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__label__wiki	0.576103	0.576103	2017\| October-December \| Volume 20 \| Issue 4 Online since October 25, 2017 REVIEW: SYSTEMATIC (SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF A SUBJECT) Status of cognitive testing of adults in India AP Porrselvi, V Shankar October-December 2017, 20(4):334-340 DOI:10.4103/aian.AIAN_107_17 PMID:29184333 The assessment of cognitive function is a challenging yet an integral component of psychological, psychiatric, and neurological evaluation. Cognitive assessment tools either can be administered quickly for screening for neurocognitive disorders or can be comprehensive and detailed to identify cognitive deficits for the purpose of localization, diagnosis, and rehabilitation. This article is a comprehensive review of published research that discusses the current challenges for cognitive testing in India, available tools used for the assessment of cognitive function in India, and future directions for cognitive testing in India. [ABSTRACT] [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [PubMed] Optical coherence tomography and subclinical optical neuritis in longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis Prakash Kumar Sinha, Deepika Joshi, Virendra Pratap Singh, Sujit Deshmukh, Usha Singh, Abhishek Pathak, Vijay Nath Mishra, Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia, Vivek Sharda, Garima Gupta Objective: The aim is to compare the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness of longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) eyes without previous optic neuritis with that of healthy control subjects. Methods: Over 20 LETM eyes and 20 normal control eyes were included in the study and subjected to optical coherence tomography to evaluate and compare the RNFL thickness. Result: Significant RNFL thinning was observed at 8 o'clock position in LETM eyes as compared to the control eyes (P = 0.038). No significant differences were seen in other RNFL measurements. Conclusion: Even in the absence of previous optic neuritis LETM can lead to subclinical axonal damage leading to focal RNFL thinning. REVIEW: MANAGEMENT UPDATES (REVIEWS ON ADVANCES IN TREATMENT) Efficacy and safety of tacrolimus in myasthenia gravis: A systematic review and meta-analysis Zuojie Zhang, Chunsong Yang, Lingli Zhang, Qiusha Yi, Zilong Hao DOI:10.4103/aian.AIAN_97_17 PMID:29184334 Aims: This study was designed to determine whether treatments with tacrolimus would provide benefit for patients with myasthenia gravis (MG). Materials and Methods: The databases of Medline, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and four Chinese databases were searched for eligible studies. Weighted mean differences and standardized mean differences (SMD) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to summarize the primary outcome, namely, steroid-sparing effect of tacrolimus in maintaining minimal manifestations, and the secondary outcome, namely, the effect of tacrolimus in reducing the severity of MG, respectively. Results: After systematic retrieval, 13 researches with two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and 11 prospective open-label single-arm clinical trials were included in the study. For the primary outcome of two RCTs, one RCT which was followed up for 1 year showed a positive effect and the other RCT which was associated with treatment duration of 28 weeks showed a negative result. For the secondary outcome, meta-analyses of other 11 trials showed a benefit effect, overall. For the quantitative MG (QMG) score, there were significant differences with high heterogeneity (SMD: 2.93; 95% CI: 1.14–4.73; I2 = 86%). In contrast, for MG activities of daily living (MGADL) score, it was reduced by tacrolimus with significant SMD and less heterogeneity (SMD: 0.59; 95% CI: 0.33–0.85; I2 = 7%). Adverse effects were mentioned as mild. Discussion: The opposite results of two RCTs showed that tacrolimus with enough treatment duration might have positive steroid-sparing effect. The most possible cause of heterogeneity in the outcome of QMG score between trials was the baseline severity of MG. Conclusion: The above finding suggests that there might be a potential beneficial role with no serious side effects of tacrolimus, and additional better RCTs including larger sample sizes and long-term study are needed to confirm or refute the results. Speech signal analysis and pattern recognition in diagnosis of dysarthria Minu George Thoppil, C Santhosh Kumar, Anand Kumar, John Amose Background: Dysarthria refers to a group of disorders resulting from disturbances in muscular control over the speech mechanism due to damage of central or peripheral nervous system. There is wide subjective variability in assessment of dysarthria between different clinicians. In our study, we tried to identify a pattern among types of dysarthria by acoustic analysis and to prevent intersubject variability. Objectives: (1) Pattern recognition among types of dysarthria with software tool and to compare with normal subjects. (2) To assess the severity of dysarthria with software tool. Materials and Methods: Speech of seventy subjects were recorded, both normal subjects and the dysarthric patients who attended the outpatient department/admitted in AIMS. Speech waveforms were analyzed using Praat and MATHLAB toolkit. The pitch contour, formant variation, and speech duration of the extracted graphs were analyzed. Results: Study population included 25 normal subjects and 45 dysarthric patients. Dysarthric subjects included 24 patients with extrapyramidal dysarthria, 14 cases of spastic dysarthria, and 7 cases of ataxic dysarthria. Analysis of pitch of the study population showed a specific pattern in each type. F0 jitter was found in spastic dysarthria, pitch break with ataxic dysarthria, and pitch monotonicity with extrapyramidal dysarthria. By pattern recognition, we identified 19 cases in which one or more recognized patterns coexisted. There was a significant correlation between the severity of dysarthria and formant range. Conclusions: Specific patterns were identified for types of dysarthria so that this software tool will help clinicians to identify the types of dysarthria in a better way and could prevent intersubject variability. We also assessed the severity of dysarthria by formant range. Mixed dysarthria can be more common than clinically expected. Female caregivers and stroke severity determines caregiver stress in stroke patients Bindu Menon, P Salini, K Habeeba, Jyoti Conjeevaram, K Munisusmitha Background: Stroke is among the major causes of short- and long-term disability. This study aimed to understand the caregivers (CGs) stress in stroke survivors. Materials and Methods: A 22-item questionnaire was administered to 201 CGs of stroke survivors. The variables tested were physical and mental health, social support, financial, and personal problems. CGs were divided into Group A (Barthel index [BI] <75) and B (BI >75) according to patient's BI, according to gender (male and female CG) and relation; spouses (wife, husband), daughters, sons, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, and rest (father, mother, brother, sister, and in-laws). Data were analyzed using SPSS software version–21. Data were analyzed to determine which variables of the patient effects the CG stress. Results: Majority of the CGs (74.62%) were females. 65% of CGs graded their burden as moderate to severe. 81% of CGs had left their work for caregiving. More than half of the CGs felt sleep disturbance and physical strain. Psychological instability and financial burdens were reported in 3/4th of CGs. Group A CGs faced more sleep, financial, health, and social life disturbance. Patient's bladder and bowel problems, shoulder pain, patients noncooperative attitude for medication administration, and physiotherapy were more upsetting for Group A CGs. Female CGs were subjected to more sleep disturbance, physical and psychological stress, faced more difficulty regarding the patient's bladder, bowel, personal hygiene needs, and physiotherapy. Female CGs felt less motivated in caregiving than male CGs. Wives and daughters-in-law experienced more burden. Time spent and burden perceived was more by female CGs (χ2 = 15.199, P = 0.002) than males (χ2 = 11.931, P = 0.018); wives and daughters than other relations (χ2 = 32.184, P = 0.000), (χ2 = 35.162, P = 0.019). Conclusion: Our study showed that caregiving burden was predominantly shouldered by females CGs. CGs faced physical, psychological, and socioeconomic burden. The burden was more evident in female CGs and in patients with severe stroke. Rapid clinical score for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: A retrospective cohort study Raluca Jipa, Ioana D Olaru, Eliza Manea, Simona Merisor, Adriana Hristea Objective: The aim of our study was to retrospectively validate a previously described rapid clinical score (RCS) in distinguishing tuberculous meningitis (TBM) from viral meningitis (VM) in people who are at increased risk of tuberculosis, as well as from cryptococcal meningitis (CM) in HIV-infected patients. Methods: We performed a retrospective study of patients admitted with a diagnosis of aseptic meningitis between January 2012 and December 2015, to a referral hospital for infectious diseases. The variables included in RCS were duration of symptoms before admission, neurological stage, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to blood glucose ratio, and CSF protein. We included in this retrospective study 31 patients with definite or probable TBM including 14 HIV-infected patients, 62 HIV-noninfected patients with VM, and 18 HIV-infected patients with CM. Results: The sensitivity of RCS to distinguish TBM from VM was 96.7%, with a specificity of 81.1% and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was 0.949 (0.90–0.99). When all four criteria from the RCS were present, the specificity increased at 100%. In HIV-infected patients, the sensitivity and specificity of RCS in differentiating TBM from CM were 86.6% and 27.7%, respectively, and the area under the ROC curve was 0.669 (0.48–0.85). Conclusion: This easy-to-use RCS was found to be helpful in differentiating TBM from VM, with a better sensitivity than molecular amplification techniques and a relatively good specificity. However, the RCS was not useful to differentiate between TBM and CM in HIV-infected patients. Nocardia Farcinica brain abscess in an immunocompetent old patient: A case report and review of literature Dinesh Mohan Chaudhari, Pushpendra Nath Renjen, Raman Sardana, Hena Butta By definition, a brain abscess is an intraparenchymal collection of pus. Nocardia shows to have a special tropism for the neural tissue. Solitary abscess represents the most common manifestation in the central nervous system, accounting for 1%–2% of all cerebral abscesses. In this report, we present a case of primary multiple brain abscesses due to Nocardia farcinica in an immune competent patient. Early diagnosis and surgical intervention is significant for the patient. Refractory myasthenia gravis treated successfully with rituximab: A case report L Yadav Rahul, Tulsiprasad Dakua, Arabinda Mukherjee [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [PubMed] As I sign off Satish V Khadilkar Treatment-related fluctuations in guillain barre syndrome and the conundrum of additional cycles of plasmapheresis Subasree Ramakrishnan, Veerendrakumar Mustare, Mariamma Philip, K Thennarasu, Sunder Periyavan Introduction: In Guillain Barre syndrome (GBS), worsening of weakness or disability after initial period of recovery or stabilization is described as treatment-related fluctuations (TRF). Aim: This study aims to describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of six patients with GBS and TRF. Patients and Methods: Six patients with GBS fulfilling NINCDS criteria, evaluated at a tertiary care university hospital during 2008–2017, were diagnosed to have TRF. They form the basis of this report. Results: All patients were men and their mean age was 40 years. At presentation, mean duration of illness was 15 days; the illness had plateaued in three and progressive in other three patients. Two of the four patients had variant GBS. Initially, five patients were treated with large volume plasmapheresis (LVPP) and one patient with methyl prednisolone. At 17–28 days after disease onset, three patients developed new neurologic deficits (bilateral facial paresis in two; paralytic ileus in one). Other three patients with worsening of limb weakness (medical research council sum score of >5) and disability (Hughes disability grade by ≥1) fulfilled Kleyweg's criteria for TRF. All the six patients were treated with the completion of five cycles or additional cycles of LVPP. Conclusion: Awareness about TRF is essential for correct diagnosis and management of patients with GBS. [ABSTRACT] [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [PubMed] Vagus nerve stimulation modulates complexity of heart rate variability differently during sleep and wakefulness Karthi Balasubramanian, K Harikumar, Nithin Nagaraj, Sandipan Pati Progressive loss of heart rate variability (HRV) and complexity are associated with increased risk of mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease and are a candidate marker for patients at risk of sudden cardiac death. HRV is influenced by the cardiac autonomic nervous system (ANS), although it is unclear which arm of the ANS (sympathetic or parasympathetic) needs to be perturbed to increase the complexity of HRV. In this case–control study, we have analyzed the relation between modulation of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) and changes in complexity of HRV as a function of states of vigilance. We hypothesize that VNS – being a preferential activator of the parasympathetic system – will decrease the heart rate (HR) and increase the complexity of HRV maximum during sleep. The electrocardiogram (EKG) obtained from a 37-year-old, right-handed male with known intractable partial epilepsy and left therapeutic VNS was analyzed during wakefulness and sleep with VNS ON and OFF states. Age-matched control EKG was obtained from five participants (three with intractable epilepsy and two without epilepsy) that had no VNS implant. The study demonstrated the following: (1) VNS increased the complexity of HRV during sleep and decreased it during wakefulness. (2) An increase in parasympathetic tone is associated with increased complexity of HRV even in the presence of decreased HR. These results need to be replicated in a larger cohort before developing patterned stimulation using VNS to stabilize cardiac dysautonomia and prevent fatal arrhythmias. Atherosclerotic carotid plaques: Multimodality imaging with contrast-enhanced ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging Divyata R Hingwala, Kesavadas Chandrasekhakan, Bejoy Thomas, PN Sylaja, M Unnikrishnan, TR Kapilamoorthy Introduction: The imaging of carotid plaques has undergone a paradigm shift increasing importance being given to plaque characterization. Patients with “vulnerable” plaques are more prone to develop future neurovascular events. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of multimodality imaging techniques in the assessment of carotid atherosclerotic plaques. Materials and Methods: Twenty-six patients were prospectively enrolled in the study. Patients underwent multidetector computed tomography (CT) angiography, ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, and high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the carotid arteries with special emphasis on the carotid bifurcation. Results: The mean age of patients was 65.41 years. Twenty-one were males. Plaque neovascularization was seen in 10 of the 18 plaques studied (55.56%). Based on the predominant components of the plaque, plaques were characterized as lipid (3), lipid with recent hemorrhage (1), fibrous (7), fibrofatty (4), fibrofatty with some hemorrhagic components (3), and recent hemorrhage (2). Conclusions: Together, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, CT, and MRI provide complete information about the plaque characteristics. Risk factors, vascular lesion distribution, outcome and recurrence of strokes due to intracranial atherosclerosis: One year data from Hyderabad stroke registry Raghu Ram, Subhash Kaul, Suvarna Alladi, Jabeen S Afshan, T Surya Prabha, Abhijeet Kohat, Swetha Tandra, Jyotsna Y Rani Background: Intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) is a common cause of ischemic stroke in Asian countries and probably in India. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the risk factors, distribution of vascular lesions, recurrence and outcome of stroke due to ICAS. Methodology: A total of 100 consecutive patients of ischemic stroke due to ICAS were enrolled prospectively from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2015, and followed for 1 year for treatment compliance and recurrence. The details about demographics, risk factors, and vascular lesions were noted. Results: There were 68 males and 32 females. Hypertension (HTN), diabetes, alcohol, smoking, hyperlipidemia, and hyperhomocysteinemia was present in 82%, 52%, 34%, 33%, 28%, and 23%, respectively. The number of arteries involved were middle cerebral artery, 53 (37.3%); posterior cerebral artery, 24 (16.9%); internal cerebral artery, 21 (14.8%); vertebral artery, 18 (12.7%); basilar artery, 6 (4.2%); and anterior cerebral artery, 6 (4.2%). Seventeen (17%) patients had a recurrent stroke during 1 year follow-up. The presence of uncontrolled HTN and diabetes mellitus after discharge were significantly associated with stroke recurrence (P < 0.05). The use of dual antiplatelet agents and statins was found to have a significant effect in the prevention of recurrent stroke (P < 0.05). Severe stroke at presentation and presence of hemiparesis were the predictors for unfavorable outcome at 3 months (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Risk factors, distribution of vascular lesions and high recurrence of stroke due to ICAS in this study is similar to that reported from other Asian countries. Aggressive medical management and risk factor control remains the best strategy for preventing recurrence. Anti myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein associated immunoglobulin G (AntiMOG-IgG)-associated neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder with persistent disease activity and residual cognitive impairment Lekha Pandit, Ichiro Nakashima, Sharik Mustafa, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Kimhiko Kaneko Antibodies targeting myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) have been recently reported in association with idiopathic inflammatory central nervous system disorders. Initially believed to be a benign disorder, anti MOG-IgG was noted to cause steroid responsive recurrent optic neuritis and isolated longitudinally extensive myelitis. However, there is growing evidence that the disease may be predominantly relapsing, often producing severe visual loss and involving regions other than the spinal cord and optic nerve. We report an adolescent male with an aggressive disease course previously undescribed in anti MOG-IgG-associated disease that left him with residual cognitive dysfunction. Clinico-Electrophysiological and genetic overlaps and magnetic resonance imaging findings in Charcot–Marie– Tooth disease: A pilot study from Western India Satish Vasant Khadilkar, Nahush D Patil, Nikhil Dhananjay Kadam, Khushnuma A Mansukhani, Bhagyadhan A Patel Background: Charcot–Marie–Tooth (CMT) disease is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. There are no published series describing clinical, electrophysiological, and genetic information on CMT from the Indian subcontinent. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) neurography technique provides useful information about the plexus and roots and can be employed in patients with CMT. Settings and Design: A prospective, observational study carried out at a tertiary care hospital in Western India. Subjects and Methods: CMT patients fulfilling the UK Genetic Testing Network criteria were included. They underwent clinical, electrophysiological, radiological, and multigene panel testing. Results: Totally 22 patients (19 males, 3 females; 18 sporadic and 4 familial cases) were studied. Pes cavus (19), hammer toes (16), and scoliosis was seen in 1 patient. Electrophysiology revealed motor predominant neuropathy with 15 demyelinating (10 uniform and 5 multifocal) and 7 axonal patterns. Thickened lumbosacral plexuses on MRI neurography were evident in 6/10 studied patients, all 6 having demyelinating neuropathy. Genetic analysis identified PMP22, GJB1, SH3TC2, HSPB1, SPTLC2, MPZ, AARS, and NEFH gene mutations. Conclusions: This small series documents the pattern of CMT neuropathies as seen in Western India. Clinico-electrophysiological and genetic diagnosis showed general concordance some overlaps and reiterated advantages of gene panel testing in this heterogeneous group of neuropathies. MRI neurography was useful as an additional investigation to detect nerve enlargement in patients with demyelinating neuropathies. Parkinsonism and tremor complicating long-term cinitapride use Aaron de Souza, Rainha J de Souza Bone health in patients with epilepsy: A community-based pilot nested case–control study Shweta Singla, Sandeep Kaushal, Shalini Arora, Gagandeep Singh Background: Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) adversely affect bone health and there are reports describing association of alternations of bone and mineral metabolism in epileptic patients. Objectives: This study was undertaken to evaluate the bone profile (bone mineral parameters and bone mineral density [BMD]) of patients with epilepsy and compare them to their age-, gender-, and socioeconomic status-matched healthy controls in a community. Materials and Methods: This was a nested case–control study conducted in fifty individuals, which included 25 cases (age above 18 years and on AEDs for at least 3 years) for which 25 controls were selected from the same community. Bone mineral parameters (serum calcium, proteins, phosphorous, alkaline phosphate, parathyroid hormone, and Vitamin D) and BMD were measured. Results: There was significant hypocalcemia (P = 0.003), hypoproteinemia (P = 0.014), hyperparathyroidism (P = 0.048), and increased levels of serum alkaline phosphatase (P = 0.019) in cases as compared to controls. The difference was insignificant in the serum levels of Vitamin D and phosphorous among both the groups. Vitamin D was significantly low in female patients as compared to males (P = 0.043). There was no significant difference in BMD at the lumbar spine and femur neck among both the groups. Mean duration of epilepsy was longest in patients with osteoporosis (23.6 years), and increasing duration of epilepsy was associated with reduction in age- and sex-corrected total BMD mean Z-score anteroposterior spine. There was negative correlation between cumulative drug load and T-score of patients with epilepsy. Conclusion: Patients on long-term AED treatment have altered bone profile as evident from biochemical parameters and reduced BMD. There is a need for more extensive research and that too on a larger sample size. Cutaneous adverse drug reactions to lamotrigine and human leukocyte antigen typing in North Indian patients: A case series Shivani Srivastava, Bhargavi Ramanujam, Kavish Ihtisham, Manjari Tripathi Cutaneous adverse drug reaction (cADR) has limited epidemiological data in India. The older antiepileptic drugs, i.e., carbamazepine, phenytoin, valproic acid, phenobarbitone, etc., induce severe cADRs that have a strong associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-related genetic risk factors. There is also evidence of association of certain HLA alleles with lamotrigine (LTG)-induced cADRs, but this has not been reported in the Indian population. Here, we report case series of three patients with LTG-induced “Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS).” Their HLA-B typing was also performed which showed the presence of HLA-B*15:02 in one case with SJS. Quality indicators of intravenous thrombolysis from North India Akanksha Grace William, Aman Pannu, Mahesh Pundlik Kate, Vineeth Jaison, Leenu Gupta, Smrithi Bose, Rajeshwar Sahonta, Ivy Sebastian, Jeyaraj Durai Pandian Background: Data on intravenous (IV) thrombolysis using tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) are limited from low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to assess the quality indicators of IV thrombolysis in our stroke unit. Methods All stroke patients admitted in our hospital from October 2008 to April 2017 were included in this study. Data were collected prospectively by trained research staff in a detailed case record form. Outcome was assessed using modified Rankin Scale (mRS, 0–1 good outcome). Results: Of the total 4720 stroke patients seen, 944 (20%) came within window period (<4.5 h). Of these, 214 (4.5%) were eligible for thrombolysis and 170 (3.6%) were thrombolysed, relatives of 23 (23/214, 10.7%) patients denied consent, and 21 (9.8%) patients could not afford tPA. The mean age of thrombolysed patients was 58.4 (range 19–95) years. Median NIHSS at admission was 12 (interquartile range 2–24). Average onset-to-door (O-D) time was 76.8 (5–219) min, door-to-examination (D-E) time was 17.8 (5–105) min, door-to-CT (D-CT) time was 48 (1–205) min, and door-to-needle (D-N) time was 90 (20–285) min. At 6 months, 110 (64.7%) patients were contactable and 82 (74.5%) patients had good outcome (mRS 0–1). Conclusion: Thrombolysis rate has steadily increased at the center without undue adverse effects even in the elderly. D-E and D-CT times have reduced, but O-D and D-N times need further improvement. More patients could be thrombolysed if the cost of tPA is reduced and the consent process is waived. Subcutaneous injection of botulinum Toxin-A in postherpetic neuralgia during pregnancy Pratik Jain, Meena Jain, Shailendra Jain Johann bernhard aloys von Gudden and the Mad King of Bavaria Kalyan B Bhattacharyya Bernhard von Gudden was a psychiatrist in Prussia and he was summoned in March 1886 to examine King Ludwig II for his apparently insane activities like, profligate spending and erratic behaviour. A team of four estimable psychiatrists pronounced that he was not capable ruling. Consequently, he was dethroned and kept in a castle under supervision of von Gudden. Gudden championed the idea of 'no restraint' and advocated free movement of insane persons and one evening in June, he accompanied the King during an evening stroll to a lake. A few hours later, the corpus of both of them were recovered under mysterious circumstances. Autopsy suggested that the King was drowned but no post-mortem examination was performed on von Gudden. There are plenty of controversies regarding their death like, murder, accidental death or even natural death from cardiac arrest following immersion in cold water, but no incontrovertible conclusion could be arrived at, even after scrupulous analysis by historians and even the diagnosis of insanity of the King has been doubted. Some even suggested that the opinion of psychiatrists were sought as a pretense in order to depose the King. Carbamazepine-induced seizure in a nonepileptic child Rajesh Benny, Vyankatesh Bolegave, Sameer Sadavarte, Vinayak Khatav Subdural empyema in disseminated histoplasmosis Mansoor C Abdulla, Ram Narayan, Neena Mampilly, Prem Kumar A rare presentation of a nondiscogenic cause of acute lumbar radiculopathy Lobo Manuel Alexander, Vivek Jacob Philip Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 sans retinal degeneration: A phenotypic variability Rohan R Mahale, Anish Mehta, Abhishek Miryala, Rangasetty Srinivasa Simultaneous miliary lesions of brain and lungs: A diagnostic challenge Ravindra Kumar Garg, Hardeep Singh Malhotra, Neeraj Kumar, Rajan Ingole, Shweta Pandey A sibling pair with autosomal recessive Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease due to novel ganglioside-induced differentiation-associated protein 1 mutation Poornima Amit Shah, Amit M Shah	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line434
__label__wiki	0.786825	0.786825	Posts Tagged ‘Youssef Fadel’ Arabic Booker 2014: Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi Posted by: adonis49 on: May 29, 2014 In: biographies/books \| Book Review \| cities/geography \| Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts \| social articles Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi wins Arabic Booker 2014 Sayed Mahmoud in Abu Dhabi, posted this Apr. 29, 2014 Iraqi writer and novelist Ahmed Saadawi has won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel Frankenstein in Baghdad Iraqi winner receiving his prize from the head of the judging panel The $50,000 prize was announced on Tuesday during the opening of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. The shortlist, announced on 10 February, included Egypt’s Ahmed Mourad, Syria’s Khaled Khalifa, Iraqi authors Inaam Kashachi and Ahmed Saadawi and Moroccan authors Youssef Fadel and Abdel-Rahim Lahbibi. All shortlisted finalists receive $10,000. This year’s judges panel was headed by Saudi critic Saad A. Al-Bazei and included Ahmed Al-Faitouri, Libyan journalist, novelist and playwright; Zhor Gourram, Moroccan academic, critic and novelist; Abdullah Ibrahim, Iraqi academic and critic and Mehmet Hakki Suçin, a Turkish academic specializing in Arabic language instruction and the translation of Arabic literature into Turkish. The IPAF is an annual literary prize supported by the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by TCA Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The prize was launched in Abu Dhabi in April 2007 with the aim of atracting more international attention for high quality Arab fiction. Both the winners and finalists can look forward to increased book sales both within the Arab world and internationally through translation. Although the prize is often referred to as the Arabic Booker, the two prizes are not connected. The winner: Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet and screenwriter. He was born in 1973 in Baghdad, where he works as a documentary filmmaker. He is the author of a volume of poetry, Anniversary of Bad Songs (2000), and three novels, The Beautiful Country (2004), Indeed He Dreams or Plays or Dies (2008) and Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013). He has won several prizes and in 2010 was selected for Beirut39 as one of the 39 best Arab authors below the age of 40. Short Synopsis: Frankenstein in Baghdad Hadi Al-Attag lives in the populous Al-Bataween district of Baghdad. In the spring of 2005, he takes the body parts of those killed in explosions and sews them together to create a new body. When a displaced soul enters the body, a new being comes to life. Hadi call it “the-what’s-its-name“, while the authorities name it “Criminal X” and others refer to it as “Frankenstein”. Frankenstein begins a campaign of revenge against those who killed the previous owners of its body parts. As well as following Frankenstein’s story, the novel follows a number of connected characters, such as General Surur Majid of the Department of Investigation, who is responsible for pursuing the mysterious criminal, and Mahmoud Al-Sawadi, a young journalist who gets the chance to interview Frankenstein. Frankenstein in Baghdad offers a panoramic view of a city where people live in fear of the unknown, are unable to act in solidarity and are haunted by the unknown identity of the criminal who targets them all. Arabic booker shortlist published Egyptian writer Ahmed Mourad, Syrian Khaled Khalifa, shortlisted in Arabic Booker Tags: Abdel-Rahim Lahbibi., Abdullah Ibrahim, Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, adonis49, Ahmed Al-Faitouri, Ahmed Mourad, Ahmed Saadawi, Al-Bataween district, Anniversary of Bad Songs, Arabic Booker, Arabic Booker 2014, Frankenstein in Baghdad, Inaam Kashachi, Indeed He Dreams or Plays or Dies, International Prize for Arabic Fiction, International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), Iraqi novelist, Khaled Khalifa, Mehmet Hakki Suçin, Saad A. Al-Bazei, Sayed Mahmoud, The Beautiful Country, Youssef Fadel, Zhor Gourram	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line438
__label__wiki	0.968049	0.968049	Ad ExperiencesCreate with SpotifyNews & InsightsInspiration Exploring earth with the BBC The furthest reaches of our planet don’t just look different. They sound different, too. Spotify and the BBC teamed up to give listeners a journey around the world, while championing a message of conservation. No passport required. Prove how the rich visual world of the BBC’s docu-series, Seven Worlds, One Planet, rests on the power of sound — including the dulcet tones of Sir David Attenborough and the calls of Mother Nature. Sure, we could’ve taken cuts of the show’s episodes and ran them as ads. But we knew it’d take a lot more than that to capture younger listeners’ interest. Armed with a library of the world’s highest-quality nature footage, a well-known host, and new reporting on animal populations that need our help the most, we wondered: How do we give Spotify fans a new way to see and hear the world around them? When you’re deep in a playlist or podcast, the last thing you expect to hear is waves crashing. Or wind howling. Or birds and monkeys calling. Spotify and the BBC worked together to create 3D audio ads that briefly transported listeners to another world, followed by an instantly familiar voice: Sir David Attenborough. All together, the campaign brought the BBC’s iconic nature programming to a new generation of younger listeners — particularly the 16-34 crowd. Spotify x BBC Those 3D audio ads led listeners to the Seven Worlds, One Planet experience on Spotify. The hub featured mini-episodes about each continent, as well as Academy award-winning composer Hans Zimmer’s original score. Special episodes of the BBC Earth podcast also helped fans dive even deeper into the topics covered by the show. From the vivid soundscapes in each 3D audio ad to exclusive episodes on the BBC Earth Podcast, every single touchpoint celebrated Earth’s natural wonders — and why they’re worth protecting. We think Sir David would approve. Media Impressions Millions clicked, watched, and listened to the Seven Worlds, One Planet experience on Spotify. Share of viewers among 16- to 34-year-olds Younger Spotify fans were especially engaged, making up 30% of all campaign views.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line439
__label__cc	0.527072	0.472928	HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING PDF You are here: Home > West Coast > History of psychiatric nursing pdf History Of Psychiatric Nursing PPT Xpowerpoint. Interesting hub. I was expecting to find a little more information on the history of psychiatric nursing based on the title. Hildegard Peplau would have been a good person to mention, as she was one of the first psychiatric nursing theorists and the founder of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship theory., 40 CHAPTER 3 The Psychiatric Nursing Assessment Introduction The evaluation of psychiatric clients is a multifac-eted endeavor, most effectively performed by an interdisciplinary team of mental health profes-sionals. A comprehensive, holistic psychiatric as-sessment examines the physical, psychological,. Introduction and Historical development of Psychiatric Nursing Chapter 1 History of Psychiatric Nursing Flashcards Quizlet. Start studying Chapter 1: History of Psychiatric Nursing. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools., 6. Recognize the history and trends in psychiatric nursing 7. Describe general anxiety disorders and its sub classifications (clinical manifestations, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment prognosis and complications) 8. List the sub-classifications of mental illness Definition Psychiatric nursing is the branch of nursing concerned with the. 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Mental disorders are often diagnosed in accordance with clinical concepts listed in diagnostic manuals such as the International Classification вЂ¦ Jul 26, 2015В В· history of psychiatry 1. 1 2. ancient ages : egypt, greece and rome middle ages : arab islamic influence renaissance and witchcraft seventeenth century : incarceration of the insane eighteenth century nineteenth century and early 20th century middle 20th century and late 20th century indian perspectives references вЂўtheory of degeneration вЂўfunctional description of psychoses вЂўmedical Initial psychiatric assessment of a person typically begins with a case history and mental status examination.Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. 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People and parent pillars The people pillar is unsurprisingly concerned with the people behind the fund and therefore meetings with the fund manager are once again utilised. We determine whether a fund manager has sufficient and relevant experience for a fund’s mandate and evaluate the level of analyst support. The people page of the report states the years of management experience and the number of managers running the fund. But this data is only important in relation to the stated process. For example, a global equity fund managed by a single manager may seem under resourced on paper. But if the manager is applying a quantitative process to select stocks then there is less need for a big analyst team. The quant model does much of the heavy lifting ordinarily undertaken by stock analysts. In contrast, a larger team would be needed for fund managers applying bottom-up, research-intensive approaches. Parent is the only pillar not directly related to a fund. This fourth pillar is a group-wide assessment of an asset manager. The parent page states the proportion of a firm’s funds holding a Morningstar Analyst Rating, the size of the firm’s largest funds and the amount of assets dedicated to the major asset classes of equity, bonds, commodities and property. The fifth and final pillar is price which evaluates whether a fund’s fees are low enough for it to outperform its peers. Our studies have shown that fees are one of the best indicators of a fund’s future performance. Below-average costs give a fund manager an automatic head start over peers’ by lowering the hurdle a manager has to overcome to beat the benchmark. The price page states how much a fund costs in absolute terms and, more importantly, relative to its peer group. Our five-pillar approach to rating funds has not been designed to serve as a formula, but as a robust analytical framework ensuring consistency across Morningstar’s global coverage universe. The Analyst Rating is intended to supplement investors’ and advisers’ own work on funds. The research reports outline the rationale for a rating and, more importantly, outlines how a fund is likely to behave from a forward-looking perspective.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line442
__label__cc	0.733496	0.266504	A Season of Adventure by Patricia Simmonds A Season of Adventure Date added: 21.3.2015 FB2PDFEPUB This book had its origin in a daily journal I kept when accompanying my late husband, Professor Stuart Simmonds, at that time a Lecturer in Tai Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on a field trip in ContinentalMoreThis book had its origin in a daily journal I kept when accompanying my late husband, Professor Stuart Simmonds, at that time a Lecturer in Tai Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on a field trip in Continental South-East Asia in the middle 1950s. The part of the world we visited then has changed enormously during the past half century and has been riven by wars, upheavals and political chicanery. A Season of Adventure by Patricia Simmonds The Feminist Economics of Functional Finance: A Social Provisioning Approach Kleiner Junge Jack Uncaged: The Biography of Nicholas Cage Gottes Kinder: Seelensplitter Econoguide Las Vegas 2003: Also includes Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Laughlin Prekäres Wissen: Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit Dideetones	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line445
__label__cc	0.642233	0.357767	Hello. Welcome to my blog about British archive television. This will highlight programmes I’ve been watching whilst my Twitter feed – embedded in the blog and also directly accessable via @archivetvmus71 – contains many more archive treats. The posts are broken up into categories (by decade and type – comedy, drama, etc). You can also explore via the tags lower down the page. Many of the programmes which have multiple posts can also be accessed via the top of the main menu (BBC/ITV/Christmas TV/Doctor Who/Grange Hill). These top menu options have the posts re-arranged from oldest to newest (WordPress blogs display the newest posts by default). So if you’re looking to read about, say, The Day of the Triffids episode by episode, then selecting it via the BBC button next to the Home button is the best option – since the posts will be in the correct order! If you notice any broken links or have any comments or suggestions then please leave a message on the relevant post or drop me an email at archivetvmusings@gmail.com I also have a theatre related blog at Theatre Musings. Ian Duerden says: I enjoy your reviews… journeys down nostalgia lane. Hope one day to see Quatermass added to your impressive list. Ian Duerden Thanks, happy to hear you’re enjoying my ramblings! Quatermass is ceetainly on the rewatch list, so keep an eye out. Good site you’ve got here. When do you think you will be posting more Grange Hill eps? Cheers. I’m going pick up GH again in the next month or so, probably around the end of October. What do you think of this? http://www.avclub.com/article/take-a-look-at-the-unearthed-pilot-for-emdays-like-100482 The article talked about an attempt to make a UK version of “That 70s Show” called “Days Like These”. Not sure if that episode was unaired, since IMDB (who I know are hardly the bastions of accuracy) have it as the first transmitted episode. There are several unscreened eps though, so a DVD release would have a certain curiosity value, even if the entertainment value was low. You can see some episodes of “Days Like these” on Youtube I run an official “Are You Being Served?” site at: http://www.aybscentral.com I would be very interested in using the pictures of Alfie Bass and Ferdy Mayne from the following page: https://newlandofwelinton.wordpress.com/tag/alfie-bass/ on my site at: http://www.aybscentral.com/abass/aybsalfiebass.html http://www.aybscentral.com/fmayne/aybsferdymayne.html Please let me know of I can do this or not and if so, how you would like to be credited. Elina M. Lampart areyoubeingserved.tv Realweegiemidget says: Hi, would love any reviews with any stars from TVs #Dallas https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/announcing-the-darlin-dallasers-blogathon/ In the early series of Grange Hill, was there just a single sixth form rather than a lower and upper sixth> Yes, seemed to be. The concept of an upper sixth form wasn’t seen until the 1990’s. zanygang says: The sixth form storylines in Grange Hill were clagg Also according to this website http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/grange-hill/44059/grange-hill-revisiting-12-memorable-school-trips There were to have been two more episodes of Series 3 of Grange Hill which were abandoned due to cutbacks at the BBC. The completion of the outdoors centre would have been the GH Series 3 finale andeanartisansblog says: Huge fan of The Sandbaggers. Thanks for your insightful reviews! Greetings from Peru Nick Hughes says: Great site, do you take requests? Thanks! Feel free to suggest a few programmes and if any are the sort of things I’m interested in they may surface at a later date 🙂 Chris Clark says: Have you covered “Within These Walls”? It was a 70s prison drama featuring Denys Hawthorne as Dr Peter Mayes Haven’t got that one, although I’ve thought in the past it might be something worth checking out. Will you be doing Series 12 of Grange Hill soon? It’s on my to do list, I’m hoping to tackle both S12 and S13 before the end of the year. Do your tweets about Adam Adamant Lives! mean that we can soon look forward to some reviews of the series? At the moment I’m just tweeting, but it might be a good series to write a little about. Watch this space …. Have you done any Blackadder? Not yet, maybe one day …. Do your recent tweets of “The Champions” mean that we can soon look forward to seeing a review of this series here? I’ll probably get round to blogging about it eventually – although one of the plusses of tweeting regularly is that I can briefly cover many more series than I’d ever be able to if I was blogging an episode by episode overview. Maybe once I’ve gone through the whole series I might do just a few posts, looking more briefly at the individual episodes whilst taking an overview of the whole series. Something to mull over 🙂 True. Having just (re)watched “Carnival of Monsters” I now know the source of the quotation on your Twitter page! I was curious about the source of your OTD postings on Twitter. BBC Genome is a good resource for jogging the memory, but I haven’t found an equivalent resource for the ITV regions. I use the British Newspaper Archive for gathering these listings, an excellent resource, albeit one that you have to pay for. But a year’s sub isn’t that costly (works out at about the cost of an average print magazine each month). From your Twitter posts: “Prepping for my next blog project – an episode by episode trot through The Champions.” Looking forward to seeing these! What do you think of reality TV like Geordie Shore? Not the sort of programme I’d ever watch. I’ll stick with the likes of The Plane Makers and Public Eye … Can I interest you in a radio review? Maybe! Please drop me an email with some info. I’ve done the reviews Where can I send you an email? archivetvmusings@gmail.com. Thanks 🙂 emmerdalefan1972 says: Love your Corrie section! You don’t happen to have anything on Emmerdale Farm? The 1975-1989 episodes are quite rare and also not as near as sleepy as the press made out. Not tackled the 1970’s and 1980’s Emmerdale Farm on the blog yet, but from what I’ve seen of the Network releases it’s very much up my street, so I’ll probably get round to it eventually 🙂 Thanks! My favourite era was 1983-1986. There were three main villains and a few minor villains throughout this time. The show also became a bit darker, and the creator hated the amount of violence, blood/gore and how the show had been sexed up a bit, however it saw it’s peak ratings in 1985. Unfortunately, this is also the time with the least amount of available episodes. Storylines included Harry Mowlam’s hate campaign against the Sugdens (he knocked Jackie Merrick off his motorbike and fled in January 1984), Derek Warner, Tom Merrick and Kevin Haynes poaching at the Home Farm Fish Farm with explosives in March/April 1984, Jack Sugden’s affair with his step-daughter’s friend/co-worker in late 1984, some sort of fire or incident in February 1985 (not enough info to know what happened), Jackie’s serious vehicle accident after colliding with Alan Turner’s land rover on his motorbike in April 1985, Harry, Derek and Keith Johnson committing armed robbery, also with explosives (episode isn’t available online but from later episodes it sounds like Derek killed someone during the incident), Dolly Skilbeck’s miscarriage caused by Harry, the Who Killed Harry Mowlam storyline in January 1986, in which the assailant wasn’t revealed until April, when Derek took vicar Donald Hinton hostage. Do your recent Twitter posts on Department S mean that we can soon look forward to some reviews here? I’ve a hankering to do some more ITC blogging, so it’s certainly on the list. Finding the time is the problem, but it’ll happen sooner or later 🙂 Does anyone else remember a series called Mother Nature’s Bloomers? Am I the only person who thinks bringing back Crackerjack is a really ****** idea? Does anyone remember a series from 1983 called The Old Men at the Zoo? I was interested to see your recent tweets on State Of Emergency with Patrick Mower and William Gaunt. I remember seeing this 1975 and it made a strong impression. Do you know of any available recordings of this ? I haven’t come across any. Hi Dennis. Drop me an email at archivetvmusings@gmail.com and I’ll point you in the direction of a download 🙂 Further to my reviews of 25 Years of Rock, Radio 6 have just started another rerun of the series Rather bizarrely they’re showing the first twenty-three series on twenty-five consecutive nights, then a twelve day gap before the last two programmes from the original series, and they’re not playing the eighties episodes until the second week of January. The previous reruns would be on thirty consecutive nights, and it would be timed so that the last episode, which finishes with Band Aid, would be on Christmas Eve. I notice from your Twitter posts that you are watching the 1960’s Batman. Does that mean that we can soon look forward to some reviews here? Maybe! I’ll see how I go with them …. And what about “The Invaders”? Did anyone celebrate Patrick Troughton’s centenary this week? I watched Enemy of the World, and Web of Fear on the following evening I toasted him with The Krotons and his Colditz episode. Not a bad double-header 🙂 zanyhorse says: And this morning I watched The Dominators I think the Krotons was the first episode of Doctor Who saw. I was only four years old then so my parents usually didn’t have it on. And of course it was shown in 1981 as part of The Five Faces of Doctor Who. And later that day I watch The Mind Robber CLIVE HUGGETT says: Sadly I’ve just learned that Hamish Wilson, a guest actor in The Mind Robber, died last week I’d love to see Patrick Troughton’s Paul of Tarsus, which I enjoyed watching as a child, but as far as I know, it’s lost forever… Paul of Tarsus still exists complete, so it may very well surface one day. Given that DVD releases are becoming scarcer, the iPlayer might be its best bet. That’s interesting. I didn’t know. Perhaps there’s a hope it will surface somewhere, then. I remember having the tie-in book, which must have been one of the first TV tie-ins I ever owned. Have you come across this Professionals website? http://www.mark-1.co.uk/Professionals/home.htm I found it is a superb site. Yes, plenty of interesting info there. I’m thinking of doing an overview of Disney Time. Does anyone know where I can find some information (apart from BBC Genome)? Daniel James Webb says: zanygang Try http://www.tvrdb.com Also if you’re in the UK and you have a library card for your local council’s library service then you may be able to use it to get free access to The Times archive or to another newspaper archive (check your local library service’s website to find out what you have access to). There are also some free UK newspapers on Google newspapers, with the Glasgow Herald being one of the most useful for TV listings (with the obvious proviso that there are some regional variations to the listings because of it being a Scottish newspaper). The British Newspaper Archive is a good resource – you can search for free, although if you want to view the results then you’ll need to take out a sub. Talking Pictures TV (channel 81) have just started some screenings of The Adventures of Robin Hood with Richard Greene and The Adventures of Sir Lancelot with William Russell Does the BBC series Michael Bentine Time still exist? I don’t mean Michael Bentine’s Potty Time which was broadcast on ITV. Michael Bentine Time was broadcast on BBC1 on Friday’s children’s tv slot in 1972. This was the first programme to feature the Potties, but it also featured the flea circus, unusual inventions in Yesterday’s World, and a sketch at the end with two children from the audience. Peter Glaze made a guest appearance in one episode as a vet. All gone, according to TV Brain. https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=michael+bentine+time&type=lostshow An interesting site. It might be more useful if they listed the programmes that did exist as well I believe they do (but you have to register and pay for that). Russell Mariacher says: Hello! Just thought you’d like to know (if you didn’t already) episodes of ANGELS from Series 3-9 are currently available on YT on The Good Old Days channel. Catch them while you can… What happened to your Alec Guinness avatar? Funny, I was recently wondering that myself! I didn’t remove it, so maybe something happened when I swooped email addresses over. I’ll have to look into it. Does anyone remember Cult TV magazine? (It was published between 1997 & 98) Does anyone remember a series with the late Frank Windsor did with Francis Matthews and Anna Massey called The Middlemen? Doesn’t ring a bell, I’ll keep an eye out for it. Does anyone know where I can find the tv listings for ITV on New Year’s Eve 1979? Try this link – That took me back Do you remember those little rectangles that appeared in the TV Times listings with symbols for the type of programme? This was the last TV Times to feature those A basic listing for the London area can be found here https://tvrdb.com/listings/1979-12-31 You will see more detail for each programme if you join the TVRDB project. Most of us could name all the Blue Peter pets, but can anyone name the Play School pets? I’ve just learned from you website that Mark Eden has died. Funnily I always think of him as the actor who played Marco Polo in Doctor, even though I’ve never seen that story obviously can’t see it. It is top of my list of Doctor Who stories I’d like to see returned the the BBC. The Champions - The Experiment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line458
__label__cc	0.6605	0.3395	ArtLeaks It is time to break the silence! Artleak Your Case ArtLeaks Gazette Related Causes Victoria Lomasko’s Pussy Riot Drawings Censored from Feminist Exhibition “International Women’s Day” (Moscow, Russia) tags: Aleksandra Ivanova, Alexey Knedlyakovsky, Anton Nikolaev, Censorhsip, Chronicles of Resistance, Dmitry Cherny, Drive Putin Out, feminism, Feminist Initiative, Feminist Pencil, International Women's Day, Kapitalina Ivanova, Left Front, Manezh, Moscow, Mother of God, Natalia Kamenetskaya, Olesya Turkina, political repression, Pussy Riot, Victoria Lomasko via Victoria Lomasko Four of Victoria Lomasko’s drawings were removed from the exhibition “International Women’s Day. Feminism: From the Avant-Garde to the Present,” curated by Manezh director Marina Loshak, the State Russian Museum’s Olesya Turkina, and Natalia Kamenetskaya, which opened on March 7th, 2013 at the Manezh Museum and Exhibition Center “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” in Moscow. In recent years, Lomasko has been in the middle of the most radical social and political events in Russia, depicting the trials of members of the contemporary art community and activists, mass protests, as well as life in the Russian provinces. As the artist herself related the incident: The organizers took down a drawing depicting the [LGBTQ] rainbow rally column, one with the nationalists shouting “Pussy Riot – in the trash!”, and a portrait of a pensioner who wants to participate in the punk prayer [The woman holds a placard saying “What a talent for treating people like idiots” and exclaims “Well done, Pussy Riot! I’d sing ‘Mother of God, Drive Putin Out!’ with them”]. The curators of the exhibition explained that any mention of Pussy Riot is dangerous today. The remaining fourth drawing, is a quite harmless portrait of Kapitalina Ivanova, a communist. One of the curators of “International Women’s Day,” Natalia Kamenetskaya commented that : “This a very low quality work. It is more appropriate for “The Feminist Pencil,” [Feministski Karandash, an exhibition co-organized by Lomasko last fall] but not for this exhibition.” Curator Olesya Turkina added that: “This is an exhibition, not a boudoir.” And so, “Kapitalina Ivanova” was also removed. Three of Victoria Lomasko’s drawings censored from the exhibition Lomasko’s portrait of Kapitalina Ivanova, so named in honor of Marx’s Capital The activist group “Feminist Initiative” and the artistic association “Feminist pencil” remarked that “the censorship of works related to the renowned women political prisoners convicted for their feminist performance, discredits the feminist focus of this exhibition.” In support of Lomasko, members of the “Street Art Union,” Anton Nikolaev and Alexey Knedlyakovsky, as well as the writer Dmitry Cherny, one of the leaders of the Left Front, distributed postcards with the censored works and replaced the drawings with copies where they should have hung in the exhibition. Anton Nikolaev re-posting Lomasko’s censored drawings Lomasko added: For this exhibition, I originally proposed my series “Feminine,” as I thought it would be the most relevant. However, the organizers asked me to chose some works related to feminism from my series “Chronicles of Resistance.” Therefore, I chose portraits of women participating in the recent rallies in Russia. The assistant curator told the activists distributing postcards with the censored works that Lomasko was not invited to participate in the exhibition at all. But, as it turns out, her works were mentioned in the exhibition catalogue. The email below documents the agreement between Aleksandra Ivanova, the assistant curator and Lomasko, arranging the transportation of the latter’s works for the exhibition. In the end, Lomasko’s works were returned to her together with a contract from the Manezh, stating that the original number of works was indeed four. It is also worth mentioning that the exhibition “International Women’s Day. Feminism: From the Avant-Garde to the Present” did not include “Pussy Riot,” arguably the most prominent feminist group in Russia today. Please also see “What Happened at the exhibition International Women’s Day. Feminism: From the Avant-Garde to the Present”? from → activism, anti-corruption movement, Anti-facsism, Art Workers, Censorship, Collective Protest, Contemporary Art, Corruption, political repression, Queer Rights, Russian Society, Self-organization, State Security, Women's rights ← Does the Ludwig Museum have a contemporary future? (Budapest, Hungary) What happened at the exhibition “International Women’s Day. Feminism: From Avant-Garde to the Present”? (Moscow, Russia) → Maria Sanchez permalink Thanks for writing this post. Lee-Anne Raymond (@leeanneart) permalink Disgraceful conduct by the curatorial staff. I have re blogged this article too. nedhamson permalink Reblogged this on Ned Hamson Second Line View of the News and commented: Shameful but no surprise… Jasmina Tumbas permalink Reblogged this on jasminatumbas. Victoria Lomasko, Other Russias – Nonwestern Literature Fall 2017 Victoria Lomasko's Pussy Riot Drawings Censored from Feminist Exhibition "International Women's Day" (Moscow, Russia) \| Vusdafrique \| Scoop.it Victoria Lomasko's Pussy Riot Drawings Censored from Feminist Exhibition "International Women's Day" (Moscow, Russia) \| Gender and art \| Scoop.it Artleaks on Facebook Enter your email address to subscribe to Artleaks and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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__label__cc	0.528633	0.471367	Alyssa Mackay \| Writer Australian writer, copywriter and blogger. The Truth About Writing Murder Posted on September 18, 2017 by alyssamackay Earlier this month, I attended the Brisbane Writers Festival which is always a great opportunity for like-minded people to connect and discuss what they are passionate about. This year’s theme was The Big Issue (the big stories and the little ones in between) – exploring how writers create fictional and real worlds through their voices and stories. As a mystery writer, I checked out the Morbid Minds session with award-winning thriller writer, James Phelan, and Sarah Schmidt, author of one of my favourite books of 2017, See What I Have Done. James and Sarah were interviewed by Paul Barclay from ABC Radio National about the fascination people have with murder and gruesome crimes. James Phelan and Sarah Schmidt are interviewed by Paul Barclay at the Brisbane Writers Festival, 9 September 2017 I’ve always been interested in murder mysteries – for me it’s the puzzle and the challenge of trying to work out ‘whodunit’. I need to know the truth. What really happened? As James said, “… through fiction you can get to a truth you can’t get though any other medium.” The role of fiction is writing about the world around us and making sense of it; using writing to figure something out. For most, murder is an incomprehensible act. Writers can use fiction as a way of providing possible answers to questions beyond the realm of our understanding. What drives a person to kill? What was going through their mind at the time of the murder? For others, the fascination may be purely voyeuristic – revealing a person’s secrets and seeing things you wouldn’t normally be ‘allowed’ to see. In Emily Maguire’s 2016 novel, An Isolated Incident, crime reporter May Norman contemplates how a murder opens up private lives in an extreme way. The respect usually given to a person who died of natural causes is often disregarded when someone is murdered, and it is deemed almost helpful or necessary to make public the private life of the victim and those close to them. “The squishy, reeking black truth of it was that reading about murder thrilled her in the exact same way, she supposed, that it thrilled the masses who snapped up true-crime books in the millions and watched cheesy crime re-enactment shows and moody, gritty cable dramas. It was just so intimate.” As part of the discussion, Paul Barclay noted that recent studies have shown more women are reading and writing crime fiction. He posed the question to Sarah, who agreed that yes, “women do things”. (Amazing, but true). Sarah said part of the reason Lizzie Borden was acquitted was because the jury could not fathom a woman, let alone one who was white, wealthy and a Sunday school teacher, being capable of such a violent act. Sarah also raises an interesting point in this interview with Sisters in Crime – why are violent women often viewed as worse than violent men? How much have things changed since Lizzie Borden’s trial in 1892? In her historical fiction workshop, Sarah asked – what is your story really about? For example, See What I Have Done is much more than a novel about the Borden axe-murders. Although Sarah speculates upon what really may have happened that fateful day, the truth she is really exploring is – what happens in a family where there is no more love? For this particular family, the consequences are horrifyingly violent. It’s not a nice thing to think about. But as Sarah said: “If you can make your reader feel uncomfortable then I think you’ve done a good job.” Many people are fascinated by murder, but the main message, or the ‘big issue’, that I’ve taken away from attending these sessions is writing to get to the truth, to make sense of the world. This is something that doesn’t only apply to crime fiction or stories about murder and violent crimes, but to all stories, across all genres of fiction. So, what is your story really about? What truth are you trying to make sense of? Buy See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt here. Learn more about and buy copies of James Phelan’s books here. Brisbane Writers Festival, State Library of Queensland Mystery of the Month – Crossing the Lines Mystery of the Month – Force of Nature 8 thoughts on “The Truth About Writing Murder” samanthahouseblog says: “The role of fiction is writing about the world around us and making sense of it; using writing to figure something out.” Love that sentence! It’s exactly how I feel about writing and one of the reasons I do it. Great post Alyssa and I hope you had fun at the Brisbane Writers Festival. alyssamackay says: Thanks Sam! I love these panel discussions – they’re always so interesting, no matter what the topic is. mariemclean says: It sounds like you attended a really interesting session. And it’s interesting, because the publisher (Fremantle Press) I recently pitched to are hungry for crime novels, especially if written by women. You might need to move to Perth! I loved An Isolated Incident (it was my pick for the Miles Franklin this year), and I’m yet to read See What I Have Done – but I’ve heard so many good things about it, it’s on my TBR Aren’t writing festivals the most absorbing and fulfilling way to spend a day?! Might they still want me? Brisbane is kind of like Perth. Both states. Same country. They both have… rivers. Of course! Head on over! See you soon! Also, I definitely do recommend See What I Have Done. You know how sometimes the books you read can get a bit ‘samey’ and you feel like you’ve read it before? Not this book! That’s why I like it so much. Louise Allan says: I love the sentence Sam mentions above, too, about writing to get to the truth and make sense of the world. The question, ‘What is your story really about?’ is so important because good books are always about more than what they appear to be. I also love Sarah Schmidt’s answer, ‘Women do things.’ I remember reading a scathing article in a big newspaper after ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Girl on the Train’ became such hits, saying they were anti-feminist because they depicted women as raging psychopaths. I thought the article was quite unfair, because just like our male counterparts, women do commit murder, and I actually think that to depict us all as ‘nice’ is the antifeminist take. Thanks for this insight into crime fiction! Thanks for reading the post and for your comments, Louise. It seems very odd to suggest gender has something to do with whether a person does ‘good’ or ‘bad’ things, doesn’t it? View alyssamackayauthor’s profile on Facebook View alyssamackay’s profile on Twitter View alyssamackay’s profile on Instagram View alyssa_mackay’s profile on Pinterest	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line463
__label__cc	0.521842	0.478158	About Approaching Justice About Chris Henrichsen Support Approaching Justice Columbus Day: What Can We Hold in Common? By revnaismith on October 9, 2017 • ( Leave a comment ) So a discussion ensued over the meaning of Columbus Day, not just it’s meaning, but a broader discussion on our national symbols, institutions, and myths. Are there common stories left that bind us as a people? Can we develop better stories than we’ve relied on in the past? Can we re-envision the old stories? Or are we endanger of losing any common things that connect us as a society? PJ Johnston is a visiting Assistant Professor in Religion at St. Olaf College Dwight Welch is a United Church of Christ minister and part time philosophy instructor at Oklahoma City Community College. Kevin M Johnson is a blogger with Daily Theology PJ Johnston It is a holiday dedicated to the empowerment of a despised ethnic minority considered non-white. Kevin M Johnson While dis-empowering other ethnic minorities considered non-white? I don’t know. I’m not comfortable with the holiday. Dwight Welch Or was, I mean Italians are pretty much mainstream today I don’t think we have to wonder about the “whiteness”of Italians, the Irish, or other 19th century immigrant groups that were previously despised in the country. I’m sure there must be many dissertations on what counts as “white” and normal, properly assimilated PJ Johnston You don’t throw away traditional civic observances because people from another time and place grow to disapprove of them. Nothing from the past can survive this kind of puritanism. I don’t want a world in which a bunch of whiny radical undergrads get to hold the past accountable to their political agendas. Dwight Welch St. Patrick’s Day has survived….I do think there are civic holidays that can survive, but I remember the critiques of Columbus Day as a kid in the 1980s, critiques of discovery (maybe it was growing up near the Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations). This doesn’t strike me as new phenomena. It goes back to the previous question, of what if any national symbols, days can belong to all of us. In other words, to have a civic observance, to do it’s work, it has to be collectively owned, otherwise it becomes another thing to be utilized for somebody’s culture war. Kevin M Johnson But where do you draw the line? I understand what you are saying and I completely get your anger and frustration with censorship and the bullying of political correctness — and I’m not arguing for censorship here. I just don’t understand what it ever celebrated and the randomness of applying “discovery” to him. PJ Johnston Traditions are supposed to be normative and morally form the people who participate in them into individuals who have reverence for the past and community. You cannot do that if any self appointed ideologue can knock ancestors to whom we owe reverence off their pedestals because their values are different from ours. Political community cannot be sustained where anybody who has an agenda can set themselves up as judge, jury, and executioner over the central symbols of a culture. At the end of the day Columbus doesn’t need to have done anything great. Reverence is a debt one pays to tradition because it is tradition and because human social and political life cannot thrive where there is no reverence and the community of the living and the dead is so radically severed that there no longer are mythic stories that form a people. Think of it like Confucian filial piety, the root of all virtues. One does not follow the customs of one’s father because they are the best customs on some rational calculus. One does it because he is one’s own father. A filial person is not someone who preserves those customs only while one’s father is living but after he is dead. That is all culture and tradition are at the end of the day, or most of it anyway. But without that flimsy thing you cannot sustain a society Kevin M Johnson But I’m not talking about an ideologue. Is there no room for adaptation or adjustment if the community no longer holds a particular tradition as normative? And your description is lovely and generous if people hold Columbus up “as their father” but when the community diversifies and people enter the community who doesn’t see him as father? Your suggestion may even become very unwieldy. The weight of the dead dragging on the living. PJ Johnston But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which [[171]]beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man; a queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal; and an animal not of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general as such, and without distinct views, is to be regarded[91] as romance and folly. Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity. The murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicide; and if the people are by any chance, or in any way gainers by it, a sort of homicide much the most pardonable, and into which we ought not to make too severe a scrutiny. On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern which each individual may find in them from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never be embodied, if I may use the expression, in persons; so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, [[172]] always as aids to law. The precept given by a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of poems, is equally true as to states. Non satis est pulchra esse poemata, dulcia sunto. There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions perish; and it will find other and worse means for its support. The usurpation which, in order to subvert antient institutions, has destroyed antient[92] principles, will hold power by arts similar to those by which it has acquired it. When the old feudal and chivalrous spirit of Fealty, which, by freeing kings from fear, freed both kings and subjects from the precautions of tyranny, shall be extinct in the minds of men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims, which form the political code of all power, not standing on its own honour, and the honour of those who are to obey it. Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. Dwight Welch This is where I’ll sound like a liberal. I believe in the same communitarian impulse being described, bemoan it’s loss. But the losses we’ve also experienced are because the institutions failed, the ideals were never sufficient and invariably exclusive…they couldn’t hold the weight needed to tie us together. The government really did lie to us about Iraq, high finance really did not know what it was doing that led to the crash in 08, the church really did seek to hide pedophiles and protect bad priests, Columbus really did see Natives only in terms of their values as slaves, the US really did kill 2 million Vietnamese. So if there has been a loss of a public faith, a sense of the goodness of our history, the possibility of symbols to bring us together, we need better ideals, better symbols, better things in our history to relate to, which are able to include our increasingly diverse society and whose admiration is justified. Otherwise we’ll have bad faith, coerced patriotism, cultural symbols that demand loyalty they cannot receive (and thus become litmus tests in the culture wars) PJ Johnston It is rather the ugly side of the beautiful 1960s and the Baby Boomers absolute rejection of authority and tradition. All the rest of that are symptoms of the more basic problem of irreverence. The institutions of the post-war consensus were not tried and found wanting. They were simply abandoned for hedonism. But there is a truth here: social institutions are never perfect enough in and of themselves to succeed. That doesn’t make them less necessary or abandoning them always more destructive than keeping them. Dwight Welch As an example I believe in the mainline protestant church, one of the many institutions abandoned since the 1960s. I seek reform and at the same time trying to get folks to be a part of the institution. I can tell you that track record has been mixed in my personal experience. And I grieve that. But again, I think some of it is that Christianity is no longer a common possession, it is also part of the culture war, a way to delineate tribe. How to make common, what has been used exclusively for a political tribe, not sure? I mean in Spain, when the church sided with Franco, that ended any possibility of liberals in that country ever identifying with the church. And that was many many generations ago. But history has a way of solidifying these lines, not erasing them. PJ Johnston I have been thinking about it and there is no longer any way for the US to avert civilizational collapse. This game was lost a long time ago, probably with Watergate Dwight Welch But if I was to mourn the loss of the mainline in the 1950s, I’d have to be yearning for a church that by definition I could not serve in, given my sexual orientation. I’n other words, there is a lot to miss in the world pre Watergate, but really it is idealization, imagining institutions and norms that in many cases were not worthy. I guess the case I’d make is that loyalty not be directed to institutions but rather towards the way God can use such institutions, when properly re-formed, for better ends. Certainly better, as you say, than abandoning them. PJ Johnston No institution is ever worthy. But we need the illusion that they are worthy and reverence directed towards them as if they are or society cannot survive. Dwight Welch I will sound Protestant and I’m not sure if experience, justifies this: but is it possible to revere institutions not as they are, but what they can be? Their potentiality, not their actuality? PJ Johnston That was the mistake of the 1960s. They got the crazy idea that the only society you respect and show reverence is one “worthy” of it – something no society can actually deliver to all its critics – and then tore everything down ostensibly to create new institutions. But that is not how these things work. Revolutions only burn and kill. Change must grow out of what already is loved and reverenced Dwight Welch Because I think the illusion needed to direct it at the institutions when that loyalty couldn’t be justified, was: the cover ups, the lack of honesty, bad and partial histories, protecting the institutions even if other folks got trounced on to make it happen. PJ Johnston There is no progressive arc to history. No one now is any better than their ancestors. There are certainly ways I wreck institutions so they provoke greater disorder. But trying to uproot them creates even greater suffering and disorder. Dwight Welch Will you can’t reform what you destroy. 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__label__wiki	0.528267	0.528267	The Science of News and Analysis Modern Medicine and Big Pharma. Healthcare Crisis in America This new year will likely mark another milestone in science and medicine. Again, Americans will spend more money on diagnostic tests, surgeries and other medical procedures, and patients will consume more drugs and receive more treatments than any other time in US history. We will continue to be inundated with television drug advertisements with the reassuring message, “you don’t have to fight this battle alone. We are with you.” There will be images of laboratories, medical research and happy patients to strengthen viewers’ faith that medical science is progressing and working on our behalf. We will be promised that new cures for life-threatening diseases are on the horizon. The US will also spend a minimum of $3.5 trillion on healthcare, in addition to a $1.5 trillion loss in work and wages due to illness. Five trillion dollars total. Approximately 18 percent of the US GDP. And tens of millions of additional dollars will be spent advertise Big Pharma’s message. And herein lies the fundamental problem. There are more doctors, more hospitals, more pharmaceutical drugs and medical procedures than ever before and yet we have not conquered nor made any significant progress in curing any major disease. Instead of making efforts to fund disease prevention and educate the public, prevention has been abandoned altogether. There are volumes of excellent peer-reviewed studies documenting research and clinical experience showing a healthy diet, physical exercise and stress management regimens can either completely prevent or be incorporated into medical treatment protocols successfully. However, there is no profit to be made in prevention. Modern medicine is solely devoted to disease management. How did we reach this threshold where trillions of dollars have been tossed into an abyss? One reason is that few voices have been able to reach the public to address the widespread corruption in corporate science, especially medicine, agriculture, and environmental issues. Honest, independent science is ignored in favor of proprietary pharmaceutical drugs and genetically modified foods. Fraudulent research has been used to justify nuclear power as a clean green energy. Political officials working on behalf of fossil fuel interests convince us with junk science that hydro-fracking poses no health risks and is environmentally-friendly. A single Big Pharma corporation with thousands of employees and billions of dollars in sales and profits is deeply connected to investors, public relations firms, federal health officials and the media. All of these external invested parties are in turn dependent upon the corporation’s revenue stream. Money that is trickled down is spent to dominate medical schools to push the conventional drug agenda’s regime, or to front groups and foundations to buy off so-called experts to debunk critics. Revenues received by the mainstream media networks for drug advertisements are payoffs assure that no reporting appears that might put the company and its medical products into a bad public light. The benefit Big Pharma receives from hijacking the federal regulators and legislators is protection from the nation’s judiciary. So when a drug like Merck’s anti-arthritic Vioxx conservatively kills over 60,000 patients and injures an additional 130,000, there is no immediate FDA recall and deaths are permitted until the crisis reaches a tipping point and health officials are forced to step in. However, never is a drug executive prosecuted. Vioxx sales earned $18 billion and Merck only had to pay a $5 billion settlement. Everyone who knew Vioxx was a defective product had engaged in malice of forethought with no deleterious consequences. The company merely paid a fine and returned to business as usual. And the media simply whitewashed the seriousness of Merck’s crimes about Vioxx. Science creates artificial intelligence, geoengineering, and 5G wireless technology. These are held as great achievements. On the other hand, we never hear from mainstream media anything about their downsides; and certainly private corporations will never leak evidence for their risks and dangers. If a scientific invention appears in the peer-reviewed literature, it has already reached a gold standard. Any controversy has been settled. However, now we find that the entire peer-reviewed journal system is utterly corrupt. In fact, as we will recount, it is all a fraud, and it will worsen without any efforts made to reform it. Quite simply there is no concerted will nor ethical standard to improve the peer-reviewed system because too much profit is generated. Now drugs are being pushed upon healthy people not because it will treat a disease, but because we are told it will prevent a disease. Such is the case for new HIV prevention drugs, such as Truvada and PrEp, and statins. There is no definitive science that these drugs are effective enough for anyone to take them. Imagine being healthy and told that starting chemotherapy will prevent cancer. That would be insane. And now we discover that the world’s largest open source site for medical information is Wikipedia. Content about medical products and therapeutic regimes are penned by completely unqualified editors with no medical background, many who prefer to remain anonymous. Yet Wikipedia editors state with authority that there are no proven health benefits for non-conventional and natural medical therapies. Reading any Wikipedia entry about chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, Chinese medicine, naturopathy or energy medicine, the reader will walk away believing it is all pseudoscience or fraud. However, collectively there are hundreds of thousands of studies to support these therapies’ efficacy and safety. Legitimate scientific inqury has already shown their efficacy. Independent board-certified physicians have been using complementary and alternative medicine for a long time with excellent results. But you will not find any of these qualified physicians being invited to lead a committee at the FDA, CDC or any other national health agency or department. Nor do we find special reports about successful advances in natural health regimens appearing on Dateline, Sixty Minutes, CNN, nor in the New York Times and Washington Post. So where excactly in the cesspool of modern medicine, food science, and the agro-chemical industry are we to find truth. No one in the scientific and federal health agencies can be trusted anymore. They are all compromised. No mainstream journalist is trustworthy, and no one can be certain whether a paper appearing in a peer-reviewed science journal is reliable or not. Even the clinical physicians on the front lines of healthcare work in the dark. It is only after large numbers of deaths and injuries, such as with Agent Orange, DDT, aspartame, mammography, etc, that a light goes on. But only for a short time before returning to the dark. Our research shows that the majority of pharmceutical corporations have settled laws suits, some are described in this article. Reports suggest that 440,000 people in the US died as a result of medical errors.(see below). Our analysis suggests that death from iatrogenic related causes is significantly higher. How is it that the pharmaceutical industry and medical establishment has killed more Americans than those who died in Vietnam without any serious consequences? Now wrap your mind around this. If we take a conservative figure of preventable deaths from medicine, 500,000 per year during the last four decades, that would account for approximately 20 million deaths. That is more than all those killed in wars throughout America’s history. The reason for American medicine turning into the nation’s largest and deadliest battlefield is because for scientific corruption succeed without impunity, everything must be interconnected. The Surgeon General, the heads of federal health agencies, drug makers, the insurance industry, medical schools and professional associations, and the media operate as a single army waging a war on health against Americans. Corporate interests control everything. Modern medicine has morphed into a religious cult. which does not contemplate the potential of its own vulnerabilities. And numerous patients have been played for fools. As we will see, medicine profits from keeping patients sick. We understand that you may be confused about this message because it goes directly against everything the medical establishment tells us. The fact is that science is completely vulnerable to corruption, and this has more often than not always been the case. Private industry and government know this perfectly. The checks and balances between private and public interests have collapsed. Today, a sincere person who whistleblows on government and corporate malfeasance and crimes can find him or herself going to jail. The medical regime is now a single entity. All of its parts are consolidated and entwined into a monolithic behemoth to prevent injury to its bottom line. Is it not time we said “enough.” When we consider Marx’s statement that “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce,” it requires little effort to look back upon history and witness a long legacy of scientific horrors and tragedies. Yet today, matters have worsened. Ever since the Rockefellers privatized American healthcare back in the 1930s, science in the hands of powerful private interest groups and corrupt government agencies has spiraled downward to its current state today: a sad and virulent spectacle of burlesque. If medical corruption had been conducted with the results of vastly improved health in the nation, we might close our eyes. However, as corruption throughout the medical establishment and federal health agencies increases, so has the health of the nation substantially decreased. The monster the Carnegie Foundation unleashed in its Flexner Report to set the standard for medical education back in 1910 has since opened its jaws wider to swallow the little integrity that might remain in American medicine. The nation’s health statistics and annual rise in preventable diseases proves the case. The US is the world’s most medicated country and yet ranks at the bottom of the pack of developed nations for quality of health. It is also the only nation in the developed world with the average lifespan in decline. A Consumer Report survey estimates that 55 percent of Americans regularly take a prescription drug, and among those most take four drugs on average. In 2016, over 4.5 billion prescriptions were filled, earning the pharmaceutical industry over $200 billion.[1] An earlier estimate conducted and published by the Mayo Clinic found that 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug and over 50 percent are on two. Twenty percent of patients are on five or more.[2] Over 17 percent of citizens 45 years and older take antidepressants, including one in four women.[3] A multi-year population-based survey conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago found that 32 percent of adults diagnosed with depression were taking medications with depression listed as an adverse effect! These drugs include proton pump inhibitors, analgesics, beta blockers and synthetic hormone contraceptives.[4] For anyone who cares to take a broad, objective and panoramic view of the illnesses plaguing the American landscape, the situation will be found shocking. Clearly it needn’t be this way. Most people enter the sciences for noble reasons and because of a passion for discovery. So then why do they so often emerge out of the end of the institutionalized treadmill as proponents of products that create more harm than good? The Dismal State of Modern Science There have been prophetic voices in the past who have warned about the travesty modern scientific advancement is headed. In his 1924 essay “Icarus or the Future of Science,” the British mathematician and moral philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote, “I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed in his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly.” Later in his essay Bertrand continues, “whether, in the end, science will prove to have been a blessing or a curse to mankind, is to my mind still a doubtful question.” For Russell, those who can sincerely call themselves scientists pursue their discipline out of a love for knowledge. Science is supposed to improve conditions necessary to foster our well-being and happiness, and to preserve the planet’s environment in an ethical manner. A scientist who truly pursues knowledge out of love, Russell argues, will desire the fruits of his work and craft to be expressions of kindness for the greater good. On the other hand, science is perverted when knowledge is pursued solely for power and domination over others. He warned about the trends of his day increasing whereby the holders of scientific knowledge become “evil” and science solely serves the ambitions of the powerful and those who control scientific inventions’ utility. “Scientific knowledge,” Russell wrote, “does not make men more sensible in their aims, and administrators in the future will be presumably no less stupid and no less prejudiced than they are at present.”[5] Since the days when science broke free from religion during the European Renaissance, the blind faith in perpetual scientific progress as humanity’s best of fortunes has been incanted to our present day. In fact, in the 21st century, scientific materialism has now generally replaced religious beliefs and morals altogether. This is especially evident in the contemporary regressive movements of Skepticism, the New Atheism, Science- and Evidence-based Medicine, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, Randian Objectivism, and scientific positivism, which have all been chained to corporate capital and science’s bureaucracies. This perpetual myth in scientific progress, says Russell, “is one of the comfortable nineteenth-century delusions which our more disillusioned age must discard.” In the end, Russell foresaw that science may be the ultimate cause behind “the destruction of our civilization.” From our own perspective, given our governments’ and corporations’ utter disregard towards climate change, insensitive destruction of the natural world and other species, medical abuse of prescription drugs, and brushing off the lives of those in economic and social straits, we have to agree. Modern Medicine: The Exemplar of Scientific Nepotism Throughout its history the practice of medicine has been associated with humanitarian and compassionate efforts to relieve the suffering of others. In modern times, we assume that medical science is serving us to find new miracles to save our lives. In ancient systems, medicine was perceived as a divine art and knowledge brought down to humans by the gods on high. A healer who lived by the ethical codes of his craft was held in high esteem by rulers and peasants alike. Although there have always been medical pretenders who took advantage of the ignorant, the medical arts themselves retained their integrity…. until our modern era. Before outlining the many ways that conventional corporate medicine has become the paragon of a science turned enemy against its essential moral code and the people it is supposed to serve, we might begin with a recent example depicting just how low the medical discipline has sunk into Hades. The state of modern American medicine was accurately summarized in April 2018 when Goldman Sachs released its financial projection report, “The Genome Revolution,” to biotechnology companies. The report doesn’t hesitate to state clearly that for future investment, corporate profits far outweigh the curing of disease. Goldman Sachs is one of Wall Street’s largest investors in high growth technologies, particularly pharmaceuticals, medical devices and healthcare services. The report presents the frightening question, “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” Even for the most hardened proponents of natural medicine and opponents of Big Pharma, there are times when a drug developer hits the nail correctly. Such is the case with Gilead Sciences’ drugs Harvoni and Epclusa, which have achieved over a 90 percent cure rate for hepatitis C. This is an extraordinary cure rate. But for Goldman, this is a bad sign for investors and shareholders. The drugs’ success has steadily drained the pool of patients requiring treatment. At their peak in 2015, these drugs earned $12.5 billion. Three years later it is expected to earn under $4 billion, and revenues will continue to decline. Goldman writes, “In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”[6] Goldman’s report confirms an observation that we have been voicing for many years. That is, modern medicine is no longer about treating disease; rather, it is all about disease management to keep patients on drugs for life. How did this trend of an amoral medical philosophy and a betrayal of Hippocratic principles come about since billions of dollars are spent annually to discover cures for disease? Before the arrival of the Reagan era, most scientific pursuits remained relatively free of commercial efforts to deceive and corrupt. Although federal health agencies have in the past funded witch hunts to squash non-conventional medical theories and practices, such as Chiropractic and more recent homeopathy, overall ethical standards were upheld to approve drugs’ efficacy and safety to the best of their capabilities. Certainly there were serious oversights and failures costing many lives such as Quaalude-300, PTZ for convulsive therapy, thalidomide and the acellular pertussis vaccine. There were also cases of gross conspiracy and scandal that destroyed numerous lives, such as the 1932-1972 Tuskegee experiment to secretly withhold penicillin from untreated African American males with syphilis. However, it was only during the past three decades that private corporations’ blitzkrieg to subdue the nation’s health agencies to control their executive functions and administrations were succeeding at a rapid pace. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas day in 1991, governance was dictated in a bipolar world between two military giants. The governments of the US and the Soviets, and their respective allies, were the sole stakeholders moving the pawns on the world’s chessboard. On the global scene, private industry and civil society would have to wait to grab a seat at the table of governance until American global hegemony was established. Therefore the collapse of the Soviet bloc opened the floodgates for commercial interests. Large corporations serving primarily domestic interests went international. New markets increased exponentially and private corporations and investment banks took advantage of the openings in these markets. Exploitation of these opportunities commenced unimpeded. Otherwise national corporations morphed overnight into transnational behemoths, with values competing with national economies, which has resulted in widespread commercial influence over practically all of our institutions in government, higher education, professional associations and the media. In addition, science became embedded in private economic interests and the governments of the developed nations, notably the US and Britain, were eager to throw in their support to assure unlimited corporate growth would freely increase. The emerging corporate aristocracy were not perceived so much as uncontrollable rogue entrepreneurs who necessitated strict government oversight and regulation to be kept in tow. Rather they became partners as their agendas melted into being one and same. Ronald Reagan, the first Deregulator-in-Chief, opened a pathway for private interests to gain greater control over the sciences. According to Leslie Janka, a former White House deputy press secretary under Reagan, his entire presidency “was PR.” “This was a PR outfit,” stated Janka, “that became president and took over the country. And to the degree then which the Constitution forced them to do things like make a budget, run a foreign policy and all that, they sort of did. But their first, last and overarching activity was public relations.”[7] Reagan, who consulted astrologers for decision-making, was a science illiterate who favored private economic growth over altruism and consumer safety by any means. This meant gutting the Environmental Protection Agency of its scientific oversight on industries’ propensity to evade regulatory hurdles and pollute the environment. It was also during the Reagan era that pharmaceutical firms infiltrated the halls of the federal government. Through concerted lobbying and persuasion, Reagan signed the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act to protect vaccine makers from financial liability due to vaccines’ adverse effects. Before this bill, only a few firms continued to manufacture vaccines; the financial risks and compensation burden from vaccine injuries were too high for most drug companies. Reagan is therefore credited for launching the current vaccine boom, estimated to be worth $60 billion by 2020, with no legal liability placed upon companies for pushing unsafe and minimally effective vaccines. This trend entered hyper drive disorder under President Clinton, who perceived himself as the first “biotech president” and invited more corporate executives with conflicts-of-interest into his administration than any previous president. If the proliferation of GMOs is regarded as a contagion and curse on human and environmental health, then Clinton is ultimately to be blamed. There are three primary avenues by which science becomes corrupted and thereby damages the public’s health and the environment. These include: 1) corporate influence over scientific discoveries that are developed into products for public consumption; 2) corruption within the scientific community itself; and 3) the emergence of a positive philosophy towards science that adheres to all of the dogmatic trimmings of fundamentalist religious faith and that seeks full protection from government to become the reigning ideology of the state. This latter trend has been termed “scientism,” an incoherent ideology that identifies rationality and reason with science itself. Scientism embraces the premise that science can explain everything. One of the more common criticisms against scientism is its “claims that science has already resolved questions that are inherently beyond its ability to answer.”[8] This scientific hubris particularly plagues the biological disciplines such as mental health, immunology, drug-based conventional medical therapies, neurobiology, the genetic etiology of disease, nanomedicine and genetic modification of plants for industrial agriculture. One unrecognized consequence of scientism is that it plays directly into corporate hands to advance its’ financial interests and commercial control over a population. By tossing aside philosophical and ethical considerations over natural scientific discoveries and findings, scientific truths stand alone as sterile and amoral tools that can be used as economic weapons of destruction. This is most evident in the pharmaceutical industry that pushes questionably ineffective and unsafe drugs to treat physical and mental disorders, or the agro-chemical corporations’ poisoning the public with carcinogenic pesticides and environment-damaging genetically modified crops. According to a report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists, “Corporations attempt to exert influence at every step of the scientific and policy making process, often to shape decisions in their favor or avoid regulation and monitoring of their products and by-products at the public expense.”[9] In order to achieve their goals, private interests make every attempt to win over the White House, Congressional legislators, senior federal agency officials and even the judicial courts. One of science-generated industries’ greatest threats is independent evaluation of the scientific research supporting their products. Therefore, winning over or buying the allegiance of the legislative heads of Congressional committees and the executive tiers of federal agency regulators is a prime directive to grease the bureaucracy in order to make the licensing channels for product approval slide through smoothly and to lessen regulatory due diligence and scientific scrutiny. There are several ways that private corporations succeed in influencing the government and enslave it to do their bidding. One is the prerequisite to assure that the judicial terrain is safe for corporations to conduct scientific malfeasance and fraud. This includes manipulating and fudging scientific data, preserving and exerting control over scientists, and taking control of peer-reviewed scientific literature. Although these tactics are found throughout many industries, it is the medical and food professions that are today the most corrupt and acting with blatant criminality. Charles Seife and his students at New York University undertook the task to determine to what extent the FDA covers up evidence of fraud and corruption in medical drug trials. They reviewed FDA documents for about 600 clinical trials. How often do federal health officials discover flagrant and intentional misconduct and subsequently decide to bury the evidence and prevent it from becoming public to the medical community? Seife discovered such actions to be an official pattern within the agency. Given the high rate of content deleted or blacked out from the documents the FDA provided, the investigators could only determine which pharmaceutical company or drug was involved in 1 of 6 of the reviewed trials. For one trial alone, where FDA inspectors found significant fraud and misconduct, 78 different medical publications printed articles based upon that single study. In an article for Slate, Seife writes, “Nobody ever finds out which data is bogus, which experiments are tainted, and which drugs might be on the market under false pretenses. The FDA has repeatedly hidden evidence of scientific fraud not just from the public, but also from its most trusted scientific advisers, even as they were deciding whether or not a new drug should be allowed on the market. Even a congressional panel investigating a case of fraud regarding a dangerous drug couldn’t get forthright answers.”[10] In one case, a new anti-blood clotting drug, rivaroxaban, involved four large trials recruiting thousands of patients in clinical sites in over a dozen countries. According to Seife, one of the trials “was a fiasco.” In half of the sixteen clinical sites, the FDA discovered “misconduct, fraud, fishy behavior or other practices so objectionable that the data had to be thrown out.” One Colorado site falsified data. In the Mexican site, there was “systematic discarding of medical records.” Despite these overwhelming problems, the drug trial was published favorably in the prestigious British journal The Lancet. The FDA found similar problems in the three other trials; in one the data was ruled “worthless.” The FDA advisory committee of “expert” reviewers were only informed that inspectors discovered only “significant issues” at two sites in one of the trials. Rivaroxaban was nevertheless approved in 2011. Since then lawsuits for wrongful death from rivaroxaban continue to increase.[11] In another case from 2010, Cetero, a private research company that contracts to Big Pharma, faked data for over 1,400 drug safety and effectiveness trials conducted for roughly 100 drugs, mostly generic knock offs, that were being targeted for the US market. Although the FDA had uncovered this fraud, it has refused to make these 100 drugs known to the professional medical community and public.[12] A possible reason for some federal health agencies becoming compromised in an administrative strait jacket being pulled ever tighter by private industry is due to excessive downsizing and withdrawal of funds during the current and past two presidencies. A decade ago, an article by Jessica Washburn appearing in Discover Magazine reported about the dire situation at the NIH’s Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction. The Center is responsible for the evaluation of chemicals and their impact on reproductive health. With continual deregulation following the Koch Brother agenda to permit private industries to flood the environment with toxic substances to their hearts’ desire, this is an enormously important department carrying the mandate to assure the health of pregnant women and to protect their fetuses. Yet the Center only employed three people, one who was part-time. The vast majority of the workload was outsourced to a private consulting firm, Sciences International. For almost ten years, this firm, which had been receiving funding from over forty chemical companies, was the primary evaluator of the environmental toxins mothers-to-be were being exposed to.[13] 1 https://www.webmd.com/drug-medication/news/20170803/americans-taking-more-prescription-drugs-than-ever-survey 2 https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/nearly-7-in-10-americans-take-prescription-drugs-mayo-clinic-olmsted-medical-center-find/ 3 https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2017.pp9b2 4 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2684607 5 Russell, Bertrand. “Icarus or the Future of Science,” 6 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html 7 Mark Hersgaard On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency 8 Hughes, Austin. “The Folly of Scientism,” The New Atlantis. 9 https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/how-corporations-corrupt-science.pdf 10 https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/fda-inspections-fraud-fabrication-and-scientific-misconduct-are-hidden-from-the-public-and-doctors.html 12 https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-let-drugs-approved-on-fraudulent-research-stay-on-the-market 13 http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/sciences-worst-enemy-private-funding By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null Source: Global Research Trump’s Not-So-Secret Art of Containing China Information War Dethrones US President Trump May Be On Trial, But the System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific What's the Point of Impeaching Trump Twice? 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__label__cc	0.667776	0.332224	Date: Saturday 23 March 1946 Type: Avro 691 Lancastrian C.1 Operating for: Qantas Leased from: British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC Registration: G-AGLX C/n / msn: 1178 First flight: Engines: 4 Rolls-Royce Merlin Aircraft damage: Missing Aircraft fate: Presumed damaged beyond repair Location: Indian Ocean ( Indian Ocean) Nature: International Scheduled Passenger Departure airport: Negombo RAF Station (CMB/VCBI), Sri Lanka Destination airport: Cocos Islands Airport (CCK/YPCC), Cocos (Keeling) Islands The Avro 691 Lancastrian 1, a bomber converted for civilian use, operated on a flight from the United Kingdom to Perth, Australia. The aircraft went missing on the leg between Negombo RAF Station, Sri Lanka and the Cocos Islands. Reportedly the departure from Negombo was delayed for two hours because of a fault in the plane's radio equipment. The crew radioed their position during the flight. The last position report received was at 18:00 hours Perth time. The scheduled report at 18:30 was never received. An extensive search failed to find a trace of the aircraft. » The West Australian 26 Mar 1946 » The Civil Aircraft Registers of Great Britain » WAAS Distance from Negombo RAF Station to Cocos Islands Airport as the crow flies is 2841 km (1776 miles). Accident location: Global; accuracy within tens or hundreds of kilometers.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line486
__label__wiki	0.641168	0.641168	Photo: Courtesy UWI Seismic Research Centre 4.5 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Trinidad Main Stories T&T News A 4.5 magnitude earthquake has shaken parts of Trinidad. This was confirmed by the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre, on its Facebook page on Monday.The quake was recorded at 11:33 am, at a depth of 35 kilometres. Latitude: 10.95N. Longitude: 61.79W. 44 km NW of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 66 km NW of Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. 85 km NW of San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Click on ad to visit CXC Masters Facebook page On the UWI SRC’s page, comments were posted by users claiming that they felt the shake. The areas were: St Augustine, Tunapuna, Carenage, San Juan, Maraval, Chaguanas, Santa Cruz, Port of Spain, Cascade, St James, Freeport, Westmoorings, St Clair, Cunupia, Piarco, Diego Martin and Carapichaima. Click on ad to purchase book Facebook users also posted that the earthquake was felt in parts of Grenada. Tags: Earthquake University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre Part Two: Red Flags when Buying Land Parent of Covid-19 Patient Talks about Stigma	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line487
__label__wiki	0.594839	0.594839	Lights, Camera, Conversation… “Crouched around a campfire storyteller” Two minutes with the director of ‘Pushpak’ and ‘Aboorva Sagotharargal’, and you see why his movies are filled with such irrepressible humour. At 80, Singeetham Srinivasa Rao bears the mien of a puckish woodland sprite. Were it not for his years, it’s easy to imagine him slapping a “Kick Me” label on the back of an unsuspecting passerby, and were he not human, he might have been one of those enchanted beings in Shakespeare’s comedies, sprinkling fairy dust on lovesick men and women and delighting in the ensuing confusion. Rao has directed a number of Telugu films, and Tamil audiences know him, primarily, as the man who worked his magic on some of Kamal Haasan’s best-regarded films – Rajapaarvai, Aboorva Sagotharargal, Pushpak and Michael Madana Kamarajan. Rao wears his laurels very lightly. I ran into him at the Hindu’s Lit for Life festival the day before he was scheduled to appear in a panel discussion about screenwriting. I said I was a big fan. He smiled and said mischievously, “That’s because you haven’t seen my bad movies.” The next day, during the discussion – anchored by K Hariharan, and also featuring Balu Mahendra and Anjum Rajabali – Rao spoke playfully and passionately about his many, many years in the film industry. He recalled being an assistant director on Maya Bazaar. He explained why songs work in our films. He said that he vibes well with Kamal Haasan because they both like to laugh at themselves. He confessed that he disliked Chandralekha when he first saw it, and realised that it was a classic only after 25 years, “a fact that the audiences realised in just two minutes.” He remembered, while shooting in Bangalore, running into “a man who looked very familiar.” It was David Lean, scouting for locations for A Passage to India. The two lit up a conversation when an inflamed Rao ran up and admitted to being a great admirer. Lean was having trouble with the screenplay. Rao said, “But you made such a great movie out of Great Expectations. Why is this adaptation any different?” Lean said, “That’s because Charles Dickens was a great screenwriter.” Every anecdote is accompanied by its own rimshot. After the session, some of us repaired for lunch, and we saw the filmmaker preparing to seat himself at a nearby table, with his family. Waving in his direction like shameless groupies looking to catch their idol’s eye, we asked him to join us, and, after hesitating for a second, he did. (Later, we apologised for monopolising his company, keeping him away from his family. He said, without missing a beat, “That’s okay. I speak to them every day.” Rimshot!) He held court with more anecdotes, crowned with the story about the Sundari neeyum song sequence from Michael Madana Kamarajan. His original vision was to feature background dancers dressed like widows who resembled the kleptomaniac so devilishly played by SN Lakshmi – hence the original tune along the lines of the devotional chant Samba Sadashiva. But he walked into Ilayaraja’s studio the next day and found that the maestro had spiked the last syllable of each line with a frisson, a sharper hue, and he had to abandon fantasies of waltzing widows. A single note changed, and he had to imagine the song anew. This revelation was tinged not with the regret of wasted effort but with the humility and wonder that mere men experience when confronted with the mysterious processes of creation. When someone asked him when he’d make another movie like Michael Madana Kamarajan, he said, rather philosophically, that a great many things have to come together for a film to work, and it’s difficult to repeat a success – films, sometimes, just happen. Even earlier, in the panel discussion, he acknowledged his smallness in the scheme of things. He said that sometimes you realise that the film is not working when you’re ten days into shooting, and sometimes only after shooting has wrapped. The solution? Don’t look back. Soldier on. As Rao guided us through the tracks and trails of the cinematic jungles he knows so well, we had begun to resemble boy scouts around a campfire – such remarkable stories, such a remarkable life. There was a sense of travesty that these nuggets were being excavated from the vault so that a bare handful of us could be dazzled, and it came as a relief when he said he was writing his autobiography. But even that revelation arrived with a side of mischief. He is structuring his story like a screenplay, the key directive being “CUT TO,” so that he can “skip over the boring bits.” Listening to him, none of us believed for a minute that his life contained any boring bits. Lights, Camera, Conversation… is a weekly dose of cud-chewing over what Satyajit Ray called Our Films Their Films. An edited version of this piece can be found here. Copyright ©2011 The Hindu. This article may not be reproduced in its entirety without permission. A link to this URL, instead, would be appreciated. Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Lights Camera Conversation ← Bullet-point Report: “7aum Arivu” “In Time”… Clock, Stock and Barrel → 23 Responses “Lights, Camera, Conversation… “Crouched around a campfire storyteller”” → Beautiful! Thanks so much for writing about one of our living legends.He still would not reveal as to how the carpet rolls by itself in “Mayabazaar” (still referred to as “camera tricks”) 🙂 @rangan Very nice article. Apoorva Sagodharargal and Michael Madhana Kama Rajan are two of my most favourite Kamal movies. The humour in these movies was so organic, in sharp contrast to the “comedy tracks” that had become the norm even in those days. Heck, even Mani ratnam had a comedy track in Mouna Raagam. BTW, I heard Rao’s directing another movie soon and Madhan Karky(now don’t ask me who that is) is writing the dialogues. Is that true? cpvenkatesh Its a nice interview… inspiring … after things he shared in LIT for life…. from him.. its looks as .. humor is just what we see and it is a not a big science….. say hi to shakuntala for me. I wish the interview was longer (is there a longer version available?). MMKR is my most favorite Tamil movie of all time and thus, I am automatically committed to reading anything about SSR and watching anything he makes. “This revelation was tinged not with the regret of wasted effort but with the humility and wonder that mere men experience when confronted with the mysterious processes of creation.” bigbala @baradwaj: How about a book on the making of MMKR ( along the lines of Jai Arjun’s book on Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron). Seems like SIngeetham would be a much better source of interesting anecdotes than Kundan Shah 😀 .Of course, it’s up to you to find someone interested in publishing it 😀 Loved this article. Here is a man filled with humility and who has the guts to laugh at himself. Most of all, he gave us the Kamal Hassan we miss today. Wonderful. I just wish he had taken more movies. What can I say? Greatness is defined by quality and not quantity as many think in the Tamil Movie Industry. Thanks for sharing this with us It’s kinda cool that a guy who’s much older than his target audience made such mass entertainers like MMKR. From Maya Bazaar to MMKR, audience tastes changed so much, but I guess comedy is comedy. I still laugh uproariously at Maya Bazaar and also at MMKR. BR : you lucky lucky so and so . RameshRam : “say hi to shakuntala for me.” – idhu enna pa ? Just watched the last hour of MMKR on J TV and I can watch it a thousand more times… Sorry. I missed Raja Paarvai. Only realized when I saw the Hindu Mag today. Whattay movie! The concept of scene continuity taken to a whole new level in that one. They don’t make such movies these days. 😦 venkatesh : singeetham’s daughter. Book on MMKR by Baradwaj Rangan. Ha ha, idhai ellaam naan eppovO suggest paNNittEn. Baradwaj, move fast before he kicks the bucket.naan kaasu koduththu vaanguven, promise. Rameshram: Ah “There was a sense of travesty that these nuggets were being excavated from the vault so that a bare handful of us could be dazzled” It’s at times like this that I rue, yet again, that the Indian Cine industry and specifically the South Indian Cine industry is yet to tap into the full potential of DVDs. Imagine remastered versions of MMKR, Aboorva Sahotarargal, Pesum Padam and Raaja Paarvai, with a director’s yak trak containing just such nuggets as the ones above. One can dream, I guess…. MMKR’s one of my fav movies ever. I bought the dvd bout 6 months back an was laughin all the way through. It only makes you yearn for the Kamal of the late 80s-early90s vintage. If only he’d stop making comedy flicks that have jokes running in concentric circles, and try to keep it simple as he did in his earlier films. 400BlowJobs He even came and talked to us lowly volunteers. But I didn’t recognize him owing to my lack of knowledge on tamil movie directors… @BR: So nice to meet you there. Although it was a bit awkward to introduce myself. “Hey, I’m 400 Blow Jobs?” 😮 My editorial about adaminte makan abu “Dear Asseem Chabbra, or why people should let adaminte makan abu have a chance” http://rameshram.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/editorial-dear-asseem-chabbra-or-why-people-should-give-adaminte-makan-abu-a-chance/ @rameshram I didn’t read the editorial (though that was why I visited the site) but my eye caught your “Fox News Assholes: – something that looked more delicious, and lo it was! But there are a host of other beasts from that menagerie that you have left out. Candidates who are a lot more obvious, like Sean Hannity, or that unleashed thug O’Reilly. Any particular reasons? Hannity and O rielly are old news. Was forwarded this piece about Kamal and really enjoyed reading it. Funny, heartfelt, plus some really good analysis about Kamal in his MGR phase. Thought I’d share in case you haven’t seen it on Twitter or elsewhere. PS: Are there others who get email forwards these days? Or is it all FB and Twitter? 🙂 “Finally, Shringar Nagaraj, who had been running an international tour company, came on board….Pushpak came to life not because of an actor, cameraman, or anyone. It’s because of this person.” “One week after we began shooting for the movie, I felt something was wrong, though I couldn’t diagnose where….It was the multi-faceted Panju Arunachalam who came to the rescue….‘The dwarf should be the hero. He shouldn’t lose,” he said. He suggested that Kamal should do a double role. What Panju told us changed the fate of the movie.” https://silverscreen.in/tamil/features/interviews/singeetam-srinivasa-rao-interview-golden-rule-cinema-no-golden-rule/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line496
__label__wiki	0.643796	0.643796	The impact of training strategy by performance that uses tempo trainer pro in achievement to 400 meters freestyle swimming for Iraqi national tame advanced ones Alwaleed S. S. Albasso Nawfal M.M. Alhyali College Of Basic Education Researches Journal, 2020, Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 773-796 - Finding out the indication of differences of achievement between pre and post-tests of both experimental and control groups. - Finding out the indication of differences of achievement of post-tests of both experimental and control groups. - Finding out the indication of differences of the impact of training strategy by performance modeling that uses tempo trainer pro between both experimental and control groups in the post-tests. The researchers uses the experimental method since it suits the paper concept. The experiment was applied on a target of the Iraqi National Team advanced swimmers of 400 m freestyle swimming, (12) ones, so that the target is a collective one. Those 12 were classified into two groups of( 6) members each: experimental and control groups. The similarity of (height, weight, training and time ages) variables was done, in addition to the equivalence of (performance modeling, both Anaerobic and aerobic abilities and achievement) variables between both groups. Then, the experimental design was used by the researcher, which is entitled the equivalent groups of both pre and post-tests design, a matter that made the experimental group apply the experimental method of an independent variable (training strategy by performance modeling of critical swimming speed that uses tempo trainer pro) which is a training strategy the researcher put to achieve a good( 400) m freestyle swimming, getting the way of dividing the regular distance, grouping the level of training capacity to get the best performance of the critical swimming speed to go with Anaerobic threshold speed of each swimmer, decreasing the lost time during that competition, and other training and strategic goals. After that, the researcher interrelated with the Iraqi National Team method of( 400) m freestyle swimming during competition periods so as the experimental group could be applicable for him on his paper achieving days: four days a week and it lasted for six weeks. During that period, the experimental group had done( 24 ) training units that applied the independent variable. A number of scouting experiments were done before the application of the method on the paper target by the support of the assistant team, followed by a number of specialized tests on swimming from various and modern resources which had never been used and applied in our local and regional reality. Therefore, they had been grouped into our local reality through the achieving of the scientific factors. Furthermore, new statistical equations were used to achieve the tests: modeling and critical swimming speed ones. Also, relevant and independent T tests were used to get the experimental outcomes. An imported system (Tempo trainer pro) was also used to help achieving the paper aims together with pulse measuring watch (polar type). The outcomes were furtherly discussed to help the researchers get the following concluding points: - There is a prominent effect of the use of performance modeling in the evolution of the level of tactical performance strategy for swimmers of the experimental group, which caused its superiority over the control group in the achievement variable of freestyle swimming (400) meters. - There is a positive effect of using the water rhythm counter (Tempo Trainer pro) in adjusting the speed parameters according to the appropriate stresses for the training and racing distances until the regularity of the speed and good estimate of the appropriate distance time during the effort of the experimental group swimmers as it was a reason for their superiority over the control group in the dependent search variables. Physical education and sports science PDF (1326 K) (2020). The impact of training strategy by performance that uses tempo trainer pro in achievement to 400 meters freestyle swimming for Iraqi national tame advanced ones. College Of Basic Education Researches Journal, 16(4), 773-796. doi: 10.33899/berj.2020.167237 Alwaleed S. S. Albasso; Nawfal M.M. Alhyali. "The impact of training strategy by performance that uses tempo trainer pro in achievement to 400 meters freestyle swimming for Iraqi national tame advanced ones". College Of Basic Education Researches Journal, 16, 4, 2020, 773-796. doi: 10.33899/berj.2020.167237 (2020). 'The impact of training strategy by performance that uses tempo trainer pro in achievement to 400 meters freestyle swimming for Iraqi national tame advanced ones', College Of Basic Education Researches Journal, 16(4), pp. 773-796. doi: 10.33899/berj.2020.167237 The impact of training strategy by performance that uses tempo trainer pro in achievement to 400 meters freestyle swimming for Iraqi national tame advanced ones. 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__label__cc	0.606532	0.393468	Betradar set to launch brand new Virtual products at ICE Betradar are about to expand their Virtual Sports portfolio even further with the launch of their new Virtual Football World Cup and Virtual Tennis In-Play products at this year’s ICE 2018. Like all of Betradar’s virtual solutions, the new products pride themselves on being the closest experience to reality. The Virtual Football World Cup features all 32 teams and the same group set up and competition format as the actual World Cup. There are 64 matches per Cup, simulated using real-team parameters and strengths as the basis of results. Squad performances are also simulated on the real team’s strengths. Each Cup competition is offered from the first kick-off to the last play, running for just over 60 minutes, with more than 1,000 betting opportunities on offer. Extensive pre and post-match statistics are also provided and include team line-ups and individual player information, with the same level of depth as found across all of Betradar’s real-sports products. Virtual Tennis In-Play is an extension of Betradar’s current virtual tennis products. It continues to replicate the real sport, but has been enhanced with similar betting mechanics and statistics that are also based on real player strengths. It features 16 players and is the only solution in the market that lets punters place live bets on full three-set continuous matches, with all major bet markets, including ball-by-ball betting, on offer. Betradar’s Managing Director of Gaming, Heinz Kierchhoff said he was looking forward to launching the new products at ICE this year. He expects them to be very popular, especially in the lead up to the World Cup this summer. “All main bet markets are offered, from singles and multiples to outright group winners and competition winners. That way punters can bet in the same way they bet in reality,” Kierchhoff said. “It’s an extension of our highly-popular Virtual Football solution, which also has other competition modes available, including League, Euro Cup, Nations Cup plus more coming. “Virtual Tennis In-Play on the other hand is a market-exclusive proposition that lets punters bet on live full matches by looking at the momentum of real tennis players as the match evolves – it’s a unique and highly innovative product that also looks great UX-wise. “All these competitions, as well as all our other virtual sports products, are available via just one integration. It’s up to the client to choose which channel and in which way to integrate. Our widget framework lets clients control the way each of those sports is presented to the end punter.” For more information about Betradar’s virtual products visit https://betradar.com/virtual-sports-betting/ or come by our stand, S1-150, at this year’s #ICE2018. You can also book a personal meeting with one of our consultants now at https://www.betradar.com/sitemap/meet-us-ice/. To find out more about our Virtual Football World Cup product visit https://betradar.com/worldcup/.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line517
__label__cc	0.541694	0.458306	Tiny humans, big universe: How to balance anxiety and wonder in astrophysics The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small. Michelle Thaller The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small. Yet NASA's very own Michelle Thaller thinks that we can use this to our advantage, by finding "that balance between being part of everything, and being so brief, or almost nothing." You can follow Michelle on Twitter here. space how big is space space facts space news size of space size of the universe videos What NASA learned by sending a 77-year-old astronaut into space When you have the opportunity to take gravity away from the human body, the results are pretty fasninating. Scott Parazynski Space may be the final frontier, but it's really interesting what it does to our bodies. Scientists are studying the effects of space on the body, says former astronaut and current physician Scott Parazynski. The results are pretty fascinating, especially when you have the opportunity to take gravity out of the equation. Scott Parazynski is the author of The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed. astronauts space effects on body space facts space trivia what happens to your body in space oldest astronaut videos How a spaceship the size of a postage-stamp could find humanity’s new home planet Sending a tiny spaceship to the nearest habitable planet at 20% of the speed of light? No problem, says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku doesn't just hope that humanity finds its way onto other planets... he's even picked out the ones we should be moving to — Proxima Centauri B, in the Alpha Centauri triple star system. He's even suggested that the next great space exploration could happen on a spaceship the size of a postage stamp, traveling 20% the speed of light, sent by using high-powered lasers. It sounds like a wild theory, but if anyone's wild theories could come true in the next 100 years, it's probably Michio Kaku. His latest book is The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth. michio kaku space travel space tourism speed of light mars travel Proxima Centauri Alpha Centauri space space facts videos Amazing astronomy: How neutron stars create ripples in space-time What can cause a ripple in both space and time? Neutron stars colliding. And what can observe that phenomenon? A two-mile-long laser. Michell Thaller, the Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA, wanted to talk to us about a heavy subject matter. Specifically, super-dense neutron stars that are so dense that they're only the size of New York City but carry the weight of the sun. And when they circle each other in orbit for long enough, they collide with enough force to send ripples in both space and time. Those ripples alone are strong enough to alter the course of light. In fact, just a few years ago a rare astronomical event occurred where you'd have seen a star "blink" for a few minutes on and off before disappearing for good. Scientists are able to detect these gravitational ripples thanks to a LIGO, or a Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which measures the refraction of light based on gravity waves. Oh, and one more thing: Albert Einstein correctly deduced that this phenomenon years before it was ever recorded. If you'd like to know more, visit NASA. neutron star LIGO NASA astronomy news space facts astronomy stars Einstein Einstein prediction gamma ray space time space time continuum videos	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line529
__label__cc	0.684887	0.315113	Tag Archives: rocket exhaust bell Colors & materials for Apollo 11 CM, SM & LM. What the hardware looked like. For the Dragon kit. Thanks to my beloved wife Jean, I got a Dragon Apollo 11 on the Moon kit, for Christmas! 1/72 scale, new tooling (same as their die-cast metal collectable?) The short form on real, as-flown-in-1969, surfaces and finishes: Command Module. The actual Apollo Command module was covered with strips of mirror finish aluminized plastic micrometeoroid shield and thermal insulation, on the visible surfaces. The ablative heat shield, not visible until the CM and SM are separated, is said to have been painted a light gray color. During re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere, the mylar was mostly burned off and a light-gray painted structure under it became visible. Below that paint appears to have been a composite honeycomb material. I think it is unlikely that the actual pressure vessel that the crew lived in touched the outside surface except at the hatch edges. In pictures of the remaining, unused, Apollo CSM (the emergency rescue vehicle for Skylab), you can see the stripe pattern of the plastic tape on the CM exterior, but in contemporary photographs, it looks like one piece of mirror polished aluminum. Like an American Airline’s jet airliner. The fold-flat handles on the outside of the CSM, for astronaut Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVAs) were painted a glossy yellow, like the similar hand-rails on the the Hubble Space Telescope. The docking capture and latch mechanism mounted on the outside of the tunnel, above the front hatch of the CM, is primarily titanium-looking metal, with a chromed, presumably retractable or spring loaded or damped, shaft. There are darkened metal handles in the mechanism, probably painted or anodized a dark blue dark gray or black. The inside of the tunnel itself, behind the docking capture mechanism, is light gray with 12 blue-anodized cylinder-topped arms at the top, some black and some other colors of boxes, and wires, Service module: The Service module exterior was painted with an aluminum paint, except for radiator areas fore and aft which were white, two “ram’s horn” antennas that were white or light gray, and 24 narrow stripes (about 25%) on panels under the RCS thrusters. The area under “United States” may or may not have been light gray, and many labels on the exterior appear to be black text on light gray background. The main engine exhaust bell is complex, but a bluish gray for the biggest, lower, part, outside, and reddish gray for the upper part, outside, is a good start. The top of the bell joins the reddish part at a flange, with bright bare metal fasteners by the dozen. The top of the bell, the last part visible beyond (below) the Inconel heat shield, is wrapped in the mylar and-or “H-film” ( aka “Kapton”) insulation and micrometeoroid shield. The back of the CM is mostly covered by 4 stamped quadrants what looks like thin Inconel nickel-copper high temp metal. The furthest outer edge of the end of the Service Module is painted with aluminum paint just like the sides. Lunar Module: The Lunar Module has two very different areas of finish: The descent (lower) stage is primarily wrapped in thermal insulation / micromedeoroid protection, a multilayer collection of Kapton (“H film”) and Mylar, and other, exotic, things, with metal evaporated/ plated on them for protection. A lot of what looks ‘black’ is actually a black-finished foil or mylar. The descent engine has a medium gray exterior and nestles in an Inconel-lined cavity in the descent stage. The ascent (upper) stage of the Lunar Module is about half black-finished and half anodized Aluminum. Yes, the Aluminum looks like its dark, like Titanium, or has a distinct gray-beige-green tone. All true, many have remarked on the hard-to-describe colors. Grumman’s construction documents for the whole thing, facet by facet, are on line, and they specify Phosphoric acid and Sulfuric Acid anodizing of the various aluminum alloy pieces. Some Mylar or “H film” wrapping is on the the outside of the ascent module. The ascent engine has a semi-gloss white exterior, with a textile-like “wrapped” texture. This may be thermal insulation, similar to the thick batts of insulation wrapped around the F1 engines of the Saturn V first stage. There are two dish antennae on the ascent stage, Both have white-painted dishes and are generally black otherwise. The antenna directly above the lunar egress hatch and the front windows has black foil everywhere except the inside of the dish. The signal radiator in the center of the dish is white. The antenna off on the starboard side of the ascent stage has a semi-gloss black mechanism and flat black on the back on the dish. Black, also, on the 4 legs and the forward reflector in front of the dish. In more detail: The Reaction Control System (RCS) engine nozzles on the CM have an oxidized copper color in their throats, and a slightly corrugated texture. Photos of post-re-entry CMs show a ring of the same oxidized copper color outside the nozzles, but the aluminized mylar covers these rings up to the edges of the RCS engine bells. The forward and side windows for the two outside crew stations have black anti-glare finish around the windows, and red-orange silicone seals at every layer of the windows. Below or behind the port side windows and the crossed RCS nozzles are a pair of drain valves, white 5/8 spheres with gold-toned dots at the outside. A very similar purge valve is installed on the starboard side of the side hatch. On both sides, below windows, RCS nozzles, etc and the edge of the ablative re-entry shield, there are translucent white dots. Under the Mylar there are black partial circles around these two translucent circles,. On the Service Module, there are matching white partial circles painted on the fairing at the top edge of the SM A minor (very minor) mystery is what kind of plastic the reflective stuff on the CM is. The expected temperature range in the space environment was wider than NASA was comfortable using Mylar, generally, uncovered, in the thermal insulation blankets covering the LM Descent Stage. Therefore, the outer layer of those blankets is always Kapton (“H film”), which is usable over the expected temperature range. Of course, a blanket of up to 25 layers of plastic, using microthicknesses of vacuum deposited metal for insulation, is fundamentally different from a pressurized honeycomb structure wrapped with a layer of glued-on plastic tape. Maybe the thermal mass and inertia of the CM (and the slow-rolling passive thermal control regime) kept conditions on the outside of the CM suitable for Mylar, Maybe the CM plastic has the metal side “out”, unlike the majority of LM applications which are generally plastic side out (hence the gold-amber color: its not gold foil, its aluminized Kapton with the metal in and the plastic out. Inside the main engine exhaust bell is complex. At the bottom, inside the bluish gray outside, are 16 dark metal petals with strong textures. Inside the reddish-gray part of the bell are a set of 6 petals and then a solid ring- all a glossy dark color. Above the dark, solid, ring, is a white metal ring, something like aluminum colored. Above that is an orangey brown and then at the peak of the engine is a light, metallic-finished plate with 5 stamped spokes and a central cap. How I plan to reproduce these colors: Command Module: The glued-flat aluminized mylar on the real thing doesn’t look like any paint, even mirror polished aluminum. It looks like mylar, darker than polished aluminum. I have seen photos on-line of Apollo CMs finished in Bare Metal Foil, in the correct striped pattern. But I don’t see the stripes unless I look very closely in the 1960s photos- they’re easy to see in flash photos taken today, on the leftover CSM lifeboat for Skylab that never flew. But not in pictures of Apollo 11, or 15, or any of the other hardware that was flown. Sooooo: Bare Metal Foil remains possible, or very thin aluminum foil, polished and clear-coated. “Chrome” spray paint would not be a bad choice. Having the kit part polished and then vacuum coated with aluminum would be very close to the real thing. Brush-painting Testor’s Chrome Silver oil-based paint or another similar non-water-based product is also a thought – the occasional brushmark could be said to represent the stripes of the Mylar… “Chrome” spray paint or Metalizer Buffable Aluminum rattle can are the top two contenders at the moment. I’m going to do a study with each and see which I like more watch this space. Polly-scale Reefer White (that’s as in Refrigerator White, the rail-road color) is my call for the white paint on the lower and upper ring radiators, the two ‘tabs’ containing the ram’s horn antennas, and the white areas near the RCS boxes. My own mix for Boeing Aircraft Company #707 Gray is my first choice for the Light Gray RCS boxes, unless they’re white too, have to check again before I commit myself. The Inconel heat shield could be Polly Scale Stainless Steel, maybe with a bit of yellow added to bring out the nickel ‘color’… Inconel is a copper-nickel alloy and its attraction is that it holds its strength at high temperatures, not that its intrinsically tough stuff like titanium. It actually cuts and polishes pretty readily, but the important thing is that its clearly NOT aluminum. Completely different color. Not unlike stainless steel, which is, itself, not like steel OR aluminum. 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__label__cc	0.634549	0.365451	Why the Yankees Lost Cliff Lee by David Boles.In Dramatic Medicine, Urban Semiotic.5 Comments on Why the Yankees Lost Cliff Lee Who didn’t see the non-signing of Cliff Lee by the Yankees coming a mile away? All the signs were there — namely in dead silence from Lee — yet few people ever expected the notion that the Yankees could ever be out-bid by another team. However, what the faithful failed to understand, is the Yankees were — but are now no longer — about so much more than just money. The decline of the Yankees started the day after the death of majority owner George Steinbrenner and the impending grotesque over-exaggeration of his importance to the team by his family in the creation of a Yankee Stadium plaque that was bigger than Babe Ruth. The Yankees are about players, not management. Yet, the Yankees, over the past month, have become about money and management and not the spirit of winning that makes the Yankees a unique franchise. We Yankees fans have been raised on the notion that “no dollar too short and no amount too big” to land the greatest talent in the baseball world to play on our team — yet even with that monied mandate, the most important ideal in the Yankee clubhouse was the “Yankee Mystique” of honor and toughness that could be invoked at will to win a losing game on a whim. Money can buy Mystique, but management can never own it. The current incarnation of legendary Yankee Mystique is Captain Derek Jeter — the human bridge between what was historic and what is now a re-emergence of the hope for greatness — and yet the Yankees, and general manager, Brian Cashman in particular, made re-signing Jeter a bore and a chore and an embarrassment. If George were alive, Jeter would’ve been offered a five-year $21 million a year contract the day after the season ended — because George knew Jeter is more than a player: He is the Face of the Franchise. You overpay Jeter to keep your façade happy for the next 50 years. Cashman and the Steinbrenner offspring do not realize what great value Jeter offers them as a player and a legend. You overpay the player to preserve the legend, and the Yankees cheapened Derek Jeter and humiliated him in such a public way that was stunning as it was astonishing. While Jeter was being made ordinary in public by Yankees management, Brian Cashman was clambering down buildings in New York dressed as Bret Michaels and as a Christmas Elf. I don’t care if Cashman was raising money for charity — or abetting a failed SuperHero neuroses — you don’t play around like that in public unless and until Jeter is signed and happy and Cliff Lee is inked and done. Brian Cashman singlehandedly made the Yankees monarchy look cheap and cartoonish — all during the most important signing week in the last decade. If I were Cliff Lee, I too, would’ve turned down the hateful Yankees. If they humiliated Derek Jeter to save a few million dollars against some tertiary bottom line — imagine what they’d do to you if you misperformed as their stellar, big-money, starting pitching? An Ace like Cliff Lee doesn’t need the Yankee Mystique — or even their money — if it means living under the misbegotten sons of George Steinbrenner and their Stepin Fetchit Elf Brian Cashman. You can’t put a price on satiety and happiness, and Cliff Lee opted to turn down the bigger money for the larger prize: He returns to Philadelphia as both conquering hero and as a Prodigal Son who was betrayed by his parents — but who forgave them in the end — all in order to shank it back to the Yankees at will in the World Series to teach them the real meaning of Mystique. baseballbrian cashmancliff leederek jeterphilliessportssteinbrennerstepin fetchityankees I’m a long time Yankees fan, David. Steinbrenner was unique. His kids just can’t be like him and the team will suffer in the long run. Cashman needs to go far away soon. Bring back Joe Torre. I think we’re in for a long, hard, slog, Anne. The Yankees as we knew them are pretty much done. It was a fun ride. They have all the money in the world, but no heard and no stamina. The essence is over. It’s clear Boston and Philadelphia smell Yankees blood in the water with their recent spending sprees. Not a great way to behave when you’re trying to score a top player! How the mighty have fallen, alas. It’s definitely a sad day in Yankeetown, Gordon. Lee would’ve been a good fit at 5 years, but the extended 7 year deal the Yankees offered reeked of desperation. It will be a long while before they’re back in the World Series, I fear, unless they solve their pitching problem. Pingback: As a Hero Falls: Ten Sentence Story #129 \| 10txt Previous Previous post: Concealing the Prison Tat Next Next post: Social Networking and Social Justice Meet in Jumo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line533
__label__wiki	0.746891	0.746891	[SPOTLIGHT] Multimagic For this week’s client spotlight, we’re showing love to indie pop band Multimagic. A post shared by Multimagic (@multimagic) on Nov 12, 2019 at 8:39am PST A post shared by Multimagic (@multimagic) on Oct 4, 2019 at 8:07am PDT Get to know Multimagic Multimagic is an Ohio-based indie pop band founded by songwriter Coran Stetter. The band caught an early break when a demo of “Let Go” gained traction, garnering a devoted fanbase in their hometown of Cincinnati and appearances at music festivals SXSW, CMJ, MPMF and Bunbury. However, in early 2017, Stetter suffered from a misdiagnosis and was overprescribed prednisone and codeine, which led to a period that the young songwriter describes as a “manic daze” that changed the course of his life. During his recovery, many of Stetter’s friends and former bandmates had left him to fend for himself, so he spent the next year rebuilding relationships and fostering new ones. Multimagic now comprises guitarist James Ruehlman, drummer Evan Brown, keyboardist Meg Kecskes and bassist Anthony Maley. Reconnecting with music was an important part of Stetter’s recovery and his bout with mental illness and search for redemption became themes of the band’s debut record, Manic Daze. The album was released exclusively on vinyl April 4th, 2020 via Soul Step Records and sold out within its first week. Influential Vinyl reviewer Vinyl Exams claims Manic Daze is “…in my running Top 3 list of best albums of 2020, major/indie/whatever. I am absolutely stunned with how much I love this album and it’s one of the first times I’ve listened to a submission three times in a row after dropping the needle the first time.” Stream Multimagic’s latest single “Believe It” on Spotify A post shared by Multimagic (@multimagic) on Aug 2, 2019 at 12:15pm PDT A post shared by Multimagic (@multimagic) on Jul 25, 2019 at 7:15am PDT CONNECT WITH MULTIMAGIC Tags client spotlight indie pop multimagic Multimagic spotlight New Music Spotlight symphonic spotlight Fresh New Music ft. Louis Knight, Taliwhoah, + more	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line537
__label__cc	0.564205	0.435795	X4 Foot & Gait Measurement System ForeSite PT Pressure Injury Prevention Sports Performance Science ForeSite SS Wheelchair Seat System Wheelchair Seating Assessment High-Speed Tire System Mattress Retail Preventing Pressure Sores in Hospitals Jan 13 4 min read What You Need to Know About the Phases of Gait For optimized human performance, understanding the phases of gait is key As humans, the way we walk, step and run is far more than a personalized way of moving. When measured and analyzed properly, the details of a person’s gait give us valuable data. Monitoring gait can point to health impacts, from the likelihood of developing diabetic ulcers to optimizing elite athletics’ performance. Simply put, gait matters — and finding ways to measure it effectively can create improvements for your practice. Understanding what comprises gait, along with the detailed phases of gait and actions leading up to them, is essential for creating effective treatment plans for patients of all kinds. What is gait? The true definition of gait is simple: gait is a person’s manner or style of walking (or running). With comprehensive health in mind, the particularities of one’s gait take on more significance. Gait involves the way someone moves, whether walking, jogging or running. From the speed of the walk all the way to the method of the movement itself, gait showcases everything from neurological readiness to a person’s level of athleticism, making it an essential piece of many health assessments. There are several components to gait itself, from stance and swing phases to walking and running phases. Comprehensive gait analysis looks at factors including body weight, heel strike, contact with the ground and gait pattern. Why is gait important? Human movement itself is explained in the Neuromechanics of Human Movement as “how the nervous system controls the actions of muscles to exert forces on their surroundings and thereby produce movement.” It’s a complex system involving several subtasks, from complementary tasks where muscles generate and absorb energy to competitive tasks where muscles help to control balance and vertical collapse in the body. This all comes down to gait. The events that occur from heel strike to heel strike, known as the gait cycle, play a crucial role in human performance (as well as simpler human movement). A person’s gait, which is quite literally the alternating heel strike to heel strike on each side of the leg, can help diagnose any number of issues. By focusing on the importance of gait and then analyzing it with precision, biomechanics researchers, clinicians, physical therapists and other healthcare professionals will be equipped with information to solve a host of problems. Primary phases of gait There are two primary phases of gait: the stance phase and the swing phase. In walking the stance phase, which accounts for about 65% of gait movement, the person’s body weight is concentrated mainly on one leg. The swing phase, which accounts for about 35% of the gait movement, involves the change between each leg that naturally occurs during activities like walking or running. Understanding these phases, from knee flexion through to heel strike, is essential for a thorough analysis. Photo courtesy of Perry, J. (1992) Phases of Gait: Stance Phase To the casual observer, the act of taking a step seems simply to be moving one’s foot forward. In reality, that basic movement, beginning with the stance phase, is quite complex and comprises four main processes: the loading response, midstance, terminal stance and pre-swing. With the loading response, the foot makes initial contact with the ground — typically heel first, though this can show gait issues in itself — while the alternate leg poised to swing next remains on the ground. In midstance, the body’s center of gravity is directly over the moving foot, before moving to the supporting foot in the terminal stance as the heel makes its way off the ground and into pre-swing. Phases of Gait: Swing Phase Swing phase—the actions taken by one’s mind and body when swinging a foot down to make initial contact with the ground—is just as complex. The swing phase’s notable steps start with the initial swing and continue along to knee flexion, midswing, and terminal swing. Beginning once the toe is off the ground — literally known as “toe-off”— the initial swing ends once maximum knee flexion has been reached. Midswing is the time between maximum knee flexion, lasting until the tibia is perpendicular to the ground. The terminal swing begins at this point, ending at the foot makes initial contact with the ground. Other factors for understanding gait Once you have a foundational understanding of these phases, measuring time and speed come into play. The timing of one’s walking and running phases can help understand the neurological, physical and physiological processes themselves. The way that the foot hits the ground when walking or running can also give important information. From the heel strike to the toe-off, people simply walk and run differently — and that variation in gait style can point to issues ranging from center of gravity imbalances and hip misalignment all the way to knee flexion issues or off-balanced weight-bearing. Since gait helps to absorb shock and keep the body making contact with the ground at the right speed, measuring it matters in both walking and running. XSENSOR: Technology for measuring gait XSENSOR has developed gait-measuring technology that sets an industry standard for excellence. We understand that assessing and analyzing gait is a crucial tool across all forms of medicine. Our proprietary sensor technology allows for greater gait measurement and assessment than any industry competitor, outperforming in both accuracy and detail. Our durable high-resolution sensors, made specifically for measuring gait, hold up to the strenuous testing required by gait researchers, podiatrists and physical therapists, and our Pro Foot & Gait Software is imagery and data-rich with easy to use tools and comprehensive analysis. Sensor resolution and accuracy are crucial to measuring and analyzing gait correctly. Our on-shoe electronics are compact, and the sensors are ultra-thin (with insoles measuring at less than 2mm), making it virtually undetectable, allowing for natural gait while providing the ability for complete and total analysis for both research and athletic performance. Our insoles themselves are proven to be hard-wearing with reliable data, showing 5% or less full-scale error after 100,000 loading cycles. Each of XSENSOR’s product offerings features dynamic sensing that maintains both flexibility and accuracy. These include: intelligent insole sensors, walkway sensor, and stance pad sensor Whichever product you choose, this technology will help you disseminate gait data in a way that works for you, for your providers, and most importantly, for your patients’ wellbeing. 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__label__wiki	0.776771	0.776771	5 3 TURNER, GEORGE, Old Radford, Nottingham, Carter. Nottingham. Pet Oct 27. Ord Nov 5 Nov 16.-Mr. WALTER KNIGHT, at the Mason's-hall Tavern, Leasehold Licensed TURVEY, HENRY, Abingdon, Berks, Carpenter. Oxford. Pet Nov 1. Ord Nov 6 Property (see advertisement, this week, p. 4). Nov 17.-Messrs. HOBSON, RICHARDS, & Co., at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Freehold VARNEY, ALFRED, Ramsgate, Baker. Canterbury. Pet Nov 4. Ord Nov 5 Estates (see advertisement, this week, p. 4). WADDINGTON, JOHN, Colne, Lancashire, Joiner. Burnley. Pet Oct 15. Ord Nov 19.-Messrs. BAKER & Sons, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Freehold and Leasehold Properties (see advertisement, November 6, p. 6). WAJTE, WILLIAM, Bradford, Confectioner. Bradford. Pet Nov 4, Ord Nov 4 WAYRE, ALEXANDER, Oxford st, Manufacturing Furrier. High Court. Pet Oct 9. Ord Nov 5 WEBSTER, HENRY CARPENTER, Bodmin, Cornwall, Tailor. Truro. Pet Oct 16. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Ord Nov 5 BIRTHS. WOOD, THOMAS, Nuneaton, Warwick, Publican. Coventry. Pet Sept 15. Ord LEATHAM.-Nov. 4, at the Red House, Wentbridge, Yorkshire, the wife of Nov 5 Claude Leatham, solicitor, of a son. WILLIAMS, ROBERT, Dolbenmaen, Carnarvon, Farmer. Bangor. Pet Oct 27. SOLOMON.-Nov. 5, at 22, Linden-gardens, W., the wife of Joseph Maurice Ord Nov 6 Solomon, of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, of a son. YOUNG, EDWARD, Dewsbury, Yorks, Dyer. Dewsbury. Pet Oct 19. Ord Nov 4 MARRIAGE. YEADON, ARTHUR, Batley, Yorks, Flock Merchant. Dewsbury. Pet Oct 30. Ord CURNOW-MARSHALL. --Sept. 23, at Sydney, John Roberts Curnow, solicitor, of Nov 4 Warwick, to Katharine Celia, daughter of Captain G. S. Marshall, Oaz Inove road, Stoke Newington. The following amended notice is substituted for that published in the London Gazette of Oct 5. WOTTON, JOHN ENDACOTT, West Bromwich, House Painter, Oldbury. Pet Sept 20. Ord Sept 28 39 THE RETIREMENT OF VICE-CHANON THE FORM OF MORTGAGE BILLS CELLOR BACON 47 OF SALE 40 LAW SOCIETIES 48 SALES OF ENSUING WEEK, CONCERNING SEARCHES ..... 41 LAW STUDENTS' JOURNAL 48 VICE-CHANCELLOR BACON LEGAL NEWS .......... Nov 16.-Messrs. HOWELL, SON, & BONNIN, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Leasehold CORRESPONDENCE COURT PAPERS....................... Properties (see advertisement, November 6, p. 6): WINDING-UP NOTICES 49 Nov 16.-Messrs. PHILIP D. TUIKETT & Co., at the Mart, at 1 p.m., Freehold POLICE COURTS IN BELGIUM REDITORS' NOTICES. 50 Premises (see advertisement, November 6, p. 6). BANKRUPTCY NOTICES SECRECY. Your Jewelry and Property safe from Burglar or Thief. Your Will safe from Fire or Spy. Under your own Lock and Key. VIEW OF A STRONG ROOM FITTED WITH SAFES. SAFES from 1 to 5 Guineas. STRONG ROOMS from 7 to 80 Guineas per Annum. GUARDED NIGHT AND DAY. WRITING, TELEPHONE, AND WAITING ROOMS FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. The Public are invited to inspect this Valuable Stronghold ; Card of Admission post-free on application to the Manager. 61 & LANE, LONDON. UNTEARABLE LETTER SCHWEITZER'S COCOATINA EDE AND SON, Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Powder. Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa of the Finest Quality ROBE MAKERS. with the excess of fat extracted. The Faculty pronounce it “ the most nutritious, per. ectly digestible beverage for Breakfast, Luncheon, or BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT, Supper, and inyaluable for Invalids and Children," Highly commended by the entire Medical Press. To Her Majesty, the Lord Chancellor, the Whole of Being without sugar, spice, or other admixture, it suits the Judicial Bench, Corporation of London, &c. all palates keeps for years in all climates, and is four times the strength of cocoas THICKENED yet WEAKENED with starch, &c., and IN REALITY CHEAPER than such Mixtures. FOR QUEEN'S COUNSEL AND BARRISTERS. Made instantaneo 1sly with lling water, a teaspoonful SOLICITORS' GOWNS. to a Breakfast Cup, costing less than a halfpenny. COCOATINA A LA VANILLE is the most delicate, digestible, Law Wigs and Gowns for Registrars, Town Clerks, cheapest Manilla Chocolate, and may be taken when and Clerks of the Peace. In ting at 18. 6d., 35., 6s. 6a., &c., by Chemists and CORPORATION ROBES, UNIVERSITY AND CLERGY GOWNS Grocers. Charities on Special Ter ms by the Sole Proprietor, ESTABLISHED 1689. 1. SCHWEITZER & Co., 10, Adam-st., Strand, London, W.0 94, CHANCERY LANE LONDON. poration, Limited, REVERSIONARY THE NEW ZEALAND LAND MORT-TIE BAILWAY PASSENGERS’ ASSURANCE COMPANY ORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. Applications for Shares will close on MONDAY, sider proper having regard to the risk undertaken. the 15th inst. for Town and Country. The Corporation is prepared to offer at once such Londox: 1, Moorgate-street, E.C. ABERDEEN : 1, (By Order) B. G. KINNEAR, terms as it is believed will secure an immediate, large, Union-terrace. Secretary (pro tem.) and profitable business. INCOME & FUNDS (1885) :- Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C., No contracts have been entered into and no pro- Fire Premiums £577,000 November 10, 1886. motion money has been or will be paid. Life Premiums ... 191,000 The founders bave subscribed the first £250,000 of Interest... 132,000 the ordinary Share Capital, and pay all the pre Accumulated Funds £3,134,000 liminary expenses, except law charges and usual brokerage; they will be entitled to receive upon their Founders Shares as distinct from the Ordinary and LIFE INTE Shares, one-half the nett profits after payment of 7 RESTS in LANDED or FUNDED PROPERTY per cent. on the Ordinary Shares, and after providing or other Securities and Annuities PURCHASED, or Loans for a Reserve Fund, the remaining hall will be available for increased dividends on the Ordinary or Annuities thereon granted, by the EQUITABLE REIncorporated under the Companies' Acts, 1862 to 1886, VERSIONARY INTEREST SOCIETY (LIMITED), 10, Shares. Established whereby the liability of the Shareholders is limited Lancaster-place, Waterloo Bridge, Strand. If no allotment is made the application money will Interest on Loans may be to the amount unpaid on their Shares. Capital, £500,000. be returned in full, and in case a smaller amount is allotted than is applied for the excess paid on appli- capitalized. F. S. CLAYTON, Joint SHARE CAPITAL, £2,000,000, cation will be applied in payment of the allotment C. H. CLAYTOX, } Secretaries First Issue of £1,000,000, Prospectuses and forms of application for shares (Of wbich £250,000 has been eubscribed by the may be obtained at the offices of the Corporation, or ACCIDENTS OF DAILY LIFE Founders), from its Brokers. Bankers, or Solicitors. Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association may be INSURED AGAINST BY IN 100,000 SHARES OF £10 EACH. seen at the Offices of the Solicitors. Payable 10s. per Share on Application, 10s. per Share on Allotment, and £1 on the 15th February, 1887. It is not intended to make further Calls. GAGE COMPANY, Limited. (ESTABLISHED 1849), Capital £2,000,000, fully subscribed. £200,000 paid up. Reserve Fund, £5,000. 64, CORNHILL, LONDON. The Right Hon. E. PLEYDELL BOUVERIE, Chairman. Sir SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Bart., Deputy Governor The Company's loans are limited to first-class free- £1,000,000. Union Bank of London, Deputy Chairman. hold mortgages. The Debenture issue is limited to £216,000. J. SPENCER BALFOUR, Esq., Deputy Chairman Assets che uncalled capital. Realization Company, Limited. HOME DIRECTORS. COMPENSATION PAID FOR 112,000 ACCIDENTS, Thos. CHARRINGTON, Esq., Director Metropolitan H. J. BRISTOW, Esq. Sir WILLIAM T. POWER, Life Assurance Society. W. K. GRAHAM, Esq. £2,215,000. K.C.B. ARTHUR HENTY, Esq. (Messrs. Henty & Sons, FALCONER LARKWORTHY, THOS. RUSSELL, CHAIRMAN-HARVIE M. FARQUHAR, Esq. Bankers), Worthing. C.M.G. HENRY HONEY, Esq. (late Messrs. Honey, Hum ARTHUR M. MITCHISON, Sir EDWARD W. STAF- Apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, the Local Agents, or phreys, & Co.), Wyvelsfield, Chislehurst. FORD, K.C.M.G. Sir HENRY E. KNIGHT, Alderman, Chairman South West-end Office:-8, GRAND HOTEL BUILDINGS, W.C. Chairman of Colonial Board Or at the wark and Vauxhall Water Company. The Hon. Sir FREDK. WHITAKER, K.C.M.G., M.L.C., Head Office :-64, CORNHILL, LONDON, E.C. EDWARD NORMAN, Esq. (Messrs. Martin & Co.), 68, lato Premier of New Zealand. Lombard Street, E.C. J. VIAN WILLIAM, Secretary. LEOPOLD SALOMONs, Esq., Director Employers' \| bearing interest at 4 per cent. for three years, and The Directors are issuing Terminable Debentures Liability Assurance Corporation. ESTABLISHED 1851. VINCENT B. TRITTON, Esq., Director City of London 45 per cent. for five years and upwards. Interest half I R K B E OK B A N K.Fire Insurance Company. yearly by Coupons. Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. A. M. MITCHISON, Managing Director, BANKERS. THREE per CENT. INTEREST allowed on Leadenhall-buildings, Leadenhall-st., London, E.C Messrs. MARTIN & Co., 68, Lombard Street, E.C. DEPOSITS, repayable on demand, UNION BANK OF LONDON. LIMITED, Chancery Lane, AW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, TWO per CENT. INTEREST on CURRENT Regent Street, and Charing Cross Branches. ACCOUNTS celculated on the minimum monthly FLEET STREET, LONDON.-Instituted 1823. balances, when not drawn below £100. SOLICITORS. Assets on 31st December, 1885... £5,248, 223 The Bank undertakes for its Customgrs, free of Messrs. LINKLATER, HACKWOOD, ADDISON, & BROWN, Income for the Year 1885 £138,476 Charge, the Custody of Deeds, Writings, and other 7. Walbrook, E.C. Amount paid in claims to 31st Dec., 1885 £14,536,593 Securities and Valuables; the collection of Bills or Messrs. BAKER, BLAKEP, &' HAWES, 117, Cannon Reversionary Bonus allotted for the five Exchange, Dividends, and Coupons; and the purchase Street, E.O. years ending 31st Dec., 1884 ... and sale of Stocks, Shares, and Annuities. Letters of Reversionary Bonuses hitherto allotted £6.889,937 Credit and Circular Notes issued. AUDITORS The Expenses of Management, including Commis The BIRKBECK ALMANACK, with full particuMessrs. BROADS, PATERSON, & Co, 1, Walbrook, E.C. sion, are about 45 per cent. of the Income. lars, post-free, on application. The limits of free travel and residence have been FRANCIS RAVENSCROFT, Manager. TEMPORARY OFFICES. largely extended, and rates of extra premium WINCHESTER HOUSE, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. reduced. COLLEGE, Cambridge. SECRETARY (pro tem.). Loans granted on security B. G. KINNEAR, Esq. Interests, Reversions, and Borough and County Rates, as well as on other approved Securities. PRESIDENT : PROSPECTUS. Life Interests and Reversions are purchased. HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G. This Company has been incorporated for the purpose Claims paid immediately on proof of death and of granting Insurances to the holders of Mortgages, title. Mortgage Debentures, Mortgage Debenture Stock, Commission allowed to Solicitors and others on The Object of this College is to enable Students at and other securities against loss of principal and Assurances effected through their introduction. the earliest practicable age, and at a moderate cost, interest. Prospectus and Form of Proposal sent on applica to take the University Degree in Arts, Law, or Although advances upon mortgages justly occupy tion to the Actuary. Medicine. the first rank among investments, experience (par Students are admitted at 16, and a Degree may be ticularly during the last few years) has demonstrated taken at 19. AW UNION FIRE and LIFE INSU The College Charges for Lodging and Board (with caution, it is impossible to make adequate provision RANCE COMPANY. an Extra Term in the Long Vacation), including all against loss in every case. The Directors confidently ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1854. necessary expenses of tuition for the B.A. Degree, believe, and have been assured by many Solicitors The only Law Insurance Office in the United Kingdom are £84 per annum. and other competent authorities, that in introducing which transacts both Fire and Life Insurance Busi For further information apply to the WARDEN, the system of assurance to mortgage investinents, Cavendish College, Cambridge. they will supply a valuable element of security of Chiel Officewhich advantage is certain to be largely taken. 216, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, W.C. PREFERMENT for EXIt is believed that the operations of this Corpora The Funds in hand and Capital Subscribed amount to tion, whilst very profitable to its Shareholders, will be CHANGE.-The Rector of a pleasant country £1,900,000 sterling. of the utmost advantage to all who are interested, living in South of England, population 400, income either as Owners or Mortgagees of property, and es Chairman-JAMES CUDDON, Esq., of the Middle approaching £300 per annum and house, would be Temple, Barrister-at-Law. pecially go to Trustees. The Policies of this Corpor willing to exchange the dext two or three presentaDeputy-Chairman-CHARLES PEMBERTON, Esq. (Lee ation will assure and strengthen the relative position tions for an advowson of small value in southern or & Pembertons), Solicitor, 44, Lincoln's-inn-fields. of borrowers and lenders, and will remove the element western country. - Address, RECTOR, Mr. Eland's The Directors invite attention to the New Form of Library, Exeter. of doubt and uncertainty which, as above stated, Life Policy, which is free from all conditions. often attends even the best class of mortgage busi Policies of Insurance granted against the continpess. Prudent lenders will naturally desire that their gency of Issue at moderate rates of Premium. HALLETI'S PEDIGREE interest shall be regularly paid, and their securities The Company ADVANCES Money on Mortgage of CEREALS, Free to any Railway Station in enhanced by the guarantee of a large and powerful Life Interests and Reversions, whether absolute or Great Britain.-HALLETT'S PEDIGREE SEED COMPANY company, whilst borrowers who are prepared to as contingent. LIMITED, Brighton. Telegraphic Address, “ Pedisure their obligations, will necessarily be able to pro The Company also purchases Reversions. gree, Brighton." cure better terms as to interest and otherwise than would be obtainable without such guarantee. Prospectuses, copies of the Directors' Report and Annual Balance Sheet, and every information, sent The field open to the operations of the Corporation post-free on application to PARENTS and GUARDIANS.- An is practically illimitable. It is believed that the effect Architect and Surveyor, having had over thirty of the additional security offered to Mortgagees and FRANK MCGEDY, Actuary and Secretary. years' experience, and holding one Government apothers will largely increase the present volume of pointment, is open to receive a Pupil ; moderate Mortgage transactions, but it may be safely stated IFE ASSURANCE premium, partly returned in salary:- Apply to Mr. that, assuming only a small per centage of the prop, EDWARD CLARK, 432, West Strand, Chariug-cruce, erty at present the subject of Mortgage were assured W.C. with the Corporation, it would yield an amount of Invested Funds 69 Millions Sterling. business which would return a large dividend to the Annual Revenue Shareholders. £900,000. At the division of Surplus declared on 11th May, The Capital paid up will be invested in readily 1886, Reversionary Bonus additions to the amount Piccadilly,'and 136. Strand, Second-hand Booksellers, tors, &c.-HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 36, available and high-class securities and will furnish, of £930,000 were added to Policies. with the amount uncalled, a guarantee for the en Moderate Rates of Premiums. Liberal Conditions. are prepared to PURCHASE LIBRARIES or smaller gagements which the Corporation may enter into. collections of Books, in town or country, and to give Every proposal for insurance will be considered on Tables of Rates and all other information on applica- the utmost value in cash. Experienced valuers sent. tion.-London: 83, King William-street, E.C., and its merits, and will be accepted at such rates and 4, Pall Mall East, S.W. Removals without trouble or expense to ven lors Established 1816, oleh Policies, Life CAVENDISH BOOKS BOUGUT:-To Executors, Solici. CASES REPORTED THIS WEEK. act for the purpose of hearing and determining appeals, and also In the Solicitors' Journal. Williams v. The Peel River Land for the purpose of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary taking their seats and Mineral Co. 60 and the oaths, during any prorogation of Parliament.” During a A Solicitor, In the Matter of 63 Gale v. Kite 63 prorogation, therefore, only Lords of Appeal in Ordinary may take Goldstrom v. Tallerman 60 In the Weekly Reporter. Great Western Steamship Co.(Lim.), the oaths, and as Lord BRAMWELL and Lord HERSCHELL are not Re...... 61 Caird v. Moss 52 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, and had not taken the oaths after Guilbert-Martin v. Kerr & Jubb.. 62 Coulton. In re, Hamling v. Elliott 49 Hanley and Another v. Mallett 61 Day v. Ward the last dissolution, they cannot take the oaths during a proroga. Hastings, Re, Hallett v. Hastings 60 Duke of Marlborough v. Sartoris.. 55 tion. This follows from the Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866, which Helmore v. Smith 60 Gas Light and Coke Co. v. Hardy 10 Holt & Co. v. Beagle and Others 61 Hickey. In re, Hickey v. Colmer 63 prescribes that the oath of allegiance set out in that Act (changed Payne, Re. Ex parte Castle Mail " Johann Sverdrup," The Packets Co... in form only by the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868) “shall, in every "Keroula,” The .... Raven v. Stevens & Sons Loder, In re ......... 58 Parliament, be solemnly and publicly made and subscribed by every Scott (otherwise Sebright) v. Se "Naples,” The 19 bright member of the House of Peers at the table in the middle of the 62 Sebright's Settled Estates, In re Tapscott v. Tapscott 61 Stone's Trusts, In re 54 said House . . . and whilst a full House of Peers is there with their The Mayorand Corporation of Lon “Zoe," The 61 don, Ex parte, Rē Zion College.. 61 Speaker in his place.” And to make assurance doubly sure, it is provided by the concluding portion of section 8 of the Appellate The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter. and determination of appeals, and matters connected there with LONDON, NOVEMBER 20, 1886. and Lords of Appeal in Ordinary taking their seats and the oaths as aforesaid, shall be transacted by the House of Lords during such prorogation.” An amending statute will, we presume, be passed to CURRENT TOPICS. remedy the defect. THREE ORDERS which we print elsewhere complete the arrangements consequent on the retirement of Vice-Chancellor Bacon, (which we were enabled to announce last week) by transferring all TO THE DELIGHT of the impressionable part of the public, and, causes marked for Vice-Chancellor Bacon, and also his chief clerks we think, rather to the surprise of the majority of the legal proand officers, to Mr. Justice Kay; and by transferring all Mr. Justice fession, Mr. Justice Butt has seen his way to granting a decree of Kay's causes, chief clerks, and officers to Mr. Justice STIRLING ; and nullity in Scott v. Sebright, on the ground that the petitioner was, by transferring all Mr. Justice STIRLING's causes to Mr. Justi at the time of her marriage, incapable of consenting to the marKEKEWICH for trial or hearing only. riage contract, and that that contract ought to be avoided on the same grounds as other contracts may be avoided, subject to the qualification that the court avoiding it must watch more jealously We have this week to announce an appointment which we than in the case of other contracts the evidence which is tendered believe will give general satisfaction. Mr. GEORGE ÅUGUSTUS in support of the desired avoidance. It may perhaps be questioned CROWDER, solicitor (of the firm of CROWDERS & VIZARD), of 55, whether, in not subjecting SEBRIGHT to examination on certain Lincoln's-inn-fields, has been appointed a Chief Clerk in the points, the learned judge quite observed his own qualification, and chambers of Mr. Justice Cutty, in succession to Mr. ROBERT whether the case does not bear on the face of it something like the MARSHALL, resigned. Mr. CROWDER was admitted as of Trinity Term, judicial sanction of the dissolution of a marriage by mutual consent, 1861. It will be remembered that he was chairman of the com- although, as Lord PENZANCE eloquently points out in Mordaunt v. mittee of the Incorporated Law Society appointed in 1881 to con- Mordaunt (2 P. D., at p. 196), the feature of non-rescission sider the report of the Legal Procedure Committee. by consent is a feature which belongs to marriage contracts alone among contracts. The question, however, was one of evidence only, and all that can be said is that different facts strike different THE ARRANGEMENTS consequent on the retirement of Vice-Chan- judges differently. As to the authorities, although no cellor Bacon have given rise to a migration of leaders probably are cited in the judgment, it is well to point out that the without parallel. We believe that the following is a correct state- books contain at least three cases-Harford v. Morris (2 Hagg: ment, so far as it goes, of the changes which have occurred :—The Con. 423), Portsmouth v. Portsmouth (1 Hagg. 356), and Queen's Counsel practising before Mr. Justice Kay will consist of Wilkinson v. Wilkinson (4 Notes of Ecclesiastical Cases, 295) Mr. MARTEN, Mr. INCE (who has migrated from Mr. Justice Cutty's -in which a marriage has been declared void on the ground court). Mr. Horton SMITH, Mr. MILLAR, and Sir A. Watson. The of incapacity to consent, not amounting to insanity. Of the Queen's Counsel practising before Mr. Justice Stirling will consist of three cases Wilkinson v. Wilkinson is the strongest. There Mr. Fischer, Mr. W. PEARSON, Mr. HEMMING, Mr. GRAHAM HASTINGS, a rich infant, incurably imbecile, but whose friends had failed to Mr. W. F. Robinson, Mr. Crossley, and Mr. BUSH. Mr. BARBER, procure her to be declared lunatic, had been inveigled into a Q.C., and Mr. WARMINGTON, Q.C., will practise before Mr. Justice marriage with a cousin “in concert with other parties." The KEKEWICH, and Mr. MACLEAN, Q.C., will practise before Mr. Justice ceremony was hurried, and the bride, when required to say CHITTY. will,” said “No," till prompted by the clerk and told to use the former words; moreover, when in the vestry, she “took off the THE FOLLOWING are the names and dates of call to the bar of the ring and threw it down, saying she was not married." The husnew Queen's Counsel :—Six members of the Equity Bar: Mr. band was represented but not examined at the trial, his counsel EDWARD CUTLER, 1857; Mr. WILLIAM LATHAM, 1860; Mr. WALTER admitting that the wife was undoubtedly unfit to enter into the CHARLES Renshaw, 1864 ; Mr. Henry BURTON BUCKLEY, 1869; Mr. matrimonial contract, and "leaving the matter in the hands of the SEWARD BRICE, 1871; and Mr. KENNETH AUGUSTUS MUIR MACKENZIE court” (Dr. Lushington), with the result that the decree was (Permanent Secretary in the Lord Chancellor's Department, and granted on the ground that the marriage had been brought about Clerk of the Crown in Chancery), 1873. Two members of the by fraud and circumvention. South-Eastern Circuit: Mr. EMANUEL MAGUIRE UNDERDOWN, 1861, and Mr. GEORGE CANDY, 1869. Two members of the Northern Circuit : Mr. THOMAS WRITTEN BURY WHEELER, 1865, and Mr. A CORRESPONDENT of a contemporary, signing himself “Lin. LINDSEY MIDDLETON ASPLAND, 1868 ; and one member of the North: coln's Inn,” has accomplished a feat and made a discovery Eastern Circuit: Mr. EDWARD TINDAL ATKINSON, 1870. may well fill his inn with pride. The feat is the reading of “the words of section 13 of 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110," and the discovery is that there is no necessity for any panic Stitors in the House of Lords hare unexpectedly been deprived about Re Pope" (34 W. R. 654, 693). Referring to an article of the advantage of Lord HŁESCHELL akd Lord BRAMWELL taking which he appears to have written on the 9th of October, he says, part in the bearing of their causes, and it seems that this is the “I observe that I stand alone in my opinions therein expressed; inevitable result of section 8 of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, and your contemporaries the SOLICITORS' Journal and the Law 1876. By that section it is enacted that, " for preventing delay Journal, and the respective contributors thereto, are wholly at sea in the administration of justice, the House of Lords may rit and ) amidst 'what they consider the shoals of the Judgment Acts. Would you believe it, sir, those valiant journals and their learned duties Lord COLERIDGE has this week intimated an anxious desire contributors occasion their own troubles by not reading the words for information, was, before the Judicature Acts, styled “the of section 13 of 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110 which they comment on ?" \| Official Solicitor of the High Court of Chancery,” and before the And then he proceeds to state the provisions of this unknown Chancery Funds Act “the Solicitor to the Suitors' Fund." His section, the effect of which he states to be that “the in invitum functions, as described in the Second Report of the Legal Departcharge which, by that section, is given by the judgment being ments Commission, were to protect the Suitors' Fund, and to duly registered, is made thereby equivalent to a voluntary charge administer, under the direction of the court, so much of it as then made by writing of the debtor under hand—that is to say, the came under the spending power of the court. He acted for judgment debt, being registered, is, by the statute, made and parties in pauper suits, when so directed by the judge, and for declared to be an equitable mortgage on the lands—exactly what those who, through ignorance or forgetfulness, were guilty of 1 (WHO READ THE Acts I WRITE ABOUT) hare stated in the article in contempt of court by not answering process. Érery quarter he question." And he then refers to another unknown Act of 27 & visited Holloway Prison, to see and report upon any prisoner of 23 Vict. c. 112, and asks “why purchasers should be in any panic the Court of Chancery, taking up any case requiring assistance. about Re Pope?" It is satisfactory to know that “Lincoln's Inn” He assisted the Paymaster-General in preparing the Chancery has read section 13; and it would have been still more satisfactory if Estimates for Parliament, and acted generally as a solicitor in all his reading had extended to the observations in the Solicitors' cases in which the several Chancery Courts required such services. Jotrnal on which he comments. What we have endeavoured to All these duties he still performs, with the exception of adminisshew (with what success our readers must judge) is that there are tering so much of the Suitors' Fund as comes under the spending two totally distinct methods of enforcing a judgment debt against power of the court. He may be also required, under R. S.C., 1883, the debtor's land XXXIII., 9, to act in case of “undue delay" in proceedings under First, the judgment creditor may obtain execution against any judgment or order. As solicitor of the court he is the general the debtor's lands, by suing out an elegit, or by obtaining intermediary for the Lord Chancellor, as president, in respect of a an order appointing a receiver, or for a commission of large amount of public business in connection with the courts. It sequestration. He can do this without registering either frequently happens that the Official Solicitor is appointed guardian the judgment or the writ or order. In this case he en- for an infant in cases where a guardian is unfit to act through forces his remedy against the rents and profits of the misconduct, and the judge thinks it desirable to retain a strict debtor's land. There is no means by which a purchaser hold on the infant's property. But this forms no part of his official can be certain that the judgment creditor has not obtained duties, though in such cases the existence of a trustworthy officer execution. is a great convenience, and facilitates the exercise of the duties of Secondly, the judgment creditor may obtain a charge on the the judges. corpus of the land of the judgment debtor by registering his writ or other process of execution under 27 & 28 Vict. c. 112. In this case a purchaser can ascertain by search- IF ANY IMPUTATION was intended by the Master of the Rolls, ing what has been done. in his recent remarkable speech, against the county court Without again discussing the extremely intricate law of judg- judges on the ground of inefficiency or defective administraments and executions, we may point out, for the benefit of Lin- tion of the law, no support for such a charge can be gathered coln's Inn," that the decision in Re Pope (which he surely cannot from the results of the appeals from their decisions (apart from have read) expressly decided (1) that, whère land is actually de- their equity, admiralty, and bankruptcy jurisdiction) which are livered in execution, it is not necessary to register the execu- given in the last issue of the Judicial Statistics. The number of tion, except for the purpose of obtaining an order for sale ; and appeals from county courts by special case in the year ending the (2) that a judgment creditor who has got the land actually delivered 31st of October, 1885, was 31; and of this number 22 were in execution is safe as against a purchaser-in other words, that argued, 10 decisions being affirmed and 12 reversed. Appeals by the purchaser is not safe as against the execution creditor. motion numbered 151, of which 41 were refused, and of the 111 Perhaps even " Lincoln's Inn” will now see why there has orders nisi granted, 36 only were made absolute, and 74 were disbeen i a panic about Re Pope.” charged. The figures speak for themselves, and shew only 48 successful appeals from the 586,716 decisions of 59 county court judges. On Friday fortnight the Master of the Rolls announced that the bankruptcy appeal, Ex parte The Official Receiver, In re Morritt, would be re-argued before the full Court of Appeal. The case is one of several relating to bills of sale in which judg ON THE FORM OF MORTGAGE BILLS OF SALE. ment was reserved just before the Long Vacation. One of the II. questions raised was, whether section 19 of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, which confers on a mortgagee by deed “a power, when the bill of sale sball “truly set forth the consideration for which Consideration.—The Act of 1882 requires (section 8) that the mortgage-money bas become due, to sell the mortgaged property," applies to a bill of sale of personal chattels given as security for Act of 1878, s. 8,° by the addition of the word “ was given,” differing only from the corresponding provision in the money. Section 20 provides that the mortgagee shall not exercise hurdly requires the authority of Bowen, L.J. (Ex parte Johnson, truly." It the power of sale unless and until notice requiring payment of the Re Chapman, 26 Ch. D., at p. 348), to enable one to see that the mortgage-money has been served on the mortgagor, and default in difference in language is immaterial, and that the Act of 1878 repayment has been made for three months after the service, or “the provisions of this Act relating to the foregoing powers, com- be literally accurate ; that it satisfies the requirements of the Acts interest is in arrear for two months. Section 19 also provides that quires the consideration to be stated truly. The cases shew that the statement of the consideration need not prised either in this section, or in any subsequent section regulating if it be substantially accurate (Hughes v. Little, 35 W. R. 36): the exercise of those powers may be varied or extended by the and if it states, either in legal or business language, the true effect mortgage deed," and in this particular case the bill of sale contained a proviso that the power of sale conferred upon the mort of what actually took place : see the remarks of Bowen, L.J., Ex gagee by the Conveyancing Act should be exercisable by him " in parte Johnson, ubi sup.; of Brett, L.J., The Credit Co v. Pott every respect as if the 20th section of the said Act had not been (6 Q. B. D., at p. 298). " The real principle of the form is that, enacted." Another question was, whether a mortgagee of chattels by the bill of sale, a first sum shall be stated therein in figures; may be the consideration for the sum of money secured has (independently of the Conveyancing Act and of any express and in direct terms power in the deed) an inherent power of sale by virtue of his (per Brett, M.R., Davis v. Burton, 11 mortgage in case of default by the mortgagor. The case was ar Q. B. D., at p. 540). gued before the full court on Thursday, the 11th inst., and judg- may be grouped under two heads—first, where the consideration is Most of the cases where the consideration is incorrectly stated ment was reserved. expressed to be paid “now or “on or immediately before the TJE OFFICIAL SOLICITOR of the Supreme Court, as to whose sideration is paid some time before the execution of the bill execution of these presents," and the whole or part of the con of sale, or no money is actually paid ; secondly, where the con- void, except as against the grantor : see the Act of 1882, ss. 4, sideration is expressed to be paid to A. and the whole or part is 5. really paid to B. An interminable controversy might be raised on the meaning of In cases of the first class the bill of sale was held good, in Ex the words “specifically described,” but fortunately they have been parte Allam, Re Munday (14 Q. B. D. 43), where the debtor gave decided to mean that the inventory must describe the things as a a bill of sale for the sum advanced, and, upon its being discovered business man would describe them : see remarks of Lindley, L.J., that it was invalid owing to its offending against the provisions of in Roberts v. Roberts (13 Q. B. D., at p. 806). It is unnecessary the Acts, gave a fresh bill four days after the execution of the first to state in what house the chattels are: Ex parte Hill, Re Lane bill, which was thereupon cancelled; in Ex parte Johnson, Re (17 Q. B. D. 74). Chapman (32 W. R. 393, 26 Ch. D. 338), where part of the loan These provisions effectually prevent a mortgage of after-acquired was made four days before the execution of the bill of sale on chattels, unless they are acquired in substitution for those com- the undertaking of the debtor to execute a bill of sale if required; prised in the bill of sale which become worn out: Consolidated Credit in Ex parte Bolland, Re Roper (31 W. R. 102, 21 Ch. D. 543), Co. v. Gosney (34 W. R. 106, 16 Q. B. D. 24). It should, perhaps, be where no money actually passed, but the sum expressed to be stated that where a bill of sale mortgages both chattels in posses- paid was a sum owing by the grantor to the grantee for un- sion and after-acquired chattels, the invalid provisions as to the paid purchase-money; in The Credit Co. v. Pott (29 W. R. 326, after-acquired chattels do not invalidate the mortgage of the 6 Q. B. D. 295), where no money passed, there was a recital of property in possession : Roberts v. Roberts (32 W. R. 605, 13 an intended loan, and the amount of the loan was the sum found Q.B. D. 794), overruling Levy v. Polack (W. N., 1885, 76). due by the grantor to the grantee on a stated account; the effect These provisions are subject to the important exceptions of (1) of the transaction in each of the two latter cases really being pay- any growing crops separately assigned or charged where such ment by the grantor of the money due by him, and an immediate crops were actually growing at the time when the bill of sale was advance of the same s'ım to him by the grantee. On the other executed ; (2) any fixtures separately assigned or charged, and hand, the bill of sale was held to be invalid in Ex parte Berwick, any plant or trade machinery, where such fixtures, plant, Re Young (29 W. R. 292), where the loan had been made by in- or trade machinery are used in, attached to, or brought stalments extending over eighteen months, the last of which was upon any land, farm, factory, workshop, shop, house, warehouse, paid three months before the bill of sale was given. or other place in substitution for any of the like fixtures, plant, or In cases of the second class the consideration is truly said to be trade machinery specifically described in the schedule to such bill paid to the grantor if it is by his direction, at the time of the ad- of sale : see the Act of 1882, s. 6. vance, paid so as to satisfy existing debts then due from him (see the The words "separately assigned” in this section have reference remarks of Jessel, M. R., and Brett, L.J., Ex parte Firth, Re Cowburn, to the 4th section of the Act of 1878. As to growing crops, they 19 Ch. D. 419; Hamlyn v. Betteley, 29 W. R. 956, 5 C. P. D. 327), mean “not assigned together with any interest in the land on or, apparently, if it is paid for any purpose by his direction (see which they grow.” As to fixtures, “not assigned together with a Re Cann, Ex parte Hunt, 13 Q. B. D., where it will be observed freehold or leasehold interest in any land or building to which that part of the costs which were paid on the execution of the bill they are annexed." of sale had not become due). The bill was even upheld where, It should be observed that a grant of after-acquired chattels immediately after the payment of the consideration, the grantor passes only an equitable interest, and that, therefore, if, after they applied part of it, pursuant to an agreement entered into at the come into existence, and before the grantee takes possession, some time, giving the bill of sale in payment of a debt bona fide due other person, without notice of the grantee's interest, acquires a by him to the grantee: Ex parte National Mercantile Bank, Re legal interest in them, the title of the grantee is ousted : Joseph Haynes (28 W. R. 248, 15 Ch. D. 42), a case decided under the v. Lyons (33 W. R. 145, 15 Q. B. D. 280), Hallas v. Robirson Act of 1878; if it had fallen under the Act of 1882 the collateral (33 W. R. 426, 15 Q. B. D. 289). agreement would have made the sale bad: see ante, p. 41. ** There is an omission of some words in a sentence in our On the other hand, where part of the consideration was paid to, previous article at the top of page 41, second column. The latter or retained by, the grantee as bonus : Re Williams, Ex parte part of the sentence should read, “were intended to apply solely Pearce (32 W. R. 187, 25 Ch. D. 656); as commission on the to the case where the mortgage was by demise, or whether they loan : Hamilton v. Chaine (7 Q. B. D. 1, 319); for the sake of would also apply to the case of a mortgage in fee, and whether providing for the rent subsequently becoming due of the house they apply to the implied tenancy of the mortgagor created by the where the chattels were: Ex parte Rolph, Re Spindler (19 Ch. D. mortgage, or only to the express tenancy created by the attorn. 98); for interest and expenses : Ex parte Charing Cross Advance ment.' and Deposit Bank, Re Parker (29 W. R. 204, 16 Ch. D. 35); or if the costs of the grantee's solicitor, including costs of regis- tration, are retained by him out of the consideration : Ex parte Firth, Re Cowburn (19 Ch. D. 419) overruling Ex parte Challinor (29 W. R. 205, 16 Ch. D. 260), the consideration was CONCERNING SEARCHES. held not to be truly expressed. In all the cases where part of the consideration is retained by the grantee for the purpose of future (XV.) JUDGMENTS. application, the consideration is not truly stated, not only because II. THE MODERN LAW OF JUDGMENTS (continued). it is stated to be paid to the grantor, but also because it is stated Registration of judgments.—By section 19 of 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110, " to be now paid ". Ex parte Rolph, Re Spindler (19 Ch. D. 98). no judgment of any of the said superior courts ”-i.e., at West The consideration was held not to be truly stated where the bill minster-"nor any decree or order in any court of equity, nor any secured repayment of advances thereby recited to be made to the order in bankruptcy or lunacy, shall, by virtue of this Act, affect grantor, but which were really made to his firm: Ex parte Carter, any lands,” &c., as to purchasers unless and until registered in the Re Threappleton (12 Ch. D. 908). The consideration was held to Court of Common Pleas in the manner therein prescribed in the be sufficiently stated in the words, " In consideration of the name of the person whose estate is intended to be affected grantee having, at the request of the grantor, become guarantee, and thereby.” (Semble, therefore, that if a defendant was sued as having signed a promissory note for the payment of a sum of £45, trustee, the registration shoulả be in the name of the cestui que obtained by the grantor from B., of which £32 or thereabouts is trust, against whom a purchaser would search.) now owing”: Hughes v. Little (17 Q. B. D. 204), confirmed on The section does not mean that judgments shall, when registered, this point on appeal (35 W. R. 36); and where part of the con- affect lands as from entry of judgment; its effect is to cut down sideration was a transaction relating to promissory notes which the prior sections which bind lands as from entry of judgment and were incorrectly stated to be bills of exchange : Roberts v. Roberts to affect purchasers only from the time of registration (Hargrave (32 W. R. 605, 13 Q. B. D. 794). v. Hargrave, 23 Beav. 484). Parcels.—Personal chattels must be specifically described in a The statute 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110 did not repeal the Statute of schedule-inventory contained in a schedule to the bill of sale, and Westminster 2 or the Docket Act (ante, p. 25), so that, as section the grantor must be the true owner thereof at the time of the 19 applies only to the rights given by virtue of this Act," it was, execution of the bill of sale, otherwise the bill of sale will be apparently, still open to a creditor to docket his judgment under 22 were Deals by the 111 vere disonly 48 5 court	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line547
__label__cc	0.59029	0.40971	Remember the Zombamo – Chapter 2 Hours later, the modest home of a simple villager had been turned into a makeshift battle hospital. Doctor Sebastian Garcia listened to the patient’s heart with a stethoscope. The beats were slow and feint. “We’re losing him,” the doctor said. “Unacceptable,” Colonel Arroyo said. “The General is so loved by the people that our heads will be on pikes if he doesn’t live.” “He has lost too much blood,” Doctor Garcia replied. “There is nothing I can do.” The front door creaked open and an alluring woman sauntered in. She was dressed all in black with hair to match. Her eyes were stunning, her lips were red and full and a subtle beauty mark graced the lower part of her right cheek. The Colonel turned his head toward the woman. “Leave, wench! You have no business here.” “You will leave me alone with the general,” the woman cooed in a soft, sultry voice. “Senorita,” the doctor said. “This is not a time for games. This is an important man and he is gravely injured.” The woman’s eyes turned blank and blood red. She looked at both men intently, then slowly repeated, “You will leave me alone with the general.” “Bien,” the doctor said as he walked out the door. “I suppose every man deserves a pretty woman’s company in his final moments.” “Bah,” Arroyo said as he joined the doctor. “Let’s leave them be. I need a drink.” The door slammed shut. The woman’s eyes returned to normal as she stepped closer to the patient. Santa Anna shivered and gritted his teeth as beads of sweat trickled down his forehead. “Shhh,” the woman said as she ran her fingers through the general’s long, black hair. “All is well now, mi amor.” The general’s hand twitched. The woman reached down and took it into hers. “Do you know my name?” “Mi nombre es Legion,” the woman said. “Porque somos muchos.” The woman rubbed her thumb up and down the back of Santa Anna’s hand. “But I suppose ‘Legion’ isn’t a very pretty name so you may call me ‘Isadora.’” Isadora pressed her lips up against Santa Anna’s forehead and kissed it. “I have been following your career with great interest, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna,” Isadora said. “In my many years, I have never seen a man so willing to risk his life for his country.” Santa Anna winced with pain. Doctor Garcia had cut away the chunks of flesh and bone, cleaned the wound and dressed it, but blood continued to pour out of the bandages only to stain the white bed linen. “Do you risk your life out of a sense of duty?” Isadora asked. “For honor?” Isadora’s right eyebrow raised. “Do you do it for glory?” The general stirred. “Ergh.” “I can work with glory.” Isadora opened her mouth and two pointy fangs popped out. “Fear not, novio,” Isadora said as she drew her mouth close to Santa Anna’s neck. “This will not hurt at all compared to what you have been through already.” The vampire chomped at the patient’s throat, then sucked on his blood, feeding herself until the general was drained. Santa Anna murmured one last “ergh” just before his heart stopped. Isadora bit into her wrist and opened up two holes, causing drops of blood to flow out. The she-vamp pressed her wrist up against Santa Anna’s lips. “Feed.” Santa Anna remained a still, lifeless corpse. “Feed, mi amor,” Isadora said. “Feed and all of Mexico will be yours.” Like a wild animal, Santa Anna emitted a guttural roar. He sprang up in bed. His eyes turned red. A pair of fangs popped out of his mouth. Instinctively, he used them to cut into Isadora’s wrist. A primal thirst had taken control of the general. He quenched it with Isadora’s blood. She was a willing donor. As she watched her new plaything nourish himself, she could not help but laugh. “Feed and grow strong, my love.” Tagged horror, vampires, zombies Tampico, Mexico The Spaniards had returned for what they deemed was rightfully theirs. An army of nearly three thousand men loyal to King Ferdinand approached with rifles at the ready. Sitting atop his horse, the middle-aged Colonel Javier Arroyo peaked at the uninvited guests through a spy glass. “Madness,” the Colonel said. “General, we have no choice but to…” Before Arroyo could say “surrender,” his commander, the brash, young General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was off, charging his steed towards the invaders with his saber drawn, a battle cry pouring out of his lungs, and a thousand of his own men in tow. “Dios mio,” Colonel Arroyo said as he drew his sword and pointed it at the Spaniards. “Attack!” The air grew thick with the scent of gunpowder as shots rang out from both sides. Swords clanged. Blood was spilled, staining the soil crimson. Before long, the Colonel and the General found themselves fighting in close proximity to one another. “I find myself questioning your sanity, Antonio!” the Colonel cried as ran his sword through a Spaniard’s gut. Santa Anna fired his pistol at one Spanish soldier, then, lacking sufficient time to reload, socked another square in the jaw with his bare fist. “And I question your intestinal fortitude, Javier,” Santa Anna replied. The general’s sword clanged against a Spanish rapier. Parry…parry…thrust! Another Spaniard down. “Your guts!” Santa Anna said. “There are too many of them!” Arroyo shouted. “There’s cowardice and then there’s using the head that God gave you!” Pow! A Spanish cannonball emerged from a cannon perched on a hilltop, tore through the air, and landed twenty feet away, causing a contingent of Mexican soldiers to erupt in an explosion of blood and viscera. Santa Anna picked up a dead Spaniard’s rifle and fired a shot, opening up a giant hole in the middle of a Spanish officer’s head. “Fighting to keep what is yours?” Santa Anna asked. “If you think that’s a bad idea, then you’re the one who has something wrong his head, amigo.” Pow! A second cannonball landed. It was closer this time. Ten feet away. More blood. More guts. Arroyo ducked just in time to avoid getting his faced smashed in with the butt of a rifle. He returned the favor by jamming his sword through his opponent’s stomach. “I think its a good idea to live,” Arroyo said. “And you will,” Santa Anna said. “Trust me, tonight we will celebrate by…” Pow! A third cannonball landed less than a foot away. It exploded. The general was on the ground. His ears were ringing. His sight was blurry. “Antonio!” Arroyo shouted as he fought his way to his fallen leader’s side. Santa Anna looked to his left. A bloody, shredded leg laid in the dirt. Even with all the pain and confusion, he could tell the limb looked all too familiar. The general looked down. His right leg was still there. His left leg was not. Scraps of flesh and bone jutted out of the left side of his pelvis where his leg once was. “Antonio?” the Colonel asked. “Antonio!” Santa Anna’s eyes closed and he slipped into a deep, dark state of unconsciousness. Tagged history, horror, old west, westerns, wild west, zombies Remember the Zombamo – Introduction Jim Bowie. Sam Houston. William Travis. Davy Crockett. Juan Seguin. When the West was young, a series of unlikely events occur, pushing these men to Texas as if guided by a well-intentioned divine hand. Texas is in a state of revolution as Texans decide that the dictatorial rule of Mexican President Santa Anna can be stood for no longer. Four out of the five will throw down against a vampiric Santa Anna’s army of zombies at the Alamo, defending the old Spanish mission with their lives and fending off the evil that lies below it – an evil so powerful it could consume the planet. The fifth will later confront Santa Anna’s zombies on the field of battle. Will our heroes save the day? Find in the first book of BQB’s Zombie Western Series. Tagged cowboys, history, horror, westerns, zombies Top Ten Halloween Movies By: Count Krakovich, Asshat Vampire Bleh! 3.5 readers, you have spent the past month defeating many vampires with my sage wisdom, so now it is time to treat yourself to a monster movie marathon! Without further ado, here is a list of the Top Ten Horror Films you should watch this Halloween: #10 – Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero invented the zombie genre with his 1968 classic. It’s low budget but that’s ok. Creepy hands busting through the walls of a house cost little but scare lots. “They’re coming to get you Barbara.” Scary! #9 – Nightmare on Elm Street Series (Started in 1984 then Kind of Went On Forever) Notorious child murderer Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) beats a murder rap on a technicality but gets burned alive by neighborhood parents in an act of vigilante justice. Freddy, with his burned up face, fedora, striped turtleneck sweater and razor glove, ends up haunting teenagers’ dreams and somehow, if he kills them in a dream, they die in real life, thus the teens must avoid sleeping. So…OK…not exactly a feel good family friendly movie. But the first film does give us a young Johnny Depp and ironically, he’s not the one in all the makeup in this picture. Directed by horror legend Wes Craven. #8 – Friday the 13th (Long Running Franchise that Began in 1980) As a young lad, Jason Voorhees drowns at Crystal Lake because the teenage counselors were incompetent as shit and thats what you get for sending your kid to live under the care of dumb hormonal teenage camp counselors who, let’s face it, aren’t that much smarter than your kid to begin with. Hell, if they were to remake this movie today, Jason would be drowning while all the teenage counselors busy themselves with cell phone selfies. But like Elsa, Jason is not able to let it go. He comes back again and again, always in a hockey mask, slashing away to the point where you honestly wonder why someone doesn’t shut this damn camp down. Not that it would matter as Jason takes his show on the road, goes up against Freddy Kruger in Jason vs. Freddy and even ends up in space in the year 2455 in 2001’s shark jumping Jason X. Don’t send your kids to camp, 3.5 readers. #7 – Scream (1996) This 1990s film and its sequels sought to parody the slasher film tropes of the 1970s and 1980s by featuring a killer who is obsessed with horror tropes vs. teens who use their horror trope knowledge to survive for as long as they can. The opening scene with Drew Barrymore answering a call only to get a creepy question, “Do you like scary movies?” is iconic. Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette (as incompetent law man Dewey) are at their best in this and it makes me sad so much time has past because it feels like this movie was just out in the box office yesterday but alas, as I write this, I realize it has been 20 years. Boo! I have survived Ghostface but time, that sneakiest of all killers, is slowly getting me. #6 – Scary Movie (2000) The Wayans Brothers walked a fine line when they parodied Scream, which was, in and of itself, a parody of slasher movies. But whereas Scream featured enough seriousness to keep the plot moving, Scary Movie was an all out lampooning of the horror genre. The subsequent sequels have been cringeworthy suggesting that people today just don’t get the Zucker-esque, Airplane style slapstick that the Wayans Brothers loved in the past. But the original gave us the adorable Anna Farris and to this day, whenever I see a woman on the big screen running away from a killer, I find myself echoing the advice of Shorty Meeks (Marlon Wayons) – “Run, bitch! Run!” Don’t trip and fall. Don’t go upstairs. Don’t stand around. Just run, bitch. Run bitch, indeed. #5 – The Shining (1980) Jack Nicholson stars as Jack Torrance, a writer who takes a gig as the caretaker of a hotel. The winters in the hotel’s area are so bad that he’s told up front that he’ll be snowed in and stir crazy for months. Get paid to sit around and write? Sounds like a gig my 3.5 readers/aspiring writers and I would be into. Alas, the hotel is creepy as hell, Jack loses his mind, grabs an axe, and terrorizes his wife (Shelley Duvall) and young son, Danny (Danny Lloyd.) “Redrum!” “Here’s Johnny!” #4 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) It’s on the list because it does have a cult following amongst horror fans but I particularly don’t care for it because this film, its sequels, and other films like it i.e. The Hills Have Eyes give us more of a look into the gore than necessary. When we’re talking horror movies, all that is necessary for the audience to see is a knife slash, a blood spurt, a dead body on the fall. No need to go all out and show people being hacked up in gruesome detail. I mean, seriously, I’m a vampire and even I get grossed out by this, bleh! #3 – The Silence of the Lambs (1991) To the best of my knowledge, this is the only horror film that has received the Oscar for best picture. Now, there are people who will argue that this film is really a mystery with horror undertones but come on, when you have a dude that eats liver with fava beans and a nice chianti, that’s some scary shit. Forget the werewolves and the zombies that you’ll never see. Forget the vampires that you’ll only see when you read my columns on this pitiful blog. This film took the audience into scary minds of two twisted serial killers, Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill, two men who managed to fool society into thinking they were harmless for years until their addiction to murder was exposed. Bleh! Now that’s some scary shit. Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, stumbling about in the dark while Bill gets up close with his night vision goggles and she doesn’t know that he’s right next to her? Bleh! Scary shit. I’m a vampire and even I don’t want to put the lotion in the basket. 2002’s Red Dragon is also a worthwhile prequel, telling the story of how FBI agent Will Graham (Ed Norton) caught Lecter and then used his advice to track down “the Tooth Fairy” killer. 2001’s Hannibal and 2007’s Hannibal Rising I say, at the risk of becoming Hannibal’s dinner, not worth your time. They are very bleh, bleh. #2 – Saw (2004) 2004’s Saw and its sequels upped the ante as serial killer Jigsaw, introduced to his victims as a puppet who appears on video with a sinister voice, puts people into elaborate traps in which they must do terrible, horrible things to themselves and others in order to survive. The violence is disgusting and over the top but as mindless as it all seems, the film does have a message – stop complaining about how hard life is and how you wish it was over because if you were actually stuck in a life threatening situation, your survival instinct would kick in and you would do something horrible to survive. Appreciate life, 3.5 readers. It is better than the alternative, bleh. #1 – Halloween (1978) The slasher film to end all slasher films. Some might say this film is where all those slasher film tropes began. As a boy, a young troubled Michael Myers slashes his sister to death on Halloween night. Years later, in 1978, an adult Michael Myers escapes a sanitarium, returns to his old neighborhood and starts slashing away at Laurie Strode (a young Jamie Lee Curtis before she resigned herself to the boy haircut) and her friends. Multiple sequels and reboots. They made an H20 (Halloween Twenty Years Later) in 1998 and it saddens me to no end that they could be making an H40 soon. Bleh, if a slasher doesn’t get you, time will. Wait, why am I worried? I’m a vampire, bleh. Psycho – Norman loves his mother. Hocus Pocus – if you like the costumes and the candy but don’t want to get too scared. A film so old that Sarah Jessica Parker was considered the hot one of the witch trio. Shaun of the Dead and/or Young Frankenstein – if you want to laugh on Halloween The Exorcist – Yeah, this should have made the list, come to think of it. The scariest film yet about demonic possession, so scary that Hollywood probably could never top it. Carrie – Another by the master of horror, Stephen King. Unpopular girl. Popular kids play a cruel joke on her. Her telekinetic mind powers flare and chaos ensues. Be nice to everyone, 3.5 readers. You never know who has telekinetic powers. The Blair Witch Project – Released in 1999, the filmmakers behind it did a lot with very little. The premise was that this film was “found footage” i.e. a tape a bunch of youngsters made while carrying their camcorder around in the woods while looking for a witch. Its mostly shaky hand held footage of kids running away and screaming though it is scary and creepy. Sadly, due to its success, it inspired countless films where newcomers to the movie industry with low budgets shoot their films as “found footage” or as one character holding the camera and they’re all just awful. Totally awful. It worked one time and will never work again so stop doing it, bleh. Dawn of the Dead – George A. Romero returns 10 years later in 1978 with a film about a zombie takeover of a shopping mall. Kids, a shopping mall was a place that people went to in order to purchase goods and supplies. They existed long before Amazon figured out how to fly crap to your house via drones. Bleh! Did I miss your favorite scary movie, 3.5 readers? Share in the comments, bleh. Tagged Halloween, horror, movie reviews, Movies, scary movies, top ten lists, vampires, zombies Movie Review – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) So a hot babe and a short man walk into a bar… BQB here with a review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Author Lee Child has a loyal following for his Jack Reacher novels which chronicle the life of an ex-Military Police officer as he wanders the earth and solves mysteries, beats up bad guys, and rattles off quips and one-liners. I’ve never read them but people who have tell me they’re excellent. A few told me that when the 2012 Jack Reacher film came out, their main disappointment was that Tom “Shortest Man in Hollywood” Cruise was cast to play a man who, according to the books, is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. And just throwing it out there – there probably aren’t a whole helluvalot of parts out there for an aspiring actor who is close to seven feet tall so the Cruise Missile probably could have allowed some exceptionally tall actor to have this one but oh well. My take on the first Jack Reacher film is about the same as this one – there’s lots of action that you can eat your popcorn to but then there’s also a lot of snore worthy information being thrown out you to the point where it feels like you’re watching an extended Law and Order episode. Like most mystery movies, I, at some point, just start nodding at the screen. “Yup. Uh huh. So and so worked here, now he does this, and he was seen there and he transferred some money and a witness said this so uh huh…yeah…no please don’t draw it out any longer I’ll just take your word for it that he’s the bad guy because I am too busy to get a notebook and a pen and sketch this all out in a diagram.” Cobie Smulders, as her name suggests, is smolderingly hot. I’ve always liked her as an actress, going back to her How I Met Your Mother days. Like her character Robin in that show, she seems intelligent and hot, a babe who has read a book or two. Jack Reacher as a movie character is hard to pin down. Is he the American anti-Bond? He has little patience and does not suffer fools lightly so he does a lot of fighting and insulting but not much charming or beguiling. Cruise is OK in the role if you can get over his lack of height. At times, you lose track of the fact that Cobie and Cruise are supposed to be romantically interested in one another because it looks more like a hot chick is being forced to drag around her elderly yet well preserved due to Scientology alien worship uncle. I won’t give away the plot, mostly because I can’t because I never did draw that diagram, but basically Cobie’s character, Major Turner, is framed for espionage by bad dudes doing bad things and it is up to Reacher to clear her good name. Together, they go on the run and along the way, they rescue Samantha (Danika Yarosh) who may or may not be Jack’s daughter because Jack may or may not have banged her mother because Jack bangs a lot of chicks and doesn’t remember their names or anything. So he is the American Bond! There are some plot holes and questionable choices. Case in point – when Turner and Reacher are on the lam, Turner talks a cabbie into giving her his baseball cap. From thereon, Turner wears the hat around town as if the hat provides her with some kind of cover but she’s still a hot chick with big boobs wearing military fatigues and the bad guys are aware that they’re supposed to be looking for a hot chick with big boobs in military fatigues so…I’m not sure the hat did her much good but oh well. She tried. I’m happy for the Cobe-ster. She’s been plugging away at the Hollywood game a long time and though she has had a supporting role in The Avengers movies for awhile, this is her first lead role in a major film and hopefully we’ll see her in more. STATUS: Shelf-worthy, but more of a rental. Tagged cobie smulders, jack reacher, jack reacher never go back, lee child, movie reviews, Movies, tom cruise A Note on Remember the Zombamo Hey 3.5 readers. Well, I’ve done it again. I’ve started a new story before finishing my other open stories. Oh well. I’ve been thinking about Zombie Western for months now, how to tie it all together and I finally decided I need to go way, way, way back in time to the early 1800s, to the Battle of the Alamo to get things started. One thing I want to make clear – I’m lying…a lot. You should take nothing I say in these books as historical fact. If you read these Zombie Westerns and are inspired to look up the actual history in books written by actual historians then I’m glad. But I am doing a whole helluvalot of fibbing just to fit everything together in a tale that is interesting to the reader. Santa Anna, for example, is getting lied about a lot: He did fend off a Spaniard invasion at Tampico but he did not lose his leg until long after the Battle of the Alamo. He lost his real leg in a battle against the French. He then lost his prosthetic leg while trying to retake Texas in the 1840s. However, for purposes of this story, him dying in the beginning and then being brought back by a vampire seemed like a good way to begin and to introduce the readers to, “The Legion” the evil organization that commits heinous acts throughout the series. So I rewrote history to make him lose his leg much earlier. He didn’t kill Guerrero or Bustamante. He did engage in dictatorish activity, but the scene where he kills these two didn’t happen. I figured the presence of werewolves and vampires would have caused you to draw that conclusion but just making sure. He did have a General Urrea who was a good soldier but stood up against bad things, i.e. saved some Texans from Santa Anna’s execution orders as he thought they was a violation of basic rules of war to execute opponents who have given up. So at the start of this story I had a fiction General Arroyo and then I changed it to Urrea. My plan is this is a human who remains loyal to Santa Anna until he can’t bring himself to support him anymore. Not sure if I’ll keep him as Urrea or perhaps I’ll avoid maligning Urrea by reverting to the fictional Arroyo. Also, Urrea sounds like a penile disease. Going forward, we’ll see the lives of Jim Bowie, William Travis, Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, what they were all doing pre-Alamo and what events led them to end up in Texas. There will be a lot of grabbing at history and/or mythology interspersed with made up stuff to keep the story going. If (when?) I publish this book I’ll make a series of posts sharing the real history and how I made it fake history so hopefully people won’t believe the parts I made up, except for the shit about zombies, because that totally happened and your history teacher was probably working for the Legion when he didn’t tell you about the zombies at the Alamo. Top Ten Things You Should Never Do in a Horror Movie/Slasher Film Imagine it, 3.5 readers. You’ve been transported into a horror film. Not just any horror film…a slasher film! Yes, there’s a murderer on the loose and you and your friends must survive. Fear not. I have watched many of these movies and I can fully advise you on what NOT to do: #10 – Don’t Run Upstairs Hello dummy. You’re upstairs. Now you’re down to two options – 1) jump out a window and die when you hit the ground or b) be gruesomely murdered. It’s just common sense, people. #9 – Don’t Be a Dick Whoever is the douchiest usually gets it first. The audience is eased into the concept that characters are going to be murdered by killing off the person who said and/or did something mean first. I mean, we don’t want to see anyone murdered on screen but if someone has to, it might as well be that bimbo who stole the female lead’s boyfriend or called her a mean name or something. #8 – Don’t Neglect Regular Car Maintenance Get your oil changed. Get your routine maintenance. Replace your fan belt and your fluids. Get your engine checked. Do not drive to that creepy cabin in the woods before a fully qualified mechanic (and I’m talking someone who takes pride in their work and not that lowlife schmuck at the corner gas station) has inspected and tended to your car. Otherwise, your car will not start and then you’re just stuck there while the killer is bashing in your windshield. #7 – Don’t Go Into the Basement Similar to “don’t go upstairs” except when you’re in the basement, there’s not even a window to jump out of. You’re just stuck in there with the killer, dumb ass. #6 – Don’t Have Sex I don’t know why but insane killers always ice people who are humping. I’m no Dr. Freud, but I can only assume that insane killers don’t get a lot of sex and therefore they get angry and lash out at the people who are fornicating first. #5 – Don’t Take a Shower Why the eff are you taking a shower when there’s a killer on the loose? How you smell is the least of your worries and your boobs are only being shown for gratuitous boob footage and then once shown your purpose to the audience has been served and the killer will kill you, most likely while you’re still in the shower for easy clean up. #4 – Don’t Trip Get yourself a good pair of boots and watch where you’re going so you don’t stumble on a rock or a stick and break your ankle because then all that leads to is you crying and reaching your hand out for the lead character to come back and rescue you and then the lead character is put into the terrible position of deciding whether to save you or save him/herself and since it looks like you are done for he/she will choose him/herself and keep running only to feel terrible for abandoning you later. #3 – Don’t Forget to Check Real Estate Records Never trust a real estate agent. Do a full, in-depth investigation of the property you are buying, renting, or otherwise visiting. Search newspapers, county records, talk to the neighbors. At the very least, get on your iPhone and ask Siri if anyone has been murdered in the house you are buying. If Siri replies, “Yes, twenty people were murdered in that house, would you like me to do a web search for it?” then don’t buy that house. #2 – Don’t Split Up A group of friends that sticks together is a group of friends who can jump a killer and curb stomp him gangster style together. #1 – Don’t Be Not White Look, if you read this blog, you know I’m not politically correct at all, but I’ll give the super PC people this one. Hollywood wants to be diverse so they’ll give the hero a non-white friend so that the studio can be all like, “Hooray we love black people!” But slasher movies more often than not lead to the hero being the last man/woman standing so sorry but, that black friend is going to buy the farm early in the picture. So if you are black, I’m not sure how to help you other than maybe do that classic Richard Pryor style nerdy white guy voice and the killer might leave you alone for awhile. Don’t go into that dark, creepy shed filled with tools that can be used to bludgeon yourself. In fact, wherever “there is” listen to all the people in the audience yelling, “Don’t go in there!” If a wise elderly person tells you to do or not do something, then do or don’t do it. Don’t get cheap cell phone service. Go with the company that can give you a full slate of bars even when you’re in the woods. Don’t investigate strange noises on your own. Honestly. Who do you think you are, Rambo? Call the cops before the killer cuts the phone line. Oh right. Don’t be a cop. They always get killed when the hero, who is hiding some where, feels hope because the cop has arrived to investigate but alas, the killer then somehow fools the cop into being killed. Don’t be ugly. You can pretty much judge how long everyone in the group has left to live based on their looks. Don’t tell anyone your touching life story. That’s usually done to make the audience like you and then feel bad when you get slashed. Keep that shit to yourself. Tagged film, Halloween, horror, horror movies, Movies, slasher movies, top ten lists #31ZombieAuthors Rewind – Day 29 – Zombie Dinosaurs! With Your Host: Schecky Blargfeld, Zombie Comedian Roar, 3.5 readers. Roar indeed. Dinsoaurs. Zombies? DINOSAUR ZOMBIES! That’s right. Last year BQB interviewed Rick Chesler and David Sakmyster, co-auhtors of Jurassic Dead, the totally badass book series that combines prehistoric lizards and the undead. BQB was blown away by this awesome concept and one year later, he maintains it is a travesty of justice that this book has not been made into a movie yet. “Who the hell greenlit all that Zach Galifinakis horse manure when there’s a perfectly good book series about zombasaurs aching to be made?” BQB was heard to say. Check out BQB’s interview with the dino-tastic duo here. And don’t forget to check out Jurassic Dead, now available on Amazon. Tagged amazon, authors, books, dinosaurs, horror, publishing, science, self publishing, writers, writing, zombies #31WaystoDefeataVampire #31WaysToDefeatAVampire -Way #29 – Silverfish Yes, that’s right 3.5 readers. Anything that is somehow related to silver can defeat a vampire so if you live in a disgusting, bug infested apartment then congratulations! Vampires will go nowhere near it because they do not want to be accosted by silverfish. Silverfish are truly the vampire hunters of the insect world, bleh. 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__label__cc	0.637255	0.362745	>> Sports >> Recreation Local Golf Results April 1, four-person Yellowball/Scramble for Plus 55 Boulder City Men’s/Women’s Golf Association: Yellowball first-place winners at 68: Teresa Giroux, Jim Turner, Gerry Turner and Bill Montana. Yellowball second-place winners at 69: Dave Weir, Sherryl Mayes, Jess Hinojosa and Kathy Mills. Scramble first-place winners at 62.2: Mike Frye, Lary Street, Lois Schuh and Jeff Novak. Scramble second-place winners at 63.7: Wade Cordray, Bob Kennedy, Carlene Voerding and Ernie Green. Closest to the pin winners on holes No. 4, 7, 14 and 17: Dotty Kane, Randy Lemos, Randy Lemos and Bob Kennedy, respectively. Tournaments for those 55 and older are held the first Thursday of the month. April 17, Individual Stroke Play tournament for Boulder City Men’s Golf Association: Flight one, first- and second-place gross winners at 75 and 78: Denny Mayes and DW Warczak; first- and second-place net winners at 69 and 72: Garland Saip and John Milburn. Flight two, first- and second-place gross winners at 82 and 84: Bruce Gold and Cecil Short; first- and second-place net winners at 70 and 71: Homer Myers and Ed Aquino. Flight three, first- and second-place gross winners at 85 and 87: Clark Newby and Jim Stephens; first- and second-place net winners at 67 and 73: Tim Lynch and Jeff Novak. Flight four, first- and second-place gross winners at 83 and 93: Guy Nelson and Ernie Green; first- and second-place net winners at 70 and 71: Amo Sanchez and Bill Montana. Flight five, first- and second-place gross winners at 93 and 95: Larry Langley and Phil Sewell; first- and second-place net winners at 72 and 73: Mike Frye and Tom Younggren. Closest to the pin winners on holes No. 4, 7, 14 and 17 were Larry Langley, Wade Cordray, Bruce Gold and Ed Aquino. April 18, Flight one, first- through third-place gross winners at 79, 83 and 88 were Darryl Gutierrez, Al Depisa and Ken White; first- through third-place net winners at 73, 83 and 89: Lynn Parker, Mike Farrah and Dave McAvoy. Flight two, first- through third-place gross winners at 84, 85 and 88: Gregg Gale, Bill Ambungey and Jim Tousigant; first- through third-place net winners at 70, 73 and 75: Mark Gutierrez, Bill Bahr and Sam Scaletta. Flight three, first- through third-place gross winners at 85, 89 and 92: Romeo Ramos, Mike Needy and Kevin Rossiter; first- through third-place net winners at 67, 71 and 75: Dan Ward, Rick Fellows and Guy Nelson. Flight four, first- through third-place gross winners at 92, 94 and 98: Glen Colgate, Ken Miyazono and Jim McCullough; first- through third-place net winners at 69, 71 and 74: Duane Sowers, Jack Brumfield and Wendy Layne. Closest to the pin winners on holes No. 4, 7, 14 and 17 were Mike Needy, Bill Ambungey, Bruce Courtney and Bill Bahr. At the start of the year there was a best hole tournament (take the best hole score from tjhree yearly tournament rounds and add them up to make one par 72 round). Here are the results: Flight one, first-, second- and third-place winners at 61, 62 and 62: DW Warczak, Bruce Gold and Randy Lemos. Flight two, first-, second- and third-place winners 57, 58 and 59: Cecil Short, Jim Tousigant and Curtis Ginnow. Flight three, first-, second- and third-place winners at 55, 60 and 60: Dan Ward, Guy Nelson and Clark Newby. Flight four, first-, second- and third-place winners at 57, 57 and 61: Glen Colgate, Jason Bardol and Larry Arnold. Flight five, first-, second- and third-place winners at 59, 59 and 62: Duane Sowers, Ken Miyazono and Lou Kachnik. Men’s Club tournaments are held every month on Friday and Saturday around the middle of each month. Information on how to join Boulder City golf associations is available on the bulletin boards at Boulder City Municipal Golf Course. Posted on: Recreation, Sports Natural appreciation: Teach children to hike, visit great outdoors By Deborah Wall Outdoors Introducing your children to the great outdoors and teaching them to appreciate nature are two of the best gifts you can give them. Cold always brings threat of hypothermia December 30, 2020 - 3:07 pm December 30, 2020 - 3:07 pm Although here in Southern Nevada we don’t experience the brutal winters seen in much of the West, hypothermia can still be a real threat for outdoor lovers. Many people are unaware that you can become hypothermic without even being exposed to freezing temperatures. Park on fire with geologic, archaelogic sights December 9, 2020 - 3:55 pm December 9, 2020 - 3:55 pm With its red and orange Aztec sandstone formations surrounded by mountains of gray and tan limestone, Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park is a feast for the eyes. Established to protect the scenic, geologic and archaeological features, it’s a great place for weary folk itching to get out of town for the day. Make a date to visit ranch China Ranch Date Farm makes an easy cool-season getaway for a day of treats and hiking in a place the entire family will enjoy. Monument status would help preserve treasured site November 11, 2020 - 4:51 pm November 11, 2020 - 4:51 pm Outdoor lovers have long recognized the special character of the southernmost part of Clark County with its expanses of open land, geological wonders, canyons, springs, rolling hills, prehistoric sites and a wide variety of flora and fauna. Now a new national monument is being proposed to protect and manage these treasures. Lone Pine visit like walking onto movie set Lone Pine, California is a laid-back town of around 2,000 people in Owens Valley on the foothills of the eastern Sierra Nevada. You’ve probably heard of it because it’s used as a base camp for hiking Mount Whitney, located just 12 miles west. What you might not know is Lone Pine is also home to the Alabama Hills, which draw people from around the world for their recreational opportunities and their rich film history. Camp, picnic or bird-watch at bend along river October 7, 2020 - 2:53 pm October 7, 2020 - 2:53 pm Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area is at the southern tip of Nevada, along the Colorado River, about 6 miles south of Laughlin. It’s a great place to visit, even for a day trip, as it’s not too far from Boulder City, about 85 miles away. Fall colors add to Zion’s scenic views With cooler autumn temperatures upon us, my thoughts always go to Zion National Park in Utah. Just a few hours’ drive from Boulder City, the park seems worlds away with its majestic red sandstone monoliths, mature deciduous trees and diverse wildlife surrounding the banks of the North Fork of the Virgin River. Wupatki provides glimpse into Pueblos’ ancestors Wupatki National Monument in Arizona is about a 45-minute drive east of Flagstaff. The park boasts 35,000 acres, encompassing roughly 2,500 documented archaeological sites. While you won’t be able to see them all or even be allowed to, it’s worth a trip here to see the highlights, and it’s a good time to go. The elevation of the park is about 4,700 feet so weather forecasts call for average daily highs in the 80s through most of September. Ely offers cool respite from scorching heat Sick of the scorching Southern Nevada summer? Ely is a wonderful escape destination this time of year to enjoy outdoor activities and visit historic sites at pleasant temperatures.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line550
__label__wiki	0.827588	0.827588	About CAAT The Arms Trade Who buys UK arms? Arms companies Arms fairs Rethinking security Arms to renewables Take part near you CAAT News magazine Challenges Expand dropdown Alternatives Expand dropdown Take action Expand dropdown Keep in touch Expand dropdown Donate Expand dropdown ITT’s Hammertime! Action Reports Israel / Palestine Yesterday I took part in an action which managed to close down arms factory EDO/ITT/MBM for a day. The extremely heavy policing stopped us from blocking the road to the factory, but tens of police vans in our way meant our actions had the desired effect: to close the factory and maximise economic damage to an arms company that the Smash EDO campaign hope to drive out of Brighton. The action (tagline: “If I had a hammer…”) was inspired by the acquittal of the Decommissioners, who caused £300,000 worth of damage to assembly lines during Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2009. By aiming to “besiege” the factory by blocking its access roads, protesters stood in solidarity with Palestinians who live under siege. The hope is that more civil resistance to EDO’s presence in Brighton will prove the final straw for this arm’s companies operations in Brighton. We succeeded in shutting the factory down for a day, but unfortunately not in the way we’d hoped. The vast and oppressive police presence graphically highlighted the lengths the state will go to to prop up this deadly industry. Before we had even left the convergence space this morning, the house was surrounded by police in a ratio of approx 1.5 vanloads to every protester! No one would be allowed free movement if the police could help it. It is remarkable then that many people managed to stay mobile for much of the day. Though the police disrupted our plan, protestors disrupted their plan too by refusing to remain penned in a “designated protest area” for the day. As documented in the Schnews documentary, “On the Verge”, police have taken a heavy-handed approach since the Smash EDO campaign was launched. Many suspect collusion between the arms company and senior police to put a stop to protests, and this seemed in evidence yesterday: the local paper reports that though 53 people were arrested, none have been charged. Arrests were effectively used to demobilise the protest. I have spent much of the year working to expose the vast scale of taxpayer support the arms industry enjoys through the government’s arms sales unit. That the state could mobilise such force today to protect a company that has been found in court to have supplied parts used in atrocities in Gaza emphasised how important it is to take on the links between the establishment and arms companies. Yesterday 250 people taking to the streets shut down an arms factory for a day. Earlier this year, Raytheon left Derry following a local campaign. Who knows what else we’ll be capable of as more people get involved in the movement to end the arms trade? Update 2010-10-15: There are conflicting reports about whether the factory was actually shut down for the day. The Argus reports: “Early reports the factory had closed for the day proved unfounded.” whereas Smash EDO stated: “The demo did what it said on the tin, the factory was closed down (save for a few senior management). At 9am there were no cars in the EDO car park so the early shift clearly did not come in to work. By 11am the EDO site had been transformed into a base for the police operation, with police dog teams housed in a makeshift compound in EDO’s car park.” CAAT would not exist without its supporters. Each new supporter helps us strengthen our call for an end to the international arms trade. Campaign Against Arms Trade Unit 4, 5-7 Wells Terrace N4 3JU Email: enquiries@caat.org.uk Legal Challenge Policies to end the arms trade *All content and downloads licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated. Not for profit web design by Fat Beehive	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line556
__label__cc	0.538686	0.461314	Blog > Survival Tools > Rock Stacking: Modern Art or Destructive Graffiti? Rock Stacking: Modern Art or Destructive Graffiti? What is the Truth Behind Stacks of Rocks? The Impact of Stone Stacking on the Environment Rock Stacking Affects Wildlife How Rock Stacking Affects Humans What Can Be Done About Rock Stacking? The practice of building cairns—or stacking rocks into “signposts” in wilderness areas—is not new. In fact, it’s a tradition that dates to ancient times and has significance to many cultures. But now it’s being decried by environmentalists and park rangers. This is because it can be detrimental to life forms and natural land drainage patterns. It also seems to fly in the face of “leave no trace” camping. Though rock stacking seems like it may be a harmless way to leave a mark on nature, critics of rock stacking believe it signals a disturbing lack of concern about the natural environment. Particularly for the future of fragile ecosystems. Here’s why it matters, according to naturalists and those who are charged with keeping parks and public spaces healthy and as pristine as possible. First, there’s life everywhere, even on the undersides of rocks that are plucked from a flowing creek bed. While disturbing just one may not seem like a life-changing event, it can be just that for the life that it harbors, on par with failing to throw trash in a camping trash can in the outdoors. In the water, microscopic life forms often make their homes on rocks. Additionally other animals, such as crabs, snakes, and other animals, make their homes beneath them as a form of shelter. Though moving a handful of rocks, even with a stick or a small utensil from a camping utensil set, may not seem like it would have a significant impact, it does. If every visitor moved just one rock, it could dislodge thousands of animals from their homes. In addition to the harm rock stacking causes by displacing animals from their environments, it also affects the environment itself. Rocks that lay in rivers filter sediment from the water to help keep it clean. While rocks on the shoreline help prevent erosion. In parts of the country, even in dry lands, the practice of rock stacking still disturbs the environment and potentially impacts an animal home or alters existing draining patterns. Some parks have tried to reach out to the public in an attempt to deter visitors from the fad of rock stacking. An announcement by the National Park Service notes the following: “If you pick up almost any rock in the river, you’ll find life attached to it. There will be caddis flies, snails, mayfly larvae, eggs of various creatures, all of which will die when exposed to air. Also, our beloved and very rare Ozark hellbender lives under rocks and needs this habitat undisturbed.” The statement requests that visitors leave the beauty of the parks to nature. Much like campers should use biodegradable dish soap, safely dispose of their wastewater after camping, and utilize wash basins and camping sinks to keep their campsites clean, they should also avoid stacking rocks and disrupting the environment in this way too. It is possible to hike in great areas of wilderness without staking rocks. Historically, cairns have been used for navigation as trail markers. And, in some cultures, for ceremonial purposes such as marking a burial site. Today, these historic travel aids are still commonly seen in many states, including Maine’s Acadia National Park. And also in some Southern and Western states. They are maintained by trail guides or park rangers who sometimes even build new ones rather than erecting modern signage. There are many parks where hikers and back-country campers depend on landmarks and directional pointers to find their way through the trails, and “pointless cairns” can be misleading and potentially dangerous. Rock stacks are often used to mark trails for hikers, and when visitors create additional cairns, those markers may lead a hiker off into the woods to be lost. Robyn Martin, in a 2015 column in High Country News, suggests the practice of cairn-building in the West seemed to coincide with the growth of “New Age” meditation. And as a result, the cairns symbolize “prayer stone stacks” to some people. She believes there are better ways to commune with or simply enjoy nature. She added that on some public lands, disturbing the natural environment can lead to fines and/or jail time. Park visitors are encouraged to understand their impact on the environment and strive to leave it as undamaged as possible. Park Rangers reportedly have been authorized to destroy any cairn they encounter on federally designated territory, especially in streams and rivers where they affect fish spawning and water flow. But knocking down the rock sculptures doesn’t put the stones back the way they were. Damage already done may not be repaired. Just as it’s difficult to remove graffiti from sandstone or to “fix” a broken stalactite or stalagmite in a cavern. Most modern cairns, though, are built by visitors, either for their artistic value or out of boredom. And they are the kind being discouraged by those who care about the natural environment. Be sure to practice good hiking and camping courtesy and leave things how you found them.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line558
__label__wiki	0.826334	0.826334	Campus Unmasked College Paper: White DNA Is ‘An Abomination’ Rob Shimshock “Your DNA is an abomination! White is over!” This article wasn’t written by some Californian hipster. No, this article was written in the middle of Texas, the heartland of freedom, Second Amendment advocacy — pretty much everything good about America. It was, however, written by a college student who hasn’t expressed any regret and is now being endorsed by a campus Antifa group. Rudy Martinez is the Texas State University student who wrote the article entitled “Your DNA Is An Abomination,” referring to the DNA of white people, reported The College Fix. In the piece, he says “ontologically speaking, white death will mean liberation for all.” But if Martinez was just referring to whiteness ontologically, that is, abstractly, why does he use “DNA” in the very title of the piece? Does he want to destroy the postmodernist concept of “whiteness” as some invisible but almighty system of oppression, or does he actually, as his title indicates, think the very DNA of whites is degenerate? “When I think of all the white people I have ever encountered – whether they’ve been professors, peers, lovers, friends, police officers, et cetera – there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider ‘decent,’” writes Martinez. While his left-wing professors likely try to cloak anti-white hatred with academic lingo, their students seem to lack that discretion. After backlash, the Texas State paper retracted Martinez’s article and fired the writer. The university president also called it “abhorrent” and “contrary to [the school’s] core values of inclusion and unity.” But even though the student explicitly admitted that he doesn’t like white people, he still had his defenders. Three Texas State history professors said they were “deeply troubled” with the president’s condemnation of the article, writing that “rather than engaging in debate, the University has essentially shunned the student, when, it must be emphasized, the student attempted (however ineffectually) to challenge the forces of bigotry and racism that the President denounced at the beginning of the semester.” The Campus Antifascist Network — which is endorsed by professors like George “White Genocide” Ciccariello who blamed the Las Vegas massacre on white entitlement and Johnny E. Williams who wrote “let them f***ing die” about white people — also published a statement saying it stands with Martinez. But when it came to the piece’s title, the network said “the title of his column ‘Your DNA is an abomination,’ directed at people socially designed as white, is inconsistent with scientific understanding.” “Race is not a biological category. It is a social idea. But getting science wrong and being racist are also not the same thing,” the network added. They’re not the same thing. But they are both applicable to the Campus Antifa Network, which thinks race is a social idea and supports an anti-white movement. As for Texas State, from a deranged future teacher smashing pro-life signs to hiring math professors who are proficient in social justice, it doesn’t seem like 2017 has helped the notion that even the Lone Star state can withstand the divisive and violent forces of progressivism. Here’s to a better 2018. Related Topics:Texas State University Communist ‘White Genocide’ Prof Out At Drexel Student Leader Insists Tuition Money Is Helping Israel ‘Kill Children’ Pro-Life On Campus? Prepare To Get Punched, Have Signs Kicked In, Chalk Erased Socialist Group’s LGBT: ‘Let’s Guillotine Bourgeoisie Traitors’ The Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at Texas State University tweeted last week “Happy Pride Month, y’all! Remember this month: Let’s Guillotine Bourgeoisie Traitors,” according to Campus Reform. Now, just think for a moment what would happen if a conservative student group tweeted something like this out about any group that wasn’t rich, white, or male. It would be labeled incitement to violence, the Twitter account would probably get banned, and a university bias team would probably conduct IP traces or something to find out exactly who made the post. But since it’s the left, eh, no big deal. And that wasn’t the only thing Texas State’s YDSA chapter tweeted. The group went on to say “Also shout out to our E-Board/Coordinating Committee, which has literally no straight people on it.” Because remember, discrimination or celebrating the absence of one identity group is totally OK, as long it’s done to the right groups. I’m reminded of this photo a former HuffPoster tweeted out showing an all-female, almost entirely all-white editor meeting. One of the first words that came to her mind when sending that post was probably, unironically, “diversity.” Leftist Student Has MELTDOWN When Arrested A Texas State University student dressed like Antifa had a bit of a rough time with police. The whole little kerfuffle started when a Trump-supporting student apparently had his hat stolen and kicked, reported Campus Reform. Police arrested four Texas State students overall. Tyler, the student who says he got his hat stolen, didn’t want to reveal his full name to avoid getting doxxed, but told a colleague of mine over at Campus Reform that he felt someone take the hat off of his head and that he ran after the girl and grabbed her backpack, but never her, for around five seconds before asking for his hat back. But she reportedly didn’t give it back until the popo came, when she dropped and kicked it like you saw. And the unhinged hysteria only intensified after that: It’s not clear whether the masked student we saw earlier calls herself Antifa but just a reminder that even though we haven’t had a proper Antifa video on Campus Unmasked for a little while now, they’re still out there. It looks like journalist Andy Ngo out in Portland had a little run-in with one on Wednesday. The best thing you can do when they pepper spray you, knock off and kick your MAGA hat, and so on is simply don’t let them off the hook. It may take a little extra time, but upload that video to social media, file that police report. You might end up with some cases like bike lock professor Eric Clanton, who got all felony charges dropped, but even in a corrupt system, if you stack evidence upon evidence upon evidence, eventually something’s gotta change. Student Gov Votes To Ban Conservative Group Two senators in Texas State’s student government wrote a resolution entitled “The Faculty and Student Safety Resolution of 2019,” reported Campus Reform. What would increase faculty and student safety? You got it — banning wrongthink on campus! The two senators wrote “Turning Point USA is a national organization with a consistent history of creating hostile work and learning environments through a myriad of intimidation tactics aimed against students and faculty.” You know, intimidation tactics like dressing up in a diaper to own the libs. No but seriously, they’re probably talking about Turning Point’s professor watchlist, which lists left-wing professors on campus, but if you wanna talk about list-making, you might wanna address a certain other political faction, as well. Anyway, you know this really isn’t about Turning Point’s method, but rather the matter, the substance of their speech. The resolution apparently accused the group of “hate speech,” saying “protecting hate speech under the guise that it is a component of free speech or academic freedom is counter-intuitive to providing a safe, healthy, fact-based, evidence-based environment.” OK so even if you do buy into the premise that hate speech is a thing, Turning Point is literally like the most innocuous, boilerplate political group out there. Its mission is to get students “to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.” Oooooh. I mean you really can’t get more milquetoast than that. Anyways, the student government initially didn’t pass the resolution to ban Turning Point, but there was some procedural confusion, the senators took a revote, and it passed by a 9-2 margin. You know that meme “Ima let you finish but…”? from when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift? Well, that’s pretty much what happened when Texas State responded to the student government, saying “student organizations can only be barred if they are under disciplinary sanctions. Student Government does not have the authority to independently bar a recognized student organization.” As they say, get rekt. Prof Calls SpongeBob ‘Racist’ In 10,000-WORD ESSAY Illegal Alien UNIVERSITY And Leftists Protest Sean Spicer ‘I Am Antifa’ Prof Suing The School, Still Taking Paycheck Puzzle Book Tries To Shame ICE Agents Prof Who Said ‘I Am Antifa’ Gets Kicked Out Of Classroom, Resigns About Campus Unmasked Copyright Copyright Rebel Media. Designed by ANM.digital	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line559
__label__cc	0.613538	0.386462	Dream number 13978 3 November 2020 1 psychic prediction109 views todayBreaking News - Walmart November 10th - something bad but I still don't know what. Dream number 13982 3 November 2020 5 psychic prediction109 views todayCalifonia earthquake - soon - it might happen right after you read this. Dream number 13983 3 November 2020 6 psychic prediction109 views todayEnrique Tarrio attacker on November 4th kills Mr Tarrio 38 days later - same man. Dream number 14190 19 December 2020 3 psychic prediction109 views todayMonday, December 21st plane crash - this is him - N - numbers - had the wrong setting - look again or it will happen again at the same airport - not sure the exact location of this airport buts it small and has 3 large building near where the plane took off. Dream number 14246 2 January 2021 1 psychic predictionn by Brian Ladd109 views todayThe sun erupts - expect solar flares and stuff soon. Dream number 14274 7 January 2021 1 psychic prediction by Brian Ladd109 views todayThis smiley face will be famous worldwide. Dream number 14279 8 January 2021 2 psychic prediction by Brian Ladd109 views todayJustice Clarence Thomas resigns - not health-related and before he is arrested for money laundering and treason - he dies at home from natural causes on December 18th, 2022. pic schizo108 views todaySorry, No recorded dreams this year...spent some time away from home as well :( 4596-03-march-2012-prediction-brian-ladd-dream~1~0108 views today 4622-05-may-2012-prediction-brian-ladd-dream~0~0108 views today Dream number 9583 13 November 2017 4 psychic prediction108 views todayMaura Murray White Mountain National Park at Roadside Park, ties -Dream number 9583 13 November 2017 4 - archive.org @ http://bit.ly/2n4ABro EL toppa-715x400 The murder of by Shanann Watts Bella and Celest by Chris Watts psychic Brian add108 views todayThe body of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi (藍可兒; April 30, 1991[1] – February 2013), a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was recovered from a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on February 19, 2013.[2] She had been reported missing at the beginning of the month. Maintenance workers at the hotel discovered the body when investigating guest complaints of problems with the water supply. Her disappearance had been widely reported; interest had increased five days prior to her body's discovery when the Los Angeles Police Department released video of the last time she was known to have been seen, on the day of her disappearance, by an elevator security camera. In the footage, Lam is seen exiting and re-entering the elevator, talking and gesturing in the hallway outside, and sometimes seeming to hide within the elevator, which itself appears to be malfunctioning. The video went viral on the Internet, with many viewers reporting that they found it unsettling. Explanations ranged from claims of paranormal involvement to bipolar disorder from which Lam suffered; it has also been argued that the video was altered prior to release.[3] The circumstances of Lam's death, once she was found, also raised questions, especially in light of the Cecil's history in relation to other notable deaths and murders. Her body was naked[4] with most of her clothes and personal effects floating in the water near her.[4] It took the Los Angeles County Coroner's office four months, after repeated delays, to release the autopsy report, which reports no evidence of physical trauma and states that the manner of death was accidental.[5] Guests at the Cecil, now re-branded as Stay on Main, sued the hotel over the incident, and Lam's parents filed a separate suit later that year; the latter was dismissed in 2015. Some of the early Internet interest noted what were considered to be unusual similarities between Lam's death and the 2005 horror film Dark Water.[2] The case has since been referenced in international popular culture in-2013-elisa-lam-was-found-dead-inside-of-a-1179291 The murder of by Shanann Watts Bella and Celest by Chris Watts psychic Brian add108 views todayThe body of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi (藍可兒; April 30, 1991[1] – February 2013), a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was recovered from a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on February 19, 2013.[2] She had been reported missing at the beginning of the month. Maintenance workers at the hotel discovered the body when investigating guest complaints of problems with the water supply. ob 431b64 sketch-drawer-ufoq5~0108 views today Yeah I know I said I would not go back to this place - well I missed it Anyway I realize Im 3 weeks behind should be OK by this Tuesday April 23rd 2019 2108 views todayYeah I know I said I would not go back to this place - well I missed it Anyway I realize I'm 3 weeks behind should be OK by this Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 Dream number 10209 31 March 2018 10 psychic prediction107 views todaydd - Dream number 10209 31 March 2018 10 guy-with-grey-black-ufo-tattoo-on-lower-legs107 views today 1 2019 hospital again107 views todayJanuary 25th 2019: 2/1/2019 Multiple nights in the ER January 29 to February 4th, 2019 awful feelings with my heart and body :( Will be in the hospital until further notice...will try my best to record and document my dreams and finish doing personal requests. My aorta has gotten larger (4.5m) since the valve replacement in September so I may need another open heart procedure at JFK hospital. This means using another bone saw to reopen my sternum...great joy here. FYI I turn 50-years-old on the 8th of February. I'm still taking reading requests and actually have more free time in the hospital than I do at home (and for some reason hospital DDs test to be even more accurate that than those taken from my room) so if you have a question, please ask it...I still need to earn an living. https://briansprediction.com/private-reading.php or if you wish to donate please use https://briansprediction.com/donate.php Any amount would really be appreciated. August 10th2C 2019 These are our newest family members 4107 views todayAugust 10th, 2019 These are our newest family members :) Dulce Maria Alavez missing child found dream number 12160 16 September 2019 1 psychic prediction107 views todayDulce Maria Alavez missing child located right where he said she would be...don't trust him!! she saw the dog, vineland, forgive, Dulce Maria Alavez is a five-year-old missing in New Jersey. Dulce Alavez case, numbers and more (this case is getting serious, and I'm pretty sure misleading information and doubt is preventing a real search for this little girl. Dulce needs to found now!! I can't stress this enough...please do let this case end like the Harley Dilly search..search the area again!! This could have been prevented if this exact area was searched again...the area I said to look in was less than 1 square kilometer! The dream even shows which chimney to look in. see more about this case here: https://briansprediction.com/harley The location of this dream is not too far from where Dulce went missing. I will be updating this case daily at... https://briansprediction.com/dulce and YES this is basically a psychic reading...but please don't let your skepticism trump an open mind in the search for Dulce. I also think her mother has nothing at all to do with her disappearance and doubt and judgment are hampering her daughter's search (in fact I think it disgusting...imagine is this was your child? Yes, I may have a mental disorder, but I'm rarely wrong when I have dreams like these I should have a map posted tomorw...and if Dulice is not found in the next few days. I ask my friend Psychic Gale Saint John to help me actually psychically search for Dulce. Many may know Gale from the TV Show Psychic Detectives, or as a panel member on CNN and CNN H New's Nancy Grace. She is a psychic that is also a search dog owner and trainer. We have been friends for over 10 years now if anyone can help find Gale's bio page https://psychicgalestjohn.com On a Monday afternoon in September 2019, a 5-year-old girl was playing in a Bridgeton, New Jersey, park with her younger brother while her mother sat in a car nearby with another relative. Within minutes, Dulce Maria Alavez was gone. It's been four months since Dulce was last seen, reward money for any information leading to her safe return increased to $75,000 and the girl's mother, Noema Alavez Perez, suspects that an unidentified"old friend" may be the abductor. Despite a lack of answers, family, friends and community supporters have not given up hope to find Dulce. MORE: Mom of missing 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez says 'old friend' may have taken her Shortly after Dulce's disappearance, the "DULCE MARIA ALAVEZ COMMUNITY SEARCH & SUPPORT" private Facebook group started an online campaign to spread national awareness of her case. The "Help Bring Dulce Maria Alavez Home" public Facebook group has shared the campaign on their page as well as continued search and rescue efforts organized by other community groups. The most recent search was on Jan. 11 and 12. Here's where Dulce's case started: Monday, Sept. 16: Dulce was seen on surveillance video getting ice cream at a store with Perez, her 3-year-old brother and an 8-year-old relative. Around 4 p.m., they went to Bridgeton City Park, where Dulce played with her brother as Perez was in a car with the other child. At some point, the little brother returned to the car without Dulce and Perez couldn't find her. Perez, 19, called the police. Tuesday, Sept. 17: An Amber Alert is issued as the FBI and Perez described a man -- about 5-foot-6 inches tall and wearing orange sneakers, red pants and a black shirt -- who police said may have led Dulce from the playground to a red van with a sliding door and tinted windows. MORE: Amber Alert issued for 5-year-old girl who police say was lured into a van Wednesday, Sept. 18 to Tuesday, Sept. 24: Family and members of the community organize prayer vigils as reward money for any information leading to the identification or conviction of a suspect grows to $35,000. Federal investigators got in touch with Dulce's father, who lives in Mexico, and added Dulce to its most-wanted missing persons list, according to WPVI. Perez speaks out for the first time at a press conference while holding Dulce's favorite toy. MORE: 'You can't imagine what we are going through': Family awaits answers in desperate search for missing 5-year-old girl Dulce Maria Alavez "She's just an innocent girl. She's just 5 years old. She doesn't know nothing of the world that we know," Perez said. An Amber Alert has been issued for Dulce Maria Alavez, 5, in Bridgeton, N.J.An Amber Alert has been issued for Dulce Maria Alavez, 5, in Bridgeton, N.J. Thursday, Oct. 3: Perez's 911 call was released. "Um, I can't find my daughter," said Perez, according to local affiliate WPVI. "We were there at the park ... and people say that somebody ... probably somebody took her." Wednesday, Oct. 9: The reward money increased to $52,000. MORE: Search for Dulce Maria Alavez continues 2 months after she vanished from a New Jersey playground Tuesday, Oct. 15: A sketch is released of a possible witness, who was allegedly at the park at the time Dulce went missing, but investigators have yet to find that person. Perez did a sit-down interview on the "Dr. Phil" show where she revealed her suspicions of an "old friend" who may have kidnapped Dulce. Sunday, Jan. 5 and 6: Community organizers passed around flyers of Dulce during a "Citizen Search" and "Citizen March" in Bridgeton. Dream number 14073 21 November 2020 1 psychic prediction107 views todayHELP ME Dream number 14105 29 November 2020 2 psychic prediction107 views todayYou know her - she is going to die unless you tell her to get the test - doing it now will save her life - not too late (np matter what the date of this DD, tell her please!!) Dream number 14123 2 December 2020 2 psychic prediction107 views todaycells are life - cells die and are reborn - you are cells - god loves you 214713 files on 8947 page(s) 1 - 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 - 8947	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line563
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__label__cc	0.54592	0.45408	FacebookInstagramTwitterCustom WWII Album FAQChuck Moran2018-08-17T19:58:17+00:00 This is your second scrapbook novel. What first gave you the idea of creating a novel in the form of the scrapbook? I like to say that the idea of making a scrapbook novel was 40 years in the making. As a little girl, I used to pore over my grandmother’s flapper scrapbook. In high school, I started collecting vintage scrapbooks. My first three novels were what I guess you’d call “conventional” format—that is, just words. My third novel Gatsby’s Girl was inspired by the meticulous scrapbook F. Scott Fitzgerald kept about his first love, Ginevra King. Later he would turn the story of his unrequited crush into The Great Gatsby. When I was casting around for the idea for my fourth novel, I wanted to create something that was as visual and powerful as a scrapbook. And then I had a crazy idea—why not make a novel that WAS a scrapbook. Not a digital scrapbook, but an actual one made of real stuff that I cut up with scissors and pasted together with glue. And so I created The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt. Are Lila Jerome and Perry Weld based on your own parents? Not at all. My father was 4-F because of terrible eyesight and spent the war in San Diego as a Navy Jag throwing drunken sailors in the brig. My parents didn’t get married until 1947. But Lila and Perry’s story was inspired in part by real people and real events. My last surviving WWII-generation relative, an aunt, dropped out of Vassar at 20 to marry her college boyfriend before he shipped out. She wrote me some very candid emails about how she came to regret her wartime marriage almost immediately but felt economically and socially obligated to stick it out for 20 miserable years. I had Perry serve with the much-decorated 291st Engineer Combat Battalion. The 291st managed to halt a Nazi assault in the Battle of the Bulge by blowing up bridges. It also built the first tactical bridge across the Rhine River. Are the items in the scrapbook original or are the images from the web? Almost all the items in the book are original. I collected hundreds of WWII-era publications and objects to create my scrapbook. My office looks like something out of the Hoarders show. The primary sources that I started out with were magazines from 1940-1946. Life and Time provided a weekly timeline of war headlines and everyday life on the home front. Women’s magazines (McCall’s, Ladies Home Journal) were chock full of wartime illustrations, advice columns, fashion spreads, and ads. I collected boxes of V-mail stationery, picture postcards and telegram paper for Lila’s and Perry’s correspondence. I assembled all the “scraps” that a bride in the 1940’s would glue in a scrapbook: menus, movie tickets, ration stamps, book jackets, train timetables, war bonds, maps, and matchbooks. I found military memorabilia such as combat engineer manuals, k-ration boxes, uniform patches, and the French phrase book the army handed out to soldiers on their way to the Normandy Beaches (with handy phrases such as “Please don’t shoot me.”) How does a scrapbook create a different narrative of World War II than a conventional novel? I really see The War Bride’s Scrapbook as containing three separate narratives. The first is the story of Lila and Perry’s marriage, told through Lila’s captions and their letters. The second is a timeline of the war from Pearl Harbor to J-V day told through magazine articles and newspaper headlines. The third is a social and cultural history of the WWII era revealed in magazine art and ads. Cigarette, girdle, and appliance ads tell us as much about the role and expectations of a wartime bride as a 300-page novel. The War Bride’s Scrapbook is a scrapbook kept by a young bride while her husband fighting overseas. What inspired you to make a WWII era scrapbook? Some of the most fascinating scrapbooks in my collection are ones kept by wives while their husbands were overseas during WWII. They are an odd combination of touching love letters, cheerful home front memorabilia such as ration stamps, grim war clippings about battles and casualties, and military souvenirs such as dog tags and discharge papers. These “bride’s scrapbooks” provide an interesting glimpse into the reality of wartime marriages. Many couples had gotten married only a few weeks after they’d met and then were separated for years. Letters were often their only means for getting to know one another and forming an actual relationship. The scrapbooks kept by war brides are often sweetly hopeful and aspirational. They draw an idealized image of what their marriage and life will be like when their husbands return from war– babies, new houses, new appliances and cars, domestic routines and jobs picked up again. Most WWII scrapbooks tend to end abruptly in August, 1945 with headlines about the atomic bombs. It seems like the scrapbooks were put away, never to be looked at again until they turned up on eBay. We don’t know what happened when (or if) the husbands returned home after the war. In The War Bride’s Scrapbook, I’ve tried to write the whole story behind one of these bride’s scrapbooks. Why the bride (Lila Jerome) started to keep it in 1943, why she stopped keeping it in 1945. And what truths her daughters discover about their mother when they find the scrapbook 70 years later. How did you go about creating Lila’s scrapbook? The War Bride’s Scrapbook turned out to be a much more complicated and time-consuming undertaking than I originally imagined. I spent four years collecting WWII ephemera and doing research. I was fortunate to interview several WWII veterans including combat engineers and the author James Salter. Many friends shared caches of their parents WWII letters, and I researched 291 Combat Engineer records at the National Archives. I went to WWII reenactments and befriended combat engineer reenactors who educated me about supplies and equipment used in the European Theatre. My husband and I toured sites visited by US combat engineers including Normandy. I interviewed orthopedic surgeons and trauma doctors about Perry’s war wound and recovery. Where’d you find all this stuff? A lot of oddball places. A retired couple down the road from me in Charlottesville had built an entire Home Front museum in the basement of their ranch house and lent me things from their collection, such as the French phrasebook. One of my favorite vintage stores is Whiting’s Old Paper in Mechanicsville, Va. which has over one million pieces of ephemera. There is a huge military flea market at the annual Battle of the Bulge reenactment. (Yes, such an event really happens—in January in the Pennsylvania woods!) And I was almost always able to track down something I needed on eBay—from a knitting pattern for GI sweaters to 1946 Chevy manual. I got so many packages my mailman started to complain. The ending takes an unexpected twist. Did you always know it would end that way? Most fictional wartime love stories seem to end in one of two ways—a joyful reunion or a tragedy. Based on my research on wartime marriages, the reunions were less dramatic but far more devastating. I was inspired by James Salter’s description of a reunited wartime couple: What would they be like now…? ..there was the power of all the letters, of being apart, the denied love that reality cannot equal. What are you working on now? An illustrated history of dogs in American culture. I’ve already found some treasures at vintage stores and, of course, on eBay. A Simplicity pattern for plaid dog coats, postcards of dog cemeteries, publicity stills of Rin Tin Tin performing on the radio. 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__label__wiki	0.976516	0.976516	Showing 1-20 of 51 records with: Household staff::Servants::Servant in occupation Personal affairs in entity-question-asked Identified entity (51) Querent (46) Third party (19) Only mentioned (42) Self and others (14) Personal affairs Absent person (4) Alive or dead (1) Business affairs (12) Loss and theft (10) Personal relations (29) Place list (1) Predictive (3) Sex, family and generation (9) Church employees (1) Household staff Boy (servant) (1) Man (servant) (6) Law, justice, state (1) Unclassified (currently) (3) Forman (11) Napier (40) Tobias [Toby] Mansell (PERSON13941) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 6 February 1602, 7 February 1602, 17 July 1602 & 29 September 1604 George Warr (PERSON7559) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 11 March 1601 Residence: ‘Gracechurch Street (conjecture: cf. ‘Gracyons streate’, Stowe)’, c. 11 March 1601 Daniel Fleshman (PERSON2775) Occupations: ‘Servant’, c. 9 August 1599 & 18 August 1599; ‘Man (servant)’, c. 5 September 1599 & 18 September 1599 William Hawkins (PERSON3598) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 30 September 1596 & 21 December 1596 Residences: ‘Newington Butts’, c. 30 September 1596; ‘Newington (now London SE1, SE17)’, c. 21 December 1596 Alice Matthews (PERSON4903) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 24 August 1597 & 24 August 1597 Jean Buckly (PERSON1407) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 19 September 1597 Residence: ‘Cheapside’, c. 19 September 1597 Grace Warren (PERSON21090) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 29 October 1605 & 29 October 1605 Mary Clark (PERSON29033) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 2 October 1618 Residences: ‘Collingtree’, c. 27 February 1617, 25 March 1617 & 2 October 1618 Catherine Allison [Phillips] (PERSON399) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 5 September 1596 William Bagly (PERSON601) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 31 July 1598 Residence: ‘(St Katherine Colchirche, Guild (=St Mary Colchurch)? St Katherine Coleman (=All Hallows Coleman-church, aka Colemanchurch)? St Katherine Cree (is this the most likely??)? St Katherine Docks?)’, c. 31 July 1598 Richard Adams (PERSON292) Occupations: ‘Servant’, c. 29 September 1600 & 4 August 1601; ‘Boy (servant)’, c. 6 May 1601 Elizabeth Camden (PERSON10298) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 3 November 1603 Residences: ‘Stony Stratford (village, now part of Milton Keynes)’, c. 27 November 1599, 7 September 1601, 8 July 1602 & 3 November 1603 John Silby (PERSON15800) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 4 July 1600 Residences: ‘Quainton (village)’, c. 20 March 1604 & 23 October 1604 Luke Swan (PERSON35875) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 29 January 1612 Residences: ‘Great Linford (village)’, c. 29 January 1612, 28 April 1620, 20 October 1626 & 31 March 1632 James Brend (PERSON1238) Occupations: ‘Man (servant)’, c. 2 July 1596, 16 July 1596 & 30 May 1597; ‘Servant’, c. 14 May 1597 Residence: ‘St Mary-at-Hill’, c. 14 May 1597 Mr William Lucas (PERSON13824) Occupations: ‘Soldier’, c. 16 April 1600; ‘Servant’, c. 17 April 1600 Residences: ‘Wolverton (village)’, c. 15 April 1603, 20 July 1609, 10 December 1628, 16 October 1630, 10 November 1630, 16 November 1630, 9 December 1630, 21 December 1630, 23 December 1630 & 29 December 1630 Elizabeth Bright (PERSON1266) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 22 August 1597 Residence: ‘Aveley’, c. 28 February 1600 Anne King (PERSON13392) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 22 March 1603 & 13 August 1603 Residences: ‘Potterspury (village)’, c. 22 March 1603 & 13 August 1603 Elizabeth Wright (PERSON21259) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 21 May 1606 Residences: ‘Towcester (town)’, c. 19 May 1606, 21 May 1606 & 31 May 1606 Mr Thomas Nichols [Nicholas] (PERSON24647) Residences: ‘Great Linford (village)’, c. 29 January 1608, 19 June 1609, 25 June 1621, 7 October 1623, 19 November 1623, 5 March 1624, 6 August 1624, 14 February 1626, 7 May 1626, 2 December 1630, 29 October 1631, 12 December 1631, 19 December 1631, 21 January 1632, 7 June 1634, 14 June 1634, 27 September 1634 & 30 December 1634; ‘Th. Nich’, c. 3 July 1622 Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f2-dob-cert=Inferred;f7-death-cert=Not%20recorded;f8-occupation=Household%20staff%3A%3AServants%3A%3AServant;f9-entity-question-asked=Personal%20affairs, accessed 20 January 2021.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line579
__label__wiki	0.716312	0.716312	MAKING BOOKS TRAVEL SINCE 2011 Main Site 2 Seas FBF20 Rights Lists World Rights FBF20 Rights Lists Sub-Agent Select Author Select Publisher Never Alone. The bugs that build plants, creatures and civilizations Original title: Jamais Seul Author: Selosse, Marc-André Original language and publisher French \| Actes Sud Territories Handled Netherlands, North America, Scandinavia Territories Sold Poland (Wydawnictwo Literackie) China (Imaginist) Netherlands (Uitgeverij Jan van Arkel) Animals & Nature, History, Science Of course not all the content in this book is easy, but all is enrapturing. Once we have accepted that the plants and animals are not autonomous entities, but beings in symbiosis with so many other tiny organisms, we see the world differently. Not in permanent competition but in close-knit association where mutual living dominates. – Françoise Monnier, LIRE Over the course of this enthralling book, the author carries us away on an adventure illustrating at what point this constant of omnipresence and universal cooperation among microbes applies to all fields of modern biology. — Bernard Schmitt, Pour la science This sort of book is pretty rare, one that radically changes your view of the world. The sort of book that re-evaluates things that once appeared obvious, things that we took for granted since childhood. Marc-André Sélosse’s Never Alone accomplishes this. — Hugues Belin, L’ECHO Dizzying, fascinating, witty, to give it a few words, submerging us into the world of these small, vibrant organisms. — Aude May Lepasteur, Le Quotidien Jurassien Marc-André Selosse, professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, knows all this history by heart. And knows how to tell it. — Jean-Luc Nothias, Le Figaro History written like a novel. — Marine de Tilly, Le Point A voyage into the world of symbiosis that changes our view of living things. — Laure de Hesselle, Imagine demain le monde A fantastic restitution of the role microbes play in all life! — A fond la science This work is dense, often witty and sometimes puzzling in its approach, shoving away many preconceived notions. — Le Figaro Santé Never Alone is an adventurous book… With passion and much humor, Marc-André Selosse tells us the history of the world. — Francis Martin, La Recherche A captivating essay on symbiosis. — Rachel Mulot, Sciences et avenir This work takes the reader through the world of bugs, germs and microbes and their role in the lives of plants and animals. It is also a journey through the history of 20th century science. Bugs and bacteria are the root of many illnesses. But recent research in biology has revealed that instead of disturbing organisms and creating infection, they have an essential role to play in the sustenance of life. Every creature or plant on the planet is inhabited by bug-life which enables them to carry out varied, vital functions aiding nutrition, development and immunity. Their presence has an influence on animal behavior and, on a larger scale, contributes to the creation of populations, ecosystems, societies and their dynamics. Since this research plants and animals, including human beings, have stopped being considered as autonomous entities. The fact that we are caught in a mutually supportive relationship with the bug-world is not all bad news however. Not all these interactions are negative and instead of competitive, parasitic and predatory relationships, there is deep symbiosis taking place. The work tells the tale of a major revolution in science which will change readers’ perspectives of the bacterial world. It sheds new light on the ecological processes around us. It is a tribute to the need for interactions between living species and homage to their diversity and subtle functioning. English sample available Over 18,000 copies sold Postface by Francis Hallé About 2 Seas Agency We handle foreign rights on behalf of an exciting variety of publishers, literary agents and a select number of authors from around the world. Want to know more about how we sell rights internationally? Watch this short video in which co-founder Marleen Seegers explains our work in a nutshell. Visit 2 Seas Agency's member page on America's #1 publishing industry directory: 2 Seas Agency's member page 2 Seas Agency is often on the look-out for upbeat, smart, and curious interns to support us in selling foreign rights for the titles we represent. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter and stay informed about titles we represent in international markets, our foreign rights sales & publications, trips to international book fairs, and articles related to the international publishing scene:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line582
__label__wiki	0.826989	0.826989	Carr, Thomas M., 1944- author A touch of fire : Marie-André Duplessis, the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, and the writing of New France / Thomas M. Carr, Jr. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020] x, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm "Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundresses or saints, she was a powerhouse during the last decades of the French regime and an accomplished woman of letters. She has been credited with Canada's first literary narrative, Canada's first music manual, and the first book by a Canadian woman printed during her own lifetime. In Touch of Fire, the first biography of Duplessis, Thomas Carr analyzes how she navigated, in peace and war, the unstable, male-dominated colonial world of New France. Through a study of Duplessis's correspondence, her writings, and the rich Hôtel-Dieu archives, Carr detailshow she channeled the fire of her commitment to the hospital in order to advance its interests, preserve its history, and inspire her sister nuns. Duplessis chronicled New France as she wrote for and about her institution. Her administrative correspondence reveals her managerial successes and failures, and her private letters reshaped her friendship with a childhood Jansenist friend, Marie-Catherine Hecquet. Carr also delves into her relationship with her sister Geneviève Duplessis, who joined her in the cloister and became her managerial and spiritual partner. The addition of Duplessis's last letters provides a dramatic insider's view into the female experience of the siege and capture of Quebec in 1759."-- Provided by publisher. McGill-Queen's studies in early Canada ; 1 Duplessis, Marie-Andrée, 1687-1760 Hôtel-Dieu de Québec Nuns -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- Biography Hospitalers -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- Biography Hospitals -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- History -- 18th century Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) 9780228000952 (softcover) 971.4/014092	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line583
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__label__wiki	0.903639	0.903639	American Composers Alliance Recent new works list Shelter Music Online Black composers Composers' Recordings Affiliated Pro links Apply for ACA Publishing Services and Membership List an event or news webform Legacy Custodial Plan for composers and estates ACA Bulletins 1938-1965 Contribute to ACA Quincy Porter Quincy Porter (1897-1966) is a descendant of early American pioneers with deep New England roots. His father was a minister and a professor at the Yale Divinity School, as was his grandfather also a professor at Yale. It is no surprise that Quincy Porter would spend his undergraduate and most of his professional life at Yale. Porter graduated from Yale College in 1919 and Yale School of Music in 1921, where he studied composition with Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith. While at Yale, he won two prizes in composition. He continued to study in Paris with Vincent D'Indy, then returned to the United States to study with Ernest Bloch, whom he eventually assisted at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He later became head of the Theory Department in Cleveland. In 1928 Porter returned to Paris for two years with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship. After returning to the States he joined the music faculty at Vassar College where he became professor of music and conductor of the orchestra. He left Vassar in 1938 to become the Dean of the New England Conservatory, where he became its director in 1942. In 1946 he returned to Yale as full professor, where he remained for the rest of his career. Porter's musical style is mainly tonal, with high use of chromaticism. He did not push the edge of new musical sounds, but he definitely has a unique and fresh style of his own. While he was in Cleveland, Porter was the violist of the Ribaupierre Quartet, which may be why he is one of the few American composers who has an extensive cycle of string quartets. Other important works are his Viola Concerto (1948), often hailed as his greatest work, two symphonies 1934, 1962, and a Concerto Concertante, which won the Pulitzer prize in 1954. Along with Aaron Copland, Porter helped establish the American Music Center, the Yaddo Artist Colony and Music Festival, and co-founded the American Recording Society. Ensemble Type string quartet (alone or + inst or voc) (-) strings featured Year Authored ACA Composer Composition ACE Publications 1 song(s) SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Quincy Porter STRING SEXTET ON A SLAVIC FOLK THEME - string sextet: 2 vln, 2 vla, 2 vcl 1947 Connect With Us fb Twitter Youtube SIGN UP FOR ACA News American Composers Alliance Inc. Copyright 2020 - American Composers Alliance Inc.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line607
__label__cc	0.740905	0.259095	Programmatic Assistance and Support for the Immunization Activities of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Home/Programmatic Assistance and Support for the Immunization Activities of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Programmatic Assistance and Support for the Immunization Activities of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseasesadmin2019-01-28T19:41:54+00:00 United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded The Cloudburst Group a task order to provide programmatic assistance and support to CDC in its partnership with the Indian Health Service (IHS) for the immunization activities of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Immunization Services Division (ISD), Program Operations Branch. Cloudburst will assist IHS in preventing disease, implementing an effective immunization system and raising and sustaining vaccine coverage for the American Indian/Alaska Native population. Our staff manage the IHS immunization reporting process as well as provide coordination and support for the web-based IHS immunization. Staff provides assistance and advice in the collection and monitoring of quarterly and annual immunization data, compiling childhood and adolescent immunization reports and annual immunization reports from each IHS area, distributing quarterly and annual reports on immunization coverage for the IHS, and analyzing immunization program data to identify problems and trends in immunization coverage. In addition, we provide coordination and support for the web-based IHS immunization and reporting system including coordinating meetings of a user group to identify needed upgrades and enhancements to the system, coordinating trainings on the system for all IHS and tribal users, and providing technical assistance to the users of the system. We coordinate with an on-site Division and with area offices bringing together The Cloudburst Group’s depth in providing technical consulting support particularly around using existing and emerging technology to guide users on data collection and utilization, and experience in providing the CDC with on-site program assistance and consultation.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line611
__label__cc	0.7211	0.2789	3 Ways Celebrities Use Filler with No One Noticing Skin secrets from Dr. Shereene Idriss’s office. By: Katie Becker Photography: Tristan Kallas Huge cheeks or overblown lips are not the only hallmark of “getting filled.” Filler (injecting hyaluronic acid-based gels like Restylane and Juvederm), when done really well, is almost imperceptible. This is especially important among the A-list patients of the world’s top dermatologists. “The people who are high-profile or more successful in their jobs, they want it even more subtle than your average person,” says New York City derm Shereene Idriss, whose famous clients (at least the ones she’s allowed to talk about) include Mindy Kaling, Paloma Elsesser, and Danielle Pineda. “You should just look more rested.” The tricky thing, she explains, is the improvements are so natural- and effortless-looking that sometimes her patients themselves don’t recognize the change and keep asking for more. That, unfortunately, is when things can start looking huge and overblown. “You have to be in the hands of people who will tell you no,” says Idriss. “Instead, there are little tweaks you can do.” Below, here are a few of Idriss’ signature tricks for “did she or didn’t she?” filler. And as for whether you should be doing filler at all, we always say: You do you. To Look More Awake Yeah, we don’t know anything about looking exhausted… LOL. “If people come in complaining about their under-eyes, then working around the temple and hairline is a really subtle trick to correct it,” explains Idriss. “The reason you get the bags is because you lose volume laterally—outward from the center of your face—so as you lose volume in your temples, you lose the ‘scaffolding,’ and then you develop hollows under your eyes. It’s like treating the disease versus the symptom. That’s the biggest [thing] I do as a quick trick to help people look fresh.” To Firm the Jawline “I have two tricks to pull up ‘jowls’ with filler,” she says. “One is to put filler in and behind your ears. This will lift your skin and lift the lower part of your face up.” The other trick is to fill in the tip of the chin. “As women age, our jawlines recede and we lose our chin and jawline,” she says. “So fixing the chin with a little projection also helps. Not like Jay Leno, but a little added definition on the chin goes a long way.” To Perk Up the Lips “There’s nothing worse than a lip that looks done,” says Idriss. “It might look good in 2-D, but when they’re speaking, it looks terrible. The trick is to build up your lip slow and steady, doing very little every six to eight weeks rather than all at once.” This allows your lips time to adjust as the hyaluronic acid “integrates” (that’s the technical term) into the tissue. Idriss’ other, very clever trick helps literally turn a frown upside down. “I use a very long, thin needle and insert it under the chin up to the corners of the mouth,” she explains. “Then I fill a tiny bit on each side, and it lifts the lips up into a tiny little smile.” This Plastic Surgeon Figured Out Semi-Permanent Highlighter Everything I Wish I Knew Before I Got Lip Injections 6 Plastic Surgery Procedures That Will Be Big This Year	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line615
__label__wiki	0.929761	0.929761	Amy Kremer Claims GOP In Danger After Witches Put A 'Hex' On Brett Kavanaugh: 'It's A Scary Time' Amy Kremer, who runs a women's group supporting Donald Trump, on Sunday asserted that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a victim of a hex, which was put on him by witches. During a Sunday segment on MSNBC, host Ali Velshi noted that Republicans have painted Democrats as "mobs" and "gangs." "This has just shown up in the last couple of weeks aggressively in the president's rallies and in some other rallies by Republicans," Velshi said. Kremer, a former tea party leader, defended Trump. "I think -- the left -- there are mobs going on out there right now," Kremer insisted. "I mean, look at what happened to Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife, Heidi -- a mob running them out of a restaurant." "[Democratic Congresswoman] Maxine Waters telling people that if you run across any of these Republicans congressmen or senators or people in the administration to harass them," she continued. "Get in their faces at gas stations. And people are doing that." Kremer recalled to the panel that Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was shot in 2017 while playing baseball. "It is a scary time right now," Kremer opined. "Now you've got witches that are placing a hex on Brett Kavanaugh." Kremer was mostly likely referring to a group of witches in Brooklyn who vowed to publicly place a "hex" on the Supreme Court justice. Kramer did not explain how the "hex" is equivalent to harassing Kavanaugh. "It is concerning," she concluded. "This type of behavior is going on and its concerning to all Americans out there. As I said to you in the last segment, I have been a victim of these attacks." Velshi reminded Kremer that most MSNBC hosts have also been targeted by conservative Trump supporters. Kremer has also conveniently forgotten that most political violence done in this country is done by right wing extremists, not the left: But the story that a wave of left-wing terrorism threatens America is wrong. The poster child for this false narrative is antifa, a small, weak organization that protests white supremacist aggression. The real threat of violence comes from the right. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism reports that right-wingers and white supremacists were responsible for 74 percent of the murders committed by political extremists in the United States over the past decade. Only 2 percent were committed by left-wing radicals. Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, has calculated that “terrorists inspired by Nationalist and Right Wing ideology have killed about 10 times as many people as Left Wing terrorists since 1992." Amy Kremer, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Wiccans, witches Dear MSNBC: Filling Your Programming With Lying Wingnuts Isn't Provocative, It's Propaganda These cable news shows need to stop giving airtime to gaslighting Republican Trump apologists. By Heather MSNBC Panel Makes Mockery Of Amy Kremer For Claim Trump Never Threatened Journalists Former AstruTurf "tea partier" turned "Women for Trump" founder Amy Kremer was immediately overwhelmed with examples of why she was wrong when she laughingly tried to assert that Trump has never threatened journalists. Fox's Carlson Uses Witches' Hex On Kavanaugh As Excuse To Attack Planned Parenthood Fox host Tucker Carlson with a two-fer: pretending some obscure coven of witches in New York somehow represents the Democratic party, and using them as an excuse to assault women's reproductive rights and Planned Parenthood. Tucker Carlson Accuses Planned Parenthood Of Conducting 'Human Sacrifice Rituals' Fox's Tucker Carlson uses a coven of witches in New York, that no one outside of Fox cares about one iota, who say they're going to place a hex on Brett Kavanaugh, as an excuse to accuse Planned Parenthood of conducting "human [...] Amy Kremer Claims Laura Ingraham Can't Be Racist Because She Adopted A Girl From Guatemala Former AstroTurf "tea partier" turned Trump booster Amy Kremer plays the "I have one black friend" card for racist Laura Ingraham. 'This Is None Of Our Business': Amy Kremer Loses It After Panelist Suggests Trump Asked Stormy To Have Abortion Amy Kremer displays the cognitive dissonance of American evangelicals everywhere.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line618
__label__cc	0.669588	0.330412	Inside the abandoned Costa Concordia cruise liner Garima Sharma 22 Jan 2016 It was dubbed the worst maritime disaster in Italy’s history since the second World War, killing 32 passengers, when Costa Concordia sank partially sank near the Tuscan island of Giglio in 2012 after hitting a reef. Four years later German photographer Jonathan Danko Kielkowski swam 200 metres to capture the ghost ship moved to the port of Genoa where it will be scrapped eventually. The images captured by Mr Kielkowski have created quite a buzz in social media, amazed by the 290-metre ship’s decadence now completely in rundown state. It was the photographer’s second attempt to capture the ship after he was caught by the Coast Guard. The interiors show corridors corroded with harsh salt water. The glitzy atrium and theatre is shown covered in debris. The bar’s emerald finishings still stand out despite the electric wiring hanging out. Costa Concordia’s maritime wreck recovery and scrapping efforts are estimated to cost £1.2billion. The images are now in a book named Concordia published by White Press. Previous ArticleNorwegian Cruise line invests $400 million in upgrades Next ArticleTravel friendly tech upgrades on Azamara Journey	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line620
__label__cc	0.745173	0.254827	culturalwaves.uganda@gmail.com Masaka, Uganda M-Kusoma Cultural Waves Uganda community centre: Global Rights Disability Library Volunteer with Cultural Waves October 6, 2015 by svdGvHOgTE Organization’s mission is to Improve the livelihood of women and girl children in urban and rural areas through use of effect technologies as ways to improve their communities in terms of health, education, human rights and entrepreneurship. Donation Now Our Focus is on Health, Education and Entrepreneurship Cultural Waves Uganda connects Pro Bono Technology specialists and other specialists from various universities with the tens of thousands of women and girls in rural areas, who are under-served population in Uganda and without basic education. Currently we are working in Masaka and Lwengo districts. Our specialists come from across the globe. Our Projects; Moving from traditional chalk teaching to technology, this project involved providing evidence of improved learning outcomes CWU community Center Cultural Waves Uganda community Center provides the following four services: ICT access, a library facility, an entrepreneurship facility, and mentorship opportunities. The project focus is on women who are primary healthcare providers yet they lack the adequate information and have limited access to health services. This Program has enabled the increase in responses to increasing demand for the reading culture which has been ignored at all Growing up the founder Kakeeto Henry always had the fascination of using relevant community Technology innovations for changing the lives of communities. He joined university to grow more in the skills of developing software and meeting young minds to further this discussion. While at the university, we realized the issues in our communities that we originate from and the need to give back to these communities through the use of technology innovations. To empower women and the girl child in rural areas through technology innovations as a tool for information and mobilization towards attaining gender equality and improved livelihood opportunities. Organization’s mission is to improve the livelihood of women and girl children in urban and rural areas through use of effect technologies as ways to improve their communities in terms of health, education, human rights and entrepreneurship.” Henry Kakeeto Founder and Country Director of Cultural Waves Uganda Joan Alupo Board Member, Cultural Waves Uganda. Violette Hilda Nalutaay Keep up to date — follow us on social media Cultural Waves Uganda is a community based nonprofit organization that was founded on the principle of equity by a group of young students. “Right to access”. We believe that everyone should have the right to access the information they need at any time. Masaka, Uganda . By: Culturalwaves Team	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line622
__label__wiki	0.69917	0.69917	Caleb Ewan dashes into ochre on stage 2 of the Tour Down Under by Matt de Neef STIRLING, Australia (CT) – Few rated Caleb Ewan’s chances on stage 2 of the 2018 Santos Tour Down Under. And not without reason: he’d been beaten by Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) in the People’s Choice Classic; he’d been beaten by Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) on stage 1; and the uphill drag into Stirling suited Sagan and others far more than it did the pint-sized Australian. But in the end, Ewan didn’t just win the stage; he did so convincingly, putting himself into the ochre leader’s jersey in the process. Even better for Mitchelton-Scott, Ewan’s lead-out man Daryl Impey was second on the stage, the South African sliding into the same position on GC as a result. Sagan would have to settle for fourth, behind teammate Jay McCarthy. 🇦🇺 CALEB CRACKS SAGAN 🇦🇺 You little ripper 🙌🏻 @CalebEwan has just blitzed world champion @petosagan on the line to win Stage 2!!!#TDU pic.twitter.com/dy6igT9rRM — Santos Tour Down Under 🚴🚴‍♀️ (@tourdownunder) January 17, 2018 The victory is Ewan’s seventh at the Tour Down Under, but the one he’s most proud of. “It’s probably more exciting winning on a stage that you’re a little bit unsure about going into,” Ewan said. “The team … we were a little bit unsure. Obviously by this time last year I had a few wins … so I think maybe my confidence probably went down a little bit. “But it was great to see the team’s confidence didn’t go down at all and they backed me on a finish that probably didn’t suit me that well.” Mitchelton-Scott went into the stage with both Ewan and Impey as potential candidates for the final sprint. Ewan didn’t decide to take the reins until just a few hundred metres before the line. “I know Daryl’s always going to be good here and I didn’t want to make the call early on because I didn’t know if I’d get halfway up the climb and start sprinting and not feel good at all,” Ewan said “So I didn’t really want to take his opportunity away and also mine, so it was a call that I had to make really late. “I just kind of sat in there and tried to conserve as much energy as possible and I saw Daryl sitting up there pretty nicely there as well. I just followed him and then I told him to go with about 300 or 250 to go and then he got us out and then I had a clear run at the line.” Impey launched his sprint, Sagan jumped onto the South African’s wheel, and Ewan slotted in behind the Slovakian. Impey kept sprinting left, while Ewan followed Sagan to the right before punching out of the slipstream and taking the win. #TDU: Are you a numbers person? Have a look at these from the final 20seconds of @CalebEwan’s sprint to victory today thanks to @VelonCC 💥💥 pic.twitter.com/vfZbY5IHLZ — Mitchelton-SCOTT (@GreenEDGEteam) January 17, 2018 Ewan said afterwards that Impey lost track of who was who. He thought Ewan (in the white jersey of best young rider) was Sagan (in the mainly white of world champion) and continued sprinting beyond where he might have. “I didn’t actually know that he’d got second,” Ewan said. “I thought that he had done the lead-out part and then he maybe sat up and then obviously I was just focused on beating Sagan at that point. “He said actually that he just kept sprinting because he thought I was Sagan. I don’t think he’s too disappointed.” While many ruled Ewan out of today’s sprint, his team always knew he’d have a chance of victory. After all, Ewan beat Sagan and John Degenkolb on an uphill finish at the 2015 Vuelta a España … in his neo-pro year. The bigger question, according to Ewan’s sports director Matt White, was whether he could overcome an illness that affected him last week. “We didn’t say anything before the race but he actually got sick the day after Nationals and he’s had a pretty rough trot last week and came into the race … let’s say very very fresh before Sunday’s stage,” White said. “We never doubted his condition and I think we saw that. But to do that today against those guys it’s a very impressive effort by him and obviously the lead out he got off those guys today was standard Impey and standard team effort.” 📽 #TDU: Hear what @CalebEwan had to say straight after his victory on today’s stage 2 https://t.co/9j8LXPKZkI How it unfolded When stage 2 began it was the same three riders that surged off the front as the day before. Nicholas Dlamini (Dimension Data), Will Clarke (EF Education First-Drapac) and Scott Bowden (UniSA-Australia) broke away easily, before being joined by Spaniard Jaime Castrillo (Movistar). In a tightly contested sprint against Clarke, Dlamini took out the day’s only KOM after just 12.8km, ensuring he’d spend another day in the blue polka dots of KOM classification leader. He's done it again!! @nich_dlamini showing he's not going to be easy to beat in the @SubaruAustralia KOM classification!!! That's another 10 points in the bag 🤴⛰#TDU #KOM pic.twitter.com/ssxRzPu7RA The South African returned to the peloton after that, leaving just three out front as the gap grew to 6:20 after 30km of racing. Clarke took both intermediate sprints, putting himself into the virtual lead and giving himself a chance at the overall lead by day’s end. Lotto Soudal spent much of the first few hours on the front of the bunch, controlling things for race leader Andre Greipel. But roughly 60km into the stage, Bahrain-Merida brought their whole team up to increase the tempo. Castrillo went it alone from the break after the second intermediate sprint, with 71.3km to go. At that stage the gap was down to roughly three minutes. The Spanish neo-pro’s advantage would be eroded as the race entered three-and-a-half laps of the finishing circuit around Stirling, with Castrillo eventually being caught with 14km to go. A freak crash to Steve Morabito (FDJ) saw the Swiss rider dislocate his shoulder upon hitting the ground. He was able to put it back again, however, and managed to finish the stage. A nasty fall for @steve_morabito!!! He dislocated a shoulder, popped it back in, and got back on his bike. How tough are cyclists? … Very!! 💪🏼#TDU pic.twitter.com/IJyZMC8180 EF Education First-Drapac, LottoNL-Jumbo, Bora-Hansgrohe, QuickStep and Mitchelton-Scott all contributed to the high tempo on the front of the peloton in the closing kilometres. And despite a few late attacks, it all came back together before the long uphill drag to the line. Caleb Ewan will now get to wear the ochre jersey of Tour Down Under leader for the third time in as many years. This time around he’s likely to hold it for more than one day. Tomorrow’s stage 3 has been shortened by 26km — two laps of the finishing circuit — due to a forecast maximum of 41ºC, but with a flat finish in Victor Harbor and not much climbing before it, it’s sure to be another finish that Ewan should feature in. In addition to the general classification, Ewan also leads the points classification and the best young rider classification. #2018 Tour Down Under #Caleb Ewan Hirschi to UAE, Belgian CX champs: Daily News Digest 2020 Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards: The judges' shortlists Landa eyes Giro and Tour, Cofidis will have a women's team in 2022: Daily News Digest This is the filthiest gallery we've ever published Riccardo Riccò doesn't want to be injected with who knows what 2020 Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards: Showcase 3	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line624
__label__cc	0.580477	0.419523	Women-Farmer-Focused Java Mountain Coffee Inks Hilton Deal Nick Brown \| December 8, 2015 All photos by Java Mountain Coffee Java Mountain Coffee, the Indonesian coffee company that aims to facilitate sustainable livelihoods for indigenous coffee farmer women in Java and Bali, has made inroads with hotelier Hilton Worldwide, partnering for a pilot wholesale relationship in Southeast Asia. For Hilton’s part, the wholesale arrangement follows its 2014 pledge to support the Women’s Empowerment Principles, an initiative spearheaded by the United Nations’ Global Compact program, which aims to assist private sector leaders in enacting responsible and sustainable business practices. In this case, those practices include the responsible sourcing of coffee through a company that purports a target goal of assisting 1 million coffee farmer women in the region to attain a more sustainable livelihood through certification and processing training, and equitable daily wages. For the pilot program, two Java Mountain Coffee blends — Mocha Java and Java Arabica — will be served at various food and beverage facilities within three Hilton hotels in Southeast Asia. Ten percent of JMC’s sales revenue will then be invested back into the company’s “Women’s Empowerment Innovation Fund.” The fund has two primary purposes. First, it is used to help defray costs required for female farmers to meet global certification standards such as Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ. The fund also equally feeds JMC’s nursery program, which aims to add seedlings and coffee varietal diversity to existing farms, while also supplying secondary plantings such as rubber, citrus and banana, which provide shade protection as well as potential additional revenue and food sources. JMC maintains an ambitious goal to empower 1 million rural women farmers and plant 3 million hybrid coffee and shade tree seedlings by 2020. JMC’s partner in both main elements of the program is the Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute, whose work comes under the watch of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. JMC roasted coffees became available at the partnering Hilton hotels at the beginning of this month. Tags: certifications, FAO, Hilton Worldwide, hotels, Java Mountain Coffee, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Womens Empowerment Principles	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line626
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__label__wiki	0.612553	0.612553	Wild Relatives Sweetpotato Andean Roots and Tubers Ahipa Arracacha Mashua Ulluco Genebank Management Breeding Lines Phytosanitary Safety Backup Wild Relatives of Potato Potato is an essential crop for food, culture and the economies of Andean countries and the world. Although there is little documentation of the exact route of introduction of potatoes to Europe, it is believed that potatoes were first introduced in the region of Seville, Spain, as there are hospital records showing acquisition of potatoes in 1573 (Hawkes 1990). It is assumed that from the introduction in Spain, potatoes were transported by different routes and subsequently adapted to other continents (Africa, Asia, and Australia) as a staple crop. The cultivated potato is native to South America, and its centers of origin and diversity are located in the Andes mountain. The Collao plateau, the watershed basin of Titicaca Lake, with the corresponding territories of Peru and Bolivia are believed to be potato’s primary center of origin and diversity. Other secondary centers of diversity are southern Bolivia, northern Argentina, Pasco’s Knot Peru, Loja’s knot, Ecuador and Peru; volcanic complex of Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Cotopaxi in Ecuador and the nude asture in Colombia. These geographic areas were involved in the interaction of potato cultivation with early human cultures, a reliance that extends to the present day in many Andean indigenous communities . The geographical range of wild potato species is highly varied. North America: Mexico (MEX), United States (USA); Central America: Costa Rica (CTR), Guatemala(GUA), Honduras (HON), Panama (PAN); and South America: Argentina (ARG), Bolivia (BOL), Brazil (BRA), Chile (CHL), Colombia(COL), Ecuador(ECU), Paraguay(PAR), Peru (PER), Uruguay (URY) and Venezuela (VEN). These 16 countries all have native wild potato species. Many investigators (Bukasov, Hawkes, Vargas, Ochoa, Spooner, Salas) have used a variety of methods which indicated that the ancestor of the cultivated potato are the Andean wild species which are widely distributed throughout the Andes. The long-term conservation of these species is done with botanical seed which involves the collection, processing, regeneration, conservation and distribution of seed. The number of wild potatoes species (according to Hawkes 1990) by country of origin The number of wild potatoes by country of origin, Series, Species, Natural Hybrids Typified and Endemism. Number of Accessions Number of Serial Number of Species Number endemic species HNT* Endemic* ARGENTINA 171 6 18 8 6 5 BOLIVIA 674 6 27 15 6 5 BRASIL 6 2 2 0 1 1 CHILE 6 3 2 1 0 0 COLOMBIA 117 3 11 5 0 0 COSTA RICA 22 1 22 0 0 0 ECUADOR 187 5 13 6 1 1 GUATEMALA 16 4 4 0 0 0 HONDURAS 1 3 2 0 0 0 MEXICO 203 11 22 16 2 2 PANAMA 6 1 2 0 0 0 PARAGUAY 25 2 2 0 0 0 PERU 2511 10 78 69 5 5 URUGUAY 52 2 2 0 0 0 UNITED STATE 28 2 2 0 0 0 VENEZUELA 27 1 3 0 0 0 Natural Hybrids Typified Total accessions conserved at Genebank. Nº Acc. ploidy x2 ACAULIA Bitter. ACA 438 3 0 0 1 0 2 BULBOCASTANA (Rydb.) Hawkes. BUL 14 2 2 0 0 0 0 COMMERSONIANA Bukasov. COM 43 1 1 0 0 0 0 CONICIBACCATA Bitter. CON 287 35 18 0 15 0 2 CUNEOALATA Hawkes. CUN 33 4 4 0 0 0 0 INGIFOLIA Ochoa. ING 25 6 6 0 0 0 0 IOPETALA IPT 22 4 0 0 0 0 4 LIGNICAULIA Hawkes. LIG 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 LONGIPEDICELLATA Bukasow. LON 52 2 0 0 2 0 0 MEGISTACROLOBA Cardenas & Hawkes. MEG 175 7 7 0 0 0 0 MORELLIFORMIA Hawkes. MOR 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 PINNATISECTA (Rydby) Hawkes. PIN 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 PIURANA Ochoa. (PIU) PIU 63 11 11 0 0 0 0 POLYADENIA Bukasov & Correll. POL 8 2 2 0 0 0 0 SIMPLICISSIMA Ochoa SIM 5 2 2 0 0 0 0 STENOPHYLLIDIA STP 10 3 3 0 0 0 0 TRIFIDA Correll. TRI 5 2 2 0 0 0 0 TUBEROSA (Rydb.) Hawkes. TUB 1072 57 53 2 2 0 0 VERRUCOSA VER 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 YUNGASENSA Correll. YUN 81 4 4 0 0 0 0 * Number of accesions by ploidy Geographical distribution of wild potatoes. (click to read more) Crop Wild Relatives Dave Ellis Wild Potato Curator (Acting) d.ellis@cgiar.org Alberto Salas Wild Potato Curator (Consultant) CIP-Genebank1@cgiar.org Global Crop Diversity Trust Asociacion ANDES Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA) Potato Park CIP links CIP Strategic and Corporate Plan Global Trial Data Management International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) The Genebank Platform CGIAR Research programs CIP Headquarters Avenida La Molina 1895, La Molina Apartado 1558, Lima 12, Peru CIP thanks all donors and organizations that globally support its work through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund This publication is copyrighted by the International Potato Center (CIP). It is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License This site uses cookies. By clicking "I agree" and continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line634
__label__wiki	0.785349	0.785349	John Lennon Was Obssessed With This Movie Star, Made His Wife Dress Like Her CelebritiesMusic So much so that he even made his first wife dress like her. By Ali Arslan Ahmed Last updated Aug 25, 2020 It’s very common for people to have celebrity crushes. But, John Lennon was anything but a common man. Even when he had celebrity crushes, he took it way too seriously than most people would. Lennon was obsessed with this one 1960’s movie star, so much so that he made his wife dress like her! Related: John Lennon Made Ringo Starr Sing This Beatles Song To Save His Reputation John Lennon’s celebrity crushes Did you know that Lennon actually wrote a book once? Its name is Skywriting by Word of Mouth. In it, John reflected upon his life and his choices. He also discussed his idea of a perfect soul mate, and said that he “had already known (a soul mate), but somehow lost (her).” Furthermore, John Lennon mentioned that a great many female celebrities always fascinated him. In his youth, John: “always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist (à la Juliette Gréco).” And he had crushes on a lot of celebrities. These included Anita Ekberg, who was primarily known for her role in Frederico Fellini’s classic film La Dolce Vita. However, the celebrity that truly mesmerized John Lennon, to the limits of obsession was the French movie star, Brigitte Bardot. Related: The Heartbreak Behind Hey Jude By The Beatles Brigitte Bardot – Lennon’s obsession Many people and critics describe Brigitte Bardot as the French Marilyn Monroe. In France, her iconic picture in which she is sitting across a motorcycle defined the stardom of the 60s. She was famous for classic films like And God Created Woman and Viva Maria! Just like Marilyn, she was a symbol of the sexual revolution of the 60s chic culture – almost as important as The Beatles and John Lennon himself. But, John Lennon was not the only one who was in love with the French movie star. The other four Beatles were big fans of her as well, just not as big as John. He hung a poster of Bardot on his ceiling as well. Moreover, he even made his first wife, Cynthia Lennon, dress like her. Cynthia recalled not so fondly: John’s perfect image of a woman was Brigitte Bardot. I found myself fast becoming molded into her style of dress and haircut. I had only recently gone through my change from secretary-bird to bohemian when I met John, but under his influence, another metamorphosis was taking place and this time the emphasis was on oomph! Long blonde hair, tight black sweaters, tight short skirts, high-heeled pointed shoes, and to add the final touch, black fishnet stockings and suspenders. Even in his book, John Lennon wrote how he pressurized his girlfriends to look like Brigitte Bardot. However, all that changed after John met Yoko Ono. He truly found a soul mate in her, and only after meeting her did he leave his first wife, Cynthia Lennon. Moreover, he considered Yoko his superior in every manner. And she helped him become a better human being than he was, overcoming many of his shortcomings in the process. Related: Did Yoko Ono Really Break Up The Beatles? Brigitte BardotCynthia LennonJohn Lennonthe Beatles Ali Arslan Ahmed 890 posts Ali Arslan Ahmad started off his professional life as a Civil Engineer, but his other interests got the better of him. Being passionate about history, politics, and economics, Ali is also a massive fan of movies, TV shows, and pop culture. Now, Ali's taking his life where his interests guide him and he hopes that others get some entertainment out of his journey. Republican Supporter Jon Voight Accused Of Slapping Co-Star Frank Whaley Vampire Diaries Star Candice King is Expecting Her Second Baby!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line639
__label__cc	0.535492	0.464508	Dark Thoughts on Ecomodernism Chris Smaje works a small mixed farm in Somerset and writes the Small Farm Futures blog. He’s written on environmental and agricultural issues for publications like The Land, Permaculture Magazine and Dark Mountain, and also in academic journals. It’s been a year for manifestos. With the dust only recently settled on the British general election, much has been heard about the different (though not that different) ‘narratives’ offered by the major political parties in their manifesto commitments. Meanwhile, a cabal of environmentalist thinkers and activists were busy putting together a manifesto of their own in the form of the Ecomodernist Manifesto (henceforth, EM), which was published in April (1). Unlike some of those election manifestos, the EM is a model of clarity. It has a goal to be reached, a process for reaching it, a problem that must be solved along the way, and a solution to the problem. The goal is ‘vastly improved material well-being, public health, resource productivity, economic integration, shared infrastructure, and personal freedom’ (p.28). The process is modernisation. The problem is leaving ‘room for nature’. And the solution is decoupling: decoupling human consumption from the drawdown of natural resources, and decoupling humans themselves from the world of nature and from their dependence upon it. Dark Mountain has a manifesto of its own, of course. It could hardly be more different from the EM. I assume that people reading this blog have an idea of its contents, so I won’t dwell on it here. Nor will I pretend to be neutral in my estimation of these two manifestos’ respective merits. But like any ornery voter, I don’t willingly surrender myself to other people’s manifestos of whatever kind. When it comes to manifesto ‘narratives’, I want to find the stories that lie beneath the words, and compare them with my own. So here I’m going looking for the stories of ecomodernism in Dark Mountain’s light – and if that sounds oxymoronic, so be it. Perhaps there are some truths that only reveal themselves in another’s shadow. Material wellbeing Looking at the list of ecomodernist goals the key one is surely ‘vastly improved material well-being’ because things like public health are implied by it, while things like economic integration are a (debatable) means for achieving it. But the question arises, ‘vastly improved’ compared with what? The EM seems to have two answers. One is vastly improved with respect to people who lived in the past. The other is vastly improved for poor people living in the present. On the first point, the EM states that humanity has flourished in the past two centuries, citing various pieces of supportive evidence: life expectancy increasing from 40 to 70 years, reductions in infectious diseases, a decline in violence and the rise of liberal democracy. Most of these claims are debatable. Two hundred years ago the global human population was around a billion; today, it’s seven billion and counting, but a billion are clinically undernourished – as many as existed two hundred years previously. Is that flourishing? Well, maybe. I don’t see much merit in arguing the counter-thesis that the human condition has worsened in that time, but there are issues of emphasis and interpretation. Indeed, the EM is peppered with tendentious statistics and factoids that prompt an exasperated ‘yes, but…’ Take life expectancy. In England in 1841 (when records began) it was indeed around 40. But that was because of stunningly high infant mortality, which an urbanising country was only beginning to control in the cities. The modal age of death for females over ten in 1841 was 77, and it wasn’t until 2001 that ten more years were added to that figure, giving a more sober sense of the pace of change. The upward trend came mostly through rather basic public health improvements such as adequate diets and clean water, which don’t in themselves suggest any particular need for us to embrace complex ‘nature-distancing’ technologies today. Good diets, clean water: such fundamentals of human flourishing have often been the birthright of ‘non-modern’ peoples both past and present as well as modern ones. Let me pursue the EM’s two-century timeframe a little further. In England in 1815, parliamentary enclosures were putting the finishing touches to a process of land divestment that had turned rural peasants into urban proletarians over the previous 50 years. Waterloo brought a shuddering end to one particular ‘modernising’ project that very year. The Peterloo massacre was four years in the future, the Reform Act 17. Slavery in the British Caribbean only had another 23 years to run, but plantation agriculture with coerced labour was gearing up in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and British depredations in India had barely started. ‘Modernisation,’ states the EM ‘has liberated ever more people from lives of poverty and hard agricultural labour, women from chattel status, children and ethnic minorities from oppression, and societies from capricious and arbitrary governance’ (pp.28-9). Maybe so, but it has also delivered ever more people into them, both in the past and still today, often through colonial and neo-colonial projects of extraordinary violence which have always been part of the modernisation package. So if today we can celebrate the improvements wrought over the last two centuries, what we’re ultimately celebrating is the ability of modernisation to solve some of its own internal contradictions, usually through the struggles of those who’ve suffered at its hands, and usually without thought to the longer term environmental consequences. To compare 1815 with 2015 is in many ways to compare a low point with a high point in a longer, messier modernisation cycle. So much for poverty in the past. What of it today, for those people or those countries living in straitened circumstances in the midst of modernist plenty? A word you won’t find in the EM is inequality. There are glancing references to poverty, poor people and poor nations. But in the ecomodernist vision poverty is equated with a lack of modernisation. There is no sense that processes of modernisation cause any poverty. So there is no mention here of the vast literatures on the changing and varied economic fortunes of the many civilisations that have come and gone, or the changing and varied ideas they’ve had about themselves. There’s nothing on uneven development, historical cores and peripheries, proletarianisation, colonial land appropriation and the implications of all this for social equality. The ecomodernist solution to poverty is simply more modernisation. And you then begin to understand why the improvement in material wellbeing needs to be ‘vast’. Every year, for example, US citizens each eat 100kg of meat on average, whereas the rest of the world makes do with 31kg. Since ecomodernism lacks any critique of consumption, instead choosing to equate increased consumption with increased wellbeing, its only feasible solution to this maldistribution of meat must be to raise up global meat consumption. If global levels equated with US levels, we would need to conjure something like another half billion tonnes of meat from global agriculture annually, and that probably would require the impressive breakthroughs in technology and resource use efficiency that the ecomodernists crave. An obvious question is whether increasing meat consumption from 31kg to 100kg, or likewise increasing the consumption of anything much else, really does equate with ‘vastly improved material wellbeing’, still less with wellbeing writ large. A humbler ecomodernism might acknowledge that other people construe wellbeing and humanity’s place in the world differently, and consider how its programme might interact with theirs. But the EM doesn’t do this. Instead, it insists there is no alternative. Once the historic brakes are off, it claims, modernisation is intrinsic to human nature. And the ecomodernists want to release the brakes. This, they say, is no matter of narrow ideology: ‘Too often, modernisation is conflated, both by its defenders and critics, with capitalism, corporate power and laissez-faire economic policies. We reject such reductions’ (EM, p.28). At first this move seems generous, but its effect is to make modernisation something universal and ineluctable, a process to which all right-thinking humans are committed, apart perhaps from a few straggling hunter-gatherers, peasants, backward agrarians and their latter-day champions, for ‘modernisation is not possible in a subsistence agrarian economy’ (p.13). Now, there really is no such thing as a ‘subsistence economy’ – or if there is, then every economy is a subsistence economy inasmuch as it produces what those in control of it deem necessary for human subsistence. The anthropology of those so-called ‘primitive’ societies that we like to call ‘subsistence economies’ documents the elaborate measures they take to prevent the multiplication of material ‘needs’ and the emergence of inequality. Pierre Clastres, for example, has written, ‘when the Indians discovered the productive superiority of the white men’s axes, they wanted them not in order to produce more in the same amount of time, but to produce as much in a period of time ten times shorter'(2). Only in ‘modern’ societies does it strike people as obvious that the correct thing to do with superior technology is to produce more with it, and though not all modern societies have been capitalist ones capitalism has pushed this logic of modernisation furthest. Its basic feature is the insecurity of both capitalist entrepreneurs and the populace at large before the impersonal dictates of the interest-bearing loan, forcing entrepreneurs into a ceaseless search to lower relative input costs and the populace into a wholesale reliance on monetised market exchange. In that process lies the fury of capitalist modernisation to find new markets, new human relationships to monetise, new ways of improving efficiency and extracting value. And the result of that process is the ‘modern’ world that the ecomodernists describe – with its incredible material wealth for the few and its misery for the many (the true ‘subsistence agrarian economies’ are the ones that have been made such by losing out in the battles of modernisation), its prodigious energy use, its constantly revolutionising technology, its relative resource efficiency and its absolute resource drawdown, its profound disruptions of the human and non-human environments. The EM devotes considerable space to arguing that preindustrial peoples were worse environmentalists than we moderns – for example pointing to the relative inefficiency of foraging over farming, and raising the issue of the North American megafauna extinctions arguably associated with Paleoindian hunting. As a matter of historical accuracy, it seems hard to sustain the view that the environmental impact of the North American Paleoindians was any match to that of North Americans today. But the larger question is why the ecomodernists should feel the need to scorn the doings of peoples who preceded them by over 10,000 years. What exactly is their beef? Perhaps one answer is that the ecomodernist worldview depends upon a universalising narrative of smooth and pristine forward progress: ‘smooth forward progress’ in the sense that the human story it wishes to tell is one of almost uniform ascent towards greater wellbeing and greater control of nature; ‘pristine’ in the sense that the process involves no major contradictions. If the Paleoindians were indeed responsible for the megafauna extinctions, perhaps this makes them modernisers too, but not necessarily worse ones than us. Human actions always have consequences in the wider world, but we have choices over how we respond to them. The ecomodernists replace choices with an unyielding historical progression: their worldview demands that there can have been no past times in which people might have lived as well or better in their own terms than we live today. I accept the dangers of primitivism: we achieve little by simply reversing the modernist narrative of progress towards future perfection with a primitivist narrative of degeneration from a perfection in the past. But all these dualities of progress-regress, Eden-Fall, heaven-hell etc. are products of civilisation itself and its doctrines of modernisation. From ancient Mesopotamia to modern China the evidence is clear: development implies underdevelopment, material wealth implies material poverty, freedom implies slavery and so on. These couplets are not two ends of a historical process, with modernisation ringing the death knell for the misery of the past, but contradictions within the modernisation process itself. Often, the negative term is merely placed beyond sight of modernisation’s victors. Thus, the EM notes the reforesting of New England but fails to note the deforesting of New Guinea, or any possible connection between the two. It claims that reforestation is a resilient feature of development, without noting that global net reforestation rates are negative. And it implicitly assumes that ‘development’ is some unassailable historical achievement that can never be undone, rather than a temporary flux in longer-term political relationships that are always subject to renegotiations of the kind we’re currently seeing in the gradual transfer of America’s economic assets to China. For its part, the Dark Mountain manifesto describes progress as a myth. I largely agree, or at least I reject the metaphorical topography of going ‘back’ or moving ‘forwards’ as a way of thinking about ‘progress’ historically. Here is the anxiety in the ecomodernist argument: once you abandon the notion of a smooth upward progress undergirded by technology, once you abandon the common or garden ethnocentrism that our own times and our own people sit at the apex of human achievement, then it’s possible to look at other peoples and ask open-mindedly whether there is anything we can learn from them, not so that we can live just like them, but so we can live better in our own terms. The whole thrust of the EM is to answer ‘no’ to that question, but it becomes ensnared in contradiction. It states: ‘The parts of the planet that people have not yet profoundly transformed have mostly been spared because they have not yet found an economic use for them – mountains, deserts, boreal forests, and other “marginal” lands’ (p.19). And yet these places have long been occupied by hunter-gatherers, herders, ‘primitive’ agrarians, the uncivilised, the ‘marginal’ and supposedly inefficient non-moderns whose ‘economic use’ of them stretches way back. I think the answer is ‘yes’. I think we can learn much from the uncivilised about equality, equanimity, self-reliance, the illusory nature of material acquisitiveness and what we, but not they, might call ‘natural resource management’. So much of the discourse of the modern world religions and so much of the angst in contemporary civilised society chafes on those very points, because we know that modernising civilisation hasn’t got them right. In that sense, the EM reads like a religious tract. Despite all the trappings of science and policy analysis, it’s really an attempt to keep the barbarians from the gate and to insist that, while few now believe in the perfectibility of humanity in heaven as a sacred process, we can still believe in the perfectibility of humanity on earth as a historical process. We can, in the words of the EM, have a ‘great Anthropocene’. Well, maybe – but I don’t believe in perfectibility, sacred or profane. So I’m standing uncertainly at the gate, ready at least to give the barbarians a hearing. The EM also reads like a literary tract. Curiously, despite adopting the moniker of modernism for themselves, the ecomodernists don’t identify with modernism as an aesthetic movement – and yet their programme meshes perfectly with that of the literary modernists. Like Baudelaire wandering through the less salubrious streets of 19th-century Paris, the ecomodernists want to invent a new language that scorns romanticism and the naturalistic, and embraces the city in general and the slum in particular as the engine of a new world order involving a self-conscious rupture with everything that has gone before. I won’t dwell on all the connections, or on the career and aftermath of modernism: from Baudelaire to Eliot to Iain Sinclair, from Marx to Stalin to Lyotard’s ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’, from Le Corbusier to Ronan Point to the mock Tudor semi, from the Factory Acts to Henry Ford to Mark Zuckerberg. But as self-avowed ‘modernists’ the eco-modernists might do well to ponder the long career and drawn out death of modernism in the arts and policy sciences. Certainly, modernism was an important moment in its time. But now it’s over. The moment for eco-modernism is over too. Decoupling Inasmuch as modern civilisation’s drawdown of non-renewable natural resources is a problem (for the ecomodernists it’s essentially civilisation’s only problem; I’d offer a wider indictment), it makes sense to seek technical innovations that make more sparing use of resource inputs for a given output. This is called relative decoupling. But relative decoupling is only useful if it enables societies to use less total resources or emit less total pollution, in other words to achieve absolute decoupling. Clastres’ story of the Indians, the white men and the axe comes to mind here, for though we’re achieving relative decoupling on some measures, we’re not achieving absolute decoupling. In 2012, CO2 emissions from coal and natural gas were more than double their levels in 1980, with petroleum emissions over 40% higher – and yet the EM claims that nations have been ‘slowly decarbonising’ (p.20) . Nitrogen pollution is also rising, as the EM acknowledges, while adding the irrelevant qualification that ‘the amount used per unit of production has declined significantly in developed nations’ (p.14). Another example is meat consumption, which the manifesto correctly states ‘peaked in many wealthy nations’ (p.14). But in 2012, the world produced about 238 million tonnes of meat, up a third from 179 million tonnes in 2000. And so it goes on. The EM consistently muddies the water between relative and absolute decoupling to create a rosier picture of global resource use than the data warrant. It also consistently muddies the water between the certain, available technologies of today, and the uncertain, possible technologies of the future. ‘Human civilisation can flourish for centuries and millennia on energy delivered from a closed uranium or thorium fuel cycle, or from hydrogen-deuterium fusion’ it states (p.10), without acknowledging that there are scarcely any full-scale power plants currently in operation using these technologies. It follows this with an upbeat assessment of human prospects ‘given plentiful land and unlimited energy’. That raises the bar for disagreement pretty high, given those givens – but first I’d like more evidence about how ‘given’ they are. Despite excitable talk of unlimited nuclear energy, the truth is that currently only 31 of the world’s 200 countries have any nuclear energy capacity, and this furnishes less than 2% of global energy production. That figure may well go down. India, a leader in the push for a thorium-powered nuclear future, is also planning to treble its per capita coal use by 2030. This alone would make a mockery of the ecomodernists’ equation between development and decarbonisation. Present global energy scenarios remain almost wholly wedded to a fossil fuel future. The other kind of decoupling the EM advocates is a physical decoupling of people from nature through urbanisation, agricultural intensification and the restoration of wildlands, for in its words ‘Nature unused is nature spared’ (p.19). As noted earlier, the Eden myth, the notion of a pristine and uncorrupted nature, has such a deep currency in our ‘modernising’ culture that this sentence probably seems uncontroversial to many. But I find it strange and troubling. For uncivilised thought, its sentiments are unintelligible. ‘Nature’ is not something that goes ‘used’ or ‘unused’. And though humans can probably never escape entirely from a godlike differentiation of self from nature-other, our power lies not in ‘sparing’ nature but rather in moving purposefully within the realm of its power. Here the EM is caught in a morbid dialectic of capitalism, which first reduces everything in the world to a set of instrumental use values and then, abhorring what it’s done, tries to extricate a sacred wholeness from the consequences of its own ugliness. In contrast to the more anti-modern strands of radical environmentalism, ecomodernism is often characterised as an optimistic doctrine. But listen to the melancholy: We write this document out of deep love and emotional connection to the natural world. By appreciating, exploring, seeking to understand, and cultivating nature, many people get outside themselves. They connect with their deep evolutionary history. Even when people never experience these wild natures directly, they aﬃrm their existence as important for their psychological and spiritual well-being. Humans will always materially depend on nature to some degree (p.25). As a philosophical statement, there seems a grand absurdity in advocating rupture from something that you need to be a part of. I empathise with the sadness, but it’s a pity the ecomodernists try to overcome it with chest-thumping affirmations of human independence. They sound like the jilted lover, at once defiant: ‘I don’t need her anyway, I’m better than her’; then alone, and afraid: ‘she was everything to me, what will I do without her?’ Eventually, the lover moves on. It’s less clear where a denatured humanity would move to. Here, again, the modernism of the ecomodernists already meets its end. So, the ecomodernists seem to be saying, despite our human need for nature, we can’t be trusted to get along with it. We need a divorce, a division of the spoils: to us the city, and the minimum amount of farmland necessary to support it, to the rest of creation the wilderness where humans can go to look but not to live. I think this will prove self-defeating. Absent people from the production of their subsistence and install an economy of modernisation which offers no philosophical challenge to the proliferation of material demands and you unleash the bedlam we see already: the ecological reach of wealthy cities is global. Beyond global – the demands of ‘developed’ urbanised countries exceed the planetary capacity to furnish them long-term. Maybe city wealth buys the ecological conscience to shop in farmer’s markets and subscribe to Greenpeace, but it buys a lot of other things as well – too many for the world to provide. And the notion that, properly managed, capitalist modernisation will deliver fair wages, efficient production and ecological restoration for all is a utopian fantasy, just as it has always been. The ecomodernists’ programme will more likely terminate with an entrenched urban poverty that allows them, the elite, but not the newly enclosed urban masses, the luxury of ‘connecting emotionally’ with a cowed nature, or else perhaps just with metrogeddon. The policy framework of ecomodernism is equally concerning. The EM in muted fashion, and other writings by some of its authors more forcefully, are in favour of urbanisation and agricultural intensification, and against low-yield farming, people who depend on firewood for fuel, and the consumption of bushmeat. The targets here are obvious. Better to knock peasants, hunter-gatherers, commoners and other people not yet fully coopted by the capitalist dialectic off their perch and corral them into the slums of the growing global metropolis. ‘Let no one romanticise the slum conditions’, EM co-author Stewart Brand has written, before doing precisely that, ‘But the squatter cities are vibrant‘ (3). It’s true that the fizz of urban economies draws in the rural poor – often temporarily, sometimes permanently. But it rarely delivers them out of poverty. And though it’s doubtless true that non-moderns can cause local environmental degradation, in the ecomodernists’ hands this small tail wags the large dog of the widespread degradation caused by wealthy, modernised citi-zens – and the tragic results of this kind of thinking reverberate around the nature parks and forests where indigenous peoples are cleared in the name of progress. Twenty-first century ecomodernism is an enclosure movement, much like the discourse of 18th-century ‘agricultural improvement’: clear the commons, for the commoners are poor and indigent. Better they labour for others, where they will earn more and cause less trouble. As in the case of that earlier debate, there’s scope for much massaging of the evidence on both sides, but it’s by no means settled that modern, high-tech agriculture produces higher yields than small-scale farming; that the ‘intensive’ arable grain farming on which the urban world relies better promotes biodiversity or food security than small, mixed plots; that city slums provide good routes out of poverty for the rural poor; and that the nature-dependent rural poor exert a more baleful environmental influence than the nature-decoupled urban wealthy. The same ‘improver’ arguments were used by John Locke in the 17th century to justify colonialism in words that, barring changes in literary convention and racial sensibility, wouldn’t be out of place in the EM: For I ask whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America left to nature, without any improvement, tillage or husbandry, a thousand acres [will] yield the needy and wretched inhabitants as many conveniences of life as ten acres of equally fertile land do in Devonshire where they are well cultivated? (4) Civilisation and Uncivilisation That brings us back to the American Indians. Locke in his time and the ecomodernists in ours presumably considered the ‘modernisation’ they underwent at the hands of European ‘improvement, tillage or husbandry’ beneficial. It’s not a view I can share. That’s not to say I’d endorse the Eden that other currents of civilised thought might wish to make of the uncivilised Indian, but I am drawn to Dark Mountain’s notion of ‘uncivilisation’ – not so much as a social state to aspire to, but as an idea we might use to escape from false dualities in ‘civilised’ thought. What lies beyond civilisation? I’m not sure, and I’d need another essay to even begin outlining it. But, in brief, I think something more attuned to social contradiction and the need to keep certain human tendencies (acquisitiveness, hierarchy) in check. Something that values the quality of human relationships in their everyday particularity rather than their quantity in relation to abstract manifesto-style nostrums like development, freedom or productivity. Something that doesn’t reduce wellbeing to material wellbeing, and reduce the latter to questions of energy, objects and infrastructures. The EM’s narrative, like that of the major political parties, tells us that if we knuckle down we’ll soon be back on track. But, beyond civilisation, the tracks are many, and it’s high time we explored off the beaten one. Ecomodernism: a response to my critics This article provoked a vociferous reaction online from some ecomodernists, most notably from Mike Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute. Chris Smaje responds to this criticism with another essay published on his blog, further developing his analysis of ecomodernism as ‘neoliberalism with a green veneer’. Read this essay here. (1) Asafu-Adjaye, J. et al (2015) An Ecomodernist Manifesto www.ecomodernism.org (2) Clastres, P. (1989) Society Against The State, Zone Books, p.196. (3) Brand, S. (2010) Whole Earth Discipline, Atlantic Books, p.36. (4) Locke, J. (1689) The Second Treatise of Government, 37. eco-modernism Pingback: Dark thoughts on ecomodernism \| Small Farm Future Damir says: This so-called “Ecomodernist manifesto” is a typical example of a totality of disconnection of modern human with the world around him and of disconnection with his own source of existence. To claim that humans can live without the nature, is insanity – for how can, say, a human tissue cell survive without the human body to nourish it, or a fish decides it does not need water to live? Disconnection of human culture from Nature, from living planet, is the first cause of today’s condition of human soul, and physical condition of the biosphere, so it cannot possibly be the cure. I would like to add one more point to the claim that the life expectancy today is longer than before, which the author correctly addressed; compared to what “before”? 19th century England, or medieval Europe, for sure…but compared to Paleolithic? I am not so sure. We certainly have much longer old age, thanks to heavy consumption of 300 million years old sunlight in a form of oil and coal – but our youth lasts equally long, if not shorter, if we acknowledge the fact that even in infancy humans are bound to tight schedules of time and “duties”. Finally, one thing that is so autistic in this “Manifesto”: to claim that there is much less suffering in the world today, from a comfortable air-conditioned office somewhere in the West while countless millions do not even see the sky, nor sun, nor moon, working in industrial megacities of China, or digging through mountains of garbage to find something to eat, with religious fanatics decapitating and torturing thousands, with increasing joblessness and poverty even in the West – this is a symptom of a mortal disease of civilization whose elites have gone completely mad and severed from real life. ‘life expectancy increasing from 40 to 70 years’ This illustrates a common misconception, lif expectancy has not risen from 40 to 70 years, remember Shakespeare’s ‘four score years and ten’? in the ‘one man in his time plays many parts speech. And since in Tudor times they had no modern medicine, we can safely assume that the average life expectancy has always been around 70. What has changed is the AVERAGE life expectancy, in other words, add together all the babies that die in childbirth, the children who died from accidents and sepsis, the people who succumbed to diseases, etc. and the average lifespan is lower because now we can combat these threats to life, more babies survive birth and early years and more people now live to an old age because of drugs. Contrary to popular belief, life was not short, brutish and violent before the modern age, people were probably more healthy generally than todays couch potatoes growing obese while watching cookery programmes on TV. People were eating organic food free of chemicals, insecticides and herbicides, how could they not be healthier? Our average life expectancy is higher, but how many of those are gaga, housed in care homes, dribbling and incontinent, and swalloing handfulls of pills daily? Never mind the length, what about the quality? Lisa Schuyler says: absolutely totally agree with you there. and the indigenous population in rich australia have a much lower life span than the rest. the manifesto does not address these inequalities as dark mountain states. Pingback: No Tech Reader #2 Pingback: Telling new stories: from eco-modernism to eco-populism \| Small Farm Future Stefani Olsen says: I spend a lot of time these days thinking about quality vs. quantity. I’d say the quality of the average Westerner’s life is pretty low these days, in terms of human connection, ability to enjoy life, sense of meaning, connection to nature, and a host of other qualitative, as opposed to quantitative measures. Here in America many of us work 50 hours a week, meekly and timidly request paltry vacations from our employers, rush home to fast food or processed food, stress out over a seemingly endless number of bills; for the parent, having children today seems impossibly stressful — no one lets their kids just go out and play anymore, everything is scheduled, with both parents working then rushing their kids all over town to skating lessons and karate, piano and soccer, fencing and play dates. Play dates — 3 year olds with cell phones putting each other on their calendars. In spite of all this running around, we have more of a relationship with pixels than with other people. Everyone is overweight because they are stressed and eat readily available bad high fat high sodium food. No one is having much fun. So, even if we are living 30 years longer . . . is it living? You could have fooled me. well said. we need to really think about our current materialistic way of life and really ask ourselves what are we doing it for? this decoupling humans from nature as in the manifesto is completely wrong in my mind. humans need to connect more with nature to appreciate how much we are all connected. earth is not for humans, earth is for earth. we’re just bacteria crawling all over it. i despair for my children, grandchildren and future generations. Pingback: The Humbling: An invitation to contribute to Dark Mountain issue 9 \| The Dark Mountain Project Pingback: Green Romantics \| SkeptEco Pingback: Ecomodernism: a reply to my critics \| Small Farm Future Pingback: Ecomodernism: a Response to my Critics \| Equities Canada Pingback: On the iconography of my scythe \| Small Farm Future Pingback: On the Iconography of my Scythe \| Equities Canada Pingback: Meet the ecomodernists: ignorant of history and paradoxically old-fashioned - News-9.comNews-9.com EM, because: tech says: Absolutely brilliant essay. I could not add to it except to second its points, and to praise the eloquence. Of course, I deeply appreciate the more-than-superficial ties to historical and cultural theories, writings, and etc, and of course it’s largely context that is absent from the EM somewhat astroturf-y movement. I myself am essentially at ground zero, physically and theoretically with the ecomodernists. I am an environmentalist that cares deeply about practical solutions. Nuclear power has shown the greatest promise on the energy side, but the rest of their proposals lack even promise to solve the problems they think they will, such as GMOs and vaccines and other tech, for tech’s sake. I am convinced they do not even know the facts you touch on here- the vast improvements to the human condition were some of the simplest: plumbing/sanitation, electricity, refrigeration, and transport. I could share chart after chart of death rates with various diseases “solved” by vaccines or other medical tech, but which drastically dropped around the turn of the 1900s due to other factors, in most cases, decades before vaccines introduced. And how exactly GMOs are to reduce inputs when 90% are modified to allow for more herbicide use, or to contain foreign genes for internal production of pesticide is another contradiction. In my conversations, these “pro-science”-ers do not know the difference between breeding and gene insertion. As a scientist, it is untenable to me that they take the mantle of pro-science. As an environmentalist, it concerns me that they say organics, conservation, using less agricultural chemicals etc don’t matter because… tech. As a spiritual person, it seems strange that as you aptly point out, they take on a tone of almost religious nature and even publish their theology. As someone in tech, I’m amazed by their unquestioning support of tech to the point of telling people environmentalism does not matter. None of this would be worth writing about except that it is dangerously gaining ground especially in American politics. Ultimately, it is all self-serving, and so it feels good to hear. We don’t have to be responsible or thoughtful–advances will be their own solution. What you eat and wear doesn’t matter. Order that superfluous item on Amazon, have it shipped same day: you’re bringing about the good anthropecene. 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__label__cc	0.701434	0.298566	Home > Events > Winter 2021 Eagle Watch Winter 2021 Eagle Watch Eagle Program December 15, 2020 - February 28, 2021 In the “Eagles” section of our website, you will find resources for a safe and fun eagle-watching experience this winter. Watch the short film about the return of the bald eagle from near extinction, plan your own driving tour, and learn more about the eagles that migrate here in the winter and those that live here year-round. Eagle Watching Map GPS Locations (PDF) Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram for for our virtual Eagle Watch content, with photos, videos, updates, and current educational information on the eagles in our region through the winter season. Thank you for doing your part to keep people and eagles safe! Please note that the Conservancy is not conducting guided Eagle Watch bus tours or a volunteer Eagle Watch program in 2021 due to COVID-19. The safety of staff, volunteers, and program attendees is the Conservancy’s highest priority, and Eagle Watch bus tours and guided eagle viewing cannot be hosted with appropriate social distancing measures in place. Please be aware that if you take your own driving tour through the region during the 2021 winter season, eagle viewing blinds and restrooms may not be open due to COVID-19. If the blind is open, please wear a mask, practice social distancing, and limit the number of people inside at one time. During your visit, please be compliant with CDC and state guidelines. If the viewing blind is closed, it is important to remain inside your vehicle to avoid disturbing the wintering eagles, and to park only in designated public parking areas. Please note that if the viewing areas are not open, parking areas may not be cleared in a timely manner. Use caution in snowy or icy conditions.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line648
__label__wiki	0.798938	0.798938	Delaware positive cases at 368 Wednesday with 11 deaths Apr 1st, 2020 · by Matt Bittle · Comments: 0 DOVER — Delaware announced 49 new coronavirus cases, including one death, on Wednesday. The laboratory-confirmed case total now stands at 368, with 11 deaths. The Division of Public Health said the most recent death is an 84-year-old man from Sussex County who was hospitalized and had serious underlying health conditions. Currently, 51 Delawareans are hospitalized, with 13 critically ill. Forty-nine people have recovered, meaning they have gone without symptoms for at least a week, DPH said. Of the 368 cases, 226 involve New Castle County residents, 101 involve people from Sussex County and 41 involve Kent Countians. The affected individuals range in age from 1 to 97. In 104 of the cases, the person is at least 65, an age group considered to be at high risk from the virus. There have been two cases involving a child no older than 4. The state announced its first coronavirus case March 11. The count was 119 a week ago. As of Wednesday, there had been 4,015 negative results, DPH said, although it cautions the figure is preliminary and should not be used as a substitute for the number of people who have been tested. DPH said it cannot release or confirm further information about the patients. Delaware has been in a state of emergency since March 12. Last week, Gov. John Carney closed non-essential businesses and instructed residents to stay home except for necessary activities like visiting a doctor, exercising or buying groceries. Staff writer Matt Bittle can be reached at 741-8250 or mbittle@newszap.com. Follow @MatthewCBittle on Twitter. Helpful Coronavirus links Delaware Division of Health Coronavirus Page CDC: About the Coronavirus Disease 2019 CDC: What to do if You Are Sick Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center AP News Coronavirus Coverage Reopening Delaware: Resources for Businesses Delaware Phase 2 guidance Have a question, tip, or resources about the coronavirus pandemic? Submit it to our newsroom and we’ll do what we can to provide answers.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line649
__label__cc	0.70732	0.29268	Tag Archives: Helping People Recover The NHS Mandate: a Revised Mandate from the Government to NHS England, April 2017 to March 2018 (Department of Health) Summary The Department of Health’s updated “NHS Mandate 2017 to 2018” defines long-term NHS objectives and goals up to 2020. 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__label__wiki	0.709213	0.709213	Las Vegas Weekly Weekly Q&A What inspires Las Vegas photographer and text artist Krystal Ramirez? Binge this Week: Adam Pascal at the Space, LVLT’s ‘Laughing Wild,’ the music of MF Doom and more An epic group art show creates ‘New Monuments for a Future Las Vegas’ All Nightlife Adult Guide Circa’s Legacy Club offers homage, along with cocktails and atmosphere The Philanderer Las Vegan Kat Kalling prepares to unleash personal new songs on ‘Eberly’ Priscilla Fowler’s invitational ‘New Faces, Familiar Faces’ brings the Vegas art scene together Chef Talk The Booze Blog The Legends Oyster Bar brings Vegas casino classics to the neighborhood Full House BBQ’s Filipino fusion game is strong Get to know your local growers at Vegas’ Fresh52 Farmers’ & Artisan Market All-Time Best of Vegas Where to find live entertainment on or near the Las Vegas Strip right now Rose. Rabbit. Lie. A timeline of Las Vegas casino-resort reopenings The Cosmopolitan continues to pull Las Vegans to ... Your Las Vegas Labor Day weekend pool club ... Treasure Island Tour During Shutdown Brock Radke Thu, Sep 3, 2020 (9 a.m.) The return of big Las Vegas entertainment at arenas, showrooms, theaters and clubs is still a ways off. But there’s plenty of smaller-scale live entertainment—mostly music—programmed every week in the tourism corridor along Las Vegas Boulevard. Here’s a resort-by-resort breakdown of all the live entertainment currently scheduled on or near the Strip. Keep in mind that anything and everything is subject to change—and reservations are strongly encouraged, if not required—so get in the habit of calling ahead. Aria has one of the most dramatic lobby areas on the Strip and its modern Lobby Bar (702-590-8638), open around the clock, welcomes Vegas visitors with a pianist Friday and Saturday nights starting at 7 p.m. Ever the center Strip titan, Bellagio emerged as one of the most entertaining destinations upon June’s reopening, thanks to the iconic fountain show and the equally magnetic conservatory. And the incredible musicians, singers and dancers that make the show go at Mayfair Supper Club (702-693-8876) have created plenty of buzz, too. Take it all in along with dinner and drinks Wednesday through Sunday from 5 to 10 p.m. Bellagio also has live DJs at Lily Bar & Lounge (702-692-5615) and the legendary pianists at the recently renovated Petrossian Bar (702-693-7111). Circus Circus recently extended its summer discounts for locals (20 percent off) at the Adventuredome theme park through September 7, but there’s family-friendly live entertainment available as well in the form of the classic and free circus acts on the second-level Midway (702-734-0410), beginning every day at 11:30 a.m. One of the Cosmopolitan’s newest venues, the Barbershop Cuts & Cocktails (702-698-7434) is serving up live bands from its intimate stage at 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. That’s been a bit of a Strip secret because of the place’s speakeasy-style of operations, but less under-the-radar is the modern supper club experience at Rose. Rabbit. Lie. (877-893-2001), which offers a variety of acts during dinner and operates Thursday through Saturday from 5:30 to 11 p.m. You can also catch DJ performances at the casino-level Clique Lounge, Friday through Sunday at 9 p.m. It’s a poor substitute, but you can get a taste of what the Flamingo’s new RuPaul’s Drag Race Live show was like by watching TV spinoff Vegas Revue on VH1 Friday nights. Back in real life, Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville (702-733-3302) offers music from a live soloist Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.—relaxing tunes to go with your margarita and cheeseburger in paradise. Closing and opening, opening and closing, casino bars have been going around and around for months. But two popular Strip spots for free, live music are back to life at Harrah’s: the Piano Bar (702-369-5000), which has indoor and outdoor seating and hosts “Big Elvis” Pete Vallee and other lounge acts, keeps it rolling Friday and Saturday nights; and the open-air Carnaval Court (702-693-6138) between Harrah’s and the Linq brings bands and DJs to its stage those same weekend nights. With DJs spinning nightly at 10 p.m. on the 63rd floor Foundation Room lounge (702-632-7631) and regular live music in the restaurant space at the House of Blues (702-632-7600), Mandalay Bay has one of the busiest entertainment programs on the reopened Strip. Bonus pick: The rollicking Irish pub Rí Rá (702-632-7771) at the Shoppes at Mandalay Place continues to host beloved Celtic rock duo the Black Donnellys Thursday through Monday at 7 p.m. Sitting at the gateway from the casino to MGM Grand’s restaurant row is country-themed watering hole the Losers Bar (702-891-3003), and it continues to offer live music nightly at 6 p.m. in its cozy saloon environment. Sadly, the beloved dueling pianos act at the Bar at Times Square at New York-New York was re-shuttered when the governor directed bars to close again in July, but until its return, you can find live bands rocking out Thursday through Monday at 9 p.m. at another long-standing Strip music bar, Nine Fine Irishmen (702-740-3311). The Orleans brought live tunes back to its music haven, restaurant and bar Bailiwick (702-365-7111) on July 31. Bands and solo acts perform Friday through Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. You have to hunt around Paris a bit to find it, but the piano bar Napoleon’s Lounge (near the parking garage between the Paris and Bally’s walkway) and casino bar Le Cabaret (both venues can be reached at 702-946-7000) are offering live music on weekends. Gilley’s Las Vegas (702-894-7111) has been back in action serving barbecue and brews since Treasure Island reopened in June, but more recently, the saloon relaunched live music on Friday and Saturday nights. The dancefloor is closed, but if you get up and dance at your table, no one’s gonna bother you. Just a few blocks east on Flamingo Road lies one of the liveliest lounges in Las Vegas. The staff and musicians at Tuscany’s Piazza Lounge (702-893-8933) have been working hard to maintain a robust weekly schedule of music that currently includes Laura Shaffer on Mondays, Ashley Fuller on Tuesdays, Kelly Clinton on Wednesdays, Michael Grimm on Thursdays, Kenny Davidsen on Fridays, Rita Lim on Sundays and a slate of rotating performers on Saturday nights. Over at the Venetian and Palazzo, there are singers and musicians entertaining during the day at St. Mark’s Square inside the Grand Canal Shoppes, and the twin luxury resorts are amping up the atmosphere with live DJs at nightlife spots the Dorsey (702-414-1945) and Electra Cocktail Club (702-607-1950) during weekend evening hours. Tags: Featured, Las Vegas Strip Contact Brock Follow @@brockvegas3 An award-winning writer who has been documenting life in Las Vegas for more than 20 years, Brock Radke covers entertainment ... 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__label__cc	0.588008	0.411992	Joe Biden Sworn In As 46th President Of The United States; Kamala Harris Becomes 1st Female & Person Of Color VP – Update Joe Biden And Kamala Harris Sworn In; Ceremony Continues - Latest Updates David Geffen, Chicago Is Calling On Line 1 November 1, 2006 4:46pm This just in from the Wall Street Journal, which has been on top of this financial story from the beginning: “The first round of bids for Tribune Co. have come in low, prompting the newspaper and TV company to notify bidders that it is now prepared to consider offers for parts of the business, say people familiar with the situation. Tribune’s move opens up the auction to people interested in bidding for individual assets such as the Los Angeles Times… A much wider group of people is likely to show interest in specific assets. Wealthy individuals such as David Geffen, Eli Broad and Ron Burkle have already come forward signaling their interest in acquiring the Los Angeles Times.” Meanwhile, I just heard today that Geffen’s reason in part for wanting the paper is because of the liberal Hollywood mogul’s obsession with the LAT‘s editorial and opinion sections and how boring, inconsequential and wrong-headed he believes they are. Oh, by the way, Geffen’s hanging out these days with Frank Rich, The New York Times columnist. And the mogul has sold yet another painting at the top of the art market, this time a classic drip painting by Jackson Pollock for about $140 million, prompting more speculation it’s for his LA Times war chest. For more depth on Geffen’s pursuit of the LA Times, see my previous: LA Times: Sleepovers at David Geffen’s, Why Is David Geffen Selling His $$$ Art?, Geffen ‘Confident’ LA Times Buy, David Geffen/LA Times Moguls 8 Joe Biden Sworn In As 46th President Of The United States; Kamala Harris Becomes 1st Female & Person Of Color VP - Update 10 'Superman & Lois' Sets Expanded Series Premiere & Special; 'The Flash' Season Debut Pushed	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line659
__label__wiki	0.867675	0.867675	Milo Yiannopoulos Uninvited From Keynoting At Conservative Confab In Washington By Lisa de Moraes Lisa de Moraes TV Columnist More Stories By Lisa Third Democratic Debates Set For Houston, But Format Details TBA – Update ‘CBS This Morning’ Makes More Headlines With Bill Barr Exclusive Jeff Glor Sticks With CBS News As Co-Host Of Morning Show’s Saturday Edition Two days after being invited to deliver keynote address at Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., controversial Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos has been un-invited after the org seems to have discovered he is an unapologetic provocateur. The invitation retraction comes same day the group announced that it had confirmed President Donald Trump to speak at the annual event and three days after Yiannopoulos’ controversial appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher. Liberals need to stop taking the bait. #RealTime #FreeSpeech w/ #MiloYiannopoulos @Joan_Rivers pic.twitter.com/FSl9c6Mv3S — Bill Maher (@billmaher) February 18, 2017 Over the weekend, conservative blog Reagan Battalion posted a Yiannopoulos interview clip in which he made a flippant remark about pedophilia. The blog opposes Yiannopoulos’ scheduled appearance at CPAC, which begins Wednesday in Maryland. “An epidemic of speech suppression has taken over college campuses,” CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp said when the booking was announced. “Milo has exposed their liberal thuggery and we think free speech includes hearing Milo’s important perspective.” In the clip from a 2016 episode of The Drunken Peasants podcast, Yiannopoulos talked about his own sexual abuse as a teen. When he flippantly said young boys “discover who they are” through such relationships, the podcast host responded it “sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me.” “I’m grateful for Father Michael,” Yiannopoulos replied. “I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him.” Yiannopoulos has issued a statement in response to the Reagan Battalion post, in which he writes: “I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim. I would like to restate my utter disgust at adults who sexually abuse minors. I am horrified by pedophilia and I have devoted large portions of my career as a journalist to exposing child abusers.” The videos, some of which he claims are “edited deceptively,” paint a different picture, he acknowledged. “I’m partly to blame,” Yiannopoulos said. :My own experience as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, ‘advocacy.’ I deeply regret that. People deal with things from their past I different ways. “Anyone who suggests I turn a blind eye … to the abuse of minors is unequivocally wrong. I am implacably opposed to the normalization of pedophilia, and I will continue to report and speak accordingly.” HBO via YouTube Yiannopoulos has been the eye of many media storms of late, including his just-canceled book deal with Simon & Schuster; his planned speech at UC Berkeley that was canceled after protests turned violent; and his appearance on Maher’s show, which caused one guest to drop out. Yiannopoulos’ CPAC speech would have been broadcast on C-SPAN. Back in July, Yiannopoulos got banned from Twitter after attacking Leslie Jones on the microblogging site, stemming from her role in Paul Feig-directed Ghostbusters. On Friday, he told Maher, as he had told ABC News’ Nightline previously, that he is a “virtuous troll” and mocks celebrities pretending to be fragile wallflowers when in fact they are sitting at home crying into their iPhones. He added that he was merely giving Jones’ movie a bad review. This article was printed from https://deadline.com/2017/02/milo-yiannapoulos-uninvited-cpac-speech-pedophilia-bill-maher-breitbart-1201917362/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line660
__label__cc	0.513537	0.486463	Tech Content Back to Tech Blog What is Content Integration? This is NOT about content integration in education... A lot of people finding this post are looking for information about the concept of content integration in EDUCATION. This is not that kind of content integration, sorry. Just thought I’ll tell you now before you got too far into this. PS: I love teachers. You’re awesome. Since I don’t feel there’s a good, all-encompassing name out there for this, I’m going to attempt to invent one – Content Integration encompasses the philosophy, theories, practices, and tools around the re-use and adaption of content from our core repository into other uses and channels, or vice-versa: the creation and ingestion of content from other channels into our core repository. Traditionally, we create content and store it in a repository. In many cases, this repository is also a delivery channel. A web content management system (WCMS) is the perfect example – we create the content in the WCMS, store it there, and deliver it from there. In many cases, our content stays entirely locked within the bounds of our WCMS. The entire lifecycle of that content—creation, management, delivery, archival, and deletion—happens inside of that system. Content Integration would be the process by which we connect to content in that repository and use it in some other way. Content Integration occurs every time we connect a content-based system to the “outside world” to take in or push out content to other systems to allow for creation or consumption by other means. We create an announcement for our company intranet. We also want to email this announcement without having to create separate content for the email. We have four corporate websites, each running on a different CMS. We have a single Privacy Policy that is reviewed, modified, and republished by our legal department once a quarter. When this happens, the text of the policy should be pushed out to each website automatically. Employees of our company submit Improvement Suggestions via a Word document. These are reviewed, metadata is added via document properties, and items worthy of further discussion are moved into a separate location by an admin assistant. Files in this location need to be consumed and automatically published to the Improvement Committee section of our intranet. Our latest financial projections need to be published to the investor relations section of our website, and to seven different reporting services. Each service has slightly different formatting and composition requirements, so our financial projection content has to able to adapt to each one. Content management vendors tend to silently wage war against Content Integration by adding features to their systems in an effort to remove the need to go “outside” that system. In the first example above, WCMS vendors often built entire email messaging platforms into their systems to allow for this functionality in addition to the core web publishing. This is done in the name of sales demos and competitive advantage but weakens the product overall because no vendor can ever predict all the possible ways content can be re-used. (While it’s easy to blame vendors, the guilt can probably be laid at the feet of their customers, who—being ignorant of the concepts of Content Integration—have historically equated “built-in” with “superior.”) To circle back to the original definition, Content Integration is multi-disciplinary. It encompasses: Philosophy: How do we adopt the mindset that content is divorced from its channel? That message and medium are not the same thing, and a message can be carried over multiple media? How do we evangelize this philosophy to the entire organization? Theories: What are the core paradigms of working with content? What is content, itself? What is a repository? What is a channel? Practices: How do we design content for integration? How do we manage it in such a way that it can be re-used? What governance and workflow situations arise from the usage of content in multiple locations? Tools: What type of repository is sufficiently abstracted to allow us to integrate our content easily? What channel products and services are designed for content integration? What content management systems allow for the easy import/export of content for re-use? What systems are easily adapted for use as a Web Content Delivery System? In the end, Content Integration is an umbrella which falls over a collection of knowledge and technology, the combination of which allows us to get more value out of our content – to reach greater numbers of content consumers, at less cost, with greater control, and less risk. (Note: I spend a bit of time talking about content integration models and practices in my book.) 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__label__wiki	0.613412	0.613412	Home Television ‘Hemlock Grove’ Continues Cinematic Groove With Netflix ‘Hemlock Grove’ Continues Cinematic Groove With Netflix Greg Srisavasdi One of the many impressive facets of Hemlock Grove lies in its unique vision of a morally compromised universe filled with what some may describe as creatures of the night. But monsters, as well as humans, take shape in many different forms and sizes. My favorite tag line for this year’s Hemlock Grove is that “even demons have demons,” and most of the characters travel down a dark and unforgiving path in season two. Hemlock Grove’s new batch of episodes debuts on Netflix tomorrow (July 11), as Roman (Bill Skarsgard) and Peter’s (Landon Liboiron) mutual dislike of each other continues. Netflix is one of the leaders in shaping how we digest film and television. The days of running home from work to catch your favorite show are over thanks to DVR and streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. For Eli Roth, the changing landscape on how material is digested was one of his inspirations for shepherding Hemlock Grove’s development. Madeline Brewer in “Hemlock Grove” (Netflix, CR: Facebook) “It is the norm to binge watch,” said Roth. “That is how people are getting their shows. In fact, people are so used to watching multiple episodes of shows (that) they are waiting for three Games of Thrones episodes to air so they can watch them all in a row. (With Hemlock Grove), we wanted to make something special. We wanted to make something unique, and the fans really gave us a chance and embraced the show. It was a fantastic hit and we were lucky to get Emmy nominations. And we’re so excited to be back with season two.” Chic Eglee (Dark Angel, Dexter, Murder One) is the new showrunner this season, which series star Famke Janssen accurately described as a “10 hour movie.” Featuring top notch production design and special effects, the show is also blessed with arresting visual work from cinematographer Fernando Argüelles. Roth also brought in a host of first rate filmmakers (Hesher’s Spencer Sussman and Cube’s Vincenzo Natali are among the players) to infuse their specified aesthetic for this season, giving the narrative an even deeper cinematic the second time around. I asked Janssen and Roth about why Hemlock Grove doesn’t actually feel like a TV show but instead continues to expand its creative horizons. Click on the media bar below to hear their answer: Will a rehabbing Olivia (Janssen) get son Roman (Skarsgard) back in her good graces, or is the damage too much to repair? Are you set to binge watch the second season this weekend? 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__label__cc	0.528104	0.471896	Jenn Wirth Has 21, No. 21 Gonzaga Women Sink Pilots 75-43 SPOKANE, Wash.: Senior Jenn Wirth scored 21 points, twin sister LeeAnne added 12 and No. 21 Gonzaga rolled to a 75-43 win over Portland on Saturday. The Bulldogs (10-2, 5-0 West Coast Conference) were never challenged after scoring the first 11 points of the game, cruising to their eighth-straight win this season and 22nd-straight at home. Alex Fowler scored 11 points for the Pilots (6-4, 3-1), who shocked the Bulldogs in their last meeting. That was in the semifinals of the WCC Tournament in March when Gonzaga was ranked a school-best No. 11. Portland trailed by 20 in the first quarter but won 70-69. Gonzaga held the Pilots to 27% shooting in the first half, doubled them up on the boards and hit 4 of 6 3-pointers to open a 36-17 lead at the half. Jenn Wirth scored 12 points. Jenn Wirth scored six points in the opening surge and it was a 16-3 lead six minutes into the game. Sophomore twins Kayleigh and Kaylynne Trong combined for five in a 7-0 run for a 27-9 lead at 6:33 of the second quarter. The lead was 63-33 after three quarters and reached a high of 34. Gonzaga was 5 of 15 in the fourth quarter but shot 48% (29 of 30). The Bulldogs won the rebounding battle 43-21 with Jenn Wirth grabbing 10 for her fifth double-double in the last six games. It was 15-4 on the offensive boards. Portland was 4 of 17 from 3-point range and shot 33%. The Pilots had 21 turnovers that were turned into 26 points. Gonzaga is scheduled to play at Santa Clara on Thursday. Read More: Jenn Wirth Has 21, No. 21 Gonzaga Women Sink Pilots 75-43 ← Stevens Scores 22 To Carry Colorado St. Over UNLV 83-80 Stephens Scores 18 To Carry Lafayette Over Bucknell 83-60 →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line665
__label__cc	0.59561	0.40439	Govt Enforcement & Corp Investigations Group FCA NOW Insights and Updates on the False Claims Act from Dorsey & Whitney About Dorsey’s FCA Now The False Claims Act is the government’s principal tool for addressing fraud in contracting, healthcare, mortgage lending, and grant administration. FCA Now provides timely developments about the law, enforcement trends, and other insights from Dorsey’s proven FCA litigators. 11th Circuit (1) Advice of Counsel (1) Attorney Fees (1) Byrd Amendment (1) Cooperation Credit (1) Corporate Integrity Agreement (3) Determining Actual Damages (3) Escobar (8) Express Certification (2) False Statement (30) First-To-File Rule (7) Fraud-in-the-Inducement (2) Granston Memo (5) Implied Certification (9) Import Duty Evasion (1) Jury Verdict (1) Materiality (4) Original Source (3) Overpayments (8) Penalties (6) Persons subject to FCA (10) Pleading Standards (7) PPP Loans (2) Procedure (13) Public Disclosure (6) Relators (13) Res Judicata (1) Retaliation Claims (3) Reverse False Claims (5) Scienter (4) Settlements (24) This blog is not legal advice, but contains general information not applicable to specific matters. We are not acting as your legal counsel unless separately retained in a written agreement signed by us. Category: Materiality Escobar / Materiality Another Escobar Exemplar: District of New Jersey Finds Materiality Lacking Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed a qui tam action against Defendants Pioneer Education, LLC, Pioneer Education Manager, Inc., Jolie Health & Beauty Academy, and Joseph Visconti (collectively, “the Academy”) alleging violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3729-33. United States ex rel. Lampkin v. Pioneer Educ., LLC, No. 16-cv-1817, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 136022... Escobar / Materiality / Pleading Standards Escobar in Action: Physician-owners’ fraud claims against hospital defeated in Fifth Circuit appeal for lack of materiality Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), which placed new limits on physician-owned hospitals, St. Luke’s Health System (“System”) took action to change one of its hospital’s ownership structures through a buy-out of the physicians’ partnership interests pursuant to the Texas Securities Act (“TSA”). The TSA allows rescission for the original price paid for a security, plus interest, in exchange for a release... Escobar / False Statement / Implied Certification / Materiality / Relators Two Recent Justice Department Memoranda May Have Significant Consequences for Pending and Future False Claims Act Enforcement In recent weeks, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued two memoranda that might change the calculus of False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases. The memoranda at a minimum provide organizations with new—or at least invigorated—defenses to qui tam actions and civil enforcement matters. First, on January 10, Michael Granston, Director of DOJ’s Civil Frauds section, issued a memorandum encouraging DOJ trial attorneys to consider dismissing... Escobar / Healthcare / Materiality Applying Escobar’s Materiality Standard, Florida Federal Court Reverses $350 Million False Claims Act Verdict against a Nursing Home Operator If the government does not take action and continues to pay for Medicare/Medicaid claims after it learns of non-compliance related to the claims, is the non-compliance material to the government’s decision to pay? This is a question being answered in the negative by courts across the country, who have concluded that the government (or a qui tam relator) is not able to proceed under a... Dorsey Events View All Dorsey Events Dorsey Publications View All Dorsey Publications Dorsey News View All Dorsey News Items Dorsey Twitter Feed Tweets by @DorseyWhitney FCA NOW © 2021. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line667
__label__cc	0.638614	0.361386	Drones and Model Aircraft Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for experienced flyers, pilots, and builders of drones and model aircraft. It only takes a minute to sign up. Do aerodynamics scale for model aircraft? If I wanted to make a scale model plane that looked like a real aircraft, could I just scale down all of the measurements of the actual aircraft to make a model aircraft with similar flight characteristics? If not, what is the reason? fixed-wing aerodynamics aircraft flight-characteristics Jacob B♦Jacob B $\begingroup$ Relevant concept: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similitude_(model) $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost Jun 2 '20 at 14:58 Aircraft do not scale linearly, for a number of reasons. Most aerodynamic equations include a speed squared term. If you halve the speed, you only get a quarter of the lift and drag, so models tend to be lighter and less powerful than you'd expect. If you make a plane with half the wing span, it only has a quarter of the wing area. So now a half size model flying at half speed only has one sixteenth of the lift. Reynolds number - air flowing over a surface will start with laminar flow but turn turbulent after a while, depending on the speed (and density and viscosity but we can ignore those). A smaller, slower model will see more laminar flow than the full size aircraft. In practice, this is a relatively small effect compared to the previous factors but it's an important consideration for high performance models. A full size Spitfire had a wing span of 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m), a weight of 5-6000lbs (2-3,000kg) and between 1000hp and 2000hp depending on the variant, with a maximum speed of around 400mph. If you scaled it linearly, a 1/10th scale model would have a 1.1m span, weigh 200kg, have 100hp and fly at 40mph! If (as Phil suggests) you scale weight and power by 1000 (10 cubed) it would weigh 5-6lbs and have 1-2hp, which is close but still heavier and more powerful than real models: A 72" model (1/6th scale) might weigh 15lbs and have 2.5-3KW (4hp) and fly at 100mph. A 44" model (1/10th scale) might weigh 2-3lb and have 2-300W (1/2hp) and fly at 60mph. A 36" model (1/12th scale) might weigh about 1lb and have 100W (1/7th hp) and fly at 50mph 12911 gold badge11 silver badge1111 bronze badges Robin BennettRobin Bennett $\begingroup$ Where can I get that 100hp engine that will fit into the nose of a 1/10-scale Spit? :-) $\endgroup$ – Bob Jarvis - Reinstate Monica May 24 '20 at 17:51 $\begingroup$ "If you scaled it directly, a 1/10th scale model would have a 1.1m span, weigh 200kg" how do you figure? Ostensibly, the design would be scaled by a factor of 1/10 in three dimensions, resulting in a volume scale factor of (1/10)^3 or 1/1000. Assuming construction with materials of the same density, the mass scale would be the same. And power too, to maintain the same power-to-weight ratio. So, 5 to 6 pounds, and 1 to 2 horsepower. $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost May 24 '20 at 22:52 $\begingroup$ @PhilFrost is right. Reducing all dimensions of a 3D object to 1/10th of their original size reduces the volume and thus the weight of the scaled object to 1/1000 of the original. It's called the Square Cubed law and it means your model plane would weigh 1/1000 of the original weight, not 1/10th. $\endgroup$ – Nzall May 25 '20 at 13:25 $\begingroup$ @BobJarvis-ReinstateMonica - I don't know but if you find one, please let me know! $\endgroup$ – Robin Bennett May 26 '20 at 8:22 $\begingroup$ @PhilFrost - I've added your numbers to the answer. $\endgroup$ – Robin Bennett May 26 '20 at 8:31 Elaborating on @Robin's answer with the full effects of the cube-square law. If we were to construct a model aircraft at half the length of a full aircraft, the model would: Have half of the wingspan as the full aircaft Have a quarter of the wing area Have an eighth of the mass Counter intuitively, this means that the model has more surface area per unit volume eg. more wing area per unit mass. Where this becomes more difficult is in applying this to gain an understanding about the characteristics of our model aircraft. As @Robin said, Most aerodynamic equations include a speed squared term. If you half the speed, you only get a quarter of the lift and drag But this is a simplistic way of looking at things, consider the full lift equation: For our model to stay in the air, it needs the same lift to mass ratio as the full size aircraft. But remember the mass has decreased by a factor of 8, so we only require a lift that is an eighth of the original lift force. Assuming the lift coefficient and the density of air stay constant, we need to adjust the speed and wing area. Mathematically we can show that the required velocity for flight is roughly 70% of the velocity of the aircraft, greater than a clean multiple of a half would suggest. KrishKrish $\begingroup$ Can you scale mass directly with volume? It's been a long time since I studied structures, and I can't remember how beam strength scales, just that there are some cube terms in there! $\endgroup$ – Robin Bennett May 26 '20 at 8:20 $\begingroup$ 1) For a constant density (eg. using the same materials in both the model and the aircraft), mass scales with the cube of the linear scale factor. 2) You are correct, beam strength scales with the cube of its thickness (second moment of area) and linearly by its width, so theoretically there is a minimum size a model aircraft can be scaled down, since the mass 'increases' relative to beam size. $\endgroup$ – Krish May 26 '20 at 8:51 For a given constant global density, mass grows with the cube of the linear dimension. Concerning lift, all other things equal, lift grows linearly with the wing area, and the wing area grows with the square of the linear size. For similar reasons, drag grows with the square of linear size too. And concerning power required, it grows with the power 3.5 of the linear dimension, because –in general- the power required by any heavier-than-air aircraft is proportional to its weight times its speed. The weight scales with the cube of the linear dimension, and the airspeed is squared in the formula for lift, so the power for the proportionality of lift should be 0.5. Since the the power required is proportional to the product of weight and speed, the exponentes are added, and the result is 3.5 xxavierxxavier Yes, but a certain amount of surface area is required for the air to come across the wingbody. As an object decreases in surface area it's propensity for airflow decreases with it, that's why paper airplanes don't fly very far unless the wing surface is sufficient to capture a steady air quantity. LazyReaderLazyReader Thanks for contributing an answer to Drones and Model Aircraft Stack Exchange! Not the answer you're looking for? 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__label__wiki	0.867627	0.867627	ARTICLE: TW – Press Release and FullSized Package Art for ‘S2’ DVD You can now pre-order the DVD on Amazon! on DVD May 21, 2013 Teen Wolf jumps full force into Season Two with even more suspenseful drama than Season One. Scott McCall, a teenager with a wild secret, continues to find himself caught in a supernatural war between hunters and werewolves. Scott must keep his forbidden romance with Allison a secret, while keeping his friends and family safe from new Alfa wolf Derek. Teen Wolf Season 2 DVD Special Features Teen Wolf Season 2 at Paleyfest – celebrate Season 2 of MTV’s critically acclaimed series Teen Wolf with a panel discussion featuring the show’s cast and creative team Teen Wolves: Meet the New Pack – meet new cast members Sinqua Walls (Boyd), Gage Golighlty (Erica) and Daniel Sharman (Isaac) and get their take on their roles in Season 2 Alternate, Deleted and Extended Scenes Alternate Stiles Takes Teen Wolf CGI Reel Fight Choreography Shirtless Montage 2.0 Commentary featuring Jeff Davis and Christian Taylor Teen Wolf Season 2 DVD Street Date: May 21, 2013 Screen Format: Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Digital; French: 2.0 Surround DD Subtitles: English/Spanish/French Total Run Time: 574 minutes Closed Captioned: Yes About Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film, a News Corporation company. Representing over 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions as well as all third party distribution partners on DVD, Blu-ray™, Digital Copy, Digital HD™, and VOD (video-on-demand). Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world. About Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and distribution of film and television content globally. The company owns one of the world’s deepest libraries of premium film and television content. In addition, MGM has investments in domestic and international television channels, including MGM-branded channels. For more information, visit www.mgm.com. -Source: TVShowsonDVD.com ARTICLE: Zap2it 10 ‘Teen Wolf’ Season 3 spoilers: ARTICLE: E! Online Spoiler Chat: Teen Wolf	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line674
__label__cc	0.633936	0.366064	Railway Operational Communication Solution Huawei CloudEngine Huawei Succeeds in Upgrading HPC System for EPFL Huawei-developed HPC System Transtec has closely cooperated with Huawei to provide EPFL with a top-quality system, which meets our demands in the high-performance computing field. We are impressed with the excellent hardware solutions introduced by Huawei engineers and professional planning, installation, and configuration services from Transtec. Vittoria Rezzonico Executive Officer of EPFL SCITAS High-Performance Computing (HPC) improves a variety of fields, including aerodynamics and space technology development, long-term climate predictions, high-precision weather forecasting, ocean current calculations, air and water pollution simulation analysis, flood and earthquake predictions, engine and mold designs, biological medicine designs, wind tunnel simulation testing, petroleum exploration, and new materials research. Currently, HPC continues to rapidly develop and widely expand for two reasons: Demand: In this data era, as data volumes increase and people pursue higher data-analysis efficiencies, stronger computing capacities are required. Technology development: Information technologies have developed rapidly in recent years, and now people can enjoy HPC’s strong computing capacities at low costs rather than paying for expensive manpower and materials. These two reasons interact with and promote each other so that more industries can implement HPC and benefit from the resulting improvements. The higher education industry is a typical example. Statistics show that, among the world’s top 500 HPC clusters released in June 2017, 41 are from universities, with this proportion exceeding 8 percent. Why does the higher education industry benefit from HPC? Universities use HPC in relevant curriculums such as physics, chemistry, and biology. This is why HPC is developing so rapidly in the higher education industry. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a top world-class university, ranking twelfth in the QS World University Rankings. EPFL has a well-known reputation in engineering technology and natural science fields with students, professors, and staff from over 120 countries and regions. To maintain its industry-leading scientific research level, EPFL established the first HPC system to serve all students and teachers in 2008, and continuously improves its HPC system. To enhance future competitiveness, EPFL has planned to upgrade and expand its HPC system since 2016 because resources have become insufficient. EPFL had listed all requirements to be met, including HPC benchmark, HPL test, HPCG test, and various applications in science, engineering, biology, and medical care. All of these applications must continue running properly. In addition, there are many mandatory requirements, such as theoretical computing capability ≥ 475 TFLOPS, shared storage ≥ 340 TB, read/write bandwidth up to 40 Gbit/s, cabinets ≤ 8, and power consumption per cabinet ≤ 25 kW. The system must be open, easy to manage, and scalable. Partners should be forward-looking in technologies and able to offer sufficient support to EPFL to build a 5 PFLOPS HPC cluster in the next five years. Huawei repeatedly conducts detailed analysis with Transtec and devises a solution. The topology diagram is as follows: This solution uses the InfiniBand network, which adopts the layer-2 fat-tree networking technology. The storage system is composed of six OceanStor 5800 systems and a General Parallel File System (GPFS), with a capacity of 350 TB. Huawei selects a number of its advanced products and technologies for EPFL’s solution, which achieve remarkable results. For example, FusionServer X6800 high-density servers are used, increasing the single-cabinet computing capacity by 70 percent and decreasing the number of cabinets by 40 percent. If FusionServer X6800 servers are used, a 4U chassis is needed to accommodate 8 compute nodes and 16 CPUs. If ordinary 1U two-socket servers are used, an 8U chassis is needed. As a result, only 6 rather than 10 cabinets are required to accommodate 408 compute nodes. FusionServer X6800 adopts a heat dissipation design and Dynamic Energy Management Technology (DEMT), so its power consumption is 10 percent to 20 percent lower than that of a traditional rack server. Other features are not listed herein exhaustively. This solution is widely recognized and deployed, relying on high efficiency, performance, scalability, and easy management. In actual applications, the solution completely meets users’ requirements, and the measured computing power is 401 TFLOPS with the computing efficiency up to 84.4 percent. EPFL and Huawei announced that the Fidis HPC cluster, developed by EPFL SCITAS, was successfully rolled out in June 2017. Miss Vittoria Rezzonico, Executive Officer of EPFL SCITAS, spoke highly of Huawei in an interview: “Transtec has closely cooperated with Huawei to provide EPFL with a top-quality system, which meets our demands in the high-performance computing field. We are impressed with the excellent hardware solutions introduced by Huawei engineers and professional planning, installation, and configuration services from Transtec.” 0 readers (0 scores) Like the story? Give your score. Write your comment here. You have scored successfully. You have submitted successfully. Evaluation failed. Submission failed. Please write your comment first. FusionServer X6800 Data Center Server High-Performance Computing Solutions Selfnet e.V. 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__label__cc	0.680525	0.319475	Accountability, Affordable and Social Housing, Axminster, Crown Estates, Developers/ Development Crown Estates rented home? Beware – it could be sold from under you Be warned, Axminster. “Scores of complaints have been made about rented properties on royal land and tenants have faced more than 100 evictions, a Guardian investigation has found, prompting anger over how the Queen’s £14bn property portfolio is managed. The crown estate, which helps bankroll the Queen by giving the monarch 25% of its profits, has sought to evict 113 tenants in the past five years so they can sell their homes for profit. It comes after it has emerged on Tuesday that the taxpayer has footed a £2.4m bill to renovate Frogmore Cottage, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s official residence, according to royal accounts. While the royals have no direct oversight role in crown estate’s dealings, Prince William and Prince Charles have both spoken before about the importance of ensuring good quality housing is available for all. Figures obtained by the Guardian show that the crown estate has received more than 100 complaints about its residential properties in just two years, including grievances over rent hikes, leaks, delays in repairs and faulty electrical goods. … An investigation using data obtained through Freedom of Information laws reveals that: The crown estate has made £1.1bn selling off more than 700 residential and commercial properties since 2014, with one private firm subsequently hiking rent well above inflation. More than a quarter of a million pounds has been banked by the crown estate in housing benefit from just seven hard-up tenants. Four tenants have sued the crown estate for breach of contract, including one claim worth half a million pounds. … Prince Charles has also spoken out in the past in favour of affordable housing for low-paid workers. In 2003, he said in a speech that “the lack of affordable rural housing is one of the most important issues facing the countryside”. … The crown estate issued 113 “notices to quit” to residential tenants from 2014 to 2018, including 97 in rural properties, nine in Windsor and seven in central London. Other figures also reveal that the crown estate gained more than a quarter of a million pounds in housing benefit from just seven tenants. People renting in Camden, Runnymede and Windsor and Maidenhead have let property on royal land using housing benefit paid directly to the crown estate. Since 2014, £253,092 has been paid to the crown estate in housing benefit. The majority of the payments were for five tenants in Camden, north London. …” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/30/crown-estate-faces-tenants-anger-over-rent-hikes-evictions-and-repair-delays?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Accountability, Hugo Swire Another directorship for Swire … and an update on his business partner Lord Barker Perhaps not his finest hour: “From 12 April 2019, unpaid director of Fresh Voice and Vision Limited, which was set up to provide support to the leadership campaign of the Rt. Hon Dominic Raab MP. The campaign was launched on 10 June 2019. (Registered 12 June 2019)” https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/190617/swire_hugo.htm Oh, and in case anyone is wondering about the still dormant company he set up with his mate Sir Greg Barker (supposedly to focus on “renewable energy projects”: here is an update on what Lord Barker has been getting up to: https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2019/04/23/barker-19-04-23/content.html “Tory MP used taxpayer-funded stationery for 250 birthday party invites” “Andrew Rosindell has to repay £42.86 by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner after arguing invites were for ‘community event’…” https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-used-taxpayer-funded-17278331 Almost as bad as when Hugo Swire charged us all for a Mulberry i-pad cover – £395: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8108027.stm and £349 for a sat-nav: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5581638/MPs-expenses-25-most-ludicrous-claims.html Accountability, Developers/ Development Johnson wants to support developers – not buyers – with stamp duty changes Owl says: How much more support do developers need when, for example, Persimmon is making a profit of £77,000 on every house they build! Source: Times (pay wall) Accountability, Persimmon, Sleaze Persimmon hijacks Facebook customer complaints site, changes name, deletes negative posts Sorry this isn’t a good photo but the headline to this post says it all. Just posting proof of source to show Owl didn’t make it up! The Times: Theresa May exit interview Just one question: who appointed her? Shouldn’t they take the blame for poor selection techniques? After all, they had known her for many years in another senior role. Perhaps they should be reviewing their selection process ….. “Great, well thank you for coming in for your exit interview, Mrs May. I know you’ve got a few weeks left to work out your notice but I’m sure you’re winding down now and not planning to do anything major. Oh, you are? You’ve been meeting the president of Russia? Lovely, well, nice to catch up with old friends before moving on . . . And giving speeches on diabetes and housing and tourism and disability in the last week alone? Gosh. Could you have done some of that in the last three years while you were actually still in post? You do seem to have quite a lot still in your Google Calendar for the next three weeks, too. And accounts have noticed that you’re trying to spend, um, £27 billion, which is a nice idea but should probably be one for your replacement, don’t you think? I’m sure you can appreciate what it’s like to have a predecessor who leaves a great mess behind to sort out. Thank you for bringing back all of your IT equipment, although I notice that your laptop is a bit broken. The escape button seems to have been pressed rather a lot. Let’s start with some standard questions from HR. Why are you leaving your job? Oh come on now, don’t cry. It’s a bit late for tears, isn’t it? Let’s try to be a bit more positive. Um . . . who did you get on well with? Your husband, good. Anyone actually in the office? Right, I’m glad he was friendly but he is technically a cat, isn’t he? I was just looking back at your original application and you said at the time: “I’m Theresa May and I think I’m the best person to be prime minister.” With hindsight, do you think “only” would have been more accurate than “best”? What did you hope to do with the job? Well, Nick and Fiona aren’t here so you must have some idea? No? None at all. OK we’ll leave that bit blank. What did you least like about the job? Oh hang on, just slow down. Right, yes, yes, yes, OK, how are we spelling Francois? Shall we just say “every Tory MP” rather than listing them individually? Could you perhaps tell me about a complex task you completed successfully? Well there must have been something. No, I’m not sure reorganising your cookbooks counts. Maybe a target you had? OK, bringing down the number of people in Britain, that’s a good one. Although looking at the records the only significant flow of people were those leaving the government. OK, what about the biggest project you worked on? You say you thought you’d solved it but it didn’t work, so what did you do then? You tried it again and it didn’t work? Right and what then? You tried the same thing again, and that didn’t work? Oh dear. And then you were going to try it again before deciding, totally independently, that you were going to resign instead. Do you have any work to go to? After-dinner speaking? Right. Do you have a backup plan? What about Strictly? They always need someone to get knocked out early with Anton. And finally, any advice for your replacement? It’s not as easy as you made it look . . . Careful who your chancellor is, they’ll be your next-door neighbour . . . and salt is good for red wine stains. Right, thanks. Great. Good luck.” Source: The Times (pay wall) Accountability, East Devon Tories Tory party diversity: the queue in Exeter for Johnson/Hunt hustings A small selection: 3 “ladies”, 9 “gentlemen” … average age … 70? 75? Photo: Guardian Winnie the Pooh on Johnson, Hunt, Owl and Rabbits JOHNSON AND HUNT IN EXETER TODAY TO SPEAK (BUT NOT LISTEN TO) PARTY FAITHFUL From a correspondent commenting on Johnson and Hunt talking, but not lustening to, their sycophantic supporters in Exeter today: With thinking and listening seemingly in short supply within the corridors of power – these quotes from the Winnie the Pooh stories by A.A. Milne came to mind . . . . . “Owl,” said Rabbit shortly, “You and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest—and when I say thinking, I mean thinking—you and I must do it.” A.A. Milne Accountability, Ben Ingham, East Devon Alliance, East Devon Independent Group, EDDC, TiggerTories East Devon Alliance priorities 2019-20 … http://www.eastdevonalliance.com/eda-priorities-for-eddc-2019-20/? Over to you now Tiggers for yours – there have to be some differences or you would be working together – wouldn’t you? 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This is definitely not a defensive structure, since the width of the platform at its top, the location of the windows, and the layout of the interior itself is in no way suitable for military purposes. Tour of Azerbaijan will tell you about all versions of the origin of this structure. Perhaps the tower was built as part of the city’s fire safety system, or it was an observatory or a sacral structure. The last idea came when the researchers established that on the day of the winter equinox (December 22), the first rays of the rising sun fall precisely into the central window of the tower, and then, following a certain rhythm, they light up all the windows. Discovered this fact, scientist Abbas Islamov believed that the Maiden Tower was built by followers of the cult of the Sun. Most likely, it was before the advent of Islam on these lands, and therefore probably before the 12th century. Other researchers suggest that the structure was erected as a temple of fire, or Zoroastrian dahma (a special cult structure where the bodies of deceased people were left on the roof as food for the kites). You will not see this when you are in Uzbekistan. But both versions evoke heated arguments. The tower is built on a ledge of rock, on the shore, and represents a cylinder, tapering to the top, with an adjacent ledge. The walls of the tower are not smooth, but corrugated. Inside the tower there is a well carved into the thickness of the rock and leaving to a depth of 21 m. Despite the fact that the tower was not built as a protective structure, in the 12th and 13th centuries it was part of the Baku fortress. Subsequently, the lighthouse was located in this building. However, over time, the city grew not only in breadth, but also upwards, and by the middle of the 20th century the lights of the lighthouse began to lose themselves against the backdrop of the brilliant windows of the modern city. After that, the building is a museum, and in 2000 the tower was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The name of the tower is also intriguing. According to the official version, the reason for the presence of the «maiden» part in the title is due to the fact that nobody could capture the tower for all time during the assault. Hence, it has retained its inaccessibility and honor. But there are also much more romantic stories explaining the origin of the name. One of the stories tells of a Shah who fell in love with his daughter and dreamed of taking her as his wife. The horrified maiden, as a wedding gift, asked the father to build a tower, in the hope that while construction is in progress, the father will come to his senses. 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__label__cc	0.623546	0.376454	Home Philosophy Game Theory and Public Policy We find that a number of problematic cases in public policy can be traced to inefficient Nash equilibria with the games considered in strategic normal form. In this sense, we may say that noncooperative game theory is a powerful diagnostic tool for public policy. For now we reserve judgment as to whether it may also be helpful in prescription. Nash equilibrium models have proved a powerful tool of problem identification for public policy. While the Prisoner’s Dilemma has commanded the central position in this perspective, a wide variety of other Nash equilibrium models may result in inefficient equilibria in the absence of some public action. In conflict situations, and some others, it may be rational for agents to be unpredictable, and to randomize their strategies; but in other circumstances, coordination and anticoordination games, randomization may be something to be avoided, and avoiding it may require some information not within the game itself. The Nash equilibrium in pure strategies has a property of consistent beliefs that helps to explain how a Nash equilibrium, once established, can be persistent even when other Nash equilibria may be more efficient. Extensions of these models, with large numbers of players, trial-and-error adaptive learning in place of ideal rationality, and lack of symmetry among players, may seem more “realistic” than the simpler Nash equilibrium models. Where there are two or more Nash equilibria, refinements may eliminate some as less plausible. Pareto-dominance, evolutionary stability, and resistance to disruption by coalitional shifts of strategy provide criteria for refinement in particular cases. 1. For a case study see McCain et al. (2011). 2. I am indebted to my colleague Richard Hamilton for discussions that contributed to this example. Academic library - free online college e textbooks - info{at}ebrary.net - © 2014 - 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line687
__label__wiki	0.66298	0.66298	Updated: 10/21/2016 10:55 AM \| First Published: 10/21/2016 10:55 AM Avengers director Joss Whedon brings yet another political satire titles Joss Whedon, the founder of Save the Day, a political action committee has launched his latest short movie titled 'Weatherman'. The short movie is another political satire which reveals a faux weather report in which a forecaster predicts what might happen should Donald Trump wins the election. The movie stars Keegan-Michael Peele in the lead role. In the movie, the actor delivers a standout performance as he delivers a weather report full of civil unrest and nuclear bombs. Keegan plays the role of a weather reporter who is predicting the consequences that America shall face if Donald Trump wins the election. The actor predicts that Trump's initial days in the office are likely to bring a wave of denial. The denial is likely to trap a high blood pressure front right in the middle of the country. Coming towards the South Coast, the forecaster says, “Down south, that’s going to put civil unrest back to the mid-1960”. The forecast only gets worse from there as it takes a dark turn. The forecaster reports about a potential nuclear winter which is likely to accelerate the climate change and “rise in both temperature and existential misery”. We are 48 days away from the 2016 election. Are you ready to Save The Day? #SaveTheDayVote A photo posted by Save The Day Vote (@savethedayvote) on Sep 21, 2016 at 12:58am PDT The remainder of the short movie explains in details about how much Canada will befit from Trump's victory over Clinton and the how the Wall Street will become a “Suckhole” which will sink all 50 states in the country. The director, who remains supportive of another candidate Hilary Clinton, never mentions her name in his videos. The omission of Hilary Clinton's name in his movies indicates whom he is certain to vote for. Also in the video, it becomes clear whom he is likely to vote when he yells at a morning host show, “you voted for Jill Stein, you thoughtless ass! Now suck it up like the rest of us”. His statement is matched by the ominous cloud that appears on the United States background in his background. Internally Screaming WEATHER starring @keeganmic now on #savethedayvote Facebook, Twitter and website. A video posted by Save The Day Vote (@savethedayvote) on Oct 17, 2016 at 5:43pm PDT Director Joss and his alliances Save the Day have had a huge impact on the national elections as they helped register more than 40000 new voters across the country. Besides engaging in the political matters, Whedon is best known for his 2 previous 'Avengers' movies.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line688
__label__cc	0.599272	0.400728	In vitro Morphogenesis of Cosmos atrosanguineus This post will serve to socialize with the entire academic community of the STEEM ecosystem, different biotechnological techniques used in plant production, in the search for increased crop yields. In this contribution we will address everything related to the in vitro cultivation of Cosmos atrosanguineus (ASTERACEAE). The production systems used in modern agriculture are the result of multidisciplinary approaches, which, in addition to considering traditional agronomic management techniques, incorporate biotechnological tools in the search for mass production in the field, and thus guarantee the growing demand for food for the world's overpopulation [1]. Within biotechnological tools, in vitro cultivation is a plant propagation technique, where clones can be obtained from plants that do not propagate naturally (sexual seed), or that are very difficult to propagate by other means of multiplication (cuttings, grafting, layering, among others). This dynamic and innovative biotechnological scenario makes it possible to obtain large quantities of seedlings from plant segments commonly called explants, with the capacity to regenerate a complete plant that is genetically identical (clone) to the plant that originated it [2]. However, considering that the in vitro culture technique represents a practical application of plant cloning and multiplication, the objective of this post is to socialize an experimental trial of in vitro propagation of specimens of Cosmos atrosanguineus (Asteraceae) . Growth phytohormones The success of any in vitro culture depends on the incorporation of growth hormones as a method to induce vegetative multiplication, because phytohormones are chemical substances produced by tissues in a natural way, which have one or more highly specific effects at an organographic level, such as growth, development and metabolic activities [3]: To this group of chemical substances, they are known as growth phytohormones, and the collective name assigned is auxin, word that comes from the Latin Auxin or to grow, also they are usually called Indolacetic Acid or AIA, these phytohormones initially were isolated of vegetable tissues, nevertheless, at the present time they are synthesized in specialized laboratories, on the other hand, it is important to mention that the auxins participate in multiple answers of the plants, among which, the phototropic action in the formation of roots, is the mechanism most used in the vegetable biotechnology [3]. Among the main functions of the auxins, the following are mentioned; apical dominance, increase stem growth, promote cell division in vascular cambium and differentiation of secondary xylem, stimulate the formation of adventitious roots, stimulate fruit development (parthenocarpic sometimes), favor phototropism, promote cell division, promote flowering in some species, promote ethylene synthesis (influence in fruit ripening processes), favor fruit setting and ripening and inhibit fruit fall. These vegetal phytohormones, are characterized by their specificity to stimulate the cellular division in non meristematic tissues, initially they were called quinines, however, due to the inner use of the name for a group of compound for the animal physiology, the term cytokinin (cytokinesis or cellular division) was adopted, of this phytohormone the most used substance in the vegetal biotechnology is the Benzil amino purine (BAP) . Cytokinins are produced in growth areas such as meristems, that is, in the tips of the roots and stems, on the other hand, the highest concentrations of cytokinins are found in embryos and young developing fruits. The main effect of the phytohormones gibberellins is to stimulate the longitudinal growth of the stem, so probably dwarfism is a disorder that prevents the formation of gibberellins, hence, the application of these substances to dwarf plants corrects this defect, likewise, it has been raised that gibberellins also stimulate premature flowering, in addition to acting on the formation of parthenocarpic fruits, interrupting the dormancy of certain tubers and some seeds [4] . In vitro morphogenesis Within plant biotechnology, in vitro morphogenesis is nothing more than the cultivation of plant segments in controlled artificial environments, whose fundamental characteristics are determined by the use of culture media rich in inorganic salts, organic compounds and vitamins. Fig. 2 Cosmos atrosanguineus seedlings, growing in test tubes - MS and 0.5 mg.L-1 ANA. Author: @lupafilotaxia. A culture medium is the formulation of inorganic salts and organic compounds required for the nutrition and handling of crops. Within the numerous formulations, each one can be made up of up to 40 compounds. According to [3], vitamins are organic compounds necessary for the normal metabolism of certain living organisms, resembling the enzymes or hormones that the organism needs in really minimal quantities for its normal growth and development, however, as far as plant biotechnology is concerned, the vitamins used in culture media are recorded; B-complex group or water-soluble, which are: Thiamine (B1): essential organic compound of the coenzymes that catalyze the oxidation of pyruvic acid in the respiratory cycle, which is why, without this vitamin, living cells cannot perform their vital functions. Riboflavin (B2): vitamin necessary for the elongation of the roots, and biological action in the apical dominance. Niacin (B12): this organic compound plays an important role in cellular respiration, being part of coenzymes I and II, which are hydrogen-carrying groups in the respiratory phase of dehydrogenation. Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C): intervenes in the oxidation systems of the cell and establishes favorable oxidation-reduction potentials, it also reduces oxidized tannins in vitro or on the surface of freshly cut fruits. Histological fragments Explants Explants are histological fragments of diverse nature, they can be portions of tissue, loose cells, protoplasts, spores, pollen grains or seeds, hence, the type of explant to be used in in vitro culture processes depends on the species being manipulated, and the objectives pursued [2] . However, from the biological point of view, explants are meristematic apical and axillary genetically stable portions, used in plant biotechnology to produce multiple clones with special characteristics that are desired to maintain in the crop, however, there are genetically unstable explants, within these, those obtained from adventitious buds, basically this type of segments produce a high degree of variability in the clones, an element not so useful for the production of seedlings with a certain crop characteristic . Biotechnological testing With the purpose of socializing some techniques used in plant biotechnology, I will share with all of you an experimental procedure on in vitro culture, in specimens of Cosmos atrosanguineus (Asteraceae) commonly known as Chocolate Flower, the trial was developed in the laboratory of Agricultural Botany of the UNEUSR, university institution located in Santa Barbara de Zulia - Venezuela. In order to be able to induce rooting in vitro in Cosmos atrosanguineus seedlings, C. atrosanguineus shoots were multiplied in Murashige and Skoog salts used experimentally as culture media [6], the composition used was; sucrose 30 g.L-1, 2 mg.L-1 of BAP, 7 g.L-1 of powdered Agar adjusted the medium to pH 5.8. After the formation of C. atrosanguineus sprouts at a height of 1 cm, the rooting phase was initiated. For this purpose, each vegetative material was placed in the culture media considered (T1: DM and 0.5 mg.L-1 of ANA., T2: DM in 0.5 mg.L-1 of AIB., and T3: DM in 1 mg.L-1 of AIB) and on a shelf with neon light, photoperiod of 16 light hours and controlled temperature at 28 °C. Finally, and in order to determine the effectiveness of the in vitro culture media subject to evaluation, the number of leaves, number and length of roots, height of seedlings, rooted and non-rooted material, and contaminated seedlings were counted. Experimental unit For the purpose of this study, the experimental unit was represented by 15 vegetative shoots of Cosmos atrosanguineus,distributed in 3 treatments, designed to compare the in vitro behavior in C. atrosanguineus seedlings, submitted to culture media and whose composition of ANA and AIB phytohormones oscillated between 0.5 and 1 mg.L-1. Materials and reagents used Vegetative shoots of Cosmos atrosanguineus Laminar flow chamber Shaking plate Phytohormones / Vitamins / Agar powder Biotechnological results Rooted and non-rooted vegetative material As for rooting, T1 presented the highest number of rooted seedlings compared to the other treatments, registering 5 rooted plants, while T2 obtained 2, and T3 registered 3 rooted seedlings. Fig. 3 On the left, rooted seedlings of Cosmos atrosanguineus, on the right unrooted material. Author: @lupafilotaxia. Number and length of roots In relation to the number and length of roots, a similar behavior was obtained to that registered in the initial phase with the variable number of leaves, that is to say, the formation of roots was similar between the treatments, this indicates, that the growth of roots in Cosmos atrosanguineus seedlings, responds indifferently to the application or not of the regulators ANA and AIB. Number of sheets In the three culture media considered, 1 to 3 initial leaves were recorded during the rooting phase under in vitro conditions, however, after 14 days the number of leaves emitted showed differences between treatments, with T1 expressing the highest values (6 leaves), compared to T3 which presented the lowest number of leaves emitted (4 leaves), a response that is probably associated with a higher concentration of AIB. Seedling height Dissimilar behavior to the first two records, was obtained in the variable height of Cosmos atrosanguineus seedlings, showing T1 the best response (4 cm), compared to T2 and T3 that recorded average values around 2.5 cm in height. Fig. 4 On the left, Cosmos atrosanguineus seedlings in T1 test tubes, on the right seedlings in T3 test tubes. Author: @lupafilotaxia. Contaminated seedlings With respect to Cosmos atrosanguineus seedlings, dead due to contamination, the T2 and T3 treatments showed a greater number of shoots and means with this condition, an aspect that is probably related to an inadequate handling of vegetative shoots at the time of selection, or in its absence, to biosecurity problems in the Agricultural Botany laboratory. Fig. 5 Contaminated Cosmos atrosanguineus seedlings. Author: @lupafilotaxia. The information socialized in this post, incorporates conceptual and technical elements to the Steem platform, related to plant biotechnology, among these; key aspects on the method of plant propagation by in vitro culture, in addition to the mechanism of action presented by the growth phytohormones, the importance of culture media and morphogenesis in vitro, the function of histological fragments specifically of apical explants, without ignoring, the scientific contribution of the results obtained in the biotechnological test, when determining the viability of the Murashige and Skoog culture media for the effective multiplication of Cosmos atrosanguineus shoots, in addition to the high percentage of in vitro rooting, obtained when applying auxinic regulators based on ANA at low concentration (0.5 mg.L-1). As in previous manuscripts, the audiovisual exhibition and narration of implicit content in the manuscript, increases the botanical resources for its socialization in multimedia formats. [1] Calva G., y Pérez J. Cultivo de células y tejidos vegetales: Fuente de alimentos para el futuro. Revista Digital Universitaria. 2005;6:11. Article: Online access [2] Roca W., y Mroginski L. Cultivo de tejido en la agricultura: fundamentos y Aplicaciones. Cali, Colombia. CIAT. 1991;45-63. Article: Online access [3] Curtis B., y Schenek M. El crecimiento y desarrollo en las plantas: Mensajeros internos: las hormonas vegetales. Biología 7ma Edición. Editorial Panamericana. 2007. Article: Online access [4] Fuentes J. Botánica Agrícola. Capítulo VIII crecimiento y desarrollo de los vegetales superiores. 5ta edición. Ediciones Mundiprensa. Madrid-España. 1998;95-100. Article: Online access [5] Concepción O., Nápoles L., Pérez A., Peralta N., y Trujillo R. Regeneración de brotes adventicios en hojas de guayaba (Psidium guajava L.) cultivadas in vitro. Revista Colombiana de Biotecnología. 2004;6;2:54-61. Article: Online access ATTENTION / Readers and Followers If you want to read more scientific articles of excellent academic quality, do not waste time, and visit the label #steemSTEM, is a large community that values and promotes scientific content, mainly in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Dear reader, if you wish to obtain more information about it, join our server in Discord ✔ The POST ⌨ ✍ ✉ was uploaded using the official app of https://www.steemstem.io ✔ The videos and photos are the property of the author @lupafilotaxia, and were taken with a digital camera Model Samsung HD 5X Touch Screen. ✔ All the designs of images and graphic figures were made by the author @lupafilotaxia, through the Office Power Point 2017 program. 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__label__wiki	0.650554	0.650554	As a business leader, or employer of any type in North Carolina, you’re facing new challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. EDPNC is here to help you navigate these unique economic challenges in the days ahead. Business Relief Resources Latest NC COVID-19 Information Immediate Job Openings Why NC Automotive, Truck & Heavy Machinery Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals Sites & Locations Available Sites & Data Megasites Certified Sites Program Start a New Business Grow an Existing Business Get Export Assistance NC Business Relief Resources – COVID-19 Expand & Grow World Trade Month: Restating Our Commitment to NC Exporters For decades, government agencies and trade-support organizations across the U.S. have celebrated World Trade Month in May. But May 2020 is like no other, as the world just begins a long road to recovery from the unprecedented health and economic impacts of a global pandemic, including forecasts for declines in global trade. During this month and the challenging times ahead, the trade specialists at the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) are stressing a single message to businesses: We’re committed to helping you restore or grow international sales as an important piece of your recovery. “What worries me is that over the next year many in North Carolina may feel the need to shut the door on international opportunities because ‘that’s where COVID came from,’ ” says John Loyack, EDPNC vice president of global business services. “But now is the time to stay engaged internationally. The businesses that will come out of this situation in the strongest position will have used this time to strengthen their international sales relationships. This is also an opportunity to rethink and strengthen your supply chain. We have the resources to help.” Who Turns to Us Last year, the EDPNC trade team supported more than 600 businesses on the state’s behalf, with services that are largely free. Those businesses were part of a much larger community of exporters who made 2019 ― before COVID-19’s impact on global economies ― the state’s best year ever in the value of exported goods. North Carolina exported $34.35 billion in merchandise, a nearly 5% increase over the high-water mark of $32.76 billion reached in 2018. EDPNC’s exporting clients are primarily small manufacturers of 500 or fewer employees that lack the international sales staff of big corporations. They turn to the EDPNC for export education and preparation, as well as connections to international distributors and buyers. Powerful Ally: Trade Offices Around the World The EDPNC international trade team includes five Raleigh-based managers ― each specializing in specific industry sectors ranging from aerospace to pharmaceuticals ― and six trade offices located in Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, China (Hong Kong), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). One year ago, the EDPNC added the state’s first Singapore-based representative to help businesses sell in the Southeast Asia market including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand. “Our global offices can match businesses with prospective international distributors, resellers and buyers,” says Mike Hubbard, EDPNC director of international trade. “They can also be very helpful in terms of vetting new overseas suppliers for a company.” The EDPNC is eager to help manufacturers seek alternative international sources for product components if their supply chain has been broken by COVID-19 plant closures. “We’re also strongly encouraging businesses to search for a North Carolina-based supplier listed on the Manufactured in North Carolina website or find other domestic suppliers through industry-specific resources such as the Americas Apparel Producers’ Network and its Source Center,” Hubbard says. In 2019, 212 North Carolina companies participated in 34 international trade events with the EDPNC. Since COVID-19 caused many 2020 trade shows to cancel or postpone, the EDPNC has pivoted toward helping businesses build their export sales pipeline through localizing their websites in targeted international markets, online export education, and virtual consultations with EDPNC global trade offices. Trade Show and Website Support In 2019, 212 North Carolina companies participated in 34 international trade shows and missions with the EDPNC. But in 2020, COVID-19 slashed international business travel and canceled trade events around the world. So, the EDPNC’s trade specialists have pivoted toward helping businesses build their export sales pipeline through search-engine optimizing of their websites in international markets, online export education, and virtual consultations with EDPNC global trade offices. When international business travel and events safely resume, the EDPNC will again lead groups of North Carolina small businesses to trade shows. And it will help many businesses afford the costs of participating. State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) grants, funded through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and administered locally by the EDPNC, help qualified companies to exhibit jointly with the EDPNC or individually at select trade shows. STEP can also reimburse costs of travel, lodging, and foreign-language translation of marketing materials. In addition, STEP supports the EDPNC’s new North Carolina Online Global Program, which helps small businesses pay for search engine optimization and translation of their websites in two target countries. As a response to COVID-19’s blow to trade show travel, STEP recently doubled the grant amount available to small businesses that want to globalize their websites. Contact the EDPNC to apply for the $6,000 grant and connect to a company qualified to do the website work. “Localized websites are always key to raising brand awareness and generating sales leads overseas, but more so now when COVID-19 has forced companies to stop international travel and trade shows to cancel,” Loyack says. “When your sales team can’t be there in person, an easily found and understood website in your target market is even more crucial.” Other Critical Trade Support Directly or through referral to one of its partners, the EDPNC provides new and experienced exporters other support including: • Workshops that teach employees how to comply with U.S. export control laws and understand the latest in trade topics. • Connections to financial risk-mitigation programs of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the SBA and other trade-financing organizations. • Navigation of government restrictions and complex trade regulations and policies. • Information about product standards for entering specific foreign markets and existing competitors there. • Recommendations on potential markets for specific products or services. • Market-entry strategies and intelligence in export-destination countries. Businesses interested in learning more about how the EDPNC can help them grow their global presence should contact Mike Hubbard, EDPNC international trade director, at mike.hubbard@edpnc.com or call 919-447-7757. Download our 2019 Trade Report for more information about our services and how to reach our industry-specific trade specialists. Sites & Data About EDPNC Visit North Carolina NC Department of Commerce Wells Fargo Capitol Center	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line690
__label__wiki	0.749832	0.749832	aXiomatic Promotes Mark Vela to Chief Strategy Officer Pictured: Mark Vela. Credit: aXiomatic Video game and esports investment platform and Team Liquid parent company aXiomatic Gaming has appointed Mark Vela to the role of chief strategy officer, overseeing investments the company has made in the video game and esports sector over the last several years. In his new role, Vela will focus on managing the company’s biggest investments in the space including Team Liquid, Epic Games, Nifty Games, VENN, PandaScore, and others. Prior to this promotion, Vela served as the company’s vice president of strategy, taking point on the company’s investments into Fortnite maker Epic Games, Pokémon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite developer Niantic Inc., and many other game-related investments. Vela has served in various roles at companies in the video game industry including Activision and Google Play Games, and served as a board member at mobile sports game developer Nifty Games and PandaScore (which aXiomatic has investments in). Vela has also worked at Proctor & Gamble and global consultancy firm Bain & Company. Tags: axiomaticChief Strategy OfficerEpic GamesinvestmentsMark VelaNianticNifty GamesNorth AmericaPandascorePromotionsTeam LiquidVENN	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line697
__label__cc	0.548756	0.451244	New York Subliners, Metro by T-Mobile Team Up for Black Ops Cold War Hotline Credit: Andbox/Activision Blizzard To celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on Thursday, Call of Duty League team the New York Subliners (NYSL) has partnered with Metro by T-Mobile for the “Subliners Cold War Hotline presented by Metro by T-Mobile,” a telephone hotline that pays tribute to the popular video game hotlines of the 80’s and 90’s where gamers could call to get advice on how to beat a particular video game. Fans can call (205) 433-9449 to leave a message seeking whatever advice they need related to Cold War. After a “few days,” NYSL players James “Clayster” Eubanks, Thomas “ZooMaa” Paparatto, Makenzie “Mack” Kelley, and Paco “HyDra” Rusiewiez will sift through the messages and create a video with advice and guidance. The hotline is free to call (no charges per minute like in the old days), save charges related to callers’ own phone plans. A video announcing the particulars was released today: Wish you could learn to play just like the pros? Introducing the Subliners #ColdWar Hotline presented by@MetroByTMobile Call now and leave a voicemail so you can get real advice from @ZooMaa @MackMelts @Clayster and @HyDrAnml. Offer wont last long. Call (205)433-9449 today. pic.twitter.com/FzDFp4AVyH — NYSL (@Subliners) November 13, 2020 The hotline activation is the latest collaboration with T-Mobile, who signed an expansion of an existing partnership with Andbox in July to include the Metro brand. NYSL is owned and operated by Andox, which also owns and operates New York-based Overwatch League team, New York Excelsior. Note: Andbox Advisory Board Chairman David Levy will take part in the panel, “Media Veteran Weighs-In on Esports Investment and Plans Going Forward,” at Esports Rising on Nov. 19. For tickets and to learn more about this annual event dedicated to the business of esports from Sports Business Journal and The Esports Observer, visit this link. Tags: ActivationsAndboxCall of Duty Black Ops Cold WarMetro by T-MobileNew York SublinersNorth Americat-mobile KitKat joins the growing list of brand partners returning to the LEC for the 2021 season. The new campaign will...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line698
__label__cc	0.606448	0.393552	25 - 42 out of 42 results Chemical composition of different sources of petrol Nic Daeid, N. (Creator) & Mat-Desa, W. N. S. (Creator), University of Dundee, 7 Feb 2019 DOI: 10.15132/10000146 Positron annihilation studies of Zn-doped CdTe (Applied Physics Letters L16-01848R) Keeble, D. (Creator), Kanda, G. (Creator) & Rabeh Mohamed Abdellatif, M. (Creator), University of Dundee, 2 Jun 2016 Cervical vertebrae measurements Kaeswaren, Y. (Creator) & Hackman, L. (Creator), University of Dundee, 30 Jan 2020 Chemical composition of different medium petroleum distillates (MPD) The Referendum Stories Dataset Carvalho, E. (Creator) & Winters, K. (Creator), The Qualitative Election Study of Britain, 1 Jul 2016 https://wintersresearch.wordpress.com/ and 2 more links, http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/yes-and-no-voters-more-alike-than-they-might-think-claims-study-1.855595, http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-courier-advertiser-dundee-edition/20150327/282132109942206/TextView (show fewer) Models of Antenatal Care: a pilot study to explore a new quality care framework Symon, A. (Creator), University of Dundee, 2018 Visual programming for structural assessment of out-of-plane mechanisms in historic masonry structures Funari, M. F. (Creator), Spadea, S. (Creator), Lonetti, P. (Contributor), Fabbrocino, F. (Contributor) & Luciano, R. (Contributor), University of Dundee, May 2020 DOI: 10.15132/10000153, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glm6xp-S3I4&t=68s Figures in support of 27.5 W/m2 collection efficiency solar laser using a diffuse scattering cooling liquid Smyth, C. (Creator), University of Dundee, 2018 DOI: 10.15132/10000133, https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/upcoming_pdf.cfm?id=323328 Combined GWAS of metaformin glycaemic reponse in 1372 GoDARTS patients Zhou, K. (Creator), Pearson, E. (Contributor) & Palmer, C. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 7 Oct 2016 DOI: 10.15132/10000119, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ega/datasets/EGAD00001002277 High resolution imaging reveals heterogeneity in chromatin states between cells that is not inherited through cell division. Owen-Hughes, T. (Creator), Dickerson, D. (Creator), Gierlinski, M. (Contributor), Singh, V. (Contributor), Kitamura, E. (Contributor), Ball, G. (Contributor) & Tanaka, T. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 2016 DOI: 10.17867/10000102, http://idr-demo.openmicroscopy.org/webclient/?show=project-151 The Qualitative Election Study of Britain 2017 Carvalho, E. (Creator), Winters, K. (Creator) & Oliver, T. (Creator), University of Dundee, Dec 2017 http://qesb.info Edible Plant Database Woods, M. (Creator), Cobley, A. (Creator), Verrall, S. R. (Creator), Neilson, R. (Creator), van der Velden, N. (Creator), Hager, G. (Creator) & GROW Consortium (Creator), University of Dundee, May 2020 DOI: 10.15132/10000157, http://www.growobservatory.org Social Printers study data (2016 Scottish Election and EU Referendum debates) Gorkovenko, K. (Creator) & Taylor, N. (Supervisor), University of Dundee, 2016 Coordination Controlled Electrodeposition and Patterning of Layers of Palladium/Copper Nanoparticles on Top of a Self-Assembled Monolayer (dataset) She, Z. (Creator), Yao, Z. (Creator), Menard, H. (Creator), Tobish, S. (Creator), Lahaye, D. (Creator), Champness, N. R. (Creator) & Buck, M. (Creator), University of St Andrews, 2019 DOI: 10.17630/9d2592bc-bdac-49b2-bc7b-f456957304ab Field data on the performance on bumblebee colonies (Bombus terrestris) in Scotland in 2014, exposed to imidacloprid and/or chlorpyrifos. Connolly, C. (Creator), University of Dundee, 28 Apr 2016 Field data on the performance on bumblebee colonies (Bombus terrestris) in Scotland in 2015, exposed to imidacloprid, thiamethoxam or clothiandin Audience and Expert Perspectives on Second Screens (Transcripts of Co-Design Workshop and Expert Interviews) Gorkovenko, K. (Creator) & Taylor, N. (Supervisor), University of Dundee, 5 Mar 2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line704
__label__wiki	0.82824	0.82824	Solar power tariff decline supported by structural factors: Ind-Ra The decline in tariffs is being driven by a lower capital cost per megawatt of around Rs 4 crore per megawatt because of advancement in panel designs, enabling a higher capacity utilisation factor (CUF) Mumbai (Maharashtra): Continuous decline in solar power tariffs since the start of the current financial year (FY 2020-21) has been driven by a mix of structural and state-specific factors with the former likely to sustain over medium-term, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has said. The tariffs declined to Rs 2.36 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in June and July, and Rs 2 in November. In the latest bidding as well, while the winning bids are at Rs 2 per kilowatt hour (kWh), the highest bid was at Rs 2.43 per kilowatt hour (kWh) which is lower than the earlier tariffs. The decline in tariffs is being driven by a lower capital cost per megawatt of around Rs 4 crore per megawatt because of advancement in panel designs, enabling a higher capacity utilisation factor (CUF). Besides, there has been a reduction in panel costs globally while financing costs have lowered. Ind-Ra estimates that a lower funding cost to foreign and domestic developers has resulted in a tariff decline of 10 to 15 paise per kWh. Additionally, few state-specific factors impacting the tariffs in the latest round include an exemption of Rs 2 crore per megawatt of cess that the state government of Rajasthan levies on project development. This could translate to savings of 10 to 12 paise per kWh as the offtake is for Rajasthan Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd and exemption from safeguard duty on panel imports. Given that the plant will be set up in Rajasthan with proven solar potential, the average CUF is expected to be higher at over 25 per cent. The bidders in the latest rounds are also banking on the exemption from paying inter-state transmission system charges for the projects commissioned before June 2023, said Ind-Ra. (ANI) higher capacity utilisation factor solar power tariffs panel designs panel costs latest bidding continuous decline	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line708
__label__wiki	0.933333	0.933333	May 14, 2020 Updated 12:08 GMT Homepage : News : Reformist Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah heard from inside prison for first time Reformist Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah heard from inside prison for first time Awdah was arrested in 2017 as part of a sweeping crackdown on dissent [Twitter] Date of publication: 14 May, 2020 Jailed Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah spoke with his mother and daughter from inside a Saudi prison, his relatives have confirmed. Saudi Arabic, cleric, prison, detained, reformist, Qatar. A recording of prominent Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah has been heard from inside Saudi prison for the first time since his arrest. The detained cleric spoke on the phone to his mother and daughter Ghada, a video shared by the Prisoners of Conscious Twitter account shows. "I'm doing well, praise be to God," Awdah tells his family in the phone call in which they discuss Ramadan under coronavirus lockdown. Awdah's mother and daughter ask after his health and well being, to which he replies: "Yes I'm fine, don't worry about me. How are you?" The scholar's insistence on small talk could be due to his phone call being monitored by the prison authorities. The call's authenticity was confirmed to The New Arab's Arabic language-service by close family members. This is the first recording of the reformist sheikh since September 2017, when he and 20 others, including writers and journalists, were arrested as part of a crackdown on dissent in the ultra-conservative kingdom. Both Awdah's family and Saudi media have previously said the jailed cleric faces the death penalty, but the charge sheet has not yet been made public. According to Awdah's US-based son Abdullah Al-Awdah, the cleric has been subject to "treatment internationally classified as torture", including sleep deprivation, lack of healthcare and arduous interrogations. Human rights groups have said the trial is a political reprisal against Awdah, a leading figure in a 1990s Islamist movement associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. He has written hundreds of articles on Islamic law while at the same time embracing modernity and democracy. Awdah's case attracted international attention in 2018 when Saudi Arabia's Public Prosecution levelled 37 charges against him, including "not praying enough to the ruler" and receiving text messages that "stirred discord in the region". Read more: Saudi police drag stranded Egyptian who threatened 'repatriation riots' amid coronavirus pandemic According to Amnesty, Awdah was arrested a few hours after posting a tweet calling for "harmony between people" which Saudi authorities interpreted as a call for reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Riyadh and several allies cut off all diplomatic and economic ties with Doha in June 2017, accusing it of links to Islamist extremists, a charge Qatar has categorically denied. The cleric's family have said Saudi authorities had demanded that Awdah and other prominent figures publicly back the kingdom in the dispute, but he refused. Agencies contributed to this report. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram to stay connected	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line711
__label__wiki	0.845521	0.845521	Arabic Version Alsiasi Magazine Alsiasi News in Photos Saudi Arabia continues $20bn tourism project despite crisis Vivian Nereim • Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with a $20 billion tourism and culture project in its capital despite the kingdom’s fiscal crisis, counting on a rebound in pent-up consumer spending when the global pandemic abates. Officials have allocated funds for the mega-project in Riyadh, called “Diriyah Gate,” and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told planners to move “full speed ahead, no slowdown,” according to Jerry Inzerillo, chief executive officer of the project’s development authority. Several parts of the project are in construction and the first phase should be completed by the end of 2023, he said. “We don’t know the economic impact of COVID over a 12-, 24- or 36-month period,” Inzerillo said in an interview this week. “But I can tell you one thing I know from his majesty and the crown prince: It will not affect the planning of the principal city of Riyadh.” The world’s largest oil exporter is facing a double crisis after spiking coronavirus cases and energy market turmoil saddled the government with a budget deficit that could rise to around 15% of gross domestic product this year. Officials have nearly doubled their borrowing plans and implemented a series of austerity measures, including raising a value-added tax from 5% to 15%. Even some of the programs under Prince Mohammed’s plan to diversify away from oil are facing spending cuts. But the government is still investing heavily in other elements of the prince’s plan, called “Vision 2030.” Officials recently announced a $4 billion tourism development fund and are moving ahead with several mega-projects. The chief executive of Qiddiya, an entertainment city planned near Riyadh, recently told Abu Dhabi newspaper The National that his project is sticking to its original schedule and will see a “rapid escalation” in construction contracts awarded this year. Similar efforts in the past have struggled to get off the ground, such as a $10 billion financial district in the capital. Diriyah Gate plans to turn the ancestral home of the royal family into a sprawling tourism, culture and entertainment destination, with 20 hotels, 12 museums and a golf course built around a UNESCO world heritage site. The project is a high priority for King Salman, a local history buff, and Prince Mohammed, his son, who is the kingdom’s de facto ruler. The money to build it will come from the government as well as Saudi, Gulf and foreign investors, but if they hesitate in the current climate, the state could front funds to get it done faster, Inzerillo said. Excavation is underway for major infrastructure and the first hotel. The public-private investment split is in flux now, with some foreign hospitality companies that committed before the pandemic saying they “need until the fall to ascertain what the fallout in the global tourism picture is” before deciding their equity level, Inzerillo said. But there’s also been more interest from Saudi investors, with “major Saudi entrepreneurs, royal family and non-royal family” stepping up, he said. In pushing ahead with the original plan, Saudi officials are betting that consumer spending on tourism and leisure will surge as people emerge from their homes. Their target is for Diriyah Gate to house 100,000 residents and attract 25 million visitors per year by 2030, including Saudis and foreign tourists. “I’m more optimistic than I was 18 months ago,” Inzerillo said. “Travel is going to boom again, you know why? Because people don’t want to feel pinned in.” Israel: A model for the far right Thousands protest in US cities against India citizenship law What ‘relief’ for the poor should really look like Black Lives Matter and lessons from Palestine Elon Musk breaks record for most satellites in space Can Trump resolve the Egypt-Ethiopia Nile dam dispute? Trump’s Middle East plan may have a silver lining If (only) Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim Talking racism in the UK Liberal feminism has failed women ‘We Have To Think Globally Not Locally’ Coronavirus: Dubai-based luxury yacht builder sees rising interest from buyers Italy jails suspected al-Qaeda militant for terror activity in Syria, Iraq Egypt foreign ministry says agreed with Qatar on resuming diplomatic relations Iran telecom minister released on bail after refusal to block Instagram: Report Coronavirus: Israel includes pregnant women on COVID-19 vaccines priority list	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line712
__label__wiki	0.737018	0.737018	Extra Stuff New York Rangers: Ryan McDonagh And Kevin Shattenkirk Named Top 20 Defensemen Frank Curto NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 09: Ryan McDonagh #27 of the New York Rangers celebrates his goal against the Pittsburgh Penguins during their game at Madison Square Garden on April 9, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) The NHL Network recently named their current top 20 defensemen, with two New York Rangers making the list. As the NHL Network continues their month of lists, they announced their Top 20 Defensemen Right Now and New York Rangers Captain Ryan McDonagh (17) and Kevin Shattenkirk (15) both made the countdown. It appears as though the league is noticing the improvement of the team’s defense, as both McDonagh and Shattenkirk are expected to be the Rangers top pair this season. After signing Shattenkirk, Brendan Smith and a bevy of young talents, the Rangers defense has been seen as one of the most improved over the offseason. This top 20 list is another way of showing this improvement from last season. The list is loaded with high-quality defensemen from all around the NHL. Have at it, hockey fans! #NHLTopPlayers pic.twitter.com/6qTmpyRmzj — NHL Network (@NHLNetwork) August 29, 2017 CLICK HERE FOR ESNY's RANGERS TEAM CENTER	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line716
__label__cc	0.573759	0.426241	LAM KID [News in the therapy of gout] BODNÁR Nóra LAM KID - 2014;4(01) HUNGARIAN 2014;4(01) [„HOPE for people with fracture”: Results of the HOPE (Hungarian Osteoporosis Project for Elderly) study] SPEER Gábor, NÁDAS Katalin, FERENCZ VIKTÓRIA, MÉSZÁROS SZILVIA, HORVÁTH CSABA, BORS Katalin [We conducted a multicentre, prospective, single cross-sectional, 12-month, open-label study for the assessment of treatment satisfaction using TSQM (Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication) for zoledronic acid therapy used in patients with osteoporosis, who suffered minor traumatic fractures. PATIENTS AND METHODS - In total 1736 patients from 94 centers completed the study and filled in the TSQM questionnaire at both visit 1 and visit 2. TSQM is suitable for measuring the patient’s satisfaction with a treatment, by evaluating side-effects, efficacy and convenience of the treatment and the patient’s overall satisfaction rated on a scale of 0 to 100. RESULTS - Patients included in the study previously received a mean of 1.58 other therapies for osteoporosis and their case history included a mean of 1.24 fractures. This real-life study demonstrated that even one year of zoledronate treatment significantly (p<0.0001) improved the satisfaction of patients regarding efficacy (a mean change from a score of 56.15 to 70.89) as well as the occurrence of side-effects on a TSQM score. Regarding the convenience of treatment, the mean score increased from 62.96 to 79.34 (p<0.0001), whereas the overall treatment satisfaction changed from 59.3 to 75.48 by visit 2 (p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS - Our study demonstrated beneficial TSQM results associated with zoledronic acid treatment, which is a basic requirement for appropriate adherence as well. ] HUN 2014;4(01) [Does the vitamin K2 play a role in the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis? - a systematic review] SZILI Balázs, TAKÁCS István [The physiological role of vitamin K in blood clotting and bone metabolism is well known. A number of articles have been published recently about the effects of vitamin K2 on bone. Non-professional media promotes vitamin K2 as a potent tool for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Nevertheless vitamin K2 is not included in either Hungarian, or European, or American guidelines as an anti-osteoporotic medication. Our aim was to review the literature and provide a systematic review on the role of vitamin K2 in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. We have searched articles on http://pubmed.org available on 14. February 2014. Our search terms were: („vitamin K2” OR „menaquinon” OR „MK-7” OR „menantrenon”) AND „osteoporosis”. We have only reviewed original articles that discussed the relationship of vitamin K2 and osteoporosis, and had at least the abstract available in English. Of the 155 articles found, 135 had a relevant topic, 126 had at least the abstract in English. Of these, 73 were original articles, including 44 human studies (8 double-blind, controlled, 26 open-label, controlled, 5 observational and 5 cross-sectional studies) and 29 animal or in vitro models. In the non-Asian population there is no evidence for fracture-preventing or BMD-increasing effect of vitamin K2 treatment. The currently recommended anti-osteoporotic medications are significantly more efficient compared with the BMD increase observed in some Asian studies. ] [The EFEZUS study: Estimation oF the Effectiveness of Zoledronic acid in Use in Steroid-induced osteoporosis in real life] KISS Csaba György, SURMANN Ágnes, DRESCHER Edit [The Hungarian EFEZUS study (Estimation oF the Effectiveness of Zoledronic acid in Use in Steroid-induced osteoporosis in real life) was a multicentre, prospective, non-interventional, open-label, one-year-long study, in which we assessed the effect of zoledronic acid on bone mineral density and on the markers of bone turnover in osteoporosis developing after treatment with glucocorticoids. The mean baseline lumbar BMD was 0.762 g/cm2 and by the end of 12 month it increased to 0.818 g/cm2 (p<0.0001). The mean BMD measured at the femoral neck during visit 1 was 0.675 g/cm2, and it increased to 0.711 g/cm2 by visit 2 (end of study) (p<0.0005). The levels of bone turnover markers (cTX, nTX) significantly decreased between visits 1 and 2 (p<0.05). The mean cTX level at visit 1 was 421.2 ng/l (SD: 309 ng/l), which decreased to 253.3 ng/l (SD: 188.1 ng/l) by visit 2. The mean change in the levels of nTX was 0.65 µg/l (SD: 0.36 µg/l) and 0.39 µg/l (SD: 0.28 µg/l), respectively. There was no major change in serum and urine calcium levels. Five adverse events were reported by 4 patients during the study. ] [Pre and perinatal diagnostics in the mirror of molecular genetics] HORVÁTH Örs Péter, KÓSA János Pál [Recomendation for medical checkup and therapy of renal stone disease] TISLÉR András, MÁTYUS János [About the care of patients with hyperuricaemia and gout] [This consensus document is intended to provide guidance for the effective and efficient treatment of asymptomatic individuals with high uric acid levels and gout patients.] HUN 2020;24(02 klsz) The etiology and age-related properties of patients with delirium in coronary intensive care unit and its effects on inhospital and follow up prognosis ALTAY Servet, GÜRDOGAN Muhammet, KAYA Caglar, KARDAS Fatih, ZEYBEY Utku, CAKIR Burcu, EBIK Mustafa, DEMIR Melik Delirium is a syndrome frequently encountered in intensive care and associated with a poor prognosis. Intensive care delirium is mostly based on general and palliative intensive care data in the literature. In this study, we aimed to investigate the incidence of delirium in coronary intensive care unit (CICU), related factors, its relationship with inhospital and follow up prognosis, incidence of age-related delirium and its effect on outcomes. This study was conducted with patients hospitalized in CICU of a tertiary university hospital between 01 August 2017 and 01 August 2018. Files of all patients were examined in details, and demographic, clinic and laboratory parameters were recorded. Patients confirmed with psychiatry consultation were included in the groups of patients who developed delirium. Patients were divided into groups with and without delirium developed, and baseline features, inhospital and follow up prognoses were investigated. In addition, patients were divided into four groups as <65 years old, 65-75 yo, 75-84 yo and> 85 yo, and the incidence of delirium, related factors and prognoses were compared among these groups. A total of 1108 patients (mean age: 64.4 ± 13.9 years; 66% men) who were followed in the intensive care unit with variable indications were included in the study. Of all patients 11.1% developed delirium in the CICU. Patients who developed delirium were older, comorbidities were more frequent, and these patients showed increased inflammation findings, and significant increase in inhospital mortality compared to those who did not develop delirium (p<0.05). At median 9-month follow up period, rehospitalization, reinfarction, cognitive dysfunction, initiation of psychiatric therapy and mortality were significantly higher in the delirium group (p<0.05). When patients who developed delirium were divided into four groups by age and analyzed, incidence of delirium and mortality rate in delirium group were significantly increased by age (p<0.05). Development of delirium in coronary intensive care unit is associated with increased inhospital and follow up morbidity and mortality. Delirium is more commonly seen in geriatric patients and those with comorbidity, and is associated with a poorer prognosis. High-risk patients should be more carefully monitored for the risk of delirium. ENG 2020;73(05-06) A rare entity of acquired idiopathic generalised anhidrosis which has been successfully treated with pulse steroid therapy: Does the histopathology predict the treatment response? ÖKTEM Özdemir Ece, ÇANKAYA Şeyda, UYKUR Burak Abdullah, ERDEN Simsek Nazan, YULUG Burak Acquired idiopathic generalised anhidrosis is an uncommon sweating disorder characterized by loss of sweating in the absence of any neurologic, metabolic or sweat gland abnormalities. Although some possible immunological and structural mechanisms have been proposed for this rare entity, the definitive pathophysiology is still unclear. Despite some successfully treated cases with systemic corticosteroid application, the dose and route of steroid application are controversial. Here, we present a 41-year-old man with lack of generalised sweating who has been successfully treated with high dose pulse intravenous prednisolone. We have discussed his clinical and histopathological findings as well as the treatment options in view of the current literature. Evaluation of the effectiveness of transforaminal epidural steroid injection in far lateral lumbar disc herniations EVRAN Sevket, KATAR Salim Far lateral lumbar disc herniations (FLDH) consist approximately 0.7-12% of all lumbar disc herniations. Compared to the more common central and paramedian lumbar disc herniations, they cause more severe and persistent radicular pain due to direct compression of the nerve root and dorsal root ganglion. In patients who do not respond to conservative treatments such as medical treatment and physical therapy, and have not developed neurological deficits, it is difficult to decide on surgical treatment because of the nerve root damage and spinal instability risk due to disruption of facet joint integrity. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) on the improvement of both pain control and functional capacity in patients with FLDH. A total of 37 patients who had radicular pain caused by far lateral disc herniation which is visible in their lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, had no neurological deficit and did not respond to conservative treatment, were included the study. TFESI was applied to patients by preganglionic approach. Pre-treatment Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) scores of the patients were compared with the 3rd week, 3rd month and 6th month scores after the procedure. The mean initial VAS score was 8.63 ± 0.55, while it was 3.84 ± 1.66, 5.09 ± 0.85, 4.56 ± 1.66 at the 3rd week, 3rd month and 6th month controls, respectively. This decrease in the VAS score was found statistically significant (p = 0.001). ODI score with baseline mean value of 52.38 ± 6.84 was found to be 18.56 ± 4.95 at the 3rd week, 37.41 ± 14.1 at the 3rd month and 34.88 ± 14.33 at the 6th month. This downtrend of patient’s ODI scores was found statistically significant (p = 0.001). This study has demonstrated that TFESI is an effective method for gaining increased functional capacity and pain control in the treatment of patients who are not suitable for surgical treatment with radicular complaints due to far lateral lumbar disc hernia. ENG 2021;74(1-2) Effects of valproate, carbamazepine and levetiracetam on Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc ratio YASAR Altun, ERDOGAN Yasar Aim - To evaluate P-wave dispersion before and after antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment as well as to investigate the risk of ventricular repolarization using the Tpeak-Tend (Tp-e) interval and Tp-e/QT ratio in patients with epileptic disorder. Methods - A total of 63 patients receiving AED therapy and 35 healthy adults were included. ECG recordings were obtained before and 3 months after anti-epileptic treatment among patients with epilepsy. For both groups, Tp-e and Tp-e/QT ratio were measured using a 12-lead ECG device. Results - Tp-e interval, Tpe/QT and Tp-e/QTc ratios were found to be higher in the patient group than in the control group (p<0.05, for all), while QTmax ratio was significantly lower in the patient group. After 3 months of AED therapy, significant increases in QT max, QTc max, QTcd, Tp-e, Tp-e/QT, and Tp-e/QTc were found among the patients (p<0.05). When the arrhythmic effects of the drugs before and after treatment were compared, especially in the valproic acid group, there were significant increases in Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc values after three months of treatment (p<0.05). Carbamazepine and levetiracetam groups were not statistically significant in terms of pre- and post-treatment values. Conclusions - It was concluded that an arrhythmogenic environment may be associated with the disease, and patients who received AED monotherapy may need to be followed up more closely for arrhythmia.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line717
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Contact ES 1 800 838 3838 Menu  Free Consultation Grupo MedLegal® > What US states issue ID’s for undocumented immigrants?   May 2018  What US states issue ID’s for undocumented immigrants? There are several cities in the US that grant municipal identification cards to residents, including people who have no legal immigration status and are undocumented. The names of the cards and the cities issuing them are the following: ELM CITY RESIDENT CARD (NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT) The card was originally designed to protect the approximately 10,000 to 15,000 undocumented immigrants in New Haven from robberies or assaults. All city residents can receive the card, and it serves as a form of identification, as a debit card with $ 150 capacity, as card for the library, and to pay for parking meters. The Elm City Resident Card was first issued in July 2007 and was the first municipal identification cards issued in the United States. Learn more about this card! IDNYC – NEW YORK Photo identification card for New York residents who are at least 14 years old. This card connects the inhabitants with services, programs and benefits, regardless of their immigration status, state of indigence or gender identity. Veterans can also apply for the IDNYC card with special veteran status granting them exclusive benefits. Learn more about the IDNYC. Click here! The IDNYC can be requested online or be processed personally. More information! AB 60 Driver’s License – LOS ANGELES (CALIFORNIA) The AB 60 Act (Chapter 524, Statutes of 2013) allows an original driver’s license to be issued to an applicant who can not present satisfactory proof of legal residence in the United States, and this serves as identification in the country. Applicants for the license must meet all other requirements to obtain it, such as proof of identity and residency in California, among others. These are the requirements! 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__label__cc	0.538722	0.461278	Grief Retreats: A Safe Space to Heal Loved onesPetsSciencewelcome kitGet Started Remarkable Resources Stay up to date with The Good Life Letter Words by: Michelle Breyer Illustration by: At the age of 30, Glenn Lord was a hard-charging executive, climbing the corporate ladder with the goal of running a Fortune 500 company. Then his son, Noah, died from complications during a tonsillectomy, and everything changed. “After he died, I lost interest in all the things I thought were important,” Lord recalls of the 1999 death of his son. Lord wanted to find a way to help the bereaved, and left the corporate world behind. He started the Grief Toolbox, a website where people can find all the grief resources they need. Through the grief network, he met Linda Findley, the founder of The Bereavement Cruise and partnered with her to expand the business. The week-long Bereavement Cruises are held in conference centers on Royal Caribbean ships. The first three cruises averaged 70 people. He’s expecting 125 participants for each of 2020’s planned cruises. Permission to Grieve “I wanted to have experts who can explain the normal stages of grief,” says Lord. “I wanted to create a place where people are given permission to feel joy and happiness as they grieve, realizing there is life to be lived.” Grief is a strong, often overwhelming emotion. Mourning can last for months or years. Grief is both a universal and a very personal experience, influenced by our relationships with the people we’ve lost. It’s an unavoidable part of life that people experience it in different ways. Grief retreats and workshops provide a safe space where people can gain tools to cope with their pain. At a time when there is a tendency for people to isolate themselves, grief retreats provide a place to connect with others who understand what they’re going through – a place to encourage, support and inspire each other. The formats and locations vary - ranging from one-day workshops to Caribbean cruises. While some focus on specific groups – parents who have lost a child, widows, children who lost a loved one – others encourage a mix of participants, including people grieving the loss of divorce or losing a job. Some retreats are run by nonprofit organizations and are free of charge, while others are more luxurious, with price tags topping $2,000. Each has a different mix of activities, whether it be yoga, meditation or drama therapy. Grief retreats recently were spotlighted on Netflix’s hit, “Dead to Me” – a show that explores the complexities of the grief process. Judy and Jen, the show’s two main characters, meet at the fictional Friends of Heaven Grief Retreat in Palm Springs. While the show puts a satirical spin on grief retreats – a margarita-fueled weekend that mixed group therapy, “Carry On-Oke” and a lot of flirting – the benefits of grief retreats are very real. Fighting the Stigma of Grief Often in our culture, we put a value on being strong and muscling through the pain. One of their most important values is to provide a place where you are given permission to feel all the emotions of loss in an authentic way. “A lot of people ‘should’ on us – tell us what we should do and how we should feel,” Lord says. “We should be able to define what is right or wrong for us. It’s not about other people’s timeline. It’s about finding purpose and meaning.” When yoga instructor Wendy Black Stern and her husband lost their 9-month-old son, Noah, in 2008, they were devastated. “(Our friends and family) wanted us to move on and feel better,” says Black Stern. “But loss doesn’t just go away. We saw how taboo and stigmatized grief is in our culture.” Through yoga therapy, a strong network of friends and family, and the birth of their two daughters (now 6 and 10), she was able to heal. She wanted to use her own experience to create a positive way to help others, creating the Boulder, Colorado-based Grief Support Network. While the signature offering is yoga therapy – grief, she says, lives in the cells of the body – the 6-week and 9-month programs also integrate meditation, group sharing and journaling. Black Stern will be hosting a Grief Wellness Retreat Sept. 10-15th in Maui, Hawaii where people will have the chance to step away from everyday life in a beautiful, stress-free setting to give them time to “go in deep and do their work so they can heal.” A Catalyst for Personal Growth “Our beliefs is that grief can be a powerful catalyst for personal growth and change,” says Black Stern. “There’s a beautiful transformational aspect of loss.” Ty Alexander-Williams, founder of Destination Heal, was a successful beauty editor and blogger when her mother was diagnosed with lymphoma in July 2012. She passed away barely a year later at the age of 56. The experience of spending time with her dying mother changed the way she viewed death and grief. “Grief is the final act of love for me,” she says. “It’s the price you pay for loving someone. I had this great love and relationship with her mother and I’m grateful. That’s what I preach.” In 2016 she wrote “Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day.” She received an outpouring of support and advice on her Facebook page, and wanted to find a way to take the conversations happening online, offline. In 2017, Destination Heal was born, creating a place for Black women to share their wellness journeys. It includes a Facebook Group, local events and annual #SelfCareIRLRetreats. A Place to Unpack “When we’re grieving, we don’t want to be a burden to people and you may not be able to see beyond that moment or circumstance,” says Ty Alexander-William, owner of Destination Heal. “Destination Heal is a healthy place where you have permission to unload your worries, your trauma and your grief. There is no judgment. This helps you shift your focus and go through your day in a more positive, intentional way.” At her most recent 5-day retreat in May, 27 women gathered at a resort in the Mexican city of Cancún for five nights of affirmation, meditation and therapy as well as plenty of time to forge friendships. The women are given assignments to work on during the retreat. “Sometimes we suffer in silence because we don’t have a place to unpack,” says Alexander-Williams. “You’re a mom with kids, you have a job and wear a thousand hats. The retreat gives women space to open their suitcase and unpack everything. Then, go on and live.” “Some people need hand holding through that trauma, and we provide a brave space with other women who are like them. Knowing that you’re not alone can be the biggest hurdle to get over.” “I’ve seen unbelievable healing.” Brave Heart Work Shops, which recently held its seventh weekend retreat, uses drama therapy to help people dealing with the loss. Drama therapy is an experiential, theatrical approach, where participants use role playing and storytelling to help address their grief. “When things are painful, like the death of a loved one, we tend to push it away as far as we can,” says Jill Reynolds, owner of Brave Heart Workshops. “Our workshops allow people to come into a circle and play different parts. You’re actually reliving it in a powerful way, which gives you the opportunity to embrace the grief. I’ve seen unbelievable healing.” There are plenty of resources to research the retreat that best suits your needs, ranging from local grief support groups to online searches. Look for the retreat or workshop that offers activities that resonate with you, and research the teachers involved. You will also want to read the reviews and testimonials. Here is a sampling: Retreats for Individuals 1. Breathing Beyond Grief™. Breathing BEYOND Grief™ - held in locations from California and North Carolina – are 3-day retreats that use writing and communication techniques along with transformational Breath® . It is designed to give you the tools necessary to move beyond the pain of loss. There are homework assignments each night and during lunch. 2. Kripalu. Located at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the famed Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health offers a variety of weekend retreats for those grieving, including Grief Shifting, Grief Loss & Renewal and The Six Stages of Grief. The Six Stages of Grief is a weekend retreat led by David Kessler, a well-known expert on healing and loss. It is designed to help people move beyond the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Kessler believes finding meaning can transform loss and help bring about a more peaceful, hopeful experience that honors those who have died. This program includes optional session with Grief Yoga teacher Paul Denniston, who guides simple movements to help release grief that gets stuck in the body. Come learn how to remember your loved one with more love than pain, and bring about a more meaningful new year. 3. Destination Heal. Destination Heal is a social wellness community designed to help cultivate life-shifting healing experiences through workshops, retreats and social platforms. #SelfCareIRLretreats range from full-day workshops to 5-day, 4-nights self-care destination retreats. They include conversations about gratitude and forgiveness as well as group meditation and affirmation exchanges. 4. The Star Foundation Retreats. A STAR Retreat is a10-day intensive healing retreat held at the historic Rancho De La Osa located in Sasabe, Arizona. The retreats are designed to provide a supportive environment to heal losses, be they long ago and still unresolved or current. The goal is to help participants begin to understand that what you are feeling is a natural way of finding acceptance and healing. The STAR Retreat uses a balanced approach to heal the whole person. Although it occurs in a group context, participants find their experience to be highly individualized. 5. The Bereavement Cruise. The 5-day Bereavement Cruise is led by Linda Findlay and Glenn Lord, providing a healing opportunity for those that have experienced loss. Participants will have the opportunity to participate as much or as little as they want as well as take advantage of the amenities of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Workshops, activities like Reiki and yoga and mini rituals take place on the days when the ship is out at sea, providing an opportunity for guests to better understand their grief journey, receive compassionate support and enhance their coping skills. Small group sessions are available during the entire cruise. For those who want to participate, there is a “Burial Out to Sea” Ceremony where loved one’s ashes can be dispersed. 6. Bare Feet Grief Retreats. Held in Samara, Costa Rica, Bare Feet offers grief retreats and workshops that integrates nature therapy (including talking to trees and bee vaping), biofeedback and meditation. The retreats also provide tools for clients to take home with them to better handle the stress. Bare Feet Retreats also offer time for excursions around Costa Rica, enjoying the beaches and body work. 7. Grief Support Networks. Founded in 2012, The Grief Support Network (GSN) is a community–based, non-profit organization that offers a positive perspective on the process of healing from grief and loss at any phase of the process. GSN’s goal is to connect individuals and families through our yoga therapy programs, peer support program, grief rituals, retreats and individual referrals, we create meaningful relationships that help personalize the experience of grief. In September, GSN will host its first annual Awakening Through Grief Wellness Retreat – a 6-day, 5-night retreat at the Wailea Inn on Maui, Hawaii. This retreat is an opportunity to practice radical self-care, exploring the relationship between mental, emotional, physical and spiritual bodies where your grief may serve as a catalyst for personal growth and transformation. 8. Sacred Journey Gatherings. Sacred Journey Gatherings are the centerpiece program of The Grief Project, which offers services to people who have lost a spouse. Held quarterly for four hours on Saturdays, they offer opportunities for reflection, renewal and connection with other widowed people. The workshops include time for a speaker as well as an art project, time to socialize and workshops on topics including financial management, home repairs and how to support children on their own grief journey. Many Sacred Journey participants have connected and formed lasting friendships outside of the group. Grief Retreats For Couples And Families 1. Respite Retreat. Led by David and Nancy Guthrie, who lost two of their three children, Respite is a weekend for married couples to spend unhurried time with other couples who understand the devastation of losing a child. The weekend retreats take place twice a year and are located in Henrietta, Tennessee. The focus is on finding meaning and purpose in the loss of a child and grieving together with other couples that have also lost a child. 2. Golden Willow Retreats. Golden Willow Retreats is a 5-acre residential sanctuary located at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, nestled in the small village of Arroyo Hondo, 8 miles north of Taos, New Mexico. Golden Willow offers personalized therapeutic retreats for individuals or families who wish to address their unique grief issues and circumstances. The program can last from three days to two weeks. Participants call Golden Willow Retreat to set specific goals and therapists and counselors work with them toward healing and recovery. 3. Camp Sol. Camp Sol is a non-profit organization that provides support for families that have lost a child. The services are for families that have children under the age of 18 at home and they host several events throughout the year. All the services are free for families. The Family Retreat Weekend, held twice a year at Camp John Marc in Meridian, Texas, encourages families to connect with other grieving families as well as heal through their shared experiences. The retreat also provides support groups and specific programming for children, parents and the family, and traditional camp activities to facilitate family bonding. At the conclusion of the weekend, a remembrance ceremony is held and gives families the opportunity to grieve for and remember their child. Parents have stated that coming to Camp Sol is like coming to a healing family reunion. 4. Faith's Lodge. Faith’s Lodge provides support for parents and families that are facing the death or have suffered the death of a child. Located in Northwester Wisconsin, the site offers weekend stays for parents and families that are going through a similar experience At Faith’s Lodge, families and parents can reserve a weekend to connect with one another and other families that have experienced a similar loss. There are Bereaved Parents weekends, children’s activities and group therapeutic projects that are designed to help parents and families reflect on their loss and build hope for the future. The lodge was started by Mark and Susan Lacek who lost their daughter Faith at birth. “It is our desire that by providing this special facility we can help other families through their darkest hours,” say the Laceks. “We do this in honor of Faith, so her name and memory will live on.” 5. Sunrise Grief Retreats. Sunrise Grief Retreats are for individuals looking to understand their grief and gain tools to heal. The society has a spring and a fall retreat and the retreats are held in British Columbia. Each retreat accepts 4-8 and individuals who will then attend group sessions as well as individual sessions. The program use such tools as guided meditation, yoga and expressive therapy to help people recognize their grief, talk about it and learn to heal. The Sunrise Grief Retreat provides you with the opportunity to encourage and inspire others that have experienced loss with the idea that you as well will be encouraged and inspired by the stories of others attending. For more information visit Sunrise Grief Retreat. Grief Retreats For Children 1. Comfort Zone Camp. The Comfort Zone Camp is the nation’s largest bereavement camp for children that have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or guardian. The non-profit camp, for children from age five to 25, are held year round in Virginia, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey. At Comfort Zone Camp, campers have the opportunity to engage in typical camp activities such as arts and crafts, sports, hiking and campfires. Throughout the weekend, campers are also given the opportunity to share their loss either in Healing circles or in age-based support groups. The focus of the camp is to not only help build self-esteem but learn coping skills to manage their grief in day to day life. 2. Camp Erin. Camp Erin is for children ages 6-17 that have lost a significant person in their lives. The camp is free of charge for families and is a weekend camp that is funded by the Moyer Foundation. The camp is offered in cities around the United States and Canada. Camp Erin combines traditional, fun camp activities with grief education and emotional support, free of charge for all families. Led by grief professionals and trained volunteers, Camp Erin provides a unique opportunity for children increase levels of hope, enhance self-esteem and be around other children experiencing what they are. 3. Experience Camps. Experience Camps are week-long camps for children who have lost a parent, a sibling or a guardian or caregiver. Campers have the opportunity to meet and connect with kids who are coping with similar challenges, while getting all of the benefits of the traditional summer camp experience like water sports, hiking and arts and crafts. Under the guidance of professional bereavement staff, campers have the opportunity to share stories and remember the one who died, while exploring skills that will help them after camp. With locations in Georgia, New York, California and Maine, the camp staff are licensed social workers, doctors, college athletes and others that have a passion for helping children that have lost a family member. There is no cost to the camper. A Place To Feel Normal Lord of The Bereavement Cruise recalls a conversation with a client that perfectly summed up the benefits of Grief Retreats. “At the end of the conference, she said it was the first time she felt normal since before her child died,” he says. “That is what it’s all about. It’s that ability to feel normal, and to realize you’re still alive, and you have a life to live.” free info pack Our information pack contains an Eterneva brochure, process FAQ, and guide to diamond pricing. Our team is also here to help with anything & everything. Written by Michelle Breyer. Michelle is the co-founder of NaturallyCurly, a community and resource for people with curly hair. 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__label__cc	0.647492	0.352508	Damier Graphite Giant Damier Graphite Giant LV² Collection LV² Collection Monogram Eclipse Reverse Monogram Eclipse Reverse A collection of iconic symbols with universal power, the Monogram adds talismanic quality to a jewellery collection, creating scintillating pieces as captivating as the stars. Symbolizing Fortune, the first motif is the four-point star. Stars and flowers with four petals are notably seen in Egyptian art of the IV century. A fortunate apparition, the star shines through the dark… a fixed point in the universe guiding us to our destiny. The second motif is a four-petal flower symbolizing Joy. The flower sits inside a perfect circle, signifying protection and the absolute. Used in medieval architecture of the XI and XIV centuries, like a sun, the four-petal flower exudes a luminous aura of joy. The final motif is the four-point star inside a diamond, symbolizing Passion. Like the ‘mon’ of Japanese XI century tradition - an emblem that identified lineage - it is a symbol of union. The star inside the diamond is the ultimate symbol of passionate love. View the entire Monogram Jewellery collection here Monogram Jewellery Photography LOUIS VUITTON MAISON BEIJING The world's 22nd Louis Vuitton Maison officially opens in the Beijing China World Mall on February 5, 2015 This opening is nother proud creative addition to China following the opening of Louis Vuitton Maison Shanghai in 2012. Since its entry into the Chinese market in 1992 by taking the foothold of Beijing, Louis Vuitton’s presence in China has lasted for over 20 years. Today, Beijing finally sees Louis Vuitton Maison settling down in the city reflecting Beijing’s unique symbolic significance for Louis Vuitton. Louis Vuitton Maison Beijing is designed by renowned architect Peter Marino, in order to bring customers a new, elegant travel experience. Here in this new flagship store Louis Vuitton will display the harmony between art and travel, inviting Chinese travelers to initiate a journey into the House’s heritage, technical finesse and creativity. Stores Event Beijing China world MASK SMALL LEATHER GOODS A collection of small leather goods inspired by Gaston-Louis Vuitton’s personal African mask collection As exoticism became fashionable in the 1930s, Gaston-Louis had a taste for collecting and art objects, and was as infatuated with African art as the artists and aesthetes of his time. Music like jazz, ethnic instruments, and African masks brought a refreshing influence into the works of European painters, sculptors, and composers. Gaston-Louis was sensitive to these currents of expression. He collected representative items, which he asked friends to bring back from their travels. These latest designs of small leather goods in fresh and dynamic colors, revisits this source of inspiration. View the full collection here. Small Leather Goods Gaston Louis Vuitton Photography GUEST INTERVIEWS AT THE MEN FALL 2015 SHOW Reactions and comments made by guests during Louis Vuitton Men Fall 2015 show. For his 8th collection for Louis Vuitton, Kim Jones, Men’s artistic director, unveiled a thrilling collection tailored for travellers across the globe. Discover live reactions from some of the most renowned guests at the show. Fashion show Kim Jones Ready to Wear Interview MEN FALL 2015 SHOW VIDEO – SHORT VERSION A short edit of the Louis Vuitton Men Fall 2015 Show. Taking place in the glass structure of the Parc André Citroën, the Louis Vuitton Men Fall 2015 collection continues to embrace the notions of craftsmanship and creativity in the field of fashion. For his 8th collection, Kim Jones celebrates the life of designer and artist Christopher Nemeth. “I think Christopher Nemeth is the most important designer to come out of London alongside Vivienne Westwood” says Kim Jones, the Men’s Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton. “He is Savile Row, he is the street, he is the club… his designs define London. He trained as a fine artist and came into fashion from being an illustrator, and that chimes with how I started. I can see the influence of his work in so many collections, and yet it is not often acknowledged and still seems unknown to many. That’s why, as we approach the fifth anniversary of his death, I wanted to openly celebrate Christopher Nemeth’s life and work this season at Louis Vuitton.” Kim Jones Ready to Wear Fashion Show Video Christopher Nemeth	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line727
__label__wiki	0.711389	0.711389	BEST EUROPEAN RIVER CRUISES Dutch-Belgian Waterways Russia waterways March 2021 Port St. Louis Take a memorable cruise adventure from Port St. Louis on Rhone in March 2021. Port St. Louis River Cruise March 2021 Find the best European river cruise from Port St. Louis in March 2021. A river's fascination lies on its banks-in its scenery and nature, and the cities and cultures of the lands through which it flows. A European river cruise from Port St. Louis in March 2021 will give you a unique opportunity to tour iconic cities with rich history and culture along some of the most beautiful regions of unparalleled beauty. Easily find and compare river cruises from Port St. Louis in March 2021. Find your next March 2021 river cruise from Port St. Louis Avalon, Rhone from Port St. Louis, March 30, 2021 Cruise Ship: Poetry II; Duration: 8-day; Ports of Call: Port St. Louis, Arles, Avignon, Viviers, Tournon, Lyon, St. Jean de Losne, St. Jean de Losne; Cruise Ship: Poetry II & Expression; Duration: 15-day; Ports of Call: Port St. Louis, Arles, Avignon, Viviers, Tournon, Lyon, St. Jean de Losne, St. Jean de Losne, Breisach, Strasbourg, Mainz, Rudesheim, Cologne, Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Sitamap © 2021 Top European River Cruises.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line728
__label__wiki	0.531067	0.531067	Pyrenees, territory of memories Coordination activity EUROM proposes a cross-border cultural project to boost memory as a mechanism of social, cultural and territorial inclusion in the Pyrenees; The first activity will gather a group of institutions and organizations currently working in the field of memories and the management of the past on both sides of the Pyrenees to design strategies for the promotion of sustainable economic development, citizen participation and the revaluation of memorial heritage in specific geographical areas of the border. Geographical accidents have not prevented a number of historical episodes to present a continuity and simultaneity between the different national realities on both sides of the Pyrenees. Thus from several geographical points distributed across the territory emerge collective memories able to forge common, rich and diverse identities. Between 1936 and 1945 two events marked the recent history of Spain and France, the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. The traces of both episodes have scattered a footprint across the border territory in the form of oral and documentary memory, as well as a rich set of memory places whose preservation should be considered as an important pedagogical tool for democratic development and the maintenance of citizen coexistence. The existence of numerous patrimonial elements of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War impels the existence of memorial narratives at a cross-border level such as the Republican and other exiles, the evaded from World War II, the resistance and the Maquis, and the defensive heritage (Line P). The memories of these common episodes push towards this joint strategy as an umbrella for the promotion and the consolidation of further initiatives from the partners of the project. This first meeting will include the participation of representatives of the Peace Museum of Gernika, University of Zaragoza, Memory and Coexistence Department of the Government of Navarre, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Bunkers’ Parc of Martinet and Montellà, National Archives of Andorra, Forest Technology Center of Catalonia and the City Council of Sort. Parc dels Búnquers de Martinet With Anna López Prison-museum El Camí de la Llibertat (Sort) With Josep Calvet, historian and curator of the museum Monument to the Ambushed of the Civil War (Solsona) Francoism Pyrinees Related Partners Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika Ajuntament de Martinet Ajuntament de Sort Arxiu Comarcal del Pallars Sobirà Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line729
__label__wiki	0.633013	0.633013	PM Johnson Taken to ICU \| 91 comments (91 topical, editorial, 0 hidden) Re: Doctors Do or Die (none / 1) Fauci says the government is considering giving out COVID-19 'immunity cards' as part of push to reopen [sic] the economy "I mean, it's one of those things that we talk about when we want to make sure that we know who the vulnerable people are and not," he said. "This is something that's being discussed. I think it might actually have some merit, under certain circumstances." trusted expert, "America's Mayor Doctor" offers precision guidance While existing coronavirus tests tell people whether they have the virus or not, an antibody test shows if someone has previously had the virus and recovered, which could mean [?!] they're immune [no]. Deploying them would be a part of the next phase of the government's plan to reopen the economy. "Within a period of a week or so, we're going to have a rather large number of tests that are available," Fauci said Friday. "authoritarian" transmogrification Apple and Google are currently partnering [with WHO?] for a contact-tracing program that will use Bluetooth data from people's smartphones to gauge [sic] whether they have come in contact with someone exposed [!] to coronavirus. by Cat on Sat Apr 11th, 2020 at 09:04:49 PM EST PM Johnson Taken to ICU \| 91 comments (91 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line730
__label__wiki	0.620259	0.620259	Affiliants Issues related to construction of the North-South transport corridor road section were discussed Arkady Khachatryan: The country faces a rather severe economic crisis, caused both by the coronavirus and the post-war situation The factor of subjectivity will be excluded in the work of the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition In Armenia, the process of installing and refueling gas cylinders in cars will be licensed New mechanisms of control over the public procurement process to be created in Armenia Banks bonds Tuesday, May 24 2016 14:40 Naira Badalian Union of Fish Producers and Exporters: Armenian Ministry of Agriculture contributes to monopolization of fish breeding sector ArmInfo. The fish farms are raising alarm - the fish breeding sector in Armenia is endangered, while the Ministry of Agriculture is disseminating misinformation, thereby contributing to monopolization of the fish breeding sector, Artur Atoyan, Head of the Union of Armenian Fish Producers and Exporters, and fish breeder Haykaz Zeynalyan told reporters on May 24. Atoyan said that 3 fish farms were closed over the past 5 days. "In 2014-2015, a total of 77 companies closed down, including 30 in Jan-May 2016," Atoyan said. At the moment, there are nearly 70-80 fish farms in Armenia, but their future is also endangered. "The slumping exports of Armenian fish products due to the growth in the fish prime cost and, consequently, unprofitability of exports and failure to attract investments endanger the fish breeding sector in Armenia", Atoyan said. He added that amid 70% reduction in exports of Armenian fish products and 60% reduction in imports of fish food, as well as consistent closure of fish farms, the Ministry of Agriculture announces that the exports have grown. "The Ministry of Agriculture is disseminating misinformation, because these statements have nothing to do with the reality," said Atoyan, stressing that this way the ministry contributes to monopolization of the sector. Atoyan said that the Union of Armenian Fish Producers and Exporters has repeatedly sent written requests to the authorized structures, however, it has received no reply. "We have sent 18 letters to the Ministry of Agriculture, but we received no reply. When we apply to them orally, they say our requests are groundless," he said. Haykaz Zeynalyan, the head of a fish farm, said that fish exports are no longer a profitable business - the fish prime cost is constantly growing due to the rise in water supply fee and imported fish food price. As a result, the domestic market experiences surplus of fish products and price reduction. The lack of preferential lending and state subsidies are pain in the farmers' neck. "All this demonstrates active monopolization of the market," Zeynalyan said. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture does not share this opinion. Tigran Alexanyan, Head of the Fish Breeding and Bee Breeding Unit of the Cattle Breeding and Veterinary of the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture, told ArmInfo one usually does not comment on the statements of incompetent and unaware persons, but he noted that when publicizing data the Ministry of Agriculture is guided by comprehensive information received from competent sources. "As of today, there are 198 operating fish farms in Armenia," Alexanyan said. He added that there is no large-scale closure of fish farms and that this year nearly 15-19 farms have closed. He noted that there is no sector monopolization, because the procedure of receiving permit for fish export has been facilitated. In Jan-Apr 2016 versus Jan-Apr 2015, exports grew by 95 tons. According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, in 2015 the gross fish breeding output rose by 6.4% to 27.8 bln AMD. In 2014, 2.7 thsd tons of fish were exported from Armenia versus 1.6 thsd tons in 2011. The fish is mostly exported to Russia, to a less extent - to Georgia, the UAE and the USA. Armen Melikyan: in the field of telecommunications, Armenia may get in a situation of the late 90s Ucom becomes an apple of discord and blackmail The license for the activities of the Armenian NPP may be extended until 2026 Armenian Ministry of Finance predicts budget deficit of 7.4% of GDP for 2020 Central Bank of Armenia announces bank details for donating funds to the All-Armenian Fund Commercial banks and insurance companies of Armenia will have opportunity to conduct a general meeting of shareholders remotely Company bonds "National Mortgage Company"2A © 1991-2020 Any use of ArmInfo materials is allowed just and only under the written permission of their copyright owner, which is the Adency Rating& Marketing Information LLC. 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__label__cc	0.73954	0.26046	By Yeoman Lowbrow on June 11, 2014 Music Vinyl 1980s album covers albums records 10 Wonderfully Obnoxious Metal Album Covers Of The 80s AS someone who spent the better part of high school drawing Iron Maiden’s Eddie on my folders, I can appreciate the importance of the metal album cover. Heavy metal had reached its high water mark in the 1980s, and there was no shortage of creative, insane, and godawful album covers hitting the shelves of the record store. Sabbath’s debut was wicked yet subtle just a decade earlier; by the 1980s things had gotten…. shall we say, “less nuanced”? Here’s a look at some of these 80s metal covers, in all their obnoxious glory. Destruction – Release from Agony (1987) It may be the 80s, but this is as far from skinny ties and Paula Abdul as you get. Look at this cover and you can almost understand why hair metal got to be so popular – you can only revel in the muck of your own misery for so long. Even metalheads need a little levity. Toxik – Think This (1989) I’m sure this is commentary on the brainwashing of the masses via television. However, I’m looking at what’s on and it doesn’t look half bad: an action movie (hell yes), a big ass hamburger (yum), a beer commercial (I’m thirsty already), a naked chick (no problem there), and what looks to be real news (as opposed to the fluff we have today). I’m sorry Toxik, but I think I’ll pull a chair up and join the herd! Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys – Part 1 (1987) I do appreciate how metal in the 70s and 80s was unafraid to take a walk with Tolkien from time to time, even though it could compromise your metal cred. Indeed, Led Zep is often disavowed by metalheads due to their tendency to forsake the Hammer of the Gods in favor of Music for the Maypole. Kiss’ venture into fantasy (The Elder LP) was actually damn good music, but almost universally hated. The trick was to do it with the right amount of screeching vocals and thundering guitars; just ask Maiden. Metal MC – Born to Party (1988) He looks absolutely retarded, but in defense of Metal MC, the metal-rap thingy was fairly new in ’88. Run DMC had done the Aerosmith shtick in ’86 and the Beastie Boys had gotten huge that same year by combining heavy guitars and hip-hop. But by the end of the 1990s rap-metal (aka Nu-Metal) had worn out its welcome – to the point that a Limp Bizkit song seems absolutely cringeworthy today. Mortal Sin – Mayhemic Destruction (1987) My understanding is that this is a good album, in the vein of Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All. However, there’s a couple problems. First, “mayhemic” is not a word… and as a made up word, it’s a terrible one. Second, that demon is presumably delivering destruction to the city with his hands, but it looks like he’s playing with himself. Maiden’s Eddie is an excellent mascot for a metal band…. Mortal Sin’s giant winged masturbating demon – not so much. Aaronsrod – Illusions Kill (1986) No disrespect to Aaronsrod, but this is a terrible cover. From left to right: (1) a very un-metal belly laugh, (2) generic lead-singer grimace, (3) posing as if cupping someone’s balls whilst crying, (4) tasting a booger, and (5) suppressing vomit. Metal Fail Level 11. Liege Lord – Burn to My Touch (1986) This would have been perfect airbrushed onto the side of a 1970s custom van. I picture the interior completely covered in thick burnt-orange shag, with many a well-smoked roach buried in its fibers. You would never let your daughter enter this sort of van – bad things happen within. New York Metal – 84 (1984) This is a compilation record. I include it only because there is a man wearing what looks to be a diaper on the cover. I know spandex was big in the Los Angeles music scene and leather was big with the British metal bands…. I can only assume disposable diapers were big in New York. And speaking of unfortunate attire… Raven – The Pack is Back (1986) Was it laundry day at the Raven household? Part professional wrestler, part disco queen – the only word that adequately describes the Raven wardrobe is “unfortunate”. Mama’s Boys – Power and Passion (1985) I’m not sure I understand what’s going on here, but I don’t think it matters. There’s a hot chick splayed out on a very metal throne. Unlike the giant winged masturbating demon, this cover more than fulfils its quota from The 6 Requirements of Metal Album Covers. Not familiar with them? Check out Your Guidebook to Creating a Proper Heavy Metal Album Cover, and may the metal be with you. Would you like to support Flashbak? Please consider making a donation to our site. We don't want to rely on ads to bring you the best of visual culture. You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 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In this talk, writer Oscar Schwartz examines why we react so strongly to the idea of a My year reading a book from every country in the world Ann Morgan considered herself well read — until she discovered the "massive blindspot" on her bookshelf. Amid a multitude of English and American authors, there were very few books from beyond the English-speaking world. So she set an ambitious goal: to read one book from every country in the world over the course of a year. Now she's urging other Anglophiles to read Your words may predict your future mental health Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. 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In this talk for anyone who's ever felt crazy in love, Catron highlights a different metaphor for love that How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have offered an unprecedented glimpse into the scope and methods of the secretive world of offshore finance. Hear the story behind the biggest collaborative journalism project in history. Before Avatar ... a curious boy James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. 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__label__cc	0.524842	0.475158	Farewell to Crushworthy Characters Mandi Harris I've written 118 Crushworthy Character articles and it's time to close the column. Crushworthy Characters: Kate Anstruther Crown & Key, crushworthy characters The Crown and Key Trilogy features great story lines and a fun cast of characters. The world is a combination of magic, steampunk, and merry Old England. There really wasn't a character that I disliked in the series. It was hard to narrow down which one Crushworthy Characters: Waverly Earp crushworthy characters, Wynonna Earp We all get that guilty pleasure show from time to time and Wynonna Earp is mine. The show is nearly B-rated in some aspects, but I find it entertaining. There are also cool heroines on the show. Sometimes, you just need a show you can relax and watch Crushworthy Characters: Chloe Sullivan crushworthy characters, smallville I've been continuing my first watch through of Smallville on Hulu. I've either really hated or loved the characters on the show. I've found I just can't feel ambiguous about them. This article features who I think is the best character on the show. I Crushworthy Characters: Eliot Waugh crushworthy characters, the magicians The Magicians on SyFy offers viewers a complex and interesting cast of characters. I believe there is a character for everyone to get behind on this show. Of course, I always seem to either fall for the underdog or the character with dazzling charisma. Crushworthy Characters: Vin Venture crushworthy characters, Mistborn Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series is a true fantasy classic with iconic characters. The books take us into the world of Allomancers and legends. One of the best aspects about the series is that the main protagonist is a female. Vin Venture is an Crushworthy Characters: Liv Moore crushworthy characters, iZombie I felt like I should check out the show iZombie when the series made it onto Netflix. I don't regret that decision. The show is good with an interesting premise. It also has an array of interesting characters to get invested in. I don't think I've Ten More Crushworthy Supernaturals to Love agent of hel, Being Human, crushworthy characters, iZombie, lost girl, Lucifer, mercy thompson, Penny Dreadful, Shannara, Supernatural, the dresden files Halloween is my favorite Fandomania month. I can spotlight many supernatural characters for this column. I've covered vampires, werewolves, warlocks/wizards, and witches extensively. I felt it was time to give other types of supernatural beings a Crushworthy Characters: Ignifex cruel beauty, crushworthy characters The thing I love about this column is not only is it a celebration of characters we love but an introduction to characters people can love. I've recently fallen in love with this book character, along with the entire story. I think I fell in love with Crushworthy Characters: Sam Merlotte crushworthy characters, southern vampire mysteries, true blood I've been reading The Southern Vampire Mysteries, the books which True Blood is based on, and they are more entertaining than the show in many ways. Mostly, the characters featured on the show are more likable in the books. However, we have featured Crushworthy Characters: Elena Fisher crushworthy characters, Uncharted Playing the HD Remaster of the Uncharted games made me realize what a true gem they really are. The games are just plain fun with a great cast of characters. The column has covered its hero, Nathan Drake, but now it's time to write about his better Crushworthy Characters: Athos (The Musketeers) crushworthy characters, The Musketeers BBC's The Musketeers quickly became one of my favorite shows, and I fell in love with each of the Musketeers. The show is full of action, period costumes, intrigue, and romance. I wrote about D'Artagnan earlier, but as the show has progressed, Athos has	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line752
__label__wiki	0.751546	0.751546	Fri, 26 February 2016 Episode 85 - I Hardly Even Knew Me We're a little under the weather this week, but we do our best to provide with the most premium content we can offer. Week in Geek: Andrew plays the indie prison-escape simulator, The Escapists, while Dan sees Deadpool and definitely has "feelings." Silenced Hills: At the recent DICE Summit, a keynote was held that reunited Metal Gear Solid's Hideo Kojima with Pan's Labyrinth's Guillermo Del Toro to talk about how much they like each other. We talk about how much they like each other. First Person Theater: A trailer for the film, Hardcore Henry, landed in theaters and on the internet, and Andrew and Dan are wondering both "What the hell?" and "Why the hell not?" If you have any comments on this week's topics, leave them at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to join the official Facebook and Google+ pages. You may also e-mail the show at forallpod [at] gmail.com. If you want to support the show, leave a review on iTunes! -"The Man Who Sold the World" by Midge Ure -"Hardcore" by Dee Snider -"Infected" by Bad Religion Episode 84 - Your Cursor is My Prisoner Week in Geek: Andrew plays to complete the Assassin's Creed Chronicles trilogy with its final Russian installment while Dan plays Campo Santo's new release, Firewatch. Same Song, Different Tune: Dan and Andrew discuss how the cultural meaning of music can change drastically when used in different contexts. How many people think about demon-slaying when they hear "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas? How many people think of stylized violence when they hear Dick Dale's "Miserlou"? (How many people think about A Podcast [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes when they hear "Stayin' In Black" by Wax Audio––or either ACDC's "Back in Black" or the BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive", for that matter?) Cheap Games, Part 2 - The Returns: Andrew and Dan return tangentially to the discussion of cheap ass games with an investigation of how many players think of a game's value in terms of length of play. Leave a comment at forall.libsyn.com. Join our official Facebook and Google+ pages. E-mail us any questions or comments at forallpod [at] gmail.com. Leave a review on iTunes to help spread the word of the show. For all intents and purposes, that's an episode recap. -"Street Fighter II led the Way for Games as a Medium of Self-Expression" by Anthony John Agnello via the A.V. Club. -"Deadpool and the Box Office of R-Rated Comic Book Films" by Rob Leane via Den of Geek. -"Pearls From the Depths: An Interview with Night Dive Studios" by Rock Closson via Known Griefers. -"No, You Shouldn't Get Your Money Back for Games You Finished and Loved" by Ben Kuchera via Polygon. -"Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas -"Stay in Your Tower and Watch" by Chris Remo (from Firewatch) -"Miserlou" by Dick Dale Direct download: Episode84a.mp3 Episode 83 - The F-14 in the Backyard Week in Geek: Andrew buys a bunch of indie games, but plays Thomas Was Alone while Dan reads Dagon by Ben Templesmith. The Merc With a Mouth as a Gamble by a Studio: Marvel mutant Deadpool hits cinema this week and Dan and Andrew discuss the implications of this faithful arrival into the superhero movie discourse. Whose [sic] Tim Cosing? Greater Than Games promotes their Kickstarter for the final expansion for the popular card game, Sentinels of the Multiverse, with a well-planned, quickly foiled, very intricate ARG focused around a fictional game tester "Tim Cosing." Andrew and Dan unravel the sleuthing fans of the game did to figure out the mystery. -"(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" by "Weird Al" Yankovic -"The Sentinels of the Multiverse (Main Theme)" by Jean-Marc Griffin -"X Gon' Give It To Ya" by DMX Fri, 5 February 2016 Episode 82 - Backwards Expansion Week in Geek: Andrew plays Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India while Dan watches Ex Machina. Cheap Games: With Andrew's sideways foray into the normally "AAA" Assassin's Creed franchise being through the door of a $10 downloadable game, Dan and Andrew discuss the recent widening of prices for games––both video and tabletop––and the implications on not only the content but the culture it feeds. Flash in the Pan/The Doctor is Out: In unrelated but nearly simultaneous announcements, CBS/CW and BBC announced they are pulling their respective content from the media hubs of Netflix and Hulu, presumably because they are going to launch their own premium streaming services. Will such a tactic work? Should it? Why now? Leave a comment at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to also join the official Facebook and Google+ pages. You can e-mail the show at forallpod [at] gmail.com. Help the show out by leaving a review on iTunes. -"Ground Zeroes" by Ludvig Forssell (from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain) -"Carry On Wayward Son" by GWAR (live recording) -"Are You Ready for Some Football" by Hank Williams, Jr. *Dramatic sting sampled from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line758
__label__cc	0.662625	0.337375	Forest Gate North councillor Ellie Robinson has resigned to take up a new post working for Sadiq Khan at City Hall. She explained her decision in an email to her fellow councillors this morning: As some of you may have heard yesterday I handed in my resignation from the council. It has been a very hard decision, and I feel very emotional about it – it has been an absolute honour representing Forest Gate North over the last six years. As you will know, I have been working for Sadiq Khan over the past year and following the excellent result a few weeks ago I have been offered the opportunity to work for him as his Senior Advisor at City Hall. This will be a great opportunity to help deliver everything we campaigned for – affordable housing, a fares freeze, cleaner air and much more. However, the role is politically restricted which means I am no longer legally allowed to continue as a local councillor. It has been a privilege being a councillor in Newham and working with you. The support, guidance and advice I have received over the past few years has helped shape my world view, and the passion and dedication I have seen from officers to the residents of Newham has been inspiring and humbling. Finally, I am grateful to have been able to work with Labour councillors and a Mayor who believe in the power of democracy. They believe that persuading, listening and talking to people wins elections, and winning elections is what gives you the mandate and resource to change the world. Ultimately, if we didn’t have a Labour Council in Newham we wouldn’t be cracking down on bad landlords (we had the first licensing scheme in the country), we wouldn’t have free school meals for all our kids (and music lessons, and theatre tickets), we wouldn’t have agreed plans earlier this year to build 800 homes for homeless families and we wouldn’t have MoneyWorks (affordable credit and advice for those in financial difficulty). To name but a few things. Equally, if we didn’t have a Conservative government we wouldn’t have the cuts to welfare, cuts to public services and a dangerous lack of house building. So the fight continues. I know we will continue to work together to change our little corner of the world, I will just have a different hat on! I look forward to that. I will continue to be Newham’s biggest cheerleader and wish you all every success. Warmest wishes, E I’m not a fan of Newham’s generally useless councillors, but Ellie was a breath of fresh air when first elected in 2010: open, engaged and approachable. It was a marked contrast to her predecessor and to her fellow Forest Gate North councillors at the time. Happily, Rachel Tripp and Seyi Akiwowo have followed in the same vein. I hope whoever succeeds her will too, whichever party they represent. No date has yet been set for the by-election to fill the vacancy. Tags: Ellie Robinson, newham ← The Tudor Court of Sir Robin Forever and ever → 9 Responses to “Resignation” John McHale June 2, 2016 at 14:58 # This begs the question of how these “bad landlords” got to multiply and flourish in Newham in the first place and how much is it costing the council tax payer to “crack down” on them? John McHale. DowntoEarth June 2, 2016 at 22:57 # The legal powers to deal with them are relatively new. Council staff, notably Environmental Health Officers, had loads of evidence that was difficult to get into Court under older law. As for costs, there is a fee for licences, and the costs should come down after the first wave of vigorous enforcement. The Polo Mint. June 2, 2016 at 16:26 # Talking of bad landlords whats happin to Robin’s right-hand man Ahmed Noor the man who love to buy his master the £150.00 scotch bottles, and Corbett a West Ham season ticket. terry ball June 3, 2016 at 08:51 # i suppose it was inevitable that this blog about ellie robinson would be contaminated with noor because she mentions unlicensed landlords which is a shame . she is a breath of fresh air to a stale old bunch of councillors who i doubt could get a job anywhere let alone working in city hall with the new mayor ,so we have in new jobs khan desai and robinson all together which i hope will give us a leg up in newham. i wonder who will be the contender for ellies place in the by election will it be a contest or is it a done deal ?i hope we are not going to get another husband and wife situation going on here again ,we have had to many couples who get in then sit there for years draining the pot and doing nothing except holiday abroad or buy more properties . ps does anyone know whats happening with noor is it another by election ?. Martin Warne June 3, 2016 at 09:33 # I agree re Ellie, as I said in my post. Given the plum nature of the seat I expect there will be plenty of interest in being the Labour candidate. The party in FGN is pretty strong so I doubt the leadership will have much chance if they try to stitch it up. And after what happened in Boleyn they would probably think twice before trying that again. what was the deal in boleyn ? The shortlist had just two people on: the wife of a sitting councillor & mayoral advisor, and a middle class white woman. Led by an outraged Obaid Khan, members rejected the obvious leadership stitch-up & selected Veronica Oakeshott. Alan C June 8, 2016 at 11:43 # It would appear that Ms Robinson actually believes the stuff Robin Wales brags about. She tells us among other things that Newham “had the first licensing scheme in the country” to tackle bad landlords. Not true. Salford in 2007 introduced the first such scheme, followed by Blackburn and Gateshead and Sedgefield in 2008 and many others since. The Newham scheme started on Jan 1 2013. (What is different about the Newham scheme is that it covers the whole of the borough. The other local authorities chose to target specific areas rather than set up a blanket scheme.) She doesn’t mention whether or not she is proud that Newham is selling 1200 Council properties under its NewShare programme when it is in the midst of a housing crisis and exporting homeless families all over the country. selling 1200 properties ,i thought this was the council that hates right to buy ,so they can sell them no doubt . Leave a Reply to terry ball Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line760
__label__cc	0.514377	0.485623	Forest Ecosystem Functions Posted on October 22, 2019 by forestknowledge EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH Are non-industrial private forest owners willing to deliver regulation ecosystem services? Insights from an alpine case Gatto et al. in: European Journal of Forest Research (2019), 138:4, pp 639-651 Forest decision support systems for the analysis of ecosystem services provisioning at the landscape scale under global climate and market change scenarios Nordstrom et al. in: European Journal of Forest Research (2019), 138:4, pp 561-581 Conditions for translocation of a key threatened species, Dianthus inoxianus Gallego, in the southwestern Iberian Mediterranean forest Lopez-Jurado et al. in: Forest Ecology and Management (2019), 446, pp 1-9 Insect herbivory and avian insectivory in novel native oak forests: Divergent effects of stand size and connectivity Valdes-Correcher et al. in: Forest Ecology and Management (2019), 445, pp 146-153 Response of bird functional diversity to forest product harvesting in the Eastern Cape, South Africa Leaver et al. in: Forest Ecology and Management (2019), 445, pp 82-95 What drives the future supply of regulating ecosystem services in a mountain forest landscape? Seidl et al. in: Forest Ecology and Management (2019), 445, pp 37-47 Bayesian approach and extreme value theory in economic analysis of forestry projects Salles et al. in: Forest Policy and Economics (2019), 105, pp 64-71 Forest and wildlife resource-conservation efforts based on indigenous knowledge: The case of Nharira community in Chikomba district, Zimbabwe Mavhura, Mushure in: Forest Policy and Economics (2019), 105, pp 83-90 Willingness to pay for forest conservation in Ecuador: Results from a nationwide contingent valuation survey in a combined “referendum” – “Consequential open-ended” design Gordillo, Elsasser, Gunter in: Forest Policy and Economics (2019), 105, pp 28-39 Assessing and Mapping Forest Landscape Quality in China Wu, Zhong, Deng in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 684 Assessing Visitors’ Memorable Tourism Experiences (MTEs) in Forest Recreation Destination: A Case Study in Xitou Nature Education Area Yu, Chang, Ramanpong in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 636 Contribution of Forest Stewardship Council Certification to Sustainable Forest Management of State Forests in Selected Southeast European Countries Malovrh et al. in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 648 Farmers’ Willingness to Accept Compensation to Maintain the Benefits of Urban Forests Wang et al. in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 691 Growth of Abies sachalinensis Along an Urban Gradient Affected by Environmental Pollution in Sapporo, Japan Moser-Reischl et al. in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 707 High Resolution Maps of Climatological Parameters for Analyzing the Impacts of Climatic Changes on Swiss Forests Zischg et al. in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 617 How Do Tilia cordata Greenspire Trees Cope with Drought Stress Regarding Their Biomass Allocation and Ecosystem Services? Zhang et al. in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 676 Optimizing the Stand Density of Robinia pseudoacacia L. Forests of the Loess Plateau, China, Based on Response to Soil Water and Soil Nutrient Physiological and Psychological Effects of Viewing Forests on Young Women Song et al. in: Forests (2019), 10:8, Article 635 Assessment of Anthropogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in Leaves of Two Urban Tree Species in Santiago de Chile Araya et al. in: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (2019), 2, Article 42 Beyond Oil Palm: Perceptions of Local Communities of Environmental Change Hasanah et al. in: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (2019), 2, Article 41 Effects of natural and artificial shade on human thermal comfort in residential neighborhood parks of Phoenix, Arizona, USA Colter, Middel, Martin in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (2019), 44, Article 126429 Physiological effects of forest-related visual, olfactory, and combined stimulion humans: An additive combined Song, Ikei, Miyazaki in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (2019), 44, Article 126437 Urban green equity on the ground: Practice-based models of urban green equity in three multicultural cities Nesbitt et al. in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (2019), 44, Article 126433 Category: Ecosystem Function/ServiceTags: European Journal of Forest Research, Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Policy and Economics, Forests, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Publication Date: August 2019, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening ← Forest Biodiversity Forest Productivity →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line761
__label__cc	0.734852	0.265148	Jump to: Board index » General » Cinematography BMPCC4K start shipping The place for questions about shooting with Blackmagic Cameras. Colourberry Real Name: Simon Bailey Re: BMPCC4K start shipping Pete Tomkies wrote: I wasn't making any comment on the level of returns, just correcting your assertion that CVP had received 500 orders when in fact the number is considerably less than half that figure. Irrespective of the quantities all of the UK retailers had been receiving regular stock on a weekly basis - but that drip feed has dried up across the UK. I don't know why but I am sure BM do. Sadly whilever they remain silent rumours will fester which must affect sales as some customers jump ship to rival brands. Either BM are so arrogantly confident that demand will remain high they don't care about the bad press... Or the truth would be even more damaging. Either way it's awful PR and does their reputation no good. Agree completely. I think their silence is not good. And there are excellent alternative options out there. I'll still wait for the pocket 4k as I've been Sony for many years but really like the detail and colour I see in BM footage. Tempted by the Ursa mini pro but it's been around a while now. Australian Image wrote: Colourberry wrote: And there are excellent alternative options out there. And what exactly are those excellent alternatives? I can't tell if your serious or not. Do you define viable alternatives by those in the same price bracket? Or image quality? If its price bracket then I'm not interested in arguing with a fan boy over whatever. But for people who make a living from their cameras then anything under say $20k is generally a nobrainer. There are many cameras with beautiful images that in a blind test you couldnt pick apart. Sony F5, FS7 Canon C200, C300 Alternative isnt even the right work since at the moment and likely for months anything but the pocket 4k are the only options. I had an F5 for a long time and liked the look of the A7s more. Bought one as a B cam and then found I wasn't using the F5 enough. Sold it for another A7s. These days A7R2 but I don't like Sony colour as much as what I see from blackmagic. So I want to try a pocket 4K. I like the size of the DSLR form but not the photographic buttons. That's why the pocket appeals to me. Those alternatives may not all shoot Raw but their images look great and they are video cameras with other features too. I'm basing it on if a person makes a living from their camera the cheapness of the pocket is a bonus but there are alternatives. Reliable available now alternatives. If the Ursa mini pro was better in low light I'd be considering that rather than wait but who knows what might come from NAB. I want the pocket. Still have the preorder and will eventually get my hands on it. Just want some communication from BM so we can make decisions. Kristian Lam Take it easy. Production ebbs and flows depending on parts availability and factory closures due to holidays etc. There is NO deliberate production halt. The camera is quite popular and we're building as fast as we can. Hi Kristian. As Senior software engineer can you shed any light on bmraw for the pockets progress? Don't care when. Just want to know it Will happen for sure? Swissified Real Name: Stephen Butterworth Colourberry wrote: Don't care when. Just want to know it Will happen for sure? Me too as that would be quite a bow to add to the 4K's strings. Chris Shivers Colourberry wrote: Ursa mini pro I had the ursa mini 4.6k, not the pro, and the c200, I loved both cameras. The c200 honestly doesn't compare to the pocket 4k, unless we're talking about raw, then they are the same. However, canon raw lite is really slow compared to CDNG. And it takes up way more space. I traded in the c200 for the pocket 4k, and let me tell you it's a better option. It has some pro features, like ND and SDI. However, their HDMI port is really nerfed. And their codec is really nerfed. You go from 8bit 4:2:0 to raw. You can get 10bit 4:2:2 but that's by an external recorder. Plus it's only recorded in 2K. Then again the image is still good, but you are limited. Those cameras are two times the price of the pocket 4K, but dont even come with the features that the pocket 4k come with internally, that's the difference between those cameras, besides the ursa mini pro Gdiddy Real Name: Gareth Stack No shipments of the BMPCC4K to Ireland since early November I ordered the Black Magic Pocket Cinema 4K, and about a grands worth of accessories November 7th. Unfortunately for myself and lots of other videographers and filmmakers in Ireland, Black Magic have not shipped a single unit to the entire country since early November. The only official Black Magic dealer here (Camerakit) haven't got a single shipment since then. I've spoken to other videographers (via the Irish Filmmaker Network) who've ordered as far back as early April and are still awaiting their units. I understand manufacturing delays, especially with the production issues (battery door, battery life, blown out red channel etc) the camera has faced. But this is infuriating. To see folks in the US getting recent orders, when Black Magic can't be bothered shipping any units to Ireland is infuriating. Honestly I would have cancelled my order a month ago, had I not already invested in accessories. It's a really bad look for a company known for production issues and delays. Talking to other people in the video community here, it's turning them off Black Magic products in general, and it's likely to lead to a reduction in use of BM cameras on larger projects for years to come. Speaking for myself, I've already lost out on a significant amount of work that required a second camera (smaller shooters here very rarely provide an equipment budget), as well as work specifically advertised for BMPCC4K shooters. I was planning to pick up and Ursa Pro later this year, but I'd be extremely reluctant to deal with BM again. Pete Tomkies Kristian Lam wrote: Hey guys, Thanks Kristian, that's a reassuring and welcome response John Brawley Location: Los Angeles California Colourberry wrote: Hi Kristian. As Senior software engineer can you shed any light on bmraw for the pockets progress? He’s the product manager. This is his camera. He’s not a software engineer. BMD have a policy of not talking about what’s coming. It’s rare that Kristian would weigh in here. John Brawley ACS Currently - Los Angeles His LinkedIn profile says different but I'm sure you know what's right. Ignore that. It doesnt say it now. Or I miss read. Either way some feedback on BM raw would be nice since its a factor in some of our decisions. romariorus Real Name: Roman Andreev Hi, Kristian, thank you for the reply here but how you can see, is a lot of people from Europe reporting long delays of the camera. For example I have ordered in two official resellers shops in France and Germany and have received some messages from dealer like: "We don't have received cameras last one month, last two months". Colourberry wrote: Ignore that. It doesnt say it now. Or I miss read. You’ve got all the feedback you’re going to get. As I said they don’t really talk about future product till it’s announced officially. Grant has alluded to this happening and that’s the closest you’ll get to an announcement. Rakesh Malik John Brawley wrote: Several BMD reps have been pretty clear that braw IS coming to the Pocket 4K, but they haven't given any timetables for it. So... whether or not it's coming is pretty certain; the answer is yes. When is an open question though, since BMD isn't going to rush it out before it's ready. Cinematographer, photographer, adventurer, martial artist http://WinterLight.studio Asus ZenBook Pro Duo i9 Octacore/32GB/2060 Alienware M15 Hexacore i7/32GB/1070 Max-Q Alluded to bmraw happening? I thought he said it WAS happening? rick.lang It is a work in progress and I expect it will be announced via email and press release just before NAB 2019. Or announced at NAB 2019. Less than 8 weeks. Last edited by rick.lang on Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:32 am, edited 1 time in total. KamalSPrasad FWIW, I ordered my BMPCC 4K on Jan 30 from B&H. I got an email from them after filling out an online survey that says, "the manufacturer is heavily back ordered and this item is not expected to arrive in our warehouse until April 15th. Once this does arrive we will ship the orders promptly." KamalSPrasad wrote: FWIW, I ordered my BMPCC 4K on Jan 30 from B&H. I got an email from them after filling out an online survey that says, "the manufacturer is heavily back ordered and this item is not expected to arrive in our warehouse until April 15th. Once this does arrive we will ship the orders promptly." That's interesting. My order in Australia in October was told any week now for a couple of months then in December based on the flow they were getting said they were sure January. I emailed them last week and they suddenly said APRIL... I was in Bangkok last week and enquired there too and they said they expect APRIL. So what's with April?? gbuster1a Real Name: Jeffrey Cabello Ordered the BMPCC4K on Jan 7th from Adorama. Just received an email stating it is being shipped today! Real Name: Mario Miscione BMPC4k Backorder - B&H - Any updates? So I ordered a BMPC4k in early December (it was backordered) and as of today, February 12th, B&H tells me they have no information about when it might be available because it's still backordered. Is there any sense of when the next round of cameras is going to start going to out to resellers? I knew there would be SOME delay but heading into month 3 I'm getting a little antsy. Re: BMPC4k Backorder - B&H - Any updates? SuperMario wrote: Hey guys, Remember it just not three places selling the pocket 4k, there are a lot of smaller places selling them too. And it’s first come first serve, so they are most likely waiting in que. Jonathan Hardison gbuster1a wrote: Ordered the BMPCC4K on Jan 7th from Adorama. Just received an email stating it is being shipped today! This has me excited. I ordered on Jan 17th from Adorama. Hoping I'll see mine soon! silaradams Real Name: Jamie Adams Jonathan Hardison wrote: May not be. I just ordered my camera today, and called B&H and Adorama. B&H I was behind over 1,000 people, and at Adorama, the guy told me I was behind around 570 people. I decided to order from Tape Central in Columbus, Ohio. They had '0' people waiting, except for me now... silaradams wrote: Wow. Funny, when I asked Adorama last week, they said they couldn't tell me my place in line. Is this camera going to put a lot more indie film makers on the scene? I wonder if Youtube will be flooded with short films made by the BMPCC4K? Chris Shivers wrote: Remember it just not three places selling the pocket 4k, there are a lot of smaller places selling them too. And it’s first come first serve, so they are most likely waiting in que. Yeah, I guess I just assumed a larger reseller would have more stock. I don't mind waiting, just want a sense of how long I'm going to have to wait... SuperMario wrote: Yeah, I guess I just assumed a larger reseller would have more stock. I don't mind waiting, just want a sense of how long I'm going to have to wait... The larger resellers get more orders. I don't think anyone's been able to maintain much stock of this camera; they keep getting snapped up. If those numbers are true I think it's safe to say micro 4/3 will be around a while Colourberry wrote: If those numbers are true I think it's safe to say micro 4/3 will be around a while I don't think they would lie about the number of orders they told me.. If anything, that would discourage anyone from actually ordering from them. I was a bit shocked. I knew B&H and Adorama would have a backlog of orders, but I never realized it was that many. This is going to be a huge boost so Davinci Resolve too. I think there was already a decent sized migration to Resolve going on but awareness of how good Resolve is will really increase after that many cameras with Resolve licenses get out there. Loving Resolve is just a matter of using it and I cant picture someone buying the camera and not trying it. So let’s pretend that BMD ship 500 cameras to the US for January. They send 300 cameras to BH, 150 to ardoma and the rest go to other US dealers that have done single digit orders. 300 BH photo customers that ordered in October get their cameras. 1 customer who ordered from a dealer in January who got two cameras gets their camera. 1 guys comes here and says yay I got my camera after 4 weeks ! 700 BH photo customers get onto this forum to complain how BMD must have a manufacturing delay and some guy who finds a dealer that gets two cameras they ordered at the same time BH ordered their 1000 cameras for January and gets a camera before those that ordered earlier than they did from BH photo See how this works ? BMD don’t track which customer orders first. This is how the distribution works and why it seems so uneven. I’d also say it’s hit and miss to believe any reported numbers from a dealer. They also have an interest in keeping that to themselves in light of above. Absolutely agree. Somehow I've been position 6 at Dragon image for almost 5 months. silaradams wrote: I knew B&H and Adorama would have a backlog of orders, but I never realized it was that many. I think that BMD themselves have been overwhelmed by how popular this camera is. I think they've already shipped many units, it's just that there's so many back orders and more and more are jumping on....demand is actually going up. SuperMario wrote: They do, but they also have much much longer pre-order lists. John Brawley wrote: I think that BMD themselves have been overwhelmed by how popular this camera is. I think they've already shipped many units, it's just that there's so many back orders and more and more are jumping on....demand is actually going up. Probably because they're seeing it, and footage shot with it, and people talking about it... I also suspect many more waited in April until the camera was released in September and they could see sample footage online. Perhaps after BRAW is released for the BMPCC4K, there will be another uptick in orders. All of this waiting so people know announced features and anticipated features such as BRAW actually became delivered features. Jim Giberti I've never pre-ordered a camera in my life and I've bought a lot of them for my small company over the years. For a number of reasons, I believed Blackmagiic were going take things to another level regarding a small form factor camera with the new Pocket - and we really utilze small cameras with our model. So, I pre-ordered two from B&H literally minutes after Grant's presentation and got them in the first shipment. Even with my expectations, I was amazed at how much they put into the P4K, feature-wize. After a few months of producing with them, I continue to be blown away by how good an image they provide and how brilliant the interface is. I'm not surprised at all that they're having difficulty keeping up with demand. They deserve big ass kudos, not criticism. But of course, I'd feel frustrated if I were waiting for mine. Australian Image wrote: Quite likely. The negative comments that were flying around the internet after it was first revealed was amazing. Yes, there were good comments as well, but the negative ones perhaps increased after reviews started coming out. How some of the reviewers were selected still baffles me, they should have stuck to DSLR reviews and not cinema cameras. They probably got chosen based on their follower count. I don't think that most dSLR users will be able to make great use of a Pocket 4K. It's not designed for videography, it's designed for craftspeople. It will produce decent results if it's pointed at scenes lit by bozos, but excellent results with scenes lit by cinematographers. Robert Niessner Jim Giberti wrote: I've never pre-ordered a camera in my life and I've bought a lot of them for my small company over the years. Very well put, Jim. Although I am guilty of having pre-ordered the first BMCC after it was announced because I had the feeling this camera would be a game changer at that price point - a promise that RED never delivered - they just priced their cameras higher and higher after the RED ONE. So because of some initial problems with the BMCC I decided not rush and pre-order the UM46K. I only ordered it after firmware 4.0 with the new UI was introduced which was again a game changer in camera UIs. I had the same feeling like when I saw the first iPhone and how iOS worked. And for the PCC4K I had enough confidence in BMD to pre-order it immediately while watching the presentation. Since I got the camera in October I've used it constantly in my productions and everyone is blown away how brilliant the resulting images are. My only regret is that I didn't pre-order two of them. LAUFBILDkommission Graz / Austria Blackmagic Camera Blog (German): http://laufbildkommission.wordpress.com Read the blog in English via Google Translate: http://tinyurl.com/pjf6a3m Chris Whitten Rakesh Malik wrote: I don't think that most dSLR users will be able to make great use of a Pocket 4K. It's not designed for videography, it's designed for craftspeople. It will produce decent results if it's pointed at scenes lit by bozos, but excellent results with scenes lit by cinematographers. It's both. I am far from a cinematographer. I loved the original pocket for it's quality versus price. Same with the P4K, which is even easier to use. I mostly shoot on a photography tripod, with available light. Why would I pay more for a lesser codec by Panasonic or Sony? I think the steep learning curve on the Pocket is often exaggerated. Sure, I'm not making footage for Netflix, or for commercial clients with their strict standards, but I still value flexibility and quality and the Pocket 4K delivers on both...at a cheaper price than a lot of the lesser cameras. Chris Whitten wrote: I think the steep learning curve on the Pocket is often exaggerated. Chris, you make some very valid points here. I feel much the same about the 4K, even though I have yet to receive mine. That menu system looks the easiest I have ever seen (helped in no small measure by the large screen). Rakesh Malik wrote: They probably got chosen based on their follower count. I don't think that most dSLR users will be able to make great use of a Pocket 4K... That must be true of some of those who may be making a living from reviewing gear. Yet we also had good material produced by some that I appreciated. I do think BMD will be more judicious in their selection of reviewers in the future. They don’t have to be dyed-in-the-wool fanboys, but someone who will understand how to do good work with the features would be nice. When criticisms posted to YouTube show their ignorance of the camera’s capabilities, BMD must have cringed. JordanMcgehee Here is a quote from B&H regarding my frustration with being in the dark about not knowing when my camera will ship: "You recently completed a B&H Customer Service Satisfaction Survey and gave us valuable feedback concerning your shopping experience. I am sorry about the delay with this order. We have been working diligently and persistently with the manufacturer for a delivery date for this item. Unfortunately, the manufacturer has been heavily back ordered and at each contact the delivery date has been moved. As of today, regretfully, we still have not received delivery information." This tells me they have not been shipping units regularly to the retailers like Blackmagic has said. Anyone from Blackmagic care to comment? Every store is on a first come first serve, there are way more than 1 or 2 stores selling the pocket 4k. As soon as B&H put in their order they are on a waiting que, until they’re are next up to receive their orders. That’s why I never ordered from b&h it was too many people ordering from them. JordanMcgehee wrote: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=79757&start=750#p477560 JCStudios Real Name: James Cooperider Pocket 4K Availability (mid-February) Hey, everyone. So, I'm curious... I have a 'pre-order' placed with B&H for the Pocket 4K. I placed it about four days ago and I wasn't sure about the turn times on the product and how long (roughly) I may have to wait. I've been talking with my local camera store who's a BMD dealer and they told me that the P4K is "incredibly backordered" and "don't expect to see it for (many) months." That said, I e-mailed B&H about expected delivery and they gave me almost no information. Basically, they 'know nothing' and couldn't help me. So, with the out of the way, does anyone know any more information about B&H's status or general production information and, ultimately, if I should cancel my order with B&H and try somewhere smaller... or if I should just wait it out... Re: Pocket 4K Availability (mid-February) Your modus operandi of “shoot first, ask questions later” has been repeated here dozens of times. The answer remains the same, no one knows for sure so it’s your call. Read some more threads to get an idea of what you should do, but there’s no guarantee. JCStudios wrote: Hey, everyone. So, I'm curious... I have a 'pre-order' placed with B&H for the Pocket 4K. I placed it about four days ago and I wasn't sure about the turn times on the product and how long (roughly) I may have to wait. I've been talking with my local camera store who's a BMD dealer and they told me that the P4K is "incredibly backordered" and "don't expect to see it for (many) months." That said, I e-mailed B&H about expected delivery and they gave me almost no information. Basically, they 'know nothing' and couldn't help me. When I called B&H last week, I asked specifically how many people were on pre-order for the BMPCC4K at B&H. The guy was actually pretty helpful, but he said a little over 1,000. What I did was go to BlackMagic's website on their resellers page and started calling each one to find who had the least amount of pre-orders. Found one and ordered it. I'm sure I'll be waiting a while, but hopefully not as long as some people at B&H. You're best bet is to stay away from B&H and Adorama Camera as they both have the most pre-orders so you'll be waiting in line quite a long time. Adorama Camera had around 600 when I spoke with them last week. Return to Cinematography Users browsing this forum: Steve Holmlund, willchamberlin and 19 guests	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line763
__label__wiki	0.778736	0.778736	2016 Tour de France, Info & Discussion Page 9 - Get up to date with the latest news, scores & standings from the Cycling News Community. HelloDolly DFA123 said: Mr.White said: PremierAndrew said: Zinoviev Letter said: Yes, it'll be the Martin/Alaphillipe Fleche double act. Vakoc isn't likely to get to do anything other than try to set them up, unfortunately. The only not completely obvious thing about Etixx's plans is if either Martin or Alaphillipe will try for GC. Or if they will only be trying to add even more stages to the inevitable Kittel haul. It's likely that Dan Martin will go for GC. Can't see Balaphilippe trying for the white jersey with bardet barguil and co turning up I think Martin is an outside bet for the podium if he rides a clever race, letting the big guns go when it is too much and limiting his losses while the likes of Pinot, Contador and Aru try to follow and blow up. TTs look reasonable for him as well, especially as there should be a big improvement in them since moving to Etixx. I think Martin should be satisfied if he finish in the top 10 Agreed, he should be. But I think there is a chance he will do quite a bit better than 10th. He's shown glimpses of GC promise before, and any rider is going to improve significantly going to Etixx from Cannondale. I'd love Dan Martin to finish high but I think his best bet if for stage wins...he could win a few My problem with his GC ambitions is he could go great for the first 2 weeks but fade int he 3rd week as his health always effects him at the Tour ....so if he does GC he could end up with little but if he goes for stages he coudlendup with a good few I'd be surprised if he's worked a lot on his TTing since moving to Etixx. When Dan Martin was signed up, Etixx gained a puncher who's decent on longer climbs too, not a GC specialist Kwibus Re: 2016 Tour de France Discussion & Info Stage 2: will it be a stage for Sagan, GVA or another puncheur or will the real climbers be able to take it? It has 500mtr of above 10% if I'm not mistaken. If the real climbers want they can drop the puncheurs, but will they? If I wasn't using an ipad I'd post the profile of the climb, but it's 3km long with the 10,5% between 1.5 a 2km to go. Other parts are all 5-6% with a km to go it's slightly downhill and with 500mtr to go uphill again averaging 6%. So it's possible for climbers imo, but will it happen? Kwibus said: If Froome is feeling good, he'll definitely go for it. If not, we can expect someone like Bardet to try their hand. Either way, it should be tough for the punchers, and really depends on whether a climber fully commits or just puts in a small dig sir fly I'm expecting something similar to Mûr-de-Bretagne. Although the climb isn't equally hard (or maybe exactly because of that), good knowledge of the ascent should be helpful. Eyeballs Out sir fly said: Sagan vs Matthews thehook FLO; If I remember correctly the year Evans won. BMC did the same thing. Just bring big engines and let Cuddles figure it out on the climbs. I thought the same thing when I saw there roster announcement. Were would they get climbing support from. But then it hit me......TJ will probably be bringing Porte Bottles. Anderis LaFlorecita said: Mayomaniac said: BMC: Brent Bookwalter (USA), Marcus Burghgardt (GER), Damiano Caruso (ITA), Rohan Dennis (AUS), Amaël Moinard (FRA), Richie Porte (AUS), Michael Schär (SUI), Greg Van Avermaet (BEL), Tejay van Garderen (USA) . No Phinney and no Ben Hermans. That's odd, I expected Hermans on the team. Is BMC the team with the worst climbing support out of the big teams? Do you think Porte will sacrifice himself for Tejay's top 10 (or the other way around)? It depends on who do you consider "big teams". We already knew for a long time that BMC is not a match for Sky or Movistar in terms of GC in GTs, neither in terms of quality of leaders, nor domestiques. But as for BMC, this is not that bad. Caruso has GC top10's in GTs already to his name. Moinard is also more a climber than anything else and a decent one (15th in 2015 Giro) and Bookwalter and Dennis can climb well occasionally. Think the Fleche types will go for it DFA123 I don't think we can really know his true GC level. He's spent his whole career up until this season on a pretty weak team in terms of getting GC results. Now he's at one of the elite teams in the peloton, I think he could make a big step up. TTing he will definitely improve - Etixx will have worked hard on his position and always improve their riders in that field. He'll probably swap TT performance with Uran. Also his results this season, 3rd at Catalunya and 3rd at Dauphine - both in very, very competitive fields - suggest that he could do something in the GC. He's spent his whole career up until this season on a pretty weak team in terms of getting GC results. That team turned Hesjedal into a GT winner and Vande Velde into a top5 rider in TdF. It's also where Wiggins found out he could be a contender at TdF. Three riders who were not expected to achieve this kind of results before joining Garmin. I know they're horrible recently but Martin also rode for them in a period of time when they had a very good record in extracting some extra performance out of riders, so that's not really an honest assessment of situation IMO. Although I can see Martin doing very well in GC anyway. He already rode very good Vuelta in 2014 with slight illness in 3rd week. He was also on course for something like 9th place in 2013 Tour until he got ill with 4 or so stages to go. And it's not impossible that he has improved as a rider since then. I'm little embarrassed to acknowledge that only a couple of minutes ago I've fully realised that stage to Le Lioran is already on the first Wednesday, and Lac de Payolle stage is inside the first week... That's really great. Untill now (when I've downloaded the roadbook) the stages were lined in my mind something like - Le Lioran for the second Saturday or the Friday before, and Lac de Payolle like the second week opener. Really embarrassing considering it's 8 months since the route has been unveiled. But that makes my excitement bigger. Really good route. Anderis said: Fair point, but most of Garmin's GC success was quite a long time ago now. Since Hesjedal's win, they've been very disappointing. And Martin was kind of steered towards classics as his main focus, with Talansky and Hesjedal earmarked for the GC, so I think there is a lot more potential to come from him. Zinoviev Letter I actually agree that Martin is one of the rare riders who has been around for years and a leader for years without it ever becoming entirely clear what his upper limit is as a GC rider. And I agree that this is partly down to the way Garmin approached things. BUT, that said, Garmin steering him towards being primarily a one day rider was the best thing that could have happened to him. They have been 100% proven correct by his palmares. Just compare his career results to those of the kind of riders whose great ambition is to finish 5th at the Tour. If Garmin had set him to working mainly on being a GC rider at GTs he'd probably be a somewhat more developed GC rider. But how much more developed? It's impossible to say. It's extremely unlikely that he'd be Froome or Quintana's level. Maybe he'd be TJVG's level, maybe not even quite that. But as Garmin actually pushed him to develop he has a palmares that is significantly better than Gesink, JVDB2, Roche and Mollema put together rather than maybe being just a slightly better version of one of them. I hope by the way that Alaphillipe learns the same lesson and doesn't ever become the kind of rider who dreams of fifth. I hate the fact that so many riders who are never going to win the Tour are moulded into hanging on for grim death Tour placings robots. That Martin isn't like that is what makes him admirable. Does anyone know if there are somewhere profiles like the Giro has? I mean the ones with a topside view of the map of the final kms, where you can see the corners. The final kms profiles of the altitude on the TdF site are really crappy. On stage 4 there is an incline with 6-7km to go and the final km is also slightly uphill, but how much %? Giro always gives us excellent profiles compared to the tdf. Try downloading from cyclingtorrents. And meanwhile Lars Bak has just put himself back in contention for riding the Tour. You know... despite the whole broken shoulder, broken ribs, broken back, punctured lung, thing... :surprised: I'd let him choose the way he should ride if he wants to. vedrafjord Bye Bye Bicycle said: Bora-Argon 18: Shane Archbold (NZL) Jan Bárta (CZE) Cesare Benedetti (ITA) Sam Bennett (IRL) Emanuel Buchmann (GER) Bartosz Huzarski (POL) Patrick Konrad (AUT) Andreas Schillinger (GER) Paul Voß (GER) Fingers crossed Bennett doesn't get sick this year. He's had a solid year so far, regularly placing high and beating some great sprinters without getting any big wins. He seems to be getting better at surviving the mountains too. vedrafjord said: I don't really agree that he's had a solid year. Sprinters are paid to win and he only has one win. He needs to be improving from the five wins or whatever he had last year at this point in his career. That said, he doesn't seem to have been riding as many small sprinters races as previously and a lot less of them than say the French sprinters do. Hopefully he will step up in the second half of the season. yaco Eyeballs Out said: That profile is too hard for Matthews - It's more suited to Albasini. I agree, it's been 'solid', meaning 'not amazing', and I thought he would have progressed more by now, but I think he's going in the right direction and just needs that extra 1 or 2% to start winning. He was third in the points classification in the Dauphiné which shows consistency. Samamba He's in! Debusschere De Gendt Sieberg Roelandts Gallopin Roelandts in and Wellens out is the only change since last year. Super train for Greipel, but apart from Gallopin (if he has the form and doesn't target the GC) they have no one who can win the more harder stages. Hakkapelit Samamba said: Well, Wellens wasn´t he voted biggest disappointment by the belgian audience last year so no reason to take him again De Gent has won a har stage or two in the past, but who knows what form he is in. Dunno what to say about Bak, hopfully he hasn't fooled the medicala staff too mcuh into letting him ride Links to the race regulations and roadbook in french have been added to the Original Post. Also added "last kilometres" profiles where available. Rate The 2021 Tour De France Parcours! 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__label__cc	0.596332	0.403668	The Gravure Association of the Americas, Inc. \|Log In \|Become a Member! What is Gravure Gravure Education Endowment Strategic Associations Gravure Technical Forum Basic & Advanced Seminars Gravure Global Summit Online Gravure Certification Event Archive (Proceedings) Golden Cylinder Awards Cylinder Society Members Gravure Education Endowment Technical Writing Awards Gravure Education Endowment Scholarships Online Gravure Certification Training Cylinder Smarts – A Comprehensive Guide to Essential Gravure Technology Lead Author: Philip Pimlott As Gravure Presses have embraced technology, becoming faster, more economical and less labor intensive, the Gravure Cylinder has endeavored to keep pace. “Overpriced, long lead-time, outdated technology and cumbersome, resulting in the demise of Gravure and the rise of Flexography”. Statements like this one are some of the most common criticisms leveled at the Gravure cylinder — but what are the facts and what are the options? When it comes to understanding the inherent strengths and benefits of gravure printing, it is important to examine three main characteristics of the gravure cylinder: Cylinder Preparation Let’s start with the Cylinder Base. This is an easy target for detractors of gravure to attack since it has not changed much since its inception. Cylinder bases are the machine parts made to fit the Press and support the engraving layer of copper at the appropriate circumference. Bases can be made from various materials and are manufactured to specific circumference sizes. Ordering new bases for a print job adds considerable cost. However, in fairness, these costs can be amortized across multiple press runs and subsequent jobs at the same, or similar repeats. The more a specific cylinder base is used, the less it actually costs over time. In other words, cylinder bases are an investment, so it’s important to know the different material types available as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each. Steel Bases, for example are extremely durable and stable. A disadvantage is that they can only be used for a very limited range of circumferences and they are relatively heavy. Steel bases are typically constructed by attaching (via shrink fit, or welding) shafts and heads to a steel tube. The constructed piece is then machined to the appropriate circumference and the correct shaft configuration for the intended press. Shaftless cylinder bases are made in the same way, with the obvious exception of shafts. It is vital that the bases are constructed to precise tolerances for run-out, size, finish, and balance. Run-out, or TIR is a measurement of the relative accuracy between all the diametrical planes of the base. Size of the base is determined to accommodate the amount of copper that the Engraver requires for their process, typically between 0.012” and 0.020” in diameter. Finish of the base body needs to be suitable for the copper plating process. Dynamic Balancing ensures that the finished cylinder will run smoothly in the press at speed and also run true (and without vibration) in some of the production equipment used in the Engraving Process. Steel bases can practically last forever, even when given the bare minimum of attention. It is for this reason, there are massive inventories of steel bases stored and shipped between Printers and Engravers. Courtesy of Cylicron™ Cylinder base manufacturers have honed their craft over the years and have developed supply chains and production systems that can deliver cylinder bases within a few days at a reasonable cost. The same can be said for the Engravers, where production efficiencies have led to a much lower price point, bringing focus to the proportion of the base cost to the overall price of a new Engraved Cylinder. Why Steel? Several characteristics of steel need to be recognized and considered: Steel is dimensionally stable, has a known coefficient of expansion. Steel is relatively cheap, available and recyclable. Steel is relatively easy to machine and being conductive, readily processes though the Galvanic lines at the Engraver. Steel construction has a known deflection rate. Steel construction tends to be relatively heavy, requiring the use of cranes throughout the processing and Print production phases. The appropriate size tubing for a particular size may not be available when required, leading to a much more expensive material purchase and machining time at the Base manufacturer. There is a defined limit to the amount that a base can be resized for a different repeat. What’s the Alternative? Many attempts have been and still are being made to replace the traditional cylinder base with a more viable alternative. Major Base manufacturers and third party suppliers have attempted to utilize alternative materials to produce replacement cylinder bases, or repurpose existing stock bases. Rigid foam materials, with conductive coatings, extruded elastomers (both conductive and non-conductive) and, more recently, injection molding of conductive material. Market acceptance for these replacement technologies was challenged by the lack of confidence in the bond between the base material and the copper plating. The differential in Coefficient of Linear Thermal Expansion between copper and the replacement material caused delamination when the cylinder was exposed to extremely high temperatures during machining without sufficient coolant. Copper is an extremely good conductor and the non-metallic base materials were typically very poor conductors, as noted in the following examples. Coefficient of Linear Thermal Expansion Steel 12.0 Aluminum 22.2 Copper 16.6 Nickel 9.6 Zinc 29.7 Polyester – glass fiber-reinforced 25 ABS - glass fiber-reinforced 30.4 Polypropylene - glass fiber-reinforced 32 Polyurethane (PUR), rigid 57.6 Hard Rubber 77 Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) 127.8 At present, the best candidates seem to be glass reinforced ABS Polyester, and Polypropylene. Without the glass fiber reinforcement, the Thermal coefficient number increases by a factor of up to 5 (e.g. Polyester – 123.5 / Polyester – glass fiberreinforced – 25). This would suggest that glass fiber-reinforced materials would be suitable for any Steel base replacement technology being considered. Understanding that price, weight, transportation, limited resizing potential, availability of raw material, and delivery times are all real issues with steel bases, what solutions have been offered, and how do they stack up to steel? Aluminum Bases Aluminum has been considered a lighter-weight solution for the past 50 years or so. The challenge has always centered around creating a strong bond between the aluminum base and the copper required for engraving. There is a substantial difference between the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Aluminum and Copper. However, they are both good conductors and therefore react to temperature changes more rapidly than the non-metallic alternatives. In recent years the use of Combustion Powder Spray/Thermal Spray Coating type technology has offered a solution to this problem. In this process, the basic principle is that metal powders are fed through a flame and propelled by high velocity Oxygen or air onto a substrate. Refinements to this principal and the development of alloys have led to a Copper plating replacement process and the possibility of removing the need for Chromium plating. Price — About 1.5 times the price of Steel by volume. Weight — About 55% the weight of Steel for an equivalent strength. Transportation — You can put more on a truck before reaching maximum weight tolerances. Limited resizing potential — Same as Steel. Delivery times — Same as Steel. Availability of raw material — Readily available in many more size options than Steel. Note: Some years ago, a method of spraying an initial layer of Zinc onto a fiberglass core was patented. The concept relied upon the relatively low melting point of Zinc and the ability to coat that layer with Copper. Cold Spray technology has also been explored as an option; here the high velocity of the spray creates the bond. Nickel Sleeves Electroformed Nickel sleeves are used in conjunction with air-mandrels as a lightweight substitute for the traditional steel base. In essence, the steel base element of the cylinder stays at the Engraver and the printer and the nickel sleeve is transported between them. The nickel sleeve can be copper-plated and processed through the Engraver using the airmandrels and existing equipment. On press, it’s the same story; the nickel sleeves are mounted onto the air-mandrels and are loaded into the press as normal, or mounted onto cantilevered mandrels. Particular care has to be taken in cleaning both the components prior to assembly, as the slightest inclusion can show up on the printed piece. Ink can penetrate between the sleeve and the mandrel, making them difficult to remove without damage. Each sleeve can only be used for one size and typically, due to economics, only one time. Any application where a user has the same, or limited repeats to deal with (some label work, gift- wrap, decorative and product) may find this technology appropriate to their needs. Price — Major investment in an array of airmandrels at the Engraver and the Printer; the sleeves themselves are not cheap either. Weight — a tiny fraction of the weight of the equivalent steel base. Transportation — in Cardboard tubes, or boxes via your shipper of choice. Limited resizing potential — one size only, that goes for the sleeve and the mandrel! Availability of raw material — No shortage. Delivery times — Repeat sizes should be available within a week. “Polymer and Elastomer” Bases Another lightweight solution comes in the form of a rigid Polyurethane Foam body that is molded onto a standard tubular steel axle and is subsequently coated with conductive material to enable copper plating. Price – About 75% of the steel equivalent with the potential to rent, rather than purchase, bases. Weight – 70% lighter than the steel equivalent. Transportation – More to a truckload and less reliance on cranes. Resizing Potential — Can be utilized for any future circumference. Availability of Raw Material — Not restricted by material size availability. Delivery Times — Usually supplied copper plated to size, but still similar to Steel Base. Utilizing the same technology as the Lightweight Cylinder, existing stock cylinders can be reused for different circumferences (larger). Although there are obviously limited weight advantages, the other attributes and limitations associated with polymer-based cylinders apply. Note: As well as molding build-up material onto the cylinder, there are options to wind extruded material spirally around the cylinder, or by injection molding; both conductive and non- conductive materials are applied by these methods. Repurposing: Lightweight Build-Up System Traditional Resizing Methods Steel sleeves can be added to steel based cylinders, effectively utilizing the old cylinder construction to attain a new (larger) size. Price — almost as much as a new base. Weight — can double the weight. Transportation — Less per load. Limited resizing potential — Swings & Roundabouts. Availability of raw material — as with Steel Delivery times — same as a new Steel base. Note: Adding copper through plating, or reducing the steel body in a lathe achieves relatively small changes in circumference. Thicker layers of copper can also be applied through metal spraying processes. ATTRIBUTES AS COMPARED TO STEEL BASES Polymer Re-sizing Traditional Re-sizing Limited Resizing Potential Availability of Raw Material + Better — Worse = Equal Stock cylinder Looking at the table above, one would think that the adoption of Polymer cylinders would have been an ideal candidate for success. However, for the reasons stated earlier, they were never commercially acceptable in North America. To see why, one would also have to compare Polymer cylinders against Traditional steel base attributes: Steel is dimensionally stable, has a known coefficient of expansion (COE). Steel is relatively easy to machine and being conductive, readily process though the Galvanic lines at the Engraver Versus: Polymer cylinders are dimensionally unstable, with a COE at odds with other component materials. Polymer cylinders use oil-based material that cannot be recycled. Polymer cylinders are easily resized but are not inherently conductive and difficult to process through Galvanic lines. Polymer cylinders have a deflection rate that has to be modified through engineered steel components. Note: The caveat to some of these conclusions is the possibility of engraving directly into a polymer surface and coating the engraved surface via vacuum applied amorphous carbon. (Chrome surface replacement has been studied and successfully trialed to determine ink transfer and the ability to wipe non image areas cleanly.) Beyond the materials that make up the cylinder, another key component of gravure performance is the way cylinders are prepared for engraving. Like bases, preparation methods vary in their ability to address specific printing concerns or desired outcomes as well as the necessities of maintenance, down time, and other operational aspects unique to each individual Printer. Thermal spray coating Polishing copper plated cylinders Copper has long been the preferred (and original) substrate for engraving, readily available and readily recyclable. Intelligent use of copper can be very economical. Copper will only adhere to a clean (oxide and grease free) surface, so chemicals are used to degrease and deoxidize the surface to be plated. For a steel base, an intermediate layer has to be plated onto the steel surface prior to copper plating in the acidic solutions used. Cyanide plating fell out of favor some years ago because of health concerns. It has since been replaced by nickel or alkaline copper. These deposits are usually only a few microns thick and are designed to protect the steel from erosion caused by the Sulfuric acid used in the final plating process, which would result in the plate not adhering properly. With the advent of Electromechanical Engraving, the character of the plated copper had to be adjusted. It is vital that the diamond stylus of the engraving machine cuts through the copper cleanly, leaving a smooth cut and no burr on the surface. To accommodate this, additives were developed that gave the copper plate the close-grained characteristics required, sometimes referred to as “Hard Copper”. The copper-plated cylinder needs to be blemish free and dimensionally correct. The more accurate and smooth the copper plated surface is, the less machining required. Levelers and brighteners are added to the plating solution to help the process; however, much is dependent on the surface of the cylinder, prior to plating. Most plated cylinders are machined on some combination of a lathe and a grinding process, although there are many cylindrical milling machines (polishmasters) still in service. The criteria for a machined copper plated cylinder are that: the copper metal is appropriate for the desired engraving process, the circumference is exact, and the cylinder is round and runs true to the shaft bearing surface. The surface finish needs to be fine enough that it will not retain pigment in the surface texture, but has sufficient roughness to help lubricate the doctor blade in the press; a typical standard surface roughness measurement would be 0.04Ra. Over the years, copper plating has evolved into a precise science, using automated equipment supported by sophisticated control systems; a long way from the Dickensian death traps of old. Automated processing line Ballard Shells Simply put, a Ballard Shell is a layer of Copper plated onto a polished copper surface that has nickel oxide present, enabling the layer to be removed when the engraving needs to be changed. The trick is in having enough adhesion to retain a good bond during processing and printing, but not so much as to make removal difficult. Ballard shells are routinely used in publication, where standard repeats and frequent copy change make the technique ideal. Any base can be used for Ballard Shell production, in fact the technique can negate some of the risks associated with Polyurethane bases and Nickel sleeves. Primarily used for Direct Laser Engraving, Zinc was chosen for its tendency to readily melt (melting point of Zinc is 420°C [as opposed to 1,100°C for Copper] and it has a boiling point of 900°C), zinc vaporizes under the extreme heat of the laser light. Zinc has also been found to be excellent for Electromechanically engraving, as it cuts very cleanly due to its crystalline structure. These engravings must be Chromium plated to protect the relatively soft zinc surface but cannot be refurbished by de-chrome / re-chrome, as with copper surfaced cylinders. Epoxy Resins & Polymer Coatings Laser Engraved Epoxy Resin and urethane/acetyl polymer coatings were developed and trialed in the early 1980s. These trials were abandoned due to unpredictable surface wear and performance on press. The criteria for the trials were demanding. The expectation was to replace traditional engravings for the high-volume magazine press runs of the day. Since that time, different attempts have been made to resurrect this type of product, taking advantage of the progress made in material science. The future of Laser Engraved Polymer/Resin is still uncertain, and also brings the questions about using traditional bases and processing prior to coatings along with it. Engraved polymer cylinder Ceramic Cylinders are fairly new to Gravure, but are finding their niche in the industry. The thermal spray coating on these cylinders is actually Chromium Oxide, which produces a hardness of 1150 Vickers and a porosity of <3%. The laser engraved cells resemble those found on anilox rolls, from which the technology was developed. Advantages include 10 – 20 times the life of a traditional copper and chrome cylinder and good ink transfer from very fine screen rulings. Currently used for coatings, adhesives and primers, some “product” gravure is produced from these cylinders. Engravable Nickel Developed and marketed initially for use with Nickel Sleeves, this promised to offer a surface that could be engraved using standard equipment and print reasonable run lengths without the need for Chromium plating. Development ceased in North America and Europe; there were options to apply the engravable Nickel to alternative carriers other than the original Nickel Sleeve. Press trials have shown that this technology certainly had the potential to succeed, either as a stand-alone product, or in conjunction with another innovation. There are three main Engraving methodologies in general use today: Indirect Laser Imaging Direct Laser Electromechanical engraving machine Electromechanical Engraving (AKA Electronic Engraving) First introduced in the 1960s, electronic engraving became popular for packaging in the 1970s. The technology brought consistency and predictability to the gravure process for the first time. Prior to electronic engraving there was indirect exposing of a screen and a positive to a gelatin coated paper (carbon tissue), or direct exposure of screened images onto a photosensitive coating on the copper cylinder. The etching process for carbon tissue depended on a series of dilutions of ferric chloride that would etch progressive tone values to differing depths. For direct exposure, spray etching with a constant dilution of ferric chloride was utilized. Although direct exposure increased predictability, there remained risk of uneven etching and therefore subsequent revision of the cylinder. Electronic engraving relies on a constant engraving head frequency and variable surface speeds and traverse speeds to deliver the desired line screens and angles. The frequency (speed) of Engraving Heads increased over the years and, currently, engraving speeds of 24 kHz are achievable. Along with this development came more refined techniques that improved the fidelity of the engravings. It is true to say that the results achieved by the latest electromechanical engraving machines bear no resemblance to the early models. Electronic engraving Advances in electromechanical engraving technology have addressed the issue of “sawtooth” edges on text, which has been used as a criticism of the gravure industry over the past forty years. Different stylus angles, which are measured at the cutting tip deliver differing cell depths for any given cell width, so a fine screen that is selected for detail can be made to deliver the cell volume required for color density by selecting a more acute engraving stylus angle. Common angles are 115° to 140°. For some specialized engraving, stylus angles below 90° may be utilized, in these cases the very tip of the stylus may be ground to a “chisel” edge to provide strength and engrave a larger, but shallower highlight cell. To avoid moiré patterns in the printed product, pseudo-screen angles are achieved by adjusting the elongation and compression of the engraved cells along with the screen ruling. Elongation and compression are achieved by altering the surface speed of the cylinder against the constant frequency of the engraving head. The pitch (screen ruling, or lines per linear inch) of the engraving track determines the potential size, or width of the engraved cell. If you can imagine a screw cut thread, the relative coarseness of the thread is dependent on the traverse speed, the faster the traverse speed the courser the thread, which in turn allows the tool to cut deeper. Now if you imagine that the tool can also track in and out, in relation to the centerline, you can visualize how the cell shape is formed. Cell geometry (screen angles & tonal range) This process improved on the original direct exposure technology by utilizing more substantial coatings and laser ablation. The laser head can be controlled to deliver very precise shapes that conform to the outline of the desired image, therefore creating extremely fine detail in small font text, for example. Because this technology ablates the coating very rapidly, line screens of 2,000 lines per centimeter may be achieved within reasonable process times. The etching process can be ferric chloride, or electrolytic etching using saline solutions. For linework, this process is well established and accepted for the delivery of high-fidelity printing. Due to the etching process, concerns remain regarding the method’s ability to deliver consistent cell volumes and cell walls across areas of line work. As a result, technology for half-tone work under this method continues to evolve. Direct Laser Engraving Originally developed for the Publication industry, the benefits of this method further increased consistency against the multi-ribbon (multi-head) Helio-Klischograph Engraving machines and the etching processes that were typically used to balance color from page to page. Subsequently, Max Daetwyler Corporation developed a system that successfully engraved into zinc-plated cylinders using laser technology. Speeds were increased to 70 kHz and developed to engrave into copper; there remains the possibility of laser engraving into many substrates. The possibility still exists that the industry may return to a non-metallic substrate, just as was originally intended in the creation of the process. The laser engraved cell has several advantages over Electronic Engraving. Because of the “bucket” shaped cell, as opposed to the inverted pyramid delivered by a diamond stylus, Laser has the ability to deliver ink in a more uniform and economical fashion. The industry has chosen half-autotypical screens which alter both the area and depth of cells to describe tonal values, whereas “conventional” laser engraving used cells of a relatively consistent area and differing depths (more like the carbon tissue of old). This produced an almost photographic quality (continuous tone) to illustrations, but with the advent of faster solvents, was challenging to print in the highlight areas. Because of the mechanical restrictions of the engraving and exposing machines, they are limited to a finite number of “screen angles” by altering the traverse, rotation and head frequency. By combining screens and angles, illustrations can be printed without the risk of Moiré patterns, or color shift. In the case of direct laser engraving, only two angles are available. The exception is “conventional laser,” because each cell is relatively the same size and 100% coverage at differing ink thicknesses, there is no fear of screen clash and therefore, no need for different screen angles. The choice of screen rulings, that is the number of rows of cells per linear inch, or centimeter, is determined by the type of work to be printed along with the ink, or coating and the substrate. The more rows, or lines per inch/cm, the higher the resolution of the printed image. In electromechanical engraving, ensuring that the correct amount of ink is transferred to achieve the color densities requires different stylus geometry. The more acute the angle of the diamond stylus tip, the deeper the engraved cell for a given area. For indirect laser, the depth of the cell is controlled by the etching time. Direct laser determines cell depth by altering the power of the laser light. As the available power of lasers increase, newer machines are successfully engraving directly into copper, bringing a new level of resolution to conventional processing lines. Not bad for a process that has supposedly not changed in fifty years! Where Does Gravure Go From Here? Gravure Press The processes that are currently in daily use are capable of delivering a fine product for a reasonable cost. In the future, challenges and opportunities will include new applications for gravure and shorter press runs, requiring faster changeovers. Further development using current methods and materials will continue, will create value and should be recognized. However, if the industry is to experience a game-change, new methodologies and materials will most likely be required. Encouraging innovation and embracing opportunities presented by economical, portable, high performance replacement image carriers could bring significant benefits to the industry as a whole. One such example would be industry-led technology developments that can deliver more economical solutions for press-side engraving that perform well on press, without the requirement for chrome – an advancement that would represent a giant leap forward. Click here to download the print friendly version Filed Under: Technical Articles Industry Highlights – November 2020 GravureExchange Newsletter – November 2020 Global News Highlights for October 2020 GravureExchange Newsletter – October 2020 All the News – from All Over the World Keep up to date with industry-related articles and be among the first to find about future events and other exclusive materials. Antitrust Policy Statement © 2020 GAA \| Business Optimization Services Powered by Kompani Group GAA has updated our mailing address for all correspondence and payments. 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__label__wiki	0.574735	0.574735	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance PS3 Review On May 23, 2013 By AnjelIn Entertainment, Games, Games, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3, Reviews Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is one hell of a wild ride. It’s not a long ride, but the time you spend on it is well worth the price of admission. It throws you into the action, and outside of the cutscenes, it never really lets up until it’s over. Platinum Games and Hideo Kojima decided that while it may only be about 5-7 hours per play through, they were going to cram as much into them as they could, and god am I glad they did. The story is exactly what you would expect from Hideo Kojima with a Platinum Games flair. It has all of your usual Hideo Kojima ramblings about life, power, environment and war as an economy. It’s big, it’s outlandish, and it’s HUGELY over the top, but in this context, it fits the game perfectly. If you’re not a Metal Gear fan, then you will enjoy seeing how the universe changed after the events of MGS4, and how all of that led to the events in Rising. If your not a Metal Gear Solid fan, well then skip to the good stuff and enjoy the rest of the ride. The story is really there for the fans, and as a fan I appreciated that. But I also understand there are those out there who do not, luckily there is a bit here for everyone. Metal Gear Rising’s combat is fast and furious. They give you a weak and strong attack, which you can chain together to produce combo’s. Combo’s start with just your basic chain, but once you start leveling up your move set, you gain access to bigger and stronger combo moves. Once you do enough of these combo’s and fill your power gauge, you can go into what is essentially “blade time”. Blade time essentially slows everything down and allows you to use the right analog stick to free swing your sword. You can use this time to deal out as much damage as possible as well as use precise blade cutting on a target to do some massive damage. For example: you can remove limbs, heads and sometimes if you’re fighting the right enemy, the left arm for a bonus. Sometimes after you have worn an enemy down or blocked correctly and you trigger blade time a little red box will show up. If you manage to slash within that box you will be rewarded with a “zandatsu” What that basically means is, you will reach in and rip out your enemies guts and use them to recharge your own, it is a bit gruesome, but all of the enemies in the game are cyborgs, so you don’t have to feel bad. Defense also plays a pivotal role in Metal Gear Rising. Instead of giving you a block button, the only way to block in Rising is by pressing the light attack button and pushing in the direction of the enemy. It is a good system, one that is easy enough to be useful, but engaging enough to keep it interesting. As you progress, the game also allows you to use secondary weapons. These are usually after a boss fight and allow you to have a variation of their own weapon. I personally didn’t find them all that useful, as there is a slight pause when pulling a secondary weapon out, and as such I found it more fluid to play with the default sword. But some of the secondary weapons are kind of fun. The Sai for example, while not overly powerful, allows you to disrupt the enemy A.I, stunning them, which allows you to really go to town on that enemy. So by including them they allow for some changes to the play style and variety. There are also consumable weapons such as grenades, rocket launchers and the like. Again, I personally did not find these all that useful, save for the odd time i shot at a helicopter with a rocket launcher. Graphically I found Rising to be a beautiful game. The frame rate was very stable, even during crazy boss battles or hectic chases. One of the cooler features in the game is the ability to slow down time and chop stuff up. While doing it, there is a little counter in the corner telling you how many pieces it has ended up in. The camera was, for the most part, very good, although there were a few times that it did get a little crazy. Overall, for this kind of game, the camera was very good. I found the voice work as a whole to be fairly solid as well. Although, I am still not sure if the guy they chose to voice Raiden (Quinton Flynn) was the best choice, as I feel out of all the voice work in the game his could be considered the weakest. Metal Gear Rising is by no means a long game. I think on my first play though I logged around 6 hours. There is also, in true Metal Gear Solid tradition, VR Missions to unlock, as well as many collectibles and secrets. Also, I do know they are planning on releasing some DLC as well, so that should help bring some people back for another go. For myself personally, I liked the length, nothing about it ever felt like they were adding fluff to make the game longer. But if you are the kind of person who will burn though this in 2 days and then be angry that it’s not longer, well then, this game is clearly not for you. But if you are the person who always wondered what would happen if Platinum Games made a game set in the Metal Gear Solid universe with crazy cyborg ninjas, hacking through cars and don’t mind a shorter playtime. Well then, man, do I have the game for you. Downloadable contentHideo KojimaKonamiMetal GearMetal Gear Solidmetal-gear-rising-revengeancemetal-gear-solid-risingPlatinum GamesPlayStation 3PS3RaidenReviewSolid SnakeVideo Game Grand Theft Auto V Special Edition and Collector’s Edition Available for Pre-Order Pacific Rim Trailer (Holy Sh*t this Movie looks Insane)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line784
__label__cc	0.72981	0.27019	Ben Fulford Updates White Hats Report Nazism & Zionism New World Disorder The Situation is So Intense, it Involves the Entire US Government \| FBI Insider Syria Crisis Turkey Crisis Global Settlements The Interview The Global Elite Never Want You To Hear BRICS / SCO / EAEU Maritime Silk Road Corporatocracy / Fascism Nuclear/Kinetic Warfare HAARP / Manmade Disasters Drugs & Trafficking Intelligence/Espionage US Militia Syrian Army Just 7 Km from Sealing Off ISIS Lattakia Oil Route December 15, 2015 Geopolitics101 Leave a comment The Syrian Army has made great strides in recovering the highway being used by ISIS oil tanker trucks at the Turkey-Lattakia border. These critical advances will facilitate the supply of more materiel for the final push to recover the entire Lattakia province from the enemy and seal off that part of the Syrian border with Turkey. The Lattakia oil route is very critical to the Islamic State due to its close proximity to Turkey refineries and sea port terminals. It is estimated that the 2nd phase of the Russian-led anti-ISIS operation will be completed by the first quarter of next year. Syria: Army Few Kilometers Away from Turkish Border in Lattakia Province Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:4 TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army is now only a few kilometers away from the Turkish borders after it managed to reopen the Qastal Ma’af road in the coastal province of Lattakia, FNA dispatches said on Monday. The Syrian army’s advances towards the Turkish border came concurrent with the reopening of Qastal Ma’af road after a two-year closure. A Syrian army officer said that the army backed by popular forces regained control of the Al-Koz mountain in Lattakia’s mountainous region. The officer noted that scores of terrorists were killed and a large number of them fled towards the Rabi’a region during the clashes with the army. The Syrian army also captured Height 713 near al-Bujaq fortifications and al-Khazra region. He underlined the importance of the reopening of the Qasta Ma’af road leading to Kassab border passage, and said, “After the infantry units reach the Turkish borders, the siege of Rabi’a will be tightened.” Also on Saturday, the Syrian forces brought the strategic Lattakia-Kassab highway under their control on Saturday after 3 years. Qastal Ma’af is a town in Lattakia province; it is a tourism resort in Northern Lattakia and 12 kilometers from Turkey’s Southern borders. Majority of its population are Turkmen. The Syrian Army and its allies are now in a good supplying position in the coastal province of Lattakia after they brought the strategic Lattakia-Kassab highway under their control, military sources said Saturday. The sources said that after 3 years of closure the Syrian government forces reopened Lattakia-Kassab highway. “The recapture of Turkmen mountain (Jabal al-Turkmen) by the Syrian forces played a significant role in reopening the highway,” the military source further added. Earlier reports said that the militant groups withdrew from one of the tops of al-Koz mountain and Height 713 in the Northern side of al-Khdra village after the Russian fighter jets bombed their positions and the government forces broke through their defense lines. The militant groups left behind scores of dead and wounded members and fled the battlefield. http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940923000917 Over 100 Jaish Al-Fateh Terrorists Killed in Hama Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:41 TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army repelled attacks by Jaish al-Fateh terrorists on military posts in Hama province, and killed over 100 terrorists. The army clashed with terrorist groups which tried to attack military posts in the villages and towns of al-Bowida, al-Masasneh, Zilin, al-Mahroukah, Zour and al-Zalaqiyat in the Northern countryside of Hama on Sunday night, sources said Monday. The sources added the army killed more than 100 terrorists, and destroyed two armored vehicles and other machinegun-equipped vehicles of the militants. Meanwhile, terrorist groups acknowledged on their social media pages that they failed to attack the military posts. The groups also said they suffered heavy losses. Mustafa Adel al-Melhem of the so-called Jaish al-Izza, Khaled Shahwan, Ibrahim Salah Hasoud, Mahmoud Mukhtar al-Rajo and Zafer al-Bakkour were identified among the dead terrorists, according to the Takfiri groups. Earlier reports said the army managed to put the situation in the key town of al-Masasneh under control, killing and injuring a large group of terrorists. 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__label__cc	0.632837	0.367163	Topic: Resources Wrestling With Darkness \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on December 7, 2017 in Adamah, Education, Farming, Holidays, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Resources, Spirituality, Weekly Parsha by Jacob Weiss, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Hazon Parashat Vayishlach This week’s Torah portion — Vayishlach — is jam packed with complex and significant plot lines that the reader can surely glean valuable lessons from. The parsha opens up with Jacob preparing himself and his family for their eventual encounter with his twin brother Esau, who he has not seen in quite a long while. We then read about Shimon and Levi’s attacking of the city of Shechem, followed by Rachel’s passing away, while giving birth to her youngest son Binyamin. I want to further examine the relationship of Jacob and Esau — and how that presents in this week’s parsha — as well as exploring Jacob’s nighttime meeting with the angel. In the first chapter of Vayishlach, Jacob says to God: “Now deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he come and strike me, and strike a mother and children.” We see here very clearly just how anxious Jacob is in anticipation of encountering his twin brother. Jacob and Esau are the perfect twin foils for one another. Since the time that Jacob came out of Rebecca’s womb clutching onto […] “Down To Earth” Judaism \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on November 16, 2017 in Education, Holidays, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Reflections, Resources, Spirituality, Weekly Parsha by Darya Watnick, Edlavitch DC JCC, Washington, DC Chayei Sarah This week’s Torah portion is Chayei Sarah, literally “The Life of Sarah.” The title is a bit of a misnomer, as Sarah dies in the second verse. This portion instead focuses on Sarah’s legacy — specifically Abraham and Isaac, those most influenced by her incredible life. It’s a legacy all about family life and connection to tradition – a story that mirrors much of my work here at the DC JCC as a JOFEE Fellow. Here’s what happens in Chayei Sarah, in a nutshell: Sarah dies at age 127 and is buried in the Cave of Machpelah, in Hebron, which Abraham buys from Ephron the Hittite. Abraham then sends his servant Eliezer to find a wife for Isaac. In order to find the right woman, Eliezer devises the “camel test”:when he asks for water at the well, which woman will also offer to give his camels a drink. Rebecca passes the test and returns with Eliezer to Isaac and Abraham. Isaac and Rebecca get married. Then Abraham takes a new wife, Keturah, and has six more sons. Abraham dies at the age of 175 and is buried next to Sarah, as […] Gender Identity, Oaths, and Inheritance in Matot-Masei \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on July 27, 2017 in Education, Food, Food Justice, Holidays, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Reflections, Resources, Weekly Parsha by Darya Watnick, Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC Parashat Matot-Masei This week in the Torah we see a double portion: Matot-Masei. Combining Matot and Masei, the two chapters at the end of Numbers/Bamidbar, allows for the need to start the book of Devarim/Deuteronomy on the Shabbat before Tisha b’Av. Matot and Masei are both rather long portions but in the interest of brevity here’s a condensed summary: We start Parshat Matot (Numbers/Bamidbar 30:3-32:42) with a discussion of vows and oaths and the differences in fulfillment for a man and a woman. Moses and the sons of Israel start a war against Midian. It was a brutal war and many of the Midianites are killed (on Moses’ orders). Reuben and Gad want to stay where they are – rather than cross over to the land of Israel. Of course, Moses was furious that they wanted to tend to their herds instead of going with their brothers. Parshat Masei (Numbers/Bamidbar 33:1-36:13) starts with Reuben and Gad promising to help the other tribes settle in the Promised Land before settling themselves in the land across the Jordan River. Moses apportions the land to the tribes and sets up cities of refuge. […] When a Donkey Speaks Truth to Power \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on July 14, 2017 in Education, Farming, Food, Food Justice, Holidays, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Reflections, Resources, Spirituality, Sukkot, Teens, Tu B’Shvat, Weekly Parsha by Hannah Slipakoff, Jewish Farm School, Philadelphia, PA Parashat Balak In this week’s Parasha, Balak (Numbers 22:2- 25:9), we read a tale about the ways in which kindness and gratitude contribute to justice and G-dliness, and an allegory relating systemic patterns of oppression to land: King Balak of Moab, a ruler whose name means devastator, empty, or wasting, desperately attempts to curse the Israelites. He despises the Tribe of Jacob so deeply, that he attempts to hire Balaam to damn the Israelites for him: There is a people that came out of Egypt; it hides the earth from view, and it is settled next to me. Come then, put a curse upon this people for me, since they are too numerous for me; perhaps I can thus defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed indeed, and he whom you curse is cursed. ~Numbers 22:5-22:7 Balaam mounts a literal WISE ass (inciteful female donkey) and sets out on his wicked task. The Divine however, has a different plan. G-d sends an armed angel to disrupt Balaam’s path, and each time the donkey attempts to avoid danger, Balaam fiercely beats her. […] When It Rains It Pours \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on July 6, 2017 in Education, Farming, Food, Food Justice, Hazon Seal of Sustainability, Israel, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Opportunities, Reflections, Resources, Spirituality, Teens, Weekly Parsha by Ryan Kaplan, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Parshat Chukat “Moses made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard; and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, they would look at the copper serpent and recover.” Numbers 21:9 As I write this post, I sit in my office in Atlanta with the threat of rain clouds to my left and blueberry waffles, coffee, and a coworker’s copy of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) to my right. Georgia’s summer has been very wet thus far, and the promise of the coming downpour outside my window sets a looming melancholic tone for this week’s cinematic Torah portion: Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1). Much happens in the chapters of Chukat. In the interest of brevity: The wandering Israelites are taught in “the ways of the red heifer” (that is to say, they’re told how to purify themselves after coming into contact with a human corpse); Miriam dies and water becomes scarce; Moses and Aaron fall out of G-d’s good graces after striking a rock in search of water instead of speaking to it; Aaron follows Miriam in death and a 30 day period of mourning begins (up from the normal 7 days of Shiva); […] Calling the Congregation \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on June 20, 2017 in Adamah, Animals, Counting the Omer, Education, Events, Farming, Food, Holidays, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Resources, Shavuot, Spirituality, Weekly Parsha by Jacob Weiss, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Hazon Parashat Beha’alotcha “Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them; and they shall be unto thee for the calling of the congregation… And when they shall blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting.” Bamidbar perek yud, pasuk bet (Numbers 10:2) I recently recalled to a friend— just after our festival of Shavuot — that I had now been in attendance at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center for all three of the Shalosh Regalim, which are the three main pilgrimage festivals. Shavuot, Passover, and Sukkot all took on very different energies at Isabella Freedman. There remained a constant, though: the spirit, joy, and sheer heart that was poured into those festivals by everyone who attended, and by everyone who worked so tirelessly to make those retreat and community gatherings manifest. An incredible sense of community occurs during Jewish holiday retreats at Isabella Freedman, where I am currently a JOFEE Fellow. After spending the seven weeks of the Omer preparing ourselves, the Jewish people traditionally celebrate the festival of Shavuot to commemorate the receiving of the […] Old Stones, New Ripples – Reflections on the Close of JOFEE Fellowship Cohort 1 \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Yoshi Silverstein on May 18, 2017 in Climate Change, Education, Events, Farming, Food, Food Conference, Food Festival, Food Justice, Hazon Seal of Sustainability, Holidays, Institutional Food Values, Jewish Greening Fellowship, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Newsletters, Opportunities, Reflections, Resources, Spirituality, Sukkot, Teens, Topsy Turvy Bus Tour by Yoshi Silverstein – JOFEE Fellowship Director May 18th, 2017 \| 22nd Iyar 5777 \| 37th day of the omer \| gevurah she’b’yesod 16 Organizations. 17 Fellows. Over 500 programs. An estimated 37,000 participants in Jewish Outdoor, Food, Farming & Environmental Education (JOFEE) programs across the country. These are some of the incredible numbers emerging as we look back at our first JOFEE Fellowship cohort, who completed their closing seminar and siyum last week at our sister JOFEE organization, the Pearlstone Center outside Baltimore, MD. Behind those numbers are thousands of people encountering – many for the first time – the incredible power of a Jewish tradition steeped in deep cultural and spiritual connection with the earth, with place, with human communities and our surrounding ecosystems, with our food, and with each other. A Jewish tradition that recognizes both the limits and abundance of the resources our home planet provides for us. A tradition that says this world is amazing – there is so much magnificence – and yet we have work to do – not to complete by ourselves, but neither to desist from doing our part. And wow did our JOFEE Fellows do their part! Here are a […] This Passover, Take Action for the Climate – D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Rachel Aronson on April 13, 2017 in Activism, Climate Change, Counting the Omer, Education, Events, Holidays, Jewish Greening Fellowship, JOFEE, JOFEE Fellowship, Reflections, Resources, Spirituality by Rachel Aronson – JOFEE / Sustainability and Community Engagement Fellow, Hazon Jews across the world this week commemorated leaving Egypt to become free people for the holiday of Passover. Friends and family sit around the table together for the seder, celebrating freedom with comfy pillows to recline on and lots of kosher wine. Unfortunately, Passover can also represent something else: the holiday of waste. Those who keep kosher for Pesach (Passover) deep-clean our kitchens before the holiday, rooting out bread, tortillas, muffins, crackers, and every other kind of chametz (leavened or yeasted products) that’s sitting around the house. And to ensure that everything is kosher, we switch out our regular sets of dishes with a special set of only-for-Passover dishes. But who wants to keep an extra set of dishes around the house? It takes up storage space. It’s inconvenient. Understandably, many of us – out of convenience, or out of necessity – use disposable plates, cutlery, cups, and more. Ironically, many of us end up celebrating this holiday of freedom and liberation with trash bags full of styrofoam. Thankfully, Passover is also a holiday that reminds us of our ability to make change — as individuals and as a society. […] What’s Mine is Yours, and What’s Yours is Yours \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on November 17, 2016 in Animals, Climate Change, Education, Farming, Food, Food Justice, Holidays, Institutional Food Values, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, Reflections, Resources, Spirituality, Tzedek/Justice, Weekly Parsha by Michael Fraade, Jewish Community of Louisville, Louisville, KY Parashat Vayera Editor’s Note: Welcome to D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog! Most weeks throughout the year, you’ll be hearing from the JOFEE Fellows: reflections on their experiences, successful programs they’ve planned and implemented, gleanings from the field, and connections to the weekly Torah portion and what they’ve learned from their experiences with place in their host communities for the year. Views expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily represent Hazon. Be sure to check back weekly! P.S. Interested in being or hosting a JOFEE Fellow? Applications for cohort two are now open for both prospective fellows and prospective host institutions and will continue to be reviewed as positions are available. Parashat Vayera opens with Abraham rushing to greet three guests who appear near his tent while he is sitting under a terebinth. “My lords,” he insists, “Let a little water be brought; bathe your feet and recline under the tree. And let me fetch a morsel of bread that you may refresh yourselves.” He and Sarah prepare bread, milk, and a freshly slaughtered calf for their guests, who soon reveal themselves as angels and inform Abraham that Sarah will soon give birth […] Grappling with the Ark of Responsibility \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on November 3, 2016 in Animals, Climate Change, Detroit, Education, Farming, Food, Holidays, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, Opportunities, Resources, Shmita, Spirituality, Teens, Tzedek/Justice, Weekly Parsha by Bailey Lininger, Tamarack Camps, Bloomfield Hills, MI Parashat Noach Editor’s Note: Welcome to D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog! Most weeks throughout the year, you’ll be hearing from the JOFEE Fellows: reflections on their experiences, successful programs they’ve planned and implemented, gleanings from the field, and connections to the weekly Torah portion and what they’ve learned from their experiences with place in their host communities for the year. Views expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily represent Hazon. Be sure to check back weekly! P.S. Interested in being or hosting a JOFEE Fellow? Applications for cohort two are now open for both prospective fellows and prospective host institutions and will continue to be reviewed as positions are available. Some days, my job makes me feel like Noah, stocking his Ark full of animals before the flood, the weight of the world’s responsibility on my shoulders. Let me explain: At Tamarack Camps, where I’m placed as a JOFEE fellow, I have the good fortune of being the supervisor of Tamarack’s brand new nature center: The Teva Center. Just finished in June 2016, we’ve slowly but surely been filling with new animal residents ever since. Our goal is a nature center filled with […] A Heart to Know, Eyes to See, and Ears to Hear \| D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog By Hazon on September 22, 2016 in Elul, Farming, Food, Holidays, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, Resources, Shavuot, Sukkot, Weekly Parsha by Danielle Smith, Eden Village Camp, Putnam Valley, NY Parashat Ki Tavo Editor’s Note: Welcome to D’varim HaMakom: The JOFEE Fellows Blog! Most weeks throughout the year, you’ll be hearing from the JOFEE Fellows: reflections on their experiences, successful programs they’ve planned and implemented, gleanings from the field, and connections to the weekly Torah portion and what they’ve learned from their experiences with place in their host communities for the year. Be sure to check back weekly! P.S. Interested in being or hosting a JOFEE Fellow? Applications for cohort two are now open for both prospective fellows and prospective host institutions! In this week’s Torah portion, Ki Tavo, Moses speaks reflectively and instructively to the Israelites as they approach the Promised Land, finally nearing the end of their forty year journey through the wilderness. Here at Eden Village Camp, we may not have spent forty years wandering the wilderness of Putnam Valley (though sometimes the packed days and weeks at camp can feel almost as long #jewishcamptime), but the transition into the fall season is the perfect time for deep reflection and exhalations. It was a fast leap from summer into the slower pace of the fall, and after two months of […] Fit To Eat Sourcebook Download By Hazon on February 5, 2015 in Education, Food, Resources Thank you for filling out the survey. You can download a PDF of the Hazon Fit To Eat Sourcebook here. Because Sometimes it Rains on Your Sukkah By Hazon on October 7, 2014 in Adamah, Education, Farming, Food Justice, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Jewish Texts, JOFEE, Reflections, Resources, Spirituality, Tzedek/Justice by Sarah Chandler Geshem Be’ito (Acceptance of Rain in Its Time) The following essay will be published in the forthcoming book of teachings “Good Noticing” published by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. The rhythms of the Jewish calendar may not coincide with your particular climate. At times, our traditional rituals may range from the impractical to the impossible. For example, in the Northern Hemisphere, calling upon light in the darkness of Chanukah in Kislev/December always resonates, but singing about blossoming trees in Shevat/January may not make sense. How can we stay true to our tradition when the weather doesn’t cooperate? And as mindfulness practitioners, how might we elevate the news of undesirable weather? Those of us who live in the Northeastern United States are usually blessed with bountiful precipitation year-round. Furthermore, our religion is no longer based on the careful balance between following God’s laws and receiving in return enough rain for our crops to survive. The Reform movement even removed the second paragraph of the Shema from prayer books to make the bold statement: we are modern Jews—we do not believe that we can influence God to change the weather by keeping the commandments of our tradition. Recent evidence […] Sustainable Shabbat Dinner Guide Download By Hazon on July 8, 2014 in Education, Food, Resources Thank you for filling out the survey. You can download a PDF of the Sustainable Shabbat Guide here. You can purchase a hard copy of the Sustainable Shabbat Guide in the Hazon education store. Hazon Tu B’Shvat Haggadah Download Thank you for filling out the survey. You can download a PDF of the Hazon Tu B’Shvat Haggadah here. You can also purchase a hard copy of the Hazon Tu B’shvat Haggadah in the Hazon education store.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line834

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