integrating Ford's... STOCKHOLM, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual general meeting of MAG Interactive AB (publ) was held on Wednesday, 20 January 2021 by way...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784100
__label__wiki	0.521854	0.521854	#BookReview The Greek Escape by Karen Swan @KarenSwan1 @PGCBooks @panmacmillan categories: 9/10, Book Review, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction Title: The Greek Escape Author: Karen Swan Published by: Pan Macmillan on May 8, 2018 Genres: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction Format: Paperback, ARC Source: Publishers Group Canada A scorching and sensational summer novel from the Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Paris Secret and The Rome Affair. Set between the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the crystal blue waters of the Mediterranean, The Greek Escape will leave you breathless as each twist unfolds. Running from heartbreak, Chloe Marston leaves her old life in London for a fresh start in New York. Working at a luxury concierge company, she makes other people’s lives run perfectly, even if her own has ground to a halt. But a terrible accident forces her to step into a new role, up close and personal with the company’s most esteemed and powerful clients. Charismatic Joe Lincoln is one of them and his every wish is her command, so when he asks her to find him a secluded holiday home in the Greek Islands, she sets about sourcing the perfect retreat. But when Tom, her ex, unexpectedly shows up in Manhattan and the stability of her new life is thrown off-balance again, Chloe jumps at the chance to help Joe inspect the holiday house. Escaping to Greece will give her the time and space to decide where her future truly lies. Tom is the man she has loved for so long but he has hurt her before – can she give him another chance? And as she draws closer to Joe, does she even want to? As magnetic as he is mysterious, there’s an undeniable chemistry between them that she can’t resist. But whatever her heart is telling her, she’s in over her head—another client’s wife has mysteriously disappeared and seriously allegations about Joe threaten more than just her happiness. Who can she trust? And will Chloe uncover the truth in time? Mysterious, enticing, and wickedly entertaining! The Greek Escape is a provocative thrill ride that takes you on a journey into the life of the heartbroken, hardworking Chloe as she juggles relocation, a high-pressure career, a two-timing ex, the whims and dalliances of the rich and famous, and a cocky, demanding, handsome new client. The prose is evocative and polished. The characters are inquisitive, ambitious, and spontaneous. The settings are exotic and picturesque. And the plot is a true guilty pleasure that’s packed with action, humour, suspense, drama, corruption, scandals, sex, and romance. The Greek Escape is a fresh, sophisticated, addictive novel with irresistible characters that I devoured from start to finish. I’m a huge fan of Karen Swan, and this novel didn’t disappoint. It enthralled, captivated, and amused me, and I highly recommend it. This novel is available now in some countries. Pick up or preorder a copy from your favourite retailer or from one of the following links. Thank you to PGC Canada and Pan Macmillan for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review. About Karen Swan Karen Swan began her career in fashion journalism before giving it all up to raise her three children and a puppy, and to pursue her ambition of becoming a writer. She lives in the forest outside Sussex, England, writing her books in a treehouse overlooking the Downs. An internationally bestselling author, her numerous books include The Rome Affair, The Paris Secret, Christmas Under the Stars, and The Christmas Secret. Photograph by Alexander James « #BlogTour & #BookReview The Concubine’s Child by Carol Jones @Aria_Fiction @HoZ_Books #BookReview Mornings on Main by Jodi Thomas @jodithomas @HarlequinBooks »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784101
__label__cc	0.617704	0.382296	FREE Meet & Greet - Sunday, October 7th @ High Fives In Dallas #High Fives Dallas #Meet & Greet #Writing Workshops Dallas Writing Workshops Dallas is hosting a FREE Meet & Greet on Sunday, October 7th at High Fives in Dallas and we'd love to meet you! Come out if you're interested in talking to our faculty about our upcoming October Classes or if you just want to meet other writers in Dallas and talk shop. It doesn't matter if you're a current or former WWD student, we'd love for you to be part of this community. Our mission is to bring writers out of the wilderness and into community. In fact, we were founded on the basis that having a literary community is essential to the life of any creative writer. Finding a community is an important step that leads most writers to take their work and craft more seriously. We're proud to be part of the thriving literary scene in Dallas. If you've heard about Writing Workshops Dallas and would like to know more about us, come to High Fives on October 7th from 5PM to 8PM and let us buy you a drink. We'd love to meet you and discuss your work. RSVP by clicking the button below and we'll have some drink tickets with your name on them. Until then, happy writing! RSVP FOR MEET & GREET More Blog Antonio Ruiz-Camacho in Texas Highways Magazine Our Executive Director Featured on The Dallas Business Podcast Executive Director Blake Kimzey Speaking at Nimrod International Journal's annual Conference for Readers and Writers LitTalk Featured at BuzzFeed!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784102
__label__wiki	0.705449	0.705449	24-7 Staffing IR35 Guidance Let’s give a shout-out for women workers on International Women’s Day Today is International Women’s Day and the theme is #PressforProgress. It’s been all too clear with the recent #MeToo and #TimesUp movements that gender equality and mutual respect are a long way off. In fact, the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings reveal that gender parity is over 200 years away – that’s a long time to wait. But we do know progress has been made. The gender pay gap is gradually closing and The Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations (GPGR), which came into force last April, have been designed to speed up progress in this area. They require employers with 250 or more employees to publish calculations showing pay gaps in their organisations every year. In our own recruitment sector, there are initiatives to increase the number of women employed and to retain that talent, such as the Women in Recruitment programme run by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies APSCo. At 24-7 Staffing, the women (and men!) who work in our team are fantastic and we value every one of them. Many of them are working mums, who do a fabulous job looking after the home and children, as well as working for us. On International Women’s Day we’d like to say thank you to them.. Anniversary of votes for women – what’s changed? 2018 is a significant year, as it marks 100 years since women were give the right to vote. It also shows that we have, indeed, come a long way. Any career is open to women, and even the more traditional male environments are gradually moving towards gender neutrality. In our driving division, while the majority of our drivers are male we are increasingly seeing women coming into the profession. In fact, the HerGV campaign actively encourages women to train as HGV drivers. With a national shortage of drivers, this is something to be applauded. Statistics show that more women are working, and more want to work. According to the Office for National Statistics, in its 2017 survey of families and the labour market, the employment rate of mothers in England had increased by 11.8 % to 73.7% between 1996 and 2017. Moreover, 1.1 million (75.2%) inactive or unemployed mothers stated they would definitely or probably return to work in the future. We need women in our workforce and they want to work. At 24-7 Staffing we are doing our bit for the #PressforProgress campaign by ensuring we find great roles for our women candidates and great candidates (men and women) for our clients. If you are currently job-hunting, or thinking of a new career or new challenge please get in touch with the team here at 24-7 Staffing. Published by Melody Job Search Meet the team Our Locations Vision and Values Referral Scheme Visit our Branches CHIPPENHAM 3 Gladstone Parade, Timber Street, Chippenham, SN15 3BS. E: Contact form Monday - Friday \| 8.30am - 5.00pm BRISTOL 5 Badminton Court, Station Road, Yate, BS37 5HZ. SALISBURY Suite 9, Minton House, Minton Distribution Park, London Road, Amesbury, SP4 7RT. Monday - Friday \| 8.30am - 5:00pm © 24-7 Staffing Registered Office: 3 Gladstone Parade, Timber Street, Chippenham, SN15 3BS Company No: 4932594 Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions Acceptable Use Policy Cookie Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784105
__label__wiki	0.630216	0.630216	Little Audrey's Daydream - The Life of Audrey Hepburn Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Katherine Hepburn Ferrer Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Meet Audrey Hepburn as you've never seen her before in Little Audrey’s Daydream: The Life of Audrey Hepburn, an empowering children's book by her son and daughter-in-law, Sean and Karin Hepburn Ferrer.Little Audrey's Daydream tells the story of Audrey Hepburn's life from her own perspective as a child growing up in Belgium and Holland, and into her adult life as an actress, mother, and humanitarian.• A beautiful, personal introduction to the life of Audrey Hepburn: Audrey's extraordinary story unfolds during her childhood in Holland, where her happy life of ice-skating and dancing changes with the harsh realities of World War II. As she daydreams about who she will become when the war ends, her real-life story of fame, family, and charity work unfolds.• A beacon of hope for children during difficult times: Facing dire circumstances during Occupation, Audrey and her family often don't have enough to eat. Despite the challenges, Audrey never loses hope that, with spirit and determination, her dreams can still come true.• All author proceeds will be donated to EURORDIS: Following in the footsteps of his mother's incredible humanitarian legacy, Sean Hepburn Ferrer and his wife Karen are donating all of their author proceeds from the book to EURORDIS, the Voice of Rare Disease Patients in Europe.• Whimsical illustration by celebrated French couple: Little Audrey's Daydream is beautifully illustrated by the legendary Dominique Corbasson and Francois Avril. This book is Corbasson's last work.Little Audrey's Daydream is an essential addition to the library of all Audrey Hepburn fans and a beautiful introduction to the life of Audrey Hepburn for children. Sean Hepburn Ferrer was born in Bürgenstock, Lucerne, Switzerland on July 17, 1960 to Audrey Kathleen Hepburn–Ferrer and Melchor Gaston Ferrer. For 40 years, Sean has worked in every aspect of the... Faerie Path #5: The Enchanted Quest Frewin Jones Far from the Realm of Faerie, a quest to save immortality . . . A deadly plague is sweeping through Faerie, and no one is immune to its bite. Now, withthe guidance of the Dream Weaver, Tania, Rathina, and a mortal ally, Connor, musthead off to find the Divine Harper—the only one who can help Tania renew the FaerieCovenant of Immortality. Their quest will soon take them outside the borders of Faerie,to hostile and unwelcoming lands beyond. On their travels, Tania and her companions encounter danger at every turn as they battle pirates, contend with mysterious and mystical beings, and try to outwit those under the sinister grip of the Dark Arts. But when Tania's beloved Edric appears, it looks as if they have help at last. Or do they? As tensions and dangers rise, Tania is forced to question everything and everyone around her in order to decide if she is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her loved ones. The Max Lucado Christmas Collection In the mystery of Christmas we find its majesty. The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come, and how he must love his people. Such mysteries can never be solved, just as Love can never be diagrammed. Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. Roxbury Park Dog Club #4: All... Daphne Maple What’s better than being best friends? Being best friends who volunteer together at the Roxbury Park Dog Shelter! 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__label__wiki	0.695817	0.695817	Diamond processors told to curtail import of rough stones for one month By Rajesh Bhayani \| Mumbai \| Last Updated at April 29 2020 21:09 IST Topics India diamonds \| Diamond industry \| Coronavirus In a move aimed at protecting the interests of diamond processing industry, the apex body of the gem and jewellery industry has put forth a proposal to curtail the import of rough diamonds till June 15. This will help proessors manage the current lockdown-induced crisis banking sector’s reluctance to finance the sector. Rough diamonds worth over $1 billion are imported every month on average, and a month's restraint will allow processing units to their pare inventories and tide over the current situation at least partially. These units are also under severe financial stress and aren't in a position to restart despite the government's go-ahead. Their keeping theh shutters down will render lakhs of employees jobless. ALSO READ: Can govt squeeze in a tax stimulus to quell Covid-induced economic crisis? As a solution and to protect the interests of the industry during this crisis, it was suggested by the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) that individual members consider the option of curtailing imports of rough diamonds from May 15 at least for the next 30 days. India has a monopoly in cutting and polishing diamonds, with 14 out of 15 stones in the world being processed here. However, the industry is now seeking to pare domestic inventories while increased stock of rough diamonds globally due to India’s absence has created a glut. This, in turn, has led to and lower prices. Recently several companies that get diamonds processed and export the polished stones, made some representations to the GJEPC. The Council responded to their call and also discussed possible steps to strengthen the Indian diamond industry. The GJEPC said, “Such a curtailment of imports will help the industry face the challenges arising out of the drop in demand in the global gems and jewellery market.” However, it left the decision to individual importers. ALSO READ: Coronavirus LIVE: Punjab extends 'curfew', allows shops for 4 hours daily The council added, “This one move will send a signal to the banking system that the diamond industry will not increase its indebtedness at a time when our downstream colleagues continue to meet consumer demand. This will reassure bankers and will prompt them not to reduce credit exposure to the industry. The Indian industry’s total indebtedness to banks is not excessively high—it currently stands at around $9.5 billion. The industry has honoured a major portion of its debts to the banks, and if the diamond sector tides over the next three months, the situation should be under control. It is expected that demand will be restored by 2021.” According to the council, another aspect of the move to curtail import is that, “it will allow fewer rough diamonds to enter the pipeline and the producer companies will face lesser strain and indirectly share in the financing burden, thus contributing to a faster restoration of normalcy in an otherwise healthy business.” The GJEPC will review the situation along with all other trade bodies in the second week of June to suggest a further course of action. Colin Shah, vice chairman, GJEPC, said, “This industry has come out of every crisis, though this time it may take longer to find the new normal, which could be about 20 per cent below the pre-corona level in value terms.” Just before the lockdown, the industry saw a sharp fall in FY20 exports due to the global slowdown. The lockdown was announced when banks were to review financial limits for FY21 and the industry was hoping for relief from them. However, the lockdown which followed unprecedented virus attack across globe, demanded stringent discipline by industry players and hence, curtailment rough diamond imports was proposed. This will also help improve industry financials and release of working capital stuck in inventories. ALSO READ: Has Covid-19 made a unified response to a national crisis the new normal? One of the exporter privy to the council’s meeting said, “Post Covid-19, there may be a short-term pent-up demand for diamond jewellery due to a large number of postponed weddings in the first half of the year. The industry will see a flare up of activity, but this will not translate into renewed replenishment from cutting and trading centres -- certainly not immediately." Read our full coverage on India diamonds First Published: Wed,April 29 2020 16:56 IST INDIA DIAMONDS DIAMOND INDUSTRY DIAMOND PROCESSING INDUSTRY DIAMOND IMPORTS Prev » Tamil Nadu allows industrial activity in green zones after review meeting Next » How an extended lockdown could impact sowing in the coming Kharif season Coronavirus lockdown is 'godsend' for fixed broadband companies: Report Covid-19: Lockdown leaves Chhattisgarh petrol pumps battling for survival Flipkart, cab operator Meru join hands to deliver essential products Business travel may resume within 6 months of lockdown lifting: Survey	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784112
__label__cc	0.678813	0.321187	https://warriorswire.usatoday.com/2018/06/30/kevin-durant-11-deal-luxury-tax-midlevel-exception/ Kevin Durant's new deal could actually save the Warriors money and allow more free agent flexibility Bansky Gonzalez Kevin Durant will technically be an unrestricted free agent when NBA free agency kicks off at 9 p.m. on Saturday night, but it’s widely understood that he’ll be resigning with the Golden State Warriors almost immediately. Naturally, a player of Durant’s talents will be making a ton of money, and since the Warriors still don’t have his full Bird Rights, it will eat up a massive portion of their salary cap for the upcoming season. Still, oddly enough, Durant’s 1+1 deal with an opt-out next summer that most assume he will sign would actually save the Warriors money and open up some additional flexibility for the team in free agency. Something of note 12 hours before free agency: If KD takes another 1+1 deal (rumblings are it's heading that way), it would save the Warriors a ton in tax money. Salary next year would be $30mil instead of max of around $35.4mil. That would increase likelihood Warriors use MLE. — Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) June 30, 2018 Anthony Slater from The Athletic pointed out on Twitter that a 1+1 deal, rather than a full max deal, would be about $5.4 million less in salary next season, saving the Warriors both a ton of money in luxury tax penalties and opening up the possibility the Warriors use their $5.3 million midlevel exception. That extra $5 million would obviously increase the possibility they’re able to draw a few more prized free agents this summer to bolster their roster, and maybe would even get them into the running for even bigger free agents like DeAndre Jordan. Of course, Durant could throw a wrench into those plans by signing a full max deal, but the 1+1 has always been the most logical and likely move for the Finals MVP. Next summer the Warriors will attain his full Bird Rights, and be allowed to exceed the salary cap to resign him, and they’ll need that flexibility as he’ll be able to sign a 5-year $219 million deal. That, on top of pending free agency for fellow stars Klay Thompson and Draymond Green means the Warriors will need all the help they can get in managing the cap, and retaining their stars going forward. Kevin Durant has plenty of options with the Warriors in free agency	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784113
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__label__wiki	0.983193	0.983193	NORTHERN IRELAND ON THE INTERNET Subscribe to Daily Northern Ireland News NI Queen's Awards Celebrated There were congratulations all round earlier this week as six local community groups who have received the prestigious Queen's Award for Voluntary Service also won praise from NI's most senior politician. Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson commented on how the award recognises outstanding achievement by groups who volunteer their own time to enhance and improve the quality of life and opportunity for individuals or other groups in the community. Mr Robinson said: "The Queens Award is recognition of the selflessness of the many hundreds of volunteers working in communities throughout Northern Ireland. "I would also like to express my thanks to those who give up their own time to put tremendous efforts in to making their communities better places to live," he said. The six successful Northern Ireland Groups are Morph, Dungannon; Altnagelvin Hospital Choir, Londonderry; Down Lisburn Carers Forum on Learning Disability, Lisburn; RNID Hearing Aid Volunteer Project, Belfast; Rowandle Integrated Primary School Steering Group, Moira and the South East Fermanagh Foundation, Lisnaskea. The groups from Northern Ireland were amongst 95 groups from across the voluntary and community sectors in the UK to receive the award this year. The origin of the awards was over seven years ago when they were announced by the Queen as part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations. (BMcC/JM) News Archive \| Submit News \| Get News For Your Website Related Northern Ireland News Stories Click here for the latest headlines. Time To Plan For A New Future For Everyone - SF Sinn Féin have said that it is time to "plan for a new future which will work for everyone", as they welcome the publication by Ireland's Future of its discussion paper 'The Conversation on Ireland's Future: A Principled Framework for Change'. NI Businesses Urged To Check Their 'Preparedness For The End Of Transition' Businesses across Northern Ireland are being urged to check their preparedness for the end of the Brexit transition period. Five NI groups receive Queen's Awards Five groups from Northern Ireland were amongst 110 groups from the voluntary and community sectors in the UK to be awarded this year’s Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. First Tree Planted In One Million Trees Campaign Belfast Lord Mayor Alderman Frank McCoubrey has planted the first of One Million Trees as part of a joint pledge to plant 1,000,000 native trees across the city by 2035. Additional £3.25m For Arts And Creative Sectors An additional £3.25 million has been secured for individuals who work across the arts and wider creative economy, Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has announced. At a meeting with the sector the Minister outlined a further round of the Individuals Emergency Resilience Programme (IERP) will open for applications on December 17. Cloudy start across the south and east with patchy rain but drier conditions across the north and west soon spread east with sunny spells developing. A few afternoon showers develop across the north and west but most places remains dry. Maximum temperature 6 °C. A few showers continues across northern and western areas through the evening and overnight but southern parts look largely dry with clear spells allowing a frost to develop. Minimum temperature -1 °C. Webmaster Tools / Use Our News feed 4ni / 4ie Flagship Media Group Ltd, Unit C3, 6 Westbank Drive, Belfast, BT3 9LA, Northern Ireland. Tel : (028) 90319008 v2	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784121
__label__wiki	0.70793	0.70793	Millions across Europe to tune into Cathedral Mass this Christmas Eve Galway Advertiser, Thu, Nov 28, 2019 Galway Cathedral’s Christmas Eve Mass will be broadcast live in Ireland and across Europe to millions this year. This year’s Mass which will begin exactly at 11pm, instead of the usual 10pm time and will go out live on RTE in Ireland and on various channels across Europe. The Mass will be broadcast through Eurovision which means that it will be available to 44 European countries. Everybody is welcome to attend this Mass but the congregation has to be in their seats by 10:45pm in order to facilitate the 11pm broadcast start. Christmas Carols will be sung by the Cathedral Choir in the half-hour before Mass and Bishop Brendan Kelly will be the chief celebrant. Kairos Production Company is responsible for the broadcast of the live Christmas Eve Mass at Galway Cathedral and producer Finbarr Tracey says that an estimated two million viewers tune in for this each Christmas Eve. “Our Christmas Eve Mass is always a very busy session at Galway Cathedral and we really want to ensure people know the time change from 10pm to 11pm, explained Fr Martin Whelan yesterday. “Everyone is welcome to attend and must be in their seats by 10:45pm as the Mass will start at 11pm on the dot. There will be carols and the spirit of Christmas will be well and truly alive in the Cathedral. It is incredible to think that millions will be looking in on Galway this Christmas Eve,” he added. Meanwhile, the Galway Cathedral Live Crib will take place from 11:30am to 4pm on Tuesday December 17, with live animals, music and song by primary school pupils from across Galway. This is open to everyone. Keep up to date with all the news on Galway Cathedral on social media and on www.galwaycathedral.ie Christmas Christmas traditions Christmas Eve Holidays Time New Year's Eve Traditions Calendars Ireland social media Europe Christmas Galway Cathedral producer Massachusetts Bishop Brendan Kelly Martin Whelan Christmas Eve Cathedral Choir www.galwaycathedral.ie Christmas in the post-war United States Kairos Production Company Cathedral Mass Finbarr Tracey Galway teacher aims to achieve his goals on Operation Transformation in New Year Aniar Restaurant makes international 50 Best Discovery list Introducing....Hyde Gin! Red is the new Black at Virgin Media, Eyre Square Shopping Centre!! Introducing Massimo's Winter Wonderland! Major 1,150-bed hospital for Galway by 2031 Health Care Group spearheads action plan to meet increased demand for services over winter Galway rent rises for four years in a row Fr Peter McVerry to speak in Galway next week Lyons welcomes four new bus shelters for the west of the city Connolly questions inaction of housing taskforce for Galway Hanley welcomes thirteen new bus shelters for the city Civic and religious leaders to deliver Christmas messages on Galway Bay fm New archdiocesan magazine to be launched at Novena next week Christmas Services at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church Lighting of Christmas tree in Ballybane Carol Services at St Nicholas Remembering the true meaning of Christmas Galway Solemn Novena to reflect on importance of family and home A ‘White Christmas’ for Galway Simon Community advertiser In brief...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784127
__label__cc	0.690709	0.309291	/Articles/Article/ Is It Possible To Have A Wife-Carrying Contest In Africa? Its practically not going to be realistic to have such a sporting event on the continent or maybe that's what African men need right now. By Olumide Oyekunle. I watched a Lithuanian couple win the World Wife-Carrying Championship for a second time in a row in the Finnish town of Sonkajarvi on Saturday. It was thrilling and captivating as men (husbands) slug their respective wives on the shoulder while overcoming obstacles on their way. To have such a competition in Africa would be amazing and can ultimately revive family bonds. The problem is that African men carry so much on their shoulders due to the cultural expectations in the face of stiffening economic uncertainty. Each year, the championship draws thousands of visitors to the town of only about 4,000 inhabitants in central Finland. From a functionalist viewpoint and given the role of sports as a unifying factor, wife-carrying competition can rejuvenate marriage unions, while also ensuring healthy lifestyle. Of course you don't want to end a 300m journey just after 100 meters. Sports followership and support has been dwindling on the continent. Times are changing, where fans troop to the stadium to watch local football matches on weekends even as officials always had a handful to deal with. Foreign leagues has done a great deal of damage to what we call our own and our kids can't even name a player who won the CAF Champions league, yet knows the first eleven of a European football club. In times past, leisure and play has been a part of an average African, with festivities in their colorful exorberance. Men or women, young or old, noble or peasants, there's always a time to roll. At some point, we lost it unfortunately and it will not be out of order to start from a sport that promotes cohesion in the family. Wife-carrying may be labeled a misogynistic sport by feminist groups, who are quick to rob our minds of the many positives. By the way, its the couple's play not theirs. Rather than see couples ripped apart by divorce, constantly clamping on violence and bitterness, we can have a partnership defined by love. The African Exponent Weekly Every week, get a digest of Top African News and Articles from The African Exponent. More NewslettersPrivacySupport In Africa, the sports can easily resonate to showcase the strength of a man and his willingness to carry her in the journey of life. It is figurative and also follows the natural law that the hormonal advantage of the male folk is to protect and not molest women through machismo. Such a competition should infuse into the minds of many African men that their wives aren't just a baggage for procreation and nannies without pay. We are friends, playful friends for that matter. Wife-carrying as a sport drew inspiration from the 19th century legend of Ronkainen the Robber, who compelled would-be members of his gang to prove their mettle by carrying sacks of grain or live pigs over a similar course. The competition is also said to look back to an even earlier practice of wife-stealing - leading many present-day contestants to compete with someone else’s wife. If we can't start from wife-carrying, let's start with something light and we can move on from there. It's always within us. Header Image Credit: Reuters Pro Tip: Become a Blogger Publish your own articles by creating your blog on The African Exponent. More info African heritage Wife-carrying African feminism Are you impressed, have any concerns, or think we can improve this article? Email us. Follow us on social media and rss. Next From Your Saved Articles Log in or create an account to add articles to your saved articles list. 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__label__cc	0.60675	0.39325	Mustn’t Miss Game of Thrones Events for Hardcore Fans The fever is everywhere! By Andy Flores \| April 8, 2019 Via Exhibit – Game of Thrones Exhibition official website Step into Westeros and the lands beyond at the Titanic Exhibition Centre’s (TEC’s) Game of Thrones: The Touring Exhibition. Open from 11 April to 1 September, the exhibit will treat fans to the ultimate GoT showcase, complete with authentic props, costumes, and interactive displays. Among the many highlights and attractions of the exhibition are the legendary Iron Throne Room, the unforgettable costumes of House Targaryen, and renditions of the wintry landscapes of the North. This festival in Kent Andy Flores Andy Flores is a pathological penny pincher with impulse shopping and binge-eating tendencies. She’s constantly saving up for new adventures, so she dabbles in writing jobs here and there. Her not-so-secret dream is to be an extra in a big Bollywood movie.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784130
__label__wiki	0.941923	0.941923	Paul Maurice records 700th coaching win as Laine, Jets shoot down Oilers in SO Posted on October 20, 2019 by JetsFan in NHL News \| 0 Comments Connor Hellebuyck’s first shutout of the season couldn’t have come at a better time for the Winnipeg Jets. Kyle Connor and Patrik Laine scored in the shootout as the Jets ended a three-game losing skid with a 1-0 victory over the red-hot Edmonton Oilers Sunday. “I wasn’t trying to do too much, sticking with my game and relaxing and reading the game as it came to me,” Hellebuyck said of his 28-save performance. “I thought I was a calming presence for the guys out there, and it helps when they were clearing rebounds like they were. I’ll enjoy this one. You don’t get too many shutouts.” WATCH \| Winnipeg hand Edmonton 2nd straight loss: Winnipeg handed Edmonton their second loss of the season behind shootout goals from Kyle Connor and Patrik Laine in their 1-0 victory. 1:20 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid were stopped in the shootout. Overtime featured stripped pucks and tight goaltending. McDavid denied Edmonton goalie Mike Smith robbed Mark Scheifele in close and Hellebuyck followed that up by denying McDavid on a breakaway. “That’s what 3-on-3 hockey does with the best players in the world out there,” said Smith, who made 23 saves. “It’s exciting for you guys, not so much for the goalies.” The Oilers (7-1-1) came into the game winners of two straight. Winnipeg (5-5-0) was playing its fourth game of a five-game homestand in front of 15,321 fans at Bell MTS Place. “It’s good to get a result,” Jets captain Blake Wheeler said. “Obviously, it’s been tough around here. I think the quality of our play isn’t reflective of the results we’re getting recently. So, it’s good to finally get one.” The Jets are undefeated in regulation in their last seven games against the Oilers. Their last loss was Dec. 1, 2016. Paul Maurice notches 700th career win The victory also marked Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice’s 700th career win. He’s seventh all-time and third behind active NHL coaches Joel Quenneville of the Florida Panthers (893) and New York Islanders’ Barry Trotz (815). Jets defenceman Carl Dahlstrom appeared to score his first NHL goal at 8:27 of the third period, but the play was reviewed and Scheifele was ruled offside and the goal wiped away. Keeping McDavid and linemate Leon Draisaitl off the scoresheet, especially in overtime, was a bit surprising for Oilers defenceman Oscar Klefborn. “We’re spoiled to have those two guys on the ice when it’s 3-on-3,” Klefborn said. “And usually it only takes one or two attempts and it’s back in the net. “It’s going to be nights like this and it was a tight game tonight. Obviously, one point is one point so we’re just going to look forward to the next game.” Edmonton outshot Winnipeg 7-2 in the first period. The Jets didn’t get their first shot on goal until 8:06 and finished with another 11 attempts in the period, five that missed the net and six that were blocked. Bryan Little makes season debut The Oilers went on a power play with 1:56 left in the opening period and had one shot Hellebuyck turned aside. Winnipeg went on its first power play seven minutes in the second period and got four shots on Smith. McDavid was then called for slashing Wheeler late in the second. Winnipeg tallied three shots on goal, including a low Mathieu Perreault shot that Smith squeezed into his body. Jets centre Bryan Little, making his season debut after suffering a concussion in a pre-season game, went to the penalty box for slashing at 18:46. Shots on goal after the middle frame were 15-12 in Edmonton’s favour. Winnipeg had its third power play of the game 26 seconds into the third and Smith stopped Laine’s low, one-timer blast and a shot from Dmitry Kulikov. Less than a minute after Dahlstrom’s goal was disallowed, the Jets went on the power play again. Smith denied three shot attempts, including two quick ones from close in. Winnipeg finishes its homestand by hosting the Los Angeles Kings Tuesday. The Oilers are in Minnesota the same night to play the Wild. Let’s get some grudges going January 20, 2021 Jets stall, go into scramble mode January 19, 2021 Brossoit backstops Jets to 4-3 OT win over Senators January 19, 2021 Nikolaj Ehlers’ OT winner caps Jets’ comeback victory over Senators January 19, 2021 What you should know for the new NWHL season January 19, 2021 Jets News (2,708) NHL News (4,562) NHL Trades (2,189)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784132
__label__wiki	0.933811	0.933811	Airport information and maps for Labuan Airport: LBU Airport Information: IATA / ICAO Codes: LBU / WBKL Labuan Airport Lapangan Terbang Labuan 纳闽机场 Location: Labuan, Sabah, Malaysia GPS Coordinates: 5°18'6"N by 115°14'53"E Area Served: Labuan, Malaysia Operator/Owner: Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad Airport Type: Military/Public Elevation: 101 feet (31 meters) View all routes: Routes from LBU Facts about LBU Map of Nearest Airports to LBU List of Nearest Airports to LBU Map of Furthest Airports from LBU List of Furthest Airports from LBU Facts about Labuan Airport (LBU): The furthest airport from Labuan Airport (LBU) is Tefé Airport (TFF), which is nearly antipodal to Labuan Airport (meaning Labuan Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tefé Airport), and is located 12,304 miles (19,801 kilometers) away in Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil. Labuan Airport handled 738,769 passengers last year. In addition to being known as "Labuan Airport", other names for LBU include "Lapangan Terbang Labuan" and "纳闽机场". The closest airport to Labuan Airport (LBU) is Lawas Airport (LWY), which is located 33 miles (53 kilometers) SSE of LBU. Because of Labuan Airport's relatively low elevation of 101 feet, planes can take off or land at Labuan Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations. Labuan Airport (LBU) currently has only 1 runway. Map of Nearest Airports from Labuan Airport: List of Nearest Airports from Labuan Airport: 1 33.02 miles (53.14 km) SSE Lawas Airport (LWY) Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia 2 33.09 miles (53.26 km) SW Brunei International Airport (BWN) Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei 3 37.84 miles (60.89 km) SSW Limbang Airport (LMN) Limbang, Sarawak, Malaysia 4 54.47 miles (87.66 km) SSE Long Sukang Airport (LSU) Long Sukang, Sarawak, Malaysia 5 63.17 miles (101.66 km) E Lapangan Terbang Keningau Keningau Airport (KGU) Keningau, Sabah, Malaysia 6 69.64 miles (112.08 km) SSE Long Pasia Airport (GSA) Long Pasia, Sabah, Malaysia 7 71.26 miles (114.68 km) NE Kota Kinabalu International Airport (BKI) Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 8 78.44 miles (126.24 km) SSE Long Semado Airport (LSM) Long Semado, Sarawak, Malaysia 9 91.58 miles (147.38 km) SSW Mulu Airport (MZV) Mulu, Sarawak, Malaysia 10 94.24 miles (151.67 km) SSE Ba'kelalan Airport (BKM) Bakalalan, Sarawak, Malaysia 11 100.51 miles (161.75 km) SW Marudi Airport (MUR) Marudi, Sarawak, Malaysia 12 103.55 miles (166.64 km) SSE Juvai Semaring Airport (LBW) Long Bawan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia 13 109.18 miles (175.71 km) S Bario Kelabit Airport (BBN) Bario, Sarawak, Malaysia 14 109.89 miles (176.86 km) SW Miri Airport (MYY) Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia 15 127.38 miles (204.99 km) S Long Lellang Airport (LGL) Long Lellang, Sarawak, Malaysia Map of Furthest Airports from Labuan Airport: List of Furthest Airports from Labuan Airport: 1 12,304.03 miles (19,801.37 km) S Tefé Airport (TFF) Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil 2 12,302.14 miles (19,798.33 km) S Lábrea Airport (LBR) Lábrea, Amazonas, Brazil 3 12,299.10 miles (19,793.43 km) SW Coari Airport (CIZ) Coari, Amazonas, Brazil 4 12,286.39 miles (19,772.97 km) E Carauari Airport (CAF) Carauari, Amazonas, Brazil 5 12,193.98 miles (19,624.25 km) SSW Porto Velho-Governador Jorge Teixeira de Oliveira International Airport (Belmonte) (PVH) Porto Velho, Brazil 6 12,112.60 miles (19,493.29 km) SSW Barcelos Airport (BAZ) Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil 7 12,077.18 miles (19,436.28 km) WSW Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes–Manaus International Airport (MAO) Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil 8 12,076.26 miles (19,434.81 km) WSW Ponta Pelada Airport (PLL) Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil 9 12,072.50 miles (19,428.76 km) E Tabatinga International Airport (TBT) Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil 10 12,072.31 miles (19,428.45 km) ESE Amaury Feitosa Tomaz Airport (ERN) Eirunepe, Amazonas, Brazil 11 12,071.23 miles (19,426.72 km) ESE Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport (LET) Leticia, Colombia 12 12,058.91 miles (19,406.89 km) ESE Ipiranga Airport (IPG) Santo Antônio do Içá, Amazonas, Brazil 13 12,054.71 miles (19,400.13 km) SE Rio Branco-Plácido de Castro International Airport (RBR) Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil 14 12,053.25 miles (19,397.77 km) S Guayaramerín Airport (GYA) Guayaramerín, Bolivia 15 12,031.05 miles (19,362.06 km) SSE Riberalta Airport (RIB) Riberalta, Bolivia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784143
__label__wiki	0.93055	0.93055	NATO weighs Turkey’s Patriot missile request Foreign ministers to meet in Brussels to consider deployment of missile defence system amid tensions with Syria. NATO and Turkey insist that deployment of US-made surface-to-air Patriot missiles is a purely defensive move [EPA] NATO foreign ministers are set to discuss Turkey’s request for deployment of Patriot missiles to counter a threat from Syria, despite a warning by the Russian president that deployment could increase tensions. Ivo Daalder, the US ambassador to NATO, said on Monday the ministers’ meeting, which begins on Tuesday in Brussels, was likely to clear the way for the Patriot missiles. The escalating conflict in Syria is expected to be a major talking point for the alliance’s 28 members who share a vow of mutual defence. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said on Monday that any deployment of Patriot missiles would only add to tensions. “Creating additional capabilities on the border does not defuse the situation but on the contrary exacerbates it,” Putin, whose country is not a NATO member, said after talks in Istanbul with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister. Both NATO and Turkey insist that the deployment of the US-made surface-to-air Patriot missiles is a purely defensive move. High chances Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, reporting from Brussels, said there were high chances of Turkey’s request being granted. “It’s extremely likely that the 28 members of NATO …will agree to come to Turkey’s assistance; to meet the request made last month to help augment their air defences in light of a possibility of attack from Syria along and across its 900km border with Syria,” he said. Military sources in Turkey have said NATO is considering the deployment of up to six Patriot batteries and some 300-400 foreign troops to operate them. The discussion on Turkey’s request comes amid a warning by the US president to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against using chemical weapons on his own people, saying there would be consequences if he were to do so. Video: US fears over Syria chemical weapons use “Today I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and those under his command: The world is watching,” Barack Obama said on Monday. “The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable.” Syrian state media responded by quoting its foreign ministry as saying that it would “never under any circumstances” use such weapons, “if such weapons exist”. Earlier in the day, a senior White House spokesman said that the US and its allied intelligence had monitored Syrian movement of chemical weapons components in recent days. Staff reduction In another Syria-related development, the UN and European Union announced on Monday that they were scaling back staff and activities from the country. Martin Nesirky, spokesman for UN chief Ban Ki-moon, said some convoys had been caught in the crossfire between Syrian government and rebel forces, including an incident near the airport in which two staff were injured. “We can confirm that the UN in Syria will pull out non-essential international personnel with immediate effect,” Nesirky said in New York on Monday. “The UN will also suspend its missions within the country until further notice.” The UN said that up to 25 of about 100 foreign staff would leave this week, pointing out that more armoured vehicles were needed after attacks in recent weeks on humanitarian aid convoys and the hijacking of goods or vehicles. Obama warns Syria over chemical weapons use US president says there will be “consequences” if President Assad uses chemical weapons on his own people. Struggling to help displaced Syrians Aid groups face funds scarcity as they seek to help 400,000 people living in temporary shelters in Idlib province. Syrian refugees struggle in Lebanon There are more than 134,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon but there are no refugee camps. From: Inside Syria Is it time to arm the Syrian opposition? As the new opposition group is established, we ask if it should now be supplied with ‘defensive weapons’. HOLD XX President Donald Trump has left the building	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784145
__label__wiki	0.591524	0.591524	Huge hula celebration gears up in Hilo, Korean tourists worry, GMO shoving match at Capitol, bill extends foster care to 21, Senate Judiciary mulls shield law, Honolulu council questions bus contract, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands Merrie Monarch hula (c) 2013 All Hawaii News Merrie Monarch is the hottest ticket in town, but there was a time when organizers couldn't imagine they'd ever fill the more than 5,000 seats— now tickets are gone by the end of the first day they're available to the public. Hawaii News Now. The world’s travelers continued their love affair with Hawaii in February as visitor arrivals and spending grew.An estimated 675,517 tourists visited Hawaii last month, a 7.8 percent increase from February 2012. Star-Advertiser. A loss of the South Korean market because of conflicts with North Korea would be devastating to the islands because according to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, if something affects tourism, it impacts everyone statewide. KITV4. A proponent of labeling for genetically modified foods accused the head of the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation of harassment Thursday at the state Capitol after he put his hand on the lens of her video camera and shoved another protester into her. Star-Advertiser. A confrontation between a group opposed to genetically engineered foods and the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation was caught on video, with both sides accusing the other of starting the scuffle. Hawaii News Now. A bill that would allow foster care youth to voluntarily remain in the system until they turn 21 made it through its final committee vote Thursday and is headed to a House-Senate conference hearing. Star-Advertiser. Hawaii's prison population has dropped 5 percent since July 2012, a figure that includes a 12 percent reduction in prisoners housed in Arizona. Civil Beat. The Senate judiciary committee plans to decide next week whether to move forward with a bill to extend Hawaii’s shield law with changes that would limit its scope in protecting journalists. Associated Press. The state attorney general's office urged state senators Thursday to remove bloggers from a law that protects journalists from revealing confidential sources, arguing that the provision is too broad and untested. Star-Advertiser. Hawaii lawmakers want to develop underused school lands to raise money so the state can fix its aging inventory of educational facilities. Civil Beat. The Hawaii Senate judiciary committee has approved a bill aimed at regulating feral bird feeding. Associated Press. Hawaii senators are moving forward a bill to require the state to post more information online. Associated Press. When pumping gas or buying produce at the grocery stores, do you trust that you're getting what you paid for? An audit revealed some shocking details on how few inspections are being done in the state to ensure we are getting what we pay for. KHON2. Hiring delays, lack of planning plague agriculture department, according to a new report from the Hawaii State Auditor regarding the Department of Agriculture’s Measurement Standards Branch. Civil Beat. The recovery in Hawaii's construction industry is gaining momentum and is on track to continue through at least 2015, led by a flurry of new condominium projects in the pipeline and the expected restart of work on the Honolulu rail project, according to a report scheduled for release today by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization. Star-Advertiser. Gov. Neil Abercrombie is announcing nominations for the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Commission on Water Resource Management. Associated Press. State roundup for March 29. Associated Press. The city could soon impose stiffer fines on homeowners who ignore repeated notices to clear weeds, trash or other waste from their properties, under a bill approved by the Honolulu City Council Zoning and Planning Committee on Wednesday. Star-Advertiser. City Council members raised questions Thursday about what some called the city's "complex" and "convoluted" relationship with the nonprofit firm that has run TheBus for more than two decades — and why other such companies can't competitively bid to manage the public bus system. Star-Advertiser. Ulupono Initiative did a “Local Food Market Demand Study of O’ahu Shoppers” that showed nearly 74% believe it is very important that Hawai’i grow its own food. According to the USDA, however, only 8% of our food spending actually goes to locally grown products. Hawaii Public Radio. Since Macy's closed its store in downtown Honolulu last month, mum has been the word on any new tenant. But new plans for the space are drawn up, and all signs point to Walmart. Star-Advertiser. Downtown Honolulu could be getting a Walmart. There's a possibility that the retail giant could take over the site formerly occupied by Macy's. KHON2. A Kalaeloa business has agreed to pay $710,000 in fines for alleged water pollution violations at Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor in what the Environmental Protection Agency calls the nation's largest Clean Water Act civil penalty against a ship repair facility. Star-Advertiser. When Kirk Caldwell was running for mayor, his platform emphasized a focus on infrastructure, including filling potholes and repaving. Honolulu Weekly. The state should maintain control of the Banyan Drive hotel properties and the Hapuna Beach and Mauna Kea parks, lawmakers have decided. Tribune-Herald. Kohala Councilwoman Margaret Wille backed away Thursday from a resolution in support of a state bill that would decriminalize possessing small amounts of marijuana, but not before getting some of the discussion she said she set out to hear. West Hawaii Today. State parks officials on Thursday made the case for charging parking fees at Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area – but not without a barrage of questions and concerns being raised. West Hawaii Today. While a Maui County vehicle-use policing program has been in place since July 1, only one department - the Department of Environmental Management - is in full compliance, County Council Budget and Finance Committee members learned Wednesday. Maui News. Maui police -- some carrying assault rifles -- responded Thursday afternoon to Hoapili Hale, the 2nd Circuit courthouse located at 2145 Main St. in Wailuku. Police were called after a juice bottle containing dry ice exploded in the parking lot of the courthouse, creating a loud explosion at about 1:45 p.m. Maui News. The 6th Maui Agriculture Festival returns to the Maui Tropical Plantation (MTP) in Waikapu on Saturday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maui Weekly. The Kaua‘i County Council had many concerns after hearing the same lobbying firm hired by Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr.’s administration to represent the county’s interests at the state Legislature had also been hired by Syngenta to lobby at the Capitol. Garden Island. Kaua‘i County Council Chair Jay Furfaro on Thursday may have summarized best the desire of the council to work alongside the administration while coming up with the county’s financial blue print for next fiscal year. Garden Island. On Friday March 29, Good Friday, an important meeting is being called by the Pala`au Moku of the Aha Kiole O Molokai. A “Shoreline Management Plan” from Ilio Point to Pelekunu on the north shore of Molokai will be presented. Molokai Dispatch. Labels: agriculture, construction, GMO, Hawaii Legislature, hula, Merrie Monarch, shield law, tourism Huge hula celebration gears up in Hilo, Korean tou... Hawaii Legislature recognizes fallen warriors, Nor... Hawaii flunks online transparency, Hawaiian art ge... Commentary: Hawaii's shield law is in peril; Senat... Hawaii Senate downgrades gay marriage bills, teach... Hawaii, teachers union reach deal; University of H... Hawaii Legislature kills GMO labling bill, more se... Schatz bill would expand national parks, priest ad... Hawaii Senate to hear GMO bill, agencies decry per... Pay raises for government officials, more racism i... Hawaii Legislature mulls food, ethics, hospitals, ... Hawaii Capitol rallies include preschoolers, teach... Revenue Council upgrades forecast, shield law in p... Hawaii tax collections rise; Hirono dubbed a 'sile... 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__label__cc	0.665209	0.334791	Join a network of communities across the country that are testing exciting new ways to transform health through multi-sector partnerships to share data If you’re part of a local collaboration working to share data across sectors, there’s no need to wrestle with challenges alone. There are plenty of communities working on projects just like yours, and All In: Data for Community Health can connect you to the right tools, resources, and expertise to help. With a diverse learning collaborative of 100+ projects that is still growing, the All In offers many technical assistance and networking opportunities to meet your specific needs. In addition to supporting individuals working at the local level, All In also works collaboratively with regional or national initiatives that fund or provide technical assistance to communities engaged in this work. All In was built on the premise that by combining our collective resources and expertise, we can accelerate learning and achieve a greater collective impact. If you’re new to the All In leaning collaborative, the first step to join is to sign up for the online community (community.allindata.org) and create an individual member profile. Read our FAQs for help getting started. By being part of the All In learning collaborative, you will gain access to a variety of opportunities to connect, share, and learn, including virtual webinars, in-person events, opportunities to contribute to the field, and more. Benefits of All In Membership CONNECT SHARE LEARN Access an online community with a searchable library of people, projects, tools, and resources. Join discussion groups and events to connect with professionals with similar interests. Review, write, present, and serve as a subject matter expert to support this growing field. Gain exposure for your innovative work by sharing lessons learned with other communities. Attend technical assistance webinars on a variety of topics. Participate in meetings held across the country that are designed to facilitate peer learning and provide expert support. Sign Up for News from All In: Get monthly updates from All In, including news about local collaborations, practical resources, and upcoming events. Subscribe to the All In podcast: Listen to All In co-founder Peter Eckart interview local leaders who are collaborating with other sectors to systematically share data to improve community health. Follow the Conversation on Twitter: Share your thoughts and insights about multi-sector data sharing for health on Twitter using our official hashtag #AllInData4Health. Join Us at Upcoming Events: View our calendar to learn about upcoming conferences, webinars, and other events that will feature presentations from All In. Read our FAQs page to get detailed answers to common questions about participating in the All In learning collaborative, or contact us directly at info@allindata.org if you have a specific question. All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations. All In’s Shared Vision for Racial Equity Includes Understanding, Acknowledging & Creating Inclusive Spaces November 2, 2020 All In for a Shared Racial Equity Vision Webinar October 27, 2020 All In’s Upcoming Virtual National Meeting Keynote Speaker Announced October 27, 2020 © Copyright All In: Data for Community Health	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784150
__label__wiki	0.736148	0.736148	All Speedway Home > Let’s Talk About Mechanics Let’s Talk About Mechanics Ryan December 13, 2020 As car lovers, we need to be informed about the latest developments in mechanics. Not just about car mechanics, but the mechanics of various devices given that almost everything can later find its way into automobiles. For instance, I’ve been reading CleanBreathing on air purifiers and how they work, because car air purifiers are becoming more popular every day. And not just devices such as these. GPS devices, tablets, phone chargers…it seems that nowadays everything is smart. The new self-controlling cars are also a challenge for car lovers. They have powerful batteries that are used for running the car. How these really strong batteries are connected to the rest of the mechanical pieces is really interesting for auto mechanics. Software and hardware functioning harmoniously in four wheels. People can’t wait to get and try one of these super exciting cars. The reparations of these cars are provided by the manufacturer, but it’s a question of time when these cars will be produced in such quantities that passionate car lovers such as ourselves will have the pleasure to look inside and see how they work. It’s also just a matter of time when these cars will start dominating speedway racing. It will be difficult to say goodbye to oil and the old combustion motors (or will it?). Anyways, the sweet old basic car mechanics. I almost feel nostalgic about the most important piece of mechanical cars, the car engine. The internal combustion engine, for example, has got its name because fuel, air, and electricity combust under pressure and create the energy necessary to move something as heavy as a car. The combustion happens in a combustion chamber where all the small explosions happen. The chamber consists of pistons that move up and down the chamber. There’s the cylinder, which is basically the wall of the chamber, and the cylinder head, which serves as the ceiling of the combustion chamber. When the explosion happens and the pistons move up and down, the crankshaft which is connected to the pistons also moves. The crankshaft is connected with a camshaft through a belt. The camshaft extends on the top part of the engine and controls the intake and the outtake valves. Intake valves bring air and fuel into the combustion chamber and outtake valves release the drains produced after the combustion. It’s all existing explosions and moving parts. No software, just plain old mechanics. I really love them. Previous Post: The Best Carwash The Best Carwash Keeping a Crowd Cool Tailgating Made Better With a Generator NASCAR By the Fire Equals Awesomeness! A Strange Discovery Near My Local Speedway Track NASCAR Day Buddy Lazier: A Racing Legacy Want Your Own? What Makes a Speedway Car? Speedway on the Tube Get Behind the Wheel: Get Involved What in the heck is Speedway Racing? The Hallowed Track	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784151
__label__cc	0.618996	0.381004	Let’s Walk, Bike & Roll Eco-Friendly Gift Ideas Recycling and Reuse Sustainable Living Resources Waste Reduction Household Tips ALSC works with affiliates to identify issues of common concern and educate the public on these issues. By bringing community stakeholders such as schools, businesses and local governments, together we can work toward the common commitment of building a sustainable community. Areas of agreement include: A robust economy and a good quality of life are dependent upon healthy people living in a healthy environment. Environmental stewardship is critical to creating and maintaining a healthy environment for humans and habitat for other animals. Environmental education is a mainstay of good stewardship. Open space contributes to a higher quality of life, community health and economic development Alternative energy development and deployment will conserve non-renewable resources and reduce harmful emissions and other pollutants. 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Contact: BikeTriCitiesWA@gmail.com Friends of Badger Mountain A group of local residents came together to preserve our local ridges for their scenic views and as open spaces. The future of this was threatened by irreversible development. Our goal became to acquire land to be held as open space. Contact: info@friendsofbadger.org Friends of Mid-Columbia River Wildlife Refuges Friends partners with United States Fish & Wildlife Services to connect people with local ecosystems. Volunteers restore habitat, improve access, educate and engage all ages. Contact: mcnaryedcenter@gmail.com Futurewise Founded to help support implementation of Washington’s innovative Growth Management Act, we focus on preventing the conversion of wildlife habitat, open space, farmland, and working forests to subdivisions and development, while directing most growth into our urbanized areas. Contact: alison(at)future-wise.org Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society LCBAS is a chapter of the National Audubon Society whose mission includes conservation, education, science-based projects, and enjoyment of the natural world. We were instrumental in helping to establish, and currently work to support, the Hanford Reach National Monument. Other conservation efforts include protecting burrowing owls; contributing to the Ridges to Rivers Open Space Network Vision Plan; commenting on Federal EIS’ and local development plans to protect habitat; and partnering in the Leslie Groves North Native Plant restoration project. Local education projects include a Junior Audubon class; support for the McNary NWR Education Center’s taxidermy collection; and classroom presentations. Citizen science projects include our annual Christmas Bird Count, the Sagebrush Songbird Survey, the Red-Breasted Nuthatch count, and the Breeding Bird Survey. We also have local and distant birding trips and monthly membership meetings (all open to the public) as well as a monthly newsletter. Ridges to Rivers Network A Nationally recognized and awarded plan for open space and trail planning in the Mid-Columbia region.The area is in the vicinity of the metropolitan areas of Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, West Richland, Finley, and Benton City. The Vision: A network of natural features, open spaces, and connecting trails that complements residential and commercial development in the Mid-Columbia Region and Enhances our ability to attract and retain people and businesses that sustain our economy Provides access and connection for recreation, education, and health Preserves natural and aesthetic values. www.facebook.com/RROSN Sustainable Living Center Mission: To conserve resources for the future by encouraging and facilitating sustainable living practices in our community. The SLC has established a reputation in the Walla Walla region as the clearinghouse for information and resources for making more sustainable lifestyle decisions. With funding from government and private sources, we maintain five successful programs that help us achieve our mission. Contact: info@slcww.org Tapteal Greenway The Tapteal Greenway is the 35-mile corridor along and including the Yakima River extending from Kiona Bend at Benton City to the mouth of the river at Bateman Island in Richland. The land trail portion is identified as the Tapteal Trail and our water version on the river is identified as the Tapteal Water Trail. Contact: taptealgreenway@gmail.com Citizens’ Climate Education The Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is an international, non-partisan, grassroots organization committed to creating the political will for a livable world. The WA Tri-Cities Chapter is just one of more than 445 across the world, including every U.S. state. We offer presentations on climate science to adults at various venues (Climate Science on Tap, Documentaries and presentations at libraries or service clubs, and climate science for students in High School and College, and on Zoom, with a team of current and retired scientists and educators. www.facebook.com/groups/WAtricitiesCCL October 7, 2020 @ 8:00 am - January 22, 2021 @ 5:00 pm Draft Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Chemical Action Plan DOT draft Active Transportation Plan, 2020 and Beyond Smart Growth America’s Equity Summit Do you have a sustainability event to publish? Let us know. Submit event Our Facebook page has regular updates and news. Please look for ‘Sustainable Tri-Cities’ and follow or like us to participate in conversations or just get the latest information. Do you want to become an affiliate? Or do you have anything you want to discuss with us? 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__label__wiki	0.753599	0.753599	Home » Newsmaker: Marc Norman Newsmaker: Marc Norman Fred A. Bernstein Marc Norman has been the director of UPSTATE: A Center for Design, Research, and Real Estate at the Syracuse University School of Architecture since 2012. The program was created by former dean Mark Robbins to, in Norman’s words, “tie faculty and students to real-world projects in the city and the region.” Norman studied political economics at Berkeley and urban planning at UCLA and spent four years as a project manager for Skid Row Housing Trust, a community development corporation in Los Angeles, before moving to New York. There, he worked for Lehman Brothers, financing affordable housing, and for Deutsche Bank, providing loans to organizations serving low-income populations, before heading to Syracuse. Norman was recently chosen to be a 2014–15 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Photo courtesy Syracuse University Marc Norman What’s UPSTATE’s biggest project right now? There’s a building in New York City called Castle Gardens, designed by Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, to reintegrate people coming out of prison into the general population. It has a shelter component, transitional units, and traditional apartments, all in the same building. It has worked phenomenally well, in terms of the recidivism rate. The New York State Department of Justice wants to replicate that model, and they picked Syracuse as the place to do that. And what was UPSTATE’s role? I raised money to run a competition. We brought in eight firms initially; four were selected to move forward. [They were Curtis + Ginsberg Architects and Saratoga Associates; Solid Objectives-Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) with Holmes, King, Kallquist & Associates, Architects; ISA Architecture/Research with HealthxDesign; and SWBR Architects.] Who chose the winner? The social service provider, the developer, and the Syracuse Housing Authority made the selection: Curtis + Ginsberg. The architects of Castle Gardens! So was the process for naught? Not at all. The whole idea was for us to bring in firms that wouldn’t otherwise be at the table. The next time [the agencies] do a deal, they’ll be thinking in terms of more innovative architecture. What is the status of the project? Curtis + Ginsberg is negotiating with the developer right now. The site is secured, and construction should begin next year. It’s called Freedom’s Gate. What did you like about the Curtis + Ginsberg proposal? They really thought through, architecturally, how you move from public to semi-public, to semi-private, to private space, because one of the big issues here is how you make the reentry population not feel isolated but make the apartment residents not feel intimidated by their presence. They’re sharing hallways, they’re sharing common areas. Why not just copy Castle Gardens? That’s on 138th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive in Manhattan. Our site is a mostly vacant, low-income neighborhood with no amenities whatsoever. So while we’re replicating the model, we really needed architects to think about how the model could work in this context, which is a familiar context in many older American cities. I think the reason the state chose Syracuse is to show other cities that it can be done. What else is UPSTATE doing? Some of our students have redesigned a field house. It’s really a concrete bunker in Skiddy Park. It’s a cinderblock building [now], with very minimal windows. The design really opens it up, creates spaces for neighborhood groups. The Parks Department is going to build it, partly with money I helped raise. It’s meant to be a prototype for the other 20 or so field houses in Syracuse parks. How does your finance background help you at an architecture school? I have one foot in each world. Speaking the language of finance but understanding the role of design means I can go to partners and show them how design can make their projects more financially successful. Architects think they make projects happen, but it takes a team, including financiers and other institutions. Recent Articles by Fred A. Bernstein MoMA and Harvard GSD Respond to Activists’ Call to Remove Philip Johnson’s Name Obituary: Jaquelin Robertson, 1933-2020 Obituary: William Menking, 1947-2020 Newsmaker: Newsmaker: Hadrian Predock Interview with Norman Foster on Droneports and His New Foundation Manuelle Gautrand Architecture John Yeon Architectur: Building in the Pacific Northwest	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784154
__label__cc	0.658944	0.341056	The Legend of Zelda - A Link Between Worlds Walkthrough, Part Nineteen: Dark Palace Grounds The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds owned by Nintendo. Part Eighteen: Turtle Rock As with many locations in Lorule, the key to accessing the Dark Palace is to find a way in. Lorule's geography does not make this easy. To get to the Dark Palace, travel to the Eastern Palace in Hyrule and check one screen south (the area is just north of the eastern edge of Lake Hylia on your map). A crack leading to Lorule is found here, blocked by boulders you can quickly Bomb away. Dark Palace Grounds - Make your way up to the field of bushes here and kill the enemies. Before leaving, merge with the north wall and follow it all the way east and south. You'll find a Maiamai perched on the ledge in the south. Drop down onto the grassy field beyond to find a Great Fairy which will heal your wounds. Go north one screen and slam into the leftmost tree in the row of five ahead to reveal a Maiamai, then enter the Dark Palace area proper. - Head north. You'll be notified that the guards in this place will immediately imprison you if they spot you. True advice, too - if you meet the red-waved gaze of the guards here, you'll be sent to the prison cell in the south. If this happens, merge with the walls to escape between the bars. - We won't worry about the maze here just yet. Go east, past the second guard you see, and you'll find a Maiamai stuck to a wall. South of here is an exit back into Lorule. Lorule - South of this entrance / exit is a line of trees. Just north of the right end of these trees is a wall you can blast open with a Bomb. Inside are Fairies. - Follow the cliffs south towards Lake Hylia. At the end you'll find a chest containing 100 rupees. - Walk west until you're south of Lorule's rock field. On the west end of this screen is a tree; dash into it to find a Maiamai. - Walk north. Scan the rocks on the eastern side of the area. Another Maiamai is waiting, chilling atop a rock. Also in the rock field is an alternate route into this part of Lorule: a crack in a pedestal. - Carry on north along the water's edge until the path veers east. Jump into the water to find a Maiamai in the depths. Near it is another crack you can use to cross back into Hyrule, though be warned - you can't travel back into Lorule if you go through. There's, ah, a bit of a drop. - You can continue east if you want, but there's not much point. The land kinda ends. Return to the entrance of Dark Palace and get to work infiltrating the place. - Head towards the first guard. Merge with the wall and you can sneak by him undetected, whether he's looking at you or not. - Further north there are two guards on patrol. Merge with the middle section of hedge here and wait for them to cross each other and walk towards the outer walls. Unmerge and run north before they can turn around again. - There's a split ahead. Run west and south when you hit the water. A guard on duty ahead will move his head left and right, trying to find you. Merge with the wall when he's stationary, slip past when his head is moving, and unmerge when he's stationary again. Past him is a chest containing 20 rupees. - Go north. There are two more patrolling guards. Merge with the right wall, slip past, wait for them to be facing north and south, then merge with the left wall. Go past the northern guard before unmerging. - Up a set of stairs are two patrolling guards; between the section they're patrolling is an open area with another guard. Weave your way around the thin columns here to reach the right side of the platforms. No fancy tricks, just smart timing. If you're especially fast you can grab a Heart Piece from a pole jutting out of the right side of this area. - At the bottom of the next set of stairs you'll find a Maiamai clinging to the hedges. - Carry on south. Another guard to dodge. Merge! - Beyond here you'll find a small intersection with three guards. Merge with the central hedge once the path is clear to slip past the first two guards. Don't unmerge to the north until the guard watching over the northern path stops swinging his head around. Then merge with the far wall and slip past. - One last guy. You can either slip past him the easy way or be tricksy and try to grab the two rupees in front of him when he's moving his head. I wouldn't recommend it. - All done. Run north, activate the local weather vane, and use a Bomb on the entrance to Dark Palace. Dungeon is ready to be infiltrated. Part Twenty: Dark Palace Labels: a link between worlds, action, legend of zelda, rpg, video game, walkthrough	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784157
__label__wiki	0.959716	0.959716	Investors in suspected Pilbara Ponzi scheme unlikely to get money back: liquidator By Rebecca Turner Posted FriFriday 29 SepSeptember 2017 at 3:18amFriFriday 29 SepSeptember 2017 at 3:18am , updated FriFriday 29 SepSeptember 2017 at 3:33amFriFriday 29 SepSeptember 2017 at 3:33am Veronica Macpherson says she's lost more money than any other investor in the scheme. (Linkedin: Veronica Macpherson) The 1,800 investors who handed over $120 million to a suspected Ponzi scheme masterminded by Pilbara businesswoman Veronica Macpherson are unlikely to get their money back, according to the liquidator of her Macro group companies. What is a Ponzi scheme? Ponzi schemes often have little or no real investments or assets Investor returns are paid from money generated from later investors in the scheme Warning signs include a rate of return on an investment that's too good to be true Eventually the scheme falls apart They were promised rates of return of up to 36 per cent if they gave their money to Macro to invest in Pilbara property developments around Newman and Port Hedland. Instead, the investment scheme collapsed last year, with ASIC alleging it was a Ponzi scheme where investors' money was allegedly used to pay the expenses of the company, including the interest payments to early investors. Now corporate investigators like ASIC and liquidator Hayden White of KPMG are trying to unravel the vast and complex web of companies and international money flows left behind. "There's rightfully a lot of questions being asked — what happened, where did the money go, what wrongdoing has happened here, is this involving Veronica or has the market just gone against them?" Mr White said. Although his investigation is in its early stages, Mr White recently reported to unsecured creditors and investors — who were mostly from overseas, predominantly from Singapore and Malaysia — that they were unlikely to see their money again. "We do not, at this stage, consider a realisation of the assets will produce an outcome sufficient to allow for a return to unsecured creditors or investors," he wrote in his first report to creditors. Land price drops from $410k to $75k The biggest land asset is the Newman Estate, a 244-lot subdivision marketed by Macro as an upmarket development that would attract mine and service workers to live in the town and prompt a shift away from fly-in, fly-out workers. It is now an undeveloped tract of land on the outskirts of the dusty mining town with a population of about 7,000 people and where the Pilbara property downturn has bitten hard. The median price of land has dropped from $410,000 to $75,000 in the past year, according to the Real Estate Institute of WA. "They continue to incur costs, rates and taxes and they're difficult to sell," Mr White said. "I've never had a situation where you can't sell property. I always tend to have that view there's always a buyer at some price. Unfortunately this matter is changing my view on that." Investors' eyes on new Government: Macpherson But Ms Macpherson claimed money being returned to investors was dependent on the WA Government, especially its treatment of BHP's Kurra Village mining camp in Newman. "It is still unknown whether it will be closed and if any mining company will be permitted to use mining camps in the Pilbara instead of proper housing for their workers and sublet the rooms for profit," she said. "I think all investors in the Pilbara Cities vision are watching closely to see what our new government will do about an 80 per cent drop in market value, the number of bankruptcies that have been caused as a result and whether we intend to walk away from the mission." The Pilbara Cities program was established under former minister for Regional Development Brendon Grylls to boost the permanent population of Newman to 15,000 by 2035. In 2014, Mr Grylls appeared in a corporate video with Ms Macpherson, where he outlined the program's vision and said he hoped to "talk to some of the potential investors … about where I see the next level of opportunity". Mr Grylls later requested the video be taken down from the company's website but this has not been done. Veronica Macpherson talks to Brendon Grylls Macro raised at least $120 million from investors who were offered rates of return of between 10 and 36 per cent, according to Mr White. "That's what I suspect was generating a lot of interest for overseas investors in what they thought was a property-backed investment with high returns," he said. But Mr White said they, as well as secured lenders and unsecured creditors, could be owed as much as $250 million because of the growing cost of interest payments. Ms Macpherson claimed she had lost more money than any other investor and said she knew many people were angry about the collapse of her companies. "They have been waiting a long time for their property or return and assume that with the uncertainty and drop in current land valuations, there is no hope for their investment," she said. "Others who understand the situation are asking how we can work together to get the best outcome possible." Mr White also told creditors he had identified potential breaches of the Corporations Act which would be investigated further, including trading while insolvent, breaches of directors' duties and concealing, destroying, mutilating or falsifying records. He will report to ASIC, which is investigating Ms Macpherson over her suspected Ponzi scheme. The Singapore Police Force is also examining one of her Singapore-registered companies, Macro Realty Developments Pte Ltd. Posted 29 SepSeptember 2017FriFriday 29 SepSeptember 2017 at 3:18am , updated 29 SepSeptember 2017FriFriday 29 SepSeptember 2017 at 3:33am Singaporean police probe company run by Pilbara businesswoman Grylls questioned over YouTube failed property developer video	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784158
__label__wiki	0.953571	0.953571	Super Netball moving to Queensland for season starting in August By Jessica van Vonderen Posted SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 4:10amSunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 4:10am , updated SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 6:13amSunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 6:13am The Queensland Government says it's a "great coup" for the state. (Supplied: GIANTS Netball) Super netball is moving to the Sunshine State for the 2020 season, with the competition to begin on August 1. All six interstate teams from Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Perth will start arriving from today under strict COVID-safe plans. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement at an indoor sports centre at Nathan in Brisbane's south. "What a great coup. It is going to be a netball bonanza," Ms Palaszczuk said. All Victorian players and support staff will have to quarantine for two weeks before they are allowed to play. They will be tested on days 4 and 10 of their quarantine. "They have a very strict COVID-safe industry plan, approved by the Chief Health Officer," the Premier said. "I have no doubt … that the women will follow these plans very strictly." The draw is yet to be finalised, but games are expected to be played in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. Chair of the Super Netball Commission Marina Go said it was vital for the clubs and players to get the season underway. "We thank them for working through the challenges with us in the most difficult of circumstances," Ms Go said. "This is a real win for women's sport." "With less than two weeks until the first centre pass of the season, the excitement across the league and within our fan base is palpable." The State Government is providing $2.2 million to help pay for the move. Queensland is also hosting AFL teams with the Premier wanting the Sunshine State to be considered to host the AFL grand final. Fever 'disappointed' with decision The Perth-based West Coast Fever issued a statement saying they were "disappointed' with the move. "WA is arguably the safest environment in Australia, and we have had several options on the table with the League for the last 6-8 weeks which have been overlooked," the club's managing firector, Simon Taylor, said in a statement. He said the club was trying to secure some home games, so players and coaching staff are not on the road for the whole season. Posted 19 JulJuly 2020SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 4:10am , updated 19 JulJuly 2020SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 6:13am 'Critical league' cancelled and doubts over return to play — netball wants answers Stretching their game: Netballers still unsure about Super Shot Annastacia Palaszczuk says Queensland should have 'first opportunity' to host AFL grand final Top Sports Stories Like the great Windies side of the Calypso Summer, this Indian team deserves a motorcade 'Who wouldn't you have picked?': Langer stands by bowling quartet after Gabba disappointment Two tennis players in hotel quarantine return positive COVID tests as player complaints continue Time of the essence as new Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson faces unique challenges Socceroos concerned about key players being on the outer at European clubs Did you see that one? India have the last word with deserved series win over Australia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784159
__label__cc	0.568661	0.431339	Early outreach key to supporting students with disabilities Ryerson University’s successful Access TMP program is featured in a Huffington Post article on students with disabilities. Based on Ryerson’s Tri-Mentoring program, Access TMP pairs first-year students with upper-year mentors in an effort to build community support for students, provide support for those who need it, and direct students toward career opportunities. “The process of mentoring is the three stages—to help with the transition into university, through university, and out of university,” said Tri-Mentoring Program Facilitator Mariam Hashemi. The Huffington Post piece notes that the success of the Access TMP program and similar programs at other universities often hinges on reaching students early on. “The structure changes, the demands change … and if you know that in advance you can plan for it,” said Theresa Doupe, Associate Director of Specialized Support and Disability Services at the University of Alberta. Students also benefit from being proactive. “The support systems can only do so much for you. I’ve learned to really be proactive and self-advocate for myself in a lot of situations,” said Ryerson student Samuel Pereira. Huffington Post \| Ryerson News	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784161
__label__wiki	0.610519	0.610519	The 2030 Urban Mobility Challenge: ACEA’s Contribution By 2030, most of the world's population will be concentrated in cities. Assuming this trend continues, by 2050 more than 80% of the world's population will live in an urban environment. Cities are places of innovation, they drivers of our economy and places where wealth and jobs are created. At the same time urban areas are characterised by density: of people, activities, interactions and economic, social and cultural functions. Thus, cities are where the opportunities and threats to sustainable development come together. In this context, the three pillars of sustainability (the economy, society and the environment) have all to be treated with equal importance. The future will bring a transportation landscape in which private cars, buses, freight, pedestrians, bicycles and rail will be woven into a connected network; saving time and resources, producing lower emissions and congestion, and promoting efficient land use and improved safety. ‘The 2030 Urban Mobility Challenge: ACEA’s Contribution’ describes transport solutions that will meet future mobility demands, click on the link below to discover the six main drivers of future mobility! Transport Policy Urban Transport Policy Access Restrictions Low Emission Zones Urban Logistics Position Papers Reference Documents Transport Policy Passenger Cars Trucks, Vans, Buses Download The 2030 Urban Mobility Challenge: ACEA’s Contribution Position Paper: Sustainable Urban Mobility Position Paper: Urban Access Restrictions SAG 13: Urban Access Charging Carsharing: a challenging opportunity for urban mobility Map: urban access restrictions in Europe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784162
__label__wiki	0.566323	0.566323	Actifio Transforms Top 20 Global Bank How one of the world’s largest banks created a “Database-as-a-Service Cloud” that accelerated application development cycle times while reducing costs Executive Summary: Resolving the DevOps Dilemma The world is changing fast. Like all global banks, this large financial institution needed to keep up, staying agile in the marketplace by developing new capabilities powered by innovative new software. To do that, the people developing this software needed fast and frequent access to the highest fidelity test data possible, to maintain quality standards and eliminate surprises when deploying to production. As always, that data needed to be protected in line with compliance requirements, and the “always on” demands of the bank. The operations team needed to maintain tight control of critical database systems, each of which was bound to expensive and complex legacy infrastructure and processes. Achieving this with infinite resources would be easy: Just throw more storage, software, and staff at the problem, and eventually it would go away. But the need to manage the conflicting demands of data access for Dev and data control for Ops without “breaking the bank” left the team searching for a better way. That way was Actifio. The bank tested and deployed Actifio Copy Data Virtualization worldwide to protect and provide Oracle database provisioning as part of a new Database-as-a-Service cloud, improving compliance, recovery times, and the agility of their DevOps efforts. In the process, the global firm saved millions of dollars in infrastructure, software licensing and operational costs. WHO: Global Consumer and Investment Bank CHALLENGES: Slow restores of large databases violated SLAs; Need for faster provisioning of data for DevOps teams IT ENVIRONMENT: Petabyte-scale Oracle RAC and ASM Database environment; Various OSes including AIX and Linux; EMC VMAX storage SOLUTION: Actifio Copy Data Virtualization platform to protect and provision/recover databases instantly, automatically from a Database-as-a-Service Cloud. • Over $25M in total financial benefits • Over $1M in hard cost savings in the first year. • 90% faster database provisioning for DevOps teams • Recovery of terabyte-sized Oracle databases in minutes One of the world’s Top 20 global banks, this financial institution has hundreds of millions of client accounts in more than 150 countries worldwide. It delivers corporations, consumers, and institutions a wide range of services and products, including investment and consumer banking, wealth management, securities and brokerage offerings. The IT services to support the firm’s many business units and offerings include thousands of developers, DBAs and operations staff, 20 data centers, petabytes of data, and a myriad of legacy technology platforms, including a dozen operating systems. Risks come in many forms for such global firms, and a lack of responsiveness and agility in the marketplace worried IT leadership at this bank, especially considering growing competition from nimbler SAAS-like FinTech startups. At the same time, maintaining stable, highly-available services is critical, if not mandated, by regulations and SLAs with internal business units. In light of these risks, managing Oracle databases across a business of this scale was a problem. With over 7 Petabytes of Oracle data supporting critical applications across thousands of databases on various Unix and Linux OSes, protecting and assuring access to Oracle databases for application testing and development were both priorities for the bank’s data team. The pressure to release new software capabilities to compete in the digital marketplace had grown more intense, so enabling development speed and agility was paramount. On the operations side, one of the most pressing issues was the slow restore times for large databases—those over 1 Terabyte in size. It could take more than 24 hours to restore one using the bank’s standard Veritas NetBackup tool, and could involve up to seven different staffers because of the processes involved. Such recovery times simply didn’t meet internal SLAs, and created compliance risks. Both the operations and database teams knew it. At the same time, the bank was also burdened by storing about 10 extra non-production copies of their Oracle databases as part of their application development lifecycle, which resulted in huge storage and management overhead. The management team realized this level of capital expenditure was not economically sustainable, nor was the operational expense to maintain these database copies. The staff time and effort to refresh non-production test and development environments with updates were onerous and could take up to three weeks (if the Oracle database was recovered from a tape backup), or up to ten days (from a disk backup system), and involve a 12-step approval and provisioning process touching five different teams. Needless to say, this infrastructure-bound process did not support the goals of DevOps agility. Considering Options Proving Backup and Recovery Speed The bank’s engineering team first engaged with Actifio to tackle its burdensome (and SLA-defying) Oracle database restoration problem. The bank’s IT executive team understood how fundamentally different Actifio’s Copy Data Virtualization platform was from legacy backup products, but they and their database administration and the operations teams had to test the platform, and frankly ‘see it to believe it’ on a real, important application. As a result, the bank conducted a thorough Proof-of-Concept on an invoicing application that was housed primarily in the United States but supported global operations. Actifio appliances were deployed alongside the production systems, used RMAN APIs to do an initial ingest (full backup) of the Oracle databases running in a RAC configuration with ASM, and then subsequently captured only the changed blocks. This approach drastically reduced the backup windows for the databases. More important though were the recovery speeds. Because the Actifio appliances kept the Oracle databases in their native application format, and then simply presented (instantly mounted) virtual databases (synthetic full point-in-time copies) back to hosts for restorations, the database and ops teams could now recover their databases in only minutes. This contrasted with the Veritas approach (also used by other backup tools) of copying and physically moving the data blocks to be recovered from the backup server, and in the process, converting the databases from Veritas’ proprietary backup format to something usable by the application. Database Virtualization for Database-as-a-Service Cloud As the PoC was coming to a close, however, the bank’s IT executive leadership team was also solidifying plans for a new internal private cloud to provide much greater automation and agility in its infrastructure. While the bank was not able to leverage public cloud IAAS, it still benchmarked its infrastructure services against Amazon Web Services in terms of performance, cost and flexibility. Its internal private cloud was specifically aimed at making IT infrastructure and data services more responsive to its application teams and ultimately the business. A critical part of this was establishing Database-as-a-Service infrastructure that would allow it to transition thousands of Unixbased Oracle databases to a cloud hosting Oracle databases on Linux VMs. This would drastically reduce compute, and other infrastructure costs, in addition to providing operational efficiencies. After the Actifio backup and recovery PoC proved the utility of data virtualization technology to provide instant data access, it was clear that Actifio should also be considered as the data protection and now database virtualization engine for the new Database-as-a-Service (DBAAS) cloud. The bank also evaluated another database virtualization product, which it had used in a departmental development project. Similarly to Actifio, the tool created a master copy of Oracle databases, and then provisioned virtual copies of it for test/dev teams to access. However, there were a number of critical technical factors that led the bank to select Actifio as its global data virtualization standard for its DBAAS platform. Most importantly was Actifio’s ability to fully support Oracle ASM, including support for native transparent migration from staging to production environments. The other database virtualization tool lacked ASM support, which the bank deemed a critical element for connecting to production databases. Additional factors also set Actifio apart in the eyes of the bank’s technical teams: robust, bandwidth-efficient replication capabilities, integration with native Oracle technologies such as RMAN, and the ability to support multiple use cases (including backup) at enterprise scale across multiple parts of the application stack (VM, OS, etc. in addition to the databases). Of course, the technical validation wasn’t enough—an extensive financial analysis was mandated by the bank’s leadership and procurement teams. Actifio’s consulting division engaged closely with the bank at all levels to collect information on their current state architectures, processes and costs, and created a business case with the bank’s data and assumptions to assess the realistic business impact of rolling out Actifio as the database protection and provisioning engine of the global DBAAS project. The financial impact was measurable, risk-adjusted, and huge —exceeding $25 million over the life of the system. With such a clear positive business impact, the bank’s CIO, finance, and executive stakeholders gave a greenlight to the project. After selecting Actifio, the bank began deployment on two fronts: Customization of a self-service portal front-end, and a global Actifio appliance rollout. The portal leveraged Actifio’s RESTful APIs so that any development, test, or DBA team member with the right credentials can access appropriate databases to work with, on-demand, and on-schedule. More specifically, staffers with the appropriate privileges are provisioned masked, read-write, virtual copies of databases, so they can perform recoveries, application testing, or development, integrity checks or any other task necessary for development or operations work. The global roll-out of Actifio included the deployment of dozens of Actifio CDS hardware appliances across each of the bank’s major data centers in the world: Six in North America, one in the UK, one in Germany, and three across Asia. After approximately one year of working with Actifio, the bank transitioned to deploying Actifio Sky virtual appliances on VMware ESX. Both appliances use Actifio’s integrations with Oracle RMAN, RAC and ASM to deliver the same data virtualization capabilities. The DBAAS Cloud now supports over 2,000 of the firm’s Oracle databases, with a new database being added to the platform every 90 seconds, on average. Once on-boarded to the new Actifio-based DBAAS platform, databases are no longer backed up by the legacy backup systems, dramatically improving availability SLA’s while dramatically reducing costs related to licensing, infrastructure, and operational complexity Deployment Benefits The business will recover the fully-loaded cost ahead of schedule: A confirmed $1M hard-cost capex savings in year one. Only six months to achieve cash-flow positive benefits. Over the five year life of the project, major cost savings will be achieved: $25 million in savings from storage consolidation and data management improvements per petabyte of the bank’s Oracle environment. $19M+ of that is from hard cost savings, derived from reducing software license and maintenance costs, and eliminating copies of databases. The reduction of copies resulted in a 55% storage savings / reclamation. $5M+ in soft cost savings, from operational improvements. In year one alone, an estimated $20M+ in other infrastructure savings from the overall DBAAS cloud project and Unix-Linux migration—aside from Actifio-derived storage savings. Technical Results Rapid, automated database restoration; multi-terabyte Oracle databases can be recovered in minutes, by a single requestor. A 90% reduction in database provisioning time, for DevOps activities, reducing developer and DBA wait-time. Self-service automated data provisioning, reducing friction between operations and dev/test teams. Elimination of 55% of storage associated with each Oracle database for operational and development use cases. Automated integration of data masking, providing improved data control, reducing the risk of data breaches, without sacrificing agility. Download the Full PDF Asset Types: Customer Brief IT Priorities: Application Development/DevOps Resiliency & Availability	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784164
__label__wiki	0.834276	0.834276	NHRA & Formula E Reporter Amanda Busick Shares World of Extremes with FOX Sports Viewers CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Standing at the top end of an NHRA drag race, FOX NHRA reporter Amanda Busick regularly interviews competitors climbing out of hot rods that generate more than 11,000 horsepower, launch at nearly eight times the force of gravity, reach speeds of more than 300 mph in about four seconds, and struggle mightily not to explode, break apart or catch fire. Last month, the North Carolina native spent time in Brooklyn, reporting from the paddock of socially responsible, fully electric (and much quieter) FIA Formula E Championship NYC ePrix events – twin 45-minute races, where battery-powered cars reached speeds of about 65 mph in less than three seconds, and are capable of peaking at just under 175 mph. Somewhere in the middle of these two diametrically opposed racing worlds, Busick balances the extremes, finding both differences and similarities. “The information varies between each series, however, my preparation in covering each is similar: Who are the participants? Teams? Key storylines? Points?” Busick said. “And, with both, I have learned to always leave a little space for the unexpected. Properly adapting to potential, often likely, chaos in the world of racing may be the most important part of both jobs. “While the worlds of NHRA and Formula E seem like polar opposites from a sensory standpoint, motor sports enthusiasts can find similarities … the awe surrounding the ingenuity, the constant on-track unpredictability and even the impressive speeds,” Busick added. “Though not 300+ mph, 170 mph – running on a next-gen battery – is quite fast.” Driver personalities, according to Busick, transcend the series in which they compete. “You will find a slew of characters in each series, and while NHRA Funny Car legend John Force is undoubtedly one-in-a-million, the desire to win is present in each competitor’s eyes,” Busick said. “You have the bad boys, the nice guys, the ones that take losing extremely hard … you have the quiet ones that process results in their own time, the ‘aw-shucks maybe next time’ racers and the hot-tempered personalities that always draw the cameras. “There is one constant, however,” Busick added. “Witnessing the pure ecstasy of winning never gets old.” Read More: FOX Sports Tune in for Pebble Beach Concours Coverage on MotorTrend TV! PEBBLE BEACH, C.A. -If you're a collector car connoisseur, or a car fan in general, you're not going to want to miss the 2019 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Tune in to MotorTrend TV on Saturday, September 28, at 1:00 pm EST to see some of the most prized collectible cars in the world, plus insightful interviews and commentary from the experts. Inside the 2019 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance will bring you all the highlights from the 18th green, breaking down what is widely considered to be the most prestigious and competitive collector car event in the world. This one-hour special will be hosted by a group of top-notch automotive experts, including British race car driver and broadcaster Justin Bell; FOX NHRA and FIA Formula E Championship reporter Amanda Busick; MotorTrend Editor-in-Chief Ed Loh; and MotorTrend International Bureau Chief Angus MacKenzie. Read More: MotorTrend Fully Electric Formula E on FOX, FS1 Live From Brooklyn July 13-14 CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Ralph Sheheen hosts FOX Sports’ coverage, with the Formula E broadcast team of Vernon Kay, Bob Varsha, Jack Nicholls and three-time Indianapolis 500 champion Dario Franchitti calling the action. Amanda Busick reports from the paddock. Former Formula One mechanic Steve Matchett delivers FOX Sports pre-race features from Brooklyn, and Saunders Carmichael-Brown also contributes. Steve Torrence Crowned 2018 NHRA Top Fuel Champion LAS VEGAS, N.V. -Fox Sports commentator Amanda Busick presented him the championship trophy that was nearly as tall as the 5-foot-8 firecracker from Kilgore, Texas. Referring to some of the physical setbacks in 35 years, she told him, “You are standing in front of a trophy that cancer can’t take from you, that a heart attack can’t take from you . . .” Emotional but trying to remain stoic, he quipped, “There you go with Barbara Walters.” Choking back tears, Torrence said, “This is a lifelong goal. All the glory goes to God and my mom and dad because without them, none of this would have been possible – and these Capco boys, because they put their hearts into it – and it’s difficult to beat people with heart.” Read More: Autoweek Amanda Busick: NHRA & Formula E Reporter/Host INDIANAPOLIS, I.N. -I had a moment this morning on the way to the airport of sheer disbelief at what the last two and a half years of my life have looked like. On January 2nd, 2016 I landed in Los Angeles with three overweight suitcases and a heart full of hope for the second chance at a dream. The funny thing about dreams is we are all told to have one but rarely does someone tell you how to survive them. Just one year earlier from arriving in Los Angeles I was coming to the conclusion that maybe my dream in this lifetime just wasn’t going to happen for me. Read More: Fuel The Female HOTTEST 2017: Amanda Busick Dishes on Drag Racing Reporting Like watching a child open gifts on Christmas, there is a similar joy when watching one become a drag racing fan. Many of the stats and milestones you, as a learned steward of the sport, take for granted create wonder for the neophyte. We’re getting to watch Amanda Busick’s burgeoning love affair with our world and it’s been thoroughly entertaining thus far. Since NHRA moved its television property to FOX Sports in 2016, Amanda has been a little bit of everywhere. As the multimedia reporter, she shows up on TV, online, on social media, and anywhere video streams. Read More: Drag Illustrated Plugged In: Amanda Busick, NHRA CHARLOTTE, N.C. -It’s the rare on-air talent that also doubles as a de facto producer behind the scenes, but that’s life for NHRA pit reporter Amanda Busick. The North Carolina native is part of a small broadcast team that is employed by the drag racing series and whose coverage appears on Fox channels. Busick — whose former stops include CampusInsiders as a reporter and ESPN as a stage manager — opens up about juggling duties in front of, and behind, the camera. Read More: Sports Business Journal ©2020 by Amanda Busick. Proudly created with Wix.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784165
__label__cc	0.635924	0.364076	Auto Body Paint Shop Scratch & Dent Repair Unibody & Frame Repair How to Drive Safely During the Rainy Season on Thursday, 20 September 2018. The rain is coming down hard and even though your windshield wipers are on high, you can't see! It's a scary moment and anyone who has been driving for any period of time has encountered this scenario more than once. At Anderson Behel, we see many accidents in Santa Clara, CA caused by extreme rain and people driving recklessly, so here are some helpful tips to consider. In addition to the limited visibility that comes with heavy rain storms, drivers need to be careful to protect themselves against serious factors things like hydroplaning. Hydroplaning can occur when a vehicle is traveling at an unsafe rate in serious rain conditions, causing the car's tires to glide on a thin layer of water as opposed to adhering to the surface of the road or highway. Every time this takes place, it puts you in a perilous space, because hydroplaning will instantaneously make steering and braking exceedingly difficult and could even lead to you losing complete control of your vehicle. Follow these directives to stay safe and in one piece while driving in intense rain: Slow Down...Now: Driving at a slow speed is the ideal way to keep your car from hydroplaning. When it comes to hydroplaning, speed is your #1 enemy, so take your foot off the gas a little bit to keep four tires on the road. Also keep in mind that one of the most hazardous times to drive is immediately after it begins to rain, as oil on the road make for slick conditions. If you can avoid rushing to your destination while it's raining, you will get there without drama--safe and hopefully dry. Keep Your Lights On: Illuminate your headlights on to enable other vehicles see you more clearly. Most states mandate the use of headlights during rain and in broad daylight as well. It's a smart thing to do, because it is likely that if you're having issues seeing, other drivers are experiencing the same problem. Give Other Cars Some Space: Add a few yards between your car and never tailgate in the rain, which gives you and the vehicles in front and behind you ample time to react to traffic in time. It seems like a very dangerous move, but people tailgate in heavy rain all the time with dire results. In conclusion, take a deep breath and drive prudently and you will be all right. Put simply, don't speed or tailgate ever and especially never in the rain and you will make it through to the next storm! Sources: AARP, DMV.org and Yahoo The Steel vs. Aluminum Debate What are the Worst and Best States to Drive In? Holiday Season Driving Tips The 3 Most Common Types of Accidents to Avoid Our New Celette TriOxyClean Unit Ensures Everyone’s Safety How to Start Your Car in Cold Weather Every Time Santa Clara Auto Body San Jose Auto Body Copyright © 1997-2020 Anderson Behel Body Shop \| Website By Tree Top Web Design	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784169
__label__cc	0.505748	0.494252	Classes, Courses, Workshops Submit Opportunities Venue Archive Artwork Of The Day Archive Artwork of the Week Archive Art in Liverpool Home Venues Archives Wolstenholme Archive Wolstenholme Projects – Recycled Frequencies Venues Archives Wolstenholme Archive Wolstenholme Projects – Recycled Frequencies Ian Jackson Recycled Frequencies Could the background sounds and peripheral visual elements of everyday life, which often go unnoticed on a conscious level, affect our interpretation of reality and our patterns of thought? “Recycled Frequencies” explores the creative use or appropriation of those background sounds and images. This exhibition has been coordinated to open in conjunction with HUB Life which is a fringe element to 2009’s HUB Festival. Disinformation is an experimental music and sound art project. Literalising the metaphor of “creative spark”, Disinformation’s core repertoire consists of DJ sets, sound installations, concerts and lectures based on the creative potential of electrical noise from lightning, solar-magnetic storms, live mains electricity, Information Technology and industrial hardware, and forms of “artificial lightning” such as flash, strobe and welding systems. Since making the transition into gallery exhibiting, Disinformation has reached audiences far larger than those associated with the underground experimental noise scene – exhibiting at the Hayward Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Sonar festival, an MTV Awards party, and solo exhibitions at venues including Fabrica, Q Arts in Derby, and The Huddersfield Art Gallery. Marianne Holm Hansen works with a focus on the role of memory within interpretation, she works through personal histories and within public collections to consider how experience is divergently formed and disseminated through system, image and language. From here, she is interested in making visible how particular versions of memory is, or can be, re-presented and re-interpreted, to maintain or to shift personal and collective understandings of sites and situations. Her work has been shown across America and Europe and she has held international residencies in the UK, USA, France and, most recently, Serbia. She is currently a visiting artist and lecturer to Goldsmiths, University of London, Tate Britain and The British Library. James Kent is a researcher in sonic arts at Liverpool John Moores University exploring sound art in immersive environments. Examining the importance of immersive gallery spaces within contemporary sound art: drawing influences from artists such as sound recordist BJ Nilsen and composer Erik Satie. “This work entitled 0.5, which refers to the spilt second when you walk past someone in conversation and can catch a word or part of a conversation and you will not take any notice until a word or an expression catches your attention . Each sound piece recorded is that spilt second captured using different recording equipment such as an iPod, mobile phone and location recorders, each device giving a unique quality.” Olga Koroleva is a London based artists currently studying at Wimbledon College of Art. She works with film, video and sound to create site–specific installations that reflect the psychological atmosphere of the space, as well as her own everyday experiences. Completed in an open-ended manner her pieces are sometimes presentations of a situation –‘ready-mades’ as opposed to carefully crafted works. For example, silent film is an audio piece, which uses a recording made during the viewing of an actual silent film in a cinema and 3D Light is a site-specific video projection taking the source of light as its subject. La Pluma Eléctrik (The Electrik pen) was born in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés, Madrid in 2005 and defines itself as “a multidisciplinary group which acts in different art facets, fevered, mad and creative”. It is a group which “experiments with, learns from and works on the book as an artistic concept”, creating both book-objects with recycled elements as well as radio programmes and exhibitions. This stance is common to the bulk of independent publications, which normally emphasises the creativity inherent in all of their proposals and the dissatisfaction with the scope of conventional publications, which leads them to radicalise their creative and multidisciplinary position. Exhibitions, gatherings and even concerts often take place in the “Unexpected Gallery”, the flat of an unsuspecting friend during his absence – the flat is then returned to normal. Always with an impression of extravagance, of genuine and original underground, from fourth floor of the district Lavapies they dare to imagine a world full of ideas, creations and magic. For Recycled Frequencies Wolstenholme Projects have invited La Pluma Eléctri*k for their first UK exhibition. Richard O’Sullivan is an artist in new media. He graduated from the M.F.A. program in Film Production/ Direction at U.C.L.A Film School in Los Angeles (University of California at L.A.), he is currently a lecturer in Media Production at Aberystwyth University. He makes films that explore visual perception, the contrast between the recorded image, and the image in the eye-brain (the ‘other’ image). ’The Other Image’ is the image that exists only in that place between the eye and the brain. It’s the perceived image, which differs from the recorded image that exists as information, as zeros and ones, on the tape or DVD. Thus it is the ’other’ image, and not the one which actually ’exists’ – a ghost image, a phantom of the brain. Previous articlePopup Exhibition Next articleColler Elective at Arena Gallery Wolstenholme: Rob Bremner: Liverpool, Unfinished Wolstenholme Creative Space; The Right Way: A Film by Fischli and Weiss WCS: THE INHOSPITABLE SUPPER CLUB #2 WCS: BILL IS DEAD WCS: System of Thinking Cinema Presents GASLAND Head of Learning and Engagement, The Low… Famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings return t… Liverpool Biennial & Culture Liverp… Tell it Like it is: Interview with Laura… Independents Biennial announce programme… Art in Liverpool is an independent listings site for visual arts in Liverpool, as well as being a platform for critically engaged writing about art. 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__label__wiki	0.942315	0.942315	suggap Find similar movies Return Engagement 1990 Joe Cheung Return Engagement, also known as Hong Kong Corruptor is a 1990 Hong Kong action drama film directed by Joe Cheung and starring Alan Tang, Elizabeth Lee, May Lo and Simon Yam, with a guest appearance by Andy Lau. Return Engagement tells the story of Lung (Alan Tang), a Triad boss who is sent to prison in Canada. While he is in jail his daughter is taken to Hong Kong to keep her safe. On his release Lung travels to Hong Kong to find his daughter where he meets a young Triad, Wah (Andy Lau) who knows of his reputation and respects him greatly. person Alan Tang person Elizabeth Lee Simon Yam contentLocation Poon Hung action crime drama canada triad triad society musicBy Lam Manyee Alan Tang productionCompany In-Gear Film Production Co., Ltd. Golden Princess Film Production recordedAt action drama gangster prison Recent premieres FB @SuggapPiggy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784174
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__label__wiki	0.719215	0.719215	Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode When Winn Schott was confirmed to return from the Future, many of us asked, could that mean some other heroes from the Legion of Superheroes also make a return? Most notably, Melissa Benoist's husband and once co-star, Chris Wood's Mon-El? According to TVLine.com that is indeed the case and they have the photographic evidence to prove it! Among Wood returning, TVLine also confirms Sam Witwer (Agent Liberty) and Odette Anabelle (Reign) are also returning. Hit the link above to see the photos. Let us know what you think of the news in the comments below and in our forum! Keep us advertisement free and visit the support page! Author: Eric JohnstonWebsite: https://supergirl.tvEmail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Executive Editor/Owner Eric is the primary author for Supergirl.tv. He has been covering the Supergirl show since 2014, but been a fan for decades. "Hope, Help, and Compassion for All, El May Arah!" S k j #24 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — RH321 2020-02-18 23:33 Quoting Zoya: I think this is not a surprise to anyone, and hopefully it is just a brief cameo and nothing more. the fact that they tried to keep it quiet is a sign that they know how controversial this is / will be and want to keep the negative reactions limited. I would have also preferred more focus on the OG cast but what can you do. They wouldn't have sent two promotional images to TVLine if they were avoiding negative comments or whatever else you're implying. Is that the same reason they only just announced a Sam return? #23 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — Zoya 2020-02-18 21:43 +1 #22 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — comic fan 2020-02-15 12:28 And the behind the scenes pics from the 100th episode are starting.Check out David Harewood's Instagram for some already featuring Chris Wood. https://www.instagram.com/davidharewood/?hl=en +2 #21 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — muckle9999 2020-02-14 18:18 Quoting Romulus: This is to be expected. Since the 100th is more of a "This is your life" type of episode, cast members (past and present) will either make an actual appearance or a cameo of sorts. Nonetheless, it's good news. Yes it's good news. Just think how happy Melissa must feel. To have scenes with her now husband. It's a shot of pure joy for Melissa and Chris. Watch them shine. +1 #20 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — jacksc01 2020-02-14 16:33 I am happy to see MonEl back for the 100th episode. I do wish that James was in this show since he started out as the supergirl friends with Winn. I cannot lie MonEl is not one of my favorite characters and that has not changed. When he is in the show, he becomes front and center and Melissa takes a back seat. Plus when he is in the show dialogue that could be part of a sister conversation (couch scenes) become MonEl scenes. This happened in past shows where conversations between the two sisters was needed to bring a smooth closing for an episode and instead we had a MonEl conversation and just had to guess that the two sisters resolved their conflict (ex. When Alex and Kara argued over Kara questioning their father and we never saw any conversation where this was resolved between the two sisters). I am happy it is just for the one show and maybe a few guess appearances in future shows - but not as a regular. +2 #19 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — Brierrose 2020-02-14 16:31 Mon-El coming back isn’t unexpected and it’s IMO fitting. Like others I would love Cat but if Calista doesn’t want to travel to Vancouver there’s nothing anyone associated with the show can do. I suppose they could do some sort of video thing but to me if we can’t have an actual interaction it’s not worth it. I do at some point want a short mention of what Cat is up to. James would have been fitting but likely Mehcad was busy filming Mortal Combat. I’m perfectly happy with no Maggie as the character wasn’t really connected to Kara, that’s one thing they’re doing better about with Kelly. Alex and Maggie’s breakup was amical so IMO there’s no story left for Maggie. I hope the cast had a blast filming this milestone episode. #18 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — CatPat 2020-02-14 16:21 Quoting vantheman77: Chris Wood is on a roll with returning for Supergirl's 100th episode, voicing He-Man and Prince Adam for the upcoming animated film, and booked for Thirtysomething with Odette Annable. ... and his 2 part arc on Legacies that concluded this week. Hopefully, he fairs better on Supergirl. +1 #17 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — CatPat 2020-02-14 16:18 Quoting Kelly: I figured he was going to come back and get Winn. It will be good to see the chemistry between Mon-el and Kara again. Yes... Hopefully, the late season 2 chemistry and not the awkward season 3! +1 #16 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — Romulus 2020-02-14 16:05 +1 #15 RE: Chris Wood Returns for 100th Episode — LibertyPrime 2020-02-14 15:44 Who cares about Mon-El--we get Agent Liberty back!! Just kidding. I like Chris and Sam and look forward to seeing them. 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Different reports paint different portraits of the hiring landscape for 2018 grads. In general, graduates in certain professions, such as accountants or registered nurses, are probably in a good position to get hired. But some industries, including hazard insurance and retail, are having a rough go. And while the job outlook has generally improved, there’s plenty of room for it to get better, and inequities persist. First, let’s have the good news. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in occupations that require a bachelor’s degree is expected to grow 10 percent between 2016 and 2026. That’s faster than the average of 7 percent growth projected for all occupations. Among the occupations the bureau forecasts as having high numbers of job openings are: General and operations managers with more than 210,000 projected annual openings Registered nurses with an average of more than 203,000 projected annual openings Accountants and auditors with an average of almost 142,000 projected annual openings Elementary school teachers, except special education, with nearly 113,000 projected annual openings Software developers with 85,700 projected annual openings Market research analysts and marketing specialists with more than 77,000 projected annual openings Report: ‘High-Pressure Economy’ Needed On top of that, the Economic Policy Institute recently released a report on the Class of 2018 that found improved job prospects for new graduates, compared with graduates of the past decade. But the report suggested challenges still exist, and things could be better. “While by many measures the labor market for young graduates is now almost —or perhaps even fully—back to where it was before the recession, the economy of 2007 represents a low bar for economic opportunity,” the report says. “We should instead be striving for the high-pressure economy of the late 1990s and 2000, in which an extended period of labor market strength translated into better opportunities for workers across the board. The economy needs to continue on track toward full employment for economic growth to reach all corners of the labor market.” In other words, saying things are better than they’ve been in the last 10 years isn’t saying all that much because things have been anemic for a while. So while things look better than the beginning of the Great Recession in 2007, they’re still not as good as they were in 2000. And the benefits of the improving economy haven’t been felt equally, particularly among women and African American college graduates. Black Grads Face ‘Pay Penalties’ “While the recovery has shown overall positive trends, it hasn’t benefited everyone equally,” said researcher Julia Wolfe. “Young black workers face large pay penalties right out of college. And even though women are the majority of college degree holders, their wages continue to lag behind men’s.” According to the report: Fewer than 20 percent of people between the ages of 21 and 24 have a college degree While comprising half of this age group, women have 57.3 percent of degrees Whites and Asian American/Pacific Islanders are more likely to hold degrees than African Amercans and Hispanics For young college graduates, the unemployment rate is 5.3 percent, compared with 5.4 percent in 2007 and 4.3 percent in 2000 Between 1990 and 2018, average wages grew just 15.5 percent The gender and racial pay gaps are higher than they were in 2000 The report says pay rates for young women barely increased since 2000, going from an hourly $18.22 to $18.33. At the same time, men’s wages rose from an average hourly rate of $20.48 to $21.48. “The most striking finding from this analysis of wages is what has happened to young black college graduates,” the report says.” In 2000, as well as for most of the late 1990s, the hourly pay of black college graduates closely tracked that of their white counterparts… What is stunning is the sharp decline in black wages over the last several years, during the Great Recession and its aftermath. They are the only group that saw outright declines, and these declines are quite large and economically meaningful.” The average hourly wage of black college graduates hit bottom in 2014 at $15.27 per hour and recently edged up to $16.53 in 2018, the report says. Employers Plan to Hire Fewer New Grads The news gets worse in a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). This report says employers plan to hire 1.3 percent fewer new graduates than they hired last year. The report represents a reversal from November 2017 when NACE said employers planned to hire 4 percent more new graduates from the class of 2018 than from the previous year’s class. “The fact that the college hiring outlook for the Class of 2018 has dropped this spring is a prime example of how volatility in a small number of industries can impact the overall hiring outlook,” the NACE report says. “Two industries in particular are driving this overall decrease. Insurance firms… anticipate decreasing hires by 42 percent due to the recent natural disasters — hurricanes, floods, and wildfires —that caused high dollar amounts in catastrophic losses. Meanwhile, retail employers plan to decrease their hires by almost 33 percent, citing the changing landscape of their industry and lack of new openings as key factors.” Asked about the apparent contradiction between its pessimistic outlook and the relatively positive overall projection from the Economic Policy Institute, NACE spokeswoman Andrea J. Koncz told Annuity.org that the two reports use different methodology. “We survey our NACE employer members, and had a small sample size (a total of 150 employers),” Koncz wrote in an email. “We are limited to the answers that are provided to us by our members.” This report marks the first time NACE has projected a decrease in job offers to new grads since the Class of 2010, when employers said they planned to reduce hiring by 7 percent. Please seek the advice of a qualified professional before making financial decisions. https://www.annuity.org/2018/05/24/college-grads-face-mixed-bag-job-market/ Written By Elaine Silvestrini Staff Writer 5 Cited Research Articles Annuity.org writers adhere to strict sourcing guidelines and use only credible sources of information, including authoritative financial publications, academic organizations, peer-reviewed journals, highly regarded nonprofit organizations, government reports, court records and interviews with qualified experts. You can read more about our commitment to accuracy, fairness and transparency in our editorial guidelines. Torpey, E. (2018, April) Employment outlook for bachelor’s-level occupations. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2018/article/bachelors-degree-outlook.htm Gould, E., et al. (2018, May 10). Class of 2018 College edition. Retrieved from https://www.epi.org/publication/class-of-2018-college-edition/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=18eb1f382b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-18eb1f382b-59958953&mc_cid=18eb1f382b&mc_eid=0bc5832b39 Economic Policy Institute. (2018, May 10). Class of 2018 college graduates face a tightening labor market, but more work needs to be done. Retrieved from https://www.epi.org/press/class-of-2018-college-graduates-face-a-tightening-labor-market-but-more-work-needs-to-be-done/ National Association of Colleges and Employers. (2018, April 16). College Hiring Projection Dips 1.3 Percent. Retrieved from http://www.naceweb.org/job-market/trends-and-predictions/college-hiring-projection-dips-1-point-3-percent/ National Association of Colleges and Employers. (2017, November 15). Job Outlook 2018: College Hiring To Increase By 4 percent. 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__label__wiki	0.7249	0.7249	Filling up the Afflictions of Christ The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton By: John Piper Narrated by: Bob Souer Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity $7.95 a month Try our newest plan – unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. $7.95 a month after 30 day trial. Upgrade or cancel anytime. $7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime. The Roots of Endurance Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce suffered lifelong opposition and endured for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal, and political justice. They found, in solid doctrine and humble joy, the tough roots for habitual tenderness in response to their adversaries - without doctrinal or moral flinching. They are examples of remarkable grace. In the third book of the Swans Are Not Silent series, best-selling author John Piper looks at the lives of these three great men and how they not only endured great opposition but did so with joy and without bitterness. By Josiah Richardson on 01-10-21 Contending for Our All Defending Truth and Treasuring Christ in the Lives of Athanasius, John Owen, and J. Gresham Machen When Augustine handed over the leadership of his church in AD 426, his successor was so overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy that he declared, "The swan is silent", fearing the spiritual giant's voice would be lost in time. But for 1,600 years Augustine has not been silent - and neither have the men who faithfully trumpeted the cause of Christ after him. Their lives have inspired every generation of believers and should compel us to a greater passion for God. I found the concept of this book a little hard to understand The Hidden Smile of God The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd When Augustine handed over the leadership of his church in AD 426, his successor was so overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy that he declared, “The swan is silent”, fearing the spiritual giant’s voice would be lost in time. But for 1,600 years Augustine has not been silent - and neither have the men who faithfully trumpeted the cause of Christ after him. Their lives have inspired every generation of believers and should compel us to a greater passion for God. water in a dry land By Phaedra Tate on 11-06-20 Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis In the sixth volume of the Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper celebrates the importance of poetic effort by looking at three influential Christians whose words magnificently display a commitment to truth and a love of beauty. Examining the lives of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis, Piper helps us appreciate the importance of carefully crafted words by exploring how Christians can use them to testify to God's glory, wonder at his grace, and rejoice in his salvation. What is in a person’s heart, that’s what comes out in their words. The Legacy of Sovereign Joy God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin We admire these men for their greatness, but the truth is Augustine grappled with sexual passions, Martin Luther struggled to control his tongue, and John Calvin fought the battle of faith with worldly weapons. Yet each of these men will always be remembered for the messages they declared - messages that still resound today. John Piper explores these men's lives, integrating Augustine's delight in God with Luther's emphasis on the Word and Calvin's exposition of scripture. Through their strengths and struggles, we can learn how to live better today. Computer read? By Brian Schmidt on 09-26-20 Let the Nations Be Glad Narrated by: Raymond Todd Since its publication a decade ago, Let the Nations Be Glad! has provided thousands of seminary students, missionaries, and pastors with a sound theological foundation for missions. Piper now offers a revised and expanded edition of this theological and biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things. By Sheryle on 05-05-17 Lectures to My Students By: Charles Spurgeon Narrated by: Grover Gardner One contemporary scholar and authority on Spurgeon says of this work: "Next to Mr. Spurgeon's great literary work, The Treasury of David, we consider (these) Lectures to My Students his greatest single contribution to the Christian world. There is more practical wisdom, common sense and sage advice packed within these pages than with any other book of similar size, or content." This complete and unabridged edition of Spurgeon's great work will make it possible for today's generation to appreciate Spurgeon's combination of discerning wit and refreshingly practical advice. One of the Greatest Pastors of his generation By Sean on 04-08-12 Adoniram Judson Bound for Burma (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge Narrated by: Tim Gregory As America's first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) spent 38 years working in Burma, then one of the most hostile countries on Earth. Judson was ignored, mocked, beaten, and tortured, yet he never lost sight of his goal to translate the Bible into the Burmese language. Today, over 150 years after his death, his translation remains the only translation of the Bible in Burmese. Great story line By Danielle on 04-09-16 By: Janet Benge, and others The Life and Diary of David Brainerd By: David Brainerd Narrated by: Matthew Erwin David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a missionary to the Native Americans in Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania. Edited by the eminent Puritan theologian and Preacher Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (1749) became a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including the theologian John Wesley and missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot. Race, Cross and the Christian Narrated by: Ray Porter Racism, hatred, and claims to ethnic superiority have been tragic elements of the human condition since the Fall. In every manifestation, the root of racial sin is an unbelieving heart resistant to the grace and mercy of God. The gospel of Jesus Christ, therefore, is the only hope for any meaningful racial solutions. John Piper brings the light of the gospel to bear on racial issues in this groundbreaking book. By kamarr richée on 02-16-17 Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) was a British politician and philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. John Piper's biography of Wilberforce takes readers beyond his battle against slavery and explores the beliefs and motivations of this influential evangelical politician. Meditations of A Christian Hedonist Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist. Delight is our duty. Join him as he unveils stunning, life-impacting truths you saw in the Bible but never dared to believe. BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ OTHER THAN THE BIBLE! By Nobody's business on 09-02-14 Something Needs to Change An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count By: David Platt Narrated by: David Platt The author of Radical takes listeners on a soul-searching journey through impoverished villages in the Himalayan mountains, daring them to make a difference in a world of urgent need, starting right where they live. Great content but distracting performance By Ryan Peters on 11-05-19 The Autobiography of George Müller By: George Müller Narrated by: Derek Perkins Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father; and may come to him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings we need. When he trusted in an extraordinary God, George Müller discovered endless possibilities and helped thousands of people throughout his lifetime. Impactful book By Justin Hamacher on 06-23-16 An Introduction to Christian Belief By: John M. Frame Length: 50 hrs Systematic Theology is the culmination and creative synthesis of John Frame’s writing on, teaching about, and studying of the Word of God. This magisterial opus at once biblical, clear, cogent, listenable, accessible, and practical summarizes the mature thought of one of the most important and original Reformed theologians of the last 100 years. It will enable you to see clearly how the Bible explains God’s great, sweeping plan for mankind. What a remarkable work!!!!! By Roger on 12-14-19 What Jesus Demands from the World Narrated by: David Cochran Heath Piper has gathered many of Jesus' demands from the four Gospels and puts the demands in a redemptive, historical context, then concisely examines each. The result is an accessible introduction for thoughtful inquirers and new believers, as well as meditative meat for veteran believers who want to know Jesus better. Clear Guidance By Joanne on 08-29-16 Why I Love the Apostle Paul Narrated by: Michael Beck Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man's description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? fantastic book! By AkShiz on 04-11-20 Astonished by God Ten Truths to Turn the World Upside Down Narrated by: Maurice England Join a veteran author, pastor, and Christian leader as he captures the 10 astonishing, compassionate, life-giving, joy-awakening, hope-sustaining truths that have held everything together for him. The fifth volume in Piper's acclaimed The Swans Are Not Silent series illustrates powerful and enduring lessons through the missional sufferings of Tyndale, Judson, and Paton. Jesus' words in John 12 are sobering: unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it will bear little fruit. The history of Christianity's expansion proves that God's strategy for reaching unreached peoples with the gospel includes the sufferings of his frontline heralds - the missionaries who willingly die a thousand daily deaths to advance God's kingdom. Pastor John Piper's latest addition to The Swans Are Not Silent series focuses on this flesh-and-blood reality in the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton. The price they paid to translate the Word of God, to pave the way for missionary mobilization around the world, and to lead the hostile to Christ was great. Yet their stories show in triplicate how the gospel advances not only through the faithful proclamation of the truth but through representing the afflictions of Christ in our sufferings. ©2009, 2019 John Piper (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. When I Don't Desire God Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? Voice Only Audio Bible - New King James Version, NKJV (Narrated by Bob Souer): Complete Bible The Book of Revelation Decoded What listeners say about Filling up the Afflictions of Christ Definitely the best Christian series of books I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to listen to. This is probably the best Christian series of books I have listened to. I really like how I am challenged in my life walk with God and it has really inspired me in my daily disciplines - disciplines that I believe and trust will become firm foundations in my faith, hope and love for our Lord and Savior. Thank you to both the author and narrator for these books. Audiobook lover Strong testimony. What a moving testimony of these precious saints. The life well lived unto the Lord. Being faithful and true till the end. Brilliant short book - very inspiring Brilliant stories of three amazing missionaries, with lots of history and context included to make the accounts rich and satisfying. Listened in one sitting. So good. Would recommend, especially to anyone NOT already passionate about mission/missions mobilisation - clear that Piper's heart for this book was to inspire. It should do the trick!! The narration was quite poor to be honest, really not getting emphasis or punctuation right a lot of the time. I often genuinely wondered if it was being read by a computer. This did not detect significantly however - just had to replay a few parts to understand properly.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784188
__label__cc	0.521547	0.478453	Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from My Six-Month-Old: Awakening to Unconditional Self-Love in Motherhood By Kuwana Haulsey Foreword by Michael Bernard Beckwith Read by Allyson Johnson Kuwana Haulsey Blackstone Publishing 9781936740536 There is a tribe in Africa where, the first time a woman leaves home following the confinement period after giving birth, everyone she meets along the road greets her with a sacred song otherwise reserved for warriors returning from battle. She's honored as having lived through a rite of passage that will forever mark her womanhood as abundant and powerful and blessed. She's respected as a fully franchised member of the most ubiquitous and yet most extraordinary group of beings in our collective experience: mothers. Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned from My Six-Month-Old is an Eat, Pray, Love for moms. It fuses memoir, spirituality, and self-development into the unique perspective that babies are actually extraordinary spiritual teachers who are capable of showing their caregivers the way toward inspired living. Kuwana Haulsey imparts this deeper understanding of universal love, in which motherhood awakens the innate potential for personal transformation. There is a tribe in Africa where, the first time a woman leaves home following the confinement period after giving birth, everyone she meets along the road greets her with a sacred song otherwise reserved for warriors returning from battle. She's honored as having lived through a rite of passage that will forever mark her womanhood as abundant and powerful and blessed. She's respected as a fully franchised member of the most ubiquitous and yet most extraordinary group of beings in our collective experience: mothers. Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned from My Six-Month-Old is an Eat, Pray, Love for moms. It fuses memoir, spirituality, and self-development into the unique perspective that babies are actually extraordinary spiritual teachers who are capable of showing their caregivers the way toward inspired living. Kuwana Haulsey imparts this deeper understanding of universal love, in which motherhood awakens the innate potential for personal transformation. “A mighty pen.” —Atlanta Black Star “Each chapter is indeed a lesson in learning, through the eyes of a child, how to find meaning, centeredness, self-love, and sanity during the most chaotic times in a new mother’s life.” —ForeWord Reviews “Novelist Haulsey tells the story of her growing self-awareness through the lens of motherhood in this moving memoir…Deeply illuminating, the book is a reminder of one’s ability to become a more evolved and content being.” —Publishers Weekly “An incomparable storyteller, Kuwana allows us to see our own stories embedded within her personal tale. The wisdom, humor, and love she so wholly expresses will encourage us all to cherish the blessing and practice of sacred parenting.” —Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center “Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From My Six-Month-Old is the perfect companion for any new mother. I wish I had had this book ten years ago when my first daughter was born—I would have felt so much less alone. Kuwana Haulsey’s voice is full of humor and grace, but what I love most about her is that she tells it like it is. Reading this book is like chatting with a close friend.” —Kate Hopper, author of Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood “With the talent of a master artist, Kuwana Haulsey paints a picture of the true organic beauties and blessings of being a parent. She transports you from the day-to-day parenting ritual and responsibility, to a place that gently and quietly reminds us to be in that very special and precious parenting moment—for it is a moment that is fleeting…How lucky we are to have Kuwana Haulsey to take us to (or back to) that place and space in time that every parent relishes and treasures.” —Carole Brody Fleet, author of Happily Even After Author Bio: Kuwana Haulsey Kuwana Haulsey is the author of The Red Moon, which was a 2002 finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Born and raised in New York City, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Rutgers University. She has led seminars for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, DC, and at Rutgers University. She has taught writing at UCLA and Agape International. Also an actress and coteacher of spirituality classes with Reverend Michael Beckwith., she currently lives in North Hollywood. AE Catalog ID: L6B872 AE Catalog ID: L1B871	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784189
__label__cc	0.610815	0.389185	Court Upholds Ducey's Executive Order Closing Gyms - Mountainside Fitness v. Ducey Posted by Dev Sethi \| Jul 07, 2020 \| 0 Comments Mountainside Fitness, a Phoenix area chain of gyms, defied Governor Doug Ducey's Executive Order directing gyms, among other businesses, to close hoping to stem the increase in Arizona's COVID-19 cases. Mountainside remained open, even in the face of enforcement efforts. With the assistance of the Goldwater Institute, Mountainside sued Governor Ducey seeking a judicial finding that his Executive Order was unconstitutional. Yesterday, Judge Timothy Thompson held oral argument. Today he issued his decision. Had Mountainside won, Governor Ducey's order would have been deemed invalid, and this business along with all others in Arizona would have been free to reopen without limitation. Mountainside lost. More specifically, Mountainside lost its bid for a temporary restraining order, which would have paused enforcement of the Executive Order until the court held a full-blown trial. But this decision upholding the validity of the Executive Order essentially ends the challenge, at least at the trial court level. One of factors the court weighed in making its decision was whether Mountainside was likely to prevail at trial on the merits. The court found it unlikely that Mountainside would prevail. So, as a practical matter, this case is over. Mountainside's CEO Tom Hatten said before the hearing that his gyms would comply with the Judge's order if they lost. This afternoon he issued a statement reaffirming that position, “We will be closing down all the clubs today at 2pm with the intention to re-open July 27th, per Gov. Ducey's original mandate.” Judge Thompson's decision is laid out in an 12 page ruling that thoughtfully recites the facts and law he balanced. In the end, his concise ruling wraps it all up with a bow: “Once again, this Court does not decide who here is “right” and “wrong.” The government has the weight of the law on its side. The burden that Mountainside has is immense. The Governor does not have to prove that his decision was correct. This Court must give extreme deference to the EO. The EO clearly had a rational basis. It is unlikely that Mountainside will prevail on the merits. As noted above, however, there must be some reasonable post-deprivation process provided. Mountainside has also not shown that it will be irreparably injured by the EO. As such, the request for a temporary restraining order is denied.” You can read Judge Thompson's ruling here. Mountainside Fitness v. Ducey.pdf Mountainside v. Ducey Ruling Dev Sethi Dev Sethi litigates and tries a wide-range of complex injury and death cases throughout Arizona. He has Martindale Hubbell's highest rating, AV, and he is listed in "Best Lawyers." Dev is also recognized as an Arizona Super Lawyer in the area of plaintiff's products liability litigation.Dev has been at the forefront of auto product defect litigation. He played a key role in uncovering the Goodyear Load Range E tire scandal and worked to hold Ford Motor Company responsible for the danger posed by their now notorious 15-passenger vans. Dev is currently representing families in product liability suits against the nation's largest corporations including General Motors, Ford, Pentair Pools and Invacare.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784204
__label__wiki	0.665926	0.665926	BNSF Responds To Pacific Northwest Legislation Targeting Crude-By-Rail As state legislatures react to the growing volumes of crude oil being transported by rail in the Pacific Northwest, their responses will continue to bump up against the freight railroads' federally mandated obligation to move goods, including hazardous materials. Washington state's Senate Bill 5579, which seeks to establish a vapor pressure limit on crude oil shipments, could face scrutiny in the courts should the bill get signed into law, while Oregon has several pieces of legislation addressing crude-by-rail activities in the state. Oregon House Bill 2209 requires railroads owning or operating routes for trains carrying highly hazardous materials to have oil spill contingency plans that have been approved by Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality. The state will also collect fees on these plans and also on tank cars, and these fees will be collected for an oil spill safety fund. Oregon Senate Bill 99 and House Bill 2858 direct Oregon's Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules that pertain to high-hazard trains and address oil spills and emergency response planning. Those rules could include additional insurance and fees. Proponents of the Oregon bills say their passage would put Oregon's laws governing crude-by-rail shipments on par with California and Washington state. But BNSF (NYSE: BRK) says the rules would make it harder for the railroad to comply with the common carrier obligation, a federal mandate requiring a railroad to provide transportation to all parties and for all goods, including hazardous materials. "We are currently working with state officials on possible implementation plans that meet both BNSF's and Oregon's common goals that are focused on safety and at the same time, that are not in conflict with our common carrier obligations," BNSF spokesperson Courtney Wallace said. "BNSF remains concerned about new tax and fee proposals that could disproportionately burden common carriers and, in doing so, shift transport of hazardous materials to less safe modes of transportation," Wallace said. The various pieces of legislation in Oregon are in response to an emergency order issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation on June 2016, in which rail carriers transporting 1 million gallons or more of Bakken crude oil must provide volume information to state emergency response commissions so that local first responders can coordinate a response to a hazardous materials spill. (The Bakken Formation covers about 200,000 square miles of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana and North Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Shale oil is being shipped from oil fields in those areas.) Also in June 2016, a 96-car train carrying crude oil derailed in Mosier, Oregon, resulting in the evacuation of 100 residents and a fire that burned for 14 hours. The cause of the derailment was worn or damaged track infrastructure, according to a staff report by the Oregon legislature. Wallace said BNSF has invested in new technologies deployed along certain routes that monitor potential problems that could cause premature equipment wear or failure, and it has a track inspection program that can identify defects or problems that can be undetected by the human eye. The railroad industry as a whole has also ramped up its production of DOT-117 tank cars. The design of these tank cars make them harder to puncture. The cars comply with a 2015 rule regulating tank car standards and operational controls for high-hazard flammable trains. These state bills responding to increasing crude-by-rail movements also come at the same time that another federal rule addressing crude-by-rail has taken effect. Effective April 1, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration mandates that freight railroads share information about high-hazard flammable train operations with state response commissions to coordinate local preparedness plans. HIgher volumes of crude-by-rail in the northern U.S. are a result of increased crude oil production in North Dakota. Because production is outpacing the installation of pipelines – and also because pipelines are facing regional and environmental hurdles – crude-by-rail has become a viable option for companies in North Dakota seeking to transport Bakken crude to points in the Pacific Northwest. Estimated current rail volumes of crude oil exported from North Dakota are higher than the second half of 2017 but significantly lower than 2013 to 2015. The North Dakota Pipeline Authority estimates that crude-by-rail volumes were roughly 250,000 barrels per day in February 2019, compared with about 290,000 barrels per day around October 2018. In contrast, crude-by-rail volumes were between 700,000 and 800,000 barrels per day in the second half of 2013 through February 2015. Image sourced from Pixabay Want more content like this? Click here to Subscribe Originally posted here... 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__label__cc	0.611951	0.388049	Cultural Studies (694) French Studies (68) Childhood and Youth Studies (35) Media Studies (112) Film Criticism (112) Migration Studies (175) Film Studies (124) Mobility Studies (175) Regional Studies (111) Transportation Studies (128) You are looking at 1 - 10 of 694 items for : "space" x Making Space for Sanctions The Economics of German Natural Gas Imports from Russia, 1982 and 2014 Compared Stephen G. Gross article answers this question by looking less at policy-making, and rather at the surrounding economic and energy context that gave Berlin the space to maneuver in 2014, such that it could apply sanctions with little pushback from its own economic elites In German Politics and Society Experiencing In-betweenness Literary Spatialities Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami territories, a new type of city has emerged, mostly located at significant border crossings and with a rapid expiration date. Here, I refer to these as “the cities or spaces of in-between.” The overarching analysis which I introduce in the following sections In Migration and Society Migration, Affinities, and the Everyday Labor of Belonging among Young Burmese Men in Thailand Tiffany Pollock Fire dancers in Southern Thailand, almost exclusively young, intra-/international migrant men from rural Thailand and Myanmar, are paid to entertain tourists at nightly beach parties. An unacknowledged economy fueled largely by tips, fire dancing is fast becoming an iconic symbol of Thailand’s young backpacker tourism sector but is not considered an acceptable form of labor or a valued artistic practice, because tourist beach spaces are perceived as sites of immorality, excessive drinking, and sexuality. Male fire dancers, then, come to be known as young social deviants who do not belong in the national imaginary and thus must maneuver around a complex politics of belonging with vast differences in social and economic power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines how belonging is negotiated among Burmese fire dancers working in Thailand, and how experiences of belonging are shaped by spatialized gendered moralities and masculinities that operate within the fire dancing scene. In Boyhood Studies Zeina Abirached, born in 1981 in Beirut, is a cartoonist who studied at the Académie libanaise des beaux-arts [Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts] (ALBA) in Beirut and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs [National Graduate School of Decorative Arts] in Paris, France. In this artist's statement, originally written for a keynote lecture given at the American Bande Dessinée Society conference held at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) on 3 November 2012, she presents her four comic books published to date, all of them autobiographical: [Beyrouth] Catharsis [(Beirut) Catharsis] (2006), 38, rue Youssef Semaani [38 Youssef Semaani Street] (2006), Mourir, partir, revenir: Le jeu des hirondelles (2007), published in English as A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Live, To Return (2012), and Je me souviens: Beyrouth (2008), published in English as I Remember Beirut (2014). She focuses especially here on the dimensions of time and space, history and geography, and memory and autobiography in her work. She also discusses the influence of OuLiPo, and especially the writings of Georges Perec, on her comics. In European Comic Art Claiming Space Documenting Second-generation Iranian Americans in Los Angeles Amy Malek In 2009–2010 I collaborated with four Iranian documentary photographers to document everyday lives of the second-generation Iranian-American community in Los Angeles (LA). This article offers an overview of that project and exhibition, along with a selection of images, and presents interview data that suggests several impacts of place and of representations of Iranians on second generation Iranian-American identity. Youth experiences of geopolitical, community and familial struggles have motivated many in this generation to re-mould the image of ‘LA Persians’ by claiming space in diaspora for themselves and their children, the growing third generation. In Anthropology of the Middle East Interpreting the Jewish Quarter Eszter B. Gantner The persecution, flight and murder of European Jews in the first half of the twentieth century and the profound social and political transformations that decisively affected European cities in the final decade of the 20th century have radically altered urban 'Jewish landscapes'. New stakeholders and institutions emerged with their own networks, goals and interests, and have constructed, staged and marketed 'Jewish culture' anew. The resultant Jewish spaces are being constituted in an urban space located at the intersection of ethnic representation, collective memory, and drawing on an imagined material culture, which includes architectural, physical and digital spaces (e.g. synagogues, Jewish quarters). This Europe-wide process is closely related to the delicate politics of memory and to discourses on the authenticity of cities. This article analyses how the image of 'Jewishness' plays an increasingly important role in the marketing of historical authenticity that cities and their tourism affiliates are undertaking. In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Boyhood and Belonging Michael R. M. Ward and Thomas Thurnell-Read This special issue of Boyhood Studies considers how a group of international scholars have engaged with the concepts of boyhood and belonging as a complex personal and powerful process. In different ways, the authors highlight how belonging is an ongoing negotiation within one’s surroundings. The international research presented here compels us to conceptualize belonging and boyhood as something that is not only infused with individuals and collective histories, but also interwoven within different conceptions of place and space. These places and spaces are experienced in multiple ways within different social contexts. We contend that this special issue is positioned at an important time in studies of boys and young men. As boys and young men experience their transition into adulthood with increased precarity, it is time we take theories of boyhood and belonging seriously. These theories can open up new spaces and provide critical insights into young lives. Relating Muscat to Mombasa Spatial Tropes in the Kinship Narratives of an Extended Family Network in Oman Zulfikar Hirji This study calls for a reintegration of space and relatedness in anthropological theories of social formation. It is based on the examination of spatial tropes in the kinship narratives and discursive practices of an extended Swahili-speaking family network historically located between Oman and coastal East Africa. Houses for the Curious Curating between Medicine, Life and Art Ken Arnold This article considers a curiosity-driven approach to curating focused on material culture that visitors encounter in physical spaces. Drawing on research into historical curiosity cabinets, it explores how a contemporary notion of curiosity has been put into practice in the new breed of culturally enlightened museums exploring interdisciplinary approaches to medicine, health, life, and art. Based on an inaugural professorial address at Copenhagen University, it reflects on exhibition projects there and at the Wellcome Collection in London. Museums are institutional machines that generate social understanding from material things. Their physical spaces influence how we learn, think, and feel in public; their material collections feed our comprehension, imagination, and emotions; and induce attentive behavior in curators and visitors. In Museum Worlds Performing the Hyphen Engaging German-Jewishness at the Jewish Museum Berlin Jackie Feldman and Anja Peleikis The Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) is a dynamic, performative space that negotiates between representing the Jew as an integral part of German history and as ultimate Other. While this tension has been documented through the political history of the museum (Lackmann 2000; Pieper 2006; Young 2000), we focus on the dynamics of guided tours and special events. We claim that guiding and festival events at JMB marginalise Holocaust memory and present an image of Jews of the past that promotes a multicultural vision of present-day Germany. In guiding performances, the identity of the guide as German/Jewish/Muslim is part of the guiding performance, even when not made explicit. By comparing tour performances for various publics, and the 'storytelling rights' granted by the group, we witness how visitors' scripts and expectations interact with the museum's mission that it serve as a place of encounter (Ort der Begegnung). As German-Jewish history at JMB serves primarily as a cosmopolitan template for intercultural relations, strongly affiliated local Jews may not feel a need for the museum. Organised groups of Jews from abroad, however, visit it as part of the Holocaust memorial landscape of Berlin, while many local Jews with weaker affiliations to the Jewish community may find it an attractive venue for performing their more fluid Jewish identities – for themselves and for others.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784208
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__label__cc	0.602978	0.397022	Find Your Store A Geda Scheme BGauss A2 Electric Scooter – Features And Specifications BGauss Sense in the city · November 10, 2020 · Features And Specifications Of BGauss A2 Electric Scooter Along with the current global pandemic, the Earth is also facing an environmental crisis for which humans are primarily responsible. With the increasing awareness of carbon emissions and commitment to ecological good, the decision to invest in electric vehicles could prove to be rewarding in more than one ways. Not only does it reduce the air pollution caused by the exhaust of cars but also provide one with additional benefits such as savings on fuel prices. BGauss offers a stylish and lifestyle-enhancing solution to your commitment to sustainability with its A2 Electric Scooter, a low-speed electric scooter suited to your daily commute in the city. With its stylish design and three colour variants; Caspian Blue, Glacier Ice and Super White, the BGauss A2 is more than just a scooter; it is the end of vulnerability to fuel price hikes and a step towards ecological responsibility. Here Are A Few Reasons Why The B Gauss A2 Is A Good Investment. Ideal For City Commute: With an estimated range of covering 110 kilometres in a single charge, the BGauss A2 is ideal for long-distance city commute. The motor is water and dust resistant, with a capacity of 250 Watts which makes the BGauss A2 a robust ride. Different Riding Modes To Suit Your Requirements: Offering three riding modes, The A2 Electric Scooter provides you with options for different kinds of traffic and road conditions. With a speed of 16 km/hour, Riding Mode 1 covers an estimated range of 110 kilometres. Whereas Riding Mode 2 offers a speed of 21 km/hour and covers approximately 98 kilometres. And lastly, Riding Mode 3 enables the rider to drive at the rate of 25 km/hour, covering a distance of about 85 kilometres. Comfort On Rugged Terrain: With telescopic front suspensions and a hydraulic spring-loaded suspension at the back, the A2 Electric Scooter ensures the rider’s comfort on difficult roads and provides appropriate cushioning from potholes and speed-breakers. Enhanced Tech And Security Features: Equipped with security features such as an anti-theft alarm, a ‘find your scooter’ feature and also the provision of remote lock-unlock, BGauss takes care of the security of your scooter so that you don’t have to. Ease Of Driving: The BGauss A2 Electric Scooter is equipped with a water wading capacity for up to 120 mm with features like high/low beam, turn indicators and a reverse button for an effortless driving experience. A Futuristic And Practical Design: The easy-to-read dashboard displays the battery charge, turn indicators, high/low beam display and also indicates the riding modes. Furthermore, the dashboard also shows warning indicators such as a faulty battery, motor malfunction, controller failure, throttle failure and faulty brakes, so that corrective actions can be taken without delay. Environment-Friendly In Style: The BGauss A2 Electric Scooter comes with an extra-glossy finish paint, coated with UV protection which ensures protection against wear for a longer life. The designer LED headlights are bright white which add to the stylish and sassy looks of the scooter, while the taillights take on a unique shape with integrated turn indicators. With a 20-litre boot space, the A2 Electric Scooter comes with a USB port to enable phone charging at your convenience. Furthermore, the side stand is sensor-enabled for extra security during driving. Battery Options: As a customer, you are offered two options for the battery as per your requirements. One is the modern Lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 1.29 kW, and the other is the Lead-Acid battery with a 60 V capacity. The Lithium-ion battery charges in 2 hours 15 minutes and is removable so that one can charge it anywhere with a standard outlet. Additionally, it comes with a 3-year warranty. Whereas, the lead-acid battery, which is non-removable, has a charge time of about 7-8 hours with 1-year warranty support. Battery Protection: Protective features such as overcharging and over-discharging protection, short circuit protection, temperature control, over-current protection, cell and voltage equalisation, as well as battery logs, ensure the longevity of the battery pack of your A2 Electric Scooter. The features and specifications mentioned above make the BGauss A2 Electric Scooter an affordable, stylish and environmentally friendly choice for consumers who are looking to switch to electric scooters. The benefits not only include the fact that you would reduce emissions but also the sizeable savings you would make on fuel prices. The worry and vulnerability to price hikes and fluctuations would be wiped out, leaving you with peace of mind and a better and healthier environment. BGauss About BGauss Sense in the city All information is subject to specific conditions \| Copyright © 2020 BGauss. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784218
__label__wiki	0.914961	0.914961	Airline News / Organisations & Operators Farnborough 2016: AirAsia places major A321neo order AirAsia has signed a firm order with Airbus for the purchase of 100 A321neo aircraft. The contract was announced at the Farnborough Airshow by AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes and Airbus president Fabrice Brégier. The contract marks the first order placed by AirAsia for the largest model in the best-selling A320 Family. Seating up to 240 passengers in a single class layout, the A321neo will enable the airline to increase capacity while benefitting from the lowest operating costs in the single aisle category. The announcement sees the total number of A320 Family ordered by AirAsia rise to 575, reaffirming the carrier’s position as the largest airline customer for the Airbus single aisle product line. To date, over 170 A320s have already been delivered to the airline and are flying with its units in Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines. Fernandes said. “AirAsia Group currently operates close to 1,000 flights per day to more than 120 destinations in 24 countries. “We recorded a robust load factor of 85 per cent in the first quarter of 2016, up eight percentage points from the same period last year, and we are confident of maintaining this momentum going forward. “The A321neo will help us to meet on-going strong demand as well as further reduce our cost per Available Seat Kilometre across the group, which will translate to lower air fares for our guests.” The A320 Family is the world’s best-selling single aisle product line with nearly 12,600 orders since launch and more than 7,100 aircraft delivered to some 320 operators worldwide. The A320neo Family incorporates latest technologies including new generation engines and Sharklet wing tip devices, which together deliver more than 15 per cent in fuel savings from day one and 20 per cent by 2020 with further cabin innovations. Farnborough 2016: EgyptAir signs $900m Boeing deal Travel management giants sign on with Airbnb for Business airbus airasia farnborough international air show Airbus sees deliveries slip by a third in 2020 Tata Group boosts stake in AirAsia India Uganda Airlines takes delivery of new Airbus A330neo Air Greenland orders first Airbus A330neo Kuwait Airways welcomes new A330neo planes from Airbus Aviation slump drags Airbus into the red SAS receives first A321LR from Airbus Sky Express places order for four A320neos with Airbus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784225
__label__wiki	0.671911	0.671911	LOGIKAL UPDATE LAUNCHED AT FENSTERBAU FOR BM ALUMINIUM CUSTOMERS Home/News/LOGIKAL UPDATE LAUNCHED AT FENSTERBAU FOR BM ALUMINIUM CUSTOMERS Fensterbau saw the launch by Orgadata of the latest version of their LogiKal aluminium processing software which is distributed exclusively in the UK by BM Aluminium. LogiKal 11.2 was demonstrated to visitors on the company’s stand and the feedback from visitors was very positive. Dean Hodges, Managing Director of BM Aluminium who was at the show to review the new software, picked out a couple of new features which he said would be most useful to customers in the UK: “I think users of LogiKal 11.1 will particularly like the faster print preview function in 11.2 for calculations, work orders and quotations, and the fact that they will be able to find their way round reports much more quickly now just by clicking anywhere in the table of contents and going straight to that page. “Many I’m sure will also be pleased to see that the Fittings Wizard tool introduced in LogiKal 11, which previously could only be used for doors, has proved so popular that it has now been extended to windows as well. This user friendly tool takes users through a step by step process for entering their hardware, saving time and eliminating potential mistakes. “And, customers who have already introduced the InfoServer factory process control system into their operations, or are thinking about doing so, will like the fact that this now features a messenger app which sends messages directly from production to a smartphone. Users will now be able to see production details instantly on their phone even when they are away from the factory. “The InfoServer system also has a new exact time export function allowing reports to be generated showing how long each process and production stage is taking, giving them a useful tool to analyse speed and performance.” Dean added: “Every new version of LogiKal features improvements which have come directly from customer feedback, as well as some new technical enhancements which make the software run more smoothly. I think this latest launch includes the perfect balance of both and I’m sure customers in the UK will be pleased when we roll it out to them later this year.” By admin\|2018-05-16T07:42:48+00:00April 6th, 2018\|News\|0 Comments	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784229
__label__wiki	0.630307	0.630307	Bollywood Presents Exotic locations where popular Bollywood movies were shot You are here: Home / Box Office / Javed Akhtar credited in the Modi biopic poster, says he is not part of the film Javed Akhtar credited in the Modi biopic poster, says he is not part of the film March 27, 2019 by BollywoodPresents Team The poster of Modi biopic, PM Narendra Modi, mentions the name of Javed Akhtar in the credits. However, Javed Akhtar feels the makers want to show as if he is officially part of the film unit as a songwriter, which is not true. It seems the makers have used an old song in the movie that had lyrics by Javed Akhtar, and the makers have credited Akhtar for that song. Javed Akhtar however, feels the intention of the makers is to show that he has written the songs for this film (Modi film). He is shocked that no one reached out to him to use his name for the promotional material. “We have taken the songs Ishwar Allah from the film 1947: Earth and the song Suno Gaur Se Duniyo Walon from the film Dus in our film,” says producer Sandip ssingh. However, Javed Akhtar feels there is more than meets the eye. He thinks the intention behind mentioning his name in the poster is not correct; he feels the makers want to show that Akhtar endorses the film. Read more: Javed Akhtar, the superstar writer Here’s what Javed Akhtar had to say: I have not done any work for this film, neither do I know the producer Sandip Ssingh, so you cannot put my name in the promotional material for the Modi biopic. At the most you can mention my name in the credit title of the film, along with the name of the original films (1947: Earth, Dus). If they wanted to give respect, why have they not included the names of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and AR Rahman, composers of the songs, the producer is talking about. Read more: AR Rahman, the oscar award winner composer Akhtar’s wife Shabana Azmi tweeted saying it was done with deliberate intentions to show that Javed Akhtar had written the songs of the film. The trailer of the Omung Kumar-directed film (had directed Mary Kom as well), featuring Vivek Oberoi in the lead, is already out and the movie is slated to release just before the 2019 lok Sabha elections starts (in April). PM Narendra Modi \| Official Trailer \| Vivek Oberoi \| Omung Kumar Filed Under: Box Office Dhoom 3: Made 500 Crores Worldwide, Got Aamir to the Top Dhoom 3 made 300 crores (almost) in the domestic market, helped Aamir Khan regain his Bollywood Supremacy and is still going strong in new & emerging markets like China. 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__label__wiki	0.826715	0.826715	Evander Kane has been the Sabres’ hottest scorer. ©2017, Michline Veluvolu, Olean Times Herald Reeling Sabres generate little early, lose to Hurricanes BUFFALO – Fresh off an uninspired loss that rankled coach Phil Housley and, allegedly, his players, the Sabres responded by going the first 17 minutes without a shot on goal. Oh, the Sabres still generated a scoring chance early in Saturday’s 3-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. For the second straight night, fourth-line winger Jordan Nolan, who has a 24-game goal drought dating back to Jan. 31, enjoyed a rare breakaway. Nolan missed the net. Finally, with 2:36 left in the period, Sabres winger Evander Kane pumped a shot on goalie Scott Darling. The crowd of 18,028, which started buzzing when Kane grabbed the puck, responded with a prolonged Bronx cheer. It was another surly night inside KeyBank Center. The 5-11-4 Sabres are a mess one-quarter into the season. Saturday was their fifth straight loss (0-3-2). They’ve scored one goal in five of the last seven games and have scored only 46 this season. Incredibly, Kane, who scored the lone goal Saturday, has 11, a stunning 24 percent of the Sabres’ season total. A day after Friday’s disappointing 3-1 loss in Detroit, the Sabres mustered a feeble response. “It is testing my patience,” coach Phil Housley said of the Sabres at the 20-game mark. “I thought the last game in Detroit was really the end of my wick as far as remaining patient and making some adjustments and addressing that.” He added: “I still feel that we’re not all on the same page.” The Sabres, the Eastern Conference’s worst team with only 14 points, could be the NHL’s bottom-feeder soon. The 31st-ranked Arizona Coyotes’ 3-2 overtime win against the Ottawa Senators earlier Saturday moved them to within three points of the Sabres. Despite their struggles against the Hurricanes, thanks to a 10 wild seconds, the Sabres almost eked out a win. After Kane tied it 12:27 into the third period, he appeared to score again as he bulled his way to the net on the same shift. The crowd, so quiet all night, erupted. But video replays overturned the goal because Kane kicked the puck past Darling. “I didn’t agree with it,” Kane said. You go hard to the net. I … was pretty self-conscious of not making a kicking motion and kicking the puck in the net.” Carolina winger Sebastian Aho then won it at 15:15, beating Sabres goalie Chad Johnson after defenseman Justin Falk mishandled the puck inside his own blue line. “When I went to go pick it up it had landed and I thought it had settled enough to trust picking it up with my stick,” Falk said. “Soon as I went to go for it, the puck went over. Bad break.” Winger Justin Williams scored Carolina’s first goal 14:46 into the second period on a two-on-one. Housley has been overwhelmingly positive this season, and while he had some strong words following another loss, he also accentuated anything good his team accomplished. “We battled back in the game,” Housley said. “We make a mistake and it ends up in the back of our net. I think bottom line is they took advantage of our mistakes and we didn’t take advantage of theirs. We had a breakaway, we had a partial breakaway (from center Johan Larsson), we got to score.” When asked about the negative body language Jack Eichel often displays and the star center not getting back quickly enough on Williams’ goal – a Buffalo power play expired seconds earlier – Housley wouldn’t address it. “Jack had a better game tonight, definitely was better in his own end and I really liked the speed he brought through the neutral zone,” Housley said. Six weeks after signing an eight-year, $80 million contract extension, Eichel has compiled five goals and 16 points. At that pace, he would score 21 goals and 66 points over a full season. Why can’t the Sabres, who, on paper, boast two strong scoring lines, score more goals? “A lot of that has to do with execution, a lot of that has to do with taking the puck to the net instead of playing along the perimeter,” Kane said. “I think we play along the perimeter way too much.” Kane cited perimeter play as the reason the Sabres took so long to register their first shot. “We have to shoot pucks from everywhere – bad angles, off the rush, off the power play, which I thought we did a pretty good job (of doing) except scoring in the second period,” Housley said. “We put ourselves down, played in our own end, we missed the net on a few shots we had in tight,” Eichel said of the Sabres’ four-shot first period. 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__label__wiki	0.955173	0.955173	Balfour bags Washington DC resi tower By Yoosof Farah2016-02-29T07:26:00+00:00 Contractor also confirms reshuffle of London business Balfour Beatty has won a deal to build a 13-storey luxury apartment block in Washington DC. Located in the fast-growing NoMa district of the US capital, the residential tower will be a concrete-framed high-rise with around 350 apartments. The building will include a mix of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units and also offer a number of micro units and two-level suites. Designed by local architects Hickok Cole, the scheme will also feature a fitness centre, club room, co-working space, rooftop pool with resort-style cabanas and barbecue grilling stations, and a dog park. The project is also LEED certified, the American equivalent of BREEAM in the UK. Balfour’s latest win in the United States comes after the contractor confirmed it had reshuffled its London construction business. The firm has appointed David Kennedy as its new managing director for London, who moves up from his role as operations director. Current London MD Paul Gandy will leave Balfour to join rivals Kier. Balfour has also promoted Graham Hill from commercial director to head of operations. Dean Banks, Balfour Beatty UK Construction Services managing director, said: “David and Graham have a wealth of experience in the construction industry that will help to ensure that we continue to win the right projects for our business and deliver expertise for our customers. “It is testament to the strength and depth of talent we have in Balfour Beatty that we have been able to make appointments of their calibre from within the company.” McAlpine to restore grade I-listed St Marylebone Parish Church Refurb will see 1817 church taken off Historic England’s Buildings at Risk register Crossrail brings in Bechtel veterans to help get delayed job finished Railway turns to US engineer to fill key roles on project Final bill for Nightingale hospitals to top £500m Government had previously only revealed a total programme build cost of £220m	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784236
__label__cc	0.73082	0.26918	Home BS No, the “Danish Study” Doesn’t Say What Anti-Maskers Claim No, the “Danish Study” Doesn’t Say What Anti-Maskers Claim That, of course, never stops people from deliberately misrepresenting the findings of a research paper most people will never actually read. Since the beginning of this pandemic, everyone who knows what the hell they’re talking about has been hammering the message into the heads of those who do not, that wearing face coverings is about protecting other people from your respiratory droplets, much more than protecting you from the respiratory droplets of other people. This message has been all but dropped on major cities in the form of leaflets by public health communicators, and yet, bad faith operators more beholden to the bafflingly-politicized movement against giving a shit about other people still persist to focus on what the masks do or do not do for them. The implications of this are, of course, obvious to the point of not needing to be stated. So here’s a meme, because frankly, an explanation for the benefit of those who don’t immediately grasp it is not worth typing. The Danish Study It took less than an hour from the time “Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers – A Randomized Controlled Trial” was published for the Pro-Virus constituency to descend on social media like the plague rats they are, infested with a misunderstanding of the paper and a desire to infect others with their stupidity. Table 2 from the study Bullshit Bullet Point Breakdown 1. The study was ridiculously underpowered Without getting into statistical concepts like β or Cohen’s D that will make the average person zone out and go back to watching videos of people kicking each other in the heads, note that the researchers themselves observe that of the people in the treatment group (ie. the people who wore masks, as opposed to those who didn’t in the control group) only 46% of them actually wore the mask as instructed. This would be like testing whether drinking water can quench thirst and having half of the “water drinking” group dump said water onto their heads instead of into their mouths. 2. The study only focused on the effectiveness of masks to protect the wearer from others We’re going to keep beating this dead horse until it’s a nice puree fit for children’s arts and crafts projects. The people trying to promote this study as vindicating their refusal to wear masks are, again, misdirecting everyone from the fact that masks aren’t about protecting you from others, they’re about protecting others from you. Science, however, isn’t as concerned with the petty battles being waged in the public discourse (don’t go there, we know), so all too often well-meaning researchers are completely obvious to such things pursue an understanding of a subject without any consideration for how it may be misinterpreted or abused. In this case, barring any forthcoming evidence to suggest otherwise, these researchers simply wanted to get a better handle on whether or not masks protect you from others. And that’s how it should be, but the works of people acting in good faith will never not be exploited by those operating in bad. So here we are. 3. The study reinforces the damn point that you can’t protect yourself from anti-maskers by wearing a mask via Reuters’ summary Did I mention we were going to keep beating that dead horse enough yet? There is missing the point deliberately for a host of reasons, including and especially out of fears of a loss of status and/or followers over bucking a narrative and putting yourself in the out-group by calibrating your grasp of a subject more towards objective reality. Then there’s just being a mark for those whose livelihoods are made playing that game. Both are taking place here, but the critical takeaway is this: The study actually reinforces the urgency with which everyone needs to be wearing masks to prevent infecting others by making it clear how easy it is for a small group of recalcitrant quarter-wits to infect those who actually give a crap about other people. If this disease only affected the idiots who refuse to take it seriously, it would be a self-correcting problem. But the universe is arbitrary rather than just. 4. Don’t take ANYONE’S word for it (even ours): read the study yourself Science is like playing that old game of “telephone” where by even the second iteration the message can get garbled. And science in the modern age of weaponized bullshit is like playing the telephone game with that one kid whose parents never loved them so they seek to ruin any game they mistakenly get invited to participate in by otherwise well-meaning people who don’t know better. Here’s the link And Now For The Parade of Assholes Strangely enough, you’re still going to get ridiculed and called a Covidiot. Here’s a masterclass in how to pander to your smooth-brained followers while knowing full well your take is bullshit and hedging your bets in case you end up dying from this. That law degree Ben has sure is paying off. German Anti-Lockdown Protest Leader Catches Covid and Dies Explaining Why “6%” is a load of COVID-19 BS 16 Covid Update 3 – Revenge of the Sick Wearing Masks: the Right Thing, or Being Forced to do it	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784239
__label__wiki	0.742411	0.742411	Kim Young-Sam Home Politics, Law & Government World Leaders Presidents & Heads of States Kim Young-Sam Kim Young-Sam: Additional Information Kim Dae-Jung In Kim Dae-Jung Roh Moo-Hyun In Roh Moo-Hyun In South Korea: The Yushin order (Fourth Republic) In South Korea: The Sixth Republic Modified title of Web site: The Korean Times - U.N. Chief Mourns Death of ex-S. Korean President Kim Young-sam. Add new Web site: The Irish Times - Obituary: Kim Young-Sam – Former President of South Korea. Add new Web site: The Washington Post - Kim Young-Sam, South Korea’s President in the 1990s, Dies at 87. Add new Web site: Independent - Kim Young-Sam: Politician Who Ended Decades of Military Rule in South Korea and Brought Financial Transparency. Add new Web site: The Korean Times - U.N. Chief Mourns Death of ex-S. Korean President Kim Young-sam. Add new Web site: The Guardian - Kim Young-sam obituary. Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - Kim Young-sam dies at 87; former South Korean president. He died on November 22, 2015. Article revised; birthplace detail added. Lorraine Murray	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784242
__label__wiki	0.590438	0.590438	Home World USA 29 rights groups strongly oppose US weapons sales to UAE By Ren Leen December 1, 2020 208 WASHINGTON (US) – As many as 29 arms control and human rights organisations have inked a letter expressing their opposition to the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates. They have also sought the Congress to block the weapons deal. “The hope is to stop these sales altogether,” said Seth Binder, advocacy officer at the Project on Middle East Democracy, who is leading the effort to block the deal. “But if that is not possible in the short term, this sends an important signal to the incoming Biden administration that there is a diverse group of organisations that oppose delivery of these weapons.” Earlier this month, three Senators had proposed legislation to block the arms sale, which includes drones from privately-held General Atomics, Lockheed Martin Corp F-35s and missiles of Raytheon. According to federal law, senators can force votes on resolutions of disapproval on major arms deals. However, if it has to become effective, resolutions have to be passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. It would also require two-third majorities in both the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-led House in order to overcome a presidential veto. The Donald Trump administration officials briefed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the weapons sale on Monday evening. A sponsor of the resolutions of disapproval Democratic Senator Chris Murphy tweeted: “Just a mind blowing number of unsettled issues and questions the Administration couldn’t answer. Hard to overstate the danger of rushing this.” Following an agreement brokered by the US in September, the sale was approved. This came after the UAE agreed to normalise relations with Israel. According to the letter which was sent to lawmakers and the State Department, the deal would fuel continued harm to civilians and intensify the crises in Yemen and Syria. Those who signed the letter include human rights bodies from the region, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and Mwatana for Human Rights. In a statement, the embassy of the UAE said, “Aligned closely with US interests and values, the UAE’s highly capable military is a forceful deterrent to aggression and an effective response to violent extremism.” Tags: rights organisations UAE US arms deal Japan govt to ease regulations on part-time work for foreigners Mexico city residents stage protest against slaying of French businessman, partner For Trump, appeals to white fears about race may be a tougher sell in 2020 By Ren Leen August 19, 2019 U.S. Democrats plan to probe Trump’s role in hush-money payments – report By Ren Leen September 4, 2019 Adam Schiff to become Exhibit A in Trump’s defence By Ren Leen January 25, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784244
__label__cc	0.639854	0.360146	← A Limerick A Day Animation: Tatuapé Mahal Tower → Damien’s Bad Omen Admin at 10:14 am April 28, 2017 Above From left: Shane Cassells, Damien English, Seán Boylan, Paeder Tobin and John McCallister at the ‘Meath for Unity’ debate last night A funny thing happened at the Meath For Unity debate… Martin McMahon writes: Last evening I attended a ‘Meath for Unity‘ debate in the Newgrange Hotel Navan chaired by Meath GAA legend Seán Boylan. The debate on the issue of Irish unity was organised by Peadar Toibin TD with guest speakers Shane Cassells TD, Junior Minister Damien English and special guest John McCallister former Ulster Unionist Party Member of the Legislative Assembly. Sean kicked off proceedings with an account of his own personal experiences of north/south relations during his career. Shane followed with a historical context. Damien stressed the importance of consent beyond a 50% + 1 majority for unification. Peadar was excellent with facts, figures and the potential benefits for the Island as a whole should unification occur. John was brutally honest in his view that unification was a distant second for the unionist community behind the more pressing issue of Brexit. The debate was then thrown open to the floor. Questions about Ireland in the Commonwealth were raised and answered. The need for more private business growth was stressed by Peadar. I listened with interest to all the questions raised and answered. I was lucky enough to ask the final question. It wasn’t a premeditated question, it had occurred to me while listening to John and trying to see the situation from his perspective. I asked Damien: “How can we be seen as a country for all the people of Ireland when Fine Gael gift the National Maternity Hospital to a Holy Order?” The question genuinely electrified the room. Most recognised my effort to look beyond our own insular view of the situation but a sizable group became immediately irate and accused me of ‘Ambushing the Minister’. It was not my intent to ambush Damien. For me it was the kind of nitty gritty question which would have massive ramifications if we are ever to reach a position where unification is a workable possibility. Much to the anger of the majority of those present, Damien avoided the question by saying that it was a good deal with which doctors agreed and that we should all read the agreement (I have). The palpable anger in the room at Damien’s non-answer does not bode well for Fine Gael. The issue of the National Maternity Hospital’s ownership is vital not only for women and their families, it has implications far beyond our current borders and is pivotal in how we in the south are perceived by our northern brethren. The anger at grassroots level as to how the ownership of the National Maternity Hospital has been handled by Fine Gael is a very bad omen for Fine Gael. I have no doubt that when it comes to election time, the ‘little free stater’ attitude they have displayed on this issue will come back to bite them in a very big way. The ownership of the National Maternity Hospital is not exclusively a south of Ireland issue, the world is watching, our neighbours are watching, Fine Gael has failed to realise that they are on a bigger stage, a possibility of unification stage. Martin blogs at RamshornRepublic Pics via Meath4Unity Rules Of The Game He’s Not The Messiah Vera’s Long Walk What It Is Posted in Misc and tagged Martin McMahon at 10:14 am on April 28, 2017 by Admin. 65 thoughts on “Damien’s Bad Omen” Milo April 28, 2017 at 10:38 am Aren’t you great now for doing all that and coming back here to tell us all about it. And you even read the report. End to end. And they turned on you – and you only trying to do your best and all. Shocking so it is. I am also delighted that Martin is so delighted with himself. MoyestWithExcitement April 28, 2017 at 11:33 am Ah, the beautiful sound of bitter, offended right wingers. Good work, Martin. dav April 28, 2017 at 12:52 pm Lord Snowflakee April 28, 2017 at 3:51 pm +100 = well said Moyest. That really stuck in their craw I bet. Those people attending that meeting sound vile. and aren’t you the great little fellah, first on the comments with a snarky rebuttal. have another digestive for yourself there, you’ve earned it. Biddy April 28, 2017 at 12:48 pm Were you there milo or is this just your usual blueshirt (knee)jerkery? They don’t allow the shirt to reach down to their knees, they tuck them into their y-fronts. Yellow to the front, brown to the back, that’s how the gaelers know how to put on their shirts. MKG April 28, 2017 at 10:41 am It was hardly an ambush, nor is a awkward question. More like it proves that our political class find it impossible to give their own opinion when they put “party” loyalty above the citizenry. Joe Small April 28, 2017 at 10:43 am Its a ridiculous question that reflects complete ignorance of Northern Ireland. Unionist don’t crave a modern liberal republic. They still have significant abortion restrictions in NI and in parts of the Unionist heartland they lock playgrounds on Sunday out of respect for the Sabbath. egghead April 28, 2017 at 10:53 am Yes Joe, as much as I agree with Martins politics, this was not the arena for grandstanding. Cheap shots make for good tales, but will not help the cause of reconciliation. I actually think a united Ireland could be a more conservative country, based on the people I personally know from there. Starina April 28, 2017 at 11:21 am agreed. Down here, hateful and discriminatory behaviour is seen as embarrassing, not a basis for a political platform. That’s an interesting point/theory. Unionists mightn’t be keen on the idea of living in a country that hands over ownership of vital parts of national infrastructure to the Catholic Church, what with their Protestantism and Orangeness and all. Owen C April 28, 2017 at 12:05 pm Of course they will. They’re perfectly fine with the idea of an apartheid state based on religious differences. They’ll simply want their own similar Orange versions of SVHG. MoyestWithExcitement April 28, 2017 at 12:11 pm Ok. Northern Irish Orangemen will be fine joining a country that is part governed by the Catholic Church. Fascinating. Hysterical nonsense but fascinating. Owen C April 28, 2017 at 1:05 pm We have religious ethos schools. Do you think the Orangemen would be in favour of keeping that basic idea or of moving to a purely secular format? Same principle with other religiously-impacted elements of our public services. In a purely secular society the Orange order withers and dies, they need a continuing clash of “we have to protect our own” on both sides. Fascinating that you can’t comprehend this. MoyestWithExcitement April 28, 2017 at 1:16 pm Ok, you’re getting emotional and incoherent again. I’m not sure your post relates much to what’s been said. Let’s recap; OP; Chap makes point that our society’s state level relationship with the Catholic Church can convey the message that we’re not an open society for everyone. Me; I agree with him mentioning that unionists mightn’t be keen on a rejoining us given that relationship with the Catholic Church. You; They’ll love having apartheid, ask for their own system and see that system wither and die in a secular republic….even though the point here is that handing over state assets to the Catholic Church implies we’re not a secular republic. All over the place and that’s before getting into the rather surprising ignorance on the history of the region. I mean, the Catholic Church’s involvement in the state was the main reason NI came into existence in the first place but apparently it’s a reason to end its existence now. I’ll ask it again cos you went all Helen Keller the first time around. We have religious ethos schools. Do you think the Orangemen would be in favour of keeping that basic idea or of moving to a purely secular format? Now move that idea on to religious ethos hospitals. Same question. For a bonus doggy biscuit you can show me where I suggested we live in a purely secular society. Then you can go for your afternoon nap. rotide April 28, 2017 at 3:18 pm savage :) Asks me a bafflingly stupid question. Gets hand held through reason for its irrelevance. Responds with same question. You’re a strange boy. Goosey Lucy April 28, 2017 at 11:41 am I thought so too Joe. But I suppose, we can still ask the question- how would a united ireland manage the cultural clash which I would see as inevitable- the backlash against the maternity hospital being a small part of the growing unrest with church/state politics. My (perhaps incorrect) assumption would be that NI is less inclined to secular ways of thinking rotide April 28, 2017 at 12:02 pm How would they handle gay marriage? How would they handle abortion? (that will be legal a very very long time before any reunification) Sheik Yahbouti April 28, 2017 at 4:32 pm Again, I agree with you rotide. Our Northern “brethren” are even more conservative than the worst down here. Quite apart from all other considerations, I see no advantage whatever in introducing yet more religious tyranny into this benighted country. It must be the Rapture :) Malta April 28, 2017 at 1:37 pm Yeah, but they’re not fond of the Pope, was the point of the question, no? Miko May 2, 2017 at 10:12 am It’s odd. I’d be fairly high on the aul liberal scale. For me… in an ideal world all services would be delivered on a secular basis. But I’m also someone who has seen the world and is not completely and utterly ignorant of the outside world. Which will make it very hard for Martin to actually comprehend what the outside world thinks. The Unionist community of Northern Ireland’s leading party is affiliated with a fundamentalist Presbyterian church which has more extreme views then the Catholic Church ever had. There is no abortion in Norn Ireland. Arguably the Unionist community in some ways would be more comfortable in Ireland because of the way we allow schools and hospitals be run on a sectarian basis rather than the secular structure of England and Wales. Not to mention many other countries (US, Germany) have high ratio of medical and educational facilities delivered by religious organisations. This alongside the ” the Government should have unlimited powers when it’s something I want (like taking the land off the Nuns for a pittance) but should not dare infringe my rights in other ways suggests that this is a la carte liberalism at it’s best. Government has three options: 1. Put in an agreement that leaves property in ownership of Nuns but puts in arms length governance model to assure independent medical ethos. Get the best location attached directly to a modern university hospital. 2. Pay 20/30m CPO for a landlocked site and all the legal complications of getting access etc. and get nothing more than making Martin feel happier about how Ireland “projects” itself. * Or build it on a golf course costing and even more money and building “tunnels” according to Peter Boylan. 3. Plant the place off site in RTE so instead of rolling someone down a corridor you have ambulances running up and down the speed bump laden Nutley lane. I know which one I would realistically go for. Storm in a tea cup If we want to have a constitutional referendum of ownership of the hospitals/schools lets do that but less of the insincere “Fine Gael” did it for laughs and there is an easy alternative solution (aside from the fact pretty much every other party would have done the exact same). Shayna April 28, 2017 at 10:58 am The legend that is Seán Boylan, who decreed to his players, including Colm O’Rourke – a shoot-to-kill policy (on-field, that is) against players from the North – particularly, Tyrone – participating in a “What If?” scenario, come “Ultimate Unification” would have had a certain appeal to me. The “ambush” was surely just a question that everyone in the room must have had. I’m reminded of the most recent post in, “Waterford Whispers News”, where a “spokesnun” from the new maternity hospital stated that they’d welcome everyone, provided they were married. There were insinuations to a pit, which the “spokesnun” refused to comment on. By Popular Demand, Frilly Keane April 28, 2017 at 11:05 am well Boylan Juniors opted for the Coombe if memory serves, and ya know “Meath like to get their retaliation in first” and don’t ever forget I guessed if there were a GAA reference, you’d be there, Frilly. The “Royal County”, what with, notwithstanding it being the “Seat of The King of Ireland” – except, it really wasn’t! The true king was a guy from Tyrone, O’Neill, was his name. His job? Massive procreation to the point where everyone in Tyrone is called, O’Neill (myself included). The Tara Heads know this, and act (again, on the field) according to the code of “The Boylan” when Meath face up against Tyrone. joak joke jik April 28, 2017 at 11:41 am what a massive pile of BS from a shower of jackeens rotide April 28, 2017 at 11:24 am Did you ask them how the marriage referendum would affect reunification? Seeing as the politicians there have consistantly voted against it and that was something that the world was ACTUALLY watching when we voted in favor of it. Your question, while hardly an ambush, had nothing to do with the debate at hand. @rotide – That’s kinda what I mentioned earlier, hoped that others would pick up. The debate was, “Ultimate Unification”. It was a “thing” agreed – “The agreement was signed in London on 6 December 1921, by representatives of the British government (which included Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was head of the British delegates) and by representatives of the Irish Republic including Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. The Irish representatives had plenipotentiary status (negotiators empowered to sign a treaty without reference back to their superiors) acting on behalf of the Irish Republic, though the British government declined to recognise that status.” Straight out of Wikipedia – but it goes on to say that the 6 counties, if the majority, becomes Catholic/Republican, then there’ll be unification. nellyb April 28, 2017 at 12:00 pm did women of Meath care to speak on the topic? [wasn’t for rotide, just a general question – were there any women speakers for or against?] oh yeah, the SF ladies, of course. Shayna April 28, 2017 at 12:10 pm The SF ladies? Biddy April 28, 2017 at 11:51 am Fine Gael are ‘little free staters’, the bigger picture escapes them. Time to go, time for some proper ‘world stage’ politics. Milo April 28, 2017 at 12:08 pm Why don’t all who hate Ireland just move up north? It would suit your pursed little lips and you would learn what proper bigotry looks like. Poor little snowflake. I hear you Milo. I’ve lived in Belfast for the past couple of years – bigotry is plentiful up here! scottser April 28, 2017 at 2:15 pm i am going to bunjee jump off the harland & wolfe crane this weekend. Formerly known as @ireland.com April 28, 2017 at 12:13 pm 50%+1 is plenty for unification. The artificial statelet should never have been created. If the nutty unionists don’t like joining the rest of Ireland, they can go back to the ‘mainland’. They can see how great their empire has crumbled. My view on the hospital is that the Government cannot give 300M Euro worth of property away to anyone. It is not theirs to give away. Rob_G April 28, 2017 at 1:17 pm – that €300m is going to seem like peanuts compared to the £13bn we will have to pay each year to keep the North afloat post-unification. Formerly known as @ireland.com April 29, 2017 at 12:46 am @Rob_G Did you see that Canadian study, that said unification would be worth 8 Billion Euro to Ireland? The British caused the problem, so they will contribute for 20-30 years after unification. You know how much they will want their loyal subjects to be looked after. Our European friends will help, too. A united Ireland will be function a lot better, on so many levels. You will be doing the work of the Empire if you think partition is the best long term outcome. You and the extreme loyalists on the same side, nice. Cian May 2, 2017 at 4:42 pm This study was commissioned by ‘Knights of the Red Branch Inc’ – I encourage you to read up on this peculiar organisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Red_Branch_Inc Nugget April 28, 2017 at 12:49 pm I attended this conference and was very disappointed. The title was misleading. I had assumed the Meath For Unity was a gathering for reunification with Westmeath. The Fifth Province will rise again my friends. Shayna April 28, 2017 at 4:43 pm That’s what I thought – it turns out…this! Fully Keen April 28, 2017 at 1:53 pm I don’t want a united Ireland. Will we get a vote down here? Isn’t an all-ireland poll part of the GFA? brownbull April 28, 2017 at 1:59 pm what were Sean Boylan’s thoughts on the medical care of pregnant women? can you cure a fatal foetal abnormality with a rub of a dock leaf? By Popular Demand, Frilly Keane April 28, 2017 at 2:54 pm bollix ya watery slobber all over me bank statements I always thought that that was such a strange job for a GAA manager to have… Yup and some morning dew, gathered in the month of May. Never fails, I tells yah. (to brownbull) To be fair, Seán Boylan cured lots of Tyrone types of thinking there’s a fourth All-Ireland in them, under Mickey Harte. Kerry is the key to how football should be played. Long high ball into the square – couple of lanky Kerry marauders punch into the net. Simples! bertie blenkinsop April 28, 2017 at 5:17 pm An electrified room in Meath, there’s fancy. gringo April 28, 2017 at 6:13 pm One should never allow real life issues to intrude when professional waffles are happily waffling. As for gifting 300 millions to a private company, compared to what these gombeens have already done, that’s only small change to them. The salient point – constantly glossed over by discussion of clinical independence (upon which I would insist) – ownership of the expensive, tax payer funded Hospital. In what situation would it be proper for me to offer you a building site, on condition that I would own whatever was built on it? 244 Private en suite rooms on the plans. Imagine the profit!! I think it’s okay to call one’s self a Republican these days – previously, there’d be a certain perceived attachment to The IRA. The polling last time in the North was kinda 50/50 – there’ll be another soon, when Arlene Foster’s apologies to Na Gaeilgeoirí won’t wash. Líofa cost 50 grand a year to finance – the renewable heat incentive scheme cost a half a billion (She was Finance Minister at the time) and it was clearly corrupt. 51 per cent, here we come, Faílte to the 26 counties who were left behind by Dev,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784246
__label__wiki	0.852379	0.852379	Tag Archives: repeat HPV tests CervicalCheck: Two Lists Bodger at 2:12 pm January 24, 2019 From top: Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty; Labour leader Brendan Howlin; Tánaiste Simon Coveney In the past 24 hours. Several matters have emerged concerning the CervicalCheck programme. A backlog in tests – following on from an extra 84,000 women coming forward for tests last year in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal in April 2018, and Minster for Health Simon Harris announcing the provision of free repeat smear tests – has led to 1,000 women having to have repeat tests because the backlog caused their initial tests to expire and become invalid. The figure of 1,000 emerged last night after Fianna Fáil TD Micheál Martin raised the matter in the Dáil yesterday. It’s now the case that women have to wait, on average, 22 weeks to get the result of a CervicalCheck smear, as opposed to the usual two to four weeks. Separately. It’s emerged some 6,000 women will be written to next week and advised to return to their GPs for repeat smear tests. This is in relation to a cohort of women who would have initially tested positive for low-grade abnormalities and who would have then been advised to have an additional HPV test within 30 days of the initial smear test – but their additional smear test was tested for the HPV virus beyond the 30-day limit. [The practice of being advised to have an additional HPV test, on foot of a test showing up low-grade abnormalities, began in Ireland in 2015] The acting Clinical Director of the HSE’s cervical screening programme Peter McKenna this morning told RTÉ One’s Morning Ireland that he’s not sure how it happened but the laboratory [Quest Laboratories] which was testing the smears “started counting the 30 days from the time the smear came into the laboratory rather than from the time the smear was taken in the smear takers’ clinic”. Mr McKenna said that the HSE was alerted to this problem with the additional HPV tests at the “end of November”, while the scale of the problem unfolded in December and the HSE has been trying to identify the affected women since the beginning of the new year. Quest Diagnostics is the laboratory whom the late Emma Mhic Mathúna sued. Several TDs raised the matters in the Dáil this afternoon, with Tánaiste Simon Coveney telling the Dáil that the Minister for Health Simon Harris was told about the additional HPV testing concerns in December. Mr Coveney told Fianna Fáil’s Dara Calleary that the impression Mr Calleary was giving – that the Government is trying to hide something – isn’t true. “The HSE has said that it was made aware of this issue in November, the minister was made aware of the issue regarding secondary HPV testing in December. The issue was discussed at the CervicalCheck steering committee including with patient reps who are working very hard at that committee on a range of issues involved and outlined in published weekly reports. “The minister sought regular updates but a final report was not available to him in terms of the numbers involved or who they were. And so when this issue was raised yesterday, I don’t believe he did have the information to be able to provide it until that was available today.” Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty and Labour’s Brendan Howlin also asked Mr Coveney questions about the matter. Mr Doherty asked for Mr Coveney to be more specific about when Mr Harris was notified of the HPV testing issue. [Yesterday Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Mr Harris was notified of the initial matter – concerning the expired smear tests – “a few weeks ago”] Mr Doherty said: “How come it will be February before these women will be informed that they need to go through another test – two months later? “What did the minister do in relation to this here? How come we are so late in the day and women haven’t been informed that the information that they may have received in relation to their second test, remember the second test was a result of an abnormality in the first, may be inaccurate and was carried it outside the manufacturing’s timeframe?” “And how can we be assured that this is the end of it, minister? That there is no more women out there that will get a letter through the door or a phonecall from their GP telling them that information that has been relayed to them in relation to life-threatening screening may be inaccurate?” Mr Coveney responded by speaking about the challenges facing the health system, that mistakes are sometimes made and that lessons need to be learned. In relation to the HPV testing matter specifically, Mr Coveney said: “An issue has emerged there in relation to one of the three labs that are doing this work and we are now working to correct that and that is what we’ll continue to do.” Mr Doherty pointed out that Mr Coveney didn’t answer any of the questions he asked and repeated them. He also further pointed out that Mr McKenna had confirmed the HSE still doesn’t know how Quest Diagnostics made the error – despite the problem being identified in November. Mr Coveney still didn’t answer Mr Doherty’s questions. But he said: “The HSE has advised that all of the evidence suggests that even though the test was done outside of the 30-day window, the original results are still very reliable. So can we please try to reassure people here there is not a cause for undue concern. “This is about, this is about full transparency, that is what patients should be entitled to expect and it is about correcting a mistake that shouldn’t have happened and to give women a reassurance by having a repeat smear test.” “The information that I gave earlier to this house, is that the HSE became aware of this issue in November, the minister became aware in December, had discussions in relation to it, has asked for reports in relation to it and hasn’t got a complete report yet in relation to it. And so the information that I’m giving to the House today is current.” Mr Howlin said: “The delay in getting the CervicalCheck is now 22 weeks according to the HSE. Where there is a problem with a check and recheck is required, that means another 22 weeks. “For many people availing of private healthcare options, to get a faster check, but that’s not an option for everybody. It’s another example of the two-tier system. I was contacted by somebody today who said, when they were told of this inordinate delay, ‘we can get a fast one, if you pay’.” “…How much scandal can the screening programme take? We are absolutely in favour of screening but the problems besetting CervicalCheck programme indicates that something is deeply wrong. “These problems are further eroding confidence in screening and people are anxious. “So, I want to ask specific questions: Can you, Tánaiste, on behalf of the Government, confirm how much additional funding was allocate last year to CervicalCheck. “Two, will the Government commit to full staffing and funding, so that we can get CervicalCheck back on track and deliver the quality service that we all want. “And finally, as a result of what’s gone on, now, as an emergency measure, will the Government undertake to refund the cost of private checks, which might be in the order of €100 to €200 per patient, in order to address the backlog and remove the inequality between those who can pay privately.” In his response, Mr Coveney said: “What we have is a new issue, that we didn’t know about. That needs to be addressed, that was raised with the minister in December… And was subsequently raised in a CervicalCheck steering committee. “It is absolutely appropriate that patients’ reps and the steering committee would be the first to hear about this and indeed patients themselves would hear before the Dáil hears about these issues. And the minister … asked for, and was awaiting, a report in terms of the detailed numbers on this issue when it was raised yesterday and it became a political issue in the Dáil. And that is why we’ve had to respond today in the way that we have.” Mr Howlin asked Mr Coveney if he could respond to his specific questions in writing. Investigation after smear test time limit ‘confusion’ (RTE) Posted in Misc and tagged 6000, CervicalCheck, Dail, repeat HPV tests, Simon Coveney at 2:12 pm on January 24, 2019 by Bodger. 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__label__wiki	0.856334	0.856334	Police officer charged with assault, witness harrasment By Julianne McShane A police officer faced charges in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Sept. 12 on charges of misdemeanor assault and intimidating a witness after he allegedly attacked a Coney Island man in July and then confronted him about reporting the incident, according to a statement by acting district attorney Eric Gonzalez. Officer O’Keefe Thompson of the 60th Precinct confronted the man shortly after midnight on July 8, near Mermaid Avenue and West 32nd Street while on duty and in uniform and ordered the victim to pick up a plastic cup that his friend had knocked out of his hand, Gonzalez said in the statement, and when the man refused, the two began arguing. Thompson then allegedly threw the victim against the doorway of a nearby bodega, knocked him to the ground, dragged him onto the sidewalk two separate times, and dropped him to the ground again, according to the indictment. Following the alleged assault, the victim went home and went to sleep, and then woke up with a swollen face and headache. He called 911 and went to Coney Island Hospital, where he was treated for swelling and bruising to the face and for a possible concussion. He filed a complaint against Thompson later that same day, after he was discharged from the hospital. On July 9, Thompson allegedly went to the victim’s neighborhood to seek him out — at around 2:30 am, after work and out of uniform. Thompson then confronted the victim, allegedly raising his shirt to show his gun in his waistband before verbally threatening the victim for reporting the previous night’s altercation to police, according to the indictment. Police have footage of both incidents, according to Gonzalez. Thompson was released on his own recognizance with a court date of Nov. 29. He faces up to 16 months to four years in prison. Reach reporter Julianne McShane at (718) 260–2523 or by e-mail at jmcshane@cnglocal.com. Follow her on Twitter @juliannemcshane. Wack job brutally assaults mailman Cops arrest pervy subway pilferer Gun-simulating wretch bags bottle of wine Villains brutally rob cash from man	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784264
__label__wiki	0.895075	0.895075	Royal mess: State asking for comment on finishing Kings Plaza cleanup By Julianne Cuba Kings ransom: Brooklyn's only indoor shopping mall has been sold. Photo by Steve Solomonson It’s a cleanup fit for a king. The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation plans to clean up toxins deep under the ground left behind by a former plastics and oil company at the site of what’s now Kings Plaza — but is asking the public for its input until the end of the month before wrapping up the work. Presto Plastics Products Company operated on the site near Avenue U and E. 55th Street — now a paved access road to the mall — from the 1930s to the 1960s, and Sun Oil Company did from 1961 until 1965, leaving behind oil-filled tanks about 10 feet under the dirt. And the greasy stuff had seeped out over the years, making it high time it gets scrubbed clean, said the district manager of Community Board 18. “We welcome this overdue cleanup process,” said Dottie Turano. Workers lifted out the physical tanks in 2008, but the toxins — petroleum and chlorinated compounds — spread beyond what was immediately excavated, and so contractors, under the supervision of the state agency, will finish cleaning up the remaining contamination, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. Throughout the past year, the department identified and removed so-called hot spot regions of contamination using chemical oxidation injections, according to the state agency. The site was originally part of the Department of Environmental’s voluntary cleanup program, but since that ends in March 2018, the state transitioned all of those applications to the Brownfield Cleanup Program, which requires public review and comment, according to a department spokesman. The surrounding water is not used for drinking, so locals don’t have to worry about having a glass out of their tap, and no chemicals have leaked into the nearby nature preserve or marina, the spokesman said. The agency is monitoring the surrounding air, but no impacts to its quality have so-far been recorded, according to a spokesman. Head honchos expect the cleanup to wrap in the next six months, and will accept public comment until Sept. 29, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. To read more about the cleanup, enter site ID #C224263 at http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/derexternal/index.cfm?pageid=3. Anyone can submit a comment to the site Project Manager Ioana Munteanu-Ramnic via email at ioana.muntanu-ramnic@dec.ny.gov or by calling (718) 482–4065. All comments must be submitted by Sept. 29, 2017. Reach reporter Julianne Cuba at (718) 260–4577 or by e-mail at jcuba@cnglocal.com. Follow her on Twitter @julcuba. Body found in Mill Basin identified as missing Borough Park teen Republicans pull ahead in southern Brooklyn races with in-person voting Dottie Turano, longtime Community Board 18 district manager, to retire Mill Basin residents push for private security patrol	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784265
__label__cc	0.724803	0.275197	Action on Invasives View all CABI online resources… About ISC Detailed coverage of invasive species threatening livelihoods and the environment worldwide id:"succulents" Basic datasheets (0) Full datasheets (0) Research articles (55) (approx.) Abstracts (55) CABI hosted full text (0) Identification and management (7) Identification guides (0) Management factsheets (7) Posters and leaflets (0) Selected records Search results: 62 results (approx.) Date Recent Date Oldest New succulents for the Tunisian and North African alien flora. El-Mokni, R., Elaissi, A., Verloove, F., (2019). Haseltonia 26, 68-77. Cactus & Succulent Society of America Inc, Claremont, USA. English language Transplant experiments predict potential future spread of alien succulents along an elevation gradient. Pannell, J. L., Duncan, R. P., Hulme, P. E., (2019). Biological Invasions 21(7), 2357-2372. Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands. English language Interactions between the invasive Schinus molle (Peruvian pepper tree) with six plant species commonly found in Southern California nature reserves. Bañuelas, D. C., Questad, E. J., Bobich, E. G., (2019). Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 43, 126348. Elsevier GmbH, München, Germany. English language Ecophysiological differentiation between two invasive species of Carpobrotus competing under different nutrient conditions. Campoy, J. G., Roiloa, S. R., Santiso, X., Retuerto, R., (2019). American Journal of Botany 106(11), 1454-1465. Blackwell Publishing, Boston, USA. English language The quarantine root-knot nematode Meloidogyne enterolobii - a potential threat to Portugal and Europe. Santos, D., Abrantes, I., Maleita, C., (2019). Plant Pathology 68(9), 1607-1615. Wiley, Oxford, UK. English language The management of invasive alien plants in South Africa: strategy, progress and challenges. Wilgen, B. W. van, (2018). Outlooks on Pest Management 29(1), 13-17. Research Information Ltd, Burnham, UK. English language An invasive succulent plant (Kalanchoe daigremontiana) influences soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization in a neotropical semiarid zone. Herrera, I., Ferrer-Paris, J. R., Benzo, D., Flores, S., García, B., Nassar, J. M., (2018). Pedosphere 28(4), 632-643. Elsevier B.V., Beijing, China. English language Monographs of invasive plants in Europe: Carpobrotus. Campoy, J. G., Acosta, A. T. R., Affre, L., Barreiro, R., Brundu, G., Buisson, E., González, L., Lema, M., Novoa, A., Retuerto, R., Roiloa, S. R., Fagúndez, J., (2018). Botany Letters 165(4-Mar), 440-475. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK. English language Plant communities suitable for green roofs in arid regions. Gioannini, R., Al-Ajlouni, M., Kile, R., VanLeeuwen, D., St. Hilaire, R., (2018). Sustainability 10(6), 1755. MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. English language Alien succulents naturalised and cultivated on the central west coast of Portugal. Silva, V., Figueiredo, E., Smith, G. F., (2015). Bradleya 33, 58-81. British Cactus and Succulent Society, Bury, UK. English language Select one or more to refine your search: Korea Republic (1) Punjab (Pakistan) (1) Clear all Refine results Refine datasheets by: Refine abstracts by: No records selected.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784267
__label__cc	0.74844	0.25156	Alibaba and Cloud Computing Alibaba ($BABA) is that giant Chinese technology company that claims to do just about everything. Imagine Amazon, eBay, Venmo, Netflix and more, all rolled into one business. Well, we were skimming Alibaba’s financial numbers the other day, and found something else the company does — lose money on cloud computing. We didn’t think such a thing was possible, because the economics of cloud computing are so simple. You buy computer servers and rent out space to customers. It’s not a new business model, and anyone with an online presence needs some sort of cloud computing. Losing money at cloud computing is like losing money when you own a casino. Yet, somehow, Alibaba has done precisely that for at least three years running. See Figure 1, below. These are the operating segments Alibaba reported in 2018 and 2019 (priced in Chinese renminbi). Cloud computing is the second segment listed, and we flagged the money-losing portion in blue. So how rare is it to lose money in cloud computing? Calcbench can tell you. First, we held our cursor over that (5,508) loss to find out how Alibaba tagged that number. As one would expect, the tag is “OperatingIncomeLoss.” When you know the XBRL tag on a piece of financial data, you can then use our XBRL Raw Data Query page to find all other companies that use the same tag. Yes, many companies do use the OperatingIncomeLoss tag — but only a handful use that tag and cross-reference it to include the word “cloud.” Indeed, for calendar 2018 we found five firms that used those tags in their filings at all, and only three of them are companies you’ve ever heard of: Microsoft: $13.92 billion Operating Income from Cloud Oracle: $21.587 billion Operating Income from Cloud Alibaba: $776.2 million Operating Loss from Cloud (converted from renminbi). We can think of other firms that also offer cloud computing services under another name. Amazon Web Services, for example, would technically qualify as cloud computing (it’s data storage via the cloud), although Amazon cross-references to its own secondary tag (technically called a “dimension”) dubbed “AmazonWebServicesSegmentMemeber.” Like Microsoft and Oracle, however, AWS also makes gobs of money: $25.6 billion in revenue last year and $7.3 billion in profit. (Do the math, and AWS may take over the world around 2046 or so.) Searching the Text Disclosures So anyway, why does Alibaba lose money on cloud computing? First we found this description of what that line of business is, from the company’s annual report: The Company’s cloud computing segment is comprised of Alibaba Cloud, which offers a complete suite of cloud services including elastic computing, database, storage, network virtualization services, large scale computing, security, management and application services, big data analytics, a machine learning platform and Internet of Things (“IoT”) services. OK. That’s no help. The MD&A provides a few more statistics about the overall growth of Alibaba’s cloud computing. For example, cloud revenue increased 84 percent from 2017 to 2018, “primarily driven by an increase in average spending per customer.” That’s nice news unto itself, but cloud revenue was only 7 percent of Alibaba’s overall revenue. So this is a fast-growing segment for Alibaba, but it’s still a small segment — and we still don’t know why the firm is losing money. One hint came in a discussion of cost of revenue. Alibaba did say costs were up “in bandwidth and co-location fees and depreciation expenses as a result of our investments in our cloud computing,” among other items. So maybe — maybe — Alibaba’s losses in cloud computing are growing pains. The company says demand is growing for sophisticated cloud-based services like network virtualization. Investment to deliver those sophisticated services ain’t cheap. Maybe the investments now will pay off in black ink for the cloud computing segment later. Then again, Alibaba has been reporting losses in cloud computing for three straight years. We’ll be curious what the company reports sometime next spring with its next annual report.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784269
__label__cc	0.558172	0.441828	Vicky Pattison praised by fans for ‘honest’ body photo as she embarks on fitness journey Aleesha Badkar Vicky Pattison has been praised by fans for posting ‘honest’ body photos of herself. TAGS: Vicky Pattison Credit: Getty The former Geordie Shore star took to her Instagram page to reveal that she is embarking on a new fitness journey to get ‘fit, strong and healthy’. And fans have praised the reality star for opening up on her upcoming bootcamp challenge. Vicky shared a series of photos of herself posing in her gym kit, with one that ‘shows the bod well’ and another that is ‘kinda letting it all hang out’. MORE: Vicky Pattison reveals reason for diet overhaul is to have children with boyfriend Ercan Ramadan ‘So I could have easily just posted this first picture and let the ‘oh you’re making so much progress, looking good Vic’ comments just roll in and sit back and love myself off,’ she wrote alongside the post. ‘Feeding my own ego and generally being a bit of a douche. But I wanted this post to be more than that. ‘These pictures were taken on the same day, maybe hours apart- they show the same person. Only difference is in the first one I’ve picked a great pose (bit wnky but shows the bod well), my leggings are pulled up, the lighting was nice and I filtered it. ‘Now in the second one I’m just kinda letting it all hang out- no filter and no fks given. So I could have easily just posted this first picture and let the ‘oh you’re making so much progress, looking good Vic’ comments just roll in and sit back and love myself off. Feeding my own ego and generally being a bit of a douche. But I wanted this post to be more than that. So this isn’t a ‘THANKYOU so much @prestigebootcamp, I’ve lost a stone in a day and now I’m a new woman’, post, this is not a transformation pic, there’s no before or after picture here. This is me, as I am right now, in both pictures. These pictures were taken on the same day, maybe hours apart- they show the same person. Only difference is in the first one I’ve picked a great pose (bit wanky but shows the bod well), my leggings are pulled up, the lighting was nice and I filtered it. Now in the second one I’m just kinda letting it all hang out- no filter and no fks given. (Oh and my ass looks like a pancake but I’m working on ittttt bitches!!! 😂) What I’m trying to say is DON’T get bogged down in all these unrealistically perfect and gorgeous pictures on Instagram- because for every pretty and posey picture posted like my first one there’s a thousand like the second picture that didn’t make the cut or that they didn’t want to share! Just be smart enough to know this and strong enough to not be fooled into feeling bad about yourself- none of us are perfect, no matter what Instagram appears to tell you 💜 But quite frankly we’re all perfectly imperfect and have so much more to offer than a contrived aesthetic anyway!!! 😍 I’m working hard this year to be fit, strong and healthy. To be the best version of myself and achieve more than I ever have but if I’m not doing this in an authentic and honest way- I really don’t see the point. Which is what really motivated me to show my truth here. So here I am, honest, open and full of flaws but really having never gave less of a f*k 😂😂😂 Side note: THANKYOU to @prestigebootcamp for another lovely week. I trained hard, ate right and allowed myself a lot of time for rest and reflection. I’m heading back to London with a renewed sense of purpose and a lot less false nails 😂💅🏼 I love the entire team and can never THANKYOU enough for having me!!! 😍 A post shared by Vicky Pattison (@vickypattison) on Jan 18, 2020 at 12:40am PST ‘What I’m trying to say is DON’T get bogged down in all these unrealistically perfect and gorgeous pictures on Instagram,’ Vicky continued, ‘because for every pretty and posey picture posted like my first one there’s a thousand like the second picture that didn’t make the cut or that they didn’t want to share! ‘Just be smart enough to know this and strong enough to not be fooled into feeling bad about yourself- none of us are perfect, no matter what Instagram appears to tell you 💜 But quite frankly we’re all perfectly imperfect and have so much more to offer than a contrived aesthetic anyway!!! 😍 ‘I’m working hard this year to be fit, strong and healthy,’ added the former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here winner. ‘To be the best version of myself and achieve more than I ever have but if I’m not doing this in an authentic and honest way- I really don’t see the point. Which is what really motivated me to show my truth here’. MORE: Vicky Pattison flaunts insane curves in figure hugging swimsuit for sexy snap as she makes honest confession about 2020 And fans loved the post, showering it with thousands of comments and over 110,000 likes. ‘Your honestly the best celebrity just because you’re honest. 🙌🏿,’ wrote one fan, while another added, ‘you are REAL, like the rest of us. What you see, is what you get and I’m down for that!’. ‘Actually obsessed ♥️♥️♥️,’ commented another, while one wrote, ‘I just wanted to say what an refreshingly honest post this is. Well done! 🙌’. Well done Vicky!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784274
__label__wiki	0.508358	0.508358	Dallas’ Frozen Soul Is On A Path To Death Metal Glory. Sweet Reminder. Porttia Portis July 1, 2015 Val’s Cheesecakes Finds A Permanent, Adorable Home On Maple Avenue. Aside from being Maple Avenue’s newest tenant, there’s another identifying factor that makes Val’s Cheesecakes stand out: Its piercing blue paint job is hard to ignore. The blue, however, was more than just a spur-of-the-moment color decision by co-owner Valery Jean-Bart. For him, it was a tribute to his late mother, for whom the space was built. “She used to call it cyan,” Jean-Bart says. “That’s what I remember it by. That color was her color.” Actually, Jean-Bart’s entire venture pays homage to his mother, from its color scheme to her affinity towards desserts — and, specifically, cheesecake. Since 2012, he and co-owner Christopher Reece have been making a name for themselves at markets around town with their inventive dessert creations, previously made out of Reece’s church kitchen. And while you can find classic flavors like red velvet and cookies and cream among their selections, Val’s is perhaps best known for its eyebrow-raising concoctions, like the fabled brisket cheesecake. So during the new brick-and-mortar shop’s grand-opening event, there was no shortage of sweets-lovers aching to sample some of Val’s wares. By the time we arrived, the brisket cheesecake jars were gone — as were many other options, really –but even what was left was well worth the trip. Savory items like the taco cheesecake offered a deconstructed alternative to cowboy crack salsa, where the boldness of the taco elements and cheddar meshed well with the sweetness of the cream cheese, all of which was to be chased with the Doritos-like bits that acted as the crust. The bacon and cheese option, meanwhile, tasted similar to a loaded baked potato, minus the starchiness of the root vegetable. According to Jean-Bart, one of the most surprisingly popular items of the day was the orange blueberry white chocolate cheesecake. The citrus added a sour, but subtle contrast to the sweetness of the blueberry, while the white chocolate flavor stood out just enough to not overpower the natural flavors of the fruit. It was overall light and refreshing, making it an understandable choice for the muggy experience of eating outside. While a business selling out of most items its first day is no minor feat, for Jean-Bart, it was the opportunity to pay proper homage to his mom that made the opening day experience the most rewarding. Says Jean-Bart: “The most exciting thing has been being able to put my mom into a living, breathing structure. This is all her.” All photos by Kathy Tran. Previous ArticleStill To Come. Next ArticleThings To Do On Thursday, July 2. Porttia Portis Porttia Portis is a self-professed coffee geek via the Midwest. When she's not out over-caffeinating herself and exploring the Dallas food scene, she's avid hip-hop fan (once dubbed by Pete Freedman as "old school") and a pretty decent barista. Five Dallas-Area Restaurants With Great Music Taste. Jessi Pereira January 8, 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784279
__label__wiki	0.739312	0.739312	Things To Do In Dallas On Thursday, February 1. Central Track Staff February 1, 2018 Celebrate 20 Years Of Hudson Falcons At Three Links, Feel Electric Love With BØRNS At House Of Blues And Play A Broken Record At Club Dada With Tessa Violet. So now that we have all the 2017 receipts for how much you drank per month, Dallas, we broke it down yesterday. In 2017, we saw a slight $4 million dip in alcohol sales from 2016’s figures. And while that’s not an extreme difference, it was a bit weird given that from 2015 to 2016, we had a $56 million climb. Who knows how drinking even works anymore, right? Other 2017 booze highlights are that the highest grossing month was September with almost $75 million in sales, and March was the lowest grossing mind with just about $40 million. And on average, we guzzled $65 million in booze each month. But while you’re out tonight at one of the following shindigs, don’t let the fact that we slacked on the booze sales a bit last year get to you. Instead, just have a good time. And instead of drinking more, just invite more friends to go out with you. Problem solved. — Obed Manuel Hudson Falcons 20-Year Tour at Three Links The band that describes itself as “working class rock ‘n’ roll” on Facebook will take the stage at Three Links with its original lineup as it celebrates 20 years of performing rock and roll all around. Dog Company and Death Before Breakfast also perform. — OM Abelia, Ditch Springs, Danielle Grubb at The Prophet Bar You’ll have a trio of North Texas bands to support at Prophet Bar tonight. Dallas’ own Abelia will rock the stage with its brand of math rock; Denton’s Ditch Prince will get bodies moving with its poppy synth tunes; and Danielle Grubb will mellow out the night with poppy blues melodies. — OM Tennis at Trees The pop duo from Denver has a busy schedule. Having dropped Yours Conditionally last March, the band is touring in support of that album as well as opening for big names like Father John Misty, The Shins and Spoon. But even if the two have a busy road ahead, for a few hours on Thursday, time will stand still and they’ll take you on a musical journey. — OM Tessa Violet at Club Dada Tessa Violet has one of those modern day success stories. After getting her start as a video blogger on YouTube, posting about all her trips and random day-to-day activities, Violet started posting original songs. And well, now she’s in town to play her poppy tunes. Secret Midnight Press opens. — OM Børns at House of Blues BØRNS is an architect of sugar-coated glam-pop, akin to Marc Bolan. The artist’s Dallas show isn’t sold out just yet, but it appears to be getting there. BØRNS has played more sold-out shows than he has fingers; a common feat for an artist still in the honeymoon stages of pop stardom. — Calvin Cashen Friday’s Foolery at Deep Ellum Art Company Friday’s Foolery got its start by posting YouTube videos of the bandmates reconstructing popular Disney tracks while rehearsing at their church in 2011. Since then, the crew has mastered its unique style and boast the motto, “Creativity through Diversity.” Leroy Shakespeare also performs. — Lauren Keuning Jay Farrar Duo at Kessler Theater The former Uncle Tupelo singer is rolling through town with his Son Volt crew and its alternative country tunes. The crew is touring in support of the newest Son Volt album, Notes of Blue. Andrew Duplantis also performs. — OM Barry Manilow at the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory The man has been doing the thing for more than 50 years now and he’s still going strong. Don’t miss out on a chance to see one of the all-time greats. — OM Fire and Fury: Book Discussion and Reading at Texas Theatre Discuss this hottest of takes about Donald Trump’s White House. Written by Michael Wolff, in case you haven’t heard, details the inside workings of Donald Trump’s White House. Everything from simple staff shortcomings to Trump’s own naïvete about how the constitution works is in here. So if you head out, prepare to dish. –– OM To find out what else is going on today, this week and beyond, check out our event directory. Cover image via Tessa Violet Facebook Page. Previous ArticleThe 10 Most Interesting Characters Of Lights All Night ’17. Next ArticleTexas’ First Openly Transgender Elected Official Is Running For Reelection. Central Track Staff Alec Spicer January 19, 2021 Would You Rather: Are You Eating Or Drinking Your Feelings? COVID Briefs: Dallas County Passes 200,000 Cumulative Cases. [Q&A] Exploring Mexico’s Riches With César Mascorro.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784280
__label__cc	0.686106	0.313894	catalog - New Season Starting Tuesday, October 29 2019! Chabad of Oxnard is proud to present our Torah Studies catalog of classes for this Season One. A new beginning! At Chabad, we value a deep, rich learning experience and we aim to provide this in an unequivocal way. This is why we have brought you a Torah Studies program of the highest caliber, developed by the world-renowned Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. The program brings you a series of stimulating text and discussion based classes that take place on a weekly basis. Our lessons will engage you in a multidimensional way by challenging you intellectually, spiritually and emotionally. They explore contemporary issues through a Torah perspective as well as tackling timeless questions in the Jewish tradition. I invite you to browse through the topics in this catalog and to join us for some weekly inspirational study. These classes are open to all, whatever your level of learning may be, and I encourage you to bring your friends along. Each class stands alone so please feel free to join us any week! Looking forward to studying with you. Rabbi Dov Muchnik Mirror on the Wall Why What You See in Others Is a Reflection of Yourself Two people witness the same event; one finds flaws, the other sees opportunity. What do our interpretations reveal about who we are? How can paying more attention to them help us become better people? Self-Care Isn’t Always What It’s Cracked Up to Be Putting Someone Else’s Needs Before Your Own Makes the World Go Round The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were famously obliterated in a furious show of hail, sulfur, and fire. Shockingly, the Talmud classifies a Sodomite as one who simply states, “What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is yours.” What can be so bad about that? Discover the root of all social ills and—more importantly—its potent antidote. Fixed in Time, Fixed into the Soul A Designated Time and a Designated Place Life is helter-skelter, with messages buzzing and our schedules changing by the moment. So how do we find time for the important things in life? That’s just it—“find” that time, and then passionately declare it off-limits. Find out the successful formula to ace your time management goals. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? Love, Marriage, and the Cycle of Time Examine the psychological parallels of morning, dusk, and evening to unlock secrets of human behavior that produce consistency in our loving relationships. Solving Your Jewish Identity Crisis The Recipe for Achieving a Seamless Life “The Rebbe showed no resentment. He leaned forward. ‘What you see missing from their eyes is a kera!’" With these words, the Rebbe offered a puzzled yet aspiring Jewish leader the secret of his Chasidim’s jovial approach to life. Discover it for yourself. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Does G-d Need Our Prayers? Prayer Is All about Us To claim that G-d needs anything is nothing short of absurd. So why do we pray? you might ask. Well, prayer is actually a gift for the one praying, for it grants the person something they would never otherwise have had. And, surprise, surprise, it’s not money in your bank account. Tuesday, Dec. 10 Stay Focused The Best Way to Win Is Not to Engage “Punch back!” “Stand your ground!” “Don’t let him get away with it!” are common battle cries we all hear in our social and spiritual development. But there’s a better way—find your mission and run with it; let the haters and challengers fall to the side. The Need for Jewish PR Why Jews Must Engage with the World Faced with endless persecution, Jews either dived into wider society and washed away their identity, or withdrew into ghettos, cutting all contact with the outside world. It’s time for a new path. The menorah sheds light on how to blaze a radical third approach. “Jewish Guilt” Is a Scam. There’s Really No Such Thing Lessons from Joseph’s Majestic Behavior toward His Brothers From this paragon of virtue, we cull tremendous life lessons on what it means to really do teshuvah, and how we can look at life’s “downs” not only as something tolerable, but an empowering step to a brighter future. You Can Bring Mashiach. Yes, You. The Endgame Is in Our Hands, Now Let’s Get Cracking It’s a curious thing: Throughout the history of our people, rabbis have been predicting “end dates” for Mashiach’s arrival. What’s the point of that? Were they false prophets offering up empty promises? The answer is as refreshing as it is empowering. Tue., Jan. 7, 2020 Is the Gift of Gab Overrated? A Look at the Way Society Values Style over Substance Moses couldn’t speak properly. This class uses his extraordinary leadership to explore the importance of speech, both literally and metaphysically. Why was the great leader of the Jews so flawed? Why didn’t G-d care? And what lessons does this provide for us today? www.ChabadofOxnard.com YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF JEWISH INSPIRATION Torah Studies is a program of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784281
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If you would like to find out about how the current market changes will impact on your property needs, please contact us. UK economic output has recovered about two thirds of the ground lost during the first lockdown. The second lockdown in England from 5 November to 2 December and the continued high level of restrictions across much of the UK means this recovery will go temporarily into reverse. However, the impact will not be anywhere near as severe as that experienced last spring. The short-term economic outlook remains very much dependent on the containment of COVID-19 and the severity, nature and length of social distancing measures, despite the deployment of the first vaccine. In addition, the protracted negotiations for an end-of-year trade agreement with the EU have continued to place added uncertainty on the economic outlook for 2021. However, the coming months should see a rise in certainty and a gradual return to a more normal economic and social environment. The first lockdown in March 2020 precipitated an unprecedented fall in output of nearly 26% over a two-month period. To put this into context, output fell by just under 7% over a 12-month period during the global financial crisis in 2008/09. There was a significant rebound during summer 2020 as most sectors of the economy re-opened, and by July output was ‘only’ 11.4% below its pre-crisis peak. Since then, recovery has slowed, with monthly growth rates decelerating from 9.1% in June and 6.3% in July, to 1.0% in September and just 0.4% in October. As at October, output was still 8.2% below its pre-crisis peak. The second lockdown in England and the continued high level of restrictions across the UK have almost certainly meant a temporary reversal in the recovery. Consumer sectors such as retail and hospitality have been, and will continue to be disproportionately impacted, and office occupancy rates will have declined again. Therefore, UK output is likely to record another fall in Q4 2020, although the decline will be considerably less marked than in the initial lockdown, given that the restrictions were less severe and schools remained open (reducing the need for workers to provide childcare). In addition, businesses have already adapted to working in a COVID-19-secure way and to home working. All this has allowed a much greater level of economic activity to continue. The latest Treasury-compiled consensus forecast suggests a fall of -2.1% in Q4. Ongoing local or national restrictions are extremely likely as we continue through the winter, and this will be a drag on confidence in addition to their direct impact. However, growth should return in Q1 2021, with the Treasury-compiled consensus suggesting +1.7%. With the end of the Brexit transition period now imminent, its nature and impact remain highly uncertain, with the potential for short-term disruption to trade, and volatility in the financial and currency markets. There is a significant lag in the official unemployment data, which is now showing a marked rise, from 3.9% pre-COVID-19 to 4.9% in the three months to October 2020. Single-month estimates suggest a rise to 5.2% in October, up from 4.9% in September. There were 370,000 redundancies in the three months to October, compared with 153,000 over the previous three months. This was probably exacerbated by employers not expecting an extension to the furlough scheme, and it takes total redundancies since February to 630,000. Early estimates indicate that the number of payrolled employees fell by 819,000 from February to November 2020. Following a sharp slowdown in pay growth over the summer, regular pay growth (excluding bonuses) has picked up considerably, rising by 2.8% in the three months to October compared with the same period a year ago, well ahead of inflation. Total pay (including bonuses) rose by a similar 2.7%. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was due to have been replaced by the much more limited Job Support Scheme (JSS) from November 2020. However, the scheme was extended until the end of March 2021 and has now been further extended until the end of April, in line with the expected continued impact of social distancing restrictions. The scale of the CJRS has been enormous, with 9.6 million jobs having been furloughed at some point, and claims (to mid-October) totalling more than £41 billion. 2.4 million people were furloughed at the end of October, down from 3.3 million in August, and a peak of 8.9 million in May. The extended CJRS will not prevent a continued rise in unemployment. The Treasury-compiled consensus forecasts expect a rise in unemployment from the current 4.9% (three months to October) to 5.9% by the end of 2020, remaining high at 6.7% by the end of 2021 – although these figures are lower than feared earlier in the COVID-19 crisis. Weak consumer demand and spare capacity in the economy mean that inflation is currently very low. The annual CPI rate peaked at 1.8% in January 2020, and has been rather volatile over the last year, although within a range of 0.2% to 1.0% since April, well below the Bank of England’s target rate of 2%. The latest figures show a drop from 0.7% in October to 0.3% in November, with clothing and footwear providing the biggest downward contribution. Inflation will almost certainly rise in 2021 as the economy recovers, with the Treasury consensus for CPI currently suggesting 2.0% by Q4. Whilst inflation is not a key concern, there are risks that it could exceed the current forecasts, with the possibility of higher prices for some goods after the end of the Brexit transition period, and a risk that the supply side of the economy may not recover as quickly as demand. If a trade deal with the EU is not agreed, Sterling may also see a further devaluation, which would cause import prices to rise, putting further upward pressure on consumer prices. Monetary policy and public finances The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee again held interest rates at 0.10% at its December meeting. It did not further extend its programme of quantitative easing, following November’s purchase of an additional £150 billion of government bonds, which took its total stock of bond purchases to £875 billion. Falling tax receipts and the massive government support packages have combined to increase monthly government borrowing, which had fallen sharply in recent years to an average of under £4 billion per month in 2019. This figure rose sharply in the wake of COVID-19 to nearly £50 billion per month by April 2020. It has since moderated, but remains historically high at over £20 billion per month. As a result, public sector net debt has risen rapidly to 101% of GDP, the highest ratio since the early 1960s. With the second lockdown in England and extension of measures such as the CJRS, it will increase further. The Government has indicated that it will not follow the “austerity” policies adopted after the financial crisis and will be focusing on investment, particularly housing and infrastructure. Public sector debt is therefore likely to remain high into the medium term, although it should be manageable at this level given the ongoing low interest rate environment. Targeted tax increases are highly likely once the economy is firmly in recovery phase. Longer-term trends The potential scale of longer-term structural change is becoming ever more apparent, with the pre-existing trends towards more home working and online shopping accelerating rapidly. This will have significant long-term impacts on the quantity, nature and location of commercial property requirements. The second phase of tightening COVID-19 restrictions has entrenched this further. Changes to the planning system in England will also impact the property market. The Government has introduced legislation to permit greater change of use of commercial property without the need for planning consent, and adding space above existing buildings is also being given a fast-track approval process. This should allow commercial uses to shift more easily as demand evolves and the differentiation between uses becomes ever more blurred. Furthermore, the Government’s White Paper “Planning for the Future” was published in August. This sets out a proposed package of wide-ranging, fundamental reforms, set against the backdrop of the pledge to “build, build, build” and to “level up” the stark variations in prosperity between different parts of the country. Development will play an important role in the economic recovery, help to ensure that the built environment reflects the longer-term shifts in the type of property that will be required post-COVID-19, and assist with the Government’s “levelling-up” agenda. Summary of key economic forecasts Average, last 5 years (2015-2019) GDP growth 1.8% pa CPI inflation Unemployment rate (LFS) Employment growth Private consumption Source: HM Treasury compilation of independent forecasts, December 2020 (forecasts); ONS, Experian, Carter Jonas (last 5 years) Retail occupier market Retail sales have rebounded relatively strongly since early 2020, and sales volumes increased by 9.2% in October (on a three-month basis) following a record 17.4% in September. Encouragingly, the October monthly growth rate for value sales was 1.4% and for volume sales 1.2% which reflected the sixth consecutive month of growth and was 5.2% and 6.7% higher respectively than in February 2020, before lockdown restrictions were applied. The second lockdown in the UK, along with the prospect of ongoing restrictions over the winter, will clearly have a major impact on the sector. Despite the easing of restrictions from 2 December, with non-essential retail now open, together with leisure, personal care services and hotels, the hospitality and entertainment sectors continue to be heavily impacted by the Tier system. There are clearly other significant headwinds for the retail sector, and the further inevitable rise in unemployment, constrained wage growth, and low consumer confidence will be constraints. The GfK consumer confidence survey has fallen further into negative territory to -33 in November, compared with -25 in September, with concerns over job security clearly a major factor. However, the reduced 5% rate of VAT for the hospitality and tourism and the extended CJRS should help to cushion some of the impacts of the latest COVID-19 restrictions until they expire in March 2021. Online retailing’s share of the overall sector rose from less than 20% pre-lockdown to peak at 32.8% in May. This figure had fallen to 26.1% by September, but with the second national lockdown, it rose again to 28.1% in October. The underlying trend will remain firmly upwards. The list of established national operators going into administration, entering into CVAs, announcing store closure programmes or becoming online-only has steadily risen. The recent announcement of Arcadia and Debenhams have added to the lengthy list of major retailers who are at risk of permanent closure following the lockdown. With the retrenchment of many national retailers in recent years, high street letting activity had become increasingly focused on local independent operators, favouring some secondary pitches with more affordable rental levels. A key question remains around the survival rate of these independent outlets that do not have access to the same resources or management experience as the national operators. However, many independent outlets appear to be weathering the storm well so far, and indeed some are seizing the opportunity to occupy previously unattainable units. Some sectors are particularly active, including food and convenience stores, pet shops, DIY stores and other home-related stores such as furniture. Prior to COVID-19, a number of cities were implementing or considering reducing car access to help combat the adverse health implications of exhaust emissions. More centres are now going car free or reducing car access in order to create more space for social distancing. This is helping to create a better shopping environment. Footfall in many suburban areas is holding up well, with more consumers looking to shop locally. Out of town, we are also seeing good demand for drive-thru food & beverage outlets. Locations with a high tourist footfall have tended to be relatively successful in recent years. These centres are likely to face a lengthy period where overseas tourism is significantly reduced, and some hospitality venues may not reopen in these dependent areas until well into 2021. Retail rental values had been declining for 18 months prior to the COVID-19 crisis, and this trend has accelerated. Average all-retail rental values have fallen by -8.8% over the 12 months to November 2020, according to the MSCI Monthly Index, compared with -4.5% over the previous 12 months. Over the three months to November, the fall was -2.4% (9.4% on an annualised basis). As COVID-19 speeds up the process of change and adaptation that was already under way on the UK’s high streets, further rental falls appear inevitable. Office occupier market The second lockdown in England will have reversed previous tentative steps back to the office, and will prolong uncertainty over the extent to which underlying demand for office space is reducing. Many high-profile corporates have announced redundancy programmes and an increasing number of businesses are downsizing their real estate footprint to reflect this and to minimise exposure to real estate costs in the face of uncertainty over how much space will be required going forward. By the same token, fewer occupiers are proceeding with their office relocation plans. We have seen a significant reduction in letting activity across many key commercial centres, although some sectors are proving highly resilient, including life sciences and R&D space. Office vacancy will rise, especially in the second-hand market as schemes under construction complete, some businesses cease trading, flexible space operators reduce capacity, and more businesses choose to exercise break options or fail to renew at lease end. Tenants with lease expiries may decide to defer office moves and seek short-term lease extensions until economic conditions become more certain. The flexible space market (or serviced office sector) has expanded rapidly in recent years, underpinning demand in the broader office market. The COVID-19 crisis will be a major test for the sector, with its income levels clearly at risk as tenants fail to renew leases. However, we are currently seeing a short-term uptick in demand from tenants with imminent lease expires and break options seeking to downsize and requiring ‘stopgap’ accommodation until the business climate becomes more certain. According to the MSCI Monthly Index, average UK office rental values peaked in April 2020 and have since fallen by -0.8% (as at November 2020). The impact is not being shared equally across the UK, however. Since April, rental values have fallen by -1.6% in London’s Midtown & West End, by -1.0% in the City of London and also by -1.0% in the rest of the South East. In contrast, offices in the rest of the UK (outside of London and the South East) have yet to see much impact (-0.1%). The latest IPF consensus forecasts (November 2020) expect average office rental values to decline by -2.5% in 2021, although there is clearly huge uncertainty. We expect a continued widening in rent free incentives, a move to shorter leases and the inclusion of more regular tenant-only break options, as demand for greater lease flexibility increases. Whilst office demand remained relatively strong prior to the COVID-19 crisis, the supply of quality space has been highly constrained. Construction activity has been subdued ever since the financial crisis, and has been on a downward trend over the last two years. As a result, there is a shortage of grade A supply relative to robust demand in many markets. This will help to cushion rental falls at the prime end, although an increasing quantity of grade A space could come back to the market as companies rationalise their occupational portfolios. Industrial occupier market Industrial take-up has been buoyant in recent years as retailers and their third-party logistics partners adapt to growing online demand. The convergence of traditional supply chains continues to fuel demand for large distribution warehouses and smaller urban units for last-mile delivery. The grocery sector has seen robust demand and has been adapting its supply chains, for example to cater for increased selling directly to consumers rather than to the hospitality sector. In the initial lockdown, many enquiries were for short-term COVID-19 requirements, for example PPE equipment, medical supplies and supermarket requirements to cater for the sudden switch in consumer demand. Given the uncertainty, many landlords were happy to accept short-term leases in the hope that they would be extended, or as a stopgap until conditions improved. We are now seeing a switch to more strategic longer-term lettings related to the rise in online retail. With the combination of continued structural change towards greater internet retailing and short-term COVID-19 requirements, transaction levels have held up relatively well. Distribution warehouse take-up in 2020 has been dominated by Amazon, who took a colossal 2.3 million sq ft pre-let at Tritax’s Littlebrook scheme near Dartford, and a similar-sized unit at Panattoni’s Symmetry Park near Swindon. The online retailer also took a pre-let of nearly 2 million sq ft at Gateway 45 in Leeds’ Aire Valley Enterprise Zone, and over 700,000 sq ft at Doncaster iPort, plus other units of 500,000+ sq ft. Although demand is being driven by online retailers, including retail chains switching from in-store to online (and closing stores) and parcels carriers, there is a much broader spectrum of firms looking for space. This ranges from manufacturers and engineering firms to medical suppliers. There is also very strong demand for data centre space, driven by increasing data storage requirements associated with home working. Just-in-time manufacturing has reduced the need for storage and is reliant on these complex supply chains. However, global supply chains have become increasingly long and complex, and it is likely that companies will now re-examine these. The lack of resilience in the manufacturing sector is likely to add to the argument for “reshoring”, leading to increased demand for storage space in the UK. There remains a severe shortage of well-located sites for distribution use, and also urban sites suitable for last mile delivery, waste recycling and open storage. Overall, it has been hugely challenging to satisfy occupier demand, creating strong upward pressure on values, although rental growth is now slowing. We are likely to see an increasing number of larger transactions, with deals over a million sq ft becoming more commonplace. This is putting greater pressure on site availability, with limited sites of sufficient size coming forward. Eaves heights are also increasing in line with a greater use of automation and robotics. According to MSCI, average industrial rental values are continuing to rise, although the rate of growth has slowed. Average UK industrial rental values rose by 1.9% in the 12 months to November, down from 3.3% pa a year ago, and a peak of 5% pa in 2018. We are witnessing a continuation of the slowdown in rental growth from unsustainably high levels, rather than as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis, although the sector is not entirely immune from the impacts of the sharp fall in economic output. Supply shortages and structural change will combine to cushion the sector from the worst effects of the COVID-19 crisis, and rental performance should continue to be the least impacted of the three main commercial sectors. Prime industrial rental levels are generally holding firm, with a minimal impact on incentives. Indeed, we are seeing selected rental increases where there is a lack of stock. Investment market The UK commercial property investment market saw £9 billion traded during Q3 2020, down by 36% on Q3 2019 and by 40% on the five-year Q3 quarterly average. It was however a significant improvement on Q2 2020, when only £4.7 billion was transacted. Deals reported so far in Q4 2020 total £8.1 billion (though this figure will rise). Transactions reported to date in 2020 total £37.5 billion, compared with £53.5 billion in 2019, highlighting the extent of the COVID-19 disruption. So far in 2020, overseas purchasers have accounted for 52% of the total value of transactions, compared with 48% in 2019. Properties classes as mixed-use have accounted for 38% of the 2020 total, compared with 32% in 2019, and 27% over the last five years. The lack of transactional evidence provides little insight into current pricing, and this challenge will be particularly apparent as underwriting assumptions become more diverse, with investors trying to assess the unknown impacts of COVID-19 in the short to medium term. The all-property equivalent yield moved upwards by 33 basis points over the six months between February and August 2020, peaking at 6.31%. It has since seen a modest downward shift to 6.24% in November, driven by the industrial sector. Since February 2020, the retail sector has seen a much more significant upward shift than all property of 73 basis points, and equivalent yields in the office sector are now 24 basis points higher than in February. In contrast, the industrial sector has seen a modest downward movement in average equivalent yields since the summer, taking them back to their pre-COVID-19 level. 10-year gilt yields have been on a long-term downward path, as the global economy has shifted to a lower interest rate environment. With investors flocking to safe assets and emergency interest rate cuts, the 10-year gilt yield has now fallen to just 0.25% as at mid-December. This compares with the all-property equivalent yield of 6.24% (MSCI Monthly Index, November). All-property capital values have been falling consistently for the last two years, driven by the readjustment of the retail sector. This decline accelerated during the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis, with values falling by -3.6% between March and June 2020. Values in all three main sectors fell, with retail the most affected (-6.7%) and industrial the least (-1.7%). Office capital values fell by -2.6%. Since June 2020, the rate of decline has slowed at the all-property level, with capital values falling by -0.5% in the five months to November. The sectors have seen starkly differing performance. Industrial capital values have rebounded over the period, rising by 4.1% over the period, whilst the decline in retail capital values has reverted broadly its pre-COVID-19 trend at -4.5%, and office capital values fell by -1.6%. The uncertain outlook for values is reflected in the November 2020 IPF consensus forecasts. The average across all forecasters suggests a fall in all-property capital values of -3.2% in 2021. However, the range of opinion is extremely wide, from +2.9% to -10.8%, reflecting the high level of uncertainty. The all-property annual total return stood at -1.9% in November 2020, according to the MSCI Monthly Index, with industrial property seeing a robust return of 6.7%. In contrast, offices returned -0.4%, and retail recorded -11.9%. The short-term uncertainties over social distancing restrictions, economic growth and the UK’s future trading arrangements with the EU, plus the evolving changes to long-term demand, will impact investor demand in sectors such as retail and offices, although prime investments will be somewhat more insulated. However, there will continue to be a considerable amount of UK and overseas money looking to invest in resilient sectors such as distribution, mixed-use, the ‘alternative’ sectors, and long income. For further information on the current market, or to speak directly to one of our commercial property professionals, please contact us. 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He is responsible for delivering the firm’s programme of market and topic-based research, providing clients with the insight they need. Daniel’s main focus is the commercial market, and he works closely with his rural and residential research colleagues. Daniel is a member of the Investment Property Forum and the Society of Property Researchers. Rural Land and Business Response to Coronavirus: We have pooled together our thoughts and opinions on the likely impacts of the global pandemic. CLICK HERE to read more. Contact About News & Events Register Select a service Services & Sectors Residential Commercial Planning & Development Farms, Land & Estates Policies Terms & Conditions Sitemap Accessibility Site Feedback Complaints Procedure Accreditations Gender Pay Gap Report ESG Policy © Carter Jonas 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784285
__label__cc	0.641847	0.358153	Layne Street High Service Pump Station Rehab Progressive Design-Build City of Topeka, Kansas Home»Layne Street High Service Pump Station Rehab The City of Topeka, KS, selected the joint venture team of Burns & McDonnell and CAS Constructors to replace pumps, valves, and pipes and to conduct other maintenance upgrades at the Layne High Service Pump Station (HSPS) and the Water Treatment Plant. The Layne HSPS was constructed in 1953 with a firm design capacity of 35 MGD and discharge pressures from 90 to 105 psi. There are five vertical turbine pumps with three pumps sized for 10 MGD, one for 5 MGD, and one for 15 MGD. Construction kicked off in March of 2016 with replacement of flow meters at the east intake for the plant and replacement of flow meters and valves in vaults directly east and west of the pump station. During construction, the total service outage was successfully minimized to four hours to enable replacement of the pumps during low demand. A planned pause in construction occurred over the summer to ensure the City would be able to meet peak summer demands while the new pumps were fabricated. There was limited information about existing field conditions and the project originally included three temporary line stops with straddle blocks to isolate the pump station. The flexibility of the design-build process allowed the team to adjust quickly as field conditions were verified. The temporary line stops and straddle blocks were eliminated resulting in budget credits to the City. This allowed the City to add additional items to the project scope. The design-build process also allowed the team to quickly adjust work sequencing to eliminate any schedule delays. As additional funds became available to the City, other repairs were also added to the project scope, including rehabilitation of the HVAC system for improved mitigation of corrosion, replacement of the roof, and various other maintenance upgrades at the pump station and plant.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784287
__label__wiki	0.748957	0.748957	Pit bull killed by senior after attack on pug at beach A pit bull was stabbed to death by a 72-year-old man at Vancouver's Kitsilano beach Wednesday after the dog attacked his pet pug. Dog owner uses pocket knife to subdue pit bull after it clamps down on neck of his smaller dog CBC News · Posted: Nov 20, 2013 5:01 PM PT \| Last Updated: November 21, 2013 Vancouver's Kitsilano Beach Park is a popular spot for walkers year round. (Google Maps) A 72-year-old man stabbed a pit bull to death at Vancouver's Kitsilano beach Wednesday after the dog attacked his pet pug. The incident happened around 1 p.m. PT when the pug's owner was approached by a woman, who was walking her pit bull in the beach park. But when the dogs approached each other, the larger pit bull suddenly bit down on the neck of the smaller dog. Unable to separate the animals, the pug's owner pulled out a folding knife he was carrying and stabbed the pit bull, killing it. The pug was rushed to a veterinary hospital for stitches to its neck. Animal control officers also attended the scene. Marcie Moriarty with the BC SPCA said the organization is conducting a necropsy and will be interviewing the elderly man. "[We want to] see how exactly the dog died, whether he died instantaneously, or [in] pain and suffering," said Moriarty. "It will be important to find out more details about the circumstances, because of course there is preservation of safety and personal safety issues and self defence." Pit bull ban no answer, says SPCA Moriarty said despite the incident, the SPCA does not support calls for legislation that might ban or restrict pit bulls, adding that studies show that banning specific breeds doesn't mean you ban bad behaviour. "What happens if that happened to be a German shepherd, a golden retriever, a cane corso?" said Moriarty. "I think what we need to emphasize is effective dangerous-dog legislation that puts responsibility both on animal owners and protects public safety, and make no mistake, all the evidence shows, a pit bull ban absolutely does not do that." Police say they are speaking to both dog owners, and both are co-operating with investigators. No charges are being considered. Dog walkers such as Saffron Conway, who was walking her dog Misty in Kits Beach Park hours after the dog attack, found the incident troubling. "It's sad that it happened, that the dog attacked, and it ended up getting killed. It's sort of disturbing." Pregnant cows attacked by pit bulls, says B.C. farmer Pit bulls terrorizing neighbourhood, says mother Pitbull battle heats up in Burnaby, B.C. Chihuahua lures pit bull attacking Chilliwack girl	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784289
__label__wiki	0.730024	0.730024	Trump signs phase one of trade agreement with China by: Joe Khalil WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEXSTAR) – President Trump signed a trade agreement with China Wednesday morning committing China to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars in American goods and services. “Far beyond this deal, it’s going to lead to even more world peace. We now have a big investment in each other,” President Trump said. The deal marks phase one in a two-part negotiation. The US scaled back tariffs on Chinese imports and says it may remove all tariffs in phase two. “It’s going to be so special to our manufacturers, farmers, our bankers, our service people,” Trump said. “The doubling of United States agricultural exports to China’s a huge deal,” Sonny Perdue, the Secretary of Agriculture, said. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue praised the deal, which promised 80 billion in agricultural sales to China over the next two years. “I’m expecting we’ll get those markets back up fine and quickly,” Perdue said. The deal also commits China to buy 75 billion in American energy products and more than 210 billion in financial services. The president says there’s also what he calls an enforcement provision worked into the deal if the Chinese government devalues its currency. However, some Democrats in the House say the deal only provides modest relief to a situation the president created. “This is a real serious problem the President created for California agriculture,” Representative John Garamendi, D-California, said. Congressman John Garamendi also criticized the deal not doing enough to address intellectual property theft and ignoring environmental and human rights abuses. “This deal, if it is one, really doesn’t even get us back to where we were before Trump started a trade war,” Garamendi said. President Trump says negotiations for phase two of the deal will start immediately.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784290
__label__cc	0.714507	0.285493	the research consortium board of speakers transdisciplinary steering comittee QueB-Coburg QueB-Bayreuth Health.eduPLUS PArC-AVE ACTION for men The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the website’s required legal notice. Department für Sportwissenschaft und Sport Verbundkoordinator: Prof. Dr. Alfred Rütten Wissenschaftliche Geschäftsführung des Verbunds: Dr. Peter Gelius Gebbertstr. 123b Dr. Peter Gelius Wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Institut für Sportwissenschaft und Sport D-91058 Erlangen Telephone: +49-(0)9131-85-25006 Email: peter.gelius@fau.de If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our public institution is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html. This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser’s address line when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar. Statutory data protection officer We have appointed a data protection officer for our public institution. Norbert Gärtner, RD Telephone: +49 9131 85-25860 Email: norbert.gaertner@fau.de Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site. The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in “server log files”. These are: Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Verbundkoordinator Prof. Dr. Klaus Pfeifer Gebbertstraße 123b klaus.pfeifer@fau.de peter.gelius@fau.de Förderkennzeichen: 01EL1821 A-H	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784293
__label__cc	0.632214	0.367786	Barbados, Blog, Culture, Guyana, Our Region, South America, Trinidad & Tobago April 17, 2010 American scholar visited the region on fact finding tour. “Wherever sugar went, slavery followed it like a parasite.” Dr. Umar Faruq Abd’Allah, scholar-in-residence at the Nawawi Foundation,Chicago, U.S.A. Between March 26 and April 7,… Barbados, Blog, Our Region April 12, 2010 Barbados debate: Green space or multi-faith centre? Barbados Nation newspaper reported that there is a raging debate whether UWI Cave Hill Campus took the best course of action by planning to construct… Barbados, Blog, Our Region February 25, 2010 Two Muslim students in top three of Martin Luther King essay competition Two Barbadian Muslim students were recently rewarded for their participation in the Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Competition hosted by the United States Embassy and… Barbados, Blog, Guyana, Our Region, Trinidad & Tobago January 23, 2010 Barbadian Hafiz Degia passed away Hafiz Muhammad Ibrahim Degia passed away today (Friday January 22nd, 2010) after several years of illness. Hafiz Degia was active in the sixties, seventies and eighties in… Barbados, Blog, Culture, Our Region, Trinidad & Tobago September 22, 2009 Bajan Muslims celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr Access the original post in Nation News here. Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados Nation Online news reported that: MUSLIMS ACROSS BARBADOS celebrated the end of Ramadan, the… Barbados, Our Region March 25, 2009 Overview of Barbados Muslims That Barbados had Muslims on its shores before the arrival of the Europeans is perhaps a reality that hasn’t been proven by physical evidence. Nevertheless,… Barbados, Blog, Criminality, Violence, War, Terrorism, Justice, Our Region December 31, 2008 Attempted bombing of Barbados Mosque The Muslim community in Barbados was given a scare Wednesday morning after an unidentified man threw an explosive device into the Mosque at Kensington New… Barbados, Culture, Our Region December 3, 2007 Muslim women in Barbados plea for access to Masjid First published in Imam Johari’s blog (click to go to source) I got the following email from a sister in Barbados. We must move away… Barbados, Dominica, Our Region, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & The Grenadines October 15, 2007 U.S. Ambassador hosts first Iftaar for Eastern Caribbean Muslims The United States Embassy and the regional Islamic Community took a historic step in cementing ties of friendship when Ambassador Mary Ourisman hosted an Iftaar… Christian King Najashi Gave Shelter And Protection To Early Muslim Refugees The rulers of Makkah were cruelly oppressing and persecuting the emerging Muslim minority. It was a very critical moment. Jafar ibn Abi Taleb, the elder brother… Ashmead Choate – The Radical Enigma The Guianas-British Guiana–A Description of the country and its inhabitants Jamaican Muslims host Educational Retreat Shaykh Hamza Yusuf interviews Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784296
__label__cc	0.573393	0.426607	Home / Car News / The upcoming BMW 5 Series will have at least two electric versions The upcoming BMW 5 Series will have at least two electric versions As you already know, BMW has a new 5 Series which is a great saloon, but the upcoming model will be even greater. Why do we say that? Because the German car manufacturer will invest in some new technologies. And of those technologies is electricity. According to some sources, the new BMW 5 Series will feature an electric version. But it will be even better, because the German car manufacturer will come with more versions for the same car. We don’t know for sure if we are speaking about the same engine layout with some ranges of power or about different battery capacity, but the sources are sure that the next 5 Series will have more electric versions. SEE ALSO: Pirelli developed the tires for the new BMW M8 We have to remind you that a couples of weeks ago, BMW unveiled a protototype of the current 5 Series in an all-electric form. It feautured three electric motors with a small battery pack. The electric powertrain delivers more than 720 horsepower while the not to 100 km/h is done in about 3 seconds. PREVIOUS 28 Jul 2019 Video: The upcoming 2020 BMW M3 was caught around the Nurburgring NEXT 28 Jul 2019 Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR was tweaked out by ABT Ferrari 488 GT Modificata launched Ferrari 488 GTE is now available in a... See the all-new Mercedes-Benz EQC 4×4² in action This is the 2021 Jaguar F-Pace SVR facelift 2021 Nissan Qashqai interior teased Car Calculator Motor Tab Maintenance Log Car Tips and Advice © 2019 CarSession.com. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784299
__label__wiki	0.594201	0.594201	Cultural barriers prevent women from staying in tech, report finds Ryan Golden @RyanTGolden Technology industry employers could double the number of women working in tech over the next decade, but many will need to address their lack of an inclusive organizational culture to do so, according to a joint report published by Accenture and the nonprofit Girls Who Code. The organizations conducted surveys of both senior HR leaders and women in tech as part of the report, and the resulting data revealed a disconnect between the two groups. HR leaders were twice as likely to agree that it is "easy for women to thrive in tech" compared to women-in-tech respondents. Just over one-third of HR leaders said that building a more inclusive culture would be an effective means of retaining and advancing women in tech roles. For women in technology, 37% leave their careers because of company culture and 31% leave because of dissatisfaction with their job role, according to the report. Half of women pursuing careers in technology leave the field by the time they are 35-years-old. The drive to increase female and minority representation in the tech industry has yielded some progress, yet there are still concerns about organizational commitment and inclusivity, even as some research indicates the number of women applying to tech jobs has increased over time. So far in 2020, several corporate hiring commitments centered around women in tech. In May, Intel said it would aim to increase representation of women in tech roles to 40% as well as double the number of women and individuals who identify as part of underrepresented groups in senior leadership roles by 2030. That's despite the fact female representation at Intel declined between 2018 and 2019, per the company. Meanwhile, Melinda Gates' Pivotal Ventures announced in January a $50 million investment to bring more women into the sector. But Accenture and Girls Who Code report recommended five practices for creating a more inclusive culture: Instituting maternity and paternity leave Setting targets or goals for diversity in leadership Providing support in the form of mentors, sponsors and resource networks Rewarding employees for creativity and innovation Scheduling inclusive networking events Caregiving, in particular, has emerged as a talking point during the COVID-19 pandemic as parents — including working mothers — are reportedly more likely to leave their jobs this year, according to career community the Mom Project. The organization found in a study of 2,000 U.S. professionals that women are nearly twice as likely as men to leave their jobs within the next year. That's on top of biases that existed before the pandemic. A 2019 study of historical trends in public opinion polls by researchers at Northwestern University found Americans still consider men to have an edge on topics such as "agency" or personality traits associated with leadership. Such biases lead women in corporate America, especially multicultural women, to consider leaving their employers, according to a recent report by Working Mother Media. Follow Ryan Golden on Twitter Filed Under: Leadership & Careers Zoom, live captions and what it all means for workplace accessibility Otter.ai launched a live meeting caption capability on Zoom, a step welcomed by accessibility experts. A more holistic accessibility approach is needed in the workplace. Explore the Trendline➔ Digital transformation goes beyond technology — if companies want to engage in a new era of technology, they must rethink how work is done too. By CIO Dive staff Latest in Leadership & Careers As Biden administration transition begins, IT leadership changes over Tools and standards shaping remote work in 2021 In 2021, what kind of CIO are companies searching for? Dropbox's 'virtual-first' approach to long-term remote work	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784300
__label__wiki	0.967605	0.967605	PREVIEW \| Chester v Leyton Orient Chester entertain Justin Edinburgh’s Leyton Orient tonight with the opportunity to make it two wins on the bounce as the race for National League survival heats up. Preview by Jaquob Crooke. The O’s currently sit in 16th place but have collected seven points in their last three outings; their 1-0 victory on Saturday condemned AFC Fylde to their first home defeat in five months. After 112 years within the Football League pyramid, Orient’s first return to the fifth tier has proved to be a difficult one. Despite initial intentions of an immediate return to the Football League, Orient have struggled to make an impact, although the appointment of former Northampton boss Edinburgh has appeared to have steadied the ship. Orient have been boosted with the announcement that both Jobi McAnuff and Dean Brill have signed contract extensions, as the club begins to focus their attentions towards a second year in the National League. Marcus Bignot could name an unchanged side following Saturday’s 3-1 victory over Eastleigh and will be looking for his side to replicate that impressive performance as they attempt to reduce the five-point deficit to Halifax Town. Ross Hannah’s brace ensured he was named in The Non-League Paper’s Team of the Week, and the 31-year-old will be hoping to score in back-to-back games for the first time since mid-November. The reverse fixture saw Chester collect a point in an enthralling 2-2 draw at the Matchroom Stadium. The Blues fell behind early on to a Macauley Bonne header but found themselves level four minutes later through James Akintunde. Ross Hannah executed a delightful free-kick to put the Seals ahead on the 40th minute mark, however he was unable to dispatch a penalty moments before half-time as Orient’s Jamie Sendles-White was sent off. But the Blues were pegged back in the second-half as a ferocious strike from McAnuff ensured a share of the spoils. Leyton Orient’s last trip to CH1 was a mammoth 4,382 days ago, when they recorded a 2-0 victory to mark the end of Keith Curle’s tenure at the Blues. Club Historian Chas Sumner picks out some stats ahead of the game… This will be Leyton Orient’s first visit to the city to play the reformed Blues Earlier in the campaign the points were shared in a 2-2 draw with James Akintunde and Ross Hannah scoring for Chester The O’s last visit to the city, in February 2006, ended in a 2-0 win for the visitors Leyton Orient’s first visit to Chester in October 1960 was also the first League Cup tie for the club and the first game under floodlights at Sealand Road The O’s are unbeaten on their last 7 visits to the city. Chester’s last home victory was a 1-0 win in 1995. Eddie Bishop scored for City Macauley Bonne – Striker Bonne netted his 16th goal of the season on Saturday – a reminder as to why the 22-year-old is so highly sought after by Football League clubs. Born in England to Zimbabwean parents, Bonne joined The O’s last summer from Colchester United and has so far proved to be an immediate success for Justin Edinburgh’s side. Averaging 174 minutes per goal in the league, only Fylde’s Danny Rowe has scored more than the former Colchester academy graduate. If the Seals are to record another win tonight, then it’s essential that they keep Bonne quiet. Kick off at the Swansway Chester Stadium tonight is 7.45pm. Ticket prices can be found here Can’t make the game? Follow us on Twitter @ChesterFC for full match updates OR listen to our live and FREE commentary on our dedicated Mixlr page. Chester FC, Match Preview, Leyton Orient PREVIEW \| Chester v Eastleigh PREVIEW \| Dag & Red v Chester	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784304
__label__cc	0.648616	0.351384	White Sox Q&A: Is Rick Renteria holding the rebuild back? Are Don Cooper and Todd Steverson effective coaches? Chicago Tribune \| The Tribune’s Paul Sullivan answers your questions in his White Sox mailbag. I’m a lifelong Sox fan. I’m no expert, but the Sox and all their phenoms will not be successful until: 1. Sox hitters learn how to stop swinging at every pitch that bounces in the dirt. And start swinging at that first pitch where they have a better chance of seeing a fastball. 2. Get rid of “Guru” Don Cooper who oversees a pitching staff that can’t throw the ball over the plate. They led the majors with 653 walks last year. If he can’t teach them how to throw strikes or help find ones that can, he’s got to go. He’s living off some really old tattered press clippings. Done venting! — Ted W. Wow, way to start things off, Ted. Plate discipline is going to be something the Sox need to fix this year after striking out 26.3 percent of the time — a record 1,594 strikeouts — in 2018. Going into Monday’s games, they still are third-worst in baseball in strikeout percentage (27 percent), despite some noticeable improvement by Yoan Moncada (down to 22.6 percent strikeout rate). Adding Eloy Jimenez, who has struck out nearly 30 percent of the time, ensures it’s not going to change too much. But Jimenez is just learning the league, as Moncada was last year in his first full season. You better get used to the strikeouts. As for the pitching guru, he’s entrenched and not going anywhere soon. Those press clippings obviously didn’t have my byline on them. This rebuild is going to sputter and has been showing signs of that for two years now. The entire coaching staff must go, including Don Cooper, who is probably burnt out. The pitching is abysmal. The hitting, getting walks and situational play is nonexistent. The fielding is horrendous. This manager and the coaches are not winners. Despite the 2005 World Series, Ken Williams has been an unmitigated disaster as the man in charge. This Sox fan is tired of the incompetence. Time to move on. — John D. Well, I’m not sure if firing everyone is the answer, especially in mid-April. But your frustration is understandable after all the talk in spring training about how improved they will be in 2019. Certainly manager Rick Renteria and his coaching staff are being evaluated by Sox fans, even if upper management is confident in everyone you mentioned. Maybe wait until the season progresses a bit before moving on. Right out of the gate Steve Stone says Ervin Santana’s mission statement is eat up innings. WHAT! Not win the game, go nine? Not even a quality start? The goal nowadays is to eat up innings?! Give me the ball!! It won’t be pretty but I’ll throw 200 pitches if you want me to. Eat up innings?! What a crock! The game sure has changed. — Patricia L. I believe analyst Steve Stone was saying Ervin Santana should eat up innings and provide some quality starts along the way, not just eat up innings and pitch poorly. Monday night’s start against the Royals should give us an indication if this is possible, or if the Santana signing was a mistake. Dylan Cease is on his way soon, and it’s only a matter of whom he replaces in the rotation. Yes, the game has changed, but asking the Sox to ask you to throw 200 pitches is going to be a tough sell. Your Sunday column (Goose Island review) proves my adage about modern sports: It’s not about getting more fans; it’s about fans who pay more. — Joe B. The idea of Sox fans paying $100 to sit in the front row of the bleachers to watch a rebuilding team is intriguing. Even with phone chargers, TV sets and cup holders, it’s still a bleacher seat and likely a sub-.500 team on the field. I guess we’ll find out. They can always give away free tickets to fill the island if no one buys them. Been a Sox fan my whole life, from the days of Floyd Robinson and Moose Skowron. The Sox aren’t bad. They have some good players. But I think it’s time to rethink the manager. Minnesota turned it around. Their manager makes a world of difference. I don’t think Renteria is a winner. They need to get some type of Billy Martin manager in there, someone who will kick ass and won’t hold down the players. They have the talent. They need the leadership. Renteria is not the answer. Next… — Mike K. I would love to see a Billy Martin type if one still existed. I am not sure those days are coming back, and that’s probably a good thing for baseball (and sports in general). Even Lou Piniella mellowed out in his final years of managing. As Lou often said, “It’s a player’s game now.” The managers are there to run the game, with the assistance of the GM and the stats guys, not to kick anyone’s butt. This is a new generation of players, and they’re more accustomed to being in a “time out” than being chewed out. This is a big year for Renteria to prove himself, but the young players need to improve more than he does. If they perform, he’ll be a good manager. If not… You seem to enjoy pointing out the Sox shortcomings as they rebuild. They are making your job even easer this year. Why does it appear to be hands off on the coaches, especially the hitting coach? Will Daniel Palka be his latest failure at helping a player achieve his potential, or will it be Yolmer Sanchez? During the offseason Moncada got help away from his influence and appears to be much improved at the plate this year. Our North Side friends waste no time in dumping nonperforming coaches. The White Sox should do the same. — Robert B. Not happening. Todd Steverson may be under the microscope with some fans, but not so much with management, which likes his approach with the young hitters. The Sox offense has certainly had its ups and downs, getting one hit on Saturday in New York and ranking 19th in the majors in hitting (.241) and tied for 20th in runs (64) entering Monday’s games. But there has been some improvement, and when the weather gets better we’ll see if Yonder Alonso and Sanchez will heat up. The Sox need to make a decision on whether Palka needs some time at Triple-A Charlotte to get his groove back. An 0-fer in March is one thing, but an 0-fer in March and April is concerning. When does the “rebuilding” end for the Sox and the Bulls? When either Jerry Reinsdorf sells the two franchises (not likely) OR when he fires the likes of Kenny Williams, Gar Forman and John Paxson? — Pete C. Hmmm. Maybe agreeing to answer Sox fans’ e-mails was not such a good idea. It’s too soon to give up on the rebuild of either team, though it will be interesting to see if Renteria and Jim Boylen are around if and when the teams turn the corner. Thanks for all the relevant questions. I’m here for you. psullivan@chicagotribune.com Twitter @PWSullivan Phil Rosenthal: Can the White Sox parlay their series win over the Yankees into something bigger? » Wrigley Field's Catalina Club and Guaranteed Rate's Goose Island are both pricey and cushy — and will take some getting used to » What channel is the White Sox game on? Time and TV for upcoming games » Rick Renteria Ervin Santana Kenny Williams Eloy Jimenez Daniel Palka Don Cooper Yonder Alonso Latest Chicago White Sox Column: ESPN makes clear how it views ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ by bringing back Alex Rodriguez and Matt Vasgersian. Just be grateful for the clarity. What moves have the Cubs and White Sox made this offseason? And what about their competition? Keeping tabs on the AL and NL Central. Column: Farewell to Mark Gonzales, the ‘Google Baseball’ of sports writers, who is leaving the Chicago Tribune	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784306
__label__wiki	0.863591	0.863591	Gun-toting bikie gets a Christmas gift from the courts A bikie who allegedly disguised a gun as a Christmas gift and kept it under his tree will be home for the festive season because our justice system is clogged. by Mitch Mott 19th Dec 2020 11:35 AM A bikie charged with firearms and drugs offences has been released on home detention bail - in part because of ballooning delays in getting a trial before the District Court. Mark Barford, 57, is charged with possessing a loaded handgun which was disguised as a Christmas present and placed under the tree in his house in December 2019. On Friday, after three unsuccessful attempts at applying for bail, Barford appealed to the Supreme Court and was granted home detention bail. Justice David Lovell heard that Barford was unlikely to face a trial on drug trafficking charges related to 67g of methamphetamine allegedly found in the back of his home until 2022. In releasing Barford on bail, Justice Lovell said the lengthy delay, combined with the bikie's health issues, were special reason to grant bail. The court heard that COVID-19 restrictions on jury trials had caused the waiting list of matters to "blow out". Barford is accused of being a member of the Descendants, a prescribed outlaw motorcycle gang. However, Nick Vadasz, for Barford, said his client had joined the Descendants when they weren't really a bikie gang - "more of a motorcycle club". Mark Barford poses with a firearm on his Facebook page. Mr Vadasz said his client, who has a limited criminal history since being charged with methamphetamine-related offences in 1992, was merely a motorcycle enthusiast. Barford and his son Adam were arrested on December 14 last year after a loaded handgun and methamphetamine stash were allegedly found at their Modbury North home. A magistrate has previously heard that police officers rang Barford's mobile and heard him tell his son to remove a black and gold package from under the tree and hide it in the toilet. Police allege that Adam Barford was trying stuff the gun, which was wrapped in a sock, placed in a container and then wrapped in Christmas paper, down the S-bend of the toilet when police entered the house. Mark Barford returned to the home a short time later and was arrested. Justice Lovell heard that Barford had indicated he would plead guilty to possessing the firearm, but only if the charges against his son were dropped. Police allege that Adam Barford was acting on his father's instruction and was trying to hide the gun. The loaded gun allegedly found at Mark Barford’s home. Picture: SA Police Bikies in Australia- A short history: Bikies have a prominent presence in Australia, but it's definitely hard to keep up with all the nuances of the subculture. So here is a short history outlining who the major gangs are, and what conflicts they've had. The methamphetamine stash was found under a water tank in the backyard of the property. Barford indicated the low-purity meth was his, but contested that he had intended to sell it to anyone else. Mr Vadasz said his client had used the drug as a way of lifting his mood and giving him energy after serious knee surgery. Barford had injured his knee following a motorcycle accident near Alice Springs where his son Adam crashed after swerving to avoid a cow. Barford had believed his son had died in the crash and seriously injured his knee scrambling down the slope to be at his side, the court heard. Both father and son were flown to hospital for treatment. Barford will spend Christmas at home but will be on strict home detention conditions ahead of his next court date in the new year. Originally published as Gun-toting bikie gets a Christmas gift from the courts Barford was arrested shortly before Christmas in 2019 on drug and gun charges. Premium Content Most shocking bikie tales of 2020 Premium Content Bikie boss’ killer may be among mourners at funeral bikies mark barford bikies court crime descendants mark barford	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784309
__label__wiki	0.827922	0.827922	Killer denied parole after beheading his partner A man who killed his de facto and dumped her headless body in a quarry has been denied release under No Body No Parole laws. by PATRICK BILLINGS 23rd Dec 2020 6:43 PM A Brisbane man who beheaded his de facto wife has been denied release under No Body No Parole laws. Geoffrey Paul De Jackson, 31, a part-time security guard, murdered his lover Cynthia Kay Verdich, 41 in the kitchen of their Paddington home in May 1991. Soldier, family man 'piloted plane' packed with cash, drugs Pair in court over alleged prostitution ring Prestigious school's ex-principal, wife in court on fraud charges Items belonging to Ms Verdich - a financial-fraud investigator - were discovered by a member of the public in a wheelie bin in the CBD. When confronted by police De Jackson claimed his partner was missing. A day after he was charged with murder her naked, headless body was found in an Ashgrove quarry. Her head has never been found. De Jackson was found guilty later that year and sentenced to life in prison. Last year the killer made an application for parole. Under No Body No Parole laws convicted murderers, whose victim's bodies have not been found, cannot be released unless they have co-operated with an attempt to find them. After his application De Jackson claimed he had thrown Ms Verdich's severed head into the Brisbane River near the Botanical gardens. Police divers scoured the area but failed to find anything. In November he was taken from custody to conduct a walk around in the Gardens with police. Lawyers for De Jackson told the Parole Board that their client had co-operated with Queensland Police in an attempt to find Ms Verdict's head. The Parole Board noted De Jackson had previously stated he disposed of her head in a wheelie bin. The Board said it was unlikely that it would ever be found given the passage of time. "The Applicant has told numerous lies at different times, in relation to both the murder and the victim's location," it said in a parole decision released today. These lies convinced the Board that De Jackson's claim about the victim's location to be neither "truthful, credible or reliable." His parole was denied. Originally published as Killer denied parole over missing head cynthia kay verdich geoffrey paul de jackson crime cynthia kay verdich domestic violence geoffrey paul de jackson police	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784310
__label__cc	0.700429	0.299571	Small, smaller, microtechnology Safe and sustainable Medical technology – printed, molded, lasered Personalized and precise Specials 2020 Sustainable medical technology Sensors in medical technology Preview of the virtual.COMPAMED 2020 Older Specials Sensor Technology: "We always try to create tailor-made solutions for our customer’s product" Antiferromagnets: "Our discovery is real and proven" The virtual.COMPAMED: "Definitely a different experience" Interviews 2020 virtual.COMPAMED 2020 - Connectors in the OR virtual.COMPAMED 2020 - Experience hightech online with IVAM Radiation sterilization: Germ-free medical devices fast and safe Covid-19 and much more - How a sensor is developed for different applications COMPAMED 2020 – High-Tech Solutions for Medical Technology virtual.COMPAMED 2020 12/15/2020: A special year with a special COMPAMED 2020 09/16/2020: Implants: It depends on the right material! 08/17/2020: Implants and their components 07/15/2020: Covid-19 and the mask 06/15/2020: Sensors in medical technology 04/15/2020: Make contacts at the COMPAMED 03/16/2020: Sensor for liquids 02/17/2020: Sustainable medical technology COMPAMED Magazine / Interview with Richard Wiens, Director, Strategic Supply, Nordion on Cobalt Supply Sterigenics LLC, A Sotera Health company Nordion is one of the pioneers in using Cobalt-60 for gamma sterilization. The company has been building irradiators and shipping Cobalt sources around the world for more than 50 years and continues to be a leader in the space. Today, its customers include both contract sterilizers and medical device manufacturers. Nordion also makes specialized Cobalt-60 sources for use in the treatment of cancer. To find out more about Cobalt-60, MDB recently spoke with Richard Wiens, who leads a team dedicated to maintaining a reliable supply of Cobalt-60 for the long term. His team manages existing supply relationships and builds new ones and currently has more than a dozen projects under way. MDB: Why has gamma irradiation been so successful as a sterilization modality? Richard Wiens: The heart of gamma is its simplicity. You really only have to worry about one variable, which is the time the product is exposed to the Cobalt source. Given gamma’s long history, it is well understood in the industry and this knowledge is embodied in the standards and their application. Add to this a large network of sterilization providers and you have a robust, cost effective modality that is responsible for sterilizing nearly 40 percent of all single use medical devices. MDB: I understand there is growing interest in x-ray as an alternative to gamma. Why would someone switch from gamma to x-ray? Wiens: I think everyone in the industry supports the idea of using the appropriate sterilization modality for the job. As such, you would only consider switching modalities if you have a compelling reason to do so. The challenge with x-ray as a sterilization modality is that there is so little real-world experience and limited commercial scale, so any advantages that exist on paper have not yet been proven out. As commercial x-ray facilities are constructed and operated, we’ll see how they perform. A lot of the talk around x-ray in the marketplace today is the result of unfounded fear around the long-term availability of Cobalt, based on some inaccurate information. MDB: Tell me more about Cobalt supply. Is there a shortage? What are the long-term prospects? Wiens: Well, the first thing to know is that there are about 22 reactors producing Cobalt today, which is approximately a 20 percent increase from just five years ago, and five companies, including Nordion, that ship finished Cobalt sources to customers. As with Nordion, much of the supply chain has been around for a long time and is well established. With regards to the current supply situation — we estimate that there is about 5 percent less Cobalt globally today than the market wants, which is the result of some events that took place starting in 2014. Part of the global supply chain — not Nordion’s — was disrupted and created a short-term shortage. In addition, one of the reactors that produces Cobalt was shut down temporarily for refurbishment, although it will begin producing Cobalt again in 2021. All of this had the effect of reducing supply capacity. At the same time, market growth outpaced its historic rate, meaning higher than expected demand. The good news is that Nordion has always operated with the philosophy that we will manage inventory and invest in supply to meet long-term demand, and we were able to fill the majority of this gap. Over time, the balance of the global supply chain has started to recover. Nordion also helped redirect Cobalt-60 from suppliers in India and China, who generally serve regional markets and did not need the Co-60 locally, to the broader global market where it was needed. The result of this is that we expect the industry to only be slightly under supplied for the coming years. Over the long term, some existing Cobalt-producing reactors will reach the end of their working lives, but Nordion has always been planning to replace that supply. Nordion will continue to invest significant money and resources in not only replacing that supply but also supporting industry growth as we have continually done for decades. MDB: Can you provide some examples of those investments? Wiens: In 2017, our Russian suppliers expanded production capacity, an initiative that will begin to increase supply starting in 2022. In addition, Nordion acquired IP around the production of Cobalt in Light Water Reactors, which comprise more than 80 percent of all operating reactors. We have an ongoing project with one of these reactor companies to develop technology for commercial deployment, starting in the U.S. Furthermore, we have a conversion project under way at the Darlington reactors in Ontario, and a feasibility study taking place with SNN in Romania for the Cernavoda reactors. All in all, we are looking at more than $100 million of investment across these projects over the next several years. MDB: Given everything you have told me, what would your advice be to device manufacturers and other users of gamma who are looking at their sterilization options? Wiens: I’ll go back to what I said earlier: pick the best modality for your product, but do so on the basis of real science, economics, and experience, and consider the risks associated with unproven technology. For me, the fact that companies continue to invest in gamma capacity by building new irradiators tells me that the industry has confidence in the modality, and that gamma will continue to be the workhorse of radiation sterilization for the healthcare industry for many years to come. Nordion is a leading global provider of Cobalt-60, used in the sterilization and irradiation processes for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety, and high-performance materials industries, as well as in the treatment of cancer. Nordion supplies products to more than 40 countries around the world. Together with its sister companies, Sterigenics and Nelson Labs, Nordion is committed to its’ mission, Safeguarding Global Health®, with every critical Cobalt source and service it supplies. Exhibitor Data Sheet Subscribe to COMPAMED newsletter INTEGRATION – Moskau / Russia MEDICAL FAIR INDIA - Mumbai and New Delhi / India ZDRAVOOKHRANENIYE – Moskow / Russia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784313
__label__cc	0.63346	0.36654	Departments > Parks & Recreation > Athletics > Tennis Tennis Courts are located at the following parks: Beverly Hills Park - 631 Miramar Street NE Caldwell Park - 362 Georgia Street SW James L. Dorton Park - 5790 Poplar Tent Road Les Myers Park - 338 Lawndale Avenue Program Survey Link Known as "the sport for a lifetime" playing tennis directly impacts a person's health and quality of life. Tennis is a family friendly sport which not only provides a great aerobic workout, but also teaches values such as teamwork, fair play, sportsmanship and discipline. The City of Concord Parks and Recreation Department has 14 tennis courts located within area parks (James L. Dorton Park, Marvin Caldwell Park, Beverly Hills Park and Les Myers Park). Please contact Tennis Coordinator, Chad Oxendine, USTPA at 704-806-0909, email chad@amptennis.com, or visit www.amptennis.com for your tennis needs. Athletic Management Professionals, Inc. Our goal is to create an environment that will expose families to the game of TENNIS. From the young child who has given up on athletics, to the adult who tried tennis years ago, and can fall back in love with the game. We are in daily contact with people who have seen tennis in one form or fashion, but do not think they can ever play successfully. AMP was created to give all levels of players the opportunity to play tennis. It doesn't matter if you are a beginning player, a player who wants to give it one more shot, or a player who wants to stay plugged into the game. These opportunities come in the form of specialized programs for adults and juniors. Adults have the option to participate in beginning clinics in the spring and fall, weekly men and ladies workouts, or community singles and doubles leagues set up by AMP and USTA year round. Juniors have the opportunity to be a part of the AMP Junior Star Tennis Academy. The Academy gives young people the opportunity to see tennis portrayed in a fun and exciting environment. With USPTA and USTA assistance, young people participate in a school year calendar-based schedule of events. Progression in the ACADEMY is based on individual goals and communication with parents on a quarterly basis. The number one goal of the Academy is to expose young people to the game of tennis in a friendly and supportive environment. TENNIS at Les Myers Park Ages 5-10 Group lessons focus on the ABCs. Instructor: Chad Oxendine, 704-806-0909, www.amptennis.com Fee Per Session: $20 City Resident; $25 Non Resident Saturday January TBD 10:00-11:00 AM Saturday February TBD 10:00-11:00 AM Saturday March TBD 9:00-10:00 AM Saturday April TBD 9:00-10:00 AM Saturday May TBD 9:00-10:00 AM at Dorton Park Ages 11 - 17 Group lessons designed for the beginner to the player wanting to play in tournaments or school team. Min. 4 participants. Instructor: Laura K. Overcash, 704-699-0765, Laura40lovetennis@gmail.com Rookies- Beginner Level Instruction. Fee: $100 City Resident; $105 Non Resident Tuesdays, Februrary TBD 5:00-6:00pm Intermediate Level (must pass Rookies to participate). Tuesdays, February TBD - April TBD 5:00-6:30pm Thursdays, February TBD - April TBD 5:00-6:30pm Tuesdays AND Thursdays, February TBD - April TBD 5:00-6:30pm 10 & Under Tennis at Dorton Park Ages 5-10 Group lessons focus on the ABCs. Min. 4 participants. Fee Per Session: $100 City Resident; $105 Non Resident Red (ages 5-8) Beginner Instruction Tuesday, February TBD - April TBD 4:00-5:00pm Orange (ages 8-10) Intermediate Instruction 2-DAY OPTION Tuesday & Thursday February TBD - April TBD 4:00-5:00pm Tuesday & Thursday, February TBD - April TBD 4:00-5:00pm Instructor: Laura Overcash - laura40lovetennis@gmail.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784316
__label__cc	0.546627	0.453373	Home > News > News Detail ACI in the News New ACI Specifications for Concrete Construction Plus: New ACI Field Reference Manual and New ACI University On-Demand Course The American Concrete Institute has released the new ACI 301-20, Specifications for Concrete Construction, along with the companion ACI Field Reference Manual. ACI 301 is a reference specification that engineers, architects, and specifiers can apply to projects involving concrete construction. The scope of the new ACI 301-20 was expanded to include shotcrete, internal curing, mineral fillers, and recycled concrete aggregates. Evaluation requirements for concrete made with self-consolidating concrete and structures with defined requirements for modulus of elasticity of the concrete are also included. Compliance details throughout ACI 301-20 have been updated to align with ACI 318-19, Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete – providing clarity on the information engineers must provide in the construction documents. Two checklists for incorporating ACI 301 into concrete specifications are included. The first of these checklists indicates specific qualities, procedures, and performance criteria that the specifier must include in a project specification that are not defined in ACI 301-20, while the second checklist identifies choices and alternatives that the specifier can include as requirements in a specification. Along with the release of ACI 301, the Institute has also published a new ACI Field Reference Manual. The ACI Field Reference Manual includes the complete ACI 301-20 specifications and more than 20 selected reference documents on measuring, mixing, transporting, and placing concrete; concrete pumping methods; hot- and cold-weather concreting; consolidation; and concrete formwork – providing a convenient resource for use in field offices, jobsite trailers, and more. ACI Specifications for Concrete Construction and the ACI Field Reference Manual are both available in printed and digital formats. To assist users in navigating the changes to ACI 301-20, ACI University will be releasing an on-demand course. This online course will be presented by members of the ACI 301 committee and will provide insight on the revisions and updates in this new specification. To learn more or to purchase any of these concrete construction products, visit concrete.org/store. p +1.248.848.3148 American Concrete Institute \| Always advancing concrete.org Always advancing – The American Concrete Institute is a leading global authority for the development, dissemination, and adoption of its consensus-based standards, technical resources, and educational, training, & certification programs. Founded in 1904, ACI is headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, with a regional office in Dubai, UAE, and a resource center in Southern California. Visit concrete.org for additional information. The ACI University ACI University is a global, online learning resource, providing on-demand access to a wide range of topics on concrete materials, design, and construction The ACI Excellence In Concrete Construction Awards These Awards will celebrate innovation and inspire excellence throughout the global concrete design and construction community. ACI 318 Portal The American Concrete Institute's newest Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-19) and Commentary is now available in print and digital formats. Learn more about the 2019 edition, plus supplemental resources from ACI. Visit the ACI 318 Portal Now »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784317
__label__cc	0.637727	0.362273	Historical events in the European integration process (1945–2014) > 1945–1949 The pioneering phase > Europe in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War > The human consequences > The economic and social consequences > The political consequences > Nazism and the European idea > The Resistance and the European idea > The division of Europe > The decline of the European powers > Political instability in Western Europe > The Communists > The Socialists > The Christian Democratic movement > The beginning of the Cold War > The Marshall Plan and the establishment of the OEEC > The European idea > Political cooperation > Economic cooperation > Military cooperation > Scientific cooperation > 1950–1954 The formation of the community of Europe > 1955–1957 The European revival and the Rome Treaties > 1958–1968 Successes and crises > 1969–1979 Completion, deepening and widening > 1980–1986 Enlargement to the south and the Single European Act > 1987–1997 The European Union in a Europe in the throes of change > 1998–2009 The unification of Europe > 2010-2014 European integration in a time of global challenges The decline of the European powers The old European world powers – the United Kingdom and France – had been relegated to the second division. Swiftly defeated in 1940, France had collaborated with Germany under the regime of Marshal Pétain. Thanks to General de Gaulle and his championing of the cause of a Free France, she was able to take a leading position amongst the victors. However, she would henceforth no longer have the influence she had had immediately after the First World War when the Treaty of Versailles was being drawn up. The United Kingdom, whose territory had never been occupied by the enemy, could see despite everything that its Empire was becoming very shaky and that India was impatiently waiting for independence. The war effort had exhausted Great Britain and, despite its victory over Germany, it had run out of material resources. The growing demand in the colonies for emancipation and independence posed a challenge to the European powers. The many Africans called up to fight in Europe between 1943 and 1945 was a significant factor in this development. Riots broke out in turn in Algeria, Madagascar, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Almost everywhere, the indigenous peoples confronted the European colonial powers. Consulter au format pdf Retour en haut de page Découvrez nos ressources	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784324
__label__wiki	0.639352	0.639352	Recroom Daily Doo Wop Blog The Sam Cooke Page The Elvis Presley Page The Coasters Page The Fats Domino Page The Chuck Berry Page The Drifters Page The Dion Page Jimmy Gilmer The Daily Doo Wop Blog This first era of rock and roll dates (more or less) from Eisenhower’s first election in 1952 to The British Invasion in 1964. Doo wop was a signature sound with its beautiful vocal harmonies, beat, and nonsense syllables, but there was a lot of pioneering going on with rhythm and blues, rock and roll, rockabilly, and crossovers from country music. That’s why we go beyond the doo wop genre per se and explore those years. Each blog post is just a mosaic. When put together, the posts start to provide a picture of the time. Please visit the Rec Room for a featured record on the record player, a TV with four channels, and a jukebox with 60+ songs. We have an all request Juke Box Saturday night in the rec room each weekend so you can hear your favorites from the 50s and 60s. There is also a Daily Doo Wop for videos of those golden oldies. Published by Jane Minogue at March 24, 2016 Golden Oldies Music Jimmy Gilmer Sugar Shack Rock n Roll The song “Sugar Shack” was written in 1962 by Keith McCormack and Jimmy Torres, who talked New Mexico band Jimmy Gilmer and the […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784325
__label__cc	0.536563	0.463437	Six in ten parents say they would let their children lie about their age online to access social media sites New findings show 60 per cent of parents would allow their children to lie about their age to get around age restrictions on social media sites A survey by Aviva interviewed 1,000 parents who have children aged 10 to 15 It also found a third of parents allow their children to use the internet without parental controls By Eleanor Harding for the Daily Mail Published: 20:12 EST, 23 January 2017 \| Updated: 02:48 EST, 24 January 2017 The majority of parents would let children lie about their age to use social media websites aimed at adults, a new survey reveals. A poll of more than 1,000 parents with children aged 10 to 15 found 60 per cent would allow them to pretend they are older to get around age restrictions. Their lax attitude means young children are potentially able to befriend and chat with adult strangers, share photographs of themselves and access inappropriate material online. Survey, by Aviva, finds 60 per cent of parents would let their children lie about their age to get around age restrictions on social media sites. Picture posed The minimum age for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media sites is 13 – but children can bypass this by lying when they sign up. The revelation that many are doing so with the full knowledge of their parents will stoke calls for families to take more responsibility for their children’s online activity. The survey, by insurer Aviva, also found a third of UK parents with children aged 10 to 15 allowed their children to use the internet without any parental controls. The survey of 1,000 parents also found one third let th Parents' fury after 14-year-old pupils watched violent film... One in ten people do not own a single book while half of all... Only eight per cent of respondents said they actually supervised their children while online. Two thirds of parents with children in this ‘tweens’ group said their children used social media, equating to 2.8 million users. The researchers also interviewed 900 children aged 10 to 15 and found of those who used social media, more than a quarter said they had been upset because of comments made online. The same proportion had felt excluded because they were not invited to events or gatherings that they had seen online. More worrying still, around 12 per cent of these youngsters had experienced cyber-bullying, 10 per cent said they had been ‘trolled’ and 3 per cent said they had been ‘groomed’ online. When asked about a number of threats posed to their children, either by the internet or through video games, the vast majority of parents had some misgivings. Cyber-bullying was the biggest cause for concern, with 70 per cent of parents feeling troubled by the prospect. Around two thirds worry about their children using the internet generally, while more than half of parents questioned were concerned about their children becoming addicted to video games. However, when the children were asked themselves, in most cases fewer than a third were concerned by the various risks. Lindsey Rix of Aviva said: ‘Technology is now very much a part of our lives from a very early age. The ways in which we communicate, work and entertain ourselves are all changing as a result. ‘While most of the families we spoke to in our study said that technology had had a positive impact on their households, there are also some downsides and concerns, as this particular piece of research shows. ‘There are a wealth of ways in which parents can help their children to stay safe online, from putting parental controls in place on their devices or simply supervising them and teaching them about the risks associated with the internet. ‘Technology offers a world of opportunities, but it pays to play safe.’ Many parents let children lie about their age online	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784327
__label__wiki	0.823195	0.823195	Bird flu outbreak sees UK government impose control zone around theme park A strain of bird flu has been detected, forcing the government to place a control zone around TwinLakes theme park in Leicestershire. The virus was confirmed in poultry and birds, who are not at risk of being culled Unzela KhanOvernight Reporter The Government has imposed a control zone around a theme park after a strain of bird flu was detected. According to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the virus was found among birds and poultry in a town in Leicestershire. A map showing the exclusion zones presents Twinlakes Park at its dead centre. However, the exact location of the outbreak has not been confirmed although a map suggests where it has been detected. DEFRA said it was the H5N8 strain of bird flu that had been found, reports Leicestershire Live. A three kilometre and and ten kilometre Temporary Control Zone has been put in place around Twin Lakes, which is currently shut during lockdown. Twinlakes theme park is at the centre of the control zone (Image: Twinlakes Park.com) Deadly bird flu in wild swan in Northern Ireland 'different to English strain' The measures put in place restrict animal movements and visits within the zone. Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said: “Avian influenza has been confirmed in a small number of poultry and captive birds at a site near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. "All of the birds at risk of having been infected will now be humanely culled and we have put a temporary control zone in place around the premises to prevent the spread of the disease. The exclusion zone “Following a number of confirmed cases in the UK there is currently an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone in place across the country to ensure that we can eradicate the disease as quickly as possible. “Bird keepers should remain alert for any signs of disease, report suspected disease immediately and ensure they are maintaining strong biosecurity measures on their premises.” The whole premises is under restriction and poultry and mammals are not allowed to be moved from the site. Bird keepers have been advised to report any suspected cases (Image: PA) Bird flu outbreak hits UK farm – restricted zone in place to limit disease spreading An NHS spokesman said: "No humans have been infected with H5N1, H7N9, H5N6 or H5N8 bird flu in the UK – this includes the type of H5N6 virus recently found in humans in China. "Plans are in place to manage any suspected cases. "H5N8 bird flu has been found in some wild birds and poultry in the UK. "H5N6 has also been found in some wild birds in the UK but is a different strain to that seen in China." CrimePT who brutally knocked out man at nightclub spared ankle tag 'so clients don't see it'Paul Monnes accidentally bumped into Jake Toriyen during a night out in Worcester – at which point Toriyen began the brutal assault. Mr Monnes eventually got to his feet after regaining consciousness and was taken to hospital Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to send tourists into space 'as early as this April' SpaceThe Amazon billionaire is aiming to send passengers into orbit in 2021 after completing the latest test flight, but tickets are likely to cost hundreds of thousands Covid pandemic could have been avoided if China told the truth, top doctor says CoronavirusExperts accuse Chinese authorities of hiding facts about an initial outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan in an ITV documentary, as the pandemic's death toll tops two million across the world PT who brutally knocked out man at nightclub spared ankle tag 'so clients don't see it'	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784328
__label__wiki	0.73835	0.73835	Toyota to pay $180M for failing to report emissions defects FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019 file photo, people walk by the logo of Toyota at a show room in Tokyo.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) Published: Jan. 14, 2021 at 1:00 PM CST DETROIT (AP) — Toyota will pay $180 million to settle U.S. government allegations that it failed to report and fix pollution control defects in its vehicles for a decade. The company also agreed in court to investigate future emissions-related defects quickly and report them to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a timely manner. “Toyota’s actions undermined the EPA’s self-disclosure system and likely led to delayed or avoided emissions-related recalls,” Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. Attorney in Manhattan said Thursday in a prepared statement. The Japanese automaker’s actions from 2005 to 2015 brought financial benefits and excessive vehicle pollution, the statement said. The company was accused in a government lawsuit of delays in filing 78 emissions defect reports as required by the Clean Air Act. The reports covered millions of vehicles, and some of them were as many as eight years late, the statement said. The lawsuit was filed Thursday and settled on the same day, according to the statement. In a statement, Toyota said it reported the problems to the EPA five years ago after finding a “process gap” that brought delays in filing the defect reports. “Within months of discovering this issue, we submitted all relevant delayed filings and put new robust reporting and compliance practices in place,” the company said. The company said the reporting delays resulted in a “negligible” impact on emissions, contradicting the government’s statement alleging excessive pollution. The company said that despite reporting delays, it notified customers and fixed vehicles that needed to have emissions recalls. Automakers have to report to the EPA if there are 25 cases of the same pollution control defect in a model year. But Toyota decided to report the defects only when required under a less-stringent California standard, the Justice Department said. Toyota is the third automaker in recent years to pay penalties for Clean Air Act violations. The worst was cheating by Volkswagen, which for years programmed its diesel vehicles to turn pollution controls on for EPA lab tests and turned them off for roadway driving. In 2019, Fiat Chrysler agreed to a settlement over allegations that it rigged pollution tests on diesel pickup trucks and SUVs. Fiat Chrysler has maintained that it didn’t deliberately cheat emissions tests and the company didn’t admit wrongdoing. Sioux Falls man called police to report stolen marijuana, authorities say Authorities identify victim in Watertown fatal crash Trump wishes new administration luck in farewell video Woman gets 10 years for sex trafficking 16-year-old Pursuit that crossed state lines reaches speeds of 110 mph President Trump issues pardons for South Dakotans Biden’s first act: Executive orders on pandemic, climate, immigration	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784330
__label__cc	0.613804	0.386196	Mailbag: Too soon to judge Amari Cooper trade? (Photo by Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire Is it too soon to say the Dallas Cowboys won the trade with the Oakland Raiders for Amari Cooper? Mason: It would not be fair to the Raiders to say they for sure lost the deal after losing Johnathan Abram to injury last season who they picked with the Cowboys’ first-round pick. However, if I had to pick a winner of the deal right now I would easily say the Cowboys. The Cowboys’ offense had a complete turnaround when they traded for Cooper, going from a committee at WR in 2018 to statistically the best offense in the league in 2019. He really emerged as a number one receiver that Dak Prescott can turn to. That to me is definitely enough for the first-round pick but only if they can get the long-term deal done with him, which I believe will happen. Juwan: Yes. Regardless of how that draft selection turned at you still would have had a minimum of four years of control over that pick. Though Amari Cooper has been a great addition to this offense thus far, that trade was made for a long-term investment. For me, Cooper would need three more productive seasons in order for me to say the Cowboys “won” that trade. Are you confident in a starting pair of Jourdan Lewis and Chidobe Awuzie next year? Mason: Honestly, I am not too confident right now. I am interested in seeing how Jourdan will do in a complete starting role because although he does not have much starting experience, he is very good at locating and making plays on the ball. Potentially having Chidobe guarding team’s number one receivers when he is coming off of a season where he frequently gave up big plays is not ideal to me. If new defensive coordinator Mike Nolan can help Chido with his ball skills and play-making ability I may feel a little better with them since a lot of plays he gives up are because he never turns his head around. For now, I can’t say with complete confidence that I am not worried about them starting. Juwan: It’s hard to draw confidence in a corner who had his playing time taken away due to poor performance (Chidobe Awuzie) and now expect him to perhaps be the number one corner. I do think you can do worst than having Awuzie and Jourdan Lewis as a starting duo, but just sliding them up to replace Byron Jones would not suffice. Related Topicsamari cooperByron JonesChidobe AwuziefeaturedJourdan Lewisoakland raiders	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784331
__label__cc	0.635134	0.364866	in Hong Kong since 12 years Best Dating Sites in Hong Kong Hong Kong Cupid Match Cost Match: Cost Analysis Are you looking for a love that lasts a lifetime? Perhaps he or she awaits you at Match! hk.match.com Match in comparison NEW App: 4.5/5 Match Experiences How much does Match cost? How much does it cost to find a suitable match for you? Take a look at the current price list of Match: Duration / Credits / Coins 3 Months 14.99 USD / Month 44.97 USD 12 Months 8.99 USD / Month 107.88 USD 6 Months 9.99 USD / Month 59.94 USD 12 Months 7.99 USD / Month 95.88 USD 1 Credit 0.99 USD / Credit 0.99 USD 5 Credits 0.80 USD / Credit 4.00 USD 10 Credits 0.60 USD / Credit 6.00 USD Is Match expensive or cheap? In comparison to other providers Match is average. Match offers two membership plans—Standard and Premium. You can avail of both plans in 3, 6, or 12 months, so decide what’s best for you. Standard subscribers get basic paid features such as being able to know who viewed your profile and send messages. Premium subscribers, meanwhile, get all those basic features and more. Some of the functions that fall under the “more” are anonymous browsing and MatchPhone, an anonymous voice calling service exclusively for Match members. Apart from these subscriptions, Match also offers two stand-alone features: Match Me and Boost. Match Me is what happens when you have your eye on a specific member, and you want to play it subtle. With this feature, you’re at the top of the member’s Match suggestion list. Boost, meanwhile, puts your profile as the top suggestion on Matches and Discover for one hour. Sixty minutes of top spots will no doubt entice members to check you out. A note on its mobile app... Match indeed started as a desktop site, but in keeping with the times, it also included a free-to-download mobile app. You can do pretty much every functionality on mobile, but the catch is the price. The cost is triple that of the desktop version. So, pro-tip: purchase a package or add-on via its desktop counterpart and enjoy Match even while on-the-go with its mobile app. Is Match worth it? Founded in 1993, Match is an experiment; founders wanted to prove that love is possible to find in an online classified ads platform. Fast forward to more than two decades, Match is one of the oldest and biggest dating sites for singles on the lookout for real love and marriage. Dating platforms already saturate the market, but why does Match, a pioneering dating website, still manages to go head-to-head with the newer ones? Although it's a premium dating site, users of Match are more than willing to shell out money to purchase premium offers. 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You have all the time to see if the famed dating site will most likely match you with a significant other. But then again, you can’t just look. At one point, you’ll have to take the attraction to the next step and send a message. But interaction is something you can’t do with paying money. To make the most out of Match, you'll have to talk consider upgrading. Nobody said finding love is easy, which is why the idea of dating online is a hit. Imagine all the possibilities and chances at the tip of your fingertips—if only you give online dating a chance. And while you’re at it, why don’t you try Match, a pioneering dating site with over 20 years of experience and success stories? 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__label__wiki	0.82077	0.82077	eBay marketing chief Steve Brennen heads up new-look ADMA board Brennen takes over from Westpac general manager of CRM and digital, Karen Ganschow CMO staff (CMO) From left: Quantium’s Tony David, ADMA’s Jodie Sangster, Westpac’s Karen Ganschow, eBay’s Steve Brennen and Droga5’s Steve Coll ADMA has appointed eBay Australia’s senior director of marketing and advertising sales, Steven Brennen, as its latest chairman as part of a new-look board. Brennen takes over the reins from Westpac general manager of CRM and digital, Karen Ganschow, who will remain on the board for two years as past chair. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the marketing and advertising community and joined eBay in March last year. Other changes to the board include the departure of Quantium director, Tony Davis, who has spent the past two years as past chair and is retiring after 10 years of service on ADMA’s board. ADMA has also brought on Droga5 executive creative director, Steve Coll, to the board. “It’s our aim to ensure the ADMA Board of Directors is fully representative of the growing marketing, media and advertising industry,” said ADMA CEO, Jodie Sangster following the appointment announcement. “We want to make sure we have experts in fields like data, content, creativity, technology and customer experience at the table. The appointments of Steve Brennen as chair as Steve Coll as a director reflect this mandate, while maintaining the highest standards of governance and leadership.” Sangster said it was important for boards to have creative leaders at the table. Part of Coll’s chief tasks is to help propel the association’s offering for the creative sector, including introducing a program for copywriting to help train more copywriters in the industry. Other ADMA initiatives for creative include Creative Fuel, ADMA Creative School and the Young Creative of the Year competition. “But we need to do more and Steve Coll, with his award-winning experience, will be invaluable in this regard,” Sangster said. Read more ADMA Marketer of the Year awarded to agency chief, Sean Cummins Brennen stepped onto ADMA's board last year. Other new recruits in 2013 included Omnicom Media Group CEO, Leigh Terry; News Corp Australia’s new group marketing director, Damian Eales; and national leader of digital change and digital intelligence at PwC Australia, Jason Juma-Ross. Pictured (left to right): Quantium’s Tony David, ADMA’s Jodie Sangster, Westpac’s Karen Ganschow, eBay’s Steve Brennen and Droga5’s Steve Coll Follow CMO on Twitter: @CMOAustralia, take part in the CMO Australia conversation on LinkedIn: CMO Australia, join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CMOAustralia, or check us out on Google+: google.com/+CmoAu Signup to CMO’s email newsletter to receive your weekly dose of targeted content for the modern marketing chief. Read more Customer-led big data programs deliver millions to Westpac's bottom line Read more: CMO50 2018 #8: Steve Brennen Scale, reach and influence: the fundamental facts about news brands More from ThinkNewsBrands Tags: ADMA	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784338
__label__cc	0.682684	0.317316	10 Cheap Ways to Boost Your Marketing Strategy Published Wed, Nov 16 201110:35 AM EST Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT By Carolyn Horwitz, Special for CNBC Boost Your Company Profile When you operate a small business, half the challenge is getting the word out that you exist. Then, you need to act constantly to maintain awareness of your brand among the public and, perhaps, the investment community. Even with a limited budget and resources, marketing is not a matter you can afford to overlook. Every business plan should budget for paid marketing services—it’s an investment in future sales. But beyond that, there are simple ways to raise your company’s profile at little or no Photo: Jetta Productions \| Getty Images When you operate a small business, half the challenge is getting the word out that you exist. Then, you need to act constantly to maintain awareness of your brand among the public and, perhaps, the investment community. Even with a limited budget and resources, marketing is not a matter you can afford to overlook. Every business plan should budget for paid marketing services — it’s an investment in future sales. Beyond that, there are simple ways to raise your company’s profile at little or no expense. Follow these tips to maximize your credibility, exposure, and brand value, and to make sure your company remains top-of-mind among your customers. By Carolyn Horwitz Maintain Active Social Media Profiles Many companies create a Facebook page or LinkedIn profile, and then never think about it again. If you’re not updating your profile, posting, or creating regular tweets, you may as well not even have a presence in social media. You need to have regular postings that will engage your customer base. Offer a discount or small reward in exchange for page “likes” or retweets. Ask questions and post articles that encourage customers to comment or provide feedback. Regular activity on your Facebook and Sources: Facebook.com \| Flickr.com \| Twitter.com \| YouTube.com \| Tumblr.com \| Google.com Many companies create a Facebook page and/or a LinkedIn profile, and then never think about them again. If you’re not updating your profile, posting, or creating regular tweets, however, you may as well not even have a presence in social media. You need to have regular postings that will engage your customer base. Offer a discount or small reward in exchange for page “likes” or retweets. Ask questions and post articles that encourage customers to comment or provide feedback. Regular activity on your Facebook and Twitter feeds increases your visibility on search engines and serves as a constant reminder to your clients that you are there for them. Similarly, up-to-date data and regular posts to your LinkedIn profile will boost your credibility and exposure among your professional peer group. Let Your Website Tell Your Story Enhance your likability by offering a detailed and emotionally compelling history on your website. How do your personality and background play into your business? What obstacles have you overcome? The beauty industry is one that thrives on individuality and an emotional bond with clients. The website for not only features photos and bios of all company hairstylists, but its entertaining blog encourages return visits, with reviews of celebrity hairstyles and fashions, updates on notable customer Photo: Ian McKinnell \| Getty Images Enhance your likability by offering a detailed and emotionally compelling history on your website. How do your personality and background play into your business? What obstacles have you overcome? The beauty industry is one that thrives on individuality and an emotional bond with clients. The website for Seattle’s Emerson Salon not only features photos and bios of all company hairstylists, but its entertaining blog encourages return visits, with reviews of celebrity hairstyles and fashions, updates on notable customers, “after” shots, and styling tips and videos. It’s a great example of a site that spurs customer engagement. Conduct a Survey Various services, including and allow you to host basic online surveys and polls for free. These can be valuable tools for obtaining customer feedback on current or planned products and gauging the effectiveness of your website and marketing campaigns. Canopy Management, a Napa, Calif.-based seller and marketer of wines, puts out a Zoomerang survey nearly every month via its social media umbrella The Wine Sisterhood. The surveys—seeking customer opinions on issues such as the popularity of var Photo: Lucidio Studio Inc. \| Getty Images Various services, including Survey Monkey and Zoomerang, allow you to host basic online surveys and polls for free. These can be valuable tools for obtaining customer feedback on current or planned products, and gauging the effectiveness of your website and marketing campaigns. Canopy Management, a Napa, Calif.-based seller and marketer of wines, puts out a Zoomerang survey nearly every month via its social media umbrella The Wine Sisterhood. The surveys — seeking customer opinions on issues such as the popularity of various varietals or what labels catch people’s eyes — can be seen on The Wine Sisterhood’s Facebook and Twitter feeds, blog, and newsletters. Canopy also posts results of the surveys for its community to see, prompting further engagement. Mary Ann Vangrin, Canopy's director of communications and social media, says that when the company was considering producing a Moscato, it asked customers about their preferences for sweet styles. “Based on that information, we went ahead,” she says. “Women who are really passionate about wine have a lot of opinions and enjoy sharing them.” Link your survey on your website and Facebook page, and send it to customers on your email list. You might consider offering a small incentive for customers to take the survey, increasing the likelihood and quality of their engagement. If you have customers who are thrilled with your performance, ask them to submit reviews to exclusive word-of-mouth directories such as or As opposed to wider directories such as Yelp, these lists are carefully vetted to include only approved vendors, so your mention represents a solid endorsement that is sure to boost sales. Chris Cunningham of Service Plus, a heating and air conditioning company in Avon, Ind., says being an approved vendor on Angie’s List has been “a huge thing for our busin Sources: Yelp.com \| Angieslist.com If you have customers who are thrilled with your performance, ask them to submit reviews to exclusive word-of-mouth directories such as Angie’s List or ServiceMagic. As opposed to wider directories such as Yelp, these lists are carefully vetted to include only approved vendors, so your mention represents a solid endorsement that is sure to boost sales. Chris Cunningham of Service Plus, a heating and air conditioning company in Avon, Ind., says being an approved vendor on Angie’s List has been “a huge thing for our business.” The company has reduced its overall advertising spending, shifting away from direct-mail and phone campaigns to focus on online activity. In fact, Cunningham says, since being added to Angie’s List and concentrating on search engine optimization (SEO), Service Plus has seen annual revenue gains of 20 percent to 30 percent. “We saw a huge increase in the last two years with the number of reviews by our customers,” he adds. One caveat: Be prepared to follow up with customers who have complaints. An apology and attempt to rectify the situation goes a long way toward persuading the client to retract or change a negative review. Be an Expert in Your Field To increase your credibility and gain exposure, establish yourself as an authority. Answer questions posted to LinkedIn. Write a white paper on a relevant issue and add it to your website—then issue a press release to alert the media, especially trade publications. You can also host webinars and podcasts. If you are in a service industry, consider creating how-to videos to post on YouTube, cementing your expertise and further enhancing your SEO. Legal Files, a Springfield, Ill.-based developer o Photo: Rob Melnychuk \| Getty Images To increase your credibility and gain exposure, establish yourself as an authority. Answer questions posted to LinkedIn. Write a white paper on a relevant issue and add it to your website — then issue a press release to alert the media, especially trade publications. You can also host webinars and podcasts. If you are in a service industry, consider creating how-to videos to post on YouTube, cementing your expertise and further enhancing your SEO. Legal Files, a Springfield, Ill.-based developer of software for legal services, offers several whitepapers on its site and through aggregators such as WhitePapersDB. Detailed video testimonials and case studies also help to validate the company as an industry leader. Additionally, join industry associations and get to know their leadership. Inform them that you are available to speak at conferences; in addition to the exposure you will get via attendees, your company will be documented in trade journals, and conference literature and websites. Upload your slide shows and Power Point presentations to SlideShare for viewing by the general public. Barter for Services Todd Carew, CEO of web design and hosting company NRG Networks, is part of Bristol, Conn.-based Barter Business Unlimited. He says he has created at least 100 websites for group members, exchanging his services for such needs as billboard advertising, office equipment and cleaning. What’s more, he says, bartering “has brought in customers we wouldn’t ordinarily get,” from places “we don’t traditionally advertise in.” He stresses the importance of signing on with a reputable barter group that “lo Photo: Source: Bizx.com Todd Carew, CEO of web design and hosting company NRG Networks, is part of Bristol, Conn.-based Barter Business Unlimited. He says he has created at least 100 websites for group members, exchanging his services for such needs as billboard advertising, office equipment, and cleaning. What’s more, he says, bartering “has brought in customers we wouldn’t ordinarily get,” from places “we don’t traditionally advertise in.” He stresses the importance of signing on with a reputable barter group that “looks over both sides of the transaction to make sure it’s fair and equitable.” Joining a business-to-business bartering service, such as BizXchange or Merchants Barter Exchange, can be an inexpensive way to broaden your resources. You may be able to trade your goods or services for free advertising, or the assistance of a professional marketing agency. What’s more, membership in a bartering service helps get the word out about your business among like-minded entrepreneurs, and many services host valuable networking events for members. Check the website of the National Association of Trade Exchanges to find a barter group near you. Consider how your company can contribute to your community and uncover new outlets for your brand by donating your time, products or services to local charities. Houston web design and branding agency Adhere Creative is taking this concept to the extreme with an initiative to donate marketing services to one non-profit organization per year. It’s a true win-win: With this plan, Adhere Creative will not only boost the image of the selected charities but will increase its own profile and credibili Photo: Jamie Grill Photography \| Getty Images Consider how your company can contribute to your community and uncover new outlets for your brand by donating your time, products, or services to local charities. Houston website design and branding agency Adhere Creative is taking this concept to the extreme with an initiative to donate marketing services to one non-profit organization per year. It’s a true win-win: With this plan, Adhere Creative will not only boost the image of the selected charities, but will increase its own profile and credibility through media coverage of the program, testimonials by the nonprofit groups, and exposure to the organizations’ clients, donors, and constituents. Bump Up Your Search Engine Optimization There are numerous ways to enhance your SEO, among them employing a clean site design and incorporating strategic keywords. When writing copy for your site, incorporate relevant keyword combinations; the frequency of such phrases plays a large role in determining your ranking. Try to imagine the words people might use to search for your business online. Aim for specificity: not just the general type of business, but its precise location and any specialties. Many services, such as have free keyw Photo: Jeffrey Coolidge \| Getty Images There are numerous ways to enhance your SEO, among them employing a clean site design and incorporating strategic keywords. When writing copy for your site, incorporate relevant keyword combinations; the frequency of such phrases plays a large role in determining your ranking. Try to imagine the words people might use to search for your business online. Aim for specificity — not just the general type of business, but its precise location, and any specialties. Many services, such as Google AdWords, have free keyword tools that help you find search terms you can incorporate to enhance your ranking. Google takes site speed into account when determining rankings. Don’t bloat your site with huge images or excessive Flash elements that slow the loading process. You should also utilize HTTP compression and caching to reduce load time. Get on Wikipedia If you have a mature business and have established yourself as a valid force in your industry, your company may qualify for a Wikipedia article. This will provide a huge boost to your reputation, brand, overall credibility, and especially, SEO. In fact, a Wikipedia entry is often the first result that appears in an Internet search. To qualify, your business needs to have engendered “significant coverage” in objective, high-profile published sources. You cannot create or update your company’s Wikipedia page — submissions must be made by neutral third parties. However, you can be active in the article’s discussion section. Be prepared that with the added exposure can come notoriety: Your article may be amended with errors or negative comments from customers, employees, or competitors. A company Wikipedia article requires diligent monitoring, and the content is essentially out of your control. An internal attempt to edit your company’s article may result in its removal. Despite the potential for negativity, a Wikipedia article is sure to drive significant traffic to your website, and the legitimacy it provides could be a major contributor to your bottom line. Put Out a Press Release It may be old-school, but it works on several levels, by maximizing your reach not only to the media but to prospective customers and investors. Press releases can also help drive traffic to your website. This helps you to build your brand and gain credibility. Free wire services such as will distribute press releases from nearly any company. Consider issuing a press release to announce almost any business development: a new product, investor, feature or website; company events or milestones; p Photo: David Lees \| Getty Images Putting out a press release may seem old-school, but it works on several levels — by maximizing your reach not only to the media, but to prospective customers and investors. Press releases can also help drive traffic to your website. This helps you to build your brand and gain credibility. Free wire services such as I-Newswire will distribute press releases from nearly any company. Consider issuing a press release to announce almost any business development: a new product, investor, feature, or website; company events or milestones; personnel changes; charitable works; or when you gain significant customers or partnerships.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784339
__label__wiki	0.739477	0.739477	Meal Delivery Services are Cooking in Colorado The market sector is valued at $5 billion Nora Caley, When chef Katie Kannen and her husband Chris launched their Denver-based meal delivery service, The Spicy Radish, five years ago, she had to explain the concept to friends. "They would say, 'Oh, you're doing catering,' or, 'It's like Meals on Wheels,'" she says. "Some education needed to happen." Education happened, and so did industry growth. According to market research firm Packaged Facts, the delivered meal kit space is a $5 billion industry led by national brands such as Blue Apron, Plated and HelloFresh. These usually subscription-based services deliver boxes with ingredients in portion sizes so the consumer can prepare meals at home. Local brands are competing by highlighting their differentiators. Spicy Radish, for example, delivers the meals fully cooked. The industry is getting crowded. Sarah Lair, owner and founder of Five Eggs, says she sees a constant stream of new entries at the shared commercial kitchen space near Stapleton, where her company has been based for three years. “There is a lot of camaraderie,” she says. “We taste each other’s food and ask if it needs more salt.” Boulder-based Green Chef, which was acquired by HelloFresh this year, differentiates itself by selling natural and organic foods. “The meal kit industry has seen a great deal of change in the past year and I anticipate more change will come,” Green Chef COO Brian Popper says. Technology is driving some of the growth. “What the technology provides is at the core a direct relationship with the end consumer,” says Tom Balderston, co-founder of Denver-based SupperBell. With the post-purchase feedback loop, the customer lets the company know how they experienced the service and product, and SupperBell uses the information to make improvements. Also, Balderston says, logistics software optimizes the routing for delivery drivers, and customers can see how close a driver is to their homes. Although New York-based Blue Apron had a well-publicized disappointing IPO, Packaged Facts predicts robust growth for the industry. “It’s a huge space,” says Shannon Sawyer, managing director of operations for Marley Spoon, a German company that launched U.S. operations in New York in 2015. “As customers move from offline to online retail, the portion of online grocery sales grows.” Categories: Companies to Watch	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784341
__label__wiki	0.624644	0.624644	Cognism enhances its B2B data offering by acquiring Ricochet, the trusted sales Chrome extension Cognism, the world’s best globally compliant B2B prospecting solution, is adding to and enhancing its data offering through the acquisition of Ricochet, the trusted Chrome extension for outbound sales teams. Successfully researching and qualifying new customer opportunities is one of the biggest challenges facing commercial teams. With the events industry on hold and companies now seeking digital solutions to their lead generation obstacles, it has never been more important for sales teams to have confidence in the data they use. Cognism’s acquisition of Ricochet aims to solve these challenges. Trusted by over 1,200 businesses worldwide, Ricochet will improve and enhance Cognism’s already-impressive data offering, which includes 400 million profiles, 10 million companies, and 20 million direct dials across the US and the EU. Ricochet utilises data aggregation to profile and qualify businesses in real-time, helping sales teams to quickly identify new customer opportunities. This acquisition will further strengthen Cognism’s world-class prospecting solution, creating a powerful new offering for B2B organisations. Paul Smith OBE, CEO and COO at Ricochet, said: “We’ve admired Cognism’s approach and success since the early days of Ricochet, with both teams dedicated to empowering sales teams with actionable and accurate B2B data. We’re thrilled to be working with James and the team, and look forward to Ricochet’s technology helping Cognism’s customers improve efficiency and streamline their sales development activity.” James Isilay, founder and CEO at Cognism, told us: “I am delighted to welcome Ricochet to the Cognism family. Paul and his team have built a very impressive tool that is trusted by thousands of sales professionals in the B2B space. They solve a very difficult problem. Their focus on data quality makes them an easy fit for us at Cognism, being a world-leader in providing compliant business data. I am looking forward to working with everyone at Ricochet and helping our customers find and deliver new revenue opportunities in 2021 and beyond.” About Ricochet Ricochet was founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Paul Smith OBE, who previously founded UK accelerator Ignite and worked in senior roles in the Government of Dubai and at US-based transport company Hyperloop One, and Jo York and Kev Price, co-founders of social video platform Reframed. All three founders bring significant product and technical expertise to bear on the challenges faced by sales development teams. Ricochet previously raised investment from the North East Innovation Fund (supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures) and angel investors including Friends Reunited founder Steve Pankhurst, Central Working co-founder Steve Pette and serial entrepreneurs Tristan Watson and Doug Scott. About Cognism Cognism is the world’s best all-in-one globally compliant prospecting solution. Powered by patented AI technology, it provides organisations with compliant B2B data and a suite of sales acceleration tools to help action it. Cognism enables its worldwide business customers to find and deliver new revenue, faster. Cognism is trusted by over 700+ clients across sales, marketing, recruitment, finance and technology. The company was recently named by LinkedIn as one of the Top 10 UK Startups in 2020. Tagged: Press Release, News, Ricochet Cognism acquires signature marketing platform Mailtastic in seven-figure deal Cognism raises $12M to expand across Europe and set the global standard for data compliance G2 Buyer Intent Introducing Cognism Prospector for G2 Buyer Intent These Stories on Press Release	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784343
__label__cc	0.526295	0.473705	Jordan Bergmann Call Jordan Téléphone de bureau +1 204 954 1793 Transactions récentes Informations du marché Jordan is a commercial real estate advisor with the Colliers International Winnipeg Office Team, specializing in office leasing, representing both Tenants and Landlords. His commitment to his clients is to gain an understanding of their business, then dive deeper to their catalyst that drives their challenges and successes. He will use this position along with his market knowledge to educate his clients on real estate solutions that in turn compliment their business. In working alongside the accomplished brokers of the Office Group at Colliers Winnipeg, Jordan is involved with a high volume of intricate leasing transactions where he leverages the full Colliers platform and his experience in customer service to provide value. With the strong market position of the Office Group, Jordan can be ahead of market trends and transactions, while providing these insights to his clients. Adhésions & Implications Manitoba Real Estate Association The Young Associates Colliers Acceleration Program Lignes de service Représentation de propriétaires, Représentation de locataires Downtown Office Space - Street Level & Skywalk Retail Space 240 Graham Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Located in the centre of Winnipeg's business district at the corner of Graham Avenue & Garry Street, the Cargill Building is an important link in the city's enclosed climate-controlled pedestrian walkway. This 8 storey modern office building also offers main floor retail space next door to Tim Hortons. Various units available. $17.50 - $18 /pi² CAD Tech Campus Office Space for Lease 260 Saulteaux Crescent, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Efficient and functional suburban office/commercial services building with high quality improvements and functionally developed office space. $16 /pi² CAD Built out office for sublease 120 Donald Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Located on Donald Street between York and Broadway, this main floor sublease opportunity is has high ceilings with lots of natural light from the floor to ceiling windows. The current build out offers two separated workstation areas, an office, kitchenette, boardroom and a bonus mezzanine space not included in the rentable area. Free Standing Office Building in The Exchange 357 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Nicknamed the “Chicago of the North”, the Exchange features over 150 immaculate heritage buildings within 30-square-blocks. $12.95 /pi² CAD Regus Flexible Offices 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Based on the 18th floor of the most prestigious building in Winnipeg, 201 Portage Avenue business centre combines stunning architecture and modern style to create an elegant and upmarket corporate environment. Excellent location for office space along Broadway corridor 305 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Situate yourself on one of the city’s oldest and most historic streets. 330 St. Mary Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Work confidently in high-quality workspace at the heart of Winnipeg’s central business district. New Development Opportunity in the Exchange District 129 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 129 McDermot Avenue is located in the Exchange District of downtown Winnipeg, one of the city's trendiest neighbourhoods. Skywalk Connected Office Space in Downtown Winnipeg Located in the heart of the Sports, Entertainment and Hospitality District, Cityplace is the ideal place to work, stop for a lunch hour shop, a pregame appetizer or a post-game drink. Flex-Office Development Opportunity in The Refinery District Bishop Grandin, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada The Refinery District is a planned 102 acre mixed-use infill development which is exceptionally well-located in Southwest Winnipeg offering residential, retail, hotel, restaurant, office and industrial flex-space options to users and developers. Excellent Office Opportunity in the Exchange District 93 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 93 Lombard is a restored office building located in the Exchange District. This sublease offers a fully furnished office space with boardrooms and offices with bright windows looking out towards Portage & Main, which is only a block away. This opportunity offers beautiful brick and beam architecture at below market rates. Office for Sublease in Tuxedo Park Shopping Centre 2025 Corydon Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Tuxedo Park Shopping Centre is located on Corydon Avenue, a major 4 lane traffic corridor just west of Kenaston Boulevard. Colony Square Office Opportunity 500 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Prime office space available. St. James Multi-Use Redevelopment 1981 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 1981 Portage Avenue is conveniently located just off Portage Avenue, a major traffic artery between the St. James area and Downtown Winnipeg. Office for lease on Corydon Avenue 698 Corydon Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Corydon Avenue is a destination district in Winnipeg. Focused on local businesses, this area is filled with shops, boutiques, restaurants and coffee stops. In the summer, you’ll find visitors and locals enjoying the various patios and live music Corydon Avenue has to offer. Professional Office Space 2110 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Easily accessible north Main location surrounded by mature residential neighborhoods. À vendre et à louer High Visibility on Portage Avenue Located on the periphery of downtown Winnipeg, this property offers a high traffic opportunity with 67,500 cars daily. $850,000 CAD Skywalk Connected Office Building on Portage Avenue 294 Portage is located in Winnipeg’s SHED with connection to the skywalk system, offering tenant’s climate controlled paths to Portage & Main and back to BellMTS Place. The building offers enclosed parking in the attached parkade of the Radisson Hotel. Restored Heritage Building, Office and Retail Opportunity The Fortune Block 230 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada The Fortune Building is located at 230 Main Street, a historic site in downtown Winnipeg. A beautiful, restored brick and beam building that maintains the area’s history and character while only steps away from Portage and Main, Winnipeg’s central business hub. Ownership has taken great efforts with this thorough and accurate restoration. Built out office space for sublease 2200 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Located in the commercial node of north McPhillips Street and Leila Avenue, this third storey office space is a corner unit with building signage. Corydon Office/Retail Opportunity 623 Corydon is a newly renovated building located in the heart of the Corydon Village. The Lower level has been re-imagined with a large glass-lined stair case bringing in natural light from the floor to ceiling windows above. Built-out Office Space with Warehouse for Lease 1551 Church Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Located in Winnipeg’s largest industrial park, 1551 Church offers 9,662 square feet of built out office space with a blend of private offices and open workstation areas. Access to the 33,957 square feet of warehouse space available is through 6 dock level and 2 grade level loading doors. $5.95 /pi² CAD Investment/User Opportunity in Central Business District in Brandon, MB 1039 Princess Avenue, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada The Property is located in the central business district in the City of Brandon, Manitoba. Brandon is located on the TransCanada Highway approximately 200 km west of the capital city of Winnipeg. Brandon is the service consistency for the smaller urban and agricultural communities of southwestern Manitoba. TerraPoint Agribusiness Centre for Sale/Lease 24149 Highway 3, Stanley, Manitoba, Canada The TerraPoint Agribusiness Centre, strategically located in the Stanley Corridor between Winkler and Morden, is a multi-tenant site designed with the intention and flexibility to accommodate a wide variety of tenants and uses. $12.95 - $17.95 /pi² CAD Industrial Bureau Highly Visible Office Space Opportunity on Pembina 850 Pembina, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 850 Pembina Highway is located at the intersection of Pembina Highway (Route 42) and Stafford Street. Office Space for Sublease on the Periphery of Downtown 831 Portage Avenue is conveniently located on a major traffic artery connecting downtown Winnipeg to the residential areas of the west end. Located on the third floor this sublease opportunity offers built out office space with a blend of private offices and open work-station areas. High Profile Office Building on Waterfront Drive 200 Waterfront Drive, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 200 Waterfront offers modern amenities and efficient layouts in the character-building atmosphere of the Exchange district. St. Boniface Development Opportunity 851 Tache Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 851 Tache Avenue is a unique infill development opportunity in the growing neighborhood of St. Boniface with close proximity to the Forks and the Exchange District of downtown Winnipeg. 310 Broadway for Lease The downtown portion of Broadway is a picturesque street with a wide, park-like boulevard and elm canopy. The street passes by several of Winnipeg’s oldest buildings, including the Manitoba Legislative Building, Fort Garry Hotel, Provincial Law Courts Building, and many other heritage buildings. Broadway acts as an unofficial boundary between the commercial and residential areas in the south part of downtown. South Winnipeg Flex Building with Excellent Access to Major Routes 197 Melnick Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Flex Building Winnipeg Office Market Report Q4 2020 In the last quarter of 2020, we find Winnipeg alongside the majority of Canada and the world still facing the impact of COVID-19. Contrary to the majority of Canada and the rest of the world, the province of Manitoba weathered the COVID-19 pandemic rather well, recording 11 straight days with no new cases at the start of Q3 2020. juil. 30, 2020 Q2 2020 had limited leasing activity as many transactions have been put on hold as tenants continue to assess the long-term impacts of the pandemic and the validity of working from home model. Comment puis-je vous aider?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784344
__label__wiki	0.921094	0.921094	Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs 2009 Posted on: November 7, 2009 by: Deshvidesh The popular television reality show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs 2009, winner is Hemant Brijwasi from Mathura. Yatharth Ratnam Rastogi is the runner up and Shreyasi Bhattacharya placed in third. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs 2009 winner Hemant Brijwasi got more than 1.5 million votes in total. Famous Bollywood actor Salman Khan announced the result. The event was broadcast live from Andheri Sports Complex Mumbai, and the host was none other than the famous playback singer Shaan. Abhijit Bhattacharya and Alka Yagnik were the show judges. Bollywood stars Ajay Devgan and Asin Thottumkal along with Salman Khan also attended the grand finale. The Bollywood stars were promoting their upcoming film London Dreams. The season finale aired on October 24, 2009 and was also the 1,000th episode of SRGMP, representing one of the biggest achievements in the history of the talent singing show. Along with the finalists, the final episode of Lil Champs also featured several major celebrities like Ankita Lokehande from “Pavitra Rishta,” Ratan Rajput “Laali from Agle Janam” and performances by cast members of London Dreams, the upcoming Bollywood musical directed by Vipul Shah. Lil Champs brought together the wonder of childhood with the excitement of musical performance and allowed the younger set to express themselves through friendly competition. With this show, Zee TV continues to celebrate a child’s intrinsic talent by giving them a chance to compete on a worldwide platform, unprecedented exposure, and experience. 10-year old, Dhairya Sonecha, and six-year old, Afsha Musani, hosted the show. Dhairya is a very popular child actor in India, most notably from films such as Babul, Partner, and Tahaan. A singer and former Lil Champs contestant herself, Afsha was selected to host the show instead of acting as a participant when the judges noted her confidence and charm during auditions. Both Dhairya and Afsha are the youngest reality show hosts on television! Now in its third season, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs is a unique platform where children 8-13 years old are able to showcase their talent to the world. The popularity of the show has been witnessed with a strong increase in ratings year over year. “ This year’s finalists are exceptionally talented, and perhaps the strongest group we’ve had since the beginning,” said Subroto Bhattacharya, CEO, Zee TV USA (Americas). “We applaud all the contestants who’ve made the show one of the most popular on our network, and along with the rest of Zee’s audience, we anxiously await to see who will be crowned this year’s champ.” Zee – a name that has become synonymous with entertainment – has been a dominant player in broadcasting content for more than 17 years in the national and international space. As an Indian channel, Zee is committed to supporting the values and cultures that appeal to South Asians across the globe. With many firsts already associated with its name, Zee has also become a pioneer in the international space, refurbishing its flagship channel to reach out to the South Asian Diaspora worldwide. Not only did the channel grow and create a strong foothold in the market, it has also been responsible for evolving to the needs of the market for content across genres and languages. Consequently the team launched channels that cater to a noticeably wide audience spectrum. Channels like Zee Cinema (Bollywood movie channel), Alpha Punjabi (Punjabi general entertainment channel), and Zee Sports (sports channel) were launched in the US market. After successfully launching these channels, Zee TV USA has ventured into pro ducing content locally to reach deeper into the South Asian Diaspora, while making them feel closer to their roots. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa (SRGMP) came into being 12 years ago and Indian television history has no other program parallel to this. In 2008, for the first time ever SRGMP was produced in an international market (USA) and has quickly become one of the highest rated shows on Indian television. Hemant Brijwasi Birth date : Jun 5, 1998 Hometown : Mathura Favorite song : Tere Bin Nahi by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Favorite male singer : Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Favorite female singer : Asha Bhonsale Favorite movie : Devour Favorite actor : Shah Rukh Khan Favorite actress : Kareena Kapoor What am i Doing right now ? : Rehearsing for the show School : Sant Shri Braj Mohanlal School Favorite teacher : Rekha Sharma, my English teacher Hobbies : To sing, play tabla and cricket Started singing at the age of : 9 Guru : Shri Hukumchand Brijwasi Aim in life : To become a singer Yatharth Ratnum Birth date : Nov 9, 1996 Hometown : Varanasi Favorite song : Piya Bole Hole Hole Favorite male singer : Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan Favorite female singer : Shreya Ghoshal Favorite movie : Matrix Favorite actor : John Abraham Favorite actress : Kajol School : Sunbeam Bhagwanpur Favorite teacher : Moushmi Dhar, my English teacher Hobbies : To sing, make Karaoke music tracks, surf the internet and trouble others. Guru : Pandit Devashish Dey Aim in life : To become a playback singer and actor Shreyasi Bhattacharjee Birth date : Jul 25, 1996 Hometown : Kolkata Favorite song : Every night in my dreams’ from the English movie Titanic Favorite male singer : Sonu Nigam Favorite movie : Titanic Favorite actor : Imran Khan Favorite actress : Kate Winslet School : Krishna Nagar Government Girls High School Favorite teacher : Pratyusha, my English teacher Hobbies : To dance, sing and read books. Guru : Sandeep Bhattacharya, Shyamali Bhattacharya, Shyampa Kundu and Debi Bhatla Aim in life : To become a famous playback singer Categories: Bollywood TV, News January 2021 Digital Magazine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784345
__label__wiki	0.923063	0.923063	Mike Tyson credits YouTubers for bringing boxing back “from the dead” Published: 30/Nov/2020 0:07 Updated: 30/Nov/2020 17:53 by Bill Cooney Jake Paul/Instagram Boxing legend Mike Tyson took the time to thank Jake Paul and other boxing YouTubers after his fight for making the sport “alive” once again. “Iron” Mike Tyson reigned as the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1987 to 1990 and is one of the sport’s most well-known stars today. While Tyson’s popularity hasn’t waned over the years, boxing itself is another story. There are a lot of theories and plausible reasons as to why, but there’s no denying that the sport is nowhere near as big as it once was. The star power the technically-retired boxer brought to the Nov. 28 bout was sure to draw people in, but Jake Paul on the undercard got a whole new generation to watch, which Tyson thinks is the shot in the arm the sport needs. Tyson is still one of the biggest stars in boxing after his official retirement in 2005. “Listen, my ego says so many things, but my reality is they [YouTubers] helped boxing so much,” he told reporters following his fight. “They owe these YouTube boxers some kind of respect, they should give them some belts, because these guys made boxing alive.” Case in point just shortly after Paul knocked out former NBA player Nate Robinson in the second round of their fight, social media lit up with clips of the shot and various memes of Robinson lying face-down on things; it’s not every day you see boxing topics trending on Twitter. Read More: Jake Paul challenges Conor McGregor, Logan Paul & more “Boxing was pretty much a dying sport, UFC was kicking our butt, and now we got these YouTube boxers boxing? 25 million views,” Tyson continued. “Boxing’s going back, thanks to the YouTube boxers.” AND NOW FOR SOMETHING TOTALLY UNEXPECTED: Mike Tyson says YouTube boxers helped bring boxing back, claims the sport was dead. This after Jake Paul fought in the undercard of his fight yesterday. pic.twitter.com/kCBB5pGxLp — Def Noodles (@defnoodles) November 29, 2020 There aren’t any solid numbers for how many people tuned in to Saturday’s fight as of yet, but based on how many people were posting about it, it’s safe to say it was one of the most-watched boxing matches of the year. Read More: KSI calls out Jake Paul after YouTuber KO’s Nate Robinson We don’t know when or if Tyson will fight again, but Jake Paul certainly will, and there’s another big-name marquee on the horizon in September 2021 when two of the world’s strongest men — Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall and Hafthor ‘The Mountain’ Bjornsson — attempt to settle their rivalry in the ring. Boxing and social media personalities don’t seem like a match made in heaven at first, but it appears to be working out very well for both sides and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down either.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784347
__label__wiki	0.935777	0.935777	De lessen Inloggen leerlingen Zangvakantie Jamsessie Houten Zing ook mee! Koormap Maandagavond van 20:15 tot 21:45 in Enter. 1e maandag van de maand in cafe de Zwijger Een avond gezellig zingen, met een lekker drankje na afloop. 2 keer per jaar in de kroeg een MeezingConcert; waarin we zo mogelijk onder begeleiding van een heuse live-band een volle kroeg laten meezingen met ons pop-repertoire. Een klein koor, Max 20 man/vrouw; een bewuste keuze. Zodat je in het koor niet meezingt, maar zelf zingt. Zingen voor de ontspanning, en altijd op zoek naar de mooiste klank in de meerstemmige liedjes. Want we willen kwalitatief iets moois neerzetten, dat zeker! Maandagavond 20:15 Kosten 40 euro per maand Meld je aan voor een proefles ! Koor in de Kroeg Sheppard - Geronimo (Official Music Video) Our upcoming album ‘Kaleidoscope Eyes’ is out 26.02.20. Pre-order here https://ffm.to/kaleidoscopeeyes Bombs Away is available to order now: Order on iTunes: http://po.st/SheppardBAVEVOiT Order on Amazon: http://po.st/SheppardBAVEVOAm Order on Google Play: http://po.st/SheppardBAVEVOGP Listen to Sheppard on Spotify: http://po.st/SheppardVEVOSp Geronimo by Sheppard is the first track from their debut album, 'Bombs Away', available to order now. Follow the band: http://wearesheppard.com http://www.facebook.com/wearesheppard http://twitter.com/wearesheppard http://instagram.com/wearesheppard Music video by Sheppard performing Geronimo. (C) 2014 Empire Of Song (Australia) Pty Limited, under exclusive licence to Decca, a division of Universal Music Operations Ltd (Patti) LaBelle - Lady Marmalade (1975) HD 0815007 LaBelle - Lady Marmalade, released 1974, ein Hit 1975. Audio-CD-Sound zu Video-Material aus TV-Show. HQ-Video Queen - Under Pressure (Official Video) Taken from Hot Space, 1982. Click here to buy the DVD with this video at the Official Queen Store: http://www.queenonlinestore.com The official 'Under Pressure' music video. Taken from Queen - 'Greatest Video Hits 2'. Subscribe to the official Queen channel Here https://Queen.lnk.to/Subscribe Watch more: https://Queen.lnk.to/OfficialMusicVideos About Queen: Welcome to the official Queen channel. Subscribe today for exclusive Queen videos, including live shows, interviews, music videos & much more. Connect with Queen Online: Visit the official Queen Website: https://Queen.lnk.to/Official Follow Queen on Instagram: https://Queen.lnk.to/Instagram Follow Queen on TikTok: https://Queen.lnk.to/TikTokOfficial Follow Queen on Twitter: https://Queen.lnk.to/Twitter Queen - Under Pressure (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/user/queenofficial Doe Maar Smoorverliefd Mijn oh mijn oeh ik heb pijn O zo`n pijn tot over mijn oren smoorverliefd op jou Keer op keer stort ik weer neer ik kan niet meer Tot over mijn oren smoorverliefd op jou Veel te vrij wat moet ik met een meisje zoals jij Veel te vrij je hebt niemand nodig Tot over z`n oren smoorverliefd op jou Ik ben verward voel es m`n hart gaat veel te hard Tot over m`n oren smoorverliefd op jou Ik voel me verrot ik ga kapot Ik lijk wel zot tot over m`n oren smoorverliefd op jou Ik lijk wel zot en ik voel me rot Liefde is een vreemde ziekte Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group All I Want Is You · U2 Rattle And Hum ℗ 1988 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited Released on: 1988-01-01 Associated Performer, Vocals: Bono Associated Performer, Guitar: The Edge Associated Performer, Bass Guitar: Adam Clayton Associated Performer, Drums: Larry Mullen, Jr. Associated Performer, Keyboards: Benmont Tench Producer: Jimmy Iovine Studio Personnel, Mixer, Engineer: David Tickle Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Rob Jacobs Associated Performer, String Arranger: Van Dyke Parks Composer: The Edge Composer: Adam Clayton Author: Bono Composer: Larry Mullen, Jr. Auto-generated by YouTube. U2: Where The Streets Have No Name Where the Streets Have No Name (The Joshua Tree, 1987) Where the Streets Have No Name is a song by U2, from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It peaked at #14 in Canada, #10 in The Netherlands and #4 in the United Kingdom. The song became a staple of live shows, being played 645 times at 642 shows since its inaugural performance 2 April 1987 in Tempe, Arizona. Its critical reception was mostly warm, praised by music critics such as Rolling Stone magazine. In Rolling Stone issue 1054, the song was ranked 28th in the issues list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. This song is played during the home introduction of the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL and the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL. It was the theme song for ESPNs coverage of the 2006 World Cup. Lyrics I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name I want to feel, sunlight on my face See that dust cloud disappear without a trace I want to take shelter from the poison rain Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name Were still building Then burning down love, burning down love And when I go there I go there with you... (Its all I can do) The cities a flood And our love turns to rust Were beaten and blown by the wind Trampled into dust Ill show you a place High on the desert plain Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name Still building Then burning down love Burning down love And when I go there I go there with you (Its all I can do) The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by U2, released in 1987. The album features the bands exploration of roots rock, with their music exhibiting influences from bluesrock, folk rock, country music, and gospel music. Lyrically, The Joshua Tree depicts the bands fascination with America, but also its discontent with the foreign policy of the United States. The album increased the bands stature from heroes to superstars, according to Rolling Stone magazine. The album produced several hit singles, including Where the Streets Have No Name, With or Without You, and I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For, all of which remain radio staples. The Joshua Tree won Grammy Awards for Best Rock performance by a Duo or group with Vocal and Album of the Year in Grammy Awards of 1988. In 2003, the album was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album is one of the worlds bestselling albums of alltime, having sold over 25 million copies. Note: This is a fan made video clip for entertainment purposes only. I do not own or claim to own anything used in this video. It belongs to its rightful owner. Oasis - Wonderwall (Official Video) Oasis - 'Wonderwall' (Official Video) Taken from the album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?’ Directed by: Nigel Dick SUBSCRIBE ▶︎ https://Oasis.lnk.to/YTSubscribeYo Listen to ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’: https://OasisMusic.lnk.to/WTSMGID Stream the best of Oasis playlists: https://Oasis.lnk.to/OASISESSENTIALSYo Join Oasis online: Website: https://Oasis.lnk.to/WebsiteYo Official Store: https://Oasis.lnk.to/shopYo Facebook: https://Oasis.lnk.to/FacebookYo Twitter: https://Oasis.lnk.to/TwitterYo Instagram: https://Oasis.lnk.to/InstagramYo Lyrics: Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you By now you shoulda, somehow, realized what you gotta do I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now Back beat, the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out I'm sure you've heard it all before but you never really had a doubt I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now And all the roads we have to walk are winding And all the lights that lead us there are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you But I don't know how Because maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall Today was gonna be the day but they'll never throw it back to you By now you shoulda somehow realized what you're not to do I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now And all the roads that lead you there were winding And all the lights that light the way are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you But I don't know how I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me You're gonna be the one that saves me You're gonna be the one that saves me #Oasis Mr. Big - To Be With You (MV) The original music video of "To Be With You" from Mr. Big’s 1991 hit album Lean Into It. Pat Torpey (drums), Billy Sheehan (bass), Eric Martin (vocals) and Paul Gilbert (guitar) Subscribe to MrBigVEVO channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMKoGNPOfhxwTc-7XcNuBMw Stream / Download: http://smarturl.it/Mr.Big_ToBeWithYou Shop: http://www.evo88.com/en/music?page=shop.browse&keyword=Mr.+Big Connect with Mr. Big: https://www.facebook.com/mrbigmusic/ https://twitter.com/mrbigmusic http://www.mrbigsite.com/ © 1991 Evolution Media Ltd. #MrBig #tobewithyou #leanintoit http://vevo.ly/PXpmc2 Zin gekregen om bij ons te komen zingen? Meer informatie of aanmelden voor een cursus? Vul hieronder het contactformulier in en je krijgt zo snel mogelijk een emailtje terug! Het bericht naar de zangstudio is verzonden! Zend!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784348
__label__wiki	0.844679	0.844679	Midnight Sun Review (Spoiler-Free) Was it worth the wait to resurrect Stephenie Meyer’s retelling of Twilight through Edward Cullen’s golden eyes? By Natalie Zutter \| August 5, 2020 \| Share on Facebook (opens in a new tab) Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) Share on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) Share on email (opens in a new tab) \| Comments count:0 Photo: Little, Brown Books For Young Readers Like Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun is older than it looks. Stephenie Meyer’s retelling of Twilight, her iconic YA novel of female desire, from the perspective of the smoldering vampire lover was first teased back in 2008, around the release of the final book, Breaking Dawn. At the time, Meyer announced that she would not be finishing the manuscript, as the first twelve chapters had leaked online and she felt like she had lost control of the story. By the time she warmed again to the idea, over the intervening years, the project was again derailed by the emergence of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey (based on James’ Twilight fanfic) and its own reversed-perspective retelling, Grey. Then, suddenly, this past May, it was announced that Midnight Sun would be published in just a few months. With no real context for why the book is finally seeing the light of day, it’s difficult to see the rushed timing as anything more than a cash grab. Over a decade after Bella Swan made her final choice, is it really worth resurrecting this book into a second life? Unfortunately, the answer is: only for the most diehard Twilight fans, and even then it’s a stretch. Part of Edward’s appeal in Twilight was his inscrutability, the fact that he played much of his motivations concerning Bella close to his unbreathing chest, except for when he felt the need to bellow that he was a monster and how could she love him, but he loved her too. Midnight Sun sheds some sparkling sunlight on that interiority, though by dint of being a retelling, the facts remain the same: Century-old vampire meets seemingly unremarkable human girl in high school biology class. Vampire seems repelled by girl, but it’s really a ruse to try to resist her overwhelming scent. Vampire fails, and forbidden love begins. Vampire refuses to have sex or otherwise get too close to human girl, for fear of tearing her to shreds in his passion. When other vampires come sniffing around girl, our vampire must push her away to save her, but the real way to save her requires him to get closer to her than he ever thought he’d have the self-control to be. Ad – content continues below That said, it is genuinely a different perspective; where Bella was so oblivious to her own allure in Twilight, Edward is hyper-aware of everything. His constant cataloguing—of high-school minutiae, of every potential threat that could befall clumsy disaster-magnet Bella, of the hundreds of blushes that darken her skin—creates a high-strung narrative obsessed with not missing a single detail, lest it bring his carefully-crafted control crashing down around him. While he initially takes for granted his talent for reading people’s minds, the discovery that he cannot read Bella’s thoughts throws him off-balance. As the Twilight series has drawn ire for often making Bella a passive figure in her own fate, this turning of the tables—of Edward not knowing if she desires or fears him—is appreciated. Let him (figuratively) sweat a little. But because these star-crossed lovers are so inexorably drawn to each other, it’s especially difficult to make a retelling that doesn’t just copy-and-paste the same dialogue but swap the pronouns and proper nouns. Meyer does what she can within the constraints that she created fifteen years ago. It helps that Bella sleeps, and Edward doesn’t; while we know that he creepily watches her for at least one REM cycle each night, he does spend some time away from her, with his own vampire family. The Cullens are the only real aspect of the story that Meyer can expand. Unusual even by vampire standards, they are more than just a coven, even if they’re bound less by shared blood than by shared bloodlust (or, more accurately, their covenant to tame those predatory impulses). To this family tree Meyer adds leaves and blooms, building out the backstories of each Cullen, but especially Rosalie and Alice, through Edward’s strained and tender dynamics with each. The one thing that Midnight Sun does is provide something of a reasonable context for Edward’s downright ridiculous protectiveness of his mortal love. Though he cannot read Bella’s mind, he can join his telepathic talent to Alice’s affinity for visions of potential futures; through his sister’s eyes, he can scan ahead to various hypothetical consequences of his actions. This lends a dramatic irony to how he goes about first avoiding, and then courting, and ultimately saving, Bella. Yet even with this added advantage, at times Edward seems truly ignorant of how his words and actions pluck at Bella’s fragile emotions, not understanding why certain bouts of protectiveness make her go weak at the knees (when he assumes she should be quavering in fear) or get angry at being underestimated (when he expects her to think like a predator protecting prey). His own obliviousness is laughable, but a small price to pay for slogging through the same overwrought narrative. Even Twilight fans will be hard-pressed to find enough that’s new and compelling about this retelling. Midnight Sun swaps Twilight’s iconic cover—a girl cradling an apple, tempting symbol of forbidden knowledge—for a pomegranate, more graphic than suggestive: While the apple is whole, existing in the moment between plucking and first bite, the pomegranate has been cut in half and oozes out seeds. When this cover was first revealed, one might have thought that it was a nod to the shift in thinking that the archetypal apple in the Garden of Eden was actually, considering the Garden’s likely real-life location, more likely to be a pomegranate. A truly charitable reading of the cover design process would perceive the choice of fruit as reflecting the wisdom of hindsight, the effort to make a narrative more accurate with new information. Instead, its purpose seems to be for Edward to recast Bella from Eve, yearning to better know the world into which she was created, to Persephone, who thought first of tart taste and only later of what it would mean to take that red juice inside herself. Both women are punished for their insatiable curiosity, but Eve with the curse of childbearing and thousands of generations; Persephone, by contrast, to forever move between the world of the living and the underworld, cursed to live parallel half-lives instead of one full one. (Edward, of course, styles himself as Hades, unable to see himself as anything but a steward for the dead mourning their lost lives.) Of course, all of this has yet to unfold for Bella. Knowing how the Twilight series concludes, it’s difficult to remember that Midnight Sun retells only the first of four books, and that by its end not even Edward knows Bella’s ultimate fate. Honestly, it would have been better for everyone if Meyer had retold the entire series in one 600-page (or even, let’s be generous, 1,000-page) tome: Instead of retreading every single step like a slow, plodding human, go the vampire route and speed through the whole narrative, stopping to linger at the moments that actually required his side of the story. Midnight Sun is available now from Little, Brown and Company or for purchase from Amazon. Comments count:0 Tags: TwilightHorrorYoung Adult Natalie Zutter \| @nataliezutter Natalie Zutter is a playwright, audio dramatist, and pop culture writer living in Brooklyn. She writes what she loves reading/seeing: space opera, feminist epic fantasy, time… Read more from Natalie Zutter More on Twilight The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Review (Spoiler-Free) May 19, 2020 \| By Natalie Zutter The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Ending Explained Kristen Stewart to Play Princess Diana in New Movie June 17, 2020 \| By David Crow Catherine Hardwicke Crafts a New Kind of Action-Thriller in Miss Bala April 30, 2019 \| By Kayti Burt Introducing A Brand New FREE Quarterly Magazine From Den of Geek December 28, 2020 \| By Den of Geek Staff Best Games to Play in 2021 January 1, 2021 \| By Chris Freiberg How EVE Online Is Changing Players' Lives for the Better December 14, 2020 \| By Lee Yancy Winter 2021 TV Preview January 13, 2021 \| By Alec Bojalad and 4 others	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line1784354

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