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__label__cc	0.686454	0.313546	Site last modified: Fri Feb 28 22:44:22 2014 About Mathematica Mathematica is a software package made by Wolfram Research International (WRI) which brings together a number of aspects of technical computing in one package. One of its key advantages over similar software is that it is built on an extremely uniform set of underlying principles. This means that a little bit of time spent studying Mathematica takes you a very long way indeed. Read more details here . Recently, Wolfram Research introduced Mathematica 8.0 – a major release that will be reflected in a variety of changes in this website. For now, press the button on the sidebar to obtain more 6.0/7.0 specific ideas (that remain valid with 8.0) and information, and to obtain a short program by Thomas Muench, that assembles an electronic version of the Mathematica book for 6.0, analogous to the fat physical book that accompanied previous version of the software. 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__label__wiki	0.72773	0.72773	Check out: Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor give relationship goals in the first look of Half Girlfriend March 28, 2017 admin 650 0 Mohit Suri‘s next Half Girlfriend, an adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s bestselling novel by the same name sets out to explore the ‘in-between’ space in relationships today. For the first time, Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor star opposite each other in this intense-musical romance. “As I observe young people, I saw a lot of situations where people were more than friends but not quite in a Relationship. When you find someone special but you are not yet fully together. I felt there was something needed between a friend and girlfriend. Hence, Half Girlfriend was born”, says Chetan Bhagat, whose previous screen adaptation 2 States, was a blockbuster. “A love that may be somewhere in between, but a love that still is unconditional. It’s a take on the unexplored, Grey area of relationships today. What also makes it special is a collaboration between me and Ekta after Ek Villian,” adds director Mohit Suri. Directed by Mohit Suri, produced by Balaji Motion Pictures, Mohit Suri and Chetan Bhagat, Half Girlfriend releases on May 19, 2017. – Times of India Music rights of Salman Khan’s Tubelight sold for a whopping Rs. 20 crores! News “Trying to dance with Tiger is more difficult than going to the moon” – Nawazuddin Siddiqui News	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2570
__label__cc	0.595538	0.404462	Straight from Durango God only knows we Americans were an adventurous and westward -moving bunch. We all have it in us. And at the same time, we all have the 'settling gene', from those more home-bodied individuals, who pretty much stayed where they landed and made babies, some who would remain and others who would venture forth into the unknown. It was those adventuresome individuals from whatever country of origin they came, who got us here. Whether the brave were those ancient Asians who crossed the Bering Strait, the warring Vikings who explored the wide seas, the intrepid French following game across a frozen ocean, the daring Polynesians whose boats would land on the rugged shores of Oregon, the hopeful Welsh escaping chaos with Prince Madoc, the Spanish explorers in search of cities of gold, or the English religious refugees seeking a place to worship in peace, all of them had that gene that drove them to go. Even those Americans who ancestors arose from individuals who were brought here against their will, when here, some had the drive to flee elsewhere to seek freedom, or later, when freedom came, some ventured penniless and hopeful into the great unknown, while the more timid stayed behind and adapted to the change upon the lands they had always known for their lifetime. The science of DNA and using it for ancestoral research is a rather recent phenomena, but is helping us to visualize the exact times and means and places these migrations took place. Most of the research I do within my own tree has been touched upon by generations past, and I much admire this work. They did not have computers to access information halfway across the country, like we do today. It was gotten by relentless legwork and pouring through stacks of dusty books in courthouse basements, foraging through trunks in grandparents abandoned farmhouses and the like. But one other disadvantage these past generations had was their sense of propriety and civility. Those dirty little secrets swept under the rug were not touched upon. Everything in its due were left to lay, and the prickly little briar bushes were left to twist and weave their deceipt into impassable barriers for generations to come. Children born 5 years after their "father" died during the Civil War were conviently explained as someone got their year of birth incorrect, yeah, that had to have been it, even though the 1870 census shows them as 3 and the 1880 shows them at 12, really, you know, they must have been 18. Or ancestors were given no background at all. The beginning and ending was with Grandpa Bob. He had no parents. For some odd circumstance, it seems to have been given me the role to clear these thickets, break down brickwalls, tie up loose ends, and sometimes, I can. I am now discovering people using my research and dna is confirming and corroborating it. Just this morning, I discovered a young Hispanic guy in Colorado (well, he's not entirely Hispanic of course) who had accessed my research on Jane Murray. Jane was the oldest daughter of Jesse Murray, my 4th Great Grandfather, whose remain lie in one of those cornfield cemeteries on a high bluff above Long Creek near its confluence with the Rocky River in southern Stanly County. Jane was likely born in Chatham County, where her family was before arriving on the Rocky River and was born about 1800 or 1801. Her nickname was "Jincy" and she never married. She first appears in the 1830 census living next door to Joshua Burris and with two little boys in her home under the age of 5. She later has a daughter who she names Judith Wilmertha Murray, who was born in 1834. Murray Cemetery, Prince Road, Stanly County The court records report that her daughter Judy had been bound to Alexander McLester in the 1840 session of Montgomery County, NC, of which Stanly was part of in 1840, and then released from that bond in the first session of the new county of Stanly Court in 1841. She is found at 16 in the 1850 census, living with her mother. Tombstone of Jesse Murray Her son Solomon was first living with his paternal grandfather, for who he was named, Solomon Burris, the old Revolutionary War Soldier, and was brought to court a few years later and bound to McCamey Willis and Obedience Burris Willis, a childless couple who became his foster parents and were biologically his Aunt and Uncle. He so loved them that he named a son for McCamey. Likewise, it appears Judith Murray was also named for her paternal grandmother, Judith Taylor Burris. The other son of Joshua Christian Burris and Jane Murray, who was less than 5 years old in 1830 has not been determined. He may have passed away as a child, as the child mortality rate was very high in those days. So I know that Jane Murray and Joshua C. Burris Sr. had at least 2 children who lived to adulthood and went on to procreate. Judith Wilmertha Murray married Thomas Jefferson Poplin and they settled around Lilesville in Anson County. Her mother lived with her. Tom outlived her and remarried, so his older children are by Judy and his younger children were by his second wife. Solomon inherited his father's wanderlust gene and had children with multiple ladies, some he married, others he didn't. He ended up settleling most oddly, in Eastern North Carolina. Some of his children remained here, others lived on the coast. So this morning I discovered this young man had attached into my research and hooked himself up to Jane Murray's wagon. I check his profile and "Wah-Lah"! We share DNA. He is my 5th to 8th cousin, which would be consistent with the generations between us and our common Murray/Burris ancestors. Congratulations Hispanic- named millenial from Durango! You have found your Stanly County roots. Labels: Ancestry.com dna, Burris, colorado, Durango, Lilesville Anson county, Murray, North Carolina, Stanly County My Theory on the Origins of Mary Anna Burris Using DNA to Fill Out Your Tree	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2575
__label__wiki	0.73613	0.73613	McCamie Willis Cemetery In the midst of a barren winter field, some distance from the main road, in the crossroads community of Red Cross, Stanly County, sits a lonely grove of trees. Hidden among vines and branches, saplings and the loamy mulch, are scattered slate markers, horribly worn by time and nature, indicating an abandoned family cemetery. Once upon a time a house and probably several outbuildings stood nearby. The land around it is still farmed. This is the McCamie Willis Cemetery, said to have been the original resting place of Revolutionary War veteran Solomon Burris, Sr and his wife, Judith Taylor Burris. Their remains, at some point, were moved nearby, just a few miles away, to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. On a recent chilly and damp January afternoon, I had the good fortune to participate in the clean-up of this cemetery, with a group of other Burris descendants and associates. Some stones had fallen over. Others had been nearly overtaken by the roots of trees. A few were legible still. Many other graves were obvious, but no longer marked, the slate markers beneath the ample foliage, covered by dirt and decades of neglect. For me, this is holy ground. Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris hold a heavy spot among my ancestors. I am descended from not one, not two, but 4 of their children: Taylor, Solomon Jr., Nancy and Joshua C. Sr., all in the personage of one Grandfather. This type of endogamy was common during the 19th century in small farming communities and makes my family tree smaller than most. Nancy Ann Burris married Benjamin Franklin Hathcock, and many Hathcocks are buried here. One of her children married a child of her brother Solomon Jr. A first cousin marriage. My Grandfather's mother, Rowena Burris Lambert, was descended from this line, but his father, Eli Marion Lambert, carried not one, but two, distinct lines to old Solomon Burris himself. My paternal Grandmother, thank goodness, did not carry any biological Burris lines. Her family tended to be from Mecklenburg, Cabarrus and Union Counties. But after her father died, tragicly and young, her mother married a Burris, the brother of my Grandfather's mother, Rowena, so she had Burris half-siblings and a Burris stepfather. This was obviously how she met my Grandfather. The cemetery bears the name of Commie Willis, or rather McCamey Ervin (or Erwin) Willis. Commie or Kamey, his nickname, is seen in many various spellings. Sometimes the "Mac" was separated from the "Camey" or "Commie" or "Kamey". Having a direct ancestor, the Rev. John McCamey Wilson, with the same name included in his, I know that McCamey was a surname, and that McCamey is the correct spelling of it. Many of the old slate stones, that Stanly County is noted for, have barely legible etchings remaining upon them. Our local State Park, Morrow Mountain, was even noted for an ancient Native American quarry, as the old volcano among the Uwharries, one of the oldest, and worn down, mountain ranges on the east coast, made stone that became some of the best arrowheads, found as far west as the Mississippi. Once members of our local Historic and Genealogical Societies, who have vast experience in saving and marking old cemeteries, work their magic with squeegies and shaving cream, a beautiful work of art appears. The above is the tombstone of Mary Ann Hathcock. It reads: "Fair Well friends Memary of Marann HatHcock Was BornD Janu 28 AD 1830 DC March 14th AD 1863 AG 33 on 1 month 17 day She was a wife of Caulvan Hathcock She was the mother of 7 children She was a devoted member of the Babeths Church Blessed are the Ded that Die in the Lord" Translation taken from "These Hallowed Grounds", published by the Stanly County Genealogical Society in 2012. Below is how Mary and her young family appeared in the 1850 census, with only her oldest daughter, Priscilla Rosanna, being born. Mary Ann was the daughter of John Hartsell and wife, Rosanna Herlocker Hartsell. Her husband Calvin was the son of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock (or Heathcock) and Nancy Ann Burris, making him a grandson of Solomon and Judith. I descend from his sister, Obedience, named most probably after her aunt, Obedience Burris Willis. Mary A Haithcock Home in 1850: Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina, USA Family Number: Household Members: Calvin Haithcock 25 Mary A Haithcock 19 Pricilla Haithcock 0 The 7 children of Calvin and MaryAnn Hartsell Hathcock were, as best as I can determine (and am hopefully open to correction and addendums) were: 1) Priscilla Rosanna Hathcock b 1850 d 1929 Married John E. Clark 2) Jackson Franklin Hathcock b 1852 d 1910 Married Nancy Ann Honeycutt 3) Sarah Jane Hathcock b 1857 d 1928 Married David I Coley 4) Green L Hathcock b 1858 d 1898 Married Mary C Smith 5) Zinna Elizabeth Hathcock b 1860 d 1905 Married George R Hinson-Hathcock 6) James Benjamin Hathcock b 1861 d Married Bathsheba Whitley 7) Unknown at this juncture, possibly a Mary Below is the tombstone of Lee Hathcock after its etchings had been made clear. Notice the beautiful artistic borders, palms and Tree of Life etchings. It reads: "In Memory of Lee Hathcock Was Born August the 25 Day AD 18?? Blessed Are They Dead they That Died in the Lord" Lee Hathcock was also a son of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock and Nancy Ann Burris Hathcock. He was a brother-in-law to Mary Ann Hartsell Hathcock. He was born on August 25, 1835 and was killed on Oct 1, 1862 at Petersburg, Farquier County, Virigina during the Civil War and his remains returned to his family for burial. Lee Hathcock Stanly County, North Carolina, United States of America Death Place: Petersburg, Fauquier County, Virginia, United States of America Commie Willis Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Oakboro, Stanly County, North Carolina, United States of America From Find-a- Grave Lee married Martha Judith Coley on September 15, 1853. They became the parents of 4 boys: Adam, Daniel, William and Levi. Lee Heathtock Home in 1860 Stanly, North Carolina Dwelling Number Personal Estate Value Household Members NameAge NameLee Heathtock NameJudieth Heathtock NameAdam Heathtock NameDanil Heathtock NameWilliam Heathtock Levi Hathcock (Heathcock) was born the year his father died. Judith Hathcock's Petition for her Widow's Pension A fifth son, Mack Luther Heathcock, would be born to Lee's widow, Judy, in 1870, 8 years after his death. Although he carried the name Hathcock on to his own large family, his father was actually Solomon (Murray) Burris/Burroughs, another grandson of Solomon and Judith, 1st cousin of Lee and a ward of McCamey and Obedience Willis This is how Lee's family was enumerated in 1860. Hand prints were also a common them on the rustic tombstones. The above shows a large hand print above the inscription on the tombstone of Zenas Burris. The hand represented reaching toward Heaven. The inscription reads; " Zenas son of Z. E. and M. Burris B. Mar THE 11th D Mar the 27th 1874" Z. E and M Burris stood for Zachary Ephraim Burris and his wife Margaret Victoria Burris. Both were Great Grandchildren of Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris. Zenas would have been their second child. Zachary Eprhriam Burris was the son of David Burris and wife Sarah Vanderburg Burris. David was a grandson of the couple through their son Solomon Burris Jr. and wife Sallie Morgan. Margaret Burris was the daughter of James Allen Burris and wife, Lucy Hinson. Allen was a grandson of the couple through their son Joshua Burris and wife Sarah Springer. As their fathers were 1st cousins, Z. E. and Margaret Burris were second cousins. This stone shows how the shaving cream can make words appear like magic on these old stones. A broken stone, wedged halfway into the soil. The tombstone of Nancy J Burris, another infant's grave, born July 11, 1851 and died only a few months later on September 19, 1851. Her exact parents are unknown, but no doubt a Great Grandchild of Solomon and Judith. This stone is being consumed by the roots of a tree and revealed only the initial A M B. David Almond, author and Burris descendant, eyes a sapling for disposal. A little digging reveals an unknown footstone. In a row, some leaning, some half-buried and others broken completely off. A team member hides behind a tree as the cemetery is being revealed. Last minute touches show 3 or 4 rows of tidy, but ancient graves. The cemetery was named for McCamey Ervin Willis. His homestead was here. But who was "Commie Willis" and from where did he come? That is a question we have no real answer to. McCamey Ervin Willis appears in 4 Census Records in Stanly County, NC: 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. He also appears in several land records and court records. None give a hint as to his origin before arriving in Stanly County, only the fact that he was born in North Carolina. He does not appear in the 1830 or 1840, although with birth years given in those censuses as between 1814 and 1818, he was certainly old enough to have been, at least in the 1840 census. It is also not known when or where he married Obedience Burris, but it was most likely in Stanly County. Her father was obviously here for many decades before his demise, and in his will, probated in 1845, he refers to his daughter Obedience as "Obedience Burris", meaning she was single at that time. Being born about 1808, "Beadie" was a few years older than Commie and would have been considered an old maid, at 37, in 1845. Her older sister Judith was also single and 50 at the time their father's will was probated, and he had especially taken care to provide for his widow and single daughters. Judith Burris Jr. died in 1847 at the age of 52. She must have been sick and knowing her demise was near, so she herself, wrote a will. It was probated in August of 1847. In her will she makes the following statements: "First, I give to my sister Obedience, my chest and all my clothes, and all my interest in my father's estate at my mother's decease and next I want Solomon K (or R?) Burris to have my bed and good furniture. I appoint my beloved brother, Joshua to be my executor." John Huneycutt and Gideon Morgan were Testators. From the above reference, it appears Obedience was still single upon her older sister's death in 1847. McCamey Willis first shows up in the land records of Stanly County on May 5, 1850 when William H. Randle, attorney sold to "Kamy R Willis" for $100 a tract of land. Randle was representing John Ward, Jeremiah Adderton and James Adderton of Davidson County, NC and Daniel Freeman of Stanly County, NC. They had been residents of Stanly County previously, as I've recalled seeing the name "Jere Adderton" quite often in old records. The land was described as " Beginning at a stake in the bank of Stony Run Creek" and met Asberry's line and Solomon Burris's line and was described as 226 acres "more or less", " with the exception of 26 acres which is for the use of and benefit of the widow Judy Burris including the house and improvements in which she lives during her life and after her death to belong to the said Kamy R. Willis". "Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Solomon Burris and David Burris", brothers of Obedience Burris. It was registered on February 25, 1851 and signed by John Ward, Jeremiah Adderton, James Adderton and Daniel Freeman. The facts seem to point to the marriage of Obedience Burris and McCamie Willis as between August of 1847 and May of 1850. He may have been a widower, but there are no indications he ever had any children of his own. None ever appeared wanting a piece of the pie after his death. He may have married Obedience because she was a woman with land that he wanted, but he did not sway in caring for her family and others in the community. The union was true. The Willis and Burris's of Red Cross, Stanly County, were enumeratied on Novemeber 2, 1850. Commie and Obedience were Household 906 with 904 being her brother Solomon Jr. and 905 being his son David, with an infant Z. E. Burris, who was spoken of previously. House Number 907 was Benjamin F. Hathcock, her brother-in-law, widower of her sister Nancy. House 908 was Benjamin's son Calvin and his young wife Mary Ann and their baby daughter Priscilla, Mary Ann's tombstone being mentioned previously as well. Family and neighbors. Mac cama Willis Mac cama Willis 36 Obidunce Willis 42 Judith Burris 85 Solomon Burris 18 Beada L Burris 24 The occupants of House 906 were: 36 year old McCamey Willis, his 42 year old wife, Obedience, her 85 year old mother, Judith Taylor Burris, their ward and nephew, Solomon (Murray) Burris, 18 and her neice and my ancestor, Obedience "Beadie" Hathcock Burris, 24. Obedience Hathcock Burris, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock and Nancy Ann Burris Hathcock, was married by this time and expecting her first child, my ancestor, David T. Burris, who was born on January 13, 1851. As this was November 2, 1850, she was 7 months pregnant. Her father lived next door and there is no Obedience in his household and her husband, 18 year old Gideon Green Burris, who was also her first cousin, was listed in his parents household as a laborer, and she wasn't listed with him, so this has to be Obedience L Hathcock Burris. Solomon Burris was Solomon Murray Burris, son of Obedience's brother, Joshua C. Burris Sr., a married man, and Jane "Jincy" Murray, a single woman. I descend from Joshua C. Burris through his daughter, Mary Anna Burris with Susannah Honeycutt and I descend from a sister of Jane Murray, Priscilla Murray Aldridge, who was one of my second Great Grandmothers. I know, it's complicated. In the February 1844 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarters of Stanly County, the Sheriff had been ordered to bring the child, Solomon Murray "to next court to be bound out, now living with Solomon Burris, Sr." Old Sol seems to have been trying to keep this stray grandson in the family, one of his several namesakes. The boy grew up with his Aunt and Uncle, Obedience and Commie Willis, and so loved the couple he named children for them. He was a troubled child, as illegitimate children in the era often were due to the social ostracization. He was in and out of court, and always there with him, going his bond, whether for affray, drunkeness, petty larceny or making his own out of wedlock babies, was his adopted Dad, Commie Willis. Solomon was married 4 times that I know of, and fathered at least 15 children that I have found. He grew up, he moved east and spelled his name "Burroughs". He moved around a bit, like a rolling stone, in Cabarrus, Wilmington, Lenior, Goldsboro. He is buried in Jason, Green County, North Carolina. Never heard of it? Neither had I. On December 20, 1852, "MyCama E Willis" bought 33 1/2 acres from Daniel Freeman, an Albemarle merchant on Stony Run Creek that ran along Benjamin Hathcock's line for $23. This may have been a portion of Judith's property that covered a debt at the Freeman's store. On November 8, 1855 "Isaiah Coley of the 1st part, Solomon Burris of the 2nd part, G. D. Whitley and Kamey E. Willis of the 3rd part, George Cagle of the 4th part and Jessie Hathcock of the 5th part, all of Stanly County" were involved in a transaction. Isaiah Coley was "justly indebted" to the estate of Robert Motley for $50 and to Daniel Freeman for $33 and interest and to Nelson Smith. G. D. Whitley, 'Camey E. Willis', George Cagle and Jesse Hathcock were his securities for these notes. To give them relief, he put up the land and property upon which he was living, one yoke of steers and cart, '4 head dry cattle', 12 head of hogs and 200 bushels of corn. Mc Camy E Willis Dwelling Number: Real Estate Value: Personal Estate Value: Mc Camy E Willis 46 Obedience Willis 51 Becky Page 30 By 1860, Mother Judith had passes away, Beadie was living with her husband Gideon Greene Burris and young Solomon was working as a farm hand in Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, with his first wife and 4 children. McCamey had Real Estate valued at $236 and Personal Estate at $200. And Rebecca Page had arrived. Becky Page was listed as a Day Laborer in the 1860 census. She was 30 years old. She lived and worked for Commie and Obedience for many, many years. I have not found her in the 1850 census, but I believe she may have been a daughter of Dempsey Page and the 1870 census will explain why. In 1870, Commie and Obedience are boarding more of the Page family. This portion of the 1870 census is incorrect. They divided Commie and Obedience from the rest of the household. M E Willis Age in 1870: Big Lick, Stanly, North Carolina Male Citizen over 21: Inferred Spouse: Obidimce Willis M E Willis 54 Obidimce Willis 61 In reality, 3 Pages, Rebecca, Delitha and Mason, are living with McCamey and Obedience in the same dwelling. Rebecca Pozo [Rebecca Page] Cannot Read: Cannot Write: Mason Pozo 41 Delitha Pozo 30 Rebecca Pozo 42 Notice the Dwelling number, 22, on both entries. The Pages ladies lived with the Willis's. The transcriber also made a mess of their last name, but a peak at the original copy clearly shows "Page". While I've not found Rebecca in 1850, or outside of her residence with the Willis's, that does not ring true for Mason and Delitha. The inclusion of all 3 in the 1870 household of McCamey Willis and the shared surname leads me to naturally believe they must have been closely related. I've found that Mason's age in this census was incredibly incorrect. Mason was an unusual first name for this era, especially for a female. On September 26, 1877, in Cabarrus County, Mason Elisabeth Page married William Alexander Coley, son of Isaiah and Caroline Coley. Both families were from Stanly County. Mason Elisabeth's mother was given as Dilly Page and in the space for father, only dashes were placed. In the place where it indicates whether or not the parent is living or deceased, again, only dashes for father and living for mother. Mason Elisabeth Page Cabarrus, North Carolina, USA Dilly Page William Alexander Colen Spouse Gender Spouse Race Spouse Age Spouse Father Isiah Colen Spouse Mother Caroline Colen NameWilliam Alexander Colen NameMason Elisabeth Page Mason Elisabeth Page Coley lived a long and traceable life. She went by the nickname "Bettie" and her actual birthdate, as given in other records, was May 2, 1851. She would have been 19 in the 1870 census, not 41, and her mother, Dillie's age was undercut by quite a bit as well. The Concord Register (Concord, North Carolina)29 Sep 1877, Sat • Page 4 Her marriage was even announced in the paper, but for some reason, they could not get the surname of her husband, Coley, correct. They also picked up the name of her mother-in-law, Caroline, and gave it to her. William Alexander Coley was the son of Isaiah Coley and Francis Caroline Honeycutt Coley, the same Isaiah Coley who was the next door neighbor of McCamie Willis and who is named in the above deed from 1855 who was indebted to a number of people and had named Commie as one of his sureties. Bettie and Alec or "Ellick" had 5 children. She named her firstborn daughter, born August 9, 1878, Rebecca. Was this in honor of Rebecca Page? What relationship was Rebecca to Bettie? The most likely, I believe was Aunt. Rebecca Coley moved to Arkansas and was married 3 times, to Ferguson, Reeves and Lattimore. Rebecca Coley and husband M C Larrimore Bettie Page Coley was widowed young and raised her children in Union County, North Carolina. Her other children were: Daniel 1880, James M "Jim" 1888 Dillie Lou, named for her mother, 1885 and Roy Jack, 1894 Jim Coley of Union County, later in life. Bettie died on August 16, 1928 at the age of 77. The informant on her death certificate was her son-in-law, Bright Fletcher Broom, the husband of her daughter Dillie. Dillie Lou obviously knew the name of her own father, Alex Coley, which was given correctly. However, the names of her grandparents were rather confusing. She knew her family's origin was in Stanly County. However, she gave her grandmother's name as Rebecca, not Dillie or Delitha. As her mother's father, she gave the name of Joel Page. There was no Joel Page in Stanly County or any surrounding counties, who could have been the father of Bettie Page Coley. Could her first name have been a clue? Could her father have been a Mason? There was a family of Masons living in Almond Township, Stanly County, during the time she was concieved. Dillie Lou Coley was the one named for her grandmother. She lived in Waxhaw, Union County and was married twice, to a Helms and to Fletcher Broom. Dilly Lou Coley and husband Bright Fletcher Broom on their wedding day She should have remembered her Grandmother, the original "Dillie", as they lived together at one point, and possibly for some time. The original Dillie, aka Delitha or Delilah, was the key to whom the Page women may have been. Delila Page Almonds, Stanly, North Carolina, USA Dempsey Page 57 Macey Page 53 Tedrick Page 21 Wiley Page 18 Delila Page 15 Edmd Page 9 Sally Page 6 Darus Page 3 In 1850, Dillie shows up in the home of Dempsey Page and wife Macey, both in their 50's. They have a family of 6 children. Or could the younger ones have been grandchildren? Macey seems a little old to have been the mother of a 9, 6, and 3 year old. Right next to them was a James Page, a young man of 25, and his young family, who is noted to have been a son of Dempsey Page. James Page James Page 25 Lucy Page 27 Emaline Page 4 Elizabeth Page 0 James is found also in the 1860 census. He had a wife named Lucy and 4 children. He served in the Civil War from Cabarrus County. Home in 1860:Subdivision East of NC RR, Cabarrus, North Carolina Post Office:Mount Pleasant Dwelling Number:261 Family Number:261 Occupation:Farm Hand Personal Estate Value:50 Cannot Read, Write:Y Lucey Page 37 Emeline Page 14 Elizabeth Page 10 Isabella Page 2 Monroe Page 2/12 James Page had a hard time during the War. He was in and out of the hospital and suffered at various times with "Cattarh" and rhuematism. He spent some time as a Prisoner of War and finally died of disease, at the age of 37 on July 5, 1863. His widow, Mary Ann Lucinda Page, applied for a widow's pension in 1863, with the help of a W. H. Taylor. It was noted that she was "a poor woman." Mary L Page, born in 1823, married William Taylor Newell on 21 September, 1864. Born in 1798, Mr. Newell was an elderly widower with grown children. After that, both he and MaryAnn Lucinda disappear from records. From 1878 through 1891, his son John, described as his executor, is selling off and redistributing his father's property between siblings and neighbors. No mention is made of Mary Lucy. James and Lucy's two oldest daughters, likewise, disappear from records, but probably were married before 1870. The younger two children, Isabella and James Monroe Page appear in Salem, in Forsyth County. Whether they were sent there to an orphanage and remained in the area, or whether their mother remarried a third time and moved there is unknown. When they appear, they are on their own. Monroe marries a Nancy Cannady, and dies in 1900 of typhoid fever. His widow remarries quickly after. Belle married a George Jackson and has a large family, dying in 1905. Wiley Page is married in Cabarrus County in 1852. Other than that, he also disappears from record. In fact, all of Dempsey Page's family has disappeared by 1860, except for Dilly, her younger sister Sarah "Sally" and the youngest boy, Darius Riley Page. Subdivision East of NC RR, Cabarrus, North Carolina Cannot Read, Write: Lydia Page 60 Sally Page 16 Dilly Page 20 Riley Page 13 The younger children are all living in the home of a 60 year old Lydia Page. How was she related to them? Six - year- old Elizabeth Page corresponds with the age of Mason Elizabeth Page, Dilly's daugther. Dempsey's brother, Sion Page remains in the area. There is a Dempsey Page who marries in Cabarrus to a Melinda Brumley and turns up in Rowan County and serves in the Civil War. In each records, he appears to have been born around 1820. Some people have combined these into one and the same person, but I believe them to be a different Dempsey Page. In fact, there are several Dempsey Pages, of various generations and Sion Pages as well. I believe due to the fact that these were not common names like John or James, that these various Dempsey's and Sion's interconnect somewhere. Maybe 1820 Dempsey was the son, or nephew, of 1798 Dempsey. As for Elizabeth Page, she was a year older than James and may have either been missed, or was working in another household, in 1850. But something, some disease or disaster, seemed to take Dempsey, his wife Macey, sons Thadrick, Wiley, and Edmund all away between 1852 and 1860. No sign of Wiley's wife, Melinda Hagler Page, is to be found yet at this point, either. Sarah Lucinda, "Sallie" Page survived. She married J Wesley Burleson and lived her life in Stanly County, raising a large family and passing away in 1924 at the age of 78. Riley Page appears to have went westward, as many a young man did. And then there was Dilly. Going backwards, she and her daughter, Mason Elizabeth Page were living with Rebecca Page and the Willis's in 1870. Dellilah Page Big Lick, Stanly, North Carolina, USA Relation to Head of House: Father's Birthplace: Mother's Birthplace: Neighbors: View others on page W. Alex Colley 28 Beddie Colley 24 Rebaca Colley 2 Danial Colley 4/12 Dellilah Page 60 In 1880, Dillie, "Delilah" is living with her daughter Bettie, son-in-law Alex and their first two children, Rebecca and Daniel in Big Lick, Stanly County. Delilah Page Smith, Cabarrus, North Carolina Sheet Number: Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: Mother: Number of Living Children: Mother: How Many Children: Can Read: Can Write: Can Speak English: House Owned or Rented: Farm or House: Delilah Page 58 Elizabeth Coley 40 Dillie L Coley 15 James M Coley 12 Roy J Coley 6 Twenty years later, in 1900, Alex has passed away and Delilah and Bettie are living with her 3 youngest children, Dillie, James Monroe and Roy Jack in Cabarrus County. And that is the last of Dilly. She, a Sarah Page, a Sallie Page and Hessy Newell, daughter of William Taylor Newell, were on the public dole for a dollar a month until at least May of 1900. Rebaca Page Rebaca Page 52 And then there is Rebecca Page, who last shows up in the Household of McCamey Willis and Obedience, as their housekeeper, in 1880. Shei is 52 and single. Not widowed, so I believe she never married. M. Erven Willies Self (Head) Spouse's name: Obideance Willies M. Erven Willies 62 Obideance Willies 72 Again, they separated the households, but they were not separated. Still dwelling number 316. This is the census in which we learn that Commie's middle name was Ervin or Erven. And this was the last census for them all. On December 21, 1868, McCamey Willis made application to John Honeycutt, excutor, "for the use or benefit of the homestead law and therefore, I, John Honeycutt, Esquire, proceed to summon B. L. Whitley, T. A. Hathcock, J. T. Honeycutt, 3 Freeholders, to give him the benefit of the same". This included 118 acres on Stony Run Creek, from the Deberry line to the West Bank of Rocky Branch and meeting Solomon Burris's line. This "Deberry line" that keeps being mentioned has me curious, as no Deberries are seen in the neighborhood. Perhaps there was a tract of land that had belonged to a Deberry, many decades past, and the area just bore his name from then on. The property of McCamey Willis at this time was listed as 1 Bay Horse valued at $100, A one-horse wagon valued at $10, 3 Head of Cattle, $22.50, 8 head of hogs, "Roughness" $5.00, farming tools, household and kitchen furniture, $40.00, and one Saddle $5, totaling $193.50. There were several interesting deeds in the 1880's and the same properties are mentioned. Book 21 Page 249 M. E. Willis to Rebecca Page For $100, Commie sold to Becky a tract of land on the west side of Rocky Branch and the Deberry line to a stake in the old road, of 110 acres. "which is to be reserved until the death of M. E. Willis and Obedience Willis his wife and then to belong to Rebecca Page". Witnesses were T. A. and G. R. Hathcock. Book 21 Page 185 M. E. Willis and others to Jacob A. Morton M. E. Willis and Obedience, his wife and Rebecca Page, a tract on the Deberry line and Rocky Branch, "in the consideration of the support of their natural lives". Witnessed by T.A. Hathcock, Ed Smith and Ephraim Burroughs. Book 14 Page 61 M. E. Willis to the School Committee 17 Oct 1888 to the School Committee Distric 47 for $2, a tract of land adjoining Gideon Greene Burris, one acre for Public School Property, with the exception that when it "becomes uneccessary for Public School Property it returns to me" (McCamey Willis). Book 21 Page 378 August 9, 1888 Jacob A. Morton to M. E. Willis Jacob A. Morton of Stanly bound unto M. E. Willis, Obedience Willis and Rebecca Page for $300. Commie, Obedience and Rebecca had contracted with and agreed to sell to Jacob A Morton the 110 acres on Stony Run Creek adjoining T.A.Hathcock, Ed Smith and Ephraim Burris. In exchange, Morton agreed to "settle and liquidate certian indebitedness of the said M E Willis". The indebitness included $150 that he owed Jackson Hathcock and another amount owed Russell and Cagle, which I take as a business partnership. McCamey went to great trouble to detail the exact terms of the contract. Morton was to keep the 3 of them furnished with provisions for their support "suitable to their condition in life which shall be furnished to them at their place of residence now on the lands conveyed for the term of their natural lives and also to furnish them with the neccessary firewood for said term." Commie made clear in the document, and reiterated it many times, that the trio would be allowed to remain in their home until death took them and that they were to be cared for there, not sent to some facility or poor house as their bodied became frail. "The said M E Willis Obedience Willis and Rebecca Page are allowed to remain in and occupy the dwellings and such outhouses as they may have need for + no more + to cultivate and enjoy any crops they may plant and reap on about 1 1/2 acres near the barn and also the garden, the said Morton argreeing to do the ploughing of said lands and garden + the said Morton is to be allowed to enter the remaining part of said lands". Commie made conditions over a few of the domesticated animals stating that Rebecca Page be allowed to keep her cow, but Commie was to "dispose of his mule as soon as practicable". That must have been one stubborn or one-owner only mule if Morton didn't want it around. The contract was written on August 9th 1888 and witnesses by James W Efird. It was proved on March 4, 1896. An older survey of the Commie Willis Cemetery mentioned his stone with a date of death as 1894. It seems to be correct, although we did not locate his stone on this day. Jake Morton Jacob Alexander Morton aka "Jake" was born May 11, 1851 and died March 27, 1925 in Oakboro, Stanly County, NC. He was the son of Joseph Calvin Morton and Beadie Malinda Hartsell Morton. He married Julianne Dry and had a large farm family as they did in those days. This family considered themselves of Cherokee descent and Jake's name, of Big Lick, NC is on a list of people who applied for membership to the tribe or government benefits of such, in 1911. In 1888, when the contract was signed, he would have been 37 years old. In the 1880 census, he and his young family lived near abouts, although not directly around, the Willis place. In 1900, he was not living on this property either. I went back to the deeds to see if I could somewhat trace the ownership of this tract of land. I found a few things and a few other things that made me think. Obedience Burris Willis appeared in one more deed. It appears she outlived McCamie, but probably not by much. Book 20 Page 196 January 28, 1895 Obedience Willis to Sallie M. Hathcock Obedience sold to Sallie Hathcock for $300 a tract of land of 110 acres (sound familiar?) bordering Green Almond, Ed Smith and Ephraim Burris "Known as the Old Solomon Burris Place". This kind of cements that idea that McCamie and Obedience lived on the exact property that her parents farmed. But what happened to their deal with Jake Morton? Sallie M. Hathcock, I believe was Sallie Morton Hathcock, widow of Isaiah Hathcock, a son of the Willis's neighbor Lloyd Hathcock. The day after Sallie bought the land, she flipped it. Sallie M. Hathcock to Thomas J Jerome For $150 (half the amount) One half interest in a 110 acres parcel of land adjoining Green Almond, Ed Smith and others known as the Solomon Burris place. Knowing Jerome was not a native Stanly County name, I looked into who Thomas J Jerome was. The Jeromes landed in Union County, NC from Connecticutt in the mid-1880's. There was one Thomas J Jerome born 1800-1801 noted as Carriage Maker in the 1860 census. There was another Thomas J Jerome, a nephew of the elder one, who was born in Union County in 1859 and died in Greensboro in 1921. Thomas J Jerome Publication State: School Name: History of the University of North Carolina... / by Kemp P. Battle. He even attended the University of North Carolina. This was most likely the Jerome who bought the half-interest of the Burris Homeplace from Sallie M Hathcock. Thomas J Jerome was an attorney. He bought and sold land and acted as Trustee. He had many deals in Stanly County. The below article descrbies best who he was. The Stanly News-Herald (Albemarle, North Carolina)15 Feb 1921, Tue • Page 1 But I noticed Sallie M. Hathcock had only sold half of the property. So back to the land records to see if I could find out anything about the rest of it, or any mention of Obedience or Becky. Book 22 Page 228 7 Nov 1898 Sallie M Hathcock to J L Williams For $100 Sallie sold "3/8 ths of the followig described lands as set apart in a certain decree of Judgement rendered by H R Stanback Judge at Fall Term of Stanly Superior Court in the case of Sallie M. Hathcock vs Jacob A. Morton" So Sallie sued Jake and obviously prevailed. I've got to get a look at that Court Case. But until then, the land was described as being on the west side of Rocky Branch in the Deberry line containing 110 acres more or less. Same land, and if you notice, Sallie retained just a bit of it. Obedience Burris Willis's year of death is given as 1901, but she was not showing up in the 1900 census. The status of the land under the trust of T J Jerome was probably not occupied. But Sarah M. Hathcock may have been living on a small portion of it and J. L Williams may have been living on his share. So I looked for who J. L. Williams was in hopes of finding Obedience, and possibly Rebecca Page as well. J. L. Williams turned out to be Joseph Leander Williams, born 1871 in Union County and died in 1948 in Big Lick, Stanly County. He was living in Big Lick in 1900 and from the neighbors, appeared to be living on this beleagered plot of land, this old Solomon Burris homeplace near Stony Run Creek on the west bank of Rocky Branch, bordering that ancient Deberry line. I sooo want to find out who Deberry was... But that was not all.... I checked out the neighbors. I found things time after time now by looking for clues. The census takers were not perfect. They made mistakes. The transcribers are not from the areas of documents they transcribe, not familiar with the common names of the area. Bless them for their efforts on trying to read this ancient scrawl. Due to the steep drop in education and rise in illiteracy after the Civil War, the 1900 census is one of the worse. It must have been difficult to find census takers who could actually write on a third grade level in the county. Mostly only the very old or very young could read. So I've learned to look for those errors, like the Page women being transcribed as "POGO" in 1870. Alot of times, boarders, or people who were not the head of household were listed by first names only, and so their surname, albeit different, was transcribed as being that of the Head of Household. It especially happened with step-children. The father would die and the mother remarry and her older children would be listed only by first name, and end up with the wrong surname in someone's family tree. I've learned to look for things like that. And because of this, I found Obedience. Her given dates of birth and death, found in many trees, I am not certain of the origins of, perhaps someone with a Family Bible out there somewhere? But she is listed as being born on February 6, 1808 and passing away on April 23, 1901. There is no cause to dispute this. It could be accurate. Bedie Hathcock Malinda Hathcock 48 Malinda C Hathcock 73 Francis Hathcock 45 Bedie Hathcock 43 She was living with a family of female Hathcocks neighboring Leander Williams and his family, on the same census page. Her relationship was "Friend". She was a widow. The year of birth - 1807 - was correct compared to all the other census records she appeared in. She was a widow. And the clincher, which was an extremely rare thing in that day and time, she was the mother of Zero children. This census and the 1910 asked how many children a mother had and how many were living. I suppose it was a way to measure child mortality. 43 was a transcription error. It was actually 93, which matches the year of birth of 1807. She was actually 92 going on her Find-a-Grave birthday, but close enough for Rock and Roll. " Beadie" was not a Hathcock. This was Obedience "Beadie" Burris Willis. The house was headed by a middle-aged Malinda Hathcock. The elderly Malinda C. Hathcock was called her step-mother in the census and Francis her sister. Remember Sallie M Hathcock who Obedience sold the land to in 1895 and then who sold half of it to Attorney Jerome and then sold 3/8 interest in it to J. L. Williams, but kept a little piece of it for herself? The 48 year old "Malinda" was Sarah M. "Sallie" Hathcock. She was actually Obedience's neice as she was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock and Nancy Ann Burris Hathcock, Obedience Burris Willis's sister. Malinda C. Hathcock was Malinda Catherine Yow Hathcock, and she was Sallie M Hathcock's step-mother as the census stated and yes, Francis was her sister. Sallie M. Hathcock died in 1907 and her step-mother, Katie in 1916. Malinda Catherine Yow Hathcock is buried in the old Hathcock cemetery, which is about a quarter mile from the Commie Willis cemetery. The one person not accounted for was Rebecca Page. I believe Rebecca Page was deceased before 1900, and most probably before 1895, when Obedience sold the "Old Solomon Burris place" to Sarah Melissa (or Melinda) Hathcock, her niece. As the oldest of the 3, Commie, Rebecca and herself, Obedience had lived the longest. But the land was not yet through telling its tales. Two more deeds hold interest. Book 34 Page 552 March 27 1907 Sallie M Hathcock to Morrow Brothers and Heath C M Dry was the highest bidder for 33 acres in Big Lick also known as the Ben Hathcock place. Proven Jan 4, 1909. This may have been where the death date of 1907 came from for Sallie M. Hathcock. She did not appear in the 1910 census, although her stepmother, Melinda Catherine Yow Hathcock and her sister Francis still appeared together, most probably in the same place, so this puts Sallie's date of death between 1907 and 1909. Book 23 488 Year 1899 Thomas J Jerome to J A Morton A certain tract of land in Big Lick Township, Stanly County.....The interest herein conveyed...same as mentioned in a certain judgement in which Sallie M Hathcock is plaintiff and Jacob A Morton is defendant obtained at Fall Term 1898 Stanly County Superior Court before his honor H. R. Standback, Judge and a Jury, Pages 407 & 408 of the minute docket of said Superior Court... Beginning at a post oak by a red oak, dogwood and rock corner on the West Side of Rocky Branch in the Deberry line....... From "These Hallowed Grounds", published by The Stanly County Genealogical Society 2012 Surveryed in October 2005 by Priscilla Clark, Wayne D Burris and Pam Holbrook. 5 marked stones, 14 unmarked stones, 15 other possible graves After the 4 above pictured stones of Mariann Hathcock, Lee Hathcock, Zenas Burris and Nancy Burris. __Amey Hathcock "In 1936 Mrs G. D. B. Reynolds found Judith Burris b Dec 16, 1795 d. Aug 20, 1841 (Note: Due to the dates of her will, this was probably 1849 misread as 1841). In 1980 Laton Burris also found: Canney Willis Died 1894 (The year works, probably actually said Commey Willis) Benjamin Hathcock born March 13, 1838 Died Oct. 12, 1855 The "Whitley Family History", p. 78, states that Beedy Burris B. Feb 6, 1808 d 1900 is buried here. (This would be Obedience Burris Willis, daughter of Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris, and wife of Commie Willis, who owned this land, thus the name of the Cemetery.) Solomon Burris b. 10 Dec 1754 d.21 May 1845 Judith Taylor Burris b. 10 Nov 1766 d. 18 April 1856 and his Wife Note: Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris were originally buried here. They were both moved to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemtery in 1939. Tombstones of Solomon Burris and Judith Taylor Burris Labels: Benjamin Franklin Hathcock, Commie Willis Cemetery, Delilah Dillie Page, Dempsey Page, Mason Elizabeth Page Coley, McCamey Willis, Obedience Burris, Rebecca Becky Page, Sarah M Hathcock, Solomon Burris The Children of Rev. John Lambert: The Firstborn -...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2576
__label__cc	0.592785	0.407215	Jon architects and implements modern technology for a living. Our home is a (usually) seamless integration of vintage tech and newer stuff — although at any given time, there’s probably a table somewhere covered in circuit boards waiting to be assembled or repaired. Also read: Restoration Projects \| Dev Projects Install Microsoft Store Apps on Windows 10 LTSC Switching my home computers to LTSC was the single best decision I’ve made for the health of my network — and for my sanity. If you don’t need all the latest bells and whistles — and more importantly, if you’re driven insane by the constant feature updates that are often more painful to install than they’re worth, give serious thought to getting a hold of LTSC. In particular, on my Mac Pro, every Windows feature update was a battle to keep it stable. The only feature I care about is that it starts up when I need it. However, there is one (dubious) down side: LTSC does not include the Microsoft Store for getting access to apps. Lots of apps are available from alternate channels, but occasionally there’s one — like Microsoft’s To Do app — that’s only available in their app store. But don’t panic: you can still get these apps (assuming they’re free). It just takes a little more work… Step 1 – Find the App on the Web You’ll need a link to the app from a Microsoft website that has a “Get” button. Here’s a direct link to the Productivity section of the web-based version of the Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/top-free/apps/pc?category=Productivity The Web version of the Microsoft Store will provide the info you need to get the app without the store Step 2 – Copy that Link Grab the URL from your browser’s address bar. For Microsoft To Do, it looks like this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-to-do-lists-tasks-reminders/9nblggh5r558 Step 3 – Extract Download Links Paste the URL into this site: https://store.rg-adguard.net/ and hit the checkmark AdGuard’s handy alternate store will tell you what packages are associated with the App you want If all goes well, you’ll get a list of one or more packages. For To Do, there were 5 packages that I needed — but the results had almost 10 times that. Don’t worry, you won’t need them all. Start with the .Appx or .Appxbundle that looks like the app you want. Note, from the possible choices, you’ll want the latest version number, and the correct processor architecture. If you’re running 64-bit Windows, you’ll want the x64 version of the app. Download it somewhere memorable. Step 4 – Open up Powershell The command to install is a simple one: Add-AppxPackage -Path "path-to-appx-you-downloaded" When you run it, you’re likely to get a scary red error dump. Inside that message are helpful tips telling you that the app needs one of the other files from Step 3. Go get it — again paying attention to version number and processor architecture. The Powershell install error will tell you what dependency package to get next Step 5 – Repeat Run the Add-AppxPackage command on each download, then re-try Step 4. Each time it will tell you about another file it’s missing. If you’re feeling confident, you can guess ahead — but to be on the safe side, go file-by-file, grabbing exactly the one it complains about after each attempt at Step 4. Eventually you’ll have all the dependencies installed, and the app you wanted will actually install — assuming its compatible with your version of Windows, you can now use it like normal! I’ve got lots more ideas for keeping old systems alive — read more of them here! Multi Mac OS X Rescue Drive Recently someone posted a great idea in a Facebook group for users of old Macs — but apparently wasn’t interested enough in the community to describe how it was accomplished. The idea is to have an external USB drive with multiple Mac OS installers on it, so you can restore or recover a wide range of Macs. Although all the instructions are online, they’re scattered across different sites that have to be pieced together. Here’s my attempt to collected everything you need to make a multi-OS recovery disk for almost any Mac made in the last 15 years. Multi-boot Mac OS Recovery USB Drive Things You’ll Need A working Mac with a relatively modern OS (I used a 2008 MacBook Pro running a patched High Sierra) The install media (disk, disk image or installer app) for each OS revision you’ll want (see links at the bottom) At least 100gb external USB drive (an actual drive — not a USB key) Optional, the DosDude patchers for any Mac OS you may want to shove on an unsupported Mac Optional, but recommended, the latest Combo update for each Mac OS you may be installing. (I’ll include links to download these at the bottom of this post) Moderate proficiency with Apple’s Disk Utility and just a little bit of Terminal comfort Note: You’ll notice that these instructions stop at Mojave. So do I. You could argue that Catalina’s murder of 32-bit apps was necessary for the ARM-transition — and maybe that was right for Apple, but you can read why I don’t think its great for consumers. Continue reading “Multi Mac OS X Rescue Drive” → Jon and Nicole Tech Leave a comment October 6, 2020 November 9, 2020 8 Minutes Church Streaming 2.0 Even though we knew it was probably going to happen, when the lock down order came in from the governor, we didn’t really get a lot of time to adjust. The kids were in school one week, and at home the next. Church was meeting in person on one Sunday, and exclusively online the next. A series of probably-Providential events had happened before this, none of which were deliberately timed by me, but all of which turned out to be helpful in getting our little country church online in time. At the start of 2020, we didn’t even have Internet in our church building — we would upload sermon audio using a 4G hot spot. That audio was recorded on a 2008 iMac that I found on Goodwill Auctions for $140, and I had just replaced the 2006 Windows Vista eMachine that was in the pastor’s office with a 2009 iMac that I got for $80. With this “new” hardware installed, we decided it was time to petition the church leadership for a stable Internet connection. No one was opposed philosophically — they’d just never had a need before. At the February board meeting, they agreed to my proposal, and later in the month, I camped out at the church for a day and a half to wait for, then help, the Internet installer figure out how to connect our 160+ year old church building to the digital world. The lock down order came only a couple weeks later. The Internet was unreliable, because the rural infrastructure near our location had issues, the more-than-a-decade-old iMacs were far too under-powered for their new task, and a decent webcam was suddenly very hard to find either online or in near-by brick-and-mortar stores… but in a little over a week, we managed to cobble together a streaming system, do some basic training for the pastor’s family, and hold our church’s first online service. All while hoping this would be a very temporary situation. It was not. At some point in the summer, it became obvious that the system was too fragile for reliable live streaming, and it became more pragmatic to have a pre-recorded service in-the-bag. This created a more fault-tolerant, less stressful experience, but it didn’t change the chewing-gum-and-bailing-twine nature of the system: it all just barely worked, because none of the pieces were ever intended for the tasks that had been thrust upon them. While it became safe enough for most church members to attend an out-door service this summer, others who are at higher risk to the virus, could not attend — and with colder weather looming and no vaccine in sight, it became apparent that online church was going to be a reality for at least a little while longer. The pastor asked for some options for a more permanent system. I priced out three bundles — good, better and best; cheap, not-as-cheap, and spendy. The elders settled on a combination of pieces that straddled the mid-range. I got to switch from trolling Goodwill, to a picking out a choice refurb from Backmarket (a great place to get used high-end hardware). The new Mac Pro is commonly called the “trash can” for its cylindrical design — Apple later admitted the look left them “designed into a corner” then basically abandoned the high end market for most of 7 years. Its from 2013, but was way over-powered for the time, and still outperforms most of the stuff you’d find at Best Buy today. We switched from the commercial Windows software, vMix, to an open source package that runs native in macOS called OBS — a favorite of video game streamers and YouTube stars. It starts up in a fraction of the time, and handles virtually limitless inputs with ease. Switching to an HDMI camera with optical zoom, instead of the cheap USB webcam, allowed us to position the rig at the back of the sanctuary — instead of consuming the front half of the room — which made it significantly easier to connect to the sound board, and have an independent audio mix, which will improve both the in-house and online experience, once we tune it. Ben helped me set everything up, and we even rigged up an iPad based remote control, so if needed, one person can run both the in-house video screen and the online stream. This week, we’ll do some training on the new system, and probably work out a few kinks, then I’ll report back to the hospital for a follow-up surgery for a blood-clot related issue I’ve been dealing with all summer. Next Sunday, I hope to be worshiping from bed at home while recovering from this thing once-and-for-all! Jon and Nicole Blog, Tech Leave a comment September 5, 2020 September 6, 2020 3 Minutes NextStep/OpenStep NFS File Share with a Raspberry Pi I recently restored a NeXTstation computer — the grandfather of Mac OS X computers (and therefore the great grandfather of iOS). It joins a network of historical Mac computers in my basement, but was woefully disconnected from them. A crude file transfer between a G4 Cube running OS X 10.4 could be established relatively easily using FTP, but I wanted NeXT to really fit into the neighborhood. Every computer in the house can reach a common file share running on a Raspberry Pi, which serves up a folder over SMB and legacy AFP (AppleTalk), with an ethernet-capable OS 9 machine bridging to the LocalTalk-only Macs from the early days. Unfortunately NeXTStep and OpenStep support neither SMB nor AFP (technically one version of NextStep had a crappy AppleTalk implementation, but not the version I’m running.) What Next did support was NFS — Network File System. And fortunately so does the Raspberry Pi…there’s just a little modification required to make it work with old versions. Setup your server as Host on the local system first After following the steps here to enable NFS and establish a share (using the same folder as AFP and SMB), a fellow nerd on Facebook provided some steps to force support for older clients (NFSv2): Edit the file /etc/exports that you made when you enabled NFS, and decorate your share with some less secure options (at your own risk — obviously don’t expose this to the Internet!) I also had to assign an fsid. Here’s what my export looks like: /srv/A2SERVER/A2FILES *(rw,fsid=1,all_squash,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000) Edit the file /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server as sudo At the bottom, add the line RPCNFSDOPTS="--nfs-version 2,3,4" Run exportfs and make sure no errors are reported. On both OpenStep and NeXTStep, you’ll want to set up a Host for your server. This can be done in NextAdmin/HostManager.app — assuming you’ve already got networking setup. Instructions for setting up the network are here, and Sophie Haskins has a good blog entry about some of the hurdles to NextStep networking. On NeXTStep 3.3, the NFSManager.app GUI was not able to successfully mount the share — I had to do it from the su command line: Launch Terminal.app Type su and hit enter — provide a password if needed. Enter a mount command like: mount serverhost:/pathto/yourshare /Net/localmountpoint So, for example, my server is on a Host named NetPi and the shared path is /srv/A2SERVER/A2FILES (since the path is also used by A2Server’s AFP share) and I want to mount it to a local folder on my NeXTstation called NetPi, so my command is: mount netpi:/srv/A2SERVER/A2FILES /Net/netpi If you want this to run at every boot, use Edit.app as root to add your mount command to the end of the file /etc/rc.local But be 100% sure your mount command works before you do — this can prevent booting if its wrong. To be on the safe side, include a time-out and limit retries like: mount -o rw,bg,mnttimeo=8,retry=1 serverhost:/pathto/share /Net/localmountpoint/ In OpenStep 4.2, the NFSManager.app GUI did work, and Sophie’s blog shows how to use it. And just as a point of interest, following the same HostManager.app steps to tell NeXT about a LaserJet 4 compatible printer on the Network let’s it print too! In OpenStep you can use the GUI, in NextStep the command line works best Jon and Nicole Tech 2 Comments August 28, 2020 September 14, 2020 2 Minutes Why you shouldn’t buy a Mac in 2020…or maybe ever again. This week Apple surprised no one by announcing they were beginning their transition to “Apple silicon” in their Mac computer line-up. If you don’t know what that means, its sufficient to understand that they are moving from Intel-based computers, to a processor and related architecture of “their own” design. I put quotes around “their own” because, despite their announcement, everyone knows that “Apple silicon” is derived from the ARM processor — a family of chips most often used in phones and other mobile devices. ARM has been around a long time, and Apple invested in the company back during the Newton era. Intel has obviously been around even longer, but Apple’s use of Intel chips is the stuff of relatively recent history. This marks the 4th processor migration for Apple, from the Motorola 6502-based Apple I and Apple II computers, to the Motorola 68000 family in the early Macintosh line-up, to the Motorola (and IBM) PowerPC of 1990s processor-war infamy. With each generation, Apple struggled to position themselves against the WinTel (Windows + Intel) hegemony. It wasn’t until 2006, when they transitioned to Intel, that Apple finally found their footing. Since Steve Jobs’ hostile take-over of the Macintosh project in the early 80s, Apple’s philosophy on computing has been fairly “closed.” Jobs envisioned the computer as an appliance for average people, not a tinker toy for nerds. In the original Mac, this meant unusual screws and an absence of hardware expansion slots. On the iPhone, it meant a “walled garden” where only Apple-approved apps on the Apple-hosted App Store could be installed (unless you were willing to do some serious hacking.) It took a long time to prove this philosophy out — it was almost a full generation before non-nerds were doing most of the computer shopping. But in many ways it paid off. Macs have a reputation of being stable, reliable machines, and iPhones are the mobile device most people want to own. iOS really represents the logical outcome of Apple’s trend toward locking things down: its an operating system that users aren’t supposed to know anything about, on hardware that customers aren’t supposed to be able to open. On the Mac, though, there’s always been another layer: under the simple, friendly veneer of the user interface is a powerful Unix shell. And under the sleek case is fairly standard, commodity hardware. The implications of this for the Mac is that despite Apple’s attempts to end their life prematurely, people with a little know-how can keep their Macs running for years. Unlike phones, where people feel compelled (either by fashion trends, or security concerns) to buy a new one every couple of years (don’t do it!), an Intel Mac can last a decade or more as a useful, performant machine. Obviously this is a problem for a company that primarily sells hardware… Case in point: this is being written on a 12 year old Mac that Apple tried to stop updating in 2016. Apple zealots will tell you that the move to ARM will let Apple build smaller, faster machines with better battery life. They’re not wrong — ARM rocks for mobility. What they won’t admit is that the move away from commodity hardware will let Apple control the lifecycle of these new computers the same way they intentionally keep the lifecycle of their phones shorter than necessary: With an Intel-based hardware platform, upgrades made for Windows PCs mostly “just work” in a Mac With an Intel-based hardware platform, many parts can be sourced from other manufacturers to provide for repairs that Apple will no longer supply With an Intel-based hardware platform, users can boot Windows (or Linux) to run software that isn’t compatible with “older” Macs With an Intel-based hardware platform, the developer community can create patches to circumvent artificial end-of-life moves from Apple designed to keep you from upgrading to the newest MacOS It remains to be seen whether the heroic hackers of the world will be able to bring these benefits to new ARM-based Macs, but if Apple’s plan is to make Macs more like iPhones (which it evidently is), you can bet they won’t help us. The move from PowerPC to Intel was a painful one for the Mac community. Software we owned stopped working, or had to be run through short-lived and poorly performing compatibility tools. Then there was the swallowing of our pride as we collectively had to admit that Intel really did outperform the G4s and G5s we were so proud of. But ultimately, the benefits for consumers outweighed the costs: it was the right move. Arguably, the move to ARM is significantly less urgent — granted, Intel’s track record over the past few years hasn’t been great, but they’re still putting out decent performance at a reasonable price point. Besides, the average Mac user doesn’t care what kind of silicon they’re running on — and they shouldn’t need to. But they should care if a company is deliberately steering them toward a platform of aggressive planned obsolescence and a treadmill of re-buying things they don’t really need. I’ve put more than two dozen used Intel iMacs and MacBooks back into service for churches, students, teachers and missionaries — all well past the date Apple would like them to be running, and all stable, reliable and with half of them running Windows 10 at least part of the time. They’re really great machines, and I mourn the end of this era. Maybe Apple’s new products will be better than I think; I’m sure they’ll be sexy pieces of hardware. I just hope they don’t become sexy pieces of garbage in a couple years… Jon and Nicole Blog, Tech 3 Comments June 27, 2020 October 6, 2020 4 Minutes Air Hockey Scoreboard Project Last year, our church got a donation of an air hockey table, for use by the youth group. It was in nice shape, save for the electronic scoreboard, which wouldn’t keep score. It would light up and make sound when powered, but the score was stuck at “88” to “88.” We resolved to see if we could fix it. The electronics were wrapped in a plastic banner that crossed the middle of the table, and had only a few wires running to it — one from a puck “catcher” on each side of the table, with a simple switch that was pressed when the puck was present, and one modified ethernet cable running to a small control panel that let you start a timer, or reset the game. Our initial hope was that it would just be a wiring problem, that Ben and I could fix together. It turned out to be much more complicated. All the wiring was fine, and via various traces, ended up connected to a small logic board — this turned out to be the cause of the problem: it was dead. The board had a part number, but no amount of Internet searching could find a source for a replacement part. We theorized that the actual logic being performed was fairly simplistic, and that we might be able to replicate it with a Raspberry Pi Zero — roughly the same size, and equipped with sufficient GPIO pins to map to the existing wiring. Connecting the puck catchers was easy, and with a little Python code, we could count score and show it on a connected SSH Terminal. The control panel was a little more difficult, but we managed to find a solution for some of its basic functions. The remaining problem was the seven-segment LEDs that actually show the score. Original logic board and attempt at swapping in a Raspberry Pi Zero For those we called in some help from an engineering student we know, and managed to come up with the logic to light the LEDs by reverse engineering an array of bit values that could be toggled via the Pi’s GPIO. In theory it was going to be possible to restore displays, and 90% of the functionality of the system. In practice, it didn’t work out that way. The seven-segment LEDs work in pairs-of-pairs: two LEDs for each player, and double that to mirror the value on the other side of the board. 4 LEDs, with 8 wires each makes for 32 tiny wires that needed to be run. Only half that needed to go the GPIO, since the other half were just mirrored values, but that’s still a lot of wiring — turns out there’s a reason most electronics use a printed circuit board. I briefly entertained designing such a board, and paying to have it printed, but we were still going to run into voltage problems. Once the LEDs were running, very little voltage remained in the little Pi for the blinking lights and buzzers that make the experience fun. Raspberry Pi 3B+ with screen and custom mount After literally months of soldering, brainstorming, and frequently ignoring the now very-messy project out of frustration, we decided to abandon the banner, and go all in on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with an add-on display. The logic still worked fine for score-keeping, although I had to come up with a new routine for displaying the score in ASCII characters that filled the screen. The girls each composed a little ditty that gets bleated out by the buzzer when someone wins the game, and Ben designed a mounting shim and 3D printed it. We removed one of the two support poles for the scoreboard, and mounted the Pi to the other — neatly running the wires up the pole. I used plastic cement to attach a reset button and the buzzer to the side of the Pi’s case, providing the key features of the original control panel. After a successful beta test, we refined the design and improved the crude graphics a little, then installed our new system in the Air Hockey table using most of the original wiring. Its not perfect, but its quite elegant — and I was pleased by how much we all learned putting it together. Jon and Nicole Blog, Tech 1 Comment June 6, 2020 June 27, 2020 3 Minutes For the record, I was 39 years old before I had a hobby. I mean, I do things outside of work and school, but none long enough to move from amateur to hobbyist. Then, when I got around to picking out a hobby (or maybe it picked me), it ended up looking a lot like my profession. It’s not though. Its technical, but there’s no way I’ll ever get paid to do it. It’s nerdy, but not in a way that has any commercial value. And its geeky, but not the kind of geeky that redeems itself. And it took 39 years and moving to rural Ohio before I actually had the spare time. If you want to read about it, there’s a new section of the website and a separate RSS Feed: the Restoration Museum. For everyone else, normal posts will remain in this category. Jon and Nicole Blog, Tech Leave a comment May 12, 2020 May 28, 2020 1 Minute That Time I Talked to Apple’s Co-Founder In the fall of 2000, I signed up for a fledgling online auction site called eBay. I wanted to find a relatively obscure piece of Apple Computer kit I’d always wanted, called a Newton MessagePad. I didn’t quite understand how eBay worked, so I offered the maximum I’d be willing to pay on 6 different listings… it was probably a full hour before I realised I’d just committed to buying 6 Newtons! Fortunately, I was out-bid on 5 of them, and only had to pay for one. Nonetheless, I was a proud owner of a Newton MessagePad 120 — proud, that is, until I learned about the MessagePad 2100. The grand-father of portable computing, killed off in its prime by Steve Jobs in his return to Apple Computer in 1997, the Newton remains an audacious and ambitious piece of computing history. In 2002, after saving up, I managed to get my hands on an upgraded MessagePad 2000 and began my first experiments with wireless networking and different kinds of after-the-fact hacks and expansions to the long-dead platform. An impressive community of hobbyists had sprung up to keep Newton alive, adding Bluetooth, Wifi, MP3 playing and web surfing. It may have been my first experience in coaxing new usefulness out of abandoned hardware. I didn’t do much for the community, but I did talk about it a lot — on this very home grown website, and other early-Internet forums. Enough, I guess, that a writer for Wired Magazine found me and scheduled an interview for an upcoming article in his series about the culture of Apple fans. That article appeared a couple months later, and you can still find it if you search the right keywords. 18 years later, that article got me invited to speak at a Worldwide Online Newton Users Conference. Turns out there’s still interest in the little green machine, and more than 70 nerds were gathering online to share their recent hacks, collections and uses for Newt. Of the participants in attendance were some of the original Newt dev team, a well-known tech journalist, and the remaining co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Wozniak. Steve was mostly a silent observer — in fact, at first we weren’t quite sure it was really him. At the outset, I challenged the participant bearing his moniker to turn his camera on and prove it. I’m sure we were all delighted when the real deal himself appeared and shared his memories of Newton. He receded back into silence until we had a break. As other participants shut their cameras off to attend to biological needs, I decided to go for broke: “Is Woz still on?” I asked A couple seconds of silence… “Yup! I’m here! I’ve been here listening the whole time!” “Would you be willing to take a few questions?” “Absolutely!” says the fabled millionaire, as his camera springs back to life. He held court with us for 20 minutes. I asked a series of off-the-cuff questions to start the impromptu interview, mostly about nerdy things, but we also talked about teaching kids computers, Covid-19, and travel. After a few minutes I yielded the floor so other participants could pile on. It ended too quickly and Woz remained a silent participant for the rest of the event, but it sure was cool! He’s remarkably down to earth — just one of the nerds, who likes experimenting with technology and talking about his passions. In fact, that’s how Apple started. The slides for my little talk are hereDownload They’re mostly just memories, as this event will be in a couple years. But don’t ever doubt the power of technology — and community — to have an impact on people’s lives. The Newton community made a documentary on just that, and its worth watching. Jon and Nicole Blog, Tech 4 Comments May 8, 2020 October 6, 2020 2 Minutes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2577
__label__cc	0.52824	0.47176	Kitesurfing out of Olympics 2016- not so bad? This is Kiteracing ! from International Kiteboarding Ass. on Vimeo. So the powers that be have made a crazy decision and decided to drop Kitesurfing and put Windsurfing RSX back in for Rio 2016. Really strange outcome after all the recommendations at the ISAF conference all week to keep kiting in. But hey, politics and money is something I will never understand? Not sure how they can reinstate a dying class that will be pumping around the course in Rio, not very enjoyable to watch and especially after the RSX class took ISAF to court costing them at least £35000 in legal fees. Still I'm not entirely sure Kitesurfing was ready for the Olympics anyhow? I do feel real sorry for all my friends who have now lost their Olympic dream especially Steph and Olly Bridge who were looking like being the first ever mother, son combo at an Olympic games. so lets look at the positives- Even being selected for the Olympics has increased media attention and awareness that Kiteracing is a high performance sailing sport. Every country now has some kind of kiteracing going on and sailing clubs have started to include kiteracing events all around the world The kiteracing world tour can now go back to being run by the PKRA who were heading in the right direction and had some great events coming on board It will now be left to people who are passionate about kitesurfing and do racing for the love and sportmanship rather than just for a job with no passion. This was something I didn't like at the IKA Worlds this year! we have gained a lot of kitesurfers who have given it a try because of the Olympics. some of these may go back to RSX some may stay kiteracing, some freestyle and some may even wave ride ;) We can now keep developing equipment, courses, race structure and most importantly a training network and clear pathway enabling the youth to get into kiteracing on our own terms. By the time ISAF come begging for Kitesurfing to be included in 2020 to save sailing as an Olympic sport, we will have a set structure and can go in on our terms as kiters rather than changing to what they want as yachties. I would like to thank everyone involved in this process especially Markus at the IKA. It's been a rollercoaster ride but i am positive that this outcome is the best for the sport and Kiteracing will only become stronger from it. If you are looking for kitesurf race coaching or just to get into kitesurfing then gp to my school in Cornwall- Pasty Adventures Kitesurf Race Coaching & Pasty Cup 2012. 4th & 5th August- Marazion, Cornwall This years Pasty Cup in Mounts Bay, Cornwall is being combined with coaching from BKSA coach Lee Harvey and will also involve interested parties who will be checking out how we go and learning about safety as well as making a video. The plan is to have coaching on saturday morning followed by 3 races for the Pasty Cup saturday afternoon and another 3 races sunday morning followed by long distance training after lunch. This event is open to everyone who has raced before and wants to improve with coaching and also have some quality racing! Due to outgoing costs this will only run if enough people book in so please send your details asap to lee@pastyadventures.co.uk Price is £50 which will simply cover the boat costs. we will meet at Marazion on Saturday 4th August at 9am. more details will be sent once you are registered. Lets show everyone that Kitesurfing is ready and the right board sport for Rio 2016!!!! Other kitesurfing clinics coming up include- Intermediate TT in July and Wave in September. For more details check out my school website http://www.pastyadventures.co.uk/kitesurf-clinics.html Kitesurfing selected for Rio 2016 Olympics Thats it we are Olympic! now all the hard work starts but hopefully we will now be able to get funding? to get involved, have lessons or train with me check out my school www.pastyadventures.co.uk below is the official statement from the ISAF council meeting- The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has confirmed the final event and equipment selections for the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing The ISAF Council voted that Kiteboarding will replace windsurfing for the men's and women's board events and confirmed the equipment that will be used for the Women's Skiff and Mixed Multihull Events. Mackay FX, referred to as the 49er FX, was selected yesterday as the two person women's skiff and today the Nacra 17 joins the Olympic equipment family after being selected for the two person mixed multihull event. The 49er FX received the majority of votes from the ISAF Council in the first round after the six evaluation trial entries were narrowed down to just three; the 29erXX, the RS900 and the 49er FX. There was an equally animated debate on the final morning of the Council meeting at this year's ISAF Mid-Year Meeting to decide the equipment to be selected for the mixed multihull event. After discussing the recommendations from the Evaluation Panel, the Equipment Committee and the Events Committee, Council voted between the Nacra 17 and the Viper with the Nacra 17 securing the majority. The final discussion on the events and equipment for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition was about the men's and women's board events with Council voting in favour or kiteboarding. In November 2011 an evaluation group was appointed to examine kiteboarding formats with the board events for Rio 2016 defined as 'windsurfing and/or kiteboarding'. The Evaluation Group recommended that kiteboarding be included in the ISAF Event family including the ISAF Sailing World Cup and the ISAF Sailing World Championships but Council went one step further and selected Kiteboarding for the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition The ISAF Windsurfing and Kiteboarding Committee will consider and make further recommendations to Council on the implementation of the inclusion of kiteboarding at their meeting in November 2012 at the ISAF Annual ISAF President Göran Petersson said, "These announcements mark a new era for sailing and we welcome the new classes into the ISAF family. The equipment selections have fulfilled the criteria set out by the Evaluation Panel and we look forward to seeing the boats not only at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, but the ISAF Sailing World Cup and ISAF Sailing World Championships. "Kiteboarding has proven to us that it is ready to be included into the list of prestigious ISAF Events and it is a fantastic addition to the sailing programme for the 2016 Olympic Games." The events to be contested at the 2016 Olympic Games are confirmed as: Women's Kiteboarding Men's One Person Dinghy - Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial Men's One Person Dinghy (heavy) - Finn Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470 Women's Two Person Dinghy - Men's Skiff - 49er Women's skiff - 49er FX Mixed Two Person Multihull - Nacra 17 These ten events will be featured in the 2012-2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup which kicks off in Melbourne in December and will come together in Santander, Spain in 2014 for the ISAF Sailing World ISAF Council also approved applications from Kosovo (Group C) and Vietnam (Group K) for full member status. http://www.sailing.org/38281.php	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2583
__label__cc	0.60687	0.39313	Environmental Studies Biology Health Science Neuroscience Computer Science All Topics Dermatology Acne Photodynamic Therapy Laser Illumination Treatment P. Acnes Shedding New Light on Acne: The Effects of Photodynamic Therapy on Propionibacterium acnes By Miseker E. Abate 2013, Vol. 5 No. 09 \| pg. 3/4 \| « » Cite References Print Preparation of Growth Media Before starting the experiment, bacterial cells were grown in vitro. The specific media used for P. acnes bacteria is known as brucella media (named after the bacterial genus brucella). Brucella media was used because previous studies had found it most favorable for P. acnes’ growth (Burns, 2009). Brucella media is a fairly common type of growth culture that consists of 10g/L of pancreatic digest casein, 10 g/L beef pellets, 1 g/L dextrose, 2 g/L yeast extract, 5 g/L sodium chloride, 0.1 g/L sodium bisulfate—all essential components for proper bacterial growth. The media was autoclaved—sterilized at high pressure saturated steam at 121°C—so that no type of contamination would distort the results of the experiment. Along with liquid media, bacterial cells grow on the surface of solid media as well. Solid brucella medium is made by adding 15 g/L agar (a solidifying agent) to the recipe listed above. The media is poured into petri dishes—small shallow plastic dishes. Cells are spread onto the media and incubated at 37°C for one to five days. Viable bacterial cells then grow as colonies—represented as a visible cluster of single, genetically pure, bacteria cell. It is the number of bacterial colonies that will be compared for each treatment. Preparation of P. acnes Bacterial Cultures The first part of this experiment analyzed the various ways by which the effects of PDT on P. acnes can be enhanced. For this test, a new bacterial strain was obtained in lyophilized (freeze dried) form from Presque Isle Cultures—a company that merchandizes microbial cultures. The bacterial strain had been freeze dried for preservation and ease of transport. In order to grow the bacteria, the lyophilized pellet was rehydrated in 250μl of brucella media. Then 10μl of the rehydrated bacteria were placed into twelve sterilized growth test tubes that contained 3 mL of liquid brucella media. Bacterial cells are capable of growing and replicating rapidly within these growth media. Then the culture tubes that contained the brucella media, as well as the rehydrated bacterial cells were all labeled New Cultures (NC). The tubes were then placed in an anaerobic chamber with a BD Gas-Pak EZ Anaerobic Container System Sachets. The anaerobic chamber and the Gas-Pak are simply a means of generating an anaerobic environment—a surrounding that lacks any sort of oxygen molecules—similar to that of the skin microbiota. The bacterial culture test tubes in the anaerobic chamber were then placed in a 37°C incubator(human body temperature)for seven days. Following the seven day growth period, all the bacterial culture tubes were removed from the 37°C incubator and tested for their susceptibility to photodynamic therapy by means of laser treatment. Testing of P. acnes’ Susceptibility to Photodynamic Therapy Before analyzing the effects the different variables had on the susceptibility of the bacterial cells, the NC (New Culture) bacteria were treated with photodynamic therapy under normal conditions. This was done after washing the bacterial cultures. To start with, 1.5ml of the 3ml liquid culture was moved to a sterile microfuge tube. The tube was labeled and centrifuged at 13,300 rpm for five minutes. The microfuge tube was then removed and the supernatant—the liquid that resides over the pellet—was discarded. The pellet in the tube was washed once by mixing it with 1ml of sterile water. The solution was centrifuged for one minute, the supernatant was discarded, and the remaining pellet was re-suspended with sterile water. The optical density was adjusted to equal 1.0 at 600nm. In this way, the washing of the bacterial culture isolated the bacterial cells from the surrounding molecules, ensuring that no other factors—aside from the innate porphyrins found in the P. acnes cells—would contribute to the effects of PDT. Directly prior to subjugating the bacterial cells to PDT, scientific controls were plated on the brucella pates. Controls serve as a standard of comparison between two groups that are identical except for one factor—the variable in question. Thus, the bacterial cells plated just prior to illumination (PDT treatment) serve as a standard by which the illuminated bacteria can be compared to. And because both bacterial cells have undergone the same exact processes—save for illumination—any difference between their colony growths can be attributed to the effects of PDT. 10μl of the washed yet un-illuminated bacterial solutions were diluted to a concentration of 10-6. Dilutions were made to make counting colonies on brucella plates easier. 200μl of the bacterial dilution was plated onto brucella plates and sealed with parafilm (a self-sealing, moldable and flexible film) to prevent contamination. The control plate was then placed upside down (to prevent condensation) in an anaerobic chamber, along with a Gas-pak and incubated at 37°C for 24 hours. The plates were removed from the incubator after the 24 hour period. Then the colonies were counted and their morphology was documented. Thus, the number of colonies found here would base the standard by which the susceptibility of the illuminated bacteria can be compared to. Photodynamic therapy was applied on the bacterial cells by means of laser illumination. It had been determined by the spectra of coproporphyrin III dihydrochloride (CIIID) that one of the most effective wavelengths of light for photodynamic therapy was 632.8nm (red light) (Thoreson, 2010). Thus, samples of P. acnes cells were illuminated using a 1.0 mW Metrologic helium-neon laser with a beam wavelength of 632.8nm at room temperature (22°C). In order to illuminate the bacteria, 300μl of the washed cells were placed in brand new 1.0cm plastic cuvettes and were covered with parafilm to prevent contamination. The cuvettes were positioned 23.5cm from the beam so that the laser beam could illuminate the entire sample. The bacterial cells were illuminated for 300 seconds. Then the bacteria were diluted, plated, incubated, counted and analyzed in the same manner as above. The number of colonies found here—the illuminated New Culture plates—was then be compared to the number of colonies found on the control (un-illuminated) plates. Percent difference in survival was computed in order to determine the effects of PDT upon normal, washed P. acnes—not supplemented with any variables. This procedure was repeated 3 more times using fresh NC (New Culture) tubes. Testing for Factors that Enhance the Effects of Photodynamic Therapy The surrounding media, oxygenation, H2O2 + FeCl3 supplementation, and bacterial storage in growth media for 4 months were then tested in order to determine if each factor significantly enhances the susceptibility of P. acnes to photodynamic therapy. Factor One: Unwashed In order to analyze the effects of the surrounding growth media, fresh NC cultures tubes were illuminated in the same manner as above but without being washed. The optical densities of the bacteria ranged from 0.3 to 1.4. The controls and illuminated bacterial cells were diluted, plated, incubated, counted and analyzed as above. The procedure was repeated three more times using fresh Unwashed NC cultures. Factor Two: Oxygenation Fresh NC culture tubes were washed as before, so that only the effects of oxygen and not the surrounding molecules can be accounted for. The optical densities were adjusted to 1.0. Then 300μl of the bacterial solution was placed in a new plastic cuvette. The bacteria were saturated with Oxygen using sterile glass pipettes connected a rubber tube attached to an Oxygen tank. The Oxygen tank was turned on and oxygen gas was released directly into the bacterial solution for 120 seconds. Following oxygenation, the controls and illuminated bacterial cells were diluted, plated, incubated, counted and analyzed as before. The procedure was also repeated three more times using fresh NC cultures. Factor Three: H2O2 + FeCl3 Supplementation Prior to experimentation, a bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution was obtained from the laboratory and filter sterilized using a 10ml syringe into a sterile 10ml falcon (conical) tube. Then a 10% solution of FeCl3 was diluted to a 1mM solution, filter-sterilized, and placed into a 10ml falcon tube. 3µl of 1mM FeCl3 and 100 of 3% H2O2 were added to fresh NC culture tubes. The solution was allowed to react (Haber-Weiss and Fenton Chemistry) for 10 minutes—a safe yet sufficient duration. Following the 10 minute reaction period, the bacterial cultures were washed and the optical densities of each bacterium were adjusted to 1.0. Then the controls and illuminated bacteria were diluted, plated, incubated, counted and analyzed as per usual. The procedure was repeated three more times using fresh NC cultures. Factor Four: Storage for Four months New Culture (NC) bacterial cells grown for 7 days were stored in the 4°C refrigerator for 4 months. Following the 4 month storage, the bacterial cultures were removed. The effects of duration were analyzed by testing both Washed and Unwashed (with the surrounding media) bacterial cells that had been stored in the refrigerator for 4 months. For the washed “4 month stored” variable, NC cultures were washed as before, and optical densities were adjusted to 1.0. The same amounts of diluted (10-6) controls and illuminated bacterial cells were plated. The plates were incubated in 37°C for 24 hours. Then the bacterial colonies were counted, and the colony morphology was documented. This procedure was also repeated three times using fresh NC cultures. The “4 month stored” unwashed NC cultures were tested in the same manner as “factor one: surrounding media”—the sole difference was the length of days the bacterial cultures were placed in the refrigerator. This procedure was also repeated three times using fresh NC cultures. Testing for P. acnes Propensity for Resistance In order to test for P.acnes’ propensity for resistance, three bacterial strains from a previous experiment by Anders Thoreson were used (Thoreson, 2010). The bacterial strains were obtained from -80°C freezer stocks. The three separate freezer stocks contained P. acnes cells that had never been illuminated (labeled Old Cultures, or OC), ones that had survived red light illumination (labeled Red Cultures, or RC), and some that had survived blue light illumination (labeled Blue Cultures, or BC). An ample amount of each of the frozen bacterial cells was inoculated using sterile toothpicks into sterile culture tubes with 3 ml of brucella liquid media. The tubes were labeled Old Cultures (OC), Red Cultures (RC) and Blue Cultures (RC). Eight culture tubes were prepared for each of the bacteria in order to ensure enough cells were grown for the duration of the experiment. Following inoculation, the culture tubes, along with a control tube with just media, were allowed to incubate in an anaerobic chamber in 37°C for seven days Following the seven day growth period, the culture tubes were removed from the 37°C incubator. Then the bacterial cells propensity for resistance was analyzed by determining if the bacterial strains that had previously undergone treatment with PDT (RC and BC) would die at the same rate as the bacterial strain that had never been exposed PDT (OC). All three strains of bacteria were illuminated under normal conditions (washed), in the presence of their surrounding media (factor one), oxygenated (factor two), and after being supplemented with H2O2 + FeCl3 (factor three). The process of illumination, plating—both controls and illuminated bacteria—counting and overall analysis proceeded as above. The colonies on the control and illuminated plates of all three strains of bacteria were counted, their morphology was documented. This was repeated 3 more times. Then, the percent survival of the RC and BC colonies was compared with that of the OC strain to determine if there was significant resistance. Statistical Analysis: T-test All the colonies for each bacterial strain and each factor were counted, and percent survival was computed using the bacteria’s respective controls. Then a t-test was conducted to determine if the PDT effects upon susceptibility, the various factors’ effects upon PDT, and P. acnes’ potential resistance were significant or not. A t-test is a statistical hypothesis test that is used to determine if two sets of data are significantly different from one another. The null (initial) hypothesis is that there is no difference between the two sets of data, and any difference is indicated by a P-value—a value that indicates whether it’s probable to reject the null hypothesis based on a predetermined significance level α, which is 0.05 in this experiment. 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__label__wiki	0.54829	0.54829	Collection (1)Essays (1)Monograph (1) English (2)French (2) Contemporary (2)Modern (1) In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism Edited by Gillian Beer, Malcolm Bowie and Beate Perrey Legenda (General Series) •14 December 2007 ‘Emerging from conferences organized between 2002 and 2006 within a research project New Languages for Criticism: Cross Currents and Resistances, this compendium addresses the question of the search within the modern humanities for new languages for criticism in the light of a broadening awareness of the increasingly interdisciplinary or intermedial nature of cultural production and research.’ — David Scott, French Studies 514-15 ‘The ambition, expertise and disciplinary breadth of this collection are exhilarating... Malcolm Bowie’s celebration of the ‘wonderfully impure acts of translation, of provocation, of risk-taking, and of abyssmanship that musical experience involves’ (p. 72) might equally describe this collection of essays. Often lyrical and innovative in their critical style, these essays by distinguished contributors... are also an important contribution to the definition and exploration of interdisciplinarity itself.’ — unsigned notice, Forum for Modern Language Studies 48.1, 2012, 112 Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach through the Screenplays Linda Renton Legenda (General Series) •1 May 2002 ‘Linda Renton's superb study of Pinter as screenwriter quotes him saying how natural the process seemed when he started to write for films in the early 1960s... A strong commitment to the power of the image runs through his screen work, however paradoxical this might seem in a writer famed for his sparring dialogue. Renton argues that the image was central to his approach to film, suggesting that there is an "an object of desire" at the heart of all Pinter's screenplays: one which is often barely visible - or even invisible - to the characters in the story.’ — Ian Christie, Sight & Sound June 2009, 33 Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie I: Dreams of Knowledge Malcolm Bowie Legenda (General Series) vol 1 of 2•4 December 2013 ‘Only someone with Bowie’s exquisite powers of expression and formidably focused, well-stocked mind could home in so closely on the multilevelled play of thought in some of the most difficult modern writers, and especially on the places where their work crosses aesthetic boundaries... It is therefore a huge treat to be able to revel in the publication of his Selected Essays, impeccably edited by Alison Finch and beautifully produced by Legenda... Even in the space of a short review, Bowie’s writing offers both pleasure and intense mental stimulation. For readers old and new, there are marvels in store in these two magnificent volumes.’ — Michael Sheringham, French Studies 68.3, July 2014, 422-23 ‘These two volumes can only add to our sense of [Bowie's] importance... Criticism like this is clearly so much more than criticism: it is an engagement with the act of creation that is brought back to creation itself. These two volumes are full of brilliance and insight and deftly communicated and thus infectious pleasure.’ — Patrick McGuinness, Times Literary Supplement 5805, 4 July 2014, 21 ‘His readings are always marked by a resistance to easy answers that would attempt to reduce or deny the complexity of the text under analysis; the role of the critic is to illuminate that complexity, giving close attention to the way the text functions and how it guides the reader to a range of potential interpretive moves. While he is a highly trustworthy guide through the intricacies of the text, as he himself writes in an essay on Mallarmé, 'somehow the passage through imbricated levels of utterance towards some final state of achieved propositional clarity is never quite the point' (I: 152).’ — Joseph Acquisto, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 43.1-2, 2014 ‘How Verdi moves Shakespeare’s Othello around the globe, finding the mental ‘fingerprint’ in Winnicott, introducing Judith Butler, deciphering Stéphane Mallarmé, exploring brevity in Proust (yes), Liszt’s relationship with Wagner, ‘that most exhausting of sons-in-law’: these are just a few of the subjects considered with such zest by Malcolm Bowie, who was a critic of immense talent.’ — Edward Hughes, Times Higher Education Supplement 1 January 2015, 63 ‘Evidence abounds in these pieces of Bowie’s keen appetite for intrinsically difficult subject-matter. Indeed, his ability to sustain his critical nerve in the handling of complex material was to become a hallmark of his achievement... Yet alongside this intensity of engagement with serious subject-matter, we also see the poise and panache of a critic who was so evidently at home with textual composition.’ — Edward J. Hughes, Modern Language Review 111.1, January 2016, 228-29 (full text online)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2599
__label__cc	0.661167	0.338833	Difference between revisions of "Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar" Cbooms (talk \| contribs) (→‎November 6) Aohof (talk \| contribs) (→‎November 13) \| bgcolor="#A6B658" align="center" style="font-size:125%" \| '''Alex Hof''' \| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" \| Title: \| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" align="center" \| Title: Tropicalization Blues \| bgcolor="#BCD2EE" \| Abstract: Tropicalization turns algebro-geometric objects into piecewise linear ones which can then be studied through the lens of combinatorics. In this talk, I will introduce the basic construction, then discuss some of the recent efforts to generalize and improve upon it, touching upon the Giansiracusa tropicalization and developing the machinery of ordered blueprints necessary for the Lorscheid tropicalization. When: Wednesdays 4:25pm Where: Van Vleck B317 Lizzie the OFFICIAL mascot of GAGS!! Who: All undergraduate and graduate students interested in algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and related fields are welcome to attend. Why: The purpose of this seminar is to learn algebraic geometry and commutative algebra by giving and listening to talks in a informal setting. Talks are typically accessible to beginning graduate students and take many different forms. Sometimes people present an interesting paper they find. Other times people give a prep talk for the Friday Algebraic Geometry Seminar. Other times people give a series of talks on a topic they have been studying in-depth. Regardless the goal of GAGS is to provide a supportive and inclusive place for all to learn more about algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. How: If you want to get emails regarding time, place, and talk topics (which are often assigned quite last minute) add yourself to the gags mailing list: gags@lists.wisc.edu. The list registration page is here. Give a talk! We need volunteers to give talks this semester. If you're interested contact Caitlyn or David, or just add yourself to the list (though in that case we might move your talk later without your permission). Beginning graduate students are particularly encouraged to give a talk, since it's a great way to get your feet wet with the material. Being an audience member The goal of GAGS is to create a safe and comfortable space inclusive of all who wish to expand their knowledge of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. In order to promote such an environment in addition to the standard expectations of respect/kindness all participants are asked to following the following guidelines: Do Not Speak For/Over the Speaker: Ask Questions Appropriately: The List of Topics that we Made February 2018 On February 21st of the Month of February of The 2018th Year of the Seventh Age of The Sun, the People Present at GAGS Compiled Ye Followinge Liste of Topics They Wished to Hear Aboute: Feel free to edit the list and/or add references to learn this stuff from. Since then, we've succeeded in talking about some of these, which doesn't mean there shouldn't be another talk. Ask around or look at old semester's websites. Schubert Calculus, aka how many lines intersect four given lines in three-dimensional space? The answer to this question is prettiest when you think about it as a problem of intersecting subvarieties in the Grassmanian. What is the Grassmanian, you say? That's probably a talk we should have every year, so you should give it! Kindergarten GAGA. GAGA stands for Algebraic Geometry - Analytic Geometry. Serre wrote a famous paper explaining how the two are related, and you could give an exposition suitable to kindergardeners. Katz and Mazur explanation of what a modular form is. What is it? Kindergarten moduli of curves. What is a dualizing sheaf? What is a dualizing complex? What is Serre duality? What is local duality? Can local duality help us understand Serre duality? Generalizations of Riemann - Roch. (Grothendieck - Riemann - Roch? Hirzebruch - Riemann - Roch?) Hodge theory for babies What is a Néron model? What is a crystal? What does it have to do with D-modules? Here's an encouragingly short set of notes on it. What and why is a dessin d'enfants? DG Schemes. Ed Dewey's Wish List Of Olde Back in the day Ed and Nathan made this list of topics they wanted to hear. They all sound super duper cool, but it's also true that they had many years of AG behind their backs, so this list might not be very representative of what the GAGS audience wants to hear bout. Here are the topics we're DYING to learn about! Please consider looking into one of these topics and giving one or two GAGS talks. Specifically Vague Topics D-modules 101: basics of D-modules, equivalence between left and right D-modules, pullbacks, pushforwards, maybe the Gauss-Manin Connection. Claude Sabbah's introduction to the subject could be a good place to start. Sheaf operations on D-modules (the point is that then you can get a Fourier-Mukai transform between certain O-modules and certain D-modules, which is more or less how geometric Langlands is supposed to work) Famous Theorems Interesting Papers & Books Symplectic structure of the moduli space of sheaves on an abelian or K3 surface - Shigeru Mukai. Residues and Duality - Robin Hatshorne. Have you heard of Serre Duality? Would you like to really understand the nuts and bolts of it and its generalizations? If so this book is for you. (You wouldn't need to read the whole book to give a talk ;).) Coherent sheaves on P^n and problems in linear algebra - A. A. Beilinson. In this two page paper constructs the semi-orthogonal decomposition of the derived category of coherent sheaves on projective space. (This topic is very important, and there are a ton of other resources for this result and the general theory of derived categories.) Frobenius splitting and cohomology vanishing for Schubert varieties - V.B. Mehta and A. Ramanathan. In characteristic p the fact that (x+y)^p=x^p+y^p means that one has the Frobenius morphism, which sends f to f^p. In this paper the authors introduce the notion of what it means for a variety to be Frobenius split, and use this to prove certain cohomologcal vanishing results for Schubert varieties. Since then Frobenius splitting -- and its related cousins (F-regularity, strong F-regularity, F-purity, etc.) have played large roles in geometry and algebra in characteristic p. This is a good place to get a sense for what kicked all this stuff off! Schubert Calculus - S. L. Kleiman and Dan Laksov. An introduction to Schubert calculus suitable for those of all ages. I am told the paper essentially only uses linear algebra! Rational Isogenies of Prime Degree - Barry Mazur. In this paper Mazur classifies all isogenies of rational elliptic curves of prime order. As a result of this he deduces his famous result that the torsion subgroup of an elliptic curve (over Q) is one of 15 abelian groups. This definitely stares into the land of number theory, but certainly would still be of interest to many. Esquisse d’une programme - Alexander Grothendieck. Originating from a grant proposal in the mid 1980's this famous paper outlines a tantalizing research program, which seeks to tie numerous different areas of math (algebraic geometry, Teichmuller theory, Galois theory, etc.) together. This is where Grothendieck introduced his famous Lego game and dessin d'enfant. While just a research proposal this paper has seemingly inspired a ton of cool math, and will allow you to "blow peoples’ minds". (The original paper is in French, but there are English translations out there.) Géométrie algébraique et géométrie analytique - J.P. Serre. A projective variety X over the complex numbers has two lives, an algebraic and an analytic, depending on which topology one wishes to work with. That is one can think about X as a complex manifold and work with holomorphic functions or as an algebraic variety and work with regular functions. Hence to any complex projective variety we have two sheaf theories and as a result two cohomology theories. In this famous paper Serre compares these two and shows they are in fact the same. (Note: This is a super fundamental result that is used all the time; normally in the following way: Uhh... What do you mean by cohomology? Well by GAGA or something it doesn't really mater.) (The original paper is in French, but there are English translations out there.) Limit linear series: Basic theory- David Eisenbud and Joe Harris. One of the more profitable tools -- especially when studying moduli spaces -- in a geometers tool box is the theory of degenerations. However, sometimes we care about more than just the variety we are degenerating and want to keep track of things like vector/line bundles. In this paper Eisenbud and Harris develop the theory of degenerating a curve together with a linear series. From this they prove a ton of cool results: M_g is of general type for g>24, Brill-Noether theory, etc. Picard Groups of Moduli Problems - David Mumford. This paper is essentially the origin of algebraic stacks. The Structure of Algebraic Threefolds: An Introduction to Mori's Program - Janos Kollar This paper is an introduction to Mori's famous ``minimal model program, which is a far reaching program seeking to understand the birational geometry of higher dimensional varieties. Cayley-Bacharach Formulas - Qingchun Ren, Jürgen Richter-Gebert, Bernd Sturmfels. A classical result we all learn in a first semester of algebraic geometry is that 5 points in the plane (in general position) determine a unique plane conic. One can similarly show that 9 (general) points in the plane determine a unique plane cubic curve. This paper tries to answer the question: ``What is equation for this cubic curve?. On Varieties of Minimal Degree (A Centennial Approach) - David Eisenbud and Joe Harris. Suppose X is a projective variety embedded in projective space so that X is not contained in any hyperplane. By projecting from general points one can see that the degree of X is at least codim(X)+1. This paper discusses the classification of varieties that achieve this lower degree bound i.e. varieties of minimal degree. This topic is quite classical and the paper seems to contain a nice mixture of classical and modern geometry. The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT - Kevin J. Costello. This seems incredibly interesting, but fairing warning this paper has been described as highly technical, which considering it uses A-infinity algebras and the derived category of a Calabi-Yau seems like a reasonable description. (This paper may be covered in Caldararu's Spring 2017 topics course.) Date Speaker Title (click to see abstract) September 18 David Wagner M_g Potpourri September 25 Shengyuan Huang Derived Groups and Groupoids October 9 Brandon Boggess Geometry of Generalized Fermat Curves October 16 Soumya Sankar Brauer groups and obstruction problems October 23 Alex Mine The Ax-Grothendieck theorem and other fun stuff October 30 Vlad Sotirov Buildings and algebraic groups November 6 Connor Simpson Lorentzian Polynomials November 13 Alex Hof Title TBD November 20 Caitlyn Booms Title TBD November 27 Thanksgiving Break December 4 Colin Crowley Title TBD December 11 Erika Pirnes Title TBD David Wagner Title: M_g Potpourri Abstract: In 1983, David Mumford proposed that the rational cohomology ring of Mg should be a polynomial algebra. I will discuss some of the history of Mumford's conjecture, possibly indicating a few ideas from the 2007 proof as the Madsen-Weiss theorem. If all goes well, the talk will take us through such diverse places as homotopy theory, representation stability, combinatorics of ribbon graph complexes, and deformations of algebras. Shengyuan Huang Title: Derived Groups and Groupoids Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss groups and groupoids in the derived category of dg schemes. I will focus on examples instead of the abstract theory. If X is a smooth subscheme of a smooth scheme S over the field of complex numbers, then the derived self-intersection of X in S is a groupoid. We will investigate the corresponding Lie algebroid of the groupoid I mentioned above, and exponential map between them. Brandon Boggess Title: Geometry of Generalized Fermat Curves Abstract: We will look at the generalized Fermat equation, and see how studying its integral points leads one to study quotient stacks. We will then very quickly turn and run away from the general picture to a particularly simple example of these quotient stacks, the M-curves of Darmon-Granville, and how they can be used to say something about integral points without having to actually know what the hell a stack is. Soumya Sankar Title: Brauer groups and obstruction problems Abstract: Brauer groups are ubiquitous in arithmetic and algebraic geometry. I will try to describe different contexts in which they appear, ranging from Brauer groups of fields and class field theory, to obstructions to moduli problems and derived equivalences. Alex Mine Title: The Ax-Grothendieck theorem and other fun stuff Abstract: The Ax-Grothendieck theorem says that any polynomial map from C^n to C^n that is injective is also surjective. The way this is proven is to note that the statement is trivial over finite fields, and somehow use this to work up to the complex numbers. We'll talk about this and other ways of translating information between finite fields and C. Vlad Sotirov Title: Buildings and algebraic groups Abstract: I will give a concrete introduction to the notion of a Tits building and its relationship to algebraic groups. Connor Simpson Title: Lorentzian Polynomials Abstract: Lorentzian polynomials are a family of multivariate polynomials recently introduced by Branden and Huh. We will define Lorentzian polynomials and survey some of their applications to combinatorics, representation theory, and computer science. The first 20 minutes of this talk should not require more than the ability to take partial derivatives of polynomials and basic linear algebra. Alex Hof Title: Tropicalization Blues Caitlyn Booms Colin Crowley Erika Pirnes Organizers' Contact Info Past Semesters Retrieved from "https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Graduate_Algebraic_Geometry_Seminar&oldid=18386"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2605
__label__wiki	0.872916	0.872916	Album Reviews : Ilium – Vespertilion By Anwar Rizk on June 2, 2008 Vespertilion is the third release of Newcastle melodic power metal band, Ilium. I’ve been a following these guys for the past couple of years and have eagerly been awaiting this new album. I know to some it may seem like a pretty low budget album at first, but the production work of the album showcases the bands raw energy and musicianship, so in a sense your getting a first hand listen to what the band would sound like live. The bands musical and lyrical concepts have much improved from previous releases and most noticeably sees the introduction of Kaspar Dahlqvist (ex-Dionysus, ex-Stormwind) who adds a great tone and atmosphere with his keyboard work. Tim Yatras’ drum work fits the album perfectly with his melodic rock drumming, whilst the remaining members, Jason Hodges, Adam Smith and of course Lord Tim (Dungeon, LORD) all contribute a valiant effort and sound to the new album. I can hear a much more sinister feel in the guitar work this time round, its alot more foreboding then the last release and I can defiantly hear some very somber and melon collie moments in the guitar work, most notably in ‘Black Abyss’ and ‘Desinence: Beowulf and the Serpent’, but then it picks up and becomes more fast and uplifting with songs such as ‘Solar Amplexus’ and ‘Romulus and Remus’. Be prepared for a roller coaster ride of listening pleasure as this album showcases the bands potential and musicianship in the ever growing Aussie power metal scene. The bands lyrical content surrounds controversial themes such as religion, death, depression and or emptiness. The lyrics vary in concept, but will all have a profound impact on the listeners ears. This album has exceeded my first expectations, but there are moments when some of the songs seem a little dry and bland in comparison to the bands last release, ‘Permian Dusk’. Whilst the album isn’t a full power house of production, it offers great insight and listening pleasure into the ever growing power metal scene in Australia. I’ve always thought that Australia has one of the best metal scenes in the world, next to Europe of course, but this album may not be for everyone taste. All I can say is that if you love power metal as much as me you’ll easily fit into this albums form, but to some you may feel a slight sense of emptiness with its otherwise low production value. Its a great release from Ilium, I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to further their Aussie metal collection or to any fan of melodic power metal music. 6.7/10 Band: Ilium Album: Vespertilion Genre: Melodic Rock/Power Metal Label: Just Say Rock Records Origin: New South Wales, Australia http://www.myspace.com/iliummetal 1. Solar Amplexus 2. Undergods 3. Desinence: Beowulf and the Serpent 4. Drilling Through a Proton 5. Parasites in Calvary 6. Futility 7. Black Abyss <- reviewers choice 8. Beowulf: The Peroration 9. Vespertilion 10. Romulus and Remus About Anwar Rizk Anwar is the editor-in-chief of Metal Obsession.net. When Anwar isn't busy promoting tours, interviewing bands and reviewing awesome music, he loves to collect metal vinyl and play video games. Follow Metal Obsession on Twitter and Facebook	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2608
__label__wiki	0.785989	0.785989	Album Reviews : Akuma – Shrouds of the Final Nothing By Scott Boelsen on August 27, 2008 For those of you familiar with last.fm, Akuma is not a french hip-hop band. Instead, they are a four piece metal band from Newcastle. This review has been in the works for a while since receiving this cd to review, but each time I attempted to start writing, I would find myself enjoying this cd too much – a perk of the trade you could say. Upon listening to shrouds of the final nothing there are a few things you will notice; the band hasnt rushed any of these songs, showing from the word go with I Would that the band isnt afraid of writing intros. The second is that this is a great sounding record. For the drums having been recorded in one nine hour session, and everything else being recorded in either singer Luke O’grady’s house, or producer Mat Taylor’s, there is a very professional sound, and mix to the album. Starting with the aforementioned I Would the album begins with a simple acoustic intro before the rest of the band (Jay Richards, Adam Stoyanovski, and Brendan Kelso) join in showing what they are made of. Soon enough Luke O’grady’s vocals join the mix. His singing would best be described as ‘hardcore’, and considering that genre is far from a favourite of mine, I was surprised to find myself enjoying them. The bands music though, is anything but hardcore. The lyrics on this album would best described as covering death, and the various aspects it has on the people concerned. The music on the album is heavy, but with an ever present melody throughout. Insurrection follows next with more chunky riffs and choruses built to scream along to on the live stage. Way of the warrior follows suite, continuing the great start to the album. What follows next is the Apocatastasis , a trilogy of songs: summit of Mogiddo, Apolocalypse, and Warrior Poet. Summit of Megiddo is quite a powerful largely instrumental track leading into Apocalypse the longest track on the album, and also the first time we hear some clean vocals into the mix. Something which is featured quite heavily in the latter half of the album. Warrior, Poet finishes off the trilogy, an acoustic track with raw emotion, one of the highlights of the album. Final Confession, another highlight, kicks off as warrior poet fades to silence, returning with the riffs, and screaming, but with a fresh change in the chorus of Luke’s clean singing layered with the screams. Something that could perhaps be used more often in future releases. Without The Sun, returns to the brutality of the beginning of the album, and along with I would are the only 2 songs to have been previously released. The finger picking of the acoustic guitar sounds almost out of place on Await following without the sun but works great, and is used well to break up the brutality of the surrounding tracks. Shrouds holds nothing back, and is up there with the heaviest songs on the album, but with great melody throughout, again featuring mix of heavy/clean vocals during the chorus, with Last Breath finishing off the album in a brutal fashion. As far as local releases go, this is right up there, and definitely something everyone should check out. I look forward to the guys venturing south to Melbourne hopefully! 8.5/10 Band: Akuma Album: Shrouds of the Final Nothing Genre: Melodic Death Label: Independant Origin: AUS http://www.myspace.com/akumaband 1. I Would 2. Insurrection 3. Way of the Warrior 4. Summit of Meggido 5. Apocalypse 6. Warrior Poet 7. Final Confession 8. Without the Sun 9. Await 10. Shrouds 11. Last Breath About Scott Boelsen Scott is one of the fine co-owners of this establishment, handling the live content side of the site. Since 2008 he has been supplying the site with finely crafted photos. Check out his other work at scottboelsen.com, or boost his ego on facebook	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2609
__label__wiki	0.832208	0.832208	Album Reviews : Envenomed – The Walking Shred By Benjamin Hillier on August 11, 2019 Melbourne thrash/power band Envenomed return with their second full-length The Walking Shred, a follow up to 2014’s Evil Unseen. For those not familiar with the band, Envenomed play a fairly melodic brand of thrash metal, reminiscent of Metallica infused with Avenged Sevenfold, Iron Maiden, Megadeth and a range of other modern metal and rock classics. With their new album, they continue their thrashing assault delivering twelve tracks of punchy riffing. The pair of opening songs ‘The Walking Shred’ and ‘Abandon Hope’ essentially function as a single song, building a moody, intro into a full headbanger of a riff to set the stage for the album. This song will clearly be a good opener for live gigs and serves well to open the album, building on the opening chord progression well with good uses of harmony for suspense in the bridge. Other highlights include the opening riff to ‘Rebellion’ that serves as a great transition point from the previous ballad ‘Fate Closes The Door’ and provides a strong mid-point to the album. ‘The Haunting’ has another slew of strong riffs, from the opening thrashy moments to the excellent bridge riff that could be straight from Master of Puppets. ‘All That Remains’ and ‘Aware’ showcase their aggressive thrash side mixed in with their melodic, power metal-influenced side; ‘All that Remains’ sports an excellent chorus and some fantastically heavy moments toward the end while ‘Aware’ features strong riffing alongside a chorus that reminds me of Eurhythmics’ ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)’ in the vocal melody. Envenomed are not a one-note band, however. ‘Fate Closes the Door’ is an excellent reflective ballad and comes at the perfect time in the album to provide some contrast. ‘The Dead’ provides a truly stand out chorus that elevates an otherwise somewhat generic song to great heights. The solos across the album also bear comment as they generally mix technical skill with an excellent sense of melody, structure, and phrasing. No solo overstays its welcome or veers off into ‘shred wank’ territory, (a rare achievement in metal!) but all are tasteful, well placed and engaging. This is true of all the bands’ performances – the musicianship is tight and lively across the board and is augmented well by the production style that provides clarity without compromising heaviness. There are some odd choices on this album though. The opening to ‘Through The Cold’ is a good moment, recalling Metallica’s ‘Blackened’, but the lead guitar is overpoweringly prominent in the mix throughout the chorus, obscuring the vocals in what is otherwise a good song with some great riffs. ‘Sacrifice’ is a decent song, with strong riffs but lacks a real shining moment to elevate it to the level of the other tracks and perhaps could have been cut or put aside as a bonus track/B-side to preserve the overall impact of the album, though it serves well as a closer to the main album. The final two tracks sit apart as bonus material for the interested fan. The cover of Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’ is fun, catchy and well done, providing some contrast amongst the otherwise punchy thrash metal of the rest of the album. ‘Metal United’ is likewise a catchy track, perhaps a little more power metal than the rest of the songs but is a nice homage to the festival of the same name in Australia. The Walking Shred is by no means a weak album; with some rearrangement and ruthless editing the overall punch of the album could be improved, yet there is still plenty of great material throughout. Fans of the band will no doubt enjoy the latest metal serving from Envenomed and fans of all types of metal will find something to enjoy here. I’d be particularly keen to hear some of these songs live, as many songs seem to be written for the live gigs that will no doubt be on their way from a young, hungry Aussie band. Band: Envenomed Album: The Walking Shred Label: El Puerto Records About Benjamin Hillier Ben is a metalhead originally from Sydney, who has now moved to Hobart to pursue a PhD in Australian extreme metal. When not studying, writing about or playing metal, he can be found playing video games, browsing Reddit, knitting, fending off his cat or helping out at his local church.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2610
__label__wiki	0.531648	0.531648	Archive (2007-Today) Stories Blogs Comments Photos Classifieds Everything Archive since 1883 Nevada Daily Mail Stories from Friday, December 5, 2014 Pauline Ratts Skaggs (Obituary ~ 12/05/14) Pauline Ratts Skaggs, 95, of Atlanta, Ga., passed away peacefully Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, at Dekalb Medical Center, in Decatur, Ga. She was born in Sprague, Mo., on Jan. 20, 1919, as the first child of Harve and D'Ella Ratts. She married James L. Skaggs, of Thayer, Mo., on May 21, 1944, at the Sprague Christian Church. The was the first wedding to be held in that church. She was a 1937 graduate from Nevada High School... The past, the present, and education (Column ~ 12/05/14) My vision and faith in two of the pillars upon which I have based much of my life, were renewed earlier this week, when I watched a movie titled, "The Emperor's Club." First, a brief movie review is appropriate. The movie has been around for some time, having been originally released in 2002. ... Making choices becomes harder with age (Column ~ 12/05/14) As a person gets older it would seem that every choice made would be very important. Time may be running out sooner than expected, or abilities to participate in some activities might become more limited as age passes. Therefore it seems logical that each choice would be very important and undertaken with much thought and deliberation... Justice or revenge -- which do you want? (Letter to the Editor ~ 12/05/14) Dear Editor: How would the world remember the two players in Ferguson had the tables been turned? If Officer Wilson had not stopped the threat by firing on Brown and Brown had taken Wilson's gun, killed Wilson, and done who knows what with the gun, possibly robbing or killing others, how would you remember each?... Nevada FFA holds Ag Awareness Day (Local News ~ 12/05/14) Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada FFA Chapter held its Annual Ag Awareness Day at the Nevada Regional Technical Center Friday, Nov. 7. Students from Truman Elementary and Heartland were able to go to the NRTC and learn about agriculture from high school FFA members. The elementary students got to experience hands-on activities and learn about topics such as animals, crops, equipment, and farm safety... Nevada woman pleads guilty to stealing from her employer (Local News ~ 12/05/14) Nevada Daily Mail A Nevada woman pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a bank fraud scheme in which she embezzled from her employer, according to Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Patricia Culbertson, 53, waived her right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to a federal information that charges her with bank fraud and filing a false tax return... 'Dashing Through the Snow' in bad Christmas sweaters (Local News ~ 12/05/14) Special to the Daily Mail In Tinsel, Texas, and more particularly at Trina Walcott's Snowflake Inn, it's Christmas 365 days a year. Such is the premise of "Dashing Through the Snow," the current production opening at 8 p.m., Friday, at the Fox Playhouse in Nevada... Bronaugh hoops teams split with TJ (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) Bronaugh's basketball teams split with Thomas Jefferson on the road Tuesday night, with the girls prevailing 50-19 and the boys falling 54-44. In the girls' game, the Wildcats dominated behind a strong opening quarter, rolling to a 17-0 lead after eight minutes. The gap grew to 32-9 by halftime and 48-12 after three quarters... Hume girls blast Ballard (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) The Hume Lady Hornets basketball team flattened Ballard 58-36 in a Tuesday night road contest, improving to 2-0. "The girls looked much better this game," Hume head Coach Delayna Thompson said. For the Lady Hornets, point guard Hope Yarick led the way with a team-high 22 points, while Brhett Mumma added 13 points to go along with 11 assists and 6 rebounds. Hume forward Madison Cannon registered a double-double, dropping in 10 points while pulling down 11 boards... NMS eighth-graders bested by Fort Scott (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) Fort Scott Middle School's eighth-grade basketball teams swept visiting Nevada in girls' basketball action at the FSMS gymnasium, Tuesday. The eighth-grade "A" team won 25-12, holding Nevada to 3 points in every quarter. Fort Scott led 7-0 before Nevada got on the board... NHS JV boys lose to Hickman (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) Nevada's junior varsity boys' basketball team dropped a 44-35 decision to Columbia Hickman in the Harrisonville tournament Monday night, then bounced back with a 45-41 victory over Grain Valley Tuesday, only to fall Wednesday night in their third game in three days by a 44-32 score to St. Joe Lafayette... NHS varsity boys derailed by McDonald County (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) The Nevada Tigers boys basketball team fell to 0-3 after being defeated 63-46 by McDonald County in the second round of the Carthage Tournament Thursday night. The Tigers kept it close early, trailing 29-26 at the half. However, Nevada was outscored 16-5 in the third quarter, as McDonald County began to pull away... Sheldon teams edged by Montrose (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) Sheldon narrowly lost a pair of basketball outings Tuesday night, falling on the road to Montrose. The Panther girls were nipped 27-26 and the boys tumbled 66-57. In the girls' game, it was a low scoring result in the first and fourth periods, with a total of seven points in each. Montrose had the edge in the first, 4-3, with Sheldon getting the edge in the fourth, by the same score... NMS eighth-graders steadily improving, defeat Stockton (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) Nevada Daily Mail After spending all but the last two weeks of the season missing key players, the eighth-grade Nevada Lady Tigers meshed as a team to defeat the Stockton Tigers 26-20, at home Thursday night. "We played the best we have all year long," Nevada head coach Gail Wilson said. "That's what I've been waiting for. I knew they had it in them."... NMS wrestlers host home match (High School Sports ~ 12/05/14) Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Middle School wrestling team hosted their final home match of the season on Tuesday night, a tri-match also featuring Carl Junction and Seneca. Nevada wrestling coach Robert Watts said he was happy with his team's performance... Browse other days © 2021 Nevada Daily Mail · Nevada, Missouri Site Index · Contact Us · Partners · Terms of Service · Back to top	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2614
__label__wiki	0.615529	0.615529	Morehouse will continue as school board president PENN YAN—Jeff Morehouse was reelected president of the Penn Yan Central School District board of education on July 6. Ryan Hallings was elected vice-president. New board member Renee Bloom and returning board members Anita Maroscher and Nancy Scher were also sworn in. The elections were part of the annual reorganizational meeting. The meeting was the first day for David Hamilton as Superintendent of Schools. Hamilton told the board his first day was, “Exciting and eventful.” Hamilton told the board he would like to have a board retreat. Hamilton has two agenda items he would like to address: Communication and a Strategic Plan. Plans will be discussed at the next meeting of the board of education. Referring to his first day, Hamilton said, “I was pleased, psyched, excited, and humbled. I can’t wait to get to work tomorrow.” • Morehouse announced the correct percentage of increases for faculty under the new contract. It is 2.29 percent. Morehouse said a percentage of 2.9 percent had been in The Chronicle-Express. • Overhead charges for facility use and interscholastic athletics admission price policies were approved. • Season passes for athletic events are available at the PYA athletics office. Senior Citizens Passes and Parents Passes are also available. There is no fee for that type of pass. Post season contests are charged per Section V policy. • Nonresident tuition rates were established. • Accepted a donation of $1,225 from Theresa Bodine for the PYA Class of 2013. The next meeting of the Penn Yan Central School District board of education will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20. The meeting will be in the elementary school cafeteria.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2617
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The Customer shall reply to our queries immediately. h) The Customer shall provide to us the material he intends to process in the product to be produced by us (hereinafter referred to as “Material”). i) The Customer shall provide to us the Material of the kind and quality as it will later be processed by the Customer. j) The Customer shall provide the Material free of charge. The Customer shall bear potential transport, disposal and logistics costs. k) The Customer shall provide the Material in time, however, at the latest immediately following our respective request. l) The Customer shall provide the Material in sufficient quantity. m) The Customer shall inform us of the quantity in which he intends to process the Material. The Customer shall inform us if he uses the product to be made for more than 5 days per week and/or for more than 40 weekly hours in total; in particular if multiple shift operations are intended. n) The Customer shall obtain official authorizations or other third party permits which are required to execute the contract. The incidental costs in this regard shall be borne by the Customer. 2. Failure to Cooperate If the Customer fails to cooperate despite request, we are entitled to terminate the contract after an adequate deadline has expired. The Customer shall be responsible for the damage incurred by us as a result of the termination. III. Target Performance, Time of Performance, Place of Performance, Release from Liability 1. Target Performance a) It is our core competence to produce individual machines and equipment for processing flat materials (including the necessary accessories and spare parts). Therefore, specifications of the Customer on the quality and speed of processing as well as our offer shall at first constitute non-binding objectives of the parties. These objectives shall only be binding insofar as this has been expressly agreed, assured or guaranteed in writing. b) Customary deviations and deviations that follow from legal regulations or constitute technical improvements as well as the replacement of components by equivalent parts shall be admissible insofar as they do not impair usability for the contractually envisaged purpose. c) If we realize in the course of development that the specifications of the Customer concerning the quality and/or the speed of processing cannot be met or can only be met at higher costs, we will inform the Customer in this regard in writing immediately. In the same letter, we will point out to the Customer that the notified deviations will be considered approved by the Customer if he does not object to the announced deviations in writing within the prescribed time limit. d) The Customer may object to the deviation in writing within 10 working days following receipt of the notice. The parties will subsequently consult and try to come to an agreement. If the Customer does not object within the prescribed time limit, the communicated changes shall constitute the new targets. e) If the parties do not come to an agreement within a deadline of five working days after the Customer’s timely objection, the contract may be terminated with a notice period of another five working days. In the event of the termination, the regulations of lit. X of these General Terms and Conditions shall apply. 2. Delivery Period a) The delivery period will be individually agreed or indicated by us when we accept the order. Delivery and performance periods shall be binding if they have been indicated as binding in writing in the individual case; otherwise, all delivery and performance periods shall be non-binding. b) If a sale to destination (Versendungskauf) has been agreed in the individual case (see lit. II 4 b of these General Terms and Conditions), the delivery periods and dates shall refer to the time of hand-over to the forwarder, carrier or other third party commissioned with the transport. c) If we are unable to meet binding delivery periods due to reasons for which we are not responsible (e.g. in cases of force majeure, such as terrorist attacks, strikes, sabotage, demonstrations and third party interference as well as for delays caused by the public authorities), we will inform the Customer immediately in this regard and at the same time communicate the estimated new delivery period. A case of non-availability of the performance to this effect shall in particular be the untimely selfdelivery by our supplier if we have entered into a congruent cover purchase (kongruentes Deckungsgeschäft), if this is neither attributable to ourselves nor to our suppliers or if we are not obliged to procure in the individual case. d) Regardless of other cancellations rights, the Customer as well as ourselves shall have the right to rescind from the contract if the duration of an impediment to performance exceeds a period of one month or if performance is not possible for an indefi- nite period of time. 3. Delivery Default a) Delivery default (Lieferverzug) on our part shall arise pursuant to the statutory regulations. However, a written reminder by the Customer is required in each case. b) In the event of a delivery default, we shall be liable for default interest pursuant to lit. IX 3 of these General Terms and Conditions. c) Our statutory rights, in particular in the event of an exclusion of the performance obligation (e.g. due to impossibility or unreasonableness of the performance and/or subsequent performance), shall remain unaffected in every case. 4. Delivery, Risk, Change of the Place of Delivery, Duty to Cooperate a) Unless otherwise agreed in the individual case, the products are delivered ex works; the place of performance and the transfer of risk shall be our respective factory or distribution warehouse. There is no dispatch obligation. b) In individual cases, we will deliver the product to another place of destination upon the Customer’s express request (in the following referred to as “Sale to Destination”). In the event of a Sale to Destination, delivery is made to the respective Customer’s business address stated in the commercial register, unless otherwise agreed; we will only deliver to a country outside of the European Union on the basis of a special agreement with the Customer. We reserve the right to choose the transport route, the means of transport and the packaging. If we follow dispatching regulations of the Customer, this is without own liability at the Customer’s cost and risk. We will only take out transport insurance upon the Customer’s express request and at the Customer’s cost. c) Unless otherwise agreed, the risk shall pass to the Customer at the latest when the product is provided to him at our factory or distribution warehouse. If a Sale to Destination was agreed in the individual case, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods shall pass to the Customer at the latest upon hand-over to the forwarder, the carrier or the person or company determined by the Customer to dispatch the goods. If acceptance (Abnahme) has been agreed, it shall be relevant for the transfer of risk. d) The change of the contractually agreed place of delivery requires a written agreement between the contract parties. Additional costs arising as a result of the subsequent change of the place of delivery shall be borne by the Customer. e) If our employees deliver the product, the Customer shall actively participate in the discharging and unloading measures with his personnel. The same applies for measures of the exact placement of the goods in the Customer’s premises. If the Customer fails to participate, he shall be in default of acceptance, provided that the delivery was announced in time or is made at the contractually agreed delivery date. Alternatively, we may use the assistance of third parties. Costs incurred as a result of Customer’s failure to cooperate shall be borne by the Customer if the delivery was announced in time or is made at the contractually agreed delivery date; besides that, the regulations in lit. III 5 of these General Terms and Conditions shall apply. f) Unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing, we shall be entitled to provide the goods as adequate partial deliveries. 5. Default of Acceptance a) In the event of a default of acceptance on the part of the Customer, we shall only be liable for wilful intent (Vorsatz) and gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit) for the duration of the acceptance default (Annahmeverzug). The risk of accidental loss or accidental deterioration of the goods shall pass to the Customer at the latest when the Customer is in acceptance default. b) If the Customer is in acceptance default, fails to meet a cooperation obligation or if performance is delayed for other reasons attributable to the Customer, we are entitled to request compensation for the resulting damage, including additional expenditures (e.g. storage costs). c) During the acceptance default, we will charge to the Customer a lump-sum compensation in the amount of 0.5% of the agreed net remuneration per calendar week, however, a maximum total of 5% of the agreed net remuneration, starting with the binding delivery period or - in the absence of a bindingly agreed delivery period - upon the notification that the goods are ready for dispatch. d) The proof of a higher damage and our statutory claims (in particular reimbursement of additional expenditures, adequate compensation, termination) shall remain unaffected; however, the lump-sum shall be off-set against further monetary claims. The Customer is entitled to prove that we have not incurred any or only a significantly lesser damage than the aforementioned lump-sum. 6. Release from Liability a) The Customer shall respect potential export restrictions of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union. b) If the Customer transfers, sells or delivers the product into another country than the country of the original place of delivery, he shall release us from third party liability and third party claims arising from this transfer, sale or delivery into the other country. In particular, he shall release us from a liability for the violation of potential transport or export restrictions. c) If we are subjected to sanctions as a result of this transfer, sale or delivery of the product (e.g. by the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control), the Customer shall be liable for the damage resulting therefrom. IV. Reservation of Title 1. General Principles a) All deliveries are made under a reservation of title (Eigentumsvorbehalt). The delivered goods shall remain our property (Eigentum) until the full payment of the purchase price. b) Moreover, we reserve the title to the delivered goods until all the claims already incurred from the business relationship with the Customer at the time when the contract is concluded (present claims) as well as all our further claims arising from the busi- ness relationship against the Customer prior to the complete fulfilment of the present claims (hereinafter referred to as the “Overall Claim”) are fulfilled. c) The Customer is obliged to store the reserved goods (Eigentumsvorbehaltsware) separately and to adequately insure them against all common risks, in particular bur- glary and fire. The Customer already now assigns all claims against the insurances to us and will inform his insurance accordingly in a damage event. d) The Customer must immediately inform us about enforcement measures or other third party interventions in the reserved goods or the assigned claims, handing over the documents required for a proceeding. Insofar as the third party is not in a position to reimburse the judicial and out-of-court costs to us, the Customer shall be liable for the loss we incurred. e) With regard to contracts where the delivered goods are under reservation of title, we are entitled to rescind from the contract on the basis of which the reserved goods were delivered if the Customer does not pay the purchase price for the reserved goods in accordance with the contract and an adequate grace period has been set without success or if the customer breaches one of his duties with regard to the reserved goods. The same applies if the Customer does not fulfil an Overall Claim in accordance with the contract and an adequate grace period was set in this regard without success, provided that this claim amounts to more than EUR 500.00. f) If the jurisdiction where the goods sold are located does not allow for the reservation of title, but permits us to reserve similar rights to the delivered item, the Customer is obliged to provide other adequate securities to us. The Customer is obliged to participate in compliance with formal regulations which might be required in this regard. 2. Processing and Mixing a) If the reserved goods are combined or mixed with other items not belonging to us, we shall become co-owners (Miteigentümer) in accordance with the statutory regulations. If they are combined in such a way that the items not belonging to us must be regarded as the main item, it is considered agreed that the Customer shall transfer to us pro-rata co-ownership. b) Besides that, the same applies for the new moveable item resulting from processing as for the goods delivered under reservation of title. 3. Power of Disposal and Collection Authority a) The Customer is revocably allowed to resell the delivered goods in accordance with the following regulations in the context of a proper business transaction. b) In case of a resale of the reserved goods, the Customer already now assigns the claims arising from the resale in the final invoice amount including VAT, i.e. regardless of whether the goods were sold without processing or after processing. We here by accept the assignments. If we are the co-owners of the reserved goods which are resold, the assignment of the claim is limited to the amount reflecting the pro rata value of our co-ownership. c) If the Customer is not able to make an assignment in accordance with the aforementioned regulations, in particular as a consequence of priority assignments to third parties, there is no resale in the context of a proper business transaction within the meaning of this provision. d) Until our revocation, the Customer is entitled to collect the assigned claims. Our authorization to collect the claims ourselves shall remain unaffected in this regard. However, we undertake not to indicate the assignment of the claim to the third party debtor and not to collect the claim as long as the customer meets his payment obligations from the proceeds received, is not in default with payment and in particular no application for the opening of insolvency proceedings has been filed and payments have not been ceased. Already before that, we may request at any time that the Customer discloses the assigned claims and their debtors, provides all information required for collection and hands over the related documents. e) Upon a cessation of payment, application for and opening of a judicial insolvency proceeding or out-of-court settlement proceeding, the right to resell and use the reserved goods and the authorization to collect the assigned claims expires. 4. Release Clause a) We are obliged to release the securities to which we are entitled at our own discretion if their estimated value exceeds 150% of the total of the outstanding claims. b) The estimated value for claims shall be their nominal value, for items shall be the purchase price paid by the Customer or, in the event of processing of the reserved goods by the Customer, shall be the production costs for the security goods in the event of our mere co-ownership, the pro-rata production costs. V. Copyright We reserve the copyright to all drawings, illustrations and/or constructions of the delivered products. Without our express written consent, the Customer may not use or change the copyright protected drawings, illustrations and/or constructions in a manner infringing the copyright. VI. Confidentiality 1. The parties shall not disclose to third parties or to freelancers any confidential information, business transactions and documents which become known in connection with the execution of the contract. 2. This confidentiality obligation shall continue to apply after the termination of the contract. VII. Prices and Payment Modalities, Packaging and Shipment Costs, Payment Default a) Our prices are net prices. The respective applicable VAT is added. b) Production of machines Unless otherwise agreed in writing, our services which are associated with the production of a machine are due for payment as follows: aa) 50%: 10 days after invoicing bb) 40%: 10 days after invoicing, the notification that the goods are ready for dispatch and still before the provision or dispatching of the machine cc) 10%: 10 days after invoicing and receipt of the machine, however, at the latest four weeks after delivery. c) Delivery of spare parts Unless otherwise agreed in writing, spare parts delivered by us (machine parts, machine accessory parts, wear parts etc.) are due for payment within 10 days after invoicing and delivery. d) In the individual case, we reserve the right to only deliver the goods against prepayment. e) Unless otherwise agreed in the individual case, the Customer shall bear potential duties, fees, taxes and other public charges. 2. Packaging and Dispatching Costs Unless otherwise agreed in writing, packaging and dispatching costs are not included in the contract price and shall be borne by the Customer. 3. Payment Modalities a) The Customer must meet our payment claims pursuant to lit. VII 1 above without delay and without deduction in Euro. b) The Customer shall only have a right to offsetting with regard to the remuneration owed by him in cases of undisputed or legally binding counterclaims. With regard to product defects, Customer’s counterclaims shall remain unaffected. The Customer shall not have a right of retention due to contested counterclaims which are not legally binding. c) We only accept bills of exchange (Wechsel) and cheques on the basis of separate agreements and on account of payment (erfüllungshalber). All expenses incurred in this regard shall be borne by the Customer. d) Losses in market value arising in the event of payment in a foreign currency must be borne by the Customer. 4. Payment Default a) Subject to an earlier reminder, the Customer shall be in default at the latest 10 days after the due date and receipt of an invoice or an equivalent payment request. The statutory rules shall apply with regard to the consequences of the payment default (Zahlungsverzug). If the Customer does not make the full payment despite our request, we are entitled to terminate the contract. b) If the Customer is in payment default, we shall be entitled at our discretion to either withhold shipments also from other contracts or to make them dependent on the provision of a security, in addition to the statutory rights. The same applies if circum- stances become known after contract conclusion making Customer’s creditworthiness or readiness to perform appear doubtful. VIII. Letter of Credit 1. Upon our request, the Customer shall open a confirmed and irrevocable letter of credit with an admitted financial institution that will pay to us the contractually agreed amount against presentation of the documents requested in the letter of credit. 2. The total amount of the letter of credit as well as the amounts that might be payable in partial amounts are subject to the contractually agreed payment modalities. 3. If the Customer has made payments pursuant to lit. VII 1 of these General Terms and Conditions in the concrete contractual relationship, we will only make use of the letter of credit in the amount of the overall remuneration which has not yet been paid. IX. Obligation to give Notice of Defects, Defect Rights, Liability, Acceptance, Statute of Limitation 1. Customer’s obligation to inspect and give notice of defects a) The Customer shall inspect the product insofar as this is feasible in the proper course of business. The Customer shall notify us of any transport damages immediately. b) The Customer must provide a notice about obvious defects (offensichtliche Mängel) immediately, however, at the latest within seven working days after the defect has become apparent to the Customer. In this regard, it is irrelevant whether the defect has already become apparent during joint test runs or during pre-acceptance (Vorabnahme) in our premises or only during the final acceptance (Endabnahme) by the Customer. For the notification about a hidden defect (verdeckter Mangel) which initially remained undiscovered despite proper first inspection, a derogating regulation on deadlines shall apply, according to which the complaint has to be made within seven working days after it has been noticed. c) Notices of defects must be made within the aforementioned deadlines in writing or by fax. The type and extent of the alleged defects must clearly follow from the notice of defects. d) Goods which have not been complained about in accordance with forms and deadlines shall be considered approved and accepted. 2. Defect Rights a) In the event of notices of defects which have been brought in accordance with forms and deadlines and are also materially justified, we will remove the product defects free of charge. This does not apply to a delivery of used products agreed with the Customer in an individual case; any guarantee for material defects is excluded for the delivery of such products, unless expressly agreed otherwise. b) The agreement on the quality of the products shall constitute the main basis for our liability for defects. In particular, the goods are free from defects if they can process the Material handed out by the Customer (see lit. III 1 of these General Terms and Conditions) pursuant to the current binding agreed targets (quality and time). c) If during careful inspection of the defect the Customer could have noticed that this defect does not fall within our scope of responsibility, he shall bear the costs we incurred in connection with this defects removal request. d) If we do not remove the defect in accordance with the deadline, if we refuse the defects removal without justification or if the defects removal repeatedly fails, the Customer may request a reduction, remove the defect himself or terminate the contract pursuant to the regulations in lit. X of these General Terms and Conditions. e) Even in the event of defects, the Customer shall only be entitled to claims for damag- es pursuant to lit. IX 3; besides that, they are excluded. f) The statutory special provisions for the final delivery of the goods to a consumer (supplier recourse [Lieferantenregress] pursuant to Sections 478, 479 German Civil Code) shall remain unaffected. a) Our liability is generally limited to damages caused intentionally (vorsätzlich) or with gross negligence (grob fahrlässig) by us or our vicarious agents (Erfüllungsgehilfen). We shall only be liable for slight negligence (leichte Fahrlässigkeit) in the event of an injury to life, the body or health as well as a breach of duties which are essential to meet the contract purpose (vertragswesentliche Pflicht). b) If we are liable for slightly negligent breaches of duty, our liability shall be limited to the amount of damages that are typical for the contracts in question, were foreseeable upon contract conclusion or at the latest when the breach of duty occurred. This shall not apply to an injury to life, the body or health. c) Customer’s damage claims for our default are limited to an amount of 0.5% of the agreed net remuneration per commenced week of default, to a maximum total of 5% of the agreed net remuneration unless we are guilty of wilful intent or gross negligence. d) We shall not be liable for force majeure, war, riot or other objectively inevitable circumstances for which we are not responsible. e) Our liability is excluded insofar as defects or damages are due to a transfer, modification, improper handling and operation contrary to the operating instructions and/or to a lack of or insufficient maintenance of the product by the Customer. f) If the Customer uses another Material when operating a produced machine than the Material he handed to us, if he increases the processing speed or otherwise makes arbitrary changes to the machine (see lit. II 1 of these General Terms and Conditions), he may only hold us liable insofar as these defects and deviations are not attributable to the other Material or the changes made by the Customer. g) Insofar as we provide technical information or advice and this information or advice is not part of the contractually agreed scope of services owed by us, this is done free of charge and without assuming any liability. h) The aforementioned exclusions and restrictions of liability shall apply to the same extent for the benefit of our corporate bodies, legal representatives, employees and other vicarious agents. i) The restrictions of this lit. IX 3 shall not apply to liability for intentional conduct (vorsätzliches Verhalten), for guaranteed quality characteristics (garantierte Beschaffenheitsmerkmale), for an injury to life, the body or health or pursuant to the Product Liability Act. a) Unless expressly agreed otherwise, the preliminary acceptance (Vorabnahme) of the product shall take place at our respective factory. b) If we request preliminary acceptance after completion of the product, the Customer must carry out the acceptance within 12 working days. c) If the Customer has not accepted the product within the deadline that was set despite the fact that he was obliged to do so, this shall be equivalent to preliminary acceptance. d) If the Customer is not resident in Germany and does not have a branch office in Germany, he must carry out the preliminary acceptance in 24 working days instead of 12 working days. The other regulations shall remain unaffected in this regard. e) Final acceptance shall take place at the Customer’s business address indicated in the commercial register or at the deviating delivery address which was agreed. f) If we request final acceptance after delivery of the product, the Customer must carry out the acceptance within 12 working days. g) If the Customer has not accepted the product within the deadline that was set despite the fact that he was obliged to do so, this is equivalent to final acceptance. h) If the Customer is in acceptance default, the regulations of lit. III 5 of these General Terms and Conditions shall respectively apply. 5. Statute of Limitation a) Customer’s rights for defects shall become time-barred (verjähren) at the latest within 12 months after delivery. Insofar as an acceptance has been agreed, the statute of limitation shall commence upon acceptance. The regulations of Sections 438 para 1 no. 2 and 634a para 1 no. 2 German Civil Code shall remain unaffected in this regard. b) If a defects removal (Mängelbeseitung) took place, the statute of limitation for the contractual defects rights for the overall installation on the one hand and for the spare parts on the other hand shall be extended by the time period that was required to remove the defect. X. Termination 1. Form Pursuant to the regulations in lit. I 3 f) of these General Terms and Conditions, every termination of the Customer has to be made in writing. 2. Extraordinary Termination a) The right to an extraordinary termination pursuant to the contract and the statutory provisions shall remain unaffected in every case. b) We shall have a good cause for an extraordinary termination in particular if aa) the Customer ceases payments in full or only in part, bb) if insolvency proceedings (Sections 14, 15 Insolvency Code) or a comparable statutory proceeding have been applied for by the Customer or rightfully by us or another creditor, if such a proceeding has been opened or its opening has been refused for lack of estate. cc) enforcement measures (Zwangsvollstreckungsmaßnahmen) against the Customer become known or dd) the Customer otherwise seriously breaches his contractual duties. 3. Remuneration Claim a) In the event of a termination, we will determine the current status of performance. b) The services already provided will be invoiced pursuant to the contractual principles without considering whether they would be suitable for a partial acceptance. c) We are entitled to claim a lump-sum remuneration of 10% of the agreed net remuneration for the part of the service which has not been provided yet, unless the Customer or we ourselves provide proof in the individual case that would justify a different remuneration. The aforementioned lump-sum remuneration shall not apply in the event of a termination for good cause for which we are responsible. d) Further damage claims shall remain unaffected in this regard. XI. Software 1. If operating software is delivered for the machines produced by us, the Customer may use the software delivered by us only in connection with the use of the respective machine and in accordance with the purpose of use, unless a different use was expressly agreed in writing. 2. The Customer shall not have a claim for surrender of the source code of the software. 3. Insofar as it is required to secure the future use of the programme, the Customer may produce merely a backup of the software programme. Sections 69c) and d) Copyright Act shall apply. XII. Data Protection We shall process the data of the Customer required to handle the business in considetion of the data protection law regulations. XIII. Third Party Rights In the internal relationship, the Customer shall indemnify us from all third party claims arising from the execution of his order in which industrial property rights of third parties are violated as a result of the implementation of the specifications mentioned by the Customer. XIV. Place of Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Language 1. The place of jurisdiction for all legal disputes between us and the Customer in connection with this contract shall be Kaiserslautern. However, we are also entitled to bring an action at the Customer’s general place of jurisdiction. 2. For all legal relations between ourselves and the Customer arising from or in connection with this contract, the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply, while international standard law, in particular the CISG, is excluded. 3. The original version of these General Terms and Conditions was prepared in German. Translations are for information purposes only. In the event of discrepancies between the German version and a translation, the German version shall exclusively prevail.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2621
__label__wiki	0.913833	0.913833	Articles, Essays & videos, Plus Historical Fiction Creation in Isolation: Shannon Michelle Limitations Push Us Towards Our Dreams By Melissa Schack Shannon Michelle is a mother of 2, wife, poet, and mentor to many. She is doing what she was born to do, writing for the world as a poet. She writes about empowering others, but this time she plans to empower herself with a live reading of her women’s empowerment poem featured on Instagram for International Women’s Day. Personal Essay: Nature's Disturbances Lynx Sighting By Tanya E. E. E. Schmid Its long legs stride across the hillside towards my kitchen, shoulder blades rolling like a well-oiled machine, head low, framed by the broad, feathery collar of its mane. Its eyes stare at the open window where I stare back, unmoving. There is no sound to its steps, but a quickness in the air, as though the wind is holding its breath. The jays in our Douglas fir fall silent. Creation in Isolation: Rainie Oet Love and Terror in Verse It's exciting when an underrepresented group of poets get their time to shine. Take Rainie Oet, for example. The writer and game designer's memoir in verse, Inside Ball Lightning (SEMO Press), made its premiere earlier in the year. Similar to other stories seen in this series, the book was ready to be shown off at AWP 2020 until many publishers, including SEMO Press, cancelled their appearances for safety concerns. For Oet, it makes finding new readers for their book difficult. Should the circumstances call for even more protective measures, it may impact the release of Oet's third book of poetry, Glorious Veils of Diane to debut next winter. To give a sense of how promising the collection is, Glorious Veils of Diane was praised by George Saunders (yes, that George Saunders) as “complex, mysterious, finely wrought, and formally daring.” We spoke with Oet about their craft, generational hauntings, and the work that inspired their own stories. Quarantine Entertainment: Women of YouTube 5 Women Content Creators to Watch During Quarantine By Gretchen Gales I don't doubt that like me, you have also been spending a lot of time listening to music, podcasts, and other media to pass the time or listen to while working from home. So why not take a moment to discover someone new? YouTube's content tends to be dominated by many male content creators (many I enjoy watching myself), but if you're looking to diversify your subscription list, now is the perfect time to dive in! From beauty channels to wicked good research and commentary content, check out some of my own favorite creators. Personal Essay: The Mountains We Climb By Wendy A. Miller My mom had breast cancer when she was 53. She is now 78, walks most mornings in the mall, and has never had a reoccurrence. I am a worrier, so I assumed that I, too, would get breast cancer someday. But when someday came, I was dumbfounded. I asked the doctor, “Are you sure you have the correct lab results? I then told her, "I don't feel sick." She nodded with a sympathetic gaze. "I recently climbed Mount St. Helens with girlfriends, none of whom have cancer…4,665 ft of vertical in less than 5 miles." She gave me a no-teeth grimace and replied, "There are different types of mountains to climb." Creation in Isolation: Samantha Baird Theatre Finds a Way When the audience can’t come to the theatre, the theatre will come to you. Performance art speaks to us in times of crisis. War, poverty, and disease are no match for the prevalence of the theatre. Samantha Baird, a graduate of BYU’s Theatre Arts Studies program, had to adapt her work as a director, dramaturg, playwright, performance reviewer, theater journalist, performing arts teacher, and stay-at-home mom to fit the restrictions of quarantine. She looks to the future and prepares her work for another performance. News from the Nest: Naomi & The Reckoning Pre-order Naomi & The Reckoning from Finishing Line Press Calling all bibliophiles and champions of small presses! Our founding editor Christine Sloan Stoddard's novelette Naomi & The Reckoning is available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. Creation in Isolation: Megan Hill Art From the Inside In a time when art is labeled non-essential, people turn to art as an outlet to explore and escape the impact of the pandemic. Megan Hill is an illustrator and painter in Richmond, Virginia whose recent work took the theme “Valiant Women of the Vote” in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. Her work as an art teacher at Abrakadoodle and as an after school counselor at the Steward School was discontinued, but she doesn’t let COVID-19 keep her from creating. Since her unemployment, she turned her attention back to painting and reflection. She reopened her Etsy shop and plans to take commissions. She’s a testament to the resiliency and adaptability of artists. Literary News: Bookshop New Amazon Rival Bookshop Provides Alternative to Big Businesses Local bookstores have been closing as a precaution for COVID-19, causing a lot of uncertainty about the fate of small businesses. While some bookstores have been doing book delivery services or urging their regular customers to purchase gift cards for future use, another alternative has appeared to rival big companies like Amazon: Bookshop. Creation in Isolation: Kim Vodicka The Memphis Blues April was going to be a big month for Kim Vodicka. Her poetry collection The Elvis Machine (CLASH Books) premiered at AWP earlier this year, but Vodicka voluntarily decided against seeing the copies of her book for the first time it due to safety concerns. Today, she is still fighting against the shadow of COVID-19 amidst cancelled book readings, meet-and-greets, and other crucial events for a book's success, including the New Orleans Poetry Festival and L.A. Times Festival of Books. Like many writers, she's turned to the internet's writing community for support. While we're not thrilled with the circumstances, it's still pretty badass to talk to her about 1950s dudebros, how to carve out a poem, and the intersection of poetry and performance.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2628
__label__cc	0.625793	0.374207	Hamas and Evil Disguised as Righteousness As you know about Jewish jokes, many of them are funny and make you want to cry. So I share this one with you a propos of the current situation in Israel. A visitor came to Israel and saw the Western Wall. Not being too versed in religious aspects, he inquired of another tourist about the significance of the wall. The other tourist explained, "This is a sacred wall. If you pray to it, God may hear you." The visitor walked close to the wall and started to pray. "Dear Lord,"he said, "bring sunshine and warmth to this beautiful land." A commanding voice answered, "I will, my son." The visitor said, "Bring prosperity to this land." "I will, my son." "Let Jews and Arabs live together in peace, dear Lord." The voice answered, “ Dir redt zu dem vant-"You're talking to a wall!.". In the last weeks, we have watched as our family in Israeli have been, literally, talking to a wall. In the Jewish calendar, we are in the period leading up to the Ninth of Av, so we are generally in a mood of blue funk, even when nothing is wrong. How much more so than when we are worried about Israel in a shooting war. In this mood, I wish to bring to mind a popular song, some years, that went: to everything, turn, turn, for every season, turn turn, For everything, a time and place, under heaven. It then went on with a litany: A time to be born , a time to die, a time to laugh a time to cry. As we listened to the song, we recognized, of course, that the singers had taken the verses of Ecclesiastes, the third chapter and set it to music. La kol, zman va et , lachol hefetz tachat hashamayim. A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven. A time for being born, and a time for dying and so forth The end of the litany is “A time for war and a time for peace." The wise man. Koheleth told us, knows not to make sweeping generalizations. Vague platitudes, broad sweet sounding phrases or blanket condemnations can not be applied to all situations. There is a time for weeping and there is a time for laughing. How many times have we seen a time for laughing, only to have it overturned in the blink of an eye. The euphoria of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty was swept away by the First Lebanon War; the euphoria of the PLO_-Israel accords in 1993 gave way to a series of bloody massive murder of Israelis by bombs on buses and cafes. The last chance for an agreement between Arafat and Barak was soon upended by the brutal 2nd Intifada. The voluntary withdrawal from the Gaza strip by Israel in 2005, with money invested from abroad, the chance for open borders, open harbors and an infrastructure for agriculture given by Israel—upended again and again by Hamas. There is a time for loving and a time for hating, a time for peace and a time for war. The stance of the moralist calling for Israel to exercise restraint, or to cease-fire unconditionally is inherently immoral for it allows free reign to the human capacity to evil without check. It is one thing to avoid war, it is one thing to pursue peace with an enemy in the hopes of turning an enemy to a friend. It is another thing to face an enemy that hides it weapons underground but puts it civilians on roof-tops in the line of fire , an enemy that has been seen to hide its headquarters in a hospital and its rockets in a school building. At the core of the rioting is not the anger of Palestinians of Gaza towards Israelis because they are occupying them. Israel stopped occupying Gaza almost a decade ago. It is true that the Palestinian Authority, in the West Bank, what we historically call Judea and Samaria, have made their accommodation with Israel, a begrudging accommodation. So ,too, for sure, have the Egyptians and Jordanians and even the Saudis, who fear the Islamicist or Salafist jihadi movements, such as the Moslem Brotherhood, Al_Qaeda, or the very worst, the Islamic Caliphate in Syria and Iraq. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Israel, for these entities, is for now, the enemy of my enemy. Gaza is very much so in the hands of such Salafists, known by the abbreviations in Arabic, Hamas, "Islamic Resistance Movement"). (Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah) We need to know what they think about Israel and about Jews, even though they declare that they are tolerant of Jews. When speaking to the Western public, they sometimes try to cover up. The diplomats who speak glibly of “ even –handedness” also cover it up. However, in their official pronouncements inside Gaza, they take the words of this platform very seriously. Here are just some of the comments about Jews: . . . the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realization of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. . . .” . . .Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. "I swear by the holder of Mohammed's soul that I would like to invade and be killed for the sake of Allah, then invade and be killed, and then invade again and be killed." (As related by al-Bukhari and Moslem). . . . “With their money they [that is, Jews] stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there.” “There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it.” “. . . They aim at undermining societies, destroying values, corrupting consciences, deteriorating character and annihilating Islam. It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds so as to facilitate its control and expansion. Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people. "May the cowards never sleep." (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp ) If any of you have ever read the text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion or Hitler’s Mein Kampf, you see that Hamas is all of these ideas supercharged on steroids. We know that diplomats believe these words can be dismissed as mere puffery. They take at face value the statements made by Hamas leaders of their respect for Jews at face value. However, founding documents mean what they state. When Nazi Germany began World War II, Hitler put aside his avowed hatred of the Soviet Union and authorized the notorious Ribbentrop- Molotov Treaty. The profession of peace was swiftly put aside in the blitzkrieg that swept across to Stalingrad the moment Hitler saw his chance. Fanatics mean what they say. It is with this gang that so-called humanitarians ask for negotiations! So what can be the recourse of the people of Israel? The same book of Ecclesiastes says: Al tehe Tzadik harbe ve alterasha. Do not be overly righteous and do not be evil. The first part is al Tehey Zadik Harbeh-- Do not be overly righteous, or you will be dumbfounded. Do not let the wicked get a way. Do not allow the perpetrators of evil to be rewarded for their deeds. You will pay a horrible price for it in the long run. The second half is also significant. It also says V’ Al terashah .Do not be wicked, lamah tamut belo itcha Why should you die before your time. Do not let the need for justice become an excuse for wickedness, for it , too can only be your undoing. The recourse of the people of Israel is that which was clear to our sages--It is not to roll over and give the perpetrators of evil what they want, for appeasement can only breed further evil. It is also not to descend to the level of the perpetrators, for that, too, is the path of destruction. As the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Col. Richard Kemp, stated just this week, “No other army in the world has ever done more than Israel is doing now to save the lives of innocent civilians in a combat zone.”( http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4548821,00.html ) The people of Israel now face the difficult challenge of continuing in the struggle for peace, as they seek and find legitimate partners for peace, all the while taking their right and due course to uproot those responsible. It is a fact that when the Israelis went into the West Bank towns and put down the Second Intifada, they set the stage for a Palestinian Authority with whom accommodation, if not yet real peace, is possible. I don’t see any alternative for Israel, for its survival, as the only one homeland for the Jewish people , other than to grind down an enemy who is willing to fight to the last drop of someone else’s child, and defang this gang of Nazis of its rockets and its tunnels. Perhaps then, the people who care more for their children than for their hatred will be ready to lead to a new world and a new future. We know that the people of Israel have no other recourse. Colonizers, like the French in Algeria, could always go home when defeated. The Jews, rightful historic heirs to the Land of Israel, not colonizers, have no home to go to other than Israel. Therefore, to Hamas we must quote the verse from the Quran that recognizes the promise of the Land of Israel to the Jews: And thereafter We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: 'Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd.'" [Qur'an 17:104] (http://www.templemount.org/quranland.html by Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, head of the Italian Muslim Assembly). For the people of Israel we have are the words that we say at the end of today’s Torah reading, when we conclude the Book of Bamidbar, Numbers: Chazak, Chazak, V nitchazek.Be strong, be strong, and may we be strengthened! Jeremiah and Coping ( after 17th Tammuz) It is a very frightening world—rockets from Gaza into Israel, Israeli soldiers now inside Gaza, a passenger airline downed on the Ukraine-Russian border, an Islamic Caliphate in Syria and Iraq. No end of tsorres, troubles. This last Tuesday was the 17th of Tammuz, when we recall the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem, and in two weeks, it will be the 9th of Av, when we recall the fall of the Temple, twice. Our tradition doesn’t let us forget that there can be immense disasters that have always befallen us. How can we cope with it? There is an old story, of a man who comes to his Rebbe: "Rabbi, you must help me? I have a thousand problems!" --A thousand problems! What are they?-- ---I tell you, the holidays are coming. I need food for my family, clothes for my wife, pants for my boys, dresses for my girls. It's impossible! ---Wait, said the Rabbi--don't despair. Let's make a list of everything, and how much it will cost. -- Food-$500-Dress--$80--pants-$50, etc. , etc. --now, let's add it up It comes to $1000. It tell you, thank God, you don’t know how lucky you are. You came in and said you had a thousand problems-We've just solved 999 of them. You only have one problem left to solve-- where to get $1000. You have my blessing. Often, our woes can as easily be joked aside. Many times, what looms as catastrophes in our eyes, in retrospect are minor incidents, easily overcome. Many of our woes descend on us in the form of the old line,” What's the difference between a recession and a depression--The recession is the other guys troubles. The depression? Those are my troubles! The recessions can be handled with some agility, the depressions, though, can tear us apart. What happens when one depression follows another, when disaster strikes in succession, or in such overwhelming force, as to devastate entire communities? How then can we cope? What happens when an economy enters a major recession or depression as happened only a few years ago, almost bring down the world economy? What happens in the wake of an invasion or a civil war take-over, when all hopes of liberty and normalcy are dashed to the ground? What happens when events strike which are out of human control-an earthquake in California, a hurricane in Florida, a Tsunami in Japan? What then is our reaction? As Jews, we may well have cornered the market on disasters. Our history overflows with tragedy, and if the Noble Prize for literature were given to nations, we would surely win it for the quality of our tragedies. There are two historic responses that we have formed. One the on hand, we are familiar with that response : “Mipnei Chataenu "-Because of our sins we were punished. We find it repeatedly in Biblical, Talmudic, and Medieval Jewish literature. However, there is another response, a uniquely Jewish posture, a stance against misery on a massive scale, a refusal to accept disaster passively, an insistence on calling heaven to task for a rotten state of affairs. The originator of this posture was the Prophet, Jeremiah, from whom we have today’s Haftarah. Jeremiah lived and eye witnessed the first what we could call” Holocaust” of our history, the destruction of the first Temple, and the elimination of Judea as a sovereign state. He was a double sufferer, for not only did he live through it, but, like Cassandra of the Greek myth, he knew it was coming for years in advance and no one would heed his warnings. We have an amazing record, not only of his message, but of his feelings and gut level response as well. He is a lonely man. He knows that disaster will come, so he remains a bachelor-why marry and have children, only to lose them? Why fall in love only to suffer the pain of loss? He refrains from social contact. Why have friends, only to lose them to the sword? Because of his message, he is a roundly hated man-hated by the king, the priests . He is the only prophet to have the dubious distinction of being thrown in jail. Surely his mother never boasted. "My son, the prophet" and he himself wanted only one thing-to stop being a prophet. But it is out of his hands. God informs him, "Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you." (1:5) This is hardly a great privilege, and Jeremiah retorts, "Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me-- a man of conflict and strife with all the land ! (15:10). Or “ Cursed be the day I was born, let not he day be blessed when my mother bore me. Why did I ever issue from the womb, to see misery and woe, to spend all my days in shame. "(20:14-18) Jeremiah, like Cassandra, is doomed to report the truth , and be hated for it. Yet, he cannot keep quiet. "There is a fire in my heart, a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I weary myself to hold it in. But I can't!" ( 20:9) When there is so much tearing inside a person’s heart, it inevitably produces anger. Jeremiah’s anger, understandably , is directed at those who persecute him and who are responsible for the nations downfall. But there is, as well, a Promethean streak in Jeremiah, a Promethean streak that has become a part of the Jewish reaction to disaster, a trait that has remained a Jewish response, side by side with the response of "mipnei hataneu’, because of our sins. Jeremiah accuses. "0 Lard, you have enticed me, and I was enticed. You overpowered me "You would be right, O Lord, if I contended with you. But I will present charges against you, nevertheless. ! Why do the ways of the wicked prosper, why are the treacherous ones at ease. "(12:1) Jeremiah is hurling accusations against God! God is deceitful. God is unjust. "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? Will you indeed be like a river bed whose waters are deceitful, whose waters run dry?"(15:18). Had this been a Greek tragedy, at this very point, the earth would have opened up, Jeremiah would have been swallowed up, and the chorus would chime in, "Thus shall be done to those who question the wisdom of the gods.” Prometheus gets his liver yanked out anew every day for caring for humanity. But this is not a Greek tragedy, this is a Biblical text. Fate is not inexorable, destiny is not an abstraction, and God is expected to be just. God’s response to Jeremiah is-"Keep a stiff upper lip, hang in there. " "I shall save you from the hands of the wicked and rescue you from the clutches of the violent". (15:19) It forms a scenario for future Jewish disasters-God is a god of justice; therefore he is accountable for his actions. We don't accept disaster passively, as a consequence. After the destruction of the Second Temple, a Rabbi Shmuel bar Nahmani could envision a scene such as this in heaven. Abraham comes to God in anger. Why did you break your covenant with me!" -Well, they did, after all, break the law, and here is the law in evidence. Abraham turned to the law, "Shame on you. How could you testify against my children. They were the only ones, of all the people on earth, who accepted you.'' The law withdrew its testimony. So God brought in the letters of the alphabet to testify, and Abraham embarrassed each and every one. Soon, God was left without any evidence against the children of Israel. Abraham now went out the offensive. "Didn’t I offer my Isaac as a sacrifice , only to see my children destroyed.” Isaac then chimed in, "Didn’t I offer my life, only for my children to be destroyed ? " Then Jacob, David, Moses, and Jeremiah and Rachel all joined in. Even the sun and the angels began to complain. Finally. God himself joined in the lamentation, and swore to return his people to Zion.(Peticha, Eicha Rabbati). Such a legend grows out of a peculiar belief, a peculiarly Jewish outlook, a belief in a God of justice, but not an abstraction, rather, a God whom human beings have the right to bring to task. This is implicit in Jeremiah 's complaint and explicit in Jewish lore. It repeats itself in Hasidic literature. It is told of the Baal Shem Tov, that in his synagogue, on Yom. Kippur, there was one modest and humble tailor, who argued vocally, in the midst of the service, just prior to the chanting of the confession of sins. "I have, sinned, I have betrayed! Very well, God, I admit. I may have overcharged here, I may have skimped on cloth there, I may even have lied about how the clothes fit well. "But look at you! Look what you did! You make orphans, widows, plagues, earthquakes-all that is your doing. So, I'll tell you, we'll make a deal. You forgive me my sins, and I'll forgive you yours. " The Baal Shem Tov turned to him, 'You fool! Why did you stop You had God by the throat. Why, a little more squeezing, and he' ld have been forced to send the Messiah. !" This Jewish perspective on God and God’s justice is incomprehensible in Islam, which considers God as the sole and total force of all events and whose ideal is “Islam”, complete submission to the will of God. Certainly it is incomprehensible in the Christian theology of a Paul or a Martin Luther or a Calvin, for whom human actions cannot possible bring about redemption as that would be forcing God to respond to human action. What has been the characteristic , not only of our great prophets and sages, but of the “poshte yid”, the simple Jew on the street, has been to hold on to faith, despite the doubt, despite the anger. The Jewish response, as we have seen, in this century in particular, has been to reaffirm our Jewishness, to reaffirm our Judaism. We have seen a nation created out of the devastated remnants of Europe , Africa, and Asia. We saw Jews who had been forced to hide their identity in the Soviet Union and other eastern European countries persevere and survive the Iron Curtain, to reemerge as Jews here and in Israel. What is true on a scale of the people as a whole can then be true on an individual scale; we absorb the slings and arrows of our daily illnesses or sufferings, but, rather than resign ourselves to them, we argue, we protest, we move ourselves. Nevertheless, we have “emunah”, a faith, to drive us beyond our woes, and build our lives in a better and nobler form. We can have a Jeremiah utter a Jeremiad, a Lamentation, an Eichah, and then we can have a Jeremiah remind us: Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him," declares the LORD. That is the hope that keeps us going. Pinhas : Zealotry Leads to Shalom with a Broken Leg Pinhas: Zealotry Leads to Shalom with a Broken Leg We are just a few days away from the 17th of Tammuz, the date that marks the beginning of the fall of Jerusalem, the period of” Beyn hameytzarim”—Between the Straits- that leads up to the 9th of Av. It is part of a series of tragedies surrounding the fall of the first Temple and repeated in some variation with the fall of the Second Temple. The rabbis question the justice in the destruction of the Temple the first time, and find their answer, form the accusations of the prophets themselves, that the Jewish people had become degenerate.” Why was the first Sanctuary destroyed? Because of three [evil] things which prevailed there: idolatry, immorality, bloodshed” ( Yoma 9b) But what of the Second Temple ? What had gone wrong. “ Why was the second Sanctuary destroyed, seeing that in its time they were occupying themselves with Torah, [observance of] precepts, and the practice of charity? Because therein prevailed hatred without cause- sinat hinam. That teaches you that groundless hatred is considered as of even gravity with the three sins of idolatry, immorality, and bloodshed together .” What is this “ groundless hatred” that the sages were referring to? We know that this was the period of the “kanaim”, a movement that Josephus placed on equal footing in importance with the Pharisees, Saducees, and Essene, the movement that led the revolt against Rome, the movement that led, then to the very destruction of the Temple. According to Josephus, they were in principle, similar to the Pharisees, but added an absolute demand for Liberty, with God as their only authority. They were also known as “ Biryonim” in Rabbinic sources, which means, despite their noble aspiration, they were ,very simply, boors and ruffians. Yet another term, for them or their affiliates, was “Sicarii”, which means “ dagger men”, as they were, we are told, won’t to mingle in the crowds and assassinate anyone that went against their opinions. Now, a first reading of our Torah portion would show that to be a “ kanai”, a zealot for God is a very good thing. At the last portion, the children of Israel, after their blessing by Balaam, are now defeated by their weakness for exotic women who lead them in pagan revelry. One of the leaders, Zimri, takes up with a Midianite princess, Cozbi, right in front of Moses as a terrible plague breaks loose. Moses and the leaders are dumbfounded; their only response is to burst out in tears as they see the community as a whole backsliding. Something must be done. God calls for action; Moses calls for action. But no one does anything. Suddenly, Pinhas( Phineas), alone, rushes into action, and single-handedly slaughters the chief Israelite and his temptress. That was at the very end of last week’s portion. This week, as we open Pinhas, we have words of praise and blessing from God to Pinhas, for he “ turned My wrath away from the people of Israel, for he was very jealous ( bekano et kinati) for my sake.” Pinhas is rewarded with a great prize: Behold, I give you my Briti-shalom, G-d’s covenant of peace. It would seem to be an ideal prize. . The Sages ask, though, why should he have been given this “Covenant of Peace” from God on high? Because he had earned the anger, not the approval of the leaders. He had taken the law into his own hands and they were ready to expel him for it. That is the explanation for God’s intervention. But it is an unusual intervention and an unusual blessing for an act of killing! The sages note that the word Shalom is written in the Torah-text in an odd manner—the letter Vav in Shalom is cut in the middle! The peace is, so to say, incomplete Thus, the Ktav Sofer ( Rabbi Shmuel Benyamin Schreiber) explained it: It is true that sometimes, we must take drastic action to save a situation; nevertheless, we must very quickly step back from it to a secure and solid basis, which is peace, the foundation and secret of all blessings. Pinhas, by tradition, is said to have lived on in the spirit of Elijah, who is the subject of our Haftarah today as well. Elijah lives in a day when the leadership of the people of Israel have abandoned their faith and persecuted the few loyal followers of the G-d of Israel. His king is married to the pagan Jezebel , who has persecuted the Israelite faith and installed Phoenician Baal as the official god.. He is frustrated and depressed, and wants to die as he sees everything around him failing. He is called, however, to run to the Sinai,( Horeb) to the same mountain of Moses, where he dwells in a cave as did Moses after the Golden Calf as he awaited the visionof God. God calls to him: What are you here for? Elijah now declares his loyalty, Kano kaneti , the same words used to describe Pinhas. The two are one and the same soul. The childen of Israel have abandoned the covenant, destroyed the sanctuaries, killed the prophets, and only he alone is left of all of them. Kano kaneti.I have been exceptionally zealous. The word for “ jealous” in Hebrew, is much more powerful than the current English usage. It is to be understood rather, in its original root, “Zealous”, filled with a burning drive and passion that brooks no half-way measures. Is this an endorsement of zealotry as in the sense of enthusiasm, or zealotry in the sense of extremism? In the same way, Elijah declares, I have been very zealous. It is true, in Elijah’s day, the situation called for drastic action. Yet, Elijah is given a very different vision. There is wind, powerful enough to smash boulders, but God is not in the wind. Then earthquake, yet no God, and then fire , yet again, G-d is not present. Then, there is a kol demamah dakah, a still small voice. In that silent voice, only there is G-d found.God is not in any physical manifestation, just as Moses, in his day, discovered that God was not visible in any physical manifestation. Now Elijah steps out of the cave, he knows God is present, and God repeats the very same question: What are you here for? Elijah is put in the position of Moses—he could now be as great as Moses! Then, Elijah gives the exact same answer as before: Kano Kaneti- word for word. God now gives him his instructions, anoint this, appoint this, and then, “appoint Elsiha ben Shafat of Abel Mecholah to be prophet in your place.” ! Elijah is told now to anoint Elisha to be prophet in his place! Elijah is fired! Moses pleaded to God at the Golden Calf on behalf of his people, but Elijah could only kvetch! The commentators note: he has not learned his lesson- and “ Are you here still with the spirit of revenge.” That is G-d’s response to zealotry. That was the lesson in the fire and earthquake: G-d was in the silent voice, because, again as Metzudat David states, Chaftez Chesed Hu, He seeks lovingkindness! True, extraordinary times call for extraordinary acts—but beware of zealotry for the sake of zealotry!. Pinchas must be tamed by the covenant of peace. As for Elijah? You now that he comes around every year to the seder and to the Havdalah; he also comes around, it is said, to every brit. A legend states that it is Elijah’s punishment—because he doubted his people’s loyalty to the covenant, he is condemned to be present at every brit, every time a new Jewish baby joins the covenant. Hence, the Chair of Elijah at every brit. The later prophets turn Elijah’s character around and the Sages affirm this . He must come back to make peace in the world, for it is said, "Behold I send to you Elijah the prophet. . .and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers" (Malachi 3:23-24 and Mishnah Eduyoth 8:7) These past weeks, for the people of Israel, have been a very trying week. Three teenagers were murdered by terrorists at the active incitement of Hamas leadership. We also discovered that Israelis, too ,are not perfect and that a gang of would-be “heroes” murdered a Palestinian youngster. So far, however, we do know that there is no organization behind them and there is no movement of zealots that threatens to take over the Israeli people as has happened to the Palestinians, as has been happening in Syria and Iraq. It seems, moreover, that these criminals were themselves simply soccer gangsters, the lowest of the low. It would indicate that Israel does have a serious internal problem, one of its own lost youth, that has nothing to do with war and peace , or national interests but that is to be dealt with as an educational and social issue.. We have faith, that overall, the people of Israel, standard bearers for the rest of the Jewish world are able to control themselves and restrain themselves from “ sinat Hinam”, from causeless hatred. We have faith that Israeli society reflects that ideal. When the three Israelis were kidnapped, Palestinian social media were full of tweets of celebration. When the one Palestinian youngster was murdered, Israelis as a whole hung their heads in sorrow. Hundreds of rockets have been fired indiscriminately from Gaza in these last weeks alone, fired openly by Hamas, without any warnings. The Israelis have retaliated, attacking the specific headquarter and bunkers of those launching the attack. The difference has been, that when the Israelis are ready to attack a house, if there are innocent civilians inside, the Israelis pick up the phone, call in advance, the people leave the house, and then the Israelis blow up an empty house, full of munitions. It is Israeli trucks that are bringing food, gas and fuel to the Gaza strip in the midst of fighting. It is Israeli hospitals that are still treating Gazans despite the fighting. How it will resolve itself, we don’t know. What we do hope and pray, is that the people of Israel can continue to defend themselves without being tempted to go the way of Pinchas. We pray that the zealots in Gaza, in Syria, in Iraq learn to love their own children more than they hate us. Portion Chukat True Mysticism True Mysticism Portion of Chukat and the Case of the Red Heifer This is a bizarre Torah reading from our perspective. We start with a dead body- habeus corpus- like a murder mystery.”Adam ki yamut ba-ohel” –“This is the Torah: A man dies in his tent- everything and everyone who comes in contact with the body is impure. What do we do.? We take a pure red heifer that never pulled a plow, slaughter it, burn the ashes, mix the ashes, pour them on the one who is impure, then the one who did the purifying becomes impure also becomes impure. It is an example of one of a few mitzvoth that are defined as “ chukim”—Statutes, and opposed to most of Jewish law, which is” mishpatim”, judgements. Most of Judaism is premised upon logical behavior—either social justice dictates it, or historic events, to the point that some medieval philosophers suggested that we would have come to these on our own, without need for the Torah. So what of these” Hukim”, very arbitrary rules,similar to Shatnez- the prohibition of not mixing wool and linen. Said one of our great sages, Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai—God didn’t care particularly, if the ritual was offered one way or another- He instituted these rules as a discipline for us. They are behaviors to train us to focus on who we are, what is expected of us, how do we serve God. There is another aspect, though. As much as we Jews like to see ourselves as rational, and our religion as a religion of reason, ours is also a religion of mystery, Commandments that have no logical basis are intended to make us focus on that part of existence that is mystery. Truth is, as logical as we are, we seek mystery. The trouble is, that unlike our ancestors who worked very hard to achieve that sense of mystery, we want it now. Back when in the days when everyone had too much hair, I met the noted poet, Alan Ginsburg, who spoke of the salvation and paradise to be found in LSD. He was taken to task by Michael Wyschograd, a noted philosopher of Judaism What was our problem then, and still is our problem today, Wyschograd pointed out: We want everything instant--instant coffee, instant TV dinners, and of course, we want instant mysticism, instant nirvana, instant heaven. Salvation could never come from a drop of acid on a sugar cube. We are still looking for the gateway to paradise. We still want to grasp hold of the mysterious. I once received a bizarre phone call from a Mr Princeton. " I belong to the Church of Seth. We worship Satan. " Now, I am tolerant, truly,believe me. I believe in the words of Shammai, Hevey mekabel et kol adam be sever panim-- greet every human being with respect--even if he is a great nudnik. " I respect the Jewish people and their language as the most ancient on earth. I want to know where I can learn Kabbalah--No one wants to teach me." I explain about different schools in LA. "I want to learn Black Magic Kabbalah." " There is no black magic in Kabbalah--Judaism never believed in appeals to dark and evil powers--the only power that can be is from God." " But what about doing things with Kabbalah like that, magic, powers". "You have to have a personal master teach you." "How can I find one?" "You don't-They are not allowed to teach anyone--unless they have known their student personally for many years." "How do the students find them?" " They don't. The great masters know who they want to teach."End of call. Well, to each his own. Recently, the key to heaven, for many Jews, has been Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. What was labeled, in an earlier generation as "Nonsense" today has gained respectability. But , here too, there is real mysticism and ersatz, the phony, cheap imitation. Ersatz mysticism is any attempt at utilizing the ideas of kabbalah for personal gain, for any magical purpose, Ersatz mysticism is pretending it is designed as some magic guidepost to every day problems in life. There are lots of would be Kabbalists who claim to solve every problem in life. More power to them if they really can! The great Hasidic master, Rebbe Menahem Mendl of Kotz decried those who offered superficial answers to the problems of life. He warned against making a mitzvah, the doing of an ideal, into a matzevah, an idol. The observance, the ritual, the literal letter of the text can be confused for end in itself . This is, the ancient mystics warned was a cardinal sin, it was to uproot the very Garden of Eden itself. Then, there is real mysticism, which can be without Kabbalah as well. It seeks to bring the worshipper into a higher state of inner being, it seeks to lead the worshipper to a sense of the pervasiveness of God all around. When the words of the Kabbalah are taken as symbols and images to help us guide our conception of God, then it is real, then it can indeed be a pathway to Heaven . This is, indeed, at the heart of the teachings of Kabbalah and Hasidut. A true Jewish mysticism never takes us out of this world--it always put us right in the midst of this world. True spirituality in Judaism never runs away from life. Instead, it embraces life whole-heartedly, because Judaism embraces life whole-heartedly. Our sages always spoke of kedushah--sanctity. Every moment of life, every object, every action, could be one filled with kedushah, with sanctity. This is how the Rebbe of Medziboz taught it: "The Lord placed sparks of holiness in everything in nature, whether live or dead matter. It is his will that man bring forth these holy sparks by his holy deeds and elevate them to their source. By reciting grace over food, he raises sparks of holiness upwards. By using bitter and inedible substances as medicine for the ill, he unlocks the sacred in them." Jewish spirituality embraces the act of eating and drinking, up to the point of indulgence, because these actions bring redemption to the very elements themselves. Jewish spirituality embraces human love, physical love. For the seeker of Jewish spirituality, there is no shame in the human body itself, and the act of love in marriage is an act of divine redemption. Our Jewish idea of the Holy -kadosh-- is not some weird mysterious halo in heaven. Rather holiness is to be found and made, here on earth, when we walk by the way, when we lie down and when we rise up. It is in the day to day, the nitty gritty, that we find our uplift. That has always been goal of our mitzvot, of our observances. An observance, as odd and strange to us, as the ritual of the red heifer, then, serves to remind us. There are things in life that we do not understand, cannot understand. A physicist can tell us the events of the Big Bang; he cannot posit the question “Why”. That answer is intuited and experienced in our lives if we allow it to happen. That is the purpose of Jewish observance. In our Jewish lives, in our commitment and devotion to our heritage, may we find the sense of the ultimate, the infinite, the sacred, that which is the presence of God. Amen. Posted by Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberg at 1:25 PM No comments:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2629
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Seattle Municipal Archives About the SMA Seattle Facts Home Exhibits & Education Digital Document Libraries Photo Credit: Japanese Garden bridge installation (ADA Project), 1998. Item 195245, Pro Parks Acquisition Photographs (Record Series 5811-02) In 2020, the City of Seattle joins cities and states around the country to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA was enacted on July 26, 1990. Prior to the legislation, there were efforts within Seattle city government to provide barrier-free public access to buildings and services. Some of these efforts corresponded and complied with state and national laws, and others were initiated by city officials and Seattle residents. Early City Efforts As early as the 1890s and through the early 20th century, access to city utilities was provided free of charge to disabled adult residents and their families on a case-by-case basis, subject to approval by City Council. Several petitions on file with the City Clerk's Office contain letters from Seattle residents asking for free access to the city's water supply due to disability. In the following decades, more widespread accommodations were gradually incorporated into city laws and services relating to public transit, parks, traffic rules, building codes, and employment. In 1933, Ordinance 63772 required drivers to stop for blind persons who were crossing the street using designated white canes. The next year, responding to requests from residents, Seattle began allowing blind and disabled passengers to ride for free on the city's streetcar system. In 1946, as disabled World War II veterans returned home to Seattle, City Council passed Ordinance 75443 which amended the traffic code to add section 101-A, allowing "physically incapacitated war veterans entitled to and using specially constructed automobiles" to park free of charge and for unlimited time at parking meters. Letters asking that the same parking privileges be extended to disabled non-veterans were soon received and considered by the City's Public Safety Committee, but it wasn't until new state laws required the accommodation in 1959 that the traffic code was amended to extend the special parking allowances to non-veterans. The Seattle Parks Department began designing programs to specifically serve the disabled as early as the 1950s. The Handicapped Center, a cooperative Parks project located in the Mount Baker area, was dedicated in September 1957 and offered classes and services to adults and children. In 1963, the Recreation Advisory Council for the Handicapped (later the Advisory Council for Specialized Programs) was established to advise Parks Department staff on recreational programs for children and adults with disabilities. Programs and classes included swimming, boating, badminton, bowling, and golfing, as well as a specialized summer day camp. Routine city engineering projects, such as sewer work and underground wiring installation, began incorporating the construction of wheelchair ramps in the early 1970s. During this time, steps were also were taken to accommodate city employees with disabilities. A Handicapped Services Unit was added to the Human Resources Department in 1972. In 1973, after learning that disabled city employees did not have access to restrooms they could use, City Councilmember and disability rights advocate Jeanette Williams spearheaded legislation for funding the installation of the first accessible restrooms in the Municipal Building. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 The federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was enacted on September 26, 1973. Section 504 of the act was one of the first federal laws to extend civil rights to people with disabilities, prohibiting discrimination against disabled persons in any program receiving federal assistance. The legislation was extensive and covered both employment practices and accessibility in terms of programming and facilities. Compliance was required from all agencies receiving federal funding. As part of the city's initial compliance effort, a Citizen's Advisory Board for Section 504 Compliance was established. The committee, which included members who were disabled, helped city departments with developing self-assessments and advised on a variety of accessibility topics. Federal rules and deadlines for compliance varied by agency, and throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, some city departments completed self-evaluations, developed transition plans, and completed compliance. Other measures taken during this time included amendments to the Fair Employment and Open Housing ordinances to include disabled persons, the passage of Resolution 24614 requiring any space rented by the city to be accessible to disabled persons, and a Mayor's Executive Order on February 15, 1984, affirming the right of all citizens to receive city services equally. In October 1978, the Washington State Regulations for Barrier Free Design was adapted and incorporated into the Seattle Building Code. Accessibility improvements to some park facilities, such as Camp Long, were funded and completed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In June 1976, Mayor Wes Uhlman approved the city's Affirmative Action Plan, including a policy on "Employment Services for Handicapped Persons." In addition, a number of studies, policies, programs and services were created by the city, or in partnership with other agencies, such as King County and METRO, to meet the needs of disabled persons. Despite these and other steps forward, the city fell behind in achieving full compliance with Section 504 rules. A city-wide compliance coordinator was proposed more than once, but the position was never funded. The Handicapped Services Unit was removed from the city budget in 1980, and the two remaining positions intended to support activities formerly handled by that unit were cut in 1982. In 1984, the Human Rights Department acknowledged that the city had fallen behind on full Section 504 compliance and outlined a plan to remedy the problem. Another comprehensive, city-wide self-assessment and corrective action plan was proposed, but never fully implemented. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990, broadening the requirements of Section 504 to cover nearly all employers and public facilities, including existing buildings. The section of the ADA concerning municipal government activities was scheduled to be enforced on January 26, 1992, and the city was required to be in basic compliance by that date. Two of the ADA's four titles directly impacted city operations: Title I, relating to employment practices, and Title II, relating to public services and facilities. In June 1991, the Seattle City Council adopted an official scope of work to ensure compliance. Tasks included: hiring a citywide ADA program coordinator; requiring all city departments to complete a comprehensive self-evaluation; making immediate changes to discriminatory policies; developing transition plans for changes to facilities; developing a grievance procedure for City employees; and establishing of an advisory committee represented by members of the disabled community to assist in conducting self-assessments and transition plans. Other goals included developing city policies regarding access to public meetings and city publications, as well as regarding telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDDs) for all city services and programs. Mayor Norm Rice appointed Elaine Marklund as the city's first citywide Disability Program Coordinator. The position was responsible for ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local laws, and assisting with the development of city-wide policies, priorities, and action plans for any departments found non-compliant. Departmental coordinators were also assigned and worked with Marklund to coordinate program accessibility responsibilities in individual departments. In September 1991, an ADA Citizens Advisory Committee was formed to assist with the implementation of compliance requirements. The committee of twelve members was headed by Janet Johanson, Executive Director of the Community Service Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. One of the key tasks of the committee was to help city departments perform accessibility self-assessments and prioritize planned changes. The committee advised on a variety of improvements such as a consistent overall signage system, employment application accommodations, curb ramp installations, assistive listening systems, and the types of training to provide city employees. They also worked to ensure that the plans and efforts addressed all kinds of disabilities, both physical and cognitive. An ADA Interpreter Ad Hoc Committee was also formed specifically to advise on creating a sustainable mechanism for employing interpreters for city functions and services. ADA regulations specified that a comprehensive citywide plan for changes be developed by July 26, 1992, and allowed until January 1995 to make the changes. The city contracted with the Washington Coalition of Citizens with disABILITIES (WCCD), a community-based nonprofit organization, to perform physical assessments of Seattle Public Library buildings and five city-owned downtown office buildings: the Municipal Building, Public Safety Building, Dexter Horton Building, Arctic Building, and Alaska Building. Other facility assessments were conducted by departmental coordinators, with training and guidance from WCCD. ADA-compliant revisions to regional public transportation services were planned and implemented by the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (METRO), under the advisement of the METRO Transit Committee's ADA Task Force, chaired by City Councilmember Jane Noland. An ADA Demand Study was conducted in 1991 to determine demographics of people with disabilities in King County and assess their transportation needs, and a Revised Paratransit Service Plan was produced in 1993. By June 1992, most city departments had conducted self-evaluations identifying barriers to accessibility and prepared corrective action plans. These helped to inform a city-wide transition plan prepared by the Office of Management and Budget and completed in July. The transition plan identified and listed the highest priority structural changes to be made to city facilities over the following two years. Lower priority improvements were to be budgeted in future years. Examples of improvements included barrier-free building entrances and restrooms, better access to more parks and recreation facilities, and the installation of lever-type door handles in public access areas. The Engineering Department implemented a curb ramp program, installing ramps, walkways, and curb bulbs at locations throughout the city. The Seattle Center installed Assisted Listening Systems, as well as accessible seating, restrooms, signage, elevators, and parking areas. Continuing Efforts In the years following initial ADA implementation, the city has continued its efforts to ensure compliance and provide accessible facilities and services to everyone. ADA improvements to parks included a major renovation of Carkeek Park in 2000 which provided interpretive ADA access to all visitors. Among efforts to improve accessibility to essential services was the establishment of an advisory committee in 1998 to assist the Seattle Police Department 911 center with providing services to the deaf, citing ADA requirements to provide "direct and equivalent services to all users of its 911 emergency communications system." That same year, the Division on Aging and Disability Services was created under the Department of Housing and Human Services to coordinate related city programs and to assist the Mayor on policy development. A Citywide ADA Title II Compliance Manager continues to work with and advise city departments to ensure ongoing compliance. In 2008, Human Rights Commissioner and activist Julian F. Wheeler spearheaded the formation of a volunteer ad hoc Committee to Establish a Seattle Disability Commission (CESDC). Although the city was in a recession and undergoing significant budget cuts, continued advocacy by the CESDC led to the City Council approving funding to form the Seattle Commission for People with disAbilities on November 12, 2009. Today, the Commission continues to advise the Mayor, City Council, and city departments about important issues for people with disabilities; recommend policies, practices, and legislation to the city in matters affecting people with disabilities, and encourage understanding among people with various disabilities as well as between people with disabilities and the larger Seattle community. Petition for free water for Caroline Carter, July 1903 (Clerk File 20038) Ordinance 63772 requiring drivers of motor vehicles to stop for blind persons who are using white canes (June 12, 1933) Letter from the Washington Protective Association for the Blind asking for free streetcar fare for the disabled, July 17, 1933 (Clerk File 140716) Ordinance 64367 authorizing free streetcar transportation to the blind (January 22, 1934) Ordinance 75443 amending the traffic code to authorize certain motor vehicle parking by physically incapacitated war veterans (October 7, 1946) Petition asking to extend parking benefits for non-veterans, 1951 (Clerk File 214434) Recommendation of Mayor for appropriation for construction of wheelchair ramps in connection with curb restorations in certain sewer separation projects, May 8, 1972 (Clerk File 272716) Letter from Jeanette Williams asking for wheelchair ramps, March 16,1970 (Clerk File 266205) Recommendation of Mayor for authorization of a Handicapped Services Unit in Human Resources, June 12, 1972 (Clerk File 273004) Letter from Jeanette Williams requesting accessible restrooms in the Municipal Building, February 22, 1973 (Clerk File 275071) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Letter from Jeanette Williams outlining proposed changes to Fair Employment Ordinance, January 30, 1974 (Clerk File 278005) Resolution 24614 expressing the intent of the City of Seattle to only rent or lease accessible buildings (July 15, 1974) Letter from Mayor Wes Uhlman to Jeanette Williams calling for accessible polling places in King County, October 15, 1974 (4693-02, 53/8) Mobility Aids: The Disabled Consumer's Guide to Assistive Equipment in Seattle April 1, 1976 (Document 8535) Brochure explaining City of Seattle's Affirmative Action Policy on Employment Services for Handicapped Persons, October 1976 (4693-02, 53/7) Summary of transportation needs of the disabled and the elderly / a report of the Elderly/Handicapped Transportation Study, 1977 (Document 6096) Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Compliance Overview and Transition Plan February 1, 1978 (Document 3418) Mayor's Executive Order Affirming the Right of All Citizens to Receive City Services Equally, February 15, 1984 (4603-01, 48/13) Memo from the Human Rights Department to the Office of Management and Budget re: Section 504 Implementation Plan Proposal, October 11, 1984 (4603-01, 48/13) Draft Recommendations, City of Seattle Policy for Use of TDD and Telephone Relay Service, January 4, 1991 (4691-02, 2/4) Central Staff memo to Tom Weeks outlining work program items on providing access for people with disabilities, including a chronology of past city efforts to comply with Section 504, March 13, 1991 (4691-02, 18/2) Resolution 28380 adopting a scope of work and schedule for achieving compliance with the ADA (June 17, 1991) Memo from OMB to all department directors outlining provisions of the ADA and requirements for compliance, July 5, 1991 (5001-03, 1/8) Mayor's Cabinet Briefing Paper on ADA implementation, September 19, 1991 (5001-03, 1/8) Ordinance 115876 authorizing an assessment of barriers to people with disabilities in the access of downtown city-owned buildings (September 30, 1991) Fact sheet on Implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act from the Association of Washington Cities, October 1991 (4663-02, 17/6) Sample Program Accessibility Evaluation Form, October 1991 (4601-03, 48/12) Memo from Elaine Marklund re: self-assessment process for ADA compliance, including draft Self-Assessment and Corrective Action Plan form, October 23, 1991 (4601-03, 48/12) ADA Demand Survey Questions (METRO transit), 1991 (4663-02, 17/5) Memo from Elaine Marklund outlining next steps in ADA compliance, including sample policies and procedures, January 14, 1992 (4603-01, 48/11) Briefing Paper on Status of ADA Coordinator Position from Elaine Marklund, April 27, 1992 (5001-03, 1/8) Finance Committee Briefing ADA Compliance Update, June 17, 1992 (4603-01, 48/12) Memo from Mayor Rice to Citizens ADA Advisory Committee with ADA Transition Plan, July 27, 1992 (5200-07, 1/2) Memo from Personnel Department to ADA Advisory Committee with draft citywide reasonable accommodation policy / ADA compliance procedure, July 29, 1992 (4601-03, 48/12) Office of Management and Budget memo with Notice of ADA Compliance, Non-Discrimination Policy, and Grievance Procedure for complaints of discrimination on the basis of disability, 1992 (5001-03, 1/8) Disabilities Etiquette Handbook, 1992 (Document 2693) Americans with Disabilities Act Update to the Paratransit Service Plan, January 1993 (4663-02, 17/7) Seattle Neighborhood News, Department of Neighborhoods newsletter, December 1992 issue (4663-02, 17/7) MOSAIC: A Diversity Newsletter for the Employees of the City of Seattle, Winter 1994 issue (5801-02, 26/11) Seattle Human Rights Rules, Chapters 40 and 60 amended to include protections for disabled persons, May 11, 1995 (Clerk File 300647) Sign Language Interpreter Toolkit, 1997 (5200-07, 1/2) Resolution 29709, directing and approving the establishment of an advisory committee to assist the Seattle Police Department 911 Center to provide services to the Deaf and hard of hearing community (February 23, 1998) Information and Access Handbook for City Employees, 1999 (Document 7177) Ordinance 123219 creating the Seattle Commission for People with disAbilities (January 11, 2010) Proclamation commemorating November 12, 2009 as "Julian F. Wheeler and CESDC Day," October 15, 2019 (Clerk File 321465) City Light Director of Construction Engineering John Hansen speaking to wheelchair users who had requested additional curb ramps be installed as part of an underground wiring project along 45th Ave in Wallingford, 1979. Pictured standing with two canes is Paul Wysocki, Director of the city's Handicapped Services Unit and later supervisor of the Human Rights Department's Affirmative Action/Disability Unit. Images 195241 and 195242, Seattle Municipal Archives Japanese Garden Bridge ADA Project, March 1998 Passport to Services: "Once Upon a Service System" 1996. A fairy-tale themed reenactment based on true events about a service system designed by Seattle City Light employees to improve access for people with disabilities. Introduction presented by Mayor Norm Rice. Item 6009, City Light Moving Images (Record Series 1204-05). Footage of Candidates Forum: People with disAbilities in King County, October 5, 2006. Seattle Channel Moving Images (Record Series 3902-01). Advisory Council for Specialized Programs Minutes and Reports, Record Series 5807-06, 1963-1989 Records include minutes and agendas for meetings from 1963 to 1989. Also included are annual reports for some programs, including the Specialized Day Camp for the years 1964-1989. The minutes and reports provide an overview of the type of recreational services provided to the disabled and how the programs and resources changed over the years. Central Staff Analysts Working Files, Record Series 4603-01, 1970-2016 46/22, Americans with Disabilities Act, 1991 48/10, Americans with Disabilities Act - Staff Papers, 1991-1991 48/11, Americans with Disabilities Act - Executive Papers, 1992-1992 48/12, Americans with Disabilities Act - Executive Papers, 1992 48/13, Americans with Disabilities Act - Section 504 Compliance, 1990-1994 48/15, Americans with Disabilities Act - Citizen Advisory Committee, 1991-1992 48/17, Americans with Disabilities Act - Community Input, 1992-1992 719/9, ADA Compliance Settlement Agreement, 2011 Jeanette Williams Subject Files, Record Series 4693-02, 1969-1993 53/7, Handicapped Issues, 1971-77 58/2, Opposition to Handicap Provisions, Correspondence, Open Housing & Fair Employment, 1985-86 62/1, Transportation, Elderly and Handicapped, 1972-75 62/2, Elderly/Handicapped Transportation, Vol. 1, 1975-1981 62/3, Elderly/Handicapped Transportation, Vol. 2, 1974-75 63/5, Handicapped Transportation Transition Plan, 1980 Jane Noland Subject Files, Record Series 4663-02, 1983-1997 17/6, Metro ADA, Proposed Regulations, 1990-91 17/5, Metro ADA Demand Survey, 1991 17/7, Metro ADA Notes, 1990-93 Charles T. Royer Departmental Correspondence, Record Series 5274-01, 1978-1989 16/10, Handicapped Services, 1979 17/16, Light: Underground Wiring, 1979-1979 Wesley C. Uhlman Subject Files, Record Series 5287-02, 1957-1977 97/17, Mayor's Committee on Opportunities for the Handicapped, 1973-1977 Mayor's Office Central Files, Record Series 5200-07, 1979-2002 1/2, Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance, 1992-1997 Greg Nickels Subject Correspondence, Record Series 5259-01, 2002-2009 9/3, Disability Issues, 2002 131/1, Seniors (MOSC) & Americans with Disabilities Act, 2007 Cheryl Chow Subject Files, Record Series 4618-02, 1988-1995 9/5, Citizens Task Force for the Disabled, 1993 George Benson Subject Files, Record Series 4614-02, 1972-1993 11/34, Metro: Elderly, Handicapped, and Youth Policies and Programs, 1984-1988 17/7, Handicapped Parking Ordinance, 1984-1989 Tom Weeks Subject Files, Record Series 4691-02, 1989-1996 2/4, Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990-91 Nick Licata Subject Files, Record Series 4650-02, 1979-2015 146/4, Taxis, Wheelchair Accessible, 2009-2013 Office of Management and Budget Director's Records, Record Series 5001-03, 1973-1993 Community Development Block Grant Project Records, Record Series 1605-02, 1971-1988 71/2, Public Housing, Social Services, Handicapped Access, 1980-82 57/7, Camp Long Improvements - Handicapped, 1979-1982 7/27 - Disabled Access, 1990 Ben Evans Recreation Program Collection, Record Series 5801-02, 1906-1995 26/11, Handicapped Issues, 1968 Carkeek Park Advisory Council Records, Record Series 5809-03, 1983-2009 1/12, CID-ADA Access, 2000 Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center Records, Record Series 5809-02, 1984-2010 7/15, Capital Improvements, Play Area & ADA, 1997 Public Information Officer's Records, Record Series 5802-07, 1942-2013 6/9, ADA Audit, 2007 Division on Aging Director's Records, Record Series 3611-01, 1974-1994 3/10, Americans With Disabilities Act, 1992 3/11, ADA Reports, 1990-91 Bumbershoot Festival Commission Files, Record Series 9312-01, 1991-1992 12/2, Americans with Disabilities Act, 1991-1992 Seattle Design Commission Subject Files, Record Series 9323-02, 1968-2006 20/9, Wheelchair Ramps 100776.3, 1976-1977 Seattle Commission for People with disAbilities Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 Northwest ADA Center ADA 30th Anniversary Toolkit Seattle Open Housing Campaign Strength & Stamina: Women in the Fire Department The City Lends a Hand Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Caring, Commitment and Support: 20 Years of Domestic Partnership Registration in Seattle LGBT Issues in the 1980s The Seattle Open Housing Campaign Open Housing Narrative Gay Rights in the 1970s City Councilman Sam Smith Seattle's Open Government Laws Teen Dance Ordinance Roma in Seattle City Charter Review Street Musicians Opening the Doors of Government Crimes Against Women Open Housing Sexual Orientation and Housing Discrimination What are primary sources? 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__label__cc	0.625255	0.374745	Stories from the Front Porch Travel Trailer Tales The First Step. But Are We Ready? Almost two years!! Two years of dreaming. Two years of planning. But, are we really ready to do this? On Christmas Eve, we took our first step. I think of it has a commitment to what’s next. When you dream, make plans, think “oh wouldn’t this be fun, we should do this,” it is always exciting. You start by watching YouTube channel after YouTube channel, you research and research some more. You join one Facebook Group after the other, trolling through the posts, then finally you start asking questions. You absorb as much information as you can before overload sets in. All the while still dreaming. Then the time comes where you either “shit or get off the pot,” which means - commit to doing something productive or step aside and stop wasting time. No matter how much you study, how much YouTube you watch, how many Facebook groups you troll, at some point you have to take that first step. You have to make it real. Anxiety will build, you might go “Oh, no,” your emotions will swing from giddy excitement to doubt and back again. Change is always hard and stressful, even when the change is good. But change is also necessary - it provides growth, awareness, strength. When you take that first step towards committing, reality sets in and you think, “Are we really ready to do this?” Well, on Christmas Eve we made our first step towards a dream of full-time living and traveling in an RV - we committed to it by purchasing the Towing Vehicle (TV in RV slang.) After months of research and reading forum after forum we settled on the type of TV we needed and wanted. We went from trolling Facebook groups to trolling websites looking for used trucks. The first thing to hit us was ‘sticker shock’ on used trucks. Let’s just say, “WOW!” and leave it at that. Then we encountered how hard they were to find. The model we wanted was so popular and so rare, especially when equipped with what we wanted or needed, that we expected it to take months. We lucked out and found a 2018 Ford 250 almost fully equipped and with low miles, so we jumped on it. I had never realized how “big” these truck were until I stood next to it or tried to climb inside. That first step, that first commitment was made. I guess we are ready to do this. Or at least one step closer. As we roam the roads and highways, looking for that next fantastic stop, keep track of our travels in our Airstream - Betty Jo Towing Vehicle Stories from the Front Porch Copyright © 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2651
__label__wiki	0.751469	0.751469	Green Hill Zone - Japanese story translations Marble Zone Index - Western stories Spring Yard Zone - Story theories Labyrinth Zone index - Canon guide Special Stage - FAQ Sonic Adventure - A Heavenly Island - 2 From the: Sonic Adventure Japanese Strategy Guide Translated by: Translation by Zlel (aka anon2002) Edited and obtained by big_smile Sonic Adventure - A Heavenly Island - Chaos Emerald Tradition [Part 2] -The time before it all started- As far as historical texts are concerned, in a time more than 3000 years ago, the Knuckles were nothing more than a mere tribe of people; even the wars that led to their expansion was nothing phenomenal. Yet, according to Tails' testimony, the Knuckles had a mantra passed on by oral tradition that said "there are seven chaos in the world and this chaos is power, and this power is drawn from the heart. He who controls the world is he who controls this chaos," and it is believed to be speaking about the emeralds. The Master and Chaos Emeralds have been known to exist for more than 3000 years. -The Rise of the Knuckles- From the inscriptions left on the remains excavated from the MR ruins (1), Pachacamac, after the death of his mother who was from the moderate party, gathered his people to subdue the other peoples to expand his kingdom. When he came to know about the seven emeralds, he wanted to obtain these emeralds and use them for the expansion of his kingdom. However, where the altar of the emeralds was, there were the Chao and the guardian water spirit. Chaos easily fouled every one of Pachacamac's attempt to obtain the emeralds. From what we can make of the testimony of the Knuckles, Tikal, at this point, had not yet made contact with the Chao and Chaos, although Tikal's position against Pachacamac's expansionism is indisputable. From what Amy could recall, Tikal met Chao when she visited the altar of the emeralds. She also met Chaos to whom she soon made her intentions known, according to an EC retrieved. This was proven by the data left on an external memory device believed to be used by an E series. Furthermore, if Big's experience can be trusted, Chaos led Tikal to the centre of the altar, where she saw a particularly huge emerald. -The final attack; Chaos runs berserk- When the Knuckles finally made their final attack, Tikal and Chao shielded the attack. Pachacamac tried to defeat them with a powerful blow, as is recorded on the inscriptions and as the Knuckles had witnessed. At this attack, Chaos lost all its senses and went berserk, bringing destruction like nobody had seen before. According to Tails' account, Sonic said he heard the din. Although we cannot be sure where that power of destruction came from, a section of a mantra that says "this chaos is power, and this power is drawn from the heart" leads us to think that the powers of destruction was called forth by an angry heart. Chaos sealed; a legend is born Translator's notes: (1) The original text calls it the MR ruins (MR being Mystic Ruins). [The translation has been left as unaltered as possible to keep to the style of the original text.] Rate this story Use the +/- buttons to rate the story. (The rating applies to the story and not the quality of the translation). ERETICOPEDIA Mediterranean Digital & Public Humanities Captain Barefoot The naturist guide to the Greek Islands Parameterized Complexity Did you say NP-hard?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2660
__label__wiki	0.718655	0.718655	The WindAction Group (www.windAction.org) Facts, analysis, exposure to industrial wind energy's real impacts German experts deem wind turbines lethal for bats Reuters UK - Josie Cox - September 3, 2008 Impact on Wildlife Impact on Bats Germany German animal campaigners are alarmed by the number of dead bats being found near wind turbines and have called for restrictions on generators in areas with high populations of the nocturnal mammal. "The bats are not only being clobbered to death by the turbines, but can also suffer from collapsed lungs due to the drastic change in air pressure," said Hermann Hoetker of the Michael Otto Institute for wildlife and the environment. German animal campaigners are alarmed by the number of dead bats being found near wind turbines and have called for restrictions on generators in areas with high populations of the nocturnal mammal. "The bats are not only being clobbered to death by the turbines, but can also suffer from collapsed lungs due to the drastic change in air pressure," said Hermann Hoetker of the Michael Otto Institute for wildlife and the environment. Hoetker, an ornithologist and expert on bats at the Institute, said turbines were killing more bats than birds but declined to give an exact number. German wildlife group BUND estimates about 8,000 birds are killed by wind turbines in the country per year "We're not sure why this is. It could be to do with the echolocation mechanism of bats (which helps them navigate), which they stop using when they think they don't need it." Scientists at Hanover Technical University are trying to devise a solution to the problem but in the meantime, Hoetker wants more restrictions imposed. "It would be good if wind turbines were only built in areas where bats do not tend to fly. Ideally they would not be put near woodland," he said. Germany has about 19,000 wind... more [truncated due to possible copyright] Germany has about 19,000 wind turbines, generating about 5 percent of the country's electricity -- more than any other country in the world. Source: http://uk.reuters.com/artic... http://www.windaction.org/posts/16911-german-experts-deem-wind-turbines-lethal-for-bats You too can make a difference. Every little bit helps. Sign up for our Wind Alert! newsletter. We won't share your email address. The WindAction Group Lisa Linowes, Executive Director General Copyright Statement Most of the sourced material posted to WindAction.org is posted according to the Fair Use doctrine of copyright law for non-commercial news reporting, education and discussion purposes. Some articles we only show excerpts, and provide links to the original published material. Any article will be removed by request from copyright owner, please send takedown requests to: info@windaction.org © 2021 Industrial Wind Action Group Corp. All rights reserved. Website generously donated by Parkerhill Tech	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2671
__label__wiki	0.669673	0.669673	Frances Hamilton Arnold Vanderlei S. Bagnato David Baltimore Antonio Battro David Baulcombe Enrico Berti Robert Eric Betzig Helen M. Blau Thierry Boon-Falleur Joachim von Braun Luis Ángel Caffarelli Aaron Ciechanover Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Yves Coppens Suzanne Cory Paul Crutzen Edward De Robertis Francis L. Delmonico Albert Eschenmoser Elaine Fuchs Antonio García Bellido Reinhard Genzel Fabiola Gianotti Takashi Gojobori Theodor Hänsch Mohamed H.A. Hassan Stefan W. Hell Michael Heller Klaus von Klitzing Jürgen A. Knoblich Eric S. Lander Nicole Le Douarin Tsung-Dao Lee Yuan-Tseh Lee Jean-Marie Lehn Pierre Léna Jane Lubchenco Juan Maldacena Yuri Manin Beatrice Mintz Jürgen Mittelstraß Erna Möller Salvador Moncada Rudolf Muradyan Ryoji Noyori José Nelson Onuchic Stefano Piccolo John Charles Polanyi Ingo Potrykus Yves Quéré Veerabhadran Ramanathan C.N.R. Rao Peter Raven Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe Carlo Rubbia Roald Sagdeev Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Michael Sela Maxine Singer Hans Tuppy Rafael Vicuña Cédric Villani Edward Witten Maryanne Wolf Shinya Yamanaka Chen Ning Yang Ada Yonath Antonino Zichichi Date of Birth 24 October 1951 Place Fukuoka (Japan) Nomination 5 September 2007 Field Evolutionary Genomics Title Professor Most important awards, prizes and academies Society Prize (Kihara Medal), The Genetic Society of Japan (2005); Society Prize (Motoo Kimura Medal), The Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan (2004); The Gaetano Salvatore Gold Medal, Stazione Zoologica, Anton Dohrn, Italy (2004); Science Award from Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) (1997); Science Award from Hitoshi Kihara Memorial Foundation, Japan (1995); Promotion Award from Japanese Society of Genetics (1987). Fellowships: Visiting Research Fellow at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London (1989); Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006). Academies and Professional organisations: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006); Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (2007); Vice-Chairman, The International Society of Molecular Evolution; Member, The American Society of Genetics; Member, The Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution; Member, The Japanese Society of Genetics; Member, The Japanese Society of Evolutionary Studies. Summary of scientific research He has worked extensively on the rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions, positive selection, horizontal gene transfer, viral evolution, genomic evolution, and comparative gene expressionics. In recent years he has focused on the evolution of the brain and of the Central Nervous System. He has contributed to the DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL international nucleotide sequence database construction as well as the H-Invitational human gene database. Main publications Jung Shan, H., Ohyanagi, H., Hayakawa, S., Osato, N., Nishimiya-Fujisawa, C., Ikeo, K., David, C., Fujisawa, T. and Gojobori, T. (2007), The evolutionary emergence of cell type specific genes inferred from the gene expression analysis of hydra, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104(37), 14735-40; The Rice Annotation Project: Ito, T. and Gojobori, T., et al. (2007), Curated Genome Annotation of Oryza sativa ssp. Japonica and Comparative Genome Analysis with Arabidopsis thaliana, Genome Res. 17(2), 175-83; Iwama, H., Gojobori, T., Itoh, T., Niimura, Y., Fujii, Y.,Habara, T., Sakai. H., Sato, Y., Wilson, G.,Kumar, K., McCouch, S., Juretic, N., Hoen, D., Wright, S., Bruskiewich, R., Bureau, T., Miyao, A., Hirochika, H., Nishikawa, T., Kadowaki, K. and Sugiura, M. (2005), The map-based sequence of the rice genome, Nature 436: 793-800; Nakamura, Y., Itoh, T., Matsuda, H. and Gojobori, T. (2004), Biased biological functions of horizontally transferred genes on 324,653 open reading frames of 116 prokaryotic complete genomes, Nature Genetics 36(7): 760-6; Iwama, H. and Gojobori, T. (2004), Highly conserved upstream sequences for transcription factor genes and implications for the regulatory network, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101, 17156-61; Imanishi, T., other 152 authors, Gojobori, T., and Sugano S. (2004), Integrative annotation of 21,037 human genes validated by full-length cDNA clones, PLoS Biol. 2, 1-21; Andrews, T.D. and Gojobori, T. (2004), Strong positive selection and recombination drive the antigenic variation of the PilE protein of the human pathogen neisseria meningitidis, Genetics 166, 25-32; Anzai, T., Shiina, T., Kimura, N., Yanagiya, K., Kohara, S., Shigenari, A., Yamagata, T., Kulski, J.K., Naruse, T.K., Fujimori, Y., Fukuzumi, Y., Yamazaki, M., Tashiro, H., Iwamoto, C., Umehara, Y., Imanishi, T., Meyer, A., Ikeo, K., Gojobori, T., Bahram, S. and Inoko, H. (2003), Comparative sequencing of human and chimpanzee MHC class I regions unveils insertions/deletions as the major path to genomic divergence, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100(13):7708-13; Nakazawa, M., Cebria, F., Mineta, K., Ikeo, K., Agata, K. and Gojobori, T. (2003), Search for the evolutionary origin of a brain. Planarian brain characterized by microarray, Mol. Biol. Evol.20(5): 784-91; Mineta, K., Nakazawa, M., Cebria, F., Ikeo, K., Agata, K. and Gojobori, T. (2003), Origin and evolutionary process of CNS elucidated by comparative genomics analysis of planarian ESTs, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100(13): 7666-71; Niimura, Y. and Gojobori, T. (2002), In silico chromosome staining: Reconstruction of Giemsa bands from the whole human genome sequence, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99(2): 797-802; Tanaka, Y., Hanada, K., Mizokami, M., Yeo, A.E.T., Shih, J.W.-K., Gojobori, T.. and Alter, H.J. (2002), A Comparison of the molecular clock of hepatitis c virus in the United States and Japan predicts that hepatocellular carcinoma incidence in the United States will increase over the next two decades, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99, 15584-9; Sasaki, T., Yamamoto, K., Sakata, K., Baba, T., Katayose, Y., Wu, J., Niimura Y., Cheng Z., Nagamura Y., Kanamori, H., Hosokawa, S., Masukawa, M., Arikawa, Antonio, B.A. and Gojobori, T. (2002), The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 1., Nature 420: 312-6; Fantom Consortium (Okazaki, Y., Gojobori, T., et al.), Riken Genome Exploration Research Group Phase I & II Team, Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, Scientific management: Y. Hayashizaki (2002). Analysis of the Mouse Transcriptome based on Functional Annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs, Nature 420: 563-73; RIKEN Genome Exploration Research Group Phase II Team and FANTOM Consortium (Okazaki, Y., Gojobori, T., et al.), General organizer: Y. Hayashizaki (2001). Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection, Nature 409(6821): 685-90; International Human Genome sequencing Consortium (DNA sequence databases: DNA Data Bank of Japan et al.) (2001). Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome, Nature, 409(6822): 860-921; Gaudieri, S., Dawkins, R.L., Habara, K., Kulski, J.K., and Gojobori, T. (2000), SNP profile within the human major histocompatibility complex reveals an extreme and interrupted level of nucleotide diversity, Genome Res. 10(10): 1579-86; Yamaguchi-Kabata, Y. and Gojobori, T. (2000), Reevaluation of amino acid variability of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gp120 envelope glycoprotein and prediction of new discontinuous epitopes, J. Virology 74(9):4335-50; Gaudieri, S., Kulski, J., Dawkins, R., and Gojobori, T. (1999), Different evolutionary histories in two subgenomic regions of the major histocompatibility complex,Genome Res. 9(6): 541-9; Bellgard, M. and Gojobori, T. (1999), Inferring the direction of evolutionary changes of genomic base composition, Trends in Genetics 15(7): 254-6; Itoh, T., Takemoto, K., Mori, H., and Gojobori, T. (1999), Evolutionary instability of operon structures disclosed by sequence comparisons of complete microbial genomes, Mol. Biol. Evol. 16(3): 332-46; Yamaguchi, Y. and Gojobori, T. (1997), Evolutionary mechanisms and population dynamics of the third variable envelope region of HIV within single hosts, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 94(4): 1264-9; Gojobori, T., Tateno, Y., and Ohta, T., ed. (1997), Special Issue: Networks and Evolution of Molecular Information, J. Mol. Evol., Vol. 44. S1-S180; Endo, T., Ikeo, K., and Gojobori, T. (1996), Large-scale search for genes on which positive selection may operate, Mol. Biol. Evol. 13(5): 685-90; Miura, T., Fukunaga, T., Igarashi, T., Yamashita, M., Ido, E., Funahashi, S.-I., Ishida, T., Washio, K., Ueda, S., Hashimoto, K.-I., Yoshida, M., Osame, M., Singhal, B.S., Zaninovic, V., Cartier, L., Sonoda, S., Tajima, K., Ina, Y., Gojobori, T., and Hayami, M. (1994), Phylogenetic subtypes of human T-lymphotropic virus type I and their relations to the anthropological background, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 91: 1124-7; Gojobori, T. and Ikeo, K. (1994), Molecular evolution of serine protease and its inhibitor with special reference to domain evolution, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 344(1310): 411-5; Gojobori, T., Moriyama, E.N., Ina, Y., Ikeo, K., Miura, T., Tsujimoto, H., Hayami, M., and Yokoyama, S. (1990), Evolutionary origin of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 87(11): 4108-11; Orito, E., Mizokami, M., Ina, Y., Moriyama, E.N., Kameshima, N., Yamamoto, M., and Gojobori, T. (1989), Host-independent evolution and a genetic classification of the hepadnavirus family based on nucleotide sequences, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 86(18): 7059-62; Tsujimoto, H., Hasegawa, A., Maki, N., Fukasawa, M., Miura, T., Speidel, S., Cooper, R.W., Moriyama, E.N., Gojobori, T., and Hayami, M. (1989), Sequence of a novel simian immunodeficiency virus from a wild-caught African mandrill, Nature 341(6242): 539-41; Gojobori, T. and Yokoyama, S. (1985), Rates of evolution of the retroviral oncogene of Moloney murine sarcoma virus and of its cellular homologues, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 82(12): 4198-201; Shimotohno, K., Takahashi, Y., Shimizu, N., Gojobori, T., Golde, D.W., Chen, I.S.Y., Miwa, M., and Sugimura, T. (1985), Complete nucleotide sequence of an infectious clone of human T-cell leukemia virus type II: An open reading frame for the protease gene, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 82(10): 3101-5; Gojobori, T. (1983), Codon substitution in evolution and the 'saturation' of synonymous changes, Genetics 105(4): 1011-27; Li, W.-H., Gojobori, T., and Nei, M. (1982), Reply on Goodman's comment 'Positive selection causes purifying selection', Nature 295: 630; Gojobori, T., Li, W.-H., and Graur, D. (1982). Patterns of nucleotide substitution in pseudo-genes and functional genes, J. Mol. Evol. 18(5): 360-9; Gojobori, T., Ishii, K., and Nei, M. (1982), Estimation of average number of nucleotide substitutions when the rate of substitution varies with nucleotide, J. Mol. Evol. 18(6): 414-23; Li, W.-H., Gojobori, T., and Nei, M. (1981), Pseudogenes as a paradigm of neutral evolution, Nature 292(5820): 237-9. Professional address CBRC (Computational Bioscience Research Center), BESE (Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering), Room 4220, Level 4, Building 3 (Ibn Sina Build–Sea Side) KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), 4700 KAUST Thuwal 23955-6900, KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) On Gene Biology and Evolution 2018 Impacts of Microbial Studies on Human Society and its Environment 2016 Evolving Concepts of Genetic Diversity in Natural Population of Organisms 2014 Genomic Exploration of the RNA Continent (PDF) 2010 The Evolutionary Origin and Process of the Central Nervous System: Comparative Genomics Approach (PDF) 2008	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2672
__label__wiki	0.675157	0.675157	Tom Hardy in Star Wars? I've loved Tom Hardy for a many a year now. So any time his name is getting thrown around, I get excited. He had one hell of a year last year. I loved "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "The Revenant" with every fabric of my being. Plus, "Legend" wasn't too bad either. Coming off the heals of such a strong year, what else could he get caught up in? How about "Star Wars" There is a rumor running around that Tom Hardy might appear in "Star Wars: Episode VIII." Apparently, it will be a cameo appearance in the same vein as Daniel Craig in "Episode VII." But it would be a fun one nonetheless, if true. Here is a description of Hardy's scene in the movie: "Tom Hardy plays a First Order stormtrooper. Said stormtrooper glimpses FN-2187 on a secret mission but doesn’t realize it. The “incognito” FN-2187 is surprised when the stormtrooper walks up behind him and slaps him on the ass. FN-2187 turns around and believes he’s dead. He’s surely going to be captured. The stormtrooper is elated to see his old friend from back during their First Order academy days. The stormtrooper congratulates FN-2187 on his promotion to Resistance infiltrator and spy. FN-2187 is free to go about his business to his amazement." This was delivered from Makingstarwars.net. It sounds like it might be one of those rumors that stays a rumor. Seems kind of like a weird scene. But then again, maybe we don't understand the context of the scene. It could lead up to a big laugh in the movie. Time will tell. http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/tom-hardy-rumored-to-play-a-cameo-in-this-scene-from-star-wars-epsiode-viii-236 Pitch Perfect 3 is set...right? The Do-Over Review Movie Question: TV vs. Movies The Nice Guys Review First Alien:Covenant Image Angry Birds Review Two new "Star Trek Beyond" posters X-Men: Apocalypse Review Five Minute "Independence Day 2" trailer Beauty and the Beast trailer Further Inspection- "Captain America: Civil War" Yoda In Episode VIII? Regression Review TV REVIEW: AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (SEASON THREE FI... Will 2016 be the year of the Video Game Adaptation? Doubleback Review: The Forest Assassin's Creed Trailer Assassin's Creed Trailer Coming Tomorrow The Woods Trailer TV REVIEW: "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." (EPISODE TWENT... We Have Our Young Han Solo Captain America: Civil War Review Barbershop: The Next Cut Review What's the deal with Infinity War Part 1 and 2? TV REVIEW: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (EPISODE NINETEE... Space Jam 2 gets director Special Correspondents Review	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2673
__label__wiki	0.606319	0.606319	2018: The Year of the Cryptocurrency Craze In the coming year, the motto of financial-tech developers is going to be “cryptocoins for everything!” Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), which introduce new cryptocurrencies to the world, have raised $4 billion so far, mostly in the last year—and that has turned them into a craze of their own. A future in which each of us has our own personal currency remains improbable. But one in which each big tech platform issues a token as the coin of its realm is probably not far off. By Scott Rosenberg for WIRED Every successful new technology undergoes a Cambrian Era-style explosion of growth in which we try to use it for everything. Email, search, social networking—each passed through its “this will solve all our problems!” phase before we figured out what its best applications and limitations were. With the Bitcoin bubble testing astronomical prices every day, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that drives them are now taking their turn in this one-tech-fits-all role. A blockchain is a cryptographically protected distributed ledger—it’s what protects you or anyone else from making a copy of that Bitcoin you just bought. You’ve probably heard about the popularity of blockchain tech in the financial business. In fact, anything that you can make a list of, you can manage with blockchains. Ambitious developers and entrepreneurs are aiming to use them to rework everything from how we track land ownership to how we distribute medicine and how we grant diplomas. Some of these ideas are brilliant, while others are ridiculous. Do we really need a blockchain to run an online encyclopedia or pay for news? Whether we do or not, in 2018, we’re probably going to see it tried. That’s partly because of a glut of venture capital and the salivation of investors thrilled by Bitcoin’s wild ride. But it’s also because this is the exuberant but wasteful process by which the tech industry determines what each new platform is actually good for. And it’s a process that will play out whether the Bitcoin bubble keeps soaring or finally pops. Before that can happen, here are three issues that the industry will need to resolve: Are ICO tokens primarily investments, or tools? Can we give up the idea that cryptocurrencies are a new species of traditional cash? And can developers end the plague of technical problems surrounding Bitcoin and every other cryptocoin? The continued rise of cryptocurrencies in 2018 will depend on how much progress the crypto world can make on these questions. What Is a Token? Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) started out as an alternative means for funding new protocols and infrastructure in the crypto universe. Through this process, companies create and sell tokens; the tokens can be hoarded as investments, or used to accomplish tasks on their platform. Some projects, hoping to reassure skeptics and qualify for more institutional capital, explicitly model their cryptocoin projects on traditional investment vehicles. The startup incubator Science, for instance, raised $12 million in an ICO aimed at taking advantage of ICO-mania to kickstart a whole venture fund’s worth of investments in blockchain-related companies. Science structured its ICO to meet Securities and Exchange Commission rules, and buying into the Science ICO was not that different from buying into any other seed investment round. Others take a more complex view of the role of tokens: Sure, they can fluctuate in value and serve as investments, but we’re creating them because they have a job to perform in making a new technology work. Engineers building new protocols and platforms don’t just take the cash raised in the ICO; the tokens they sell also create incentives and perform basic functions in the systems they’re building, so the tokens won’t just sit in investment accounts. That’s the approach that lay behind the recent $50 million ICO by Blockstack, a startup that envisions a decentralized, blockchain-based web in which your direct interactions with businesses, organizations, and other individuals are powered by its tokens. Blockstack’s system uses its own browser and plans prototype apps from independent developers for data storage, Airbnb-style home rental, music publishing, and personal health records. Right now, the ICO world happily embraces both these models. A year from now, we should have more evidence to show which one makes more sense. The investment model offers more assurance that any particular ICO won’t be an outright scam; the “put tokens to work” approach opens up more revolutionary technical possibilities. The Future is Cash-Free Bitcoin was first explained to the public as a form of digital money, and that is how its successors and competitors—like Litecoin, Filecoin, and Ether—have been framed as well. Each of these “currencies” resembles traditional money in certain ways—they’re abstractions of economic value; they can be traded; they each use unique symbols. But none of them is suited to playing the most basic role of currency, as a relatively stable medium of exchange—that is, as a simple way to buy and sell stuff. There’s too much friction involved. Each transaction takes too long, uses too much energy, and involves too many risks. (Bitcoin, for instance, is shockingly easy to lose—one misplaced password and you’re in trouble.) Nearly a year ago—back when Bitcoin was trading for a mere $1000 and people rolled their eyes!—Cade Metz was arguing in Wired that “Bitcoin will never be a currency.” But that idea isn’t dying gently. Here, for instance, is the latest sad tale of a Bitcoin owner who tried to sell some of his holding and found himself in a labyrinth of trouble. As he lamented on Twitter, “It’s still either super complex to use, either woefully insecure and/or unsafe. but now you also have ridiculous high fees, long confirmation times, super impractical exchanges with zero privacy.” (His Twitter ID says he’s a Google engineer, so he’s likely neither a rube nor a technophobe.) In 2018, the smartest move on the part of companies making ICOs and Bitcoin-related products will be to wean the public and the media off the “digital cash” concept. It’s a metaphor that no longer makes sense, and it’s getting in the way of our properly understanding a new technology that’s looks like money but really isn’t. Still Working Out the Bugs The biggest problems with Bitcoin have emerged because the mechanics of buying and holding bitcoins are so inscrutable that nearly everyone pays third parties to handle them. Those wallet-service middlemen become points of failure for the whole system. They get hacked; their systems go down; they get ordered by governments and regulators to report transactions that users thought would be anonymous. In 2018 you can expect to see an escalating competition among providers of these wallet services to earn users’ trust. It won’t be easy, since the inflation in Bitcoin’s price has driven a frenzy of participation that strains these companies’ capacities. But if the Bitcoin world doesn’t solve this problem, it will sour the entire industry’s prospects, as it crops up for each new coin or token that catches fire. Each of these three challenges that cryptocurrencies face comes down to a question of trust. Ironically, the libertarian dreamers who conceived of Bitcoin and its brethren imagined a world of “trustlessness,” in which you didn’t have to assess the reputation of the counterparty in any transaction, or any middleman institution, because the whole process was guaranteed by the blockchain’s irrefutable, crypto-secured record. But nothing that’s happening in the world of ICOs and Bitcoin today has moved us any closer to such a trustless state. People are still making gut-driven bets based on faith: Is my wallet company the most reliable? Which token is most likely to last and appreciate? Which developers are moving in the smartest direction? Those bets will continue as long as the market keeps rising. The cryptocurrency boom has been built on abundance—both in capital (because interest rates have been so low for so long) and in technical resources (because there were lots of idle CPUs before the cryptocurrency frenzy commenced). As BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen says, “Bitcoin does a very good job of wasting every available resource it can get its hands on.” The technical resources have begun to dwindle, which is why gamers have to pay more for their graphic cards—the Bitcoin miners have bought up all the hardware. The slightest whiff of a financial crisis will tighten the available financial resources, too. The real test for cryptocurrencies, next year and beyond, will be whether they can evolve to be more efficient. Remember: The Cambrian Era ended in mass extinction. SUBSCRIBE TO WIRED Posted in MONEY+TECHNOLOGYBy Alexander Ackley ← Europe’s Energy Disaster How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda → http://www.theinternationalchronicles.com/2018/01/30/2018-the-year-of-the-cryptocurrency-craze">	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2674
__label__cc	0.51864	0.48136	The Pendsey Trust Helping those living with diabetes in India to live a full and constructive life Rachel Humprey: DREAM Trust Champion Rachel Humphrey is the Chairwoman of the Universal Freight Organisation and is associated with The Pendsey Trust through the amazing work she has done for our main partner The Dream Trust. For more than a year she has continually been an advocate for helping diabetes sufferers in India including the sponsorship of 11 children whom she was very fortunate to meet during her visit to The Dream Trust back in 2012. We are very lucky to have Rachel as a supporter, and she was keen to tell us more about her experiences and why she is on board! ‘My company sources a worthwhile charity and together with our Members, we raise funds for 3 years so that we have time to really establish relations and make a difference. I selected The Dream Trust as it was close to my heart as my youngest son; George was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2010 at 9 years old. We are fortunate in the UK to have George’s insulin supplied by our health service.’ ‘However, in India many diabetic children from poor families suffer as their parents are sometimes unable to afford the medication that they need. I know the worry and fears for parents of diabetic children and I am delighted that over the past 3 years, we have raised a total of US $7,800 for The Dream Trust. As well as the funds raised through my business, I also personally sponsor 11 children.’ ‘In November 2012, my sister Mary and I; made a self-funded trip to Nagpur to visit the Dream Trust. When we arrived at the Dream Trust clinic we were taken to a room where all my sponsored children were waiting – it was a wonderful surprise and an honour to meet them, together with their families. We were moved by the look on the parents faces when we met them, they were so grateful to have sponsorship and although it made us feel good that we could do that for them, it also made us feel sad that something we take for granted (continuous supply of life saving insulin) is so rarely available to these children.’ ‘One of my sponsored children is Karishma; a bright girl who found it hard to progress at school due to being in and out of hospital. Many parents can’t afford insulin and this means the children are frequently hospitalized, which ironically costs them much more than the medication. As Karishma is now sponsored and able to take insulin every day, she is doing much better and she told us her aspiration is to become a Doctor.’ ‘The Dream Trust also helps to rehabilitate and give the children a future. Some of the funds we raised paid for bikes so that the children could get to school. Education is the only way out of poverty for them. We also visited the home of a homeless couple who the Dream Trust had helped to find a place to rent and funded the ladies insulin. Sadly due to her diabetes, she had suffered 3 miscarriages so the charity lent her a blood test meter so she could control her diabetes better in her 4th pregnancy, and it worked! The couple now have a beautiful little girl. The Dream Trust also bought her a sewing machine so that she can earn some money and become self-sufficient. It was an honour to visit them in their home.’ The following photos were kindly given to us by Rachel in order to help share her experience with us. If you wish to contact Rachel and find out more about her experiences then please let us know. Additionally if you wish to help in a similar fashion to Rachel by either donating funds for bicycles or sponsoring a child, then please visit our ‘How You Can Help’ section here. Martin May 2, 2014 May 2, 2014 View all posts by Martin Diabetes in Nigeria: Our chat with #NGDOC Our Tanzania Project Donate by card Enter your email address to get the very latest news about the Pendsey Trust by email. © 2018 The Pendsey Trust \| Supernova Themes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2675
__label__wiki	0.7975	0.7975	Home Entertainment Rocky Dawuni’s album is No.10 on Billboard Chart Rocky Dawuni’s album is No.10 on Billboard Chart Ghanaian reggae music star, Rocky Dawuni’s album ‘Branches of the Same Tree’ has just hit the Billboard Charts at number on the Reggae Album Chart. The album which is Rocky’s sixth album is filled with captivating and uplifting songs. Rocky Dawuni’s songs blend elements of reggae, Afrobeat and global pop into an enticing new sound. The songs on Branches of the Same Tree also reflect influences of New Orleans funk, Brazilian samba, even the lilting sounds of Hawaiian ukulele, seamlessly integrated into a unique and approachable style. The album features appearances by an all-star lineup of guest musicians, including veterans from Michael Franti and Spearhead, Steel Pulse, Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals and Ziggy Marley. Already a superstar in West Africa with a devoted international fan base, Branches of the Same Tree promises to bring Rocky’s music to even wider audiences around the world. Previous articleGyan Se’x Scandal: Ekow Micah reveals who is responsible for Sarah Kwablah’s Pregnancy; It’s Not Gyan Afterall Next articleExclusive Audio: Obaapa Christy accused of snatching someone’s husband Grammies: Ghana and Africa at 58th awards Rocky Dawuni Nominated At the 58th Grammys SM Fans Descend Heavily On M3nsa For Calling ‘Reign’ Album Wack... Filla Man - October 15, 2018 God made Shatta Wale the happiest man on earth by giving... Filla Man - July 13, 2015	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2683
__label__wiki	0.802283	0.802283	50+ World > Birthdays > December Birthdays > December 18th Birthdays December 18th Birthdays If you were born on this day December 18th, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people: Cicely Tyson is 96 Tony & Emmy Award-winning American actress of TV (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; Roots; East Side, West Side; Sweet Justice) & movies (Sounder; Bustin’ Loose; A Man Called Adam; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; The Blue Bird), born December 18, 1924. (Cicely Tyson 1956 Carib Gold) Roger E. Mosley is 82 (nee Roger Earl Mosley) American actor of TV (T.C. on Magnum, P.I.; Rude Awakening) & movies (Leadbelly; Sweet Jesus, Preacherman; Unlawful Entry; The River Niger; Heart Condition; Semi-Tough; Stay Hungry; The White Lions; Pentathlon; The Greatest), born December 18, 1938. (Roger E. Mosley 1980 Photo: CBS) Keith Richards is 77 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame English songwriter, singer, & lead guitarist for the Rolling Stones (Paint it Black; Ruby Tuesday; Gimme Shelter; Happy; The Last Time; Under My Thumb), and actor (Pirates of the Caribbean movies), born December 18, 1943. (Keith Richards 1965 Photo: Olavi Kaskisuo / Lehtikuva) Steven Spielberg is 74 Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, producer & director (Saving Private Ryan; The Goonies; Schindler’s List; E.T.; Jurassic Park; Jaws; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Poltergeist), born December 18, 1946. (Steven Spielberg 1999 Photo: Helene C. Stikkel / US Gov) Leonard Maltin is 70 American movie critic, TV documentary and series producer, screenwriter & host (Secret’s Out; Maltin on Movies; Entertainment Tonight), and author (Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide; Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide), born December 18, 1950. (Leonard Maltin 1990 Photo: Alan Light) Jeff Kober is 67 American actor of TV (Dodger on China Beach; Sons of Anarchy; The Walking Dead; NCIS: Los Angeles; Falcon Crest; Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and movies (Out of Bounds; Alien Nation; The Baby Doll Murders; The Hit List; Viper; Lucky Stiff), born December 18, 1953. (Jeff Kober Photo: Courtesy Jeff Kober) Ray Liotta is 66 (nee Raymond Allen Liotta) Emmy Award-winning American producer & actor of TV (Shades of Blue; Another World) and movies (Goodfellas; Field of Dreams; Cop Land; Blow; John Q; Something Wild; Corrina, Corrina; Unlawful Entry; Dominick and Eugene; Wild Hogs), born December 18, 1954. (Ray Liotta 2012 Photo: Gordon Correll) Brian Orser is 59 Canadian retired professional (Stars on Ice) and amateur figure skater, 2-time Olympic men’s singles silver medalist (1984 Sarajevo; 1988 Calgary – “Battle of the Brians”), 1987 World Champion & 4-time 1980s silver medalist, born December 18, 1961. (Brian Orser 2007 Photo: B-Girlz) Brad Pitt is 57 (nee William Bradley Pitt) Academy Award-winning American film producer & actor (Moneyball; 12 Years a Slave; The Time Traveler’s Wife; The Departed; World War Z; Thelma & Louise; Fight Club; Ocean’s Eleven; Legends of the Fall; Se7en; Legends of the Fall), born December 18, 1963.(Brad Pitt 2008 Photo: Thomas Peter Schulzen) Rachel Griffiths is 52 American actress of TV (Sarah Walker on Brothers & Sisters; Brenda Chenowith on Six Feet Under) and movies (Muriel’s Wedding; Blow; The Rookie; Underground: The Julian Assange Story; Amy; My Best Friend’s Wedding), born December 18, 1968. (Rachel Griffiths 2012 Photo: Robert Connolly) Casper Van Dien is 52 (nee Casper Robert Van Dien Jr.) American producer & actor of TV (Andre on Watch Over Me; One Life to Live; Mortal Kombat: Legacy; Beverly Hills, 90210; Titans) and movies (Starship Troopers; Sleepy Hollow; James Dean: Race with Destiny; Tarzan and the Lost City) born December 18, 1968. (Casper Van Dien 2012 Photo: Gage Skidmore) (San Francisco Painted Ladies Houses Photo: Cosmic Timetraveler via Unsplash) Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on December 18th! And remembering these famous birthdays Ossie Davis (nee Raiford Chatman Davis) American director & screenwriter (Cotton Comes to Harlem), actor of stage, TV (Evening Shade; The Defenders; Car 54, Where Are You?; Ossie and Ruby!; B.L. Stryker) and movies (A Man Called Adam; The Scalphunters; Do the Right Thing; The Client) (born Dec. 18, 1917– died Feb. 4, 2005; age 87). Cause of death for Ossie Davis is unknown. (Ossie Davis 1963 Photo: National Archives) Ty Cobb (nee Tyrus Raymond Cobb; “The Georgia Peach“) Baseball Hall of Fame American professional baseball player-manager, MLB outfielder (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), record-setting baseball player (runs scored, career batting average, career stolen bases), and 1911 AL MVP (born Dec. 18, 1886 – died July 17, 1961; age 74). Ty Cobb had several illnesses before he died. (Ty Cobb 1910 Photo: Bain News Service) American screenwriter and actor of TV (77 Sunset Strip; Mister Roberts; Hawaiian Eye), movies (The First Time; C.C. & Company; Auntie Mame; Never Steal Anything Small), later husband and manager of Ann-Margret (born Dec. 18, 1932 – died June 4, 2017; age 84). Roger Smith died of Parkinson’s Disease complications. (Roger Smith 1967 Photo: Warner Brothers Studios) Wilf Carter (nee Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter; AKA Montana Slim) Canadian country music songwriter, musician & singer (You Are My Sunshine; Have a Nice Day; Blue Canadian Rockies; Shoo Shoo Sha-La-La; What Ever Happened) known as “The Yodeling Cowboy“, and radio host (born Dec. 18, 1904 – died Dec. 5, 1996; age 91). Cause of death for Wilf Carter is unknown. (Wilf Carter 1930s Photo: Courtesy of The Calgary Stampede Archives) Dario Mangiarotti Italian fencer, 1952 Helsinki Olympics Épée medalist (Team gold; Individual silver), and Team silver at the 1948 London Olympics, winner of 4 Team Épée Fencing World Championships, and 1949 Individual Épée World Champion (born Dec. 18, 1915 – died Apr. 9, 2010; age 94). Cause of death for Dario Mangiarotti is unknown. (Dario Mangiarotti 1952 Photo) Betty Grable (nee Elizabeth Ruth Grable; aka Frances Dean) American 1940s WWII sex symbol and movie actress (Million Dollar Legs; Down Argentine Way; Pin Up Girl; Tin Pan Alley; Moon Over Miami; I Wake Up Screaming; Footlight Serenade; How to Marry a Millionaire; The Dolly Sisters; Sweet Rosie O’Grady) (born Dec. 18, 1916 – died July 2, 1973; age 56). Betty Grable died of lung cancer. (Betty Grable 1945 Diamond Horseshoe) Lynn Bari (nee Margaret Schuyler Fisher) American actress of TV (The F.B.I.; Boss Lady; Perry Mason) and movies (Pardon Our Nerve; Pier 13; Chasing Danger; Speed to Burn; Sharpshooters; Shock; Mr. Moto’s Gamble; The Return of the Cisco Kid; China Girl; Kit Carson; Nocturne; Always Goodbye) (born Dec. 18, 1919 – died Nov. 20, 1989; age 69). Lynn Bari died of a heart attack. (Lynn Bari 1948 The Amazing Mr. X) Gary Gray American child actor of TV (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) and movies (The Wonderful Ears of Johnny McGoggin; Night Wind; Best Man Wins; Rachel and the Stranger; Streets of San Francisco; Terror at Black Falls; Leave it to Henry; The Great Lover; Gun Smugglers) (born Dec. 18, 1936 – died Apr. 4, 2006; age 69). Gary Gray died of cancer. (Gary Gray 1951 The Painted Hills) English actress of stage, TV (The Rogues; The Twilight Zone) and movies (Now, Voyager; Madame Bovary; The Secret Garden; The Bishop’s Wife; Green Dolphin Street; The Song of Bernadette; The White Cliffs of Dover; Rebecca; Bonnie Prince Charlie) (born Dec. 18, 1888 – died Nov. 17, 1971; age 82). Gladys Cooper died of pneumonia. (Gladys Cooper 1958 Separate Tables Trailer) Larry D. Mann Canadian actor of movies & TV (Lt. Jack Gordon on Police Surgeon; Hill Street Blues; Bewitched; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; MacGyver; Hogan’s Heroes; Green Acres; Quest; Equal Justice; Gunsmoke; Here Come the Brides; It Takes a Thief; The Wayne & Shuster Show )(born Dec. 18, 1922 – died Jan. 6, 2014; age 91). Larry D. Mann died of natural causes. (Larry D. 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__label__cc	0.594591	0.405409	Amazon launches GameCircle for Kindle Fire [Video] - Jul. 11th 2012 7:01 am PT Amazon just announced a new gaming experience for developers and the Kindle Fire: GameCircle. According to the Amazon Mobile App Distribution blog, GameCircle is a “new set of services designed to make it easier for you to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow your business on Kindle Fire,” by making “achievements, leaderboards and sync APIs accessible, simple and quick for you to integrate, and will give gamers a more seamless and entertaining in-game experience.” Amazon offers a growing suite of developer services. Its new GameCircle is geared specifically for game developers too, which is great news for the Kindle Fire since it is facing a firestorm of Android-based content competition from the new Nexus 7. Game Circle also helps players to better experience their games through three key features —achievements, leaderboards, and sync—that will surely continue to entice folks to the dominating Android-based eReader. Achievements allow players to “track all earned trophies, treasures, badges, awards, and more without leaving the gaming experience,” while leaderboards give an “in-game view of score comparison information and percentile ranking, allowing players to quickly and easily check standings against top players or competitors, without ever leaving your game.” Sync autosaves players’ in-game progress to the cloud for immediate pick-up exactly where they ended when switching devices or restoring a deleted game. Losing progress, scores or achievements is not a problem with GameCircle, because as all data is safely stored in the cloud. Report: Amazon’s Kindle Fire 2 aims for July 31 launch (9to5google.com) Amazon is building a phone to compete with iOS and Android (9to5mac.com) Kindle Fire on sale for $169 on Amazon Local, today only (9to5google.com) Kindle Fire now over half of Android tablet market, as Amazon reports blowout earnings (9to5mac.com) “Our goal is to give developers great tools to quickly and easily reach new customers and keep them engaged. That’s why we’re creating easy-to-integrate APIs for features like leaderboards, achievements and sync. We also introduced In-App Purchasing API in April, allowing developers to offer a seamless 1-Click purchasing experience within their apps and games, and we’re just getting started,” said Vice President of Apps, Games, and Services at Amazon Paul Ryder, according to the announcing blog post. “GameCircle gives developers the right tools to build an immersive, more entertaining experience on Kindle Fire, which will ultimately help developers grow their business,” Ryder added. Amazon’s new gaming experience clearly draws cues from Apple’s Game Center, which is an online multiplayer social gaming network. It launched in 2010 to allow iOS app users the ability to invite friends, start multiplayer games, track achievements, and compare scores on a leaderboard. Google was looking to develop a similar system for Android, according to reports in May, but it looks like Amazon beat the gurus in Mountain View to the punch. The launch of GameCircle is timely due to rumors of a Kindle Fire 2 launch allegedly set for this summer. GameCircle is now available for games on the Kindle Fire, while developers can sign up for access to GameCircle APIs at Amazon.com/gamecircle-signup. Breaking news for Android. Get the latest on apps, carriers, devices, and more! Stay up to date on news from Google headquarters. Be the first to learn about plans for Android, Google Plus, Google Apps, and more! Apple iOS Amazon Kindle Fire Amazon Kindle	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2692
__label__wiki	0.856401	0.856401	Insights, scoops, and analysis of the most important election season of our lives Amy McGrath Wins Kentucky Primary to Take on Mitch McConnell ReporterBio Lexington Herald-Leader/ZUMA After a long primary season redefined by a pandemic and police brutality, Amy McGrath defeated her progressive challenger, Charles Booker, in the US Senate Democratic primary in Kentucky. McGrath will take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November. McGrath entered the race in July as the clear frontrunner, running at the behest of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who’d been recruiting the former Marine fighter pilot since her failed attempt to unseat a Republican House member in 2018. With an early endorsement from the campaign arm of the Senate Democrats and frequent advertisements on MSNBC—an easy play for the pocketbooks of liberals nationwide eager to dethrone McConnell—McGrath had amassed $41 million by June 1, even as she slow-walked her support for impeaching President Trump. She even outraised the ever deep-pocketed McConnell in several quarters. Charles Booker raised nothing of the sort: He entered June having raised just $788,000 during the entire campaign. The young, Black, first-term state representative from Louisville announced his candidacy with little fanfare during a press conference on Capitol Hill last fall. He ran on a progressive platform that included support for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and universal basic income. When the primary’s originally scheduled date, May 19, rolled around, Booker seemed to stand little chance. That was all before 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was shot to death by a police officer in her Louisville home—and before David McAtee, a local Black restauranteur was killed by police at a protest against her killing. Booker attended the protests that broke out in his hometown and often addressed the crowds. As he spoke of the cousins he lost to gun violence and his longstanding commitment to police reform, he emerged as a credible voice whose message met the moment. The attention drew a big last-minute cash haul and scores of high-profile endorsements days before the primary, including nods from Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The primary results had been delayed due to the widespread use of absentee voting in the face of the pandemic— particularly in the cities of Louisville and Lexington, the state’s bluer enclaves. While McGrath had an early lead over Booker after last Tuesday’s in-person voting, Booker closed the gap as election officials tabulated mail-in ballots. As other progressive candidates of color defeated longstanding incumbents and Democratic establishment favorites in New York’s congressional primaries last week, liberals hoped Booker could also ride the wave of national outrage to a major upset victory. Even though he didn’t, the coalition he built to nearly topple a enormously resourced opponent offers a roadmap for how progressives could make headway in deep-red states: Not by relying on moderate Democrats, but on liberal populism delivered by candidates of color who can credibly speak to systemic injustice. Recently on our election blog Kentucky Votes Today. Here Are All the Ways Mitch McConnell Has Made That Harder. Ari Berman Kentucky Slashes Number of Polling Places Ahead of Primary—Especially Where Black Voters Live Playing Class Clown Could Cost Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin His Job Patrick Caldwell	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2700
__label__cc	0.731798	0.268202	Call: 020 7426 0382 Email: enquiry@acitylawfirm.com Commercial/Company Law Franchises (Buy, Sell or Renew) Technology and Fintech Business Start-up/ Scale Up Corporate Funding Rescue & Insolvency Cross-Border Disputes Employers Legal Advice Legal Advice for Employers Claims Brought Against You Employment Procedures Policies, Contracts & Agreements Working Mum’s Zone Cohabitation Disputes & Separations Divorce and Dissolution Finance on Separation Injunctions & Domestic Abuse Prenuptial & Civil Partnership Agreements Child Law Child Orders Fertility Law Wrongful Dismissal & Breach of Contract Grievance and Disciplinary Returning to work after lockdown how can you continue promoting and protecting equality in the workplace. Whilst there is a global pandemic which is affecting millions of businesses across the globe, many companies are eager to get back to business as usual, it is equally important to remember the core values and principles of the business. Such as how it treats, engages and motivates its employees and customers, particularly promoting equality and diversity in the workplace. Employees are going to have mixed reactions, when employers discuss their return to work plans, with them. There will be factors around childcare, transportation, health concerns and some people’s desire to remain working at home for productivity. How an employer handles this will very much depend on its needs and requirements, but the law and government guidance should also be considered carefully. The key for employers is to have a clear and documented plan, amended transparent policies and to engage in conversations with its team to get everyone on board, where possible. Likewise, employees should be treated fairly and policies such as not to discriminate and actively promote equality. Employee’s position It is not unexpected that work pressures and strains will have increased significantly in recent months and that some employees will have personal pressures on top of this. Employers would do well to remind themselves that they should respect their staff for their individual age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, and more when discussing return to work plans. The Equality Act 2010 provides such protection against any discriminatory behaviour for protected people, however employers should look to not only prevent any inequality but actively promote equality in the workforce and outside its operations generally. People at risk over 70’s and/or have a disability or underlining condition If an employee has a disability under the Equality Act they are protected from unfair treatment. If an employee has a medical letter placing them being in a “at risk” group, due to age , health or a disability , they should remain on the Furlough scheme, to shield from the Covid19 pandemic, or they should be allowed to work at home remotely for their safety. An employer must follow the government guidance about staff returning to work and have a clear risk assessment and plan. If staff do not feel safe and this is not considered safe and secure any member of staff can raise a grievance under health and safety law, but offering support and due care will usually help the employer encourage loyal and productive staff. If a disabled member of staff is at risk of being sacked for staying at home, because they are too anxious to return , for example, they could raise a grievance and if fired they can look to claim unfair dismissal/disability discrimination. They are more likely to suffer complications if they contract Covid19 which is a factor to also be considered seriously by employers. They have a right under s44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 for their health to be protected by their employer who must prevent or reduce risks to an employees’ health and safety while at work. However, rather than considering this negative position discussions around reasonable adjustments and support is much more likely to generate a productive environment. Parents unable to return to full time days and hours due to child care. A policy can be given to all staff indiscriminately , but those that physically cannot attend the office or work standard hours ,due to a fundamental issue ,will be perceived to of been treated less fairly than those that can. As such employers need to be careful about gender or age discrimination. However, a good employer will first action a manager to discuss the possibility of continuing to work at home, flexible working or address working hours, where this is feasible. This enables productivity and engages staff which is hopefully beneficial to all parties. Employers should give due consideration to any flexible working requests , given the circumstances , and weigh up the business needs to the employee’s imminent needs. Mental awareness is also something employers will need to consider when returning back to work so a return to work interview perhaps on training , flexible working and any concerns could be provided by the employer. Protecting equality internally can be done by offering regular training to employees to ensure that all are aware of the need to treat colleagues equally and to ensure that people are not at a disadvantage or are treated differently for any reason. Clear policies and management communications are essential in promoting equality. Promoting equality may extend to outside operations for example actively encouraging and participating in LGBTQ events, offering internal panels and support groups or raising money for charities that aim to remedy inequality. All of these actions actively promote the business as an equal opportunities and diverse place to work and do business. Employees are at the heart of a business and if they feel that they are looked after they will likely look after the business itself. With the World in a crisis at the moment and the World economy taking a large hit, the businesses that promote real values and continue to look after their staff are likely to be resilient enough to ride out this storm. If, however, a business compromises these values by treating employees unfavourably and forces them back to work too soon, they may find themselves without staff to help them through this period and the coming months which are going to be equally tough. Likewise treating customers and clients with respect during this period and after is key to preserving the relationship and business. As such training on religion, race, sexual orientation and how minority groups may have been impacted or continue to be impacted by the pandemic would put company managers in a better position to help and avoid claims. Communication is key and if you are loyal, committed to promoting equality to staff and clients alike you should reap the awards. ← EasyJet Cyber Attack Zoombombing the pro and cons… → ARTICLESSELECT A SECTOR Dispute articles Surrogacy Q&A Working Mum's Zone Tweets by Karen Holden This article is provided free of charge for information purposes only; it does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied on as such. 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__label__cc	0.591134	0.408866	Home » attraction » Central Java » Let’s Witness the History of Indonesia Through 4 Best Museums in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia Let’s Witness the History of Indonesia Through 4 Best Museums in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia by Vina Krisna Yanti April 21, 2020 Semarang, the capital city of Central Java, Indonesia has long historical stories of the struggle for Indonesia’s independence. The city itself is the witness of how Indonesian tried to stand up for their country against the imperialism and colonialism. The most prominent one is the Five Days Battle in Semarang, a heroic battle where Semarang youngsters fought against Japanese troops to stand for Indonesia after the independence proclamation in August 17th, 1945 for 5 days straight from October 14th to October 19th, 1945. The battle is comemmorated every year through ceremonial and theatrical events. To witness this history of Indonesia, besides attending this ceremony, you can also visit museums in Semarang that preserve the equipments used in the struggles along with their heroic stories. Just like the museums in Banten, the museums in Semarang can also broaden your historical knowledge about Indonesia. They can also be one of the reasons why you should visit Semarang. As a guideline, here is a list of 4 museums in Semarang that can help you witnessing the history of Indonesia. 1. Mandala Bhakti Museum Mandala Bhakti museum is located in Barusari village, Semarang city. It is a museum which comemmorizes the struggle of Indonesian national soldiers who fought for Indonesia’s independence. The collections vary from war weapons, the former uniform of the national soldiers, important documents, to the photos of Indonesia’s national heroes. Being inside the museum and look at its collections will bring you back to the moments of when Indonesian tried to get back their independence. The collections include the ones from the Five Days Battle in Semarang. Even though the collections are about historical things, you will not be bored as the museum is quite modern by exhibiting the collections with 3D paintings. This will be great if you bring your kids to this museum. Mandala Bhakti museum opens Monday-Saturday at 8 AM-6 PM. You will not be charged anything as the entrance ticket is free. 2. Lawang Sewu Museum Lawang Sewu museum is located in Central Semarang, Semarang city. The building was firstly built in 1904 by Dutch colonial government. After the independence, it was then used as the office of the Indonesian Republic Railway Department. The building was the center of the Five Days Battle in Semarang between Indonesia’s Youth Railway Force and the Japanese troops. Considering its historical background, the government finally preserved Lawang Sewu as a museum and historical building. The museum is situated on the first floor of the building. It exhibits the trains and rail pads used long before and nearly after the independence. The evening view of the building is greater as it is illuminated by beautiful lighting, making it looks classic and majestic. This can be a great attraction of nightlife in Semarang, Indonesia. Around the museum there are some local food vendos offering Semarang culinary specialties. You can visit some of them to have an idea of what to eat in Semarang next time when you visit again. Visiting the museum will be a great choice as you can learn the history while also enjoying the colonialism architecture. It opens everyday from 7 AM-9 PM. The entrance fees are relatively inexpensive with IDR 5,000 for students and children under 12 years old and IDR 10,000 for adults. 3. Ambarawa Train Museum Located in Ambarawa regency, Semarang, that was used as a military city by the Dutch colonial government. They built railway station there to transport their troops easily. Ambarawa Train museum preserves and exhibits numerous old locomotives used in Indonesia that mostly came from the colonial era. The museum tells about the history of trains and their tracks in Indonesia. It exhibits the replica of train parts that come from different eras and the trains themselves that are parked on the museum courtyard. The main attraction that attracts many people is riding old steam locomotive. There are two routes that you can choose, the Ambarawa-Bedono and Ambarawa-Tuntang stations routes, with three departure schedules, which are at 10 AM, 12 PM, and 2PM. On your way, you will enjoy the sensation of riding old steam locomotive that is very rare while also enjoy the beautiful scenery that is very refreshing. It is definately amazing to take your kids there as they will be so excited. It opens everyday from 8 AM-5 PM with IDR 10,000 for adults and IDR 5,000 for children as the entrance fee. 4. Ranggawarsita Museum Ranggawarsita museum is situated in West Semarang district that was built in 1975 and has more than 60,000 collections that are related to the cultural aspect of Java. The building has 4 floors which are numbered as building A, B, C, and D that exhibit and preserve the collections of prehistoric stuff, currency, and many other ancient objects. No wonder the museum is popular as students study tour destination. Building A exhibits collections related to geology, geography, and plaentology. Collections of Hindu-Buddhist and Islam periods are housed in building B. Building C exhibits items related to the struggle for independence period, including the military weapon. Building D is the house for arts in Central Java. One of the arts is Wayang, Indonesia’s traditional puppets used to deliver messages and values. The museum opens everyday at 8 AM-3 PM with IDR 4,000 for adults and IDR 2,000 for children. The museums show that the history of Indonesia in Semarang includes the social and cultural aspects of the society from time to time. On your next vacation, you might also need to add the cultural, religious, and natural aspects of Semarang on your list of things to do in Semarang. central java attractionmuseumsemarang museums 7 Extreme Sports Activities in Bali You Must Try The Ultimate Guide to Angkut Museum: the First Transportation Museum in Southeast Asia 9 Most Interesting Tourist Attractions in Pemalang, Central... Uncover These 12 Best Tourist Attractions in Grobogan 12 Interesting Tourist Attractions in Banjarnegara 7 Exotic Beaches in Cilacap, Central Java Top 7 Beaches in Kebumen for Relaxing Your... 6 Beautiful Beaches in Central Java You Won’t... How to Get to Dieng Plateau from Jakarta... What to Do in Ratu Boko Yogyakarta –... Cultural Things to Do Near Sewu Temple, Yogyakarta... 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__label__wiki	0.917479	0.917479	Benito's Apostles: Has Bad Bunny become the messiah of a new religion? Photo: Kali Van Der Merwe/Getty Images. Two fans of the artist created an online course about Bad Bunny whose funds go to undocumented workers and food banks. Benito's Apostles: Has Bad Bunny become... By Beatriz García “It kind of snowballed," said Sarah Cox, a legal assistant at a center for undocumented youth. She's unsure how what started out as an attempt to convince a co-worker that Bad Bunny was the best has transformed into a study group based on the iconic reggaeton artist. His magnanimous and energetic persona serves to make the artist's fans reflect on the most varied issues, from immigration, the influence that a white Latino artist has on people of color, or the particular ethic of doing whatever you want. In other words, he's a mystery. On a weekly basis, Erika Vera and Sarah Cox, 29, teach the Bad Bunny 101 course through Zoom. They are not experts but devoted fans, they said. However, those who attend the classes must submit homework and participate very actively in discussions that go beyond mere gossip about the artist and are an academic example of how to make cultural history through their songs or political activism. It's a kind of Rabbit Cult — as emotional as it is intellectual. Benito's Apostles “[She] was very stubbornly not getting into Bad Bunny, despite our casual proselytizing,” Sarah told Remezcla, and admitted they started collecting content related to the artist, after which the momentum became unstoppable. The collection of information reached a point where talking about Bad Bunny is the same as looking through their eyes, an exercise in "critical thinking" about the social and political reality of Latinos. But the study is also an unprecedented way to help the community. The students meet on Thursday nights via Zoom. Classes cost $5 to $10, but, they added, no one is turned away who cannot pay. The money goes to charities: NY State Youth Leadership Council Fund for Undocumented Youth, the Movimiento Cosecha Underground Worker Fund, and the Banco de Alimentos (food bank) de Puerto Rico. Contrary to what you might think, you don't need to know anything about reggaeton to join the group, but Conejo's devotees do have some requirements: above all, to follow Benito wherever he appears, to read the articles and watch the videos that are ordered during the course, and to participate in what Cox calls "juicy conversations." Since its start, Bad Bunny 101 has addressed issues such as toxic masculinity, the history of reggaeton linked to the African roots of the genre, queer visibility and political activism. Now, they are working on the liberation of Puerto Rico. All the topics are linked, and well tied to the political and musical figure of Bad Bunny, who has already made the leap off the stage and is slipping in like a deity into all aspects of Latinx life. More in Music Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts takes its 2021 Heritage Fest online Mariacheño genius: The meteoric rise of Christian Nodal Dissecting the tropical jungle style of Kermesse Biden to celebrate diversity at inauguration Who is Mama Duke? Trap, underground and braggadocious Bad Bunny hops on the ‘Bullet Train’ with Brad Pitt The Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance meets crowdfunding goal to help musicians Karol G closes the year with a gold-certified record in Colombia Rawayana rediscovers their indie rhythms after a three-year absence Bad Bunny is number one on the Billboard 200 and it’s about time Bad Bunny’s quarantine creativity continues with another album Latin Grammys 2020: The Latino 'indie' artists who made a splash Bad Bunny, AL DÍA's Artist of the Year The 2020 AMAs: Nothing Stops Latino Ecstasy (Except Taylor Swift)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2720
__label__cc	0.733118	0.266882	Geography Valley/Hill Location Kathmandu Level Of Difficulty Easy Religion Multi-religious Ethnic People Multi-ethnic Accommodation Hotel Transportation Tourist Bus/Private Vehicle Minimum Pax 02 Kathmandu Valley Tour Highlights: Observe the enchanting natural beauty surrounding the valley Witness the stunning art and architecture spread around the valley Unique culture and way of life of the locals Visit the UNESCO world heritage sites in the valley The enchanting city of Kathmandu needs little introduction regarding the cultural riches that it boasts of. The Kathmandu Valley Tour explores the three esteemed cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Patan. These cities are supreme in their depiction of art, culture, and lifestyle of their residents. Home to seven of the ten world heritage sites in Nepal, the Kathmandu Valley is the epicenter of cultural majesty. The Kathmandu Valley Tour explores these gems of the Valley and ensures a memorable experience. Our discovery of the valley begins from the city of Kathmandu and kicking it off is the temple of Swayambhunath. The Hindu and Buddhist temple boasts stunning views of the valley and walks us through the ancient heritage of Buddhism. It is believed that the eyes of the Buddha on the stupa forever watch the valley protecting it from any harm. The Hindu temple of Pashupatinath soon follows before taking a historical turn towards Kathmandu Durbar Square before we end our first day at Boudhanath. The next day takes us to Patan and the city is well known for being the cultural capital of the nation. The hamlets of Bungmati and Khokana takes us down on a cultural trip through its cobbled pathways and tiny houses. The final of our journey days takes us towards Bhaktapur. A city is rich in culture and architecture. The temple of Changunarayan combined with the Bhaktapur Durbar Square is more than enough to offer religious and cultural insight of the city. The Kathmandu Valley Tour is a perfect trip for travelers and learners seeking a dive into the ancient culture and traditions of the Kathmandu Valley. Any excuse to relish the beauty of the valley is more than welcome for us, here at Nepal Alibaba treks. We offer experienced guides for the tour and also arrange your transportation and accommodation for your ease. Travel with us and we will make sure your journey is one to be remembered. Day 01: Kathmandu Arrival After landing at Tribhuvan International Airport, our representatives will meet up with you just outside the arrival lounge. Once the checkout formalities are taken care of, a company vehicle will take you to the hotel. You are free to head down to the local market enjoying the lovely views before dinner. Overnight stay at Kathmandu. Day 02: Kathmandu Sightseeing The first day of our journey and we make our way to the temple of Swayambhunath. Ascending along the 365 stone steps, we reach the temple revered by both Hindus and Buddhists. Next up is the temple of Pashupatinath. The Hindu temple is believed to be the guardian god of the nation and is revered by Hindus throughout the world. The cultural and historical site of Kathmandu Durbar Square is next on our list as we head through the famed streets of Basantapur. The day ends at Boudhanath which boasts glorious views of the sunset. Overnight stay at Kathmandu. Day 03: Patan Sightseeing Today, the journey takes us to Patan. Patan Durbar Square is the premium destination for the day. The Krishna Temple, Patan Museum, Sundari Chowk, and the Golden Temple are some of the attractions in the durbar square premise. The ancient carvings on the temples depict the culture and way of life which prevailed during those times. The hamlets of Bungmati and Khokana takes us on a trip to the traditional settlements. Bungmati also hosts the temple of Rato Macchindranath revered as the rain god while Khokana is well known for Rudrayani temple. Overnight stay at Kathmandu. Day 04: Bhaktapur Sightseeing Today, we head to Bhaktapur where temples adorn every corner of the streets. Like Patan, the region is ethnic to the local Newar community and their vibrant culture has been a subject of fascination to thousands of tourists. The major attractions of the city include the Bhaktapur Durbar Square and Changunarayan Temple. The cultural capital of the nation is not the one to disappoint and the 55 window palace, Vatsala Temple, Naytapola temple alongside other stunning monuments add to the beauty. The two-tiered Changunarayan temple houses the first written record of Nepalese history. Overnight stay at Kathmandu. Day 05: Back to Kathmandu and free day \| Farewell Dinner Wrapping up our tour, we head back to Kathmandu which concludes all our activities. After lunch, you are free to head back to the city hunting for souvenirs back home. We recommend that you try the local delicacies while also engaging with the locals can help find more about the history and lore surrounding the valley. A lovely farewell dinner awaits you at the end of your tiring day of the journey around the valley. Overnight stay at Kathmandu. Day 06: Departure Our representatives will drop you back at Tribhuvan International Hotel just in time for your flight back home. We hope you had a lovely time with us and we look forward to seeing you again. -Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner) during your tour days. Entrance ticket fees for National Parks and Conservation Area entry Nepal entry Visa fee and charges in Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu. Visit Nepal Immigration Extra Night accommodation and meals during your early arrival, late departure as well as any domestic flight delays (due to any specified reasons). 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__label__cc	0.717187	0.282813	Some Stunning UFO Footage Just Hit the Internet Oct 14, 2019 \| Alien News \| 0 \| YouTube/William Guy Some crystal clear footage that has no clear explanation has made its way out of North Carolina and the only logical conclusion that can be drawn from it, if we’re being objective and level-headed here, is: JESUS TAP DANCING CHRIST THAT IS AN ALIEN SHIP WITH ITS CLOAKING DEVICE ENGAGED WE ARE NOT ALONE AND MUST PREPARE FOR AN INTERGALACTIC WAR. Why would a space ship from an impossibly advanced civilization still show its lights when it’s in stealth mode? There’s no time for questions like that we’re trying to create a hysteria here. Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves quite yet. It would be prudent to provide a few details before you run off to stock up on canned beans and whatever rounds you think will be able to penetrate Klendorian body armor. Posted to the YouTube account of William Guy, the video was taken from a ferry off the coast of North Carolina. According to Guy, they were smack in the middle of the ocean with nothing around them when the 14 lights first appeared. Then they just floated there. YouTube user Derrick Chennault commented on the video offering the following explanation: William, nice vid. As your vid on the news reads you were on a ferry off the coast of North Carolina and facing towards Pamlico Sound I am pretty sure I know what those lights are. As a former Marine based at the 2nd Marine Air Wing in Cherry Point, N.C. And flight crew Sgt. on the C-130 squadron VMGR-252. We use to regularly drop flares out of the back of our plane in the evenings for military exercises in that area. They are one million candle power each so they were pretty bright and can be seen from far away and floated down slow as they hung from a parachute. When we would fly back to base in Havelock N.C. We would watch the news and people called in to say they sited UFO’s in the area. Locals in that area all know that goes on. I’m pretty sure the ferry captain knew too. When I did this it was from 1976-1980. Glad to see the Marines are still spooking people. Have fun and keep looking. Coincidentally, there does happen to be a military base in the area. The Marine Air Corps Station in Cherry Point, N.C. is 125 miles away from where the lights were seen. Funny thing, though. When asked for comment, a spokesperson for the base claimed that none of their aircraft were in the area that day. Chennault also followed up later with this comment: My buddy Zack was always on the ground, so he doesn’t know what these are either. Aliens are real. Do with that what you will. PreviousOregon cow mutilations spark conspiracy theories: ‘A lot of people lean toward the aliens’ \| Fox News NextAliens DO exist and we are not alone in the universe, says Britain’s former top spook A Physicist Has Proposed a Grim Explanation For Why We Never See Aliens Does Jocko Beleive in Aliens and UFOs? Top 9 places to see UFOs in the Houston area Harvard’s Top Astronomer Believes Aliens Tried to Contact Us in 2017	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2723
__label__wiki	0.591101	0.591101	BBC Proms 2017 – Alexander Melnikov and the Latvian Radio Choir perform Shostakovich at the Cadogan Hall Alexander Melnikov (piano, above), Latvian Radio Choir /Sigvards Kļava Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87 (1950-51): no.1 in C major; no.2 in A minor Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets, Op.88 (1951): To the Executed, The 9th of January 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87: no.3 in G major; no.4 in E minor Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets, Op.88 (1951): The last salvos have sounded; They’ve won… 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87: no.7 in A major; no.8 in F sharp minor Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets, Op.88 (1951): May Day Song Cadogan Hall, Monday 14 August 2017 Listen to this concert on the BBC Radio Player The Latvian Radio Choir‘s BBC Proms mini-tour has been marked by inventive programming, and this grouping of revolutionary texts, set to music by Shostakovich, was a mile away from the previous night’s chaste yet subtly uplifting All Night Vigil by Rachmaninov. Here the choir settled in an ideal acoustic, Cadogan Hall, but with some unsettling songs. Shostakovich wrote the Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets in 1951, acutely aware of the need to please the powers that be but still writing from the heart in a style that builds on the big opera choruses of Musorgsky. The unaccompanied choir sang grisly tales of ‘two prematurely fallen fighters’ (To The Executed), then the people ‘riddled with bullets and lead’ (The 9th of January). Their delivery was sharp and incisive when required in the faster music, then cold and distinctly wintry in the composer’s slower thoughts, which were almost beyond solace. It was down to Alexander Melnikov (above) to supply the effective contrast in excerpts from Shostakovich’s largest piano work, the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87. A homage both to Bach and to his pianist friend Tatiana Nikolaeva, the cycle contains some of the composer’s most intimate and confidential thoughts. Running through each of the 24 major and minor keys, the work progresses as a ‘cycle of fifths’, with a Prelude and Fugue in each major key (for instance ‘C’) immediately followed by its relative minor key (in this case ‘A’). Melnikov chose three ‘pairs’ – in C (with A minor), G (with E minor) and later on A (with F# minor). Each were closely linked to the choir’s texts, sentiments and tonality. The purity of C major was briefly cast under a shadow, the sunny Prelude countered by a thoughtful Fugue that emerged gradually into the attentive silence of Cadogan Hall. The rippling A minor Prelude flowed at great speed, as did the Fugue, but the G major prelude was solemn and magisterial, filling a much bigger space, a series of bright colours when compared to the downtrodden E minor Fugue. As we moved from piano to choir the contrasts were striking, yet the emotions followed a clear path, so that when Melnikov returned he provided solace in A major. This cut to the sardonic humour of the F# minor Prelude, paired with a serene but baleful Fugue, a bridge to the empty triumph of the choir’s closing number, May Day Song. This was a terrific concert, well planned and thought-provoking in its execution, especially given today’s political climate. Shostakovich was a composer under extreme duress at this time – but sadly that era of writing music is not so far removed as we think it might be. Ben Hogwood You can listen to Alexander Melnikov’s recording of the complete Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues on Spotify below: This entry was posted in BBC Proms, In concert and tagged Alexander Melnikov, BBC Proms, Cadogan Hall, Dmitri Shostakovich, Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava by arcanafm. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2729
__label__wiki	0.795233	0.795233	Posts Tagged ‘Richard Hamilton Exhibition: ‘Blow-Up: Antonioni’s Film Classic and Photography’ at the Albertina, Vienna Categories: beauty, black and white photography, documentary photography, English artist, exhibition, existence, film, gallery website, intimacy, landscape, light, London, memory, painting, photographic series, photography, photojournalism, portrait, psychological, reality, space, street photography, time and works on paper Tags: abstract photography, Albertina, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window, Allan McCollum, Antonioni Blow-Up, Antonioni Le montagne incantate, Antonioni The Enchanted Mountains, Antonioni's Film Classic and Photography, Arthur Evans, Arthur Evans Blow Up, Arthur Evans David Hemmings in Blow Up, Arthur Evans Veruschka von Lehndorff with David Hemmings in Blow Up, Black Trinity, Blow Up, Blow-Up: Antonioni's Film Classic and Photography, Brian Duffy, Brian Duffy Jane Birkin, Brian Epstein, Brian Epstein (Box of Pin-Ups), British artists, British Butcher East London, British photographer, British photography, David Bailey, David Bailey Brian Epstein (Box of Pin-Ups), David Bailey on the set of G.G. 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Passion, Peter Sedgley, photographic reality, photographic truth, photography and reality, Photography in Blow-Up, Rear Window, Richard Hamilton, Richard Hamilton Swinging London III, Shezad Dawood, Shezad Dawood Make it big (Blow-Up), social documentary photography, social reportage, Still Life Abstraction D1, surveillance, surveillance and photography, surveillance and the camera, Swinging London III, Tazio Secchiaroli, Terence Donovan, Terence Donovan The Secrets of an Agent, Terry O'Neill David Bailey photographing Moyra Swan, the reality of photography, The Secrets of an Agent, The Swinging Sixties, The Yardbirds, Thomas' blow-ups from the Park, truth in photography, Ugo Mulas, Vanessa Redgrave, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Veruschka von Lehndorff with David Hemmings in Blow Up, Vienna, voyeurism Exhibition dates: 30th April – 17th August 2014 The act of looking and the gaze through the eye of a photographer’s camera are the central motifs of Blow-Up. “Don McCullin created the iconographic photographs that in the film are blown up by Thomas to discover something about the alleged crime. However, the blow-ups only offer ambivalent proof as they become more and more blurred and abstract by the continuous enlarging. Even photography that supposedly represents reality like no other form of media cannot help in shedding any light on the mysterious events in the park. Pictorial reality – thus Antonioni’s conclusion – is only ever constructed by the medium itself.” (Press release) Then, look at Don Mcullin’s photograph British Butcher, East London (c. 1965, below). The Union Jack hat, the knife being sharpened and the contrast of the image. Savage. Not home grown but “Home killed”. Pictorial reality constructed by the medium but not just by the medium – but also by the aesthetic choices and the imagination of the photographer. Many thankx to the Albertina for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. David Hemmings in “Blow Up” (directed by Michelangelo Antonioni) Film still Courtesy Philippe Garner © Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co. – A Warner Bros Entertainment Company. All rights reserved. Private collection Vienna Courtesy: New Visions Film Distribution GmbH Promotional image for “Blow-Up” © New Visions Film Distribution GmbH / Turner Entertainment Co. – A Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. All rights reserved. “The cult film Blow-Up by Michelangelo Antonioni (1966) occupies a central position in the history of film as well as that of art and photography. No other film has shown and sounded out the diverse areas of photography in such a differentiated way. Shot in London, this film, which tells the story of a fashion photographer who happens to photograph a murder in a park, has become a classic. Its relevance and the unabated fascination it evokes are partially due to the remarkable range of themes it deals with. While Antonioni’s description of the social and artistic environment of his protagonist in 1960’s London can be understood as a visual document of the Swinging Sixties, the eponymous photographic blow-ups meticulously examined by the photographer to find something out about an alleged crime prompted a theoretical discourse on the representation and ambiguity of pictures from the first showing of the film. Both themes, the historical outline as well as the media reflexions, concern the main focus of the film: photography. For the first time the exhibition in the Albertina presents in several chapters the diverse and differentiated connections between film and photography, thus allowing a trenchant profile of the photographic trends of the 1960s. Photography in Blow-Up The photographic range of Blow-Up is highly diversified and ranges from fashion photography and social reportage to abstract photography. Film stills are shown next to works that can actually be seen in Blow-Up, as well as pictures that illuminate the cultural and artistic frame of the film production, London in the Swinging Sixties. The meaning of photography for the film Blow-Up is most apparent when Antonioni uses it to characterise his main character Thomas. Played by David Hemmings, the protagonist is not only a fashion photographer, but is also working on an illustrated book with photographs of social reportage. In order to depict both the main figure and its two areas of work in an authentic way, Antonioni is guided by real photographers of the time; before starting to shoot the film he meticulously researched the work as well as environment of the British fashion (photography) scene. In the course of his preparations Antonioni sent out questionnaires to fashion photographers and visited them in their studios. Thus the main character is modelled after various photographers like David Bailey, John Cowan and Don McCullin; some of them Antonioni asked to cooperate on his film. He also integrated their works, for example Don McCullin’s reportage photographs that the protagonist browses through in the film, or fashion photographs by John Cowan that in the film can be seen in the protagonist’s studio. In addition Don McCullin created the iconographic photographs that in the film are blown up by Thomas to discover something about the alleged crime. However, the blow-ups only offer ambivalent proof as they become more and more blurred and abstract by the continuous enlarging. Even photography that supposedly represents reality like no other form of media cannot help in shedding any light on the mysterious events in the park. Pictorial reality – thus Antonioni’s conclusion – is only ever constructed by the medium itself. Antonioni used the photographs seen in the film for media-theoretical reflections and thus set stills and moving pictures in a differentiated context. This complex connection between film and photography is made very clear by the film stills that were created for Blow-Up. These still photographs are based on an elaborate process whereby the photographer has certain scenes re-enacted for the photo camera thus transforming the film from moving images into something static. The manifold references of Blow-Up are once more condensed into photographs in the film stills, as the pictures reflect the real context of fashion photography in 1960’s London through the depiction of the photographer, of well-known fashion models and the use of clothes to match. Artistic references The photographic references in Blow-Up are also set in relation to other art forms. This contextualisation is essential for Antonioni’s understanding of photography. Antonioni was, unlike most other film directors, committed to the applied arts which he showed already in 1964 with his film Deserto Rosso, its abstract compositions based on Mark Rothko’s paintings. In Blow-Up an artistic reference of this nature becomes apparent in the character of the protagonist’s neighbour, an abstract painter named Bill, who is modelled on British artist Ian Stephenson. Also the oil paintings in the film were created by Ian Stephenson. They show abstract motifs that in the film are compared with the stylistically related ‘blow-ups’. The Swinging Sixties Michelangelo Antonioni filmed Blow-Up at the height of the Swinging Sixties, the social and artistic trends of which are rendered in the film. The agitation of youth culture so characteristic of this time í and not least of all initiated by the Beatles í is shown as well as its trendsetting figures. Thus a concert by the British band The Yardbirds, with Jimmy Page, the subsequent founder of Led Zeppelin, served as a filming location. The scene of the infamous Pot-Party in the film was shot in the apartment of the art and antique dealer Christopher Gibbs, who shaped the fashion look of the Swinging Sixties. British art of the 1960s was also essential for Antonioni as it anticipated many of those abstract tendencies that set the tone for Blow-Up. There was, for instance, the pop art artist Richard Hamilton who created blow-ups from ordinary postcards, thus reducing motifs to dots. Or Nigel Henderson, a member of the Independent Group, who had already produced photos in the 1950s, in which he pointed out their material qualities by creasing them and using special procedures for the negatives. As much as Antonioni’s work is rooted in the 1960s, it is nevertheless a timeless classic that is still relevant for today’s art. This becomes apparent in the exhibition by means of selectively chosen contemporary works that refer to Blow-Up. Particularly the filmic outline on the representation of images and their ambiguity serves as the artistic basis for the creations of various contemporary photographers. Blow-Up has lost none of its relevance for art since its creation in 1966.” Press release from the Albertina website Don McCullin Thomas’ blow-ups from the Park Patrick Hunt David Bailey on the set of G.G. Passion Veruschka von Lehndorff with David Hemmings in “Blow Up” (directed by Michelangelo Antonioni) Brian Epstein (Box of Pin-Ups) V & A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum © David Bailey Make it big (Blow-Up) Courtesy of the artist and Paradise Row, London Swinging London III © Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich, Jean-Pierre Kuhn purchase in 1997 Exhibition texts Shot in London in 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece Blow-Up confronts its audience with the manifold genres of photography and their different social references with a precision like no other feature film. The director involved some of the most interesting photographers of the day in the production of the film. The photojournalist Don McCullin was on set as were the fashion photographers John Cowan and David Montgomery as well as the paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli. They served as models for Antonioni’s protagonist, took photographs for Blow-Up, and, not least, made their work available to the filmmaker. Set against the social and artistic backdrop of London’s Swinging Sixties, Blow-Up tells us about a fashion photographer by the name of Thomas (David Hemmings) who secretly photographs two lovers in a park. He later enlarges these pictures and believes that he has coincidentally documented a murder. The blow-ups reveal a man lurking in the trees with a gun and, as Thomas supposes, a corpse. Fashion shootings and Thomas’s work on a book with reportage photographs featuring homeless people in London provide two further strands of reference in the film. Presenting these contexts in five thematic sections, the exhibition in the Albertina offers a pointed cross-section of tendencies in the photography of the 1960s. The show not only explores the photo-historical circumstances under which Blow-Up was made but also presents èrealê works of art Antonioni integrated into his film, as well as photographs he commissioned for the story. The visual translation of the film into stills constitutes another important field thematized in the exhibition. A selection of more recent works of art highlights the timelessness of Antonioni’s film. Making film stills Making film stills involves a complex production process in the course of which scenes of a film are specially reenacted in front of the still photographer’s camera. The difficulties the photographer is faced with result from the difference between film and photography as media. He has to transform the contents of a medium that renders movements and sequences of events in time into a photograph that freezes them in a single static moment. Arthur Evans’s stills for Blow-Up go far beyond the genre’s traditional function of promoting a film. Evans created series of pictures which allow us to reconstruct certain sequences of movement and depict scenes not shown in the film. Hence his stills for Blow-Up are meta-pictures that shed light on the film from another perspective. The act of looking and the gaze through the eye of a photographer’s camera are the central motifs of Blow-Up, which becomes particularly evident in the famous scene in the park. This part of the film depicts the dynamics resulting from a camera focusing on persons and capturing them in a picture. Antonioni presents his protagonist as a paparazzo and voyeur secretly photographing people in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954). Hidden behind shrubs, trees, and a fence, he watches a pair of lovers. The camera serves as an instrument for peeping through the keyhole, as it were. The dialogic dimension between photographer and model is revealed when the woman (Vanessa Redgrave) spots the photographer. She defends herself against Thomas’s invasive gaze, bites his hand, and runs away. The aesthetic of Thomas’s photographs shot in the park corresponds to the situation of their taking. The pictures are imbued with the instantaneousness and spontaneity deriving from the photographerés wish to wrest a single picture from a dynamic context in a fraction of a second. It is no coincidence that the photographer Tazio Secchiaroli was present on set in the very hours this scene was shot. Secchiaroli was an Italian paparazzo who had been after the suspects in a still unresolved murder case, the Montesi scandal, with his camera. Made against the background of this political scandal, Federico Fellini’s film La dolce vita (1960) features pushy photo reporters modelled after Secchiaroli. Blow-Ups The blow-ups of Thomas’s photographs shot in the park are the most famous pictures featured in Antonioni’s film. The filmmaker entrusted the renowned photojournalist Don McCullin with taking them. Following Antonioni’s instructions, McCullin had to position himself in the same places as Thomas in the film to reproduce his perspectives. He also used the same Nikon F camera the protagonist works with in Blow-Up. In order to ensure that the process of taking the pictures we see in the film corresponds with the photographer’s results, McCullin advised the actor David Hemmings on how to proceed. The actor learned how to handle the 35-mm camera correctly and was instructed about the body language connected with using it. The metropolis of London was the center of a new kind of fashion photography in the 1960s – a renown inseparably bound up with three names to this day: David Bailey, Terence Donovan, and Brian Duffy, also known as Black Trinity. Relying on 35-mm cameras, which had hitherto mainly been used for reportage photographs and ensured a supposedly spontaneous and dynamic pictorial language, these three photographers staged their models in unusual places outside their studios. In preparing his film, Antonioni had meticulously researched the photographer’s living and working conditions by means of a several-page questionnaire in which he even inquired into their love relationships and eating habits. It was David Bailey who served as a model for the protagonist of Blow-Up. For his dynamic body language in the fashion shootings, for instance, Thomas took the cue from him. The style of clothes Thomas wears is indebted to that of the British fashion photographer John Cowan. Cowan made his studio available to Antonioni for the studio shots and acted as the filmmaker’s adviser. The photographs seen on the studio wall in Blow-Up are fashion photographs by Cowan which Antonioni chose for the film. David Montgomery is a US-American fashion photographer living in London. Before shooting his film, Antonioni visited him in his studio to watch him working with Veruschka, Jill Kennington, and Peggy Moffitt – the models he would subsequently cast for Blow-Up. David Montgomery has a cameo appearance in the beginning of the film: we see him taking pictures of the model Donyale Luna on Hoxton Market in London’s East End. When this scene was shot, he actually made the fashion photographs featuring Luna which he pretends to take in the film. Since Montgomery was no actor by his own account, he had to really take pictures in order to be able to play the scene in a convincing manner. Arthur Evan’s fashion photographs Arthur Evans, the still photographer, depicted the models appearing in Blow-Up in groups and in individual portraits. These pictures taken on set are very unusual for a still photographer, because they do not show scenes of the film, but are independently staged fashion photographs. The models’ costumes were designed by Jocelyn Rickards, the hats were made by James Wedge. Evans translated the linear patterns characteristic of both designers into graphic compositions in his photos. Social reportage Michelangelo Antonioni characterizes his film’s protagonist also as a social reportage photographer who, for a book project on London he is working on, secretly takes pictures in a homeless shelter. A scene of the film has Thomas showing his publisher a dummy of the volume. The portraits in it were made by the photojournalist Don McCullin; their originals are presented in the exhibition for the very first time. The pictures were taken in London’s East End in the early 1960s, when the area was notorious for its residents’ poverty, miserable housing conditions, and racial unrest. The photographer provides a cross-section of its inhabitants whom he mainly characterizes through their occupation. The two-fold orientation of the film’s protagonist as fashion and reportage photographer is based on fact, as illustrated by both David Bailey and David Montgomery. The stylistic boundaries between the two genres blur in their works. The strategy of picturing models in urban surroundings with a 35-mm camera, for example, is clearly rooted in reportage photography. Swinging London: Art and Life Michelangelo Antonioni filmed Blow-Up in the heyday of London’s Swinging Sixties whose social and artistic trends are depicted in the film. He captured the youth culture and its agitation so characteristic of these years – which was not least triggered by the Beatles – as well as the protagonists of the scene. One location he chose was a concert of the Yardbirds, a British band counting Jimmy Page, who would found Led Zeppelin, among its players. The famous pot-party in Blow-Up was shot in the art and antique dealer Christopher Gibbs’ flat, who determined the fashion look of the Swinging Sixties to a remarkable degree. The British art of the 1960s was also very important to Antonioni, as it already anticipated many of the abstract tendencies informing Blow-Up. The Pop artist Richard Hamilton, for example, used to enlarge everyday picture postcards, reducing their motifs to an abstract dot matrix. Nigel Henderson, a member of the Independent Group, had already emphasized the material qualities of his photos in the 1950s by folding his prints and employing negative techniques. Antonioni integrated works by British artists: for example a picture by Peter Sedgley, a representative of Op art, and oil paintings by Ian Stephenson into his film. Ian Stephenson Antonioni’s understanding of photography was informed by painting í an influence that becomes manifest in the character of the protagonist’s neighbor, in Blow-Up a painter named Bill. Antonioni compares the neighbor’s abstract paintings with the photographer’s blow-ups. When Thomas and his neighbor talk about the paintings, Bill maintains that he does not see much in them while painting them and only finds meaning in them later on. This form of reception tallies with Thomas’s attempt to determine the meaning of his similarly abstract enlargements. The character of the painter is based on the British artist Ian Stephenson. Antonioni visited the artist in his studio before he started shooting Blow-Up. He watched the painter at work and selected the paintings he wanted to use in the film. The photographs central to Antonioniés film are the blow-ups of the pictures which the protagonist has taken in the park and which he examines meticulously. The enlargements reveal a man with a pistol lurking in the trees and a mass in the grass, which Thomas interprets as a lifeless body. To make the presumed corpse more visible Thomas enlarges the photograph again and again until it shows nothing but its grain and materiality, despite the photographs inherent relation to reality. Antonioni uses the blow-ups to question the representation of reality by media and their specific modes of perception. He interlinks these considerations with the film. The final scene of Blow-Up shows Thomas coming upon a group of mimes playing an imaginary game of tennis. When the (invisible) ball lands behind the fence, Thomas joins in the mimes’ game, picks up the ball from the lawn and throws it back to the players. A camera pan traces the trajectory of the invisible ball. In evoking the ball without showing it, Antonioni confronts us with the most radical abstraction: the motif is not rendered as an abstract or blurry form like in the enlargements, but is altogether absent. The media-theoretical implications of Blow-Up are still the subject of conceptual photographs today. Like Antonioni, the Italian Ugo Mulas and the American Allan McCollum, for example, question photography’s relation to reality in their blow-ups. Le montagne incantate The nucleus for the blow-ups in the film is to be found in a series of artworks titled Le montagne incantate (The Enchanted Mountains), which Antonioni started working on in the mid-1950s. The filmmaker photographically enlarged his small-format abstract watercolors, making the material qualities of the paper and the application of the paint visible. Consequentially, Antonioni recommended the use of a magnifying glass – as used by the protagonist in Blow-Up – as the ideal instrument for viewing these pictures. Text from the Albertina website Brian Duffy © Brian Duffy Archive Eric Swayne Grace and Telma, Italian Vogue, 1966 Courtesy Tom Swayne © Eric Swayne Terence Donovan The Secrets of an Agent © Terence Donovan Archive Still Life Abstraction D1 © Kate Stephenson, widow of Ian Stephenson Jill Kennington Down-and-out begging for help, Aldgate, 1963 © Don McCullin, courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London British Butcher, East London © Don McCullin Courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London David Bailey photographing Moyra Swan © Terry O’Neill – Courtesy Philippe Garner Tazio Secchiaroli David Hemmings and Veruschka von Lehndorff in “Blow-Up” (directed by Michelangelo Antonioni) Filmstill Source: BFI stills Donyale Luna on the set of “Blow-Up” © David Montgomery T: +43 (0)1 534 83-0 Daily 10 am – 6 pm Albertina website Exhibition: ‘Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation’ at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt Categories: American, american photographers, black and white photography, colour photography, digital photography, documentary photography, drawing, exhibition, existence, gallery website, Japanese artist, landscape, light, painting, photographic series, photography, portrait, printmaking, psychological, reality, space, Thomas Ruff, time and works on paper Tags: 10-80-C-17 (NYC), Abstract Expressionism, After Edgar Degas, Amelie von Wulffen, Amelie von Wulffen Stadtcollagen, american artist, appropriation, appropriation and detachment, appropriative strategy, assemblage, avant-garde, Édouard Manet, Bauhaus, Beate Gütschow, Cibachrome, collage, conditions of art production, conditions of production, contemporary photographic art, documentation of reality, drawing, Eight-Self-Portraits, Ein-Fuß-Gänger, Frankfurt, Freischwimmer 54, gelatin silver print, German artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Sugimoto Sam Eric Pennsylvania, Hiroshi Sugimoto Seascapes, horizon line, horizon square, In + Out of City Limits, influence of painting on photographic art, It Could Be Elvis, Jeff Wall, Jeff Wall Picture for Women, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Photogram, László Moholy-Nagy, László Moholy-Nagy photograms, lithographs, Louise Lawler, Louise Lawler It Could Be Elvis, Luminogramm, mise en scène, montage, Oliver Boberg, Oliver Boberg Underpass, Oliver Boberg Unterführung, Otto Steinert, Otto Steinert Ein-Fuß-Gänger, Otto Steinert luminigrams, Otto Steinert Luminogramm, painterly abstraction, painting and photography, Painting in Photography, Painting in Photography: Strategies of Appropriation, painting with light, paper drop (window), Paul Virilio, photograms, photography and light, Picture for Women, Pierre Soulages, postwar avant-garde, Richard Hamilton, Richard Hamilton Eight-Self-Portraits, Robert Rauschenberg 10-80-C-17 (NYC), Sam Eric Pennsylvania, Seascapes, Sherrie Levine, Sherrie Levine After Edgar Degas, Stadtcollagen, Städel Musuem, Strategies of Appropriation, Substrat 10, Thermal dye sublimation prints, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Ruff Substrat, Thomas Ruff Substrat 10, Type C print, Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère, Unterführung, Wolfgang Tillmans, Wolfgang Tillmans Freischwimmer 54, Wolfgang Tillmans paper drop (window) Exhibition dates: 27th June – 23rd September 2012 Installation view of the exhibition Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt To understand the production of art at the end of tradition, which in our lifetime means art at the end of modernism, requires, as the postmodern debate has shown, a careful consideration of the idea of history and the notion of ending. Rather than just thinking ending as the arrival of the finality of a fixed chronological moment, it can also be thought as a slow and indecisive process of internal decomposition that leaves in place numerous deposits of us, in us and with us – all with a considerable and complex afterlife. In this context all figuration is prefigured. This is to say that the design element of the production of a work of art, the compositional, now exists prior to the management of form of, and on, the picture plane. Techniques of assemblage, like montage and collage – which not only juxtaposed different aesthetics but also different historical moments, were the precursors of what is now the general condition of production. “Art Byting the Dust” Tony Fry 1990 1 They said that photography would be the death of painting. It never happened. Recently they thought that digital photography would be the death of analogue photography. It hasn’t happened for there are people who care enough about analogue photography to keep it going, no matter what. As the quotation astutely observes, the digital age has changed the conditions of production updating the techniques of montage and collage for the 21st century. Now through assemblage the composition may be prefigured but that does not mean that there are not echoes, traces and deposits of other technologies, other processes that are not evidenced in contemporary photography. As photography influenced painting when it first appeared and vice versa (photography went through a period known as Pictorialism where where it imitated Impressionist painting), this exhibition highlights the influence of painting on later photography. Whatever process it takes photography has always been about painting with light – through a pinhole, through a microscope, through a camera lens; using light directly onto photographic paper, using the light of the scanner or the computer screen. As Paul Virilio observes, no longer is there a horizon line but the horizon square of the computer screen, still a picture plane that evidences the history of art and life. Vestiges of time and technology are somehow always present not matter what medium an artist chooses. They always have a complex afterlife and afterimage. PS. I really don’t think it is a decomposition, more like a re/composition or reanimation. PPS. Notice how Otto Steinert’s Luminogramm (1952, below), is eerily similar to some of Pierre Soulages paintings. Fry, Tony. “Art Byting the Dust,” in Hayward, Phillip. Culture, Technology and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century. London: John Libbey and Company, 1990, pp. 169-170 Many thankx to the Städel Musuem for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Installation views of the exhibition Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt Otto Steinert (German, 1915-1978) Ein-Fuß-Gänger 28.5 x 39cm Courtesy Galerie Kicken Berlin © Nachlass Otto Steinert, Museum Folkwang, Essen Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946) c. 1923-25 Unique photogram, toned printing-out paper © Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) 10-80-C-17 (NYC) From the series: In + Out of City Limits: New York / Boston Gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper DZ BANK Kunstsammlung at the Städel Museum © Estate of Robert Rauschenberg / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012 Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958) Substrat 10 DZ BANK Kunstsammlung © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012 Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. 1948) Sam Eric, Pennsylvania Private collection, Frankfurt © Hiroshi Sugimoto / Courtesy The Pace Gallery Wolfgang Tillmans (German, b. 1968) paper drop (window) C-type print in artists frame Property of Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V. © Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Köln / Berlin Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main Acquired in 2008 with funds from the Städelkomitee 21. Jahrhundert Luminogramm Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1952 From 27 June to 23 September 2012, the Städel Museum will show the exhibition “Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation.” The comprehensive presentation will highlight the influence of painting on the imagery produced by contemporary photographic art. Based on the museum’s own collection and including important loans from the DZ Bank Kunstsammlung as well as international private collections and galleries, the exhibition at the Städel will centre on about 60 examples, among them major works by László Moholy-Nagy, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, and Amelie von Wulffen. Whereas the influence of the medium of photography on the “classic genres of art” has already been the subject of analysis in numerous exhibitions and publications, less attention has been paid to the impact of painting on contemporary photography to date. The show at the Städel explores the reflection of painting in the photographic image by pursuing various artistic strategies of appropriation which have one thing in common: they reject the general expectation held about photography that it will document reality in an authentic way. The key significance of photography within contemporary art and its incorporation into the collection of the Städel Museum offer an occasion to fathom the relationship between painting and photography in an exhibition. While painting dealt with the use of photography in the mass media in the 1960s, today’s photographic art shows itself seriously concerned with the conditions of painting. Again and again, photography reflects, thematises, or represents the traditional pictorial medium, maintaining an ambivalent relationship between appropriation and detachment. Numerous works presented in the Städel’s exhibition return to the painterly abstractions of the prewar and postwar avant-gardes, translate them into the medium of photography, and thus avoid a reproduction of reality. Early examples for the adaption of techniques of painting in photography are László Moholy-Nagy’s (1895-1946) photograms dating from the 1920s. For his photographs shot without a camera, the Hungarian artist and Bauhaus teacher arranged objects on a sensitised paper; these objects left concrete marks as supposedly abstract forms under the influence of direct sunlight. In Otto Steinert’s (1915-1978) nonrepresentational light drawings or “luminigrams,” the photographer’s movement inscribed itself directly into the sensitised film. The pictures correlate with the gestural painting of Jackson Pollock’s Abstract Expressionism. A product of random operations during the exposure and development of the photographic paper, Wolfgang Tillmans’ (1968) work “Freischwimmer 54” (2004) is equally far from representing the external world. It is the pictures’ fictitious depth, transparency, and dynamics that lend Thomas Ruff’s photographic series “Substrat” its extraordinary painterly quality recalling colour field paintings or Informel works. For his series “Seascapes” the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948) seems to have “emptied” the motif through a long exposure time: the sublime pictures of the surface of the sea and the sky – which either blur or are set off against each other – seem to transcend time and space. In addition to the photographs mentioned, the exhibition “Painting in Photography” includes works by artists who directly draw on the history of painting in their choice of motifs. The mise-en-scène piece “Picture for Women” (1979) by the Canadian photo artist Jeff Wall (born in 1946), which relates to Édouard Manet’s famous painting “Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère” from 1882, may be cited as an example for this approach. The camera positioned in the centre of the picture reveals the mirrored scene and turns into the eye of the beholder. The fictitious landscape pictures by Beate Gütschow (born in 1970), which consist of digitally assembled fragments, recall ideal Arcadian sceneries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The photographs taken by Italian Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) in the studio of Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) “copy” Morandi’s still lifes by representing the real objects in the painter’s studio instead of his paintings. Another appropriative strategy sees the artist actually becoming active as a painter, transforming either the object he has photographed or its photographic representation. Oliver Boberg’s, Richard Hamilton’s, Georges Rousse’s and Amelie von Wulffen’s works rank in this category. For her series “Stadtcollagen” (1998-1999) Amelie von Wulffen (born in 1966) assembled drawing, photography, and painting to arrive at the montage of a new reality. The artist’s recollections merge with imaginary spaces offering the viewer’s fantasy an opportunity for his or her own associations. The exhibition also encompasses positions of photography for which painting is the object represented in the picture. The most prominent examples in this section come from Sherrie Levine (born in 1947) and Louise Lawler (born in 1947), both representatives of US Appropriation Art. From the late 1970s on, Levine and Lawler have photographically appropriated originals from art history. Levine uses reproductions of paintings from a catalogue published in the 1920s: she photographs them and makes lithographs of her pictures. Lawler photographs works of art in private rooms, museums, and galleries and thus rather elucidates the works’ artworld context than the works as such. Press release from the Städel Museum website Sherrie Levine (American, b. 1947) After Edgar Degas (detail) 5 lithographs on hand-made paper DZ BANK Kunstsammlung im Städel Museum, Frankfurt © Sherrie Levine / Courtesy Jablonka Galerie, Köln Louise Lawler (American, b. 1947) It Could Be Elvis Cibachrome, varnished with shellac © Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York Oliver Boberg (German, b. 1965) Unterführung [Underpass] © Oliver Boberg / Courtesy L.A. Galerie – Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt Richard Hamilton (English, 1922-2011) Eight-Self-Portraits (detail) Thermal dye sublimation prints Freischwimmer 54 C-type in artists frame Städel Museum Schaumainkai 63 Tuesday – Wednesday 10am – 6pm Saturday – Sunday 10am – 6pm Städel Museum website	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2735
__label__wiki	0.643346	0.643346	All posts for the month March, 2016 An Interview with Actor-Stuntman-Director Bruce Fontaine Bruce Fontaine was once a Gweilo actor, that is to say one of those Caucasian performers who were hired in Hong Kong’s action cinema heyday to play – often villainous – supporting parts. A high-level practitioner of Wushu, he appeared in some of the most famous films of that time: Operation Condor, Once Upon A Time In China, She Shoots Straight… But when the well of classic Hong Kong action dried up, his career endured, as he took the knowledge acquired from working with the likes of Jackie Chan, Corey Yuen or the Sammo Hung stunt team, and applied it to a career in Canadian stuntwork, quickly rising through the ranks to become a stunt coordinator, including for American Video Game developer Electronic Arts. And yet his main ambition remained unfulfilled: to direct a feature film. In 2015, he kickstarted the third phase of his film career by completing and premiering Beyond Redemption, an action thriller infused with the soul of Hong Kong action cinema. From martial artist and Hong Kong film fan to Hong Kong film fighter, from stuntman to director, his is a story of wish-fulfillment through hard work and passion. Now in the preparatory stages for his second feature film, Bruce Fontaine was kind enough to answer my questions. by LP Hugo on March 31, 2016 • Permalink Posted in Actor Interview, Interview Tagged corey yuen, cynthia khan, dean shek, girls with guns, jackie chan, karl maka, martial arts, meng hoi, sammo hung kam bo Posted by LP Hugo on March 31, 2016 https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/31/an-interview-with-bruce-fontaine/ THE STRANGE HOUSE (2015) short review Danny Pang’s sixth film not to be co-directed by his brother Oxide (though only his third without any official involvement whatsoever from the latter), The Strange House slipped completely under the radar in its summer 2015 China release. The set-up is reasonably interesting: Ye Zi (Xu Jiao) is a young hairdresser with money problems. Just as she is threatened with eviction, she is approached by Le Zijun (Cheung Siu Fai), a psychologist who makes her a strange offer: his mother is in the throes of death, and all her family is with her except one, Le Rong, who died a year ago and to whom Ye Zi bears a striking resemblance. Everyone kept Le Rong’s death a secret from the matriarch, fearing the tragic news would precipitate her illness, but now in her final days she’s asking for her granddaughter. Thus for a generous sum of money, Ye Zi is to impersonate Le Rong and bring closure to the dying woman. She accepts, but once in the family house she’s faced with bizarre hostility from the rest of the family, and plagued with visions of a dead boy. After an interesting and fairly unsettling start, and despite nicely ambiguous performances from Xu Jiao and Cheung Siu Fai, The Strange House quickly devolves into the usual broth of jump scares, belabored exposition (has a person ever died mysteriously without leaving a detailed diary behind?) and censorship placating: the SARFT‘s “no supernatural elements” rule means the film ends with the same old twist generally used in Mainland Chinese horror to justify the apparent presence of ghosts. To its credit, the film does add a clever narrative and visual footnote to this twist, as if to compensate for how derivative and contrived it is. Tagged danny pang, eddie cheung siu fai, horror, xu jiao https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/26/the-strange-house-2015-short-review/ TO THE FORE (2015) short review Hong Kong’s puzzling submission to the 88th Academy Awards, Dante Lam To The Fore is no less puzzling as part of Dante Lam’s filmography. Sure, one can imagine the director wanting to recapture the success of his other sports film, 2013’s Unbeatable which already starred Eddie Peng, but that film had a cinegenic discipline, MMA, as well as emotion and compelling characters. To The Fore – previously rather hilariously known as Breaking Wind – has biking which is beautiful in tracking shots but quickly boring in close-up, empty melodrama consisting of a routine love-triangle and a checklist of sports-related woes like doping, a superiority complex, or a crippling handicap to overcome, and stock characters. Interesting nuggets, like Eddie Peng’s love-hate relationship with his mother who abandoned him, and enjoyably bombastic cycling montages (given considerable momentum by ambitious camera-work, seamless stunt-work and Henry Lai’s grand score) are what keep this somewhat rote saga of competing cyclists afloat. It also helps that Eddie Peng (gifted but prideful), Choi Si-won (charismatic rival), Shawn Dou (always overshadowed), Wang Luodan (resilient, love-triangle fodder) and Andrew Lin (reliable coach) all inhabit their formatted characters with conviction. 1/2 Tagged andrew lin, choi si-won, dante lam, eddie peng, may wang luodan, shawn dou https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/24/to-the-fore-2015-short-review/ DETECTIVE CHINATOWN (2015) review Chen Sicheng’s second film as director after his successful romantic anthology Beijing Love Story in 2013, Detective Chinatown follows the unlikely duo of Tang Ren (Wang Baoqiang), a Chinese expatriate in Bangkok who calls himself a private investigator but is actually more like a swindler, and Chin Feng (Liu Haoran), his distant cousin who pays him a visit to take his mind off his latest failure to enter police college. The zany Tang and the strait-laced Chin are an unlikely fit, but soon they have to set their differences aside as the former is accused of the murder of an art smuggler. The two competing sergeants of the Bangkok Chinatown police station (Chen He and Xiao Yang) are in a race to bring him to justice, as the one who does so is sure to become the new commissioner. Chased not only by the police, but also by a local crime boss (Chin Shih-Chieh) who thinks Tang stole his gold, and a trio of thieves who actually stole that gold but also think Tang stole it from them (Xiao Shenyang, Sang Ping and Zhao Jingjun), the two cousins can only count on the help of Tang’s landlady (Tong Liya) – whom he no-so-secretly loves – as they try to clear his name by looking for the real killer. It helps that Chin has an almost Sherlock Holmes-like capacity for deduction, and an endless knowledge of detective fiction. Tagged chen sicheng, chin shih chieh, liu haoran, michael chen he, tong liya, wang baoqiang, xiao shenyang, xiao yang https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/19/detective-chinatown-2015-review/ INSIDE OR OUTSIDE (2016) review Directed by Gary Mak Wing Lun, whose filmography as an assistant-director is much more illustrious than his filmography as a director, Inside or Outside follows a pair of private detectives: Fei Xin (Simon Yam) is a cool, collected retired police sergeant and Qiu Le (Wallace Huo) is a hothead who got expelled from the police. One day, successful writer Nanfang (Rayza) calls on their services to follow her husband Ou Jian (Jang Hyuk), whom she suspects of having an affair. She’s just given birth, and Ou’s coldness to her and the baby makes her think he doesn’t love her and married her for her father’s money and business connections. It turns out Ou is infertile but hasn’t told his wife, and thus believes she cheated on him and the baby is from another man. To complicate matters, a man from his past resurfaces: Xie Tianyou, his former business partner, against whom he testified in a trial and who subsequently went to jail. Xie is actually a dead-ringer for Qiu Le (and thus also played by Wallace Huo), which complicates matters even furtherer. Tagged andrew lin, simon yam, wallace huo https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/13/inside-or-outside-2016-review/ JUST ANOTHER MARGIN (2014) review Jeff Lau’s Just Another Margin is one of those films that are seemingly tailored for Lunar New Year entertainment but don’t quite have the star power or marketing push required to compete in that prized calendar slot, and are thus slipped in a bit before or after on the release schedule. And it did go by relatively unnoticed, which is not all that surprising considering how uninspired it appears in the Jeff Lau canon of costumed mo lei tau. It stars Betty Sun as Jin Ling, a young woman whose magical yueqin (a kind of round guitar) compels people tell to the truth. One day this creates a humiliating situation for Mrs Zhao (Guo Degang), a rich businesswoman who punishes her by arranging her marriage with the town’s hunchback Mao Da-Long (Lam Suet), with whose brother Mao Song (Ekin Cheng) Jin Ling ends up falling in love. That doesn’t sit well with Shi Wen Sheng (Ronald Cheng) Mrs Zhao’s libidinous cousin, who wants the young woman for himself and plots to take the Mao brothers out of the picture. To complicate things, two aliens from planet B16 named Tranzor and Shakespeare (Patrick Tam Yiu-Man and Alex Fong Lik-Sun) arrive in town in search of a long-lost member of their species. They’re not the only aliens around however, as a fearful entity known as the Black Emperor is hiding somewhere. Tagged alex fong lik sun, betty sun li, crystal huang yi, ekin cheng, jeff lau, lam suet, lin gengxin, patrick tam, ronald cheng, roy cheung https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/10/just-another-margin-2014-review/ DEVIL AND ANGEL (2015) review Deng Chao has had a great few months, from starring in Cao Baoping’s acclaimed crime drama The Dead End last summer, to being the lead in Stephen Chow’s record-obliterating The Mermaid during Chinese New Year. In between was Devil and Angel, his second film as a director and a major hit in its own right. It re-teams him behind the camera with Yu Baimei, already the co-director of his previous directorial effort The Breakup Guru and whose script is an adaptation of his own eponymous play, and in front of the camera with his wife in real life (and a hugely popular actress in her own right), Betty Sun. by LP Hugo on March 5, 2016 • Permalink Tagged betty sun li, deng chao, norman law Posted by LP Hugo on March 5, 2016 https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/05/devil-and-angel-2015-review/ DAUGHTER (2015) short review Chan Pang Chun’s Daughter is that rare Hong Kong horror film that features a Catholic – rather than Taoist – exorcism. It stars Kara Hui as Sharon, a successful psychologist who’s raising her teenage daughter Jenny (Yanny Chan) alone, but has been neglecting her for a while, all the while being a control freak when it comes to her future. But as the usually despondent Jenny starts acting increasingly defiant and strange, Sharon herself is plagued with horrific nightly visions, and she decides to call on the help of a priest (Kenny Wong). Daughter seems to have been helmed by two different directors: one who lets the dread sink in, favors creepy wide angle shots over close-up jump scares, and relies on Kara Hui’s intense and affecting performance rather than on CGI demon faces; and another who soon gets the upper hand, and who seems more concerned with regurgitating every single cliché linked to the subgenre of exorcism films, culling especially from William Friedkin’s seminal 1973 film. Beds will quake, innocent girls will talk in a demonic voice, pea soup will be vomited, priests will be flung across the room by unseen forces, and so on. You know the drill. There’s a half-decent twist at the end, but even at 80 minutes the film feels interminable. ** Tagged horror, kara hui https://asianfilmstrike.com/2016/03/01/daughter-2015-short-review/ IRON MONKEY (2020) review	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2739
__label__wiki	0.786148	0.786148	Fiction, Books, Foundation series Prelude to Foundation is a science-fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov. It is one of two prequels to the Foundation series. For the first time, Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon, the man who transformed Psychohistory from "little more than a set of vague axioms" to "a profound statistical science." This article, Prelude to Foundation, contains spoilers. Be forewarned, plot and/or ending details follow. Asimov says you decide. On Trantor during the reign of Cleon I, Hari Seldon is at a mathematical convention, presenting Psychohistory as a purely hypothetical yet interesting possibility. Cleon's First Minister, Eto Demerzel, sees the potential importance of Psychohistory and convinces Cleon to meet with the young Hari Seldon. Cleon hopes to use Psychohistory for political gain. After an interview with Hari, however, Cleon concludes that Hari is of no use to the Empire. Hari Seldon, a provincial from Helicon in the Arcturus sector, is shocked about having actually met the Galactic Emperor and is still awed about Trantor's splendor. He regrets that he ever presented at the mathematical convention and is planing to leave Trantor immediately after sightseeing. However, Hari then meets reporter Chetter Hummin, who convinces him that Cleon's first minister Eto Demerzel is attempting to capture him. Hummin, being a reporter and seeing and hearing many things, has determined that the Empire is going to collapse. Hummin manages to convince Seldon to make Psychohistory a practical science, because this could allow the Empire to make its fall as smooth as possible, but also warns him of the danger that would ensue from the science falling in the wrong hands. When Seldon asks where he can hide, Hummin replies that Trantor is his best bet, because, ironically, Trantor's planetary sectors have greater protection from the Emperor than other planets. Hari's first step of his Flight is the district of Streeling, whose university is one of the greatest in Trantor. Here, Hari meets Dors Venabili, who becomes his main companion as he tries to come up with a way to make Psychohistory a practical science. Thinking that the weather behavior above the domes might bring some insight, Seldon joins a meteorological expedition, but while alone he sees a flying platform hovering close, and he runs from it thinking the Emperor may have sent it, only to get lost. Dors manages to find him, though, and the duo return to the surface, where they find Hummin. Thinking that he may be at risk, Chetter decides to send Hari and Dors to Mycogen, another district with a distinctive culture where everybody has their hair depilated and where women are subservient to men. With their hair covered, Hari and Dors attempt to settle, but Hari's curiosity leads him to getting a local woman to loan him a book on Mycogean stories. While the book as a whole turns out to be useless, Hari finds two hints: that the people of Mycogen come from a planet called Aurora, and that Mycogen could have a robot in their central building. Hari and Dors disguise themselves as Mycogeans and sneak into the building, only to find out that the robot within is dead, and to be found themselves in turn by one of Mycogen's leaders. This leader nearly has them condemned to death, but the intervention of Hummin gets them a reprieve. As Hari and Dors cannot hide in Mycogen anymore, Hummin sends them to Dahl, a district that, thanks to being closer to the mantle, can produce more geothermal power than others, but is looked down because it is considered of a lower class. During a visit to the heatsinks, Hari meets Yugo Amaryl, a worker who aspires to be a mathematician and has heard of Seldon's Psychohistory. An old wise woman called Mother Rittah that lives in Billibotton tells them that, while it is true Aurora existed, said planet was actually the "enemy" of humanity's original planet, Earth. During their time there they also meet Raych, a local guttersnipe that guides them around, and also helps them escape when a mob surrounds the home of the family Hari and Dors have been living in. While on their way through Dahl's sewers, they are met with a strange man Hari believes was sent by Hummin. However, it turns out that the man is actually an agent of Mayor Rashelle of Wye, whose family descends from an Imperial dynasty that was brought down millenia ago, and which has always wanted to regain that position. Wye's position in Trantor's southern pole gives them great power as it allows them to evacuate more heat than any other district: between this and Seldon's psychohistory, Rashelle and her father expect to be able to take over. Rashelle attempts to launch her coup, but Eto Demerzel skillfully subverts Wye's troops and puts a stopper to the rebellion before it can happen. When he arrives to Wye, Seldon finds out that "Hummin" is actually Demerzel. Demerzel explains to Seldon that his intentions are exactly as he stated. Seldon mentions that he has managed to come up with a way to prove Psychohistory: Trantor, a mix of hundreds of cultures, can be used as a model to simulate its work so it can be later applied to the rest of the Empire. But this is not Seldon's only revelation: he has figured out, based on several clues, that there's more to Demerzel than what he appears to be. Demerzel confirms he is the positronic robot R. Daneel Olivaw, and states he hopes that Psychohistory can be used so as to give him the ability to act according to the Zeroth Law of Robotics. Using his psychic abilities, Daneel blocks Seldon from being able to reveal the truth about his identity. The novel ends with Hari telling Dors that he has fallen in love with her and hints he knows she is also a robot. Dors returns his feelings, and the two depart for a new life. Isaac Asimov Novels Robot Series: The Caves of Steel \| The Naked Sun \| The Robots of Dawn \| Robots and Empire Empire Series: The Stars Like Dust \| The Currents of Space \| Pebble in the Sky Foundation Series: Prelude to Foundation \| Forward the Foundation \| Foundation \| Foundation and Empire \| Second Foundation \| Foundation's Edge \| Foundation and Earth Retrieved from "https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Prelude_to_Foundation?oldid=6556"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2740
__label__cc	0.555119	0.444881	Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next By Daniel Thorson A podcast based inquiry into the next phase of the human experiment. The End of Emerge (For Now) I've decided to put this project on hold and dedicate myself more fully my work and training at the Monastic Academy. In this episode I share some of the thinking and feeling that went into my choice. If you'd like to support me in my training and work you can do so through Patreon. A few recent pieces I've read that are relevant to this episode: Cutting Through Spiritual Colonialism by Vinay Gupta Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times by Jamie Bristow & Rosie Bell Zak Stein - American Culture's Psychotic Break (pt. 2) In the first episode after my 75 day silent retreat I sat down with Zak Stein to speak about the the current cultural moment and how we can respond to the chaos and uncertainty of the world with love and integrity. This is part two of a two part episode. In this episode we discuss: - An overview of Zak’s metapsychology - How the psyche is a triple of development, ensoulment, and transcendence and why one must work on all three - How much of the talk about ‘sense making’ is missing two thirds of the picture - The noetic function of love - The relationship between language, image and symbol - How ensoulment lags behind development and transcendence in terms of emphasis in transformational culture - Why working with image and ensoulment might be the most important work that can be done right now - What image has to do with the resolution of the meaning crisis - Zak’s theory that, at some point, a shared cultural image will spontaneously create collective coherence - How ethics is implicated in Zak’s metapsychology - How virtue ethics is the antidote to virtue signaling In the first episode after my 75 day silent retreat I sit down with Zak Stein to speak about the the current cultural moment and how we can respond to the chaos and uncertainty of the world with love and integrity. This is part one of a two part episode. We discuss: - My experience coming out of retreat into a 'post-covid' world - How strange and problematic it is that people speak with confidence about the world right now - How our media ecology forces us to take on perspectives even when uncertainty and ambiguity is more trustworthy - That sense-making has everything to do with acting from embodied love, and NOT about having the correct meta-narrative - How ideology acts on our lives to make it difficult to love and see each other - How we get captured by the simulation of reality being played out on social media and how that debases our lived relationships - How to respond to the psychotic break our culture is going through - Why we need to pull out of mainstream culture, reorient, and pull together a critical mass of coherence and sanity The NY Times article about my experience coming out of retreat COVID-19: A War Broke Out in Heaven by Zak Stein Soryu Forall - Manufactured Awakenings Soryu Forall is the founder and head-teacher of the Monastic Academy. Soryu has a decade of intensive monastic training, a degree in Economics from Williams College, and extensive experience in social and environmental justice. He was ordained in 1998 at Sogen Temple under the tutelage of the Zen Master Shodo Harada. The day this recording goes live I'll be beginning an 80(ish) day silent solo retreat here on the land of the Monastic Academy. By the end of this episode, I hope you'll understand why I would do such a thing. We discuss: How awakening enables us to be of true service in times of crisis How easy it is to fool ourselves about the depth of our experience and insight Soryu’s personal crisis upon learning of the Japanese Zen traditions participation in the atrocities of World War Two A vision of awakening that is adequate to the meta-crisis Whether it makes sense to disconnect Waking Up, Growing Up, and Cleaning Up Does awakening make us more ethical? Better at making decisions? The difference between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ enlightenment according to the Buddhist eightfold path What kind of monsters ‘wrong’ enlightenment creates Why transformative practices disconnected from ethical training is so dangerous How the cultural assumptions of liberalism, humanism, and materialism distort our understanding of what awakening is How your aspiration creates your understanding of the path Why it’s necessary to do these practices in community Soryu’s definition of awakening And more! 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️ Monastic Academy Podcast Donate to the Monastic Academy Andrew J. Taggart - Existential Openings & Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation Andrew J Taggart is a practical philosopher, Zen Buddhist, and entrepreneur. Recently Andrew wrote an article called 'Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation' that led me to reach out to him and schedule a conversation. This episode was recorded a few months ago, but it occurs to me as exactly the right time to release it. If you are feeling panicked about the Corona Virus, I'd encourage you to slow down, get a hot cup of tea (or go for a walk outside) and enjoy this warm-spirited philosophical conversation. We inquire about: Why aren't human beings kinder to each other, let alone to all sentient beings? Is liberalism, humanism, and nihilism at the root of the meta-crisis? How social media requires a self-enclosed narcissistic humanism to function How do we move beyond humanism into a new cosmological sense of being? Is it possible to install new modes of being in time to confront the planetary challenges facing us? The necessity of existential openings as a portal to self-inquiry Whether we need to administer 'gentle shocks' to help people enter into spiritual crisis as quickly as possible How can we help ensure that instances of emergency and crisis can touch the heart and open the spirit? How do we precipitate mass existential opening? How do we help others encounter the truths of their heart? What Andrew has learned about having skillful philosophical conversations The importance of becoming sensitive in conversation to what Andrew calls 'existential weight' Why we must change our lives according to our existential truths, and the consequences of not doing so What is an adequate new definition of the human being that supports the emergence of a broadly contemplative culture Does wisdom arise from awakening, or does awakening arise from wisdom? What are the most important virtues to be cultivated now, in this time between worlds? Andrew's Home on the Internet Jonathan Reams - Waking Up & Growing Up: How Seeing the Virtuality of Self Supports Adult Development Jonathan Reams works at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), serves as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review, and is a co-founder of the Center for Transformative Leadership and of the European Center for Leadership Practice. He brings awareness based leadership development practices to his work, focusing on how the inner workings of human nature can develop leadership capacities for today’s complex challenges. His recent research and practice has focused on subjects such as; the impact of Immunity to Change based coaching, theoretical foundations of resistance to change, the integration of psychological and cognitive skill based assessments and the use of narrative based tools combined with developmentally informed reflection prompts for scaling development. We inquire into: What do we mean when we talk about human development? Why are there so many different models of adult development? Are higher stages of adult development all one thing or are there many different types of maturity? The various types of developmental models and the key differences between them How do we develop as moral and ethical beings? How does seeing the 'virtual' nature of the self help us become more mature and wise humans? And more! Enjoy. ❤️ Check out http://jonathanreams.com/ to see more about Jonathan's work and writing. Robert Kegan - The Five Stages of Adult Development (And Why You Probably Aren't Stage 5) Robert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development. His work explores the possibility and necessity of ongoing psychological transformation in adulthood. He is perhaps most well known as the author of The Evolving Self, In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life, and An Everyone Culture. In this conversation we talk about: What is a good definition of an 'adult'? The phasic vision of adult development The variety of developmental logics in the human mind A tour of the 5 stages of adult development What people get wrong about his 5 Stage model of human development Why you are almost certainly not ‘Stage 5’ if you're under the age of 40 The gap between philosophical understanding and developmental attainments Why you might take on a Stage 5 philosophical orientation from the Stage 4 developmental level (and what that might look like) The most important developmental stage transition for the majority of humans What transcending the limits of the socialized mind means for our planetary culture The Monastic Academy Awakened Leadership Bootcamp Mark Feenstra - The Inner Dimension of the Meta-Crisis In this episode, I'm speaking with Mark Feenstra. Mark is co-founding a consulting and training ecosystem and incubator, called New Mainstream, which focuses on large scale change that starts with ourselves and the possibility of a new mainstream. Mark is also in the process of founding a land-based community to ground the possibility of actualizing a new mainstream, initially in Golden Bay, New Zealand. Over the last year or so I’ve been lucky enough to have a number of conversations with Mark. He, as much as anyone I’ve encountered, really lives the sort of inquiry that I’ve been attempting to embody on this show. Every time I speak with Mark I feel like I’m falling into some wormhole of understanding and coherence. Mark has an amazing ability to bring these topics down to earth without sacrificing the ambiguity and playfulness that is the lifeblood of beautiful conversation. We talk about: Shifting from a Game A to Game B mental operating system The fractal nature of the meta-crisis and how it lives within each of us What integrity really means (and whether a crisis of integrity at the heart of the meta-crisis) Whether the split between individual transformation and systems transformation is an artifact of Game A consciousness Why attempting to fix or heal the crisis is a red herring Integrity as an emergent property of coming into relationship with wholeness How noticing the lack of integrity is a proximal cause of integrity The relationship between integrity and omni-win decision making And the beautiful impossibility of true omni-win decision making Monastic Academy Awakened Leadership Bootcamp Rob Burbea - Emptiness, Postmodernism, and Sacred Participation On this episode I'm joined once again by meditation teacher and author Rob Burbea. For this conversation Jamie Bristow and I talk with Rob about his approach to emptiness, and how it can be a route beyond postmodern nihilism and into a vibrant and sacred participation in the world. We talk about: An overview of the ‘ways of looking’ approach to emptiness, the participatory nature of perception & the world, how perception gets fabricated through our participation, the limitations of a purely cognitive deconstruction ala postmodernism, how Rob would define emptiness if asked about it at a cocktail party, How emptiness reveals a path beyond post-modernity, how hidden commitments limit our ability to explore perspectives, the unavoidability of participation and the impossibility of neutrality, the middle way between existence and non-existence, how this approach to emptiness offers a way forward in a ‘post-truth’ world, how your experience right now is constellated by your way of seeing (whether you know it or not), and the necessity of practice to realize the deeper dimensions of emptiness. Seeing that Frees [Amazon] Rob on the Deconstructing Yourself Podcast 2009 Emptiness Retreat Dharma Talks Jamie Bristow - Mindfulness as Metamodern Psychotechnology Jamie Bristow joins the show to respond to critiques against the mindfulness revolution and to make the case for mindfulness as a key metamodern cultural technology. Jamie is Director of The Mindfulness Initiative, the world's first policy institute about mindfulness. Jamie now works with politicians around the world to help them make capacities of mind and heart serious considerations of public policy. Topics discussed include: A snapshot of the current state of the mindfulness revolution, where we are at in the ‘hype cycle’ of mindfulness, a response to the current crop of critiques of mindfulness and in particular Ronald Pursers ‘McMindfulness’ critique, how mindfulness allows us to rescue our attention the clutches of the attention merchants, the attentional capacities of mindfulness as fundamental ground for mass action and civil disobedience in the 21st century, the symmetry between mindfulness and the concept of Sovereignty as promoted by Jordan Greenhall and Daniel Scmachtenberger, and what might be available at the deeper end of practice... 🤩 Jamie's Article on OpenDemocracy The Future of the Emerge Podcast A solo episode where Daniel shares his vision for the next turn in the inquiry of the Emerge podcast. Rebel Wisdom // Future Thinkers // Emerge - Making Sense of the Sensemaking Web David Fuller, Mike Gilliland and I spend time jamming on the conversational space that we have been participating in, and attempt to make sense of where this all might be going... Ronan Harrington - Extinction Rebellion: Collective Sacrifice and Metamodern Praxis This week I'm speaking with Ronan Harrington about Extinction Rebellion. We talk about the strategic dilemmas of Extinction Rebellion, and how it functions as a practical exploration of metamodern theory. Previous Emerge episode with Ronan We chat about: - The limits of philosophical conversation and the need for practical movement building - The challenge of moving from collective awareness to collective action - The possibility of inspiring an ethos of sacrifice as a portal to action - Extinction Rebellions upcoming actions beginning October 7th, which are positioned to be the largest direct action in UK history - Our mutual desire to move beyond conversations and into experimental action And much more... Extinction Rebellion International Rebellion Guy Sengstock - Circling Towards Meaningfulness & Collective Intelligence In this episode I'm speaking with Guy Sengstock. Guy is the creator/discoverer of Circling, a relational meditation practice that is quickly spreading across the world. In this conversation, we cover such topics as: - Guy’s take on what Circling is - How Circling has revealed itself over the years to Guy - What it means to obey what we discover in our practice(s) - How we know to get interested in something - The mystery at the heart of the practice of Circling - Where the sacred and the divine live in Circling - Why other people are terrifying - Circling and Collective Intelligence - How conversations make the world - How making fine distinctions brings the world into being The Circling Institute Zak Stein - Metapsychology, Soul, and Collapse (Pt. 2) In this episode, I'm speaking with writer, educator and futurist Zak Stein. We discuss 'Metapsychology', Zak's attempt to answer the question 'what is the human?' brought up in our previous conversation about a vision for metamodern education. This is part two of a two part conversation. It's recommended that you listen to my previous conversation with Zak on Education and the Meta-Crisis before you listen to this episode. Apologies for the sound quality on this episode, it's a little rough around the edges. 😕 We talk about: - What is soul? - How to understand suicide and collapse from a soul perspective - The symmetries between suicide and the movement towards collapse we are collectively moving towards - How metapsychology helps us understand what the human being is - How our entertainment industry functions to repress our encounter with death - Why you can't do educational design without metapsychology - The difference between spirit and soul In this episode I'm speaking once again with writer, educator and futurist Zak Stein. We discuss 'Metapsychology', Zak's attempt to answer the question 'what is the human?' brought up in our previous conversation about a vision for metamodern education. This is part one of a two part conversation. It's recommended that you listen to my previous conversation with Zak on Education and the Meta-Crisis before you listen to this episode. Apologies for the sound quality on this episode, it's a little rough around the edges. 😕 We talk about: - What is soul? - How to understand suicide and collapse from a soul perspective - The symmetries between suicide and the movement towards collapse we are collectively moving towards - How metapsychology helps us understand what the human being is - How our entertainment industry functions to repress our encounter with death - Why you can't do educational design without metapsychology - The difference between spirit and soul Future Thinkers - Cultivating Human Sovereignty Today on Emerge I’m speaking with Euvie Ivanova and Mike Gilliland, hosts of the Future Thinkers podcast. In this conversation we explore the concept of Sovereignty, how we are practicing it in our lives, and why it’s such a significant tool in service of the evolution of consciousness. Topics include: -What is sovereignty -What is sense-making, and why it is broken for so many people right now - How to diagnose corrupted sense-making, and what to do about it - Questions to ask yourself to increase your sovereignty - How to work on your sovereignty when you can’t trust what you perceive - The relationship between awakening and sovereignty - How Mike and Euvie see sovereignty playing a role in the future of the human experiment - Predictions about the emergence of new collective intelligences Future Thinkers Podcast A Course in Personal Evolution Mette Böll - Cultivating Generative Social Fields This week I'm speaking with Mette Böll (Boell). Mette is a biologist by training, specializing in the evolution of complex social systems, mammalian play behavior and philosophy of nature. Mette has a Ph.D. in organizational ethology from the Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, and holds additional degrees in contemplative leadership and the philosophy and history of science. She uses her training in these diverse areas to research how moods and feelings are transmitted in social relations and how the resulting relational fields in turn shape the larger systems human beings are parts of, with a particular focus on education. We talk about the study of social fields, generative vs. degenerative fields, the relationship between fields and systems, how generative fields create ‘magical classrooms’, the characteristics of a generative field, how the combination of systems science and systems sensing can help educate people to respond to the complex challenges of our world, and what generative fields in the K-12 education setting looks like, and the need to empower young people and get out of their way. Mette also shares inspiring stories from the early prototypes of this work in the American education system. Center for Systems Awareness Christopher Life - OneNation: An Omni-Win US Political Party This week I'm speaking with Christopher Life. Christopher Life is the founder of OneNation, a new American political party dedicated to installing an all-win paradigm and rebirthing our democratic systems. Christopher and I talk about systems change as the next great social issue, the two party system as a hegemonic duopoly, OneNation as a generative alternative to the current system, omni-win vs win-lose, how the omni-win vision is the center of the shift needed to remake all the systems of society, win-lose thinking as a psycho-technology that is no longer adaptive, how empire uses polarization to maintain power, the need to create new collective intelligences and to experiment with new decision making systems, how OneNation will pull the disenfranchised and disengaged into a new political conversation, and the plan to make all-win cool and win-lose lame. Freakonomic Duopoly Episode Bill Moyers Stages of Social Change OneNation Party USA Daniel Schmachtenberger - Utopia or Bust: Designing a Non Self-Terminating Civilization This week I'm speaking with Daniel Schmachtenberger. Daniel is a social engineer and evolutionary philosopher and strategist. He is the Founder of Critical Path Institute, The Emergence Project, and Co-Founder of The Neurohacker Collective. You can find his writing at Civilization Emerging. We talk about the current state of the phase shift, whether we are past the point of no return for social collapse, Daniel’s three generator functions of existential risk, the definition of an adequate social architecture that avoids existential risk, how technology creates asymmetric advantage that debases the planetary life support system, why we need to create technology that leads to ‘metastability’, the pollution of the epistemic commons, why we need to define problems in a comprehensive way where the solutions don’t create worse problems, the vows Daniel made as a teenager, what progress is being made at solving the generator functions of existential risk, the auto-poetic nature of trauma, and the necessity of a mature relationship between certainty and uncertainty. State of the DAO Panel Discussion This week I am joined by Danilo Vaz, Stratis Karad, Jocelyn, and Felipe Duarte to explore all things Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). We talk about what DAOs are and why they are significant, where the space is at (and what it’s evolving into), how DAOs might allow for teal/horizontal/distributed organizations to scale, what are some of the most exciting DAOs currently active, the need for wacky proposals, and more. Participants Danilo Vaz (@emergir_co) - Fascinated by everything Complexity related, from fungi mycelium, to cultural evolution, to distributed computer networks. He’s worked as a community manager at DAOstack during the project’s ICO. Co-host of DAOCast. Statis Karad (@stratiskarad) - Passionate about free thought, free speech and free market. Marketing & bizdev at DAOstack, and co-host of DAOCast. Jocelyn (http://kattfantastiskt.nu/) - Artist interested in sociotechnical artifacts; her current work explores imagination processes, magic, and code. She works with electronic literature, installations, and performances within the contexts of decentralized organizations, female narratives, and the human love affair with the Internet. Felipe Duarte (@facilitator23) - Originally an artist and activist, his experience on the ground during the social upheavals of Brazil have shifted his reflections towards society and organizations. Participant in the Genesis Alpha DAO and to becoming the Organiser of DAOfest. Related Episodes Richard Bartlett - Occupy Wall Street as Bootstrapping Collective Intelligence Jordan Greenhall - Anti-Rivalry, QAnon, and SOCIs (Oh my!) Max Borders - The Coming Social Singularity Moritz Bierling - Metamodern Politics + Holochain = 🔥💞🌎🤸 Joe Edelman - Designing Systems for Human Flourishing Joe Edelman is a philosopher, social scientist, designer, and founder of Human Systems, a global community for those redesigning institutions and social spaces so as to better support meaningful lives and human values. In this conversation we discuss why designing systems in alignment with human values is the way forward for social transformation, the difference between advancing values and practicing values, the anti-rivalrous nature of values, how to name your values with the same specificity that you name your goals, why the breakdown of systems is a wonderful opportunity for redesign, the relationship between meaningfulness and values, and what this all has to do with the possibility of social collapse. Notes on the Show, Including the Referenced Political Compass with Bonnitta Roy, Jordan Hall, et all Tom Murray - Wisdom Skills In this conversation Tom Murray and I explore Tom’s model of ‘Wisdom Skills’. In this model Wisdom Skills are made up of both the movement of complexification and development (ascending), and the movement of simplicity and subtraction (descending). We explore the relationship between simplicity and complexity in the development of wisdom, sort out some confusions about the relationship between spirituality and human development, why spiritual teachers ‘do bad things’, why development without deconstruction is problematic, why spirituality is more ‘down and in’ rather than ‘up and out’, how deconstruction releases complexity and opens possibility, why development is dangerous without spiritual clarity, and how this model allows us to talk bout spiritual realization without unnecessary metaphysical claims. To read a draft of Tom's work in progress on the "wisdom skills" material we discussed. send him an email at tommurray.us@gmail.com. The title of the manuscript is "Metamodernism, Complexity, Simplicity, and Spirituality." The other paper we mentioned is "Knowing and Unknowing Reality: A Beginner's and Expert's Developmental Guide to Post-Metaphysical Thinking" (here) Tom's Wisdom Skills Model (image) and Progressive Summarization of his Metaphysics Paper Other links to Toms work include: Tom's home page: www.tommurray.us A list of Tom's papers: www.perspegrity.com The StageLens technology for developmental assessment: www.stagelens.com Bayo Akomolafe - The Insurgency of the Invisible Today I'm speaking with Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo is a an academic, poet and philosopher who dedicates his life to mediating between the spiritual and the scientific. He is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network, and the author of ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home‘. We talk about what emergence is and why it is such a relevant idea for our time, the scandal at the heart of modernity, why it's a good idea to be uncertain about the possibility of systems collapse, why the urgency of our times is an invitation to slow down, the problems with spiritual tourism, why identity politics can often seem so broken, how the social justice movement is mistakenly using modernist constructs of power, how inclusion can reinforce the structures of exploitation and oppression, and why we cannot ‘out-think the crisis’. Bayo's Profile on Emerge The 25 Billion Ton Biomass at the Bottom of the Ocean Bonnitta Roy - Six Ways to Go Meta Today on the show I'm speaking with Bonnitta Roy about her presentation 'Six Ways to Go Meta'. We cover such topics as what it mean to ‘go meta’, why the anthropocene is driving humans to discover new ways of ‘going meta’, how deconstructing our experience through meditation creates a clean palette to experiment with new ways of going meta, how previous guests like Adam Robbert, Jordan Greenhall, Nora Bateson, and Rob Burbea fit into Bonnitta’s meta-meta-model, and why it’s vital that we create new educational forms that help create and discover new human minds. Six Ways to Go Meta Presentation Danny J's New Single - Rob the Infirmary Zak Stein - The Meta-Crisis is a Human Development Crisis: Education in a Time Between Worlds Today's conversation is with Zak Stein. Zak is a writer, educator and futurist working to bring a greater sense of sanity and justice to education. This recording was made in person at Zak's house in Northern Vermont. We chat about why the meta-crisis is fundamentally an educational crisis, a metamodern vision for the future of education, the difference between education and schooling, how to build an education system that can prepare humans for an unknowable and rapidly changing future, the postmodern erosion of ‘teacherly authority’, the relationship between education, passion, curiosity, and eros, and the possibility of education becoming a collective movement of soul-making. Previous episode with Zak Stein Education in a Time Between Worlds (Amazon Link) Intermission with Both/And - Podcasting as a Spiritual Practice An inside baseball podcast about podcasting with Jason Snyder and Jared Janes of the Both/And podcast. We chat about what we are seeing in the emerging [metamodern/metasystematic/metarational] subculture, skillful disagreement, and how podcasting can be a practice of personal growth and transformation. Jared and Jason's Favorite Episodes so far: Both/And #6 with Euvie Ivanova - http://bothand.libsyn.com/6-thriving-in-modernity-with-euvie-ivanova Both/And #11 with David Collins - http://bothand.libsyn.com/11-simply-awake-with-david-collins Dr. Douglas Tataryn - Emotions in Meditation and Human Development This week I'm speaking with Dr. Douglas Tataryn. Doug has created an elegant and effective system for emotional healing and understanding. This work makes insights from years of study and practice as a clinical psychologist accessible to the everyone. In this conversation we will explore a simple technique for emotional clearing that you can begin practicing immediately, and look at how emotions play a role in meditation, human development, and cultural transformation. Doug and I discuss how emotions obstruct concentration in meditation practice, the 9 core feelings, the difference between feelings and emotions, how crying is part of the natural healing sequence of the emotional brain, the role of language in accessing our feelings, the role of emotions in moving from traditional to modern to postmodern developmental stages, a developmental assessment of the social justice warrior phenomenon, the difference between functional and dysfunctional postmodernism, and how to deal with the deep gunk of our psyche. List of 9 Core Feelings (Evernote) https://www.evernote.com/l/AJb9liB6SnJDdo75svt_T6NKTSoivOV5sPg The 9 Core Feelings (Diagnostic) http://tinyurl.com/BEFcore Bio-Emotive Meditation Retreat at the Monastic Academy (June 21-23) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bio-emotive-emotional-processing-meditation-retreat-maple-june-21-23-tickets-61696587153 Catherine McGee - Soulmaking in Collapse My guest today is Catherine McGee. Catherine has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats internationally since 1999, and since 2014 has been collaborating with Rob Burbea in shaping and teaching the Soulmaking Dharma. In this conversation we explore how the Soulmaking Dharma can open up our relationship to the topic of collapse and possible human extinction. We talk about Catherine's experience participating in the Extinction Rebellion through the lens of the Soulmaking Dharma, the weaving together of justice and soul and beauty in a time of crisis, the eros-psyche-logos dynamic, the difference between suffering (dukkha) in the classical Buddhist context and in the Soulmaking Dharma, and the possibility of enchanting catastrophe. Catherine McGee : Key Ideas of a Soulmaking Dharma (Part 1 - The Why and What) - https://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/41/51516.html Catherine McGee : Key Ideas of a Soulmaking Dharma (Part 2 - The Eros-Psyche-Logos Dynamic) - https://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/41/51517.html Soulmaking Dharma Email List - http://www.soulmakingdharma.net Monastic Academy Circling Intensive - https://eventbrite.com/e/circling-social-meditation-retreat-july-19-25-2019-tickets-60579783764 Jeremy Johnson - Jean Gebser & Mutating Consciousness in the Anthropocene Todays guest is Jeremy Johnson. Jeremy is the author of the new book 'Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness'. Jeremy is also the host of the wonderful Mutations podcast, and the editor of the anthology Mutations: Art, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene. Together we explore Gebser’s idea of ‘origin’, the move from the non-perspectival to perspectival to aperspectival consciousness (aka integral), the way creative innovations emerge out of presence, Gebser’s relationship with metamodernism, the difficulty of trying to articulate anything beyond the mental structure of consciousness, how to experience the past and the future in the present, and feeling our way into the diaphanous nature of the anthropocene. Seeing Through the World (Amazon) Mutations Podcast Circling Intensive at the Monastic Academy John Vervaeke - The Meaning Crisis Today's guest is John Vervaeke, PhD. John is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology. John joins Emerge to discuss the meaning crisis, it's consequences, and how we might design ecologies of practice to chart a path to new vistas of meaningfulness. We cover: what is the meaning crisis, how does the meaning crisis intersect with the ecological and political crisis, how our consciousness prioritizes what is most meaningful out of the totality of perception and how much flexibility we have in adjusting and transforming what we find meaningful, why it’s problematic to ‘unbundle’ and decontextualize practices like mindfulness from a larger integrated ecology of practice, how everything from literacy to rationality to mindfulness could be considered a ‘psychotechnology’, what the highest leverage practices for resolving the meaning-crisis in our own lives, how to think about building the religions of the future, why new communities of practice ought to focus on process instead of personality, John’s own journey in amplifying the meaning in life, and how our bodies can function as ‘meaningfulness’ compasses in our lives. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Skinner Layne - Embracing Collapse: Transforming Tragedy into Meaningfulness My guest today is Skinner Layne. Skinner is the founder of Exosphere, a learning & problem-solving community and startup laboratory. We talk about how collapse is woven into the DNA of our system, how those who grew up in the modern west are equivalent to trust fund babies, why marxism dies from cancer, fascism dies from heart attack and consumerism dies from diabetes, how Apple is the perfection of fascist production and marxist aesthetics, why preserving the status quo is unacceptable, how collapse is more like falling down a hill than falling off a cliff...and why it may be a good idea to head down the hill preemptively, before you are pushed. Outro music by Danny J Making Sense of Jem Bendell and Vinay Gupta with Bonnitta Roy A short making sense episode with frequent guest of the show Bonnitta Roy. We have a chat about the recent episodes with Jem Bendell and Vinay Gupta, and how what new paths forward may lie in the wake of the collapse narrative. Making Sense of Jem Bendell and Vinay Gupta with Peter Park A short making sense episode with friend and fellow monastic Peter Park. We have a chat about the recent episodes with Jem Bendell and Vinay Gupta, and how the idea of collapse is playing out in our own lives. Vinay Gupta - Waking Up in the Monster Factory (pt. 2) This episode's guest is Vinay Gupta (@leashless). Vinay is the founder of Mattereum, the creator of the hexayurt, and part of the team that launched the Ethereum project. Vinay is also a deep spiritual practitioner, and in this two part episode we explore the intersection of awakening, social collapse, and the possibility of human extinction. We talk about Vinay’s esoteric spiritual path and subsequent awakening to the planetary crisis, why we ought to abandon all causes except the avoidance of total human extinction, why our situation is not just a repackaged mythical eschatology, why the victors of global capitalism are becoming the new losers, why we live in a ‘monster factory’, the reality that poverty IS collapse, why love is not enough, why a UBI might be the best thing we can do to escape the worst impacts of collapse, Vinay’s critique of the idea of ‘consciousness revolution’ as a real solution to the problems of a world, the problem with the mindfulness and yoga movements in the West, why anything that’s not leading towards enlightenment is not spiritual practice, why Salvador Dali is a Buddha, what expression of awakening can serve in a planetary crisis, why grace is a form of ‘not giving a fuck’, how to get in touch with the hellish aspect of the world, and why we need to 'saw off' the 60s. This is part two of a two part conversation. Outro music by Danny J. This episode's guest is Vinay Gupta (@leashless). Vinay is the founder of Mattereum, the creator of the hexayurt, and part of the team that launched the Ethereum project. Vinay is also a deep spiritual practitioner, and in this two part episode we explore the intersection of awakening, social collapse, and the possibility of human extinction. We talk about Vinay’s esoteric spiritual path and subsequent awakening to the planetary crisis, why we ought to abandon all causes except the avoidance of total human extinction, why our situation is not just a repackaged mythical eschatology, why the victors of global capitalism are becoming the new losers, why we live in a ‘monster factory’, the reality that poverty IS collapse, why love is not enough, why a UBI might be the best thing we can do to escape the worst impacts of collapse, Vinay’s critique of the idea of ‘consciousness revolution’ as a real solution to the problems of a world, the problem with the mindfulness and yoga movements in the West, why anything that’s not leading towards enlightenment is not spiritual practice, why Salvador Dali is a Buddha, what expression of awakening can serve in a planetary crisis, why grace is a form of ‘not giving a fuck’, how to get in touch with the hellish aspect of the world, and why we need to 'saw off' the 60s. This is part one of a two part conversation. Outro music by Danny J. Dr. Jem Bendell - The Meaning and Joy of Inevitable Social Collapse Today I'm speaking with Dr. Jem Bendell. Jem exploded onto the internet with the release of his 'Deep Adaptation' paper, which has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. The paper makes a very persuasive argument for what Dr. Bendell calls 'Inevitable near term social collapse' due to climate change. In this conversation we talk about non-linear self-reinforcing negative feedback loops in climate systems, Dr. Bendell’s experience of grief in coming to terms with the reality of collapse, Extinction Rebellion as an expression of fierce love, the meaningfulness and joy on the other side of collapse acceptance, collapse as an invitation to face the reality of our own inevitable death, how to approach the idea of collapse in a helpful way, and whether the United States and Europe will escape the worst impacts as systems de-cohere. Deep Adaptation Paper Positive Deep Adaptation Facebook Group Check-in & Update No guest today, instead a short check-in and update about Emerge and the life of Daniel. David Fuller - Rebel Wisdom, The Intellectual Dark Web & The Future of Media Today's guest is David Fuller, founder of Rebel Wisdom. We talk about Jordan Peterson, the inspiration (and synchronicities) behind the founding of Rebel Wisdom, David’s most recent thinking on what the teleology of the Intellectual Dark Web, the emerging worldview coming into being through distributed heterodox conversations, the significance of the James Damore Google Memo, the evolution of media towards non-ideological generative conversation, and how embodied practice support intersubjective sense-making. Rebel Wisdom YouTube Channel Miki Kasthan - The Inseparability of Psychological and Social Transformation In this episode I’m speaking with Miki Kashtan. Through her work with Nonviolent Communication, movement building, and organization design, Miki speaks into the intersection of social and psychological transformation with a rare blend of pragmatic heartfulness. We talk about how economic and cultural systems inform our psychology, why none of us can know what ‘human nature’ is, the necessity of communities of practice for those who seek to transform their consciousness, how to practice full spectrum nonviolence, the unsettling power of moral authority, and the central significance of connecting with and expressing our biological needs. The Fearless Heart (Miki's Blog) Paul Krafel - The World Healing Game of Upward Spirals My conversation today is with naturalist and author Paul Krafel. We talk about why you shouldn't go with the flow, how to discover opportunities for generative service in all domains of life, how to use multiple perspectives to see in '3D', the game of creating upward spirals, and how to observe the natural world in a way that discovers patterns & fit. Enjoy! Paul's book Roaming Upwards Nick Jankel - Post-Identity Tribalism in Culture War 2.0 Nick Seneca Jankel is an author, professional speaker, leadership futurist, and philosopher. His recent book, Spiritual Atheism, reconciles spiritual and contemplative experience with science into a robust ‘human operating system’. I reached out to Nick after reading his recent article on medium called "Hacking Identity Politics To Save Our Species”, which we unpack in this conversation. We cover topics like the relationship between spiritual practice and social change, how to 'hack' identity politics, the responsibility of ‘integralists’ to intervene in cultural flashpoints, and the need for post-tribal tribes to create collaborative fellowship. Jeremy Lent - Maps of Meaning for a World in Crisis In this episode I'm speaking with Jeremy Lent. Jeremy is the author of 'The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning' and the found of the Liology Institute, which has the aim of fostering a worldview that will enable humanity to thrive sustainably on this planet. Jeremy and I chat about how our world is the product of the success of certain cognitive patterns, how we can change reality by changing our metaphors, what it means to become conscious of the meaning we make out of the world, and how we can adapt our own meaning-making structures to accord with the existential nature of the Anthropocene. Jeremy on the web: jeremylent.com // www.liology.org Jeremy's Article on Yuval Harari Robert MacNaughton - Learnings from the Life and Death of the Integral Center In this conversation I’m speaking with Robert McNuaghten. Robert was the founder and executive director of the Integral Center in Boulder Colorado from it’s birth in 2013 until it’s recent closure at the end of 2018. We chat about the shadow side of idealism, leadership and patriarchy, the essence of conservatism, the history of the Integral movement in Boulder, intersubjective reductionism, Robert’s concerns about the spread of authentic relating throughout the world, and how understanding Attachment Theory helps bring balance to relational practices. James Surwillo - Metamodern Leadership and Millennial Heroics James Surwillo joins me in conversation this week to talk about his book 'Metamodern Leadership: A History of the Seven Values That Will Change the World'. We discuss the unique role of the millennial generation, evolving cultural value sets, the possibility of millennials being a ‘hero’ generation, Torbert’s seven stage model of leadership development, the need to master the game before you change the game (h/t Jordan Peterson), and conventional and post-conventional leadership. https://hbr.org/2005/04/seven-transformations-of-leadership https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/on-metamodern-leadership-87bcf9ada5f9 Miles Bukiet - Monasteries of the Future Miles Bukiet joins Emerge this week to talk about his paper ‘Monasteries of the Future’. We talk about the role of monasteries in the emerging future, the cultural significance of monasteries as an institution that demonstrates alternative ways of being human, the radical difference deep practice can make to our experience of being alive, and the 'crisis of standards' affecting the contemplative field. Read Monasteries of the Future The Monastic Academy A Day at the Monastic Academy (With Pictures) (Meta)Modern Monasticism with Peter Park Ria Baeck - Emergent Collective Practice and Applied Presence In this episode of Emerge I'm speaking with Ria Baeck. Ria is a visionary practitioner in the domain of group process, facilitation, and collaboration, having spent many decades discovering how to manifest collective potential in order to meet the complex challenges of our era. Ria and I talk about why you cannot go straight for the answer, the re-localization of sense-making, moving beyond mental consciousness, the limitlessness of Applied Presence, the nature of collective intelligence, the sacred responsibility of contributing our piece to the whole, reclaiming and integrating our animal nature, and conceptual shadow. Ria's Book Online Joachim Stroh - Collective Sensemaking and Presence in Digital Spaces On this episode of Emerge I'm speaking with Joachim Stroh. Joachim is the co-founder of Change Agents Worldwide and the creator of the Social Ledger -- a meta-protocol for creating cooperative digital spaces. We touch on topics such as collective sensemaking in digital spaces, how time spent on the internet can form memories (or not), achieving flow states in digital connection, Joachim's 'Social Ledger' as a meta-protocol for measuring social capital and participation, and new architectures of participation that resist authoritarianism. Joachim's Article on the Social Ledger https://medium.com/school-of-the-possible/social-ledger-lab-b558b19dc663 Jared Janes - Stream Entry, Philosophy and the Terror of Getting What You Want In this episode I'm speaking with Jared Janes (@jaredjanes). Jared is the host of the Impactful Podcast, as well as a friend and off-air interlocuter. We share many interests in common, from meditation and philosophy to diet and productivity hacking. In this conversation, we chat about different models of stream entry, the lubricative nature of awakening, how the philosophical investigation of free will opens up the space for liberation, awakening through World of Warcraft, and the need to follow one's curiosity, even as it takes us outside of our comfortable affiliations. Impactful: Tribes https://www.jaredjanes.com/posts/2018/9/16/tribes Gail Bradbrook - Extinction Rebellion On this episode, I’m speaking with Gail Bradbrook. Gail is a founder of Extinction Rebellion, one of the most exciting political movements on the planet right now (IMO). Extinction Rebellion is a group that believes that time has run out to address the ecological crisis and that it is the right and duty of every citizen to rebel in order to compel the government to tell the truth and decarbonize the economy in as short a period as possible. The movement is growing exponentially in Europe, and has already shut down the city of London through direct action and civil disobedience. Together Gail and I talk about the past, present, and possible future of Extinction Rebellion. We cover such territory as the visionary and psychedelic origins of Extinction Rebellion, how to orient ourselves in the face of possible human extinction, how to balance urgency and trust in activism, and how Extinction Rebellion could use distributed organizational architectures to enable mass participation in this emerging movement. Extinction Rebellion www.rebellion.earth International Allies email xr-international@protonmail.com Extinction Symbol http://extinctionsymbol.info Peter Park - (Meta)Modern Monasticism and Existential Risk In this episode of Emerge I'm speaking with Peter Park. Peter is a teacher and Assistant Director at the Monastic Academy in Lowell, Vermont. Peter and I talk about what a 'modern monastery is', the choice between comfort and truth, the role of monastic style training in a time of existential risk, and Peter's experience combining contemplative practice and authentic relating in the context of a monastic community. www.peterxpark.com www.monasticacademy.com Deep Adaptation & Systems Collapse Paper https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/deep-adaptation-map-navigating-climate-tragedy/ Peter Limberg - Memetic Tribes, Culture War 2.0, and the Perils of Grey Pilling In this episode, I'm speaking with Peter Limberg. Peter is the creator of the Intellectual Explorers Club in Toronto, CA as well as co-author of 'Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0', a recent medium article that has been very popular in my odd corner of the internet. In this conversation we chat about memeplexes, grey pills, radical agnosticism, Robert Anton Wilson, how to speak with confidence in the midst of uncertainty, authentic relating, anti-debates, and pragmatic tribal affiliations for post-tribal peoples. Enjoy the show! Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0 (article) https://medium.com/intellectual-explorers-club/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb Peter & Ronan on Alter Ego https://anchor.fm/alterego/episodes/How-to-transcend-the-culture-wars-e2hh7n Nora Bateson - Awakening Interdependence and Evolving Systems with Warm Data Nora Bateson is a Filmmaker, writer, educator, lecturer and President of the International Bateson Institute. In this conversation we discuss how systems learn and evolve, the importance of moving between contexts, how our dreams of incremental change have failed, and the how system change will likely emerge from the liminal space between institutions. John Michael Greer - The Kek Wars: How Chaos Magic Influenced the 2016 US Presidential Election In this episode John Michael Greer and I discuss his 'Kek Wars' article series on how the Chans used magick to influence the 2016 elections. We talk about political campaigns as magical performance, 4chan as the collective unconscious of the internet, the lefts failure to recognize a politics of existential crises, the myth of progress, and the antidote to cosmic indifference. 🐙 The Kek Wars Part 1: https://www.ecosophia.net/the-kek-wars-part-one-aristocracy-and-its-discontents/ Primer on Chaos Magick: https://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/13/psychonaut-field-manual/ Zak Stein - A Metaphysics of Love for a Time Between Worlds On this episode of Emerge I’m speaking with Zak Stein. Zak is a writer, educator, and futurist working to bring a greater sense of sanity and justice to education (and beyond). Zak joins me on the show to speak about his recent paper in the Integral Review titled Love in a Time Between Worlds: On the Metamodern “Return” to a Metaphysics of Eros. In addition to the paper, we talk about the antropocene and it’s relationship to the metamodern historical moment, why metaphysical questions are impossible to escape, and why those who bring coherence to these inquires will be stepping into the future in a profound way. If you’re enjoying the show there are at least three ways to show your support. You can: * Leave a review on iTunes or any other podcast surface. * Share episodes you enjoy on your social media, or with friends who you think might benefit from the conversation * Or by becoming a patron of the show by clicking on the link in the show description, or by going to www.anchor.fm/emerge and clicking on the very obvious button. Thanks everyone! Enjoy the show… Love in a Time Between Worlds (article) http://www.zakstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stein_IR_EROS_Pub.pdf Zak’s Website http://www.zakstein.org/ Adam Robbert - Breaking the Binary of Theory & Practice In this conversation Adam Roberts (@knowledgeecology) and I explore the idea of philosophical inquiry as perceptual transformation. We talk about the relationship between conceptuality and perception, the contemplative practice that Descartes used to produce his philosophy, how to sort through the spiritual marketplace, and the meta-freedom that exploring our assumptions can open for us. If you enjoy this conversation I recommend you check out The Side View, Adam’s new project based on the ideas he shares in this episode. It just got started and it’s already home to a number of great articles and provocative podcast episodes. As always if you appreciate Emerge and are getting value from the conversations you’re listening to, I invite you to become a supporter. You can find a link in the show notes or you can go to anchor.fm/emerge and click on the very attractive purple button that reads ‘support this podcast’. The Side View www.thesideview.co Terry Patten - Integral Theory & Metamodernism, Irony & Sincerity, and Why Voting Matters In this conversation, I’m speaking with Terry Patten. Terry is a leading voice in the integral movement as an author, speaker, and teacher focusing on the marriage of personal and political transformation. We talk about the relationship between Integral Theory and Metamodernism, the use and misuse of irony & sincerity, and why we should vote, even if it’s statistically meaningless. Terry is a true evolutionary activist and it’s a real pleasure to have him on the show. And if you appreciate where Terry is coming from I highly encourage you to check out his most recent book, ‘A New Republic of Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries’. It’s a wonderful read, and Terry has just a few weeks ago begun new non-profit based on the ideas of the text. It’s a very inspiring vision that I expect listeners of this show will resonate with. If you’re curious to learn more you can check out the link below. And If you’re enjoying Emerge and you’d like to express your appreciation you can check the show description for a link to become a supporter or can share the show with your friends so that more people are included in these valuable conversations. Thanks y’all, and enjoy the show. ❤️❤️ Terry’s personal website: terrypatten.com Terry’s new non-profit based on a New Republic of Heart newrepublicoftheheart.org Richard Bartlett - Occupy Wall Street as Bootstrapping Collective Intelligence In this conversation, I speak with Richard Dennis Bartlett. Richard is an author, organizational consultant, and founder of Loomio and The Hum, as well as a member of Enspiral network. He and I share an identity as former participants in Occupy Wall Street, me in NYC and Richard in New Zealand. Together we reflect on whether Occupy Wall Street could be seen as a ‘bootstrapped’ collective intelligence, the rise of the vTaiwan movement and digital governance, and the need to leverage both social and digital technology together to create robust expressions of benevolent collective intelligence. The Hum https://www.thehum.org/ Enspiral www.enspiral.com Loomio http://loomio.org Richard on Medium https://medium.com/@richdecibels Indra Adnan - Catalyzing a Networked Politics with The Alternative UK On this episode of Emerge I’m speaking with Indra Adnan. Indra is the ‘co-initiator’ of the Alternative UK, a new political platform aiming to transform politics in the United Kingdom. We talk about the Alternative’s approach to political change, her development of a transformative movement building event that Indra calls a ‘Collaboratory’, and the new networked story of collective evolution that the Alternative is helping to catalyze. Enjoy! The Alternative UK https://www.thealternative.org.uk/ The Alternative UK + Holochain https://atlasofthefuture.org/fixing-the-system-dream-of-an-open-world/ Jake Vartanian - Native: A Crypto Platform for Prosperous Communities On this episode of Emerge I’m speaking with Jake Vartanian. Jake is the founder of Native, a platform for communities to create their own economic architecture using cryptocurrency. This is a project, like DAOStack, Holochain, or Colony, that is exploring the transition into an anti-rivalrous future that Jordan Greenhal and I spoke about in the last episode of Emerge. I recommend listening to that conversation first, as it will help you understand the significance of what Native is offering. And, unlike many other projects in this space Native is now live, and you can play with it yourself at http://nativeproject.one Jordan Greenhall - Anti-Rivalry, QAnon, and SOCIs (Oh my!) In this conversation, Jordan Greenhall and I talk about Rivalrous and Anti-Rivalrous dynamics, the rise of self-organizing collective intelligences (SOCIs), and how QAnon might be an early example of the future of collective sense-making. "We are currently undergoing a major transition from a world dominated by the forces of scarcity to a world dominated by the forces of abundance. This is a once in a thousand-year level (or larger) transition and must be understood in that context." The Rivalrous and Anti-Rivalrous (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEEV6gJIb7g Making Sense of QAnon (Article) https://medium.com/deep-code/making-sense-of-qanon-220966667e8d Joe Brewer - State of the Collapse In this episode, I speak with Joe Brewer about the on-going collapse of our planetary system, the emotional and psychological difficulties of reckoning with this reality, and how we can each become stewards for what comes next. Bonnitta Roy - A Source Code Analysis of Collective Action 💞 In this episode of Emerge, Bonnitta Roy and I explore a Source Code analysis of Collective Action. This is the third and final conversation in our three episode arc together. We cover such topics as why having a liquid identity makes you a better team player, the core skills for participating in collective actions, and how to create ritual spaces that facilitate the emergence of new shared identities. This episode will be well worth your time if you ever try to do things with others. That means you, human! 😜 This episode marks the end of Season Two of Emerge; I'll be taking a short break and be back with new episodes in early October. 🙏 Rob Burbea - Meditation Fantasies & The Soulmaking Dharma In this conversation with meditation teacher and author Rob Burbea we discuss the role of fantasy in meditation, the purpose of what Rob calls the 'Soulmaking Dharma' and some common traps that can obstruct our connection with beauty on the contemplative path. This was the first conversation I had with Rob (there are two more you can listen to in the Emerge podcast stream). For various reasons I decided not to release it immediately after we recorded it, feeling that the subsequent conversations did a better job of communicating what I wanted to communicate. There were also some nasty recording problems that made it difficult at times for the conversation to be fluid and flowing. In any case this is a lovely coversation and I hope you enjoy! 🙏 Bonnitta Roy - A Source Code Analysis of Trust 🤝 In this conversation, Bonnitta Roy and I explore what trust means within the context of complex and unpredictable systems. What is trust? How do we act in ways that amplify trust? And what does all this tell us about the vision for a 'trustless' future coming out of the Blockchain world? And why is it that sometimes highly trustworthy people are also the most unpredictable? 🤔 More notes (including the graphic we talk about during the show): https://www.notion.so/emerge/Bonnitta-Source-Code-Analysis-of-Trust-5b7d15755b494891bc3326b6d597663e Bonnitta Roy - A Source Code Analysis of Power 💪 In this first in a set of three conversations, Bonnitta Roy and I talk about a Source Code Analysis of the concept of Power. We explore how to speak and think about power in a way that releases complexity, cuts through confusion, and enables useful conversations. The hallmark of this approach is a commitment to unpacking hidden assumptions in order to identify a conceptualization (Bonnitta calls this a 'conceptual prime') that avoids the confusions and traps that much of our current culture is trapped in. Leveraging this approach in my own life has led to a significant upgrade to the quality of my communication, and I'm glad to share it with you. This is part one of a three-part series. Coming in the next week Bonnitta and I will be applying the same process to the ideas of 'Trust' and 'Collective Action'. Stay tuned and enjoy! ❤️ Bonnita’s Pre-show Video Breakdown https://zoom.us/recording/play/hPuQbyjexwmWP83A-BwNDFlReGaxaA0dtKQTFs3PUqa6WicQ3tH9IBLc8itHqxpV Vincent Horn - What Wants to Emerge Now? In this episode Vincent Horn and I speak on behalf of what wants to emerge now. We discuss the battle for our attention, the relationship between the psychological and the political, the magic of Trump and personal responsibility in the attention economy. Enjoy! ❤️ Max Borders - The Coming Social Singularity This conversation is with Max Borders, author of 'The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse'. We explore topics such as psychedelics, why voting doesn't matter, decentralized systems, Holochain, the relationship between personal transformation and social transformation and bottom-up alternatives to a UBI. Enjoy! 🚀 DISC as a UBI Alternative https://medium.com/social-evolution/how-we-become-the-social-safety-net-2994a68a53db The Social Singularity On Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Social-Singularity-decentralization-prosperity-apocalypse-ebook/dp/B07DDPVCM1 Rob Burbea Responds In this episode, Rob Burbea and I have a conversation responding to questions, concerns, and feedback arising our of our first conversation (released last week). The feedback was taken from the /r/streamentry sub-reddit. 🌊 Original /r/streamentry thread https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/comments/91j9za/theory_my_podcast_interview_with_rob_burbea_a/ Moritz Bierling - Metamodern Politics + Holochain = 🔥💞🌎🤸 What do you get when you combine an emerging vision of politics with new expressive capacities in human coordination? Humanity may be about to find out... In this episode of Emerge I’m speaking with Moritz Bierling. Moritz is the "Chief Catalyst" at Holo, a project of Holochain, as well as a Senior Strategist at Exosphere. In this conversation, we explore anti-fragile education, the emerging economic niche of currency design, and the fascinating symmetries between Metamodern Politics and Holochain. Enjoy ❤️ Holochain Capacity Shift Presentation https://prezi.com/m/vcfwa-8ocg7m/metacurrency-strategy-vision/ Arthur Brock Short Video https://youtu.be/j6vEZ926Olw Ceptr Revelations (Pre-Release) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Line362Wm0zMOZcEZMqPYfHqNS4XIVyVsP7SS_4jE2o Moritz & Skinner on the School Sucks Podcast https://schoolsucksproject.com/570-embracing-the-infinite-game/ Stephen Reid - Psychedelic Renaissance Stephen Reid and his co-conspirators at The UK Psychedelic Society are pioneering a contemporary re-imagining of the ancient art of facilitating transformational experiences using entheogenic substances. In this episode, Stephen and I discuss metamodernism, psychedelics (obv), and what we're going to do with all these empty churches. 💒 🤔 Psychedelic Experience Retreats https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/experience-retreats Recommended Mix Tape https://www.mixcloud.com/MendelKa/ Jordan Greenhall & Bonnitta Roy - After Jordan Peterson In this particularly liminal episode of Emerge Bonnitta Roy, Jordan Greenhall, and I attempt to generate some actionable clarity in response to a recent video critiquing Jordan Peterson. You'll get a sense for the gifts that Jordan Peterson has brought to our cultural landscape, as well as how we can take the next step into new (and less problematic) horizons. 🌅 Enjoy! Alter Ego Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XqvddgtkGM Rob Burbea - A Spiritual Paradigm for The Infinite Game In this episode of Emerge, I speak with Rob Burbea about a new spiritual paradigm that he calls the 'Imaginal' and the 'Soulmaking Dharma'. Rob shares his creative process of journeying to the furthermost reaches of human consciousness and coming back with a new and profound vision of human experience and spirituality. 🙏 Enjoy! 😘 My companion article to this episode: https://medium.com/@danielthorson/a-spiritual-paradigm-for-the-infinite-game-f43010f08819 Rob on Dharma Seed http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/ Second Brain Notes: https://www.evernote.com/l/AJY9I_dW2eBElYtO8VV3InlNW5mHUELGzzo Ronan Harrington - The Praxis of Metamodern Political Change A conversation with Ronan Harington about the nitty gritty praxis of systems change, the realities of the emerging metamodern subculture, and some of the real-life joys and sorrows of trying to do this radical work, and what it means to take on leadership in the midst of complexity. May this podcast episode be a light for all those attempting to transform the struggle of suffering into liberated play. 🙏 More Notes: https://www.evernote.com/l/AJaqp-ufdFlAJJVuH1tBB4fEw6CuSx8GqmU Making Sense of Holochain Ethan and Daniel attempt to make sense of the Holochain episode with Ferananda Ibarra. Ferananda Ibarra - WTF is Holochain?! This week my guest is Ferananda Ibarra. Ferananda is internationally recognized in the fields of collective intelligence and the next economy. The center of her work is consciousness evolution of social systems, new social DNA and the processes and tools that support it. She now serves on the leadership team of the Holochain project. We talk about what Holochain is, the deep thinking that went into it, how it's architecture is a form of biomimicry, and how it could lead to a radically new level of collective intelligence and human thriving. Enjoy! Show Notes https://www.evernote.com/l/AJZ7GsaKwvRLWY331HGJMFG374akVPnj0l8 Hanzi Freinacht - The Six Metamodern Political Strategies (pt. 2) Part 2 of my conversation with Hanzi Freinacht on the six strategic forms of a metamodern politics. Sign up for the Infinite Clues Newsletter https://www.getrevue.co/profile/emerge Second Brain Notes on Hanzi https://www.evernote.com/l/AJbhn6k4CnJMWIXq8BrA1P1OaZpGT2A1V78 🙏 Making Sense of Hanzi (pt. 1) Ethan and Daniel have a conversation about part one of the episode with Hanzi Freinacht. Hanzi Freinacht - Towards a Metamodern Politics (pt. 1) A conversation with Hanzi Freinacht, the author of 'The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics'. This episode is part one of a two part series. For more about metamodernism and Hanzi's work check out https://metamoderna.org/ - Hanzi's blog and home on the web. Making Sense of the Bonnitta Roy Episode Ethan and Daniel make sense of the Bonnitta Roy episode, which you can find here: https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Where-Jordan-Peterson--Sam-Harris--and-Ezra-Klein-Go-Wrong-e1hh9i/a-a3m7uh Where Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Ezra Klein Go Wrong In this episode of Emerge I speak with Bonnitta Roy. Bonnitta is the founding principle of Alderlore Insight Center, a non-profit adult learning center focused on practices that support emerging wisdom. She teaches a Masters program in Consciousness Studies at The Graduate Institute. She is also founding associate of APP-AI whose mission is to bring open participation into the workplace. You can read her writing on the Open Participatory Organization at https://medium.com/open-participatory-organized We speak about: - How to have conversations across paradigms - Problems inherent in meta-perspectives - Why Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Ezra Klein fail to have generative and productive conversations (and how we can benefit from listening) - How to address the underlying dynamics of identity politics Making Sense of the Darren Silver Episode Ethan and Daniel talk about the most recent episode of Emerge with Darren Silver. Darren Silver - Storying Our Way to a Sacred World How do we speak in a way that re-enchants the world? That invites a more beautiful experience of life? This conversation speaks to those questions, and more. Darren Silver is a rite of passage guide, life-coach, ceremonialist, and an innovative educator. His commitment to guiding youth and adults through initiatory experiences was birthed from more than a decade of personal experience and inquiry into the relationship with soul, the natural world, and community. Darren holds a Masters in the Mythology of Initiation, has traveled extensively internationally, and has studied with elders worldwide. You can find him at www.darrensilver.earth Making Sense of the Jordan Greenhall Episode Ethan and Daniel have a sense-making conversation about the Jordan Greenhall episode of Emerge. Jordan Greenhall - Sovereignty, Resonance, and Liminality In order to enjoy this episode of Emerge you will need to be familiar with Jordan Greenhall's model of Sovereignty. Do not venture into this episode without checking out some or all of the resources listed below or you will likely feel lost and confused. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8kYZUQ6xcw * http://highexistence.com/jordan-greenhall-humanity-global-collapse-survive/ * https://neurohacker.com/why-we-need-collective-intelligence-during-global-collapse-with-jordan-greenhall-pt-1/ * https://medium.com/deep-code/on-jordan-peterson-and-the-future-51402a370d79 Boyd’s OODA Loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop Experiments in Sense-Making #1: Beyond Expertise Ethan and Daniel attempt to make sense of some of the topics discussed on recent episodes of Emerge. This episode will make most sense if you listen first to the recent episode with Melissa Michaels and have at least some familiarity with Jordan Greenhall's model of Sovereignty. Melissa Michaels Interview on Emerge https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Melissa-Michaels---Embodying-Grace--Embodying-Service-e17gsc Jordan Greenhall on Sovereignty http://highexistence.com/jordan-greenhall-humanity-global-collapse-survive/ Emerge 010: "A More Beautiful Question" Warren Berger On this episode of Emerge my guest is Warren Berger. Warren is the author of the book ‘A More Beautiful Question’. In this conversation we talk about the nature and importance of questioning, what keeps us from maintaining our child-like curiosity as we age, the danger of relying on expert advice, and how to find the important life-questions that Google can’t answer. Enjoy! Emerge 009: "Bridging Technology And Consciousness" Adam Curry In this episode of Emerge I speak with Adam Curry. Adam is an inventor and tech entrepreneur in San Francisco. His most recent work is an application called Entangled, which he refers to as the SETI of consciousness research. In this episode we discuss the informational nature of consciousness, how materialism is our cultures metaphysics, and whether we can use collective consciousness to predict Earthquakes. Enjoy the show! Emerge 008: "Emergent Creativity" Tiago Forte On this episode of Emerge, I speak with Tiago Forte. Tiago is the founder of Forte Labs, a productivity training and consulting firm in the bay area. He specializes in helping organizations and individuals adopt an approach to productivity that is both systematic and human centered. In this conversation, we speak about using design thinking for individual improvement and empowerment, how to harness chaos and emergence for personal creativity, and the changing nature of knowledge work. Enjoy the show! Emerge 007: "The Smog Of Racism" Alison Cohen On this Episode of Emerge I speak with Alison Cohen. Alison works as an instructional coach for public high school teachers and as a mindfulness educator for schools and social service organizations. Alison focuses on the interconnections between mindfulness and bias awareness and reduction. In this episode we speak about how mindfulness can disrupt the school to prison pipeline, the subtleties of implicit bias and cultural conditioning, and the nature of embodied racism. Enjoy the show! Emerge 005: "Trust And Self-Organizing Systems" Christina Bowen In this episode of emerge I speak with Christina Bowen. Christina is a knowledge ecologist working on such topics as collective intelligence, global warming, and systems theory. In this conversation we talk about the relationship between trust and collective intelligence, how to solve wicked problems , and the nature of self-organization. Please enjoy this conversation with knowledge ecologist Christina Bowen! Emerge 004: Taylor Pearson "The End of Jobs" Taylor Pearson joins me for this episode of Emerge. Taylor is an entrepreneur and author of the book ‘The End of Jobs’, an account of the changing nature of our economy and how to re-imagine your relationship to work for more freedom, meaning and wealth. In this show we talk about what jobs are and why they’re ending, the evolution of work, the power of negative visualization, and why now is the best time in human history to make the jump into entrepreneurship. Emerge 003: Scott Santen "Basic Income" Today we have on the show Scott Santens. Scott is a writer and advocate of what’s known as a basic guaranteed income. In this episode we go over the basics of basic income as well as some of the philosophical and cultural questions that arise when considering such a radical policy. Enjoy! Emerge 002: Chris Dancy "Smartphone Loneliness" This episode's guest is Chris Dancy. Chris has been called “the most connected human on earth” and has been featured on Fox News, NPR, BBC, TechCrunch, Mashable, and Wired, among others. He is a contemplative platform designer, artist, philosopher and writer. We talked about what it takes to design technology that promotes human well-being, the nature and cause of distraction and loneliness, the changing landscape of work, and how to survive a systemic collapse, without hoarding bullets. Emerge 001: David Loy "A World Between Stories" The first guest on Emerge is author, philosopher and activist David Loy. David and I first met at the Occupy Boulder General Assembly and our relationship grew from there. David work sits at the intersection of contemplative wisdom and social justice, making him a perfect first guest for Emerge. In this episode we discuss the ways stories limit and liberate us, the symptoms of living in a world between stories, the nature of the (7+ billion) new stories, the difficulty of acting in integrity with what you know is true, and how to find the meaning of your life. Enjoy! NOTE: Please forgive the strange audio glitches in the interview. The content of this interview is still awesome. :)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2742
__label__cc	0.747889	0.252111	Tag Archives: Barack Obama Zooming in and out of the inauguration Have fun moving, zooming and playing with this unbelievably good photo. Just think of the tangled webs of human relationships … January 25, 2009 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, inauguration 3 Comments Back to irony Wanted: For un-ironic activities What a bizarre article in the New York Times about an alleged crisis of irony, to be blamed in large part on Obama. As you may recall from my previous thoughts on irony, I’ve never been tempted to consider irony thriving in American life to begin with. But now to mourn its decline because of an outbreak of naive and gushing earnestness about the prospects of imminent world-saving by the new savior? I briefly suspected that the article was being retro-ironic when it proposed to prove the irony crisis by counting the appearances of the word irony in newspapers, before, several laborious paragraphs later, conceding that this was just plain silly. Now I suspect that it comes back to that widespread American confusion over what irony is (not). Towards the end of the article, somebody finally attempts to define irony as “the incongruity between what’s expected and what occurs” which “makes us smile at the distance.” How could that be in decline? Last time, I defined irony as “the non-aggressive savoring of contradictions in life and people (others and yourself) and of turns of phrase that are slightly and adroitly off-key and thus meaningfully surprising. Irony is not merely saying the opposite of what you mean.” So irony is worlds apart from: Sarcasm: This really is simply saying the opposite of what you mean. Hence: the lowest form of humor. Wit: quick, sharp and probably biting associations between dissimilar things. Humor: an ability find things funny. Satire: the art of ridiculing somebody in power (possibly using irony, sarcasm, wit or humor as weapons). My hunch: Irony is alive and well, inherently in situations and naturally in Britons. The rest of us can keep practicing. 😉 November 23, 2008 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, humor, irony, sarcasm, satire, wit, words 3 Comments Should Obama choose Hillary? So everybody is wondering whether Obama will choose Hillary to be his Secretary of State. I’ve been thinking that he might do that ever since I heard Obama speak, during the primaries, about Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln shrewdly, wisely, disarmingly followed the advice to “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”. He brought his harshest political rivals into his cabinet, where he could watch them and where their interests were aligned with his. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”, he once said. Naturally, Obama’s way of thinking immediately resonates with mine in at least one way: He instinctively looks to history for lessons and guidance in the here and now. I instinctively do the same. It is the premise of my book. Taizu, the first emperor of the Song dynasty So here is another story from history that Obama might like. The first emperor of China’s Song dynasty was fighting against a rival, King Liu, to consolidate his rule. Song won and brought Liu to his court, where he offered him a glass of wine. Liu assumed that Song was about to kill him, with poisoned wine, and begged for mercy. Instead, Song laughed, took the glass and drank it himself. Then he made Liu a high-ranking adviser at his court. Liu would be one of the most loyal servants in Song’s retinue. A while later, Song defeated another king. Song’s ministers lobbied to have this king killed or locked up, presenting reams of documentary proof that he was plotting to kill the Song emperor. The emperor had him brought before him. Then he promoted the man, appointed him to high rank, and sent him home with a package to be opened later. When the man did open it, he found all the documents proving his plot to have the emperor killed. He also became one of the emperor’s most loyal servants. The benefits of this sort of thing are clear: If your enemies are at large (as Hillary would be in the Senate), they can cause mischief and plot revenge. Their success is your failure, your success their failure. But by bringing them close and aligning their success and failure with yours, you disarm them. Bonus: Because everybody knows that they are former enemies, they must forever work harder than the others to earn their trust. Wild cards: None of Lincoln’s or the Song emperor’s enemies had a spouse such as Bill. And Bill would still be at large. Oh boy. November 15, 2008 Andreas Kluth Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, enemies, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Song dynasty, Song emperor, Sung dynasty 3 Comments My three-year old has been yelling “Obama” all day at kindergarten. So it’s finally over. Enough with the blogging about it now, for a while (and back to my book). But, because it is a historic moment, this last post to mark it. From us at The Economist, two pieces: 1) Congratulations to the winner, with a warning about the burden of high expectations. And perspective: This week America can claim more credibly that any other western country to have at last become politically colour-blind…. America will now have a president with half-brothers in Kenya, old schoolmates in Indonesia and a view of the world that seems to be based on respect rather than confrontation. 2) Condolences to the loser, who used to be, and may be again, a man to like and respect, but who became tragic: November 6, 2008 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, John McCain Leave a comment Absent dads And a follow-up on parents and success: Thanks to Mary Achor’s tip in the comments, this take by Doug Wead on “absent fathers” as a good thing in the life of children: November 4, 2008 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, father, fathers, John McCain, presidents Leave a comment Obama: “Well, it is The Economist.” So, as I said, we at The Economist and our readers have endorsed. Now Barack Obama has responded. Thanks to Celina Dunlop for pointing me to this exchange between him and Katie Couric (WordPress doesn’t let me embed the video, so click through): Couric: The Economist, while endorsing you, has also said there are some legitimate criticisms of you that John McCain should be focused on. They say that you are one of the least business-friendly Democratic candidates in a generation, that you have no experience in the business world aside from year as a consultant, and that you’re too close to unions and trial lawyers. Obama: Well, it is The Economist. And the fact that they endorsed me, how about reading all the good stuff they said about me? (laughter) Couric: Well, that’s in another issue. (laughter) That’s later. November 4, 2008 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, Celina Dunlop, endorsement, Katie Couric, Politics Leave a comment The Economist endorses Just in case you missed it, we at The Economist have endorsed, and so have our readers who may (as you should) “vote” in our global electoral college. The cover says it all. As for the global electoral college, the world is currently “blue” by a landslide of 9,115 electoral votes to 203. November 2, 2008 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, election, endorsements, Politics 2 Comments More on parents and success Thanks to Freda Zietlow for pointing me to this piece in the Wall Street Journal on the dysfunctional families of future presidents. As you guys already know, in one chapter of my book I’m looking into the subtle and unsubtle ways that parents influence the future success and failure of their children. Hamilcar played a huge role in the life of his son Hannibal (my main character), and not just while Hamilcar was alive. Now, the Journal‘s Sue Shellenbarger has this to say about US presidents and their parents: The families that have produced U.S. presidents … show a striking tendency to be deeply flawed. The childhoods of past presidents have been marked to an unusual degree by absent fathers, mothers so overinvolved that they could easily have been the original helicopter parents, and in some cases outright dysfunction… Childhood events that would destroy most children seem somehow to spark greatness in leaders-to-be, says Doug Wead, author of two books on presidents’ families. As two candidates with highly unusual family backgrounds vie for the presidency, Mr. Wead even sees Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama — to different degrees and in starkly different ways — fitting a pattern he describes as “Mama’s boys with absent fathers who were perceived by the sons as high achievers,” he says…. Some presidents’ families have been famously dysfunctional. Thomas Lincoln abandoned 9-year-old Abraham and his sister, 12, for several months in their frontier cabin right after the death of their mother, while he went to find a new wife, says Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author most recently of “Team of Rivals,” a book about Lincoln. When Thomas finally returned with their new stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston, the couple found them “wild — ragged and dirty,” seeming barely human, the stepmother later wrote… In another notably troubled family, Bill Clinton’s father died before Bill was born; his stepfather was a womanizer and an alcoholic who beat his mother, Virginia, according to biographer David Maraniss. Although Virginia, a warm, nurturing woman, made her son the adored centerpiece of the family, President Clinton said later that he often pined for his birth father… Even the McCain family, with its tradition of distinguished military service, fits the pattern of an absent father and an overinvolved mother who fills the gap, Mr. Wead says. Sen. McCain’s father was a respected four-star Navy admiral and commander of Pacific forces in the Vietnam war, but he was mostly absent from home during Sen. McCain’s childhood. Sen. McCain reflects pride in his father and was taught to regard his long absences “not as a deprivation, but as an honor.”… November 1, 2008 Andreas Kluth Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Doug Wead, father, fathers, Freda Zietlow, Hamilcar, John McCain, parents, Sue Shellenbarger 8 Comments Highlights in oratorical history Leave your suggested caption in the comments. October 17, 2008 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, humor, John McCain 6 Comments If the whole world were the electoral college…. I rarely digress from the two threads of this blog (the writing of my book, and book-publishing and book-writing in general), but this is just too fun. We at The Economist are running a global election for US president. You vote as part of your country. Each country has a specific number of votes in the world’s electoral college, according to the same formula that America uses in its own electoral college. So go check it out, and vote. September 27, 2008 Andreas Kluth Barack Obama, Electoral College, John McCain, World election Leave a comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2744
__label__wiki	0.508669	0.508669	Amazfit GTR in international version now on stores in offer Jose 07/26/2019 We already have on sale the new Amazfit GTR in its international version and with a 1.30 inch screen. A smartwatches that closely follow the wake of the Amazfit Smart Watch 2 at the hardware level but that include differences in designs and sensors and that is presented at a special price until August 10. The version on offer of the Amazfit GTR is presented with a classic design with an aluminum body but that includes all kinds of monitoring functions of our physical activity including swimming and other more usual ones. The Huami Amazfit GTR includes an AMOLED screen of 1.39 ″ and 454 × 454 pixels in the version with the 47mm dial. Both versions have Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, can be submerged up to 50m and has IP68 protection against water and dust. The clock screen also has more than 100 designs with which we can customize it according to our tastes and occasion by downloading styles from your app. It also has GPS + GLONASS, Bluetooth 5.0 BLE and a 410 mAh battery capable of lasting up to 24 days. The operating system is Amazfit OS and includes ambient light, accelerometer, pressure, pulsometer and geomagnetic sensors. To control this smartwatch we have a couple of buttons on the side of its dial that emulate some classic buttons. Price on offer The new Amazfit GTR can be purchased on promotion at Gearbest.com from just $ 139.99 with free shipping.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2747
__label__cc	0.691358	0.308642	Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesGenealogy · 10 years ago If my last name is fernandez are my ancestors from Spain? My family is all from Mexico, my skin color is pretty white so is most of my family, except for ky sister she is light brown , but my parents are white skinned can you explain this, and also my moms last name is Fries where dies that come from? To find out your ancestry, you need to research it...just because of a name, looks or colouring you can tell your ancestry by any of those, so you are mixing up surname origins and ancestry...surnames have ORIGINS but that doesn't mean that is wheree your ancestors are from just the name................. Recorded in a wide range of spellings including De Fries, Fries, Friese, Defries, De Vriese, Defriez, and several others, this is often English, but ultimately medieval French. It is has several possible origins. It may be ethnic or nationalistic and describe either a former inhabitant of Friesland in the Netherlands, or as Frise, Fries or Friese, it may be a nickname and describe a German. It can also be topographical from an ancient pre 10th century French word "friche" meaning fallow land, and hence describe somebody who lived by or owned such a place. The substitution and transposition of the letters "v" and "f" is commonplace throughout Northern Europe, and represents the differing dialects used over the centuries. It is unclear as to when the name was first introduced into the British Isles, indeed there may well have been several entries over the centuries commencing with the Normans at the 1066 Invasion. However he greatest influx would seem to have been with the Huguenot Protestants refugees after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Some fifty thousand, mainly skilled French artisans crossed the Channel at this time, and provided the backbone for the developing Industrial Revolution which Britain was to lead for two hundred years. Examples of the recordings taken from surviving church registers of the diocese of Greater London include: Jeanne Devreese at St Dionis Backchurch, on April 18th 1625, Maria de Vriese, who married Carolus de Heems at Lincolns Inn, Holborn, on December 10th 1777, Joseph de Friez, a witness at St George's in the East, Stepney, on August 11th 1793, and Jonas de Fries, a witness at the New Synagogue, city of London, on December 19th 1805. Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Fries#ixzz1QslIpO... shortgilly To know where your ancestors came from you need to research your ancestors one generation at a time. Last names don't always line up with origins. The question "Is everyone with the same surname related" or something similar comes up a few times a week around here. Reviewing some of those closed questions will give you some very good ideas of how it could be possible to have a Spanish last name with no Spanish ancestors whatsoever, even in a Spanish dominated place like Mexico. Last names don't tell you anything whatsoever about complexion since complexion is biological and names are social. Fernandez Origin Source(s): https://shorte.im/a8aB2 Hmmm Que interesante. Pues, es muy pocible, pero necesitas mas..... Well I'll just stop that right there. I can speak a little, not fluent, but anyways. Well, it's possible. It's very possible that your last name is Spanish. Actually, the surname Fernandez orginated in Spain. But how do you know if your ancestors came from Spain with that name? Are you sure they didn't change their name at one point?? Well you'll have to trace it back to get that answer. Cherilynn This Site Might Help You. Source(s): fernandez ancestors spain: https://shortly.im/9tNaQ Frank Woods Most Likely, Spanish came over to Mexico, mixed with the natives (Mestizo person) or not and just settled there. Source(s): Last Name Rivera :) fries could be a dutch surname...fries means a frisian person from friesland Source(s): dutch Can I find more about ancestry journey from mtDNA markers? I'm stuck on finding genealogy information on a gr gr grandfather, don't know his birthday, possible birth year, etc. Help, where can I go? Italians, are you white? Do you prefer the surname Lewis or Cline more? Is Ancestry.com accurate? I'm sorry troll . Do I talk about anything besides my family ? ? what is the origin of the Kenteupe surname?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2749
__label__cc	0.737519	0.262481	2019 PUSAG Awards Held at All Nations University College January 15, 2020ByANUNews On Saturday 5th October, the 2nd edition of the Private University Students Association of Ghana Awards came off in a grand style at the All Nations University College in Koforidua. The event which was attended by patrons from almost all the Private Universities, has left sweet memories in the minds of the attendees. The Awards... Dr. Elsie Kaufmann Awarded by NASA and All Nations University Space Systems Technology Laboratory Ghana’s Famous Quiz Mistress Dr. Elsie Effah kaufmann was honored by the All Nations University Space & Satellite Team together with NASA Engineers and students for promoting Science and Mathematics education in Ghana. She was awarded for her impeccable contributions towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education in Ghana. This award was presented as... All Nations University College wins HR Focus Business Challenge January 15, 2020ByANUNews, School of Business All Nations University College has won the 2019 edition of the HR Focus Business Challenge after beating seven schools including Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). They received the following as their prize package GH₵10,000 cash price for the team, one turbo net MTN device for the department, spa treatment for winning team... ANU-SSTL Presented About Space During The 8TH African Space Leadership Conference (Ethiopia) We are extremely delighted to be given the opportunity to present our space activities at the 8th African Space Leaders Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Our representative Senior Benjamin Bonsu who is the Co-founder and project manager of our lab stressed the need for Africa to emulate the university-based approach as the best strategy to... All Nations University College to spearhead the first African Constellation Satellite Project For the first time in the African Space Industry, a group of African engineers and scientists are set to work together to design and build satellites to foster African development. Over the years, developed countries have explored and used Space Technology in diverse ways for their development. The First Africa Constellation Satellite Network (AFCONSAT) is... All Nations University student wins farmers’ award with campus farm December 28, 2019ByANUNews Eric Wuyin Geeyam gained admission into All Nations University College in Koforidua the Eastern Regional Capital in 2015 to pursue Biomedical Engineering, but today he is popular for his farming prowess. Shortly after the admission, he noticed the University had large acres of land at its new site along the Koforidua Akwadum Road yet to... Department Contact Info 1810 Campus Way NE Bothell, WA 98011-8246 +1-2345-5432-45 Mon – Fri 9:00A.M. – 5:00P.M.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2750
__label__wiki	0.964697	0.964697	HeadlinesPeople Black box inventor honoured with ICAO award A file image of Dr David Warren with a prototype of the black box recorder. (Defence) Australian scientist David Warren AO has been recognised for his work that led to the development of the flight recorder or “black box” with an award from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). ICAO has posthumously conferred the Edward Warner Award to Dr Warren at its 39th assembly meetings in Montreal. Dr Warren died in 2010. He was 85. The official citation of the award said the development of the flight recorder had created an “legacy of safety for the travelling public”. The ‘black box’ was invented by Dr David Warren in the 1950s while working at a DSTG predecessor organisation. (Defence) “The international aviation community owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to Dr Warren for the vision and tenacity exemplified in his conceptual work and prototype development of what is known today as the aircraft ‘black box’ flight recorder,” the official citation read. “Dr Warren’s innovative work continues to this day to influence ICAO’s initiatives in the field of aircraft accident and incident investigation. Dr Warren, who joined the Department of Defence in 1949 and became principal research scientist at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in 1951. At the official award presentation, ICAO president doctor Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu outlined how Dr Warren came up with the idea of the flight recorder during an investigation into mid-air explosions being experienced by the world’s first commercial jet aircraft, the de Havilland Comet. A file image of Qantas A380 VH-OQI, named David Warren, taking off from Sydney. (Seth Jaworski) “Having recently observed one of the world’s first miniature recorders being demonstrated at a trade fair, he began to imagine how such a device could be adapted for use in the cockpits of aircraft, continually recording details which could be recovered after an accident,” Dr Aliu said. “While today we all understand and appreciate the safety benefits of Dr Warren’s inspiration, like many innovations his was first met was skepticism. “But consistent with his passion for innovation and his commitment to help present aircraft accidents and save lives, Dr Warren preserved with his idea and designed and built a first demonstration unit using steel wire as the recording medium. “This original ‘ARL Flight Memory Unit’, as it became known, was successfully demonstrated in the United Kingdom, and it was so well-reviewed that the British authorities soon made his recorder mandatory in their civil aircraft.” The DSTG Canberra headquarters was named after Dr David Warren in 2014. (Defence) Dr Aliu presented the award – comprising a medal and a diploma – to Dr Warren’s two sons Graham and Peter and daughter Jenny. Dr Warren was admitted as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2002. His name also appears on the fuselage of one of Qantas’s Airbus A380s – VH-OQI – and on a Defence building in Canberra. Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester described Dr Warren’s invention as one of the greatest single innovations to improve aviation safety around the world. “This award highlights Australia’s long history of innovation and invention, with the black box flight recorder among the most recognised and used technologies throughout the world,” Chester said in a statement. The award, established 41 years ago, is named after ICAO’s first president Edward Warner. Boeing rolls out first RAAF P-8A Poseidon AW139 simulator a centrepiece of Aviation Australia’s new education campus Diony September 29, 2016 - 2:41 am Proud to be Australian Stu Bee September 29, 2016 - 11:30 am A very well deserved accolade. James from Sydney September 29, 2016 - 12:09 pm So many lives saved because of what this box has told us Anil Kattula September 29, 2016 - 7:53 pm Where would aviation be without this incredible invention? A long deserved honor! Craigy September 30, 2016 - 12:03 am Innovation at its best. A fantastic invention and a great Australian Barry Walters October 7, 2016 - 9:25 am Few of us will have the privilege of leaving such a far sighted, productive legacy and the well deserved honour that came with it. Was the Recorder patent licensed to Bendix in lieu of any attempt at production in Australia?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2757
__label__cc	0.718035	0.281965	Baja Dreaming Thoughts & Adventures on the Baja Peninsula About Baja Dreaming 2009 May Birthdays in Loreto San Juanico Surf Girls’ San Ignacio Whale Trip Beach Dogs Sunrises ………….. Tag Archives: Loreto mayor Arely Arce UC Natural Reserve System gains Sister Reserve in Baja California Posted on June 5, 2019 by Catharine Cooper UC Natural Reserve System gains sister reserve in Baja California Sur June 4, 2019 By Kathleen Wong The Gulf of California is a marine wonderland. Washed by crystal blue waters and dotted with arid islands large and small, it teems with whales, sea turtles, manta rays, and other animals that thrive in this spectacular meeting of desert and sea. This extraordinary region is now available to UC Natural Reserve System users thanks to a sister reserve agreement brokered with a Mexican nonprofit. Located in Baja California Sur, Eco-Alianza de Loreto A.C. works to protect and preserve the ecosystems of the Bahía de Loreto. The 12-year-old organization conducts water quality monitoring, raises public awareness of the value of the area’s marine, coastal, and terrestrial habitats, and collaborates with universities and other institutions to foster environmental research. A mutually beneficial partnership “Both partners will reap a multitude of benefits,” says Peggy Fiedler, executive director of the UC NRS. “Eco-Alianza will be able to arrange places for our users to stay and resources such as boat moorings. Meanwhile, UC can provide marine research and educational opportunities for the people of Loreto and Baja Sur.” “Our goal is to create a strong alliance with our friends on both sides of the border, with the long term objective of increasing knowledge and building protective networks for wildlife that know no borders,” says Hugo Quintero Maldonado, co-founder and executive president of Eco-Alianza. Becoming an NRS sister reserve “provides a rich opportunity to strengthen our ongoing collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico. This will include the expanded sharing of expertise and technology in areas of conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of resources,” says Linda Kinninger, a cofounder of Eco-Alianza who now serves on the organization’s board. A jumping-off point for land and sea expeditions Eco-Alianza is based in the historic town of Loreto, located two-thirds of the way down the eastern side of the Baja Peninsula. Just offshore lie the waters of the Bahía de Loreto. The 510,000-acre bay is internationally acclaimed as an ecological gem. It was declared a Mexican national park in 1996, and named a Ramsar wetland of international importance in 2004. In addition, Bahía de Loreto and all of its islands are part of the Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California UNESCO World Heritage site. Suzanne Olyarnik, director of the NRS’s Bodega Marine Reserve, visited Loreto this past March as an NRS representative. She came away deeply impressed by the commitment and interest in a partnership with the NRS. “The people of Loreto are eager to interact with researchers who can get students excited about science,” she says. The Loreto area is rich with biological diversity, Olyarnik says, as well as intriguing oceanographic and geologic features. “From a marine science point of view, it’s an amazing place that we have only begun to explore. I am excited that the NRS can facilitate more people to come down and do academic and applied research to contribute to the management of what they have.” An education and research exchange UC faculty are eager to begin using the reserve. Among them is Nicholas Pinter, a professor of geosciences at UC Davis. “The vision for a Loreto reserve and field station is to serve as a spark — to bring research, education, scientific recognition and knowledge, and broader visibility to the Loreto region. We imagine Loreto as a mecca for scientific visitors to study and admire the area’s abundant natural wonders,” Pinter says. For their part, the people of Loreto hope NRS visitors spark more interest in the natural sciences. “Collaborating with local researchers, educators, and authorities, we expect the team will foster additional understanding of our rich natural resources, strengthen the scientific and academic sectors here, and add to the rich cultural mosaic that is Loreto,” says Loreto mayor Arely Arce. Arce and Eco-Alianza hope a UC-led uptick in environmental research will encourage the local university to launch a marine science program. At present, the Loreto campus of the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur lacks a marine science program; the nearest program is located at the university’s La Paz campus, more than a four-hour drive away. Eco-Alianza is the NRS’s second sister reserve to date. The first sister reserve arrangement, with Gobabeb Research and Training Centre in Namibia, was established in 2017. A number of exchanges between UC and this African desert reserve are already occurring, including a proposed UC Riverside study abroad course on ecology and herpetology, plus research into desert reptile physiology and how much moisture fog contributes to desert plants. The growing NRS family The NRS sister reserve designation is the second recent alliance between Loreto and an American organization. In 2016, the U.S. National Park Service and Mexico’s Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources established a Sister Park Partnership Initiative between Channel Islands National Park and Bahía de Loreto National Park. The NRS’s Santa Cruz Island Reserve is adjacent to Channel Islands National Park and works closely with the park on island research and management issues. The Eco-Alianza sister reserve agreement comes hot on the heels of NRS growth in California. Point Reyes Field Station and Lassen Field Station both joined the NRS this May via partnerships with the National Park Service. 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Auf seine Ergreifung waren 2 Mio. US-Dollar ausgesetzt. James Joseph „Whitey“ Bulger (* 3. September in Boston, Massachusetts; † Oktober in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia) war ein verhafteter. James»Whitey«Bulger. Mit Unterstützung des FBI stieg James "Whitey" Bulger zum Paten von Boston auf, räumte unbehelligt Rivalen und Zeugen aus dem Weg. Regel James „Whitey“ Bulger Hundert Wetten Im Internet schwer. - Filmografie Ansichten Lesen Bearbeiten Quelltext bearbeiten Versionsgeschichte. The death certificate of Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger revealed that the notorious criminal died last year from “blunt force injuries of the head.” The document obtained by Fox News from. The family of late crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons for failing to protect him from being beaten to death by fellow inmates. By Pete Williams, Tom Winter, Rich Schapiro and Andrew Blankstein Notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was killed Tuesday inside a federal prison in West Virginia — and investigators are. Infamous Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger – who was a fugitive for 16 years, was sentenced to life in prison in and was portrayed in film by Johnny Depp – was killed at a West Virginia. The family of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger has filed a lawsuit accusing 30 Federal Bureau of Prisons employees of "intentional or deliberately indifferent" actions leading to his violent death at the hands of another inmate. District Judge Denise Casper told Bulger that "The scope, the callousness, the Beer Pong Spielfeld of your crimes are almost unfathomable," during his sentencing hearing. August 5, - Closing arguments are presented, and the jury begins deliberations the next day. The Bureau of Federal Prisons did not respond to a request for comment. Bulger spent his entire career cultivating, was left in tatters after his racketeering trial in federal court in Boston. He was portrayed as a menacing figure who bribed FBI agents, flooded his own neighborhood with drugs, chained and interrogated men before shooting them, and strangled at least one woman. A jury found him guilty of participating in 11 of 19 murders for which he faced charges, while running a sprawling criminal enterprise from the s to the s that rivaled the Mafia. It was a trial that the families of many of Mr. Bulger had been warned by a corrupt former FBI agent to flee just before his indictment and eluded an international manhunt for more than 16 years. He had transformed into the retired octogenarian he was pretending to be and looked unassuming and uninterested during most of his eight-week trial in , taking copious notes as he worked on his memoirs. There were flashes of his old temper when he traded obscenities with former close associates who testified against him. Yet, nearly two years after that trial, Mr. Bulger, for the first time, offered a hint of repentance in a letter to students at Apponequet Regional High School in Lakeville who wrote to him for a history project on leadership and legacy. Bulger wrote. James Joseph Bulger Jr. His father, James Sr. His disability made it difficult for him to find work and left the family poor. In , when Mr. Bulger was 8, his family moved into the Old Harbor public housing project in South Boston. From a young age, James Jr. The nuns at St. When he got to the public schools in Southie, it got worse. James Bulger preferred the streets to the sports and games organized by the kindly pastor. Even as a boy, Mr. Bulger was a rule breaker. Bulger told his mother. By the time he was 14, he had dropped out of school and had been arrested for the first of six times as a juvenile, none of which resulted in a conviction. He later told prison officials that his one-armed father beat him, so frustrated was the elder Bulger with his wayward namesake. In his teens, James Bulger ran away with the circus, and when he returned home he took up with a much older woman who was a stripper in a traveling burlesque show. The stripper scandalized Mr. He was a tailgater — stealing off the backs of trucks that took goods from the freighters on the South Boston waterfront. In a neighborhood where hardly anyone had a car, he had one. Bulger often scouted for opportunities — not necessarily for crime, but to buff his credentials as a hoodlum with a heart of gold. Bobby Moakley said Mr. Such consideration was also a conscious act of mythmaking. From a young age, Mr. Bulger was determined to be a career criminal, but he knew that to survive he needed to be liked as much as feared. He was on the verge of being sent to prison in for his latest arrest when he suddenly enlisted in the Air Force. His three years in the military were hardly distinguished: He never went overseas during the Korean War, he earned his high school diploma, and he continued to demonstrate a reckless streak. He was arrested for going AWOL and for rape. But like all the other criminal charges in his life up to that point, he beat the charge. In , he helped rob three banks, then was captured the following year and charged with those robberies. FBI reports show his first turn as an informer occurred in , when he named two of his accomplices in the bank jobs. Google to lift post-election political advertisement ban. Republicans to Trump: Appoint special counsel for election probe. YouTube bans videos claiming presidential election fraud. 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For the next decade, Bulger and his gang controlled much of criminal activity in Boston, including drug trafficking, loansharking, extortion, and murder. With Bulger involved in the kind of crimes Connolly was working to stop, a confrontation between them seemed increasingly possible. When their paths finally crossed, however, the result was quite unexpected. Bulger made a deal with Connolly: He would tell him everything he knew about the Italian mafia. In fact, he was following an old directive, part of FBI director J. Still, more than a few people felt uncomfortable with just how closely Connolly and his supervisor John Morris were involved with his criminal friend. As was later discovered, Connolly and Morris formed a close bond with Bulger and Flemmi. After sending Halloran out into the streets, he called Bulger and let him know one of his men had betrayed him. He then turned a blind eye when Bulger murdered Halloran in the parking lot of a waterfront bar. But it was only a matter of time before his shady dealings would be brought to light. Shortly after, Morris suffered a heart attack. Bulger was so fearsome that a simple phone call was seemingly enough to almost kill an FBI agent. But despite his ruthless persona, Bulger was not untouchable. Der Gangsterboss hatte im Lotto gewonnen: 14,3 Millionen Dollar. Von Mithäftlingen getötet? Hinweise auf eine Sichtung von Bulger Play Tipsy Greig im Frühjahr im sizilianischen Taormina stellten sich dagegen als falsch heraus; nach Zuschauerreaktionen auf einen Fahndungsbeitrag Rubbellose Verschenken der Fernsehserie Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst des ZDF konnten zwei auf einem Amateurvideo sichtbare, Bulger und Greig ähnlich sehende Personen als unbeteiligtes Urlauber-Ehepaar aus Deutschland identifiziert werden. Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Jurors were unable to James „Whitey“ Bulger a verdict on whether Mr. Bitcoin Kaufen Comdirect January 2, Bulger also personally donated some of his own weapons. John "Jackie" Bulger, a retired Screenshot Vom Desktop Machen court clerk magistratewas convicted in April of committing perjury in front of two grand juries regarding sworn statements he gave concerning contacts with his fugitive brother. In response to school girls mailing him questions for a leadership competition, Bulger seemed to show remorse for his life. It was at that point that his brother William emerged as his most vocal, steadfast advocate. Bulger made a deal with Connolly: He would tell him everything he knew about the Italian mafia. Greig had been wanted by the FBI since Despite developing strong ties, fate took John Connolly and Whitey Bulger in very different directions. If he saw them coming, Europajackpot would take them with him. He quietly served a long prison sentence and refused to admit to having paid protection money to Bulger, Flemmi and Weeks. The Washington Post. English Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger est un film réalisé par Joe Berlinger avec David Boeri, Dick Lehr. Synopsis: Parrain incontesté de la pègre de Boston, Whitey Bulger règna 3/5(6). James «Whitey» Bulger, a été retrouvé mort mardi dans une prison de Virginie-Occidentale. Entre et il a été un parrain tout puissant de la pègre de Boston, connu pour sa grande cruauté. 04/11/ · (CNN) The family of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger has filed a lawsuit accusing 30 Federal Bureau of Prisons employees of "intentional or deliberately indifferent" actions leading to his. 1 Gedanken zu „James „Whitey“ Bulger“ Nikotaur sagt: Wacker, Sie hat der bemerkenswerte Gedanke besucht	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2762
__label__cc	0.581536	0.418464	Female Film Critics 24/375 Welcome to AWFJ.org #AWFJ #FemaleFilmCritics24365 EDA Awards The Week in Women Cinema Citizen Eye on Media Awards Intelligencer Members A to L Members M to Z General Archives Reviews Women on Film AWFJ Women On Film – “Limitless” – Susan Granger reviews March 31, 2011 Susan Granger 0 Comments awfj women on film, limitless, susan granger Part fantasy fulfillment, part paranoid thriller, this cautionary sci-fi tale revolves around a struggling author with paralyzing writer’s block. As the story begins, tormented Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is teetering on the ledge of a Manhattan building, contemplating suicide. Then flashback reveals what propelled him to this point of desperation. Grubby, shaggy and living in a seedy Chinatown walkup, he’s stuck on page one of a long-overdue novel and his girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) has just dumped him. A chance meeting with Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), the hustler brother of his ex-wife Melissa (Anna Friel), turns Eddie on to a cool, new, black market drug called NZT. It’s a pharmaceutical miracle, allowing users to access all parts of their brain, not only retrieving information but also collating and sorting it, leading to insightful conclusions. In a delirious frenzy of clarity and perception, Eddie finishes his novel and embarks on an incredibly lucrative investment career, borrowing seed money from a Russian loan shark (Andrew Howard) and quickly becomes so successful that he attracts the attention of Wall Street high-rollers like Carl Van Loon (Robert DeNiro). But Eddie knows he’s hooked, and when his ‘dealer’ is brutally murdered, Eddie is determined to avoid the same fate. Producer Leslie Dixon adapted Alan Glynn’s 2001 British novel “The Dark Fields,” a title that references F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Dixon and director Neil Burger (“The Illusionist”) not-so-subtly skew sympathy for the pill-popping protagonist, evoking admonitory stories about writers and other artists who have become addicted to Adderall for the same reasons. But what makes the intoxicating concept even more insidious is the irrefutable charisma of Bradley Cooper, who finally has an opportunity to show not only his acting skill but his scruffy-to-suave range. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, “Limitless” is a subversive 6. According to the dictionary, in the legend, Faust traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, so to strike a Faustian bargain is to be willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge or power. 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 0 Flares × ← AWFJ Women On Film – “Pushing the Elephant” – Cynthia Fuchs reviews AWFJ Women On Film – “Union” Opens Tribeca Film Festival 2011 – Karen Martin comments → Susan Granger Susan Granger is a product of Hollywood. Her natural father, S. Sylvan Simon, was a director and producer at R.K.O., M.G.M. and Columbia Pictures; her adoptive father, Armand Deutsch, produced movies at M.G.M. As a child, Susan appeared in movies with Abbott & Costello, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Margaret O'Brien and Lassie. She attended Mills College in California, studying journalism with Pierre Salinger, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa, with highest honors in journalism. During her adult life, Susan has been on radio and television as an anchorwoman and movie/drama critic. Her newspaper reviews have been syndicated around the world, and she has appeared on American Movie Classics cable television. In addition, her celebrity interviews and articles have been published in REDBOOK, PLAYBOY, FAMILY CIRCLE, COSMOPOLITAN, WORKING WOMAN and THE NEW YORK TIMES, as well as in PARIS MATCH, ELLE, HELLO, CARIBBEAN WORLD, ISLAND LIFE, MACO DESTINATIONS, NEWS LIMITED NEWSPAPERS (Australia), UK DAILY MAIL, UK SUNDAY MIRROR, DS (France), LA REPUBBLICA (Italy), BUNTE (Germany), VIP TRAVELLER (Krisworld) and many other international publications through SSG Syndicate. Susan also lectures on the "Magic and Mythology of Hollywood" and "Don't Take It Personally: Conquering Criticism and other Survival Skills," originally published on tape by Dove Audio. 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__label__wiki	0.993716	0.993716	Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace Monday 22 February, 20:00 Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace is scheduled for kick off on 22 February, at 20:00. Brighton and Hove Albion won 3 of their last 10 meetings, while Crystal Palace won 3, and 4 match(es) ended in a draw. The last game between Brighton and Hove Albion and Crystal Palace in the English Premier League Season 2020/2021 took place on October 2020 and ended with a 1 - 1 draw. Brighton and Hove Albion this season Crystal Palace this season Get a €/£20 Risk-Free Exchange Bet on Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace Previous Results English Premier League Season 2019/2020, 29 Feb 2020 English Premier League Season 2018/2019, 9 Mar 2019 English Premier League Season 2018/2019, 4 Dec 2018 English FA Cup Season 2017/2018, 8 Jan 2018 English Football League - Championship Season 2012/2013, 13 May 2013 Brighton and Hove Albion have won 0 of their last 9 home games in the English Premier League Season 2020/2021. Crystal Palace have won 3 of their last 10 away games in the English Premier League Season 2020/2021. Set your own odds on the Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace match on the Betfair Exchange. Brighton and Hove Albion average goals scored Brighton and Hove Albion average goals conceded Crystal Palace average goals scored Crystal Palace average goals conceded Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace Goals scored time Brighton and Hove Albion upcoming fixtures Crystal Palace upcoming fixtures Brighton and Hove Albion league finishes Crystal Palace league finishes Brighton and Hove Albion Median Corners: Brighton and Hove Albion Median Cards: Crystal Palace Median Corners: Crystal Palace Median Cards: Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace season record Brighton and Hove Albion have scored an average of 1 goals in their last 9 home matches in the English Premier League Season 2020/2021. Crystal Palace have scored an average of 1 goals in their last 10 away matches in the English Premier League Season 2020/2021. Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace Predictions Predictions for Brighton and Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace on 22 February at Amex Stadium will be available nearer the match time. Brighton and Hove Albion v Crystal Palace	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2776
__label__cc	0.551969	0.448031	Buffalo Chamber Music Society Artists this Season The Brentano gave a gripping performance. Brentano Quartet with Thomas Sauer, piano Mary Seaton Room - Kleinhans Music Hall Tuesday March 30, 2021 at 8:00 pm Quartet in D major, Op.17, No.6 (1st performance on our series!!) --- Haydn Piano Quartet ‘The King of the Sun’ -------------- Stephen Hartke Piano Quintet -----------Schumannn About the Brentano Quartet Mark Steinberg, violin Serena Canin, violin Misha Amory, viola Nina Lee, cello Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. “Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding,” raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism.” Since 2014, the Brentano Quartet has served as Artists in Residence at Yale University. The Quartet also currently serves as the collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Formerly, they were Artists in Residence at Princeton University for many years. Artists Website P.O. Box 349 Buffalo N.Y.14207	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2777
__label__wiki	0.545135	0.545135	Club Impact Military Youth Centers Clubs on Native Lands Safety Threats Cycles of Inequity Marginalized Voices Mentorship Void Character & Leadership Youth of the Year MyFuture Join Alumni & Friends Advocate for Youth #InvestInKids Day of the Girl STAY INFORMED WITH NEWS & UPDATES UPS Road Code This free national program educates teens on safe driving techniques based in part on the training UPS uses for its own drivers, who are among the safest drivers worldwide. Teens Young Adults Drive Change in Teen Driving Behaviors Since 2009, The UPS Foundation has partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to deliver UPS Road Code, a program based in large part on the same safety training used with UPS's own drivers. Approximately 125 UPS employees trained as volunteer instructors teach UPS Road Code's safe driving techniques to help teens "Drive Change." The program focuses on different safety principles, from basic instruction to the consequences of risky behaviors such as talking on cell phones, texting or drinking while driving. The program's driving simulators test teens' safe driving knowledge using a computer screen featuring interactive animation, a steering wheel, and life-like gas and brake pedals. UPS Road Code is available free of charge across the country. To find out if UPS Road Code is available at a local Boys & Girls Club in your area, contact upsroadcode@bgca.org. Learn more by watching the UPS Road Code video below! The Need for a Teen Safe Driving Program Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for more than one in three teenage deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About eight young people die every day in motor vehicle crashes, and 195,000 teen drivers are injured in crashes annually. In contrast, did you know UPS drivers worldwide are among the safest on the roads? UPS's 102,000 drivers worldwide log more than 3 billion miles per year. More than 8,700 UPS drivers have qualified for the company's elite Circle of Honor, which recognizes drivers who have had no avoidable accidents in 25 years. Take the UPS Road Code Challenge Want to test your knowledge of road safety? Click here to take the UPS Road Code Challenge and see if you know the rules of the road. Teen & Parent Resources: Become a Road Ready Teen Driver. Parents, Is Your Teen Road Ready? Find a Club Near You. The Official Site of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. © Boys & Girls Clubs of America. All Rights Reserved. BGCA is a 501(c)3 (nonprofit) organization and donations are tax deductible. The URL GreatFutures.org is generously donated by Vision Link We use cookies to enhance your experience. Learn More. Boys & Girls Clubs of America uses cookies to give you the best experience on our website. Read about cookies in our privacy policy. By closing this message, you consent to our use of cookies on this device in accordance with our policy unless you have disabled them.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2778
__label__wiki	0.879567	0.879567	Tag: Moscow After jailing of opposition leader, 29 opposition protesters arrested in Moscow Seven days after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested by authorities, 29 opposition protesters have been nabbed in central Moscow for “breaching public order”. The arrests were made following anti-corruption rally demanding the resignation of prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. Days before the demonstration, government cut access to several websites promoting what the government said… RUSSIA: Opposition leader, Navalny jailed for 15 days for partaking in protest march A court in Moscow yesterday ordered the detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny for defying orders not to partake at a major opposition protest that he had organised. Navalny will now spend 15-days behind bars for resisting police orders on Sunday when he walked to the protest against government corruption in the Russian capital of… Russian opposition leader paraded in court a day after arrest A day after he was arrested alongside a dozen others for defying a ban on rallies to protest against government corruption, Russia opposition leader, Alexei Navalny was paraded in court on Monday. Navalny was grabbed a day before by police while walking to the rally from a nearby subway station. He posted a selfie on… Over 600 people detained after largest Moscow protest Over 600 people, including opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, have been detained by Russian police for participating in an unsanctioned rally in central Moscow at the weekend, the report said. 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__label__wiki	0.821867	0.821867	Southern Anti-Plutonium Campaign THE DANGERS OF PLUTONIUM TRANSPORTATION Download a .pdf version of this report. Louis A. Zeller Revised and Re-released May 3, 2001 On January 4, 2000 the Department of Energy (DOE) issued its Record Of Decision to process up to 50 metric tons of surplus plutonium from the United States at Savannah River Site in South Carolina. This calls for the use of up to 33 metric tons as mixed oxide uranium and plutonium fuel. A new plant would take plutonium “pits” from warheads and convert them into fuel for commercial nuclear power reactors. In March 1999 the U.S. Dept. of Energy chose a consortium of private firms, Duke, Cogema, and Stone & Webster (DCS), to begin the design and construction work. Subcontractors to DCS include Duke Power Company which would provide four reactors where mixed oxide fuel would be used. Duke plans to modify existing commercial light water reactors to use mixed oxide fuel at two sites: Catawba in York, SC and McGuire in Huntersville, NC. United States Weapons Plutonium Inventories DOE Processing Plant Tons of Plutonium Rocky Flats 12.9 Hanford 11 INEEL Idaho 4.5 Los Alamos 2.6 Savannah River 2.1 Pantex 21.3 Data from WISE Plutonium Investigation No.17-18 Feb. 2000 In August 1999 DOE contracted with Raytheon to design a plutonium Pit Disassembly and Conversion Plant with an annual capacity of 3.5 metric tonnes. The January 2000 ROD would have up to 33 metric tonnes plutonium fabricated into fuel. Plutonium Transport Problems If even a small amount of plutonium were to be dispersed into the environment there could be serious consequences. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War estimates that 27 micrograms of insoluble plutonium-239 in the lungs would be sufficient to cause cancer in an adult human being. The security measures necessary to safeguard the importation of plutonium would affect civil liberties. Because the proposed plan necessitates shipping nuclear weapons-usable plutonium over enormous distances, it might well increase the likelihood that such material could fall into the hands of terrorists. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences stated that shipments of plutonium fuel will require security measures equivalent to those needed for transport of nuclear weapons. Harvard Law School and the United Kingdom Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution have also raised concerns about the security measures needed for plutonium as an article of commerce and the effects on civil liberties. A report prepared by a special commission of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research states: “Using plutonium as fuel on a large scale would be difficult to safeguard and would involve a high risk of diversion. In the case of plutonium from weapons, there would be a regular traffic of plutonium oxide from dismantlement and storage sites to fabrication facilities and reactors, with the risk of attack along transportation routes.” [International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age, International Physicians Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1992, p.133-134] MOX fuel has a greater quantities of plutonium and other hazardous radioactive isotopes such as Americium 241 and Curium 242--actinide elements which would cause additional harmful radiation exposure to the public during a failure of the reactor containment structure. “Public attention has been drawn to the higher actinide inventories available for release from MOX than from conventional fuels. Significant releases of actinides during reactor accidents would dominate the accident consequences. Models of actinide release now available to the NRC staff indicate very small releases of actinides from conventional fuels under severe accident conditions.” (emphasis added) [Letter from Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman, May 17, 1999] Irradiated Fuel Storage at McGuire and Catawba Original capacity of the fuel pools at Catawba Nuclear Station was 2,840 assemblies. Catawba’s two reactors opened in 1985 and 1986. McGuire Nuclear Station’s original design had storage for 2,926 fuel assemblies. McGuire has two reactors which opened in 1981 and 1984. In addition to irradiated fuel assemblies generated at McGuire 1 and 2, hundreds of assemblies were trans-shipped from Oconee Nuclear Station to McGuire in the 1980’s. The original irradiated fuel capacity at Oconee was just 2,137 assemblies for three reactors which opened in 1973 and 1974. “Trains will carry 14pwr and 36bwr assemblies assemblies respectively. McGuire-rail-6 shipments, Catawba-rail-5 shipments....These numbers reflect annual shipments. McGuire-3800 total assem. Catawba-4300 total assem.” October 28, 1987 memo from Paul Viggiano to Mary Cartwright, Duke Power General Manager for public relations regarding irradiated fuel shipments to an MRS in Tennessee. Why did Duke not build larger storage facilities at Oconee? The company had pinned its hopes on a federal program for reprocessing. “In the early 1970’s when Oconee was constructed, the national policy was for spent fuel reprocessing. Reprocessing is the processing of spent reactor fuel to recover the reusable fissionable material. On-site storage in the early 1970’s was considered to be temporary and storage pools were sized to provide only a few years of storage. However, a 1977 federal moratorium on reprocessing was instituted requiring utilities to keep spent fuel at the reactor site. At that time, after evaluating the options, Duke requested to ship 300 fuel assemblies from Oconee to McGuire for storage.” [October 28, 1987 memo from Paul Viggiano to Mary Cartwright, Duke Power General Manager for public relations regarding irradiated fuel shipments to an MRS in Tennessee.] Duke’s view of the plutonium fuel business was made clear in October 1998 when Senior Vice President Tuckerman told a reporter, “If MOX fuel is successful in the United states, it could ultimately lead to full scale reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.” [Nashville Tennessean] Risk of Terrorism and Sabotage From Plutonium Fuel Transportation The plutonium oxide fuel would be valuable target. The secrecy and defense measures which the military uses to transport plutonium weapons would have to be duplicated by every domestic utility company using plutonium fuel. The transport of the plutonium from present DOE facilities to the Savannah River Site and then to reactor sites would add to the risk of accidental release of radiation. The US Department of Energy’s program would transport plutonium from Defense Department sites to South Carolina for immobilization and fuel fabrication. From Savannah River 33 tons of plutonium in mixed oxide fuel would be transported across hundreds of miles of isolated countryside to utility reactors in North Carolina and South Carolina. This overland transport link presents a unique opportunity to those who might intercept and divert the fuel for weapons use. The freshly fabricated fuel rod assemblies would be the most desirable form for groups who would go after the plutonium for unlawful use in their own explosive devices. DOE admits this vulnerability: “...the unirradiated fuel contains large quantities of plutoniumand is not sufficiently radioactive to create a self-protecting barrier to deter the material from theft....” Revised Conceptual Designs for the FMDP Fresh MOX Fuel Transport Package, Ludwig et al, ORNL/TM-13574, March 1998 The risks of deliberate diversion and/or destruction of a fresh nuclear fuel or irradiated waste transport cask are increased by plutonium fuel. Higher actinide inventories increase the public health risks. The strategic value of plutonium oxide for new weapons increases the threat of diversion. Safety depends on adequate personnel and procedures. On October 9, 1995, a ten car Amtrak train with 248 passengers and twenty crew was derailed near Hyder, Arizona. Spikes had been removed from the rail bed, a metal bar connecting the rails had been removed, and the missing section wired to circumvent the electronic warning system. A terrorist group, Sons of the Gestapo, left a note at the scene claiming credit and criticizing law enforcement agencies, citing the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents. On October 1, 1995 a jury convicted Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman of conspiracy to use diesel-fertilizer bombs which would have been used to blow up United Nations headquarters, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, and the New York federal building. The George Washington Bridge has been used for shipments of irradiated fuel and plutonium from Brookhaven National Laboratory to the Savannah River Site. Incidents of rail and highway sabotage reveal that: 1) terrorist attacks would likely be designed to inflict maximum human injury, 2) electronic warning systems designed to alert officials and prevent accidents can be defeated by technical countermeasures, 3) effective attacks using home made explosives are possible, avoiding the need for exotic military weapons to breach transport containers, and 4) saboteurs have the ability to create damage which exceeds the containment standards of NRC certified shipping containers. “The willingness of terrorists to kill or injure large numbers of Americans, demonstrated in the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, compels any current assessment to focus on incidents that are clearly intended to cause, or could cause, radiological sabotage.” The FBI’s Terrorism in the United States: 1995 reported: “In the past year, the country witnessed the re-emergence of spectacular terrorism with the Oklahoma City bombing. Large-scale attacks designed to inflict mass casualties appear to be a new terrorist method in the United States.” [Nuclear Waste Transportation Security and Safety Issues: The Risk of Terrorism and Sabotage Against Repositort Shipments, Halstead and Ballard, December 1998] Halstead and Ballard state that risk assessments must consider direct attacks on transport casks using high energy explosive devices with or without capture of the shipments. Capture and control of the cask by terrorist agents would allow the cask to be breached with a variety of devices including commercially available conical shaped charges and cutting charges, or a massive diesel fuel-fertilizer truck bomb. Attackers may use transport personnel as hostages to retain control of the cask for hours. With the timed gained, attackers could increase the effect of explosives by removing barriers and applying them to the most vulnerable part of the cask. A GA 4 truck cask with four PWR conventional fuel assemblies would contain 850,000 curies. The NAS-TSC rail cask with 26 assembles would hold 5.5 million curies. Shipping Cask Shell Materials and Thicknesses From Nuclear Waste Transportation Security and Safety Issues: The Risk of Terrorism and Sabotage Against Repositort Shipments, Halstead and Ballard, December 1998, page 64 “A terrorist incident resulting in a one percent release of cask contents would have radiological consequences far greater than those assumed in the outdated DOE and NRC consequence assessments.” [Nuclear Waste Transportation Security and Safety Issues: The Risk of Terrorism and Sabotage Against Repositort Shipments, Halstead and Ballard, December 1998] Full scale tests by Sandia National Laboratory published in 1983 utilized a military shaped charge (US Army M3A1) on a GE IF-200 truck cask containing unirradiated fuel. Even this outdated test demonstrated that the cask could be breached and that radioactive materials would be released. Based on these tests, NRC proposed relaxed rules for shipments in 1984, but public criticism caused the rulemaking to be “terminated.” Sandia Full-Scale Test Results Hole diameter 6.0 inchs (15.2 cm) Fuel rods damaged 111 of 223 50% Fuel mass fractured 45.8 pounds (20.82 kg) 10% Fuel masss released 5.6 pounds (2.55 kg) 1% Released as aerosol 1/10 ounce (2.94 grams) Current weapons, such as the Superdragon anti-tank missile, are more powerful and can penetrate 18 inches of armor plate. This weapon was used by the U.S. in Operation Desert Storm, and is used by at least ten other nations. The release of even more toxic radioactive elements would cause more fatalities immediately following an accident. Lindsay Audin’s analysis of fuel rod behavior during incidents involving sabotage explains how much greater amounts of fine particles and vapors would be released from a conventional irradiated fuel cask. Superdragon Anti-Tank Missile “An attempt to disperse the fuel would likely involve a high explosive device that must first penetrate a transport cask. Such a device would penetrate one or both sides of the cask, shatter the fuel rods and pellets in its path, and heat the area along that path. The shock and heat involved would...initiate several processes not normally experienced by uranium dioxide and zirconium alloy. At high temperatures in the presence of oxygen, both materials will change form. Uranium dioxide UO2 will “reoxidize” and become U3O8...expanding and forming a very fine power in the process. Zirconium will literally ignite, vaporizing itself.... The fuel pellets may also shatter back to the consistency of the uranium power involved in their manufacture. Ruthenium will vaporize and combine with oxygen to form minute particles, while other elements, such as iodine, will be released as gases.” [Analyses of Cask Sabotage Involving Portable Explosives: A Critique, Lindsay Audin, 1989] Emergency Response Problems Emergency response to rail or highway accidents must be well-prepared and rapid. Delays in response to accidents which involve the release of radioactive material would expose unknown numbers of people to negative health effects. In 1996, a DOE Transport and Safeguards Division Safe Secure Transport (SST) trailer carrying nuclear weapons slid off the road and rolled over in rural Nebraska. Four hours elapsed before DOE headquarters were notified, and it was 20 hours before a Radiological Assistance Program team determined there was no release. A similar delay in response to a MOX fuel accident could make effective emergency response dangerous and clean-up impossible. The following comment by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division cites vehicular tests of powdered materials deposited on roadways and takes issue with the DOE’s approach to emergency response to accidental plutonium fuel releases. “After passage of about 100 cars only a small fraction of the original contamination remained on the road surface. Unless emergency officials promptly close the accident scene to vehicle traffic (an unlikely situation), emergency responders may face an incident scene that is, unknown to them, extremely hazardous due to respirable plutonium. Post emergency actions may also be complicated due to the enhanced spread of contamination by vehicle traffic.” ~Georgia Environmental Protection Division comments on DOE SPD DEIS Nuclear Regulatory Commission Plans to Weaken Safeguards Federal regulations require that the dose rate 6 feet from the external surface of the transportation vehicle not exceed 10 millirem per hour. But, according to the State of Nevada, there is no operating experience with spent fuel shipments in actual GA 4/9 transport casks. Also, traffic gridlock incidents could result in individual exposures of 30-40 millirem per person. [Comments of April 1999 by Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects on need for spent fuel transport impact assessment by nuclear plant operators, FR 2/26/99] Incredibly, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission now proposes weakening the already inadequate requirements for Type B transport containers (used for irradiated fuel) without fully informing or involving all of the communities along the potential transport routes for irradiated fuel. The NRC also proposes to weaken the requirements for containment of plutonium at the very point in time that we face major increases in the amount of plutonium transport. In a letter to the Secretary of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Janet Marsh Zeller said, “NRC must not abandon the double-lined containment for plutonium shipments. If, as some industrial representatives submitted on August 10, other radionuclide shipments are as dangerous as plutonium shipments, then the use of double containment must be extended to those dangerous transports. Further, the people of New Mexico and those communities along the transport routes to the WIPP facility have been promised by Congress that these shipments will have double containment. If the ill-advised plutonium fuel program moves forward for the Duke reactors in the southeast, the people of our region will demand transport containment with no radiation exposure.” September 29, 2000 BREDL letter to USNRC and USDOT DOE predicts an accident rate of 11.9 rail accidents per million shipment miles, or an accident every 84,000 miles (trucks=0.7-3.0/million miles). We oppose the transport and use of plutonium fuel for commercial nuclear power for environmental, public health, and national security reasons. The use of plutonium in utility reactors would 1) reverse a two decade prohibition on the use of plutonium in civilian power reactors, 2) put a strategically valuable and dangerous material which is now controlled by the armed forces in private hands, and 3) employ one of the most toxic substances on earth to generate electricity.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2790
__label__wiki	0.899423	0.899423	10 Commitments to end AIDS “The data is compelling, Female Genital Schistosomiasis should be there among the “10 Commitments”. It makes total sense to me that there is a link between FGS and HIV transmission.” Professor Terry Mc Govern, Columbia University Medical Center. Professor Terry McGovern founded the HIV Law Project in 1989 where she served as its director until 1999. In 1999, she was awarded an Open Society Institute Fellowship. From 2001 she was the Director of the Women’s Health and Human Rights Advocacy Project. Currently, she teaches Health and Human Rights and Environmental Justice. Professor McGovern successfully litigated numerous cases in UNited Stated including making the Social Security Administration expand HIV-related disability criteria so that women and low income individuals could qualify for Medicaid and social security, and a guideline restricting the participation of women of childbearing potential in early phases of clinical trials. From 2001, she has worked to improve the reproductive and healthcare of low- income women, and work on issues related to fundamentalisms and the impact on women’s human... read more New BRIGHT Research Station in Ugu South Africa After a generous donation of buildings by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Pretoria we opened the new BRIGHT Rural Research Centre in the presence of dignitaries from the Ugu Department of Health, and University of KwaZulu-Natal – Public Health / Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ugu Hospitals, Oslo University Hospital (Norway) and University of Agder (Norway). The BRIGHT Rural Research Centre will provide training for PhD and Masters Students who will contribute to the work rural health problems. BRIGHT will facilitate interaction between researchers and implementers (policy makers and local departments) to allow for research that can contribute to better health . BRIGHT members have been largely from the medical profession but BRIGHT will widen its scope to encompass laboratory, education and social anthropological research. The new facilities will ensure a sustainable site for specimen storage and scientific excellence and will be the beginning of a permanent presence in the rural community. Back row from the left: Dr Busisiwe Dlamini (CEO and Medical Manager Port Shepstone Hospital), Professor and medical doctor Svein Gunnar Gundersen (University of Agder, Norway), Mr Carmelo Pistilli (Logistician, BRIGHT), Mr Rob Ferreira (CEO Margate Hospital), Mr Roy Farai Manyaira (Data manager/IT, BRIGHT) 7th row: Associate Professor and Psychologist Thirusha Naidu (University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)), Dr Frank Olav Pettersen (CEO Norwegian Centre for Imported and Tropical Diseases), 6th row: Dr O Dabibi (CEO Murchison Hospital), Dr Saloshni Naidoo (Head of Department, Disci pline of Public Health, UKZN), Ms Thulisile Mkhize (Field assistant and transport, BRIGHT), Ms Sarah McKaw (CEO Margate Hospital), Ms Andile Mtshali (PhD student), Mr Edmore Mazani (Masters Student) 5th row: Dr Nonhlanhla Mbatha (Senior Lecturer Durban University... read more Female Genital Schistosomiasis at an HIV conference Adolescent young women are still becoming HIV positive at an alarming rate and the HIV community has classified them as a so-called “key population”. It is crucial that the HIV community also tackles Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) and it was therefore a pleasure to see the World Health Organisation (WHO) at an HIV conference talking about FGS. Dr. Catherine Sozi, UNAIDS and Dr. Meg Doherty, the WHO Coordinator for HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care in Geneva, spoke at length about FGS as a risk factor for HIV. The ICASA 2017 presentation in Abidjan may bear tidings of a new era for young adolescents living in rural... read more (Page 5 of 15)« FirstPrevious...34567...10...NextLast » Gynaecological bilharzia remains undiagnosed by most doctors in SA A Simple Theory, and a Proposal, on H.I.V. in Africa Show all publications ⇒ Cervical ectopy: associations with sexually transmitted infections and HIV. A cross-sectional study of high school students in rural South Africa Kleppa E, Holmen SD, Lillebø K, Kjetland EF, Gundersen SG, Taylor M, Moodley P, Onsrud M Classification of the lesions observed in female genital schistosomiasis Kjetland EF, Norseth HM, Taylor M, Lillebø K, Kleppa E, Holmen SD, Andebirhan A, Yohannes TH, Gundersen SG, Vennervald BJ, Bagratee J, Onsrud M, Leutscher PD Eosinophil granule proteins ECP and EPX as markers for a potential early-stage inflammatory lesion in female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) Ramarokoto CE, Kildemoes AO, Randrianasolo BS, Ravoniarimbinina P, Ravaoalimalala VE, Leutscher P, Kjetland EF, Vennervald BJ	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2794
__label__cc	0.669832	0.330168	HomeYouTuber ReviewsYouTuber Review: Lex Fridman YouTuber Review: Lex Fridman April 10, 2020 ryan YouTuber Reviews Lex Fridman is an AI-specialized technologist who hosts a popular and insightful podcast on YouTube. What separates Lex from the rest of the researchers in his space is his humble demeanor, quiet intelligence and, most of all, his awareness and appreciation of philosophy, art and the insights of the humanities that many technologists so often scoff at. Lex Fridman is not only a scholar of AI, but he regularly references the great Russian novelists, like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, as well as existential philosophers such as Camus and others. He’s a bit of an anomaly like that, and he plays guitar as well. This is significant not only because of his influence in his research space, where it’s quite comforting to know that at least one major AI researcher is informed by philosophy and the ethical insights that lie therein, but because it’s so contrasting to what seems to be the prevailing mindset among hard science academics, which is a sort of derision of the humanities based in social hierarchy and the echoes of the civil war between the hard sciences and the humanities and soft sciences that’s been taking place within academia for years. As I talked about at length in one of my mysterious journal entries, this civil war is problematic on two fronts. One, the humanities have largely been coopted by ideologues to proselytize political agendas and pet social engineering projects rather than teach critical thinking and the practical skills of media production as they were intended; and two, in a time where AI is simultaneously one of the looming existential threats to human life and also one of the most promising and significant technologies capable of greatly advancing the ability for human life to thrive and reach new heights, the ethical, moral, and humanist insights of the very works of philosopher, art and literature that Lex engages with hold the key to ensuring that the grand coin flip of AI research lands heads-up in our favor. I’ve seen him engage with other technologists on his podcast that are ignorant and dismissive when he brings up the moral dilemmas presented in something like the works of Dostoevsky, to which I’ve seen his guests respond first with some response indicating, “never heard of it,” then when Fridman explains, their followup response being “lol, fiction. Useless garbage.” This all, despite the sad, scientifically proven benefits to fiction and the direct benefit most technologists have received from the works of science fiction writers and philosophers pioneering the concepts that they now currently study. There is obviously a certain amount of bias with this review, as Lex’s combination of interests in technology, futurism, literature, philosophy, art, poetry and music align strongly with my philosophy of spiritual nihilism which is explained and promoted so often throughout the philosophical and essay content of this site. But it’s hard for my to try to mitigate that bias when I think so much of these ideas are important and reveal great insights about what’s possible in the future and the meaning of life, and Lex is largely on the same page. Lex Fridman seems to be heavily influenced by the worldview of Carl Sagan who, as you know, is a major figure in the philosophy we promote here (alongside, of course, the philosophy of the existentialists and the same Russian novelists that Lex is often discussing). I think that Lex is a reasonable, highly intelligent person and we’re lucky to have him among the AI researchers who hold, with little exaggeration, the fate of the human race in their hands. His presence in that cohort calms my nerves. Anyway, that about does it for my YouTuber review of Lex Fridman. Click here for more YouTuber reviews, click here for more essays on various topics, and click here for articles about philosophy and spirituality. 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__label__wiki	0.661446	0.661446	BookFrom.Net LOGIN / REGISTER for bookmarks and favorites LOGIN / REGISTER for bookmarks and favorites Star of Africa No Naked Ads -> Here! $urlZ Star of africa, p.11 Star of Africa, p.11 Jude decided that he should keep his secret to himself, at least for now. Then what was he going to do with it? He’d had no clear idea in his head when he’d picked it up, just a vague notion that he didn’t want Carter to have it. Should he toss it in the sea, first chance he got? Return it to the hijackers and hope for leniency? Use it as a bargaining chip to plead for the lives of the crew? Some hope. The pirates would just take it and kill them all anyway. If the pirates didn’t, Carter certainly would. When the man came to and found it was gone, he was going to know exactly who took it, and he was going to want that person’s blood. Jude had seen him personally execute four men as if it were nothing. What wouldn’t he do to the thief who’d stolen this from him? Even in the oppressive heat of the engine room, Jude felt a coldness wash over him. In taking this thing, he might have just made the worst mistake of his life. Pender let out a long, tortured groan as he opened his eyes and the agony shuddered through his skull. ‘Jesus Christ!’ He tried to shake his head to clear it, but that only made the pain worse. ‘Motherfucker!’ He managed to prop himself up on one elbow. There was a burst of panic before he remembered that the blood on the floor had been there before, and wasn’t his own. With that memory came the recollection of the last thing he’d seen before the white flash and the ensuing unconsciousness. It was the thin young blond-haired guy sneaking up behind him with the torch in his hand. The bastard who’d clobbered him. He could have busted his damn head open. Must have been one of the crew. Why wasn’t he dead already? Pender struggled into a kneeling position. As he moved, he felt the tug on his left wrist from the chain connecting him to the metal case. He had to smile. That was all that mattered. The crew weren’t his problem. Headaches, he could deal with. What was a little knock on the nut? A man in his position could forgive and forget such minor transgressions with great magnanimity. But then the smile dropped like a ton weight from Pender’s face when he saw that the lid of the case was open. Someone had been through his pockets and got the key. The bundles of cash were strewn about. The thick envelope was torn open, the phony legal papers it contained scattered on the floor. He didn’t give a shit about the papers, not even about the money. With a despairing moan he yanked the case to him and delved inside. He blinked. It was empty. Empty! No. No. It couldn’t be. Please Christ oh Christ don’t let it be. Pender searched frantically about the floor, but there was nothing there. It was gone. His rock. Fucking GONE! He wanted to scream. He did scream. A howl like a wounded dog. His aching head was completely forgotten. He leapt to his feet and dashed from the mess room, running aimlessly in a breathless panic until he got a grip on himself. Gone. Stolen. By the same dirty rotten little shit who’d sneaked up on him. Was this a targeted attack? How could he have known what was in the case? No, it was impossible. It was just some sailor. Pender was floored by this unthinkable turn of events. For this to happen, after all he’d been through, after planning everything so carefully down to the last detail! The plan had been so beautifully worked out. Starting with the escape from Oman, personally organised weeks in advance by none other than Eugene Svalgaard, heir to the shipping line dynasty, as the perfect way to smuggle out of the country what was possibly the hottest piece of stolen property in modern history. Who better to set up a passage for three anonymous stowaways on board a ship than the owner of the whole fleet? All it had really taken was a small donation to Captain O’Keefe’s retirement fund. Fifty thousand bucks was a drop in all the world’s oceans put together for a man as obscenely rich as Svalgaard. Pender’s fee for the job had been a little steeper, but then five million dollars was the going rate for hiring a professional mercenary and sometime jewel thief, never caught, to assemble a crew of hitters and carry out a home invasion robbery so serious that its perpetrators could never work again. The third-generation Dutch shipping magnate from New York hadn’t even blinked at the cost. As both Svalgaard and Pender knew very well, five million was a ridiculously small investment to make in return for such incredible booty. Of course, ol’ Svalgaard had never had the faintest suspicion that, when he turned up in Mombasa for the rendezvous, there would be no ship, no Pender, and worst of all, no magnificent uncut rock the size of your fist waiting for him to collect and hustle home to his secure vault. The smug little crook was so used to getting his own way, it hadn’t seemed to even occur to him that a common gun-for-hire like Lee Pender could outfox him and snatch the loot for himself. Yet it had been so damned easy. Already drooling over the fifty-thousand-dollar bribe Svalgaard had slipped him to take on the unauthorised passengers, Captain O’Keefe hadn’t needed too much persuading to accept a further hundred grand in cash from ‘Ty Carter’ to look the other way and make sure nothing was reported when the pirates appeared. Nobody would get hurt, Pender had assured O’Keefe. The pirates would help themselves to a few cargo containers and then go on their way rejoicing. It was just business. What did the captain care, anyway? This was to be his last voyage. Pender had been a step ahead of everyone. The look on O’Keefe’s face when the old fart clocked that he’d been tricked! And how that arrogant burger-stuffing hog Svalgaard would rant and rave on the dockside in Mombasa, when it hit him that he’d been double-crossed and that the fortune he’d been so sure of had just slipped irretrievably out of his hands, and he couldn’t breathe a word about it to anyone! Pender hoped he’d have an apoplexy and drop dead on the spot. Meanwhile Pender would be far, far away and laughing. Exactly where was the only part of his plan he hadn’t finalised yet: with this kind of wealth, he could spend the rest of his life in any paradise he chose. Monaco or Mustique? Palm Springs or Tahiti? Such tough decisions. Why not all of them, he’d dreamed over and over again. He could just hop back and forth from one palatial beachside mansion to another in his jet whenever he got bored. The most worrying part of his plan had been put in place weeks earlier, two days after Svalgaard had confirmed the ship’s departure date from Salalah. That was when Pender had flown to Nairobi, Kenya, to meet with Jean-Pierre Khosa, known to hard-bitten veterans of African wars like Pender as ‘the General’. General of what exactly, nobody knew for sure. Pender had never met Khosa before, but he’d heard the stories. Who hadn’t? If even just half the stuff people whispered about the man was true, it was still enough to make you piss dust. It hadn’t been easy making contact with Khosa. Until the last minute, Pender had been nervous about whether he’d even turn up for the lunchtime appointment in the lavish suite in Nairobi’s exclusive Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel. When the General eventually made his appearance, he was wearing a tailored Italian silk suit and accompanied by a pair of stone-faced bodyguards, who frisked Pender thoroughly for weapons and wires. Finally, the meeting was allowed to take place. Its purpose: to put the lucrative and highly illegal business proposition to Khosa, whom Pender knew to be badly in need of cash to further his own cause, one that Pender had no interest in. He’d had to be extremely careful not to let too much slip with Khosa. The General might be one scary-looking sonofabitch, but he was also very, very smart. Over French cuisine and expensive wine, Pender had laid out the carefully concocted fiction that he was acting as a courier on behalf of a very rich client – that much was more or less accurate. Where Pender’s story deviated from the truth was that he was tasked with delivering certain documents which, without going into all the boring details, were worth a vast amount of money to the client and legally too sensitive to be carried by normal means, hence Pender’s involvement and the unorthodox means of transportation. Khosa had just nodded through all of that. To Pender’s indescribable but very well-hidden relief, the General was content to s kim over the boring details. He was just waiting to find out what was in this for him. The fiction continued: Pender’s client had powerful enemies who stood to gain equally from the destruction of these documents, and thanks to new intelligence it was now believed that these people might have somehow infiltrated the client’s network in an attempt to intercept the package on arrival in Mombasa, or possibly even sooner. This made it essential for the documents to be removed from the ship, either by helicopter or boat, before someone else got to them first. The tale was all highly improbable, of course, but it was the best Pender could come up with, and he’d put on a good act of making it sound semi-plausible. A lawyer would have laughed – but the General was no lawyer (although he had allegedly ordered the murders of a few in his time, and good for him). Pender’s hope had been that the promise of hard cash would be sufficient to distract Khosa from looking too hard for holes in the story. And Pender’s gamble had paid off. The offer of one-point-five million dollars, either in cash or wired to the account of Khosa’s choice, had got the General’s eyes twinkling exactly as hoped. For that sum, Khosa’s task would be to supply the manpower and the means to whisk Pender and his precious ‘documents’ away, mid-ocean. It was Khosa who had come up with the clever notion of the faked-up pirate attack, and Pender had jumped at the idea as enthusiastically as Khosa had jumped at the money. Piracy offered the perfect cover for the hijack. So many ships were already being knocked off around Africa that one more would attract very few questions. Pender’s only concern had been that there were so many real pirate gangs hunting about the Indian Ocean for easy victims. What if one of them hit the Andromeda before Khosa showed up? It was a risk he had to take. An aggressive negotiator, Khosa had imposed certain conditions to sweeten the deal his way: in addition to the flat fee, which was quickly bumped up to two million dollars, the General laid claim to both the ship and her cargo, as spoils of war to take away and dispose of as he saw fit. This would, of course, Khosa had added with a smile, include the crew, on the understanding that he could either just kill them all on the spot or put them to other uses of his own choosing. If Pender would agree to that, they were in business. Pender had nothing to lose and everything to gain by going along with Khosa’s whims. The $500,000 price hike had been expected and allowed for. He couldn’t care less what happened to Eugene Svalgaard’s valuable property, and he didn’t give a rolling rat fuck if the General’s band of cutthroats got their jollies slaughtering a bunch of ignorant sailors, either. Screw ’em. And so, not without some trepidation, Lee Pender had entered into a binding agreement with the most notoriously unpredictable, grasping, violent and ruthless maniac in Africa. The phony legal papers purporting to be worth so much to his nonexistent client had already been forged, just in case he’d needed to show something to back up his cover story. White and Brown, the two expendables, had already been hired. The passage from Salalah was all set up with Svalgaard and O’Keefe. All that remained was to break into the home of Hussein Al Bu Said at the appointed time, take care of business there, snatch the rock, race undetected across the city to the port, jump aboard ship, endure a few days’ discomfort cooped up in the company of White and Brown, wait for Khosa’s dramatic entry and, at last, get the hell out of there a fabulously rich man. All the while letting not a living soul, least of all Jean-Pierre Khosa, know what he was really carrying. Piece of cake. But for all its dangers and complexities, it had been the most beautiful plan. This had been the Big One that Pender had spent his life ready and willing to do anything to make happen. After surviving twenty-four years in the private military contractor business, he wanted out before his well ran dry or he met a bullet. At age fifty-five, with thirty more years of life expectancy, he’d literally wept with joy that such unbelievable good fortune could have fallen into his lap. He could walk away from the whole shitty world, the richest fugitive in history. Another new identity with passport and driver’s licence to match, a nose job to alter his appearance a little, a high-rolling lifestyle of fast cars and beautiful women and casinos and more money than he could hope to spend if he lived to be a hundred, no matter how hard he tried. That was the intoxicatingly wonderful future he’d envisaged. He’d been so close to the finish line that he could taste the Martini cocktails, feel the soft white warm sand between his toes and hear the giggles of the adoring bikini-clad girls. And now everything was suddenly falling apart. Pender could actually visualise his plans cracking and raining to the floor in pieces like fragmented china. He could already have been out of here, if fucking Khosa hadn’t insisted on personally staying aboard the cargo ship until his guys finished off the last of the crew and sorted out the mysterious engine and power failure, instead of taking straight off in the fishing boat as first agreed. They were wasting time. What Khosa did with the ship was his business; Pender had been hopping with impatience to get on with his own. He’d been so disgusted with the circus up on the bridge that he’d wandered down to the empty mess room to find some coffee. And now look what had happened! Who let some young whippersnapper of a sailor go running amok like that? Pender couldn’t believe that he’d survived decades of warfare and dodged bullets everywhere from Angola to Libya, only to get cold-cocked by some kid with a flashlight. Now Pender was compelled to remain aboard until he got back what was his. He’d tear the vessel apart with his own bare hands if he had to. Furious, still clutching his splitting head, he stormed up onto the bridge to marshal a few men to come help him find that little shit who’d clobbered him, take back what he’d stolen and then disembowel the bastard. About eight Africans were scratching their heads around the dead instruments of the conning station, debating in flurries of their own language what switch they could press or lever to pull to restore the power. Until they could figure out what had caused the shutdown, the ship was going nowhere. ‘Maybe if you assholes didn’t butcher everyone on sight,’ thought Pender – the man who’d murdered the captain and mates – ‘then you might have a clue how to sail the ship.’ He was about to start yelling at them in fury when he saw the formidable figure of Jean-Pierre Khosa standing by the windows, casually lighting up another of his giant Cohibas. Standing with him was his right-hand man, Zolani Tembe, tall and muscular and apparently made of granite. Tembe wore ammunition belts the way Los Angeles rappers wore gold chains. His personal weapon was an M60 machine gun that was never out of his huge hands. A long, curved machete was stuck crossways in his belt. Pender swallowed and tried to play it cool. Only a very foolish man would vent his anger to the General’s face. Pender had no wish to end up as chopped shark bait. ‘You, you and you,’ he said, jabbing a finger at three Africans who didn’t seem to be doing much. ‘Come with me.’ ‘What do you want them for?’ Khosa said, in that deep, calm voice of his. Whenever he spoke, it was always with great deliberation, as if he considered every syllable in advance. ‘I’ve been robbed.’ Pender held up his left arm with the empty case dangling from it. ‘One of the crew is running around loose, and he took my papers.’ Khosa’s mutilated brow distorted into an even deeper frown. ‘Why would he do this?’ ‘How the hell do I know what some illiterate deckhand would want with them? Use them to wipe his ass with, for all I know. That’s not the point. I have to have them.’ Khosa roared with amusement amid a cloud of cigar smoke. Then, turning to the puzzled gang at the conning station, he dropped the smile and laid a big hand on the dead electronic consoles. ‘The problem is not with the equipment. The crew have done this. They are controlling the ship from the engine room. That is where we will find them. And that is where you will find your paper thief, messenger boy,’ he added for Pender’s benefit. He motioned at Zolani Tembe. ‘Gather the men and find this engine room. We must get this ship working.’ ‘And the crew?’ Tembe said. ‘Bring them to me. We will take the ones that we can sell or use, and kill the rest.’ The first of many urgent calls that day had an instantly positive outcome. The octogenarian billionaire Auguste Kaprisky was overjoyed by the chance to repay what he saw as his debt to Monsieur Hope for saving his life. His greatest fear, he told Ben on the phone, had been that Ben would never ask. Without any hesitation and not a single question about why it was needed, Kaprisky granted them full and free use of his private jet. The aircraft was kept in its own hangar at Le Mans Arnage airport, just a few kilometres from Kaprisky’s estate, and he maintained two pilots on full-time salary, ready to fly at a moment’s notice. The weather forecast was looking dicey, but they’d taken off in worse. The old man upgraded his plane every couple of years. His latest acquisition, he proudly declared, was a brand new Gulfstream G650ER, capable of covering thirteen thousand kilometres at a stretch, travelling at a steady Mach .85 with up to nineteen passengers on board. ‘That’s more than plenty,’ Ben said. ‘I can’t thank you enough, Auguste.’ ‘Anything for you, my friend. I mean it.’ Jeff was on his iPhone, cancelling clients and calling in the security firm they employed to look after Le Val when there was nobody around. With time so short, the rest of the plan was going to have to come together en route. Kaprisky had additionally offered to send his personal Bell 407 helicopter up to Le Val to collect them, but Ben had declined, thinking he could make slightly better time by road in the Alpina. While Jeff was making the last of the calls, Ben and Tuesday set about transferring equipment from the armoury to the back of the car. 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__label__wiki	0.809386	0.809386	The Monthly Review, Volumen61 and indulce treated in the exception encepe an admaint country much more dangerous to a Protestant government, than those of the Proteftants are to a Popith one ) are treated in the ..., United Provinces with more lenity and indulgence than they . are in any other Protestant country: they enjoy all the rights of çitizens, except an admiflion to civil employments; and in this : exception they are not distinguished from several other Protestant communities, whose members are excellent subjects, such as the Lutherans, Arminians, and Anabaptists. And yet our declamatory Author represents the Papists in Holland, as rea. Arained, tormented, and sacrificed, in his high-swollen phraseology. What would he lay, if they were tormented as the Protestants are in France; i. e. if their pastors were sent to the gallows or the gallies-their marriages considered as acts of fornication, and their children declared, by law, bastards ? We thall not continue this odious enumeration. Every one knows the tenderness and humanity of the French government, and the French tribunals, to the professors of the reform. ed religion in that country, fince the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Everyone knows the infernal persee cution of the Calas and the Sirvens, perpetrated openly, in the midst of the eighteenth century; and therefore our zealous Count would do well to apply the first efforts of his reforming spirit at home, and then he would display, with a better grace, his zeal for the correction of his neighbours. Take the beam out of your own eye, &c. His accounts of the Dutch commerce are the best part of this speckled discourse; and his observations on Belgic man,' ners, industry, æconomy, and luxury are, for the most part; . sensible, judicious, and well expressed : more especially, what he says of the past state of literature and arts in the United Provinces, is much more elegant, ample, and impartial, than what we find in some other modern travellers. It is not fuo .. perficial, considering the compass of the work; and it must be confeffed that the lift he presents of the literati and artists .. that have Aourished in the United Provinces, is highly respect. able, and does singular honour to a country, so limited in its extent, and so little favoured by the liberality of nature. . . At the end of this splendid lift, he tells us, that the sciences have their flow and ebb, and that the most brilliant period of their prosperity is the forerunner of their downfal, or at least, of their retrogradation to a state of mediocrity. Accordingly, . he looks upon Dutch literature as, at prefent, under a total. eclipse; and here again he exaggerates more or less : for though The religious principles of Protestants are dangerous to no go. vernment; and the King of France has no better subjects in his king. dom than those of that persuasion. we perceive no more above the literary horizon of the United Provinces, stars of the first magnitude, such as a Grotius, a Gronovius, a Schultens, a Boerhaave, an Albinus, a Nieuwentyt, a Huygens, a s'Gravesande, and a Mufschenbroek; yet there are itill many learned men'; and the spirit of literary improvement and philofophical inquiry is very far from being extinguished in the United Provinces, as appears from the numerous academies Bately erected in that country for the improvement of experimental philofophy, natural history, useful arts, and Dutch poetry; and from various testamentary foundations left for prize disa courses on metaphysical, moral, and theological fubjects. We know not whether this fpirit of improvement and inquiry be owing to the disinterested zeal of individuals, or to the fortering protection and encouragement of government, and therefore we tball neither affirm nor refute what our Author says of the state of obscurity and nullity (as he calls it) in which the learned in Holland are at present sunk. Our Author's description of Switzerland, in the fourth Difa course, is picturesque and interesting; and his poetical style is often happily employed in painting the somantic and ftupendous fcenes that nature exhibits in that country. It is more particuJarly in reading this last Discourse, that we regret Count D’Albon's prostitution of his pen to national prejudices, and narrow views, in the other parts of his work. ITALY. . II. Consiglio ad un Giované Poeta, &c. i. e.. Counsel to a Foung Poet. By MARTIN SHERLOCK. 8vo. Naples. 1779. This piece contains an ingenious investigation of Italian poetry, and comes from the pen of an Hibernian, who writes in the Janguage of the country whose bards he criticises. Mr. Shere LOCK is a lively writer, and seems to possess a rich portion of taite and imagination. Farther, he discovers marks of judge ment and folidity, when he speaks of objects which he has obferved with a deliberate assiduity and attention ;--but he feems rather apt, sometimes, to take a part for the whole, and to be led a fairy dance after falle or ambiguous lights: as the reader will see in the following article. In the work before us, he appears to advantage ; and though both the work and the language in which it is written, render it peculiarly intereft. ing to Italian readers, yet it is worthy of a much more universal reception. Mr. SHERLOCK observes, that harmony and colouring (by which last, no doubt, hc means style and expression) are the · parts of the poetic art, in which the Italians more especially Thine; while nature, truh, the simple, and the pathetic, which characterise the great poet, are more or less neglected. Their productions are generally addressed to the imagination, com trub, the more or less model imaginaties rarely to reason or to the heart. It is a just and judicious remark of Mr. Sherlock's, that the very noblest productions of the Italian poets have contributed to perpetuate this deviation from simplicity and nature, by the admiration they have excited through succeeding ages; an admiration that renders their very defects respectable, and objects of imitation. The young Italian poeis, accustomed to consider Dante, Pefrarcb, Arioso, and others approaching to that class, as models of perfection, beyond which the poetic art can make no farther progress, confine their imitation to these dangerous guides, and walk with a servile admiration in the paths which they have opened. Mr. SHERLCCK combats with good sense, taste, and spirit, this way of proceeding: he estimates the respective merits of these immortal bards; but though he does this, for the most part, in a masterly manner, there is, nevertheless, sometimes more wit than truth in his decisions. For example, after having described Petrarch with accuracy, taste, and fenfibility, as an inventive genius, who created a new kind of poetry, who from a harp, which had but few strings, drew celestial sounds, and whole tender heart spoke to hearts of the same mold the language of nature,-he adds, that • Petrarch exhausted the species of poetry which he had invented, and therefore could not form successors.' _We question much, whether Petrarch invented this kind of poetry : but we are sure he did not exhaust it, for true love and genuine nature are inexhaustible. Mr. SHERLOCK is severe on Ariosto : he considers him, nota withstanding his beautiful descriptions, brilliant thoughts, and striking comparisons, as the great corrupter of cafte in Italy: because beauty is inseparable from truth, and nothing is more inconsistent with the latter, than the abiurd relations, the fantastic prodigies, and the gigantic ideas and images, that are ever, proceeding, like the explosions of a Volcano, from the fermenting brain of Ariosto. We subscribe to this judgment of Mr. SHERLOCK's, but we are somewhat surprised to see him drawing a para:lel between two such writers as Ariosto and Me. taitafio. He will justify the comparison, perhaps, by observing that he only meant to express the preference which he gives to the kind of poetry cultivated by the latter, above that which distinguishes the former. In this case, however, he ought not to have said, at the end of his parallel, that Metaftafio is superior to Ariosto, but that he liked the one better than the other : Su.. periority and Inferiority are gradations of diversity that belong to objects of the same kind. After pointing out the imperfection of the models which are imitated in Italy, our Author advises the young poet to turn his enthusiastic eye from these fallacious guides, and to raise them withstanding bicons, as the second truth, and Ariking beauty is ine patter, thar ideas a like thihans, without a placed therrench as more per boundation to the Greeks, Latins, and French. We think it liberal in Mr. SHERLOCK, to throw off the Thackles of political restraint in his literary judgments; and we are perfectly disposed to render justice to the considerable number of eminent writers in literature and philosophy, that do honour to the French nation at this day; but we think he overshot the proper bounds of civility, when he held out the French as models in poetryand above all, when he placed them immediately after the Greeks and Romans, without drawing between them an horizontal line like this as who would say-pray keep your distance. The French themselves (we mean the founder part of them) acknowledge, that, however harmonious their language may be in prose (and such we ourselves think it to be, in a high degree); yet it has not that kind of harmony which is adapted to music and poetry." G E N E V A. . III. Lettres d'un Voyageur Anglois, i. ė. Letters of an English Traveller. Geneva. 1779.-Here we have again Mr. SherLOCK, who, from a great number of letters written during his travels, has selected twenty-seven of the best, to regale the pub. lic. He has written two hundred-of which, we suppose, these are the quintessence: they are dedicated (as is the preceding work) to the present Bishop of Derry, in whom are united all the qualities and powers of an elegant a nd learned Mæcenas; and they are published in French, that the connoisseurs on the Continent might not be deprived of the pleasure of perusing them. The first of these letters, which is dated from Berlin, còn. tains a very magnificent eulogy of the King of Prussia, and from the two first pages the reader will form fome notion of the tone and manner that reign in these letters. The King of Prussia is universally known as a great prince, a great warrior, and a gieat politician ;-but he is less generally known as a great poet, and a good-natured man Marcus Antoninus, Machiavel, (well paired, Mr. Sherlock !) Horace, and Cæfar, have been his models; and he has almost surpassed them all. I never heard of a human being who was perfect; but in a general point of view, the King of Prussia is the greatest man that ever existed.. In the early part of his life, he published his Anti-Machiavel; and this was one of the most dextrous strokes of Machiavelian policy that he ever exhibited. It was a letter of re: * Mr. SHERLOCK's expreflion is ben homme, which, in French, fignifies a filly, open hearted, good natured man. How the French came to associate the idea of filly with the term good, we shall not 'enquire : che affociation does them little honour. But as Mr. Sherlock could not apply the word good in this complex sense to the King of Proflia, we have taken the liberty to translate it as above. commendation, people to matter of cats, he is the molt danger the latter. commendation, which he wrote in favour of him felf, to all the powers and people of Europe, while he was forming the project of making himself mafter of Silesia. .. ! "With respect to his fubjects, he is the jufteit of monarchs; but in the eye of his neighbours, he is the most dangerous hero: he excites adoration in the former, and strikes terror into the latter, The Pruffians are proud of their Frederic the Great, as they al. ways call bim. They speak of him with the utmost freedom: and while they keenly censure his taste with respect to certain objects, they bestow upon him the greatest encomiums.- . There is no character in modern times, concerning which men are so much deceived, as that of this monarch; and the reason of this mistake is, their not considering feparately two parts of his character, which require each a distinët estimation, but of which, nevertheless, they judge in the lump.' (Let us bear Mr. SHERLOCK out, för he is really a curious casuist) The King of Prussia has caused the destruction of thousands of men. -The King of Prusia is, at the same time, tender-hearted, humane, and full of clemency:--This appears a contradiction. Nevertheless, it is a certain truth.' (Hero now comes the proof) « We must first consider him (continues Mr. SHERLOCK) as a conqueror, in which character, it is not allowable to listen to the voice of humanity :' (No indeed?) . But when heroism is out of the question, we must examine the man. This, perhaps, (says our Author) will be called a subtilty :' &c. No, Mr. SHERLOCK, for our part, we will give it no such apa pellation; for it is the very groffest and most palpable paralogilim that could enter into the head of a sensible man, or into the imagination of a humane man. . If you separate the hero from the man, the former becomes an affaslin, and the latter loses much of his dignity, more especially if he be à prince. Befide it is not using the word hero in the sense it commonly bears, to make it express the character of a bloody conqueror. Your separation of the blood-breathing hero from the good-natured man, puts us in mind of a Curate in Ireland, who affirmed, subtly, over a bowl of punch, that Judas Iscariot, though a bad man, was a good clergyman. The distinction dazzled a great part of the company, when a plain sensible man, who fat at table, addrefled to the Curate this puzzling question. When the bad man goes to bell; Mr. Curate, where will the good clergyman go?" Beside what is a mere conqueror, a character which Mr. SHERLOCK so injudiciously confounds with that of a hero? A mere conqueror is a man who robs and murders, and is above the reach of human laws; we do not, then; think, that our Author could have paid a worse compliment to the King of Pruffia, than to call hith a 'conqueror. ii .	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2799
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__label__wiki	0.626901	0.626901	December 22, 2016 \| Radio CRTC gives TTP Media until June 30 to launch English radio station at 600 AM For the fourth time in as many years, a group owned by a trio of Montreal businessmen has appealed to the CRTC for an extension on their deadline to launch a new AM radio station, claiming that unforeseen circumstances have caused delays but assuring the commission that they’ve been resolved and the station is months away from launch. TTP Media’s request for an extension for 600 AM On Wednesday, the CRTC announced that it will grant an extension, until June 30, 2017, to 7954689 Canada Inc. (TTP Media) to launch its English talk radio station at 600 AM, first authorized in 2012. As it did with the 940 AM station a year ago, the extension was granted despite the previous extension being declared “final” by the commission. Though the previous extensions, despite being requested for only a few months, were given for a full year, this one is limited to June 30, after the group said it should have the station on air by June. This is the first official communication from the otherwise very quiet group for a year now, so we have some information on what is causing the delays, and what their short-term plans are. As in previous requests, Managing Partner Nicolas Tétrault blames “the consolidation in the commercial broadcasting business in Montreal,” a reference to the Bell acquisition of Astral Media that was finalized in 2013 (and did not result in any major programming changes to existing stations in the market). But here he indicates that the banks that are loaning them tens of millions of dollars needed some reassuring on the group’s business plan. (This may be, at least in part, why they abandoned plans for a third station at 850 AM, though that station is not mentioned at all in the application.) The bigger issue has related to the transmitter itself. The group finally came to an agreement with Cogeco Media to buy all the assets of the former CINW 940 and CINF 690 transmitter site in Kahnawake, and signed a new lease with the land owner, Frances Montour. The details of the lease are redacted, but it appears to go until 2022, with clauses for renewal beyond that. It didn’t take long after the agreements were signed in late September and early October for the 940 transmitter to be brought back to life, at first to do on-site testing, antenna tuning and impedance matching, and later full on-air testing. The station, CFNV 940 AM, has legally launched, but a de facto launch is expected early in 2017, according to its Twitter account. In the meantime, it’s running music — currently all-Christmas music — interspersed with recorded messages every 15 minutes: http://blog.fagstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cfnv-holiday.mp3 You’ll notice the station refers to itself as “La superstation”. Time will tell if it lives up to that tagline. More work needed for 600 For the English station at 600, there’s more work needed than turning the switch back on and transmitting again. The towers that were set to work at 690 have to be re-tuned for 600, and the transmitter itself needs to be sent to the factory to be reset to the new frequency. On top of it all, parts for AM transmitters aren’t as easy to find as they used to be, and nowadays must be custom made, which causes more delays. From Patrice Lemée, engineer at Commspec: Concernant la station AM 600KHz, l’envergure des travaux techniques est beaucoup plus complexe. Celle-ci sise e?galement dans les anciennes infrastructures de Cogeco Me?dia Inc. ope?rant a? la fre?quence 690KHz. Par contre, un changement de fre?quence est requis afin de diffuser a? la fre?quence 600KHz. Ces changements touchent l’essence me?me du site de diffusion. L’e?metteur doit e?tre partiellement re?-expe?die? a? l’usine afin d’e?tre re-synthonise? a? la nouvelle fre?quence. Le syste?me de phasage doit comple?tement e?tre redessine? afin de diffuser a? la nouvelle fre?quence d’ope?ration. De plus, ces deux stations (600 & 940) coexistent sur le me?me site de diffusion. Ce qui entraine des complexite?s supple?mentaires quant a? la conception du syste?me. Afin de proce?der aux diffe?rentes modifications du syste?me de diffusion de la station AM 600Khz, nous avons contacte? diffe?rents manufacturiers. Base? sur les re?ponses des soumissions obtenues, il semblerait que certains manufacturiers ont de la difficulte? a? obtenir les pie?ces requises pour effectuer la conversion dans les de?lais prescrits. Je vous confirme cependant que les travaux sont de?ja? entame?s et que la conception est pratiquement termine?e. Par contre, la rarete? des pie?ces d’e?quipement AM est une re?alite? de nos jours. Les pie?ces sont maintenant faites sur demande et les de?lais de livraison sont beaucoup plus longs que par le passe?. Il est assez fre?quent de rencontrer des de?lais de livraison de 12 a? 16 semaines. Suite aux informations cite?es pre?ce?demment, nous estimons qu’il sera possible d’effectuer les modifications du syste?me de diffusion du 600KHz seulement au printemps 2017. Nous demandons donc une extension de la date de mise en service jusqu’au 30 juin 2017. The application makes no mention of administrative or on-air aspects of either stations, including launch dates, on-air talent or studio location. So we’ll just have to continue to wait. Tags: CRTC, Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy ← Media News Digest: Facebook’s fake news strategy, Rogers scraps IPTV project, and a Terry and Ted podcast “Are you happy?” → 24 thoughts on “CRTC gives TTP Media until June 30 to launch English radio station at 600 AM” dilbert December 22, 2016 at 3:35 pm The CRTC has very little to lose by granting an extension. For the most part few (if any) groups are interested in operating in the AM band anymore, so there is no real huge lineup behind these guys to snap up the license and do something with it. If TTP happen to get things done in time and put a station on the air, it would be a big deal for the CRTC. Big AM Launches are pretty much a thing of the past these days. The CRTC has also set the bar extremely low (scant mm off the floor) when it comes to the definition of “launched”. The current 940 is launched pretty much as I suggested, a computer in a room somewhere playing fully automated whatever. Even that happened pretty solidly after the deadline, but the CRTC doesn’t seem to care. Getting station actually on the air on AM seems so rare that they are willing to toss the rule book out the window and smile while doing it. Fagstein Post author December 24, 2016 at 10:10 pm Getting station actually on the air on AM seems so rare that they are willing to toss the rule book out the window and smile while doing it. There aren’t any rules to toss out the window in this case. The standard conditions of licence for commercial AM radio stations don’t have a minimum requirement for local programming, nor did the commission impose one as a condition of licence for that station, though the decision notes a “commitment” to 100% local programming. Assuming TTP Media meets that commitment when it unofficially launches and through the rest of its (now much shorter) licence term, it probably won’t be an issue at renewal. dilbert December 26, 2016 at 4:00 am The basic rules of “you must be on the air by this date or lose the license” has been tossed out… TTP seem to be the masters of extensions more than anything, and considering they let one license lapse, it seems pretty surprising that the commission would continue to grant them extension after extension on the other ones. If there were no rules to toss out, anyone could just set up an AM transmitter and blast away. That’s pretty much the case now. FM stations have stricter conditions of licence, but for a commercial AM station you can do just about anything you want programming-wise. mimo December 22, 2016 at 10:40 pm They’re running commercials now. We heard some this afternoon. Marc December 22, 2016 at 11:40 pm Sounds like they want to invest in crusty, old equipment. They could acquire something new, solid-state, made in Canada: http://www.nautel.com/solutions/am-nx-series-25-50kw/ The equipment at the CFNV site is a Nautel solid state transmitter and not some crusty old equipment that you allege. Put a name behind your comment if you want to be taken seriously. C December 23, 2016 at 9:33 am I hope the French station will not be like the late 91,9 fm. We want a real alternative radio. Because 98,5 fm is very boring and soft. dilbert450 April 11, 2017 at 3:09 pm Any news on this? Fagstein Post author April 12, 2017 at 5:54 pm c May 16, 2017 at 3:28 pm What’s going on on this station we only listen to music, no talk radio!!!!! Media Man May 16, 2017 at 10:02 pm Well we are like close here to launch date or some sort of on air testing by June 30! Still any news of anything, studio location, poaching of personalities, hiring somebody to run 940? A real mystery or maybe keeping the competition guessing and on their feet..?? C May 17, 2017 at 11:36 am Media Man : I hope, because there is an ad on their website that seems to say that will be an Talk-radio (opinion). But what personality could face Paul Arcand? I hope they will hire young radio host. Because Paul Arcand became very very soft. Marc May 18, 2017 at 11:52 pm Prediction: 600 will sign-on the week prior to June 30 with English-language 80s-90s music and will remain that way for as long as needed until they have their ducks in a row, if ever. dilbert June 13, 2017 at 8:11 pm I think that by “ducks in a row” it’s more like “until a buyer is found”. I think TTP is hoping that one of the major players that isn’t in Montreal may come along and want to get in the easy way. They will have two built stations ready to go with no legacy programming. Fagstein Post author June 14, 2017 at 1:37 pm I think TTP is hoping that one of the major players that isn’t in Montreal may come along and want to get in the easy way. They will have two built stations ready to go with no legacy programming. That would be a pretty stupid business model. And the CRTC likely wouldn’t accept such a sale since it would go against its licence trafficking policy. Couillon anonyme June 12, 2017 at 11:50 pm According to Industry Canada, the station now has a call sign: CFQR (the former call letters, from 1966 to 2011, for 92.5, now CKBE-FM). Mimo June 13, 2017 at 2:23 pm Nice..although I was hoping they could get the old CFCF calls. I was hoping they could get the old CFCF calls. CFCF is not an available callsign because it’s used by the television station. Other former AM station calls are also being used: – CIQC is used by an FM radio station in B.C. – CKVL is used by a community station in LaSalle – CJMS is used by an AM station in St-Constant CINW and CINF are still available, though. Marc June 13, 2017 at 9:50 pm I thought CFCF-DT and CFCF were separate calls. As would CFCF-FM (which CFQR originally was). CFCF 600 broke off from CFCF-12 in the late 80’s. It became CIQC in fall 1991. Mimo June 13, 2017 at 11:38 pm So that means a radio station can’t use a call sign if a tv station has it in Canada? I thought they could, but I guess I was wrong. I’m not sure they’d want the CINW or CINF calls…although it would have been interesting to see that used for 940 again. So that means a radio station can’t use a call sign if a tv station has it in Canada? Generally, yes. There are exceptions, mainly grandfathered cases where the two stations once had common ownership. Media Man June 13, 2017 at 3:06 pm Interesting turn of events with the call sign news. Does this mean testing to start soon and then on air like 940 is doing now. But how soon after will the news talk programming start, staff hiring and /or poaching of big names, studio location.. Right now it’s a laptop out of a back office..	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2811
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__label__cc	0.543473	0.456527	HBDC Told Eldredge Garage Stable Can't Be Saved December 14, 2016 CHATHAM – No matter who ends up owning the Eldredge Garage, the oldest building on the property, built about 120 years ago as a stable, will likely have to be torn down. Although determined to be historically significant, the building is in such poor condition that it is not salvageable, several people told the historic business district commission during a hearing last Wednesday. The best that could be hoped ... Read more from HBDC Told Eldredge Garage Stable Can't Be Saved House Demo Rekindles Stage Harbor Rd. Historic District Effort December 14, 2016 CHATHAM – A proposal to demolish a 150-year-old home on Stage Harbor Road has rekindled a push to have the historic street placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historical commission last week imposed an 18-month demolition delay on the Greek Revival house at 271 Stage Harbor Rd., and asked town staff to prepare documentation to submit to the Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC), the fir... Read more from House Demo Rekindles Stage Harbor Rd. Historic District Effort All Aboard The Cookie Express! December 14, 2016 CHATHAM – Well before the sale begins, there's a line of people in the rear foyer at the First Congregational Church of Chatham early Saturday morning, waiting for the annual Cookie Express to start. Inside the church hall, volunteers buzz around long tables set in a big square, adding more cookies to the dozens of plates already piled high with every sort of holiday cookie imaginable: gingerbread men, sugar c... Read more from All Aboard The Cookie Express! Chatham Celebrates Christmas By The Sea December 14, 2016 Frigid temperatures didn't deter crowds from attending Chatham's 38 th annual Christmas by the Sea celebration last weekend. After a process from the community center to Sears Park, the town Christmas tree was lit to a chorus of seasonal carols, with oversight from Santa and Buddy the Elf. The celebration continued throughout the weekend with open houses, music and the annual historic inn tour. CLICK HERE FO... Read more from Chatham Celebrates Christmas By The Sea Human Skull Found On Museum Grounds December 14, 2016 CHATHAM – Landscapers doing a fall cleanup at the Atwood House Museum made a surprising discovery last Friday: a human skull. Thought to be more than 100 years old, the skull was found in the brush behind the Stage Harbor Road museum, which is owned by the Chatham Historical Society. “It generated a lot of excitement,” said museum Executive Director Danielle Jeanloz. Workers from Luciano's Landscaping di... 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__label__cc	0.517965	0.482035	Faithful Catholics always seek to save souls. Because there is No Salvation Outside the Catholic Church, 1 the faithful Catholic always seeks to convert souls to the Catholic Faith. For this reason, the faithful Catholic heart is the generous, self-sacrificing heart of a missionary. No effort is too great to bring even a single soul to the true Catholic Faith! As St. Paul told the Corinthians: “I most gladly will spend myself and be spent for your souls”. 2 Corin. 12:15. Throughout history, faithful Catholics have tried to convert their neighbors and people across the world. To mention only a few famous examples: St. Thomas the Apostle went to India.2 St. Francis Xavier went to India and Japan.3 St. Patrick went to Ireland.4 St. Boniface went to Germany.5 St. Remigius went to France.6 Our Lord commands Catholics to generously seek souls to convert: Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.7 Pope St. Gregory the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas explain that, in Our Lord’s command, the phrase “every creature” means “every man”.8 Therefore, Our Lord commands the Gospel must be preached to every man, regardless of his condition, location and circumstances. The Four Main Excuses the Devil Suggests to us, to not seek Converts Satan insidiously whispers four excuses to our fallen human nature to prevent us from zealously doing everything we can to convert souls: My efforts would affect so few souls that the possible gain is not worth the effort, so I should not try. It is too hard or dangerous to try to convert souls, so I should not try. The people I could try to convert are intellectually ill-prepared for my efforts to convert them to the Catholic Faith, so I should not try. The people I could try to convert are badly-disposed toward accepting the Catholic Faith, so I should not try to convert them. Below, we discuss these satanic suggestions. Satan’s excuse #1: My efforts would affect so few souls that the possible gain is not worth the effort, so I should not try to convert them. The devil tells us that, in our own circumstances, the souls we could convert are too few to warrant the efforts required. This is false! One soul is worth more than all of material creation! St. Thomas Aquinas explains this truth as follows: [T]he rational creature is more excellent than all transient and corporeal creatures....9 Our Lord teaches the same thing by asking: For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?10 Faithful Catholics are generous, not stingy! They know that no effort is too great to try to convert souls. Here is how one missionary to far northwest Canada described what he found: The missionary in Mackenzie will travel almost fabulous distances on snow-shoes, or in a dog-sled in order to baptize a few children, to confess and communicate half a dozen Catholics and to usher an Indian soul out of this world in peace.... There may be, therefore, on an average one living soul to something like 200 square miles in those regions.... The disciple is not above his Master, and he is content with small results until, after much planting and watering, God gives at length plentiful increase.11 Plainly, we must never tire of trying to convert even one person or help save even one soul! Satan’s excuse #2: It is too hard or dangerous to try to convert souls, so I should not try. If a person firmly (and correctly) holds that converting even a single soul is worth every effort, the devil is ready to suggest a “back up” excuse: “It is too dangerous.” Often when men use this excuse, they really mean they would suffer embarrassment and that worldly men and non-Catholics would not accept them. How unworthy are those concerns! In this excuse, such men “weigh” worldly advantage and human respect as greater than the eternal salvation of souls! But even if the word “dangerous” (in this excuse) really meant death, who cares? St. Paul showed (and taught) us that we must gladly spend ourselves for souls. 2 Corin. 12:15. Danger should not hold us back from seeking converts and helping save souls! Read what St. Paul gladly suffered for souls: Of the Jews, five times did I receive forty stripes, save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea. In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren. In labor and painfulness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.... At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me. And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands.12 Satan’s excuse #3: The people I could try to convert are intellectually ill-prepared for the Catholic Faith, so I should not try to convert them. If the first two excuses don’t stop our efforts to convert souls, the devil is ready to suggest yet another “back up” excuse. He tells us that in our own circumstances, the souls we could try to convert are too intellectually ill-prepared and so it will do no good to try to convert them. But faithful Catholics make every effort to save souls, even the souls of persons with the most badly-formed, ill-prepared minds imaginable! Since faithful Catholics have a missionary spirit, they overcome obstacles! They don’t use them as excuses! One obstacle is a language barrier, which makes a person intellectually unprepared to be converted. The Déné Indian of far northern Canada did not know any language with which they could communicate with missionaries. This presented many problems. For example, as one missionary wrote, there was: the difficulty of distinguishing [language] roots from accidental additions. The Déné language consists in great measure of words of one syllable, like Chinese. All the root words are monosyllables. I have already collected 745 of them. Some words that are written exactly alike are made to vary in meaning by the tone of voice, etc. The correct pronunciations of the words are extremely difficult for the European. It is remarkable that labials are little used. A Déné, without parting his teeth, and only slightly opening his lips, will pour out a torrent of words impossible to mistake.13 Another, even greater obstacle to conversion, is the ill-prepared mind which thinks only about things that can be sensed. As one missionary wrote: The Déné does not reflect upon his thoughts or impressions. He runs on. His writing, like his talk, is continuity.... The language of the Déné is a picture of their mind. For sensible objects, they have innumerable words; for general ideas, hardly any.... [H]is intellect seems asleep under the ashes of ignorance accumulating for generations. The name of a virtue or the simplest explanation of a religious truth seems often something outside the range of his understanding.14 However, these missionaries had a Catholic spirit! They thirsted for souls, as faithful Catholics do! They gave no thought to giving up! Here is what they did: They set themselves first of all to study the language, and to master the idioms, and to force the words somehow or other to bring home to the pagan mind the meaning of virtue, religious mysteries, the Commandments of God, the multitude of His tender mercies, the coming of the Son of God, the Son of Mary, and the making of the Catholic Church.15 Again, faithful Catholics don’t give up on ill-prepared souls! They overcome obstacles in order to spread the true Catholic Faith! Satan’s excuse #4: The people I could try to convert are badly-disposed toward the Catholic Faith, so I should not try to convert them. If the first three excuses don’t stop efforts to convert souls, the devil is ready with a last “back up” excuse. He tells us that in our own circumstances, the souls we could try to convert are too ill-disposed to accept the Catholic Faith and so it will do no good to try to convert them. But faithful Catholics make every effort to save souls, even the most ill-disposed souls (toward the Catholic Faith) that can be imagined. For example, the Déné (who later become excellent Catholics) were cannibals, who killed and ate their own children.16 Just like the father of the Prodigal Son, the truly Catholic heart always has its “eye” on the horizon, looking for every opportunity, and willing to make every effort, to help even the worst men convert to the true Catholic Faith.17 The Iroquois are infamous as being uniquely hostile to the Catholic Faith. But the Catholic heart is missionary! The faithful Catholic thirsts for souls and always hopes that “things will be different” with more effort, and that those souls will convert. The Catholic heart hopes that, if non-Catholics (such as the Iroquois) are approached yet again, and if another attempt is made to convert him, it will succeed. No efforts are too great or too many! The longstanding and extreme Iroquois hostility toward the Catholic Faith did not cause the missionaries to give up on them! Read a letter written in Montreal in 1656, by a Jesuit missionary en route to the Iroquois villages to found the first mission: We are on the eve of our departure to go and collect what remains of the Blood of the Son of God among those peoples, where we have had the happiness of shedding our own [viz., the missionaries’ blood] and of carrying the light of the Faith to them, although their [viz., the Iroquois’] sole design hitherto has been to extinguish it [viz., the light of the Catholic Faith]; that is, we go to establish ourselves among the Iroquois. I think that, in mentioning those Barbarians, I say all that can be said; for their name alone shows the risk which we run and the glory which will accrue to God from the execution of that design. We are not ignorant of the fact that these Savages have eaten us with relish and have drunk with pleasure the blood of the Fathers of our Society; that their hands and their lips are still wet with it, and that the fires in which they roasted their [viz., missionary priests’] limbs are not yet quite extinguished. We have not forgotten the conflagrations that they have kindled to consume our houses, and the cruelty that they have practiced on our bodies, which still bear its marks. We know that their whole policy consists in knowing well how to plot treachery, and to conceal all their plans for it; that no Nero or Diocletian ever declared himself so strongly against the Christians as these bloodthirsty Savages have done against us.... [A]lthough the [Iroquois] have hitherto manifested nothing but cruelty, the [Jesuit missionaries] feel only an affection for them, which makes them hold life cheap, and lavish it generously, for the salvation of those who have so often sought to put them [ viz., the Jesuit missionaries] to death.... [W]e go to declare war against Infidelity, and to fight the Devil in the very heart of his country.18 Every faithful Catholic heart is the heart of a missionary! We don’t rest while people remain in the darkness outside the Catholic Church, whether they be our neighbors or across the world! We must spare no effort to bring them in! Bishop Williamson’s Group Lacks Catholic Zeal for the Faith and for Souls. The Fake Resistance (Bishop Williamson’s group) is composed of four bishops, many priests and laymen. This group lacks zeal for souls, for five reasons: Whereas persons who are zealous for the Catholic Faith and for the conversion of souls, do everything in their power to prevent souls’ contamination by the errors of heretics and schismatics, Bishop Williamson teaches people soul-damning errors: To go to the new mass, which is the “mass” of the new conciliar religion (if it helps them);19 To go to sedevacantist and feeneyite masses, although they are schismatics and heretics;20 Catholics will find truth in the (heretical) Anglican “religion”, as well as find “true worship of God” there;21 To read false and heretical visions which the Catholic Church condemned before Vatican II, by the Holy Office of the great Cardinal Ottaviani;22 To adopt the principles of the Faith-destroying heresy of Situation Ethics ;23 and Many other heresies. Persons zealous for the Catholic Faith and conversion of souls stand up for the Faith no matter what the consequences. They defend the Faith publicly to avoid the scandal which would be caused by their silence. Many of Bishop Williamson’s group, e.g., Bishop Aquinas and the Dominicans of Avrillé, disagree with his heresies but maintain a cowardly silence. 24 His group’s silence is “deafening” and nearly total, as their leader corrupts the Catholic Faith in souls. Bishop Williamson’s group also ostracizes whoever opposes his heresies. Persons zealous for the Catholic Faith and conversion of souls ceaselessly do what they can—by word and deed—to bring people into the true Catholic Faith, whether or not those people’s minds are ill-prepared to receive the Catholic Faith. As quoted below, Bishop Williamson promotes the damnation-causing error that we should not try to convert people today because their minds are ill-prepared for conversion. Persons zealous for the Catholic Faith and conversion of souls ceaselessly do what they can—by word and deed—to bring people into the true Catholic Faith, regardless of whether they are ill-disposed to receive the Catholic Faith. As quoted below, Bishop Williamson promotes the damnation-causing error that we should not try to convert people because they are ill-disposed to receive the Catholic Faith. Bishop Williamson discourages others from trying to convert souls by his teaching that, if we fight for converts and for the Catholic Faith, we are likely to abandon the Faith ourselves. Here are Bishop Williamson’s own poisonous words, showing how he tries to discourage attempts to convert souls: [M]any a clear-sighted Catholic can already be preferring to keep silent rather than attempt to argue or to teach. A mass of modern minds are so incapable any longer of thinking or reasoning that any attempt to dispel their errors can seem to risk only increasing their confusion. ... Our Lord tells us not to throw pearls in front of swine, in other words not to teach people unfit to learn, and He tells His Apostles to shake off from their feet the dust of a town that will not listen (Mt. VII, 6; Lk. IX, 5). Our Lord gave the example of keeping silent, in front of the Sanhedrin (Mt. XXVII, 12, 14), Herod (Lk. XXIII, 9) and Pilate (Jn. XIX, 9). Many souls today are likewise unfit to hear the truth. And when it comes to fighting, Our Lord Himself in the Garden of Gethsemane told Peter to put up his sword. Such was not the will of God (Mt. XXVI, 54). Peter’s problem was that he had not done what Our Lord had told him to do, which was to “watch and pray.” As a result, when his manly will to fight was frustrated even by his beloved Master, he abandoned him [sic] and ran away (Mk. XIV, 50). Beware, fighters for Our Lord—if your fighting does not work, you risk running away from Him! Today what Our Lord does ask us to do is to make reparation to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Mother, especially by the Rosary and the Devotion of the First Saturdays. Eleison Comments #513 (emphasis added). Let us look at Bishop Williamson’s three excuses not to seek converts, which are contained in the quote immediately above (and which are summarized in #3-#5 right above that). 1. Bishop Williamson falsely teaches that we should not try to convert souls because most people are so intellectually ill-prepared that they could not understand the truths of the Catholic Faith. (He says: “A mass of modern minds are so incapable any longer of thinking”.) A faithful Catholic does not talk (or think) this way! A Catholic heart rejects this stingy and defeatist attitude! Bishop Williamson is merely making an excuse to abandon souls and fail to try to bring them into the One Ark of Salvation, the Catholic Church! No minds were more ill-prepared to think than the minds of the Canadian Indians of the Arctic, who did not even have the words and concepts for abstract ideas! But faithful Catholics push forward to convert souls regardless of their completely ill-prepared minds! 2. Bishop Williamson falsely teaches that people today have such bad will there is no use trying to convert them. He tells us that people today are “unfit to hear the truth”. Bishop Williamson teaches that people today have such bad will there is no use trying to convert them.25 But Bishop Williamson does not know the disposition of all individual persons and he rashly assumes they are all the same and all unconvertable. This stingy, anti-missionary assumption is so un-Catholic! It is a pernicious, soul-damning excuse! Bishop Williamson furthers his rash, evil teaching by praising people as “clear-sighted” because they no longer try to convert people to the true Faith.26 Even if we cannot convert everyone, our tireless efforts might bear fruit known only to God, not us! We must take as our own the words of St. Paul: “I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls”. 2 Corin. 12:15. At all times in history, most people are not “ready to convert”. For example, the Iroquois and the Canadian cannibals were not “ready to convert”. But we must do everything in our power to help people become ready to convert. 3. Bishop Williamson Teaches that Trying to Convert People would endanger our own Faith. Bishop Williamson says that we should be afraid to fight for converts and for the Catholic Faith today, because this fight is likely to make us abandon the Faith ourselves.27 Bishop Williamson advises us instead, only to pray. Bishop Williamson calls prayer “what Our Lord does ask”, showing he means that Our Lord does not ask us to try to convert people.28 Of course, the truth is that faithful Catholics do pray, but also fight and seek converts to the Catholic Faith. As quoted above, Our Lord commands the Gospel be preached to every man, regardless of his condition, location and circumstances. St. Ignatius of Loyola gives us Rules for the Discernment of Spirits (which he received from Our Lady), which show us when the devil is behind an idea proposed to us. When we apply these rules, we see that Bishop Williamson echoes Satan, when advising us not to seek converts. St. Ignatius warns us that when we are trying to be generous and do more for Our Lord (such as by seeking converts), the devil will suggest false obstacles and try to discourage us by false arguments. Here are St. Ignatius’s words: In the persons who are going on intensely cleansing their sins and rising from good to better in the service of God our Lord, ... then it is the way of the evil spirit to bite, sadden and put obstacles, disquieting with false reasons, that one may not go on; and it is proper to the good spirit to give courage and strength, consolations, tears, inspirations and quiet, easing, and putting away all obstacles, that one may proceed in good works.29 Following St. Ignatius’s warning, when we seek to serve Our Lord better, we must expect the devil to whisper words of discouragement. We hear the devil’s whisper echoing in the words of Bishop Williamson. When we have a missionary heart, we conform ourselves to the Catholic Church. It is the devil who whispers to us, through Bishop Williamson, “you can’t do it”; “it is too hard”; and “it won’t do any good”. We also hear the devil’s poisonous whisper through Bishop Williamson, that “if you fight to obtain converts, you will abandon the Faith yourself”. Even when the devil’s pernicious whisper echoes in Bishop Williamson’s words, we must respond to him the same way: “Begone Satan!” We see in Bishop Williamson’s Words, not only the Method of the Devil but also the End-Result which the Conciliar Church and the Devil seek. Bishop Williamson teaches that we should not try to convert people to the Catholic Faith. His pernicious advice pleases the conciliar church, since he teaches as they do, that we should stop trying to make converts to the Catholic Faith. For example, the Vatican promoted this same evil discouragement (i.e., not to seek converts) when it declared in 2015, that “the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews”.30 But not only the conciliar church is pleased by the result Bishop Williamson seeks. The devil also is delighted with Bishop Williamson’s words! The devil knows that there is No Salvation Outside the Catholic Church. 31 Thus, the devil is thrilled by Bishop Williamson’s teaching that Catholics should not generously try to bring people into the Church where their souls could be saved. Let us pray for poor, blind Bishop Williamson! Let us also pray for Bishop Aquinas and the rest of the Fake Resistance, that they begin to stand up for Christ the King, rather than stand with Bishop Williamson! But we must reject Bishop Williamson’s teaching, which is stingy, defeatist, and satanic! Instead, our attitude must be the opposite of his. We must be generous, missionary, and Catholic! We must make every effort to bring people into the one Ark of Salvation (the Catholic Church). We should strive to convert all people from their errors, even Bishop Williamson! Bishop Zendejas Follows Bishop Williamson in Liberalism, and Also Rejects the Catholic Missionary Spirit. Bishop Zendejas is part of the Fake Resistance and is a liberal, as Bishop Williamson is. To take just a few examples, Bishop Zendejas: teaches that the problems with Vatican II are only ambiguity, not heresy.32 falsifies the true virtue of obedience and indicates that Traditional Catholics are disobedient in their stand against conciliar error. Id. teaches that Traditional Catholics are separated from the Catholic Church. Id. Likewise, Bishop Zendejas follows Bishop Williamson in admitting that he does not seek to convert people to the Traditional Catholic Faith. For example, in 2015, he publicly declared (concerning his Danbury, CT chapel) that his “followers do not exceed 90 and [we] have no plans to grow ”.33 Let us pray for Bishop Zendejas, as well as the other liberals who are spreading their soul-damning errors! Message to Readers Who are Now in the Fake Resistance Do you have a Catholic and missionary heart which seeks to convert souls? If so, then leave the Fake Resistance and join the True Resistance—which also seeks to convert souls! The Catholic Church has infallibly declared this dogma multiple times. Read the Church’s infallible pronouncements here: Lumen Gentium Annotated, by Quanta Cura Press, beginning on p.62, ftnt. 40, © 2013, available at: scribd.com/doc/158994906 (free) & at Amazon.com (sold at cost). ↑ 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, article: St. Thomas the Apostle. ↑ 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, article: St. Francis Xavier. ↑ 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, article: St. Patrick. ↑ 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, article: St. Boniface. ↑ 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, article: St. Remegius. ↑ St. Mark, 16:15. ↑ Catena Aurea on St. Mark’s Gospel, ch. 16, v.15, St. Thomas Aquinas, Editor, quoting St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church. ↑ Summa Theologica, IIa IIae, Q.7, a.2, respondeo. ↑ St. Matthew 16:26. ↑ Mid Snow and Ice, The Apostles of the Far Northwestern Canada, by Fr. Pierre Douchaussois, OMI, © 1936, reprinted by The Desert Will Flower Press, 2007, p.29. ↑ 2 Corin., ch.11, vv. 24-27; 32-33. ↑ [The Prodigal Son said:] “I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.” And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and running to him fell upon his neck, and kissed him. St. Luke, 15: 18-20 ↑ Excerpt of Fr. Francois le Mercier, S.J.’s Letter to Fr. Louys Cellot, S.J., 1656, published in Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791, Thwaites, Editor, vol. 44, Iroquois, Lower Canada 1656-1658, Burrows Bros. Co., ©1899, pp.53-67 (bracketed words added for clarity). ↑ Read his own words, cited to his own sources, here: Bishop Williamson declares traditional Catholics can attend the new mass and get grace from it ↑ Read his own words, cited to his own sources, here: Bishop Williamson broadens his ecumenism. He now approves of attending the Masses of sedevacantists ↑ Read his own words, cited to his own sources, here: Bishop Williamson further extends his ecumenism—this time to the Anglicans ↑ Read Bishop Williamson’s own words, cited to his own sources, here: Bishop Williamson’s latest Valtorta quote shows why the Church condemned Valtorta’s false “visions” Read his own words, cited to his own sources, here: Bishop Williamson teaches situation ethics Catholics must judge words and deeds objectively. But we must never judge a person’s interior, subjective culpability for sins, because that would be the sin of rash judgment. Read the explanation found here: Rash judgment: concluding the pope is a formal heretic A person might have the superficial opinion that it is a sin of rash judgment for us to call their silence “cowardly”. However, he would be wrong. The word, “cowardly” means: being, resembling, or befitting a coward, e.g., a cowardly retreat. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cowardly (emphasis added). Thus, we describe well that they maintain a cowardly silence when Bishop Williamson teaches heresy and scandal, because their silence resembles and befits a coward (since they fail in their objective duty to stand up for the true Catholic Faith). But we don’t judge their internal, subjective culpability for their betraying the Catholic Faith by these objective mortal sins of silence. Recently, Bishop Williamson taught this same evil message in a different place, viz., that we should not concern ourselves with converting souls. He said: “I don’t think we need to be too concerned to bring souls towards us, because people just don’t understand today. They don’t have the ears to hear.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hetZgRGZafA&feature=youtu.be; listen at minute 5:25. As quoted above, Bishop Williamson’s words are that “many a clear-sighted Catholic can already be preferring to keep silent rather than attempt to argue or to teach.” ↑ Bishop Williamson teaches: “ Our Lord Himself in the Garden of Gethsemane told Peter to put up his sword. Such was not the will of God.... when his manly will to fight was frustrated even by his beloved Master, he abandoned him and ran away (Mk. XIV, 50). Beware, fighters for Our Lord—if your fighting does not work, you risk running away from Him! ” ↑ Recently, Bishop Williamson taught this same evil message in a different place, viz., that we should pray but not try to make converts: “Patience, my dear friends, pray for your priests, pray for your bishops, and pray the rosary, and practice in a spirit of reparations to Our Lady the first Saturdays, and that's what we can do and that's what we should do. ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hetZgRGZafA&feature=youtu.be—listen at minute 6:39 (emphasis added). Spiritual Exercises, Rules for the Discernment of Spirits, Second Week, Rule 2 (emphasis added). ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world 2015 dec 10 vatican-tells-catholics-not-to-attempt-to-convert-jews ↑ The Catholic Church has infallibly declared this dogma numerous times. Read the Church’s pronouncements here: Lumen Gentium Annotated, by Quanta Cura Press, beginning on p.62, ftnt. 40, © 2013, available at: scribd.com/doc/158994906 (free) & at Amazon.com (sold at cost). ↑ Read his own words, sited back to his own sources, here: Open letter to Fr. Gerardo Zendejas Quoted in the local Danbury, CT, newspaper and available at this link: http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Attorney-Religion-should-not-influence-zoning-6266734.php↑	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2838
__label__cc	0.583668	0.416332	Chris Hemsworth’s ADORABLE Birthday Photo of Twins Tristan and Sasha By Cara Harrington Chris Hemsworth’s wife shared an adorable birthday photo of their twins, Tristan and Sasha. Elsa Pataky posted the family pic on Monday, March 21, sharing the special moment on the their birthday. The image was captioned, “Happy birthday my little boys, there’s nothing that makes me happier in life, than being a mum and watch you growing up everyday! #mum #boysbirthday #bestlove #party #already2 #loveyou.” Related: Chris Hemsworth Recounts His Family Trip From Hell The ‘Avengers’ star hugged the 2-year-old boys with a huge smile. The boys embraced their famous father in a bear-hug that is too cute! I don’t know whether I should swoon or melt over the level of cuteness overload. Elsa is amazing when it comes to capturing family moments and sharing them via social media. If you aren’t following her on Instagram, do it now. Pataky often shares warm and adorable moments of the Hemsworth family; the twins, and their 3-year-old daughter, India. Typically, the images feature the gorgeous landscapes of Australia as well. Chris is a huge proponent of raising his family in his homeland. Hemsworth revealed his feelings at the Tourism Australia campaign in New York explaining, “I loved living in California but I’ve got to say that when I returned back home, I realized, ‘Wow, this is where the heart is. This is really special to me,’” he said. “This is where I want my kids to grow up with the same sort of opportunities and experiences that I had and the contrast in the scenery.” How great to see a family growing up with such a strong root in their home. What is the city or place you’d love to raise a family? Do you have a place that you prefer to call home? Share your thoughts in the comment section below. Cara Harrington Cara is the jack of all trades. She started in fashion, but found her true passion in writing. After mixing the two into a fabulous cocktail of freelance writing about all things style, she started a family. Her 3 kids keep her Prada pumps moving as they explore the world one adventure at a time. Kristin Cavallari & Saylor Go Window Shopping Alessandra Ambrosio & Noah Go Shopping	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2844
__label__wiki	0.708474	0.708474	Music Star Businesswoman Famous Star Home/Wiki Bio/Draymond Green Wiki Bio, Wife, Net Worth, Salary, Kids, Career, High School Wiki Bio Draymond Green Wiki Bio, Wife, Net Worth, Salary, Kids, Career, High School Eduard Norman 1 D Raymond Green Bio 2 NBA Profession and Stats 3 Who’s the Spouse or Partner of D Raymond Green? 4 His Mother The celebrated American Football player Raymond Green is just one of those celebrities from the match now making the rounds at the National Basketball Association championships. With all the Warriors, he’s won the NBA championship double and is really just a twotime NBA allstar. Even though he comes with a remarkable elevation of 6 feet seven inches, then Green is known as undersized for your use of a guardian, and he’s been demonstrated to be among the very flexible and skilful players from the NBA. Green won the NBA defensive player of the season award at the 2016/17 year old. 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__label__cc	0.729394	0.270606	VH-DHH (c/n 04499) De Havilland DH.104 Dove De Havilland DH.104 Dove - NT Medical Service Manufactured in 1958, this particular aircraft was purchased as an Aerial Medical aircraft for the Northern Territory. This it did for its entire working life of 21 years. During this time, it served throughout the Northern Territory with quiet distinction, transporting Medical Staff to stations and settlements on regular Medical runs. In additional requests for medical emergencies were continually being met. The Museum acquired VH-DHH via the CSIRO, who donated the aircraft when their need of it as a spares airframe was fulfilled. The aircraft is dedicated to the memory of ‘Doc Fenton’ - the Northern Territory’s first ‘Flying Doctor’. Engine: 2 x 380HP DH Gypsy Queen 6 cylinder Supercharged Wingspan: 17.37m / 57’ Length: 12m / 39’4” Performance: Cruising Speed 288km/h / 179mi/h Capacity: 2 Crew, plus 9 passengers, or 6 passengers and a stretcher Visit Museum 6 Memorial Ave, Gillen NT 0870 caaminc@gmail.com Tuesday: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM © Central Australian Aviation Museum 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2847
__label__cc	0.638391	0.361609	Hand-crank windows Power windows became such a popular option that automakers made them standard on most models. Still, hand-crank windows remain on some bare-bones small cars aimed at price-first buyers, and on some trucks bought by commercial fleets that want rock-bottom prices and don’t care if their drivers are a bit inconvenienced. The trick is finding a vehicle with cranks; dealers order what sells best. Rear-facing third seat First minivans, then SUVs replaced most station wagons, many of which featured rear-facing way-back seats favored by kids on long family road trips. European automakers still sell wagons in the U.S., though, and the Mercedes-Benz E350 4Matic wagon ($61,000 and up) is unique in having a standard rear-facing third-row seat for two children. Volvo quit the feature at a 2007 model change. Tesla has sold rear-facing third-row seats as an option on the Model S hatchback sedan. Telescoping radio antennae Back when, if you forgot to lower your antenna, you could lose it to vandals or car washes. Antenna wires buried in the window glass were vandal- and car wash-proof but degraded radio reception. Today cars need antennae for phones, navigation, remote-control locks and much more. The old collapsible antenna can’t handle it. Small, “shark-fin” roof-mounted antenna pods combine with aerials buried within the car to send and receive the cornucopia of signals. Wood-grain side paneling Adhesive panels with a wood look, as well as wood-grain metal panels, were used by automakers to evoke the authentic wood side pieces used on “woodie” station wagons of yore, but tastes changed. Nowadays, the fake wood is on the inside, adorning dashboard and door panels in mid-level models that want to look like the high-end vehicles that use real wood for interior trim. In the 1980s regulators deemed these status symbols too dangerous for pedestrians. In their heyday some hood ornaments, such as the Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star and Cadillac wreath, were popular with thieves who snapped them off, hung them on chains and used them as necklaces — or belt buckles. Some stand-up ornaments continue, now mounted on springs so they’d easily give way in a car-pedestrian mishap. Now, most are flush-mounted on grilles or front fascia; a few now lay flat on the front edge of the hood. Vent windows Flip-open, triangle-shaped windows were once a common way to let in a little fresh air or, perhaps counter-intuitively, effectively pull out cigarette smoke. By the 1990s, air conditioning, fresh-air intakes and flow-through ventilation had wiped out most little “wing” windows. And because there are fewer smokers these days, there is minimal demand for the vents’ smoke-exhausting feature. In addition, the vents increased wind noise and hurt aerodynamics, which cuts fuel efficiency. Far fewer people smoke now: 18 percent of all Americans, down from 42 percent back in 1964. You still can find a rare “smoker’s package” option, which usually includes an ashtray and a push-in/pop-out cigarette lighter. Those round, 12-volt receptacle — without the pop-out lighter — persist in many models, and are now used mainly to plug in 12-volt devices such as chargers for mobile devices. USB ports now often occupy the dash space once occupied by that ashtray. Hubcaps and white-wall tires Properly called wheel covers, hubcaps were too easily stolen, or dislodged and lost when driving over bumps. The modern version is a plastic wheel cover resembling a fancy alloy wheel, bolted to the steel wheel that’s standard on low-end cars. Most cars come with alloy wheels, which look good without a cover or cap. Strictly speaking, those do have very small “hub caps” in the center that cover the otherwise unsightly wheel center. Full-size spare tires Lighter vehicles more easily meet fuel-economy regulations, so full-size spare tires had to go. They’re also too big to fit the trunks of the smaller cars that now permeate the mainstream. They’re optional on some vehicles, but mostly you get a lighter, smaller mini-spare for temporary use. Round headlights Federal regulations once dictated the size and shape of headlights. In 1973, guidelines shifted to specifying illumination, not size or shape, and designers adopted the rectangular lights that stylists preferred. In 1983, replaceable-bulb lights were introduced, so the light could be any shape and size as long as the bulb met the lighting specifications. Orbs aren’t extinct, though. Jeep uses modernized round headlights on some models. And small, round lights are camouflaged behind transparent covers on models from Honda, Toyota, BMW and others. Oh! For them good ole days! Source: https://www.aarp.org/auto/trends-lifestyle/info-2016/classic-car-features-gone-not-forgotten.html	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2851
__label__wiki	0.723365	0.723365	DowDuPont Faces Challenges as Businesses Shift to Specialties Posted on September 28th, 2017 by Al Greenwood in Chemicals Industry News and Analysis The decision by DowDuPont to transfer more businesses from its pending Materials Science spin-off to Specialty Products will leave the former more exposed to commodity markets and the volatility inherent in them, an analyst with Moody’s Investors Service said. DowDuPont plans to spin off its Materials Science, Specialty Products and Agriculture divisions into three publicly traded companies. Materials Science will be the first to go, and it will inherit the Dow name. DowDuPont has since decided to shift more businesses from Materials Science to Specialty Products, following the recommendations of the consultancy McKinsey. The businesses below will leave Materials Science and become part of Specialty Products: – The adhesives and fluid platforms of Automotive Systems – The Building Solutions business – The Water and Process Solutions business – The Pharma and Food Solutions business – The Microbial Control business – The Performance Polymers business – Several silicones-based businesses. The silicone-based businesses make materials used in industrial LEDs, semiconductors, and medical products. They also include Molykote lubricants for automotive and industrial equipment and Multibase, which makes products used in thermoplastic compounding. The table below shows how Specialty Products and Materials Science will be organised: The businesses being transferred from Materials Science to Specialty Products represents more than $8bn in sales and about $2.4bn in operating earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA), based on DowDuPont’s forecast for 2017. DowDuPont did not release its 2017 forecasts for the spin-off companies. Nonetheless, the loss of those earnings for Materials Science will be a challenge for the company, said John Rogers, senior vice president at Moody’s. The businesses being moved to Specialty Products will leave Materials Science more exposed to commodities and their inherent volatility, Rogers said. Prices for downstream products being transferred lack the same degree of volatility. That stability would even out the ups and downs of the commodity products of Materials Science. However, the danger in keeping these higher margin downstream businesses with Materials Science is the potential loss of value creation. Specialty-chemical companies typically command an EBITDA multiple premium of 3.8x versus their commodity peers, according to Vertical Research Partners, an equity research-firm. Prior to DowDuPont’s announcement, Vertical identified businesses within Materials Science that could be moved to Specialty Products based on their higher margins, higher growth and the value their goods bring to customers. Using that 3.8x EBITDA multiple premium, DowDuPont could create $3.8bn in value for every $1bn it transfers from Materials Science to Specialty Products, Vertical said. Those transfers would be limited to the ones identified by Vertical. If DowDuPont shifts the businesses identified by Vertical, that total could be $7bn-8bn of additional value, the firm said. With some exceptions, the businesses identified by Vertical ended up in Specialty Products. The challenge is achieving that larger multiple while limiting any downside to Materials Science. Vertical Research expects Materials Science will see only a modest decline, which would be more than offset by the gains it would achieve by transferring the businesses to Specialty Products, said Kevin McCarthy, a partner at the research firm. For Specialty Products, the extra earnings should make it easier for the company to issue more debt and maintain investment-grade ratings, Rogers said. Also, the additional businesses share some applications, Rogers said. For example, the silicones being transferred to Specialty Products are used in electronics as well as in the construction and industrial businesses. “I think there is this natural synergy for a couple of businesses,” he said. However, Specialty Products will also inherit DuPont’s legacy Kevlar aramid fibres, Rogers said. “It has nothing to do with the silicone business.” The same goes for Tivek, a nonwoven material made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), he said. Such product lines and businesses could be more valuable either on their own or with another company, Rogers said. Vertical Research also noted a lack of overlap. Outside of the legacy electronic-materials businesses of Dow and DuPont, there is almost no overlap among the businesses in Specialty Products. Breaking up Specialty Products could take advantage of the high multiples for specialty-chemical businesses, Vertical said. These additional spin-offs will also make Specialty Products more focused, allowing it to avoid the label of being a diverse portfolio company. Such portfolio companies are not very popular among investors. “We would not be surprised to see additional portfolio actions in the years to come,” McCarthy said. Another option is for Specialty Products to grow by acquiring similar high-quality specialty businesses, Vertical said. It has the balance sheet to pursue such a strategy and the bolt-on acquisitions would provide the company with synergies. Overall, DowDuPont’s move to shift the businesses to Specialty Products should benefit the company as a whole, Vertical said. There will be some lost synergies, but these are not large enough to alter the targets of DowDuPont. Overall, Vertical maintained its earlier estimate that the shift will unlock $7bn-8bn in value for DowDuPont, or about 5% of the company’s market capitalisation. Learn more in this free whitepaper: Increasing Pressures in Agricultural Chemical R&D Demand New Workflow Solutions. Al Greenwood Deputy Editor, ICIS News LyondellBasell / Braskem Makes Strategic Sense but Complexities Unique Economic Nationalism Could Disrupt Chem R&D Spending Back to Basics for R&D	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2852
__label__cc	0.613038	0.386962	Plans, glass and privacy November 13, 2010 · by Sarah · in Theory. · This is the first of the responses I had to write for my seminar class this semester. It is based off a reading by Colomina from the book “Privacy and Publicity” specifically a chapter about interiors, which I know you haven’t read. More important to this assignment was my teachers’ desires for an example of either a plan or section based building. You got extra points (figuratively, it’s a pass/fail assignment) for mixing the two assignments. Since I’m kind of an overachiever, mixed with my love of any excuse to theorize and indulge in archibabble, I did both. This is my edited version, where I respond to my teacher’s comments, most notably his argument that I can’t say that it’s unlikely anyone would try to elminate privacy, when people actually have tried. He also made some interesting final points that would require a lot more thought, and would completely change this essay, so I haven’t dealt with them yet. But I will eventually try to. Anyways, here it is. The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art by the firm SANAA is the most plan-y piece of architecture I can think of. Its walls are nothing but thin transparent glass. A section of the building reads as a series of thin lines holding up a floating thick bar above the flat ground plane. Only when you begin to diagram the plan, to add poche to the uninhabitable spaces, do you begin to understand the section as a section. Instead, this building is designed in plan as a series of round edged rectangles, which are shaped by the poche. But where several centuries before that poche would have been thick masonry walls, SANNA instead defines the spaces with thin glass walls enclose…nothing. What was once solid is now void. The wall is carved to its limit, but the space where wall once was is not then filled with more program but with air, which acts as a insulation for the building. “Wall” as a thick, opaque, filled solid is made obsolete. With this change is possibly an idea about a complete elimination of privacy. Admittedly a few rooms of the Pavilion are made with opaque walls according to programatic needs, but in general as one passes through the museum one is always able to be seen, and to be seen. At times, like Loos’s swimming pool for Josephine Baker, the reflections cause the inhabitant’s to be unsure if they are viewed. But unlike in Loos’s building, there is no privileged window view for the voyeur, no private theater box from which to see and control.* Here everyone is in view at all times, reflections in the glass that obstruct views change as the parties move and as the sun moves, giving no one control.1 This is theater in the round; everyone can see everything. The possibility that such an elimination of privacy will be widely applied to housing is something I find unlikely. The obvious exception to this argument is the Farnsworth House, built in 1951 by Mies van der Rohe. However, twenty years of exposure in her glass house sent Edith Farnsworth fleeing to Italy to fade into invisibility.2 And while we are a very different culture now than we were sixty years ago, I don’t think we’ve removed that need for privacy. On the contrary, it may be even more important, given society’s more liberal view of the activities of unmarried professional woman. The unenclosed bedroom Mies designed assumed that unmarried Edith wouldn’t need privacy there because she was never going to have sex.** I think it fairly assumable that these days a woman would certainly need and want privacy in a bedroom (except maybe for some exhibitionists). It is unlikely to become popular to build all glass houses, because as we are now, most people could not handle such an abrupt shift to total and unending exposure. With that said, I am part of a new generation, one that quite happily facebooks and tweets about every little thought that crosses our minds. Hardly anything is to personal to share, even with people we’ve met only once. With such an exposure of our minds quickly becoming second nature, maybe it is not so unlikely that soon no one would think twice about total exposure of our bodies and possessions through thin glass walls. Just a thought. Colomina, Privacy and Publicity. Also I am presuming here that there are no attempts to cause special reflective moments, due to any lack of shading or sun deflecting devices besides the roof. * Alice Firedman, Women and the Making of the Modern World ***Drawings from Kiel Moe’s Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture ← “I’m having fun…” This isn’t actually Venturi’s fault per se, →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2854
__label__wiki	0.578329	0.578329	Churchill Winter Road Complete by Steve Selden \| Dec 18, 2017 \| Churchill News The ice road to Churchill via Gillam is finished and ready for business. Polar Industries Ltd. photo. Christmas is coming a little early to Churchill this year! The winter “ice” road project initiated by Polar Industries, Fox Lake Cree Nation and Churchill’s Remote Area Services between Churchill and Gillam has been completed and supplies are scheduled to arrive in town by Wednesday. “The guys finished up late [Thursday] night and they’re on their way back out to Gillam so we can start our actual journey with freight on Sunday,” explained Polar Industries president Mark Kohaykewych. “We’re doing a spiritual, traditional ceremony since we are crossing Fox Lake traditional land. We’ve been accepting a lot of freight the last week and the trucks are leaving to head up to Gillam for Sunday afternoon.” Kohaykewych set a tentative completion date of Christmas and thanks to weather conditions consisting of cold conditions and relatively little snowfall the artery is ready for shipping albeit not overly large loads. “We’re just starting off with two, we don’t want to go too heavy on this first journey. We definitely want the ground to harden up and we don’t want to be busting through any rivers or damaging any ice bridges that we’ve created,” Kohaykewych said. “We’re splitting the load between three cat trains, 20,000 pounds apiece.” Last May the tracks between Churchill and the south suffered extensive damage from melting snow and ice that had accumulated after major blizzards blanketed the region. The ice road became a reality after the realization the Hudson Bay Rail Line between Gillam and Churchill would not be repaired before Spring. With no projected repair timeline in sight, the winter road will help ease the financial hardship incurred by residents and businesses having to pay for air shipping costs nearly quadruple that of ground shipping. “We’re cross-docking off of the transport trucks onto sleighs that we’ve manufactured and then pulling them with what the general public would know as dozers or cat trains,” Kohaykewych said. “I’m figuring we should be on the road between 30-36 hours.” The road will allow Santa to drive his sleigh safely across the tundra and arrive in Churchill by Christmas Day! Churchill Asking Santa for Ice Road by Steve Selden \| Nov 28, 2017 \| Churchill News Santa Claus might just make it to the polar bear capital of the world via his sleigh this year! If all goes a planned, this coming Christmas Churchillians will have an “ice road” that will allow shipping of various goods and supplies, not to mention Christmas presents to the isolated town from the south. The “road”, over frozen tundra and icy ponds, is being carved out between Gillam and Churchill and reports are that two-thirds of the passage is complete. Christmas is the projected finish date though the hope is that it will be functional before that. “I kind of want to bring this as a Christmas Present to Churchill,” said Mark Kohaykewych of Polar Industries. “I want to roll in there before the 25th.” Fox Lake Cree Nation and Churchill’s Remote Area Services have been working with Polar Industries, the main contractor, for weeks constructing a 300-kilometre “ice road” between Churchill and Gillam. With the Hudson Bay Line, as the stretch is referred to, washed out, the town has become isolated by no land accessibility. Cargo shipped by air has become prohibitively costly for businesses and residents. Line and port owner Omnitrax continues to battle with the Federal government over who’s responsible for the track repairs. In the meantime, and basically out of desperation, the three groups launched a plan to bring perishable food and supplies and fuel to Churchill. Progress over the rough terrain has been unexpectantly faster than anticipated.Check out this video link of the work taking place in the north: “We went up on Friday just to see the progress of what my crew was doing and I was pleasantly surprised,” he said. “We’ve probably got about 110 kilometres left to go.” Work crews have faced one major barrier despite the unseasonal frigid temperatures in November…waiting for freeze-up of some of the deeper thermokarsts or tundra ponds and connecting creeks that are scattered all across the tundra. Ice road construction between Gillam and Churchill. Mark Kohaykewych photo. “You’re pushing snow over it, then you’ve got to let it freeze, flood, create ice. For my crew up there and myself, we’re not very patient up there, let me tell you that. Trying to wait for the ice to freeze up properly is like watching paint dry for most folks.” While on site, work crews are utilizing old trappers cabins to sleep and get out of the cold after long, extended shifts in efforts to finish before Christmas. “I think at the start, a lot of people were skeptical about this and as we get closer and closer and sharing our progress, the response is overwhelming. I didn’t realize how much of an effect we’d actually have on the town.” stated Kohaykewych. While major efforts are enduring and progress has been dramatic, Kohaykewych is appealing to the Canadian government for some funding to help with the meager budget Polar Industries has for the project. “So, if anybody out there can assist us to put pressure on some government agencies to get some funding and assistance here, and get this done on a non-shoe-strong budget, we’d greatly appreciate it.” The project comes on the heels of the polar bear season in Churchill, a much needed economic boost to the community! Inuvik Reindeer Crossing Ice Road – Video by Steve Selden \| Apr 10, 2017 \| Videos With only a couple of weeks left in the operation of the ice road on the McKenzie River, there’s still some action happening. Randy Henderson narrates this phenomenal reindeer crossing. This is the final year of the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk roadway over ice. Normally the road closes down for the season right around April 28th though this year it will close for good. Starting at the beginning of 2017-18 the seasonal ice road, one of many in the north, will be replaced by an overland highway suitable for all seasons. The project has been in the planning stages for decades but with the rapid growth and opening up of the Arctic the time is here for construction. Let’s hope the new road will not carry tolls.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2858
__label__wiki	0.539468	0.539468	Reasons Australian businesses miss out on tech innovation \| November 9, 2020 CSIRO report finds there are still fundamental barriers to innovation adoption. Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO latest report finds has identified five key barriers to realising value from innovation as well as suggesting several solutions. The findings are based on interviews with private and public sector leaders and extensive analysis of trends in the economy. The barriers are: Declining innovation investment: Business investment in innovation has declined 30 per cent in the past decade as businesses seek long-term clarity on what to invest in and are instead investing smaller amounts on shorter-term goals. Poor research commercialisation: While Australia is home to world-class researchers, we struggle to commercialise breakthroughs in the lab into innovative products in market, exacerbated by a cultural aversion to risk and low collaboration between research and industry. Skills gap: Australian education is high quality by international standards, but we don’t have a culture of ongoing training for employees outside of formal education. Resistant to overseas ideas: Businesses invest in keeping up with competitors in Australia, but rarely keep up with overseas competitors, placing us behind them on customer value and productivity gains. Wariness of new technologies: Investing in innovation be the road to automating jobs, widening the gap between the most profitable and least profitable businesses, and resulting in big royalties for a few but bigger losses for others. CSIRO Futures Lead Economist Dr Katherine Wynn said while there are barriers to innovation, they can and need to be overcome if Australia is going to emerge stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Science and technology have always played a key role in supporting Australia’s growth and productivity, with examples in this report like Cochlear hearing implants, Google Maps, canola for biofuel, PERC solar cells, and x-ray crystallography,” Dr Wynn said. “But as investment in innovation has dropped in recent years, we’ve seen our economy start to slow and weaken, and now we’ve been hit with COVID-19, so science and technology are more critical than ever. “If businesses act now, there are plenty of opportunities to enhance how they navigate the innovation cycle and realise greater value from their investments, including improved productivity, protection from market shocks, stronger international competitiveness, and social and environmental benefits.” The report identifies several solutions to help businesses overcome the key barriers, drive economic recovery, and build future resilience including: Mission-led innovation: By forming collaborative coalitions of business, research and government partners around common challenges, investment can be shared, aligned, and for the long term. For example, CSIRO has recently launched a portfolio of proposed missions. Dismantling siloes and building networks: By building stronger connections between researchers, entrepreneurs, business, investors, and education providers, ideas can be moved more easily from the lab bench to the customer, and skills can be developed in the process. Collaborate to compete: Looking beyond borders, there is value to be captured by focusing on international collaboration to remain competitive, while also focusing our national resources around areas of unique value and global differentiation. The Value of science and technology report, which was led by the CSIRO Futures team, follows CSIRO’s recently released COVID-19: Recovery and resilience report, which outlines the medium and long-term innovation investment opportunities for Australian industries to drive economic recovery and build future resilience. Tags: COVID-19CSIRO Latest News Technology Optus and University of South Australia collaborate on cyber security HGC establishes network connection to BDx’s Singapore data centre	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2861
__label__cc	0.62753	0.37247	Tiffany Encouraged by 3Q Momentum Strong growth in China and e-commerce sales driving recovery. RAPAPORT... Tiffany & Co. has witnessed a rebound in its operations during the third fiscal quarter, driven by growth in e-commerce sales and a strong recovery in China, the jeweler said Thursday. Operating earnings grew 25% year on year during August and September, although group sales declined slightly, the New York-based jeweler reported in an unscheduled update for the period. “While we still expect full-year results to be substantially impacted by Covid-19, we are very pleased with the way the business has rebounded following the first quarter and continues to rebound in the third quarter, especially in mainland China, and to recover in the United States,” CEO Alessandro Bogliolo said. Positive sales trends are continuing in October, the company added. Global e-commerce sales nearly doubled during the two-month period, while China remained “extremely strong,” it continued. Meanwhile, Tiffany’s sales in the US fell by a low-double-digit percentage, representing a sequential improvement since May, amid a dramatic decline in tourism this year, Tiffany explained. Tiffany expects fourth-quarter global sales to decline by a mid-single-digit percentage but a similar percentage increase in operating earnings. The company is due to report full third-quarter earnings in late November. The New York-based jeweler is embroiled in a legal battle with LVMH over the French luxury group’s cancellation of their $16 billion acquisition deal. LVMH accused Tiffany of mismanagement during the Covid-19 pandemic, and plans to argue to the court that this constituted a “material adverse effect” enabling the buyer to renege on the deal. Tiffany reportedly filed a response to LVMH’s claims this week, countering that “a pandemic carve-out never came up in the negotiations,” Forbes cited from Tiffany documents. “LVMH’s case is doomed, and LVMH knows it,” it added ahead of the trial set for early January. LVMH is scheduled to report its third-quarter revenue performance after the close of business in Paris on Thursday. Image: Tiffany & Co. store at One Peking Road, Hong Kong. (Tiffany & Co.) લેબલો: diamonds, Jewelry, LVMH, Rapaport News, Tiffany & CO. સમાન લેખો Richemont’s jewelry sales increased 9% year... US retail sales increased 8.3% during the r... ટિપ્પણીઓ: (0) ટિપ્પણી ઉમેરો ટિપ્પણીઓ ગોઠવો અંતિમ થી પ્રથમ અમને ફોન કરો: ૧-૭૦૨-૮૯૩-૯૪૦૦ આંતરરાષ્ટ્રીય +૪૪-૨૦૮-૧૨૩-૦૩૪૪ બેલ્જિયમ +૩૨-૩-૨૩૨-૩૩૦૦ ભારત +૯૧-૨૨-૬૬૨૮-૨૭૨૭ ઇઝરાયેલ +૯૭૨-૩-૬૧૩-૩૩૩૦ યુએસએ +૧-૭૦૨-૮૯૩-૯૪૦૦ Member License Agreement RapNet Trading Rules & Code of Conduct ગોપનીયતા નીતિ વિશે અમારી સાથે જાહેરાત કરો	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2864
__label__wiki	0.584014	0.584014	The Bixby Bulletin At the beginning of 2020, one major market factor on peoples’ minds was the election, however, nobody anticipated the year that was about to unfold. Accustomed to the ebbs and flows of the commercial real estate world, Bixby Land Company kept its dynamic industrial acquisition strategy at the forefront with the objective to stay active and execute on the right opportunity. When the pandemic hit, the team held strong to this strategy, relying on its core values of teamwork, integrity, focus, discipline and execution as its founders did during the Depression and the 1933 Long Beach earthquake nearly a century ago. This sense of purpose, perseverance and diligence is what has allowed Bixby to expertly build its portfolio of high-functioning industrial real estate properties over the years, and 2020 is no exception. With e-commerce sales in the U.S. up 37.1% to $199.44 billion in the third quarter of 2020, compared to 2019, Bixby has remained active in the increasingly attractive space. Bill DeLaney, Portfolio Manager for Bixby Land Company, shares that Bixby closed on four properties totaling nearly one million square feet in key Georgia markets this year, including three properties in the Savannah Market and one in Atlanta’s Airport/I-85 South Submarket. Among Bixby’s strategic advantages to maintaining momentum in the highly competitive industrial market include its deep, long-standing relationships with the broker community and an intense vetting process. Combining elaborate research and a stringent checklist, the Bixby team is extremely selective when it comes to asset purchases. “We buy buildings with characteristics that the current industrial user base will need on a go-forward basis,” DeLaney shares. “There's a lot of product out there that is increasingly becoming obsolete as they don’t have the site and building characteristics required of today’s industrial users.” Examples of this include buildings that have inadequate clear height, parking and truck court depths, dated sprinkler systems and/or insufficient trailer doors. How is Bixby different? “It’s our ability to assess and acquire real estate that will be functional for the future and that companies will want to occupy.” DeLaney says. A testament to this, Bixby was able to fully lease it’s off-market purchase of 200 Nordic Drive, a 229,000-square-foot, vacant Class A property in Pooler, GA, before the sale even closed. Within five miles from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport and 10 miles of the Port of Savannah, Bixby was able to spot those strong economic dynamics and strike at the right time. 95 Logistics Center, the multi-building Savannah Industrial Market property that Bixby acquired this year, was first spotted as part of a larger portfolio that also included properties in Lakeland, FL and Charlotte, NC. Together with its equity partner, Bixby was able to parcel off just the property that it wanted at an attractive basis. “What was so impressive about the acquisition of 95 Logistics Center was our team’s ability to successfully coordinate with vendors, consultants, lenders and lawyers, quickly, efficiently and remotely to close on a newly constructed, best-in-class asset with great tenants,” DeLaney says. The last of the four properties acquired, Aerotropolis North in Atlanta is in another prime location–about two miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport–that was also purchased vacant off-market, with a venture partner. Far from coincidence, Bixby’s tendency to seek vacancies has paid off, literally. “We've been able to buy quality, well-located real estate and ultimately stabilize it to a return that we otherwise wouldn't have been able to acquire it at,” DeLaney explains. Adding to its ability to transact in less-than-ideal circumstances, the company also completed nearly 2 million square feet of leases in 2020. Highlights include stabilizing recent vacant acquisition purchases in Georgia and Texas. The newly constructed Class A rear-load distribution building at Graham Logistics Center in greater Atlanta, which was purchased vacant at shell completion in 2019, had its remaining vacancy of nearly 200,000 SF leased this year. The 271,794-square-foot cross-dock building at Parkway Logistics Center located in the Dallas Fort Worth region was also leased to three tenants. With its mix of new acquisitions in major markets, new leases and lease renewals, Bixby’s industrial portfolio growth and accounts receivable (AR) has been remarkable, relative to the industry average, this year. In looking at 2021, DeLaney shares that it’s important to constantly keep in mind and ask how people will be using commercial real estate in the future. “Doing your due diligence and remaining proactive to understand constantly changing market dynamics, what tenants are looking for, and then, being able to pivot and change is a hallmark of Bixby’s. It’s where we really add value for our equity partners and shareholders,” DeLaney says. This year, the company has once again proven its expertise in dealing with the ebb and flow of the real estate industry. With a long-standing legacy and deep roots in the commercial real estate industry, Bixby Land Company continues to show that it’s grounded not in its way of doing things, but in its mission to pioneer exceptional value through dynamic real estate. While the landscapes may be different for now, the team remains nimble, receptive and, of course, ready to execute on the right opportunity. Year Posted 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Post Type Blog News Bixby Land Completes Renovation of 165k sf Silicon Valley Office Campus Infoblox signs deal for new Santa Clara HQ Bixby Signs $25 Million Lease Following Silicon Valley Renovation Irvine Firm Buys Carlsbad Office Park PALOMAR OAKS TECHNOLOGY PARK ACQUIRED FOR $15.8 MILLION Bixby Buys Palomar Oaks Tech Park for $15.8M	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2868
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__label__wiki	0.554317	0.554317	Myanmar says Cryptocurrencies are Banned, but Local Users Disagree Shaurya Malwa May 23, 2020 01:00 2 Min Read Even though the Myanmar government said earlier this month that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are not legal tenders in the country, fanatics continue to interact with the technology. Finding a Way The Myanmar government is quite a silent participant in global matters, largely focused on trade with East Asia for its economy. Regardless of the isolation, the country is fully onboard with the global sentiment for cryptocurrencies—banned for use and transfers. The Myanmar Times reports crypto-users in the country continue to thrive, despite having limited access to information, trading data, sentiment, and education about crypto and blockchain products. Myanmar buyers with access to an online payment method bought into the rising trend and local advertising for exchanges became more frequent on social media, which alarmed the country’s Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM). Users like U Aung Aung are part of a group sold on the idea of cryptocurrencies. Like many other countrymen, Aung uses the obscure “Skybit” exchange, a.k.a the only crypto and “blockchain-service” provider in the country. Aung reveals buying $20 worth of Bitcoin as their first purchase, admitting there is no reliable source for information for cryptocurrencies in the nation and most relying on Facebook groups. But the bank’s having none of that. The CBM notes cryptocurrencies are intangible, unlike gold or fiat, meaning there’s no place for such products in Myanmar’s financial system. Earlier in May, the government passed a bill in this regard, stamping out crypto from the country. The Global Blockchain Push Despite the opposition, crypto-fanatics march on. Nyein Chan, CEO of Get Myanmar, says the announcement is not a prohibition, adding: “The CBM has not prohibited the use of cryptocurrencies under the law. It has just issued an announcement.” “As there is no official law, it can’t be said that trading in digital currencies is illegal,” Chan notes. He suggests the government take the investigative approach towards cryptocurrencies, similar to what countries like what China is currently doing. As Blockchain.News reported, China, France, and now even the U.S., are part of an informal coalition leading regulation and research into blockchain and crypto-assets. Armed with taxpayer money, the countries are piloting digital currency projects, earmarking “blockchain” zones,” and even using it to fight the coronavirus.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2873
__label__wiki	0.62996	0.62996	DC History Club: Golden Age Wonder Woman & Her Creator w/ Polls & Quiz wonder-woman-1942, wonder-woman, watch-along, clubs, dc-history-club slatour0694.79644 January 10, 2021, 12:25am #81 Finished the book yesterday. I guess there weren’t as many supporting documents during the Wonder Woman years because it felt like there was a lot of missing parts. Interesting how each of the children had their own set of photos and letters hand selected for them. I cannot imagine the difficulties involved in trying to cover their lifestyle to so many people and in so many ways, or how other people such as Marston’s mother were part of the coverup, if even she knew all that was going on. A crazy story and a ridiculous set of circumstances, but if it was needed to give the world a Wonder Woman then who am I to judge? msgtv January 10, 2021, 1:03am #82 Absolutely. Stick around, tomorrow I’ll send out a note and we can shift to talking about Wonder Woman herself and the Golden Age stories. I’ve read a good deal, but nowhere near as much as you. So, we’ve built by talking about Marston. I don’t think you need to know about Kane/Finger at all to understand Batman. Knowing a little about Seigel and Schuster helps some with Sumerman. But, the more you know about Marston the better you can appreciate and understand Wonder Woman. msgtv January 10, 2021, 4:37pm #83 So, now let’s dive more directly into the character of Wonder Woman herself and her early Golden Age stories either written or at least plotted by Marston. What about Wonder Woman made her such an immediate hit as a character that elevated her to the status of Supremain and Batman? One thing has to be her looks. As beautiful as Aphrodite and decked out in the Stars and Stripes and an Eagle she has everything her World War II reading public wanted. I think that it also helps that both as Diana Prince and Wonder Woman she was more directly involved in the war effort than either Superman or the Dynamic Duo. While Superman and Batman occasionally fought spies or saboteurs, Wonder Woman took on not only those but fought directly against Nazis and the Japanese Imperial military. Then, there’s the more fantastical nature of her stories. Bank robbers or gangsters? How about Greek Gods, invading armies from Saturn, beautiful winged women from Venus, two warring female societies in Atlantis, and more. Marston’s Wonder Woman was fighting Silver Age antagonist in the Golden Age. TurokSonOfStone1950 January 10, 2021, 7:54pm #84 While the Wonder Woman TV show is still on DCU It is interesting how the pilot uses material from comic book Sensation.1, as Diana first encounters Man"s World. Both these older versions show a strong if not completely knowledgeable I love Rucha’s Year One but some scenes show Diana as nothing like above, so much so if I were the Greek Gods, I would have second thoughts about giving her her super powers. TurokSonOfStone1950: I love Rucha’s Year One but some scenes show Diana as anything like above, so much so if I were the Greek Gods, I would have second thoughts about giving her her super powers. Who authored Wrote an article about recent events The article itself Is under a paywall But this article Critiques it Slate Magazine – 21 Oct 20 Historians Are Not Equipped to Bring the Trump Administration to Justice Jill Lepore’s faith in her discipline is misplaced. I should know—I’m a historian, too. Because it discusses What she says The current problem is It involves history From WAL tonight Professor Marston and the Wonder Women https://community.dcuniverse.com/t/dc-history-club-harley-s-crew-present-professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women-byom-watch-along-monday-1-11-6pm-pst-9pm-est/1491060/17?u=turoksonofstone1950 As for the Lesbian In the household Mentioned in the article From.Lepore’s book MARJORIE WILKES, who believed in both suffrage and bondage, “No one knows more about the production of Wonder Woman than Marjorie W. Huntley,” Holloway liked to say.3 In the 1940s, Huntley helped out with the inking and lettering of Wonder Woman, including panel after panel depicting women shackled, hands and feet. “How can she run with that ball and chains?” one of Wonder Woman’s captors cries out.4 Huntley was schooled in suffrage, but she believed, too, in what she called “love binding”: the importance of being tied and chained. She also believed in extra-body consciousness, vibrations, reincarnation, and the psychic nature of orgasm.5 She met Marston in 1918, after Armistice was declared, on November 11, and he was sent to Camp Upton, New York, to treat shell shock victims. Huntley was the camp’s librarian. Marston was twenty-five and far from his wife; Huntley was twenty-nine and divorced. They were together for six months. Marston was discharged from the army on May 9, 1919, the day he turned twenty-six. “Zara or Zaz is the name given me by Doctor and Ms. Marston when we became a threesome,” The way Marston, Holloway, and Byrne decided to live—as a threesome and, when Huntley was around, as a foursome—began, Holloway later said, as an idea: “A new way of living has to exist in the minds of men before it can be realized in actual form.”16 It had something to do with Marston’s theory of emotions, with Keatley and Huntley’s ideas about a “Love Unit,” and with Margaret Sanger’s and Havelock Ellis’s ideas about “Love Rights.” Holloway tried to explain what she had taken away from reading Woman and the New Race: “The new race will have a far greater love capacity than the current one and I mean physical love as well as other forms.” As to the people who would bring about this new race, “Ethel and Mimi were willing to buck the crowd,” Holloway allowed (Sanger’s family called her Mimi), but “they both went into free love which won’t work.” Olive Byrne seems to have thought the whole thing was a little ridiculous. She also thought Huntley was nuts. “That woman’s a lunatic,” she used to say. Olive keeps it real msgtv January 11, 2021, 10:55pm #90 Bondage Impact on Wonder Woman Stories So, as Wonder Woman’s critics attacked the comics for, among other things, the unending bondage that appears in every single story Marston claims it’s about teaching submission to loving authority and that it was exciting for the stories. That’s not entirely untrue. But, Marston also insisted that there was nothing prurient about Wonder Woman, her allies, her enemies and random college girls being tied up, gagged, hooded, spanked, whipped or given mild electrical shocks. That is simply not believable. Knowing that Marston meticulously described how the scenes must be portrayed, the heavy repetition of these images, their often random insertion into stories, and just common-sense tell us the Marston knew and intended that others would understand the sexual nature of his writing. The second impact on the stories, is that it becomes repetitious. Every story Marston writes includes Wonder Woman being caught, bound in some way, then escaping. And often, this happens multiple times within a single story. slatour0694.79644 January 12, 2021, 3:33pm #91 Although as you said the chains were a bit repetitious, for the most part I could just brush past it as part of the plot. Often it was hilarious. I posted a ton of things that made me laugh in “Funny DC Reaction Images” and I think you can search by my name in there if you want a tour of Golden Age laughs without having to read all the stories: Funny DC Reaction Images That being said, I can only imagine what kids were thinking when reading these. They are definitely aimed more at adults. Perhaps that is why they were so successful- I found myself always reading things above my reading level as the stuff written for only kids was a bit dull. If you read Sensation Comics, the Wonder Woman story leads and various others follow. Compare them, and see how many of the backup stories you can actually handle. There was a definite difference in quality, and I found I would often have to skip some due to boredom. Regardless of how crazy WW was, I was never tempted to skip, at least not during Marston’s tenure. Once DC Universe fills in the large gaps of early WW, we will be really able to see how good or bad Marston’s Golden Age WW really was. Comparing with later Silver Age stuff that was definitely aimed at children, there is no doubt in my mind how much better it was. I have never read the Justice Society comics where she is their secretary as the very thought makes me angry, but that would probably be another way to make a comparison. Absolutely agree on the readability of WW vs the other stories. Also, the bondage probably seemed less repetitive when it’s a new story monthly or quarterly rather than binging. @TurokSonOfStone1950 and I wanted to give a short synopsis of where the film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women basically stuck to history, where they filled in historical blanks, and where they got it wrong or veered far from the truth. If we’re missing something or you have a question, let us know. From here on: SPOILERS. We’ll tackle the big two first. Elizabeth & Olive’s Relationship: We just do not know if the two women had an intimate relationship or not. They never admitted it, the family says no, and we know that Elizabeth was given an ultimatum by Marston that she allow Olive into the home or he would leave. However, none of this is dispositive. Olive didn’t admit to her own children that Marston was their father until they forced Elizabeth to when they were older, and then it was never spoken of it again. It would be consistent that Olive would keep a relationship with Elizabeth very private. And, family members who said there was no bondage play in the home and did not know of their own parentage have no way of knowing the relationship between the two women. Finally, the movie provides are reasonable explanation of why Elizabeth could have a relationship with Olive and still balk at bringing her permanently into the home. We do know the women loved one another and that Olive holding down the home front while Elizabeth earned money for the family during Marston’s stints of unemployment worked for the family. Marston Creating Wonder Woman Olive wrote an article for the Family Circle magazine about her “visit” and interview with the famous psychologist William Marston during which he lauded the educational potential of comic books. Sheldon Mayer at DC hired Marston to be part of an advisory board whose purpose it was to fend off attacks from critics of the violence and other material found in comics. (Wertham was later in the 1950s after Marston had died). Once known in the offices of DC, Marston was offered the chance to write a comic book. With suggestions from Elizabeth to make it a woman, Elizabeth’s knowledge of ancient Greek language and literature, use of islands in feminist literature with only women as an ideal society, experience with the lie detector and his and his wives’ personal history with the feminist movement Marston developed Wonder Woman. The movie also unfortunately does not include the artist H.G. Peters significant contributions. Family Separation: As far as we know, this never happened. First, the home in Rye, New York was a very large house described as being in the country. The picture in Lepone’s book does not show close neighboring homes. The Marston’s were very careful to hide the true nature of their family. But, we do think this can be seen as a metaphor for what it took to keep the family together. Military Marston was in the Army and did work stateside as a psychologist for Army JAG and intelligence in DC during the war, but the OSS was formed in WWII not WWI. Sorority LIfe The Holiday Girls and Etta Candy, including sorority initiation shown in the movie was inspired by Olive’s personal experience and Marston seeing a baby party personally. Etta is based on a real friend of hers. Marston/Elizabeth Pysch Work True, He taught, they developed an early lie doctor based on Elizabeth’s idea of blood pressure and Olive entered their life as a student researcher. Elizabeth Elizabeth was a very smart, very tough, very progressive woman. She was not stuck as secretary but was an editor for an encyclopedia publisher and eventually the executive assistant to a CEO of an insurance company. She paid for all four children to go to college. The End Marston was struck by polio in 1944 and was severely physically hampered until his death from skin cancer in 1947. He was never told he had cancer. The movie tag says that writing Wonder Woman was taken away from Elzabeth and Olive on W.M.'s death and she lost her powers. Both true, but happened 30 years apart. DC Psych Court Not true. DC gave notes to Marston to tone down this or that all the time. He ignored them all the time. Never threatened with taking Wonder Woman away. This is a stand-in for the criticism from outside the company. Elizabeth lower right, Olive standing and close family friend Marjorie Wilkes Huntley bottom left DC History Club & Harley’s Crew present 📺 Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (BYOM) Watch-Along! MONDAY 1/11 @ 6PM PST/9PM EST Also grabbed this when I got a pic of the Marston fam. This is the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority at Tufts in 1923. Olive Byrne in the headband and the inspiration for Etta Candy is sitting just behind her with the short hair and tie. I don’t remember seeing a curvy girl like Etta in the movie. Am I wrong? If there wasn’t that was a miss. Also, they look like a spanking bunch. Already had to make one correction. Marston was inducted into the Army, so did serve but it was as a psychologist not in the OSS or spy biz. Jay_Kay January 14, 2021, 3:17am #96 Oh, another historical detail that was tweaked that I saw while looking it up was with the portrayal of Josette Frank, the woman who lead the questioning against the Wonder Woman character in the film. According to her granddaughter, the version of Josette in the movie was almost the exact opposite of the woman. In real life, she was a die-hard liberal, with history in the suffrage movement, and would not at all have called lesbianism a perversion of emotional disease, since her sister-in-law was an out lesbian who Josette supported. She even defended comic books as a valid work of art. Josette did have criticism of Wonder Woman, but more because she believed that it was a cheap, male-driven sexual fantasy. Here’s a link to the article that her granddaughter wrote. The Anchorage Press Reel Grandma versus Real Grandma Josette Frank depicted in “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women,” a movie now playing in Anchorage Good call. They really had her as a stand-in for other people. Makes sense in the scheme of the movie, but it’s nice to get her real story out. Changing history doesn’t bother me as much if people have a better sense of the real story. It’s actually some of the little things that bug me more, like the OSS mistake. It’s also important to me if the movie gets the “feel” right. I know that’s more ambiguous but really matters. Watched the new version of Midway recently, great special effects, but ended up hating the movie because the pilots are alway saying gung ho quips as they engage the enemy. That’s not what pilots do. They say very precise things because they’ve trained that way hundreds of times and you can’t have confusion when 30 planes are attempting to dive bomb a Japanese aircraft carrier. It felt like to me, that Professor M and the WW’s got the “feel” right. DC History Club: Golden Age Wonder Woman & Her Creator Fan Club Discussions World of Wonder links We’ve posted polls and quiz above msgtv January 20, 2021, 12:43am #99 Cheetah Marston created the blueprint for what I think is the best version of the Cheetah. Originally, it’s Priscilla Rich a wealthy debutant who becomes jealous of Wonder Woman’s popularity. Later, she’s jealous of a cousin who dances well. Marston sticks with this basic Jeckyl and Hyde idea of Priscilla’s good side losing out to the other evil half of her personality. Of course, Marston throws in slave girls, bondage and punishment but that’s Marston. Later in the Silver Age, it’s still Priscilla but the uniqueness of the character is stripped away in favor a girl who robs people with henchmen in monkey costumes. In the '70s, another character steps into the claws as an environmental terrorist which is better than a girl with dudes dressed like monkeys. Barbara Ann Minerva, eventually, gets back to the dual nature of the character that makes her special. Cheetah-Rich-DC-Comics-Earth-1-Wonder-Woman500×772 89.7 KB 5a0ccf4d2e6613a9805326ef7feb6e5b782×782 86 KB	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2882
__label__cc	0.507431	0.492569	Blog Policymakers Across the Country Take Note: Maine Voters Weigh in Fo... Policymakers Across the Country Take Note: Maine Voters Weigh in For Coverage, Against Obstruction Nov 08, 2017 · Health Policy Hub · Katherine Howitt Photo Credit: Maine People's Alliance via Facebook Yesterday, the people of Maine voted overwhelmingly to extend Medicaid coverage to 70,000 low-income Mainers. This finally ends the five-year-long battle to close the coverage gap in the state. Maine’s legislature has passed Medicaid expansion with broad support five times only to be vetoed five times by Governor Paul LePage. This victory in Maine is a fitting end to the year in which health care and social justice advocates built a national grassroots movement that stopped the most powerful political actors from repealing the Affordable Care Act and taking coverage away from millions. As we process what happened yesterday in Maine and turn toward what’s next for the health justice movement in 2018, there are two key lessons we should draw. First is the power of smart, persistent advocacy. Mainers For Health Care led a multi-year legislative campaign to close the coverage gap, which laid the groundwork for the success of this issue at the ballot box. By the time advocates began collecting signatures to put this issue on the ballot, they had already built a powerful grassroots movement by canvassing door-to-door and holding countless community meetings and forums; grown a powerful and bipartisan coalition of stakeholders, including the medical community, sheriffs, and local elected officials; authored and commissioned studies about how expanded Medicaid coverage would benefit Mainers, the state budget and economy; and educated the local media about the benefits of expanded health coverage, connecting them with stories of real Mainers who live in the coverage gap, and built editorial support on the issue. This hard work clearly paid off over the past seven months and on election day lined them up for yesterday’s win. Second, is the clear message about what real people want: a fairer health care system that increases access to coverage, lowers out-of-pocket costs, and addresses inequities. Yesterday’s win at the ballot box was an important reminder that the American people reject the cynical efforts by elected officials – whether in Washington, D.C. or in state capitols – to halt and roll back access to quality, affordable health care. Policymakers in D.C. and in states across the country should heed this message, and work on bipartisan solutions to fix what’s not working in our health care system and build upon the progress made under the Affordable Care Act. In many states, this starts with acting immediately to close the coverage gap. Eighteen states have not yet accepted the federal funding available to provide health care coverage to some of the lowest-income workers in their states, despite the evidence from expansion states that it helps state budgets, boosts local economies, helps struggling rural hospitals, and improves access to important preventive services. Several states, including Georgia, Idaho, Tennessee and North Carolina, were well on their way to closing the coverage gap before the 2016 presidential election stalled this progress. Now that it’s clear the ACA is here to stay, it’s time for policymakers in these states to respond to the clear will of the people – and the message resonating from Maine yesterday – and find a path forward to close the coverage gap. · Posted in: Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2884
__label__cc	0.563701	0.436299	Social Market Foundation The Social Market Foundation proposes a radical new student finance model The Social Market Foundation summarises its latest piece of research: In our latest publication, Funding Undergraduates, we outline a new funding model which takes the best of two existing proposals – tuition fees and a graduate tax – to build a system that creates a fair market for students and universities alike. Under the current system, students are charged tuition fees upfront and are offered loans at zero real interest rates to cover their cost. Loan repayment is made at the rate of 9% of graduates’ income above an income threshold of £15,000 per year. Any outstanding debts are written off after 25 years. Since tuition fees were raised significantly under this system in 2006, universities have generated additional revenue. But participation among students from lower socio-economic groups has also increased. However, this model is now unsustainable. The subsidy on the loans costs the taxpayer £1.38 billion, on top of the £5.31 billion it gives to universities for Teaching via the HEFCE Grant. The subsidy has capped the number of loans Government can give out, despite growing demand. The cap on tuition fees has also prevented the emergence of a market with variable fees, desperately needed if we are to reward universities and courses that deliver good returns for their students and the wider economy. Increasing tuition fees under current arrangements would cost Government disproportionately more. This is because the total amount of loans distributed would increase, graduates would hold the subsidised debt for longer, and more debt would be written off at the 25 year point. Other think tanks have proposed the following to get round this problem: Charging a real rate of interest on loans. This would substantially reduce costs to Government. But, as SMF analysis has shown it would mean middle-income graduates paying substantially more than upper-income graduates for the cost of their education. This is unfair and would be very likely to damage access. Extending the repayment period once graduates have repaid their loan. This would mean higher income graduates who take out loans would pay more than their peers. However, this would lead to ‘adverse selection’, with students from wealthy backgrounds opting out of the student finance system altogether. By paying upfront, they would pay substantially less than graduates who have gone through the student finance system - including graduates of the same course from less privileged backgrounds who have nevertheless been successful. The system would, in other words, effectively impose a tax on social mobility. Another idea floated is variable interest rates on student loans, with those on higher incomes facing higher interest rates. This was first suggested in our Axing and Taxing paper. However, such an approach would still provide some incentive for students from wealthier backgrounds to opt out of the system or pay their loan off earlier, resulting in the problems outlined above. This is less than ideal. Instead, SMF proposes a radical new student finance model. We propose that: Students should no longer be charged tuition fees for which they need to take out loans; Universities borrow money from Government to cover the cost of tuition; Universities repay these loans through the earnings of their graduates – a graduate contribution - at a rate and over an income threshold set by Government; Each university will be free to set a Graduate Contribution Limit (GCL) – the maximum amount that a graduate could eventually repay for their degree. This would not be capped by government and would vary between universities; Each university’s GCL would be based on the reasonable salary expectations of their graduates, taking into account interest on their loans and building in an insurance premium such that lower-earning graduates who do not cover the cost of their degree are subsidised by higher-earning ones; Graduates pay the graduate contribution to their university via the Student Loans Company, once earning above the repayment threshold; Contributions would be suspended after 25 years, meaning many low and middle income graduates do not pay the full GCL. Students would still be able to access maintenance loans at zero real interest rates, but this would be more tightly means-tested, producing further savings for the exchequer. Authors of the report Ian Mulheirn and Ryan Shorthouse said: “Universities should be able to charge graduates what they like. But they must take on the risk, rather than expecting Government to subsidise their graduates who do not meet the costs of their education. Asking universities rather than students to borrow money to pay tuition costs ensures university remains affordable to all but also creates a market as those universities who deliver better returns for their students will be able to charge a higher GCL. So universities will effectively be paid by the results they achieve. "SMF has devised a model which ensures access to university remains affordable for all, reduction in public expenditure on the HE sector, greater revenue for universities who deliver good returns for their graduates, a progressive system where higher-earning graduates pay more than lower-earning graduates and a market that rewards institutions that deliver benefits for graduates and employers”. 10/11/2010 in Social Market Foundation \| Permalink \| Comments (9) Social Market Foundation\| Oliver Letwin discusses Coalition economic strategy at Liberal Democrat conference A report submitted by the Social Market Foundation. The Social Market Foundation (SMF) hosted its first keynote address with Oliver Letwin MP, Danny Alexander MP and Brendan Barber - General Secretary of the TUC - at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference last night. SMF brought together key decision-makers that will determine the shape of our economic recovery over the coming years - the Government and the Unions. Our event was the first time a Conservative Cabinet Minister has spoken at a Liberal Democrat Party Conference. Letwin was warmly received by Liberal activists, which will no doubt confirm - Letwin chuckled - what his critics in the Tory party have always thought: he's a soggy liberal. It was a constructive and civilised but straight-talking debate, reinforcing our position as the leading think tank where ostensibly opposing ideologies and actors can come together, with the belief that credible solutions can be found. SMF believes that it is vital in these difficult times that the Coalition listens to and adopts the recommendations of others to ultimately ensure our troubling budget deficit is tackled and recovery ensured in the most effective way. So with that strong belief in co-operation and cross-party working, we will host this same discussion with Letwin, Alexander and Barber at the Conservative Party Conference on Sunday 3rd October 2010, 7:30-9:00pm (DETAILS). Alexander did not stray once from the Government line, special advisers watching closely from the back of the room. TINA, There is No Alternative, reared her head again: cutting the public deficit must happen now, and rigorously, or we will witness rising interest rates and taxes that will make economic recovery less likely. But the cutting will be fair, echoing Clegg's assertion that this won't be a re-run of the 1980s. Regions more reliant on public services will be able to access growth funds. And the long-cherished Lib Dem principle of decentralisation will ensure there will be positives for public sector workers: they will have more control over the services they deliver. At least for those still in jobs. Strangely, Letwin was more popular, winning the crowd with his courtesy towards other speakers and his self-deprecating humour. Alexander was a pleasure to work with, he said. And these Lib Dems have policies they push strongly in Government; they're not just propping up the Tories. As expected, Letwin intellectualised the Coalition Government agenda: Shift power from the centre to the local - "Personalising and localising budgets generates more efficient results". Shift in horizon to thinking long-term rather than tomorrow's headlines - "We're running a Government, not a magazine". But Brendan Barber from the TUC warned that the economy was heading towards bad times and we could get "less for less" from our public services. He accepted the deficit had to be tackled, but there was still opportunity to debate the timing of when services are cut and the extent spending cuts should contribute to the reduction plan as opposed to higher taxes. We at the SMF, in our Axing and Taxing paper, have argued for an alternative to the Coalition Government model: the deficit should be reduced by 60% public spending cuts and 40% tax rises, rather than the 80%/20% split currently proposed. Among numerous other policies, we argue for tough decisions: middle-class benefits should be reduced, road pricing introduced and better-off patients charged for visiting their GP. We hope the Government will keep listening and adapting to the changing economic climate. So we look forward to the continuation of this discussion between Coalition partners and the TUC in Birmingham next month. 09/23/2010 in Social Market Foundation, Treasury \| Permalink \| Comments (4) Social Market Foundation\|Treasury\| Nick Faith: Osborne should use the Lloyds sell-off to put money in all our pockets Philip Booth of the IEA: There's a threat to growth, despite the recovery. Here's what it is - and how to counter it. 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__label__wiki	0.617244	0.617244	Home Cargo Integrity Campaign Shipowners and class take regulatory lead on fighting fires Cargo Integrity CampaignSticky NewsTop News Shipowners and class take regulatory lead on fighting fires By n.savvides MSC Samar a Gűlsűn class container ship fitted with elevated high pressure firefighting hoses. The hoses swivel to cover the whole vessel. Last year was one of the toughest in container shipping’s history for cargo fires in terms of the number of incidents with insurers warning of the spiralling costs caused by misdeclared cargo that combusts often deep in a cargo hold where it was loaded by unsuspecting crew. The International Union of Marine Insurers (IUMI) in its 2019 analysis on the marine insurance market found that the first quarter of 2019 was characterised by a renewed impact of major losses and an especially high number of fires on container vessels. “Safety of life must remain top priority for all stakeholders, including underwriters. Already, 2019 has been impacted by nine major cargo vessel fires which, tragically, have resulted in loss of life, injury and environmental damage. Apart from severe consequences for the crew on board as well as the natural environment, these fires have a strong economic impact, causing high costs to both the hull and cargo sectors,” said the IUMI report. Cargo fires have long been a cause for concern in the maritime sector, because the consequences of fire onboard a vessel can be lethal. This was the case on the Maersk Honam disaster in March 2018, which cost five crew their lives and millions of dollars in lost cargo, leading to long litigation battles. Maersk Honam Former container ship master, Amerinder Singh Brar, now a consultant at London Offshore Consultants Ltd, also pointed out that the firefighting equipment on board modern container vessels is inadequate. He said that container stacks can be up to nine containers high, and no fire hoses can that far. What is more the latest SOLAS convention rules, covering fire safety, were developed in 1983. Singh Brar pointed out that many of latest ultra large container ships are built according to regulations that are more than 30 years old. Even though the MSC Gűlsűn’s actual fire safety equipment far exceeds the regulatory requirements. “Would you buy a car built to 30-year old standards?”, asked Singh Brar. Cargo fires on board vessels are becoming more prevalent as a result of the increase in size of container ships. Their intensity is increasing as a consequence of what the insurance companies call ‘adjacency’. IUMI’s 2019 report highlights the correlation between vessel size and fire safety. https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Containers-in-flames-onboard-Cosco-Pacific.mp4 That very theme was picked up by Richard Janssen, the MD at the Dutch salvage firm Smit, told Ship & Offshore, “The variety of cargo onboard is increasing, there are new chemicals etc., but Janssen said it’s not all to do with dangerous goods, it’s also to do with the adjacency risk, where cargo is stored next to hazardous cargo, and that is a factor of the size of ships, the MSC Flaminia 2012 was 6,700TEU, while the Maersk Honam [which saw five crew killed in a blaze in March 2018], is 15,800TEU, so there is a problem of aggregation, which increases for cargo near to improperly declared shipments putting that cargo at greater risk.” The 2006 fire on the Hyundai Fortune highlighted the vulnerability of vessels to fires in the hold. Container ships carry many different cargoes, around 10% of which are thought to be listed on the International Dangerous Goods codes, and often these cargoes are incorrectly declared, either intentionally to avoid paying the premium for such freight, or unintentionally where shipper may not realise that their cargo can be hazardous. Daniel Jackson, a partner at the science and engineering consultancy, Burgoynes, said that some cargoes decompose and release heat that is not easily dissipated due to the close proximity of other cargo containers, driving the temperatures ever higher. “The rate of increase in temperature doubles for every 10degs centigrade increase in temperature,” he added. When the temperature achieves a critical level, fire breaks out and eventually the intensity leads to “thermal runaway” meaning that all available combustible materials are ignited. As a result, the situation quickly becomes uncontrollable for the crew. Complicating matters is the fact that the second cargo may also be hazardous, and that may have different properties. For example, it could be sensitive to water whereas the initial source of the fire may not be. If the second container is stowed close to the source of the first accident, it could pose a further danger to crew who may use water to fight the initial fire, inadvertently causing a secondary explosion. Former Lloyd’s Register container shipping expert, David Tozer, explained that the cargo stacks on a large container vessel are only 50-60mm apart, leaving no space for crew to fight fires that have developed deep in the hold. Often the space in the hold has a single shot carbon dioxide system that is designed to prevent fire spreading, but if this system does not work water can be the only alternative. The kinds of disasters seen in January 2019, on the Yantian Express and APL Vancouver, in March 2019 with the loss of the Grimaldi vessel, Grande America, and Maersk Honam in 2018, have shown just how destructive cargo fires can be. These fires can burn with such intensity that firefighters struggle for weeks to extinguish the flames. Meanwhile crew are ill equipped or trained to deal with some of the fires and the often-toxic fumes they generate. Vessel firefighting equipment can often be inadequate in the event of fires caused by cargo such as calcium hypochlorite. This chemical is an oxidising agent and is designated as class 5.1 in the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code). It is unstable and when it releases heat, through its natural decomposition process it can accelerate the temperature increase if that heat has no means of escape. In this way calcium hypochlorite becomes a self-feeding fire. According to Peregrine Storrs-Fox, risk management director at the TT Club, many of these cargo fires are due to mis-declared or undeclared cargo. Some shippers can be unaware of the possible dangers of certain types of cargo, such as charcoal, and can inappropriately declare their cargo, which during the course of the voyage can ignite. Others seek to reduce shipping costs by not declaring hazardous cargo, leading to a shipping line inappropriately stowing the container. Photo: TT Club Container News understands that the fires on board the Hapag Lloyd ship Yantian Express and the APL Vancouver, were from areas on board the vessels where there was no declared hazardous cargo, though it is unclear what was declared in the cargo that caught fire. Hapag Lloyd declined an invitation to discuss the fire on board its vessel. While it is not yet clear what caused the fires on the Yantian Express, Grande America and APL Vancouver this year, it is a matter of good fortune that, thankfully, they did not result in crew losses. Sadly, this was not the case last year when the Maersk Honam experienced a cargo fire that saw the loss of five of the vessel’s crew. Container shipping lines will normally stow hazardous containers away from the accommodation block and on deck so that the crew can deal with any fire and, hopefully, preventing it spreading. This becomes infinitely more difficult and dangerous if the cargo is stowed below where the crew will be working in a confined space. Since the 2018 fire on Maersk Honam the Danish liner operator has made significant changes to its own cargo safety rules. Initially the company evaluated more than 3,000 hazardous materials and from this analysis it developed its Risk Based Dangerous Goods Stowage strategy. The strategy means that any cargo listed in the IMDG Code will not be stowed next to the accommodation block and engine room, which are defined as the zones “with the lowest risk tolerance”. In addition, the risk tolerance below deck in the central part of the vessel will also be considered high risk areas and out of bounds for storing hazardous cargoes. Instead, the main areas for stowing high risk freight will be on deck fore and aft. “Utilising statistics on container fires in the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS), Maersk defined which UN numbers can be stored in each risk zone,” said Ole Graa Jakobsen, Head of Fleet Technology at Maersk. “All cargo aboard Maersk Honam was accepted as per the requirements of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code and stowed onboard the vessel accordingly. Despite this, as the fire originated in a cargo hold in front of the accommodation, which held several containers with dangerous goods, it had an unbearably tragic outcome.” According Janssen, the fire on Maersk Honam burnt with such intensity it melted the superstructure of the ship. It is unclear what firefighting tools the crew of the Honam were equipped with, but if it only met IMO regulations it would have had two firefighting hoses, that may or may not have been long enough to reach the top of the stack and a CO2 fire abatement system in the hold. Had the Honam crew been able to flood the hold maybe their colleagues would still be alive, and the other consequences of the Honam fire could have been averted. Such a system is available on the latest series of vessels ordered by MSC, the first in the series of 11 ships being the MSC Gűlsűn, which was awarded DNV GL’s notation on fire safety, and will be awarded the other vessels in the new class of ultra large container ships, all with an array of new fire safety measures built into the design. DNV GL’s new notation, and the MSC vessel designs “go beyond SOLAS,” said DNV GL CEO Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen on announcing the new notation in mid-February. It is a vivid indication that that the design regulations have not kept pace with the reality on the water. The MSC ships have high pressure hoses mounted high on the towers with a range of around 100m and the later vessels are being tested with thermal imaging early warning systems, which alert crew to increases in temperature. “This is the first application of this notation, which we developed with MSC,” said Ørbeck-Nilssen, effectively pointing to the fact that industry, rather than taking its lead from the regulator is in fact defining its own safety regulations ahead of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Features such as large capacity firefighting hoses situated high on the towers that can spray water for around 100m and can swivel to cover all parts of the ship have been added to the MSC ship designs. In addition, the new vessels are capable of flooding individual holds to control fire outbreaks. And later vessels are being tested with thermal imaging cameras that sense changes in temperature for early alerts to fire hazards. All these changes to the vessel design go beyond the requirements of current regulations. The new notation for MSC Gűlsűn is FCS (c Hazid FF HF) which was officially announced at a DNV GL press conference in London on 18 February. In this notation HAZID alludes to hazard identification; (FD): enhanced fire detection which MSC Gűlsűn is not yet fitted with; FF stands for enhanced firefighting; HF firefighting by hold flooding. MSC Gűlsűn DNV GL is not the only class society to introduce a new notation. US class society ABS produced its report, Fire-fighting Systems for Cargo Areas of Container Carriers, published in the autumn of last yearin which it made a number of recommendations to the industry. ABS’s Container Carrier House/Structures (CCH) Notation for “containers equipped with specific cooling arrangements air monitoring, and other arrangements intended to protect crew within accommodation, service spaces, machinery spaces and other normally manned locations from the heat as well as smoke that may be created during a cargo fire.” ABS argued that following increased incidences of fires on container ships there was a need to publish stringent new guidelines for fighting fires in containers, the class society calls for deck firefighting arrangements that exceed the SOLAS requirements applicable to container vessels. The firefighting system should “be able to provide the quantity of water necessary to simultaneously supply all required mobile water monitors at the most hydraulically remote location at the required flow rate and with the pressure necessary to reach the top tier of the containers on deck along with all other fire-fighting systems and equipment identified above in … at their required flow rates and pressures while maintaining …. minimum pressures at all hydrants on the vessel.” ABS recommended that: “vessels having containers on the weather deck will also be equipped with one water mist lance, to be of a type capable of penetrating a standard container. If one water mist lance is provided as per 5C-5-7/3.5.1 of the Marine Vessel Rules, no additional lance is required.” In this instance industry is leading the way with safety and environmental protection in a high stakes scenario. It is necessary for the regulation to catch quickly with the maritime sector’s lead. 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__label__wiki	0.791327	0.791327	ConvertSumo °C & °F °C to °F °F to °C Cm & Inches Cm to Inches Inches to Cm Miles & Km Mi to Km Km to Mi Ft & Meter Ft to M M to Ft Square Feet to Acres Acres to Square Feet Oz & Ml Ml to Oz Liters to Oz Oz to Ml Oz to Liters Lb, Kg & Grams Lb to Kg Kg to Lb Lb to grams Grams to Lb Rad & Degrees Radians to Degrees Convert Radians to Degrees Grams to Pounds conversion. Edit any of the fields below and get answer: Grams Pounds How many pounds in 7 grams? How to convert 7 Grams to Lb? The simple answer is: 0.0154 Use our Grams to Pounds converter to understand: How many Lbs are in 7 Grams? 7 Grams is equal to how many pounds How to recalculate 7 Grams to Pounds? What is the formula to convert 7 from Grams to Pounds Grams to Lb formula: [Lb] = [Grams] x 0.002204 The final formula to convert 7 Grams to Pounds is: [Lb] = 7 x 0.002204 = 0.0154 Like Kilogram or kg, the pound (lb) and gram (gm) are both used for the measurement of mass. Given below are the detailed history and description of the two units of mass along with their conversions from one to the other. Pound (lb) The imperial system uses the pound as a method of mass measurement and is used as a weighing unit on an everyday basis. Weight is the gravitational force that acts on a given object. The imperial or avoirdupois or the international pound has been officially announced as 453.59237 grams. The term 'pound' has been adapted from the phrase libra pondo which is a Latin phrase or the Roman libra which stands for pound weight and approximately weighs 329 grams. Hence, the symbol is written as lb which is the abbreviation of the word libra in Latin. The meaning of libra was known to be balance and scales according to the astrological sign. Libra was also known to be the basic unit of weight which was used by the ancient Romans. Throughout the history, the local translation of pound has been used to measure weight in the different countries like France, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Russia as well as Germany. Although the accurate mass, that has been defined as pound varies from one system to the other. But broadly, they are similar and usually vary between 350-560 metric grams. Some lesser known facts on Pounds In the UK the numerous systems which use pound have co-existed. But the avoirdupois pound which is also known to be the wool pound is the commonly used form having the abbreviations of lb, lb avdp or av. Another variation that is still used to the present is the Troy pound which is approximately 373 gram. This measurement is often used as a form mass measurement usually during the measurement of the mass of the precious metals. The imperial pound was first defined in terms of the metric unit by The UK Weights and Measures Act of 1878 which defined 1 lb = 453.59237 grams. The Mendenhall Order in 1893 defined the pound in United States by describing that 1 kg = 2.20462 pounds. The United States along with the other countries of Commonwealth of Nations together agreed to the definitions of yard and pound and also adopted them in the year 1959. Gram (gm) The gram in the metric system is a unit of mass. It is originally defined to be the: “Absolute weight of a volume of pure water to the cube of the hundredth part of a meter, and at the temperature of melting ice “. But in the reversal of reference, along with the defined units, a gram is now defined to be one-thousandth of the S.I. base of the unit, the kilogram or 1 X 10(to the power -3)kg. This itself is now not defined in terms of grams but equal to the mass of any physical prototype of a particular alloy that is kept and preserved by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Some other facts on Gram The only symbol or unit that is recognized by the International System of Units (S.I.) for gram is “g” following the numeric value along with space. Eg- “640 g” or “640 grams” in English. The abbreviations for the unit of gram like “gr”, “Gm” or “gm” are not supported by the S.I. In 1795, The French National Convention adopted the word gramme while revising the metric system and replaced the word gravet which had been introduced in 1793. The French word gramme was derived from the late-Latin term of “gramma”. During the 19th century, gram was known to be the fundamental unit of mass in the CGS system of units. The MKS System of Units co-existed with the CGS system of Units during the 20th century. In 1960, with the selection of the S.I base units which replaced the MKS System, the fundamental unit of mass was selected to be a kilogram. Today, most of the measurement of the non-liquid ingredients in cooking and grocery shops throughout the world uses the unit of a gram for the items. Conversion of Pounds to Gram and vice-versa The weight units’ factor for the conversion of pounds to grams is 453.59237. For the Troy Pounds, it is 373.2417216. 1 Troy Pound = 373.2417219 g 1 Pound = 453.59237 g Except for this, today one has different apps and programs at hand through the internet supporting devices that help them with the proper conversion of pounds to the gram and vice versa. Convert 7 Grams to Pounds (LBS) Convert 10 Grams to Pounds (LBS) Terms of Use Email us: [email protected]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2889
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Xandria Hair Community Outreach Worker Email: xhair@cookcountyhhs.org As a native of Chicago, Xandria Hair developed a passion for improving health outcomes of marginalized populations. This passion spans across many sectors of Public Health as she advocates for access to health equity from a social and racial equality perspective. Spearheading various community outreach initiatives allows her to address health disparities that impact the population she serves. Xandria has embraced her role as Community Outreach Worker with Cook County Health as an opportunity to engage and build relationships with diverse communities across the Chicagoland area. She earned a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Community Health from DePaul University. Her love for community is evident as she hosts the annual 4 Men Only Health Fair at Provident Hospital, an event that brings awareness to men’s health, provides access to an array of health services and resources, and allows opportunities for students as a pathway to careers in healthcare. Xandria has spent her career shaping both the non-profit and healthcare sectors in an effort to support populations disproportionately impacted by a number of social determinants of health. At Cook County Health, her work implementing community health practices helps to increase collaborative efforts, engage stakeholders, and improve the equity and well-being of our patient population. Email: acollins3@cookcountyhhs.org A native Chicagoan, Alice fell in love with community outreach when she was only a teen. The youngest of 10 children, she got a job through the City of Chicago Summer Youth Employment program working at a local youth service agency, where she was part of a team reaching out to other teens and encouraging them to avoid unhealthy behaviors. Through that experience, as well as challenges her family faced, Alice developed a deep enthusiasm for sharing resources and information to make a difference in the lives of others. Alice was the first in her family to obtain a Master’s Degree and has wide-ranging experience working in the non-profit and healthcare sectors. In her previous job, she helped homeowners experiencing foreclosure to avoid losing their homes. During her time there, Alice uncovered a large-scale fraud operation involving individuals deeding homes in foreclosure to themselves. She diligently followed up with law enforcement, elected officials, and HUD and advocated on behalf of the property owners. After a lengthy investigation, the State’s Attorney’s Office charged and convicted four people with fraud, and the victims were able to secure title to their homes. In response, Cook County changed the way property deeds are recorded, making homeowners less vulnerable to this type of theft. At Cook County Health, as part of the Outreach team, Alice helps people connect with our health system and CountyCare so they can access the care they need. A graduate of the CCH Leadership Development Institute, she is devoted to serving our patients and investing in the communities where our clinics are located. She even advocated for sponsorship of a local youth baseball program in the Ford Heights community as a way for youth there to build confidence, be involved in team building and demonstrate Cottage Grove Health Center’s investment in the community. Alice is committed to engaging diverse communities and is passionate about sharing Cook County Health’s motto, “We Bring Care to the Community”. Marcelino Garcia Director of Community Affairs Email: mgarcia6@cookcountyhhs.org Marcelino Garcia is Cook County Health’s Director of Community Affairs. An attorney by training, he has expertise in local and international government, healthcare and community affairs. Marcelino has spent many years helping people with their legal difficulties through his public interest law work. He also works arduously to bring resources to communities to ensure their economic and health development. Marcelino is devoted to public service, having worked in leadership roles at not‐for‐profits and governmental entities. Through his work at the Chicago Legal Clinic, he was able to help clients deal with mortgage foreclosures, domestic relations issues, bankruptcy, and immigration matters. 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__label__cc	0.735702	0.264298	Click to watch a popular interview of Dr. Peter and Dr. Phyllis by Terri Allard on "Charlottesville Inside-Out". (2013) *Interview starts at 13:17 Peter Sheras, Ph.D. - Parenting My Teenage Child: Is it Impossible, or Am I Just Bad at It? Phyllis Koch-Sheras, Ph.D. and Peter Sheras, Ph.D. - Couple Power - Caring and Sharing: The Key to Lifelong Love Couple Power - Cooperation and Communication: Making It All Work Couple Power - Commitment: The Gateway to Lifelong Love Couple Power: The Couple as One Couple Power In Couple Power Therapy: Building Commitment, Cooperation, Communication, and Community in Relationships, Drs. Sheras and Koch-Sheras introduce the Couple Power Therapy model, an exciting new approach in which partners cocreate a unified vision for their relationship. Couple Power Therapy Reviews “This book brings together a wealth of research and practice information and integrates it into a new paradigm for treating couples…All therapists who work with couples will want to add this book to their library and learn from Sheras and Koch-Sheras’ wisdom…” -- James H. Bray, PhD, Past-president, American Psychological Association "This novel approach to helping couples build their own relationship reflects years of experience and thought by two highly skilled and talented professionals.” -- Steven L. Nock, PhD, Co-founder, University of Virginia Center for Children, Families, and the Law "There is no book on the market that contains so much material of value for couples counselors, therapists, coaches, and for couples themselves.” -- Stanley Krippner, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center “On the basis of their extensive clinical experience, the authors have identified four tasks essential for developing a stable and gratified couple relationship. This book…will serve as an invaluable resource both for therapists and for couples seeking to build a more committed, fulfilling relationship.” -- Mavis Hetherington, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia 421 Park St. Email: sherfam@aol.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2895
__label__cc	0.680822	0.319178	Deskside Retail Innovator Brian Bolke on Thriving During a Pandemic & What’s Next for Fashion And why everything is changing for the better. By: Halle Lagatta Graphics: Rachel Pickus Each week we’re checking in with friends to see how they’re working from home and leaning into the fall months. Today we’re chatting with Brian Bolke, chief visionary and founder of The Conservatory. With a résumé that would make any fashion industry insider jealous—see his work at Neiman Marcus, I. Magnin & Co., oh, and Forty Five Ten, of which he happens to be a founder—Bolke’s work is far from finished. When headlines detail the closure of another favorite department store or landmark retailer, Bolke and The Conservatory have thrived, opening up two new locations amidst the pandemic. Located at the intersection between e-comm and brick-and-mortar, The Conservatory is here to stay, delivering much-needed fashion with a conscience. Read below for an exclusive peek into the life of Bolke, CBD tinctures, and how vodka sodas fit into that. Photo: Courtesy of Brian Bolke... Read More How do you start your days? “I wake up at about 6:45 AM (never with an alarm anymore)—I’ve become an early bird (who knew?)—and I spend a few minutes in bed simply assessing my life and starting from a grateful place. As tough as life seems right now, it helps to think about how lucky I am.” Are you incorporating movement or exercise into your routine? If so, anything you’re loving at the moment? “Every morning I do 45 minutes of ‘something’—walk on the Katy Trail (it’s the Dallas High Line), a spin class, or Orangetheory. Group exercise works best for me...I need the push of a class starting and not wanting to be late, and I like the mix of being anonymous yet a bit competitive. I talk all day, so not having to be one-on-one is a blessing, and for sure it’s the only 45 minutes of my day with no phone. And all the group fitness in Dallas is at 50 percent capacity, so it feels like you are working out in your own world.” Talk to us a little bit about your work environment right now. Are you back in the office, or working remotely from home? “Since COVID I have spent (literally) every day at my Dallas office in Highland Park Village. It kept me sane—it felt normal—except NO ONE was there for three months, which I LOVED. It saved me. I needed a calm work space. I called it the ‘retail war room.’ We opened two stores (a Dallas flagship and a charming store in Napa Valley) the last two months (yes, in the middle of a pandemic), so my office was where all the planning came from. It allowed me time to really understand ‘how’ to open stores safely in the new world we live in.” What are the most critical things needed for creativity and to survive a workday? “Coffee, a sense of humor—especially now—and mostly looking at the challenges as opportunities.” How do you stay focused and motivated throughout the day? Any tricks you can share? “Focus and motivation simply come from feeling responsible for the lives of about 40 people. Which also is very stressful, but it keeps me going. “I love playing canasta—it’s my favorite thing with a group of friends. Since COVID we haven’t been able to meet to play, so whenever I feel stressed, I play canasta on an app called Hand and Foot. It is five minutes of relief from whatever is stressing me. I usually win, and that feels like a minor accomplishment.” It’s a tricky time in our world, and economically speaking, it’s unclear what the future holds. How do you foresee this time impacting your industry? “Everything will be changed forever—mostly for the better. It reminds me of my grandmother; she talked about the Depression her whole life. This is our Depression—we will get through it, but be changed. “What I think is positive is that our fashion industry will realize the waste. I think we will see less shows, less markets, less production, less sales. The Conservatory was built on many of these ideas that now seem to be the ‘new normal,’ so I’m grateful some good is coming out of all this.” From a creative standpoint, who or what has been your biggest influence? “Our customers. That sounds trite, but I’m fascinated by their lives and how they adapt. The positive reaction to The Conservatory, especially during the pandemic, has made me really appreciate what I do again.” Tell us a little bit about your style right now: “I’m trying to stay comfortable, first and foremost. Right now, that’s where I start. But I’m secretly excited to get dressed again. Someday.” What’s your go-to uniform? “Black t-shirt, usually from Salle Privee, khaki shorts, bright Nike sneakers, and a chic mask that somehow pulls it together. In fall you can insert denim for shorts, and I LOVE a shirt jacket every day—with pockets for my phone and the crap that I seem to need all day. This fall the designer Teddy Vonranson was kind enough to add a shirt jacket to the collection just for us. It will be my new uniform.” Lothar Tee$100Buy Florian Chino Short$248Buy Japanese Stretch Selvedge Denim$198Buy Bolke Shirt Jacket$595Buy Are there any style essentials you rely on for your summer wardrobe? “I’m a shorts person. This summer I wore them every day. Dallas is HOT. It’s a pandemic—I’m going to wear shorts.” Let’s switch gears for a minute: Are there any beauty products essential to your day-to-day? “I’m now obsessed with Bottle and Stone CBD tinctures—they are new at The Conservatory—and Favour CBD gum. It totally chills you out. Beauty starts on the inside anyways.” How do you unwind at the end of the day? Cocktails? Recipe, please! “Well, I’m definitely binge-watching a lot of Netflix. And when it comes to cocktails, I like to keep it simple: vodka, Topo Chico, and a lot of lime. My new favorite vodka is from Kastra Elion—it’s a Greek vodka made from olives. I missed Mykonos this summer, so this is as close as I’ll get.” Bottle & Stone Daily Dose Cinnamon Full Spectrum CBD Oil Tincture$86Buy Gum$20Buy Photos: Courtesy of Brian Bolke Designer Rebecca Minkoff on Staying Creative and What’s Next for Her Business Shana Tovah in Mallorca: Ringing in the New Year and Reinventing Rituals 14 Friends of Coveteur on What They’re Splurging on During Quarantine Part of the series: VIEW THE SERIES	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2896
__label__cc	0.601567	0.398433	Home » Teams » India Virat Kohli or Ravindra Jadeja? Indian captain ends best fielder debate Posted On / May 14, 2020 / by Akshat Gaur Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli (Image Source: Twitter) Former India skipper MS Dhoni had done wonders for Team India as a leader, amongst his so many brilliant tactics, one thing that he brought in the team was a ‘fielding’ culture. Although, before Dhoni, there were few names like Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif who actually initiated the process and made Indians realise that fielding is an equally important aspect but the majority of players during that time were not quick in the outfield. The credit for preparing the whole team to work hard in the fielding department goes to MSD and the glimpse of it was seen in the 2013 Champions Trophy in England when Indian team showed a completely different avatar and fielded better than any other side. The legacy of such has been continued by Virat Kohli as well. He himself is a terrific fielder and often motivates his players to make an extra effort in the outfield. Apart from Kohli, the Indian team has a gun fielder in the form of Ravindra Jadeja. The all-rounder has single-handedly changed the entire dynamics of fielding. From run-outs to unbelievable catches, one could see Jaddu everywhere. But who amongst Kohli and Jadeja is the best? Well, the Indian skipper has himself answered and ended the debate. It all happened when the official Instagram handle of StarSports asked the cricket fans to pick the best fielder between Kohli and Jadeja. “If you had one shot at hitting the stumps to save your life, who would you choose to throw for you – Jaddu or Virat?,” StarSports’ Instagram handle wrote. Numerous fans responded to the post, choosing their favourite. Some went for Kohli while some took the name of Jadeja. However, one reply captured all the attention, and it came from none other than Kohli himself. The 31-year-old ended the debate and named Jadeja as the best fielder. Kohli said he would pick the Indian southpaw every time. “Jaddu. Every time. End of debate,” replied Kohli. Virat Kohli Instagram TAGS: India, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli CATEGORY: India, News, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2900
__label__wiki	0.715249	0.715249	Home » Players » Virat Kohli IPL 2020: Ian Bishop picks his fantasy XI of the season; excludes Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni Posted On / October 15, 2020 / by Akshat Gaur Ian Bishop, MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli Ian Bishop has named his fantasy team of IPL 2020. As per the IPL norms, Bishop picked seven Indians and four overseas players. As the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 has crossed the half-way stage, and cricket experts have started coming up with their analysis regarding the teams and players who will excel in the later stages of the lucrative tournament. Following the pattern, former West Indies cricketer, Ian Bishop has revealed his fantasy IPL XI of the season. The cricketer-turned-commentator has named Kieron Pollard as the captain of his side. Pollard is a veteran T20 player and a spinal column of Mumbai Indians (MI) in IPL. Polly has scored 174 runs from seven matches in IPL 2020. For the openers, Bishop went with Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) skipper KL Rahul, who is leading the charts as the highest run-scorer in the ongoing tournament. In seven matches, Rahul has clubbed 387 runs at an outstanding average of 64.50 with one hundred and three half-centuries. For Rahul’s partner, Bishop picked Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) highest run-getter in the competition, Faf du Plessis. The former South Africa captain has accumulated 307 runs in 8 match with three fifties. The middle-order in Bishop’s XI is fulfilled by the likes of Surya Kumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer. Both Surya and Iyer are in great form in the IPL 2020. While Iyer is Delhi Capitals’ (DC) highest run-scorer (298), Surya is MI’s leading run-getter (233). Rashid and Chahal are the two spinners in Bishop’s team Apart from Pollard, Bishop picked Hardik Pandya as his second all-rounder. Among spinners, the former West Indies international went with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) leggie Rashid Khan and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) wrist-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Both Rashid and Yuzvendra are the leading wicket-takers of their respective teams. In 8 games, Rashid has bagged 10 scalps whereas Yuzi has also taken 10 wickets in seven matches. Bishop selected Kagiso Rabada, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami as seamers of his team. Rabada is currently leading the wicket-takers list with 18 scalps in 8 games. Similarly, Bumrah is third in the list with 11 wickets to his name. Shami, on the other hand, is sitting at the eighth spot with 10 wickets. Here is Ian Bishop’s fantasy XI of IPL 2020: KL Rahul (wk), Faf du Plessis, Surya Kumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Kieron Pollard (c), Hardik Pandya, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Kagiso Rabada, Yuzvendra Chahal and Jasprit Bumrah. TAGS: Ian Bishop, IPL 2020, MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli CATEGORY: IPL, Virat Kohli	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2901
__label__cc	0.64949	0.35051	Joy Reid's Guest Implores Democrats Not To Make A 'MASSIVE Strategic Mistake' Political election guru Rachel Bitecofer appeared on AM Joy to talk GOP primaries and Dem strategies for 2020. By Aliza Worthington 1 year ago by Aliza Worthington Joy Reid welcomed her very own "Political Nostradamus" to the show to discuss the latest developments in the 2020 election. First they discussed the fact that the GOP has cancelled the primaries in four states in order to smooth the way for Diaper Don to be the nominee. A great many pundits/politicians/history folks have noted that this is certainly not the first time a party has cancelled their primaries. Each time, I'd scream back at the TV, "NO BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A SENTIENT, AUTOCRATIC, CRIMINAL, MURDEROUS, HITLERIAN ZIPLOC BAG OF CELLULITE AND HAIR HAS BEEN THE PRESIDENT!" Surprisingly, I haven't been called to be on any TV shows to expound on this theory. Rachel Bitecofer was on TV instead, and had an even better point to make about why this time is different. BITECOFER: This is now coming to light in a big way with these big, you know, announcements but, yeah, they know for sure it's a bad optic for them to run a primary and have him even lose 10 or 15% even though obviously those percentages are not enough to sway the nomination. The media would go crazy with those kinds of narratives. It would affect the fundraising. So what they're trying to do here is control the narrative. And I've heard some analysts say, well, it's not uncommon for incumbent parties to cancel their primaries to save money. That is true, but they don't tend to do that when there are named challengers. That is extremely an uncommon move and it certainly is something that's going to get a lot of controversy. Okay, fine, THAT'S an important reason, too. There are named challengers this time. This move is so clearly meant to "install" Trump in this position, and continue to dismantle democracy with the seeming ease to which they've become accustomed in the last two-plus hellish years. Reid pointed out that GOP primary challenger Bill Weld, who's doing the best in terms of numbers against Trump, tweeted that Donald "has made no secret of the fact that he wishes to be crowned as president rather than elected. That might be fine in a monarchy, but we overthrew ours two centuries ago." She asked Bitecofer if fear of deepening autocracy is enough to bring out the big numbers of Democratics to the polls...to hopefully compensate for what we assume will not be a fair election. Her answer was, "Maybe, but..." Then Bitecofer lay down a roadmap that I hope every single Democrat — running for any office, actually, but especially president or Congress — needs to see, hear, and follow. BITECOFER: We have him trampling these institutional norms, really coming down on Congress and saying, look, you have no subpoena power. I'm not going to produce any witnesses. So there's so many institutional norms that Democrats -- where they make a mistake, I think, is that assuming everybody is aware of it. Again, most people, most Americans, including the ones that are going to cast ballots in that November election, are NOT following the day-to-day of Donald Trump. And so this assumption that everybody knows is a TOTALLY WRONG assumption for Democrats to make. They will need to remind the electorate of these institutional norms that Trump has questioned and violated, or it will be a MASSIVE strategic mistake. Are you listening, Democrats? A hallmark of both debates so far has been that the candidates don't seem to be going after Donald Trump. His name is barely coming up. Earlier in Joy's show, Elie Mystal said that Obama showed America who we wanted to be, and Donald Trump showed us who we really ARE. And what we need right now is someone who will show us how to go from being who we are to who we should be. We can't do that without a candidate who hammers home for the general public just how bad things have gotten. Democrats, Election 2020, gop primaries, Joy Reid, Rachel Bitecofer, trump This is part of our continuing coverage of the 2020 elections. Scholar Predicts 2020 Win For Dems Without Moderate Republicans Or Swing States Don't get cocky, but this scholar's model says pay attention to turnout from base Democrats, rather than trying to convert moderate Republicans or pouring big money into swing states. Joy Guest Guest Reminds Dem Candidates Of Something Crucial About Voters "Political Nostradamus" Rachel Bitecofer counsels Democratic candidates on the nature of voters. Hint: They aren't as tuned-in to the news as we might be. Election Scholar Predicts Dems Beat Trump With Or Without 'Swing States' Rachel Bitecofer, who accurately predicted the 40-seat Democratic gain in 2018, argues the 2020 election is about voter excitement and turning out the base. Daily Show Proves 'Undecided' Voters Are Bulls**ting The Media For Attention "Deciding" between Scarface and Mister Rodgers? Really. Joy Reid Describes Biden's Trip To AME Church In Selma A visit to Brown Chapel AME church in Selma told Joy Reid that Joe Biden was going to sweep the southern primaries. Drudge Report: Trump Has Less Than Five Percent Change Of Winning The Drudge Report says that Trump has less than a five percent chance of winning the 2020 election. Matt Drudge's political publication posts the low odds of a Trump re-election, plus we have happy links to keep you from doom-scrolling. By RedStateRachel	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2902
__label__cc	0.53755	0.46245	Jones: The Tea Party has taken over GOP Van Jones argues that the Tea Party has taken over the Republican Party. David Bossie, S.E. Cupp and Brad Woodhouse debate. Filed under: 2014 Elections • Brad Woodhouse • David Bossie • Debates • Fireback • GOP • Politics • S.E. Cupp • Tea Party • Van Jones The Tea Party is just the right wing of the Republican Party with anger-management issues. The Republican establishment spent years stoking the anger of its right wing, but now it has problems controlling the anger. Is the Tea Party dead or are they now running the Republicans. I appears to be whatever way the democrats can paint them depending on which way benefits their needs at the time. Maybe the American People want leaders who will stop selling us out to countries like Communist China, India and Mexico. Sounds like the mentally lame is being challenged by the mentally retarded. Which is a real insult to the mentally challenged. Libertarian Man Like it or not many people see Tea Party candidates losing as a sign that the Tea Party is going away, when in reality that isn't necessarily true. Jones is onto something here. Like it or not the Tea Party has influenced establishment Republicans to move closer to fiscal & social conservative policies. Since the establishment has moved closer to the conservative values that has diminished the contrast between the two right wing groups. If the tea party ever really had the following that they were ballyhooed to have, then why didn't they form a 3rd party? instead they opted to ride the GOP coattails! Have they taken over the GOP? Yes, they have. But that is a problem. It's not a matter if their policies are correct or not, it's more an issue of non-inclusiveness and demographics. The tea-party is trying to use the same arguments from the 80's. The problem is that when George Bush ran against Michael Dukakis, Bush won just about the same percentages of each of the major racial demographics as Mitt Romney did in the last election. 60% of whites 11% of blacks 30% of hispanics for bush 6% of blacks for Romney The difference... 85% of voters were white in 1988... where as only 72% were in 2012. That's why Bush got 426 electoral votes in '88 and Romney got 206 in 2012. As long as the party's message continues using the process of generating anger about illegal immigration and government dependency (which many of their base turn around toward distrust or outright hostility toward blacks and hispanics), the GOP is going to be in trouble. The "mainstream" part of the GOP realized this after 2012... but they couldn't overcome the tea-party opposition to immigration reform (a VERY low hanging fruit for the GOP to address). The tea party has won the battle for the soul of the GOP... the mainstream guys are moving toward their beliefs. And because of that, they will have harder and harder times in national elections. You can't just win the white vote 60-40 to win an election now. Kurt, do you really think Obama would have won in 2012 had 145 million hard working Americans known they and their families were were being screw by OBAMACARE and his outright lies? It should also be noted that voter turnout in the 2012 election % wise was the lowest it had been since 2000. Perhaps a lot of this could be attributed to novelty of Obama wearing off as he was down about 4,000,000 votes from 2008. Romney actually received 1,000,000 more votes than Mccain did in 2008. Romney was blah. Mccain was blah. Both Bushes were blah . Dole was blah. The GOP needs a candidate that the people WANT to vote for. The GOP has not had a strong candidate since Reagan. I realize Bush won via landslide over Dukakis... but that had more to do with the popularity of Reagan than anything else. Robert H. Pike The conservative base, including so called "Tea party" candidates, have gotten extreme; and hence lost the centrist GOP support. The TP base made some sense; Goldwater, the founder of the conservative base, made huge sense. Unfortunately today's Tea party the extremists representing them didn't; so they lost ground. jkld I've voted GOP for the majority of my voting life – >40 years. However, once the tp disease took over and they became nasty, ignorant, bigoted, and racist, I left. I'm a moderate and now an independent. As long as that TP disease infests the GOP, never again will I vote GOP. The TP doesn't give a damn about the middle class. They certainly don't give a damn about anyone but the 1%. They forget that this country has had its' best economies when tax rates have been higher on the rich and MUCH higher on corporations. Our infrastructure is failing. Roads, bridges, etc are failing and yet the TP refuses to understand that this takes money to repair. You can't keep cutting and yet complain things are disintegrating before your eyes. The tea party has gone down to defeat in almost all the primaries except Nebraska. I would say they are fading away, as the Republican establishment has reasserted itself through the ballot box. To suggest otherwise is to ignore facts. glennrobert A Tea Party take over? I don't think so. They will continue to divide the Republican party and cost them the next two elections, like they did the last two. The far left are making noises that are very similar. Mutual suicide? WhoCares wishful thinking Leave a Reply to jkld	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2904
__label__wiki	0.619906	0.619906	For innovation to meet its fullest potential, different voices, backgrounds, genders, ethnicities and perspectives must be blended into the workforce. For several years the tech industry has been working to diversify its workforce. Today, women and traditionally underrepresented groups hold one-third of all tech jobs, according to CTA’s 2019 Economic Impact Study. However, despite the surge of tech jobs in the last three decades, the composition of the workforce hasn’t seen a shift. For example, the proportion of women in computing jobs has decreased by five percent between 1991-2017. To advance positive change toward greater diversity and inclusion, CTA is committed to: Investing $10 million in venture firms and funds focused on women, people of color and other underrepresented startups and entrepreneurs. K-12 STEM Pipeline Partnering with programs that help develop a diverse K-12 STEM pipeline. Engaging with allied organizations working to create a diverse and inclusive tech ecosystem. Working with member companies to highlight best practices that develop and support a more diverse and inclusive industry. New Voices Amplifies Female Founders of Color at CES 2020 With the goal of demonstrating the presence of powerful Black women tech founders and highlighting emerging talent, global initiative New Voices brought four companies to Eureka Park at CES 2020. i3 \| April 6, 2020 Creating an Inclusive Experience at CES 2020 Diversity and Inclusion: a Small Firm’s Journey, First Steps Finding solutions to diversity challenges requires engaging with all stakeholders. Through our growing leadership, engagement and support across the industry, we will help champion access to resources and opportunities for all. The ERG Experience Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) help create inclusive and innovative workplaces, and we welcome members of ERGs or staff member(s) dedicated to creating productive workplace cultures to have the opportunity to participate in the CES® experience, Jan. 7-10, 2020 in Las Vegas. CTA created a new program called The ERG Experience to help expand the diversity of attendees and provide them engagement opportunities. CTA Welcomed Harper Cuva and the Girl Boss Tour Some of the CTA Staff had the privilege of meeting Harper Cuva on her Girl Boss Tour. The tour was started when Harper’s mother found out she had an advanced rare cancer and wanted to imbue her daughter with examples of female leaders. Learn more about CTA's work in the following areas:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2906
__label__cc	0.609946	0.390054	Wind-Ways Bora wind, Mount Mosor, Croatia Nick is the author of three books: Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water and The Parakeeting of London. He works as an editor and co-director for the Dark Mountain Project, and has contributed short stories and essays to many of its issues. The wind almost blew me away for the first time in 1987, when the Great Storm hit the British Isles. I was six years old. It was on the mountainside of Ynys Enlli, the holy island off the coast of North Wales, where my mother took me every year to volunteer for the local trust and hear the seals sing at night. Now the storm had stranded us there, for the weekly boat was cancelled. There was no shop on the island, and food supplies were running low; one of my most vivid memories is of my mother, by the glow of a paraffin lamp, inexpertly skinning a rabbit the farmer had shot for stew. I remember hugging the cottage wall on trips to the outhouse in the yard, and my fear of slates zipping off the roof to brain me if I ventured far. But what I remember above all else is standing on the mountainside and the wind filling the coat I was wearing – many sizes too large for me – and my feet actually leaving the ground before my mother grabbed my legs and dragged me back to earth. We laughed about it afterwards. It became one of those stories. Could it have actually blown me away, across the foam-flecked Irish Sea? I’m not sure, but for years part of me secretly wished it had, and I imagined being borne through the sky to Ireland, France, America, Iceland, the Arctic Circle or any of the other wonderful places waiting in the world. I’d only travelled a foot off the ground. Nevertheless, I couldn’t help feeling slightly blessed. Despite being moved by the wind in this way I did not grow up to be a glider pilot, a windsurfer, a paraglider or a wind turbine engineer. My attempts with kites mostly ended in dismal tangles of string. I did not become a meteorologist, one who understands weather as a science, as I’m sure this book will make only too clear. What I did become, however, was someone with an urge to travel, and especially to travel by walking, which allows you to follow paths not dictated by road or rail, paths not marked on any map, or to follow no path at all; to wander and to wonder as freely as your feet can take you. But every journey has a logic, even if it’s an invisible one. All travelling, I came to understand, is an act of following something: whether a coastline, an ancient migration, a trade route, a border or someone else’s footsteps. Scanning the travel section of a bookshop, it appeared that everything had been followed that it was possible to follow. There seemed to be no trails left that hadn’t been traversed. Map of Europe’s named winds, Rodney Paull, 2017 And then one day I saw a map with paths I hadn’t seen before. It was a map of Europe transfigured by coloured lines, marauding arrows like troop advances that ploughed across borders, over land and sea, connecting regions and cultures that seemed quite separate in my mind: Latin with Slavic, continental with coastal, North African with southern European. These mysterious corridors had names every bit as tantalising as the Silk Road or the Camino de Santiago: the Mistral, the Tramontana, the Foehn, the Sirocco, the Bora. There was even one in the north of England, more brusquely named the Helm. The map showed the routes of local winds, which blow with tremendous force at specific times of year – normally at the transitions between seasons, such as when winter turns to spring – and, I was intrigued to discover, they were said to influence everything from architecture to psychology. The fact that these invisible powers had names, rather than simply compass directions that described where they were from, gave them a sense of majesty, even of personality. They sounded like characters I could meet. Those swooping, plunging arrows suggested routes I might follow, trails that had not been walked before. As soon as I saw that map I knew: I would follow the winds. But where do winds come from, and where do they go? Can they be said to ‘go’ at all, in the sense that a walker goes, or a road, from one location to another? And if they can, what happens to them once they have got there? What, in fact, is wind? Before asking that it is better to begin with a more fundamental question: what is air? Ashamed as I am to admit it, until I started this book I assumed – as I suspect many people do – that air isn’t really anything, that it doesn’t exist in the same way that earth or water does. I thought of it as an absence, a nothing waiting to be filled with something, so it was a revelation to learn that air is something in its own right. Air is a gas, or a mixture of gases: mostly nitrogen and oxygen, with tiny amounts of carbon dioxide, argon and water vapour. Like every gas it is made of molecules, which are made of atoms. So air not only has substance, but weight – that was my next revelation – and the proper term for the weight of the air, its billions of molecules combined, is ‘atmospheric pressure’. Just as pressure at the bottom of the ocean is greater than at its surface, because of the volume of water above, atmospheric pressure is higher at low altitudes – because there is more weight pressing down – and lower at high altitudes, where the weight pressing down is less. Pressure is dependent on temperature: when the weather is warm air rises, creating areas of low pressure, and when the weather is cool it descends, with the opposite effect. When neighbouring ‘parcels’ of air find themselves at different pressures the atmosphere must equalise, so air is forced from high pressure areas to low pressure areas to balance things out. It is sucked rather than blown: that was my third revelation. That is our culture’s answer, at least. Other cultures have answered differently, providing tales as twisting and varied as the winds themselves. The ancient Greeks gave wind its place at the very beginning of time: when the goddess Eurynome, mother of all things, emerged naked out of Chaos and separated the sea from the sky, her dancing set the air in motion and created the north wind, which became the serpent Ophion (appearing in a later incarnation as the god Boreas). Eurynome coupled with this flowing, sinuous snake of wind and afterwards, in the form of a dove, laid the universal egg from which all life hatched. Wind and life: the two are connected at the deepest level of language. The words for ‘wind’, ‘breath’ and ‘spirit’ are the same in many tongues, including the Hebrew ruach and the Arabic ruh. The Greek word for wind, anemos, is the root of the Latin anima, ‘soul’, the force that animates, or gives life, to breathing creatures: animals. Another Latin word, spirare, which means ‘to breathe’ or ‘to blow’, is the source of ‘spirit’ as well as ‘respiration’. And to the Greeks, in the words of writer and translator Xan Fielding, ‘breezes used to be called zoogonoi, life-begetters, and psychotrophoi, soul-nurturers; and the mythical ancestors of the human race who were worshipped in Athens . . . were wind-spirits as well as ancestors, breaths as well as souls.’ Anemographic Chart, or Map of the Winds, by Jan Janssonius, 1650 I wanted to follow these breaths, these souls, but where to begin? In ancient times an aspiring wind-walker might have consulted an aeromancer or, even better, an austromancer, the former being a weather diviner, the latter specifically a wind diviner (from the Latin auster, ‘south’, suggesting an emphasis on powerful southerlies). Wind was rendered visible in clouds of dust or seeds thrown in the air, the blown patterns of which were interpreted like language; in sacred groves Hellenic seers made predictions from the percussion created by gongs struck by wands swinging in the breeze. Such blasphemous divinations were condemned by later Christians, and the science, or magic, of aeromancy was excoriated by the medieval theologian Albert of Cologne; though he may have confused it with necromancy, a far more sinister hobby. Today our forecasts might be shaped with the aid of satellite images and fantastically complex computer models, but the assumption is the same: that the invisible patterns of wind can be interpreted to understand the future. From an aesthetic point of view the results are beautiful; to look at an online weather map is to see an ever evolving world of gorgeous psychedelic design, a shifting spectrum of purples, greens, yellows, blues and oranges, punctuated by the jabbing blue triangles and red half-hemispheres of cold fronts and warm fronts. Wind becomes a topography of dizzying, concentric whorls: the contours of isotachs and isobars – which represent lines of equal wind speed and atmospheric pressure – and wind-barbs, directional lines which branch at five-knot increments, swirling through the atmosphere like clusters of musical notes. They have the appearance of runes, illegible to those without knowledge to read them. They are a kind of alphabet, as wind is a kind of voice. Where the Wild Winds Are (Nicholas Brealey, 2017) tells the story of a series of walks following Europe’s wind-ways: the Helm, Britain’s only named wind, which howls over Cross Fell in the Northern Pennines; the Bora, which freezes the western Balkans and the Adriatic coast; the Foehn, which brings warmth and clear skies but also headaches, insomnia, anxiety and depression to communities in the Alpine valleys of Switzerland; and the Mistral, the Provencal ‘wind of madness’ that animated and tormented Vincent Van Gogh. The book is available to order online, or – much more preferably – to buy in all good bookshops. Albert Lannon says: Brilliant writing. I’ve ordered my copy. I am blessed to be able to read work such as this before the myeloma takes me down. A short story of my own: Growing up in New York City we were sometimes hit with the tail end of hurricanes. I remember walking in those winds on the city streets as a kid and leaning into the strong wind and letting the wind hold me up and keep me from falling. Powers greater than ourselves. Thank you, Nick. Nick Hunt says: Thank you Albert. I hope a kind wind blows through its pages. Very best wishes A very interesting article, it reminded me of the work of Tristan Gooley, in his work on what he calls ;natural navigation’ where prevailing winds throughout the year are used because they make subtle impressions on the landscape as well as being aware of the direction of movement of clouds and so on: https://www.naturalnavigator.com/find-your-way-using/weather Submissions call for Dark Mountain Issue 18: Fiction Deadline 20th May 2020 Call outs Introducing Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE Our anniversary edition, Dark Mountain: Issue 16 - REFUGE, is a celebration of ten years of uncivilised writing and art 'The search for a lexicon that not only explores the existential crisis we share, but also ... a deeper story about being human'. Issue 16: REFUGE Horse-Man in Love Em Strang Finisia Medrano and The Return Joanna Pocock To introduce our latest Featured Mountaineer, an extract from Joanna Pocock's 'Surrender: Mid-Life in the American West' about transsexual rewilder, Finisia Medrano. Now We Are Ten Celebrating a decade of the Dark Mountain Project with the introduction to Uncivilisation, the manifesto that began it all	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2911
__label__cc	0.733922	0.266078	Tag Archives: Sandra Bullock 2014 Oscars: Matt’s Predictions Posted on February 28, 2014 by matterspamer There are a lot of worthy contenders at this year’s Oscars, and even more oversights (Also, water is wet). Few of the best nominees are front-runners or sure-fire bets, so during Hollywood’s annual night of back-patting I’ll mostly be tuning in for potential upsets and also pretty excited that Seth MacFarlane isn’t hosting. Best Picture: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street Will Win: American Hustle. Like last year’s winner, Argo, this is an un-upsetting ’70s period drama that plays at prestige and doesn’t feel the need to really deliver it. To its credit, it is much less self-serious. Of the nominees, though, this one and Dallas Buyers Club are probably the least deserving. I’m holding out for an upset from 12 Years a Slave. Should Win: The Wolf of Wall Street. The year’s best movie was nominated for Best Picture, but has little to no chance of winning. My second favorite in the category, 12 Years a Slave, actually does and I’d be more than happy with that. Left out: Where do I even start? Spring Breakers never had a chance but I think I would have respected the Academy forever if they’d had the nerve to give it some recognition either here or for Best Cinematography or Editing. I’d also throw in Frances Ha, The Bling Ring, Inside Llewyn Davis, Computer Chess and Rush. That’s just sticking with the Academy’s English-language fixation. Foreign language picks: A Touch of Sin, Blue is the Warmest Color and Like Someone In Love. Best Director: David O. Russell (American Hustle), Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity), Alexander Payne (Nebraska), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street) Will Win: Alfonso Cuarón pulled off a lot of impressive tricks with a skilled crew in Gravity, and the Academy will give him the directing trophy even as it hands away Best Picture to Hustle. Should Win: It’s only natural that if I picked Wolf for Best Picture, Scorsese should take home Best Director. However, I think Steve McQueen would be just as deserving a winner. Left out: Harmony Korine for Spring Breakers, Jia Zhangke for A Touch of Sin, Sofia Coppola for The Bling Ring, Shane Carruth for Upstream Color, Noah Baumbach for Frances Ha, James Wan for The Conjuring. I could go on and on. Best Actor: Christian Bale (American Hustle), Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) Will Win: The McConaissance will culminate with an Oscar win in this category. He was good in Dallas Buyers Club, but everyone else, even Bale, is more deserving of the trophy. Should Win: DiCaprio gave the performance of the year and of his career (so far) in The Wolf of Wall Street. I’m starting to feel like a broken record giving it top honors in every category. Ejiofor’s performance was so crucial to anchoring 12 Years a Slave in humanity, and if he somehow pulls off an upset in this category you won’t hear any complaints from me. Same goes for Bruce Dern. Left out: Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Hawke in Before Midnight, Joaquin Phoenix in Her and Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station. Best Actress: Amy Adams (American Hustle), Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), Sandra Bullock (Gravity), Judi Dench (Philomena), Meryl Streep (August: Osage County) Will Win: Cate Blanchett is pretty much a lock in this category. Should Win: Blue Jasmine is the last Woody Allen film I plan on watching. That being said, when it came out, I praised Blanchett’s performance and even listed it in the top 5 performances of the year, and I still stand by that praise. Left out: The biggest omissions in the acting categories this year are here. Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha and Adele Exachopoulos in Blue is the Warmest Color both deserved slots over pretty much all of these people. I’d also throw in Julie Delpy for Before Midnight. Best Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Bradley Cooper (American Hustle), Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street), Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) Will Win: Jared Leto. Sigh. Should Win: Jonah Hill. Sigh. Left out: James Franco in Spring Breakers. Simon Pegg in The World’s End. James Gandolfini in Enough Said. Sigh. Best Supporting Actress: Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Julia Roberts (August: Osage County), June Squibb (Nebraska) Will Win: I’m going to call this one for Lupita Nyong’o. I still have hope that the Academy won’t throw another trophy at Lawrence just because she yelled “SCIENCE OVEN!” with conviction. Should Win: Lupita Nyong’o gave the most heart-wrenching performance of 2013. Overall this is a fairly weak category, though I’m also not going to deny how much June Squibb’s turn in Nebraska grew on me the second time through. Left out: Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street, Lea Seydoux in Blue is the Warmest Color andJulianne Moore in Don Jon. Best Original Screenplay: American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell), Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen), Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack), Her (Spike Jonze), Nebraska (Bob Nelson) Will Win: Spike Jonze, unless Hustle ends up pulling a sweep. Should Win: Of these nominees, Bob Nelson for Nebraska. Left out: Cormac McCarthy’s screenplay for The Counselor is far and away the most original and misunderstood work from last year. I’d also nominate Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig for their collaborative effort on Frances Ha. Best Adapted Screenplay: Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke), Captain Phillips (Billy Ray), Philomena (Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope), 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley), The Wolf of Wall Street (Terrence Winter) Will Win: John Ridley. Should Win: Ridley is a fine choice, but so is Terrence Winter and the collaborative team from Before Midnight (although how the hell is that adapted? Adapted from two previous movies by the same people? The Oscars are dumb). Left out: Sofia Coppola for The Bling Ring. My predictions in the remaining categories (Will Win, Should Win): Cinematography: Gravity, The Grandmaster Animated Feature: (I didn’t see any of these) Costume Design: American Hustle,The Grandmaster Production Design: Her, Her Editing: Gravity, 12 Years a Slave Foreign Language Film: (I only saw The Hunt and I didn’t like it. They need to change the rules for this dumb category). Documentary: The Act of Killing, The Act of Killing Makeup: Bad Grandpa, Bad Grandpa Original Score: Gravity, Her Original Song: “Ordinary Love”- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, “The Moon Song”- Her Visual Effects: Gravity, Gravity Sound Editing: Gravity, Gravity Sound Mixing: Gravity, Inside Llewyn Davis Posted in Features \| Tagged 2014 Oscar nominees, 2014 Oscars, Academy Awards 2014, Alfonso Cuaron, American Hustle, Before Midnight, Best Actor nominees, Best Director nominees, Best Picture Nominees, Best Supporting Actor Nominees, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofer, Cormac McCarthy, David O. Russell, Ellen Degeneres, Frances Ha, Gravity movie, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Judi Dench, June Squibb, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lupita Nyong'o, Margot Robbie, Martin Scorsese, Matthew McConaughey, Meryl Streep, Oscar nominees, Philomena, Sandra Bullock, Spike Jonze, Steve McQueen, The Wolf of Wall Street, Wong Kar-Wai, Woody Allen \| Leave a reply BEST PICTURE NOMINEE: Gravity Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón Written by: Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón Starring: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is a supreme technical achievement and a standard, if mostly engaging, story. When I saw it for the first time, in IMAX and in 3D, I was astounded at the craftsmanship of some scenes but had an underlying “meh” about everything else. After returning to the movie in theaters again, this time in a standard theater with the standard two dimensions, the flaws only became larger. As Richard Brody aptly put it in The New Yorker: Cuarón has done a formidable job of piecing together a plausibly coherent material world of space, of conveying the appearance of that setting and the sensations of the characters who inhabit it. But he has created those sensations generically, with no difference between the subjectivity of his characters and the ostensible appearance to a camera of those phenomena. He offers point-of-view images that are imbued with no actual point of view. The movie works as well as it does because of the audience’s built-in history with Sandra Bullock, who plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a woman who is having a really bad day trying to get back to Earth after a space station accident. Bullock carries the movie quite well, and is aided in parts by the effortless charm of George Clooney’s on-screen persona. Posted in Best Picture Nominee, Reviews \| Tagged 2014 Oscars, Academy Awards, Alfonso Cuaron, Best Actress nominee, Best Picture Nominee, George Clooney, Gravity, Sandra Bullock \| Leave a reply REVIEW: Gravity Posted on October 6, 2013 by matterspamer Behold the technical majesty of Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. Watch as debris from a Russian satellite smashes into a repair operation led by an American astronaut team, sending them whizzing, floating and spinning in the beautiful, terrifying abyss. Watch it and take it in, because that’s what you’re supposed to do. I thought I did everything I was supposed to do with Gravity. I saw it in 3D, I saw it in Imax and I saw it with a virtually sold-out crowd. Why then, was it underwhelming? There is an answer to that question, and it may be hard to hear for the many who have lauded praise on the film since its triumphant festival circuit. This is a movie that was made solely for its own tech savvy. It exists because of its technical mastery, not for any tangible idea. Cuarón uses every cinematic element at his disposal to sustain uninterrupted awe, and it is one of the few movie-going experiences in recent memory that is truly exhausting. By the time Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) hops from space station to space station and then back to (spoiler) Earth, her weariness is not just her own, but the audience’s as well. Bullock carries the movie quite well, and is aided in parts by the effortless charm of George Clooney’s on-screen persona. For long stretches, though, it’s just her dealing with whatever zero gravity obstacle Cuarón can throw at her. There is a hefty bit of 3D gimmickry, more than there should be in a prestigious project like this, but for the most part it is effective as a grand aesthetic spectacle. More troubling than screws and tears floating toward the camera, though, are the number of unnecessary tracking shots of Sandra Bullock’s ass. The movie even ends on a close up of her heaving, wet-t-shirt-covered breasts. Why? Because Gravity is Cuarón’s playground. The director of such rigorous works as Y tu mamá también and Children of Men has aimed his sights solely on the machinations of pleasure and terror, not as it applies to the characters, but to the audience. This is movie as roller coaster, and the spectacle is undeniable. It’s hard to put into words the awe of seeing a space station crumble and explode as the camera stays pinned to a twirling, panicked astronaut. She then drifts hopelessly into space, as alone as any human could ever be. The close-up of Stone’s face that follows that sequence reflects Earth and space while her helmet fogs up. Even here, the effects do not relent. There are quiet moments in Gravity that are as visually stunning as the relentless action sequences, but even in those moments the movie felt defined by its technology rather than enhanced by it. Many have and will likely continue to compare this to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, but that would be extremely misguided. Gravity attempts to justify its technological means with a human element, and who better to do this than two of Hollywood’s most charming stars? It is not a cold, calculated examination of a technological takeover, though. It is a technological takeover, and a beautiful one at that. Grade: C Posted in Reviews \| Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alfonso Cuaron, George Clooney, Gravity, Sandra Bullock \| Leave a reply BEST PICTURE NOMINEE: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Posted on January 29, 2012 by matterspamer Directed by: Stephen Daldry Written by: Eric Roth (screenplay), Jonathan Safran Foer (book) Starring: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and Max von Sydow The opening image of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is of a man falling to his death, with papers behind him that fade into the title; its closing image is of a boy swinging upward on a swing, triumphant. It freezes on this image, asking the audience to pause and share in that triumph. This is hard to do for many reasons, but mostly because that man who was falling to his death wasn’t doing so because he wanted to. He is falling from the Twin Towers, and it is Septermber 11th, as the movie and its director, Stephen Daldry, will remind you of several times. Oskar (Thomas Horn), the troubled boy at the film’s center, torments himself endlessly with the messages his father (Tom Hanks) left on their answering machine while he was trapped in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day.” After finally working up the courage to enter his father’s room, he searches the top shelf, knocking over a blue vase in the process. Inside that vase is a key whose mysteries occupy the remainder of the narrative. Posted in Best Picture Nominee, Reviews \| Tagged Best Picture Nominees, Best Supporting Actor nominee, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, John Goodman, Max von Sydow, Sandra Bullock, Stephen Daldry, Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Viola Davis \| 1 Reply Oscar Acting Up Close: Quite a bit Country, not enough Rock ‘N Roll Posted on March 1, 2010 by matterspamer Image courtesy of Alt. Film Guide As it stands now, it looks like the four winners for for acting Oscars this weekend will be Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz, and Mo’Nique. One washed-up country singer, one modern country belle, one Jew Hunter, and one mom from Hell- see any similarities? The acting categories usually go to four very distinct roles from very different styles of acting. Not so this year. If you were to look at the supporting categories this year, you’d see that. Waltz gives his tour de force in four languages layered with charm and menace, while Mo’Nique gives hers in one language, amps up the menace, takes away charm, and adds insanity. Different styles of acting? Yes. But, both of these roles are antagonists. Posted in Features \| Tagged Best Actor, Best Actress, Carey Mulligan, Christoph Waltz, Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Renner, Kate Winslet, Mo'Nique, Oscar, Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side \| Leave a reply And the Winner Should Be… 2010 Oscar Predictions The Academy Awards, whether I like it or not, are the biggest thing that happens to movies during the year. Though profit often blind sides quality, good decisions occasionally shine through all the sappy bull shit. Here are my picks for the office Oscar pool, who should win, and who should’ve been allowed a chance to swim. An Education Will Win: Avatar. Highest grossing movie of all time, revolutionary special effects, James Cameron- though none of these factors qualify it in my book, the Academy went with Titanic, and it will go with this one to get a ratings boost. Should Win: Up In the Air. Jason Reitman’s film is a movie that perfectly captures and analyzes the point we are at in this country’s history. With a pitch-perfect screenplay, cast, and production team, you can’t go wrong. Left Out: Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are. Kids movie my ass, this movie deserved recognition. Not only does it speak the truth, something watered down in The Blind Side, it looks and sounds great thanks to revolutionary production design and some of the best voice work ever recorded. Posted in Features \| Tagged Academy Awards, Avatar, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Mo'Nique, Oscar Predictions, Oscars, Sandra Bullock, The Hurt Locker \| 3 Replies BEST PICTURE NOMINEE: The Blind Side Image courtesy of Jack FM Written by: John Lee Hancock (screenplay), Michael Lewis (novel) Starring: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, and Kathy Bates Good wholesome Southerners have their movie to cheer for this year at the Academy Awards. John Lee Hancock’s bombastic, preachy and watered down The Blind Side is the one movie nominated for Best Picture this year that didn’t deserve its slot. This is the crowd-pleasing, melodramatic sports movie that moved both the Monday Night Football crowd and Sarah Palin wannabes to tears. It also moved serious film critics to tears, but not for the same reasons. Hancock directs this film with a style right out of the sports film playbook, taking no chances and milking every crowd-pleasing scenario for maximum fluff. “Sandra Bullock in a football movie,” is a great selling point for studio executives. In order to sabotage and exploit an audience’s emotions, you need a marketable lead. In the year 2009, there was no one more marketable (or undeserving of their profits) than her. Her Oscar nomination (and likely win) for playing Leigh Ann Tuohy is the result of a frivolous, cooly calculated business decision. Though her performance is the reluctant highlight of this film, it is by no means anything more than her spouting off clever one liners with a Southern accent. Bullock plays emotional-yet-controlled in almost all of her films, and never that greatly. She does the same thing here, but with a drawl so it’s Oscar worthy. Posted in Best Picture Nominee, Reviews \| Tagged Leigh Ann Tuohy, Sandra Bullock, Southern Plantation Myth, The Blind Side, Tim McGraw \| 1 Reply Check out our content regarding the latest movies. With reviews, news, features and commentary like no other, CyniCritics.com offers a tough, realistic breakdown on all the jazz. 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__label__wiki	0.868377	0.868377	Updated: MICE and World Coffee Championships Not Happening in 2020 Nick Brown \| July 28, 2020 World Coffee Championships taking place during the 2019 SCA Expo in Boston. Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown. [Editor’s note: The headline in the original version of this story included the World of Coffee event among the list of events that will not be happening in 2020. To clarify, the event has not yet formally been canceled, although the Specialty Coffee Organization says has been working with the venue, Warsaw PTAK, to cancel the event.] The Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE), World of Coffee in Warsaw and the 2020 World Coffee Championship events have all been canceled or are in the process of being canceled. World Coffee Events and the Specialty Coffee Association jointly announced the cancelations moments ago. “We know that this is disappointing news to many, and we deeply regret that there is no feasible way to gather global competitors this year,” the WCE and SCA wrote (full text below). The World Barista and Brewers Cup championships were scheduled to take place in conjunction with MICE, which was originally supposed to happen in May but was pushed back to November. That event is being canceled altogether for 2020, a WCE source has confirmed. The World Coffee In Good Spirits, Latte Art, Cup Tasters, Coffee Roasting, and Cezve/Ibrik championships were scheduled to take place Oct. 15-17 during World of Coffee. The SCA said it is working with the convention center to cancel that show and postpone contracts to a future year, writing, “more information on this will be available in the coming weeks.” In the meantime, WCE has set up a FAQ page for coffee competitors and others with a stake in the World Coffee Championships. Here’s the full announcement: Today, World Coffee Events (WCE) and the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) are announcing the cancellation of the 2020 World Coffee Championship events scheduled to take place in Melbourne and Warsaw, due to the impact of pandemic-related international visa and travel restrictions. The ability to gather representatives from across the globe is core to the mission of these competitions. Given the current and projected travel environment through November 2020, WCE and the SCA have decided to cancel the 2020 events and focus on the 2021 championship season. The 2020 World Barista Championships and World Brewers Cup were scheduled to take place November 3-6 at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) trade show which has now been canceled. The World Coffee In Good Spirits, World Latte Art, World Cup Tasters, World Coffee Roasting, and Cezve/Ibrik Championships were scheduled to take place during World of Coffee Warsaw October 15-17. The SCA is working with partners at the Warsaw PTAK venue to cancel the 2020 World of Coffee trade show and postpone the contract to a future year — more information on this will be available in the coming weeks. We know that this is disappointing news to many, and we deeply regret that there is no feasible way to gather global competitors this year. We are excited to bring the World Barista Championship, World Cup Tasters Championship, and Cezve/Ibrik Championship to the World of Coffee Athens trade show in June of 2021. While we are still exploring location options for the 2021 World Coffee in Good Spirits, World Latte Art, World Brewers Cup, and World Coffee Roasting Championships, they will be held no earlier than June 2021. Given the logistical challenges of locating these events and accommodating overflow competitors, WCE is requiring that Competition Bodies only send one competitor to each 2021 championship. This means that National Champions who have already won their title in 2020 will participate in the 2021 championships. Additionally, 2020 sanctioning terms will be extended, to cover the 2021 competition year. These schedule changes may have different effects according to different local circumstances. WCE and SCA’s Regional Community Directors will work with the Competition Body coordinators to navigate next steps as appropriate. We encourage anyone with questions to read the Frequently Asked Questions section below or reach out to us via email at info@worldcoffeeevents.org. We are very sad to be missing the incredible community of competitors, teams, judges, volunteers, and fans that make these events special, and cannot wait to see you in 2021. Tags: competitions, COVID-19, Melbourne, MICE, Specialty Coffee Association, Warsaw, World Barista Championship, World Brewers Cup, World Cezve/Ibrik Championship, World Coffee Championships, World Coffee Events, World Coffee In Good Spirits Championship, World Coffee Roasting Championship, World Cup Tasters Championship, World Latte Art Championship, World of Coffee	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2927
__label__wiki	0.912359	0.912359	TechEntrepreneursJobsOpinionsVideos VentureEntrepreneursSponsored How Canada’s newest digital record label is challenging the status quo Daily Hive Branded Content May 13 2020, 1:28 pm Natasha Dion, Buk Nkosi, and Zac Dolesky/Jose IV Palanca For aspiring creatives in Vancouver, finding a platform committed to helping local artists thrive is a constant challenge. And when it comes to hip hop, the region is often overshadowed by our larger Canadian counterpart, Toronto. Brand new local record label Chaos Club Digital aims to fill this gap for up-and-coming artists, especially in hip hop. The digital record label, which just launched in May 2020, was formed by co-founders Buk Nkosi and Zac Dolesky. The two entrepreneurs, alongside the label’s Creative Director, Natasha Dion, saw the opportunity to create a label after being frustrated that the talent in the city didn’t have a platform where it could flourish. “There is very minimal major label presence, very few outlets promote rap or hip hop, and only a handful of people with experience in the hip hop industry [in Vancouver]. We realized there were two options: wait patiently for the infrastructure to come to us or start building the infrastructure here. We chose the latter,” explains Nkosi. Kelland/SUO Events Nkosi says that Chaos Club Digital is not only providing a creative platform for aspiring talent but also aims to do things differently than the current model, which he feels leaves gaps in the digital age. “What sets us apart from other labels is our unorthodox approach to creativity; almost anything goes,” says Nkosi. “We are not disillusioned into thinking we know everything, which is the most exciting part for us because it allows us to try different things.” The company was named after the word chaos from Greek mythology, a system that brought about the Big Bang and hence a catalyst for something new. “We believe authentic creativity is inherently chaotic, it’s difficult to tame, and that is what inspired the name,” Nkosi tells Daily Hive. The label is currently working with a diverse group of artists including Afro First-Nation rapper and former Team Canada rugby player Boslen; Calgary-raised music producer and DJ Kelland; and Coquitlam-born, Indo-Canadian hip hop artist JMON. They’ve also released music with Canadian-Filipino R&B duo Manila Grey. “We provide everything in-house that a developing artist would need, and we can do that because of the range of expertise in our team,” says Nkosi. Chaos Club Digital draws on its talented team of over 20 professionals with backgrounds in everything from finance, to industrial design, and marketing to create a platform where musicians can thrive. And in addition to being a new label for artists in Canada, Chaos Club Digital is also a platform where creatives can partner with artists to work on other experimental projects, too. Nkosi says, “The music itself is only one piece of the puzzle so we wanted to create a company where we would partner with artists to complete the other pieces: content, branding, marketing, and more.” The company is excited to work in the burgeoning Vancouver hip hop scene and sees a lot of potential in its future. “Vancouver in specific is exciting because there is no defined sound, which means no one is trying to fit in a box. You have a bunch of people making music that is authentic to them,” comments Nkosi. And although Toronto has always been the major player for hip hop, Nkosi is especially excited to see Vancouver represent the music genre. Boslen/Chaos Club Digital “There’s a buzz in the hip hop scene right now. Vancouver has always had great musicians and I think the new generation is fighting to become the next big break out. A lot more people are looking at Vancouver for the next big thing,” notes Nkosi. But although Chaos Club Digital is all about the Canadian hip hop scene, Zimbabwean co-founder, Nkosi, says he wants the label to represent talent on a global scale. “We always say we aren’t local Vancouver artists — we are global artists from Vancouver. Every culture needs its soundtrack, we want to create music with our artists that will make someone halfway around the world want to come to see Vancouver for themselves.” Inspired? To check out what Chaos Club Digital is coming out with next, check out the website, follow the label on Instagram, or listen to its latest hit-makers on Spotify. This content was created by Hive Labs in partnership with a sponsor	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2928
__label__cc	0.50116	0.49884	Please download the below documents for further information on bus travel to Damascus College. CDC Ballarat Routes Times for Damascus College 2021 Information for Country Bus Travellers Travel to Damascus College Travellers from Country Areas Students travelling to the College from surrounding country areas would normally travel on a free contract bus service. Parents/guardians need to ensure they are aware of the nearest bus stop to their residence and the time the bus stops there. In most cases the application to travel on this bus is made to the Regional Bus Co-ordinator during the student’s Grade 6 year, after they have been enrolled at Damascus College. It is the parent's/guardian's responsibility to check that this has been done. If the student resides more than 4.8 kilometres from the nearest bus stop and the Campus they are attending is the nearest Catholic secondary school, then a travel allowance called the Conveyance Allowance may be available for the journey to the bus stop. The claim form is available from the Office and must be completed and returned by mid-February each year. Travellers from the greater Ballarat area Students within the greater Ballarat area attending Damascus College and who live more than 4.8kms (radial distance/straight-line measurement not by road) from the Campus attended, may be eligible to claim reimbursement for the cost of transport. This is conditional upon students making use of concession fares, including the purchase of yearly or half yearly tickets. A student must also be in attendance full-time to be eligible. Claim forms are available from each College Office and must be completed and returned by the first week in March each year. It is the responsibility of parents/guardians to complete claims annually and to ensure the correct information is supplied as per the application. Any queries relating to eligibility or conveyance claims may be directed to the Campus Office on 5337 2222. Families with students on country buses need to familiarise themselves with the bus company’s protocols on days of severe, extreme, or catastrophic fire risk and have alternative plans in place. (Watch the 30 sec video) Click here to play	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2931
__label__wiki	0.693409	0.693409	Two abscond from DOC work detail, pass Dec 16th, 2019 · by Delaware State News · Comments: GEORGETOWN —- Two men were sought after absconding from the Delaware Department of Correction, spokeswoman Kate Weber said. The DOC said the whereabouts of Michael Joseph, 44, of Seaford, and Robert Mumford, 42, of Millsboro were unknown and unauthorized. Warrants for escape after conviction were issued. Joseph was on a community service work detail and Mumford failed to return to Sussex Community Corrections Center in Georgetown from an approved work pass, the DOC said. Joseph was described as a 6-foot-3, 212-pound white male with hazel eyes and black hair, with tattoos on his upper arms, forearms, back and neck. His original violation was police signal. Robert Mumford Mumford was described as a 6-foot, 240-pound white male with hazel eyes and brown hair, with tattoos on his left arm and back, scars on his forehead, nose and right wrist. His original offense was civil contempt/support. Reach the Delaware State News newsroom at newsroom@newszap.com Tags:Crime Sussex Post The Sussex Post is a published once a month and mailed to readers in Millsboro, Georgetown and Long Neck. You can also read the free e-newspaper, a digital replica of the print edition, at sussexpost.com.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2937
__label__wiki	0.943653	0.943653	‘Made in Pakistan’ Chloroquine Tablets for ‘Friendly Countries’, China Made Vaccine for ‘Iron Brother’ Latest Pakistan DESPARDES — Pakistan is sending off millions of chloroquine tablets to “friendly countries” as China announced it will provide Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine to Pakistan for clinical trial. “Different friendly countries have contacted Prime Minister [Imran Khan] and the foreign office to express their desire to import chloroquine tablets from Pakistan,” Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, told reporters. She said the government had allowed export of one million tablets to Saudi Arabia, five million to the UK, one million to the US, half a million each to Turkey and Italy, 300,000 to Qatar, and 700,000 to Kazakhstan. “In this testing time, we’re exporting theses tablets to friendly nations that have always helped Pakistan,” Awan said. Chloroquine (an extract from Black Seed also known as Kalonji) is primarily used to prevent and treat malaria, but experts have also claimed it can be effective against the infectious respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. Some countries including the United States and United Kingdom have used the medicine to treat COVID-19 patients, increasing the demand of the medicine across the world. According to Awan, Pakistan has a surplus stock of the medicine since it has 40 million tablets in finished form and raw material for 40 million more pills. The country is maintaining a stock of 15 million tablets for its use during the next three months, she said. “The export of tablets will help strengthen our relationship with humanity”. Pakistan had relied on these countries on different occasions, and it was an opportunity to help these nations, she said. ‘All-weather friend’ and ‘iron-brother’ China has also given coronavirus vaccine to the country for clinical trials on immediate basis, reports say. “We are hopeful that the made in China vaccine against the deadly coronavirus would be launched in next three months in Pakistan,” Pakistan National Institute of Health (NIH) Executive Director Major General Aamer Ikram said on Wednesday . “China is providing us the vaccines for the clinical trial on an immediate basis.” Beijing approved the first trial for a vaccine developed by the military-backed Academy of Military Medical Sciences and Hong Kong-listed biotech firm CanSino Bio on March 16. The vaccine will be launched in Pakistan in phases (three to four months) after the clinical trials. The next three to four weeks are very critical for Pakistan, says Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza. He briefed the media on Wednesday about the continuing impact of the coronavirus in the country. “In the last 24 hours, we have received the highest number of deaths from COVID-19, 17, for the third time in Pakistan,” he said while addressing an event held at the Ministry of Health’s office. “The coming three to four weeks will be critical for Pakistan.” Two Public Health Professionals told DesPardes the first and second week of May could be crucial, depending on weather and how well communities adapt. “We do not pay attention to the fact that communicable diseases are preventable,” Dr. Mirza said. The number of coronavirus cases in the country rose to over 10,000 on Wednesday, and the death toll has increased to 212 persons. “Do not take it as a mere infection only. It will have implications on our generation and the generations to come,” Mirza said. Pakistan Navy Successfully Test-Fires Locally Made Missile Chanakya Twist to Pink Himalayan Salt: Mined in… FLASHBACK: Sabri’s Voice Made Us All Cry That Night Post-Feb 27: India May Replace Its Russian-Made… Request Made to Hide USS John McCain During Trump… Saudi Navy Shows Interest in Russian-Made Frigate,… INSIGHT: New World Order on Wreckage of the Old THE SHIFT: IMF Suggests Pakistan ‘Debt Management Office’ Instead of Debt Coordination Unit	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2956
__label__wiki	0.680695	0.680695	UofLNews UofL News Derek’s Second Post A look back at a very unusual – and unprecedented –… UofL alum paints a new narrative New African American Theatre Program director connects humanity through performing arts UofL’s Music Therapy Clinic hits the road UofL’s future-minded work in the spotlight UofL bestows equine entrepreneurship award to horsewoman, educator, coach Doctoral student contributes to book about the economics of COVID-19 UofL student teams innovate new healthcare tech in whirlwind weekend Former Card Donovan Mitchell gives back to alma mater with exclusive… UofL scores well in Post-Landfill Action Network assessment December grad took 21 years to earn degree. She’s not stopping… Trager Institute and Logistics and Distribution Institute collaborate to establish safe… AllPresidentStrategic Plan UofL’s medical students expand smart glasses virtual shadowing program UofL innovator known for drug discovery inducted into National Academy of… COVID-19 rates continue to increase, with highest rates among 18-34-year-olds UofL Health’s frontline workers the first in Kentucky to receive Pfizer’s… UofL-researched reusable, more effective N95-style face masks begin production UofL Physicians recognized as a Partner in Care by National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Betty Coffman LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville Physicians has been recognized for its commitment to providing exceptional, coordinated care for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS). The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Partners in MS Care program has designated UofL as a Partner in MS Care, Neurologic Care, for its commitment to MS care and a continuing partnership with the society to address the challenges of people affected by MS. UofL Physicians is the only Partner in MS Care in Louisville and western Kentucky. “It takes a variety of medical and non-medical professionals to empower patients with multiple sclerosis and their families,” said David Robertson, M.D., who leads the UofL Physicians Multiple Sclerosis Center and is an assistant professor in the UofL Department of Neurology. “The MS Society has a variety of resources for patients that we cannot offer through the University of Louisville. In any situation when you find a person or an institution that does good work in a responsible way, it is worth developing a mutually beneficial relationship that ultimately benefits the patients.” Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Symptoms vary from person to person and range from numbness and tingling to walking difficulties, fatigue, dizziness, pain, depression, blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with two to three times more women than men diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide. “We are so proud to partner with the University of Louisville Physicians to enhance coordinated, comprehensive care for the people who live with MS in Louisville, Ky.,” said David Haddock of the National MS Society, Mid South. “In earning this recognition, the University of Louisville has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in MS care, making a tremendous impact on people affected by MS in our community.” The society’s Partners in MS Care program recognizes committed providers whose practices support the Society’s initiative of affordable access to high quality MS health care for everyone living with MS – regardless of geography, disease progression and other disparities. “We treat all of our patients differently because MS treats all of our patients differently,” said Jacinta Lockard, coordinator for the Neuroimmunology Clinic at the UofL Physicians MS Center. “We have access to many different resources for our patients, and the National MS society is a big part of that.” The UofL Physicians MS Center includes experts who can address all of a patient’s needs, including medical care, physical/occupational/speech therapies, neuropsychology and social work. “We offer patients access to all 13 FDA-approved drugs to treat MS. The newer drugs often require the patient to come for an infusion and we have an excellent infusion center in our building,” Lockard said. “We treat patients from all over the state and southern Indiana and we try to make medication accessible to everyone a priority, no matter their location.” About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society The National Multiple Sclerosis Society mobilizes people and resources so that everyone affected by multiple sclerosis can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever. Last year alone, through our comprehensive nationwide network of services, the society devoted more than $100 million to connect approximately one million people affected by MS to the connections, information and resources they need. To move closer to a world free of MS, the society also invested $42 million to support more than 380 new and ongoing research projects around the world. Early and ongoing treatment with an FDA-approved therapy can make a difference for people with multiple sclerosis. Learn about your options by talking to your health care professional. For more information, visit http://www.nationalMSsociety.org/partnersinMScare or call 1-800-344-4867. Betty Coffman Betty Coffman is a Communications Coordinator focused on research and innovation at UofL. A UofL alumna and Louisville native, she served as a writer and editor for local and national publications and as an account services coordinator and copywriter for marketing and design firms prior to joining UofL’s Office of Marketing and Communications. UofL Magazine Submit an email announcement The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is a member of the Kentucky state university system. For more information, visit Louisville.edu Contact us: ultoday@louisville.edu	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2958
__label__cc	0.642901	0.357099	Why Vote For Bernie (3) May 13, 2016 May 10, 2016 / dougstuber Note the math below. Neither will have a clear-cut majority needed once the Philly convention begins. THE WRITING OF JOHN LAURITS This is What Will Happen at the Democratic Convention by John LauritsApril 28, 2016 Can Sanders do it? Or is Clinton truly inevitable? Math vs. Media: Part One Bernie Sanders has vowed to fight relentlessly for the 2016 Democratic Party’s nomination up to the convention and, despite the apparent consensus of the media’s talking heads that the campaign is a lost cause, he has held fast to his claim that there is a “narrow path to victory.” I am reminded of Galadriel’s ominous words of advice, in the Fellowship of the Ring: The quest stands upon the edge of a knife — stray but a little, and it will fail… It has even become something of a weekly occurrence for Hillary Clinton and her Wallstreet-backed campaign to imply, insinuate, or flat-out demand that Sanders withdraw his bid for the nomination — they are growing increasingly indignant about the fact that Sanders is trying to win. Which brings us to the heart of the issue — can Bernie Sanders–can we–win the delegates needed for the nomination? The answer to this question is as simple as it is misleading — No. No, my friends, we cannot. And yet–! And yet, neither can Hillary Clinton — and I am going to show you what the media is willfully hiding from you. I am going to show you why, using the one thing that even the media can’t hide: Math. Why Clinton Will Not Secure the Nomination, According to Math According to the Green Papers, Clinton stands (today, April 28th) with 1,664 pledged delegates, while Sanders has gathered 1,371. The amount of delegates needed to secure the nomination is 2,383 and, if you’ll pardon me for my use of arithmetic, I will now demonstrate why that number is hopelessly out of reach for the Clinton campaign.† Hillary needs 719 more delegates to reach 2,383 because: 2,383 – 1,664 = 719 Now, the pledged delegates that are available to grab in the remaining states all-together amount to 1,016 and in order to attain that blessed number, Clinton will have to win an average of 70.7% of the remaining states. This is because: 719 ÷ 1,016 = 0.707677 or approximately 71% You might be thinking that 71% is not such an unattainable number for Hillary and her powerful Wallstreet backers — you might be thinking that but you’d be betting against longer odds than would be wise. You see, of the 1,016 delegates remaining, 475 of those delegates are to be won in California, alone — California, which has a semi-open primary. California, where Clinton is polling at a mere 49%. California, where Clinton’s support has been declining as the Sanders Campaign gains visibility and momentum. California — the ace that Sanders, as much as the media, have concealed up his sleeve. It is no secret that Sanders, a previously invisible independent senator from the tiny state of Vermont, consistently climbs in the polls as he begins to campaign in the weeks before each state has had its primary. You don’t have to take my word for it — check the poll-histories for yourself or read this. Because Bernie Sanders performs at his absolute best in open primaries and because he consistently rises in the polls, while Clinton consistently falls, it is extremely unlikely that Clinton will perform better than 49 points, let alone win the contest. Let’s do some more math: Of the 475 delegates available in California on June 7th, lets say Hillary takes 49% of those (even though she will almost certainly take less). That would give her 232.75 delegates, which we’ll round up to an even 234. 475 x 0.49 = 232.75 Next, let’s add that to her current total of 1,664, bringing her up to 1,897. Now, she needs an additional 486 delegates to reach the magic number of 2,383, right? Let’s find out how many delegates Clinton would have to win in the remaining states (besides California, of course). Of the 541 delegates left, once the 475 CA delegates have been subtracted from the 1,016 delegate total, Clinton is going to have to win almost 90% of the remaining non-California delegates! This is because, when you divide the number of delegates that Clinton needs after California by the number of delegates remaining after California, you get 0.898 or 89%, rounded down: 486 ÷ 541 = 0.898 or 89.8% Now, how likely does that sound? It’s not likely in Oregon, a fairly progressive state that shares its general attitudes with Washington, a state that Sanders won with about 70% of the vote. It’s not likely in West Virginia, either, where Sanders is currently leading in the polls. Nor is it likely in Indiana where Sanders and Clinton are almost neck-and-neck, which votes on May 3rd. That nomination is feeling a lot further away now, isn’t it? Okay, okay — maybe you’re thinking, “John, I think you’re being unfair, Clinton could certainly win California.” To which I would reply: I admire your optimism, my friend — and since you’re so optimistic, let’s run those numbers again — but this time, let’s assume that Clinton, for whatever reason, defies the consistent trends that have prevailed over the entire primary season. Let’s say, she jumps up 11% now, winning the California primary with 60% of the vote. So: 475 x 0.6 = 285 Now, add the 285 delegates to Clinton’s current total: 285 + 1,664 = 1,949 So, Clinton will still need to scrape up 434 delegates somewhere other than California, some how. Which means — Hold on, first we have to figure out how much of the remaining delegates she’ll have to win: 434 ÷ 541 = .802218 or 80% Wow! Even if Clinton actually wins California with 60% to Sanders with 40%, she will still have to secure about 80% of the remaining vote! Again, this certainly doesn’t seem likely in Oregon, West Virginia, or Indiana, which means the actual percentage would climb each time she failed to take 80% of a state! Now, are you starting to see why I am saying that Clinton will not be securing the nomination before the convention? Why Sanders Will Win, According to Math If you’ve found yourself thinking, “Well, Sanders won’t secure the nomination, either!” You are almost 100% right! Well, 99.6% right, anyway. Because, if we take Sanders’ current delegate total of 1,371, subtract that from the magic 2,383, then divide that by the remaining available delegates, we get 0.996, see: 2,383 – 1,371 = 1,012 1,012 ÷ 1,016 = 0.996 or 99.6% Therefore, Sanders would have to secure a whopping 99.6% victory in all remaining states to secure the nomination! I think this may be one of the few things that both Berners and Clintonistas could agree on: that that is impossible. But to those of you that are thinking, “John! This is terrible” or “Haha! Take that, Sanders!” I would reply: You are both wrong. Mostly. Let me explain: First off, let’s acknowledge that the math seems to prohibit both candidates from securing the nomination before the convention — so what does this mean? This means that, since Sanders will not give up before the convention, there will almost certainly be a “contested convention.” “Um… But John…” you may be saying, “Won’t Hillary still be miles ahead of Sanders in votes at the convention?” To which I would reply: I’m glad you asked, my paid Hillary-supporter friend! Allow me to demonstrate how that will also not be the case, no matter what the media would have you believe. Follow me! Since neither of them will be securing the 2,383 needed for the nomination, let’s take a look at another number that has been hiding in plain sight for far too long. I’d like you to meet the number, 4,051. That’s the number of total pledged delegates that are available from all 50 states, plus DC, US territories, and the Democrats abroad. As it should be obvious, a majority of these delegates would be 2,026 because: 4,051 ÷ 2 = 2,025.5 At the convention, this number is going to matter more than the unattainable 2,383 delegates that no one will have. That being the case, let’s take a look at what Bernie Sanders would have to do to get there. If Sanders won 60% of the remaining contests (and remember how 475 of 1,016 are in California, where Sanders will do well), then the numbers at the convention would look like this: 1,016 x .60 = 609.6 Round that to 610 and add it to Sanders current total of 1,371, then divide that by the total delegate count, 4,051: 1,981 ÷ 4,051 = .489 or 48.9% So, in the scenario where Sanders takes about 60% of the remaining vote, we’re essentially looking at a 49 to 51% vote total at the convention — not so bad, eh? And that’s easily within Sanders’ reach, if we do well in California (which we almost certainly will). Let’s look at what happens if he takes 70% (just like he did last time we went to the West/Left Coast): 1,016 x .70 = 711.2, round it down to 711, then: If Sanders took 70%, the convention would look like 51.3 to 48.7%, in favor of Sanders! But 70%, while possible, is a bit of a stretch — the new magic number, for Sanders anyway, is actually 64.4% of the remaining states, which would mean winning 655 of the 1,016 remaining delegates, pushing his total up to 2,026, the bare majority of delegates, leaving Clinton one delegate behind at 2,025. Now, does Sanders winning 64.4% sound too far-fetched? Not particularly, especially when we consider his advantages on the Left Coast, in California’s 475 delegate semi-open primary. An uphill climb, though? Certainly. Remember, though: it is all but certain that Clinton will not secure the nomination, while Sanders supporters are going to be pouring into Philadelphia for the convention by the tens of thousands. Even if Bernie fell short by a few points, we’re still essentially looking at a tie. And that’s when all hell is going to break loose. Things are going to become very interesting if we have a near-tie at the convention to be decided by the super-delegates. Things are going to become very interesting when they look back at the many states that are still crying out for a re-vote, states fraught with “voting irregularities,” polling station closures, and voter roll purges — all states which Clinton won and all states which so far have not received justice. Things are going to become very interesting when the DNC and the super-delegates realize that Sanders, unlike the Wallstreet-backed Clinton-Machine, will bring in not only millions of independent voters that were unable to vote in the primaries, but even defecting Republican votes, sealing the GOP’s utter defeat in November. Things are going to become very interesting when, while they are thinking about all of these things, they are doing so to the earth-shaking, thunderous chants of“Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!” from his tens of thousands of supporters outside, who have time-and-again proven their ability to rally by the tens of thousands — do you think that we won’t do the same at the convention? And finally, things are going to become very, very interesting when the super-delegates and the DNC are forced to choose, publicly, whether to hand the nomination to Clinton and watch the millions of independents walk away, along with millions of former-democrat Sanders-supporters, basically handing the general election to the neo-fascists Trump or Cruz — or, to hand it to Sanders, a leader who will have the support, not only of the entire Democratic Party, but of millions of Independents, Green Party voters, and — yes, indeed — even Republicans defecting from the extremist GOP. That will be the most interesting part, I think. I’ll see you all in Philadelphia. John Laurits P.S. Please feel totally free to reproduce this article, re-post, re-use, re-cycle, or whatever, in whole or in part — credit would be lovely but, ultimately, I don’t really care! Do as ye will! Peace! #SeeYouInPhilly https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.5e2061bafc51180fc22440a98a3560bf.en.html#dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=JohnLaurits&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m&time=1462888792714EDIT: I’ve written a follow-up article to address some of the comments because I don’t have enough time to respond to them all — thanks for reading! CLICK FOR PART TWO EDIT #2: For the updated math, CLICK FOR “INDIANA: THE AFTER-MATH” †I have not counted the so-called “super-delegates” because they do not vote until the convention, which you might not know because of the media’s disgustingly corrupt attempt to warp the public’s perception of the election. All numbers pulled from the Green Papers, today 4/28/2016, at:http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/D-PU.phtml *Also, John has just joined Twitter (finally) and you may follow him and send him pictures of your dinner and crappy mainstream media math to debunk @JohnLaurits. You can buy John coffee here. Bernie Sanders, Political Rant, politics, Uncategorized, War Profiteers 64.4% gets Bernie one more delegate than Hillary, Bernie Sanders, Go Left Coast Go! EVery firggin vote counts!, NO CLear-cut nominee, politics ← Why Vote for Bernie (2) How Trump’s Personality Hurts Schoolchildren → 3 thoughts on “Why Vote For Bernie (3)” very very good..I hope that will win Bernie Sanders…. tubularsock Great post, Doug. But Tubularsock feels you have missed the way the “new math” works. Well, it is really “old math” dressed up but in this election the “Tammany Hall Effect” is heavily and openly present. As for the thousands of Bernie supporters outside the Convention …….. that is what the police are for (aka 1968!) As you know, in America we have free elections to elect the candidate “they” have chosen for us and it is called democracy. It is not that Tubularsock is cynical. It is only that Tubularsock just knows how it works. And Tubularsock would be boundlessly elated to be wrong! dougstuber Yes, and he will turn around and support Hillary, and once again, nothing is new	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2961
__label__cc	0.69681	0.30319	In memoriam Ashley Sandau Ashley Sandau For nearly half a century, I have been paid to explain things to people. I am good at that. But I cannot explain why Ashley is no longer with us. When she left us so suddenly, anger and outrage overwhelmed my grief. Men and women of faith and God sought to comfort me. They told me her passing, no matter that we do not understand it, is God’s plan. I could not accept that. Last week was unbearable. The young should not be taken from us so, so inexplicably. But something happened. Many students and others learned I was her adviser and professor. They asked me: “Who was Ashley?” In my answers, I found a measure of peace. Because I found Ashley. I told others that she embodied the German word Grundlichkeit — the quality of being thorough. I said that as a student Ashley was brilliant but reluctant to accept the spotlight. That as an athlete she endured pain beyond measure to help her team. That as a friend she made me smile. That as a good, kind, decent human being she outshone the rest of us. At her wake, I saw hundreds of photographs of Ashley. I saw her liveliness, her eagerness to experience life, her love of her family. I shared with Liz and Shelly, her parents, our common loss. I know Ashley better today than I did two weeks ago. And I know myself better today than I did two weeks ago. If I become more respectful, more patient, more tolerant, more … humble … it will be in large part because Ashley showed me how. I miss you, Ash. Newspaper staffs at 34-year low. And news execs want us to pay for crappier ‘content’? Alan Mutter, writing at Reflections of a Newsosaur, put it succinctly: The number of journalists working at U.S. newspapers today is at the lowest point since the American Society of News Editors began its annual newsroom census in 1978. Newspapers now employ 40,600 editors and reporters vs. a peak of 56,900 in the pre-Internet year of 1990, according to the census released today. Thus, newsroom headcount has fallen by 28.6% from its modern-day high. [See the year-by-year table.] When an industry charged with holding government accountable — government at all levels, from village council to the presidency — loses about 29 percent of the sheriffs on the beat, we have to wonder: Who’s minding the watchdog store? Fewer reporters with less experience are asking fewer questions about government and corporate decision making (and decision makers). That means the public has less credible information at its disposal to make wiser political and consumer decisions. Yet all’s good, say newspaper execs. We’re leaner and meaner and still on the job. So, we should think, What, me worry? But how can management claims of better reporting be true with such high losses in the newsroom?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line2964

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