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Exception:    ArrowInvalid
Message:      JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 107
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
                  df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
                  return json_reader.read()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
                  obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
                  obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
                  self._parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
                  ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
              ValueError: Trailing data
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
                  for _, table in generator:
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
                  raise e
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
                  pa_table = paj.read_json(
                File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
              pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 107
              
              The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
                  builder.download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
                  self._download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
                  self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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__label__wiki	0.816754	0.816754	Tech Firms Moving to the City Posted: Wednesday July 1, 2015 As competition for hiring millennials continues to increase, companies are trying to lure them by moving into the city to offer urban living as a perk. Is this a long term trend? For me, I think it is something that may continue for the next 5-10 years. But I believe that millennials will ultimately start having families, even if they are delaying now. They will eventually want to have space to raise a family, great schools to educate their kids and short commutes to spend more time at home. This is just our opinion, but that is what our clients hire us for—our wisdom. If you have any questions about long term trends for your industry or target hiring base, give me a call or email. City Living Lures Technology Firms Move to Urban Clusters Seeks to Foster Collaboration Among Employees By: ELIOT BROWN Updated Dec. 25, 2014 The Google building on 8th Ave in Manhattan. RAMSAY DE GIVE FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Gradually and quietly, Google Inc. is creating something in New York that most of the city’s oldest and largest employers lack: an urban campus. Since it first planted a flag in Manhattan in 2000, Google has expanded from a single executive working out of a Starbucks to controlling over 3.5 million square feet of space—more than the capacity of the Empire State Building. In 2010, it paid $1.9 billion for a hulking former freight terminal and Port Authority headquarters that is one of the city’s largest buildings. Hungry for more, it leased much of the office space across the street in Chelsea Market, a onetime Nabisco factory. This fall, Google agreed to lease a chunk of another former Nabisco factory just west of the Chelsea Market at 85 10th Ave. In all, Google now controls or occupies a strip of Manhattan buildings more than six football fields long. There could be more to come. Google, which now has more than 4,000 employees in the city, is in preliminary talks to lease part of a former marine terminal that juts into the Hudson River across the street from its newest offices, people familiar with the matter said. Google’s accumulation of property is a vivid example of a shift taking place nationwide. In the past, companies that needed large amounts of space often fled to low-slung campuses in the suburbs. Those that decided to keep primary operations in a city often spread other employees throughout the region in search of lower rents. For some banks, dispersion of operations became a security strategy after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But now, more fast-growing employers, especially technology companies, are eschewing suburban campuses for clusters in cities. A chief reason: They are following the younger workers they prize, those in the millennial generation who today are in their 20s and early 30s. Young workers today live in cities in far greater numbers than in the past, attracted in part by the live-work lifestyle, said Mitchell Moss, an urban-planning professor at New York University. “You have a workforce that has found they function well when they’re near activities and work,” Mr. Moss said. “Suburbs are just basically too isolated.” J.D. Lumpkin, an executive director at real-estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield who advises landlords and tenants on office space in San Francisco, said tech companies want buildings clustered to prompt their workers to interact more. “Collaboration is typically at the core of their culture,” he said. A Salesforce.com building in San Francisco. The companies’ real-estate moves highlight a trend away from suburban office space toward clusters in cities. PRESTON GANNAWAY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Even suburban-based tech firms such as LinkedIn Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. are building large urban outposts, while newer companies like TwitterInc. and Dropbox have made their headquarters in San Francisco, not suburban Silicon Valley. By taking over buildings near each other—even if it costs more and they aren’t flashy new construction—the whole company benefits, top executives at these companies believe. Employees can share ideas when they bump into each other for coffee or on the sidewalk. Further, an anchor company like Google or Twitter is likely to attract hip stores and restaurants, making the area more desirable for employees, the companies believe. Such is the thesis behind Google’s voracious appetite for Manhattan real estate. The streets outside its buildings are often filled with sweatshirt-clad employees. “We like to keep our employees close so they can interact and exchange ideas…that is the essence for creativity,” said William Floyd, Google’s New York head of external affairs. Of course, many of these companies aren’t abandoning the suburbs—Google has been rapidly buying real estate near its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.—and many employers still prefer the lower rents and greater space offered outside urban centers. But recruiting for talent is easier in cities, fast-growing tech companies say. San Francisco, for example, saw its high-tech jobs grow 18% between 2012 and 2013 to 47,633, the fastest rise of large U.S. cities, according to real-estate services firm JLL Inc. The trend is helping to reshape entire neighborhoods. Amazon.com is credited with breathing new life into South Lake Union, a former warehouse-lined district near Seattle’s downtown, when it moved its headquarters there a few years ago. Now other companies have come flocking, while Amazon is building three skyscrapers and a host of smaller buildings. Office rents in the neighborhood are among the highest in the city. In San Francisco, Twitter took over much of an enormous Art Deco building that formerly housed a wholesale furniture mart and all of an adjacent building, which it plans to connect with a sky bridge. Nearby, Salesforce.com this year made a big bet that it would keep growing, signing up to lease half of what is to be the city’s tallest skyscraper. That structure will be clustered with another tower set to be fully occupied by Salesforce, which offers online software to automate sales and other functions, and a third tower where the company occupies most of the space. Parker Harris, co-founder of Salesforce, said the company benefits when employees work near each other. When Salesforce considered whether to lease so much space in the new tower, it decided “if we don’t do it, someone else is, and we’re going to be spread out all over San Francisco.”	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line3
__label__cc	0.54081	0.45919	Happy Anniversary to Pallimed: Arts & Humanities. And happy Memorial Day. To commemorate our one year anniversary, we decided to make another Top 10 List. If you all remember, we started out with Top 10 Palliative Care Films back on May 17th 2008 (ok, we're a few days late). As with the other list, the Top 10 Contemporary Palliative Care Songs is a lot of personal preference, but we did try to get in songs from many different genres. Also, we interpreted "contemporary" very loosely. Mostly it means in the past 50 years. We know that there are alot of good classical songs with palliative themes (we have blogged about some), but we wanted to exclude them from the list for now. The links will take you to YouTube videos for most of the songs. 10. Happy Phantom-Tory Amos 9. Girlfriend in a Coma- The Smiths 8. One More Day-Diamond Rio 7. I Will Follow You Into the Dark-Death Cab for Cutie 6. Until It Sleeps-Metallica 5. Another One Bites the Dust-Queen 4. Meet You There- Simple Plan 3. Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton 2. Casimir Pulaski Day-Sufjan Stevens 1. What Sarah Said-Death Cab for Cutie Please share your favorite palliative care songs in the comments section. Posted by Amber Wollesen, MD on Monday, May 25, 2009 26 Responses to “Top 10 Contemporary Palliative Care Songs” Lyle Fettig said... Good list. I could probably think of a few, but I'll merely mention "Come Back" by Pearl Jam. It's Eddie Vedder's Magical Thinking-esque tribute to his close friend guitarist Johnny Ramone (who died in 2004) disguised as a love song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClUBNI8H7_E David Fisher, MD, MPH said... I think the list should include a couple of classics: Dust in the Wind - Kansas Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan Drew Rosielle MD said... I love this list; particularly the shockingly inappropriate ones (girlfriend in a coma...i know, i know - it's serious). A few others that I really like: Pale Green Things by the Mountain Goats. Holocaust by Big Star (depends I guess on what you mean by contemporary as this is from the early 70's I think). This, I read somewhere, was about Alex Chilton's mother, as she died of cancer. Tomorrow Wendy by Andy Prieboy/Concrete Blonde (a song which is mostly an expression of rage about a life cut short, but also addresses, subtly, denial, and, not so subtly, religious doubt/anger brought on by a senseless death). God Damn The Sun by the Swans is a ridiculously bleak song, so much so that it's almost funny depending on one's mood; that said it's a song about being at the end of your life, realizing your friends and lovers are dying; plans you made/things you hope for have not materialized; and you're alone. It's actually bleaker than that, but I occasionally have a patient which reminds me of this song, and it's very very sad. Tony Correale said... Thanks for all the work you put into the site and widening my own horizons a bit. Don't know if these will appeal, or if they qualify as the top, but here's a little different take on "palliative care songs": I'll Fly Away - sung by Marion Anderson O Death - Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem Crossing the Bar - Salamander Crossing (lyrics are Tennyson's poem) Guardians - Mad Agnes The Water is Wide - sung by James Taylor Turning of the Year - Gordon Bok Reconciliation - Hallowell Along the lines of "music and art as palliative care" you might be interested in the work of singers Kathy Leo and Hallowell in the Burlington, Vermont area (www.hallowell-singers.org), and the work of artist Deidre Scherer (www.dscherer.com), both of whom are featured in the film "Holding Our Own" produced by Camilla Rockwell (www.holdingourown.com). A CD that certainly belongs on this list is Warren Zevon's "The Wind". Written and recorded prior to his death from mesothelioma, he addresses palliative care issues such as medication side effects, "Disorder in the House", disease symptoms "The Wind", and grief and loss "Keep Me in Your Heart". The only song not written by Warren is Bob Dylan's "Knocking on Heavens' Door", which also deserves a spot on the list. John Mulder said... Perhaps a bit obvious, but I always thought that Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" was a good one in this category. And although little known, "Into the Light" was written as a tribute to hospice workers by Bruce Michael Miller and Jackie Carlyle. (I had the privilege of recording it a couple of years ago. http://www.box.net/shared/44b2cl51q9) Mike Bevins MD, PhD said... A beautiful album entitled "Hospice," by The Antlers came out recently. Reviewers seem to suggest the references are a metaphor, but after listening to it I have to think whoever wrote it had actual experience with a dying loved one. Once we got into making this list I realized (as I did with the movie list) there are way more songs than I initially thought. I love Dust in the Wind and it was one I considered, but it is one of those songs that I mentally link with a patient I knew. It's not that easy to listen too anymore. Drew, I take issue with "shockingly inappropriate". I think it's just being diverse. You don't have to be a tear jerker to make the list. This song actually made our list because it makes me laugh every time I hear it. "Serious" is such a weird word to use when talking about people's illness. "His condition is very serious." Like the family thought it was a comedic coma. Although I don't know what the intention behind the song was (but how could anyone record this song and think it's serious?), I think of it as a sort of tongue-in-cheek version of "What Sarah Said" (although I realize it predates it by many years). Thanks for all your comments. Great songs! Well...it's a little inappropriate, but that's why I tipped my hat at it; no reason for all of them to be somber, and that's a great point about the use of 'serious.' For my 11th grade literature class in high school one day we had to bring in favorite song lyrics as discuss them as poetry; i brought in the Smiths' 'sing me to sleep' (a song which is a suicide note) - i think if i had done this today i would have been detained by school security and perhaps interrogated by the fbi. anyway...while we're on the topic of inappropriate ones, and giving a nod to lyle's mention of johnny ramone, how about the ramone's 'i wanna be sedated'? The song itself isn't really to do with anything palliative care, but we can all appreciate the sentiment I think as one many of our patients feel from time to time. jbr - thanks for the mentioning the zevon album - i am downloading that song now, as i'm truly excited about hearing a song which mentions medication side effects: such a universal experience for our patients. Here's a candidate for the worst possible song to be played during a goals of care discussion with a family member/surrogate of a patient who has been in the hospital for 9 months. (Seriously, this really happened to me...it was on the patient's TV) 2 disclaimers: I had never heard this song before and yes, I usually turn the TV off when talking to patients. Rodney Atkins - If You're Going Through Hell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OQwco7a58 Drew, the references are actually pretty loose in Zevon's "Disorder in the House", and also in another song on the CD "Numb as a Statue". My understanding is that Warren was addressing the feeling of loss of focus (and control) that he experienced with morphine. Lyle, I had to laugh when I pictured your scenario. That song's lyrics certainly do not lend themselves to a conversation on options and choices for care! Drew, I'll accept "a little inappropriate" I wouldn't play it in a family meeting. Speaking of family meetings and inappropriate songs... If your Going Through Hell is close to the top. Lyle, did the patient/family realize what song was on? I'm imagining someone from the palliative care team casually getting up and turning off the TV. I think 'I wanna be sedated' is a great song. "I can't control my fingers. I can't control my brain." Hmmm, sounds like delirium. Angie Konstantaras RN CHPN said... Love this topic. I'd like to add a few from a group called Lowen & Navarro. They have always written about life esp. love, loss and change. Years ago "Crossing Over" was what I listened to as I drove from pt to pt during my first year as hospice nurse. It defines what I do. The song "Seven Bridges" is definitely about life from beginning to end. But most profoundly, 5 years ago Eric Lowen was dx with ALS. His strength, courage and humor during this time has been remarkable. I make it a point to not miss a concert. Sadly, he can no longer sing so I will be attending their last show in Annapolis in June. From the perspective of his terminal dx he has written "Learning to Fall" and "How Mighty is the Silence". I hope you get a chance to download them. On a hipper note, my son recommends "The Spider" by Weezer, "Hospital Bed" by Seabear and "The Silvery Light of a Dream" by The Apples in Stereo. ENJOY jerseyRN said... A few on my "Hospice Mix" playlist (suitable for parties!): "I Don't Wanna Die in a Hospital" - Conor Oberst "Don't Fear the Reaper" - the Wilco version (best!) "Death by Numbers" - Noah and the Whale (if you listen to just one tune off my fun list, this is the one) "Darling Lorraine" - Paul Simon "Since the Last Time"- Lyle Lovett "Naked as We Came" - Iron and Wine "People Who Died" -Jim Carroll (a historical relic from the '80s) "Ten Things" - Paul Baribeau Like anything else, when your friends know you collect something, they start to give you things... in this case, songs about dying. More cowbell, please! Two sweet songs I love: "God Is in the Roses" - Roseann Cash "Step Into the Light" - Mavis Staples There's just so many songs on the topic, and taken together, they're a great listen ... either despite or because of the subject matter. (ps- About The Antlers' "Hospice," the cover is excellent, the music is dense... I definitely needed the printed lyrics in hand to get the drift.) Dawn RN said... Two songs I would add are "Shadow of the Day" and "Leave Out All the Rest"by Linkin Park Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT said... Members of Hospice of the Valley's online Grief Healing Discussion Groups (http://www.hovforum.ipbhost.com) have shared their choices of beautiful songs whose lyrics have touched them in some meaningful way. You'll find a list of them on our Grief Songs blog page: http://www.selfhealingexpressions.com/blog/?p=41 I recently heard David Cook's recent release "Permanent" which I found very moving. He wrote it for his brother Adam who succumbed to brain cancer. Sean Marks said... Any Spiritualized fans out there? Dear heavens help us all if there are none. A song off their most recent album "Death take your fiddle" has a wonderful lyric -- "morphine, codeine, whisky, they won't alter, the way I feel now death is not around." I often find myself humming this lyric at work and marveling at its revelatory wisdom. Our morphines, oxycodones, methadones can only do so much in lieu of the circumstance of facing your upcoming mortality. SM there's two Spiritualized fans in your own palliative program so one has to assume there's plenty more out there. I don't have their latest album however and don't know that song. The lyrics you quote however seem to be about sobriety (a not irrelevant topic given some bandmembers histories)? I don't get the 'death is not around' bit - sounds like they're describing the elation of death being forestalled?? sean marks - you took the words right from my mouth - amazing. Great list. I'm both a musician and hospice nurse and my band has a song called 'weeping willow' - "want to lay my head on my pillow cos i'm feeling sleepy, i'm a weeping willow' my eyes are closing and head is sore I want to stay with you all but I can't anymore my mind is easy and I'm way up high i think this might be the day i die" not always the best dinner party conversation, but makes for some great songs! DR: apparently Spiritualized lead singer got very ill with pneumonia right around the same time he was writing his last album Songs in A&E. Therefore, it's tempting to interpret a lot of the lyrics as reflections on his mortality brought upon by his critical illness. Now this is pure conjecture, of course. I agree with you that this lyric may instead be inspired by his long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. But for me, the power of it lies in its concise summation of the enormous weight from existential distress. Our medications to treat pain or other symptoms such as morphine, etc, though effective in treating the specific symptoms, are severely limited in altering the feelings of facing your mortality in lieu of medical illness. Very late to this list! Can't wait to sample most of these on iTunes. Would add Sarah McLachlin's "Hold On", particularly the version on The Freedom Sessions. The song was inspired by a documentary she saw about a woman whose husband was dying of HIV. Lori Lucas CRNP said... I would like to add "My Beloved Wife" by Natalie merchant. What a tear-jerker! Really makes you think of the remaining spouse...now expected to go on living. The Antlers: Hospice The Shootist	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line5
__label__wiki	0.725926	0.725926	The Chinese Communist Party: A story of turmoil, resilience and challenges ahead Published: September 30th, 2019 Author: Carolin Kautz Categories: China As the People’s Republic of China is set to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its foundation on October 1, 1949, the world is once more looking at the political organisation that has dominated China for the past seven decades. Having survived – partially self-created – decades of turmoil, the Chinese Communist Party has led China to become one of the world’s economic and military powers. But where does this political party stand seventy years after founding the state that it has been ruling ever since? Resilience? After an extended period of domestic turmoil and war, the Chinese Communists, the People’s Republic of China was officially founded in 1949. In a famous speech given from a balcony above Tiananmen Gate, the entrance to the former imperial palace in Beijing, Mao Zedong officially declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and the central people’s government on October 1, 1949. The initial years of this newly founded state were at least partially characterised by attempts at state-building and the development of a legal system, culminating in the passing of the first socialist Chinese constitution in 1954. Despite initial attempts at institution building, the largest part of the Maoist era is known for its disastrous political campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. These campaigns largely strangled regularised and institutional forms of politics and followed the Maoist logic of ‘permanent revolution’. It was also this erratic mass mobilisation-based campaign approach to politics that the post-Mao leadership wanted to avoid under all circumstances. Instead, they embarked on a path of profound reforms of the economic system that led China to become what it is today. Throughout this process of reform, the Chinese Communist Party faced a number of challenges that repeatedly caused observers to predict the demise of the Party and the ultimate collapse of the socialist state in China. Such challenges particularly include the bloody military crackdown of the protests in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing on June 4, 1989 and, shortly afterwards, the collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s. Rapid economic reforms and the resulting economic and social inequalities, as well as a lack of political reforms, were also causing repeated challenges to the rule of the Communist Party. Nevertheless, it managed to address these challenges in a manner that allowed it to stay in power. One of the keys to this puzzle according to Sebastian Heilmann and Elizabeth Perry is what they call “guerrilla-style policy-making” – a decentralised and experimental approach to policy making carried out within the framework of central authority. This approach has its roots in Maoist revolutionary techniques and allowed for dealing with sudden changes and uncertainties. Local experimentation with different policy solutions has indeed been a core feature of policy implementation in China in the reform period. Nevertheless, the Chinese leadership has indeed abandoned the erratic style of politics based on mass campaigns and permanent revolution that was characteristic of the Maoist era. Maoist turn? Despite significant political developments and profound socio-economic changes since the beginning of the economic reform policy in the late 1970s, the ascension to power of President Xi Jinping, has caused a number of observers to speculate about a neo-Maoist turn in Chinese politics. One development giving rise to such thoughts has been the extraordinary concentration of power in the person of Xi Jinping himself who heads a number of high-level commissions dealing with central political questions, e.g. the Central Leading Group for Deepening Overall Reform or the Central Economic and Financial Affairs Commission. In addition to this, analysts argue that Xi is creating a cult of personality around himself that, for example, manifests in a number of propaganda videos portraying Xi as a caring leader close to the people. This is also reflected in the nickname Xi Dada (Uncle Xi) that is used for him in the Chinese media. In the ideological sphere, Xi is equally accused of showing Maoist tendencies because he seems to be fostering a return to stronger ideological orthodoxy. Additionally, he had his contributions to Party ideology, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, enshrined in the Charter of the Communist Party of China at the 19th Plenary Session of the Party’s National Congress in October 2017 and in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China at the 13th National People’s Congress in March 2018. This meeting of the National People’s Congress also saw the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party enshrined in article 1 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China as well as the term limits for the president removed. Having Xi Jinping Thought enshrined in both in the Party Charter and in the Constitution of the People’s Republic while he is still in office is unusual and seen as a break with the practices of his predecessors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Having the leadership of the Party codified in the constitution of the People’s Republic is an even bolder step. The Communist Party as an institution has been mentioned in the constitution of the reform era, first passed in 1982, but only in the preamble and never in the main body of the text. By enshrining the leadership of the Communist Party in the main body of the constitution of the People’s Republic, the Party also officially declares that the Party and the state are one and that the separation between the two is merely functional at best. It lifts the curtain on the façade that the Party maintained among others with its policy of “one office, two plaques”. This practice implied the office-sharing of a Party and a state agency that had the same functions and duties and shared resources and sometimes even staff but formally belonged to two different parts of the Party-state bureaucracy. By formally inscribing its leadership into the state constitution, the Communist Party explicitly made itself part of the state and of the law. Decay? While it seems that Xi Jinping has assembled more personal power than any other Chinese leader since Mao and that the Chinese Communist Party under his leadership is stronger than it has been under his predecessors, the Party as an institution is nevertheless plagued by a number of challenges. One of the most crucial of these challenges comes from within the Party and involves its ability to enforce Party discipline among its own cadres and rank and file members. Any authoritarian state depends on its ability to control its staff, and to ensure the successful enforcement of its policies and coercive actions in order to sustain its rule. Plagued by rampant corruption and lack of discipline among its own ranks, however, the ability of the Communist Party to control its cadres and members and to have them work for the Party’s larger political goals under a strict disciplinary regime is increasingly challenged. Personal enrichment seems to have become a major motivation for membership in the Party. It is to this background that Xi Jinping launched his large-scale anticorruption and Party discipline campaign shortly after coming to power in November 2012. While the campaign has been of unprecedented length, scale and depth with a large number of – sometimes very high-ranking – Party cadres being disciplined for breaches of Party discipline and state law, it is still unclear whether the campaign will indeed achieve an improvement of the Party’s problems of corruption and lack of Party discipline. What the campaign has definitely achieved so far is to stifle large parts of the bureaucracy into fearful inaction because they are uncertain whether they might be punished for broad experimental policy initiatives that used to characterise China’s reform policies. Considering that Heilmann and Perry see this experimental “guerrilla-style policy-making” as a core element of the Party’s capability to adapt and deal with uncertainties and challenges, such bureaucratic paralysis does not bode well for the ability of the Communist Party to deal with a number of – both internal and external – challenges ahead. As Kerry Brown argues “There is a simple reason why the struggle has been so fierce and so prolonged. It is a fight for the very soul of the Party, and one that ranges far beyond the figure of Xi.”. The jury is still out on whether the Party will really manage to successfully fight for its soul and strengthen its rule with the help of strict ideological indoctrination and disciplining its members. However, considering the challenges that lie ahead, a rigid, inflexible and indoctrinated party-state might not be the right answer for it. Featured image by Remko Tanis Carolin Kautz Carolin Kautz holds an MA degree in modern China studies and politics and currently is a lecturer and PhD student at Goettingen University (Germany).	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line7
__label__cc	0.738037	0.261963	Lower price for Volkswagen Jetta The 2007 Volkswagen Jetta, which will be available in fall, will have a lower price than last year’s version. It wil start at $17,120, including a $630 destination charge. The 2006 Jetta started at $18,530, including destination. Volkswagen spokesman Tom Wegehaupt said, “We lowered the price to be more competitive in the segment”. The new Jetta also gets an optional iPod adapter, simplified cruise control, an optional premium sound system and a standard tire-pressure monitoring system. The German automaker dropped the diesel Jetta and the 1.9 TDI diesel New Beetle for 2007. Wegehaupt said all-new common-rail diesel technology will be forthcoming on the New Beetle for the year 2008. He said the new 2.0-liter diesel engine is estimated to deliver 140 horsepower and more than 200 pound-feet of torque. Volkswagen also announced a special model of the New Beetle is planned for 2007. It will be a white-on-white model that will go on sale in spring 2007. It will feature a white interior and exterior and a white trunk lid, although the top will be black. Categories:Volkswagen	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line8
__label__wiki	0.990682	0.990682	Stephen Larkham – Rugby Union Arguably the greatest ever flyhalf to have worn a Wallabies jersey, Stephen Larkham began his club and international career as a teenager, plucked from the second grade competition of the ACT Club Rugby competition, alongside George Gregan with whom he was later to form a formidable scrum half/fly half combination in 79 international appearances. Already an inductee to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, Larkham received his national call-up later that same year against Wales, as a reserve, coming on to replace Ben Tune on a wing. It was to be but the first of 102 games he would play for Australia. Originally a fullback, Larkham’s switch to flyhalf is credited with providing Australia with international success between 1999-2004. This included a Rugby World Cup, Five consecutive Bledisloe Cup victories and two Super Rugby titles with the Brumbies. In 1999, he kicked one of the most iconic drop goals in history against South Africa in the Rugby World Cup semi-final despite nursing a knee injury and clouded vision (which was later corrected with surgery). The kick came from 48 metres out and cemented Australia’s spot in the Rugby World Cup final which the side would go on to win to claim the Wallabies second World Cup crown. He is one of just four players to have played for the Brumbies and Wallabies over 100 times, has won two Super Rugby titles with the Brumbies as a player and as a coach has led the side to the Super Rugby finals for the past four years. His record at Rugby World Cups as both a player and coach stands at 19 matches for just two losses, one as a player and one as a coach.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line12
__label__cc	0.52682	0.47318	By: Jack O’Grady The Career Accelerator Program (CAP) is a revolutionary partnership between Alamance Community College (ACC), the Alamance Chamber of Commerce and local Alamance County businesses, designed to further the careers of talented students. Challenging the typical four-year college model, which often saddles students with debt without preparing them for real-world job demands, CAP focuses instead on developing students’ on-the-job skills by literally paying them to go to school and get a job. Students accepted into CAP split their time between attending classes at ACC and apprenticing at a local manufacturer. CAP apprentices end their four-year experience with a free degree and 8,000 hours of paid on-the-job experience. It’s an innovative approach to education that benefits both students and employers. In many of the interviews conducted with CAP apprentices, when asked about their thoughts about CAP before joining the program they said it seemed “too good to be true.” This is CAP’s main marketing obstacle – a general lack of knowledge and trust of alternatives to traditional college that has led to an ingrained bias. With its first apprentices signing on to the program in 2016, CAP is still a new offering looking to establish itself as an equally viable option to a traditional four-year college. While CAP’s apprentice cohort has grown since the first three signed on, supporting consistent expansion has become the main concern. For many students, the idea of taking up an apprenticeship over going to college just doesn’t cross their mind. They may not even know what an apprenticeship really is, or view it as “too good to be true” and pass up on an amazing opportunity. Therefore, effectively communicating the differences between an apprenticeship and a traditional college education, including why an apprenticeship may work better for certain students, was a top priority for CAP going into our partnership. We were tackling a lack of market awareness about both CAP and the entire concept of on-the-job education. Our goal was to take the misplaced notion of apprenticeships as “less than” post-high school paths, and elevate them to an equally viable option that students interested in a technical field would consider from the start. To establish CAP as a viable alternative to four-year colleges and increase students’ understanding of apprenticeships, we turned to the current cohort of CAP apprentices. Our strategy followed the idea that the best people to tell the story of CAP were the students who’d enrolled in the program and seen its unique benefits for themselves. We believed other students would be more open to messages from their peers than from educators or marketers, and that the personal stories of CAP apprentices were compelling in their own right. We wanted our strategy to fit CAP’s overall mission of empowering its apprentices with real-life skills, and thought that involving them in the marketing process would provide them with storytelling and personal branding skills. Put into action, this strategy breaks down into a series of feature profiles written by 1893 Brand Studio copywriters about CAP apprentices and published to CAP’s blog. We also set up social media training sessions with CAP apprentices, where 1893 Brand Studio representatives educated them on how to effectively use Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn to further their own careers and promote CAP to others. In this Facebook graphic, Mechatronics Student Miguel Aparicio talks about the unique learning opportunities at CAP. Graphic designed by Jojo Yang. Each feature profile written for this project focused on a single CAP apprentice, telling the story of what brought them to CAP and what they’ve learned from their experience. Individual interviews were set up with every CAP apprentice who volunteered for the project, and interviewers were given a set of required questions along with the freedom to go off-script in order to get more of the story. We chose to approach these profiles like reporters writing a feature story, opening up options for more creative and personal profiles that truly captured each students’ journey. In this LinkedIn graphic, Industrial Systems Major Victor Melgar talks about the many opportunities CAP offered him at no cost. Graphic designed by Amy Metzinger. The social media trainings we organized were split into beginner and intermediate sections based on experience, and showed students how to make the most of their social media for themselves and CAP. Focusing on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, the trainings also included important tips for using social media as a professional and a list of resources for enhancing social media posts. The profiles our team of copywriters put together are now publishing on the CAP blog, with promotion on their social media. Visitors to the CAP website will now have an exhaustive set of in-depth student testimonials to help guide their decision and illuminate the apprenticeship experience. The promotion of each profile on social media will help to spread the word about the effectiveness of apprenticeship programs like CAP and contribute to the changing narrative around post-high school education.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line15
__label__wiki	0.847768	0.847768	20 Miles More: News By admin On 31 May 2020 In News Evidence for NIC’s Rail Needs Assessment 20 Miles More submitted evidence to the National Infrastructure Committee (NIC’s) Rail Needs Assessment of the North and Midlands. Our submission presented the opportunity for a comprehensive review of Phase 2b takes place with the remit to serve all the major population centres of the North West. We believe that an alternative routing for Phase 2b that achieves this objective, and which will be both less expensive and more environmentally sensitive, is a practical proposition. Moreover, it will release capacity for vital freight services from the Port of Liverpool, which is critically important for UK trade in the post-Brexit era. We present our proposal for such a routing. We stress that it is indicative only but believe that it addresses the aim of the NIC to deliver a modern, high speed and high capacity rail network for the North West. The submission is available here: 20 Miles More Response to NIC Call for Evidence By admin On 29 April 2018 In In the Media Global Railway Review: 20 Miles More: Campaigning to extend HS2 to include Liverpool 20 Miles More Ltd is an independent business-led organisation that is campaigning for a direct link from Liverpool to High Speed 2 (HS2) – the high-speed rail route linking London to the Midlands and North of England. Director Martin Sloman explains what the campaign is all about and what has been achieved so far. Read the full article at Global Railway Review By admin On 12 October 2017 In Blog, News Transport for the North Backs 20 Miles More Concept In 2014 20 Miles More showed why it made great business sense to connect the Liverpool City Region to High Speed 2, the UK’s high-speed rail spine. With just “20 Miles more” high-speed track, not only would London and Birmingham be connected to Liverpool, but the first stage of a west to east high-speed rail line linking the cities of the North would also be built. Yesterday it emerged that Transport for the North, the official body for northern transport, is backing the 20 Miles More concept. In 1830 Liverpool invented intercity rail, heralding the modern age. We call upon the Government to rebuild that spirit of enterprise in the North in 2030’s with 20 Miles More. http://www.linkingliverpool.org/pageinfo.asp?Full-High-Speed-Rail-Connection-for-Liverpool-Moves-Closer-n32.html By admin On 24 September 2017 In Blog, News Liverpool’s Steaming Ahead Virgin Trains recently announced record numbers of passengers travelling between London and Liverpool, with 1.77 million journeys in 2016-17 proving HS2’s projections wildly off the mark. HS2’s plans didn’t expect Liverpool to reach this target for another ten years, meaning Liverpool’s services won’t be able to take the strain. In its 20th year of operating the West Coast Mainline, Virgin released passenger figures showing an unprecedented 11.2% annual growth for trips between the capital and Liverpool. This is spectacular growth, especially considering Liverpool has been allocated just one train per hour from London, the lowest frequency of any Core City. Manchester needed three trains per hour before it achieved what Liverpool has managed with one. When 20 Miles More investigated HS2 passenger projections, we found that HS2 expected Liverpool to have the lowest growth of any major city. Yet when we looked at the actual passenger growth figures we found the opposite, Liverpool was growing faster than all comparators, with ten times the growth of Leeds between 2008 and 2010. 20 Miles More submitted this evidence to the Department for Transport in January 2014 in our formal consultation response as evidence that HS2 had fundamentally underestimated Liverpool and the service it required. Plotting the trend of Liverpool’s actual growth against HS2 estimates the shortfall of expectations is stark. By 2037 the trend forecasts 3.8m passengers, but HS2 have planned for just 2.2m, that’s just over half of what could be expected. Even with HS2’s low growth estimates, HS2 still expect Liverpool’s trains to be the most crowded on the network. Virgin’s latest announcement adds further evidence that the Department for Transport needs to work with HS2 and Transport for the North to re-plan how to serve Liverpool. This leaves no doubt that a dedicated high-speed rail link to HS2 is needed so more trains, with shorter journey times, greater reliability and more seats can serve the basic needs of Liverpool and other Core Cities. This would link not just London to Liverpool but also Birmingham’s and Manchester’s city centres and airports. Andrew Morris, Chair of 20 Miles More Campaigning to give Liverpool a dedicated high-speed rail link to HS2, Northern Powerhouse Rail & beyond By admin On 18 November 2016 In News Tags Brexit, HS2, HS3, Liverpool, Northern Powerhouse 20 Miles More Challenge HM Gov & Transport for the North to Commit to Building Liverpool’s High-Speed Link In Parallel With HS2 20 Miles More has eagerly awaited the publication of the Government’s response to the consultation into Phase 2b of HS2. Now we’ve seen it, it’s clear that the route hasn’t changed substantially – at least not in a way favorable to the Liverpool City Region. What has changed, however, is that there is now a clear way forward to establish Liverpool onto the high-speed rail network. 20 Miles More has consistently supported Phase 1 of HS2 – physical work on which should start next year. We believe that the enhanced speed and capacity provided will be beneficial to the main cities of the North, including Liverpool. We also welcome the decision to bring forward Phase 2a, which will extend HS2 as far as Crewe to the benefit of the whole North West. It is Phase 2b that has always been the most contentious as it will extend the route directly into the city centres of Manchester and Leeds but provide no enhancements to the Liverpool service. This disparity in transport investment will result in uncompetitive journey times to our city region and, as our trains will be restricted to 200m long classic compatibles rather than 400m captives, much lower capacity. We have evidence that this decision is already harming business investment decisions in our city region. Fortunately, there is a solution. The potential to build a new 20 mile high-speed track from the HS2 main line to serve Liverpool as the first phase of a high-speed rail route linking Liverpool to Manchester Airport, central Manchester and beyond to Leeds and Sheffield was recognised in the 20 Miles More consultation response report. More recently, it has formed the basis of the Northern Powerhouse Rail proposal – a high capacity rail route linking the main cities of the North of England. Consequently, we are very encouraged that the Government response to the HS2 consultation recognises the benefits of providing passive provision into the design of the route to allow the Liverpool spur to be constructed. This provision will ensure that a junction can be constructed with minimum disruption to the HS2 service. We consider that this is a significant victory for the Liverpool link campaign of which 20 Miles More forms a part. We strongly believe that the construction of a link from Liverpool city center to the main HS2 route should form the first phase of the proposed route. It will be relatively cheap to construct and achieve the double whammy of a direct Liverpool spur to HS2 and a modern, fast link between the two cities that pioneered the railway age. It will allow the expensive Manchester spur tunnel to be more fully utilised and give Liverpool fast access to the medium and long haul flights from Manchester Airport. There will be the added benefit of freeing up capacity on the existing West Coast Main Line for new inter-city services and freight traffic serving the developing Liverpool2 SuperPort and Scotland. As significant engineering work will be required on the approaches to Manchester and at Piccadilly Station, we believe that it makes sense for Phase 1 of Northern Powerhouse Rail and Phase 2b of HS2 to proceed at the same time. We, therefore, present this challenge to national Government, the Liverpool City Region, Merseytravel, Transport for the North and HS2 – to construct the first phase of Northern Powerhouse Rail and Phase 2b of High-speed 2 concurrently so that both open on the same date in 2033. We have 17 years in which to plan, consult, design and build these two projects. All that is necessary is the political will to see them through.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line16
__label__wiki	0.636136	0.636136	Rugby Union / Lichfield Ladies respond to the RFU Source: Lichfield Ladies Lichfield Ladies respond to the RFU Rugby Union, Super Rugby Lichfield Ladies have, since the first announcement that they will be excluded from the newly introduced Super Rugby League, acted with tremendous dignity whilst not concealing the shock and crushing disappointment at the massive blow to the heart of their club. They have now issued an official statement in response to the RFU upholding their original decision, and dismissing Lichfield’s appeal, which we publish here in full: Lichfield RUFC’s appeal against the decision by the RFU to exclude Lichfield Ladies from the new women’s elite competition, was concluded on April 19th. The decision of the appeal panel appointed by the RFU was announced on Friday April 28th. i.e. that: “For the all the reasons we have set out above we are not persuaded in any way that the process has not been followed or that there has been any unfairness to Lichfield. In those circumstances their appeal is unsuccessful”. Throughout all this we have tried to maintain a polite but resolute position – both directly with the RFU and through all of our communications via the press and on social media. Given the outcome, this approach has obviously not helped us one bit, so we feel that now is the time to make public our real thoughts on how the process has been managed and executed. Lichfield would therefore make the following comments in respect of the selection and appeal process: 1) Despite the final decision, the appeal hearings were handled in a very thorough manner and Lichfield have no issues with the way that this part of the process was handled. 2) However, despite highlighting and evidencing numerous potential flaws in the original selection process, the appeal panel has quite incredibly refuted, or refused to accept the relevance of, every one of our claims! Their response on a total of 29 points is to support the view of the RFU. This is completely unbelievable and supports our view that the whole process was weighted or biased against us from the start. 3) It has become abundantly clear throughout that irrespective of any formal evaluation or scoring system, Lichfield simply did not ‘fit the bill’ in terms of what the RFU were looking for in the new league. It was and is, all about image and money. The RFU actually complimented Lichfield on being an ‘outstanding community club’ but then went on to make this appear to be a disadvantage to our bid. 4) The RFU stated that this was a process intended to be open to any and all clubs, and actually stated that previous pedigree in developing ‘elite’ players (those capable of representing England at international level) was not a factor in their assessment. They then established a scoring system to assess the bids/proposals which effectively excluded any cognisance of previous experience or proven pedigree. 5) The RFU preferred to base their judgement on promises of future capabilities which obviously cannot have been proven during the selection process. Significantly, for a number of the teams accepted this included a promise of being able to deliver playing squads of the necessary size and quality. Despite lots of evidence to the contrary they continue to state that all the accepted teams will be able to field suitable playing squads. They did not accept that simply believing these promises was a flaw in the process. 6) Lichfield still refute the continued insistence from the RFU that ‘all clubs who have been offered a place in the competition have an appropriate player base’ and that this was supported by the appeal panel, who state that they ‘have no doubt at all that these issues would have been dealt with via application forms and in interview and see no evidence that teams have had failings overlooked’. There is lots of evidence to the contrary, confirming that this could not have been properly tested and proven during the selection process, so was and is, an obvious flaw. 7) During the appeal Lichfield questioned the neutrality of the selection panel, particularly Nicki Ponsford, who is an alumni of Loughborough University. The appeal panel decided that because Ms Ponsford had graduated from the university some 26 years ago, this was not a conflict of interest. Their supposition that someone suddenly loses any allegiance to their alma mater after some precise number of years is in itself an interesting concept, but it also ignores the fact that Ms Ponsford coached ladies’ rugby at Loughborough University as recently as 2003-04. Both of these points should have been sufficient for Ms Ponsford to recuse herself from the process, as soon as it was clear that Loughborough were one of the applicants. That she did not do so, and even when challenged on the alumni point during the appeal still did not acknowledge the coaching link, is an obvious flaw in the process which the appeal panel have chosen to ignore. 8) The scoring system they used to compare the bids consisted of eighteen questions, all equally weighted in terms of their importance to the final score. In this way, the number and the enthusiasm of the people turning up to make the presentation of the bid was judged as being of equal importance as any other factor they scored (including the ability to provide the elite playing numbers/quality). Again they did not accept that this was a flaw in the process. 9) During our appeal we identified numerous examples of changes to the panel’s scores and multiple errors in the addition of the total scores allocated to each team. Whilst these changes may genuinely have been made during the interview stage and the mistakes in the totting up process could possibly have been completely innocent, the number and widespread nature of these changes and errors suggest that statistically at least this was highly unlikely and hence suggested potential collusion and/or adjustment of the final scores. 10) Despite us requesting it as part of the appeal the RFU continually refused to provide information on other team’s finance submissions; how other teams were assessed; when scores had been amended/changed; the conditions on offers made to a team or teams. Only when the appeal panel asked for this sort of information was it forthcoming. They even state in their findings that ‘By the conclusion of the hearing on the 19 April it was clear to us that the RFU had made extensive disclosure of all matters that could reasonably be said to have a bearing on our decision’. That they did this so belatedly and only when forced, shows that it plainly was not the transparent process that they still conclude it was. 11) There were two primary reasons that the RFU initially gave as to why we had not been selected. Interestingly, when the actual scores were made available to us during the appeal process we saw that these were not actually our lowest scoring points or categories, so it is difficult to see why they were pinpointed. However, either way we do not accept the interpretation that the RFU had made from the written proposals, the subsequent (limited) interview questions, or even during the appeal process itself. a) Governance i) The RFU stated that they were ‘concerned’ that our organisation or proposed delivery structure was dependent upon one individual who was not a full-time employee of the rugby club and had other employment. Whilst it is true that the head of our proposed organisation structure did have other employment, it conveniently ignored the fact that we had 13 other named individuals in the support structure who were to be employed by the club, hence again surpassing the minimum requirements defined. Therefore, to say that it was ‘dependent’ upon that one individual is a gross misrepresentation or misconception. b) Finance i) During the initial selection, the RFU were apparently unconvinced by our assertions that the club could provide the additional monies required to fund the annual playing budget that we presented. This despite it being a relatively modest additional sum and the fact that we confidently claimed this was perfectly manageable by generating additional funds from both expanding the club’s current revenue generating capabilities and new sponsorship opportunities that the competition provided. ii) We were never asked to name any such sponsors and indeed due to the private and confidential nature of the bid process, still do not believe that we could have discussed such opportunities, let alone made any agreements, with third parties at that stage. iii) During the appeal we made further assertions about our ability to generate these funds and the relative size of the shortfall that may then be required from new external sponsors. There was one small error in one of the numbers presented in our appeal submission. Incredibly this error has been referenced in the decision as if it invalidates our whole finance submission, whilst the apparent inability of the RFU to even understand the basic difference between a P&L and a Balance Sheet has been completely ignored. iiii) We still do not believe that the same forensic analysis has been made of other clubs’ financial submissions. v) On the contrary, from what was evidenced to us it seems that most of the other clubs’ revenue generation capabilities were presented as being provided by a single sponsor or ‘value in kind’ from their host (but not necessarily formally or financially linked) men’s team. vi) How such arrangements can be said to be a more ‘sustainable model’ than that of a well-run and independently financed community club that has no debt, full control over its own assets and has successfully run a women’s section for over 25 years, defies any sensible or commercial logic. vii) Instead they claim that Lichfield would need ‘to put every last penny that the club has into this commitment’. They fail to understand that this is how a community club is run. i.e. we set operating budgets based upon the revenue available, effectively planning to only make a small surplus that allows for future improvements. i.e. we do not budget to make any significant profit. viii) Once again the RFU have demonstrated that they are so far removed from and ignorant about, the realities of community rugby. 12) Despite the decision of the Appeal panel, we still firmly believe that following feedback during the selection process other clubs were given the ability to amend or improve their proposals. Such opportunity was not given to Lichfield, and on the contrary they did not even highlight our supposed flaws during the interview stage. 13) After it had been established that there were 12 teams (including Lichfield) that met the ‘Minimum Operating Standards’ and the final scores/ranking had been established, Lichfield, as one of the lower scoring clubs, were not selected purely on the basis that we are not in the North East (or North West) and hence in the final reckoning we missed out purely on the basis of geography. The Appeal panel have decided that it was within the jurisdiction of the RFU to make such a decision. We do not accept this, but even if it was allowed for within their ‘process’ then it still flies in the face of all that is equitable. i.e. this was not about choosing the best teams even by the RFU’s own assessment, but about who “fitted” from the RFU’s point of view. We still firmly believe that over the last two decades and more, no club has committed as much resource and opened its doors to accommodate every request the RFU has ever placed upon us as Lichfield has done. To now be perceived as less able than so many others with no such track record, to further develop the elite players and to take the game forward is so frustrating and hence very difficult to accept. The embargo on promotion and relegation, means that for three years we are also prevented from doing what we are best at. i.e. proving our worth on the field and winning promotion back into the new competition. This makes it even more galling and difficult to plan for the future, and adds a further penalty upon us. Despite all this we are determined to carry on, to continue to support the players and the coaches of Lichfield Ladies and to prove to the RFU that they are so wrong in assuming that our players will simply migrate to the other clubs – clubs that they do deem to be worthy of a place in the new competition. They may be able to pressurise some of the current international players to do so as they effectively give them no other option, but we are confident that the nucleus of our playing section will remain together, become even stronger in the process and continually prove to the RFU the flaws in the decision they have made. These players are of course the ones that are most affected by the real impact of this decision. That, despite everything that has been going on around them, they managed to retain the composure and focus required to achieve a third place finish in this season’s Women’s Premiership, is a tremendous credit to them all. Finally, we have to state that we have been delighted by the support we have received from so many people within and beyond the rugby world. Everyone we have come into contact with at other clubs and across the media has unequivocally continued to support our view that the decision was and is, both unjustifiable and unfair. The online petition urging the RFU to reconsider has now been signed by almost 6000 people. https://www.change.org/p/rfu-rfu-to-review-lichfield-ladies… Thank you to everyone who has demonstrated such tremendous support. Tags: Rugby Union, Super Rugby Durham sign striker Rio Hardy.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.990356	0.990356	Clay Aiken, Former ‘American Idol’ Star, Announces Run for Congress Mr. Aiken said he was running as a “loud and proud Democrat” for an open House seat in his native North Carolina this year., Mr. Aiken said he was running as a “loud and proud Democrat” for an open House seat in his native North Carolina this year. Clay Aiken, the former “American Idol” contestant, said on Monday that he was running for Congress in North Carolina, in his second attempt to represent the state where he grew up. On his new website, Mr. Aiken, 43, referred to himself as a “loud and proud Democrat” and said he would be running in a newly drawn district that includes Durham and Chapel Hill. Representative David E. Price, a Democrat who currently represents much of that area, announced his retirement in October. “I intend to use my voice to deliver real results for North Carolina families, just like David Price has done for decades,” Mr. Aiken, a native of Raleigh, wrote. “I’ll always stand up for my principles and fight for inclusion, income equality, free access to quality health care, and combating climate change.” Mr. Aiken, who placed second behind Ruben Studdard in the second season of “American Idol” in 2003, previously ran for Congress in a Republican-leaning part of the state in 2014. He won the Democratic primary but was defeated in the general election by the Republican incumbent. Last month, the North Carolina Supreme Court ordered that the state’s 2022 primary election, originally scheduled for March 8, be postponed until May 17, citing a “need for urgency” in giving critics of the state legislature’s gerrymandered political maps additional time to pursue a legal battle to redraw them. New boundaries for state legislative districts and North Carolina’s 14 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives face three lawsuits filed by Democrats and voting-rights advocates in state court in Raleigh. Mr. Aiken is joining a crowded Democratic primary field that includes two state senators and a Durham County commissioner, The News & Observer reported. Mr. Aiken said his first experience with politics came when he was in the eighth grade and asked Mr. Price to speak to his class. Mr. Price agreed. “In Congress, I’ll use my voice to advocate for common-sense policies that encourage continued job growth and healthy communities,” Mr. Aiken wrote. “Many of these political battles divide us as people, threaten our democracy, and weaken America. North Carolinians are worried about affordable health care and rapid inflation.” Mr. Aiken studied at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and taught special education in Wake County. He is a co-founder of the National Inclusion Project, which advocates for disabled children, and he worked with UNICEF as a national goodwill ambassador, according to his website.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line24
__label__wiki	0.69235	0.69235	The Pernicious Effects of Defining Deviancy Up » « A Humanitarian Travesty in Gaza Blaming Bibi for Trump’s Embassy U-Turn Hurts Israel I rarely waste time trying to debunk conspiracy theories, but this particular one has become so popular among certain pro-Israel conservatives, and is so damaging to Israel, that I’m breaking my rule. The theory is that Donald Trump signed the waiver keeping the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv this month because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked him to do so. Marc Zell, head of the Republican Party’s Israel chapter, said this openly as far back as January, and repeated it last month; just this week, I heard it privately from the head of a veteran American Jewish organization. It’s impossible to overstate how harmful to Israel this is. Israel has striven unsuccessfully for decades to get the world to accept Jerusalem as its capital, and just this year, it has finally started scoring some victories: Russia’s Foreign Ministry surprisingly announced that it considers Jerusalem Israel’s capital, while the Czech parliament passed a resolution by an overwhelming vote of 112-2 demanding that its government show “respect” for Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Yet now, some of Israel’s strongest supporters are going around the world declaring that Israel’s own prime minister doesn’t want the U.S. Embassy moved to Jerusalem. In short, they’re giving the rest of the world a perfect excuse for maintaining the status quo of non-recognition: No government will be more pro-Israel than Israel’s own, so if even Netanyahu doesn’t really want Jerusalem to be treated as Israel’s capital, what foreign government would? Wreaking such harm might be justifiable if the charge were true. Yet not only is it prima facie ludicrous, but there’s a much simpler explanation for Trump’s decision. To understand just how ludicrous it is, contrast it with another rumor making the rounds: that Netanyahu also asked Trump to pressure him to restrain settlement construction. Whether or not that rumor is true, it’s at least plausible, because Netanyahu has many reasons for wanting such pressure. But none of those reasons applies to the embassy issue. First, as I’ve argued before, Israel’s best option for now is to preserve the status quo in the West Bank, because neither the two-state nor the one-state solution is feasible in the foreseeable future: The Palestinians won’t make peace, yet even the most favorable estimates of the Palestinian population don’t give Israel a big enough demographic edge to comfortably annex the territory. Maintaining the status quo doesn’t preclude bolstering settlements in strategically vital areas, but it does mean not expanding them to the point that the Palestinians and the international community would deem the two-state solution dead and start demanding immediate annexation with equal rights. In contrast, the embassy move poses no such risk. Even if you believe it would somehow constitute recognition of Israel’s rights in east Jerusalem—which it wouldn’t, assuming the embassy was in the city’s western half—the move wouldn’t alter the physical or demographic reality in any way, since Israel has already annexed east Jerusalem. Rather, it would simply acknowledge a 50-year-old status quo: united Jerusalem under Israel’s control. Second, the European Union, which responds to settlement construction like a bull to red flags, is still Israel’s largest trading partner, accounting for about a third of its exports. Thus Israel must exercise enough restraint on settlements to avoid pushing that already hostile body over the edge into imposing real sanctions. Moving the embassy, however, poses no such risk, because while settlement construction is an Israeli decision, the embassy location is strictly an American one. Even the EU wouldn’t punish Israel for a White House decision. The same goes for American Jewry, assuming Netanyahu is concerned about that relationship: Though liberal American Jews blame Israel for the settlements, they would not blame Israel for the embassy move—quite aside from the fact that many American Jewish settlement opponents actually support moving the embassy. Finally, assuming Netanyahu indeed believes that unrestricted settlement expansion isn’t in Israel’s interest right now, he needs U.S. pressure to counter pressure from members of his governing coalition who favor unrestricted expansion, since whether or not to build is ultimately an Israeli decision. But the opposite is true of the embassy move: Not only does Netanyahu face no coalition pressure on this issue, since as noted, it’s a U.S. decision beyond Israel’s control, but failure to move the embassy actually increases pressure from his right-wing base to provide compensation in the form of increased settlement construction. In short, Netanyahu would have many reasons for wanting U.S. pressure to restrain settlement construction. But I have yet to hear any plausible reason for why he would want to foil the embassy move. Purveyors of the conspiracy theory therefore resort to a different argument: Absent Netanyahu’s intervention, they say, it’s impossible to explain why Trump, who seriously considered announcing the embassy move in his inaugural address, backtracked so quickly. But they forget that alongside strong supporters of the move like Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, the idea has powerful opponents within the administration, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis—who shamefully told his Senate confirmation hearing that Israel’s capital is Tel Aviv—and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who refused to say whether the Western Wall is in Israel and bizarrely declared Tel Aviv to be the “home of Judaism.” The administration’s internal battle over this issue, as detailed in this fascinating Haaretz report, provides a far more convincing explanation for Trump’s backtracking on the embassy than intervention by Netanyahu. After all, Trump has sided with the administration’s establishment wing on almost every issue connected to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, starting with his very decision to push for a peace deal, which the Bannon/Friedman wing correctly deems a waste of time. So why should it surprise anyone that he also accepted the establishment wing’s view that moving the embassy would undermine the peace process? In short, this conspiracy theory has no plausible basis; it’s being used to explain something that has a much more logical explanation; and it’s undermining the very cause its purveyors seek to further—recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Thus by adopting and spreading it, some of Israel’s greatest friends are inadvertently and tragically aligning themselves with its worst enemies. Originally published in Commentary on June 16, 2017 Posted in Foreign Affairs and Defense Original Link: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/blaming-bibi-trumps-embassy-u-turn-hurts-israel/ One Response to Blaming Bibi for Trump’s Embassy U-Turn Hurts Israel	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line27
__label__cc	0.739547	0.260453	Local Health Districts to make presentation, Dallas Posted by KCSi News in State on July 12, 2019 4:50 pm / no comments (CSi) Representatives from Central Valley Health District, in Jamestown, and City-County Health District, in Valley City, will be in Dallas next week, to make a presentation at a training session, at the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America 18th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute. BISMARCK, N.D. – Despite a downward trend over the last decade, underage drinking remains a significant public health issue in North Dakota with nearly one in three high school students reporting drinking alcohol in the last month and 16.4 percent doing so to the point of binge drinking. To support communities in addressing underage drinking, the North Dakota Department of Human Services’ Behavioral Health Division has provided funding for the past four years through a federal grant to 10 communities identified as highest need areas. As a result, several local strategies have produced positive outcomes, and one strategy is receiving national attention. Central Valley Health District (Jamestown) and City-County Health District (Valley City) used grant funding to develop and implement a localized, grassroots campaign: “Not in My House,” to raise awareness of social availability of alcohol, a major contributing factor to underage drinking in North Dakota. Since its development, the campaign has been adopted by several other communities across the state. Over the past few months, communities in other states, including nine in Wisconsin alone, have implemented the youth substance use prevention campaign. “It is exciting to see communities working together, taking action to support the health and well-being of youth,” said Laura Anderson, assistant director of the Behavioral Health Division. Due to the success and growing interest in the “Not in My House” campaign, representatives from the two health districts have been invited to present a training session at the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) 18th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute next week in Dallas. The session will provide an overview of the “Not in My House” campaign. It will focus on how to effectively collaborate with community stakeholders to develop data-driven communication strategies and effective messaging that support prevention efforts in rural communities. “Campaigns that specifically target social hosting and preventing social access to alcohol are limited, so it’s rewarding to know that the ‘Not in My House’ campaign has provided leverage for local efforts across North Dakota, and nationally,” said Katie Beyer, prevention coordinator for City-County Health District. “Our ultimate goal is to convince parents and other adults to take their obligation seriously and hold others to a high standard too.” The training session is Monday, July 15, 2-3:30 p.m., at the Gaylord Texan Hotel in Dallas. For more information about the CADCA Mid-Year Training Institute, visit https://www.cadca.org/myti2019. For more information on the “Not in My House” campaign, visit www.prevention.nd.gov/notinmyhouse. Information on what other North Dakota grantees are doing to address substance abuse can be found online at www.prevention.nd.gov/get-involved/find-resources. The Department of Human Services’ Behavioral Health Division is responsible for reviewing and identifying service needs and activities in the state’s behavioral health system to ensure health and safety, access to services, and quality services. It also establishes quality assurance standards for the licensure of substance use disorder program services and facilities, and provides policy leadership in partnership with public and private entities. For more information, visit www.behavioralhealth.nd.gov. Sorry, but you cannot leave a comment for this post. VC Elections, Advisory Votes, Jun 14, 2022 Barnes COVID-19 Testing Days & Times CVHD COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line30
__label__wiki	0.54633	0.54633	No TDS u/s 194C on transportation if the same is incidental to contract of sale Labels: Income Tax , Income Tax case laws Gujrat High Court has held in CIT vs Krishak Bharti Cooperative Ltd that TDS u/s 194C will not be applicable on transportation of goods if such transportation is incidental to contract of sale. In this case where assessee entered into a contract with GAIL for supply of gas to its consumption points through pipelines and in addition to price of gas it had agreed to make separate payments for transportation of gas, it was held that contract was a contract for purchase of gas and not a work contract The assessee, a co-operative society, was engaged in the manufacturing of fertilizers. For such activities, it consumed natural gas. It entered into a contract with the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) for the supply of gas to its consumption points through pipelines. It in addition to the price of gas had agreed to make separate payments for transportation of gas from outlets of GAIL to different points in its factory. The Assessing Officer held that the contract between the assessee and GAIL was a work contract and, therefore, the assessee was required to deduct tax at source under section 194C from the payments made to GAIL. On appeal, the Commissioner (Appeals) upheld the order of the Assessing Officer holding that the instant case would fall under clause (c) of Explanation III to section 194C. On second appeal, the Tribunal held that the assessee did not hire any service for carriage of goods and, therefore, the case would not fall in clause (c) of Explanation III to section 194C. The contract was a contract for purchase of gas from GAIL up to the assessee's gas metering station. Transporation charges in the gas supply contract were part of purchase cost of gas. The object of the contract was essentially transfer of chattel qua chattel, i.e., natural gas up to the factory premises until then the property in question, i.e., the gas was of GAIL. Clearly this was a contract for sale of goods and not a work contract. Revenue's arguments Instant case was covered by clause (c) of Explanation III to section 194C. The assessee in addition to price of gas had agreed to bear the transportation charges separately and such charges were to be paid monthly. There was also escalation clause in the contract permitting increase in such charges on yearly basis after completion of first year of the contract. Issue involved Whether the contract between the assessee was a work contract or a contract for purchase of gas? Whether instant case fell within the four corners of section 194C in particular under clause (c) of Explanation III to section 194C? From the statutory provision of section 194C, it can be seen that in case of carrying out of any work in pursuance of any contract between the contractor and any of the specified bodies provided under different clauses of sub-section (1) of section 194C, which includes cooperative society, there had to be a deduction of 1 per cent or 2 per cent, as the case may be, at the time of credit of such sum to the account of the contractor or at the time of payment in cash or by issuance of cheque or draft or any other mode, whichever is earlier. Term 'work' in turn has been explained in Explanation III to section 194C, which shall also include besides others, carriages of goods and passengers by any mode of transportation other than by railways. If the assessee had entered into any contract for carrying out any work of carriage of goods with the seller, his case would certainly fall under clause (c) of Explanation III to section 194C and in turn tax had to be deducted at source as specified in sub-section (1) thereof. Though the assessee agreed to make separate payment for transportation of gas from outlets of GAIL to the different points in factory, such condition cannot be seen in isolation and has to be viewed in the background of other conditions contained in the contract. Combined reading of the terms and conditions contained in the contract would reveal that the gas had to be delivered by the seller to the buyer through pipelines and equipments laid down, owned and maintained by the seller. The seller also had the right to use such pipeline for distribution of gas in favour of other purchasers. Most significantly the contract provided that the title of gas shall pass from the seller to the buyer at the point of delivery of gas. The delivery point shall be at the down stream flange of the pipeline at the outlet of the gas metering station. It thus becomes clear that in the contract itself it was envisaged between the assessee and GAIL that gas would be supplied by GAIL to the assessee at the receiving point of the assessee's factory. Therefore, the contract essentially was for purchase and sale of gas. Transport of gas by the seller was a step towards execution of contract for sale of gas and there was no contract for carriage of goods. It may be that the transportation component of gas was paid separately by the assessee to GAIL. Here also the transportation charges did not depend on the consumption of quantity of gas but was of fixed monthly charges to be borne by the assessee as part of the agreement between the parties. Therefore, the assessee entered into a contract for purchase of gas and that there was no work contract. Application of section 194C, therefore, does not arise. HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT Commissioner of Income-tax (TDS) Krishak Bharati Cooperative Ltd.* AKIL KURESHI AND SONIA GOKANI, JJ. TAX APPEAL NO. 618 OF 2010† K.M. Parikh for the Appellant. Akil Kureshi, J. - Revenue is in appeal against the judgment of the Tribunal dated 5.9.2008 raising following questions for our consideration:- "[i] Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal is right in law in coming to the conclusion that the contract between the gas suppliers and the assessee is a contract for sale of goods and not work contract so as to attract the provisions of Section 19AC of the Income Tax Act? [ii] Whether the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has committed an error in applying the ratio of various judgments of the Honourable Supreme Court where the facts and issues were different? [iii] Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the impugned order passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal is contrary to the evidence and material on the record of the case and is suffering from non-application of mind and, hence, perverse or not?" 2. The respondent assessee is a Co-operative Society principally engaged in the manufacturing of fertilizers. For its such activities, it consumes natural gas. Such gas is supplied by different agencies through pipelines. 3. It is the case of the Revenue that while purchasing gas from gas supplying agencies, the assessee entered into a work contract for transport of such gas from seller's premise to the buyer's consumption points. It is the case of the Revenue that upon payment of such work contract, the assessee was required to deduct appropriate TDS at appropriate rate under Section 194C of the income Tax Act, 1961. 4. The Assessing Officer was of the opinion that, in facts of the case section 194C of the Act would apply. The assessee carried the issue in appeal. CIT (Appeals) also held in favour of the Revenue observing that Clause (c) of Explanation III to Section 194C would cover a situation repelling the assessee's contention that only in case of transport of goods and passengers, such clause would operate. 5. The assessee went further in appeal before the Tribunal. The Tribunal, by the impugned judgment, allowed the appeal reversing the orders passed by the Revenue authorities, upon which the Revenue has filed this appeal before us. 6. The Tribunal was of the opinion that the assessee did not hire any service for carriage of goods and that, therefore, the case would not fall in clause (c) of Explanation III to Section 194C of the Act. To come to such a conclusion, the Tribunal referred to various clauses of the agreement between the assessee and the Gas Authority of India Limited ("GAIL'' for short). To this issue, we may advert to at a slightly later stage. At this stage, it would be sufficient to note that the Tribunal allowed the Appeal making following observations:- "A distinction between a sale and works contract is very significant particularly under the sales-tax laws. Before the introduction of tax on work contract, the sale-tax was levied on sales and it could not be levied on works contract. What is the exact scope of expression 'work contract' has been considered by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in a number of cases and by and large distinction between the two also seems to have been adopted for the purpose of Income-Tax Act. In the present case, it is a contract for purchase of gas from various gas suppliers up to the assessee's gas metering station at Hazira, Surat. Transportation charges in the gas supply contract are part of purchase cost of gas. This can easily be inferred from the above referred invoice. The object of the contract between suppliers of gas and assessee is essentially transfer of chattel qua Chattel i.e., natural gas up to the factory premises at Hazira until then the property in question i.e. the gas is of suppliers. This being the factual position, the payment for the purchase of natural gas and as per the contract of the assessee, it is only asking for supply of natural gas from the producers for the purpose of use of this gas or burning in assessee's factory or manufacturing of urea. Clearly this is a contract for sale goods and not a work contract as held by the lower authorities. In view of the above, we quash me orders of the lower authorities and allow the appeals of the assessee." 7. Counsel for the Revenue drew our attention to the provisions contained in clause (c) of Explanation III to Section 194C of the Act and vehemently contended that the Tribunal erred in reversing the orders passed by the Revenue authorities. He submitted that Section 194C of the Act was clearly attracted. The case on hand was covered by clause (c) of Explanation III to section 194C of the Act. He submitted that the assessee had agreed to bear the transportation charges separately and that such charges were to be paid monthly. Our attention was drawn to Article 4.02 of the contract between the assessee and GAIL, wherein it was provided inter alia that the buyer i.e. (the assessee) in addition to price of gas mentioned in Article 11, shall pay to the seller, monthly transportation charges of Rs. 49,58,250/- plus taxes with effect from 1.4.1996 for the facilities provided by the seller (GAIL) for supply of gas to the point of delivery located at the buyer's premises. There is also escalation clause permitting increase in such charges on yearly basis after completion of first year of the agreement. 8. Reliance was placed by the Revenue in the case of Central Board of Direct Taxes v. Cochin Goods Transport Association [1999] 236 ITR 993/103 Taxman 29 (Ker.) and in the case of Associated Cement Co. Ltd. v. CIT [1993] 201 ITR 435/67 Taxman 346 (SC). 9. Having heard learned counsel for the Revenue and having perused the documents on record, we are of the opinion that the above mentioned clause of the agreement between the assessee and the seller cannot be seen in isolation. The entire contract of sale of gas has to be perused to ascertain whether the case of the assessee fell within the four corners of Section 194C of the Act, in particular under clause (c) of Explanation III to section 194 of the Act. 10. We are concerned with assessment year 2005-06. In the present case. At the relevant time, Section 194C reads as under:- "194C.(1) Any person responsible for paying any sum to any resident (hereinafter in this section referred to as the contractor) for carrying out any work (including supply of labour for carrying out any work) in pursuance of a contract between the contractor and- (a) the Central Government or any State Government; or (b) any local authority; or (c) any corporation established by or under a Central, State or Provincial Act; or (d) any company, [or] (e) any co-operative [society ; or]] (f) any authority, constituted in India by or under any law, engaged either for the purpose of dealing with and satisfying the need for housing accommodation or for the purpose of planning, development or improvement of cities, towns and villages, or for both, or (g) any society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) or under any law corresponding to that Act in force in any part of India; or (h) any trust; or (i) any University established or incorporated by or under a Central, State or Provincial Act and an institution declared to be a University under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956); (3 of 1956) [or] (j) any firm,] shall, at the time of credit of such sum to the account of the contractor or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of a cheque or draft or by any other mode, whichever is earlier, [deduct an amount equal to- (i) one per cent in case of advertising, (ii) in any other case two per cent, of such sum as income-tax on income comprised therein.] (2) Explanation I- & II Explanation III- For the purposes of this section, the expression "work" shall also include - (a) & (b) (c) carriage of goods and passengers by any mode of transport other than by railways; (d) " 11. From the above statutory provision, it can be seen that in case of carrying out of any work in pursuance of any contract between the contractor and any of the specified bodies provided under different clauses of sub-section (1) of Section 194C of the Act, which includes cooperative society, there had to be a deduction of 1% or 2%, as the case may be, at the time of credit of such sum to the account of the contractor or at the time of payment in cash or by issuance of cheque or draft or any other mode, whichever is earlier. Term 'work' in turn has been explained in Explanation III to Section 194C of the Act, which shall also include besides others, carriage of goods and passengers by any mode of transportation other than by railways. 12. In that view of the matter, if the assessee had entered into any contract for carrying out any work of carriage of goods with the seller, his case would certainly fall under clause (c) of Explanation III to Section 194C and in turn tax had to be deducted at source as specified in sub-Section (1) thereof. 13. The question, however, is did the assessee have any contract for carnage of goods with the seller? This crucial question has to be decided upon the terms of the contract between the parties. As already noted, though the assessee agreed to make separate payment for transportation of gas from outlets or GAIL to the different points in the assessee's factory, in our view, such clause cannot be seen in isolation and has to be viewed in the background of other conditions contained in the contract. 14. In the order of the Tribunal challenged before us, such conditions have been reproduced in the order. These conditions read as follows:- "4.01 GAS shall be delivered by the SELLER to the BUYER at the Outlet of Gas Metering Station located at BUYER'S premises at Hazira. GAS will be transported from the crown stream flange of pipeline at the Outlet of the Gas Metering Station hereinafter referred to as point of delivery by means of pipeline to be provided and maintained by the SELLER, 4.02 Gas Metering Station and building needed for the same shall be set up/Constructed and maintained by the SELLER. The land needed for the Purpose of such GAS Metering Station/Building shall be provided by the BUYER free of cost. The SELLER may use the said location in consultation with the BUYER for effecting deliveries to another parties in the area without affecting the supply of GAS by the SELLER to the BUYER as per the CONTRACT. 4.03 The BUYER, in addition to price of GAS mentioned in Article 11, shall pay to the SELLER monthly transportation charges of Rs. 49,58,250/- (Rupees forty nine lakhs fifty eight thousand two hundred and fifty only) plus taxes with effect from 1.4.1996 (First April One Thousand Nine hundred and Ninety Six) thereon for the facilities provided by the SELLER for supply of GAS to the point of delivery located at the BUYER'S Premises. The above monthly transportation charges shall be increased by 3% ( three percent) on yearly rest basis with effect from 01.04.1997 (First April one Thousand Nine hundred and Ninety Seven). The BUYER shall pay the above monthly transportation charges to the SELLER in addition to payment of invoice for supply of GAS to be raised as per Article 11 & 12 hereinafter. Provided further, in case monthly transportation charges are not paid by the BUYER within 3(three) working days of presentation of invoice, the SELLER will present the invoice for the same to a Bank against Letter of Credit and draw the amount. 4.04 The BUYER shall make all proper and adequate arrangement for receiving GAS at the outlet of Gas Metering Station at its own risk and cost. Should any defect in the BUYER'S intake arrangement arise, the same shall be rectified by the BUYER themselves. 4.05 For effecting deliveries of GAS as aforesaid the SELLER shall install and maintain at its own risk and cost, the piping control, regulation and metering equipment in the aforesaid Gas Metering Station and all other accessories. The said equipment so installed by the SELLER shall remain the property of the SELLER and the SELLER. SELLER shall have the right to remove such equipment at any time within twelve (12) months after the expiry of the contract. The SELLER shall have the right to use the BUYER'S utilities essentially required for installation, operation and maintenance of GAS metering station and allied equipment required for the supply of GAS on payment of such charges for utilities only as may be mutually agreed. All Statutory approvals shall be obtained by the SELLER. 4 6 The title of Gas shall pass from the SELLER to the BUYER at the point of delivery of GAS. The delivery point shall be at the down stream flange of the pipeline at the outlet of the Gas Metering Station." 15. Combined reading of the terms and conditions noted hereinabove would reveal that the gas had to be delivered by the seller to the buyer through pipelines and equipments laid down, owned and maintained by the seller. The seller also had the right to use such pipeline for distribution of gas in favour of other purchasers. Most significantly, para 4.6 of the agreement provided that the title of gas shall pass from the seller to the buyer at the point of delivery of gas. The delivery point shall be at the down stream flange of the pipeline at the outlet of the Gas Metering Station. 16. It thus, becomes clear that in the contract itself it was envisaged between the assessee and GAIL that gas would be supplied by GAIL to the assessee at the receiving point of the assessee's factory. For such purpose GAIL would be laying down its pipelines and other equipments and would maintain such paraphernalia. GAIL would also have the right, to use such pipelines and equipments for the purpose of distributing gas to other gas consumers. As already recorded, most significantly, the ownership of the gas passed on from GAIL to the assessee only at the point of delivery and not before. 17. In our view, the agreement essentially was for purchase and sale of gas. Transportation of gas was only a part of the entire sale transaction. Laying down the pipeline and supplying gas through such pipeline were the steps in furtherance of the terms of such a contract. Clear understanding of the parties that the ownership of gas would pass on to the buyer at the delivery point would clearly show that transport of gas by the seller was a step towards execution of contract for sale of gas and there was no contract for carriage of goods. We are not unmindful of the decision of the Apex Court in case of Associated Cement Co. Ltd. (supra) wherein it was observed that Section 194C(1) does not require that a contract to carry out a work or the contract to supply labour to carry out work should be confined to "works contract." However, in the present case we are not faced with such a situation. We only find that there was no contract between GAIL and the assessee for carriage of goods. Transportation of gas by GAIL was only in furtherance of contract of sale of gas. 18. In view of the above discussion, we are of the opinion that the Tribunal committed no error in coming to the conclusion that the case was not covered under Section I94C of the Act. It may be that the transportation component of gas was paid separately by the assessee to GAIL. Here also the transportation charges did not depend on the consumption of quantity of gas but was of fixed monthly charges to be borne by the assessee as part of the agreement between the parties. The ownership of the gas vested in GAIL till it was transported and delivered to the assessee's premises at the outlet of the gas metering station. The pipeline was laid down by GAIL and was permitted to be utilized for further onward transportation of gas to other consumers. 19. Combined effect of the above observations and conclusions would be that the assessee entered into a contract for purchase of gas and that there was no work contract entered into between the assessee and GAIL. Application of Section 194C therefore, does not arise. Tribunal, therefore, in our view, committed no error. Appeal is therefore, dismissed. Posted by AMIT BAJAJ ADVOCATE at 5:49 PM ▼ Dec 02 ( 2 ) No TDS u/s 194C on transportation if the same is i... Signature mismatch on cheque may lead to criminal ...	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line36
__label__wiki	0.569847	0.569847	Spotlight Q & A Soledad O’Brien Spotlight Spotlight Q & A aileen jacobson \| February 23, 2011 As a CNN anchor and special correspondent with her own documentary team, Soledad O’Brien is a successful, high-profile journalist in the prime of her career. A shelf-full of major broadcasting awards from her years at CNN and NBC line one wall of her office in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center, near large windows that frame stunning views of Central Park. Other wall space is covered by family photos and artwork by her four children: Sofia is 10, Cecilia is turning 9 this month and the twin boys, Jackson and Charlie, are 6. With her husband, Brad Raymond, an investment banker, she juggles raising the children with maintaining a residence in Chelsea, a country house in Putnam County and a staggering travel schedule. She flew to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina (a handsomely-mounted pistol, given to her by the sheriff of St. Bernard Parish in gratitude for her coverage there, is one of her more unusual souvenirs), to Thailand to cover the tsunami, to Washington, DC, for the inauguration of President Obama, to Haiti during its earthquake last year. London and Shanghai are on her horizon. When O’Brien was growing up in St. James, however, she didn’t always feel as loved and accepted by everyone around her as she does now. As she writes in her recent memoir, The Next Big Story: My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities, she often found herself singled out or ostracized by fellow students at Smithtown High School East, from which she graduated in 1984, because of her mixed-race heritage. She countered, she writes, by being in “perpetual motion,” as in a dodgeball game: “When you move, you can’t get hit.” The incongruity of her name reflects her heritage. Christened Maria de la Soledad O’Brien, she is the next to youngest of six children, all of whom went to Harvard. Her mother is black and Cuban, her father an Australian of Irish and Scottish descent. After meeting at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore—and driving to Washington to get married because Maryland didn’t allow interracial weddings—her parents moved to a large house in St. James. Her father was a professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University and her mother taught Spanish and French in the Smithtown high schools. Horseback riding became one of young Soledad’s passions and she mucked stalls to pay for riding lessons. Most of her young life was idyllic. But, she writes in her book, she never dated in high school because she was considered “different.” She dropped out of Harvard—where she took pre-med courses while majoring in English—in her senior year to take a production assistant job at WBZ-TV in Boston. She rose quickly and soon headed to NBC News in New York, then station KRON in San Francisco. She co-anchored NBC’s Weekend Today before moving to CNN in 2003. Two of her many CNN documentaries are Black in America and Latino in America. Jesse Jackson once complained to her about a lack of black anchors at CNN, she says in her book, and told her, “You don’t count.” Later, he claimed that “he had not known I was black!” In her office and in the newsroom, O’Brien discussed growing up on Long Island, balancing career and parenting, returning to college as an adult, experiencing changes in journalism and finding ways to help students. One thing I noticed about your book is that you use your experiences in Smithtown as a kind of touchstone. Absolutely. I think that’s true for all of us, where you grew up is going to define the person you are going to become. It sounded as though there were pressures, that it wasn’t all that happy, except within your family and a couple of friends. It was fine, because I had my family, and I had a handful of friends who were great friends. If I had been looking for more than that, it would have been a problem, but I never did. We had a family that was very tight. It was fun. I did a lot. I had my riding, and my brothers and sisters. I think it was harder on the older ones. Some of them had more challenges than I did. I see all your children’s artwork on a wall here. The wall of art. And in the top left corner, there’s a note, “Dear Mom, I really want a cat. Love, Sofia.” Did she get a cat? Yes, she did. So what do you have at home? We have the cat, three guinea pigs, and, not at home, a pony. And two horses that are mine. You must really love horses. Growing up on Long Island, it was a great place for horseback riding. We lived next to a horse farm in St. James. My parents still have the same house and they have a place in Manhattan. They stay here for the winter. They’re in their 80s and can’t deal with the snow. Did you have a lot of land in St. James? A couple of acres. It was a great place. The neighbors would come over to play ball and my dad would pitch. It was a fantastic childhood. But there were moments when we were clearly reminded, your parents are not from here and you don’t belong here. I’m surprised you encountered that, because—and I’m sure you’ve heard this before—you don’t come across as being black. Did you look different then, or was it just people knowing about your mother? People knew my mom. She was a teacher in the school. She had an Afro, and I had an Afro. You straighten your hair now? Oh gosh yes. I also don’t sit out in the sun like I used to. When you go back to St. James now, is it for a long time or just day trips? Oh, not day trips, not with four kids. We go for two or three days. Do you see changes in attitudes? You certainly see changes in the diversity of the student body at the high school. There’s a lot more diversity now, more immigrants. Things have changed. How did your experience on Long Island prepare you for life in New York? My parents were really good at making us very aware of who we were, where we came from, what we had to be proud of, and not to worry so much about fitting in and blending in. That was not really the goal. There are lots of good things to get out of growing up on Long Island, and that’s what we were there for. Did your father choose St. James because it had a good school system? Oh, absolutely. My father had a very immigrant mentality: No matter what happens, no one can take away your education. And you got into Harvard. I was slightly surprised that with all that drive for an education that you left before graduating. How did your parents react? I think that they really got it. My parents were not ambitious for us to go to Harvard, as many parents are. My parents were ambitious for us to do as well as we possibly could in school, and to get an education and to do everything well. And I went right from school to working, so it wasn’t like I was sitting on the couch trying to decide what I was going to do with my life. I think that would have sent my parents into a tailspin. I really immediately liked my job and I think it helped them that I had not a moment of regret. The biggest challenge for me was how to step back when you’re doing well and say, “Now I’m going to go back to school.” The time was right in 2000 when I became pregnant. You finished up college very quickly. I didn’t have much to finish. And it was funny, once you’re in the workforce, you’re a much better student. You’re very organized. You’re not hanging out with people or going to keg parties. You’re on Amtrak, schlepping back and forth. And in those four hours, you’re reading books and writing papers. I was pregnant, so I was ragingly sick. That part was miserable. But I knew that if I didn’t do it, I would never do it. You didn’t feel strange among the younger students? My husband used to joke that he was dating a coed. But no: I didn’t wear makeup and I wore sweats like everybody else. I remember, that year I was named one of People magazine’s 50 most beautiful people. A professor said to me, “Hey, I saw you in People magazine.” I said, “Hey, you read People magazine?” You travel a lot. In a way it’s the hardest part of my job, but I love to travel. How do you balance traveling with children? It’s very hard. What we do pretty well is we spend a lot of time with them. We don’t have a lot of sitters. So we don’t have a lot of layers. I’m pretty hands on when I’m not traveling. The logistics can be pretty crazy in our house, but I think we try to juggle it as much as possible. Some days are chaotic, more chaotic than I’d like. What about your husband? He has long hours, but now he can do more work from home. He can be more flexible. What helps the kids a lot is that I take each child on a trip. They love to travel. They’ve now gone to Europe three times. My daughter went to Haiti with me, and she loved it. That gives them some perspective: Mom travels a lot but there are some cool things about her job. You don’t have a mom who does all the things that other moms do, but we do other things. You take each one individually? I took the twins together. That was fun but the problem is, you lose out on the time with one person. We do it every year for everybody, so four trips. My daughter wanted to swim with dolphins in California, so we did that. My boys wanted to go to Miami to swim in a hotel pool. That was so funny, because I kept thinking, we could drive to Jersey and they wouldn’t know the difference. The best parts are going out to dinner, hanging out. We take a Christmas trip with the whole family. We went to Barcelona this year. What kind of advice do you have for students? When I was entering television, everyone was telling me, “TV news is dead. Why would you want to go into TV news?” So whenever someone says, “I don’t know if I should go into TV news or into journalism,” I say, “Well, let me tell you what I was told in 1987.” I ask, “What’s your passion? Go and do your passion.” Have things changed now with the Internet and new technology? Not really. The basic tenets of journalism are the same. You have better cameras, and you can bring a laptop, and things are going faster, but truly at the end of the day, the kind of journalism I do is: And then I sat down with this person, and I asked him these questions. It’s great if I can go to Haiti and take a BGAN and pop it up and go live in 15 minutes. What’s a BGAN? It’s a laptop basically, and it comes with a little dish, and you just pop it up on your car. I can hook it up to my camera, pop it up, point it in the right direction and bounce it off a satellite. You can be by yourself and go live. [BGAN is short for Broadband Global Area Network.] In Haiti, I was taking pictures with my Blackberry and sending them to cnn.com. It was amazing. When there’s an aftershock and we’re running for our lives out of the hotel, I’m sending tweets about how we’re running for our lives out of the hotel. That’s reporting. And if you can get it out faster, great. We’re doing a documentary about Muslims who are building a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee [to air March 27]. The title is Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door. The title comes from what happened to the members. They had a sign up about the mosque and someone spray-painted on it “Not Welcome.” I’m also working on a documentary about the royal wedding that will run in April and another Latino in America documentary that will run in September or October. We’re just starting one about miners in West Virginia. And then there’s a big documentary about education in America. You and your husband have a foundation in that area? It’s called the Soledad O’Brien and Brad Raymond Family Foundation. We’ve had it about a year, and now we’re hiring a director and will have a fundraiser March 31 in Donna Karan’s Urban Zen space in downtown Manhattan. We have about 10 kids we help and we’d like to make that many more. It started with a young woman named Nia Buckley, whom we met when I did Black in America. She’s a beautiful girl, and she had an 18-month-old son. She was 18, and I said to her, “You’re so smart, why are you not in college?” She said, “I have a kid. I don’t have anyone to watch him.” So after the documentary aired, I called her up and I said, “I’m going to make you a deal. I’m going to pay for your child’s day care if you go to school.” She’s now a junior at Fordham, and she’s doing great. Her son is 4. We see her all the time. Education is transforming her life. And we decided if we could contribute to helping young people transform their lives by getting them to college and through college, we would do that. All they need is a little bit of money and a little bit of a push. Now what about the documentary? We’re going to look at where the US stands in science and technology education. The news is bad, but we’re going to look at where we’re going and how we’re going to get to the place the president would like to see us get to. Is it possible, is it realistic, and who’s to blame? Is it the parents, is it the teachers, is it the culture, is it all of the above? What do you see as the future for minorities and women in journalism? The numbers are low for minorities. They have to get better. When it comes to women, look at the number of women in journalism school. The math alone will tell you that things will change. Not next year. But you can’t keep on pumping out graduates who are overwhelmingly female and not have a change. I’m always hopeful. photo by Gary Lupton aileen jacobson Aileen Jacobson writes about the arts for the New York Times and other publications. A former arts and media writer for Newsday, she is also the author of two books. The Eclectic Hats of Jonathan Baker Designer of all things Jayma Cardoso Talks The Surf Lodge’s Summer Magic Jayma Cardoso turns The Surf Lodge into a cultural experience	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line45
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__label__wiki	0.777468	0.777468	by W.S. Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan Saturday 13th October 2018 Performance Ends 9:45pm 3:00pm Matinée Tuesday 16th October 2018 Pre-Performance Talk: One hour before the main performance by the Artistic Director. Duration 25 mins – in the Carolan Suite at the NCH. The National Concert Hall, Dublin Box Office: +353 (0) 1 417 0000 or www.nch.ie The Story In Brief Let’s get this straight. The pirates, who take pity on orphans, are really peers of the realm. The 21-year-old Frederic, who has sworn to put them behind bars, is really only five but in love with Mabel – the Major General’s daughter. And the policemen, whose lot is not a happy one, are really, really hopeless at foiling felons… but in the end, they all live happily every after. Full Synopsis of the Opera The Pirates of Penzance by Sir W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan PREMIÉRE: The Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, 31 December 1879 ACT I – A Rocky Seashore on the Coast of Cornwall On the coast of Cornwall, a gang of pirates play and party as Frederic (a pirate apprentice) reminds the pirate king that his obligation to the gang is soon over. He was apprenticed to the pirates only until his twenty-first birthday, which is that day, and he is leaving them. Ruth (Frederic’s nursery maid when he was younger) explains that Frederic should never have been a pirate except for her mistake: She was told to apprentice Frederic to a pilot, but she misunderstood and placed him with a pirate instead. Frederic tells the pirates that, after he leaves the gang, he intends to destroy them, not because he doesn’t love them, but because he loathes what they do. He is a slave of duty and, when no longer a pirate, it will be his duty to destroy them. The pirates understand, and also complain that they cannot seem to make money. Because Frederic is a slave-of-duty to the pirates until noon, he tells them why: Because they are all orphans, the pirates will not rob another orphan; and since all their potential victims are aware of this, they all claim to be orphans! Because Frederic has spent his entire life with the pirates, he has never seen another woman; thus he thinks he may want to take Ruth with him as his wife. He asks Ruth if she is beautiful, and she responds that she is. Frederic, a very trusting young man, says that he believes Ruth and he will not let her age come between them. At this point, however, Frederic hears a chorus of girls in the vicinity. He sees a group of beautiful young women, realizes he was betrayed by Ruth, and rejects her. Frederic informs the girls that he is a pirate, but not for long. He asks if any of the girls will marry him, and the youngest, Mabel, agrees. The pirates enter the scene, and each grabs a girl. Major-General Stanley enters and identifies himself as the girls’ father, demanding to know what is taking place. When the pirates tell Major-General Stanley that they intend to marry his daughters, he objects, saying he has an aversion to having pirates for sons-in-law; the pirates respond that they are opposed to having major-generals as fathers-in-law, but that they will put aside the objection. Knowing about the pirates’ weakness, Major-General Stanley tells them he is an orphan and, thus, disarms the pirates and takes his daughters, along with Frederic, away to his family chapel and estate. ACT II – The Ruined Chapel by Moonlight The major-general, who actually is not an orphan, soon feels guilty about the lie he told the pirates. Frederic, however, has a plan to lead a squad of zany policemen against the his old gang. Before he can act, however, the pirate king and Ruth arrive to tell him that he is still obligated to the pirates. Because Frederic was born on February 29 — a leap year, he has served only five birthdays, not the twenty-one required by his contract. A strong sense of duty forces Frederic to relent, and, because he is a member of the pirate band again, to reveal the truth that Major-General Stanley is not an orphan. The pirate king vows that he will have revenge on the major-general. Mabel enters and begs Frederic not to go back to the pirates, but bound by duty, he leaves. The police ready their attack on the pirates, while the pirates creep in to take revenge on the major-general. The pirates defeat the police. However, when Ruth divulges that the pirates are really noblemen and they swear their allegiance to the queen, the tables are turned–and the police take the pirates prisoner. However, because the pirates have never really hurt anyone, they are soon forgiven. The ex-pirates win the girls, Frederic wins Mabel, and everyone lives happily ever after. Major General Stanley Tony Finnegan (Ire) The Pirate King John Owen Miley-Read (Aus) Brian Gilligan (Ire) Matthew Mannion (USA) Sergeant of Police Derek Ryan (Ire) Rachel Croash (Ire) Imelda Drumm (Ire) Annaliesa Evans (Ire) With the Lyric Opera Chorus & Lyric Opera Orchestra Wilson Shields Director/Designer Vivian J. Coates Mary MacDonagh Alastair Kerr Main Opera Characters The Major General Buffo Baritone Bass Baritone Frederic (the Apprentice Pirate) Samuel (the Pirate King’s Lieutenant) Major General Stanley’s Daughters Mabel (in Love with Frederic) Mezzo Soprano Speaking Role Ruth (a Piratical Maid of All Work) Musical Numbers 1. “Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry” (Samuel and Chorus of Pirates) 2. “When Fred’ric was a little lad” (Ruth) 3. “Oh, better far to live and die” (Pirate King and Chorus of Pirates) 4. “Oh! false one, you have deceiv’d me” (Frederic and Ruth) 5. “Climbing over rocky mountain” (Chorus of Girls) 6. “Stop, ladies, pray” (Edith, Kate, Frederic, and Chorus of Girls) 7. “Oh, is there not one maiden breast?” (Frederic and Chorus of Girls) 8. “Poor wand’ring one” (Mabel and Chorus of Girls) 9. “What ought we to do?” (Edith, Kate, and Chorus of Girls) 10. “How beautifully blue the sky” (Mabel, Frederic, and Chorus of Girls) 11. “Stay, we must not lose our senses” … “Here’s a first-rate opportunity to get married with impunity” (Frederic and Chorus of Girls and Pirates) 12. “Hold, monsters” (Mabel, Major-General, Samuel, and Chorus) 13. “I am the very model of a modern Major-General” (Major-General and Chorus) 14. Finale Act I (Mabel, Kate, Edith, Ruth, Frederic, Samuel, King, Major-General, and Chorus) “Oh, men of dark and dismal fate” “I’m telling a terrible story” “Hail, Poetry” “Oh, happy day, with joyous glee” “Pray observe the magnanimity” (reprise of “Here’s a first-rate opportunity”) 15. “Oh, dry the glist’ning tear” (Mabel and Chorus of Girls) 16. “Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted” (Frederic and Major-General) 17. “When the foeman bares his steel” (Mabel, Edith, Sergeant, and Chorus of Policemen and Girls) 18. “Now for the pirates’ lair!” (Frederic, Ruth, and King) 19. “When you had left our pirate fold” [The “paradox” trio] (Ruth, Frederic, and King) 20. “Away, away! My heart’s on fire!” (Ruth, Frederic, and King) 21. “All is prepar’d; your gallant crew await you” (Mabel and Frederic) 22. “Stay, Fred’ric, stay” … “Ah, leave me not to pine” … “Oh, here is love, and here is truth” (Mabel and Frederic) 23. “No, I’ll be brave” … “Though in body and in mind” (Reprise of “When the foeman bares his steel”) (Mabel, Sergeant, and Chorus of Police) 23a. “Sergeant, approach!” (Mabel, Sergeant of Police, and Chorus of Police) 24. “When a felon’s not engaged in his employment” (Sergeant and Chorus of Police) 25. “A rollicking band of pirates we” (Sergeant and Chorus of Pirates and Police) 26. “With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal” (Samuel and Chorus of Pirates and Police) 27. “Hush, hush, not a word!” (Frederic, King, Major-General, and Chorus of Police and Pirates) 28. Finale, Act II (Ensemble) “Now what is this, and what is that?” “You/We triumph now” “Away with them, and place them at the bar!” “Poor wandering ones!” Tony Finnegan Tony, a graduate from The Guildford School of Acting and Dance, is lucky enough to able to split his time between acting and directing in equal measure and considers himself fortunate to work in some of the loveliest theatre venues. These include The National Concert Hall (Dublin), The Gaiety Theatre (Dublin and The Isle of Man), Landskrona Theatre (Sweden), The Waterfront Theatre, (Belfast) and Opera Houses in Belfast, National Opera House,Wexford and the opera House, Buxton. In November 2017 he made his debut in Ireland’s National Theatre – The Abbey – directing FLYNN – a world premiere – in The Peacock Theatre. Last year he directed (and starred in) Annie in The National Concert Hall, Dublin. His next acting role will be The Lion In Festival Productions’ Christmas show The Wizard of Oz here in The National Concert Hall. Amongst the shows in 2019 that Tony will direct are Spamalot on the Isle of Man and Urinetown in Rush, Co. Dublin. Imelda Drumm Delighted to return to Lyric Opera, Mezzo-Soprano Imelda Drumm graduated in business from D.C.U. prior to commencing her international singing career. She was spotted by Glyndebourne Opera in her early twenties; Glyndebourne fostered her talent, supporting her at the National Opera Studio, London. A stellar career as principal artist followed. Imelda enjoyed 15 years at Welsh National Opera. Returning home she embarked on advanced studies, receiving her Doctor in Music Performance from the RIAM in 2017. Recordings include, Falstaff S4C TV, Hansel Channel 4 TV, and Jenůfa, with Sir Charles Makerras. Imelda continues to perform regularly. She is a vocal lecturer at the RIAM. Future performances include Amneris Aida, Bord Gais, Nov/ Dec with INO. Brian Gilligan Trained at FACT Theatre School, The Royal Irish Academy of Music and The Abbey School of Music and Drama. Brian has performed many leading roles both at home and abroad which include Tommy Gilroy Jimmys Hall (Abbey Theatre Dublin), Giuseppe Zangarra Assassins (The Gate Theatre), Stock Jock Eugenius (The Other Palace), Frederic – Pirates of Penzance (Festival Productions – NCH), Mad Magician Bananaman (Southwark Playhouse), Lead role of Guy Once (Olympia Theatre, Dublin), Marco The Gondoliers (Festival Productions –Buxton Opera House), Deco and Billy The Commitments (West End & UK & Ireland Tour), Cornelius Dr Faustus (Duke of Yorks Theatre), Bruno Piaf (Charing Cross Theatre), Perchik Fiddler on the Roof (Gaiety Theatre), Man 1 Songs for a New World (Muse Theatre Company), Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates (Gaiety Theatre), Boy 4 Anglo the Musical (Olympia), Michael Collins a Musical Drama (Tivoli). Rachel Croash Dublin Soprano Rachel Croash was a finalist in the 9th Festspiele Immling International Singing Competition and was subsequently invited to perform Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice as well as Gilda in selected scenes of Rigoletto in the Festival’s Verdi Gala in 2017. Other roles include Valencienne The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera Productions), Elvira L’Italiana in Algeri (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival), Mademoiselle Silberklang Der Schauspieldirektor (Irish National Opera), Una Eithne (Opera Theatre Company), Mrs.Coyle Owen Wingrave (Opera Collective Ireland), Fiordiligi Così fan tutte (Lismore Opera Festival), Susanna Susanna’s Secret (Opera Theatre Company), Serafina Il Campanello, Reneé Koanga, Dew Fairy Hänsel and Gretel, Annina La Traviata (Wexford Festival Opera) , Frasquita Carmen (RTÉ Concert Orchestra; Cork Operatic Society). John Owen Miley Read is an Australian Bass-Baritone who recently moved back to Ireland. He is reprising the role of The Pirate King, which has previously won him ‘Best Male Performer’ at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, Buxton. Other roles include Sarastro The Magic Flute, Salieri in the Irish Premiere of Mozart and Salieri, Valens Theodora, Schaunard La Bohème, Masetto Don Giovanni, Strephon Iolanthe, Simone Gianni Schicchi, Un Arbre L’enfant et les Sortileges, Bluff The Impresario, The Lion Pyramis and Thisbe, Frank Die Fledermaus as well as creating the roles of Alexander Kommilitonen by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the Earl of Kildare from the opera of the same name. He has sung roles at houses all over the world including Covent Garden and Glyndebourne with singers such as Joyce Di Donato, Alice Coote and Natalie Manfrino. Matthew Mannion Matthew Mannion, Baritone, is a final year undergraduate in the Royal Irish Academy of Music studying with Owen Gilhooly and Dr. Dearbhla Collins. He has recently performed with Irish National Opera Orfeo ed Euridice and premiered the role of Liam BackStage in the Cork Midsummer Festival. He has also sung roles such as Scipio, Scipio’s Dream (RIAM), Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte (Flat Pack Music), Marchese La Traviata, Morales Carmen and Imperial Commissioner Madama Butterfly (Lyric Opera) and (Bowdon Opera Festival), Masetto Don Giovanni (Opera Britain), Bartolo Le Nozze di Figaro (DIT), Second Elder Susanna (DIT) (Yorke Trust), Angelotti Tosca (Bowdon Festival Opera), Kromov The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera), and Uncle Yakuside Madama Butterfly (RTE). Annaliesa Evans Winston Shields Wilson is based in Belfast and is currently musical director for Belvoir Players Studio Theatre, New Lyric Operatic Company, Lisnagarvey Operatic, Belfast Music and Drama Society and the Ulster Operatic Company. Next year he continues his association with Douglas Choral Union in the Gaiety Theatre on Isle of Man. Wilson has conducted the N Ireland premieres of Mack and Mabel, Camelot, Witches of Eastwick, Copacabana, Chess, West Side Story, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Avenue Q and White Christmas – most of them at the Grand Opera House, Belfast. He has appeared at both Waterford International Light Opera Festival and the Gilbert and Sullivan International Festival in Buxton winning amongst numerous awards best show The Pirates of Penzance. Future projects this season include 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee, The Sound of Music, Annie, Footloose, Oklahoma! and Spamalot. He has also collaborated on a new musical Twisted -a sequel to Oliver Twist- which will premiere next February. Returning from abroad having worked in most of the opera companies in the UK, Vivian Coates has spent much of his career in Ireland nurturing and presenting young Irish talent on stage and guiding them on their first professional rung of the ladder. He is recognised for the tireless work he has done in keeping core opera alive in this city. He is privileged to be able to mix his opera productions with his love for musical theatre directing and designing in most of the main theatres in Ireland which include The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, The Grand Opera House, Belfast, The National Opera House, Wexford and the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Opera productions include Aida, Il Trovatore, Don Giovanni, Hansel und Gretel, I Due Foscari, La Traviata, Carmen, Nabucco, Macbeth, La Bohéme. Turandot, Suor Angelica, The Turn of the Screw, Rusalka, Cavalleria rusticana, Madama Butterfly, Attila and many others. With many musical theatre projects in his repertoire, Mr Coates has received extraordinary accolades for his recent work with The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Harrogate receiving five star reviews (The Stage & The Daily Mail) for three of his productions. In 2015 he designed two sets for The Music of Northern Ireland, which received 4 EMMY’S in the 2016 roll of honour. In 2007 he was honoured to receive a Knighthood and title of Cavaliere by the Italian Government for his work in presenting Italian opera in Ireland. Recent productions include Sweeney Todd (The National Opera House). This Christmas he will direct the family favourite The Wizard of Oz here at the NCH. © Lyric Opera Productions 2022	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line49
__label__cc	0.619118	0.380882	Little Dorrit (2008) The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked. Kingsley Frances-Gray Judy Parfitt Russell Tovey Amanda Redman James Fleet Diarmuid Lawrence (director) Adam Smith (director) Dearbhla Walsh (director)	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line50
__label__cc	0.702827	0.297173	Career & Areas of Expertise Daniel Mugerin started his career after completing internships at various leading law firms in their EU/French Competition Law and French Public Law departments (in Paris and Brussels: Gide Loyrette Nouel; in Paris: August & Debouzy, Baker & McKenzie, Herbert Smith) and also in international business law (Damant Bostock Inc. in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa). Daniel Mugerin was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004. After his junior years as Associate at Paris law firm Deprez Dian Guignot, Daniel Mugerin set up his independent practice in 2007. Originally exclusively focused on EU/French Competition Law and French Public and Administrative Law, Daniel Mugerin’s law firm has gradually expanded into the areas of Corporate Law and Criminal Law in order to provide its clients with a one-stop fully integrated range of services. The geographical outreach of Daniel Mugerin’s law firm not only comprises Continental France but also the French Overseas Départements (firstly Guadeloupe and Martinique), and also the Caribbean Basin (CARICOM) where professional ties have been established with English-speaking independent law firms, most notably in Antigua & Barbuda, in the Commonwealth of Dominica and in Trinidad & Tobago. Daniel Mugerin provides court representation in Continental France and in the French Overseas Départements, especially Guadeloupe and Martinique. To contact daniel mugerin Education and Academic Teaching Daniel Mugerin was born in 1973 in Paris. He graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris – Sciences Po in 1995 and holds a Master of International and European Law (1997) and a Postgraduate Specialised Degree (“DESS – Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées”) in European Business Law from the University of Paris V René Descartes. Daniel Mugerin graduated from the Paris Bar School (Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris) in 2003 and holds the “CAPA – Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat”. Daniel Mugerin is fluent in French, English and German and holds diplomas from the British Institute and the Goethe-Institut. In 1994, Daniel Mugerin was an intern at the French Secretariat-General of National Defence (SGDN – French Prime Minister’s Office) and completed his national/military service duty (CSNA) at the French Embassy (Institut Français) in Taipei, Taiwan. Between 2007 and 2015, Daniel Mugerin was a professor of Constitutional Law and Political Institutions and of EU Institutional Law at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. There he also acted as an elected representative of Sciences Po’s professors at the Joint Committee (2010-2016) and at the Board (2013-2016). Daniel Mugerin also acted as the President (College of Professors) of the Joint Committee between 2013 and 2015.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line51
__label__wiki	0.631339	0.631339	Phoenix-based emergency services contractor RestorationHQ ranks No. 3737 on 2021 Inc. 5000 RestorationHQ management includes (left to right) Alvaro Parra, Operations Manager; Brandie Hopwood, Director of Marketing; and Sergei Guk, Owner. Inc. Magazine reveals annual list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, the Inc. 5000 NEW YORK, August 24, 2021 – Inc. magazine revealed that Phoenix-based RestorationHQ is No. 3737 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. RestorationHQ, an emergency services contractor, boasted growth of 89 percent. It is one of 117 Arizona-based companies to make the Inc. 5000 ranking. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment – its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000. Celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2020, RestorationHQ attributes its growth and success to its core values. “Through our core values, we create partnerships; we are teammates,” said RestorationHQ Owner Sergei Guk. “Those core values include a can-do attitude; a thirst for learning; professionals who are personable and enjoyable to work with; taking extreme ownership and being trustworthy; and emphasizing attention to detail. We train our crews as emergency responders from the start. We create and refine processes to be the most efficient, in and out of the field.” RestorationHQ services include emergency response and mitigation from water intrusions and fire damage; mold remediation; asbestos abatement; hazmat/bio-cleaning services; post-mitigation reconstruction and other building-related emergency issues. Not only have the companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 been very competitive within their markets, but this year’s list also proved especially resilient and flexible given 2020’s unprecedented challenges. Among the 5,000, the average median three-year growth rate soared to 543 percent, and median revenue reached $11.1 million. Together, those companies added more than 610,000 jobs over the past three years. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. “The 2021 Inc. 5000 list feels like one of the most important rosters of companies ever compiled,” says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. “Building one of the fastest-growing companies in America in any year is a remarkable achievement. Building one in the crisis we’ve lived through is just plain amazing. This kind of accomplishment comes with hard work, smart pivots, great leadership, and the help of a whole lot of people.” RestorationHQ holds more than 20 current certifications, training, and safety courses including the IICRC (the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification, the certifying body for the inspection, cleaning and restoration industry), AHERA Accreditation (Asbestos Hazards Emergency Response Act), EPA, OSHA, and other governing bodies responsible for compliance regulation and continued education. “What has helped us grow is that we embrace restless resiliency,” Guk said. “We lose sleep so our customers don’t have to. We plan for agility and are prepared to pivot.” For more information visit www.RestorationHQ.us. More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000 Companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2017. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2020. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2017 is $100,000; the minimum for 2020 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to three decimal places. There was one tie on this year’s Inc. 5000. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000. About Inc. Media The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including web sites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Vision Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line55
__label__wiki	0.656513	0.656513	Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Beyond Standing Rock: The Past, Present, and Future of the Water Protectors (Santa Fe, New Mexico) – The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) is pleased to present its latest exhibition opening in Feb. 23 to Oct. 27, 2019, Beyond Standing Rock. The exhibition takes a look at one of the most widespread grassroots movements in recent history, highlighting works created at the protest by Native and non-Native artists. From early 2016 to early 2017, the Sioux Nation (Očhéthi Šakówiŋ) of Standing Rock Reservation protested corporate abuses of Native sovereignty and welfare. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) planned construction through Standing Rock reservation, violating the 1851 Fort Laramie treaty and compromising the Sioux Nation’s access to clean water. As the movement grew, more than one hundred Native nations and allies gathered together to preserve the land through peaceful protest. The protest gained international attention through images, videos, and posters. Zoe Urness features her Heard Fair award-winning photo, Dec. 6, 2015: No Spiritual Surrender, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography by World Literature Today. Urness, a member of the Tlingit Tribe, provides a look through the protestors’, or water protectors’, lens as veteran allies joined the movement. The photo captures the winter conditions water protectors endured as local authorities opposed action. Painter as well as Onondaga and Nez Perce tribe member, Frank Buffalo Hyde debuts his newest work titled Snow Globe—Welcome to Native America Now Go Home. Buffalo Hyde, who draws on his lived experiences while commenting on unconscious observation, confronts Native response to corporate and legally sanctioned trespasses in his painting. The piece documents the very source of the Beyond Standing Rock’s curatorial concept: Advocacy in art. Navajo photographer and multimedia documentarian, Pamela J. Peters, specializes in representing contemporary urban Indians. Several of her works presented in the exhibit highlight the words of water protectors presented on Standing Rock Reservation land. Along the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline construction site, water protectors created signs of dissent. Her photography documents a singular, focused message. Native land is sacred and compromising the Nation’s water supply is inhumane. Christi Belcourt, a Métis visual artist, born to a politically and artistically inclined family, brings her print to Santa Fe. Among the many photos distributed on social media, visual artists used their talents to raise awareness. Belcourt was among the many printmakers creating posters which were shared on Twitter and Facebook. Belcourt’s featured poster, Water is Life, uses a minimalist color scheme to great impact, accenting the circular way the environment creates and supports life. C. L. Kieffer Nail and Devorah Romanek curated Beyond Standing Rock exhibit’s predecessor Entering Standing Rock: The Protest Against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The original exhibit sourced material from social media platforms to help water protectors stoke political urgency in the absence of major media coverage. Through sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the Standing Rock movement raised awareness and organized action, emphasizing art as advocacy. The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s exhibit expansion features pieces that record events leading up to the movement as well as related events. The additions include photographs and sculptures inspired by similar violations while looking at environmental consequences. Kieffer Nail discussed this aspect of the expansion. “Although the protests at Standing Rock are over, there are many themes of what happened there that have a history of occurring and we continue to see happening on Native lands. Because these themes persist, it is important to highlight in detail one or more current events and draw parallels to other events.” Two years after the last water protectors were evicted from the construction site, the impact of their message comes through in their artwork. Beyond Standing Rock blends artistic tradition and action as it evokes a future of advocacy for Native rights. The exhibition Beyond Standing Rock is organized by C. L. Kieffer Nail and The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. The original exhibition, Entering Standing Rock: The Protest Against the Dakota Access Pipeline, was organized by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. About the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: http://miaclab.org/ As the 19th century closed, one of the Southwest’s major "attractions" was its vibrant Native American cultures. In response to unsystematic collecting by Eastern museums, anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett founded the Museum of New Mexico in 1909 with a mission to collect and preserve Southwest Native American material culture. Several years later, in 1927, John D. Rockefeller founded the renowned Laboratory of Anthropology with a mission to study the Southwest’s indigenous cultures. In 1947 the two institutions merged, bringing together the most inclusive and systematically acquired collection of New Mexican and Southwestern anthropological artifacts in the country. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, May through October; closed Mondays November through April, closed Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. 710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87504, Phone: (505) 476-1269. Events, news releases, and images about activities at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and other in divisions of the Department of Cultural Affairs can be accessed at media.newmexicoculture.org. Kathy Whitman Elk Woman: Choosing Oil Over Water...Water is Sacred Frank Buffalo Hyde: Wish You Weren't Here #2 No Spiritual Surrender Water Protector Poster: Lakota No Access Water Protector Signs Putting Canoes in the Cannonball River No Pipelines on Indigenous Land EXHIBITION OPENING! 02/23/19 Beyond Standing Rock 02/23/19	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line56
__label__cc	0.607321	0.392679	NEHAWU KZN statement on the shooting of a patient at Clairwood hospital The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] in the KwaZulu-Natal Province is greatly dismayed and appalled by the recent execution style fatal shooting of a patient in the male surgical ward of Clairwood Hospital, in Durban. This shocking incident reveals the gaps and inadequacies that underpins the security services of the public health institutions in the province. The frequency of these violent attacks taking place in our healthcare facilities in the province further depict a Department of Health that has an avalanche of security lapse challenges which up to so far have not been given the urgent attention they deserve. This brazen attack and display of violence in our healthcare facilities poses a danger to the lives of our members and workers including patients who go to these institutions for medical attention. NEHAWU remains concerned that security services in our healthcare facilities are inadequate and that it makes it easy for assailants to enter the premises armed to the teeth and be able to locate patient they want to finish off. As NEHAWU, we are deeply concerned about the safety and wellbeing of our members, workers and patients who depend on these health facilities for their day to day health needs. It is against this backdrop that we feel that the provincial Department of Health has to own up and take full responsibility for the perpetual security lapses that have taken place and admit that they have dropped the ball when it comes to issues of safety and security. NEHAWU, therefore, calls upon the leadership of the department to refrain from sitting on their laurels and come up with a swift strategy on how to deal with matters of safety and security in the health institutions; it can’t be business as usual when staff and patients have to look over their shoulder from time to time when they are in health facilities. Furthermore, we call for the department to insource security services since private companies have dismally failed to provide proper security to workers and patients. Issued by NEHAWU KZN Provincial Secretary Ayanda Blessing Zulu at 079 519 5622; email: ayandaz@nehawu.org.za	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line57
__label__cc	0.590311	0.409689	Interregnum: The Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011 Home/Final Reports/Interregnum: The Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011 Interregnum: The Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011 menara 2019-07-01T16:51:22+00:00 The MENA region has entered a period in which the existing order is increasingly challenged while an alternative one is still to be framed. This report contends that the Middle East regional order since 2011 has changed in several ways. This is evidenced by the decline in US power and Russia’s comeback, the rise of sectarianism, the growing influence of non-state actors, the return of Arab state permeability, intensified rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the emergence of regional players such as Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, the fluidity of alliances and shifting centres of gravity. However, these and other changes constitute a change within the order, rather than of order. The report also argues that the sovereign state system and territorial boundaries are more resilient than widely assumed and that explanations of regional politics based on notions of Sunni–Shia antagonism are overly simplistic and may even lead to dangerous policy prescriptions. Read the full MENARA Final Report Final Reports The Art of the (Im)Possible: Sowing the Seeds for the EU’s Constructive Engagement in the Middle East and North Africa Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Mapping the Field and Addressing Policy Dilemmas at the Post-2011 Juncture Imagining Future(s) for the Middle East and North Africa	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line58
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__label__wiki	0.835527	0.835527	Difference between revisions of "Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning" Stdeuitch (talk \| contribs) Lktesar (talk \| contribs) {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning''}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, or, The Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes''}} <big>''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, or, The Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes''</big> ===by Francis Bacon=== {{BookPageInfoBox \|imagename=BaconOfTheAdvancement1640.jpg \|link=https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3431858 \|link=https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991016132129703196 \|shorttitle=Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning \|author=Francis Bacon \|author=[[:Category:Francis Bacon\|Francis Bacon]] \|lang=English \|lang=[[:Category:English\|English]] \|publoc=Oxford \|publoc=[[:Category:Oxford\|Oxford]] \|publisher=Printed by Leon. Lichfield for Rob. Young & Ed. Forrest \|year=1640 \|pages=[36], 60, [14], 477 [i.e. 479, 23] p. (the last leaf blank), [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. (engraving) \|desc=folio (29 cm.) \|desc=[[:Category:Folios\|Folio]] (29 cm.) }}''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, or, The Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes'' (commonly known as ''The Advancement of Learning'') is a two-volume work by English philosopher, politician, scientist, and author, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_bacon Francis Bacon], Viscount St. Alban (1561–1626). Born in London to Sir Nicholas Bacon and Lady Anne Cooke, Bacon received his early education from his well-educated parents at home, and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, London.<ref>Jürgen Klein "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/francis-bacon Francis Bacon]," in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Stanford University, 1997-), article revised Dec. 7, 2012, accessed October 3, 2013.</ref><br /> \|shelf=A-4 }}''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, or, The Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes'' (commonly known as ''The Advancement of Learning'') is an extensive study by English philosopher, politician, scientist, and author, [[wikipedia:Francis Bacon\|Francis Bacon]], Viscount St. Alban (1561 – 1626). Born in London to Sir Nicholas Bacon and Lady Anne Cooke, Bacon received his early education from his well-educated parents at home, and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, London.<ref>Jürgen Klein "[http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/francis-bacon Francis Bacon]," in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Stanford University, 1997-), article revised Dec. 7, 2012, accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> [[File:BaconOfTheAdvancement1640Frontispiece.jpg\|left\|thumb\|250px\|<center>Frontispiece</center>]] ''The Advancement of Learning'', written in 1605, is one of Bacon's earliest works. Within these two books, Bacon delves into the study and acquisition of knowledge.<ref>Markku Peltonen, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/990 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)]," in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004-), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> The first book focuses on learning and its importance in every day life. The second book has a much broader scope, covering the state of human knowledge, discovering its weak spots and offering broad suggestions on how it can be improved.<ref>Ibid.</ref><br /> ''The Advancement of Learning'', written in 1605, is one of Bacon's earliest works, in which he delves into the study and acquisition of knowledge.<ref>Markku Peltonen, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/990 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)]," in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004-), accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> The first part focuses on learning and its importance in every day life. The second part has a much broader scope, covering the state of human knowledge, discovering its weak spots and offering broad suggestions on how it can be improved.<ref>Ibid.</ref> After he wrote the book, Bacon's political career gained steam. He quickly rose in power, becoming successively solicitor general (1607), attorney general (1613), and lord chancellor (1618).<ref>''Britannica Concise Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/ebconcise/bacon_francis_viscount_st_albans Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> He also authored numerous other volumes, including the influential ''Novum Organum'' (1620) and ''History of Henry VII'' (1622).<ref>Ibid.</ref> An edition of his collected [[Works of Francis Bacon\|works]], gathered by A. Millar, was first published in 1640. ==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Bacon’s advancement of learning. p. fol. Eng.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on November 11, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1674 (2nd) edition, based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:167-168 [no. 4916].</ref> The volumes owned by Wythe no longer exist to verify the edition, although Sowerby bases her choice on the previous correction of a date "1670" to "1674" from the Library of Congress catalogs. While it may be more likely that Wythe owned the 1674 edition, the date "1670" could also have meant "1640." The Wolf Law Library's [[George Wythe Collection]] includes the 1640, first edition, based in part on this ambiguity and in part on the availability of editions for purchase. Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Bacon's advancement of learning. p. fol. Eng." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on November 11, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1674 (2nd) edition, based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 5:167-168 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648133;view=1up;seq=180 [no. 4916]].</ref> The volumes owned by Wythe no longer exist to verify the edition, although Sowerby bases her choice on the previous correction of a date "1670" to "1674" from the Library of Congress catalogs. While it may be more likely that Wythe owned the 1674 edition, the date "1670" could also have meant "1640." The Wolf Law Library's [[George Wythe Collection]] includes the 1640, first edition, based in part on this ambiguity and in part on the availability of editions for purchase. [[File:BaconOfTheAdvancement1640inscription.jpg\|left\|thumb\|250px\|<center>Inscription, front fly-leaf</center>]] ==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf with engraved frontispiece and engraved title leaf. This copy has the first version of the frontispiece, signed by William Marshall and dated 1626. Inscribed on the front fly-leaf, "Thomas Smith, 1794." Purchased from Bookpress, Ltd.<br /> Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf with engraved frontispiece and engraved title leaf. This copy has the first version of the frontispiece, signed by William Marshall and dated 1626. Inscribed on the front fly-leaf, "Thomas Smith, 1794." Purchased from Bookpress, Ltd. View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3431858 William & Mary's online catalog]. Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637875764455 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991016132129703196 William & Mary's online catalog]. ===Full text=== <div style="overflow: hidden;"> [http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/BaconAdvancementAndProficiencieOfLearning1640.pdf ''Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning''] (35MB PDF) [[George Wythe Room]] [[Jefferson Inventory]] ''[[Works of Francis Bacon\|The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England]]'' *[[Wythe's Library]] [[Category:Francis Bacon]] [[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]] [[Category:Jefferson's Books]] [[Category:Science and Medicine]] [[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]] [[Category:English]] [[Category:Folios]] [[Category:Oxford]] by Francis Bacon Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning Title page from Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. Author Francis Bacon Editor {{{editor}}} Published Oxford: Printed by Leon. Lichfield for Rob. Young & Ed. Forrest Pages [36], 60, [14], 477 [i.e. 479, 23] p. (the last leaf blank), [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. (engraving) Desc. Folio (29 cm.) Location Shelf A-4 Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, or, The Partitions of Sciences, IX Bookes (commonly known as The Advancement of Learning) is an extensive study by English philosopher, politician, scientist, and author, Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban (1561 – 1626). Born in London to Sir Nicholas Bacon and Lady Anne Cooke, Bacon received his early education from his well-educated parents at home, and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, London.[1] Frontispiece The Advancement of Learning, written in 1605, is one of Bacon's earliest works, in which he delves into the study and acquisition of knowledge.[2] The first part focuses on learning and its importance in every day life. The second part has a much broader scope, covering the state of human knowledge, discovering its weak spots and offering broad suggestions on how it can be improved.[3] After he wrote the book, Bacon's political career gained steam. He quickly rose in power, becoming successively solicitor general (1607), attorney general (1613), and lord chancellor (1618).[4] He also authored numerous other volumes, including the influential Novum Organum (1620) and History of Henry VII (1622).[5] An edition of his collected works, gathered by A. Millar, was first published in 1640. Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Bacon's advancement of learning. p. fol. Eng." This was one of the titles kept by Thomas Jefferson and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both the Brown Bibliography[6] and George Wythe's Library[7] on LibraryThing include the 1674 (2nd) edition, based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,[8] The volumes owned by Wythe no longer exist to verify the edition, although Sowerby bases her choice on the previous correction of a date "1670" to "1674" from the Library of Congress catalogs. While it may be more likely that Wythe owned the 1674 edition, the date "1670" could also have meant "1640." The Wolf Law Library's George Wythe Collection includes the 1640, first edition, based in part on this ambiguity and in part on the availability of editions for purchase. Inscription, front fly-leaf Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning (35MB PDF) The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ↑ Jürgen Klein "Francis Bacon," in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Stanford University, 1997-), article revised Dec. 7, 2012, accessed October 3, 2013. ↑ Markku Peltonen, "Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004-), accessed October 3, 2013. ↑ Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, s.v. "Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans," accessed October 3, 2013. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe", accessed on November 11, 2013. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 5:167-168 [no. 4916]. Retrieved from "http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Of_the_Advancement_and_Proficiencie_of_Learning&oldid=71650" Jefferson's Books Science and Medicine	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line62
__label__wiki	0.63394	0.63394	Invite the Public to Observe Court Martial Sessions in News, Security The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has asked the army leadership to make the General Court Martial sessions more open and participatory to the public. Kadaga made this call following a remark by Brig. Charles Wacha, the Head of the Directorate of Human Rights in the UPDF that it is difficult for the public to access the barracks where the army courts conduct their sessions. This was at the launch of the Third Quarterly Report of the Uganda Law Society (ULS) titled, The State of the Rule of Law in Uganda at the Kampala Serena Hotel, Tuesday, 18 September 2018. The Speaker cited the example of when Parliament holds its sittings of the Budget Day at the Kampala Serena Conference Centre so as to enable many members of the public attend the event. “Why don’t you do what we do and get out and sit for purposes of the public being able to participate. If you are really interested in justice, facilitate the public to be able to attend the court martial either as witnesses or as spectators so that we can know what you are doing there,” she said. Kadaga also said that she has intention of lodging cases against soldiers of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces who were involved in the violation of the human rights of civilians in Arua and on the islands. “I want to be told how I can initiate proceedings against a number of soldiers in the court martial or elsewhere for violating the human rights of the people of Uganda. The brutality meted on civilians in the fishing industry has gone on unabated,” Kadaga said. On Sunday, 16 September 2018, while on a fundraising drive in Bukooli Island, the fishing community raised concerns over the increasing torture meted on them by soldiers. The Speaker promised to take up the matter with the concerned Ministers. The President of the Uganda Law Society, Simon Peter Kinobe, offered to support the Speaker in ensuring that justice is done if the army does not get back to her on what action would be taken against soldiers involved in the violations of human rights. “You raised a concern relating to how you can initiate proceedings against men in arms, in the event that the UPDF is not willing, please bring those names to our attention, we are going to start private prosecutions of people that violate rights of Ugandans,” Kinobe added. Prof Fredrick Ssempebwa, the Chairperson of the ULS Advisory Panel also weighed in on the role of the military in the trial of civilians saying that they have always condemned these trials adding that, “the courts have addressed these matter and civilians should be tried in the proper civil courts”. “We don’t see the rationale but it could be explained to us; because am found with a gun which could be licensed, then I must go to the military court?” he said. Ssempebwa added that the Law Society believes only the Director of Public Prosecutions is mandated to try civilians according to Article 120(3) of the Constitution. Brig. Wacha however, said that the trial of civilians is provided for in the UPDF Act if they are found to be in unlawful possession of arms, ammunitions and military stores. The military has come under scrutiny following the chaos in the lead up to and after the Arua Municipality by-elections that saw several Members of Parliament arrested and allegedly tortured. The MPs and other members of the public were also arraigned before the General Court Martial and Gulu Magistrates Court. The ULS quarterly report also notes that there is general rise in threats to the right to life as seen in the recent murder of former Buyende DPC Mohammad Kirumira. “This recent killing is yet another dent to government’s seeming resolve to put an end to the wave of killings that have been plaguing the country,” the report states. The report recommends that the perpetrators of torture should be investigated, prosecuted and punished. It adds that the cases against those arrested and charged for crimes allegedly committed during the election should be expedited to ensure fairness and justice. Tags: andrew gutticourt martialcourt martial sessionsjusticelawlaw and orderlt gen guttiProf.Fredrick Ssempebwathe Chairperson of the ULS Advisory PanelUganda Law SocietyULSuls president simon kinobe Police bans processions as Bobi Wine returns Students body to MAK VC: Summarily dismissing students is not sustainable	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line65
__label__wiki	0.559262	0.559262	George Eliot Born: November 22, 1819 in South Farm, Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, The United Kingdom In 1819, novelist George Eliot (nee Mary Ann Evans), was born at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager. Mary Ann, the youngest child and a favorite of her father's, received a good education for a young woman of her day. Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent. Her first published work was a religious poem. Through a family friend, she was exposed to Charles Hennell's An Inquiry into the Origins of Christianity. Unable to believe, she conscientiously gave up religion and stopped attending church. Her father shunned her, sending the broken-hearted young dependent to live with a sister until she promised to reexamine her feelings. Her intellectual views did not, however, change. She translated David Strauss' Das Leben Jesu, a monumental task, without signing her name to the 1846 work. After her father's death in 1849, Mary Ann traveled, then accepted an unpaid position with The Westminster Review. Despite a heavy workload, she translated Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity, the only book ever published under her real name. That year, the shy, respectable writer scandalized British society by sending notices to friends announcing she had entered a free "union" with George Henry Lewes, editor of The Leader, who was unable to divorce his first wife. They lived harmoniously together for the next 24 years, but suffered social ostracism and financial hardship. She became salaried and began writing essays and reviews for The Westminster Review. Renaming herself "Marian" in private life and adopting the nom de plume "George Eliot," she began her impressive fiction career, including: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1863), and Middlemarch (1871). Themes included her humanist vision and strong heroines. Her poem, "O May I Join the Choir Invisible" expressed her views about non supernatural immortality: "O may I join the choir invisible/ Of those immortal dead who live again/ In minds made better by their presence. . ." D. 1880.Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E...http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian...http://www.biography.com/people/georg...http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/d...	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line67
__label__cc	0.653612	0.346388	Image of the Past: Albion Hotel 1936 April 16, 2014 \| By Spacing Image: Albion Hotel Location: Nicholas Street, Ottawa Date of image: 1936 Source: Clifford M. Johnston, Library and Archives Canada Now the site of the Novatel Hotel, The Albion Hotel was built in 1871 as a modest three-and-a-half story brick building. According to Canada’s Historic Places, “The Albion Hotel was originally the site of a hostelry, founded by Allan Cameron, in 1844. One of the oldest surviving hotels in Ottawa, the Albion Hotel’s massing and design are typical of hotels of the era… The Albion Hotel, one of the oldest surviving hotels in Ottawa, housed a varied array of events and guests during its long history. The building of a new courthouse, (the Carleton County Courthouse) meant more business for the Albion Hotel which was located across the street. The structure’s location made it a favourite meeting place of lawyers and university students. It was linked with numerous famous trials, because juries unable to finish deliberating before midnight were housed there overnight.” More information on the history of the Albion Hotel can be found here. More posts by Spacing For the moment: The Prince of Wales Park Home Redevelopment 101: A guide to residential re-development in Ottawa Image of the Moment: 'Northern Lights" Parliament sound + light show Bank Street at Second Avenue: Avalon Theatre Martha Schwartz: Landscapes, mayors, and bagels	cc/2022-05/en_head_0021.json.gz/line70

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