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__label__cc	0.675214	0.324786	Unblock by Werdsmith By Nathan Tesler Developer: Nathan Tesler Say goodbye to writer's block. Unblock makes writing easy, with professionally designed writing exercises to get you through even the toughest obstacles. With Unblock you have access to hundreds of writing prompts, exercises, questions and quotes that will help you: - Get through writer's block - Discover what kind of writer you are - Develop your writing skills - Get inspired to write - Bring your characters to life - Spark your muse Unblock is a project by Werdsmith. Please note: exercises in Unblock are grouped into decks of cards, which you can unlock by purchasing credits in the app. We've given you a bunch of credits for free to get you started. By Rachel Aquilina I am an aspiring writer, and in writing my first book, I was kind of clueless. I tried many apps to help me with outlines and ideas, even to help with writers block, but NOTHING compared to this. This is the best writing app I have ever used and it has helped me come up with tons of new ideas for my story and I MUST incorporate them into it ASAP. THAT’S HOW GOOD THIS IS. GET THIS APP RIGHT NOW. Good but Could be Better By Incedibly addicting This app has a lot of great potential and is one I’d love to explore. However, the app makes it impossible to do so. Say I’m an author, that’s my job. But my books aren’t selling like crazy so I turn to this app thinking it’s cheap and helpful with getting the ideas flowing. Then, upon opening it, I find that I get two card sets and the rest I have to spend money I DON’T have on an app I thought was free. I understand the developer must make money himself, but more card sets should be available from the beginning. Say for example, the main feature of this app, The Daily Habit. It’s on the AppStore page and mentioned in the description. If nothing else, shouldn’t this be free? Like I said, this is a beautiful app and it’s one that I wish I had the funds to use correctly. The coins should be able to be earned. Say, for example, every time you complete a Daily Habit you get 5 coins. This would make the process slow, but not impossible and the un-patient people will go straight for the option to purchase coins. I truly wish I could’ve enjoyed this app more, but the system displayed is impossible for my budget. Fix this issue and you’ll have a loyal follower. By laney0926 I like the idea of the app and all, and I like how it shows you all the decks you can purchase, but it made me purchase the Discovery deck before it would let me look at the other choices, and then I only had enough credits for one deck, and I wasn’t even really interested in that deck anyway Good, but unreasonable By Awesome amazing rowksksksjsnsn I’ve had this app for a while but really haven’t used it until now.First off, the prompts on it are really good which is why it did get 2 stars.But the fact that there is no way to get credits without buying them makes no sense unless they’re just trying to get all of your money. There should be a way to get credits without buying them. I want to like it... By Pendemonium (Updated) ... but I learned long ago not to purchase IAP credits to unlock features in an app. You can't restore them. So if you buy a lot of credits, then need to switch phones, you are out the packs that you bought with those credits. Please correct me if I'm wrong: things may have changed. Offer a full unlock, or even packs of cards that can be restored, and I will certainly take another look at what this app has to offer. It seems interesting, but I'm not going to get burned again. — It’s interesting that the dev still updates the app, yet totally ignores all of the complaints about the monetization scheme. IAP currency is horrible for anything that is supposed to last. Offering no way to earn “coins” without buying them makes no sense, unless the goal is to force your customers to re-buy everything later on if they upgrade/replace their phone, or have to reinstall the app for any reason. If they were to sell the additional card sets for actual money so they could be restored, or offer groups of card packs for sale – like $10-15 for “full access” – I would buy them. No question. I will not support this form of IAP. Ever. Instant Paywall By Benbo's Reviews for Nerds You're blocked by an instant paywall as soon as you start using this app to unlock the features it was made for and you downloaded it for in the first place. Scummy business practices, stay away. Would be useful, but... By WaZzzzZuPp! this would be super useful if there was a way to earn "star coins" besides just buying them. or, even better, if you got rid of the star coins and just gave us the stuff for free, like your app advertised... i would much rather sit through ads then have to pay for something that is advertised as free. I'm Disappointed... By XxLethallyDemonicxX I like the concept of this app, but the fact that you have to spend money on it without other choices is disappointing. If anything I would suggest being able to watch an advertisement for 5 or so star coins, or even a daily bonus system would work. The 30 (-10) star coins they give you at the start isn't enough to buy the pack they described the whole app about. Ironic much? Very useful app for writers! By rpphoto This is a great way to make sparks fly in your brain, real inspiration and ideas for brainstorming. I don't mind supporting developers; there's a huge amount of time and energy to create these things, and if you don't support the creators they will have no incentive (or economy) to make or update things in the future. This app can really be applied for more than just writing. I'm also using it to focus and create ideas for my photo art projects. Very attractive app, too. Good premise, bad delivery. By K Karwan I would much rather sit through ads than be forced to buy "star coins" to unlock the feature for which I downloaded this app to begin with. They give you 30 coins. Then force you to buy their basic "What kind of writer are you?" package for 10. Well, now that you've slogged through that waste of time, the "beating writers block" bundle (the one this entire app description implies this whole app is about) is 30 coins in and of itself. If you're in my situation, where you are just stuck while writing, don't expect this seemingly free app to help without a price. More by Nathan Tesler Werdsmith Nathan Tesler	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line13
__label__cc	0.518766	0.481234	Adore and Admire ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO ROSS Adore and Admire is an alternate-universe RP which finds a middleground between old-Western cowboy settings, along with steampunk and deep fantasy. The year is 440 AR, and the month/season follows with the real world's and the northern hemisphere. Amelié Gentilesci Adore and Admire :: PROFILES :: Character Creation :: Female Amelié on Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:57 am DOSSIER: Sorcerer Freelancer RANK: Singer -GENDER -AGE -BIRTHPLACE Port Victory, South Thibudis -BIRTHDATE June 14th, 420 AR -THEME SONG + For now: Welcome to my Fanclub's Night! -PICTURE -DESCRIPTION There are only a few things that never really change about Amelié. One: She is 5'6". Two: She weighs about 145 lbs (ok so that could change maybe). Three: She has sparkling blue eyes that instantly grab someones attention when she looks at you. There is a sort of intensity to them that you can't help but notice. When she speaks to you, she generally gives her full attention. Four: Her hair is always long. Five: Her voice is clear, confident, and powerful. It is another thing that can be captivating about her. If she has to start giving out orders, you know she means business. Normally she just sounds like a sweet girl. Other than that... Amelié is a being of free-spirit. Thanks to her abilities via the Ancestors, her hair will shift colors when she wills it from its usual blonde/strawberry blonde color. Sometimes its blue, purple, white, black.... Basically any color that you could choose. Her wardrobe is also a thing that is subject to change since it really can depend on her mood. She has plenty of clothes, and thus plenty of choices for various occasions. A guarantee, however, is that it'll be stylish on her and possibly show off her curves. She knows that she's a pretty girl (and she isn't so hesitant to show it off). She also wears a distinctive pair of earrings all the time for they are precious to her. -PRIMARY WEAPONS A microphone is her weapon of choice if she can get away with it. -SECONDARY WEAPONS A spear is her second choice. -SORCERY SPECIALITY She's a changling with her hair. In a general sense, she can change her appearance slightly at the moment. -SKILLS + Singing + Dancing + Taking control of a situation + Not revealing everything in a situation ^_~ -WEAKNESSES + She feels as if she has to prove herself upon occasion. + She hates feeling useless. + She actually hates fighting. + She is too often self-conscious about herself. -COMBAT STYLE Amelié is a more of a pacifist by nature, but she does know how to fight if she absolutely has to. If she doesn't have a spear on hand, she will mostly try to dodge and get away from her attacker if possible. She might make a few quick kicks or some such if she feel it will actually DO anything to help her in whatever situation she finds herself in. Otherwise she will try to find something in her surroundings to delay her attacker with, or use as some kind of makeshift weapon (in her case things like brooms, long sticks, etc). When she has her spear, however, the inner warrior comes out. She is quick, agile, and unrelenting. Her reflexes allow her to react with haste with either a spin of her spear, a deflection with the shaft, or maybe a parry via the tip. By an instructors standards, she has excellent form. She does possess great upper body strength for she can manage to bend a bamboo shaft when she is training. As long as she some kind of poled weapon, she can deal some serious damage, she is just the best at the spear. A glave would be a fantastic stand-in. -PERSONALITY Words can only go so far when it comes to describing a person, but they shall try to do Amelié Gentilesci justice. She is a woman of strength, integrity, and beauty. She will refuse to back down from a fight should she be challenged unless she knows it to be wiser to avoid the confrontation. She possess the womanly grace that many men may find attractive, and she knows how to use her womanly wiles if she needs to get her way (or if she's just bored. Not that she likes to play with hearts mind you! Though some teasing never hurt anyone). She is quite mature given her age, though her youthful nature does come out to play. For example, she may pester in jest until someone will give in and take a day to walk her around a city should she find them interesting enough. She giggles at silly things, funny things, witty things. She cares about her appearance, and yet she won't if there is not time to worry about such frivolous things or some such. If she can help it though? She wants to look pretty, what kind of girl wouldn't? In that sense, there is an unshakeable self-confidence to her that fuels and drives her forward. She is who she is today because she worked hard to get here, and because of a special few who offered her support and aid when she needed it. If she decides that she likes you, she may decide to aid you in subtle or slight fashions. However, she must be sure that you can take that step yourself and not need to be taken by the hand and shown how to do everything. Nobody likes a complete child. She holds no respect for people that utterly depend on a person (unless she can understand the situation). Then there is the complex issue of war. To her, war is an ugly thing rife with sadness, death, and just overall bad. But like hell will she be unprepared to deal with it. The resolve that has fueled her in her career also fuels her should she need to steel herself for a combat situation. She will take up arms if no one else will and fight to death even if she might be terrified. As a rule of thumb, she tries her best not to show any kind of weakness to anyone and always tries to appear the self-confident Amelié that people know and love. After all, she didn't follow her rebellious streak for nothing! She followed it in order to pursue the thing she was most passionate about. That is another thing that is notable about her. If she feels strongly about something, she doesn't hold back when pursuing it. Ones familial history is not something that always defines them. Amelié made a point of breaking that chain of thinking. She is the daughter of a prominent General who retired to Port Victory once his wife began to take ill. She bore their daughter with some difficulty, and managed to survive the birth though she was in the hospital for a while afterwards. When General Arturius Gentilesci found out he was to have a daughter, he was both thrilled and disappointed. He had hoped for a son to carry on the family line, but was gifted with a daughter instead. The reason he was thrilled to have her was because of the frail nature of his wife whom had been a nurse that had served with his regiment before. Despite his initial misgivings about having a daughter, those were soon broken as his daughter grew and grew. She was quick to learn and perceive things, speaking her first words a bit earlier than other children her age. It was then that he decided he would try to raise her with the strength of a soldier while maintaining the precious frailty of a girl. It was what her mother wanted, and he loved his wife dearly. So she was a child that learned ballet, and minor combat forms. She played the flute, and learned how to stab with a spear. She learned the etiquette of a lady of the upper class combined with the strictness of a soldier. At first it was fun to her, like a game of some sort. People seemed to adore her, charmed by her acceptance to learn and how quickly she took to her different subjects. She had to admit, the attention was rather nice! Though her father wouldn't let it go to her head, drilling her that a puffed up peacock wouldn't survive in the world. It was something she learned quite well since she did notice how some of her fellow students didn't seem to like her for it. Once she toned it down and kept her pleasure more to herself, they seemed to open up more. But then she discovered singing. She had joined her high schools chorale group and was soon one of their shining stars. Her father had already begun to hint at her joining the military, but now she wanted to pursue something else. She wanted to be a singer. No, correction, she wanted to be the best singer there was! Her mother had to remain in the hospital constantly for the past several years, growing weaker and weaker with each passing month. Yet she supported her daughter's dream when Amelié told her during one particular visit. She always visited her mother after school. Her father, on the other hand, was less than thrilled to hear of her plans. It was a wrench that had been thrown into his ideas for the future and well... he kind of went into a rage. They had thankfully been at home at the time, but it was still devastating to her. She hadn't cried so hard in her room before. The words sank in overnight and she didn't bring up the subject again. Her father had told her that if she wanted to become a singer, he would disown her and she would have no home to return to. So Amelié fell quiet and did as he bade her to, learning how to fight better and better with her spear as time went on. She still sang in the chorale, he at least permitted her that, but it wasn't as fulfilling as it had been before. It was hollow, like a shade to remind her of what had been denied from her. It wasn't until she told her mother a couple of weeks later what had transpired between her and father since her mother could clearly tell something was eating away at her. It was her mother who told her to go and grasp that dream no matter who told her she couldn't, or shouldn't. "But what of father?" Amelié asked her mother. "Don't tell him." Was her simple reply with a sly smile upon her weathered face. So that was what she did. Amelié spoke to their chorale teacher and began to take private lessons, using money that she claimed went towards some other kind of lesson when her father asked. Then she went to auditions, writing and singing when and where she could. Sometimes she went to open mic nights doing covers, other times she managed to get small gigs with local bands who needed a singer for the evening or something. It took some time, but by the time she was about to graduate from High School, she was scouted. A call had finally come back. She was so excited she ran all the way to the hospital to tell her mother the good news only.... When she got there, the room was empty. Confused, she asked the nurses if she had gotten the right room and they looked at each other, before turning to her sadly. "I'm sorry but she died about an hour and a half ago or so. She's already been taken down to the embalmer for preparations for her funeral." "...What? Sh-She's..." Amelié couldn't believe her ears at the news, instead staring at the empty room with its empty bed. She hadn't even been told that her mother had died. Her happiest day, had become her saddest. She had never seen her father so broken before that day. They ate dinner in relative silence. During the funeral, she asked the priest if it would be alright for her to sing a song for her mother, and he gave her the go ahead. So she did. It was a sunny day, a beautiful day, one of those days that her mother would have loved. She sang as she had never sung before, tears running down her cheeks, and she could feel something stir within her. It was as if a being had answered, or reacted to her singing. As she began to realize it was an ancestor answering her, her hair began to shimmer with a spectrum of colors like a liquid opal. It drew the attention of all those that were there, and though startled, she didn't stop singing. It was as if her hair had come alive, glittering with the light of life. It was like the Ancestors told her that was what she should do. And her father understood that too. After they had arrived home, he asked her if she was still interested in becoming a singer. She told him the good news she hadn't been able to tell her mother, and how she had been going behind his back to do it. He stared at her silently for a few moments, then merely nodded slowly. "Do as you will. Just promise me you will never lose what we have taught you." He told her tiredly with a wave of a hand, sitting down to his drink then. So she pursued her career with a fierce passion, as if she were a woman possessed. And it flourished with the brilliance of a rising star. She was soon known throughout the different cities, and she had a fan-base that was rapidly growing. Despite it all, her father was proud of her. -SORCERY TECHNIQUES ~ Rainbow ~ 1 Amelié's singing draws the attention of Ancestors and it channels into her appearance. Right now, she focuses it into her flowing hair in order to change the color for the most part though she can create a kind of shimmering effect if she gains a lot of power. -SORCERY FINISHER ~ Flash Bomb ~ 1 With a powerful surge of energy from the Ancestors, Amelié can cause her hair to become a blinding focal point of light in order to distract/disable her opponents temporarily. In essence, it's like a flash bomb that goes off, but is her hair. They can't really see after staring at it. She has to have her eyes closed otherwise this could also affect her slightly, given her bangs close proximity to her eyes. The brilliant light lasts about fifteen seconds or so before going out. -FACE CLAIM [b]Macross Frontier/Aoki Hayato[/b] \|\|\| [i]Sheryl Nome[/i] -CUSTOM RANK - Siren of Thibudis -ALIAS/NICKNAME Vi, Raven, something.... -OTHER CHARACTERS Aurora Shir, Prophet Barius, Kida Armitage Amelié SIREN OF THIBUDIS Credits : 5 Power Level: 1 Re: Amelié Gentilesci Elisa Castillo on Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:13 am Elisa Castillo AXE CRAZY (Admin) Location : Sabrie Rank: Prime Minister of Sabrie Jump to: Select a forum\|\|--MAIN HALL\| \|--Announcements\| \|--The Foyer\| \|--Rules\| \|--Information\| \|--Archives\| \|--OOC\| \|--Postings\| \|--Events\| \| \|--Event Information\| \| \|--Event Archives\| \| \| \|--General Discussion\| \|--Absences\| \|--Logs\| \|--Bestiary and Registry\| \|--Human\| \|--Flora/Fauna\| \|--Legendary\| \|--Event-Based\| \|--Tech Registry\| \|--PROFILES\| \|--Character Creation\| \| \|--Pending Characters\| \| \|--WIP Characters\| \| \|--Dead/Archived Characters\| \| \|--Male\| \| \|--Female\| \| \|--Equipment\| \| \| \|--Templates\| \|--Store\| \|--THIBUDIS \|--The North \| \|--Altis Tundra \| \|--Aenias City \| \| \|--Prophets' Dominion \| \| \|--Aenias Bridge \| \| \|--Residential District \| \| \|--Crown District \| \| \|--Commerce District \| \| \| \|--Alterian Mountains \| \| \|--Highcrest \| \| \|--Farokon \| \| \| \|--The Silver Wall \| \|--Ryuhi \| \|--The Midlands \| \|--Yataris \| \| \|--Yataris Colosseum \| \| \|--Yataris Mineshaft \| \| \|--Yataris Castle \| \| \|--Yataris Station \| \| \| \|--Yatarian Desert \| \| \|--Old Yataris Ruins \| \| \|--Syndicate Headquarters \| \| \| \|--Eulvian Wilds \| \|--The South \| \|--Sky Pirate Cove \| \|--Sabrie \| \| \|--Level One \| \| \|--Level Two \| \| \|--Level Three \| \| \|--Level Four \| \| \|--Sabrian Palazzo \| \| \|--The Underdepths \| \| \| \|--Ill Fortune \| \|--The Great Plains \| \|--Port Victory \| \|--Mt. 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__label__cc	0.501101	0.498899	childhood memories Tag An orb weaver and its web. [image credit: San Diego Zoo] An always delightfully engaging friend asks of the Hive Mind on Facebook: What is the first wildlife you remember encountering in the actual wild (wild is broadly meant here–not a zoo)? Maybe don’t count squirrels. Or maybe do. I’m pretty sure mine was a squirrel. Or a pot gut up at Brighton. Childhood memories. Such hole-y, but ever-tantalizing, constructs (say cognitive neuroscientists, whom I’ve no reason to question, although I’d like to). My timeline ordering is necessarily diaphanous from this far vantage of almost five decades, but the set of vivid memories poking out from the gray mists comprises the following most likely non-boring contenders (for current purposes, deer = boring, although at first-sighting they, too, were exciting): various SoCal orb weavers — hence my early and lasting fascination with and fondness of arachnids and the beguiling, interrupted symmetry of spider webs (was this the seed of my later captivation by mathematics?); praying mantises — hence, subsuming arachnids, my early and lasting chitinous fascination with and fondness of arthropods generally; a brown Desert tortoise, whom we named Fred, my brother and I, and who hung out in the grass and ivy of our suburban Los Angeles back yard one summer, happily devouring our fig tree droppings (Fred did not seem to care for fallen apricots) — hence, yada yada, reptiles; [Later, I had an alligator lizard, also named Fred. He was brown, too. Much later, my wife and I had a cat, also named Fred, whom we rescued from the wilds of our Washington, DC, suburb. Fred the cat was also brown. Fred is the name of all the best brown pets. One day, alligator Fred laid an egg. It had a soft, leathery shell, cream-white with brown stains. Not at all like a chicken egg from the grocery store. Fred with the hard shell and a fondness for brown-black figs laying in the sun did not lay an egg. Fred’s egg never hatched; not understanding why, I was crestfallen. (And cats, silly, don’t lay eggs. But an ancestor that cats deign to share in common with us laid eggs. I think that’s cool. I bet it was brown, that ancestor.)] a hawk, perched on top of a tall party-line telephone pole (it seemed impossibly tall to an eight-or-nine-year-old kid from the L.A. suburbs, and the isolated farmhouses in eastern Washington wheat country were all connected by party lines, and church socials) across and down the draw — that’s what my grandmother always called it, The Draw, as if that was its name — a mile or so south and west from my grandparents’ farmhouse one hot summer day, which one of my ancestral uncles shot, from an impressive distance, with his childhood .22 rifle with the well-worn brown wood stock, the bird’s feathers suddenly exploding — a long time, it seemed, after the rifle hammer made the bullet’s gunpowder explode — and fluttering down against the hot still air, shimmering silhouettes arcing in and out of existence against an infinite deep blue sky (back then, deep blue skies were infinite, especially on hot summer days), the way blue and black dinosaur feathers do when they explode — hence my early and lasting dislike of firearms, and of immature, inconsiderate mentalities; [The hawk flew away, I would guess surprised at the sudden disappearance of tail feathers and angry at such a rude interruption of its respite. One of the feathers, like my favorite lucky agate, I kept for many years.] and, indirectly, an American black bear, who, some time in the dead of an inky starlit night in the Sierras, quietly and neatly tore a perfectly square, hand-sized opening in the corner of a fellow Boy Scout member’s tent (pretty sure it was a blue tent, like mine, but it could have been green) and took his illicit stash of Butterfingers (yes, that kid, who had red hair and freckles and I’m sure a name, and whom I never did much like because he was kind of a bully, was a fucking idiot), and quietly and neatly tore the left rear door off a neighboring camper’s metallic-blue Toyota sedan and took the food from the subsequently undamaged blue and white Coleman cooler sitting under a blanket on the back seat (the sedan owner wasn’t too bright, either, though, unlike freckles the idiot, he had black horn rimmed glasses and was a really nice guy) — hence, my early and lasting appreciation for the wide range of manual dexterity among bears. murison On 2018-05-01 2018-05-01 Filed under essays No Comments	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line26
__label__cc	0.726138	0.273862	27 Listicle Series: Raindrop The recording of Mild Meltdowns began in Autumn of 2016, when Miles Devine invited his ultimate studio band – Timothy Sneddon, Lachlan Earl and Oscar Henfrey – to his home studio to record a full length album alongside co-producer, SPOD (The Laurels, Richard in Your Mind, Straight Arrows). We caught up with the band to ask them their Top Five Debut Albums ‘Top 5 Debut Albums by Raindrop No1. Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn. By far my most stand-out favourite debut album of all time. The perfect amount of raw, unstoppable energy that opened more cosmic doors than any band ever. No.2 Grandaddy – Under the Western Freeway A very special album to me. Grandaddy’s sombre but oh so dreamy vibe is a big influence on my songwriting and production. No. 3 Air – Moon Safari Ah, what I would give to be watching that album being made from behind the recording console. Some of the best recorded orchestral strings ever blended with crazy synth sounds. My Heaven. No. 4. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone The first and only LP of one of the coolest bands I’ve ever heard. Such a sweet amount of darkness, almost too dark at times, yet has one of the most playful vibes of any album I’ve ever heard No. 5 The Avalanches – Since I Left You This album changed my life. It taught me the beauty of LOFI sampling and how music doesn’t have to have any rules. @ Waywards (The Bank Hotel), Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia w/Egoism + RIYM (DJ SET) Event Page: http://bit.ly/Raindrop_AlbumLaunch	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line38
__label__cc	0.593186	0.406814	Boom in Indian Publishing? Posted on December 19, 2011 January 5, 2012 by maddingcrowd While attending the Goa Art and Literature Festival, I found myself, quite unexpectedly, invited to a panel discussion on the future of publishing. The panel’s brief was to examine if the publishing boom, that is currently being experienced, can be sustained. Others on the panel included Chiki Sarkar, publisher of Penguin Books India, Nirmal Kanti Banerjee, Director of K K Birla Foundation, New Delhi, Frederick Noronha, publisher of Goa 1556 and S. Anand, publisher of Navayana. Chiki Sarkar was the moderator and she began by asking whether there was credence to the belief that there is currently a boom in publishing. Most answers to that question were in the affirmative but came with riders, that referred to the abysmal state of distribution as a major factor that dampened growth. So while sales were increasing and there seemed to be a visible increase in the number of people reading, many more readers could be had if there was indeed a well developed distribution system. Frederick, who publishes books that appeal to a relatively small audience, hastened to say that sales were not a benchmark, rather the variety of titles he published. Similarly, Anand and Nirmal pointed that although readers were buying more books, books bought per capita was a low, abysmal, figure of 1 book per person per year and then too this figure was even lower among some languages. What was most interesting, though, was Chiki Sarkar’s answer to her own question. She said that while books were indeed selling in large numbers, they belonged to a few categories. So the best sellers included diet books, cookery books, books that documented success stories like Rashmi Bansal’s Connect the Dots, self-help books and maybe books that belonged to a few other such categories. Among fiction, the books that have captured the readers’ imagination are books that are not necessarily well written but those that “connect with the reader”, now often collectively called the “Chetan Bhagats”. Suffice to say that the publishing boom did not point to an increase in readership over all kinds of books, or lead to an increase in literary output, but led to mounting sales of just a few kinds of books. These categories are now considered safe bets and publishers bet on them because they seem to reflect contemporary readers’ tastes. The implications of this fact are many. For one, the sales of such books might lead publishers to concentrate on them alone much to the detriment of other types of books. At best, it might cross-subsidize the publication of these other types but a publisher would have to justify his/her decision to publish such a book. Moreover, the success of these diet and cookery books might lead publishers of books in the languages to mimic their English counterparts and concentrate on such books alone. This could indeed be harmful as these “language publishers” have so far been doing an excellent job giving expression to disparate voices and offering insights into the lives of a large percentage of the population. Secondly, like Anand pointed out, the huge bookstore chains are concentrating on these “bestsellers”. Under pressure to improve their margins and increase returns on large real-estate investments, many of these stores have begun reducing the inventory they hold. More often than not, this reduction manifests itself as fewer titles being stocked. This while large numbers of the bestselling titles are kept in inventory for fear of stocking out in the face of large demand. On this blog we have often argued that the fact that online book stores have unlimited inventories mean little to publishers in terms of revenues since in most cases books are used as loss leaders. The third implication leads directly to the surge we have seen in recent days, of authors increasingly interested in self-publishing. The ease that technology provides to allow easy self-publishing notwithstanding, we at CinnamonTeal have ourselves witnessed an increase in the numbers who have come to us with a wish to self-publish. While some may argue that these are not books that would have been taken seriously by publishers anyway, we have seen trends that show otherwise. Among our books, we have had a lot of poetry, sci-fi, paranormal thrillers and studies of mythology and oral traditions. Perhaps, this surge in self-publishing, and in subjects as varied as these, is because mainstream publishers just aren’t interested in some kinds of books anymore. Self-publishing aside, the increase in the number of independent publishers and a glance at their lists paints a different picture, of the need for platforms that will allow different voices to express themselves. Surely a measure of the publishing boom would be a discussion on what is being written rather than what is being read. Before we celebrated the boom in publishing, therefore, there certainly seems to be a need to introspect on the quality of our literary output and the means available to us to improve it. Update: In related posts, Shobit Arya, founder and publisher of Wisdom Tree, argues for a balanced and nuanced approach to bookselling while predicting an increase in what he calls “paisa-wasool” (money’s worth) literature. David Davidar, founder of Aleph Book Company, sounds very optimistic when he states that Indian writers are charting their own course and are spoilt for choice with many genres yet to be fully exploited. book publishing, CinnamonTeal Publishing, Indian publishing, self-publishing Last Mile Issues 2 thoughts on “Boom in Indian Publishing?” Sumana says: After reading many, many, many blogs/articles on this particular topic; I’m more and more convinced we need a very innovative publishing model, at least in India. I get a sense that the market, unlike other markets, is not driven by the end user – but by the facilitators like distributors, retailers etc. They’ve decided category A sells, and category B does not sell…period. Its a bit like cricket eclipsing all other games…there is emphasis only on a particular ‘style’ (I can’t even call it genre) of literature, at the cost of stamping out good quality genre fiction. Self-publishing has indeed helped a lot of authors who chose to write specific genres. Perhaps if the self-publishing industry can offer the distribution and retailing end of the business process, a lot more authors would choose self-publishing as an option. The day there are Indian counterparts for the Ludlums, Forsyths, Crichtons, Larssons…I’ll agree Indian publishing industry is ‘booming’! Since big publishers tend to play safe with established authors and there are hardly any literary agents, it looks like self publishing is the only way for new authors and that is why it has a great future in India nine × seven =	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line43
__label__wiki	0.673123	0.673123	The Skeleth by Matthew Jobin Penguin, 2016 (2016) Hardcover, e-Book Reviewed by Hilary Williamson The Skeleth is the second in The Nethergrim epic, a middle grade fantasy series by Matthew Jobin. The first entry introduced three young people in the village of Moorvale, who had been raised on tales of the heroic defeat of the evil Nethergrim by brave knight Tristan and talented wizard Vithric. But did they really succeed? Fourteen-year-old Edmund Bale is passionately interested in magic and seeks to learn in any way he can, even by theft. Edmund adores tall tomboy Katherine Mashal, who helps her father John (one of the original band of heroes) train horses and herself trains as a warrior. She is attracted to Harry, son of the local lord. Katherine and Edmund are close friends with Tom, slave to a brutal master. In The Nethergrim, local children (including Edmund's younger brother) and animals went missing and our heroic trio managed to save some of them and defeat the Nethergrim's minions, while Edmund achieved his first magical feat. Tom left with Katherine's father John, in search of his old comrade, Lord Tristan at his castle of Harthingdale. As The Skeleth opens, Edmund starts to hear the Nethergrim in his mind, cajoling him and tutoring him in magic - why? He's approached by a magic user called Elli who asks for his help, and tutors him. In her father's absence, Katherine is forced to work as a servant in the local lord's castle. Lord Wolland arrives with his entourage, preaching treason. Meanwhile, Tom and John reach Harthingdale to find it taken over by enemy Wollanders and a sorceress who unleashes Skeleth that turns men into zombies. A brave and resourceful Tom finds and helps Tristan, who then sends him on a mission. There are captures, escapes, ambushes and betrayals as the action mounts. Edmund resents Harry and Katherine distrusts Elli. But the three friends continue to stand - and fight - together. While the first episode was pretty solid, this second one has a rather scattered plot. But it does advance the story and ends on a dramatic note that sets the scene nicely for what will follow.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line58
__label__wiki	0.872846	0.872846	Shri Sudhir Mishra, CEO & MD, BrahMos Aerospace honoured with The First Machinist Super CEO of the Year-2015 Award BrahMos Aerospace (May 25, 2015) Print This News NEW DELHI: The Machinist Super Shop Floor 2015 Awards' ceremony held on May 22 at The Westin Pune was a grand success. The awards ceremony saw some of the finest manufacturing plants in India getting honoured and awarded as 'Super Shop Floors 2015'. Also honoured during the event was BrahMos Aerospace CEO & MD Shri Sudhir Mishra with 'The Machinist Super CEO 2015' award. Shri Niranjan Mudholkar Editor & Chief Community Officer - B2B, Worldwide Media Pvt Ltd of The Times of India Group said: "Shri Mishra becomes the first to receive the honour under the magazine's "Editorial Choice Awards" category for his visionary leadership skills in taking BrahMos Aerospace to the next level as well as for his consistent endeavours and emphasis on increasing the indigenisation of BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missiles in the national interest. "We believe Mr Mishra has successfully brought a corporate edge to the two-nation Joint Venture missile manufacturing organisation without compromising on the basic principles and values of the joint venture. "The BrahMos MD & CEO also deserves to win this award because he is directly serving the nation while executing his responsibilities. It is a privilege for us as well that we are able to honour one of India's finest missile scientist and technocrat with the first edition of this award," Shri Mudholkar said. The award was handed over by Shri Kalraj Mishra, Honourable Union Minister of MSME, Government of India to Shri Sudhir Mishra.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line59
__label__cc	0.727352	0.272648	Hurd announces £10m ‘Investment and contract-readiness fund’ In an open letter on the Cabinet Office website, civil society minister Nick Hurd has announced a new £10m Investment & Contract-Readiness Fund designed to help civil society organisations become ready for new forms of social investment and for new levels of public service contracting. In the letter Hurd explains that the recent green paper Modernising Commissioning prompted over 400 responses from third sector organisations and that these and other consultations have shaped the recent (11th July 2011) white paper, Open Public Services, previously mentioned here on this blog. The white paper is part of a continuing ‘listening exercise’ until the end of September. Hurd’s letter also draws attention to Contract Finder, the new central ‘portal’ for all government contracts, which replaces SupplyGov. This, Hurd claims, will open up public contracting to SMEs, “including civil society organisations meeting this definition”. Third Sector Online covers the story here.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line64
__label__wiki	0.548451	0.548451	About Sarah Khan Where in the World Is Sarah Khan? Condé Nast Traveler: How South Africa Is Telling Its Story Through Tourism by Sarah \| Nov 9, 2017 \| Condé Nast Traveler \| 0 comments How much has tourism changed in the past 30 years? In South Africa, the industry was a world away from what it is today: for one, it was heavily white — 1987 was in the final years of apartheid, after all. For its 30th anniversary, Condé Nast Traveler took a look at Six Places You Wouldn’t Have Recognized 30 Years Ago — and I reported on South Africa, then and now. Read it here. I also participated in the Travelogue podcast with CNT editors to talk about this topic. You can listen to that conversation here. Copyright © 2016 By Sarah Khan. All Rights Reserved \| Web Design by Smart Octopus As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. By continuing to use our website, please accept cookie use. To find out more read our cookie policy please click on the "I want to know more" button below.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line65
__label__cc	0.676519	0.323481	Equinics – The Grade I Casterly Rock Posted by ivanyamil at 2:28 pm Previews Pure speed will be on display at the Equinics, where we honor six time Grade I winner Casterly Rock with a race in which some of the best sprinters the Sim has to offer will contest this race at 6.5 furlongs. A full field of fourteen will line up in the gate, let’s take a look at them: 1. Barb Island – LION HEARTED x SMOKE GLACKEN x PENTIRE (GB) Lightly raced five-year-old horse representing the host residency, the Universal Racing Club. He has run well in groups of somewhat lower quality than this one, but shows no wins since December of 2016, so he is sporting a nine race-losing streak that he looks to break. Looking at his speed figures, definitely he is not far off the bests in here, but it is a cause for concern that he does not like to be in that winners circle. His trainer dumbest is trying to change his style from a pure need the lead sprinter to a stalker, and his last two races are proof that apparently that adjustment is starting to pay dividends. We cannot recommend him as one of the top choices in this race, but there is hope from his entourage that he still can improve and have a nice five-year-old campaign. However, for now, the most he can aspire is a lower exotics placement at most. 2. Yo Whasupp – FED BIZ x INDIAN RIDGE x EL GRAN SENOR This consistent colt is carrying the colors of the Elite Residency, and with four wins and six seconds from a total of eleven lifetime starts, you know he is a very dependable horse. Looking at his resume, it is obvious that he has been running against company not nearly as strong as the one he will be facing in this race. But his trainer jbcri63 cannot be any more happy that his prodigy has been selected to such a high level competition, and he vows he will run the race of his life on February 24th. His last race was a solid fifth place finish in the Grade I Malibu Sprint, a race in which he was a 22/1 proposition, so definitely outran his odds. He has maintained a very steady and healthy improvement pattern, and we should see him trying to pick up the pieces, hoping he has a hot pace to run against. Cannot be one of the favorites, but will not be a surprise to me that he ran well enough to sneak into the exotics. 3. Gyoka San – SKY MESA x DANZIG x SECRETARIAT Representing the Midas Residency, this five-year-old gelding out of the much-underrated sire Sky Mesa, he comes from a stakes-winning mare with a pedigree to die for; Danzig out of a Secretariat mare. He seems to be slowly getting into his tip to shape, confirmed by the fact that he has won two stales races in a row, one of them a Grade II, and in his last three races, he has improved his peed figure in each and every one of them. There is no question that this is the deepest and most talented field he has ever faced, but his trainer longdesert gave him a nice eight-week refresher, hoping to maintain that same condition he was displaying at the end of last year. If the morning work is an indication of how he will perform in the afternoon, then his trainer does not have anything to worry about, as clockers have been raving about him over the last month or so. He should be well positioned from the start and with a little improvement, he can be a top contender for the major award here. 4. Metaphorically – TIZNOW x INDIAN CHARLIE x STORM CAT The Universal Racing Club is represented by this four-year-old light grey colt, out of former Horse of the Year Tiznow. His dam was a stakes winner going long over the grass, so he is doing exactly the opposite that he is supposed to do. This horse is coming into this race in probably the best shape of his career, having won his last two races with extremely high speed figures, denoting his current form. Although he has not been able yet to win at the graded level, we cannot overlook the fact that he is an improving colt, and more improvement is definitely not out of the question. He loves to go to the front from the gitgo, and there will be many speedsters trying to grab that early lead. He has shown he needs the lead in order to perform at his best, so we can expect his jockey to shake his reins from the first jump. If he can get that initial advantage, he can be dangerous, but with the abundance of early zip, I will side with others first. 5. Falchion – TAPIT x STORM CAT x ALYDAR He is the number one ranked older sprinter in the SIM, and that is a testament of the quality and deepness of this field. He carries the flag for the Minnesota Testbarn Residency, and he will be making a quick turnaround, after winning the Grade III The Minister’s Deputy down in sunny Florida, a race that was supposed to serve as a prep for this race. Apparently, the horse is feeling better than ever, as he came from off the pace to just nail the runner up at the wire. In talking with his trainer phillipj3, we spoke about the possibility of a bounce, after such a great return. He tells me that the horse has kept the same demeanor he has prior to that most recent effort, so he does not think he will bounce off that win. He is one of these colts that needs a good speed set up for his late rally to be affective, and he will definitely have pace to run against. If he keeps that same condition he exhibited two weeks ago, he should be a factor at the final stages. 6. Annoyances – FIRST SAMURAI x INDIAN CHARLIE x CHESTER HOUSE The entrant from the Megalopolis Residency, he had an extremely productive 2017, with two graded stakes and several Grade I solid figurations in his resume. His last race was disastrous, but that was at a nine-furlong distance, which is not to his liking. Now he is returning to a more suitable six and half furlong distance, and his trainer soft cleverly gave him a refresher after that poor performance. The questions is, can he return to his winning ways in a Grade I, after an eight-week layoff? Certainly seems like a lot to ask, so those questions linger in the minds of the bettors. Work pattern has been solid since his last effort, so he is ready to roll from the bench. Is he good enough to beat these Grade I sprinters? That will be answered on Saturday, but looking at it realistically, probably will need a race to show his best race form. Outside chance. 7. Fabregas Soler – TAPIT x SEEKING THE GOLD x BROAD BRUSH Seven year old veteran representing the always powerful GR Simsters Residency that is making his first start of the year, after having a well thought, spaced campaign that enabled him to win a Grade I late in the year and to perform solidly in other Grade Is. His trainer holdme tells us that his horse is been working splendidly after a very easy allowance win on New Year’s Eve, which was his most recent start. He would have prefer to sneak in another race to be more sure about his fitness level, but right now it is what it is, and he will come as one of the most seasoned horses in this group, and that alone is more than enough to consider him as a threat to win this event. He looks to win his fifth Grade I race and to increase his lifetime earnings to over $5,000,000, and although the quality of the competition is very stiff, he should be forwardly placed from the start and will make his presence felt when all the marbles are at stake. 8. Shaithans Wind – SEPOY x PULPIT x MEDAILLE D’OR This five-year-old horse is carrying the torch for the Racing HQ Residency, and he has been a solid performer all thru his career. Six wins in nineteen starts, with thirteen placings lifetime are the body of his resume, although almost all of his races have been in much lesser company than the one he will be facing in this event. Furthermore, his best efforts so far have come in very short sprints, five and five and a half furlongs, and here he will have to travel at least an additional furlong, a fact that no doubt can be of importance when analyzing a probable outcome. He is coming off two very subpar performances, which he will need to improve dramatically in order to have a chance here. However, his trainer scout1 is old school. He says the only horse without a chance is the horse that stays in the barn, and he is confident about his horse running a credible race and to represent his residency with dignity. And that folks, ultimately is the real spirit of the Equinics. Good luck to all connections. 9. Yeah Thanks – TIZNOW x SUMMER SQUALL x RAISE A NATIVE This horse carries the banner of the Blazing Saddles Residency, and comes into this race with an impressive resume. Ten wins out of thirteen lifetime starts, including seven victories out of his last eight outings, a Grade III win included tell the story of this extremely consistent homebred, out of two time Breeders Cup Classic winner Tiznow. His trainer horseriot gave his colt a nice bolt tightener on his most recent start, that definitely does not look good at the speed figure level, but the main purpose of leaving his best for this race has been achieved, and he is coming into this competition in insuperable form. He loves to sit in the garden spot, so the most important factor for him will be that his jockey gives him a nice trip, in which he finds the space whenever he asks him for his best. There is no doubt that he is stepping up in class big time, but with some improvement, he can be a nice upset possibility if all falls into place. 10. Tappan Z – TAPIZAR x SEA THE STARS x HENNY HUGHES The East West Connection residency comes forward with this colt, who has been in sort of an up and down campaign recently. What is very clear from analyzing his past performances is that he is a definite need the lead type of horse. All his wins have come when he can establish a clear lead on his races, and that, in a Grade I, is much less probable to happen. After a solid win in an open allowance in July, his trainer benpyed rolled the dice, sending him to the Grade I Prince Knight, in which he was soundly defeated. He was then close to winning both a Grade III and a Grade I, making his trainer dream again about Grade I glory. Those dreams were inhumanely shattered after a disastrous performance in the Grade I Malibu. Now in 2018, he as a good second in a grade I and climbs the ladder once again. If he can go on an easy lead, he can be a dangerous horse, but realistically, I don’t see that happening. Not sold on his chances. 11. He’s in Shape – TAPIT x DISTORTED HUMOR x STORM CAT Representing the All Stars Racing Residency, he is a son of mega sire Tapit out of a Grade I winning Distorted Humor mare, and slowly he is beginning to look like the horse his breeder dream he would be. He should be one of the favorites for the Eclipse Award for best Sprinter, due to his win in the Malibu Sprint and his second place finish in the Breeders Bowl Sprint, both Grade I races. So we can call him the now horse, and although he is been on the shelf for almost two months, his trainer primus2 ensures us the colt has maintained the same form he exhibited late in 2017. He has only eleven lifetime races, so further improvement is definitely not out of the question, as he looks to take a firm hold of the sprint division in 2018. He likes to be sitting just off the pace and make a move from the three-eighths pole on, and he will be right in the thick of things at the final furlong. Great chance to win and betting wise, he will be one of the top choices on the board. 12. Scattered Assets – SCAT DADDY x TAPIT x AWESOME AGAIN This horse belongs to yours truly, and I think we can call this horse kind of a Cinderella story. Representing the Empire State Racing Residency, I acquired this colt early last year at the auctions, for a very modest sum of around $40,000. An obvious under achiever, I tried the grass first with him, and he won a quality hot race with a very nice late kick. Then I returned to the dirt in a restricted high claimer, and gave the jockey instructions to hold him way off the pace, and at almost 15-1 he came flying to miss by only a couple of lengths. After that, the horse kept improving and finally, at the end of the year, he won his first stakes race, and followed that effort with his first graded score in the Grade III Kenny Joe Stakes. He started 2018 by just missing in the Grade III Narrowly Missed Stakes, but still displaying that wicked late turn of foot. He definitely needs a hot pace to develop for his late run to be effective, and I hope that pace materializes for him. He is coming in superb condition, and although I would have prefer to have an extra furlong to work with, his chances of winning are excellent, and he will be a force to be reckoned with at the stretch. Big chance. 13. Muhaackrar – MUHAARAR (GB) x SEA THE STARS x GHOSTZAPPER This is the flag bearer for the SIM Hispano Residency. He has been in a roll lately, winning five out of his last six outings, showing blazing speed from the gate and running his competition out of their feet. However, he is climbing way up the ladder for this Grade I event, as all but one of his wins have come at the allowance level. On his next to last race, he won the Band Camp Dirt Memorial down in Sweden, taking them wire to wire while posting very fast fractions in the meantime. No secret about the instructions trainer ottico is giving his jockey; they will take the lead at all costs, and then play catch me if you can. With all the other quality speed signed in for this race, he will have his work cut out for him, and after getting the lead, he will have to improve on his best effort speed figure wise in order to have a chance in here. He should be prominent at the beginning of the race, not sure about his chances of staying the whole six and a half furlongs. 14. Dabigeasy – SKIMMING x MORE THAN READY x MR. LEADER Veteran six year old horse representing the NWRC Residency, he has been a consistent performer all through his career, winning eight races from twenty nine starts and banking almost $300,000 for his owner and trainer bigeasy03. For the most part, he has been competing against allowance horses, so he is climbing up the ladder big time to face these quality sprinters. The times that he has run in stakes races, he has been soundly defeated. But this is the Equinics, where dreams are allowed to turn into a happy reality, and his connections are hoping his horse can run the race of his life to be able to stay within close distance of these monsters. Fitness will not be an issue for him, he has maintain that same good condition he has shown late last year, and making his 2018 debut, he will need his top performance and then some to have a chance in this event. We should see him at the first flight of horses from the start; let us see how far his speed will take him. 12. Scattered Assets 11. He’s in Shape 5. Falchion Add comments Tagged with: Equinics2018 4 Responses to “Equinics – The Grade I Casterly Rock” smokeglack says: Awesome article! Depth and detail. Thank you for the time. Go get em’ punk, we left the alley open for ya Tommy. fastnfirm says: Nice write-up, ivanyamil, and as you know, I’ll be rooting against Scattered Assets! ivanyamil says: I know, good luck with that. 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__label__wiki	0.987057	0.987057	Summer of Love: Festival Season Written by Stella Calvert-Smith on June 27, 2019 in Culture Festivals have become a staple during the summer months, with over a thousand taking place in the UK alone. Now mega-festivals such as Glastonbury and Coachella attract millions of visitors every year, but there was a time when they were more low-key affairs, fuelled by the hippy movement of the sixties, promoting peace and love, and representing the emerging alternative music scene. Clothes were not mandatory, people danced wildly and smoked freely. Take a look at a selection of vintage festival photography to relive those halcyon days… CAUTION! May contain some nudity… Getting to the festival When going to a festival the first hurdle is transportation there. Hitching, training, busing, walking, people will do anything they can to make it to the big event… From Left-Right: Young Americans boarding the train at Waterloo station in London to go to the Bob Dylan concert on the Isle of Wight, August 29, 1969 / Tallandier / Bridgeman Images; Fans Hitch-Hike to the Isle of Wight Festival, August 1970 (b/w photo) / Petersfield, West Sussex, UK / © Mirrorpix / Bridgeman Images But travelling by car may have its drawbacks… People, Hippies Woodstock 1970 directed by Michael Wadleigh / Diltz / Bridgeman Images In the days before luxury yurts, accommodation at music festivals was pretty rudimentary. A bit of plastic covering would do… Knebworth Festival 1974 / Photo © Bill Smith / Bridgeman Images A tiny tent if you’re lucky… Knebworth Festival 1974; Festival goers arriving for the First Knebworth Festival – the Bucolic Frolic); Photo © Bill Smith / Bridgeman Images Bathroom facilities were even more makeshift… Natural Showers at Compton beach’s waterfalls on the Isle of Wight during the music festival, 26th-20th August 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images Hippy chic has come back in to fashion time and time again, but this is where it all started… Hyde Park Pop Festival, July 1970 (b/w photo) / London, UK / © Mirrorpix / Bridgeman Images Left-right: Young Hippies at the Isle of Wight Festival, 27th August 1970 (b/w photo) / Photo © AGIP / Bridgeman Images; A group of hippies in Hyde Park, London, on July 17, 1967 Bubbles were THE fashion accessory… Left-Right: Young Hippies Blow Soap Bubbles at the Isle of Wight Festival, 27th August 1970 (b/w photo) / Photo © AGIP / Bridgeman Images; A hippy girl blowing bubbles at a pop concert, 1969 (b/w photo) / Hyde Park, London, UK / © Mirrorpix / Bridgeman Images And body paint was a great alternative to clothes in the hot weather… Hippy couple with their chests painted, at the Isle of Wight Festival, 27th August 1970 (b/w photo) / Isle of Wight, UK / © Mirrorpix / Bridgeman Images Thousands of fans gather to worship at the stage on which their favourite musicians perform. Crowd at the Bob Dylan concert at the Isle of Wight, 1st September 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images sometimes getting so excited they turn upside down… or remove all their clothes… Crowd at the First Knebworth Festival – the Bucolic Frolic / Photo © Bill Smith / Bridgeman Images Before the modern obsession with health & safety, people would go to great lengths to get the best view Left-right: Woodstock, 1970 / Diltz / Bridgeman Images; Orange music festival, spectators overhang an amphitheatre, waiting for a concert. France, 1975. / Bridgeman Images Incognito celebrities joined the crowds (tactfully ignored by those around) Left-right: Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim listening to Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival, 31st August 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images; John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Isle of Wight Festival, 1st September 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images The reason why everyone is there – the stars of their day perform to large crowds outdoors, come rain or sun… Dylan, Hendrix, Led Zepellin and many others performed iconic shows. Left-right: Isle of Wight Festival: Bob Dylan, September 1st, 1969.); Protest Folk Singer Joan Baez performing in 1965 / Bridgeman Images Ian Paice – portrait of the English drummer performing with Gary Moore at the 1977 Reading Festival. Member of rock band Deep Purple. Photo © Odile Nöel / Bridgeman Images Phil Lynott – portrait of the Irish bassist performing with his band ‘Thin Lizzy’ at the 1977 Reading Festival. Photo © Odile Nöel / Bridgeman Images With some help from the audience… HIPPIE MOVEMENT, 1969 Festival attendees play with other musicians at the Woodstock festival. / Photo © Richard Busch / Granger / Bridgeman Images There has always been a strong spiritual aspect to festivals which carries on to this day. A festival in the sixties was not complete without a visit from a guru. HIPPIE MOVEMENT, 1969 An Indian guru and his followers at the Woodstock festival. / Photo © Richard Busch / Granger / Bridgeman Images Weather conditions can be adverse, especially in the UK, but this never stopped people from attempting to have fun. Two hooded individuals walk through the mud and rain, at Glastonbury music festival; PYMCA / UIG / Bridgeman Images Medical tent at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival, 30th August 1970; Isle of Wight, UK; © Mirrorpix / Bridgeman Images General scene at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival, 30th August 1970 (b/w photo) / Isle of Wight, UK / © Mirrorpix / Bridgeman Images The Long March home Hippies on their way home from the Isle of Wight Festival, 31st August 1970 / Bridgeman Images View festival photography Archival images B/W photography Hippies Hippy Music Music Festival Music Festivals photography seventies Sixties vintage fashion vintage photographs Stella Calvert-Smith Marketing Executive at Bridgeman Images. Lover of art and travel.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line75
__label__wiki	0.724671	0.724671	Unique Homes Unique Homes China The High End The High End 2017 Startup Opens First Official Yacht Office Moving from Amsterdam to the Mediterranean sea, the staff at Boatsters now works remotely on a superyacht. By Alyssa Gautieri As the first startup company in the world to open an office on a yacht, Boatsters now works, meets with clients, and sleeps on the boat. Sailing from harbour to harbour on the Pershing 88, Boatsters, a global rental platform for yachts and boats, enjoys all the comforts their aqua office has to offer. Complete with two double rooms, two twin cabins, and office space, the Pershing 88 is the perfect aqua office. “Being on a yacht is already a rare and unique experience,” says Raoul Milhado, the managing partner at Boatsters. “Every day you wake up, it feels like you are in paradise. Therefore it doesn’t feel like working anymore at all. We usually work every day, because we rent out boats while we are on a boat, so it’s a lot of fun.” Boatsters rents the boat from one of its long-time clients, Roberto Vazquez. “Boatsters is not only a charter company, they have a new life concept which is about enjoy and improve your life,” Vazquez said. “When I met the young partners a while ago, I believed in them.” Because Boatsters has partners, clients and events spread out along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the Pershing 88 is an ideal way of transportation. The yacht office is moored in Mallorca, cruising to all the major harbors such as Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, as well as all the coasts of the French and Italian Riviera. “It’s very special, more productive and a lot of fun,” Milhado says. “We go from place to place, while meeting interesting people, clients, partners, etc. You can’t imagine how cool it is!” More and more companies are realizing that employees need freedom in order to maximize productivity and creativity. Is it possible that aqua offices might become a trend? Milhado believes that the concept may gain traction. “Due to rise of online companies, people don’t have to work in a regular office anymore,” he says. “They can work from everywhere.” While many companies may not have the luxury of working from a yacht, Milhado “really believes that working in a regular ‘cubicle’ office is changing fast.” “Unique offices are popping up everywhere and nowadays it’s a trend to have a unique office with all sorts of amenities at hand for the employees,” Milhado adds. “These office vibes also creates an atmosphere that’s pretty unique for a startup. We’ve noticed a lot of people do want to work with us for that reason.” Boatsters, a world leading rental platform for yachts and boats, has a portfolio of over 10,000 rental boats spread across 63 countries. Boatsters, while simultaneously changing the maritime industry, is innovating what it means to “go to the office.” Photos courtesy of Boatsters PreviousFirst Look Inside Chicago’s 1000M Next4 Luxury Homes That Boast Private Basketball Courts Luxurious Handcrafted Italian Jewelry Luxury Experiences in South Africa Timeless Italian Styles Featured in Gourmet Kitchens 2017 Home Trend Predictions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line79
__label__wiki	0.953466	0.953466	แปรรูป-เครื่องดื่ม er) Edgar dominated B.J. Penn en route to a t er) Edgar dominated B.J. Penn en route to a t(อ่าน 19 ครั้ง) er) Edgar dominated B.J. Penn en route to a t เมื่อ: มีนาคม 06, 2019, 09:52:11 am User name: lw789 LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Frankie (The Answer) Edgar dominated B.J. Penn en route to a third-round TKO on "The Ultimate Fighter" Season 19 finale card Sunday night, defeating The Prodigy for a third time. Penn, who had come out of retirement for the fight, promptly called it quits again. Edgar (16-4-1) was too quick for a sluggish Penn, who had no answers in a lopsided battle of former champions before 6,500 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Penn (16-10-2) occupied the centre of the cage but did little while Edgar circled and attacked. When Edgar took Penn down, he hurt him repeatedly. Referee Herb Dean finally stopped the carnage at four minutes 16 seconds of the third round. "Frankie did a great job," said Penn. "I shouldnt have come back. I shouldnt have been in the ring tonight." And the 35-year-old Hawaiian said hes headed back to retirement. "Of course, this is the end," an emotional Penn told the post-fight news conference after getting stitches. "Im thinking to myself why did you step back in the Octagon after the beating that Rory MacDonald gave you (in December 2012)? The reason is because I really needed to find out. If I didnt make this night happen for myself, I would have always wondered ... I guess I just needed some closure." Despite the bloody loss, Penn said he would have regretted not fighting more. UFC president Dana White didnt stick around to watch the whole fight. "What more do you want, B.J.?" he told the post-fight news conference before Penn arrived. "Theres nothing left to prove." Penn, a baseball cap hiding the damage around his eyes, lowered his head to the table at one point when asked about his legacy. He was too emotional to speak. White jumped in to fill the void. "Hes one of the best 155-pounders of all time," White said. "He built that weight class and he was responsible for helping build the UFC. Thats his legacy." Unlike the first two fights, which were held in the lightweight (155-pound) division, Penn and Edgar met this time as featherweights (145 pounds). Edgar, who was a 4-1 favourite Sunday, took away Penns lightweight title in 2010 and then beat him again in a rematch four months later. He later lost the 155-pound crown to Benson Henderson. Penn, who also once held the welterweight title, last fought in late 2012 when he was beaten comprehensively by Canadas MacDonald in Seattle. He asked to come back to have another crack at the 32-year-old Edgar, with the UFC appointing them rival coaches on the reality TV show. Edgar had gone 2-3-1 since their first two fights while Penn went 1-2-1 before retiring after the MacDonald loss. Sunday marked Penns 23rd fight in the UFC, fourth most in UFC history. It was Edgars 16th trip to the Octagon. A serene Penn ran out to cheers and the familiar Hawaiian strains of the late Israel Kamakawiwoole, although the music quickly morphed into an uptempo remix. The lights dimmed and the pro-Penn crowd started booing. Edgar ran in to "Kick in the Door" by The Notorious B.I.G. The fight started as the first two did. Edgar darted in and out while Penn looked — unsuccessfully — to connect. Edgar scored an early takedown, alternating with launching kicks at the downed Penn and jumping back on top of him. Dean eventually let Penn get up, to cheers from the crowd. It was more of the same in the second as Penn chased the speedy Edgar to little effect before being taken down. The round ended with Edgar scoring with heavy blows from above. Penns face was showing damage as the third round began. The Hawaiian tripped midway through the round, finding himself on his back again. An elbow opened Penns face up as Edgar scored at will in a painful round to watch. "I almost feel bad about it," Edgar said of the finish. The card, coming on the heels of UFC 175 Saturday night, marked the finale to International Fight Week in Las Vegas. The Season 19 finalists were all from Edgars team, marking only the second time in TUF history that one team filled all four spots (Canada also did it in the "TUF Nations: Canada vs. Australia" series. Middleweight Eddie (Truck) Gordon overpowered Dhiego Lima in 71 seconds to win the 185-pound Season 19 crown. Gordon (8-1) put Lima down with a pair of overhead rights at the fence and then landed a dozen more blows until Montreal referee Yves Lavigne stepped in. The 30-year-old Gordon, who trains with UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, has a degree in finance, marketing and communication from Fordham University. Lima (10-2), who fought five times in the Edmonton-based Maximum Fighting Championship, was competing one division above his normal welterweight class. It was an almost exact replay in the 205-pound final as Corey (Beastin 25/8) Anderson hurt Matt (Gutter) Van Buren (7-3) early and often. The fight was stopped after just 61 seconds. Anderson (5-0) has a degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a liberal arts degree from Lincoln College. Both winners earned a UFC contract and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Coaches aside, Season 19 was seen as one of the more disappointing in the series history. White admitted Saturday night that he tried not to think about it any more. Saturdays fight was Penns first at 145 pounds, adding another chapter that has seen him fight all over the weight map, including heavyweight. He looked ripped at Fridays weigh-in — "awesome," according to White. While an icon in the sport and one of only two fighters to win UFC championships in two different weight classes (Randy Couture was the other), Penn came into Sundays card having won just one of his last six bouts. Two of those losses were to Edgar. Also beaten by Nick Diaz, he defeated former welterweight champion Matt Hughes and fought Jon Fitch to a draw. Canadians went 1-1 on the undercard. Sarah (Cheesecake) Moras (4-1) of Kelowna, B.C., won her UFC debut with a 29-28, 29-28, 30-27 decision over Alexis (Sneaky Zebra) Dufresne (5-1) in a fight contested mainly on the ground. Lightweight Jesse (The Body Snatcher) Ronson (13-5) lost a 29-28, 28-29, 30-27 decision to Kevin (The Motown Phenom) Lee, finishing on the wrong end of a split decision for the third UFC fight in a row. Earlier on the main card, flyweight Dustin Ortiz won a 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 split decision over Justin (Tank) Scoggins (9-1), Ortiz (14-3) is ranked 13th among 125-pound contenders. Heavyweight Derrick (The Black Beast) Lewis stopped American-based Brazilian Guto Inocente (6-3) with some nasty ground-and-pound in the first round. Then the 264-pound Lewis (11-2 with on no contest) somehow made it to the top of the fence to celebrate his second win in as many UFC fights. Hydro Flask Online Sale .com) - Jimmy Butler made four key free throws down the stretch to lift the Chicago Bulls over the Boston Celtics, 109-102, on Friday. Rei Hydro Flask Clearance . A question that was repeatedly posed last season, and the season before that and in the 2011 campaign before that. http://www.cheaphydroflask.net/.com) - Ryan Miller made 28 saves to record his fifth shutout of the season and second in as many nights as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 on Friday. Hydro Flask Outlet Store .com) - NFL owners have unanimously approved the sale of the Buffalo Bills. Hydro Flask Water Bottle Sale . Jones took a beating, the worst one of his record reign, in a bout against Alexander Gustafsson that knocked the light heavyweight champion on the canvas for the first time in his career and put his belt in jeopardy.Let the free agency fireworks begin. Canada Day is here and with it comes Free Agent Frenzy as the NHLs 30 teams storm out of the gate for signing season. Live coverage begins on TSN2 and TSN GO at 11:30am et/8:30am pt to set you up for the opening of the NHL free agent market at Noon et/9am pt. Coverage will then continue on TSN at the conclusion of Milos Raonics Wimbledon match. TSN.cas coverage includes instant signing alerts on mobile devices through the TSN GO and TSN Hockey apps, a complete list of available restricted and unrestricted free agents by team, a live, sortable signing ttracker on TSN.dddddddddddda along with video analysis and one-on-one player interviews. The ceiling for next seasons salary cap was set Friday at $69 million - up from $64.3 million. That number is a million or two lower than some projections had it after a year of record revenues. That said, it wont stop teams from courting the summers top names, which include forwards Paul Stastny, Thomas Vanek, Dave Bolland and Mike Cammalleri, blueliners Matt Niskanen, Christian Ehrhoff and Dan Boyle and goaltenders Ryan Miller and Jonas Hiller. ' ' '	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line83
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"Plausibility in Post-Normal Times." Working Paper. Under development. Rogers, H.,S. "American Letters Selections." Kingman: Tiny Publications. Selin, Cynthia. In review. "Diagnosing Futures: Producing Scenarios to Support Reflexive Governance of Technology." Social Studies of Science, special issue. Selin, Cynthia et al. In review. "Experiments in Engagement: Designing PEST for Capacity Building." Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/0963662515620970 Selin, Cynthia, et al. "New Dimensions of Plausibility." Working Paper. Under preparation for Nature. Selin, C. and Rodegher, S.. "Parity and Participation: The Role of Social Influence in Scenario Planning." Presentation. International Conference on Anticipation. Trento, Italy. Selin, Cynthia and Arnim Wiek. "A. Seeing and Unseeing: The Refracted Relevance of Plausibility in Scenario Development." Working Paper. Under development for World Future Review. Su, Leona Yi-Fan, Heather E. Akin, Dominique E. Brossard, Ashley A. Anderson and Dietram A. Scheufele. In review. "Science Audience Tectonics: News Consumption Pattern and it's Implication for Public Understanding of Science." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Su, Leona Yi-Fan, Heather E. Akin, Dominique E. Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele and Michael A. Xenos. In review. "Science Audience Tectonics: News Consumption Pattern and its Implication for Public Understanding." Presentation. Annual Conference for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Washington, DC. Su, Leona Yi-Fan, Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele, Dominique A. Brossard and Michael A. Xenos. In review. "Inequalities in Scientific Understanding: Differentiating between Factual and Perceived Knowledge Gaps." Science Communication. doi: 10.1177/1075547014529093 Su, Leona Yi-Fan, Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele and Michael A. Xenos. In review. "Inequalities in Scientific Understanding: Connecting Traditional Media, Science Blog Attention and Interpersonal Discussion with Factual and Perceived Knowledge Gaps." Mass Communication and Society. Wender, Benjamin A., Rider W. Foley, Valentina Prado, Daniel Eisenberg, Troy A. Hottle, Jathan Sadowski and Thomas P. Seager. In review. "Anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment for Responsible Research and Innovation." Journal of Responsible Innovation. doi: 10.1080/23299460.2014.920121 Wicksen, Fern, Michael D. Cobb and Patrick Hamlett. In review. "Review of deliberative processes: National Citizens Technology Forum - USA." Democratisation of Science and Technology Development: Deliberative Processes in the Development of Nanotechnologies, ed(s). S. Pal, G. Scholl and S. Eivind, Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing. Wiek, Arnim, Foley, Rider W., David H. Guston and Michael J. Bernstein. In review. 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__label__cc	0.693677	0.306323	Tag Archives: data journalism Data, How-To Making A Football Data Viz With D3 and Reveal.js October 12, 2017 Shijith Kunhitty This is a write-up on how I made a slideshow for the Under-17 World Cup. The U-17 World Cup is the first-ever FIFA tournament to be hosted by India. Like many of you, I’ve seen plenty of men’s World Cups, but never an U-17 one. To try and understand how the U-17 tournament might be different from the ‘senior’ version, I compared data from the last U-17 World Cup held in Chile in 2015 and the last men’s World Cup in Brazil in 2014. The data was taken from Technical Study Group reports that are published by FIFA after every tournament. (The Technical Study Group is a mixture of ex-players, managers and officials associated with the game. You can read more about the group here.) In particular, I used the reports for the 2014 World Cup and the 2015 U-17 World Cup. The data was taken pretty much as is, and thankfully didn’t have to be processed much. An example of the data available in the report can be seen in the image below. It shows how the 171 goals in the 2014 World Cup came about. The main takeaway from the comparison with the men’s World Cup is that the U-17 World Cup might see more goals and fewer 0-0 draws on average. The flipside is that there could be more cards and penalties too. For more details, check the slideshow. BE LESS INTIMIDATING FOR READERS I know just using one World Cup each to represent men’s and U-17 football may not be particularly rigorous. We could have also used data from the previous three or four World Cups in each age format. But if I did that, I was scared the data story would become more dense and intimidating for readers. I wanted to make this easy to follow along and understand, which is why I simplified things this way. Another thing I did to make this easier to digest was to stick to one main point per card (see image above). The main point is in the headline, then you get a few lines of text below showing how exactly you’ve arrived at the main point. The figures that have been calculated and compared are put in a bold font. Then there is an animated graphic below that, which visually reinforces the main point of the slide. The data story tries to simulate a card format, one that you can just flick through on the mobile. I used the slideshow library reveal.js to make the cards. But I suspect there is a standard, more established method that mobile developers have to create a card format, will have to look into this further. The animations were done with D3.js, with help from a lot of examples on stackoverflow and bl.ocks.org. If you’re new to D3 and want to know how these animations were done, here’s more info. ANIMATING THE BAR CHART The D3 ‘transitions’ or animations in this slideshow are basically the same. There’s (a) an initial state where there’s nothing to see, (b) the final state where the graphic looks the way you want and (c) a transition from the initial state to the final state over a duration specified in milliseconds. For example, in the code snippet for the bar animation above, you see two attributes changing for the bars during the transition—the ‘height’ and ‘y’ attributes changing over a duration of 500 milliseconds. You can see another example of this animation at bl.ocks.org here. ANIMATING THE STACKED BAR CHART This animation was done in a way similar to the one above. The chart is called a ‘normalised stack chart’ and the code for this was taken from the bl.ocks.org example here. The thing about this chart is that you don’t have to calculate the percentages beforehand. You just feed in the raw data (see image below) and you get the final percentages visualised in the graphic. ANIMATING THE LINE CHART The transition over here isn’t very sophisticated. In this, the two lines and the data points on them are basically set to appear 300 milliseconds and 800 milliseconds respectively after the card appears on screen (see the code snippet below). A cooler line animation would have been ‘unrolling’ the line as seen in this bl.ock.org example. Maybe next time! ANIMATING THE PIE CHART Won’t pretend to understand the code used here. I basically just adapted this example from bl.ocks.org and played around with the parameters till it came out the way I wanted. This example is from Mike Bostock, the creator of D3.js, and in it he explains his code line by line (see image below). Do look at it if you want to fully understand how this pie chart animation works. ANIMATING THE ISOTYPE CHART Yup, this chart is called an isotype chart. This animation is another one where the transition uses delays. So if you look in the gif, you see on the left side three cards being filled one after the other. They all start off with an opacity of 0, which makes them invisible (or transparent, technically). What the animation does is make each of the cards visible by changing the opacity to 1 (see image above). This is done after different delay periods of 200 milliseconds for the bottom card, 400 for the card in the middle and 600 milliseconds for the card on top. If you’ve never worked with D3 before, hope this write-up encourages you to give it a shot. You can look at all the code for the slideshow in the github repo here. All comments and feedback are welcome! 🙂 COVER IMAGE CREDIT: Made in inkscape with this picture from Flickr d3data journalismdata vizfeaturedfootballreveal.jsvisualizationworld cup GIS, How-To, map How to Make an Election Interactive February 16, 2017 Shijith Kunhitty So I created an interactive for Wionews.com (embedded below) on the assembly elections taking place in five states. This write-up goes into how I did the interactive and the motivations behind it. The Interactive is embedded below. Click on Start to begin. The interactive looks at three things: where each party won in the last assembly election in 2012 in each of the five states, visualised with a map. where each party won in the last Lok Sabha (LS) election in 2014, if the LS seats were broken up into assembly seats. This was also done with a map. the share of seats won by each major party in previous assembly elections, done with a line chart. I got all my data from the Election commission website and the Datameet repositories, specifically the repositories with the assembly constituency shapefiles and historical assembly election results. Now these files have a lot of information in them, but since I was making this interactive specifically for mobile screens and there wouldn’t be much space to play with, I made a decision to focus just on which party won where. As mundane as that may seem, there’s still some interesting things you get to see. For example, from the break-up of the 2014 Lok Sabha results, you find out where the Aam Aadmi Party has gained influence in Punjab since the last assembly elections in 2012, when they weren’t around. The interactive page on the AAP in Punjab, 2014 ANALYSING THE DATA While I got the 2012 election results directly from the election commission’s files, the breakdown of the 2014 Lok Sabha results by assembly seat needed a little more work with some data analysis in python (see code below) and manual cross-checking with other election commission files. Some of the python code used to break down the 2014 LS results by assembly seat. You can see all of it here. For calculating the percentages of seats won by major parties in the past, I had to do some analysis in python of Datameet’s assembly election results file. Some of the python code used to calculate historical seat shares of parties. You can see all of it here. PUTTING IT ALL ONTO A MAP The next thing to do was put the data of which party won where onto an assembly seat map for each state. To get the assembly seat maps, I downloaded the assembly constituency shapefile from the datameet repository and used the software QGIS to create five separate shapefiles for each of the states. (Shapefiles are what geographers and cartographers use to make maps.) A screenshot of the QGIS software separating the India shapefile into separate ones for the states. The next task is to make sure the assembly constituency names in the shapefiles match the constituency names in the election results. For example, in the shapefile, one constituency in Uttar Pradesh is spelt as Bishwavnathganj while in the election results, it’s spelt as Vishwanathganj. These spellings need to be made consistent for the map to work properly. I did this with the OpenRefine software which has a lot of inbuilt tools to detect and correct these kinds of inconsistencies. The purist way would have been to do all this with code, but I’ve been using OpenRefine, a graphical tool, for a while now and it’s just easier for me this way. Please don’t judge me! (Using graphical tools such as OpenRefine and QGIS make it harder for others to reproduce your exact results and is less transparent, which is why purists look down on a workflow that is not entirely in code.) After the data was cleaned, I merged or ‘joined’ the 2012 and 2014 election results with the shapefile in QGIS, I then converted the shapefile into the geojson format, which is easier to visualise with javascript libraries such as D3.js. I then chose the biggest three or four political parties in the 2012 assembly and 2014 LS election results for each state, and created icons for them using the tool Inkscape. This can be done by tracing the party symbols available in various election commission documents. Some of the party icons designed for the interactive HOW IT’S ALL VISUALISED The way the interactive would work is if you click on the icon for a party, it downloads the geojson file which, to crudely put it, has the boundaries of the assembly seats and the names of the party that’s won each seat. The interactive map showing the NPF in Manipur in 2014 You then get a map with the seats belonging to that party coloured in yellow. And each time you click on a different party icon, a new map is generated. (If I’ve understood the process wrong, do let me know in the comments!) Here’s some of the d3 code used: .append("svg:image") //put an image onto the canvas .attr("xlink:href","../exp_buttons/bharatiya_janta_party_75.png") //take the image from the exp_buttons folder .attr('height', '75') .attr('width', '75') .attr('class','shadow partyButton') .attr('id','bjpButton') .attr("x", 30) .attr("y", 0) .on("click", function(){ .append("svg:g") //create the map .style("fill","#4f504f") //fill the map with this black color .selectAll("path") .data(json.features) .append("path") .attr("d", pathx) .style("stroke", "#fdd928") //create yellow borders .style("opacity","1") .style("stroke-width", "1") .style("fill",colorParty); //colorparty is determined by the function below //fill the seats with yellow if they were won by the “Bharatiya Janta Party” //and if they were won by someone else, make them black function colorParty(d) { if (d.properties.uttarakhand_2012_2012_1 == "Bharatiya Janta Party") { return "#fdd928" return "#4f504f"; I won’t go into the nitty gritty of how the line chart works, but essentially every time you click on one of these icons, it changes the opacity of the line representing the party into 1 making it visible while the opacity of every other line is reduced to 0 making them invisible. The historical performance of the MGP in Goa. Here’s some of the relevant d3 code: .append("svg:image") //this tells D3 to put an image onto the canvas .attr("xlink:href","../exp_buttons/bharatiya_janta_party_75.png") //and this will be the bjp image located in the exp_buttons folder .attr('class','shadow partyButton') //this is what gives a button the shadow, attributes derived from css .attr("x", 0) .attr("y", height + margin.top + 20) d3.selectAll(".line:not(.bjpLine)").style("opacity", "0"); //make all other lines invisible d3.selectAll(".bjpLine").style("opacity", "1"); //make the BJP line visible d3.select(this).classed({'shadow': false}); //remove the drop shadow from the BJP button //so that people know it’s active d3.selectAll('.partyButton:not(#bjpButton)').classed({'shadow': true}); //this puts a drop shadow onto other buttons //in case they were active I then put everything into a repository on Github and used Github pages to ‘serve’ the interactive to users. Now I haven’t gone into the complexity of much of what’s been done. For example, if you see those party symbols and the tiny little shadows under them (they’re called drop shadows), it took me at least two days to make that happen. It took two days to get these drop shadows! MOTIVATIONS BEHIND THE INTERACTIVE As for the design, I wanted something that people would just click/swipe through, that they wouldn’t have to scroll through, and also limit the data on display, giving only as much as someone can absorb at a glance. My larger goal was to try and start doing data journalism that’s friendlier and more approachable than the stuff I’ve been doing in the past such as this blogpost on the Jharkhand elections. I actually read a lot on user interface design, after which I made sure that the icons people tap on their screen are large enough for their thumbs, that icons were placed in the lower half of the screen so that their thumbs wouldn’t have to travel as much to tap on them, and adopted flat design with just a few drop shadows and not too many what-are-called skeumorphic effects. Another goal was to allow readers to get to the information they’re most interested in without having to wade through paras of text by just tapping on various options. The sets of options available to the user while in the interactive I hacked a lot of D3.js examples on bl.ocks.org and stackoverflow.com to arrive at the final interactive, I’m still some way away from writing d3 code from scratch, but I hope to get there soon. Because I’m not a designer, web developer, data scientist or a statistician, I may have violated lots of best practices in those fields. So if you happen to come across some noobie mistake, do let me know in the comments, I’m here to learn, thanks! 🙂 Shijith Kunhitty is a data journalist at WION and former deputy editor of IndiaSpend. He is an alumnus of Washington University, St. Louis and Hindu College, Delhi. data journalismelection data hackathonfeaturedGIS DataMeet-Up, Mumbai Mumbai Meet 3: Mapping Schools In Karnataka October 30, 2014 Sanjit Oberai 1 Comment Mumbai saw its third data meet on 26th October, 2014 with a total of 14 participants, in-spite of it being a Diwali weekend. This time around we decided to try out a new place and the venue was a roof top place located at Chium Village, Khar West. A nice cozy place but a tad bit difficult to find for people who are not familiar with the area. This time also the crowd was titled heavily towards the tech side. The speaker was Sanjay Bhangar, co-founder, CAMP, who is a web developer for the past 8 years, with extensive experience in online video and mapping technologies. who first, gave a small introduction to the Data Meet, its founders Thejs and Nisha and how it now operates as a trust and that the idea is to encourage open data movement among data enthusiasts. Listen to the recording here. Sanjay spoke on two main topics: 1. Introduction to our video archival platforms – they have been running this for the last five years. He explained how to gather metadata about all Indian films ever made, general video analysis tools ( timeline generation / cut detection), etc. He explained the use of , https://pad.ma and how it is an online tool for saving videos. 2.Mapping schools in Karnataka – explained how they have been collecting data on schools in Karnataka and are working with the Akshara Foundation who run a lot of programs on schools and they have a lot of child level data which allows you to track performance of children in schools across the state. A suggestion was made if they could also map crime data highlighting the recent crime against children in Bangalore schools. 3.He showed us an example of how he worked on a project of mapping historical data for the New York Public Library. The next data meet will be held on 29th November, 2014. Pls follow the Mumbai Meet-Up Group to know about the details. data journalismdatameetkarnatakamappingMumbai Bangalore, Data, News Crosspost: Adding stress to a stressed area! September 22, 2014 Nisha Thompson A few weeks ago we held an Intro to Data Journalism Workshop. Josephine Joseph was in attendance, she regularly writes for Citizen Matters, Bangalore’s local paper that knows all. She was working on this story and has published it last week with Citizen Matters, I’m very happy to crosspost it here as a great example of local data journalism. 26 projects could: add 19,000 cars to Whitefield traffic, up water demand by 10.5 million litres East Bangalore area, particularly Whitefield- KR Puram – Mahadevapura area, is on the prime real estate map. What are the projects coming up next? What are the implications? Investing in real estate in Bangalore is a dream of any investor. However, is the growth of this sector in tune with the infrastructure that the city can handle? A close look by Citizen Matters at 26 constructions coming up in Whitefield – KR Puram area in East Bengaluru shows some alarming observations. When the 8,000 flats are fully occupied, new residents will need 10,662.87 KL of water a day (equivalent of 1780 water tankers of 6000 Litres). More than 19,697 cars will add to Whitefield traffic. Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) rules make builders of projects of more than 20,000 sqm built up area, apply for an Environmental Clearance (EC) from the state, along with all the other permissions and NOC from BBMP, BWSSB, Karnataka Ground Water Authority (KGWA) to drill borewells prior to construction commencement. The State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) receives the applications and recommends checks and balances, prior to recommending a project for EC to the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA). The SEIAA reviews project details, clarifies issues and only then is the EC issued. In cases where construction has begun without an EC, the builder is served with a show cause notice. The KSPCB can file cases against builders under the Environment Protection Act if they proceed with construction without an EC. Read the rest over at Citizen Matters. Great work Josephine! Bangalorecitizen mattersdata journalismmappingwater Bangalore, Data Workshops, Uncategorized Data Journalism Workshop #1 September 9, 2014 Nisha Thompson 2 Comments Last Sunday, August 31st, Thej and I worked with an Economic Times Journalist Jayadevan PK to design an intro to data journalism workshop. For a while now there has been quite a bit of interest and discussion of data journalism in India. Currently there are a few courses and events around promoting data journalism, we thought there was definitely room to start to build a few modules on working with data for storytelling. Given that we have not done too many of these we decided to do an introduction and leave it limited to a few people. You can see the agenda with notes here and the resources we shared on the data journalism resource wiki page, as well as refer to the data catalog that DataMeet has been putting together. Thanks to Knolby Media for hosting us and for School of Data (I am a fellow). Thank you to Vikras Mishra for volunteering and taking notes, pictures, and video. We had four story tellers with us, from various backgrounds. We spent the morning doing introduction and what was their experience with data, what their definition of data journalism is and why they wanted to take this workshop. Then we had them put up some expectations so we can gauge what the afternoon should focus on. We then had Jaya go through the context of data journalism in terms of the world scale and the new digital journalism era. Then we spent some time going over examples of good data journalism and bad. After we went through resources people can use to get data. We touched upon the legal issues around using data and copyright issues. Then we discussed accuracy and how to properly attribute sources. Then we demonstrated a few tools CartoDB Scraping tools – Scraper wiki – IMACROS Visualization Roadmap The participants thought understanding how to visualize would be helpful. So we went through a sort of visualization roadmap. Then went through stories they were working on to see how we would create a visualization and also how to examine the data and come up with a data strategy for each story. Then showed some more tools to address the suggestions from the exercise. – BHUVAN – Timelines – Fusion Tables – BUMP Feedback session People wanted another day to let the lessons be absorbed and some more time to actually have hands on time with the tools. Also even at the intro level it is important to make people come prepared with stories, so they have something to apply the ideas to. To say we learned a lot is an understatement. We will definitely be planning more intro workshops and hopefully more advanced workshops in the future, we hope to continue to learn what people think is important and will keep track and see what kinds of stories come out of these learning session. If you want a particular workshop feel free to request one here. Stay tuned to the blog and to the list to hear about the next one. Bangalorebhuvancartodbdata journalismdata storiesfeaturedmapboxschool of datascraperwikitableauworkshop	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line91
__label__cc	0.527133	0.472867	Masterchef Season 5 Episode 16 Hd\|FULL. MOVIE. Online. Watch MasterChef Junior season 5 episode 2 Online. Also available on Hulu Plus in HD on your TV. Chefs Gordon Ramsay and Christina Tosi lead the judging panel for Season Five of MASTERCHEF JUNIOR. Season 5, episode 1, HD. The Grand Finale Of MASTERCHEF Season 7. Gordon Ramsay And Christina Tosi Get Lost. Masterchef Season 5 Episode 16 Hd Full Mp3 Download MasterChef US Season 5 Episode 16 mp3. 00:46:51 MasterChef US Season 5 Episode 18 mp3. Watch MasterChef Junior Season 5 free, Director: and Cast. Previous Episode Next Episode. Free HD: Watch This Link! Free Episode Download. Masterchef Australia Season 5 Episode 15 Full HD. Masterchef Australia Season 5 Episode 1 Full HD. MasterChef Australia Season 2 Episode 16. Season 5, Episode 19 - Winner Chosen. MasterChef Season 5 Episode 19 Winner Chosen. MasterChef US Season 5 Episode 15 MasterChef US Season 5 Episode 15 youtube MasterChef US Season 5 Episode 15 Online MasterChef. Watch Master. Chef India Season 5 Episode 8th October 2. You. Tube Hd Video Elimination. Watch Master. Chef India Season 5 Episode 8th October 2. You. Tube Hd Video Elimination : - In the Star Plus new cooking reality show “Master Chef India Season 5” is yet to showcase something different which the programme is having on its kitty which is yet to reveal by the panel judge team and the Chef Vikas Khanna, Chef Kunal Kapur and restaurateur Zorawar Kalra in the tonight episode of the show. It is the fifth season of the cooking reality show “Master Chef India Season 5” which is the Indian version of acclaimed British show “Master Chef”. The show has a huge fan following internationally and in India, it is just having same feedback. The shooting for the show “Master Chef India Season 5” has been completed in the month of June from and now the show is being aired on the Star Plus channel from the last weekend. In this show, the contestants from all over India had auditioned and 3. Out these 3. 0 candidates, 1. Master. Chef India Season 5” Title. We are now exclusively having the selected contestants names which include, Mirvaan, Ashwin, Jatin, Pradip, Rohini, Samantha, Anagha, Siddharth, Ajay, Kirti, Shipra,Ashima, Sadaf, Abhilasha and Lakshmi. In the last week the show “Master Chef India” premiered in the grand location of Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur. This time in the show there is the panel judge team, including Kunal Kapoor, Vikas Khanna and Zorawar Kalra who will be seen giving motivations to the participants’ anyway. This time, there is the higher level of the completion as compared to the previous seasons. The competitors were asked about the dish they were planning to prepare live during the final auditions and the cook will have to prepares this right now in the front of the panel judges team. The Judges are having something special in their store which is yet to offer by them to the participants’ and the participants’ have to perform as per the judges. It will be interesting to see the special tonight episode show of the “Master Chef India Season 5”.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line92
__label__wiki	0.597638	0.597638	Category Archives: Press Releases Activist Investor Challenges Executive Pay Accounting at T-Mobile WASHINGTON, D.C. July 27, 2017: Earlier today, the CtW Investment Group petitioned the SEC to require T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS) to provide a clear and comprehensible description of the methods used to calculate the performance metrics for executive pay – including the non-GAAP metrics – and to explain how those metrics result in the bonus actually paid. Dieter Waizenegger, Executive Director of the CtW Investment Group said, “Investors rely on T-Mobile to provide clear and intelligible disclosures. In this case, the company has done neither. That’s why we’re taking the extraordinary step of bringing this matter to the SEC.” read more This entry was posted in 2017, Press Releases, T-Mobile on July 27, 2017 by CTW1900. Shareholder Vote at Urban Outfitters Reveals Waning Confidence in Board Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2017 – After years of declining performance, low independence and poor board diversity, shareholders demonstrated a waning confidence in the board of Urban Outfitters (NYSE: URBN), with 30.5% of outside shareholders opposing the reelection of director Robert H. Strouse, and 64.5% of outside shareholder in opposition to Harry S. Cherken. The sizable opposition votes came from major public funds, including CalSTRS and Norges Bank. The level of opposition is high given that the average opposition votes for the Russell 3000 is 3.8% year to date, and insider ownership constitutes approximately 35% of shares outstanding. These results reflect years of low shareholder support levels for both Strouse and Cherken, who received 11.3% and 37.9% opposition in 2016 and 20.7% and 39.6% opposition in 2015, respectively. “This is a clear vote of no confidence in the board’s composition and the company’s broken nomination process,” said Dieter Waizenegger, Executive Director of the CtW Investment Group who had urged investors of Urban Outfitters to vote against long-tenured directors. read more This entry was posted in 2017, Press Releases, Urban Outfitters on May 30, 2017 by CTW1900. Vote at ITT Tech Reveals Increasing Investor Discontent as Regulatory Actions Loom Click here to read the press release in PDF format. This entry was posted in 2015, ITT Tech, Press Releases on July 27, 2015 by CTW1900. LEADING PROXY ADVISORY FIRM RECOMMENDS AGAINST ITT TECH DIRECTORS Rite Aid Shareholders Vote to Take Wind out of CEO’s Golden Parachute This entry was posted in 2015, Press Releases, Rite Aid on June 25, 2015 by CTW1900. CtW Investment Group: Walgreen Boots Alliance Needs Strong, Independent Board Oversight to Navigate Substantial Challenges Ahead NEW YORK, Dec. 29—The following statement on the Walgreen shareholder vote to approve the company’s acquisition of Alliance Boots can be attributed to Dieter Waizenegger, Executive Director of the CtW Investment Group: “Shareholders are left with too many unanswered questions about how the combined company will meet optimistic performance goals and how it will correct governance failures that became painfully obvious in the past year. “There has been inadequate disclosure about the deal’s negotiation, the plans to obtain many touted synergies, and even who will lead Walgreens Boots Alliance. A $25 billion transaction should never be a leap of faith for shareholders, but that’s exactly what this vote was. read more This entry was posted in 2014, Press Releases, Walgreens on December 29, 2014 by CTW1900. CtW Investment Group Asks Tesco Chairman-Elect to Review Strategy at Company’s Fresh & Easy Subsidiary CtW Investment Group Asks Tesco Chairman-Elect to Review Strategy at Company’s Fresh & Easy Subsidiary; Questions Tesco’s Executive Incentive Pay Practices WASHINGTON, D.C. – The CtW Investment Group is calling on incoming Tesco (TSCO:LN) Chairman Richard Broadbent to address investor concerns about mounting losses at Tesco’s Fresh & Easy subsidiary by conducting an objective and independent strategic review of the US business and to publicly articulate a strategy for profitability. In its 29 June letter, the CtW Investment Group also notes that under the new remuneration policy, US CEO Tim Mason’s incentive pay will be substantially de-linked from Fresh & Easy’s performance, raising questions about executive accountability for continuing losses in the US. The CtW Investment Group also points out that all executive directors will continue to have their incentive pay linked to profits from the sale and leaseback of property, which may potentially allow executives to “pick their number” in order to hit performance targets. read more This entry was posted in 2014, Press Releases, Tesco on December 18, 2014 by CTW1900. Chipotle Shareholders Reject Overstuffed CEO Pay Leading Investors Reject Burrito Chain’s Bloated Executive Pay Plan DENVER, CO, May 15, 2014 – At the Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) annual meeting today, investors by a vote of 77% shares against soundly rebuked the Company’s executive pay plan that produced a whopping $285 million in 3-year realizable CEO pay. This is the highest vote against CEO pay this year. Leading institutional investors, The California State Teachers Retirement System (“CalSTRS”), CalPERS, New York City Pension Funds, and the Florida State Board of Administration joined the CtW Investment Group in voting against the plan. Major proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis also opposed management’s “say-on-pay” proposal. read more This entry was posted in 2014, Chipotle, Press Releases on May 15, 2014 by CTW1900. Investor Group calls for Overhaul of Domino’s Pay Practices and Resignation of Committee Chair Domino’s Board Faces Groundswell of Shareholder Discontent over CEO Pay and Compensation Committee Chair CalSTRS, NYC Pension Funds, Ill. State Board of Investment, Among Other Leading Investors, Join CtW Investment Group in Calls for Reform ANN ARBOR, MI, April 29, 2014 – The Board of Directors at Domino Pizza’s (NYSE: DPZ) faced a rising tide of shareholder discontent at today’s annual meeting. The CtW Investment Group joined with leading investors in asking for the resignation of Compensation Chairman Andrew Balson and an overhaul of the company’s pay practices. Over the past month, the CtW Investment Group has called for investors to oppose the reelection of Balson—a former Bain Capital executive—and to strike down management’s ‘say-on-pay’ proposal. The group notes that CEO Doyle’s $43 million in 3-year realizable pay was bloated to three times the median pay package of his peers and that the company is suffering from a potentially risky focus on short-term performance. read more This entry was posted in 2014, Domino’s Pizza, Inc., Press Releases on May 6, 2014 by CTW1900. CTW INVESTMENT GROUP WELCOMES RECOMMENDATION AGAINST DOMINIO’S PIZZA OVER CEO PAY CTW INVESTMENT GROUP WELCOMES LEADING PROXY ADVISORY FIRMS’ RECOMMENDATION AGAINST DOMINIO’S PIZZA’S BALSON OVER CEO PAY Recommendation Follows CtW Investment Group’s Opposition to Andrew Balson and “Say on Pay” WASHINGTON, D.C.–Leading independent proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, are opposing the re-election of Andrew Balson, the Chairman of the Compensation Committee at Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE:DPZ), because of concerns over CEO Patrick Doyles’ pay. Domino’s will hold its annual shareholder meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 29th. The recommendation comes two weeks after the CtW Investment Group wrote to fellow investors calling on them to oppose Balson and Domino’s “Say-on-Pay” given the company’s egregious equity grants and the excessive and potentially risky focus on short-term performance in the company’s pay plans. read more This entry was posted in 2014, Domino’s Pizza, Inc., Press Releases on April 21, 2014 by CTW1900. CtW Investment Group: JPMorgan Directors’ Departures a Good Start but More Reforms Needed The following statement about JPMorgan directors Ellen Futter and David Cote’s resignation from the bank’s board can be attributed to Dieter Waizenegger, Executive Director of the CtW Investment Group. The Investment Group began engaging the board over the competency and mandate of its Risk Policy Committee in 2011 and spearheaded a vote no campaign against Futter, Cote as well as James Crown, chairman of the Risk Policy Committee in May. Ms. Futter and Mr. Cote were members of the board’s Risk Policy Committee. read more This entry was posted in 2013, JP Morgan, Press Releases on October 1, 2013 by CTW1900.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line95
__label__wiki	0.950074	0.950074	Autobusiness Box & MMA The 47-year-old sportswoman looking twice more young has opened the secret Date: 11 months ago 2018-08-28 18:14 Category: Crimea The bodybuilder Zhong Xiaorong I have become famous in China because looks much more young than the age. The Daily Mail edition reports about it. the 47-year-old female resident of Beijing explains it with the diet, care of skin and regular physical exercises. She does bodybuilding the third year and participates in competitions of Association of bodybuilding of China. "Friends considered that I look younger than others and before I have played sports. But now they say that I become younger and younger" — she claims. Materials on teme00:04 — on March 11, 2017 In front — пионеркаКак 50-year-old women manage to look twice younger than the летПо to opinion Zhong Xiaorong, spicy, greasy and salty food is harmful to skin. "I have very strict diet. 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__label__wiki	0.537807	0.537807	Paved Country Paved Country – 1998 (Self-released) CDs by Paved Country Deconstructing Paradise (2000) Paved Country (1998) Paved Country is the Boston-based duo of Marjie Alonso and Sarah Mendelsohn, whose singing and country-folk sound invoke comparisons to The Sweethearts of the Rodeo. Their self-titled release features a generous collection of jointly-penned songs, and their collaborative songwriting efforts are clearly informed by an aim of providing vehicles for their duet singing. There are two distinctive voices here, Mendelsohn with a high, reedy timbre and Alonso comparatively low and throaty; they share equally in singing leads, but more than that, they sing together, whether in harmony or in trading or interweaving lines. The songs are concerned mainly with endless permutations of matters of the heart, and they succeed admirably, though not entirely, in addressing the familiar while avoiding the hackneyed - witness "Shooting Star," a poignant recognition of love gone cold, or the gorgeous "I Could Have Done That." While the focus is on the singing and songs of Alonso and Mendelsohn, they are backed throughout by supportive and tasty playing. It may be a bit rough in places, but local gems like this are always worth discovering. (pavedcntry@aol.com or Marjie Alonso, 15 Westwood Road, Somerville, MA 02143.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line105
__label__wiki	0.774262	0.774262	Choose Chapter... Life of Śrī Ramakrishna 1. Parentage 2. Birth and boyhood 3. In temple-garden of Dakshineswar 4. The Divine Mother 5. God-intoxication 6.Bhairavī Brāhmaṇī, a Vaishnava Saint 7.One with Absolute 8.Other faiths 9.The Wife as Divinity 10. Pilgrimage 11. With Notables 12. Devotees 13. Monastic disciples 14. Female devotees 15. Last days 16. End of the drama 17. After the passing 18. Some Sayings Śrī Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Gadadhar Chattopadhyay 18 February 1836 Kamarpukur, Bengal, India 16 August 1886 (aged 50) Calcutta, Bengal Ramakrishna Order Famous: a great Saint, Bhakti to Kālī Mā, Divine Mother, Universalism – All Religions are Paths to God Teaching: A number of blind men came to an elephant. Somebody told them that it was an elephant. The blind men asked, ‘What is the elephant like?’ and they began to touch its body. One of them said: 'It is like a pillar.' This blind man had only touched its leg. Another man said, ‘The elephant is like a husking basket.’ This person had only touched its ears. Similarly, he who touched its trunk or its belly talked of it differently. In the same way, he who has seen the Lord in a particular way limits the Lord to that alone and thinks that He is nothing else. Sarada Devi Both lived celibate, Holy life traditionally married as children Succeeded by: Vivekananda Swāmi & Ramakrishna Order Works about Śrī Ramakrishna: 1. Life of Śrī Ramakrishna (short) (longer) 3. Shri Ramakrishna life story (by Swāmi Nikhilānanda) 4. Shri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (a few chapters) Elephant and Blind This series of articles are dedicated to the life-story and teachings of Shri Ramakrishna (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, a Bengali mystic and saint, the legendary devotee of Mother Kālī of Dakshineśwar, as also the founder Guru of Ramakrishna Math, the guru of the famous Swami Vivekananda, the teacher and probably the first successful ambassador of Vedanta teachings in the Western countries. This is considered the “short” or condensed version of the Life of Śrī Ramakrishna, as opposed to the much longer and very popular Śrī Ramakrishna Kathamrita containing most of the preserved direct words, teachings and life-stories of Śrī Ramakrishna as seen by his closest disciple. The publication of that longer work also has been started, but not finished; yet – you can have a glimpse of the first 10 chapters online. The current “short” Life of Śrī Ramakrishna consists of the following 18 chapters: 1. Parentage 2. Birth and boyhood 3. In temple-garden of Dakshineswar 4. The Divine Mother 5. God-intoxication 6.Bhairavī Brāhmaṇī, a Vaishnava Saint 7.One with Absolute 8.Other faiths 9.The Wife as Divinity 10. Pilgrimage 11. With Notables 12. Devotees 13. Monastic disciples 14. Female devotees 15. Last days 16. End of the drama 17. After the passing 18. Some Sayings Towards the middle of the eighteenth century there lived in the village of Derepore in the District of Hooghly, Bengal, a Brahmin family of which Manik Ram Chattopadhyaya was the head. He was a pious and kind-hearted man. With fifty acres of land at his disposal, he was able to meet the needs of his family as also to lend a helping hand to the poor and distressed of the village in times of calamity. In about 1775 he was blessed with a son who was named Khudiram. Two other sons and a daughter were also subsequently born to him. After the death of Manik Ram, the entire charge of the family devolved on his eldest son, Khudiram, who, trained in the family traditions of an orthodox house, was eminently fitted to attend to the manifold religious and secular duties of the household. Both Khudiram and his wife, Śrīmatī Chandramani, were exceptionally devoted to their tutelary deity Śrī Rāmachandra, and soon earned the love, respect, and admiration of the villagers for their charity, truthfulness, and kindness. In 1814 an incident of the great importance occurred in the life of Khudiram: He was called upon by the local zamindar to give false evidence in support of a case which the latter had brought against one of his tenants. But so fearless was Khudiram’s integrity that he was prepared to stake his all rather than deviate an inch from the path of truth and rectitude. His stout refusal to comply with the request of the landlord entailed on him in its turn a heavy persecution which ultimately led him to leave his ancestral house for good. Penniless and homeless, Khudiram bade adieu to Derepore and made his new home in a neighbouring village named Kamarpukur, where, through the benevolence of one of his friends, he got half an acre of very fertile land, which supplied the simple needs of the family. The village of Kamarpukur is situated in the western extremity of the District of Hooghly, on the road leading to the holy place of Puri or Jagannāth. The village was highly prosperous and noted for its manifold arts and crafts. The flourishing condition of the place is even now testified to by the debris of its old buildings and the ruins of great walls and temples as also by the existence of some large tanks. Khudiram began his life anew in the midst of the quiet and peaceful surroundings of this village, and soon attracted the notice and gained the respect of his neighbours. One day, while returning from a neighbouring village, Khudiram strangely came into possession of the emblem of his tutelary deity Raghuvir in a paddy field. He took it home and began to worship it as his own Ishta. Both Khudiram and Chandra made a profound impression upon the villagers by their exemplary life and unswerving spirit of devotion to their beloved deity as also by their overflowing kindness to all who came to their door for help and succour. Thus though the home of Khudiram never smiled in affluence, it was a source of great solace to many an aching heart. After six years’ residence in Kamarpukur, Khudiram got his son and daughter married: Rāmkumār, which was the name of the son, in the meanwhile had become quite proficient in Hindu lore, and was able to relieve, to a certain extent, his father’s family burden by earning something. So Khudiram had now more time at his disposal to devote himself to religious practices: In the year 1824 he went on foot on a pilgrimage to Rameshwaram in South India, which lasted about a year. Twelve months later, in 1826, his wife Chandra gave birth to her second son, who was named Rāmeśwar. About eleven years later, in 1835, Khudiram went on another pilgrimage—this time to Gaya. Here, after the performance of the sacred rites, he had a strange vision at night: He dreamt that he was in the temple of Vishnu, where his forefathers were feasting on the sacred offerings he had made. Suddenly a flood of celestial light filled the holy precincts of the shrine, and the spirits of the departed fell on their knees to pay homage to a Divine Presence seated on a throne. The effulgent One beckoned to Khudiram, who, coming near, prostrated himself before Him and heard the luminous Person saying: “I am well pleased at your sincere devotion. I shall be born in your cottage and accept you as my father.” Khudiram awoke with his heart thrilled with joy. He understood that a Divine Being would bless his house very soon. About the same time Chandra Devi was also having strange visions at Kamarpukur: One night she dreamt that a luminous person exactly like her husband was lying by her side. Another day, while standing with Dhani (a village blacksmith woman) before the Shiva temple adjacent to her house, Chandra saw a bright beam of divine effulgence dart from the image of Lord Shiva and enter her. Chandra was overpowered, and fell unconscious on the ground. Dhani nursed her back to consciousness, but from that time Chandra began to feel as if she were quick with child. On Khudiram’s return to Kamarpukur, Chandra narrated this event to her husband with her characteristic candour and simplicity. But Khudiram, who had already had the strange vision at Gaya, was now completely convinced that they were soon to be blessed with a divine child. He advised her not to speak of her visions to anyone. Chandra was greatly consoled, and passed her days in complete resignation to the will of Raghuvir.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line114
__label__cc	0.611016	0.388984	All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone Label: Bella Union Release Date: 19/02/2007 by Grant Purdum February 15th, 2007 As tired as the post-rock genre is, records like All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone are keeping the artform alive, if only by a thread as withered and delicate as the soft sections of Explosions In The Sky’s latest. Although the Texas quartet expand on the suffocatingly – albeit deliciously so – uniform motif of previous album The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, All Of A Sudden… unflinchingly holds true to the band’s tradition. It doesn’t break any padlocks, pick any keyholes or add any new instruments (save the isolated keys on ‘What Do You Go Home To?’), and you’ll be able to recognise the elongated loops and dots of their signature sound in an instant if you’re already a fan. That said, it’s about as consistently lovely as it can be considering the limitations adhered to by both the band and their genre of choice. Most importantly, the group dance around the rise-and-ripple dynamic expertly, never going about their business dispassionately or predictably. And after the still-lingering disappointment of M83’s Before the Dawn Heals Us – which traded the lovely machinated beats of Dead Cities for obnoxious, bloated, cheesedick live drums – I’m perfectly happy settling for an upgrade rather than a complete overhaul. These boys know how to lasso a listener and slowly, softly, and effortlessly reel their catch in with minimal flipping and flopping. Suffice to say, as soon as opening track ‘The Birth And Death Of The Day’ rubs its eyes and shyly opens them to the world, you’ll be curious as to where EITS will transport you. And you’ll get your answer soon enough, young one: first you’ll be dunked head-first into a sheet of fuzz and wicked sloshes of snare. Then the guitar explosions we’ve all come to know and love begin, the dual six-string salvos tip-toeing around each other with such grace you’ll swear they were born stuck together like siamese twins. From there Explosions In The Sky use their savvy approach to give us more of what they do best. Most of the songs start with a flutter, work themselves into a resplendent flourish, ease back into a gentle, laying-down-in-a-field-of-warm-poppies trench, then repeat the process. Obviously it’s not always that simple an equation, as All Of A Sudden… is much more redolent of rough-and-ready debut How Strange, Innocence. However, this new album somehow retains the most endearing traits of the aforementioned third album, too. And that’s what really pushes this effort over the top. It lets the drums out to play like the debut and lays the shimmering guitars on thick like The Earth…; it employs an increasingly random tact (How Strange, Innocence) yet ensures the compositions fit together snugly as a whole (The Earth…). For those simply dying for a post-rock recharge in lieu of Godspeed’s sabbatical this is essential listening. In addition, much like Mogwai’s Mr Beast showed the Scottish group bearing new teeth, tracks like ‘Catastrophe And The Cure’ jump into cascading bliss intensely with nary a build-up, fixing on volume greedily like a veteran druggie shooting a hot nick of scag after a long sober period. This and other subtle changes yield another way to appreciate a band we all seem to appreciate regardless. Sure, good things come to those who wait, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all win from time to time, does it? Grant Purdum's Score Log-in to rate this record out of 10 Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alternative must sees A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash Way Out East: DiS Does Sharpe Festival 2019 25 years of SPOT Festival: DiS Picks Its Best 11 Twelve Hours Of Drone Is Just The Beginning: DiS Does Big Ears IDLES Smash It In Sheffield Liars, Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta Keep Mother Volume 4 Festival Preview Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alterna... Twelve Hours Of Drone Is Just The Beginning: Di... More bands announced for DiS partnered Fuzz Clu... The Shape Of Punk To Come?: DiS Meets Crows Artist 'n' Artist In conversation: Liars and Deerhunter Sonic Youth - Nurse The ineffable joy of pop: DiS meets Carly Rae J... How To Organise A Music Festival #1: Best Kept ... Best Case Scenario: DiS Meets dEUS Discography reassessed: Bright Eyes in perspective Hi, how are you? DiS meets Daniel Johnston Our Town: Belle and Sebastian's guide to Glasgow	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line116
__label__cc	0.61849	0.38151	Sixth Eurochannel Short Films Tour - Program 7 – The Younger Generation Ronaldo (Ronaldo, 2010) Switzerland: Zurich Director: Jan Mettler, Jan-Eric Mack A boy dreams of being a great soccer star. One morning he leaves the anonymity of his gray suburbs to enter the glaring light of the stadium. There he meets an unexpected opponent who puts him to the test. The Pick-Up Artist (Der Aufreißer, 2006) Germany: Berlin Director: Steffen Weinert Olli only wanted to have noncommittal, anonymous sex. But when he went out the door, the daughter of his “Pick-Up” crosses his way. Six-year-old Yvonne is not happy with the unlucky love life of her mother and has decided to find a real boyfriend for her… and for herself, a new dad. Biography - Steffen Weinert The Swimmer (Plaukikė, 2013) Director: Gabrielė Urbonaitė Ariel, a young and promising swimmer, spends her summer preparing for the upcoming Olympics. In the pool, she meets Grete, who has just started swimming lessons. Despite the age difference, the two become friends, as Ariel helps Grete to overcome her fear of jumping into the water. However, Ariel's leg ache becomes more and more painful. Biography - Gabrielė Urbonaitė The Sound of People (2007) Director: Simon Fitzmaurice The story of a moment in the life of an eighteen-year-old boy, standing on the brink between life and death. Biography - Simon Fitzmaurice Through You (2013) Netherlands: Utrecht Director: Lucette Braune On her way to do some simple grocery shopping, a girl literally has to struggle through her fellow beings. Some of those people tend to leave a mark, but only one person leaves a mark that sticks. Biography - Lucette Braune Little Darling (Balavica, 2013) Director: Igor Mirković Two kids at the top of a skyscraper. A view of the sea. He is Tom Sawyer and she is Alice in Wonderland. They walk along the edge of the roof, doing everything they’re not supposed to. In that hot summer, left under the care of her grandma, she will feel love for the first time. Luckily, grandma doesn’t have a clue about it; she barely leaves the apartment. Her parents are absent; they talk over phone and we notice that they’re hiding something. Biography - Igor Mirković Phony War (Drôle de guerre, 2013) France: Bourgogne Director: Simon Panay As his ill mother is hospitalized, young Matis must stay at his grandfather’s for a few days. To escape boredom, he plays with some of his grandfather’s things he finds: an old gun and a Resistance medal. Cat in the Bag (Kaķis maisā, 2013) Latvia / Estonia Director: Nils Skapāns It is nice and fun to have a cat (or some other pet) at home to play with. The trusting cat also thinks to himself: it's so great to be home… until the moment it realizes that it is trapped in a bag, somewhere out on the street, all alone. Nevertheless, all’s well that ends well. Biography - Biography - Nils Skapāns	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line127
__label__cc	0.73575	0.26425	« “Justin’s Jabber” – Back Issue Comics! 4/19/19 New Comics & Books for 4/24/2019 » New Games! 4/19/2019 By EC admin \| Published: April 19, 2019 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: JOURNEYS IN MIDDLE EARTH Embark on your own adventures in J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic world with The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth, a fully co-operative, app-supported board game for one to five players! You’ll battle villainous foes, make courageous choices, and strike a blow against the evil that threatens the land — all as part of a thrilling campaign that leads you across the storied hills and dales of Middle-earth. Each individual game of Journeys in Middle-earth is a single adventure in a larger campaign. You’ll explore the vast and dynamic landscapes of Middle-earth, using your skills to survive the challenges that you encounter on these perilous quests. As you and your fellow heroes explore the wilderness and battle the dark forces arrayed against you, the game’s companion app guides you to reveal the looming forests, quiet clearings, and ancient halls of Middle-earth, while also controlling the enemies you encounter. Whether you’re venturing into the wild on your own or with close companions by your side, you can write your own legend in the history of Middle-earth. KIWETIN There is something odd about the Kiwetin forest: Its spirits have entered into a thrilling race. With the help of the wind, you will have to find your way from one branch to another and catch the sacred flower first. The forest will play tricks on you, though, which could be a help or a hindrance. Kiwetin is a simple and addictive fast-paced board game. You play as one of these spirits, and your character’s caliber affects the way you move on the board. The randomly placed action tiles offer a unique experience during each game. Beware of whirlwinds because you might turn everything upside down! HEROES WELCOME: MERCHANTS OF DRAGON REACH Welcome to Dragon Reach, the bustling new frontier settlement in the Realm of Smiteros. The zone portals have just opened, and as we speak the first heroes are braving the Dungeon in search of fame, glory, and level-ups. Besieged monsters lurk on the outskirts of town looking for opportunities to gear themselves up against their new foes. For you, this means only one thing: PROFIT! You see, heroes come back with packs full of loot, needing beds and mead and provisions and furry hats. (It’s always furry hats. What is up with that?) And monsters will pay top doubloon for anything that might stop the heroes from coming into their dungeon and smiting them straight to the Nameless Realms. (G’luck with that, fellas!) For the enterprising merchant who can work both ends of the situation, there are stacks of Vorpal to be made. But you won’t be alone. Other merchants are here, moving in on your territory, trying to make the same quick piece of shiny that you are. Competition is the heart of commerce. Or something. When the boss monster finally goes down, whoever has the most Vorpal Pieces wins! (I saw that carved in a table at the Merchants’ Guild, so it must be true.) The game is played in a series of rounds, and each round is separated into two phases: 1. Town Phase – Players will take turns running Shops, working in the Guildhalls, and crafting artifacts. When the round ends after one player calls for it, the Heroes leave town for their next Dungeon Crawl. 2. Dungeon Crawl Phase – The Heroes enter the Dungeon to defeat enemies and level up, receive Loot, and while this is happening you and your cohorts are preparing the town for their “triumphant” return. The Heroes finish by arriving at the Town Gate with backpacks full of Loot and gold, ripe for the picking. This starts the next and round with a new Town Phase. The player with the most VPs at the end of the game (after the Boss encounter) wins! Spy, swap, and peek to find Cabo the unicorn in this simple card game. Your goal in CABO is to minimize the total value of your cards, but you don’t know what all your cards are at the beginning of the game. By using certain powers to peek at your own cards, spy on your opponent’s cards, or swap a card with an opponent, you can try to minimize the value of your cards. When you think you have the lowest value, you can call “CABO” to end the round, but everyone else gets another turn. In the end, the player with the lowest total wins; can you shed your cards quicker than your opponents? CHALLENGE OF THE SUPERFRIENDS CARD GAME ALSO AVAILABLE TODAY: Time Stories: Madame Expansion Vampire The Masquerade RPG: Camarilla and Anarch suppliments Star Wars RPG: Allies and Adversaries Rick and Morty: Look Sho’s Purging Now Card Game MTG Relic Tokens: Lineage and Legendary Sets This entry was posted in Games!. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line134
__label__cc	0.681684	0.318316	Reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) Shia Islam Usul al-Din (Beliefs) Main Beliefs Tawhid ♦ Prophethood ♦ Imamate ♦ Resurrection ♦ Justice Other Beliefs Infallibility ♦ Wilaya ♦ Mahdawiyya ♦ Occultation (Minor Occultation, Major Occultation) ♦ Intizar al-Faraj ♦ Reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) ♦ Raj'a ♦ Bada' ♦ Tawassul ♦ Tawassul to the dead Furu' al-Din 'Ibadi Orders Prayer ♦ Fasting ♦ Khums ♦ Hajj ♦ Zakat ♦ Jihad Non-'Ibadi Orders Forbidding the Evil and Enjoining the Good ♦ Tawalli ♦ Tabarri Sources of Ijtihad Qur'an ♦ Sunna ♦ Intellect ♦ Ijma' Forgiveness ♦ Generosity ♦ Generous Help 'Grave Sins ♦ Kibr ♦ 'Ujb (self-conceit) ♦ Ghurur ♦ Envy Nahj al-Balagha ♦ Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya ♦ Letter of Imam 'Ali (a) to Imam al-Hasan (a) Challenging Issues Succession of the Prophet (s) Shafa'a ♦ Tawassul ♦ Mut'a ♦ Taqiyya ♦ Justice of Companions Shia Imams Imam 'Ali (a) ♦ Imam al-Hasan (a) ♦ Imam al-Husayn (a) ♦ Imam al-Sajjad (a) ♦ Imam al-Baqir (a) ♦ Imam al-Sadiq (a) ♦ Imam al-Kazim (a) ♦ Imam al-Rida (a) ♦ Imam al-Jawad (a) Imam al-Hadi (a) ♦ Imam al-Hasan al-'Askari (a) ♦ Imam al-Mahdi (a) Men: Hamza ♦ Ja'far b. Abi Talib ♦ Salman al-Farsi ♦ Miqdad b. Aswad ♦ Abudhar al-Ghifari ♦ 'Ammar b. Yasir ♦ Malik al-Ashtar ♦ Muhammad b. Abi Bakr ♦ 'Aqil b. Abi Talib ♦ 'Uthman b. Hunayf ♦ Abu Ayyub al-Ansari ♦ Jabir b. 'Abd Allah al-Ansari ♦ 'Abd Allah b. al-'Abbas ♦ 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far b. Abi Talib ♦ Khuzayma b. Thabit ♦ Yasir b. 'Amir al-'Anasi Women: Khadija bt. Khuwaylid ♦ Lady Fatimah al-Zahra' (a) ♦ Al-Sayyida Zaynab (a) ♦ Umm Kulthum ♦ Asma' bt. 'Umays ♦ Umm Ayman ♦ Umm Salama Shia Female Scholars ♦ Hadith Scholars ♦ Rijal and Biography Scholars ♦ Exegetes Template:Early Faqihs ♦ Faqihs ♦ Philosophers Mecca: Al-Masjid al-Haram Medina: Al-Masjid al-Nabawi Al-Baqi' Al-Quds: Al-Masjid al-Aqsa Karbala: Shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a) Najaf: Holy Shrine of Imam 'Ali (a) Masjid al-Kufa Mashhad: Holy Shrine of Imam al-Rida (a) Kadhimiya: Shrine of al-Kazimayn (a) Samarra: Shrine of al-'Askariyyayn (a) Damascus: Holy Shrine of al-Sayyida Zaynab (a) Qom: Holy Shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma'suma (a) Shiraz: Ahmad b. Imam al-Kazim (a) Ray: Shrine of 'Abd al-'Azim al-Hasani Eids Eid al-Fitr ♦ Eid al-Ghadir ♦ Eid al-Adha ♦ Rabi' I 17 ♦ Mid-Sha'ban ♦ Bi'tha Mournings Fatimiyya ♦ Muharram ♦ Mourning procession ♦ Tasu'a ♦ 'Ashura' ♦ Arba'in Mubahala ♦ Event of Ghadir ♦ Incident of Saqifa ♦ Fadak ♦ Events of Lady Fatima's House Battle of Jamal ♦ Battle of Siffin ♦ Battle of Nahrawan ♦ Event of Karbala ♦ Hadith al-Thaqalayn ♦ Ashab al-Kisa' ♦ Al-Tathir Verse Quran ♦ Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya The Four Books: Al-Istibsar ♦ Al-Kafi ♦ Tahdhib al-ahkam ♦ Kitab Man la yahduruh al-faqih ♦ Mushaf of Fatima (a) ♦ Mushaf of Imam 'Ali (a) ♦ Wasa'il al-Shi'a ♦ Bihar al-anwar ♦ Al-Ghadir ♦ Mafatih al-jinan ♦ Majma' al-bayan ♦ Al-Mizan fi tafsir al-Qur'an Sects Imamiyya ♦ Isma'iliyya ♦ Zaydiyya ♦ Kaysaniyya Shi'a Beliefs Tawhid (Monotheism) Tawhid of Essence • Tawhid in Attributes • Tawhid in Actions • Tawhid in Worship Tawassul • Shafa'a • Tabarruk Divine Justice Bada' • Amr Bayn al-Amrayn Infallibility • 'Ilm al-ghayb • Mu'jiza • Integrity of the Holy Qur'an Imamate Infallibility • Wilaya • 'Ilm al-ghayb • Occultation of Imam al-Mahdi (a) (Minor Occultation,Major Occultation) • Reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) • Raj'a End Time • Hereafter • Barzakh • Embodiment of Actions •Bodily Resurrection • Al-Sirat • Tatayur al-Kutub • Mizan • Hashr Other Outstanding Beliefs Ahl al-Bayt (a) • The Fourteen Infallibles • Taqiyya • Marja'iyya • Tawalli • Tabarri Ẓuhūr (Arabic: الظُهُور, Reappearance) in the terminology of Twelver Shiites means the rise and reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) after his Major Occultation in order to establish a just world government. 1 Literal Meaning 2.1 First Stage (Reappearance) 2.2 Second Stage (Rising) 2.3 Third stage (Imam al-Mahdi (a)'s Government) 3 Signs Literal Meaning The word "Zuhur" literally means the appearance or manifestation of something hidden. The word seems to imply an intense manifestation after being hidden or unseen. The period of Zuhur can be divided into the following stages: The reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) which is only decided by the divine volition and knowledge. The rise and movement of Imam al-Mahdi (a) against the enemies and cruel governments of the world. The establishment of the world government. First Stage (Reappearance) Zurara b. A'yan quoted Imam al-Baqir (a) as saying that "al-Qa'im [that is, Imam al-Mahdi (a)] has an occultation before his reappearance". Imam al-Sadiq (a) said that "when God wills to uncover his (that is, Imam al-Mahdi (a)'s) status, He will inspire it in his heart, and then he reappears and undertakes the divine task". It is worth mentioning that the stage of rising (such as undertaking tasks) is later than the stage of reappearance. That is, Imam al-Mahdi (a) will first reappear, and after his companions gather around him and other conditions are met, he will rise against cruel governments. Second Stage (Rising) Imam al-Sajjad (a) is quoted as saying that "when our al-Qa'im rises, God will remove fear from the hearts of our Shiites". Imam al-Sadiq (a) said: "al-Qa'im will rise when he is not under the pledge of allegiance with anyone". It is not the case that all hadiths using the word "Qiyam" (rising) and its cognates about Imam al-Mahdi (a) are concerned with the stage of rising; there are some hadiths in which the word is used for the stage of reappearance. However, it remains true that most of such hadiths concern the stage after the reappearance. The Prophet (s) is quoted as saying that "the resurrection will not arrive until "al-Qa'im" rises for the rights of our household". Imam al-Baqir (a) is quoted as saying that "when our al-Qa'im rises, God will put His hand on the heads of people, so that they can focus their thoughts". The conflicts among some hadiths about the time of reappearance might be resolved by saying that some are concerned with the time of Zuhur or reappearance and some are concerned with the time of uprising. It is worth saying that some hadiths have talked about Imam al-Mahdi (a)'s reappearance and uprising as "Khurūj" (rising against the government). According to a hadith from Imam al-Sadiq (a): "al-Qa'im's Khuruj (uprising) is certain". Third stage (Imam al-Mahdi (a)'s Government) According to a hadith from the Prophet (s): "the world does not come to an end until a man from my household will rise and govern like the household of Dawud". According to another hadith from the Prophet (s): "I give you good news about al-Mahdi, a man from Quraysh, by whose rule all the inhabitants of the heaven and the Earth are satisfied". And in another hadith he is quoted as saying that "a man from my people will rise and all people in the heaven and the Earth will love him". Main article: Signs of Reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi Signs of Reappearance(علائم الظهور) are those events which have been predicted by the Infallibles (a) to happen before or on the verge of the reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) and the happening of each of them is considered a good news for approaching his uprising in the world; so that, he (a) will rise after the last in the series of these signs happen. The Siren, rising of Sufyani, etc. are among these signs. One question with which many people are concerned is when Imam al-Mahdi (a) will reappear and whether there is any specific time for his reappearance. According to hadiths from Imams (a), the time of his reappearance or Zuhur is unknown to people. Imam al-Sadiq (a) is quoted as saying that "we never determined a time for the reappearance in the past, nor will we do so in the future". Therefore, as emphasized in some hadiths, people who predict certain times for the reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) are imposters and liars. Imam al-Baqir (a) told one of his companions who asked him about the time of reappearance: "people who determine times for the reappearance are liars; they lie, they lie". These hadiths clarify that there were always people, with diabolical motivations, who determined times for Imam al-Mahdi (a)'s reappearance, as there will be such people in the future. Therefore, Imams (a) asked Shiites not to be indifferent to these people; rather they should reject and deny them. Imam al-Sadiq (a) told one of his companions: "do not be afraid of rejecting a person who determines a time for the reappearance, since we have never determined a time for this". Imam al-Mahdi (a) Minor Occultation Major Occultation Mahdawiyya Signs of Reappearance The material for this article is mainly taken from ظهور in Farsi Wikishia. 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__label__wiki	0.697923	0.697923	You are here: Home / News / Contact / 2018 / March March 29, 2018 /0 Comments/in Day Trading Signals /by admin Bloomberg: Stocks Trade Mixed Ahead of Holidays; Dollar Slips: Markets Wrap Stocks in Asia were mixed on Thursday as heightened equity volatility and a slide in megacap U.S. technology shares gave investors pause. The dollar headed lower after two days of gains. [more...] Bloomberg: Quant Style Crash That Strategists Warned About Finally Arrives If you’ve been cursing at technology stocks for the past 24 hours, there’s another corner of the market that’s perhaps just as deserving of your anger. It’s called momentum -- quant jargon for stocks that have performed the best over the past year or so -- and it’s gone through a rare bout of pain over the past two days. [more...] Bloomberg: Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall Elon Musk’s creditors are suddenly having a serious bout of buyer’s remorse. In August, they lined up for the chance to finance Tesla Inc.’s ambitious rollout of its Model 3 sedan. Wooed by Musk’s personal appeals, bond investors pretty much ignored the carmaker’s prolific cash burn and repeated failures to meet production targets and lent it $1.8 billion at record-low interest rates. [more...] Bloomberg: How a Billionaire Crypto King Built the No. 1 Exchange in Just 8 Months Even in a cryptocurrency industry teeming with overnight success stories, Zhao Changpeng stands out. In less than eight months, the founder of Binance has grown his company from an idea into the world’s largest digital-asset exchange by traded value. He has vaulted from obscurity to the cover of Forbes magazine, steered Binance to a $200 million profit in its second quarter of existence, and amassed a personal fortune that he claims is worth as much as $2 billion. [more...] Bloomberg: Amazon Loses $53 Billion in Market Value, Becoming FAANG's Biggest Loser Move over, Facebook. U.S. investors have a new punching bag among the FAANGs: Amazon.com, Inc. Facebook Inc. gave up the top loser spot to Amazon.com, which lost $53 billion in market value on Wednesday after Axios reported that President Donald Trump is “obsessed” with regulating the e-commerce behemoth. [more...] Bloomberg: Snowballing U.S. Volatility Is Dragging Asia Stocks Along With It It happens a lot. An American company like Facebook Inc. stumbles, its stock losing $23 billion of market value in a day. And then Japanese and Chinese equities with no obvious connection erase many times that amount over the next few hours. [more...] Bloomberg: Hedge Funds That Are Short Dollar-Yen Stare Down Fiscal Year Squeeze Just as hedge funds pile into wagers betting on dollar-yen weakness, signs are emerging that the pair is poised for a resurgence in Japan’s new fiscal year. The greenback’s failure to break below 104.50, seen by major Japanese banks as a key barrier amid a congestion of buy orders, is pointing to a potential bottom for the widely traded cross. [more...] Reuters: Oil prices rise as OPEC seen continuing supply cuts through 2018 Oil prices rose on Thursday as the producer cartel OPEC and other suppliers look set to continue withholding output for the rest of the year and potentially into 2019. [more...] Reuters: China warns U.S. not to open Pandora's Box, unleash trade ills on world China warned the United States on Thursday not to open Pandora’s Box and spark a flurry of protectionist practices across the globe, even as Beijing pointed to U.S. goods that it could target in a deepening Sino-U.S. trade dispute. [more...] CNBC: Tesla is on track for its worst month ever — down 24.86 percent so far Tesla shares are on pace for their worst monthly performance as the electric car company faces a spate of recent issues. Tesla stock is down 24.86 percent in March, as of Wednesday, pacing for its worst month since the company first went public in 2010. [more...] CNBC: It’s only a year to go until Brexit — but top UK retailers are frustrated they can’t prepare for it In 365 days the U.K. will no longer be a member of the European Union. But U.K. businesses are still unware of how much they will have to change to continue trading with the rest of Europe — making it harder to plan for the future. [more...] Bloomberg: Stocks Fall in Tech Rout; Yen Slips as Pound Gains: Markets Wrap Equities in Asia fell after a sell-off in technology shares spooked investors assessing threats to earnings growth for the industry that propelled last year’s rally. The yen slipped and 10-year U.S. Treasury yields consolidated below 2.8 percent. [more...] Bloomberg: Tech Rout Punishes U.S. Stocks as Treasuries Surge: Markets Wrap A selloff in technology shares sent U.S. equity benchmarks lower, with losses accelerating late in the day. Bonds surged on demand for safe havens, pushing the yield on 10-year Treasuries below a key level. [more...] Bloomberg: The Lesson From Stock Corrections Past? 200 Days of Pain It’s a fact of the life of the mind -- things always seem worse in the present. In reality, they’re not. In this bull market alone there’s been five other corrections like this one, and it’s taken around seven months on average for equities to climb out of their hole. Based on that path, the current jitters won’t be fully eradicated until August. [more...] Bloomberg: JPMorgan Is Hiring More Tech and Math Grads in Asia JPMorgan Chase & Co. is hiring more engineering, neuroscience and psychology graduates across Asia-Pacific, diversifying away from students with finance backgrounds as it seeks to adapt its workforce to the region’s fast-changing economies. [more...] Bloomberg: Bull Market Not Out of the Woods From Trade Woes, Bob Doll Warns Even for staunch long-term believers in the bull market in stocks that’s run for nine years, this month’s escalation in trade tensions between the U.S. and China is spurring some caution. [more...] Bloomberg: The How, What and Why of Spiraling Borrowing Costs for Aussie Banks A gauge of borrowing costs for Australian banks, the three-month bank bill swap rate, has jumped 22 basis points in March, heading for the biggest monthly gain since September. What is behind this? [more...] Reuters: On China trade clash, Wall Street embraces Trump's poker face To Wall Street money managers who make bets for a living, U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive stance against China on trade looks like a high-stakes poker hand - but they believe they can play it for all it’s worth. [more...] Reuters: Shares skid on specter of tighter tech regulation, U.S.-China trade spat Asian shares fell on Wednesday after Wall Street was knocked hard by concerns about tighter controls on the tech industry, denting a brief global equities recovery driven by hopes that the risk of a U.S.-China trade war was easing. [more...] CNBC: China claims Kim Jong Un has agreed to denuclearize Korean Peninsula China said on Wednesday it won a pledge from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean peninsula during a meeting with President Xi Jinping, who pledged in return that China would uphold its friendship with its isolated neighbor. [more...] CNBC: SoftBank and Saudi Arabia are creating a huge solar power generation project Saudi Arabia and Japanese telecom giant-turned-tech investor SoftBank expanded their partnership on Tuesday, announcing the world's biggest solar power generation project at a press conference in New York. [more...] CNBC: Goldman Sachs computer model warns bear market is near but the firm's analysts don't believe it A computer model built by Goldman Sachs is signaling that a bear market is right around the corner, but some strategists at the investment bank are not listening to their own indicator. [more...] Bloomberg: Stocks Jump in Best Day Since 2015 as Dollar Falls: Markets Wrap U.S. equities surged back from the biggest weekly rout in two years, with major benchmarks climbing more than 2.7 percent on signs that an escalation of trade tensions was beginning to ease. [more...] Bloomberg: Asia Stocks Gain as Trade Fears Subside; Yen Falls: Markets Wrap Stocks in Asia followed their U.S. counterparts higher on signs that an escalation of trade tensions was beginning to ease. The yen slipped and the South Korean won rallied as news emerged of a surprise visit to China by North Korea’s leader. [more...] Bloomberg: Headspinning Swings for S&P 500 Are Raising Stakes for Traders For three straight days, the benchmark for $29 trillion in equities has moved more than 2 percent, sinking to the worst week in two years before Monday’s stunning reversal. [more...] Bloomberg: Bitcoin Hovers Near $8,000 Level as Investors Weigh Twitter Ban Bitcoin swung between gains and losses near the $8,000 level, paring an earlier rebound, as investors digested the decision by Twitter Inc. to ban advertisements for initial coin offerings and token sales on its service. [more...] Bloomberg: Goldman Says There's No Need to Worry About Slowing Global Growth Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists who are tracking weaker global growth this quarter say there’s no reason to fret that a deeper slowdown is coming. [more...] Bloomberg: Crypto Exchange Coinbase Adds Support for Ethereum-Based Tokens Coinbase Inc., which owns one of the largest U.S. cryptocurrency trading platforms, is opening the door to offering digital tokens based on the Ethereum network. [more...] Bloomberg: As Trade War Heats Up, Biggest Currency Whales Make Their Move or the first time in a decade, the world’s central banks are looking beyond the dollar to build their currency reserves. With U.S. protectionism on the rise, a number of Wall Street strategists say the case for the euro has rarely been better. [more...] Bloomberg: Pound Climbs Above $1.42 as Labour Seeks to Prevent Hard Brexit The pound gained for the second day, breaking above $1.42 as the U.K. Labour party said it was seeking an amendment to key Brexit legislation to prevent Britain leaving the European Union without a deal. [more...] Reuters: U.S. seeks China trade moves on autos, financials, chips: source Top Trump administration officials are asking China to cut tariffs on imported cars, allow foreign majority ownership of financial services firms and buy more U.S.-made semiconductors in negotiations to avoid plans to slap tariffs on a host of Chinese goods and a potential trade war. [more...] Reuters: Oil edges up on Middle East tension, global market recovery Oil prices edged up on Tuesday, supported by concerns that tensions in the Middle East could lead to supply disruptions. Hopes that behind-the-scenes talks between the United States and China will prevent a looming trade war between the world’s two biggest economies also supported global markets, including crude oil futures. [more...] CNBC: This international market is primed to benefit if a U.S.-China trade war erupts The threat of a trade war between the U.S. and China grew more pronounced last week and there could be a winner from the fallout if tensions escalate, says one strategist. [more...] Bloomberg: Asia Stocks Drop Amid Trump Team Concerns, Trade: Markets Wrap Asian stocks retreated following a drop in American equities after a fresh personnel shakeup in the Trump administration spurred concerns about a unilateral approach to trade, national security and foreign affairs. [more...] Bloomberg: Google to Ban Cryptocurrency, Initial Coin Offering Ads Google will ban online advertisements promoting cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings starting in June, part of a broader crackdown on the marketing of a new breed of high-risk financial products. [more...] Bloomberg: The Stock Market Where Fundamental Research Goes Out the Window Call it the dilemma of the Japanese equity investor. By all traditional methods of analysis, the country’s shares should be thriving. Valuations are low, profits are strong, and shareholder returns are higher than ever. [more...] Bloomberg: Tension Is Running High in U.S. Stocks Tension is building in the U.S. stock market, with a technical indicator suggesting that the S&P 500 Index is heading toward a significant move. What’s unknown is the direction. [more...] Bloomberg: Qatar Stocks Up Amid Steps to Raise Foreign Ownership Qatar’s main index posted its best two-day performance since December 2014 as two benchmark heavyweights prepare to raise the limit foreigners can own of their stock, a step that could lead to millions of dollars in inflows from investors tracking emerging markets equities. [more...] Bloomberg: Havens Just Aren’t Safe Anymore, Goldman Says Traditional safe havens haven’t been working out for investors in the latest ructions in financial markets, strategists at Goldman Sachs Inc. warned. [more...] Reuters: Asian shares, dollar fall as U.S. trade fears eclipse strong China data Shares faltered and the dollar skidded on Wednesday as investors fretted over the threat of new U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, brushing aside data that showed the Asian economy got off to a solid start in 2018. [more...] Reuters: Trump eyes tariffs on up to $60 billion Chinese goods; tech, telecoms, apparel targeted U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports and will target the technology and telecommunications sectors, two people who had discussed the issue with the Trump administration said on Tuesday. [more...] CNBC: Professor Stephen Hawking is dead at 76 Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. Hawking, who was a professor at the University of Cambridge, made several discoveries in the field of physics, mathematics and cosmology that raised his profile internationally. [more...] CNBC: Trump considers indefinite tariffs, investment restrictions against China President Donald Trump's administration is considering a trade package including indefinite tariffs, investment restrictions and possible visa restrictions on Chinese travelers, a source told CNBC Tuesday. [more...] Bloomberg: Asian Stocks Mixed Ahead of U.S. Data; Yen Falls: Markets Wrap Asian equity traders adopted a cautious tone Tuesday following a dip in U.S. stocks, with focus turning to a U.S. inflation report for clues on the pace of Federal Reserve policy tightening. The dollar gained against major peers and Treasury yields held declines. [more...] Bloomberg: China Food Giant Says Trade War With U.S. Not Good for the World China’s biggest food company is sounding the alarm bells over escalating trade tensions with the U.S., pointing to potential suffering for the global economy and blow back for both countries if agricultural goods are used as bargaining chips in the fight. [more...] Bloomberg: Behind the Goldman Sachs Race to the Top Was a Quiet Battle for Blankfein's Favor It was Feb. 21, and Blankfein had gathered with the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. board to reveal his long-awaited recommendation for the bank’s next chief executive officer -- the one who would steer the Wall Street giant through the next phase of its 149-year history. [more...] Bloomberg: Central Banks Urged to Study Digital Currency Risks and Rewards Digital currencies are a revolutionary tool that central banks should consider, but they remain far too risky to be used as legal tender any time soon, according to the Bank for International Settlements. [more...] Bloomberg: $103 Billion Quant Firm Piles Into China as Foreigners Welcomed The world’s No. 2 stock market is ripe for a quantitative style of investing, according to a $103 billion money manager that lists a cement maker, pharmaceutical brand and bank as its top picks in China. [more...] Bloomberg: Japan Scandal Gives Fresh Boost to Yen Bulls Eyeing 100 Mark A deepening political scandal that has rattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration has become a fresh reason for yen bulls to spy a move past 100 per dollar. [more...] Bloomberg: Emerging-Market Investors Face a Week of Tumult as Trade War Looms Emerging-market investors will be gauging the effect of a possible trade war after President Donald Trump revealed his tariff plans. They will also be dissecting the U.S. inflation figures for clues on the Federal Reserve’s rate-hike path. [more...] Reuters: Asia stocks edge up on tech shares, U.S. inflation data awaited Asian stocks edged up on Tuesday with technology shares buoyed by gains in their Wall Street peers, but gains were limited ahead of U.S. inflation data later in the day which could offer clues on the pace of interest rate rises this year. [more...] Reuters: Oil prices fall on relentless rise in U.S. crude output Oil prices fell on Tuesday, extending losses from the previous session, as the inexorable rise in U.S. crude output weighed on markets. [more...] CNBC: Cryptocurrency scammers run off with more than $2 million after ditching their investors Scammers appear to have made off with more than $2 million in cryptocurrency after carrying out an apparent fake initial coin offering (ICO), and the individuals linked to the incident may be connected to another recent theft, CNBC has learned. [more...] CNBC: Japan will urge G20 to step up on preventing cryptocurrencies for money laundering Japan will urge its G20 counterparts at a meeting next week to beef up efforts to prevent cryptocurrencies from being used for money laundering, a government official with direct knowledge of the matter said. [more...]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line141
__label__cc	0.555242	0.444758	Recent findings in the genetics of blood pressure: how to apply in practice or is a moonshot required? Padmanabhan, S. , Aman, A. and Dominiczak, A. F. (2018) Recent findings in the genetics of blood pressure: how to apply in practice or is a moonshot required? Current Hypertension Reports, 20, 54. (doi:10.1007/s11906-018-0863-1) (PMID:29881931) (PMCID:PMC5992231) 160924.pdf - Published Version Purpose of Review: Hypertension is recognised as the biggest contributor to the global burden of disease, but it is controlled in less than a fifth of patients worldwide, despite being relatively easy to detect and the availability of inexpensive safe generic drugs. Blood pressure is regulated by a complex network of physiologic pathways with currently available drugs targeting key receptors or enzymes in the top pathways. Major advances in the dissection of both monogenic and polygenic determinants of blood pressure regulation and variation have not resulted in rapid translation of these discoveries into clinical applications or precision medicine. Recent Findings: Uromodulin is an example of a novel gene for hypertension identified from genome-wide association studies, currently the basis of a clinical trial to reposition loop diuretics in hypertension management. Gene-editing studies have established a genome-wide association studies (GWAS) SNP in chromosome 6p24, implicated in six conditions including hypertension, as a distal regulator of the endothelin-1 gene around 3000 base pairs away. Genomics of aldosterone-producing adenomas bring to focus the paradox in genomic medicine where availability of cheap generic drugs may render precision medicine uneconomical. Summary: The speed of technology-driven genomic discoveries and the sluggish traditional pathways of drug development and translation need harmonisation to make a timely and early impact on global public health. This requires a directed collaborative effort for which we propose a hypertension moonshot to make a quantum leap in hypertension management and cardiovascular risk reduction by bringing together traditional bioscience, omics, engineering, digital technology and data science. Padmanabhan, Professor Sandosh and Dominiczak, Professor Anna and Aman, Alisha Padmanabhan, S., Aman, A., and Dominiczak, A. F. College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences Current Hypertension Reports ISSN (Online): Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2018 The Authors First published in Current Hypertension Reports 20: 54 Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License RDF+XML BibTeX RIOXX2 XML RDF+N-Triples Dublin Core Atom Simple Metadata Refer METS HTML Citation ASCII Citation OpenURL ContextObject EndNote MODS OpenURL ContextObject in Span MPEG-21 DIDL Reference Manager RDF+N3 Grid (abstract) Multiline CSV Mr Alastair Arthur	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line143
__label__cc	0.689195	0.310805	Children’s Book Award Younger Children Blog Tour Round-up Comments Off on Children’s Book Award Younger Children Blog Tour Round-up Have you read all the fantastic blogs by our Younger Children Top Ten authors and illustrators? If you missed them – visit childrensbookaward.org.uk for the links, but here is a flavour of some of the fabulous illustrations and stories displayed. The Secret of Black Rock, written and illustrated by Joe Todd Stanton and published by Flying Eye Books. Joe was kind enough to share some of his sources of inspiration and preparatory work for Black Rock on Fiona Barker’s brilliant blog. The piece by Joe gives a fascinating insight into his inspirations, his thought processes and how the book developed and evolved. Joe says: ‘I discovered this picture online whilst looking for inspiration for a university project. It’s a picture of the Old Man of the Lake which is a log that has been floating in Organ’s Crater Lake for around 120 years. In 1938, they tracked its movements and it travelled 60 miles in just three months. This sparked my imagination and made me wonder what could be below the water.’ Other inspirations from Joe include paintings by Winslow Homer. He wanted to show how people can imagine the same thing in different ways. Here is one original early sketch. Joe explains: ‘The lighthouse eventually had more of a tree house style lighthouse as it would be more fun to illustrate and not be too heavy for the Black Rock to carry around all day.’ As Fiona says at the end: ‘The Secret of Black Rock is a story about curiosity and bravery and I loved the way the environmental message is entirely hopeful showing that we can all strive to be the change we want to see’. Thank you to Fiona for hosting this blog and to Joe, and visit Fiona’s blog to pick up more of Joe’s early sketches. The second stop on the tour was Mrs. Mole, I’m Home! written and illustrated by Jarvis and published by Walker. This blog was hosted by Library Mice. Mrs Mole, I’m Home! tells the story of Morris Mole who after a long hard day at work is desperate to see his family, but cannot find his way home because he cannot see, after losing his glasses (the glasses are perched on his head the whole time, which will delight to little readers as there is something so joyous about knowing something the character does not!) Digging his way around, he keeps popping into other people’s homes, from rabbits to penguins, and readers are thus introduced to different habitats, conveyed by the gorgeous colours in the artwork. In the end, Morris realises he does not need his glasses to find his way home. There is plenty to pore over and plenty to giggle at in this lovely tale. Here is a message from Jarvis regarding his shortlisting: “To have Mrs Mole, I’m Home, included on the FCBG’s Children’s Book Award Top 4 Picture Books is such a great surprise. When you make a picture book and send it out into the world you have no idea how it will be perceived or how much it will even be read! Will it get lost and end up at the back of a library shelf? But to hear that it has found its way onto a list voted for by children is more than I could have hoped for.” Thanks to Jarvis and to Library Mice for hosting this blog. Visit the blog to see more great pictures from this popular book. And remember to vote online here. Edgar and the Sausage Inspector, written and illustrated by Jan Fearnley, and published by Nosy Crow was hosted by Playing by the Book: “It’s hard to say no to a rat in a hat!” Edgar and Edith are hungry, and it’s up to Edgar to bring home something tasty. But every time Edgar finds some delicious sausages or some scrumptious pastries from the patisserie, they’re confiscated by a dastardly rat calling himself The Inspector. Just who is this important-looking fellow with a big hat? Poor Edgar and Edith are left with nothing but dry crackers and pickles for dinner. That is, until one day, when Edgar decides to do some investigating of his own about the rather portly Inspector and the rat meets his match… This fantastically funny book by multi-award-winning author-illustrator, Jan Fearnley is set in Paris and features lots of delicious food from a scrumptious string of sausages to a pile of pretty pastries. There’s a gorgeous cat and a wonderfully villainous rat and a surprise ending that will delight both adults and children – no wonder it has proved such a hit with young voters in the Children’s Book Award! Jan Fearnley said of her shortlisting: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be on the shortlist for the Children’s Book Awards. What I love about this award is that it is the children who vote. I am incredibly proud of Edgar and The Sausage Inspector, Edgar’s story had been rolling around in my head for a while and I simply adore writing and drawing naughty, dodgy characters such as the Rat in a Hat. I love that he makes himself “important” and credible with all the usual silly paraphernalia – a hat, a badge, a notebook, because that’s what people do nowadays. If Nosy Crow had allowed me a few more spreads, he could well have ended up sporting a high-vis jacket!” Read more from Jan and see more of the fabulous spreads from the book at playingbythebook.net, with thanks to Zoe and to Jan. And our final blog stop for the Younger Children Category was hosted by Toppsta featuring I Dare You, written and illustrated by Reece Wykes and published by Andersen Press Visit the blog to read what Toppsta reviewers had to say about it, but as Georgina Atwell of Toppsta says: “What’s amazing is that this is Reece’s first book and it’s an impressive start from a debut author/illustrator. Reece studied illustration and animation at Kingston University. His work has been highly commended by the MacMillan Children’s Book Prize and he was joint winner of the Worldwide Illustration Prize, UK category. He now lives and works in London and judging by the dry wit and punchy illustrations of I Dare You, I have a feeling we have another Jon Klassen (I Want My Hat Back) in our midst”. Reece says “It came as such an amazing surprise to see my name alongside these other fantastic illustrators nominated for the FCBG Children’s Book Award. I Dare You is my first picture book and I was slightly apprehensive about it being released into the world. It’s such a great feeling knowing that kids (and maybe some adults) have enjoyed reading it. I want to say a big thank you to Andersen Press for believing in me and my slightly strange book idea.” As Toppsta adds: But now we need your help! I Dare You and the other titles on the shortlist need your votes. In addition to the FCBG tester groups, any child up to the age of 18 can vote for their favourite books on the Top 10 Shortlist, you can find out how here and keep up to date with all of the FCBG Children’s Book Award news on Twitter. Thanks to Georgina and to Reece for this blog. The next blog stop is on Monday 19th March with Katherine Rundell’s The Explorer published by Bloomsbury and hosted by librarygirlandbookboy Make sure you follow us on Twitter to read the blogs on the Younger Readers’ Top Ten and subscribe to this blog to catch the round-up on 29th March.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line152
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__label__cc	0.533992	0.466008	Your Future Today Series Advertising, Photography, Digital Art Your Future Today - Series Commissioned by Hillcrest Christian College, Victoria, Australia The brief: To showcase children living their future career dream by transporting them to an imaginative, out of this world scene. To focus on the child's emotion at living their future dream Where required, to include adults and elements that further illustrate the hyper reality of the dreamscape The children should be current students of the College Elements of the College to be included (where possible) as a sub story to the main advertising commentary The final pieces to be high resolution for print applications including: Bus Wraps, Large Billboards, Flyers, and Web A Cinemagraph (Artymate) version of each to be provided with looping, moving elements to showcase as web headers and facebook headers Behind the Scenes Video of each to tell the story of the creations “Every aspect of what Hillcrest Christian College does, including marketing, is focused on quality and care. That is why we have partnered with Karen as her work is unique, innovative and spells quality.” - Dr Gregg Weaver - Head of College Your Future Today The Chef was the first image to be created in the series. The concept was to showcase the career potential for students at Hillcrest Christian College, by placing a young boy, front and centre, in the midst of a busy commercial kitchen. The shoot location was the new commercial kitchen that forms part of the College facilities. The major benefit of this set was the sub story that this is actually a space the students have the opportunity to learn in. Although on the initial viewing, most would envision this is actually a large restaurant kitchen. The brief required us to choose a student from the College. We discovered Ben, a Grade 3 student, who had an aptitude for drama and coincidently a father who was a professional Chef. We co-opted Jim, Ben's father to play the part of Chef of Fire, and also help guide us on aspects relating to a working kitchen. The other characters were played by 2 ex students and the a staff member of the College. The camera was locked down in position and the strobes were relocated for each subject. The subjects and the elements were photographed independently to ensure best lighting on each person, best expression and best positioning. Moving elements, fruit, vegetables the dough and the flour were also captured in different takes. The fire in the pan was captured on set to ensure realism. "Being part of the process really reinforced to me about the importance of my decisions and choices as a parent and how the outcomes of those decisions are integral in shaping my child's future. I think the finished print helped both myself and my wife to realise that opportunity and choice is the best gift that we can give as parents and that by choosing Hillcrest, that is exactly what we have done." - Jim (father of Ben - Student and chef with frypan) AIPP APPAs Commercial Silver Distinction WPPI International Commercial Silver Print and Web Materials “Karen listens, she dreams, she confers, she designs and she creates works of photographic art that convey so clearly the messages and feel we want.” - Dr Gregg Weaver - Head of College View the Behind the Scenes Video I worked with the clients in sections to ensure that their vision was being managed. Each part of the of process I checked in with the team to ensure we were on track. The first part of the process required me to present two alternatives for the 'world below'. Once the night scene was chosen the next step was to add the model space station (photographed in my studio) and then the 3D astronaut to prepare for the in studio shoot. In the studio we hooked the boys up on a harness and had them 'floating' in space in various positions. I tethered to my computer and mocked up the chosen photographs during the shoot to ensure we had what we needed. The Finished Image “Being a part of the Hillcrest Promo Shoot was a fantastic opportunity for our boys. The boys felt like superstars and were honoured to know that their photos would be used to promote their school. The studio was professional and photographers extremely talented. The experience was stress free and lots of fun for us all.” - Mother of the Boys The Scientist This shoot required some key players in order to pull it off. Our model, student Olivia (10), comfortably played the role of young scientist. Her expressions were animated and she was very comfortable with the camera. The Hillcrest Christian College lab assistant, Elizabeth Cardoza, handled all of the chemicals, allowing me to focus on the shoot and our model to stay safe. Our other models, were teachers from the college, and they played their parts well, fitting into to the scene to help convey the story. The concept of 'The Author' was to showcase a student in a writers quarters, in the midst of authoring a book. As he writes, his imagination begins to come to life. Characters he has written about surround him. Several of these characters are from other scenes from Karen's Story Art works, while some are new creations. This image was primarily shot on location in the Studio with the set created from antiques, and foliage. The Animated Version “ It was great to see a 'Behind the scenes' look at all the work that goes in to capturing that one special photo. Having the video filmed showing some of the process was great too. Timothy enjoyed being involved in the photo shoot and loved being chosen to represent his school. He really loved seeing how the photos were taken and edited, and loved seeing the final photo.” - Timothy's Parents “We (Hillcrest Christian College) are thrilled with the “Your Future Today” series commissioned by the College. Karen has creatively captured the essence of what it means for students to realise their future potential as they learn today.” - Dr Gregg Weaver - Head of College Karen Alsop AIPP APPA AWARDS Animal Photographer of the Year Advertising, Digital Art, Fine Arts Your Future Today - Chef Advertising, Art Direction, Digital Art Your Future Today - Science Advertising, Digital Art, Digital Photography Southern Diner Advertising, Photography, Digital Photography An Advertising Campaign for a Private Collage that showcases the students living their future career dream college school children imagination career astronaut chef Scientist Author writer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line162
__label__cc	0.716981	0.283019	Past news and announcements are shown below. Current news is shown on our homepage. Upcoming OPD Workshop: Strategies and Tools to Secure External Funding Wednesday, May 16th - 2:30-3:30pm Searching for Funding: Interdisciplinary Graduate Programsd in Life Sciences (IDGP) Would you like to have external funding to support your research, and bolster your CV? Get started by learning about basic tools available to UMass graduate students and postdocs to help find grants and fellowships. Dr. Heidi Bauer Clapp, Assistant Director for Grants & Fellowships in the Graduate School Office of Professional Development, will present an external funding workshop to IDGP Students, Post-Docs, and Faculty We’ll discuss common funding sources for students in the life sciences, how to search for funding as an international student, and strategize how to align funding applications with your graduate career. UPCOMING OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS Outreach and Public Engagement Summit: Wednesday, April 11 Are you interested in finding a larger audience for your research or pursuing a career in outreach and public engagement? If so,then please attend the April 11th Outreach and Public Engagement Summit, which will help you make the connections and provide you with information necessary to achieve your goals. Pre-registration is requested: https://tinyurl.com/OPESummit. First Annual UMass Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Conference: Wednesday, May 2, 12:30-7:00 PM This conference is meant to showcase the breadth of research on the UMass campus and in Western Massachusetts highlighting neuroscience research interests that span biology, cognition, computation, engineering, medicine, and public health. This exciting event features a half-day symposium with Keynote Speaker, Dr. Wolfram Schultz (Cambridge University) and UMass Alumni Speaker Dr. Graeme Davis (University of California, San Francisco). In addition, there will be talks from researchers in four different colleges at UMass Amherst, followed by a catered reception and poster session. Researchers from UMass and other institutions are invited to attend and present a poster on their work related to the neurosciences. Registration is free and open to all career stages. For more information and to register for the conference please go to: First Annual UMass Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Conference Deadline for poster registration is April 18th. That's Life [Science] grad student blog publishes their 150th post Graduate students in the UMass IDGP programs created That's Life [Science], an interdisciplinary outreach blog, in 2016. Since then, the group has published 150 articles covering interesting topics across life science fields for the general public. "A Day in the Life of a Bird Nerd" is their 150th article! Podos and Remage-Healey publish Nature paper on swamp sparrows A team of researchers including Jeffrey Podos, Biology, and Luke Remage-Healey, Psychological & Brain Sciences, reported in Nature the discovery in the forebrain HVC of sensorimotor “bridge” neurons in swamp sparrows that simultaneously and selectively represent two critical learning-related schemas: the bird’s own song, and the specific tutor model from which that song was copied. Read More: Nature NSB Graduate Student, Daniel Vahaba, Publishes Findings in eNeuro NSB doctoral candidate Dan Vahaba recently published a paper in the open-access journal eNeuro titled, "Sensory Coding and Sensitivity to Local Estrogens Shift during Critical Period Milestones in the Auditory Cortex of Male Songbirds". Dan's work, co-authored by fellow NSB grad student Matheus Macedo-Lima, reveals an age-dependent shift in auditory processing and lateralized sensitivity to neuroestrogens that tracks vocal learning milestones in developing songbirds. Read More LSGRC 7th Annual Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium, Friday, November 17! The 7th annual UMass Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday, November 17. The event brings together graduate students from all areas of life sciences research at UMass to present their work in both talks (9:00am - 5:00pm, Life Sciences Laboratories Building, Room S340) and a poster session/lunch (12:30pm - 2:00 pm). This event is open to everyone who wants to learn about the fantastic life sciences work going on at UMass! The schedule for presentations is available on the LSGRC facebook page. UMass Amherst Neuroscientists Receive $2.36 Million Grant to Improve Brain Research Tools Cognitive neuroscientists Rosie Cowell and David Huber at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a four-year, $2.36 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new computational tool that will help researchers in interpreting functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) of the brain and improve accuracy in relating fMRI data to neural responses in the brain. (Read more) Bekki Spencer Receives $2.64 Million from NIH for Preschooler Sleep Study Neuroscientist Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $2.64 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore, in a series of laboratory and preschool-based studies, whether mid-day napping benefits learning in young children and helps them cope with emotions. Improving early education can enhance child development and school readiness, factors that are known to have lifelong effects on physical and mental health, she notes. Read more... Chaia Flegenheimer Awarded CRF Dissertation Fellowship Chaia, a fourth year doctoral student in the NSB Program, is the recipient of a $10,000 Dissertation Fellowship. Chaia studies, with the guidance of her mentor, Dr. Jennifer McDermott, the development of attention systems and its relationship to social cues in typically and atypically developing populations. Over the next year Chaia's work will explore the behavioral and neural effects of implicit stereotype threat on task performance and engagement in young women, and the protective impact of the Stereotype Inoculation Model (SIM). Chaia hopes her work will help researchers and educators better understand the extent to which the SIM can protect against stereotype threat effects, and help implement it to lessen gender disparities in STEM fields.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line166
__label__wiki	0.94026	0.94026	Skip to the content Skip to the main menu Zupko has been hired to 上海后花园 Tsinghua’s global zation strategy and will lead a team of teachers to make the univers ity as international as possible, with the target of ensuring that international students and sc上海后花园 holars do not encounter language or cultural barriers at the university as of next year, Beijing Youth Daily reported. 上海后花园Zupko was quoted as saying a world-class university should be inclusive of different cultures, which was key to Tsinghua hiring him. He illustrates the university’s continued internationalization efforts . This strategy at many universities on the Chinese mainland has helped them to achieve better上海后花园女神会所 standings globally, as internationalization is an important factor in university rankings. 上海后花园In the latest QS World University Rankings published by higher education analyst QS Qu acquarelli Symonds in London, six mainland universities made it into the world’s top 100. Tsinghua is China’s highest-ranked university on the list, rising from 17th place last year to 16th. Peking University ros上海后花园 e eight places to 22nd, with both achieving the best rankings since the list was first published in 2004. Fudan University in Shanghai ranked third among mainland 女神会所universities, up four place上海后花园 s year-on-year and 31 places since 2015. Zhejiang University’s rankings rose 14 places to 54th. QS ranked 1,000 universities from 82 countries and regions. They are measured on academic standing, grad 上海后花园女神会所uate employability, student-to-staff ratio, research impact and internationalization. Last year, more than 16,000 faculty and students went abroad for visits and exchanges, and over 3,700 international students from 128 countries were studying at Tsinghua, he said.上海后花园 It is not the only university pursuing a more globalized education, with neighboring Peking University also rec ently announcing its Global Excellence Strategy, which aims to enhance international exchanges and co o上海后花园女神会所peration, overcome development barriers, gather high-quality resources and stimulate collegial progress. The strategy features six development concepts: creativity, leade rship, openness, uniqueness, diversity and shaping, the university said. In his speech to celebrate Tsinghua’s 108th anniversary, Qiu Yon上海后花园 g, the institution’s president, said it is embracing the vision of being a global uni versity, as well as promoting and representing the development of higher education in China. 上海后花园女神会所The university continues to further implement its global strategy, which strives to enhance the competence of its students worldwide, conduct high-end research for the benefit of both China an d the world, promote international exchanges and cooperation, and strengthen its global impact, he said. A more open Tsinghua will embrace the world, and the university has signed cooperatio上海后花园女神会所 n agreements with 285 universities and research institutes in 50 countries, Qiu added. www.sh419co.com In 上海后花园 © 2019 Leon	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line169
__label__wiki	0.552133	0.552133	Kaminey As the story of Kaminey unfolds you will realize why my writing has become so subdued. Because it’s a Vishal Bharadwaj film with Shahid Kapoor in a double role for the first time, Priyanka Chopra as a middle class Maharashtrian girl and Amol Gupte of ‘Taare Zameen Par’ fame as the villain. You can always expect the screen to be lit with magic from a director whose inspiration isn’t Hollywood films but William Shakespeare plays. As I watched the ‘Dhan te nan’ song on my small idiot box, I realized the gravity of the situation and that it was not one of those insipid movies being doled out at the box office on a regular basis. Sometimes you need a Vishal Bharadwaj movie to make you realize that what you are watching regularly at your nearest theatre necessarily need not be the best. Because there are films like ‘Omkara’, ‘Maqbool’ and hopefully this time ‘Kaminey’ that are supposed to be appreciated and watched in theatres and not when your cablewalla offers them for free. Charlie: Shahid Kapoor who lives his life betting at the race course and whose existence revolves around the rich & famous. He wants to one of them, may be better off! He is street smart and knows how to play the game. Guddu: Charlie’s brother (Shahid Kapoor) who is an identical twin physically, but elsewhere he has nothing in common with his kin. He works as a trainee in a NGO firm and wants to be valid member of the upper middle class family. He is career oriented & knows his path is not easy. But he is honest at heart which he loses to Sweety. Sweety: Priyanka Chopra as Sweety Bhope is young and fiery. She loves Guddu who acts as respite from her goon brother Bhope. Bhope: Gangster turned politician, he fancies himself as the robin hood of slums and his fanatical ideologies and vandalism are his true character. Mikhail: A fiery and wild man played by Chandan Roy who dreams of being a high profile bookie just like Charlie. His acts before he thinks for which he ultimately pays the price. Lobo & Lele: Corrupted narcotics officers played by Shiv Subrahmanyam and Hrishikesh Joshi who are puppets at the hands of mafia. Tashi: King of the drug business with immense patience but if you hit his wrong side its hell on earth Charlie and Guddu are twins born and brought up in Dharavi, the biggest slum in the world. They are physically identical but their thoughts differ so much that they hate each other. But they have one more thing in common; their speech defect. While Charlie lisps, Guddu stammers. Charlie is deep rooted in the world of horse race gambling of which he wants to be the king. Guddu on the other hands prefers to climb his career ladder hoping to fulfill his ambitions. Their dreams might have kept them apart for so much as now, but their paths cross as they get entangled in their personal turmoil’s. Charlie gets fixed in get-rich-quick scheme while Guddu has to pay the price for loving Sweety who is Bhope’s sister and now pregnant. Drugs, mafia, corrupts cops and politician, cold blooded murders, gangsters start tightly encircling them, unless they realize that the only way to get out of this mess, is to take help of their mirror faced brother. An excellent trailer with titles rolling like “This fummer” and “Discover your mean fide” awaits you below:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line173
__label__wiki	0.668929	0.668929	Tag: Google Hummingbird Google Hummingbird Google Hummingbird – the latest animal in the Google Zoo September 27, 2013 SEO At a special event in the garage where Google was born, Google added a new animal – the Hummingbird to its growing menagerie. Google announced a new “Hummingbird” search algorithm is live. Google disclosed the existence of the new search formula on Thursday at an event held in the Menlo Park, California, garage where chief executive Larry Page and fellow co-founder Sergey Brin started the company 15 years ago. Google Reveals Hummingbird Search Algorithm The changes could have a major impact on traffic to websites. Hummingbird represents the most dramatic alteration to its search engine since it revised the way it indexes websites three years ago as part of a redesign called “Caffeine”, according to Singhal. He estimates the redesign affects about 90 per cent of the search requests Google gets. Any reshuffling of Google’s search rankings can have sweeping ramifications because they steer so much of the internet’s traffic. “Hummingbird” is the company’s effort to match the meaning of queries with that of documents on the Internet, said Singhal from the Menlo Park garage where Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin conceived their now-ubiquitous search engine. “Remember what it was like to search in 1998? You’d sit down and boot up your bulky computer, dial up on your squawky modem, type in some keywords, and get 10 blue links to websites that had those words,” Singhal wrote in a separate blogpost. “The world has changed so much since then: billions of people have come online, the Web has grown exponentially, and now you can ask any question on the powerful little device in your pocket.” Hummingbird is the only group of birds with the ability to fly backwards – don’t think Google will be going backwards on this though!!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line175
__label__cc	0.565625	0.434375	Credit, Debit Card Abuse Cases Linked to Local Gas Station MERIDIAN, Texas (KWTX) The Meridian Police Department has issued a warning about a scam that is evidently linked to the use of credit or debit cards at a local gas station. Police Chief Chris Blanton said a number of people have reported unauthorized purchases that were made with their credit and debit cards after they used the cards at the Exxon gas station at 201 Morgan St. in Meridian. “This is not something that in the almost eight years that I’ve been here we’ve had this kind of a problem,” said Blanton. Blanton said within the last week more than 15 people have reported fraud, and that the number keeps growing. “When 15 or 20 people have come, and some of them have lost $400 or $500, that’s theft,” he said. Amanda Gregory is one of the fraud victims. She said someone made three consecutive purchases totaling more than $1,200. “My husband and I worked pretty hard for that money,” said Gregory. Her bank reimbursed her for the amount charged. She said the experience taught her a lesson. “Be more diligent with your bank statements and with your debit card, and don’t maybe be as free to use it everywhere,” said Gregory. Blanton said the department tried notifying the gas station’s owner, but said he was not cooperative with the investigation. He believes the pumps could have a skimmer inside, but can’t know for sure until an expert can inspect the inside of the pumps. He said he has no reason to suspect the owner had prior knowledge or that he is responsible. The owner’s son did not confirm the problem with KWTX, but said if there is a problem, it is with Exxon and not the local station. For now, police are cautioning others until they can investigate further. “As far as we can tell it’s the gas pumps. It’s not the inside’s credit card machines, it’s just the gas pumps,” said Blanton. “We encourage you… please shop at the store, buy gas at the store. Just at this time it would probably be best not to use your credit card at the gas pump,” he said. ← Crime Stoppers: Finding Fuel Bandits in Grants Pass Mentor Police Department, Lake County Narcotics Agency Work Together to Prevent Theft, Drug Use → Copyright © 2019 Flint Loc Technologies, LLC. • All Rights Reserved • (855) 435-4685	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line176
__label__cc	0.661183	0.338817	Regulation of Ionizing Radiation-Induced DNA Damage Response Yu, Xiaochun University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States See 38 grants from Xiaochun Yu See grants from University of Michigan Ann Arbor Mass spectrometric approaches to protein ADP-ribosylation Examining Tolerance to CNS Stimulants in ADD Center for Integrated Approaches to Undiagnosed Diseases A Global Screen for Genes Regulating Cdt1 Turnover In Response To DNA Damage CISE Instrumentation: Applying Software Engineering Methodologies to Robotics Tasks: A Cross Disciplinary Approach Rodents Derived Synthetic Blood Brain Barrier Models for Chemical Toxicity Screening Ionizing radiation (IR) is an important therapeutic approach to kill cancer cells by inducing DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) that lead to cell apoptosis. However, normal cells are protected from IR-induced cell lethality by a DNA damage response system including DNA damage checkpoint activation and DNA damage repair. Thus, it is important for understanding the molecular mechanism of IR-induced DNA damage response, so that more effective radiation therapy can be achieved to treat cancer patients. In response to IR-induced DSBs, a signal cascade initiated by a group of PI3-like kinases including ATM, ATR and DNAPK arrests cell cycle progression and facilitates DNA damage repair. Besides these protein phosphorylation events, we and others recently found that a protein ubiquitination cascade is involved in DSBs response. These ubiquitination events are activated by RNF8, a Ring domain E3 ligase. Following the initial RNF8-dependent ubiquitination, the ubiquitin (ub) signals are amplified by a group of downstream ub E3 ligases, such as RNF168, RNF169, RAD18, and HERC2. These ubiquitination events regulate chromatin remodeling and other histone marks, which facilitates DNA damage repair by recruiting down-stream DNA damage repair factors to DSBs. In this application, we plan to continue studying the IR-induced protein ubiquitination cascade by focusing on CHFR, a paralog of RNF8 in mammals. The domain architecture of CHFR and RNF8 is very similar. Both of them contain an N-terminal FHA domain that is likely to recognize phospho-Thr, and a Ring domain that interacts Ubc13 or UbcH5C to catalyze histone ubiquitination in response to DSBs. Lacking these two E3 ub ligases additively suppress DNA damage response and induces tumorigenesis in vivo. Different from RNF8, CHFR contains a C-terminal PBZ motif that binds poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR), which facilitates the fast recruitment of CHFR to DNA damage sites and mediates the ubiquitinaition of PARP1. Moreover, Chfr-deficient mice are tumor prone, and cancer-associated CHFR gene mutations have been identified in primary solid tumors. These lines of evidence suggest that CHFR is an important tumor suppressor. Thus, in this application, we plan to examine the molecular mechanism of CHFR in IR-induced DNA damage response and tumor suppression. Dysfunction of ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage response pathways causes a great risk to induce tumorigenesis. In our preliminary study, we identified an important regulator - CHFR in the ionizing radiation - induced DNA damage response. In this proposal, we plan to not only dissect the molecular mechanism of CHFR underlining ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage response, but also examine the role of CHFR in tumor suppression in vivo. 2R01CA130899-06A1 Radiation Therapeutics and Biology Study Section (RTB) Pelroy, Richard University of Michigan Ann Arbor Internal Medicine/Medicine Schools of Medicine R01 CA Regulation of Ionizing Radiation-Induced DNA Damage Response Yu, Xiaochun / Beckman Research Institute/City of Hope Yu, Xiaochun / City of Hope/Beckman Research Institute $382,500 Yu, Xiaochun / University of Michigan Ann Arbor R01 CA Regulation of Ionizing Radiation Induced DNA Damage Response Yu, Xiaochun / University of Michigan Ann Arbor $281,150 Chen, Qian; Kassab, Muzaffer Ahmad; Dantzer, Françoise et al. (2018) PARP2 mediates branched poly ADP-ribosylation in response to DNA damage. Nat Commun 9:3233 Wang, Jiaxu; Yuan, Zenglin; Cui, Yaqi et al. (2018) Molecular basis for the inhibition of the methyl-lysine binding function of 53BP1 by TIRR. Nat Commun 9:2689 Wang, Mengxi; Yuan, Zenglin; Xie, Rong et al. (2018) Structure-function analyses reveal the mechanism of the ARH3-dependent hydrolysis of ADP-ribosylation. J Biol Chem 293:14470-14480 Liu, Yidan; Zhang, Bin; Meng, Xiaoyu et al. (2017) UHRF2 regulates local 5-methylcytosine and suppresses spontaneous seizures. Epigenetics 12:551-560 Li, Mo; Chen, Qian; Ma, Teng et al. (2017) Targeting reactive nitrogen species suppresses hereditary pancreatic cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:7106-7111 Han, Deqiang; Chen, Qian; Shi, Jiazhong et al. (2017) CTCF participates in DNA damage response via poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation. Sci Rep 7:43530 Li, Mo; Chen, Qian; Yu, Xiaochun (2017) Chemopreventive Effects of ROS Targeting in a Murine Model of BRCA1-Deficient Breast Cancer. Cancer Res 77:448-458 Evans, Joseph R; Zhao, Shuang G; Chang, S Laura et al. (2016) Patient-Level DNA Damage and Repair Pathway Profiles and Prognosis After Prostatectomy for High-Risk Prostate Cancer. JAMA Oncol 2:471-80 Yu, Xiaochun (2016) A special issue on the DNA damage response and genomic instability. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 48:593 Liu, Yidan; Zhang, Bin; Kuang, Henry et al. (2016) Zinc Finger Protein 618 Regulates the Function of UHRF2 (Ubiquitin-like with PHD and Ring Finger Domains 2) as a Specific 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Reader. J Biol Chem 291:13679-88 Be the first to comment on Xiaochun Yu's grant	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line177
__label__cc	0.594126	0.405874	— Main Menu —Home About Us - Vision Mission Goal - Core Areas of Work - About GTN - Executives - Kathmandu Team - Field Team Project - Ongoing Projects - - WHP 2019 - - Nawalparasi Safe Delivery Project - - Strong Girls Project - - Small-scale Research Projects - - CoSMiN Project - Accomplished Projects Resource - GTN Related Publications Blogs Contacts About GTN Kathmandu Team Field Team WHP 2019 Nawalparasi Safe Delivery Project Strong Girls Project Small-scale Research Projects CoSMiN Project Accomplished Projects GTN Related Publications Amplify Change by Nabin Increasing women’s access to safe delivery through health service quality improvement and health promotion in Nawalparasi Green Tara Nepal (GTN) has been implementing AmplifyChange for Increasing women’s access to safe delivery through health service quality improvement and health promotion. AmplifyChange is a fund that aims to empower young people, men and women to realise their sexual and reproductive rights. AmplifyChange is pooled fund supported by Danida at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Viiv Foundation. The donors have contracted Mannion Daniels Limited to deliver AmplifyChange. MannionDaniels is working in a consortium with the Global Fund for Women (GFW) and African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) to manage AmplifyChange. AmplifyChange supports civil society and grassroots organisations (CSOs) to advocate for and promote better sexual and reproductive health and rights, working in countries where the needs are greatest. Funding/Partner Agency: Managed by Mannion Daniels Limited incorporated and registered in England and Wales. supported by Danida at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Viiv Foundation Project Period: July 2016- June 2018 Project District: Nawalparasi Target area/population 2 birthing centers (Banjariya and Kotthar) covering 4 VDCs (Amarban, Banjariya, Kotthar and Dandajheri) Total staff Project staff- 4 (full-time), 4 part-time Health post staff (ANMs to local health facility- 2) Target population All the women of reproductive age particularly marginalized and disadvantaged women No of beneficiaries 10,000 direct beneficiaries (10,000) and indirect benificiaries (50,000) over project period Project Background: Access to comprehensive maternal health is one of the health rights of women. Nevertheless, women continue to have a high risk of death and illness during pregnancy, delivery and/or postpartum period because of many preventable causes. The coverage indicators for maternal, neonatal and child health interventions such as contraceptive prevalence, antenatal care, skilled attendance at birth, postnatal care, case management of sick children are still low in Nepal. Primary and secondary care are deficient in Nepal, and where services exist, the reasons for their underuse are complex. Since 2006, Nepal has addressed supply of health care in remote rural areas by setting up Birthing Centres (BCs) in underserved areas. Yet data indicates most maternal improvements are within privileged groups while marginalised groups not accessing services; more than 70% of women in the Nawalparasi district still give birth at home, and 67% had no postnatal check up by a health worker (GTN baseline 2013). Nawalparasi district has 21 Birthing Centers, local government sponsored facilities providing safe deliveries with nurses, most of which are under utilised. Whilst Nepal has in place a system of using Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) to provide outreach and education in each area, training is ad-hoc with no mentoring. The District Health Office also does not support FCHVs to collect vital data, and has no system for screening women for maternal depression, despite the fact that suicide is now the no. 1 cause of maternal death (16%) in Nepal. Green Tara Nepal’s Project titled “Increasing women’s access to safe delivery through health service quality improvement and health promotion” will work towards access to comprehensive reproductive health services, sexual health of young people and girls challenging stigma, discrimination, attitudes and laws. Therefore, the main focus of the project will be to support equitable access to Reproductive Health Services by mobilising local health care workers and volunteers to conduct health promotion to marginalised women of childbearing age and their families to support use of under utilised Birthing Centres. The project confronts discrimination by empowering women and the local community to understand the health and human rights of women. Approx 1/3 of our target will be newly married and expectant adolescents under age 21. Overall, the project aims to create equitable access and use of maternal health services among marginalised ethnic and tribal women with access to rural Birthing Centres (BCs) in Nawalparasi through the addition of health promotion (HP) services and improved collection and use of vital data in the target areas. services, and nationally to advocate for training and use of HP for all primary health care providers. Problems identified in the Project area Primary and secondary care is deficient in Nepal, and where services exist, the reasons for their underuse are complex. Since 2006, Nepal has addressed supply of health care in remote rural areas by setting up Birthing Centres (BCs) in underserved areas. Yet data indicates most maternal improvements are within privileged groups with marginalised groups not accessing services; more than 70% of women in the target areas still give birth at home, and 67% had no postnatal check up by a health worker (GTN baseline 2013).  Nawalparasi district has 21 BCs, local government sponsored facilities providing safe deliveries with nurses, most of which were under-utilised. Partly this is due to lack of strategic planning in deciding the location of BCs (of the 21 in the area, many are clustered). Also health care providers in Nepal receive almost no training in Health Post, and have not previously been expected to conduct outreach, home visits etc.  Whilst Nepal has in place a system of using Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) to provide outreach and education in each area, training is ad-hoc with no mentoring. There exists a lacking of support to FCHVs to collect vital data, and has no system for screening women for maternal depression, despite the fact that suicide is now the no. 1 cause of maternal death (16%) in Nepal.  Each BC is managed by a local management committee, and most of these don’t meet regularly and don’t conduct social audits or discuss quality service improvements (GTN data 2015). This leads to failure in local health systems government to run effective and high quality SRH services for women. Overall aim of this project is to promote continuum of care from pregnancy to post-partum period aim to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the target population. Specific objectives are: • Strengthen ANC, PNC, neonatal, child health and family planning services. • Strengthen PHC/ORC and immunization services in the facility and outreach sites. • Increase promotive health behaviours of the community people through mobilisation of community groups such as mothers groups, adolescent groups meetings. • Organise social mobilisation and advocacy activities. • Establish birthing facilities in the local health post. • Establishing a prompt and proper referral services for emergency and complicated cases. Approach/strategies • Need based program planning and management addressing the gaps • Active engagement of local stakeholders from planning phase • Align with existing system considering sustainability of the programme • in partnership with DHO, health posts and local health facility and management committee ACTIVITY 1: CAPACITY BUILDING FOR HEALTH PROMOTION (START UP AND PREPARATION) The objective of this activity is to improve local health systems governance, and use of data for maternal and neonatal health programme. Each BC is managed locally by a Health Facilities Operations Management Committee (HFOMC) made up of local volunteers, health workers and government officials. The funding includes training for the HFOMCs to improve inclusive management (whilst women and Dalits are required to be on the HFOMC, to conduct social mapping and use data to discuss and improve services. GTN staff and nurses share data and support local women to bring concerns and questions. Major activities under training and capacity development are: • Conduct training on health promotion, participatory group facilitation, training to GTN staff and key board members on, FCHVs • Training of FCHVs on SRHRs and health indicators • Training of HFOMC on SRHRs and health indicators • Refresher training on health promotion and participatory group facilitation for GTN staff and key board members ACTIVITY 2: SUPPORT FOR HEALTH STRENGTHENING SERVICES AT BIRTHING CENTERS Green Tara Nepal will provide technical support and support of nursing staff to operate birthing centers. This support will remain in strengthening nursing care in the facilities. Major activities under this theme include; • Identify 2 Birthing Centers (BCs) for intervention in consultation with DHO • Meet with Health Facilities Operations Management Committee at selected BCs to introduce project and conduct orientation • Recruit ANMs for birthing centers • Supply equipment and minor renovations as per needs assessment • Support one ANMs per health facility for running SRH services ACTIVITY 3: SCALING-UP EVIDENCE BASED HEALTH PROMOTION (NEEDS ASSESSMENT, BASELINE STUDY AND FINAL EVALUATION) To collect and use data on maternal mortality and use of health promotion to improve SRH services in Nepal. The evaluation design measures proof of concept of the health promotion (HP) strategy using Community Health Promoters (CHPs) and FCHVs at the target Birthing Centres (BCs). These data will be entered regularly and used to produce policy briefs and papers that will be published in int’l health journals. Major activities are; • Produce Study design and sampling for controlled before and after study • Conduct baseline data collection in intervention and control VDCs and data input and analysis Review, monitoring and advocacy of SRH services • Conduct quarterly reviews of data with district and local health management staff and implement quality improvements/recommendations • Social Audits for accountability of the birthing center • Conduct rapid mid-term evaluation (process evaluation) • Compilation of case studies • Project review meetings between health facility, VDC and GTN staff Endline assessment • Conduct endline assessment to assess target vs achievement (tool design, data collection, data entry and report writing) • Dissemination of findings at district level • Dissemination of findings at national level for evidence-generation and national level policy advocacy works ACTIVITY 4: COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH PROMOTION WORKING WITH WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES The project focuses to improve knowledge, behaviour and use of maternal health services among marginalised and vulnerable women with access to Birthing Centres. The key to improving access to SRH services at BCs is to educate and empower the women who are currently not using those services using a consistent health promotion approach that engages and empowers the most marginalised to use and quality services. The project will staff each target BC with a Health Promoter (HP), a woman living in the area who will champion HP. The HP will be responsible for a catchment area of 2 VDCs including the one with the BC. HPs and FCHVs will identify women newly moved in with husband (often adolescents who have minimal info about pregnancy); and newly pregnant women. They will invite these women to join a monthly group, and conduct home visits to those who can’t. They will also invite their motherin- law (often the main decision maker regards health) to attend a separate monthly group. Groups will focus on topics such as preparation for birth, good nutrition, depression, family planning and GBV and empowerment. Major activities include; • Mother’s group and Mother-in-laws groups formation to get input from the community on SRHRs issues • Facilitate monthly health promotion groups for pregnant women, mother-in-laws and husbands • Conduct home visits to newly pregnant and extremety isolated/vulnerable women to recruit to groups and to support access to BCs ACTIVITY 5: IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH PROMOTION FOR DEMAND CREATION AND STRENGTHENING HEALTH SERVICES Major activities under this theme are; • Conduct social and operational mapping of working location to identify and outreach to target women • Solicit feedback from local women about BC facilities and \ • Coordinate with HFOMC for use of capacity building funds for BC improvements. • The programme is still in the beginning phase • All the process of approval and preparation are completed • Engagement of local stakeholders from the beginning of the programme • Started strengthening services both at community and grassroots level Green Tara Nepal, a non-governmental, apolitical and non-profit making non-governmental organization, established in 2007. It works in research, publications, advocacy, training and social mobilization in a holistic community development approach. Green Tara Nepal works in collaboration and cooperation with community people, CBOs, NGOs, civil societies and, external development partners at national and international level and. It works in close coordination with the government sector at federal, provincial, district and local level. Click for webmail login Green Tara Nepal 2019 Hosting & Manage By: Sabai Solution	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line179
__label__wiki	0.541723	0.541723	MIAMI BASEL WEEK - November, 2016 MAISON & OBJETS - May, 2016 EUPHORIA - April, 2016 MODERN FEMME - February, 2016 WALASSE TING - December, 2015 FISHER ISLAND - December, 2014 ESPACE CARDIN - November, 2014 CHÂTEAU RASQUE - July, 2014 MIAMI BASEL WEEK - December, 2013 ART PALM BEACH - February, 2014 MARIKO - July, 2013 BALLESTRA - March, 2013 BRETEAU - March, 2013 MARIKO - December, 2012 OLIVIER DASSAULT - April, 2012 DASSAULT: ART MIAMI - December, 2011 ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2017 – VIP PREVIEW MIAMI BASEL WEEK 2016 \| INAUGURAL OPENING Celebrating Maison & Objet Americas 2016 A site-specific floating art installation Contemporary artist Mariko defies traditions November 26, 2017 In Art, Art Basel, Miami An exclusive unveiling of early works by famous french designer and sculptor Jacques Duval-Brasseur. April 22, 2016 In Art More than 70 guests came out to celebrate with us this April for an intimate sunset viewing of Euphoria, a site-specific floating art installation by contemporary artist Benedicte Blanc-Fontenille at the historic Vagabond Motel. The exhibition was a presentation of miniature paintings floating in water that mimicked the movements and forms of waterlilies exploring the rudiments of fragility, balance, meditation, movement and rebirth. “Like waterlilies move at the surface of the water, the works playfully follow the movement of the currents, imperfectly fragile yet balanced. They go underwater and another life begins for them: they fly like stingrays, lay down, rest for a while and go back dancing.” — Blanc-Fontenille March 14, 2016 In Art Establishing itself in the global arts market as a leading Miami-based gallery in 2012, Gauchet Fine Art tapped a select group to build it repertoire of artists from across America and Europe. Of this selection was contemporary sculptor Mariko. Defying traditional modes of sculpture with the incorporation of found metal objects, her works are best noted for their harmonious balance and fusion between Cubism and Primitive Art. “Her bronze statues are a main example of her use of proportion and balance and play on femininity, says Gallery Founder Kristelle Gauchet… Mariko’s works are ones to be watched amongst the larger contemporary and fine art worlds, and we are excited that her pieces have been acquired into private collections here in Miami. Each of her subjects portray avant-garde realism making them exceptional works of art for public exposition and collecting value.” In addition to her bronze series, she is also known for her large-scale sandstone characters portraying animals and human figures, which had much to do with her upbringing in Madagascar and early fascination with Malagasy craftsmanship. While living in Kenya, Mariko first began carving with sandstone, learning specific features of the exceptional material and the rudiments of the technique by the Maasai craftsmen. Later on, while studying at Les Beaux-Arts in France, she also became influenced by the teachings of the early-20th-century avant-garde Cubism Movement, particularly the transformation of volumes and shapes, pioneered by Georges Braque (1882-1963) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Mariko’s works will debut this season as part of a new gallery exhibition entitled Modern Femme: on view from February 15th to March 15th, 2017 at Gauchet Fine Art – Miami Ironside Art & Design district. February 26, 2016 In Art Introducing mix-media artist Fabien Rocca Since our founding, it’s been our passion to seek out new and emerging artists defining the spectrum of contemporary art. Presenting our newest addition to our prestigious line up of global artists: mixed-media artist Fabien Rocca. A mixed-media contemporary artist from Corsica in the South of France. In 1992, Rocca studied at the Julian Academy Met De Penninghen, and thereafter received his PhD in June 1996, followed by a career as an Artistic Director for ‘ Singapore’ advertising agency in Paris. In June 1997, deciding to give a more personal meaning to his work, he went to Germany searching for new inspiration. Having mastered different techniques, he expressed the desire to share his art in Florida and painted his first series of works with a strong desire to create a new visual medium, depicting human subjects, mixed in with bright colors and abstract lines. More >> MARILYN 2016 Acrylique on canvas 60 x 72 in. 152 x 182 cm.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line181
__label__wiki	0.677583	0.677583	Berries and the bear Written by Tom Hart As traditional food sources become inaccessible, polar bears are having to look elsewhere for new snacks Law of the wild Sweden’s annual wolf hunt was only open for a few hours before a court closed the season. A few days and one court decision later, it was open again The stressful life of the bee Written by Tom Hayes Environmental stress causing young bees to mature too fast could be one of the major factors behind the disastrous decline of bee populations around the globe Australia faces ‘extinction calamity’ One in ten of Australia’s indigenous mammal species has become extinct in the past 200 years, according to a new survey of Australia’s native mammals Norfolk sees Mammoth return A 3D replica may bring the world’s most complete mammoth skeleton to public display Indian tiger population roaring back Written by Chris Fitch New report estimates that numbers of wild Indian tigers grew by more than 50 per cent during the past eight years Hungry angry hippos Last November, a hippopotamus attack killed 12 children and one adult in Niger. Although such incidents are rare, humans and hippos increasingly share the same territory Historic birth for Galapagos tortoises First giant tortoise hatchlings born in the wild in over 100 years found by conservationists in the Galapagos Islands Controversy over Zimbabwe’s elephant sale Sixty-two elephant calves are set to be exported from Zimbabwe to countries across the world, the country’s authorities have confirmed, causing outrage amongst conservationists Ape granted basic rights A high-level Argentine criminal appeals court has granted an ape the same basic rights as her human captors, setting a precedent for future challenges regarding animals in captivity Scotland’s wild crime Salmon poaching is on the rise in Scotland, according to the Scottish Government’s second annual report into wildlife crimes. For 2012-2013, the Scottish courts proceeded against 75 people for wildlife crimes, with 55 found guilty, up from the previous year Vulnerable species protected by United Nations Written by Katy Marriott Intense negotiations on the conservation of some of the world’s most vulnerable species have concluded with resounding success at UN convention in Ecuador Map error threatens ‘protected’ chimpanzees They are supposed to be protected by the Luama Katanga Reserve, but an administrative error means 900 plant species and 1,400 chimpanzees are actually situated 50 km east of the reserve’s official boundaries Apes of wrath War is common to two species in the world: man and chimpanzees. Jane Goodall was among the first to note coordinated attacks by chimpanzees on other chimpanzees, sparking debate among primatologists and anthropologists on the significance of chimpanzee warfare Roads ‘fence’ mountain lions Mountain lions have clung on in the mountain range around Santa Monica, California for decades as a strange, wild throwback on the Los Angeles periphery Sabah’s lost world Written by Nick Garbutt There’s hardly an inch of the planet that can’t be visited, yet thankfully there are still places that conjure mystery, intrigue and even foreboding. In the heart of Borneo, lies the remarkable Maliau Basin Wind farms threaten bats German researchers examined the risks for the 300,000 bats that move through the country each year and found that 72% of all deaths in the migrating colonies are attributable to wind turbines Fukushima radiation impacts wildlife A series of studies indicate that the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has caused genetic damage to birds, monkeys and butterflies in the region	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line183
__label__cc	0.733484	0.266516	GeoPRISMS Newslette… GeoPRISMS Planning… GeoPRISMS Planning Workshop for East African Rift System – Report Morristown, NJ – October 25 – 27 2012 Workshop conveners: Ramon Arrowsmith1, Estella Atekwana2, Maggie Benoit3, Andrew Cohen4, Rob Evans5, Matthew Pritchard6, Tyrone Rooney7, Donna Shillington8 1Arizona State University; 2Oklahoma State University; 3The College of New Jersey; 4University of Arizona; 5WHOI; 6Cornell University; 7Michigan State University; 8Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Background and Motivation The planning workshop for the East African Rift System (EARS) GeoPRISMS primary site was held in Morristown, NJ, on October 25-27th 2012, mere days before Hurricane Sandy made landfall. An international group of ~115 attendees took part, including a gratifyingly large number of graduate students (~40). Overall, 15 different countries were represented, with a large number of participants from several African countries, including Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (figure 1). Figure 1. Participants at the GeoPRISMS EARS Workshop in Morristown, NJ, October 2012. The East African Rift System was chosen as a primary site for GeoPRISMS because it offers significant opportunities to study a wide range of questions outlined in the GeoPRISMS Science Plan for the Rift Initiation and Evolution (RIE) Initiative, as outlined in the GeoPRISMS Science Plan and the Draft Implementation Plan (http://www.geoprisms.org/science-plan.html); these documents served as the starting point for this workshop. The main goals of the workshop were to clarify the community research objectives in the EARS, to discuss candidate focus areas for concentrated research, to identify opportunities for international partnerships, and to develop a detailed Implementation Plan for GeoPRISMS research in EARS to guide GeoPRISMS proposers and reviewers, considering the available resources and infrastructure. Figure 2. Students gathed around Roy Schlische and Martha Withjack, from Rutgers University, leaders of the student field trip in the Newark Basin Student Symposium Prior to the formal meeting, a student symposium was organized by Maggie Benoit (The College of New Jersey). Interested students were given an introduction to the East African Rift System and associated projects, a chance to present their own research to their peers, and an opportunity to meet some of the meeting conveners in an informal setting. More than just providing information on the existing state of knowledge in the region, this event facilitated team building and critical thinking, which allowed the student participants to produce a well-thought out plan of their own during the formal meeting. A field trip to the Newark Basin, led by Martha Withjack and Roy Schlische (both of Rutgers University), visited some local rift features (figure 2). Figure 3. Workshop attendees participate in post-workshop field trip to the northern part of the Newark Basin. Post-workshop field trip The day after the workshop, Paul Olsen, from LDEO, led a field trip for all interested workshop attendees, exploring the northern part of the Triassic-Jurassic Newark basin. This trip provided an overview of this ancient rift basin, analogue to the active East African Rift basins, highlighting similarities and major differences between the two systems (figure 3). Workshop Plan The planning workshop itself was structured around 5 key questions from the RIE component of the GeoPRISMS science plan pertinent to the East African Rift. Talks were organized around these topics to give the audience an overview of what is known of the rift system and, more critically, what remains unknown. Presentations from selected talks below are available on the GeoPRISMS website (figure 4). Topic 1: How does the presence or absence of an upper-mantle plume influence extension? Seismological imaging of plumes and associated magmatism in rifts – Gabriel Mulibo and JP O’Donnell. Origin of magmas from geochemical perspective – Tyrone Rooney Plume dynamics and surface uplift – D. Sarah Stamps Topic 2: How does the mechanical heterogeneity of continental lithosphere influence rift initiation, morphology, and evolution? Mechanisms for thinning the lithosphere, including thermal/chemical erosion, and interaction with large scale lithospheric structures –Ben Holtzman Control of pre-existing structures on early rifting –Aubreya Adams Geochemical heterogeneity of the lithosphere – Wendy Nelson Topic 3: How is strain accommodated and partitioned throughout the lithosphere, and what are the controls on strain localization and migration? Magmatism during rifting events – David Ferguson Modeling and observations of faulting and magmatism during rifting – Juliet Biggs Active deformation processes – Becky Bendick Topic 4: What factors control the distribution and ponding of magmas and volatiles, and how are they related to extensional fault systems bounding the rift? Geochemical studies of magmas and volatiles – Tobias Fischer Geophysical imaging of magmas and fluids (MT, seismic): Derek Keir Shallow dynamics of magma chambers/dikes and eruptions – Manahloh Bechalew Topic 5: How does rift topography, on either the continental- or basin-scale, influence regional climate, and what are the associated feedback processes? Climate and tectonics and feedbacks – Manfred Strecker Modeling perspective – Joellen Russell Tectonics and sedimentation at basin scale – Chris Scholz Topic 6: Hazards and Resources in the EAR and Links to Rifting Seismic hazard – Ataley Ayele Volcanic hazard – Nicolas d’Oreye Oil/gas exploration – Dozith Abeinomugisha Topic 7: Synergies with other agencies / international projects Topic 8: African partnerships panel Figure 4. Juli Morgan, GeoPRISMS Chair, introduces the GeoPRISMS Program. Break-out discussions were interspersed with the plenary sessions, enabling more focused discussions about potential topics of future research. Breakout sessions on Day 1 focused on identifying the most compelling science, the highest priorities for GeoPRISMS program funds, and which types of experiments or observations might be needed. Participants were also asked to identify which themes, if any, require focusing of effort with concentrated, collaborative investigations at specific sites. Recognizing that the East African Rift offers significant broader impacts, both in terms of hazards and resources, and in terms of education and capacity building opportunities, plenary sessions were organized to cover these topics. A session at the end of Day 1 focused on seismic and volcanic hazards, as well as opportunities that might arise from oil and gas exploration activities. On Day 2, a panel of African colleagues gave valuable insights into what needs to be considered when entering into partnerships with scientists in African nations, and thoughts on how to build successful collaborations. The conveners also recognized that work in EARS will require PIs to initiate international collaborations and, in some cases, seek funds from other programs at NSF and elsewhere, in order to accomplish their goals, and the goals of the GeoPRISMS Program. Overviews of existing programs and other opportunities for funding were given both by invited speakers and through “pop-up”, sessions in which participants were given the opportunity to express their own thoughts and interests to the meeting. Student participants were also given the opportunity to highlight their own work through brief “pop-up” presentations. Breakout sessions on Day 2 started to focus in on identifying target areas where the key questions could best be addressed, with the aim of narrowing in on a few locations. In addition, the student participants organized an additional session in the evening (and into the early hours) distilling the information they had gained throughout the workshop, into a decision matrix which they presented on Day 3. The final breakouts attempted to gauge interests in the various sites identified as candidates for focused effort. Workshop Outcomes Shortly following the meeting, the conveners distilled the feedback and outcomes of all the discussions and identified the following as the potential areas for GeoPRISMS effort (figure 6). Primary focus area: The Eastern Rift, The Eastern Branch of the EARS was identified in breakout groups and by the graduate students as a location where a focused inter-disciplinary effort could substantially impact our understanding of rift processes and effectively address the majority of the science questions that form the core of the science plan. This region would encompass the rift from the Tanzanian divergence in the south to Lake Turkana and southern Ethiopia to the north. Particular opportunities highlighted by discussion and relevant to the science plan include (but are not limited to) the role/origin of a plume in this part of this rift; the interaction of the rift and plume with major lithospheric structures; an active magmatic system; along-strike variations in the amount of cumulative extension and lithospheric thickness (from thin in the north to thick in the south); the preservation of a record of the interplay of climate and tectonics. The existing studies characterizing this region provide a rich framework upon which GeoPRISMS science will build. The conveners also identified what they termed “Collaborative Targets of Opportunity” where we recognize that efforts have been ongoing, offering leveraging opportunities for future programs. Target 1: The Afar and Main Ethiopian Rift. This part of the rift system is the focus of intense recent and ongoing international and US efforts. Further GeoPRISMS studies that could enhance our understanding of rifting processes include (but are not limited to) efforts that examine strain localization, and studies probing the origin and role of a plume in rifting. The recent rifting and eruption in this region allows studies of active processes. Target 2: The Western Rift and SW branch. This site would provide the opportunity to examine the role of magmatism in rifting by comparing this comparatively less magmatic system with the highly magmatic Eastern Rift. It also contains the most weakly extended portions of the rift and thus can be used to tackle questions concerning incipient rifting. Finally, deep lakes along the Western Rift contain the longest continuous record of climate/tectonic interactions available for the EARS. New GeoPRISMS studies in this area can leverage recently funded NSF programs and other previous and ongoing tectonic and climate investigations. Target 3: Synoptic investigations along the entire rift. As identified in many discussions at the workshop, there are questions in the science plan that are best addressed by examining the rift as a whole. These concern rift-wide variations in the origin and timing of volcanism, the strain field along and across the rift and large scale structure and dynamics underpinning the rift system. Thus, key components of the implementation plan should include broad and open data assimilation efforts, strategic infilling of climatic, geochemical, and geophysical observations, and modeling and experimental work, which would provide a framework for the focused investigations along the rift. The workshop conveners are currently in the process of wrapping up the first draft of the GeoPRISMS implementation plan for the East African Rift System primary site, which then will be disseminated to the community for input. The conveners thank all participants for their attendance and input to this plan, and the GeoPRISMS Office for coordinating a successful workshop. Figure 5. A map of the East African Rift System (EARS) highlighting the primary focus area and the Collaborative Targets of Opportunity discussed in the Implementation Plan.comes attendees and introduces the GeoPRISMS Program. GeoPRISMS Planning Workshop for East African Rift System – Report, Arrowsmith, R., Atekwana, E., Benoit, M., Cohen, A., Evans, R., Pritchard, M., Rooney, T., Shillington, D. GeoPRISMS Newsletter, Issue No. 30, Spring 2013. Retrieved from http://geoprisms.org	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line184
__label__cc	0.595734	0.404266	The most fantastic thing in the universe! Circulation: 135,120,767 Issue: 264 \| 3rd day of Storing, Y8 The Last Piece of Seaglass by luv_2_shop_7 Julie the JubJub was extremely sad as she walked down the beach. Her head was lowered so that passersby would not see the tears flowing down her face from her overly large eyes. When a JubJub cries, it is almost impossible not to notice. She stopped occasionally to look out at the waves, but this did not help; it only made her bawl some more. She continued walking until she came upon a small patch of mossy rocks and shells and, to her delight, a shiny piece of blue seaglass! She picked it up, overjoyed with her discovery. For that moment she completely forgot why she was crying in the first place. Unfortunately, this moment did not last long. The real reason she was walking the beach in the first place, and the reason why she had been crying, came back like a boomerang. Her father, Joe, was a JubJub janitor. He had worked at the harbour, keeping the signs shiny and the dock clean. All of Julie's life he had worked there, and so she had always lived on Mystery Island. The beach she was walking now, she had been coming to for years. It was not a secret or secluded beach, but it was not very popular. Julie liked it that way. She always came here to think or dream, or to just get out of the house for a few hours. It was her special place, and now she had to leave it behind. Her father Joe had been fired from his Harbour cleaning position because the manager had recently bought a new Petpet that did his job for free. Joe had tried as hard as he could to find another job on Mystery Island, so that his family wouldn't have to move. Unfortunately, there was no need for janitors on the island, as most of the inhabitants were JubJubs and being a janitor was all too common for a JubJub. Joe had come home from work on the night that all of this happened to explain. Julie had asked him where they were going to be moving, hoping that it was Krawk Island or Maraqua. Julie was taking the news very well up to the point when her father told her just where they were moving to. As it turned out, there weren't that many jobs available anywhere in Neopia. Joe had tried again and again to explain to Julie that no matter how hard he tried, he could just not find a job near the sea. Not on Roo Island or Kiko lake, and also, and much to Julie's dismay on Krawk Island or Maraqua. He found no available jobs, and he had to pick the one he thought would be best for him and Julie. He had explained to Julie that he could have gotten a job on Kreludor. He could have worked at Café Kreludor, cleaning the floors and cooking appliances. He had decided against this job, though, as JubJubs were not huge fans of outer space, and he knew that this change would be for the worst. There were absolutely no beaches on Kreludor, and there were also no trees or volleyball or anything else that Julie had enjoyed. There was also no sun on Kreludor, and this was something he was not sure he could live without, and he knew that Julie couldn't. The only other job he had been able to find was in the Lost Desert. He was to help out the city groundskeeper in Qasala. The city, after being nothing but a ruin, now prided itself on being a beautiful city. The groundskeeper had found that he could not keep the city beautiful all on his own, so he had put an ad out for an assistant. The job had sounded perfect to Joe, and he would have had to take it anyway. He needed a job to support himself and Julie, as her mother had passed away when Julie was just a baby. Joe had always been able to support Julie and himself in a comfortable lifestyle from his job at the harbour, but he hadn't been able to save much money, not nearly enough for him to retire early. No, finding another job had not been an option. It had been a necessity. Julie had to sit down as she reflected upon all of this. Her father had been as hopeful as she had to stay on Mystery Island, but that just hadn't been possible. Julie knew all of this and though she understood that her father was only thinking of her, she was still frustrated and crestfallen. The Lost Desert was nothing like Mystery Island. There was no water, which had always been one of her favourite things in all of Neopia. The trees would be more or less the same, palm, as both the island and the desert were hot and tropical. The only thing Julie was happy about was the sun in the desert; it would shine even brighter there than it did on Mystery Island. She could never explain her obsession with the sun; she had always been that way. Yes, she said to herself, the only good thing about this move is the sun. She gazed down at the piece of seaglass in her palm. She already had quite a collection from all of her walks along the beach, but this piece was the most beautiful she had ever seen. It was a vibrant shade of blue, with perfectly smoothed edges. It had obviously been in the sea a long time. Sighing to herself, she got up from the rock. My last piece of sea glass ever, she thought to herself. She was sure that you could not find seaglass in the Lost Desert. She walked back up the beach, towards the beach volleyball courts. She lived just past those, though a little more inland. On the way she stopped in at the Tiki Tack store, and used her allowance to buy one last souvenir from Mystery Island. A plain wooden bowl caught her eye. It wasn't fancy, but she bought it anyway. The next day Julie awoke to find herself in her new Neohome in Qasala. Her boxes were at the foot of her bed, waiting to be unpacked. She got up very slowly, as she was still sad, but she also knew that now the move was final, and nothing would change it. She started unpacking her boxes, and the first thing she found was the piece of seaglass and the wooden bowl. She placed these on her windowsill, as a reminder of her last few hours on Mystery Island. The morning sun was streaming through the glass, and she looked down to see her last piece of sea glass, glowing even bluer in the brilliant sun. It was at this moment that she knew she'd like it here in the Lost Desert. Julie and her father Joe settled comfortably into their new lives in the Lost Desert. Joe loved his job cleaning the city, and met lots of people through his work and personality. Julie also adjusted well, though from time to time she did miss Mystery Island. As long as the sun was shining through her window onto her last piece of seaglass, she was happy. N3oW3IRD Episode 06 Airborne! by neekko That's Just Wrong - Pant Devil Someone stole from the Pant Devil? NO WAY! by happychick111 Garnet and Larkyn's Plan She peered through the dense leaves and then jumped back with shock. There was another Kougra in there! by aislynn7777 Rising Shadow: Part Four Miaglo froze, gaping in bewilderment, and Darigan felt a smug satisfaction at seeing his seemingly invulnerable antagonist flabbergasted. The warrior's emotions were hidden behind the visor of its helmet, but it seemed completely unfazed... by sarahleeadvent	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line187
__label__cc	0.657321	0.342679	Huckabee granted clemency to suspect in Lakewood police killings by Goldy — Sunday, 11/29/09 , 7:29 pm Yikes… Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health. Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors. “This is the day I’ve been dreading for a long time,” Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas’ Pulaski County said tonight when informed that Clemmons was being sought for questioning in connection with the killings. Perhaps Susan Hutchison should ask for her contribution back? And the Washington angle doesn’t look much better: Clemmons’ criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed. Clemmons had been in jail in Pierce County for the past several months on a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child. He was released from custody just six days ago, even though he was wanted on a fugitive warrant out of Arkansas and was staring at seven additional felony charges in Washington state. If this is the killer, there’s gonna be an awful lot of explaining to do. I think it’s time to let the people in jail for having a little pot on them out of jail so as to make room for people like Mr. Clemmons. Is this the guy that raped a relative of Bill Clinton and Huckabee pardoned? righton spews: you mean goldy is really for locking up the criminals, at really long and harsh sentences. I sort of doubt it, that is, its easy on this one to say “he should have been locked up”.. The Raven spews: Oh crap. Alki Postings spews: #1 AMEN What is F**KING wrong with you people! How DARE anyone even suggest we should jail someone for smoking pot or anything like that. No one should be in jail EXCEPT for those who pose an actual physical threat to the society. Everyone else, from Martha Stewart to some college kids smoking pot, can be fined $xxx, and then we can free up our jails for ACTUAL criminals we ACTUALLY need to be protected from. Did ANYONE need protecting from Martha Stewart? Get some damn common sense. Martha should have served out her sentence teaching cooking classes at a low income area high school. I think it’s pretty easy to say that this guy should have never been let out of jail in AR. It sounds like Huckabee and the folks that run the Pierce County jail have some explaining to do. I’ve been reading HA for a couple of years and to my knowledge Goldy’s never said anything like your alleging. MarkS spews: Those compasionate conservatives need to stop coddling criminals. Troll spews: I now understand why a certain someone on this blog shipped his child off to a school district with very few black people. Smart move. Goldy, could you ban Troll’s IP for a week or two? Just one of the many reasons conservatives rejected him at the polls. Clinton put wayne dumont ion jail, huckabee let him lose, he raped again. Chris Stefan spews: Isn’t this all Bill Clinton’s fault somehow? Ah, it was wayne dumont ion’s name I was looking for at #1. Thanks. @9 If he does, who will we kick through the goalposts for the extra point when our team scores? mirror spews: In a defense attorney’s wildest dreams they wouldn’t think they could get this guy back on the street with the charges already pending on him absent some very strange goings on. Child rape? This isn’t a problem with the fucking ACLU, this is a problem with the prosecutorial system and judicial system. Reardon Metal spews: I’ll bet the guy smokes pot. If he’d been charged with that, he’d of spent 20 years in the pokey. slingshot spews: Innocent until proven guilty (it’s still in the Constitution, right?) After Bush/Cheney I’m not sure. Broadway Joe spews: It’s about broken bureaucracies, not the higher-ups theoretically in charge of them. Finding a way to blame Huckabee for this is needlessly politicizing the death of good cops, though it’d balance the scales after Lee Atwater hung Willie Horton on Michael Dukakis and torpedoed any chance of his winning the Presidency in 1988. That said, it sounds like Huckabee won’t get involved with the 2012 presidential election anyway. Honestly, I wouldn’t trust a bass player in the White House, regardless of party. Bass players are just lazy bastards. @18 That’s really low… Richard Pope spews: The alleged murderer was from Marianna, Arkansas originally. Pleasant enough small town, albeit very socially segregated to say the least like most of the South (and the rest of America for that matter). I have relatives and close family friends from there. Anyway, it looks like he was basically locked away for the rest of his life when he was 18 — a 60 year sentence on top of 48 years already sentenced. And Huckabee let him out after only 11 years. Although it is hard to say what the fellow would have gotten under Washington’s sentencing system. Sentences in the South can be pretty harsh — someone can basically get life for armed robbery, whereas in Washington normally that doesn’t get more than a couple of years. Actually Richard, he committed the crime at 17, as a Juvenile although tried as an adult. We need to know what Huckabee was lloking at in 2000 that lead to the commutation. He said he did it because of the man’s youth at the time of the crime…which is a poor reason in my opinion. He went back to jail until 2004. The more relevant question is what happened since 2004?? Especially in Washington. 8 felony charges and the guy is still walking around? Hopefully we will get some accountability for what happened here in Washington. How many more like this guy are wandering around because of a soft Judicial system? Who are the Judges who did nothing here in Washington? That is something we can and should do something about. A lot of scrambling going on. I disagree on the surface with what Huckabee did. There is also a whole lot of explaining on what happened since 2004, don’t you think? The LEFTIST PINHEADED KLOWNS like Goldy want to put all the focus on Huckabee and little or none on the Washington Judicial System. That is unreasonable. Huckabee needs to live with this. It will eliminate any Presidential/Public Off ice aspirations he has, I can assure you. But what about post-2004? Aren’t you curious Goldy?? Let’s get the whole ugly timeline out. It is nice to see Leftists want to get tough on crime. It’s about time. Political correctness was likely involved in this guy walking around…undoubtedly. Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?? They always want to see “oppressed Blacks” be cut a lot of slack and given 9th and 10th chances. Where are these 2 KLOWNS??? It will be interesting to see if there are any drugs like pot in the murderers system when they finally capture him…dead or alive. Dead saves us all a whole lot of money. But will probably bring Al and Jesse out of these holes to squeal excessive force. Hey Mr. Cynical @22, Will you push for prohibition of alcohol next time a violent crime is committed by someone under the influence of alcohol? Your analysis of the history is quite cherry-picked to focus on Washington. Lets say for arguments sake that Huckabee’s inititial clemency was a reasonable gesture of optimism. The real problem was that when the guy then soon violated parole conditions and got new felony charges in Arkansas that state didn’t put him away. Its very odd. He totally skated on the new charges. What the hell happened that they released the guy and gave him permission to leave that state? Bet they’ve rescinded parole for a lot of pot smokers in Arkansas since then! Thor spews: What was this guy doing with a gun? Demonstrating his second amendment rights? Workman and Gottlieb have some explaining to do. Not that they can explain away how existing gun laws are not up to the task of keeping guns out of the hands of repeat felons. Thor, Puddy thinks Huckabee was trying to be nice to a minority and has paid the price for it. This guy should have stayed incarcerated. Puddy suggests going after whomever gave the guns to Clemmons. Puddy is dismayed over the commentary of Mirror@23. When someone commits a crime under alcohol, they usually go after the bartender or the homeowner if they are the cause. So what are you trying to say bud? Also Mirror@23, Huckabee placed a statement (probably missed by you) saying prosecutors dropped the charges against Clemmons when he broke the law again and sent him back to prison. Puddy searching for this info. So maybe Arkansas law enforcement needs to look at themselves. Butt, Puddy does wonder and wondered in the “Shit” thread why did Clemmons make bail for a child-rape case? Why wasn’t bail set at some exorbitant $$$ level? Puddy thought it was all about the children… Huckabee’s statement said that the suspect’s release was due to multiple failings in the Arkansas and Washington legal systems. Duh. And Huckabee seems to be in full damage control mode, making sure that there’s plenty of blame to pass around. From a political perspective, this might well kill Huckabee’s presidential prospects. This morning they were reporting that Huckabee issued clemency orders to more inmates than the did the previous three governors – combined. Since the President also has clemency and pardon powers, it is a relevant issue in any Presidential election. I doubt the Democrates would air a “Willie Horton” type add, but I’m sure his Republican opponants would be more than happy to oblige. The upshot is he never wins the Republican nomination. We have democrats showing a picture of a black criminal and blaming huckabee for letting a prisoner out of jail. How willie horton of the democrats. Hukabee released this guy over the objections of his own prosecutors. I live in Pierce County and you better believe that there will be a whole bunch of us wondering WTF is going on at the jail. Goldy, This is the kind of shit the Republicans do – it’s the Willy Horton thing all over again. I thought you “progressives” viewed yourselves as “above” that kind of shit. If some powerful Dem had said “hello” to this suspect nine years ago, would it mattered today? I used to know a guy who did some major time, but I don’t think my knowing him had much to do with things. @ Willy Horton Actually, if you go back and look at the facts about the Willy Horton case, you’ll see that this isn’t Willy Horton at all. For starters Mike Huckabee isn’t running for president. What this IS is showing the effect of incredibly bad judgement. You know after all the crap we’ve taken from Atwater and Rove (and others) can you blame us for engaging in a little schadenfreude? http://spectator.org/blog/2009.....e-huckabee In fact, an Arkansas Leader study indicated that Huckabee helped free more prisoners from 1996 through 2004 than were freed in the six neighboring states – Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas – combined. But on the good side, he did lower taxes! I’m sure that decisions on clemency and pardons are very hard to make for an governor or president. Not knowing much else about what Huckabee knew at the time he issued the clemency, I’m not going to pass judgement on his decision in this case. Also, I wouldn’t want to interrupt the process of correcting problems with disparity among prison sentences. In some states, there are inmates serving 50 year sentences for armed robbery, who have seen lots of other inmantes go in and out through the system getting five years or less for the same offense. I DO question the Pierce County Sherriff’s department for releasing him on bail when there is a fugitive warrant for him out of Arkansas. I’d like to know more. Did Pierce County check for out-of-state warrants before releasing him? If they did, how did they handle the Arkansas warrant – did Arkansas not respond to their queries? Did Arkansas say they didn’t want to pay the expense to hold or extradite him? Remember Willy Horton? Payback sucks, doesn’t it? The thing with Republicans is that showing the maturity and understanding that it is most likely the system and not Huckabee that is at fault will only be looked at by Republans as a weakness. No. I’m afraid we are going to be forced to tarnish the Republican brand even further by pointing out that you guys are not only liars, but hypocritical liars. You are a bunch of sanctimonious, finger-pointing asses. It is God’s punishment upon you for hating blacks, gays, and all minorities except billionaires. believe it or not but the jail system does not work on a basis of “hes a bad man send him to jail for a long time” and evidence of guilt should go beyond “oh well he done it before” @ 32: Well, putting Texas into the mix is polluting the sample a bit. In Texas the public policy is to execute them as quickly as possible, before they can find an attorney who can prove that they were really innocent and that they got railroaded by a poltically motivated prosecutor and an incompetent public defender. I’m not saying every Death Row inmate in Texas isn’t guilty, or that some don’t deserve the death penalty. I’m just saying that the results of the “Project Innocence” inquiries in Texas has resulted in a disturbing number of overturned convictions once the evidence was evaluated with DNA testing. Which has had the ironic result that the Governor has sped up executions, as well as an attempt to destroy evidence after trial which might contain DNA evidence as a “cost savings” measure. 34. Reardon Metal spews: Huckabee that is at fault will only be looked at by Republans as a weakness. Are you a republican? If not, how do you know what republicans will think? http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....ckabee.php Clemmons was released from county jail less than a week ago with charges of second degree child rape still pending Evidence collected during the child rape investigation paint a picture of a delusional person claiming he was the messiah, sexually assaulting young relatives… It’s still early, so maybe not all of the above is 100% accurate, but I’ve got a lot of questions about what’s going on over at my county’s jail. It sure sounds like this guy should have been kept in jail, sent to Western State, or shipped to AR. I question Huckabee, because of the sheer number of pardons he issued and Huckabee helped free more prisoners from 1996 through 2004 than were freed in the six neighboring states – Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas – combined. because this isn’t the first time one of the people he pardoned over the objection of others that went on to caused a great deal of harm. The Huckabee angle is, maybe, a little over played. We bring it up to show really F’ing bad judgement, but at the same time the guy isn’t running for anything at this case knocked him out of the running for anything. Right Stuff spews: I hate to be so cynical over such a sad event, but here it is IMO. It’s about money and priorities. This oxygen thief is not in jail right now because of money. Too expensive to keep him on warrant. Some county official decided to keep him free till trial, all total BS. Cities, Counties, and our state or in budget hell…So IMO this comes down to priorities. There is no mandate of gov more important than public safety. And I don’t mean raise taxes either… Yep! So, could be please stop locking up people that aren’t a threat to anyone. Executing people has been studied to death (sorry, couldn’t help myself) and has been shown to not make us any safer. Looks like the Tacoma News Tribs. server is a bit busy, but heres a good article from the Trib on Maurice Clemmons off of the McClatchy website. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/79709.html sdstarr spews: Right Stuff, Why not raise taxes to protect the public? Is money in your pocket more important than public safety? If so, why? At the last extreme, would you rather live in a society with low or no taxes and no law enforcement? Do you believe that police aren’t worth paying for? Jason Osgood spews: Hi Goldy. I’m not a psychiatrist, so this is just a layperson’s guesswork. Reading the article, it sounds like Maurice Clemmons has a mental illness. He has no impulse control. He lashes out randomly. There’s no contrition, punishment has no effect. Sounds very much like the effects of severe fetal alcohol syndrome. He may also have schizophrenia. Thinks he’s Jesus. Senseless babble. Etc. From the account in that article, it doesn’t sound like the murder of those police officers was premeditated, like an act of revenge. So the bullshit theories of this being gang related, a copycat crime, etc. can be dismissed. Far be it for me to defend a whackjob like Huckabee. He granted clemency to a youth offender who received what was essentially a life sentence. Clemmons committed felonies, some violent. But not murder. Clemmons’ mental illness was probably not considered. Roger Rabbit probably knows about these things: Are the courts and prisons capable of handling mental illness issues? Assuming my guesses are right, how does society manage schizophrenics with fetal alcohol syndrome that are prone to violent outbursts? Heavily medicate them and throw them into a padded room? Being a pro-human liberal that I am, I favor treatment over punishment. But I also recognize that some conditions cannot (currently) be managed. For instance, I don’t believe that predator pedophiles can ever be “cured” and will more than likely continue offending. Similarly, Clemmons probably needed to be institutionalized indefinitely. I don’t think we’re equipped to do that kind of thing. # 39: “There is no mandate of gov more important than public safety. And I don’t mean raise taxes either…” 75% of the state’s budget can’t be cut. It is either subject to federal unfunded mandates (thank you, Mr. Bush), or the state serving as the manager of federal funds (food stamps, etc.), or part of federal matching grants (highway construction, etc.). That leaves 25% of the state budget which is subject to being cut, of which a large portion is the justice system, police support, and education. Given the rather large budget hole which has resulted from the past year’s economic crisis (thank you again, Mr. Bush), and the state’s antiquated tax structure, it’s a bit disengenuous to imply that more money should be given to the justice system without raising taxes. The Republican policy for the past thirty years has been to cut taxes and leave it to the Democrats to try to find a way to balance the budget, and then criticize them for the cuts they make or being unable to find enough cuts to match the tax cuts. It’s time for that little charade to end. If you want to give more money to the justice system, identify exactly how much you want to give, to which agencies, and how they are to spend the money. At the same time identify what other matching budget cuts you prepose to make to offset that increase in justice spending, or what taxes you would agree to increase to pay for it. re 37: Reason and experience leads me to believe that what I stated is true. Reason and experience are two things you never seem to use in your poitical musings. It is God’s judgement that ye shall be hoist by your own petard. The Bible teaches that we should all strive to understand the mind of God. If God thinks we can understand his mind (albeit imperfectly), why would you think a Republican mind would be impenetrable to me? Are you calling God a liar? Mr. Cynical. I’m glad to see you’re posting again. Perhaps now you’re ready to explain one of your prior statements. In your libertarian utopia, who pays for the administration of elections and the courts? Way to go King 5! The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department intends to forward reports to prosecutors after officials said a Seattle television station’s helicopter interfered with the investigation of the slain police officers. Officials called the television station and told it to back off. KING reportedly said they didn’t have to. The helicopter eventually left but returned awhile later. Investigators again told the station it was interfering. http://www.thenewstribune.com/.....74290.html Monday, 11/30/09 at 10:00 am rhp @ 33 I DO question the Pierce County Sherriff’s department for releasing him on bail when there is a fugitive warrant for him out of Arkansas. We geeks fretted mightily about Team Bush’s massive expansion of governmental surveillance databases. What’s the point of us law abiding citizens forfeiting our civil liberties if the authorities don’t even use these systems to fight actual crime? marvin @ 37 Because you’ve taken great pains to tell us. Unfortunately the mental insanity defense is too often abused. Too many peeps crying wolf and using mental illness as an excuse. If this guy is truly deranged then he needs to be sent to rujax’s weekend home, Western State. How could the Pierce County Jail allow him to go out unless they didn’t want to deal with him? What judge set his bail level? Will these questions be answered? Given the rather large budget hole which has resulted from the past year’s economic crisis (thank you again, Queen Chrissie who in 2008 claimed there was no budget crisis and Roger Dumb Bunny and others on HA concurred with Roger over and over) There you go rhp6033, revisionist history removed. Congress passes unfunded mandates rhp6033. Try again rhp6033. Your ideology is a house on sinking sand. Jason@48, In the “Shit” thread Puddy wrote this… But on the other issue, how could Pierce County let him go without the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Interstate Identification Index background check first? Your “bud” K ripped Puddy a new one for asking this question. He felt Puddy was too focused on Pierce County (here and now) vs Huckabee (yr 2000). You see when us who think right want to engage in conversation there are those on your side who jump into the immediate ideology angle. They know who they are!!!! How To Run A Low Tax, Low Budget, State Government Empty the prisons and buy every prisoner a one-way bus ticket back to Arkansas. Sure, there’s a bulge in your startup costs, but after that your spending on corrections and widows’ pensions is permanently lower. “it’s a bit disengenuous to imply that more money should be given to the justice system without raising taxes.” Not at all, it’s about prioritizing the tax money we have. If pierce county is having to keep dangerous, violent criminals on the loose because of the cost of incarceration (don’t know this is the case) then make some decisions. Raising taxes is not way to go IMO. I’d rather be safe than pay for a public parks dept. @42, Money is my pocket? Believe me, the government has it’s hand firmly in my wallet. The budget priorities of gov are what I question. @14 ACLU? What does the ACLU have to do with criminal cases? Nothing! The ACLU exists for one purpose only and that’s defending First Amendment rights. The ACLU is widely — and wrongly — considered a “leftwing” organization. They’re not. This impression is caused, of course, by the fact that rightwing politicians are vastly more likely to violate First Amendment rights than Democrats are. Consequently, it’s usually rightwing officials who get sued by the ACLU. But ACLU represents anyone whose First Amendment rights are threatened, including rightwingers like Larry “Rest Room Toe Tapping Is Constitutionally Protected Artistic Expression” Craig and the American Nazi Party. ACLU is, in fact, a nonpartisan organization with a nonpartisan agenda: Protecting the speech, assembly, and free exercise of religion rights of all Americans regardless of political orientation. @15 Nah. If he smoked pot in Arkansas they would have executed him. That’s a serious crime there. I sure enjoy the comments of that famous trial lawyer and legal scholar MISTER PuddyBuddy. Golly, Rog, that MISTER PuddyBuddy sure must be a terror in the courtroom. Maybe we ought to see some of his briefs…ooooops…sorry…that’s just icky. Ick, ick, ickkkkkkkk!!!! @18 I wouldn’t trust a bagpipe player named “Scot” or “Scott” anywhere. You’d have to be insane not to use the insanity defense, so using it proves that you are sane. However, if you do not claim insanity, it is impermissable to use it as a defense. I’m sorry, I don’t make the laws, I just make fun of them. @23 “Will you push for prohibition of alcohol next time a violent crime is committed by someone under the influence of alcohol?” Are you referring to the jackass in a Ford Explorer who killed 4 people in a Hyundai near Marysville last night? @27 What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. @43 “Roger Rabbit probably knows about these things: Are the courts and prisons capable of handling mental illness issues?” The courts could if they had the resources and had appropriate institutions to send the mentally ill to. We have laws and procedures in place. Prisons aren’t designed to handle or treat the mentally ill and shouldn’t be expected to. The most they can do is segregate them from other prisoners. But that’s pretty difficult when a third of the inmates of local jails are mentally ill people who belong in hospitals, not jails. Years ago, our state and nation decided to empty the nuthouses onto the streets, and jails ended up housing these folks. That has been a disaster. @39 You know squat about government finance. Funding comes from lots of different places and most of it is restricted to specified purposes. For example, federal matching funds for operating fish hatcheries can’t be diverted to corrections. Even many state fees and taxes are dedicated funds; for example, timber sales revenues from state lands must be spent on education. Prisons are funded from the General Fund which largely consists of sales tax revenues. Sales tax revenues have dropped off a cliff because people aren’t spending in the recession. So where else can the state get money to keep the prisons running? Not from federal matching funds for other purposes or dedicated fees and taxes. You have to boost General Fund revenues somehow. The best way to do that would be tax reform that stabilizes revenues and provides a more predictable revenue stream for General Fund purposes. @50 There was no budget hole, dumbass, until the Bush Depression came along and people quit spending. But hey, you Republicans and your insistence on preserving a grossly regressive tax system that forces the state to depend on the sales tax to fund vital government functions had nothing to do with the Bush Depression blowing a hole in the budget for public services … Puddy, asswipes like you are good at only two things: Whining about the consequences of your serial stupidity, and denying responsibility for your serial stupidity. @53 “Not at all, it’s about prioritizing the tax money we have.” No it’s not, stupid, because you can’t spend Medicaid money for nursing home care of the indigent elderly on cops, courts, or prisons. @53 “Believe me, the government has it’s hand firmly in my wallet.” Awww, poooor baaaaby!! It’s a safe bet you pay no more taxes than the rest of us. What’s the overall percentage of your income that you pay to government? Fifteen to twenty percent? And you think that’s onerous for what you get in return? (Read: A trillion-dollar war in Iraq.) I thought you guys claimed the Oppressed Rich pay all the taxes. So unless you’re rich, you’re coasting on the backs of the Oppressed Rich just like the rest of us. Sheesh. Republicans whine about taxes even in Alaska, where the government sends them oil royalty checks. 56. Rujax! spews: Maybe we ought to see some of his briefs…ooooops…sorry…that’s just icky. Ick, ick, ickkkkkkkk!!!! In all seriousness, you seem to have issues with penises and related stuff. How old are you? I ask because if you say you’re 11, then it’s your age and you’ll grow out of it. If you’re over 25, it would be in your best interest to ask Steve for a psychiatrist’s recommendation. Slurp, slurp, slurp, marvieeee poo. Get busy. Huckabee’s Commutation Program Apparently Fails Again From: http://crooksandliars.com/ Oh yeahhhhh… Monday, 11/30/09 at 12:00 pm You can blame this whole mess with this psycho on Timmy Eyman, his sycophants and the whole right wing in this state who is so dumbass as to do this. 841 thousand dumbasses voted for a male exotic dancer just because he had an R next to his name. That is a mighty idiot wind in this State. There was no budget hole, dumbass, until the Bush Depression came along and people quit spending. Remember peeps Roger Dumb Bunny BULLSHITTIUM Alert still in force. So Dumb Bunny the whole WA State budget was a house of cards because it was predicated on consumer spending. Thanks Dumb Bunny… Wow Dumb Bunny who knew…? re 70: Yeah, that’s crazy. Who needs an economy with consumers? Looks like ylb arschloch is hiding something under his link. Why is that ylb arschloch? headless lucy@70, Roger Dumb Bunny never mentions the additional hiring that happened or the addtional spending. Neither did you headless lucy! Donald Evanson spews: HUCKABEE IS A TOTAL RIGHT-WINGNUT BORN AGAIN RELIGIOUS FREAK-HE SHOULD BE GIVEN LIFE AT HARD LABOR. ALSO WHO ARE THE STUPID IDIOT JERKS THAT LET HIM OUT OF JAIL-THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN LIFE AT HARD LABOR ALSO. Puddy @ 51 You see when us who think right want to engage in conversation there are those on your side who jump into the immediate ideology angle. I’m as surprised as you. After posting 1,000s of belligerent, antagonistic, ad hominen attacks, I’m shocked, shocked that people don’t judge each of your missives on their individual merits. It’s almost as though they’ve written you off. Such a shame. UPDATE: Pierce County is releasing it’s version of events with respect to the release of the suspect in the slaying of the four police officers. They say the suspect was held on July 1, 2009 on $290,000 bail with respect to an assault which occured in May of this year. In addition, there was a “no bail” hold from Arkansas on their fugitive warrant. By that time there was an additional child rape charge pending against the suspect. But on July 22, 2009 Arkansas released the “no bail” hold. So if the suspect could come up with the bail, he would be released. Prosecutors didn’t ask to increase the bail, even though they had informed the suspect that they were going to pursue charging him under the “three strikes” law, which if successful would have amounted to life in prison without parole. Whether they would prevail was uncertain, because it would require using the Arkansas convictions as part of the “three strikes” offenses. Prosecutors did, however, succesfully resist a request from the defense attorney to reduce bail. In all probability, neither the prosecutors nor the judge expected the suspect to come up with $190,000 bail. Not only would he or his family have to raise $19,000 cash (10%), but they would have had to put up collateral with the bail bondsman equal to the entire amount – usually with someone signing over a house with sufficient equity in it as surety to the bonding company. But on Nov. 23, 2009 the suspect made bail. The shootings happened six days later. Source: Seattle P.I.: Why was suspected cop killer let out of jail? @43 If I read the Times article correctly, when Clemens was sent to the joint at 18 he was 5’7″ and weighed a little over a hundred pounds soaking wet. If at that time he was already a half bubble off plumb, 11 years of being somebody or other’s bitch probably didn’t make him any better. To have considered him “rehabilitated” would have been absurd, and whatever the reason for letting someone like that go, just dumping him out on the street would seem to have been rather imprudent. Ummm you need to go back to 2004 and early 2005. There you’ll read the ad hominem attacks on Puddy and PacMan. Ever been called buttpuddy? The cartoon called ylb arschloch can fill you in. Just ask him. There you’ll learn of the racism of headless lucy and the tacit approval of most HA Libtardos. There you’ll see the only way we on the right could deal with HA Libtardos was to use their tactics. Then you can come back and have a dialogue dude. Until then you are written off as a leftist ideologue. I thank God that Roger and Jason read Puddy so that I don’t have to. Looks like the $190,000 bail was way too low. Puddy wonders did anyone ask the defense lawyers what they now think of their bail lowering requests? That’s Great Steve. What is the Stupid Solution Flavor Du Jour? You’re the talking stupid, Puddy, so why don’t you tell me? Or would I have to search for some idiotic five year old comment? Poor, poor widdle MISTER PuddyBuddy. Poor , poor widdle MISTER PacMan. Excellent use of the victim card you lying motherfucker. Re: 83 Not to mention revising history, a classic clownservative tactic. Correction to # 76: That should have been $190,000 bail. rujax, You continue to be the dumb cinder block. Puddy placed copies of the ad hominem attacks twice on HA Libtardos. Your dumb building brother ylb arschloch has the posts. When confronted with his URL Time & Date Stamp hateful remarks ylb arschloch played them off. Ask him rujax; from one stupid building block to another. Fool! One other thing stupid rujax, PacMan came to a DL and talked about the ad hominem attacks. He also posted on HA about the ad hominem attacks and he was leaving. Ask Professor Darryl about his remembrances on those topics. FOOL! STUPID FOOL! MORONIC FOOL! IDIOTIC FOOL! See ya FOOL! @86 You’re whining about us liberals making ad hominem attacks on who, you, you little worm? [snicker] How’s that castor oil taste? [raucous bunny laughter in background] HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR @87 So why haven’t you left yet? HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR Hmm, I see that Puddy is reduced to whining about how those mean liberals are always attacking him. LMFAO!! Man once again you HA Libtardo morons can’t follow a conversation in a thread. You wear the HA Liberal Retard (Libtardo) moniker perfectly. It’ so easy to swat fools like you Roger Dumb Bunny and Steve of Steve’s Stupid Solution. Castor Oil… Haven’t tasted that since being a child Dumb Bunny! re 91: Why do you spend your days communicating with people that you consider to be retarded? Isn’t that, well……….kind of retarded? I’m sorry your feelings were hurt. Seriously? Your actions are excused because someone else is an even bigger ass? I get called lots of names. Big deal. That’s the game. You put yourself into the public sphere, you gotta be prepared for the haters. Or ignore them. But you chose to join them. Methinks you like it a bit too much. The action is the juice. And just like Danny Aignes, who never fouled anyone during his entire career, playing the victim is just part of the game. The same reason you communicate with us who think right headless lucy. You think we are fascists and nazis headless. Judges were Felnagle and McCarthy in the Clemmons case. Hopefully someone will get Pierce County Judge Thomas J. Felnagle to explain why he changed another judge’s “NO BAIL” decision and granted a WANTED FELON bail seven days ago, who was facing second degree charges of raping a child. Bill O’Reilly called and there was no comment. Well you all know Bill… @75 Puddy really doesn’t seem to get it. He may be the only one who hasn’t noticed that once he enters a thread and starts flooding it with his gibberish, he doesn’t get a whole lot of responses. Apparently he’s too narcissistic or too dense (or both) to have caught on that Goldy’s started another thread and all the rest of us have pretty much moved on. You see, Jason, Puddy also excuses all the racist comments made by wingnuts here because of a supposedly racist comment made five years ago by some lefty. susan spews: Actually, Jason, you sound like quite the gentleman. I think Roger Rabbit could learn a thing or two from you in the way of manners and overall civility. lebowski spews: @98…that would assume that Roger Goebbels Rabbit has the ability to learn…..quite doubtfull considering has partisan rantings. @99 All I did was point out that rightwing hate rhetoric creates a social climate that encourages violence. What goes around, comes around, shithead. @98 My policy is to have exactly as much civility and manners as wingnuts do. They can have more any time they choose. But they have to go first, because they started the incivility and bad manners. Roger Joseph Goebbels Rabbit spews: the wabbit sounds like a pouting 6 year old…just sayin.. you sound like a 6 year old….just sayin.. 2 black guys in a row shooting white guys… is this a hate crime? or do the politics of hate crimes not apply when its not in your best interests @102 That would depend on whether they targeted the victims because they were white or because they were cops. 1) Roger REALLY used to be nice and civil (actually he still is) until the WATB (that’s MISTER Puddybuddy) kept insulting and taunting him. 2) MISTER PuddyBuddy went whing to GOLDY a few weeks ago…”Make Rujax STOP!!!” he said. Typical klownservative…he can dish it out… 3) MISTER PuddyBuddy is the proximate cause of the invective around here. He has never been any different than he is now. Jason said it best really… 75. Jason Osgood spews: roger; that’s why that such a stupid law; how will we ever know? re 99: Were you shot by a Chinaman in the Korean War? re 94: Your assumption that you ‘think right’ is mistaken. What train of thought led you to that conclusion? That should not be too hard of a question for a ‘right thinkin’ man like yourself. I’m guessing that you arrived at the conclusion prior to thinking it through. And that’s not ‘right thinking’. By the by, I would think that a right thinking fellow like yourself would have commented on my moniker. But you are really clueless, aren’t you? hiding something under his link. Not hiding a thing moronic fool. The url is very long so I use bit.ly Just backing up what I say unlike your stupid ass being paranoid about a database. But let’s hear your theory. Nothing makes me laugh more than your silly ass paranoia. Tuesday, 12/1/09 at 5:56 am BTW, tristero at Hullaballoo has more on this; seems that Huckabee has a history of making poor parole, pardon, and clemency decisions, often on religious grounds. Myself, I think our “justice” “system” was invented prior to the psychological understanding of violent psychotics, and does not handle them effectively. These people almost always give lots of warning, and somehow no action is taken until they explode. Even more, from Joe Conason. It appears that Huckabee’s naïve belief in statements of faith played a part in his release of Clemmons. Psychotics often have religious obsessions, so this is a really poor way to make clemency decisions. (Via Jill of Brilliant at Breakfast.) Clemmons has been shot and killed, and the police are rejoicing. Sure hope he was in fact guilty. uh, 5’8″ fat dark skinned guy w a gunshot wound , carrying the dead cops gun….uh, yeah. Dow and the Democrats LIED spews: clemmons: rot in hell you POS. Boleson spews: Tuesday, 12/1/09 at 1:47 pm How about letting a jury decide clemency issues, rather that a politico who, as Huckabee, is subject to his/her own beliefs/prejudices. A jury put a serious offender in jail, let one release the offender.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line188
__label__wiki	0.552983	0.552983	Board index High School & Middle School Quizbowl Regular Season Tournaments Mirror requests The 2018 Scottie Available for Mirrors This is the only forum where you should post and discuss offers to have your tournament set hosted at other locations. Scottietodd Post by Scottietodd » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:14 pm The 2018 Scottie will be available for mirrors as of September 22, 2018. The Scottie will take place at Glasgow High School in Kentucky on August 25th, 2018 and will possibly be mirrored on the same day at West Point High School in Alabama. Feedback from those two events will be used to "perfect" the packets as much as possible before September 22. The Scottie will be a regular difficulty set. The set is being written by current and former members of the quizbowl team and staff at Glasgow High School in Glasgow, Kentucky. Tyler Reid (Glasgow HS; University of Kentucky) will be the chief editor. Other editors include myself (Todd Garrison), Olivia Kiser (Glasgow HS; University of Chicago), Anish Patel (Glasgow HS, University of Kentucky) and the writers themselves. We’ll be providing 14 packets for the cost of $10 per non-host team that attends your tournament. Since this is our first offer of mirror, we would appreciate reasonably prompt posting of statistics to the hsquizbowl database. Tossups will be in Times New Roman 12 and we are shooting for a median of 5 lines. Each packet will consist 20 tossups and 20 three part bonuses. A reserve packet of tossups and bonuses will be used for tiebreaks or substitutions. The distribution will be slightly different than last year's Scottie and will include: 4/4 Literature (1 American, 1 British, 1 European, 1 World/Ancient) 4/4 History (1 American, 1 European, 1 British, 1 World/Ancient) 4/4 Science (1 Biology, 1 Chemistry, 1 Physics, 1 Other Science (including math). Bonuses but not tossups may include computational math. 3/3 Find Arts (1 Music, 1 Visual, 1 Other) 2/2 RMP 1/1 Social Science 1/1 Geography 1/1 Current Event/Pop Culture Please contact me at todd.garrison@glasgow.kyschools.us for more information or to request a mirror. 8/25/18 West Point "Kickoff", AL 1/12/19 STARK at Louisiana High, MO (postponed until 2/9/19) 1/12/19 Piasa Bird Invitational IV, IL (postponed until 1/21/19) 1/26/19 Webster Groves, MO 2/09/19 Plymouth HS, NH 2/23/19 Great Valley High School (PA) Last edited by Scottietodd on Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:18 am, edited 2 times in total. Todd Garrison Glasgow High School Return to “Mirror requests”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line191
__label__wiki	0.66068	0.66068	Synthetic Aesthetics featured on Wallpaper's Site Top tomes: 10 new books to flick through this month – 13/05/2014 Far from an ivory tower text, Synthetic Aesthetics is a true collaboration between scientists, designers and thinkers who cross borders and disciplines to test the limits of biology in the digital world. Synthetic Aesthetics on I, Science Review by Tom Bragg – 13/05/2014 "This is a collaboration between designers and synthetic biologists intended to move both disciplines forward together." Daisy Ginsberg Featured on Disegno Daily Daisy talks about the problem with design fictions – 13/05/2014 "The train coming towards you isn’t actually going to hit you in the face," says designer Alexandra Ginsberg. "We know it's a fiction." Article on The Conversation by Alistair Elfick – 13/05/2014 "If synthetic biologists think like scientists, they may miss their eureka moment." Dezeen Competition Competition to win a copy of Synthetic Aesthetics – 13/05/2014 Dezeen has teamed up with publishers MIT Press to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Synthetic Aesthetics. Competition > Christina Agapakis featured in Wired Magazine – 01/05/2014 Wired site Drew Endy on the Today Programme BBC Radio 4 – 01/05/2014 Drew talks about Synthetic Aesthetics and synthetic biology - discussing how living matter can be seen as a programmable matter for manufacturing. Synthetic Biology Gets Reborn as an Aesthetic Dream New Scientist review by Alun Anderson – 01/05/2014 Magazine issue 2966. Special Issue – Schyfter, S, Frow, C and Calvert, J (guest editors) – 17/04/2014 Schyfter, S, Frow, C and Calvert, J (guest editors) special issue of Engineering Studies ‘Synthetic biology’ 5 (1), March 2013 David Benjamin wins MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2014 Dezeen article – 10/04/2014 New York studio The Living has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program competition with plans to cultivate bio-bricks from corn stalks and mushrooms, and use them to build a tower in the courtyard of the New York gallery. where scientists and artists are shaking up creation – 10/04/2014 From armpit brie to banana flavoured E.coli, artists and bio-hackers have teamed up to push the frontiers of 'synthetic biology' in a new exhibition. Synthetic Aesthetics Review by John Turney for The Times Higher Education – 09/04/2014 Jon Turney on the possibilities, real and imagined, of engineering the building blocks of life. Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral fuels, sustainable manufacturing techniques, and innovative drugs, these researchers aim to redesign existing organisms and even construct completely novel biological... Interdisciplinarity: Artistic merit By Virginia Gewin, Nature, April 2013 – 25/04/2013 "Options abound for scientists who want to get in touch with their inner artist, whether professionally or as a hobby. Christina Agapakis thought that her interest in art would always be separate from her pursuit of science, especially once she had decided to do postgraduate studies in biology.... The Creationists By Vicky Allan, The Arts Journal, June 2012 – 19/09/2012 "With huge advances in synthetic biology, the creation of life in a lab, once the preserve of sci-fi novels, is looking more and more like a reality. As bioengineers grapple with the science in Edinburgh, they have teamed up with a group of artists to explore the creative possibilities – and pitfalls – of this brave new world."... The Sounds of Science by Roberta Kwok, Stanford Magazine – 01/02/2012 "Recently, Chafe's interests have turned to the microscopic world of cells and DNA. As part of Synthetic Aesthetics, a program co-led by assistant professor of bioengineering Drew Endy, Chafe was paired with Mariana Leguia,... States of Design 07: Bio-design by Paola Antonelli, edited by Francesca Picchi, Domus Magazine – 21/11/2011 Technological biology?: Things and kinds in synthetic biology by Pablo Schyfter, Biology & Philosophy, 27(1), 29-48 – 03/11/2011 Abstract: Social scientific and humanistic research on synthetic biology has focused quite narrowly on questions of epistemology and ELSI. I suggest that to understand this discipline in its full scope, researchers must turn to the objects of... Drop That Pipette: Science By Design by Rachel Bernstein, Cell 147 – 29/10/2011 "An unexpected collaboration between a synthetic biology lab at UCSF and a Palo Alto-based design firm is stirring up the way that research is conceived and conducted, by integrating... Diversity By Design by Christina Agapakis, Scientific American – 29/10/2011 "The recent Nature paper from... The Changing Nature of Things by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, PopTech talk – 22/10/2011 Watch Design Fellow Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's talk on "The Changing Nature of Things" at the Poptech! conference in October 2011, calling for a new way to think about design in a biotechnology revolution. Video here. Training Bacteria To Grow Consumer Goods by Christopher Mims, Fast Company – 04/10/2011 "Thinkers at IDEO are working with scientists to find a way to have E. coli bacteria form objects--like a coffee cup--when exposed to light. It's nature's version of... Genetic Green Thumbs: Growing Plants Engineered For Their Field "Farmers of the future may be able to use plants as sensors that encode information about their environmental conditions in their own DNA. Then... Growth Spurt by William Myers, The Architect's Newspaper – 22/09/2011 As building technology races ahead, science propels it to help meet new and ever-changing standards. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the breakneck tempo of progress was fueled largely by physics and chemistry, delivering a host of... Visions of Synthetic Biology by Sara Reardon, Science – 02/09/2011 A growing number of artists are attracted to synthetic biology as a technique and also because of the interesting ethical questions it raises. Many of these artists work directly with research scientists. Their creations add a cultural... Standing reserves of function: A Heideggerian reading of synthetic biology by Pablo Schyfter, Philosophy & Technology – 23/08/2011 Synthetic biology, an emerging field of science and technology, intends to make of the natural world a substrate for engineering practice. Drawing inspiration from conventional engineering disciplines, practitioners of synthetic biology hope to... How Would You Design Nature? by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, TEDglobal 2011 – 15/07/2011 Bacterial Culture by Zoe Cormier, Toronto Standard – 19/05/2011 "Using everything from briefcases full of rainbow-coloured excrement to DIY genetic modification kits, cutting-edge artists are revolutionizing the way we look at science."... Point of View: David Benjamin by William Myers, MetropolisMag.com – 14/04/2011 "Pioneering architect and teacher David Benjamin tinkers at the crossroads of design and biology, exploring the possibilities of both mimicking and literally harnessing life to... Spiel mit Genen und Genesis by Kai Kupferschmidt, Der Tagesspiegel – 08/03/2011 Auch Künstler entdecken die synthetische Biologie – und entwerfen das Design von morgen. Was früher Holz, Metall, Kunststoff oder die Videokunst waren, das könnte morgen das Leben selbst sein. On Biotechnology Without Borders By Drew Endy – 08/03/2011 Biologists have become engineers of the living world. By making their bioengineered solutions to global problems openly available, we can transform the developing world. The Irrational Genome Design Contest By Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Thresholds, MIT Department of Architecture – 01/01/2011 “A myth is a lie that tells the truth,” says Arshia Sattar, Sanskrit scholar and expert on Indian mythology to a group of teenage art and design students from Bangalore entering iGEM, MIT’s annual International Genetically Engineered Machine... Illusions of Control by Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, Thresholds, MIT Department of Architecture – 01/01/2011 "The concept of the single engineering paradigm indicates a future in which the control of matter and life would be achieved by applying engineering principals; through nanotechnology, synthetic biology and, as some suggest, cognitive- and... Beyond the Beyond by Bruce Sterling, Wired.com – 28/10/2010 "Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think Holland can get any cooler and more out-there than a ’synthetic aesthetics salon.” It can get grungier, like if you’re hanging out at GOGBOT, but it... Synthetic Aesthetics, exploring the territory between art, design and synthetic biology by Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art – 15/03/2010 Interview with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Regine: "...Synthetic biology is a bit of a daunting area of research. It seems to be highly technical and almost too abstract. How much background in... Syntheticbiology.org Hosted by OpenWetWare, a good starting point. Wiki site to promote the sharing of information among researchers working in biology & biological engineering. BioBricks Foundation A not-for-profit organization founded by engineers and scientists from MIT, Harvard, and UCSF. BBF encourages the development and responsible use of technologies based on BioBrick™ standard DNA parts. International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition, the undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. SynBERC The Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center is a multi-institution research effort: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkely, UCSF. Ars Synthetica Human practices research into ethics and synthetic biology. BioFab The world's first biological design-build facility. Synthetic Biology Standards Network An interdisciplinary network for UK academics working in synthetic biology, primarily concerned with issues relating to standards and characterisation. Synbio.org.uk Synthetic Biology resources from Cambridge University. Centre for Synthetic Biology Imperial College, London. Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology Gateway, Journal of the Royal Society. Synbio Project Research project that aims to foster informed public and policy discourse concerning the advancement of synthetic biology, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Hastings Center US-based bioethics think tank researching philosophy and ethics of synthetic biology. J.Craig Venter Insitutute synbio policy research Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance, research funded by the Sloan Foundation. SYBHEL Bristol research into medical aspects of synbio, part of a European-wide research initiative. Synthetic Components Network. DIYbio Community for citizen biology. Synthesis.cc Synbio commentator Rob Carlson's blog. Design/Art and Science E.chromi A collaboration between designers Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & James King and the 2009 winning Cambridge University iGem team. Read a student's perspective and a designer's perspective. Hackteria A web resource for projects that involve DIY bioart, open source software and electronic experimentation. ArtScience Bangalore iGEM 2009 team from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India worked with National Centre for Biological Sciences to design a bacteria that produces the smell of rain. The art and science collaborative laboratory at the University of Western Australia. Tissue Culture & Arts Project Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr famously grew and ate the first victimless steak. Art\|Sci Center, UCLA Collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences. Design and the Elastic Mind 2008 exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, NYC, highlighted "examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design." Exhibition of speculative design work at the Science Gallery, Dublin, 2009. EPSRC project linking 15 research groups with designers from Design Interactions, Royal College of Art. Exhibition: March 2010, RCA London. Biojewellery A design and science collaborative project, designing rings with bioengineered bone tissue. CiSynBio Research project into film and synbio, including BioFiction, a science, art and film festival in 2011, from the SynBioSafe research project team. Arts Catalyst UK-based, the Arts Catalyst commissions contemporary art that experimentally and critically engages with science. NOBELlini: Blind Data 30 young scientists paired with 30 design students to create design products that communicate science. A follow-on from NOBEL textiles, where 5 Nobel Prize-winning scientists worked with textile designers. Plastic Futures Blog from SymbioticA/RMIT Biotech and Art workshop, Melbourne, 2009. Future jobs - So what might you be doing? According to the UK government... Biology is Technology - Rob Carlson Design Noir - Anthony Dunne © 2014 Syntheticaesthetics.org – disclaimer – webdesign by n.myers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line192
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__label__wiki	0.817531	0.817531	Prospect Profiles: Jordy Bellerive, Kirill Maksimov & Denis Mikhnin This week’s prospects include Jordy Bellerive (Lethbridge Hurricanes), Kirill Maksimov (Niagara IceDogs) & Denis Mikhnin (Rimouski Oceanic). (Brock Boot/WHL) Jordy Bellerive, C, Lethbridge Hurricanes, WHL Height: 5'10” Born: May 2, 1999 – North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Draft: 2014 WHL Draft – Round #1 (2nd overall) by the Lethbridge Hurricanes Jordy Bellerive is a real high energy player who puts everything into every shift he takes. He had a bit of a drop off as far as overall skill goes as the season wore on but still had a steady climb in point production compared to one year ago. A real sniper who visualizes the best play to make with the puck on his stick. Likes to shoot and will do a lot of it. Likes to fake shots to make goaltender move and then pass the puck giving his line mate a clear shooting lane. Would like to see him go into scoring areas more often but he likes to pass in these areas and then gets himself open in the slot. Likes to get under the skin of opponents and disrupt any momentum they may have. Skating has improved and has good acceleration and mobility with crossovers through the neutral zone on the breakout. Strong and built for competitive and steady climb through any NHL system DID YOU KNOW? Bellerive made an impact at the Bantam level playing for the North Shore Winter Club posting consecutive 60+ goal and 100+ point seasons. Prior to reporting to Lethbridge, played in the CSSHL with Okanagan Hockey Academy and scored 34 goals and 49 points in 27 games. His older brother Matt played 285 games in the WHL with Vancouver, Red Deer and Kamloops. (Niagara IceDogs/Vivid Eye Photography) Kirill Maksimov, RW, Niagara IceDogs, OHL Born: June 1, 1999 – Concord, Ontario, Canada Draft: 2015 OHL Draft – Round #2 (38th overall) by the Saginaw Spirit Not a flashy player by any means but has displayed a renewed confidence after being traded from Saginaw to Niagara midway through the season. Seems to be in the right place at the right time and has been given more opportunity to display skill set with Niagara. Has good hands around the net and is deceptive with the puck. Good size down the wing and will drive the puck to the net from the outside. Long reach and decent speed battles down the wing. More consistent play on the power play and started to show improvement on the defensive side of the ice. Has a good shot but didn't nearly shoot as much as he should have. Seems to be something missing from his offensive ability that will always leave you wanting more. DID YOU KNOW? Maksimov was born in Ontario, giving him dual citizenship of Canada and Russia. Due to his participation internationally with Russia, he is considered a Russian for all IIHF sanctioned tournaments. He played his minor hockey in Ontario for the Toronto Jr. Canadiens, scoring 16 goals and 33 points in 28 games in 2014-15, when he also scored four points in six games at the OHL Cup. (Rimouski Oceanic) Denis Mikhnin, RW, Rimouski Oceanic, QMJHL Born: July 11, 1999 – Kirov, Russia Draft: 2016 CHL Import Draft – Round #1 (33rd overall) by the Rimouski Oceanic Denis Mikhnin displayed an impressive skill set early in the season and quickly adapted to the pace of play in North America. Good hands in tight around the net and can dance around defenders at the blue line. Quick release and likes to shoot on the rush using all shot types including a deadly snap shot and wrist shot, and he’s not afraid to go to his backhand. Scored a hat trick in the early going of the season that seemed to give him confidence moving forward. Plays a feisty game but will rarely mix it up and will not go into the corners with a big defenceman. Has a scoring ability on the power play and will only improve his play away from the puck as he gets more ice time. Finished the season with 20 goals and 39 points in 59 games; good for 12th in QMJHL rookie scoring race. DID YOU KNOW? Mikhin won a bronze medal with Team Russia at the World Jr. A Challenge this past December in Bonnyville, Alta. Mikhin scored a goal in the bronze medal game and finished with the one goal in four games adding a minor penalty to his stats. By:Marshall Mackinder\| 30/04/17 \| Marshall Mackinder: Prospect Profile \| (0) Comments Tags: Prospects	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line200
__label__cc	0.700074	0.299926	Group 65Go to Gearset Salesforce DevOps What is DevOps Key principles of a DevOps process The underlying principles that guide a modern development process Written by Jason Mann Modern DevOps is a flexible thing, and it can look different across companies and teams. Despite this, there are a common set of principles that should guide any team as they adopt a new process. Following these will help you make the most from DevOps and Salesforce. Simplicity is key Complicated processes drive people crazy. Keeping things simple not only improves development speed, it also makes maintenance and training much easier. It's easy to get pulled into the trap of designing a solution to cater for every possible edge case right off the bat. Try to avoid this! Start simple, solve your core problems, and tweak it over time to cover additional scenarios. This will keep things manageable and allow you to quickly deliver results. As the famous saying by Antoine de Saint Exupéry goes: “ Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Development is source driven This is probably the biggest change from traditional in-org development. In modern DevOps, source control becomes the new source of truth. All changes go through the repository before they are released into sandboxes or production orgs. Just as development is never done directly in production, changes should never be made directly in the master branch of the repository, and the master branch should always be deployable. Ship small, ship often Branches should be used to represent a single deliverable request from the business, and include the minimum viable number of changes to deliver that feature. New changes should be deployed out to your testing environments as soon as possible after merging. Frequent, small releases are better than infrequent, complex ones. The longer a branch exists without getting merged, the greater risk for merge conflicts and deployment challenges. This process of shipping small features on a regular cadence is crucial to DevOps. The faster the release cycle, the more quickly bugs can be found and fixed, the smaller the chances of conflicts and duplicated work, and the more Agile the team can be. Test often, but test well Salesforce is a business critical platform. From sales to marketing to support, entire sections of companies rely Salesforce operating successfully for them to function. The impact of making a breaking change can be severe, and to compound the issue there is no native support for rollback if you introduce a problem. As a result, it's critical that any changes made to orgs are stable and function as expected. Tests gives Salesforce teams the confidence that changes function as expected and are safe to release. Tests should be written well, run regularly, and automated where possible. Enforce code quality Static code analysis (SCA) reviews source code to detect common bad practices, catch bugs, and make sure development adheres to coding guidelines. While unit tests and code coverage have the important side-effect of forcing you to write more maintainable code, static code analysis explicitly formalizes a series of coding patterns, practices, and heuristics into a series of rules that can be periodically run against your code to assess its quality. By automating static code analysis and building it into your development process, you can identify style violations, bugs, and even more serious performance and security-related issues as you develop, long before they make it into production. Automate repetitive tasks Where a task can sensibly be automated, do so. This reduces the time spent repeating the same series of steps and helps avoid human error causing inconsistencies in deployments. In DevOps, automation manifests in a few ways: Continuous integration (automating deployments) Monitoring orgs for changes (snapshots and change tracking) Testing automation Watch our presentation at TrailheaDX 2018 on the 10 principles of modern release management, given by our CSO, Jason Mann:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line203
__label__wiki	0.713666	0.713666	TITLE 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY / CHAPTER 7 - EXCLUSION OF CHINESE (§§ 261 to 299) § 261 - Omitted § 262.. - Repealed. Dec. 17, 1943, ch. 344, § 1, 57 Stat. 600 § 299 - Repealed. Dec. 17, 1943, ch. 344, § 1, 57 Stat. 600 Former chapter 7 of this title included the provisions of the several Chinese Exclusion acts, beginning with the temporary act of May 6, 1882, ch. 126, 22 Stat. 58, which, as being then in force, were, by act Apr. 27, 1904, ch. 1630, § 5, 33 Stat. 428, amending act Apr. 29, 1902, ch. 641, 32 Stat. 176, “re-enacted, extended, and continued, without modification, limitation, or condition;” with the further provisions of the act and those of subsequent acts relating to the subject which remained in force. LGBTQI+ asylum-seekers coming to the UK need help, not detention and suspicion Trump’s blocking of Twitter critics violates First Amendment, 2nd Circuit rules Impounded vehicles can’t be held after drivers file for bankruptcy, court says Afternoon Briefs: James Comey’s daughter prosecutes Epstein; cop accused of planting drugs in cars Top Gear sprays LGBT pride flag on cars used in Brunei filming What was your summer associate experience like? The rise of the machines—but with checks and balances Woman who lost fetus after being shot is charged with manslaughter; shooter isn’t charged State supreme court calls out BigLaw lawyer for failing to stanch evasive client’s ‘deposition fiasco’ Dubai's ruler battles wife in UK court after she fled emirate President says meeting to get dirt on Clinton was legal; was admission problematic? Supreme Court gives partial victory to inmate with dementia who seeks to avoid execution Sellers of blood-thinner drug to settle about 25,000 suits for $775M Would millennial lawyers trade pay for better work-life balance? A significant percentage say yes US charges WikiLeaks' Julian Assange with publishing classified information	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line208
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__label__cc	0.561965	0.438035	You are here: Home > IoT News > OurBus to integrate Chirp’s data-over-sound tech to reduce time spent onboarding passengers OurBus to integrate Chirp’s data-over-sound tech to reduce time spent onboarding passengers Published on January 21st, 2019 Chirp, a company pioneering data-over-sound technology has partnered with OurBus, a New York-based tech company specialising in intercity and crowdsourced bus routes. The aim is to improve its ticket authentication process to speed passenger boarding. Chirp sends and receives data via sound, using nothing but a device’s existing speaker and microphone. Information is converted to an audio signal, received by any device within hearing range, and then converted back to the original data. The partnership will see Chirp integrate its data-over-sound technology into OurBus’ iOS and Android apps and e-tickets emailed to the users, to fully automate the ticket authentication process and allow passengers to board more quickly. To successfully authenticate tickets, a basic mobile device located close to the driver will listen when a bus arrives at a stop. Using OurBus on their device to show their ticket, the rider will then send their ticket data via a Chirp, which the driver’s device will then hear, authenticate the ticket and subsequently allow the passenger to board. This process means quicker onboarding time for OurBus’ passengers and allows them to have a more consistent and efficient service, with less time spent at each pick-up location. In additional to improved boarding speed, Chirp will also add another layer of security to the OurBus ticketing process. Because individual Chirps are dynamically generated, tickets will be impossible to counterfeit and will enable true authentication for each ticket. The interaction time is also considerably quicker than QR codes, as it doesn’t require the screen to be aligned with the driver’s camera. James Nesfield Commenting on the partnership, James Nesfield, CEO of Chirp said: “The global transport industry faces ever-growing demands amongst consumers to reduce journey times and make their travels as easy as possible.” “Our data-over-sound solutions will provide OurBus with the level of technology required to remove friction from the ticket checking process, with authentication from even the most basic mobile devices. We are excited to extend data-over-sound’s footprint across the transport sector and help OurBus to deliver a quality service for their customers.” “At OurBus, constantly improving our service to deliver an excellent customer journey is at the heart of what we do. Partnering with Chirp will allow us to offer a seamless onboarding process for customers and reduce the time spent on ticketing and boarding for the drivers. We look forward to working with Chirp to take the next steps towards an even faster and reliable service for our customers”, commented Mohit Mohan, CTO at OurBus.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line210
__label__wiki	0.700395	0.700395	Trade row talks held in tense atmosphere Japan’s representatives don’t even bother to wear suit jackets Top: Korean officials from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, right, sit across their Japanese counterparts at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s office in Tokyo on Friday. Right, top: A Hottracks display at Kyobo Bookstore’s branch in Pangyo, Gyeonggi, features pens with Korean flags to show they are manufactured by Korean companies. Right, bottom: Hanaro Mart in Chang-dong, Dobong District, northern Seoul, posts a notice saying it is no longer selling Japanese alcohol on Friday. [YONHAP, HOTTRACKS] Seoul and Tokyo remained at odds over Japan’s restrictions of key industrial exports during their first official meeting on the dispute. Trade officials from the two countries met in Tokyo Friday to discuss the export restrictions implemented last week that escalated a diplomatic row between the neighbors over court-ordered compensation for wartime forced laborers. The Trade Ministry conducted a briefing on the result of the meeting but it did not take place as of press time. Although a senior Korean Trade Ministry official had said a day earlier that Friday’s talks could lay the groundwork for a resolution, tensions remained heightened between the two countries as the talks began without any diplomatic courtesies - not even an exchange of handshakes. The talks were drawn out from their original two-hour schedule. It took an hour for the Japanese officials to explain the grounds for its trade measures. They finally ended at 7:50 p.m. after nearly six hours. Seoul had planned to ask Japanese officials the grounds for the export restrictions and also about allegations made by Tokyo that strategic materials from Japan ended up in North Korea via the South. Seoul vehemently rejected that claim this week and called on Japan to halt such accusations. Seoul has asserted that the trade measures are about politics and historical issues, and have nothing to do with trade technicalities or such national security issues as North Korean sanctions. Prior to Friday’s meeting, Tokyo had pointed to deteriorated “trust” and an “occurrence of an inappropriate matter” to justify the export restrictions. On Thursday, Japan characterized the meeting as a session to simply explain its trade measures to Korean officials, while Korea called it a bilateral discussion. Apparently disapproving of Korea’s description, Tokyo scaled down the meeting to two representatives from each side. Originally five representatives from each side were supposed to attend. The gulf between the two sides was clear as Japanese officials showed up in shirt sleeves while the Koreans were in full business dress. The venue for the meeting was a small barren office in a Trade Ministry building with a stack of folding chairs piled in a corner. A whiteboard with two pieces of paper that read “an explanatory session of export management” stood in the room. Seoul remained worried about the potential fallout from the trade spat. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki said Friday that a 6.7 trillion won ($5.7 billion) supplementary budget, being reviewed at the National Assembly could be increased by at least 120 billion won to support industries affected by the restrictions. The ruling Democratic Party suggested Thursday to raise the budget by 300 billion won. BY CHAE YUN-HWAN, CHUN SU-JIN AND YOON SEOL-YOUNG [chae.yunhwan@joongang.co.kr]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line224
__label__wiki	0.553556	0.553556	Officials say officer hurt in crash involving drunken driver \| KRVN Radio Officials say officer hurt in crash involving drunken driver BY Associated Press \| June 28, 2018 OMAHA, Neb. – Authorities say a police officer was injured in a crash involving a drunken driver in northern Omaha. The crash occurred around 3 a.m. Thursday. A police union tweet says the officer was treated and then released to recover at home. It’s unclear whether the other driver was injured. The other driver’s and the officer’s names and other details haven’t been released. The officer was in a sport utility vehicle cruiser. Futures One Crop Progress Report	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line227
__label__cc	0.539356	0.460644	EXCLUSIVE: A brand new horror anthology, Shallow Creek – Kickstarter Launch Interview 3rd November 2018 Gavin Kendall Reviews Interviews 1 Today Storgy Magazine (www.storgy.com) launch a Kickstarter Campaign for Shallow Creek, an exciting new anthology set in a town with a dark past that doesn’t want to be forgotten. I’m delighted to talk to Anthony Self (Executive Director, Head of Film) about the project in an EXCLUSIVE Kendall Reviews Interview. KR: Coffee? KR: How did you come up with the idea for the Shallow Creek short story competition – as it is quite unlike any other short story competition out there? Anthony Self: I’ve always been a fan of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone and in particular the way Mr. Serling would introduce each episode in a dapper and gentlemanly fashion. We wanted to create an anthology quite akin to the dystopian EXIT EARTH collection we published last year, but with a horror vibe. I wanted to create a character that would pay homage to The Twilight Zone, but also make it unique in its own grounding – the STORGY team are also fans of ethereal settings, so we thought it would be a great idea to have a town to play in, where authors who entered the competition would be given a certain location – so taking a standard, typical horror trope set piece: the derelict hospital, the spooky asylum, the dark empty caverns of an abandoned mine – the creepy house in town that everyone avoids…we had them all, and told everyone that entered to go crazy. I liked the name Mallum Colt, and setting up this debonair gentleman with a refined taste for wine and the occult came about pretty naturally. He’s even got his own Twitter account (@ColtMallum) and in a way is a guide for the writers – if they have any questions they can fire them off to him, but don’t be surprised if you get a cantankerous reply. KR: How long has STORGY been prepping Shallow Creek prior to the announcement? AS: I believe we started with the initial idea in March of this year, and then we asked the talented artist HarlotVonCharlotte to illustrate a map and the ‘face’ of Mallum – then we set about creating interesting specific characters for the town – Tomek put together character profiles that we could then send out to writers once they’d entered (selected randomly) So I think we launched the competition around June. Any writer that would enter the competition would be given a ‘welcome pack,’ so to speak. They’d have a random character, location and item that they would have to include in their story. So one writer may have received the character of Gertrude Saggery, an aged herbalist that lives by Devil’s Gorge, and then given the location of the abandoned mines, and an integral item in their narrative could have been a snow globe, for example. We’ve had great feedback from writers that created macabre tales for the book – stating that it was very rewarding. With some anthologies, there’s a sense of loneliness; you write the story alone, submit it alone, celebrate the success with a small few, yet with this publication we hope our writers have common ground with everyone else involved, and I can feel the celebration stretching far and wide. KR: I’ve been asked several times about there being a fee to take part. Could please you explain the reasoning behind this and to put any restless ghosts to bed. AS: The simple fact is that the three main guys working at STORGY (Tomek, Ross and myself) all work 9-5 jobs. The online magazine is run by us in our spare time, and we want to get serious about the craft. We want to become independent publishers and we’re getting the wheels in motion for funding, but everything that is donated, paid for by competition entries, or merchandise from the store goes straight into the STORGY machine. Any profit that we make goes into the next competition, or the next campaign/anthology/book. We want to give the best product to our readers, and in order to do that the artists, developers, editors, typesetters, proofreaders all need to be paid. We don’t take a cut from the proceedings because we love what we do. That may sound like a clichéd martyrdom type ramble, and I understand that paying for a competition has its own risk/reward element, but to that I’d say if your story didn’t make it into the anthology then the competition would have been a great exercise to test the writer in ways they may not have been tested before. Ultimately, the competition hopefully would have given them the skills to prepare for any future contests with similar conditions. We did also open the competition for lo/no income writers so that they would have the chance to explore the town of Shallow Creek and enter. KR: Shallow Creek by design is an open sandbox for writers (old and new) to play around in. Who can we thank at Storgy for setting the foundations for this town? AS: I guess I came up with the original concept, but it’s been a joint effort with the rest of the STORGY team in the way that we’ve announced what’s happening, how it’s happening and refinement to that original idea. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, and that’s the great thing about working alongside Ross and Tomek – we can pick each other up when we’re flailing. Team work makes the dream work. KR: The artwork for the Shallow Creek campaign has been superb! I for one can’t wait to have the physical copy of the book in my hands, it’s going to be gorgeous. Who do we credit as the artist(s)? AS: HarlotVonCharlotte (Instagram: HarlotVonCharlotte) and Michael To (Instagram: TOArt0) have been the fantastic illustrators on this project – in particular Michael has been busy behind the curtains creating (x20) gorgeous ornamentation pieces before each story. It’ll be a real joy to see the physical copy once it goes to print. Amie Dearlove (Instagram: AmieDearloveTattoo) has also created another series of bespoke bookmarks for us, and will be available shortly in the STORGY shop! KR: How much fun did you have in creating the world of Shallow Creek and the people who lived within its borders? AS: Endless fun – if given half the chance we would have been able to create more content, but we didn’t want to overwhelm writers with the background material – like any good horror story it should disturb your thoughts and lurk in the background – that’s what we wanted to create with the town…we wanted to inspire people to actually think that this place could exist in the world. And now it does. A few characters seemed to have been favorites from our writers, so you’ll see a couple of them interweaving within each other’s stories. I think all the tales in the anthology are brilliant and I can’t wait for people to read them. KR: Did you take any inspiration from the project from other sources? AS: Primarily, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, Tales of The Unexpected and Creepshow all inspired me with the concept design, but as a horror fan the concept of a town that primarily inhabits evil tendencies came from Stephen King. We started the process of Shallow Creek before Castle Rock was on TV, but I think it’s evolved/mutated into its own. Like Frankenstein’s monster, it really has become alive. KR: Why offer this anthology now and what are you hopes/expectations for it? AS: Originally, Shallow Creek was just going to be the competition and an e-book – due to the experimental nature of the stories and design, we may have had several different variations of one particular character, so it may not have worked. We were delighted when the stories started coming through however, as this initial trepidation was cast away by the immeasurable talent of the authors – the feedback we received was so powerful and humbling that we felt we would be doing the writers a disservice if we didn’t try to get this anthology on book shelves. As far as expectations go, I can’t really say – once your baby’s all grown up you need to let it fly the coop and see if it stands on its own two legs. If it sells fifty copies I’d be happy 😉 KR: Mallum Colt, the competitions guide is one creepy fellow, who has been such a delight to follow on social media have you had fun in bringing him to life? I heard his account even got blocked by people thinking he was just some creepy ass dude stalking them on social media – is that right? AS: Yeah, he’s been extremely fun to play with. Originally, the idea was that Mallum would try to rile up people whilst also mentioning insights for a deeper understanding of the town. He has a pretty dark sense of humour, so obviously people are going to either enjoy that or dislike it – in any form of social media there’s going to be arguments or debates when someone says something profound, but to have people actually believing in Mallum as a real person is something quite extraordinary. I actually think he was quite mellow throughout the whole competition…but who knows, maybe if he returns things will get a lot darker…Mainly though, Mallum was an opportunity for writers to ask any questions they felt they needed for their story, whilst also setting up this individual character to be a mascot, if you will, for the town. I think the majority of people got what he was about, though. KR: Did you find that any of the story contributions reflected Mallum Colts somewhat leftfield sense of humour? AS: Oh yes, definitely. But I can’t tell you what stories. You’re going to have to read the anthology to find out… KR: It’s interesting you specifically stated you’re weren’t necessarily looking for gore or violence. In fact you almost banish any form of genre definition in Mallum’s opening mission statement. So what’s surprised you most about the contributions in terms of genre? AS: I think the best ghost stories are the ones where you don’t actually see the ghost. From the outset, we wanted Shallow Creek to unnerve the reader…to disturb your thoughts. We wanted to read stories that would unsettle and provoke emotions that we normally don’t get by reading from the page. I think we’ve been quite fortunate with the stories in the anthology. Personally, I think we’ve become so desensitized to things in our world that gore or violence need to be written in such a way that sneak up on you – and don’t get me wrong, there are stories in the anthology that I think will have people squirming, but hopefully we’ve got the balance just right of unnerving tension and the thought of violence erupting at any moment. KR: Your social media campaign has been really comprehensive and many secrets about the town and townsfolk have been revealed via this way, with newspaper articles, flyers and videos etc. you even did a night with Mallum at Jack’s Tavern (Q&A on Twitter) – all of these have helped to build a fully immersive writing experience – has Shallow Creek lived up to what you hoped it would be? AS: Even more so – the flyers, videos and everything involved was great fun, but was also a way of letting the writers and people’s imaginations run away with them. We hope we’ve created a town that people will believe actually exists, so in that respect the fact that we’ve received such praise and acknowledgment for this idea has blown us away in terms of expectations. KR: When you kicked off the competition you received a lot of great press around engaging working class writers and those on low or no income – what was the driving force behind this decision? AS: Well, we think everyone should have the opportunity to enter their story – regardless of their class and financial situation. Quite a few of the entrants had medical reasons for not being able to pay the entry fee, but Mallum was at hand to listen and respond. He’s a good egg, really. KR: I understand that the competition was very competitive and that you received a great amount of authors submitting their work, including Adrian J Walker (The End of The World Running Club, The Last Dog on Earth) how difficult was it for you to come to your longlist, shortlist and winners? AS: The double edged sword of reading so many stories for a competition is that you quickly pick up a sense of what stories grip you from page one, and what stories needed work. We had so many great story ideas, but the technical prowess required fine tuning, if not a complete overhaul. In the end, we have to decide on the merits of what the writer has sent through to us as a final piece – after all, it’s a competition and there’s a fine line between accepting something because it has a good idea, but it may not be the most technically brilliant story, as opposed to reading a story that is consistently great throughout and knowing that we may only need to touch up a few lines after we’ve accepted it. When we get to the long-list stage, this is usually where the arguments happen. For me, I need the story to be memorable so that days later I can look back on it and say, ‘oh yeah – that was really good. It’s kind of like tonguing the gap where a tooth used to be – it needs to stick with you for a while. KR: All of the social media I have seen around the project from writers, authors and publishers has been very complimentary – how do you feel the project has been accepted by the writing community – it was brilliant seeing writers who didn’t get into the longlist still yearning to read the anthology…and the question on everybody’s lips is will you be returning to Shallow Creek in the future? AS: It’s definitely opened the doors of communication between writers, I think – and this is an important part for the community of writers involved. I know it must suck for a writer to discover that their story didn’t make it through to the shortlist, but I also think that the reward will also be in seeing how that story may reflect upon another story in the anthology. The Kickstarter for getting Shallow Creek to print starts on Friday (2nd November) so that’s going to be a tumultuous time for us STORGY folk – I’d love to return to the Creek in the future, but we’d need an idea to set us apart from other competitions or anthologies out there in the literary wilderness at the moment. KR: Your judge for the competition was Naomi Booth – how has she been as a judge and also what were your reasons for choosing her to judge this year’s Shallow Creek competition? AS: Naomi’s been great – she had something personal to say to each of the shortlisted entries and has been phenomenal with supporting this project from the outset. The reason why we approached her is because we read ‘Sealed,’ and thought she’d be a good fit for what we were looking for. If you haven’t read it, I’d highly recommend it. Her novel was also short listed for the Not The Booker Prize, too. So what now? Naomi Booth has judged the competition and Brian Wilson has emerged victorious with his short story ‘Distraction’ – everyone is chomping at the bit to know how they can get their hands on these tales of the macabre? um, i appear to have won the @morestorgy #ShallowCreek short story competition. i can’t believe it. huge congratulations to all the other winners, shortlisters and finalists for contributing to this brilliant experience. & thank you to @NaomiBooth for judging! — Brian Wilson (@bwilson4815) October 19, 2018 Now it’s time for the Kickstarter campaign to launch! We’re currently talking with a distributor so if we can get the funds together then it should all work out nicely and the physical copy will be ready for release early in the New Year… KR: Can you shed more light on what it was about Brian Wilson’s ‘Distraction’ that made it stand out as the winning submission? AS: Naomi commented that ‘there was a strong sense of building menace as the story progressed, and the first-person narrator became more and more unnerved. By the end, this story reminded (Naomi) of some of my favourite works of short fiction, in that it held back as much as it revealed. This is really well-paced writing, and is genuinely uncanny and memorable.’ I’d have to agree. KR: So you will be running a Kickstarter, that is fabulous news – can we expect the same quality publication as we did with your last printed anthology Exit Earth in content and also illustrations? AS: Of course! We’ve been really fortunate to work with some talented illustrators for past works, and Shallow Creek is no different. Michael To has really been busy with his ink and easel and has been using black and white imagery to create minimalist yet disturbing pictures that will haunt you well before you start reading any of the stories on offer. KR: With Exit Earth you had some phenomenal stretch goal writers – including M.R. Carey, James Miller, Toby Litt, Courttia Newland and David James Poissant, do you have a similar roster lined up for Shallow Creek? AS: We do have three fantastic authors lined up as stretch goals. We’ve literally been blown away with these authors agreeing to be stretch goal targets, and can’t wait to see their stories in print – but more on those guys when we hit our goals…so get pledging people, you don’t want to miss these stories. KR: Who would enjoy Shallow Creek and when do you anticipate its release? AS: Anyone who is a fan of speculative fiction and the macabre. We’re hoping for a late Jan/early Feb release date. Old Uncle Mallum will be keeping people posted. KR: Thank you very much. To help fund the Shallow Creek Anthology please visit the Kickstarter page www.kickstarter.com/ShallowCreek/ Please visit the Shallow Creek site via www.storgy.com/shallowcreek/ You can follow Mallum Colt on Twitter @ColtMallum You can find out more about STORGY by visiting their website www.storgy.com Follow STORGY on Twitter @morestorgy Mallum Colt Shallow Creek Storgy You wanna read something really scary? Author Steve Stred shares his favourite scary book. Kendall Reviews talks to Author Karl Drinkwater. 4th November 2018 at 4:08 am Survivors will be shot again! Cracked me up. Thanks for the fabulous post.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line228
__label__cc	0.733477	0.266523	Tamil wedding London Langham hotel Tamil wedding London Langham hotel – Arun & Anisha Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. They say a perfect marriage requires three essential elements: love, friendship and laughter. By being a part of the wedding day of Arun and Anisha, it was clear the happy couple had all of these elements in abundance. It was in the luxurious five-star Langham Hotel in London that was the perfect setting for the Hindu Tamil wedding ceremony of Arun and Anisha, followed by a fun-filled reception that further celebrated the love. As a cinematographer, it was a joy to create the wedding video for Arun and Anisha. The setting of the Langham Hotel created a natural elegance and a stunning backdrop with its incredible ballroom, while the Hindu Tamil traditions, symbolism and use of colour makes it an astonishing sight to capture. Furthermore, the laughter and joy that exuded from the couple as well as from the rest of the guests heightened the atmosphere creating a compelling and emotional element to the wedding film. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. The wedding began with a traditional Hindu Tamil wedding ceremony. It was a ceremony filled with colour, love and radiance. From exchanging flower garlands to the readings from the Holy Scriptures. It was magical and highlighted the significance and importance of marriage to Arun and Anisha. The holy fire, agni, had beautiful dancing flames which are perfect for wedding cinematography. A kanyadan was also performed whereby milk and water are poured onto the feet of the newlyweds to purify them for their married life together. Of course, Arun and Anisha added their personality to the event with jokes and laughter. This showed their solid friendship making the perfect foundation for marriage. While there was humour and laughter throughout the ceremony, it was clear that the emotion for both Arun and Anisha was coming to the surface, leading to tears of joy once they were pronounced married. Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. The fun and laughter continued throughout the wedding reception too. Arun’s wedding speech was a joy to film with his charisma and funny tales about him and his wife. In fact, their relationship began at work. As doctors, they both annoyed each other with differing working practices, and occasional mistakes, and their communication started as irritation and then blossomed into enjoyment. Blossoming into friendship and then to love was the perfect way for Arun and Anisha to solidify their commitment even with changes in roles and locations. As Arun romantically described in his speech, Anisha is his best friend, a partner in crime, his rock, his world and his wonderful wife. After the speeches and toasts were made, the celebrations continued with the cutting of the magnificent many-tiered cake. While music, laughter and dancing filled the room, ending a beautiful day and the beginning of a wonderful marriage.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line241
__label__wiki	0.842819	0.842819	Astana 14 °С Almaty 19 °С Speeches of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan President's Address to the Nation President's Article on Spiritual Modernization Foreign Mass Media about Kazakhstan World and Crisis 'Captain Marvel' dominates S. Korean theaters 11 March 2019 22:23 616 SEOUL. KAZINFORM "Captain Marvel" had a big opening weekend at the South Korean box office. The highly anticipated American film gathered 2.26 million admissions from Friday to Sunday, powering to the top of the weekend box office chart, data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) showed Monday, Yonhap reports. The superhero flick surpassed 3 million admissions on the fifth day of its run, passing the mark faster than "Iron Man 3," the top-grossing solo Marvel film ever in South Korea, and as fast as "Spider-Man: Homecoming." The 21st entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, "Captain Marvel" depicts the birth of a new hero, Captain Marvel, who rises to be the last hope of the Avengers. Well behind in second place was "A Resistance," a biopic about Yu Gwan-sun, an icon of the March 1, 1919, Independence Movement against Japanese colonizers. The Korean film added 130,694 views in its second weekend for a cumulative total of 1.04 million admissions. Starring Ko A-sung, Kim Sae-byeok and Kim Ye-eun, the movie tells the story of Yu and several other women who were imprisoned in cell No. 8 of Seoul's Seodaemun Prison for their leading roles in Korean independence protests. Korea was a colony of Japan from 1910 to 1945. In third, "Svaha: The Sixth Finger" added 90,685 admissions in its third weekend for a cumulative total of 2.3 million. The local mystery thriller, directed by Jang Jae-hyun, is about a pastor who encounters mysterious figures and incidents while trying to expose a covert Buddhist cult. "Innocent Witness," led by Jung Woo-sung and Kim Hyang-gi, slipped to fourth in its fourth weekend with 87,558 admissions. "Extreme Job," which ruled the weekend box office for about a month earlier this year, fell to fifth place with 71,909 admissions. The Korean cop comedy had logged a running total of 16.17 million views by Sunday. Keywords: Entertainment, World News, Nearly half million people denied entry into EU in 2018 World-record kidney transplant carried out in Hubei province 18 dead, thousands affected by monsoon in Nepal, India Scientists reveal secrets of sex changing fish World oil demand in 2020 is forecast to grow by1.14 mb/d y-o-y: MOMR 35 hurt as Air Canada plane hit by turbulence News from dashboard.idealmedia.com July 14. Today's Birthdays President congratulates judoka Smetov on Budapest Grand Prix win No precipitation in most regions of Kazakhstan on Sunday Astana’s Fuglsang in top 10 after Tour de France Stage 8 Kazakhstan bags 7 medals at 2019 Summer Universiade in Italy AIIB expands membership to 100 in 3 years Kazakhstan to renovate local passenger terminal in co-op with major company Schedule for U.S.-N. Korea talks to be announced next week: security adviser Scent of vanilla helps to ease pain: Japanese researchers July 15. Kazinform's timeline of major events Intense heat predicted in most of Kazakhstan on Monday Dimash Kudaibergen to give solo concert in Saint Petersburg, Russia Tour de France Stage 9: Breakaway makes it to the finish in Brioude Kazakhstan women’s water polo team starts with win at World Championships © 2018 Kazinform Any reproduction, republication and/or redistribution of any content on the website is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of the company’s administration	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line249
__label__cc	0.688811	0.311189	Home > Search Results: Shyamsundar, P. HIMALDOC 18 records found 1 - 10 jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. Forest Dependence and Poverty in the Himalayas—Differences between India and Nepal Shyamsundar, P.; Das, S.; Nepal, M. In the remote Himalayan districts of Pithoragarh, India and Baitadi, Nepal, households are dependent on agriculture and forests for their livelihood . In this paper, we examine poverty–forest linkages by examining data from a survey of 652 households from these districts, who live on either side of the Mahakali River. Per capita income in Nepal is half of that in India. Yet, in the Himalayas, where households live in a similar geographic terrain, we find that households in Nepal are much better off in terms of assets and income relative to their Indian counterparts. Per capita, Nepalese also collect less than half the fuelwood collected by Indians. Remittances, economic diversification and better water and sanitation infrastructure may contribute to improved livelihood outcomes in Nepal. Forests are intrinsic to life in both districts, and institutional or technological differences may be responsible for disparities in forest use 'Costs, Cobenefits, and Community Responses to Redd+: A Case Study from Nepal Sharma, B. P.; Shyamsundar, P.; Nepal, M.; Pattanayak, S. K.; Karky, B. S. We examine the role of subnational institutions in carbon sequestration and assess whether community forest user groups can meet both existing forest needs and international carbon demand . By conducting a qualitative evaluation of a pilot program in Nepal that made carbon payments to forest user groups, we examine if community forestry institutions can be effective, efficient, and equitable in implementing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)+. Our evaluation relies on focus group discussions, meetings, and community and program documents of forestry user groups that participated in the REDD+ pilot and matched groups that did not. Compared to control groups, REDD+ user groups appear to be more effective in carbon sequestration, perhaps because of increased prevention of forest fires and grazing, nursery establishment, and other forest management. REDD+ user groups report a larger number of forest conservation, forest utilization, and community development activities relative to control groups. Participating communities bear transaction costs of US$4.5/hectare and implementation costs of US$2.5/hectare on average (or NPR 50,000 (US$600) per year). The mean REDD+ rent per ton of additional carbon sequestered was US$1.3. Targeting of benefits improves partly because some marginalized groups, particularly women, participate more in the planning and management. In terms of equity, microcredit and capacity development activities were skewed to the poorest households, whereas alternate fuel and carbon monitoring were more advantageous to middle or high income households. Overall, our analyses suggest that REDD+ activities can be successfully executed, if communities receive technical and capacity building support for institutional strengthening, in addition to carbon payments Designing a Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme for the Sardukhola Watershed in Nepal Rai, R. K.; Shyamsundar, P.; Bhatta, L. D.; Nepal, M. Paying communities to preserve and manage their local forest resources using the internationally recognized REDD+ approach can be a practical and effective way to combat climate change . A ‘before-and-after’ and ‘with-and-without’ evaluation of a pilot program in Nepal indicates that REDD+ can contribute to carbon sequestration and improve forest management without hurting local livelihoods. Thus, policy makers should begin the process of scaling up REDD+ with a strong emphasis on supporting communities to shift to bio-gas as an alternative to fuelwood Using the Non-market Value of Ecosystem Services to Mainstream Biodiversity into Community Forest Management Rai, R. K.; Shyamsundar, P.; Nepal, M.; Bhatta, L. D. This study estimates the economic value of ecosystem services generated from the management of community forests at sub-watershed level . A total 300 households were surveyed in Jhikhu khola watershed of Kavrepalanchok district. We used discrete choice experiment method to estimate the value of ecosystem services generated from ecosystem management at watershed level. Random parameter logit model was used to analyze choice responses. Three data sets were generated to analyze the data including pool, upstream and downstream. The results indicate that drinking water, irrigation water, forest litter and fuelwood are the locally important ecosystem services. Forest users are keen to contribute to management activities through their community forest user groups. On average, forest users are willing to pay NPR 29 per year for one additional liter of drinking water per household per day during the dry season. They are willing to pay more than NPR 1,444 per year for an additional month of irrigation. Respondents are willing to pay approximately NPR 1,300 for an additional 30 baskets of leaf litter per month or NPR 43 per basket. This reflects the value of leaf litter as a substitute for chemical fertilizers. Respondents are willing to pay approximately NPR. 117 per bhari or head load fuelwood. The estimated average annual household willingness-to-pay is NPR. 3,136 for the specific community forest management scenario. In addition, up-stream community member are willing-to-pay 1.37 times more for watershed services relative to downstream members. In addition, drinking water demand, irrigated land holding size and sex of respondents are main demographic characteristics to determine willingness-to-pay of forest users. The study suggests that choice experiment is useful tools to mainstream biodiversity into community forest management Designing a Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme for the Sardukhola Watershed in Nepal : SANDEE Working Papers No. 108-16 This study was undertaken in the Sardukhola sub-watershed of eastern Nepal to illustrate how local policy instruments can be used to supplement government water supply . We discuss a strategy for using Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to meet water demand in Dharan Municipality in Nepal. A rigorous process was followed in designing the PES scheme. Following focus group discussions, a Choice Experiment was carried out to determine the preferences of municipal water users. In addition, upstream households were interviewed to understand their requirements to participate in a watershed management program. Finally, we used a series of formal and informal stakeholder consultations to help validate household survey findings and develop an institutional framework for implementing PES. Our analysis indicates that water quality is the most important attribute preferred by water users and that upstream households require incentives to decrease domestic livestock grazing, change agricultural practices and reduce open defecation. Results suggest that developing a PES scheme would be socially acceptable and financially feasible and may contribute to a flow of USD 118,000 per year from water users for watershed management. In concurrence with local stakeholders, we propose a tri-partite institutional structure to implement PES. We note that a national PES policy would make it easier to initiate such integrated and market-oriented approaches for enhancing drinking water supply Does REDD+ Work? Examining the Ecological and Economic Impacts of a Pilot Programme in Nepal Sharma, B. P.; Pattanayak, S.; Nepal, M.; Shyamsundar, P.; Karky, B. S. Are Community Forestry Institutions Appropriate for Implementing REDD+? : Lessons from Nepal- Working Paper No. 94–15 Sharma, B. P.; Shyamsundar, P. ; Nepal, M.; Shyamsunda, P. ; Karky, B. S. This paper examines the role of national and sub-national institutions in managing carbon sequestration and trade in Nepal . It first asks whether it is feasible and advantageous to implement REDD+ in Nepal’s community managed forests. Then, using a pilot experimental program, it assesses whether community institutions can serve both existing needs and meet international demand for carbon. The review of secondary evidence suggests that community forestry can effectively and equitably manage REDD+ activity. However, there may be higher carbons returns to converting forests currently directly managed by the government to more efficient regimes. At the sub-national level, available evidence suggests that REDD+ activities can be successfully implemented, if, in addition to rent, communities receive technical mentoring that contributes to institutional strengthening Can Carbon Be Sequestered In Community Forests? : Learning How To Fulfill A Global Agenda Through Local Institutions In Nepal Sharma, B. P.; Shyamsundar, P.; Nepal, M.; Pattanayak, S.; Karky, B. S. Community Forests in Nepal can be utilized to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) . However, if REDD+ activities are to be effective and equitable, communities need to receive technical support and mentoring that contributes to institutional strengthening, in addition to any monetary payments for carbon sequestration. Policy makers should also look into the potential for capturing carbon by making government-managed forests more sustainable. Carbons sequestration may be higher if forests currently directly managed by the government can be converted to more efficient regimes through scientific forestry Ecosystem Services : An Agenda For Research In South Asia Mukhopadhyay, P.; Shyamsundar, P. Ecosystem services make important contributions to human wellbeing . South Asia is witnessing a rapid deterioration of local and regional ecosystems. Many of these ecosystems are exploited beyond what is socially optimal because they exist in either open access or common property regimes. With emerging concerns about climate change, there is further disquiet about the loss of natural areas and their services. This note discusses research priorities for managing South Asia's ecosystem services, as identified by a group of scientists and practitioners who gathered in Bengaluru, India, to address these concerns 16 Shyamsundar, P. 1 Shyamsundar, P.11 Shyamsundar, P. in TERI	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line250
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__label__cc	0.71912	0.28088	Tag: Roze Filmdagen Carmen & Lola: A Lesbian Love Story in the Roma Community 6 March 2019 / budgetvertalingonline / 0 Comments This month, the 22nd edition of the Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival will take place. In Dutch, it is called De Roze Filmdagen. March 14-24, you will be able to see 44 feature films, 10 documentaries, and 84 short films from 48 countries. The festival opens with Carmen & Lola, a lesbian feature film from Spain. In this blog post, you will find my review. You will also find their social media accounts to support them online and to see when the movie will be screened at a festival near you. The storyline of Carmen & Lola Carmen and Lola are two young women from the Roma community on the outskirts of Madrid. Like every other woman she has ever met, Carmen is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. Lola is supposed to do the same, but she is different, as everybody describes her. Lola dreams about going to university, draws bird graffiti, and likes girls. The two women fall in love. As a result, they have to face up to a culture where family honor and centuries of tradition are still very strong. Divided opinion I am divided in my opinion about Carmen & Lola, and I will describe why. Carmen & Lola is a lesbian coming-of-age and coming-out story. As some of you say, we already have so many of these stories. We are not defined by our coming out. There is more to our lives, and I am sure we have plenty of other stories to tell, preferably ones that do not only center around our sexual orientation. That said, if you are in that stage of your life where you are struggling with your sexual orientation and coming out, a story like that of Carmen & Lola might be just what you need. It has all the classic elements. Is she gay? If she is, is she into me? If she is into me, what will that lead to? How will our families react? What do we do? However, if you are at that stage, a movie that shows a positive image of our lives as a whole might give you more hope than a movie that focuses on that one (possibly) big, scary moment. Let’s be honest, coming out continuous to occur throughout our queer lives. Roma culture That said, if you get over that fact, Carmen & Lola is a beautiful movie. I was interested in it precisely because the story plays in the Roma culture. I had heard of it, but I had never really seen anything about it. This movie is brutally honest about this culture. It shows the good parts, and it shows the discriminations and lack of hope for a prosperous future the Roma people face. It also shows the traditions that seem very suffocating to me. I mean, it starts with two seventeen-year-olds getting engaged. They are not allowed to interact much with each other even though they both know they will be getting engaged soon. Then, the dads have to have this big talk about why this marriage would be good for the families and what the kids have to offer. Only after ‘the deal is sealed,’ the two see each other, fully dressed as if they already are getting married. It is quite the spectacle, and this scene could occur in one of my nightmares, I am not going to lie. Perfect cast At the same time, this otherness is what makes the movie so interesting to watch. However, let’s not forget about the actors. The entire time, I was wondering where they got these actors from. After all, they look like they could be Roma themselves. As you learn from the movie, career prospects for Roma women are not abundant. If they are lucky, they can become a hairdresser. So how did these people end up in this movie? After watching the movie, I learned these actors are indeed from the Roma culture themselves, and they are not professionals. However, there is nothing unprofessional about their performances! They are all so very good, and it made me so happy to learn about this opportunity for them. Follow Carmen & Lola on social media As said, you can watch Carmen & Lola at De Roze Filmdagen in Amsterdam. If you are unable to attend, you can best follow the movie online to see when it will be screened at a film festival near you. They are active on Facebook and Instagram. Are you going to De Roze Filmdagen? Please also watch The Date, Rafiki, Cassandro, the Exotico!, Dante vs. Mohammed Ali, Yulia & Juliet, and Vlam! 21 March 2018 / budgetvertalingonline / 0 Comments Two weeks ago, I published a blog and vlog about De Roze Filmdagen, or the Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival, which was held March 8-18. The organization then asked me to become a judge for their Best Feature Film Award. I feel very honored that I was asked. Thanks, De Roze Filmdagen! The nominees for Best Feature Film were Anchor and Hope, Even Lovers Get the Blues, Just Charlie, My Life with James Dean, Porcupine Lake, Sisterhood, The Cakemaker, and The Constitution. Below, you can find my reviews and find out which movie won. In addition, you can watch my 3.5-minute vlog about the experience. Judging which movie is the Best Feature Film I can tell you that watching a movie just for fun is very different from watching a movie to decide if it deserves an award. You experience all these emotions while watching a movie. When you are a judge, you constantly have to ask yourself how those emotions influence your decision. What makes a movie a good movie? What makes a movie the Best Feature Film? For me, I decided that I wanted to make my decision based on the impact the movies made on me and how much of a connection I felt with the main characters. The latter does not mean I have to agree with what the main characters do. I simply have to understand why they do what they do and see an in-depth representation of them. I watched Sisterhood before being asked to be a judge. As you can read in my previous blog, if you want to see a happy movie, Sisterhood is not it. But to dismiss it just like that would mean you are missing out on a great movie. You can constantly feel Sei’s sadness about losing her best friend (or is she?) but at the same time, you are constantly smiling during the flashbacks of their friendship (or is it?) and hoping for happiness. As she has already passed away, you know from the start you are not going to get a happy ending but you are curious about how they met and what they meant to each other. Oh, and if you are curious about what happens in massage parlors, this movie might enlighten you. Love intertwines at the wrong time. The past almost feels like a foreign country in Tracy Choi’s female-oriented melodrama, which juxtaposes the regrets over a lost lesbian romance with the alienation of a former Macau native as she returns to what is now a glamorous gambling capital. Even Lovers Get the Blues The movie started with a sex scene. And another one. And another one. I was worried that we were doomed with the age-old combination of gays and sex again, not highlighting other aspects of our lives. But no, not quite. My worst nightmare quickly happened: the partner of one of the main characters dies unexpectedly. This leaves the woman left behind in mourning and the group has to face the loss of their friend. It sends them on a journey, together and apart, but the death of that character is not necessarily a major theme. What I liked about the story was that it focused on long-term relationships and the struggles that they can bring. I find that refreshing as many LGBTQ films center on finding your first or true (or both) love. I thought the movie did not really affect me much but I noticed after a few days that the scenes kept popping up in my head. So, I must have liked it more than I realized the first night! Ana is sleeping with Hugo, Dahlia with Graciano, Leo with Louis, and Arthur is sleeping with seemingly half the hot men in Brussels. Together, they make up a good-looking group of friends with some serious dysfunctionalities. A take on modern romance and how we deal with sex and relationships. Watch Even Lovers Get the Blues on Vimeo! Porcupine Lake If you are looking for a coming-of-age movie, Porcupine Lake is the one for you. It shows you the poorer side of Canada and how two teenagers there fall in love. Kate orders Bea around and Bea happily follows. For me, it was rather repetitious. Am I getting too old for these young love movies?! During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls. My Life with James Dean This movie is very French. Can I describe it like that? I mean the short answers in dialogues or questions as answers, the several scenes in which multiple characters follow each other around town, spying on each other, and the crazy spins in the story. It pleased me for about an hour but since this movie is nearly two hours long, it became a bit too much for me. You do want to keep watching to see where the movie and Géraud finally end up. Moving. Demanding. Unclassifiable. Rare. These are the words given to the gay film that Géraud is invited to present in a sleepy seaside town. Géraud is drawn into the lives of the handsome young projectionist obsessed with him, the snotty hotel desk girl hoping to become an actress, and the slightly neurotic theater owner embroiled in a heated lesbian affair of her own. I am happy to have seen this movie. Not that it is a happy movie, but the story gave me many questions to think about. For starters, I would never do what the protagonist did. German baker Tomas starts a relationship with Oren, who has a wife and son back in Israel. Then, he finds out Oren has passed away in Israel. What does he do? He moves to Israel to watch the wife and he even starts working at her restaurant. I cannot comprehend why anyone would do that but it made me want to watch the rest of the story. Also, apparently, Tomas’ vocabulary is mostly limited to ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ so you are constantly wondering what he is truly thinking and feeling. There are also some very smart details that add up and together, they create a well-rounded story. Tomas, a young German baker, has a passionate affair with Oren, an Israeli man. However, their life together consists of brief episodes as Oren also has a wife and kid back home. When disaster strikes and Oren is killed, a grief-stricken Tomas travels to Israel to track them down. The Cakemaker trailer from JIFF on Vimeo. Just Charlie I was most touched by this movie. Yes, this was my personal favorite; I cannot deny that. No, I was not crying; you were crying! Charlie plays soccer and is offered a chance to study at a great academy. His heart is not into it though. After all, Charlie is struggling with the fact that she is really a girl but, in her environment, this is a really big challenge. I nearly started crying when she was putting on makeup, after checking she was home alone, and her father walks in unexpectedly and starts yelling, almost hurting Charlie psychically as well. Yes, this could be described as merely a coming-out story, but I feel that would not do justice to the fact that even now, you can hardly find a teen M2F coming-out story on our screens. And, wow, how great is Charlie, both the actor and the character! I even could not hate the father because as a mom, I do understand how you want the best for your child. You just have to figure out what “the best” is (and unfortunately, some people need more time than others to do so…). In fact, I was simply sad that he was missing out on all the meaningful moments he could have had with Charlie. As the star player in his football team, Charlie is living up to the high, maybe too high, expectations of his father. But when Charlie can no longer deny the facts and starts to accept that she wants to be a girl, this is only the start of a long journey. Unflinching, and with stellar performances, Just Charlie manages not only to handle difficult topics but also to be a damn charming, delightful movie. Watch the full movie on Vimeo! This movie has four main characters and several other characters that sometimes return to the story. Vjeko is beaten up. Vjeko is a gay transvestite and high school professor from Croatia. He was raised by his Nazi father of whom he is now taking care. In the hospital, he is being looked after by nurse Maja, who is also his neighbor. At home, she continues to take care of him and his father. She asks Vjeko to help her husband Ante study for his Croatian Constitution exam. The problem is that Ante is an ethnic Serb and Vjeko a Croatian nationalist; they are each other’s opposites when it comes to opinions about nationality and sexual orientation. That means you are likely to hate the main characters from the beginning. At the same time, though, these contrasts also invite you to look further. It invites you to find “the good and bad” in all of them. You wonder how they can resolve their conflicts while also asking yourself if they even have to resolve them at all. All in all, this is not an easy watch but if you want to be challenged, this movie is for you. The tagline for this movie is “a love story about hate,” and frozen hate is what best describes the neighbors in a Zagreb apartment complex. These deep divisions of ethnicity and sexual identity may not follow the lines that you presume, and they all start shifting as the protagonists have to start working together. The Constitution from TELEKING on Vimeo. Anchor and Hope As this movie is about two women trying to have a baby together, you probably expect me to love it. I did not though. Yes, the humor definitely made me laugh and I loved watching London from the water. Yes, I loved getting a glimpse of boat life (but not boat poo). Also, I loved watching the three main characters interact with each other. I just could not get over the fact that Kat only decides to have a baby with Eva to end a fight and then gets cold feet WHEN EVA IS PREGNANT. Yes, I had to write that in caps. I feel that you simply cannot do that to a child. So, I was having a really hard time feeling a connection with Kat’s process. When can we see a movie in which lesbians become parents without the pregnancy being the central topic offering the conflict of the story? Eva is not happy when her partner Kat invites over her Spanish friend Roger on their small London houseboat. Although, on second thought, it could be an answer to their desire to have a baby together. TIERRA FIRME (Anchor and Hope) – Trailer VOSE from Miguel A. Trudu on Vimeo. Discussion with the other judges about the Best Feature Film Before the discussion with the other judges, I was nervous about how that discussion would go. Would the idea of which movie should win be shared by all immediately? Would all the judges have a different opinion on which movie should win? And if so, how do you finally pick a winner? To prepare, I decided to pick my top three. This way, I would have some flexibility in picking the Best Feature Film with the others. I picked Just Charlie, Sisterhood, and Even Lovers Get the Blues. There were three judges, including myself, and we first started a round of discussing our favorite ones. What does the Roze Filmdagen Best Feature Film Award mean? After that first round, we asked ourselves what we want the Roze Filmdagen Best Feature Film Award to mean. When you see a movie poster with an image of the award on it, what should that say? We agreed that we wanted to make the audience see a movie that might not be their first choice. We are all used to our own cultural context. Watching movies that fit that context perfectly are easier for us to consume. As judges, we decided to look beyond our personal boundaries. We decided to choose a movie that might make us struggle as we are unfamiliar with its environment. Two movies: The Constitution or Sisterhood? That offered a problem because we thought that both Sisterhood and The Constitution fitted our criteria. This problem took us over an hour! In the end, I decided to go back to my viewing experience. After all, I had stated beforehand that I would select movies that had an impact on me and that had characters with whom I could feel a connection. I could not feel a connection with Vjeko from The Constitution. Before watching Sisterhood, though, I was interested precisely because I know so little about Asian cultures. While watching the movie, I felt a big connection to the group of friends from the younger years. So, my vote went to Sisterhood. One other judge was rooting hard for The Constitution but thought Sisterhood was worthy of the award as well. The final judge decided to choose the subtlety of Sisterhood over the big contrasts of The Constitution. That means Sisterhood won the Best Feature Film Award! To do justice to The Constitution, we gave it an honorable mention in our speech. If you like what you have read about me selecting the Best Feature Film at the Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel. For instance, I will be blogging and vlogging at ClexaCon in Las Vegas and Love Fan Fest in Barcelona. Plenty of LGBTQ vlogging goodness is coming! 7 March 2018 / budgetvertalingonline / Comments Off on What lesbian movies can you watch at the 2018 Roze Filmdagen? What lesbian movies can you watch at the 2018 Roze Filmdagen (Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival)? March 8th to March 18th, you can visit the 21st edition of the Roze Filmdagen, which means the Pink Film Days, or the Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival. It has so many great movies that I almost want to urge you to go every day. I completely understand it if you cannot clear your schedule for all 125 movies, so I have listed the top lesbian movies you should go and watch. The organization of the 2018 Roze Filmdagen has allowed me to watch some previews, so I can tell you what I thought of them. You can find the program here, which has info in Dutch and in English. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel! 2018 Roze Filmdagen Tip 1: Days of Mercy I have been waiting a while for this movie starring Ellen Page and Kate Mara. Now, we can finally watch it here in The Netherlands. I wish I had been able to watch a preview for you, but alas. With her father on death row, Lucy has been a passionate campaigner against the death penalty for years. Every weekend she and her siblings travel to a protest outside a jail. And every week they are met by death penalty supporters. Then, one day, one of ‘those people’, a young woman named Mercy, starts chatting her up. Tip 2: Becks On Twitter, Myron Floyd told me about this movie when I had just published my blog post about IFFR. It made me very curious, so I would like to see this one. Again, I was not able to watch a preview for you, so I cannot tell you if I am as excited about it as Myron is. After the festival, go home and fire up your TV to watch #Becks. It is an absolutely stunning movie with a great soundtrack to boot. Plus it stars the eminently talented @LenaRockerHall and the ever-enchanting @HayleyKiyoko. pic.twitter.com/uxctsjiVf0 — Myron Floyd (@MyronFloyd2) 5 februari 2018 Betrayed by her girlfriend, aspiring singer/songwriter Becks returns to small-town America and her ultra-religious mother. After some self-pitying couch potato time, she ventures out into the world again, with some scandalous affairs waiting to happen. Tony Award winner Lena Hall shines in this warm, sexy and fun tale of a love life going bad in all the good ways. 2018 Roze Filmdagen Tip 3: Seventeen Oh, this movie is so cute! It has been a while since I was in high school but I do remember wanting things that just seemed so far out of reach or that were made impossible because of circumstances or other people’s behavior. I loved listening to German and French again. I admired the protagonist for her discipline at home, looking after her father without her sister caring that much, and at school, doing “the nerdy thing” even though peer pressure could have led her to do “the cool thing.” Oh, and ouch, the bad decisions you can make as a teenager! I truly wanted this movie to end differently. I am just going to leave it at that because I do not want to give away too much. In the final weeks of school, we follow the trials and tribulations of a group of young teenagers. Paula is in love with Charlotte, who may be interested but is still also dating a boy. And then there is Lilli, who has an affair with a boy while they both have the hots for Paula. Their fluid sexualities are never considered a problem; they are simply a matter of fact in this refreshingly naturalistic portrait of life at seventeen. Tip 4: Signature Move How refreshing to have so much diversity in one movie. We can get a glimpse of American, Pakistani, and Mexican culture as it is all combined in these eighty minutes. I have seen Fawzia Mirza in other LGBTQ productions but never in the lead of a movie; that is great for her! Apparently, she is also the writer and producer of this movie. I love how this movie is a love story in which both women are trying to balance their cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and insecurities and that you follow all this through a story of wrestling. Yes, wrestling, what else? Deliciously entertaining, this colorful love story is as much about culture as it is about love. Zaynab is lesbian, Muslim and of Pakistani origin. With an overbearing mother, things get complicated as she meets flirty ‘love-em-and-leave-em’ Alma, while she is also dabbling in her new-found love for Mexican style wrestling. Warm and witty, this is a real crowd-pleaser of a movie. 2018 Roze Filmdagen Tip 5: Sisterhood If you want to see a happy movie, this is not it. But to dismiss it just like that would mean you are missing out on a great movie. You can constantly feel Sei’s sadness about losing her best friend (yes, “best friend”) but at the same time, you are constantly smiling during the flashbacks of their friendship (yes, “friendship”) and hoping for happiness. As she has already passed away, you know from the start you are not going to get a happy ending but you are curious about how they met and what they meant to each other. Oh, and if you are curious about what happens in massage parlors, this movie might enlighten you. Love intertwines at the wrong time. The past almost feels like a foreign country in Tracy Choi’s female-oriented melodrama, which juxtaposes the regrets over a lost lesbian romance with the alienation of a former Macau native as she returns to what is now a glamorous gambling capital. Great acting performances drive this award-winning film. Tip 6: Hello Again Yay, I loved this musical! If you are looking for a strictly lesbian movie, I urge you to broaden your mind and include this movie in your plans. This masterpiece is extremely well done. There are ten protagonists who all have two love stories. Or, should I say sex stories? The best thing is, they are all set in different eras and when they subtly change storylines, they still refer back to their old character with a line or two. When the movie started, there was an insensitive sex scene that made me question whether I was going to like this movie but I am so glad I kept watching. The sex/love interest of the protagonist is the protagonist in the next sex/love story. The whole LGBTQ spectrum is incorporated into the stories. I especially loved seeing Jenna Ushkowitz and Tyler Blackburn in completely different roles from what they did in Glee and PLL. Loosely based on the 1897 play “La Ronde”, this dazzling and sexy musical celebrates love, regardless of gender. Ten very New York encounters, each set in appropriate time and music styles. With the best of Broadway performers, the seemingly disconnected stories reveal their unifying factor – the human desire to love and be loved. 2018 Roze Filmdagen Tip 7: Chavela I had the pleasure of watching Chavela during IDFA’s Queer Day. Like I said in that blog, the movie immediately teaches you about her music. This builds the foundation of your documentary experience. It slowly follows her life. It focuses on her songs, being nervous before performing, her flirting skills to alcoholism, being allowed to be a lesbian on stage but not in real life, and the lack of support from her family from an early age on. You find out that she has a beautiful side and a dark side. The end of the movie, you grieve her death as if you have known her personally. The fact that you can become so emotionally attached to someone in a documentary means the creators have done a great job. Tip 8: Mr. Gay Syria You are right. Mr. Gay Syria is not a lesbian movie. Still, I want you to see it or at least know about it. I also had the pleasure of watching this documentary during IDFA’s Queer Day and it made a big impact on me. You are constantly hoping for Husein and his friends to get a break and be granted a visa. You are also left wondering about their culture. Even though they speak of it so lovingly, you never get to see the beauty of Syria. The despair is real. You cannot help but wonder what you would do had you been in the same situation. So many options at the Roze Filmdagen! These are my movie tips for the 2018 Roze Filmdagen. Still, there are so many movies, documentaries, and shorts that I still want to see. Also, there will be a screening of the winners of the 48 Hours Project. The project had an LGTBQ theme this year. So, the movies match the program of the 2018 Roze Filmdagen perfectly. Want to stay in Amsterdam? If you want to stay in Amsterdam for the 2018 Roze Filmdagen from March 8-18, I have found you some hotels on Booking.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line262
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Since then, the output has been much less consistent. Mindblowing CGI trailers with cracking soundtracks failed to hide the ageing engine and creaking gameplay of the later titles. Highs on the high seas with Black Flag countered the universal disappointment of ACIII. All this wrapped in a mishandled meta-narrative that I still can’t decide whether it’s engrossing genius or utter nonsense. Perhaps the thing that has coloured the series in recent years is the yearly release cycle. Whilst many don’t like the sacrifices this can lead to in innovation and quality, it does mean that a lot of ideas don’t make the final cut, which is exactly where we come in. Here are 5 things that Ezio and co. didn’t get to slip that hidden blade into. 1. Knowing your assassin from your elbow For all the hidden blades, poison darts, smoke bombs and other stealthy distractions, the main thing you will do in most AC games is standing in the middle of a circle of enemies who are taking turns to swing at you – throwing stealth out the window in favour of a vastly overpowered/broken counter kill system. Sure, there are the sections where “thou shalt not get caught”, otherwise known as the “tedious insta game-over” that completely destroys any sense of an open world, but those sections are the least fun of all. This wasn’t always the state of play though; plans were in place during development of AC:Brotherhood to introduce a mechanic whereby if you were surrounded by four or more enemies they would form an unescapable cordon. Your job was to manoeuvre yourself or your enemies to prevent this from happening (or otherwise escape). Once formed, all of your enemies would strike at the same time, leading you to look like that poor mutt who tried to eat a porcupine (I won’t link it – just think… pin cushion). Dropped when: the AI devs took an early lunch and decided that soldiers probably wouldn’t ever try and co-ordinate attacks when faced by a genocidal Italian. 2. Time for a character assassination For a game with the simplest of premises: Templars bad, Assassins good, the plot of the AC franchises is ludicrously complicated. My theory on this particular paradox is that the narrative is designed to paper over the rather large crack that is the complete absence of any interesting protagonists. I was thinking about how to write about the boring brotherhood and came to the conclusion that only alliteration would save me from falling asleep halfway through. Note – all are men until Syndicate, and no, I don’t count the spin-offs because no one does. So in order you have: - Desmond the dumbfounded douche - Altair the argumentative asshole - Ezio the European excitement-sponge - Connor the charisma-vaccum - Shay Cormac, the shifty shyster - Arno, not you, anyone but you You may notice the conspicuous absence of pirate-bothering arch murdere Edward Kenway. For me he’s the most interesting of the lot, though not really a bonifide assassin and either way, the exception that proves the tedious rule. Ubisoft are so aware of this issues that for Syndicate they’ve drafted in two characters in the hope that between them they can be interesting enough to fill the hole of the protagonist. Considering how boring the assassins are, I occasionally find myself willing the Templars to win. The sad thing is, it seems that interesting characters were only on the menu for the briefest time. Dropped when: now I don’t want to say that to entertain anyone you have to offend someone, but this disclaimer tells you everything you need to know about the anodyne characters in the game. I’m not sure how much help uplay are going to offer in this department either. 3. Killing innovation I’m going to put my hands up right now when I say that I understand the concept, if it aint broke, don’t fix it (something Stuart Lancaster could have learned before the world cup, amiright rugby fans?! Sorry, I digress). To analogise this point, if I buy my other half a puppy for her birthday and it goes down a treat, Christmas is an absolute shoe-in, I’ll buy another puppy. Two puppies is manageable and we will have learned from our mistakes from the first so the second will be even better trained. However, and this is important, you cannot keep introducing puppies into the household on a yearly basis. It will be messy, noisy and the training only half finished. Eventually the newer puppies will start to tarnish the memories of the original puppies, even though there is little difference between them. And grant me a free pass to play Fallout 4 for a few weeks non-stop. Good lord is that a great game. So too with the production cycle for the AC games. Every year an increasingly tired product is released alienating more of the fanbase. Arguably, the only real innovation since ACII was the inclusion of naval-gazing warfare, which is tantamount to me switching it up on valentines and buying a snake (side note, would be an interesting experiment to see how a snake fits into the puppy dynamic). It wasn’t always supposed to be like this. The annualisation of franchises, learned mostly from the successes of certain sports franchises, was actually chosen in favour of open world, procedurally generated storylines in which random events would dictate not only the story, but the length of the game. The game would constantly evolve after your actions and new targets would emerge in the course of a playthrough to help keep players engaged during a longer development cycle that lead to a revolutionary new game. Dropped when: Gamestop and BestBuy couldn’t agree on the exclusive clothing packs for their bespoke pre-order editions. A vastly more frequent release schedule was used as a compromise. 4. Cashassin It doesn’t matter which protagonist you are playing as when it comes to the next festive that didn’t make it. Whether you’re in the holy lands or the high seas, one thing that dogs you through the AC experience is a currency that won’t quit. Earning money in game is obviously not exclusive to AC, however, I’m talking here about how you spend those hard gotten gains. In almost every entry into the canon you work your fingers to the bone, stabbing, jumping and otherwise counter-killing your way through a vibrant city. The one thing this city lacks is anything meaningful to spend your money on. The aesthetic purchases seem to be aimed at the sort of person labours over Uplay points to see which old Altair hat they can buy (spoilers: this is no one) and have no effect whatsoever on your experience. A lot of the time it’s tough to tell even the visual difference between one stabby implement and the next. Your other option is to buy things that help you earn more money, that you spend on more nonsense like buying vases (I ask you!).Again, Black Flag offer us an exception to this with the ship upgrade system but the pedant in me is forced to clear his throat… ahem, not very assassin is it? he burbles. The arbitrary cash-sponges in each game were initially replaced by something even worse. The AC universe paints history in it’s most family friendly light. However, if a aspiring Assassin wanted to chart an area, rather than climb the nearest tower, risking life and limb, he would have simply paid a member of the working class to do it at a greatly undervalued price. So too in the Creed. Initially, thousands of chimney sweeps and ne’er-do-wells would litter the streets offering to execute the more mundane missions (read: eavesdropping) for you. You would establish a network of youths who became your eyes, ears, and (for the sake of console players) thumbs. Dropped when: Ubisoft saw the potential in this and decided to take out the rights on “Oliver, the videogame” in which you would play as Fagin or the Artful Dodger building a criminal empire. Sadly this was pulled when it was revealed that in action games people prefer to play them, rather than pay people to play for them making pay-to-win micro-transaction controversies even more mind-boggling. 5. The beginning is nigh Where better to finish than the start? To paraphrase Neitzche as I so often like to do: “stare into the intro, and the intro looks terrible given the overall project budgets”. As you may have picked up over the course of this article, dear reader, I have a very love-hate relationship with this titan of modern gaming. What this translates to in recent years is a keenness to play the first hour of the game to see if it’s different/new/interesting/cool enough to warrant another chunk of my time. I’ve platinumed three of the titles perhaps proving that I have invested heavily when fun was to be had. Either that, or I’m a glutton for punishment. Now, judging by the incredibly lush and exciting CGI trailers, Ubisoft understands the need to build hype around their games. Sadly, for many of them, the hype building ends precisely as you press the any button to first launch each game. Whether it’s the drawn out framing narrative of the first game, or the drawn out framing narrative of the second game, or the drawn our framing narra… oh you get the point. I do have a soft spot for the meta-nonsense I mentioned earlier, but it has no place at all at the front of the game. For a game about sneaking and stabbing, it takes a long time to get to the point. Dropped when: I booted up my copy of Unity to be thrown into an exciting castle battle. Superb, they’ve cracked it! I’m now sucked in. A magical sword… Cool! Uh oh. Exposition alert – oh no, the meta-narrative has jumped in. I’ll forgive that. Now to the real game. I’m playing kiss-chase as a child? What’s the meaning of this. Oh for crying out loud, have they learned nothing from how boring young Connor sections were in ACIII? Screw this I’m playing Wolfenstein. What did you think of that friend? Have you fallen out of love with Desmond and his extended family, or are you a slovenly AC apologist. Either way, sound off in the comments and let us know what game you want us to cover next. Disclosure: This article is based on absolutely no solid fact, sadly the gene sequencing equipment we used to delve into developers memories only turned up episodes of the Simpsons from season 4. No eavesdropping or pickpocketing form any of the detail above. So it’s best, ignored, forgotten, or otherwise scorned. See you next time. Tags: Animus, assassin, creed, desmond, metagame, Ubisoft This entry was posted on Friday, November 27th, 2015 at 12:01 and is filed under Features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. 4 Responses to “The Cutting Room Floor – Assassin’s Creed” Ancient Gamer (Lee) says: Great article :-) I joined the AC franchise late My first one was ACIII. Which I actually liked. I guess I had no baggage or other AC games to compare it to. I absolutely loved Black Flag but that was more to do with it being a 3D Sid Meiers Pirates than a AC game. Unity looks beautiful but I found the story dull. So we come to Syndicate. I love the setting as it is always great to see a game environment set in the UK. Strangely there seem to be marginally less cockney accents than Black Flag and Unity! Evie Fry is a good character but it is at its core AC by the numbers. I’m enjoying it but it is hard to see AC being able to sustain annual iterations for much longer. TheCBear says: Cheers Lee. Totally agree (apart from the part about liking ACIII!). I absolutely can’t wait for a proper reboot of the franchise with a new engine and some fresh meat in the dev team – in particular the level design section. Its only one aspect of the game but I think the dull repetitive combat breaks a lot of the games. In AC and AC 2 it was novel but now it is so contrived it breaks some of the immersion they try and make. I genuinely think that if they had an exciting and engaging combat system it would paper over a lot of the cracks as you would feel like an badass assassin and forgive many of the other weak areas. Main examples of this: the batman arkham games which have the same combat system approach that hitman, where stealth is a priority but you have the option to go full combat if it breaks down. In batman the combat has a lot of nuance that represents the character of batman and what makes him that particular hero which is just not what you get with any of the assassins. And hitman demands stealth and makes full combat feel like a last ditch survival effort which it theoretically should be. Just some thoughts on games I’ve experienced that tie in the characters with the systems which I feel is missing with many (not all) AC games. Side effects of having hundreds of studios making one game I guess Whatleydude says: This is a great write up! 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__label__cc	0.628771	0.371229	[Luke 20] {Mar 11:27-33 & Mat 21:23-27 & Luk 20:1-8 Courtyard of the Temple, Tues.} 20:1 And it happened on one of those days, while he is teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the good-news, the priests and the scribes, together with the elders stood up; 20:2 and they spoke to him, saying, Tell us, by what authority are you doing* these things? Or who is he who gave you this authority? 20:3 But he answered and said to them, I will also ask you* onequestion, and tell* me. 20:4The immersion* of John, was it from heaven or from men? 20:5 Now they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven; he will say, Then why did you* not believe him? 20:6 But if we should say, From men; all the people will be stoning us; for* they have confidence that John is a prophet. 20:7 And they answered that they did not know where it was from. 20:8 And Jesus said to them, Neither do I tell you* by what authority I am doing* these things. {Mar 12:1-12 & Mat 21:33-46 & Luk 20:9-19.} 20:9 Now he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and rented it to farmers, and went-abroad for considerable times {i.e. a long time}.20:10And he sent a bondservant in the harvest season to the farmers, in order that they might give to him from the fruit of the vineyard, but the farmers whipped him and sent him away empty handed. 20:11And he added a different bondservant to send, and they also whipped and dishonored him, and sent him away empty. 20:12And he added a third to send, and they also traumatized this one and cast him forth. 20:13But the lord of the vineyard said, What should I do? I will be sending my beloved son; perchance when they have seen this one, they will revere him.20:14But after the farmers saw him, they were reasoning with themselves, saying, This is the heir. Come-here. We should kill him, in order that the inheritance may become ours. 20:15And having cast him forth, outside the vineyard, they killed him. Therefore, what will the lord of the vineyard do* to them?20:16He will be coming and will be destroying these farmers, and will be giving the vineyard to others. But having heard this, they said, Let it not happen! 20:17 But he looked at them and said, Therefore what is this that has been written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this one became the head of the corner'?{Psa 118:22}20:18Everyone who has fallen upon that stone will be shattered, but upon whomever it falls, it will be smashing him. 20:19 And the high-priests and the scribes sought to put hands upon him in that same hour andyet they feared the people; for they knew that he spoke this parable to them. {Mar 12:13-17 & Mat 22:15-22 & Luk 20:20-26 Courtyard of the Temple, Tues.} 20:20 And having observed him, they sent forth agents, who themselves pretend to be righteous, in order that they might grab him from his speech, that they might give him to the rule and the authority of the governor. 20:21 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach correctly, and you do not receive the countenance of men, but in truth, are teaching the way of God. 20:22 Is it legal for us to give tax to Caesar or not? 20:23 But he perceived their craftiness and said to them, Why are you* testing me?20:24Showme a denarius. Whose image and inscription has it? But they answered and said, Caesar's. 20:25 But he said to them, Now-then, give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. 20:26 And they were not strong-enough to grasp his declaration in front of the people, and they marveled at his answer and were silent. {Mar 12:18-27 & Mat 22:23-33 & Luk 20:27-39.} 20:27 Now some of the Sadducees came near to him, those who contradict the resurrectionС there is no resurrection; and they asked him, 20:28 saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, in order that if anyone's brother dies, having a wife, and this one should die childless, his brother should take the wife and should raise* up seed to his brother. {Deu 25:5}20:29 Therefore, there were seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died childless; 20:30 and the second took the woman and this one died childless; 20:31 and the third took her, and likewise, the seven also left no children and they all died. 20:32 But last of all, the woman also died later. 20:33 Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of them does she become? For the seven had her as wife. 20:34 And Jesus answered and said to them, The sons of this world marry and are betrothed.20:35But those who were deemed worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are they betrothed,20:36for* neither are they able to die anymore; for* they are equal to the messengers, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. 20:37But that the dead are raised, even Moses divulged at the bush, as he calls* the Lord, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.{Exo 3:6}20:38Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for* all live to him. 20:39 But some of the scribes answered and said, Teacher, you said well. {Mar 12:28-34 & Mat 22:34-40 & Luk 20:40.} 20:40 But they were not daring anymore to ask him anything. 20:41 Now he said to them, How is it that they say the Christ is David's son?20:42And David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, 20:43until I should place your enemies as the footstool of your feet.{Psa 110:1}20:44Therefore, David calls him Lord, and so how is he his son? {Mar 12:38-40 & Mat 23:1-39 & Luk 20:45-47 Courts of the Temple, Tues.} 20:45 But while all the people were listening, he said to his disciples, 20:46Take-heed*, stay away from the scribes, who wish to walk in long robes and love greetings in the marketplaces and foremost seats in the synagogues and foremost-places in the suppers;20:47who are devouring widows' houses, and are praying long prayers for a pretext. These will be receiving even-more condemnation.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line273
__label__cc	0.733274	0.266726	Strategic Financial Planning - Mike Fassi Mike Fassi: Strategic Financial Planning Professional Strategic Financial Planning Articles Mike Fassi – Links Mike Fassi – About Me Mike Fassi / Fassi Financial, Fort Collins- Contact Me Fassi Financial Location Puerto Rico Defaults 24th May, 2016 · Mike Fassi The island’s debt crisis worsens. Will Congress act before July 1? Provided by, Mike Fassi, CLU, CHFC On May 2, Puerto Rico defaulted on its debt again. As it managed to negotiate with some of its creditors, its Government Development Bank did pay part of the $422 million it owed this week, but about $270 million in payments were missed.1,2 Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis made headlines last year when its total debt passed $70 billion, more than any U.S. state except for New York and California. Its government has defaulted three times on its debt since the start of 2015.3,4 Puerto Rico has been in a recession for the better part of a decade. About 45% of Puerto Ricans live in poverty, and people are leaving the commonwealth at a rate of 1,500 a week. Its schools, hospitals, and social services programs have already been hit with severe budget cuts.3,5 On May 1, Governor Alejandro García Padilla called the default “a painful decision,” but also a necessary one. Faced simultaneously with “the inability to meet the demands of our creditors and the needs of our people, I had to make a choice. I decided that essential services for the 3.5 million American citizens in Puerto Rico came first.”5 July 1 presents a critical deadline. On that day, the commonwealth must make about $2 billion in debt payments. Analysts are highly skeptical that Puerto Rico will be able to do that.1 Will Congress intervene? The pressure is certainly mounting on Capitol Hill lawmakers. Will a bailout be necessary? Maybe not. Last spring, the House Natural Resources Committee attempted to put together a relief bill in response to the crisis. If passed, it would not represent a bailout, as it would not deliver any federal money to Puerto Rico. The bill is still in the works.1 In 2015, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) gave Congress a March 31, 2016 deadline to address this issue, but that deadline came and went without action. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and the White House implored Congress to address the problem this week. In a letter to congressional leaders, Lew stated that minus “a workable framework for restructuring Puerto Rico’s debts, bondholders will experience a lengthy, disorderly, and chaotic unwinding, with non-payment for many a real possibility.”1,2 Lew also warned that without legislation including “appropriate restructuring and oversight tools, a taxpayer-funded bailout may become the only legislative course available to address an escalating crisis.” Since Puerto Rico is not a state, a Chapter 9 bankruptcy is not an option.4,5 What does this mean for bond investors? Greater levels of concern. American investors have bought Puerto Rico’s bonds for years, as they are exempt from federal and state income tax. Earlier this year, the commonwealth defaulted on $37 million of bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Infrastructure Financing Authority, which were not constitutionally backed. This week, Puerto Rico defaulted on bonds backed by its Government Development Bank. If the GDB cannot make the huge debt payment due July 1, then Puerto Rico will default on some of the general obligation bonds issued by its government.4 Most municipal bond funds have sold off their Puerto Rican debt and have not been greatly affected by these developments. Small investors holding Puerto Rican debt can take some solace in the fact that several Puerto Rican bonds are insured; in case of a default, the principal and interest would be protected by a bond insurance company. Contrast that with the plight of the funds still heavily invested in distressed Puerto Rican debt; as the commonwealth cannot declare bankruptcy, they may have to turn to regular courts in pursuit of payouts.4 Mike Fassi, CLU, CHFC is a Representative with Centaurus Financial Inc. and may be reached at Fassi Financial, 970-416-0088 or mike@fassifinancialnetwork.com. This material was prepared by MarketingPro, Inc., and does not necessarily represent the views of the presenting party, nor their affiliates. This information has been derived from sources believed to be accurate. Please note – investing involves risk, and past performance is no guarantee of future results. The publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting or other professional services. If assistance is needed, the reader is advised to engage the services of a competent professional. 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__label__wiki	0.840306	0.840306	Map Tour Archive for month: July, 2008 In the News: Nonprofit envisions greenways far and wide (Atlanta, Georgia) July 13, 2008 /in In The News, News /by mmg By Maria Saporta The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 07/13/08 Imagine a million miles of greenways across metro Atlanta, the state and the nation —- connecting hundreds of communities with parks, waterways and trails. That’s the vision of the newly formed MillionMile Greenway, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that will work with communities to help them develop green spaces and trails that will interlock with greenways in other communities. The champion behind this vision is Jim Langford, a longtime entrepreneur and environmentalist. Between 2004 and 2007, Langford served as state director of the Trust for Public Land and was instrumental in the organization’s investment in buying parkland near the 22-mile Beltline around Atlanta’s core. TPL, in partnership with the Nature Conservancy, also helped preserve hundreds of acres of green space along the Chattahoochee River from Helen to Columbus. Langford has observed the skyrocketing popularity of land conservation and greenways by the public. DeKalb, Gwinnett and Cobb counties have all passed multimillion-dollar bond referendums to preserve open spaces and parks in the midst of rapid development. But Langford also realized there was a void in the region’s environmental landscape. Some of the fastest-growing counties outside the core didn’t have the organizational ability to implement a green space plan or an acquisition program. “Looking at the spectrum of the 25 metro counties out there, only four or five are strong enough to do a bond referendum,” Langford said. “I started to look around to see who could go out and help those other communities.” Although there are several conservation and environmental organizations in the state, none was designed for an outreach effort with the outlying suburban counties still trying to form a green space plan. Most organizations, like TPL, were “transaction-oriented,” designed to help buy specific tracts. So after he left TPL a year ago, Langford began talking to other environmental and civic leaders about creating an organization that could fill that void. Langford drafted Ryan Gravel, who as a student at Georgia Tech first proposed the concept of the Beltline. Gravel’s response to Langford was: “This is like the Beltline, only bigger.” In June 2007, MillionMile Greenway was incorporated as a nonprofit. It just announced its board: Gravel, who now practices urban design with Perkins+Will; Jesse Glasgow, program manager for Photo Science, which is helping develop technological tools for communities; Angela Graham of Silverman Construction Program Management (and formerly with TPL); Phillip Hoover, a partner with Smith, Gambrell & Russell; Tom Parker, a vice president for Georgia Transmission Corp.; Susan Rutherford, manager of the Greenway Division for the city of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management; Bo Spalding, a founding partner of the Jackson Spalding communications firm; and Robert Turner, who practices transactional law at Stites & Harbison. Langford also is on the board and serves as MillionMile Greenway’s president. He continues to serve as a consultant for Linger Longer’s Jekyll Island redevelopment proposal (which will include a network of greenways with bicycle and pedestrian paths). The organization has just launched its Web site: www .millionmilegreenway.org. It also is beginning a fund-raising and membership drive. It has received more than $100,000 in pro bono services. And it already is working on several pilot projects. For example, the group is working with Newton County. Using mapping technology made available by Georgia Transmission, it is helping the county and its residents locate the optimal areas for greenways. The group also is working with community leaders to provide the expertise to implement greenway plans. “This needs to be a community-focused, citizen-focused initiative,” Langford said. “We want to empower local communities.” In addition to the software and technical expertise, the organization is working on a tool kit to give its community partners on the various ways to conserve land and build greenways. As the community groups evolve and partner with their local governments, Langford said the intent would be to connect them with TPL and other conservation groups to help acquire land, and to work with the PATH Foundation to help build bicycle and pedestrian trails. “People love trails, and they’re very inexpensive to build,” Langford said. “We want to help build the organizational infrastructure in each community so they can build parks and trails.” MillionMile Greenway also has other pilot projects under way. It is working with Georgia’s coastal counties to create a greenway initiative. It also is working with three counties near Athens on a similar plan. And Langford has been working with areas in Northern Virginia on a greenway system that connects Civil War battlegrounds. The Virginia and Georgia coast pilot projects are being done in concert with the East Coast Greenway Alliance. “We want to sow seeds everywhere,” Langford explained. For him, success in five years would be to work on projects in a number of states, help create numerous local greenway initiatives, have a membership base in the thousands and create interconnecting greenways between the various local organizations. It’s all about watching communities grow organically, Langford said. “We want people to create greenways in their own backyards.” The need for more greenways and parks is becoming even more critical, given that metro Atlanta continues to lose about 50 acres of green space every day. MillionMile Greenway’s vision can capture the imagination of communities —- large and small —- throughout our region, our state and our nation. MillionMile Greenway is a major sponsor of the Georgia Trail Summit again in 2016 Coastal Greenway a work in progress MMG is the lead sponsor of first Georgia Trail Summit (Athens, Georgia) Allen Creek Greenway Conservancy receives $21,100 in grants – bringing the greenway closer to breaking ground (Ann Arbor, Michigan) © Copyright - MillionMile Greenway - Enfold Theme by Kriesi	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line284
__label__wiki	0.954359	0.954359	Bear presumed to be grizzly with her cub severely injures Twin Cities hiker in Wyoming By Paul Walsh , Star Tribune A Twin Cities backpacker was mauled by a bear — presumably a grizzly with her cub — and severely injured in the mountains of northern Wyoming, authorities said Tuesday. The attack occurred Sunday afternoon as Bradley D. Johnson backpacked with friends in the Beartooth Mountains just south of the Montana border, according to the Park County Sheriff’s Office. Johnson, 48, of Plymouth, received “severe injuries to his arm, shoulder and back,” said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lance Mathess. Two of his companions on the Muddy Creek Trail in the Shoshone National Forest hiked out to get help while a third stayed behind with Johnson, Mathess said. A woman called the Sheriff’s Office from a store in nearby Cody about 3:40 p.m. and reported coming upon the two backpackers who told her Johnson “had been mauled by a grizzly bear” roughly two hours earlier, Mathess said. “The bear stopped and moved off presumably because the perceived threat had ended,” Mathess added. While state wildlife officials have yet to confirm the species of bear, Mathess said the circumstances of the attack point to it being “a sow grizzly with a cub.” Mathess said the Wyoming Game and Fish Department typically do not pursue a bear that injures or kills a person when circumstances indicate the encounter involves “a defensive and not a predatory attack.” According to the Sheriff’s Office, a rescue helicopter and airplane were dispatched and quickly found Johnson. The chopper landed as close as it could, about a mile from Johnson and the companion who stayed with him. Medics hiked in to the scene, stabilized Johnson’s wounds and carried him to the helicopter, which flew him to St. Vincent Hospital in Billings, Mont. He was in fair condition Tuesday morning, a hospital spokeswoman said. “Last I heard was he had several hours of surgery that night and was in for more surgeries in the future,” Mathess said. Because of the limited space on the helicopter that rescued Johnson, the companion who stayed with him, 45-year-old Minneapolis Fire Capt. Justin Reid, of Medina, was left behind until a ground team went in about 7 p.m. Sunday and guided him out about 2:15 a.m. Monday. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said in a statement, “This appears to be a surprise encounter between the individual and two bears. The man ... was backpacking with three other people ... ahead of the group when he encountered two bears at close range.” The attack occurred too quickly for Johnson to use the bear spray he was carrying, the department statement continued, adding that the specific species of bear has yet to be determined. Asked how often her agency sees incidents of bears mauling people, department spokeswoman Rebekah Fitzgerald said there are “a few a year.” Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482 Paul Walsh is a general assignment reporter at the Star Tribune. He wants your news tips, especially in and near Minnesota. pwalsh@startribune.com 612-673-4482 walshpj Next in Local Minnesota lawmakers, officials hail new wage theft law as nation's strongest Father: 'It is a miracle' that teen driver survived collision with bull moose John F. Hetterick, former PepsiCo and Rollerblade executive, dies at age 74 Debate over tenant background checks heats up in Minneapolis Mom tells of 18 years of terror Big Island party scene plays part in outbreak, officials suspect Brooks: Purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, if you dare	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line288
__label__wiki	0.845217	0.845217	Film and video highlights at the 2009 Venice Biennale by Mark Peranson posted July 7, 2009 The Venice Biennale is on display from early June until November, but in the first four days, the art world descends on the impossible city like, well, art world vultures on plates of canapés. This is not the best time to go to Venice: the regular ratio of locals to tourists must at least be doubled (making it about 1:200), so even with the contemporary art market suffering an economic setback, the main pavilions and Daniel Birnbaum-curated "Making Worlds" exhibitions located in the Arsenale and the Giardini are overcrowded and generally unpleasant places to be (to say nothing of the art). In this full-blown, sheets-to-the-wind art sprint—a sprint, however, mediated by water boat—surely the greatest casualty is film and video work. In a city of impatient neurotics, who has the time to concentrate on the moving image? But this cinephile didn't mind: it gave me a chance to rest my aching feet. In talking to (and overhearing) Biennale regulars, two general conclusions were confirmed. First, the quality of projection for film and video work continues to improve, enabling projections to be more varied in their presentation than ever. No longer is film or video in the art world confined to the black box; rather, work was projected onto multicolored sheets of canvas (Ulla von Brandenburg), small screens built into standard white walls (16mm projections from the wry Portuguese metaphysicians Gusmão and Paiva), exposed brick (Paul Chan), and the omnipresent freestanding canvas or LCD monitor (most everyone else). In the case of mad scientist of the arts Simon Starling's terrific Wilhelm Noack oHG, the dazzling, intricate 35mm projector itself is the invention, and its very making is the subject of the film it is constantly projecting. Second, what happens in Venice often comes from Venice. This year especially there was an excessive amount of work, non-video included, that took as its starting point the actual starting point of its creation, often to the point of distraction. Even the favorite of the curator cognoscenti (and runner-up to Bruce Nauman for the Biennale's main prize), the Danish and Nordic pavilions by Elmgreen/Dragset, incorporated a kitschy oil painting of the same pavilion in the off-season, looking like some Mulholland Drive summer palace. Their deconstruction of domesticity, The Collectors, relegated the moving image to television; in a destroyed Danish bourgeois home, a weird children's show played, while next door, in their fabrication of a gay art collector's modernist house, a nubile lad lounged on the carpet and watched William E. Jones's The History of Gay Pornography. (I assume the bodies are rotated over the next few months.) The most anticipated and discussed work came in the British pavilion, where newly minted cineaste Steve McQueen re-entered the art world to divisive reactions. For every critic who claimed he "phoned it in," there were others who proclaimed his piece the single best work in the entire Biennale. Perhaps the reactions stem from the source—the former being a cranky New York Times art critic, the latter coming from a major North American film festival programmer. McQueen's work more than ever seems to straddle these porous boundaries. During the opening days of the Biennale one had to reserve an advance booking, then sit for over half an hour (!) in a makeshift theater (!), no late entries or exits allowed. (This led more than one observer to call the British a bunch of fascists.) McQueen's "phone call" from a local area code, a double-screen projection matter-of-factly titled Giardini, posits what happens in the gardens of the Biennale during off time: for McQueen, it's like a dilapidated film set, if not a Tarkovskyan zone, strewn garbage and foraging hounds included. McQueen associates this dilapidated state with colonialism, and the history of the gardens: initially built by Napoleon as part of his conquest of Venice, they're now used for a vestigial remnant of nationalist competition (on par, say, with the World Cup). Trudging through the packed Giardini, one might forget that these buildings were erected as structures of national power. McQueen just shows the exteriors, and often zooms in to the flora and fauna of the gardens, the flowers and the bugs beneath one's feet, treating them more artistically than biologically. And at night, somewhere out of the darkening mist, two men—one white, one black—magically appear, and, at one point, embrace. In a way, one can also say he's made a Tsai Ming-liang film, though I doubt the art crowd got that connection—knowing his audience, McQueen referenced the Venetian sunsets of Turner. On its own terms—which are admittedly somewhat limited—Giardini is a success. If it's a phone call, it's one where the numbers are dialed very, very slowly. I don't believe there's any raging sense of anger behind the camera, more of a contemplation; it's political art that surrenders itself to beauty. (A more rabid and foaming assault on colonialism came in Luxembourg's thundering Collision Zone, a sturm und drang, J.G. Ballard–influenced, blue-filtered multiroom immersive experience from Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert that was just as bug-obsessed.) In the end, though, Giardini makes most sense if one watches it in Venice itself, having trudged through the exact same geography beforehand, being aware of the specific spatial relationships between shots—and then immediately re-entering that space after viewing. The effect is seeing the gardens anew, almost ignoring the sometimes gargantuan pavilions plopped in their midst. Giardini will surely travel, but the same cannot be said of Dorit Margreiter's film shot inside and around the Austrian pavilion, the slightly more unimaginatively titled Pavilion. Pavilion is what you get—in this case, one with actors preparing to shoot some kind of scene inside, and, liberally sprinkled throughout, Margreiter's own sculptures. A film about the space of an art exhibit, especially the one that you're sitting in, can come across as a bit insular, to say the least. Margreiter's mildly surreal work pales next to McQueen's as an exploration of the Giardini and its buildings and also suffers in comparison to Singspiel, a tangentially similar, also black-and-white film in the Arsenale by Paris-based German artist Ulla von Brandenburg. Instead of the palazzos of Venice, von Brandenburg elected to shoot in Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye outside of Paris, and transmutes the Savoye family's actual experience of "ideal living" into a winding, seamless, approximately 15-minute take of domestic anxiety. She stages various types of performance in quizzical (and, appropriate for Le Corbusier, mechanical) fashion, accompanying the action with her own voice on the soundtrack, singing two deathly severe songs composed for the film. It's hard for me to explain exactly what goes on in the piece, and I suspect I'm not alone, but this tinge of mystery helps rather than hinders the projection. Both works—von Brandenburg's especially—are filmed (on 16mm) and staged with such precision and Teutonic seriousness that at times the films threaten to cross over into downright art-film parody, but, hey, I think the same thing about Michael Haneke. Elsewhere, artists ventured outward—into their native lands—and delivered national representations of various quality. The Welsh gave their off-off site over to erstwhile musician John Cale, who opts to explore his national identity via a five-screen installation of a breathless and rather boring hike through the Welsh highlands in winter. In the Irish pavilion, Kennedy Browne presented a smart multiformat installation on globalization featuring a Google mistranslation of a Milton Friedman statement on the free market ("There isn't a single person in the world who could make this pencil") and one hell of a pencil-sharpening marathon overlooking a uniformly gray Dublin from high atop Liberty Hall, a labor union landmark. And in the Canadian outhouse, Mark Lewis, a Canadian living in the UK, delivered Cold Morning, four projections—in a space suited for none—three set in downtown Toronto and one in an anonymous everyplace. Lewis's seemingly simple urban projections are themselves dialectical, and best considered in pairs. One of the most beautiful pieces I saw in Venice, Nathan Phillips Square, A Winter's Night, Skating, is "simply" that: two lovers ice-skating at night in front of Toronto's city hall. The piece's calm charm derives from Lewis's old-Hollywood-style use of rear projection, which is used to completely different effect in The Fight, a kind of Jeff Wall photograph come to life, where the jostling of antagonists in the foreground goes unnoticed to the rear-projected passersby in the background. (In the Venice rush, a number of the curators I spoke to didn't even catch the rear projection, which was also the topic of Lewis's off-site 40-minute documentary Backstory—an inventively filmed, detail-oriented interview with the Hansards, the first Hollywood family of said cinematic device.) The other two videos deal with diverging perceptions of the city in a more direct manner: TD Centre, 54th Floor is shot from high above the street looking down from the Mies van der Rohe skyscraper, while Cold Morning is a close-up view of a homeless person trying to warm himself on a frigid winter morning, who, one might conclude, is situated at the bottom of the vertiginous shot from above. But the most surprising work happened to take off from, of all things, cinema, and came from, of all places, Singapore. Naturally situated far off the main drag—and one floor above Iceland—the Singapore funhouse (another awards runner-up) tackles the notion of national identity, structured as a tribute to the golden age of Singapore movie going, with various posters and photographs of cinemas from a private collector, Wong Hang Min (also interviewed in one of the short documentary-fiction hybrids on view from Sherman Ong). But the feature presentation is directed by Ming Wong, who along with an older piece wherein he himself re-enacts scenes from the films of iconic Malay director P. Ramlee, exhibits two inventive and rigorous melodrama mashups—In Love for the Mood and Life of Imitation—with both pieces accompanied by lavish, old-fashioned one-sheets designed by Singapore's last remaining movie poster artist. In a more forthright manner than Lewis, who has spent his career examining various apparatuses that constitute the vocabulary of cinema, Wong's pieces aggressively expose artifice, how filmmaking is constructed—here, the emphasis is on acting. In In Love for the Mood, Wong simultaneously plays three progressively accomplished rehearsals for a scene from that other Wong's film, with a Caucasian actress from New Zealand simultaneously playing both Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung's roles. Each scene is subtitled differently—by the time the third and most relaxed performance is shown, the subtitles are in Italian. (The piece is further complicated by the fact that the scene is the one from In the Mood for Love in which Cheung's character is herself rehearsing to accuse Leung's character of adultery.) But the pièce de résistance comes with the two-screen installation Life of Imitation, Wong's superb restaging of a single scene from Douglas Sirk's melodrama. Undoubtedly also influenced by Todd Haynes, Wong transposes Sirk's issue of race in America to Singapore, casting three male actors of the main national ethnicities (Chinese, Malay, Indian) as Sirk's mixed-race daughter and black mother in their teary farewell scene—recasting the roles with each cut within the scene. Two versions of this scene, shot on a bare-boned set, can be seen contemporaneously, with a well-placed palazzo mirror enabling viewers to switch their gaze between the two, so that this funhouse of shifting identity—both national and personal—resonates even more. Life of Imitation may sound highly distancing, but it's a subtle piece, one that's endlessly fascinating to watch. I can't imagine a clearer statement on the deconstruction of identity and the universality of cinema. Courtesy Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia Life of Imitation by Ming Wong at the Singapore Pavilion Photo Gallery: Garden Party June 7-November 22, 2009 Making Worlds experimental film \| exhibition review \| Venice Biennale \| Douglas Sirk \| Singapore cinema \| video artist \| colonialism \| Steve McQueen \| Ulla von Brandenburg \| Mark Lewis \| Ming Wong Mark Peranson is the publisher and editor of Cinema Scope. More articles by Mark Peranson Author's Website: Cinema Scope	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line293
__label__wiki	0.758846	0.758846	Mariah Carey Moves On With Back Up Dancer Bryan, After Breakup From Ex-fiance James Packer By Marnelle Joyce \| Dec 02, 2016 09:57 AM EST Mariah Carey and billionaire Jame Packer recently parted ways and the singer had to move on from their romance. The famous singer is allegedly having a romantic relationship with her back up dancer named Bryan Tanaka. The two were said to be spotted in Maui, Hawaii sharing romantic moments together according to US Weekly. When Carey finished her three performances in Honolulu, she and Tanaka were spotted taking pleasure at a resort in Maui's Grand Wailea. "They were all over each other, making out and not wanting to be more than a few feet apart," according to an eyewitness. "They went swimming in the ocean, and he picked her up to kiss her. She was hopping into his arms, and he twisted her back over his knee like they were dancing." The claimed couple strolled on the seashore holding hands and Tanaka provided her a piggyback ride. They enjoyed a lot playing in the beach side while laughing, a source added. Majority of people would not be surprised since there were speculations that the pop diva is almost on another relationship before she split up with Packer. It was the time when she is mending her love affair issues with her husband-to-be turned ex-fiance. According to news stories, Carey was emotionally linked to Tanaka following her separation with Packer in the last week of October. Regardless of the gossip, the insiders disclosed that their "close" connection was not as romantic. It's "typical Mariah only to twist things that don't sound decent to her. They separated considering that she has issues," a source close to the billionaire businessman previously told PEOPLE. "James is certainly an eccentric person but a brilliant, fine man." Fans of Mariah Carey could grab some of her CDs such as the "Merry Christmas," "Emotions," and "Daydream." Tags : Mariah Carey, Bryan Tanaka, James Packer, celebrity relationships, backup dancer, the famous singer, celebrity breakups Tyga Receives Legal Documents As His Memorable Birthday Gift Amber Heard Says, 'Domestic Violence Can Be Mental And Emotional' 'No Man's Sky' Foundation Update: Full Patch Note Is Already Released Prince Harry caught holding hands with another woman; Is he cheating Meghan Markle? Lady Gaga Talks Relationship after Her Split from Kinney; 'I Think Women Love Very Hard' Brad Pitt And Kate Hudson: 'They Make A Great Celebrity Couple!'	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line294
__label__wiki	0.813714	0.813714	Pokemon Stadium Preview Release Date - February 1999 Type - Simulation One of three "Pocket Monster" (short: Pokemon, pronounced "po-kay-mon") games in development for the N64, Pokemon Stadium is a unique, but rather strange addition to the growing franchise. Remember those turn-based battles in most of the popular role-playing games like Final Fantasy? Two (or more) creatures or humans square off against each other, enabling the player to input attack commands and watch the battle. Pokemon Stadium instantly reminds you of those RPGs -- minus the quest and storyline. Confused? You should be. The premise behind this type of game genre, popularized by Pokemon for the Game Boy and Monster Ranchers for the PlayStation, is not story or action. "Collection" and "training" are the key words. The game features 40 built-in creatures that you can build up and send into battle, similar to the many virtual pets incessantly beeping from children's pockets all across the nation. The good news: Pokemon Stadium's monsters don't need to be fed. The bad news: they aren't confined to the cart. The Japanese version of Pokemon Stadium is set to ship with an included 64GB Pak. This device plugs into your controller's memory card slot, similar to the Rumble Pak. If you happen to be the happy owner of one of the Game Boy Pokemon games, plug that Game Boy cart into the 64GB Pak, switch on Pokemon Stadium, and swap data between the two games. This way, you can bring the monsters you have discovered in the Game Boy Pokemon into the N64 game and view them in their 3D color glory. Firing up Pocket Monsters Stadium brings you to a menu screen sporting eight options: Computer (Pasokon): There are four boxes with 30 slots each on the Game Boy Pokemon cartridge, so you can save the details of 120 monsters. Since that's not nearly enough memory to store all your horde, this option allows you to transfer the info onto the cartridge itself. Transfer the monsters back and give them to your buddy. Picture Book (Zukan): Allows the creation of an electronic "photo album" of your collection, categorizing the monsters according to the 151 different species. You can then view them in all their animated 3D polygon glory. The Zukan mode also includes maps that show the exact locations and habitats of your monsters. Quick Look (Ichiran): For a rapid review of your collection, this option lists the monster name, type, number, techniques, and other stats. It also shows which items are stored in the computer (on the cart), so you can employ the "Use" tool to quickly select the monster you wish to put into combat. GB (Game Boy): This function enables you to play the Game Boy Pocket Monsters game via the N64 (using the machine's controllers) on your TV screen. Collection (Temochi): This is a database of all the monsters. Players can check out the attributes of their brood, as well as size up the opposition, and discover which attacks may be used against them in the upcoming battle. Registration (Touroku): Import your friends' monsters and fight them as many times as you want. Tournament (Stadium): Send your monsters into battle against computer-controlled monsters or your friends' creatures. When you prepare your monsters for combat, assign specific moves to the C-Buttons and then trigger the attacks and defenses during battle. The monsters then enter a ring and battle each other in smooth, polygonal 3D. As you can see, the general monster designs are traditionally Japanese-cute style. However, once these guys show off their fire, lightning or rock attacks, you gain new levels of appreciation (or fear) for your little monsters. So, what's the big deal with Pokemon Stadium? Well, since the monsters are still unknown outside of Japan, most Western gamers couldn't care less about the cutesy creatures. But it's important to remember that the Pokemon Game Boy series has become one of the best-selling videogames franchises in the history of console gaming. Pokemon merchandise flies off the shelves all across Japan at an alarming rate, including dolls, pens, glasses, erasers, bags, T-shirts, toys, jewelry and even full-fledges Pokemon costumes. Shudder. And don't think you're safe sitting at home in one of the few Pokemon-free countries left. They're coming. Nintendo is already finalizing its launch plans for the US release of the first Game Boy Pokemon game, and the N64 isn't too far off. However, it remains to be seen whether the charming little guys will be embraced in the West as they have in Japan. Judging from the craze the Pokemons generated at E3 (and the fact that Pokemon stickers are plastered all over the monitors of the IGN offices), it's safe to say that you will hear more about Nintendo's cute crew of creatures very soon.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line295
__label__cc	0.638375	0.361625	← A day away. Open all day. → Farewell, Albuquerque. Like the true moderate I am, I watch — watched (sob) — “Breaking Bad” from a perspective in the vast acreage between casual and obsessive. I went to college and have dabbled in criticism, so when I learned the final episode would be called “Felina,” I immediately thought of Marty Robbins’ “El Paso,” but didn’t consider that the title is an anagram for “finale.” (My appreciation for “El Paso” comes from pushing quarters into the jukebox at the Scioto Trails, a great roadhouse from my youth that long ago fell to the developer’s wrecking ball. MarkH, I’m sure you were there.) Anyway, if you know the song at all, you know it’s about the tragic fate of a jealous cowboy. And at this point, I guess we have to say SPOILER ALERT FOR THE FINAL EPISODE OF “BREAKING BAD.” If you don’t know what happened, why are you even reading this? Seriously. The lyrics of “El Paso” are as effective as a beat sheet (TV writer jargon; it’s an outline) for the final episode, which — all seem to agree — was as satisfying as it could be, without being entirely perfect. Cowboy music has a lot in common with bluegrass — a tragic story told in many, many verses. But let’s take it from the turning point: Just for a moment I stood there in silence, Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done. Many thoughts raced through my mind as I stood there; I had but one chance and that was to run. As we all know, Walt was on the run for the last two episodes, deep in not “the badlands of New Mexico,” but the very cold landscape of New Hampshire. Brooding. Broken. Ready to give up. Until, galvanized by the Charlie Rose ramblings of his former partner and girlfriend (now man and wife), he finds the strength to return to the scene of his many crimes and set things right. Back in El Paso my life would be worthless. Everything’s gone in life; nothing is left. It’s been so long since I’ve seen the young maiden My love is stronger than my fear of death. Walt’s young maiden is his guilt, or maybe it’s what remained of Heisenberg, meth king and rampaging angel. His love for his family is what it most certainly isn’t, and Vince Gilligan gets credit for the pivotal line of the episode, the final shred of self-delusion falling from Walt’s eyes: “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.” Remember, he made this decision when he was under a death sentence. And that feeling of being alive is cited often enough by people in criminal enterprises that “adrenaline junkie” doesn’t really cover it. In “Thelma & Louise,” not long before they hurtle toward the cliff OOPS SPOILER, Geena Davis says, “I feel awake.” That’s a powerful feeling. And at last here I am on the hill overlooking El Paso; I can see Rosa’s cantina below. My love is strong and it pushes me onward. Down off the hill to Felina I go. Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys; Off to my left ride a dozen or more. Shouting and shooting I can’t let them catch me. I have to make it to Rosa’s back door. To Rosa’s back door he made it, in the sense that he touched base with the Schwartzes, Skyler, Lydia and Todd before finally facing the music at the Nazis’ meth compound. This was the most implausible sequence, but it’s not like Walt invented the idea of using the trunk of a car as a shooting station. Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel a deep burning pain in my side. Though I am trying to stay in the saddle, I’m getting weary, unable to ride. And we all know the rest. Because recaps and criticism aren’t my strong suit, I’ll leave the rest to you. I would like to note one thing, however: For all his self-justification of doing this for the money, Walt was never all that driven by it. Granted, a man trying to hide criminal activity would be unwise to flash cash around town, but beyond the episode with the car(s), he didn’t even allow himself the little luxuries that wouldn’t have drawn attention — a kitchen remodel, a cashmere pullover. That’s why I loved the scene in the Schwartzes’ ridiculous mansion, with Walt gazing at the appointments and proportions like an archaeologist. One of my favorite episodes of the whole series was when Walt and Skyler go to a birthday party at their place, Skyler wearing what looks like a repurposed bridesmaid dress and all the other guests so effortlessly and expensively underdressed. One of the gifts is a guitar once owned, and signed, by Eric Clapton. Walt’s wounded seething was something to see. The whole series was something to see. RIP, and on to the next one. Of all the last-episode recaps out there, I recommend Hank’s and Matt Zoller Seitz’. So, back from New York, where much fun was had and many miles were walked. My feet feel like old bread dough in need of some serious kneading. More on that tomorrow. Posted at 11:42 am in Television \| 54 responses to “Farewell, Albuquerque.” James said on September 30, 2013 at 12:23 pm I went to the Scioto Trails as well, in my 20s. I remember that had one of those great old bowling machines where you either (now I forget) knocked down pins with a puck or a little wooden ball. I used to imagine my parents went there in their youth. LAMary said on September 30, 2013 at 1:05 pm We had one of those bowling machines in our basement. With four older brother we had the dream basement. A pool table, a bowling machine, a pinball machine and a wet bar. The coin slots still worked but you could bypass the coins. I think everyone of us bilked a friend once or twice telling them they had to pay to use the pool table or machines. Holly said on September 30, 2013 at 1:21 pm I guess I will be watching Breaking Bad in rerun if I am lucky. I will most likely get hooked on it then. I never seem to catch shows when they are on. I am always stuck watching the crap my hubby likes. Science programs, things on aliens, Ice Road Truckers, how things are made. This list goes on. Did not start watching Home Improvement until it was almost done with its run. Same thing with Everybody Loves Raymond. Started watching The Big Bang Theory about 6 months ago. Hopefully that wont go off the air. Aww. The Greeks just put their Tea-Trash franchise in Jail. http://wonkette.com/530111/leaders-of-greek-neo-fascist-party-arrested-may-be-sent-to-fema-camps#more-530111 It wasn’t the DC snipers that originated the importance of the car trunk. Q. Tarantino used the trunk-camera in at least four of his films that I can recall. I guess I was pretty-much in-tune with BB’s direction…my prediction on the last thread was close, really close to what happened. So, was “Breaking Bad” really a classic, a bust-out sensation ala “The Wire” and “The Sopranos”? Hell no. No way. I was constantly exasperated that this show was on commercial-based TV, where we only have a few moments for a crescendo to build and then back to the goddam Cialis ads. By this time I know…if I have an erection for longer than four hours…I KNOW already! Can we compare the performances of James Gandolfini and Clarke Peters to Bryan Cranston’s? I loved BB, but I also love Steven Buscemi in “Boardwalk Empire”, but compared to “The Wire” and “The Sopranos”, Breaking Bad has to stand at least third in line, and maybe behind “Treme” as well, even though “Treme” didn’t bust down any doors, for whatever reason. I never search out the TV rankings , but via scuttlebutt I hear that “Low Winter Sun” is taking a beating. I think it is a great show, I love the location shots in downtown Detroit, I think it is a throwback (a real stretch here!) to film noir…but I also hear that young adult viewers are trashing it and avoiding it. I fear for S2…if it ever happens, that is…is it doomed? I never studied acting, but wasn’t the pure drama , the hand-wringing, the yelling, the portrayed hatred all through every Breaking Bad episode a bit ‘over the top’? You’d think the actors OD’d on Konstantin Stanislavsky and Lee Strasberg. http://www.methodactingstrasberg.com/history http://www.gocomics.com/that-new-carl-smell/2013/09/30#.UknBwlPpwVA Truth revealed: It was Marie, not Gilligan. http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-bad-ends-with-reveal-that-whole-series-wa,34036/ There is an alternative interpretation of “Felina.” We really like the interpretation of the episode’s title as being made up of elements: FeLiNa, meaning iron, lithium and sodium on the periodic table, or blood, meth and tears according to one Twitter user’s translation. Read more: http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s166/breaking-bad/recaps/a519483/breaking-bad-series-finale-recap-blood-meth-and-tears-in-felina.html#ixzz2gP3fAITr Follow us: @digitalspy on Twitter \| digitalspyuk on Facebook Connie said on September 30, 2013 at 2:55 pm I have never watched Breaking Bad, but after today I sure know what happened. And that Marty Robbins song, never a favorite of mine; now I am singing it at my desk! I just returned from a visit to redneck country. I’m still shuddering. Dorothy said on September 30, 2013 at 3:43 pm Deborah at comment #58 over the weekend pretty much nailed the ending of the show. I shared her theories; I was convinced the ricin was for Walt so never imagined it was in the Stevia packet for Lydia. Brilliant! I cried through much of the scene with Skyler and the kids. I felt a little cheated that we didn’t see much of Jesse for the last few shows, but then again he was chained to the meth lab and was living in a hole in the ground, so there wasn’t much exposition available to his character. What little the writers gave him, he sure made the most of. No character was more tortured during the two year time span of the show than poor Jesse. I really dislike comparing actors/plots/series, trying to have one triumph over another. Can’t they all be on the same playing field, with differences enough to ensure that none are perfect? The richness of the performances are what carry me, and then the stories are a close second. Many times the best acting happens with no dialogue – if I’m mesmerized by the expression n someone’s eyes or on their face, I know I’m seeing brilliance. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn – they all rank up there with James Gandolfini and Edie Falco and so many others. I’m sorry to see Breaking Bad end, but it was oh so satisfying and I find no fault with any of it. My favorite episode? Other than the heart stopping Ozymandias – it was Crawl Space. Never saw “Breaking Bad,” but I have used the roof of my Subaru as a shooting station… and have a muzzle-blast-induced dent to prove it, you wouldn’t think a little 22 would do that. “Buying Alaska” is more our speed… Prospero said on September 30, 2013 at 4:20 pm Aside from crawling off to boff the skeevy MoFo Ted (and a spouse could not for whatever reason find a more insulting and hurtful POS to commit adultery with twice than Ted, Sky was a criminal long before Walter was. She cooked Ted’s books like an overdone haggis. And Marie was worse than Skyler because she hated her sister for being the pretty one so she stole baby tiaras. Uncle Hank may have been a crimebusting hero to his nephew Flynn, but he was a hubristic obsessive malcontent since nobody that wasn’t Gregory Peck going down with the White Whale. Like Oedipus, Jocasta and Laius. There is plenty of Sophocles here to go around. Overweening pride is man’s inevitable downfall. No offense intended Basset, but Breaking Bad was just like NYC, no reason to go there. Our delicate sensibilities might be offended. I was accepted at Vandy and chose Holy Cross instead because I was more impressed with the English Dept. facullty, and Nashvull seemed kinda boring. As far as BB is concerned, how much of Walter’s behavior rresulted directly from his giving up the Gray Matter dream for less than 40 pieces of silver and losing the woman he loved (no matter how rattus norvegicus the overbite) to his partner in Nerdstrom? I’d say a lot. I will say, as soon as I saw the Stevia packet, I knew Lydia was going to die of severe flu symptoms. Did anybody else feel a shiver with the continued motion of the assault rifle in Walt’s trunk echoing the irrepressible bounce bounce of jesse’s lowrider car out in the desert wasteland. I thought this was undeniable. And I said it when it happened. When Walt let Jane die, he sealed his fate. Subhuman. And I have loved that Marty Robbins song since I was an altar boy downtown in Memphis and Cocolas wer a nickle in on of those ice cold maze machines and I heard it on the sacristy radio, some Cubano Batistaite hiding out. Jane was a junkkie, but she was the best person of all of these. Doubt that’s a coincidence. Sweet Jane, aholes. Sorry, Ted? Remember when Walt diddled Sky under the table at the parent-teacher meeting? At least he was never a whiny wimp like Ted. Women do this thing on purpose where they cheat with the most ridiculous ahole they can think of. It’s Ur-mother instinct. Make it hurt. Jane was clearly the best person of all of the people on Breaking Bad. She loved Jesse, She was murdered by Walt. Pretty clear that Tara has to come out on top on SOA. I want her to strangle Jemma with her own bare hands the way Todd’s neck snapped (and you were sure as shit right about that Dex. He snapped his fucking neck. There may have been sorrier aholes in the genre, but Ted is a putz, a disgraceful POS. We interrupt the ongoing Breaking Bad kibitzing for the following digression: At the end of the last thread, Julie said this, regarding Fort Wayne South Side’s (“SS”) football team, and the unpleasant ending of their last game in Indianapolis: The vast majority of SS coaches and players did nothing, but unfortunately this incident will be one reason Homestead and Carroll do not join the conference. I just wanted to express my sincerest hope that this proves incorrect, even as I suspect Julie may be absolutely right. Those long-distance treks for a Friday night football game are tiresome for everyone to begin with, and may well even be a factor in the poor behavior of some of the (Indy) coaches. I confess that I will become a fairly relentless anti-Homestead anti-Carroll partisan (more-so than I may already be!) if this comes to pass. We now return you to the ongoing discussion of the end of Breaking Bad (and indeed, I was expecting the Cadillac to explode. The machine gun in the trunk struck me as extra-cheesey, and exponentially more likely to be flatly ineffective, than to be as stunningly spot-on as it ultimately was) Julie Robinson said on September 30, 2013 at 5:00 pm Different Julie, BTW. I suspect no one will be happy with the outcome from that fight. Hah! If I’d have noticed it wasn’t the Julie, I might have been been lots less temperate! Off topic: I had an eye exam last Thursday and I’m a member of the early stages of cataract club. On a better note, I picked out cool new frames. Dave said on September 30, 2013 at 5:35 pm I’ve seen exactly one episode of Breaking Bad, it was the second episode, my son had started watching it. I was afraid that it was too morbid for my tastes, perhaps not. I’ve never seen the other favorites frequently talked about here, such as The Wire, Deadwood, actually anything on HBO or Showtime, which we’ve never subscribed to. I did, however, watch most of Burn Notice, until it just started dragging on, and I’ve missed most of the last two seasons. I know that it’s come to an end but haven’t worked up the interest to learn how. One network show that I’ve watched, even though I find a lot of the plots completely unbelieveable, is The Mentalist where, this season, they’re finally going to reveal who the ruthless murderer, Red John, is. Yes, it’s true, I watch TV from the cheap seats. BTW, Nancy, where was Scioto Trails? Was that somewhere on the north side, it sounds like it should have been right on Route 23 but I recall no such place. Just wondering. I would have added this but, alas, no edit button. I’m glad to be able to say that things seem to be working well now, thank you, JC. No offense intended Pros, but give it a rest. This everyone’s-an-idiot-but-me trip got old a long while back. BOb (not Greene) said on September 30, 2013 at 6:01 pm ^^^^^^^This Crabby said on September 30, 2013 at 6:50 pm Dave@20 Scioto Trails was on Riverside Dr/Rt 33 near McCoy & Lane Rd (not Lane Ave) at the then north end of UA. Pretty much out in the woods, not much around it at the time – a real dive. I think I stopped in there a handful of times in the ’70s. MarkH said on September 30, 2013 at 6:51 pm Wow, Nance. Of all of us here at nn.c I’m flattered that you chose me as a most likely visitor to Scioto Trails. Truth be told, it is only a possible distant recollection for me as I don’t recall ever going there. Your endorsement (and subsequently James’, which of course would lead to JC’s) indicates I have missed a lot. So, answering Dave’s question, I googled Scioto Trails and the only thing resembling a hit puts it in Jackson, OH. This would make sense as it is just a ways down the road from Athens and perhaps Nancy & co. wanted a hangout way off campus to cut loose. Four of my best high school buddies and an ex-girlfriend went to OU and I visited only a handful of times, never reaching Jackson. Am I correct or is it outside Columbus somewhere? If it is near Columbus, then I was REALLY out of touch! My post #24 crossed with Crabby’s. Now I know how really unhip I was while in Central Ohio! ALSO – since I know know where Scioto Trails was, that gives me a time frame for many heretofore untold roadhouse adventures of Nancy and our mutual friend, Becky! MY TV habits are like Dave’s. Junk like the Mentalist, none of the shows you all tend to talk about. Partly because I don’t have HBO. Soon I will turn on the box to watch Dancing With the Stars. I’ll admit it. We went out for our anniversary dinner tonight. The two women in the next booth – we couldn’t see them but we sure could hear them – spent the time talking about the ghosts they have seen, the spirits by which they have been visited, and the mediums they have visited. It was too weird for me. Deborah said on September 30, 2013 at 7:29 pm Mark H, do tell the heretofore untold roadhouse adventures of Nancy and friends. Our friend is here to help us do the final hook up of the bathroom sink. We have most everything else done and I can’t tell you how great it felt to take a real shower this morning. I’m now looking forward to brushing my teeth at the bathroom sink hopefully tonight. Our bathroom is so tiny there can’t be many people in there at one time so our friend is in there now sawing away on the PVC drain hole (or whatever it’s called). Here’s hoping we don’t have to make an emergency call to a real plumber. Fingers crossed. Connie – Pam and I are “The Voice” people; and we almost never watch any of the talked about shows, either. Happy anniversary Connie, mine was a week ago but since I’m in Santa Fe and my husband is working in Chicago (well actually right now he’s in Southern California for a project) we’ll celebrate later. He’ll be in SF in a couple of weeks, then we both go back to Chicago until Thanksgiving. Little Bird will be happy that we’re taking our cat back to Chicago, she’s been in Santa Fe since mid May. She’s a sweet cat most of the time but she can get crotchety, since she’s 16 years old. She hasn’t been happy about the clanging and banging around that this renovation project has brought about. She gets freaked out when we rearrange the furniture, so this is threatening to send her over the edge. alex said on September 30, 2013 at 8:21 pm Count me as someone who doesn’t have premium channels either. Or time to watch the cheap ones. I’m lucky if I can fit 60 Minutes into my week, and though it used to be a Sunday ritual, I just record it now and catch it if I can. Desperate Housewives was the only other show in recent years that captured my fancy enough to be be bothered with it. I recently sat through the premiere of Robin Williams’ new ad agency sitcom with Calista Flockhart and it struck me as the same sort of treacly Mrs. Doubtfire crap he used to do in Hollywood. Mork & Mindy: The Septuagenerian Years might have been a better boob tube comeback concept than this schlock. I also watched the Robin Williams and probably won’t again. And it was Sarah Michelle Gellar, for what it’s worth. Well, even if you are not a Formula One race fan, I’m thinking Ron Howard’s new movie “Rush”, more or less about James Hunt, ought to be good. Check out this marvelous article from BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/22887679 “I trained like mad,” says Hunt’s great rival and friend Jody Scheckter, the 1979 world champion . “I didn’t have sex for three days before a race. I don’t know how you’d be more professional than that. I had parties, just not when I was racing. Niki Lauda didn’t do anything, at least that he talked about or that we saw. Hunt was indeed an arch roisterer, a man who claimed to have slept with 5,000 women, who caroused with the great and the good, who hoovered up cocaine in far-flung nightclubs. Who had an awful lot of fun, or at least seemed like he did. And the 1976 Formula 1 season was indeed a transitional one, with Hunt representing the last flowering of corinthianism and the rational, ultra efficient Lauda providing a glimpse of the sport in its modern form. “corinthianism”? I suppose that made sense to some large portion of the BBC’s readers, eh? Anyway, I look forward to catching Opie’s new movie Sherri said on September 30, 2013 at 9:08 pm From my reading of Georgette Heyer’s Regency books, I think a Corinthian is someone who lives luxuriously or even in a debauched manner. I’m still pondering the “arch roisterer” thing, wherein he claims “to have slept with 5,000 women”…. I suppose the KEY is, that it was the “roisterer” his-own-self who made the claim….but Good Heavens! Considering that there are 365 days in a year, and assuming that the count doesn’t begin until – what? – 16 years of age? and that he’s dead by 45…. that leaves 29 years (or 10,500 days) to meet and seduce 5,000 individuals??!! Good God!! One would need to take a vacation, no? (On the other hand, if one was at a big enough orgy, I suppose one might ‘run up the score’ on one particular night, but still!!) I’m pretty sure my grand total number of encounters cannot even be half that number, and the total number of people is in the low single digits. And I’ve already been alive for 7 years (2500+ days!) longer than Hunt Far north end of Upper Arlington, should have been able to guess, that was far out of my track. Now, if anyone has ever been to the Pour House, in Reynoldsburg, which was primarily a beer bar, where the 3.2% beer was served up by the barrel in the late sixties and very early seventies, when the age for 3.2 was 18, then we can talk. Today, there’s a bank setting where the Pour House was. I have never seen a ghost, Connie, but a relative of a relative told us a ghost story recently, where she saw her dead husband’s face in a glass and her daughter’s boyfriend saw him sitting on a sofa, where he used to sit and watch TV. Then, we have our family ghost picture, where it looks like someone is peeking around my nephew’s side, three days after my father passed away. I have been looking forward to Rush as well, Brian. Howard reportedly put it together with care as he became an F1 fan years ago. Some in the motor racing press, especially the very opinionated facebook vintage racing pages, have reviled and nit-picked it to death. But the important thing is it’s one good story about a transitional year and a genuine rivalry that was not as dramatic as depicted in the film. Just two completely different men with completely different approaches to competition in general and F1 in particular. Dramatic license was taken, yes and some facts fudged, but Lauda collaborated and approved. http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130919/carnews01/130919988 This paragraph from the above sums it pretty well: “…Hunt, for whom the term “playboy” has not been overused, perhaps knew he was getting his 15 minutes of fame and wanted to use every second of it. The exacting Lauda, meanwhile, planned every corner of his rise to racing success. Hunt says that people find the ever-present specter of death in racing sexy: “The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.” Lauda doesn’t like anything at all about death, especially after his accident brought him so close to it, and instead calculates that he has “a 20 percent chance of dying every time” he races but that such a number is “acceptable.” Hunt spends every free moment knee-deep in a dalliance. Lauda spends it elbow-deep in the chassis, re-engineering his car. The character contrasts are as intriguing as the overblown rivalry….” Here is a documentary from 1996 on the ’76 season focusing on Hunt/Lauda, a little less sensational. http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130411/f1/130419971 Hunt’s biography, released about ten years ago, goes into much detail and supports all the outlandish claims of a sex, drugs, rock&roll life. Early on in their careers, Hunt and Lauda were roommates and Lauda had always considered Hunt “an honet-to-God pal”. Their lifestyles may have played a part in their accomplishments and longevity: Hunt, no longer competitive, retired half way throgh the ’79 season, and died of a heart attack in 1993 at age 45. Lauda not only came back from the horrific German Grand Prix fiery accident in three weeks to compete again, he won the championship for a second time in 1977. Then, he walked away from the sport just prior to the Japanese Grand Prix in ’79, only to UN-retire in 1982, with the championship again in ’84 and finally leave the sport for good in ’85. For most of us, Rush will be all about the racing and how it is depicted, regardless of how the Hunt/Lauda ’76 season story is told. Actually, it was SIX weeks between Lauda’s accident and his return at the Itaian Grand Prix, as the excellent article Brian linked to stated. Still, Lauda came from last rites in Germany to finish FOURTH in Italy! Hunt was a piker compared to Wilt Chamberlain, Brian. He claimed to have had sex with 20,000 women. Of course, I’m not sure how long the relevant time period was, so Hunt may, indeed, have had the higher rate. I’m pretty sure, though, that interactions carried out at this pace don’t qualify for the label of seduction. And Lauda started an airline, Lauda Air, after leaving F1 racing… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air I rarely go to a movie, Rush looks interesting though and Mrs. B and I will probably go see it this week sometime. Hunt was indeed notoriously attractive to women, but Mrs. B. says neither he nor the actor playing him does anything for her… any perspective on that from the ladies of nn.c? Deborah said on September 30, 2013 at 10:29 pm Speaking of Opie and Breaking Bad in the same comment thread, I thought it was funny that Todd was often referred to as Opie. It was so true and such a juxtaposition. We have a half operating bathroom sink. The line to hook up to the hot water valve was not long enough so I have to go back to the plumbing supply place tomorrow morning and get an extension. There seem to be no leaks anywhere. I can still brush my teeth in the bathroom, I just have to use only cold water. The tiny room looks like a boutique hotel bathroom now. Almost done. alex said on September 30, 2013 at 10:32 pm Wasn’t it Wilt Chamberlain who referred to women as “spinners”? He’d made it sound as if they existed for no other purpose than to be impaled and slapped around. Little Bird said on September 30, 2013 at 10:36 pm For what it’s worth, I’m allergic to the cat. I’m not a cat hater. She also YOWLS every few hours each night demanding food. Starting at about midnight. I love my furry little sister, I do, but I look forward to only waking up due to my insomnia. basset said on September 30, 2013 at 10:47 pm Meanwhile, a Breaking Bad reference: http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/09/30/breaking-bad-ending-song-badfingers-baby-blue-climbing-itunes-chart Julie Robinson said on September 30, 2013 at 10:51 pm Corinthian would originally refer to Bible times, when St. Paul had to excoriate the church there for rampant debauchery, along with many other problems. And I’m with Mrs. B. Connie said on September 30, 2013 at 11:15 pm Sorry Dave, still don’t believe in ghosts or any other kind of mythical being. Call me a skeptic. I’m off to bed with a heavy heart. My country is run by idiots. Hattie said on September 30, 2013 at 11:53 pm I feel more alive than I want to be, sometimes, so I’d rather stay out of trouble. Kaye said on October 1, 2013 at 12:24 am My eyes saw “Corinthianism” but my brain read/heard “rich Corinthian leather”. MarkH said on October 1, 2013 at 2:11 am Deborah – Any roadhouse adventure stories will have to come from Nancy, as I don’t know any specifics. All I did was deduce a timeframe put together with certain individuals I knew about 35 years ago. Although…around that time, there was a memorable wedding, reception and aftermath at the Southern Hotel bar, of all places, with Becky, Nance and me. Not sure she remembers that, ’cause I barely do. Prospero said on October 1, 2013 at 7:22 am One hellacious football player. Did he die dithering and sundowning? God knows, I don’t. Sherman Alexie is a very good writer, and I pretty much agree with him on the subject of ebooks. I have books piled up everywhere. And I love them. Particularly my first edition of The American Language, by the legendary, dare I say iconic, HL Mencken. Maybe the greatest book ever written. And American English is clearly the greatest language ever. Ginormous vocab and endlessly arguable grammar. I suppose that opinion sounds like I think I’m smarter than everyone, but believe me, that thought never crossed my mind. And I never met Basset, much less pissed in his Lucky Charms. Can I just mention Mathematics. I dislike anything but geometry with a bloody passion, but bringing up the ease with which one can finesse the SAT and GRE math components, by simply working the problems in reverse, as proving, I somehow made an enemy of Basset. Here’s to the math-phobic, of whom I am one. MarkH@50: Sounds like a Lowell George song. I’d like to express an opinion aobut opinions. The absolutely stupidest thing any human being ever said is “That’s just your opinion” No shit, asshole, that’s why it came out of my mouth. Anyone that lacks courage in her own opinions is pretty much a nebbish, somebody to be ignored. What is gained by entertaining an opinion different from my own? Rarely anything. I Basset thinks that means I believe I’m smarter than everybody else, I’ll grant him that asinine assumption. I have never treated anybody that way, and probably won’t, from here on out. Far as that goes. And Kaye@49: That is way hilarious. I prefer the homelier Montalban on Crossing Jordan and Covert Affairs. Particularly Crossing Jordan, and why wasn’t Jill Cassidy cast in Continuum? Most gorgeous woman in network series TeeVee in a long time. And for a long time, so long. One more thing: Anybody that thinks PEDs had an effect on baseball, that is still talking about the clear and the cream is a fucking moron. Injectable, maybe, lotions and drinks, washed out fast. Not even close. Barry Bonds is the best baallplayer not named Vlad Guerrero to this day. And now, I am out of here probably forever. Basset said on October 1, 2013 at 10:54 am And earlier in the day than usual, too. 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__label__cc	0.62197	0.37803	Elevation gain: 2577 ft Maximum elevation: 7600 ft Difficulty: Very strenuous Start: Summit Station Trailhead Activities: Hike, trail run Most of the hikes described on this site are for the casual day hiker looking for a nice walk in the area. Every once in a while I get a request from a high level trail runner or hiker for “something a little harder” This trail is my answer to those high level athletes. The trail is in the spirit of other rim trails such as the Donner Lake Rim Trail and does a circumnavigation around Serene Lakes. The trail is actually a combination of existing ski trails and single track that make a complete circuit around the lakes. This trail is not really for mountain bikers due to steep rocky sections and trail restrictions implemented by the Truckee Donner Land Trust. Since this trail is a large loop it can be started pretty much anywhere and done in either direction. For this description we will start at the Summit Station trailhead and do it in a counter clockwise direction. Once you leave the trailhead you head south along the Big Ben ski trail. This is a nice flat trail through newly thinned forest. When you reach the open area where the old rope tow tower still stands, head up the open slope where you run into the Castle Pass ski trail. It gets a little steeper as you climb up towards Palisade Peak. Turn left to follow the Castle pass trail which is pretty flat as in runs along the east side of Palisade Peak. Continue straight south on the Castle Pass trail past where it intersects with the Half Hitch ski trail (WARNING MOUNTAIN BIKERS – the trail over Castle Pass and out to Mariah Pt from this point has been restricted to hiking only by the Truckee Donner Land Trust). You are entering US Forest Service land at this point. Continue up the trail which will take you over Castle Pass and into the Palisade Creek watershed. The trail plunges down for about 1/4 mile. Bear left on the trail until you come to a T and turn left onto the Hellman’s Way ski trail. The trail continues falling for the next 1/4 mile until you reach a beautiful alpine meadow where wildflowers abound in mid summer. The trail continues south across the meadow and then climbs steadily up the ridge for the next 1/4 mile. Continue south past the intersection with the Sterling canyon trail and up a couple of steep hills to the top of the ridge. Continue along the ridge until you pass the Hellman’s Warming hut. Follow the trail to the left that sweeps around into the Sterling Canyon ski trail (the trail to the right goes another mile out to Mariah Pt). Follow the Sterling Canyon trail for the next mile and half as it runs along the Serena Creek gorge. The trail goes past the leg burning Sunnyside hill trail and continues north to the bridge across Serena Creek and up to Soda Springs Rd. Continue south on the road for about 50 yards and then enter the Silverado Ski trail on the left. (This next bit is all up hill and will be alot of bike pushing for all but the strongest riders. I would suggest heading up Soda Springs Rd and taking the Tiny Tim trail to Bogus Basin and taking Bogus Basin to Forest Service ridge as a viable alternative) Follow the trail as it climbs steeply up to Tiny Tim Meadow where it meets up with the Bogus Basin ski trail. Turn right onto the Bogus Basin trail which again climbs steeply up towards Razorback Ridge. When you get to the top of the climb turn right off the Bogus Basin trail and on to the meandering single track trail that goes up to Rowton Peak. Follow the single track along the rocky ridge until it reaches Rowton Peak. Head east along the trail that goes along the top of the undulating Razorback Ridge. Continue along the ridgeline for about a mile and a quarter to the entrance of a trail to the north between two huge Western White Pines. Follow the trail as it heads back down into the forest. Continue for about half a mile. It gets a little tricky here because you cross the Claim Jumper-Nose Dive ski trail before you pick up the Forest Service Ridge trail. Go past the Claim Jumper trail and continue west until you hit the intersection with the Forest Service Ridge trail (not marked). Turn left and head northeast on the trail that sweeps around to the west as it heads along Forest Service ridge. Continue on this trail as it dips and then climbs up the ridge. Head west along the ridge. At the west end of the ridge the trail gets very loose and BE CAREFUL on the steep treacherous downhill off of the ridge. At the bottom of the ridge trail turn right onto the Switchback ski trail and follow it for a couple of hundred yards. Bear left on the trail until you reach Soda Springs Rd. Head across the road and follow the Interconnect ski trail along the north side of the Serene Lakes community. Just before you hit the parking lot for the Royal Gorge Summit Station turn right onto the Thor ski trail and start climbing up towards Beacon Hill. (This is not recommended for mountain bikers as the trail is very steep and the Beacon Hill ridge is very rocky). Follow the trail as it heads to the right up to the top of Beacon Hill. Turn left and follow the trail along the rocky ridge for about half a mile. Look for a faint downhill trail to the left and follow it down through the forest to the meadow at Royal Gorge ski resort. Continue through the meadow back to the Summit Station trailhead. and congratulation for completing the most difficult trail in the area. Download: KML file — PDF file Elevation Profile – roundtrip	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line301
__label__wiki	0.677656	0.677656	Arrow-Verse from Comic Con: Casting and Trailers for ‘Arrow’, ‘Flash’ and ‘Legends’ 07-23-17 • TV Posted by Adam A. Donaldson As Comic Con winds down, we can’t forget our favourite TV superhero universe. We’ve already covered what you can expect from Supergirl season 3, but what about the rest of your Arrow-verse? Well, here’s the scoop on all of them as revealed yesterday at San Diego Comic Con. Let’s start with the more recent of the three series. Legends of Tomorrow, which ended season two with dinosaurs in L.A. So where do you go after that? The circus, of course. In the Legends’ third year, Deadline announced that Damien Dahrk himself, Neal McDonough, will be appearing as a full-time member of the cast, and that Arthur Darvill and Wentworth Miller will be returning to the show on a part-time basis as Rip Hunter and Captain Cold, respectively. Legends of Tomorrow returns Tuesday October 10. In the season three finale of The Flash, Barry had to depart to join the speed force for his myriad of speedster-based sins, but when he returns this fall, there will be a bunch of new faces in Central City according to Deadline. Neil Sandilands will play the season’s big bad, Clifford Devoe, AKA: the Thinker, as the Fastest Man Alive will be pitted against the Fast Brain Alive. Brain over brawn? You will have to watch Flash season four to find out who wins. Sandilands will be joined by Kim Engelbrecht as the Mechanic, who will be the Thinker’s right hand woman, an engineer that creates the tech used in many of his capers. The immortal Danny Trejo, meanwhile, will appear as Breacher, a bounty hunter from Earth-19 coming to Earth Prime to stop any further breaches of the multiverse with extreme severity. The Flash premieres on Tuesday October 10 at 8 pm. Lastly, the one that started it all, Arrow. When we last left the adventures of the Emerald Archer, he and all his pals were back on Lian Yu for the final showdown against Prometheus when the whole damn island blew up. Now obviously some people will survive, and there’s a spoiler-y reveal in the trailer below, but indeed Arrow, and Oliver Queen, will carry on in season six, and there will be some new faces… First up, nerd icon Michael Emerson (Ben Linus from Lost and Mr. Finch from Person of Interest) will have a recurring role next season, although it was not revealed to Deadline what that role might be. Emerson will be joined by David Nykl, who will return at some point as Oliver’s Russian mob frenemie Anatoly Knyazev. As previously revealed, Rick Gonzalez as Rene Martinez/Wild Dog, and Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake/the new Black Canary have been upgraded to full-time status next year, and Katie Cassidy will be with the show again full-time as Laurel’s Earth 2 doppelgänger, the Black Siren. Arrow can be seen in its new home on Thursdays at 9 pm starting Ocobter 12. Tags: Arrow, Arrowverse, DC's Legends Of Tomorrow, SDCC17, the flash	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line303
__label__cc	0.740462	0.259538	Home » Trojan girls win final home track meet Trojan girls win final home track meet Published by editor on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:39am Trojan Avery Hennen, right, competes at the Wednesday, May 22, home track and field meet with teammate Lauren Kuehl, left. (Patrick Fisher Photo) After a one-day postponement, the New Prague Trojan girls track and field team hosted its Last Chance invitational Wednesday, May 22. The meet served as a last chance for JV athletes to compete and for varsity athletes to get in one more competition before the Section 2AA Tournament. That tournament was scheduled to begin Wednesday, May 29, at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, with finals set for Friday, May 31. New Prague won the Last Chance meet with 180.67 points. Waseca was second at 120.83, followed by Kasson- Mantorville (32.5) and Waconia (30). “It was a superb effort by the team,” Coach Johnny Josephson said. He said the team won by 60 points over a highly talented Waseca team that placed third at the State Class AA True Team meet. The Trojans earned 44 personal or season best scores, along with 36 placings, and Janae Becher moves up to No. 2 on the Trojan Top Ten list in winning the discus. New Prague had 11 firstplace finishes. They included..... To see more on this story pick up the May 30, 2019 print edition of The New Prague Times.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line308
__label__wiki	0.9945	0.9945	Last Updated: Wednesday, 2 July, 2003, 15:57 GMT 16:57 UK Accountant guilty of footballer theft Anders Limpar felt he had no choice but to pay the tax bill twice An accountant has been found guilty of stealing nearly £90,000 which a former Arsenal player had given him to pay off the taxman. Marc Geppert, 46, was acting for former Arsenal, Everton and Sweden star, Anders Limpar, when he transferred much of his client's money into a string of overdrawn bank accounts. By the time Mr Limpar realised what had happened, the money had all been spent, London's Southwark Crown Court was told. Geppert, of George Lane, South Woodford, Essex, was convicted on Wednesday of one count of theft. George Graham's dealings were investigated Adjourning the case for three weeks for pre-sentence reports, Recorder David Fisher QC warned the accountant that although he could remain on bail until then "all sentencing options remain open". Shani Barnes, prosecuting, told the eight-day trial that Mr Limpar had received a £180,000 "signing on fee" when he left Italian side Cremonese for Arsenal in the summer of 1990. She said: "He kept the money originally in Switzerland and then offshore hoping, believing, that money would never get into the hands of the Inland Revenue in the UK. "However, it transpired that wherever he put it, the taxman wanted his share of it." The outstanding bill was discovered during an Inland Revenue investigation into the affairs of then Arsenal manager George Graham and a number of the club's players. A series of negotiations followed with the Inland Revenue eventually agreeing the footballer should pay a total of £77,000. Footballer faced bankruptcy But Geppert told Mr Limpar he owed just under £90,000, leaving the player to sell stocks and shares to raise the money. It was then paid into one of Geppert's bank accounts before being transferred to other overdrawn accounts. More than a year then passed before Mr Limpar learned his tax bill was still outstanding. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, the player felt he had no choice but to write another cheque. When confronted by police, Geppert denied any wrongdoing and claimed Mr Limpar had not only "deceived" him, but lied to the taxman as well. He claimed the £89,995 the player paid him represented nothing more than his fees for handling his affairs. BBC Essex Sport, travel, weather, things to do, features and much more BBC London Accountant 'stole' from football star 23 Jun 03 \| Essex Court Service TOP ESSEX STORIES British woman killed in Hong Kong Concern for missing 14-year-old UK soldier killed in blast named	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line310
__label__wiki	0.896202	0.896202	Last Updated: Monday, 7 March 2005, 12:34 GMT Looking at a future minus 11-plus As Northern Ireland prepares for its final 11-plus exam in 2008, BBC NI's Education Correspondent Maggie Taggart examines a new method for assessing children. Pupil profiling is being piloted in Northern Ireland. However, some parents' organisations are now pushing for that to be an 11-plus substitute, with schools able to use profiling for academic selection. Education Minister Barry Gardiner has firmly rejected that idea. The last 11-plus transfer test will be in 2008 But what exactly is the pupil profile and could it, as one union has warned, be more time-consuming bureaucracy for teachers? Primary seven pupils at Braniel Primary School in Belfast have done the 11-plus. At the same time, they were part of a pilot scheme, trying out versions of the new pupil profiles. Their school is one of 14 which have been test driving and fine tuning the process. Teacher Frazer Bailie is leading the pilot in his school. He said the 11-plus free curriculum offered greater flexibility in what was taught. Mr Bailie said he believed parents, armed with years of pupil profile information, would be able to choose the best school for their children. "I think our role as schools is to try to give parents honest feedback so that they can think and say: 'Which school is going to suit my child the best at the moment?' "I think we have to be more optimistic about a parent's ability to make the right decision for their children. Barry Gardiner ruled out using the pupil profile for academic selection. "If you look internationally, in Germany, it does seem to work very well that parents, in consultation with the school, do tend to make the right decisions." But some teachers' unions are concerned at an extra addition to the workload, although they agree with the idea of profiling. Lorraine Stronge, president of the NAS/UWT in Northern Ireland, warned about additional burdens for teachers. "As a principle, because this is what we do all of the time, it is not a major problem," she said. "However, if you are not going to get the time within the day to complete that pupil profile, then there is a major problem." She said it was important that teachers had the time to complete this exercise, including time for cover, if required, when they were meeting parents or filling in pupil profiles. The whole emphasis is that we are trying to look at intelligence in a wider forum Fraser Bailie Braniel Primary School At Braniel, it has meant work for teachers but CCEA, the exams council, is trying to ease the burden. "To be fair to CCEA, they are trying to make it more teacher friendly," Mr Bailie said. "I know that in the three years that we have been involved in the pilot, each year, it has become easier and easier." The pro-grammar schools parents group, Concerned Parents for Education, has called for the pupil profile to be used for academic selection. At the NAS/UWT conference over the weekend, the education minister firmly ruled that out. Mr Bailie said profiling was not a precise enough tool for that job. "The whole emphasis is that we are trying to look at intelligence in a wider forum and see ability as something much wider than we have thought of in the past and that the transfer procedure measured. From 2008, primary school children will have their own profiles which will follow them through their whole school careers. Find out how schools are run and funded in Northern Ireland Post 11-plus test options listed 28 Jan 05 \| Northern Ireland Minister rejects 11-plus claims 28 Aug 04 \| Northern Ireland 11-plus 'must be scrapped' 24 May 04 \| Northern Ireland Public 'ignored over 11-plus' Pupils receive 11-plus results 07 Feb 04 \| Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment TOP NORTHERN IRELAND STORIES Two in court over Twelfth riots Major arrests promised over riots Riot tactics defended by police	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line311
__label__wiki	0.70406	0.70406	Student government at NGU Emily Artus, Staff Writer On Wednesday, April 13, North Greenville University students chose next semester’s representatives for the Student Government Association. Of the three class elections, two were uncontested, and Jon Ross Fordree, a rising sophomore, and Emily Williams, a rising junior, were elected by default. In the only contested election, rising senior Israel Reeves won the presidency against Renauld Davis. As this semester comes to an end, the three president-elects share their goals and plans for next fall. Jon Ross Fordree will be the sophomore class president next semester. Photo courtesy of Emily Artus. Fordree, a Christian studies major, will lead the sophomore class as president, aided by his vice president, Matthew Shumate. “What I really want to do is listen to the students of my class and try to get that up to administration,” said Fordree. Though this will be his first year with the SGA, Fordree has already begun brainstorming ideas to benefit his classmates. “I’ve brought up that a nacho bar would be awesome [at the Caf],” said Fordree. “Nachos are cheap, cheese is cheap and that’s something they could constantly have up there.” In addition to his culinary goals, Fordree said he hopes to voice student issues to the administration, and he is ready to face whatever obstacles lie ahead. “I hope I’m challenged,” said Fordree. “Anything in life worth doing is challenging.” Emily Williams will lead the junior class as president next fall. Photo courtesy of Emily Williams. Williams, a interdisciplinary major, will head the juniors as president along with her vice president, Garner Brooks. Williams hopes her experience in student government will help her meet and encourage more people. “I want to meet new people, plan events for people to meet people, make changes for the better,” said Williams. “I know that student government is a door the Lord has opened for me to more effectively do that.” As the junior class president, Williams said she will give her time to the class she represents. “I can do these things [the goals for her presidency] by surrounding myself with people,” said Williams. “Investing in NGU students and actively listening to the concerns of them.” Israel Reeves will head the seniors as class president next school year. Photo courtesy of Emily Artus. Reeves, an accounting major, will lead as senior class president and will be assisted by his vice president, Olivia Lee. As the representative of the senior class, Reeves said he hopes his go-getter personality will help make changes to benefit student life. “I’d like to have a voice to the people in charge,” said Reeves. “And I’d love to give the students a better opportunity to have their voice heard.” Voicing student affairs to the administration is one of Reeves’ main platforms, and he hopes to give students a chance to make their voices heard themselves. “I’d love to start meetings where students could bring their ideas of changes they’d like to make,” said Reeves. “Changes that would be good for the student body and make students more comfortable.” Freshman representatives will be elected this fall. Virtual reality systems: the future ... NGU students make an impact through ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line321
__label__cc	0.6249	0.3751	Non-compliant B&B owners get extension Since the last committee of the whole meeting, the number of non-compliant bed and breakfast owners dropped to 14 from 56. (Dariya Baiguzhiyeva/Niagara Now) Mar 15, 2019 \| Friday Niagara-on-the-Lake council voted to give one last chance to non-compliant bed and breakfast owners before revoking their licences. At the council meeting Monday night, Coun. Allan Bisback said he supports revoking licences but asked town staff to give the owners one final contact. Short-term rental operators are supposed to pay licence fees and renew insurance certificates by Dec. 31. Last week, the town’s committee of the whole voted to revoke 56 bed and breakfast licences for failing to do so. The number dropped significantly, down to a total of 14 owners, after town staff made contact with the owners over the past week. Nine of them have an expired certificate of insurance and five haven’t paid licence fees. “This would be a record year of licences we will revoke,” said Bisback. “That’s very high. So when I see that, that suggests there’s a process issue going on, something’s wrong.” He suggested giving bed and breakfast owners 30 more days to comply. Coun. Erwin Wiens spoke against the extension, arguing the rules need to be followed. “If it’s not important enough for them to follow through and do what they’re supposed to do to get the stuff done, then why is it our problem to start sending them letters and emails and begging them to do this?” he said. “I’m getting emotional here but I’m getting tired of it.” Council voted to contact the owners and give them 30 days before revoking their licences.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line322
__label__wiki	0.720467	0.720467	WALLPAPERS SHINTARO KAGO Even Kago himself is unsure. Thanks to the specially prepared site, you will now be able to listen to the songs online via the site instead of downloading all your work with a click or downloading it very conveniently. Page Tools Insert links Insert links to other pages or uploaded files. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Name: Mogor He designed the album’s cover artwork and provided illustrations for each of the album’s songs, which are featured on the inner sleeves of the vinyl album. Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s new book. Retrieved December 8, Amazon Renewed Refurbished products with a warranty. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Is Japan becoming more violent and dangerous? He’s even gone on to say that a majority of his works are inspired by the magazines that take the chance to publish his works, and he tailors his style and his ideas to the genre of that particular magazine — most of them being underground, adult, and occasionally pornographic revues. If you want to help us continue and improve our ever- expanding database, we would appreciate your donation through Paypal. BULANDSHAHR KE WALLPAPER With a single click, it is even easier to find even the oldest songs, not just new ones, and to archive or create playlists just the way you like. I’d like to read this book on Kindle Don’t have a Kindle? Urotsukidoji – Legend of the Overfiend. Shintaro Kago The Yakuza Gets Sued. Such a normal, unassuming kavo. Now you can live with the shintaor that we have suggested you to download mp3 and find great songs for your car and you can make your album with mobile mp3 download very comfortably. Many of his short manga comics are experimental and bizarre to downright gross, and he frequently breaks the fourth wall with his drawings, having his characters talk directly to the audience. He frequently breaks the fourth walland he likes to play with the page layout in extreme ways, kagp for comedic effect. The Desparate Sadness of a Cross-Section. He has described his style in an interview with Ondergrond. Get to Know Us. Haruki Murakami on the road. 駕籠真太郎 (@shintarokago) • Instagram photos and videos Pages Images and files Insert a link to a new page Loading Pages Shintro and files. In a recent interview, he said that both his parents died when he was a year old, and soon thereafter participated in a childhood rife with theft and debauchery, but who can say if it’s true or not: Shintaro Kago’s style has been called “fashionable paranoia”. CLARA BENIN HD WALLPAPER Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Log in to edit this page. Granny’s Dead Body is Stinky! What is justice in Japan? Shintaro Kago Art \| – Contemporary Japanese Art Shop ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. Write a customer review. Page Tools Insert links Insert links to other pages or uploaded files. Manufacturer warranty may not apply Learn more about Amazon Global Store. Cover for Vice Magazine. Legend of the Overfiend, Volume 2. Former Tenjo Sajiki musician and what he’s doing now Now, with internet, we are able to do all our work with peace of mind. He also dabbles in messing with traditional page layout, and in some instances completely skewing the whole scheme and really throwing the reader for a loop. YOUNGBLOODZ WALLPAPER WIZARDRII APK FREE DOWNLOAD WALLPAPERS BALA HIJAM HD WALLPAPERS SAI GULAM JUGNI WALLPAPER ISTANT STAR WALLPAPER HAPPY BIRTHDAY NONU WALLPAPER KIRIE MOTOBA WALLPAPER HIMANI NAME BIRTHDAY WALLPAPERS JAGGU DADA WALLPAPER	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line323
__label__wiki	0.541392	0.541392	Swine flu... just another flu? or possible pandemic? By buoy, April 27, 2009 in General Off Topic Discussions caustic 26 Phallic Member Location:Australia SA Car:'96 180sx There's no way the disease could survive for that long outside a human body. Sicarius123 0 Car:Supra RZ SERIOUS QUESTION and i doubt ns can help me... I just received original Shipping documents from our Agent in Mexico. Is it possible for me to get the Swine flu by handling the documents ? Im assuming the only possible way would be if our agent had swine flu,coughed and splattered using their hands against their mouth then handling the docs then me touching my mouth after i have touched the docs? I already washed my hands but tripping out lol Lick it and see? cush³ 3 Lock up your daughters... Location:India / UAE / MiddleEast Do you want an answer? JDM 20T 22 buoy 1 don't drink and post Car:ML550 Did Ancient Viruses Spur Human Evolution? A Galaxy Insight Ape_2 When the mapping of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers discovered a shocking fact: our bodies are littered with the shards of retroviruses, fragments of the chemical code from which all genetic material is made. This discovery has created a new discipline, paleovirology, which seeks to better understand the impact of modern diseases by studying the genetic history of ancient viruses. Highly infectious viral diseases -including the Plague, yellow fever, measles, smallpox and he Spanish Flu, which killed 50 million people at the end of the First World War, moving from one cell to the next, transforming each new host into a factory that makes even more virus. In this way, one infected cell soon becomes billion -that die when the host dies. Endogenous retroviruses, however, once they infect the DNA of a species they become part of that species: they reside within each of us, carrying a record that goes back millions of years. Molecular battles of endogenous retroviruses that raged for thousands of generations, have been defeated by evolution. These viral fragments are fossils that reside within each of us, carrying a record that goes back millions of years. Because they no longer seem to serve a purpose or cause harm, these remnants have often been referred to as “junk DNA.” Although many of these evolutionary relics still manage to generate proteins, scientists have never found one that functions properly in humans or that could make us sick. That is until Thierry Heidmann who runs the laboratory at the Institut Gustave Roussy, on the southern edge of Paris, brought one to life. Heidmann long suspected that if a retrovirus happens to infect a human sperm cell or egg, which is rare, and if that embryo survives—which is rarer still—the retrovirus could have the evolutionary power to influence humans as a species becoming part of the genetic blueprint, passed from mother to child, and from one generation to the next, much like a gene for eye color or asthma. In a brilliant essay if The New Yorker, author Michael Specter brought Heidmann's discovery to life, showing how by "combining the tools of genomics, virology, and evolutionary biology, he and his colleagues took a virus that had been extinct for hundreds of thousands of years, figured out how the broken parts were originally aligned, and then pieced them together. After resurrecting the virus, the team placed it in human cells and found that their creation did indeed insert itself into the DNA of those cells. They also mixed the virus with cells taken from hamsters and cats. It quickly infected them all, offering the first evidence that the broken parts could once again be made infectious. The experiment could provide vital clues about how viruses like H.I.V. work. Inevitably, though, it also conjures images of Frankenstein’s monster and Jurassic Park." Heidmann named the virus Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from the ashes, because he is convinced that this virus and others like it have much to tell about the origins and the evolution of humanity. “This is something not to fear but to celebrate,’’ Heidmann told Specter one day as they sat in his office at the institute, which is dedicated to the treatment and eradication of cancer.“What is remarkable here, and unique, is the fact that endogenous retroviruses are two things at once: genes and viruses. And those viruses helped make us who we are today just as surely as other genes did. I am not certain that we would have survived as a species without them. The Phoenix virus sheds light on how H.I.V. operates, but, more than that, on how we operate, and how we evolved. Many people study other aspects of human evolution—how we came to walk, or the meaning of domesticated animals. But I would argue that equally important is the role of pathogens in shaping the way we are today. Look, for instance, at the process of pregnancy and birth.’’ Heidmann believes that without endogenous retroviruses mammals might never have developed a placenta, which protects the fetus and gives it time to mature, which eventually led to live birth, one of the hallmarks of human evolutionary success over birds, reptiles, and fish. Eggs cannot eliminate waste or draw the maternal nutrients required to develop the large brains that have made mammals so versatile. “These viruses made those changes possible. It is quite possible that, without them, human beings would still be laying eggs.” http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/...ncient-vir.html Just saw an article on the rugby players getting the flu... The players didn't even think they were sick enough to not train... Why the fk is the government and the media persisting in this fking scare campaign? OH hang on... this might have something to do with it.. http://www.theage.com.au/national/swine-fl...90528-bozz.html The highlights.. THE Federal Government has ordered 10 million doses of a yet-to-be developed human swine flu vaccine The Therapeutic Goods Administration has agreed to fast-track any applications for registration of a vaccine. So far, the virus has been mild in Australians, but experts fear it could mutate, potentially becoming more dangerous. Of course it could mutate.... the best thing to do is to catch the fking swine flu... then you're going to be able to fight any mutated strains a whole lot easier.. This is fking ridiculous... Politicians are going to f**king kill us all with their knee jerk reactions... lilandonaki 78 Car:Mitsubishi +1 ^ ^ ntune 0 as more and more people are struck down with illness, the chances of a deadly mutation forming becomes ever more probable, especially during winter months where illness is prolonged and recovery delayed. THe more people that get this version, the more people are better protected for a mutated version. while that may be true, what will then become of all those who didn't... They'll probably get the mutated one and cough twice and be done with it. haha, lets hope so. Its more likely to mutate to become less dangerous. The less dangerous its is the more people who catch it are going to keep going to work/school/uni/etc. and keep spreading it around. A stronger strain on the other hand would keep people bed-ridden or dead and not spread as much. Natural selection. Less lethal viruses win. 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__label__wiki	0.673613	0.673613	Artur » List of publications » In-furnace measurement of sulphur and nitrogen species in a recovery boiler In-furnace measurement of sulphur and nitrogen species in a recovery boiler Hupa, Mikko Brink, Anders De Martini, Nikolai Angelo Vainio, Emil List of Authors: Vainio E, Brink A, Demartini N, Hupa M, Vesala H, Tormonen K, Kajolinna T Publisher: TAPPI Press Journal: Journal of Pulp and Paper Science Issue number: 3-4 There is a lack of experimental data on the gas composition in recovery boiler furnaces, particularly in the lower furnace and at the black liquor spraying level. Experimental determination of the gas composition in full-scale furnaces is important for the understanding of the kinetics of the gasphase reactions and the formation of different intermediates in the combustion process. The gas composition was measured in the furnace of a large recovery boiler using a new gas sampling method. The measurements were carried out from the primary air level to the upper tertiary cur level. The measurements were a part of an extensive campaign planned and carried out to support validation of models hosed on Computational Fluid Dynamics. This paper will focus on the sulphur and nitrogen species measured in the furnace and on the developed gas sampling probe. A number of reactive sulphur and nitrogen intermediates were identified and quantified in the measurements. Especially high concentrations of different intermediates were measured at the black liquor spraying level. Measured nitrogen and sulphur species include: nitrogen monoxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)), ammonia (NH(3)), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), hydrogen sulphide (H(2)S), sulphur dioxide (SO(2)), methyl mercaptan (CH(3)SH), ethyl mercaptan (C(2)H(5)SH), dimethyl sulphide ((CH(3))(2)S), dimethyl disulphide ((CH(3))(2)S(2)), carbonyl sulphide (COS), and carbon disulphide (CS(2)). Some of these have not been reported before in full-scale measurements. black liquor, Combustion, pyrolysis Share link Request full-text	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line330
__label__cc	0.728031	0.271969	OS Arquitectura Posts Practice Projects Contact Us World Citizen Center Last month on May 21st with the opening of the 911 Museum by firm Davis Brody Bond and the Memorial by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, we saw the opportunity to reflect on the events of September 11, 2001, and resurface for discussion a proposal developed at that time for the Ground Zero site. I was assigned to lead a group designing the proposal during my time working under Michael Rotondi and Clark Stevens at RoTo Architects. We called our proposal The World Citizen Center. We realized these places can be catalysts for social transformation, and can become a physical manifestation of our civility. Memorials synthesize our collective ability to reconstruct events of the past in the context of the present. In this light, a great loss could transform into a greater gain. As a metaphor, memorials can be seen as a social compass which helps guide a society by maintaining past events under a current sense of importance. The World Citizen Center Project was conceived as a space for dialogue and reflection for Humanity as a whole. It was a group response to the questions that arose after the events of that day. We sat and mourned. With wonder, we witnessed the outpouring of solidarity, companionship, and loyalty shown from all corners of the Earth towards the victims and those otherwise affected. We also saw the retaliation and counter attack that these events entailed. We spoke of how this and subsequent events made us feel. We had questions that are equally relevant 13 years after the fact. Have we increased our ability to come together as global citizens? Have we developed a vested interest in learning to communicate and cooperate with one another effectively? Current world conflicts, including but not limited to, the revolutions in the Middle East known collectively as the Arab Spring, Ukraine and Russia, and the recently reignited tensions in Iraq and Gaza, make evident the need for collective ways and global platforms to voice and resolve conflict through dialogue rather than violence. With the World Citizen Center project, we envisioned a place of gathering and growth for a humanity focused on nonviolent conflict resolution. A place for remembrance and continuous dialogue that serves its role on the world stage.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line343
__label__cc	0.627255	0.372745	Home / News / LAGOS: MY HUSBAND HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TWICE, WOMAN TELLS DIVORCE COURT LAGOS: MY HUSBAND HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TWICE, WOMAN TELLS DIVORCE COURT Dotun Olanibi 1 week ago News Leave a comment 21 Views LAGOS: MY HUSBAND HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TWICE, WOMAN TELLS DIVORCE COURT A Health worker, Funmilayo Akinmulero on Friday pleaded with a Customary Court in Badagry, Lagos, to dissolve her marriage because her husband had attempted to commit suicide twice. Funmilayo, 45, told the court that her husband of 11 years, Olusegun Akinmulero, had twice attempted to commit suicide “because he was fed up with life. “My lord, my husband is not responsible. He tried to commit suicide twice, saying he was fed up with life without considering me and his children.” “The first time he bought rat killer to poison himself but after eating it, the medicine did not kill him. We had to rush him to the hospital for treatment.” “After returning, a few days later, he said that he wanted to die again and went to the bush with rope but he was rescued by a neighbour.” “I’m the one responsible for the upkeep of the three children of the marriage. He is not taking care of me or the three children.” Funmilayo also told the court that Olusegun attacked her on January 15, 2016 and wanted to kill her with a cutlass, saying that she was saved by neighbours. “My husband brought a lady into the house when I was not at home. After having carnal knowledge of her, they used my new towel to clean themselves.” “When I came back I discovered that my towel was wet and when I asked, he slapped me and brought out a cutlass,” the mother of three, residing at Igbo Eji in Iragbon, Badagry stated. Funmilayo also alleged that Olusegun once fled home for six months, after collecting N500, 000 to make furniture for a customer. “On November 24, 2018, after abandoning us for six months, he called me that he had been arrested by the police. “At the station, police informed me that he collected N500, 000 from a man and spent the money without doing his work.” “I told them that I don’t know anything about the money because he had not been home in the past six months.” “I’m no longer interested in him my lord. I have met another man when he abandoned us and I am now pregnant for him,” Funmilayo said. She begged the court to dissolve the marriage and order Olusegun to be responsible for the upkeep of the children. Olusegun, a furniture maker, however, was not in court to respond to the charges. The President of the court, Mr Shakirudeen Adekola, adjourned the case until July 18 for judgement. @ NAN Badagry Customary Court 2019-07-05 Tags Badagry Customary Court Previous OYO: COURT DISSOLVES 27 YEARS MARRIAGE BETWEEN PASTOR AND HIS WIFE Next THE MAN; ADEGBOYEGA OYETOLA 10 FACTS ABOUT OSUN STATE’S 5TH CIVILIAN GOVERNOR DRUNK, RECKLESS DRIVING: FIVE DEAD, TWO INJURED AS CAR CARRYING PUPILS CRASHES IN OGUN ONDO: RITUALISTS STEAL NEWBORN BABY July 8 Osun West By-Election: How Husain will succeed Adeleke Aregbesola flags off N48.7bn water project in Ilesa …It is not a dividend of democracy. It is not going to be free – Consultant Man bags one-month jail term for assaulting policeman, 2 women in Osun	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line344
__label__cc	0.635874	0.364126	Quaker Pamphlets Home Quaker Pamphlets: Quaker Universalists Other Pamphlets External Quaker Libraries: FGC Library Quaker Electric Archive Quaker Heritage Press Street Corner Society Friends Conference on Religion & Psychology Publishers of the Truth Rufus Jones, in his early pamphlet Rethinking Quaker Principles, writes of the efforts of George Fox and the early Quakers to publish pamphlets and broadsides to make their truth known to all: By 1647 he knew that he had found what he sought, and from that time on he began to gather kindred spirits around him, remarkable persons like Elizabeth Hooton, James Nayler, Richard Farnsworth and William Dewsbury. They were his first disciples. Five years later, in 1652, he found in the neighborhood of Pendle Hill, “a great people to be gathered”, and an immense convincement followed, which marks the birth of Quakerism as a successful movement. Out of the convincement of the northern “seekers” he secured Swarthmoor Hall as the center of his mission, and sixty highly qualified “Publishers of Truth” to assist him in proclaiming the Quaker message. John Yungblut, in looking forward to the Quakerism of the Future, exhorts us to continue this tradition: Indeed if one has been visited by a direct sense of inward presence, he is driven to tell everyone who will listen to him. Strange and unendurable irony – that Friends who speak so much about the Inward Light should so timidly hide their own light under a bushel! The time has come to preach the faith we have resolved to practice. If we have good news for our brothers, and I believe we do, let us shout it from the housetops! Let us learn to be publishers of truth about our faith as well as our social concerns. A large number of Quakers and others in the 20th Century have taken up the charge to "publish the truth." Writers like Rufus Jones, Howard Brinton, Douglas Steere, Gilbert Kilpack, Thomas Kelly and John Yungblut have developed their thoughts in print, and served as a model to others who have contributed to Quaker literature, philosophy, theology and religion. Unfortunately many of these treasured works are completely out of print or otherwise inaccessible to most of us. We and others have made an effort to remedy that problem by republishing out-of-print pamphlets on the web. The following pages give you direct access to four libraries of fundamental writings by modern Quakers: These lectures were supported by the Young Friends' Movement of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, which was organized on Fifth month thirteenth, 1916, at Race Street Meeting House in Philadelphia, for the purpose of closer fellowship. Forty-four lectures were given between 1916 and 1966 when the lectures were laid down. Published since 1934 this series includes great pamphlets which range from historical analysis to theological statements to thoughtful advices to young and old alike. This series continues to be published, but many of the older pamphlets are available only as copies and are now republished electronically by Pendle Hill. Introspective pieces from renowned Friends, historical overviews and incisive book reports. Read about universalism in other cultures, and the effort to include all peoples. As QUF continues to put ever more content online, their Quaker Library will grow to become a great collection of contemporary Quaker writings. Other Quaker Pamphlets Quakers have published extensively in the past, and continue to do so. In addition to the William Penn Lectures, the Pendle Hill Pamphlets, and the pamphlets of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, a number of lectures have been sponsored by various organizations in this country and elsewhere. This section collects these materials as they are found and made available to the world on the web. Each entry in the Pamphlet Catalog provides links to different formats: Except for the Pendle Hill Pamphlets, the primary pointer to the document links you directly to the text of the pamphlet in HyperText Markup Language (HTML). This is a continuous stream of text without page breaks, and can be printed directly from your browser. We found that Internet Explorer prints more cleanly than does Navigator. The primary HTML pages have a good deal of white space around the text which some readers felt consumed too much paper. This alternate HTML version of the document is provided without formatting decorations to allow a dense, paper-efficient, printing. Adobe Acrobat: Portable Document Format. This version of the pamphlets is designed as an electronic book to be read on-screen. The most recent Adobe Acrobat Reader, free from Adobe, can help you maintain your own electronic library of these pamphlets. Booked PDF The eBook version, while usefully formatted for the computer screen, is not the most efficient way to print a pamphlet: the small pages of the pamphlet waste a great deal of space on a standard 8.5x11 page. This "booked" version (also PDF) can be printed in landscape mode, two pamphlet pages per sheet of paper (or 4 pages/sheet double-sided). This can be easily assembled and bound with a long-necked stapler into a much more usable product for discussion groups and workshops. Download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader: Additions: October 2004 Additions: May 2005 Additions: August 2005 Return to: pamphlets.quaker.org Email: webmaster@pamphlets.quaker.org	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line346
__label__wiki	0.696666	0.696666	Sideline Pass: Jim Bradford 10/21 Jim Bradford By Jim Bradford PrepsKC Staff Writer Posted: October 21, 2010 - 2:34 PM Two plays. The first came with one minute, 28 seconds left in the first quarter. The second came just three and a half minutes later. On both occasions, a St. Thomas Aquinas receiver got behind the Blue Valley defense. On both occasions, Aquinas quarterback Richard Davila found them for long touchdowns. Suddenly, with 9:54 left in the second quarter, it was Blue Valley that got behind. It was 14-0 Aquinas Friday night and you could hear a pin drop at Blue Valley District Stadium. A perfect 6-0 and the Tigers were down 14-0. Yep, welcome back to Class 5A, Blue Valley. After a four-year stint with the big boys in Class 6A, the Tigers were welcomed back to 5A’s toughest district in the state along with Aquinas, Pittsburg and the state’s top team — in all classes — Gardner-Edgerton. The four teams opened play on Friday with a combined record of 22-2. But something happened. Blue Valley woke up, pulled to within seven, then fell back behind by 13 before scoring 31 unanswered points on their way to a 38-20 win. Welcome back to 5A, indeed. The Tigers turned up the offensive mojo behind quarterback Kyle Zimmerman and receiver PJ DeBey. Zimmerman threw for 311 yards and DeBey was the recipient of nine passes for 155 yards. Oh, and let’s not forget Justin Fulks and his 148 rushing yards. While they were taking care of things, offensively, the defense was holding Aquinas to nine yards of offense in the second half. Yep, nine yards. Yep, welcome back to 5A, Blue Valley. Of course, there’s another week of district play before an epic-in-waiting matchup between Blue Valley and Gardner-Edgerton in week No. 9. After watching what Blue Valley did on Friday, it might be time to start talking about these Tigers and not just the Blazers. Sure. Gardner-Edgerton is good, very good and all off the nation will find that out next week when they play Aquinas on ESPNU, but don’t go to sleep on the Tigers. A couple of teams did that last year. After limping into the playoffs with a 3-6 record, the Tigers upset 8-1 Shawnee Mission West. Then smacked 9-1 BV Northwest to advance to the state semifinals where they took eventual Class 6A state champion down to the wire before a field goal in the final minute sent North to the state championship game. The Tigers haven’t missed a beat this year under new head coach Erik Driskell and a first-year quarterback in Zimmerman. Let’s not crown the district champion just yet, huh? I believe these Tigers will have something to say about the District 4 championship. “This win feels good,” Zimmerman said Friday after the win. “In a district like this, it’s really important to come out strong.” Well, come out strong in the second half. That counts, right? Pleasant Ridge Rams Topeka Highland Park Scots St. Paul Lutheran Saints Wichita Heights Kearney Bulldogs Royal Valley Panthers Schlagle Stallions Braymer Bishop Carroll St. Thomas Aquinas Saints Monroe City Bishop Miege Stags Topeka West Atchison Redmen Oak Grove Panthers St. Croix (Wisc.) Central Raytown Bluejays	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line352
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__label__wiki	0.642638	0.642638	The Supreme Court will shift only slightly right Distribution of Bayesian Ideal Point Estimates of Rehnquist Court Justices. The nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has dramatically changed the public debate over the nominee compared to that of either Harriet Miers or now Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts high quality but lack of a paper trail allowed his hearings to avoid direct confrontation over his positions. Miers weak qualifications allowed judicial conservatives to dominate the debate, again avoiding a direct ideological and partisan confrontation. Judge Alito, in contrast has very high qualifications, which I think cannot seriously be questioned, plus a long and clear track record of judicial opinions which will be strongly attacked by liberals and defended by conservatives. The hearings will focus on the most extreme statements that can be found by liberals in his published opinions, a defense of his views by conservatives, and an interesting opportunity to see how this plays out with the mass public. (We visited this issue before here.) It is going to be fun. This is the judicial war that both extremes wanted to have. But how much is it likely to matter for the alignment of the Court? Both sides will claim much but the evidence is not so much. The key to any Court is the median voter, the decisive fifth vote for any decision. In the Rehnquist Court, that vote was O'Connor's. In the Roberts Court (with Alito replacing O'Connor) that fifth vote will be Kennedy's. But as the figure above shows, Kennedy is only slightly to the right of O'Connor. Even if we assume Alito is as conservative as Scalia, and that Roberts turns out to be to the right of Rehnquist, there remain only four votes for very conservative positions. Someone must convince Kennedy to join the four most conservative Justices. (And I continue to wait for the evidence on Robert's positions.) This configuration raises an interesting problem for the Roberts-Alito additions to the Court. Kennedy was only slightly to O'Connor's right. But there will be a substantial gap between Kennedy and the group of Roberts-Alito-Thomas-Scalia. There will be a similarly large gap between Kennedy and the group to his left: Stevens-Bryer-Ginsburg-Souter. If Roberts and Alito turn out to be near Thomas and Scalia, Kennedy will actually be closer to the liberal wing. As such, a stronger conservative wing of the court could drive the swing vote to the left. The conservative Justices will have to make sure this doesn't happen, and in doing so will have to moderate their views enough to win Kennedy's support. The liberals will similarly have to moderate their views to win Kennedy over to their side. Regardless of where the wings of the Court stand, Kennedy is the key vote. With O'Connor on the Court, it was possible to win a majority by gaining either Kennedy's or O'Connor's vote. The figure shows considerable overlap between their estimated locations. The liberal wing could win with either O'Connor's or Kennedy's votes, and sometimes both. The conservative wing required both Kennedy and O'Connor to win. Now Kennedy stands alone in the middle of the Court. Neither wing can win without him. This gives him tremendous leverage to shape opinions to his satisfaction, and requires both wings to be far more deferential to his views. The upshot is that conservatives are likely to be disappointed once more with the outcome of a new conservative appointment to the Court. Despite adding Roberts and Alito, the Court is likely to remain a center-right Court, and not a "right-right" Court. Not unless Kennedy changes his positions. So sit back and watch the huge fight we are going to see over Alito, with claims that the fate of civilization as we know it hinges on his confirmation or defeat. But don't be shocked when the Court fails to shear sharply to the right after his confirmation. If you want to look for the day of real change in the Court, wait for the next appointment after Alito's. And remember that President Bush had 39 months still to serve. The odds are good that he'll have at least one more appointment. If one of the liberals, or Kennedy, retires, that appointment will be the one that shifts the median in a big way. (The ideal points presented here are my estimates based on the Justices voting on decisions during the Rehnquist Court. For much more excellent analysis of this see the work by Martin and Quinn here. Their work produce slightly different estimates, but the same qualitative conclusions.) Second Term Jinx, Part I First and second term presidential approval, 1945-2005. There has been a predictable flurry of articles on the presidential second term "jinx". Some examples are The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday to name only a few. This morning's Milwauke Journal Sentinal has a rare sane view. The evidence for second term decline is relatively weak. Two of the five two-term post-war presidents have improved their second term standing over that of the first. (The final story is not yet written for Bush.) Truman, Ike and Nixon all are lower on average in the second term, though Ike's low isn't that low. Reagan has a slightly higher median in the second term than the first. Clinton breaks the mold with clearly higher second term ratings than first, and that despite being impeached! But no matter what, five cases do not amount to an inevitable second term jinx. Truman had post-war economic adjustments and then Korea. Ike had a weak economy in the second term, Nixon had Watergate, Reagan Iran-Contra and Clinton Lewinsky. So scandals haven't been uncommon, but not universal either. President Bush's current problems are much more like Truman 's and Eisenhower's problems-- driven by political decisions and policies started in the first term. With the Libby indictment this week, there will be a "scandal" as well, but it wasn't the scandal that drove his ratings down this year-- it was the failure of the social security proposal, the long term costs of the war, and then topping that off with gas prices, hurricanes and a less than brilliant nomination. It is hard to argue that 3 out of 5 cases constitute a clear pattern of poor second terms. Rather it looks like a toss up. There is another problem with the second term jinx argument: it ignores those presidents who had a first term "jinx" and never got to serve the second term. Recognizing this selection bias in second term jinxes wipes out any remaining argument for systematic decline in the second term. We have five postwar presidents with 2nd terms (not counting Bush) three of whom do clearly worse in the second term. Compare that with the four ONE term postwar presidents who had such bad first terms they couldn't win reelection. (Johnson, and Ford are special cases, neither initially elected but both eligible for another term). So it looks to me like four presidents had "jinxes" in the first term, and three of five had "jinxes" in the second term. It isn't a jinx. When you do bad in the first term, you don't get to have a second. When you do ok in the first, there is still a just about even chance (3/5) that the second term is worse than the first. I conclude there is no systematic difference between first and second terms, at least in presidential approval ratings. I'll have more to say on this soon. Posted by Charles Franklin at 10:14 PM Public Understanding of Miers Withdrawal The Gallup/CNN/USAToday poll, taken 10/28, N=516, finds that response to the Miers withdrawal follows partisan and ideological lines, with liberals more pleased and conservatives more disappointed by the withdrawal. The CNN story on the poll is here. Gallup has a Frank Newport writeup of the poll here. (Free as of Saturday, but subscription required after that, I think.) The interesting thing is that the most vociferous opposition to Miers came from the most conservative wing of the Republican party, yet among the public conservatives were more disappointed than pleased by the withdrawal. How come? One simple partisan answer would be that liberals like seeing the President twist slowly in the wind, while conservatives are disappointed by anything that hurts the President. While plausible in general, this story line doesn't address the giddiness at the National Review web site on Thursday morning: CORKS [Kathryn Jean Lopez] I'm getting some of those e-mails too. But no champagne here. No gloating. Just relief. It was the right thing to do--withdraw--and it has been done. Super. Was this whole thing unnecessary? Yes. But I don't think that's our fault. The nominee made no sense. So it's over. Live and learn. Posted at 09:34 AM RE: CORKS [Jonah Goldberg] Kathryn -- That would be easier to buy if you weren't wearing a giant party hat and drinking out of your shoe and Chaka wasn't in the mailroom snockered out of his gourd xeroxing his butt. But, yes, you're right. Blessed are the peacemakers. As any regular reader of conservative opinion can attest, the criticism from the "Intellectual Right" was overwhelming, and based on both Miers judicial philosophy (or lack of same) and limited qualifications compared to many other prominent conservative jurists and legal scholars. Among "Social Conservatives", criticism more commonly focused on whether Miers was a reliable conservative, or might show a moderate-to-liberal streak that would not provide the kinds of outcomes that are of most concern to social conservatives. So whether one is a reader of The Weekly Standard or Eagle Forum (or a daily listener to Rush, for that matter), the message was the same, a poor choice who should be withdrawn. Pitted against these conservative messages were those coming most prominently from President Bush himself, and the White House, combined with those religious conservatives such as Dr. James Dobson who spoke in favor of Miers. Both the White House and its surrogates talked about Miers religious faith, evangelical views and the "near unanimous" opposition to abortion in her church. So the messages from conservatives and Republicans were quite divided in their valence towards Miers' nomination. What about the liberals and Democrats? Some prominent Democrats, most notably Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, supported Miers but the vast majority remained quiet or expressed concerns. But none launched a full attack against her qualifications or judicial philosophy. So what does this configuration of elite messages suggest about public opinion in response to Miers? The most important point is to appreciate how little attention the mass public pays to complex issues such as this that delight Washington and us political junkies. As a previous post here mentioned, the level of "don't know" response to Miers averaged over 30%. But even that does not mean that the 2/3 who did express an opinion about her nomination understood the context of the debate elite opinion makers were waging. The nature of the mixed signals that were coming from elites suggests that the public was even less able than usual to make sense of the Miers nomination and its issues. UCLA political scientist John Zaller, author of "Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion", argues that citizens look to elite signals for considerations that support their positions. When the message is entirely one sided (think aftermath of 9/11) then the public moves more or less uniformly in the direction of elite consensus. When there is division, citizen look for cues as to who to believe. The most prominent of these are partisan cues. Here think of the run-up to the Iraq war. A unified Republican party sent unambiguous messages to Republicans and conservatives in support of the war (despite a considerable isolationism visible two years earlier in the 2000 campaign.) The Democrats sent a mixed message, with both supporters and opponents of the war. Mass opinion was overwhelmingly in support of the war as a result, with much more division among Democrats in the mass public than among Republican partisans. So what happens when both parties are sending mixed signals, as in the Miers case? Conservatives and Republicans would be exposed to two conflicting messages-- both from usually trusted sources. Because most people pay limited attention to politics, the President's message would be expected to affect mass Republican opinion more, simply because even among Republicans only a small proportion are avid consumers of conservative sources such as George Will, The Weekly Standard, National Review, the Wall Street Journal or Rush. A secondary source of information was through the "mainstream" media coverage of the controversy, which Fox, CNN, MSNBC as well as the broadcast networks made prominent parts of their coverage. The upshot is that any conservative or Republican had to decide not only who to believe but also to sort out what the issues really were. The difficulty of this task was guaranteed to produce a split in conservative opinion, with the advantage going to the best known, most widely visible, and most familiar source-- President Bush. However, the counter message was also available and produced a significant split in opinion. The result, a split among conservatives of 34% pleased with Miers withdrawal and 44% disappointed. Such a small edge to the President's position is testimony to the strength of the conservative critique of Miers. Among Democrats, the message was much more muted. Despite a few supporters, such as Reid, the overwhelming response was... silence. Democratic leaders stood on the sidelines and watched the Republican death match. As a result, Democrats failed to send strong signals that a Miers defeat (or withdrawal) was clearly a good thing (for their side), but they didn't send a strong signal in favor of her either. This left the mass Democratic partisans to fall back on their partisan perception of the debate, and overwhelming disapproval of President Bush, in order to judge the meaning of the Miers withdrawal. The result was Democrats and liberals were a bit more united in their response to the withdrawal than were Republicans and conservatives-- a rarity in itself. Liberals split 55% pleased to 25% disappointed, while conservatives split 34%-44%. Roberts drew enough Democratic support that the partisan response to him was relatively muted, while Republicans were nearly unanimous in support. Republicans split 68-8% in favor of Roberts, while Democrats were evenly divided 31-33% in a Pew poll taken September 8-11, just before the Senate hearings. Both of the Miers and Roberts figures would be expected to be more extreme with more typical homogeneity of partisan elite messages. If the next nominee provokes unified partisan messages, we should expect to see a much more divided response in mass opinion. Miers v. Roberts Support to opposition ratio. Roberts in red, Miers in Blue. Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for the Supreme Court this morning. President Bush "reluctantly accepted" her decision to withdraw. While Miers drew strong opposition from the conservative legal movement, her support in the mass public never approached the levels of support for now Chief Justice John Roberts. Polling on Supreme Court nominees is tricky because large portions of the public pay little attention and lack information to support their judgments. In Robert's case, the median "Don't Know" response was 27%, and the mean 29.5. Even at the end of his confirmation process, in September, the median rate of "don't know" responses was 27%. For Miers, who was a nominee for less time, the median DK response was 31.5% and a mean of 34.6%. To avoid confounding "don't know" with opposition, I look at the ratio of support to opposition, removing those without an opinion. This lets us focus on the more attentive public who may have more meaningful opinions, and avoids depressing apparent support due to high levels of DK. For example, Roberts median support was only 50%, which alone suggests weak support. However, his opposition median was only 24%, with the rest not holding an opinion. This results in a 2-1 support to opposition ratio, and a healthy confirmation in the Senate. As the figure shows, there was little trend in the support ratio for Roberts, which mostly ranges between 1.9 and 2.6 throughout his confirmation process. The Miers support ratio is strikingly lower. Her median ratio was only 1.2, with half of the polls putting this support between 1.07 and 1.24. Her highest support ratio was equivalent to Robert's lowest ratio. And in the last poll released before her withdrawal, Miers' support ratio had fallen below 1.0, to 0.98 in the Gallup/CNN/USAToday poll of 10/21-23. The Miers nomination collapsed due to strong conservative elite opposition and lack of support in the Senate, rather than public opposition or outrage. But the public perceptions reflect the failure of the administration to build a convincing case for her qualifications. (Data in the figure reflect all public polls asking some form of the question "Do you support or oppose John Roberts/Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court". There is quite a bit of variation in wording, which I have not statistically modeled in the figure. Such modeling would probably reduce the variation a bit for both candidates but would certainly not affect the central conclusions.) Rosa Parks, 1913-2005 This isn't the usual post here, but I cannot let Rosa Parks' passing go without saying something. My viewpoint is of a white boy growing up in a small town outside of Montgomery. I missed the bus boycott (I was 1 when it happened), but it was still talked about when I was becoming aware of the civil rights movement as I started school in 1960. If that seems young for political memories, take a moment to put civil rights and school integration into the context of small town Alabama of the time. For whites this was an upheaval of the social order. The New York Times obituary describes that social order well: On Montgomery buses, the first four rows were reserved for whites. The rear was for blacks, who made up more than 75 percent of the bus system's riders. Blacks could sit in the middle rows until those seats were needed by whites. Then the blacks had to move to seats in the rear, stand or, if there was no room, leave the bus. Even getting on the bus presented hurdles: If whites were already sitting in the front, blacks could board to pay the fare but then they had to disembark and re-enter through the rear door. These mundane injustices were, of course, only the tip of the iceberg of racism that pervaded my hometown and state. My home county was 70% black, but had no blacks registered to vote in 1960. Education was, of course, segregated and anything but equal. All the businesses on the two blocks of "main street" were white owned and none employed blacks, at least not "out front" dealing with customers-- quite a few blacks worked in the back, doing hard chores. And the police and sheriff were friends of mine, but not all that interested in equal justice. And of course the churches were as rigidly segregated as the schools. The Klan was strong in my home county. So when Rosa Parks didn't get up for a white man to sit, it was a radical action, one that my students today cannot really imagine, let alone understand as white southerners of my generation can. She challenged a social system that was an abomination and a mockery of the words of the Declaration and the Constitution (as amended.) And that act required a courage that surpasses my comprehension. But that courage ceased to be rare after Rosa Parks' example. In Montgomery at first, with the boycott and then throughout Alabama and the south, African-Americans risked much and sometimes lost their lives in the pursuit of equal rights. The famous are remembered and revered, as they should be. But I also remember the un-famous who integrated the schools in my little town, who registered to vote when their names were noted by white officials and who spoke out when speaking was so terribly lonely. And continued to do so year after slow year of gradual progress. Their courage was at least as great as that of the famous. What Rosa Parks did for black folks is obvious. From her small act grew a mighty movement. So what did Rosa Parks do for me, a white boy from Alabama, and all my kind? She saved our souls. The social order I grew up with was a mortal sin, damning the souls of all of us who supported and perpetuated and benefited from that evil. Thank God for Rosa Parks and all the brave souls who followed her. My kind may yet have a chance at forgiveness and salvation. SurveyUSA 50 State Approval SurveyUSA has new 50 state approval ratings that are quite interesting. The data at their site are here. SurveyUSA uses automated polling that is open to question by most survey research standards. MysteryPollster.com has discussed the methodological issues here and here. I think the validity of their polling is an empirical question, and by and large their results appear to track well with conventional surveys. Perhaps I'll post on this later, but for now, let's take their results at face value. And you'll see below a very nice match between their results and national surveys using conventional methods. My graph compares President Bush's approval in June (before either the Vacation with Cindy Sheehan or Katrina or Harriet) and his rating in October. (SurveyUSA took the October poll 10/14-16/2005, with 600 respondents in each state. The June survey was 6/10-13/2005, also with 600 interviews per state.) What is interesting is the uniform drop in approval of President Bush across the states. The regression fit (the purple line in the figure) is OctApprove = -5.130 + 1.0086*JuneApprove. You can fiddle with adding differences between Bush states and Kerry states, but the difference is quite small. After trying several specifications, I think the simplest model with across the board decline is the best. (See Philip Klinkner's comments at PolySigh for a somewhat different view.) While there is an obvious relationship between states won by Bush and approval levels, the critical fact is that ALL states (except Oklahoma) show a shift downward, below the diagonal line in the figure, representing stable approval levels.) So the conclusion is a little over a 5% decline in approval between June and October that crossed partisan state lines. Given the year-long decline of -.03% per day reported in my previous posts, the trend would account for -3.75% of this decline (125 days x -.03 per day), with the post-Katrina shock taking the remaining -1.38% change. This is very close to the estimates based on national polling reported here, of -1.3472 (after adding the latest Gallup poll into the data. It was -1.2% before the October Gallup data came in.) So what is to be said? The President's problems are very widespread. This is not a "Blue State versus Red State" phenomenon. Instead, the President is suffering equally everywhere. The causes of the decline are widely reported, though poorly documented. We all cite gas prices, the war in Iraq, Katrina and so on. There is little empirical evidence for which of these (or other) variables are really driving approval ratings down. Regardless, this is a presidency in trouble across the board. Of particular political relevance are the Red states in the figure that are below 50% approval in BOTH June and October. There are sixteen (16!) states that Bush carried in 2004 but in which fewer than half the adults approve of his handling of his job in either June or October. The midterm election is fast approaching. These are not encouraging signs for Republican candidates, or (especially) potential candidates. Don't count on the Democrats to produce a coherent and winning platform, but Republicans must fear self-inflicted wounds that criple them even against a poorly organized opposition. Should the Democrats put together a coherent critique AND positive proposals for change, this could be a devastating midterm for the hoped-for long term Republican Majority we heard so much about in January and February. If Clinton squandered his second term with Monica, Bush may also be losing his chance to create an enduring partisan legacy for his party and for the conservative movement. The "political capital" of January appears to have been spent, and then some. Two views of Presidential Approval, Oct 13. Presidential Approval, January-October 13, 2005. Two views of President Bush's job approval ratings come from the recent flurry of new polls. The first focuses on recent events. I've been calling these "Post-Katrina" but perhaps should now call them "Post-Harriet". This first graph shows the new results with a total of 26 post-Katrina polls (in red). The decline in the President's approval is clear visually, and the local trend line in red shows how sharply the trend has departed from the blue linear trend for PRE-Katrina polls. (Note the close fit of red and blue trends before August.) The model, corrected for differences among polling houses, now estimates a Katrina effect of -1.2%. Prior to Katrina, approval was falling at a rate of -.03% per day throughout 2005. So the post-Katrina drop is equivalent to 40 days of pre-Katrina trend. This will be the last estimate I give of the "Katrina" impact. I believe events have now moved on, so attributing any further change to Katrina, is probably a confounding of effects. The estimate of that effect has remained stable at between -1.1 and -1.3 for a while now, so I'm satisfied with this estimate. The bottom line: the President's approval has fallen all year, declining about 1% every month since January. But since August we've seen a sharper drop. One important remaining question is whether the rate of decline has also increased, after we take account of the immediate Katrina effect. So far that can't be estimated because it is confounded with Katrina. But the next month should give us the data for an answer. The next graph takes the long view of the entire Bush administration. Due to a change in Blogger that I can't seem to circumvent, this graph and comments appear in the next post, rather than right here, as I might wish. My HTML skills aren't what they might be. Two views of Presidential Approval, Part 2 Presidential Approval, 2001-2005 The most crucial observation here is that over the course of President Bush's administration, his approval rating has never fallen as fast as it has since August. This is not "free fall" (the Elder President Bush fell faster in the fall of 1991), but the drop since August 1 is disturbing. The effects of Katrina are significant, but these are now absorbed in the rating. The current difficulties with the Miers nomination, the ongoing Iraq casualties and gas prices (even if they are moderating a bit) are now going to drive the approval ratings. So far the administration has failed to regain control of the agenda to arrest this decline. And as bad news brings bad news, the Miers nomination has probably added to the President's problems. Not that all that many citizens are as glued to the coverage as we junkies are, but because the tone it sets for coverage of the President is likely to continue to reflect his troubles rather than his successes. Approval of the Iraqi constitution may help a little, but we will pass 2,000 U.S. troop deaths within the next 6 weeks, and that will almost certainly produce renewed focus on the cost of the Iraq war. If the Miers hearings are underway at about the same time, the President could face damaging news on two fronts. The President's attempt this week to reassert the positive case for our involvement in Iraq was generally well reviewed but almost immediately lost in a week of other controversey. His talk with the troops today probably isn't going to help matters. Second terms often seem to depend on second string players in the White House. Whether it is the new players, the distractions of grand jury investigations, a loss of agenda control by the President (after a failed Social Security initiative), or uncontrollable events both natural and political that have taken their toll, the result is a seriously damaged presidency. Someone in the White House needs to take control and make better decisions or the 2006 elections may slip away--- even if Democrats are not, so far, producing a clear alternative message. The elections may be over 12 months away, but candidate recruitment is now, and rational Republican candidates must see a hard road while Democrats are encouraged by the current turmoil.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line366
__label__wiki	0.758934	0.758934	Tommie Smith 11, Usain Bolt 8 Everyone knows Usain Bolt has 3 World Records: 9.58 100m, 19.19 200m, and the 4x100m relay. But he also has 5 World Bests in the 50m outdoors (5.47 +0.9 en route to 9.58 in Berlin), 60m outdoors (6.31, en route to 9.58 in Berlin), 150m curve (14.44 en route to 19.19 in Berlin), the 150m straightway (14.35 Manchester), and the Swedish Relay. He set the Swedish Relay record back in 2006 at the DN Galan, 2 years before he made his “breakthrough” in 2008. The Puma Reggae Team ran 1:46.59 with a team of Christopher Williams (100m), Usain Bolt (200m), Davian Clarke (300m), and Jermaine Gonzales (400m) [SORRY, no splits but you can estimate splits roughly at 10-20-32-44.6] He could add four more: Asafa Powell has the 100 yard world best in 9.07. Tyson Gay owns the 200 meter straightaway World Best 19.41 (+0.4 m/s) Tyson Gay owns the 200 yard straightaway World Best 19.54 (+0.4 m/s) And Usain Bolt was not part of the new 4×200 WR last weekend. So, Usain Bolt could have potentially 11 World Records or World Bests. No long jump. No 400m. Tommie Smith’s 11 Concurrent World Records I read Tommie Smith’s autobiography Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting) and he mentions in Chapter 2 FOUR times that he held 11 World Records concurrently. The “11 World Records” are also mentioned on his Bio on the inside of the back cover. But nowhere in the book does it list all the records. I am aware of the WRs from 200m and 400m, and perhaps the Imperial equivalent races in yards and meters, straight vs. turn 200 meters, relay races and indoor races. READ Recovery Drinks with 4:1 Carbs Protein ratio I expected at the end of the book a detailed chronologically listing his accomplishments for a true autobiography, but it was nowhere to be found except for the clues on pages 150-151. 11 Concurrent World Records Thanks to Derek Toliver, an Olympic Track and Field Historian, he clarified the world record performances. In a span of one year from May 7, 1966 to May 20, 1967, Tommie Smith ran 5 races and received 10 World records. In one race, two finish lines were used for the the 400m/440yd race, and the other 4 races had the Imperial distance bettering the Metric distance. Since the Imperial race in yards is greater than metric distance in meters, the WR is also credited to the metric distance. Two finish lines are common for 1500m-Mile races and 30K en route to a Marathon road races, as long as they are ratified by the IAAF. Imperial to metric conversions were used with Jesse Owens’ 6 World Records in 45 minutes, which were really 4 World Records or Equalled World Records (EWR) plus the 2 equivalent credits. For Tommie Smith, the 11th WR came from his 1968 Olympic Games 200 meters in Mexico City… a time of 19.83 seconds in altitude. So in all fairness, he set records in 6 races with 4 coming from equivalent conversions and one from two finish lines. Thus, 6 + 4 + 1 = 11 WR It’s an incredible feat that has not been matched today… unless Usain Bolt gets a chance. Jimson Lee Coach & Founder at SpeedEndurance.com I am a Masters Athlete and Coach currently based in London UK. My other projects include the Bud Winter Foundation, writer for the IAAF New Studies in Athletics Journal (NSA) and a member of the Track & Field Writers of America. READ Wyomia Tyus: The Famous Pre-Race Dance to Out-Psych Everyone @speedendurance Latest posts by Jimson Lee (see all) Tokyo 2020 Olympic Timetable for Track & Field - April 19, 2019 Ron Davis & Filbert Bayi: Looking to Past for its Athletics Future [Part 2] - February 13, 2019 Brothers across the miles: Ron Davis & Filbert Bayi, Looking to Past for its Athletics Future - February 11, 2019 Filed Under: Track & Field Tagged With: Tommie Smith, Usain Bolt About Jimson Lee	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line367
__label__wiki	0.78743	0.78743	Spotify Signs an Exclusive Podcasting Deal with Kevin Bacon Posted on June 04, 2017 by Emma Emil Kevin Bacon speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International (photo: Gage Skidmore CC 2.0) Spotify has signed an exclusive agreement with well-known actor and musician Kevin Bacon, who will star in a scripted comedy podcast, I’m Gonna Be Kevin Bacon, in the near future. The project is happening, though a specific release date hasn’t yet been provided. But if you’re wondering where else Spotify is allocating its $500 million-plus podcasting budget, here’s yet another answer. The Bacon partnership is just one component of Spotify’s recent efforts to add podcasts to its repertoire — and dramatically lower its royalty costs in the process. Last month, Spotify inked a deal with the Obamas, who will release “multiple” exclusive programs through the streaming service. I’m Gonna Be Kevin Bacon will follow a washed-up actor who blames Kevin Bacon for his career failures; said actor then embarks on a comprehensive quest to bring Bacon to justice. The 12-episode program will be crafted with the help of several members of Funny or Die, a comedy-focused media-production company that was founded by Will Ferrell. It was also reported that multiple actors and celebs will make cameo appearances in I’m Gonna Be Kevin Bacon, though the names of these individuals were not disclosed by Spotify. In addition to illustrating Spotify’s broader expansion into audio (not just music) entertainment, I’m Gonna Be Kevin Bacon is significant in that it signals a major change of pace from the traditional podcast, which generally focuses on conversation, news, interviews, or other nonfiction topics. Bacon, a native of Philadelphia, has enjoyed considerable career success throughout the last four decades. Since making his film debut in Animal House, he has starred in a string of critically acclaimed works. You Should Have Left, a horror film co-starring Bacon and Amanda Seyfried, will release sometime this year. Bacon is also currently starring in City on a Hill, a Showtime drama. Lastly, Bacon has a good deal of music experience — a point that might have factored into his signing with Spotify. Kevin and Michael Bacon comprise The Bacon Brothers, a country, folk, and rock hybrid group. Since 1995, the duo has released nine records, the most recent of which dropped in 2018. Woodstock 50 Directly Appeals To Local Residents After Town Officials Deny Its Permit After Pressuring Nicki Minaj To Cancel Her Performance In Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Foundation Sets Its Sights On Bts Video Game Developers And Producers Publicly Slam Ubisoft’s And Joseph Gordon-levitt’s “spec Work” On Watch Dogs Legion Is Traditional Radio About To Crash? Audience Levels In America Have Been Flat For Three Years Straight Obamas are getting a Podcast, family makes deal with Spotify Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on Gimlet acquisition 23.53 MB ~ 17:08 Minutes How To Get Your Podcast On Spotify - Full Tutorial How to Make Money Podcasting in 2019 (Podcast Monetization Tutorial) The Truth About Spotify Monthly Listeners \| The Specktators Podcast #7 86.24 MB ~ 1:02:48 Minutes Blend Extra: How Spotify is Changing the Face of Podcasting	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line376
__label__cc	0.556942	0.443058	When do people become white supremacists? From the Mother Jones article Inside the radical, uncomfortable movement to reform white supremacists: Starting in the late 1980s, Tore Bjørgo, a Norwegian sociologist, interviewed white supremacists as they attempted to leave the Scandinavian neo-Nazi movement. His findings were counterintuitive: Many became hardcore racists only after they had joined white supremacist groups. Rather than preexisting anti-Semitism or xenophobia, a cocktail of experiences such as isolation, depression, anxiety, or childhood abuse typically served as the stepping stones to extremism. This suggested that the behavioral and social rewards of participating in hate groups are perhaps more fundamental to understanding—and stopping—extremist behavior than the ideology behind it. There's a certain psychological profile that seems common to those who join extremist groups of whatever sort. I worry that a lot of activity billed as "anti-racist" may be more likely to drive people into white-supremacist organisations rather than away from them. Here's a different example from Deeyah Khan in the Vox article This filmmaker spent months interviewing neo-Nazis and jihadists. Here’s what she learned.: ... Part of the reason people subscribe to these movements is that they feel shunned in their lives, in their personal lives or in wider society. These movements are deeply rooted in a sense of victimhood, real or imagined. So if we exclude them, if we shout at them, if we condemn them, that completely feeds into that. And then the monster gets bigger, not smaller. The point about victimhood potentially being real or imagined is important to recognize, and I think that it's a lot easier to sell people on the notion that they're victims rather than victimizers. On people's motivations: ... Much of it doesn’t come from hate. It comes from a lot of other basic human needs that are not being met. To be sure, there are political and social and economic factors involved on both sides, but if you dig deep, you find that it’s about much more than that. I tried to understand the core psychological draw of these movements. I found that a sense of belonging or purpose was a major factor. These people join these groups and suddenly they have a sense of meaning in life, a belief that they matter, that their voice matters. It’s as though they were once invisible and now they’re seen. Khan there also talks about the commonalities and interdependence between jihadists and white supremacists which I certainly agree with, but that's a story for another day. Read more about When do people become white supremacists? Biography vs. hagiography "One issue that deeply worried me in prison was the false image that I unwittingly projected to the outside world: of being regarded as a saint. I never was one, even on the basis of an earthly definition of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying" #NelsonMandela #LivingTheLegacy pic.twitter.com/TZvzOeGftE — NelsonMandela (@NelsonMandela) January 31, 2018 Every good biography finds contradictions in the person. The greatest contradictions are found in the greatest people. As Solzhenitsyn wrote, the line between good and evil runs "through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years...." https://t.co/MfaUIWBCka — Dan Gardner (@dgardner) January 27, 2018 Read more about Biography vs. hagiography "The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights" When people are resistant to change, instead of pitching new ideas, lead with obvious ones. Once you validate some intuitions, you earn the legitimacy to challenge others. You don't have to say something new if you say something true.#WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/6wcGSdr7Jw — Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) February 6, 2019 Read more about "The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights" The narrative on gender bias Submitted by David on Fri, 2019-02-22 08:02 I've been keeping an eye on Brian Earp's work for years, as he's got a very nuanced approach to things. Recently one of the papers that he was first author on, Gender Bias in Pediatric Pain Assessment, got picked up by quite a few prominent media outlets who consistently misreported the paper's results to fit the politically narrative. Here's a thread he put together on how to better interpret the results: From gender bias to media bias? A thread on how our study looking at adult perceptions of children's pain got misconstrued. A reminder of the importance of taking media coverage with a grain of salt, reading original studies when possible, and guarding against confirmation bias. pic.twitter.com/m0sn8WKlnc — Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) February 20, 2019 I think he's appropriately cynical, as per this recent update that if the study had found the opposite results those too would likely have be interpreted also to fit the narrative - and thought more about how certain elements of current theory might be unfalsifiable. A few years back Earp authored The unbearable asymmetry of bullshit, which looks at how activists can push false narratives in science1 so I don't think he's exactly been caught off guard that certain things might have been distorted. (I do sort of wonder if he's come to regret having earlier referred a journalist to that boring predictable ideologue Kate Manne though). It seems to be a bad week for the New York Times's credibility. In another article asserting sexism it seems that a study which is likely fraudulent / non-existant was cited. It was soon acknowledged by the journalist who wrote the piece as a solid critique but a number of days later now the article still remains uncorrected. (EDIT: the journalist in question has now mentioned a correction though my cached copy still shows the error). (It's been a pretty bad week in general for politically correct narratives re: sexism - i.e. someone looking into research on whether blind auditions improved the hiring of female musicians - perhaps the most commonly-cited paper I've heard suggesting that blinding people to the identity of those they're evaluating - found that the figures supposedly supporting this were at least ambiguous and in part in conflict with the narrative). When media outlets get science reporting this wrong due to narratives biasing interpretation of data, don't be surprised when there's going to be skepticism over other science (e.g. climate change), economics, or politics. — Rabbi Josh Yuter (@JYuter) February 21, 2019 As far as activists pushing bullshit goes, he's probably most focused on the issue of circumcision ↩︎ Read more about The narrative on gender bias	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line378
__label__cc	0.638862	0.361138	Weather for 44 locations in Saudi Arabia 2 hours ago, the minimum air temperature ( +23 oC +73 oF ) was observed in Asir in Abha (airport). 4 hours ago, the maximum air temperature ( +37 oC +99 oF ) was observed in Al Madinah in Madinah (airport). Al Bahah (airport) Al Bahah >>> Al Qasim Buraidah, Qassim (airport) >>> Al Riyadh (airport) Al-Kharj (airport), Dawadmi, Riyadh, Wadi al-Dawasir (airport) >>> Al-Jawf (airport) Gurayat (airport) >>> Abha (airport), Bisha (airport), Khamis Mushait (airport) >>> Dammam, Dammam (airport), Dammam / King Fahd (airport), Dhahran (airport) >>> Ha'il (airport) Jizan (airport) Madinah (airport) Kaiber, Yanbu (airport) >>> Arafat, Jeddah (airport), Mecca (airport), Ta'if (airport) >>> Najran (airport) Sharurah (airport) >>> Northern Borders Region Arar (airport), Rafha (airport), Turaif (airport) >>> Tabuk (airport) Al Wajh (airport), Al-Ula (airport) >>>	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line380
__label__cc	0.674959	0.325041	Bristol Tennessee to Sudbury Ontario So here we were yesterday afternoon, cruising away from the track and into Bristol on the Volunteer Parkway with hardly any other cars around. But we were aware that there was a tsunami of traffic that would be right behind us so we didn't slow down. As Satchel Paige once said. "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you". The GPS was set to take us to I-75, although we had one miscue when it tried to take a longer route than I wanted. No problem, we managed to leave Bristol on US 421 North after instructing it. Our decision not to take I-81 due to the bridge construction at Marion might not have been necessary since we were so fast getting away, but we heard on the radio that there was a crash on 81 just north of Abingdon, Virginia so I guess our choice was for the best. US 421 to Gate City was an excellent motorcycle road. It twisted and wound and, once we left the city, there was no one ahead of us. After Gate City, it was more four lane than two and, although the traffic picked up, it wasn't a problem. Instead of taking a northwestern diagonal to meet I-75 at London, Kentucky, the Garmin directing us more southwest on US 58 to Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. This is the spot where Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together and was a major point in the people migrating west to the frontier. There we turned north on US 25E into Kentucky. As soon as we started on 25E, we went through a tunnel that had interactive over height warning signs. First time I have seen those. We reached I-75 at Corbin, Kentucky where we stopped for fuel ($3.58 per gallon, the best so far) and had a bite at the DQ Brazier. I had an excellent mushroom/Swiss burger. Many of the people in there were heading home from the race. Tom took over driving in Corbin as the sun was going down. I dozed off and on as we worked our way north. Just outside Dayton, Ohio, we met some heavy rain but the Rocket Stick hooked me up and showed it was very localized. By the time we got through the never-ending Dayton construction, it was all over. Then we encountered fog entering Michigan, stopping at a TOA in Monroe for more fuel and coffee. Finding the tunnel in Detroit would have been virtually impossible without the GPS. Once we got to it, getting through it was pretty convoluted, too. And the toll was $4.50 Canadian but only $4.00 US. What a rip. We used my US credit card to pay the lower fare. Canadian Customs was friendly, efficient and non-demanding, welcoming us home. Tom had driven all the way from Corbin and now Heather took over for an hour through heavy fog. Tom took over again in London and we pulled into their driveway in Woodstock at 6:00 AM. I could have taken a break and slept for a few hours but I wasn't feeling too bad so I headed right out. After calculating that our 100 KPH pace had cost substantial time on the way home (20 KPH faster over 10 hours equals 200 kilometers more distance covered), I left town flying low as the fog dissipated. I was moving with the faster traffic at 125 to 135 as the sun started to rise. I even opted to splurge on the ETR407 Toll Road, which got me headed north out of Toronto before the big rush hour jam. Good thing because I heard Highway 25 was closed at Nobleton due to a wreck. I hit the drive-thru at the King City Service Center Tim Horton's and kept going. North of Barrie, I was back into fog but the traffic was light. More stinking fog I had been hearing a light clunk in the right rear that sounded like rocks bouncing into the wheel well. But always the same wheel? I finally stopped in Point Au Baril to check on it and found that I had been dragging my computer power cord since Woodstock. The end that plugged into the Netbook was toast. I'd need to stop at Staples in Sudbury and look for another cord. Damn. Mangled Netbook power cord The fog cleared by Parry Sound until I reached the four-lane at Estaire. From there until town, the tired caught up with me. I decided that this was just a little too much and, next time, I will pull over sooner. My ability to push my limits is not as great as it was when I was younger. I reached town at 11:00 AM and, after a quick stop at Staples for a new cord, pulled into the driveway. As expected, there was only a tiny patch of snow left. I did consider the next Bristol trip. Ideally, we would take the motorhome and camp at Earhart for nine nights for the fixed $200 price. We would spend the early part of the week exploring the area and then, on Friday, we would pay $5.00 each to watch qualifying and practice. We would experience the ambiance, the tailgates and the cornhole tournaments. Then, on Saturday and Sunday, we would sit in the motorhome and watch the races on satellite TV while listening to the track through the windows. Comfortable couch versus metal seats, instant replays and commentary and a place to nap. It just doesn't get any better than this:-)) Today's Route (1,035 car/van miles): Posted by Jim "Skid" Robinson on 3/19/2012 2 comments: Bristol Motor Speedway Sunday It started raining about 4:00 AM this morning. This was our main concern because, with Heather and Tom's work schedule, there was no way we would be able to stay over another day in case of a rain out. I didn't see any water coming into the tent so I went back to sleep. It was still coming down at 8:00 AM when we got up and drove over to the shower building. I skipped the shower, just brushing my teeth and washing. I discovered the little bottle of hotel shampoo had lost its lid so my trusty old shaving kit was pretty messed up inside. Nothing o do about it until I got home. Outside, I waited for Heather and Tom with the same crew from Maine that was here yesterday. Mainers hanging out in the rain at the showers We had planned to tear the tent down later, after the dew dried. We were pretty sure nothing was going to dry now but we were hoping for the rain to stop so we put on our disposable Walmart rain ponchos and headed for the iBelong Reunion over at the Creekside Hospitality Area (wherever that was). Following the creek, we found the Reunion, held for the season ticket holders. As I mentioned, Richard had loaned me his iBelong ID cards so we got in for free. Eating some breakfast at the Reunion They had some things laid out for the regulars. There was a Little Bristol track with radio control cars. They sure could take a beating. There was a bank of driving simulators and a tire changing simulator that Tom tried out. I skipped that one because my knees would have rebelled. There were a few classic muscle cars, two of which were from Ontario. Brad Keselowski spoke to us, with a lot of commentary directed to Twitter and cell phones in race cars. Jeff Burton also put in an appearance. And we got to see Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel. Actually, Twiggy VII and Twiggy VIII because this show has been going since 1979. Little Bristol Speedway Plymouth Superbird with Ontario plates Ontario Dodge Charger Tom tries out for a position on a pit crew Probably not a good enough time but at least he didn't break a lug Oh look, a squirrel Twiggy really seems to like it On the way back to the tent, we passed the Official Cornhole Tournament. OK, these guys were good. The Cornhole professionals Back at the tent, the rain had pretty much let up. We stowed the gear and folded a very wet tent and fly. These would need to be hung up to dry when I got home. I hate putting away wet gear but at least it wasn't actively precipitating as we did it. We managed to get everything shoe horned into the trunk and back seat, turning the car in anticipation of a quick escape after the race. Heather and Tom packing their stuff We walked over to the track and slowly climbed all the way up to the top level and our Row 57 seats. Sandy said Kellie Pickler was supposed to be doing the pre-race show but we found out later that they had cancelled it due to the rain. Lee Greenwood traditionally sings Proud To Be An American but they had to use a recording this time because Lee was also a weather no show. As we ate pizza and Arby's while watching driver introductions (Kyle got booed again) and opening ceremonies, the skies started to clear. Blue skies coming our way....... Smoke from the opening ceremonies fireworks Binoculars helped Jet dryers, where is Juan Montoya? Pace laps and many empty seats About the empty seats. Bristol has long been the most popular track on the NASCAR circuit and traditionally sells out. Season's tickets are passed to family members in their wills. And today almost 1/3rd of the seats were empty. Discussion afterwards debated the suspected causes including the morning rain, the general state of the economy and possible the new track configuration which makes for less aggressive racing. I'm not sure what the right answer is but it sure was unusual to see. I'm sure the scalpers took a beating this weekend. They hang out just off the track property and, to a man, all the ones I saw were African-American. In fact, they were almost the only black people I saw near the track. I see the same thing in VROC. Although we welcome everyone and anyone with any evident racial bias gets dealt with quite harshly, we still end up being an almost totally lily-white group. It makes me wonder why. The last bit of context has to do with the VROC Yahoo NASCAR Fantasy League. We have been doing this for years and both Mom and I have been season champions early on. I haven't done so well lately and today was no exception. I pinned my front line hopes on Kyle Busch, who has swept a whole weekend here in the recent past. But today, my choice jinxed him and he was caught up in the first wreck right in front of our seats. The rest of the race was extremely uneventful considering this was Bristol. Dale Earnhardt used to describe racing here as "frammin' and jammin' ". But the new track results in more than one racing line and we saw three wide a few times. I fought nodding off again as the cars ran round and round. In the end, Brad Keselowski crossed the finish line first. Goodyear Tire guys grilling in the infield Kyle's "Bristol" car (no fenders or hood) Marcus Ambrose in Bristol trim as well As soon as the 500th lap was done and the checkered flag waved, we started for the stairs. By the time we got to the bottom, we were surrounded by a sea of humanity all trying to get out of there. We walked quickly to the campsite where I got behind the wheel and we were rolling. I threaded my way around pedestrians but didn't encounter another moving vehicle until we were almost to the main road. Withing five minutes of getting to the car, we were rolling towards town on Volunteer Parkway with almost no other cars on the road. I have never made this clean a getaway from any of the tracks I have been at. Bristol Motor Speedway Saturday Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Since my grandfather was a staunch Orangeman, I tend to downplay the green on the 17th but Irish eyes seem to be smiling this morning. First thing, we climbed into the car and drove across the campground to the shower building. It wasn't nearly as busy as I expected and I managed to find a free shower stall right away. My only complaint was that the little change area didn't have a bench of any kind. It would have been easier if I was wearing sleep pants and Crocs, but I managed to enjoy the hot water anywaay. After getting clean, I took advantage of the coffee they had made outside while talking to some other Mainers (not Bo's group) out front. After driving back to the campsite, we walked up to the main road and surveyed the "unofficial" vendors. There were many selling diecast replica cars but one had a series of plastic display cases for these models. I had never seen that before. Some were just plain cases while others had themes like the three vehicles Kyle Busch used for his Bristol Sweep or all seven cars King Richard used for his championships. These make the replicas much more attractive in my mind. Darryl Waltrip Diecast Replica Display Case I was looking for souvenirs for Sandy. Her favourite driver is Kevin Harvick, so I managed to get her a can koozie and a ticket lanyard with #29 on them. I also found tie-dyed Bristol shirts. Real tie-dyed, not a silk screened fake. Across the road, I bought an official race program and a race pin. I have a pin from each race I have attended. Sam Hornish Jr. signs autographs We took the merchandise back to our tent and then returned to the track because Nationwide qualifying was scheduled for 10:30. On the way, we stopped at a replica Bowyer car for publicity shots. Unlike the real thing, this one has a door. Heather in Clint Bowyer's car Tom tries the 15 on for size And me (I use the sponsor's product often) Reaching the track, it was time to find our assigned seats. Kulwicki Grandstand, Section L, Row 57. We knew that this was pretty much on the line between Turns 1 and 2. We climbed some stairs to the first level. then we climbed some more and went out into the stands. Then we climbed a long way up to where our seats were. It was nice that they were on the aisle but there were lots of stairs. The track as seen from our seats Tom using his new DSLR camera Fine looking fans We watched the qualifying intently even though we didn't bring our program and couldn't remember who was in which car most of the time. Give us a break, we follow the Sprint series a lot more closely. Everyone knew Danica's car After qualifying, we went up a couple of rows to the top concourse and found a table for lunch. I had Arby's while Heather and Tom had Godfather's Pizza. We shared the table with another couple from Maine, this time a little older. Veterans of New Hampshire races, this is their first time at Bristol.. The New Englanders seem to be everywhere this weekend. Lunch time at the track After lunch, we headed down the outer stairwell, all twelve industrial sized flights of metal steps. We wandered through the merchandise trailers and vendors looking for some things Heather wanted. Heather and Tom discuss souvenirs Danica is everywhere Who says the Waltrip team doesn't have a sense of humour? Too funny (too true) Nothing is serious with the 55 Scanners with screens, in car cameras and instant replays Our stairwell is behind the Food City banner Another brand of legal moonshine Deep fried Oreos?? Yes, deep fried Oreos Modern high powered ice cream maker Back at the track, we paced ourselves as we climbed and climbed. Someone could make a fortune selling oxygen and nitroglycerin at the top of the stairs. We met a nice couple doing Bible outreach and talked to them a bit. I didn't for one minute let them know my true beliefs. They are volunteering here and there was no need to cause them any consternation. Raceway Ministries Our tent is on the other side of the parking lot I saw these two haulers somewhere on the road last summer We took our seats in time for the driver introductions. Kyle Busch got the biggest boos. Kevin Harvick on left The stands are far from full Danica in green Some typical NASCAR race fans Lots of people in the pits before the race The green flag drops The race got underway at 2:00. It was relatively uneventful for a Bristol race. The reconfigured track seems to have led to a lot more mannerly driving with a lot fewer cautions. In the end, Elliott Sadler in the 2 car won it going away. Spotters on the roof Sadler wins Back at the tent, we needed more water. We decided to drive out and do some shopping. First, we went towards Bristol and stopped at Subway. On the way, we passed an erratic old pickup truck driven by an older man drinking from a Pepsi bottle. No one was willing to bet that it was just Pepsi in the bottle. No one ordered the featured sandwich We stopped at the liquor store across the street. I was looking for Catdaddy moonshine for a friend back home and maybe a bottle of Popcorn Sutton moonshine for myself. Since Popcorn passed away, they have been making his shine legally. Having had the real stuff, I wondered how the legal stuff compared. Amazingly, the store had big displays of both kinds. There was a video playing of Popcorn's funeral and they were trying to sell by the case. I bought one bottle of each, with the Sutton coming in the traditional mason jar. The next stop was Walmart where I got a car charger for my new phone and a copy of the video game Plants and Zombies. Tom said I needed it. We got a case of water for what one bottle costs at the track and we each got an eighty-eight cent plastic rain poncho. Then we headed back to the track. Surprisingly, it was 7:00 PM and we were not allowed back into the campground because cars and people were still leaving. We returned to Walmart where I set up the voice mail on the new phone and we checked Email (since we hadn't been able to sign on wth the Rocket Stick at the campground, probably due to too many people with too many phones). The track is inaccessible Cloud formations from the Walmart lot After 8:00 PM, the left turn into the campground was still blocked but, after going up and making a U-turn, they allowed us to make a right turn into the property. Back at the campsite, we decided not to go to the Saint Patrick's Day party that George Wendt (Norm from Cheers) was hosting but we did notice they dyed the creek green. Heather and Tom took a walk while I talked to Judy and Steve. Heather and Tom relaxing Steve and Judy in green I turned in fairly early, again serenaded by generators and loud partiers. On a sad note, I spoke to Sandy this afternoon and she told me that fellow Freedom Rider Al Barrowcliffe had succumbed to cancer. Al was a good man and we will miss him. Our thoughts are with Ruth and the family. Rest In Peace, Al. Bristol Motor Speedway Friday Sudbury Ontario to Bristol Tennessee Cambridge Ontario and Woodstock Ontario Sudbury Ontario to Cambridge Ontario via the Toron...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line391
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__label__wiki	0.59752	0.59752	Databases msdb OriginOfSpecies ( stats) title is 04-14 - Summary of Chapter orderby title select * from OriginOfSpecies where title = '04-14 - Summary of Chapter' order by title ( Row) 04 - Natural Selection 04-14 - Summary of Chapter 20 Whether natural selection has really thus acted in adapting the various forms of life to their several conditions and stations, must be judged by the general tenor and balance of evidence given in the following chapters. But we have already seen how it entails extinction; and how largely extinction has acted in the world's history, geology plainly declares. Natural selection also leads to divergence of character; for the more organic beings diverge in structure, habits, and constitution, by so much the more can a large number be supported on the area,- of which we see proof by looking to the inhabitants of any small spot, and to the productions naturalised in foreign lands. Therefore, during the modification of the descendants of any one species, and during the incessant struggle of all species to increase in numbers, the more diversified the descendants become, the better will be their chance of success in the battle for life. Thus the small differences distinguishing varieties of the same species, steadily tend to increase, till they equal the greater differences between species of the same genus, or even of distinct genera. 04 - Natural Selection 04-14 - Summary of Chapter 30 We have seen that it is the common, the widely-diffused and widely-ranging species, belonging to the larger genera within each class, which vary most; and these tend to transmit to their modified offspring that superiority which now makes them dominant in their own countries. Natural selection, as has just been remarked, leads to divergence of character and to much extinction of the less improved and intermediate forms of life. On these principles, the nature of the affinities, and the generally well-defined distinctions between the innumerable organic beings in each class throughout the world, may be explained. It is a truly wonderful fact- the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity- that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in groups, subordinate to groups, in the manner which we everywhere behold- namely, varieties of the same species most closely related, species of the same genus less closely and unequally related, forming sections and sub-genera, species of distinct genera much less closely related, and genera related in different degrees, forming sub-families, families, orders, sub-classes and classes. The several subordinate groups in any class cannot be ranked in a single file, but seem clustered round points, and these round other points, and so on in almost endless cycles. If species had been independently created, no explanation would have been possible of this kind of classification; but it is explained through inheritance and the complex action of natural selection, entailing extinction and divergence of character, as we have seen illustrated in the diagram. 04 - Natural Selection 04-14 - Summary of Chapter 40 The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during former years may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have at all times overmastered other species in the great battle for life. The limbs, divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was young, budding twigs, and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear the other branches; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods very few have left living and modified descendants. From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these fallen branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and genera which have now no living representatives, and which are known to us only in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from, a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus or Lepidosiren, which in some small degree connects by its affinities two large branches of life, and which has apparently been saved from fatal competition by having inhabited a protected station. As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its everbranching and beautiful ramifications.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line407
__label__cc	0.546679	0.453321	Transportation and Traffic Posted on January 23, 2018 by Kevin Vendt School Committee Approves $42.7 Million Budget Reading, MA — By a vote of 5-1, the School Committee voted to approve a $42.7 million balanced budget on January 22. The budget includes the cutting of three elementary school teachers, seven middle school teachers, two games on each level of every sport and a reduction in the number of vacation cleanings for the high school. The middle school teachers cuts would reduce the number of periods per day for middle school students, causing sixth grade students to have half the number of english language arts classes in sixth grade and the no foreign language in grades seven and eight. The meeting opened with a public hearing about the budget during which several speakers urged the committee to find a different way to balance the budget other than the middle school foreign language program. Several committee members bemoaned the budget as inadequate and “bad.” “It (this budget) will hurt kids.” commented committee member Jeanne Borawski. “I hate to support these cuts.” committee member Linda Snow Dockser shared. “Nobody designed Proposition 2 1/2 in a way that a community that is 98% (sic) residential would not pass an override for fifteen years.” committee member Elaine Webb lamented. Committee member Nicholas Boivin suggested a plan that would eliminate the school business assistant, cut the data coach, reduce the building-based budgets by ten percent, and reduce the athletics budget by almost $200,000 in order to save the middle school model. While she appreciated Boivin’s attempt, Borawski pointed out that the committee could not know what the impacts or domino effects of this last-minute change would be. “Athletic families and students would not be given time to advocate for their program.” Borawski continued. Referencing that elementary schools and the high school had experienced cuts over the last five years, Borawski continued, “We need to make cuts equitably, this would hit the high school again.” Chair Chuck Robinson declared, “We can’t keep doing this. We can’t pit program versus program.” Robinson also remembered that he was the one who was trying to find ways to save the program last year. The committee voted down the proposal by a vote of 1-5. Boivin also floated the idea of voting an unbalanced budget. “This feels like a band-aid. We will be back here with the same conversation next year.” Committee member Sherri VandenAkker stated. Finance committee member Paula Perry urged a vote on a balanced budget, “For the school committee not to vote a balanced budget would be disingenuous.” By a vote of 5-1, the committee also voted to recommend an override amount of $2.436 million in additional expenses to the board of selectmen. Boivin was the only dissenting vote. The budget additions are highlighted by the restoration of six high school teachers, seven middle school teachers, three elementary teachers, and one elementary tutor. It also includes salary adjustments to aid in the attraction of new teachers and retention of current teachers. It adds two districtwide curriculum coordinators for grades kindergarten through grade eight. If an override were to pass, the budget restructures several administrative positions to help make the district more efficient in its work. The plan calls for an assistant principal for each elementary school, adding two positions and adapting the three-team chair roles that currently serve the five schools. The plan also includes the final installment to implement the new science curriculum, an additional computer technician, and a payroll/human resources accountant. It restores the current cleaning and maintenance schedule for the high school and returns the two additional games for each high school athletics team that were eliminated from the balanced budget. Doherty stated that these budget additions would bring class sizes in grade three to five back to suggested levels, sustain the middle school model which has been effective for over thirty years and strengthen interventions with students who are struggling. “These are things we have been talking about for a long time,” Webb explained. “This is a list of the things we need. It is not a wish list.” The selectmen will decide whether or not to place a Proposition 2 1/2 override on the April 3 ballot at its January 30 meeting. It will also decide on the amount for both the municipal budget override request and the school department budget override request at that meeting. Based on the results of that meeting, the school committee will discuss its priority list at its February 5 meeting. The School Committee also voted 5-1 to approve the schedule and process for hiring a new principal for the Reading Memorial High School. The committee adjourned at 10:48 PM. Meetings, Schools Tagged 01867, Doherty, election, news, override, Proposition 2 ½, reading ma, reading Massachusetts, reading school department, School Committee, superintendent, town of reading Select Board, Residents Frustrated Over Haverhill Street Speed Ruling Select Board Allows Tree Removal Austin Prep Baseball Field Plans Amended Doherty to Take Leave of Absence Reading Police and Fire Close Dispatch Center, Surrounding Streets after Local Woman Brings Military Mortar to Police Station Reading Police Department to Reward Kids with Summer Helmet Initiative CPDC Considers Austin Prep. 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__label__wiki	0.710734	0.710734	Bloom / Beach House by jrome Published on Friday, May 18, 2012 Beach House,Bloom,Dream pop,Featured,Soundcast, Beach House has created something quite breathtaking with their fourth album, Bloom. This album’s initial allure comes not only from the individual album itself, but also from the history of the band’s album releases. Since their self-titled, debut album in 2006, they have proceeded to make each album they put out better than the last. With this release, they have superseded expectations by taking their music to the next level. This album contains colossal songs that could fill the most vastly desolate places. They have kept their signature lackadaisical pop feel, but have also implemented a fuller sound similar in feeling to M83‘s 2005 album Before the Dawn Heals Us. With this new innovation, Beach House has allowed their mellow sounds to be supported by an under-layer of driving power. Even though classic Beach House songs such as Turtle Island, Gila, and Zebra are lovely and rich, they just do not encompass the same force songs from the new album, like Myth and Lazuli, do. This all isn’t to say Beach House has wandered off from what it is they normally do; they have merely expanded. The songs still have the same shrill keyboard lines, genial dance feel and prominent reverb, which is part of the genius of it all. Fine adjustments were all it took to make the songs worlds taller and more awe-inspiring. Bloom is filled with emotion for the duration of the album. In the telling song Wild, the lyrics morosely sing, “my mother said to me that I would get in trouble. My father won’t be home, because he is seeing double.” The song’s inflection allows the listener to gain allegorical insight. Not only does it emulate nostalgic emotion with a dark, minor tone, but also the resound lyrics paint a perfect picture of the scene being portrayed. Some of the songs feel too powerfully gestalt to readily identify just what makes them so mesmerizing. The song Wishes, for instance, conjures up thoughts of a vast wonderland with all components blending to form one unified sound. The individual parts would not be nearly as powerful isolated yet work together to ultimately create a robust product. In a sense, Bloom is an album that does the work for itself. It doesn’t take much thought or effort for the listener to understand the power each of these songs possess. It is subtly elaborate and masterfully crafted. The only worry is how difficult it will be for the band top this astonishing piece of work. –@julianrome Beach House Thread Wishes (Official Music Video) / Beach House Lomas I5 Beach House / Vertice Arquitectos Wild (Official Music Video)/ Beach House Beach House / Yamamori Architect & Associates Vault House / Johnston Marklee Soundsystem: Ridin / A$AP Rocky featuring Lana Del Rey Published on Friday, June 29, 2012 Soundsystem: Bow Down (I Been On) Remix / Beyoncé feat. Bun B, Z-Ro, Scarface, Willie D, Slim Thug, Lil Keke Published on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Sad Eyes (Official Video) / Crystal Castles Published on Monday, January 28, 2013 Soundsystem: Embody / Sebastian Published on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Soundsystem: Far Nearer / Jamie xx Published on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Soundsystem: Mercy (RL Grime & Salva Remix) / Kanye West	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line414
__label__wiki	0.818739	0.818739	Jee Leong Koh reads from new poetry book this Friday at Son of a Pony Featured poet: Jee Leong Koh Spotlight poet: Talia Boylan PLUS NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike Hosted by Kat Georges JEE LEONG KOH is the author of three poetry collections, including Payday Loans (2007, Poets Wear Prada Press) and Equal to the Earth (2009, Bench Press) and his brand new book Seven Studies for a Self Portrait, which will be launching at this event. His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2007 (University of Virginia Press) and Best Gay Poetry 2008 (A Midsummer's Night Press), and has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2008. Born in Singapore, he lives in New York City, and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter (http://jeeleong.blogspot.com). Spotlight poet TALIA BOYLAN is currently studying poetry at The Brearly School, and recently published a chapbook, "The Only Flat Place. The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet & hospitable mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink. Review: Mike Watt & the Missingmen @ Mercury Lounge 4/4/11 Reverence. That's the word to best describe the reaction of the crowd during Mike Watt & the Missingmen's sizzling performance Monday night at the Mercury Lounge. Reverence? Concert crowds are generally described as "reverent" at singer/songwriter shows, featuring tender voices flowing sad songs of failed romance and mini-memoirs of victimhood. This wasn't that kind of show at all, which makes the reverence even more phenomenal. Taking the stage after a couple of between-band Coltrane songs, Watt and crew—guitarist Tom Watson and drummer Raul Morales—floored the packed house with a no-holds-barred, non-stop presentation of Hyphenated-Man, Watt's third opera, released in 2010 on the Clenched Wrench label. It was a punkropera that hailed back to Watt's Minutemen roots and covered all the ground in-between. Thirty songs, inspired by Heironymous Bosch and played live—non-stop, in order—with such intensity that, if it hadn't been for gravity, the completely blown away crowd would have been thrust out the doors and onto Houston Street. From the opening road beats of "Arrow-Pierced-Egg-Man," Watt led the charge, as lead singer playing unbelievable bass lines, that came across live at twice the potency of the incredible crush of the recorded version. The second one tune ended, the next one launched, turning 30 songs into one complete work, and leaving mere seconds for between-song applause. The crowd listened so intently throughout, that it became a part of the show, riding the waves of contrast in each song, amazed by how all of these sounds and styles could come from the pen of one man, and the performance of just three. It was madcap dancing during the great segue from "Hollowed-Out-Man" to "Finger-Pointing-Man" (with its wondrous Minutemen styling). On "Mouse-Headed-Man," with its acapella repeated whispered phrase, "like a mouse," the percussion was the heartbeats of everyone in the room. Contrast that with Watt's ferocious wailing in "Man-Shitting-Man," and it became clear that this performance was about limitlessness, about exploring all the facets of what it is to be alive. About Watt's (and Coltrane's and d. boon's and punk rock's) credo: Refuse to be a slave. Refuse to be an automaton. Live your life. Every. Second. After the melodic final H-Man tune "Wheel-Bound-Man" left a few stunned seconds of "what did we just see" silence, the thunderous applause brought out the men for an encore. Watt and his bass moved from the spotlight to behind the drums and let six-string shredder Watson take over on spiel. But how do you top what just happened? How about a six song follow-up including Minutemen classics "Toadies," "Black Sheep" (from the great 3-song 7-inch Joy), "The Glory of Man" and "Anxious Mo-Fo." Ghosts were all over the place, none more felt than d. boon, the guiding force behind the Minutemen and all that's happened with Watt ever since. Opening acts included The Wicked Tomorrow, a jammin' duo with Michelle Feliciano playing meaty drums and Ian Jacobs kicking the show into a higher gear with his guitar work. Appomattox also rocked, with complex, yet catchy tunes, which—at 4-5 minutes each—were the longest songs of the night! More great photos from Deed Runlea who reviewed the gig on his great new weekly radio show "Crust Never Sleeps" (Tuesdays, 10-midnight @ New Town Radio Posted by Three Rooms Press at 7:36 AM 3 comments: Links to this post Labels: Hyphenated-Man, Kat Georges, Mercury Lounge, Mike Watt, Minutemen, Missingmen Jee Leong Koh reads from new poetry book this Frid... Review: Mike Watt & the Missingmen @ Mercury Loung...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line419
__label__wiki	0.51388	0.51388	Back in 2007, when the Indian Air Force (IAF) began work on commissioning its advanced landing grounds (ALG)—spread along the rolling valleys and hills in the mountainous and forested northwestern and northeastern regions of India, it soon realised that some of these ALGs, with modest upgradations, could also serve as peacetime locations housing dedicated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms on temporary deployments. The only item lacking at that time was the availability of high-wing STOL turboprop aircraft equipped with ISR sensors and mission management suites. Specifically, the IAF wanted a platform that could overcome the otherwise unmanageable clear air turbulence owing to mountain waves, low-level wind shear, and low clouds, and which could easily take off from and land on ALG located at altitudes of between 4,000 feet and 6,200 feet, and whose runways have a length of between 3,600 feet and 4,200 feet and a width of between 60 and 75 feet (which is half that of a normal runway), and which, unlike conventional airfields, are not equipped with stopways, overruns and undershoots. It would now appear that the IAF’s prayers have finally been answered. For, on June 21 at the on-going Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, Airbus Military and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) decided to combine forces to jointly develop and market a new version of the Airbus Military-built C-295 platform fitted with a fourth-generation airborne early warning and control (AEW & C) system produced by ELTA Systems, a wholly owned IAI subsidiary. The primary sensor of this AEW & C platform will be a 360° rotating AESA-based multi-mode radar that will also be capable of conducting ground surveillance and real-time moving ground target indication from standoff distances. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed at the Le Bourget Airshow by IAI Corp’s VP and ELTA President, Nissim Hadas, and Airbus Military CEO Domingo Ureña. The network-centric C-295 AEW & C is being designed to provide high-quality 360° surveillance for creating in real-time an integrated air, ground and maritime ‘Situation Picture’ and the electronic order of battle. A C-295 fitted with a rotodome demonstrator has been conducting flight-trials from Airbus Military’s Seville facility since June 8. Initial tests have shown that the aircraft is aerodynamically an excellent platform for this purpose. ELTA Systems and Airbus Military are now conducting engineering studies to integrate the mission suite, including the rotodome-mounted AESA radar and EADS/CASA’s seven-man FITS mission management suite, into the aircraft. In order to optimise the platform for operating in and out of ALG-type airfields, the C-295 AEW & C will come equipped with a chin-mounted FLIR. It will also house a belly-mounted radome housing a 360° rotating inverse synthetic aperture radar, which will perform ground-mapping and ground target profiling operations. As per the IAF’s future force structure projections, at least six such platforms are required for supplementing the existing fleet of three A-50EI PHALCON AEW & C platforms. A follow-on order for two additional A-50EIs was placed by India’s Ministry of Defence with IAI last March.—Prasun K. Sengupta sachin_sathe said... this sounds like a very interisting develpoment.With ACM Naik stating tht he wants more out of the ALG's in the north. Can this project be used as follow-on for phalcon AEW? how will it compare against it? the indian phalcon project uses aesa arrays in a triangular setup in a radome.Can it replace the rotodome in the picture?Also, what does this this say for the C-295 which i think is also part of MRMPA project? Sounds really good...... also, good to hear about the follow-on order of 2 more Phalcons.....still with the IL-76/78 airframes ?? What are delivery schedules ?? 2013-14 ?? How does this impact the Embraer 145 AEW&C on order (3 plus 3 options) ????? Any chance of the MOD announcing the L-1 of the MMRCA during the Paris Air Show ?? (specially if it is the Rafale !!!!) I recently read reports of IAF placing follow on orders for 2 more phalcon, is it true ?// Is this radar more advance than the one order by IAF ? IN has recently issued RFI for Medium-Multi Role Helicopters, is this RFI separate from the one from 16 MMR helicopter ? When are these IN helicopter deals being signed ? Has India showed to be part of any of the next generation helicopter project being initiated byt all the helicopter giants like Sikorsky x2, Kamov 90,92 etc. ? Is India entering into a JV with Russia for a UAV and Mikoyan LMFS also ? Are we going solo on FMBT or we will be partnering with someone ? Are we still developing those 1000 T90 Bhishm for which we have signed agreement with Russia ? Is there any report of IAF placing more orders of Su30 mki because HAL seems to be confident about it ? Are we getting second Akula or not ? Is there any report of India placing order for 4 more advanced Talwar class frigate ? Because a few months back Pipavav publicaly revealed that there is huge possibility that Russia might transfer their development to Pipavav ? When is 4 LPD deal going to be finalized and is their any indication that IN might go for LHD instead of LPD ? Sri Lakshmi defense sol. revealed their new light armored vehicle. Is there an report that our armed forces will purchase these vehicles or they will continue to operate those old vehicles ? Is army considering for increasing the order of Arjun mk2 ? Also can you post pics of Arjun mk2 ? I still have doubt , does india will go for Javelin anti tank missile - any update I asked a couple topics back about a long range supersonic cruise missile which is suppose to fly by 2014 and you said Shaurya. What exactly is Shaurya ? I mean its not exactly a cruise missile, but operates sometimes like one. You are saying about supersonic while according to reports it can travel at a speed upto Mach 6 which makes it hypersonic. So please clear this, is Shaurya a 750 to 1900 km hypersonic cruise missile with speed upto Mach 6 ?// Continuing with Shaurya missile... When is it entering in the army and are we building longer range version also because there were reports ? Also is Shaurya not based on k15 missile of k series ??/ hi prasun seems there is some typing mistake. U mentioned altitude of 4000 to 6200 feets. But nyoma is at 13300 fts. And almost all the ALGs are above 10000 fts Hi, are u in France? if you are does India have any products on display Prasun? thanks. To Sachin Sathe: The AESA radar on the C-295 will have a rotating antenna. The C-295 AEW & C will be able to engage in ISR missions out of areas hitherto considered impossible as it will be capable of operating out of ALG-type airstrips, especially in the northeast. To Anon@8.57AM: The follow-on two A-50EIs will arrive in India by 2014. Thus far, no EMB-145 AEW & CS platforms have been ordered for the IAF. The only EMB-145s ordered to date have been for the DRDO/CABS' technology demonstration programme. The C-295, being a high-wing STOL aircraft, can operate out of airstrips/ALGs out in the northeast and in Uttarakhand which the EMB-145 cannot. The L-1 status of the M-MRCA competition will be announced only next month. Dassault Aviation is the frontrunner as of now. To Anon@9.25AM: 1) Yes. The radar is the same EL/M-2075. 2) Yes, the RFI is separate as the first RFP is for 10-tonne helicopter for the Project 17 FFGs whereas the RFI is for up to 15-tonne helicopter for the P-15A DDGs. 3) No. 4) No. 5) FMBT will be in partnership with an international designer and developer of MBTs, just like the FICV project. 6) T-90M Bhishma is already developed and is being built by HVF. 7) No. 8) No. 9) No. 10) RFP for LPDs should be released by next year. 11) No idea. 12) Not at the moment. To Anon@2.29PM: Shaurya is the land-based version of the K-15 SLBM. It is essentially a ballistic missile but it can also fly a depressed trajectory at hypersonic speeds just as the supersonic BrahMos does. The Indian Army has not yet ordered the Shaurya and will not do so until the GoI decides to decommission the existing Prithvi SS-150s. To Anon@6.41PM: No, I'm tucked away somewhere in the northeast for on-going product user-trials. HAL has only a small booth as usual and top officials of HAL and BEL are present at Le Bourget, according to my colleague who is attending the expo. Quite a few Indian journalists have been taken there on all-expenses paid junkets sponsored by Airbus Military, Boeing, DCNS and Finmeccanica. That's the reason why some of the latest posts featured on some of the the Indian blogs feature products of only Boeing, Eurofighter and Dassault. Based on what I've received thus far from my colleague, several new products of interest to India have been showcased, especially small-diameter multi-mode PGMs from Israel Aerospace Industries. The Dash Mk5 HMD has been selected for the to-be-upgraded Jaguar IS as has the AIM-132 ASRAAM. The IAF will soon place orders for another four aerostat-mounted radars from ELTA to add to the two in service (one has since been damaged as the aerostat collapsed in an accident). The EL/M-2084 Arudhra MMRs now in delivery are of the long-range type and are optimised for early detection of inbound ballistic and cruise missiles. The HJT-36 IJT's IOC, earlier scheduled for this month, has now been postponed till the year's end. And the Brazilians are very happy at the persistent delays in the IL-214 MRTA programme as this will enable Embraer to score early export successes with its KC-390. Honeywell and THALES have been shortlisted by HAL for supplying the MRTA's glass cockpit. The BR-715 turbofanm from MTU-Rolls Royce may be finally selected as the preferred turbofan. The Chinese AVIC pavilion is mighty impressive as it is showcasing the C-219 regional airliner. what is the chance of this airframe integrated with the DRDO's CABS balance beam radar? hey thankx from that update from france dude :) SSG said... What happened to the plan of PD-14M engine powering MTA ? thanx prasun This a/c is useful for a country like Israel which has flat desert terrain. How effective will it be in mountainous terrain? Tethered Aerostat radars can do the job far more cheaply and efficiently than these planes which will cost a ton to purchase and operate. To Anon@8:58AM: Nil. To SSG: The IAF has specified a non-Russian turbofan solution. The Ruskies are free to develop their own turbofan for the MRTA for their own domestic consumption. To Anon@7.03PM: You're wrong on two counts. Firstly, if you re-read what I've said above, the C-295 AEW & CS is not only for airborne early warning and control, but is also designed to be employed for persistent real-time air-to-ground surveillance from standoff distances, something which tethered aerostat-mounted radars do not do. Secondly, tethered aerostat-mounted radars are not designed to be employed for extended durations 24/7. The IAF tried doing that in Barnala and lost it to an accident. Even if aerostat-mounted radars are deployed over mountainous terrain, they are likely to be shot down by intruding combat aircraft or even attack helicopters. Therefore, in terms of both deployability and availability, a manned ISR platform is far more cost-effective than an tethered aerostat-mounted radar. Can we sAy that C-295 AEW & C is essentially capable of providing E-3 aew7c and e-8 and MPA capabilities in a single platform? (smaller in size but capabilities are there)? It looks like smaller version of Chinese zdk-03? any updates on its status? Is PN going for the hinese zdk-03? how many tethered aerostat-mounted radars are operated by india EF Typhoon has announced Aesa will be ready by 2015, but as per IAF it says by 2014 onwards mmrca jets will be started delivering, do Rafael has upper hand , it announced by 2013 aesa will be fixed on aircrafts . Second line of submarines any updates AAD/PAD SAM possibly when it will be entered in service Hey Prasun, i have some questions about FGFA project. According to reports India and Russia will be spending around 5-6 billion $. The reports said most of our spending will be on ground infrastructure. What does it mean ?/ I mean are we expecting this time that we will be building all basic infrastructure like wind tunnel for developing a fully indigenous fighter jet ?/ Is Russia willing to give us their stealth tech ?/ What 5th gen technology is Russia willing to share with us ? When is the first prototype of FGFA going to fly ? Will the FGFA prototypes be flying in India or we have no role ? Is India and Russia going to form a new company like Brahmos for 5th gen project ? Is India looking to build a third 5th gen fighter jet with Mikoyan? Has India shown any interest to be part of Russian UCAV Skat ? What is India gaining from MRTA project ? I mean after this whether we will be able to build RTA -70 on our own ? Is Russia partnering up with India on FMBT project ? PKS: Quite a few Indian journalists have been taken there on all-expenses paid junkets sponsored by Airbus Military, Boeing, DCNS and Finmeccanica. That's the reason why some of the latest posts featured on some of the the Indian blogs feature products of only Boeing, Eurofighter and Dassault. ahem ahem // and how about the C-295 AEW&C that someone is trying to promote to Indian Forces as "dream come thru" I guess you missed out IAI and ELTA from your list up there :) Prasun , I am not sure why IAF would specify another engine for MRTA since PD-14M is quite capable engine in fuel economy , maintenance ,noise and cost and can match any western engine in its class. Re-engining the MRTA would be cost and time prohibitive and would really not make much sense , we have not even though of Re-engining the IL-76 which carries the old D-30 fuel inefficient engine with more modern PS-90A To Prasun, I read a recent interview of AC Marshall PV Naik, he said about 214 5th gen fighter to be inducted in the service. Is it possible that he might be mistaken by this number? (because this number is odd, 216 could have completed the squadron also). What happened with the number 250-300 ? Are we inducting 50 single seater t-50 ?? Recent reports of Mq-4c being offered to IN by NG as a reply to a RFP. Has US government agreed to this ? If yes then how many of these will be inducted ?? To Anon@12.45PM: Yes, it will be capable of real-time airspace/ground surveillance as well as provide airborne battle management and land-based battlefield management support. The ZDK-03 will be strictly for AEW & C and airborne battle management. The first prototype is currently undergoing flight-tests. To Anon@12.54PM: Two. To Anon@2.46PM: No updates on the P-75I SSK programme. AAD/PAD/PDV missiles are all technology demonstrators. No one in India has thus far authorised any funding for fielding an operational BMD network. To Anon@2.59PM: Bulk of the funding from India’s side will be employed for setting up the design facilities as well as facilities for testing and validating avionics design and systems architecture. Russia will not give India any stealth-related technology, but will share the FGFA’s stealth capabilities with India. The first FGFA prototype is due to fly (on paper) by 2015. At least one of them will fly in India for flight-tests. A new JV company will be formed between HAL and United Aircraft Corp of Russia. India does not want to co-develop the Skat UCAV. Regarding the MRTA project, India will for the very first time learn how to design and develop multi-role airlifters and their related flight deck avionics. RTA-70 is a sheer waste of time and money since it will never be able to financially compete with the likes of ATR and EADS. The FMBT project has been shelved in favour of the FICV project. To Anon@12.48PM: The only difference being the Indian journos on all-expenses paid junked will be mandatorily reqd to produce write-ups on products produced by the sponsorers, while my write-ups are not financially sponsored/supported by any OEMs. Guess you missed this point. To Austin: In what way has the PD-14M demonstrated its capabilities to date? All we know are only its expected performance parameters. The alternatives like the BR-715 and CFM56 already exist and have proven their performance over the past several years. Hasn’t anyone learnt anything from the AL-55I experience thus far? And what’s this issue of re-engining, when the MRTA hasn’t even be engined thus far? Rather than put the entire MRTA programme into jeapordy (by awaiting a turbofan yet to emerge, as has been the case with the HJT-36 IJT), the IAF will be better off if it goes for a proven engine that is easily available. To Anon@6.49AM: 214 is the projected number of tandem-seat FGFAs to be acquired. No single-seat T-50s will be acquired for the IAF. MQ-4C UAVs have indeed been approved for export to India and that’s why it was being promoted at Aero India 2011 last February. The reqmt is for eight such UAVs. Also note that the IAF Chief in his NDTV interview didn’t utter a word about the HJT-36 IJT since it is now a matter of common sense that with the expected arrival of the PC-7 Mk2 basic turboprop trainer and the existence of the Hawk Mk132 lead-in fighter trainer, the reqmt for an intermediate jet trainer will become totally irrelevant. What a sheer purposeful waste of money!!! Thanx for the reply Prasun... You said " FMBT project has been shelved in favour of the FICV project. " What does it mean ?? Is FMBT program will also be like FICV competition ? Why IN wants to buy only 8 MQ-4C ? We have such a big coastline which is completely porous. Is IAF also interested in purchasing these because it is a good way to cover major cities, air ,naval and army bases under surveillance ? You said Russia won't give us any stealth tech but will give us stealth fighter. Then why the hell are we funding FGFA if we are not getting anything out of this ?/ I mean its just like mki program but instead this time we are unnecessarily spending 6 billion$... To Prasun: Its true that PD-14M has not been demonstrated but neither has the MRTA so far , the PD-14 series of engine is under priority development because it will eventually power Russias civil MS-21 which is a high priority and well funded project for them , its specs closely matches P&W 1400G GTF engine in Fuel Economy ,Noise and is 15 % cheaper. They can always use PS-90A or its advanced cousin PS-90A2 engine that would meet the thrust and fuel economy requirement of MRTA I really see no good reason why IAF would want a Western Engine , but then knowing IAF appetite to complicate things its possible. To Anon@8.37AM: In terms of priorities, the reqmt of FICV is greater than that of the FMBT. Therefore, the FICV project is being taken up first as it is also less riskier and the platforms types reqd are in far greater numbers. Private industry will be playing a far greater role, since Greaves Cotton has already developed and tested the 600hp engine on the DRDO's Abhay FICV technology demonstrator and the GDLS-supplied automatic transmission has been successfully integrated with the engine. TATA Motors and L & T will also be enrolled into the FICV project. It could well be the case that if the Arjun Mk2 MBT's user trials are a success (as is likely to be the case) then up to 600 Arjun Mk2s are likely to be ordered for the Army. Regarding coastal surveillance all existing gaps will be plugged by 2015 once the SaabTech-supplied system is commissioned (see http://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2011/04/impregnable-fortress-on-paper-only.html). The MQ-4C is for broad-area surveillance around the country's island territories for which eight units will more than suffice. The IAF and Army do not require such HALE platforms as they want MALE-UAVs like the Heron-TP and Rustom-I/H. To really understand the reasons behind the investments planned into the FGFA, one must understand the politics behind the programme. In an ideal world one would have expected that following the successful implementation of the Tejas LCA programme the ADA would have graduated on to the AMCA. However, the politicking between ADA and HAL is not always understood by many. HAL, which wanted to acquire the same type of aircraft R & D capabilities as ADA has, has apparently succeeded in convincing a gullible MoD that it needs to duplicate (in terms of R & D capabilities) whatever ADA has achieved or created thus far. And that is exactly why the HJT-36 IJT project will lumber on despite its total irrelevance now that the IAF is going for the PC-7 Mk2 basic turboprop trainers. Lots of taxpayers' money being wasted just to keep the unions and bureaucrats happy, but ironically no one seems to be fasting onto death over such issues!!! To Austin: The PS-90A is meant for airlifters far bigger than the MRTA, like the projected IL-476. The MRTA was originally conceived in the mid-1990s with engines like the BR-715 or CFM56 in mind by both Ilyushin OKB and IRKUT Corp. In my view going for an already existing turbofan solution will be far less riskier than awaiting a turbofan that doesn't yet exist simply because it will expedite the MRTA's design and flight certification phases. After the experiences of delayed availability of the AL-55I and the yet-to-emerge AL-41F, I'm personally not too convinced about the Russian style of prioritising, and therefore wouldn't take any chances with the PD-14. Also, as a rule, engine development is a far more drawn-out process than airframe design and development. PrasunDa, its true that PS-90A1 will be used for bigger aircraft but a pair of it can be used to power the MRTA as they are of similar thrust engine , IL-476 ofcourse uses four of them. I have followed PD-14 development closely for some time , the trials are suppose to start in 2013 with certification expected in 2014 , PD-14 in civil version is equivalent to the military 5th Gen engine with specs matching the Western 5th Gen engine of PW1400G and LEAP-X that would power C919. You can read more on its development and the different version planned for in the link http://en.take-off.ru/news/102-feb2011/561-pd-14-11-2010 If they do not want to risk with a new engine , considering the first flight of MRTA is slated for 2016 which is quite some time from now , they can go for PS-90A or its advanced version PS-90A2 which is a ETOP 120/180 rated engine. They are offering PD-14 to reengine all the PS-90 variant once its available since it will offer 15 % better fuel economy over any PS-90 types and conforms to stringent ICAO standard. I have seen MRTA being advertised with both the engine , so I would assume PS-90 is plan B if PD-14 fails to materialises in time Atul said... Hi Prasun; There was a news item on DRDO testing a SDB (Small diameter bomb). What is it? A precision guided mutition? Link. http://armageddonsaviour.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/d-r-d-os-small-diameter-bomb-sdb-completes-control-test-vehicle-flight/#comment-1343 Any updates and position of 145nos howitzers /Javelin ATM orders from US To Austin: On paper the PD-14 can have the very best of specs and parameters, no doubt about it. The main concern for everyone, however, remains the Russian aerospace industry's ability to produce such a turbofan as advertised and claimed. There are far too many examples of past Russian promises that have failed to materialise, the IL-476 from Ulyanovsk-based Aviastar being the latest example. Far more safer therefore to rely on something like the CFM56, more than 100 of which are already flying with Indian airliners and with the IAF's B.737NG VIP transports and for which in-country product support is readily available, unlike that for the PS-90A. To Atul: That news item is a pure fake. Leave alone a tri-mode seeker, even a single-mode seeker is still under development and that too a laser seeker for the Sudarshan laser-guided bomb. To Anon@5.27PM: The contract documents for the 145 LW-155 howitzers is ready for signing while those for the Javelin ATGM were ready as dar back as last February. The latter must have already been inked but not publicised as the Javelins are meant for the Para (SF) battalions. For the Indian Army's Dhruv Mk4 the PARS-3LR is being proposed along with RAFAEL's Spike-ER, as the HELINA is unlikely to be available before 2015. Prasun , the PD-14 engine has far greater stake in a key civilian airline project the MS-21 then MRTA , MRTA can still go along with PS-90 but for MS-21 a 4th gen engine like PS-90 is not an options. There is nothing specific of Russian industry regarding delays or challenges , look at US JSF program or Dreamliner 787 its all filled with technology challenges , delays and over budget , any high tech path breaking project has its own pitfalls even for experienced hands. On your suggestion to use Western engine , can you tell me what advantage can CFM56 bring to the table that PS-90A/A1/A2 cant , in terms of fuel efficiency or maintenance. How long will it take for HAL to certify the MRTA with a western engine ? What is the cost benefit analysis if done by HAL for PS-90/PD-14 vs CFM56 for MRTA ? I have not read in any recent interview from HAL or IAF chief saying they need a western engine for what ever reasons. Finally we do not have a history of IAF fleet using Western Engine on a Russian Aircraft or vice verse. Hence I believe the MRTA/Western Engine theory is a non-starter at best. 5:27 PM Anon Please reply to my question Why India is ADAMANT on FGFA What is wrong with PAK FA Will the 2 seater FGFA compromise with the stealth characteristics of the original PAK FA Will FGFA REMAIN a STEALTH plane at all ? Sir do you have any information about the Chinese Y-8 antisubmarine aircraft and new Y-20 (supposed to fly this year)? What type of y-8 aircraft is this? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3wZSwFvZzqM/SeFnpaFLM5I/AAAAAAAACG0/qSTHpdZd8Tg/s1600-h/21016.jpg Chinese E-8? To Austin: The PD-14 and MS-21 till this day exist only on paper and their funding levels are neither assured nor transparent, unlike the MRTA’s joint R & D agreement between India and Russia. Furthermore, comparing programmes for developing the Dreamliner 787 and F-35 JSF with that of the MS-21 and PD-14 is like comparing apples and oranges. In case of the former there are already firm orders, whereas for the Russian products all there is are intents to acquire and produce. As for MRO capabilities reqd for CFM56 versus those for the PS-90 family, the difference is elementary: CFM56 MRO capabilities exist NOW within India, whereas those reqd for the PS-90 don’t. According to IRKUT Corp’s statements since 1998 it will take barely a year to certify the CFM56 on the MRTA since the CFM56 is already flight-certified. In case of the PD-14-powered MRTA two separate flight certifications will be reqd: one for the airframe itself and another for the engine, since the latter is a brand-new product still under development. The above two points (i.e. availability of in-country expertise to handle CFM56’s MRO reqmts and non-existence of the PD-14 and its separate flight certification) themselves explain the cost-benefit ratio in favour of the CFM56. I too haven’t read anywhere about the PD-14 being offered to HAL or the IAF for the MRTA. On the other hand, the Aero India 2011 show dailies carrying Alexey Fedorov’s interviews openly mentioned Western turbofan options for the MRTA. Lastly, the MRTA will not be a Russian aircraft but will be a joint R & D product with two distinct manufacturing /final assembly facilities located in India and Russia. Hence, in light of all the above, the MRTA/PD-14 engine theory is a non-starter at best. To Anon@5.55PM: Why India is ADAMANT on the FGFA? Why not? If the IAF wants a FGFA before the end of this decade then what’s wrong with it? There’s nothing wrong with the PAK-FA AFAIK. The tandem-seat configuration of the FGFA will not compromise the FGFA’s stealth characteristics. To Anon@2.11AM: The Y-20’s maiden flight will only take place next year. It will bear a close resemblance to the An-70 but it will be powered by four turbofans. The photo of the Y-8 variant is the naval EW version. @ Prasun , the risk for PD-14 is much lower then MRTA as these engines have more need for other program and MS-21/PD-14 is a well funded program , no matter what happens with MRTA. Dreamliner and MS-21 uses the same technology and has very high composite content although they are different class of aircraft. Can you scan the interview by Fedorov and put it up if you have it with you ? I did not come across it and never saw HAL or IAF say any thing on western engine for MRTA so far. 1) I want to know whether Rustom-H is turboprop or turbofan ?? There are reports of NPO-Saturn 36MT turbofan engine to be used in Rustom-H... 2) When is it getting ready ? CAn it be ready by 2015 ? 3) Is Rustom-1 going into production or its just a tech demonstrator ? Please post some video or picture of LCH td-2 and arjun mk2... When are we launching IA, IAF and IN satellites ??/ How many t90 is IA inducting ? I heard that 1000 t90 which IA signed deal with Russians is cancelled, then why aren't they inducting Arjun instead ? To Austin: Ask any airframe designer and he/she should explain to you which of the two--aiframe or engine--is more difficult to develop. One cannot compare the Dreamliner with the MS-21 simplky because the industrial capabilities of Boeing and IRKUT Corp are two worlds apart. If you were to find out how long Boeing took to develop the Dreamliner with all the resources at its disposal, then you will be able to find out how much longer the Russians will take to replicate the Dreamliner (in my estimation at least another decade). Furthermore, the Russians are not world-renowned for large-scale use of composites on any airframe, and instead prefer using aluminium alloys and titanium alloys. Lastly, I'm highly surprised that you're unaware of or haven't yet read about the MRTA's powerplant options, which have been extensively written about in Russian, Western and Indian aviation magazines since 1998. For viewing IRKUT Corp-supplied illustrations of the IL-214 MRTA powered by CFM56 turbofans, do visit:http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=25023 To Anon@10.43AM: Rustom-H will be piston-engined, as will the Rustom-I. Both of them are likely to be series-produced jointly by HAL and BEL. Judging by the time taken to develop the Nishant UAV, it would appear that both versions of the Rustom will enter service only towards the end of this decade. The 36MT turbofans are for the Nirbhay UAV-simulating drone. As you may be aware, the Lakshya drone has been an utter failure and presently Italian Mirach 150 drones are being used for air defence gunnery training purposes by both the IAF and Army at Suryalanka and ITR Chandipur. The Nirbhay will replace the Lakshya within two years. To Anon@10.44AM: Don't have them, as I'm not into broadcast journalism. To Anon@11.37AM: The IN's first communications satellite should go up later this year. There's been no cancellation of licenced-production of the T-90S. Thanx alot Prasun... How many satellites will be there for each service ? What is the progress with IA and IAF satellites ?? IRNSS project is different from these satellites ? So by the end of the decade IA will be operating 1620 T90s (current 620 + 1000 through license production)? According aviationweek's recent report Rustom will be turbofan... http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/dti/2011/05/01/DT_05_01_2011_p19-313799.xml&headline=India%20Now%20Wants%20Hundreds%20Of%20UAVs What happened to Indo-Polish light tank ? IA was supposed to induct 300 such tanks... Any progress on ultra light howitzer deal ? I mean are we going to purchase them this year ? To Anon@8.19AM: The defence communications satellite will be used by all three armed services. The IRNSS satellites are totally different as they are only to be employed for GPS navigation. Regarding the T-90S, here are the actual figures: It may be recalled that in February 2001, India bought its first batch of 310 T-90S MBTs worth US$795 million, of which 120 were delivered off-the-shelf, 90 in semi-knocked down kits (for licenced-assembly by the Ministry of Defence-owned Heavy Vehicles Factory, or HVF, in Avadi), and 100 in completely-knocked down kits. This was followed by a follow-on contract, worth $800 million, being inked on October 26, 2006, for another 330 T-90M MBTs that were to be built with locally-sourced raw materials. The third contract, worth $1.23 billion, was inked in December 2007 for 347 upgraded T-90Ms, the bulk of which will be licence-assembled by HVF. Regarding Rustom-H, it was clearly shown through both photos and scale-models during Aero India 2011 that it will have twin piston engines. Furthermore, as far as numbers go, the IAF wants only HALE UAVs amounting to six per threatre command, while the Army wants four MALE-UAVs and one GCS per Division and four HALE-UAVs and one GCS for every Corps. Therefore, If one were to do the math, then one will realise that the figures being quoted by AW & ST are totally wrong. The kind of numbers AW & ST has quoted apply more to UAVs for the Army’s Battalion-sized formations, for which the ELBIT Systems Skylark-1LE has already been selected in principal, but no procurement has taken place as both the Battalion-level BMS and F-INSAS systems architectures have yet to be finalised. There was no project to begin with for developing a light tank with Polish assistance. The LW-155 ultra-lightweight howitzer deal should receive CCNS approval any time. The fixed-price contract has already been drafted and finalised. At Prasun : Lets see what comes up may be the next time you or Force interviews HAL chairman they can directly ask this to him, that should settle it for good. I was talking more in terms of technology involved with MS-21 and Dreamliner the technologies are the same , as far as composites goes the Russian uses 40 % composite in MS-21 , Dreamliner has 50 %. MS-21 is a breakthrough product for their industry ,MRTA is hardly a break through product. At Prasun , Any idea on details of this deep upgrade of T-72 constitute and how many will be upgraded ? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Upgradation-of-T-72-tanks-begins-in-Jaisalmer/articleshow/9045273.cms So there will be two upgrades of totall T-72 Fleet one is the DRDO CIA upgrade and the other is the deep upgrade , Can you put some numbers to both ? Hi Prasun.....longtime No new Post....busy with next issue of Force ?? Also, read today that Mirage 2000 upgrade + 400 MICA missiles etc coming up together for approval in next CCS meeting shortly ??????? To Austin: Those interviews have already appeared in the Day 1 show daily issues of FORCE for Aero India 2009 and 2011, and the Day 1 issue of FLIGHT Int'l's show daily for Aero India 2011. But the best evidence is in seeing the differences. Just try comparing the engine nacelle designs of the MC-21 and MRTA and you will discover that all MRTA scale-models shown thus far during the MAKS 2009 expo and Aero India 2011 expo have shown the MRTA with Western engines (BR-715 or CFM-56 or P&W's PurePower PW1000G geared turbofan (further info on this available at: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/12/irkut-20091212.html) You can see the photos of the engine nacelle designs of the IL-214 MRTA scale-models at: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_o_no4M2xEPY/StHFS7oWSBI/AAAAAAAAIU0/5DIiFidezqc/s1600-h/DSC01678.JPG http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h3lYVRUF1Gg/TWoxtzICAcI/AAAAAAAAM2k/HQefrjEwNdM/s1600/mrta2.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RIJZnjD9Hk4/TVelwrdTcmI/AAAAAAAAAL8/6aG5tJFqwI4/s1600/DSC03761.JPG http://maks.sukhoi.ru/media/photo/maks2009/maks2009d2478.jpg The photos above clearly show that the engine nacelle designs are in no way similar to those for the PD-14M. AS for composites application, your statement about "Russian uses 40% composite in MS-21 , Dreamliner has 50%" is erroneous because the Dreamliner is flying today, while the MC-21 has yet to emerge in any physical form. Advertising and making claims about a futuristic product does not automatically translate into present-day reality, as we all have experienced with similar earlier Russian claims and the eventual reality. Consequently, to say that the MC-21 USES 40% composites is factually incorrect. EXPECTED TO USE will be more appropriate. To Austin: There are two upgrade programmes for the Indian Army T-72Ms: one is the T-72CIA with a Russia-supplied 1,000hp engine, Polish fire-control system incorporating an Elop IR camera plus DRDO-developed ERA tiles. 700 units have already been upgraded in this manner. For the second batch of 700 T-72Ms awaiting upgradation, the on-going competition is between Rosoboronexport State Corp/Uralvagonzavod JSC on one hand, and Larsen & Toubro/Raytheon on the other. Both are reqd to demonstrate their solutions on a no-cost no commitment basis. This is the second time such competitive trials are underway. The first one was in 2004 when THALES and ELBIT Systems had demonstrated their respective solutions. Actually there is no point comparing MS-21 engine with MRTA , since MS-21 has so far been displayed only with PW1400G engine , there are no known mockups of PD-14 engine displayed so far but details shown at their website resembles the MRTA engine , again these just appear that way , it could be a western or PS-90 engine. http://www.avid.ru/eng/advanced-developments/Regional_Jet/ I will check if i have the issue you have mentioned with the interview. Comparing those models i really do not know if that helps much since i am not certain they are ever built to scale or build to original MRTA , for all we know those are generic model that appear similar to MRTA but not built to scale or are identical to MRTA But i will keep this discussion open lets see which engine MRTA comes up with , my bet is on PS-90 or PD-14 but then I am happy to loose the bet :-) At Prasun: Actually if you read June techfocus of DRDO you would find that the DRDO CIA upgrade does not include engine or EL-OP seeker upgrade. The upgrade is quite modest and it improves protection via ERA and firefighting capability and few basic stuff like navigation etc http://drdo.gov.in/drdo/pub/techfocus/2011/tf_june2011.pdf The next batch of upgrade would be a deep upgrade involving engine , TI system and other improvement perhaps all that CIA has like ERA,Navigation etc To Austin: The DRDO's 'Tech Focus' says that the Arjun MBT is powered by a V90 turbo-charged water-cooled diesel engine. Are we then to assume that this engine is not the MTU-built MB838Ka-SOl just because it has not been mentioned? One must note that the DRDO Tech Focus in question is only highlighting those items/systems that have been developed in-house by the DRDO labs. It will almost never highlight or identify foreign systems/components by name or model no that are installed on board. On the section dealing with the T-72CIA it refers to a 'sight for direct firing' on page 6. More details on the Polish 'Drawa' TFCS for the T-72CIA can be found at: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?17039-India-Army´s-T-72-Upgrade-Program-Project-RHINO&s=d906c3e24eda4ff9008091b9de395255 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4540559.cms In fact, the contract with Poland for Project Rhino was inked in April 2002. The 840hp V-84MS (not 1,000hp as I had earlier said) engines and transmission for the T-72CIAs (to replace the V-46-6 780hp engines) and V-92S2 V-12 1,000hp engines for the two Tank EX technology demonstrators (mentioned on page 9 of the DRDO Tech Focus) were procured from a manufacturing plant located in Kazakhstan. To Austin: You would have also noted that the DRDO Tech Focus issue in question does not even mention the T-6 turret-mounted 155mm/52-cal howitzer cannon from DENEL/LIW when describing the BHIM tracked SPH. Furthermore, one would have expected the issue to at least mention the upgraded BMP-2K Sarath ICV, which has the ELBIT Systems-built TISAS fire-control system (being serviced in India by Alpha Technologies Pvt Ltd as shown on posters at the company's booth during Aero India 2011) and provision for firing the Konkurs-M ATGM. But, strangely, the DRDO Tech Focus makes no mention of such a significant upgrade project! At Prasun : Isnt that article on T-72 Upgrade is from FORCE issue ? Yes there is a possibility that DRDO newsletter would be mentioning its own product that is part of CIA program Are you aware about the details and status of BMP-2M upgrade program , how many will be upgraded and the nature of the upgrade ? To Austin: No, it wasn't from FORCE, although FORCE has since 2005 carried several articles on Project Bison's completed Phase 1 and the projected Phase 2. Regarding the BMP-2M ICV upgrade, all details about the type of capabilities being sought are mentioned in the publicly available RFI. The Kliver turret with Kornet-E ATGMs could be one solution. Another could come from a Romania-Israel joint offer. About 700 BMP-2Ms are envisaged.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line424
__label__wiki	0.756667	0.756667	Lenn Hammond Returns to Toronto for an Exclusive LIVE Performance Posted On August 29, 2014 By alton In Music Reviews, Music-News Radio, Program Related With 449 Views alton Aug 29, 2014 LENN Hammond Returns to Toronto Exclusive Live Performance from LENN Hammond at Belleeny’s August 31st Toronto, ON. Multiple award winning crooner LENN Hammond is in town for an intimate performance at Belleeny’s Martini Lounge and Restaurant on Sunday August 31st following his recent live performances in Manitoba, including Winnipeg’s CTV Morning Live. Fans and foodies alike can make dinner reservations to savour unique flavours and stay to enjoy a lively performance. Belleeny’s Lounge and Restaurant known for it’s hip fusion of West Indian and Italian cuisines, is the new entertainment hotspot in Woodbridge. Its contemporary, relaxed and upscale atmosphere is the perfect chill spot to get up close and personal with LENN Hammond and his brand of raw, reggae soul. A Lovers Rock specialist Lenn’s live performance encompasses a melange of hits from his JUNO winning, self-titled debut album and the most recent, Raw Soul; all blended with renditions of soul classics. Crowd favourite Mixed Up Moods from his first album remains an anthem on Jamaican airwaves, while How Can You Mend A Broken Heart from his second album, RAW SOUL went #1 on L3 Magazine’s Canada Wide Charts. The single and other songs from this album also charted in New York, South Florida, London (UK), Italy, Alaska, and Jamaica among others. “…His greatest talent may be as a writer of hit reggae pop songs…” ~ Adam Gutteridge,Toronto Star On Sunday August 31, 2014 backed by the E.O.P. Band fans in the Greater Toronto Area will also be treated to Lenn’s current repertoire, which includes production from France’s Young French Music label and some unreleased material. LENN Hammond recorded his first European single with one of the UK’s top producers, Christopher “Peckings” Price. Their single Love You With Honour charted in Toronto on Reggaemania’s Top Ten on CHIN 100.7FM and introduced Hammond on radio in Honduras. Oliver Schrader, Co-founder of Germany’s Silly Walks Discotheque simply “loved it”. Love You With Honour was also added to European reggae programs including Italy’s Under Pressure, Soul Shakedown Party and Don Ciccio Radio Show; Reggae Portugal Radio Show; Reggae Vibes and Riddim Shower in the Netherlands. As a result, LENN Hammond made his European performance debut last year with concerts in London and Amsterdam. About returning to Canada and performing at Belleeny’s Resto-Lounge on August 31, 2014, Lenn says: “Canada is my home away from home and I appreciate every opportunity I have to share my music here. It’s been a while since I’ve done something like this in the GTA and I’m excited to give fans here the opportunity to hear what I’ve been working on.” This is a live performance announcement: LENN Hammond backed by E.O.P. Band Belleeny’s Martini Lounge and Restaurant 4000 Steeles Avenue West, Unit 14 in Vaughan showtime 10PM $15 at the door Dinner and show $45 – must book reservation with Belleeny’s 905.264.0001 Tags : exclusive, LennHammond, LIVEPerformance, returns, toronto About alton Tropicalfete Mas Costumes theme “The Carnival Jungle – Sweet for Days” Free Workshop on the Steel Pan Instrument Introductory Workshop on Copyrights and Royalties "Devon Matthews Goes Against The Grain- Challenges The Norm With Massive Release Featuring Ella Andall"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line425
__label__wiki	0.962278	0.962278	Devils outshoot Stars, on way to north title Tunica Academy earned a berth in the MAIS North A State Championship game after defeating Winona Academy on the road 27-16 in playoff competition Friday. The Blue Devils, who dominated the scoreboard the entire contest, relied — as usual — on its ground game, but won it in the trenches, according to Head Coach Jimmy Hicks. “They had three guys that topped out around the 300 mark and our offensive line did a great job handling them up front,” Hicks said. “We teach our team that to win, you have to win the game up front and I’m proud to say that our guys did that. They really did a super job.” {paypalaccess}Read more{/paypalaccess} While the offensive line did its job enabling the Blue Devils’ high octane offense to work, the TA scoring machine was led by senior running back Freeman Gray, along with a host of other Devils on both sides of the ball. In the first half, with the Stars trying to rally back from an early Tunica score, sophomore defensive back Jake Graves stepped in front of a Winona pass and ran it back 40 yards to put Tunica up 14-0 early in the game. “For him to pick that pass off at that time and run it back 40 yards for a touchdown … that really took some wind out of their sails,” Hicks said. “That was probably the biggest play of the game.” Later in the half, Winona drove the ball down the field for a score and converted for two more points to bring the score to 14-8. But the Blue Devils weren’t done. In the closing minutes of the first half, sophomore receiver Austin Hagstrom picked up 20 yards on a pass from junior quarterback Brandon Holmes to put the Devils within striking distance. With no timeouts remaining, Holmes spiked the ball to set up one final play with just three seconds remaining on the clock. Executing a rollout pass-option play, Holmes scampered 10 yards into the endzone for Tunica’s third score of the half. Kicker Rip Kirk’s extra point attempt was good, and the Devils ended the half with a 21-8 lead. On the ensuing kickoff after the half, senior receiver Tyler Billingsley recovered a Winona onside kick and advanced it seven yards to the Blue Devil 43 yard line. But two false start penalties backed the Devils up making for a 2nd and 16 situation. After a short gain set up a 3rd down and 9, Gray, starting from the Tunica 38 yard line, caught a 10 yard pass to keep the Devils’ drive alive. Gray later capped off the eight play drive with a one yard run into the endzone for a 27-8 Tunica lead. While the Blue Devils missed on the PAT and Winona added another 8 points on a touchdown and 2 point conversion, Tunica held strong to keep the lead and earn the victory and a North A State playoff berth. “That was the whole game plan — to get a couple touchdowns lead on them and get them out of their comfort zone,” Hicks said. “That was our plan and we succeeded.” Leading Tunica’s offense in rushing were Freeman Gray with 26 carries for 169 yards and a touchdown; Brandon Holmes with 17 yards on two carries, including a touchdown; Blake Perry with 16 yards on two carries; and Stephen Gray with 7 yards on two carries. In passing, Holmes completed five of eight passes for 72 yards and a touchdown. Stephen Gray had two receptions for 36 yards, while older brother Freeman Gray hauled in one pass for 10 yards. Austin Hagstrom and Caleb McCoy also caught a pass each while picking up 20 and 6 yards, respectively. Kirk was successful on three of four PAT attempts on the night. Defensively, Freeman Gray led the team with 12 solo tackles, followed by Stephen Gray with 10 tackles. Other TA defenders with stops include: Tyler Billingsley and Chris Manues, each with 6 tackles (Manues, 2 tackles for loss); Taylor Hale, 5 tackles, including 2 sacks; Blake Perry, 5 tackles; William Gibson and Taylor Hagstrom, each with 4 tackles; and Caleb McCoy and Jake Graves with 3 tackles each. McCoy also had an interception, while Graves recorded two picks, one of which was returned for a touchdown. For his efforts, Hicks recognized Graves as the Tunica Academy Player of the Week. He also offered accolades to Holmes for his leadership at the quarterback position. “Brandon really has matured. His confidence level has improved this season and he’s reading the defense really well,” Hicks noted. “He’s made some big throws and he’s had some really big runs that have helped make our team go. He’s evolved and become a big time leader for our team.” The Blue Devils will have to rely on Holmes and its other team leaders when it travels to Flora, Miss., on Friday for a repeat matchup against North State foe Tri-County Academy. Tunica defeated Tri-County last season 48-42 to win the North A State Championship. “I know we’ve been battle tested and we’ll be tested again Friday,” Hicks said. They’re just as good as we are, but we’re going to go there to compete. It’ll be a good game.” Kickoff for Friday’s North A playoff game will be at 7 p.m. Lions, Lady Lions hit the courts TA basketball season off to rocky start, improving	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line428
__label__cc	0.631489	0.368511	Board index ‹ Media ‹ From the Web ‹ Cracked ‹ Why We Title Things The Way We Do Why We Title Things The Way We Do by LegionofShrooms » Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:20 pm Well this is a new low. I have to admit, I'm rather disappointed in this video. I'd honestly looked forward to it hoping to gain some insight on their rather bizarre practices, but instead it came off more as self-excusatory hand waving and blaming your target audience for internal issues and decisions. Funny thing is, I can't even blame Sargent for this one. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but this video reeks of something pushed by editors/executives as a (poor) attempt at damage control. As for my thoughts on what they actually said, well, I don't think I can sum up my feelings any better than I did in the comments of the video. Re: Titling on Cracked I don't think most of us mind the buzzwords or the hyperbolic overselling of certain qualities of the article, even if we lovingly poke fun at it. It's mostly when the title is changed to something that is either misleading or flat out untrue, or tries to shoehorn in an idea that wasn't in the article in the first place for the sake of generating outrage to garner clicks that most of us get annoyed. Case in point-there was an archeological submission a while back about discoveries regarding badass females in history that made us rethink the roles of certain groups of women. It was informative, interesting and entertaining, and stood entirely on its own merit. By the time the evening had rolled around, the title had been changed to something about how these discoveries somehow meant all archeology was secretly sexist, thereby insulting the concept by making a f**k yeah! article about awesome women an issue about MEN, trying to generate unnecessary anger towards the discoveries and tricking the readers into thinking it was abut something other than what it genuinely is. Being hyperbolic and trying to sell your article is fine-blatant deception is not, and Cracked's been guilty of the latter a few times as much as any of the other sites he referenced. To put it in another perspective, let's treat this as we would advertising a product. After all, that's basically what this is, isn't it? Advertising an article. Now when it comes to advertisement, most people know to take it with as grain of salt. A certain amount of hyperbole is to be expected. That's why while we may snicker about an article being "mind blowingly amazing", we (mostly) keep quiet because you more or less gave us what you said you would. However, imagine that you bought said product, but rather than it being simply overhyped, it either didn't do what it said it would, or worse, you were sent an entirely different product altogether. You would rightfully be angry. You'd likely be wary of buying from that company in the future, and maybe even seek legal recourse (I'm not actually suggesting anyone should be able to sue for mistitling of articles-that's both absurd and unenforceable. This is merely for the sake of this example). Just because what you're selling is an idea on the Internet rather than a tangible good, it doesn't change how people react to this sort of practice. Plain and simple, we don't like being deceived. We place a certain amount of trust in this site. When you abuse that trust, it's a hard thing to gain it back. Being a site on the Internet doesn't absolve you of reproach for such actions. By sacrificing long term reputation for short term views, you make your own core dynamic of fans mistrustful of you. I can't speak for anyone else, but as a result of these practices, I've gone from reading every article and replying multiple times a day to sometimes going three or four days at a stretch without reading by vice of the titles alone. And sometimes it turns out they were good articles too! Just horribly misrepresented. Bottom line, you're a (social) media site, and venues like this that don't evolve with the times and needs of their target audience are on a fast track to nowhere (just look at cable). Perhaps instead of blaming your audience, a bit of introspection is in order to determine why they are reacting the way they do and what you can do to change it internally. Tell your momma, tell your poppa, tell your sisters and your brothers, tell your lovers, tell your children, tell your dominatrix: The Writing Workshop is where all the cool kids hang out. LegionofShrooms TCS Irregular Location: Oh you know... Around... Title: Mastermind of Fungi Based Evil Re: Why We Title Things The Way We Do by DamianaRaven » Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:59 pm LegionofShrooms wrote: I'd honestly looked forward to it hoping to gain some insight on their rather bizarre practices, but instead it came off more as self-excusatory hand waving and blaming your target audience for internal issues and decisions. Considering that their business model is built around clicks, I would think that the target audience is to blame. If people wouldn't keep clicking on inflammatory, bullshit titles while passing over the more accurate and sensible ones as "booooooring," then there wouldn't be all these internal issues and decisions over titles. Just 'cause you're on the internet using a different form of currency (attention) doesn't mean you stop getting what you pay for. Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies. (76th Rule of Acquisition) DamianaRaven Location: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers! Title: Crazy Cunt by LegionofShrooms » Fri Aug 21, 2015 3:03 am DamianaRaven wrote: Oh, there's no denying that the reader base can be part of the problem. There's a reason Cracked continually uses these dodgy tactics even after admitting they're deceitful-it works. Well, for now at least. But when the higher ups are the ones that pushed these decisions (among others) in the first place and are hiding behind a veil of "Well everyone else is doing it!" rather than trying to focus on the quality content and at least the bare minimum of honesty in advertising over misdirection and provoking outrage, they don't get to just absolve themselves of guilt by blithely shifting blame to the readers. by NathanLoiselle » Fri Aug 21, 2015 3:48 am LegionofShrooms wrote: Oh, there's no denying that the reader base can be part of the problem. There's a reason Cracked continually uses these dodgy tactics even after admitting they're deceitful-it works. Well, for now at least. This is an interesting comment especially when you consider reading material from other sources. For instance Gawker is trying to become more respectable and when the editorial staff fails to live up to that goal they strike out at the management for interference instead of blaming the audience for reading said material. NathanLoiselle Location: You'll Never Know! by PSTN » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:10 am This whole video felt like going into a business to complain about their product and being told, "well you're the idiot who bought it." He pretty much admitted that they don't really care about creating good content or whether or not they're deceptive or needlessly inflammatory. The only thing that matters is the clicks. I really wish we could collectively work out a way to easily spend small amounts of money online, so that the driving factor behind the content is our satisfaction, rather than our attention. The current model just encourages spectacle, rather than quality. Title: II by DamianaRaven » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:22 am Well said, Piston. I haven't watched the video, cause I don't often do that without extraordinary incentive. by reallifegirl » Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:06 pm I find the timing of the video interesting, since it seems like titles aren't even being changed mid-day anymore. I get to work at around 8:30am EST, will open Cracked, shuffle my papers, and notice the titles have already altered. It seems to have been happening a lot this past week; I'm pretty sure today's Photoplasty had changed by 8:45. "I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not." Encyclopedia Dramatica wrote: Reallifegirl: Is supposedly a girl in real life, but we all know that's false. Gets highest comment roughly 75% of the time, and has never had a single red-thumbed comment. Ever. reallifegirl Title: Officially allegedly female by Crimson847 » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:18 pm Someone needs to give Sargent some Xanax or something. It seems like he's trying to do the Zero Punctuation fast-talking bit, but he stumbles over himself too much and it comes off like he's just super nervous. Regarding what he actually said, I didn't interpret it as "we don't care about good content" so much as "it doesn't matter how good our content is if no one looks at it", which is a fair point. Looking at the reader stats on Cracked articles seems to back up this line of thinking. One can argue (as I would) that bullshit clickbait damages their brand and hurts them over the long term by replacing dedicated readers with magpies drawn to anything shiny who will flit off to another site at the drop of a hat, but here's the thing: that's a self-serving claim. I'm basically saying "giving me more valuable content without charging anything extra for it will help your business!". Without strong evidence to support my claim, it just comes off as another greedy customer always wanting more for less and thinking what's good for me is good for everybody. And when it comes down to a decision between believing some random reader on faith and believing the numbers in front of their face, I can't blame Cracked's staff too much for going with the latter. "If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them; but the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by LegionofShrooms » Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:51 pm I suppose that's a fair point, and maybe there is a bit of selfishness wrapped up in it on our part. But here's the point that irks me. You don't necessarily have to choose one or the other. You can have something be fully clickbait and still use a bare modicum of truth when advertising it in the title. Cracked has done it enough for me to easily believe it's possible. If they want to publish a certain kind of content or advertise it a certain kind of way because it sells, well, it's there site so go for it. But when the titles don't make any sense in context to the story (or for that matter sometimes don't even make sense as an intelligible phrase in the English language), the only conclusions that I can typically draw without doing the kind of mental gymnastics that would make the Westboro Baptist Church green with envy is that the person titling them that day is either A) incompetent or ignorant of the actual content of the article B) Doesn't care C) Is being intentionally deceitful D) any combination of the above Last edited by LegionofShrooms on Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:54 pm, edited 1 time in total. by AdricDePsycho » Sat Aug 22, 2015 6:13 pm I thought Sargent had a beard? You mean...that was really him? I thought it was whoever replaced Cody in his videos, the guy everyone hates for replacing him? We all go a little mad sometimes...I'm just a little mad all of the time! AdricDePsycho Location: Marianna, Florida Title: Knife-Wielding Lunatic	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0002.json.gz/line432

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