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__label__wiki	0.920486	0.920486	Billie Lourd: Filming ‘American Horror Story’ saved my life By Francesca Bacardi Billie Lourd FilmMagic Billie Lourd shares never-before-seen pregnancy pictures after son's birth Todd Fisher thinks becoming a mother saved sister Carrie from an early death Emma Roberts: It's 'witchcraft' Lea Michele, Billie Lourd and I are all boy moms Billie Lourd gives birth to first child with Austen Rydell Billie Lourd is eternally grateful for Ryan Murphy and the “American Horror Story” franchise. The 26-year-old daughter of the late Carrie Fisher told “Entertainment Tonight” that filming “AHS: Cult” helped her deal with her grief after her mother died. “When Ryan offered me ‘Cult,’ it was just a few months after my mom passed, and it honestly helped me process all of my emotions through these characters,” Lourd said of her mom’s sudden death in December 2016. “Being able to cry for [my character] Winter helped me cry for myself,” she continued. “And it’s been really healing and cathartic in an amazing way, and getting to be around all the incredible people on set, they’ve become like a family to me, and I cannot thank Ryan enough. “Honestly, it kind of saved my life,” she added. Lourd currently stars in the latest iteration of the anthology series, “AHS: Apocalypse.” “I love doing this show. It is so much fun and so challenging and has taught me so much. I would do as many seasons as they would offer me,” Lourd admitted. “I mean, obviously I would like to do, like, a sweet romantic comedy on the side too, but, like, this is my jam. I love this show so much. And I would do anything Ryan asked me to do. I trust him with all of my heart.” Filed under american horror story , billie lourd , carrie fisher , ryan murphy , 11/16/18 Jhené Aiko tattoo cover-up sparks Big Sean breakup rumors	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1113
__label__cc	0.61851	0.38149	Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd – A Review By Jude Fokwang Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola can Change Our Minds. Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG (pb, £25.00 – 9789956764655), 2017, 326 pp. The illusion of completeness pervades almost every sector of our lives – in politics, religion, science, and even romance to name just a few. Such ideas, whether academic theories, methodological techniques or ideologies are often well-packaged in the most glitzy, flamboyant and reassuring labels, exported from the headquarters of modernity and their satellite locations –for global consumption by all and sundry. The concept of ready-made perhaps best captures these packaged ideas and theories – labels drawn from the language of my childhood with respect to sartorial preoccupations. For fathers who wanted to be taken seriously in the 1970s and 1980s, shopping for ready-made clothes for one’s children and wive(s) was something many aspired to – as it signalled one’s ability to consume and glorify one of the ultimate trappings of modernity – imported luxury clothes. The prestige accorded ready-made clothes contrasted remarkably with those commissioned by the masses who relied on the neighbourhood tailor or second-hand clothes discarded by consumers in the global north for recycling on the bodies of their less fortunate underlings in the global south. Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd by Francis B. Nyamnjoh is a deeply infused treatise that aims to exorcise a hegemonic spell, occasioned by the ready-made epistemologies that have enthralled its consumers and reproducers in a dreamy state since the colonial age. Such exorcism as most are wont to be – is a ritualistic affair, replete with incantations, repetitions and invocations – all aimed at reclaiming the mind and soul of the possessed. The cleansing agent in this expeditious enterprise is a collection of magical stories recounted by Amos Tutuola’s narrators or quest-heroes of which The Palm-wine Drinkard lays a solid foundation. It is in this surreal tale, drawn from Tutuola’s arsenal of Yoruba folktales that we encounter the complete gentleman – who in reality, is a Skull from Dead’s Town and who, determined to win the affection of a lady that has caught his fancy in the world of the living, borrows an assortment of body parts as well as elegant clothing in order to look as dashing as possible. The complete gentleman is – so to speak, a ready-made export from Dead’s Town in his overconfident quest to win the affections of a stunning lady – but his completeness is a temporary illusion because he must give back – once his mission is accomplished – every body part upon his return to the underworld. For far too long, ready-made epistemologies, fashioned and deployed from the West have dominated scholarship in and on Africa – championed as it were by gatekeepers in both the West and Africa. Like the fathers of my childhood, determined to show-off their accession to modernity through the purchase of ready-made clothes, African scholars are expected to master theories and theorists from the West in their quest for visibility, however marginal, most often without questioning their suitability or relevance to African contexts. Many an African are unperturbed by the fact that a huge proportion of these Western epistemologies and the theories they generate insist on the totality of their capacity to explain all, to be complete in their boundedness, in their obsession with binary and opposing explanations – see for example the following opposing contrasts: rationality vs irrationality, Christian vs pagan, tradition vs modernity, religion vs magic, etc.; epistemologies that are always ready to provide more and more nebulous answers and less encouraging of probing questions. Whilst many African and Africanist scholars have pushed back and advocated the re-centring of Afrocentric theories, concepts and worldviews (cf. Amadiume, 1987; Asante, 2007; Mafeje, 1997; Mudimbe, 1988; Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 1986; Oyewumi, 2005), these ideas have hardly revolutionized the curricula on the continent. Why have the social sciences and humanities in Africa not embraced conceptual tools and epistemologies that are relevant to and accommodating of the experiences of ordinary Africans? Why are our scholars less excited to build bridges between the popular epistemologies of Africa with those derived from the West – now enshrined and venerated in their ivory towers? Even the casual observer would easily spot the gaping disconnect between knowledge produced and valorized in African universities with those that constitute the foundations of knowledge outside of these universities. In the wake of the #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements that rocked South Africa in 2016 and beyond, Nyamnjoh invites students and scholars of Africa to take seriously the enterprise of what an endogenous African knowledge system would look like and how this could be fashioned to serve the needs of ethnographers, researchers and the broader public seeking to understand and explain African sociocultural realities. Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd is Nyamnjoh’s attempt to forge a paradigm inspired by Tutuola’s storytelling. As I see it, he seeks to accomplish two major objectives: first, to decentre, deconstruct or disentangle the social sciences and humanities from their provincial, parochial, patriarchal and Eurocentric origins and biases and from illusions of completeness; second, to inspire or lead a new generation of students yearning for a decolonized education as well as the current gatekeepers at African universities (if they’re ready and willing to change their minds) to embrace knowledge founded on popular African epistemologies. Such scholarship rests on two foundational concepts – convivial scholarship and incompleteness. “With convivial scholarship, there are no final answers, only permanent questions and ever exciting new angles of questioning” (p. 6). Incompleteness on the other hand elaborates the perspective that knowledge production and social reality are “dependent on interconnections, relatedness, open-endedness and multiplicities” (p. 2) with profound implications for both social practice and theorizing. Like the complete gentleman, aka the Skull, we’re drawn into Tutuola’s universe wherein incomplete beings and non-beings thrive in surreal and magical spaces as well as in the world of the living. Scholarship founded on a solid understanding of incompleteness, Nyamnjoh contends, defies compartmentalization or categorisations that are finite and in so doing, provides space for a more enriching and rewarding intercourse between knowledge systems and ways of being. He further contends that by embracing incompleteness, the end result is “humility”, and “a critical consciousness” that in turn generates energy (121) and deep recognition of one’s imperfections, transience, lack of autonomy and independence and that self-fulfilment is always a work in progress (p. 121). Drinking from Tutuola’s cosmic gourd indeed is a humbling process – one that challenges everything colonial education/religion etc. has disseminated and now fiercely defended in our universities. Nyamnjoh articulately introduces readers to Tutuola’s universes wherein he challenges the binaries and universalisms of colonial and Eurocentric epistemologies – pointing us to a world that has always been under our own very noses – a world that is dynamic, fluid and ambiguous – in sum, a world of incomplete people and things. This notwithstanding, the question must be asked: are Tutuola’s ideas of self-activation, potency and efficacy relevant to ongoing epistemological debates on African knowledge systems and ways of being? Nyamnjoh answers in the affirmative and invites us into a conversation that demonstrates how ideas of incompleteness may further illuminate our understanding of Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, or the perennial debate in the social sciences between structure and agency. Tutuola’s narrators and quest-heroes help to school us about the limits of boundaries, fixities, obsessions with binaries and how much more accommodating we could be embracing in fluid worlds where structures are resilient only insofar as they are products of agency and improvisation by social actors. Thus, Nyamnjoh asserts, “Humans are as much products of culture and society … as they are producers of culture and society and consciousness. Humans are both victims … and progenitors (creators) of the social rules and regulations that inform their relationships with and perspectives (consciousness) of themselves, others and the worlds” (p. 163). A universe of incomplete beings has a lot to teach us; that we ourselves are never complete – that we inhabit a world of “self-consciously incomplete beings, constantly in need of activation, potency and enhancement through relationships with incomplete others and by means of embodied and external technologies” (p. 195). This is evident in the striking similarities Nyamnjoh recounts of Tutuola’s universes with those inhabited by Cameroonians and other Africans – worlds in which the sacred and profane, the domesticated and the wild comingle so easily. Explanations or accounts that draw on the absurd, of magical encounters with ghosts, the living-dead, zombies, of politicians and cabinet ministers seeking potency in mystical orders or tales of humans capable of transforming themselves into any and everything – are hardly or unique to African worldviews. We’ve seen this with J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter or J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Ring series that have captivated readers and movie goers the world over. What I find vexing with colonial and Eurocentric epistemologies and the theories they generate is that they deny or feign ignorance of the fact that humans draw on what anthropologist, Stanley Tambiah has referred to as “multiple orderings of reality” (cf. Bowie, 2006)– that is, we all have a set of beliefs and theories that enable us to order or make sense of the world. These theories or explanatory schemes are variously categorised as magical, scientific, rational, irrational and so on – but what they all share in common is that they are all harnessed by humans to make sense of the world and their experiences in it. Living in a world overwhelmed by covid-19, a world where everyone irrespective of status has been subjected to lockdowns and that has confounded science – is a stark reminder of our incompleteness as humans. No doubt, we have seen a legion of explanations about the origins and epidemiology of the virus – ranging from 5G to biblical proclamations of God’s wrath. What Nyamnjoh’s work reminds us in the wake of these and other issues that plague humanity is that – even these popular epistemologies have a place in the boardroom of debates about how and what we know – seen and unseen. The concept of incompleteness can help to deepen our understanding of the limited and limiting conceptions of ethnic identities, gender, sexuality (e.g. homosexuality is unAfrican), of the relationship between politics and the occult, of alleged magical mechanisms of accumulation, of migration and blocked opportunities and many other domains where so-called rational explanations compete with their irrational alters. In the age of decolonial education, we are invited to embrace convivial scholarship that like the proverbial heavenly mansion with many rooms – has a privileged space for a theory of incompleteness. What Tutuola teaches us is that we inhabit a universe akin to that of the complete gentleman – that is, one in which we owe our identities, knowledge and experiences to many others – dead and living and that endogenous African epistemologies matter. These must be translated into how research is conducted and taught, in the deconstruction of social science theories, in how we strive to build bridges between the humanities, the social sciences and physical sciences, Western medicine and African therapeutic systems, indigenous African worldviews and proselytizing religions etc. Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd is not only a welcomed addition to current debates on decolonising education but it should be essential reading to all open-minded scholars interested in building bridges across knowledge systems. Whether Amos Tutuola by way of Nyamnjoh’s interpretation successfully changes your mind or not, the fact remains that we’re in many ways, kindred with the complete gentleman who’s just a skull without his borrowed parts. *Jude Fokwang is with Regis University. Article culled from his blog	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1114
__label__wiki	0.59872	0.59872	April 17, 2020 by Roger Echo-Hawk Pawnee tradition preserves a fascinating oracular text, a prophesy of disease and apocalypse and the end of the world – a dire future when the Star of Death “would take possession” of the world. A 1906 narrative by a Pitahawirata community leader named Captain Jim opens when he “was a little boy.” In those days his father, See-tee-de-tah-kee-tah-we-loo-coo, told him “about the songs of these old men.” And that night, “My grandmother then told me the following story…” We don’t know which grandmother related this tradition, but Captain Jim was born circa 1836-1840, so he heard the story sometime during the 1840s. Judging from Captain Jim’s date of birth, both of his grandmothers might have been born around 1790 – his father’s mother was Chay-suh-pah-tos; his mother’s mother was Stah-kee-tah-welah-lee-coo. The story touched on signs portending the end of the world. Moon turning red; the dying of Sun’s light; the vanishing of North Star (Polaris); rising waterways; a great starfall; and the foreboding movement of Upirihkaahuririwisisuʾ or South Star (Canopus). Captain Jim’s grandmother said, “The North Star is the one which is to end all things.” She explained that “when a person died they were taken by the North Star and they were placed upon the pathway which led to the Star of Death – the land of the spirits – the South Star.” The two stretcher constellations (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) symbolize people who have fallen ill with disease. And “the South Star would come higher, until at last it would capture the people who were carrying the two people upon the stretchers; as soon as the South Star captured these two people upon the stretchers they were to die.” And so “the South Star would take possession of the earth and of the people.” Captain Jim’s tradition touches on Tarahaʾ Raruhraturaaruuta, Buffalo Trail – the South Band Pawnee term for the Milky Way. I believe this name references a mysterious bison divinity that stands at Toos Peh, the ancient mountain portal to Spiritland. Captain Jim’s grandmother explained, “Each year this buffalo was to drop one hair. When all the hairs of the buffalo had come off then the people would not live upon the earth any more.” The tradition said that rising waters would carry away animals, and clam shells “would cry out like babies.” And stars would fall to earth and “mix among people…” And there would be eclipses: “The old people told us that the Morning-Star said that when the time came for the world to end the Moon would turn red… that when the Moon should turn red the people would then know that the world was coming to an end. The Sun was also to shine bright and all at once that brightness would die out and the end would come.” This describes a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse – common celestial phenomena that occur every year. In astronomy, a “blood red” moon is a term for the moon during a lunar eclipse, and on January 20, 2019 a “Super Blood Wolf Moon” became visible across North America. Then on December 26, 2019 an annular solar eclipse unfolded across Asia, barely visible in Wuhan, China – we can note here that a full solar eclipse reveals the solar corona, the sun’s coronal prominences and filaments. And at that moment on earth at the end of 2019, a new coronavirus had appeared. We can only wonder whether Captain Jim would have had any inclination to connect his apocalyptic family oral tradition to coincidence of this kind. I have the impression that Pawnee storytelling today typically underscores catastrophic disease epidemics as a central factor in the 19th century Pawnee demographic decline. Infectious diseases of various kinds have always existed in Pawneeland, but the spread of new virulent diseases in Pawneeland is typically framed as an outcome of European and American interactions. Historian Richard White wrote in 1983, “Increased contact with Americans brought increased exposure to disease…” And “steady contact with whites made diseases such as syphilis, dysentery, and tuberculosis virtually endemic, and epidemics of influenza, smallpox, and cholera continued to sweep through the villages.” Deadly disease epidemics have sufficient antiquity in Pawneeland to have earned a place in Pawnee cosmology, in traditional explanations for human mortality. And it is notable that when smallpox appeared, the Pawnees blamed South Star, not “white people.” One such account is in the papers of James R. Murie and George Dorsey at the Field Museum of Natural History: “Origin of Sickness Among Indians,” told by Kiwikurawaruksti (Mysterious Buffalo Bull, John Buffalo), a Skidi priest. The story begins, “When Tirawa placed the gods in the heavens, the last one he placed was the South Star. The South Star was to be the home of the dead people.” One time the South Star appeared and there came a cyclone, and one man dreamed that the cyclone appeared and said, “My son, I am the Wind which has just passed over your village. I have life. I visit different parts of the earth and on my journeys I leave behind sickness, so that the people in the country become sick. Sometimes I visit your villages as a man; but though apparently a man, I am really the disease that is to come among the people.” The account then turned to a time when “the people were living upon the Platte river in Nebraska, near Fremont; at this place was the lodge of the animals.” The people left there “and went west upon the Loupe river, and there they made their village, and lived for many years.” This sequence of events seems to indicate that Pawnees were residing on the Flat River in the vicinity of Pahaku during the late 18th century. In those days, “The people were being taught by different animals how to cure various diseases.” And Mark van de Logt’s Monsters of Contact (p. 59-74) features a fascinating analysis of Arikara oral traditions connecting whirlwind imagery to late 18th century disease epidemics. He makes a convincing case that a spectrum of such traditions can be usefully interpreted as glimpses of historical epidemics, and this connection is also evident in Kiwikurawaruksti’s Skidi tradition with its mention of “the Wind.” It is also notable that the cessation of visits from the celestial bringer of disease is associated with the coming of “white people”: “The Indians say that in olden times this mysterious man was seen many times, and each time some sort of disease spread among the Indians. As the white people came among the Indians this sick man was not seen any more and therefore no more epidemics occurred among the Indians.” This curious statement about “white people” might reflect experiences of some kind with American medical practices. Kiwikurawaruksti was born during the mid-1830s, and US documents of the early 1830s includes a long list of Pawnees who were inoculated against smallpox. And Pawnee tradition speaks of one American official who rode around visiting Pawnee camps to distribute medicine during the devastating epidemics of 1876. Pawnee cosmology associates South Star (Canopus) with death, but this might have been separate from a “Star of Disease,” identified with Saturn. Citing Murie and Dorsey, Douglas Parks noted that the ritual use of sweetgrass smudging was therapeutic, and “it was believed that the deity of disease was pushed farther from the village and that the village itself was thereby freed from disease.” Given the deadly epidemics that passed through Pawnee cities long ago, it would be interesting to know whether the Pawnees ever practiced forms of social distancing. But it is clear that communal ceremonies offered a prescribed mode of treatment in Pawneeland. Murie and Dorsey noted that Pawnee Doctor society rites held every autumn served three purposes: “By them they renewed their powers, drove disease from the village, and, by means of their sleight of hand performances, convinced the people that they really possessed the supernatural powers attributed to them.” In the course of these fall rituals, people who were ill received visits from doctors. A spectrum of beliefs and doctoring activities pertained to disease in Pawneeland, and tradition-keepers at the end of the 19th century spoke of those ways. And when Captain Jim was young, his grandmother told him a story that he remembered many years later. And that night long ago in Pawneeland, at the end of the story, the little boy might well have felt worried about the future. And his grandmother might have noticed. She said, “Now, my grandchild, go to sleep and think no more of what I have told you, for you are young yet and must not think about these things.” Coronavirus Chronology – In early April 2020, pondering the coronavirus pandemic, I got curious about the complexities of civic leadership and cultural perspectives and disease transmission processes. I wondered whether an examination of this pandemic might shed some kind of peripheral light on the epidemic tribulations of my Pawnee ancestors. I borrowed an anonymous timeline from social media and I checked the information, and I integrated additional material from various sources. My apologies to the uncited people who transcribed and assembled the information below. To frame this pandemic through a traditional Pawnee lens… As the South Star takes possession of the earth, a tragic number of people worldwide must “get ready to be turned into stars.” And as “the stars in the heavens would look down,” we can only wonder what kind of world will emerge from these days. December 30, 2019 – Dr Li Wenliang messages on WeChat that his hospital in Wuhan, China has seven patients diagnosed with a SARS-like illness, and he has contracted the disease. He is reprimanded by Chinese authorities. December 31, 2019 – China informs the World Health Organization (WHO) that about 41 patients have a mysterious pneumonia. January 5, 2020 – China announces probe into the mysterious pneumonia outbreak. WHO issues a risk assessment on “pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China.” WHO “does not recommend any specific measures for travellers.” January 7 – China identifies the novel coronavirus. President Xi issues directives for control of the novel coronavirus; this is not known outside China until February 15. January 8 – First CDC warning, issued on “a reported cluster of pneumonia of unknown etiology (PUE)…” January 11 – First known death in China. For a glimpse of White House attitudes in early January, see Jonathan Lemire, “Signs Missed and Steps Slowed in Trump’s Pandemic Response,” New York Times, April 12, 2020: “Twenty current and former administration officials and Republicans close to the White House were interviewed for this account about the critical weeks lost before the president spoke to the nation on Feb. 26.” “The Pentagon first learned about the new coronavirus in December from open source reports emanating from China. By early January, warnings about the virus had made their way into intelligence reports circulating around the government. On Jan. 3, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, received a call from his Chinese counterpart with an official warning. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, was alerted to the virus around the same time – and within two weeks was fearful it could bring global catastrophe. Quickly, U.S. intelligence and public health officials began doubting China’s reported rates of infection and death toll. They pressed China to allow in U.S. epidemiologists – both to assist the country in confronting the spread and to gain valuable insights that could help buy time for the U.S. response. U.S. officials also pressed China to send samples of the virus to U.S. labs for study and for vaccine and test development. On Jan. 11, China shared the virus’ genetic sequence. That same day, the National Institutes of Health started working on a vaccine.” January 16 – US House of Representatives sends two articles of impeachment to the Senate. The coronavirus appears in Japan. January 17 – US begins screening arrivals at three airports. January 18 – Alex Azar briefs Trump on coronavirus threat; according to Jonathan Lemire (April 4, 2020 report) “Trump spent much of the conversation wanting to talk about vaping…” January 20 – China reports first known person-to-person transmission. January 21 – Official confirmation of the first known US case of coronavirus in Washington State. January 22 – Trump: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” January 23 – Wuhan put under partial quarantine. WHO issues position that epidemic does not yet constitute a global health emergency. January 27 – Joe Biden publishes a warning that Trump has “demonstrated failures of judgment and his repeated rejection of science make him the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health challenge.” January 29 – White House advisor Peter Navarro sends a memo to the National Security Council warning of “the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.” Formation of White House task force on the coronavirus. January 30 – Trump campaign rally, Iowa. WHO declares a global health emergency. Trump: “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment – five – and those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for us.” January 31 – President bans foreign nationals from entering US if they have visited China in prior two weeks. This narrow ban left open significant travel between China and the US, and it was the only major action Trump took through mid-March to address the incipient pandemic. In comments made on various occasions in February and March, Trump cited push-back from unnamed sources that he respected, and he portrayed his decision as an “aggressive action” that was difficult and effective. February 2 – Trump: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” First known death in Philippines. February 4 – Diamond Princess cruise ship put under quarantine in a Japanese harbor. February 5 – The US Senate votes to acquit Trump, ending the impeachment trial. February 8 – First known death of an American in China. February 10 – Trump campaign rally New Hampshire. International WHO research team arrives in China. Trump: “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do – you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat, as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We’re in great shape, though. We have 12 cases, 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.” February 11 – WHO names the new virus COVID-19. February 12 – Dow Jones closes at an all-time high of 29,551.42. South Korea epidemic begins. February 14 – The first known COVID-19 death in Europe is a Chinese tourist. Health and Human Services and the National Security Council prepare a joint memo with recommendations for community mitigation “significantly limiting public gatherings and cancellation of almost all sporting events, performances, and public and private meetings…” Trump refuses to meet with HHS /NSC. Trump: “And 61 percent of the voters approve of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus.” “And we’re – we have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.” February 15 – Trump golfs, Florida. February 18 – President Xi assures British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that China is “achieving visible progress.” February 19 – Trump campaign rally, Arizona. Iran epidemic begins. Diamond Princess asymptomatic passengers released into US. February 20 – Trump campaign rally, Colorado. Trump: “The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. This is their new hoax.” South Korea first death. February 21 – Trump campaign rally, Nevada. February 23 – Peter Navarro sends memo to Trump via National Security Council, noting, “There is an increasing probability of a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life of as many as 1-2 million souls.” Trump: “We have it very much under control in this country.” February 24 – Trump: “The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 1000 points. February 25 – Trump: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” “In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” NIH announces clinical trial of antiviral remdesivir. Italy issues list of Lombardy towns in lockdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 879.44 points, closing at 27,081.36. February 26 – Trump: “The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller.” “And the United States is now – we’re rated number one. We’re rated number one for being prepared.” “But we’ve done, really, an extraordinary job. When you look at a country this size, with so many people pouring in – we’re the number one in the world for people coming into a country, by far. And we have a total of 15 cases, many of which, or most – within a day, I will tell you most of whom are fully recovered.” “The fifteen [US cases] within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” CDC announces that an American in California acquired the virus from an unknown source through community transmission. VP Pence put in charge of US program. February 27 – Trump: “We have a situation with the virus. We’ve done a great job. The press won’t give us credit for it.” “If we were doing a bad job, we should also be criticized. But we have done an incredible job. We’re going to continue. It’s going to disappear. One day – it’s like a miracle – it will disappear.” February 28 – Trump campaign rally, South Carolina. “Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it.” “My administration has taken the most aggressive action in modern history to prevent the spread of this illness in the United States. We are ready.” “And the Democrats single point – talking point and you say it’s – is that it’s Donald Trump’s fault, right.” “Whoever thought of this two weeks ago? Who would’ve thought this could be going on four weeks ago.” February 29 – Trump press conference: “Tremendous amounts of supplies are already on hand. We have 43 million masks, which is far more than anyone would have assumed we could have had so quickly…” First known US death. Washington Governor Inslee announces state of emergency. March 2 – Trump campaign rally, North Carolina. “My administration has also taken the most aggressive action in modern history to protect Americans from the coronavirus.” “Washington Democrats are trying to politicize the coronavirus, denigrating the noble work of our public health professionals…” The Coronaviridae Study Group officially designates the virus as SARS-CoV-2. March 3 – Federal Reserve issues unscheduled cut to interest rates to help faltering US economy. Iran announces that 23 members of its Parliament are infected. March 4 – Trump to Hannity: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work – some of them go to work, but they get better.” CDC removes certain restrictions on coronavirus testing. March 5 – Trump: “I never said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” “And one of the things I did is, I closed down the borders to China and to other areas that are very badly affected, and really having a lot of troubles, I mean, countries and areas of countries that have had a lot of problem. And I closed them down very early, against the advice of almost everybody. And we have been given rave reviews. And that’s why we have only right now 11 – it’s a lot of people, but it’s still 11 people, versus tremendous numbers of thousands of people that have died all over the world. We have 11.” March 6 – Trump: “Well, job numbers just came out and they’re incredible. The job numbers were tremendous.” “Our numbers are lower than just about anybody. And in terms of deaths, I don’t know what the count is today. Is it 11? Eleven people? And in terms of cases, it’s very, very few. When you look at other countries, it’s a very tiny fraction because we’ve been very strong at the borders.” “So I think we’re in great shape. I mean, I think we’re in great shape. This came unexpectedly a number of months ago. I heard about it in China. It came out of China, and I heard about it. And made a good move: We closed it down; we stopped it.” “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.” “Anybody right now and yesterday – anybody that needs a test gets a test. We – they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.” “They’re all set. They have them out there. In addition to that, they’re making millions of more as we speak. But as of right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test – that’s the important thing – and the tests are all perfect, like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect, right? This was not as perfect as that, but pretty good.” “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 7 – Trump golfs, Florida. Asked about future rallies, Trump: “Well, we’ll have tremendous rallies. And we’re doing very well. And we’ve done a fantastic job with respect to that subject on the virus. Yeah.” Asked about whether he is concerned about the coronavirus appearing in DC and at the White House: “No, I’m not concerned at all. No, I’m not. No, we’ve done a great job.” March 8 – Trump golfs, Florida. Trump: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Coronavirus.” March 9 – Trump: “The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” “And we have a great economy, we have a very strong economy, but this came – this blindsided the world. And I think we’ve handled it very, very well. I think they’ve done a great job. The people behind me have done a great job.” Italy institutes a national lockdown. US stock market plunge triggers an automatic shutdown. Dr Leana Wen, physician and public health professor: “It appears that out of 1,000 people who have this coronavirus, somewhere between 10 to 30 people will die, compared to one person [out of 1,000] who has the flu.” March 11 – Trump: “We are moving very quickly. The vast majority of Americans, the risk is very, very low. Young and healthy people can expect to recover fully and quickly if they should get the virus.” WHO declares COVID-19 emergency a pandemic. Trump issues a limited travel ban to US by some foreign nationals from 26 European countries. Identifiable US cases hit 1000. March 13 – US national emergency declared. March 15 – The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates close to zero. March 17 – Trump: “I’ve always known this is a – this is a real – this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do is look at other countries. I think now it’s in almost 120 countries all over the world. No, I’ve always viewed it as very serious.” A leaked federal plan warns that this pandemic “will last 18 months or longer…” March 18 – Coronavirus relief package signed into law with testing support and paid emergency leave. March 19 – New Zealand issues a blanket travel ban for travelers to New Zealand. March 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 583 points. New York City confirms 21,000 cases of infection. March 24 – Trump: “I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” “I think it’s possible. Why isn’t it?” “We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don’t turn the country off. I mean, every year. I mean, think of it. We average 36,000 people, death, death. I’m not talking about cases. I’m talking about death, 36,000 deaths a year. But we have never closed down the country for the flu.” The Washington Post reported (April 15) that about March 24 the White House received a special “goodwill” shipment of 1800 surgical masks from Taiwan. March 25 – By this date over 3.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment. March 27 – Trump signs into law CARES, with $2 trillion for pandemic relief. March 30 – Trump: “When I stopped some very, very infected, very, very sick people, thousands coming in from China long earlier than anybody thought, including the experts. Nobody thought we should do it except me. And I stopped everybody. We stopped it cold. It had never been done before the history of our country.” The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 915.39 points, closes at 21,636.78. March 31 – Thirty-five US states have stay-at-home orders. April 2 – By this date 6.6 million Americans have filed for unemployment. April 3 – CDC advises Americans to begin wearing cloth masks in public. April 6 – By this date there are over 1.3 million identified coronavirus cases worldwide, with 364,567 known cases in US. Trump: “Take a look at the swine flu. It was a disaster; 17,000 people died. The other administra… they didn’t even know – it was like they didn’t even know it was here.” April 7 – Minimum known US pandemic death toll by this date: over 12,800. April 9 – Minimum known US pandemic death toll by this date: circa 16,700. April 10 – Minimum known US pandemic death toll by this date: 18,638. April 12 – By this date more than 2 million tests have been administered in the US, covering less than 1% of the total population. April 13 – Minimum known US pandemic death toll by this date: over 20,000. April 15 – Minimum known US pandemic death toll by this date: over 30,000. By this date, during the previous four weeks more than 22 million Americans filed for unemployment. Posted in Pawnee religion, Pawnee tales Tagged Captain Jim, Coronavirus, John Buffalo, Pawnee medical traditions February 8, 2020 by Roger Echo-Hawk It must have been circa 1910 when the priest of the Pitahawirata Bear Ceremony chose Siriresaruku to serve as one of the four Leaders of the ritual. And on the sixth day, the Morning Star rose. And Siriresaruku handed a bear robe and claws and an eagle feather to another ritualist, and he spoke of how these should be worn when the man set forth to find the special cedar tree. And Siriresaruku said, “Mother stands in the timber with our spirits, dreams for us, and sends the stories for us.” And the Bear men found the tree. And in the ceremony Siriresaruku sang two songs – songs about a man who long ago became lost in the fog, and he heard a woman singing in a cedar tree, and she became the tree, and the man dreamed of her, and he became a leader of the Bear Society. And in the ceremony of the Bear Society, the man sang about the woman, the singing cedar tree who dreams for us. Mother Cedar Tree who sends us the stories that we tell. Many years later in 1998, the Pawnee Nation Education Department got in touch with me to pose an interesting question. When Siriresaruku died in 1919, he was known by two names, one of which seemed incorrect. “Roam Chief” versus “Roan Chief.” Which was right? I thought I knew the answer. But now… I’m not so sure. We can identify various names he held through his life. Robert Bruce’s 1932 publication on the Pawnee Scouts included a photo of “Roam Chief” with this caption: “Known as ‘Koot tah-we-coots oo pah’ (literally hawk, red – commonly Red Hawk) on the last campaign of the Pawnee Scouts with the North brothers…” Kútawikucuupahat means “tail-big-red,” referring to a red-tailed hawk. This name appeared on an enlistment roster dated October 9, 1876 when Red Hawk was a young man. Bruce added, “Roam Chief was over 7 feet in height…” Red Hawk apparently changed his name while in the Pawnee Scouts – two undated letters in Roam Chief’s allotment file at the Pawnee Agency deny him a veteran’s pension. These gave his name as “Lah-lah-we-ra-koo-lah-sah, now Roam Chief.” This suggests that Lah-lah-we-ra-koo-lah-sah was the name he held when he was mustered out of service in 1877. During the fifteen years that followed, all the Pawnees received Americanized names. The various protocols that guided this process are not completely clear to me, but I have the impression that several Pawnee translators worked closely with American officials, and the final stages of this momentous change in Pawnee culture unfolded under the guidance of Helen Clarke, a Blackfeet woman who had charge of Pawnee allotment. In the midst of allotment, during the 1892 Jerome Commission hearings, several Pawnees served as translators and an unknown person transcribed what they said. Both this transcript and the list of Pawnee signatories to the 1892 Agreement included “Room Chief,” a likely error for “Roam Chief.” It might have been in July 1893 that Helen Clarke allotted “Roam Chief,” age 41, born about 1851-1852. He was married in those days to Eva Sitting Bull (Chaui) and Rebecca Richards (Pitahawirata). These records imply that by 1892 he held a Pawnee name that could be translated as “Roam Chief,” but I have seen no transcription of this name in Pawnee. In February 1902 he visited Washington DC with a Pawnee delegation, and De Lancey Gill took a photo of him, and the National Anthropological Archives attached the name “Ray-Tah-Cotz-Tay-Sah (Roaming Chief).” The 1902 Pitahawirata Pawnee census and the 1903 Pawnee census both list “Roam Chief.” And in 1904 George Dorsey and James R. Murie recruited him to join a delegation of Pawnees to attend the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. According to Hannah Facknitz, one newspaper reported his name as “Roan Chief,” and a list of Pawnees attending the Exposition identified all the members of his family under the name “Roan Chief.” Photos taken by Charles Carpenter at the Exposition likewise identified him as “Roan Chief, chief of the Pitahauerat and Pawnee.” Dorsey and Murie’s 1906 The Pawnee Mythology included two stories told by “Roaming-Chief, hereditary chief of the Chaui.” A February 25, 1907 “Affidavit As To Lawful Heirs” said that William Bishop and “Roam Chief” had the same great-grandfather. An anonymous report about Pawneeland was published on March 28, 1907 in a Washington DC newspaper, together with a photo of “Roaming Chief, Six feet four inches tall.” The archives of the Field Museum of Natural History contain a circa 1907 manuscript, a narrative “Told by Roaming-Chief (Chaui).” The 1912 edition of a book by Frank Cooper about Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill published a photo captioned “Pawnee Bill and Roan Chief, Finest Specimen of Manhood Living.” James R. Murie’s 1914 Pawnee Societies mentioned “Roaming-chief.” And Murie’s Ceremonies of the Pawnee – edited by many hands – included mention of “Roaming Chief” with a photo of him captioned “Siriˑreˑsaruˑku They Are Making Him A Chief.” Siriresaruku died in 1919. People remembered him as Roan Chief; others said Roam Chief. Martha Blaine noted in Some Things Are Not Forgotten (p. 251 endnote 4): “Garland Blaine said ‘Roan Chief.’ I have heard this as well as Roam Chief used. His name translated from Pawnee as Roaming Chief.” A 2013 obituary for Lucille Davis Long noted: “As a young child, she lived with her… step-grandfather, Roan Chief (as she always called him)…” This chronology shows that he held various names during his lifetime, and one name was a source of confusion, difficult to explain. The man known to us as Roam Chief / Roan Chief surely understood that people around him used both of these names. But his Pawnee name was Siriresaruku, They Are Making Him A Leader. A comparable situation occurred with another South Band man, Ruling His Sun / Ruling His Son. He was asked about when he received his name, and he replied, “I do not know. It is hard to tell but it was after I came here from Nebraska and they put me down for my allotment as Ruling His Sun.” He did not seem to care whether Americans called him Ruling His Sun or Ruling His Son. His Pawnee name was Pásaasiʾ, Osage. We can guess that Siriresaruku felt the same way. I have the suspicion that for whatever reason, he did not trouble himself to set people straight – maybe he even made use of both names. “Roan Chief” might well have reminded him of his first name, Red Hawk. It also remains possible that he held the name Roan Chief at some point. If so, we would look for Asaapakspaharesaru or Ritkutareeʾusresaru; but to date, I have not found any version of that Pawnee name in any record. For that matter, I have yet to find the name Roam Chief / Roaming Chief set down in Pawnee. But we can assume that he did hold this name at circa 1890. Whatever the name might have been, it got translated as Roam Chief and this was misheard on occasion as Roan Chief, and when he realized what was happening with his new American name, he apparently decided that both names worked just fine. The name “Roam Chief” would most likely be written as Rakawariresaru or Rakaawarii Resaru. Many variations are possible, with differing meanings, but the word “awarii” was surely an element in the name. This term holds much meaning in both Pawnee dialects, referring to things in motion, to ritual movements. Douglas Parks has pointed out that when kaawarii is used in a personal name, it refers to a person wandering under the heavens. And among the Skidi, awarii served as the name for an annual spring ceremony, referring to the sentient energy that fills the world with motion and life-force. And “resaru” arises from an equally fascinating cultural context. It came to be typically translated as “chief,” but it refers to such ideas as “esteem” and “regal,” and it also obliquely invokes the celestial life-force as a creative divinity. The philosophical context for “resaru” is that leaders of the earthly realm are supposed to emulate the divinities in the celestial universe; what happens in the heavens is to be echoed on earth. To cultivate a disposition to benefit humankind, leaders should hold the meditative sense of these meanings at the center of their selfhood. This traditional quality long ago guided Pawnee leadership. A long ago understanding of resaru might loosely translate the term as “Regal Community Leader.” But to reflect a wider circle of traditional meanings, we could speak of a more esoteric translation: “Sovereign With Divine Celestial Blessings.” We can suggest that Rakawariresaru might best be translated as Ruler Roaming Under The Heavens. In this case, both “ruler” and “awarii” connote movement in a straight line. Along the way, the celestial realm resonates with the distant motions of stars and planets and the moon and the sun – sublime echoes flow down to all the living things that move across the earth, and we wish for mysterious heavenly powers to send us both dreams and stories. Exploring the names held by Siriresaruku, we glimpse the occult ethic of leadership and selfhood that once shaped Pawneeland. And through the 19th century, “Resaru” diminished in meaning, humbled from regal cosmic significance into the more mundane “Chief.” And slowly Siriresaruku wandered in the world, the tall heir of a royal lineage of the South Band Pawnees. Roaming across America, he sometimes posed for photos, and they called him the “Redskin Giant,” and they said he was six feet four inches… he was six feet eight inches… he was seven feet – they finally said he was over seven feet tall. And in Pawneeland he bore his great names lightly under the heavens, and one day he related a story. He told how the priest of a long ago ceremony spoke to the people, saying, “…our father stands before us clothed with power, sent down from the different gods in the heavens.” And that priest of olden days told the people, “When we leave the lodge we shall go out as if born anew, then we shall pass around the north side of the village as children. Then we shall pass around the south side as old men, and then we shall enter the lodge to show the people that we die again and are put under ground.” Photo by Charles Carpenter, “Roan Chief,” 1904, National Anthropological Archives Posted in Americanization, Pawnee language, Pawnee religion, Pawnee tales Tagged awarii, life force, resaru, Roam Chief December 12, 2019 by Roger Echo-Hawk Rush Roberts was born November 30, 1859. A family history prepared by George Roberts named the father as “Latakutskalahar (Fancy Eagle),” and the mother “Chiha (Reed Matting).” These names are Riítahkaackarahaaru, Proud Eagle, and Chihiítu, Reed Mat. Both Proud Eagle and Reed Mat died “in the land of Nebraska” – Proud Eagle was killed “by enemy Indians.” Late in life Rush Roberts responded to a list of questions received from a researcher, and he mentioned his father: “My father was a Doctor; he died when I was about four years of age. My stepfather was a hunter and trapper.” This suggests that Proud Eagle was killed about 1864, and Reed Mat married another Skidi man. This genealogy traces the Roberts family history back to the late 18th century. But in 1977 Garland Blaine took issue with certain aspects of this family heritage, and he said that Rush Roberts was “a mixed blood.” Then in 1983 I heard a very different story. In July that year I sat down with my uncle John Knife Chief to go over a list of Pawnee men who had signed the Agreement of 1892 – the generation that adopted the formal use of inherited surnames. When we got to the name “Rush Roberts,” Uncle John paused. He said Rush’s real parents were, as he put it, white immigrants. They might have been German, he said. One day they were both killed by the Sioux. A Skidi group came upon the slaughter and they found a living child and Rush grew up as a Skidi. These stories are confusing. Was Rush Roberts the scion of Skidi lineages? Was he a “mixed blood”? Was he an adopted son of Proud Eagle and Reed Mat? We can say for sure that he grew up as a member of a Skidi family, and he shared with his son Henry his memory of his Skidi father, Proud Eagle, who was married to Reed Mat, his mother. Henry wrote in a 1903 school essay, “He said that when he was young his father was killed in a battle with the Sioux Indians, and so he did not get to see his father very long.” Perhaps we can reconstruct an arguable model of what happened. At the killing of his birth-parents, Rush was likely an infant, too young to retain any memories of what had happened. And he was still quite young when his first Skidi adoptive father, Proud Eagle, died at the hands of the Sioux. Pawneeland in those days was an embattled realm. The colonizing Sioux and their client states and allies wrested away swathes of Pawnee hunting grounds by military invasion, taking control of steadily declining herds of buffalo. And they assaulted the Pawnees in their last city, Wild Licorice Creek – an earthlodge metropolis founded in 1859, a few months before the birth of Rush Roberts. That city had two Skidi suburbs, and in later life Rush said, “The village I lived in had about fifty lodges in Nebraska.” From its founding, Wild Licorice Creek was a city under siege. A New York Times report described a Sioux attack on the “Scheedees” in May 1860 and “a sharp fight took place, lasting about half an hour in which three Pawnees were killed and four severely wounded,” with honorable mention of the deeds of Baptiste Bayhylle and Crooked Hand. Historian Mark van de Logt noted that “between April and September 1860, Sioux raiders struck the town no fewer than eight times.” Clyde Milner added: “In the summer of 1860, even with a company of US soldiers on the reservation, the Sioux destroyed sixty Pawnee lodges. Early in 1861, with the Pawnees off in their winter camps, the Sioux virtually occupied the reservation. That fall they burned the prairies to prevent a successful Pawnee hunt, and by January many Pawnees had no food.” The Pawnees also observed Sioux attacks on their American neighbors. In early September 1862 the American farmer for the Pawnees reported that the Sioux had “killed a white man a few miles above” the Pawnee city. And “they were intending to have a big fight with the Pawnees.” He heard “that the Sioux were in large bodies, of 500 each, at various distances on all sides of the Pawnee village.” Historian George Hyde touched on events in the summer of 1863: “The Sioux were very troublesome this summer. They started with a big raid on June 22, when they charged straight into the Pawnee villages, killing and scalping some Indian women, with Agent Lushbaugh and the officers of the cavalry company which was supposed to be on guard looking on. Later in the summer 300 Brulés made an attack on the Pawnee villages, wounding the captain of the cavalry company with an arrow and killing one soldier and a number of Pawnees before the Indians and cavalry could mount and drive them off. The cavalry company seemed useless, small parties of Sioux getting in almost daily to kill Pawnee women in the corn patches and to enter the Indian villages at night to steal horses.” Surveying this history, it is certainly possible that Rush Roberts was the son of non-Pawnee parents killed by the Sioux somewhere in Pawneeland – parents who might well have been immigrants from Germany. Their infant son survived. The little boy was too young to retain any memories of those grim events. And Proud Eagle and Reed Mat took in the orphan and they named him Arikaraaru. The name means “horned one” and it refers to a “stag, buck deer.” Perhaps we could translate it as Deer Antlers. In later years he could vaguely recall how his Skidi father died at the hands of an invading Sioux military expedition – a dim memory reinforced by things his mother said in his childhood before she died. Other Skidis in the community knew the truth, and perhaps some Pawnees thought Deer Antlers was a Skidi with American ancestry. Deer Antlers became a youth in this time of war, and one summer day in 1873 he survived the genocidal Sioux slaughter of Pawnees at Massacre Canyon. An American named Royal Buck visited the scene. He published a somber report in a local newspaper: “It was indeed a regular massacre… for nearly four miles down the canyon the dead bodies are still lying bleaching in the sun or putrifying in the water or slough holes… near one hundred victims are lying on the ground and full two thirds are squaws and pappooses. All or nearly all are scalped.” In 1876 Deer Antlers joined the final enlistment of Pawnee Scouts. Mark van de Logt quoted Rush in his 2010 book on the Pawnee Scouts: “The Sioux and Cheyennes were our enemies, and I had this chance to operate against them.” It appears that Deer Antlers was present at the Dull Knife battle in late November 1876. He recalled, “About three days after the Cheyenne battle we had the name changing ceremony at our supply wagon camp.” Perhaps this was the occasion when Deer Antlers took his Skidi father’s name, Riítahkaackarahaaru. The name is typically translated as Fancy Eagle, but the word karahaar means “be neat, fastidious, particular, as in one’s dress or work; be proud.” The term pertains to a person who takes pride in being meticulous and “proudly attired.” And riítahkaac refers to a golden eagle. Douglas Parks translated this name as Proud Eagle. And it must have been during the 1880s when Proud Eagle took another name, borrowing an American name “Rush Roberts” from a Quaker official of the Board of Indian Commissioners. In October 1875 Benjamin Rush Roberts had visited Pawneeland in Oklahoma, and he was struck at how this new Pawnee realm looked quite beautiful “in the light of the setting sun… a picture which no pen could adequately describe.” And in 1904 when George Dorsey and James R. Murie published Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, they included one narrative told by “Fancy Eagle.” And “God-of-Wind” tells of a “wonderful boy” who could perform magic, transforming a clay buffalo “into a live buffalo calf.” Stitakäu or Womb “could call the buffalo” and “he seemed to make the ground open so that buffalo came forth.” This narrative has the feel of an old tradition handed down for generations – it ends with Stitakäu becoming a divinity in the north: “Hikusu, Breath or Wind.” And the people made offerings in those days, as the story told. And Stitakäu became Hikusu “and the people knew that he did not die”; and still, he is “living and stands in the north…” And the infant boy became Arikaraaru. And he became Riítahkaackarahaaru. And one day he became Rush Roberts. And he lived to a great age – he grew very old in Pawneeland, a beautiful realm “in the light of the setting sun… which no pen could adequately describe.” Photo by Thomas Smillie: “Ray-Tah-Cots-Tey-Sah-Ru, Fancy Eagle, called Rush Roberts,” January 21, 1905 Posted in War Tagged Massacre Canyon, Rush Roberts November 11, 2019 by Roger Echo-Hawk It must have been in the early 1890s when photographer Thomas Croft visited Pawneeland. Using glass plate negatives, he took two photos of an ákaaruʾ (earthlodge) built by the family of Sitting Bull. One photo shows the exterior of the house. Several hundred photos of Pawnees must have been taken during the 19th century, and perhaps twenty or so show earthlodges. But I can’t think of any that peer into the interior of an ákaaruʾ. So I was quite interested to recently find online a photo taken by Croft inside Sitting Bull’s earthlodge. It is apparent that he set up his tripod at the inner end of the hiwata or íwatuuruʾ – the extended entryway. So we must be looking at the uúkatat, “hanging at the west,” the west side of the earthlodge. This is usually where a sacred bundle would hang over the altar. In this photo, against the far wall we see a canopy structure. And a dark shadowy object sits atop the frame of the canopy. It is difficult to make out any details, but one spot of light might be a gourd rattle. Perhaps this is a sacred bundle, a Cuʾuhreereepiiruʾ, Rains Wrapped Up. Under the canopy we can make out what seems to be a bison skull resting on a pedestal. These are very intriguing details. But I am also interested in the itkatahaaruʾ, the “place of the fire.” We can see that it is collared with an earthen rim. This feature holds esoteric meaning, ancient symbolism (see my book The Enchanted Mirror: Ancient Pawneeland, p. 100-101). Earthlodges constructed in more recent years have been built as exhibits, and these don’t have collared hearths. But this feature connects Pawnee earthlodges to antiquity, to long-forgotten religious ideas about heaven and earth. And it is no wonder that this hearth had a ring built around it, because Kiwikutiwitit (Sitting Bull) was a Chaui priest. He was born about 1830. He grew up at Marsh Town, a Chaui earthlodge city on the Flat River, and he studied to become a doctor, and he served in the Pawnee Scouts, defending Pawneeland against the implacable invasion of the Sioux empire. After the Pawnees moved to Oklahoma, many people fell ill and Kiwikutiwitit doctored people in his tent. He had two wives then, Stay kee lah wee rah and Chee sah hee rah sah. And south of the Pawnee Agency they built an earthlodge. It might have been around 1890 when Kiwikutiwitit took the name Tahirasawica’, He Arrives In The Lead. In Echo Hawk family tradition Tahirasawica’ was known for treating broken bones. In 1982 one of my uncles told me that after the reservation opened in 1893, a new American neighbor brought his son to Sitting Bull’s earthlodge. The boy had a broken leg, seriously infected. It needed amputation. Sitting Bull told the farmer: “You must let me have this boy for four days, and perhaps I can help him.” That youth stayed in the earthlodge shown in the attached photos. And whatever life he lived ever after, when he walked around in his world he surely thought of how he left the ákaaruʾ of Sitting Bull with a mended leg. I would guess that this story has endured in my family oral tradition because it tells an important story, reminding us that the Pawnees dealt honorably with their new American neighbors when they needed help. And Tahirasawica’ was more than a doctor; he was also a priest. He conducted the Chaui Pipe Dance, a ritual filled with dreams that happened long ago in an ancient realm. There the priests of antiquity invented the Pipe Dance, and folk began to live in earthlodges. And in the fall of 1898 Tahirasawica’ traveled to Washington DC and he shared with anthropologist Alice Fletcher the songs and rituals of the Pipe Dance. And Fletcher came to Pawneeland in the fall of 1901, and she visited the earthlodge of Tahirasawica’: “I saw how he had propped up a part of the ruins of his lodge,” she wrote, “so that he might still keep the sacred objects in a primitive dwelling.” He said to her, “I cannot live in a white man’s house of any kind. The sacred articles committed to my care must be kept in an earth lodge, and in order that I may fulfill my duties toward them and my people, I must live there also, so that as I sit I can reach out my hand and lay it upon mother earth.” And in those days long ago the Pipe Dance slowly drew to an end. The ákaaruʾ of Tahirasawica’ slowly fell into ruin. And about 1908, one day long ago the old man reached out his hand to touch the earth one final time. Posted in Pawnee language, Pawnee religion Tagged Alice Fletcher, earthlodge, Tahirŭssawichi	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1121
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__label__cc	0.676365	0.323635	About The Monk Contact The Monk Music Purchases 2010 Purchases 2010 Partial Cover Grid 2011 Cover Grid Every Release Acquired During This Blog REVO Catalog Rock G.P.A. The Book I Read ← Record Review: The Undertones REVO Remastering: Virgin Records – Methods Of Dance [REVO 076] → Song Of The Day: Holly Beth Vincent – Unoriginal Sin Posted on July 27, 2015 by postpunkmonk HBV © 1982 Antoine Giacomoni This last weekend I got pulled into the orbit of planet Holly Beth Vincent. A play of “The Right To Be Italian” led to her entire canon as it exists in the Record Cell getting repeated play and one song in particular has been in my skull and it just can’t let me go. I’ve loved her second album after my friend Tom [finally] convinced me to give it a listening after years of being wary of its stylistic deviation from the punk pop/girl group perfection of “The Right To Be Italian” into the uncharted waters of album number two, “Holly + The Italians,” which sounds like only itself. The joy was that it did this brilliantly. And as far as I can tell, never more brilliantly on that album than on the stunning “Unoriginal Sin,” though several tracks certainly give it competition. At the end of the day, there has been only one song that I’ve played all weekend [and even right now] that I can’t get enough of and that’s the one. It began subtly with a strummed rhythm guitar that was joined two bars in with bass [Bobby Collins – Ken Lockie, Blancmange] and drums [Kevin Wilkinson – League of Gentlemen, China Crisis]. The pacing was slow and deliberate. As the song ramped up to the first chorus, it featured Bobby Valentino [Fabulous Poodles] on violin adding dramatic counterpoint to the rock instrumentation. Then fell back to the incessant rhythm strumming, sounding like a small group of cellos, with the drums getting subtle fills to propel the song forward until the second chorus began at the 2:30 mark. Then the violin returned along with rhythmic piano grounding the tempo as the violin circled around it and plateaued with a plaintive solo that led into the intense and personal verse three, where it stayed through to the third chorus. Chorus three was where the entire song built up dramatically with a fortissimo power that was truly moving and palpable. Here, Ms. Vincent added more lyrics to the third chorus which finally culminated in the appearance of the song’s title repeated through to the fadeout to attain a singularity of powerful feeling with Valentino’s violin soloing and also multi-tracked to attain a truly orchestral feel. The passion of this number is gripping. I’m still not done listening to it over and over, if not on disc, then definitely in my head, as I fall asleep and wake up to this magnificent song; surely one of the finest in my Record Cell? How many other 6:15 songs does one listen to that sound far too brief? To shake things up, I’ve also been listening to the demo version, which was thankfully released on the amazing “Demos Federico” album in 2009. The demo here was dramatically different with presumably Ms. Vincent playing all of the instruments for the Portastudio demo. For one thing, the tempo was 50% faster, and the climactic verse three was not yet part of the song, so the end result was just four, very different minutes. The violin and piano that made the LP version so compelling were absent here, but the rocking tempo and reliance on crunchy guitar ala Holly + The Italians still marked the song as a complete winner, though the depth that came through the intense third verse and the differing arrangement only added more to the already substantial cards on the table even at this early stage. As I was listening incessantly to the compelling, strummed rhythm guitar tempo of this song a small lightbulb went off over my head. Where else had I heard this exact sound? A few minutes of incubation led to the answer popping up. Three years after this song was released, a Boston post-New Wave combo called Til’ Tuesday appeared with a debut single that had exactly the same sound and tempo. You may have heard the song, “Voices Carry.” It was a smash and took them to the top ten of the US charts with a sound like a [highly] commercialized version of “Unoriginal Sin.” The minor key synths of that song come up short against the tremendous violin of Bobby Valentino, who proved that his sister [Anne Dudley] was not the only one in their family with a mastery of strings. I can’t believe that Aimee Mann didn’t have a copy of “Holly + The Italians” in her racks. The similarities were just too strong. My final proof? Both records were produced by Mike Thorne. Case closed. Aimee Mann wanted some of this mojo. She got the hit, but Holly Beth Vincent got my heart. About postpunkmonk graphic design \| software UI design \| remastering vinyl • record collector • satire • non-fiction View all posts by postpunkmonk → This entry was posted in SOTD and tagged 1982, Holly + The Italians, Holly Beth Vincent, Unoriginal Sin. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Responses to Song Of The Day: Holly Beth Vincent – Unoriginal Sin I’ve always loved “It’s Only Me” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opy3t2g-NOQ)! That’s the Holly and the Italians track that hooked me! Echorich says: Ms. Vincent has never received the love and respect she deserves…Maybe the radio was too crowded in the early 80’s with too many other strong female lead bands, maybe she just wasn’t given enough record company support…but anyone who took the time to invest and investigate should be pretty happy they did. The fact of the matter his she was surrounded by a number of other great musicians on her records who wanted to be a part of her musical journey and that combined with her excellent songwriting and delivery made for some enduringly good 80’s Power Pop and New Wave Rock. postpunkmonk says: Echorich – There’s a Popdose post out there on how she was the “Chrissie Hynde” that got away. Please! There’s no comparison between Chrissie Hynde and Holly Beth Vincent in my book! They put the wrong one in the RNRHOF! I agree with you…apples and oranges for the most part, but the record companies didn’t see this, nor the radio programmers…I think it’s a shame HBV was lumped in as a tough chick New Wave Rocker – she was so much more than that. I look to someone like Johnette Napolitano as a singer heavily influenced by HBV as well. I can hear a lot of HBV on Joey, Tommorow Wendy and Caroline. She may have been darker lyrically, but the emotion and passion is very reminiscent of HBV. Of course I sitting at home today, on my day off, thinking why does the idea of HBV and Johnette Napolitano sound so familiar….I searched the interwebs and it hit me right in the face – Vowel Movement! – a fairly dark, but quite beautiful record. I searched my secondary hard drive and even found a few songs I had collected from it. The title track is a monster and I Don’t Wanna is short, sharp and bites hard. Echorich – You’ve not heard the entire Vowel Movement album then? Not optimal! Let’s put it this way, I sold off my copy! It sounded every inch like the worst sort of improvisation that it was. I can be okay with Johnette Napolitano. Eventually Concrete Blonde made albums I can listen to and I truly love the Pretty + Twisted album she made with Marc Moreland, but I had to divest myself of VM. It was that unlistenable to me. Your mileage may vary. No, Monk, I have it, in file format…but you are right, it is much more miss than hit and for that reason, a very big missed opportunity in my mind. HBV gets a bit lost in the process for most of the album but there are some bright/dark moments that appeal to me. Echorich – I need to rebuy a copy and give it another shot. Years ago I divested myself of CDs by favorites that I did not enjoy [Vowel Movement, Pleasure One, Outland, Go Bang] on the principle of it, and except for the Numan, it does stick in my craw that I no longer have those albums today. Simon H says: Although I have the two Wounded Bird reissues I’ve never focussed on this song before – I have now and you’re right it’s great. I’ve ordered the demos cd as well, not sure why I held off, don’t want to risk the price rising further… There is a definite similarity with Til Tuesday, I’m a long time Aimee fan, and it does seem quite likely she’d be aware of Holly’s work. Intriguing to see Holly is making electronic instrumental stuff now. Am also a CB fan, agree though, Vowel Movement isn’t great….Pretty and Twisted on the other hand I love, Marc Moreland was ridiculously under rated, so he joins Holly in that category. yuru says: finding this now. great review. hope you see this. yuru – Welcome to the comments! 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__label__wiki	0.858099	0.858099	PrePass Safety Alliance Adds Key Communications Role Veteran advocate to lead strategic communications PHOENIX, AZ June 10, 2020 – PrePass Safety Alliance, leading provider of highway safety and commercial vehicle efficiency technology, today announced the addition of Bob Trent as Vice President of Strategic Communications. A veteran communications and public advocacy professional, Mr. Trent will oversee communications, public relations and safety outreach efforts for the Alliance. This new position will partner closely with executive leadership to expand and execute corporate communications strategy. “Bob has a remarkable reputation for developing and executing on strategic communications plans and campaigns,” said Mark Doughty, President and CEO of PrePass Safety Alliance. “We’re excited to bring his strategic counsel to the Alliance to advance our mission of highway safety,” Doughty said. Mr. Trent most recently served as Vice President of Media Communications for a non-profit legal organization that advocates for First Amendment freedoms. In the past five years, Bob and his team executed public advocacy campaigns in support of six U.S. Supreme Court cases and hundreds of other legal matters and issues. Doughty said PrePass Safety Alliance will benefit from the experience Mr. Trent has gained over a 25-year career as a communication professional, including developing and executing communications strategies, managing media campaigns, building brands and shifting public sentiment. Earlier in his career, he served in a public/private partnership providing digital entertainment and information networks for government agencies. ABOUT PREPASS SAFETY ALLIANCE Founded in 1993, PrePass Safety Alliance is a non-profit public-private partnership established to improve commercial transportation safety and efficiency. PrePass® is the leading truck safety bypass and data platform in North America. PrePass allows states to preclear qualified commercial motor carriers to bypass inspection facilities at highway speeds. PrePass offers bypass technology choices, including the PrePass RFID transponder and MOTION™ bypass app. PrePass also provides driver safety ALERTS™, electronic toll payment services, and the service includes INFORM™ Safety and Tolling software. Nearly 700,000 commercial vehicles from more than 77,000 fleets utilize PrePass services to save time, fuel and money. PrePass Integrates with Geotab’s Open API for Weigh Station Bypass PrePass Safety Alliance Adds Locations on Key Routes, Grows Florida Agriculture Sites	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1146
__label__cc	0.629686	0.370314	The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction Dominique Jeannerod, Federico Pagello, Michael Pierse School of Arts, English and Languages Introduction to the Special Issue of the 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Symposium', reflecting a selection of papers from the Belfast Conference (13th-14th December 2013) Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature Arts and Humanities(all) http://arrow.dit.ie/priamls/Licence: Unspecified Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Popular Culture Arts & Humanities Modern Languages Arts & Humanities popular culture Social Sciences Proceedings Arts & Humanities academy Social Sciences Jeannerod, D., Pagello, F., & Pierse, M. (2017). The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction. Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature, 2(1). http://arrow.dit.ie/priamls/ Jeannerod, Dominique ; Pagello, Federico ; Pierse, Michael. / The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction. In: Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature. 2017 ; Vol. 2, No. 1. @article{e58cf267f95b4b0fb7feff6b3d425e82, title = "The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction", abstract = "Introduction to the Special Issue of the 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Symposium', reflecting a selection of papers from the Belfast Conference (13th-14th December 2013)", keywords = "Royal Irish Academy, Modern Languages, Popular Culture", author = "Dominique Jeannerod and Federico Pagello and Michael Pierse", journal = "Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature", publisher = "Royal Irish Academy", Jeannerod, D, Pagello, F & Pierse, M 2017, 'The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction', Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature, vol. 2, no. 1. <http://arrow.dit.ie/priamls/> The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction. / Jeannerod, Dominique; Pagello, Federico; Pierse, Michael. In: Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature, Vol. 2, No. 1, 09.10.2017. T1 - The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction AU - Jeannerod, Dominique AU - Pagello, Federico AU - Pierse, Michael N2 - Introduction to the Special Issue of the 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Symposium', reflecting a selection of papers from the Belfast Conference (13th-14th December 2013) AB - Introduction to the Special Issue of the 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Symposium', reflecting a selection of papers from the Belfast Conference (13th-14th December 2013) KW - Royal Irish Academy KW - Modern Languages KW - Popular Culture JO - Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature JF - Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature Jeannerod D, Pagello F, Pierse M. The Cultures of Popular Culture: Introduction. Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature. 2017 Oct 9;2(1).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1147
__label__wiki	0.760927	0.760927	Ryan Fennis is in a league of his own with ‘Iceberg EP + exclusive playlist Canberran electronic artist and producer Ryan Fennis has shared his second EP titled Iceberg. Encompassing indie rock, new wave and bass with a club music flourish, Iceberg isn’t so much the amalgamation of genres as it is the result of a complete rejection of them completely. Defying categorisation, Iceberg is Fennis at his most authentic, channeling his experiences of growing up in the nation’s capital of Canberra as well as his evolved sonic palette from his debut 2019 release, Detour, and creates something entirely his own in the process. Having experienced the disconnection which comes from lack of representation in his respective creative communities growing up, Fennis now seeks to change that so others can follow in his footsteps. Distilling the essence of what it means to be Canberran, Fennis draws on a collage-style songwriting process and a production sensibility which is not stifled by “guidelines”, and on Iceberg, he reasserts himself and his sonic and artistic identity with a stronger presence than ever before. Iceberg is a record to be listened to as a whole — it’s challenging, aggressive and demanding. It commands your attention, and is relentless in its pursuit for space and assertion. As a listener, you have no idea where it’s headed, but such is the refined quality of Fennis‘ production and songwriting, you don’t particularly mind as it’s entirely thrilling as well. From the pulsating title track to the psych trip out of ‘Fifteen’, the breaks of ‘Watchlist’ or the totally gripping ‘Overload’, this is not for the faint hearted. Back in July 2019, we said “There isn’t an artist in the country (heck, the world even) sounding like Ryan Fennis,” and with Iceberg, he once again proves this correct. Shifting the way we perceive, listen to and experience music, Ryan Fennis continues to forge his own path, spurred on by a complete rejection of traditional or conventional genre constraints. It’s this almost defiance that liberates Fennis to create freely, and paired with his clear ambition to push and break sonic boundaries completely, he remains one of the most exciting, innovative and unpredictable artists we have come across in recent times. Here, Fennis lets us peak under the hood so to speak, and has put together a playlist of his inspirations behind Iceberg. You only need one listen to the EP to know his influences would be vast and eclectic, and this playlist confirms that with oh so many different sounds and styles in the mix. Take a look below! ICEBERG by Ryan Fennis is out now, buy/stream it here. Image: Supplied RYAN FENNIS CARVES AN ENTIRELY NEW SPACE FOR HIMSELF WITH HIS COLLAGE-LIKE EP ‘DETOUR’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1149
__label__cc	0.74269	0.25731	Tecnologia e Engenharia How America Can Stop Importing Foreign Oil & Those Preventing It From Happening De Charles Hoppins Salvar para mais tardeSalve How America Can Stop Importing Foreign Oil & Those Preventing It From Happening para ler mais tarde Charles Hoppins The purpose of this book is to enlighten the public of the tremendous potential of natural gas. America currently has an oversupply of cheap natural gas. And it has huge reserves, enough to take care of this country’s energy needs for the rest of this century and more. Only a few other countries have more reserves than are found in the United states. There is a massive drilling campaign underway within the continental U.S. resulting from discovery of new shale oil fields or plays and the development of horizontal drilling techniques and fracturing. This has resulted in the production of more natural gas than the country can currently use. America is in position to be free of dependence on foreign oil, to be free of smog and pollution of air resulting from the exhaust of gasoline and diesel powered vehicles and relief from the high prices of gasoline and diesel at the pump. All the country needs to do is switch to natural gas to power its cars, buses, trucks and trains. But America needs to wake up to the fact of these new-found riches. Switching to natural gas can put millions of people to work, put extra dollars in every motorist’s pocket and leave hundreds of billions of dollars in circulation in America instead of being sent overseas. The U.S. is way behind other countries in the number of natural gas vehicles on the road. Sixteen countries have more vehicles powered by natural gas than this country. There are two countries with 20 times as many natural gas vehicles on the road than this country, this despite the U.S. having nearly the most natural gas reserves and the most developed transportation system. 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(WRI) WRI will continue to research and compile facts about natural gas after this report is published. These facts will be published on the above companion web site under the headings Updates and Supplements. (This URL may not be accepted by some ereaders and may need to be typed into the address bar of a browser) A distinction is made in this report between imported oil and imported ‘foreign’ oil. Imported oil is oil imported from Canada and Mexico. Imported ‘foreign’ oil is oil imported from outside of North America, mainly OPEC countries THIS REPORT SEEKS TO ANSWER: 1. Whether and to what degree there are forces and entities that are maintaining the price of gasoline and diesel at artificially high levels? 2. Whether and how fast natural gas production can replace imported foreign oil? 3. How fast can conversion to natural gas as a fuel for transportation be accomplished? 4. What are the obstacles to conversion to natural gas as a fuel for transportation? 5. Are there people and entities keeping it from happening? 6. What are the benefits of converting to natural gas as a fuel for transportation? 7. How much refining is required for natural gas? 8. What are the components of raw natural gas and their value on the market place for transportation and manufacturing purposes? 9. What states are benefiting from production of natural gas? 10. How can all states benefit from conversion to natural gas? Much of this Report is statistical and consists of facts from many different sources. All the facts reported are referenced as to source. Facts compiled have mostly come from Internet web sites and will continue to be compiled even after this report is published. There have been many challenges in the compiling of this report. One challenge is verifying the accuracy of statistics that are reported. There were occasional conflicting statistics reported even on the same web site. Another challenge has been the frequency of changes in the web pages that are referenced, which renders the links to the referenced URLs inoperable. In addition statistics are often updated. Fortunately this will be compensated for with the maintaining of a companion web site, which has an end notes page which can be updated to match current statistics. There are many government and non-government web sites that provide statistics. The main one is the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which administers a massive database on energy related matters. It is a division of the U.S. Department of Energy.¹ Other web sites that should be of interest include the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LOC).²-⁴ Exports of oil from the U.S. are increasing every year. More than one billion barrels were exported from the U.S. in 2010, according to the EIA. 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HOW AMERICA CAN STOP IMPORTING FOREIGN OIL CHAPTER 2 AMERICA’S PROBLEMS CHAPTER 3 TERRORISM AND WAR CHAPTER 4 POLLUTION AND GLOBAL WARMING CHAPTER 5 THE TRANSFER OF WEALTH CHAPTER 6 NATURAL GAS DISCOVERIES CHAPTER 7 FRACTURING PROS AND CONS CHAPTER 8 CONVERTING TO NATURAL GAS CHAPTER 9 NATURAL GAS HIGHWAY CHAPTER 10 FAILING GRADE FOR U.S. CHAPTER 11 PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP CHAPTER 12 NATURAL GAS ACT CHAPTER 13 WHAT IF… CHAPTER 14 LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES APPENDIX A EPILOGUE APPENDIX B ACKNOWLEDGMENTS APPENDIX C DEFINITIONS APPENDIX D WESTERN RESEARCH APPENDIX E ABOUT THE AUTHORS (Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Logic) There are items that have stood out in compiling this report. They are: The severe consequences that resulted from the exemption in 2005 of the oil and gas companies from complying with the Clean Water Act under the Bush/Cheney Administration. The massive drilling campaign within the continental U.S. resulting from discovery of new shale oil fields or plays and the development of horizontal drilling techniques and fracturing resulting in an oversupply of natural gas. The huge potential benefits of implementing natural gas as an alternative fuel for transportation. The degree of corruption within the oil and gas industry and the Congress. Conclusions by Western Research Institute include: Increased production of crude oil within the continental U.S. and Alaska will have little or no effect on crude oil prices, gasoline or diesel prices or U.S. energy independence. Converting to natural gas for transportation can make America energy independent (if done on a massive scale). The U.S. can be totally free of foreign oil outside of North America in five to ten years and keep trillions of dollars in circulation in the U.S. The U.S. can have hundreds of thousands of natural gas vehicles on the road in five years, a million natural gas vehicles on the road in ten years and millions more on the road in succeeding years. Converting to natural gas for transportation can create millions of jobs and benefit the environment. But it won’t happen because the petroleum industry and the U.S. Congress won’t let it happen, unless the American people make it happen. And the main reason the American people will not make it happen is lack of public awareness. The world is becoming more energy intensive as the industrial and computer revolutions evolve and as standards of living increase in many countries. Using natural gas as a transportation fuel is a substantial departure from an oil driven economy. The world markets for oil have become behemoth in size and exceedingly complex in scope. Supplies of natural gas are currently (summer of 2012) exceeding demand and are offering an attractive alternative as a fuel for transportation. The price of crude oil and petroleum products are determined by a number of factors. These factors include supply and demand, competition, trading in O que as pessoas acham de How America Can Stop Importing Foreign Oil & Those Preventing It From Happening	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1154
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The Agency operates across all areas of publishing from film, television and other media, Tesauro Gramática e Pontuação Ensino de Leitura e Fonética Interesse Juvenil-Oratória e Apresentação em Público Getting It Published - William Germano Getting It Published Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing RECENT BOOKS IN THE SERIES From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read BY KRISTEN GHODSEE (2016) The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself), Second Edition BY CAROL FISHER SALLER (2016) But Can I Start a Sentence with But ?: Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS EDITORIAL STAFF (2016) The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation BY BRYAN A. GARNER (2016) The Writer’s Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose BY HELEN SWORD (2016) The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers, Second Edition BY JANE E. 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Published 2016 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28137-7 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28140-7 (paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28154-4 (e-book) DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226281544.001.0001 A version of chapter 5, Your Proposal, appeared in the October 2000 issue of PMLA and appears here, with alterations, by permission of the Modern Language Association. Names: Germano, William P., 1950– author. Title: Getting it published : a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books / William Germano. Other titles: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing. Description: Third edition. \| Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. \| Series: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing \| "A version of chapter 5, Your Proposal, appeared in the October 2000 issue of PMLA and appears here, with alterations, by permission of the Modern Language Association." \| Includes bibliographical references and index. 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For Diane, who lives with books, and Christian, who has them all before him Preface to the Third Edition 2 What Do Publishers Do? 3 Writing the Manuscript 4 Selecting a Publisher 5 Your Proposal 6 What Editors Look For 7 Surviving the Review Process 8 What a Contract Means 9 Collections and Anthologies 10 Quotations, Pictures, and Other Headaches 11 How to Deliver a Manuscript 12 And Then What Happens to It 13 The Via Electronica 14 This Book—And the Next Afterword: Promoting Your Work For Further Reading If it’s possible to summarize what a book on scholarly publishing has to say to a reader it’s this single nugget: don’t just write about, write for. This is a truism in trade publishing. It would be difficult for any writer to pitch a book idea without a persuasive sense that there is a readership out there and that the readership will want what the writer has to offer. Getting It Published argues—if argument is needed—that scholarly manuscripts need readerships to become scholarly books. We scholars also need to write for. If you’re reading this you probably see yourself as both a scholar and a writer. If you don’t yet see yourself as a writer, it’s time to start. For the open secret of scholarly books is that publishers aim to publish writers. True, for the most part those writers happen to be scholars. There’s nothing coincidental about that. Almost every scholarly house has a few titles on its list that aren’t strictly works of scholarship, though those books are often aimed at scholarly readers. You’re a political scientist, but you might buy a popular guide to flowering plants, for example. But the thread that links the field guide to the groundbreaking political analysis of the death penalty in America is the writing that animates the ideas in both projects. As every teacher knows, it isn’t enough to have an idea if the idea can’t be expressed in ways others can understand. Publishers work that way, too. Much of what this book has to say asks you as a scholar and a writer to imagine yourself with a message—and a persuasive message—not merely as a very smart person who knows something. The gap between knowing and communicating doesn’t get narrower as we climb higher in the academic tree. If anything, it gets more complex, if not deeper and wider. One of the things academics are particularly good at is justifying their methods and theories, and that can extend to the presentation of ideas on the page, sometimes with less than happy results. We talk the talk of clarity quite a bit—in the classroom, at the editor’s desk, in reviewing our own work during the revision process—but there remains a core objective that enables the reader to come to the text: make it clear for someone other than yourself. Clarity, then, is a contingent idea, not an abstraction. You work for the reader when you write for the reader. The clarity in your writing is a function of the clarity of your communication with the reader. Getting It Published isn’t per se a book about how to write, but the process of preparing and guiding your work toward a good home with a publisher is very much bound up with ideas of clarity for. There’s a party game you may know in which one makes a fortune cookie’s predictions vaguely naughty by adding the words in bed to whatever the prediction may foresee ( You will have a pleasant surprise. You will meet the person of your dreams. Avoid conflicts today. ) A scholarly writer might indulge a less saucy version of this linguistic playfulness simply by adding for to a theory, a premise, a claim. "This book proposes a new theory of glaciations—for. . . ." "Understanding the temporality of medieval morality plays in light of Schimmelberg’s concept of kairotic displacement is of critical importance—for . . . . The work of primary school pedagogy in a time of fiscal crisis entails a wholesale rethinking of the premises of enabled teaching—for. . . ." The mechanism is artificial but its objective couldn’t be more alive. The best scholarly books know that for is the difference between a something that works—and works for the someone reading the book—and something that just lies there between covers. This is also—and inevitably—a book about writing. Why aren’t we as serious about writing as we are about getting published? Browse Amazon, your campus bookstore, or any surviving independents. Brick-and-mortar bookstores may be a shadow of their former selves, but the electronic bookshelf is crammed with guides for writers. Modes of bookselling have changed, but the genre continues to thrive: how to write your book (general, fiction, screenplay, murder mystery); how to write well (Strunk and White, as well as longer, college-style handbooks); and how to publish what it is you’ve written well (books on finding publishers and editors and agents, mainly for trade books). But graduate students, professors, and independent scholars have always needed something more. That more has and hasn’t changed, because the academy itself has and hasn’t changed. The book you’re holding dances on that edge. How to provide solid, useful publishing advice to scholars in an academic world that seems both frozen and fragmented? Both traditional and eager to embrace new needs and forms of knowledge as well as whatever the latest technologies have to offer? These days I’m an English professor and a dean, but for almost thirty years I worked in scholarly publishing, mainly as an editor helping writers get published, first at not-for-profit Columbia University Press, and then at Routledge, a commercial scholarly house now an imprint of Taylor and Francis. Most of my authors were scholars, but not all. Over the years, I’ve known and worked with many talented people in publishing, but from the authors themselves I’ve learned what no one else could teach. Each book is a puzzle an editor has to solve. If you can spend hours with pleasure over the Sunday crossword, you’ll have an idea what it’s like. Writing and professionalization remain enigmas for many present-day scholars, and this book is a modest attempt to help move those conversations forward. The conversations are not always easy, but for a scholar they are vital. Getting It Published—now in a third edition—has three goals: • to explain how publishers select manuscripts and publish them; • to help the serious writer best present her or his work so that its chances for acceptance will be significantly increased; and • to show how the process from submission to publication can be made to work, and work well, for both publisher and author. As we race ahead into an increasingly digital vision of scholarship, a writer might ask, Why bother with publishers at all? It’s not an unreasonable question, and it’s one this new edition takes on. The short answer is that universities still want books. The better answer is that the essence of a good scholarly book isn’t the paper, but the ideas, their shaping, the care with which they are curated, and the quality of the final product, whether it depends on wood fiber or an electronic circuit. Good publishers are good at this. The best publishers are even better. Getting It Published is intended for any writer of academic work or serious nonfiction who may be thinking about publishing a book for the first time, or the second, or the third. A graduate student or recent PhD will, I hope, find it useful, but it might just as easily interest anyone who has stumbled through book publication once already, disappointed and even mystified by the course of events. What went wrong? How can I keep that from happening a second time? Even the author whose publishing arrangements have been serene may find that this book will explain just what’s making that happy experience work. I hope, too, that it will be useful for the writer working on the fringe of the academy, that territory occupied by the country’s swelling army of part-time faculty. Since the last edition of this book, the digital revolution has roared ahead. A generation of scholars born in 1990 knows no other mode of intellectual life. The politics and economies of the academy have shifted in other ways, too. The university’s dependence on contingent labor makes it ever more difficult for part-time faculty to find or create the structure needed to sustain careful, extended work and bring it to publication. In many ways, this current edition is for them, the contingent faculty on whom the academy is betting a good part of its future. Finally, this book is for the independent writer who isn’t part of the academic community at all but wants to be published by a university press or other house best known for scholarly work. This new edition is further expanded to embrace more aspects of the digital, that now indispensable modifier giving new life to familiar academic nouns. This third edition incorporates some significant changes from its predecessor. It shifts the conversation to reflect how books (in the broadest sense) get published (in the broadest sense). Some things about it remain the same, though. You might consult Getting It Published piecemeal, thumbing through pages until you hit upon a familiar problem, or scroll through a digital edition until you find a passage that seems to be of use. Authors are impatient for information. Find what you need in the index and check out what this book can tell you about the reader’s report you’ve just received or what a first serial clause is. But I still believe that if you can take the time to read the book from start to finish you’ll get a much bigger picture—of what you will likely encounter, where the bear traps lie, and how the pieces fit together. You’ll also learn something about the business you are not in, but upon which an academic’s career in part depends. Getting It Published explains what makes scholarly publishing a business, because—as I will say repeatedly in what follows—whether the house in question is commercial or not-for-profit, it’s still a business. The shift to digital publishing is neither universal (there are still plenty of physical books) nor as complete an epistemological shift as emerging new formats and avenues might suggest. Historians of the book have taught us to distinguish the book (a matter of format) from the text (a sort of Platonic ideal of the book, or more simply the words and images of which the book is composed). Publishers deal with texts first and books second. As a business, book publishing isn’t for the faint of heart. Knowing more about what your publisher does isn’t simply a matter of making you a more cooperative author. It puts you in a better position to ask your publisher the right questions, and to know what you’re talking about when you do. Above all, this is a book to save you time. As any scholar knows, the clock ticks loud and fast. No writer wants to eat up months, even years, searching for a publisher. It’s my hope that Getting It Published will bring you—to borrow James Joyce’s expression—swift and secure flight. This book aims to help you find within your own work what you need to make a project take off. Or to put it another way, this book aims to be a book for. For you as the reader to make use of and, in a larger sense, for publishing, too. Academia is a complex ecosystem in which scholars and institutions, students and readers, editors and booksellers and marketers work to give ideas a public face. When you write for readers, you’re doing more than writing—you’re helping to sustain that ecology of ideas. That’s something worth working for, and worth writing for, too. It’s customary to thank people who encouraged a book along, even when they knew the author wouldn’t get it all right. Publishing friends gave me permission to think about writing this book. Diane Gibbons gave me permission to take time out of our lives to do it. Over the years, my extended support group has included Barbara Hanrahan, Bill Regier, Deirdre Mullane, Heidi Freund, Andrew Long, Bruce Robbins, and Edward Branigan. My agent, Tanya McKinnon, was an exemplary catalyst. These friends saved me from many missteps; the remaining ones are my own. At the University of Chicago Press, I have had the great good fortune to work with an outstanding team of publishing professionals. My first editor, Penny Kaiserlian, later director of the University of Virginia Press, commented on my original manuscript with care, enthusiasm, and speed. Her support of this project was invaluable to me. Paul Schellinger guided the second edition. My copy editor, Carol Fisher Saller, made this a better book in both of its first two editions, Mary Corrado in the third. Perry Cartwright offered hard-nosed advice on contracts and permissions. Randy Petilos offered the best of good-humored encouragement and technical guidance, too. For each of this book’s three editions, the Press has helped me by securing reports from outside readers. Their comments—both cautionary and supportive—are, I hope, reflected in the pages that follow. The world of permissions is always a moving target; I’m grateful for Susan Bielstein’s good aim and generous advice. There couldn’t be a third edition of this book if the sales and marketing teams at Chicago hadn’t believed in it the first time round. My thanks here to Carol Kasper, John Kessler, and Ellen Gibson. For this third edition, I need to express special thanks to Alan Thomas, who has bigger fish to fry than my project, but who has been able to clear his decks and help me in my small effort to untangle big knots. You need to publish. The first edition of Getting It Published began with that sentence. So let’s start with that assumption. Is it still true that you need to publish? There’s a lot of discussion on this point, and an endless supply of stories about authors who put their work online and find immediate feedback, or writers who blog and reach more people immediately than they might had they disseminated their work through a more traditional format. So why is traditional publishing still around? The question has never been more urgent, but perhaps never quite so misunderstood. The enthusiasm for what sounds like bypassing traditional scholarly publication venues is grounded on two conditions within contemporary intellectual life. First, the sheer potential of digital communication and the extraordinary acceleration in computing power (and simplified design and layout apps) make it appealing for any writer to try his or hand at writing, designing, and manufacturing his or her own book. Beautiful physical objects can be made without the intervention of a professional publishing house. The technology, in other words, has caught up with one facet of authorial desire. Second, academia is as subject to the currents of economic and professional unrest as any other segment of contemporary society. From Occupy to the growing crisis in adjunct academic labor, this moment is marked by a frustration and resistance to prevailing systems of authority and organization. Some of that frustration has touched the world of scholarly publishing. Why don’t I just post my beautifully designed book on my website and make it free to anyone who wants to see it? For some projects, that’s exactly the right decision. But there are two points to be made, one technical and the other political in the broadest sense. Designing something that looks wonderful isn’t a cakewalk. Maybe you can teach yourself how to do it, but you may need to pay a designer a hefty sum to to help you achieve your vision. The more important point, however, is that everything you really need from a publisher—a tough reading, suggestions for cutting and strengthening, the approval that puts your work among the select titles on that publisher’s list, the money to get your book to people who don’t otherwise wander eagerly to your own website—is out of reach. Self-publishing was once quirky or simply quaint. Now the term no longer seems quite right. Anyone can post anything—a blog, an essay, a booklength study—and, as is often the case, now repost something that has already had traditional, validated publication. Author A publishes an essay in a collection from a major university press and shortly thereafter posts the essay on the author’s own website. The boundaries between self and professional, between unsupported and externally validated, are increasingly slippery. They will become only more so. These confessions of ambiguity may not seem to help the beginning scholarly author, but they’re included here to provide a quick but hard-nosed look at the conditions within which an academic writer will ponder publication options. So here’s the fundamental reality: publishing in traditional forms from traditional venues is, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, still the critical way in which academic achievement and contribution are determined. In short, writers have never had more opportunities to send their words out into the world, or at least out into the world of the Internet. That’s good news for many kinds of writing and for many kinds of writers. But scholarly writers aren’t ordinary wordsmiths. They write with a particular purpose and under a particular set of rules. Write at home and post to your website, and you can make accessible to your readers your views on politics or literature or biotechnology. Some scholarly writers do just that. What motivates scholarly writers isn’t the opportunity to blog about Henry James or quarks or Coptic portraiture. Scholars write with more precision and with more precise intent: their work is rigorous and rigorously reviewed and then produced to the highest standards of scholarly publishing. Only then does the work of scholarship really enter the big academic conversation. That’s not to say that independently posted writing can’t be valuable, but there’s no mechanism to help the serious reader separate online wheat from online chaff. Scholars need publishers to do a lot of things—to help shape the structure that the ideas will take, and sometimes to help clarify the ideas themselves, to proclaim work loud and clear and to do it to the best and most interested audience possible, and to authenticate the scholars’ writing within the academic world. Blogs and websites are increasingly important augments to a published book, but the book remains the central means of connecting scholarly ideas to academic minds and scholars to the academy. Some of those books are physical, some are both digital and physical. Even where the digital edition is the primary text, a publisher will supply POD—print on demand—for those readers and collections who want the physical thing itself. Perhaps unreasonably, the academy looks differently at physical books than at digital books. And so for most of the narrative-driven scholarly fields—from literature to sociology, from anthropology to art history, and on through the Dewey classifications—it’s the physical book that still shines out as the proof of academic achievement. The Internet provides many forms of dissemination and access, and they can all look like forms of publishing. Do you blog? Is your blog simply your own site or do you blog for an organization or a publication that also has a print version? Many blogs are gorgeous things—sometimes more handsomely designed than many printed books. Blogs have the further advantage of offering images and links to video and audio and all the wonders the digital world can offer. For some writers (and anyone who blogs is a writer), a blog can feel like a digital homestead, a place to set up camp and declare it to be a space where your word rules. There are a lot of blogs. A lot. Somewhere in the nine figures, but no one is sure and the number is growing daily. How many academics blog? There aren’t reliable figures on this question either, but you can trawl the Internet and come across blogs on almost any conceivable subject, including topics that you might have thought appeal only to a handful of specialists. That’s the beauty of the Internet and of blogging. For some scholars, the blog is a short form—how short is up to the blogger—on issues broad or targeted. The focus of the blog is up to blogger, too. What gives the blog its panache—the immediacy of its arrival, its elasticity, the unpredictable nature of its content—points to the many ways in which a book is crucially different from a blog. First, a blog is designed to be as urgent as the day’s news or, with a longer period, a monthly magazine. Second, a blog needs followers. There’s a certain satisfaction in blogging—you get to see your ideas attractively laid out on screen and you can take pride in making your ideas available to anyone with access to a computer. Without a following, a blog doesn’t have readers. As a blogger myself for the Chronicle of Higher Education, I’ve certainly had the strange experience of wondering whether anyone has read me other than the handful of people who post comments. So I do what a writer has to do: I promote—softly—my blog on Twitter and Facebook. There at least I know I have followers who will see me calling attention to the blog’s existence. Do they read it? Some do. But the blog is a mayfly, or at least mine is. There’s another blog by someone else tomorrow, not to mention the millions of other blogs one might be reading. Blogging is short-form digital self-publishing. There are other forms of digital self-publishing, too. You might post online your scholarly essay on a newly discovered letter by Charles Dickens. With the speed of light your thoughts are up online to read—a year or more sooner than if you had published the essay in a scholarly journal, and about that long if the essay had been part of your forthcoming book on Dickens and his correspondents. But the millions of blogs in the online universe don’t offer the assurances and comparable permanence of book publication. What blogs are good at, books aren’t, and vice versa. You don’t need to choose between the two, and many writers don’t. For the scholar the opportunity to speak quickly and often less formally to an online following is an augment to the carefully considered, fully researched work destined for book publication. No one expects a full-dress bibliography and notes in a blog. Everyone expects it in a scholarly book. Blogs are short, fast, accessible. Scholarly books take the time necessary to consider difficult material and arguments of appropriate complexity. The academic world may send quick messages to intellectual partners throughout the blogosphere, but the real work of fine-tuning scholarly ideas is mainly done in journals and scholarly books. You can blog, and you can tweet, but you still need to publish. And there are editors—at university presses and other not-for-profit houses, at commercial scholarly publishers, even within large trade houses—who want to publish what you have to say. Chances are you’re already teaching at a college or university. Or you might be a graduate student looking ahead with more than a little anxiety. You might also be an independent scholar with a full-time job outside the academy and a wonderful project brewing on your dining room table. You all have one thing in common: You want to finish the book, get it accepted, and see it out in the world. How much of this is in your control? There’s no guarantee that what you’re writing is going to make it into book form, at least as you’ve first planned it. It may turn out that what you’ve got isn’t a book at all, but bits of several projects. Fortunately, getting it published doesn’t depend entirely on the whim of the gods. Start with these questions: Why did I write this book? Whom did I write it for? What part of my academic training explained how to get my book published? If you’re like most academic authors, you’ve never needed to ask the first question. What do you mean, ‘Why did I write this book?’ Isn’t it obvious? In one sense, it is. Your dissertation is your first book-length writing assignment. After that, you’re on your own. You know the drill: you need a book to get tenure, perhaps even to get a job, and in some cases even to get the interview. Book 2 should be in the works if you’re planning on sticking around. Writing books, after all, is what academics are expected to do. Whom did I write it for? It’s not a trick question. If you wrote it in the first place as a dissertation, you wrote it because it was a requirement. You wrote it for a committee. And you wrote it for yourself. It’s sometimes hard to keep in mind that any book you write is a book you’re writing for yourself. But it’s surely true that if you don’t believe in your book, nobody else will. Plenty of manuscripts are good enough to squeak by as dissertations, demonstrate research and analytical skills, and earn the student a PhD. But if a book’s going to work as a book, you need something that will be of value to others and yourself, something you’re proud of and want to share. You’re writing to share your ideas among a community. And there is a community of scholars. In the world of scholarly publishing, you’re writing for a definable readership. In fact, one of the things that make it possible for scholarly publishing to work is that your publisher can reach a very particular body of readers. I’ll talk more about this later in the book. But for now, the question Whom did I write it for? should conjure up a set of concentric circles, like ripples forming around the pebble you cast into a pool of water. The pebble is yourself and your book. The smallest circle is your most devoted readership. It’s a very small circle. It’s probably Mom, Uncle Al (who always thought you’d make a great teacher), and the twenty people you know will buy anything you write. (You’re wrong about this: Mom, Uncle Al, and those twenty people will probably expect free, inscribed copies of the book within hours of publication.) I call this your freebie readership. It’s not a reason for a publisher to give you a contract. Jack Miles, the award-winning author of God: A Biography and a former editor at the University of California Press, made what I think of as one of the savviest observations about scholarly writing. He said that a scholar wanting to write for a broader readership should aim to explain the subject to a scholar in another field. There’s an important distinction here. He’s not suggesting you dumb down your writing so that someone who’s never heard of Wittgenstein can read your book. He’s recommending that if you’d like to reach readers outside your field, imagine them as having some scholarly training, but not in your own department. The next, bigger circle is the core professional readership in your field. Writing on Wittgenstein? This circle is other people writing on Wittgenstein. Some are unpublished graduate students who need to keep up on the latest work just as they’re finishing their own. Here you’ll also find people who study Wittgenstein, or karl6steel In response to a review below, Germano also has a book on turning diss's into books; I'll read it soon. It's hard to know how to rate a book like this: I'm inclined to give it 5 stars if, and only if, my book, knock on wood, finds its home in every home, and adulation on every corner. Bits of the book are jarringly obsolete; references to the 'Net [sic: the word he wants is "Intertubes"], disks (including Zip disks), and uncertainty about the couthness of email abound. Hurrah for the precise map of the ideal inquiry letter, but for a book with so much (necessary, welcome) handholding, I'm a bit miffed about the omission of guidance on the line-spacing of the project description. No more than 5 pages, sure; but is that double or single spaced? I would recommend that all readers supplement it with anything by Lindsey Waters on the death of the monograph. Germano sniffs at proclamations of its death, but I still think Waters--or John Holbo for that matter--knows what's already arrived.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1155
__label__cc	0.612026	0.387974	The Effect of Self-Heating on the Modulation Characteristics of a Microdisk Laser Technical Physics Letters. 2020. Vol. 46. P. 515-519. Zhukov A. E., Moiseev E., Nadtochiy A., Kryzhanovskaya N., Kulagina M., Mintairov S., Kalyuzhnyi N., Zubov F., Maximov M. The operation speed of microdisk lasers with quantum dots working at room temperature without thermal stabilization has been experimentally examined, and the widest modulation bandwidth of microdisks with various diameters has been calculated. It was shown that taking into account the effect of self-heating of a microlaser at high bias currents, which is manifested in a decrease of the ultimate operation speed and in an increase in the current at which the widest modulation bandwidth is reached, enables a good description of the experimental data. The self-heating most strongly affects microlasers with a small diameter (less than 20 μm). Considerable attention has been given in recent years to microlasers based on microdisk and microring cavities with an active region based on quantum dots (QDs), which is due to the possibility of achieving small device sizes (down to 1 μm under optical pumping and to less than 10 μm under injection pumping [1]) and low threshold currents (250 A/cm2 at room temperature [2]) combined with the ease of fabrication of microlasers of this kind. There is no need to use distributed Bragg reflectors, current apertures, and multiple-stage lithography for fabricating these lasers, nor for epitaxial heterostructures similar to those in fabrication of stripe-contact lasers. One of the main proposed applications of microdisk lasers is optical data transmission to ultrashort distances and, in the limiting case, within an optoelectronic integrated circuit, including those based on silicon. Therefore, one of the most important device characteristics of a microdisk laser is modulation bandwidth f3 dB, defined as the frequency at which the efficiency of direct modulation decreases by 3 dB relative to its low-frequency value. The modulation frequency can be limited due to a multitude of factors [3], one of which is the increase in the temperature of a device through which a high-density electric current is passed. The self-heating phenomenon is characteristic to the greatest extent of lasers with small current flow area and, therefore, has been actively studied for vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, VCSELs [4, 5]. At the same time, the influence exerted by the self-heating on the high-frequency characteristics of microdisk lasers has not, to our knowledge, been studied [6, 7]. In the present study, we examine by comparing experimental data with results of a numerical simulation the relative contribution of the self-heating to the limitation of the maximum modulation frequency of injection-type microdisk lasers with QDs, which operate at room temperature without forced cooling. The experimental values of modulation bandwidth f3 dB reported in this Letter were determined from small-signal amplitude–frequency characteristic A(f) measured in the frequency range of 0.1–20 GHz at various bias currents. We analyzed the results obtained in studying microlasers with high-density (In,Ga)As QDs [8]. The microlasers were formed by deep etching of an epitaxial heterostructure, followed by fabrication of electrical contacts to the substrate and to the top of the cylindrical mesa. Microlasers of this kind currently demonstrate the widest modulation bandwidth exceeding 6 GHz [9], which made it possible to perform an optical data transmission at a rate of 10 Gb/s [10]. The microlaser parameters used in our calculations are listed in Table 1. The threshold current of the microdisk lasers under study is characterized by a two-component dependence on the microlaser diameter: the summand proportional to the device area can be associated with the recombination in the bulk of the active region, while the summand proportional to its perimeter may be connected with the surface recombination on the lateral walls. The K-factor shows no regular dependence on the microlaser diameter, in agreement with theoretical predictions [15]. According to these predictions, the diameter-dependent radiation loss caused by the cavity curvature becomes noticeable only when the cavity size is comparable with the emission wavelength. The nonlinear gain saturation coefficient is negligible, which is due to the low optical power of microdisk lasers. Research target: NanotechnologiesPhysics Priority areas: engineering science Full text (RIS, 2 Kb) Keywords: high-frequency modulationmicrolasersemiconductor laserquantum dots Publication based on the results of: Optoelectronic devices for optical interconnects and optical on-chip systems based on semiconductor nanomaterials(2020) Optoelectronic devices with active region based on InGaAs/GaAs quantum well dots Максимов М. В., Nadtochiy A., Zhukov A. E. In bk.: SPIE PHOTONICS EUROPE 2020 Biophotonics in Point-of-Care. Vol. 11361: Biophotonics in Point-of-Care. Bellingham: SPIE, 2020. P. 1135601-1135607. We report on broad-area lasers, mode-locked lasers (MLLs), and superluminescent light-emitting diodes (SLDs) based on a recently developed novel type of nanostructures that we refer to as quantum well-dots (QWDs). The QWDs are intermediate in properties between quantum wells and quantum dots and combine some useful properties of both. 1.08 μm InGaAs/GaAs QWDs broad area edge-emitting lasers based on coupled large optical cavity waveguides show high internal quantum efficiency of 92%, low internal loss of 0.9 cm-1 and material gain of ~1.1∙104 cm-1 per one QWD layer. CW output power of 14.2 W is demonstrated at room temperature. Superluminescent light-emitting diodes with one QWD layer in the active region exhibit stimulated emission spectra centered at 1050 nm with the maximal full width at half maximum of 36 nm and the output power of 17 mW. First results on mode-locked operation in QWD lasers are also presented. 2 mm long two-section devices demonstrate the pulse repetition rate of 19.3 GHz and the pulse duration of 3.5 ps. The width of the radio frequency spectrum is 0.2 MHz. Лазеры и микролазеры на основе квантовых точек Жуков А. Е. СПб.: ПОЛИТЕХ-ПРЕСС, 2019. SPIE PHOTONICS EUROPE 2020 Biophotonics in Point-of-Care Kryzhanovskaya N., Moiseev E., Максимов М. В. et al. Vol. 11361: Biophotonics in Point-of-Care. Bellingham: SPIE, 2020. Proceedings of the SPIE PHOTONICS EUROPE Conference on Biophotonics in Point-of-Care, 6-10 April 2020, Online Only, France. Proc. SPIE volume 11361 Added: Sep 21, 2020 Charge trapping in the system of interacting quantum dots Arseyev P., Mantsevich V., Maslova N. Solid State Communications. 2013. Vol. 168. P. 36-41. We analyzed the localized charge dynamics in the system of interacting single-level quantum dots (QDs) coupled to the continuous spectrum states in the presence of Coulomb interaction between electrons within the dots. Different dots geometry and initial charge configurations were considered. The analysis was performed by means of Heisenberg equations for localized electrons pair correlators. We revealed that charge trapping takes place for a wide range of system parameters and we suggested the QDs geometry for experimental observations of this phenomenon. We demonstrated significant suppression of Coulomb correlations with the increasing of QDs number. We found the appearance of several time scales with the strongly different relaxation rates for a wide range of the Coulomb interaction values. Non-stationary eﬀects in the coupled quantum dots inﬂuenced by the electron-phonon interaction Arseyev P., Mantsevich V., Maslova N. JETP Letters. 2013. Vol. 97. No. 6. P. 398-403. We demonstrated that electron-phonon interaction leads to the increasing of localized charge relaxation rate. We also found that several time scales with different relaxation rates appear in the system in the case of non-resonant tunneling between the dots. We revealed the formation of oscillations in the filling numbers time evolution caused by the emission and adsorption processes of phonons. Diode laser spectroscopy investigation of filaments in microwave plasma in dense gas Avetisov V. G., Gritsinin S. I., Khusnutdinov A. N. et al. In bk.: Proc. SPIE 1724, Tunable Diode Laser Applications (April 1, 1992). 1992. P. 301-311. The results of measurements of an electron density in a microwave plasma filament in dense gas (argon) are reported. The electron density has been determined on the basis of Stark broadening of lines detected in the absorption spectrum. A high-resolution spectrometer incorporating GaAlAs diode laser operating at 870 nm has been used to measure Stark broadening and shifts of the argon line. The electron density in the filament was found to increase from the initial level of 10 exp 12/cu cm to value n sub e greater than 10 exp 16/cu cm. The dependencies of the electron density on gas pressure and microwave power density are presented. Эталонные источники малоуровневого оптического излучения на основе нанотехнологий Булыгин Ф. В., Крутиков В. Н. Измерительная техника. 2013. № 1. С. 30-33. The problems of creation of a low intensity optical radiation signal standard sources based on the nanosized apertures and semiconductor quantum dots are considered. The use of technology of the focused ionic beam technology for isolation of a single quantum dot is offered suggested. All joint von Neumann measurements on a quantum state admit a quasi-classical probability model Elena R. Loubenets. quant-ph. arXiv. Cornell University, 2012. No. 1210.3270. Лекции по вариационному исчислению Перескоков А. В., Амосов А. А., Зубков П. В. М.: Издательский дом МЭИ, 2011. XXII научно-технический семинар. Научные материалы для обычной и атомной промышленности и электрической энергии. (Badania materialowe na potrzeby elektrowni konwencjonalnych I jadrowych oraz przemyslu energetycznego, XXII Seminarium naukowo techniczne, Poland, Zakopane, 17-19 czerwca, 2015 roku) Foreword: Fundamental Problems of High Temperature Superconductivity Sadovskii M. V., Pudalov V.M. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism. 2016. Vol. 29. No. 4. P. 1035-1036. Dynamics of the Davydov-Scott soliton with location or velocity mismatch of its high-frequency component Blyakhman L. G., Gromov E., Onosova I. V. et al. Physics Letters A. 2017. Vol. 381. No. 17. P. 1490-1492. The dynamics of a two-component Davydov-Scott (DS) soliton with a small mismatch of the initial location or velocity of the high-frequency (HF) component was investigated within the framework of the Zakharov-type system of two coupled equations for the HF and low-frequency (LF) fields. In this system, the HF field is described by the linear Schrödinger equation with the potential generated by the LF component varying in time and space. The LF component in this system is described by the Korteweg-de Vries equation with a term of quadratic influence of the HF field on the LF field. The frequency of the DS soliton`s component oscillation was found analytically using the balance equation. The perturbed DS soliton was shown to be stable. The analytical results were confirmed by numerical simulations. Kinetical processes in the non- equilibrium nitrogen-oxygen plasma// Kostinskiy A., Matveev A., Silakov V. Preprint IOFAN. PL. Gen. Phys. Insth, 1990. No. 87. Kinetical processes in the non- equilibrium nitrogen-oxygen plasma Upper bounds on violation of Bell-type inequalities by a multipartite quantum state Сборник трудов IV Международной конференции и молодёжной школы "Информационные технологии и нанотехнологии" (ИТНТ 2018) Самара: Предприятие "Новая техника", 2018. Radiation effects on spacecraft materials Novikov L., Mileev V., Voronina E. et al. Journal of Surface Investigation: X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques. 2009. Vol. 3. No. 2. P. 199-214. Radiation conditions are described for various space regions, radiation-induced effects in spacecraft materials and equipment components are considered and information on theoretical, computational, and experimental methods for studying radiation effects are presented. The peculiarities of radiation effects on nanostructures and some problems related to modeling and radiation testing of such structures are considered. Современные проблемы автоматизации расчётов надёжности Жаднов В. В., Жаднов И. В., Полесский С. Н. Надежность. 2007. № 2. С. 3-12. Communications in Computer and Information Science Dudin A. Vol. 356: Modern Probabilistic Methods for Analysis of Telecommunication Networks. Belorusian Winter Workshops in Queueing Theory, BWWQT 2013 . Heidelberg; NY; Dordrecht; L.: Springer, 2013. This volume presents new results in the study and optimization of information transmission models in telecommunication networks using different approaches, mainly based on theiries of queueing systems and queueing networks . Экологические риски в пригородных и межселенных территориях. Электронный атлас Гунько М., Зотова М., Кашницкий И. С. и др. М.: Институт географии РАН, 2013. Public sector e-innovations. E-government and its impact on corruption Proskuryakova L. N., Abdrakhmanova G., Pitlik H. Science, Technology and Innovation. WP BRP. Высшая школа экономики, 2013. No. 04/STI/2013. The paper aims at assessing indicators and individual elements of e-government of selected countries in 2009-2010, and the interrelation of e-government with corruption in the public sector. The authors explore possible causal and dependency relations of the established interlink between e-government and public sector corruption. Although it is universally acknowledged that corruption is an evil, there is much debate over which determinants of corruption are important. Using econometric analysis for sizeable country samples the authors verified the closeness of interrelation between e-government indicators and ICT Development Index indicators, such as online services quality and ICT usage, on one hand, and the level of perceived public sector corruption, on the other hand. The major research papers were analyzed, along with international rankings and databases of international organizations. Based on the analysis recommendations for overcoming international e-government measurement constraints are put forward, as well as suggestions for future studies of the topic. Альтернативные подходы к построению моделей измерительных приемников для виртуальных исследований в области ЭМС Лемешко Н. В., Захарова С. С. Труды Научно-исследовательского института радио. 2013. № 1. С. 40-45. Разработка методов и средств для проектных исследований надёжности радиоэлектронной аппаратуры Кн. 2: Разработка моделей надёжности для проектных исследований надёжности радиоэлектронной аппаратуры. М.: МИЭМ, 2010. Equal Weights Coauthorship Sharing and Shapley Value are Equivalent Karpov A. V. Science, Technology and Innovation. WP BRP. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 03. The publication credit allocation problem is one of the fundamental problems in bibliometrics. The solution of this problem provides the basis of further research. There are two solutions which do not require any additional information: equal weights measure and Shapley value. Until recently Shapley value is not used because of hardness of computing. The paper justifies the equal weights measure by showing equivalence with the Shapley value approach for sharing coauthors performance in specific games. Разработка модели фликерметра для вертуальных исследований кондуктивных помех в электросетях Захарова С. С., Лемешко Н. В. Труды Научно-исследовательского института радио. 2012. № 4. С. 48-54. Developing a statistical framework for the measurement of enabling technologies and their applications: draft guidelines for collecting and interpreting technology data Gokhberg L., Fursov K., Perani G. Working Party of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators. DSTI/EAS/STP/NESTI. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012. No. DSTI/EAS/STP/NESTI(2012)9/ANN1. The paper provides a number of proposed draft operational guidelines for technology measurement and includes a number of tentative technology definitions to be used for statistical purposes, principles for identification and classification of potentially growing technology areas, suggestions on the survey strategies and indicators. These are the key components of an internationally harmonized framework for collecting and interpreting technology data that would need to be further developed through a broader consultation process. A summary of definitions of technology already available in OECD manuals and the stocktaking results are provided in the Annex section.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1156
__label__wiki	0.752429	0.752429	search filter All ContentBy SocietyMineralogical Magazine Free Archive 'EMU Notes in Mineralogy' 'Special Interest Groups' 'Awards and Honours' 'Distinguished Lecturers' Research Article\| October 01, 2011 Bassoite, SrV3O7·4H2O, a new mineral from Molinello mine, Val Graveglia, eastern Liguria, Italy L. Bindi; L. Bindi Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione Mineralogia e Litologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy CNR – Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sezione di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy C. Carbone; C. Carbone * Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse, Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genova, Italy E-mail: carbone@dipteris.unige.it R. Cabella; R. Cabella G. Lucchetti Mineralogical Magazine (2011) 75 (5): 2677–2686. https://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2011.075.5.2677 L. Bindi, C. Carbone, R. Cabella, G. Lucchetti; Bassoite, SrV3O7·4H2O, a new mineral from Molinello mine, Val Graveglia, eastern Liguria, Italy. Mineralogical Magazine ; 75 (5): 2677–2686. doi: https://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2011.075.5.2677 Bassoite, ideally SrV3O7·4H2O, is a new mineral from the Molinello manganese mine, Val Graveglia, eastern Liguria, northern Apennines, Italy. It occurs as black euhedral to subhedral grains up to 400 μm across, closely associated with rhodonite, quartz and braunite. Bassoite is opaque with a sub-metallic lustre and a black streak. It is brittle and neither fracture nor cleavage was observed; the Vickers micro-hardness (VHN100) is 150 kg/mm2 (range 142–165; corresponding to a Mohs hardness of 4–4½). The calculated density is 2.940 g/cm3 (on the basis of the empirical formula and X-ray single-crystal data). Bassoite is weakly bireflectant and very weakly pleochroic from grey to a dark green. Internal reflections are absent. The mineral is anisotropic, without characteristic rotation tints. Reflectance percentages (Rmin and Rmax) for the four standard COM wavelengths are 18.5%, 19.0% (471.1 nm); 17.2%, 17.8% (548.3 nm); 16.8%, 17.5% (586.6 nm) and 16.2%, 16.8% (652.3 nm), respectively. Bassoite is monoclinic, space group P21/m, with unit-cell parameters: a = 5.313(3) Å, b = 10.495(3) Å, c = 8.568(4) Å, β = 91.14(5)°, V = 477.7(4) Å3, a:b:c = 0.506:1:0.816, and Z = 2. The crystal structure was refined to R1 = 0.0209 for 1148 reflections with Fo > 4σ(Fo) and it consists of layers of VO5 pyramids (with vanadium in the tetravalent state) pointing up and down alternately with Sr between the layers (in nine-fold coordination). The nine most intense X-ray powder-diffraction lines [d in Å (I/I0) (hkl)] are: 8.5663 (100) (001); 6.6363 (14) (011); 3.4399 (14) (⁠ ${\bar{1}}$ 21); 3.4049 (17) (121); 2.8339 (15) (⁠ 22); 2.7949 (11) (122); 2.6550 (15) (200); 2.6237 (11) (040) and 1.8666 (15) (240). Electron microprobe analyses produce a chemical formula (Sr0.97Ca0.02Na0.01)V3.00O7·4H2O, on the basis of Σ(Sr+Ca+Na) = 1, taking the results of the structure refinement into account. The presence of water molecules was confirmed by micro-Raman spectroscopy. The name honours Riccardo Basso (b. 1947), full professor of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the University of Genova. The new mineral and mineral name have been approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification, IMA (2011-028). MSGBI Member Sign In chain silicates Liguria Italy manganese ores Northern Apennines opaque minerals Raman spectra rhodonite group vanadates Molinello Mine Val Graveglia bassoite N43°45'00" - N44°40'00", E07°45'00" - E10°04'60" Copyright © 2021 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1159
__label__wiki	0.534592	0.534592	“Stop stigmatising failure and cut taxes” – Ernst & Young Jason Hesse - In advance of the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit in France this week, Ernst & Young has released a new report, Entrepreneurs Speak Out, looking at what is stopping entrepreneurs get started and build fast-growth businesses. While the UK is not a bad place to start up – it takes an average of 13 days, compared to 22 days in the G20 – access to funding remains difficult for 72 per cent of UK entrepreneurs. “Future business leaders are positive about the enterprise culture in the UK, but it’s clear there is a great deal of work necessary to ensure that the entrepreneurial culture reaches the levels enjoyed by the US, India and China,” says Bob Forsyth, head of UK SMEs at E&Y. “The continuing problems of bank lending, dismal IPO appetite, and insufficient tax incentives are limiting future growth, making it harder for entrepreneurs to invest and create jobs. There needs to be further support for SMEs looking to drive exports – the likely most powerful driver of UK business and employment success.” The report also highlights five key pillars to build a successful enterprise environment: 1. Construct a solid entrepreneurial culture – The report recommends further improvements to acknowledge entrepreneurs’ strong contribution to innovation and job creation, while creating a culture that does not stigmatise failure. 2. Education and training: a broader scope is needed – Entrepreneurship education should start as early as primary schools and continue through to universities and business schools, while it should also be supplied to those moving from corporate roles to their own ventures. 3. Access to funding: it is vital to tap into diverse sources – Access to funding continues to be the most significant challenge. While the gvernment should support bank lending for entrepreneurs, they may benefit from turning to other sources of funding for start-ups. Funding from venture capital for instance has increased by 62 per cent in terms of the sums of equity invested between 2005 and 2010. 4. Regulation and taxation: Good progress, but regulation can improve to encourage innovation. Less time is spent on tax issues than in other mature markets (110 hours per year) compared with the mature market average of 197 hours in 2011. The most impactful incentives are clearly targeted at encouraging innovation and ensuring the impact is regularly measured. 5. Coordinated support: time to team – Government agencies, business incubators, university resources and training programmes have clearly improved their level of support in the last five years. But entrepreneurs expect them to better coordinate their efforts to unlock greater entrepreneurial activity. They should particularly focus their support for young generations of entrepreneurs and to help them expand internationally. What would you say his holding back UK enterprise? Leave your comments below. Tagged Enterprise, Failure, News	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1169
__label__cc	0.682379	0.317621	North Manchester Real Estate Lawyers North Manchester Title Lawyers North Manchester Boundary Dispute Lawyers and North Manchester Title Attorneys Find the right Title & Boundary Dispute attorney in North Manchester, IN Title & Boundary Dispute Law in Indiana In a seemingly-ideal situation, the neighbors will choose to ignore this new revelation, and go on as they always have. Of course, this doesn't happen commonly, and might have consequences down the road, including title eventually changing to reflect the perceived property lines, without the choice of either neighbor. It's more commonly the case that one neighbor wants to maintain the current use of the land, property lines notwithstanding, while the other neighbor wants to enforce the property lines that are on record. This is because moving a property line necessarily expands the land of one neighbor, while shrinking the land of another. Obviously, the neighbor whose land would be shrunk will probably oppose any attempt to enforce the property lines. While the boundary disputes discussed above occur fairly regularly, they aren't the only type of land dispute that can happen in North Manchester, Indiana. There are also title disputes. These disagreements arise when it isn't clear who owns an entire parcel of land. There are many reasons why such confusion might arise, but a common one is failure to properly record a deed, or subsequent loss of a deed by the recording office. While normally innocent in origin, these disputes can also be the product of fraud. Sometimes, a landowner will sell his land to more than one person, with each buyer assuming that they are the only buyer. Having "sold" his land multiple times, the fraudster presumably flees the jurisdiction with his ill-gotten gains. This leaves the buyers to figure out who really owns the land that each of them thought they had just bought. Obviously, whoever loses this dispute will normally have to absorb the loss of the land's purchase price, if the fraudulent seller cannot be found. Possible Outcomes of Boundary and Title Disputes in North Manchester, Indiana Of course, there are plenty of reasons why a court might decide to enforce the property lines as the records indicate. If one neighbor knew about the discrepancy, and hid it from the other neighbor (presumably because the neighbor with the knowledge of the discrepancy benefited from it), a court will, of course, not reward this kind of dishonesty, and will decide against that neighbor. On the other hand, if the neighbor whose land would be expanded by enforcing the "real" property boundaries knew this fact, and took no action for many years, a court will probably not be receptive if he or she suddenly tries to enforce them. This is referred to as "sitting on one's rights," and courts will not reward this, either. If you have a legal right, you're expected to make efforts to vindicate it as soon as possible. If you don't, a court will basically say "I guess it wasn't that important to you if you waited 10 years to bring this to our attention. Next case." With title disputes (as opposed to the boundary disputes discussed above), a North Manchester, Indiana court has to determine who owns an entire parcel of land. There are some pretty complicated legal issues involved here. What Can A North Manchester, Indiana Attorney Do? Because of the high stakes, going it alone in a boundary or title dispute is rarely advisable. Therefore, it's almost always a good idea to get a good North Manchester, Indiana real estate attorney to help you with such legal problems. North Manchester Commercial Real Estate Attorneys North Manchester Construction Disputes Lawyers North Manchester Landlord & Tenant Attorneys North Manchester Buy or Sell a Home Lawyers North Manchester Condo & Co-Op Attorney North Manchester Foreclosure Lawyer North Manchester Mortgage Attorney North Manchester Zoning Lawyer in other Indiana cities and towns Title & Boundary Dispute Lawyers in Jeffersonville Title & Boundary Dispute Lawyers in Kokomo Title & Boundary Dispute Lawyers in Mooresville Title & Boundary Dispute Lawyers in Carmel Title & Boundary Dispute Lawyers in Angola Title & Boundary Dispute Lawyers in New Whiteland	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1170
__label__cc	0.658362	0.341638	Really Right Religion, Politics, and Culture: Explained and Defined Wall Street Worries: Looming Tech Bubble The big tech companies are collectively called FAANG What are FAANG Stocks? FAANG is an acronym for the market’s five most popular and best-performing tech stocks, namely Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet’s Google. FAANG was born out of the original acronym, FANG, which did not have Apple included when CNBC’s Jim Cramer coined the term. BREAKING DOWN FAANG Stocks Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Apple(AAPL), Netflix (NFLX), and Alphabet (GOOG) are the five technology giants trading publicly in the market today, as of 2017. Wall Street grouped these companies into one acronym to capture the collective impact that these companies have on the markets. As of Mar. 20, 2018, the market capitalization of these companies summed up to $472.38B + $760.36B + $888.66B + $136.92B +$757.54B = $3.015 trillion. FAANG Stocks Facebook no tangible value Apple overvalued and in real trouble Amazon has the most value of the five, partly due to diversity of products offered Netflix is in trouble due to Disney, CBS All Access, and other competitors coming on line in 2019 Google no tangible value Of the five FAANG members, Netflix is in the most immediate peril. First, Disney has announced that it plans to acquire most of the assets of 21st Century Fox. If the Justice Department approves the $52 billion deal, Disney would gain possession of the20th Century Fox film studio, including Fox Searchlight (which has produced Best Picture Oscar winners such as Slumdog Millionaire, Birdman, 12 Years a Slave, and The Shape of Water), the X-Men franchise, the FX and National Geographic cable channels, several regional sports networks, and the television production company that makes Modern Family and The Simpsons. The resulting conglomerate would own as much as 40 percent of the U.S. movie and television industries. Second, and more important, Disney is building a streaming product to deliver its content, old and newly acquired, directly to consumers—let’s call it Disneyflix. When it launches, in2019, it will include several exclusive series and every film in the Star Wars, Marvel Entertainment, Pixar Animation Studios, and Disney Animation universes. Disneyflix Is Coming. And Netflix Should Be Scared I have noticed a significant drop in content that I want to watch on Netflix in the last two years and much of its original content is brooding, dark, and often not suitable for watching with my family or purchased from overseas media companies—much of which is not available with English dubbed audio. At this point I would not miss it if we cancelled the streaming portion of their service. Folks Facebook and Google have virtually no assets. Facebook is not the destination of youth anymore and their political correctness is driving away current users or causing them to use it less. Part of the reason I opened the Facebook page for this blog is to test the limits of their AI algorithm. Folks, the danger facing tech companies is that in most cases they are one invention away from obsolescence. Facebook is a one note pony and the next big thing can relegate them to the dung heap of history. Can you say, “My Space”? Curiously, Microsoft—which currently has more value thanApple—is not listed. Microsoft has more value in terms of assets and revenue stream due to subscriptions and licensing agreements with enterprise customers and a diversity of other products. Besides the armchair analysis that I offer on this blog from my man-on-the-street perspective, professional observers are noting some cracks on the FAANG consortium. Forbes is asking if we are in the midst of another tech bubble. Forbes dives deep into the technical reasons that you should be concerned. Very few on trading desks remember the Tech crash of 2000. I remember it all too well after the partying of 1999: it was exhilarating (or painful if you were short) to watch the exponential rally in Tech and dotcom stocks in the last part of the 1990s. Then sentiment switched from “buy everything”, to “sell everything” almost overnight. In a span of a few weeks in 2000 the Tech sector came crashing down, hard. From the peak in the NASDAQ in the middle of March 2000 to the low in December 2000 the sector lost 50% in a brutal selloff. While it might be laughable to call for a correction of the same magnitude today, a few grey souls in the Tech industry who were around in 2000 and lost 80% of their net worth on paper have the following advice: don’t be greedy and take some gains off the table. So with an eye towards preserving capital let us look at some parallels between 2000 and today and see what rhymes and what doesn’t. Tech Crash Echo: It’s Beginning To Feel A Bit Like 2000 Folks another thing of concern is that in the last few weeks short term interest rates (two year) have now gone higher than ten year rates. This is not normal and should cause apprehension. Lastly, governments are considering more regulatory intervention in the tech sector due to privacy, security, and content concerns. Due to the interconnectedness of these companies, concerns are not just in the United States but the European Union and Australia just to name a few. Compliance will lead to more overhead and less profit for information centric companies. The “wild west” nature and openness of the Internet is facing challenges on many fronts. I do believe a correction is coming and in fact is long overdue. 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__label__wiki	0.705383	0.705383	Miami Marlins Owner, Baseball's Cronyism All-Star, Is Suing His Team's Own Fans Loria is determined to squeeze every last dollar out of any fan foolish enough to believe his promises. Eric Boehm \| 7.11.2017 5:15 PM Pedro Portal/ABACAUSA.COM/Newscom Major League Baseball's All-Star Game will be played Tuesday night in Marlins Park in Miami, a stadium that taxpayers built with more than $500 million. The main culprit in one of the worst stadium deals in American history—the stadium will actually cost more than $2.4 billion with interest by the time all the bonds are paid off sometime in the mid-2040s—is Marlins owner Jeff Loria. Loria's not yet done fleecing fans, though. On Monday, the Miami New Times reported that the Marlins are suing some of their very own fans in order to squeeze even more money out of them. "Loria's team is suing a fan named Kenneth Sack in Broward County to take a $725,000 building he owns in Oakland Park — all as part of the same ugly dispute that has led the team to sue at least nine season ticketholders and luxury-suite owners since 2003," the paper reports. A professional sports franchise suing its own fans seems like a pretty good way to drive away any potential future fans, but that logic only holds up as long as you assume that Jeff Loria cares what people think of him or his team. He's made clear that he does not. Loria bought into Major League Baseball in 1999 with a $12 million investment in the Montreal Expos. He flipped that ownership stake to take control of the Marlins in 2002. Now he is looking to sell the Miami franchise for as much as $1.7 billion—one potential buyer is former Florida governor Jeb(!) Bush, another is Ivanka Trump's father-in-law. Loria has done well for himself, but hasn't done much of anything for the team or its handfuls of fans. In return for having the public build a stadium for the team, Loria promised to open his wallet and spend enough money to turn the always-disappointing Marlins into a contender. He did that, for exactly one season. After a disappointing inaugural season in the new ballpark, Loria held a fire sale and traded away most of the team's top line talent. In 2012, when the Marlins opened their new park, the organization forced season ticket holders to sign multi-year, six-figure agreements. The team tossed in sweeteners like pre-game buffets and other perks. When the team tanked and many of the promised perks were withdrawn, at least nine of the season ticket holders who tried to get out of their commitments were sued, according to the New Times. "I don't understand why Major League Baseball continues to allow Jeffrey Loria to behave like this," says Daniel Rose, an attorney representing a former season ticketholder locked in a legal battle with the team told the paper. "At the end of the day, what is the motive to go after fans like this? It just shows their greed and a complete lack of respect for their fan base." One one hand, it's hard to be too sympathetic towards people who willingly signed a deal with a historically mismanaged franchise owned by one of the worst executives in professional sports. On the other hand, fuck Jeffrey Loria and his taxpayer-funded "festering, silver-plated pustule, a grotesquely huge can opener, or just an obscene ode to wasted cash," as the New Times once described Marlins Park. Loria schemed his way into a lucrative long-term investment, thanks in no small part to civic officials who bought Loria's sob stories of financial struggle. He and the rest of the Marlins' ownership claimed the club's financial records were "trade secrets" and said the team had lost money for years. When those top secret financial documents were leaked online in 2010—they revealed the team had turned tens of millions of dollars of profit every year, largely because of Major League Baseball's revenue sharing scheme. By putting a bare bones team on the field year after year, Loria spent less money than other owners and pocketed revenue Major League Baseball dictates must be shared among all the teams. That's a pretty good analogy for communism and ideology supposedly devoted to equality historically abused by unscrupulous, power-hungry individuals. Local officials made a half-hearted attempt to rescind the stadium deal after the financial documents leaked but gave up. Carlos Alvarez, the mayor who signed off on the deal, was recalled by voters. The Securities and Exchange Commission investigated Loria, but never took legal action against him. After fleecing taxpayers and suing fans, Loria is apparently determined to squeeze every last dollar out of any fan foolish enough to believe his promises. There's no doubt that, in a league full of crony capitalist owners, Loria is a true all-star. NEXT: The Senate Delays Summer Recess, South Korea Disses North's Missiles, and Brexit Sees Cost of Booze Go Up: P.M. Links Baseball Crony Capitalism Florida Bubba Jones July.11.2017 at 5:47 pm I assume these six figure agreements were for luxury boxes. RE: Miami Marlins Owner, Baseball’s Cronyism All-Star, Is Suing His Team’s Own Fans I’m sure this will ingratiate the fans toward Loria. Why is it millionaire and billionaire owners of sports teams expect their fans (and others) to pay for their stadiums? Scarecrow Repair & Chippering Because they have, the are, and they will. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting A lot of it boils down to civic insecurity–people are afraid they won’t be looked on as a “world-class city” if they lose one of their professional sports-ball teams. Having at least one is supposed to be a mark that you live in a city that matters. The media pushes this line of bullshit, too. Witness all the hand-wringing over Los Angeles not having a football team for 20+ years, yet these same writers shake their heads that St Louis and San Diego won’t need to waste billions on a Jerryworld-style sports palace. On the bright side – Loria is indirectly responsible for breaking the World Series curse of both the Red Sox and the Cubs. Without his cronyist crap of selling the Expos to the league and using the proceeds to buy the Marlins, John Henry doesn’t buy the Red Sox and the Yawkey Trust remains in charge and Theo Epstein remains a serf in some front office On the dark side – the league turned the Expos into the Nationals – in order to ensure that Congress can always be bought off and the anti-trust exemption can never be overturned – so 5000 or so minor leaguers will continue to play for a couple bucks an hour and taxpayers of even minor league towns will continue to get screwed by MLB owners/teams. On the hopefully bright side – Loria has certainly earned his place in at least six of the nine circles of hell. Rufus The Monocled July.11.2017 at 10:44 pm 1994 shafted the Expos. nrob July.12.2017 at 11:13 am After 1994 Loria and Montreal shafted the Expos. Quebec should get a second hockey team long, long before they ever get another baseball team. “I don’t understand why Major League Baseball continues to allow Jeffrey Loria to behave like this,” says Daniel Rose Because they don’t give a shit about their fans either? There’s nothing wrong with the professional sports leagues that some good old-fashioned franchise foldings wouldn’t fix. Unfortunately, the shitty teams are propped up by TV payouts so they don’t suffer the pitfalls of their mismanagement. The result has been a consolidation of top talent in a few select areas. Even the NFL with its strict salary cap is top-heavy–just about every AFC championship in the last 20 years or so has featured one or more of the following squads: Denver, Pittsburgh, New England, or Indianapolis. The NBA is limited to about 4 markets that players want to go. The American League East is fucking Boston and/or New York every damn year. creech Yet the worst team in MLB plays in the largest monopoly market. Some teams suck for years and then their high pick draft choices come through for them big time. Others use their high picks to acquire pitchers who are always on the DL or can’t get their curve ball to fool anyone higher than a Double A player. And what kind of luck gets the Damned Yankees to corral a rookie who looks like the next Hank Aaron? And what kind of luck gets the Damned Yankees to corral a rookie who looks like the next Hank Aaron? Just for kicks, I looked up Judge’s home/road splits–not that his power stats aren’t eye-popping, but 21 of his homers have come at Yankee Stadium, which is one of the most hitter-friendly parks in MLB. If he played for the Rockies instead of the Yankees, the media would be ragging on him for having Coors Field-inflated stats. Funny how that never applies to a stadium with one of the shortest fences in MLB. Sevo Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting\|7.11.17 @ 6:51PM\|# “There’s nothing wrong with the professional sports leagues that some good old-fashioned franchise foldings wouldn’t fix. Unfortunately, the shitty teams are propped up by TV payouts so they don’t suffer the pitfalls of their mismanagement.” There is a strange (to me) concept of “loyalty” among those in the ‘sportin life’; you’re not considered a “fan” unless you root for a team when it sucks. So that TV income you mention is just those who do exactly that, and if they choose to do so, I choose not to watch that sport when it’s the ‘usual suspects’ at playoff time. I live in SF and watch the 9ers when they play well. You can tell the advertisers haven’t been making money off of my eyes the last X years. Oh, and all the whining about Kaepernick? Pretty sure he’s not being ignored for his grand-standing; he’s being ignored because he stinks as a QB. Brady could probably go to NK and hug Young-un and still have a job. Marty Feldman's Eyes This is exactly the kinda guy that makes people want to eat the rich. I think most people, even all but the most hardcore progs, don’t mind someone doing doing well by being useful. But it’s people like this who don’t add one fucking atom of value to society, and throw in the stadium subsidies and he’s a net drag. This is the kind of guy that gives success and wealth a bad name. You can’t see California without…? Relatives of two Republican Presidents are prominent among the potential buyers of Loria’s team. What is wrong with this picture? The Clintons are too cheap? Longtobefree July.12.2017 at 7:53 am Lose the election, lose your revenue stream. Besides, too many deplorables in the stands of a baseball game. Imagine what the Miami franchise would be worth if relations with Cuba were normalized and the Havana “Sugar Kings” were awarded a NL franchise. Bill only slaps other men on the ass to tag them out of the orgy? gah87 Bread and circuses. Now, just circuses. Migrant Log Chipper Obama’s agent better get busy, good ol’ Mr. Influence won’t just peddle himself. my stepmum recently bought an awesome gold Hyundai Elantra Touring Hatchback by working parttime off of a pc online \|\|\| EARN MONEY JOB – scottmason in a league full of crony capitalist owners, Loria is a true all-star. bullet force multiplayer IceTrey Loria must be a fan of “The Producers”. Miami deserves this, to believe this assclown and not to factor in the very public and very known (and public) revenue sharing schemes of MLB…You are just sheep for Loria to sheer or devour. I’m really wondering what idiots or well bribed city officials agreed to this, especially after Montreal. jdgalt1 Who does this bozo think he is? Charlie O. 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__label__wiki	0.693313	0.693313	Listen Live MOR 101.9 Manila Video Streaming December 1, 2019 RadioOnlineNow Leave a comment MOR 101.9 Live! This Christmas make sure to tune in only to MOR 101.9 MANILA MOR1019.COM. Request your favorite songs, call your favorite DJs, and greet your family and friends. Other related news. It revolutionized music and introduced the concept of streaming, a different path for the sector already opened by Apple with iTunes a few years earlier. Spotify, the platform launched in Sweden on 10 October 2008 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon , who came from the tech world, is 10 years old . In addition to the convenience of accessing an infinite music library on the move and playing through playlists, Spotify has opened the great debate on the just compensation to the artists, with controversies and defections such as the strenuous one of Prince until he was alive. The company actually was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, the platform was developed and launched two years later. In the United States it arrived in 2011, in Italy in 2013. The intuition of Spotify was to take inspiration from the piracy and the Napster phenomenon, but to make the music legally accessible thanks to agreements with record companies. In short, he emphasized the importance of the concept of access against the concept of possession, always legal, brought forward by iTunes instead. And a series of competitors such as Deezer, YouTube Music and Amazon Music were born, while Apple with its music service is fighting hard, especially in the United States. Spotify currently has a community of 180 million users, of which 83 million pay a subscription, is present in 65 markets and has been listed on Wall Street for a few months. The method of listening in streaming has disrupted the music industry becoming a driving force for the growth of the sector which was given up for dead with only CDs. In Italy the hit parades also take into account artists’ paid streams. And the music streaming mode has also opened the doors to video streaming, another hen with the golden eggs of the big names in technology and more. Just mention Netflix. And the music streaming mode has also opened the doors to video streaming, another hen with the golden eggs of the big names in technology and more. Just mention Netflix. And the music streaming mode has also opened the doors to video streaming, another hen with the golden eggs of the big names in technology and more. Just mention Netflix. Spotify therefore offered musicians another chance to make money and also played the talent scout for the less famous ones. But not without controversy. For years, in fact, there has been a debate on the final compensation that comes to the artists for each song or disc put on streaming, judged to be too low. Controversy carried out by Thom Yorke of Radiohead (in alternate phases he then laid down his arms) and by Prince . The Minneapolis goblin was the most obstinate in rejecting Spotify and other forms of disclosure of its music on the Internet, a stubbornness sent off by its heirs. Another critique of the critics is the algorithm that chooses the songs for us, even for some types of playlists. A comfortable way of fruition, but judged passive. “There are debates on the earnings of musicians and on which artists they choose to promote but the free and total access of Spotify essentially makes the platform utopian”, observes the Guardian in the article with the emblematic title: “Ten years of Spotify have ruined music? “. Previous PostMiddleGame Ventures is a boost for fintech in Europe and North AmericaNext PostBillie Eilish Achieves Another Record for the Decade, Grats Girl!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1177
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__label__cc	0.562852	0.437148	Redshirts Always Die Star Trek: Prodigy Star Trek Fandom Pictured (l-r): Patrick Stewart as Picard; Jonathan Frakes as Riker of the the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: PICARD. Photo Cr: Trae Patton/CBS Â©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Throwback Thursday – Star Trek: Shore Leave (S1, Ep 17) by Chad Porto Star Trek: The Next Generation reboot could be next by Rachel Carrington Star Trek: Picard – Picard could return to Starfleet by Rachel Carrington 6 months ago Follow @rcarrington2004 Admiral Picard could have another place in Starfleet in Star Trek: Picard In the first season of Star Trek: Picard, Admiral Picard had to handle a critical situation without the help of Starfleet. In fact, they were quite insistent that he wasn’t a welcome addition to their ranks anymore. That was, of course, before Picard prevented the Romulans from destroying an entire planet of androids and exposed the Romulans inside Starfleet who were behind the plot. Granted, this series was always meant to be about Picard’s redemption, but he successfully achieved that in the first season, proving that he wasn’t just trying to be relevant. Starfleet clearly had egg on its face at the end of the ten-episode run. And with spies having been revealed, it stands to reason that Starfleet is going to need people it trusts to move forward. Picard has proven he has a right to that trust. Does this mean that he should return to Starfleet and forget about traveling the galaxy with the other members of his new crew? No, but there may still be a place for him, much like with Will Riker who remains in the reserves. With the ability to call on Starfleet as needed, Picard would have a better chance at destroying more evil and setting the planets that have gone astray back to rights. It’s doubtful Picard will ever return to Starfleet full-time, but he has earned a place in its hallowed halls and is more than just an admiral who was forced to retire. In fact, if would seem that Starfleet would want to listen to him after the major accomplishment from season one. While Picard will undoubtedly do things outside Starfleet regulations which would prevent him from being solely under its command, it would be nice for him to have a back-up if he were to ever need it. In season two, barring a return to Starfleet, Picard should at least have the right to ask for (and be given) help should he need it in the future. Next: Patrick Stewart was going to turn down Star Trek: Picard Redshirts Always Die 6 monthsStar Trek: The Next Generation reboot could be next Entertainment Weekly 9 monthsScarlett Johansson is back in black as Marvel's superspy 'Black Widow' Redshirts Always Die 6 monthsThrowback Thursday – Star Trek: Shore Leave (S1, Ep 17) Redshirts Always Die 6 monthsJames McAvoy wants in on playing Star Trek legend Jean-Luc Picard Redshirts Always Die 6 monthsStar Trek gives love to Star Trek: Voyager in their top ships list Star Trek news from FanSided Daily Your Star Trek. Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on Star Trek and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1192
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__label__cc	0.593294	0.406706	Cardinal Timothy Dolan in Rome before the conclave in Rome that elected Pope Francis. Bishop: Pope was 'on a high' during gay remarks By Daniel Burke, CNN (CNN) - The nation's leading Roman Catholic archbishop said Wednesday that Pope Francis was "on a high" from his first international trip as pontiff when he said "Who am I to judge?" gays and lesbians. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who traveled last week to Brazil with the pope for World Youth Day, said the massive turnout - estimates ran as high as 3 million - and ecstatic crowds likely gave Francis hope that he would "revive the church on his home continent of Latin America." Francis was the archbishop of Buenos Aires in Argentina from 1998 until his papal election in March. Filed under: Catholic Church • Gay rights • Homosexuality • Pope Francis What Reza Aslan actually says about Jesus By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN (CNN) - As you might have heard, Lauren Green at Fox didn’t do a very good job interviewing Reza Aslan on his new book about the historical Jesus. Instead of asking him about "Zealot," she asked him why, as a Muslim, he would presume to write a book about Jesus. He responded by citing (and re-citing) his academic credentials. The interview went viral, and Aslan went to No. 1 on Amazon.com (ahead of J. K. Rowling). But what does the book actually say? Here are seven of Aslan's key arguments in "Zealot": Stephen Prothero - CNN Belief Blog contributor Filed under: Books • Christianity • Islam • Jesus Why are millennials leaving church? Try atheism Opinion by Hemant Mehta, Special to CNN (CNN) - Articles and books about why millennials are leaving Christianity often focus on what churches are doing "wrong." They're anti-gay, anti-women, anti-science, anti-sex-education and anti-doubt, to name a few of the most common criticisms. I don't disagree with those critiques, but there's another side to the story. While Christians have played sloppy defense, secular Americans have been showing off some impressive offense, giving young Christians plenty of reasons to lose faith in organized religion. For instance, atheists dominate the Internet, rallying to thriving websites and online communities in lieu of physical meeting spaces. Even a writer for the evangelical magazine Relevant admitted that “While Christianity enjoys a robust online presence, the edge still seems to belong to its unbelievers.” Filed under: Atheism • Belief • Church • Culture & Science • Faith • Internet • Nones • Opinion • Science • United States Gay Catholic priest: Pope's words an 'invitation' Opinion by the Rev. Gary M. Meier, Special to CNN (CNN) - The question of today has been: What's my reaction to the pope’s statement regarding not judging gay priests? The answer: Cautiously optimistic. Optimistic because today’s statement comes after years of anti-gay rhetoric from the Catholic Church. In so many ways it is a breath of fresh air. Someone from the church hierarchy has finally said something about homosexuality that isn’t hostile, harmful, and anti-gay – and it was the pope! Filed under: Belief • Catholic Church • Christianity • Church • Gay rights • Homosexuality • Opinion • Pope Francis • United States Pope quotes take flight on social media By Kyle Almond, CNN (CNN) - Perhaps it's fitting that the pope's first news conference was held onboard an airplane. Since Monday morning his comments have soared around the globe at high speed. His remarks on homosexuality filled many Catholics with hope, especially those longing for the church to accept gays and lesbians more openly. But they also discouraged others, including those who believe the Catholic Church should ordain women. Some social media commenters said they were just plain confused. The pope was flying back from a weeklong visit to Brazil, his first international trip as pontiff, when he talked to reporters about a wide range of controversial topics. Filed under: Catholic Church • Gay rights • Homosexuality • Pope Francis • Women How Pope Francis is revolutionizing the church Opinion by the Rev. James Martin, special to CNN (CNN) - At times last week, I was dumbstruck and even in tears as I followed the coverage of Pope Francis' visit to Brazil for World Youth Day. Few things have filled me with more hope about my church than the pope's past few days. For what Francis did in Rio de Janeiro, and continues to do, represents some very positive change. Monday’s surprising interview aboard his plane back to Rome, during which, in response to a question about gays and gay priests, he said, in part, “Who am I to judge?” likewise shows an openness that borders on revolutionary. Filed under: Catholic Church • Church • Opinion • Pope Francis Pope on gays: A shift in tone, not substance By John L. Allen Jr., CNN (CNN) - Reaction to Pope Francis’ comments about not judging gays has broken along two lines: Either this is a groundbreaking reversal by the head of the Catholic Church, or it’s basically just a guy talking on a plane. The truth is, it’s neither. What it really amounts to is a significant shift in tone, though not in substance. Francis made the remark in the course of a free-wheeling, unscripted press conference at the end of his July 22-28 trip to Brazil for the Church’s “World Youth Day.” Among a wide variety of other points, he was asked about a so-called “gay lobby” in the Vatican. Filed under: Belief • Catholic Church • Gay marriage • Gay rights • Homosexuality • Pope Francis Pope Francis on gays: 'Who am I to judge?' By John L. Allen Jr. and Hada Messia, CNN Aboard the Papal Airplane (CNN) - Pope Francis said Monday that he will not "judge" gays and lesbians, including gay priests, signaling a shift from his predecessor and offering another sign that the new pope is committed to changing the church's approach to historically marginalized groups. “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Francis said in a wide-ranging news conference aboard the papal plane. Though he was answering a question about the so-called "gay lobby" at the Vatican, the pope indicated a change in tone, if not in teaching, in the church's stance towards gays and lesbians more generally. FULL POST Filed under: Abortion • Brazil • Catholic Church • Pope Francis • Vatican Hundreds of thousands crowd Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, waiting for Pope Francis to lead a worship service. Pope to Mass of millions: Get out of church By Eric Marrapodi and Miguel Marquez, CNN [twitter-follow screen_name='EricCNNBelief'] [twitter-follow screen_name='miguelmarquez'] Rio de Janeiro (CNN) - Pope Francis closed out World Youth Day with a final Mass before a giant crowd of millions on Copacabana Beach. "Go, do not be afraid, and serve," the pope told the crowd Sunday. Catholic pilgrims from around the world traveled to Brazil for the weeklong celebration and a chance to see the pontiff, whose visit was a shot in the arm for a church that has seen its share of scandal and troubles. Massive crowds followed Francis at every stop on the trip. Organizers and local officials said 1.5 million people came out for the Way of the Cross observance on Friday. The mayor's office in Rio said final estimates for a prayer vigil on Saturday could reach up to 3 million. On Sunday, the Vatican citing civil authorizes put the crowd for the final Mass over 3 million. Filed under: Americas • Brazil • Catholic Church • Christianity • Pope Francis • Vatican What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil Rio de Janeiro (CNN) - We didn’t need Pope Francis’ trip to Brazil this week to grasp that the new pontiff, who’s set a tone of simplicity and love for ordinary people, is a hit. Polls around the world show approval ratings that would be the envy of any politician or celebrity, while vast crowds show up in Rome for even his most routine activities. What Brazil confirmed, perhaps, is that his act plays as well on the road as at home. During his week in Brazil for World Youth Day, an international Catholic event, mob scenes erupted everywhere Francis went, despite cold temperatures and driving rain for much of the week. 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__label__wiki	0.888084	0.888084	India celebrates three years without polio Throughout India and around the world, Rotary clubs are celebrating a major milestone: India has gone three years without a new case of polio. The last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal on 13 January 2011. To mark this historic triumph, Rotary clubs illuminated landmarks and iconic structures throughout the country with four simple but powerful words, "India is polio free." The three-year achievement sets the stage for polio-free certification of the entire Southeast Asia region by the World Health Organization. The Indian government also plans to convene a polio summit in February to commemorate this victory in the global effort to eradicate polio. The challenge now is to replicate India's success in neighboring Pakistan, one of three remaining polio-endemic countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. Rotary leaders in India are working with their Pakistani counterparts to share best practices and lessons learned during India's successful anti-polio campaign. Rotary was particularly effective in obtaining the support of influential religious leaders in India's Islamic communities. Pakistani Rotary leaders are playing a similar role to counter rumors and misinformation about polio vaccinations that keep some Muslim parents from immunizing their children. Meanwhile, National Immunization Days continue in both countries. During these large-scale drives, Rotary volunteers join health workers to vaccinate every child under age five against polio. "We must now stop polio in Pakistan to both protect Pakistani children and to safeguard our success in India and other countries where we have beaten this terrible disease," says India PolioPlus Committee Chair Deepak Kapur. "Until polio is finally eradicated globally, all unvaccinated children will remain at risk of infection and paralysis, no matter where they live." Give to End Polio Now Read a blog post by former Rotary Foundation Trustee Ashok Mahajan on 20 years of fighting polio Read a New York Times interview with India PolioPlus Committee chair Deepak Kapur See a photo gallery of illuminated landmarks By Dan Nixon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1204
__label__wiki	0.677801	0.677801	Viewing Room Main Site ArtistsExhibitionsViewing RoomPublicationsEditorialVideoArt FairsNewsGalleryVisitSearch Zhao Zhao is one of China’s most interesting young contemporary artists. Living and working in Beijing, Zhao’s practice expresses a personal and bold reflexivity of the political unrest and contentions of a barred society. His paintings, sculptures and videos move beyond institutional and political critique, as they reveal something more provocative; the hushed realities grappled by his home country. As a former assistant to Ai Weiwei, ZhaoZhaois no stranger to complexities and set backs caused by political anxieties. Although of a different generation than his mentor,growing up in the post-Maoist era, Zhao too has experienced the tarrying consequences of revolutionary objectives first hand. Despite the many impediments regulated by the government, Zhao Zhao fervently continues to exquisitely deliver his radical concepts through art. The exhibition will feature a series of oil on canvas paintings based on Beijing’s notorious skies. Beijing’s environment and population have suffered from unregulated pollution that is ever generating record-breaking levels of toxicity and hazardous environmental and health concerns. These paintings depict skies that are neither airy nor bright, but opaque, tempestuous, and weighted by bellowing hues of oscillating darkness. The skies exist in a time indistinguishable from day and night, sumptuously delineating an asphyxiation of aeriform. Installation Views Thumbnails Selected Works Thumbnails Repetition, 2013/14 White marble, limestone, sandstone 39.37 x 39.37 x 39.37 in (100 x 100 x 100 cm) Sky No. 18, 2013/14 78.75 x 102.36 in (200 x 260 cm) Sky No. 1, 2014 39.37 x 39.37 in (100 x 100 cm) Sky No. 11, 2014 Repartee in the Year of the Green Wood Sheep: Ai Weiwei sits down with fellow Chinese artist Zhao Zhao in light of the Omnipresent Exhibition February 26, 2015 Zhao Zhao and I first met on November 27, 2004. We have known each other for more than 10 years. He graduated from the Xinjiang Arts Institute, one of the top eight art academies in China. The institute is something between a teaching university and an art academy: a comprehensive art school offering classes in fine art, broadcasting, dance, and music. Zhao Zhao began to learn painting at a young age at the Children’s Palace, which also offered sports and chess. View at flaunt.com Zhao Zhao Repetition from Roberts Projects on Vimeo. Culver City, California 90232 T +1 323.549.0223 info@robertsprojectsla.com Art Dealers Association of America Member Roberts Projects is committed to making its website accessible to all people, including individuals with disabilities. We are in the process of making sure our website complies with best practices and standards as defined by the Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. If you would like additional assistance or have accessibility concers, please contact us at 323.549.0223, info@robertsprojectsla.com. Artsy Artnet Ocula Artland Facebook Instagram Twitter Subscribe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1216
__label__cc	0.61773	0.38227	French toast recipe: How to make the classic french toast According to a collection of recipes from the early fifth century AD, the dish recognisable as French toast could have been around as early as the Roman Empire. The Roman style of French toast, called Pan Dulcis, would see the bread soaked in a milk and egg mixture before being fried in oil or butter. Others believe the concept of French toast was created by Medieval cooks in Europe, who would need to use up every last bit of food to feed their families. No matter who created French toast, everyone can agree it is delicious. Here’s how to make the classic French toast according to BBC Good Food. How to make the classic French toast The phrase French toast first appeared in the Encyclopaedia of American Food and Drink in 1871. It is known by a variety of other names including German toast, eggy bread, French-fried bread, gypsy toast, Poor Knights of Windsor, Spanish toast, nun’s toast, and pain perdu which means lost bread in French. The name pain perdu derives from when people, historically, made French toast from stale bread in order to make use of bread that would otherwise have been thrown away. In Scotland, French toast is traditionally served with sausage between two slices of French toast and eaten as a sandwich. Marks and Spencer launches first Cook With M&S Recipe Box for £32 For this recipe, you will need: 1 tsp vanilla extract or half a teaspoon of cinnamon 4 thick slices white bread 2tbsp butter Topping of your choice Gooseberry recipes: How to make gooseberry tart, crumble or fool In a wide dish, whisk the egg, milk and vanilla or cinnamon together. Coat one side of the bread slices in the liquid, then carefully flip them over and leave them to soak for one to two minutes. If the bread isn’t very fresh, you can leave it for a few more minutes. You want the eggy milk mixture to be absorbed into the bread, but not so much that it falls apart. Souffle recipe: How to make a hot chocolate souffle Nando’s recipe: How to make Nando’s spicy rice at home Royal recipe: How to make Meghan Markle’s favourite cake Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large non-stick pan over medium heat, and add two slices of the soaked bread. Cook for five minutes until golden. Turn the French toast on the other side and cook for another five minutes. Transfer to a plate and cook the other two slices in the rest of the butter. Cut the bread on the diagonal and divide between two plates, then add your toppings. A drizzle of honey or maple syrup works nicely, or a sprinkling of cinnamon mixed with sugar. Add some jam, fruit compote or a few slices of fresh fruit or berries to spruce up your toast. You can even turn it into a dessert by adding ice cream or creme fraiche. Enjoy! « Red wine vinegar cocktail 🍹 Long crispy balls of potato »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1221
__label__cc	0.667098	0.332902	The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara Yuliana, Yenny Djuardi, Taniawati Supali Department of Parasitology Pre Clinic Background: The mass administration of anthelmintic such as albendazole is one of the strategies for eliminating soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection. The widespread and long-term use of anthelmintics can cause resistance. The research on animals shows that factor that the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) codon 200 β-tubulin gene of the worms is one of the factors that can cause the decreased efficacy of anthelmintics. This study aimed to determine the bases of codon 200 in A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura, which infect the people in Nangapanda, East Nusa Tenggara. Methods: The worm samples were obtained from the intestinal helminth-infected patients from Nangapanda Sub-district. The DNA from the worm tissues were isolated, amplificated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and sequenced. The sequencing results were aligned to the reference sequence to obtain the codon bases in the 200 β-tubulin gene. Results: TTC constitute the codon bases in the 200 β-tubulin gene found in two A. lumbricoides and one T. trichiura. Conclusion: The SNP codon 200 β-tubulin gene was absent in A. lumbricoides or T. trichiura worms that were examined in this study. Medical Journal of Indonesia https://doi.org/10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935 Ascaris lumbricoides Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) codon 200 Trichuris trichiura β-tubulin gene 10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Trichuris Medicine & Life Sciences Ascaris lumbricoides Medicine & Life Sciences Tubulin Medicine & Life Sciences Codon Medicine & Life Sciences Anthelmintics Medicine & Life Sciences Helminths Medicine & Life Sciences Yuliana, Djuardi, Y., & Supali, T. (2018). The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara. Medical Journal of Indonesia, 27(4), 304-309. https://doi.org/10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935 Yuliana, ; Djuardi, Yenny ; Supali, Taniawati. / The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara. In: Medical Journal of Indonesia. 2018 ; Vol. 27, No. 4. pp. 304-309. @article{aa21022fcea8438ebff0e0b90bd5974d, title = "The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. 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The sequencing results were aligned to the reference sequence to obtain the codon bases in the 200 β-tubulin gene. Results: TTC constitute the codon bases in the 200 β-tubulin gene found in two A. lumbricoides and one T. trichiura. Conclusion: The SNP codon 200 β-tubulin gene was absent in A. lumbricoides or T. trichiura worms that were examined in this study.", keywords = "Ascaris lumbricoides, Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) codon 200, Trichuris trichiura, β-tubulin gene", author = "Yuliana and Yenny Djuardi and Taniawati Supali", doi = "10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935", journal = "Medical Journal of Indonesia", publisher = "Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia", Yuliana, , Djuardi, Y & Supali, T 2018, 'The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara', Medical Journal of Indonesia, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 304-309. https://doi.org/10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935 The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara. / Yuliana, ; Djuardi, Yenny; Supali, Taniawati. In: Medical Journal of Indonesia, Vol. 27, No. 4, 01.12.2018, p. 304-309. T1 - The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara AU - Yuliana, AU - Djuardi, Yenny AU - Supali, Taniawati N2 - Background: The mass administration of anthelmintic such as albendazole is one of the strategies for eliminating soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection. The widespread and long-term use of anthelmintics can cause resistance. The research on animals shows that factor that the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) codon 200 β-tubulin gene of the worms is one of the factors that can cause the decreased efficacy of anthelmintics. This study aimed to determine the bases of codon 200 in A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura, which infect the people in Nangapanda, East Nusa Tenggara. Methods: The worm samples were obtained from the intestinal helminth-infected patients from Nangapanda Sub-district. The DNA from the worm tissues were isolated, amplificated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and sequenced. The sequencing results were aligned to the reference sequence to obtain the codon bases in the 200 β-tubulin gene. Results: TTC constitute the codon bases in the 200 β-tubulin gene found in two A. lumbricoides and one T. trichiura. Conclusion: The SNP codon 200 β-tubulin gene was absent in A. lumbricoides or T. trichiura worms that were examined in this study. 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Results: TTC constitute the codon bases in the 200 β-tubulin gene found in two A. lumbricoides and one T. trichiura. Conclusion: The SNP codon 200 β-tubulin gene was absent in A. lumbricoides or T. trichiura worms that were examined in this study. KW - Ascaris lumbricoides KW - Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) codon 200 KW - Trichuris trichiura KW - β-tubulin gene U2 - 10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935 DO - 10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935 JO - Medical Journal of Indonesia JF - Medical Journal of Indonesia Yuliana , Djuardi Y, Supali T. The profile of codon 200 β-tubulin gene of ascaris lumbricoides l. And trichuris trichiura l. from infected people in nangapanda sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara. Medical Journal of Indonesia. 2018 Dec 1;27(4):304-309. https://doi.org/10.13181/mji.v27i4.1935	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1222
__label__wiki	0.984092	0.984092	The Routledge companion to philosophy and film Paisley Nathan LIVINGSTON (Editor), Carl PLANTINGA (Editor) Research output: Scholarly Books \| Reports \| Literary Works › Book (Editor) › Education The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The Companion features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts: issues and concepts authors and trends genres film as philosophy. Part one is a comprehensive section examining key concepts, including chapters on acting, censorship, character, depiction, ethics, genre, interpretation, narrative, reception and spectatorship and style. Part two covers authors and scholars of film and significant theories Part three examines genres such as documentary, experimental cinema, horror, comedy and tragedy. 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Part one is a comprehensive section examining key concepts, including chapters on acting, censorship, character, depiction, ethics, genre, interpretation, narrative, reception and spectatorship and style. Part two covers authors and scholars of film and significant theories Part three examines genres such as documentary, experimental cinema, horror, comedy and tragedy. Part four includes chapters on key directors such as Tarkovsky, Bergman and Terrence Malick and on particular films, including Memento . Each chapter includes a section of annotated further reading and is cross-referenced to related entries. AB - The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The Companion features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts: issues and concepts authors and trends genres film as philosophy. 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__label__cc	0.675587	0.324413	Home / Uncategorized / Twice Around The Clock: The Yanks At Le Mans Twice Around The Clock: The Yanks At Le Mans The Yanks at Le Mans is in stock! Author: Tim Considine Publication Date: February, 2019 Page Size: 9 x 11 inches Three volumes, hard cover in slipcase: Vol. I (1923-1959): 408 pages / 371 photographs Vol. II (1960-1969): 360 pages / 327 photographs Vol. III (1970-1979): 328 pages / 227 photographs Twice Around The Clock: The Yanks At Le Mans quantity SKU: THSB-Yanks Category: Uncategorized Tags: auto racing, book, classic car racing, Le Mans race, racing, tim considine, yanks at le mans Spectacularly illustrated and spanning from the first “Grand Prix d’Endurance de 24 Heures” in 1923 through 1979, Twice Around the Clock – The Yanks at Le Mans is told primarily from the point of view of America’s motorsports heroes, as much as possible in their own voices, from interviews conducted over 26 years. These personal stories are framed by a narrative to set the stage, year by year. Because it would be impossible to tell every participant’s story in detail, the depth of attention given is determined as much by entertainment value as historical importance. There are many books about Le Mans, good books, but they rightly concentrate on the races and results. Twice Around the Clock – The Yanks at Le Mans complements these accounts and adds to the body of history with untold personal stories of American drivers, team owners, mechanics and witnesses – like the American soldiers stationed in Europe who often ended up helping the teams. These volumes are about their experiences at Le Mans, on and off the track. And, oh, the stories! Frank, sometimes blunt, personal accounts make history human – and these volumes unique. Each is close to 120,000 words in length with 300-400 black and white and color images from around the world – many never seen before. While the narrative stresses the personal, there are many new details for aficionados; and for historians and academics, comprehensive appendices with complete statistical records for every American driver, car and engine ever to compete at la Sarthe, as well as citations for every quote. Be the first to review “Twice Around The Clock: The Yanks At Le Mans” Cancel reply You're viewing: Twice Around The Clock: The Yanks At Le Mans $350.00	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1225
__label__cc	0.554237	0.445763	The Shepherd's Hut “ I will never be able to unhear the voice of young Jaxie Clackton, plangent and profane, who is destined to become one of the greatest characters in Australian literature. ” “ A brilliant reminder that Winton is one of the world’s great living novelists. ” Ron Rash “ A richly compassionate work, deeply informed by Winton’s poetic genius. ” Alex Miller “ A masterpiece from a masterful storyteller. ” “ Seriously, it's incredible. ” Ben Quilty “ There is music in this brilliant and uncomfortable book . . . a landmark book in Winton’s career: austere, beautiful and compelling. It has a subtle moral clarity that stands out even in a career that has relentlessly searched for the gold hidden in human rubble . . . After three readings, The Shepherd’s Hut was still yielding the riches of its unblinking vision of hope, a vision that will renew readers for generations to come. ” Michael McGirr, The Age “ It's beyond belief sensational. It's so Australian you almost have to read it with your mouth shut in case the flies blow in. ” “ Even a regular Tim Winton novel – if such a thing exists – would knock most other novels into a cocked hat, but The Shepherd’s Hut is Winton at the top of his game, and that’s saying something. A fierce, pungent, slangy, humdinger of a book, with a real kick in the tail. Fiction doesn’t get much better than this. ” Rupert Thomson “ Jaxie is destined to be a new Aussie literary hero. Tim Winton is a modern-day master; he seems to be able to produce gem after gem that remain in the reader’s consciousness long after the last page. In Jaxie’s own words, ‘you know someone’s special when you never get enough of them. ” Scott Whitmont, Books & Publishing “ The most concentrated iteration yet of some of Winton’s enduring concerns. The relationship between sons and fathers, between young men and father figures . . . What is it, he asks, over and over, to be a man in the Australian context? And how is a masculine ideal transmitted between generations, or else corrupted in the passing on? . . . A story of self-discovery and adolescent adventure takes on the aspect of a drama of belief: belief in the possibility of human decency . . . If God is a verb, Winton tantalisingly suggests, we can be angels if we choose. ” Geordie Williamson, The Australian “ Shot through with the breathtaking evocation of landscape that is Winton’s forte, The Shepherd’s Hut is a hymn to the wild forces of nature and unsentimental belonging. Winton’s enviable ability to elicit passion for Jaxie through his immaculate, poetic and troubled rush of vernacular – no matter how terrible Jaxie’s actions – is broken, beautiful and ugly in all the best ways. ” “ The Shepherd’s Hut is wonderful. Brutal, agonising, tender. Ultimately, it’s a story of redemption and hope. ” “ In a lifetime of fine literary achievements The Shepherd’s Hut is likely to be recognized as one of Winton’s deepest and most memorable. ” Katharine England, The Advertiser (Adelaide) “ The closest thing [Winton] has written to a full-dress action-adventure thriller . . . A gritty tale of survival and almost biblical self-revelation . . . Twisted in all sorts of comic and sinister ways. ” The Saturday Paper “ The Shepherd’s Hut has a grittiness that fills your mouth, eyes and nostrils. This reviewer devoured it mostly in one sitting, but the story lingers on . . . A masterstroke. ” Shelley Hadfield, The Herald Sun “ Masterful . . . This book is set to be an Australian classic. . . We come to Tim Winton because there is always something true in what he writes – a truth that can’t be blurted out or rolled into a neat little aphorism, but has to be felt or experienced through the telling. He is Australia’s truth teller. ” John Purcell, nine.com.au “ Winton is such a master of voice . . . This is a very beautiful novel – a vision of the Incarnation set among samphire and saltbush. ” Richard King, The Monthly “ Tim Winton slots us right inside the volatile teenage brain of his narrator . . . This is freestyle, no-crash-helmet prose that is as refreshing as sincerity from a politician. ” Paul Robinson, Qantas Magazine “ [Winton] is a voice of sanity and his art is tuned to the possibility of care, even grace. ” The Weekend Australian “ A mournful and fast-paced journey into the life of a young man on his own . . . Winton’s novel is alive with pain and suffering, but it is also full of moments of grace and small acts of kindness. Gorgeously written and taut with eloquent, edgy suspense, Jaxie’s journey is a portrait of young manhood amidst extreme conditions, both inward and outward. ” Publisher's Weekly (starred review) “ Winton thrusts the reader into the barren and unforgiving salt land in western Australia . . . An absolute thrill to read. ” “ What a peculiar, disorientating and astonishing novel this is . . . [It] starts like an Australian version of Catcher in the Rye . . . By the end we are far more in Cormac McCarthy territory . . . The camber of the sentences becomes a wonder of its own. It is rare to say that nobody else could write a novel such as this . . . The book wheels, just as the moon does, through senses . . . It is clever, canny and complex . . . Then there is the question of the ending. You won’t see it coming. ” Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday “ Outstanding . . . Tim Winton strikes gold again in this tale of an Australian Huckleberry Finn . . . Compulsively suspenseful . . . Dazzlingly good at depicting [Jaxie’s] external world, the novel reveals his inner one with equally piercing lucidity . . . It’s as a finely nuanced picture of a damaged yet not defeated youngster nearing adulthood, along with sizzlingly rendered vistas of Western Australia, that this tour-de-force novel exerts its masterly grip. ” Peter Kemp, The Times (UK) “ Big themes – faith, salvation – and visionary splendour . . . A most enviable writer, both lauded and bestselling, Winton has a particular gift for making the vernacular lyrical . . . The setup is exhilarating, compelling: we are in Tim Winton country, and we are in for a ride. ” Rachel Seiffert, The Guardian (UK) “ Classic Winton. ” “ One of his best. ” Woman’s Day “ His nimble sentences wield an irresistible power that seems like literary legerdemain. Jaxie's peripatetic tale is harrowing, though humorous in places, and a coming of age saga like no other. ” Corey Mesler, Memphis Flyer “ An uncompromising novel that’s as tender as it is savage. ” Claire Allfree, Daily Mail “ Winton’s novel is layered, lyrical and intense. Its unforgettable young anti-hero tells his story in language as seared and salty as the Australian desert and the heartstopping climax had me feeling, to use one of his expressions, ‘like a possum chewing at a live power cord’. ” Neil Armstrong, Mail on Sunday “ Exploring ideas of masculinity, exile and hope, it is a wise novel, demonstrating Winton’s deep engagement with issues of moral complexity. ” Hannah Beckerman, The Observer “ Holden Caulfield, you have been eclipsed. ” Brian Martin, The Spectator (UK) “ It may be that this is his best book yet . . . Winton combines elements so imaginatively – and with such an unforced combination of the brutal and tender – that the result feels not only triumphantly good, but blisteringly original too. ” James Walton, The Times (UK) “ Tim Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut is a tour de force. Winton is one of the few writers I know who could carry off such a sustained vernacular performance. The voice of Jaxie Clackton is utterly authentic (sounds like the Tim Winton I heard twenty-five years ago), and his helter-skelter Bildungsroman is searing and morally confronting. Unforgettable fiction for exactly this moment. ” Morag Fraser, Australian Book Review “ I was reminded of laconic, unshockable Huck when I read Tim Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut . . . Jaxie’s capacity to trust is tested to the limit, as is the physical strength needed to survive in a harsh West Australian landscape. A powerful, haunting story. ” Brenda Niall, Australian Book Review “ A transfixing performance. It’s brutal and shocking in its subject, but if you write sentences with Winton’s musicality, inventiveness and vividness, any reader will stay with you. ” Philip Hensher, The Spectator (Aus) “ A miraculously assured combination of beguiling narrative voice, wild landscape, page-turning plot and characters that are simultaneously archetypal and utterly individual. ” James Walton, The Spectator (Aus) Tim Winton has published twenty-eight books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia. Imprint : Hamish Hamilton Author : Tim Winton	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1227
__label__cc	0.602468	0.397532	Kolhapuri Chappal Kolhapuri Chappal { Women } 85 Layers on layers stacked up..sewed with an old-school needle & a contemporary thread adapting new beliefs every second.. Kolhapuri footwear's brings out a very strong character of the people behind this classic piece of art.. bedecked with knots & leather straps.. the golden zari, the colorful threads... all adding up to the flavor kolhapuris are.. Product Code: 1451-KRKA-P-W-027 Made/ Mkt. By: Kolhapuri Chappal Box- L.W.H \| Wgt:0 x 0 x 0cm \| 0.5kg --- Please Select --- 10-US Size 9-US Size 8-US Size 7-US Size 6-US Size 12-US Size 11-US Size Tags:LeatherChappalKolhapuriFootwearHandmade Atop Sahyadri mountains withstands a beholder, all that need not come close… deceit and foul play of the theatrics around…. is silently swallowed by a carpet of white clouds floating right on top of the city… not to touch the little nail of his toe. This holy priest to-be is already in his warm red garb waiting for the rendezvous to begin… mornings are for prayers. A witness to the centuries gone by, these walls of Mahalaxmi temple of Kolhapur have stood like a calm listener awaiting stories that come by… as prayers sung by hissing winds and the parade of orchestrating birds. Dawn breaks free… the morning breeze, the flocks of birds leaving nests, the chanting of the priests, urging the city to wake up to the call, to drop the dark blanket they wore to slumber last night… that weighed them heavy… that has been dried by the gold of sun, delivering them naked and fresh again in the arms of mother earth. A rush of old beliefs & modern thoughts comes together towards the Western Ghats, where the city of Kolhapur awaits the results of this perfect blend. Also called the Dakshin Kashi of India, Kolapur is surrounded by lush green landscapes which house incredible archaeological & cultural heritage. Legend goes that the city was settled by Kolhasur, a demon who was later killed by Mahalakshmi to relieve the local populace. However, honoring the demon's dying wish, the city was named after him. The goddess of wealth and power, Devi Mahalaxmi's temple is located at the heart of the city. This temple is famous for its well known South Indian Architecture, built by Chalukya king Karndev in 634 AD. Kolhapur is one of the oldest civilizations of the country. In 1945, excavations on the Brahmapuri in Kolhapur have revealed the existence of an ancient town dating back to the Roman era. Its cultural history is dated back to 17th Century. The princely state has been ruled by different dynasties in the past, but it was under the rule of the Marathas that it became a cultural hub. Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaja is the architect and founder of modern Kolhapur. Shahu Maharaja's reign lent a progressive spirit to the city and the king extended his patronage to arts like theater, film making, music, painting, sculpture, wrestling and crafts like tanning and jewelry making. He was not among the male ancestors of this dynasty as he was born as the eldest son to Appasahed Ghatge, the Chief of Kagal on 26th June 1874 and was named as Yashwatrao Ghatge. In the year 1884, Rani Shrimant Anandibai Raje Saheb decided to adopt him and made him Chhatrapati of the princely state of Kolhapur. Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj ascended the throne of Kolhapur in 1894, bringing an end to the 50 year old regency administration. His reign of 28 years from 1894 to 1922 ushered a new era of social, cultural and economic reforms for which he is remembered as one of the greatest rulers in Maharashtra. After the reign of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, the Bhosale Dynasty continued on the Throne of Kolhapur. Taking birds on its way the wind reaches the floating river Panchganga to collect stories of the day. Birds sit afloat, soaking in their spongy under coat the flowing messages… what is it that the soil feels under so many stamping feet, the boulders grumble for a reason and the storms thunder not for no reason…. The cacophony of the charioteers trading their harvest and all this play happens in whose interest…The River questions the breeze “Why are you so late! I have thousands of things to share…” & the breeze starts collecting these messages rather quickly. A bag full of stories each bird becomes and flies towards the temple. The birds start to unfurl the messages & the wind binding them all together speaks up “I the morning breeze bring to you messages of the city as told to me by the river so mighty… ” The temple walls are all ears in delight... Overwhelmed with the response, the wind unfolds freely “Unfamiliar footsteps are climbing the rugged mountains in the dark hours, gracing the city with their unusual attire, bringing a strange aura with them. Carrying humongous sacks around with cattle, pulling carts full of goods; they are the Saudagars from different regions coming to the city, to make a living. After an overnight journey bruised feet often retire themselves by the banks of Panchganga waiting for the day to peep in. As the sun rises they make their way towards the bazaar again. The bazaar has hundreds of lanes where traders sit on either sides working out their way by selling off their goods to the customers. On the far end of the lane a young man sits... acknowledged by none he looks for an opportunity to run his livelihood. He gazes at bruised & bleeding feet walking past him & thinks to himself; “I can make something to ease their pain and also earn a penny for a change.” After researching for days he comes up with an idea of making a chappal (sandle), an acquaintance through the rocky mountains, saving the wearer from snakes & scorpions, 70 Vinchu seeds(Martynia annua or Devil’s claw seeds) he puts inside a single chappal and oils it with groundnut oil, giving them a crackling sound with every step …. This he believes will scare the insects around. These chappals are made with animal hide to beat the heat & also be water resistant at the same time. After thinking it thoroughly he set a small shop at roadside corner & in no time his chappals became the talk of the town & Saudagars from every corner started coming to him with personal demands to be incorporated in the design along with their customized foot size. The young man wonders to himself “Once a neglected no one, now people from every corner come to buy these chappals from me” & with that thought he gets back to making again....” To make a Kolhapuri Chappal craftsmen use many tools like Hammers of different sizes, Punches, Rappi (Knife), Sewing Machine. These chappals are made from processed leather. Mainly buffalo, goat or bull hides are used in the manufacturing of these. This leather is processed and grazed. The process of making the chappal starts with removing the hair from the hide. Salt & lime powder is mixed with water in a big tank & the hides are soaked in it for four days. As the skin becomes softer it is stitched with Sisal leaves into a bag form. Harada (Myrobalan fruits) pieces, Babul pieces with water are mixed in a wooden bucket called as Teep for about five days. This mixture is filled in the leather bag in the upper portion for about 7-8 days and further the mixture is filled to the lower portion and tied for about 8 days. The craftsmen prepare a surface of babul tree for drying the leather under the sun for 2-3 days & afterwards they are kept in storage. Leather is washed again to make it soft & simple tools are used to make it ever smoother. After a design & the size are finalized, the craftsmen use a stencil to mark the shape & size. Layers after layers are stacked together to prepare a sole, to bind those leather or cotton threads are used to stitch them together. After the sole is ready, the craftsmen proceed to make different types of decorative straps using soft leather stripes & punched leather pieces. These different types of knots & stitches are one of the main qualities of a Kholapuri chappal & sometimes local adhesives are also used to stick different parts. Lastly a shoe cream, a color mixed with little water is used to get a yellowish or reddish color. The straps are attached to the base part of the chappal & for ornamentation purpose different type of threads and zari are used. Named after the city, Kolhapuri chhapals have a very strong character, one that is easily identified by their aesthetics. Local craftsmen also have different names for these chappals; like Kapsae, Korwnda, Nachemaruie, Agutapata, ShahuMaharaj, Maherban, LadiesPaper etc. Predominantly crafted by the people from the lower caste, with time they have become a major identity of the city. The dusk approaches & it’s time for the wind to leave and the birds too should get back to their nests before it is too dark. “Many people in the city await my arrival” says the wanderer wind…. And heads straight to hit the highest gong in the temple premises…. & leaves the temple bewildered & awestruck! 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__label__cc	0.587177	0.412823	FIRST ON CNN: Iranian jets fire on U.S. drone Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf on November 1, the Pentagon disclosed on Thursday. The incident, reported first by CNN, raised fresh concerns within the Obama administration about Iranian military aggression in crucial Gulf oil shipping lanes. The drone was on routine maritime surveillance in international airspace east of Kuwait, 16 miles off the coast of Iran, U.S. officials said. The Predator was not hit. Also: U.S. adds to Iran sanctions "Our aircraft was never in Iranian airspace. It was always flying in international air space. The recognized limit is 12 nautical miles off the coast and we never entered the 12 nautical mile limit," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in responding to questions from reporters after CNN reported the incident. Little said the United States believed this was the first time an unmanned aircraft was shot at by the Iranians in international waters over the Gulf. In December of 2011, a U.S. surveillance drone crashed in eastern Iran. Iranians claimed to have shot it down, and created a toy model of the drone to celebrate its capture. Little stopped short of calling the incident an act of war although the Pentagon was concerned. Also: Obama faces world of challenges in second terms Two U.S. officials explained the jets were part of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps force, which has been more confrontational than regular Iranian military forces. At least two bursts of gunfire came from the Su-25s' cannons. The drone started to move away but the Iranian aircraft chased it, doing aerial loops around it before breaking away and returning to Iran. The Obama administration did not disclose the incident before the presidential election, but three senior officials confirmed the details to CNN on Thursday. They declined to be identified because of sensitive intelligence matters surrounding the matter. The drone's still and video cameras captured the incident showing two Su-25s approaching the Predator and firing onboard guns. The Iranian pilots continued to fire shots that went beneath the Predator but were never successful in hitting it, according to the officials. U.S. military intelligence analysts are still not sure if the Iranian pilots simply were unable to hit the drone due to lack of combat skill, or whether they deliberately were missing and had no intention of bringing it down. But as one of the officials said, "it doesn't matter, they fired on us." Little said the United States has to assume Iran was trying to bring down the Predator. The United States protested the incident but had not heard back from Iran. Iran has, at other times, been confrontational in the region. In January, the U.S. military and coast guard had close encounters with Iranian Navy vessels which approached at high speeds and exhibited provocative behavior. Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, declined to say whether his country knew about the incident before Pentagon officials Filed under: drones • FIRST ON CNN/EXCLUSIVE • Iran • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps im not agreeing or disagreeing with anyone, but there is an old saying if you want peace, prepare for war Janko Svarc Exactly. Apparently, that's what the Iranians are doing: preparing for WAR. Protocol 7,para3. – UNIVERSAL WAR. " We must be in a position to respond to every act of oppsition by war with the neighbours of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbours should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war. 4.- The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings : the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat." – (Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion). ronald vegliano JUST EAT MORE BOSTON BAKED BEANS ! ! ! U S A #1 U S A 😀 US sends drone to spy on Iran, as it has done continuously for years, no doubt collecting targeting data to assist in US/Israeli attack on Iran. Iran reportedly fires at drone gathering targeting data to assist US in bombing Iran. US astonished at Iran’s “aggression” toward US drone gathering intelligence to assist a US attack on Iran. “‘There is absolutely no precedence for this,’ [Pentagon spokesman George] Little said. ‘This is the first time that a (drone) has been fired upon to our knowledge by Iranian aircraft.’” US shocked that the Iranians would have the gall to respond to US hostile gestures in the region. Oh but it was in international waters! Imagine the US response to an Iranian drone operating in international Gulf of Mexico waters off of Florida. Dave, you thoughts on the drone attacks within the sovereign nation of Pakistan killing innocent Pakis thus becoming nothing more than a Taliban recruitment tool? magicbeans Last week there was a Russian Nuke Sub 200 miles off our shores. How did we react to it? derekS I would actually support Obama if he simply to Iran, im coming for a week. Then do it. Fly Air Force 1 rt on in there . There would be big ceremony. Go see the country and its people. Force the public on both sides to befriend each other. I spent 2 yrs in iran yrs ago, and people are people. They are very nice and kind. Most americans would be surprised. sasafar After 911 the Iranian people spontaneoulsy gathered for a candlelight vigil, everywhere else in the mideast, people celebrated....ill never forget that Um I think the problem is they want to wipe Israel off the map and have a nuke. While we are being forced to befriend eachother how would you have the President handle this situation with Israel? Would you simply say hey whateer just leave us out of it were buds now. Or would you orce Iran to befriend Israel too. Brilliamt foreign policy you have there how come no one else has already thought about doing this? Ajibola Aries Certain things are sometimes better left alone. This is just one of them. I believe the Iranians only tried to bluf and knew the implications of actually bringing down the drone. And even if it was a failed attempt to bring down the drone, it's better the Americans allow the matter to lie low and pass because the consequences of aggravating it is not in anybody's best interest. I wonder if Iran going around and using drone within international water near USA I bet they will destroy anything flying by that's how paranoia americans are So who gave the right to be there in the first place why are american using such a spying toy going around oh we are in international water we didn't get further than that damn cry me river go back near your own border you will be fine eville11 USA would jam its cameras and sat feed. and send it back in the direction it came from. Zak, hey stupid, Israel just shot down an Iranian drone, except it was in Israeli airspace. What is it with you liberals who always, ALWAYS blame the USA first, but when your butt is in a sling look for the USA for help. allenwoll IRAN is IRRELEVANT ! ! ! . Cool it ! ! UNTIL THEY GET A NUKE If two Iranian SU-25s couldn't shoot down an unarmed, subsonic drone, there's not much worry about the iranian Air Force. Amerika be warned your power is declining. Remember what candi Rice said during the GOP convention... you cant lead from behind. And your enemies are sure to test you when you show weakness. Iranian firing missiles on americas drone in an unprovoke attack? Interesting .. Could this have happen under Walker Bush. They wouldnt even dare. But now they becos you have a leader who dont understand what power is Fluck The US terror drones that kill innocent civilians thousands of miles away from any US territory are a constant act of aggression. Most of the world thinks these disgusting American war crimes are worse than any of the lies CNN regurgitates from Fox News about Iran. Everyone that doesn't live in the USA would rather see Iran "win" rather than the USA starting world war 3 and killing another million innocent civilians in Iran, like you did in Iraq. November 9, 2012 at 6:07 am \| Donna Noe @ Bourne. Please stop writing if you can't write proper English. You seem to be quite ignorant of US military power. We could blow Iran of the face of the earth with the push of a button. Although, most Americans, including me, have the hope of world peace. No one said fired missile just fired they probably just fired with guns not missile and because a drone is small it is hard to hit it without missile Hands Handley Nonsense. You can certainly lock on to a Predator with either infrared or radar... but there is absolutely no reason to waste an expensive missile because drones are slow and can't jink. Shooting one down with the gun is like strafing trucks. Don't kid yourself. ralphgmiami-NYC Religion will be taxed because all of the false ones are responsible for war. CTA Kedzie More sabre-rattling! A nuclear armed Iran is no threat to the US. It's no threat to Europe. It's certainly no threat to Israel, including the Palestinians, Arabs, Persians and Muslims living in and near it that Iran has no desire to harm. Furthermore, Iran's leadership certainly does not want to be vaporized at the hands of western forces; how embarrassing that would be. And the theocracy Iran's leadership controls and maintains provides them with a cushy life. They have no desire to chuck it down the gutter. But of course, this is just stating the obvious. Critical thinkers know that the real reason the US opposes a nuclear armed Iran is because it levels the playing field. The US/West has been invading, occupying and stripping away natural resources in the Middle East for well over a century now. Ever since Britain realized the advantages of creating an Israeli state, the west has had a permanent base in the Middle East to prop up its interests. But today the west shudders in fear as non-western players become more powerful in our increasingly globalized world, including ones that aren't willing to bend over backward for Western imperialism. Now Iran probably will be bombed, innocent citizens there will be killed, but this doesn't change anything for the West. The hegemony is coming to an end. No amount of fear mongering, bombing or "freedom spreading" will change this reality. It might delay it, but it won't change it. you really are a moron...Stop drinking the kool aid schoenleber Back up your ad-hominem attack! Why don't you use your ideas to communicate your opinion? Or is that asking to much of you? IMO Kedzie nailed it on the head! The only suicidal thing for the Iranians to do, would be to NOT secure a nuclear weapon. We have thousands, and Israel has hundreds, so why should we go to war with Iran for securing peace of mind for themselves?? LOL! - BarachObama, is that you again?! Don't you have a country to run? For the POTUS to post anonymously on the CNN security blog is a waste of time. Another round of golf instead maybe? Easy answer dumba$$es just like the US Iran declares a 200 mile limit of oceanic flight space and that puts the drone well within the Iranian airspace. Gary D. ...This article leads us to the logical question... WHY did we NOT blast their SU-25 out of the sky if they were firing at us?! WHY did we allow them to take pot shots at the drone?! Their plane should be sitting on the bottom of the gulf right now. vicmvn Fire with what? with the drone? think before you talk/write! Possibly because the drone was unarmed and therefore unable to shoot back. We should correct this by installing Sidewinder or Stinger missiles on the drones. You already did that in 1988, killing 190 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 Besides, it's called the Persian Gulf, not the American Gulf, so why are the Americans there in the first place. How would your military act if Iran would decided to patrol the American coastline? Why are we there, you say??? Well, if you read anything besides the politico drole from CNN, you would have read that the U.S. Military was doing excercises in the Persian Gulf, and the drone was observing those said excercises..... November 9, 2012 at 12:48 pm \| acrscout This type of action is typical of Obama, Iran commits and act of war in international airspace and Obama wants to have a discussion, but if an American citizen questions Obama's motives in passage of a law which infringes on our rights, that citizens gets a visit from the Secret Service with a warning to "Watch What You Say and Keep Quiet". thedarkelf Well another in the growing list of countries and people who threaten America and its people. And Osorry has done little to deter any further actions by these enemies of America. That's the good thing about drones. You have no pilot to retrieve and don't have to do something quickly over a few bucks worth of hardware. yhhb Do u really think that they wanted to down that and coudlnt make it? Tahi Iran took a pot shot at an unarmed computer so the American Taliban want to roll out the nukes and kill millions. Who are the extremists again?. Jannai America is the root of all terror. America has invaded sixty country since world war 2. In 1953 America overthrow Iran's democratic government and installed a brutal dictator Shah. America helped Shah of Iran to establish secret police and killed thousands of Iranian people. During Iran-Iraq war evil America supported Suddam Hossain and killed millions of Iranian people. In 1989, America shot down Iran's civilian air plane, killing 290 people. In 2003,America invaded Iraq and killed 1,000,000+ innocent Iraqi people and 4,000,000+ Iraqi people were displaced. Now America is a failed state with huge debt. Its debt will be 22 trillion by 2015. Islam is in war with world. So Iranian jets spotted drone 12 miles away??? And they fired on drone from 12 miles??? Gal Lore I cannot believe that Obama actually celebrated his election "victory" as 61% of white Americans did not vote for him–an amazing statistic. I find your sour-grapes lightly veiled racist rant amusing. Perhaps you, Donald Trump, Ted Nugent and Victoria Jackson should have a pity party with plenty of assault rifles fired into the air (watch for those shells falling back to earth) and showing off your birth certificates and college transcripts (what a rave) 🙂 It takes an ignorant person to make a comment like yours. If whites are losing influence it's because they don't study and work as hard as others these days. Perhaps you should pray more? More educated people overwhelmingly voted for Obama. Whatever the colour. Just sayin... Anyway I post this because any of this "white" business drives me nuts and doesn't make any sense. I'm a white Canadian living in Africa, btw. Tameka Jones You aren't Canadian if you live in Africa idiot. Oh lets put a red leaf on our flag because we love leaves. STFU Thomas. OBAMA 2016!!! Nothing to see here. The US won't retaliate on something so trivial. NoConfusion More war propaganda from CNN. "Iran has, at other times, been confrontational in the region." Iran has been confrontational? Are you effin kidding me? Sanctions, scientists murdered, factories blownup and cyber attacks are all things that have happened to Iran yet cnn calls them confrontational. What a joke! If cnn had any honesty they would state we are pushing war in syria and iran. Remember "Syrian Danny"? HCMC_MCPO Why are you backing the terrorists? If you are, that means you are also a terrorist and deserve to be strangled with a pigs intestines and drown in pigs blood with the rest of the sand monkeys! Jannai go farm some more dirt! What would US do if Iranian made drone flying around Atlantic INTERNATIONAL water just 16 nautical miles from NY? The Atlantic coast is not the busiest oil shipping lane in the world and we are not threatening to mine it. The US Air Force would have seen it as target practice, Jenny, Jenny. Strange Why does Iranian sent Su-25 which is ground attack aircraft against drone. Stupid Yankees again making propaganda against a nation who resists. Morons if they really wanted to bring that drone down they would have sent interceptor like F-7, Mig-29 or F-14. Where is your facts that the US killed 1 million Iraqis. You're a fool if you believe that propaganda. http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ approximately 120k deaths have occurred since 2003 and that includes sectarian violence. They're killed each other at a much higher rater than coalition forces did. The "1,000,000 dead Iraqis" propaganda was originated in Hollywood, (See the movie Air Force One) U.S. forces in all military operations have killed fewer not counting those engaging in hostile actions against U.S. forces) Iraqi citizens than Saddam did during his reign of terror or the radical Islamists and their IEDs. rhondajo3 "First on CNN"?? Are you serious??? Foxnews has been posting this ALL DAY! The big question is ... why are we JUST NOW being confronted with this attack, even tho it happened last week, before the election?? OOOHHH YEA, Odumma didn't want anyone to find out about it before the elections. So much for transparency! Nothing is ever reported straight away by the news. You should notice that by now. Some things take months to make it there. Congress and to speak on this between themselves, and decide whether or not to release this to the public. And even then, they had to have anonymous sources tell them the information. Information can be deadly in the wrong hands, and the government was trying to forstall chaos. If they announced with no preparation that a plane had been fired upon, they could have been pushed into stupid choices without time to think it over clearly. Steventate Yea, like when Bin Laden was killed it took the administration a whole 3 hours to report the incident... This administration is so easy to read it isn't funny! November 9, 2012 at 1:06 pm \| You sheeple make my head hurt The fact that you have mentioned FOXNEWS as if it is some kind of credible news source... Blows my mind. You're shocked that you're only just hearing about this? PAH-Lease, how ill-informed and uneducated can you be? (oh, that's right, you watch foxnews) You still think you are told about everything that go's on? This is fear mongering at it's finest! Typical america! With regards to this attack, ever maybe question why they might attack a drone? Could it possibly be that you americans may have possibly been firing drone missiles at them, killing their innocent men, women and children? No, of course not! They don't show that on fox news! And as for transparency, to think there is any transparency within your government, or any other government for that matter...is laughable! Oh, and the nonsense about before/after the election, the election was just an elaborate circus, politics in america and around the world are a joke! Wake up and smell the BS. I envy your ignorance, i hear that it's bliss! The first sentence you read I presume told you that we were told about his after the election not before when it actually happened. But you think you are reading a legitimate news source. Sheeple? Look in the mirror. November 9, 2012 at 11:45 am \| CNN has to be the most misinformed news agency out there. Allow me to correct CNN's lazy journalism. The SU-25 is a Soviet ground attack aircraft that was meant to support Soviet ground troops. Its air to air capability is virtually nonexistent as it only has autocannons meant to shoot ground targets. It is old and sluggish and easily outmaneuvred. It would be like sending an A-10 Warthog to engage an enemy aircraft. This was simple harassment and a warning by Iran, nothing more. If they really wanted to shoot down a UAV, they could have easily done so. It's a publicity stunt. CNN reporting at its worst again. Did you fire all your experts or is Tes Turner making you stir the pot again in favor of Israel? joeyselene Could you post it one more time...I'm not sure I read it all Jannai, Sounds like you are publicly speaking treason. Do you know what that means? A-10's have been reported of shooting down plenty of other planes in combat. The A-10 is a much more modern and capable aircraft than the SU-25. It was a bad analogy but the only one a non-military person would understand Chris Redfiled Joe true SU-25 is a Soviet ground attack aircraft, I think guys in pentagon (must be republican supporters) trying to to drum war drums loudly. Because they no one in US will question them. Although they aren't fighters, Frogfoots are more than capable of downing a subsonic aircraft, because like the A-10, they can carry air-to-air missiles on the external hardpoints. If the Su-25s where armed with R-60s and never fired them, it may give an indication as to what Iranian intentions were. The administration is paying CNN and CBS back by offering exclusive information in exchange for helping him spread bias lies about Romney. Republicans will never forget what the liberal media did and if you think we will work with the democrats – you're wrong. God, Country, and my Values will be spilled on the battlefield before I compromise with the liberal party that wants to take them away. Lol!....this is a great way to attack Obama! What President in history has ever told you what they were going to do when in office and they did it? Now let's be honest! Obama hasnt done any worse than any other President.....and as much s@#t the last President left us in, it will take bout four to six years to clean that up! Stop hatin! Stop Obama-bashing, and try to help instead of pointing fingers! This is the great USA and if you think this would have made a difference with the election results....then I have some beach front property in Arizona I wanna sell you! Wake up and get real! ROMNEY LOSS because he loss! And if you dont like it, live with it! If we went to war over this, where would this put our country with our debt issues....then you be blaming Obama for that too! It doesnt matter what he does you haters will find a reason to hate! Wake up and appreciate the great country you live in! Shut up stupid. "At least two bursts of gunfire came from the Su-25s' cannons. The drone started to move away but the Iranian aircraft chased it, doing aerial loops around it before breaking away and returning to Iran." Haha, the Iranians were just having fun with the American drones, lil burst of gunfire and then sweeping around it making it to turn away The SU-25 is an ground attack craft like the A-10 The Iranians won't send a tankbuster to destroy a flying target, their not stupid. CNN first to propagate another BS excuse for more military action. This is another WMD fog pulled over your eyes. My big brother though smarter and significantly stronger made bad decisions as well. These cats can't even drop a drone.....what are we all shuck about? Sheepville USA. Really? What kind of crack are you smoking? Your numbers are not even close to factual. Go back under whatever you came from and remember that Allah is pork eating donkey. Dear God, they fired on an aircraft that had no business being there! Waste of taxpayer dollars. Four more years of the same garbage, thanks Dems and Repubs. twalk GWB admin did the same thing with drones...lol You all are too funny! You Obama haters!...still sore Romney lost huh? Well, if you dont like it here, take you azz somewhere else! See how long it take you to realize how good you have it over here! And just a reminder....Obama is your President for another four! bribarian NO thanks zi0nists, no more wars for us OlderButWiser Question. If an F-22 Raptor is flying over California and is ordered to shoot down an Iranian fighter jet that just took off from Iran what does the U.S. pilot do? Answer. It fires a middle that travels to Iran and hits the target. You think an f22 has missiles that can reach Iran from california? Great Imagination. Pilot will pass out with lack of Oxyzen and plane will crash. Pilot will pass out with lack of Oxygen and plane will crash. CNN trying to bait us into a War with Iran Cn=Chinaman DKid Don't worry...Iran might try and get us to engage but, we have a spineless empty chair person in DC Darklighter Oh, so you WANT another war is that it? What is it with you war mongering far right extremists? Haven't you caused enough pain and suffering as it is? When will you warmongers be satisfied? When the world is in flames? I say, HELL NO to that. Gee I wonder what the engineers at Area 51 are working on now? Can't be radium tipped tank shells they already did that. Can't be stealth they already did that. Can't be the Space Fence they already did that. Can't be Drones they already did that. Can't be laser weapons they already have done that. Can't be a robotic satellite destruction Space Plane they already did that. It has been reported they are building Flying Saucers. So it can't be that. Maybe they are working on a fully operational Space Placed Battle Station. You know one of those humongous round things that destroys entire planets. Or maybe a "Clone Army." God those American engineers are so imaginative. Iranian scientists? They are trying to figure out how to build a nuclear weapon. Damn a 14 year old American high school student built one of those after researching it at a library. Of course it didn't have any plutonium in it but they said if it had it would have been a fully functional bomb. Well, duh. That's kind of the hardest part, isn't it? Obtaining enough fissionable materials is incredibly hard, and trying to enrich enough Uranium (refining the U235 out of naturally occuring 238) is an incredibly complicated and dangerous operation. CLAUDIO NATANIEL HIMES CASTILLO CNM. ESPAÑOL P.S. Which is the only nation on this earth that has a Top Secret Space Plane in space who's only purpose is to take out enemy satellites? Which is the only nation on this earth that knows the exact location of every earth launched satellite in orbit. And that includes space junk. Oh that would be the United States. CaptAm Visa denied? smarterthanu Just because you're an anti-American pig doesn't mean you need to spew your hatred. Graeme Bregani It doesn't mean he's wrong either. So this happens a week ago and we're only finding out about it now? And they don't release it before the election? The whole thing smells if you ask me. rossko no no you misunderstand – this is the most trasnparent administration in history (somebody find out who posted that and silence them now!) – I like how now the obasher admin now has "fresh concerns" – what about the nuclear bomb they've been building for 4 years while obama is out apologizing for us brutish americans? Michael Lina Ok for one its a gray area whether it is an act of war due to the fact that the equipment does not have a service member involved. If there was then yes definitely the US Military will retaliate. For those people who always so fast to say lets pull the trigger does not think and uses their feelings to cloud their personal judgement. I fought in OIF and its not like a gangsta movie where you decide to just shoot ppl up like call of duty. Military Operations are very delicate and decisions are sensitive. Idc who the president is he/she would not execute military operations over a skirmish like this. Its not worth the lives or the money to do it. Also for you people who bash on Obama being the president I totally feel sorry for you because every comment i read about anti Obama sounds more of hatred because he's not white. Whether you like or not we go up or go down together so if you wanna bash on someone you should look at yourself in the mirror before you say uneducated things. You guys all talk like you know what to do or have backed it up before. half of you commentators havent even seen war or death. Have you ever seen your friend get blown up and you have to pick up his body parts with a shovel? No! so stfu! Actually, I opposed Obama because I disagree with his policies and actions, and do not like his failure to fulfill almost any of the major promises he gave the first time around. I feel sorry for him to be honest, look at all the crap he just inherited. But of coruse now I'm a racist, in your eyes. Who's the ignorant one now? And what about the fact that he hid this from the public until after he was re-elected? An American aircraft was fired upon multiple times, and he 100% hid it from the public until after elections. How are you going to back up your 'only apposed by people who are racists' argument now? grasp at any hypothetical straw you want. Romney lost the election, deal with it. jookie remember, you had a democratic president , with a sitting congress mostly republican. They blocked many attempts of his to get bills passed. Typical.People tend to forget the small stuff when they are trying to push their agendas on others. Thank you. I bet not a single one of these warmongerers would volunteer to go fight in Iran. They just want to satisfy their bloodlust via fox news segments. And what about the fact that he hid this from the public until after he was re-elected? An American aircraft was fired upon multiple times, and he 100% hid it from the public until after elections. How are you going to back up your 'only apposed by people who are racists' argument now?. Ok first tell me one policy that persuaded you to vote for Mitt Romney? Then I wanna hear what ppl actually think about what you sed. Another thing even if it was told during the elections do you really think people would have voted for Romney instead? Will it really affect the outcome? I hardly doubt it! The electoral votes Obama won is by a landslide. If it was a football game Romney would have gotten embarrassed. Bottom line is idc who won the presidency cos I would support him regardless and not complain on CNN on the negative things you feel about him. Aww that's cute, you both assume I support mitt Romney just because I don't support Obama. I think they are both poor choices for president, and did not vote for either one. And I'm not the one that brought up the election in this. Then why are you complaining? tell me bro? what you mad about? Well, someone's maturity level just dropped a few points. I'm not the one complaining. I simply answered his accusation that everyone who was against Obama did so over some misguided racism. I corrected him on that point. I see no complaining here. yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh! sure bro! Didn't say you supported Romney specifically. I said you were grasping at hypothetical straws. You told me, and I quote, "Romney lost. Deal with it." and I don't see any hypothetical straws here. Romney did lose. He was the only candidate that had a chance. You oppose Obama. Therefor you have to 'deal with it' (Obama winning) when Romney loses. Well in that case, saying obama lost, deal with it would have made a lot more sense to type. You may not have said it specifically, but it was implied. For all of those Americans recommending going to war, are you planning on going? Are you planning on sending your family members to go? Just curious. I know too many Americans eager to go to war, but not willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. It's like Mitt Romney and his wife suggesting that he and their sons doing missionary work for their church is comparable to serving this country as part of the military. I can assure you isn't. I've had family members serve this country and go to war. Stop making it seem like it's no big deal to jump into a war. The Iranians are total cowards for firing on an unarmed drone! maias "The Iranians are total cowards for firing on an unarmed drone!" And based on this, what's your opinion of the crew of the USS Vincennes which shot down Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian jet airliner, on 3 July 1988 as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the Iran–Iraq War while flying in Iranian airspace over Iran's territorial waters? All 290 onboard including 66 children and 16 crew perished. I'm sure the Iranians have upgraded their rules of engagement since then. Actually, I would prefer that drones fight it out. Drone vs Drone. Burstbubble I agree with you that serving as a missionary is nothing like serving the military. Serving the military a family member can loose their life. I doubt the risk would be that high in serving as a missionary. When an Iranian pilot takes on a U.S, Naval or Air Force pilot let me know. Muslim dictators have sent up only two jet fighters in all the conflicts since the invasion of Kuwait. Both were immediately shot down. In every conflict after that the Muslim kept their jets on the ground, in bunkers or buried in the sand. A fighter jet is useless without a well trained pilot at it's controls and the Muslim dictators don't have any combat trained pilots. Muslim "Pilots" are terrified of U.S. pilots and Israeli pilots. They prefer not to ever face them. Bottom line a jet is like a gun. It's easy to target shoot when the target is not shooting back at you. Very true Olderbudweiser! Which makes me wonder our politicians bother selling these warplanes to the dictators when we know they are only used against the dictators' own people – e.g. in Sudan. Such brave pilots when they are shooting up women in villages made of mud and thatch houses! It's an act of war. What's Obama gonna do? Nothing! Of course he will do nothing and that's why Iran danced in the street and continue to spit in the eye of US. Obama scares NOBODY...our military is still strong but, for how long w/him in office??! Because wasting money and lives over a robot would be stupid. It's an act of war when an unarmed drone is fired on by Iranians, but not an act of war when Israel attacks the USS Liberty and machine guns the life boats to try to ensure there are no witnesses? Was it an act of war when the USS Vincenes shot down an Iranian civilain passenger space which was in Iranian air space at the time? Lee Churchill You mean, Iran hasn't already fired on our spy drones? I mean how dare they (sarcasm). Another CNN exclusive. But barely newsworthy. Sorry CNN. Dasea Don't be fooled Obama. This is DoD posturing in front of another round under the scalpel early Q1 appropriations. I expect an all out assault against good sense after a Romney defeat. You are doing good. 4 more years sounds great. These guys need to find 100 million in reoccurring annual spending to keep us afloat and they know it. Ease up on Iran. Take the lead, and save us money on defense. B4Freedom2 Too bad the sources who uncovered all those military absentee ballots and were so skillful as to even find the soldier who signed for them, couldn't have focused their attention on the gulf back on Nov. 1st when the Iranians disrespected our drone and the administration twisted arms to keep this horrific blemish on american pride from being revealed. We would all have voted for Romney if we had only known the truth and then demanded the death of 1000 Iranians to restore that drones and our honor. Honor? Can't see any from here. Crinko Why do people such as the commenters here, think there is any legitimate reporting coming out of the pop news, pop media establishment ? Why would you expect anything other than a political agenda ? Why ? And yet another act of war goes unanswered ! Go figure this country used to stand its ground used to Reticuli An armed Predator drone meant for ground attack would actually have an easier time shooting down a Su-25 than an old Su-25 would have trying to shoot down a drone. Sort of laughable. I guess this really does mean selling them all those F-14s (a total mantenance nightmare and with a lack of spare parts on the open maket) was a smart idea. These were warning shots. The idea that Iranians would actually try to shot down that drone and fail is absurd. zarrar Another rubbish from the fascist Americans. Shah was a perfect man for Iran and Iranians, although President Carter helped Islamic revolutionaries take the power and overthrown the Shah. this is a conditioned to admire ...the 3rd world war... this is a bogus .inorder again to attack iran and killed innocent civilliands.. american are the terrorist evil Stumpie Now is a good time to shut your pie-hole. Semper Fi! Obama is a Jew pawn. He will instigate the next great war. Xairesephos You're a bigot. What was an American plane doing near Iran border. would You like if Chinese drones come so close to USA border in say Newyork or San francisco?. USA should stay out of wars in all parts of the world. It was in international airspace you idiot. government cheese This happened on Nov. 1. Why the delay? I bet you have a theory. Perhaps a conspiracy theory? Things move slow in towelheadville. Because Obama is a fascist who suppresses things to benefit himself. Wonder how much longer before people start being "disappeared" in the middle of the night by this tyrant That makes perfect sense... wait... never mind. Great now he's going to start blaming obama for missing persons reports. Don't be an indoctrinated fool Hey US have you not heard the phrase don't Assume because it make an Ass (out of) U (&) me? Paleo Conservative The Jews want their war and Obama will give it to them. That makes no sense. Go to bed! Most of the current humans on earth have Jewish ancestors, so stop blaming yourself. That can't be true, because if it were, we would have all killed ourselves a loooong time ago. You are great at posting American history. You just conveniently leave out the trillions of dollars (Never paid Back) that U.S. taxpayers piad to rebuild this world after WWII. It was called the Marshall Plan. You conveniently leave out that it has been the U.S. taxpayer who has footed the bill for a U.S. Military that has protected the free world from aggressors since 1945. While we were spending 5 to 10% of our GDP on defense The French, Italians, Greeks, English etc were spending 1% on their military while taking 4 week vacations each summer. Have no idea how many billions or trillions we have spent on spy satellites as a early warning defense system for the free world. As to being bankrupt? You believe this malarkey we are broke? Well the government may have "Borrowed" 17 trillion from the SS Trust Fund and is now raiding the Medicare Trust Fund American Corporations are sitting on an estimated 14 trillion dollars in cash. The estimated domestic wealth of our 20th Century infrastructure is valued at 188 trillion dollars. American owned foreign assets are estimated to have a value of 14 trillion dollars. 90% of the commercial ships on the oceans even thought they fly foreign flags for tax purposes are owned by U.S. citizens. Improperly educated Americans make me ill. The Jews control all. They will have their war soon enough. Obama is a Jew pawn. Wait for it. sooner the better The bigger picture here is WHY were the American people not told about this when it happened a week ago. WHY because of the Election. Obama was Afraid for it to come out. So it was basically a cover up until he was reelected. There needs to be full Congressional hearings on this – seems like an impeachable offense to me – withholding information from the American public with relation to our National Security, information that could have impacted how individuals voted in this election. Oh please. They shot down a robot. Big deal. Nobody died. Now if they had shot down a U.S. pilot who died then this would be an issue. We are putting laser weapons on our ships and people are worried about our defense? In a decade bullets and bombs will be obsolete. Our enemies will simply see a bright red light before they melt. 'Alo? Ummm... Mitt lost. Get over it. This will be the standard reply to every policy dispute. Our guy got 50.1% of the popular vote11!!11 It's an empty headed response to an empty headed party. revolutionary pilot Sorry, I thought it was a seagull. And i was just watching his back. seanpnicholas OK, these guys can't even shoot down an unmanned drone from a fighter jet. I went to Vegas a while back and stopped to watch the planes land at McCarran Airport on my way out of town ~ I could have hit one of them with a baseball. Just RELAX, people. Bassir Do you think they really couldn't hit the drones? You can certainly argue they intentionally missed, especially since Iranians are also humans and therefore possess enough intellect to appreciate the consequences of their actions. However, considering the SU25 "cannon" is essentially a modified Red Ryder BB Gun, the chances our our drone returning to base unscathed were pretty good, regardless of their intent. Why isn't anyone asking the question, "Why was this information CONCEALED from the American public by the Administration prior to the election?" Because it could potentially demonstrate President Obama's incompetence / ignorance with respect to dealing with Iran? What Iran did was an act of war, and America needs to send a message to Iran that such actions will not be tolerated. Furthermore, if this was a Republican Administration, we all KNOW that there would be immediate Congressional hearings on why the American public wasn't informed of this situation prior to the election. It's interesting how so little attention is being paid to this by our liberal American media. Yeah follow up with a genuine act of war over some dumb robot. That's worth another quagmire. Remember when you were in the 3rd Grade and that bully stole your dessert off your lunch tray? And your dad told you to just ignore it because it wasn't worth the trouble because it was just dessert? That was some good advice wasn't it? Because that bully never stole anything from you again did he? This is about putting our soldiers in harms way over a missed shot at a robot. You can't just boil the world down to school house analogies. Colleen, wake up and smell the coffee. Do you know anything about politics? There are certain things that the public do not need to know, specially immediately!!! These are things that our politicians get paid to figure out, not us the public. Mitt Romney lost, get used to it. The GOP is a failed party and need to revise their view on the Americans and what America is made of. Act of war. Well gee wilikers let's put real people in danger next responding. You will notice a couple of things about the comments on this story. One of course is the silly and irrational desire for some kind of response not commensurate with the situation. I'm as Right as they come but total obliteration of Iran is hardly the best response. Does Irans actions merit a military response? Of course. But one that is intelligent, painful and doesn't project the image of a wildly flailing nation. The foil as opposed the the blunt instrument. More disturbing perhaps are those comments which posit a moral equivalency between Iran and America. The whole idea of the great evil's perpetrated by America being a justification for others to commit evil or violate norms. I suspect that most of these comments actually come from Americans. Americans that apparently despise their own nation enough to make excuses for a murderous, intolerant, 9th Century regime run by a religious death cult. I know, I know. The "Religious Right" is just like them!!!! But that of course has as much truth to it as Iran being morally equivalent to America in regard to its relation and contribution to the rest of the world. Iran hasn't attacked ANYONE since the 1700's, despite what a known-to-lie government might be spewing now in order to try and "justify" war. Iran has been part of The Plan for some time now... of course the MEANS to that END will be found. Look at all the FALSE FLAGS that preceded all the last military actions by the United States.. This is another one. We going to go to war over a stupid robot now? Pannai Jareed Yep, how do you think we will be paying that dept? your bloody carcas Who cares about niceties. The right answer is to scramble some jets off of one of our aircraft carriers and shoot down the Iranian SU-25's. Then, they won't go chasing and shooting at our drones. Yes, we proudly are, and we are coming for you. Yeah, we will take your oil to pay for our debt too. Watch out. Meister Brau Funny, the 'civilian' plane that the US shot down was full of naked, tied-together bodies that were ALREADY DEAD. A friend of mine who was involved in the recovery at the time confirmed this to me. It was a provoked attack BY IRAN to further whatever 'we are the victim, US is the aggressor' agenda they have. You want to start a war over a drone? You make me ashamed. responding to moron Shooting down the two planes wouldn't anymore "start a war" than firing at the drones did. Do you really think Iran wants war with us? The government would be replaced in weeks. There would be no war as a result of us shooting down planes that shot at us first. I'm baffled how ignorant you are. Do you think that because of this drone it is worth going to war with Iran? Don't you think that the Government needs to concentrate on America's internal problems first and pay their debt before spending more money on a useless war? Educate yourself BUD! MISREPRESENTATION OF THE NEWS: In Anderson Cooper News at 10:00 PM ET ( November 8 ) it was reported that Iranian Jets fired an American Drone in the Persian Gulf ONE day before the Presidential election yet the report above mentions that this incident happened on November 1... just as I heard it on FOX News. My question to CNN News are these: Why the disparity between what was reported in TV as opposed to what is reported above? Why was this incident NOT reported to the public as soon as this information reached you? Also, I ask the same question about the news of the killing of the US Ambassador and the three other people in Libia. These tragic news were reported by FOX News shortly after this incident happened regardless of the timing BEFORE the election. It is obvious that the Obama administration did not want these kind of news to be known by the public for fear of perhaps loosing the election or for fear of perhaps fear of loosing thousands of votes, being this of course, very detrimental to his election. In the past I had respect for the way the news were reported by CNN but know it is clear to me that your reporting is very biased and do not report in a "fair and balanced manner". Unfortunately, you have become like the rest of the "mainstream media" unfair and "protectors " of a corrupted government such as the one we have right now. MOCaseA Yeah... TV anchors never get their facts wrong and Fox News is always correct. Go back to you Faux News... we all know it is "fair and balanced." Good call! however I'm afraid that this is the information that we will get for the next 4 years..... Oh BTW, the nukes are on the way to annihilate us, but I'm sure the administration won't send out the press release until weeks after the impact... then we'll all be in the "know". This is so ridiculous, all this money being spent on high tech surveillance, the spying programs everywhere foreign and domestic, in prosecuting people for "pre-crimes" now, and yet when something like this of high priority occurs, it takes a week to report. Huh, guess it must have been sent by carrier pigeon to the media. I bet it wasn't reported becauseof two possible scenarios: (1) the Republicans would have had to have Mitt Romney foaming at the mouth declaring he was goin' to find the evil-doers and brung 'em to justice, and thump his barrel and say that when elected he would immediately mobilise Americans to attack Iran. This would immediately cause ppeope to vote for Obama. OR (2) The US suspected it might have been a false flag attack by the Israelis (comparable to their attack on the USS Liberty) and wanted to avoid misleading the American public at election time.... howitzer17 @maias: That's an interesting analysis of the situation, but you seem, like CNN here, to have forgotten the third logical scenario, which would be that it would demonstrate, just as a full and transparent reporting of the facts about Benghazi would, that Obama's foreign policy is unraveling, if he ever had one at all. The vote may have gone a little differently then. Or is that what you mean by "misleading the public at election time"? So now it's the president's or the pentagon's or whoever's job to decide what facts are relevant to the election and which are not...sounds like an informed electorate to me. Why can't the American people just have the facts, when they happen, and decide for themselves if it matters? jqwerty91 Hi I'm President Obama and I assassinated a 16 year old American boy using one of my favorite war toys as show in this article and I got a Nobel Peace Prize for that. At least Bush killed a million Iraqis to squelch the massive WMD program they were hiding! Thanks Matt Damon for helping to interpret what really happened Sources confirmed today that hundreds of thousands of military absentee ballots were delivered hours after the deadline for them to be counted. Officials say the ballots were delivered late due to problems within the military mail system. Tracking invoices show the ballots sat in a warehouse for a month, then they were accidentally labeled as ammunition and shipped to Afghanistan. At Camp Dwyer, Marine Sergeant John Davis signed for them and was surprised at the contents. In an adjacent warehouse, there were binders full of women!!! The problem with this supposed statement, Rose, is that its imaginary. Just like tax cuts spur economic growth, Romney has the enthusiasm edge, and the Easter Bunny is the Governor of Nebraska. NO STATE, I repeat, NO STATE, operates an absentee voter system that is dependent on the time of delivery of the ballots to determine if they are lawful countable votes. They ALL go by the postmark date. Each state has provisions at law to count absentee and provisional ballots, where applicable, after the election date and to add those votes to the official state totals reported in its certificate. Each state has until the date for selection of the Electors to make its certification. The banana republics of Florida, Arizona and Ohio are still counting votes, and will be doing so through much of November. They are absolute disgraces. The Justice Department needs to sue each of them for encroaching on the rights of voters. The military times disagrees with you. From the Military Times. Some absentee ballots may be lost By Karen Jowers – Staff writer Posted : Friday Nov 2, 2012 14:17:52 EDT A contractor in Afghanistan who was worried about his absentee ballot getting lost said his ballot has now reappeared in the U.S. Postal tracking system. But he still questions why there was a five-week delay. The tracking system was updated sometime the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 2 to reflect that his ballot had reached a New York mail facility. Early that same morning, the contractor sent an email to Military Times expressing concern that his county elections clerk in Texas had not received his ballot or his co-worker’s ballot by Nov. 1, although they mailed the ballots Sept. 27. “The Bagram Airfield Army post office placed Express mail tracking numbers on them, placed the ballots in an orange ‘Ballot Box,’ and probably in a dedicated mail bag. “If our ballots got lost, how many other ballots are lost as well?” he wrote. Their mail travels through the military postal system in Afghanistan along with troops’ mail and other civilians’ mail. Earlier Friday, the U.S. Postal Service tracker showed those ballots were still in Bahrain, and had been sitting there since Sept. 30. It’s unknown whether other ballots may have been affected. DoD spokeswoman Air Force Lt. Col. Melinda Morgan said Friday that to her knowledge, ballots were not stuck in Bahrain. She said DoD has verified that all absentee ballots at Bahrain have "departed the Bahrain Military Postal Facility on a [U.S. Postal Service]-contracted air carrier destined for a U.S.P.S. international service center in the United States." U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Katina Fields confirmed that her agency is working with military postal service officials to determine what happened to the ballots. "We are investigating reports of possible missing military election ballots. We take this situation very seriously and expect to resolve this matter as quickly as possible," Fields said. Once the ballots reach the U.S., they are the responsibility of the U.S. Postal Service. Until then, they are the responsibility of the Military Postal Service Agency. The contractor in Afghanistan has mailed a replacement ballot. Texas will accept absentee ballots mailed from outside the U.S. until Nov. 12, if they are postmarked by Nov. 6. JJ Lubus Maybe Iran feels that way!!!! The Iranians couldn't hit the ground if they dropped a bomb. My favorite of the night so far! Communism is simply the final phase and goal of socialism — big government — using this power to take from one person and give to another. They control the media: the news print, and the television media, and Hollywood. step 1, control the media step 2, destroy Christianity and promote political correctness. step 3, overload the system and make people dependent on govt Heyisaidit If our government said it was in international airspace then it had to be because they do not lie. And neither does any of our unbias and fair media thats for the truth and reporting real news. I can't believe anybody on here would question the unbias reporting of cnn, fox, nbc etc....... they told the truth about romney and obama the whole election. Two men that showed how honest and loving they are toward each party,never smearing each others names or families,with intergrity, honor and pride. Now bless their hearts they are sharing this with us now. « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next » Leave a Reply to Isaac	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1231
__label__cc	0.707298	0.292702	Navdanya welcomes CCI order on buyout of Monsanto by Bayer AG Posted In Latest News, Seed Freedom Actions The Economic Times, 26 March 2017 NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India‘s order asking for fresh application regarding proposed buyout of Monsanto India by German major Bayer AGs is a great victory for the country’s farmers, environment activist Vandana Shiva today said. She also said that it will stop creation of a global mega monopoly on seeds and agri-chemicals. “This is a great victory for our farmers, for citizens of India, as now the CCI has stopped the poison makers – Monsanto and Bayer from merging in India. All over the world, Monsanto and Bayer seek to control each link of the food-health chain. “From the seeds to pesticides to pharmaceuticals, they have a grand design to create a new ‘Company Raj’ which profits from farmers’ suicides, disease and finally death. “It is time India lead the way and say no to this marriage of two poison makers, which since the World War-II has only given the world poisons and death,” said Shiva, Founder- Director of Navdanya said while welcoming the decision. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has asked for filing of fresh application with respect to German major Bayer AGs proposed USD 66 billion buyout of Monsanto. The deal, announced in September 2016, would create the world’s biggest seed and pesticide firm. “Navdanya welcomes the CCI’s decision to cancel the merger of Monsanto-Bayer in India. This order comes as relief for millions of farmers and activist who with us have been asking the CCI to probe the matter and stop the creation of a global mega monopoly on seeds and agri-chemicals,” a statement said. The merger will lead to creation of an ‘oligopoly’, with three entities (Syngenta-ChemChina, DuPont-Dow and Bayer- Monsanto) controlling two-thirds of the global agri-chemical business and over 60 per cent of the seed markets, the statement said. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/navdanya-welcomes-cci-order-on-buyout-of-monsanto-by-bayer-ag/articleshow/57843240.cms Violation of India’s IPR laws and Competition Act by MNCs Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India Navdanya, 8 September 2016 The poisonous cartel of GMOs By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 8 September 2016 Bayer-Monsanto Merger By Ruchi Shroff, 16 October 2016 POISON CARTEL – TOXIC CAPITAL NEWS TAGS: CORPORATE MERGERS – POISON CARTEL http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-navdanya-welcomes-cci-order-on-buyout-of-monsanto-by-bayer-ag-2369575 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/navdanya-welcomes-cci-order-on-buyout-of-monsanto-by-bayer-ag/1/913459.html http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/navdanya-welcomes-cci-order-on-buyout-of-monsanto-by-bayer-ag-2247211.html http://www.india.com/news/agencies/navdanya-welcomes-cci-order-on-buyout-of-monsanto-by-bayer-ag-1964470/ No Comments to "Navdanya welcomes CCI order on buyout of Monsanto by Bayer AG"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1234
__label__wiki	0.621868	0.621868	Explain Like I’m 65: "The HEROES Act" The HEROES Act More Stimulus Checks Better Care for Seniors HEROES Fund Will It Pass? Some people act like they know it all. Our new series Explain Like I’m 65 is for the rest of us. It will provide clear, digestible summaries to help seniors sort through the noise and get the factual information they need. From political buzzwords to household how-tos, we’re here to provide accessible guides and informative answers. This week, we’re looking at the next chapter in the federal government’s COVID-19 response: the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act. Even as many states begin to lift stay-at-home orders, the COVID-19 crisis continues to wreak economic havoc. More than 35 million Americans have lost their jobs and millions more are contending with reduced hours and lost insurance coverage. The federal government has already responded to these unprecedented times with the historic CARES Act and its economic impact payments. On Friday, May 15th, the House voted to introduce another $3 trillion relief plan. Is more COVID-19 relief on the way? It may be if the HEROES Act passes in the Senate. Over more than 1,800 pages, the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act proposes new COVID-19 response efforts including an additional $900 billion in funding for state and local governments as well as another round of stimulus checks. The Act passed through the House thanks to a highly partisan 208-199 vote. One Republican, New York’s Peter King, Voted Yes. On the Democratic side, both centrists and staunch progressives voiced their dissent. Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal was one notable left-leaning nay-sayer. “At the core,” she remarked, “our response from Congress must match the true scale of this devastating crisis.” She charged the HEROES Act with failing “to keep workers in their jobs and guarantee the certainty of paychecks.” Most taxpayers will be especially interested to learn that the HEROES Act could mean an additional economic impact payment. This round of checks would work much like the first one. Individual taxpayers who earn less than $75,000/year and joint-filing couples who earn less than $150,000/year would each receive a stimulus payment of $1,200. Individuals making more than $99,000/year and couples making more than $198,000 would not receive checks. The HEROES Act differs from the CARES Act in its approach to dependents. Families received an additional $500 for each dependent during the first round of economic impact payments. If passed, this new legislation would entitle them to another $1,200 for each of as many as three dependents. Crucially, this would apply to college students and other dependents over 17. Sign up today for free weekly updates on senior health and finance news. And don’t worry, we hate spam too! You can unsubscribe at anytime Taxpayers without Social Security numbers were ineligible for the first round of payments. As written, the HEROES Act would broaden eligibility to include taxpayers who file with Tax Identification Numbers. Presumably, the Internal Revenue Service would use direct deposit information to administer payments once again. COVID-19 has hit America’s seniors particularly hard. Last week, members of the Senate Special Committee on Aging argued that the HEROES Act could help by devoting additional funds to nursing homes and promoting data collection. The bipartisan Committee is chaired by notable moderate Republican Susan Collins. Collins is up for reelection in November and her actions over the next few months could have huge implications for her campaign. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey noted that poor data visibility has forced lawmakers to fight the virus “with one hand tied behind [their] backs.” The bill would require nursing homes to collect vital data on COVID-19 and its spread. What’s more, it would provide aid to the nearly 1 million seniors who are on waiting lists for at-home or community-based care services. This additional support would help keep vulnerable seniors out of high-risk nursing homes without forcing them to sacrifice care. “Essential frontline workers,” the Act reads, “are the true heroes of America’s COVID-19 pandemic response.” One of its key provisions would create a “Heroes Fund” to provide them with financial assistance. This fund would entitle all essential workers to additional hazard pay of up to $13/hour. For those making less than $200,000/year, this could amount to an additional $25,000. The Act would also provide a one-time recruitment incentive to Americans who apply to serve as frontline employees. The HEROES Act faces an uphill battle. Since the bill was drawn up without any input from the GOP, it is unlikely to find a warm welcome in a Republican-led Senate. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already dismissed the proposal as “a big laundry list of pet priorities” and other Republicans have echoed him. This new bill is sure to ignite another round of partisan debate in the halls of Congress. Americans may soon receive more relief, but there’s very little chance it will come from the HEROES Act as we know it today. 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__label__cc	0.632811	0.367189	Elsie Aileen Lomas April 7, 1922 - March 24, 2014 On Monday, March 24, 2014, Elsie of Fort Saskatchewan, formerly of Edmonton and area, passed away at the age of 91 years. Left to cherish her memories are her children, Adrian (Nancy) and their children Amy (Kevin) Marshall, Matthew (Anna); Patricia (Al) Spady and their children Kyla, Jeff (Tamara), Shawna, Brett (Gillian); Margaret (Barry) LeGear and their children Genna (Matt) McBain, Shayne (Karren); Gordon (Deborah) and their children Claire, Marc, Kelcey; six great-grandchildren; brother Jay (Bobbie) Metheral. Elsie was predeceased by her husband Joseph; two sisters and one brother. A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 2:00 pm, at Partridge Hill United Church, corner of Twp Rd 542 and Range Road 220. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Paraplegic Association, Suite 305, 11010-101 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5H 4B9. Sorry, there are no details found... © 2021 Serenity Family Service Society Elsie Aileen Lomas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1239
__label__cc	0.684995	0.315005	Chemical Composition and Antibacterial Activity of Cinnamomum aromaticum Essential Oil Against Four Enteropathogenic Bacteria Associated with Neonatal Calve’s Diarrhea Selles Sidi Mohammed Ammar, Kouidri Mokhtaria, Ait Amrane Amar, Belhamiti Belkacem Tahar, Drideche Moulay, Hammoudi Si Mohamed and Boukraa Laid Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the chemical composition and the in vitro antibacterial activity of Cinnamomum aromaticum essential oil against four strains of enteropathogenic bacteria isolated from neonatal calve’s diarrhea namely Escherichia coli F5, Escherichia coli F17, Kluyvera spp. and Klebsiella spp. Methodology: The essential oil was extracted by hydrodistillation process. The composition was determined by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) and Gas Chromatography-Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID). The agar incorporation method was used to determine the antimicrobial activity of Cinnamomum aromaticum essential oil against four strains of enteropathogenic bacteria isolated from neonatal calve’s diarrhea including Escherichia coli F5, Escherichia coli F17, Kluyvera spp. and Klebsiella spp. Results: The results of the study revealed an average yield of the essential oil of 1.46±0.05% (w/w). About 89 components were identified and quantified. E-cinnamaldehyde was the major compound of the studied essential oil (94.67%). The results showed that the tested essential oil exhibited an antibacterial activity against all tested bacteria at a Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of 0.625 μL mL–1. Conclusion: The present investigation revealed that C. aromaticum essential oil is potentially good source of antibacterial agents and could be used as against the tested strains causing diarrhea in calves. Selles Sidi Mohammed Ammar, Kouidri Mokhtaria, Ait Amrane Amar, Belhamiti Belkacem Tahar, Drideche Moulay, Hammoudi Si Mohamed and Boukraa Laid, 2017. Chemical Composition and Antibacterial Activity of Cinnamomum aromaticum Essential Oil Against Four Enteropathogenic Bacteria Associated with Neonatal Calve’s Diarrhea. Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 12: 24-30. DOI: 10.3923/ajava.2017.24.30 URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajava.2017.24.30 Calf diarrhea is a major cause of economic loss with high morbidity and mortality in the cattle industry worldwide1. The incidence of diarrhea in calves less than 1 month ranges between 15-20% and the greatest risk occurs especially during the first 2 weeks of life2. Several enteropathogens were recovered from neonatal calf with diarrhea, their relative prevalence varies geographically3, but the most pathogens commonly incriminated in neonatal calf scours include viral (Rotavirus and Coronavirus), protozoal (Cryptosporidium parvum) and bacterial pathogens (enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli K99 and Salmonella spp.)4. To compensate this significant economic loss, various and large amounts of antimicrobial drugs are used in calves feed as a preventive and curative purposes5. Unfortunately, the randomly used treatment without selecting appropriate antimicrobial compound resulted in the emergence of resistant calf pathogens and commensals, which becomes a serious public health problem throughout the world6. Akam et al.7 reported the resistance of E. coli F5+ to tetracycline, ticarcilline, ampicilline in Algerian cattle. Furthermore, De Verdier et al.8 in Swedish showed that 61% of E. coli tested for antimicrobial susceptibility were resistant to one or more substances and 28% were multi-resistant. Gram-negative bacteria often gain their resistance through the acquisition of a resistance gene from a shared gene pool with the aid of plasmids9, resulting in the targeting of the dissemination of plasmids. This is one of the most used strategies by bacteria to circumvent antibiotic resistance at the molecular level10. Therefore, therapeutic control of multidrug resistant bacteria has a major concern in the area of global public health. Essential oils, particularly, those from cinnamon, peppermint, tea tree, lavender and marjoram have been well investigated for their general antimicrobial properties against several pathogenic microorganisms10. The genus Cinnamomum (family: Lauraceae) contains more than 300 evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs. Four species have great economic importance for their multiple culinary uses as common spices including Cinnamon zeylanicum Blume (a synonym of Cinnamon verum J. Presl, known as Sri Lanka cinnamon), Cinnamon loureiroi Nees (known as Vietnamese cinnamon), Cinnamon burmanni (Nees and T. Nees) Blume (known as Indonesian cinnamon) and Cinnamon aromaticum Nees (a synonym of Cinnamon cassia (L.) J. Presl, known as Chinese cinnamon)11. Cinnamon has a long history of use as preservative and medicinal use in the East12. It has a reputation as an effective cure for colds13. In ayurvedic medicine it has been used as antiemetic, anti-diarrheal, anti-flatulent and stimulant agent11. The aim of the present study was to investigate the chemical composition of the essential oil of Cinnamon aromaticum and its antibacterial activity against four strains of bacteria isolated from neonatal calve’s diarrhea. Extraction of essential oil: The bark of Cinnamomum aromaticum was purchased from a specialized store in Tlemcen (Algeria). The essential oil was extracted by hydrodistillation process by mixing 50 g of crushed Cinnamomum aromaticum in 500 mL of distilled water for 2 h and 30 min. The extracted essential oil was dried by anhydrous sodium sulphate and stored in sealed vials at 4°C before antibacterial activity testing, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometric (GC-MS) and Gas Chromatography/Flame Ionization Detector (CG/FID) analysis. The average yield of the extracted essential oil was 1.46±0.05% (w/w). The percentage yield of cinnamon essential oil was calculated using the following formula: CG/SM and GC/FID analysis: The GC/MS and GC/FID analysis was performed by Sarl Pyrenessences Analysis (Belcaire, France). Briefly, the cinnamon oil was analyzed using a Hewlett Packard 5973, with HP INNOWAX polar column (60 m×0.25 mm×0.25 μm). One microliter essential oil solution diluted in ethanol 10% was injected and analyzed. Helium was the carrier gas with a flow rate of 30 psi/FID; 23 psi/MS. The temperature was programmed at 60°C for 6 min and then increased by 2°C min–1 up to 250°C for 10 min. The compounds were identified by a combined search of retention time and mass spectra (NKS library, 75,000 spectra). The percentages were calculated from the peak areas given by the GC/ FID, without the use of correction factor. Antimicrobial study Microorganisms: The antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Cinnamomum aromaticum was evaluated against four strains of Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli F5, Escherichia coli F17, Kluyvera spp. and Klebsiella spp.). The microbial strains used in this study were isolated from neonatal calve’s diarrhea. Preparation of inoculum: Prior to the experiment, bacterial strains were inoculated onto the surface of MacConkey agar media. The inoculum suspensions were obtained by taking five colonies from 24 h cultures. The colonies were suspended in 5 mL of sterile saline (0.85% NaCl) and shaken for 15 sec. The density was adjusted to the turbidity of a 0.5 McFarland Standard (equivalent to 1-5×108 CFU mL–1). Antibiotic susceptibility test: Susceptibility to a panel of antimicrobial agents was determined by the standardized disc diffusion assay on Mueller-Hinton agar with commercial antimicrobial susceptibility discs according to the standardization of antimicrobial susceptibility testing in the veterinary medicine at the national level according to WHO recommendations14,15. The tested antibiotics and their corresponding disc concentrations were as follows: Amoxicillin+acid clavulanic (20/10 μg), ampicillin (10 μg), gentamicin (10 μg), tetracycline (10 μg), colistin (10 μg), trimethoprime/sulfamethoxazole (1.25/23.75 μg), ofloxacine (5 μg) and cifotaxime (30 μg). The prepared plates were incubated at 37°C for 24-48 h. The zone of inhibition was recorded and data were interpreted using the standardization of antimicrobial susceptibility testing in the veterinary medicine at the national level according to WHO recommendations14,15. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) measurement: Screening of essential oil for antibacterial activity was achieved by the incorporation method as described by Amarti et al.16, with slight modifications. The essential oil was dissolved in tween 20, which is prepared in sterile distilled water (1/9 v/v). A serial dilution of cinnamon essential oil was prepared with tween 20 (1/10, 1/20, 1/40, 1/80, 1/160 and 1/320). Each test tube contained 4.5 mL of Mueller Hinton agar medium to which were added aseptically 0.5 mL of the prepared dilutions to obtain a final concentrations of 1/100, 1/200, 1/400, 1/800, 1/1600, 1/3200 v/v. The tubes were thoroughly agitated to disperse the essential oil in the culture medium before pouring in to petri plates. The control contained only the culture medium and the tween 20. The plates were inoculated and incubated at 37°C for 24 h. The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) was determined by identifying the plates with the lowest concentration of essential oil on which the strain did not grow. Tests were repeated in triplicate. All MIC values are expressed in v/v. Chemical composition of essential oil: The results concerning the chemical analysis of the essential oil identified by GC-FID were given in Table 1. In general, the composition was relatively homogeneous. Eighty nine compounds were identified, representing 99.99% of total components. E-cinnamaldehyde (94.67%) was the major component followed by coumarin (0.88%) and cinnamyl acetate (0.74%) (Table 1). Table 1: Composition of the essential oil of cinnamon Table 2: Antibiotic susceptibility of tested strains R: Resistant, S: Sensitive, I: Intermediate, A: Escherichia coli F17, B: E. coli F5, C: Kluyvera spp., D: Klebsiella spp. Antibiotic susceptibility: Regarding the antibiotic susceptibility, all tested strains were susceptible to cifotaxime, colistin and gentamicin. However, three strains were resistant to trimethoprime/sulfamethoxazole and two strains were resistant to ofloxacine (Table 2). Table 3: Antibacterial activity of essential oil of cinnamon - : Inhibition, +: Development Antimicrobial activity of essential oil (determination of MIC): Table 3 showed the results of the antibacterial activity of the essential oil of C. aromaticum. This essential oil exerted strong antibacterial activity. Concentration of 1/1600 v/v was sufficient to inhibit the growth of Escherichia coli F17, Escherichia coli F5, Kluyvera spp. and Klebsiella spp. In the present study, the average yield of cinnamon essential oil was 1.46±0.05% (w/w). A similar result was obtained by Kasim et al.17 with an average yield of 1.82%. Whereas the levels of the essential oil of Cinnamomum cassia Bark, from Guangxi and Guangdong Provinces (South China), ranged between 1.69±0.67 to 3.21±0.12% (w/w)18. Similarly, higher yields were recovered by Geng et al.19 (2.7-3.3% (w/w)), Li et al.20 (2.38%) and Huang et al.21 (2.76% (v/w)). Likewise, Jeyaratnam et al.22 obtained also a high yield (2.55% (w/w)) of essential oil from C. cassia by using microwave-assisted hydrodistillation. Previous studies have shown that the branch bark fraction tended to yield more essential oil compared to the entire branch indicating that selecting the bark based on the tree growth stages as well as separating the stem bark into top, center and lower sections within a tree can significantly improve the extraction efficiency of essential oils23. The results of GC/FID were given in Table 1. It can be seen that trans-cinnamaldehyde was the major constituent of cinnamon bark essential oil (94.67%) followed by coumarin (0.88%) and cinnamyle acetate (0.74%). Several studies have mentioned that trans-cinnamaldehyde was the most abundant component in the essential oil C. aromaticum18,21,24-27, however, the authors recorded different concentrations. For example, the rates of trans-cinnamaldehyde in the essential oil of C. aromaticum analyzed by CG/MS were 97.7, 92.2, 76.9, 72.23, 68.52 and 49.33% as reported by Singh et al.24, Giordani et al.25, Liu et al.26, Poaty et al.27, Deng et al.18 and Huang et al.21, respectively. While Chang et al.28 reported that cis-2-methoxycinnamic acid and cinnamaldehyde were the major compounds of the essential oil of C. aromaticum analyzed by CG/MS (43.06 and 42.37%, respectively). Adinew29 mentioned that 2-propanol, 3-phenyl was the major constituent of cinnamon bark essential oil (analyzed by GC-MS and FT-IR) growing in South West of Ethiopia. The chemical components of cinnamon oil have been extensively studied in the literature. Bruneton30 found that the main component of the cinnamon (Cinnamomum aromaticum) bark oil was E-cinnamaldehyde and the content was 90%. It is reported that this essential oil contained little eugenol. Similar results were found in this study (94.67% of E-cinnamaldéhyde and 0.01% of eugenol). Different extraction processes and assay methods could have contributed to differences in cinnamaldehyde levels of cinnamon essential oils31. Moreover, the geographical position, cultivation, variety of cinnamon, harvesting time and extraction method affect the effective yield and composition of the essential oil29,32. Medicinal plants have long been, over the years, played a key role in the human health and contributed to the development of modern therapeutic drugs33,34. In addition, plant essential oils and extracts have been used for many thousands of years in food preservation, pharmaceuticals, alternative medicine and natural therapies. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate scientifically these plants used in traditional medicine. Essential oils are potential sources of novel antimicrobial compounds especially against bacterial pathogens25. In this study, the essential oil of cinnamon showed a strong activity against selected bacterial strains. This study showed a MIC at 0.625 μL mL–1 against 4 strains causing neonatal diarrhea in young calves. Lu et al.35 reported similar results, with a MIC ranging between 0.1-0.4 μL mL–1. Several studies showed that the essential oil of cinnamon exhibited strong and consistent inhibitory effects against various pathogens by Matan et al.36 and Prabuseenivasan et al.37. Huang et al.21 reported higher values of MIC of essential oils of C. cassia against two Gram-negative bacteria, namely S. typhimurium and E. coli, with concentration of 10 mg mL–1. Moreover, Mith et al.38 showed a MIC of essential oils of C. cassia with 0.5/1 μL mL–1 and 0.25/0.25 μL mL–1 against E. coli O157:H7 ATCC 35150 and E. coli O157:H7 S0575, respectively. Chao et al.39 tested the antimicrobial activity of 45 essential oils on bacteria, fungi and yeast and found that cinnamon bark oil exhibited a high and broad-spectrum antimicrobial property. This strong antibacterial property of the essential oil of cinnamon is mainly due to its constituents, including cinnamaldehyde, which particularly displayed strong antibacterial activity compared to the other components24,40. In addition, Unlu et al.41 reported that cinnamaldehyde is a main component of the essential oils of cinnamon, this component was effective against some Gram positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Furthermore, Nazzaro et al.42 reported that cinnamaldehyde has at least three mechanisms of action against bacteria. At low concentrations, it inhibits enzymes involved in cytokine interactions or other less important cell functions and at higher concentrations, it acts as an ATPase inhibitor. At a lethal concentration, cinnamaldehyde perturbs the membrane. Some studies have reported conflicting information’s on the membrane-perturbing activity of cinnamaldheyde. For example, a sub-lethal concentration of the molecule does not affect the integrity of the membrane in E. coli but can inhibit the growth and bioluminescence of the microorganism Photobacterium leiognathi; this suggests that cinnamaldehyde gains access to the periplasm and perhaps also to the cytoplasm. Cinnamaldehyde is indeed capable of altering the lipid profile of the microbial cell membrane. The present study revealed that Cinnamon aromaticum essential oil is potentially good source of antibacterial agents and could be an alternative for the treatment of diarrhea in calves caused by the tested strains. Further in vivo investigations and clinical trials are needed to justify the potential use of this oil as an antibacterial agent against bacteria causing neonatal calve’s diarrhea. The authors would like to express their special thanks to the staff members Laboratory of Research on Local Animal Products, Ibn-Khaldoun University of Tiaret (Algeria). The authors are also grateful to Dr. Hamri Mokhtar and Dr. Rezki Hamza for their collaboration during this study. 1: Cho, Y.I., J.I. Han, C. Wang, V. Cooper, K. Schwartz, T. Engelken and K.J. Yoon, 2013. Case-control study of microbiological etiology associated with calf diarrhea. Vet. Microbiol., 166: 375-385. 2: Vandeputte, S., J. Detilleux, S. Carel, B. Bradfer, H. Guyot and F. Rollin, 2010. Evaluation of a bovine concentrated lactoserum for preventing neonatal diarrhoea in Belgian blue calves. Open Vet. Sci. J., 4: 36-40. 3: Garcia, A., J.A. Ruiz-Santa-Quiteria, J.A. Orden, D. Cid, R. Sanz, M. Gomez-Bautista and F.R. De La Fuente, 2000. Rotavirus and concurrent infections with other enteropathogens in neonatal diarrheic dairy calves in Spain. Comp. Immunol. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., 23: 175-183. 4: Izzo, M.M., P.D. 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__label__wiki	0.623705	0.623705	Common Structure of Soluble Amyloid Oligomers Implies Common Mechanism of Pathogenesis Rakez Kayed1, Elizabeth Head2, Jennifer L. Thompson1, Theresa M. McIntire3, Saskia C. Milton1, Carl W. Cotman2, Charles G. Glabe1,* 1 Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697–3900, USA. 2 Institute for Brain Aging & Dementia, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697–4540, USA. 3 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697–2025, USA. ↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cglabe{at}uci.edu Science 18 Apr 2003: DOI: 10.1126/science.1079469 Rakez Kayed Elizabeth Head Jennifer L. Thompson Theresa M. McIntire Saskia C. Milton Carl W. Cotman Charles G. Glabe Soluble oligomers are common to most amyloids and may represent the primary toxic species of amyloids, like the Aβ peptide in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we show that all of the soluble oligomers tested display a common conformation-dependent structure that is unique to soluble oligomers regardless of sequence. The in vitro toxicity of soluble oligomers is inhibited by oligomer-specific antibody. Soluble oligomers have a unique distribution in human AD brain that is distinct from fibrillar amyloid. These results indicate that different types of soluble amyloid oligomers have a common structure and suggest they share a common mechanism of toxicity. Recent reports suggest that the toxicity of Aβ and other amyloidogenic proteins lies not in the insoluble fibrils that accumulate but rather in the soluble oligomeric intermediates (1). These soluble oligomers include spherical particles of 2.7 to 4.2 nm in diameter and curvilinear structures called “protofibrils” that appear to represent strings of the spherical particles (2). The oligomers have also been referred to as Aβ-derived diffusible ligands or ADDLs (3). The soluble Aβ oligomers represent protein micelles, because Aβ is an amphipathic surface-active peptide, oligomer formation displays a critical concentration dependence, and their formation is correlated with the appearance of a hydrophobic environment (4–6). Soluble Aβ oligomers are also found in human AD (Alzheimer's disease) cerebrospinal fluid (7), and the soluble Aβ content of human brain is better correlated with the severity of the disease than are plaques (8–10). Taken together, these results indicate that the soluble oligomers may be more important pathologically than are the fibrillar amyloid deposits, but there is no direct evidence that they actually exist in human AD brain. Here we report the production of an antibody that specifically recognizes micellar Aβ and not soluble, low–MW (molecular weight) Aβ or Aβ fibrils. To our surprise, this antibody also specifically recognizes soluble oligomers among all other types of amyloidogenic proteins and peptides examined, which indicates that they have a common structure and may share a common pathogenic mechanism as has been previously proposed (11). To produce an antibody that specifically recognizes the oligomeric state of Aβ, we synthesized a molecular mimic of soluble oligomers on the basis of information about the organization of the Aβ within oligomers (fig. S1). The polyclonal serum produced by vaccination of rabbits with the molecular mimics is called oligomer-specific because it is specific for the soluble oligomeric intermediates and has no detectable reactivity with soluble low-MW or fibrillar Aβ species (Fig. 1, A and B). Unexpectedly, we observed no oligomer-specific immunoreactivity against low-MW Aβ or Aβ fibrils for the unfractionated serum even after boosting the rabbits 12 times, which indicates that the immune response to the molecular mimics is very specific. Characterization of oligomer-specific immunoreactivity: specificity of the antibody. (A) In this dot blot assay, 1 μg of soluble Aβ40 oligomers (1), soluble low-MWAβ40 (2), or Aβ40 fibrils (3) was applied to a nitrocellulose membrane and either probed with oligomer-specific antibody or stripped and reprobed with 6E10. Oligomer-specific antibody recognizes only the soluble aggregates, whereas 6E10 recognizes all species of Aβ.(B) ELISA assay. Samples were applied to a 96-well plate and analyzed by ELISA with oligomer-specific antiserum. Soluble low-MWAβ40 (solid triangles), soluble Aβ40 oligomers (open circles), Aβ40 fibrils (solid squares). Only the soluble oligomeric Aβ40 intermediates are recognized by oligomer-specific serum, whereas the soluble low-MWAβ40 and Aβ40 fibrils give background values. (C) Kinetics of oligomer-specific immunoreactivity during fibrillogenesis. Aβ40 and Aβ42 solutions were dissolved in hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP), diluted to 56 μMAβ, and incubated in 100 mM NaCl, 50 mM tris, pH 7.4 at 25°C with stirring. At the times indicated, aliquots were applied to a nitrocellulose membrane and probed with oligomer-specific antibody (upper panel) and then stripped and reprobed with 6E10 (lower panel). (D) Size distribution of oligomer-specific immunoreactive Aβ oligomers. A solution of Aβ40 oligomers incubated under different conditions that favor the population of different sizes of oligomers. (——) Aβ40 incubated in DDH20 (pH 2.5 to 4) for 3 days, (–-–-) Aβ40 incubated in 50 mM tris (pH 7.4) 100mM NaCl for 2 days, (----) Aβ40 freshly dissolved in 50 mM tris (pH 7.4), (.........) Aβ40 incubated in 50 mM tris (pH 7.4) for 2 days. The peaks were collected and dotted on a nitrocellulose membrane and probed with oligomer-specific antibody or 6E10 antibodies. The smallest oligomeric species that reacts with oligomer-specific antibody elutes with an apparent molecular weight of 40 kD, the size expected for an octamer. Spherical oligomers are initially absent from freshly solubilized solutions of previously denatured Aβ and evolve over time, whereas spherical oligomer formation precedes the formation of the curvilinear strings or protofibrils (12). Therefore, we examined the kinetics of formation of oligomer-specific reactivity (Fig. 1C). For Aβ42, immunoreactivity is observed at 6 hours, is maximal between 24 and 168 hours, and then is not detected at 332 hours. The kinetics for Aβ40 are similar but are delayed by ∼18 to 24 hours, consistent with previous observations that Aβ42 forms oligomers faster than does Aβ40 (4). We examined the samples by electron microscopy to determine the morphology and confirmed that at the early times of immunoreactivity, the samples contain predominantly spherical oligomers, whereas at later times the elongated “protofibrils” predominate. This observation indicates that both spherical and “protofibrillar” species display the same structure, one that is recognized by the antibody. We also examined the size dependence for the appearance of the epitope by fractionating soluble oligomers by size-exclusion chromatography (4). The smallest-sized oligomer that is recognized by oligomer-specific serum elutes at a position of ∼40 kD, which corresponds to the approximate size of an octamer (Fig. 1D). Peaks eluting at positions corresponding to tetramer, dimer, and monomer are not reactive with oligomer-specific serum. Spherical soluble oligomers have been observed for many different types of amyloids (11, 13–16). We examined the specificity of oligomer-specific serum for soluble oligomers formed from a wide variety of amyloidogenic proteins and peptides by ELISA and dot blots. Surprisingly, the oligomer-specific antibody reacts well with all of the soluble oligomeric aggregates, regardless of sequence, and does not react with either the soluble low-MW species or the fibrils (Fig. 2A). This includes oligomeric and protofibrillar aggregates from α-synuclein, islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), polyglutamine, lysozyme, human insulin, and prion peptide 106-126. The oligomer-specific antibody does not detect any proteins in soluble lysates of SH-SY5Y cells (fig. S2). These results indicate that oligomer-specific antibody recognizes a unique common structural feature of the polypeptide backbone in the amyloid-soluble oligomers that is independent of the amino acid side chains. Oligomer-specific antibody recognizes soluble oligomers of other types of amyloids and neutralizes their toxicity. (A) Soluble oligomers were prepared from a variety of other amyloid-forming proteins and peptides with no sequence homology, and their reactivity with oligomer-specific antibody was compared with the soluble and fibrils with an ELISA assay. Samples were applied to a 96-well plate and analyzed by ELISA with oligomer-specific antiserum. Soluble low-MWoligomers (solid triangles), soluble oligomers (open circles), fibrils (solid rectangles). Only the soluble oligomers are recognized by oligomer-specific serum, whereas the soluble low-MWoligomers and fibrils give background values. The type of amyloid is listed at the top of each panel. (B) Inhibition of the cytotoxicity of soluble oligomers by oligomer-specific antibody. Inhibition of Aβ40 and Aβ42 soluble oligomer toxicity by oligomer-specific antibody samples were preincubated with (open bars) or without (filled bars) an excess of affinity purified oligomer-specific antibody for 30 min or with an equivalent amount of non-immune rabbit IgG (hatched bars) and then assayed for cytotoxicity at a final concentration of 2.5 μM with MT T. The Aβ soluble oligomers are significantly more toxic than are the Aβ fibrils. The toxicity of the soluble oligomers is rescued by previous incubation with oligomer-specific antibody (P < 0.0001). Oligomer-specific antibody has no effect on the toxicity of the Aβ fibrils. (C) Inhibition of the toxicity of other types of soluble oligomers by oligomer-specific antibody. The soluble oligomer samples were preincubated with (open bars) or without (filled bars) an excess of affinity purified oligomer-specific antibody or with an equivalent amount of non-immune rabbit IgG (hatched bars) for 30 min and then assayed for cytotoxicity at a final concentration of 2.5 μM with the MT T reduction assay. The toxicity of the soluble oligomers is rescued by previous incubation with oligomer-specific antibody (P < 0.0001). (D) Lack of inhibition of toxicity by control antibodies. Soluble Aβ42 and Aβ40 oligomers were preincubated with equivalent amounts of oligomer-specific IgG and total rabbit IgG, 6E10, IAPP antibody, or α-synuclein antibody and tested for inhibition of toxicity with the MT T reduction assay. Soluble oligomers have been implicated as the primary toxic species of amyloids (2, 3, 11, 17). We examined whether oligomer-specific antibody could inhibit Aβ neurotoxicity in cell culture. Toxicity was assessed with 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazoyl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) reduction (Fig. 2B) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release (fig. S3) assays in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Oligomer-specific antibody inhibited toxicity when Aβ soluble oligomers were incubated for 30 min with oligomer-specific antibody (Fig. 2B). Oligomer-specific antibody had no significant effect on the toxicity of Aβ fibrils. We also examined whether oligomer-specific antibody inhibits the toxicity of soluble oligomers formed by other amyloidogenic proteins and peptides. Oligomer-specific antibody also inhibits the toxicity mediated by all of the other types of soluble oligomers (Fig. 2C), and Fabs prepared from oligomer-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) display equivalent inhibitory activity (fig. S3B). In contrast to Aβ, the fibrillar forms of the other amyloids do not display significant toxicity. A variety of control antibodies do not inhibit soluble Aβ oligomer toxicity (Fig. 2D). The observations that the soluble oligomeric forms of all of the amyloids display significant toxicity and that the toxicity is inhibited by oligomer-specific antibody suggest that they share a common structure that may mediate toxicity by a common mechanism. We also examined the distribution of oligomer-specific immunoreactivity in human AD brain and normal age-matched controls. Oligomer-specific immunoreactivity is observed as clusters of immunoreactive deposits distributed in the same regions of Aβ deposition in AD brain, but this distribution is spatially distinct and separate from the distribution of fibrillar Aβ deposits stained by thioflavin-S (Fig. 3A). Both small spherical puncta and larger curvilinear structures are labeled with oligomer-specific serum, where the larger structures appear to be arranged peripherally around diffuse deposits of smaller structures (Fig. 3C). No oligomer-specific antibody fluorescence was observed in association with neurofibrillary tangles, and virtually no oligomer-specific antibody staining was observed in control brain samples from individuals who were not demented, despite the presence of isolated cored Aβ plaques (Fig. 3B). Oligomer-specific antibody fails to detect any proteins on dot blots of lysates from normal nondemented human brain, but it detects oligomers in lysates from patients diagnosed with AD or “mild Braak changes,” which may represent early changes associated with AD (fig. S4). The lack of background staining in control and AD tissue also indicates that oligomer-specific antibody does not react with β-amyloid precursor protein (APP). Occasionally oligomer-specific immunoreactivity is observed associated with relatively large 6E10-positive diffuse plaques (movie S1), but the 6E10 immunofluorescence does not overlap with the oligomer-specific immunofluorescence. Confocal immunofluorescence micro-graphs of human brain tissue. Sections from the entorhinal cortex of (A) an AD brain and (B) an age-matched control case were immunostained with oligomer-specific antibody (red) (arrows) and counterstained with thioflavin-S (green). Note the single thioflavin-S–positive plaque in the control case (arrowhead) and lack of oligomer-specific antibody fluorescence. (C) Oligomer-specific antibody positive deposits were observed in the AD case. When such deposits were found in association with a thioflavin-S–positive plaque, higher magnification and a Z-series indicated that the two deposits were spatially segregated. Scale bars, 20 μm. These results are direct evidence that oligomers exist as a distinct entity in human AD brain. The fact that most of these antibody-positive deposits are distinct from the thioflavin-S–positive amyloid deposits suggests that the deposits identified by oligomer-specific antibody are nonfibrillar and therefore may precede the development of fibrillar plaques. As such, they may represent the initial stage of amyloid deposition. Further, the relative amount of oligomer-specific antibody deposits is significantly lower than total Aβ, which suggests that these oligomers do not accumulate over time but may mature into fibrillar structures not detected by the oligomer-specific antibody. Our observations with the oligomer-specific antibody indicate that oligomers have a conformation that is distinct from that of soluble monomers, low-MW oligomers, and fibrils. The fact that this epitope is common to amyloids of widely varying primary sequence further indicates that the epitope is formed from a specific conformation of the polypeptide backbone and is largely independent of the amino acid side chains in this region. A similar type of antibody specificity was recently reported by Wetzel and co-workers (18), but this antibody is specific for all types of amyloid fibrils and does not recognize soluble oligomers. Stefani and co-workers (11) have recently reported that soluble oligomers formed from non–disease-related proteins are inherently cytoxic, suggesting that they may have a common structure and function. Because the oligomer-specific antibody neutralizes the toxicity of oligomeric forms of all amyloids tested, they share a common structure, and they have a common mechanism of pathogenesis that is intimately associated with this common structure. 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Sci. U.S.A. 99, 1485. (2002). This work was supported by NIH grants NS31230, AG00538, and AG16573 and by a grant from the Larry L. Hillblom foundation. We are grateful to D. A. Brant, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, for his support; R. Wetzel for providing the polyglutamine peptide; F. Saroza for technical assistance; and R. Langen for providing α-synuclein. R.K. thanks K. Sweimeh and Y. Al-Abed for helpful discussions. You are going to email the following Common Structure of Soluble Amyloid Oligomers Implies Common Mechanism of Pathogenesis By Rakez Kayed, Elizabeth Head, Jennifer L. Thompson, Theresa M. McIntire, Saskia C. Milton, Carl W. Cotman, Charles G. Glabe Science 18 Apr 2003 : 486-489	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1246
__label__wiki	0.936606	0.936606	(→‎General Info) ==General Info== BigWang will be a senior in 2014-2015 and is a proud member of the [[Mounds View High School]] Science Olympiad in Arden Hills, [[Minnesota]]. BigWang participated for Mounds View when it won the Minnesota State Tournament in 2012 and 2013. BigWang also competed at nationals those years, when Mounds View placed 23rd and then an astounding leap to 7th. At the [[Wright State University 2013\|2013 National Tournament]] in Dayton, Ohio, BigWang earned his first national medal: 3rd place in [[Designer Genes]]. BigWang continues to look forward towards participating on the rise of the Mounds View team and hopefully [[University of Central Florida 2014\|2014 National Tournament]] in Orlando, Florida. BigWang will be a senior in 2014-2015 and is a proud member of the [[Mounds View High School]] Science Olympiad in Arden Hills, [[Minnesota]]. BigWang participated for Mounds View when it won the Minnesota State Tournament in 2012 and 2013. BigWang also competed at nationals those years, when Mounds View placed 23rd and then an astounding leap to 7th. At the [[Wright State University 2013\|2013 National Tournament]] in Dayton, Ohio, BigWang earned his first national medal: 3rd place in [[Designer Genes]]. BigWang continues to look forward towards participating on the rise of the Mounds View team and hopefully the [[University of Central Florida 2014\|2014 National Tournament]] in Orlando, Florida. {{userstate\|state=MN\|past=0}}	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1247
__label__cc	0.654593	0.345407	you are herehome / blog / The Roman Ring - part 5 Mon 28th May 2012 What a great day’s weather to finish this fifth and final section of the Roman Ring, better even than Day 3 at the end of March. Remember, it was hot and sunny then but we didn’t have any shade and the long straight drove road sections looked even longer than they actually were and, unlike last Sunday, there was no cooling breeze either. An early bonus was meeting Jon Monks on the Wentworth car park just minutes after beginning the walk. Jon was dressed incognito in motorcycle leathers standing next to his magnificent machine. Several of our number hadn’t actually met The Boss before. He and his associates soon roared off leaving us to continue at a more modest three miles an hour through Hexham with historic buildings (Moothall and Manor Offices etc) plus the Market Place adjacent to the Abbey and Shambles. The shade was appreciated as we went uphill via Eastgate past the Northumberland National Park offices to overlook Hexham from Tyneview Terrace. The view from here was stunning, totally unexpected and taking-in almost the whole route of the day’s walk and dominated by a cloudless blue sky, fresh green vegetation everywhere punctuated with patches of bright yellow oilseed rape. Into the trees of Halfmile Wood and on past the Gothic extravaganza of Dukes House with its 35 plus chimneys it was time for elevenses even if a bit late. Onwards towards Dilston Park Farm and the Scout Camp, lots of modern hooped frame tents in evidence and not a single bell tent with the tent walls rolled-up for ventilation, scouting has obviously moved-on since “our” day. A little further-on was the colourful Dilston Physic Garden alongside the Devil’s Water shortly before reaching Dilston Mill which showed some interesting building styles including wooden shingle cladding. Over the road bridge onto the opposite bank of the Devil’s Water we reached its confluence with the River Tyne for a picnic lunch in the sun. A dog walker who we’d seen earlier being taken for a “walk” by his two dogs returned to report seeing two kingfishers a little further along, we kept our eyes open but didn’t see anything. We did hear the child who was making his presence felt for some considerable time however! Along the flood bank past the massive remains of the Roman bridge pier to the present bridge over the River Tyne at Corbridge led us to the ice cream seller on the south side of the bridge prior to a comfort stop on the north side of the bridge, the logistics were falling into place well. The remainder of the route was mainly uphill, some parts steeper than others e.g. Deadridge Lane, the name provides a clue. Crossing the busy A69 necessitated a bit of a detour but we were soon on course for Aydon Castle, with only one minor unintended “deviation” just prior to the footbridge over the Cor Burn, sorry! Coffee, tea or water break at Aydon Castle in the afternoon sun, or just a quiet sit down – why was the “nice shady spot” where the castle wall bulged out and overhung reserved for me I wondered? Onwards gently uphill towards Halton, a lovely hamlet with beautiful views southwards over the Tyne Valley from the delightful little church. The topiary in the well kept churchyard was impressive as was Halton Tower and its manicured garden and lawn. American tourists would consider this a quintessential English scene. The final few hundred metres up to the Military Road revealed lots of “lumps and bumps” either side of our route, a combination of both ridge and furrow and the purposely unexcavated remains of Onnum Roman Fort. Turning west parallel to the Military Road took us back to the cars at the Portgate roundabout where the important north-south Roman Dere Street intersects the line of Hadrian’s Wall. The much later Military Road was constructed under the supervision of General Wade following the Jacobite Rebellion; he died before it was completed. It is interesting to reflect that logistic and communications routes remain just as important today hundreds of years after the Romans begun the process. The cars were like ovens so doors and hatchbacks were flung open whilst we changed footwear for the drive home. The Errington Arms across the road looked enticing but was closed on Sunday afternoons after they had served lunch, oh well. Thank you to everyone who has made this series of walks such a delight, never a dull moment, well, except for the dull wet days but even they had their moments. Those of us who knew and walked with Jim on many occasions would like to dedicate this lovely day’s walk to his memory. We will miss the friendly banter, repartee and leg-pulling in his soft Scottish accent. Jim would have appreciated the irony of a pub being closed at the end of a walk on a hot day and would playfully have tried to negotiate a cheaper price for a 99 ice cream too. We will eventually have a drink on his behalf and he would laugh at that too, we will have to pay for it ourselves! He was a lovely man, always fun, interesting and a genuine pleasure to walk with. RNH	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1257
__label__wiki	0.505496	0.505496	Fifth Period Is Facebook Why schools should stop blocking social network sites. By Nicholas Bramble Dec 27, 200910:38 AM At a suburban school district near Washington, D.C., the most popular teacher happens to be a local star on YouTube. Unbeknown to him, students with cell-phone cameras have videotaped him dancing to “Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em” and other songs taught to him by the students. Less sweetly, when another teacher from the same school Googled the school’s name, she found videos showing students getting into fights with one another. They posted the videos to their MySpace pages and debated who had the better fighting skills. The teacher also found footage from a set of girls who had filmed themselves dancing suggestively in school stairwells. These videos were disturbing, inappropriate, and often exceptionally well-produced, with multiple camera angles and sophisticated editing cuts. If the school administration knew of the videos, they would be deleted and the teenagers responsible for them would likely face suspension—including the ones who taught their teacher how to dance to Soulja Boy. Schools have had a nearly unanimous response to Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube: repression and silence. Administrators block access to these sites because they think it’s important to keep classrooms free from the perceived harms associated with social networks—harassment, bullying, exploitative advertising, violence, and sexual imagery. But this is shortsighted. Educators should stop thinking about how to repress the huge amounts of intellectual and social energy kids devote to social media and start thinking about how to channel that energy away from causing trouble and toward getting more out of their classes. After all, it’s not as if most kids are investing commensurate energy into, say, their math homework. Why not try to start bridging the worlds of Facebook, YouTube, and the classroom? The main reason is fear. Megan Meier, the 13-year-old student in Missouri who committed suicide after an ex-friend’s mother created a fake MySpace profile to humiliate her, stands as a warning against school involvement with the intricacies of kids’ online social lives. In response to cyber-stalking and online solicitation of minors, the House of Representatives passed a bill in 2006—the Deleting Online Predators Act—that would require schools to block students from accessing sites like Facebook, MySpace, and LiveJournal. The Senate has put forward similar proposals. And even without a Congressional mandate, many schools have already taken the initiative to ban students—and teachers—from using these sites. Bad idea. Researchers have already enumerated the benefits that kids can get from traditional media. Watching Sesame Street or Blue’s Clues improves children’s problem-solving skills and school readiness. Teaching students how to use word-processing software, Web-design programs, and video-production tools is a proven way of refocusing at-risk teens on school, and, eventually, getting them jobs. Social networks can also pull in students who are otherwise disengaged, because they draw on kids’ often intense interest in finding new ways to communicate with one another. How can teachers bring social networking into the classroom? For starters, students could talk about what they’re doing on Facebook and company, map out the ways they’re making connections with one another, and share videos and software they’ve created. Once the conversation gets going, teachers could figure out whether some kids were being left out and find ways to increase those students’ media literacy and bring them into the fold. Teachers can manage the project by selecting the best content and conversations, and incorporating it into other parts of the curriculum. If a student created an entry on Wikipedia for a local band or sports team, other students could work on revising the entry and building it into a larger local history project. The audience for school projects need no longer be one hurried teacher. Schools could also find students like the ones who made the stairwell dance videos and get them to produce a school-sanctioned video with a better subject—the re-enactment of a literary or historical scene, for example. This isn’t as simple as a teacher saying, “Why don’t you write a poem about your frustration, rap it on video, and put it on YouTube?” Instead, a teacher could assign students the task of filming a scene from The Scarlet Letter in the stairwell, identifying the dynamic of shaming in the novel, and writing about how it might be playing out in their Facebook news feeds. In math class, students could develop statistical models and graphs of the patterns of information flow in their social networks. To understand how advertising works, students from different backgrounds and with different online habits could compare what’s being hawked to them. And for a school journalism project, teams of students could aggregate other students’ narratives from blogs, Facebook, and Twitter and compile a real-time collective analysis of the state of their educational union. In the process, teachers could also gain technical skills and be in a better position to head off future online trouble. Consider this recent MySpace post from Washington, D.C.: “I swear man when I see Martin and Kris on the bus they going to get it, Trina u a snitch, me and Bobby going to beat the shit out of them” (names changed). A school psychologist who knew about it could talk to the kids involved in hopes of preventing a real-world fight. Schools also stand to gain from harnessing students’ budding tech expertise. Rather than relying on private companies like Blackboard for expensive software, schools can get students who are taking computer programming to develop social media tools, apps, and platforms for creating and sharing class projects. These projects could then go on a school’s Web site, in an iTunes-style store. Moodle, Ck12.org, and Sakai are great examples of how schools are using this new kind of open, cost-effective learning. Some teachers and administrators might object that such proposals inadvertently reward students for online misbehavior. But there are ways to discipline students other than through the typical punishment of suspension. Editing videos is slow and painstaking; a student could be made to stay after school or miss a free period to work on it. Another objection is that proposals like these break down the distinction between the schoolyard and the classroom, and could allow mean and anonymous student gossip to further invade children’s lives. To be sure, the classroom does serve as a sanctuary, sometimes, from petty concerns and conflicts. But slamming the classroom door on social media just makes the virtual world more of a waste land. A hundred years ago, John Dewey warned that when teachers suppress children’s natural interests in the classroom, they “substitute the adult for the child, and so weaken intellectual curiosity and alertness, suppress initiative, and deaden interest.” By locking social networking out of school, teachers and principals are making exactly that error. Instead, they should meet kids where they live: online. Become a fan of Slate on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1258
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__label__cc	0.557321	0.442679	A publication of the AIM Institute Tech News and Trends K-12 Tech Education Tech Career Development About SPN Top 10 Moments of Year 1 in Des Moines The Des Moines launch, our virtual "Grand Opening" of sorts in this community, took place on January 14, 2010 to coincide with the launch of our site redesign (see "Welcome to Silicon Prairie News Version 2.0"). Our first post on a Des Moines company, however, dates back to September 2008 when Jeff Slobotski talked with Danny Schreiber \| January 3, 2011 \| Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, Misc, Series Screenshot of our September 2008 interview with Lava Row. The Des Moines launch, our virtual “Grand Opening” of sorts in this community, took place on January 14, 2010 to coincide with the launch of our site redesign (see “Welcome to Silicon Prairie News Version 2.0“). Our first post on a Des Moines company, however, dates back to September 2008 when Jeff Slobotski talked with Nathan T. Wright and Hillary Brown of Lava Row – “SPN interviews Nathan Wright & Hillary Brown of Lava Row (above) – but we didn’t start regular coverage until a full year later when I became the first official Des Moines contributor. Looking back at our first official year in Des Moines, here’s our Top 10 Moments of 2010: 10. Official Launch of the Des Moines Edition The site redesign, which premiered in January, allowed us the technical capability to have a branded “Des Moines edition” that provides a unique experience to our community throughout Iowa. The redesign assures that the most relevant content is shown to our readers based on their geography and has been the basis for many of the successes that we’ve had in the past year as we’ve grown from an Omaha startup into a regional one. (See: “Welcome to Silicon Prairie News Version 2.0“) 9. Our first Des Moines-event, the Creative Capital Pitch Session A few weeks after the Des Moines edition launch, we held a Creative Capital Pitch Session (CCPS) in town. It was the fourth CCPS produced by Silicon Prairie News (the first three were in Nebraska) and was one of our most popular. We had 22 people submit pitch ideas for round one and the top eight were chosen to present live to a capacity crowd of over 60 people. A panel of judges narrowed the field to three finalists and Alexander Grgurich was voted the winner for his idea of a collaborative workshop space for home brewers, Brewspace DSM. Thanks again to everyone who participated, particularly our sponsors the Technology Association of Iowa and Paragon IT Professionals. (See: “Brewspace DSM wins the Creative Capital Pitch Session“) 8. PrairieCast, the first SPN podcast, premiers I’m a huge consumer of podcasts for education and entertainment and was very excited for the opportunity to launch a podcast based on Silicon Prairie News content. I immediately connected with Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web, a well-known pioneer of technology podcasting in Des Moines, and he agreed to co-host and produce the show. We launched in February and had Ben Milne, founder and CEO of Dwolla, as our first guest (see: “PrairieCast: Ben Milne of Dwolla“). The podcast was produced weekly for most of the year but went on hiatus in early Fall due to conflicts on time commitments. We’ve been working on a PrairieCast “redesign” the past several weeks and look for a premier of the reformulated show this month. (See “Teaming up with Andy Brudtkuhl, PrairieCast podcast launches“) 7. Dorm room startup stories: Chegg, Hatchlings and Gamerosters.com Three of my favorite stories from the past year involved the formation of successful companies that sprang out of dorm rooms at Iowa State University. Each has evolved and grown out of the dorm room-startup classification and are now doing business on a very large scale. These entrepreneurs, Aayush Phumbhra, Brad Dwyer (left) and Brian Kaldenberg, respectively, each took a risk to build a company out of a need or want they discovered as a student and that risk has paid off for them thousands, or millions, of times over. (See Silicon Prairie News tags: Chegg, Hatchlings and Gamerosters.com) 6. The Silicon Prairie Party at SXSW: Des Moines Companies represent! Early in our planning for the annual visit to the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas we decided we wanted to put on a party to celebrate and showcase companies from the Silicon Prairie region to the rest of the world. Officially dubbed the “Silicon Prairie Party presented by Big Omaha,” the party was a lot of fun and was quite packed both before and after Big Omaha-presenter Gary Vaynerchuck showed up with dozens of cases of wine for an impromptu “Secret Wine Party.” We asked companies in the area to participate with us and I was quite proud of the number of Des Moines companies answered the call. We were only a month or so past our Des Moines-launch but Performance Marketing, Palisade Systems, Uppward, Lava Row, and SmartyPig all jumped on board. Preparations are already well underway for another Silicon Prairie Party at SXSW so contact me if you’re interested. (See “SXSW: The Silicon Prairie Party + #SecretWineParty = Lots of fun“) 5. Event coverage: Prometheus Awards, Startup Drinks, BarCamp, TechBrew, Lava Camp, 80/35, Heartland Greenup, etc. It’s been our pleasure to cover both local and regional events aimed at the Des Moines creative class this past year. We do our best to be involved in as many such events as possible. Sometimes that means planning the event, sometimes it’s attending it, and sometimes it just means adding it to our comprehensive events calendar. The ones named above are just a few of the great ones in the area. If you’re planning one that’s not on our calendar – let us know! 4. Pongr comes home to Iowa – an anecdote from Zach Cox I met Zach Cox, the co-founder and chief software architect of Pongr, at Startup Drinks this summer. In our first chat I mentioned to him that I work with Silicon Prairie News and he not only said he was aware of us but that our coverage of startups in Iowa was a small factor in his decision to move back to Iowa. He’s a Marshalltown native whose career had taken him to Boston and Toronto where he eventually co-founded Pongr. He said that reading Silicon Prairie News from afar helped him in realizing that there was a burgeoning startup community in that area and that it would be a good place to grow Pongr. We certainly don’t take any credit for Pongr’s success but love to hear that our work played even the smallest part in Zach’s decision to bring Pongr here. (See “Pongr’s Zach Cox talks about mobile tech & expanding Iowa team“) 3. Dwolla Stories If I were to tabulate our 2010 stories based on topic, I’m guessing Dwolla would be near the top. It’s a combination of founder Ben Milne’s willingness to let us behind the scenes of his business as well the fact they made so much news in 2010. That willingness was never more apparent than on November 22, the day the news broke that Dwolla had completed their fundraising, when Ben gave us an exclusive, in-depth look at his Series A capital raise (see “Dwolla closes $1M Series A Round“). As always, Ben was open, candid, and extremely appreciative of what Des Moines and the Silicon Prairie region has contributed to the success of his idea. It’s been great for all of us at Silicon Prairie News to get to know Ben over the last year and we wish him and his team much success with everything on their plate. (See our Dwolla coverage at siliconprairienews.com/tags/dwolla) 2. Partnership with the Des Moines Register’s Juice Magazine We’re always looking for ways to further get the word out about the innovative companies in the region. We started a few content syndication partnerships earlier this year with Omaha media companies in the hopes of getting our coverage in front of new readers (See “Announcing our partnership with Omaha.com“). This fall, a similar deal came together with the Juice Magazine here in Des Moines. Juice is primarily a print publication and is widely read by all facets of individuals in the young professional demographic and we’re excited that this will put our content out in a new form (print) as well in front of a much wider audience each month. (See “Announcing our partnership with Juice“) 1. The Des Moines Edition Contributor Team expands Nearly a year after the Des Moines edition launch, we’re finding there is more content than our team has bandwidth to cover. For that reason, we’ve brought on three new contributors: Levi Rosol (right), Christopher New (not pictured) and Dan Beenken (left) to help out. Levi and Christopher are contributing locally while Dan is breaking us into the Cedar Falls market. We’re looking to expand the team even more in the next year because we know there’s more stories to cover in places like Ames, Iowa City and in other parts of the state. We’re delighted with the response we received in our first “official” year in Des Moines. 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This one, this is Let's see. Yeah, your boy boy. I was the SportsCastr playing in background. Apologies for that suit. Everybody's watching. Man seems to be coming around 10, 15 years that we have a He has a show Boehner right now, but yeah, just going to stay and chat about some MBA stuff first and foremost put up a really short clip on Alec Berks. Uh, go check that out the videos about, like, five minutes long just showing you some of the benefits they might bring as an offensive guard. The fact that you know, he shot you're shot. Rude opening three past year, combined with the hey spent with the Warriors and the 70 sixes his shot really well from the corner threes or something that Tom Thibodeau wants to emphasize on this season on book. He's not gonna be a world beater. He's probably gonna get more than 30 minutes a night. Um, I'm not expecting that, but given how Tom Thibodeau likes to use his guards he likes, especially when Derrick Rose went down like his guards. Guys like Butler, Aaron Brooks like globs, guards be able to go is so able to space the floor, especially from the corners. He had this. He's had this philosophy on the corner threes for years, right? There's not the first year of the Knicks. He's been talking about this. The world we talk about. The Bulls. Um, sweet everybody in the chat, By the way, Andy Garcia King on 61. Guy most Elijah Flip J. J like Morgan. So yeah, check out the video. Alec Berkman, this is real quick. About five minutes. Just emphasizing his, uh uh, you know, emphasizing his, uh, his value as a role player. And when you talk about world players again, you know, this is the things I was I was crying about when fizzles here, you know, establishing an identity, uh, offensive and defensive philosophy so that your younger players have a room at the way they have to get better at. Right. So a guy like Knox last year we had Thibodeau for the past two years, right? You know, not so. Probably have been put in a better position to take more corner threes. Um, be more depth that even though it's on him, it's on not to improve himself. saying, Frank Sanctuary? No, even RJ. You know, you have to give a roadmap to these younger players. These guys were teenagers. They don't spend much time in college. I mean, even in high school, for the fact that it's so physically gifted versus everyone else usually have more dominant. They'll have to learn to find the nuances of the game. So having a role player like Alec Burst can help replace Period right 11 is competition to those guys can do at an adequate level. They get proper playing time. Um, that's gonna be able to like I said, Get provide a roadmap to these young guys is to better positioning a situational basketball, learning where to be on the court, the right time, learning we get the ball to at the proper time. A guy like Albert, obviously, he's He's not a superstar, but we look at him. His foul is foul. Jori, I believe, was hot. It's hires, and I said in the video is higher than Mitchell Robinson's, uh, Juice, Randalls and RJ barrettes, Right? So you're talking about a guy who can at least compared to the restaurant team, you could draw files which you want a lot of your second to do, especially in teams they're going to run. You want them basically, slow down the game, get easy buckets in the line, put some of their key players in foul trouble, throw their game plan, throw them off their game plan. Right when they kind of game. See, just just to somebody just said we're semi semi is coming. He's doing a episode right now, So you'll be here about around 8. 15 8. Oh, yeah, we have a lot of talk about we talk about, you know, going hey, with the contract basically chose for this for the Money way could talk about talk about, uh, David straight us and getting five picks and 23 picks and two player Excuse me. Talk about Austin Rivers and his impact was essentially, we can talk about this with junior him seeking Mahmoud Abdul Raouf to him. Man got blackballed. FDA but Dennison Jews going him Thio fix the shot. Hey, needs a badly. Hey, needs a really bad He has a really we're hitting a shot and it is really holding him back, but I think just probably development uh You know, I think coming into MBA way too early again. These lies, guys. Just people talking about money and Oh, yeah, they could think they should be making money. But when it comes to skills again, a lot of these technical skills are not properly developed. You know, this guy basically got him from a mixed aviators dunking where basically, is both his knees were taken out. He had a challenging both his knees, and this guy was still jumping like a freaking kangaroo. You know, I'm saying on Look what happened with the Mavericks, right? He averaged 13 to 15 points his first year, and he got pushed out because of Luka on day. Couldn't find value for him as a off guard. Right. So that is what you're gonna move. Move up to our roof is definitely. While we could talk about bam out of bio 106 $163 million extension from the heat. Doc, why could you make me the ambassador play? But anyway, uh, yeah. I mean, that is glorious. Um, then you have Terry Rozier flirting with the Clippers. We like the tweet with the Hornets. Basically with someone saying that he fit with the Clippers, which he probably would because it be a scoring guard. Because that's not a team that that was the only team of both George and Hawaii. Probably go more is Oh, um, that you probably expect. I mean, people are germs. Bicycle, ice or the and the guy just need have a scoring guard. Obviously, your boy, um your boy uh, Patrick Beverley is not doing it offensively. He's just not that type of player is probably better off coming off the bench or asking the other team second units, uh, their scores to keep things in check. Yeah, Brennan Ingram also got a big contract to was a five year 158 was it? We're bringing get And everybody's saying that Talk. Oh, man, we should get breeding dogs. So this time and time again would be nice. If it is nice to throw in the contract, CBO take it. But there's no way that that that pelicans team and I put money I put on it. The pelicans could redo the draft. They'll probably take your boy on my boy. My son John Moran e. I put money on it if they could go back and redo that draft because again the best ability is availability. And a guy like Zion? Yeah. The dunks in college, er I watched so many players. I've watched so many players in college throw all these beautiful dunks, these explosive plays And he couldn't replicate that same so called dominance on the N B. A level right, and I'll give it to Zion. He has great feet around the basket, right? But he has a space of full while my time, my little spurt team. He doesn't. He's not a good shooting yet, right? He still needs to be around. The basket would be most effective. He's a good pass. He has a good passer. But again, available is the best ability with a kid who looked like it was 2 96 6 to 90 already coming with a bad knee injury or meniscus, which I believe is the hardest. The hell out of all the injuries, McCool Minusca, not This is the hardest Thio and his body is ready. Ebola, which is like the worst form, superb, etcetera. Go check out Ben Saunders. Video on this is the worst body type tohave regards to support that you have to exert a lot of hip torque explosion put money on it. That pelicans team would redo and take Jabarin. Yeah, my son is Demitra, But I got I got several sons, man, I got several sons. Yeah, we were going to give Hayward four years. Yeah, yeah, but you know what that says about Hayward, though? That says that Hey, where he knows that his body is not the same anymore. Simple is that he knows that his body is not the same anymore. He can't run like that. He can't be. He knows he's not gonna be a top notch players. So you you are a player that the spotlight and the pressure could be on him because he probably knows his body because he knows his body is just kind of little broken down. He had to Ridiculous injuries. What I'm saying, um, it's unfortunate, but look, he took the money. I can't I can't blame you. Took the security. Now, is that a blessing? The skies, But next probably. I mean, even I was talking about Oh, should not that we should get what we should go out and get one free. But if he's available for cheap, you get him. And so now he's going with cheap, get her. But maybe the next. Have something. I don't know what they're building again. People coming out. No, you I'm not handing next. I just don't know what they're doing. Maybe that's a good thing, right? Clandestine. It's possible. Be secretive. Don't let anybody know what card you're holding. When I look at this team, it's a lot of. It's a lot of one year deals, and we have a lot of younger players on this team. Now I will say about Tom Thibodeau. Yes, people say Lee isn't like younger plays. But even Tom Thibodeau's well, too, is that he likes with his offenses. He's not a guy without a vision. His offenses go Look, you don't look at how his team played with him without their grows. Look, you know how the wolves played, right? Can you Great players, He can. He can he can. You run certain place into the ground. Maybe he has that to him as well, too. But I think what Tom Thibodeau with this team, it's is gonna be a lot of these younger kids is not to put up a shut up man again. Frankly, Lucchino's a guy with for each and every day. But I gotta go online and arguing people about Frank. This is that they're a bunch of guys in this legal done move improved on teams that trash. But they had two or three coaches in the span of two years or so with the G. M s is a bunch of turmoil, upheaval. These guys have improved. So is it that the Knicks of drivers so bad that we don't have any of those guys? We're driving really legit. Don't have any talent. Those guys really aren't. Are they not really that good or they're not playing up to the level of ability they can. Like I said, the first two years, especially in physical, is here. If I'm a rookie, I'm I'm making as many aggressive mistake's possible. I'm trying my best to push the envelope. I'm not going to sit here and allow the NBA or allow this terrible coach or allow this GM or the ownership. I'm not allowed to dictate to me my career. Okay, you guys suck. Okay, Not you. Wanna be a pump? All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna take your spot. Why do you think Marcus Morris was so successful? And I have to say so. Mark shows it was a veteran Marcus Morris in Globe like that or any other team. If Marcus Morris played like the way you play with the Knicks, he would have gotten a bigger contract for some somebody else. Obviously. Puts here in there. That was good. But he played like he played like a borderline go to guy with the Knicks. Borderline. I didn't say sorry. You say superstar, but a borderline go to guy. We could depend on him to make big shots to play. Isolate, hit the three play decent, decent defense. But he saw that he came to the next. So people of food. That's why I love markets more so much. Man, I got so much respect him and I say I love him but got so much respect because I see him and is like he didn't allow any of the situation. The cir*stances dictate anything to him. Marcus Morris could have came here, played a role player, went off and sign with the Clippers. Probably have got pricing. We have traded me for a second round of being plays good. He's like, No, I'm a ball out and he wanted to stay here. So I'm saying, Man, MBA is not It is not. It is not a Children's league, bro. It has Children in it. Why do you think there's so much turnover? Why do you guys think there's so much turnover? So many talented players each and every year come to India and so many of them go right back out and play overseas. Quick, get a job here and there. Because this league is not for little kids. Man, as much as watered down is compared to other errors, it's still not little kids league man, you gotta put up a shut up, Frank. You gotta put up a shut up. Yeah, you've been shooting whatever. 40% from 23 but you're not taking enough for them. You're not. Let me see how many threes friend has been taking this season or took last season. It sucks. Responds Guy's name, leukemia, things to shot 32% from three on the attempted 2. But I think from corner three shot like 40%. But what is that? How many threes is detail? Like 11 a year. You got to find it like a finds that advance shooting. There's also my with frank man like dogs. You allowed you allowing the cirstances dictate your value in his league. I want Teoh a game. Locks e think corner threes is somewhere here. Hold up, E No, Corner three is around here somewhere. Why is it not sure? But I'm trying to find corner threes. I know it's something around here because I've seen it before so that they would that they would. Frank man is like a root for these guys. Man, anybody's a homegrown product route. People saying I'm coming up the Knox and I'm coming up to Knox. But you gotta be aggressive in this league, bro. This week doesn't wait for nobody. Man, this does not wait for nobody. And you're on a bad team like you gotta be uber aggressive. I right. That's why I appreciate RJ. Yes, RJ has all these. They say all these lower percent of what? He's aggressive. I like that because I can pull it back and then refinance game to make it even better. But if you're not aggressive, what what am I working with? If you give me a lot of dough for pizza, I can cut off a piece. I cut off a piece. I only need this much for pizza and I make the best pizza, Not Ray's. Pizza is the best in Brooklyn, by the way. Best in New York, best in the world. Watch your mom. But if you give me a little piece, I'm like, What can I do with this one slice? I don't What? So I don't like when people make it seem like? I don't know if I root for these guys every single day, bro. I just at one point you Sometimes you gotta grow up, man Mr Robinson and and Sit made an excellent point on one of these shows. Not last. Or maybe it's show, but maybe the show. Maybe last Almeida get a great point to show you said a guy like Mitch Robinson spent all this time in the summer, and you practice all these three pointers and stuff. Where's your better footwork? Where's your defensive aen? Drills better a footwork to make sure you're not jumping in the air form for for head fakes, using your height to probably defend, usually a feet around the basket to create, uh, moves to get to the cover where those moves the three. All that stuff is cool. That that's fine. But we seem for two years that, you know, maybe you might do it, But you have to start. You have to start to work on moves that better fit you as a big man is not saying he's gonna go back to the basket game, but he could have a few dribble moves we could spin. Create space. He has. He has a long steps. Create that one long step spin right in the basket. So I mean, someone said, just because it's not well, let me answer. Let me tell you this. They may pull like this, and if they're working on it and they're not, they're not is not shown in the season. That's even worse. That means they're just not that good. You put all this hard working and it doesn't show up on the court. That means just not enough. So is that the case, Grant first Rogers. Maybe maybe these guys aren't good enough. Maybe you've been drafting terribly past for years. What I'm saying, I'm just saying I'm not saying that, you know, It may sound like sometimes I sound like, Oh, you gotta be in the gym for someone. But you're on a bad team like the Knicks, bro. I don't wanna hear about fortnight. I just don't wanna hear about it. You know, what I mean is that you're studying and you keep feeling test your parents that you're playing video games. And I'm just like, I don't want to hear about you wanting the neck, the new PS five or something like that or PS four back then that it was PS one PS two. I don't wanna hear about you went down to get your grades up. That's what it is. I don't wanna hear about these guys or anything else. Not next. Now, you could do that on your own time. But you better do that in private. Because as mostly as long as the Knicks are bad, as long as you're not delivering, no one wants to hear about any extracurricular stuff, man. you're making millions of dollars and people who are working at pay for Knicks tickets that they really probably should be buying because they want to see a beloved team winning. I'm not one of these fans that say I don't insult people. I know I don't come in. People's personal. I'm not want these people operate you and act like a P because, you know, you had a bad game. You walk into the locker room, I'm gonna safety. I got security. I'm talking. I'm not one of those people. I think those people are trash. But, you know, if you're not showing me progress in the court, how can I support the product? How can I Why would I want to buy jerseys? Why would I want to buy tickets? What I'm saying, So I'm hoping that look, they got my mood. Abderraouf. DLJ's working him. Hopefully D j also needs to I wish, you know, I don't know about what it is about this G. I just don't think that he's He has to go to that Trey Burke. Well, we get that Trey Burke reform, right? You got to go down to the G legal for in this game to be a proper point guard because it's not just the shooting is also decision making. I've seen him where we had, like, 14 seconds off the clock. He didn't get past anybody. I forgot who I could see the play now and I can't remember who it was. Maybe when you play Indiana e remember, because I put in my Instagram video, there's two shot a shot on somebody and they blocked the crap and it was like the worst decisions. Like though you created no space. I mean, the guy had good defense, so you should just pass it out. I'm saying, Let me see what you guys are saying. You're bugging their and your three go to moves happened with time. That's false. Um, it is about to get literally. LeBron James had no go to moves down low in the post, spent one year Olajuwon. His post production went up exponentially. His normal. His regular season average didn't really go out, and it was like the same thing. But his post. His postgame went up exponentially. This guy who came in MBA really couldn't shoot, didn't really have much for post game. So it's all about the time of the work you put in. I'm from the Kobe Jordan school. Where is like you put up a shut up? I'm not going to sit and wait till game. Ah, Year seven. Where we got to resign you. Then we start to see the But that's not how basketball goes, bro. That's not Whoa, that's not That's not that's not a basketball goes room like you make way too many excuses for bad for bad play. I want usto this, right? Yeah, a lot of these guys, Yo, Stephen Jackson said it right, he tells his players, Do not care about basketball. And you know, the thing is, I'll say this about these basketball players. Now I'm giving this'll legal. All these guys have been playing. They play basketball 24 F and 74 since there were 89 They're getting groomed as little kids to be basketball stars, right? So the the wear and tear mentally I can see how it could break down the player where they just don't care anymore. I can totally understand that, but once you're on this level, there are expectations of you. Like if you don't wanna pay more, you know, you could leave. You could go Fair enough. If you're playing, if you're in the lead. I'm just saying, But I can't understand the weird hair, man. These guys in the system is dirty. Man system takes advantage of life. These young kids man is discussing it When these kids don't make it, man is like, it's disgusting. It's a very discussing. Uh, let me see some of your comments, man. Zion is better than Ingram. Um, how is he? Better in England? What? What does I am done to show that he's better in England? Does he project better than Ingram? Still projections, right? Anyone at least at least had m v p like season. Zion hasn't fair enough. He's a rookie because I am came and he can't. He hasn't even been healthy enough to stay on the court. All right, we were hoping right, but I wouldn't go so far. And if that was the case, as I was so much better in England, I put money. They would have resigned so quickly or they would have given way to deal with you and we'll move on from England because I'm pretty sure the teams are interested. There's like, No, he's probably vacation. He's gonna stay with Republicans and this is a guy who last year or the year before the Lakers I remember I wasn't saying this because I always thought it was a talented. I saw. People are, at least in the mainstream media. They talk about how Ingram or he's a But I've heard people call him a bust. I said No, he's playing with LeBron James and he's not a LeBron James type player. He's not a bus, He's a guy. He's a do it all forward. The hit from the mid range, drive to the basket, space out a little bit. That's not a sporty, even though I think he did actually fairly well, I think shot 38%. Is she for three? Let me see. Yeah, he shot you shot 39% last year. He shot 30 33% shot 39% this year, over six point to attempt. Last year, he shot 33% of the 1. 8 attempts right, so people always So anyone was good. I don't care what no one says. Always anyone's guy just thought they realize Run and LeBron James experiment kind of just destroyed everything put away. Because I know that last year the Lakers, with a 1 35 36 games, had a team that was development, but got a piece. LeBron James. Right? Um, so, yeah, everybody again, Please check out the Alec Berg video man. Um, it's up right now is really shorts. Five minutes. I'm also doing also Rivers Video man. Just wanna yze some of these players that come to the Knicks if there's any value, because again, it also want to do a video when I break downtown. Thibodeau's offensive philosophies, um you know, break down his time with the Bulls, take break down this time with the wolves to kinda observe and see how he utilized. I mean, you've seen all the reports, but it was just cool to have a video, put up some some stats and some context to explain how he basically kind of geared his offense or change. Adapted his offense once he wants key players. Can you look at this team right now? Also Rivers, you know, and I will say this about Austin Rivers. This is this may surprise you. It's also Rivers during the playoffs. I can't libro, you know, they did say, you know, his defense is fairly solid. I is he a top nice to fentanyl, But he did rank. And for what it's worth, according to this article by TBN, when he was on the Houston Rockets, he waas uh, why can I read? Oh, he ranked 65th out of 96 point guards in defensive riel plus minus. He says he doesn't get many steals. He doesn't create many turnovers. But according to synergy, he allows 9. 6 point 965 points per possession, which place him in the 50th 50th percentile, right? Most of his issues, interesting enough, are pronounced when the opposing team gets multiple guys involved, so he's probably not good on picking roles. He's probably good on probably following his defender around off of screens and double screens to basically get him away from his prime. His prime ball handler was prime prime assignment. It says that no one wants to narrow rivers chance of getting a stop grows considerably. He knows how the leverages hype, but arguably his most underrated attributes his quickness, a vital ingredient and not getting shipped by leagues. Shift this ball hammers. And here's another interesting stat by your boy for your boy also Rivers. So it says. Uh, it says Aiko is credit is to credit for sparking discussion about Roman's defense. Who the hell psycho? Oh, Kelly ico of athletic. Okay, I tell you, Ekoko, I'm sorry that the person originally was right about it. They said that Eco's to credit for sparking discussion about Rivers defense. His story points into how the 26 year old created problems for Stephon Curry and Klay Thompson, Rivers defendant Curry on 94 possessions in three games, limiting him to 27 points on 11 for 31 shooting. That's pretty good. Basically, Thompson got less success. Oh, no, it says Thompson. Experience Thompson. Oh, yeah, Tom's experience experience greater success. 17 points on seven for 12 shooting. Curry struggles are particularly interesting because outside of his dominance against Houston this season, no other rocket has success comparable to Rivers, including P. Tucker and Chris Paul Curry Port in 84 points in those three contests and did so on 60.5%. Shoo shooting. So awesome rivers. Man, I It's so awesome. Rivers so much, Man, it's awesome. Rivers, I can't libro the kid may have something. And last year he actually shot fairly. Now again, he was playing alongside Westbrook and Harden, which could say a lot right when the Knicks he's not gonna be playing with that type of talent to basically take attention off of him right on. You know, you don't want to kill like that falling back into the I did that. He's some lead point guard because he's not really cool. It was really a a shooting guard. You wanna call him that? Uh, last year, he shot last year. Also, River shot 35. 6% from three off. Four shots, four shot attentions is which is actually I was actually I was highest. So the highest he shot, So yeah, he had a few years. We shot friendly high and relative to attempt. So when he was with the l A Clippers, he shot 37 2016, 17. He shot 37% over four attempts next shot 37. 8% off for 5. 9 attempts. They shot the next day he dipped to 13. 8% of 4.3 attempts. That's pretty interesting. Why don't Yeah, I gotta see. Do you Do you? Do you get a bigger role? So 2018 19 with the Clippers? Let me see. Do you get a bigger role with that team? Let me see. Let me look at his usage. Oh, so his uses 2018 and 19. So when he had higher usage, he shot a lot better. So those two years I just mentioned 16, 16, 17, 70 18. He had around 2020. 3 to 20. 6% usage that in the next years, uh, 12, 18, 19. We shot poorly from three. You know, we had about, like, 14 to 15% usage, but then in Houston last year at 15. 6% use became more efficient with the same amount of touches in those other years, man. So Hudson Dixon, are you a Knicks fan? Yes, I am a Knicks fan, so I think he's a Lakers fan. Uh, wow. So we'll see. Man. Also Rivers coming in. Ah, three year deal. So definitely your boy, because if you sit in threes and playing good defense, right that, what does that say about Frank? What would that say about Frank? Because, Frank, this would be his last year. Frank has the ball out. Frank has to give you give you better because you're also trying to have higher usage. Also, really, Really. 8, uh, points last year. Not many 1. 7 assists. He's not really that type of player. Uh, he's shot like I said 35. 6% from three of the four attempts. Frankly, Lucchino has to match that. He has to match that somehow. Give you 36% from three with at least 33. 54 attempts a game because Frank becomes expendable. All services here on a three year deal for for 10 million. That's 3. 3222233 million a year versus Frank is getting what, five million a year. You can't justify giving Frank by me in a year divorce the rivers and more productive than him plays good defense and scoring or can score. Now Granted also is doing alongside other, better players around him. But you know him coming over there is no, like Frank has the upper hand. Frank has been playing with crappy plays around, I guess, but it's not as if people honing in on on Frank. So I'm telling you guys, Thibodeau, with these signings, we might think they're bumming signings. And granted, we didn't sign thes thes guards wouldn't sign these top so called top level players. Maybe this year was not the year toe overpaid for certain players, right? We don't have a philosophy down pack. We don't have the system down pack. Um, even though I still think we should've got Rondo, we should have gotten a high level point. Guards at least be able to facilitate and get players of all right so they can perform at a higher level versus having a point guard who can't believe facilitates. So you basically take out a whole bunch of players that could have happened right there. You know that opportunity cost right? You could have had this play, but, you know, if it wasn't for this crappy freaking point guard the airplane. What I'm saying so e don't know, man. I don't know. Frank. Frank getting paid what? Four or five million? Tell you he's a smart signings in these air competition competition. Signing. That's why I said, if Frank gives you 15 a year 15 13, 15 points per game. A shooting 40% from 33. 544 attempts a game. 30 35 36 37%. Okay, maybe we justified give you a decent contract. Nothing too big. But also Rivers is coming in and again. That's the guy can you probably want to show now again. Also was to me again. I think he's overcoming a college from Duke. I think he left wait early, that first shot, but I don't think they had a winning record that first you do with that person over here to do? Um, probably my favorite of his father, Right? Came off a little spoiled. It's our place. Is that, uh would you, Mac, did you and this This This this guy, First of all, this guy comes in looking like a boot like chef. Don't ever use this picture. Right, man. First of all. If you heard what I was saying about Frank, I was actually saying that getting bringing in Austin Rivers on a three year deal for 10 million when he's been more efficient from the three and is a decent defender puts a lot of pressure on guys like Frank to perform. And I'm saying the conditions with which Frank has performed to justify him even being here next year. You wanna so called resigning this guy Who hoodie. Mac Sujudi, McMahon. This this guy comes in talking trash, man, but, yeah, I don't know who else we're gonna sign right now. They're still talking. About what? D j. Obviously, he's always been signed already. I think they're talking about now. They're talking about Jefty. Oh, but, you know look like this, man. Your boy, your boy. Uh, your boy, uh, Tom Thibodeau has done ah lot. Relatively, a lot with little right. Jimmy Butler came in. Jimmy Butler. Wasn't this highly tired of shooting guard coming in? May do, Obviously, after Derrick Rose went down again a lot more ice, a lot more shots from the post, a lot more shots from the elbow utilizing Jack and know to be a facilitator. Unique facilitator, giving you know, 77 ft center. Couldn't couldn't shoot but could pass out of his is a cassette. Great picks. You guys like Aaron Books? I mean, he at one point was playing with guys like Keith Bogans. Like Keith Bogans made Lowell Deng kind of, you know, providers. Three career. You want to say, even on the day before when you have been there, , you had some really good years, but, uh, found a lot of value and guys like, you know, lol Deng I said Aaron Brooks and the butler Uh, yeah, it remains to be See, I just wonder who the guys again I mentioned Go check out the video Alec Berg that I did on. Do you will see that this value and especially from the corner three and again. Alec Berg is a guy that for most his career was not a guy who's a good three point shooter or like he didn't take many attention. It was this game, and I think that when he's with the Jazz and then he was with the Cleveland Sacramento I think you still looked at as more like a so called quintessential or prototypical shooting guard, right? Kind of just attacked. But you know, when you become when these role players, you know, you learn how to add other parts of the game. And he definitely added the three point shot to his game again. He shot really well from the corner. Three shot 50% from the from the left corner three and then about 47% from the right corner three, which is both above league average. And Thibodeau wants to emphasize this corner threes. I wonder if I could ask you guys, if you guys are paying attention right now, who are the guys you think will flourish? Who? The guys you think that we all called so called called bus or guys that we don't think we'll do great that you think will flourish under under Tom Thibodeau and the guys you think that are kinda gonna falter. Fall by the wayside alongside Tom Thibodeau playing Tom Thibodeau? Because I'm interested because a guy like knocks that three pointer you know, again, he's not gonna have a system he had with Kentucky, but if he's getting a lot of folks from a corner three he has to make those to at least give us a floor level of production to say he's gonna be good, right? I do think that I do think he's gonna feature Frank a lot, especially off the bench, because I think he's gonna value that defense. I think he wants to have a team that can generate again. He said it like, you know, it's point on the video. He said he wants to have a team where you could generate a lot of files. Um, get to the free throw line a lot of easy buckets. Use that to basically a lot of times they use aggressive guards off the bench to kind of throw another teams, uh, their second unit. Or, if they leave some of their prime players and throw them off right. Get some of the top players in foul trouble. Use aggressiveness, uh, draw files to stop another team's momentum, which is smart. Um, that's why Tom Thibodeau he likes his aggressive guards. You know Jeff Teague when he's what when he came over to the Wolves, you know, he's known for being aggressive with the Hawks. Jimmy Butler became uber aggressive. That's where basically found his game. Derrick Rose. Obviously, even Aaron, Brooks and Brooks, basically, you know, came alive of that team right now. I think he went over to Houston and kind of falter. Right? Uh, I think he's looking for a contract, right with Chicago's was at it books. Uh, let me see you guys to say somebody say, Oh, so I asked me a question suits e think this might be a new sub? Uh oh. What up? What up, brother? Bkl Contreras. Entrees? Uh, probably John from Bronx, first of suits. And being from the Bronx, the Bronx is like Iraq, bro. But anyway, New York and I'm the next next legacy When I was 10. What do you think of knows, Rivers? This dude comes in. I literally just talked about all these guys. Except for no, no, no. L Nerlens Nerlens Noel. So what? Rivers again? I think that he's a solid defender can shoot the three is interesting ways with the Clippers. When he had high usage, he shot better. He shot? Yeah, more attempts and a better percentage from three. And then when he kind of got when he went to the Houston Rockets obviously became more of a role player off of Harden and then Chris Paul than harder than Westbrook. Uh, he became, you know, he kind of We found a stroke in the in the last season, right? So I think that him being coming here for 10 million for three years at 3. 33 33 million on then that's a lot cheaper. And frank Obvious. That's another option so that Frank falters or Frank doesn't. Frank has to basically put up or shut up and put a better stats. And, you know, also is gonna come in and again from the article I just read. Actually, let me see if I could at the Post this article. What is from the basketball network dot com also Rivers isn't isn't elite defender better think it says something like that, but it's saying that he's not only defender base better than what people think. Hold on me since text me right now since says Link isn't working and I got the hiccups. It's crazy hold. I'm just gonna take a picture of the link so I could just said it's too soon. So I got like also rivers. Um Yeah, I think that is coming in. Uh, because I'm gonna use the point about these anymore as a shooting guard off guard, but a kid who could defend again. They send this article that he seems to be better off defending ISO, that he knows how to use his hips. And I was using his body to gain leverage of defenders as a driving on, which is great. That's nothing I Frank has done, I think fairly well. Um, you know, they given that they're basically saying he's a solid defender. He ranked 65th amongst amongst 96 point guards and defensive real plus minus right, according to synergy dot com. And I'm gonna sign percentages about 30 bucks a month ago. But they have great stuff. Synergy dot com You want to know, like really *ytics? Go city dot com Se Rivers allows 300. 965 points per possession, which place him in the 50% college. Just average seen drivers. But they said that essentially his best defense comes one on one right where he's not stuck in a pic. Uh, he's not. He's not. You know, several players basically, uh, gallon on him to basically stop him or get him away from the ball handler. So one on one, it seems like he's developed into a solid defender again. You know, I like the fact that Thibodeau is getting guys who fits his offense philosophy. Really well, guys who get the three, especially the corner three, which he wants Guys like birds too aggressive and obviously brings him over. Please, I'm gonna be a big time starting, not the savior of the Knicks, but get guys who fit the role, so at least you have a blueprint. It's the same thing I've been saying about. Physical people are killing me. Old defense. No chance, No physical. Give me the blueprint so your rookies and young players know how to play. This is not Dwyane Wade. Chris Bosh, LeBron James. Have Dwyane Wade dribble or LeBron James dribble on top, beat his his defender and kick out to the perimeter. If he gets caught, gets hot women and I have the way we play off of him. That's not basketball. That's three top notch Hall of Fame players playing together and using this approach talent to win. Remember, even when all the years only won two championships and one of those extremely lucky, so fortunate to do so. No, no, no, no. Nerlens Noel, Um Or like, uh, competition behind Miss Robinson, I think is great. And another guy, I think the thing with Taj Gibson's that Taj Gibson's game really didn't mirror Miss Robinson's. So just to say from the learning standpoint now, I'm not saying no one is the one who's here one of your five minutes going to say it like, yeah, so let's go together. I'm gonna help you Rich Robinson become a better play. Not He's like I'm trying. I'm trying out computers. I'll get another contract. Remember, you turn on that contract? Or was it It's a force for for 70. What was the contract? He could have gone for the Mavericks and better himself and lost, Um, but again, Mr Robinson, Like I said when D. Was here, Mitch Robinson's footwork down low on defense. Not on offense, but this footwork against the fenders look a lot more improve when D. Was here, Right? Um, so it's up to Mitch Robinson to gain as much as you can from a guy like yours alone. Who was a consummate pro who probably I need I'm gonna look actually look up his defensive stats, but I think at this point is probably aim or sound defender, not to say is more dynamic. Right, but smarter defendant Miss Robinson. Um, Mr Robinson. Robinson, obviously, he's in the twilight of his career. Obviously a freaking looking, but he has two more years. He has to learn. Yes, I learned better. Better technical skills of the game, right? Better foot work into the basket. Netherlands No, well, kind of medicine in terms of offense, but defensively could learn from him. We need Miss Robinson to be there in the third quarter when teams are trying to make pushes and trying to make runs. You can't be. You can't have four or 5000 in the middle of the third quarter. We got to take him out and utilize guys like Julius Randle and Taj Gibson defend other teams Front court that that that that can't happen if your premiere defender can't have of your premier center right? Really? Go Bear knows. How do you leverage his body's not jumping for everything he knows. Okay, You might get your shot off. I know Miami. Your face is gonna make it a lot more harder for you to do it. That's and he probably has one of the, uh I'll probably bet right now if you look at the defense is split between defensive field goal percentage in field goal percentage, field goal percentage amongst other players. But players when they play against everybody else. But Corbyn, I'm pretty sure that that that split or that margin is probably the highest in the league, right? Mr. Robb's has learned how to become a better defender against all players. Like people talking about Obi Topping is gonna lead into Mr Robinson. Robinson is not a defender where you wanna be just leading everybody into I'm not again. Help side defense is good. I'm talking about when he leaves his man and the guy still dribbling, He has a pick up his dribble and he could catch Mr Robinson. I'm not sure if he's that type of guy that you wanna you wanna put him into and over time now to get defenders. Yeah, way again. Miss Robson has to improve his defensive game, has to be nice and includes his footwork develop a nice little touch shot from the foul line from the mid range. Within on the baseline, he's gonna have a lot of opportunities. All that three point shooting shot God Shammgod stuff. Now he's showing a lot of threes. He has. He has taken a you have seen videos him practicing the corner three right if he's serious about doing the series about doing it. So let's see. Where is Hunter? Swot weight? Put on a shirt. Uh, but he said Miles Power is gonna be a Knicks sleeper. Let's see, Man, let's see about miles power again. That's He's a six to guard. Had about 35%. Uses last year's numbers dip, but he also had a concussion and a foot injury. He's a guard. We kind of drive to the basket. Shot about. Played about 22. 9% of his. His possessions were off ball shot fairly well off balls. Well, to, um is a good three point shooter. If you look at this look, don't look at his last year. Look at his junior. I think that's a better indicator of his talents. Right. Um let me see. I want to thank D is J. And friend doesn't look like a California chef with, like, a show on, like, the freakin home shopping network or something like that. But TLC or something like that. I want to thank PSG and Frank for being so trash that we have to watch Peyton Rivers next year. Oh, well, so so much for the enthusiasm. Risen. Coming. I agree. I don't think he's gonna be here. Toe. Are we ever gonna get a point guard? Because you tell me, bro, I wanted Look, Frank Jackson just signed with the thunder. I believe so. Republicans are down. What? Three point guards. Lonzo blood. So and, uh, Carol Lewis. But I think they have one more e. Think they have one more? Um, I think they have one more. Um, so I think that lonzo ball trade unless they really believe in blood. So they might believe in blood. So, Stan Van Gundy, I think that blood so fits more of lonzo balls. Vision? Um, type of point guard, right. Aggressive bulldog point guard can shoot the three things I like 33% from three last year. Uh, it may be seen if they want to stick with them because they can't and they find success with blood. So with those younger players, right. Um, then maybe Alonso's up. Maybe the father caused enough ruckus to be like, All right, he's not worth keeping here. Is, like another guard behind. But so unless they're looking to try to trade blood, so But that contract was blood When making 15 year. 15 13. 14 year. I think I was making 11. Is it country thing? Lands was making 11. He signed a four year deal. 33 Lonzo. Yep, 11 million this year. So I don't always happen with him. I just I sent him toe the link. Did you? Yeah. Let me just send us a link. One time, man. You saying he didn't get the link control? Okay. Yeah, a com slash CSS Why f three Beth Shane? Yeah. So, hopefully Sim seizes you may be having trouble getting Yeah, you see you got Hey, Professor Ogilvy. Screw you, man. Uh, really good school. Isa Sub tribe. Blah blah Rosie, Rosie and stuff like want to go to the Clippers? How do you feel about Rosie going to clippers. I think you're thinking they needed aggressive garden score, right? They have a bunch of YSL place or things. I think your land you should net. I haven't watched enough of land you submit, but I thought he would have fit well, as like a space shooter. We could feed it too, if all the tensions on poor Georgia and quiet letter, I guess they didn't really see. Now my interest, How was talking all this trash, All this trash and always a little cryptic tweets and, well, he's passive aggressive tweets. I guess you want to give them money like you went to the Lakers? Would be a bench player. Was the legs to be a bench player, man. He told him trash to the Clippers like dogs. Okay, so why is he asked me about the these guys capping, man. All right, I'm gonna just keep talking, man. Let's Let's get to it, man. Let's get to it. Oh, yeah, I gave you a, uh, but saluted remnant and arrow Evil heart Diehard. Next man will subscribe to the Channel NBK all subscribe, You guys NBK Anyway, for most part, go subscribe to the channel. Subscribe to the channel If you're not already. So who do you guys want at the point guard position again? I want Lonzo. I wish you could've gone, Rondo. Then that's crazy. Rondo went to the Hawks for what, Two years? Two years? Nine million? We went through a two years 50. I'm sorry. Two years. 50 million. And how they got Bob. Donna, *, You got trade young. So he's probably playing behind trade Young, you rather go and play behind trade young that come to the Knicks and probably play start at 2025 minutes at night and lead us then that this is how bad next? Got it, man. This how bad things got even your boy Go ahead, you know that. I think going he was going to take the money. But still, man, this is what is happening, Nick. So the Knicks are gonna again people talking about you and it's not Nothing comes in on Nick's unless we start winning Toy and Bob a tow lfc. Get out of here. That Liverpool crap out here. Manchester United all day, baby. And we won today. Baby, you wanna champions league. Watch yourself, bro. I want Frank to get the job and shows where supporters season. All right, let me ask you, give me. Give me a level of production of stat line for the season that you would be okay with and say, Okay, Frank has turned a new leaf. Give me that. What would be what would be the level production will be The stat line you give me will be like, All right. I was wrong about Frank. Frank has changed. Um, what I'm saying, give me a stat line for that. You talk about Lonzo. Lonzo can't shoot free throws making shoot the three. He shot what, 30 37 or 38%. 37% from three over. 6 attempts this season last season. And that was better than the previous season at 32%. So lines of the shooter just can't shoot free throws. You shot? You shot 50% from the three from the three point line from the free throw line, because again he could. Lonzo can't shoot. Yo, bro, do you want me Thio want me? I just told you the statue right now, bro. I just told you the stats, bro. Lonzo ball can shoot threes. At least last year. He can show you could shoot this. Don't cap out like that. He has to make all defensive team. No, no, no. Because all you guys talk about his defense ain't This is defense in that. Give me a stat line. You'll be happy with that. Y'all say Lonzo ball? I mean, uh, Frank maquina has turned into leave because we have to be objective. Okay, These guys have not been playing good to give us If these guys improved. We can't say and say, Oh, he's a bum because we don't wanna be looked like we're wrong. We gotta say, What is the proper stat line from Franklin? Lykina says he's a legit guard. Now he's a legit off guard. Complain the MBA, Or at least they play the next plane. Pay with the Knicks is like the least you could get. Give me a legit that line, man. Hopefully Frank, Frank, all y'all Frankie's can get a shape up like Guillermo. There's a fade, sucker. I said, suck that. There's a fade clown. Alright, This guy Frank got a double, Double. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You see? Come on, dogs come. All right, Now you're being you're being You're being absurd, man. Now you wanna be absurd. You see, boy, I can't get a shape of it. It's fine, man. You just look like you look like a California chef with that. That's why you making a smile like what is this? Are you like, how you doing? Like, a show or something. But anyway, no, give me a real stat line that you say. Frankly, Lykina has turned a new leaf. Let's do it for everybody. Well, frank and knocks. I already told you I Frank gives me 13 to 15 points. Shoes 30 anywhere from 35 to 38%. 35 better. Percent from three. But at least 3. 5 to 4 attempts a game And give me a free throw away because I think it's free. Throw drawer is like 17% which is terrible. She's not going to the basket is not aggressive. He's not drunk fouls, right? Got to give me a free throw percentage rate at least in the mid in the mid twenties, mid twenties and better you give me that? You give me five assists. Six assists? I've been saying for five assists because you're playing more as off guard. Maybe you may not be for something as much. Maybe maybe Clinton a corner to take advantage of the corner threes. And we'll say Frank is turning a new leaf. Man. Come on, man. We gotta be objective. Guys. We can't be issuing these players all the time. That's unfair, man. We're being unfair with some of these players. Man, The mellow is so trash. What do you say that, man? You ever seen this guy? Please, Jim. A rock in the oh, man, you guys, they're wrong for 12. 7 assists, keep other guards under 30 points. That's respectable. That's respectable, man. That's true. I forgot. We just can't. Uh if he gives me Lonzo stat line, I'll admit I'm wrong. Okay? Okay. Alonso, Stat line. Everybody called us out on this or is a He'll say his hoodie, man, because he has two accounts. One is our party. I believe that's that Z Southeast Asian. So she went to that. Uh, is that Thai? The Thai Vietnamese time mushroom, um, Lonzo ball stats. So here's a stat line for Lonzo Ball that he that Frank Lucchino has to achieve for him. So, yeah, this is even worse than what I said. So Lonzo, frankly could have to put up 11.8 points. 1 rebounds, seven assists. 40.3% from three off off. Oh, he even shot better than what I said. Oh, no. Sorry. Said what? What? What is this? Oh, that's what Sorry. 40% from the field was not great. 5% from three. Like I said, he's had 6. 36 point three attempts. I was even better than what I said. That stuff that's tough for your time and salute. Salute, bro. C M C M Slough. I guess you guys are all coming from from since Channel. So solutions. Simmons is probably coming in. I gave him the correct What's he's trying, Cap? He's doing a show. You get this out. Doing the show is fair enough. He's coming in. So that's what I was gonna give you are frankly, can you got to give you so you just gotta be. He basically be a 33 and e r specialist on the team, man. Yeah, being three and D specialist on the team, man. So starts out with that stock price. Napoli should be doable. Yeah, Be Yeah. We all know you guys are coming from Sim Showman. I can't see you, man. Once the floodgates, the floodgates open the, uh Oh. Seems right here on my battle there. You know what I'm saying? How you doing, man? I'm good, brother. How you feeling? This guy's trying to act like you. I gave him the wrong link. This guy just had another show. You get wrongly if you go in there and look, the link that you gave me says Casey and it's actually CSS Y So Okay, Okay, you can go. Look, go. You win this time anyway. You see that? See that? Like normally. But anyway, like normally, this is a work in the other day talking about random U c e sitting in this anything you notice anything now said Mr Now he's going back on. And I heard another days like yo, man, like people coming at random, man. You know who's going back on? What? Who's going? I'm not what it's about. Julius Randle. I was on. I was on, Uh, Lawrence tears last night Salute Barnes defending Randall to the hill. Not because he's my favorite player, because I think people come at him sideways one. The one time I had e need to sleep that I've been in war, it's just for the past. I don't know how many days and I'm not getting I even get good sleep anyway, So when I was up to, I was on that jump to like four dogs. Morning. Yo, Hey, look, sometimes I do Large says, I don't put the link for you guys Subscribe. And this dude is the absolute beast. Yeah, I want to go on and have crazy, angry Nick conversations, and I'm gonna do it tonight just because tomorrow's a dead day at work. I still got some work to do, so he have imposingly for everybody just to see large taters. Please go subscribe to my guy. Believe he's at 2 31 to 38 salesman, but we get a lot of good traffic. Eso you know is growing. Definitely, definitely. But yeah, man, we have some stuff to talk about, man, with this, this this Knicks team a lot of stuff going on. And this is for some reason, I don't know why, but for some reason, Nick was on there with a toilet. in. I don't know if this is living room or four year or whoever. A toilet? Yeah, he's fixing. He's going knew that. That's what I figured. But yeah, e I would have moved the toilet. Yeah, you don't You don't need it, right? I'm not trying toe on him, but I would have moved the toilet. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. So also got on ice cream. His, um his terrible joke. What was it? Uh, I'm like, What did you say? He said facts. No printer. Your fax. So printer. That was terrible. That was Isaiah level bad not to issue on him, but come on. This is what the Knicks are doing to us, man. This is what the Knicks are doing. We're stuck. We don't got a point guard. We're bringing on guys like Austin Rivers who was not the worst again. Um, first of all this, how do you feel about some of these new signings, man, Like your coach. I mean, there's not, you know, the greatest of signings. E mean, there's There's nobody that I'm writing home about, like, Oh, my God. We signed off the rivers, you know? I mean, there's there's none of that about anyone that was signed. Um, I really I liked I really like to fit in New Orleans. No, Well, you know, uh, you know, to have two centers that can really block shots. Um, you know, a center that is a little bit maybe more, uh, mechanically sound. And Mitch, I still think Mitch is gonna be the starter. Right? Because New Orleans new l can't cover ground the way that Mitch can cover ground. Uh, right. I mean, I've never seen a guy be ableto you know, Block sent to be able to block three point size the way that he came and not foul him doing it. Um, Mixed can play. Mitch really can play the quarterback in that defensive spot. I mean, if you watch, you break down the film and you see him when guys, when opposite opposing teams, are running the screen and roll against Mitch. He is so good that being able toe, you know, let his guy through, get back, see everything that's in front of them, and then make a decision where he has to play defense. All right, so I think that Mitch is still gonna be the starter. Although I think Noel is gonna push him and make him say make him get maybe a little bit nervous about that spot because, you know No, no, I was only 26 years old and he's looking for his chance Thio cash in Azaz. Well, right, I'm saying so you know he's gonna push him, And I think, you know, well, might have some things that Tom Thibodeau likes a Sfar as being, you know, being able to set good screens, understanding some of the nuances of the game. Uh, that might push Mitch Overall. I think Mitch is gonna be the starter and should be the starter on the team. Although he doesn't have some of the other things, you know, the outside jump shot, those type of things. I think he'll be the starter because of what he could do defensively. Eso. But I really do like that signing. I mean, the other guys is just okay. You know, it's not like I'm overly impressed with him. I'm not mad. I'm not overly impressed. I'm glad that they didn't sell out of Gordon Hayward, right? And gave that man 30,000,120 you know, $30 million a year. They were talking and they had actually they offer for him. They were offered him two years. They put it up to four years, but the Charlotte came through and they were like, I'm out, and I'm glad that they did that. I'm excited about the way that they've been able Thio do small moves and collect assets, collect those. Collect all these draft picks. Uh, turns out that the last trade that they did with Davis, the draft pick that they're receiving back is for 2026. 2nd round draft pick. So I'm glad that they're able to do that. Um, like I explained the other day, they're setting the table, right? Everybody wants the Knicks Thio just, um everybody wants the next toe. Just go out and just grab all the food out the kitchen, throw it on the table without no ss or forks or plates or knives or any kind of dishes and just start grubbing right. I believe they're doing a good job of setting the table. You got draft picks to burn. You got 19 draft picks over the next five or six drafts, you got draft picks to burn. You have space which your salary and yes, when you have salary, Eventually you want to, uh you know, you. You eventually want to use that salary cap space for players, right? But they have salary cap space. So if something does happen, you can absorb contracts. You don't have to just say, Well, we've gotta add three players. Three of our young players that are doing well, we've gotta add them into this into this, um, into this trade just because we need to make the salary caps match. No. You still got some salary cap space so that you can you know, you could absorb some of the contract if you need to. Uh, you know, you have picks your set up. I think you're set up to operate Thio. Capitalize on a an opportunity when it's available without having to give up everything. Because you have so many draft picks. And you got salary cap space. Onda Hopefully, after this year, you know, other teams say, and they have some talent over there to, um, s o you know, I'm cool. I'm good. I'm not I'm not upset. A lot of people are mad and, like, Oh, you know, the Knicks should have did this. That and the other thing. And they gotta go get Russell Westbrook and they, you know, they just got a bunch of, you know, stopgap guys. I'm cool. One million, you know, one year, $5 million for these guys. Even Austin Rivers. You know, his his last two years of his contractor, Non guaranteed. I'm okay. I'm all right, you know, And I want to just bank on the development of the young guys. We were just talking about that, you know? You know, if the Knicks were going to get, you know, I know Vegas said the Knicks only gonna get 22 wins. I do think we have a better team in last year on. I think some of our young guys they're gonna take steps forward, especially R. Barrett, right? And I don't think they are looking at that. They think it's gonna be the same. Are they buried his last year? I don't I think he's gonna come in and shoot a better percentage from the free throw line. Gonna shoot a better percentage from the three point line. And I think he might averaged 20 points a game, right? You know, you're bringing in a guy like Obi Topping, which, you know he's gonna have some work to do. But you're bringing in O b topping. The Knicks are gonna get better and all they gotta do. And this would actually be perfect for the Knicks. You can get to where you're battling for that 10th spot and then possibly, you know, get up, get into the playing tournament, right? And maybe, maybe maybe you'll get lucky and you win and get into the A C. Maybe you don't. Maybe you just have those games. Those one or two games could be great for the young guys. And you still got your draft position. If that's what people are worried about, I'm not as much worried about the draft position. So You know, I'm not upset that the Knicks didn't get a bunch of star players or I didn't expect them to, But I'm not upset that they didn't get going. Hayward, I didn't want going here with anyway. Yeah, I I agree. Mostly with mostly points. Um uh, you know, loin Nerlens Noel. I think Noel is. I think it's a good competition for Mitch. Obviously, Mitch is more athletic, But again, you know, I think Mitch not having someone who kind of replicates his game to some extent come in this competition probably hurt him a little bit, uh, where he can probably look to see how veterans defend where it's not about jumping into everything, trying to block everything. Remember, Mitch, How many times would be in the third quarter metric into foul trouble? And, you know, we had front court, so we just had dynamic players basically rip out front court because we don't have somebody like Mr Teoh to be a threat. Right? We talked about this when he's with D J. His best time defensively was with D J, right? You know, we saw less fouls. Um or at least it seemed like you. So less files. You saw more of a discipline game from From from, uh, Mitch? I think so. I just think the veteran competition is gonna definitely help now, Obviously, you know, not just cause I did a video on him, but, you know, guys, check out the video idea on Alec Burkes. I know you said, you know, these guys just roll place, but again for what Tom Thibodeau wants to emphasize, Which is the corner three. You know, Alec Berks Last year is excellent or shot. Excellent. From the three again. He's not a savior. He's not gonna come in be a world beater. But, you know, I think Tom Thibodeau is very He adapts, but he wants guys who could execute what? He was very well, right? So when he again when Derrick Rose went down, You know, this is a guy who utilized guys like Aaron Brooks. This is, you know, this is where Jimmy Butler came to be, Um, and so, you know, he likes to use different looks to use a lot more Look from the elbow, use, um, isolation usedto use a lot more moves from the post, especially with some of his guards. the guy like Alec Berg again, you know, is is a game is not that great. But his three point percentage, obviously, Last year he shot really well. And last year, combined with the wolves and, uh, Warriors and the six years his shot really well from three. His attempts went up on from the corner. Three he shot, like from the left side. He shot 50% from the right side. He shot like 45 40 44% which were both way above league average. Right? And if this is what he wants, you know he's this What? Tom Thibodeau. Once he wants a base level production from some his role players. So guys like Frank? No, where it being? We talked about this before, right? When we talk about physical, you know, you, me and Isaiah way got killed by the Knick fan base when he said that there's no need to come in with the proper philosophy, a proper structure, offensively and defense, especially offensively. So he doesn't have a bunch of rookies with their went around like chickens with their heads cut off. Right? Give him a path, give them specific rose and then let them grow with how their talent dictates. Right? This is how quiet letters going to what he is. This how Jimmy Butler go and see what he was right. Coming, Play defense. Defend the best players and they slowly growing tail offensive roles. And so I think a guy like Alec versus is basically kind of like he helps you with that road map. Is he a world beater? Is he gonna save the Knicks? No, he's not one of those guys. Um, also ribs is interesting, right? So again, not we'll be They're not gonna save anybody. But also, Rivers is here in a three year deal for 10 million, right? That's 3. 33 33 year. That's cheaper than Frank, because Frank is getting paid five million a year. And also Rivers put up the only put up 8. 8 points. But he did shoot. Hey, shot 35. 6% for three or four attempts, right? Um, and defensively, I point out the article before, but TVN, the real basketball network, point out how he was basically adequate is adequate. He's an adequate defense, right? So his his major weaknesses when he got like, You know, taking away off the pick and roll probably goes on the screen is a lot of stuff like that, just physically, you know, at 64 I forgot how much weight he's. You know, he's not the biggest, strongest defenders. But they said that defensively, when he's one on one against ball handlers, he's really solid. Like, you know, Steph Curry struggle against Steph Curry usually kills the Houston Rockets. So again, uh, not to say that these Air world beats by, like the fact that Thibodeau's bringing healthy competition into some of these young players who he may like. But there's a difference between like in a player and let him have carte blanche to do whatever they want versus like, on a plane and say, Hey, I like you, but you got to produce Frank. You gotta produce knocks. You got everybody All you guys. Competition is not for you guys arresting your laurels, resting your draft spots and say, Well, I was drafted there. I'm gonna go to the Mavericks, you know, it's Hey, put up a shut up. Yeah, I mean, so I like I like the competition. I like bringing it and the only person only point guard that I really wanted free agency wise that, you know, I thought that we could have gotten I think we should have pushed with him was Rondo. Rondo went to the Hawks for two years. 50 million Rondo again was and Ron up. I wasn't in the play major minutes again because ladies only average, like, 20 minutes, I believe, 2023 minutes, something like that. But guys, I think that is a master facilitator, right? I put him on the love of Chris Paul in terms of facilitation. Um, I think he would have made Thibodeau's job a lot easier again. Thibodeau's a guy who likes adapt toe offenses and remember where Rondo and different, different teams right when he's with Celtics. He ran into your aunt's interests, Ray Allen, but you know, he ran two coaches who kind of you know, his vision kind of classic. There's, I think, that Tom Thibodeau would have looked at it like that. It's the guy knows he's doing. I'm 11 Rock. They will probably discuss obviously off the game off the court, but I think that they would have had a good relationship because I think they're both kind of hard knows they have their really high level basketball minds. I think that Rhonda would have exposed or helped out where young guys rise up to the levels to say, Hey, this guy should be here next year. Now, this guy is not good enough because Ron was gonna get through those passes, he's gonna look for you. He's gonna get he's gonna facilitate. And either you're gonna execute or you're not. And all you have to do is execute. You don't have to even probably create your own shot myself. Ron is gonna get you. So that's why I got really, really wanted on that and the the thing with Rondo one. I think it's a great contract that Atlanta got were on the two years. 15 million, seven a half million dollars a year. I think that's a good contract. I just think the Knicks, I don't know if they reached out to Rondo or not, but I'm thinking, if they did, Rondo at least wanted more than one year, and the Knicks probably didn't want to do more than one year, and maybe he didn't want to do a contract similar to what Austin Rivers did. Um, that's the only thing that I could think of. Also also, um, you know, maybe tips. You know, he played with tips, maybe tips know something that he's like. I don't want to deal with him. Or maybe he didn't want to deal with him. I don't know. Um, it's hard. It's hard to say so to say I think it has to do more with the contract that the only person that they were willing to give a contract to beyond one year. What's Gordon Hayward? I You know. So So let me ask you this. Well, two questions. We're all those in together. What the hell are we doing as a team? Are we getting up to make one last big trade this year? Are we are we saving up for next year? And are we doing like a soft tank? If we're not doing anything this year where we bring in all these guys to kind of see, we have our young players, But if we if we don't win, is not the end of the world, it's Hey, you know, we're trying to kind of get rid of the the old, you know, afraid I was here from previous regimes. E I don't think there's going to be. I don't think they're gearing up for this summer for another move for this summer or it's not summer. But for this season, Um, I think, yeah, you know, they're gonna try to do something at the deadline. If they do any well, they've got to do something before the season begins because they still gotta spend $7 million to hit that floor of the amount of money that they have to spend, right? So they still have to do something. $7 million is more than any contract that they gave out and free agency. So something is gonna happen somewhere. You know, they'll probably take on somebody's contract. Bogdanovich He looks like he's going to Atlanta. Uh, I don't know if there's gonna end up being a signing trade there, right? So if he's going to Atlanta, I know that Atlanta consign them outright. But there still could be that they end up doing a you know, you know, assigning trades. Or maybe the Knicks can get in on that. I don't know if the Knicks can help. Facilitate. Um hey, we're going to Charlotte because they may have to trim some money so they may be able to help facilitate somewhere in there. But somehow, some way, they got to spend seven million more dollars, right? So that'll happen. Are they gonna make a splash this offseason? I doubt it. Andi, If you're not making a splash this offseason, you know, I don't know who would be available at the deadline. I don't see them doing it at the deadline. They might as well. Cleanup is much Kappas. They can for 2021. And I'm not saying they're gonna land the star, but free agency is gonna be deep in 2021. If you look at you know, there's a lot of players that are getting one year contracts, one year contracts and there's a lot of players that air coming off the books, you know, So they'll probably be looking toe. Look, the Knicks had $40 million this year in 2021. If they waved Julius Randle, they could have $60 million. If that's what they choose to do, they can have 60 million. Who knows what kind of team or how they put it together, right? I'm just saying they can have 60 million while they still have R. Barrett Obi Topping Mitchell Robinson. Frankly, Latina Kevin knocks and they want Dennis Smith Jr. Dennis Smith, Jr. Uh, Emmanuel quickly. Oh, and if they and if they want Miles and they you know if Miles Powell is gonna be on the squad Miles Powell, right, they can have all that money and have every single one of the young guys that they've drafted over the last four years. 53 years or whatever it is right, you know. So so are they going for a soft tank? I think that they're going to try to win. I think Tom Thibodeau doesn't tank. I can't see Tom Thibodeau tanking. I think he's going to try to put the guys in the best position to win, and I think he's going to do whatever he has to do. Whatever player he feels like he has to play in order to win. I think that's what he's gonna do. Um, that's what I was expecting to dio. And then they let the chips fall where they make You know, the fact is, they don't have superior talent, But maybe he could put guys in the right positions so that they play well together in off each other. You know, like you were talking about with Alec Berks, right? A guy that could fit in because he could shoot. You can probably fit into any offense. Hopefully, Emmanuel quickly. You know, he can He can shoot the ball. You know, we haven't seen him play and what he could do now, you know, and whoever else they decided to bring in if they bring in another person, is someone that could, you know, be a guy that could fit in and, um, you know, just fit in wherever they could put him in off the rivers is a good defender, you know? Listen, from the guard spots, you have decent defenders at the guard spots. Besides, maybe Dennis Smith, Jr. Right? Right. You have decent defenders there at the guard spot. The power forward spot is where you're gonna be concerned about the defense. You got good defenders at the at the at the center spot, right? And where r. Barrett, I don't know about Alec Berks and where he is defensively. But R. J. Barrett, he's a good defender. Um, Reggie Book is a good defender, so they've got some guys that can play defense. Can Tom Thibodeau get him to sell out on defense? You're hopefully, but they got some guys that can play defense now, you know, can we score? I think that I think that might be the issue this year. Can we score? Because we got some guys that can play some defense. Can we put the ball in the hole? That inefficient clip s. So let me ask you this, then, because I think this season is gonna be a lot of guys gonna get tested to see where they are at, Um, and if they're gonna be here for the future, right And again, the one year deal is great for the veterans. You got a lot of bunch of you got a bunch of guys, Randall with the team option, uh, Ben Smith Jr and Frank with the basic free agents at this year's final year, who would give me a few players who you think that will who are on the bubble or one that so called position where they may not. They may or may not be here next year, right? Just contraction. It may not be who you think that would fit Tom to who you think will rise above the fray. What do you think might be going next year s so, um number number one, I think, frankly, Latina is gonna rise above the fray. I think the Nixon is gonna have a good season. I really do. We were just talking about it, Um, and obviously, you know, he's a workout videos, and they don't mean much because they're not playing against N B A guys. But I'm looking at some of his mechanics videos. When I see some of his mechanics, it looks very different when he's shooting his shot. One of the things that I used to make me cringe as I felt like his follow through was so sloppy, like it's like his hand just dangled out, just, like, dangled out there a little bit in his arms real long out there. So when I'm watching them shoot, it's a lot tighter. The flick of the wrist is a lot tighter, and the arms not coming to way out here like this is kind of like Boom, right? So I'm like, OK, that looks a lot better, right? And then I'm looking at just the way that they work with him every time you see some of these other guys, you know? You see all this, You know, you see all this stuff in there like they're doing drills that air like all these reed drills and stuff like that, Right? But every time I see when they're working with Frank is very fundamental stuff, you know? I'm saying and really working on, you know, how he's moving house foot feet are moving in those type of things. Um What? He looks determined. If you look in his face, I think he looks determined. He's gotten bigger, okay? And I feel like the environment is gonna be perfect form way. We're just talking about it. Frank comes from a place when Frank was drafted. Remember, he came from the championship game, right? Care for the championship game to the draft. He played and he played with a team. And in a league where and from a culture where things air like serious, right, there's not as much joking and playing and all of this crazy stuff. You come to the Knicks, and now you've got this summer camp feel right? There's boys and Girls Club type of atmosphere where your head coach wants to go to the movies with you, you know, sitting freaking, you know, play, you know, play games with you and all this kind of stuff. And I think Frank didn't know how toe be in that type of environment. When it comes to basketball, you got friends and you like that with your friends. But when it comes to basketball's like like what's happening here? I don't think he knew how to be in that environment when it comes to a basketball team. I think the environment is gonna be very different this year. E think, I think, with Tom Thibodeau and the players that you have. I mean, you look, look at who you got. You gotta jokes the Mitch, right? For the most part, everybody else. Well, you know, Kevin Knox is a young kid. He's gonna be a jokester. So maybe them to a jokesters, everybody else older veterans a little bit more serious. Um, and I think there's gonna be a better environment for Frank Miller, Kina and Tom Thibodeau is gonna have a distinct role for him. I think, frankly, Latina is gonna be a guy that has a really good year. I think Mitchell Robinson can have a good years. Well, I think it's gonna be good for him. Like I just said, he's a you know, he's a jokester kind of guy, but he's gonna be forced. We're having no well behind him. He's going to be forced to mature a little bit, and I think it's gonna help us game. You know, I think that a lot of people really do discount. The young players are gonna you know, there's gonna be a couple of those young guys that take a step forward and people discount that, you know, when it comes to the teams getting better or worse. You know what I like about this chap, man? Uh, they're killing me about Frank and all I say about if you I use they used to call me a Frank Homer to say like, Oh, all you do is just love. Bob was like, what? The team? Because the culture Baba. As soon as I put any criticism on Frank. It's all you hate. Frank is like dogs. Is there any? Is there any great area? I like Frank, but Frank has to rise above right now. This is a hoodie. Your boy overhead. Woody Mac has said that, frankly, Frank gives him Lonzo ball production, which is 11. 8 points a game. Think seven assists 40% from three. Yeah, about 40%. From three off of 6. 56 27 attempts. Then you and he will give him and say, All right, You could give him a contract. You get that. He's good enough. Aside, Do you agree with that? Is that too harsh? Is that too low? I think e hey, shot, What? 57% from the line, right? Frankly, I think Frank will be able to give you 10 between 10 and 12 points this year. I think he can. Frank played with confidence last at the end of last season. The last two months of the season, the Knicks were 500 ball club, right? Frank played well the last game of the season and listen, you know, that's just one game, but hopefully he can carry this confidence over. He was what he he scored his 1st 20 point game in the NBA last game of the season, right? Scored 20 points, 10 assists. I think Frank got more confident and what he could do on the floor. His handle looks a little bit tighter, I think. I think Franken definitely come in and give you maybe 10 points. Well, they give you six success. Um, I'll tell you what I've seen a breakdown where they talked about all the players, like how many times they passed to somebody for a three point shot, right? Peyton was like, um like he passed to somebody for six open shots a game and people shot 34%. Julius Randle was 5.2. Um, Dennis Smith Jr was like one point something Frank Nil. Aquino was like 3.8 times. But when Frank Nail Aquino passed it to him, they shot 38%. Everybody else shot like 34% passes from every other players shot like 34% with frightening Latinos like 38%. How is that? Maybe it was who he was passing to. Maybe Maybe it's because the past is a little bit more accurate. He passed it in the shooting pocket a little better. Who knows, Right. Um so, you know, maybe if guys, they're knocking down shots, maybe he his assist go up a little bit. I wouldn't expect it that much. I do expect he's gonna get more minutes. I think he might be a guy that plays 30 minutes a game if he could stay healthy. Um, I think Frank Millikin is in for a year. A better year. I mean, I could see some things last year. Frankly, Latino, I think, knows how to get to his spots on the floor. He was reluctant. Oh, hey, was he Was he? I guess you could say he was reluctant to shoot it. He was looking to make a pass, but he knows how to get to a spots on the floor. When you put him in situations where he was forced to shoot the ball like five seconds left on the shot clock, he was able to either get to the basket or get a good shot up, converted, get fouled and the quarters ended. A half frightening Latino was able to score when you force him to make a move he was able to do It is the mindset for him, you know? And he was able to do it successfully. E mean, listen, he's got a show. He could do it on the court, right? We can, you know, I could talk and people could talk and say whatever they want. He's got to do it when he when he get out there on the floor. And if he doesn't, then you know his his time with the Knicks for sure is gonna be in the balance, You know, if he doesn't do it, because time is gonna be in the balance. So who do you think is that? And one thing about Frank has been more aggressive. Only a 17.7% file jewelry. That's that means you're not getting too. I mean, 20% is low enough. I mean, you're under 20. I mean, you've got to get to the foul line. You got to find ways to draw contact. I think they should have played it more in the post. Uh, least on that little mid range baseline area. We could post up smaller guards, Um, you know, debt Little where he turns into, like the pain shoots that shot of its empty enough or he has enough space to do so. I've seen make those shots before, obviously, doesn't do it at a you know, a attempted enough, but, you know, work more like Jason can, you know, utilizing more like Jason Kidd and less like freaking Russell Westbrook. He's not a speedy guy. Can't be his guys to the basket, but try to use his size Onders passenger an advantage. You should have more guys moving emotion cutting to the basket if he's in the post, guys flowing out to the to the top of the key or to the other Thio Wing, where area where he is or he's facing once he's posting up. Um, you know, utilize from looking a bit eyes gonna be tough. Now who do you think I really have in mind? Who I think you're gonna say. Who do you think is gonna flounder under? He's got a flounder under Thibodeau. I don't know who's gonna found a Sfar as the guys that guys that's already on the team. Is that what the same guys that's already here? Yeah. Guys already? Yeah. Not not veterans on any new guys that, but, like, off the, you know, the so called young guys or trouble guys that we really have it, you know, not trouble. But, you know, in the balance type of guys, right? I think that, you know, we were just talking about Kevin Knox. I think he's going to make some progress, but it'll be incremental, and everyone's gonna get mad. But I think it would be incremental, you know, Maybe he can up his scoring average. Yeah, He went from 12 down to 66.7. You know, maybe he can I think, you know, he probably could get it up to nine, maybe 10. I don't think it's gonna be enough for people, you know. What is that for? Tom Thibodeau? Who knows? You know, Sim just did. Sin doesn't want to say any bad thing about anybody, right? So his answer is E because because I feel like he I feel like Tom Thibodeau is gonna have a great positive impact on everybody. That doesn't mean that they're gonna be a playoff team, but I think he's gonna have a positive impact on all the players and the coaching staff that they put together. I think they're gonna have a positive impact, especially on the young guys, because I feel like they put together ah, coaching staff that is designed to cater. And I don't mean cater by baby, but cater to the development of those young guys. When you're talking about Kenny pain and even Mike Woodson, Johnny Bryant, I feel like those guys. And they just brought in this other dude that is supposed to be a defensive like the time Thibodeau Defense Whisperer. You know, I feel like they brought in guys that are going to cater to those young guys and you'll see some positive development from those guys, you know? So is there anyone that I think is gonna flounder? Uh, I mean, how much more can they flounder? I mean, flying it to the point where we're no longer keeping them. It was like, All right, come on, dog. Even you're like, Come on, you gotta go. Well, I think I mean what Kevin knocks. You know, if his development is in his progress is incremental. I think he's still staying. I don't think they're moving on from I think they're gonna give him 1/4 year. They're going to give him more time with Kenny Pain. Uh, if there is gonna be one, then it would probably be Dennis Smith Jr. If there's gonna be a guy that they say, Yeah, we got to move on from him. It would probably be him. See, here's the thing with knocks. And I says, I says before knock struggle with Marcus Morris taking up the opportunity last year, remember? Not start the season, right? Hey, didn't perform markets more played over. Now obvious this season. You have a guy who will be topping and you have a random. Now I think they were gonna move for Randall. I think that's already a done deal. Um, most likely most like that's a done deal e no. They're gonna definitely playing and starting to build the trade value. Yeah, right, Because why would you just a lot of just go get some type of trigger out? Do it, but you'll be topping is a future at forward, right. Knocks to me is not a three Knox. Best position is for now. They may try to force him at the three. But the thing that knocks is that I think that because the system is not catered to him as like a zit wasn't say Kentucky. I'm gonna struggle. Finding his way now the benefits of Tom Thibodeau's offense. This is why I said that guys like Alec Berks is gonna help some of these guys get the visit. Say, Hey, this is it. You execute the corner like this is our bread and butter shooters spread out to the corner three. Or they stay in the corner three to get that shot. Once the guy penetrates to the basket, season the corner pass to you or even we might do a cross country passed from, like, that little foul line file an extension dribble. See you open a corner, pass it to you. If not, cannot execute those corner threes. I think he's going to get is not gonna be a situation where they're gonna be forcing him, you know, trying to force him to get time. Whatever is gonna go. Hey, this guy came and do the bare minimum of what time Typical ones. Offense E. I think I'm just put like this. If Knox comes in, doesn't play well offensively. He's way better defensively, these guys rebounding, his guys hounding other team's best threes and fours. Fours. He's all right. Well, the offense may come along. We know he's a shoot, whatever, blah, blah. But if he can't do that, remember last year I didn't play? I know you're gonna say he improved whatever. But if his offense, if all those factors come into play and he's getting less playing time to Saint Obi and Randall, he can't find his way on the team just because he can't produce at the floor level. I think if there's a trade we have, the Knicks might put him in there as a sweetener. Or they might be welcome. The guy and the guy I E D J so not to still a question mark, but D j to me now. I don't know if you heard the news. He's working with Mahmoud Abdul Raouf MBA. Uh, better former NBA player play The Nuggets play Vancouver came back. Vancouver was blackballed from the MBA for his, uh, expression of his religious views was messed up. But, you know, obviously some of the big three dude is a cool dude. You ever seen the interviews? Um, you know, do you think now, D. J is one who I almost feel bathroom, but it's like dogs. You need to trade Burke Reformation. You need to go back to the G and find your game. Because he worked well last year with CP three. That in amount to nothing. Uh, the other injury cp three. You think that he would gain better quart awareness facilitation skills? He did it. Um, but how much did he even work with him? Know what I mean? Was it? You know, uh, you know what I'm saying? They sat down with him during the summer is supposed to I don't know. So I think I think players and I've said this in one of those was, like, I think that they sometimes worried more about perception vs, you know, actual substance, substantive reality, like, Oh, I'm actually getting better, and I don't care who knows versus Yeah, I'm taking these instagram videos, and it's like I don't if you're not doing so, the court gives them what you're doing maitre d j d j e Guess he's working with Mahmoud Abdul. I will now if he doesn't come in shooting better if he's not shooting at least 35% from three or 43 attempts. 34 attempts. Uh, it may just be, Hey, you're never gonna be a good shooter because you're doing all this stuff at some point. Has to be Okay, maybe you're working hard, but maybe you working hard is just is not good enough. You just don't You may just not be that type of player may not be pray like that. So I think he is the one that might be pushed out. He's a 661 guard, smaller most of the games but off athleticism. He's not like a high I Q play, and I say he's dumb. But he's just not When you see one, of course, is just not that type of player. Uh, he's not a good shooter. He has a hitching a shot aside, even say, don't get the back injury and whatnot. But he's just a clunky. He's just He's just ill fitting player who I think needs to go back and get the Trey Burke school off reformation. What do you think about his work with Mahmoud? I do. I will thing. What do you see with this feature coming in? Does he fit a Tom Thibodeau offense? Remember, Tom Thibodeau also work with and Brooks, whose e was, like, similar similar height, Probably better overall score. But obviously, but, you know, similar Bill. I think the one thing that he has that is going toe allow him to get a chance is that when you look at all of our point guards, he's the only one that has any kind of explosiveness. The only one that has any kind of explosiveness. When you look at the point guards Frank Miller Kina, you wanna consider him at that spot? Helping pay in Austin Rivers Onley D S J. Has some explosiveness, uh, to the point where, you know, one play could rile up the team. Now, of course, these guys can throw lobs and do some things. Alfred, pay it every once in a while. I could go to the basket and get a dunk or something. We've seen it a couple times last year, but real explosiveness. I think he's the only one that has that. And that might be something that they say. Well, we at least need to give this guy a look, see what he looks like. They say that he's in the best shape that he's ever been in. According to that article, he's been with Abdur off, and this is But here's the thing. They give some reasons why, right? And it's not Dennis Smith Jr putting this out. That's the one thing. He's basically been quiet all summer long, right? I remember a couple months ago, this writer saying on Twitter, um, on my way Thio purchase, um, to stay there for for a little while because I'm doing a I'm doing an article on a certain Knicks player, right? It didn't say who it waas. He just said, I'm doing an article in a certain ex player. Um, other than that you haven't heard anything from Dennis Smith Jr. No videos, no anything, no dunk videos or anything like that. At least I didn't see him. Uh, he's been kind of quiet. That saves me working with him for months, five days a week for months on, and he's in like, super shape. I mean doing stuff like like a lot of high school type drills that really gets you in shape, Like, you know, you sprint down the one that on the floor, you sprint back. You got to shoot the three, right? If you want to move on to the next drill, you gotta make three. You gotta make three in a row, right? If you make two in a row, you missed the third one. You're back at you start all over again. So for God, I can't shoot. I mean, you're probably doing a lot of running, um, and, you know, doing a bunch of conditioning drills, I think do Rolf also said he's not only having him doing conditioning drills, but, uh, a bunch of dribbling drills and then into the shot. He said, because when guys try to put it together Ah, lot of times off the dribble, they end up falling back to their old habits because they're trying to put it all together. Um, I mean, I guess you know we'll see, you know, if it works, it's just what I like is that we didn't see any videos to say. Oh, his shot looks great. you know, we didn't see all of that, is just He just went to work at it. And then now we hear, you know, an article comes out about it. Andi, I hope we don't see any video. I hope we just wait to see it. You know, when training camp begins and see what it looks like, Um, is it gonna Is it gonna improve? I mean, that's one part of his game. If he isn't supreme shape, hopefully it can help on the defense of part of the game. Um, And then you know his basketball like you. Not that he's like you said, Not that he's not a smart player, but, you know, just just playing. Can you play the way that Tom Thibodeau wants him to play? Um, you know, we'll see if you can put it together. He's one guy that I think it's more than just his next career on the line. I feel like what were then it's Junior. You know, I feel like it could be his NBA career. That's on the line. I'm not sure what other team is gonna look and say, Yeah, we want Dennis Smith Jr. If he doesn't come out and have a really good season. So it could be a lot more on the line than just the Knicks. So e just it sucks, man, cause like, he's working out, do a roof he's doing. He's in the healthiest shape of his life, but and I know he had a back injury, but, you know, I'm just looking his kid. I'm just I don't know what he has to go through a Geely. I know it's not gonna be Julich this year, but mentally, he's just, you know, you can't depend on that lettuces and can't depend on, you know, I can come to the bat if your point guard you are, you're supposed to be. You're supposed to be see everything two steps ahead of everyone else. E again, I point this out where I've seen Mitch Robinson will send the pick. Hey, couldn't make that little slip past, you know? I mean, when the defense is kind of resetting after he comes around on the pick and the defense kinda resented like, Oh, I gotta get me wrong. I'll run with you. Stay on D J. Hey, can't make that little past by those guys still decide. Like that little, half a second path. I've seen even normal point guards. Not great point guards. You know, guys, really? Just making Old Palace to see that play was like, all right. I know once they make that little switch boom, I got him. E And I've seen hesitate so many times to make that type of pass. And, you know, man, you know, his mom died in that stuff. But you know, this the MBA is a dog eat dog world no one cares about. You know what you did last year? They care about What are you doing? And he hasn't done much. I mean, first two years, he had the marriage is okay or his first year of marriage is okay, but no one cares about. You know what you did in high school or college, man? It's all about Hey, what are you doing now? Like you said it, it might be a state. So it might be It might be so hopefully he's taking that. It's a heart and understanding that himself that Hey, you know this This could be it for me. I really gotta get in and show these guys what I could do. And it's not gonna be easy because you're gonna have some guys that maybe fit what? You know. Listen, Austin Rivers was I think Tom Thibodeau wanted, you know, Austin Rivers. As you know, if he couldn't get some other guards, he was like, Get me Austin Rivers, You know? So, like, that might be his guy. That's his hand picked player. One of them. So e no. Let me Let me ask you this last thing, man, for you. Wrap up eso The Knicks hired Darren Erman, uh, use this, uh, assistant coach of the Golden State Warriors last year. Believe he worked with, uh, e. I think he was. He was the He was the Celtics. Geely, head coach of the Celtics. Geely team? Yes. Of the the main Red called. Yeah, Andi. Yeah. Used to work as a lawyer. Give you some hints that said, yeah, shade of this. Hey, quit at the 27 to pursue his love for coaching. That's crazy. Um, he want to ring as assist with the Celtics? Obviously, he was under Tom Thibodeau, I guess as a system assistant. Assist, I don't know. A fellow systems town to go. Um, and so, yeah, he also worked out a system with the pelicans, but obviously, uh, so I saw a said, since there is always a hair since they're in Urban is a Tom Thibodeau disciple. He has absolutely chance that were working for the Knicks. They don't like his kind. E u flopped on that one on dso his whole. The whole thing with Darren Erman is that he had some had a kind of a mess of history, with them, going to say words where he was caught secretly taping conversations between teams, the coaches and the players on it. Says he was taping everything when Sort said taping pregame speeches would have been that bad, but he was taping. Guys just sit around talking to coaches office, which is terrible. They don't know if they said it himself. It was taking up management that's not known, a source said. They had a lot of community communication with members of the front office. So essentially, I mean, we have world wide west who was supposed to be our so called rat, but in a good way out there, you know, with free agent external world But now we have this KGB agent who's like taping players, and we don't know who he saw these secrets to it. I mean, it may have just been given to the owners of, you know, but even then you destroy the trust, the players, even some kosher is like. Are you serious? So how do you feel about this? Higher. You know, we talked about Tom Thibodeau being with Woodson at what's supposed to be like the the person that the emotional kind of whisper to kind of get people to be on the same on a even kill emotionally. Not to be all rather by tips, you know, kind of, uh, you know, supposedly hard nose approach. And now you're bringing in basically ah, guy for the works. Who works for, like, the freaking The freaking Communist Party of China is coming in and secretly taping people like is North Korea. Like when? When did he do this? He got caught. Hey, got in 2014. Eso That's why Frank. Frank. I solo said that in 2014. Hey, got caught in 2014. I mean, you probably man Yeah, he should have known the law behind that, right? Um um I don't know. I mean, you know, this is actually I didn't read about all of that that went on. Um, I didn't read about all of that. So this is actually the first time that I'm hearing about all of that. All of that stuff. Uh eh. So my question is, my question would be with the players. Trust him, right? Obviously he had a good career with you know what the what? The G league team in Boston. But how the players feel about him, That's I think that that's my question. People were saying that he was the one that got Jackson Black Hole that he got him out of there. Axon got fired. Well, 2015. 16? Uh huh. So Okay, so that's the article from 2014. Right? And this is Ah, I mean, think about it. The ownership did not like Mark Jackson, but the players outside of Bogut. Oh, I remember hearing about I didn't know it was this guy, but I remember hearing about this. You got black ball or you got about about the guy recording stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what your fire man. Um if he's the one that got Mark Jackson blackball now to this day, Iguodala Curry especially still swear by Mark Jackson. So it's not as if I mean outside of bogey. Uh, you know Mark Jackson? I guess they have some questionable practices, Uh, you know, practices within the organization. But those guys still like that. Now, if you want to fire him, I mean, again, this is the thing Tim does not there with solely just his staff again. He's with a mish mosh, you know, Mosh pit of player off guys. Some of them were stabbed. Some are not right now. Thibodeau, did I get I'm assuming Did hire this guy e off and be like, Hey, you know, you give him more of a prominent position. We are rolls. I'll make sure that, you know, I'll give you everything. That e I mean, he left there and he went to Boston, right where he was the director of scouting. Um, and then from there, you know, he went on to become the head coach of Boston's Geely team. You know, you know, is it is he is it? Uh, Has it been forgiven? I don't know. I mean, what was the situation? I guess, e Guess you gotta ask what the situation was. Did management say to him, You know, we're hearing all this stuff. We need you to do this, right? And then, you know, and then they went, Hadn't fired them. Or, you know, did he do it and then take it to management? Who knows? They don't even know in the article. What went down right? They don't even know. You know, they asked, Was he taping it for himself, or was he taping it for management? Likely, he was taping it for management, You know, why are you gonna take it for yourself? I mean, you're there in the locker room, right? Yeah, right. You're not practice. So you know. Why are you taking it for yourself? He was clearly taping it for management. Um uh, there's other players, you know? I read stuff about other place, you know, other players, comments made comments about him saying that like he's ah, super duper defensive coach. And you know he'll he'll get these guys playing good defense. And this that and the other thing, so I don't know. I guess we'll see if he's, um, changed his history or, you know, not changed his history but changed his behavior. Someone said we should get a record, Dolan. So we get him five God, Children, who's gonna fire Dolan? You can't is gonna fire Dolan to sell that Dolan again. Nolan. I'm pretty sure he has a lot of people who want who want him going. So he's make every step he makes his perfect. So he does not. But you look, guys like this is the end of the episode, man. Thank you guys for coming on, man, please go check out symptoms of the episode with Arrow from Die hard Knicks podcast. Aziz Well is wrong. People remnant and I posted both their channels up there. You guys go visit again, Lawrence tears. I post them to. He's in here. Uh, you be on tonight at 11. 45 for Knicks at night, which is is steadily growing, man. So please subscribe a angry Knick fans, man, you get tired and then you get delusional, which I guess keeps you up as you're slowly getting more and more tired. I've been on that channel where I'm up there at 2. 30. I'm like, What am I doing? My life? Why am I why I'm talking about Frank E. I don't know what everybody is doing because I'm looking at everyone that's in this chat. And everybody was in this chat. Was in the chat with his last night on, and I love it. I love it, man. This e don't know what. Who do you doing, man? But you got a good channel going on there, man. Definitely. Guys will be, I believe. Will be 11. 45 50 11, 11. I got the I got the notification number 45. Definitely. Please. Guys subscribe. Man on freeze. He's a really good, uh, what do you call what? You come on host. Because freezing like these on and let you guys argue that he pops up like a genie like, ask another aggravating question or are disappears. And your argument for another 50 50 40 of a Now, er about a right, right? Who can't play with the dynamics. Just get a little angry because, well, I I love you know, Frank is my guy, man, I just want these guys do good, man. I ain't getting angry and nobody else I'm not, you know, go Knicks. I just want these guys. I'm tired of being bottom of the scrap. I got some. I want another person's genital like your Lakers fan and you're like, Oh, you're next. Fans like why you this This feels only for winners. I was like, Oh, man, that's how they eso Why didn't are Lakers fans calling my show? Hey, it's fan call up my show, so hey, you know what everybody knows? No, they are diehard Lakers friends. But yeah, I don't have a community like the Knicks, the Knicks cap where we've been so long and we have the most diehard fans, even the Lakers. You have diarrhea fans, but come on. I mean, you're more if you're more die hard when you've been with the team and they've been losing for so long and been so terrible. So it is what it is. You guys Thank you. One last question. Real quick, like 30 seconds. Do you think Ignaz brothers **ens is going to make the team? I mean, he's already on the team Do you think he's gonna get weighed for someone like Miles Power? Oh, that's a tough question. Miles Power has that Aaron Brooks to him, man, Um, I think you have tow When do the cuts after me? Oh, wow. There's no games, is just starting. Like what? December. The games start December the 22nd, um, on Tuesday starts training camp. So they're gonna come into training camp now. There is discussions that they might they might amend or not a men, but add the number off the number of players you could have, you know, put it up to 17 or something like that. But you also I mean, right now, the Knicks got 16 players in the contract, and that includes eggy. And that includes the two guys that they just picked up. And at Davis Trade, right. They might try to keep my Spelman just in case you move Julius Randle at the deadline. You got another power forward so you could move Jacob Evans. You could take over Iggy takeover Jacob, even spot. Yeah, if they decided to keep seven If they decided to keep 17, then if the NBA said they could keep 17 players like because of covert and something like that. They said maybe they're going to expand the rosters. Then I guess you don't have to worry about it. You could just stay on the team. Oh, but if they're at 15, I mean, you know, they're all young. Those two guys, the first round draft picks as well. Well, it is not a first round draft pick. Those two guys were first round draft picks. Um, someone like Omar Spellman. He's got to get his weight under control, I think, and he could probably be a contributor. He gets his weight under control and this is shape. Definitely a space big man shot 38 36%. Yeah, two plus attempts. A game, man. Yeah, and that's tough. That is a great And then again, this team, you know, this front offices, they they depend on relationships. And that's part of the reason why I g was brought to this team because of R. Barrett, right? And then But Miles Powell's well, because it will be topping so. But if you think about it at that three position, we do need shooting death because we only well I mean, you push argue at the three. Uh, Knox is not really a three. But if you want to, I guess like, who else is that? Our three position. What's out? Death behind behind those two? Not much. Reggie Bullock may be completed. Ah, he's been like a two. Yeah, a lot to God's hand. Alec Berks. Even quickly, quickly. I mean, I guess it's a point guard bees. More of a shooting guard, I guess. Had to one and to be interchangeable. But that three position, we don't have much behind a g e I mean behind RJ. So I think if he shows out, I think he makes camp. If he issues the bed Bali and Miles power shows up. Yeah, he's probably going. He's probably going there. It's gonna be something to watch. Will be, Yeah, we'll definitely definitely see, man. Yeah, that's today's episode man, Are we doing the episode for Thursday? And everyone is doing Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, so probably e guess we could put it off. Do a Friday. Yeah, we do. Friday. Yeah, Friday title for but yeah, you guys, men Thank you for supporting channel guys. Goto mbk three bl for some odd reason the Giants still got a chance. You got a chance. A chance based still Eagles, But yeah, they should probably put more episodes of TB L As the Giants skip, it's about to throw. Get close Thio way. Get into the playoffs and we're hosting a game. Oh, first of all they hosted came E o e Can't I can't wait to watch the Giants lose 45 to 3. It's not gonna happen. You guys, you guys, man, we'll see you next time Friday. Peace. The New York Knicks made a final push to sign Gordon Hayward by offering the small forward a four-year deal instead of a two-year contract. However, Hayward wound up signing with the Charlotte Hornets since Michael Jordan gave him a four-year deal worth $120 million, per Marc Stein of the New York Times. The Knicks, […] The post Rumor: Gordon Hayward had 4-year offer from Knicks; not as rich as Hornets’ $120 million deal appeared first on ClutchPoints.... Read Article fav_emptyfav_filled2 #Knicks #NBA #SCNNBA #BreakingNews #AllTalk #SplitScreen #Prediction Guillermo Kyosuke @Guillermo @Guillermo• FOLLOW • RJ Barrett the 2nd playmaker for the Knicks? To the Bench? Warriors preview. 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__label__wiki	0.792575	0.792575	Mourinho believes his squad’s never-say-die attitude comes from Man Utd DNA Posted November 11, 2018 12:32 by Manchester United never did things the easy way. Even during the successful years under Sir Alex Ferguson, there were moments of drama and madness. We wouldn’t have it any other way. But this United side is building quite the reputation for itself. An incredible never-say-die attitude which has contributed massively to our recent form after a dire start to the season. Everything appeared to be falling apart for Jose Mourinho prior to the Newcastle game. There were even rumours that he’d lost the dressing room, as per the Daily Mail, but then why would these players fight on their backs for the manager to turn games around at the very end? READ MORE: talkSPORT presenter claims Man Utd star will join Arsenal on a free transfer The games against Newcastle, Chelsea and Juventus all stand out as examples of this, and we think this is evidence that Mourinho still controls the dressing room. Speaking to ManUtd.com ahead of the Manchester Derby, Mourinho was asked a question about United’s attitude over the last few weeks and what he puts it down to. “It’s the collective personality,” the boss said. “I don’t go in the direction of individual personalities; I don’t go in the direction of ‘I try to create this on my players’. “I think it’s a collective feeling that everybody is having. It probably comes with the Manchester United DNA. That is something that probably the shirts keep and when you wear it, you have it. “So even when the moment is difficult, even when the team is not playing very well – which is not the case, because recently our results are a consequence of playing really well – but I think it’s something that’s in this group’s DNA. “The boys are friends, the boys are proud and when things are not going well, they never say: ‘The game is over’.” It’s a relief to hear all is well in the dressing room and, hopefully, they can do something special again this week by beating City. More Stories about José Mourinho Opinion: Bruno Fernandes inspires Man United like Luis Suarez did with Liverpool Former Man United star wants current defender to join Argentinian project Man United and Chelsea set to go head-to-head for £70m rated Premier League midfielder More Stories José Mourinho Manchester United Tributes flood in for Wayne Rooney after announcing retirement Video: Jurgen Klopp hails good signing for Manchester United	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1296
__label__cc	0.713175	0.286825	Join a union Union organising End the violation of women’s rights on Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte plantations! 09 Mar 2011, By Anna I was just this moment reading Eric Lee from Labourstarts blog and saw this, I urge you to please pledge your support. On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the Coordinating Body of Latin American Banana and Agro-industrial Workers’ Unions (COLSIBA) calls on the three biggest multinational fruit companies – Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte – to put an end to their discriminatory policies towards women.There are numerous examples, including discriminatory employment policies, compulsory pregnancy tests before hiring, limited access to maternity leave and sexual harassment and abuse. Whether it be in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru or Honduras, such problems are daily evidence that the rights of women workers are far from being respected. COLSIBA calls for international solidarity in denouncing these practices and demands a specific commitment by these companies to end violations of women workers’ rights. Click here to read more about the violations of women workers rights on Chiquita, Del Monte and Dole banana and pineapple plantations. Click here to download updated Banana Link information leaflet on Women in the Banana Trade. TAKE ACTION! Send a message to: Manuel Rodriguez – Director of Chiquita Latin America; Jose Antonio Yock – Vice President of Fresh Del Monte Central America; Richard A Harrah – President of Dole Latin America: http://www.makefruitfair.org.uk/get-involved/appeals/end-violation-women-s-rights-chiquita-dole-and-del-monte-plantations Written by Anna Anna doesn't have a biography yet, but we're working on it. Murdered for cheaper bananas: Guatemala’s epidemic of violence against unions International Women’s Day: so many issues, is one day enough? Seasonal solidarity #4: Turkish delight for freed women International Women’s Day: greetings from around the world Subscribe via our RSS feed Latest TUC blogs Let’s vaccinate Britain – time for trade union members to step up - Antonia Bance Workers asked to shield should not have to choose between their life and livelihood - Quinn Roache Working parents must not pay the price for the government’s last minute approach on schools and coronavirus - Sian Elliott Make Britain’s goal for 2021 full and decent employment - Frances O'Grady Three years of silence – the government’s response to electronic balloting must be lost in the post - Tim Sharp Promoted by Frances O'Grady on behalf of the TUC, both of Congress House, Great Russell St, London, WC1b 3LS. Copyright © 2013 Stronger Unions, Trades Union Congress. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1297
__label__wiki	0.871139	0.871139	You are at:Home»News»App News»TikTok tries to distance itself from Beijing, but will it be enough to avoid the global blacklist? TikTok tries to distance itself from Beijing, but will it be enough to avoid the global blacklist? By The Conversation on 23rd Jul 2020 App News, Internet News, News, Other Tech News TikTok, the made-in-China, video-sharing platform beloved by youth and influencers alike, is suddenly everywhere in our new world of COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing. The platform’s growth has been tremendous, but this has come at a cost: it has come under increasing scrutiny from politicians in the US and allies like Australia over concerns about potential breaches of data security and the platform’s perceived ties to the Chinese government. The Trump administration is now considering banning the platform – and Australia may well follow suit. The controversies surrounding TikTok are centred around its Chinese origins, and its potential connections or compliance with the Chinese Communist Party and its authoritarian system. There are some reasons to be concerned. The platform is known to censor material deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. Last year, for example, TikTok was accused of manipulating videos relating to Hong Kong pro-democracy protests and was forced to apologise for censoring a video criticising China’s crackdown on Uyghurs. This prompted claims of it being an arm of China’s state-run media system. Digital security experts also point to the potential for the data TikTok collects from users to be sent to China’s servers. But there is not clear evidence yet that TikTok poses a threat to the national security of countries like the US or Australia, or that the CCP interferes in the overseas operations of the company. We wouldn't willfully allow foreign aggressors to invade our country on foot, so why are we allowing the CCP to do so through our smartphones? https://t.co/Y4AcJglygb — Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) July 16, 2020 TikTok’s physical distancing from Beijing TikTok is owned by the Beijing-based technology company Bytedance, which also operates a Chinese version of the platform called Douyin. TikTok and Douyin are completely separate entities. They store their data in different centres and are governed by different sets of rules and business operations. TikTok is designed for the overseas market with its data stored in Singapore and the US, while Douyin targets solely the Chinese domestic market with its data stored in China. As the pressure has mounted against the platform in the West, however, TikTok has shifted into survival mode through de-Sinicization. While users are posting videos on TikTok from the safety of their bedrooms, the company is deliberately distancing itself from Beijing. Part of this distancing strategy involves announcing plans to move its operational headquarters outside China. According to industry reports in China this involved disbanding the Beijing-based overseas operation team, as well as cutting off the Chinese team’s access to its international data pool. The company also announced plans this week to add 10,000 jobs in the US, following a commitment to open a transparency centre in Los Angeles earlier this year. TikTok’s most prominent PR move has been hiring key international players in communications, entertainment, government relations, IP protection, cybersecurity and global business solutions to change the way the company is structured and run in its overseas markets. The appointment of non-Chinese executives, such as new US CEO Kevin Mayer (Walt Disney’s former top streaming executive), illustrates its global aspirations. Of course, bringing foreigners into the corporate tent is not a new strategy for a Chinese tech firm. Alibaba and Huawei have done this with mixed success; Huawei, in particular, has failed to convince Western governments it would not pose a security risk to their 5G networks. But TikTok is a different kind of proposition. Unlike other Chinese tech companies and platforms (such as WeChat), TikTok does not operate in China. The platform was created to be global. TikTok and tit-for-tat retaliations The response to TikTok’s rise in the US comes from the Donald Trump manual of political strategy. When the trade war between the US and China broke in January 2018, the two nations engaged in a tit-for-tat series of tariffs, from steel and automobiles to pork and soybeans. In the latest round of recriminations and political bluster, Trump suggested he was considering using TikTok as a way to retaliate against China for its handling of the coronavirus. The idea is to erect a barrier against TikTok and ask like-minded allies to do the same. What this reaction precipitates, however, is a move toward national internet sovereignty. Some are calling this the age of the “splinternet”, rather than the internet as we know it, a borderless space. For starters, erecting barriers against platforms offers limited effectiveness because users will find a way around them. But banning TikTok, or any other Chinese platform, is also taking a page directly from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “little red book” for the digital age. The list of Western platforms and news sites now blocked in China is very long. Playing China’s game of shuttering foreign sites will only provide more ammunition for Chinese propaganda against the West – and lead to more tit-for-tat closures. #Opinion: The US is not targeting #TikTok for what it can do. Rather, the app is being targeted for what it represents: a China that cannot be demonized nor used as a scare tactic, nor be seen as a menacing threat to the West. https://t.co/ZZvTQOnnII pic.twitter.com/WeSpXRW9hR — Global Times (@globaltimesnews) July 22, 2020 Blacklisting companies or individuals based on country of origin and citing national security concerns sets a dangerous precedent. It’s akin to going down the path of digital McCarthyism; not only will this erode online freedom, it won’t address the more significant problems of data harvesting and news manipulation — practices that are not unique to Chinese platforms. Some critics have instead argued for more coordinated global governance of tech companies. As Samm Sacks writes in Foreign Affairs, we need stricter rules for data security and privacy for all companies, not just Chinese ones … regardless of country of origin, [to]manage online content in an era of misinformation. As with all user-driven platforms, content moderation on TikTok runs up against issues of freedom of speech. Censorship will continue be a concern for the platform, and TikTok’s content moderators will inevitably be tested by those who want to use it to challenge China. In the interest of maintaining its brand credibility as a truly global company, TikTok’s smartest move would be to continue to distance itself from Beijing — and for Beijing to do the same. Michael Keane is Professor of Chinese Digital Media and Culture, Curtin University Haiqing Yu is Associate Professor, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Anger is all the rage on Twitter when it’s cold outside (and on Mondays) Companies are increasingly turning to social media to screen potential employees Winning at social media is probably simpler than you think 5 ways to help stop the ‘infodemic,’ the increasing misinformation about coronavirus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1300
__label__wiki	0.984318	0.984318	Netflix introduces Korean stand-up original By Kaltrina Bylykbashi 24th November 2017 @ 12:00 Netflix is set to launch a South Korean stand-up special with YG Entertainment featuring Yoo Byung-Jae, as it looks to introduce the format to a Korean audience. Stand-up comedy is a relatively unknown genre in Korea and will mean a new experience for viewers, according to the streaming service. The special will also be available exclusively on Netflix globally in 190 countries in 2018. The comedy special with Byung-Jae will be shot in early 2018. The streamer will also feature Black Comedy in early 2018, another Netflix comedy special of Byung-Jae’s shot this year. Byung-Jae is a well-known actor, screenwriter and TV personality in Korea who gained popularity when he was part of Saturday Night Live Korea for four seasons as a writer and cast member. “We are thrilled to team up with YG Entertainment and Yoo Byung-Jae,” said Erik Barmack, vice president of international original series at Netflix. “Our aim is to partner with the boldest and funniest Korean comedy talent and share the laughter with the world.” “We are excited to introduce Yoo Byung-Jae’s stand-up comedy on a global platform like Netflix,” said a YG Entertainment representative. “This will be a great opportunity for Korean comedy to expand towards the global markets.” Tags: Black Comedy, Korea, Netflix, Original Programming, SVOD, Yoo Byung-Jae CIC Media developing drama as part of wider Frida Kahlo-focused slate US-based prodco CIC Media is developing a slate of content based around the life and art of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, in partnership with the Frida Kahlo Corporation and Venezuelan composer and singer Carlos Baute. The deal will allow CIC Media, which also has offices in Mexico and the UK, to produce a number of […] Amazon's AVOD streamer IMDb TV visits 'Almost Paradise' with Electric Entertainment Amazon-owned AVOD service IMDb TV has acquired crime series Almost Paradise, which debuted last year on WGN America. The deal, which was unveiled on the first day of NATPE Virtual Miami, is from LA-based producer-distributor Electric Entertainment and will premiere on IMDb TV from 1 February. Almost Paradise originally premiered in the US in March […] 'Real Housewives' prodco Sirens Media names Lifetime exec Mioshi Hill president ITV America-owned production house Sirens Media has appointed Lifetime exec Mioshi Hill as its new president. She will take up her new appointment next month, following predecessor Jessica Sebastian-Dayeh’s exit from the The Real Housewives of New Jersey prodco to pursue a new independent venture. In her new role, Hill will take oversight of the […] UK TV productions no longer exempt from Covid travel restrictions TV and film productions are no longer exempt from UK Covid-related travel restrictions, meaning that cast and crew travelling to Britain will now have to self-isolate for 10 days. The job category was one of several removed in the latest update to the UK’s exemption list in the early hours of Monday morning. As well […] BBC Studios takes full ownership of Clerkenwell Films, Murray Ferguson to exit Netflix caps off record year with 200 million subscribers NBCU's Mark Lazarus says 'aggressive' overhaul will strengthen creative firepower WarnerMedia alum Kevin Reilly emerges at Israeli AI firm Deepdub	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1308
__label__wiki	0.51343	0.51343	Google today announced the alpha launch of AutoML Vision, a new service that helps developers — including those with no machine learning (ML) expertise — build custom image recognition models.The primary argument will be that Google Cloud Platform’s tools for machine learning will produce higher quality models faster. Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist for Google Cloud AI, said Google has been offering standard AI building blocks, but it became clear that enterprise customers needed to customize models with their own data. “AI and machine learning is still a field with high barriers,” she said. Cloud AutoML is starting with image recognition, allowing customers to drag in images and train their systems to recognize them on Google’s cloud. Cloud AutoML Vision can figure out what’s inside images that users upload, train a model based on those images, provide analysis of the model, and then start to make sense of new images as they come in, based on what it has learned. The whole process, from importing data to tagging it and training the model, is done through a drag and drop interface. We’re not talking about something akin to Microsoft’s Azure ML studio here, though, where you can use a Yahoo Pipes-like interface to build, train and evaluate models. Instead, Google is opting for a system where it handles all of the hard work and trains and tunes your model for you. Early results suggest that the new system works better than Google’s past methods of image recognition, Jia Li said in a media briefing. The technology was developed through collaboration with multiple other internal AI teams, she said. To get access to AutoML Visions, developers currently have to apply for access. The company didn’t share any pricing information yet, but chances are it will charge one fee for training the models and then another for accessing the model through its APIs. Tags AI Google’s Cloud AutoML: As the OnePlus 5T launch gets closer, the rate at which rumors pour in is …	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1311
__label__wiki	0.997446	0.997446	This website uses cookies to personalise yourexperience including personalising content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic with third parties inline with our Privacy and Cookies policy. Okay Settings This website uses cookies to personalise yourexperience Our partners will collect data and use cookies for ad personalisation and measurement. Learn how we and our partners collect and use data. Okay. Please note that our site will still use cookies but not storing any personal data. Privacy and Cookies policy TellyMix All TV News The Voice UK Strictly Come Dancing Great British Bake Off I'm A Celebrity Celebs Go Dating Love Island X Factor The Apprentice Big Brother The Island The Circle Made In Chelsea The Only Way Is Essex TV Ratings TellyMix / News / Britain's Got Talent 2021 / TV / David Walliams will host the 2020 National Television Awards Posted October 4, 2019 15:22 by Josh Darvill David Walliams will host the 2020 National Television Awards in January, it's been announced. The National Television Awards will take place on Tuesday 28th January 2020 and David Walliams has been confirmed as the host of the 25th anniversary NTAs. A multiple NTA winner himself, David will take centre-stage as host of the UK’s leading awards show. Commenting on his new role, David Walliams said: “I am thrilled to be the new host of the NTAs, and will ensure I will also win them all”. NTA’s creator and Executive Producer, Kim Turberville, added: “The National Television Awards are coming soon and we have two more exciting reasons to celebrate in January 2020 – it will be the NTA’s 25th anniversary AND our host is the brilliant David Walliams. "David is a man of so many talents - a comedian, actor, best-selling author, TV Judge and charity fundraising hero… and we look forward to him now being the NTA’s Celebrator-in-Chief in this very special year.” > Get National Television Awards 2020 tickets here The NTAs is Television's biggest night of the year, celebrating the nation’s best-loved TV shows and stars and the huge nationwide vote opens later this month. David takes over from Dermot O'Leary who stepped down as host earlier this year after a decade fronting the ceremony. "After 10 years of proudly hosting the National Television Awards, I have decided it's time to step down as host," he said in a statement in February. "It's been a tough decision because we have had a ball over the last decade, but 10 years feels about right. "I would like to thank Indigo and my ITV family for a brilliant ten years and look forward to proudly passing on the baton in 2020... and a holiday in January!" A spokesperson for ITV said: "ITV and Indigo Television thank Dermot for a decade at the helm of the National Television Awards, he's a brilliant presenter and one of the best live event hosts in the business. "As a highly valued member of the ITV family we respect his decision and we look forward to continuing working with him." The National Television Awards will take place on Tuesday 28th January 2020 and will air live on ITV. You can book tickets to be in the audience with the stars here. More on: David Walliams Dermot O'Leary National Television Awards Britain's Got Talent 2021 TV Follow @tellymix Like @tellymix Dancing On Ice gets complaints about Rufus Hound's comments and Holly Willoughby's dress National Television Awards 2021 postponed until September Dancing On Ice 2021 results! First celebrity in the skate off revealed Dancing On Ice's Denise Van Outen suffers shoulder injury ahead of live launch The Masked Singer spoilers: The 2021 contestants unmasked so far Jason Manford 'to host new BBC game show Unbeatable' The Bay series 2 cast and release date as ITV series returns The Cabins cast: Meet the singletons on ITV2's new reality dating series It's A Sin online companion show announced by Channel 4 Privacy Settings / Opt out © 2021. All Rights Reserved TellyMix unless otherwise stated.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1314
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__label__cc	0.689422	0.310578	Wargaming Intel Drive A Tank Sweepstakes 3/4/15 1PPD18+ Wargaming is proud to announce next evolution of World of Tanks, just released for Intel-based Android mobile devices and tablets. To celebrate this release, Intel and Wargaming are excited to give gamers the chance to win in-game and real-world prizes in the Intel Drive A Tank Sweepstakes. Eligibility: US, DC, (excluding Rhode Island), Canada (excluding Quebec), 18 and older Entry Dates: January 22, 2015 and ends at 11:59 PM ET on March 4, 2015 Entry Limit: one entry per person per day + bonus entries for completing activities (Share via Facebook and Twitter, Download World Of Tanks Blitz (free app) from Google Play, Click the link to the Intel Tablets page to learn more about Intel Tablets) One (1) Grand Prize: a trip for winner and one guest where winner participates in a “Drive a Tank” experience in Kasota, Minnesota. Prize that includes the following: the “The Sherman Driver” package for winner plus a double car crush; round trip coach air transportation for winner and one guest to Minneapolis, Minnesota from a major commercial airport near the winner’s residence at the time of entry; 3-day use of rental car (compact) while visiting Kasota, Minnesota or, as an alternative, ground transportation to/from hotel, Minnesota airport and “Drive a Tank” experience; Two nights hotel accommodation (standard double occupancy room) in or nearby Kasota, Minnesota; Meals for winner and guest ARV: $6,998.00 Six (6) First Prizes: one Acer Iconia A1-830 Tablet. ARV: $179.00 Fifty (50) Second Prizes: one of the following Wargaming.net in-game Prize Packs (i.e., either a Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 or Tier 4 Prize Pack, see Website for details). (20) World of Tanks Tier 1 Prize Pack ARV: $10 (5) World of Tanks Tier 3 Prize Pack ARV: $50 Prize Limit: one prize per person Random Drawing: on or about March 17, 2015 at 10:00 AM ET.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1318
__label__cc	0.74536	0.25464	Home / Tag Archives: America US to restore all sanctions on Iran, accuses European allies of ‘siding with ayatollahs’ Aug 21, 2020 News 0 US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo informed the United Nations Thursday that the US was restoring all UN sanctions on Iran that were lifted as a result of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) approved under UN Security Council Resolution 2231 in 2015. The resolution, which Pompeo called “one-sided” … How the coronavirus is changing the world – the political, ecological and geopolitical impact Apr 30, 2020 In Depth, News, World 0 In his book Plagues and Peoples historian William Hardy McNeill uses two concepts to describe the impact of diseases on humankind. One are the micro-parasites: the bacteria, viruses and other invisible lifeforms that cause disease. The other are the macro-parasites: the rulers, states and conquerors that impose taxes on subjects, … Iran celebrates first spy satellite Apr 22, 2020 Iran, News, Science 0 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards force said on Wednesday it had launched the country’s first military satellite which had gone into orbit. It said a “Messenger” satellite carrier was used to launch the Noor (light) satellite, without going into further detail on the technology used. The launch took place at a time … New systematic World War only a matter of time Apr 16, 2020 China, Exclusive, Interview, News, Science, Security, United States 3 The world is so focussed on the latest figures of Covid-19 deaths and infection statistics, only few people realize what is pending in the background; a new global systematic war. Dutch political scientist Ingo Piepers (PhD) expects a new systematic war to erupt in the nearby future: “It has not … China’s moon mission to boldly go a step further Jan 1, 2018 China, News, Science 0 This time next year, there may be a new world leader in lunar exploration. If all goes according to plan, China will have done something no other space-faring superpower has been able to do: land on the far side of the moon. China is rocketing ahead with its plans for lunar exploration. … An interview with Abdulaziz Sachedina on His Life and Scholarship Sep 28, 2017 In Depth, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Middle East, News, Terrorism 0 Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu (AT): Thank you, Professor Sachedina for agreeing to speak to Maydan. You are a Professor of Religious Studies and a senior scholar at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at GMU. At the same time you hold the Endowed IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies … ‘America First Not Israel’: Detroit billboard urges US to restrict influence of Jewish Lobby Apr 20, 2016 Israel, Palestine, United States 0 THE LEVANT NEWS — A billboard in Detroit stating ‘America First Not Israel’ is causing controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism. The advertisement was paid for by the Deir Yassin Remembered group, which aims to make American’s more aware of the plight of Palestinians. The billboard can be seen 8 Mile … UAE to flood market with banknotes for Eid The Navy’s put down a ‘significant bet’ on the $13 billion USS Gerald R Ford, which some say is a risky gamble Sharjah Sustainability Award veting students Cyprus goes to The Hague over Turkish gas exploration Britain to limit acid sales after steep rise in assaults	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1325
__label__cc	0.550774	0.449226	Unexplored Destination: Chanshal Heights By Ashwani Sharma On December 30, 2016 The highest mountain peak in Shimla hills, Chanshal (altitude 4,520 meters) is largely an unexplored gem that servers the nomadic appetite of travelers seeking adventure, beauty and some days of seclusion. When on the summit, it feels possible to touch snow clad peaks in the distance, and if one looks down onto the Pabbar valley, it appears like a painting of streams and brooks laden landscape that runs amuck into forest lands before discharging into Pabbar River. En-route to Chanshal heights, which is around 150 km from Shimla, via Theog, Khara Pathar and Jubhal, at a distance of 105 km, travelers get to visit the famous Hatkoti Vajreshwari Devi Temple. At the gateway to Chansal, this beautiful wood carved temple houses a deeply revered meter high idol of an eight armed goddess made from rich alloy metal. About 20 Kms from Hatkoti, Rohru is central to exploring the region. This growing town is nestled on the banks of River Pabbar, a tributary of the Tons that drains into Yamuna River. The countryside around the region is plush with apple orchards and the flowing waters are toasted for its trout fish. It is also the starting point for several treks in the valley. Despite being in close proximity to Shimla, the region has largely remained unexplored because of lack of good roads. It was only in 2006 that the government managed to link the trans-Chanshal region of Dodra – Kwar after constructing a road over Chanshal pass. Although, the road has made Chanshal valley accessible, but due to heavy snowfall it remains cut off from November to February. Ideal time to visit the region is during the months of May-June and September-October for during the rainy season of July-August, the valley may not be travel friendly as otherwise and one is advised to avoid trekking to the summit. There is also a saucer lake atop the hill. One can trek to see the lake and several other beautiful spots where nature is at its best. In past few years, the Chanshal has been recognized as one of the best spots for skiing in Himachal Pradesh. This region has ideal slopes that stretch from 2 to 12 kilometers. The government has even drawn up plans to found a ski resort in the valley. Chanshal is 50 km from Rohru. In between there are many smaller stations on the way, which include Seema, Chirgaon and Tikkri. To get to the hill top one has to trek from the Chanshal Pass. On the route to the untouched valley, Himachal tourism has constructed hotels at Rohru, Khara Pattar and Hatkoti. Besides there are PWD and Forest Rest houses at many places that need to be booked in advance. The drive on the route, especially one along Pabbar River is very scenic, often tempting the traveler to stop by, step out of the vehicle to savour the views around. Adventure, Himachal, Himalayas, Mountaineering, Offbeat Himachal, Shimla, Trekking Colonial charm of Dalhouise and its surroundings Presiding deity of Kangra – Brijeshwari Devi	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1327
__label__cc	0.6777	0.3223	contactcLIENT PORTALWork with ushome Introducing Positioned Hi everyone! Kristin here. I’m so incredibly grateful to introduce Positioned to you. I feel like my 15-year career in PR— building brands as a CMO, securing media placement with some of the most prominent outlets, and protecting reputations from crises — has all been leading me to this, has all been leading me to you. Positioned is a boutique PR and brand positioning agency that is building everlasting brands for women+ facing products, entrepreneurs, and content creators. I created Positioned because I want to support the entrepreneurial spirit that is absolutely thriving today for women. And thriving we are. From 2014-2019 the number of women-owned businesses grew 21% to 13M We generate $1.9T in revenue annually Private tech companies led by women achieve a 35% higher ROI. 85% of online influencers are women and provide $7.65. average media value $1 of marketing spend We’re a powerhouse in today’s economy, no matter the obstacle. But there are barriers. Female entrepreneurs report their most significant barriers during the growth phase are market misconceptions and access to networks. That’s where brand positioning and PR comes in to raise awareness and activate new networks. Can you imagine how strong we will be working on these together? I can. I decided to build on my experience and create Positioned to bring something new to the table in terms of brand positioning, influencer marketing, and public relations. I knew one thing for sure—the women behind these brands, the ones who will collaborate with Positioned, they’re changing how business is getting done. And they are so much more than just their business. I knew the process that would serve them needed to be just as different—just as modern and purposeful. After a lot of thinking— a lot of thinking— I designed an interdisciplinary approach that holistically covers what I believe are the core pillars of building + amplifying + protecting your brand. The Positioned 3, (read about them here!) are customized phases meant to work together, build upon each other, and help your everlasting brand stay strong, no matter what. When I imagined Positioned, I thought about your results and successes. What your journeys mean, and who you are. I thought about what a rock-solid communications plan would mean for you and today’s entrepreneurs and influencers. I imagined how purpose-driven, modern, and focused brand positioning would look in your market’s sweet spot. I thought about who you wanted to connect with most and how we would reach them. I reflected on what my special brand of public relations could do for the stories you would tell me. I thoughtfully crafted a strategy to protect what you’ve built. There’s a beauty, I believe, in entrepreneurial grace. It’s something that inspired our core values of connectivity, empowerment, and purposeful work. To me, it’s the state of grace we achieve when we believe in ourselves and our businesses. When we’re calmly confident in our abilities, in the face of adversity, or anyone, or anything. I’ll be honest — this is not the intricately planned launch this PR girl had planned. Positioned was to launch boldly on March 25 during Women’s History Month. And then our daily lives changed. A celebration was no longer appropriate. We are watching the impact of COVID-19 on our fellow entrepreneurs and their businesses. But this situation is temporary. Brands aren’t. The women behind them aren’t. Today we launch Positioned with a commitment to serve the entrepreneurs that we believe in and who are being impacted by this crisis. You’ve worked hard to build your business, and for the next 8 weeks, we’ll be offering strategic consulting, pro bono, for those who need it most. Learn more and book your time. Positioned believes that women are stronger when we support each other and our communities. We believe that connectivity makes us better. That mission-driven entrepreneurs, content creators, influencers, and business owners are unstoppable. That we’re here to stay. I can’t wait to hear your story. Thank you for listening to mine. -Kristin Williamson Swenson ©2020 The Positioned Brand Website Design by Olivewing Designs Photography by Rebekah Albaugh	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1334
__label__cc	0.729369	0.270631	Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the present W. H. Auden once wrote that “art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.” In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engag From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the present W. H. Auden once wrote that “art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.” In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present—and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our “personal density.” Today we are battling too much information in a society changing at lightning speed, with algorithms aimed at shaping our every thought—plus a sense that history offers no resources, only impediments to overcome or ignore. The modern solution to our problems is to surround ourselves only with what we know and what brings us instant comfort. Jacobs’s answer is the opposite: to be in conversation with, and challenged by, those from the past who can tell us what we never thought we needed to know. What can Homer teach us about force? How does Frederick Douglass deal with the massive blind spots of America’s Founding Fathers? And what can we learn from modern authors who engage passionately and profoundly with the past? How can Ursula K. Le Guin show us truths about Virgil’s female characters that Virgil himself could never have seen? In Breaking Bread with the Dead, a gifted scholar draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with texts from across the ages, including the work of Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Amitav Ghosh, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Italo Calvino, and many more. By hearing the voices of the past, we can expand our consciousness, our sympathies, and our wisdom far beyond what our present moment can offer. 30 review for Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind Shelley – Sep 19, 2020 2020 desperately needed Alan Jacobs's Breaking Bread with the Dead. Reading it was a breath of fresh air. If you appreciate old books and feel increasingly dismayed by the fragility of well educated twenty-first century readers who can’t tolerate any views that are out of step with their own “enlightened” sensibilities, sensibilities that couldn’t possibly be wrong, then this book is for you. “There is an increasing sense” Jacobs notes, “not just that the past is sadly in error, is superannuated 2020 desperately needed Alan Jacobs's Breaking Bread with the Dead. Reading it was a breath of fresh air. If you appreciate old books and feel increasingly dismayed by the fragility of well educated twenty-first century readers who can’t tolerate any views that are out of step with their own “enlightened” sensibilities, sensibilities that couldn’t possibly be wrong, then this book is for you. “There is an increasing sense” Jacobs notes, “not just that the past is sadly in error, is superannuated and irrelevant and full of foul ideas that we are well rid of, but that it actually defiles us—its presence makes us unclean.” With a warm and ecumenical tone that seems increasingly rare, Jacobs argues “for an account of the past that emphasizes its treasures more than its threats.” Depending on one’s politics and worldview, it can be tempting to either vilify long-dead authors or romanticize them. Jacobs presents what should be obvious to us: a sensible middle ground where we honestly grapple with old books, celebrating and learning from what is good and true while wrestling with what we humbly believe is wrong. In this way, we develop “personal density”—an antidote to “the feeling of being at a frenetic standstill”—the “twitchiness,” and “low-level anxiety” we feel when we temporarily put down our phones and are therefore “communicatively unstimulated.”* “No one should be defined by the worst thing that they ever did,” argues Jacobs. “We need to look at the whole person.” One of the benefits of bringing this charitable perspective to our study of old books is that we might come to better understand ourselves in our own moment. In one of my favorite chapters of the book, Jacobs holds up Frederick Douglass as an exemplar of this nuanced, charitable, and sometimes costly approach to understanding the past. In his famous Rochester speech, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” Douglass calls the Founders “great men” for “the good they did and the principles they contended for”, while also lamenting “the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them.” Jacobs then asks his readers to reflect on “what it cost Douglass to speak so warmly of the Founders,” despite “their failure to eradicate slavery at the nation’s founding.” Jacobs marvels at how Douglass “conquered his indignation" and suggests to us that, if Douglass is willing to do so, we can at least try. Breaking Bread with the Dead is a special book that I hope many will read and consider thoughtfully. I’ll close this review by sharing an interesting classroom experiment that Princeton professor Robert P. George likes to conduct with his students. It perfectly illustrates why we must put on humility, charity, and generosity when engaging with the past, if only for the sake of better understanding ourselves. I agree with Jacobs's belief that “you can’t understand the place and time you’re in by immersion. The opposite’s true. You have to step out and away and back and forward. And you have to do it regularly. Then, you come back to the here and now and say, 'Ah! That’s how it is.'" I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it. Of course, this is nonsense. Only the tiniest fraction of them, or of any of us, would have spoken up against slavery or lifted a finger to free the slaves. Most of them—and us—would have gone along. Many would have supported the slave system and happily benefited from it. So I respond by saying that I will credit their claims if they can show evidence of the following: that in leading their lives today they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied, and where they have done so knowing: 1) that it would make them unpopular with their peers, (2) that they would be loathed and ridiculed by powerful, influential individuals and institutions in our society; (3) that they would be abandoned by many of their friends, (4) that they would be called nasty names, and that they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness. In short, my challenge is to show where they have at risk to themselves and their futures stood up for a cause that is unpopular in elite sectors of our culture today. That's just brilliant. I would love to sit in on that classroom discussion. *My only criticism of Breaking Bread with the Dead is that the concept of “personal density” and its relationship to the reading old books remains a little opaque in my mind. I think this might be because Jacobs uses an excerpt from a Thomas Pynchon novel to define the term. Pynchon is not exactly a model of clarity! Reading between the lines, I suspect that, with “personal density,” Jacobs is making a similar argument to that found in The Coddling of the American Mind—that young people need exposure to ideas that make them uncomfortable (not “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces”) if they are to develop the stability and resilience required to thrive in this world. Jeremy – Sep 09, 2020 For Jacobs on "temporal bandwidth," see here (adapted from this book). Related post here. CT review here. Interview here (might be more about 1943). The Brazos Fellows colloquium was very good (watch it here). Elizabeth Corey said that Jacobs's book is a defense of liberal arts education, and there is a political vision to the book, including issues of race and sex, in a nonthreatening way. Oakeshott: Poets and other creative folks would be squandering their genius by engaging in traditional poli For Jacobs on "temporal bandwidth," see here (adapted from this book). Related post here. CT review here. Interview here (might be more about 1943). The Brazos Fellows colloquium was very good (watch it here). Elizabeth Corey said that Jacobs's book is a defense of liberal arts education, and there is a political vision to the book, including issues of race and sex, in a nonthreatening way. Oakeshott: Poets and other creative folks would be squandering their genius by engaging in traditional politics; traditional politics may protect culture to a degree, but poets recreate society itself. Robin Sloan: Social media is an orthographic camera: You see everything, but there's nothing to tell you what's significant. Reading old books helps you to shift from orthographic projection to perspective. Perspective can lead to tranquility. Jacobs doesn't read the news daily; he reads it weekly, using The Economist—it helps one to avoid bad hot takes and the outrage cycle. Burke and Douglass aren't threatening because they're not yelling at you regarding our contemporary moment; nevertheless, they have relevant points to make that can apply to our situation. Jacobs acknowledges that there's some tension between this book and The Pleasures of Reading, because an agenda of reading old books could become like a duty, as opposed to reading at whim. Jacobs: When teaching old authors/works, he focuses on positive selection first (see what's valuable), and then later might address negative selection; that order helps readers take the positive more readily than if they were presented with the negative first. Jacobs wrote this book and How to Think as a citizen. He didn't necessarily write as a Christian, although he certainly thought as a Christian (and he's clear elsewhere in his works). However, the chapter titled "Table Fellowship" includes some underlying theology. Cameron – Sep 13, 2020 A gentle reminder I actually need to read the books I’ve accumulated. Stephen Hicks – Sep 30, 2020 This book is a balm to the frenetic pace of 2020. The relation between “temporal bandwidth” and “personal density” provides much needed language for our informational predicament. The book ends simply with, “...as people told me breathlessly of the latest astonishing video or the latest appalling tweet, I could say, I’m sorry, I know nothing about all that, for I have been thinking of old books, and to that work I must return.” A short, gentle read that heartens the weary lover of books. Gideon Yutzy – Oct 17, 2020 Those of us alive in the 21st century often feel obligated to grapple with such a flood of new information and ideas (information triage, as Jacobs calls it), and we often think, who would be bothered to read authors from the past, but we should because they can help bring us perspective and even tranquility. Sadly, according to Jacobs only about 2 percent of the population will be bothered by it, and those are the ones reading his book which may or may not have been his strategy for making his Those of us alive in the 21st century often feel obligated to grapple with such a flood of new information and ideas (information triage, as Jacobs calls it), and we often think, who would be bothered to read authors from the past, but we should because they can help bring us perspective and even tranquility. Sadly, according to Jacobs only about 2 percent of the population will be bothered by it, and those are the ones reading his book which may or may not have been his strategy for making his readers feel smart and special. I will say the book is a good antidote to presentism (a word he keeps using, meaning, as close as I can tell, trying to make sense of life only through the lens of our current events, likes and dislikes, cultural moods, etc.). The past is never completely past but continues to unfold as we live out the present. We should try to stay connected with the past because someday the present (all-important though it may seem to us) will join the river of time and it would be good if we didn't screw things up so badly that the river can't flow properly. Oh, and you will learn all about acquiring personal density and temporal bandwidth. Also, as of this writing, an average of 150,000 people are dying worldwide each day. Not sure how that fits with learning from the past but I just thought I should write it! You're welcome! (Bye.) Melody Schwarting – Oct 23, 2020 W. H. Auden wrote, "Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead," and thus we have our title. Jacobs here advocates for reading old books, the words of dead people, as a means to greater "personal density," tranquility, and enjoyment of life. Fear not: he also advocates for fanfiction, more on that later. Jacobs refers to theater critic Terry Teachout's idea of the "theater of concurrence," in which playwrights assume audiences share their opinions and write plays that affirm them, gua W. H. Auden wrote, "Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead," and thus we have our title. Jacobs here advocates for reading old books, the words of dead people, as a means to greater "personal density," tranquility, and enjoyment of life. Fear not: he also advocates for fanfiction, more on that later. Jacobs refers to theater critic Terry Teachout's idea of the "theater of concurrence," in which playwrights assume audiences share their opinions and write plays that affirm them, guaranteeing audience's agreement in a circle of confirmation. For me, this was a "book of concurrence." I'm a historian--I traffic in the written remnants of the deceased--and I have always loved old books, for as long as I can remember. Jacobs's acknowledgment that "attention to the past is a hard sell" might be true for some, but it's not a hard sell for me, or even a sell at all, because I've already bought into it. Jacobs quotes and affirms Tony Tost in the first chapter: "younger folks don't have any cultural memory or taste for aesthetic adventure." (16) Excuse me? My whole life contradicts this assertion, making me unable to accept it as a blanket statement. I grew up on the Beach Boys, on Alfred Hitchcock, on Victorian and Edwardian and children's literature. When I was in high school and my brother in college, we had "Audrey Hepburn Tuesdays" one summer, where we ate frozen custard and watched Audrey Hepburn movies on Tuesdays. I do not deny that, perhaps, many of my generation and Gen Z lack this "temporal bandwidth," but I don't think it's quite as awful as Tost claims. Jacobs has a more measured view, since he is a college professor and thus in constant contact with the young'uns, but I still challenge the assertion--even a small assertion--that it's a generational problem. When I got past my considerable cognitive dissonance with much of the first chapter (it was really just the Tost quotation), I settled into Jacobs's methods for and ideas about engaging with the past. He argues for "table fellowship" with writers of the past, even those who do not conform wholly to our modern sensibilities. He has a whole chapter on "The Sins of the Past" and working through Wharton's antismeitism and Shakespeare's horrifyingly abusive Petruchio. Instead of tossing babies out with their bathwater, Jacobs argues, we should read with as much "positive selection" as we do with "negative selection." Instead of just finding things to discard, we should find what we can to admire. "Wisdom lies in discernment," he writes, "and utopianism and nostalgia are ways of abandoning discernment." (58) Heinrich Schliemann, who was quite literally obsessed with ancient Greece, displays for Jacobs an acceptance of "the past without difference," which is not what Jacobs promotes. The past is a different place, perhaps a foreign country, but not one we need to avoid or denigrate, nor one we should accept without criticism. What we must look for, then, is "the authentic kernel," a phrase coming from feminist scholar Patrocinio Schweickart, who seeks the medium between the extremes of "canceling" patriarchal works or assuming their points of view. The "utopian moment," the "authentic kernel," instead, is what we should pursue. That "moment when something deeply and beautifully human emerges from that swamp of patriarchal ideology," as Jacobs puts it, defining the "'authentic kernel' [as] something perhaps hidden deep inside the book that speaks to you, that articulates an experience you can share." (82) This is when the book began deeply resonating with me--my utopian moment, if you will. As a historian, I regularly face texts and figures who do things that seem unconscionable to me, like enslave others or persecute people with contrary opinions. But I can't deny those people their humanity, and have often been at a loss to define precisely why I accept and love their work even in its problematic moments. Here, Jacobs turns to fanfiction: "Sometimes when a story both entrances and offends you, you'd love to alter it or add to it in ways that redress its imbalances. If you're a writer, you can do this. This is, importantly I think, one of the chief prompts for fan fiction, which, despite its name, doesn't just celebrate the works it draws on: sometimes it extends, sometimes it even corrects them." (82-83) He points to Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, inspired by Virgil's Aeneid, and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre. "What drove Le Guin and Rhys to write their powerful novels was not merely frustration, but rather frustration mixed with admiration and even love. The Aeneid and Jane Eyre are truly great works of literary art--that is what makes them worth responding to. (85) When it comes to fan fiction being Literature™, I can only think of one thing... ...and also more recent popular works like Circe by Madeline Miller, and March by Geraldine Brooks. That chapter, with the following two, are worth the price of the book alone. Jacobs considers Peter Abrahams, a mixed-race young man in South Africa who profoundly loved Keats and W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois gave words to Abrahams' bone-deep knowledge that he was not free in his contemporary society. Yet Keats and others "were, for me, more alive than the most vitally living." (95) This tension Jacobs also explores in Frederick Douglass, particularly with respect to his view on the American founders in "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro." (1852) I found this section compelling, because I heard this speech quoted everywhere over the summer, without the appreciation Douglass displayed for the founders, though he could not accept Independence Day for himself, being a Black man. Douglass says, "With them, justice, liberty and humanity were 'final;' not slavery and oppression...You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation." (114-115) Earlier, Jacobs writes that the founders "rarely understood the full implications of their best ideas." (51-52) Returning to the present for a moment, I think of--what else?--Hamilton. Surely, George Washington would cringe at being played by Christopher Jackson, when Washington himself went to inconvenient lengths to keep Black people in his enslavement. Thomas Jefferson would likely not appreciate being played by Daveed Diggs and his rapping expertise. But could either of them deny the heady freedom of experimenting with the United States, "young, scrappy, and hungry," is adapted incredibly well in this musical? Methinks not. As a side note, this book is a powerful antidote to cancel culture. I find cancel culture harmful in many ways--no one is exempt; the whim of the masses overcomes any reasoned, prolonged discussion; canceling a person is also known as murder, assassination, and execution, all of which are ethically horrifying. Jacobs's argument is that we can take the good with the bad, not accepting or bowing to the bad, but reading generously, simply accepting that people of the past are human as we are today. If cancel culture stopped at taking away the social media/public figure privileges of people who need to learn the virtues of silence, I'd be fully behind it (I have a list). But when it comes to canceling someone, their work, and everyone connected with them, I draw the line. J. K. Rowling stands out to me as a contemporary writer who does not live up to her own best ideas. Yet, her failure does not impeach her ideas; you could say she trained her cancelers herself. I thank Jacobs wholeheartedly for giving me the words to deal with this, to handle historical texts in all their paradoxes, and to live with complex figures from the past in a way both generous and critical. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who's struggled with reading old books, or who wants to read more old books, or who finds it challenging to explain to others why reading old books is valuable. This would make a great text for the classroom (upper high school and above). "You don't silence the part of you that sees the problems with the book, its errors, its moral malformations; neither do you silence the part of you that responds so warmly to that 'utopian moment.'" (82) [to the book] "You gave me many sweet months when, as people told me breathlessly of the latest astonishing video or the latest appalling tweet, I could say, I'm sorry, I know nothing about all that, for I have been thinking of old books, and to that work I must return." (159) Rebecca – Nov 07, 2020 Timely, thought provoking, and saying similar things to what I've been thinking about a lot these past few years. Where he uses phrases like personal density, mental bandwidth, and the big here and the long now, I'd say read for diversity of thought and opinion. Hold every thought captive. Ask the hard questions. Wrestle with the uncomfortable ideas and content. Leave the chronological snobbery at the door. And most importantly, read with grace. Timely, thought provoking, and saying similar things to what I've been thinking about a lot these past few years. Where he uses phrases like personal density, mental bandwidth, and the big here and the long now, I'd say read for diversity of thought and opinion. Hold every thought captive. Ask the hard questions. Wrestle with the uncomfortable ideas and content. Leave the chronological snobbery at the door. And most importantly, read with grace. Matt Pitts – Oct 04, 2020 If you've ever wished C. S. Lewis's introduction to On the Incarnation had been a book instead of an essay, here your wish is fulfilled in one of Lewis's foremost disciples. But Jacobs is no mere placeholder for Lewis. No doubt Jacobs says things Lewis would not. But he thinks like Lewis. And perhaps if Lewis were our contemporary he would say something like what Alan Jacobs says here. I loved it. If you've ever wished C. S. Lewis's introduction to On the Incarnation had been a book instead of an essay, here your wish is fulfilled in one of Lewis's foremost disciples. But Jacobs is no mere placeholder for Lewis. No doubt Jacobs says things Lewis would not. But he thinks like Lewis. And perhaps if Lewis were our contemporary he would say something like what Alan Jacobs says here. I loved it. Ivan – Sep 18, 2020 A good antidote to presentism and prescription for a “more tranquil mind.” Elizabeth – Nov 01, 2020 This book is superb. I will be returning to this again and again for its sanity and wisdom. I love that Jacobs demonstrates in this book what he recommends, which is to draw on dead authors to recommend reading dead authors. This is the kind of book that stays in my brain and pops into conversations I have throughout the day, either in my head or spoken aloud. It applies to so many conversations. It felt prescient to start it right before and finish it during election week, a good way to stay gr This book is superb. I will be returning to this again and again for its sanity and wisdom. I love that Jacobs demonstrates in this book what he recommends, which is to draw on dead authors to recommend reading dead authors. This is the kind of book that stays in my brain and pops into conversations I have throughout the day, either in my head or spoken aloud. It applies to so many conversations. It felt prescient to start it right before and finish it during election week, a good way to stay grounded. I should say that I agree implicitly with the premise of this book--that reading books by dead authors is valuable (for reasons laid out in the book). However, I was interested to see what kind of arguments Jacobs uses to support his premise. In Chapter 5, called The Authentic Kernel, I could see his argument taking clear shape. At the start of the chapter he quotes from an essay of literary criticism that forwards the idea of reading old books in a double fashion. You don't put aside what you find troubling in a novel, but you also hold onto the "authentic kernel" in the novel, what is human and moving and relatable. Holding the tension of these two things is part of developing generosity towards the author and his or humanity while also learning humility ourselves since we have our own blind spots. Jacobs gives the example of two authors who have written stories from the point of view of women in classic literature who were not given a voice (Lavinia in the Aeneid and Bertha in Jane Eyre). Perhaps we can do this as readers, too, by simply asking questions of silent characters: What might this character's perspective have been? and using our imaginative capacity to think outside the narrative. Heaven knows we need that practice in our living, breathing daily lives. It makes so much sense that these things would help increase our personal density and decrease our presentism (lack of perspective). It's an exercise in virtue: in patience, in prudence, in courage, in hope. I also like, in this chapter, that Jacobs recapitulates his theme of opposition. That opposition can actually be something healthy and scouring. We don't oppose what we're indifferent to, so when we feel opposition to a book, don't let go! Hang on to it, like Jacob wrestling with the angel in Genesis...the wrestling itself led to a blessing. Maybe we do more harm when we dismiss something that troubles us instead of exploring why it does, and even what good may be lurking beneath the offensive. In the chapter The Boy in the Library, Jacobs quotes a writer who has a tattoo on her arm of a Latin phrase, translated “I am human, and nothing human is alien to me.” The writer calls this a statement with a lot of “internal tension”. Love that phrase! Here’s the wonderful way Jacobs follows up with that: “I often quote this Latin phrase. When I do, I always point out that Terence [the original author of the phrase] does not say that everything human is instantly accessible to him. He says it is not alien, not wholly outside the scope of his experience, not opaque to his inquiries. It puts up resistance. But that resistance, and the work we do to overcome it, are alike necessary to the task of breaking bread with the dead.” (102) Love that! Chapter 7 is a heavy hitter, too. I like this quote: “[Douglass offers] a model of reckoning with the past, to sift, to assess, to return and reflect again.” (117). Jacob Vahle – Jan 03, 2021 This little book is yet another thought provoking read from Alan Jacobs, who I just missed the chance of having as a professor at Wheaton. The book’s central premise continues to challenge me to “love the dead as neighbor” by breaking bread with them, consuming works that are strange to me and asking why they are strange, and accumulating conversation partners across space and time. He exposes the dangers of “presentism” without becoming enameled with nostalgia. All in all, he offers up a way to This little book is yet another thought provoking read from Alan Jacobs, who I just missed the chance of having as a professor at Wheaton. The book’s central premise continues to challenge me to “love the dead as neighbor” by breaking bread with them, consuming works that are strange to me and asking why they are strange, and accumulating conversation partners across space and time. He exposes the dangers of “presentism” without becoming enameled with nostalgia. All in all, he offers up a way to find the “authentic kernel” in any book we read as long as we enter into the conversation generously. Kayleigh – Nov 28, 2020 4 stars. “Like the poet Yeats, I often find that thought, and indeed life as a whole, is like a winding stair: you keep revisiting the same points, the same themes, but at higher levels of experience. From those ascending vantage points a given idea, a given feeling, a given perception, is recognizably itself and yet somehow different.” I’m not going to review this one, I’m just trying to add the books I’ve read the last few days for my Goodreads reading challenge. Paul Womack – Oct 19, 2020 I so appreciate and learn from Mr. Jacobs. This volume offers me books to read and ideas to explore. That ancient souls lived the human condition with its mix of ignorance and wisdom, and that more recent souls did the same, and that contemorary souls do the same is a great lesson from this book. There is much common sense in this small volume, and a host of insightful observations. I wish it had been longer. Samuel Parkison – Oct 15, 2020 Very good. Jacobs offers here a potent apologetic for reading old books. He advocates neither for canceling the dead, nor white washing them, but rather for learning from them, and negotiating with them. There is much humility and wisdom to the vision of the tranquil life described by Jacobs here. Renee – Dec 28, 2020 Excellent book for those who said they can't read certain book because they don't agree with the author or what the author belive or from books written at a time when what was politically correct may differ from our time. So much can be learned by reading something we may disagree with, to read different opinion or point of view and it help us to stand firmer on our values etc. Well written and with humor, highly recommend Excellent book for those who said they can't read certain book because they don't agree with the author or what the author belive or from books written at a time when what was politically correct may differ from our time. So much can be learned by reading something we may disagree with, to read different opinion or point of view and it help us to stand firmer on our values etc. Well written and with humor, highly recommend Kevin – Sep 10, 2020 Another wonderful book by Alan Jacobs that is food for the soul. In his typical, learned, humble and artful way he guides the reader toward a more tranquil mind in a society that seems designed to create anything but. He explores the tensions involved in interacting with the past; neither throwing away our values and judgement nor refusing to engage because of our obsession with the present reality. Along the way you will find wisdom from a wide variety of sources and perspective both literary a Another wonderful book by Alan Jacobs that is food for the soul. In his typical, learned, humble and artful way he guides the reader toward a more tranquil mind in a society that seems designed to create anything but. He explores the tensions involved in interacting with the past; neither throwing away our values and judgement nor refusing to engage because of our obsession with the present reality. Along the way you will find wisdom from a wide variety of sources and perspective both literary and historical; fiction and non. This is a self-help book that doesn’t offer easy answers and listicles but forces us to do the hard work necessary to grow and thrive; to become a better version of ourselves. Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance – Jan 08, 2021 "Why read?" "Why read old books?" "How do you live a good and tranquil life?" All of these are questions I often think about. Alan Jacobs also considers those questions, and the result of his thinking is Breaking Bread with the Dead. Alan Jacobs starts by looking at the storms (I'd call them Category 5 hurricanes) that blow around us in contemporary life by means of the onslaught of news and social media. To survive, to stand, to move ahead amid the storms requires, he tells us, "personal density, "Why read?" "Why read old books?" "How do you live a good and tranquil life?" All of these are questions I often think about. Alan Jacobs also considers those questions, and the result of his thinking is Breaking Bread with the Dead. Alan Jacobs starts by looking at the storms (I'd call them Category 5 hurricanes) that blow around us in contemporary life by means of the onslaught of news and social media. To survive, to stand, to move ahead amid the storms requires, he tells us, "personal density," a term that comes from one of the characters in Thomas Pynchon's book, Gravity's Rainbow. Jacob writes, "...the development of personal density, to which reading old books can be a vital contribution...might provide...a port, for however brief a time, in the storm." How to achieve this personal density? We tend, according to Jacobs, to spend time with others like us. "But I believe," Jacob tells us, "that any significant increase in personal density is largely achieved through encounters with un-likeness." Jacobs reminds us that the French thinker Simone Weil that looking for eternal truth can be difficult to do when we deal with our actual neighbor because emotions tend to be close to the surface. Books, on the other hand, offer some emotional distance. One of my favorite parts of this book is where Jacobs shares some thoughts from Italian novelist Italo Calvino about reading old books. "Your classic author is the one you cannot feel indifferent to, who helps you to define yourself in relation to him, even in dispute with him." Jacobs goes on to share a little more Calvino: "A classic is something that tends to relegate the concerns of the moment to the status of background noise, but at the same time this background noise is something we cannot do without." During the process of encountering a book from the past, "When we perceive some sudden dissonance between ourselves and those people, we should not run from that dissonance but straight toward it,"Jacob asserts. Further he adds, "This testing of our responses against those of our ancestors is an exciting endeavor---a potentially endless table conversation, though, again, one we can suspend at any time." I loved this marvelous conclusion by Jacobs, where he talks about deeply meeting with people from the past: "When we own our kinship to those people, they may come alive for us not just as exemplars of narrowness and wickedness that we have overcome, but as neighbors and even as teachers. When we acknowledge that even when they go far astray they do so in ways that we surely would have, had we been formed as they were, we extend them not just attention but love, the very love that we hope our descendants will extend to us." Author Alan Jacobs is interviewed at The Trinity Forum here. Brianna Bratrud – Sep 22, 2020 A review by Jessica Hooten Wilson - https://formajournal.substack.com/p/g... A review by Jessica Hooten Wilson - https://formajournal.substack.com/p/g... Gretchen – Sep 26, 2020 I heard the author, Alan Jacobs, interviewed by Sarah MacKenzie on the Read Aloud Revival podcast. I was familiar with his previous work, but had never read one of his books. I went to the book store on the same day, purchased the book and have been glued to it since. I learned so much. I gained perspective. I have better words to communicate the thoughts that I had until now been unable to voice. Shane Saxon – Jan 01, 2021 Alan, my best friend that I’ve never met, does it again. Ann Otto – Oct 18, 2020 Jacobs writes in Envoi, his book's closing comment: "You gave me many sweet months when, as people told me breathlessly of the latest astonishing video or the latest appalling tweet, I could say, I'm sorry, I know nothing about all that, for I have been thinking of old books..." I also turn to reading all genres in difficult times, but especially history and historical novels. Jacobs reminds us that humans have always wanted tranquil minds. He includes a passage from Horace who advised two thousa Jacobs writes in Envoi, his book's closing comment: "You gave me many sweet months when, as people told me breathlessly of the latest astonishing video or the latest appalling tweet, I could say, I'm sorry, I know nothing about all that, for I have been thinking of old books..." I also turn to reading all genres in difficult times, but especially history and historical novels. Jacobs reminds us that humans have always wanted tranquil minds. He includes a passage from Horace who advised two thousand years ago to "Interrogate the writings of the wise." The passage that Jacobs includes contains a line that resonates with me, "Will it be hope and fear about trivial things, in anxious alteration in your mind?" Anxiety is but one thing that stands in the way of tranquility. What, Horace asks, is the way to become a friend to yourself? The book is full of examples of ancients and more recent authors who have tried to answer these questions and Jacobs reminds us that in this, "Another human being from another world has spoken top us." L. P. Hartley's novel stated, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." Faulkner countered, "The past is never dead; it's not even past." This work gives us much to contemplate in these times. To the thinking of old books, I'll now return. Jenny – Dec 13, 2020 Just finished Alan Jacob’s 2020 book Breaking Bread with the Dead, an extended essay that argues for a need to develop temporal/personal “thickness” through a relationship with old books in order to withstand the banality of contemporary media saturation. While I don’t agree with everything Jacobs writes (here he closes off the possibility for speculative, future oriented fiction to also expand (thicken) a person’s sense of self because it’s being written in the present moment; I disagree, in pa Just finished Alan Jacob’s 2020 book Breaking Bread with the Dead, an extended essay that argues for a need to develop temporal/personal “thickness” through a relationship with old books in order to withstand the banality of contemporary media saturation. While I don’t agree with everything Jacobs writes (here he closes off the possibility for speculative, future oriented fiction to also expand (thicken) a person’s sense of self because it’s being written in the present moment; I disagree, in part because I want to maintain the possibility for the prophetic mode and a certain temporal slipperiness within), I did find the book enjoyable, thoughtful, and worth thinking through in terms of performative theology / scriptural theology. The idea that past texts can reveal both differences and similarities between a author and reader is nothing new, but there’s an underlying sacramental tone to the way Jacobs articulates it throughout this project. In particular, his emphasis on texts as producing a sense of kinship could be effectively used in theological work from a Mormon perspective. Kaley – Nov 06, 2020 Jacobs has a generous and nuanced tone, and I appreciate his equal concern for dialogue with ages past and involvement in the present moment for the sake of the future. "To say, 'This text offends me, I will read no further' may be shortsighted; but to read a 'great book' from the past with such reverence that you can't see where it's views are wrong, or even where they differ from your own, is no better" (Ch. 4 "The Past without difference") "...the power of reading arises in some cases from like Jacobs has a generous and nuanced tone, and I appreciate his equal concern for dialogue with ages past and involvement in the present moment for the sake of the future. "To say, 'This text offends me, I will read no further' may be shortsighted; but to read a 'great book' from the past with such reverence that you can't see where it's views are wrong, or even where they differ from your own, is no better" (Ch. 4 "The Past without difference") "...the power of reading arises in some cases from likeness-from the sense that that could be me speaking-and from difference-that is someone very different from me speaking. For mental and moral health we need both." (Ch. 6, The Boy in the Library) Devon Bowman – Jan 09, 2021 This little book reminds us that sometimes the books of the past can speak more to the present than anything we scroll on. In this age we have a tendency to look disdainfully at the figures and writings of the past because of our “moral superiority.” Jacobs writes plainly that if we refuse to interact because of that we are missing out on what can make us deeper people. The ignoring of old books is not an act of justice for their moral hang ups but is a handicap to the one who doesn’t explore th This little book reminds us that sometimes the books of the past can speak more to the present than anything we scroll on. In this age we have a tendency to look disdainfully at the figures and writings of the past because of our “moral superiority.” Jacobs writes plainly that if we refuse to interact because of that we are missing out on what can make us deeper people. The ignoring of old books is not an act of justice for their moral hang ups but is a handicap to the one who doesn’t explore their depth and knowledge. Sam Strickland – Sep 13, 2020 This is a book, it seems to me, that only someone like Alan Jacobs could write. It is generous and humane with a practical insistence on the importance of very impractical, indeed highly idiosyncratic, things. I found it enjoyable and bracing in the midst of a strange and frenzied year on the national scale. Margaret – Dec 16, 2020 This book is intellectual, but accessible. It speaks to what is happening in our times while encouraging us to connect to the past. I think it will affect my reading patterns for the rest of my life, or as long as I have the strength, eyesight. My mind is definitely more tranquil as I think about how the past reaches out to us through books. I spent nearly a month actually reading this short little book because I had to battle with lots of competing things and I had to ponder a lot. Caroline Mann – Dec 30, 2020 This is a 4.5 rating. I recommend this to everyone on this app because, let’s admit it, you don’t use goodreads because you just kind of like reading. In Breaking Bread with the Dead, Jacobs invites us to meet those long dead authors in their old, dusty, often confusing, often offensive, writing. He does not shy away from counter arguments and takes them seriously (a piece of rhetoric that is as useful as it is rare). But I don’t need to remake his argument for you. Read the book. It’s a quick r This is a 4.5 rating. I recommend this to everyone on this app because, let’s admit it, you don’t use goodreads because you just kind of like reading. In Breaking Bread with the Dead, Jacobs invites us to meet those long dead authors in their old, dusty, often confusing, often offensive, writing. He does not shy away from counter arguments and takes them seriously (a piece of rhetoric that is as useful as it is rare). But I don’t need to remake his argument for you. Read the book. It’s a quick read that is certainly worth your time. Logan Price – Dec 31, 2020 Alan Jacobs always makes me really think, which is why I appreciate his writing so much. This book was also not what I expected. It felt nice to not just get a pat on the back for what I already know. And at a time where we are quick to write off any dead person or old idea we can't wholly agree with, Jacobs makes a compelling case for more generosity that doesn't exclude morality. Alan Jacobs always makes me really think, which is why I appreciate his writing so much. This book was also not what I expected. It felt nice to not just get a pat on the back for what I already know. And at a time where we are quick to write off any dead person or old idea we can't wholly agree with, Jacobs makes a compelling case for more generosity that doesn't exclude morality. Michelle – Oct 05, 2020 “Breaking bread with the dead is not a scholarly task to be completed but a permanent banquet, to which all who hunger are invited.” Luke Newcomb – Nov 17, 2020 An immensely satisfying, beautifully written book on the pleasures and benefits of reading old books. 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__label__wiki	0.741486	0.741486	ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Port Saint Joe’ by Brothers Osborne For as uneven as it can be, there’s still something so magnetising about Brothers Osborne’s debut Pawn Shop. In the sterilised cesspit of modern country, to have an act unafraid to try both pensive, delicate indie-country and swaggering country-rock was such a great sight to see, and even if not everything on that debut landed, the presence of some truly excellent tracks and even a few charting crossovers put a lot of ears on a duo that really had something going for them. Even if it was yet to be refined, the signs were still there. With Port Saint Joe then, refinement seems to be the name of the game, this time substituting any greater sonic shifts for more equable, pleasant country tones seemingly designed to soundtrack oncoming lazy summer days. It makes sense given how it’s the same mould as Stay A Little Longer and 21 Summer, two of the biggest draws on Pawn Shop, and sized down to a lean ten tracks would ensure this wouldn’t be too taxing. And that’s pretty much the case here, with Port Saint Joe having fewer obvious highlights than its predecessor, but in being more consistent, it’s arguably the better album overall. Of course, not everything has been improved here, most noticeably the production, in which Jay Joyce continues to coat what could be a much more raw, rough sound in extraneous layers of polish. It’s perhaps a bit less of an issue this time seeing as the majority of country-rock roars have been cut back, but with the tart banjo plucks on Tequila Again or the incredibly lightweight organ whirrs on A Little Bit Trouble, there’s more than enough room here to inject some extra snarl to match TJ Osborne at his harshest. But truth be told, while tracks like Shoot Me Straight and Drank Like Hank see a return to a southern-rock-tinged brand of ragged heave (particularly the extended jam session to close out the former which is genuinely excellent), Port Saint Joe’s sense of restraint and lightness still work well. Spacious, mid-tempo tones dominate, that gives a sense of calming plaintiveness on Weed, Whiskey And Willie and Pushing Up Daisies (Love Alive), or in the sticky, staccato island grooves of A Couple Wrongs Makin’ It Alright, a sense of fun that didn’t have a chance to blossom on their debut. This is the sort of sonic consistency that’s indicative of a band growing and learning their strengths, and in terms of atmosphere alone, this is the best that Brothers Osborne have sounded, at least on a full release. That said, this sort of sound doesn’t naturally indicate an album with much intelligence, and Port Saint Joe isn’t exactly bucking against that notion. Content-wise, this is a light as the instrumentation would suggest, primarily boiling down to drinking, finding love and a general mood of relaxation and letting life flow by. The duo rarely twist these into any new or innovative takes, but honestly, they don’t really need to, as there’s enough evocative emotions and mood already to work in their favour. Weed, Whiskey And Willie might be as basic as they come in terms of highlighting the necessities of southern life, but there’s something so poignant about its slow sway that has just a bit more impact, a similar case to the wistful acoustic closer While You Still Can. Of course, these are balanced out by the comparative rowdiness of Shoot Me Straight and Drank Like Hank, but even then, there are reservations here so to not completely fly off the rails; they feel considerably tamer than the out-and-out debauchery of Pawn Shop’s It Ain’t My Fault. And yet, this is a good level of compromise, tamping down some of the rougher edges while keeping the spirit there; this is a sound that could become a mainstream crossover, but it’s not solely designed for that. That’s probably what makes Port Saint Joe such an enjoyable listen overall – it’s hugely accessible but done in an organic way. And while that’s pretty much par for the course for Brothers Osborne, there’s progression that comes from zeroing in on their strengths and doing them to the best of their abilities. Granted, this isn’t the country-rock classic they’re more than capable of making (even though it can feel like their own reticence to go too far in holding them back in this regard), but as a step in the right direction, Port Saint Joe is exactly what this second album needed to be. For fans of: Blackberry Smoke, Chris Stapleton, Zac Brown Band Words by Luke Nuttall ‘Port Saint Joe’ by Brothers Osborne is out now on Snakefarm Records. Posted in Albums, ReviewsTagged Album review, Brothers Osborne, country rock, Luke Nuttall Prev ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Never Gonna Die’ by Pennywise Next EP REVIEW: ‘Cry Havoc!’ by Gutlocker	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1337
__label__wiki	0.876046	0.876046	May 14, 2020 @ 12:58pm » Dan Lyons Logan Ryan Shares What Tom Brady Told Him After His Playoff Pick-Six FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS - JANUARY 04: Logan Ryan #26 of the Tennessee Titans celebrates his touchdown with teammates against the New England Patriots in the fourth quarter of the AFC Wild Card Playoff game at Gillette Stadium on January 04, 2020 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Photo by Kathryn Riley/Getty Images) One of the biggest plays of Logan Ryan’s NFL career came against a friend and former teammate. His Pick Six of Tom Brady during the Tennessee Titans’ playoff win over the New England Patriots wound up being the final play of Brady’s legendary Patriots career. Ryan dropped a potential interception earlier in the game, but made a huge play when it mattered most. Both players are on the move this offseason. Brady signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and will follow in the footsteps of legends like Joe Montana and Brett Favre, who finished their careers with teams other than the ones they became all-time greats with. It is one of the most surprising developments in recent NFL history, even after months of speculation. Logan Ryan won’t be back in Tennessee either. The Titans declined to re-sign the star cornerback, who began his career with Brady and the Patriots. The New York Jets reportedly believe they’ll sign Ryan, but he insists it isn’t a done deal and he’s “open for business.” During an interview with NFL Network’s Good Morning Football, Logan Ryan discussed that fateful play against Brady and the Patriots. He said that Brady reached out via Instagram after the game, to congratulate him on the play. “He’s happy for me. He hated that it had to happen to him. Why couldn’t I drop both? Why did I have to catch one? We’ve got a great relationship. It’s all love in the game.” Wow. The Patriots are stunned at home and lose to the Titans. In what may be Tom Brady’s last throw, it’s a pick-6 to his former teammate Logan Ryan. pic.twitter.com/2t59duK5Z1 — GBP Daily (@GBPdaily) January 5, 2020 Ryan still has that ball, and it is displayed very prominently in his home. Via 247Sports: “He’s a great competitor and he respects me for my play. But that’s just something I had to do to help us win. That ball is on a mantle. My kids play with a lot of my interception balls laying around. But that one, they can’t touch. That one’s on my mantle.” Ryan did it all for the Titans last season, racking up 113 total tackles, 4.5 sacks, four forced fumbles, and 18 passes defensed. He’ll be a big-time signing for the Jets, or whichever team winds up landing him. We should find out his new home soon enough. Filed Under: New England Patriots, New York Jets, Tennessee Titans, Top Stories Aaron Rodgers Had Blunt Response To Ndamukong Suh Question Look: Miami QB Tate Martell Breaks Silence On Social Media Buccaneers Make Roster Addition For NFC Championship Game The Eagles Are Reportedly Interviewing Kellen Moore Today NFL World Reacts To The Kellen Moore Interview News Report: Patrick Mahomes Answered 1 Question Wrong On Sunday Report: Michigan Reportedly Hiring Dallas Cowboys Assistant Report: Rams Block Kevin O’Connell From Interviewing Aaron Rodgers Reacts To Having Fans At Lambeau Field Saints DC Dennis Allen Interviewing For Head Coaching Job Adam Schefter Has Tuesday Update On Patrick Mahomes Colin Cowherd Has Blockbuster Trade Suggestion For Nets	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1338
__label__cc	0.56055	0.43945	Travel Tips & Itineraries Features & Special Places About Ferne Arfin and The View From Chelsea ©FerneArfin Carnaby Street Christmas 2019 – London’s best displays are fully recycled Destinations, Features & Special Places https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/12/carnaby-street-overview.jpg 800 800 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-12-08 21:56:222019-12-17 02:06:53Carnaby Street Christmas 2019 – London’s best displays are fully recycled Ferne Arfin 2019 Abbotsbury Swannery https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/abbotsbury1.jpg 500 500 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-09-25 23:53:582019-10-27 15:22:45Abbotsbury Swannery Dundee Hotel Review: The Indigo Dundee https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/08/indigolobby-1.jpg 667 1000 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-08-31 01:00:412020-07-22 23:50:06Dundee Hotel Review: The Indigo Dundee Dundee getaway with a pick ‘n mix itinerary https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/08/Dundee-orientation-table.jpg 1000 1440 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-08-14 20:29:182020-07-23 00:01:35Dundee getaway with a pick ‘n mix itinerary Discover the V&A Dundee https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/07/VA-outside-pond.jpg 483 725 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-07-16 19:45:562020-07-22 23:30:22Discover the V&A Dundee Courtesy of the owner Where to Stay in Suffolk England: The Swan at Lavenham https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/06/The-Swan-at-Lavenham-Hotel-and-Spa-final-med-2.jpg 449 750 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-06-22 17:27:592019-07-24 16:18:32Where to Stay in Suffolk England: The Swan at Lavenham Courtesy of the Hotel Brudenell Where to stay in Suffolk, England: The Hotel Brudenell https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/06/Brudenell-Hotel-Aldeburgh-.jpg 846 1455 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-06-22 15:41:352019-07-11 14:14:40Where to stay in Suffolk, England: The Hotel Brudenell Anna Maria Island – Still Secret After All These Years https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/06/beach-with-sailboat-and-gull.jpg 375 500 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-06-12 19:48:152020-08-19 17:53:52Anna Maria Island – Still Secret After All These Years Secret Greenwich – The Fan Museum https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/05/jeweled-fanguard.jpg 501 500 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-05-04 18:00:542020-09-03 17:54:19Secret Greenwich – The Fan Museum Where to stay near Monemvasia – deluxe or budget? Destinations, Travel Tips & Itineraries https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/03/IMG_6744.jpg 750 1000 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-03-03 23:11:212019-07-11 14:15:43Where to stay near Monemvasia – deluxe or budget? Romantic Monemvasia – The secret of the Peloponnese https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/02/bridge.jpg 599 799 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2019-02-19 14:04:072019-07-10 19:18:22Romantic Monemvasia – The secret of the Peloponnese Hotel Review – Andronis Athens, a Funky Boutique in Psyrri https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2018/12/DSC0513.jpg 1080 1620 Ferne Arfin https://theviewfromchelsea.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/09/The-view-from-chelsea-logo-black-2.png Ferne Arfin2018-12-16 21:10:512019-07-11 14:16:21Hotel Review – Andronis Athens, a Funky Boutique in Psyrri Share on Flip All the new views from Chelsea, free in your inbox every month. © 2018 Ferne Arfin – The View from Chelsea info.theviewfromchelsea@gmail.com londonferne First mixed race woman vp sworn in by the first La Visit BGTW.org for a wonderful exhibition of photo Watch with sound. 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__label__cc	0.74707	0.25293	Facility Rental Memphis Licensing & Research Programs in Tennessee ArtFlow in Memphis History Awareness Month Talk About It Tuesday Visit The Wither’s Collection Studio Lounge Presents “Talk About It Tuesday” is a monthly panel discussion with Q & A designed to bring people from the local community together to inspire discussion about the significant impact of cultural history in movements for economic and social justice. Our goal is to bring people from the local community together to give them inspiration for what our non-profit organization is hoping to achieve through education and engagement. We want to promote discussion about the significant impact of cultural history in movements for economic and social justice. We are committed to raising history awareness, which we hope will also raise funds and donations that will enable us to share future exhibits from the archive of more than 1.8 million images of the iconic internationally renowned photographer Dr. Ernest C. Withers The museum is currently open by appointment due to COVID-19. To schedule an appointment, call (901) 523-2344. The Withers Collection Museum & Gallery Located in the heart of Memphis, we are a museum, gallery, and archive dedicated to preserving and sharing the work of Dr. Ernest C. Withers. 333 Beale Street Memphis TN, 38103 info@witherscollection.org The museum is currently open by appointment only due to COVID-19. To schedule an appointment, call (901) 523-2344. Store Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1343
__label__cc	0.674915	0.325085	Home > Object > Connected Plentiful’s Reservation App Is Designing Dignity Into the Charitable Food System by Martelle Esposito Photography by Antonio Chicala. Standing in line for hours for dinner is not ideal. In New York, diners often brave inclement weather and daunting wait times for their meals. Unlike the diners who are serviced by a handful of apps like OpenTable or Resy to streamline their restaurant experience, diners that rely on the City’s food pantries often have no choice but to wait. With the launch of Plentiful, an Android app and SMS reservation system for food pantries and their clients, a group of charitable organizations is hoping to change things by designing dignity into a service fraught with stigma, inconvenience and inefficiency. While Plentiful seems straightforward, it represents a transformation in thinking about charitable food. Bob Shaver, Associate Principal at Redstone Strategy Group and strategist for Plentiful, reiterates a common assumption with social services, “We assume that if people need something, they will come and get it.” Essentially, they’d wait in long lines, make the trek to the service, even miss work. The New York City Food Assistance Collaborative, a group of charitable organizations and public partners with funding from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, saw an opportunity to improve equity and efficiency in the charitable food system by challenging this assumption and focusing on the pantry client experience. It’s not that pantries were uninterested in making better client experiences. Shaver notes, “The number one thing we hear from pantry directors is that they want their clients to feel welcome.” But due to organizational capacity limitations, many pantries lacked the client data to meet their needs. There was no way to know who was coming in each week, if they were the same people as last week, where they were coming from, or their household size. The Collaborative was inspired by retail’s dual approach of improving customer experience and collecting consumer data with an app. They settled on a technology-supported reservation model because it allowed for easy collection of client data, was cost-efficient and scalable, and enabled a more dignified client experience. It gave clients autonomy to choose a pantry, agency to make and change reservations minutes to months in advance, the ability to communicate directly with pantries, and assurance of receiving food with a short wait. Clients have the option to engage using the app or by responding to a series of prompted text messages. Dignity is also central to Plentiful’s brand and user interface. In partnership with digital design studio Big Human, the Collaborative created a simple platform with visuals and messages that intentionally avoided stigma and focused on signaling a trustworthy and welcoming service. It was never going to be “the pantry app.” Plentiful’s New York City adoption lead Bryan Moran highlights some of Plentiful’s early successes, “We have seen client wait times drop from an average of at least 30 minutes to 4 minutes using Plentiful.” Offered in nine languages, Plentiful also breaks down language barriers and makes it easier to communicate delays or disruptions in pantry service. Pantries can also adequately plan for the number of clients each day, so they don’t run out of food. Since its initial launch at three New York City pantries in December 2016, Plentiful has expanded to 162 of the approximately 600 pantries across the city, servicing over 130,000 clients. Plentiful plans to expand to more New York City pantries and experiment with sustainable business models for other markets in the United States, bringing dignity to the pantry experience across the country. The Collaborative also sees a potential opportunity to revolutionize the food procurement side of the emergency food system by integrating Plentiful data into processes for more efficient, less wasteful on-demand food distribution. Tags: apple food waste MOLD Magazine New York City Martelle Esposito After a decade of working on health and nutrition policies and programs, including many years with WIC, Martelle Esposito is currently the CEO of Mothership, an online and offline platform with a mission to increase access to high quality health information and support resources for families. Martelle admires the hard work of moms, dads, and other supportive caregivers as they create the future of our world. 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__label__cc	0.542472	0.457528	Goldfinch Primary School (formerly Eardley Primary School) Goldfinch Primary School (formerly Eardley Primary School) is a foundation school and provides education for around 450 children. The school is located in the Streatham area. This school caters for boys and girls aged between 3-11 years old. All Wandsworth schools: offer a curriculum which covers the National Curriculum; provide teaching in key areas like English and maths and science; and encourage the healthy development of a child's physical, emotional and social skills. To find out more about Goldfinch School please either contact them directly to request a brochure or make an appointment to visit, or look at their website. Find out how to apply for a nursery place. Find out how to apply for a primary place. info@goldfinchprimary.org.uk Goldfinch Primary Goldfinch Primary School 20, Blegborough Road SW16 6DH Link to School Policies and SEN Information page School Complaints Policy Wandsworth Maintained Schools complaints procedure Funded Places 3 & 4 year old funding Opening Times & Facilities Monday - Friday 9:00am 3:15pm Please contact the school for more information. Ofsted URN Link to latest ofsted inspection report Get directions to SW16 6DH using Google maps	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1349
__label__cc	0.610321	0.389679	Student scientists showcase work to legislators UIC undergraduate students will showcase their research for state legislators Thursday at the inaugural “Posters Under the Dome” event. Thirty students from the university’s three campuses, including 10 from UIC, will be in Springfield to make legislators more aware of the importance of undergraduate student research. “It’s a great way for us to showcase the University of Illinois,” said Aginah Muhammad, visiting undergraduate program development specialist in the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs. Students will exhibit their research posters and meet with state representatives from their districts. Tyler Crump, a junior in biological science, is among UIC students presenting projects at the event. Crump worked with faculty mentor Riaz-ul Haque, associate professor emeritus of microbiology and immunology, on research related to the role of fingernails in the transmission of infectious diseases. “I am hoping to learn a lot and network with students from all three University of Illinois campuses,” he said. “It is a great honor to participate.” Others participating are Ariana Junco, Jonathan Lee, Tamara Cisowska, Kevin Koster, JeBasia Turner, Dulce Diaz, Patricia Dykas, Sharice Hill and Heidi Friedeck. The idea came from a similar event sponsored by the Council of Undergraduate Research in Washington, D.C., where student research from across the nation is presented on Capitol Hill. Nicole Cardos ncardo2@uic.edu General Assembly, research, student research, students	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1353
__label__wiki	0.644832	0.644832	Video which claims to prove Scottish referendum vote rigged. You decide: elections, open government, Scotland (not satire – it’s the Scottish referendum!) I have no idea what to make of this. But here’s a video which claims to prove there was rigging of the Scottish referendum results. The later part of the video which clearly shows YES ballot papers piled under a NO sign is particularly interesting: Cameron pledges every Scot to get free U2 album after no vote Better Not Bother campaign in shock as Scotland votes Yes to political engagement Cameron diagnosed with severe heart-in-mouth syndrome on day of Scottish referendum BBC reporter caught red-handed manipulating video in Scottish indy campaign Queen’s radical plan for voters to think before voting ruled ‘unconstitutional’ Blair urges air strikes against Scotland in event of ‘Yes’ vote Experts warn of zombie apocalypse in event of ‘Yes’ vote for Scottish independence SHOCK as new poll shows 3 out of 5 world dictators say NO to Scottish independence Please feel free to comment. And share. Thanks: 78 thoughts on “Video which claims to prove Scottish referendum vote rigged. You decide:” R Wood said: Plausible … but not, as yet, verifiable. Some journalists, such as myself, still have to play by certain rules, i.e verified facts. there’s also the other one Tom that alleges to show an election agent filling in ballot papers. I’m not sure tbh, but if people are concerned about electoral fraud then they need to contact the respective authorities or fill in the petitions on 38degrees or change.org that are doing the rounds on FB John Ward said: Much as I wanted the Scots to Vote Yes, this video is not so much irrefutable bombshell as indescribable bullshit. 1. There is no establishing shot – where is this counter based? 2. Who organised this conspiracy and how did they keep it secret? 3. Why a US voice-over? 4. ‘Admissable in a Court as evidence’? This would be the jumping Australasian mammal Court then? No civilised Court would allow this. Sad but true. penniewoodfall said: How right you are my friend! 🙂 Edwina Hoey said: This is dodgy as fuck. There is a lot at stake in Scotland. An NHS …intact! Will be worth trillions to USA style healthcare and all the baksheesh paid out to already wealthy Tories. Then the oil. Check out the Conservative FB page….joy and jubilation. Says it all. Welcome to Tory Heaven. Will Northcote said: You should see the video of the counted No paper section with Yes marked on them. James Nicolson said: Yup routine conspiracy bullshit It’s also included later on the same video Methusalada said: Verify this as fact in a meaning full place, time and the name of the person. alice moore said: There are other videos doing the rounds as well showing that bundles of YES papers were stacked on the NO table. It is not clear what to make of these videos. Who took them and why were no objections made at the time, for instance? What I did notice at the counts were the small number of people arranged around the tables monitoring the proceedings. That was most unusual. Why were there so few observers? It rings alarm bells. I also admit being worried about the postal votes which would have been much easier to tamper with. With so much at stake it is really important that people can trust the result. I don`t, because I don`t trust the Labour councils I am sorry to say. Ian Smith said: But a cross could mean they don’t want that option because it is a cross mark, not a tick. Back at school a tick was a correct answer, a cross an incorrect answer. That was my first thought. A cross OR a tick is a confusing input option. Oppressed said: Re count? how come this got out so quickly it was on youtube the same day the relsult was announced that’s a bit quick isnt it. i smell a rat here. and how come the film was on youtube so quickly. the only thing that makes me a bit suspicios is hardly any exit polls were done. xraypat said: Woulvt put it past the Unionist Parties….can’t cerify of course and why has there not been a huge outcry from politicians? There is a petition for a recount thogh…. Bill Hayes said: At first sight, it looks like this woman repeatedly moves papers from one pile to another. But go back and look again and it actually only happens once. Watch the other people’s movements in the scene and they are repeated. There were dozens of observers at the counting centres. – they would have rumbled this if it were happening on any scale large enough to swing the vote. The margin of difference in the vote were in the tens of thousands – not dozens. So they would have needed an army of these women doing this. Sorry – but this is nonesense! Stewart Kirk said: To say the video ‘proves’ corrupt practice is to stretch the meaning of ‘proof’ beyond all commonsense. The whole thing is a scurrilous piece of bilge posted on YouTube by an organisation at the forefront of combatting the (imagined) New World Order. I.e ‘professional’ conspiracy theorists. bewleybros said: Proof my backside – conspiracy theory nut-jobs – service resumed as normal. hstorm said: The video commentator is going a long way over the top by declaring that this proves the whole referendum was rigged. All the video shows is one vote-counter sorting ballot papers in a dodgy-looking way, and without offering any context of what she was doing before or after. Now for sure, whoever she is, she has questions to answer, but to suggest that this means the whole referendum was a fix is a gigantic leap. At the most, this woman would have handled a few thousand ballot slips. The referendum had millions of ballot papers across all of Scotland, and I am yet to see any evidence to suggest any other vote-counters were doing anything wrong. And even this woman might have an explanation for what she was doing. I’d like to hear her side of the story before we start scouring Grassy Knolls for gunmen. this might happen all the time in elections ive never seen counting filmed so close up before. thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady said: This is odd too… pile of yes votes on the no table ???? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx2lm4iCYAIfdoe.jpg:large Jill said: Definately corruption by Westminster, they are very capable of a lot more besides. We Scots have been shafted by them and you Scots who voted NO have shit in your own nest and sold your fellow Scots down the swannie. Just watch all those so called promises not happen-assholes. Cameron now talking of devolving a say and some power to the North East. While the south rakes in the scottish oil revenues, the north can now have devolved power over income tax and welfare and more say over everything that can raise revenue for local government which has been starved of funding from central government. Which will result in a constant flow of surveys with structured questions designed to allude to the outcome the establishment wants, and those paying income tax being able to kick the unemployed who they think are living on their largesse. Somebody start a civil war and kick these jokers in Westminster up into the clouds with bear Grylls in the virgin galactic for good. I wonder how many didn’t vote, because the outcome does not reflect the view of the majority of the Scottish people in any way shape or form. Showing a phoney video clip of false counting could be masking real chicanery philipburdekin said: Looks more like giff, replete it’s self over and over but very naughty, I’m sure it will be verified very soon. DwayneDwoo said: The only thing that anyone can be certain of is that the vote was going to go one way or the other… and im not welsh….. Garry said: This is probably complete bull shit, there is probably no real, hard, unquestionable evidence, proving the case. They probably have no idea what these people where doing, they have no idea how it was managed, or what happened, all they have are some clips of videos. The No table, for example, short term storage of the vast number of votes that have to be counted. The man with the pen, administration, note taking work that had to be done. The woman, she made a mistake (late night) and put it correct, or some work before hand, you probably have no idea what’s on that paper. These people could be completely innocent. Regardless the outcome of a vote, nation or what ever, people and lives come first, every time, regardless or country, opinion, etc. If claims against people are going to be made, strong , unbiased evidence, that can stand up to questioning has to be provided. The video, to me, proves nothing and just brings up more questions. Matt Widdowson said: Interesting. It should definitely be investigated, although by whom I don’t know. The thing is, why would you rig the vote at this stage? If I was going to rig a vote I would fiddle with the postal ballots, or open the ballot boxes between the polling station and the count. Hiring a load of counters to miscount the ballot papers seems inefficient and involves too many people to keep quiet. That said, some people will question the bizarre pictures of the Yes votes in the No pile and this is a. A mistake, B. An image taken out of context (maybe uncounted votes were placed on a table next to the word No, prior to being counted), c. Electoral fraud. The matter needs addressing, as, with such a close outcome, the result needs to be indisputable. Do you honestly think tis video has any credibility? It is being shared like wildfire around the web. It would have been brought to the attention of the no campaign and the shit would have hit the fan by now, Do you know just how easy it is to fake stuff like this? You can edit any frame of a video very easily, in any cheap video editing program. Honestly – this is absurd! i agree it is BS…the whole process was watched by many different groups…. the polling stations and counting places did a fantastic job of work…there was NO fiddle….but it is also a good thing that people bring their concerns forward, like post their suspicions…for our scrutiny and discussion…people must realize that the no vote, has given WM a mandate to do as it will, this what should really concern people.. The Infamous Culex said: Why was it even counted by hand rather than by machine? Keeping in mind too that these people would of been watched over like a hawk and the counting heavily managed. Any modified votes would of probably been rejected and votes would of probably been counted more than once, by different people and results of the same piles of votes compared to makes sure the results matched. There would of be safe guards in place. Plus as there was a camera crew pointing a camera at these people, in a place that is probably been heavily watched over and managed and everything that happens in there questioned. I find it hard to believe that these people would want to do anything wrong, or not related to their role. I really do think more is been read into these videos than there is and the evidence is extremely weak. If yon photo was taken during the Glasgow count, they’d obviously run out of space on the “YES” tables. I do not have an issue with people bringing up their concerns, I have an issue with the claims been made, weak evidence been shown, then said that evidence would be strong enough for “court”, or is some kind of silver bullet, instead of, “lets just ask and look into the issue first, before we jump to a conclusion”. But there was a no vote, WM has to give Scotland the powers that where promised and the issue of the people of all the nations of the UK is to make sure WM does what is best for all people and nations within the UK. The whole of the UK, not just Scotland, has to hold WM to account on matters regarding the UK and it’s future. Even that I do read history and understand how it played and important role in our current present , I do prefer to concentrate on the present and to worry more about our future than the past :-). Mmmm why not just get another table….would seem too easy for those YES votes to get overlooked on the NO table. The photo was taken directly from the TV, not sure if it was during the Glasgow count; it was definitely after the Clackmannanshire result because you can just see the details scrolling across the bottom of the screen. Short term storage???? No chance. If you have a bundle of YES votes and put them on the NO table, then AT THE VERY LEAST, you should put a stick it note under the elastic band saying ” PLEASE NOTE YES VOTES IN THIS BUNDLE” or words to that effect so that it was immediately obvious to anyone that they were YES votes. Otherwise, the scenario could go like this; Counting Officer 1 “where are those YES votes I put on the NO table?” Counting Officer 2 “Oh. Were there YES votes on there? I thought they were all NO votes cos they were on the NO table. I’ve moved them all now sorry!” Counting Officer 1 “Oh never mind, I won’t tell anyone if you won’t, otherwise we’ll end up doing a recount” this is how scotland voted http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/19/scotlands-vote-wont-be-the-last-battle-of-the-generations/ 90% 121497 16-17 yr olds voted….there are 1.2m pensioners 65+ 73% of 65+ pensioners voted no…near 700000… approx 3.6m people voted…a shade over 2m voted yes…some of the issues were, trident, oil, natural resources, currency, pensions, loss of jobs, and the NHS…the pensions/NHS issue was a major battleground for the no camp and they won it… p s wishful thinking typo, sorry…a shade over 2m voted yes….should read…a shade over 2m voted no….. also to the delivery of the scottish parliament was not a labour initiative but came from the EU. http://www.electricscotland.com/independence/story.pdf Pingback: Video which claims to prove Scottish referendum vote rigged – Pride’s Purge \| Vox Political peter said: nuggy: That’s because no YES voter was permitted to exit any polling station…they werearrested by guards, herded away into a soundproof underground chamber, and then beheaded 🙂 [sorry to make light of what is a serious matter] To clarify, ballot papers have not yet been sorted into Yes/No and are just resting on table where No will go once sorted. No need to worry. — Yes Dundee (@YesDundee) September 18, 2014 This explains the video – and the Tweet was by the Yes campaign. Please, dump the silly conspiracy theories and just accept that the Scots made the wrong choice, and we are all now going to have to live with the consequences. Nothing to investigate. I thought it was middleclass scots, irish etc living in London that won the No Vote, after all everybody might have to move to Scotland for work or investment if they kept their own oil revenues after a yes vote. It was rigged by the establishment and the media whichever way you look at it. no it was the NHS and pensions issues wot won it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zji4dTx-j8w this was their rhetoric in a nut shell, fear mongering and turning truth off… wrjones2012 said: I speak as someone who is almost a veteran of these counts on election nights when I say that is simply not credible.The agents and sub agents would have noticed this the second it happened.You can put any conspiracy theories straight in the rubbish bin. Wrjones We are not talking conspiracy theories regarding the red herring video, we are talking about scaremongering by the established mainstream parties both north and south, not to mention the media who helped the NO campaign along. A No vote was a vote for selfishness not togetherness. Thanks for the link obd. wildthing666 said: The boxes should be sealed until they are opened to count the votes inside the box, they should not have been opened before. It seems that as they are stacked in a neat pile as if they could have already been counted. Bob Linacre said: Simples! recheck the NO ballot papers, they do still exist, don’t they? Really Guy Fawkes,what you are talking about is the hurly burly of the campaign.I’m pleased that quite frankly one of the most divisive campaigns in recent history is over.Its time to move on! obd only if you believe the lies can you be frightened enough to vote no, so if that was the case maybe it was their guillibility that caused them to vote no. The elderly seem to the think that the younger generation would not care for them anyway wherever you live and are afraid of power in what they see as uncaring hands. wrjones How much media coverage or celebrity influence did you see for the yes vote? There was hardly any on my regional tv, It might be easy for you to move on but not for those who will have continuous hardship and suffering from Westminster. LIke I said selfishness and self interest seems to be the order of the day and I for one will not give up the fight nor cow tow to mainstream meglomaniacs. sorry kowtow i can tell you that people in their droves are joining the SNP, leaving the slabs, cancelling there cable subscriptions, and their TV licences…refusing to shop any where that supported no and pressurized staff to vote no… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04h8jff re glasgow yesterday from 2.28-2.33 #the45 on twitter and face book booming… we will actively campaign against theslabs we got rid of the tories will get rid of the red tories too…we are hopping mad… https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1535639056668401 in dundee today According to people who actually live in Dundee, it wasn’t today. It was a couple of days ago. The lengths people will go to! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u–ZgdOxIm8 extraordinary,eh! FFS! They are not marching about vote-rigging are they? It says why they are marching in the description box of the video. So what is your point? liesandmisperceptions said: The New World Order exists, read up on it, how the banks are involved and the public have had to bail them out when they lost the public’s money and should be prosecuted, ask yourself why has no one been prosecuted and why are we the people carrying the debt ? something’s not right there….. if you want me to detail how the NWO is structured I would be happy to. I belive in good debate and listening to opposing sides and I look forward to hearing from you if you choose to respond. There are now four seperate accounts of possible vote rigging, in Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh. If the ‘No’ campaign won it fair and square why would they be worried about a recount ? If it was the other way and the ‘YES’ won and there were four seperate suspected accounts of vote rigging then a recount would be demaded and that would have to happen, otherwise no one can be sure of the result and the only way to quieten down all the discord is to be shown to show whoever won the election as winning it fair and square. As an added note there are also claims from the Russian adjudication officers that there was vote rigging and breaches in International election law. Its within ‘Yes’s interests to say this though !!!!!!!!!! I would have thought that this statement itself would be evidence enough that votes were rigged ….why are ‘yes’ saying this… it should be the adjudicators……. JONNAH said: video was rigged as no-one can take that long to put the votes onto the correct pile…Its also jittery, indicating it was spliced multiple times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u–ZgdOxIm8 Hundreds of protesters march through the streets of Dundee – also known as the yes city. The people of Dundee overwhelmingly voted yes and would like to keep the momentum for change going. It is clear that the people here desperately want independence and that they’re not about to give up on that dream anytime soon. Although it was estimated that 70% of Dundee would vote yes, there was a false fire evacuation for 20 minutes during the count, and the yes vote ended up at only 57%, causing rumours of corruption. There have been allegations of corruption during the count for the referendum, with videos being shared around social media of counters spoiling papers, placing piles of yes votes into piles of no votes, yes votes clearly lying amongst no vote piles and so on. p s i personally don’t believe that any ballot vote rigging took place…all who took part in that process should imv be highly praised for their exemplary conduct.. All you idiots who can’t see the real point! The referendum wasn’t substantially biased by a few people falsifying a few votes. Focussing on that means you’re missing the real ‘vote rigging’, which was the lies told during the campaign, but those chickens will come home to roost eventually…… the UK that was given a few days to survive before indyref..is now effectively finished.@ and end. kaput, over….it is now a headless chicken… redangelas said: Since when has it been impossible to rig a machine? Or a computerised ballot? if the bbc agrees that “devomax” was democratically initiated (a democratic initiative of) by WM, they must also agree therefore that WM broke purdah…. OBD – Firstly, it wasn’t devo-max which the three parties vowed to provide, because that is FULL fiscal autonomy, and that wasn’t what they promised. In fact what they suggested is not significantly from what is already legislated in the 2012 Scotland Act…… and they don’t look like being able to agree about it anyway! Secondly, they didn’t break purdah, because it wasn’t the Westminster government which ‘vowed’ it, only the party leaders. That of course also means that the ‘vow’ does not legally have to be honoured because it is not subject to the Edinburgh Agreement, as we are now discovering. Basically the Scottish people were lied to…… This isn’t over! Lets deal first with this so called issue of “purdah”.There has never been such a concept ever in UK Elections.in UK General Elections people who use a postal vote do this in lets say the second week of the Election Campaign.From then on the political parties are still promising the earth right until Polling Day! Mr Jones – Although the word “purdah” is not used in the Edinburgh Agreement, section 29 sets out the terms out very clearly. These terms are binding only on the Scottish and UK governments, not on political parties. That is why Cameron, Miliband and Clegg were able to publish their lies (sorry, I mean vows!) in the last few days of the referendum campaign. Click to access 00404789.pdf I think this should conclude the matter. Thank you FinkFurst ! Incidentally I like your name title. Thank you for your words Methusalada, but the matter is VERY far from concluded! southsidesocialist said: I’m as pissed off as every other yes voter, but to suggest that these images show the vote was rigged is nonsense. I have worked as a vote counter (although not at the referendum). It’s perfectly normal for piles of votes to be moved around during the counting process, for any number of reasons. To suggest that vote counters would collude with vote rigging is an insult to their integrity. I have counted votes I disagreed with – I have counted BNP votes that made me feel tainted and like I wanted to burn the paper and wash my hands after handling them, but I counted them because it was my job to count them. Grumble about the result all you like, but don’t accuse vote counters of corruption. Sorry you can’t say anything is nonsense until an investigation has been conducted. No one knows what happened unless they were both there and telling the truth. Why we are making comments saying its either rigged or not is beyond me.The question has been asked ‘Does this video imply the election was rigged ?’ So now the official election fraud detection need to be sent the video via an official complaint and then it must be investigated. Until then we are all just guessing.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1355
__label__cc	0.50839	0.49161	Watches Too Much TV An unqualified watcher of too much TV, reviews her favorite shows Hart of Dixie Reviews Hart of Dixie Season 1 Vampire Diaries Reviews Vampire Diaries Season 1 October 7, 2020 September 28, 2020 WatchesTooMuchTV The Originals crossover episode! The Vampire Diaries Season 7, Episode 14 (“Moonlight on the Bayou”) Joseph Morgan, The Vampire Diaries After almost three seasons in, we finally get a crossover episode with The Originals! Now as far as being a crossover it was pretty minimal. We basically just got to see Klaus, but I was very happy to see his return, even if it is only for this one episode. The writers definitely wanted to write it so that people who were not watching The Originals didn’t feel left out of what was going on. What is happening on the spinoff is completely irrelevant to this episode. However there is a sister episode on The Originals that aired directly after this one and having seen that one as well they do not give the same courtesy to viewers. Without giving anything away for The Originals, I will say the show runners mostly tried to write that show in a way that if you had never seen The Vampire Diaries, but for some reason were interested in its spinoff, you could watch it without missing too much. However this means that the hand full of times that Vampire Diaries characters show up on The Originals, they have to do some very brief exposition to explain them in a way that just is not satisfying to the viewer. I do plan to review The Originals once I am done with the Vampire Diaries so I will get into that more then, but lets just say for now the episode of The Originals that follows this one, makes very little sense if you aren’t up to date with The Vampire Diaries. Stefan is on the run from Rayna, and Valerie sends him to a bar in New Orleans where magic can’t penetrate. In The Originals this is St. James Infirmary but I don’t think they ever name it in this episode. While there he runs into Klaus and they start drinking and catching up. At first Klaus is pretty happy to see Stefan and get some information on Caroline. Remember last we saw Klaus (Season 5, Episode 11) he had returned to Mystic Falls with seemingly the sole purpose of sleeping with Caroline. However once he realizes that Stefan has been marked by Rayna’s sword he is furious that he would lure Rayna to New Orleans, where his family and daughter live. However after he kicks Stefan out, he has a phone conversation with Caroline which gives him a change of heart. He can’t let her down so he agrees to help Stefan. I think the rest of this storyline is handled on The Originals where Stefan basically just gets a paste to put over his scar to block Rayna from being able to sense him. While Stefan is on the run and playing catch up with Klaus, Bonnie and Damon are investigating what Enzo is up to. We are introduced to The Armory, a secret organization that specializes in supernatural artifacts. The first bit of this was not that interesting, it takes quite a while to get the full story from Enzo on how he got there, why he is after Rayna, and what Tyler has to do with it. But basically Tyler found them while he was off hunting vampires with Jeremy. When Matt needed help with the vampire problem in Mystic Falls, Tyler asked for their help. They are the ones that kidnapped Enzo but decided instead to use him. This led to the much more sympathetic development for Enzo. In return for bringing them Rayna, The Armory offered him knowledge about his family. Even though he is screwing over Bonnie and Damon, he thinks it is worth it for the chance to have a family of his own. He knows he is not one of them. Damon was his friend but he hasn’t really treated him as such since Enzo came back from the dead. He just wants someone who cares about him. Someone who will come running when he is in danger. He has never had that which is incredibly sad. Enzo doesn’t always do the right thing, but he isn’t so evil that he doesn’t deserve to be loved. Even Klaus has people who are willing to risk their lives for him. While at the Armory, Damon gets locked up with Tyler just as he is about to transition to his werewolf form. Damon has to make the decision to either escape or take the risk of letting Tyler bite him. If he frees himself, he also frees Tyler in werewolf form. This could potentially result in Tyler hurting Bonnie or someone else. Tyler convinces Damon to stay put instead of letting yet another person risk their life to save Damon. However, Bonnie is not convinced and she goes to the lengths of cutting off Enzo’s hand so she can open the door to the cell where Tyler and Damon are. Tyler really gets to Damon with his talk of how much people are alway sacrificing themselves for him and he realizes they will never stop. If he wants them to be safe, he needs to distance himself. He doesn’t really say how he is going to do this but just that it won’t be a problem after tomorrow. I am definitely starting to get more excited about where this season is going. I remembered liking this half of the season much more than the first half. It brings everyone in on the same storyline, even if people are shifting their loyalties. Stefan and Damon’s relationship is really starting to be tested as Damon has to reckon with the fact that he does cause a lot of problems for his brother and the others that care about him. Will there be a final straw for Stefan? This episode also finally gave Enzo a sympathetic storyline and more to do in the show. He is a character with a lot of potential but they continuously fail to let him live up to it. Episode Grade: 8/10 “How are Elijah, and whoever else you’ve brought back from the dead?” Caroline is having trouble letting go of the babies and helps Alaric move them down to Dallas. She is going to stay for a bit while he gets a nanny. Though I think we all know she is never going to leave. In the flash forward, Caroline goes to New Orleans to find Klaus but the bartender at St. James tells her that no one has seen or heard from him in three years. Which is foreshadowing for what would happen at the end of Season 3 of The Originals. “We only go to New Orleans for crappy booze and Klaus blood” Enzo finds out from one of The Armory members that his father started the organization and that she an Enzo are related. Nora and Mary Louise also get captured by The Armory. Body Count: None! 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__label__cc	0.662603	0.337397	← New fair use app from New Media Rights New fair use app from New Media Rights → What claims work when D allegedly drives P down in Google rank through copying? Posted on July 17, 2015 by rtushnet Ryoo Dental, Inc. v. Han, 2015 WL 4208580, No. 15–308 (C.D. Cal. Jul. 9, 2015) Ryoo Dental, a dental practice, had a website to promote its services, and allegedly spent considerable sums on “search engine optimization fees, photographing, editing, and updating content and maintaining its webpage.” When Ryoo lost its first page search ranking on Google (for what search term?), it hired an SEO firm, which told Ryoo that Han, another dentist, had copied content from Ryoo’s site and put it on his own site, leading Google’s algorithm to penalize Ryoo’s site. (Sounds like a DMCA takedown might’ve been a cheaper alternative to litigation, if SEO is the aim.) Ryoo sued Han for copyright infringement and state-law torts, all of which the court here dismissed as preempted. The subject matter of the state-law claims, the website, fell within the subject matter of copyright because it was a fixed work of authorship. (Which is why, incidentally, saying that right of publicity claims based on distribution of fixed works don’t fall into copyright’s subject matter doesn’t make sense to me.) So the only question was whether there were extra elements. For conversion, no, because there was no allegedly appropriated tangible property, just the reproduction of website content, “indisputably intangible property.” Likewise for negligent interference with prospective economic advantage, because the alleged disruption of business consisted of Han’s alleged copying of Ryoo’s website. False advertising and unfair competition received separate treatment, but they were essentially reverse passing off rather than passing off claims—Han wasn’t allegedly misrepresenting his services as Ryoo’s. The court stated a rule that seems clearly Dastar-noncompliant: “‘Reverse passing off’ claims are preempted unless the plaintiff alleges bodily appropriation and seeks more than mere monetary damages,” neither of which are exceptions that appear in Dastar. But Han did neither, so his claims were preempted anyway. Claims for unjust enrichment failed because California has no separate cause of action based on unjust enrichment, and such a claim would be preempted anyway. Ryoo argued that an accounting was necessary to determine damages, but this too was preempted to the extent related to the copyright claim, since “the Copyright Act already affords [plaintiff] an adequate means by which to calculate damages.” http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss This entry was posted in copyright, dastar, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, preemption. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1359
__label__cc	0.747647	0.252353	TV[R]EV Original, Advertising, Alan Wolk, Video, Screen Convergence VIZIO’s Mike O’Donnell on How to Improve Ad Experience on the FASTS [VIDEO] As part of our Special Report on the FASTs (free ad-supported streaming TV services), we sat down (via Zoom) with Mike O’Donnell, Chief Revenue Office of VIZIO’s platform business to discuss why the FASTs are suddenly so popular and how VIZIO plans to improve the FAST ad experience. TL;DR: Cord cutting and cord shaving are on the rise and so more people are turning to streaming, and controlling frequency is the key to a superior ad experience. To read the full interview with O’Donnell and other industry leaders, and to see what we’re predicting for the FASTs in terms of advertising, content and user experience, download the report today. Q: What has contributed to the accelerated adoption of FASTs? Mike O’Donnell: One is the acceleration of cord cutting – cord cutting and core shaving – as more and more consumers are cutting the cord, as they’re spending more time in our SmartCast UI, or our SmartCast user experience, they have the ability to search and discover new content. What consumers are finding and seeing, by the way, not just in the past two to three years, just over the past six months with everything going on we’ve seen over 125% increase in user engagement on the SmartCast platform. So as consumers go in there looking for what I would say, historically, is content that they would subscribe to, like your Netflix’s or your Amazon’s, they can recognize, and we can show them that there’s other ad supported or free content available. Q: How will VIZIO provide a better addressable experience across linear and streaming? Mike O’Donnell: We’re rolling out a product tied to universal frequency. Because we have the ability to recognize what’s happening on linear and what’s happening in a streaming environment, we can manage that frequency, and we can control frequency that’s running on our platform. Where that gets really interesting is when we start marrying that with OAR and the OAR initiative and linear addressable opportunities because we can start looking at addressable holistically. And we can work with networks like a Fox and a Tubi, or an NBC at a Peacock where they can help manage a universal frequency, whether it runs in a linear environment or streaming environment and manage that total audience that they’re reaching. Posted October 8, 2020 by How the Government and Media are Approaching ‘the Idiots Out There’ The REVisionists: Beachfront’s Automated Buying Helps Advertisers Reach Consumers Across End-Points In Real Time ViacomCBS’ VidCon Cancels	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1360
__label__cc	0.700489	0.299511	Rumour: “MKR with restaurants” coming to Nine December 18th, 2014 By David Knox 26 commentsFiled under: News, Knives at the ready…. the Nine Network looks set to get into the TV food game once again, with multiple sources indicating to TV Tonight that it has a new reality format on the way in 2015. The unnamed project from Endemol Australia, being whispered about as the “MKR of restaurants,” is rumoured to see teams travelling the country to dine in and score each others’ restaurants. That could see it as a spoiler against Seven’s Restaurant Revolution, which reworks the network’s former My Restaurant Rules -which itself led to My Kitchen Rules. Nine last had a tilt at a local food contest with The Great Australian Bake-Off in 2013, a local adaptation of the highly-successful UK series, and has previously dabbled with The Chopping Block from The Block producers Julian Cress and David Barbour. Nine is still to reveal some of its key titles for 2015, after deciding against the traditional Upfronts this season. It is also expected to confirm a revival of Renovation Rumble pitting House Rules winners against The Block chamos. Tags: House Rules, My Kitchen Rules, My Restaurant Rules, Renovation Rumble, Restaurant Revolution, The Block, The Chopping Block, The Great Australian Bake Off tvdaemon January 7, 2015 8:08 am Wonder_boy it aint no genius first play from Nine. Cross pollination of contestants has been happening for many years around the world. IN fact I think it first began when Boston Rob and Amber from Survivor went on to compete on TAR about 10 years ago. Yes Nine has bragging rights – on imitation. And as for that grand-daddy tite – BB, TAR, Survivor ( to name but a few) are all light years ahead of that block drivel, boy_wonder December 20, 2014 1:46 pm I think nine stealing of the years of MKR winners against The Block is a genius idea! Talk about taking the The Block to the next level. Doing that will forever get bragging rights and to give rise to the myth that The Block was the grand-daddy of the shows because what show has got another networks shows stars? {think Survivor on CBS poaching, say 20yrs of winners on TAR? Actually ratings equivalent would be Dancing}. It’s never been done, it’ll turn it into a race between the 2. MC still holds all the records I though? I remember a producer on BB was saying to take it up a notch you are going to have to kill a resident to make it interesting because everything has been done before. A Dog! Miriam! Shocks! Ten going 5 nights live from Africa sounds exciting! Almost season1 MC exciting. H.M... December 19, 2014 4:27 pm Yet another uninspiring and substance-less idea by the boring and one-dimensional Nine Network. This is exactly why they don’t deserve to be the number one rated network in this country. Tom Wood December 19, 2014 3:24 pm What about Celebrity Splash!? Nathan December 19, 2014 2:24 pm Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Thankyou Ch9 dan December 18, 2014 6:22 pm @Jock don’t give them any ideas tvf December 18, 2014 6:09 pm No. Another example of overuse of reality. Woody December 18, 2014 4:42 pm Russ_14 December 18, 2014 3:03 pm So with this two seasons of The Block and Renovation Rumble I doubt we will see Big Brother back 2015 David Knox December 18, 2014 3:08 pm Depends if this new show is a stripped format or not. But interesting that it is Endemol. Jock December 18, 2014 2:18 pm We will soon have enough reality shows to create a whole new type of show, in which teams of producers travel around Australia scoring each other’s efforts. The Observer December 18, 2014 12:18 pm Regardless whether it is a bit same same, people will watch, the sponsors will come and it will make money. It is pretty simple really. Secret Squirrel December 18, 2014 12:16 pm Eighteen months ago I would have been annoyed at the prospect of yet another dumbed-down low-rent competition show full of noisy wanna-bes pushing my decent dramas even later into the night (or out of the schedule). Since I stopped watching either 7 or 9, I no longer care. The more discerning viewers are moving/have moved to other platforms while the commercial networks ignore them and compete with each other for the remaining sea gulls by frantically throwing more and more chips into the air. adi December 18, 2014 12:03 pm Looks like Nine’s tackling high. Noone likes a dirty player. gotze December 18, 2014 10:59 am Nine, the copycat Network tomothyd December 18, 2014 10:20 am Wow, Channel Nine are doing a stellar job at losing me as a viewer. This week was the first time in so long that I actually watched something on their channel, and even that was PVRd. MM December 18, 2014 9:50 am Wondered how long it would be before nine jumped on the band wagon again with a cooking show, why can’t they try something different, don’t we have enough of these shows already, this sounds like it will be basically the same as all the other ones, even if they says it isn’t. Quite pathetic, one more reason not to watch. Bruce Banner December 18, 2014 9:45 am Another top class, original idea from Australian Commercial TV. Jolly well done chaps! Dantheman84 December 18, 2014 9:35 am Boring. Too much of a good thing. A little variety by 7 and 9 would be nice Kirk December 18, 2014 8:54 am Great. Another cooking comp. ilovetv December 18, 2014 8:52 am Yes, because that’s what we need. More cooking shows.(sarcasm) alvar December 18, 2014 8:49 am How about something more original? At least Ten are trying with I’m A Celebrity, Shark Tank and The Bachelor. strayamayte December 18, 2014 8:42 am Here we go! Aren’t we all looking forward to the FTA offerings next year!! Copycat 9 & 7 are only doing themselves more harm in the long run. Ten offering a point of difference with Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Although it is still within the reality bug category. No wonder why there are claims that television will be dead within 20 years of whatnot. Qubec December 18, 2014 8:26 am They’re just not even trying any more… Den December 18, 2014 7:38 am Seven and Nine are intent on squeezing every last bit of audience interest in these cooking and renovation show formats aren’t they. J Bar December 18, 2014 7:21 am Sounds like 2015 will be the year that television ate itself.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1362
__label__cc	0.734239	0.265761	Nikita Luke Recent Posts by Nikita What Makes a Child-Friendly City? Redesigning Safer and Healthier Urban Spaces for Young People By Nikita Luke, Rohit Tak, Ariadne Samios and Claudia Adriazola-Steil on September 10, 2020 Children are often under-prioritized or even disregarded in urban planning and design. It’s estimated that up to 500 children die daily in road crashes around the world; thousands more incur injuries and psychological trauma from collisions with vehicles that can ... 6 Ways to Make City Streets Safer for Pedestrians By Nikita Luke on May 20, 2020 For many city leaders, more cars and more highways mean better transportation. And during the current pandemic, fear of COVID-19’s spread is pushing some to turn to private vehicles. But a safe, sustainable transport future does not include further dependence ... 8 Ways to Reduce Road Fatalities Using the ‘Safe System’ Approach By Nikita Luke and Anna Bray Sharpin on January 14, 2019 Despite more than 1.35 million lives lost on the roads each year, traffic-related fatalities aren’t given the same media or political attention as plane, train or boat disasters. Indeed, some view these tragedies as commonplace or unavoidable – but they ... From China to Colombia, 5 Cities Making Streets Safer by Design By Nikita Luke and Ben Welle on June 25, 2018 In 2015, the global community committed to halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2020. But city streets are still not safe. More than 3,200 road fatalities occur every day, and this number is expected to increase threefold by 2030, ... What Makes a Complete Street? A Brief Guide By Anna Bray Sharpin, Ben Welle and Nikita Luke on December 11, 2017 This series, supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. Many cities have streets that make life difficult for pedestrians in ways that are not always ... How Global Policy Does (and Does Not) Account for Walking and Cycling By Ben Welle and Nikita Luke on November 27, 2017 This series, supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. Walking and cycling are getting more and more attention in wealthy cities, as ideas about ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1371
__label__cc	0.744982	0.255018	I’m making a declaration…. I’m sad to see the demise of the fantastic blog BSC Headquarters, and because of it I haven’t really ventured into rereading my BSC books. I don’t plan on rereading all of them (I’ve got my hands full with the twins and Caitlin) but I am going to occasionally reminisce about the memorable moment for me. Little known fact: I only really read up to #45 (For me, Kristy organizing the baby parade really jumped the shark). I wanted to share what I find to be the without a doubt, best BSC book ever, and should I DARE say one of the best YA series books ever. Omg this one was ten times of awesome. And the BSC really peaked early for me. This one had all the elements of a stellar book: Vacations, boys, great outfits, first kisses, first dates, fights, and mishaps with children. I could probably recite it word for word for you right now. “Mom?” I asked. “How are you supposed to behave in a mansion?” were the first lines spoken. Stace is kind of scared because she is going to be au pairs for the Pikes’ Sea City trip with Maryanne, who at this point she doesn’t know very well and quite frankly, she’s a little judgmental about her. They take two cars up and there’s lots of shenanigans to be had by the Pike kids. They get to the house and Maryanne and Stacey get a big room on the third floor overlooking the ocean. Then there’s a pointless scene about how Mr. Pike has to make Stacey a different kind of breakfast because of her diabeetus (the Bret Michaels way of saying “diabetes”). Stacey falls in the love with the hunky lifeguard Scott (who looks like Fabio on the cover) and acts like a moron around him and shirks her responsibilities, and Maryanne gets peeved. Oh, and they take the kids to a restaurant called The Magic Garden which seemed cool. Satce eventually meets a guy named Tobey, and he wears cool shades and a shirt with cowboy boots on it, I think. And Maryanne hangs out with a guy au pair named Alex but it doesn’t go anywhere. Stace and Tobey take the Tunnel of Luv ride and kiss. But only on the cheek! Even when I read this as a kid I thought that was a letdown. Use some tongue! For the date there were some cool outfits involved, including some white sundresses and striped things. Ah, the memories. They go back to Sea City in Maryanne and Too many Boys, but it was such a letdown. And Tobey dumps Stacey’s ass. Posted in: bsc Deceptions: A play in 3 acts just a ridiculous recycled plotline 70 thoughts on “I’m making a declaration….” Wasn’t it Burger Garden? I remember the Pike kids talking about the “orange sauce” which is really ketchup and mustard mixed together… OMG, don’t ask how I remember that. This one was one of my favorite BSC books of all time as well. For whatever reason, the Stacey books ended up being my favorites (like The Truth About Stacey, book #3), even though the character of Stacey was my least favorite. Didn’t the Burger Garden also have some kind of special tree that you could pull money off of? Or maybe like gold tickets that could be worth certain amounts of money? I thought that was awesome. And, like many of you, this was my favorite BSC book and I think the first one I ever read. omg you are right! The magic garden was the show I watched when I was little about the two ladoes on the swings. AND THE SPECIAL SAUCE! I remember! Scott the lifeguard is supposed to be 16, but he looks 35. I guess that’s consistent with later covers, on which the girls appear to be 25-year-olds dressed as middle schoolers. That aside, this is one of the best BSC books. Last time I read it, I still cringed when Stacey introduces herself to Scott: “I’m Stacey McGill. Thirteen years old. Formerly of New York City.” SO DORKY. Wow, you all remember more than I do!!!! I love it!!!!!! glittergirley says: its DEFINITELY burger garden bc claire et al call it gurber garden, and its supposed to be hilarious, you silly billy goo goo. Silly billy goo goo! I forgot Clare said that. Yeah, it always felt so awkward to read. I dont think I knew any kids who would say that. Seems like such a long phrase to use as an insult, no? Merrie says: I’m glad to see more people tackling the BSC books! There’s always room for more — how many books were in this series anyway? Boy Crazy Stacey is one of the best BSC books. I wanted Stacey’s pink sundress with the white jacket — why do I remember that outfit? Toby + Stacey = Luv amandahugnkiss says: THE SPECIAL SAUCE! I thought that was the ish when I was growing up. And I hated silly billy goo goo, but not as much as “Nofe air!” I still don’t get it. This was one of the greatest book in the series, but I still submit “Mallory and the Trouble with Twins” as #1, based solely on the earrings Claud makes and the sweatshirt with the stars and moon on it. tinypants says: OMG! I JUST RE-READ THIS BOOK! It was amazing. Actually some of my favorite parts were Stacey’s letters back to Kristy: “I found out what Byron is afraid of. We will have to talk about this at the next meeting.” Honestly, the way they micromanage these poor kids sometimes, I feel like Elizabeth Wakefield should have been club president! Also based on the events in the book, the girl Stacey is holding on the cover is Claire — who is supposed to be like two years old in the book! So as was pointed out, since the ages depicted on the cover are crazy different, just as Scott is 16/35 and Stacey is 13/25, apparently Claire also is 2/7. And yeah — my favorite outfit is the very first one, where Stacey pulls out some giant-ass ugly patterned shirt and says something like, “It was really huge so I knew it was going to look good.” Wow, that kind of fashion logic hasn’t been around for a long time — if they reissued the BSC the way they are doing SVH, Stacey would pull out the tiniest, skimpiest shirt ever and be like, “It was really small so I knew it was going to look good.” And as I think the Stoneybrookite site does a good job of pointing out, the Stacey books are ALWAYS the best cause she’s the only one who’s ever like “OMG, boys/clothes/almost-drinking is SO much cooler than babysitting,” which based on how tedious babysitting always seems in these books seems to me a much more reasonably reaction than these girls have to it (I mean, they charge $3/per kid/per day for their summer play group, so even in 1987 dollars I feel like that’s not that much economic incentive — certainly not enough to deal with shit like Karen “washing” Watson’s car with steel wool and taking all the paint off! Watson’s response to that should go into the “Stephanie from Sleepover Friends’ Brainwashed Parents Hall of Fame.”) Sorry this a really long comment but I’m excited — you’ve got to start recapping the BSC. Possibly in awesome dramatic form as with the last SVH. upstatestruggler says: for some reason, this recap conjures up sunglasses with slits…like kanyeezy’s…did someone wear that hipster bullshit in this book? and wasn’t the ‘gurber garden’ sauce just mustard and ketchup mixed together? this was one of my favorites, too. I re-read the part where they described the third floor room where S McG and MA stayed over. and over. and over. it sounded so bright and airy. and- I am not fucking kidding- I took this book to the beach on purpose one year so that I could put some sand in the fold. goin’ to my mom’s basement tonight to see if it is still there. PS- “diabeetus- the Bret Michaels way of saying ‘diabetes'” wtf is he, wilford brimley now? that’s so funny- I had a wilfordoff with someone on a band forum the other day. there are several million youTube remixes of ‘liberty medical’ commercials. I’m all worked up about this recap, too, so I am posting like mad as well. There were something like 130 actual books; all of the super specials, mysteries, and portrait collections; and some that I have only recently discovered: the california diaries, which are about dawn and her friends in cali (der)- like this slightly older guy, maybe gay, who is suicidal; and this batch of later books called ‘friends forever’, at the end of which the gals graduate from 8th grade. claudia hooks up with alan gray in one. ewwww. amandahugnkiss (brilliant name, btw!), I also think that “Mallory and the Trouble with Twins” is my favourite. I remember the twins were called Marilyn and Carolyn – who gives their daughters rhyming names?! They had an awesome-sounding set of dollhouses, but they hated playing with them. And I was all, “I would’ve appreciated those, you ungrateful little brats!”. That’s also the one where Dawn and Claud get their ears pierced, and I was completely obsessed with that, because I wasn’t allowed to get mine done. Haha. Ooops, the one above was me, proving my lack of computing ability. Suzanne Devlin says: You are SO RIGHT, this is one of the best BSC books of all time. I remember the pink/white and yellow/white outfits Stacey and Mary Anne wore on their dates. It was second only to Mary Anne’s pink and blue skirt with the city sketches on it that she wore to the dance with Logan. Oh, and I have to agree on “Mallory and the Trouble With Twins” as another favorite — my favorite part was when she took the twins shopping for their new wardrobes so they wouldn’t have to dress alike anymore. I loved ‘Mallory and the Trouble With Twins’, too! Also because of the shopping! I had the most horrific collection of earrings in junior high, shaped like things I liked. I probably had a pair of book earrings. Lame. I have never read a single BSC book …. I guess I missed the boat. There were never lifeguards as cute as Scott at my neighborhood pool. Who knew they were all at Sea City? Or, in the words of Vanessa Pike: For cute boys and more Go to the Jersey shore Let’s face it- we all like the trouble with twins book because of all the fabulous outfit descriptions! I’m totally going to dig that one out of my parents’ attic… As a Stacie, this one was my favorite ever. I LOVED Stacey, even though she’s really kind of heinous a lot of the time. Also — I must send you a quote from a book I reread a couple of days ago — it involves it being so hot the character wanted to “use her shoulderpads as underarm guards.” I immediately thought of you. The book is “Susanna Sieglebaum Gives Up Guys” and is ten kinds of awesome. This was one of my fave BSC books, too! And I was also obsessed with “Mallory and the Trouble with Twins!” I think we just like 80s clothes and accessories a little tooooo much. Jade Wu's Toe Shoe says: ihatewheat, lest you think you are alone, I also watched that prigram with the two gals on the swings. 😉 I think it came on right after “Today’s Special” . . . Hee! No joke-I made a cheeseburger last night, and to top it, I made the ‘orange sauce’! AWESOME. (and delicious!) miss swartz says: This was THE SH!T of BSC – I read this at the beach on a family vacation to Australia – I also totally copied the pink/white//yellow/white outfits. Sadly, no Tobey-boy or Tobey-bear for me. Or a heart shaped box of choc. But I was probably like 8 or 9. Please do more BSC – now that BSC Headquarters is gone I’m dying here! ‘Kristy’s Big Day’ was my first. Rei Ant says: Oh, this was one of my favourites too. How glamorous I thought it was that hey went on “vacation” to the beach…and there were boys! I feel all let down because holidays down at the coast don’t seem as awesome. Especially if you have to work with small children and somehow get along with a girl you barely know. Talk about unrealistic ideals! Jade Wu’s Toe Shoe – I totally remember “Today’s Special”, with the mannequin that came to life when you put the hat on his head. MJ McStabby says: ZOMG Nichole, you have just put several months of thought to rest by giving up the title of that show. I’d been vaguely remembering some show with a curly-haired mannequin that came to life at a mall at night, and it was driving me nuts. Didn’t a mouse live in the walls or something? ALSO, did you ever see the Raffi special where the mannequin was a guest star (Raffi, Beluga and Frineds!!) I totes had all the songs memorized. One girl had a velour tracksuit that I still envy. And this is deffo one of the best BSC books ever. Although, when I was young, I didn’t know how to read the word “bikini” and kept phonetically saying it as “bih-kih-nee” in my head, and wondered what the hell they were, and how one filled them out. ihatewheat, I can’t believe you left out MA’s sunburn, and the resultant slathering of butter all over her skin that the Pikes inflict upon her! JordanBaker says: This book was awesome–in addition to the “special sauce,” wasn’t Burger Garden decorated like some sort of Alice in Wonderland acid trip? Didn’t the kids sit on giant toadstools? OMG, as a kid, I was obsessed with that show with the women on the swings! I wish I could remember what it was called. I totally broke my neighbor’s sunflowers trying to get them to “talk”. This was my first and all-time favorite BSC book. Tinypants, I think Stacey said that fugly huge shirt was guaranteed to be cool, in the not-clinging-to-her way, because she’s talking about how hot it is outside. I remember because (as a Florida resident) for years I thought I’d be more comfortable if all my clothes were hideously oversized. Not so much, and ugly to boot. Thanks, Stacey! I have to agree with everyone here, this one is by far my favorite BSC book, second only to the twins book with Mallory. But I do have to blame this book for my adventures with Sun In. Stacey used it in this book to make her blonde hair blonder and it sounded like a great idea to me. Except that I have very dark brown hair. So one year, I secretly bought the Sun-In and dumped pretty much the whole bottle in my hair when I spent a week in Florida. I thought I would be blonde and pretty like Stacey and maybe then I would meet a cute boy on the beach. Needless to say, there were no cute boys on the beach and I came home with orange hair and had to live with that for the rest of sixth grade. Thanks a lot Stacey! Man, Stacey is the cause of a lot of sartorial woe, isn’t she? Remember when Maryanne got the wicked sunburn and all the kids brought her the sunburn treatments? Teabags for your eyes, solarcaine, etc. And Claire brings butter. “Butter’s for real burns, not sunburns!” Oh the hijinks! This book made me think being a mother’s helper for some family’s vacay would be The Greatest Thing Ever. Kristy’s Big Day was my first BSC too. Kristy’s Big Day was my first BSC book as well – I can’t remember where I got it. Maybe one of those book fairs at school? I remember Mary Anne’s sunburn and how when someone pressed a finger into it, it stayed white for a second then slowly filled in, and that’s how they knew it was bad (and not, you know, the bright red body). My favorite Stacey book was #3 (I think), where she goes back to NY and confronts her bff who’d totally ditched her once she had the diabetes. My favorite of all was the Mary Anne one where she takes care of the kid with the bad fever and her father realizes she’s mature enough to wear her hair out of braids. omg, and then one day Claire and Margo came into their room at like 4am to go to the beach and then they slept in Stace and maryanne’s beds until it was time to get up. Then another time Claire came in the room buck naked. Claire was so annoying. Wow! It’s all coming back to me now…[singing Celine Dion] OMG I totally forgot about the program with swings. That show was cracked out, but I loved it. I always thought it was Canadian. I can’t believe how many people besides me were also obsessed with Mary Anne’s skirt that had the city sketches on it. It’s the BSC outfit that has stuck with me the most vividly, and I had no idea anyone else would remember it. This is like coming home, haha! upstatestruggler — yes, Toby, the boy Stacey meets at the end, totally wears that kind of sunglasses! As well as some other amazing stuff. So of course Stacey can’t get over how well he dresses — this is one of the prime reasons she’s so attracted to him! I remember as soon as I read the phrase describing the sunglasses, I was like, really Stacey? REALLY you think he’s an amazing dresser? No wonder STACEY + TOBY = LUV. Ellen K. says: One of my favorite books, partly due to the outfits and the Pike action. And another vote for “Mallory and the Trouble with Twins,” the best of the Mallory books (although why did it take Mallory so long to figure out the girls’ problem? She has identical triplet brothers). BTW, there are graphic novel versions of BSC #1-4, and they are AWESOME. Esp. #3 — really well done. Alicia E. says: This book was a little bit ruined for me by “Sea City, Here We Come!” because Tobey turned out to be a douchebag who hit on Mallory (Mallory of all people!). The phrase “special sauce” seems suspect to me…or maybe Im just a total perv…probably that lol. BartTempleton says: What are you trying to say, Alicia E.? That Mallory’s not the most attractive or cool Babysitter? Are you trying to say there’s no way a cool cowboy-shirt wearing guy like Toby would dig that frizzy red-brown mane and glasses? Just because she’s booky and brainy and has auburn hair? If you are, you’d have made a good SVH ghostwriter. Bart, normally I would agree with you, but check out the monstrosity of an outfit she wears: http://claudiasroom.blogspot.com/2007/08/stace-is-also-our-resident-new-yawka.html Plus, she’s ELEVEN! Mal has had a more active dating life at 11 than I have at 30. Egads! Mallory looks like a male pony. And also like a bizarre cross between Woody Allen, Matthew Broderick, and that annoying guy who got promoted in The Office. Now that you mention it, eleven is pretty freaking young. Okay, question: were the Spiers supposed to be Jewish? And if not, who in the BSC was? Because don’t tell me Ann M. Martin, she of the token Black, token redhead, and not-so-token Japanese-American and diabetes-sufferer, would not have a Jewish babysitter in this multi-culti crew. Stoneybrook: Sweet Valley, it ain’t. there wasn’t a Jewish babysitter until Abby came along, and funny story- I recently picked up a copy of Kristy & Mr. Mom. In the back there was a contest to name the new bbsttr and her twin sister. apparently, someone chose Abby & Anna Stevenson. Never knew Stevenson was a Jewish name, so I don’t know if the twins were Jewish as a result of the chosen name (hee-that was kinda funny- chosen people!) or if it was ANM’s intent all along to eventually integrate the club. hoping it was the latter…maybe putting too much faith in Ann & the G-dubs… speaking of which, happy 60th, Israel! SuperPana says: The first 10 BSC books are so perfect — they have these legitimately good YA book moments mixed with Claud’s clothes and other dumb shit (where in dumb shit=stuff I love). I think Stacey’s books in the series tended to be good because she often made these real mistakes — and not dumb mistakes like the time Mary Anne had Logan over at a babysitting job but of course it was totally not for making out, so easily tied up. Stacey made really shitty teenager mistakes, like how she treats Mary Anne in the beginning of this book, and how much she screws everyone over for a boy when she goes to Fire Island (and, like, they are mad at her for it! for real!), and how she leaves the BSC for awhile because OMG DUH they are SO FUCKING LAME. She’s embarrassed by them! Who wouldn’t be?? I mean, she’s originally from New York City! Dude on the cover is hawt, in a “I am not real” kind of way… Eugh, I don’t understand why Tobey would hit on Mallory just because she always seemed like the most annoying babysitter to me. Nothing to do with her being a geeky brunette – I fit that description perfectly myself 😉 Sea City! Tunnel of Luv ❤ !! Boys! What a fab book. I remember thinking it was really weird when Stacey talks about her bikini, stressing that it’s “very skimpy” and how she fills out the top. I couldn’t believe the McGills would let Stacey get an itsy-bitsy bikini, but then I remembered they’re from NYC and totally sophisticated. …And then she goes on to say how Mary Anne totally doesn’t have the boobs to fill out her bikini. LOL. sar says: the above is me! also wanted to add that another great Stacey romance book is Stacey’s Big Crush. Hilarious, and with a good amount of moments that make you feel truly uncomfortable! (seriously, what type of substitute teacher was Wes?) Rita, I’ve just realized that dude on the cover looks a lot like Ken Matthews on the SVH covers. And they’re both 16. Could Ken have been leading a double life? Cara Walker says: Hehe… yeah, I have to admit that #45 of the BSC did it for me, too! Couldn’t face reading anymore after that whole baby parade shit. I have read a couple of others since, as my sis still occasionally reads them for a laugh. Recently she found a copy of one of the BSC Friends series at a second-hand book shop, which I scanned over – gave me a good laugh. I think Ann M. decided to go all ‘real-life’ drama around the same time as Kate W. and Jamie S. This one concerned Stacey’s falling out with Claudia over some new guy. Stacey is a real bitch in this book, by the way. “Oh, I’m from New York, so I’m sophisticated. I do well in Math, so I’m smarter than Claudia. OMG, Claudia got kept back a grade and doesn’t care about spelling!” Oh the dramas… Bart: It’s not Mallory’s frizz that I found objectionable, but the fact that she was 11 (what 13-year-old boy wants to date an 11-year-old?) and just kind of a drip. I think of books like “Mallory Hates Boys (And Gym)” and “Mallory and the Dream Horse” and the California Super Special that find her whining the whole time about her problems and never doing anything about them. I mean, she’s only 11, so I guess I should give her break, but she always annoyed me. If Tobey (no catch, it’s true) had hit on Jessi, I probably wouldn’t have minded as much. (Actually, I think he DID hit on Jessi after Mallory turned him down. 11-year-olds were his thing, I guess). Alicia E., now that you mention it, “drip” is the word for Mal Pike. Eleven is just ridiculous. Of course, they didn’t seem that young back when I was a middle-schooler. My sister and I still reference “Stacey + Scott = LUV” in regards to anything that is sappy or unrealistically “romantic”. greer says: You MUST read Sea City, Here We Come!. Toby tries to hit with both Mallory AND Jessi. I feel so sad, but I made a burger today and mixed the ketchup and mustard together to make ‘orange sauce’. Oh, the awful things that have been seared into my brain due to years of reading this YA tripe… Also based on the events in the book, the girl Stacey is holding on the cover is Claire — who is supposed to be like two years old in the book! Actually, Claire is five years old. 🙂 That special sauce has stuck in my memory since I read this book when I was like 10…and I think about it almost every time I’m at a restaurant that has those ketchup and mustard “pump” thingies. I’m like, “Maybe I should mix those into that special sauce from the BSC book!” Mehreen says: My favorite book happens to be a Stacey book even though Mary Anne was my favorite. I’m ashamed that I can’t remember the title, but it was #22 and the book was yellow and stacey is standing at a punch bowl at the Spring Dance in a horrible green off-the-shoulder dress gazing adoringly at at 22-year old Wes in a white tux who is pouring punch into his glass. Because of that book I started dotting my eyes w/hearts. I am about to take the NY Bar Exam and I still can’t stop! What always struck me as odd about the beach/summer-related BSC covers (especially this one) was the heavy clothes… Margo in a sweatshirt, Stacey in a sophisticated, bright-ass red windbreaker (probably purchased at Bloomies), and Scott the Lifeuard in black slacks and a buttondown (albeit unbuttoned and showcasing his magnificent chest, but a button-down all the same)? I’m sure it does get a bit chilly on the Atlantic coast now and then, but still… growing up in Colorado, I always imagined that any place with a beach had to be warm enough to shed a few layers, at least in the summer… why were these damn girls always so bundled up?? (I’m also thinking of Dawn in her white sweater on the cover of the Super Special where they go on the cruise…) Anyway… I just discovered your site, and I’m LUVin it! Thanks for the memories and laughs! Oops, I meant Claire, not Margo… too many damn Pike kids to keep track of! I just finished reading this book again. I think I’d only read it once before, ’cause it definitely wasn’t one I owned (I love the library, btw!). My impressions: I love how Stacey doesn’t clue in the Scott is just using her as his slave (not in a I condone Scott’s behaviour, but in a I love seeing ‘mature, sophisticated’ Stacey realize she doesn’t know everything… I really don’t like Stacey). Scott’s treatment of Stacey reminds me of how Jessica treats Robyn pre-weight loss. I love when Claire insults the kids who were teasing her by calling them “Stupey Silly Billy Goo Goos”. Not stupid, mind you, but stupey. But calling her dad Daggles really got on my nerves. ESPECIALLY when we got treated to Daggles Silly Billy Goo Goo! I loved the early books the best… especially Logan Likes Mary Anne. I love when she tries to tell them she got her first bra (I um… I um…. I got a bra yesterday). LOL. Also Claudia wasn’t as bad a speller in the first books. Especially in #5. Only a couple of errors in her club entries. I remember reading this not long after The Evil Twin and being completely freaked out by Margo Pike notemily says: “It’s the processed cheese. I can’t eat it.” Leave a Reply to Robyn Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1373
__label__cc	0.746739	0.253261	BlackRock to acquire Aperio for $1.05B in cash BlackRock announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aperio from Golden Gate Capital and Aperio employees for $1.05B in cash. Aperio is a pioneer in customizing tax-optimized index equity separately managed accounts to reflect each client's unique risk, tax, and personal values preferences.BlackRock plans to operate Aperio as a separately branded, vertically integrated team within BlackRock's U.S. Wealth Advisory business. Aperio will retain its investment, business development, client service, and ESG-SRI processes under the leadership of Ran Leshem and Liz Michaels, who will become co-heads of the Aperio team upon joining BlackRock, a transition already announced last summer by Aperio. Current Aperio CEO, Patrick Geddes, will maintain his role as Aperio's Chief Tax Strategist and become a BlackRock senior advisor, focusing on broadening portfolio construction research and tools for taxable investors across asset classes. BlackRock's acquisition of Aperio will be funded from existing corporate liquidity and is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2021. Although minimally dilutive to earnings per share, the transaction is not expected to be dilutive on a cash basis. BLK BlackRock PNC Financial upgraded to Neutral from Sell at UBS BlackRock price target raised to $795 from $685 at Deutsche Bank BlackRock price target raised to $602 from $594 at BMO Capital ABMD AHCO BCAB PPBT	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1378
__label__cc	0.62492	0.37508	Who Are The Kurds? Resources for Discipling Resources for Learning Resources for Praying Pray for Boaz Please be lifting up for our local brother, Boaz, and the community of believers here. About a week ago, 4 strangers came to Boaz’s house to talk to him. He invited them in, but they refused, and instead wanted to take a walk. He went back inside to get his things, quickly prayed for wisdom, and then went with them. They had a long discussion, but in short, they told him that a number of people know that he is a follower of Jesus, that he is sharing this with others, and trying to get them to do the same. He is quite bold so it’s no surprise that people know. They warned him and made threats on his life if he continues to share. This is not the first persecution he has faced. He’s been shot at before and imprisoned for a short time. His faith was made stronger through both of those incidents. He said that he will still follow and be obedient to the Lord. He took the threats as being serious, though, and was a bit shaken up. His wife, Ruth, is not a believer and this has caused marital stress as well. Please pray that Boaz would continue to be bold, and that the Lord would be his protector and comforter. Ask that he would be obedient to what the Spirit guides him to do. Ask that any suffering that comes would be for the sake of Jesus and the gospel. Please pray for us as we encourage him and pray with him. Ask that we would give wise council. Ask that there would not be a growing spirit of fear among the believers here. Ask that our families would not let fear creep into our homes. That a Man and His Friends Would Repent Could You Teach about the Way of Jesus? A People Group and an Answer to Prayer That a Family Will Come to Saving Faith That a Brother Will Endure Persecution Faithfully I Remained True to Christ That a New Ministry Would Bear Fruit Ministry in the Shadows © 2016 thekurds.net To receive emails with all of our latest blog posts (about two emails a week), enter your email address and click subscribe. Subscribe to our Latest Posts	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1384
__label__wiki	0.637777	0.637777	Transportation 2040 Plan Transport pricing Driving and traffic Walk, bike, and transit Active transportation promotion and education School Active Travel Planning 10th Avenue Corridor Project R4: 41st Ave RapidBus Adanac Overpass Commercial Drive Complete Street Gastown Complete Streets Granville Bridge Connector West Georgia Complete Street Yaletown emergency services access Annual transportation survey As part of 11 transportation actions the Climate Emergency Action Plan approved on November 17, 2020, Council directed staff to develop a transport pricing strategy for Vancouver’s Metro Core by 2025. Transport pricing will be a fee for vehicles to drive into the Metro Core. Details such as cost, boundaries, and time of day when the fee will be in effect, will be decided through further research and engagement with residents and businesses, and in consultation with regional partners and the provincial government. Transportation accounts for almost 40% of Vancouver’s carbon pollution, which is why it’s critical we prioritize walking, biking, and public transit. Transport pricing is one of the best tools cities have for shifting people to sustainable modes of travel and reducing carbon pollution. By 2030, our goal is that two-thirds of all trips into the city will be made by walking, biking, or transit, and that we reduce our carbon pollution by 50%. These shifts will be supported by expansions to our walking and biking networks, bus-service improvements, and the opening of the Broadway Subway External website, opens in new tab, providing additional regional rapid transit access into the Metro Core. Over the next three years, we will do further analysis and work with the provincial government, TransLink, local and regional community, and stakeholders to develop the right fit for Vancouver. Staff will provide a pricing strategy update to Council in 2022 for their review and consideration for approval to implement pricing in Vancouver by 2025. Why we're doing this Transport pricing reduces driving during the most congested times, which makes car and bus travel; and goods movement, more reliable. It creates more road space for transit, walking, and cycling. It reduces pollution from vehicles. Revenue from transport pricing will be used to invested in transit and active transportation options, increasing everyone’s ability to access essential services, work, shopping and recreation. With approximately 100,000 new residents expected to live in Vancouver in the next 20 years, there will be a greater demand for people moving around the city. Without the ability to expand the road system, we need to find ways to move people more efficiently, using the road space we have through more reliable transit, walking, and biking options to maintain access for everyone. Additional transit options There will be more bus and rapid transit options by the time transport pricing is implemented in 2025. The Broadway Subway Project will be complete and there will be more bus service to the Metro Core. The walking and biking network will also be expanded within, and connecting into, the Metro Core over the next four years. The Metro Core is defined by Burrard St to the west, 16th Ave to the south, Clark Dr to the east and Burrard Inlet to the north. This is the general area we are looking at as a starting point, but we will define the actual transport pricing boundaries through additional study and engagement. Pricing fairness A pricing strategy that creates more space, and revenue to invest in transit, walking, and biking, will create a fairer mobility system. The effects of climate change impact vulnerable populations the most, so big moves like transport pricing, to reduce carbon pollution, help avoid these impacts. At the moment there are no plans to exempt electric vehicles. Supporting the Metro Core Transport pricing has the ability to improve access to city centres, while reducing traffic, thus supporting business districts. In London, transport pricing resulted in 40% few vehicles but almost 25% more people coming into the city centre. Reducing congestion also promotes the reliable movement of goods, which supports businesses and a strong economy. Developing a regional approach For Vancouver to meet its climate targets by 2030, we have to take action now. Starting with a core area in Vancouver can support a regional approach in the future, which has been a successful strategy in other major cities that have implemented transport pricing—they have started with a smaller area and then expanded it. We'll study the feasibility of various options, including those that can be done within Vancouver authority and those that would require provincial enabling legislation. We'll collaborate closely with regional and provincial partners to explore all options. TransLink's mobility pricing TransLink explored mobility pricing through the Mobility Pricing Independent Commission between July 2017 and May 2018. In spring 2018, after research and a series of public consultation events were conducted, they made recommendations for a coordinated approach to pricing transportation. The concept of pricing transportation will be further explored through Transportation 2050, a shared strategy for transportation in Metro Vancouver for the next 30 years. Learn more about mobility pricing External website, opens in new tab Metro Vancouver's Climate 2050 Metro Vancouver is developing Climate 2050, a strategic framework to guide our region’s policies and collective actions to transition our region to a low carbon future. Three discussion papers explore opportunities for deep emissions reductions to achieve a carbon neutral region by 2050. The transportation discussion paper identifies reducing emissions through mobility pricing as a “big idea” to manage demand for roads and reduce emissions. Read the discussion paper to support Climate 2050 External website, opens in new tab Staff develop a plan for more detailed engagement with the public and stakeholders A transport pricing update with feedback from the community and more details on how pricing will work, will go to council A transport pricing strategy will go to council for final approval Transport pricing is implemented Mobility Pricing – Is it time? Lessons from London and Stockholm, SFU’s City Program, May 17, 2018. The video gives an introduction on how mobility pricing has been implemented in other areas including real versus perceived issues of equity, public engagement, and lessons learned. Related plans and policies Climate Emergency Action Plan On November 17, 2020, Council approved the Climate Emergency Action Plan. Learn more about our work and how to get involved. Our plan provides a vision for how people and goods move in and around Vancouver for the next 30 years.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1389
__label__wiki	0.636337	0.636337	UK CV manufacturing down 13.6% in February Natalie Middleton 27th March 2020, 11:10 am The commercial vehicle sector is working to help keep essential workers on the move despite manufacturing plant shutdowns. British commercial vehicle output fell 13.6% in February, with 7,980 units produced So says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) as its figures show British commercial vehicle output fell 13.6% in February. Some 7,980 units were produced last month, with exports down 26.2% while domestic output was up 14.6%. The figures compare to a bumper month in 2019. The news comes amid widespread plant closures across the UK as manufacturers respond to the coronavirus pandemic. But while CV production in the UK is largely expected to be on shutdown for the coming month, the sector is working to ensure component production and the provision of maintenance services for essential transport, delivery and emergency service vehicles can continue. And the SMMT says more government action is needed to ensure uninterrupted deliveries during the crisis. Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said: “The UK’s commercial vehicle sector is critical to the fight against coronavirus, working night and day to deliver food, medicine and other essential goods and services to support society’s most vulnerable and help prop up the economy. “Government’s pledge of emergency finance and other measures to help protect these businesses and workers during the crisis has been widely welcomed but it is now about getting that relief to all companies in the fastest time possible. “Meanwhile, additional provisions for official road-approval testing to get even more essential vehicles in service and supporting the national effort must also be implemented urgently.” Previous article Southampton firms stay loyal to Citroën for van fleets Next article AGL fast-tracks vehicle repair support for key workers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1390
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__label__cc	0.678318	0.321682	#27 ‘Self-ish’ by Marina Benjamin ‘It just bit into me, like am I dreaming’, said Ferdinand Puentes, of surviving this plane crash off Kalaupapa, on Hawaii’s Molokai island in January 2014. It’s a curiously poetic way to explain it. Less ambiguous, is his selfie to mark the occasion. The modern phenomenon of photographing one’s self with a handheld camera, or mobile device, and then airing the results on social media – the selfie – is now part of the hall of mirrors of digital culture, endlessly refracted across our electronic landscape, as selfies are posted, tweeted, emailed and shared. From MailOnline to Tinder, the selfie rules. But are selfies self-portraits? Only in the loosest sense of the term, in being both of you and by you. But it is more accurate, I think, to see the selfie as the ‘anti-self-portrait’. Photos like Puentes’ – the ‘I have to make a visual record of this so that I know, and you know, it wasn’t a dream’ selfie – are just one fragment of the phenomenon; albeit a kind of cousin to the pervasive ‘I’m standing with my face pressed against a celebrity’s face’ kind of selfie. An unstated rule is that the selfie-maker must strive to have it appear uncomposed, instant, casual, spontaneous and true – though, in actual fact, selfies lack any of these attributes. Selfies are representations that resist the very idea of representation – which is an idea that sits at the heart of what it means to be painterly. Selfies are now so much a part of the wallpaper of contemporary culture that lately I’ve found myself becoming blind to them; I just don’t see them any more. It’s as if their very ubiquity – their teeming and intrusive banality – has effected a vanishing act, melding them into a solid wall of ever-present non-signification. I’m trying to recall when selfies first impinged on my consciousness. In 2000, my husband travelled to Devon Island, a rocky and desolate place on the far Arctic reaches of human habitation. He was there to research a bunch of people trying to simulate living on Mars. Largely alone, and desperate for a record of having visited such inhospitable lands, he turned his camera on himself – though no one thought to call it a selfie at that time. He looked tired but wired, and 10 days unwashed. For a long while – years – he used that picture as his Facebook profile shot. The next time I would register selfies, there had been a gear-change. It was when celebrities on holiday began digitally sharing pictures of their legs and lower torsos, snapped as they reclined on beach-beds in exotic parts of the world. Quite what the viewer was meant to take away from this new-fangled so-and-so woz ‘ere (and supine) phenomenon is unclear. That the subjects were rich? Pampered? Thin? Tanned? Had a nice pair of pins and an up-to-the minute bikini? Banality, you might say, was there from the start. But the novelty of selfies bought a measure of time for this trend in visual tagging to play itself out. And so the floodgates opened. The selfie, of course, is now also employed on a massive scale by the non-celebrity, civilian population, and to similar effect: to give the appearance of giving yourself away, without actually doing so. To pepper your electronic universe with stand-ins. To perform your very own burlesque – a teasing visual striptease that says now you see me, now you don’t. In taxonomic terms, we’ve got mugging, gurning and general tomfoolery; belfies, group-selfies and look-whom-I’m-with selfies; dress-up selfies, dress-down selfies and look-what-I’m-doing selfies; make-up free selfies (posing, if you please, as activism), filtered selfies, selfies with pets, Oscar 2014 selfies and political selfies. I don’t know about you, but I grew exhausted somewhere near the beginning of this lengthy list. Then, in spring 2014, came the death of Peaches Geldof – not so much the poster girl for attachment parenting as the ‘posted’ girl, pinned to her social media niche like a butterfly fixed behind glass. Here was a life documented daily, and in near-hourly detail, on Twitter and Instagram, where her tagline – ‘Waging a never-ending war against dirty nappies’ – was a paramount exemplar of banality chic. Everything Peaches Geldof wished to promote – from her commitment to mothering, to the clothes brands she represented, to the food her baby boys ate and the bibs she used to mop them up with – was here, in an endless succession of uploaded mobile snaps and videos. Ostensibly, the message was ‘here’s a bit of my private life that I’d like to share with you’. But given how much we now know about what Peaches Geldof wasn’t sharing, perhaps the real take-away is how striking was the dissonance between her lived life and the life she projected. Of course, all (self)-portraits lie. But the thing about selfies is that by virtue of manifesting an up-to-the-minute rolling reportage on the person they stand in for, they function as avatars. What makes avatars interesting in the world of signs and semaphores is that traditionally an avatar is spirit incarnate, a physical representative of the soul’s true self. There is no better vehicle, you might say, for self-idealisation. I am hardly the first person to comment on the minor tragedy of Peaches Geldof’s death by accidental suicide. Or on the desperate efforts of a young woman battling her demons in private while trying to persuade the wider world, and probably herself too, that she was a model mother – and losing on both counts. But I do wonder at the extent to which the selfie was an accessory to the crime: an unwitting accomplice to the unraveling of this woman’s stable sense of identity. In being co-opted to serve an ideal of impossible perfection, wasn’t the selfie, ultimately, a force of fragmentation, alienation and explosion? Thinking about the far shores of ‘death by selfie’ puts me in mind of another photographic suicide: Francesca Woodman’s. Before she took her own life in 1981, at the age of just 22, by jumping from the window of a New York loft, Woodman produced a substantial oeuvre that obsessively worked and re-worked the self-portrait. But with a crucial twist: in Woodman’s work, the subject self evades capture. We glimpse her fleetingly in mirrors, or she lurks half-hidden in the shadows of doorways. At other times Woodman ‘denies her face to the camera’ [her words], or conceals herself behind her hair or her arm, a swathe of gauzy fabric, a roll of cellophane. This is work in which the materiality of personhood is deliberately smudged, and the very notion of the sovereign self questioned. Woodman liked to work in series. In a group of pictures taken in Providence, Rhode Island, in the late 1970s, she produced a set of stark and nervy images in which, owing to their long exposure times, she is blurred into a wisp-like silhouette against a bleached out empty room. These pictures are almost abstracts, fuzzily balletic, and strikingly beautiful. Yet at the same time there’s a kind of electric quality to them, a marked tension. Woodman appears to be on the move, crouching, arms swinging down to the ground, like an animal on all fours. It is as if she is avid to escape the frame, avoid exposure, give us the slip and just disappear. The viewer feels implicated. He or she is not just a passive voyeur, but a hunter of prey. In another group of equally unsettling images, taken in the kind of semi-derelict room she favoured using as a set – empty of furniture, its plasterwork crumbling – Woodman is naked, pressed up against a wall, desperate to blend herself into the wallpaper but only half succeeding, so that you see her and you don’t see her. You see a bit of leg, a bit of tummy, some hair. The rest is covered. The images are all somewhat blurred, ghostly. As with her exposures that use mirrors and doorways, Woodman positions herself with great care in these shots, so that she is expertly poised between absence and presence. Woodman’s work makes for uncomfortable viewing. And that is intended. She wished to disrupt the taken-for-granted laziness of the viewing gaze, to question its entitlement. At the same time, by making us keenly aware of the viewer, effectively ‘outing’ them as the unnamed presence in her pictures, Woodman evokes a certain creepiness. There’s a whiff of suspicion that she is being watched. Perhaps by a Peeping Tom? Certainly by someone who delights in proximity and in peering into another person’s private world – someone illicit, hidden, who revels in the secret delight of watching without being seen. This sense of the creepy encapsulates how I’ve felt when I’ve surfed the selfie scene; a little compromised and a little besmirched – tainted by my own consumption. But then selfies stir up such feelings in the viewer by deliberate design; by blurring the lines between private and public, between access-granting and access-denying, insider and outsider. They promise one thing, openness, and deliver another: surface. Their stark message is that you can get close up, but you cannot get personal. Yet if selfies frustrate the viewer, they are a boon to those who wish to expose themselves without actually baring any soul. Thanks to the selfie, celebs can pap themselves, parade their drunken antics and kiss-and-tell indiscretions, and share behind-the-scenes confidences and tawdry confessions directly with fans, without in fact giving anything away at all. It is all surface. All wallpaper. Perhaps, had she lived, Francesca Woodman would have deplored selfie culture for its phoniness – for being untrue to the idea of exposure. Would she have tweeted, I wonder? Or had an Instagram account? Would she have shared her life on Facebook and her smart phone? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, I doubt she’d have fallen foul of mistaking the faux-realist surface of the selfie for the stuff of life that lies beneath. A line of thought that perhaps did not consume the eerily calm Puentes, as he bobbed along on the plane wreckage-littered waves. Marina Benjamin is a writer and journalist. Her books include Rocket Dreams (2004) and Last Days in Babylon (2007). She is a senior editor at Aeon Magazine. She tweets as @marinab52. Posted on December 3, 2014 December 8, 2016 by vsmallfires Tagged Facebook, Francesca Woodman, Peaches Geldof, self-portrait, selfie	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1393
__label__wiki	0.778699	0.778699	Heimarian Odyssey - Chapter 66 In the morning, Locke stretched lazily as he woke up in the cave and patted Angelina who was still sleeping beside him. Angelina rubbed her sleepy eyes. The wind was very strong last night. They had sheltered in a shallow recessed cave, so the cold breeze managed to come in. In addition to that, during the latter half of the night, the beasts of the Bering Mountains howled one after another. Angelina really couldn't sleep well. As Locke was a person who focused on the bigger picture and disregarded minor details, the cold didn't matter to him. But ever since he woke up, his eyelids had been jumping from a sense of foreboding arising in him. This place was still too near to the Morphey Forest and they needed to leave as soon as possible. The threats were still near. The two of them started their journey early in the day. After crossing this hillside and passing over another two mountains, they would have completely left Morphey Forest. The area beyond that was considered the hinterland of the Bering Mountains, and Locke planned to arrive in the evening. When they left yesterday, Locke and Angelina had agreed to not taking unnecessary breaks until they reached a safe zone. Even for lunch, they would settle with just eating a few fruits. The cold breeze still blew through the forest in the morning. Everywhere was quiet because it was winter. If not for some migratory birds flying over the two from time to time, Angelina would have wondered if they had entered a realm devoid of life. Locke led the two of them onwards. It was different from the lush jungle that Locke had seen before. The sight of silent winter stretched beyond their vision. There were no paths in the forest, so he could only try to figure them out himself. Locke waved a branch in his hand to clear the way. From dry thorns to sharp stones, the slightest accidental touch on any of them would leave a deep mark on even a survival-hardened man like Locke. Angelina complained about this for a long time. The pointy thorns and branches didn't scratch her, but her clothes were about to wear out. Locke promised to find a place to rest tonight and help her deal with her clothes to see if it could be sewn back. Locke, who had never touched silk, was not very confident in handling it. Just when the two of them reached the first mountainside they needed to cross, the old wolf who had been stalking them was now only a kilometre away. Wolves were known for their perseverance. The old wolf had been tailing them since last night, and after all this time it was merely breathing a little heavier than usual. Its green eyes stared directly at the two small black spots in the distance. The old wolf who had just become a low-rank moonlight wolf originally thought that it could enjoy a big meal in the early morning. However, it did not expect the two prey he had his eyes on to leave so early. The terrible winter weather was rough and even monsters didn't want to move, so why did these two humans get up so early? The old wolf couldn't understand, but didn't want to dwell on it any longer. Only a rich meal could sate its ravenous stomach. Locke, who was walking, halted. It was a familiar feeling of a murderous aura that threatened his life. Locke had been at ease for a long time. The last time he felt this way was during the battle at the Felmo Grand Canyon half a year ago. Locke wasn't the only one who felt it, Angelina, who had a higher sensitivity, also noticed it. A caster's mental power was relatively high, and she was always sensitive to the malefic intent of other creatures. The two looked at each other and became cautious. How could there be a murderous aura in this place? Could it be that a monster was targeting them? Throughout their journey, Locke had carefully avoided some of the creatures that gave him this pressure, most of which were monsters. Although Locke wanted to see monsters for himself, he knew his priorities. The two were now wandering alone in the forest. If they were to get injured, even by a bit, none of them would be able to predict how it would affect their survival. Could it be a beast like a tiger or a leopard? Locke could only think so. Since he started practicing impetus, Locke's strength had been changing every day. Now, he was firmly established as an entry-level Knecht, which meant that he could easily deal with 3 second-rate soldiers or nine third-rate soldiers at the same time. A normal beast that could suppress 10 ordinary people could only be as huge as tigers or leopards. In fact, tigers or leopards wouldn't be able to do nearly that well. Even though he wasn't armoured or armed with a handy longsword and pike, Locke was also confident that if there were stupid beasts who came at him, he could teach them a lesson with his fists alone. It wasn't possible for it to be a huge beast either. In winter, many large carnivorous beasts would choose opponents of similar strength because they weren't able to hunt for enough food. Wild beasts rarely had good senses. They relied on biological heat and aura to pick their prey. In terms of his aura, Locke, who practiced impetus, would not be too far behind a leopard. They were close enough to be in the wolf's attack range. The old wolf no longer hid its whereabouts and stimulated its whole body. With a swish, it blurred and rushed towards Locke and Angelina. The moonlight gave the wolf more agility than other monsters. The speed of the moonlight wolf could even be comparable to the shadow leopard that sneaked on it yesterday. The old wolf violently rushed towards Locke and Angelina, who had been wary of the previous murderous aura. They noticed the uninvited guest on the hillside behind them in an instant. The blurry figure left numerous afterimages, and Locke couldn't even see the old wolf's movements clearly. "Run!" Locke turned around, pulled Angelina behind him and ran. With the momentum of the thing that was chasing them, Locke could easily guess that its level was definitely beyond him. When facing enemies who were stronger than himself, Locke generally chose to retreat. He was not an airhead, or he wouldn't have been able to survive on the battlefield for four years. Avoiding people who were stronger than himself was not shameful to Locke. It was mere natural selection and the survival of the fittest. There would only be hope for the living. Locke dragged Angelina while running and looked back, only to be taken aback. The thing that was chasing them was getting closer and closer, and its speed was increasing. Locke and Angelina were not running slowly either and yet that thing managed to speed up and catch up to them. "What the hell is this thing?" Locke asked as he was running with Angelina. She was like a living encyclopedia to Locke. Angelina was significantly faster due to being pulled along. She took time to look back and stared for a while at their pursuer, only to be puzzled and surprised. "This is... This might be a moonlight wolf." Angelina said in uncertainty. "Moonlight wolf? What's that?" Locke asked while maintaining his running speed. "Moonlight wolves are low-rank monsters. They are of the light attribute and have good agility and endurance. They're a subspecies of wolf-type monsters," Angelina said, "Light-attribute monsters are very rare. I certainly didn't expect there would be a moonlight wolf here." The whole situation was quite strange. Luck was surely playing tricks on them. To think that there would actually be a light monster in the Bering Mountains out of all the other kinds that could dominate. "Damn!" Locke cursed. He could understand only part of what she said. One was that the thing chasing them was a low-rank monster, a level higher than them. The other was that this thing had good agility and endurance. There would be no point in running. Let's just fight it! While they were talking, the distance between the old wolf and them had been reduced to less than 20 meters. At this distance, the old wolf could catch up with Locke and Angelina with only two pounces. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and Locke knew that it was useless to run. It was better to fight. So, they suddenly slowed. Locke guarded Angelina behind him and stared at the moonlight wolf. Seeing that Locke had stopped, the old wolf halted as well. The huge wolf stared at Locke quietly. After it became a moonlight wolf, the old wolf lost some of its violent temperament and became calmer and more rational. Locke really felt his luck was horrible. Initially, all he wanted was a Shalorian foe of the same level to test out his strength against after learning impetus. However, he didn't expect a group of blood-red armoured soldiers to appear, and for the head of the unit to slaughter their troops. He even had to jump off the cliff to avoid the pursuit. Had it not been for the lake under the cliff, he would have been animal food by now. Later, it occurred to him that he wanted to experience minor monsters for himself. But in the saltwater lake, he only saw a group of miniature, lesser versions of the monsters with only the potential to become one. This was just great. Though he didn't manage to see any minor monsters, a major monster came knocking on their door. Even his patience and composure had its limits. Since the beginning of the war between Faustian and Shalor, Locke had been active on the battlefield. He had seen many types of people and he had even killed opponents that were stronger than him, not to mention the first time Locke killed someone was after he just joined the army for two months. It was during his first battle. When he was 14 years old, the malnourished Locke couldn't beat anyone. But even then, relying on bloody instinct alone, he killed a Shalorian who was older and stronger than him. In the past two years, Locke lived a lot more comfortably after becoming a squad jarl. He rarely had single fights with opponents of the same level. It was only in this predicament that he recalled how long it had been since he last killed someone of a higher rank. It was the bloody battle in Gordon Heights last year. When Locke and Caen escaped from an encirclement during the siege of the Shalorians, they desperately fought and killed a second-rate squad jarl despite being only third rate themselves. The medal of that second-rate soldier became an important factor in Locke's promotion to a squad jarl later on. Now, he didn't think he would lose to a monster. On the other hand, Angelina informed him that this beast was only a low-rank one. This gave him some hope and ignited a flame in his heart. Before this, the blood-red armored man had given him too much pressure, causing him to have no desire to fight back at all. Now, this low-rank moonlight wolf had yet to push him into despair. "Come on!" Locke dropped the quilt, dried meat and other things he carried on his back. He stared at the wolf, holding only the wooden stick used to clear the way earlier. The old wolf also put away its previous contempt, and stood opposite to Locke. Only then did the old wolf realise that the two humans, which it had treated as its meal, was giving off a slight pressure. The wolf thought that they were only two ordinary humans, but it didn't expect these two to be at the level of monsters. This was the biggest difference between humans and beasts. Locke and Angelina could know the basic level of the old wolf just by observing it from a distance. The old wolf on the other hand could only track the two by the smell. While tracking them, there was no way to know the actual strength of the two. Moreover, human beings were different from beasts. Knights focused on practicing impetus, and that power circulated in the bodies. Unless there was a large gap in strength, they usually would not emit their turbulent aura like monsters did. Casters were even more low profile. Even if many powerful casters stood side by side with ordinary people, they could make it seem like the people beside them looked even more like casters than themselves. The old wolf hesitated. It had just advanced to become a low-rank monster, and its mana had been used to repair its wounds. At this time, it was only relying on its newfound physical strength. Should I continue to hunt these two humans? The leopard from last night would be much easier to deal with than these two... Get chapter updates Support Ryogawa and his work Heimarian Odyssey "); } } if ($(elem).data('type') == 'reader-footer') { if ($(window).width() <= 750) { $(elem).append(" "); } else { $(elem).append(" "); //$(elem).append(" "); } } if ($(elem).data('type') == 'reader-inline') { $(elem).append(" "); } if ($(elem).data('type') == 'sidebar-large') { $(elem).append(" "); } }); // UberCPM //var responsiveAdCode = "	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1398
__label__wiki	0.662766	0.662766	Ivan Vasiliev Photo Damir Yusupov Chinara Alizade Svetlana Zakharova, Maria Allash, Natalia Osipova, Karim Abdulin Bolshoi Ballet 2010 Summer Season The flash plugin is required to play this video. The name Bolshoi never fails to conjure up visions of spectacular ballets in the minds of balletomanes around the world. During a history spanning more than 225 years, the Bolshoi Ballet's vast, continually expanding repertoire has been linked to a roster of celebrated choreographers and dazzling dancers who, from generation to generation, have remained custodians of their great heritage. The Bolshoi Ballet opens this eagerly awaited season with the spectacular staging of Spartacus by Yuri Grigorovich. This monumental ballet, set to Khachaturian's exciting music, first took London by storm in 1969 and displays the Bolshoi Ballet at its most powerful. The epic portrayal of the uprising against ancient Rome of the gladiators and slaves, led by Spartacus, is now an established classic of Russian contemporary ballet, epitomising the Bolshoi's unique style. "Just as Giselle is ballet's great tragedy, so Coppélia is its great comedy" Thus wrote George Balanchine of this joyous and witty ballet, premiered in 1870. Delibes' sparkling score highlights the humour and brightness of the tale of the beautiful mechanical doll which threatens the happiness of the two young lovers. The Bolshoi Ballet's revival by Sergei Vikharev of Petipa and Cecchetti's superb choreography delights and enchants. SERENADE / GISELLE Two great ballets display the elegance and beauty of the Bolshoi dancers. Serenade is a magical fusion of Balanchine's choreographic genius with Tchaikovsky's poetry and drama. Giselle, the story of the betrayed peasant girl whose love transcends even death, has captivated audiences for over 160 years. Yuri Grigorovich's acclaimed version embodies all the lyricism and purity of the Romantic style as well as its charm and pathos. PETRUSHKA / RUSSIAN SEASONS / PAQUITA An evening of brilliant Russian choreographers. Inspired by Sergei Diaghilev, Petrushka is the tale of the comi-tragic puppet with the human soul. Fokine's choreography, Benois' designs and Stravinsky's strikingly original music combine to create this work of genius. Russian Seasons - the Bolshoi brings Ratmansky's dazzling and spirited celebration of Russian folk dance. Yuri Burlaka's revival of the famous Grand Pas from Petipa's masterpiece, Paquita, presents the Bolshoi's greatest ballerinas in a glittering display of spectacular virtuosity. The Bolshoi Ballet's magnificent staging of Marius Petipa's Le Corsaire, with new choreography by the outstanding Russian choreographers Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka, has proved an extraordinary international success. Set on the banks of the Ionian Sea against a climate of political unrest between the Greeks and the Turks, this exotic ballet contains all the ingredients of a traditional Russian spectacular - love, intrigue, deception, a splendid shipwreck, a harem and a kidnap. A perfect vehicle for the Bolshoi dancers' exuberant energy. The excitement and wit of Cervantes' masterpiece are perfectly conveyed in Alexei Fadeyechev's stunning production of Don Quixote. In astounding displays of virtuoso dancing, the plot unfolds as the love between Kitri and Basil is challenged by the fruitless attempts of Kitri's father to engineer his unwilling daughter into a more lucrative match. Drama, comedy and love combine in Petipa's enchanting classic, originally created for the Bolshoi in 1869. HOMEBOLSHOI BALLETPREVIOUS SEASONSBolshoi Ballet 2010 Summer Season	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1400
__label__wiki	0.885256	0.885256	Colin Perkel Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 4:32PM EST TORONTO -- Four family members who worked for the Ontario government in information technology defrauded the province of at least $11 million destined as COVID-19 relief money, a statement of claim alleges. The unproven civil claim on behalf of the province, which also seeks $2 million in punitive damages, accuses them and others of illegally issuing and banking cheques under the Support for Families Program that aimed to defray the cost of children learning at home. Named as a defendant in the Superior Court claim is Sanjay Madan, who had a senior IT role and helped develop the computer application for applying and approving the benefit. "The Madan family exploited their positions of employment with Ontario and unique access to the (program) and payment processing system," the government says. "The plaintiff was uniquely vulnerable to Sanjay, particularly with respect to the integrity of the...application." Also named is Madan's wife Shalini Madan, a senior level IT manager with the ministry responsible for electronically processing program payments. According to the lawsuit, Sanjay Madan and his family opened more than 400 accounts at the Bank of Montreal between April and May. They then deposited around 10,000 cheques made out to fictitious applicants with thousands of non-existent children under the support program. Most deposits were made over a four-week period starting on May 25, coinciding with a rule change that allowed more than five payments to be made to an applicant. The government alleges Sanjay Madan either sparked the rule change or knew about it and took advantage. "He would have been very familiar with the (program) computer application and with any vulnerabilities it may have had to fraud and other misuse," the government asserts. The claim also says that Sanjay and Chinmaya Madan wiped their government-issued phones to hide their misdoing. Christopher Du Vernet, the family's lawyer, said he could not discuss the claim. "As I am sure you can appreciate, this is a very difficult time for the entire Madan family," Du Vernet said on Wednesday. "Moreover, the matter is currently before the courts. Given these circumstances, I am instructed to advise that any comments our client makes will be in material filed with the courts and only there." However, in other court filings, Sanjay Madan is said to have told the government that he could explain "all of this" and that he has "helped many families." Other defendants include their son Chinmaya Madan, a technical product manager who resigned in July, and his brother, Ujjawal Madan, a programmer analyst, who worked indirectly under his father. He resigned in August. No criminal charges have been announced. The government also served notice it intends to seize any money the family obtained fraudulently. It obtained a court order to have their bank accounts turned over to the court pending the outcome of the lawsuit. To prevent the respondents from hiding any money, the government obtained a court order freezing the family's assets, which include a list of properties in Toronto. The government says in one document that Sanjay Madan maintains the program payments were directed to him by tenants for rent. "It is reasonable to believe that Sanjay's alleged tenants are not the parents to over 10,000 children," the government says. "The attorney general submits that the cash in the bank accounts and safety deposit boxes is likely proceeds of unlawful activity." The freeze order was subsequently varied to allow some payout of money from an earlier Madan property sale but the family will have to return to court to have other funds for living expenses and legal bills released. Other defendants in the suit filed in the court's commercial lists division are several companies: Intellisources, Newgen and Wang and Associates. 'We did not want to waste them': Top Ontario vaccine official says after non-front-line staff get shot Ontario daily COVID-19 deaths expected to double in February, overwhelm health system: modelling Expert warns that risk of transmitting COVID-19 outdoors during the winter is higher How to check if your Toronto grocery store has a case of COVID-19 Parents of Ontario secondary students can now apply for their $200 payment. Here's how	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1408
__label__cc	0.737012	0.262988	Tracyton Public House Beer & Cider List The Not-So-Late Show: Sarah O’Dea « Jack Parker & Flux – LIVE at the Tracyton Public House Gina Belliveau – Live at the Tracyton Public House » Our weekly Not-So-Late Show with the amazingly-talented musician, Sarah O’Dea, performing a solo-acoustic set. We are excited to announce that she will have a permanent rotating spot on our Thursday Night line-up each month. She will be performing from 6pm-9pm – and as always, it is a FREE show! Make sure to check out her music links below, and see why so many are such big fans of her music! Thursday Specials: $1 Tacos & $3.50 Tacos ALL DAY Happy Hour from 3pm-6pm Live Music from 6pm-9pm Featured Musician: Sarah O’Dea studied classical voice for 4 years and grew up playing guitar, trumpet and piano. She began writing songs at the age of 15 and is shaped by many genres of influence (folk, soul, rock) which she carries over in her own Americana writing. She writes heart-felt, creative songs inspired by personal experience and whatever comes to mind. Watch All of Sarah O’Dea’s Videos HERE! Listen to Sarah O’Dea’s Music HERE! acoustic music kitsap, best burger in kitsap, free live music, live music kitsap, sarah o'dea, the not-so-late show, tracyton, tracyton pub, tracyton public house 403 NW TRACY AVE BREMERTON, WA 98311-2368 United States + Google Map Beer-Cation 2021 – An Outdoor Weekend Beach Party August 27 @ 5:00 pm - August 29 @ 8:00 pm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1412
__label__cc	0.71614	0.28386	The Top 5 Restaurants You Must Try in Silver Lake, Los Angeles « 20 Tips for Preparing Your House for Sale This Fall [INFOGRAPHIC] Housing Is Still Affordable in the United States! » A recorded Los Angeles neighborhood, Silver Lake is home to a variety of the most known Hollywood film studios and fixated on the much-adored reservoir. This pleasant, bumpy enclave has turned into a magnet for the ‘fashionable person’ set lately, introducing another rush of in vogue and high caliber culinary choices. Appreciate a wide scope of cooking styles in this charming, bright environment with the top five places to eat. BARBRIX Bar, Charcuterie, Restaurant, Spanish, Mediterranean, $$$ Barbrix is the ideal place to test an assortment of wines and share little plates of Mediterranean-propelled food with great friends and family. There’s a square bar with seating on all sides that makes for a friendly environment, and also an open air porch region perfect for their unlimited Mimosa early lunch. The menu flaunts a huge choice of charcuterie and cheeses along with delightful dishes like pork and ricotta meatballs and grilled Spanish octopus. Barbrix, 2442 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA, USA, +1 323 662 2442 Blair’s is an appreciated break from the modern design trend with its personal candlelit mood. With an emphasis on New American cooking, conventional solace sustenances like deviled eggs and ribs are taken to the following level with gourmet affectations and privately sourced regular fixings. The amazing, truffle mac ‘n’ cheese justifies a visit to Silver Lake all alone however the appeal of Blair’s is that it has held the sentiment of a shrouded neighborhood scene in which to appreciate a lazy night with nourishment and individuals you cherish. Blair’s Restaurant, 2901 Rowena Ave., Los Angeles, CA, USA, +1 323 660 1882 CAFE STELLA Bar, Cafe, Restaurant, French, $$$ Situated in the core of Silver Lake at Sunset Junction alongside the phenomenally popular Intelligentsia coffee bar, Cafe Stella is an area foundation whose beguiling stylistic layout in a split second transports its visitors into a little Parisian sanctuary. This is the place to fulfill your yearnings for a steak au poivre or coq au vin and a hearty French red wine. In the event that you need to prop the marvelous sentimental night up, the bordering Bar Stella is loaded with sultry dull corners in which to appreciate a mixed drink served by barkeeps in retro white coats. Cafe Stella, 3932 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, USA, +1 323 666 0265 Bar, Restaurant, German, $$$ The Red Lion Tavern is a bona fide cut of old fashioned Silver Lake. This eatery brags a conventional biergarten trimmed with Bavarian lager flags that makes for an ideal spot on a radiant evening. The healthy German passage isn’t actually veggie lover well disposed (however a vegetarian bratwurst has been added to the menu), yet the frankfurter platter—a genuine aiding of bockwurst, knackwurst, and bratwurst presented with mustard and pickles—is an ideal backup to the astounding choice of German lagers, accessible in a 2-liter boot-formed stein for the genuine brew fan. The Red Lion Tavern, 2366 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, USA, +1 323 662 5337 TAIX Restaurant, French, $$$ The French Taix family has worked an eatery in Los Angeles since 1927, making it one of the most seasoned French diners in the city and a genuine Angeleno landmark. Taix(pronounced ‘Tex’) has won honors for its broad wine list, and customary French menu including things like escargots and frog legs served in a environment with very memorable past times. Taix French Restaurant, 1911 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, USA, +1 213 484 1265	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1421
__label__cc	0.510465	0.489535	HomecultureDunleath’s porchery holds a neighborhood festival Daniel Ayers performs on a front porch during the 2019 Dunleath Porchfest. (photo by Cason Ragland) Dunleath’s porchery holds a neighborhood festival Cason Ragland In the eye of last weekend’s rainstorm, the historic Dunleath neighborhood came alive with the sound of banjos, mandolins and acoustic guitars. Kids scrambled to the nearest backyard with a playset while their parents and other couples strolled streets shaded by old trees. Some carried lawn chairs and red Solo cups filled with light beer. The humidity was in full force — it felt like walking through a giant cube of warm Jell-O, but nobody seemed to mind. During the Dunleath Porchfest, hosted by the Dunleath Association last weekend, a total of 44 performances went on across 40 porches in the historic neighborhood. Lynne Leonard, Mebane Ham and Shawn Patch, the three Dunleath residents at the center of this festival, organized volunteers to put up arts-and-crafts booths where kids could make string instruments from paper plates, rubber bands and paint stirrers. They asked local eateries to set up shop at the center of the neighborhood and reached out to regional artists to put on sets. Attendees wandered the interweaving streets from lawn to lawn and finally ended up in Sternberger Park for the final concert. Ham, who lives in a 100-year-old duplex in Dunleath, hosted some of the performances that took place during the annual event. Her stage was the stoop of her front door. Most of the onlookers crammed next to each other underneath the branches of the two small trees that grew in her front yard. “Shawn had heard of [events similar to the Porchfest,]” Ham explained. “And our neighborhood’s name changed from Aycock to Dunleath, so we thought it’d be a good way to let people know about that.” Ham said this was the first year that included performances by children. One of them, 8-year-old Finn Phoenix, played guitar and ukulele. Phoenix, like the other performers, had a small tip jar out in front of him and he plans to spend the money on a banjo. The final song of his performance, “Life at Lindley,” was a touching piece dedicated to Lindley Elementary School. “I jump up out of bed and I hop on the bus,” sang Phoenix. “Rollin’ down Market street without a lot of fuss/ Destination: Lindley, where learning never ends/ My day is getting started — hello, all my friends.” The crowd joined in with Phoenix, singing back the words during the chorus. After his show, the audience stayed largely put and waited for Daniel Ayers, a musician from Graham, who would play next. Ham introduced him as a folk singer with a sense of Southern sarcasm. Ayers wore Chuck Taylors, jeans and a short-sleeved, button-up shirt. He performed a cover of “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda,” an anti-war song by Eric Bogle about a veteran who watches his fellow soldiers march in a parade from his front porch. Towards the end of the song, Ayers sang, “And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march/ Reliving old dreams of past glory/ And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore/ The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war/ And the young people ask, ‘What are they marching for?’” “Y’all stuck around for that one,” said Ayers after the 6-minute ballad. “Let’s see about the next one, I’ll try not to offend…. I wrote this song after I graduated from college and came back to North Carolina. Have y’all seen the ‘Thank You, Jesus’ signs? This song is about those.” Ayers plucked out the beginning of the song before he asked rhetorically, “How does this song start? It’s been a while since I sang it.” But after a few short moments his eyebrows lifted above the rim of his Wayfarer sunglasses in a moment of realization. He then carried on with his comedic tune about meeting Jesus Christ in person and asking him, “Can’t you see we’re prayin’ sinker, line and hook?/ Y’know I love your movie, but I never read the book.” The crowd laughed at the satirical jabs towards performative Christians and gave a rousing applause at the end of the track. Ayers told audience members there are typically a few people who leave when he performs this piece, but things were different at Porchfest. “The fact that nobody left during that one says a lot about [us],” Ayers said. Dunleath is large enough to accommodate this kind of festival and yet small enough to offer a welcoming, grassroots atmosphere. It brings artists from all over the Piedmont together in a place where they can exchange ideas and create meaningful connections. Ayers and Phoenix held an impromptu jam session before either of them went on stage. Ham mentioned that she loved seeing the two of them play together and that Ayers probably had some things to teach Phoenix. However, it was the other way around. “He taught me a new chord I didn’t know,” said Ayers in an interview on Ham’s stoop after his show. It was F minor. You can find out more about Dunleath here. daniel ayers dunleath dunleath porchfest Mebane Ham Shawn Patch sternberger park Previous articleEditorial: Will NC join the cannabis revolution? 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__label__wiki	0.669159	0.669159	Tag Archives: Joe Solo 02/09/2018 by Stephen Hall Joe Solo to receive 2018 Gerrard Winstanley Spade Award EACH year the Wigan Diggers’ Festival Committee presents a Gerrard Winstanley Spade award to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the socialist cause. Previous winners include Tony Benn, Ken Loach, Maxine Peake and Jimmy McGovern. This year the Diggers’ Festival Committee have decided that the socialist singer/ songwriter Joe Solo receive the award. Through his music and dedication to helping others, Joe works tirelessly across the nation and in the Committee’s opinion undoubtedly deserves it. Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough. His musical career began in 1987 and has seen him play seven countries either as lynchpin of pop-punk upstarts Lithium Joe or hammering out his unique brand of Folk, Punk and Blues supporting great causes along the way such as the miners, the International Brigade, Hope not Hate and many homeless charities. On top of releasing fifteen albums since 2004 most inspired by socialist causes, Solo has written books and had them written about him; runs a research project on the Hull Pals Battalions in the First World War; has worked with underprivileged children to help them write their lives in song; hosts a weekly radio show; and still found time to open for the likes of David Rovics, Attila the Stockbroker, Otis Gibbs, Robb Johnson, Edgar Broughton, TV Smith, Paul Simmonds, Emily Portman, Pete Wylie, The Blockheads and Billy Bragg; whilst his songs have been played by John Peel on BBC Radio One, Mike Harding on BBC Radio Two and Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music. In May 2015 Joe helped create WE SHALL OVERCOME, a campaign pushing for a positive response from the music community to the poverty and hardship inflicted on ordinary people by the Government’s austerity program. Since October 2015 the movement has organised more than 700 gigs in 142 towns and cities across 9 countries on 3 continents raising an estimated £350,000 in cash, food, clothing and bedding for those hardest hit. WSO scooped the ‘People’s Choice’ gong at the annual Yorkshire Grassroots Music Awards, and on the back of his efforts The Morning Star named Solo ‘Human Being of the Year’. In October 2016 Joe was awarded the ‘Outstanding Songwriting’ prize at Yorkshire Gig Guide Grassroots Music Awards for his work on the album ‘Never Be Defeated’ telling the stories of the men and women of Hatfield during the 1984-85 Miner’s Strike; and their song together – ‘Merry Christmas From Hatfield Main’ – raised much-needed cash for a Hardship Fund set up to help those struggling in the former pit communities of South Yorkshire. Just before Christmas 2016 they performed it on stage together with a very special guest, none other than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. After 30 years of writing and gigging, Joe made his Glastonbury debut in June 2017, taking to the Leftfield stage a skip in his step and a tear in his eye. As he said later: “It only took 30 years! Imagine what I could do in another 30!” It is with great pride that Wigan Diggers’ Festival Committee awards this years’ Gerrard Winstanley Spade to Joe Solo. 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__label__cc	0.641603	0.358397	How long does a weed high last? Copy article link to clipboard. The science behind how long a high lasts: everyone is different How long does a marijuana high last? What does being high feel like? How much weed does it take to get high? How you feel vs. the weed in your system How to bring down your high? How to increase the length of your high Was this article helpful? Give Feedback Cannabis serves a wide variety of purposes in the modern world, with new medicinal uses and products appearing every day. But for the majority of marijuana users who come to the plant recreationally, the goal is still to experience the cannabis high. Marijuana highs can facilitate a wide variety of sensory and psychological effects, including mild reverie, euphoria, increased sensory awareness, and some therapeutic benefits. But if you're a new or less experienced user, you'd want to know: How long does a high last? What duration are you committing to when you smoke a bowl, eat an edible, or take a dab? Marijuana highs can facilitate a wide variety of sensory and psychological effects, including mild reverie, euphoria, increased sensory awareness, and some therapeutic benefits. Photo by: Gina Coleman/Weedmaps Much of your reaction to cannabis, whether it be therapeutic or the duration of the high it produces, will depend on your own biological makeup. Different types or strains of cannabis can produce different effects. One variety may produce a more intense high, or one that lasts longer than another. But the same plant can also produce different effects in others. Out bodies interact with cannabis by way of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) — the series of receptors, lipids, and enzymes that help the body maintain internal balance and regulate several bodily functions. When cannabinoids, compounds indigenous to the cannabis plant such as THC and cannabidiol (CBD), interact with the body, they produce an effect by binding to cannabinoid receptors, where they are then broken down by enzymes. Our cannabinoid receptors have genetic variations from person to person, which in turn can alter the effects of cannabis, including the duration of intoxication. So, how long does weed last? There are several factors that determine the answer to this question, but the primary driver on the cannabis high duration is the method of cannabis consumption. Your own biological makeup, along with the chemical makeup of the cannabis you're ingesting, will also determine how long a cannabis high and potential side effects will last. That being said, the rate of THC blood saturation through to the eventual expungement of THC from the body provides a general window of duration in most people, which varies depending on how cannabis is being ingested. When smoking cannabis, the onset of the high is nearly immediate and THC levels peak within the first 30 minutes to an hour after inhalation. The high from smoked marijuana can last up to several hours, though the intensity will generally decrease after the first hour or so. Cannabis edibles are a whole different story. As edibles are absorbed through the digestive system and THC is metabolized through the liver, it takes anywhere from 20 minutes to 3 hours for the onset of effects. Depending on the amount of THC consumed, the amount of time an edible high can last upwards of 9 hours, with the peak generally lasting from 1 to 3 hours. When dabbing concentrates, the onset of effects is also nearly immediate, but the duration depends largely on individual tolerance. Those who dab high-THC concentrates often may feel the effects wearing off within 1 to 2 hours, while someone entirely new to dabbing may be wiped out for the day. When dabbing concentrates, the onset of effects is also nearly immediate, but the duration depends largely on individual tolerance. The specific qualities of a cannabis high will change over time, regardless of the form you take. Similarly to how long a weed high will last, you can expect the specific qualities of a high to change from person to person, and from cultivar to cultivar. Most cannabis cultivars bring with them a general list of qualities that most people experience from them, from hunger to cerebral stimulation, or creativity to couch lock. Some cultivars will quash anxiety, while others will increase anxiety. As the high wears down, the more euphoric aspects typically wane and sleepiness replaces them. Again, all of these effects depend on the chemical makeup of a given cultivar, as well as your genes. The amount of weed needed to feel high also depends on several variables. THC is the intoxicating component of cannabis, and though other cannabinoids play a role in either contributing to or enhancing the cannabis high, the THC percentage of a cannabis product will impact how long you'll be high when you consume it. However, the method of consumption is an even bigger determining factor. For example, the effects of eating a 50 milligram edible will last longer than smoking a 0.5 gram joint with 20% THC. THC percentages don't tell the whole story, but they do provide a general idea of what a user should expect with flower or concentrate products. In the case of edibles, instead of THC percentage, the key factor to potency is the quantity of THC in the product, which is typically measured in milligrams. How long you stay high and how long weed stays in your system are two very different things. As drug tests are looking for THC metabolites, it can take upwards of a month for the compounds to completely leave your system, depending on body mass index (BMI), metabolism, frequency of use, the potency of the product, and genetics. If you're experiencing a particularly intense high, it's important to remember that it shall pass, and cannabis is non-toxic. No deaths from a marijuana overdose have ever been reported. For those who want or need to come down from a particularly intense high as quickly as possible, there are several tactics that may prove effective, such as taking very deep breaths, ingesting black pepper, hydrating, taking a cold shower, and consuming CBD oil, which may be able to counteract the intoxicating effects of THC by way of the entourage effect. The higher the amount of THC, the less cannabis needed to achieve a high. If you want to know how to increase the length of your high, you can either smoke weed again, opt for the longer-lasting intoxicating effects of an edible, or consume cannabis products with higher levels of THC. Reviewed by Dr. Adie Rae, Ph.D on 9/8/20 Stay highly informed. Get weekly cannabis news right to your inbox. By checking this box you consent to Weedmaps' collection of your email address for the limited purpose of subscribing to Weedmaps' email communications. You also agree to Weedmaps' privacy policy & terms of use. has been subscribed! The information contained in this site is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be construed as medical or legal advice. This page was last updated on September 8, 2020. A community connecting cannabis consumers, patients, retailers, doctors, and brands since 2008. 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__label__cc	0.574562	0.425438	Obama announces $50 billion economic recovery plan By Patti Wenzel - Sep 7th, 2010 04:00 am Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after speaking at the Milwaukee Laborfest. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza President Obama officially kicked off the fall election season by visiting the friendly confines of the Laborfest celebration at Maier Festival Park. He stumped for Tom Barrett’s bid for governor and told us pretty much the same thing he has on his previous two visits to the state in the past three months. Then he shook things up by announcing his latest plan to get the economy back on its feet. With the unemployment rate continuing to push the 10 percent mark, Obama plans to sink another $50 billion over the next six years into roadways, trains and runways that he says will provide instant jobs and long-term growth. But don’t call it a stimulus. Obama and his fellow Democrats in Washington have learned that the public has soured on the stimulus — most feel that it didn’t work and they won’t stand for the government spending more money on a failed program. Call it a jobs program, an infrastructure improvement plan, Obama’s Amazing Plan to Spend More Money – just don’t call it a stimulus. Obama wants to invest this latest chunk of change (thanks for the loan, China) to build 150,000 miles of roadways, 4,000 miles of high-speed railroads, 150 miles of runways and bring the nation’s air traffic control system in to the 21st century. “This is not a Republican or Democrat idea,” Obama told the cheering crowd, “We all want to get where we want to go.” He promised that the $50 billion will be fully paid for and not add to the deficit by making cuts to government waste, bureaucracy, and duplication. He would also like to set up an “Infrastructure Bank” that would leverage federal dollars and make smart investments for these types of projects. Obama and the administration plan to flesh out the plan during an appearance in Cincinnati later this week. “This will not only create jobs immediately, it’s also going to make our economy hum,” he said. “It’s a plan that history tells us can and should attract bipartisan support. It’s a plan that says even in the aftermath of the worst recession in our lifetimes, America can still shape our own destiny. We can still leave our children something better.” After his big economic recovery announcement, Obama went back to the place he loves best – the campaign stump. While the union faithful chanted “yes we can” in the background, Obama tore into the Republicans, calling them obstructionist and the “Party of No.” The crowd cheers as President Obama addresses Milwaukee’s Laborfest. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza “They’ve been treating me like a dog,” Obama said. “The folks in Washington see things differently than I, even on things we should agree on. If I say the sky is blue, they say no! If I say fish live in the sea, they say no!” He added that the GOP has said no to to middle class tax cuts, no to energy and no to a plan to help small businesses. “I thought they were the party of business,” Obama said jokingly, as the crowd continued the “yes we can” mantra. He wrapped up his message with a call to action like a pastor in his pulpit. Comparing the last 10 years of economic policy to that of a car stuck in a ditch he warned the voters to not give the keys back to the Republicans. He described the last 1 ½ years as hard work, pushing and shoving the car out the ditch all while facing the ridicule of the GOP asking “how come you’re not pushing harder, how come you’re not pushing faster?” “And then when we finally got the car up – and it’s got a few dings and a few dents, it’s got some mud on it – they point to everybody and say, ‘look what these guys did to your car.’ And then they got the nerve to ask for the keys back! I don’t want to give them the keys back. They don’t know how to drive.” He wrapped up his analogy with one rhetorical question – “When you want to go forward in your car, what do you do? You put it in D.” So a third trip to the area gets us $50 billion in stimulus … er, I mean infrastructure spending, and a message to put our future in the hands of Democrats. Is this really the help that you need, Mr. Barrett? Categories: Commentary, Economy, Politics 0 thoughts on “Obama announces $50 billion economic recovery plan” You dare downplay the coveted Obama endorsement? 😉 I’m sure Barrett’s thrilled: http://gravelle.us/node/37 -jjg Some “economic experts” (wonder where they got their knowledge from…) claim that data (one or two positive economic fact that could be manipulated for political reason, or as these “experts” call reliable economic data) shows that we are in the phase of economic recovery. First three facts that come to mind put the aforementioned assumption/hypothesis in question: what data are you talking about when we are amassing massive debt that we have no idea how to pay and the American middle class is in deep trouble, the middle class (backbone of the US economy) is shrinking! Add to that market fears & instability and then lets start talking what’s recovery, how do we define it and the ultimate question – are we in recovery mode yet? 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__label__wiki	0.786069	0.786069	UROS Connect UROS Sense UROS Flow UROS Live About Us Newsroom IoT Ecosystem Careers UROS Research Edit Navigation UROS Insights Team A look back on 2020 - memorable highlights through the year As we get ready to welcome the coming new year 2021, we would like to take a moment to reflect on the past twelve months through some memories and highlights that make us feel especially grateful and proud. 1. UROS Innovation Center opened Exactly a year after the plans were initially announced, we opened the UROS Innovation Center in Oulu, Finland. Due to the current pandemic, the official opening ceremony will take place when the situation allows it to be executed in a safe manner. 2. Naming rights to UROS LIVE Arena announced We secured the naming rights to the new state-of-the-art UROS LIVE arena, set to open in the City of Tampere in December 2021. 3. We were awarded the AAA creditwortiness rating We are proud to have been awarded the AAA creditworthiness rating for the third consecutive year. The rating is the highest a company can achieve, demonstrating financial strength and stability. 4. Industry Insights on eUICC technology Our Chief Strategy Officer Oscar Falkman wrote about the challenges and solutions for unlocking the benefits of the eUICC technology for achieving global connectivity freedom. Read the full piece here. 5. Double Awards for UROS Sense and UROS Flow Our water solutions UROS Sense and UROS Flow received recognition in the APAC region in the form of two awards; the HKB Technology Award for IoT Utilities in Hong Kong, as well as the 2020 PCM Biz IT Excellence Award. 6. Embarking on a partnership with the University of Oulu We announced a new long-term strategic partnership with the University of Oulu, focusing on IoT connectivity and IoT related business verticals, covering research and business development. 7. Vauhtijuoksu 2020 digital charity event We had the chance to support the Vauhtijuoksu 2020 hosted by the Information Guild of the University of Oulu benefiting MIELI Ry, an organisation promoting mental health and preventive mental health care in Finland. 8. Taking care of wellbeing at work To maintain a fresh approach to the problems we work hard to tackle each day, we kept not only our minds flexible, but also our bodies with remote yoga sessions. 9. UROS Live Platform launch with Oulun Kärpät We launched a pilot of the UROS Live Platform together with Oulun Kärpät hockey club to enhance the fan experience and create new value for partners. 10. Industry Insights on a having a winning mindset in digital transformation Our Vice President, Sales & Business Development Mika Pohjola wrote about the effects of the rapidly changing digital field and how its challenges can simultaneously be viewed as opportunities. Read the full piece here. 11. Lahti Aqua selected UROS Sense for Sanitation Safety Planning The regional water supply company owned by the Finnish City of Lahti deployed UROS Sense liquid quality monitoring solution to systematically identify and manage risk along sanitation chain. 12. We welcomed Aamulehti to get to know us better Aamulehti newspaper from the City of Tampere, the home town of the UROS LIVE arena, visited us to get a better idea of who we are and what we do. Read the full story on their website or on Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish, for subscribers). 13. We met new people at career events Before Covid-19, we got to meet some interesting people at various career events organised in Oulu, Finland. Hopefully we’ll meet again soon! 14. Work life introduction to students In Finland, during the final years of secondary school, students usually spend a week at a workplace of their choice, gaining experience and insight that will help guide them at the beginning stages of their future careers. Among the students we got to host was Veeti, who was particularly interested in ICT subjects, and would like to work in tech after finishing his studies. 15. UROS Family grew by many friendly faces We were excited to welcome many new team members who joined the company over the course of the year, some of whom are pictured here. Finally, we would like to extend a big thank you to all of our customers, partners and our entire global team for the past year. Here’s to a healthy and successful 2021. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, subscribe to our Quarterly Newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter. UROS was founded in 2011 with a vision of truly global connectivity. Strong know-how and unparalleled expertise make up our team. As a company, we work towards the original vision with determination and dedication. Connect, follow and have a conversation with us. We're on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. IoT Ecosystem UROS Research Newsroom & Insights Terms of Service \| Terms of Sale \| Privacy Policy \| Cookie Policy Copyright 2021 © UROS Ltd or its affiliates – All rights reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1442
__label__wiki	0.867692	0.867692	Katy Perry's 'funny' Voting Naked ad is a viral flop Reading to children as important as ever \| Lifestyle \| fayobserver.com - fayobserver.com The provocative promo aimed at going viral but only found one supporter in Madonna, watch it here by musicat (article) and Parasshuram Shalgar (video) 3 October 2016 at 08:48 Updated on 18 October 2016 at 17:56 katy perry trying to vote nakedand getting arrested by two cops, urges all Americans to vote but with their clothes on. Believe it or not, that's the best a major creative teamcould come up with for a national pro-voting campaign in 2016. One wonders what were the dismissed ideas, probably something like "Katy says please go to vote in front of a white screen". Because what's the point of it, apart from reminding us that Katy Perry is a hottie with a rather coarse sense of humor who cares to vote (for Hillary)? The promo is part of a "funny or die" series, which luckily for the singer and her team of collaborators won't be as literal as it's suggesting in its title. Going viral ain't easy Going viral is always a good thing and there were probably hopes the clipwould generate a millionparodiesand emulations from youtubers and Instagram followers; if not in public spaces, in the privacy of their own rooms. It looks like Voting Naked hasn't catch up yet and it won't be the next Ice Bucket challenge, and the simple reason is that it makes little to no sense. Successful viral campaigns are always shareable and everybody-inclusive, often contextualizing a rather "funny", unusual action to support a deeper meaning.WhetherPerry's clip has been given a humorous take, with the large black bands covering her nudity and her hair all messed up, once again the underlying feeling is about women being reduced to body parts. Eventually the naked campaign found a fan in long-timeprovocateur and Perry's friend Madonna, who posted a picture on Instagram where she is supposedly topless and captioning it with #votingnaked. The Katy Perry ad is fortunately just a fractionof a larger campaign by Rock The Vote,anorganization whose mission is to register young people to vote and urge them to participate in the political process.Rock the Vote's 2016 campaign is called "Truth To Power"and will promote the vote among younger members of the population with art installations and a fall 2016 national bus tour featuring appearances by Rock the Vote artists and musicians, Funny or Die comedians and cultural leaders. musicat Orange Boy aka OB. Pop culture and social commentator, living in south London. Loves danglers, raw broccoli and kneading at 4 a.m. Follow at https://acatsthoughtsblog. Follow claudio on Facebook Read more on the same topic from musicat: Coach Your Life - Top 7 Motivators to follow in 2017 Christmas 2016 - the top five best gifts for music lovers Beyonce manipulated the VMAs and Jay-Z has his own killers, says Kanye West Blasting News recommends The Top 10 Mariah Carey's feuds Kate Bush’s live album recalls Hammersmith Apollo triumph Star Sports live cricket streaming India vs NZ 1st T20 at Hotstar.com Video	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1445
__label__wiki	0.692749	0.692749	‘Hilarious’ Rudy Giuliani clip starring James Woods resurfaces: ‘Not sure if this is a comedy or a horror movie’ Isobel Lewis 24 November 2020, 10:05 am ·2-min read James Woods as Rudy Giuliani in ‘Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story' (Rex Features) Twitter users have rediscovered a “hilarious” Rudy Giuliani biopic starring James Woods as the former New York City mayor. Released in 2003, Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani is a TV movie about the Republican politician and his response to the 9/11 attacks. Woods, who is a vocal Trump supporter, earned an Emmy nomination for the role. However, one scene in particular, which sees Giuliani and wife Donna Hanover (played by Penelope Ann Miller) take a moonlight walk on the beach has recently reemerged on Twitter with viewers mocking the “hilarious” dialogue. “I’m not much of a cuddler,” Rudy tells Donna. “I mean, I’m not a hard ass, I’m not insensitive.” Then discussing politics, he says: “New York can be great again, someone has to set a high standard. That’s what my father told me. Dad and my other heroes: Winston Churchill, Bobby Kennedy. This romantic moonlit scene in RUDY: THE RUDY GIULIANI STORY absolutely murdered me. I am dead. pic.twitter.com/eRZuxM0iMI — Marie Bardi (@mariebardi) November 24, 2020 “Democrats always talked about things getting better, Republicans did whatever they could to make them better.” The clip was shared on Twitter on Monday night by a viewer who wrote: “This romantic moonlit scene in RUDY: THE RUDY GIULIANI STORY absolutely murdered me. I am dead.” The tweet has since been liked nearly 10,000 times. In response to the clip, viewers claimed that the video was both “the worst scene ever” and a better parody than much of the political satire surrounding the election. “This video of James Woods playing Rudy Giuliani should have also been somehow included in Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm,” one viewer commented. James Woods should definitely make a sequel to this to cover the period from 2002 to the present. https://t.co/ZyWVgKwHl1 — Schooley (@Rschooley) November 24, 2020 James Woods as Rudy. Perfect... https://t.co/AqNxglKEih — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 24, 2020 i wonder if james woods is more embarassed to have played rudy giuliani than rudy giuliani is embarrassed to have been played by james woods? https://t.co/jQTcfurtfO — Chez Wick (@iTzcarlinn) November 24, 2020 “This is EVERYTHING,” another viewer commented. “James Woods is just the cherry on top of an insane sundae. Thank you.” “I should not be surprised that this exists in the world but the fact that Rudy Giuliani is being played by James Woods is the icing on this random cake,” another Twitter user wrote. One viewer suggested: “James Woods should definitely make a sequel to this to cover the period from 2002 to the present,” while another added: “James Woods and Penelope Ann Miller! That’s hilarious. Can’t wait for the sequel.” Douglas Stuart: ‘Homophobia makes you think there’s something broken’ Alan Ball: ‘I wonder if American Beauty would get made now’ Dev Hynes: ‘This is the first time I’ve had to confront myself’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1447
__label__wiki	0.666656	0.666656	Celebrating Hanfu in Xitang Each November, thousands of people flock to Xitang for an event celebrating all things Hanfu. By Tiffany Ap on November 25, 2020 twitter @Tiffany Ap View Gallery — 46 Photos XITANG, China — For four days at the start of every November for the past seven years, a small water canal town two hours southwest of Shanghai turns into a lively hub celebrating all things Hanfu and traditional Chinese culture. One of the largest events nationally on the Hanfu enthusiasts’ calendar drawing thousands, the Xitang event costs just 90 renminbi, or $13, to take part. It brings together a carnival, fashion runway show, archery exhibitions and marketplace among its activities but mostly, it’s a fashion showcase. People spend their days parading around in their best Hanfu attire posing with the picturesque scenery the ancient town provides, wandering the grassy knolls and across its old curved stone bridges. One young woman waterside was filming several takes of a traditional dance to post on Bilibili, one of China’s most popular video platforms. She had flown in with a group of friends from Xian. A woman with her hair done in an elaborate traditional hairstyle holds the phone to record her friend performing a Chinese dance. Kyle Fong/WWD “I finally have the chance to come this year because in the past, I had some kind of clash,” said the dancer. “Xian also has smaller Hanfu gatherings but not on this scale. It’s quite accepted, though, to wear Hanfu in Xian. If you wear Hanfu there, the old grandmas and grandpas on the street will comment, ‘Hey you look good dressed like this!'” The dance background helped to spur an interest in Hanfu, she and her friend standing beside her agreed. “I’ve always liked Hanfu since I was a child,” the friend said. “My parents are very supportive because they themselves are performers so whatever weird outfits, they’ve seen it all before on the stage.” Although wearing Hanfu is a young person’s pursuit mainly, there were some gray heads of hair seen among the crowds. One family who resided in Jiaxing, the modern city that encompasses Xitang, had three generations represented. Granddaughter, mother and grandmother sat side by side on a bench taking a break. The granddaughter had been to the festival a couple times and this time persuaded her family to come and take part, too. From left to right: mother, grandmother, and granddaughter at Xitang Hanfu festival. Kyle Fong/WWD “When I was young, they didn’t have these kinds of things,” said the grandmother, who was in her 80s. Dogs and cats also get the dress-up treatment. One trio of friends had two cats stashed away in clear pet carrier backpacks. Both had been outfitted in Hanfu. Some attendees brought their furry friends with them, dressing them up festively. Kyle Fong/WWD “I live nearby,” said one of the girls while taking her cat out of the bag to pose for photos. While the cat-owner’s attire that day only cost about 400 renminbi, she shared she had some outfits in her closet that she’d paid 5,000 renminbi for. “I’m a nurse and I have a uniform everyday I wear that’s the same, so it’s fun to be able to dress like this,” she added. Putting China’s Traditional Hanfu on the World Stage >> Week in Fashion Newsletter Don't miss the top fashion industry news breaking this week.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1451
__label__cc	0.524043	0.475957	Markets & Festivals An Acceptable Loss U.S. Theatrical Release: IFC Films Director: Joe Chappelle (“Chicago Fire”, “Fringe”) Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Freaky Friday, “Scream Queens”), Tika Sumpter (Southside with You, Ride Along franchise, Nobody’s Fool) and Ben Tavassoli (“Tyrant”, “New Blood”, Overlord) Former top U.S. security adviser turned professor Elizabeth “Libby” Lamm (Sumpter) is threatened by associates from her dark past led by Rachel Burke (Curtis), a steely, commanding politician with an unwavering knack for achieving her goals. Meanwhile, one of her students, Martin (Tavassoli), harbors another type of obsession with Libby in this story of betrayal and regret. Olga Kurylenko to star in ‘Run’ for 13 Films (exclusive) 13 Films boards virtual Cannes sales on BBC drama ‘My Name Is Leon’ (exclusive) Four Kids and It review – Good-natured family fantasy Exclusive: Scott Adkins returns to duty in the Legacy of Lies trailer JAMIE EAST AT HOME – Four Kids And It is a must watch for children and stars Michael Caine and Russell Brand L.A. WEEKLY’S MOVIE GUIDE: BIRDS OF PREY, WAITING FOR ANYA, GOALIE, SUSPIRIA AND MORE IN THEATERS THIS WEEK 218 South Spalding Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 · +1 424 279 9523 · mail@13films.net	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1453
__label__cc	0.535874	0.464126	Cheerleaders Home Tenure: 4th Season Hometown: Folsom, CA Ethnicity: Half Filipino Occupation: Dance Instructor and Cheer Coach College: Pursuing a BA in Communications Leadership Position: Secretary, responsible for taking notes at rehearsal and relaying all important information to the team. Movie: Napoleon Dynamite Quote: "It costs $0 to be kind to others." Bay Area Restaurant: Kevin's Noodle House (Pho) Dream Car: G-Wagon Holiday: Christmas TV Show: Dexter Ice Cream: Mocha Almond Fudge What, in your life, are you most proud of? I am most proud of moving to San Francisco by myself! I showed myself that I could be independent, create my own network of people, and ultimately pursue my passions. What was your first job? What's something our fans would be surprised to learn about you? Every year, I hike Mt. Whitney with my dad, the tallest peak in the continental US! What is your favorite thing to do in the Bay Area? I love to "get lost" in San Francisco on my days off! It's so fun to walk around the city with no agenda. If you have an open mind, there are so many hidden treasures to find! What does it mean to be a Gold Rush Cheerleader? To me, being a Gold Rush Cheerleader means serving as a role model to the community and always acting as an example. We work to push the boundaries of women empowerment—supporting each other, building a lasting sisterhood, and encouraging each other to be well rounded and reach our fullest potential in all areas of life. Gold Rush breaks the stereotypes many people have about professional cheerleading, and I am so proud to be a part of such an influential team of women. What impact do cheerleaders have during a game and/or in the community? It's our job to share our energy and smiles with the fans! I love when the crowd gets into the game and I can feel the sense of community. We support the team, win or lose, and project our spirit onto everyone in the stadium! What is something fans would be surprised to learn about the Gold Rush? Everyone on the team has an amazing sense of humor! There is never a dull moment. You'd never expect that we are all so goofy off the field, it's really what makes our team so special and close-knit Who is YOUR biggest cheerleader? My mom is my biggest cheerleader! Everyone knows her as the #1 "dance mom" and I am so grateful that she pushed me to audition for Gold Rush. How has being a part of Gold Rush affected your life? Gold Rush has truly shaped me into the woman I am today. I have learned so much from my teammates, and they inspire me every day to continue to work hard and expand my limits. This team has taught me to be confident, disciplined and more versatile in everything I take on. I have built everlasting friendships and connections with my teammates and am so thankful that I have such an amazing support system.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1454
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__label__wiki	0.735783	0.735783	Triathlon Australia media release. Words by Ian Hanson Rio bound triathlete Aaron Royle has been forced to cut his season short with a crippling calf tear which will see him miss this weekend’s Noosa Triathlon – robbing him of a third straight victory in one of Australia’s most popular triathlons. The 25-year-old had already gained an automatic nomination for next year’s Rio Olympics with his top 10 finish in the Rio Test Event in August. Following his top ten finish in this year’s World Triathlon Series, Royle was also one of a select band of athletes invited to next month’s lucrative Island House Triathlon in Nassau in the Bahamas. But yesterday came the crushing news that he had suffered a severe tear in his left calf in the “medial junction of the gastrocnemius” forcing him out of both events. “I’m shattered…I was actually close to career best form and had my sights set on a third Noosa title and the big money race in the Bahamas to wrap up what has been an amazing year making the Olympic team and all,” said a disappointed Royle today. “But I guess it’s my body telling me ‘enough’s enough’ and you never know it may well be a blessing in the long run. “It’s brought my season to a close sooner than I thought and I will now take three to four weeks off, although a little earlier than planned. “As disappointing as it is I could not take the risk and after consulting with the Triathlon Australia medical staff I can’t afford to take any risks.” Royle contacted the organisers of both Noosa and the Bahamas late last night and early this morning after a final “one way” discussion with his coach Jamie Turner. “Well you’re out then – that’s it,” Turner told Royle from Canada. Royle has revealed he actually ran the final four kilometres to his third straight Nepean Triathlon victory on Sunday, knowing he was in trouble. He had actually pulled up sore after a track session last Tuesday and had the calf treated as muscular tightness by his physiotherapist over the next three days. “After a 30 minute run with a few efforts I was confident that my calf was fine and that the tightness I experienced was now released with treatment and a couple of days rest,” Royle said. “The following day was the Nepean Triathlon and I experienced no problems on the bike and the first half of the run. “But at the six kilometre mark I felt my calf twinge and over the next four kilometres it progressively became tighter.” Royle had an MRI scan done on the calf yesterday morning and it came back with the worst possible news – “a tear in the medial junction of the gastrocnemius.” “I sought immediate consultation with the Triathlon Australia physiotherapist and sports physician and based on their concerns over the injury and the likelihood of damaging it further they have advised me against racing,” said Royle. “Further damage could see me sidelined for three-to-four months so that was it – season over. “I am extremely disappointed that I am going to have to withdraw from Noosa Triathlon and not to have the opportunity to try and defend my title for the third year running. “And I was so excited to get the invitation to race against the best-of-the-best in the Bahamas and I have already requested an invitation for next year – it sounds so exciting – so fingers crossed.” Royle will attend the race weekend in Noosa where he will make appearances on behalf of his sponsors.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1457
__label__cc	0.684848	0.315152	ABC LANGUAGE Learning languages is as easy as can be with ABC! 2021 Term 1 French - Spanish - Italian : Adult language classes at Kumeu Arts Centre or online in the comfort from your own home. After-school Spanish and French classes at Hobsonville Point Primary School Waitakere Primary School Waimauku Primary School info@abclanguage.co.nz Exclusive trips to France Explore France in 2022 with your guides Patsy and Catherine on an exclusive small-group trip! Or improve your French and join them for a French Language immersion weekend or midweek in beautiful Aotearoa.Click here for more information. www.boutiquetoursfrance.co.nz ABC Language Tuition offers language classes and tuition for all ages in French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian. Adult language classes at the Kumeu Arts Centre. After school language classes at several schools Private tuition for all ages including NCEA and Cambridge students Kids holiday programmes Professional language packages for in-school teaching by specialist language teachers Exclusive trips to France with Boutique Tours France Patsy and her family moved to New Zealand in 2000 from Belgium, the multilingual centre of the European Community. She started working for the Ministry of Education and soon moved on to establish her own language business As a linguist, Patsy enjoys teaching French and Spanish to children and adults. The growth of her business can be accredited to her hard work and love of children. Born and raised in Belgium, Patsy has an inherent passion and aptitude for European languages and culture. Patsy also hosts tours to France for New Zealand clients. Her amazing organisational talents will ensure a stress-free, perfectly smooth tour experience. 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After School Classes School Classes For ages 5 and upwards, our after school language classes are open to all primary school students. The classes are a fun, variety-filled session taught by a native speaker. The children learn the language through games, play and songs with core focus on speaking. We believe in “learning by doing” and include real conversations about everyday things that children recognise, relate well to and are familiar with. The children are given an exercise book to bring every week to the class, we often have worksheets to practise the language learned during the lesson. We encourage the children to learn at their own pace and to participate when they feel comfortable doing so. Even if your child does not seem to actively participate, they are still learning by observing, listening and absorbing what’s happening around them. Class times and venues *subject to enrolment numbers We follow the NZ primary schools terms and our classes are on weekdays at several primary schools in the area. Term fee: $180 Hobsonville Point Primary School HPPS French: Monday 3.15 to 4 pm Spanish: Monday 3.15 to 4 pm Waimauku School French: Wednesday 3.15 to 4 pm Spanish: Tuesday 3.15 to 4 pm Waitakere School Spanish: Wednesday from 3.15 to 4 pm NEW from 2021: ONLINE LEARNING Kids learn online; private lesson for 45 min @ $35 Learn a language in the comfort of your home with your private tutor. Classes For ages 18 years and above. Learn a language in a way that is relevant to you! Our classes are 1.5 hrs and provide immersion in the language. You learn and absorb in a speaking environment of the target language (Spanish, French, Dutch or Italian). Our tutors are native speakers and you will learn the language with the correct pronunciation in a practical, fun and interactive class. The classes are learner-centered and relevant to everyday situations. The target language is acquired through conversation, games and role-play. The emphasis of these classes is to develop listening, comprehension and conversational skills. Beginner level 1: Wednesday 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm Beginner level 2: Wednesday 12.30 pm to 2:00 pm Intermediate level: Wednesday 11.00 am to 12.30 pm Intermediate level: Thursday 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm Beginner level: Thursday 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm Introduction course to Italian language and culture: Monday 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm Beginner level 1: Monday 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm Intermediate level: Monday 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm All adult language classes need a min of 5 students to start One-on-one lessons can be organised with one of our tutors. Fee: $65 for one hour + travel expenses. Have fun and learn a new language – all from the comfort of your home with your private tutor! Tailor-made lessons just for you. Our tutors assess your level of language knowledge, and customise your lesson structure and content accordingly. Your tutor makes the experience engaging and fun, so you make progress and start speaking your target language from day one. Online Learning for Kids Private online lesson $35 Online Learning for Adults Learn a language in the comfort of your home with your private tutor, both online or in person. Private lesson one-on-one $65 + travel expenses We organise French or Spanish combined language and cooking programmes throughout the year. Your young gourmets will learn French/Spanish and the art of French/Spanish cuisine and cooking. They learn the target language through games, songs and worksheets whilst being introduced to kitchen vocabulary, utensils and ingredients. They are introduced to the basics of table etiquette plus they get to eat all the yummy meals they create! The kids cook a 3-course meal of French/Spanish specialties every day. The students receive an exercise book with all the language notes and worksheets as well as the recipes for all the meals. They are encouraged to make those meals at home after the programme. This programme is open for girls and boys who love food and like to cook and help in the kitchen. The Tutors are native French/Spanish speakers with a passion for food. 2021: French/ Spanish Language and Cooking Programme Where: Taupaki School Cost: To be confirmed (including food, language resources and recipes We offer one on one language tuition for all students, including those who need help with NCEA levels or Cambridge language exams. Learn a language with your private tutor. © 2023 by Knoll & Walters LLP. Proudly created with Wix.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line1459

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