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__label__wiki	0.782845	0.782845	DavisR Richard Davis's Faculty Page Davis, RichardCurrently selected Richard Davis, Professor Ph.D. (1982), University of Massachusetts at Amherst Davis Lab Website Programmed DNA Elimination Genome maintenance and stability are essential, and an organism’s genome rarely changes. Genome instability typically leads to inviability and disease. However, examples are known where genome instability through developmentally regulated DNA loss or rearrangements is integral in the biology of the organism. Programmed DNA elimination leads to the loss of specific sequences from chromosomes. DNA elimination in nematodes occurs during differentiation of the somatic lineages early in embryonic development. In the parasitic nematode, Ascaris, we have shown that 15% of the genome is eliminated in the somatic lineages during the 3rd through 5th cleavage (4 to 16 cell stage), while the germline genome remains intact. Specific repetitive and unique sequences (including 1000 genes) are lost during DNA elimination to form the somatic genome. Notably, analysis of DNA elimination is several other parasitic nematodes demonstrates a high fidelity of DNA elimination where the DNA breaks and seqeunces lost are conserved within a species. In the three nematode genera examined, repetitive sequences (that differ among all three genera and can constitute as much as 89% of the genome) and 1000-2000 genes (representing 5-10% of all the genes) are eliminated. Analysis of the genes eliminated in these nematodes indicates that they are primarily expressed in the germline and early embryo with a core set of eliminated genes conserved in all these nematodes (35%) expressed during spermatogenesis. Overall, these data suggest that DNA elimination in nematodes is an extreme and irreversible mechanism for silencing a subset of germline and early embryo expressed genes in somatic tissues and contributes to the distinction between the germline and soma. Studies are now underway to determine What is the mechanism of chromosome breakage? What proteins are involved? How are the breakpoints defined? Given that nematodes have holocentric chromosomes (multiple centromeric/kinetochore complexes), what determines which chromosomal regions are retained and which are lost? Are small RNAs involved in chromatin diminution? Are there discrete epigenetic changes associated with chromosome diminution? Given that chromosome breaks are healed by telomere addition, what recruits telomerase and what factors prevent other repair mechanisms, apoptosis, or cell cycle arrest from initiating? What are the somatic consequences of DNA elimination? RNA Metabolism in Development Information on Ascaris as a Model for Nematode Studies Davis Lab at Coors Field View Dr. Davis's publications on PubMed	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line898
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__label__cc	0.587961	0.412039	Lokomotiv Plovdiv - Botev Plovdiv 28.10.2014 Bulgaria: A lot of pyro during the derby of Plovdiv. The draw for the Cup of Bulgaria placed Lokomotiv Plovdiv to play with their city rival Botev Plovdiv. Who will go to the 1/4 finals will be decided in two games. Loko was the home team for the first match. Their fans made a choreo for the club's 88th anniversary. A lot of pyro was used by the fans of both teams during the second half. Lokomotiv Plovdiv Botev Plovdiv Earlier in the day, one fan of Botev losses his wrist after an incident with selfmade bomb. Botev fans showed a transparent with text "Kristian, be strong! We are with you!" Source: Ultras Bulgaria	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line900
__label__wiki	0.779644	0.779644	Victorian Government announces $25.5m to deliver a smarter planning system A NEW 'Smart Planning' system will give Victorians a quicker and simpler way to navigate the state's planning process, Planning Minister Richard Wynne announced last week. "Since it was last reformed 23 years ago, planning provisions and schemes have significantly expanded to include a massive 75,000 pages across 7000 documents, with an additional 15,000 maps," the Minister said in a statement. Above: Parliament House, Melbourne / by Wei-Sung Liao. The Victorian Budget 2016-17 includes $25.5 million to create a more straightforward approach to accessing planning applications and decisions, with expected savings for property owners, investors and the state amounting to millions of dollars a year. Under the proposed changes, online planning applications will be allowed for the first time and the number of small projects that require permits will be reduced. Last financial year, more than 57,000 planning permit applications were made, worth around $24 billion of proposed economic investment in Victoria. According to the government, key changes will include: Improved zone controls to ensure consistency and reduce duplication; Creating a new online portal for applications; Faster approvals in commercial and industrial zones; Understandable and accessible online tools for homeowners; and Online planning scheme amendments and easy access to assessments for decisions such as windfarms, the central city, Environment Effects Statements and heritage applications. The announcement was welcomed by Victorian President of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA), James Larmour-Reid, who said that while Victoria's planning system compares well to other States, there is always room for improvement. "At present much of our planning system is still burdened by 20th century systems of communication and assessment," he said. Mr Larmour-Reid added that PIA will also be keenly interested in examining the suggested reforms, which he said could deliver significant improvements in terms of reducing system complexity and processing times. "If the review leads to improved decision making, reduced time taken for planning decisions and more transparent planning then it will be very worthwhile. The integrity of planning decisions as outcomes of a fair and balanced land use planning system requires the ongoing evaluation and subsequent improvement of planning controls and processes," Mr Larmour-Reid concluded. The Budget also includes $2.1 million for strategic planning in regional councils in 2016-17, making sure councils have access to the right tools and skills for detailed planning work. A further $50 million will be invested in the Victorian Government's Growing Suburbs Fund – formerly the Interface Growth Fund – to support infrastructure projects that cater for population growth within Melbourne's ten interface councils (Cardinia, Casey, Hume, Melton, Mitchell, Mornington Peninsula, Nillumbik, Whittlesea, Wyndham and Yarra Ranges). Photo: 'Parliament of Victoria' / Wei-Sung Liao / Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0. Victorian Government defines affordable housing in amendment to planning legislation - 3 June 2018 Phase 1 of Smart Planning rules reforms approved by Victorian Government - 23 January 2018 Proposed changes to Victoria Planning Provisions released for consultation - 23 October 2017 Managing Victoria's Planning System for Land Use and Development: Victorian Auditor-General report - 26 March 2017 Victoria's new planning and subdivision fees welcomed by MAV - 2 October 2016	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line902
__label__cc	0.624453	0.375547	Cody Franson signs somewhere (who really cares?) and 15 Leaf thoughts Let’s face it. As fans, probably the best thing we can do through the lockout is ignore it, as I posted here last week. The longer we pine for the return of NHL hockey, guys like Krys Barch in Florida (does he play for the Panthers? I knew precious little about him- at least until he took to Twitter on the weekend...) ) will believe we can’t live without them. And they will use their “platform” to try to convince us that hockey players have it rough because the big, bad NHL owners want to take their money away—and as a result, some players may even have to work for a living after they retire from hockey. Imagine that. As I’ve said here many times, maybe the players would like to try and make the money they’re being paid doing something else for a living, eh? Let’s see how that would work out. Before I go on, I’ll set the lockout aside while pondering the following Leaf thoughts: Does anyone really care that Cody Franson has signed somewhere to play? For a while on Monday, there were reports that he would not return even if the lockout ended. But would it have really mattered if he couldn’t come back and sign with Toronto? He seemed like a nice NHL defenseman at times last season after some earlier career success with the Predators, but he didn’t exactly set the league on fire. So he’s just another Leaf looking to take someone’s job in Europe. The Kadri thing will blow over, but I’m convinced there is something not quite right in the culture of the organization. I’ve tried to say here for years that Burke is way too much about “I” and “my team” and how he does things, as though he invented the position of General Manager. The organization supposedly established this whole “earning your sweater” thing but that's a fraud, really. You mean to tell me that, on a team that has stunk for the four years Burke has been here, all those guys have earned their sweater every night? Not a chance. But they sure seem obsessed with making Kadri the poster boy for earning a roster spot. I never believed there was a sense of entitlement here before, or the much-discussed “blue and white disease”. But seeing a) how long Wilson stayed on the job even though he and Burke were not on the same page about being a “tough” team, b) Burke’s never-ending public comments that just don’t stand up to scrutiny (e.g. “I always build my teams from the back end…”), c) L’affaire Allaire, d) the unnecessary references to Kadri and e) the fact that this management team can’t attract top-tier UFA’s, (and those are just a few examples...) I think there is a problem now, if there wasn’t one before… Cap or no cap, the fact that a Leaf line-up badly in need of a jump-start and fresh blood might not be able to integrate Kadri and other youngsters in the line-up because players like Connolly and Lombardi are here is a reflection of some terrible personnel decisions by management. There’s just no way to defend that. I like Reimer a lot, but if the season started tomorrow, does anyone believe Burke was not trying to obtain goaltending help this past summer? Luongo was on the table, for sure (and still may be). Do you believe the Leafs are really and truly prepared to go an entire season with Reimer and Scrivens in goal? After last season, not a chance. I wonder how the Leaf players who are waiting out the lockout and fighting the good fight on the CBA front lines will feel about teammates that basically left the union brotherhood to pick up a pay check in Europe? Every good NHL team needs elite defensemen. Do the Leafs have any? Though the results don’t show it, the Leafs have been an easy team to coach in terms of motivation the last couple of seasons. Why do I say that? Well, they are a young team, filled with players simply trying to make—and stay in—the line-up. No way do young guys challenge a coach’s authority. The Leafs had no superstars (Kessel being the closest thing we have) and barely any veterans. The only time Kessel expressed frustration a couple of seasons ago, he was told firmly never to go off message again. That said, I wonder what will happen the first time there is an issue with a guy being benched, etc. this coming season after the revelations from Allaire that he wasn’t allowed to do his job properly. Something was going on behind the scenes. You can bet the Toronto media will be primed to look for discontent everywhere now, though the Leafs will try to shut down any perception of rebellion. Rick Nash was injured in one of his first games in Europe. What happens to guys like Nash, who are under contract, if they suffer a serious injury? Do the Rangers have to pay him for getting hurt playing for someone else? We wouldn’t be thrilled if he was a Leaf now (as we thought was possible at one point last season) and he was not able to play after the lockout. One-time would-have-been Maple Leaf Tyler Seguin struggled in his first game in Switzerland or wherever’s he’s playing. This should not surprise us. I don’’t imagine he grew up wanting to play for whatever team he’s on right now. He’s there to get paid, stay in some degree of shape—and pass the time. I just looked at the Leaf current roster. It does not inspire. Can someone fill me in on Michael Kostka? He is listed on the Leaf roster on their web site. He’s one of their top-8 defensemen? I wonder how Phil Kessel is staying in shape during the lockout? Thanks to those who continue to visit VLM despite the lack of Leaf-related “news”. I’ll aim to continue to post as often as possible… Jim October 1, 2012 at 10:48 PM Loved that post. I was nodding along like it was a comment of mine that I was reviewing before clicking publish. The only difference seems to be that you put my literary talents to shame. Bang on with those thoughts. InTimeFor62 October 1, 2012 at 10:58 PM Mike Kostka is the player that scored against the Marlies to win the game (3) off the stanchion and into the net Scrivens had vacated to retrieve the puck that should've gone behind the net... not in it. By all reports he's a great signing for the Marlies and probably moved up the list because Franson signed overseas (and, not yet, 'here'). The Leafs may not have an elite defenseman yet, but the top 4 may see some new blood if the obviously motivated (and extremely fit) Paul Ranger finds a return to form on the ice. I'm watching with interest! A comment on Krys Barch... I think that everyone (to a great extent) tends to be rather insular in their perspectives and compares themselves within their peer groups. Perspective beyond what they know is generally quite rare. He appears to feel 'poorly paid' on the lower end of the NHL scale, but his words belie a sense of entitlement. Did he not choose to play hockey... or am I missing something? I chose to pursue a Master's degree, yet I'm doing whatever I can in this economy making far less and taking significant risks in so doing. Here's my perspective... I'd love to make $750k for one year doing what I'm doing (risks and all), AND keep getting paid while I rehab for the injuries I pick up along the way. Hard to feel for ya' there, bud! Hope your suffering comes to an end soon, so I can focus on your game and stop reflecting on how things suck for me! All the best in your struggle... Michael Langlois October 1, 2012 at 11:02 PM Thanks Jim- I appreciate that. And thanks for sticking with VLM. despite it being a slow time for "news"! Gerund O'Malley October 1, 2012 at 11:11 PM First off, I thought you might be interested in this take on the strike: http://www.forbes.com/sites/leighsteinberg/2012/09/27/nhl-on-the-way-to-self-destruction It reflects my disbelief that the league is shutting down just when they've gained a toehold in the heretofore elusive US market. Talk about taking the fans for granted! As for Franson, I'm one of the people who think he'll benefit from Carlyle's coaching. He showed flashed of real talent last year, and he's got some size. There's no question in my mind that there's considerable dysfunction at the heart of MLSE, and it's spread to just about every team they own. As I've said before, I doubt a pro sports team can be a champion when it's owned by a group of investors, as opposed to a passionate and determined individual. As Kadri's been in the news the last few days, can anyone say he contributed less than Connolly or Lombardi, given his limited time? I'm with you on Reimer and Scrivens. It's interesting to note that Burke et al have not delivered on one of their post-season promises to improve the team. And no, the Leafs do not have an elite defenceman. (see previous sentence). Kostka is a defenceman who played US college hockey before bouncing around from Buffalo to the Panthers to the Lightning. He played for Calder Cup winners Norfolk last year, and signed with the Leafs as a free agent. I guess that's part of my "issue" with all these players (Lupul was at it again today) who are complaining, InTimeFor62. I just don't think "fairness" is an argument when so many guys earn millions. If they don't want to play hockey, do something else. They have a choice. You expressed it well. I understand that athletes will be awfully well paid- I just don't want to have to listen to the moaning... And yes...that goal- now that one in the AHL playoffs was not one you see every day! We'll see if Ranger has a re-birth. Thanks InTimeFor62... I'll check out that article, Gerund O'. To me, there are huge issues within MLSE- and they have always been there. Pat Quinn was somehow able to overcome meddling and interference and build a team that was very competitive in the playoffs every year. I realize it was a different "system" with no cap, and it got harder for Quinn, I think, after Steve Stavro lost control of the team and Tanenbaum took over. This is an organization that does a terrible job with every franchise it owns. Awful. Thanks (and thanks to InTimeFor62 as well) for the info on Kostka. DP October 2, 2012 at 12:08 AM "Does anyone really care that Cody Franson has signed somewhere to play?" No, he's still a UFA. He could be quite useful and/or valuable in a trade. Next year, if Paul Ranger comes back to form he might prove superior to Franson. "The Kadri thing will blow over, but I’m convinced there is something not quite right in the culture of the organization." I think you expect too much. Even winning teams like the Oilers dynasty had dysfunction. I can't even write the stories I have heard, but those Oiler teams had world-class HHOF talent at every position. Who from the current Leafs is HHOF? "I never believed there was a sense of entitlement here before, or the much-discussed “blue and white disease”... I think there is a problem now, if there wasn’t one before…" Again, I think you are expecting too much. Burke's sense of loyalty may have gotten in the way of earlier departures for Allaire and Wilson. Lack of UFA signings? That seems more about this team not being a contender and Burke's unwillingness for long contracts. "Cap or no cap, the fact that a Leaf line-up badly in need of a jump-start and fresh blood might not be able to integrate Kadri and other youngsters in the line-up because players like Connolly and Lombardi are here is a reflection of some terrible personnel decisions by management. There’s just no way to defend that." I don't see it as a big problem. Both contracts end this year, plus what if Kadri flounders and isn't fully ready this year? The development of players is tough to predict. "Do you believe the Leafs are really and truly prepared to go an entire season with Reimer and Scrivens in goal?" I believe they are ready to give them a look while grinding down the price on Luongo. With the lockout, this problem matters less plus they get a further look at Scrivens to see if his playoff run wasn't a one time thing. The AHL is going to be a bigger test this year. If Scrivens is still shutting out guys like Eberle and Nugent-Hopkins at Christmas, the Leafs might feel pretty comfortable. "Every good NHL team needs elite defensemen. Do the Leafs have any?" Phaneuf and Gardiner might become elite. It takes time we might see some further improvement from Phaneuf. Reilly and Matt Finn also look amazing. "Can someone fill me in on Michael Kostka?" A really nice signing. He had 55 points as an AHL defenceman one year. He could do wonders for the Marlies and might surprise if called up to the Leafs. "I wonder how Phil Kessel is staying in shape during the lockout?" Somewhere in Wisconsin, another empty chip bag hits the floor as a doughy Kessel quietly smirks while reading yet another story on Kadri's fitness level. Michael Langlois October 2, 2012 at 12:20 AM You make lots of good points as always, DP. The only thing I will say about your reference to the old Oilers: I agree that most - even very good teams - teams have some element of dysfunction. But when you are at best a borderline team, you can't afford those kinds of issues. And the Leafs certainly can't. Thanks DP. Five Minutes For Fighting October 2, 2012 at 11:03 AM Best line: "I just looked at the Leaf current roster. It does not inspire." I agree. Looking at the roster, there isn't much different from last year's lottery team. Thanks Five For (I enjoy your site, by the way...). Always solid stuff. I realize the roster can and will change, it's just that the much-discussed "improvements" (goaltending, a centre, experience, toughness) don't seem to be in place. Thanks for chiming in.... alex c October 2, 2012 at 12:56 PM NHL (players, owners, management) have all let the fans down. i don't care about player signings/injuries at this time... when/if the league gets going again, maybe then i'll start caring. see ya cody. kadri's under a microscope like no one else... frustrating. as another commentor pointed out, no one seems to be picking on kessel for looking fat/flubby. management should have set the bar incredibly low four years ago, instead of saying the team would be play-off ready within a year. i'm glad that lombardi/connolly only have a year left to their contracts... time to flush them and the other so-so 'veterans' out of here. i'd like to believe that reimer & scrivens have what it takes moving forward.... time will tell if a couple of guys with minimum NHL experience and no play-off experience, are going to be able to lead this team. rick nash is injured? ohhhhhhhh man i would be furious to be a rangers fan (or the guy who signs his checks). if kessel can still fire the puck with deadly accuracy, i'm not too concerned if he has a 6-pack (as long as it isn't a 6-pack of labatt's before the third period). Michael Langlois October 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM I'm with you Alex- I could not care any less where NHL (or Leaf players) guys sign during the lockout. I hate, as I've mentioned here before, that rich NHL'ers are stealing jobs from guys who actually need and deserve them, but that's another issue. What does it matter who plays where? I care about the Maple Leaf franchise, the history, the legacy. If "Leafs" play in Europe, it means nothing to me. Maybe I'm alone. And yes, if Nash were seriously injured, wouldn't the Rangers be thrilled? But since they are part of locking the players out, I guess this just speaks to how ridiculous this all is.... Thanks Alex... InTimeFor62 October 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM A lot of people have had high hopes for Kadri and I'm wondering if the internal purpose for all the media comments on this player has more to do with 'devaluing' him in the Toronto marketplace (but not elsewhere). If doubt is constantly placed before our perceptions, is it not possible we would be more likely to accept Kadri's departure in a trade? Even if we still like the player, we may just accept the trade to 'give the kid a chance somewhere else.' Are we being manipulated to undervalue our loss in a trade (and then overvalue the player we receive). I wonder if Kadri isn't a big part of the price in multiple negotiations... All this criticism might make more sense to me if/when we see a trade down the road. I think Kadri will have a good career, but I don't think he fits into the plan. Perhaps he's always been a bargaining chip for 'down the road' - never an integral part of the 'plan.' You may be right, InTimeFor62. I've long said here Kadri has been available in trades. But hopefully the organizational strategy is not simply to prepare us or his departure! I may have been overstating the idea rather than acknowledge it is probably the present-day part of a plan to deal with the player (in the context of a dysfunctional family) - I hope this hasn't been the plan from the outset, though I wonder if the seeds of the plan may have formed fairly early... On another note, there's an interesting interview about the liklihood of resolving the lockout by December, linked with the possibilities of 'breaking the union' 'replacement players' and more: http://nssradiotv.com/show/josh-rimer-october-1st-2012/ be sure to skip past about 11 minutes of commercials to make it more worth your while :) DP October 2, 2012 at 6:18 PM Lots of these issues covered Kadri, Scrivens, Kostka: http://iphone.tsn.ca/tsnpodcasts/Oct.%201%20Podcast.mp3	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line907
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__label__cc	0.683862	0.316138	tv Eyewitness News at 6 CBS May 20, 2016 6:00pm-6:31pm EDT caused when a hail of rocks, pelted a septa train traveling through north philadelphia, on the evening of may 12th, 2015. >> this isn't a game. this isn't something that is funny. this isn't something to do after school for kicks. people can get hurt. >> reporter: minutes later the ntsb has ruled, the engineer of the amtrak train 188, passing on an adjoining track, likely was distracted by radio messages about the incident. then, accelerating in the frankford curve, due to a loss of situational awareness at 106 miles an hour. the wreck, killing eight and injuring nearly 200. >> we think that rocks being thrown in trains is a common occurrence. it has got to end. >> reporter: with rocks shattering the cab window but striking windows in the passenger compartment, nestel says it is fortunate neither engineer nor anyone else was hurt. >> thank god that engineer wasn't seriously injured. thank god somebody's dad, wasn't ending up in the hospital or killed. >> reporter: while the rock throwers who damaged this train has never been caught chief nestel says his officers are focusing their patrols in area where rock throwing is frequent. the deadly chain of events that the ntsb says likely started with this rock attack, a sad example of just how dangerous it can be. >> when a train is moving at 60 miles an hour and someone hurls a rock at it, someone is getting hurt. >> reporter: the chief told me that the actual number of rock attacks reported is relatively low but that is because many times there are attacks that unless they shattered the window of the train in one notices thinking it is just another noise outside. live from septa headquarters i'm walt hunter for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks, wall. wreckage from egyptair flight is found in the mediterranean sea. search crews spotted human remains, floating in the waters, 200 miles north of egypt. european space agency located a possible oil slick, where it was throughout the plane went down. all 66 people on board are believed to have perish. the plane left paris early thursday morning, in route for cairo. investigators hope to find the jet's black boxes to determine what caused the disaster. "cbs evening news" will have much more on the investigation into the egyptair crash, charlie rose is in for scott pelley tonight right after our broadcast. students at howard high school of technology in wilmington are mourning the death of a classmate, 15 year-old brandon wingo was shot and kill on the 900 block of clifford brown walk yesterday afternoon. that is just a few blocks from howard high, and the community is still reeling from the loss of sophomore amy joyner francis. she was beaten to death, in the high school bathroom last month. feel it to be a safe environment for your children, you know, unfortunately within the last month, you know, it is an occurrence that made it feel like, that is the last bit. >> reporter: authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information, that leads to wingo's killer. >> chester county police need your help tracking down tyr el winchester who tried to run over a willis town township police officer yesterday. he a allegedly stole this car and then tried to ram the officer. and, before crashing the vehicle in the ditch their west chester pike and dell chester road. he took off running after that crash, the officer was not her. west goshen police after rested this man accused of abusing a disable man he was caring for. officers say eric heinback was caught on cameras punching a 23 year-old man in his west goshen home. man's mother turned that video into police as evidence. he is now facing several charges including simple assault. lower merion police need your help tracking down this man, caught on surveillance, burglarizing a home in the penn valley section. man searches through the belongings on the house on frog road. the homeowners had only gone out believely when that burglar struck. he got away with jewelry, electronics and if you have any information call the police. thousands gathered to remember the man who helped transform temple university. public memorial service was held for former temple president peter liacouras. "eyewitness news" at temple performing arts center. former basketball coach john cheyney remembered liacouras, he called liacouras a visionary who helped expand the university during his 18 years as president. >> he said and i remember distinctly, if the division doesn't work out it doesn't cost you a a dam thing but you should have a vision. you should have some feeling about where you are going, and how you will arrive at both and get ahead. >> peter liacouras retired in 2,000 and died last week after a long illness at the age of 85. for the first time in quite sometime a near perfect day all around the area but, things can change, quickly. saturday likely to spoil your plans. meteorologist kate bilo is live with more on that kate. >> i have heard from so many people that have plans tomorrow that is saying is it really as bad as it sound, birth the day parties, wedding, outdoor school event, fundraisers, unfortunately the weather stops for no events, and it looks like tomorrow is going to be a problem, all across the region. we have rain moving in by late morning and continuing steadily on and off through the have afternoon and steady rain to the south and east. we will look at the timing of that rain in a moment but first tonight, it is 75, beautiful friday evening, 74 in reading. sixty-nine in millville and 68 in dover. a few cloud rolled in this evening, a breeze has pick up a and cloud beginning to increase as our storm waits in the wings. here it is, gathering strength, steady band of rain moving through southern ohio and kentucky. more rain along the coast of the north carolina to converge on our area tomorrow, coming up, we will pinpoint timing of the heavier rain which areas could see most rain as well and if we may try to clear it out for a bit this weekend. for now, back over to you. well, powerful new device that could change the way the world creates energy is right here in our area. >> "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos takes to us princeton new jersey where new equipment is getting a tension. >> reporter: it can heat plasma four to five times the temperature of sun, today here in princeton a new machine unveiled which could lead to safe greens and abundant energy. through this tunnel of the princeton plasma physics laboratory, up a few flights of stairs, sits a device. >> it looks like an apple that has been cored. >> reporter: that cored apple could one day lead to efficient and plentiful fusion energy. >> we would provide even why i for millions of years for all of mankind. >> let me see this. >> there we go. >> reporter: friday u.s. energy secretary, toured the upgraded machine at princeton university, marking unveiling of the new fusion center stack which cost 94 million-dollar in federal funds, and five years to improve. >> upgrading it considerably to have twice magnetic field, twice amount of plasma and tweet heating power and five times duration of the plasma. >> reporter: over the next year michael and his team of physics and engineers will shoot beams of plasma in the device super heating it to 50 million degrees, five times hotter than surface of the sun. >> previous experiments have produced 11 mega watts of power, enough to power a small city but charge lasted for just one second. these new experiments will test whether power cannulas much longer at larger amounts. >> so we can ultimately use it to make energy, in a clean way, the goal, to take that experience where we showed we can make fusion power, and actually, make progress in the steps to make it practical and economic. >> reporter: fusion energy powering our city experts say is still decades away. in princeton greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> wow, amazing. >> it is. still to come on "eyewitness news". >> i said mom, i have seen him suffer. it is a miracle that he is alive. >> devastating and mysterious disease, tonight a local family that knows firsthand about the illness shares their emotional story. big time summer event that draws plenty of people to the beach in atlantic city. we now know who will be performing at this years concert series. don? it is speaking of performing who knew that the phillies would be this good. their manager didn't. we will hear from pete mackanin when we come back live from citizens bank park. on the healthwatch tonight you may have noticed people in purpose toll day to help raise awareness for lupus and today, in philadelphia there was a rally with toy raise awareness. >> health reporter stephanie stahl is here with more on the mysterious and devastating disease. >> it can be, guys. today is put on purple day, for lupus awareness month. it is a disease that is difficult to diagnosis and treat and it can cause real agony. doctors say that what is needed is more awareness and money for research. philly did its part today. getting word out about lupus at dilworth plaza as philadelphia observes world lupus day. >> we have a lot of work to do. we have too many people, battling symptoms of lupus without a proper diagnosis. >> reporter: lupus is a cruel mystery because so little is known about the auto immune disease that ravages different parts of the body. >> what i get from everyone is that you do not the look sick, but you are not sick, it effects everyone differently. >> reporter: twenty-four year-old scott was diagnosed with lupus at eight. since then he has had seer us of medical problems but was always surrounded by family and friend trying to put a happy face on a nasty situation. >> this is a devastating disease. although some people can live with this for the rest of their lives, some people can't. many people lose their lives to this disease. many people lose their lives at young ages. >> reporter: to save her son's life betty ann donated a kidney, scott has been barely surviving on dialysis this fist lah was created in his arm for his treatments. transplant in october was a game changer. >> i was feeling like it was a match, anything that i can do to make this child's life better would i do. i'm his mom. i have seen him suffer. the it is a miracle that he ace live. >> reporter: to keep him alive and well there is a lot of youthing with piles of medications, the aim to keep lupus control, so scott can start his life again. >> it is a day to day fight. >> his fortitude is amazing, it is, we do this, we're a team. >> reporter: it is not known what causes lupus and there is no cure. it can strike anyone out of no where and symptoms range from rashes a and fatigue to organ failure and heart attack. lupus foundation of america has a philadelphia tri-state chapter that provides a variety of services, we will have a lincoln cbs philly.com. how about scott and his mom. >> amazing duo. >> yes, they are. >> getting word out. >> yes. >> many pediatric awareness month and students at a school in marlton want to get out the word. >> chopper three was over buehler elementary school on caldwell have avenue today. lot students there wearing purple a and they formed a pediatric stroke awareness ribbon. it is a show of support for nine year-old chase, a stroke survivor. the 90th stotesbury cup regot ace underway on the schuylkill river. >> stotesbury is oldest and largest high school rowing competition in the you had, more than 5500 athletes are taking part and they are from 19 schools in the you had, and, canada racing runs through tomorrow, welcome to all of our visitors to the area. from the river to the ball york phillies are back in action tonight looking to keep up their winning ways. >> um-hmm. >> sports director don bellies live from citizens bank park and don, atlanta comes to town tonight. >> that is right, braves are in town and how good is this philadelphia team? we really didn't expect this coming in the season but they have been absolutely tremendous, exceeding their own expectations and exceeding expectations of their manager pete mackanin. we talk to him about an a hour an a half ago and he expect his team to be around 500 mark. they have far exceeded that. they are 24-17, second in the nl east, so seven games over 500. here's the rest of our conversation with the manager why, you know, i'm surprised we were in the position that we're in. i was hoping as i said earlier i was hoping to play 500 and see what happens from there, you know, the resilience i is what i'm's real happy about the fact that we have not gone backward after losing a game or two. we have rebounded. it is all because of our pitching and defense that has allowed to us do that. it has been a great season and i choose to believe that we will continue. >> you heard skipper talk about pitching, one of the great young pitchers will be on the mound here tonight that is aaron nola. team has won his last five starts. now lets talk about the nba. we know sixers have number one overall pick but they have two picks and tail end of the first round a 24th and 26th. today they held predraft work outs for six players who may be, might be in the running to be selected with those picks. one of those guys was isaiah miles from st. joes, a senior forward, averaged about 18 points last year, he was a-10, player of the year, i say player of the year i say most improved player of the year. he was asked what he can bring to the sixers. >> i think i can be a really good contributor, you know, i feel like they need an extra shooter who can stretch the floor. so i'm shooting out there i think they need one. >> good work out. i think that he has been somebody who has some interesting qualities. we know he comes from good stock. we paid attention because he is right around the corner. >> three draft choices, once again in june in the first round for the philadelphia 76ers, it is a great position to be in, kind of like the position that the phillies are in here tonight looking for their 25th win of the season. that is story here from citizens bank park i'm don bell, back to you guys in the studio. >> enjoy the night my man. beautiful night. >> what a night. >> katie, is there anywhere else to be but outside tonight. >> no. >> especially with what is coming up. >> you have to enjoy tonight while you can. phillies have a game at 3:00. that doesn't look so great. tonight will be beautiful. tomorrow a complete liz different story. we have got rain, moving in, probably went get here until late morning possibly even noon hour tomorrow. you're on notice tonight, tomorrow morning is your time to get out before the rain hits. speaking of the shore, was i speaking of the shore? if i was than the, it is a good place to be outside. you can see people outside on the boardwalk. cloud have rolled in. hazy outside this evening. still nice and warm and dry so things looking okay, folks are taking advantage of it, getting a prememorial day weekend in down the shore. boardwalk is crowded, tomorrow at this time i doubt it will be quite that way. let look at kutztown in our live neighborhood network. cloud have rolled in. seventy-one, still looking beautiful. here is saturday spoiler this storm bringing steady rain to kentucky, and ohio, coastal component as well. you will see this piece move to the north and weakening a little bit as energy increases over to that coastal piece. that will take over what will impact us here this weekend. it depend where heaviest sets up. i have been saying it all day licensing but we have to keep an eye on areas in the heaviest bull's eye will get over an inch. this weekend, period of rain heavier at times 62 degrees the high. sunday looks better. we may see a break of sun in the morning possibly again just before sunset, couple showers in the afternoon at 69 . the it remains to be said that there are a few models trying to keep steady rain the two north and south, and split it, keeping steady yes, sir rain south and east of philadelphia. i tend to agree with this. i pulled up earlier run to show you what my thoughts are on what the rain will do it will come late morning, mid afternoon, generally philadelphia point on north will see, light rains but intensifies over south jersey and delaware. then it moves you the late saturday night into sunday morning. the steady amounts, again this is what i'm thinking here. the .93 inches just shy of an inch, have half inch to an inch in philadelphia steady heavier rain, inch and a half in some spots off to the south and east. it could stay lighter in the city point north and west but plan for some heavy rain on the order of perhaps half inch to three-quarters of an inch. cloud increase light wind 54 degrees. cool, damp with period of rain for saturday. sunday marginally better and keep climbing out and it looks like a real nice pattern starts next tuesday into wednesday. ukee and jessica back to you. still to come on "eyewitness news", it is bike to work day, you might be surprised to know philly is the perfect place to pedal your way around, high praise the city of brotherly love is getting when it comes to spent more than 30 years in the public schools. we're retired, but we like to stay involved. you think he's going to learn to fly? we're just as busy now as in our teaching days. the same goes for a lot of the retired educators we know. let me see you all flap your wings, like you're penguins learning to fly. teaching is all about building relationships. and that never goes away. because once a teacher, always a teacher. we're ed and miriam, and we're proud to be new jersey educators. this year fourth of july welcome america concert i bringing local stars back home. >> west philadelphia rapper actor yas the greates, cristina perry and philly pops and the r and b band brotherly love all taking the stage for a free show. >> noteably missing this year is hip-hop group the roots, they have co head lined she since 2009. eight day welcome america festivities kicks off june 27th. get ready to party on the beach again three big concerts are coming to atlantic city, those performing director of marketing for casino reinvestment development authority revealed the big names to "eyewitness news". >> jimmy buffet who will be coming august 13th, zach brown band coming in september 1st, and of course florida georgia line will round those out on september 3rd. so we are very excited about it. the just a great opportunity for us to really show atlantic city is thriving, alive and well. >> yes they are. >> rascal flats played on the beach last year and blake shelf even and lady antbellam performed in 2014. almost time. we will be right back. giving people options based on their budget is pretty edgy... kind of like this look. i'm calling it the "name your price tool" phase. whatever. breaking news, chopper three is live over north philadelphia where a suspect is barricaded up side of an apartment building at 16th and allegheny. sources tell cbs-3 that the suspect pulled a gun on police at 16th and clear field. police fired at the suspect who ran into this apartment building, stay with "eyewitness news" for very latest and, of course, get updated at cbs philly.com. if you notice people riding bikes on your commute to or from work today that is because it is national bike to work day. >> our path the path gallon was on the road on his bike this morning and helmet, he had such i great time cruising around he never made it here. he just bike around. he was most bikable downtown by real estate web site this week. >> looking good pat gallen. >> thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at ten on our sister station cw philly inn back here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and here now is charlie rose, here now, we will see you tonight. >> rose: security scare at the white house. gunfire erupts outside. ironically, just minutes after this pledge from donald trump to the n.r.a. >> we're getting rid of gun-free zones, okay, i can tell you. >> rose: also tonight, searchers find the first remains and debris from egyptair 804, but the crash remains a mystery. georgia deputies are caught on video-- >> stop fighting! stop fighting! >> rose: tasing a handcuffed man, who then died. and steve hartman with a college custodian-- >> there was never a question of if we would go to college-- >> rose: and five degrees of jubilation. >> so they could have a better life than i had. captioning sponsored by cbs CBS May 20, 2016 6:00pm-6:31pm EDT Philadelphia 8, Princeton 4, Atlantic City 3, Lupus 3, Kentucky 2, North Philadelphia 2, Peter Liacouras 2, Pete Mackanin 2, Scott 2, Ntsb 2, Septa 2, Caldwell 1, Carolina 1, Lincoln Cbs Philly.com 1, Buehler 1, Aaron Nola 1, Don 1, Don Bell 1, Stotesbury 1, Plasma 1 Uploaded by TV Archive on May 20, 2016	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line909
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"the communicators around 1:00 -->> around 1:00 p.m. eastern, the prime minister of north korea is speaking at the general assembly. we will bring that like you. we are resuming our live coverage of the march for civility rally from the lincoln memorial, with the second portion of their events. organizers say it is to bring people together from different backgrounds is for love, equality, and justice for all. we are heading right back into our next set of speakers. we are going to roll a video, then we something us to buy. i want to make that clear. we have neverand, viewed ourselves as being foreclosed from the acquisition marketplace either domestically or internationally. it has to be the right deal, it has to be something that we think enhances the quality of the company, enhances returns to shareholders as well as enhance shareholder value as a result. i think there no secret that overall this president and administration is likely less hostile to horizontal growth, or even vertical... "March for Racial Justice" : CSPAN : September 30, 2017 3:26pm-5:16pm EDT . thanks for being with us. appreciate your time. guest: appreciate your time. >> of course, that was dorcas davis, founder of the event going on on the national mall. we are watching the march for racial justice. the march now over, and this is the rally. the rally and justice march are being offered by a number of groups. there are sister rallies around the country. you can see it is a fairly large group that has been in the streets of washington, d.c. today. as the rally gets under way, we are waiting for speakers including gloria steinem, feminist, michaela angela davis, a writer on african-american style, race, gender, and hip-hop culture, the cofounder of the black women's blueprint, teresa younger, who is the president a foundation for women who will be one of the moderators and narrators of the event. we will also hear from gina belafonte and numerous performances. we are live at the washington mall. >> for black women and for racial justice, all right? matter? es >> black lives matter! >> black lives matter! >> black lives matter? >> black lives matter! black women matter? >> . thanks for being with us. appreciate your time. guest: appreciate your time. >> of course, that was dorcas davis, founder of the event going on on the national mall. we are watching the march for racial justice. the march now over, and this is the rally. the rally and justice march are being offered by a number of groups. there are sister rallies around the country. you can see it is a fairly large group that has been in the streets of washington, d.c. today. as the rally gets under... a.m. eastern. join us tuesday for the entire washington journal starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. unfoldsn, where history daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today unfolds daily. by your cable or satellite provider. before the main speaking program of today's march for racial justice, demonstrators marched from the justice department to the national mall in washington dc. here is a look. 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[chanting] >> our long history we have had with the department of justice. killing of black women, of black women, lynching of theirwomen -- we say names. sandra bland. >> sandra bland. in there somewhere. rosa parks was our champion and knew that we had rights, and that the department of justic a.m. eastern. join us tuesday for the entire washington journal starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. unfoldsn, where history daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today unfolds daily. by your cable or satellite provider. before the main speaking program of today's march for racial justice, demonstrators marched from the justice department to the national mall in washington dc. here is a look. [chanting]... "Mother of All Rallies" : CSPAN2 : September 21, 2017 12:27pm-4:39pm EDT this took a long time to realize in fact, is a very language we use when we talked about foreign countries has been kind of determined for us a very long time ago because we tended to look at muslim countries and especially countries in the east as with a catching up with us or with a behind us? what that does is that prevent you from being able to see the country on its own terms. >> watch "after words" sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> on saturday president trump supporters held what they called the mother of all rallies. people gathered at the washington monument with organizer saying the rally team was american patriotism. [cheers and applause] let you all the youngsters out there. come on up. the other day you are the next generation of american patriots so, appear, take a part in it. >> alt-right, everybody come here we go. ready? i pledge allegiance to the flag of united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] >> all right. so first off thank y this took a long time to realize in fact, is a very language we use when we talked about foreign countries has been kind of determined for us a very long time ago because we tended to look at muslim countries and especially countries in the east as with a catching up with us or with a behind us? what that does is that prevent you from being able to see the country on its own terms. >> watch "after words" sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> on saturday... "Mother of All Rallies" : CSPAN3 : September 21, 2017 9:28pm-1:40am EDT talk show host monica matthews from atlanta, georgia, who will lead us in a blessing for the day to keep everybody safe and she is also going to sing the national anthem. here she is. >> thank you. thank you. an honor to be here. >> if you can stand, please stand. if you have a hat on, please take it off. thank you. ♪ oh say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hail as the twilights last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose bright stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ o'er say does that star spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ or the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [ cheers and applause ]. >> amen! i have a blessing to speak. ready? we all need a blessing, amen? amen. fellow patriots, we are gathered here today to call upon the collective heart of this great nation. i am here today to call upon the author of all liberty, order, justice and prosperity, t talk show host monica matthews from atlanta, georgia, who will lead us in a blessing for the day to keep everybody safe and she is also going to sing the national anthem. here she is. >> thank you. thank you. an honor to be here. >> if you can stand, please stand. if you have a hat on, please take it off. thank you. ♪ oh say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hail as the twilights last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose bright stripes and bright stars through... #Germany Decides - Meet the Candidate Chancellor Angela Merkel : DW : September 21, 2017 10:30am-11:00am CEST by DW people are afraid of the future and place great expectations in you. people often ask us what you are actually afraid of. i don't think fear is a good adviser we must face our challenges head on and we face huge tasks then we can consider what to do in my experience when the world works together we can move mountains when everyone has different opinions it can take a really long time to reach a solution at all but we negotiate talk and find one. was there anything that keeps you from sleeping at night. well there are situations to which i have to devote a lot of thought such as now when i think about the question of ukraine and russia . when i think about the syrian civil war which has robbed so many millions of their home. or when i think about the nuclear tests by the north korean dictator that naturally worries me too. but rather than fearing these problems i consider how i can solve them. you have been in office for twelve years. unlimited number of terms in office harm pluralism in society democracy. i don't think so there are different systems there are direct election systems w people are afraid of the future and place great expectations in you. people often ask us what you are actually afraid of. i don't think fear is a good adviser we must face our challenges head on and we face huge tasks then we can consider what to do in my experience when the world works together we can move mountains when everyone has different opinions it can take a really long time to reach a solution at all but we negotiate talk and find one. was there anything that keeps you from sleeping... 60 Minutes : KPIX : September 10, 2017 7:00pm-8:01pm PDT mitch mcconnell was, day one, did not want to-- did not want to go there. wanted us to back off. >> rose: you are attacking on many fronts, people who you need to help you, to get things done. >> bannon: they're not going to help you unless they're put on notice. they're going to be held accountable if they do not support the president of the united states. right now, there's no accountability. they have totally-- they do not support the president's program. it's an open secret on capitol hill. everybody in this city knows it. >> rose: and so therefore, now that you're out of the white house, you're going to war with them? 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A Colony in a Nation : CSPAN2 : September 17, 2017 12:01pm-1:04pm EDT your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. i think anybody knows who chris hayes is everybody knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. he is on our television screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it? winded -- >> when did i break? 2011. >> which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his nightly new show at 8 p.m., all in. chris also a "new york times" best-selling book twilight of the elites, america after a meritocracy. and then this spring release this book, "a colony in a nation." so let's get started. chris, why did you write this book? who did you want to read it and what did you want them to feel when they finished the last page of the book? >> i think i wrote the book because i had been covering, i've been covering criminal justice a lot and then i've been coming policing a lot and i've been in ferguson and in baltimore. i've been in north charleston, which where a police offic your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. i think anybody knows who chris hayes is everybody knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. he is on our television screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it? winded -- >> when did i break? 2011. >> which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his... ABC World News Tonight With David Muir : KGO : September 21, 2017 3:30pm-4:00pm PDT . >>> also breaking, from puerto rico, for the first time, rob marciano takes us to the part of the island where the hurricane made landfall. the urgent plea tonight. the woman waving our team inside and what rob found. >>> we have news on north korea. president trump reve punishing new sanctions and that china will now help. >>> facebook's founder mark zuckerberg tonight and the video message he just put out. the russians did buy thousands of ads on facebook during the election. attacking hillary clinton and praising donald trump. he'll now give those ads to congress. >>> two people trapped in this burning car. several officers smashing windows to get to them. >>> and the discovery tonight. doctors revealing what they found in aaron hernandez's brain. the, quote, most severe case they've ever seen. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. and we begin with that race against time in mexico city. we witnessed remarkable moments of heroism today. the rescue crews that have not given up. some have been able to pull people to safety amid so many col . >>> also breaking, from puerto rico, for the first time, rob marciano takes us to the part of the island where the hurricane made landfall. the urgent plea tonight. the woman waving our team inside and what rob found. >>> we have news on north korea. president trump reve punishing new sanctions and that china will now help. >>> facebook's founder mark zuckerberg tonight and the video message he just put out. the russians did buy thousands of ads on facebook during... ABC World News Tonight With David Muir : KGO : September 4, 2017 5:30pm-6:01pm PDT here. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on a labor day monday, and we begin tonight with all eyes now on this new hurricane. the new storm track just in, and late today, hurricane irma was upgraded to a category 4 hurricane. florida is already preparing tonight. very likely in the path, and several other states getting ready too. hurricane irma as you can see now, sweeping toward the caribbean. winds up to 130 miles per hour, and expected to strengthen even more. a state of emergency just declared in florida. the new models just in showing several tracks that could make u.s. landfall. anywhere there from the florida panhandle up to the carolinas. tonight already, residents in florida stocking up on water, on food, fuel, store shelves empty there. having of course, just witnessed the destruction of hurricane harvey in texas. the first hurricane watches and warnings are in effect tonight. chief meteorologist ginger zee has been tracking this all afternoon with us in the news room. where is irma right now? >> reporter: less than 500 miles east of the leeward isl here. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on a labor day monday, and we begin tonight with all eyes now on this new hurricane. the new storm track just in, and late today, hurricane irma was upgraded to a category 4 hurricane. florida is already preparing tonight. very likely in the path, and several other states getting ready too. hurricane irma as you can see now, sweeping toward the caribbean. winds up to 130 miles per hour, and expected to strengthen even... buildings, windows and crepes across there city, and first, abc's linzie janis leads us off with the devastating images tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the images now emerging of the utter devastation hurricane irma left behind. buildings and trees ripped apart. this communications tower snapped. hundreds now homeless. >> i was standing, and i would not want to see a hurricane like this again. >> reporter: barbuda's prime minister telling abc news its as if a bomb was dropped on the tiny island, one of the first hit. >> my main concern right now is how we are going to survive after this. >> reporter: st. martin next in irma's crosshairs. shipping containers tossed like toys. at least 14 now dead in the storm zone, including 16-year-old xander venesia. drowning in rough surf off the coast. the death toll expected to rise and scores more coast guard teams like this one have been flying in and out of the virgin islands rescuing people. our cameraman on that chopper capturing scenes of utter devastation as irma moved across the caribbean. we met canadian college student alex demoor, badly buildings, windows and crepes across there city, and first, abc's linzie janis leads us off with the devastating images tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the images now emerging of the utter devastation hurricane irma left behind. buildings and trees ripped apart. this communications tower snapped. hundreds now homeless. >> i was standing, and i would not want to see a hurricane like this again. >> reporter: barbuda's prime minister telling abc news its as if a bomb was dropped... ABC World News Tonight With David Muir : WJLA : September 22, 2017 6:30pm-7:00pm EDT storm models showing the track of hurricane maria once again closer to the east koes coast of the us. we have the timing and the possible path. >>> also a major blow to the effort to kill obamacare. john mccain and his decision late today. jimmy kimmel tweeting him and tonight the two key senators who could make or break this bill. where they stand right now. >>> the stunning moment now days after the earthquake. this per >>> north korea tonight and their new warning responding to president trump. now promising an h-bomb in the pacific. >>> and breaking now, the hostage situation unfolding at this hour inside a bank. several reportedly trapped inside. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us on a friday night. we begin with the urgent headline from puerto rico at this hour. a dam at imminent risk of failure, a life flaet threatening situation. a mass evacuation under way. some 70,000 people across the island. catastrophic flooding and mudlieds already. the cover saying it's time to get people out. we begin with abc's rob marciano on the scene to get tens of thousands to highe storm models showing the track of hurricane maria once again closer to the east koes coast of the us. we have the timing and the possible path. >>> also a major blow to the effort to kill obamacare. john mccain and his decision late today. jimmy kimmel tweeting him and tonight the two key senators who could make or break this bill. where they stand right now. >>> the stunning moment now days after the earthquake. this per >>> north korea tonight and their new warning... coast. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin tonight with the unescapable head-on collision of politics and sports. many nfl players responding to trump's attack on those who kneel in protest during the national anthem. players peacefully taking a knee, locking arms, some with fists raid the steelers choosing not to take the field during the anthem. trump saying players should be fired or suspended. urging fans to stop attending games until such protests start. mary bruce starts us off. >> reporter: on this football sunday -- ♪ oh say can you see >> reporter: tonight, the nfl is sending a message to president trump. from detroit to buffalo, and all the way to london, as the anthem plays, the chorus of opposition from the field is growing. players and coaches kneeling together. arms linked, fists raised in solidarity. the patriots' tom brady, shoulder to shoulder with his teammates. in chicago, all but one of the steelers declined to take the field. not wanting the players to have to choose sides. and in blaring out over an empty field. the coast. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin tonight with the unescapable head-on collision of politics and sports. many nfl players responding to trump's attack on those who kneel in protest during the national anthem. players peacefully taking a knee, locking arms, some with fists raid the steelers choosing not to take the field during the anthem. trump saying players should be fired or suspended. urging fans to stop attending games... cabin today. passengers making a quick escape. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a monday night. and we begin with president trump, his words about some players and the nfl, and the backlash, dividing fans. and leading to players and team owners, some of whom supported the president, to now break ranks with him on this issue. teams across the country this weekend showing solidarity, so many locked arm in arm. patriots quarterback tom brady, a friend of president trump, speaking out today, calling the president's remarks divisive. the steelers player who stood alone, his team in the locker room. but a short time ago, now apologizing, he says, for inadvertently making his team look bad. and as i mentioned, w at stake already, why did the president target this? abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, president trump defiant and unapologetic about sparking a national firestorm with these words. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a [ b cabin today. passengers making a quick escape. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a monday night. and we begin with president trump, his words about some players and the nfl, and the backlash, dividing fans. and leading to players and team owners, some of whom supported the president, to now break ranks with him on this issue. teams across the country this weekend showing solidarity, so many locked arm in arm. patriots quarterback tom brady, a friend of... ABC7 News 11:00AM : KGO : September 26, 2017 11:00am-11:30am PDT joining us, i'm kristen sze. right now, we're monoing president trump and the remarks he's making at the white house right now with the president of spain. we'll bring you live coverage from abc news when the weather starts taking questions. >>> first, here local news, the massive preparation under way right now near uc berkeley after two conservative activists promise to show up on campus this afternoon despite the cancelation of free speech week. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live at golden gate fields with the latest. amy? >> reporter: hi, kristen, this huge parking lot here at golden gate fields is the staging area for the chp. we're just three miles away from uc berkeley, and they're offering support to police on campus today. look at all of these cars. this gives you an idea of the scope of their security plan. preparations are under way on campus, too. they have surrounded the plaza with water-filled barriers to protect the plaza. mutual aid is on scene. officers from as far away from uc davis are ready to go. back at golden gate fields, we want to slow you the great v joining us, i'm kristen sze. right now, we're monoing president trump and the remarks he's making at the white house right now with the president of spain. we'll bring you live coverage from abc news when the weather starts taking questions. >>> first, here local news, the massive preparation under way right now near uc berkeley after two conservative activists promise to show up on campus this afternoon despite the cancelation of free speech week. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield... ABC7 News 11:00PM : KGO : September 21, 2017 11:00pm-11:35pm PDT . >> announcer: live where you live, this is abc 7 news. >>> i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. >> mark zuckerberg tonight pledging big changes aft russi bought thousands of ads on facebook during the 2016 u.s. election. good evening. i'm larry beil. dan and ama are off tonight. facebook is handing over the 3,000 ads to congressional ators, saying after monthsigveinst of internal inven it only just recently uncovered fake accounts linked to russia. abc 7 news reporter katie marzullo live at facebook headquarters in menlo park. katie? >> reporter: larry, mark zuckerberg said facebook's mission is about giving people a voice and bringing people together. he said those are democratic values and he cares deeply about democracy. >> i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. >> reporter: using facebook ng over o mark zuckerberg turni more than 3,000 political ads to congressional investigators. the ads are linked to russia. most of them praise donald trump or attack hillary clinton. >> we've seen now that it can be -- tools of technology can also be abused . >> announcer: live where you live, this is abc 7 news. >>> i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. >> mark zuckerberg tonight pledging big changes aft russi bought thousands of ads on facebook during the 2016 u.s. election. good evening. i'm larry beil. dan and ama are off tonight. facebook is handing over the 3,000 ads to congressional ators, saying after monthsigveinst of internal inven it only just recently uncovered fake accounts linked to russia.... ABC7 News 11:00PM : KGO : September 23, 2017 11:00pm-12:00am PDT was a respect for the office and also a respect not only from us, but from the president himself. >> you know, it's for going and call every player who took a knee a son of a [ bleep ], like huh? we're talking -- what? that don't even make sense to me. >> reporter: draymond green is talking about this. >> they say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now, out. he's fired. he's fired! >> reporter: the president yesterday referred to nfl players kneeling to protest racial inequality and police brutality during the national anthem. >> the warriors will still travel to washington, d.c. to play the wizards and use the trip to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion. lisa amin gulezian, abc 7 news. >>> president trump repeated business call to fire nfl players who refuse to stand for the national anthem. roger goodell said the comments determine trait a lack of respect for the nfl, the presidents and players. and president trump said that goodell was trying to justify the disrespect certain players show our country and tell them to stand, it said. >> the san francisco 49 was a respect for the office and also a respect not only from us, but from the president himself. >> you know, it's for going and call every player who took a knee a son of a [ bleep ], like huh? we're talking -- what? that don't even make sense to me. >> reporter: draymond green is talking about this. >> they say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now, out. he's fired. he's fired! >> reporter: the president yesterday referred to nfl players kneeling to... for us to be able to chase that fire, i mean, we had to climb in that were stationed on the ridge above, protecting expensive homes off campus drive. this homeowner was grateful. >> thank god today the upper hand for fire department. thank god for that. >> reporter: oakland resident and warriors star klay thompson tweeted "just wanted to say thank you to firefighters and first responders working so hard to put this fire out." new homes were under construction near where the fire began but firefighters say a cause is still unknown. in oakland cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >>> weather conditions certainly did not help the fire crews so, we have another warm day ahead of us too. here's abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya? >> fire danger remains elevated. let's take a look at the conditions near the fire lines right now. it is cooler. relative humidity has come up quite a bit. it's 42%. and the winds have dropped off. which is obviously good news. but the winds are not going to remain low very long. red flag warning for the north and east bay hills until 5:00 tomorrow night for us to be able to chase that fire, i mean, we had to climb in that were stationed on the ridge above, protecting expensive homes off campus drive. this homeowner was grateful. >> thank god today the upper hand for fire department. thank god for that. >> reporter: oakland resident and warriors star klay thompson tweeted "just wanted to say thank you to firefighters and first responders working so hard to put this fire out." new homes were under construction near where... ABC7 News 4:30AM : KGO : September 8, 2017 4:30am-5:01am PDT have people backing us. >> had the cofounders knew there were plenty of resources in san francisco, but not many in the east bay. >> i lived here 17 years and they never had a center that's all inclusive. >> joe says the opening of the center comes at a time when bigotry is on the rise. according to new statistics from the department of justice. >> hate crimes went up 11%, and the top two categories were african-americans and lgbtq people. >> mayor libby schaaf cut the ribbon for the center which will provide a wide range of services, mental health, substance abouse counseling and gender advocacy. >> this gives real assistance and hope, support, comfort, safety to this incredible community. >> what the center doesn't have is funding. >> right now, we don't have any money. we have been funding this thing out of our own pockets. >> but there were surprise gifts. a check from the aids health care foundation for $10,000. and another for $1,000 from oakland pride. until they can hire employees, 200 volunteers have stepped up to help out. in oakland, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> union city have people backing us. >> had the cofounders knew there were plenty of resources in san francisco, but not many in the east bay. >> i lived here 17 years and they never had a center that's all inclusive. >> joe says the opening of the center comes at a time when bigotry is on the rise. according to new statistics from the department of justice. >> hate crimes went up 11%, and the top two categories were african-americans and lgbtq people. >> mayor libby schaaf... us they came out, they saw the fire, a lot of fire coming right out of the garage. and they saw the man frantic as he begged for the firefighters to go in and save his wife. reporting live in pleasant hill, amy follyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you, amy. >>> developing news now. two natural disasters. hurricane irma is threatening millions in southern florida, but we'll start with the deadly earthquake in mexico. it had a magnitude of 8.1 and struck near the border with guatemala. now, it was -- the quake had a magnitude of 8.1. it was felt about 450 miles away in mexico city. moments ago, authorities updated the death toll to at least 15. the quake caused a huge traffic jam. the freeway lights waving. people ran out into the street. the quake knocked out power in a lot of neighborhoods. five aftershocks, too, 4.9 or stronger. >>> guys, i want to show you this new video coming in, speaking about that earthquake. firefighters right now searching through rubble, and look at this. what they're dealing with. they're using hammers, they're using shovels, just to try to get some of the debr us they came out, they saw the fire, a lot of fire coming right out of the garage. and they saw the man frantic as he begged for the firefighters to go in and save his wife. reporting live in pleasant hill, amy follyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you, amy. >>> developing news now. two natural disasters. hurricane irma is threatening millions in southern florida, but we'll start with the deadly earthquake in mexico. it had a magnitude of 8.1 and struck near the border with guatemala.... ABC7 News 6:00AM : KGO : September 24, 2017 6:00am-7:00am PDT offi office, but respect for us and for the president himself. >> it's for going and calling every player who took a knee a son of a [ bleep ]. like, huh? we're talking -- what? that don't even make sense to me. >> reporter: dramon green is talking about this. >> to say, get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now. out, he's fired. he's fired! >> the president referred to nfl players kneeling to brutality. >> the warriors travel to d.c. in february to play the wizards. and they will use that trip to celebrate equality, diversity and ininclusion. >>> president trump was up on early twitter this morning calling on sports' fans to take action. if nfl players stop going to games until the players suspended. he also said, nfl attendance and ratings are flooring games, yes. >>> and nfl commissioner roger goodell called the total disrespect. donald trump is telling the players to stand. >>> and jed york is calling the statement callous and offensive commen commentsing that our players have exercised their rights as united states citizens. >>> and free speech week in berkeley was s offi office, but respect for us and for the president himself. >> it's for going and calling every player who took a knee a son of a [ bleep ]. like, huh? we're talking -- what? that don't even make sense to me. >> reporter: dramon green is talking about this. >> to say, get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now. out, he's fired. he's fired! >> the president referred to nfl players kneeling to brutality. >> the warriors travel to d.c. in february to play... ABC7 News 6:00PM : KGO : September 25, 2017 6:00pm-7:00pm PDT wants to make america great again but what he's doing is separating us. i feel like us coming together helps us come together as a country. >> the athletic director says some of the the school's athletes started sitting out the national anthem last year to protest police inequality. >> our kids are powerful and thoughtful. i've always taught my kids while you may not be able to vote you still can be involved. >> reporter: alissa hairing ton, abc 7 news. >> some of the strongest reactions from coming from police and veterans. my grandpa is a 97-year-old world war ii vet and a missouri farmer who wanted to join with those who took a knee. those kids have every right to protest. some veterans tweeted disapproval using hash tag, nfl boycott. this one says to donald trump how about inviting veterans to the white house instead of american hating immigrants. the former ranger became a hero to critics of taking a knee when he stood along during the anthem. this afternoon villanueva says he made a mistake. >> look back and that is my fault and my fault only. i made my teammates look ba wants to make america great again but what he's doing is separating us. i feel like us coming together helps us come together as a country. >> the athletic director says some of the the school's athletes started sitting out the national anthem last year to protest police inequality. >> our kids are powerful and thoughtful. i've always taught my kids while you may not be able to vote you still can be involved. >> reporter: alissa hairing ton, abc 7 news. >> some of the... british tourist and injured another. >> bunch of noise and smoke coming down like crazy. lot of us tasho whtt ifire. i thought it was fire. my wife is pregnant. first reaction is get her out of the car or run. scary stuff. >> there are about 80 reported rock falls in yosemite each year, rarely deadly. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze, ama daetz is on maternity leave. only on abc7 news, abc is getting mixed up with uous after preschool suddenly closed. >>> families not getting money back. happy times preschool in sunset district. lonny rivera with story abc7. >> supply sale supposed to happen to recover lossesment hasn't been much foot traffic so we don't know if the sale has happened. for parents, many very upset, played september tuition and yet to receive money back. >> kids crying and sad couldn't go back to see all their friends. just a mi.ss >> reporter: mitch mitchell said it was the news to child. >> i went to this school long time ago. some of these guys were my teacher. >> reporter: disappointed with this letter mailed to parents about the closure. explained that staf british tourist and injured another. >> bunch of noise and smoke coming down like crazy. lot of us tasho whtt ifire. i thought it was fire. my wife is pregnant. first reaction is get her out of the car or run. scary stuff. >> there are about 80 reported rock falls in yosemite each year, rarely deadly. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze, ama daetz is on maternity leave. only on abc7 news, abc is getting mixed up with uous after preschool suddenly closed. >>>... ABC7 News 9:00PM on KOFY : KOFY : September 7, 2017 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT the united states. good evening and thank you for joining us. >> hurricane irma has claimed at least 13 lives in the caribbean and it's expected to reach south florida this weekend. >> florida's governor has declared a state-wide emergency. in florida with a look at irma's impact and the preparations underway tonight. marcy. >> at least one shelter in south florida is already attica pasty. people are taking these warnings seriously, especially now after seeing what the storm is capable of. hurricane irma cutting a catastrophic path through the caribbean. >> how we going to survive after this. >> reporter: the monstrous category 5 storm damaging nearly everything on the tiny island of barbuda and leaving half of puerto rico. >> hospitals taking in some of the injured rescued from neighboring islands. the governors what will be a historic disaster. this storm is much worse. >> from the gulf to atlantic coast, more than a million people ordered to evacuate. >> i'm very scared so i'm trying to get as north as possible. hours long with stations running out. >> pretty much on full bu the united states. good evening and thank you for joining us. >> hurricane irma has claimed at least 13 lives in the caribbean and it's expected to reach south florida this weekend. >> florida's governor has declared a state-wide emergency. in florida with a look at irma's impact and the preparations underway tonight. marcy. >> at least one shelter in south florida is already attica pasty. people are taking these warnings seriously, especially now after seeing what the storm... ABC7 News at 4 : WJLA : September 27, 2017 4:00pm-5:00pm EDT few hours ago and richard reeve joins us live with what the students are now asking for. richard? richard: in a word -- "security." they are concerned about their safety, especially at night. they wonder how this guy got on the campus, undefected and planted posters on several buildings around campus. this is a wide open campus here. there are no locked gates. this is the video that the authorities want you to see. this man wearing what appears to be construction clothing. described as a white male, 40 years old, 5'10". the police say this is the man who brought posters on campus. placed them bulletin boards in four buildings. it was just last night the same evening, they dedicated the antiracist research a but the school says it does have leads in the criminal case. >> we have a suspect, not a person of interest. a suspect. for all of those who are watching and listening we would ask that you view the videos. that you look at the photos. because those levels of security have gotten us to the point within this quick period of time that we actually know this is a suspect. >> i was few hours ago and richard reeve joins us live with what the students are now asking for. richard? richard: in a word -- "security." they are concerned about their safety, especially at night. they wonder how this guy got on the campus, undefected and planted posters on several buildings around campus. this is a wide open campus here. there are no locked gates. this is the video that the authorities want you to see. this man wearing what appears to be construction clothing. described... heist. ryan: the brazen thieves tried to use a uhaul. but they struck out. the a.t.m. was destroyed and lying outside the main box office area. a window is also busted out. the f.b.i. is leading this investigation. agents out here taking photos and gathering evidence for more than seven hours. four suspects use a stolen uhaul and rammed the a.t.m. several times with the back of the truck. a burglar alarm went off around 7:45 this morning and likely scared them away. they didn't get away with the machine but they managed to get away in a pickup truck. we confirmed the uhaul was stolen from the location just around the corner on south capitol street and we are told it was stole enovernight from crews are scanning through surveillance cameras trying to see if the four suspects were captured on the video. in southeast, ryan hughes, abc7 news. alison: new at 4:00 today, this man right here is in custody accused of putting hateful notes on the front door of a predominantly black church in prince william county. michael birkl is now facing charges. the notes included a swastika and mention heist. ryan: the brazen thieves tried to use a uhaul. but they struck out. the a.t.m. was destroyed and lying outside the main box office area. a window is also busted out. the f.b.i. is leading this investigation. agents out here taking photos and gathering evidence for more than seven hours. four suspects use a stolen uhaul and rammed the a.t.m. several times with the back of the truck. a burglar alarm went off around 7:45 this morning and likely scared them away. they didn't get away with... forecast. josh: that is right. for most of us the temperatures feel like they are in the mid-80's. that is even with the cloud cover today. now things are starting to clear out from north to south. we are starting off here with a picture for you from frederick. you see more blue skies showing up. we switch over to show you the big picture. the cloud cover we had today is still in response to what is left of jose. still spinning out there in the same place that it has been to bring rain to new england and long island. that is about it. we had a few clouds today. you will notice even with the clouds, temperature is warming up. it's fall officially and it feels like 84 in warrenton. 82 for leesburg. 85 at quantico and fredericksburg. as we go throughout the everything, as long as the clouds stick around, the temperatures are slow to still at 77. by 9:00 we get extra clearing and the temperatures are down to 71 degrees. we are heating back up again tomorrow. 88 degrees with a good bit of sunshine. 89 on sunday. getting even hotter. again as we get to next week it will start to feel like fal forecast. josh: that is right. for most of us the temperatures feel like they are in the mid-80's. that is even with the cloud cover today. now things are starting to clear out from north to south. we are starting off here with a picture for you from frederick. you see more blue skies showing up. we switch over to show you the big picture. the cloud cover we had today is still in response to what is left of jose. still spinning out there in the same place that it has been to bring rain to new... the practice over the weekend. right now head to wjla.com/votenow to let us know if you think the president comments have united the country, divided the country or had no effect. brad bell is live at fedex field with reaction. brad: the redskins had one of the biggest, most convincing victories in years over the raiders last night. but what has so many people talking is what happened before the game. it was a weekend of protests at the nfl games. the redskins among the team linking arms in unity with those players who choose to kneel during the anthem. the team owner standing with them. after the game, the star corner back josh norman speaking angrily about the president of the united states. >> he is not welcome. i can say that to your face. not welcome here. brad: president night speech to the alabama rally about what he said the nfl owners ought to do about anthem protests. >> if they get that son of a [bleep] off the field right now. he is fired. brad: new tweets from the president. #standfortheanthem. another said it had nothing to do with race. at white house today, spokesp the practice over the weekend. right now head to wjla.com/votenow to let us know if you think the president comments have united the country, divided the country or had no effect. brad bell is live at fedex field with reaction. brad: the redskins had one of the biggest, most convincing victories in years over the raiders last night. but what has so many people talking is what happened before the game. it was a weekend of protests at the nfl games. the redskins among the team linking arms in... aggressive action by the suspect the use of more force was warranted. pepper spray or the baton. >> showed restraint. i'm proud of him. >> it was bystanders. two men step in to help discouraging the men granning at the officer's waist and pulling him away. police want to know who they were to thank them and talk to them. >> we would love to see what take place that they saw prior to the video starting. what made them record the incident? the 41-year-old murray faces assault on a police officer. he has a long criminal record and twice before he assaulted police officers. murray and officers suffered minor injuries. cuts and bruises. the officer sprained his hand. the police stress that officer opted not to use his baton or the pepper spray, even in the choke hold. his priority was protecting the service weapon. they call the video a snapshot of the restraint shown by the police officers every day. they are praising the officer but they are not identifying him because he is not accused alison: thank you. we have new developments in the fight over a confederate flag in virginia. ea aggressive action by the suspect the use of more force was warranted. pepper spray or the baton. >> showed restraint. i'm proud of him. >> it was bystanders. two men step in to help discouraging the men granning at the officer's waist and pulling him away. police want to know who they were to thank them and talk to them. >> we would love to see what take place that they saw prior to the video starting. what made them record the incident? the 41-year-old murray faces assault... be active but as many storms as we have seen intensify, that is something we are not used to seeing. this is what we have at this point. there is maria. hurricane maria and jose. brad bell talked about that. but i want to zoom in closer to maria. you can see we still have a very of course, a tight eye. strong winds around the eye and the eyewall but gusting to 200 earn many. maximum sustained at 165. now we are less than 80 miles from st. croix here. puerto rico expected to take a hit tonight and into tomorrow morning. the category five is expected to weaken to a four. but still winds of 150 miles per hour as it does make landfall in puerto rico. ultimate bahamas. but even there we will see heavy rain and the storm surge as a big problem. things are nice and quiet at home. it's starting to feel more like summer. we talk about that in a bit. nancy: thank you. going back to maria. mindboggling damage is how the prime minister has described the destruction after the eye moved over the tiny island nation. one is dead and two people are missing on the guadeloupe. life threatening storm s be active but as many storms as we have seen intensify, that is something we are not used to seeing. this is what we have at this point. there is maria. hurricane maria and jose. brad bell talked about that. but i want to zoom in closer to maria. you can see we still have a very of course, a tight eye. strong winds around the eye and the eyewall but gusting to 200 earn many. maximum sustained at 165. now we are less than 80 miles from st. croix here. puerto rico expected to take a hit tonight... big crowds were outside the capitol rallying for dreamers. stephen tschida bringing us the message as congress struggles to find a way forward on immigration reform. stephen: they came to the nation's capitol from across the country, to call on congress for protection. >> we are here to push, to push, push, push. stephen: president trump voided daca, directive that protected children of illegal immigrants who had grown up in the u.s. from deportation. >> i wouldn't be able to follow my dreams. stephen: estimated 800,000 so-called dreamers face uncertain future. >> i want to be protected in a clean path to citizenship for the dreamers. stephen: the dreamers and the families came to hopefully meet with members of congress. one member of congress showed up here to lend support to the cause. >> every democratic member with whom you meet will for the dream act. stephen: the clean dream act, those who rallied want, would grant them legal residency and put an end to the current crackdown on all illegal immigrants. stephen tschida, abc7 news. jonathan: dozens protested an address by attorn big crowds were outside the capitol rallying for dreamers. stephen tschida bringing us the message as congress struggles to find a way forward on immigration reform. stephen: they came to the nation's capitol from across the country, to call on congress for protection. >> we are here to push, to push, push, push. stephen: president trump voided daca, directive that protected children of illegal immigrants who had grown up in the u.s. from deportation. >> i wouldn't be able to... did use. d.c. police share images of the officers working in puerto rico. ten officers arrived there and they are now moving to the west coast to the island to check on the storm survivors there to help distribute supplies. michelle: the state department is warning not to visit cuba following sonic attacks at the embassy in savannah. they ordered half of the staff to leave the country. the sonic attack started in november and affected 21 members. >> happening now the search is on for several men who stole a uhaul truck and tried to take an a.t.m. from nationals park. richard reeve? richard: they stole the truck and drove it here to nats park. they tried to take out an a.t.m. machine and it didn't work. now the police are looking for them. >> it sounded like an explosion. a wakeup call and a robbery in one. >> it's a strange place to steal an a.t.m. >> that is the focus of the joint investigation. >> they did in the a.t.m. multiple times. >> they backed in the a.t.m. and knocked them on the ground. >> they stole this truck and the rental lot across the street. >> they were knock did use. d.c. police share images of the officers working in puerto rico. ten officers arrived there and they are now moving to the west coast to the island to check on the storm survivors there to help distribute supplies. michelle: the state department is warning not to visit cuba following sonic attacks at the embassy in savannah. they ordered half of the staff to leave the country. the sonic attack started in november and affected 21 members. >> happening now the search is on for... ABC7 News at Noon : WJLA : September 11, 2017 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT tell you. about 9:00 this morning, witnesses tell us a man and woman were standing over here when the man suddenly darted toward the white house, jumped the lower fence and raced at the larger fence, where he threw something over that looks like a sign. afterward, something like a cell phone. man and the woman who was with him were both taken into custody and taken away. closed.ire area was it just reopened about 15 minutes ago. we understand there has been an all clear sounded. that is the latest from the white house. thanks, steven. coming up, more weather and more tropical storm irma. coming up after the break. first, a quick check of traffic with eric smith. eric: good afternoon. a bit of a tough start for the beltway outer loop here on the american legion bridge out of maryland and into virginia. a crash has the three left lanes shut down. side now, the right but you can see that is a solid jam. just after river road, it is going to be a jampacked ride. they are hoping to get traffic moving again. virginia,d toward things are looking pretty good on the beltway. nothing too sl tell you. about 9:00 this morning, witnesses tell us a man and woman were standing over here when the man suddenly darted toward the white house, jumped the lower fence and raced at the larger fence, where he threw something over that looks like a sign. afterward, something like a cell phone. man and the woman who was with him were both taken into custody and taken away. closed.ire area was it just reopened about 15 minutes ago. we understand there has been an all clear sounded. that is the... ABC7 News at Noon : WJLA : September 28, 2017 12:00pm-12:30pm EDT floor for the first time since being shot in alexandria. dave is live for us. alise was welcomed back to a roar of applause. dave: it was the congressman's first time back since the shooting. here is what he had to say to his colleagues. scalise: the thing that overwhelmed us from the start was the outpouring of love and warmth and prayers. from southeast louisiana come the district i represent, we saw blood drives, prayer sawps, but what we also were print rooms and well wishes being given from districts, and you shared it with me. things thatf those was hard for us to completely comprehend that you had people from all walks of life that had never met me before, yet they saw what had happened, and they wanted to offer prayers. date: he also thanked the capital police officers and everyone else at the baseball field. both of the cops were hurt in the shooting. bailey was there forced police -- for scalise's return. the lone gunmen in the alexandria attack was killed by policemen. we will have more tonight on abc 7 at 4:00. adrianna? adrianna: thanks, dave. a look at the tax reform pla floor for the first time since being shot in alexandria. dave is live for us. alise was welcomed back to a roar of applause. dave: it was the congressman's first time back since the shooting. here is what he had to say to his colleagues. scalise: the thing that overwhelmed us from the start was the outpouring of love and warmth and prayers. from southeast louisiana come the district i represent, we saw blood drives, prayer sawps, but what we also were print rooms and well wishes being given...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line911
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World News Now : WJLA : March 10, 2016 3:30am-4:01am EST , everyone. >> i'm reena ninan. >> i'm kendis gibson. >> we'll begin with a rematch in miami. hillary clinton squaring off with bernie sanders after her stinging loss in michigan. >> as the democrats an tangled over immigration reform and what sanders called establishment politics, polls in ohio and florida show clinton with a commanding lead. abc's liz kreutz has the debate highlights from miami. good morning, liz. >> reporter: good morning. just one day after bernie sanders pulled off that surprising win in michigan, he came head to head with hillary clinton here in miami. last night's debate a critical make or break moment for him as he hopes to expand his momentum beyond the midwest. overnight, hillary clinton brushing off her big loss in michigan picking herself up as she faced off with bernie sanders at the eighth democratic debate in florida, hosted by univision. >> madame secretary, i will match my record against yours any day of the week. >> i will not deport children. i would not deport children. >> reporter: and, of course, donald trump. >> he's talking about a very tall wa , everyone. >> i'm reena ninan. >> i'm kendis gibson. >> we'll begin with a rematch in miami. hillary clinton squaring off with bernie sanders after her stinging loss in michigan. >> as the democrats an tangled over immigration reform and what sanders called establishment politics, polls in ohio and florida show clinton with a commanding lead. abc's liz kreutz has the debate highlights from miami. good morning, liz. >> reporter: good morning. just one day after... World News Now : WJLA : May 19, 2016 3:00am-3:30am EDT , everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm diane macedo. we, of course, begin with the breaking news. new details now about the disappearance of an egyptair jet over the mediterranean sea. >> our abc correspondent alex marquardt is on his way charles de gaulle airport where this flight took off about 11:59 local time six hours ahead of the east coast. it was expecting to land some four hours later in cairo. it disappeared shortly before landing there. oh alex, you're on your way there. what are you learning from your point? >> reporter: good morning, kendis. that's right. we've just gotten word moments ago from egyptair the airline flying this plane there was a distress signal that is now being analyzed by the military search and rescue teams. it's just a signal. it's very important to differentiate between that and a call. so far no indication any sort of distress call was made. the last aviation authorities had contact with this plane were the greeks as they left greek air space across the mediterranean and headed towards egypt. the greek air traffic controllers said this plane just van , everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm diane macedo. we, of course, begin with the breaking news. new details now about the disappearance of an egyptair jet over the mediterranean sea. >> our abc correspondent alex marquardt is on his way charles de gaulle airport where this flight took off about 11:59 local time six hours ahead of the east coast. it was expecting to land some four hours later in cairo. it disappeared shortly before landing there. oh alex, you're on your way... Nightline : WMUR : October 18, 2016 12:37am-1:07am EDT side of a mountain? takes the wedding cake. here's abc's kendis gibson. >> pull it tight. >> reporter: it's just before sunrise. only two days after tyler and hillary callisto's wedding. the newly married couple gearing up and rappelling down for the photo shoot of a-time. lifetime. this is extreme wedding photography. swopping i do for don't look down. >> that's perfect. >> reporter: jay and vicki are the husband and wife shots. their subjects snapped hundreds of feet above the ground on cathedral ledge in new hampshire. >> i look pretty there. >> reporter: vertigo-inducing work that is gone viral grabbing headlines on websites like "the kn knot" and "cass mow politan." drawing attention from couples in the market for a wedding photographer. >> a picture came up of a couple on a ledge. >> looked too incredible to be real. >> reporter: no stranger to altitude, he's a pilot and one of their first dates was a private plane ride around new england. fresh off i do, they're now getting ready for their mountaintop photo shoot. >> looking at me, hillary -- >> reporter: even for side of a mountain? takes the wedding cake. here's abc's kendis gibson. >> pull it tight. >> reporter: it's just before sunrise. only two days after tyler and hillary callisto's wedding. the newly married couple gearing up and rappelling down for the photo shoot of a-time. lifetime. this is extreme wedding photography. swopping i do for don't look down. >> that's perfect. >> reporter: jay and vicki are the husband and wife shots. their subjects snapped hundreds of feet... Action News @ 3PM : KTNV : August 9, 2016 3:00pm-3:30pm PDT by KTNV the ride before hitting the grun as abcs kendis gibson reports -- now authorities are treating the incident like a crime scene. overnight, a scare at a county fair. sot broadcastify i've got three kids that fell from the ferris wheel. sot tba add sot here if we get anything that works according to investigators.. the cart carrying the young passengers snagged another cart on its way up.. spilling them out.. one witness.. saying the children bounced off the metal briding of the ride.. evenually hitting the ground 30-45 feet below. i don't know these little girls but i just hate seeing that. an ambulance and a helicopter.. taking the injured children to the hospital. authorities say they were alert and talking after the accident. this morning, investigators are inverviewing witnesses to determine what happened. sot - captain tim davis : we're // trea scene at this point till we can determine whether there was any malfunction, make sure there was no foul play, that it was just an accident. kendis gibson abc news, ny a day after delta airlines canceled 1-thousand flights...another 250 the ride before hitting the grun as abcs kendis gibson reports -- now authorities are treating the incident like a crime scene. overnight, a scare at a county fair. sot broadcastify i've got three kids that fell from the ferris wheel. sot tba add sot here if we get anything that works according to investigators.. the cart carrying the young passengers snagged another cart on its way up.. spilling them out.. one witness.. saying the children bounced off the metal briding of the ride.. evenually... WPLG (ABC) ABC World News : WPLG : March 19, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EDT by WPLG -risk habit. here's abc's kendis gibson. >> reporter: tonight, a new push to make this, a criminal offense -- distracted walking. >> even headphones are bad. because you're not really paying attention to where you're really going. >> reporter: so dangerous. >> i've been caught, about to get hit by a car. >> reporter: a new jersey assemblywoman introduced a bill making violators subject to a $50 fine or 15 days in jail. it doesn't matter if you have the right of way, the bill states, if you're in a crosswalk, your phone has to be put away and you've gotta be hands free. our abc cameras rolling as one after the other, in just an hour, pedestrians caught texting in new york city, where it is legal. this, as cameras capture mishaps of distracted walking. this man nearly runs into a bear in a california neighborhood. recent numbers from the association show a 10% spike in pedestrian fatalities in the first six months of last year, experts calling cell phone distraction a big problem. >> the smartphone is the newest and arguably one the most dangerous forms of distraction. >> reporter: n -risk habit. here's abc's kendis gibson. >> reporter: tonight, a new push to make this, a criminal offense -- distracted walking. >> even headphones are bad. because you're not really paying attention to where you're really going. >> reporter: so dangerous. >> i've been caught, about to get hit by a car. >> reporter: a new jersey assemblywoman introduced a bill making violators subject to a $50 fine or 15 days in jail. it doesn't matter if you have the right of... 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"i've lived here about a year and this is as crazy as it's gotten overnight, the pounding surf in san francisco.. causing concern in the high tide. raging water surrounding a van in north of los angeles. a man in tractor trailer.. coming to the rescue. pulling two women to safety through the window! this morning in pasendena.. a large home.. on the verge of disaster. beneath it.. giving way, as mud slides down the hillside. sot homeowner: we are alrady prepeared ro leave incase we have to leave.. and there is more rain. .so i dont know if we will be safe or not. the l-a river.. normally looking like this from drought.. back to life . and raging again.. abc's matt gutman is there: "matt: this is the la river. normally just a trickle of water. in a concrete canyon.. but after all this rain.. surging once again with 150 times average water. near santa cruz.. buildings damaged from a rare tornado.. and off the coast of sa mudslides. all from a series of storms clobbering the west coast. abc's kendis gibson has a look at the destruction. script: el nino - slamming drought parched california. "i've lived here about a year and this is as crazy as it's gotten overnight, the pounding surf in san francisco.. causing concern in the high tide. raging water surrounding a van in north of los angeles. a man in tractor trailer.. coming to the rescue. pulling two women to safety through the window! this morning in... 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(nats up protestors) with grievances -- and with guns -- dozens of armed militia members have taken over a federal building in the oregon back- country. sot ammon bundy militia leader "this refuge here is rightfully owned by the people. we intend to use it." they moved in on the building after this rally saturday -- carrying flags and scattering pennies to symbolize citizens buying back their government. sot ammon bundy militia leader "it is the duty of the people to put that vernment back in its place." the leader, ammon bundy ? posted this rallying cry on new year's eve: all patriots its time to stand up not stand down!!! ?.,. come prepared one of their grievances? the arson who are in a dispute with the federal government over land rights. sot ammon bundy militia leader "the principles that we are here are based upon the constitution of the united states." bundy, along with his father, nevada rancher s cliven bundy were involved in a standoff with the government over grazing . their rage runs deep -- and they say they're determined to make their stand. abc's kendis gibson has more. (nats up protestors) with grievances -- and with guns -- dozens of armed militia members have taken over a federal building in the oregon back- country. sot ammon bundy militia leader "this refuge here is rightfully owned by the people. we intend to use it." they moved in on the building after this rally saturday -- carrying flags and scattering pennies to symbolize citizens... friday i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm diane macedo. we begin with the search for answers in that crash of egyptair flight 804. more than 24 hours after it disappeared, there's still no sign of wreckage. >> officials do believe that terrorism is the likely cause. the airbus a320 was nearing the end of its flight from paris to cairo when it suddenly spun around and plunged into the mediterranean sea below. grieving family members have been waiting at the airport in cairo desperate for information but getting conflicting reports. we get the latest now from abc's kenneth moton. >> in the mediterranean sea, the all out search continues for egyptair ms 804. so does the mystery of what happened to the doomed flight from paris to cairo. >>> the possibility of having a different action or having a terror attack is higher than the possibility of having a technical. >> this is video of the airbus a-320. the night had 56. near the end flight and a half hour before landing in cairo, it vanished. the greek defense minister says his country's radar showed the plane erratically terning left and making a friday i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm diane macedo. we begin with the search for answers in that crash of egyptair flight 804. more than 24 hours after it disappeared, there's still no sign of wreckage. >> officials do believe that terrorism is the likely cause. the airbus a320 was nearing the end of its flight from paris to cairo when it suddenly spun around and plunged into the mediterranean sea below. grieving family members have been waiting at the airport in cairo desperate for... World News Now : KMGH : January 18, 2016 3:30am-4:00am MST >>> good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> and i'm kendis gibson. here are some of the top headlines we're following this morning on "world news now." >>> fireworks on the democratic debate stage as hillary clinton and bernie sanders went head to head with just two weeks until the iowa caucuses. our political experts' take just ahead. >>> five americans have been freed from iranian prisons after secret negotiations with u.s. diplomats. a prisoner swap brought four of them home. we'll have much more on the developments straight ahead. >>> if you'd been in northern michigan yesterday, you could have filled up for less than 50 cents a gallon. with oil about to come back on the market, you may get another chance soon. >> and peyton manning and the denver broncos one step away from the super bowl after defeating the pittsburgh steelers last night, 23-16. the broncos will host new england on sunday. in the nfc, it's carolina hosting arizona. those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 18th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> we do say good morning to y >>> good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> and i'm kendis gibson. here are some of the top headlines we're following this morning on "world news now." >>> fireworks on the democratic debate stage as hillary clinton and bernie sanders went head to head with just two weeks until the iowa caucuses. our political experts' take just ahead. >>> five americans have been freed from iranian prisons after secret negotiations with u.s. diplomats. a prisoner swap... ABC7 News 9:00PM on KOFY : KOFY : April 3, 2016 9:00pm-9:31pm PDT . abc news reporter kendis gibson has more. >> i'll have an orange juice, sir. >> reporter: the battleground state of wisconsin. donald trump was eating scrambled eggs and licking his wounds. >> has anything you said over the past week and a half -- for voters? >> it might. >> reporter: acknowledging several missteps including retweeting an unflattering photo of ted cruz's wife heidi. >> was this my best week? i guess. no. >> reporter: cruz leading trump by ten points in wisconsin. >> it's gotten to the point where i could not care less about donald trump. >> reporter: trump is still unraveling his tangle of answers about abortion. >> well, i, as a hypothetical question, i would have rather asked -- answered it in a different manner, yeah. i would have rather answered it in a different manner. >> reporter: on the democratic side, bernie sanders is running neck and neck with hillary clinton in the badger state. clinton telling abc's george stephanopoulos in an interview for "good morning america" that she would debate sanders on gma. >> i'll be there. i think it's a great opportu . abc news reporter kendis gibson has more. >> i'll have an orange juice, sir. >> reporter: the battleground state of wisconsin. donald trump was eating scrambled eggs and licking his wounds. >> has anything you said over the past week and a half -- for voters? >> it might. >> reporter: acknowledging several missteps including retweeting an unflattering photo of ted cruz's wife heidi. >> was this my best week? i guess. no. >> reporter: cruz leading... KOLO 8 News Now @ 11PM : KOLO : January 3, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm PST runs run deep -- and they say they're determined to make their stand. abc's kendis gibson tells us what's happening.. with grievances -- and with guns -- dozens of federal building in the oregon back-country. sot ammon bundy militia leader "this refuge here is rightfully owned by the people. we intend to use it." they moved in on the building saturday. sot ammon bundy militia leader "it is the duty of the people to put that government back in its place." one of their grievances? the sentencing of two local ranchers for arson who are in a dispute with the federal government over land rights. sot ammon bundy militia leader "the principles that we are here are based upon the constitution of the united states." bundy, along with his father, nevada rancher s cliven bundy were involved in a standoff with the government over grazing rights two years ago. nats from april 5, 2014 - confrontation with law enforcement bundy says they have come with generators and other supplies -- apparently preparing for siege-like conditions. he says the protesters will stay put until the local government g runs run deep -- and they say they're determined to make their stand. abc's kendis gibson tells us what's happening.. with grievances -- and with guns -- dozens of federal building in the oregon back-country. sot ammon bundy militia leader "this refuge here is rightfully owned by the people. we intend to use it." they moved in on the building saturday. sot ammon bundy militia leader "it is the duty of the people to put that government back in its place." one of their... ABC World News : WPLG : February 27, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EST with a teenage girl. abc's kendis gibson has more. >> reporter: tonight, that alleged high school imposter facing new charges. he's behind bars. police say artur samarin, now 23 years old, had sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl in 2014. now charged with statutory sexual assault. samarin has not yet responded to those charges, but earlier admitted from his harrisburg, pennsylvania, jail cell he did scam the system to stay in the u.s. >> i'm here in this prison because i've done a crime. i'm a criminal, unfortunately, but it is true. >> reporter: samarin also saying in 2012 he left ukraine, assumed the alias asher potts, and went day for the last four years -- >> it's scary. >> reporter: cops say y en samarin's visa ran out, he forged documents, including a social security card, to enroll in school. samarin says he was simply trying to escape war-torn ukraine. >> i love the united states. it's a land of opportunity for all of uimmigrants. >> reporter: tonight, this alleged imposter is behind bars on $20,000 bond. kendis gibson, abc news, new york. >>> still ahead tonight -- th with a teenage girl. abc's kendis gibson has more. >> reporter: tonight, that alleged high school imposter facing new charges. he's behind bars. police say artur samarin, now 23 years old, had sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl in 2014. now charged with statutory sexual assault. samarin has not yet responded to those charges, but earlier admitted from his harrisburg, pennsylvania, jail cell he did scam the system to stay in the u.s. >> i'm here in this prison because i've... upset over grazing rights. abc' s kendis gibson explains what' s happening. reporter: with grievances and guns, dozens of armed military members have taken over a federal building in the oregon back country. >> it is rightfully owned by the people. reporter: they moved in saturday. >> it is the duty of the people to put the government in its place. reporter: one of their grievances, the sentencing of local ranchers for arson. they were in a dispute with the federal government over land rights. >> we support the constitution of the united states. reporter: monday, cliven bundy was involved in a dispute over grazing rights. bundy says they have come with generators and other supplies. put until local government gives the two ranchers safe haven. local schools have been closed for the week, and law stay away. they accused the militia of attempting to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes of sparking a movement across the united states. tensions are high. >> bringing a militant view, saying we will rise up if we do not right. turn themselves in monday. kendis gibson, new yo upset over grazing rights. abc' s kendis gibson explains what' s happening. reporter: with grievances and guns, dozens of armed military members have taken over a federal building in the oregon back country. >> it is rightfully owned by the people. reporter: they moved in saturday. >> it is the duty of the people to put the government in its place. reporter: one of their grievances, the sentencing of local ranchers for arson. they were in a dispute with the federal government over... Nightline : WABC : March 30, 2016 12:37am-1:05am EDT designed to deal with the problem. here's abc's kendis gibson. >> we're at the point of no return. they can grow to more than 20 eat al gate areas whole. >> there's no possibility there might be a snake right around here. >> yeah, there is a good possibility. >> all right then. nice seeing you. we're on the hunt for the wild burmese python, one of the biggest, baddest snakes in the world and there could be danger with every step. >> i really have no idea why i signed up for this. i just jumped from a butterfly. so would you put your hand in there knowing there might be a snake down there? >> yeah, i don't have a problem with that. >> you don't think it might bite you. >> it might but i'll be able to pull it out of there. >> reporter: it's believed tens of thousands of these have taken over the everglades terrorizing the wild. >> there used to be millions of birds, wading birds and the snakes sit here quietly and wait on them. the birds loss every time. >> the woman found a seven-foot burmese python hiding underneath stacks of clothing. lot of missing cats in that neighborhood. >> designed to deal with the problem. here's abc's kendis gibson. >> we're at the point of no return. they can grow to more than 20 eat al gate areas whole. >> there's no possibility there might be a snake right around here. >> yeah, there is a good possibility. >> all right then. nice seeing you. we're on the hunt for the wild burmese python, one of the biggest, baddest snakes in the world and there could be danger with every step. >> i really have no idea why i... World News Now : WJLA : April 27, 2016 3:30am-4:00am EDT news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. i'm diane macedo. >> and i'm kendis gibson. nice to be with you on this wednesday. it's great to be back. it's fantastic. and i'm not ryan smith. >> i know that. >> yes. okay. let's begin with the rock solid victories for donald trump and hillary clinton. >> let's do that. clinton is now all but unstoppable after winning maryland, pennsylvania, connecticut and delaware. bernie sanders took rhode island. donning her a clean sweep. >> sanders picked up 129 delegates while clinton won 262 leaving her with 250 to go to clinch the nomination. >> on republican side, trump was five for five overwhelmingly winning every state. his closest race, he won by 30 points. and trump picked up 105 delegates leaving john kasich with five and ted cruz with just one. he now has 2950 dels bringing him more than 75% of the way to hitting that magic number of 12837. >> trump celebrated his blowout win at trump tower in new york, railing against his gop rivals and hillary clinton. it's your voice, your vote. we get the latest from tom llamas. good morning, news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. i'm diane macedo. >> and i'm kendis gibson. nice to be with you on this wednesday. it's great to be back. it's fantastic. and i'm not ryan smith. >> i know that. >> yes. okay. let's begin with the rock solid victories for donald trump and hillary clinton. >> let's do that. clinton is now all but unstoppable after winning maryland, pennsylvania, connecticut and delaware. bernie sanders took rhode island.... ABC9 News This Morning at 5 : KCAU : February 25, 2016 5:00am-6:00am CST - thirds of the country this morning abc's kendis gibson has the latest. "overnight, millions of americans hit hard.. as a deadly winter storm continues its march north. torrential rains flooding the mid- downpours...creatin g flash floods -- washing away cars -- and creating a mess for the dc area. in new york -- heavy winds overturned this truck on the george washington bridge earlier, this time storm moving into charlotte?. strong winds toppling trees into homes, cars and power lines there. over 160-thousand without power across seven states. it's the same system that spawned terrifying twisters. in virginia - a state of emergency in effect. ly tornado shredded and tossed homes -- among the victims -- a child. only thing we heard was a 2-year-old baby found in the woods that baby and two others pronounced dead. across the region -- more than 30 tornadoes in the last day alone. first tearing across louisiana - destroying this r-v park. ashley east / tornado survivor just god, let us be okay, let us get through this." and on the backside of this massive storm -- blizzard conditi - thirds of the country this morning abc's kendis gibson has the latest. "overnight, millions of americans hit hard.. as a deadly winter storm continues its march north. torrential rains flooding the mid- downpours...creatin g flash floods -- washing away cars -- and creating a mess for the dc area. in new york -- heavy winds overturned this truck on the george washington bridge earlier, this time storm moving into charlotte?. strong winds toppling trees into homes, cars and power lines... World News Now : WJLA : July 8, 2016 3:00am-3:30am EDT . >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> we begin in dallas where possibly two snipers shot fires. at least 11 officers shot. four of those officers are dead. the others seriously injured and at least one civilian was also injured. >> and you see the chaotic moments there from the dallas area. the gunfire sent marchers running for cover as police scoured downtown hotels, restaurants, office buildings, parking lots, even residential structures looking for those responsible. the police chief says at least one is in custody, and a person of interest has surrendered. we are on the scene. >> reporter: right now we're at the corner of lamar and ross. this is a nice neighborhood in dallas, texas. close by landmarks that tourists enjoy. right behind me you can see a lot of police off. in fact, several roamps remain blocked off into the community. and a lot of bystanders sitting and standing along the sidewalk. some want to know what's going on. others work on the other side of this police line and they're waiting for a ride because buses and . >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> we begin in dallas where possibly two snipers shot fires. at least 11 officers shot. four of those officers are dead. the others seriously injured and at least one civilian was also injured. >> and you see the chaotic moments there from the dallas area. the gunfire sent marchers running for cover as police scoured downtown hotels, restaurants, office buildings,... Action News @ 11pm : KTNV : February 27, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm PST are new concerns about him. this time-- involving a teenage girl. abc's kendis gibson has the latest. for years - allegedly pretending to be a high school student - even making the honor roll. now he's behind bars ? and tonight - facing new charges. police say artur samarin, now 23 years old, had sexual relations with a 15 year old girl in 2014?.now charged with statutory sexual assault samarin has not yet responded to those charges ... but earlier admitted from his harrisburg, pennsylvania jail cell ... he did scam the system to stay in the u-s samarin: "i'm here in this prison because i've done a crime. i'm a criminal, unfortunately but it is true." samarin also saying in 2012 he left ukraine, assumed the alias asher potts - and went to john harris high school every day for the last four years - even making the honor roll. ellen winterub/parent sot: "i mean you have beautiful girls in this school that are minors that are underage and you have basically a grown man in here ha know misrepresenting himself." cops say when samarin says he was simply it's a land of opportunity for all o are new concerns about him. this time-- involving a teenage girl. abc's kendis gibson has the latest. for years - allegedly pretending to be a high school student - even making the honor roll. now he's behind bars ? and tonight - facing new charges. police say artur samarin, now 23 years old, had sexual relations with a 15 year old girl in 2014?.now charged with statutory sexual assault samarin has not yet responded to those charges ... but earlier admitted from his harrisburg, pennsylvania... World News Now : WJLA : November 25, 2016 3:30am-4:00am EST news now." >> yes, still at it. getting it. >> take us to church, aretha. >> yes. i'm kendis gibson. getting flak for that lengthy national anthem, but it is the national anthem, folks, spent a lot of blood working for that. let her sing. >> that's true. let's talk about the controversy in a little bit. >> in the skinny. let's start with the breaking news. sad one. coming out of los angeles. florence henderson has passed carol brady on tv's "the brady bunch," not just repeated in reruns, but in brady bunch hour, brady bride, and the bradys. >> tweeting she was a dear friend that will be missed dearly. so will many viewers. florence henderson was 82 years old. first, we'll have more on this throughout the day. "dancing with the stars" this past week wishing maureen the best because maureen, of course, a contestant on the show. >> people already tweeting online, just minutes after the news broke, and al tweeted she'll be missed, honor of meeting and working with her, more of that as the day goes on. >>> it is black friday. some of you are just getting back from the stores, a lot of people have news now." >> yes, still at it. getting it. >> take us to church, aretha. >> yes. i'm kendis gibson. getting flak for that lengthy national anthem, but it is the national anthem, folks, spent a lot of blood working for that. let her sing. >> that's true. let's talk about the controversy in a little bit. >> in the skinny. let's start with the breaking news. sad one. coming out of los angeles. florence henderson has passed carol brady on tv's "the brady... WSET (ABC) Good Morning Virginia : WSET : February 25, 2016 6:00am-7:00am EST by WSET . kendis gibson has more on the damage across much of the east coast. 3 overnight, millions of americans hit hard.. as a deadly winter storm continues its march north. torrential mid-atlantic to the north east -- the downpours...creating flash floods -- washing away cars -- and creating a mess for the dc area. take quick natsot from here in new york -- heavy winds overturned this truck on the george washington bridge earlier, this time lapse shows the storm moving into charlotte?. strong winds toppling trees into homes, cars and power lines there. nats - over 160-thousand without power across seven states. it's the same system that spawned terrifying twisters. in virginia - a state of emergency in effect. a deadly tornado shredded and tossed homes -- among the victims -- a child. (nat) only thing we heard was a 2-year-3 old baby found in the woods that baby and two others pronounced dead. across the region -- more than 30 tornadoes in the last day alone. first tearing across louisiana - destroying this r-v park. sot - ashley east / us be okay, let us get through this." ((wx map)) and on . kendis gibson has more on the damage across much of the east coast. 3 overnight, millions of americans hit hard.. as a deadly winter storm continues its march north. torrential mid-atlantic to the north east -- the downpours...creating flash floods -- washing away cars -- and creating a mess for the dc area. take quick natsot from here in new york -- heavy winds overturned this truck on the george washington bridge earlier, this time lapse shows the storm moving into charlotte?. strong winds... World News Now : KTNV : October 10, 2016 2:00am-4:16am PDT . we'll explain. >>> good morning, i'm diane macedo. >> i'm kendis gibson. we start with the debate, with the second one, of course. a tense showdown marked by insults as well as attacks. >> donald trump and hillary clinton took the stage in st. louis last night ripping each other on everything from e-mail to taxes. >> trump forced to respond to comments about women exposed in a decade's old video causing republicans to withdrawal their support. >> reporter: candidates dropping pleasantries before uttering a word, no handshake, and didn't take long to address the donald trump's july remornings caught by an open microphone in 2005. >> this was locker room talk. i'm not proud of it. i apologize to my family and the i apologize to the american people. certainly, i'm not proud of it. but this is locker room talk. >> reporter: clinton's accusers sitting in the audience did not take long to deflect to the former president. >> if you like at bill clinton, far worse. mi >> reporter: hillary clinton did not take the bait, but blasted trump over the tape. >> what we all saw and heard on frida . we'll explain. >>> good morning, i'm diane macedo. >> i'm kendis gibson. we start with the debate, with the second one, of course. a tense showdown marked by insults as well as attacks. >> donald trump and hillary clinton took the stage in st. louis last night ripping each other on everything from e-mail to taxes. >> trump forced to respond to comments about women exposed in a decade's old video causing republicans to withdrawal their support. >> reporter:... World News Now : KTNV : September 6, 2016 2:37am-4:16am PDT news, this is "world news now." >>> good morning, i'm nick watt in for kendis gibson. >> i'm diane macedo. we begin with the race for the white house. >> hillary clinton and donald trump are both heading south today after spending labor day in the battleground state of ohio with their running mates at their side. trump is still struggling to clarify his immigration policy. >> and clinton made it clear she has no plans to go to mexico before the election as trump did. it's "your voice, your vote." >> reporter: the sprint is on to election day. >> we're going to bring jobs back to ohio. >> reporter: donald trump crisscrossed the state of ohio fair in youngstown surrounded by thousands. also back on the trail in the buckeye state in illinois, hillary clinton. clinton sat down in an interview that will air tuesday hitting donald trump for questioning her stamina and saying he choked when he went to mexico causing a diplomatic incident. [ coughing ] but it was clinton who was choking to get her words out during a rally in cleveland. >> every time i think about trump, i get allergic. >> news, this is "world news now." >>> good morning, i'm nick watt in for kendis gibson. >> i'm diane macedo. we begin with the race for the white house. >> hillary clinton and donald trump are both heading south today after spending labor day in the battleground state of ohio with their running mates at their side. trump is still struggling to clarify his immigration policy. >> and clinton made it clear she has no plans to go to mexico before the election as... WCPO (ABC) World News Now : WCPO : March 4, 2016 2:37am-4:00am EST by WCPO kendis gibson. >> we made it. >> we have made it. >> it's been a long week. oscars to super tuesday. >> exactly. to the debate last night. and really, i was so happy to see the debate last night because i have always had up here in my mind that one question about donald trump and whether the size of his hands was really reflective of other parts of his body. that was answered last night. >> come on, little kendis. come on. >> and now we know why they night. start with the republicans. >> oh, boy. >> you know, yeah, that debate was crazy. the people who want to be president slinging nasty insults >> you couldn't let your children watch, right? >> no. parents having the birds and bees conversation this morning because of that detainee. >> they took the stage in detroit last night. for the latest gop debate, donald trump was the number one target facing an all out assault and dishing it right back. our coverage begins with abc's megan hughes. >> reporter: fresh from his commanding seven victories on super tuesday, donald trump got not respect. >> if you're our nooe nominee. >> i think kendis gibson. >> we made it. >> we have made it. >> it's been a long week. oscars to super tuesday. >> exactly. to the debate last night. and really, i was so happy to see the debate last night because i have always had up here in my mind that one question about donald trump and whether the size of his hands was really reflective of other parts of his body. that was answered last night. >> come on, little kendis. come on. >> and now we know why they night.... World News Now : KGO : August 8, 2016 2:30am-4:01am PDT >>> good monday morning. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm diane macedo. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm diane macedo. here are some of the top headlines on "world news now." the world's tallest water slide is closed pending the investigation of a 10-year-old boy yesterday. park officials aren't saying how the boy died. this is the first fatality at the water park ever. >>> officials in saudi arabia say a member of isis was in contact with the suicide bomber who blew himself up outside a bar in southern germany last month. 15 people were hurt in the attack. >>> in northern california, firefighters are making progress against the big sur wildfire. the blaze is 45% contained, and some evacuations have been lifted. nearly 60 homes have been destroyed by the flames. >>> dreams of gold end in a horrific crash in rio. the rider in intensive care after this crash. the dutch cyclist suffered a concussion and three small spinal cord fractures. however, she's conscious and okay. those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 8th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> good morning to >>> good monday morning. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm diane macedo. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm diane macedo. here are some of the top headlines on "world news now." the world's tallest water slide is closed pending the investigation of a 10-year-old boy yesterday. park officials aren't saying how the boy died. this is the first fatality at the water park ever. >>> officials in saudi arabia say a member of isis was in contact with the suicide bomber who blew... Good Morning Iowa : WOI : January 27, 2016 6:00am-7:00am CST by WOI reena ninan and kendis gibson with tech bytes. techbytes: a new "boost mobile" app will show you ads on your device's >>> hey, there. in today's "techbytes" how far would you go to lower your cell phone bill? >> a new boost mobile app will show you ads sometimes when you unlock the phone. in return, customers will get a $5 credit each month. it's only available for android so far. >>> there's a brand-new way to share your gopro videos. users can live stream via their iphones using the periscope video app. display during espn's coverage of x games. >>> and uber-has a great new way to deal with drunk passengers. >> some drivers have been using an interactive toy called bop it on the seat. it's a way to distract passengers. >> or just be nice. >> that always works. >> those are your "techbytes." >> have a great day, everyone. my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis made a simple trip to the grocery store anything but simple. so finally, i had an important conversation with my dermatologist about humira. he explained that humira works inside my body to target and help block a spec reena ninan and kendis gibson with tech bytes. techbytes: a new "boost mobile" app will show you ads on your device's >>> hey, there. in today's "techbytes" how far would you go to lower your cell phone bill? >> a new boost mobile app will show you ads sometimes when you unlock the phone. in return, customers will get a $5 credit each month. it's only available for android so far. >>> there's a brand-new way to share your gopro videos. users can live... Good Morning Iowa : WOI : February 15, 2016 6:00am-7:00am CST have lots more good morning iowa ahead...but first here's abc's kendis gibson ahead...but first here's abc's kendis gibson and reena ninan with tech bytes. more good morning iowa ahead...but first here's abc's kendis gibson and reena ninan with tech bytes. techbytes apple watch price cut - $100 off while rumors apple's 1st generation >>> hey, there. in today's "techbytes," major apple retailers have cut their prices for the apple watch. >> that ordinarily means a new version is coming out. but analysts don't think so this time. >>> a new app could one day turn your phone into an earthquake warning device. right now, the app only collects information. >> once the bugs are worked how, it could warn anyone of an impepding quake. >>> lots of workers use treadmill desks. >> meetings are the wave of the future. the price tag for dual treadmill desks could be about $8,000 or >>> those are your "techbytes." >> i'm worn out. look, the wolf was huffing and puffing. like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. it can be hard to get air out, which can make i have lots more good morning iowa ahead...but first here's abc's kendis gibson ahead...but first here's abc's kendis gibson and reena ninan with tech bytes. more good morning iowa ahead...but first here's abc's kendis gibson and reena ninan with tech bytes. techbytes apple watch price cut - $100 off while rumors apple's 1st generation >>> hey, there. in today's "techbytes," major apple retailers have cut their prices for the apple watch. >> that ordinarily means a new... WSOC (ABC) World News Now : WSOC : March 4, 2016 2:37am-4:00am EST by WSOC is "world news now." >>> good morning, everybody. it is friday. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm reena ninan. >> all right. let's get started with the debate. because, man, it was an interesting one. wasn't it? >> it was a turbulent day for the entire gop starting with an unprecedented pitch to take down its presumptive nominee and ending with this scene, the jaw dropping debate. >> hours after mitt romney blasted donald trump, he faced fire from his rivals in a bitter showdown that sank to a new low. abc's david wright has the details. >> reporter: just when you thought it wasn't possible for the gop debate to go even lower, donald trump took it right below the belt, his own belt. >> look at those hands. are they small hands? and he referred to my hands, if they're small, something else must be small. i guarantee you there's no problem. i guarantee you. >> reporter: marco rubio accused him of shipping jobs overseas. >> he can start tonight by announcing that all the donald j. trump clothing will no longer be made in china and mexico, but will be made here in the united states. >> repo is "world news now." >>> good morning, everybody. it is friday. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm reena ninan. >> all right. let's get started with the debate. because, man, it was an interesting one. wasn't it? >> it was a turbulent day for the entire gop starting with an unprecedented pitch to take down its presumptive nominee and ending with this scene, the jaw dropping debate. >> hours after mitt romney blasted donald trump, he faced fire from his... World News Now : KGO : March 10, 2016 2:07am-4:01am PST if he's kendis gibson. >> look at that. >> i look kind of -- >> now we know where the pizza went. >> i ate it all. insomniac pizza. you're in a group most likely to develop skin cancer, including melanoma. that's why your best shot is to check for a spot. follow through and check your skin. go to spotskincancer.org to find out how. >>> good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm kendis gibson. topping headlines this morning >>> good morning, i'm reena nine that. >> i'm kendis gibson. topping headlines this morning on "world news now." flood watches over overnight in at least nine states after as much as a foot of rain falling from texas up to central illinois. louisiana has been particularly hit hard with many residents forced to evacuate. full details ahead. >>> rematch in miami. the democrats battling it out on the debate stage for the second time this week. hillary clinton and bernie sanders forced to defend their records on immigration, the economy and much more. a full report straight ahead. >>> breaking news. at least five people are dead following a shooting in suburban pittsbur if he's kendis gibson. >> look at that. >> i look kind of -- >> now we know where the pizza went. >> i ate it all. insomniac pizza. you're in a group most likely to develop skin cancer, including melanoma. that's why your best shot is to check for a spot. follow through and check your skin. go to spotskincancer.org to find out how. >>> good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm kendis gibson. topping headlines this morning >>> good morning, i'm reena... World News Now : KMGH : October 10, 2016 2:30am-4:00am MDT >> good morning, everybody, i'm kendis gibson. i'm not afraid to shake your hand. >> no? >> no, absolutely, yes. >> hopefully we'll be nicer to each other than the candidates were today. >> i'll lurk behind you for the entire show. >> i'm diane macedo. we have a lot to talk about this morning, end the rematch in st. louis. hillary clinton and donald trump unleashing a barrage of attacks in debate number two. >> as we mentioned, the tension was obvious from the very onset as both candidates opted out of the traditional handshake. donald trump tries now that rocked his campaign just before the debate. he appeared with three of bill clinton's accusers, and a rape victim whose attacker was represented by hillary clinton. karen travers is joining us from the debate hall in st. louis right now. karen, good morning. >> good morning, kendis and diane. if you expected fireworks last night, you got them. for days, donald trump laid out he thought that bill clinton's past was not just fair game, but also very critical to this election conversation. well, the key question last night, then, was would h >> good morning, everybody, i'm kendis gibson. i'm not afraid to shake your hand. >> no? >> no, absolutely, yes. >> hopefully we'll be nicer to each other than the candidates were today. >> i'll lurk behind you for the entire show. >> i'm diane macedo. we have a lot to talk about this morning, end the rematch in st. louis. hillary clinton and donald trump unleashing a barrage of attacks in debate number two. >> as we mentioned, the tension was obvious... World News Now : KMGH : August 8, 2016 2:30am-3:55am MDT kendis gibson. not nickatt. >> i'm diane macedo. they might have forgotten who we are. ? reunited and it feels so good ? >> it's a good thing we have thatntro. >> yes? the move went well?ch. >> it went well. i'm now a new yorker. tax bracket went up by. >> do you feel different? >> no longer d.c. >> do you feel rough and tough? again. talking witan accent it's awesome. it comes right back. and a good vacation. you went down two makeup tones darker. >> the makeup artist panicked. neve anyone. >> she's using my powder now. >>> and we begin with donald trump, righthere we left off. attempting to hit the reset button after damaging ssteps. >> he's set to deliver an economic policypeh in detroit thisorning as he slumps in the poll. the latest abc news/"washington post" poll shows hillary cnton with an 50% to 42%. trump is fighting to turn things around. he launched a line of attas against clinton. it's "your voice, your vote." we g me om devin dwyer. >> reporter: down in the polls, donald trump is >> unstable hillary clinton, and you saw th. did you saw that where she basically short circu kendis gibson. not nickatt. >> i'm diane macedo. they might have forgotten who we are. ? reunited and it feels so good ? >> it's a good thing we have thatntro. >> yes? the move went well?ch. >> it went well. i'm now a new yorker. tax bracket went up by. >> do you feel different? >> no longer d.c. >> do you feel rough and tough? again. talking witan accent it's awesome. it comes right back. and a good vacation. you went down two makeup tones darker....	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line912
__label__wiki	0.720882	0.720882	Diecast #182: Looking Back at 2016 By Josh Posted Monday Jan 2, 2017  Diecast #181: Rogue One, Super Mario Runner, VRPrevious Post Next PostDiecast #183: Jokes, Final Fantasy XV, Dishonored 2  Hosts: Josh, Rutskarn, Campster, Mumbles. Edited by Josh. The year of 2016 is officially behind us now, and for whatever else you could say about all the crazy things that happened over the year, you can definitely say that 2016 was a year in which some video games were made. In this episode, we talk about some of those games that stood out to us. Unfortunately, partway through, Chris had to leave; apparently he has some real life friends that came over, though I remain suspicious. Just in case you were wondering why he just stops talking halfway through. Show notes after the jump. 0:04:05 Overwatch 0:17:50 Pokemon Go 0:21:00 Tyranny 0:32:45 Romance in Games 0:38:50 Mystic Messenger 0:46:20 Mirror’s Edge Catalyst 0:49:20 Deus Ex Mankind Divided 0:55:25 Rise of the Tomb Raider 0:56:25 Dishonored 2 0:59:30 Oxenfree 1:04:50 Mysterium (Which is a board game apparently.) 1:10:30 VA-11 Hall-A 1:12:00 DOOM 1:13:30 Final Fantasy XV 1:15:40 Watch Dogs 2 Josh Viel is the primary editor and producer of the Spoiler Warning video series. You can support the show by backing the Patreon. D&D Campaign WAY back in 2005, I wrote about a D&D campaign I was running. The campaign is still there, in the bottom-most strata of the archives. Quakecon Keynote 2013 Annotated An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders. The Truth About Piracy What are publishers doing to fight piracy and why is it all wrong? Spoiler Warning A video Let's Play series I collaborated on from 2009 to 2017. 147 thoughts on “Diecast #182: Looking Back at 2016” Monday Jan 2, 2017 at 3:43 pm Cool! A nice surprise. Hope everyone has a good trip ’round the Sun. Andy_Panthro says: Much like Rutskarn, I’m far more keen to see Bannerlord than I am to see HL3. Unless they change it up completely and remove all the FPS stuff and instead make the game a Firewatch/Gone Home/etc. style adventure game. Gordon back at Black Mesa, wandering through the empty base listening to audio logs and reading notes. They already made a sci-fi game full of audio logs and not many monsters – SOMA. :P IFS says: Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 10:49 am And yet they still had too many monsters. Re: Overwatch: You can’t tell much about the characters because they essentially have no personality, and that’s by design. I think the Overwatch characters are so well-liked because they are nearly but not quite blank slates. They’re slates painted with a single primary colour. Tracer is spunky, Reinhardt is crotchety, Zenyatta is Buddhist, each of them gives your imagination a kernel to build with, and nothing but room to build. It’s a brilliant design strategy for generating engagement, but I think this is why some of the cast doesn’t care: there’s no substance there. If you’re not interested in projecting onto a blank slate, you’re left with, well, a blank slate, and that’s not terribly interesting. I feel like if that’s what they were going for when making the game / heroes, they should have set the expectations better. Expecting to play as Mercy and getting a blank slate is disappointing; Expecting to play as Medic and getting a blank slate isn’t. I have no idea how you’d name all the different champs in one- or two-word descriptors, though. TF2 had it easy with only the 9 people to pick from; Overwatch would feel like a thesaurus if they tried using class names/descriptors instead of character names. Tintenseher says: Monday Jan 2, 2017 at 10:12 pm I’m bored and I like naming things, so let’s give it a shot. Ana: Sentinel or Watcher. Bastion: Could stay as Bastion, I think. D.Va: Gamer is the obvious one, but I think Mecha or Pilot (or Mecha Pilot/Mechapilot) are more indicative. Genji: Ninja, of course. Cyborg Ninja if multiple words are allowed. Hanzo: Archer, Samurai, or Ronin. Junkrat: Mad Bomber. Làºcio: DJ, I guess? McCree: Cowboy, Ranger. Mei: Snow…woman? Ice Queen? I like Ice Queen. Mercy: Angel, duh. Pharah: Rocketeer. Reaper: This could probably stay the same. Reinhardt: I like Crusader because of his armor, but Knight is the obvious one. Roadhog: Eh…Biker? Scrap Shooter? This one is difficult. Soldier: 76: Soldier! Maybe Vigilante if we want to avoid TF2 names. Sombra: Hacker. Symmetra: Tech Support. (Architech/Architect for realsies.) Torbjà¶rn: Engineer, but if we want to avoid TF2 names, Inventor, or Wrench Dwarf. Tracer: Racer? Speedster? Blinker? Temporal Anomaly-er? Kinda tough unless you want to go right to gameplay roles, like, Harrasser, Flanker, Tickler. Widowmaker: Sniper. Assassin to skip TF2 names. Winston: Monkey. (Gorilla? Scientist? Moon Monkey? Also difficult.) Zarya: Gravity Girl? Weightlifter? Why are the tanks the hardest ones? Zenyatta: Buddhabot! Clearly. Benjamin Hilton says: Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 3:50 pm I think the main issue is that they go too far. Like Rutskarn said, TF2 characterization is subtle. Overwatch characters very much are not. TF2 has characters, Overwatch has Charicatures. That’s what works though right. If you had characters who were also blank slates, no-one would care about them. Whereas caricatures are perfect for memes and viralness. It’s a half measure though. they have this whole world and histories for the characters with little vignettes and everything, then they also want blank slates. They want to have their cake and eat it too, and to me, they don’t quite succeed. JakeyKakey says: Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 2:21 pm Double-down on the back/main story or ditch it. Right now Overwatch is: a) A meaningless arena shooter in which characters team up with their ‘supposed enemies’ in order to kill their ‘supposed friends’ b) Something they’re trying to pass off as this deep extended universe story & lore, when all they really have is a bunch of half-assed trite bullshit. There’s just about enough of it to thinly spread throughout and pretend it’s a semi-coherent setting if you squint really hard and just kind of fill in the blanks, but it’s all kinda awful. A doesn’t work in context of B, B doesn’t work in its own right and violently clashes with A. The characters need to be either more superficial or less, but they can’t really remain in their current state. I don’t care about Tracer’s sexuality in the context of A and I care even less about it in the context of B, because that comic was one of the worst attempts at lore/worldbuilding I’ve ever seen. Nice to hear that Tyranny is “less boring” than Pillars. I pushed through most of pillars trying to finish it (still haven’t), but while I quite liked the world and some of the plot, it really struggled to inspire me with the gameplay and I feel like a lot of the interesting ideas are really underdeveloped. My main worry with Tyranny is that it would have the same huge amount of dull combat encounters that Pillars has, but perhaps it won’t be so bad if they’ve learned from their mistakes. Well, from the Rock, Paper, Shotgun review: “incessantly interrupted by dull combat.” So, not especially encouraging, although it would imply that which is being interrupted is the good stuff. Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 8:37 am Simply put it on Easy and combat becomes a non issue. Not true.Its still an issue,only an issue that does not require your full attention.But you still have to wait for it to play out. That is true, but even big fights don’t last that long and you can help by seting up a combo or two. I read the RPS review and set the game to easy from the beginning and never looked back. That’s what I did with Pillars too in the end, but Pillars isn’t very dense in it’s story or worldbuilding once you remove the combat and it made the game a bit hollow in a way Tyranny wasn’t. tmtvl says: I haven’t played all the way through Tyranny yet, but so far the combat/non-combat balance feels a tremendous amount better than in PoE. The people who installed the Tactics mod for BG(2) will probably prefer PoE, but for people with a life Tyranny is better IMHO. Wide And NerdyÂ® says: I played through POE and was spellbound for most of it. I’m playing through Tyranny now and want to shoot myself. Its too real. Tyranny is the driest game I’ve ever played, aside from maybe Papers Please (I didn’t get far into that one). I actually sought a refund for it. First Obsidian game I’ve ever wanted a refund for. Alas, I’d accidentally left the game running for a while so Steam thought I played it more than I actually did. So I’m stuck with it and I’m playing. What is supposed to be fun about being a mid level bureaucrat working for tyrants? I do that in real life and its just as depressing. The main difference between me and my character is that I don’t like being in charge of people and decline those opportunities when presented. You can say my character is more than a mid level bureaucrat but it sure doesn’t feel like it. My job is to be the guy people resent for delivering the orders of the people who are actually in charge. What a great fantasy. Just kill me now and be done with it. What happened to the guys who made New Vegas? Or Pillars for that matter? I don’t know why the Diecast was bored by Pillars. I don’t think they gave it the chance. It has some fascinating stuff going on with its world. By the way, that Kyros deadline is bullshit. I’ll tell you how to break it. Sleep for 8 days, till the day after Kyros Day of Swords. THEN deliver the Edict. Congratulations, you now have 363 days to complete the assignment instead of 8 because Kyros forgot to specify a year in his/her edict. I do this guilt free because Kyros is both a dick and a moron. Ringwraith says: By the way, congratulations on your latter bit of breaking things. That is entirely the point. Wide And Nerdy â™¤ says: The game doesn’t in any way signal that. In fact it seems to suggest that if you do that, Kyros will destroy you. So I assumed this was a bug. Wouldn’t be the first time an Obsidian game had one. It becomes more apparent later. Kyros’ motivation is the coolest thing about the game. It’s really well founded and make geopolitical sense as well as in the moment sense. They did help themselves by pushing the conclusion of his plans to beyond the end of the game though. You’re left questioning whether he knew what would happen all along or whether he overstepped himself. Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 7:07 am It was originally planned to have an entire extra act, probably explains some things. What happened to the guys who made New Vegas? Or Pillars for that matter? Nothing.Obsidian always had a streak of dreariness in it.Sometimes it works for you,sometimes it doesnt. I don't know why the Diecast was bored by Pillars. I don't think they gave it the chance. It has some fascinating stuff going on with its world. Gameplay mostly.It wasnt that good.Not as bad as some other obsidian titles,but not impressive either. I don't know why the Diecast was bored by Pillars. I don't think they gave it the chance. Well, for myself, I was invested in Pillars for about the first five to ten hours. But there was something about the game that just didn’t click like I expected. Yes, the combat kinda got on my nerves for being so dry, but it was also in other ways. I kept envisioning how my character would relate to the world, but the dialogue would often only have options that didn’t fit my mold. I could never figure out how my character fit into the world. The story elements with ‘souls’ were awkward, as it never seemed clear whether souls’ connection to their past lives had any significance or not (does my past life as a ______ have any bearing on who I am now?). The story seemed to want be introspective, but never seemed to delve deeply or specifically enough. And in the end, there were a bunch of things to do and learn about, but not enough resonance to motivate me to explore them. I did finish the game, but I really had to force myself. Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 at 12:02 pm Thats a very good point. It makes sense to be something of a stranger at first since you’re coming here from elsewhere but it never gets around to feeling like you’re a person who lives here, who cares about the people here and who is cared about in return. The companions come closest and even they can tend to exhibit a strange academic detachment when interacting with you. Some of them had potential via their personal quests. The problem is that they’re either underdeveloped (Eder) or wall of text philosophical stuff (Durance). Aloth comes the closest to pulling it off. They finally hit the right beat in the DLC when you awaken another character on purpose and Aloth looks on you with horror. I was hoping that there’d be more fallout from that with him but sadly there isn’t. I know both myself and a number of other people have felt the urge to stop upon getting to Defiance Bay (the “Baldurs Gate” of Pillars). For me at least its because everything I cared about up to that point was left behind in the starting village. Narratively you should be feeling urgency because you’re at risk of losing your sanity and the answers lie with the man you’re supposed to be hunting but somehow that ends up being easy to lose track of, I think partly because the guy has zero personality. But even then they could have pulled it off. Baldur’s Gate 2 does it brilliantly with Irenicus. Even if he hadn’t been played by David Warner, Irenicus was set up very well for you to want to hunt him given the things he does to you at various points in the game. Thaos and the Watcher are perfectly compatible with those kinds of story beats but they just aren’t there. What we needed was Thaos kidnapping the Watcher to try to perform a ritual on him or something. Maybe even succeeding. Or the game could have played more on the revelations about the Watcher’s past life and consequent relationship with Thaos. Or we needed the Watcher to bond more with recurring characters in the setting to become invested in their struggles. Or both. Admittedly, I might be being unfair. Mass Effect 2’s companion quests set a high bar for me that even other Bioware titles routinely fail to clear. Obsidian is better at world building and central plots than they are with characters. What got me interested into it, and is something that the game sort of does well in the beggining but DOES NOT stick to at the end, is basically play like an Roman Empire administrator being handed control over a newly conquered province, with the orders to sort things out, crush the resistance and incorporate the province in the rest of the Empire. And in order to bring order and prosperity to the region by incorporating it into something bigger you WILL have to use drastic measures to crush the ressistance and make the carrot much more palatable. And it does that in the beggining. You can sort of navigate using that standard. Stepping on Chorus whenever they are being too bloody. Reigning in Disfavoured excesses. Basically doing thing Tunon likes. Unfortunatelly the game does not continue down that path, but has to do the fantasy trope and turn you into some sort of big hero powered by a mcguffin, and more annoyingly it gets depressingly railroady as i gets towards the end. One of the last quests before the ending on the Disfavoured path involves a really ugly and stupid event in which you are not really given any option of telling Ashe that the plan is stupid and is in direct opposition to the rules of Kyros. It’s not his decision to decide which province will get ruined by eternal drought just so he can sap Chorus’s strength. And also imporant for me was the fact that Tyranny is not really that long, which allowed even me to finish it. Re: Oxenfree: I’m interested in it, but I’ve seen about an hour of gameplay and am very wary of the direction it seems to be going in. Can someone tell me if I’m right about this? I find it very hard to care about the stakes when it feels like the author could make literally anything happen at any moment and simply file it under “There’s some spooky shit going down”. There’s no sense of rules, limits, or even just consistent theming to the supernatural stuff: if there is a willful entity behind this, it is all but omnipotent. I worry that the plot will play out rather like Evil Within, where reality-warping spooky stuff keeps randomly getting in the protagonist’s way until the end when it randomly doesn’t so the protagonist finally wins. If I don’t like a plot centered on all-powerful supernatural forces messing with humans, is Oxenfree going to disappoint me? I got a clear sense of the rules and what the supernatural force was, but it’s definitely a supernatural force messing with humans. It’s not all-powerful. Really? It can generate a magic radio frequency, give visions, teleport people, make weird stuff appear in reflective surfaces, possess bodies, telekinetically interact with the environment, cause Groundhog Day time loops (which both begin and end for no apparent reason)… that’s a more disjointed grab bag than Silver Age Superman, and it feels about as overpowered. I’m not saying they’re balanced, but there’s a clear reason why the kids aren’t instantly dead and what weaknesses the supernatural force has, as well as its origin. “Junkrat! Is he a sofisticated man? Who knows!” That Overwatch conversation, holy crap. I’m in tears! Lol the backwards ol’ TF2 time of 2007, though. I figure they were all men because their aesthetic for that game was an old-timey military thing. It’s not like they themselves avoided women for Portal or Left for Dead even. I get it if Rutskarn doesn’t want to play Overwatch because of the aesthetic, because the aesthetic is pretty much the only reason I want to play it. It’s like I’m getting Shooter Street Fighter. I could only be more pleased if all those characters were in a fighting game instead. They managed to make a huge cast where only a couple of the characters actively annoy me and I really like the look of several of them. Having said that… whenever I have heard the characters speak, everything they say has been unbearable. Given how goofy the Team Fortress 2 characters are, that doesn’t really match up. And even with the World War 2 aesthetic it would perhaps be more thematic for the spy and medic to be female (although I don’t know how I would have felt if they did that?) Perhaps it was because it originally had a gritty counterstrike look, but surely they had to remodel and voice everything, in which case they could gender swap a character. I think it probably just didn’t occur to them. I always just chalked it up to differences in political landscape at the time. You could feasibly justify a female Medic/Spy, but nine male classes is just something they decided to go with and no one really cared enough for there to be any backlash. “What do you mean women can’t be comedic psychopath idiot assassins blowing each other up to bits?’ is a much more gender-representation-conscious rhethoric that TF2 actively predated. At 46:55, making Mirror’s Edge open world was a common fan request for a Mirror’s Edge sequel back then Always listen to the fans, except always, when you should never listen to the fans. Wasn’t removing the combat also a big request? Come on, they couldn’t listen to every little idea that the fans dreamt up! :P Removing the guns was, yes. On Overwatch vs. Team Fortress 2: The Team Fortress 2 designs resonated with me instantly. They drew from cultural cues that were meaningful to me. I was born in ’71, so I grew up surrounded by the 60’s spy aesthetic. I watched 80’s action movies, so these characters fit neatly into existing stereotypes for me. In contrast, Overwatch is very clearly aimed at millennials and millennial cues. Some of them feel like lost 90’s cartoons. Others (like the gamer) are drawing from parts of today’s culture that I’m not a part of. That’s not bad or anything, but it does sort of explain why the Overwatch characters don’t do anything for me. I thought Rutskarn was talking about them having easily recognisable silhouettes in the middle of a firefight. Ended up having to rewind! – I thought they’d all lost it or shown up drunk or somesuch… XD Ranneko says: This has definitely bugged me a couple of times with the Young skins for some of the Overwatch characters. They can really change what the characters look like, especially when you aren’t too familiar with the game. I remember a number of times for example thinking Young Reaper was Soldier 76, which given the very different engagement range of those two characters, is not a healthy mistake to make. So according to Steam Spy, Tyranny has sold about 120,000 copies, whilst Pillars of Eternity sold around 800,000. Obviously PoE has been out longer, and has presumably been through a few Steam sale cycles. But it’s weird – it’s almost as if the initial difficulty getting Pillars made – and all the fol-de-rol which surrounded the Kickstarter – hugely helped sales there, whilst the (apparent) relative ease and speed with which Tyranny was created has if anything been counterproductive. (Although against that, if it was easier & quicker to produce it was also no doubt cheaper, too.) There’ll be other factors – perhaps some folks were turned off expecting another Pillars, and perhaps others didn’t like the sound of the whole ‘evil wins’ gig. Maybe it just came too quickly and everyone is still busy playing PoE. But (whilst I don’t feel good about suggesting this) I do wonder if they’d faffed around a bit more and allowed hype & expectation to build, there might not be quite such a huge discrepancy. Sleeping Dragon says: I think the kickstarter coverage, and the fact that more people head a stake in it due to crowdfunding and kept talking about it, might be the reason. I have no idea how representative my experience is but while I heard of Pillars relatively early on Tyranny nearly slipped past my radar. My theory: a lot of people were thinking: “Pillars of Eternity? Finally! A classic RPG like early Bioware used to make!” Then they played Pillars of Eternity. “Oh, wow: this type of gameplay isn’t as much fun as I remember. And those Kickstarter-backer-rewards where members of the public got to add their own bits of writing are really intrusive. Should I force myself to keep playing?” Then Tyranny is announced. “Hm. Another one? Already? Meh. And you have to play as a villain’s minion choosing between different awful things happening? Not really my idea of a good time.” It did hardly have any coverage from places, also it seems it might’ve gotten shoved out a bit earlier than anyone would’ve liked and some of the marketing just wasn’t very good. “Sometimes, evil wins” is not a great tagline. One of the devs had a better description for it, which you couldn’t market directly, but still: ‘Bronze Age Judge Dredd’. (Something along those lines anyway). Yeah, Bronze Age Judge Dread is a much better descriptor for like the first 66% of the game, where one of your main functions in quests is to arbitrate and then when necessary execute often times rough justice to bring order to a land in turmoil due to war. xedo says: Used well, Kickstarter is even better as a marketing tool than it is as a fundraiser. Devs like Double Fine and Obsidian can get a round of articles for teasing that a kickstarter is coming, for launching it, for hitting the first funding goal, for hitting each major stretch goal, and for the conclusion of the campaign. Tyranny definitely flew under the radar without one. Which is surprising because the PoE campaign had the brilliant back count stretch goal where another floor was added to the big underground dungeon for every few thousand backers they got. It’s interesting Obsidian chose not to use kickstarter again after knocking their first one out of the park. Taellosse says: I suspect that’s largely a function of the relative timings each game was begun. PoE was one of the first really successful Kickstarter games (in terms of fundraising – whether it is a successful game is a subjective matter), and had it’s time in the press largely before the high-profile string of failures (games that failed to fund, others that funded but failed to deliver on time, or what was promised, etc.) that followed in the subsequent couple years. The general gaming public is a LOT more skeptical about Kickstarter now than they were then, and are far less willing to throw their money at a hypothetical game, even one from developers with a proven track record of finishing games like Obsidian has. As such, a crowdsourced funding campaign for Tyranny probably would not have done nearly as well as PoE did, even before accounting for the subset of people that backed PoE and regretted it and the different climate now for indie games in general (Obsidian isn’t precisely an indie studio, but they straddle the line these days. And these isometric RPGs they’re doing are on the indie side of that line, even though they’re doing stuff with major publishers as well). On top of all that, they probably felt they didn’t need it. Kickstarter made PoE possible, but it sold pretty well over and above backer buy-in. Tyranny appears to use essentially the exact same engine (and I don’t just mean Unity – they built on top of Unity a fair bit for Pillars) and some of the same art assets, and I suspect it cost a great deal less to produce. It’s quite likely that the sales of PoE were largely what funded development of Tyranny. Sannom says: Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 11:39 am Based on comments by Feargus Urquhart, Obsidian never had the intention to become fully crowd-funded, unlike inXile. Hence why Tyranny was paid for, owned and published by Paradox, not Obsidian. I would expect a crowd-funding campaign for PoE 2, even if a smaller one. Since I’m a massive Obsidian fan actively anticipating Tyranny and I almost missed it’s release date (I thought it would be next year), it’s safe to say Tyranny’s marketing probably wasn’t very good. And the coverage they did get from sites like RPS and Kotaku was weirdly unenthusiastic. I don’t think it’s been so obvious that they were retyping press releases as it was with Tyranny. It had a bad tagline, it was the wrong year and wrong decade for their hook and it came out clashing with Dishonoured 2 so even the sites that did want to review it, reviewed it late. (It was so universally reviewed late that I wondered if it had a post-launch embargo) Nelly says: Tyranny also got ‘fair to middling’ reviews – at least from those review sites I read… that certainly put me off as someone keen on the ‘evil winning’ side of things but with increasingly limited gaming time. I’ll just stick to witching and dishonouring I’m not interested in playing a dark “evil wins” game for my fantasy escapism. If I remember correctly, PoE does not support Windows XP, so I have nothing to play Pillars on except my work laptop (not going there). PoE works wonderfully on Linux, and Windows XP is no longer officially supported, so you shouldn’t be running it anyways. And basically all software that runs fine on Windows XP runs just as well under Wine. And if you really need something that Wine doesn’t handle well you can always install Windows XP in a VM so you can take snapshots and revert in case you break something. And Linux is free, community supported, runs fast, looks good, works fine on nearly all hardware, you really don’t have to use the terminal on most distros, it’s more secure, you have more control over your system,… I'm not interested in playing a dark “evil wins” game for my fantasy escapism. Bioware already did the relationship stuff. Iron Bull was my lover way before that game was over. For ME3 I was still dating the same girl I was dating in 1. It didn’t turn the games into Mr & Mrs Smith or anything, and I can’t speak for the rest of the romances, but Bioware clearly has come a long way since ME1. Saints Row 4 has the funniest romances since you just have a button you can press for every member of your crew on your Fake Normandy that asks them to bang you. Most of them will, with a funny, short scene. One of them punches you in the face before she pounces you. But I don’t think that’s what all game romances should be like. If it wasn’t a joke, having a “You hooked up” message and then a line or two is just laaame. I don’t get anything out of that. Like, that new Fire Emblem thing where you pair up two characters and get their grown up child from the future as a soldier isn’t really something I think is cool(You could pair people up for a romance before, the kids stuff is new). It’s less a romance and more a shipping simulator. It hadn’t occured to me that jpop bishonen boyband FF15 was aiming for men. Yeah, FF15 does seem to revel in the manmeat, doesn’t it? Not that I’ve played it or anything… I remember hearing at one point that the player base for FF in Japan is equally split between genders, which is easy for me to believe. No idea what it’s like in Europe or the US, but despite the characters reading to me as bishie J-drama/J-pop crap(especially this game and 8), I don’t get the idea that it’s a problem for most people. It certainly isn’t going to keep me away from a cool open world action RPG. But I’m curious what the balance is(Will the bishie looks and shipping possibilitiea appeal to women, and the themes of brotherhood and road trips to men?), and which games had more characters that appealed to either demographic. My favorite FF cast just designwise is probably 12, 6, 7 or 9. About the Mr and Mrs Smith thing, I remembered that Lair of the Shadow Broker actually totally turns it into a Mr and Mrs Smith thing as you and Liara quip more than ever while shooting bad guys together. People were disappointed in PoE because they were expecting Baldur’s Gate 2, not 1. Which I always felt was a little unfair, since BG2 was a refinement of an established engine, setting, and story. PoE was BG1 Redux because they had to build the engine, asset pipelines, and figure out how to write a story and characters and manage all of it without a producer in the loop. I wanted the experience BG1 gave me of exploring a new and strange world through its characters and lore books (I was a child at the time, and had no knowledge of D&D or Forgotten Realms whatsoever) despite somewhat underwhelming enemies, combat, and stakes, and that’s exactly what I got. I really hope PoE2 gets made and they don’t just abandon it, because despite what was said in the show, I feel the setting still has a lot of stories and mysteries in it left to explore. Building off that, Tyranny is… well, not BG2, but maybe Icewind Dale (Torment feels like far too high of praise, what I’ve spoiled of Tyranny’s ending for myself really soured me on ever wanting to buy the game myself): the engine and pipelines are built and done, the dev team is In The Groove, now they can start really pumping out interesting game experiences with it, but they haven’t quite hit the “magic butter zone” yet. Watch_Dogs 2… I’m not convinced I can call it “good” yet. The whole point of the original game, botched though it was, was supposed to be a sobering look at what it means to have a Electronic Panopticon Society where all the information is held by corporate gatekeepers and the criminals who bust in, swipe the goods, and wreck havok with them. Having Watch_Dogs 2 switch gears to having “The Panopticon… but it’s a fun romp, yo!” feels like unintentional biting commentary about how we as society have been irrefutably shown the extent of the surveillance system… and that no, we’re actually pretty okay with it all, carry on. I find it rather depressing, in that light. Mumbles: if you want to bang a character in a game, and that character like meets up with your specifications or whatever, you should be able to bang that character. That part of the podcast was deeply horrifying to me, and I’ve spent the last few hours trying to form my vague internal screaming into some kind of coherent expression. In an entire lifetime spent deeply immersed in videogames and the internet, that is the most shallow and self-indulgent sentimentI have ever seen. I was horrified by Mumbles acknowledging that it’s important for Dorian to be gay, then dismissing the people saying it by repeating their argument in a whingey disdainful tone, and proceeding to say she wants to bang him anyway. The broad sentiment of entitlement, indulgence, and knowing there are reasons not to, has some strong parallels to the idea of rape culture, then the specific example is her wanting to bang someone who is clearly not interested, and the whole thing makes me reaaaaally uncomfortable. In the end, the best arguments against Mumbles’ “Bang every character” stance are the ones Mumbles herself acknowledged, and the way her dismissal of them was simply “Yeah, but I really wanna!” Gay characters should be allowed to be gay, someone shouldn’t necessarily like you, in general: there are things you want that you probably shouldn’t be given. I want a sniper rifle with infinite ammo that deals 5000 damage, but it’s probably for the best that developers don’t give us that either. I think you totally missed her point about Dorian. She saying it’s good that he’s actually gay and not player-oriented, but she wanted to hook up with him anyway because she liked the character. Or to put it another way: Just because there’s a good reason for you to not have something doesn’t mean you stop wanting it. The problem is that earlier she said that you should be able to bang any character you want. That context, combined with the unflattering tone she used for “eugh, it’s important” makes it sound like she’s dismissing the point, saying “Yeah yeah, that’s important or whatever but I want it so give it to me”. Unless I missed a part where she walks back her “Should be able to bang anyone” statement, it seems like a proposal which necessarily dismisses Dorian being gay. that is the most shallow and self-indulgent sentiment I have ever seen. I highly doubt that. But also, it’s a videogame, that people pay money for, played in the privacy of a person’s home, solely for enjoyment; it is naturally an incredibly self-indulgent activity. I think Mumbles was actually talking about making dating straightforward; “you should be able to bang whoever you want” was about romance options being clear and not a maze where you can lose the opportunity because your answer to an obtuse question wasn’t the one that character wanted to hear . It wasn’t actually about every character being romanceable. I highly doubt that. I sincerely tried to think of something worse. The guy who had a creepily specific request for how Widowmaker should kiss the screen? Every “This is how to fix Game X” post which is really just a description of their ideal game only loosely related to the reality of Game X and its flaws? The countless tunnel-visioned players who said they didn’t like a mechanic therefore it shouldn’t exist? Not even The Magic Circle’s literal caricature of a player who demands the right to kill plot critical characters at will can hold a candle to Mumbles’ insistence on the right to have sex with every character in every game. Even if you’re right about Mumbles was saying (and I still think you’ve lost some nuance in the confusion) your response is incredibly confrontational, accusatory, and needlessly personal. If nothing else, make sure you’re clear on what she’s saying before you attack her character. (And even than, maybe just don’t.) Normally I’d nudge her and ask that she come in to clarify, but right now I’m hoping she doesn’t read this exchange because I know exactly how it will make her feel. It’s totally possible to say “I strongly disagree with this” and not follow it up with “You’re a lousy person for saying it”. I didn’t do that though? I called the sentiment shallow, not Mumbles. It’s certainly confrontational, but I feel like confrontation is not a wholly inappropriate response to what seems to be a dismissal of the very idea of gay characters in games. I apologize if it came off a personal attack, I tried to keep my post limited to the idea itself, and my thoughts on it. Apparently I did a worse job of it than I thought? Edit: Realized the implications of the phrasing in the last sentence on the above post. I see how it seems kind of personal, not my intention, my bad, sorry. Edit window closed on that post before I could properly change it. I guess there was that guy who wanted there to be different coloured underwear in one of the Fallout games so that when he piled up dead halfnaked bodies in his hut or wherever it was there’d be a bit of variety. But I have always and will in the face of any evidence which may or may not be provided continue to believe that was spectacularly ill-judged parody. I suppose it’s possible it’s the most self-indulgent thing aimed at a videogame world. I hold it below anything aimed at actual people, which the internet is full of. Frontlinecaster says: Sad that mumbles is leaving the show, but not that she won’t have to put up with her every thought be discussed and dissected like it’s okay to call her a sadist or to compare her to a rapist for liking to do things in video games. Notice no one ever says that about Josh or Rutskarn as a result of their jokes. Too much of this community is toxic in a way no one seems willing to do anything about. Oh for the love of….Yes,one person crosses the line,is immediately called out for it by everyone and their mother,apologizes for it,and that somehow means that MUCH of this community is toxic and NO ONE is doing anything about it…Your comment is so helpful,not trying to defend Mumbles,not trying to bridge over a misunderstanding,not trying to understand both sides,but rather attacking everyone else.Splendid job! SyrusRayne says: You sure about that? Yes, one person crossed the line. This time. One person crosses a line every other time Mumbles is in something. Regardless, nobody came close to being “called out” here, and nor was anyone defending anything except maybe Ninety-Three’s feelings, so you really don’t need to pat the community on the back. Read the responses again – they are all disagreeing, whilst trying not to make anyone feel worse, which I personally think is an admirable goal. Also, there’s a big difference between standing up for a community large parts of which have just been unfairly described as ‘toxic’, and patting it on the back. (I’m patting it on the back, but DL wasn’t.) I don’t know what calling someone out looks like to you, but I’m assuming Shamus would lock the thread if people did it. While that might give a temporary sense that you’ve “won” by getting the last word, it just makes the next round uglier. Well, this is close enough to a near-and-dear topic of mine to allow me to go off on a tangent. Hyperbole comes from every side. The first thing people do when describing something they like is reach for the extremes. That’s why all the extreme words end up meaning the same thing; awesome and awful used to mean something vast. You’ve got to apply the context. Especially when someone’s trying to explain a complicated point of view. Part of the reason Mumbles gets criticized so often is because she’s more carefree about what she says. It’s exaggerated, spur of the moment kind of stuff. But so is Ninety-Three’s response; it’s an attempt to express an emotion that doesn’t allow for easy expression. You’ve got to give leniency in both directions. Because the first thing offense does is mess with your thinking, which means you’re more likely to say something unintentionally offensive, which means another person will take offense and say something offensive and the whole thing snowballs. I think part of the issue here is that a good number of the hosts write and/or ponder for a living, so they set a high standard. But you shouldn’t need to be perfectly articulate to express an opinion, and the refreshing opinions are going to come from the people who don’t have that kind of background. As someone who gets progressively less intelligible the longer I talk, it’s very important to me to be able to be inconsistent. My old motto; there’s plenty of things to argue about without arguing over miscommunication. Multiple people disagreed with Ninety-Three’s interpretation and argued with it in a manner which took into account that Ninety-Three was upset, thus attempting to make all feel better. That isn’t toxicity. You perceive an injustice and your suggestion is that similar injustices (as perceived) be extended to other members of the cast? That is. While I can understand how you could have come to this reading of what Mumbles is saying here–and agree that if it was indeed what she was saying, that’s a pretty horrible sentiment to have–I don’t believe that’s what she meant at all. I don’t want to put words in her mouth, but my interpretation of what she was saying by the “bang whoever you want” line was that it’d be great if games in general added more common romance options than they currently do. The culture of game writing and development tends to treat romance as this very “special” sort of situation that’s “rare” and “magical” and has some sort of unique and special significance. And while that is, I suppose, a valid way to view romance; it’s also true that romantic relationships are extremely common. Most adults have been in some sort of romantic relationship before. And there aren’t a lot of games that treat romance and dating and marriage as a common thing that happens to almost everyone. I very much doubt Mumbles was trying to suggest that there should be more games where every character is player-sexual or that you can bang every character regardless of whether or not they should be attracted to you–or indeed, regardless of consent. Rather, I imagine she meant that you should be able to pursue a romance with pretty much any character you want, even though some of them may eventually (or quickly) turn you down. This contrasted against the Obsidian model and policy we had just been talking about of “no romance ever.” Likewise I can’t imagine Mumbles was meaning to say that she should still be able to romance Dorian as a female character even though he’s explicitly gay; rather that she wanted to romance him, and that desire was still there, but also respected that the character was written as gay, and that such characters that are not omni-sexual or player-sexual, and have defined sexualities and sexual desires that are not wholly dependent on the player are important to have. I cannot imagine Mumbles making any sort of intentional argument that consent and sexual preference and agency should all be made moot, even when speaking in the context of clearly fictional characters. And I would implore you to extend at least a little benefit of the doubt to Mumbles here. I don't want to put words in her mouth, but my interpretation of what she was saying by the “bang whoever you want” line was that it'd be great if games in general added more common romance options than they currently do. This is exactly what I got from her statement as well. I think Ninety Three has a pet peeve (an understandable one) and that he’s reading that onto her statement. If its something you want to vent about, Ninety Three, fine. Don’t pin it on her. And I agree with her, I think. I got the feeling what she wanted was, if she had a fun interaction with some random blacksmith, she wants to say “you’re cute. Wanna bang?” and there’s a fade to black and a quick one liner or something, and the game continues. That would be great. Daimbert says: But being willing to do that says something about who that character is. Having some options like that are one thing — and have been done a number of times before — but having every character willing to do that requires a specific sort of world and specific personalities to work. As an example of some cases, TOR has a number of those options. In fact, one of my characters sided with a Sith over the Jedi because he figured the Sith would and the Jedi wouldn’t (Smuggler, left the Empire after being kicked out of his job for being drunk, didn’t care about the war or about any of their philosophies, perfectly selfish, got better later [grin]). if it was indeed what she was saying, that's a pretty horrible sentiment to have Strongly disagree. Wanting the gameplay to override the narrative is no more horrible than making a house rule for any other game. It’s not fun to have to restart a game to overcome an NPC character restriction, and if you couldn’t know about it beforehand it’s just DIAS . These are not real people; they’re pieces in a game. It really depends on whether the game treats this aspect as part of game mechanics, like The Sims, or as part of character narrative, like the Bioware games. In case of The Sims the characters are pretty much “pieces in a game” and the devs decided that there aren’t really any incompatible traits that cannot be overcome, at worst balancing the sims desires becomes more difficult and I know for a fact that many players actually created as differing couples as possible in hopes that the resulting tension creates more challenging or fun gameplay. In case of games like Dragon Age we have characters with a narrative, backstory and goals. Overcoming differing ideologies or character past experiences either through or for the purpose of romance can make for an interesting story but it is perfectly reasonable for situations to exist where those are impossible to overcome for one reason or another. It’s one of the things where mileage varies greatly but many players have seen Bioware in particular as often compromising NPC integrity in favour of pleasing the players. How well those are developed and/or presented varies greatly by game and character, and player opinions on the topic also differ wildly. That affects whether it’s sensible to put it in a game. It doesn’t affect whether a player wants it in the game. A given game can only appeal to so many people, but if you say what you want out of one game maybe the next game will appeal to you. As a note, the third option is to compromise the player character’s integrity; if Dorian only dates men, give the player a way to become a man. Now you’ve got your uncompromisingly gay character that the player can still always date. (I like the Obsidian approach; either no romance, or really creepy romances that basically mock the concept.) give the player a way to become a man. Simple: play the game with a male character. These are not real people; they're pieces in a game. LOL #videogamecharactersarepeopletoo Anyway, they might not be real people, but if the writers designed them in a particular way, then why should they compromise their vision based on player demand? If players want something else, they’re free to make their own game or play one that does what they want. No need to change existing games just because players are entitled brats. why should they compromise their vision based on player demand? We’re on different topics at this point. As long as the tone is clear there’s no reason for any specific game to change to accomodate people (except to make it profitable), but we’ve got people saying it’s horrible to want to see a game work differently. An infinite-ammo sniper rifle that does 5000 damage is completely wrong for Dark Souls, but it’s mid–tier in Disgaea. Maybe it doesn’t fit one guy’s vision, but he’s not the only one making games and there’s other people coming up behind him that will like to hear their vision would have an audience. I don’t know how early you meet Dorian. Say it’s five hours in. That’s five hours of game you have to redo for the sake of one quest. At minimum, because until you finish the game you don’t know if there’s any female-only stuff you’ll be locking yourself out of by restarting. That’s the height of DIAS. I want to see more games where you play a shapeshifting amorphous blob. Male, Female, Pack Horse, all just a shift away. I think there might be a clash between roleplaying and gameplaying here. Why is it that, five hours in, you’d have to restart to finish that one “quest”? You don’t need to romance Dorian or ANYONE to complete the game. You don’t get any kind of real bonus for it (usually). You might get some cool scenes, but really no more than, say, not bringing Deadpool to meet himself in X-Men Legends 2 or not bringing a character on a specific quest to meet someone they used to know … or not saving someone and losing their small character arcs. Unfortunate, perhaps, but not really game breaking. So the only reason to feel forced to restart is that you really, really wanted to date Dorian, and feel that it is something that your character wanted. Sure. But in terms of story and roleplaying not being able to get what you want is perfectly valid and even sometimes superior to being able to get what you everything you want. Think about how your character would feel about that situation. What would they do? Would it leave them bereft, pining for someone they couldn’t have? Could they possibly find love with someone else? Would that be bittersweet, or them discovering their true love and abandoning Dorian as an infatuation? For me, the idea roleplaying is to get in, play as your character would, and see what happens and react to that. I don’t like “gotchas” where romance options react badly to something you do or say that you couldn’t have predicted, but I don’t see “This character is one-sex specific” as a DIAS, since you don’t really HAVE to do it again. But it is potentially a problem for some people — I’m one of them, at times — to find out that certain characters can’t work romantically with the character you’ve created. However, there are still options: 1) Save that option for the replay. Inquisition is probably too long for that, but the original DA, DA2 and the Mass Effect games can indeed be reasonably replayed. 2) If you think this will really bother you, look up the romance options before you start playing. You can usually find the lists soon after games release with minimal spoilers, and so check it out, see who can and can’t be romanced for each character, and build your character accordingly. I did it in Mass Effect 3 and all of the Dragon Age games, as well as for “The Old Republic”, although mostly it was to find out which ones I should pursue. Sure, there’s a little bit of spoilers in who can be romanced, but if it’s something that would ruin your game for you, do some research first. At the end of the day, I’d like characters to BE characters, and let my character react accordingly. I see your solution as moving away from that. This is very much the sentiment I was aiming for. And just to clarify, I’m not saying that power fantasies and wish fulfillment are bad in games, just that if a game is story or characterization focused denying the player something because of story or characterization is not a fault. Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 11:12 pm We’re back to talking about two different things. I’m getting the feeling I’m not half as coherent as I’d like to be. (Someone else can jump in at any time.) The point I was trying to make is “don’t act like it’s a sin to think Dragon Age would be improved if it played more like Mystic Messenger, and it doesn’t matter if nobody said it out loud because someone can be thinking it and the establishment of ‘safe targets’ are the death of open dialogue.” That’s as coherent as I can make that. Everything that follows is pointless nitpicking because I like nitpicking stuff. You Can’t Please Everyone At Once Here I’ll Prove It. Why is it that, five hours in, you'd have to restart to finish that one “quest”? You don't need to romance Dorian or ANYONE to complete the game. The arguments that follow could apply equally well to completing the game at all. There’s a lot of roleplaying potential in a game that allows you to build different characters at the start but only allows one to complete the game. You can still enjoy the experience up to that point. How would your Giant character feel to come to the dwarven tunnels and realize his quest was doomed from the start because he’s too big to use the only path through the mountains? Would he turn back to his old life, or make a new one in a place he’s visited? Would he throw himself at the sheer cliffs despite knowing it’s certain death to try? If you think this will really bother you, look up the romance options before you start playing. This is DIAS in meta-form, because to avoid getting locked out of something you didn’t know about you would have to absorb enough of the story in every story-heavy game you play to know what build will get the result you want. It’s a faster, less interactive restart. At the end of the day, I'd like characters to BE characters, and let my character react accordingly. I see your solution as moving away from that. Yes and no. It’s obviously a deliberate break from the standard setup, and my designs are generally building off the opinion that if no one’s uncomfortable then no one’s learning anything, but there’s nothing stopping a shapeshifting pile of goo from having a solid personality. Odo from Deep Space Nine pulled it off fine. And while Disgaea couldn’t care less about its story, its no-set-gender reincarnation mechanic could be applied in a more serious work without too many tweaks. There are options to explore besides boy/girl meets girl/boy. EDIT: Well that was fully incoherent. I’m going to stop talking now. Thursday Jan 5, 2017 at 9:20 am The point I was trying to make is “don't act like it's a sin to think Dragon Age would be improved if it played more like Mystic Messenger, and it doesn't matter if nobody said it out loud because someone can be thinking it and the establishment of “˜safe targets' are the death of open dialogue.” Let me put aside the initial discussion here, and get it down to this point: I don’t think that a game like Dragon Age — even Inquisition — would be improved by loosening the specific traits, because that makes the characters less like characters/people and more like simple objects in the world. And I’ll go a step further and say that games with dating sim elements — Personas, Conception II, and others — work better when the characters are characters and interact with something that’s a specific character. This is not to say that games that are more open can’t be good or that games can’t aim at them, but just that games that aren’t just dating sims — and, to be honest, even dating sims — work best with characters with traits and personalities that mean that they won’t be compatible with any type of specific character that a player might want to play with. I think it works better when certain characters can’t be romanced by all characters, and that in general if you want to romance all of them you at least would have to build a character that is so generic that they can be anything all the time. The arguments that follow could apply equally well to completing the game at all. … How would your Giant character feel to come to the dwarven tunnels and realize his quest was doomed from the start because he's too big to use the only path through the mountains? The thing is that there’s something that the game is primarily trying to get you to do. In dating sims, it’s getting your one true love (or the harem option) and replaying is the method for getting different outcomes. In Bioware style RPGs, the story is the primary lure and romances are secondary things that make the story — and your character interaction with said story — better. It’d be perfectly reasonable to create a game like you suggest here and turn it into a complete character game as long as you didn’t make the main selling point of the game that main quest (because then they’d feel cheated out of the thing that the game claimed they were supposed to care the most about). And maybe the Elder Scrolls games can work kinda like that. And some games are just about the ideal resource management, and so you romance — or, in the Persona games, choose who to spend Christmas with — just to get the better item/persona available. But in a Bioware style RPG, starting with a Giant that couldn’t complete the main story would essentially be locking you out from doing the thing that the game most aims at. Romances are not that sort of thing, and I feel it enhances the story to allow for those sort of locked in moments, and can make the characters feel shallow if all of the romances can be done by all characters all the time. In short, it makes Dorian feel more like a character if he is gay, especially if you contrast it with characters that are explicitly bisexual and characters that are explicitly straight. They feel like different characters. DA2 did this reasonably well with their characters, making them unique while still having them be available to the player … but that Isabella was different from Merril made her more appealing — in a strange way — to my Champion than Merrill was. A different character would have preferred Merrill to Isabella. And that’s what I want. But you need to make characters differentiated to do that, and that means that when I create a character — say, based on Helena Cain from the new BSG series or Jag Fell from the Star Wars EU — that there will be characters that, based on who they are will not be compatible romantically with my character (for the former, it was anyone male; for the latter, it was all of the TOR Bounty Hunter options although that one nasty Sith woman would’ve worked). And in fact, with Jag it created a great story, as Mako kinda had a crush on him and as he got over his bitterness he started thinking that something like that might be a good idea, but because at that point her and Torian were getting together and they made SUCH a cute couple he couldn’t bear trying to split them up, and so ended up alone. This doesn’t happen if they aren’t unique characters in their own right. Heck, in DA Leliana’s niceness turned my City Elf from someone bitter and selfish into someone more hopeful and not-so-selfish! But another character would have found that off-putting. A game designed from the start with certain quests but that aimed at ending them in different ways — like, for example, with the Giant who simply can’t complete the quest — can work, as long as that is established as being that character’s ending. Heck, make it randomly generated — although ideally with an option to turn that off — so that you can’t know if this character will make it through or not. Aimed explicitly that way, it’s an interesting idea. But it’s not a Bioware-style RPG, and putting those elements there would kill one of those … just like I feel making it open-world killed Inquisition (YMMV). This is DIAS in meta-form, because to avoid getting locked out of something you didn't know about you would have to absorb enough of the story in every story-heavy game you play to know what build will get the result you want. It's a faster, less interactive restart. Sure, but if you want to play a Bioware-style RPG and the romance options matter that much to you, doing the research — now that we can do that — isn’t really a problem, is it? It's obviously a deliberate break from the standard setup, and my designs are generally building off the opinion that if no one's uncomfortable then no one's learning anything … Well, I’m not sure why I’d need to be learning something while playing a game, especially if it makes me uncomfortable. Sure, games CAN do stuff like that, but I don’t think it’s a bad game if it doesn’t, and don’t think Bioware-style RPGs aim at that. … but there's nothing stopping a shapeshifting pile of goo from having a solid personality. Odo from Deep Space Nine pulled it off fine. And while Disgaea couldn't care less about its story, its no-set-gender reincarnation mechanic could be applied in a more serious work without too many tweaks. There are options to explore besides boy/girl meets girl/boy. Sure. And exploring them isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But you need specific characters and worlds to do that. Odo is indeed a character, and his character is very much driven by his shapeshifting. But having a character driven by that ought to imply certain things. Like, for example, how does it feel to him to be able to be everything to everyone in terms of romance? Does he exploit that? Does it make him wonder if his partners really love him or just the image he presents? Is he looking to imprint on someone and someone’s specific desires? All of these are potentially good things to explore, but this all means that you likely ought not do that as mostly a mechanism to let the player romance whomever they want. You need to build that into the character, world and story. Otherwise, it’s just a shallow, meaningless mechanic put in there to ensure that all players get whatever they want, and while that’s not necessarily a bad thing in some games, it’s not what I’d want in, say, a Bioware-style RPG. “Rather, I imagine she meant that you should be able to pursue a romance with pretty much any character you want, even though some of them may eventually (or quickly) turn you down.” So much this. Just like how, in reality I can flirt with whomever I want, but most people will be unresponsive (and a few will punch me in the face, and a few will playfully flirt back without wanting to pursue a romance, and a few will make rude comments to me for being too forward, a few will nod but then never talk to me again, etc). I find it funny that you repeatedly mention consent in the context of fictional characters, because they’re completely controlled by the writer. You could implement a system where any character the player likes becomes interested in the PC while having it always be consensual (even if you have to bend characterization to do it) because of course the writer can just modify the character’s interactions to add some reason they reciprocate the feeling. I don’t see that as any more icky than the baseline level of creepiness inherent in having fictional constructs which conditionally display (romantic) affection for the player based on arbitrary gameplay decisions. The only reason the character is able to be romanced at all is because the writer already did exactly the same thing for players of the other gender. (I also think people tend to overestimate the degree to which a character’s personality is shaped by their sexuality. For most characters in most games, they are only romantic towards the player character, and changing them to be player-sexual effectively only changes whether the player can romance them and nothing else. How many lines of dialog in Mass Effect would change if Tali or Garrus were gay/bi instead of straight?) Unrelated: There’s an interesting discussion here about whether it matter if an ‘out-of-character’ action is possible if it happens by player choice and can be easily avoided. If a romance would be out-of-character, but you have to seek it out, is it really valid to complain about if you never see it in your playthrough? To me that’s similar to complaining easy mode exists because you would rather play on hard. A person dares to say that they want a video game that caters to their every whim and that the most horrifying thing youve ever heard?Isnt the whole point of escapist fantasy that it caters to your every whim? I disagree with her because,obviously,my whims are different from hers.But thats why we have all these different games,so that all of us can find one that caters to us specifically. Joe Informatico says: “Most self-indulgent sentiment have ever seen”–really? A bit of wishful thinking is more self-indulgent than the person who wrote a mod to actually do it? Or all the other romance mods on Nexus? Let’s not even get into all the mods to make NPCs more “beautiful” or nude out there. There’s a lot to unpack in here, and I’ll try not to repeat what some others have said about you appearing to personally attack Mumbles for what you think she said. I do think you misinterpreted her a bit, though. I think you’re conflating two separate statements as being contradictory by assuming she meant them to be equally universal. When she advocated for more casual sex in games, I don’t think she was saying that all games forever should adopt this mode exclusively – she was simply saying that sex shouldn’t be treated, almost exclusively, as the endpoint of a grand romance subplot – sometimes sex is just sex, and games should more often allow for this. By the same token, she was also not saying that her desire to romance Dorian with a female Inquisitor gave her the right to demand his written sexual preference be overridden – she was just saying she was sorry it wasn’t possible because she really liked that character. All that being said, I think you might also want to draw a stronger distinction between imaginary video game characters and actual people in your mind. Conflating a desire to engage two fictional characters in romance with rape culture is…a bit over the top. Video games are, before anything else, entertainment, and it’s not out of line to expect some self-indulgence in that context (and the amount of it any given person enjoys is going to vary). Nobody is being hurt if a fictional character is made “player-sexual” instead of having a pre-determined sexual preference that excludes some PCs. Yes, it is a good thing – a great thing! – that gay, trans, female, and non-white characters are finally starting to get more real representation as characters in video games. And a desire for those characters to be written with verisimilitude and personality is laudable – a desire I think Mumbles shares. But admitting to a desire to override aspects of that writing for a self-indulgent reason is not even in the same galaxy as advocating sexual assault or excusing its existence. Wednesday Feb 1, 2017 at 10:26 pm So I just learned this post of mine was apparently responsible for Mumbles quitting the Diecast. I misunderstood Mumble’s point and got needlessly aggressive about it. Twenty-nine days is a little late for an apology, but I’m sorry for my behaviour and for souring Mumbles on the community. Ilseroth says: Just a point regarding OW vs TF2 and character design and personality. Keep in mind that TF2 launched in 07, and the Meet the Heavy video came out in 09. that’s two years before they really did any serious work on personality, no sandvich, no sasha. He was pretty much just a kinda thick russian. And I’m pretty sure that’s the same year they started the comics. Meanwhile Overwatch has indeed started to incorporate community decisions on the personality of characters, from Ana being grandma (and handing out candy) to D’va’s addiction to junkfood. In addition they launched a comic series with the release of the game, and had fully animated shorts as well. Now, some of the interactions are straight bad (like the one Josh references between D’va and Lucio) but plenty of them make sense… Though I will say they should make more of them, since hearing say, Tracer proclaim it is an honor to meet Zenyatta for the 20th time is not particularly thrilling. I love TF2, but I don’t think that the argument Ruts puts forward carries weight. The actual characterization of the TF2 characters came from years of shorts, comics, dialogue and so on. It’s easy to just say their designs show more of their character when you have played the game and know their characters. You know the intricacies because you have experienced them and performing an unbiased analyses is practically impossible when you have significant experience with one environment and practically none of the other. I mean, to be fair, if you don’t want to experience the difference between the two, if the characterization is not great enough to make you want to try the game at all then clearly one did their job better. But I suppose I have to ask, was that before or after years of additions, iterations and community assistance in design before you came to actually love the characters? I love TF2, but I don't think that the argument Ruts puts forward carries weight. The actual characterization of the TF2 characters came from years of shorts, comics, dialogue and so on. It's easy to just say their designs show more of their character when you have played the game and know their characters. You know the intricacies because you have experienced them and performing an unbiased analyses is practically impossible when you have significant experience with one environment and practically none of the other. I have not played a single round of TF2, nor read any of the comics, my only exposure is to some of the shorts. In contrast, I have played Overwatch, I have consumed all of its shorts, and some of its comics. I still feel like I know more about the personalities of the TF2 characters, because Overwatch’s roster are such blank slates. Here is everything I know about the personalities of the Overwatch crew: Junkrat: Recklessly crazy Tracer: Spunky D.Va: Gamer Reaper: Dark. The author takes this tryhard character woefully seriously. Zenyatta: Zen Reinhardt: Crotchety Winston: Smart Everyone else: Nothing, they’re such blank slates that I don’t have even one word to describe their personalities There’s more personality on display in the three minutes of Meet the Spy than in the entirety of Overwatch. I don’t think you are being fair, I mean; you can do the same thing to TF2 characters: Medic: Mad Scientist Demoman: Scottish Heavy: Russian Soldier: Generic Drill Seargent Scout: From Boston ect ect ect (actually kinda odd that they really do rely more on the ethnic background for the personalities pretty heavily) And while some characters really can be reduced pretty easily (Junkrat really is just off his rocker and likes to blow things up) other characters have a lot of interactions and backstory to flesh them out… Though that doesn’t reflect in game all the time. Generally the characterization seems to be mostly about the different personalities interacting and their backstories. For instance, 76 and Reaper are rivals and Reaper pretty much blames him for everything and has gotten all grouchy and resentful… mostly because he’s pretty much kinda sorta dead but mercy turned him into… something? Also the Edgelord incarnate thing is intentionally cringey. You can tell when blizzard does things like having Sombra fuck around with him in cutscenes and when other characters (like tracer) mock his quotes. (“DEATH COMES” giggle – Tracer when she kills Reaper) … Also they don’t take it that seriously, I mean c’mon, one of his lines when teleporting is “Reaper-sitioning” I’m not trying to make a point by being reductionist, the point was that I don’t know anything beyond those one word descriptors. The soldier is much more than a generic drill sergeant, he’s a cartoonish bumbling doofus who both enjoys and admires violence, whereas Reinhardt is just a crotchety old man. I mained Zenyatta, I have memorized every zen one-liner he throws out, and the only thing I’ve learned about his personality is that he likes throwing out zen one-liners. Corsair says: Thursday Jan 5, 2017 at 6:24 pm Reinhardt…is not crotchety. Like, at all. I’m honestly baffled how anyone could take Reinhardt to be crotchety, he’s one of the friendliest and kindest characters in the entire game. As a counterpoint about taking Reaper seriously, look at the Ana comic, where he’s played entirely straight. I think the bits where the game pokes fun at him are the result of an unsolved tonal problem the game has: Characters like Reaper and 76 are way darker and more violent than most of the bright and shiny superhero world they’ve made, and the designer in charge of worldbuilding admits that their solution to this problem is to treat it like Nathan Drake’s mass murder sprees and try not to think about it. Medic: Mad Nazi Scientist Demoman: Scottish Black Cyclops Heavy: Basically Russian Yeah But Turned Up To 11 Soldier: Legitimately Insane Drill Seargent Scout: Punk From Boston It’s way more interesting than that. It may lean on nationalities and stereotypes, but it works in a less-is-more kind of way. The key difference between TF2 and OW is that TF2 characters are supposed to be funny, while OW characters are supposed to be taken seriously to some extent. TF2 has always been a satirical deconstruction of why the stuff OW is trying to do is dumb. Meet the Heavy released in 2007, most of the Meet the Team shorts were out before the game actually. https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Movies I’m happy about the Watch_Dogs comparisons to Saints Row. Saints Row 3 and 4 basically did the thing I normally have to come to JRPGs for, hanging out with a team of friends for tens of hours of action. Having said that, I think they’re a step shy of achieving what I liked. I haven’t played it, so I guess I’m just speaking out of my ass, but I heard you and your team are portrayed as joyful, wholly nice kids who want to take it to The Man, man. But then you can 3D print a gun and murder pedestrians. And I either want them to go Saints Row 3 with that and make the main characters crazy and amoral in a bizarre world with supervillains, or Saints Row 4 and make you only fight alien monsters and computer programs. Either is fine. But I can’t have fun with a bunch of regular pals if they’ve just wiped the blood of the people off their hoodie. I think Persona 4 was right to let the kids in that game pretty much only fight monsters rather than cleaning up the streets. Lachlan the Mad says: A third alternative would be to remove guns from Watch_Dogs 2 entirely… Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 11:42 pm Sure, why not! You could metal gear that whole game, there’s lots of stealth or nonleathel weapons options out there. Turtlebear says: Getting strange David Mitchell vibes from Rutskarn in the Overwatch vs. TF2 character design section. With regard to Pokemon Go, I’ll agree that it doesn’t have amazing plot, or strategic or tactical puzzles. But with one of the recent updates, finding a specific pokemon is much easier. And it’s been better as an exercise motivator than anything else I’ve tried in the last 20 years. I think it’s worth acknowledging when talking about the games of the year. It’s a shallow fad, just like all those Wiis. But even though I played very little of it, it was fun to have the world talk about a franchise I love for a couple of months. You say that hl3 is never coming out,BUT: Spellforce had its last expansion in 2007.It was the expansion to its second game in the franchise.And in 2017,there will be a spellforce 3.So half life 3 is definitely confirmed! The thing about team fortress 2 not having girls and that being just the time,I disagree.Unreal tournament 2 let you choose gender 10 years before that. The reason valve made only men is not that it was just a time like that,its that they decided to go with that aesthetic.Theres no hidden agenda behind it,theres no cultural pressure behind it,they simply thought that it would be better like that. Why would you want to bang barrick?!He literally tells you that theres blood,shit and piss oozing and congealing down there.No matter how much of a soul mate he would become for me,I would never ever not in a million years touch his junk even with a ten foot pole. Rutskarn says: I can’t smell that stuff in the videogame, though. All I can smell is his TORTURED SOUL. Josh,your excuse of “having no real friends” does not work when there is tabletop simulator.So stop whining and play some board games. He has a tabletop. He doesn’t have friends. He needs Friend Simulator. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Diecast. Well,in that case: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/82453268/ Halceon says: I played Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader! It was so utterly meh. SO. Utterly. Meh. It wasnt really that bad.I mean it wasnt good,but compared to other dreck that exists(especially these days),it was at least functional. It wasn’t bad, it was middle of the road, which isn’t good enough for some. Personally I like the setting and even to some extent the system, although the game becomes pretty bad about halfway through. I might try running a tabletop game in the setting some day. Rutskarn,you say that there werent any middle of the road crpgs back in the day.But icewind dale series was precisely that.It was mechanically competent,yet rather light on its story.Heck,can anyone even remember anything about the story or the npcs in those games?I only remember the mad elf and the giants stuck in time,even though Ive enjoyed those games a lot. Though I cant say whether either of those was in the first or second game. Also, what about the Ultimas? Where would they fit in on a scale from Baldur’s Gate to … no, I’ve forgotten it already. Something about King Richard? Ultima 8 & IX were bad. Depending on who you ask either Ultima 6 or 7 was the best in the series (personally I love Ultima 6), 4 & 5 were decent, if not very special. 1 – 3 were their own things, products of the time. I see, thanks! – so they essentially fill out the entire scale just by themselves. (And perhaps represent an even broader spectrum than that of Baldur’s-Gate-to-balderdash.) Pretty much,yeah.Heck,it even has spinoffs that also are all over the spectrum.Its wild. I’d consider U4+U5 special, personally. They haven’t aged as well though, that’s for sure. The Ultima series defined RPGs for me until Baldur’s Gate and Fallout. U4+U5 both did some pretty cool things for the time, and the Ultima series in general was always trying to push towards a bigger world with more interesting people and stories in it. Shame that things went so downhill at the end. Even Ultima 8 has a place in my heart, even though only the first area was properly fleshed out and the combat system was awful (not to mention the jumping puzzles… D:) Divine Divinity. Arcanum. You’re calling Arcanum “middle of the road”? Them there’s fighting words, mister. Arx Fatalis: Could’ve been interesting with the gesture-based magic, but it just doesn’t do much of anything interesting. Beyond Divinity: same deal as DD. Dawn of Magic: A Diablo clone that plays like a bad MMO. Revenant is middle of the road because it was rush-released after the Daikatana incident, could’ve been pretty decent if it had an actual ending, some bug fixes, a working party system, and well… if it was basically properly finished. Don’t get me wrong, Arcanum was a fascinating game in many ways. But it was also a terrible game in many ways. And unlike KOTOR 2, where the good greatly outweighs the bad, Arcanum’s awful gameplay brings the ambitious game down far too much. It’s not bland, but it’s certainly not top-tier. But perhaps you’re right, “middle of the road” may not be the best descriptor for a game with such high highs and low lows. So I’ll retract Arcanum and substitute Neverwinter Nights. Thanks, and agreed. If you like Mysterium, also try Codenames. Same idea (one player trying to give clues to their team so that they can pick the right cards), except that there are two teams competing. You have to give clues that match only your team’s (randomly chosen) words. I can second that, as I’ve played both of those several times this year with my gaming group. Mysterium is a lot of fun, and also works well as a social experience where people have plenty of time to sit back and talk about non-game related things, in a way that a lot of games don’t really support. Codenames is also a great game for figuring out how close you think to other people. I have two friends I play with (among others). One I can play with on the same team just fine; I actually managed to get him to correctly guess three rather tenuously-related words once (in a game where just getting two words correctly guessed is often an accomplishment). Harsh experience has taught us, however, that I and my other friend simply don’t work on the same team (in either role)””it’s like we’re communicating on two completely different wavelengths when it comes to word associations. I was actually wondering exactly this while listening to the podcast. At first I was thinking, “well, Chris has a tendency to mentally check out if the conversation gets onto a topic he doesn’t care about much – they all do, so maybe he just stopped paying attention.” But then he didn’t even say goodbye at the end! And I was troubled: “doesn’t Chris love me anymore? How can he not even say goodbye?!” So knowing that he just had to leave in the middle was a relief. You should’ve left some part of his departure in the recording, so those of us that tend to read the shownotes afterwards wouldn’t be alarmed. Bad Josh, no cookie. Fast_Fire says: Just started playing Salt & Sanctuary. So far, there’s the obvious inspiration from the Souls series, but I’m finding some parallels with Castlevania (chiefly SotN’s level design) and a skill tree progression that could take more cues from Path of Exile. Monster design is interesting and most bosses encountered have been engaging, but not too punishing (Although Tree of Men gave me a Bed of Chaos-like experience). Equipment variety is still being explored, but so far it looks like there’s plenty to experiment with if you can deal with getting the required skill levels for each desired equipment type. Fade2Gray says: This podcast needed more Stardew Valley. Mumbles gets a stardrop fruit for saying the name once in association with the words “best game of the year”, but the game was otherwise criminally overlooked in both conversations about GoTY and relationship simulations in games. I bought that in the sale! Not had a chance to play it yet though. SlothfulCobra says: TF2’s characterizations were sort of just a fun little bonus flair that nobody expected, but when Valve put forth some fun personalities to go on their remake of something that started out as a quake mod, everybody loved it and it picked up momentum organically, as opposed to Overwatch, which led out pretty strong to create that artificially. There’s a real difference in expectations there, so whereas Valve just had to do something cool and fun by itself, Blizzard had to fully manufacture an entire dynamic and style to immediately produce a fandom, and it really shows in points. One of the impressive things about TF2’s aesthetic is just how simplistic the stylization made everything immediately recognizable immediately, so it’s easier to keep track of things. A lot of the differences between characters is just their build, because they mostly all wear similar uniforms. Overwatch on the other hand, is filled with visually busy designs, filled with extra meaningless lines and bits and bobs and meaningless tech-y bits going every which way. Theoretically you might be able to identify each character by their silhouette, but the game doesn’t really intend for that. There are an order of magnitude more characters to keep track of, you can’t turn that into a cutesy 2D 8-Bit tribute game, that’s for sure. I couldn’t even imagine how you could keep track of teams until I saw in gameplay clips that the game cheats to help you keep track, it overlays outlines onto all the characters. The aesthetics aren’t working towards the game, and the mechanics are even working against some of the aesthetic. But the main problem with Overwatch’s aesthetic I feel is that none of it really serves the game it exists in. The whole deal with TF2’s lore and backstory is that they’re fighting a meaningless war between two different colors, that’s the whole bit, that’s the whole point, it’s a joke as to what the game is, and it gives everything context. Most of the characters are some kind of murderous jerk, because that’s what the game is about, murdering the other team for fun. There are a number of other online multiplayer games that do a similar thing, they make context for the game. One of my favorites is Awesomenauts, but nobody ever talks about it. Overwatch doesn’t do that. Their aesthetics and lore don’t create context for the gameplay, in fact they actively work against each other. The most they say about what the gameplay is supposed to be is something vague about mercenary work. That doesn’t really fit with how so many of the characters are supposed to be somehow heroic. Why would this robot who learned to love, a climatologist who’s trying to save the environment, a pop star who put things aside to be a hero, or this academic gorilla be killing people for no reason in particular? Tracer doesn’t much seem like the type to enjoy gunning people down over and over again. There’s this whole divide between supposedly heroic and villainous characters, why are they working together? Most of them are clearly defined individuals, which works against the fact that there are an indefinite amount of them bumping around. Nothing fits together, it’s like if the item descriptions in Dark Souls kept talking about the dangers of nuclear proliferation, or if Banjo and Kazooie were actually wealthy industrialists in their normal lives when not trying to thwart Gruntilda, or if Superman and Batman were doing a crowdfunding campaign to open up a food truck. There’s nothing wrong with the individual bits, but they work against each other in dischord rather than harmony. There's this whole divide between supposedly heroic and villainous characters, why are they working together? This is one of my problems with most MOBA-type games where there are hordes and hordes of characters, some of whom are thematically “good” and “evil”, but which mix indiscriminately in gameplay. Story-wise it’s black-vs.-white, but gameplay-wise it’s a mix of black and white fighting each other. TF2 on the other hand is all just a bunch of killers-for-hire killing each other; it’s strictly grey-vs.-grey (or maybe black-vs.-black). Ludonarrative consonance, if you will. Just spotted that AwesomeNauts is currently on sale on Steam until 6th January. 80% off – not sure what the price would be in dollarbucks, but it’s cheaper than a small British coffee would be these days. Jeff R says: It’s time to transition all of the optimism and pessimism about whether Half-Life 3 will ever happen into optimism and pessimism about whether Portal 3 will ever happen. Get with the program. Interesting idea! Personally, I dunno. While I’m much more invested in Portal than Half-Life, I’m a lot more at peace with the idea of there never being a Portal 3. I mean, I’d absolutely love it if there was, but I feel that Portal 2 ended with a sense of resolution (even as it raised more questions) and I’m happy to leave “what happened next” up to the imagination. Half-Life: Episode 2, on the other hand, ends on a cliff-hanger; it resolves one on-going set of concerns, but then immediately opens up a whole bunch more in the last minute of gameplay. I could live with never getting another installment of either, but I find myself interested in the next chapter of Gordon’s story and yet am content to leave Chell where she is. NC_Schrijver says: My previous comment got deleted? Whining boooooo Aye, there’s a ‘no politics’ rule, with politics being pretty broadly defined to include, say, social politics and the like. More here, including plenty on why that is: Possibly, even though I wasn’t talking about politics at all. Apperently giving Mumbles critiscm is grounds for your comment to be deleted cause it might hurt her feelings. So everthing that might hurt her feelings is put in politics now? There’s obvious evidence right on this page that that’s not the case. I believe you know precisely what I mean, and so I shan’t attempt to explain further. You accused Mumbles of “pushing her feminist agenda”. That’s a firebomb of an opening, and you know it. I would have let it go if you had, but now you’re playing the martyr. You’re not here for a discussion about videogames. You’re looking for a fight. Go away. Joshua Klaus says: Thursday Jan 5, 2017 at 11:10 am Hey Rutskarn! List me 10 boardgames that are great to play with 2 people. byter says: Thursday Jan 26, 2017 at 10:09 am Here I am, in front of a wonderful buffet, many great flavours and textures to be had but over my shoulder I hear a constant muttering. “Oh wow look at how well presented the food is” “There’s a piece from every continent” “This selection truly represents how far we’ve come in [current year]” And I start to feel my appetite start to wane. This is kind of how I feel with Overwatch. I get that for those who aren’t into this particular game or culinary experience, there’s not much else to do other than talk about the more superficial details or to speak to their own (or the games’ own) affectations. But.. having heard so much of it, it does colour how I feel about the game. It would be a bit like how TF2 would feel different if all people would talk about how pyro should be trans and that the engineer should be a chick. It is the same gaming experience and people are welcome to have their own views but it does change the ambiance. Welp.. at least there’s still Paladins. The ambiance hasn’t been tainted this way… yet… Leave a Reply to Rutskarn Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line913
__label__cc	0.553962	0.446038	165 years ago today - 165 years ago - Oct 6, 1853 (Thursday) The general conference of the Church was commenced in G.S.L. City. It continued four days. Apostles Geo. A. Smith and Erastus Snow were called to gather fifty families to strengthen the settlements of Iron County, Wilford Woodruff and Ezra T. Benson fifty families to strengthen the settlements in Tooele, Lyman Stevens and Reuben W. Allred fifty families for each of the settlements in Sanpete, Lorenzo Snow fifty families to go to Box Elder, Joseph L. Heywood fifty families to Nephi, Juab Co., and Orson Hyde to raise a company to make a permanent settlement on Green river, near Fort Bridger. [Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line916
__label__wiki	0.896021	0.896021	Marie Fredriksson to perform in a gala for the World Childhood Foundation Written by Jud on March 31, 2009 to Marie Fredriksson. (Updated) According to a press release sent out today by the Göteborg Opera, Marie Fredriksson will perform in a gala for the World Childhood Foundation on May 18th. The foundation was founded by H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden in 1999 and in order to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Göteborg Opera has organised this gala, which will be attended by the Royal Family. Other artists such as Peter Jöback, German violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter and mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus will participate in the gala as well. World Childhood Foundation's work is aimed at the most marginalised children. "The goal is to promote the right of every child to its childhood and to work for better living conditions for children in danger. We must fight against the extreme material, social and emotional poverty in which they livea," writes H.M. Queen Silvia on the foundation's homepage. Currently the foundation supports more than 100 projects in 14 countries. All revenue from the gala will be donated to World Childhood Foundation. Update April 2: According to the Göteborg Opera homepage, tickets will be on sale on April 6th at 12:00 CET. The tickets cost 1700 SEK and can only be purchased at the Opera Box Office personally (not over phone or email) since a personal ID must be show at the time of purchase. Maximum amount of tickets per person is two. Dress code is smoking or dark suit. Other articles with the same topic Marie to perform at Citytunneln inauguration (October 27, 2010) Marie pushes Roxette into prestigious Australian Countdown! (December 1, 2009) Marie Fredriksson turns 51 (May 31, 2009) Roxette reunion special to air on Nordic Rox; Marie special on Swedish P4 (May 28, 2009) Marie joins Per and band on stage in Amsterdam (May 7, 2009) crashroxer said on March 31, 2009 20:05: Great news!!! I’m so happy she found the way BACK on stage! GO MARIE! Bananylopalabomba said on March 31, 2009 23:02: Does she nothing to do, or what ? Sorry, but can‘t understand her. BandL said on April 1, 2009 02:03: Great!! GREAT!!! We love u Marie!! mf2004 said on April 1, 2009 03:25: it´s great that Marie is there, we love u! Ivanych said on April 1, 2009 04:21: It’s really great that Marie also supports such Foundation. I hope Marie will enjoy her trip to Gothenburg and the gala. Sascha said on April 1, 2009 08:53: Nice! Marie dosn’t stop. :-) Will this be broadcasted? PS. Just saw that Queen Silvia signs with “Silvia” only. Quite sweet for a Queen, no? The tickets to the 10th anniversary of the World Children Foundation will be sold at the Göteborg Opera Box Office starting Monday April 6th at 12pm. You have to come to the box office in person, they are not selling tickets over the phone or internet. Due to security risks everyone will have to show ID. The tickets are 1700 SEK each. You don’t need anything in particular to attend, just a tuxedo or a dark suit. Jud (moderator) said on April 1, 2009 11:31: Sascha: I am no expert in subject royalty.. but what do the others sign like? :) Marie Fredriksson Online Be strong, speak true CoyRoy said on April 6, 2009 21:24: Hopefully Marie will sing something other than “I Never Loved A Man...” LOL. Great to have Marie on stage, and great to have her involved with charity. All we need now is Roxette!! AURYTE said on April 8, 2009 21:07: Yes, it’s really great that Marie hasn’t lost her lust to perform and it’s even greater that she performs in such events :) I wish you the best there is before you go to sleep The latest news and discussions on the Swedish pop music group Roxette and its members Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. Run to Roxette Roxspain ©1997-2011 The Daily Roxette Get the latest articles to your mailbox, subscribe to The Daily Roxette newsletter.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line917
__label__wiki	0.834783	0.834783	Dominique Wilkins' Four-Man 'Senior Citizen' Slam Dunk Contest YouTube/NBA By: Jeff Eisenband Dominique Wilkins, "The Human Highlight Film," talks judging the Verizon Slam Dunk Contest (2:32), Michael Jordan's degree of difficulty (4:17), the idea of bringing big names back to the Slam Dunk Contest (5:29), his dream Dunk Contest among current players (7:18), his picks for an over-55 Dunk Contest (8:50), the necessary circumstances for him to still dunk (9:20) and Paul Millsap's stardom in Atlanta (10:53). Listen to the podcast on SoundCloud or iTunes. Dominique Wilkins retired from the NBA 18 years ago, but it feels like he's still a fixture at NBA All-Star Weekend. "The Human Highlight Film" is in New Orleans this weekend in his usual spot as a judge for the Verizon Slam Dunk Contest. The five-time contestant and two-time champion will sit at the table alongside David Robinson, Gary Payton, Chris Webber and Alonzo Mourning. Last year's runner-up, Aaron Gordon, headlines a cast that includes DeAndre Jordan, Derrick Jones Jr. and Glenn Robinson III. Wilkins joined ThePostGame Podcast by phone from New Orleans and talked about his rivalry with Michael Jordan, back-to-back champion Zach LaVine's effect on the contest and his current dunking ability. He also imagined a four-man legends dunk-off. Here are the highlights: ThePostGame: You keep talking about creativity and degree of difficulty. We know who won, but who had more creativity and who created a better degree of difficulty, you or Michael Jordan? DOMINIQUE WILKINS: You know what, I'll say it like this. No matter what you saw from Michael and myself, you got your money's worth. Everything we did was a degree of difficulty. TPG: How many times did Gary actually dunk in a game? WILKINS: I don't know. He may have dunked four or five times throughout his career. TPG: Do you enjoy a dunk contest the way it is now with these young guys, not the big brand names that once upon a time there were, like you and Michael. And then you had Kobe [Bryant] and Vince [Carter] and Steve Francis. Would the NBA be better off with bigger names in the Dunk Contest? WILKINS: Man, the bigger names just draw the attention, the crowd. That mystique of the contest, it was really triggered by the star players. Not to have a lot of those guys in it, it took something away from the contest, but guys like [Aaron] Gordon and [Zach] LaVine brought it back. Hopefully these guys can continue to feed upon these energy, but I would love to see the great players do it. TPG: You can pick any four guys in the NBA right now for your dream Dunk Contest, who are you taking? WILKINS: I would say LeBron [James]. I would say Blake Griffin. I like Aaron Gordon. I like his aggression. I would put him in there. Uhhh ... I'm trying to think of another guy who is a high-flyer. As far as creativity, there's not a lot of guy who you say, hey, this guy here is gonna stand out in the contest, but those guys who I named are some good ones. TPG: Who do you think would win a LeBron vs. Blake dunk-off? WILKINS: Man, you know what, that's one that social media would go absolutely nuts on. If those two would go head-to-head, it'd be the most anticipated dunk contest ever if that would happen. TPG: What does the NBA have to do to encourage these guys to participate in the Dunk Contest? WILKINS: I don't know. That's a personal decision that guys make. If they want to get in the dunk contest each and every year. I think the guys have so much going on and there's a lot on their plate and so, a lot of times, it's too much I think in their mind. TPG: If we could do a "four people over age 55" dunk contest, who would you want in that? WILKINS: Probably me, of course definitely Michael, [Clyde] Drexler (laughs). And probably David Thompson. Note: Jordan turned 54 on Friday. TPG: And so my next question is what do we have to do to make this happen? WILKINS: Dream. (Laughs) It'd be a nice reality show. TPG: Why not? Can you still dunk? WILKINS: Yeah. TPG: How often do you just go out in the backyard and slam down? WILKINS: Usually, I wait on Fridays because I need a week to warm-up. It takes a minute, man. TPG: Are these just straight dunks or do you put some moves on? WILKINS: Nah. Ain't no moves. It's one bounce, go up, that's it. TPG: Are you ever at Hawks practice just surprising these guys? WILKINS: Oh, yeah. I'll you tell what. Grant Hill and I, a couple months back, we were at practice. We were just shooting around. Grant Hill was in jeans. He went up and he dunked one. He said, "Nique, what do you say? You think you can do it?" I went up and dunked one, but the problem is I was sore for like two days. TPG: You were not in jeans though, were you? WILKINS: I was. TPG: You gotta be ready. WILKINS: Yeah, yeah. It was fun, though. That's a nice what I call a Nique-Grant Hill contest, but neither of us won. Wilkins spoke with ThePostGame on behalf of Verizon, the title sponsor for the Slam Dunk Contest. NBA fans can use the new Verizon Unlimited Data Plan to stream the game directly from their mobile phone or tablet. Verizon stream service Go90 is also producing "Slam Kings," a series involving every Slam Dunk Contest in history. -- Follow Jeff Eisenband on Twitter @JeffEisenband. Like Jeff Eisenband on Facebook. -- Follow ThePostGame Podcast on SoundCloud and subscribe on iTunes. 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__label__cc	0.712616	0.287384	(0) items: $0.00 Yabby Lake Cellar Door In the Winery Red Claw Heathcote Estate Order Form PDF VINEYARD MAP PDF After a long search of the Mornington Peninsula during the mid-1990’s, the Kirby family found the ideal parcel of land in Tuerong, located in the north of the peninsula. After thorough soil surveys, and careful mapping and planning of this special site, the vineyard was planted in 1998. At Yabby Lake, we’re focused on crafting wines of great purity, that provide a clear insight into not only where they come from, but also the season they were grown. It’s the attention and care in the vineyard that is most critical to allowing this expression. Our vineyard has been managed and cared for by our founding vineyard team, now led by Martin Sampson. For 17 years, Martin, founding viticulturist Keith Harris (recently retired), and the team have meticulously nurtured each vine in each row, hand pruned the vines through winter and handpicked each bunch of fruit each harvest. Working with winemaker Tom, their knowledge of this site is critical to allowing the special vineyard to reach its potential. Check out individual vintage reports here. Single Block RELEASE Program Since 2008, the ‘Single Block Release’ program has allowed us to explore the subtle nuances of our vineyard and gain a deeper understanding of its character, and its evolution as the vines mature. We continue to be fascinated by the distinct characteristics of individual parcels from our site. Block 1 and 2 pinot noir for example, less than 10 metres apart, planted to the same clone of pinot noir (MV6) - and yet remarkably different in character. The vineyard has 10 clones of pinot noir, 7 clones of chardonnay and 32 different sub-blocks based on aspect and soil-type differences. At harvest, each individual parcel is handled separately and typically, there will be 50 different parcels at the end of vintage. Some parcels have proven to be consistently outstanding - such as the award-winning Block 2 Pinot Noir, a ‘stayer’ in the block wine releases to date. Some blocks benefit in warmer years, some in cooler. As the vineyard matures we are excited to see ‘new’ blocks in the vineyard emerge and evolve more and more each year – and we are confident that one day we will see these wines feature in the Block releases in the years ahead. Mornington Peninsula - The Region The Mornington Peninsula is a true maritime climate - surrounded on three sides by the sea. The region has become one of the most exciting and interesting regions in all of Australia – with the small differences in aspect, elevation, soils and microclimates each contributing to the varied and fascinating character of the wines. The Yabby Lake Vineyard is in the sub-region of Moorooduc. Positioned on a north-facing slope, the site captures maximum daily sunshine, but importantly is refreshed by nightly cool sea breezes – perfect conditions for growing high quality chardonnay and pinot noir. The Peninsula's summer heat reaches its (low) peak in January and only starts to decline somewhat during April, often providing 'Indian summer' conditions. The coincidence of late ripening and a prolonged gentle autumn results in fully ripe grapes with outstanding fruit flavours, high natural acidity and fine tannins. - Vintage Reports © Copyright 2019 Yabby Lake Website designed by HubGroup All orders are processed and distributed by Yabby Lake. It is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or obtain alcohol on behalf of, a person under the age of 18. ABN: 73 021 010 073 \| Liquor Licence Number: 36058467	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line921
__label__wiki	0.650827	0.650827	Stories, Poems, and Essays by Teens Creative Essays Topics/Styles Dream #45 Tracy Meleca, New York, United States First published October 1, 1998 “That is a dangerous dream,” the giant praying mantis told me “It is a vile, vile thing for us to have to walk this bloodstained earth—” “—But we are doomed to it,” I finished “It was bloodstained before us, and so it will be so.” “Yes, all of the blood has mingled together, so we cannot tell which is which,” said the praying mantis “My love said to me that if the house was full of water, would I swim deep to rescue him.” “Of course you told him yes,” said the praying mantis She paused “But it is dangerous to dream like that” “Who said it was a dream?” Tags:Conversations Experimental Style or Form ← Game of Life If Only You Could Know → Young Writers magazine is currently under construction. An official launch date has not been set. In the meantime, please enjoy browings our archives. All work currently appearing here on Young Writers originally appeared in Frodo’s Notebook, the old site that this one will replace. We are not currently accepting submissions. Thank you for your patience. Archives Select Month January 2006 (5) October 2005 (8) July 2005 (15) April 2005 (1) January 2005 (7) July 2004 (7) October 2003 (7) July 2003 (6) April 2003 (8) January 2003 (12) October 2002 (8) July 2002 (8) October 2001 (10) July 2001 (24) April 2001 (21) January 2001 (2) October 2000 (8) July 2000 (8) April 2000 (8) January 2000 (7) October 1999 (10) July 1999 (10) April 1999 (9) January 1999 (9) October 1998 (9) July 1998 (10) January 1998 (1) Creative Essays (38) Young Writers Magazine Premium created by c.bavota.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line923
__label__wiki	0.625076	0.625076	Announcements and Perspectives Lan Su Gala About 350 people attended the culminating event of Lan Su Chinese Garden’s 10th anniversary, a gala and fundraising dinner at the Portland Art Museum Sept. 16. As a memento of the occasion, all guests received a stone token created by Yellow Mountain StoneWorks. A sponsor of the garden’s year-long birthday celebration, Yellow Mountain StoneWorks also designed “Fluidity”, a sculpture that was on view during the garden’s birthday month. Both the tokens and the sculpture were fabricated from the same materials, Redheart Limestone® and Butterfly Blue Granite. “We enjoyed Fluidity’s sojourn at the Garden and each of us will now treasure our little piece of Yellow Mountain in the beautiful gift you gave to everyone at the Gala,” said Lan Su Executive Director Cynthia Johnson Haruyama. In thanking Yellow Mountain StoneWorks, Haruyama quoted an 11th century poem, bowing to the Chinese tradition of cementing friendship through poetry: The autumn wind enters through the window, The gauze curtain starts to flutter and fly. I raise my head and look at the bright moon, And send my feelings a thousand miles in its light. Lan Su Sponsorship Throughout 2010, Yellow Mountain StoneWorks is co-sponsoring the tenth birthday celebration of Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, the most authentic Chinese garden outside China. Collaborating on the garden [July 1999 – September 2000] awakened John Williams and Erik Nelson to the wonders of stone as a landscape and building material, and to the elegance and affordability of Chinese stone craft. Yellow Mountain StoneWorks was born out of that collaboration. Even today, Yellow Mountain StoneWorks relies on the intercontinental network of relationships Nelson and Williams established while working as senior project managers for the award-winning garden. Both men came away from that project impressed by what “collaboration among strangers with a common artistic goal” can achieve. That’s the principle that guides them and Yellow Mountain StoneWorks partner Nicole Gelpi. That passion helped both their company and the garden flourish over the past decade. “We have gone through the gestation of helping partners bring Chinese materials and finishes into contemporary Western architecture and landscapes. We’re at a point now,” said Williams, “where we are able to demonstrate some of our own compositions of materials and finishes that are very captivating – different from what you’ll find most stone suppliers doing.” The highlight of Yellow Mountain StoneWorks’ sponsorship is a series of events in September, the garden’s birthday month, including: • Mooncakes & Pomegranates dinner Sept. 1 featuring live music and food from 14 Portland restaurants • A week of Chinese games in the garden, with birthday cake served at 3pm every day Sept. 13-17 • An Anniversary Gala and fundraising dinner at the Portland Art Museum Sept. 16 The garden demonstrates the remarkable fluidity of stone as a landscape and building material. Lan Su is a creative wonder — a powerfully inspiring experience based on a 2,000-year-old Chinese tradition that melds art, architecture, design and nature into perfect harmony. The Ming Dynasty-style garden features 14 pavilions and bridges, intricate paving patterns, Taihu Rock, Bamboo Shoot Rock, and a lotus-covered lake. Lan Su is a window into Chinese culture, history and way of thinking. Creation of Lan Su Chinese Garden ten years ago gave birth to Yellow Mountain StoneWorks, and we are proud to be a sponsor of the garden’s year-long birthday celebration. To honor our decade of shared passion and collaboration, Yellow Mountain has created a sculpture for Lan Su that symbolizes two parties coming together for a single purpose. “Fluidity” combines our Butterfly Blue Granite and Redheart Limestone®. Installation of the sculpture in the garden’s entry plaza coincides with Lan Su’s birthday month. “Fluidity” will be on view during the Mooncakes & Pomegranates dinner September 1 at the garden, featuring live music and food from 14 Portland restaurants. The sculpture will also be displayed at Lan Su’s anniversary gala and fundraising dinner at the Portland Art Museum on September 16, 2010. The collective passion of those involved in creating the garden inspired Yellow Mountain’s founders to base our business on the elegance and affordability of Chinese materials and stone craft. And to strive for close collaboration on every project we undertake. This exquisite Chinese garden showcases the remarkable fluidity of stone as a landscape and building material. So do our other Portland projects, which range from high-end residences to captivating public parks and streetscapes. Making the Invisible Visible The work of noted Northwest artist Perri Lynch examines the relationship between human perception and sense of place. Drawn to landmarks, issues of navigation, intuition, and physical proximity are key components of these investigations. This made Lynch the perfect choice to develop a piece public art that would honor and protect the Sand Point Calibration Baseline that runs through Seattle’s Magnuson Park. The line itself is entirely spatial, invisible but for small, periodic bronze disks embedded in the ground. Public and private surveyors use the line to verify and calibrate electronic distance-measurement equipment, which aids everything from construction to law enforcement to transportation. The accuracy of the Sand Point line is said to be within half a millimeter. Lynch was enticed by working with this unseen, mostly unknown landmark that the vast majority of people don’t even know exists, let alone holds importance. “The baseline is a humble bit of infrastructure that brings definition to our world, without most of us ever knowing it’s there,” Lynch says. “A 10-foot-wide, kilometer-long swath cuts straight through Magnuson Park from south to north, yet goes unnoticed by thousands of people every day. Isn’t that amazing? With the artwork now in place, my hope is that the presence of the baseline will register with park users, be revered as something special, and augment the overall park experience.” On June 7, 2009 the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in partnership with Seattle Public Utilities, dedicated Straight Shot, a procession of 12 standing Ink Jade Limestone™ monoliths that cover a one kilometer course running parallel to Seattle’s original survey calibration baseline. The stones are perfectly aligned to the baseline. Two circular holes drilled through each stone invite visitors to peer through, creating a framed perspective of the surrounding wetlands and shoreline. The sight line offers a straight shot, thus the artwork’s title. Sighting through the stones, the viewer has the experience of making a targeted observation in the landscape, adopting the stance of a surveyor calibrating his or her instruments. For Yellow Mountain StoneWorks, this project was the ideal opportunity to illustrate the fluidity of natural stone. During fabrication, our masons allowed the uniqueness of each piece to emerge from the quarry block bringing to bear a skill that is thousands of years old. Through the use of digital photography during production, Yellow Mountain StoneWorks made it possible for the artist to be actively involved throughout the fabrication process. Working with Lynch allowed us to do what we do best — which is to leverage old-world stone craftsmanship to bring a designer’s concept to life and make the whole process transparent. Learn more about the background of the project and the installation of the monoliths on Perri Lynch’s blog: sandpointbaseline.blogspot.com Ancient Limestone Reclaimed More than seven centuries ago, a stone bridge was built over a section of the Yangtze River near the fabled birthplace of one of the famous Four Beauties of ancient China. The story, which includes betrayal, sacrifice, and palace intrigue (and in some telling’s rivers of tears, dragons, and immortals), has been handed down through generations and retold in poetry, plays, dance, and movies. The ancient bridge brought pre-Ming Dynasty visitors to a museum created to pay homage to one of China’s great heroines. The museum still stands today, surviving the flood 650 years ago that caused the bridge to collapse and its stone to be buried. In 2008, we discovered 400 cubic meters of the ancient, hand carved limestone blocks that had been used to build the bridge. The stone blocks had been found in a tributary of the Yangtze River where, amazingly, they had lain buried in the riverbed until this past year. The movement of the channel caused them to be exposed, and we immediately recognized its value as reclaimed material. “Investing in bringing this reclaimed stone to the market is part of our company’s commitment to applying a global perspective to our business operations,” said John Williams, president of Yellow Mountain StoneWorks. “We strive to minimize not only our impact on the environment, but to seek ways to extend our natural resources.” This gorgeous stone, which still bears the markings of ancient Chinese craftsmen, is now finding new expression in contemporary architecture and landscapes as Yellow Mountain StoneWorks’s Reclaimed Grand Tortoise Limestone™. “Unlike a lot of the post-consumer product in the market right now, this stone was dressed very carefully on all six faces,” said Williams. “This is simply the finest quality reclaimed antique stone we have ever seen.” The age, quality, and features of this stone allow us to create a broad palate of colors and finishes. The reclaimed stone features a rich chocolate color with some veining in a squarish, mottled pattern similar to the back of a tortoise shell, hence the name Grand Tortoise Limestone™. This limestone also bears the mark of time with its build-up of colors including yellow, ochre, rust and brown visible across the stone’s craggy surface. Most of the Reclaimed Grand Tortoise Limestone™ blocks were finished to about 30” x 18” x 10”. At this size, we can fabricate the stone into multiple pieces of veneer, quoins, or pavers with multiple faces exhibiting the prized antique finishing. Additionally, a unique characteristic of this stone is the prevalence of Belemnite fossils which occur in whole or as fragments throughout the material and can be diminished with hand finishes or highlighted with the Honed or more refined finishes. The most interesting potential applications for Reclaimed Grand Tortoise Limestone® may be wall veneer and quoins, although it could be used as a focal point because of its antiquity. It is also ideally suited for use as monolithic treads and risers, as well as through-wall material. Custom Stone Construction Support Services Part 2: An American in China Testing Stone Necessity is the Mother of Invention Communing with Stone Executing a Vision, Revitalizing a City Aging Stone Before You Give ANYONE Money for Custom Stone From China… Inspired Spaces West Seattle Garden Tour Climbable Art Waterjet Finish Global Stone Sources Natural Stone Inspiration Stone Application Stone Finishes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line925
__label__wiki	0.887868	0.887868	Board index ‹ Main Forum ‹ Animation Random Animation (Come forward into Dementia-Five!!) Anime, cartoons and 3D. Animated shorts and features. And don't forget the animation genius in Bulgaria. Re: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by TheButcher on Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:40 pm This Kavalier And Clay Animation Test Is Exciting And Unexpected Brendon Connelly wrote: I’d love to see a big-screen version of Michael Chabon’s extraordinary novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, but I don’t think Stephen Daldry would be my number one choice of director. Either way, his long and determined efforts to bring the film to the screen (so far, but also probably finally) failed to yield a finished movie. Development was, for a time, at full tilt, and it was during that process that the following test video was created. According to his official site (via Open Culture), animator Jamie Caliri was going above and beyond in his work here: They asked me to explore animation concepts. I thought it would be much more fun to actually shoot a section of the script to intertwine live action and animation. It was a fun surprise for the producers. There’s a lot of imagination in this clip – and skill, and ability – but maybe not enough focus or discipline. That’s okay, of course, for a “grab ‘em by the collars” demo like this, but if I watched a narrative film that pulled some of these stunts I’d be dismayed at the gimmickery… Re: Spider-Man Cartoons by TheButcher on Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:50 am Spider-Man Cartoons Through the Years DVD Watch 2: Glaring Omissions - SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN Last edited by TheButcher on Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:38 am, edited 1 time in total. Re: 'Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers' by TheButcher on Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:12 pm 'Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers' Trailer Arrives Online Re: The Lorax by TheButcher on Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:45 am TheButcher wrote: MTV EXCLUSIVE: 'The Lorax' Writers Excited To Show 'The Dark Side Of Seuss' In 3-D Danny DeVito is the LORAX! Re: Voltron Force by TheButcher on Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:38 am Loads of Images and Storyboards from 'Voltron Force' Animated Series by Fievel on Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:17 pm TheButcher wrote: Loads of Images and Storyboards from 'Voltron Force' Animated Series Gotta appreciate the decision to NOT screw around too much with the lion/Voltron designs. Achievement Unlocked: TOTAL DOMINATION (Win a Werewolf Game without losing a single player on your team) Fievel Mouse Of The House Location: White Lake, MI Re: Thor: Tales of Asgard by TheButcher on Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:11 pm Fearsome Frost Giants Rise in New 'Thor: Tales of Asgard' Clip [Exclusive Video] Thor's multimedia adventures as a full-grown thunder god can be caught at length in this summer's live action film and corresponding videogame tie-ins, but only Lionsgate Home Entertainment and Marvel Animation are digging into the Odinson's youth. On May 17 fans can peer into the past with Thor: Tales of Asgard, which follows a pre-Mjolnir Thor, his brother Loki and the Warriors Three on a quest for the Sword of Surthur. Like a lot of teenage intentions, however, things don't go according to plan and the crew wind up having to save Asgard from a Frost Giant invasion they inadvertently caused. See ComicsAlliance's exclusive clip of the icy foes springing to life after the jump. While aimed primarily at the all-ages crowd, Tales of Asgard has got a team with a legit track record for bringing all manner of comic characters to life in animation including director Sam Liu (All-Star Superman, Planet Hulk) supervising producer Craig Kyle (The Invincible Iron Man, Ultimate Avengers, Hulk Vs.) and screenwriter Greg Johnson (X-Men: Evolution, G.I. Joe: Renegades). Thor: Tales of Asgard arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and digital (including on game consoles) May 17. Re: ParaNorman by TheButcher on Sat May 07, 2011 9:57 pm Here Comes ParaNorman From Stop Motion Studio Laika – First Image, Plot, Cast And More Last edited by TheButcher on Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:58 am, edited 1 time in total. Re: Star Trek by TheButcher on Mon May 16, 2011 3:50 am From BLASTR: Rumor of the Day: Roberto Orci working on animated Trek TV show Re: Random Animation (Come forward into Dementia-Five!!) by Ribbons on Tue May 24, 2011 2:55 pm I just started watching this anime show on Hulu called Rainbow - anybody ever hear of it? It's set in a reform school that feels like a prison camp, and is about six kids banding together to take on their despotic headmaster, or something. I don't know what to make of it just yet. The tone is pretty melodramatic, but I guess that's appropriate given the plot. I'm definitely in for at least a couple more episodes, though. SQUARE PEG by TheButcher on Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:30 am Warner Bros. Resurrects Mel Blanc for 3D LOONEY TUNES Shorts; First Image from DAFFY’S RHAPSODY Re: TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION by TheButcher on Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:01 am From SciFi Japan: TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION – HEADMASTERS Debuts on Region 1 DVD Last edited by TheButcher on Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:21 am, edited 1 time in total. Re: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA by TheButcher on Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:57 am From Collider: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Poster/Banner Little known fact about Dracula: he is not only the Prince of Darkness, but also the owner of Hotel Transylvania, a five-star resort for the world’s monsters. But for Dracula, it’s also where he protects Mavis, his teenage daughter. But when a curious young traveler discovers the hotel—and Mavis—the overprotective dad must use his powers of persuasion to keep her from falling in love. by TheButcher on Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:59 am From Variety: Toei toons up animation - Japanese animation house exploits library John Hopewell & Mark Schilling wrote: ANNECY -- Few companies made a larger splash at early June's Annecy Animation Festival than Japan's Toei Animation. A billboard proclaiming its flagship anime movie, 3D sci-fi adventure-fantasy "Space Pirate Captain Harlock," framed the fest's main Bonville venue entrance. Leiji Matsumoto, the venerable creator of "Harlock's" manga and TV series, took to the stage to a standing ovation at a work-in-progress presentation. The trailer boasted high-octane battles as Captain Harlock, a taciturn renegade, sails vast and void galaxies, battling Earth's oppressors, both human and alien. The first onscreen incarnation of "Harlock" was a 1978 Toei Animation TV toon series adapting Matsumoto's manga work, but this rendition features a modern CG movie makeover, directed by Shinji Aramaki ("Appleseed"). And like Harlock, Toei Animation is exploring its own final frontier: International markets. "Japanese animation mainly used to target the domestic market," says Cedric Biscay, prexy-CEO of Shibuya Intl. "Now there are multiple (projects) targeting international audiences, especially 'Tekken: Blood Vengeance' and 'Harlock.' " Toei Animation producer Yoshi Ikezawa say that Europe, as well as Japan, are key markets for "Harlock." France in particular has a large fan base for anime. "The old business model," Ikezawa adds, was to "make a Japanese film in Japan then export it overseas." Now Toei is listening to what the overseas markets want, and the Japanese giant may make a film overseas, as with live-action robot movie "Gaeking." "Harlock" will be made in Japan, with overseas distribution in mind. Biscay says the animated films that are ready to hit globally are faster paced, and very different from past Japanese fare. In fact, one might say that Toei Animation's international focus has a foreign model. "Marvel is pretty well going through its entire catalog, DC Comics the same," says "Captain Harlock" producer Joseph Chou. Toei, the oldest and biggest Japanese animation studio wants to follow suit. "It has a lot of intellectual property and relationships with globally famous IP creators," Chou says. "There's huge value to be unlocked." Chou adds that Japan's DVD slump is hitting animation particularly hard, and companies are looking for new revenue streams. Total Japanese video spending has fallen 25% from ¥753 billion ($9.3 billion) in 2005 to $6.4 billion last year, IHS-Screen Digest estimates. At home and abroad, anime DVD sales are trending downward as fans access content through streaming and file-sharing sites. Toei Animation may be in a very good place to exploit its properties more fully; it usually sells its rights directly, unlike other Japanimation producers, who sell through third parties. And it has sales offices in Paris and Los Angeles. Ikezawa produced "RoboDz," an original property, for Toei Animation and Disney. Toei and Cartoon Network co-produced "Powerpuff Girls," a U.S. redo of a Toei property. "Harlock" was an anime sensation when it was exported to France in 1978, creating a so-called Albator Generation of fans. DVD packaging and merchandizing in Europe has performed steadily ever since, even three decades later, Ikezawa says. But serious challenges remain. "Harlock" is 3D CG: Japanese auds still prefer 2D anime, and "Harlock" is well known by older anime fans, not so much by younger ones. That said, Chou points to the success of CG-made "Final Fantasy Advent Children," a direct-to-DVD title with global DVD/Blu-ray revenues of more than $70 million, around half of that from Japan. Another Matsumoto title, "Space Battleship Yamato," saw a live-action version this year that was a $50 million hit, with domestic megastar Takuya Kimura playing the lead. Director Aramaki promises to update "Harlock," referencing social problems that affect younger generations worldwide. The challenge within Japan's domestic market is one good reason to take "Harlock" international in the first place. "A lot of people in Japan's anime industry are sensing the same possibilities and watching how this project (performs in the) world market," Ikezawa says. One thing seem certain: If "Harlock" clicks internationally, more cosmopolitan anime will follow. Anson Woodring contributed to this report. by TheButcher on Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:38 pm Adam Sandler to voice Dracula for Sony - Kevin James, Fran Drescher also set for 3D 'Hotel Transylvania' Re: Studio Ghibli's: Karigurashi no Arrietty by TheButcher on Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:35 am ‘Kokuriko-Zaka Kara’ Trailer: Goro Miyazaki’s Second Film For Studio Ghibli Russ Fischer wrote: We just saw a new trailer for Arrietty, the Studio Ghibli movie directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and co-written by Hayao Miyazaki that was released in Japan not long ago and will hit the US early next year. But there is also a new trailer for another Ghibli film, Kokuriko-Zaka Kara, which was directed by the younger Miyazaki, Goro Miyazaki. by TheButcher on Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:38 pm The Saturday schedule for Comic-Con is up. 10:30-11:30 The Return of Action-Adventure Animation The pendulum of audience and network taste in animation regularly swings between wacky comedy, comedy-adventure, and true action-adventure. And that's where it seems to be heading right now. The Writers Guild of America's Animation Writers Caucus returns to Comic-Con with a panel of animation writers and studio and network executives discussing whether it's really changing and what to expect. Panelists include moderator Craig Miller (Beast Wars, G.I. Joe), Stan Berkowitz (The 99, Justice League), Steven Melching (Transformers Prime, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Warner Bros. Animation's director of series and shorts Jeff Prezenkowski (Thundercats, Green Lantern), and others. Room 8 Re: SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS 2 by TheButcher on Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:37 pm Collider Exclusive: Jimmy Cummings and Tom Kenny Talk WINNIE THE POOH and SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS 2 by so sorry on Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:39 am New Bevis and Butthead Can't believe this is trying to come back. And believe me, I was a fan back in the early 90s (perfect college-aged humor). Maybe that's where it'll be a hit again. Too bad there aren't any music videos for them to make fun of anymore. by Fievel on Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:44 am so sorry wrote: New Bevis and Butthead Yeah. The stories were funny the first time around, but I really didn't enjoy watching the reruns. Beavis & Butthead was 100% all about the music videos (I still love watching them on YouTube). Fievel wrote: Agreed. Based on that clip, seems that B&B may be commenting on reality tv shows (the clip shows them riffing on The Jersey Shore). Comic-Con: Hulk Smashes New Team Cartoon]Comic-Con: Hulk Smashes New Team Cartoon Scott Collura wrote: Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb was wowing the crowd today with new announcements on both the live-action and animated front. Case in point: The Hulk is getting a new animated series. A team show! It will be called Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. Beautiful, right? Loeb brought scribe Paul Dini up on stage during the Marvel TV panel this morning, and much like he did last year regarding the Ultimate Spider-Man show, he mock put Dini on the spot as if he was asking him right there and then, for the very first time, to take a job on the show. Last year it was Spidey and this time it was Hulk. Little was revealed about the series aside from the title, the team roster (Green Hulk, Red Hulk, She-Hulk and A-Bomb), and this promo image: Re: Transformers: The Movie by TheButcher on Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:46 pm 'Transformers: The Movie' Has The Touch In Today's Sick Day Stash! Rob Markman wrote: Call them "cult classics." "Guilty pleasures." "Comfort movies." We all have a mental rolodex of flicks that may not be terribly popular but, for one reason or another, they resonate in a very special way. Maybe you saw it at the right moment. Maybe you just see gold where everyone else sees feces. Whatever the case, these are the special favorites that you keep stashed away for sick days. These are some of ours. Rob Markman wrote: What an amazingly cruel way to leave an impression on a child: take their most invincible hero, put him on the grandest stage possible and murder him before your young eyes. It wasn’t even an hour into the film when he met his demise, but when the closing credits rolled 84 minutes later, reality sunk in: Optimus Prime was dead and “Transformers: The Movie” was the greatest animated experience for ’80’s babies everywhere. It was the summer of 1986 when the animated-gem was released in theaters and 25 years later the original "Transformers" movie remains the greatest adaptation (sorry Michael Bay). There was nothing that would prepare my six-year old self for what I was about to see. There was, however, a persistent rumor started by some kids in my neighborhood who got their kicks spreading persistent rumors (you know, the same kids who claimed to own a Super Famicon, the highly-coveted Japanese version of Super Nintendo). Supposedly the Kenmore movie theater in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was giving away free Transformers toys to all kids who made the first showing, and not just any toy: the planet-eating Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles). So, I begged my 16-year old brother who never took me anywhere to take me to the theater on Church avenue, just blocks away from our home. We made our way into the Kenmore; there were no action figures, but I wasn’t too disappointed. I only half-believed the rumor anyway (I was six, but I wasn’t a moron). Seeing my favorite television cartoon characters on the big screen was thrilling enough. It started off fine: the Autobots were enjoying life in peaceful Autobot City on Earth, and of course the Decepticons were plotting. The good guys always won; this was normal. This time though, things were different. The Autobots were taking a serious ass-kicking: Ratchet, Ironhide, Wheeljack, Prowl were all murdered. "It’ll be okay," I thought. "Optimus will save the day." During his fateful battle scene with Megatron, Stan Bush’ “The Touch” even played in the background, and everyone knows that’s like the most heroic song ever recorded in life. It’ll be okay. Boy, was I wrong. Three laser blasts to the chest would be all it took to shatter all that my young mind believed in. It was during that 1986 summer that I would learn, bad things could happen to good people — or robots. “One day an Autobot shall rise from our ranks and use the power of the Matrix to light our darkest hour,” Optimus said from his death bed as he removed his robot-like heart from his chest. “Until the day ‘til all are one.” Then his body turned from a bright red, to a dull blue and finally a deathly grey. I dropped a tear — screw it, the truth is, I cried. Right there in the Kenmore, I cried. It’s one of those moments that my older brother still teases me about to this day. But I’m not ashamed. I still get choked up every time I fire up the Blu-ray player to watch the greatest animated movie of all-time. Re: Studio Ghibli Producer: Miyazaki's Newest Is Not For Everyone to Relax & Watch In an interview that the Japanese website Hollywood Channel posted on Sunday, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki revealed that studio co-founder Hayao Miyazaki's next work is "not the sort of work that everyone in the audience can relax and watch." Suzuki explained Miyazaki's intent for his new work, "It's not because of the [March 11 earthquake and tsunami] disaster, since he already predicted the current state of Japan during the planning stages [of his next work]. So, there was a desire to create something realistic." Suzuki was not able to say much more about the new work from the Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away director before its official unveiling. Suzuki spoke with Hollywood Channel mainly about the DVD release of TOHO's classic Jirochō Sangokushi film series about historical yakuza. Suzuki had already said in August that Miyazaki's new work is an "autobiography." However, Suzuki's vague phrasing in Japanese did not indicate if the work is Miyazaki's own autobiography, or an adaptation of another person's autobiography. Last week, Ghibli had listed staff positions for the next animation feature film from Ghibli's other co-founding director, Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday). According to the job listing, the film is "slated to be completed in Summer of 2013." Suzuki had hinted in 2009 that Takahata was working on a project based on the classic Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) in the style of the classical Japanese scroll Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga. by TheButcher on Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:24 am TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION on DVD January 10th Transformers: The Japanese Collection with Bonus Lithograph! Early happy New Year 2012! Fans and collectors can finally bring home TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION DVD box set from Shout! Factory, in collaboration with Hasbro. This is the rare Japanese trilogy that followed the popular "Generation 1" animated series. Available for the first time in North America, this 13-DVD box set is fully loaded with over 42 hours of entertainment, including all episodes that originally aired from the three Japanese series — Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce and Victory — each with their original Japanese audio tracks, English subtitles, and an art gallery. Pre-order begins now! TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION – Headmasters -- Optimus Prime lives again, the energy of the Matrix has been released and peace reigns on Cybertron . . . but all that is about to change with the startling arrival of the newest breed of TRANSFORMERS warriors. TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION – Super-God Masterforce -- Following their victory over the DESTRONS (a/k/a DECEPTICONS) at the end of Headmasters, the CYBERTRONS (AUTOBOTS) depart Earth, leaving behind only a small group to protect the planet from any future menace. But when the powerful DESTRONS return to an unsuspecting planet, the CYBERTRONS must come out of hiding to defend their human friends once again — only this time they’ll be unable to do it on their own! TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION – Victory -- Victory is the third and final installment of this Japanese trilogy— introduces four new factions to the TRANSFORMERS universe. Each group comes equipped with its own unique power and the ability to combine to form much larger, more powerful TRANSFORMERS, making each and every battle even more epic! TheButcher wrote: TRANSFORMERS: THE JAPANESE COLLECTION – HEADMASTERS Debuts on Region 1 DVD Re: The Wolf Children Rain and Snow by TheButcher on Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:52 am Hosoda nurtures 'Wolf Children' - Previous pic 'Summer Wars' earned $22 mil Mark Schilling wrote: Mamoru Hosoda, helmer of hit toon "Summer Wars," which earned $22 million at the Japanese box office in 2009, has unveiled his latest project. "Okami kodomo no ame to yuki" (The Wolf Children Rain and Snow) is a fantasy focusing on two tykes born to a human mother and a wolf-man father. Project reunites Hosoda with his "Summer Wars" scripter Satoko Okudera, character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and exec producer Seiji Okuda, of the NTV TV network. Okuda has also produced pics by toon maestro Hayao Miyazaki. Toho is skedded to release "Okami" in July. "Summer Wars," a fantasy about teen gamers who thwart a rogue program that threatens to paralyze the digital world, scooped a Japan Academy Award for animation, among many other honors, and screened at the Berlin Film Festival. Re: Mobile Suit Gundam by TheButcher on Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:45 am From Hero Complex: ‘Summer Wars,’ ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ lead Top 10 of 2011 anime Charles Solomon wrote: In addition, three reissues warrant mentioning: 1. “Mobile Suit Gundam: Complete Collection 1: Anime Legends”: Yoshiyuki Tomino’s landmark “Mobile Suit Gundam” (1979) revolutionized the mecha genre and launched a continuity that’s lasted for more than 30 years. It’s the classic giant robot saga, with pitched battles (under water, on land and in space) that cheerfully defy the laws of gravity and physics. Although this initial adventure has an old-fashioned feel, it remains a landmark series; this reissue includes the original Japanese dialogue for the first time. (Read more) Re: Robotech 3. “Robotech: The Complete Series”: “Robotech” (1985) is an anomaly: an anime series that never existed in Japan. Carl Macek and the crew at Harmony Gold edited together three similar-looking series to form a sprawling 85-episode space opera with a completely new plot. “Robotech” helped to create an audience for anime in America, and the toys, role-playing games, novelizations and frequent reissues have kept it alive in the hearts of its fans. by bastard_robo on Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:09 am NONE OF YOU CAN HANDEL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by TheButcher on Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:13 pm From AICN: Trailer for the New Modern Fairy Tale by the Director of "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Al Shut on Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:21 am Scott Green wrote: Given Hosoda's track record of producing narratively coherent and interesting, visually astonishing works, this should be a fantastic animated feature, worth looking forward to. Really says it all. Note to myself: Fix this image shit! Al Shut THE LAUGHING ZONER Location: Oberhausen, Germany Re: Robotech / Macross by TheButcher on Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:26 am From io9: Bring Back Robotech: Why the Macross saga deserves another shot Jen Heddle wrote: Robotech rocked our worlds in the 1980s with its complicated characters and dense mythology. But where's our Robotech movie? Why can't we see Rick Hunter and Lisa Hayes on the big screen? Veteran book editor Jen Heddle makes a passionate case for why we need more Robotech now. Jen Heddle wrote: The 1980s are back—for better or worse. Movies like Footloose, 21 Jump Street, Transformers. New Voltron and Thundercats animated series. Racks at Forever 21 filled with clothing styles that didn't look good the first time around. And as a bit of a t-shirt junkie, I'm particularly grateful for the retro '80s love that can be found on many, many t-shirts available for purchase online. I admit to having a particular weakness for anything related to Jem and the Holograms. But one of my absolute favorite pop culture touchstones from the 80s isn't getting the representation it deserves, in fashion or fiction: Robotech. Tobey Maguire did option the property a while back, but there haven't been any developments from that quarter in years, so I'm not holding my breath. If you're deprived enough not to know what I'm talking about, Robotech was a Japanese animated series that aired weekday mornings (at least in the New York area) in the mid-1980s. It was composed of three series that originally aired as completely different shows in Japan, but which a company called Harmony Gold USA, led by Carl Macek, cobbled together into one more or less unified series under the Robotech heading. Although all three series enjoyed popularity, the first series, "The Macross Saga," or the First Robotech War (known as "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross" in Japan) was the most iconic and arguably the most beloved. In my case, it was an obsession. Bring Back Robotech: Why the Macross saga deserves another shotThe Macross Saga kicks off in 2009 on Macross Island in the South Pacific, ten years after an alien spaceship crash-landed on Earth and was re-fitted by humans to take into space. Except wouldn't you know it, the very morning of the ship's scheduled launch, the aliens, called the Zentraedi, show up to take their ship back. Don't you hate it when that happens? When the ship, the SDF-1, executes its first hyperspace jump, not only is there a malfunction with the "fold" system — instead of emerging near the moon, they jump closer to Pluto, meaning a year-long trip back to Earth — but the entire island of Macross is folded along with the ship. Luckily, the SDF-1 is large enough that most of Macross City, along with its residents, can be transplanted into the bowels of the ship itself. (Just...go with it.) This conveniently gives the military characters a civilian background to play against, and an important target to protect. The tensions between the humans and the Zentraedi are not just martial, but cultural as well. The Zentraedi are clones with no concept of human emotion, and the males and females are strictly separated by gender. The humans' greatest weapons against these giant aliens turn out to be music and love (or, more crudely, sex). Robotech boasted a cast of characters who were more complex, and adult, than one was used to seeing on American cartoons in the 1980s. My favorite character, Lisa Hayes, is second-in-command on the flagship of the fleet, is brilliant at her job, has an awesome best friend...and completely loses all of her confidence where the man she loves, Rick Hunter, is concerned. It's the one area where she constantly second-guesses herself. And I love her for it. Maybe I'm supposed to be outraged that she isn't a strong woman all the time—in other words, a caricature—but that flaw makes her an interesting and relatable character for me. Bring Back Robotech: Why the Macross saga deserves another shotBy the same token, the hero of the piece, Rick Hunter, can be a self-absorbed jerk at times—which is realistic, considering he's a cocky 19-year old when the story opens, and is then catapulted into the middle of an interstellar war. Rick is a civilian trick pilot when he's swept up in the fold that transports all of Macross, and due to his flying skills finds himself in high demand as a military pilot. Suddenly this young, arrogant civilian is being looked to, even by the military itself, as a savior of humanity—whether he wants to be or not. Lisa and Rick are surrounded by a varied supporting cast, including a gruff but paternal Russian captain, an annoying Chinese teen pop star (and her pacifist yet belligerent cousin), a humble ace pilot with blue hair and eyeglasses, the green-haired alien pilot he marries, and a megalomaniacal alien villain who chews the scenery at every turn. These memorable characters are painted against a backdrop of epic destruction and relentless war—war that actually has consequences, which was revolutionary for an animated series in America at that time. The emotional touchstone of the series comes in the eighteenth episode, when lead pilot Roy Fokker, Rick's best friend, his "big brother," dies as the result of a dogfight. In a world where GI Joe could fire a thousand bullets without ever showing a dead body, Roy's death was shocking and resonant. Bring Back Robotech: Why the Macross saga deserves another shotBut my gushing about the characters shouldn't take anything away from the story, which is a ridiculous amount of fun. Giant aliens, fighter ships that transform into giant robots, epic space battles, the apocalyptic destruction of Earth, and aliens who are grossed out by kissing. Not to mention a beauty pageant, a kung fu movie, courtship via video game play, and a trio of hopelessly inept alien spies. It all plays out in serial fashion —20 years before Lost— over the course of just 36 episodes, providing viewers a complete story with a bittersweet ending. That also means it's not too much of a time commitment on Netflix streaming. If everything old is new again, then maybe it's time to bring Robotech back out into the light where it belongs. And featured on some kitschy t-shirts already, please. by TheButcher on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:05 pm From tv shows on dvd 7/21/2011: Robotech - 'The Complete Original Series' 17-DVD Set Announced Tonight at Comic Con! Re: John Carter of Mars by TheButcher on Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:14 pm From Geeks Of Doom: Watch Now: Test Footage For Proposed ‘John Carter of Mars’ Animated Feature From 1936 by TheButcher on Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:47 am From BC: Two New Ghibli Projects Appear On The Radar – One Samurai Film, One From Evangelion’s Hideaki Anno Brendon Connelly wrote: The most recent releases from Studio Ghibli have been Goro Miyazaki‘s Up on Poppy Hill, back at home in Japan, and Arietty, here in the UK and, just about now, in the US. Miyazaki the younger seems to be already at work on his next project. Anime News Network are, a little belatedly, relating news from a Japanese TV special: [He] is planning a samurai period work that combines fact and fiction… set in the northeastern Tohoku region of Japan during the Middle Ages. Okay, Ghibli do Samurai. That’s got inherent appeal. Their other newly revealed project is somewhat more mysterious, but has appeal of its own – it will see Evangelion director Hideaki Anno collaborating with the studio for the first time since he was an animator on 1988′s Grave of the Fireflies. According to a now-deleted entry on the Tokyo Anime Fair website, Ghibli have employed Anno to curate a museum exhibit regarding the history of Japanese special effects. At the same time, a Ghibli blog post on their own museum has referred to a seemingly related film project. As per Anime News Network: “Director A” and “Director H” attended a meeting about an exhibition that “Director A” is supervising for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo this summer. A major highlight of the exhibition will be a new film work specifically made for the event. Nishioka did not specify the length of the work or whether it is live-action or animated. Work continues on the studio’s other films, all of which are still shrouded in mystery. I’ve got my peepers peeled, however, and once the information comes, I’ll pass it along. by Fievel on Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:35 am Studio Ghibli? Samurai? Re: King Kong by TheButcher on Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:45 pm Shawn Levy Talks Animated KING KONG Re-Imagining KONG, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, and FANCY NANCY with Tina Fey Adam Chitwood wrote: One of the more interesting projects on Levy’s development slate is a film called Kong. As Levy explains it, the pic is an animated re-imagining of King Kong: “It’s an animated movie for Fox Animation and it’s a retelling of Kong as a family animated comedy… It’s in script stage; so no it’s not yet at the point where you’re doing those animation tests. It’s moving forward in that Fox Animation really likes it, I really like it, I think that when Fox Animation gets it right, almost always through Blue Sky, they get it really right. I’ve got a couple with them, and that’s the one that I think I’m the most bullish on.” While it certainly sounds like Kong is a ways off, especially given how long it takes to actually animate a film of that scale, an animated take on King Kong is definitely an ambitious task. I’m interested to see who’s handling the script and what kind of revisions are being made to the story in order to make it family friendly. Nevertheless, Kong is one to keep an eye on. by TheButcher on Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:56 pm TheButcher wrote: Collider Exclusive: From THR: Paramount to Release 'SpongeBob' Movie in Late 2014 by TheButcher on Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:01 pm New Image from Tim Burton’s FRANKENWEENIE Re: 'Mass Effect' Anime Movie by TheButcher on Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:16 am From CA: 'Mass Effect' Anime Movie Coming Later This Year Re: Man of Action by TheButcher on Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:32 am Man of Action's 'The Great Unknown,' 'Kafka' and 'Disco Destroyer' Coming to Film, TV, Web Re: 'Mass Effect: Paragon Lost' 'Mass Effect: Paragon Lost' Anime Gets a Name, More Art [Video] by TheButcher on Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:51 pm Seth Grahame-Smith to Pen NIGHT OF THE LIVING, a Stop-Motion Animation for Tim Burton Re: DRAGON AGE: Dawn of the Seeker by TheButcher on Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:25 am C2E2 2012: DRAGON AGE: Dawn of the Seeker Screening and Q&A by TheButcher on Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:56 pm Release Dates for Jackie Robinson Biopic, 42 and Animated Films ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, TRICK OR TREATERS, LEO THE LION and SANTAPPRENTICE Re: Paddington Bear by TheButcher on Fri May 11, 2012 11:12 pm From Deadline: Disney, Hasbro, Viacom, Haim Saban, and Entertainment One are expected to be among the bidders when debt-ridden childrens entertainment firm Chorion sells off its assets. Included will be rights to Noddy, Mr. Men, Paddington Bear, the estate of writer Raymond Chandler, and the Agatha Christie franchise. Private equity firm 3i owns a majority stake in Chorion but the three biggest lenders — Bank of Ireland, GE Capital and Lloyds — have pushed for the business to be broken up and sold after recent attempts to renegotiate its debt failed. ”There is no rush, no time pressure,” an insider today told The Guardian. Heyman, Studiocanal set Paddington pic - CGI live-action pic to be helmed by Paul King John Hopewell & Diana Lodderhose wrote: PARIS Studiocanal is teaming with "Harry Potter" producer David Heyman on "Paddington Bear," a CGI live-action movie of Michael Bond's best-selling children's books. Brit helmer Paul King, BAFTA-nommed for British TV comedy series "Come Fly With Me" and "The Mighty Boosh," will direct. Studiocanal will finance and distribute in the U.K., France and Germany, and handle world sales elsewhere in a now tried-and-tested practice with its production partners. "Paddington" is one of Studiocanal's most ambitious projects to date. Drawing inspiration from the book series first published in 1958, the currently untitled movie is described as a modern take on Paddington, a talking, accident-prone young bear from Darkest Peru who's found at Paddington Station and adopted by a London family. Paddington books have sold more than 35 million copies in 40 languages. A Heyman passion project, a Paddington movie was first set up at Warner Bros. in 2007. Heyman said, "Paddington Bear is a universally loved character, treasured for his optimism, his sense of fair play and his perfect manners -- and of course for his unintentional talent for comic chaos. "Michael Bond's books offer such wit and wonder, and I am so delighted at this chance to bring Paddington to the big screen." Studiocanal chairman-CEO Olivier Courson, added, "David Heyman has had tremendous success adapting great British literary works for cinema." For Studiocanal, Paddington is a major step-up in its drive into family entertainment. It bought Ben Stassen's Brussels-based nWave 3D studio in 2010 and saw great success with the Stassen-helmed toon "Sammy's Adventures," which grossed $75 million worldwide. Joann Sfar and "Rango" producer John Carls are working on English-language 3D toon feature "Little Vampire" for Studiocanal. Another toon, "Ernest and Celestine," will play Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. According to Courson, few family features hit the indie market. In March, he described British family comedies with universal appeal as a production priority for Studiocanal. by TheButcher on Mon May 14, 2012 9:51 pm ParaNorman Directors Chris Butler And Sam Fell Talk Balancing Humor And Horror For Kids by Ribbons on Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:49 pm Very, very, VERY NSFW: One of the earliest adult cartoons was gonzo even by today's standards by TheButcher on Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:38 am TheButcher wrote: Spider-Man Cartoons Through the Years SPIDER-MAN's Amazing(ly Bizarre) Media History, Part 1 Re: Raggedy Ann and Andy Reboot Bigscreen plan for Raggedy Ann and Andy - Gotham Group, Elmo puppeteer to produce film Dave McNary wrote: The classic Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls are heading for the bigscreen as a musical comedy via a producing partnership between The Gotham Group and puppeteer Kevin Clash. Project aims to take the dolls -- created by Johnny Gruelle for his daughter Marcella -- into a contemporary, live-action setting with celebrity cameos accompanying them on their journey. Pic will blend puppetry and CG to bring the characters to life. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson are producing for Gotham Group. Story, based on the classic storybook "Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel With Wrinkled Knees," centers on the dolls being lost in a modern-day city and possibly having to save a stolen friend from the clutches of a scheming enemy. Greulle created the characters in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children and center on a pair of rag dolls with red yarn for hair. Raggedy Ann was created in 1915 as a doll and introduced in the 1918 book "Raggedy Ann Stories." Raggedy Andy was introduced two years later as her brother, dressed in sailor suit and hat. The dolls were first featured on the bigscreen in 1941's animated 17-minute film "Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy" and on TV in 1978 in "Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper." Clash's characters include Elmo, Baby Sinclair, Clifford, Splinter and Hoots the Owl. He wrote an autobiography titled "My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud" in 2006 and was the subject of Constance Marks' 2011 documentary "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey." Gotham Group's feature producing credits include "Abduction" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles." It is teamed with 1stAveMachine on developing sci-fi feature "Prosthesis" for Universal, with Arvind Palep directing. Clash is repped by WME. buster00 wrote: TheButcher wrote: ASIFA-Hollywood had a special screening and panel discussion to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Richard Williamsâ€™ "Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure" on 11/17/07. If that title is unfamiliar to you ... Well, there's a good reason for that. It's been more than a decade since this Richard Williams film was last available for purchase. On VHS no less. And to my knowledge, because of some copyright-related problem, "Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure" has never officially been transferred over to DVD. And evidently this same copyright-related issue is currently preventing this 84-minute-long movie from being broadcast on television. I remember being shown a Raggedy Ann cartoon in grade school, so I had to look this up to see if it was the same one. Turns out I was thinking of The Pumpkin Who Couldnâ€™t Smile, not this one. But look what I found out on Wikipedia: (Creator Johnny Gruelle's daughter) Marcella died at age 13 after being vaccinated at school for smallpox without her parents' consent. Authorities blamed a heart defect, but her parents blamed the vaccination. Gruelle became an opponent of vaccination, and the Raggedy Ann doll was used as a symbol by the anti-vaccination movement. I hope Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure follows this anti-vaccination plotline. "And that, boys and girls, is how smallpox was eliminated not through vaccinations, but through the healing light of Jesus Christ." Return to Animation	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line928
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__label__cc	0.645746	0.354254	HomeAircraft SystemsTCAS: Preventing Mid-Air Collisions TCAS: Preventing Mid-Air Collisions November 23, 2015 Aircraft Systems, Safety 29 For over 20 years, TCAS has been standing guard, protecting the skies from mid-air collisions. Countless catastrophes have been avoided thanks to the technology. Find out what TCAS is and how it works! This AeroSavvy feature is written as general information for non-pilots. If you are a pilot seeking training information, consult your aircraft operating manual or TCAS/ACAS manufacturer information guide. Quick history leading to TCAS development In 1956, a mid-air collision between a United DC-7 and a TWA Super Constellation over the Grand Canyon killed all 128 occupants of both airliners. At the time, it was the deadliest accident in commercial aviation history. Research was initiated to develop an airborne collision avoidance system. Read more about this tragic accident. By the 1960’s and early 70’s, prototype collision avoidance systems were available but gave numerous unnecessary alarms when tested in busy terminal areas. PSA Flight 182 On September 25th, 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) flight 182 collided with a four seat Cessna 172 near San Diego Airport. Total fatalities: 144. After this accident, the FAA initiated development of what is now known as TCAS (pronounced Tee-Cass) – Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System. The system is also known in some countries as ACAS (pronounced Ā-Cass) – Airborne Collision Avoidance System. The final straw came in 1986 when an Aeroméxico DC-9 collided with a four seat Piper Archer over Cerritos, California causing 82 fatalities (15 on ground). Soon after, the FAA mandated that airliners in U.S. airspace be equipped with TCAS. Other countries followed. How does TCAS work? An aircraft’s TCAS constantly queries (talks to) transponders of other aircraft in the vicinity. Thanks to fancy antennas and a little math, TCAS determines the bearing, distance, and altitude of these other aircraft. TCAS then watches and protects an area around the aircraft. If the system sees an “intruder” enter the protected area, it alerts the flight crew. TCAS gives pilots enough notice to smoothly and safely avoid the intruder. TCAS provides alerts when intruders enter the Caution and Warning areas. What’s a transponder? Transponder and TCAS control Airplanes flying in busy airspace are required to have a transponder. When an air traffic control radar “hits” an aircraft, the radar electronically asks (queries) “Who are you?” The transponder replies with a four digit code and the aircraft’s altitude. This information then appears on the controller’s radar display. TCAS queries aircraft transponders in a similar way. TCAS Traffic Display The TCAS traffic display shows pilots the location and altitudes of other airplanes in the vicinity. There are several types of displays manufactured. The one shown here is similar to what you would find installed on an older aircraft. Newer airplanes have the traffic display integrated on large screens with other information. Traffic symbols and colors are standardized on all equipment. The Traffic Advisory – TA The most advanced version of TCAS (called TCAS-II, used by airliners world-wide) provides two types of alerts. The Traffic Advisory, or TA, gives the flight crew a heads up that there is an aircraft nearby that could potentially cause a problem. A TA is triggered when the intruder aircraft is about 20-48 seconds away. The actual time varies with aircraft speed, altitude and maneuvering. The intruder causing the Traffic Advisory is shown on the Traffic Display as a yellow dot along with altitude and climb/descent information. The pilots also get an audible warning. A loud voice on cockpit speakers will state: “Traffic, Traffic!” It really gets your attention when you hear it. https://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Traffic-Traffic.mp3 TCAS traffic display integrated with an Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator (EHSI) Upon hearing the Traffic Advisory, the crew will look at the Traffic Display to see where the traffic is located. If flying in clear skies, the crew will look out the windows and attempt to spot the intruder. Even if the crew sees the traffic, they must still follow commands from air traffic control. It’s very likely that the other aircraft won’t cause a problem. Sometimes, safe maneuvering, like an aircraft leveling off at a safe altitude below, will trigger a Traffic Advisory. In a busy month of flying I’ll get one or two TAs. Crews flying in really busy areas like New York or LA might see a few more. TCAS Trivia! Pilots love to come up with nicknames. The TCAS Traffic Display has a few good ones: The Resolution Advisory – RA The second TCAS alert is the Resolution Advisory, or RA. When TCAS determines that the intruder aircraft is 15-35 seconds away, it uses the altitude, direction and speed of both aircraft to calculate and issue a resolution. The pilot of the aircraft with TCAS will be advised to climb, descend, or maintain altitude. If the intruder aircraft is equipped with only a transponder and no TCAS, its pilot may be unaware of the potential problem unless they see the other aircraft out the windows. TCAS queries the transponder of the intruder and determines if a Traffic or Resolution Advisory is necessary. TCAS really shines when both aircraft are equipped with it. The two TCAS systems communicate with each other and negotiate a course of action for both aircraft. A typical resolution might have one system advising its crew to climb while the other advises its crew to descend. When both aircraft have TCAS, the two systems coordinate the maneuver before issuing instructions. When TCAS issues a Resolution Advisory, the crew will receive a loud command over the speaker. Some examples: “Climb, climb!” “Descend, descend!” “Increase climb, increase climb!” “Level off, level off!” TCAS has reduced mid-air collisions. TCAS can only suggest altitude changes to avoid traffic. It won’t suggest a turn. Changing altitude is an effective way to avoid a mid-air collision. It keeps things simple. When a crew hears a Resolution Advisory, there is no hesitation. The autopilot is immediately turned off and the flying pilot smoothly climbs or descends based on the instructions. During a TCAS maneuver, it’s important that the crew ignore all instructions from an air traffic controller. TCAS provides enough advance notice (15-35 seconds) that the RA maneuver does not need to be abrupt. When done properly, passengers should not realize the maneuver took place. No coffee is spilled when an RA maneuver is performed properly. How much should the pilot climb or descend during an RA? When a pilot hears a Resolution Advisory, he or she will look at the RA display. Different aircraft have different styles of RA displays, but they all provide the exact same information. The Resolution Advisory display shows the rate of climb or descent required to avoid the conflict. The RA display is often integrated with the aircraft’s vertical speed indicator. The Vertical Speed Indicator: Vertical speed indicating level flight. The instrument at the heart of a TCAS maneuver is the vertical speed indicator. The VSI shown here is similar to the type found in older cockpits. Newer aircraft have vertical speed information integrated with other instruments on CRT or LCD displays. The VSI displays how fast the aircraft is climbing or descending in thousands of feet per minute (fpm). When the pointer is at zero, the aircraft is level. An airliner typically climbs at about 2000 fpm (pointer at the 2 near the top of the display). Sometimes air traffic control will request that we climb or descend at a specific rate: “AeroSavvy flight 132, descend at 1000 feet per minute.” In this case we descend so the pointer is on the 1 at the bottom of the display. Easy! During a TCAS Resolution Advisory, red and green highlights illuminate on the vertical speed indicator showing the exact climb or descent rate required to safely avoid the intruding traffic. TCAS guidance on an artificial horizon and vertical speed tape. Newer aircraft may have Resolution Advisory guidance displayed on the artificial horizon as a red rectangle. The “vertical speed tape” on the right of the display also shows the red no-fly area along with the green target area. These types of displays are very intuitive. Once the intruder is no longer a threat, TCAS will announce: “Clear of conflict.” All guidance information will disappear indicating to the crew that they can safely return to normal flight. TCAS Superhero character created by Haley Hoke Here’s a video that brings it all together! Watch the TCAS Traffic Display as an intruder aircraft descends to our altitude while flying towards us. The intruder first triggers a Traffic Advisory so we can start looking for him. When the intruder triggers a Resolution Advisory, the red and green guidance bars appear, followed by the crew climbing the aircraft to safety. TCAS Soundboard! The FAA and ICAO determine what audio callouts a TCAS system must make. Individual hardware manufacturers decide what type of “voice” and gender their system will have. Some TCAS systems are “male,” others are “female.” Here are a few of the required callouts in both genders. Click the “►” symbols to play the sounds. Audio may not be available in all browsers. If you can’t see the audio controls below, try a different browser. Female Alerts Male Alerts Traffic, Traffichttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Traffic-Traffic.mp3 Traffic, Traffichttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Traffic-Traffic.mp3 Climb, Climbhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Climb-Climb.mp3 Climb, Climbhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Climb-Climb.mp3 Climb, Crossing Climbhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Climb-Crossing-Climb.mp3 Climb, Crossing Climbhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Climb-Crossing-Climb.mp3 Increase Climbhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Increase-Climb.mp3 Increase Climbhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Increase-Climb.mp3 Monitor Vertical Speedhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Monitor-Vertical-Speed.mp3 Monitor Vertical Speedhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Monitor-Vertical-Speed.mp3 Descend, Descendhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Descend-Descend.mp3 Descend, Descendhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Descend-Descend.mp3 Increase Descenthttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Increase-Descent.mp3 Increase Descenthttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Increase-Descent.mp3 Crossing Descendhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Descend-Crossing-Descend.mp3 Crossing Descendhttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Descend-Crossing-Descend.mp3 Clear of Conflicthttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Female-Clear-of-conflict.mp3 Clear of Conflicthttps://aerosavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Male-Clear-of-Conflict.mp3 Santa’s State of the Art TCAS If an aircraft flies in busy airspace, it needs to have TCAS! Wikipedia Entry: Traffic collision avoidance system FAA Publication: Introduction to TCAS II (PDF, 540KB) EuroControl SKYbrary: Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) Ron Rapp says: What a comprehensive explanation! Love the way your posts have multimedia elements. 🙂 TCAS is awesome. Perhaps a follow up piece in TCAD, ADS-B,and other such collision avoidance tools would make a good compliment to this post? Ken H. says: Thanks, Ron! I’ll add those ideas to my list. I appreciate the kind words! Thanks Ken, another great explanation! Thanks, Chris! I really appreciate it. Pim says: Another great article Ken 1 question: what are the altitude criteria (difference) for the TA and for the RA? Hi Pim, TCAS uses complex algorithms to calculate time. The TA, RA, and collision areas are three dimensional, but their exact sizes are based on time, not distance or altitude. You could have an aircraft 2500 above you and descending like gangbusters that will trigger a Resolution Advisory if it’s within the 15-35 second time frame. Hope that explains it. Thanks for reading!! John Cardon says: Ken you’ve done it again. Great multi media effort to explain a critical part of the aviation system to those of us in the back of the plane. Thanks, John! I really appreciate the feedback. kiran prasanna says: Thank you for providing these informations regarding the safety of aircraft. I hope you may do the same with some another topic which will be very useful for the the people working in aviation sector. Hi, Kiran, Ehsan says: When explaining Transponder your flesh is pointing at a black dot. Is it the On/Off button for the Transponder? I don’t know if you have heard or watched the air crash investigation for these two planes : Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 (Tupolev Tu-154M) and DHL Flight 611 (Boeing 757). If not it’s an extra ordinary, very rare and confusing situation which led these two planes crashing into each other while both using TCAS ! Excellent article as always. Thank you again Hi Ehsan, The black dot near the arrow on the transponder is a test button. The DHL accident was very sad. Caused by one crew following the TCAS commands and the other crew ignoring them. Airline crews are all taught about this accident so that it is not repeated. I was just going to mention this crash as well. The documentary said following TCAS over human controllers if they contradict each other is taught in the Western world but not so much in the East and the they were hoping for that rule to be implemented globally. It’s been a few years since the Überlingen incident now, has this been implemented internationally since? I wasn’t aware that TCAS systems negotiate with each other, that’s so fascinating. Are controllers in busy airspaces aware of what the TCAS instructions are? If two planes are on a collision course and the human controller decides that aircraft A should climb and B should descend to avoid the issue, will they know if TCAS recommends for it to be done the other way around? Or is the human controller just meant to prevent TCAS springing into action in the first place? All pilots, worldwide, that fly TCAS equipped aircraft are trained to ignore ATC during a TCAS event. ATC has no idea what’s going on with TCAS. When TCAS issues a Resolution Advisory, we follow the guidance and tell ATC: “TCAS RA.” That lets ATC know that the humans (pilots and/or ATC) have screwed up and TCAS is attempting to resolve the problem. Why not follow ATC? Air traffic control radar is a great tool. But when two aircraft get really close together, radar is not accurate enough to determine a collision avoidance strategy. TCAS takes into account multiple aircraft, closure rates, and climb/descent rates. After the event, we tell ATC that the event is over. At that point ATC will issue updated clearances to the aircraft involved. Airbus Boeing Fan says: Thank you for posting this! It is very informative and very well explained. I would like to ask if it possible for an aircraft move itself to avoid collision when another plane is nearby and the pilots are not doing anything to avoid MAC? As far as I know, all airliners require pilot input when a TCAS resolution advisory is issued. Harshavardhan says: I just love to read your posts….. Thanks! I enjoy writing them. Gordon Clifton says: As a small plane enthusiast – much appreciated!! Hi Gordon, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading! Vishwas Borse says: Really informational article!! Got to know so much about what happens in the cockpit when we are sitting sipping our coffee 🙂 . You guys are awesome!! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading! Coleen says: This is extremely educational! I am writing about the TCAS system for a college paper and this really broke things down in such a great way. The visuals for this are also very helpful. Hi Coleen, I’m glad it helped. Good luck with your paper! Annie D. says: Obviously this is a close-to-ground issue only, but has this changed at all now that more and more people have small personal drones? I.e. what prevents someone from standing near the airport and flying a drone / a plane colliding with it? Hi Annie, Many of the nicer drones have software that prevents them from being operated in areas where they don’t belong (like airports). Violating the rules can result in heavy fines and penalties for the operator. It’s definitely a serious issue! Herb says: Thanks very much Ken, for your great and informative work, including a fair amount of humor. I was actually taking a closer look at some flightradar24 info when I noticed your website again. Today is perfect for spending time learning more, as we just had a cold front crossing Switzerland, yesterday, 24°C and now, 8.5 ! I will certainly forward your link to some friends which are also interested in aviation 🙂 Btw do you know these two guy’s comic books (Netherlands) where one of them, it says, “Say something” on the cover, with a disoriented pilot near an airport and ATC going nuts.. very funny. Or, tower asks a pilot: “HB-xyz What’s your heading ?” and the pilot, going in a turn, reports, 182, 200, 280… Hello Herb, I’m not familiar with the comic. Sounds funny! Thank you for the kind words. Shirin says: I’m an aerospace engineer and you couldn’t imagine how worthy is such information for me. Don't just sit there... Say something! Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line940
__label__cc	0.561099	0.438901	Main » 2018 » December » 4 » Celgene Corporation and Acceleron Pharma Announce Results of the Phase 3 BELIEVE Trial Evaluating Luspatercept in Adult Patients with Beta-T Celgene Corporation and Acceleron Pharma Announce Results of the Phase 3 BELIEVE Trial Evaluating Luspatercept in Adult Patients with Beta-T Pivotal phase 3 data demonstrated treatment with investigational luspatercept resulted in significant reduction of transfusion burden compared to placebo Regulatory submissions planned in the United States and Europe in the first half of 2019 SUMMIT, N.J. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -Sunday 2 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) and Acceleron Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: XLRN) today announced results from a pivotal, phase 3 trial (BELIEVE) evaluating the safety and efficacy of luspatercept for the treatment of adults with beta-thalassemia-associated anemia who require regular red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. The data were presented by Maria Domenica Cappellini, M.D. in an oral session of the 60th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, CA (Abstract #163). “Currently, the standard of care to help patients with beta-thalassemia manage their anemia is regular, lifelong red blood cell transfusions, which over time can result in iron overload and life-threatening co-morbidities,” said Professor Cappellini, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of Milan - Fondazione IRCCS. “These findings from the BELIEVE study are exciting because they suggest that luspatercept may help patients reduce their dependence on red blood cell transfusions.” BELIEVE met the primary endpoint of erythroid response, defined as a ≥33% reduction in RBC transfusion burden (with a reduction of ≥ 2 units of RBC) during weeks 13–24 compared to the baseline 12-week interval prior to randomization. The study also included secondary endpoints that evaluated the impact of treatment on RBC transfusion burden. Mean change in transfusion burden from baseline to weeks 13-24 (luspatercept vs. placebo) was -1.35 RBC units. RBC Transfusion Burden Reduction of ≥ 33% Response Rates1 Response Time Interval Luspatercept Placebo P-value Weeks 13-24 21.4% (48/224) 4.5% (5/112) < 0.0001 Any 12 weeks during 70.5% (158/224) 29.5% (33/112) < 0.0001 the entire treatment period Any 24 weeks during 41.1% (92/224) 2.7% (3/112) < 0.0001 Weeks 13-24 7.6% (17/224) 1.8% (2/112) 0.0303 Weeks 37-48 10.3% (23/224) 0.9% (1/112) 0.0017 1RBC transfusion burden reduction response rates are calculated versus baseline (i.e., the 12 weeks prior to randomization) BELIEVE Safety Summary (Safety Population) Grade 3 or higher treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were reported in 29.1% (65/223) of patients receiving luspatercept and 15.6% (17/109) of patients receiving placebo. Serious adverse events were reported in 15.2% (34/223) of patients receiving luspatercept and 5.5% (6/109) of patients receiving placebo. A TEAE of acute cholecystitis resulted in death in one placebo-treated patient (0.9%). No luspatercept-treated patients died due to TEAEs. Grade 3 or 4 TEAEs in at least 1% of patients in either arm Luspatercept Placebo N= 223 N= 109 Anemia 3.1% 0.0% Increased liver iron concentration 2.7% 0.9% Hyperuricemia 2.7% 0.0% Bone pain 1.3% 0.0% Blood uric acid increased 1.3% 0.0% Increased aspartate aminotransferase 1.3% 0.0% Increase alanine aminotransferase 0.9% 2.8% Thromboembolic events* 0.9% 0.0% *All grades of thromboembolic events, including DVT, PE, portal vein thrombosis, ischemic stroke, thrombophlebitis, and superficial phlebitis were reported in 8 of 223 (3.6%) luspatercept-treated versus 1 of 109 (0.9%) placebo-treated patients “The BELIEVE results demonstrate the potential of luspatercept to help adults living with beta-thalassemia better manage their anemia and reduce their transfusion burden,” said Alise Reicin, M.D., President, Global Clinical Development for Celgene. “These results further our understanding of the luspatercept clinical profile, which will continue to inform our plans to advance this promising investigational therapy.” “These outcomes of the BELIEVE trial increase our confidence in the potential of luspatercept to become an important new treatment option for patients suffering from beta-thalassemia,” said Habib Dable, President and Chief Executive Officer of Acceleron. “Our focus now is to work diligently with health authorities to help ensure that this underserved patient population can gain access to luspatercept as quickly as possible.” Luspatercept is not approved in any region for any indication. The companies are planning regulatory application submissions of luspatercept in the United States and Europe in the first half of 2019. About BELIEVE BELIEVE is a phase 3, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled multicenter study comparing luspatercept + best supportive care (BSC) versus placebo + BSC in adult beta-thalassemia patients who require regular RBC transfusions. The median age of the patients was 30 years in both treatment arms. 336 patients were randomized 2:1 to receive either luspatercept 1.0 mg/kg + BSC (224 patients) or placebo + BSC (112 patients) every 3 weeks for up to 48 weeks. Patients in the luspatercept + BSC arm were able to be titrated up to 1.25 mg/kg of luspatercept every 3 weeks. BSC was defined as RBC transfusions and iron chelation therapy to maintain each patient’s baseline hemoglobin level. Crossover to the luspatercept treatment group was allowed after unblinding and assessment by an independent Data Safety Monitoring committee; patients receiving luspatercept + BSC will be followed for up to 3 years. The study was conducted at 65 sites in 15 countries. About Luspatercept Luspatercept is a first-in-class erythroid maturation agent (EMA) that is believed to regulate late-stage red blood cell maturation. Acceleron and Celgene are jointly developing luspatercept as part of a global collaboration. Phase 3 clinical trials continue to evaluate the safety and efficacy of luspatercept in patients with MDS (the MEDALIST trial) and in patients with beta-thalassemia (the BELIEVE trial). A COMMANDS phase 3 trial in first-line, lower-risk, MDS patients, the BEYOND phase 2 trial in non-transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, and a phase 2 trial in myelofibrosis are ongoing. For more information, please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov. About Celgene Celgene Corporation, headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, is an integrated global biopharmaceutical company engaged primarily in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases through next-generation solutions in protein homeostasis, immuno-oncology, epigenetics, immunology and neuro-inflammation. For more information, please visit www.celgene.com. Follow Celgene on Social Media: Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube. About Acceleron Acceleron is a Cambridge-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutics to treat serious and rare diseases. The Company's leadership in the understanding of TGF-beta biology and protein engineering generates innovative compounds that engage the body's ability to regulate cellular growth and repair. Acceleron focuses its research and development efforts in hematologic, neuromuscular, and pulmonary diseases. In hematology, the Company and its global collaboration partner, Celgene, are developing luspatercept for the treatment of chronic anemia in myelodysplastic syndromes, beta-thalassemia, and myelofibrosis. Acceleron is also advancing its neuromuscular franchise with two distinct Myostatin+ agents, ACE-083 and ACE-2494, and a phase 2 pulmonary program with sotatercept in pulmonary arterial hypertension. For more information, please visit www.acceleronpharma.com. Follow Acceleron on Social Media: @AcceleronPharma and LinkedIn. This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include those regarding the potential benefits of, and plans relating to the collaboration between Acceleron and Celgene; the potential of luspatercept as a therapeutic drug; and the benefit of each company’s strategic plans and focus. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “potential,” “possible,” “hope” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from current expectations and beliefs. For example, there can be no guarantee that luspatercept will be successfully developed or complete necessary clinical phases. Forward-looking statements in this press release could also be affected by risks and uncertainties relating to a number of other important factors, including: results of clinical trials, including subsequent analysis of existing data and new data received from ongoing and future studies; the content and timing of decisions made by the U.S. FDA and other regulatory authorities, investigational review boards at clinical trial sites and publication review bodies; the ability to obtain and maintain requisite regulatory approvals and to enroll patients in planned clinical trials; the ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for luspatercept; the ability to maintain key collaborations; and general economic and market conditions. These and other risks are described in greater detail under the caption "Risk Factors" included in each company’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and neither company has any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law. Hyperlinks are provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only. Neither Celgene nor Acceleron bears responsibility for the security or content of external websites or websites outside of their respective control. Celgene Corporation ir@celgene.com media@celgene.com Acceleron Pharma Inc. 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__label__cc	0.666277	0.333723	Article stubs, Levels The Illness has Spread Find the other 4 Time Pieces in Alpine Skyline Find the source of the infection and destroy it. The Illness has Spread is the Act 5 of the fourth Chapter: Alpine Skyline. It is the finale of the chapter, meaning it can only be accessed after gaining the Time Pieces from each feature in Alpine Skyline. In it, Hat Kid has to destroy the source of the illness, the three Flowers. For this mission, the goal is to get to the three flowers found towards each of the three peaks excluding The Twilight Bell's. After following the normal path for a while, there is a divergence that forces the player to a new segment of islands that house the flower of that area. For convenience, each flower is marked with a large visual cue similarly to Heating Up Mafia Town, where the destination to the flowers are shown on the screen. As the player steps foot onto a new island that holds a flower, it will begin to perform some basic self-defensive attacks, such as releasing large seeds which detonate on impact to the ground, acting similarly to a barrage of mortar shots that Hat Kid must avoid. To further add to the defense is the presence of Sick Goats, the after-effects of inhalation of a flower's seeds by a normal goat. They actively seek out a player that is close, flailing as they approach them, dealing damage and high knockback. Once a flower has been uprooted, a horn blows to signify the cleansing of one of the flowers, as well as knocking out any nearby goats under the flower's influence. From there, the following flower(s) begin to update their behaviors for better self-defense. A new attack is added, a large outcropping of thorny roots and stems which erupts from the ground indicated by a circle, as well as increased frequency of seed barrages. After all the flowers have been defeated, the illness is alleviated and the Nomads award Hat Kid with a Time Piece, claiming that it was her actions which put an end to the event. When it comes to the rest of the map, the infection clogs the ropes that lead to non-important areas such as the Twilight Bell or the ziplines which leads to areas like the Birdhouse, Windmill or Lava Cake proper. As such, the progression of the level is quite linear when compared to the normal Alpine Skyline formula, but the ability to attack the flowers in any order is still present. After each act Hat Kid will write in her diary about the last mission. The diary can be found in her room under the swimming pool of pillows. What the heck was all that about? Those nasty plants flowered and infected the big goats or something? All I know is they got REAL angry and things got REAL stormy and it was a bad time for everyone. The infection blocking ropes is used in the various Death Wish challenges revolving around Alpine Skyline. Despite its unorthodox methods of attacking compared to others in the category, the flowers are counted towards the Bosses counter of the Camera Tourist Death Wish Candle. The thorny outcrop attack gained by flowers are very similar to the various attacks used by The Snatcher, down to the circular indicator and sound effects. Retrieved from "https://ahatintime.fandom.com/wiki/The_Illness_has_Spread?oldid=12556"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line952
__label__cc	0.735903	0.264097	Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of Feb. 19 In a Feb. 23 Slatest, Osita Nwanevu mistranscribed “hyper-Catholicism” as “hyperconservatism.” In a Feb. 23 Slatest, Joshua Keating misspelled António Guterres’ last name. In a Feb. 23 Slatest, Elliot Hannon misidentified the location of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School school shooting as Parkdale, Florida. The shooting took place in Parkland, Florida. In a Feb. 22 Jurisprudence, Mark Joseph Stern misspelled the name of a decision that Justice Clarence Thomas would have reversed. It is Silvester v. Becerra, not Sylvester v. Bacerra. In a Feb. 22 Politics, Christina Cauterucci misstated when the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting happened. It was in the summer of 2016, not 2017. In a Feb. 22 Slatest, Ben Mathis-Lilley misspelled Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ first name. In a Feb. 21 Brow Beat, Matthew Dessem misspelled commentator Jesse Watters’ last name. Due to an editing error, a Feb. 21 Future Tense misstated the date when the Federal Communications Commission published the repeal of net neutrality rules. It was Thursday, not Tuesday. In a Feb. 21 Moneybox, Henry Grabar misidentified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In a Feb. 20 Interrogation, Isaac Chotiner misidentified Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of Our Nature as The Better Angles of Our Nature. In a Feb. 20 Slatest, Josh Voorhees misstated that Sean Duffy and his wife, Rachel, were castmates on Real World: Boston. They met as participants on Road Rules: All Stars. In a Feb. 19 Slatest, Lila Thulin misidentified Philadelphia as Pennsylvania’s capital. The state’s capital is Harrisburg. Slate strives to correct all errors of fact. If you’ve seen an error in our pages, let us know at corrections@slate.com. General comments should be posted in our Comments sections at the bottom of each article.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line957
__label__cc	0.659085	0.340915	While we cry hoarse over the Delhi rape case did you know the Guwahati molestation verdict is out? Posted: December 29, 2012 in Women Tags: capital punishment, Delhi rape, guwahati molestation, molestation, rape, rule of fear, sexual abuse The Guwahati incident Chances are you didn’t know. And even if you did you just browsed through it on the net or read it in the morning paper and moved on to TV to keep yourself abreast about what was happening after the rape of the 23-year-old girl in Delhi. On December 7, 11 of the accused of the Guwahati molestation case have been given two years of jail term while four, including the journalist who covered the event, have been acquitted. For more details go to: http://blog.tehelka.com/guwahati-molestation-case-verdict-pricks-many-uncomfortable-questions/ But as Tehelka journo RATNADIP CHOUDHURYwrites : While the incident evoked a sharp response, it seems nobody cared about the judgment. No women rights groups were present in the court premises; there was hardly any reaction on the judgment from civil society who were up in arms to fight for proper justice for the victim. The fact that they did not bother to express their ‘happiness’ or ‘anguish’ over the judgment, makes it clear that public outcry is only immediate. The ‘national’ TV news channels only aired the judgment in ‘brief’ since it is no more the “TRP driver.” Once again an issue from the Northeast faded out of the mainstream media mind space ‘too soon’, the disease long harped upon. This goes on to prove that we are a flippant nation. As we observe Black Saturday today I raise a few questions: Why are we so flippant? India has a short public memory so it is easy to get away with anything and everything here. While it feels good that India has finally woken up to the issues surrounding women and people of all age groups and all classes have taken to the streets to join in protests not only in Delhi but all over India but the question is how long will the protests last and will there be any positive outcome? First and foremost parents will tell their wards, “Beta don’t get involved in all this. You are safe why do you care for others? Tell what you have to say on Facebook you don’t have to venture out.” And as NDTV will move on to some new TRP-raking programme we will move with them too. It’s a shame how the outrage we felt at the Guwahati incident fizzled out. Really, how many of us now care if two years is enough for the culprits or have we questioned why such criminals have been allowed to roam the streets on bail? And the girl, does anyone care about how she is and if she is okay? I just hope and pray the Delhi incident doesn’t die such a death. Why are we so cowardly? While we spring to social media with our instant reactions do we do the same when we are out on the streets? How many of us can say that we have stood by a woman when she was being eve teased or molested? We talk, we write but when it comes to the real scenario we say, “Gosh! That’s none of my business why should I get involved?” If the perpetrators of crimes against women knew that the public would be on the woman’s side if she raised her voice they would have thought twice before making a single move. Let’s take it that the nation has woken up post-Delhi rape case then if I had been a journalist on the ground in India now the story that I would have done is by asking women taking public transport: Are more men coming to help when you raise a voice of protest inside a public bus or train? A girl protesting in Delhi Why are we so gullible? It’s so easy to fool us. Really, believe me. The Government tried to prove that they were taking the girl out to Singapore on a six-hour flight for better treatment and we all thought they are trying to do their best. But not a single reporter asked a politician/doctor/government employee what exact treatment did they intend to give her there? Given MT Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore is the best in organ transplant but you can do a transplant on someone when that person is in a relatively stable state of health. Can you do it on a woman with her insides completely affected in septicemia? My layman’s brain says it’s not possible wonder what the docs have to say. The idea was to ensure Safdarjung Hospital docs couldn’t be blamed for her death. The poor girl has been yet another pawn in a political game. By the way, there are 20 ministers in India with rape cases pending against them. Who are we kidding? We are pushing for capital punishment with this government? There can only be rule of fear Intellectuals are constantly talking about sensitization and changing of the mindset in India. It is possible but it is a long-drawn affair and can happen after 100 years. Definitely!! What’s the immediate solution? I would say FEAR. Someone said on social media: If they sent the girl to Singapore for better treatment they should send the criminals to Saudi Arabia for better punishment. The same Indians who pass lewd comments at women in their home country and don’t think twice before raping or molesting them don’t dare to look them in the eye in countries like Saudi Arabia or even in the UAE. Why? Because they are shit scared of the law and the police. They know one single complaint from a woman could land them in jail and end with deportation. Capital punishment or no capital punishment there has to be fear of inevitable punishment then only women in India will be safer. tumpa says: well written amrita….i absolutely agree with u….taking a woman in such critical condition to singapore…it was just political game for political masters…..but u know i m happy that the girl is in a far better place now where there will be no abuses, no such violent incident …than she was….u knw every night i think of that girl when i go to bed…what she must have gone through,….but amrita in india we r verbally, physically, raped every second….even the gaze of men is so bad… u know amrita there is so much of hypocrisy…among every body…police,judiciary, politician, media, academician….we r all hypocrites….i have seen in my college …so called marxist / non-marxist prof…only speak big big things …u know there was a guy , 1 year juniour to us in college, from history department, he spoke so badly to me…but nobody protested….infact i was told to keep quiet and maintain a distance with him….some senior teachers ….women teachers ….started tarnishing my image…as though i have soft corner for him…see how insensitive people can be…n mind u they r all so called educated people with a ph.d degree….i believe all of us have gone through such experiences which leaves a deep impression in our mind….but i dnt think as u say anything is going to happen….remember during mumbai attack also people came out…..n then everything became as it is…. amritaspeaks says: Dear Tumpa, I appreciate your passionate voice here. yes it is strange but true education has no connection with sensitisation in our country. It’s usually educated people who talk bullshit about women’s issues all the time. But at least Kasab was hanged so there is still hope. sakshivashist says: This is so good. Today only I thought to myself that I should write about it but luckily you have covered all the points. Like Kiran Bedi said, there have been more 700 or 800 (not sure about the number) in the country in 2012, is only one girl that imp? was only this case needed to “open our eyes” or is this some sort of cover up for other things happening in the country and the media is bribed to make hue and cry about this case till those other things are settled. Very thoughtful this issue is. 13 days of drama! Hi Sakshi, You are right. It is amazing that the nation has woken up at last but they should also press for real change and not be fooled by the media-govt nexus. This case is so horrendous that they HAD to take notice but now the task is to ensure that the real cause is addressed. Thanks for sharing your view. mymotionpicture says: sighs… * will get back on this.. but its only so humiliating!!! 😦 sighs* again!!! Reblogged this on mymotionpicture and commented: I would voice for a anti-Rape Squad! We all can be members! I know it asks for a number of debates! I am sure, this idea can be implemented.. @Amrita I understand your anger! and I empathize! Mymotionpicture If there is good policing and proper police patrol that will be enough for the moment. Thank you for reblogging my post and helping my voice reach more people. Police actually can’t help! Men can stop rapes! Real Men! Barnik Choudhury says: How was the journalist let off? It’s amazing how media can go to any lengths to manufacture TRPs. 2 years will pass off in a blink and those beasts will be free to roam again & target more women. However the speed of passing the verdict impresses me. What happened to those other cases eg the girls targeted similarly outside Taj hotel, Mumbai some years back on a New year’s eve? Forgotten & conveniently swept under the carpet. I have tried to voice my support for women on trains & buses earlier but without any more support from other co-passengers. It’s a frustrating experience. Girls have to be taught to defend themselves using karate, pepper sprays, pocket-knives in school & college. That is the only way we can get the prospective rapists/molesters to back off. Dear Barnik, Thank you for adding your strong voice here. Yes women should take measures to protect themselves. As you say men who stand by women have become an extinct kind. I can understand your plight. I have seen men who do that are often jeered at by fellow passengers. But that should not stop you. You need to show them the way. Journeyman says: Barnik, that’s who you are. Don’t stop. Somebody somewhere respects you for you have shown respect. Nice articulation and I also like the picture on your blog. There needs to be an equivalence established for the various crimes against women and not look at something as a greater or lesser crime. Some thoughts here: http://partlytrue.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/class-equivalence-of-sexual-offence/ Thank you Shourya. I agree with you. sayantani says: Very well written, and articulates real concerns..feel quite helpless to keep faith in any change. Dear Sayantani, Thank you for going through my blog and agreeing with me. But we have to keep hope. Women have come really far in India. There will be a way there will be change. himashrees says: Nice Article Amrita. What happened to her could happen to any of us. We live in a unsafe city, unsafe India, where there are so many such cases that any single one fails to get the deserved attention of people. 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__label__cc	0.741764	0.258236	Fastest Anesthesia & Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Insight Engine Extracorporeal Life Support DEFINITION OF EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT Print Section Extracorporeal life support (ECLS), also known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), is an artificial form of cardiopulmonary support that allows the heart, the lungs, or both to recover from severe, but potentially reversible, pathologies. ECLS can also function in some cases as a bridge to therapies such as a ventricular assist device or heart or lung transplantation. BACKGROUND OF EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT Early work in extracorporeal support dates to 1930 when Dr. John Gibbons built a roller pump device. In 1953, Dr. Gibbons created and successfully used the first heart–lung machine during an atrial septal defect repair. Four years later, silicone rubber membranes replaced the bubbler oxygenator, allowing the prolonged use of extracorporeal machines. These membranes serve as a gas–oxygen interface and thereby prevent severe hemolysis and plasma leakage.1,2 In 1972, Dr. JD Hill announced the first extended use of the extracorporeal circuit outside the operating theater. Dr. Hill’s patient survived posttraumatic respiratory failure after 75 hours of ECLS support. At the same time, Dr. Robert Bartlett and his colleagues at the University of Michigan took the lead in developing and implementing ECLS care, the results of which influenced ECLS care throughout the world.3 After the initial successful attempts, ECLS continued to make progress, albeit slowly. The medical community developed skepticism about the utility of ECLS in adults in the late 1970s when the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) reported poor survival rates.4 Another RCT published in 1994 likewise revealed no survival benefit with ECLS.5 ECLS regained interest in adult patients in 2009 after the publication of several landmark studies, specifically the efficacy and economic assessment of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR) trial in the United Kingdom of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and observational studies from several different countries of the use of ECLS in respiratory failure caused by H1N1 influenza.6-8 Although both the CESAR trial and the observation influenza pandemic studies had design limitations, these reports stimulated the growth of adult ECLS based on an apparent mortality benefit compared with contemporary conventional mechanical ventilation support. In an effort to foster and organize ECLS, in 1989, the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) was established to support healthcare professionals and scientists who are involved in ECMO. Among its many activities, ELSO maintains a registry of both facilities trained to provide ECLS care and of patients placed on ECLS. The ELSO patient registry information is used to support clinical research, quality improvement, and regulatory action. ELSO also provides educational programs for ECLS centers and facilities that may be involved in the transfer of patients to higher levels of care. MODES OF EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT There are traditionally two modes of ECLS, venovenous (VV ECLS) and venoarterial (VA ECLS). In both modes, blood is drained from a large vein into the ECLS circuit, where gas exchange occurs, and then blood is returned to the venous side (in VV ECLS) or the arterial side (in VA ECLS). Because ECLS is not a disease-targeted therapy, the selection criteria of the right patient and mode are fundamental to the best outcome. VV ECLS acts as an artificial lung and is connected in series with the cardiopulmonary circulation, allowing complete or partial replacement of the native lung function. It maintains pulmonary blood flow and uses the patient’s own cardiac output (CO). Thus, VV ECLS does not provide hemodynamic support. Conversely, VA ECLS is connected in parallel with the heart and lungs, bypasses the pulmonary circulation, and provides nearly complete hemodynamic support (Fig. 33-1). FIGURE 33-1 Different ECLS configurations with (A) VV-ECLS. Oxygenated blood is returned to the right internal jugular vein while de-oxygenated blood is right femoral vein, with catheter tip ideally near right perihepatic inferior vena cava (IVC). (B) Femoral VA-ECLS. Deoxygenated blood is drained from right femoral vein with catheter tip ideally near right perihepatic inferior vena cava and oxygenated blood returned to right femoral artery. (C) Carotid VA-ECLS. (D) Thoracic VA-ECLS. (Reprinted from Gaffney AM, Wildhirst SM, Griffin MJ, et al. Extracorporeal life support. BMJ. November 2, 2010;341:c5317 with permission from BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.) INITIATION OF EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT Circuit Component The ECLS circuit is composed of three essential parts: a gas exchange device, a blood pump, and a heat exchanger device. All parts are connected by tubing along with the intravascular cannula(s) on both ends. The Gas Exchange Device The traditional ECLS oxygenator consists of silicone rubber membranes. They are composed of long spirals that separate the gas phase from the blood phase. The membranes inherently create high resistance to blood flow. Newer hollow, nonporous polymethylpentene (PMP) membranes were developed to mitigate the complications of the high-pressure gradient between the inlet and output circuits. The PMP-based oxygenator device comes in different sizes and shapes and is currently the most widely used oxygenator design.9 The Pump Pumps drive blood into the ECLS circuit by one of two means: Classic roller pumps, in which blood flows passively using gravity siphon Centrifugal pumps, which are more commonly used and in which blood flows actively through centrifugal force The Heat Exchanger The heat exchanger consists of hollow, silicone-coated stainless steel tubes that are surrounded by warm water and that function to maintain body temperature as blood flows within the circuit. Heat exchangers are usually located within or after the oxygenator.10 The Circuit The standard ECLS circuit tubing is made from polyvinylchloride (PVC), a commonly used synthetic polymer. This design tolerates the high pressure generated by the pump and thus prevents circuit rupture. Although there is no ideal biocompatible tubing material, the PVC circuit coated with heparin helps attenuate plasma protein adsorption and reduces the risk of thrombosis.11 Cannula Types There are several kinds of ECLS cannulas. They differ in size, length, lumen(s), and fenestration. Selection of proper cannula depends on the ECLS support mode and size. As a consensus, the cannula size is reported based on the outer diameter. To achieve adequate blood drainage and infusion, it is important to understand the determinants of volume flow, namely the cannula’s length and diameter. Short and wide cannulas are ideal for venous drainage because of reduced resistance.12,13 Insertion Sites Insertion sites vary according to the cannula type and designated mode of ECLS. Cannula(s) are usually placed under vascular ultrasound, transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE), or fluoroscopy guidance. In VV ECLS, if two cannulas are used, a typical arrangement is a single-lumen drainage catheter in the common femoral vein with blood return via an infusion cannula in the right internal jugular (RIJ) or femoral vein. Alternatively, if a double-lumen single cannula is used, the RIJ vein can be cannulated (Figs. 33-2 and 33-3). In this configuration, blood is drained from the superior vena cava (SVC) and inferior vena cava (IVC) and returned through the same cannula into the right atrium. Catheter outflow is the upper (darker blood) port while catheter inflow is the lower port (lighter blood). For the venovenous double lumen cannula, the distal drainage is at inferior vena cava and the proximal drainage at superior vena cava. The inflow port with oxygenation blood is directed at tricuspid valve. In VA ECLS, venous blood is typically drained from the IVC and infused back into a large artery, commonly the femoral artery. In postcardiotomy operations, the drainage cannula is occasionally placed into the right atrium or SVC, and the infusing cannula is placed in the aorta. Extracorporeal Life Support Indications and Contraindications Extracorporeal life support is considered for cardiogenic shock or respiratory failure cases that are severe; refractory to conventional management; and most important, potentially reversible (Table 33-1).14 TABLE 33-1Indications and Contraindications for Extracorporeal Life Support ECLS Mode VV ECLS Extracorporeal lung rest for refractory obstructive airway disease, traumatic lung contusions, and severe inhalational injuries A bridge to lung transplant, eg, in cases of cystic fibrosis or graft dysfunction after lung transplant There are no clearly established absolute contraindications, but the following preexisting conditions are contraindicated by most protocols: Metastatic malignancy Severe CNS injury ARDS with > 7 d of mechanical ventilation Risk of bleeding with anticoagulation Poor candidacy for organ transplant Other relative contraindications: Obesity (> 125 kg) VA ECLS Myocardial depression (eg, myocarditis, drug toxicity) Refractory life-threatening arrhythmia Postcardiotomy Inability to wean from CPB machine As bridge to heart transplant or VAD Postcardiac graft dysfunction CIRCUIT MANAGEMENT Native Oxygen Delivery and Consumption The cardiopulmonary system is designed to deliver oxygenated blood to the tissues and eliminate carbon dioxide. Therefore, effective management of ECLS requires a robust understanding of this physiology. Oxygen delivery (DO2) can be measured by multiplying the arterial oxygen content (Cao2) by the CO: Cao2 (mL/dL) = 1.39 (mL/dL) × [Hemoglobin] (g) × % O2 saturation + 0.003 (mL/dL/mmHg) × Pao2 (mmHg) Do2 (mL/min) = Cao2 × CO × 10 Cao2 represents the sum of O2 bound to hemoglobin (Hgb) and is dissolved in plasma. The normal Cao2 is 20 mL/dL. As seen in the formula, CO plays a major role in determining Do2. Oxygen consumption (Vo2) is the difference between arterial and venous oxygen content, which can be calculated by Fick’s principle: Vo2 = CO × (Cao2 – Cvo2) where Cvo2 (mL/dL) = 1.39 (mL/dL) × Hgb (g) × % Svo2 + 0.003 (mL/dL/mmHg) × Pvo2 Svo2 is the mixed venous oxygen saturation, and Pvo2 is the venous partial pressure of O2, and Hgb is hemoglobin. Oxygen Delivery With Extracorporeal Life Support Oxygen delivery in ECLS depends on the multiple factors, including flow through the ECLS circuit, the oxygenator membrane surface area, the contact time of the gas–blood interface and O2 gradient, oxygenation by the native lung, and native CO. Of these, flow is the most crucial determinant of blood oxygenation during ECLS. In particular, oxygenation is directly proportional to the circuit blood flow, measured in milliliters per kilogram per minute. In the adult population, a flow of 50 to 80 mL/kg/min is usually sufficient to achieve adequate tissue oxygenation. A typical ECLS circuit can achieve flows of up to 7 to 8 L/min, depending on cannula size. In general, larger flows are not necessary unless the patient has a very high CO (as seen in septic shock) or increased oxygen consumption (eg, fever). Oxygen delivery is also dependent on hemoglobin concentration, and most ECLS centers aim to keep Hgb at 7 to 8 g/dL or greater. Extracorporeal life support flow is titrated to maintain an arterial oxyhemoglobin saturation of greater than 90% for VA ECLS or greater than 80% to 85% for VV ECLS. Physiology of Venovenous Extracorporeal Life Support In VV ECLS, the infused blood travels via the right atrium and right ventricle (RV) into the pulmonary circulation. The infused highly oxygenated blood from the ECLS circuit is diluted by the deoxygenated blood returning to the right side of the heart; the ratio of circuit flow to native CO is therefore an important determinant of systemic oxygenation. Because of this ever-present mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the RV (shunt physiology), oxygen saturations are typically low in VV ECLS (goal > 80%). Assuming a lack of gas exchange across the native lung, systemic Pao2 is equal to mixed venous Pao2 in the pulmonary artery (PA). A return of native lung gas exchange is indicated by widened gradient between the arterial and central venous saturations. Because blood is both drained and infused on the right side of the heart, there is no hemodynamic effect of VV ECLS. Physiology of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Life Support The circuit augments both cardiac and pulmonary function in VA ECLS. The highly oxygenated infused blood returns to the systemic circulation, bypassing the pulmonary circulation. Depending on the nature of the disease process requiring VA ECLS, there may remain some native left ventricle (LV) CO. If lung function is normal, the oxygen content of blood leaving the LV is sufficient. However, if there is lung disease, blood leaving the LV will be relatively deoxygenated compared with blood infusing via the ECLS circuit. The location in the aorta where these two circulations meet (ie, the mixing point or watershed) varies among patients, depending on LV function and ECLS circuit flow. For this reason, measuring oxygenation in the right hand is typically performed (when the return cannula is in the femoral artery) as a surrogate to the oxygenation of the heart, coronary arteries, and brain given that the brachiocephalic and right subclavian arteries are closest to the heart. If the right hand displays insufficient oxygenation in the setting of lung disease, then the mixing point is distal to the brachiocephalic artery, and these vital organs (heart and brain) may be receiving insufficient oxygenation. The location of the mixing point will differ if the return cannula is not in the femoral artery; the concept of the mixing point should be considered in every patient receiving VA ECLS, depending on cannula location, lung function, and native CO. The adequacy of VA ECLS flow can be measured via markers of systemic oxygenation (lactic acid) or mixed venous saturation.17 Tags: Critical Care Examination and Board Review Dec 30, 2018 \| Posted by drzezo in CRITICAL CARE \| Comments Off on Extracorporeal Life Support	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line964
__label__cc	0.675903	0.324097	Anita Finlay’s Blog Video Book Intro Get First 3 Chapters Speaker / Host Speaker / Host Overview Dare We Say episodes Newsmax TV episodes The Jerry Doyle Show Interviews, Radio & Podcasts Finlay & Smart Talk Archives America’s Radio News Network Actor Overview Anita’s Radio Demo Benghazi, Hillary 2016 and a Predictable Media by Anita Finlay in Benghazi, General Blog, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, Presidential Election, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Yesterday, Representative Darrell Issa led his Oversight Committee through hours of questioning of Benghazi whistleblowers with one goal in mind – to ruin any hope Hillary Clinton has of running in 2016. It could be argued Issa was also aiming to take down the Obama administration, but from the Kabuki theatre offered by both parties, who posture on the floors of Congress only to pass legislation benefiting themselves and protecting their benefactors, with an already re-elected President Obama on board, I doubt he is their ultimate target. Republicans have no one on the bench polling near Hillary, so they want to take her out early. As to Benghazi reportage in the media, apart from notable exceptions like Sharyl Attkisson of CBS, few are straying from their respective reservations. On one side, we have FOX News and Drudge Report, hammering every sound bite of the whistleblowers 24/7; every word a “smoking gun.” Meanwhile, the bulk of the liberal-leaning mainstream media has offered defensive coverage hinting at a “witch hunt” and even the kook factor. Congressman Issa does not help his cause by disingenuously holding up a cable that Hillary “signed,” knowing that thousands of cables coming from the State Department bear the word Clinton, whether or not she had anything to do with them. The Washington Post gave Issa a “4 Pinocchio” rating for his trouble. He also curries no favor by ignoring Ambassador Pickering, who chaired the Accountability Review Board and offered to testify at these new hearings. Then again, the five minutes per person Q & A format is no more effective at these proceedings than they were during Secretary Clinton’s exhaustive testimony in January. Hillary Clinton has already taken responsibility for what happened under her watch at the State Department. It is interesting that when she tried to fall on her sword before the 2012 election, Republican Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte would have none of it, calling hers a “laudable gesture” but complaining that responsibility rested with the Obama administration. Even former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, along with past Head of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, Republicans all, had defended her. But with 2016 looming in the distance… ‘Hillary lied!’ ‘She doesn’t care about the four dead in Benghazi!’ She said, “What difference does it make!” It matters even less that this “quote” of hers has been truncated and misstated to misrepresent the intent of her larger statement. Let’s leave that for the moment. Ultimately the bumper stickers and subsequent hay the right will make out of her statement are not the issue. Should we investigate? Of course. Will we ever get to the bottom of who knew what when and what the motives were? Doubtful. We will either be distracted with a new crisis or both sides will keep firing at one another while the public is far more concerned with pocketbook issues. What should matter are the tragic murders of four Americans. What does matter, fair or not, is how the largest number of media outlets spin this in the long term. They say that he who loves the most wins. In this case, they who have the most number of stories leaning in a certain direction most often dictate the way the country will react. This has happened before. It will happen again. In the Presidential primaries of 2008, a swooning media fawned shamelessly over a man with two years tenure in the Senate and spent the live long day bashing his more capable and experienced opponent, Hillary Clinton using an arsenal of sex bias. They neglected to analyze her better crafted policy prescriptions, instead painting her as shrew who hung out at round-the-world “tea parties.” They got the desired result. As a Hillary supporter, I knew for the first time what it felt like to be a Conservative. The likes of Wapo’s Dana Milbank, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann painted people like me with the same filthy brush they used on her. My protests for fair media coverage went unanswered. I was invisible. At the time, Republicans were more than happy to let it all happen though many like Senator Graham, oddly enough, now admit Hillary’s work ethic is second to none. Looking back over these past four years, one wonders in hindsight if Republicans are still happy with the way Clinton or McCain/Palin were battered. Old news? Who cares about this now? This matters for two reasons. First, what’s past is prologue. Second, FOX News, Drudge, HotAir, and Breitbart are far outnumbered by The New York Times/WaPo, CBS, NBC, ABC, Huffington Post and so on. In other words, if FOX News says a tree fell in the woods and the bunch on the other side says “I didn’t hear anything” – then it did not happen. Look at the “right wing entertainment complex” of 2012 to see how Romney voters were sold a bill of goods about his winning in a landslide if you don’t believe me. And the kindly coverage Hillary Clinton received in 2012 from media outlets who earlier trashed her was to entice women voters, hoping her reflected glow would help the media win re-election for their favored son. There was no sentiment involved. Just business. So for those looking ahead to 2016 who lament “remember her role in Benghazi,” this is what you should remember: if the media once again decides to fall in love with a new “phenom,” they will be more than happy to join with FOX News and trash Hillary Clinton to keep her from the White House. If our corporate-owned media decides she is “the one,” Benghazi too will be made into “nothing to see here, folks.” But let’s follow the money. President Obama was chosen in 2008 as the person with the most effective brand to sell us the rather unpalatable platter on which we have been dining these past four years. If a corporate-owned media made sure Hillary didn’t get in last time, I would argue that no new love for her has been cultivated. After all, it is easy for these outlets to praise her to serve their purposes now, when she is not running for anything. The media picks our presidents. They craft the narrative and drive it home with each story they report. An exhausted public, scared and struggling, perhaps working several jobs if they are fortunate to be working at all, hasn’t the time to dig for the truth behind the spin. Was there incompetence at senior staff levels and a lack of interagency communication or cooperation leading up to Benghazi? Yes, which has been reported and admitted. Were Ambassador Susan Rice’s Sunday talk show talking points in the run-up to the election nonsensical and deliberate? Surely. Could Republican denial of increased security funding have played a role? We may never know. Again, none of that matters in the larger scheme of things – horrid as that is. What winds up mattering is the pabulum that we are fed daily. Many seem to suffer from short memories, so I am challenging those who don’t to file this away for three years. Come 2016, if Hillary Clinton indeed runs for the presidency and you see the self-same media outlets who now trumpet Hillary suddenly “remember” the horror of Benghazi and decide that she should be roasted over a spit for it, you’ll know that the other candidate is the one better willing to serve a corporate master – not her. That should make voting interesting. Anita Finlay is the author of Dirty Words on Clean Skin, a shocking exposé of media bias, now available in print and Kindle editions on Amazon. #1 on Women in Politics books for 16 weeks. Like Anita Finlay, Author on Facebook. Follow @AnitaFinlay on Twitter. conner43 Says: May 10, 2013 at 3:18 pm I have a slightly different take on this: Am reminded of the fact that Jarrett talked Obama out of the raid on OBL at least twice before she was finally overridden. It is useful to recognize that the Chicago gang is All politics All the time, and they are the real power in the country, Obama is just their very own Pinnochio. Hillary, apparently did lie about the ‘video’, and who knows why pleas for more security at Benghazi were denied. I suspect it was because Benghazi was, at bottom, a clandestine arms depot, funneling arms to the rebels in Syria through Turkey. This has become fairly obvious, after the fact.. Since the rebels by then, had been shown to be connected to terrorism, this would not have gone over well with the voters.. We live in a world where the only choices are often Evil One or Evil Two, this is the new reality. So Hillary fell on her sword for Obama/Chicago.. If there was self interest involved, {and there always is, with politicians, even Hillary} it may have been that she didn’t want her tenure as S of S allied with a one term pres., the race was still thought to be close at that time. Unless and until, the Committee starts talking to the Chicago cabal, who, imo, are the real villians here, this will remain bread and circuses for the plebes, most of whom have the attention span of gnats anyway. There remains no excuse for at least not making the appearance of an effort to save Americans, or for little security having been provided in such a dangerous place, but it seems those decisions were political, and not attributable to Hillary. After all, low level security people might have exposed the whole scheme. Even those who did survive Benghazi have melted into the woodwork. Once again, Hillary is abused by a very artful dodger. I agree with your take on the power of the media, but with WaPo, NYT, and others already on the ropes financially, in three more years they will be even more diminished. I do find it interesting that negative remarks about O are now getting through the filters at HuffPo..Leave it to Ms Huffington..she is a survivor, first and foremost. Even more suprising, Huff actually posted a piece recently that ‘Busy Mom and Fashion Icon’ MO, may not be all that chic, after all. How dare they ? One suspects Adrianna is now in the second tier on the gala circuit, next thing you know, they will make her sit with some nonentity like Ashley Banfield. Anita Finlay ("Ani") Says: May 10, 2013 at 7:50 pm Thanks for your comments, conner43. As I have noted elsewhere, loyalty is a double edged sword. Hillary suffers from the disease of loyalty. Something I understand all too well. If the talking points come out of the WH re this video, she may not tout it but she is not going to dispute it either. She did use the word terrorism in her first remarks but then the other nonsensical talking points came out. I am sure she refused to go on the Sunday shows because of that. Further, she is not the DoD, or the Secy of Defense, Joint Chiefs or the Pres — all the orders in this regard come from there — not the chief diplomat, as I understand it. But the Reps are far more interested in discrediting and disabling her than him. Both sides have lined their pockets just fine under his tenure. The divisions of haves and have notes have only become wider over the last 10 years. The ‘loyalty’ factor you pointed out is very insightful..The admin. is now in the process of throwing Hillary under the bus, as evidenced by their continuing emphasis on the words “State Dept”.. It’s not personal, it’s just what they do. This could be very liberating for her. I am in hope that Bill will guide her in this, he has a lot of experience with snakes . Regardless of her ability to extricate herself from this, there may be a lot of Democrat fatigue three years from now, especially if the economy remains stagnant.. I wouldn’t bet the homestead on her running, at this point. Anita Finlay Says: May 11, 2013 at 5:07 pm No, you’re right about the fatigue. I would not bet the homestead on anything. We will know a lot more two years from now as to the conditions on the ground. But she has two things going for her. She has made herself a force to be reckoned with that to some degree transcends party and she has also had nothing to do with this domestic mess. No doubt Repubs are going to spend taxpayer money and it will be Benghazi 24/7/365 as long as they can drag it out. If I felt they really gave a damn, that would be different. But both parties do so much posturing, I don’t trust a one of them. Their brand is looking more and more damaged, however, and if they overplay their hand by attacking the one woman who had the guts to stand up and take responsibility, this may backfire on them. 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__label__wiki	0.541679	0.541679	Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/083985a061be4ca2a867b220db282373 First lady prods media to cover opioids as much as ‘gossip’ By DARLENE SUPERVILLEMarch 6, 2019 First lady Melania Trump, right, speaks at a town hall on the opioid epidemic with moderator Eric Bolling in Las Vegas, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, during a two-day, three-state swing to promote her Be Best campaign. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) LAS VEGAS (AP) — First lady Melania Trump prodded the news media on Tuesday to spend as much time highlighting the opioid epidemic at it devotes to “idle gossip or trivial stories.” Mrs. Trump said she wished the media would talk about the epidemic more “and educate more children, also adults, parents, about the opioid crisis that we have in United States.” She spoke during a town hall-style discussion in Las Vegas about the epidemic that claimed nearly 48,000 American lives in 2017. “They do it already, but I think not enough.” The first lady suggested the epidemic should be leading the news when host Eric Bolling — who addressed her as “Lady M” — asked what else the media could do. “I think it should be on every media and the front pages of the newspaper, and I’m sure a lot of people would follow and go home and talk with the children and educate them, so they are responsible adults and they show them how drugs can be dangerous,” she said. Her audience of several hundred people, including entertainer Wayne Newton, was seated in a theater where Elvis Presley once performed at the Westgate hotel and casino. Mrs. Trump used the event to close a two-day, three-state promotional tour for her “Be Best” initiative, which includes a focus on babies born dependent on opioids. Bolling, a former Fox News host, lost his only child, 19-year-old son Eric Chase, to an accidental drug overdose in September 2017. During remarks before she answered questions from Bolling, the first lady encouraged the public to look beyond the raw numbers and see the opioid crisis as a “human story.” She also challenged the news media during those remarks “to devote as much time to the lives lost, and the potential lives that could be saved, by dedicating the same amount of coverage that you do to idle gossip or trivial stories.” “When we see breaking news on TV, or the front pages of newspapers — it is my hope that it can be about how many lives we were able to save through education and honest dialogue,” Mrs. Trump said. She said she teaches her own 12-year-old son, Barron, “how drugs are dangerous. It will mess up your head. It will mess up your body and nothing comes positive out of it.” The discussion included lighter topics as well. Asked what her family’s choice for a group meal might be, she said “spaghetti.” As for how much cooking she does, the first lady said she leaves that to the “professionals” at the White House, adding that there’s “really no time” for her to cook. The first lady participated in a similar conversation led by Bolling last November at Liberty University in Virginia. President Donald Trump has declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency and his administration is spending billions of dollars to fight it. Follow Darlene Superville on Twitter: http:://www.twitter.com/dsupervilleap	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line970
__label__cc	0.592334	0.407666	Averbukh Babinsky Gabinsky Gnoyensky Kuppershmidt Shklyanoy Shlyapochnik Brezhnev Khrushchev Communal Apartments Why Write a Family History About Bena Communal Apartment 29 Jul Communal Apartment Posted at 16:16h in Glossary by Bena 0 Comments Multiple gas stoves in a communal kitchen. Photo courtesy of Communal Living in Russia: A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life http://kommunalka.colgate.edu A communal apartment or kommunálka, in Russian, is a Soviet-unique phenomenon that emerged following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and lasted as a principal form of housing for about half a century; it still exists in central districts of some large Russian cities. The mass migration from the countryside and small towns stimulated by poverty, forced collectivization, and rapid industrialization led to acute housing shortages in the cities. In response to it, Lenin came up with a solution: to commandeer private apartments for new tenants. Unless arrested or executed, the original tenant stayed in one of the rooms. As a bonus to easing the crisis, communal living of different social groups dovetailed with the communist vision of universal equality and brotherhood. Government ownership of property also ensured that nobody was left behind: one room in many communal apartments was assigned to a prostitute for the purpose of reforming her character through the effort and example of her neighbors. The requisition of living space known as uplotneniye, a Russian word for compression, guaranteed that every apartment democratically housed as many families as there were rooms; rarely did a family have more than one room. The shortage began diminishing when Khrushchev introduced private apartments. The local authorities distributed them based on the housing waiting list. It consisted of households living in less space than the sanitary norm established for a given city, i.e. minimum number of square meters per person. In Kiev in the 1960s, for example, the norm was four square meters (forty square feet). In theory, acceptance of an offer of new housing was voluntary. However, declining it would put a family on the bottom of the housing list. Considering that the list included, in the largest cities, more than half of the entire population and that the existing living conditions were unbearable, to begin with, it would not enter anybody’s mind to refuse the offer it took sometimes decades to get. Population influx to cities was controlled by the strictly enforced propiska. The room that a family occupied served as living room, bedroom, office, nursery, hospice. The Russian language does not have a word for privacy. If the number of people grew to the point of the sanitary norm (when a child brought in a spouse and then had a baby) the family could join the housing waiting list. The hallway, kitchen, and bathroom (for years, smaller buildings did not have indoor plumbing; tenants used outhouses more-or-less nearby) were shared and cared for by all the tenants. In the common kitchen, each family had a small table and, when gas stoves replaced primus, a single burner that it could use and was responsible for cleaning, or not cleaning. Apartments with more neighbors than burners were furnished with additional stoves. If that resulted in an “extra” burner it was used on a first-come first-serve basis. Doorbells on the front door to a communal apartment. Photo courtesy of Communal Living in Russia: A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life http://kommunalka.colgate.edu A family installed its own doorbell on the apartment front door, and its own light bulbs in the common areas connected to its own electric meter and light switches in its room. When all the neighbors used the kitchen it was illuminated like a banquet hall. Food was not left unattended in the kitchen. When refrigerators appeared in the late 1950s, they were placed in the respective rooms. Neighbors collected garbage in individual pails by each kitchen table and were responsible for taking it out. Until running hot water became available in some buildings in the 1970s, water for the laundry was warmed in pails on the stove and poured into a balya placed on two chairs in the middle of the kitchen. The dirty water was then emptied into the sink or into the bathroom tub, if there was one. The trunks and boxes along the hallway walls sported no-nonsense locks. The hallway was also used for drying laundry. The clothesline was usually shared by all. Wet sheets and long underwear brushed people’s heads and covered faces which made it difficult to navigate the hallway. At peak times, the tenants lined up for their turn in the bathroom. When toilet lids became the norm, everybody would hold one in their hands, some also held their children’s or elderly’s chamber pots to empty. Toilet paper was always a sticky issue. Some apartments adopted the policy that the family on duty was to maintain the supply of cut-up newspapers on the bathroom nail; some went for separate nails holding a stack of newspaper squares that belonged to the family whose name was scratched on the wall over the nail. In the absence of rules, the need for toilet tissue was met by newspaper scraps in individuals’ hands or pockets. When real toilet tissue appeared on the scene, the lucky owner of the precious roll brought it with him, or simply brought the requisite number of sheets to avoid envious comments. More or less elaborate scheduling systems ensured that everybody contributed their fair share to the cleaning of the common areas. The rotation depended on the alphabetical order or order of rooms or the number picked out of a hat. The duty duration was either the same for everybody, for example a week, or depended on the size of the family. Some factors complicated the decisions: a baby or a bedridden grandmother who caused more extensive usage of the facilities would make the duty longer. Common area cleaning schedule. Photo courtesy of Communal Living in Russia: A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life http://kommunalka.colgate.edu There were always those who watched the adherence to the rules more than others. Tempers flared. But, for the most part, a chart on the kitchen door worked reliably. Residents had no choice but to endure. Neighbors knew everything about each other, whether by observation, gossip, eavesdropping, or opening others’ mail. The climate of Stalin’s era encouraged, indeed expected, neighbors to inform on neighbors; any outlandish claim got the job done. After the victim was imprisoned and his family evicted, the denouncers gained their victim’s larger room, earned kudos as vigilant patriots, diverted attention from themselves, had the satisfaction of removing an annoying person, or all of the above. Though the fear of persecution and encouragement to inform eased following Stalin’s death and condemnation, grudges did not fade away. An expectation of peace and love among random families sharing a kitchen and bathroom would be naïve. Instances of peeing or spitting into each other’s teakettles, throwing cigarette butts into each other’s faces, stealing potatoes from a boiling pot were too commonplace to cause loss of sleep. Stories of fistfights produced nary a shrug. Even the rare neighbor-on-neighbor maiming and murder were accepted as inevitable cost of living communally. I am Bena, Meet my Family For some, apple does not fall far. But Grandma said it did not fall at all--if you belong to a family, you don’t need to see them, you don’t even need to know them, you are always part of that family. How old is the United States? Why Choose This Name? We Were Them, by Susan Weinberg Of War and Teeth Bena Shklyanoy Web Design by: one8web.com © Copyright Bena Shklyanoy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line971
__label__wiki	0.745222	0.745222	The Guardian (Lagos) Nigeria: 'New NNPC Appointments to Spur Reserves' Increase, Reforms' By Femi Adekoya and Kingsley Jeremiah Lagos and Abuja — Stakeholders in the oil and gas sector have expressed confidence in the appointment of a new management team for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), describing it as a move to shore up reserves and reposition the corporation. Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) Chairman, Bank Anthony Okoroafor, said the appointment of a new team for the NNPC shows that the administration wants to build oil reserves, and is serious about repositioning the petroleum industry, especially the state-owned oil company. He said Kyari, whom the NNPC described as a quintessential crude oil marketer with prerequisite certification and outfield pedigree in petroleum economics and crude oil and gas trading, is a seasoned geologist, and also understands a lot about building reserves. Okoroafor also noted that the appointment of Roland Onoriode Ewubare (South-South), as the Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, is equally a good one, as he described him as a technocrat who understands the industry. "By taking the right decision, the industry will move in the right direction," he added.Similarly, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Executive Secretary, Waziri Adio, in a twitter message, said: "Mele Kyari's appointment is a well-deserved appointment, and an intimation of more openness and reforms in the national oil company." Adio in a statement noted that as a member of the global EITI working group on commodity trading transparency, Kyari's appointment has placed him in a vantage position to push the frontiers of openness, and to work more closely with NEITI and the global EITI to implement remedial issues in NEITI's reports. He added that the implementation of the findings of NEITI's reports will not just be effective for operations of NNPC, but also for optimisation of benefits of the oil and gas sector to Nigeria and Nigerians. Also, the Secretary General, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Barkindo, in a congratulatory message to Kyari, said his appointment "is a testament to your exemplary record and exceptional performance over the many years you have worked for NNPC in a variety of roles." Barkinbdo equally looked forward to Kyari's continued involvement in OPEC, where he had once served under the Economic Commission Board (ECB). On his part, the Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Muda Yusuf, expressed optimism that the new team will push for the necessary reforms in the oil and gas sector. He noted that one of the major shortcomings of the past four years was the total absence of the desired reforms in the petroleum sector, with the NNPC at the centre of a lot of the issues. "It will be a good thing if the new team will be pro-reforms and influence the direction of policies so that the sector can contribute meaningfully to the economy and aid the realisation of its potential both for investments, diversification within the sector and government revenue," he added. Former President, The Nigerian Association for Energy Economics (NAEE), Prof. Wunmi Iledare, said: "I am familiar with 80% of the new team, and they are all insiders with a high degree of technical competence. I am sure there will be some degree of continuity. Interestingly too, there is a room for genuine handover, which is another plus compared to the past. This is commendable. "However, taking NNPC to the next level requires a competent Board that is apolitical. Appointments to the Board must not be based on balancing geopolitical zones. It must necessarily be meritorious when thinking of NNPC's Board of Directors. Again, this is the essence of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB). "I am hopeful that the president will have the courage to have a substantive Minister of Petroleum. NNPC agency role must be eliminated if this new technically competent NNPC management board is to deliver on the expected KPIs. "PIGB must become law to reduce the dependence of the President on NNPC for advice. The new GMD must understand that he is first among equals and work with his team. I am very pleased with this team because I have had encounters with them and I hope they will understand the task ahead." For the Founder and Principal Partner, Chancery Associates, Emeka Okwuosa, there are concerns about the policy direction of the administration."From the outset, I don't really know and or understand the policy thrust of this administration either in terms of transparency and accountability in the oil sector, or reducing gas flaring, and or passage of the PIB, as the PIB has been in abeyance for a while. "I don't believe new appointments will ginger this government or lead to new policy initiatives as we are just recycling personnel but policies still remain otiose and inchoate-it is not yet Uhuru. We have wasted so many years doing nothing! Very sad indeed," he added. Read the original article on Guardian. Copyright © 2019 The Guardian. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here. 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__label__cc	0.556423	0.443577	The Grounds Bishop’s Garden Olmsted Woods & Amphitheater Cathedral Close Fountains, Statuary & Plaques Trees & Planting Beds Tour & Tea Flower Mart Herb Cottage Gifts Schedule a Garden Tour Dedicate a Memorial For more than 25 years All Hallows Guild in conjunction with the Cathedral’s Visitor Services Department has served afternoon tea in Washington, DC’s highest tea room. Since 1939, All Hallows Guild has held Flower Mart as a benefit for the Cathedral’s gardens and grounds. Join us for two days of flowers, fun, and activities for the entire family on the first Friday and Saturday of May. The former Baptistry building held the Herb Cottage (All Hallows Guild's gift shop) from 1934 to 2011. The Guild officially closed retail operations in 2013, but due to popular demand we bring some of our favorite Herb Cottage Gifts to several select area shows - including Flower Mart in May. All Hallows Guild was founded in 1916 to provide for the care and beautification of the grounds of Washington National Cathedral. The Guild works closely with the horticultural staff to preserve this historic landscape and raises funds for renovation and renewal of the gardens. ahg@allhallowsguild.org 3101 Wisconsin Ave NW You’ll see what’s new in the gardens and learn about our upcoming events by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter. Copyright © 2019 All Hallows Guild Website by Yoko Co \| Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line977
__label__wiki	0.607054	0.607054	CarpetsPlus COLORTILE Celebrates 20 Years of Growth and Success By Alliance Flooring Inc. March 9, 2017 June 29th, 2018 No Comments Atlanta, GA — 3/1/17 CarpetsPlus COLORTILE, Carpetland USA and Floorco dealers from around the country began arriving at Atlanta’s Marriott Marquis looking forward to a huge accomplishment for the group – the 20th Anniversary Convention. The Convention was held February 25-28. To kick things off, members and suppliers gathered for a Welcome Dinner Saturday night. The reception theme was Sports and Game Night. As relationships were renewed and old memories relived, members looked forward to making new memories this year. Members and suppliers alike were heard to say they had a blast and how much fun they had playing pool, table tennis, corn hole and throwing darts. Early Sunday morning, members attended the Opening Session. Ron Dunn, co-CEO of CarpetsPlus COLORTILE began the session by offering some perspective on how and why the group was started, “When we started we didn’t want to have conference room geniuses. We wanted to get the opinions of our members. Our mission statement was ‘Make good things happen for good people’ and it still is.” Ryan Dunn, co-COO and Vice President Sales of CarpetsPlus COLORTILE, asked 100 members various questions for a fun game show they called “Celebrity Family Feud”. He invited up the CarpetsPlus buying committee members and Carpetland USA buying committee members and said, “Let’s play the Feud!” After the game, Ron Dunn introduced the meeting’s first speaker. Dunn said, “The truth is, with the right attitude we can do just about anything. Our next speaker was picked for just that reason. Here’s a guy that went to England from Nigeria and was hired by McDonald’s to wipe tables and clean bathrooms. He kept being promoted and ended up going to business college. Then they decided to send him to Harvard to get an MBA when Domino’s Pizza hired him away. He helped take them global and run their operation in the US.” Akinboro spoke about the importance of ‘Leading With Positive Attitude’. He compared leaders with a fixed mindset to leaders with a growth mindset. “It’s a matter of core values,” Akinboro said. “Your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ.” A fixed mindset says I am who I am and I can’t change, it doesn’t matter how much you try. A growth mindset says I get up every day and look at every person as a potential customer and look for people who can help me and those I can help. He added, “They welcome threats and challenges with open arms and say, ‘bring it on!’” Speaking directly to store owners, he said, “You are the most important member on your team and your attitude has a direct correlation to your team’s performance.” He added that if the store owner acts and operates in a defeated manner, so will their employees. Jon Logue, CarpetsPlus COLORTILE’s co-CEO, next gave the State of the Industry. He began by recounting some advice he gave almost 10 years ago by saying, “We told you to batten down the hatches in 2008 and we were right. Now it’s time to open up those hatches!” He said that hard surface continues to grow with resilient leading the way followed by ceramic and laminate. He said there are 13 new LVT, resilient sheet, rigid core and carpet plants being built in America to be completed by the end of 2017 with a $1 billion investment in the categories. New hard surface trends are wider and longer plank lengths in addition to more tile looks. Logue said that carpet’s market share has declined including both residential and commercial segments. Polyester continues to grow overall and price point bifurcation continues. Logue cited Wells Fargo’s economic forecast of a 2.5% GDP forecasted growth for 2017 (up from 1.9% for 2016), strong consumer spending and confidence as well as a buoyant stock market. Interest rates will increase to 4.25% by 4th quarter and inflation will increase from 1.5% in 2016 to 2.5% by December 2017. He also stated that retail sales were up 5.6% in January over 2016. He also mentioned that consumer confidence reached a 12 year high in January at 111%. One new carpet trend is super-soft two DPF. Also trending is nylon and polyester filament and multicolor. Concern over carpet’s pet performance stories is growing. “Since 65% of homes now have pets, we came out with the Pet Friendly Destination that Kevin will tell you about,” he noted. Kevin Logue, CarpetsPlus COLORTILE’s co-COO and Vice President Marketing, came up next to introduce the group’s new merchandising programs in carpet, luxury vinyl, composite core flooring and hardwood. He announced that Mohawk Flooring has been added as part of Phase 3 of its Destination program with the launch of three new introductions — Your Pet Friendly Destination as part of its Happy Pets Carpet and Flooring brand; Your Soft Destination; and, Your Luxury Flooring Destination. “We added Mohawk because it offers a unique pet warranty and that was something members were asking for,” explained Kevin Logue. “They were also asking for a private label pet and performance brand they could market and promote locally, and we’ve given them that with Happy Pets Carpet and Flooring. It features the Happy Pets Performance Promise which covers both carpet and hard surface.” He said, “Our market share as a group continues to grow in hard surface. We try to give them the tools to grow and be comfortable selling it.” He said the group is anticipating double-digit growth in hard surface this year. For this reason, it launched a new LVT program with Karndean called Design Destination which includes 40 SKUs in 24” x 24” samples as well as architect folders of the entire collection. It was shown first at the group’s Pittsburgh Summit in October at SP Floors and Design Center. “The idea behind the Design Destination launch is the flexibility of installation options,” he said. CarpetsPlus is also adding to its Destination Hardwood program, introduced last year, to include new stacker displays featuring wood from Shaw and Anderson. “Everyone wants to show larger samples of wider widths and longer lengths so customers can see how product will look on the floor,” said Kevin Logue. After the new introductions were shown, Kevin Logue asked members to become a Destination Location by taking on these premier displays each year which helps them to stay up to date with the best products. Ryan Dunn said, “The Destination location program has been three years in the making. It gives our dealers a rebirth in their showroom, taking them a step above.” The first example of a Destination Location was shown at Stacey Pape’s store in Pittsburgh, PA. The program focuses on updating store layouts and displays to show the latest new product. To become a Destination Location requires a buy-in purchase of six to eight Destination displays. Pet Friendly Destination display unveiled at convention “Other benefits include additional suppliers, an expansion in hard surface products, more private labeling, Web Pro 3.0 platform upgrades, enhanced marketing, quicker display turnaround and in-store POP,” explained Kevin Logue. “To be successful as a specialty flooring retailer today is you have to establish yourself as the fashion and design destination in your community. You have to solve a problem for the consumer. You have to offer design solutions. You have to offer a multitude of options. You have to have a knowledgeable sales staff. That’s what the Destination Location idea is all about,” Logue said. “To help them to elevate their game at retail and develop a consistent look and feel across all product categories and CarpetsPlus COLORTILE locations. That’s really what it’s about.” The next morning, Ron Dunn opened the General Session by saying, “Lots of things have changed over these past 20 years. But some things haven’t such as customer service and the need for leadership.” He had a 12 foot high pole vault set up on stage to illustrate his next point. He asked members, “What is the one thing that comes to mind as we look at this bar? You’ve got three options. One, you can look at it and say, ‘No thank you, I’m going home. I’ll let somebody else do that.’ Two, you can say, ‘Lower the bar.’ Third, you could say, ‘Give me the pole.’ It’s so important for us to pay attention to where our bar is. When we make our choice, what example are we setting?” Member Bruce Kautzman inspects new Destination Luxury Flooring We asked four questions our RV trip. The first was, ‘What is your bar?’ Describe your bar. What words have you written on it? What are you trying to accomplish? The second question was, ‘Are you ever tempted to lower your bar?’ The third was ‘What is the pole you know you have to have to get over that bar?’ The fourth was, ‘What in business is most satisfying to you?’” Ryan introduced the keynote speaker, Dr. Randy Ross, who encouraged members to “Be Remarkable.” He said, “Being remarkable means you leave a lasting impression on people. That’s a powerful thing. I want to challenge you to be remarkable.” Ross added that business owners need to intentionally craft a remarkable culture. He defined culture as “the collective expression of values, beliefs and behaviors individuals bring to any endeavor.” He said, “Values drive our thinking, our thinking creates our beliefs, our beliefs in turn then drive our behavior. Those three things are vitally important as you think about crafting your culture.” “Your culture is the single most differentiating factor that you possess.” He told the audience that the greatest way to grow their business is to, “Constantly keep your hand on the helm of culture. You must not only be a champion for that culture but a keeper of that culture because you will have a culture by design or by default.” General Session continued after lunch with Scott Humphrey, CEO of WFCA, as well as Steven Feldman, Publisher of Floor Covering News. That evening, members arrived to celebrate the conclusion of the 20th Anniversary Convention. It was a night to remember. Several awards were given to members and suppliers for various accomplishments, including Retailer of the Year for both CarpetsPlus COLORTILE and Carpetland USA. CarpetsPlus recognizes charter members Ryan Dunn took a look back at the previous 20 years and said, “Thank you for coming to our 20th Annual Awards Night. I’ve come to realize through all these years that people and relationships are what we’re all about. And it really is true, we’re all family here. Tonight, we want to recognize those who have traveled farther and flown higher than they thought they might have this past year.” They first recognized their charter members. Ron Dunn said, “At Surfaces in 1997, we launched as CarpetsPlus of America. These roughly 40 retailers embraced the plans and vision, joining as charter members. Thank you all for getting on board and we salute you as well as all our members who joined with us later for your vision, passion, resilience, commitment to network and share and all the success you’ve had over the past two decades.” National Retail Salespeople of the Year Kate Butcher, Dan Smiddy & Alicia Self Dan Smiddy, Smiddy’s CarpetsPlus COLORTILE, Terre Haute, IN Alicia Self, COLORTILE and Carpet, Salem, OR Kate Butcher, Hoosier CarpetsPlus COLORTILE, Bloomington, IN Alicia Self was very surprised and humbled by the award. She said, “I think it shows I’m appreciated which I sometimes have a hard time accepting. But this award is a reassurance that I’m on the right path and headed in the right direction. It feels good.” Hard Surface Supplier of the Year: John Callahan, Karndean Callahan was ecstatic to win this award, “Truly, everyone at Karndean is overjoyed to be recognized by our partners at Alliance, and we appreciate the hard work done at every level to support this relationship. While our customer dedication and premium service levels have been recognized in last year’s ReCo report, the acknowledgement as Hard Surface Supplier of the Year by CarpetsPlus further supports our commitment to forging meaningful partnerships in the marketplace. Thanks so much and looking forward to 2017.” Carpet Supplier of the Year: Greg Payne, Shaw Industries Payne said, “It means the world to the entire Shaw team to win this award. It raises the bar for Shaw to exceed higher expectations and deliver. We will carry the banner of Supplier of the Year proudly but realize our goals of growth and service just increased.” Ryan Dunn gave the qualifications to be a CarpetsPlus and Carpetland USA Retailer of the Year winner. He said, “These awards are presented to the members who, in 2016, exemplified leadership in the following categories:” Rebate volume earnings Convention & Summit Attendance Support of our merchandising launches Networking with fellow members Branding of their store Use of Web Pro 3.0 Carpetland USA Retailer of the Year: Bob Caputo, Carpetland USA, Dothan, AL Bob Caputo wins Carpetland USA Retailer of the Year Bob Caputo said, “When I moved to Dothan from Chicago, I worked for Carpetland. I’m closer to all the owners now than I was back then. Jon and Ron have helped this group really grow together. Thank you.” Before Ron Dunn presented the CarpetsPlus COLORTILE Retailer of the Year award, he commented, “So many great choices to choose from. Sometimes when you have so many amazing options and have to make a final decision, it really requires a lot of reflection and thought. This store is in a growing community. When a building opened up they decided to move to a main road. They embraced the program, completely remodeled the building inside and out, put up a beautiful digital sign and saw 67% growth. Guys, you earned it.” CarpetsPlus COLORTILE Retailer of the Year: Jim Brown and John Brown, CarpetsPlus COLORTILE of Bloomington, IL John & Jim Brown win CarpetsPlus Retailer of the Year John Brown commented about the help they received from other members after he and his brother Jim won the CarpetsPlus Retailer of the Year award, “Mark and Mary Ann Dougherty opened their store, their entire store to us. We just want to say thank you. My brother and I were also lucky enough to find a mentor here, actually two of them. I just want to say thank you to Scott Melkonian and Jeff Dearing.” Jim Brown added to those thanks, “I want to thank our entire staff back home. Without them we wouldn’t be here. Without all you guys here, the networking, membership, and all you people up here, Ron, Ryan, Jon and Kevin. Thanks to all you guys. Thank you and God bless.” Love0 Share Tweet Buying Committee Carpetland USA Drive Across America Shop for the Cause Shop for the Paws © 2019 Alliance Flooring Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy \| Linking Policy \| Anti-Spam Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line978
__label__wiki	0.945633	0.945633	The devastating reason behind Selena Gomez's emotional breakdown The star "freaked out" after being hospitalized CELEBRITY Selena Gomez When was the last time you heard from the pop star? It's been a while since she announced she was taking a break from social media and wrote on Instagram, "Just remember-negative comments can hurt anybody's feelings." But there's been good reason for her silence. The 26-year-old singer was hospitalized twice in the last two weeks, and the second time she suffered a hysteric emotional breakdown, TMZ reports. While Gomez has seemed like a ray of positivity and light after receiving a kidney transplant from one of her best friends, things have been much more complicated. In early September, she appeared to be in huge emotional distress as a result of a dangerously low white blood cell count. She was released after a couple of days, only to return soon after, as the mental toll from her physical condition persisted. 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__label__wiki	0.7619	0.7619	Tag: Coquelin Norwich 1-1 Arsenal: Injuries upset precariously balanced system “We are so unpredictable in what we are doing; even for me at the back sometimes it looks a bit weird! Sometimes we lose balance but sometimes it is really good so we have to keep going and focus on our game, especially defensively.” ~ Per Mertesacker I’ve been trying to figure out Arsenal for a while now. Despite my twenty-two year association with the club (that is, the first game I recall watching them in – Cup Winners Cup in ’95), the last ten years have left me most perplexed. It’s not the lack of titles; I’ve come to terms with the mitigating circumstances following the move to the Emirates and subsequently, the wizardry to keep Arsenal competitive that Arsene Wenger has performed. But rather, it’s the playing style which, despite adding back-to-back FA Cups in the last two seasons, Wenger has had to be innovative – unorthodox actually – to keep Arsenal playing the same way that won trophies in his early years, and to challenge more convincingly. I often hark back to the above quote from Per Mertesacker to assure me that even those in the best positions can find what happens on the pitch sometimes confusing. At this point, I realise that the answer lies in a case study of Arsene Wenger but he places such an unerring faith in autonomy and freedom of expression on the pitch such that nuances of the team’s tactics are as much a product of symbiosis as it is moulded by hand. That’s evident by the rapid progression of Hector Bellerin from reserve-squad to starter, or Francis Coquelin, who has shaped Arsenal’s tactics the moment he stepped into the first-team last December. It’s a progression which has been a joy to watch and indeed, it’s not usually this discernible to see a footballer grow as we have witnessed with Coquelin, gaining more confidence game-by-game, becoming “more available” as Wenger says, “and [available] more quickly when our defenders have the ball. He blossoms well.” You can say the same thing about Nacho Monreal, where confidence has shaped him such that he seems unflappable at the moment but, because he started his Arsenal career so well but had a blip in between, we already knew his quality. Plus at that time, he played alongside Thomas Vermaelen so it’s understandable. Coquelin’s injury has had people trying to work out ways to replace him without upsetting the balance of the side too much. However, an analysis by Chad Murphy, a professor of political science, deduces that Coquelin is near impossible to replace like-for-like because the actions he performs are commonly shared by wingers, not defensive midfielders. He’s a unique player, somebody who passes fairly infrequently considering the position he plays but is actually very press resistant because his dribbling out of tight areas is so good. Yet, therein lies Arsenal’s problems, and why Coquelin’s absence will be hard-felt, because Arsene Wenger has built a system reliant on the characteristics of certain key players – not necessarily robust concepts. And generally, once he finds a system that wins, he grinds it to the ground such that any slight change to that formula can cause Arsenal to stutter – until of course, somebody else makes their relative mark on the team. Mathieu Flamini is the present incumbent of the holding midfield role and in the 1-1 draw against Norwich City; we got a glimpse of just what he can offer to the team in what is probably the twilight of his Arsenal career. Ironically, just as he was looking to make his stamp on team, The Gunners lost two key players to injury, adding to the uncertainty we’re likely to get in the coming weeks. Those losses proved telling, particularly when you focus on the passivity Arsenal displayed for Norwich’s equaliser. Because the thing with Arsenal’s defending, and probably what is the nezt step for Murphy’s analysis, is that it’s reliant on speed – or what Manuel Pellegrini describes as “defending with pace”. Wenger teams have always been distinguished by this trait but usually when going forward; for this team, it’s probably more a hallmark going backwards, in terms of how quick the defenders recover (and the back-four, apart from Mertesacker are rapid) and the distances they cover when the team loses the ball. In that regard, the two key players are Laurent Koscielny, who departed the game early with a groin injury, and Coquelin of course. They tend to bail Arsenal out a lot of times from average defending situations frankly, by being aggressive, winning the ball back quickly and playing on the front foot. That’s what Flamini tried to replicate in midfield but what Gabriel failed (though he tends to be good at that kind of reading of play) with the missed interception before Lewis Grabban finished for Norwich . Overall, The Gunners weren’t unduly threatened but there is a sort-of half-hearted press that they use even against the weaker opponents that puts them in situations where they invite teams at them. I would describe it as a 4-4-2 shape for the most parts with Ozil dropping off once the ball is played behind him. (That ambiguity – is Ozil a striker or a midfielder in the press? – sometimes puts Arsenal into trouble). It’s sort of a zonal-man-marking system where the team moves left and right, and backwards and forwards as a unit but when the ball enters a respective player’s zone, they look to aggressively man-mark that player. Certain players might have more freedom of how aggressively they close down an opponent such as Ramsey or Mertesacker who tend to push out, and sometimes abandon the shape in an attempt to win the ball back quickly – see video below. An example of Arsenal’s defensive shape, pressing v Lyon (Emirates Cup) pic.twitter.com/2neUxbvavb — Arsenal Column (@ArsenalColumn) August 3, 2015 For much of the game, though, it must be noted that Arsenal were very comfortable. It was after Alexis departed through injury, however, that the team lost a little spark and that is worrying because he is one of two players that push defenders backwards (the other being Theo Walcott), and also, the partnership between him and Ozil generates much of Arsenal’s attacking thrust. Arsenal tend to slant their play towards the left-side, with Alexis stepping five or six yards infield and Ozil floating wide to create overloads. Against Norwich, Monreal was also an important figure going forward, and again, it’s the understanding he has with Alexis that has become a key part of Arsenal’s game. Indeed, both full-backs actually got forward a lot in the match and that was facilitated by a subtle change to Arsenal’s build-up play from the back. Again it involved Flamini, who tended to drift to the flanks to support the full-backs in possession, thus liberating them going forward. Whether this was accidental or not, it’s hard to say, but Flamini specialises in this kind of movement when Arsenal have the ball at the back. Certainly, it falls in line with Arsene Wenger’s strategy of using the ball-winning midfielder as a decoy, dragging opposition midfielders away with him, to create space for the centre-backs to pass through the midfield to either one of the attacking players or Cazorla who drops deep. This tactic tends to be used against teams who don’t press and indeed, Norwich camped 10 players behind the ball for the majority of the game. The intention is that then, it lures those teams to commit one or two players to the press – going against their gameplan really – so that Arsenal have a bit more space in the middle. Norwich didn’t really budge so Arsenal decided to use the sides of the pitch more in a bid to stretch their opponents. In the example below, you can see Flamini urging Monreal forward as Norwich narrow and Arsenal nearly score. Watch Flamini at the bottom left corner. This is what Arsenal do when teams don’t press; split the CMs sideways pic.twitter.com/5v6CO4TTH4 — Arsenal Column (@ArsenalColumn) November 30, 2015 I find it oddly fascinating to watch this tactic because it goes against the textbook which is to ask one of the deep midfielders to drop in between the two centre-backs to stretch the play. With Arsenal generally resisting the urge to do that, it creates a game-within-a-game, with the midfielders battling with opposition midfielders off-the-ball to follow them. People argue that against the top teams that press, Arsenal would be found out. That hasn’t really been tested because when Arsenal play those teams, they tend to drop off themselves thus playing mainly on the counter-attack. The one time it did work was against Manchester United, when Arsenal blitzed them in the first half-hour, using their ambiguous midfield positioning to confuse United’s marking scheme and Cazorla tending to drop-off in between the centre-backs to pick up the ball. Indeed, his importance in the build-up must be stressed because Wenger calls him the “guide”, because he directs Arsenal’s play from the back rather than dictates, and the team-mates know when they pass it to him, he can get them out of trouble because of his quick-dribbling. That’s one of the reasons why Coquelin will be sorely missed, as together the pair created a unique partnership in the heart of the midfield. Hopefully now, Arsenal can find a different balance. By Anam ~ Arsenal Columnin Arsenal, Match Analysis December 1, 2015 December 1, 2015 1,587 Words1 Comment “My philosophy is not to be in trouble, but to fool the opponent into trouble” ~ Wenger Arsene Wenger has always been wonderfully inventive with who he casts in the role of Arsenal’s defensive midfielder, and sure enough Francis Coquelin’s pathway to the side has been no less remarkable. We know the story by now: on another non-descript loan in his fifth year at the club, Coquelin was recalled amidst an injury crisis in midfield. He wasn’t expecting to play because things don’t just happen like that, but little did he know that Wenger had birds watching every pass, tackle and mistake that he made, and each favourable/unfavorable report sent back to headquarters served to shape his very future. Luck had played his part too, but when everything down to the last detail concerns a man like Wenger, luck will eventually favour you. A place had opened up in the side for Coquelin because of injuries – and also because, as Martin Keown revealed during Arsenal’s 2-0 FA Cup win over Hull City, Wenger was looking for someone that could provide the snarl and aggression that Mathieu Flamini did, but more crucially, play more proactively, pushing the team up the pitch. Coquelin did this, reinvigorating the side through the way he did things simply: winning the ball back and passing it quickly. At the same time, other pieces began to align: Mesut Ozil returned from injury back to his favoured position, Olivier Giroud came back like a dog unleashed, and Arsene Wenger could chose from a settled squad. These things all come together to explain Arsenal’s unbeaten run which began in February and ended at the start of the week, against Swansea. What it showed that finding attacking chemistry takes time and continuing on the Coquelin theme, as does somebody who bends to the will of the side. As Tim Stillman writes for Arseblog, “for Wenger, the defensive midfielder is usually the last piece of his puzzle.” Yet, as we found out in the 1-0 defeat to Swansea, Coquelin is still some way from the perfect fit. He’s as good as Arsenal have got – a halfway house between Mikel Arteta and Flamini – though to be truly “The Answer”, he needs to add more subtlety to his game. In that game, Coquelin was constantly found wanting as the outlet in possession at the back. In fact, he’s the exact opposite: a decoy when Arsenal have the ball in defence, looking to shuffle opponent midfielders this way and that to open up space for the centre-backs to pass through. Indeed, after the 3-1 win over Hull City, Wenger praised the way Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker stayed composed with the ball at the back, patiently waiting for an opening to develop. Coquelin by contrast, rarely took responsibility for this and in an opening 35 minutes, when Arsenal assumed a two-goal lead, he only made 9 passes. Against Swansea he was more involved yet hardly the pivot that you need when defences are set. Wenger, though, is inventive in that regard when details his midfielders to push up the pitch, to force the opponents back so that Arsenal can play as much as possible in their half. I expand on this tactic in my most recent Arseblog column. In that game, he also asked Ozil and Santi Cazorla, in addition to Ramsey, to drop deeper for the ball and use their 1v1 ability to get into space or play the pass through. It will be interesting to see how this tactic will develop; whether it was the players who initiated this move by being drawn to the ball or Wenger is trying to draw the opponent’s backline out simultaneously – a la PSG – to play the ball over the top (thus the recent recasting of Theo Walcott up front). Though the big issue is the role of Coquelin. Does he take it on himself to become a more nuanced midfielder? Because he is a far more subtle player than given credit for; his first-touch is clever which he uses to get out of trouble, while he has two good feet. And we haven’t seen his reaction if opponents press Arsenal up the pitch. Does he continue to follow the same movements away from the ball carrier? The call for him is not to become a playmaker but if he doesn’t get on the ball enough, then Arsenal’s fluency can suffer, especially if other attacking players, Ozil or Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain say, are forced to come towards the ball and away from the goal. As Johan Cruyff used to say, if the holding midfielder is not involved in the build-up, then he becomes a “block”, stopping you from passing the ball out effectively. More pertinently he adds, “if you bring the ball out well initially, then you’ll play well. If you don’t do that then there’s no chance of playing well.” Read my latest Arseblog Tactics Column: SWANSEA FRUSTRATE AS COQ BLOCKED By Anam ~ Arsenal Columnin Arsenal May 15, 2015 October 14, 2015 822 WordsLeave a comment Seven points on Arsenal 1-0 Queens Park Rangers Robin van Persie provided the appropriate bookend to 2011, having scored both on the first day of the year and now on the last to give Arsenal a 1-0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Including and in between that time, he has plundered in 35 goals in 36 games making it a phenomenal return for the Dutchman. It’s perhaps inevitable he scored the goal that separated the sides and Arsène Wenger is happy to be both reliant on van Persie and boring – at least, in regards to the result – in this crucial period. As has always been the case, Arsenal had chances to score more than the one while QPR got into a number of promising positions but while their team selection sought to exploit Arsenal in transitions, they were ultimately lacking the sting to take advantage. Here are some (belated) thoughts on the game: 1. Wright-Phillips v Arteta As touched upon, Neill Warnock named an intriguing side, playing in a 4-3-3 formation. But most interesting was the positioning of Shaun Wright-Phillips who played loosely on the right of central midfield. His role was to break forward quickly when QPR attacked and when they didn’t have the ball, he was detailed to engage the deep passer. In that instruction, he created a passive battle between he and Mikel Arteta. The Spaniard straight away saw that Wright-Phillips was looking to press him up the pitch whenever he got on the ball so he often drifted towards the right to avoid his attentions. In making that decision, Arteta did the right thing as it encouraged greater rotation between him and Song thus initially allowing Arsenal to dominate. Wright-Phillips, though, remained QPR’s most influential player and despite not always being in direct confrontation with Arteta, it looked like their battle would go some way in deciding the game. Wright-Phillips, with his pace to break and enthusiasm to engage the holding midfielders or Arteta, whether he could get enough of the ball to find Arsenal’s forwards. Indeed, that’s how the goal came about. Firstly, Wright-Phillips battled with Arteta to send QPR on an attack which eventually led to nothing. From the resulting goal-kick, he collected the ball in midfield but, following the attentions of Arsenal’s midfielders, proceeded to give it away. Andrey Arshavin picked up the loose ball and set van Persie on his way to score and ultimately win the game. As Arshavin tweeted after the game, “sometimes one ball is enough to get three points,” but he could just as easily have been talking about Wright-Phillips’ stray pass and not just than his own. 2. Full-backs stay back While Arsenal created a number of chances – 18 according to WhoScored.com and winning 12 corners (which we feel is important in recognising a side’s attacking dominance) – they lacked in dynamism somewhat. Johan Djourou rarely made an attempt to discover the opposition half – which might have been a purposeful ploy because his cautiousness allows Theo Walcott to stay up the pitch – but it tends to limit the type of chances Arsenal make (section 4). The problem is that neither full-back is comfortable on the ball in the opponents half and is capable of stretching the play to provide overlaps thus Arsenal’s attacks always follow a certain pattern. On the other hand, Arsène Wenger has tried to compensate by looking to push Aaron Ramsey higher up the pitch and giving the two wide forwards more freedom while they are a more dangerous threat in the air. Wenger says it would be “stupid to drop points” because Arsenal are short of full-backs but that also highlights the delicacy of Arsenal’s play at the moment. “We are a bit more cautious going forward because a centre back is not a full back,” Wenger recently told Arsenal Player. “Maybe we are a little bit more resilient defensively and a bit stronger in the air but overall it doesn’t change a lot and we still try to play out from the back with our passing game. It’s changed it a little bit.” <Figure 1>Johan Djourou’s pass received chart shows he’s less involved in the game than Carl Jenkinson in a home fixture against Sunderland earlier this season. While Djourou only acts as a support down the pitch, Jenksin covers the whole flanks to provide overlap and an outlet to stretch play. 3. Francis Coquelin at left-back Following the injury to Thomas Vermaelen, we saw Arsenal deploy the unfamiliar sight of Francis Coquelin at left-back. And the Frenchman did a good job at it too. Coquelin was positive, picking the ball up and looking to make things happen in the opponents half of the pitch. It shouldn’t be too surprising to hear that as Coquelin is a bold and confident character and the left-back position may just suit him as it’s more central midfield in its actions than at right-back (think Mathieu Flamini in 2005/06). Indeed, there might be a bit of Marcelo Bielsa-like thinking in using Coquelin more at left-back; his runs are generally more vertical and playing with a natural wide forward, he might be an interesting weapon. Sure, it’s not orthodox but that and the unexpectedness of it makes it an interesting option. <Figure 2>In contrast to Johan Djourou, Francis Coquelin often looked to get high up the pitch. His drive was refreshing and attempted a few unorthodox passes. 4. How Arsenal chances were created 1. A pass from deep looking to get the strikers in behind 2. Aaron Ramsey’s modus operandi: a diagonal to the far post/wide forward 3. Set-piece 4. Robin van Persie 5. A rare moment of surprise/unexpectedness (Johan Djourou’s run to find van Persie) or mistake (the goal). (In that respects, Arsenal are perhaps lacking that dynamism in the dribble that Jack Wilshere, Abou Diaby or Cesc Fabregas provided). 5. Theo Walcott makes great runs but fails to deliver Closely chased down by Armand Traore, Theo Walcott would have felt the breath of the former Arsenal left-back, as well as the watching Thierry Henry down his neck. But just as he realised how close Traore was to him and the sheer pace with which he ran with the ball, Walcott’s touch was rushed and he scuffed his shot. It wasn’t a great day for the winger-come-striker and the frustration on his face was telling. It wasn’t without the want of trying, though, as he constantly found himself in good positions. Indeed, his runs were often fantastic, given the freedom of the touchline but like the whole Arsenal team, lacked the conviction in the final moments. Arguably, his near-open goal miss in the first-half was a worse miss, just highlighting the lack of confidence he has at the moment. On the other hand, Andrey Arshavin just couldn’t get himself in the game and was lucky that a stray pass was gifted to him for his assist. He’s been Wenger’s impact player but at the moment, that seems far from being proved right. 6. Per Mertesacker continues to show his quality Little has been written about Per Mertesacker. He hasn’t quite been as spectacular as Laurent Koscielny who, bar a couple of rash challenges, was once again superb but he has been consistently solid. Mertesacker reads the game well; so well, in fact, that he rarely has to challenge (his stats show him to be quite passive in that regards). There are still misgivings about his pace but he doesn’t make that obvious because his positioning is excellent. Indeed, Arsenal have conceded the most goals in the league which have been attributed to mistakes and Mertesacker’s problems have generally been closer to goal than up the pitch. In the changing room, Mertesacker is a reliable aide to Robin van Persie but on the pitch, he has settled in quietly – which is how he would want it. 7. Robin van Persie has the last laugh This time last year, Robin van Persie would probably looked straight in the eye of his calender and said “I want an injury free campaign and goals. Lot’s of goals. You are going to be my bitch.” And certainly, it has been his year, scoring a bucket-load of goals but what’s not been picked on as much is the truck-load of chances he’s had to score them. That shouldn’t be an indictment of his wastefulness as he still has a very good conversion rate (19%), taking 90 shots at 4.7 per game. But rather, we should be talking about how many chances he creates himself by his devastating moving or his sheer unpredictability. He has taken less of a creative role this season as Arsenal have changed their style but that has also been the story of Arsenal this year. Each time Wenger has implemented a series of tactical and strategic changes to their play, van Persie has adapted and consistently delivered the goals. Borussia Dormund coach, Jurgen Klopp, says he finds it amazing that a player who plays so deep in midfield can be such a danger in the box but you just have to study his movement to see why. Van Persie constantly peels of his marker, whether playing on the shoulder or picking up possession. And if he does pick up the ball around the box, all manner of things can happen. Which highlights the joy of Robin van Persie at the moment. Long may it continue. He’s deserved it. By Anam ~ Arsenal Columnin Match Analysis January 1, 2012 October 29, 2015 1,581 WordsLeave a comment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line993
__label__cc	0.728022	0.271978	Open defecation solves the child mortality puzzle among Indian Muslims Registered: Oct 5, 2005 sviola wrote: Tan68 wrote: Subl1ght wrote: This reminded me of how Muhammed (the prophet of islam) quotes from the old testament, idk how much and if health codes setup in the Mosaic law (such as quarantine procedures, and specifically defecating far away from your camp into a latrine and then burying it) are even used by modern day Muslims or if its just "put your left foot in, put your right foot out, praise Allah and shake it all about, and that's what its all about!" I can't say I know much about it but I have seen two fellows in two different towns in the same country come out of squat toilets in a public building. They did a cursory handwash (well, not much different from many other people...) and then they washed the soles of their feet. Just a quick wipe on the bottom of the shoe with a wet hand. This followed the initial handwashing and there was no handwashing subsequent to the shoe wipe. I mention 'two towns' because, although I saw only a handful of public restrooms, I take the practice to not be unheard of and terribly unusual for the area. They have different ways of going about business. The foot wiping, they likely thought no more of than an American washing hands yet then blowing the nose. The comparison only of the improper order of operation, of course... I can't say any of this necessarily has to do with being Muslim, though. Very different stuff, though. I know for a fact that miiddle-east people (not inly muslims, but also christians and other religions, though I don't know if israelis do this) never uses their left hands for eating as it is used to clean themselves after going to the bathroom. l Before the invention of toilet paper this was common practice in Europe as well. wicketr wrote: The only way they can enact change (if promoting it's benefits doesn't work), is to ostracize the people and the act of defecating in public. Make people focus on how poorly it affects them and others, and make those that do it feel self conscious about doing something taboo. Ultimately it comes down to education, and it should be approached from a viewpoint of science and health. Yes, there are some religious and cultural practices that align with known science (and I dare say, simple common sense), but simply saying 'This is bad' without an evidence-based reason is not addressing the problem at a deep level. I'm not saying that's what you were getting at, but using the word 'taboo' leaves too much ambiguity. Tan68 Drakkenmensch wrote: The roman empire was famous for having public toilets and sewer systems for public sanitation. Yes, but what have the Romans ever done for us? Without Roman numerals, we would be stuck with OS Ecks sigmasirrus In the Mosaic law, the Israelites were to bury their excrement outside the camp. If they touched a dead body, or had a disease, they were to be quarantined outside the camp for a period of time. There was a lot of emphasis on cleanliness in a ceremonial and literal sense. I don't know a whole lot about Islam, but I would venture to guess that at least some of this made it into Muslim tradition as well, seeing as how Islam drew on the Torah and Gospels for the Koran. Common sense is a good thing. groghunter rgharakh wrote: exploder wrote: It strikes me that India needs to start dealing with its shit, which is ultimately both a viable energy and fertilizer resource, if it's collected without all kinds of toxic crap, as poop only. Then fermenting (methane production for energy) and composting would make it into safe fertilizer for food crops. This stuff should really not be complicated, even without plumbing. It's not that easy, well at least with the fertilizer aspect. There's a lot of potential contaminants in human feces, some of which are human transferable pathogens and pharmaceuticals which are probably the hardest to remove. Heavy metals might be an issue too. Not without precedent, though: they do it in Japan. flunk wrote: Where a bidet is used, a bit of lavage is integral to the process. TP isn't suitable for this. Using a towel is rude. WIT_IDE sigmasirrus wrote: The fact that religious dogma is required to teach people to not shit where they eat bespeaks to the fact that what should be obvious standards of sanitation aren't common sense. Domesticated (and some less domesticated) animals are better at this kind of thing. "For a causal link to be established, an experiment will have to be done where a select group is provided with more toilets and health information that increases their use of them. But such a study won't pass ethical committees, because the benefits of toilet use are clear. It is not ethical to knowingly deprive any community of these benefits, which means it is not ethical to have a control group." If the benefits of toilet use are "clear" - then there should be no need to do a study. If there is a need to do such an experiment, then the benefits of toilet use are not "clear", and there would be no ethical problem. Regardless, I doubt the study design would consist of depriving those who currently have toilets of access to toilets, it would find those who do not have toilets and use them as a pool for a randomized control group. What possible ethical issues can there be with that? Their sanitary status is not changed by the experiment. EvilJohnius Registered: Aug 4, 2008 The problem right now is it's considered "acceptable". They need to change that viewpoint so that when they think of defecating in public, it's considered the absolute worst thing to do. I agree, and yet I'm reminded of how many people still smoke. I suppose we can only hope there is not an addictive component to this. A lot of stuff trumps so-called 'common sense'. Last edited by EvilJohnius on Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:03 am Aeio Seniorius Lurkius Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:00 am Akshat - you should really change the headline of this post, although technically correct, it suggests that open defecation solves the child mortality problem (vs puzzle) the opposite of the truth and the point of the article. Drakkenmensch To quote Edna Crabapple: "Wait children! Without roman numerals, you will never know in what years certain movies were copyrighted!" Aeio wrote: Haha, I see what happened there. Journalism is a silly place. In our public speaking class, we had a couple classes where we just read and made fun of headlines for failing to be clear or stating the opposite of what they meant. Last edited by WIT_IDE on Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:06 am DoomHamster Tribus: Utah I wish we used these more in the States. I learned to appreciate them while I was in Tunisia and really missed them when I came back; Nothing else gets the job done quite so thoroughly and quickly. Plus, if you are sick enough to have the heaves and squirts simultaneously, they are a godsend! WIT_IDE wrote: Never thought of that way, but it's true... Cats seem to know where the litter box is by instinct, and they clean themselves. But human children need to be potty trained. Hmm... fferitt25 So they did a study on a topic that most of the modern world already knows about. Don't poop where you eat. God - it must be nice to be a researcher that bullshits some grant funding entity for money. As far back as 1925, when India was still a British colony with a population of 280 million, Mahatma Gandhi said, "Sanitation is more important than independence." Although his concern then was less to do with public health and more to do with human dignity, heeding his words would have improved—and in many cases saved—the lives of millions who were yet to be born. On a side note - Indians must fornicate faster than rabbits for their population to explode by 1 billion + in less than 80 years. Ferrets self train similarly. I think its a territory/hunting thing. I've been to India, and I found it shocking that a city of 1 million+ inhabitants can have a reliable cell phone network but no sewer system. It put a big dent in my general outlook of cultural relativism. CatG wrote: I think you're misreading the article. The people openly defecating are not the Muslims (mostly) - it's the Hindu. I'm not familiar with Hindu religious practices, but I am pretty sure they don't include Mosaic sanitation laws. Islamic laws are more likely to do so, because it IS an Abrahamic religion and did carry some of the same laws into the Qu'ran. [Disclaimer - I'm not a Muslim. Nor am I a Hindu. But I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.] And yet the irony is this 'article" quotes Ganhdi - who was a Hindu. HonorableSoul Tribus: Bristow, VA - Somewhere between Basilisk Station and where the Water Sleeps I couldn't resist. Ask me why I should give a sh1t about this? <John Stewart smug look> Then my producer said not on the air. Dukov Nook Not to mention, the issues it will cause with Superbowls. NuclearTreeFrog rex86 wrote: Dancing Poop Teach India's Poor How To Use The Toilet! I thought this link was gonna be to Mr. Hankey NuclearTreeFrog wrote: I thought it was going to be another Rick Astley video. Another proof open doesn't always win. I've been to India, and have seen people urinate in streams and further down there are people brushing their teeth. Defecation is only part of it I suspect. In fact, a teacher I knew there never put diapers on his baby. And he said very few people do. And he was far from poor. And now there's a trend in the US for the same thing! Deniers and faddists are going to be the death of many. dfavro Registered: Jun 2, 2011 ewelch wrote: In fact, a teacher I knew there never put diapers on his baby. And he said very few people do. And he was far from poor. I did this. Generally, what you're doing is trying to toilet-train early, and it's in reaction to people who diaper their children until they're four or more years old. It's not "don't wear diapers, ever, and just let them crap on the floor", it's "wear an easily-removable cloth diaper and get your kid to the potty before they defecate in hope they clue into their own signals" as opposed to "let your kid wear a soiled diaper until someone notices, which could be a long time, and sets up a pattern where they just go in their diaper without thinking about it" Cats are a poor example because they are not clean at all. Yes, they use a litterbox, but they also use their tongues as toilet paper. And then they 'clean' themselves with the same. I don't care if a creature grooms itself multiple times per day. If it is essentially bathing itself in raw sewage it is filthy. Tribus: northeastern US I'm American, and I haven't yet seen signs of this new urinating-in-streams trend. If it is essentially bathing itself in raw sewage it is filthy. This is what cats laugh at when they browse the Internet: LOLhumans. Zarsus Pantagruel wrote: Ha, I read "Open defecation" and involuntarily thought it was about some sort of open source program / open standard... It sort of is when you think about it, it just happens that what's being shared is shit. Not really the kind of open source projects I'd want to get involved in. Of course the trick is that they didn't specify which flowers they smell like. M-S-G The Real Blastdoor wrote: M-S-G wrote: Don't forget the whole rape thing. India is a fucked up place to live. The whole 'cast' system? WTF. I basically agree, but I think it's worth pointing out that illiberal, bass-ackwards attitudes and behaviors exist all over the world, including in places like the United States. I read a story about red neck dufasses bringing automatic weapons into restaurants..... Yeah. Because bringing a gun to a restaurant as just as ass-backwards as 12th century hygiene standard. I suppose you can call both of these things 'culture'. Doubt you will find a lot of folks pleased with linking the two. Someone else said it well, lack of 'hole in the ground' to defecate is not a poverty problem but a cultural issue - It's not hard to dig one up but that's just how things are there and have been for centuries. Again I state my point the Indian culture really is fucked up. Nothing to do with people or race. Fucked up culture and ass-backwardness. Rabite2345 Shit just got real! TBoneT I had a cat that knew where the litter box was. She'd squat right next to it every time. The Job wrote: Great study. Hopefully it helps spur changes that reduce child mortality. Except that people that defecate in the open are unlikely to read medical reports or Ars... or have internet access. Tribus: Pittsburgh, PA USA Oh yeah, that rape thing...it never happens anywhere else, like say here in America. Oh wait...it does, like every fucking week (Usually to go with a new mass shooting every other fucking month). What's the latest? Oh yeah, three jocks gang raped a high school girl at a party after the prom. The police are actually bringing charges this time...but there is much hand wringing about how this will impact the bright futures of these young men. India - fucked up placed to live 'Merica - fuck yeah Last edited by kray28 on Wed Jun 04, 2014 11:06 am ...by way of Busby Berkeley... norton_I JesusII wrote: I don't think ethics rule out a randomized trial. What has typically been done is that some funds are allocated for an improvement, but its not enough to help everyone. You then use randomization as part of the allocation of funds. Including a randomization step in the allocation has been done numerous times and seems to pass ethics review. There are also quasi-experimental designs that can be pretty robust without a true control group. One that would be most appropriate here is time series analysis with randomized rollout. So you are going to build toilets and provide education for N regions, but you can only do one at a time. You randomly assign the order in which the regions receive the treatment then you look for a decrease in mortality that is time correlated with when the sanitation improved. I am not sure it is really necessary or important to do so. Figuring out exactly how much of the observed health disparity is due to this issue would be interesting, and perhaps marginally useful, but it is already established that using toilets has a clear public health benefit. A better use of research resources would be to provide many regions with toilets but use multiple approaches to deployment and education and look to see which technique is most effective at promoting toilet use. . There should be less ethics problem there as every group receives the toilets, and the benefits of a specific education are not established (as evidenced by the fact that prior efforts have failed to generate widespread use). He preferred the light yellow dresser dfavro wrote: Interesting. That sounds a lot more reasonable than the parent guru celebrity who did the movie Clueless. kray28 wrote: Oh yeah, that rape thing...it never happens anywhere else Show me the last time in the US 2 teenagers were raped by a policeman and hung on a tree. The cast system in India is far worse than 'black people go to the end of the bus'. The lower 'untouchables' cast is the victim of most crimes like that. And BTW I'm just a white dude with a desk job so none of this affects me, I just find it super fucking repulsive. kalzekdor Talion wrote: Did you read the article? The problem is persistent throughout all stratas of wealth, from the poorest to the richest. Defecating in the open is a cultural issue, not an economic one. Edit: Quote from the article: They found that Muslims, regardless of income, were 20 percent more likely to use toilets than Hindus. Last edited by kalzekdor on Wed Jun 04, 2014 11:18 am	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line994
__label__wiki	0.738272	0.738272	Sports, Cricket 'Was lucky to get a direct hit from the outfield': Guptill on MS Dhoni run out Published : Jul 12, 2019, 5:54 pm IST Updated : Jul 12, 2019, 5:54 pm IST With that run out in the 49th over, India's hopes ended in the tense semifinal at Old Trafford on Wednesday. Guptil had endured a below-par World Cup with the bat before this run-out redeemed him to an extent. (Photo: AP) London: It was called a game-changing moment of brilliance but New Zealand batsman Martin Guptill says his direct that ran out M S Dhoni in the World Cup semifinal against India was more a case of luck doing its bit for him. With that run out in the 49th over, India's hopes ended in the tense semifinal at Old Trafford on Wednesday. The former champions went down by 18 runs against the last edition's finalists. "I did not think the ball was actually coming to me, I tried to get there as soon as I could. Once I got hold of the ball, I thought it was actually quite straight. Lucky enough to get a direct hit from out there, lucky for us he was out of his ground," Guptill said in a short video uploaded by the ICC on social media. "Lucky enough to get a direct hit from out there" – New Zealand's @Martyguptill on his ⚡ ️throw to dismiss MS Dhoni in the #CWC19 semi-final against India. #BackTheBlackCaps pic.twitter.com/GnerDahQgQ — ICC (@ICC) July 11, 2019 Guptil had endured a below-par World Cup with the bat before this run-out redeemed him to an extent. It was that moment of brilliance which tilted the game completely in New Zealand's favour with Dhoni getting out on 50 off 72 balls. Hasta la vista, Dhoni 🎯 #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/TWxbKULjCQ Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja shared a 116-run stand for the seventh wicket to give India a fighting chance after a top-order collapse left them reeling at 24 for four. Tags: 2019 icc cricket world cup, india vs new zealand, mahendra singh dhoni, martin guptill Location: United Kingdom, England, London Latest From Sports Twitter Lauds Kane Williamson Luck of Allah, says Eoin Morgan Gentleman Kane Williamson gracious in tragic loss Kiwis overthrown!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1000
__label__wiki	0.93885	0.93885	@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode111 - Mental Radio [archiveorg 20140524PumpUpThaVolume111 width=560 height=384 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true] Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International @PumpUpThaVolume, The Faint, Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Caught A Ghost, Mimicking Birds, Tele Novella, Architecture in Helsinki, Family Crest, Dolly Parton, Sturgill Simpson, Actual Wolf, HTRK, Young Magic, Built To Spill, Mudhoney, ♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode111 - Mental Radio which features brand new sounds from The Faint, Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Caught A Ghost, Mimicking Birds, Tele Novella, Architecture in Helsinki, Family Crest, Dolly Parton, Sturgill Simpson, Actual Wolf, HTRK, Young Magic, Built To Spill and Mudhoney... Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode110 - Smokin' ♬Liner Notes♬: It's Memorial Day weekend and, as Sasquatch rocks the Pacific Northwest, we're gonna rock some of the best new music this side of summer. Favorites like The Faint, Sean Lennon, Dolly Parton, Built To Spill and Mudhoney sizzle alongside Architecture In Helsinki, Caught A Ghost, Actual Wolf and much more! "Mental Radio" 'Doom Abuse' SQE, 2014 Notes: "Before modern, synthy dance rock came into vogue, before dubstep, even before The Postal Service, teens looking for something to satisfy both their us-vs.-them, heartbroken moodiness and the need to dance like crazy people had the dark new wave of The Faint. The Faint made it cool for hipsters to dance in the late ’90s, and for that we thank them. 1999′s Blank-Wave Arcade and 2001′s Danse Macabre were indie dance night staples... There is a good chance that The Faint won’t be making many new fans from Doom Abuse. The lyrical content is the same paranoid, anti-establishment apocalypse they’ve been writing since Dance Macabre, and while the music is a shift back to the grime that was absent from Fasciinatiion, it’s still The Faint holding to their new wave revival." Fuckin' finally! After six long years, one of my favorite bands is back with a new full-length on a new label and I hope to be interviewing them when they come to town on May 31st! Stay tuned! (@TheFaint) "Animals/Long Gone (Syd Barrett cover, live on KUTX)" 'Midnight Sun' Chimera, 2014 Notes: "The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger is out to topple everyone’s expectations. The two-piece band has rather public identities to overcome: Sean Lennon is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl is a world-class model who was the youngest covergirl on Britain’s Harper’s Bazaar... In the trajectory of Sean Lennon’s solo career and The GOASTT’s six-year history, Midnight Sun is their going-electric moment. Sean Lennon’s subdued and minimalist solo music paved the way for The GOASTT’s initial albums to be acoustic and saccharine in what Kemp Muhl now describes as "nerdy folk music." This April's album is oh-so-different. Inherited Beatlesque psychedelica meshes with modern-day indie à la Tame Impala and Deerhunter." Whoa, with this live Syd Barrett cover, Sean Lennon continually proves that he's the real creative legacy of his father. (Damn, they're in town tonight with Syd Arthur opening!) (@WeAreTheGoaSTT) Caught A Ghost "No Sugar In My Coffee" 'Human Nature' +1 Records, 2014 Notes: "Helmed by singer/songwriter/producer Jesse Nolan, Caught A Ghost also features drummer Stephen Edelstein and singer/percussionist Tessa Thompson, who has won acclaim for her acting roles in such TV series as "Veronica Mars," "Copper," and the upcoming Dear White People, which won The Jury Prize at Sundance this year. For its live show, the band morphs into an eight-piece outfit that includes a full horn section and much dancing." We heard "Sleeping At Night" from the East LA band back on Episode042. (@CaughtAGhost) Mimicking Birds "Bloodlines" 'Eons' Glacial Pace, 2014 Notes: "Way back in 2010, we posted “New Doomsdays,” a gorgeously fragile ballad from Nate Lacy’s ethereal roots-rock band Mimicking Birds. The Portland band is back with a new album called Eons this May, again via Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace label, but lead single “Bloodlines” finds Lacy further distinguishing his voice from Brock’s feral drawl. The gently trembling vocal here will resonate with fans of My Morning Jacket and Phosphorescent; it sounds like a beam of light against the band’s beautiful psych spirals." (@MimickingBirds) Tele Novella "Trouble In Paradise" single American Laundromat, 2014 Notes: "Psych-pop foursome Tele Novella is known for powerful vocals complemented by dream-like vibes, and it seems their [latest] 7” won’t stray too far from the abstract charm that propelled them onto playlists and record players with their recent release Don’t Be A Stranger." The Austin band may be small, but their sound and their profile is growing. (@Tele_Novella) "I Might Survive" 'NOW + 4EVA' Casual Workout, 2014 Notes: "Aussie indie-pop outfit Architecture in Helsinki...release their new album, the peppily-titled NOW + 4EVA... The band’s first since 2011′s Moment Bends, the 11-track effort was co-produced by Francois Tetaz (Gotye) and mixed by Damian Taylor (Arcade Fire, The Killers)... the five-piece have broken off their latest single “I Might Survive”. While it doesn’t sound quite as determined as Gloria Gaynor’s own survival anthem, the technicolor synth-pop cut does borrow some of Gaynor’s disco chic and glitz." (@AiHmusic) "Beneath the Brine" 'Beneath the Brine' Tender Loving Empire, 2014 Notes: "The Family Crest began in 2009 as a creative outlet for friends Liam McCormick and John Seeterlin, but in the years since, it's morphed into something far larger. The independent San Francisco band is built around a core of seven, but boasts a sprawling "extended family" of over 400 people who have participated in some capacity -- everyone from conservatory-trained musicians to friends and fans “who just sing in the shower,” says McCormick, the mastermind behind the collective... With Beneath The Brine, The Family Crest’s Kickstarter-funded full-length, McCormick and company capture practically every type of instrument -- trumpets, French horn and trombone trios, pedal steel and vibraphone, choirs and and string quartets." As I recently noted, Tender Loving Empire is the best record label/toy store out there! (@TheFamilyCrest) "Blue Smoke" 'Blue Smoke' Dolly/Sony, 2014 Notes: Dolly herself says, ""One of the reasons I called it 'Blue Smoke' is that it has a tinge of the bluegrass of the Smoky Mountains — a mountain music flavor. The 'Blue Smoke' song is about a heartbreak train called Blue Smoke." It's built on a spirited shuffle rhythm, rootsy instrumentation including guitar, fiddle and dobro and an instant sing-along chorus with her message of departure to an unfaithful love..." I streamed the whole album the other day and it reminded me, in a way, of Loretta Lynn's 'Van Lear Rose'. Aside from some covers (the great "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" from Dylan and the silly "Lay Your Hands On Me" from Bon Jovi) and the fact that 'Blue Smoke' isn't a Jack White-produced rager (nor should it be), the album has the heartwarming (duets with Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson?!) and even bittersweet feel of a legend saying goodnight like Lynn did on her last album. (@DollyParton) "A Little Light" 'Metamodern Sounds in Country Music' High Top Mountain, 2014 Notes: "Sturgill Simpson’s sophomore record is downright disorienting... Even the title — Metamodern Sounds in Country Music — feels ripped from the ’70s, when country artists like Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons and Jessi Colter brazenly upended the Nashville formula, unafraid of getting weird or getting raw... The spirit of the good old days is felt most strongly in the too-brief A Little Light, which swings even as it uplifts." (@SturgillSimpson) Actual Wolf "Thinking Of You" (Live on The Current) 'Beer EP' MPR/Schell, 2014 Notes: "The Current Beer EP features six songs recorded at The Current studios (or at First Avenue) from some of our favorite artists... [featuring] Cactus Blossom...The 4onthefloor...Har Mar Superstar...Caroline Smith...[and]...Frankie Lee" An awesome non-commercial radio station teaming up with a local, craft beer? I'll have another, please! And you can download the EP for free here. (@ActualWolf) HTRK "Blue Sunshine" 'Psychic 9-5 Club' Ghostly, 2014 Notes: "On April 1, HTRK return[ed] with their first proper album as a duo. The [Sydney] Australian group — whose name is pronounced "Hate Rock" — suffered a massive blow during the recording of 2011's Work (Work Work), when founding member Sean Stewart was found dead in his home. But on the forthcoming Psychic 9-5 Club, Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang create a work that, according to label Ghostly, "looks back on a time of sadness and struggle, and within that struggle they find hope and humor and love." A song like "Blue Sunshine," heard below, seems to exemplify that, wrapping sensual Sade-like vocals inside a black blanket of moody bass, terse atmosphere, and skittering percussion. "Healthy dose of inner peace," Standish coos out with a narcotic stickiness, "Blue rays."" (@HTRK_) Young Magic "Fall In" 'Breathing Statues' Carpark, 2014 Notes: "Breathing Statues found [Brooklyn's] Young Magic's lineup pared down to the duo of Isaac Emmanuel and Melati Malay, but the album sounds far bigger and more polished than their [2012] debut, Melt... " (@ItsYoungMagic) "Jokerman" (Bob Dylan cover) 'Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One' ATO, 2014 Notes: "In a couple of months, the compilation Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One will pay tribute to the most neglected period in Robert Zimmerman’s career. (This is, of course, a relative thing; the Reagan-era version of Bob Dylan still gave us “Most Of The Time” and one fifth of “Handle With Care.”) The comp, put together by producers Jesse Lauter and Sean O’Brien, is set to feature people like Deer Tick, Elvis Perkins, Reggie Watts, and, in an improbable collaboration, Gene Ween and Slash. For their contribution, Built To Spill have done a characteristically ragged and beautiful take on “Jokerman,” a weird half-reggae song from Dylan’s 1983 album Infidels, which Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler co-produced." (@OfficialBTS) "Touch Me I'm Sick" 'Mudhoney On Top! KEXP Presents Mudhoney Live on Top of the Space Needle' Sub Pop, 2014 Notes: "Although Seattle’s rich musical history has given it plenty of elder statesmen, very few are still kicking as hard as Mudhoney. As their latest album, 2013′s Vanishing Point, proves, [they] remain as energetic and furious as ever, raging against douchebags, large venues, and, uh, chardonnay with the same reckless abandon that fueled their initial rise to local notoriety. As part of their longtime label Sub Pop’s Silver Jubilee celebration, KEXP broadcast the quartet live from the top of the Space Needle and recently joined with Sub Pop to release that performance on vinyl for Record Store Day 2014. When the band actually finished setting up 605 feet above ground, they wasted no time kicking off their set with [1988's] “Touch Me I’m Sick”." Let's blow this Memorial Day weekend episode out with the first, best, loudest and snottiest track from the grunge-era, and it still scorches! (I remember the first time I heard this song, I thought "Holy s%$#!! Why is Nirvana the bigger band?!") (@_Mudhoney) This week's B-sides: Skull Defekts, Rodrigo Amarante, Kite Party, Chet Faker, My Sad Captains and Blood Red Shoes @PumpUpThaVolume Music News: Against Me!'s @LauraJaneGrace criticizes @ArcadeFire for "We Exist" video @beastieboys' Monster Energy Drink lawsuit finally goes to court All Access: An Oral History of Washington, DC’s @930Club In the Studio: @jennylewis battles loss and insomnia with help from @TheRyanAdams I...want...you... ♫ Sayit – Röyksopp & Robyn Somebody found us dancin’... ♫ Klapp Klapp – Little Dragon Put this down for the record... ♫ Spotify Sessions – Pixies And if you push it I will take you offline... ♫ Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It! – Kishi Bashi @ConorOberst channels Don Henley on the delectably inscrutable 'Upside Down Mountain' Watch @conoroberst bring 'Upside Down Mountain' tracks to @CBSThisMorning @SondreLerche's dancey, divorce-fueled "Bad Law," from upcoming fall LP @verucasalt's classic lineup perform for the first time in 18 years on @ConanOBrien Hear @kanyewest's jittery, abrasive new track "God Level" 10 Albums to Stream: @Neilyoung, @sharonvanetten, @MariahCarey, @HLeithauser, @robynkonichiwa + @royksopp, and more .@MIAuniverse on the main stage, before the flying saucers with illuminated peace signs showed up & blew our minds. Celebrating the legacy of futuristic #jazz composer #SunRa for his 100th birthday Happy 73rd birthday, Bob Dylan! (Thanks again to our #SongOfTheDay sources at @KEXP, @KCRW, @KUTX, @TheKeyXPN and @TheCurrent. 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__label__wiki	0.676341	0.676341	Holst archiveGustav HolstCorrespondence to and from Gustav HolstCorrespondence from Gustav HolstCorrespondence from Gustav Holst to Isobel HolstLetter from Gustav Holst to Isobel Holst Letter from Gustav Holst to Isobel Holst Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb1111-hol/hol/1/5/1/8/24 Britten-Pears Foundation Archive GB 1111 HOL/1/5/1/8/24 Discusses his experiences while on service with the YMCA in Constantinople. Including topics such as an English mailbag being stolen, motor cars, and comunication and letters he has received from England. [1 p, possibly incomplete] This material is made available under the standard conditions of the Britten-Pears Foundation. Readers will be required to produce proof of identity and to sign a Reader’s Undertaking form. See HOL/1/6/8 for more information about Gustav Holst's travels abroad in 1919. Holst archiveHOL Gustav HolstHOL/1 Music manuscripts of Gustav HolstHOL/1/1 Published music of Gustav HolstHOL/1/2 Libretti for Gustav Holst's worksHOL/1/3 Additional music manuscriptsHOL/1/4 Correspondence to and from Gustav HolstHOL/1/5 Correspondence from Gustav HolstHOL/1/5/1 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Dorothy CallardHOL/1/5/1/1 Letter from Gustav Holst to Peter CoxHOL/1/5/1/2 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to John CurwenHOL/1/5/1/3 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Gwendolen DaviesHOL/1/5/1/4 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Edwin EvansHOL/1/5/1/5 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Walter GandyHOL/1/5/1/6 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Frances R GrayHOL/1/5/1/7 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Isobel HolstHOL/1/5/1/8 Letter from Gustav Holst to Isobel HolstHOL/1/5/1/8/1 Postcard from Gustav Holst to Isobel HolstHOL/1/5/1/8/6 Letter from Gustav Holst to Isobel HolstHOL/1/5/1/8/10 Postcard from Gustav Holst to Isobel HolstHOL/1/5/1/8/12 Fragment of a letter from Gustav Holst to Isobel HolstHOL/1/5/1/8/18 Postcard from Gustav Holst and Imogen Holst to Isobel HolstHOL/1/5/1/8/50 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Dora Herbert JonesHOL/1/5/1/9 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Mabel Rodwell JonesHOL/1/5/1/10 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Amy KempHOL/1/5/1/11 Letter from Gustav Holst to Douglas KennedyHOL/1/5/1/12 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Maja KjohlerHOL/1/5/1/13 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Vally LaskerHOL/1/5/1/14 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Mary LediardHOL/1/5/1/15 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Kathleen LongHOL/1/5/1/16 Letter from Gustav Holst to Duncan McKenzieHOL/1/5/1/17 Letters from Gustav Holst to E NewmanHOL/1/5/1/18 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Marion ScottHOL/1/5/1/19 Letter from Gustav Holst to N U SecretaryHOL/1/5/1/20 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Harold Brooke (Novellos)HOL/1/5/1/21 Correspondence from Gustav Holst to Curwens LtdHOL/1/5/1/22 Letter from Gustav Holst to anonymousHOL/1/5/1/23 Photograph of a letter from Gustav Holst to Adine O'NeillHOL/1/5/1/24 Photocopies of letters from Gustav Holst to various correspondentsHOL/1/5/1/25 Correspondence to Gustav HolstHOL/1/5/2 Letters to and from other correspondentsHOL/1/5/3 Gustav Holst's engagement diariesHOL/1/6 Gustav Holst's notebooksHOL/1/7 Gustav Holst's lecture notesHOL/1/8 Agreements with publishers for Gustav Holst worksHOL/1/9 Lists of Gustav Holst's compositionsHOL/1/10 Copies of music manuscripts of Gustav Holst held elsewhereHOL/1/11 Imogen HolstHOL/2 G and I Holst Ltd.HOL/3 Holst FoundationHOL/4 Rosamund StrodeHOL/5 Isador CaplanHOL/6 Leslie PeritonHOL/7 Additional Gustav and Imogen Holst papersHOL/8	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1007
__label__cc	0.64032	0.35968	metronome, mind body connection, mindful piano practicing, music and heart, musical phrasing, phrasing at the piano, piano instruction, piano instructor, piano lesson, piano lessons, piano playing and relaxation, piano student, piano teacher, piano teaching, piano teaching repertoire, piano warm-ups, pianoaddict.com, Pianostreet.com, pianoworld, pianoworld.com, playing piano, Shirley Kirsten, Shirley Kirsten blog, Shirley Smith Kirsten, studying piano, teaching piano to children, word press, wordpress.com The Metronome, a blessing or curse? August 26, 2011 July 6, 2012 arioso7: Shirley Kirsten My original opinion on this topic was unequivocal. I would never use a metronome under any circumstances in my teaching except to consult for overall tempo. The expression, to be “ticked off” summed up my attitude toward the robotic beat counter. Setting the wand to any magic number created a despairing search for the downbeat that eluded me when trying to keep up with it. As Thoreau would say, I was marching to the beat of a different drummer. For students who had endlessly strained and struggled to play five finger step-wise warm-ups, subdividing quarters into 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, I would tell them countless times that there was hope beyond the bounds of the ticking timer. The beat would eventually flow out of the unconscious, when the player allowed it to “breathe.” In truth, the metronome cannot breathe or allow for a tempo rubato, the flexible time frame of Romantic era piano repertoire. A Chopin Waltz played with the gadget will sound like it was written as a Czerny exercise, though Czerny, Hanon and their contemporaries surely would not have wanted their music parceled into mechanical measures. Shaping a beautiful musical line from any era of musical composition eludes the ticking arbiter. The beginning or end of a phrase has its own unique moment of truth discovered when the mind and body are at rest not stressing to meet the metronome at the downbeat. Silences between notes often ride their own crest, giving cues as to when the next note begins. A fermata over a note, suspends it, and eases it out of rhythmic reinforcement. In Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” there’s a recitative-like section from measures 36-39 that would be beaten to death by a metronome. Mildred Portney Chase addresses the subject of “Rhythm” in her inspired writing, Just Being at the Piano. Under the chapter heading, “Innate Rhythm” she says, “We all know the teacher who sits beating on the piano with a pencil (the metronome substitute), counting aloud and directing the student to keep steady time. The student and teacher are so concerned with keeping time that neither is listening to the tone. Tone should not have to be sacrificed to rhythm, or rhythm to tone, but all too often a pianist may end up able to keep a half way decent rhythm having sacrificed tone sensitivity. Development of rhythm and tone can be intertwined by moving back and forth in emphasis in practice. It is possible to achieve a balance between expressiveness of sound and expressiveness of rhythm.” So what’s the remedy for piano students who insist that they will always be rhythmically compromised? As language is passed from parent to child, with nuances of expression, punctuations, rhythms of speech absorbed through continuous exposure, so the music teacher, should take the lead at every opportunity to sing, conduct, and phrase measures with syllables to reflect the unfolding landscape of a piece. Tone, phrasing, rhythm, dynamics belong together, all influencing each other. Conductors use syllables to guide tempo and create rhythmic cohesion. A teacher can double on this approach, using “double-leedles” as a transition from 8ths to 16ths. But her beat substitutes however contrived, must be animated as if their life depended on it. (Here, I’m conducting a student with big sweeps of my arms to assist rhythm and phrasing) The counterpoint of a Bach Invention was also illuminated in the process. Singing with syllables (without a need to hammer beats out for emphasis) is in my opinion the best approach that has any hope for success in the teaching environment. Portney Chase chimes in with the same: “When teaching a child, I prefer to use syllables to express rhythm. She refers to Quantz having told his students “to use the sound of syllables (tu-ra-lu-ra) to feel the flow of the rhythm in a group of notes. The syllables lend a natural lilt to the grouping and accentuation that the fingers might miss in their more mechanical response to such written rhythmic combinations… Pronouncing a sound vocally puts you in touch with the place from which rhythm physically originates. The hand has only to follow.” So having recited a gospel that refuses to embrace metronomic counting or anything related, how could I justify having used a metronome with a 4-year old who was wedded to Tales of a Musical Journey, a new piano instruction for children in the 4-7 year old range. The book had a strong adherence to metronome reliance in the early stage of learning. All its CD selections were permeated with a ticking timer. First, this was new territory for me, and a landscape that I might not have sought out. Just the same, my inclination was to go along with the program in the short run, and release myself and the student from the bondage of mechanical beats as soon as the opportunity arose. I don’t think I had a choice given my intuition and training. As a matter of observation, I had noticed that setting a metronome for the Tchaikovsy “March of the Wooden Soldiers” caused both the student and I to ignore it and go with the flow. We were in harmony as duet players in a rhythmic- framing partnership. The more opportunities a teacher took to join a student at the piano bench, imbuing a sense of time’s ebb and flow, with nuances of tone and phrasing embedded, the better chance a pupil had to evolve into a living, breathing musician. Post script: Rina, who began her piano studies with me at age 4, no longer requires a mechanized beat ticker. She has developed a good sense of rhythm over time in a patient, learning-positive environment. RELATED: My original writing about Metronomes https://arioso7.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/to-use-or-not-to-use-a-metronome-in-the-piano-studio/ Tagged Bach Invention no. 4 in d minor, Johann Sebastian Bach, metronome, metronome use in piano studios, piano addict, piano instruction, piano learning, piano lessons, piano street, piano teaching, Piano World, rhythmic reinforcement, Shirley Kirsten, Shirley Smith Kirsten, teaching children piano, teaching piano Previous postHighlights of Rina’s fourth piano lesson, 8/25/11: Learning about Rhythm and tapping C’s and Ds to Marches (Videos in three parts) Next postPiano Lesson: Shaping scales and arpeggios with syllables and tempo prompts (Video) 1 thought on “The Metronome, a blessing or curse?” arioso7: Shirley Kirsten says: Reblogged this on Arioso7's Blog.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1008
__label__wiki	0.689315	0.689315	Priscilla Queen of the Desert Says “It Gets Better” Posted on November 2, 2010 by bbbblogger PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL “IT GETS BETTER” VIDEO FEATURE SUPORRTING THE TREVOR PROJECT Watch the video now: The cast of the Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical, which opened its smash hit North American debut engagement at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto to rave reviews last week, have joined forces in support of The Trevor Project’s “It Gets Better” campaign with a specially produced video sharing their experiences with bullying and being gay. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves young lives through its free and confidential helpline, in-school workshops, educational materials, online resources and advocacy. The organization was founded in 1998 by three filmmakers whose film, “Trevor,” a comedy/drama about a gay teenager who attempts suicide, received the 1994 Academy Award® for Best Short Film (Live Action). For more information, visit www.TheTrevorProject.org. Filed under: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT \| Tagged: Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert \| Leave a comment » Broadway’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert Tickets On Sale – 10/30 Posted on October 29, 2010 by bbbblogger FOLLOWING SMASH REVIEWS IN TORONTO TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 “A grand, glorious and gorgeous piece of musical theatre that will fill the heart of anyone who has ever loved — or wanted to be loved.” – Toronto Star “Infectious, giddy entertainment!” – Toronto Globe & Mail “Hits all the high notes! Priscilla turns theatrical convention into theatrical confection – a show that gives you a good time!” – Toronto Sun “Priscilla is a visual knockout, a real crowd-pleaser and, ultimately, a great heart-tugger as well.” – Variety Tickets for the upcoming Broadway production of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL, go on full public sale tomorrow, Saturday, October 30, following the musical’s smash hit North American debut in Toronto this week. Be among the first to purchase Broadway tickets by visiting: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Priscilla-Queen-of-the-Desert-tickets/artist/1061975?list_view=1 The spectacular new stage musical is now playing a pre-Broadway engagement at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Canada through January 2, 2011 prior to beginning performances at Broadway’s Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway) on February 28, and opening on March 20. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The MusicaL stars Olivier Award nominee Tony Sheldon (“Bernadette”), Tony Award® nominee Will Swenson (“Tick”/ “Mitzi”) and Nick Adams (“Adam”/“Felicia”) as the trio of friends on a heart-warming, uplifting adventure who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship in the middle of the Australian outback and end up finding more than they could ever have dreamed. Filed under: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT \| Tagged: Broadway theatre, Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Toronto \| Leave a comment » Priscilla Queen of the Desert – Toronto Star Rave Review TORONTO STAR RAVE REVIEW “Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical is a grand, glorious and gorgeous piece of musical theatre that will fill the heart of anyone who has ever loved — or wanted to be loved.”– Richard Ouzounian, The Toronto Star Read the complete review: http://tinyurl.com/2ejclbm Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical officially opened its pre-Broadway, North American debut engagement at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto to rave reviews this week. The twelve-week only limited run began performances October 12 and will play through January 2, 2011 prior to beginning previews at Broadway’s Palace Theatre on February 28, and officially opening on March 20. THE TORONTO STAR – October 27, 2010 By Richard Ouzounian Let’s get one thing straight (although that might be an unfortunate choice of word in this case): Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, which opened Tuesday night at the Princess of Wales Theatre is not a drag in any sense of the word. Filed under: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT \| Tagged: Broadway theatre, Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert \| Leave a comment » Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical Opens Tonight in Toronto The journey to the heart of fabulous starts NOW! OPENS TONIGHT IN TORONTO Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical officially opens in its pre-Broadway, North American debut at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto tonight, October 26. The twelve-week only limited engagement began performances October 12 and will play through January 2, 2011. The spectacular new stage musical written by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott and directed by Simon Phillips, will open on Broadway this spring on March 20, 2011 at the Palace Theatre following previews beginning on February 28. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical also features C. David Johnson (“Bob”), James Brown III (“Jimmy”), Nathan Lee Graham (“Miss Understanding”), Mike McGowan (“Frank”), J. Elaine Marcos (“Cynthia”), Jessica Phillips (“Marion”), Steve Schepis (“Farrah”), Keala Settle (“Shirley”), “Divas” Jacqueline Arnold, Anastacia McCleskey and Ashley Spencer and Thom Allison, Kyle Brown, Bryan West, Tad Wilson, Joshua Buscher, Susan Dunstan, Gavin Lodge, David Lopez, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Jeff Metzler and Eric Sciotto. priscillaonbroadway.com Follow PRISCILLA on Twitter and on Facebook. Filed under: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT \| Tagged: The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert \| Leave a comment » Broadway’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert Tickets On Sale for American Express Card members TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR BROADWAY’S EXCLUSIVE AMERICAN EXPRESS PRE-SALE THROUGH OCTOBER 29 Click to purchase advance tickets: http://tinyurl.com/2bw5896 Tickets are now on-sale exclusively to American Express card members for the Broadway production of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The MusicaL through Friday, October 29, before they will be on sale to the general public. Be among the first to purchase Broadway tickets by visiting: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Priscilla-Queen-of-the-Desert-tickets/artist/1061975?list_view=1 Filed under: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT \| Tagged: Broadway theatre, Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical \| Leave a comment » Bette Midler Joins Producing Team of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical “THE DIVINE MISS M” BETTE MIDLER JOINS PRODUCING TEAM OF THE FABULOUS ON THE EVE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE IN TORONTO Bette Midler, whose solo Broadway debut at the Palace Theatre is the stuff of showbiz legend, will return to that landmark venue as a producer of this season’s eagerly anticipated, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The MusicaL begins a pre-Broadway engagement tonight, Tuesday, October 12, at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Canada, prior to beginning performances at Broadway’s Palace Theatre in New York City on February 28, and opening March 20, 2011. Bette Midler said ““A new star on Broadway and her name is PRISCILLA!! So much fun, it’s practically illegal!! In fact, it IS illegal in four states!! On behalf of all the producers, James L. Nederlander said, “Not only is Bette Midler a great friend to the Nederlander family, she is also one of the most hyphenated people I know. She is a remarkable actress and performer; a brilliant writer and lyricist; and, an accomplished director. Bette’s insight has already proved to be invaluable on PRISCILLA. We are thrilled that she wants to join us on the bus for this magnificent adventure.” Filed under: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT \| Tagged: Bette Midler, Broadway theatre, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert \| Leave a comment » Priscilla Queen of the Desert Begins Performances in Toronto – 10/12 The journey to the heart of fabulous begins! BEGINS PERFORMANCES IN TORONTO TODAY Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical makes its pre-Broadway, North American debut when it begins performances at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto today, October 12 toward an official opening on October 26. The twelve-week only limited engagement will play through January 2, 2011. Olivier Award nominee Tony Sheldon (“Bernadette”), Tony Award® nominee Will Swenson (“Tick”/ “Mitzi”) and Nick Adams (“Adam”/“Felicia”) star as the trio of friends on a heart-warming, uplifting adventure who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship in the middle of the Australian outback and end up finding more than they could ever have dreamed. Filed under: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT \| Tagged: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, Priscilla the Musical, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert \| Leave a comment »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1011
__label__cc	0.685958	0.314042	April 30, 2018 June 18, 2018 lauramossa Beagles and Books is back with It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them. Grump: The (Fairly True Story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Liesl Shurtliff In Shurtliff’s lastest fractured fairy tale, readers meet Borlen, a dwarf who was born just feet from the surface of the earth. As a result, he is afraid of being deep in the cavern where dwarfs live and work. Borlen also has a fascination with The Surface, which his parents believe is dangerous. Humans live on The Surface and are not to be trusted. When Borlen (nicknamed Grump) has the chance to visit The Surface, he does not hesitate. Not long after, he befriends Queen Elfrieda Veronika Ingrid Lenore (E.V.I.L) and quickly becomes her trusted confidant. It is no surprise that their friendship is short lived for Grump discovers the Queen’s plot to kill Snow White. Because she snatched him by his beard (which is why humans are not to be trusted), Grump is now obliged to assist the huntsman in carrying out the queen’s orders. Grump may have gotten his wish to visit The Surface, but he soon realizes that “getting your wish comes with its own load of rubble.” While readers know a happily ever after is in sight for Snow White, Shurtliff’s take on the fairy tale is a humorous and entertaining ride. I especially love the relationship between Grump and Snow White and immensely enjoyed their banter. A special thanks to Liesl Shurtlif for sending an ARC to my #bookexcursion group. Look for Grump to be released May 29, 2018. Meet Yasminby Saadia Faruqi Illustrated by Hatem Aly Pakistani-American Yasmin Ahmad is an inquisitive and spunky second grade student who has a passion for exploring, painting, building, and creating. In each section, Yasmin is challenged with a problem and must use her creative thinking skills to resolve it. While Yasmin’s family is very supportive of her, what I love about Faruqi’s writing is Yasmin works first to find a solution on her own. Yasmin is a great role model for students reminding them to be think outside the box and persevere. To read my full review, please click here. A special thanks to Jennifer Glidden at Capstone for sending an ARC to my #bookexcursion group. Meet Yasmin publishes on August 1, 2018. Too Much! Not Enough by Gina Perry Peanut and Moe could not be more different. Peanut is messy, loud, and always wants more. Moe is neat, quiet, and wants a little less. When Moe finally can’t take all the commotion, he shouts “TOO MUCH!” and leaves the house with a book in hand. As Moe sits on the porch reading, sad Peanut decides to cleans up the “too much mess.” Outside Moe realizes that life is boring because there is “not enough Peanut.” How can the two friends learn to appreciate their differences? Too Much Not Enough is a sweet story that teaches that true friendship is about respecting each other’s differences and learning from each other. Perry’s bright and bold illustrations of the adorable Moe and Peanut will immediately appeal to young readers. I say see children begging for this book to be read again and again! A special thanks to Gina Perry for sending a F & G of Too Much Not Enough to my #bookexcursion group. It will be released August 2018. How to Code a Sandcastle by Josh Funk Illustrated by Sara Palacios On the last day of summer vacation, Pearl decides it’s her final opportunity to build a sand castle. Because Frisbees, surf boards, and dogs keep ruining her creations, Pearl devises a new plan involving her robot Pascal. In order for Pascal to assist her, Pearl must tell him how to build a sandcastle in code. She explains how coders must take one big problem and break it into smaller problems. As Pearl gives Pascal instructions, she realizes the need for specificity. And when a sequence of directions need to be repeated, using a loop is much more efficient. When Pearl’s sandcastle is washed away because of high tide, she realizes that she can reuse her code to build another protected by a moat! Josh Funk’s books are always a favorite with my students (and me too)! How to Build a Sandcastle is a great addition to #classroombookaday because one of our teachers has been running a coding club after school. Students enrolled in our summer STEM camp will also have an opportunity to engage in coding. This picture book will be a great way to introduce coding terms such as looping, and if-then-else. A special thanks to Josh Funk for sharing a F & G of How to Code a Sandcastle to my #bookexcursion group. Look for its release on May 15, 2018. Etta’s and Bella’s Dog Pick of the Week: Swim Bark Run by Brian & Pamela Boyles Illustrated by Beth Hughes Daisy, a bulldog, loves cheering on her dad Brian when he competes in a triathlon. Wanting her own adventure, Daisy decides that it would be fun for her and her friends Dalmatian Hobie and Corgi Atticus to compete in their own race. Rascal, a dachshund, creates a race course at the local park where they can swim across a pond, skateboard on the sidewalk, and run on a wooded trail. On race day, Daisy, Hobie, and Atticus compete. When any of the dogs sees another get far behind, they stop and cheer on their friend. Swim Bark Run is an adorable story that celebrates friendship, teamwork, and determination as well as reinforces reaching a goal at your own pace. A special thanks to Sky Pony Press for sharing a e-copy of Swim Bark Run through Edelweiss+. Look for its release on June 2018. Etta, Bella, and I thank you for visiting Beagles and Books! Have a great week! Happy Reading! #Bookexcursion, Early Chapter Books, Mirrors and Windows Meet Yasmin by Saadia Faruqi Illustrated by Hatem Aly April 29, 2018 April 29, 2018 lauramossa Pakistani American Yasmin Ahmad is an inquisitive and spunky second grade student who has a passion for exploring, painting, building, and creating. In each section, Yasmin is challenged with a problem and must use her creative thinking skills to resolve it. While Yasmin’s family is very supportive of her, what I love about Faruqi’s writing is Yasmin works first to find a solution on her own. Yasmin is a great role model for students reminding them to think outside the box and persevere. Aly’s bold illustrations of Yasmin perfectly complement the text. Readers clearly see how Yasmin questions and ponders any challenge she encounters. Not only are Muslim traditions subtly integrated into Yasmin’s stories readers can also learn Urdu words, Pakistan facts, how to make lassi, a yogurt drink, and a flower motif bookmark at the end of the chapter book. I cannot wait to introduce Yasmin to my students, for she can be both a mirror and a window. Hoping this book is not a stand alone; Yasmin has so much more she can teach us! Author Interview, Blog Tour, Rockstar Book Tours An Interview with Author Stacy McAnulty and Giveaway: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl Blog Tour Beagles and Books is honored to kick off The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl Blog Tour organized by Jaime of Rockstar Book Tours. I had the great pleasure to read an ARC of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl as part of my #bookexcursion group. To read my full review, please click here. The tour begins with an interview with author Stacy McAnulty. Thank you so much Stacy for taking the time to visit Beagles and Books! 1. Tell us a little bit about your new middle grade novel, The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl. On 1 level, it’s a story about fitting in and making friends in middle school. It also has a 12-year-old girl with amazing math skills, quirky friends, a doomed dog, lots of junk food, OCD, musical references, a tells-it-like-it-is grandma, and an epic birthday party. 2. What inspired you to write The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl? I definitely love math, and that’s not common among authors. Or at least, there’s a stereotype that writers should dislike (or be bad at) math. I’m more comfortable with a Sudoku than a crossword. And when my kids need homework help, I’d rather assist with math than help with vocabulary (I’m talking to you, Wordly Wise books!) But I didn’t set out to write a “math story.” I was intrigued by savants. I believe everyone’s brain works differently. We all see the world and compute in our own way. 3. The main character, Lucy has acquired savant syndrome and also lives with OCD. Tell us about your research before and during the writing of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl to make Lucy authentic. To begin, I watched a documentary about OCD treatment and did the usual Google searching. I also spoke with two experts—a mom of an OCD child and a psychologist. I’m so thankful to these women for sharing their experiences and knowledge. For the savant syndrome, I read a few memoirs and a book by a leading savant researcher. Because it’s so rare, I’ve never encountered someone with savant syndrome. 4. On your website, you share that like Lucy, you counted words instead of reading them. Are you and the main character Lucy similar in other ways? This is something I did in 4th grade. I’d just moved to a new school, and I was assigned the book How to Eat Fried Worms. We had to sit quietly after recess and read for a set period of time. I struggled with the reading. So instead, I counted the words. I did it because I couldn’t read well. Lucy also counts the words, but for her, it’s an obsession. Her genius-math brain insists she calculate everything, including the number of words on each page. Lucy and I have a few other similarities. We’re both better at math than language arts. We both love Oreos. And we’d both rather hang with our close friends than go to a big bash. 5. I think we can all agree that navigating middle school is tough. Did you draw on any of your own experiences to include in the novel? Not specifically, but I recall being worried all the time in middle school. Am I wearing the right jeans? Will I embarrass myself in gym class? Where will I sit at lunch when my friend is absent? Nothing too terrible happened. I just felt like it could at any moment. It was not an easy time. 6. You have written 8 picture books and 2 chapter book series, The Dino Files and Goldie Blox. The Miscalculation of Lightning Girl is your first middle grade novel. Tell us a little about this transition to writing a novel. While MLG is my first published novel, I have attempted to write several others. So I’ve been juggling picture books, chapter books, and novels for years. I love being able to jump around. If I’m stuck on 1 project, I can focus on something else. And I truly believe my subconscious is toiling away on the problem project while I look somewhere else. 7. We both share a mutual love for dogs. Tell us a little bit about your dogs. Did any of your dogs inspire Cutie Pi? Yay for dogs! We have 3—Jack, Munchkin, and Reykja (“Ray-Ka”). Cutie Pi is not based on any specific dog, but the love and affection is inspired by every pet I’ve ever had. Sadly, we lost our dog Pepper in January. I was devastated. Immediately, I emailed my editor, Caroline, and asked her to change the acknowledgments. (The book was ready to go to print.) I begged her to put “In memory of Pepper…” and she did without hesitation. 8. One of my favorite parts of the novel was when Lucy meets Cutie Pi. Did you plan to include dogs as part of the plot? Out of all the relationships Lucy has in the novel, why is her relationship with Pi important? Cutie Pi has been in the story since the first draft. I think Lucy’s relationship with Pi is vital because she assumed she didn’t like dogs. At the beginning of the book, she’s pretty certain she knows who she is and what she needs. Meeting and falling in love with Pi is part of her self-discovery. 9. As a reader, I would love to check in with Lucy and her friends as they navigate middle school. Is The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl a standalone novel or is there the possibility of a series? For now, it’s a standalone. Though, I’ve had a few kid readers, who got their hands on advance copies, ask for more Lightning Girl. And they had some great suggestions for another book. I’m currently working on another middle-grade novel about a 7th grader who learns the world is ending in a few months, and no one believes her. But maybe we’ll get to go back to East Hamlin with Lucy, Windy, Levi, and Pi too. I certainly hope readers will be able to visit East Hamlin again and catch up with Lucy and her friends (and Cutie Pi too)! Thanks so much Stacy for chatting with Beagles and Books. 3 winners will receive a finished copy of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, US Only. Enter the giveaway by clicking the link below. http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/e2389ba2734/? Be sure to join us at all the stops on the Miscalculations of Lightning Girl blog tour: 4/23/2018- Beagles and Books– Interview 4/24/2018- Mrs. Knott’s Book Nook– Review 4/25/2018- A Dream Within A Dream– Excerpt 4/26/2018- Here’s to Happy Endings– Review 4/27/2018- She Dreams in Fiction– Excerpt 4/30/2018- 100 Pages A Day- Review 5/1/2018- Wonder Struck– Review 5/2/2018- Nerdophiles– Review 5/3/2018- The Underground– Guest Post 5/4/2018- Feed Your Fiction Addiction– Review Title: THE MISCALCULATIONS OF LIGHTNING GIRL Author: Stacy McAnulty Pub. Date: May 1, 2018 Publisher: Random House Book Summary: Middle school is the one problem Lucy Callahan can’t solve in this middle-grade novel perfect for fans of The Fourteenth Goldfish, Rain Reign, and Counting by 7s. Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning. She doesn’t remember it, but it changed her life forever. The zap gave her genius-level math skills, and ever since, Lucy has been homeschooled. Now, at 12 years old, she’s technically ready for college. She just has to pass 1 more test–middle school! Lucy’s grandma insists: Go to middle school for 1 year. Make 1 friend. Join 1 activity. And read 1 book (that’s not a math textbook!). Lucy’s not sure what a girl who does calculus homework for fun can possibly learn in 7th grade. She has everything she needs at home, where nobody can make fun of her rigid routines or her superpowered brain. The equation of Lucy’s life has already been solved. Unless there’s been a miscalculation? A celebration of friendship, Stacy McAnulty’s smart and thoughtful middle-grade debut reminds us all to get out of our comfort zones and embrace what makes us different. “An engaging story, full of heart and hope. Readers of all ages will root for Lucy, aka Lightning Girl. No miscalculations here!” –Kate Beasley, author of Gertie’s Leap to Greatness About Stacy: Stacy McAnulty is a children’s book author, who used to be a mechanical engineer, who’s also qualified to be a paleontologist (NOT REALLY), a correspondent for The Daily Show (why not), and a Green Bay Packer coach (totally!). She is the 2017 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Recipient for Excellent Ed, illustrated by Julia Sarcone-Roach. Her other picture books include Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years, illustrated by David Litchfield; Max Explains Everything: Grocery Store Expert, illustrated by Deborah Hocking, Brave and Beautiful, both illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff; Mr. Fuzzbuster Knows He’s the Favorite, illustrated by Edward Hemingway; and 101 Reasons Why I’m Not Taking a Bath, illustrated by Joy Ang. She’s also authored the chapter book series Goldie Blox, based on the award-winning toys, and The Dino Files. Her debut middle grade novel, The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, will publish in May 2018. When not writing, Stacy likes to listen to NPR, bake triple-chocolate cupcakes, and eat triple-chocolate cupcakes. Originally from upstate NY, she now lives in Kernersville, NC with her 3 kids, 3 dogs, and 1 husband. Website \| Twitter \| Facebook \| Instagram \| Goodreads Endling #1: The Last by Katherine Applegate In the first book of Applegate’s new middle grade series, Endling #1: The Last, readers travel to Nederra, a world inhabited by not only humans but also other sentient animal species. The main character, Byx is a dairne, one of the six great governing species of Nederra. Dairies resemble dogs but can walk upright like humans. Because dairnes possess the unique ability to always detect an untruth, they don’t lie but they do sometimes hope. Hope is crucial due to the fact that dairnes are becoming scarce in the land. While Byx is away from her family on an unsanctioned venture, she returns to find her entire pack slaughtered. As a result, Byx realized that she may indeed be the endling, the last of her species. Desperate to find the first colony of dairnes she heard about from her lessons, Byx embarks on an ambitious quest. Fortunately, she is not alone, for she befriends Tobble, a wobbyk who is a loyal companion and becomes her best friend. And note to self. Wobbyks may appear small and meek but don’t ever get them mad. While Byx struggles with the loss of her family, pack, and possibly species, she slowly begins to attract a new pack which includes members of other species from humans to Gambler, a felivet, a huge feline resembling a panther. At the start of her journey, Byx comes to learn that “sometimes questions do not have answers and even when they are answers, they may not be what we want to hear.” This realization becomes true when Byx and her new pack begin to uncover secrets that not only threatens the dairnes but also other species. While I was reading Endling the Last, I was truly transported to another place. Applegate created an imaginative world that while fantasy, I was amazed how real the story felt. It is not difficult to imagine one species attempting to gain control at the expense of another. It’s real life considering the number of species in danger of extinction. This series can be a sliding glass door for young readers inspiring them to take action to help protect endangered species. To find out about Katherine Applegate’s partnership with the Animal Welfare Institute, check out the video below. Endling the Last is an epic tale of an underdog (no offense Byx) who always thought of herself as “too young to be clever and too small to be helpful.” Through her quest, Byx realizes an inner strength she never knew, family can extend beyond her own species, and while there may be danger ahead, “hope is the one thing that even heroes need in order to go forward.” After reading the last page, all I can say is I can’t wait for Book 2. Please tell me my wait won’t be long. A very special thanks to Harper Stacks at Harper Collins for sending Endling the Last to my #bookexcursion group. Pre-order now so that you can meet Byx and her pack on May 1, 2018. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty When Lucy was eight years old, she was struck by lightning while holding on to a metal fence. As a result, she has acquired savant syndrome; Lucy can not only tackle any mathematical problem but she can also see math in colors and remembers every set of numbers she hears or sees. It is no surprise that Pi is favorite number (and she can recite it to the 314th decimal place). Having this rare condition is not without its drawbacks. Lucy has obsessive compulsive tendencies, no offline friends, and hasn’t left the apartment she shared with her Nana for 32 days. While Lucy wants to begin college, Nana proposes an alternate plan. Go to middle school for at least 1 year. Make 1 friend. Join 1 activity. Read 1 book that is not math related. Nana wins. Lucy accomplishes her first goal quickly. On her first bus ride to school, she becomes friends with socially conscious Windy. But adjusting to middle school is still tough especially because of Lucy’s constant need to sanitize, her repetitive sitting behavior, and her desire to keep her giftedness hidden from her peers including Windy. A group service project with Windy and budding photographer Levi gives Lucy the opportunity to use her math genius for a good cause-helping dogs gets adopted at a local shelter. At the shelter, Lucy meets Cutie Pi, a beagle mix (Yes, you heard it, a beagle!) with a lightning bolt spot on its back and is determined to find him a home. Being a dog mom, seeing Lucy’s affection for Pi was heartwarming. Her relationship with Pi was one of my favorite parts of the story. Lucy soon learns that all things are not easy to calculate. As a reader, I calculate a few important lessons from this must read middle grade novel. Sometimes numbers aren’t all that matters. No problem is unsolvable. If you have a couple of friends who accept you for who you are, you are pretty lucky. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl is a touching and engaging story about fitting in, finding yourself and most of all, friendship. I already pre-ordered and look forward to its release so that I can share with students. Special thanks to Allison Stout, a fellow #bookexcursion member for sharing an ARC that she received at NCTE. It will publish on May 1, 2018. #Bookexcursion, Book Birthday Happy Book Birthday to Every Shiny Thing & The Battle of Junk Mountain Happy Book Birthday to Cordelia Jensen’s and Laurie Morrison’s Every Shiny Thing and Lauren Abbey Greenberg’s The Battle of Junk Mountain! Every Shiny Thing by Cordelia Jensen & Laurie Morrison Every Shiny Thing is a uniquely structured novel told in alternating points of view. Told in prose, Lauren comes from an affluent family and is struggling with her parents’ decision to send her brother to a residential school for autistic teens. Told in verse, Sierra is the foster child of Lauren’s neighbors as well as her new classmate. While her father has been in jail, Sierra’s mother was recently arrested and needs to complete rehab as a condition of her sentence. With her Quaker school’s theme of simplicity and her new friendship with Sierra, Lauren becomes increasingly cognizant of her privilege. She embarks on a project to help autistic children from less affluent families and enlists Sierra to help her. While well intentioned, Lauren becomes consumed with raising money at any cost which begins to negatively affect her friendship with Sierra. Sierra is also grappling with her own personal battle of always taking care of everyone but herself. She finally learns that sometimes the best thing you can do for anyone is to let them fall. I absolutely adored this beautifully written novel on so many levels. The use of both prose and verse was perfect to share each character’s point of view. I applauded Lauren’s altruism but I was so worried observing how easily the lines between right and wrong became blurred for her. Due to her family circumstances, my heart broke for Sierra but I was touched by the fact that she remained courageous and hopeful. Sierra’s story was definitely a window for me because I know she could be a mirror for many students I teach. A very special thanks to Laurie Morrison for sending an advance reading copy of Every Shiny Thing to my #bookexcursion group. This review was originally published on March 25, 2018. With all the cold, icy, and rainy Maryland weather this week, The Battle of Junk Mountain was the perfect read. I was transported to the Maine coast with 12-year-old Shayne on her summer vacation. Shayne lives in Maryland and always spends summers on Thomas Cove with her grandmother Bea and her best friend Poppy. Nostalgic for summers past, this vacation is different. Poppy’s free time is limited because she has to work at her father’s grocery store. Bea is not ready to let go of her treasured collectibles as Shayne is organizing and pricing them for sale at a flea market. Then to her surprise, Shayne develops an unlikely friendship with Civil War obsessed Linc, the grandson of Bea’s neighbor Cranky. The Battle of Junk Mountain is a definitely a page turner. Once I began, it was hard to stop reading. The novel starts with anticipation of a fun-filled summer but as you read each chapter (and by the way, pay close attention to each title), Lauren begins to tackle not only familiar topics like changing friendships but also the serious topic of hoarding. Readers will quickly fall in love with Shayne for she shows both maturity and vulnerability. While she can tackle new situations like banding lobster claws and driving a boat, it is evident that Shayne like Bea is holding on to the past and apprehensive about change. Growing up and letting go is hard, but Shayne learns that change can actually surprise you in a good way. A sincere thank you to fellow Marylander Lauren Abbey Greenberg for sharing an ARC of her debut middle grade novel The Battle of Junk Mountain with my #bookexcursion group. This review was originally published on February 11, 2018. #Bookexcursion, Picture Books Mama’s Belly by Kate Hosford Illustrated by Abigail Halpin April 11, 2018 lauramossa A very special thanks to Barbara Fisch of Blue Slip Media for sharing Mama’s Belly with Beagles and Books. All opinions are my own. There is no doubt that a new sibling can cause feelings of both excitement and apprehension. Mama’s Belly tells the tender story of an inquisitive young girl who poses a variety of questions to her parents about her sister’s arrival. The questions start simple. “Does my sister know me already? “Will my sister have freckles?” Mama explains that the baby already knows her sister’s voice. While the baby will not be born with freckles, her father thinks yes, perhaps after a few summers by the lake have passed. As the young girl asks questions, Halpin’s gorgeous illustrations not only depict her excitement in the present but also the girl’s visualizations of helping her baby sister learn to swim and take a bath in the future. All of Halpin’s paintings warmly show how the girl’s parents have included her in preparing for her sister’s arrival. Clutching her blanket, the questions turn more personal. “When my sister comes, do I have to share my blanket?” ‘Will your lap ever come back?” Mama assures the girl that her blanket will always be hers and suggests making another one together for her baby sister. As for her lap, Mama tells her daughter it will return after her sister is born. The young girl saves her most important question until the end. “When my sister comes will you still have enough love for both of us? Gently holding her daughter’s face in her hands, Mama lovingly looks at her and says “More than the all the stars in the sky.” For any child preparing for a new sibling, Mama’s Belly is the perfect gift. As a teacher, I also look forward to sharing Mama’s Belly with students. Hosford has written a beautiful and touching story to remind us that a parent’s heart expands with each child, and there is always room to love everyone. Mama’s Belly will be released on April 17, 2018. For a sneak peek, view the trailer. Kate Hosford is the author of several picture books, including Infinity and Me, which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book award and was named an ALA Notable Children’s Book. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, French, and Romanian. Kate lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. To learn more, visit her website ae khosford.com. Abigail Halpin is the illustrator of many books for children, including Finding Wild. She lives in southern Maine. Visit her on the web at theodesign.com Bookexcursion Front Desk by Kelly Yang April 9, 2018 lauramossa Front Desk is a semi autobiographical account of young Mia Tang who recently immigrated with her parents from China to the United States. When her parents get the opportunity to manage the Calivista Motel, they jump at the chance to earn $150 a day plus free rent. After signing the contract, what they don’t know is the owner Mr. Yao can change the terms at any time. This not only means less money a day but also the financial responsibility of paying for refunds and broken appliances. Still, Mia and her family continue to manage the Calivista with her parents taking care of the housekeeping and Mia managing the front desk. Mia becomes friends with the Calivista weeklies who become her extended family. Managing the front desk and being the new student at Dale Elementary School is a lot to handle but Mia is determined to succeed even when things get tough. While Mia wants to focus on becoming a better writer, her mother encourages Mia to spend more time doing math. Her mother says “You just can’t be as good as the white kids in their language honey. It’s their language,” Mia though is insistent in proving her mother wrong practicing and perfecting her writing with the help of Calivista weekly Mrs. T’s dictionary-thesaurus. Writing also becomes therapeutic when Mia wants to express her feelings after being teased at school or write an apology to a friend. When weekly Hank who is African American gets wrongly accused of a crime and subsequently loses his job, Mia decides to write a reference letter which helps him secure a new job. Her writing also helps a friend of the family get his passport back from his dishonest employer. Knowing that her writing has changed people’s lives for the better, Mia realizes she has the power to change her life too and for the first time in school, Mia honestly writes from the heart sharing a personal experience. Hoping to change her family’s life, Mia also takes a leap of faith entering an essay contest to win a motel. As her friend Lupe says, “You can’t win if you don’t play.” Front Desk is a story of hope and heart. Mia is an exceptional character who shows not only a genuine kindness but also immense courage to help others. She has good role models in her parents who help fellow immigrants by hiding them in empty motel rooms. Despite the obstacles they face, Mia and her parents continue to pick themselves up and keep going. Kelly Yang’s story is a window for me to see life through the eyes of an immigrant family but also can be a mirror for young readers who have endured similar experiences. At the end of the novel, she includes an author’s note sharing information about her own life as well as the struggles of Chinese families immigrating to America. When I am having a rough day, I will reread Front Desk and remember these important lessons: Sometimes a mistake is actually an opportunity. Words have the power to change lives. Sometimes the people you least expect can blow you away with their courage and kindness. Dreams can come true with kindness, courage, and determination. Success is sweeter when shared with friends. A very special thanks to Arthur A. Levine Books and Lizette Serrano of Scholastic for sending an ARC of Front Desk to my #bookexcursion group. Pre-order Front Desk now, for it releases on May 29, 2018. Your life will be forever changed after reading. I know mine has. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/9/18 Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them. Our Reads This Week Front Desk is a semi autobiographical account of young Mia Tang who recently immigrated with her parents from China to the United States. Mia and her family manage the Calivista with her parents taking care of the housekeeping and Mia managing the front desk. Mia becomes friends with the Calivista weeklies who become her extended family. Managing the front desk and being the new student at Dale Elementary School is a lot to handle but Mia is determined to succeed even when things get tough. While her mother encourages Mia to spend more time doing math, Mia wants to focus on becoming a better writer. Her mother says “You just can’t be as good as the white kids in their language honey. It’s their language,” Mia though is insistent in proving her mother wrong practicing and perfecting her writing with the help of Calivista weekly Mrs. T’s dictionary-thesaurus. After Mia’s writing changes a few people’s lives for the better, Mia realizes her written words could have the power to change her life too. As her friend Lupe says, “You can’t win if you don’t play.” Front Desk is a story of hope and heart. Mia is an exceptional character who shows not only a genuine kindness but also immense courage to help others. For my full review, click here. A very special thanks to Arthur A. Levine Books and Lizette Serrano of Scholastic for sending an ARC to my #bookexcursion group. Pre-order Front Desk now, for it releases on May 1, 2018. Neither by Airlie Anderson “Once upon a time, there were two kinds: this (a blue rabbit) and that (a yellow bird).” An egg hatches and out comes a green creature that has characteristics of both a rabbit and a bird. “You can’t be both. You must be a neither!” said this and that which forces “Neither” to fly off to Somewhere Else. As “Neither” soars in the sky, the reader can see a bird’s eye view of the Land of This and That, which is predominantly blue and yellow while the land adjacent to it includes many more colors. “Neither” soon finds out that she has not found Somewhere Else but rather the Land of All where animals of different kinds are welcome. Anderson’s colorful and vivid illustrations are captivating to the eye. In the Land of All, creatures are a blend of different animals such as a cat butterfly and a dog fish celebrating both uniqueness and inclusiveness. Reminiscent of Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Manchev, Neither is an engaging and thoughtful story about tolerance, diversity, and acceptance. I cannot wait to share this with students for #classroombookaday. Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings Arfy is a dog in search of a forever home. Living in a cardboard box in an alley, he decides to write letters to residents on Butternut Street asking “Can I be your dog?” In each letter, Arfy states why he would be a good fit for them. Unfortunately, Arfy receives letters back turning him down for different reasons. A sad Arfy returns to his “home” in the alley and wakes up to find a letter addressed to him. Unbeknownst to Arfy (although readers can infer from the illustrations), the mail carrier has been reading some of his letters. She writes her own letter to Arfy asking him “Can I be your person?” stating why they would be a good match. From the bold and lively illustrations, the plot being told through letters, and determination of Arfy to find a home, Can I Be Your Dog is not only the perfect read aloud but also a great resource for teaching persuasive writing or composing letters. What especially warms my heart are the tips for how to help a homeless animal in the end papers. My #MustReadin2018 Spring Update April 8, 2018 April 8, 2018 lauramossa Is it really already April? In January, I compiled my Must Reads in 2018 joining host Carrie Gelson of of There’s a Book for That and a community of other bloggers. It’s time for a spring update to check in on my progress. To read other bloggers’ progress, search using the hashtag #mustreadin2018. 2018 is my first year participating in #mustreadin2018. I choose 20 middle grade books. Some are books in my TBR stack that weren’t read in 2017, some are #bookexcursion ARCs generously provided by authors, and others are titles recommended by authors and book bloggers I follow on Goodreads and Twitter. I am slightly behind in my reading. I have read 3 books and am in the process of reading 2 books. I am not worried though because in about 50 days, I will have a summer truly free to devote more time to read many of the books on my list. Plenty of time to catch up! #MustReadin2018 Middle Grade Books Read Takedown by Laura Shovan A book that was out of my comfort zone. Sports has never been my thing but I devoured Takedown. I absolutely loved the format of the novel hearing from both Mikayla’s and Lev’s perspective, which revealed their determination, competitiveness, and insecurities. For my full review, click here. Takedown releases in June 2018. Mathematical genius Lucy discovers that all things aren’t easy to calculate, and sometimes numbers aren’t all that matters. For my full review, click here. Lightning Girl releases in May 2018. Pashmina by Nidji Chanani This graphic novel was a window into the world of Priyanka, an Indian American teenager being raised by a single mother. Like Pri, I questioned why her mother left India and why she refused to discuss it. The mysterious and magical pashmina allowed me to join Pri on her journey to uncover the truth. #MustReadin2018 Books Currently Reading The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore I am currently listening to the audio version. I have about an hour and a half left. Another window book for me. Lolly is a good kid trying to make the right choices which isn’t easy living in the projects in Harlem. Rooting for Lolly to fully realize his talents and potential to do great things in life. Grump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Liesl Shurtliff I just started reading Grump and am already intrigued by his fascination with humans and wanting to go above the surface. Stay tuned! While I have not read the books in their entirety, I have read portions of Preventing Misguided Reading and From Striving to Thriving as they support my teaching of students as well as assist me in my work supporting teachers in professional learning. I have not yet received my copy of Understanding Text as Readers. Thanks for joining me in my book journey!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1012
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__label__wiki	0.762837	0.762837	https://ballfields.com/podcast-player/3565/and-the-award-goes-to-december-30-2015.mp3 As we round the corner to the new year and begin our many turfgrass meetings Paul and Theresa provide their take on the “green carpet.” It’s a little silly, Theresa sounds like Kathleen Turner and Paul is especially weird this week. In all seriousness, however, we’re talking to Bob Christofferson (Head Groundskeeper, Seattle Mariners), Mike Boettcher (Head Groundskeeper, Milwaukee Brewers) and Dave Mellor (Head Groundskeeper, Boston Red Sox) about this year’s inductee to the Major League Groundskeepers Hall of Fame. And we’ll finish up by reviewing 2015’s STMA Field of the Year award winners. Mike Boettcher & Gary Vanden Berg Miranda Bintly, Gary Vanden Berg & Mike Boettcher Several years ago the Major League Baseball Head Groundskeepers voted to begin their own Hall of Fame. The program is still in its infancy, but that doesn’t make the inductees any less important. In our two interviews today we’ll first talk with Bob Christofferson (Head Groundskeeper, Seattle Mariners) about the MLB Head Groundskeepers Hall of Fame itself, how it started and where it’s headed. Bob will also talk to us about Gary Vanden Berg (Former Head Groundskeeper and Director of Grounds, Milwaukee Brewers) who is this years inductee and for whom the award will be now be named. For our Outta the Park interview we asked Mike Boettcher (Head Groundskeeper, Milwaukee Brewers) and Dave Mellor (Head Groundskeeper, Boston Red Sox) to tell us about their time working with Gary and why knowing him as a person and as a boss was so meaningful to them. Then, to finish things up Paul and Theresa review this year’s winners of STMA’s Field of the Year and the Minor League Baseball Sports Turf Managers of the Year. Segments: Special Interview, Outta the Park Guests: Bob Christofferson (Head Groundskeeper, Seattle Mariners), Michael Boettcher (Head Groundskeeper, Milwaukee Brewers), Dave Mellor (Head Groundskeeper, Boston Red Sox) ▶ Special Interview: Members of the Major League Baseball Groundskeepers Hall of Fame: Inaugural inductees for 2012: Emil Bossard (Cleveland Indians), and George Toma (Kansas City Royals) 2013: Joe Mooney (Boston Red Sox,) 2014: Dick Erickson (Minnesota Twins) and Harry Gill (Milwaukee Brewers) 2015: Pete Flynn (New York Metts) and Pat Santarone (Baltimore Orioles) 2016: Gary Vanden Berg (Milwaukee Brewers) ▶ Outta the Park: Vanden Berg brought a lot of green to our lives Milwaukee Brewers’ Rainy Day Miracle 1998, SportsTURF. Article featuring Dave Mellor and Gary Vanden Berg and the near disastrous rain storm that hit their field unexpectedly during the 1997 season. ▶ STMA and Minor League Baseball 2015 Winners: STMA Field of the Year and Minor League Baseball Sports Field Managers of the Year	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1021
__label__cc	0.744909	0.255091	Category: France Europe, France The Roman World Beyond Italy Traveling has brought us to many corners of the world — and one group of people keep popping up: the Romans. At its height, the Roman Empire was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. Subscribe to our Big & Small Travel Youtube to watch our adventures in Rome and more. Continue reading “The Roman World Beyond Italy” → March 27, 2018 July 5, 2018 British history, Couple Vlog, Croatia, England, English history, europe, france, Germany, History, Italian history, Italy, Romans, rome, Spain, Spanish history, Western historyLeave a comment Europe, France, Travel The Rich Beauty, Food, and History of Corsica, France This mountainous isle is a land of many contrasts. Corsica is full of natural beauty and incredible food, but it comes with quite a turbulent history. It’s home to Napoleon Bonaparte and (arguably) Christopher Columbus, two dominant figures whose widespread influence is still being felt around the world today. Despite this, present-day Corsica is a fairly sleepy island packed with fascinating historical attractions and driven by an independent spirit. Here, I’ll be featuring some of the beauty of this island in pictures, and best yet watch The Big and Small Travel Corsica Video below: In the video above, we showcase the Citadel, beaches, historic sites, food, L’Île-Rousse, and even yoga from Handstand Steph. This is a wonderful way to enjoy the intimacy and splendor of the isle of fierce beauty. J-Crew overlooking the Ligurian Sea in Calvi. The first thing we noticed on our trip to Corsica was the ubiquitous presence of the Corsican flag. The flag is bold and striking, and revealing in its black-and-white simplicity. Against a white backdrop, it depicts a Moor’s head in black with a white bandana above his eyes—a symbol of liberation, even though Corsica has mostly been under Italian or French rule. The Wild Boar of Corsica & the striking Corsican Flag. This flag was everywhere, reminding us constantly of Corsica‘s strong independent spirit, which can be traced back through an interesting and significant history that includes connections to both Napoleon and Columbus. When in Calvi, I recommend exploring the citadel, which is open to the public and free to roam. It is filled with lots of small passageways, breathtaking lookouts, and interesting architecture. You’ll also notice a monument to Columbus, as well as churches and historical points that refer to the island’s existence under Genoese rule. Calvi Citadel – Palace of the Genovese, and reputed birthplace of Columbus. Hmm … We present many visuals to document the citadel in Calvi, as well as the beauty and attractions at L’Île-Rousse (Red Island), named because of the color of the rocky islet that serves as a natural harbor. You can get to L’Île-Rousse by train (which offers incredible views of the coast along the way). We recommend hiking up to the top of this part of L’Île-Rousse (just behind the train station) for great views of the Genoese tower and the vivid hills of Balagne in the background. This hike is short but intense and full of nooks and crannies that allow for great photo opps of the sea and beyond. Handstand Steph caught on camera at the red rocks of L’Ile-Rouse. Overall, the food (especially the cheese and wild boar), wine, and striking landscapes are enough to make anyone swoon. But what most struck me most about Corsica was the relaxed sense of efficiency and an overall dedication to self-sufficiency. Corsica seemed to be running on its own watch, despite being part of France. This made it feel like its own special little paradise. La Pietra Lighthouse in L’Ile Rouse, Corsica. Plage La Pinede (Calvi Beach) in Corsica. May 2, 2016 beaches, calvi, corsica, Corsican, food, france, French, History, l'ile-rousse, The Citadel, travel, Wild Boar, yogaLeave a comment 48 Hours in Lyon, France Rich Food, Playful Puppets, River Walks & Hidden Passageways Chilling by the Saone River after a filling, deliciously fatty lunch. The third largest city in France, Lyon is constantly in the shadows of big sister Paris, 300 miles to the northwest. In recent years, however, its gained notable attention as the “gastronomic capital of the world,” home to a number of Michelin star establishments. The city seems to throb to the pulse of the pig (or the duck), the main source material for its rich, fatty cuisine. While Lyon is modern in its hectic traffic and its hefty prices (which rival Paris, at least for food), it also feels a bit stuck in time, resolute in keeping the proud traditions of the French—which seem to revolve almost exclusively around food—completely unchanged and continually revered. We spent about 48 hours in Lyon and packed quite a bit in. We stayed near Place Saint Vincent in the 1st arrondissement, an ideal spot, in my opinion. It’s a neighborhood of AirBnBs and local residents that is also a quick walk to the touristy Vieux Lyon (the old town). Here are some highlights from our quick trip, from belly-filling delights (and disappointments) to numerous ways to walk them all off… oh, and a puppet show! EAT YOUR HEART OUT: Bouchons, Boulangeries, and a Biocoop Duck salad at Cafe de la Place & chocolate-making by Guillaume Daix Admittedly, traditional French food is not my favorite cuisine. I cannot deny, however, that the ingredients and quality are unmatched. I had not had one bad meal in my two weeks in France—that is, until we sought out one of Lyon’s famed bouchons. This type of restaurant serves traditional Lyonnaise cuisine in all of its carnivorous glory (there’s even calf’s head for the more adventurous bellies). There are some 20 “officially certified” bouchons in the city, denoted by a Les Bouchons Lyonnais symbol, and they are determined by such key factors as “products, dishes, décor, architecture, ambiance, customer welcome, etc.” We found one of these stamped-with-approval establishments in Vieux Lyon, called Le Laurencin, where the prices were incredibly reasonable (about 15 euros for entrée, main plate, and dessert)—and we soon discovered why. The salad greens withered in a bath of watery dressing. The main plates were filled with a mound of potatoes, and a pile of animal parts of your choosing. The praline tart (another Lyon specialty) was the best part, if not just because the sweetness danced nicely on the tongue after all the flesh and intestines. La Fresque des Lyonnais (Fresco of the People of Lyon) That said, Lyon is packed with top-notch charcuteries, patisseries, fromageries, and poissoneries. The first day, we stumbled across Les Halles de Lyon Market – Paul Bocuse, near the Part Dieu train station, a must-stop for any aspiring foodie. Rue Merciere is another hot spot, lined with numerous restaurants, as well as Place Sathonay, where I enjoyed a salad topped with duck (the parts of which I’m not entirely sure of!) at Café de la Place. Our favorite boulangerie, Saint Vincent, was right around the corner from our AirBnB, in perfect view of the cool Lyon frescoes. We also found the excellent chocolate shop, Guillaume Daix, on the edge of the old town, where we came across chocolates flavored with such ingredients as dill, rosemary, and sweet pepper. Our choice was the dark chocolate pieces generously dusted in hibiscus. For the organically minded, head to the natural-food store Biocoop near Place Bellecour—one of the few refuges for vegans and vegetarians. WALK IT ALL OFF: Riverfront Paths, Traboules, and a Hill Climb Handstand on the Pedi Bridge to Vieux Lyon Lyon is a fairly walkable city, which is great news after all of that… sustenance. Two rivers, the Saône and Rhône, divide the city into three segments, and converge at the southern tip. There are pedestrian bridges that connect the city, as well as great walking and running paths along both rivers. Lyon, along the Saone River Another great way to get some mileage around the city is to do a traboule hunt. Traboules are covered passageways throughout the city. They were used to transport products, particularly silk and textiles, throughout the city. You’ll find most of them in the old town, but there are a few in the La Croix-Rousse area as well. Pick up a map from the tourist office, which marks where each traboule is located. Most of them are actually closed, and are used as apartment entrances. We did find an open one on the southern edge of the old town—I won’t tell you where; that’s the fun! Theatres Romains, built around 15 BC by the Romans For a true calorie-burner, though, I highly recommend bypassing the funicular ride up Fourvière hill to climb the stairs from St-Paul station to the top. It’s a great workout, and you’ll pass the Tour métallique de Fourvière, a TV tower that attempts to be a mini Eiffel Tower, before reaching the 19th century Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourviere and getting an incredible panoramic view of Lyon. From there, you can easily reach the grand Theatres Romains, built around 15 BC by the Romans, before circling back to the windy, narrow streets of the old town. TAKE IN A PUPPET SHOW: GUIGNOL! Once you reach the old town, the walk is best capped off with a puppet show! Guignol is the witty main character of this Lyon tradition; he represents the workers in the silk industry. Though the shows are all in French, and the audience is dominated by giddy kids, it’s a treat to see. We arrived late to the show, but were allowed to take the last two seats in the back for free. Check out this quick snippet we caught: While Lyon is a fairly big city, it’s totally doable to see the highlights in just 48 hours. Be prepared to stuff yourself and get in a good hill climb or two, too. And do catch a Guignol show, no matter what age you are (and what language you speak)! Bon voyage! October 19, 2015 July 6, 2018 bouchon, europe, food, fourviere, france, French, gastronomy, guignol, lyon, puppets, rhone, stair climbs, traboules, urban hiking, vieux lyon, walking3 Comments 48 Hours in Dijon and Burgundy – France The Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon. Arriving in the Gothic town of Dijon by train, we were happy to be away from the hustle and grandiosity of the City of Lights. We had 48 hours to explore this city and its surrounding Burgundy region. Subscribe to our Big & Small Travel Youtube & watch: We packed a lot in with little time and light wallets. Watch Dijon Videos by Big and Small Travel, and our other Travel Videos. Dijon cuts the mustard. Most people will automatically think of mustard when they hear the name Dijon (including us). But there’s much more to the city than just an abundant amount of the delicious condiment. As the capital city of the revered Burgundy region, it’s the perfect pit-stop for wine lovers, as well as history and architecture buffs. The town dates back about 1,000 years, to around 1015, when Robert I decided to settle the capital of his duchy here. Since, it’s seen both tremendous times of power and wealth, and devastating moments under the siege of various armies. Liberation Square (Place de la Libération) and the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy THE OWL’S GUIDE Today, Dijon feels like a hidden nugget in France, in the shadow of bigger cities like Paris and Lyon. You can see magnificent architecture and ornate cathedrals, and get hearty French cuisine for a fair price. To start, we recommend heading to the tourist office and buying “The Owl’s Guide,” which maps out various walking trails throughout the city. You’ll grow to love this little owl as it diligently guides you along through historical Dijon, via gold plaques embedded into the sidewalks. Dijon’s good luck owl So, why an owl?! We learned that its significance comes from an owl-shaped statue found on the original construction of Dijon’s Church of Notre-Dame Cathedral. It’s considered to be a good luck symbol, especially if you rub it. The actual owl looks a little disfigured (maybe from all of the rubbing!), but a sign claimed that it is now protected day and night after it had been vandalized in 2001. Saint-Benigne Cathedral The Owl’s Guide gives just enough information to give you get an idea of the medieval importance and little quirks of Dijon. Some of our favorite spots along the way included the expansive and panoramic Place de la Liberation and the decadent Saint-Benigne Cathedral. See a video of Handstand Steph at Place De La Liberation from our YouTube page. There’s the main owl trail, as well as a few extra loops (we highly recommend doing those as well—it really gives you a good sense of the city). One of these loops ends at a plaza named after the author Emile Zola. We realized we had walked this very trail on the day of his death … kind of a cool coincidence! Though Place Zola was a little underwhelming, it did house some decent restaurants. THE FOOD: FROM MUSTARD TO ESCARGOT Eating escargot in Dijon After walking with the owl, you’ll likely be quite famished. Fortunately, food in Dijon is reasonably priced for France. There are several places for more traditional French food, as well as plenty of boulangeries (good for cheap baguette sandwiches) and patisseries, along with cheap spots for wraps, kebabs, and crepes. Don’t forget to stop at the many mustard-tasting shops, like the famous Maille, to sample the delights for free. Bread sticks are provided alongside a vast array of mustard flavors—our favorite was blackcurrant. There are several boutique shops and corner stores that sell mustard, too, where you can get compact jars of various flavors for just 1 Euro. Also, give escargot a shot. This French specialty actually comes from the Burgundy region, and you can find some good deals here, as cheap as under 5 Euros. Patriarche Wine Cellar in Beaune EXPLORING BURGUNDY: A DAY TRIP TO BEAUNE A great and economical day trip from Dijon involves heading to the Burgundy wine town of Beaune, about 50 KM from the city center. We took the bus there for just 1.50 Euros per ticket, with total travel time at about one hour and 20 minutes. The ride is a beautiful one, as the bus snakes through small Burgundy towns and vineyards. Once we got to Beaune, we found some French fare and coffee and then headed to the tourist office, where we got tickets for 15 Euros each to the oldest and biggest wine cellar in Burgundy, called Patriarche, located right in the center of Beaune. Wine tasting at your own pace… without moderation. Wine is life. There, we sampled over 15 wines and got an informative, unique, and personalized walk through the cellar, which winds its way through tunnels and passageways underneath the streets of Beaune. Along the way you pass by (literally) millions of bottles of wine. Best of all, you could pour and sample as much wine as you like—which meant we definitely felt a bit tipsy by the end of the tour. (Pro tip: bring water!) There are “sommeliers” available, though we only came across one and she only knew limited English. Overall, though this was a wonderful and worthwhile wine experience. Place François Rude in the historical center of Dijon, France A WORTHWHILE TRIP In just 48 hours you can have great wine, lip-smacking mustard, and a wonderful historical walking experience with the help of an adorable owl. What more could you want?! We highly recommend making the trip to Burgundy and Dijon. Bon voyage! October 8, 2015 Beaune, budget travel, Burgundy, Dijon, Escargots, food, france, French, gothic architecture, Mustard, Wine2 Comments Paris Sans Cars: Less Polluted, Still Hectic Braving the traffic-heavy Champs-Elysees, in front of the majestic Arc de Triomphe. Paris’ streets are a beautiful mess—a perfect storm of cars, buses, scooters, bicycles, skateboards, rollerblades, walkers, strollers, and runners. During our time walking (and biking) the city streets, we witnessed near-accidents nearly every half hour: buses nearly side-swiping cyclists, pedestrians running out in front of speeding autos (including one incident of tourists running across the chaotic roundabout surrounding the Arc de Triomphe), scooters zooming past red lights. So, a day without cars sounded like a very cool moment to be in Paris (especially as non-car-owners ourselves). The city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, announced the sans-car campaign in March, as a way to bring attention to worsening smog levels. On the day of, September 27, 2015, we weren’t sure how it would all go down, but we did know this was the perfect time to use the Velib city bike service. Check out J-Crew on the scene at the Champs-Elysées! Unfortunately, the ban was limited to only four of Paris’ twenty arrondissements, along with the usually-hectic, but picturesque Champs-Elysées. Public buses, emergency vehicles, and taxies were allowed into these “no-car” zones, creating a greater amount of confusion and probably greater chance for a pedestrian-vehicle collision. Meanwhile, outside of these blocked areas, cars were asked to cut down their speed to 20km/hour (about 12 mph)—didn’t see this at all; in fact, I think the drivers and scooterists were going even faster, probably out of frustration. Paris by bike, sans (sort of) cars At first we mostly stuck to the already-designated bike lanes (of which, fortunately, there are many). But one of the more thrilling moments of our bike ride came when we got to zip through the tunnel along the Seine as we headed to the Champs-Elysées. From there, the renowned avenue was completely clogged with pedestrians and cyclists. It was a true game of Frogger, weaving in and out of tourists on foot and kids hanging out as if they were picnicking in the park—not to mention large tour buses and taxis. Relieved to get to the end, I will admit that riding around the Arc de Triomphe was a pretty unforgettable moment. September 29, 2015 arc de triomphe, bikes, cars, champs-elysees, france, paris, transportation, travel1 Comment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1022
__label__wiki	0.518805	0.518805	Bikersinc \| A Grassroots Non-Profit Organization Business Alliance Events↓ Membership↓ Discount Network Motorcyclism↓ Entronuse News ↗ Programs↓ Bikers Helping Veterans Bikers Outreach Bikers United Indiana Youth Works Projects↓ Bikers Helping Kids IMCHS Midwest Veterans Events MRBI Veterans Radio Indiana DONATE ↗ Bringing Information Knowledge Entrepreneurship & Rider Sodality Indiana Motorcycle History Mission Restore Newby Oval In Indiana Motorcycle History In the Gilded Age, Indianapolis was at the heart of manufacturing and a large player in the burgeoning bicycle industry. The famous founding fathers of the Indianapolis Speedway all had their hands in said industry prior to the shift in their interests to align with automobiles. Yet out of all of them, it was actually Arthur C. Newby, the quieter of the quartet who actually put forth the foundation to make Indianapolis the racing capital of the world. Arthur C. Newby halied from around Monrovia, Indiana and spent much of his youth in California prior to moving back to Indiana. Initially he worked as a clerk and made his way up in Dickson Trade Palace and soon thereafter began to form the ZigZag Club, a wheelman’s (bicycle) club. In 1890 Arthur Newby and a few contemporaries started the Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Co. (Which would later on become Diamond Chain Company.) During this time his involvement with the bicycle industry and formation of the ZigZag Club allowed him to become friends with the other founders of the Indianapolis Speedway. Map of where the Newby Oval used to be. The group’s enthusiasm over bicycling veered into racing and Newby saw the Newby Oval as a means to attract the League of Wheelmen to Indianapolis and turn the city into a bicycle mecca. In 1898 the Oval was constructed and could seat 20,000 spectators and declared a marvel in bicycle racing. In August that same year the 19th Annual League of Wheelmen meet was held at the Oval. There was much fanfare over the affair with racers such as Barney Oldsfield and Marshall “Major” Taylor at the fore. Also noted were the crashes that happened on the Oval during the event...Similar events which would play out again years later at the Speedway’s own opening year. Except it would be the F.A.M holding its annual meeting and multiple motorcycles which would end up in crashes... The Newby Oval’s prowess in the early days of bicycling is well documented by various sources pertaining to the subject. However what many bicycle historians and even oft-times the local historians often overlook is the fact that tracks such as the Newby Oval was also part of the birth of early motorcycle racing. The wooden board tracks was in part where motorcycles were spawned from, despite the fact that there were various people who were toying with the idea at the same time. Race results for June- both bicycle and motor cycle races. To get bicycle races started, pace bicycles- often times motorized, were used to set the pace prior to racing. Spectators and track owners soon picked up the idea that racing these motorized bicycles could also be a spectator sport. Though the Oval was in steep decline just after 2 years of operation, those two years were vital to the growth of motorcycles. The quick shift towards cars was far outstripping the earlier interest in bicycles. Unnoted by historians, the Oval was in fact still integral for the showcasing of new motorcycles and related companies, though the venue wasn’t attracting as much people as it used to. One such Indiana built motorcycle that raced on the Oval was the Patee in the summer of 1901. Advertisement for July 4th Motor Cycle races at Newby Oval. Tags: history, indiana, indianapolis, motorcycle, racing A registered non-profit corporation that operates exclusively for educational & charitable purposes within Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code © 2019 Bikersinc \| A Grassroots Non-Profit Organization Powered by Hello, you need to enable JavaScript to use Bikersinc \| A Grassroots Non-Profit Organization.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1024
__label__cc	0.555725	0.444275	Home»Hardware How to Safely Dispose of, Donate or Recycle Electronics Use these four tips to make sure your small business retires its outdated tech responsibly. David Geer David Geer writes about technology and its effect on business for national and international publication. The problem itself is toxic: The United States generates more than 11 million tons of e-waste per year, including computers, office equipment and small IT devices that are at the end of life. Much of this cast-off technology contains hazardous substances that can contaminate soil and underground water sources. According to the World Health Organization, environmental toxins found in e-waste include “lead, cadmium, chromium, brominated flame retardants, or polychlorinated biphenyls.” What can small businesses do with used technology that is no longer cutting-edge? Here are four ways to safely ditch those IT antiques: 1. Take Advantage of Manufacturer Take-Backs Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation requiring manufacturers to take back equipment that has reached end of life. Some manufacturers offer voluntary take-backs in states without such laws. Others, such as Acer, Apple, Epson, HP and Samsung, offer take-back programs that let businesses return retired equipment at drop-off locations and through the mail. Contact IT makers directly for information about individual take-back programs. 2. E-Waste Recyclers Make Electronic Recycling Easy Known as e-Stewards, these recyclers possess a certification developed by the Basel Action Network and the e-Stewards Founders to identify the most globally responsible recyclers. Certified e-Stewards comply with the ISO 14001 standard for global environmental management and the e-Stewards Standard. By using a certified recycler, companies can safeguard against the illegal dumping of hazardous waste in developing countries. A list of e-Stewards recyclers, along with their contact information, can be found online at e-stewards.org/find-a-recycler. 3. Consider Your IT Resale Options Older equipment can be sold online using the OfferUp and Gone apps. OfferUp, for instance, facilitates a trustworthy, safe experience with standards for transactions and behavior for both buyers and sellers. The Gone app assesses potential customers for used electronics, sells and then ships the items. Gone also provides free shipping and boxes. And, of course, there is always Craigslist and eBay on which to sell the used equipment. 4. Make a Charitable Donation Some charities, including Goodwill and the World Computer Exchange, accept used IT equipment to resell to the public or reuse in-house. For example, Goodwill partners with Dell’s Reconnect program to accept all brands of used computers and accessories.The retired equipment can be dropped off at any participating Goodwill donation center. The World Computer Exchange, based in Boston, accepts mail-in and drop-off donations to help “young people in 3,300 schools, youth centers, libraries and universities in 47 countries,” according to its website. For large donations, contact the Exchange before sending in the gear. baranozdemir/Getty Images The Digital Workforce Demands the Right PC for the Job Mobile Retail Technologies Cut Down the Checkout Line and Aid Inventory Lookup Review: ASUS ZenBook 13 Delivers Power and Portability	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1026
__label__cc	0.7066	0.2934	Love = Power = Profit The Brand Love Curve In the consumer’s mind, brands sit on a Brand Love Curve, with brands going from Indifferent to Like It to Love It and finally becoming a Beloved Brand for Life. At the Beloved stage, demand becomes desire, needs become cravings, thinking is replaced with feelings. Consumers become outspoken fans. It’s this connection that helps drive power for your brand: power versus competitors, versus customers, versus suppliers and even versus the same consumers you’re connected with. The farther along the curve, the more power for the brand. It’s important that you understand where your brand sits on the Love Curve and begin figuring out how to move it along towards becoming a Beloved Brand. With each stage of the Brand Love Curve, the consumer will see your brand differently. The worst case is when consumers have “no opinion” of your brand. They just don’t care. It’s like those restaurants you stop at in the middle of no-where that are called “restaurant”. In those cases, there is no other choice so you may as well just name it restaurant. But in highly competitive markets, you survive by being liked, but you thrive by being loved. Be honest with yourself as to what stage you are at, and try to figure out how to be more loved, with a vision of getting to the Beloved Brand stage. The most beloved brands are based on an idea that is worth loving. It is the idea that connects the Brand with consumers. And under the Brand Idea are 5 sources of connectivity that help connect the brand with consumers and drive Brand Love, including the brand promise, the strategic choices you make, the brand’s ability to tell their story, the freshness of the product or service and the overall experience and impressions it leaves with you. Everyone wants to debate what makes a great brand–whether it’s the product, the advertising, the experience or through consumers. It is not just one or the other–it’s the collective connection of all these things that make a brand beloved. Generating Love for the Brand The brand’s promise sets up the positioning, as you focus on a key target with one main benefit you offer. Brands need to be either better, different or cheaper. Or else not around for very long. “Me-too” brands have a short window before being squeezed out. How relevant, simple and compelling the brand positioning is impacts the potential love for the brand. The most beloved brands create an experience that over-delivers the promise. How your culture and organization are set up can make or break that experience. Hiring the best people, creating service values that employees can deliver against and having processes that eliminate service leakage. The culture attacks the brand’s weaknesses and fixes them before the competition can attack. With a Beloved Brand, the culture and brand become one. Brands also make focused strategic choices that start with identifying where the brand is on the Brand Love Curve going from Indifferent to Like It to Love It and all the way to Beloved status. Marketing is not just activity, but rather focused activity–based on strategy with an ROI mindset. Where you are on the curve might help you make strategic and tactical choices such as media, innovation and service levels. The most beloved brands have a freshness of innovation, staying one-step ahead of the consumers. The idea of the brand helps acting as an internal beacon to help frame the R&D. Every new product has to back that idea. At Apple, every new product must deliver simplicity and at Volvo, it must focus on safety. . Beloved brands can tell the brand story through great advertising in paid media, through earned media either in the mainstream press or through social media. Beloved Brands use each of these media choices to connect with consumers and have a bit of magic to their work. Using Apple as an example, which is the most valuable brand on the planet, the big idea behind Apple is complexity made simple. Since every great brand tackles an enemy of the consumer, Apple takes on the frustration and intimidation that consumers have with technology. The Apple brand promise is we make it easier to love technology, so that you can experience the future no matter who you are. Apple has done an amazing job in creating products that take the most complicated of technology and deliver it so that anyone can use it. People criticize Apple for not being that leading edge of technology saying they just copy. But they don’t get what Apple is about. Whereas every other geeky computer company starts with the technology and forces consumers to figure it out, Apple takes that same technology and makes it so simple–whether that’s the iPhone iPad or the Mac which have made technology accessible for anyone. Apple knows how to tell their story, starting with the launch meeting–last week’s iPad Mini launch was covered for days in the mainstream media. You could even watch it live on-line. Apple has made great ads over the years, but they know how to work the media–whether that’s on CNN, technology magazines or through social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Apple manages the Brand Experience to perfection–starting with the excitement of launches to the helpfulness of the genius bar to the out-of-box start-up of any of the Apple products. As much excitement as Apple generates, they always seem to over-deliver. Look how giddy people get over their iPhones and iPads. All these contribute to the Love for the Apple brand and generates a loyal following. Using the Love to Generate Power The 12 forces of a Beloved Brand map out how a beloved brand can leverage the power generated from being loved. A Beloved Brand with a loyal group of followers has so much more power–starting with a power over the very consumers that love them. These consumers feel more than they think–they are e-rational responding to emotional cues in the brand. They’ll pay a premium, line up in the rain for new products and follow the brand to new categories. Look at the power Starbucks has with their base of consumers, making their Starbucks moment one of their favorite rituals of the day and how consumers have now added sandwiches and wraps to those rituals. All day long, Starbucks has a line up of people ready for one of their favorite moments of their day. Using Porter’s 5 forces, we can see that the love also gives Beloved Brands power over channels, substitutes, new entrants, or suppliers. People rather switch stores than switch brands. Apple has even created their own stores, which generate the highest sales per square foot of any retailer. These brand fans are outspoken against competitors and suppliers will do what it takes to be part of the brand. In Apple’s case, Intel has given them the lead on new chip technology. Beloved Brands have a power over employees that want to be part of the brand and the culture of the organization that all these brand fans are proud to project. People at Starbucks love working there and wear that green apron with a sense of pride. Brand fans know the culture on day 1 and do what it takes to preserve it. Beloved Brands have a power over the media whether that’s paid, earned, social or search media. Apple generates over a billion dollars of free media via the mainstream media and social media. Competitors complain about Apple getting a positive media bias–they are right, they do. Even for paid media,beloved brands get better placement, cheaper rates and they’ll be the first call for an Integration or big event such as the Super Bowl or the Olympics. Nike did such a great job with social media during the London Olympics that people thought they were the main shoe sponsor–when it was Adidas. Beloved Brands have a power over key influencers whether it’s doctors recommending Lipitor, restaurant critics giving a positive review for the most beloved restaurant in town or Best Buy sales people selling a Samsung TV. They each become fans of the brand and build emotion into their recommendation. They become more outspoken in their views of the brand. And finally beloved the Beloved Brand makes its way into conversation at the lunch table or on someone’s Facebook page. The brand fans are everywhere, ready to pounce, ready to defend and ready to say “hey, you should buy the iPhone”. The conversation comes with influence as crowds follow crowds. This conversation has a second power, which creates a badge value. People know it will generate a conversation and are so proud to show it off. After all, they are in the club. All twelve of these forces combine to generate further power for the brand. Using the Love and Power to generate Profits With all the love and power the Beloved Brand has generated for itself, now is the time to translate that into growth, profit and value. The Beloved Brand has an Inelastic Price. The loyal brand fans pay a 20-30% price premium and the weakened channels cave to give deeper margins. We will see how inelastic Apple’s price points are with the new iPad Mini. Consumers are willing to trade up to the best model. The more engaged employees begin to generate an even better brand experience. For instance at Starbucks, employees know the names of their most loyal of customers. Blind taste tests show consumers prefer the cheaper McDonald’s coffee but still pay 4x as much for a Starbucks. So is it still coffee you’re buying? A well-run Beloved Brand can use their efficiency to lower their cost structure. Not only can they use their growth to drive economies of scale, but suppliers will cut their cost just to be on the roster of a Beloved Brand. They will benefit from the free media through earned, social and search media. They may even find government offer subsidies to be in the community or partners willing to lower their costs to be part of the brand. For instance, a real estate owner would likely give lower costs and better locations to McDonald’s than an indifferent brand. Beloved Brands have momentum they can turn into share gains. Crowds draw crowds which spreads the base of the loyal consumers. Putting name Disney on a movie generates a crowd at the door on day 1. Competitors can’t compete–lower margins means less investment back into the brand. It’s hard for them to fight the Beloved Brand on the emotional basis leaving them to a niche that’s currently unfulfilled. Beloved Brands can enter into new categories knowing their loyal consumers will follow because they buy into the Idea of the Brand. The idea is no longer tied to the product or service but rather how it makes you feel about yourself. Nike is all about winning, whether that’s in running shoes, athletic gear or even golf equipment. The formula for a Beloved Brand is simple: Beloved = Power = Growth = Profit Apple has been able to take all the love they generate with consumers and transform it into a power that they’ve been able to drive into their P&L, with 25-fold gains in revenue, increases in gross margins and can move all their ratios into the right space. As a result, Apple is now the most valuable company in the world. How loved is your brand? We believe a brand’s source of power is the emotional feelings it generates. With that power comes added profitability. In the consumer’s mind, brands sit on a Brand Love Curve, with brands going from Indifferent to Like It to Love It and finally becoming a Beloved Brand for Life. At the Beloved stage, demand becomes desire, needs become cravings, thinking is replaced with feelings. Consumers become outspoken fans. It’s this connection that helps drive power for your brand: power versus competitors, versus customers, versus suppliers and even versus the same consumers you’re connected with. The farther along the curve, the more power for the brand. It’s important that you understand where your brand sits on the Love Curve and begin figuring out how to move it along towards becoming a Beloved Brand. With the power of connection, the brand can leverage that power into increased growth and profits. To read more, follow this presentation. We offer brand coaching, where we promise to make your brand better by listening to the issues, providing advice that challenges you, and coaching you along a strategic pathway to reaching your brand’s full potential. For our brand leader training, we promise to make your team of brand leaders better, by teaching sound marketing fundamentals and challenging to push for greatness so that they can unleash their full potential. Feel free to add me on Linked In, or follow me on Twitter at @belovedbrands If you need to contact me, email me at graham@beloved-brands.com or phone me at 416 885 3911 Apple, beloved brand, Brand, brand leader, Brand Love Curve, brand manager, business, consumers, CPG, emotional, Marketing, mcdonalds, nike, Porter's Model, power, Profit, Starbucks, Value How Ritz-Carlton meets the “unexpressed” needs of guests How the most beloved brands fall from grace	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1036
__label__cc	0.633228	0.366772	Best Events Near You in Herndon, Virginia Monday, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:00pm Filene Center Herndon Top Searches Movie Night - The Incredibles 2 Town Green Music - Jojo And the Pinecones Wolf Trap Foundation For The Performing Arts Wolf Trap Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods Women's Lightweight Backpacking Workshop Tuesday, Jul 16, 2019 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm Fairfax REI Jammin Java Weird Al Yankovic w/ National Symphony Orchestra Tedeschi Trucks Band w/ Blackberry Smoke Wednesday, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:00pm Barns Of Wolf Trap The Performing Arts Music - Whiskey Wildfire Thursday, Jul 18, 2019 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Fairfax County Park Authority Summer Entertainment Series Frying Pan Farm Park Music - The Aloha Boys Nottoway Park and Hunter House Passafire Rocknoceros Summer Concert Series - Jackson Flats Friday, Jul 19, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm Music - King Teddy Royal Lake Park Best Places To Go Near You Air Force Memorial Foundation One Air Force Memorial Drive Members of the Airman's Society provide a powerful boost to Air Force Memorial programs that support retirement and promotion ceremonies as well as... Alexandria Archaeology Museum 105 North Union Street, #327 Mission Statement: The Alexandria Archaeology Museum is dedicated to preserving and studying Alexandria’s rich archaeological heritage... Alexandria's Footsteps to the Past 703 Braxton Place Tales of war and peace..intrigue, betrayal, and heartache...tragedies, comedies...ghosts and graves...all part of the real history of the city, bro... Fort Myer, VA About:The Army National Military Cemeteries, consisting of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia and Soldiers' and Airmen's Home Natio... Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve 21085 The Woods Road The word "banshee" is a Gaelic term for a female spirit and the word "reeks" is a Gaelic term for hills and dales. Legend has it that around the 18... Birchmere: America's Legendary Music Hall 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue In music circles, the reputation of the Birchmere is legendary. Many careers have been launched from this internationally recognized music hall. On... Catoctin Skatepark 141 Catoctin Circle SE Catoctin Skatepark is a 12,000 square foot lighted skating area for inline skaters, skateboarders, and bikes. The design includes a skating surfac... Claude Moore Colonial Farm 6310 Georgetown Pike About us :The Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run is a living history museum that portrays family life on a small, low-income farm just prior ... Drug Enforcement Administration Museum 700 Army Navy Drive Mission Statement: The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Museum and Visitors Center is to educate the American public on the his... Encore Stage And Studio 4000 Lorcom Lane Our MissionOur mission is to build life-long appreciation for live theater by involving young people in all aspects of theater arts - onstage, back... Fauquier Community Theatre 4225 Aiken Drive Mission Statement:Fauquier Community Theater seeks to enrich and entertain a range of audiences through a variety of live theater productions that ... Fort Belvoir Skate Park 9700 Middleton Road Fort Belvoir, VA Fredericksburg Area Museum And Cultural Center 1001 Princess Anne Street The Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center is a resource for the region, a place where, through exhibitions, programs, and outreach activit... Freedom Museum 10600 Harry J Parrish Boulevard To honor those Americans who made the supreme sacrifice in defense of freedom, to pay tribute to those who served our country with honor and distin... George Washington's Distillery and Gristmill 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway Mount Vernon, VA George Washington's venture into the whiskey business began at the urging of his farm manager, James Anderson. Anderson, who had been involved in t... George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens 3200 Mt Vernon Memorial Highway George Washington oversaw all aspects of the landscape at Mount Vernon. He extensively redesigned the grounds surrounding his home, adopting the le... Great Waves Waterpark 4001 Eisenhower Avenue Great Waves offers some of the most unique and fun water attractions in Northern Virginia! Great Waves also offers several other attractions to rea... Green Spring Gardens 4603 Green Spring Road About Us:Green Spring Gardens is a "must visit" for everyone in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. It's a year-round gold mine of information ... Gulf Branch Nature Center 3608 North Military Road About this Nature Center Our nature centers are nestled in lovely park settings and are staffed with friendly and knowledgeable people. They provi... Gunston Hall 10709 Gunston Road Gunston Hall was once the center of a 5,500-acre tobacco and corn plantation. Its owner, George Mason IV (1725-1792), was a fourth generation Virgi...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1041
__label__cc	0.560583	0.439417	Bible > ISV > Luke 19 ◄ Luke 19 ► International Standard Version Par ▾ Jesus and Zacchaeus 1As Jesusa entered Jericho and was passing through it, 2a man named Zacchaeus appeared. He was a leading tax collector, and a rich one at that! 3He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he couldn’t do so due to the crowd, since he was a short man. 4So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus,b who was going to pass that way. 5When Jesus came to the tree,c he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today.” 6Zacchaeusd came down quickly and was glad to welcome him into his home.e 7But all the people who saw this began to complain: “Jesusf is going to be the guest of a notoriousg sinner!” 8Later, Zacchaeus stood up and announced to the Lord, “Look! I’m giving half of my possessions to the destitute, and if I have accused anyone falsely, I’m repaying four times as much as I owe.”h 9Then Jesus told him, “Today salvation has come to this home, because this mani is also a descendant of Abraham, 10and the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.” The Parable about the Coins 11As they were listening to this, Jesusj went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and because the peoplek thought that the kingdom of God would appear immediately. 12So he said, “A prince went to a distant country to be appointed king and then to return. 13He called ten of his servants and gave them ten coins.l He told them, ‘Invest this money until I come back.’ 14But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us!’ 15“After he was appointed king, the princem came back. He ordered the servants to whom he had given the money to be called so he could find out what they had earned by investing. 16The first servantn came and said, ‘Sir, your coin has earned ten more coins.’ 17The kingo told him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been trustworthy in a very small thing, take charge of ten cities.’ 18“The second servantp came and said, ‘Your coin, sir, has earned five coins.’ 19The kingq told him, ‘You take charge of five cities.’ 20“Then the other servantr came and said, ‘Sir, look! Here’s your coin. I’ve kept it in a cloth for safekeeping 21because I was afraid of you. You are a hard man. You withdraw what you didn’t deposit and harvest what you didn’t plant.’ 22The kings told him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn’t deposit and harvest what I didn’t plant? 23Then why didn’t you put my money in the bank? When I returned, I could have collected it with interest.’ 24“So the kingt told those standing nearby, ‘Take the coin away from him and give it to the man who has the ten coins.’ 25They answered him, ‘Sir, he alreadyu has ten coins!’ 26‘I tell you, to everyone who has something, more will be given, but from the person who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away. 27But as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!’” The King Enters Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; John 12:12-19) 28After Jesusv had said this, he traveled on and went up to Jerusalem. 29As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples on ahead. 30“Go into the village ahead of you,” he said. “As you enter, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever ridden.w Untie it and bring it along. 31If anyone asks you why you are untying it, say this: ‘The Lord needs it.’” 32So those who were sent went off and found it as Jesusx had told them. 33While they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34The disciplesy answered, “The Lord needs it.” 35Then they brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it, and Jesus sat upon it. 36As he was riding along, peoplez kept spreading their coats on the road. 37He was now approaching the descent from the Mount of Olives. The whole crowd of disciples began to rejoice and to praise God with a loud voice because of all the miracles they had seen. 38They said, “How blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!aa Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!” 39Some of the Pharisees in the crowd told Jesus,bb “Teacher, tell your disciples to be quiet.” 40He replied, “I tell you, if they were quiet, the stones would cry out!” 41When he came closer and saw the city, he began to grieve over it: 42“If youcc had only known today what could have brought you peace! But now it is hidden from your sight, 43because the days will comedd when your enemies will build walls around you, surround you, and close you in on every side. 44They will level you to the ground—you and those who liveee within your city limits.ff They will not leave one stone on another within your walls,gg because you didn’t recognize the time when you were visited.”hh Confrontation in the Temple over Money (Matthew 21:12-17; Mark 11:15-19; John 2:13-22) 45Then Jesusii went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling things. 46He told them, “It is written, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer,’jj but you have turned it into a hideoutkk for bandits!” 47Then he began teaching in the Temple every day. The high priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him, 48but they couldn’t find a way to do it, because all the people were eager to hear him. a 19:1 Lit. he b 19:4 Lit. him c 19:5 Lit. to the place d 19:6 Lit. He e 19:6 The Gk. lacks into his home f 19:7 Lit. He g 19:7 The Gk. lacks notorious h 19:8 The Gk. lacks as much as I owe; cf. Exod 22:1, 2 Sam 12:6 i 19:9 Lit. because he j 19:11 Lit. he k 19:11 Lit. they l 19:13 Lit. minas. A mina was equivalent to about eight months of wages for a laborer. m 19:15 Lit. he n 19:16 The Gk. lacks servant o 19:17 Lit. He p 19:18 The Gk. lacks servant q 19:19 Lit. He r 19:20 The Gk. lacks servant s 19:22 Lit. He t 19:24 Lit. he u 19:25 The Gk. lacks already v 19:28 Lit. he w 19:30 Lit. ever sat on x 19:32 Lit. he y 19:34 Lit. They z 19:36 Lit. they aa 19:38 Cf. Ps 118:26; MT source citation reads LORD bb 19:39 Lit. him cc 19:42 i.e. the city of Jerusalem personified; and so throughout the paragraph dd 19:43 Lit. come on you ee 19:44 Lit. and your children ff 19:44 The Gk. lacks city limits gg 19:44 Lit. within you hh 19:44 Lit. the time of your visitation ii 19:45 Lit. he jj 19:46 Cf. Isa 56:7 kk 19:46 Lit. cave	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1042
__label__cc	0.674639	0.325361	Release Week Blitz + Excerpt & Giveaway: The Winter Wedding Plan by Olivia Miles Posted in Giveaways, Spotlight by Lacey The Winter Wedding Plan by Olivia Miles Series: Misty Point #2 (full reading order below) Publication Date: September 26th 2017 All she wants for Christmas is a second chance . . . Charlotte Daniels has made her share of mistakes, but now that she’s a single mom, she vows to do better–and that starts with a new career. Working at her sister’s event-planning company is just the fresh start she needs. Kate Daniels has finally forgiven Charlotte for her betrayal, but forgetting it is harder. But as the holidays approach and Kate has her own wedding to plan, she has no choice but to turn to Charlotte for help to throw a high-profile client the holiday party of the season. Charlotte leaps at the chance to redeem herself . . . until this irresistible client asks her to pretend to be his fiancée for the party. She knows their charade won’t come without consequences–not just for her fresh start with Kate, but also for her own daughter. As Kate’s wedding draws near and Charlotte’s fake romance starts to feel more and more real, will she fall back into the mistakes of her past, or finally prove herself to Kate once and for all? In the vein of New York Times bestselling authors Susan Mallery, Robyn Carr, and Elin Hilderbrand, comes the second in a women’s fiction series about the complicated ties of sisterhood that bind us together and sometimes tear us apart. Amazon • B&N • BAM • Google Play • iBooks • IndieBound • Kobo • Target Now here’s an excerpt from The Winter Wedding Plan! ❤ She pointed out the double set of French doors against the far wall, where a view of a snow-covered stone terrace shone in the moonlight. “Look at that. It’s a winter wonderland out there. It’s the perfect night for a holiday movie.” He didn’t look convinced. “If you say so.” “I do.” Charlotte settled back against a pillow. “Besides, this one is really terrific—” “Wait. You’ve seen it before?” “At least a dozen times! We watch it every Christmas. It’s sort of a family tradition.” Greg’s brow furrowed. “That sounds nice.” Charlotte grinned, imagining how wonderful it would be when Audrey was old enough to partake in the event. “Usually we make a big bowl of popcorn, have some hot chocolate. We can recite all the lines, of course, but that’s just part of the fun. Whenever I think of this movie, well, it just feels like coming home.” Greg glanced at her. “I can make some popcorn if you’d like.” Charlotte considered the holiday dress she’d hoped to squeeze herself into for the party, and then decided the diet could wait. She grinned. “I’ll pause it. You don’t want to miss the opening scene.” “Oh, I wouldn’t want to do that,” Greg teased, but she could sense that he was pleased. Charlotte couldn’t wipe the smile from her face as she snuggled deeper under the chenille blanket and waited for Greg to return with the popcorn. Despite the size of the house, she could soon make out the sound of popping—she glanced sharply at the baby monitor, silently willing Audrey to be unaware of the noise. She was enjoying herself, maybe more than she should, and she wasn’t ready to be on mom duty again just yet. For just a few moments she wanted to just be Charlotte. And somehow, with Greg, she was. Greg, who didn’t know her past. Greg, who had no hold on her future. Greg, who knew her just as she was. Today. Present moment only. No mistakes. No slip-ups. She stared at the frozen television screen. A year ago she had watched this movie alone, with tears streaming down her face as she worked her way through a family-sized bag of potato chips, wondering if her sister and parents were watching it together, if they were happy she wasn’t with them. Little did she know at the time just how different this year would be. Better. Or at least on the up-and-up. Greg came into the room with a bowl of popcorn, his grin sheepish. “I won’t lie. It’s microwaved.” “The best kind,” Charlotte remarked. Her eyes widened slightly as he slid onto the couch beside her again. Was it just her imagination, or was he coming a little closer this time? She looked to her right. There wasn’t much more space left for her to move. “Ready to start the movie?” she asked, gripping the remote. He passed her the bowl of popcorn, and she helped herself to a few kernels. “This isn’t one of those feel-good movies, is it?” She raised an eyebrow. “It’s a holiday movie. What do you think?” He shook his head, but she could tell by his faint smile that he liked her response. “Oh, boy. Let’s get it over with then.” “I have a feeling you’re going to enjoy it. Trust me.” He gave her a strange look. “I do trust you.” She rearranged herself on the couch, unsure of what to make of that remark, and fighting back the strange feeling that she just might be able to trust him, too. If she let herself. The fell into silence as the movie started, and a few glances at Greg told her that he was fully engrossed within minutes. She smiled in satisfaction, and decided to enjoy herself and put her troubles from her mind for a bit. But the next thing she knew the television screen was quiet. There was popcorn sprinkled all over the leather couch, and the baby monitor crackled somewhere behind her. She tried to remember the last scene in the movie she’d watched, and realized with a sinking feeling that she’d fallen asleep well over an hour ago. Her eyes sprung open. She wasn’t in her bedroom, and the pillow under her cheek wasn’t a pillow at all. It was a chest. A very hard, very sturdy, very manly chest. She blinked in panic as her heart began to race. Staying as still as she could under the tense circumstances, she listened to the steady drum of Greg’s pulse though his sweater, felt the rhythm of his breath as his chest moved softly up and down, moving her with it, almost lulling her into a state of tranquility. He was asleep. And so help her, she intended for him to remain that way. Inch by inch, she eased herself off the couch, grabbed the baby monitor by the handle, and made her way to the half-open French doors. She winced, and closed her eyes before turning to face the owner of the smooth, groggy voice that was much too deep and husky for her own good. “I think we fell asleep.” She didn’t bother mentioning just what position they’d ended up in, or how that might have happened. She felt the blood drain from her cheeks when she considered that while she had dozed off somewhere around the scene where the young boy goes to the mall with his wish list, meaning somewhere in the first third of the movie, it was entirely possible that Greg hadn’t nodded off until a few minutes ago. “Too bad. That was a pretty good movie.” She nudged him with her elbow. “Told you so.” He arched an eyebrow. “Rain check then?” That sounded an awful lot like an invitation she should probably resist, but with that friendly grin and those warm eyes, really, what was a girl to do? “Can’t wait.” And she realized as she turned from the room and hurried back upstairs that she couldn’t wait. And that was really quite a problem. Reading Order: Misty Point series #1 ~ One Week to the Wedding: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads #2 ~ The Winter Wedding Plan: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads Olivia Miles writes women’s fiction and contemporary romance. A city girl with a fondness for small town charm, Olivia enjoys highlighting both ways of life in her stories. She lives just outside Chicago with her husband, young daughter, and two ridiculously pampered pups. Website • Facebook • Twitter • Goodreads Win 1 of 10 paperback copies of THE WINTER WEDDING PLAN by Olivia Miles FOLLOW BOOKLOVERS FOR LIFE ON: ✦ FACEBOOK • TWITTER • INSTAGRAM • GOODREADS • PINTEREST • BLOGLOVIN’ ✦ excerpt, giveaway, Olivia Miles, Release Week Blitz, The Winter Wedding Plan Leave a comment « Release Day Review: Act Your Age by Eve Dangerfield Book Blitz + Excerpt & Giveaway: Malachi and I by J.J. McAvoy »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1045
__label__cc	0.503699	0.496301	news and reporting 6 Noteworthy Picture Books About News And Reporting The Breaking News Written and illustrated by Sarah Lynne Reul When devastating news rattles a little girl's community, she struggles to know how to cope. Her normally attentive parents are suddenly exhausted and distracted, and nothing she does seems to cheer them up. At school, her teacher tells her to look for the helpers-the good people working to make things better in big and small ways. She wants more than anything to help in a BIG way, but maybe she can start with one small thing instead... and then another, and another? Those small things can compound, after all, to make a world of difference.Both timely and timeless, this beautifully illustrated picture book from debut author/illustrator Sarah Lynne Reul touches on the themes of community, resilience, and optimism with an authenticity that will resonate with readers young and old. Raise Your Hand Written by Alice Paul Tapper and illustrated by Marta Kissi 11-year-old Alice Paul Tapper–daughter of CNN’s Jake Tapper–is challenging girls everywhere to speak up! When Alice Tapper noticed that the girls in her class weren’t participating as much as the boys, she knew she had to do something about it. With help from her Girl Scout troop and her parents, she came up with a patch that other girls could earn if they took a pledge to be more confident in school. Alice even wrote an op-ed about the experience for the New York Times! Inspired by that piece, this picture book illustrates her determination, bravery, and unwillingness to accept the status quo. With Marta Kissi’s delightful illustrations depicting Alice’s story, young readers everywhere will want to follow Alice’s lead and raise their hand! Written by Jillian Roberts On the News gently introduces young children to the realities of natural disasters, terrorism and other forms of tragedy. In age-appropriate language and tone, Dr. Roberts explains what tragedy is, the feelings it may create and how to manage those feelings. She also emphasizes the good that can come out of tragedy, looking at how people help one another in caring, compassionate and heroic ways.The book’s question-and-answer format will help parents have a meaningful conversation about these difficult topics with their children and equip them to better handle questions that arise when children are exposed to the news. The World Around Us series introduces children to complex cultural,social and environmental issues they may encounter outside the comfort of their homes, in a way that is straightforward and accessible. Amy Namey in Ace Reporter Written by Megan McDonald and illustrated by Erwin Madrid Read all about it! Amy Namey is chasing a news story in this Judy Moody® story for newly independent readers. Amy Namey, Ace Reporter, is on the hunt for a good news story. But not a lot happens in the town of Frog Neck Lake. So what’s a budding reporter to do? Team up with Judy Moody! With Judy along to sniff out a story, anything can happen. Like maybe a close encounter with the famed Great Virginia Sea Serpent, Taboo! Are Amy and Judy about to stumble upon the scoop of the century? Breaking News: Bear Alert Written and illustrated by David Biedrzycki We interrupt your day for this breaking news. . . Two bears awaken from hibernation and go to town—literally. During their visit, they eat at a diner, dress up at a department store, and stop a couple of bank robbers, all the while mistaking the townspeople’s terror for friendliness. The news-reporting-style of storytelling puts readers in the action and on the edge of their seats. Illustrations jam-packed with puns, clues, and jokes will have the whole family or classroom laughing out loud and eager to find out what happens next—will the bears terrorize the town? Will the cat burglars be caught? Will the city come to a grinding halt? Tune in to find out. We now return you to your regularly scheduled day. Breaking News: Bears to the Rescue A missing cub, a carnival, and a gang of cat burglars… Hold on to your hats! Best-selling author David Biedrzycki brings back the hilarious bears from Breaking News: Bear Alert, but now they have sleepy bear cub in tow. When the cub goes missing Mama and Papa Bear go on the hunt. Their search takes them to the town carnival where the whole family rides the Ferris wheel, rocks the rollercoaster, and inadvertently foils another dastardly plot by the persistent cat burglars from Bear Alert. Covering the story is intrepid—but bumbling—reporter Chad Newsworthy and the rest of the crew at Channel 3 News. Dazzling Books About Dance Strong Books About Female Role Models Updated Jun. 26, 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1046
__label__wiki	0.720202	0.720202	Free Press, 1996 - 544 pages In a time when psychologists are rediscovering Darwin, and much of our social behavioral is being reduced to ancient, hard-wired patterns, Michael Kimmel's history of manhood in America comes as a much needed reminder that our behavior as men and women is anything but stable and fixed. Kimmel's authoritative, entertaining, and wide-ranging history of men in America demonstrates that manhood has meant very different things in different eras. Drawing on advice books, magazines, political pamphlets, and popular novels and films, he makes two surprising claims: First, manhood is homosocial - that is, men need to prove themselves to each other, not to women. Second, definitions of manliness have evolved in response to women's movements. When women act, men react. Originally, manliness was an internal virtue and a democratic ideal - British men were viewed as fops, and American men had to be independent, honest, and responsible. By the 1890s, however, manhood changed to masculinity, something that had to be constantly proven through the new explosion of sports, fraternities, and fashion. Finally, in 1936, Lewis Terman, the creator of the IQ test, developed an "M-F" test to analyze adolescents' masculinity and femininity. Until well into the 1960s, the test penalized boys who preferred to draw flowers instead of forests, or who knew that a teacup was used for drinking tea. But just as Terman's categories and questions seem outdated to us, so will our own standards seem temporary to our successors. 4 pages matching hood in this book Captains of Industry White Collars American manhood arena argued Barbara Ehrenreich baseball become Billy Sunday Boston boys celebrated Chicago Christian cited City Civil claimed coeducation cowboy culinity cultural feminization Culture David decades domestic economic effeminacy effeminate efforts emasculated emotional fantasy father fear feel female feminine feminist feminization film fraternal frontier gender Genteel Patriarch George girls hero Heroic Artisan homosexual homosocial hood ideal increasingly James Jesus John labor Leslie Fiedler liberation lives magazine male bonding man's manly marketplace masculinist masculinity men's men's liberation men's movement men's rights middle-class moral mother movement Muscular Muscular Christianity nation nineteenth century novel Owen Wister percent Pleck political popular race rituals Robert role Self-Made sexual social society sons sphere success Theodore Roosevelt tion traditional transformed turn urban virility virtue Warren Farrell western William wimp Wister wives woman women workers workplace writes wrote York young Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. His books include "Changing Men" (1987), "Men Confront Pornography" (1990), "Men s Lives" (4th edition, 1997), "Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States", "1776-1990" (1992), "The Politics of Manhood" (1996), and "Manhood: A Cultural History" (1996). In addition to the journal Men and Masculinities, he also edits a book series on Men and Masculinity at the University of California Press, and the Sage Series on Men and Masculinities. He is the Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) and lectures extensively on campuses in the U.S. and abroad. Sociology. Gender studies Publisher Free Press, 1996	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1047
__label__cc	0.674853	0.325147	Created: Posted on May 7, 2018 by Colleen Lynn Last updated: September 6, 2018 2018 Dog Bite Fatality: Baby Killed by Family Dog While Under Her Grandmother's Care A 3-month old baby died after being mauled by a family dog in Sherman Oaks. Baby Identified UPDATE 05/07/18: The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office has identified the baby girl killed by a family dog. Gaia Nova died shortly after arriving at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Saturday. At the time of the attack, Gaia was under the care of her grandmother. When she left the infant in a room to get a bottle, one of the three family dogs clamped down on the baby's head, killing her. Authorities seized all three family dogs: a rottweiler, labrador retriever, and small terrier. Police do not know which of the dogs attacked the infant or if more than one dog was involved. Earlier news reports stated that DNA samples were taken to determine which of the dogs killed the baby. Authorities have not released the gender or spay/neuter status of the dogs or any photographs of the dogs. No criminal charges are expected. Police are calling the baby's death a "true tragedy." Gaia is the third baby girl mauled to death by a pet dog since March 7, 2018. 05/06/18: Family Dog Kills Baby Los Angeles, CA - A baby is dead after being bitten on the head by a family dog in her Sherman Oaks home. The incident was reported at 3:25 pm Saturday in the 14400 block of Benefit Street, Officer Stacy Ball of the Los Angeles Police Department said. At the time of the attack, the baby was under the care of her grandmother. The grandmother rushed the infant to Sherman Oaks Hospital. She was then airlifted to Cedars-Sinai Hospital where she was pronounced dead. This is a horrible case. It has touched all involved family, friends and first responders. Our hearts go out to the family and friends. - Capt. Lillian Carranza At the time of the attack, the 3-month old baby girl was in her own home. There were three dogs present in the home, LAPD Police Services Officer Stacy Ball said. Police described the dogs as a 98-pound rottweiler, 89-pound labrador and 10-pound terrier. Animal control took all three dogs into custody. It remains unclear if one or more dogs inflicted the deadly attack. KABC-TV reports that DNA samples were taken to determine which of the animals fatally injured the infant. Circumstances of how the attack happened are also vague. Detective Moses Castillo stated, "It's a reminder to those who may have a large dog in the family and maybe have some little ones at home to remain vigilant -- constant observation of their little ones." CBS Los Angeles reports the baby's grandmother turned her back for a moment and when she returned, she found the infant with head and face injuries. The investigation continues. Criminal charges are not anticipated. View the DogsBite.org Google Map: U.S. Fatal Rottweiler Attacks By State 09/05/18: Fatal Rottweiler Attacks - The Archival Record 04/11/18: 2018 Dog Bite Fatality: Pet Wolf Hybrid Kills 8-Day Old Baby Girl in Virginia 04/06/18: 2018 Dog Bite Fatality: Dog Kills 13-Month Old Baby Girl at Babysitter's Home This entry was posted in Dog Bite Fatalities and tagged 2018 Dog Bite Fatality, Babysitting, California, Fatal Rottweiler Attack, Infant Fatality, Rottweiler by Colleen Lynn. Bookmark the permalink. Report a Broken Link 5 thoughts on “2018 Dog Bite Fatality: Baby Killed by Family Dog While Under Her Grandmother's Care” Christy D on May 6, 2018 at 5:31 pm said: I am going to guess that the culprit was the rottweiler or the "labrador retriever" (pitt bull, cough). Ka D on May 6, 2018 at 11:31 pm said: Having any 'power breed' dog around a child is idiotic. Will people ever wise up? LibertarianThinker on May 8, 2018 at 3:01 pm said: And I bet the family previously had said how "sweet" their dogs were and that they only thing they were capable of was "licking you to death." RIP baby girl, another child sacrificed because of an adult's "pride" in owning a dangerous animal. Your Quiet Neighbor on May 8, 2018 at 5:53 pm said: Sherman Oaks isn't exactly what one would call a ghetto. It's one of the most affluent parts of the LA area. That being said, permit me to share an observation from Tucson: I'm seeing a lot of pit bulls in affluent areas. I would assume that a lot of them are "rescues." Our local humane society and animal control are aggressively marketing pit bulls to the community. Alas, a lot of people fall for this misleading sales pitch. It's only a matter of time before our community experiences a similar tragedy. And it would be as likely to happen in the Catalina Foothills as it would on the South Side. Rest in peace, poor precious child. I can’t begin to imagine the pain and guilt the parents feel, having failed to protect their child. I think it’s a problem that we as a society are confused about the purpose of breeds. People consider all breeds as pets, and really only limited amount of breeds were developed as pets and companions. If you think about it for a minute, did these “family” dogs really belong in the home as pets? Rottweiler is what, a working dog? Certainly not a pet to keep on your couch. Labradors are considered to be good family dogs, but really were intended to be hunting dogs, and I hear they can be mouthy, unless well trained. Trained or not, do you want to use your child as a guinea pig to check how well trained that dog really is? Terriers are hunting dogs too, right? They’re high energy. Unless it’s a tiny Yorkie, specifically designed to be a lap dog, leave them to hunters. Rottweilers should not be kept as pets, in my opinion, they are plain dangerous. Most certainly not in a home with small children. Big Labrador? Its kind of ok, but should never be left unsupervised with a small child. If it’s a fragile infant, then no Labrador in her face, even if he appears friendly, the stakes are too high. They’ll have a chance to bond later, when the child is older and more resilient, and actually cares about the dog. Same with terrier, no need to let him get too close to infants. Teach him to be submissive in the baby’s presence, always supervise, and never let him get in her face. Any dog could have a glitch and snap for no reason, and for a tiny precious infant, the consequences could be disastrous. Get your priorities straight, parents. Don’t go with the flow and get dogs that are “considered” family dogs, when they really shouldn’t be. Think for yourself, protect your child, remember that dog is just an animal after all. You wouldn’t expose your child to a wild animal, would you? Raccoons, kangaroos, anyone? No? You wouldn’t do that, because you know they can hurt your child. Well, dogs have been domesticated for a long time, but they’re still animals, and their animal instincts can show any minute, so stay vigilant.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1057
__label__cc	0.606436	0.393564	HomeMusic NewsFoo Fighters, Ryan Adams, Metallica, and more to play Chris Cornell tribute show Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams, Metallica, and more to play Chris Cornell tribute show November 14, 2018 Glen Bushell Music News 0 From NME: A huge tribute show in memory of Chris Cornell has been announced for next January, featuring huge names such as Metallica, Ryan Adams and Foo Fighters. The Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, and Audioslave frontman was found dead in his hotel room on May 17, 2017 aged 52. Former members of his old bands will also play the gig, named ‘I Am The Highway’. ‘I Am The Highway: A Tribute To Chris Cornell’ will take place on January 16, 2019 at @theforum in Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 16 at 10am pt at https://t.co/y7RSPG28Sl. Proceeds will benefit EBMRF. #IAmTheHighway pic.twitter.com/vTpulFz3kP — Chris Cornell (@chriscornell) November 13, 2018 It’s due to take place on January 16, 2019 at the Los Angeles Forum. Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the event, with a number of special guests also promised. Read the full article over at NME Find Chris Cornell items at eil.com, and if you are looking to sell items, contact 01474 815099 eil.com – the world’s best online store for rare, collectable and out of print Vinyl Records, CDs & Music memorabilia since 1987 #memorabilia #metallica #musicmemorabilia #ryanadams #soundgarden Latest Autographed rarities including Ian Anderson, Lou Reed, White Lies & more Rare and collectable vinyl soundtracks now in stock Your Weekly Best Of Premium Collectables including Kylie, David Bowie, The Smiths, Jimi Hendrix, The Who & More April 26, 2017 Tim Card Rare & Vintage Vinyl & CDs 0 …..more movers and shakers through the doors this week, look out for an ultra rare Kylie Minogue EMI promotional ‘tricycle light’, a quite possibly one-of-a-kind selection of artwork for the Smiths ‘Strangeways Here We Come’ […] New album AC/DC album in the works January 30, 2019 JP Cartwright Music News 0 From Planet Rock. Brian Johnson has ‘confirmed’ he is back in the AC/DC fold and is recording a new album with the band. Rumours that both Brian Johnson and Phil Rudd had rejoined forces with […] Depeche Mode To Release ‘Cover Me’ Single In October September 5, 2017 Cathryn Draper Music News 0 Depeche Mode will release ‘Cover Me’, the third single from the current album Spirit. Scheduled for release on 6th October is a double 12″ vinyl set, CD single details not yet confirmed. Watch the video […]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1058
__label__cc	0.513693	0.486307	Mpls cop who once sued department now heads Internal Affairs Unit Brandt Williams February 7, 2013, 2:24 PM Feb 7, 2013 In 2007, Lt. Medaria Arradondo (MPR file photo/Dan Olson) and four other black police officers sued the police department for racial discrimination. The men alleged that they were passed over for promotions and unfairly disciplined because of their race. The city settled with the officers in 2009 for $740,000. Arradondo joined the MPD in 1989 and has held several different supervisory positions in the department during his career. In his new position, he will oversee the department’s branch that investigates officer misconduct complaints. Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau promoted Arradondo in December. Harteau herself once filed a human rights complaint against the department for sex discrimination when she was a patrol officer in the 1990s. The promotion ceremony for Arradondo and more than a dozen officers will be held Friday afternoon at the Augsburg College Chapel in Minneapolis. Courts Minneapolis Race ‹ Older St. Paul’s third snow non-emergency Newer › Immigrant farmers on the lookout for land	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1070
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__label__cc	0.617819	0.382181	Alex Lowe's .NET Blog Alex Lowe's .NET Blog Taking feedback to the next level…. Migrating from Cold Fusion to ASP.NET AlexLowe July 27, 2003 2 If you are considering the migration from Cold Fusion to ASP.NET or you are curious as to some of the differences in the two technologies then you should read this article. John Dowdell says: … and, if you’re an ASP developer evaluating which jump to make, then here’s another resource: "Switching from ASP to ColdFusion" by Tom Muck http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/asp_cfmx.html It’s part of the following migration center — there isn’t a .NET to CF article here yet because people are still figuring where to go from VB or ASP: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/switching.html John Dowdell Macromedia Support B.K.Shah says: Migrating from ColdFusion to ASP.NET Joel Mueller Microsoft® ASP.NET Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET Summary: Learn how to migrate from ColdFusion to ASP.NET. A comparison of ColdFusion MX and ASP.NET as well as common task scenarios for each application development framework are included. (25 printed pages) Architecture Comparison Comparing Common Tasks Any migration begins with a solid understanding of how the capabilities of the source system map to the capabilities of the target system. Is there any functionality missing in the target system that might require the purchase of third-party components? What new capabilities might the target system provide? In this paper, we compare the capabilities of Macromedia’s ColdFusion MX and Microsoft® ASP.NET Web application development frameworks and then examine how some common tasks are performed in each environment. By understanding the similarities and differences in these platforms, ColdFusion developers can begin to transform their expertise in ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) into an understanding of ASP.NET development. The most fundamental of all architectural differences between ColdFusion MX and ASP.NET is the underlying framework that each is based upon. ColdFusion MX is Java-based, running on top of Macromedia’s JRun server. It also supports a number of other industry-standard J2EE application servers. At runtime, all CFML pages are parsed and converted into Java source code, then compiled into Java bytecode before being executed. After the initial compilation, the cached bytecode for a page is re-executed without the need for further parsing or compilation. ASP.NET is based on Microsoft’s .NET Framework. At runtime, all ASP.NET pages are parsed and converted into source code for a .NET-compatible language (usually Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET or C#) and then compiled into Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), a processor-independent bytecode with many similarities to Java bytecode. This MSIL is then further just-in-time compiled into native machine code before being executed. After the initial compilation, the cached native machine code for a page is re-executed without the need for further parsing or compilation. Although the low-level frameworks underlying each system cannot be ignored, the most striking differences between ColdFusion MX and ASP.NET that many Web developers will notice occur at a much higher level—in the development and page execution models. While the details vary, ColdFusion follows the same development and page execution model as that of classic ASP, PHP, JSP, and other similar Web-scripting languages. Specifically, code is embedded in HTML markup, and as a given page executes from top to bottom, the output of the code’s execution takes the place of the embedded code in the resulting HTML document. This development model is easy to grasp, but it does have a number of drawbacks. Chief among these is the lack of separation between application logic and presentation markup. Mixing code and presentation makes the code harder to read, which increases the time and effort involved in maintenance, and creates significant challenges for non-programming graphic designers who need to modify a page. Over the years, ColdFusion has introduced several ways to mitigate this lack of separation, including custom tags, and others—but the fundamental model remains. ASP.NET, however, makes a very distinct break from the traditional model of Web application development. Rather than being linear and page-oriented, ASP.NET code is strongly typed, object oriented and event based. Basically, ASP.NET development is a blending of traditional Web development and traditional fat-client GUI development. Page elements are represented on the server-side by objects, each with its own properties, methods and events. An example is a page that posts back to itself and inserts some information from a form into a database. In ColdFusion, you might write some code to check for the existence of a form variable corresponding to the name of the HTML submit button to see if the page is loading for the first time, or as the result of a form submission. Then you would read the various form variables, validate them, and perform a database insert. If one or more form variables failed validation, you would need to write more code to display an error message to the user and to preserve the values the user has already entered. In ASP.NET, you simply bind a function to the Click event of a Button server control. Within this function, some code will read the Text property of the various form fields, represented on the server-side with TextBox objects. By the time the button’s Click event has fired, form field validation has already been performed by any validation controls on the page, which also take care of displaying any necessary error messages to the user. Each individual TextBox takes care of preserving its own contents in the event users need to edit one or more of their entries. For more information about ASP.NET’s page framework, please see Introducing Web Forms. Table 1 presents a comparison of some of the prominent features in ColdFusion MX and ASP.NET. Table 1. Comparing the Features of ColdFusion MX and ASP.NET Feature ColdFusion MX ASP.NET Coding Language Has two related coding languages: CFML and CFScript. Most developers use a mix of CFML and CFScript. Supports more than 25 languages, but the 2 that are most-commonly used are Visual Basic .NET and C#. Most developers pick one language but can consume components written in any of the other supported languages. Compiled Application Logic Supported, dynamically compiled. Supported, in both dynamically-compiled and precompiled modes. Full-Page Output Caching Supported, caches different versions of the page based on all URL parameters. Supported, caches different versions of the page based on one or more URL parameters, browser type, a custom function or any combination. Partial-Page Output Caching No built-in support. Built-in support through use of User Controls. Data and other objects can be cached with sophisticated expiration rules using the Cache API. Database Access Supports Type III and Type IV JDBC drivers, as well as ODBC via a JDBC-ODBC bridge. Supports OLE-DB and ODBC directly, as well as including native drivers for MS SQL Server and Oracle. Database Output Formatted output using looping with the CFOUTPUT or CFLOOP tags. Templated databinding to server-side controls for ease of development, or manual looping if that is preferred. External Components Supports CORBA objects, Java and EJB object, and JSP tag libraries, as well as special extension tags written in C++ or Java. COM is supported, but from most reports is rather unreliable in the current release. Very good support for native C libraries and COM objects, as well as assemblies written in any .NET-compliant language, including Managed C++. No built-in support for CORBA objects or Java classes. XML/XSLT Basic XML DOM and XSLT transformation is supported in an intuitive fashion, but there is little to no access to advanced features such as XML namespaces, XSD validation, and XSLT parameters. Lightweight stream-oriented parsing of large XML documents (such as SAX) is not supported. Comprehensive and easy-to-use support is provided for XML DOM, XSLT, validation, and lightweight stream-oriented parsing of XML documents. XML Web Services The current release supports publishing and consuming Web services with a beta version of Apache Axis. Publishing and consuming Web services are very easy, but there are some known compatibility issues that may be corrected by an update that uses Apache Axis 1.0. Another major limitation is that asynchronous calls to Web services, and the creation of Web services that can be called asynchronously are not supported. The current release provides extensive and flexible standards-compliant support and makes it extremely easy to both publish and consume Web services. Asynchronous calls to Web services, and the creation of Web services that can be called asynchronously are supported with ASP.NET. Session State Cookie-based, in-memory single-server session state, or cookie-based persistent "client state" using a database back-end. Cookieless sessions are supported but can require moderate-to-extensive modification of existing code in order to take advantage of them. Cookie-based or cookieless session state, using a single-server in-memory store, a centralized state server, or a database back-end. In addition, the extensible architecture allows for custom session-state modules to replace the built-in options. Cookieless sessions require only a configuration change to enable. Built-In Functionality ColdFusion MX has built-in functions to cover many common tasks that a Web-based application may need to perform. It can also access Java class libraries with some extra work. ASP.NET has direct access to the entirety of the .NET Framework class libraries, which encompass a vast amount of functionality. This functionality is comparable to Java, but far more than is natively exposed in ColdFusion. Regular Expressions Supports a mostly-Perl-5-compatible regular expression syntax, but has only partial Unicode support. Supports Perl-5-compatible regular expressions, with additional features such as right-to-left matching, precompiled expressions, named groups, full Unicode support. Also allows the user to specify a function to be called during a regular expression replace operation. Debugging Includes extensive tracing and environment information that can be included in the page or displayed in a separate page. DreamWeaver MX and HomeSite+ allow for interactive debugging of pages as they execute, although the initial setup for debugging in either IDE can be difficult. Includes extensive tracing and environment information that can be included in the page, or displayed in a separate page. Visual Studio .NET allows for easy interactive debugging of pages as they execute, in addition to debugging of client-side JavaScript and SQL Server stored procedures. Error Handling Supports structured error handling, raising custom errors, and specifying custom error pages for different types of unrecoverable errors. Supports structured exception handling (with the addition of a "finally" block for code that executes regardless of whether or not an error occurs), raising custom exceptions, and specifying custom error pages for different types of unrecoverable errors. Charting Includes support for generating a variety of basic charts in JPG, PNG, or Flash format. No built-in support, although third-party components are available. Image Manipulation No built-in support, although third-party components are available. Includes extensive image creation and manipulation facilities. Code Re-Use Custom tags, user-defined functions, ColdFusion Components, and included files. User Controls, Server Controls, custom classes, and included files. Threading No support, aside from the fact that simultaneous page requests happen in separate threads. Fully supported. Not only do simultaneous page requests happen in separate threads, but also each page can (if needed) spawn its own threads to perform simultaneous or asynchronous work. Full-Text Search Includes a stripped-down version of the Verity search engine and allows access to a full-featured Verity K2 server. Can use any full-text search features provided by a database vendor, and other search engines can be accessed through their respective COM or Java API’s. Does not include a built-in search engine but can access MS Index Server for full-text searching of files. Can use any built-in full-text search features provided by a database vendor. The Verity K2 server can be accessed through its provided COM and .NET API’s, and other search engines can be accessed through their respective COM or .NET API’s. Data Caching Allows for time-based caching of database query results. Other types of data can be explicitly stored in application or session variables, but expiration and concurrency locking must be handled manually. Includes an extensive cache API that allows nearly any type of data (including database query results) to be stored, with expiration based upon time, usage, or dependency upon a file or another cached item. Also allows for a user-defined function to be called when a given item is removed from the cache. Internationalization Supports Unicode strings and various character encodings and includes a variety of functions for converting numbers, currency, and dates to a locale-specific format. Some functions are culture-aware, and others are not. No built-in support for dynamically localizing an application into a specific language or culture. Supports Unicode strings and various character encodings. Date, number, and currency functions are all culture-aware and alter their output depending on what the current culture is set to (rather than requiring different functions to be called). Support for using resource files to dynamically localize an application is included. SMTP, HTTP, FTP, POP3 Supported, although CFMAIL is generally viewed as rather unreliable. SMTP support depends upon the Internet Information Services (IIS) SMTP Service. HTTP has very good support. FTP and POP3 are not supported in .NET, but free and commercial third-party components are available for this functionality. Web Server Support Supports IIS, Sun ONE, Netscape IPlanet, and Apache. Supports IIS and Covalent’s commercial version of Apache 2.0. Operating System Support Supports Windows, Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. Currently supports Microsoft Windows® 2000, Windows XP, and the forthcoming Windows Server 2003. Custom Tags vs. User Controls Two features that bear a strong resemblance to one another are ColdFusion’s custom tags and ASP.NET’s user controls. Although superficially similar, there are some important differences to be aware of. Like custom tags, user controls are implemented as separate files that are built much like the pages that host them (the files have a slightly different extension, ascx instead of aspx). And similar to ColdFusion’s custom tags, user controls are placed into a page using "custom tags" in the HTML markup. User controls can send HTML output to the browser, but unlike custom tags, user controls are typically not used for anything other than sending output to the browser. Also unlike custom tags, user controls are full-fledged objects with their own properties and methods. In that sense, they are closer to ColdFusion Components than custom tags. User controls can encapsulate other controls and respond to the encapsulated controls’ events. This capability allows for the creation of self-contained units of functionality, such as a log-in control that contains two TextBox controls and a Button and handles the button’s click event, validating the username and password entered by the user. In this way, user controls can participate in the entire page lifecycle. Their methods can be called at any time while the various parts of the page are running, rather than having one routine executed only when the tag is encountered during processing (as with ColdFusion’s custom tags). For more information about user controls, please see Web Forms User Controls. ColdFusion Components vs. Classes Newly introduced in ColdFusion MX, ColdFusion Components (CFCs) represent the first real step for ColdFusion towards the encapsulation, flexibility and maintenance benefits of a true object-oriented system. CFCs can have multiple instances running at one time on a single page, with each instance containing its own data and each able to have its methods called to manipulate this instance data. ColdFusion Components support a limited amount of access control on methods and a limited form of inheritance. CFCs are not, however, truly object-oriented. They lack constructors, interfaces, protected members, method overloading and other trappings of a true object-oriented system. If you’re suffering from object-oriented buzzword overload, don’t worry. All you need to know to get started is that most CFCs can be translated to classes in whatever ASP.NET-compatible programming language you happen to be using. However, while you can get by in ASP.NET with very little object-oriented knowledge, object-oriented concepts truly are one of the most powerful and productive techniques you could spend your time studying. You can find an introduction to the main areas of object-oriented programming (from a Visual Basic point of view) in Object-Oriented Programming in Visual Basic. User-Defined Functions vs. Class Methods User-defined functions in ColdFusion are a means of creating your own custom functions. These functions are not attached to any particular object, but rather are pseudo-objects in their own right, which can be stored in a number (but not all) of ColdFusion’s built-in variable scopes or called directly in the context in which they were created. There is no direct equivalent of user-defined functions in .NET, as .NET is an object-oriented framework and global functions are always attached to any object. The closest equivalent would be static (in C#) or Shared (in Visual Basic) methods. These methods are attached to a class, as all methods are, but they are attached globally to the class itself rather than to any instance of the class. For this reason, static/Shared methods can be called with ClassName.MethodName(), rather than needing to create an instance of the class and calling the method on that instance. These methods can be useful for utility functions that do not require any data other than what is passed to them when they are called. XML Web Services Both ColdFusion MX and ASP.NET provide support for XML Web Services, and both frameworks go to great lengths to make the creation and consumption of Web services an easy task. ColdFusion does so through an extension to ColdFusion Components that allows one or more methods of a CFC to be published as a Web service. When publishing a Web service, ColdFusion takes care of reading the CFC metadata and automatically generating a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file that programmatically describes the service to consumers. When consuming a Web service, ColdFusion will read the service’s WSDL file, and provide relatively transparent access to the methods described therein. Similarly, you create a Web service in ASP.NET by making a file with the extension "asmx," and using attributes to mark which methods in the file should be exposed as Web service methods. The ASP.NET Framework takes care of generating a WSDL file from the Web service metadata. When consuming a Web service, the .NET Framework will take care of reading the service’s WSDL file and automatically generating proxy classes that allow you to treat the remote services as if they were local objects. If additional control is needed, the proxy classes can be modified or even written by hand, if necessary. As of this writing, ColdFusion’s Web service implementation is based upon a beta version of Apache Axis, an open-source Web services framework. This beta version has some known incompatibilities with other frameworks, which can make interoperation with disparate sources (a fundamental tenet of XML Web Services) problematic. A forthcoming update to ColdFusion MX should upgrade its Axis support to version 1.0 and improve interoperability, but even then some issues will remain. ColdFusion does such a good job of hiding the underlying Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) implementation, that it can actually hinder interoperability. For example, ColdFusion provides no means of reading or writing to SOAP headers during a request, so a Web service that takes full advantage of the SOAP specification by requiring that authentication information be sent in a SOAP header, or requiring that the body be encrypted, simply will not work with ColdFusion. In addition, there is no indication when (or, indeed, if) ColdFusion will support emerging Web service standards, such as those covered in the recently-released Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET, which includes support for the WS-Security, WS-Routing, WS-Attachments and DIME specifications. Another significant limitation to the ColdFusion Web services implementation is the lack of support for asynchronous Web service calls. The ability to call Web services asynchronously allows application developers to make a Web service call and perform additional work (i.e. not "block") while waiting for the Web service to return. The capability to call Web Services asynchronously from an application, and the capability to create Web services that can be called asynchronously is critical to many application development scenarios. ASP.NET supports both. Rich Controls ASP.NET includes a large number of pre-built Server Controls that vastly simplify working with form-based Web applications. Some of these controls have analogs in ColdFusion’s cfform and related tags, but the ASP.NET controls are for the most part significantly more powerful and flexible. ColdFusion includes cfform, cfinput, cftextinput and cfselect (which handle basic form elements and validation), as well as cfgrid, cftree and cfslider (providing a grid with inline editing, a tree control and a slider control, respectively; all three of which are implemented as client-side Java applets). By way of contrast, ASP.NET’s built-in controls do not require client-side applets and work regardless of the client’s capabilities (up to a point—some controls won’t get very far without basic client-side JavaScript support). If the browser is a modern version of Internet Explorer, the controls will emit code to allow rich interaction by using dynamic HTML. If not, the controls will fall back on traditional HTML with server round-trips for interactivity. Either way, the basic behavior and server-side code remains the same. In addition to basic form elements, ASP.NET includes an extensive array of form validation controls that you can use to specify required fields, a particular data type, or a range of values. They can even require that the input match a given regular expression or can apply a custom validation function that performs more complex validation logic. These validation controls perform their validation both on the client (for faster response and fewer roundtrips) and on the server (for unsupported browsers or those that have scripting turned off). Another rich control included in ASP.NET is the DataGrid. At its most basic, this control is generally used for displaying the results of a database query in an HTML table in the browser. However, with only a few extra lines of code, the DataGrid supports paging through large sets of data, sorting on columns, and inline editing of data, all without requiring any client-side downloads or special capabilities. Other built-in controls include the Calendar, which draws a dynamic calendar on the page, allowing the user to intuitively select a date; the AdRotator, which allows for easy and configurable displaying of ad banners on a page; and the Xml control, which provides an easy and intuitive way of performing XSLT transformations of XML Data to produce content. Numerous free and commercial third-party server controls are becoming available for ASP.NET. Microsoft also supplies a set of additional controls that include TreeView, TabStrip, and Toolbar controls. The following sections provide comparisons of how to accomplish some common programming tasks in ColdFusion, and in one of the most-common ASP.NET languages, Visual Basic .NET. The typical way of outputting data in ColdFusion is with the c Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations ut tag, or with WriteOutput() in CFScript. The closest analogue to this in ASP.NET is the Response.Write() method, or the <%= %> construct, which is simply shorthand for Response.Write(). Table 2 shows basic syntax for writing a value to the page. Table 2. Basic Output CFML Visual Basic .NET The current date is: #Now()# The current date is: <% Response.Write(DateTime.Now) %> <%= DateTime.Now %> However, these methods for sending output to the browser exist primarily for backwards compatibility with classic ASP. ASP.NET’s new control-based, event-oriented model allows for data to be output to the browser by simply setting properties on server controls. This technique allows for clean separation of layout and code and can make maintenance easier, requiring significantly less code in complex situations. <script language="VB" runat="server"> Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) TheDate.Text = DateTime.Now The current date is: <asp:Label id="TheDate" runat="server"/> This example declares a server-side Label control, and during the page’s Load event, sets the Text property of the label to the current date and time. The HTML output of this code is identical to the other two versions, except that the Label control renders itself as a span tag containing whatever was set as the label’s text. ColdFusion allows you to insert server-side comments in a page, and anything within those comment indicators will be removed from the page and not sent to the browser. Server-side code in a comment block will not be executed. In addition, CFScript Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) has its own comment syntax: a double-slash (//) at the beginning of a line will comment out the entire line. ASP.NET has equivalents for both types of comments. A comment block in an aspx page will not be sent to the browser, and any server code contained in that block will not be executed. In addition, each .NET language has its own comment syntax for writing comments within a block of code. In Visual Basic, a single apostrophe (‘) at the beginning of a line will comment out the entire line. Table 3 shows server-side comments in each environment. Table 3. Server-Side Comments CFML ASP.NET This is a comment. Conditional Processing CFIF/CFELSE The two main groups of conditional processing tags in ColdFusion are cfif/cfelseif/cfelse and cfswitch/cfcase/cfdefaultcase. Visual Basic .NET has equivalent constructs with fairly similar syntax. Table 4 provides a comparison of equivalent conditional logic in CFML and Visual Basic .NET. Table 4. Basic Conditional Logic <cfif x GT y OR x EQ z> <!— do something —> <cfelseif x LT m AND x GT r> <!— do something else —> <!— do a third thing —> If x > y OrElse x = z Then ‘ do something ElseIf x < m AndAlso x > r Then ‘ do something else ‘ do a third thing It should be noted here that Visual Basic .NET has And and Or operators as does ColdFusion. However, they behave slightly differently than the ColdFusion versions. The And and Or operators in ColdFusion are short-circuiting operators. If the statement on the left side of the operator fails its test, the statement on the right side of the operator will not be executed. This allows statements such as the following example, which first checks for the existence of a variable called "x", and then checks the value of one of its properties. If the existence test fails, the second part of the statement will not be executed. <cfif IsDefined("x") AND x.SomeProperty EQ true> In Visual Basic .NET, the And and Or operators are not short-circuited; all statements will be executed regardless of the result of the earlier statements. This behavior can be a critical difference. Consider the following code that is seemingly equivalent to the last statement: If Not x Is Nothing And x.SomeProperty = True Although this code seems identical, it will actually generate an error in the case where x is Nothing. Because all statements are evaluated, Visual Basic will try to read the property of a non-existent object. In order to get short-circuiting behavior equivalent to that in ColdFusion, you must use the AndAlso and OrElse operators, which are newly introduced in Visual Basic. NET. Visual Basic .NET will attempt to coerce integer and other values into Boolean values if they are used directly in an If statement (0 becomes false; anything else becomes true), just as ColdFusion does. However, if Visual Basic’s Option Strict is enabled, If statements will accept only true Booleans. Shortcuts such as "If y Then" become impossible and must be replaced by "If y > 0 Then" because the greater-than operator returns an actual True or False value. In general, the restrictions imposed by Option Strict are viewed as a good thing, because they force programmers to be more explicit about their intentions, reducing the chance of causing a difficult-to-diagnose bug. CFSWITCH When you test a single expression for multiple values, the cfswitch statement can be both easier to read and better performing than multiple cfif/cfelseif statements. The same holds true in Visual Basic. NET, through the Select Case statement. Table 5 shows a comparison of ColdFusion’s cfswitch statement and Visual Basic’s Select Case statement. Table 5. A Comparison of cfswitch and Select Case CFML Visual Basic. NET <cfset num = 4> <cfset description = ""> <cfswitch expression="#num#"> <cfcase value="1,2,3,4,5"> <cfset description = "Between 1 and 5"> </cfcase> <cfcase value="6,7,8"> <cfcase value="9,10"> <cfset description = "Greater than 8"> <cfdefaultcase> <cfset description = "Not between 1 and 10"> </cfswitch> Dim num As Integer = 4 Dim description As String = "" Select Case num Case 1 To 5 description = "Between 1 and Case 6, 7, 8 Case 9 To 10 description = "Greater than description = "Not between 1 and 10" With the exception of using cfoutput to write a query result set to the browser, virtually all looping in CFML is accomplished with the cfloop tag. Visual Basic (along with most other .NET languages) has different language elements for different types of looping rather than a single language element with different attributes. Table 6 shows a basic index loop in each language. Table 6. Index Loop <cfset sum = 0> <cfloop index="counter" from="1" to="100" step="5"> <cfset sum = sum + counter> </cfloop> Dim sum As Integer = 0 For counter = 1 To 100 Step 5 sum += counter In Visual Basic, this type of loop is known as a ForÃ‚Â…Next loop. In this example, the += operator is used as shorthand for "sum = sum + counter." A cfloop can be broken out of with the cfbreak statement. A ForÃ‚Â…Next loop can be broken out of with the Exit For statement. Conditional Loop A conditional loop iterates over a set of instructions as long as a condition evaluates to true. Table 7 shows an example of a basic conditional loop in each language. Table 7. Conditional Loop <cfset counter = 0> <cfloop condition="counter LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 10"> <cfset counter = counter + 1> Dim counter As Integer = 0 Do While counter <= 10 In Visual Basic, this type of loop is known as a Do. . .Loop statement, or a while loop. The Do. . .Loop statement, however, has some additional capabilities not directly available in a cfloop conditional loop. It includes the ability to loop until a condition is true, rather than while a condition is true: Do Until counter > 10 The code inside either a conditional cfloop or a DoÃ‚Â…Loop statement will not be executed at all if the loop condition is not met when the statement is first processed. However, unlike cfloop, the Do. . .Loop statement can be reversed, so that the code inside the loop is always executed at least once, and then more times if conditions warrant. Loop While counter < 11 This construct is not as commonly used as a normal loop but can be useful in certain situations. Collection Loop ColdFusion can use cfloop to iterate over every item in a collection or structure. This functionality is covered natively by each language supported by ASP.NET. In Visual Basic .NET, the equivalent is the For Each. . .Next statement. Table 8 shows an example of looping over a collection in each language. Table 8. Looping Over a Collection <cfloop collection="#myStruct#" item="key"> #key# = #myStruct[key]# For Each key In myHashTable.Keys Response.Write(key + " = " + myHashTable[key]) Query loop Looping over a query with cfloop has no direct analogue in any ASP.NET language. The reason is that database query results are not treated as a special type of object. Typically database queries are returned from ADO.NET as DataSet or IDataReader objects. A DataSet can be traversed with either a For. . .Next loop or a For Each. . .Next loop, while an IDataReader can be traversed with a Do While. . .Next loop. However, in many cases it is not necessary to manually loop over a set of query results at all. Both the DataSet and the IDataReader can be bound directly to an ASP.NET server control, such as the DataGrid, which will take care of extracting data from the result set and formatting it for you. Setting and Retrieving Session Variables Session variables in ASP.NET are at their most basic level very similar to ColdFusion’s session variables. They are cookie-based, expire after a configurable span of inactivity, and can store nearly any type of object. There are, however, some important differences that should be noted. Perhaps most significantly for ColdFusion developers, reads and writes to ASP.NET session variables seldom need to be locked. Unless there’s a strong possibility that a page that writes to a session variable and a page that reads from the same session variable could be called simultaneously from the same client, there is no need to slow your application by locking every single session variable access. Other differences include cookieless sessions and out-of-process or database-based session storage, all available through simple configuration file changes. The last important difference is that when a value is retrieved from the ASP.NET session object, it is returned as the generic System.Object type, which can hold any type of data. This value must be converted back to its original underlying type before it can be used. Table 9 shows some examples of session variable usage. Table 9. Session Variable Usage <cfset Session.Today = Now()> <cfset today = Session.Today> <cfoutput>#today#</cfoutput> Session["Today"] = DateTime.Now Dim today As Date today = CDate(Session["Today"]) Response.Write(today) The .NET framework includes support for structured exception handling very similar to ColdFusion’s cftry/cfcatch/cfthrow tags, with the notable addition of a Finally block, which allows for code to be executed regardless of whether an error occurred in the Try block. This can be very useful for performing clean-up operations. Table 10 shows a comparison of error handling in each language. Table 10. Structured Exception Handling <cftry> <!— code that might cause an error here —> <cfcatch type="exceptiontype"> <!— code to handle the error —> </cfcatch> <!— Optional: More cfcatch blocks —> </cftry> ‘ code that might cause an error Catch e As ExceptionType ‘ code to handle the error ‘ Optional: More Catch blocks here ‘ code that is always executed It is worth noting that a Try block can have either one or more Catch blocks, or a Finally block, or both. In other words, in situations in which you know that there is no way to correct for an error, but you still need to clean up some objects regardless of whether an error occurs or not, you can use a Try. . .Finally block with no Catch statement. ColdFusion arrays support any data type, dynamically resize themselves, and are multi-dimensional only in the sense that they support nested arrays-of-arrays. Arrays in the .NET framework (and by extension, Visual Basic. NET and other languages) are more restrictive in some areas, less in others, and perform better in nearly all areas. Visual Basic. NET arrays must be declared as holding a specific type of data when they are created. If the type specified is Object (the generic type underlying every object type in .NET), then the array can hold any type of data, but values must be converted to their original type when they are retrieved from the array. This restriction is generally viewed as a good thing, as the compiler is able to make some significant performance optimizations in cases in which it knows exactly what type of data an array can hold. In addition, it prevents the programmer from accidentally adding a string to an array of dates, potentially causing a hard-to-find error later when the array is read. Visual Basic. NET arrays can be either nested arrays-of-arrays (or jagged arrays), as in ColdFusion, or true multi-dimensional arrays. Arrays in Visual Basic. NET do not automatically resize themselves as in ColdFusion; you must explicitly resize the array with the ReDim Preserve statement. However, if a resizable array is needed, it is often advisable to use the System.Collections.ArrayList object, which does dynamically resize as needed and can give significantly better performance than ReDim Preserve. One final difference to note is that unlike in ColdFusion, assigning an array to a new variable does not implicitly make a copy of that array. Rather, it makes a copy of the reference to the same array; changes to the new variable will affect the original array. In order to make a copy of an array, you can use the Clone() method attached to any array object, or the global Array.Copy() method. For more detailed information about declaring and manipulating arrays in Visual Basic. NET, see the language reference. Structures and Other Collections The ColdFusion Structure object is quite extensively used in many ColdFusion applications. In fact, it forms the basis of most of the variable scopes in ColdFusion, such as Form, URL, Session, Request, CGI and so on. The equivalent in any ASP.NET language is the System.Collections.Hashtable object. The System.Collections namespace also contains many other more specialized collection objects that can be useful in various situations. The .NET framework provides extensive support for regular expressions. The syntax supported is slightly different from that supported by ColdFusion, and .NET provides some additional capabilities not present in the current version of ColdFusion. Some of the capabilities include full Unicode support, pre-compiled expressions, and the ability to specify a custom function to be called during a regular expression replace operation. For more information about .NET’s regular expression support, see .NET Framework Regular Expressions. Built-in support for sending SMTP is included in ASP.NET, but has some external dependencies. Specifically, the IIS SMTP service must be installed because the built-in mail objects depend on the CDONTS objects included with the service. Table 11 shows the minimum code required to send an email in each language. Table 11. Sending Email <cfmail to="foo@bar.com" from="bar@foo.com" subject="Test Message"> This is a test message. </cfmail> Dim myMail As MailMessage = New MailMessage() myMail.From = "foo@bar.com" myMail.To = "bar@foo.com" myMail.Subect = "Test Message" myMail.Body = "This is a test message." SmtpMail.Send(myMail) Date/Time Manipulation and Formatting ColdFusion date-time variables can range from the year 100 Common Era (CE) to the year 9999, with a minimum resolution of one second. ColdFusion includes an extensive set of functions that can operate on date-time variables to manipulate them and extract the various components (year, month, hour). DateTime objects in .NET can range from the year 1 CE to the year 9999, with a minimum resolution of 100 nanoseconds (one "tick"). Functionality for manipulating DateTime objects and extracting the various components is attached directly to the DateTime objects themselves, as Table 12 shows. Table 12. Date Manipulation <cfset today = Now()> <cfset thisYear = Year(today)> <cfset thisMonthName = MonthAsString(Month(today))> <cfset nextMonth = DateAdd("m", 1, today)> <cfset difference = DateDiff("d", today, nextMonth)> <cfset dateString = DateFormat(today, "full")> Dim today As DateTime = DateTime.Now Dim thisYear As Integer = today.Year Dim thisMonthName As String = today.ToString("MMMM") Dim nextMonth As DateTime = today.AddMonths(1) Dim difference As Long = DateDiff("d", today, nextMonth) Dim dateString As String = today.ToString("F") One important difference to note is that, the equivalent of the DateFormat() function is the ToString() method of the DateTime object. Passing in a format string tells the DateTime object how to format the resulting string. For information about what format strings can be used, refer to Date and Time Format Strings. Setting and Retrieving Cookies Cookie support is fairly standard across any Web scripting language, and ASP.NET is no exception. Table 13 shows an example of writing and then reading a cookie in each language. Table 13. Setting and Retrieving Cookies <cfcookie name="LastVisit" value="#Now()#" expires = "#DateAdd(‘d’, 10, Now())#"> <cfoutput>#Cookie.LastVisit#</cfoutput> Dim myCookie As HttpCookie = New HttpCookie("LastVisit") Dim now as DateTime = DateTime.Now myCookie.Value = now.ToString() myCookie.Expires = now.AddDays(10) Response.Cookies.Add(myCookie) Response.Write(Request.Cookies ["LastVisit"].Value) One additional feature that ASP.NET has that is not present in ColdFusion is the ability to store multiple name/value pairs in a single cookie. You can perform the same operation in ColdFusion, but the code must be written manually, while ASP.NET provides convenient properties and methods on the HttpCookie object to do this for you. Querying a Database Database access in .NET is accomplished through the hierarchy of objects collectively known as ADO.NET. A full exploration of ADO.NET is beyond the scope of this paper, so we’ll just touch on the most important points. The actual execution of a database query is accomplished with a set of connection, command, parameter and data-adapter objects. There are multiple versions of each of these objects, depending on the type of database being accessed. For example, there is a set for databases with OLE-DB drivers (such as Microsoft Access), as well as a set for databases that have ODBC drivers but lack OLE-DB drivers. There are also specialized data providers for both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server™ that are optimized to provide high-performance access to each of those specific databases. The examples in this section will use the SQL Server objects, as that is one of the most-commonly-used databases with ASP.NET. The SQL Server objects are located in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace. In ColdFusion, ad-hoc SQL queries are typically executed with the cfquery tag. Although variables can be inserted directly into the SQL statement with this tag, doing so is not recommended, as this technique is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, as well as invalid characters invalidating the entire SQL statement. In addition, inserting variables directly into the SQL statement prevents the database server from caching the query execution plan, forcing it to parse the statement anew every time it is executed, which can hurt performance. ColdFusion accounted for this issue by introducing the cfqueryparam tag that works with the cfquery tag to allow for parameterized queries, which can still be built dynamically, but suffer from none of the disadvantages just mentioned. ADO.NET supports both types of queries, but like ColdFusion, parameterized queries are preferred over queries with variables embedded in the SQL statement. Table 14 shows an example of executing a parameterized query in each language. Table 14. Executing Parameterized Queries <cfset sales_cutoff = 1000> <cfquery name="topSellers " datasource="datasource_name"> SELECT title_id, title, ytd_sales FROM titles WHERE ytd_sales >= <cfqueryparam value="#sales_cutoff#" CFSQLType="CF_SQL_INTEGER"> ORDER BY ytd_sales DESC </cfquery> Dim sales_cutoff As Integer = 1000 Dim myConnection As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection ("connection_string") Dim myCommand As SqlCommand = myConnection.CreateCommand() myCommand.CommandText = "SELECT title_id, title, ytd_sales FROM titles WHERE ytd_sales >= @sales ORDER BY ytd_sales DESC" myCommand.Parameters.Add("@sales", SqlDbType.Int).Value = sales_cutoff Dim SqlDataAdapter myAdapter = New SqlDataAdapter(myCommand) Dim topSellers As DataSet = New DataSet() myAdapter.Fill(topSellers, "titles") The results of an ADO.NET database query are typically returned in either a DataSet or an IDataReader object. The DataSet is an in-memory data store that resembles ColdFusion’s Query object in that it is a copy of the data returned by the database and doesn’t require an active connection to the database while it is being used. The IDataReader object is specific to the data provider in use (SqlDataReader, OleDbDataReader, etc.) and represents a live connection to the database that returns data as it’s received from the database server. For this reason, the data-reader is read-only, and you cannot navigate backwards through it, but read performance is typically better than that of a DataSet. You must be careful, however, not to tie up the underlying database connection for longer than necessary when using a data-reader. ColdFusion uses the cfstoredproc, cfprocparam, and cfprocresult tags to execute stored procedures against a database server. In ADO.NET, the code to execute a stored procedure is identical to the code needed to execute a parameterized query, except that you set the SqlCommand object’s CommandType to StoredProcedure and the CommandText to the name of the stored procedure to be executed. If we were to imagine a stored procedure equivalent to the query above, the code to call it might look something like the example in Table 15. Table 15. Calling a Stored Procedure <cfstoredproc procedure="GetTopSellers" <cfprocparam type="in " <cfprocresult name="topSellers </cfstoredproc> myCommand.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure myCommand.CommandText = "GetTopSellers" Although ADO.NET requires slightly more code to do things than ColdFusion does, the benefit lies in greatly increased flexibility and control. For cases in which this additional flexibility is not needed, Microsoft has provided the Data Access Application Block, which encapsulates many common data-access tasks. The result is that you can accomplish the same thing in significantly fewer lines of code, and in fact for many tasks, only a single line of code is required when using this tool. Outputting Query Data The typical way to output query data in ColdFusion is to loop over the query results by using cfloop or cfoutput, embedding each row of the data columns directly into some HTML markup. Although this same approach is supported in ASP.NET, many people prefer ASP.NET’s powerful and easy-to-use support for databinding. When using databinding, all you need to do is assign some query results to the DataSource property of a data-aware server control (such as the DataGrid), optionally provide some additional formatting information for each column, and call the DataBind() method. The server control will take care of the rest. Many data-aware server controls will provide additional functionality, such as support for paging or in-line editing of the data being displayed. As an example, let’s output the query results we got in the previous section, as Table 16 shows. Table 16. Outputting Query Results <th>title_id</th> <th>ytd_sales</th> <cfoutput query="topSellers "> <td>#title_id#</td> <td>#title#</td> <td>#ytd_sales#</td> <asp:DataGrid id="myDataGrid" runat="server" /> In page load event: myDataGrid.DataSource = topSellers myDataGrid.DataBind() For more information and examples, please refer to Data Binding Server Controls. Data Caching and Page Caching Caching frequently-accessed data can dramatically improve the response time of a site, as the page processing doesn’t need to wait on a database query. Caching the HTML generated by a page request can improve response time even more, as the cached page doesn’t need to be processed at all. Both ColdFusion and ASP.NET provide support for both caching strategies; however, ASP.NET’s support is quite a bit more powerful and flexible than that provided by ColdFusion. Database query results can be cached in ColdFusion by using the cachedwithin or cachedafter attributes of the cfquery tag. The results of a stored procedure call with cfstoredproc can’t be cached with an equivalent mechanism. It’s possible to call a stored procedure with cfquery by using a slightly slower provider-specific syntax. Cached queries are differentiated based on the full text of the SQL statement used (along with the other cfquery attributes) and are removed from memory after the specified span of time has elapsed, or when an administrator-defined limit on the number of cached queries is exceeded. Other types of data (arrays, structures, the parsed contents of an XML file) can’t be cached in this manner; they must be stored in Application variables where they remain until the ColdFusion service is restarted or they are explicitly removed. ASP.NET provides a single caching mechanism for any type of data (DataSets, arrays, Hashtables, the parsed contents of XML files) exposed through the Page.Cache object. This object allows for time-based expiration from the cache, as is the case with ColdFusion’s query caching, and it adds the ability to expire items based on usage, dependencies, or memory pressure. An example of usage-based expiration might be a cached object that is set to expire from the cache 20 minutes after the last time it is accessed. If this object is accessed every 10 minutes, it will never expire from the cache. On the other hand, if it is not accessed for a long period of time, it will be dropped from the cache to free up memory for more frequently-used items. An example of dependency-based expiration might be some data that is loaded from an XML file. The data can be inserted into the cache with a dependency on the XML file, so that if the XML file ever changes (invalidating the cached data), the loaded data is dropped from the cache immediately. Cache items can also have dependencies on other cache items. The final method of cache expiration—memory pressure—simply means that the Cache object itself will actively monitor the amount of memory available in the system and the amount of memory taken up by the items it contains. If the available memory in the system gets too low, the Cache object will start removing the least recently accessed items in the cache until it has freed up enough memory to keep the system running smoothly. This process allows ASP.NET to avoid a hard limit on the number of cached items, as ColdFusion has for cached queries. For more information, see the documentation for the Cache object. Page Caching Caching the HTML output of a page request is accomplished in ColdFusion with the cfcache tag. Pages can be cached on either the client or the server or both, for a specified span of time, and a different version of each page is cached for each distinct set of URL parameters passed to that page. If the page in question generates different HTML depending on the capabilities of the browser requesting the page, or different text depending on the preferred language of the current user, ColdFusion’s page caching scheme can’t be used. The reason is that it would return the HTML tailored for the first browser to request the page to all browsers, or the language preferred by the first user to request the page to all users. The HTML output of a page request can be cached in ASP.NET with the @OutputCache directive. This directive allows the page to be cached on either the client or the server, or both, for a specified span of time. Different versions of the page can be cached based on a combination of many criteria, including one or more specific URL parameters, the browser type and major version requesting the page, one or more HTTP headers (roughly equivalent to ColdFusion’s CGI variables), or the output of a custom function that uses whatever criteria you code it to use. This flexibility allows ASP.NET’s page caching to be used in many situations in which ColdFusion’s page caching falls down. In addition to full-page caching, ASP.NET also includes support for partial-page caching. The HTML output by a custom user control can be cached based on most of the same criteria supported by full-page caching, with the addition of allowing different versions of a control’s output to be cached for different values of one or more of that control’s properties. For more information about ASP.NET’s output caching, see Caching ASP.NET Pages. Server-Side HTTP Requests Making an HTTP request from the server can be done with the cfhttp tag in ColdFusion, and with the System.Net.WebClient object in ASP.NET, as Table 17 shows. Table 17. HTTP Requests <cfhttp url="http://www.macromedia .com/" method="GET"> </cfhttp> <cfoutput>#HTMLCodeFormat(CFHTT P.FileContent)#</cfoutput> Dim myWebClient As System.Net.WebClient myWebClient = New System.Net.WebClient() Dim buffer As Byte() buffer = myWebClient.DownloadData ("http://www.microsoft.com/") Dim content As String content = System.Text.Encoding .UTF8.GetString(buffer) Response.Write(Server.HtmlEncode (content)) XML Parsing and Manipulation	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1072
__label__wiki	0.609708	0.609708	Mohammad Amir deserves half the salary and no chance at captaincy By Azeem Siddiqui Published: October 24, 2015 Banned: Pakistan's Mohammad Amir has broken an official ban from cricket by bowling at club level. PHOTO: AFP Mohammad Amir, the young cricketer who was banned for a spot fixing scandal, still managed to garner a lot of sympathy from Pakistanis, be it cricketing legends or experts and because of this, he has been allowed to play cricket once again. However, if the cricket fraternity thought Amir would be welcomed back with open arms, they were wrong. Yes, Amir is still young, has immense talent, bearing in mind his recent performances in the realm of domestic cricket, where he claimed more than 30 wickets in six matches during the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, yet, people, in specific his team mates, will not be as forgiving. This was evident after the recent spat between Amir and Faisal Iqbal which turned a lot of heads. The row between these two highlights how most players will still not be as accepting towards Amir. Apparently, Iqbal called Amir a ‘thief’ due to which they got into a verbal spat. This resulted in Amir being fined 150 per cent of the match fee and Iqbal being given a warning. It may seem like a normal heated verbal spat between two players, but it reflects upon two blatant issues. Firstly, it shows that Amir’s attitude is still a cause of concern. Secondly, it also shows that no matter how hard the selectors may try to get the banned players into the mix; other players will still display signs of hesitation and condescension towards the banned players. This is mainly due to the fact that they believe the banned players do not deserve a place on the team because they tarnished the image of our nation for money. This argument doesn’t only apply to Amir of course, it applies to the other two as well, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif. Big names in cricket, such Ramiz Raja and Javed Miandad held their ground stating that these three should not be allowed to play cricket at all, however, the counter argument provided by the players was that they need to earn their livelihood and they should be allowed a second chance to prove their worth and talent. Why shouldn’t they, especially since they have served punishment for the crime. I personally was completely against the trio returning to the field of cricket, but upon hearing both sides of the argument, I finally realised the solution lies somewhere in between these two views. To begin with, if the trio are being inducted in the squad again, the same code of conduct which is being applied to the rest of the players should not be applied to them. But as much as I believe in second chances, keeping in the mind the shame the trio brought upon us, I think it is fair to say their second chance should come at a price. The trio should be welcomed back to the domestic circuit and if they do get a chance to perform at international level as well, they should definitely be made to sign a new code of conduct. This code of conduct will separate them from the rest of the playing cricketing class in this country as well as set a precedent that once you put the worth of your country at stake, you will miss out on the privileges you once enjoyed. According to me, the new code of conduct should have the following terms in it. No Captaincy for the Trio The first and foremost thing Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should make clear is that these three should never be allowed to captain Pakistan, be it a domestic or international match. By doing that, the juniors in the team will learn that no matter how big a player you are, if you malign the country’s name for the sake of money, you will not be able to land a senior position. Australia followed the same rule and never let Shane Warne, who many Australians believed had the best cricketing brain to play the game, become the Captain of the Australian team because of his involvement in various controversies and instead appointed Ricky Ponting as the captain after the departure of Steve Waugh. Their salaries should be slashed by 50 per cent for the rest of their career This might seem a bit harsh, but that’s how it should be. The trio should only receive 50 per cent of the match fee, the central contact and daily allowance, in all formats, be it domestic or international. By doing this, PCB is allowing them to start earning, but not giving them the full luxury to earn as much as everyone else will be earning. No individual advertisements or endorsement for as long as they play cricket. The trio should not be allowed to feature in any advertisement as an individual. By going along with this plan, PCB can curtail them from becoming the face of cricket in Pakistan, which they should never be allowed to become. Many may argue that these terms will be extremely unfair, however, I feel it would be a positive step, if it ever to be taken. I see it as a chance for them to redeem themselves, as a chance to pay back our nation, who even after what they did, are willing to accept them. It’s a chance for them to start earning again and do what they love to do, which is play the game. It’s a chance for them to show the world that they are better than before. This is their chance to regain their integrity and win over their fans. But they should know, these chances will come at a price, a price that the trio should be more than willing to pay. 24 Comments Print Email Azeem Siddiqui The author is a sports writer, sports blogger and sub-editor sports desk at Express Tribune. He tweets as @aze3msiddiqui (twitter.com/aze3msiddiqui) Did Real Madrid just cost Spain the World Cup? How did Peshawar Zalmi become PSL’s biggest franchise? Who will replace Luis Enrique to be Barcelona’s next manager? Will Sarfraz Ahmed prove to be Pakistan’s very own Batman? Shaharyar Shane Warne and Mark Waugh were fined for sharing pitch information. Shane Warne was also banned for taking diuretics. Were their salaries slashed by half? Wasim Akram was made captain after his issues with being caught on a beach with drugs along with match fixing. All of these players are considered the greatest now. Aamir and company have served there punishment. Punishing them again for the same crime is double jeopardy. Quite frankly you have no idea what you are talking about.Recommend All of your propositions fly in the face of your basic premise (“Why shouldn’t they, especially since they have served punishment for the crime), namely, that they have been punished. Why punish them twice!?Recommend khalid saeed are you serious? grow up man. let the trio get the chance to find out by themselves whether people want them back on not.Recommend pakhtun Hmmm interesting thoughts, could only come from a student of “Greenwich”. I really hope you shouldnt get forgiven for any of the mistakes you make in life and keep getting reminded for that for whole life. Then you will know how you treat others!!!Recommend Ch. Allah Daad Nobody can straighten dog’s tail. Half salary or zero salary, they don’t care. They need just one match and that would compensate not only their previous losses, they will make enough to live happily thereafter.Recommend What kind of stupid advice is this. They’ve already paid the price and no where in the world you are punished more than once for a crime. Once they’re punished then they should be accepted as normal players and should be awarded equal pay and benefits as everyone else because they’ll toil equally in the cricket field and will play equally hard as other players in the team. Even Allah Ta’alah likes forgiveness than who are you or anyone else to suggest that they shouldn’t be given a 2nd chance. Are you and others who are suggesting this stupid 2nd punishment above the laws of Allah Ta’alah. Please read your religion and try to follow it. It’s your kind of idiots who are ruining the peace of our beloved country Pakistan. Who keeps grudges and spread hatred by writing these kind of stupid articles.Recommend “Half salary ..” what ?? You can’t pluck numbers out of thin air and impose on someone as punishment. It is plain illegal. The trio has served there punishment under the existing laws. There selection should now only be on merit.Recommend Why we as a Pakistani nation exude some tolerance. Specially, towards amir who was very young. Some places in the world would even consider it as a juvenile crime. Please break these chains of hate , intolerance and being the judge jury and executioner. Atif This man seems living in an illusion. How on earth would you justify paying someone half for same amount of work others do and are paid full?Recommend What a wasted article.. If amir has a spat with Faisal…every body knows the worth of Faisal …if amir is selected in the team, he should be treated equal and if he qualifies for captaincy, he must be made captain….. End of argumentRecommend ivehadit Just nonsense. I didn’t even read the article – the headline was enough. He’s a kid, should be treated as one. There is no standard only for Amir. Let’s get him on the team before we worry about the captaincy.Recommend Muzz in a country where our prime minister was accused of so many things, havent done much jail time gone pretty much scot free… our previous president spent so much time in jail for so many cases and he was released, nothing was proved. here we have a KID, accepted his mistake, actually did the time in prison, went through his ban, starting again from scratch, making the real effort and you want to dock his pay!Recommend Ali S That was uncalled provocative behaviour by Iqbal – Aamir made a mistake, instantly admitted it, served his punishment and he’s still being hounded for it. It sounds more like professional jealousy than anything. But I do feel bad for Aamir. He was an uneducated, highly gifted kid who made one horrible decision that he instantly regretted and threw away a potentially legendary career for it. Sure, the other two (Salman and Asif) deserve no sympathy, but I think Aamir’s teammates need to be given some orientation on how to deal with a young player whose regret is still quite raw. Despite his immense talent, Aamir will now have to live with the shame of not being accepted as equal by his teammates.Recommend Half salary? I say no salary! Rather no cricket! Set an example, otherwise people like this trio will keep destroying this game that billions of people love.Recommend Well, the example you want to set is, keep fooling the nation, keep doing your dirty job and if you are caught, pay the penalty and continue what you were doing before.Recommend romm @Ch Allah Dad If the sitting Prime minister despite being an establised money Launderer can be given three chances. .. why not to give chance to Juvenile offender… Recommend Nonsense article with no understanding about law or cricket. I wonder ho this kind of person can live with his conscience.Recommend wellknown The punishment they have served in Britain was for defrouding the British bookies,which is s crime in Britain.what punishment have they served in Pakistan,besides cooling their heels for some time outside national team ?Recommend This is ridiculous. We’re talking about a young guy here, who committed a mistake at the age of 18. That too, at the insistence of his captain (we do realise the importance of a senior and a captain at such an age). Give him a second chance, albeit a proper one. Dont make him captain, maybe. We should always have enough contenders for that hopefully. Apply tougher scrutiny on them, yes, lest they do something wrong again. But dont go on cutting down a man’s livelihood. Dont need that sham of a second chance. Let him have a proper one. He’s done his time. Let him serve the nation now and win laurels now, if they come his way. Dont kill the biggest motivation of a man in doing that: livelihood.Recommend What a useless article. Really, nobody cares what you think. Half the author’s salary should be withheld for such low quality journalism.Recommend Waqas Shah Herschelle Gibbs who agreed to under-perform in an ODI game was banned from cricket for just six month, even shane warne went through a similar allegation. The trio has served their punishment under the existing laws, keep your crap with you.Recommend Noman Ansari So basically he tried to do something wrong for money so your punishment is to take away his salary so he has more incentive to do wrongdoings.Recommend highburypaul Amir was fantastic talent betrayed by his seniors. He never should have been as severely punished as his captain, who told him to do it.Recommend The main culprit in the fixing issue is team managementRecommend “Abey kaale”: It’s not only Sarfraz Ahmed Out with Sarfraz, in with Shoaib Dear PCB, are Pakistani artists not good enough for PSL? In order to bring their A-game, Pakistan needs to concentrate on their A team Is it time for Sarfraz Ahmed to hang his hat as the Test captain? #PakVsSA: After losing all three formats, is there an end to Pakistan’s ‘bad luck’ streak? No longer a gentleman’s game: Why Virat Kohli is the epitome of modern cricket After South Africa’s thrashing, it’s evident that Pakistan’s Test team needs a major reshuffle #PakvsSA: 4 reasons why we messed up, 4 ways to turn it around Why the Pakistan cricket team deserves Mickey Arthur’s wrath	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1076
__label__cc	0.518292	0.481708	Part 9: Robin's Nightmare Why The Debt-Dependent Status Quo Is Doomed in One... Priced Out of the Middle Class Some Thoughts on Overseas Investing in U.S. Real E... Some Thoughts on Investing in the "Bottom" in Hous... When Will the Stock Market Finally Hit Bottom? Part 8: Alexia Whiffs Romance: All Strikes, No Hit... The Solution to Concentrated Power: the Three Ds The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit: Centraliz... The Housing Recovery: Based on What? Greek Theater Double-Feature: A Farce and a Tragi-... The Tiresome Eurozone Soap Opera Has Entered Re-Ru... Part 7: Kylie's Blind Date (Serialized fiction) The Fed's Secret Phone Menu Black is White, Hedges are Bets, and Your Money is... Do the Parasitic Elite Pay Any Taxes? By Incentivizing Debt, We've Guaranteed Debt-Serfd... The Politics of "Consensus" Is the Politics of Fai... Part 6: Kylie Caves In (serialized fiction) The "Solution" Is Collapse Is Capitalism Incompatible with Democracy? The Dominant Dynamic: Debt and Deleveraging "Monetary Easing" Fixes Nothing The We-Fixed-Nothing Chickens Are Coming Home to R... Part 5: Robin vs. the Axe Murderer (serialized fic... Income Tax Solution: Apply Social Security Taxes t... Part 8: Alexia Whiffs Romance: All Strikes, No Hits Let's set aside the global recession for a few moments of distraction via my serialized comic novel "Four Bidding For Love." (Those who find absurdist humor and adult situations offensive, please read no further.) Alexia entered the boutique she shared with her friend Katy, "Well-Heeled Etc." in a rush and with visible anxiety waited for a chic young Asian customer to leave her alone with Katy, who was clumping around the small store in heeled sandals which accentuated her waif-like slimness and five-foot height. If she hadn't known Katy long before her recent marriage to a worldly, wealthy, sickeningly youthful investor who adored her—if any more reasons existed to hate her, none came directly to mind—Alexia's envy would have doomed any possible friendship. But having known Katy when she was a sobbing, abandoned wreck—the guy had oozed desire to meet her Mom and Stepdad, only to vanish the next weekend—Alexia had written off her own loneliness and her friend's newfound marital bliss as either Fate with a capital F or Karma with a capital K. Though they shared a similarly tawny color of hair, even this resemblance was deceptive, for Alexia wore her hair shoulder-length and loose while Katy kept hers in a neatly trimmed pageboy. Other than hair color, they shared little but a history of romantic dissatisfaction—that is, until Katy nailed down Mr. Dreamboat, Alexia thought; and that's a gulf between us that I'll never ford. As she'd waited for the young Asian customer to either buy something or leave, Alexia recalled her own marriage to Viggy. It was doomed from the start, she signed inwardly, and we both knew that; but I was pregnant and we were supremely confident marrying was the right thing. Her miscarriage should have ended not just her pregnancy but her marriage, but by then the young couple had already accepted the gifts and muddled through the big-church wedding, and they'd agreed to stay together a year and a day just for propriety's sake. As she impatiently awaited the customer's exit, Alexia wondered, was I ever in love with him? At least I thought I was—not at first, but by six months. And if he wasn't in love, she remembered with rueful amusement, at least he was constantly desirous of me, which was more than I'd expected. He was fun in a goofy, boyish way, she thought wistfully; but I guess it wasn't really love, because five years later he did fall in love—just not with me. Maybe if I'd had a baby, she mused, he wouldn't have strayed; but that wasn't meant to be, either. It had come apart three years ago, and her one serious fling—a wild-heart burst of girlish entrancement if there ever was one—had ended with a shattering rejection: I never cared about you, you were fun in bed, don't expect anything else of me, and so on, in a detached, lecturing voice that still haunted her. In her worst early-morning moments, Alexia feared she sought men who would reject her as insufficiently pretty, witty, upscale, social, sexy, something. And in response, she'd withdrawn into a shell without dreams; it was far less painful that a futile hope stripped bare by rejection. The chic Asian woman finally swished out to the sidewalk, and as the bell attached to the door tinkled merrily, Katy looked up in alarm at Alexia's drawn expression. "There's an axe murderer after me, some online troll seeking revenge," she said huskily, and Katy's eyes widened in surprise. "Sweet Loretta, slow down," she said, patting Alexia's shoulder. "Do you want one of my anti-anxiety pills?" Irked by her friend's skepticism, Alexia blurted, "It's true. I beat this guy out of two auctions on eBay and so he snapped up the one poster I need most in the whole world.” "And his eBay profile helpfully lists his occupation as axe murderer?" "You wouldn't be so cool if he was after you," Alexia said accusingly. "He buys toasters and throwing hatchets." "Maybe he's an outdoorsman," Katy replied. "Who knows, he might be cute." Alexia's disdain was palpable. "I should have known you'd suggest dating an axe murderer." Katy grasped both of Alexia's hands and looked up at her friend with strained sincerity. "Look, life is passing you by all because one jerk dumped on you. You're in the prime of life—you need to get out there." Alexia’s distemper melted. "I know you mean well, Katy, but if I answer one more ad from a guy who says he loves walks on the beach and then I find he needs a cane to cross the street, I will really, truly scream." "Not every guy lies," Katy said defensively, and Alexia bore in for the kill. "No, just the guys I contact. How about that debonair yachtsman in Marin who lived on a charming houseboat?" With a derisive snort, Alexia huffed, "He'd been on Social Security for five years, and his charming houseboat was a garbage scow that smelled like fish-head soup. An alley cat would have loved it." Before Katy could reply, she hissed, "I can't even meet a guy who can walk upright without assistance." "What about that securities analyst? He could walk upright, and he was cute, too. You were robbing the cradle." "He made me miss the creaky guys with canes," Alexia snapped. "He thought first dates were for feeling me up in his Porsche. I felt like grapefruit in Safeway being tested for ripeness. Let’s face it, all I get are strikes, not one hit." Next: Robin's Nightmare: how did I get myself into this senseless Hell? A note of thanks to those who buy the book: As an independent writer, book sales are a substantial part of my income. I receive no funding from a university, trust fund, hedge fund, think-tank or government agency. I self-publish my books as a financial necessity, as the small royalties (5% to 7.5% of the retail price) paid by publishers cannot support me during the long months it takes to write a book. Your purchase makes it possible for me to continue sharing ideas on the blog and in my books. Thank you. Buy the Kindle ebook for $4.95 Four Bidding For Love (print, $16.99)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1088
__label__cc	0.667894	0.332106	Police looking for man offering drugs to teens in southeast Calgary City police are looking for a man in a truck who approached teenagers in southeast Calgary last month and allegedly offered them drugs. Police car file photo. Colleen De Neve / Calgary Herald The first incident took place in the community of McKenzie Towne at around 3 p.m. on Feb. 4. Police said two teenage girls were walking home from a bus stop near Elgin Way S.E. and McKenzie Towne Drive S.E. when a man in a truck stopped beside the pair and offered them drugs. About two weeks later, at around 4 p.m. on Feb. 19, police believe the same truck was seen approaching other teens near the same intersection. Officers scoured the area but did not find a vehicle matching the description. The vehicle is described as a black, older model Toyota 4×4 truck. Police say the driver is a Caucasian man in his late 20s, with short black hair and a slim to medium build. He was last seen wearing a grey and black top. Twitter.com/clara_ho  Interim police chief says he will carry on Hanson's legacy Alberta releases new plan for managing oilsands tailings ponds Opinion: Setting the record straight on LNG from B.C. Opinion: Breaking Alberta’s awkward silence around money and debt	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1102
__label__wiki	0.972873	0.972873	FCA shortens shifts in Ontario after fire at supplier in Michigan From staff and wire reports FOX 47 YouTube screen grab The fire took place last week at Meridian's 208,000-square-foot plant in Eaton Rapids, Mich., near Lansing. DETROIT -- A fire that ripped through a supplier’s plant in Michigan has disrupted auto assembly at several factories, including Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Canada’s Windsor Assembly Plant, where the Chrysler Pacifica minivan is built. FCA said on Wednesday it is "adjusting production schedules as needed to minimize plant downtime [and] will make up any lost production." Unifor Local 444 President James Stewart, who represents workers in Windsor, told the CBC there is no set amount of time each shift is running. Meanwhile, Ford Motor Co. said production of F-150 and Super Duty pickups at multiple U.S. factories will be halted this week because of a fire at a supplier plant that produces instrument panels for the trucks. General Motors and Mercedes-Benz also reported production disruptions. Production of Ford's most profitable vehicle could be knocked out for several weeks in the wake of last week's fire that interrupted production at the Meridian Magnesium Products of America plant near Lansing, Mich., a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg. Output of F-150 pickups at the Ford plant in Dearborn, Mich., could be idled Wednesday or Thursday, people familiar with the situation told Reuters. A Ford spokeswoman said on Wednesday the automaker is working very closely with the supplier to get production re-started. Ford on Monday said it idled F-150 production at its plant in Kansas City until May 14. Meanwhile, Super Duty production has been halted at Kentucky Truck and Ohio Assembly, although both of those plants continue to produce other vehicles and no workers have been laid off, Ford confirmed Wednesday. The shutdowns could cost Ford as much as 15,000 trucks per week, according to James Albertine, an analyst with Consumer Edge Research. F-Series pickups generate most of Ford’s profits and Morgan Stanley recently estimated the value of the franchise as greater than that of the entire company. The truck line, including F-250 and other larger models, hauls in about $40 billion in annual revenue, exceeding the annual sales of companies such as Facebook Inc. and Nike Inc. “This is an extremely fluid situation,” Kelli Felker, a Ford spokeswoman, said in an interview. “We are working hard to get replacement parts.” The F-150 is so important to Ford that Albertine wrote that he is considering adjusting his earnings projections for the automaker once the full-impact of the supplier fire is known. “We do expect Ford will incur higher production costs during this shutdown period and potentially in the period immediately following the shutdown to the degree Ford elects to accelerate production to make up for this shortfall,” Albertine wrote in a note to investors. At the end of April, Ford had an 84-days supply of F-series pickups, according to AutoData. Even with heavy demand, the production stoppage would likely have to last for multiple weeks to dent those numbers. F-series sales in the U.S. rose 4.1 percent to 287,295 through April, according to the Automotive News Data Center. OTHER IMPACTS The supplier's fire is affecting other automakers. General Motors on Wednesday said it will temporarily halt production of its Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full size vans at its Wentzville Assembly plant in Missouri because of a parts shortage resulting from the fire. It said the plant will continue building the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pickups. It did not say how long van production will be idled. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc., in a statement released from its plant in Vance, Ala., said: "The damage caused at Meridian has caused a shortage of components used in our cockpits for some of our vehicles built at MBUSI. As a result, we have cancelled production shifts in certain areas and adjusted production hours for our team members this week. We continue to assess the situation and are working with Meridian to restore normal production levels." BMW, in a statement to Automotive News on Monday, said production of its X5 crossover will be affected Monday afternoon and evening. It said its plant South Carolina has an inventory of parts on hand. GETTING BACK ONLINE The cause of the fire has not been determined. Meridian, in a statement released Wednesday, said the local fire marshal has been able to access the plant and the investigation continues. "We are currently following our safety protocols and working alongside state agencies and utilities to ensure that resumption of operations will be done in safe manner. Clean up and repairs are progressing," the statement said. "Finally, we are working with ALL of our customers to resume operations and supply as soon as possible. Safety will always be our primary concern. We will provide further information as soon as we are able." Meridian, in a previous statement, said it is working with its customers to move dies to its plants in Strathroy, Ontario, and the United Kingdom, Asher wrote, though the letter did not disclose the names of the customers. Meridian is owned by Chinese supplier Wanfeng Auto Holding Group. It also provides parts to Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Tesla Inc. among others, according to the websites of Meridian and Wanfeng. Meridian makes aluminum and magnesium structural components at four plants in North America. Automakers use magnesium parts to cut weight in vehicles, and improve fuel economy. Bloomberg, Reuters, Michael Martinez and Automotive News staff contributed to this report. CA11544459.PDF Meridian press release CA11544459.PDF >	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1105
__label__cc	0.697911	0.302089	King George VI: Video Collection Thanks to the recent film ‘The King’s Speech’ (which we really enjoyed) there has been a spate of interest in our footage of the Royal Family, especially the reign of King George VI and those that were closely connected to him. Of course clips that show George VI stuttering and stammering were initially the ones everybody was eager to see, spurred on by Colin Firth’s performance, but the British Pathé archive has a lot more to offer, and so we thought you might like to watch these clips too: ‘Princess In Kenya’ – WATCH HERE! The young Princess Elizabeth makes a state visit to Australia via Kenya in 1952. But she never got as far as Australia because her father died and so she flew back to England, this time a Queen. Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip is with her “from the chills of London to the warm sun of East Africa and another world”, “Some favour western styles, others the savage grandeur of tribal dress for this great occasion” In the clip Princess Elizabeth meets a boy called ‘Prince Selim’, he was named Prince because he was born on the same day as Princess Elizabeth’s son Prince Charles (we wonder where Selim is now?) They retire to Sagana Lodge, a beautiful “wood and stone” house, which was a wedding present from the Kenyan government, on the fringe of a large game reserve. Death of King George – WATCH HERE! The Kenyan clip above was never shown in cinemas due to the death of King George VI, British Pathé issued this clip ‘Britain Mourns’ instead. “It was announced from Sandringham at 10.45 today February the 6th 1942, that the King that retired to rest last night in his usual health passed peacefully away in his sleep this morning.” “The King is dead, swift from the press the news flows to the farthest corners of our island. In our hearts we feel this cannot be.” A fantastic piece of newsreel coverage. Coronation of King George VI – WATCH HERE! Set across two reels, one showing the procession, another the ceremony, this is the elaborate (and supposedly calamitous) coronation of George VI. We suspect Lionel Logue (George’s voice coach, played in the film The King’s Speech by Guy Pierce) is in this footage. You can also watch the Royal procession leading up to the ceremony too. Juvenile Olympiads in 1928 – WATCH HERE! King George VI was noted for his enthusiasm for youth games and summer camps. Here we see the Juvenile Olympiads. The clip comes across a little controversial now as the children give what we now know as a Nazi salute to the King, of course it was a universal signal back then before Hitler adopted it. Funeral of George VI in 1952 – WATCH HERE! It still astounds us that funerals of such importance were recorded and can be watched back today. Think George VI’s funeral was a long time ago? Try searching for Thomas Hardy, or even Queen Victoria! Author: British Pathé British Pathé holds the world's finest newsreel collection. We also represent the Reuters historical collection. All 208K films are viewable on our website. View all posts by British Pathé Author British PathéPosted on 13 January 2011 Categories Uncategorized Previous Previous post: Footage discovered of The Red Woman of Paris – the scandalous Madame Steinheil. Next Next post: Susannah York Dies British Pathé releases 85,000 films on YouTube Footage discovered of The Red Woman of Paris – the scandalous Madame Steinheil. Beauty and the Beach: A Guide to Pyjama Dressing Marilyn Monroe's Last Night Eve's Wireless becomes an Internet Phenomena The 'X' Files: Top 10 Xylophonists of the Past Extreme Bodies - Gigantism!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1114
__label__wiki	0.53639	0.53639	Chef, Friend, Polar Bear! Date :: 12/21/18 \| Time :: 1:41 pm Kate in action! If you’ve ever been out to one of our many beer dinners, brunches or really any event involving food at the brewery, you’ve likely indulged in some delicious food prepared by local chef, and friend of the brewery, Kate O’Donnell. And if you’ve ever been on Stillwell Ave in Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon from November through April, you’ve also likely seen her getting ready to take an icy swim alongside the legendary Coney Island Polar Bear Club. Fun fact… she’s an official member! But Kate’s years of swimming in subzero temperatures go far beyond her time with the club. Growing up, her family had their very own tradition of swimming on Christmas Day at their house on Shirley Beach on the south shore of Long Island. Another fun fact… theirs was a skinny dip mission.  “When I moved out to Coney from the city, it was literally the first thing I wanted to start doing.” She made it to 12 swims in her first season and last year swam 22 out of 24 times. What keeps her (and every other bear we’ve talked to over the years) coming back? The camaraderie. Kate compares the first day of the season to the first day of school after the summer. It’s a community that represents the true spirit of Coney Island and it’s entering into its 115th year. 10 Things You May Not Know About the Club Last year’s crew in braved a wind chill of -9° and a water temp of 35°. 1. Their biggest swim of the year (swimmers in the thousands) is on New Year’s Day but the club swims EVERY SUNDAY for four months… that’s 24 times per season. 2. They meet at 1pm every Sunday and stay in an average of 20 minutes (though that may vary week to week) and you must complete 12 swims to officially join the Coney Island Polar Bear Club. 3. Once you’ve completed your 12 swims, you still need to be “voted” into the club by the other bears… though no one is ever voted down. It’s purely for tradition. 4. The club has never missed a swim because it’s too cold… but there’s always a lifeguard on duty and they might not stay in for as long on those really cold days. 5. Some bears might wear gloves or booties to protect hands and feet but they never wear wetsuits. 6. Costumes are strongly encouraged. Think Santa hats around Christmas, green on St. Patrick’s Day, bunny costumes around Easter and whatever the hell you feel like on New Year’s Day. 7. The first swim of the 2018-2019 season was a balmy 55 degree swim in 58 degree air… Kate wishes she brought her cap to do some laps! 8. The club often hits up Tom’s or other local haunts for brunch after each swim and the self-title “bad bears” often go for beers as well. 9. The club is not limited to just Coney residents. There are bears from Jersey, Staten Island and even Connecticut! 10. They have unofficial swims on SNOW DAYS! So while we’re glued to the couch watching Netflix, they’re heading to the beach to hit the water. If this sounds like your type of community… you should JOIN THEM (and us!) on New Year’s Day! Our crew will be taking our annual dip to ring in the new year alongside the Coney Island Polar Bear Club and then we’ll be open early for the Official After Party at the brewery… and yes, Chef Kate will be in the house cooking up delicious eats to help you warm up after your swim. And as always, we will be donating $1 from every pint of The Plunge sold during the event to the Alliance for Coney Island. RSVP for the After Party Here! Tags :: Chef Kate, Coney Island, Coney Island Brewery, coney island polar bear club, Kate O'Donnell, New Year's Day, Polar Bear Plunge Q&A with Matt McCall: BrInG iT aRoUnD tOwN Gose-style Ale Date :: 07/02/19 \| Time :: 9:00 am Mermaid Pilsner is On the Move! Date :: 10/22/18 \| Time :: 12:43 pm Brewer Q&A: Count Flocula and Boo-liner	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1125
__label__wiki	0.656596	0.656596	Tag Archives: Claire Van Der Boom New behind-the-scenes images from Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach Entertainment One have revealed two behind-the-scenes images from Rachel Ward’s drama-comedy Palm Beach, currently shooting on Sydney’s northern beaches. Palm Beach is a drama-comedy about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a special birthday, with Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll with loads of laughter, lavish… Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach starts filming next week – Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi and Jacqueline McKenzie to star Palm Beach, a new feature film written by Joanna Murray-Smith and Rachel Ward, and directed by Rachel Ward, will start filming at Sydney’s iconic Palm Beach and surrounds from next week, until early July. Palm Beach stars Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi and Jacqueline McKenzie, as well as Swazi-English actor Richard E Grant (Gosford… Perth! Heath Davis’ Broke is heading your way Earlier in the year, Revelation Perth International Film Festival held a screening on Heath Davis’ Broke to a sellout crowd. If you missed it you’ll be happy to know another screening is being held next month at Event Cinemas, Innaloo on Wednesday, 12 October at 6.30pm. Ticket details below. An ageing rail worker, Cec, finds… September 30, 2016 in What's On. Home Release: 9 Australian films from 2016 you need to catch up on this long weekend The long weekend is upon us with some states enjoying it this weekend, while other states are preparing for their turn next weekend. Long weekends are a great time to catch up on movies, especially those Australian films you’ve been ‘meaning to see’. To help you out, Cinema Australia have compiled a list of Australian films you… September 24, 2016 in News. Heath Davis’ Broke announced as next Australian Revelations title Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in association with Cinema Australia, presents Australian Revelations as a celebration of Australian film via monthly screenings. New Australian film Broke will have its Western Australian premiere at Australian Revelations on 26 April. Gambling, footy and the sometimes lonely environments of the suburbs form the backdrop of this terrific new Australian dramatic feature. Selected for screening at multiple festivals around… March 30, 2016 in News, What's On. Go for Broke! We chat with director Heath Davis as the brand new trailer drops for his new film The first trailer has dropped for Australian filmmaker Heath Davis’ Broke. It’s well edited, full of drama and boosts our anticipation for what’s sure to be one of the best films of the year. Davis has managed to lure in an impressive cast for his feature film debut including Steve Le Marquand, Claire van der Boom, Brendan Cowell, Steve Bastoni and screen veteran Max… February 3, 2016 in News, Trailers. What a year 2015 was for Australian cinema. Box office records were smashed thanks to Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s contemporary interpretation of his 1979 classic, and Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker. Each film was headlined by international heavyweights including Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Kate Winslet respectively. It was a massive year for indi-filmaking in Australia… January 3, 2016 in Features, News, Trailers.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1130
__label__cc	0.715655	0.284345	, planning under uncertainty, sensor-based planning, visibility, decision-theoretic planning, game theory, information spaces, reinforcement learning, nonlinear systems, trajectory planning, nonholonomic planning, and kinodynamic planning. Cognitive radio is viewed as a novel approach for improving the utilization of a precious natural resource: the radio electromagnetic spectrum. The cognitive radio, built on a software-defined radio, is defined as an intelligent wireless communication system that is aware of its environment and uses the methodology of understanding-by-building to learn from the environment and adapt to statistical variations in the input stimuli, with two primary objectives in mind: • highly reliable communication whenever and wherever needed; • efficient utilization of the radio spectrum. Following the discussion of interference temperature as a new metric for the quantification and management of interference, the paper addresses three fundamental cognitive tasks. 1) Radio-scene analysis. 2) Channel-state estimation and predictive modeling. 3) Transmit-power control and dynamic spectrum management. This paper also discusses the emergent behavior of cognitive radio. A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural-Rate Model." Working Paper no. 807 by J. Barro, David B. Gordon, Robert J. Barro, David B. Gordon , 1981 "... you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact inform ..." you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies by Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen - Evolutionary Computation "... An important question in neuroevolution is how to gain an advantage from evolving neural network topologies along with weights. We present a method, NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), which outperforms the best fixed-topology method on a challenging benchmark reinforcement learning task ..." An important question in neuroevolution is how to gain an advantage from evolving neural network topologies along with weights. We present a method, NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), which outperforms the best fixed-topology method on a challenging benchmark reinforcement learning task. We claim that the increased efficiency is due to (1) employing a principled method of crossover of different topologies, (2) protecting structural innovation using speciation, and (3) incrementally growing from minimal structure. We test this claim through a series of ablation studies that demonstrate that each component is necessary to the system as a whole and to each other. What results is significantly faster learning. NEAT is also an important contribution to GAs because it shows how it is possible for evolution to both optimize and complexify solutions simultaneously, offering the possibility of evolving increasingly complex solutions over generations, and strengthening the analogy with biological evolution. We propose a novel formalism, called Frame Logic (abbr., F-logic), that accounts in a clean and declarative fashion for most of the structural aspects of object-oriented and frame-based languages. These features include object identity, complex objects, inheritance, polymorphic types, query methods, encapsulation, and others. In a sense, F-logic stands in the same relationship to the objectoriented paradigm as classical predicate calculus stands to relational programming. F-logic has a model-theoretic semantics and a sound and complete resolution-based proof theory. A small number of fundamental concepts that come from object-oriented programming have direct representation in F-logic; other, secondary aspects of this paradigm are easily modeled as well. The paper also discusses semantic issues pertaining to programming with a deductive object-oriented language based on a subset of F-logic. Strategies of Discourse Comprehension by Teun A. Van Dijk, Walter Kintsch , 1983 "... El Salvador, Guatemala is a, study in black and white. On the left is a collection of extreme Marxist-Leninist groups led by what one diplomat calls “a pretty faceless bunch of people.’ ’ On the right is an entrenched elite that has dominated Central America’s most populous country since a CIA-backe ..." El Salvador, Guatemala is a, study in black and white. On the left is a collection of extreme Marxist-Leninist groups led by what one diplomat calls “a pretty faceless bunch of people.’ ’ On the right is an entrenched elite that has dominated Central America’s most populous country since a CIA-backed coup deposed the reformist government of Col. Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954. Moderates of the political center. embattled but alive in E1 Salvador, have virtually disappeared in Guatemala-joining more than 30.000 victims of terror over the last tifteen vears. “The situation in Guatemala is much more serious than in EI Salvador, ” declares one Latin American diplomat. “The oligarchy is that much more reactionary. and the choices are far fewer. “ ‘Zero’: The Guatemalan oligarchs hated Jimmy Carter for cutting off U.S. military aid in 1977 to protest human-rights abuses-and the right-wingers hired marimba bands and set off firecrackers on the night Ronald Reagan was elected. They considered Reagan an ideological kinsman and believed they had a special Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring, Nature by Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund, Ulf Dieckmann , 1998 "... review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organizations, or other organizations supporting the work. IIASA STUDIES IN ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS NO. 27 The Adaptive Dynamics Network at IIASA fosters the development of new mathematical ..." review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organizations, or other organizations supporting the work. IIASA STUDIES IN ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS NO. 27 The Adaptive Dynamics Network at IIASA fosters the development of new mathematical and conceptual techniques for understanding the evolution of complex adaptive systems. Focusing on these long-term implications of adaptive processes in systems of limited growth, the Adaptive Dynamics Network brings together scientists and institutions from around the world with IIASA acting as the central node. Scientific progress within the network Deception: the role of consequences by Uri Gneezy, I Thank Gary Charness, Martin Dufwenberg, Georg Kirchsteiger, David Levine, Muriel Niederle - American Economic Review , 2005 "... Abstract: This paper studies the role of consequences in a person’s decision to lie. Based on findings from an experiment with a deception game, as well as from questionnaires, I propose a simple formulation of preferences to describe deception behavior. The decision maker uses the “truth telling ” ..." Abstract: This paper studies the role of consequences in a person’s decision to lie. Based on findings from an experiment with a deception game, as well as from questionnaires, I propose a simple formulation of preferences to describe deception behavior. The decision maker uses the “truth telling Attitude-Behavior Relations: A Theoretical Analysis and by Icek Ajzen, Martin Fishbein - Review of Empirical Research, Psychological Bulletin , 1977 "... Research on the relation between attitude and behavior is examined in light of the correspondence between attitudinal and behavioral entities. Such entities are defined by their target, action, context, and time elements. A review of available empirical research supports the contention that strong a ..." Research on the relation between attitude and behavior is examined in light of the correspondence between attitudinal and behavioral entities. Such entities are defined by their target, action, context, and time elements. A review of available empirical research supports the contention that strong attitude-behavior relations dre obtained only under high correspondence between at least the target and action elements of the attitudinal and behavioral entities. This conclusion is compared with the rather pessimistic assessment of the utility of the attitude concept found in much contemporary social psychological literature. Reports of rather low or nonsignificant relations between attitudinal predictors and behavioral criteria have been accumulating for more than 40 years (cf. Wicker, 1969). These negative findings led many investiga-tors to reconsider the nature of the attitude- Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community by Judith S. Donath , 1997	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1132
__label__cc	0.708007	0.291993	Harper’s abrupt reply to my letter re election Robo-Calls reflects a dismissive attitude towards citizens’ concerns Where Harper is unresponsive, Elizabeth May is personal and caring No 426 Posted by fw, March 4, 2012 I was one of tens of thousands of Canadians who answered leadnow.ca’s call to demand a full public inquiry into dirty tricks election practices by Harper’s Tories. I dutifully read, signed and sent the letter that went to Harper and other leaders of federal political parties. A copy of my email appears below. I was not surprised to receive Elizabeth May’s immediate caring and thoughtful response, which I have found to be quite typical of her. In reading it, I felt I was being heard and understood. Then there was Stephen Harper’s response – a two-sentence, impersonal, curt acknowledgment of receipt. It left me with an impression of the “can’t-be-bothered” low value that he personally places on the legitimate concerns of those Canadians whom he was elected to represent – not just the minority who voted for him — but of all Canadians. Judge for yourself. Here are the emails: first Stephen Harper’s, second Elizabeth May’s, and third, my letter. From: Prime Minister [pm@pm.gc.ca] To: fjwhite13@sympatico.ca Subject: Office of the Prime Minister Date Sent: Thu 01/03/2012 Please know that your e-mail message has been received in the Prime Minister’s Office and that your comments have been noted. Our office always welcomes hearing from correspondents and being made aware of their views. From: Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca Subject: RE: We need answers and real consequences for Robo-Call election fraud Date Sent: Sun 26/02/2012 Thank you for your email expressing concerns about the recent Elections Canada report. This report, describing the use of illegal “robo-calls” during last federal election, has traced these calls back to a company that worked for the Conservative Party. This extremely worrisome development is an attack upon our cherished democratic institutions and demands an immediate response. There must be a complete investigation to determine those who are responsible. Individuals or organizations who have conducted such egregious actions need to face jail time. Additionally, financial rebates for those specific elections must be cancelled and returned to Elections Canada. (Political parties who obtain a certain percentage of the vote in a riding can receive up to 60% of their expenses refunded via Elections Canada, and 50% nationally. Combined, this amounts to tens of millions of dollars for the Conservative Party.) Only through such strong measures will we create a meaningful deterrent to these actions. The Conservative government has made continuous efforts to target MPs and opposition parties with unscrupulous tactics as a strategy to gain more voter support. Like you, I believe this is a disturbing trend that is driving Canadians away from the political process, and have condemned this in the House of Commons on November 22nd: For more information on my experience and thoughts on this issue, I urge you to read my book Losing Confidence: Power, Politics, and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy. In this book, I focus on the changes occurring in Canadian democracy such as the use of attack ads and muzzling of scientists. Thank you for taking the time to write to me. You are exercising your democratic rights, and I am thankful that you’re doing so. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any other questions or concerns, and I would encourage you to consult my MP website and peruse Vision Green, available online at http://elizabethmaymp.ca/vision-green. Elizabeth May, O.C., M.P. Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands Leader of the Green Party of Canada Here is the leadnow.ca letter that I signed off on and sent to Stephen Harper with a cc to other party leaders as listed at the end of the email — The Right Honourable Stephen Harper pm@pm.gc.ca Dear Prime Minister Harper, Mr Corbett, Ms Turmel, Mr Rae, Ms. May and Mr. Plamondon, I am gravely concerned by the Elections Canada report that has just traced illegal phone calls made during the 2011 federal election to a company that worked for the Conservative Party across the country. The “robocalls” were apparently designed to stop non-Conservative voters from casting ballots in key ridings by falsely telling voters that the location of their polling stations had changed, causing them to go to the wrong location on election day. This news casts doubt on the legitimacy of our Government. We need answers now, and real consequences for illegal behaviour that may have determined the outcome of our election. I demand a full and independent public inquiry, backed by Elections Canada and the RCMP, to expose the facts about the robocall scandal and ensure that the penalty for this election fraud matches the consequences of the crime – including possible by-elections in the affected ridings. We cannot allow individuals to be scapegoated for actions that benefit institutions. We need to lay the foundation for new laws to restore the integrity of Canadian elections. Frank White fjwhite13@sympatico.ca N9E1L9 cc: William H. Corbett Commissioner of Canada Elections 257 Slater St. K1A 0M6 commissionersoffice@elections.ca cc: Elizabeth May Green Party of Canada elizabeth.may@parl.gc.ca cc: Nycole Turmel Leader of the Official Opposition New Democratic Party nycole.turmel@parl.gc.ca cc: Bob Rae Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada bob.rae@parl.gc.ca cc: Louis Plamondon Parliamentary Leader Bloc Québécois louis.plamondon@parl.gc.ca This entry was posted on March 4, 2012 by fjwhite in personal narratives, political action and tagged Canadian election 2011, democracy at risk, Elizabeth May, Stephen Harper.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1135
__label__cc	0.709547	0.290453	(202) Little White Lies We Tell Children Originally, I was going to write about why I tell kids ‘I put my cat down’ instead of ‘I killed my cat.’ *I have a whole wordy thing about why I very deliberately say, “I killed my cat” instead of, “I put my cat to sleep” and it is not up for discussion because it is based on how it feels to me when I do it. so. It doesn’t mean I think I am making the wrong choice. Shhh different post. Moving on. It was going to be a post about giving kids what they can manage. Not ‘I wanted to protect them from xyz truth’ but, ‘I chose to use this word because the amount of responsibility that goes with the other word is not something a child of seven needs to absorb right now.’ I was going to write about how words are more than just words, and part of our jobs as adults is to help show them each word’s power as they grow. I also thought I could be quasi funny, and I would list little shitty lies (most of them about oh noe I have no idea where your chocolate went oh noe I think that movie isn’t in the theaters anymore oh I’m so sorry Barney and SpongeBob got lost in outer space and can’t be on the TV anymore oh noe). But the more I sat with the title of the post (which I loved and am not changing whatever fuck reasons), the more wrong any sort of post about lying to kids felt to me. I make a point of never lying to my students. I don’t lie when I’m wrong; I own that shit front and center because kids need to see adults take ownership. I apologize and refrain from justifying my mistake with any sort of bullshit passing of responsibility. I don’t gloss over the tricky areas of an opera or a book that we’re discussing. When kids asked me if I liked Twilight, I told them exactly why I didn’t. When I taught excerpts from Carmen, I told them exactly who Carmen was. Ok, though. I do cater to age. I didn’t tell my seven year old kids that Carmen was a prostitute; I said Carmen was one of my favorite female characters because she was strong, independent, and opinionated in a world filled with women who were required to fit some sort of mold in order to be deemed worthwhile. I told them Carmen was judged for her choices, and that sometimes judgment is misinformed. I told the older crew (the Twilight crowd) exactly what I thought of the relationships described in the book. I told them exactly what I thought of the writing and gave examples of other passages from other writers that I thought were more successful. I told them more because their investment in the issues involved was deeper. It didn’t have to do with whether or not I thought the younger guys could handle learning about sex; it had to do with where they were in familiarity with the concepts surrounding something like prostitution. When we do talk about sex work, I want them to be confident about seeing women as equals so that it will feel weird to then judge one for an action that involves two consenting adults. I want them to have an understanding of gender and self autonomy before I bring in the social issues and taboos around sex and prostitution. I think ‘dishonesty’ around kids is interesting; for me, it’s almost never about protecting the child from something. It’s more about the narrative; whose voice in this particular topic matters most. And so I tread lightly when it’s not mine, or when certain norms have already been settled in such a way as to make honoring the narrative more fraught. But it’s never about what kids can or cannot handle. Kids shine lights for adults every single day, and I’ll be damned if I sit here on my crusty throne of experience and tout that kids cannot handle whatever concept I’ve reserved for adulthood. It’s about showing them the story in a way that opens doors rather than merely reaffirming certain ones still exist. It’s getting them excited about a narrative that isn’t their own. It is, once again, about planting empathy. So I can’t write a piece about the little white lies we tell children without casting a stone for the relentless truth in every character we introduce to them. https://upscri.be/0d62c1/ Categories: Uncategorized \| Tags: Honesty, Life Lessons, Perspective, Truth, Writing \| Permalink.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1138
__label__wiki	0.905277	0.905277	About Claudia Jobs Plan After Supporting Healthcare For All Brindisi Runs From His Record EW HARTFORD – Last month, Anthony Brindisi proudly said on video that he supported Medicare for All and that he voted for universal healthcare, but yesterday “changed” his position for political gain. As USA Today reports: “On the Medicare for All issue, Brindisi voted in favor of a single-payer bill in the New York state assembly and as recently as July said favorable things about Medicare for All. However, he told USA TODAY that he does not support that policy at a national level.” (USA Today, 08/23/18) “Anthony Brindisi is a professional con-artist who has voted 4 times for government-run healthcare and said in July that he supported Medicare for All, but is changing his position for political gain,” said Claudia Tenney campaign manager Raychel Renna. “While Brindisi is running from his record of free healthcare for illegal immigrants and massive tax hikes for the middle class, Claudia Tenney stands with President Trump in fixing our broken healthcare system.” BACKGROUND … WATCH: BRINDISI SAID LAST MONTH HE WAS FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL In July 2018, Anthony Brindisi said he supports Medicare for All. “The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is seizing power over moderates and establishment liberals — and it’s not just in New York City where self-proclaimed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handily defeated 10-term incumbent Rep Joe Crowley. In swing districts across the country, Democratic congressional candidates have embraced Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan or are pushing an expanded version of Obamacare that would create a government-run plan promising universal coverage. … Anthony Brindisi, a Democrat running in upstate New York against incumbent Republican Claudia Tenney, put it this way: “I want to see a system where everybody can have health insurance in the country, whether we call it single payer or Medicare for All.” (Real Clear Politics, 07/24/18) According to a new study, Brindisi and Pelosi’s Medicare For All would cost $32 trillion. “Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for all” plan would boost government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, requiring historic tax hikes, says a study released Monday by a university-based libertarian policy center. That’s trillion with a ‘T.'” (The Associated Press, 07/30/18) In 2017, Brindisi voted for Sheldon Silver’s single payer healthcare plan in New York. “PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would create a universal single payer health plan -New York Health – to provide comprehensive health coverage for all New Yorkers.” (A04738,New York State Assembly, Accessed 6/29/17) New York State universal health care bill – supported by Sheldon Silver – would give illegal immigrants taxpayer funded healthcare. “Proposed legislation to create a universal single-payer plan to provide health coverage to every New York State resident likely will not become law anytime soon in Albany—and the issue puts the South Fork’s two state legislators in a rare position, on opposite sides of an issue. The State Assembly approved the measure in mid-May. It calls for publicly funded universal health care for all state residents, regardless of wealth, income, age, immigration status or preexisting condition.” (The Southampton Press, 06/12/17) Paid for by Claudia Tenney for Congress	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1139
__label__wiki	0.744319	0.744319	Tag Archives: Yow Choi You Choi – rejected, appealed, appeal dismissed November 19, 2018 Affidavit, photos, Witnesses(Go) Yao Chow, 51 & 57 Bond Street, A. E. P. Parker, Astoria Oregon, Attorney Hemple, Charles Verschueran, Edward E. Gray, Go Hip King, Go Kum Lun, Go Leong, Go Quong, Go You, John C. Montgomery, Jue Shee, Raphael P. Bonham, Wing Yuen Company, You Choi, Yow Choi, Yow LeeTrish Hackett Nicola In 1910 Go Hip King applied for admission to the U.S. for his minor son Yao Chow or You Chow (You Choi). “Affidavit photos of Go Hip King and You Choi,” 1910, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, (Go) Yao Chow (alias Go You/Yow Choi) case file, Portland Box 7, file 1949. Go Hip King’s interview did not go well. He admitted that two members of his firm were laborers not merchants; that he had attempted to have attorney Hemple bribe an immigration official; and that although there was an accusation that his rental property was being used as a place of ill repute he did not know what kind of people lived there. There were many discrepancies between the father’s and his alleged son’s testimony. In his summary, Chinese Inspector in Seattle, Raphael P. Bonham wrote: “The testimony given when applicant sought admission in 1910 is permeated with inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehoods…” “The witnesses, Go Leong and Go Quong, of Astoria, Oregon, are not believed to be in good faith or worthy of full credit.” “Go Hip King has proved himself an unconscionable prevaricator, and now admits being a bribe-giver…” “Yow Choi is the victim of the unscrupulous advice of Attorney Hemple, since decamped, whose motive must have been solely that of his fee.” The 1910 application for admission under the name of Yao Chow and was rejected; he appealed but withdrew his appeal the next day. You Choi (Yao Chow) tried again the following year. In June 1911 You Choi, age 19, married name Go Kum Lun, arrived in the Port of Seattle. Transcripts of translated letters from Jue Shee, Go Hip King’s wife and from his sons, Yow Choi and Yow Lee, are included in the file. Edward E. Gray, Go Kip King’s attorney in 1911 reviewed every item of contention in the 1910 case with the Immigration Commissioner trying to show his client in a good light. Gray said that Hemple, Go Hip King’s previous lawyer convinced Go that paying off an official was a necessary part of business. Witness John C. Montgomery, who worked in a plumbing and tin shop, testified in July 1911, that he was born in Astoria and lived there forty years except for ten years when he was away. He had known Go Hip King for over six years, saw him on a regular basis as manager of his store, and didn’t think he ever worked as a laborer in a cannery. Witness A. E. P. Parker, collector agent and hotel man leased to Go Hip King the Eagle Drug Store property on 51 & 57 Bond Street in Astoria in 1910; part of the property to be used for a restaurant and part for a grocery story with the upstairs rooms rented out. He knew Go Hip King as a merchant of the Wing Yuen Company and had not seen him doing manual labor. (Charles Verschueran was a witness on the 1910 affidavit but no more information on him is included in the file.) Attorney Gray thought that You Choi was the innocent victim of his relatives and friends who mixed up the records so much that it was hard to ascertain the truth. Once again, You Choi was rejected; his case was appealed, and the appeal was dismissed. He was sent back to China. There is no more information in the file.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1148
__label__wiki	0.541907	0.541907	Ian DeMartino Greek Bitcoin Community Spreads the Word Amidst Violence On July 15, the birthplace of democracy descended into Molotov cocktails, teargas and violent thugs riding motorcycles and swinging billy clubs on behalf of Greek law enforcement. [Correction: An earlier version of this article erroneously stated that Dimos Chatzinikolaou was the founder of Spartan Route, he is not, he works for them as the head of business development. We regret the error.] Coin Outlet’s CEO Eric Grill stood in the middle of it, along with the quickly forming nucleus of a Greek Bitcoin movement. They hawked what must now seem like an interesting proposition to the average Greek: a currency not dependent on the government or banks. The initial hurdle of getting the public at large to adopt bitcoin is their fear that it won't be worth anything in a year, or even a month. Most of the readers of Cointelegraph can quickly list off reasons why that is absurd, but those reasons aren't immediately apparent to the average curious on-looker. For the Greek citizen who is locked out of their savings by a now three-week long (and counting) bank holiday, bitcoin’s volatility is a moot point. Even if Bitcoin depreciates in value drastically, something is better than nothing, and nothing is what many Greek people are finding their digital fiat is worth, at least for this month. News is just coming out now that Greeks may get access to their banks as early as Friday, and the question then becomes what do they do with it? Put their wealth back into the bank, bury it, or put it into Bitcoin? For bitcoin to succeed, it has long been said that it only needs one currency, one major financial institution or one nation to fail. When that happens, suddenly in the debate over what users choose between — the convenience of a bank relationship or the security of a cryptocurrency — the pendulum begins to swing the other way. - Eric Grill, Greek Parliament You may know Eric Grill as the CEO of Coin Outlet, but he is just the most visible of the team there. There is also Thanos, who runs Greece’s biggest bitcoin exchange BTCGreece. Dimos Chatzinikolaou (Greek name Δημοσθένης Χατζηνικολάου) is a contributor to bitcoin-gr.org and is the founder of works for spartanroute.com. Stavros runs a startup incubator called the Cube, and then there’s Felix Weis, whom you may recognize as “the bitcoin traveller” from his on-going bitcoin-funded trip around the world. Grill and Weis will be leaving sooner rather than later, and then it will be up to Stavros, Thanos and Dimos, the native Greeks, to continue the mission and guide their countrymen to the digital promised land. The group is at ground zero of the protest. That is no exaggeration. Grill was teargassed in Syntagma Square. That was the police's somewhat understandable response to having Molotov cocktails thrown at them by someone standing on the protesters’ side. The retaliatory tear gas couldn’t affect the gas-mask-wearing provocateurs however, so the authorities' response likely didn't affect the people who actually threw the explosive devices. The regular protesters left, but those who were armed with gas masks stayed and continued to hurl rocks and explosives until the police moved in with more forceful measures. The tear gas did affect the nonviolent people on the ground though. Grill said his throat still hurt in the morning. He, like many others, streamed some of the protest through Periscope. He was right in the thick of it. A protester asked him in a not-so-polite way to stop filming because they were concerned that the Molotov Cocktail throwers' identities would be revealed. Minutes after he ended the broadcast, while talking to a Norwegian news station, rocks started flying and it was not long before the events that you have undoubtedly heard about on the news kicked off, both in Syntagma Square and elsewhere in smaller protests. This protest showed what the Greek people thought about the bailout proposal, but if the Greek government wanted to listen to them, they didn't show any ability to. Parliament approved the EU-sponsored deal and while more steps have to be taken before Greece gets its billions in borrowed cash and the banks are unfrozen, things do seem to be moving forward. The Wednesday protest was organized by the Unions. While things are quiet in Athens as I write this, everyone is expecting more protests Thursday night, potentially larger and more violent. For their part, the group doesn't want to get involved with the political situation. Grill told me that he is “not here as 'CEO of Coin Outlet'” but is instead focused on building the bitcoin community in Greece and showing them that they have options to store their wealth other than burying euros in their backyard or handing it over to banks that may or may not exist in a year. While he thinks Bitcoin can be a solution to at least some of their woes on an individual level, politically he knows this isn't his fight and he doesn't want to get involved. It is “Greece's problem for Greek people to solve,” he said. - Group photo The group is walking among protesters, but they are not participating in the protest itself. Rather, they are focused solely on education. Grill says people and businesses seem interested, and he is certain the group is making an impact. As evident in the photos, they are carrying around a huge QR code, which pulls double duty as an advertisement and a funding method. Any donations sent to it will go to the newly formed bitcoin coalition. The theory mentioned earlier, about Bitcoin only needing one economy to collapse in order to succeed, is only half true. It also needs infrastructure in that country and it needs people to build and support that infrastructure. I’m sure Bitcoin could offer a lot to the North Koreans as well, but there is no one building such an infrastructure in that country. Greece’s Bitcoin community was virtually nonexistent just weeks ago. Andreas Antonopoulos said as much in a recent podcast, but the situation is rapidly changing. Weis saw the change firsthand. “[In Athens today] there was just so much more bitcoin activity. [Four months ago] I just met with a couple local bitcoiners. Now, there are regular meetups, two way ATMs and Interest is through the roof.” Without that growth, any gains in bitcoin’s price from a Greece governmental or economic failure will be made purely of speculative wishful thinking, rather than reality. New technology can only be disruptive if people can get their hands on it, and getting their digital mitts on some bitcoin remains the biggest hurdle facing the average person looking to get into bitcoin, especially in a country like Greece. And so that is why the newly formed “Athens Bitcoin Group,” as it has been tentatively called, is out on the streets trying to educate people. They are signing up businesses and giving them Android devices. They brought over 600 flyers to the protests yesterday and handed out nearly all of them directly to the people most angry about the government’s financial situation. - Police line and QR code While Grill will soon be returning to the United States (although he plans to return to Greece and use it as a jumping off point for Coin Outlet), and Weis will be continuing on his around-the-world trip (next stop, Israel), more will be staying behind to establish a presence in Athens. The group is larger than its leadership, and helping any interested Greeks move their wealth out of the fiat system. They are taking residence in what is called the “cube,” a startup incubator that Dimos described to me as “nine floors of pure innovation and creativity.” The owner, Stavros, seems very bullish on blockchain technology and has, temporarily at least, three bitcoin ATMs there. At least one will stay permanently, or until the authorities kindly ask that it be removed. Grill is working with the tax authorities to establish Coin Outlet in Greece, but that may be a way off yet. I asked Grill if he thought Bitcoin really shined in areas of great strife: “I definitely think Bitcoin shines in instability and turmoil, [...] [The Greek people] are taking money out of the traditional ATMs because they don’t trust their government and they certainly don’t trust the banks.” Some in the bitcoin community may be turned off by the idea of a central trade group like the Athens Bitcoin Coalition. The Bitcoin Foundation, after all, is arguably one of the most unpopular organizations in the community, at least among a certain subset of users. Those fears are misplaced, however. Greece, as mentioned, has had very little built up as far as Bitcoin infrastructure. It needs an organization like this if Bitcoin is to take off there. Bitcoin users love decentralization, but people who are used to centralized systems need a reliable place to find information. It would be nice if there were five or ten or a hundred places for the curious to turn to, but that isn’t the case. With the formation of the Athens Bitcoin group, Greece now has one such organization, and it would behoove the Bitcoin community at large to support them. The birthplace of democracy may be on fire, and the authorities there may be turning a deaf ear towards their people, but from those ashes, a new opportunity is rising. It isn’t enough to simply have a country go through turmoil for Bitcoin to become successful. Someone has to do the leg work, and finally someone is. Dimos described it like this: “We are here to help all the people who want to learn and educate themselves about the incredible technology of the blockchain.” When I visited Greece over a decade ago, a merchant who was trying to sell me traditional Greek garb gave me a drachma penny equivalent. He told me to hold on to it, because the money I had in my pocket at the time, the euro, was fake and wouldn’t last in Greece. I chalked it up as conspiracy talk due to a mix of nationalism and nostalgia, but maybe he saw something the economists at the time didn’t. Maybe he saw the writing on the wall long before the pundits. A return to the drachma as the national currency probably isn’t how this crisis will end. But what that memory says to me, anecdotal as it is, is that some Greeks have been looking for an alternative to the euro for a long time. Perhaps the Bitcoin coalition in Greece can finally provide that. Eric Grill can be followed on Twitter, where he has been Periscoping the protests. His company’s site is coinoutletatm.com. Dimos’ Greek language articles can be found on bitcoin-gr.org and he works for Spartan Route a Bitcoin start up. Thanos can be found at btcgreece.com, which allows Greek citizens to buy and sell bitcoin. Felix Weis’ bitcoin traveler blog can be found here. Stavros runs the Cube, which can be found at thecube.gr and in a physical location in Athens where you might just find a Bitcoin ATM. Anyone wanting to donate their old Android devices to help merchants adopt bitcoin are recommended to either contact Stavros at the Cube or Eric Grill at Coin Outlet. #ATM #CoinOutlet #BTCGreece #Eric Grill #Democracy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1155
__label__cc	0.533797	0.466203	You searched for: Concepts nation Remove constraint Concepts: nation Concepts Believe Remove constraint Concepts: Believe Format Text Remove constraint Format: Text Queen Victoria 2 Sidney Wallach 1 Believe 53 nation 53 necessary 7 This I Believe 53 1. We Can't Just Play with Spools General Hershey laments society's fascination with technological progress and opines that society would be better off if people focused on understanding themselves, others around them and their relationships with one another. 2. The Hole in the Enemy's Armor Lewis Hoskins recalls a time when he was taken prisoner by a chinese soldier while providing humanitarian aid and his ability to find a common humanity and brotherliness with his captor that disarmed the fear and violence of the situation. 3. The Job of Citizenship Genevieve B. Earle remembers the surprise of seeing poverty as a child and how she developed a belief in the benefits of a strong government to promote laws and provide for its citizens although she says that can only happen when the people are engaged as active, equal partners in the work of a city. 4. Our Noble, Essential Decency Robert Heinlein talks about his beliefs in his neighbors--in their kindness and willingness to look out for each other, despite differences in opinions or creeds. 5. The People Know Alfred Landon describes his belief in the ability of people to achieve monumental progress for society, and in the need to maintain a grasp of spiritual and moral truths in the midst of that progress. 6. God Is the Father of All Men Osceola Dawson describes her beliefs in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood and equality of humanity, the Bible as the "infallible guide to conduct," and the home as "the foundation of society." 7. Suffering Is Self-Manufactured Dr. Saul's beliefs are shaped by his experiences in science and he describes his conviction that the fight-or-flight reaction and suffering in childhood can lead to developmental problems as adults; modern society must focus its energy on developing emotionally mature adults for future harmony. 8. A Straight Wall Is Hard to Build Lou Crandall uses the analogy of construction to describe his belief that young people are foundations upon which a strong, straight character must be built, and looks to Biblical characters for examples of steadfast integrity. 9. The Way to Happiness, Understanding and Peace Wilson Compton describes the influence of his Presbyterian parents on his beliefs (including his mother's child-rearing philosophy of "The Bible, soap, and spinach"), and he explains how the Golden Rule is a concept found in all of the major world religions. 10. That Look You Get Joseph Harsch describes his beliefs in the value of always moving forward (rather than stagnating) and in the importance of helping others.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1156
__label__cc	0.532226	0.467774	Other Languages Deutsch Dark matter caused the demise of the dinosaurs? by John G. Hartnett Published: 13 December 2016 (GMT+10) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Dr Lisa Randall is another scientist grasping at dark matter for answers. Dark matter has been invoked to solve many vexing problems in astrophysics and cosmology.1 Now it seems it has been invoked to solve the evolutionists’ problem of extinction of the dinosaurs.2 American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Dr Lisa Randall has developed a breakthrough five dimensional warped geometry theory. About two years ago she proposed a new hypothesis on dark matter which suggests the mysterious invisible substance that allegedly dominates the universe played a role in killing the dinosaurs.3 She even has written a book on it—Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. In the book her new theory is summarised as follows. [A]bout 66 million years ago, gravitational perturbations caused by a thin pancake-shaped disc of dark matter in the Milky Way galaxy dislodged icy comets in the Oort cloud at the very edge of the known solar system, resulting in the fiery meteoroid that eventually crash-landed in the Yucatan, leading to the mass extinction of more than 75 per cent of life on the planet in the process.3 Her radical new theory even posits mass extinctions every 35 million years or so. “I am fully aware that it is speculative,” she says.4 Dinosaurs sell books and she has written a book that needs to be sold. I’d call it a fairytale, except that might be insulting to fairies. To believe that it could even be true takes a lot of faith, which apparently describes Randall. She is reported to be unfazed by the panoply of uncertainties that her new theory incorporates.4 Now let me spell this out. You have the dinosaurs wiped out by an alleged comet dislodged from an alleged Oort cloud, by an alleged perturbation in the gravitational fields near our solar system allegedly 66 million years ago by the action of an alleged disc of putative dark matter. It is only by faith that someone would believe such a tale. There are almost no facts involved in the story. The only one I know is that the dinosaurs once lived on Earth and now do not. Here you have a Harvard theoretical physicist playing to the media. Dinosaurs sell books and she has written a book that needs to be sold. What is most important is the message—getting the message out, do not get lost in the details. The successful evolutionists work with the media to sell their story. It does not matter about the details—the background story that evolution happened on Earth, and in the solar system and elsewhere is the main message. Now dark matter—the hypothesised invisible matter that allegedly comprises 80% or more of the matter content of the Galaxy, yet never observed—has been invoked to solve another vexing problem: what wiped out the dinosaurs? Oh, that answers the question doesn’t it? No, not the majority of dinosaurs that were already extinct before the supposed impact, according to evolutionary ‘dating’ methods.5 That answers the big question in the cosmos: What is dark matter? Doesn’t it? Well no! It does not! Nor does it tell us what happened to the dinosaurs. Noah’s Flood as the main cause of their demise is a far more reasonable explanation. The evidence is plain to see. No dark matter is needed. Did a meteor wipe out the dinosaurs? Has ‘dark matter’ really been proven? No dark matter found in the Milky Way Galaxy Is ‘dark matter’ the ‘unknown god’? The so-called ‘Age of Dinosaurs’ Why is Dark Matter everywhere in the cosmos? Dinosaur Questions and Answers Dinosaurs! Dinosaur extinction- what killed the dinosaurs? Hartnett, J.G., Why is Dark Matter everywhere in the cosmos?, creation.com, 31 March 2015; creation.com/dark-matter-everywhere. Return to text. Whigham, N., How dark matter killed the dinosaurs and why we shouldn’t be racing to colonise Mars, news.com.au, 13 November 2016. Return to text. Basulto, D., What killed the dinosaurs? Dark matter, says theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 2015. Return to text. Davis, N., Dark matter and dinosaurs: meet Lisa Randall, America’s superstar scientist, The Observer, 16 January 2016. Return to text. Geggel, L., Dinosaur decline started long before asteroid impact, livescience.com, 19 April 2016. Return to text. Dragons or Dinosaurs? by Darek Isaacs Exploring Dinosaurs with Mr Hibb by Michael Oard, Tara Wolfe, Chris Turbuck, Gary Bates Guide to Dinosaurs by Brian Thomas and Tim Clarey Dire Dragons by Vance Nelson Dinosaurs and Dragons comic by Duane T Gish Starlight, Time and the New Physics, second edition; updated by Dr John Hartnett AU December 17th, 2016 Did dark matter (DM) also preserve the dinosaurs' soft tissue, blood cells and DNA? And did it implant C14 in their bones in such a way that it would not decay over millions of years? I guess if it did that, it could also have retained images of dinosaurs, which could then be implanted in people's minds millions of years later, allowing those people to draw or carve images of dinosaurs around the world, before any skeletons had been dug up. Pretty fancy stuff, that DM. JP December 15th, 2016 Interesting article! I was just curious though as to why you call this lady's new idea a "theory". If she herself says it is a speculative idea, then how can it qualify as a true scientific theory? Evolutionists often criticise people for saying "But it's only a theory." In this case, it does seem that it is only a theory - and NOT a theory in the scientific sense of the word. It seems evolutionists use the word theory to bolster their speculative ideas and make them more scientific and official sounding. But in reporting on these so called "theories", wouldn't it be better to speak of them as a hypothesis as opposed to a theory? You make a good point. I stand corrected. Gary T. US December 15th, 2016 I must apologize. I couldn't help myself. I started laughing one-third to halfway through that quoted summary of her theory. Dark matter? Oort Cloud? Really?! LOL! Philippus S. "American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Dr Lisa Randall is another scientist grasping at dark matter for answers." Help me out here what is "theoretical physicist and cosmologist " Since when and how can we ever prove them wrong or even correct, if not possible how come the Doctor title? This goes of every Scientist on earth. They have "muddied" the water so badly we don't believe them period. Can anybody tell me we how mankind is helped with space travel, say to Mars and the moon, while parts of our oceans remain undiscovered? Christian R. You can tell evolutionists are desperate for a non-biblical cause for the dinosaurs' demise. Now we're somehow supposed to believe dark matter, which we've never observed and much less understand, made over 65% of life die out at the end of the Cretaceous Period (according to evolutionists). Yep, totally believable. If only they would give the Bible's account of a global Flood and a changing climate after the Flood, the extinction of the dinosaurs and so many other scientific mysteries would be solved! Dan M. I do not have a degree in science but I do have some grey matter sitting on my shoulders, (it has been proven to exist and God gave it to me to use). Evolutionists are always falsely accusing us creationists of appealing to the God of the gaps when we don't have an explanation for a particular phenomenon. Then evolutionists in turn use said methodology to explain the problematic assumptions in their theories using dark matter which has never been observed. This theory, (and I say that with reservation) sounds like more dark matter of the gaps to me? "Speculative", doesn't quite describe my first reaction to her hypothesis, (I agree Dr. H there must be some fairies in there somewhere)? Please explain to me how a single meteor or even many could bury millions of dinosaurs as well as all other living things under billions of tons of earth miles deep? I've been to the grand canyon and have observed the flat pancake like layers perfectly uniform without a single ecosystem in between. Those ecosystems are found in pockets throughout the earth in the form of coal and were obviously uprooted and carried to their present locations by water. Those layers were obviously laid down successively in a short period of time and I don't need a Phd. to see that! Does Dr. Randall want me to believe there were multiple floods that formed those layers over a long period? Forgive me for being so blunt but this hypothesis is a joke among many other evolutionist just so stories, (And Dawkins calls me deluded)! Evolutionists are demeaning real professional science with their just so ridiculous stories but thank The Lord there are some voices of reason out there raised up by him! Bad science irritates me if you couldn't tell! Chuck R. Romans 1:22 - Professing to be wise, they became fools. Eddie C. I was having a discussion with someone about science and faith a few months ago. They invoked dark matter to answer the problem with gravity not being strong enough to hold the universe together. I told him that that dark matter was theoretical and that there is no real proof of its existence. This person spent the rest of the conversation insisting it had been proven to exist. I knew at that point there was no reason to continue to the conversation. Faith in science is taught to be infallible in our schools systems and that presents a problem. There are so many who believe that "settled science" is the truth and that it cannot be questioned. But even beyond what is considered settled, they have so much faith in the minds of scientist that the general public will believe any science article they read is fact. I would be willing to bet that if you put two opposing theories in a magazine, but you did not tell the general public they were opposing theories, most people would believe both of them. It would also appeal to their intellectual side and they would feel superior in their thinking simply for believing what a science article states. Then you could take an article from someone that has spent years studying a subject. Like those here at CMI or at other creation research institutions and those same people would dismiss their articles without even reading them. My point is, no matter how much creation research is done. The battle we are in is a spiritual one. Creation research is a great tool for those willing to hear, but we need to pray for God to open hearts and minds as only he can do. I completely agree with you. It is a spiritual warfare we fight for the minds and souls of men and women. This is why we must pray and use all the weapons at our disposal. GB December 13th, 2016 It is significant that the level of derision directed at 'deep time deniers' is much more appropriately applied to the deriders. What we actually know is that dinosaurs are no longer being fossilized as they were in the past. Also if they are still around they are confined to places which are not readily accessible and where they can most easily hide. The rest of the story reported is not just speculative but fact free. It is clearly allowable for a 'scientist' to invoke a indeterminate number of hypothetical entities provided they are not supernatural. There is no scientific reason for this arbitrary ideological choice. There is however a very definite moral reason which is clearly stated in Romans chapter 1. It's night time now. Is that caused by the descent of dark matter? What a tall tale she spins; fairy tales are more believable. Well put John. Thanks, John. It's amazing how far people's 'faith' can be stretched by such nonsense. "Well, science says so, so it must be true." I've always been leery of the 'dark matter' theory, the existence of other solar systems and even the so-called 'light years' speculation. The big question in all this web of astronomical fakery, is 'where's the Spider?' I think you and I know the answer. A billion years ago, a bucket full of dark matter floated through our region of the universe, and caused a rocky pool of sludge to form dna, proteins and other things necessary to create cells. And each cell had the ability to become more and more detailed with new information. Dark Matter sound like a great faith. No doubt a couple of invisible tables of dark matter appeared under Jesus' feet as he stepped out of the boat, making him capable of walking on water. If only the dark matter would give me the winning lotto numbers too. murk P. CA December 13th, 2016 Any one with a smattering of grade 6 science knows that dark matter only takes the shape of a double cheeseburger. It is laughable to postulate that double cheeseburger shaped dark matter can affect gravity perturbations since this obviously requires a flat pancake shape. I can see clearly now - almost clear enough to see dark matter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1162
__label__cc	0.729588	0.270412	Godly Student Edits by Mainaka Chapter 217: Unfathomable Man “This…” The old man stared at the peaceful water blankly as the water reflected the full moon above the sky. Everything was so peaceful, as if nothing had happened. The old man monitored the whole surface, and in the end, he was still unable to make any head or tails out of the purple light just now. However, there was a bad premonition that kept on growing in his heart. He did not understand if what just happened was it coincidental or was there a reason for it. However, recalling Cheng Yu being struck by his blade, and also being sucked into the swamp, he couldn’t possibly survive, right? Ultimately, the old man brandished his blade a few more times, sending a few strikes at Cheng Yu that had been absorbed by the water before he felt at ease. After that, he flew off. “My god! What exactly happened just now?” The old man left, and only then did everyone turn sober. “Right! What was that purple light just now? How come the water would emit lights? It’s truly too weird.” “Could it be that there’s an expert hiding within the swamp?” Someone said unsure of what had just happened. “Nonsense! Have you heard of any expert that originated from the swamp before?” “This is hard to say. The world is so vast, so nothing is too bizarre. The amount of cultivation techniques are countless. Perhaps, there might be an immortal who once cultivated in this swamp?” “Then, you should quickly jump down. Perhaps, he might even accept you as his disciple, passing you a supreme technique, helping you immediately obtain enlightenment!” “Haha! That’s right. You should jump down and have a try. Perhaps, these alligators were raised by him. In the future, it all belongs to you!” Everyone laughed. “Che!” That person was speechless. He quickly returned to his resting spot. “Senior Sister Ning Yan, would an unusual treasure emerge in Death Forest?” A delicate female asked the beautiful one who was in front leading them. “Junior Sister Wushuang, Teacher’s Flowers Astrology Technique already attained the realm of mastery. I believe that in the whole Cultivation World, in terms of astrology techniques, no one can be compared to our teacher. Since teacher calculated that there would be an unusual treasure emerging in Death Forest, it’s definitely true,” The pretty lady who was addressed as Senior Sister Ning Yan replied affirmatively. “Then, teacher told Senior Sister the place where the treasure would be born?” Ning Wushuang asked inquisitively. Originally, Ning Wushuang was supposed to be at home accompanying her father, but a few days ago, Senior Sister Ning Yan had brought a group of senior and junior sisters to Ningshui City, informing her that teacher had asked Wushuang to follow them to leave for Death Forest to seek treasure. So, Ning Wushuang and the others appeared here within Death Forest. “Hehe! Junior Sister Wushuang, the astrology trigrams technique is not that mystical. To be able to calculate the rough location of the treasure could already be counted as terrific. To know the exact location, in these boundless skies, what treasures could be found so easily?” Senior Sister Ning Yan smiled. “Hehe! Junior Sister Wushuang is so cute. Teacher doted on you so much. In the future, she might pass you the astrology technique. Perhaps, you might be able to locate the exact location of the treasures. When the time comes, our Huaxian Valley would no longer lack of any treasures,” Another pretty lady smiled. “Senior Sister Ning Xue, why are you teasing me again!” Ning Wushuang blushed as she patted Ning Xue’s arm as she said coquettishly. “Haha! What I said is true,” Ning Xue laughed. “Oh right. Senior Sister, since teacher knew that the treasure would be born here, why didn’t teacher come and take it herself? With her ability, it should be easy for her to obtain this treasure. Isn’t it?” Ning Wushuang asked confusedly. “Teacher once said before that the Death Forest’s core is very mysterious. Only cultivators that are blow the Nascent Soul Realm are able to enter,” Ning Yan explained. “I am not sure. Teacher didn’t say. In any case, when the treasure appears, the other sects people will also appear. When we seize the treasure, we must also be careful of being plotted against by others,” Ning Yan reminded everyone. “Senior Sister, look. There’s a lot of people there. What are those people doing?” Ning Zi suddenly pointed to the front. “Short grass is a type of grass that’s grown in the Death Swamp. It’s the only way to get past Death Swamp. Without it, the alligators in this swamp would attack us. Those people should be looking for the method to cross this swamp.” “Then should we tell them the method?” Ning Wushuang said. “No. The ten great sects agreed that this secret must never be divulged. Short grass is not only the way to get past this swamp, but it’s also the reason why these purple alligators do not dare to come ashore. If everyone knew this secret, when the time comes, all the short grass would be plucked out, then it would lead to a succession of troubles and danger.” “Then if someone not from the ten great sects knew, wouldn’t they expose it?” “Humans are selfish. They are fully aware that opposite has countless treasures, so why would he share it with others? Therefore, presently speaking, there is no need for us to worry about this secret being divulged. If they had the ability, they would naturally be able to find the method to get past this swamp. If they can’t, then it only means that they are incapable,” Ning Yan explained everything to her junior sisters. “So it’s like that!” Everyone realized what was happening as they nodded their heads. “Weird! Why is it like this? Why is the water and these purple lotuses no longer purple?” The few of them arrived at the edge of the swamp, Ning Yan and Ning Xue as well as those who had come to Death Forest before suddenly said. “Senior Sister, what’s wrong?” Ning Wushuang asked curiously. “This swamp water and the lotuses on it are supposed to be purple. But the water and lotuses now became normal. This is too weird.” “Come, everyone place this short grass on first!” Ning Yan looked at her surroundings. After that, she quickly harvested a few stems of short grass and distributed it to her sisters. After that she said, ”Let’s go, and ask those people over there what exactly happened.” “Fellow Cultivator,” Ning Yan brought everyone to the front of a cultivator and asked. “…” When the male heard the gentle and clear voice, he turned around and saw a group of pretty ladies. Immediately, he was stunned. “Hello…hello…” Ning Yan saw his expression, so she frowned lightly as she called out twice. There were some traces of discontentment in her tone. “Ah! Oh! I’m Guo Quanming. May I know what matter fairy has?” The male recovered, he quickly retrieved his gaze and said hastily. “Cultivator, do you know what happened to this swamp? Why did the water and lotuses turn normal?” Ning Yan withdrew her discontentment and asked once more. “Fairy, you have asked the right person. I truly know of this. Furthermore, I witnessed everything with my own eyes,” Hearing the fairy’s words, the man immediately got excited. “Oh? Then can you tell me what exactly happened?” Ning Yan and the others were also extremely curious. “This incident happened yesterday night. Yesterday night, there was a cultivator called Cheng Yu and a Golden Core expert fighting!” The man collected his thoughts before explaining slowly. “Cheng Yu?!” At this moment, Ning Wushuang suddenly cried out in astonishment. “Junior Sister, you know of this person named Cheng Yu?” Ning Xue asked curiously. “You said that this Cheng Yu fought with a Golden Core expert? Then where is he? Where’s he now?” Ning Wushuang nodded her head at Ning Xue. After that, she asked the man excitedly. “This…this, I believe…should be…probably…dead!” The man saw that the lady had become so excited, he thought that Cheng Yu was her sweetheart. While being jealous of Cheng Yu, at the same time he was also afraid of hurting this pretty lady’s heart as he stuttered and said. “What should be and probably. Alive means alive, dead means dead. Be clear!” When she saw Ning Wushuang tense up, Ning Xue knew that the duo’s relationship shouldn’t be shallow. With her eyebrows erect, she asked resentfully. “This…then he ought to be dead,” The man hesitated for a while before saying. “Dead?” Ning Wushuang had no idea how to describe her current feelings. Previously, Cheng Yu had taken liberties of her, according to reason, she should be happy that he was dead. But currently, she did not feel any happiness at all. In contrast, there was a kind of indescribable loneliness and sorrow. Previously, after Cheng Yu had fought bitterly with Kunlun and left with injuries, Ning Wushuang was extremely worried, but never did she expect that he would be fine. But now, he was actually killed by someone. This kind of feeling, she truly had no way of describing it. “Junior Sister, a dead person can’t be revived. Accept the situation and move on,” Ning Xue saw Ning Wushuang had turned blank, as if she could no longer control her feelings. So, she opened her mouth and consoled her. “Then can you tell me what’s going on with the water and the lotuses?” Ning Yan quickly changed the topic and asked. “It’s like this, when Cheng Yu was struck into the swamp by the Golden Core expert, the Golden Core expert was about to send another sword strike at Cheng Yu. It was at this moment when something extraordinary happened. Purple light rushed up to the sky from the swamp, blocking the sword strike of the Golden Core expert. However, a big whirlpool suddenly appeared in this swamp, sucking Cheng Yu in. Therefore, I said Cheng Yu should be dead. How could there possibly be someone alive within the swamp? Besides, he was suffering from severe injuries. And when we woke up today, the water and lotuses, and even the alligators had also faded away in their colors,” The man splattered his saliva as he spoke frankly with assurance. His mood was fired up, as if he had experienced it himself. “So you are saying you did not see Cheng Yu’s corpse?” Ning Xue asked. “This…yeah. However, the swamp was completely filled with alligators. If there aren’t ten thousand, there should at least be eight thousand. How could Cheng Yu be alive?” That man thought and said. “Alright. Thank you,” Understanding the situation, Ning Yan brought her sister and left. “Aish, so many fairies, truly goddesses. If she could be my dao companion, how blessed would that be. Even if I had to cut my life short for tens of years, I would also be willing,” The man looked at Ning Yan’s dainty rear view, as he shook his head and sighed. “Dream on. She is one of the glamorous beauties in Huaxian Valley, Fairy Ning Yan. How can she possibly fancy you, a low cultivation loose cultivator?” At this moment, a few men walked over and sneered. “What? She’s Huaxian Valley Fairy Ning Yan? Heard that she is already a Golden Core Realm expert. I never expected that she is actually so amiable and approachable,” The man revealed a thirsty expression once again. “Junior Sister Wushuang, don’t be sad. Since the incident already happened, we can only let nature take its course,” Along the way, Ning Yan saw the talkative Ning Wushuang had turned silent, so she tried to console her. “Hehe! Thank you, Senior Sister. I caused you all to be worried. I’m fine,” Ning Wushuang forced a smile. “Junior Sister, can you tell us what your relationship with him is? Is he your eye-candy?” Ning Xue saw Wushuang had finally spoke, so she wanted to make Wushuang feel a bit happier. “Nah. It’s just strangers coming together by chance,” Ning Wushuang blushed as she shook her head. “Strangers coming together by chance? You’re lying right. Looking at how love struck you are, how could it possibly be strangers coming together by chance?” “Really, I only met him once.” “Met him once? Could it be love at first sight?” Ning Xue joked once again. “How can it be? He’s just a bstrd. I only wish to personally kill him off myself,” Hearing her senior sisters laughing, Ning Wushuang’s mood was a lot better, as if she had returned to the day when she was fighting Cheng Yu. “Really? Bstrd? It seems like he swindled our pretty and adorable Junior Sister Wushuang’s heart away. However, I am also very curious, why would he provoke a Golden Core expert. I quite admire his boldness,” Ning Xue said curiously. “He is a unfathomable man.” Siegfred22 harem is going to increase again.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1163
__label__cc	0.573086	0.426914	Re: Sword Emperor Joins the Fray – Interview with Shesmu In by George Bakerson May 7, 2019 Leave a Comment Link to Novel: Here Q: Hello everyone! Time for another interview. Today I am joined by our latest author, Shesmu. Welcome. Please introduce yourself to the audience. A: Howdy! My name is Shesmu and I’m best known in the author community for my unending rants. I have been writing consistently for about four months now, but I have been going in and out for about four years. My hobbies span from basketball to gaming to writing poems to learning about linguistics and science. Of course, I also like to read a lot, but that’s a staple for most writers. Q: With intros out of the way, let’s dive right in with your novel. What is it called? A: Re: Sword Emperor Q: And what is it about? A: The story revolves about the main character, Shesmu (I swear I didn’t name him after myself. It was the opposite!). He is thrown through no choice of his own ten years back in time. Everything he worked for, every relationship he had, his friends, his lover, none of that means anything anymore. Fortunately, he knows where he can find them. Into Ashes of Gods he dives. Q: Interesting stuff and this leads us nicely to the next question: what inspired you to write this sort of story? A: Well, this story has some shady origins. I’m sure that most people are familiar with Reincarnation of The Strongest Sword God. Back in its Gravity Tales days, it was racking up $20k+ a month. Young me looking at those numbers thought, It’s free real estate! So, I tried writing kinda a copy of that, since there weren’t many of the sorts in the market. In the end, 20 chapters in, I look at my story and I can find only one word to describe it: Trash! Thus, I did what any sane author would do: Stop updating the story that racked up more views than any of my other attempts combined and stay off the internet for six months. During that period, I got to know my characters better. I got introduced to many acquaintances of my MC, got to know about them, what happened in their lives and all sort of stuff. I also wrote notes about what happened to my MC in his childhood, what were his parents like? Was he bullied? What friends did he have that he no longer talks with and what were their impact? I thought about all of this stuff that would never ever make it to the actual story, but it paid off in the end. My characters finally became real. Q: Have you faced any hardships? If so, tell us of any experiences. A: Well, I think any author faces the same kind of hardship every single day. For some it’s 17.00, for others it’s 19.30, but everyone has “I should start writing that chapter” time, and almost every author dreads it. It’s not because we hate writing or anything. In fact, most of us love it (we wouldn’t be doing it if we didn’t). But it comes with the heavy burden of fan’s expectation, are they going to like the direction that I’m going to take? Will they understand all of this foreshadowing that I’m putting or are they just going to push it as “the author is being a noob again”? And sometimes, it’s just guilt. Guilt that we are not offering more, guilt that we’re procrastinating watching youtube rather than writing more for our fans. That gets to you after a while. Q: Have you developed a certain quirk or habit when you write? A: Not a new habit, but an old one was definitely accentuated. For the longest time, whenever I would walk alone I would start imagining all kinds of scenarios. What if you were waiting in a queue, and that queue never ends? I would run with that and make a whole story in my mind while walking towards the nearest grocery store. Then, before I even notice, I’m opening my wallet and paying for my chocolate bar. Q: Do you have any advice for aspiring authors? A: Do it. Don’t worry about it, you don’t have that right yet, just do it. Tell us your story, no matter how trashy your grammar is or how bad the structure will be, just write something. So many people worry about events that will happen 100 chapters down the line when 99% of them will never reach 5. I could sit here all day and tell you everything that there is to say, but only you can do it. I can’t do it instead of you. Q: Ok, final and my favorite question. What’s the origin of your pen/author name? A: Well, I think that as you might have noticed, it’s the name of my main character. Now, it wasn’t supposed to be this way. I didn’t just make up the name of my main character and thought to myself “Hey, that sounds cool, I’ll make that my pen name!” No, it was because my earlier author name was so cringing that my friend, Eldaryon, forced me to change it. It was Kazumi, a name I took for myself when I was fourteen and stuck with me for a good chunk of my life. I later used that name for a character in my story, who started out as comic relief. It was an inside joke between me and my irl friend about how I based his character off mine four to five years ago. Q: Tell us a joke. A: [Insert unexpected correlation] (Can we consider that a joke? Oh well). That’s it for the interview. Thank you again for joining us and we hope your new novel is a success	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1164
__label__cc	0.545122	0.454878	Relapsing Urinary Catheter Bleeding with Triple Antithrombotic Therapy in an Elderly Patient with ACS, PCI and A-fib: A Case Report Michael AB Naafs* Dutch Internist Endocrinologist, Netherlands *Corresponding author: Michael AB Naafs, Dutch Internist Endocrinologist, Health Consultant at Naafs, International Health Consultancy, Netherlands Submission: December 06, 2018;Published: December 13, 2018 In this case report an 89-year-old man is described with relapsing gross hematuria under new antithrombotic triple therapy for ACS, PCI and A-fib in the presence of a double-J-stent and bladder catheter, a complex therapeutic challenge. Hospital admissions of these patients already rise over 120.000 a year in the U.S. Antithrombotic agents are among the most commonly prescribed medications for older adults. Oral anticoagulants, including the new non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are indicated for primary and secondary prevention of stroke and systemic embolism, as well as treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE), atrial fibrillation (A-fib) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Antiplatelet agents are agents indicated for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In the last decade more patients, particularly elderly, use dual or triple antithrombotic therapy in cases of NSTEMI (non-ST elevation myocardial infarction), ACS and PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention). Bleeding risk is greatly increased with these new antithrombotic regimens. Published trials have focused on intracranial hemorrhage, gastrointestinal bleeding and all cause bleeding as adverse events. Gross hematuria as adverse effect of NOACs has not been examined as the primary outcome in published trials of patients treated with NOACs in combination with antiplatelet agents [1]. In this case report an elderly male patient is described with relapsing gross urinary catheter bleeding under the simultaneous use of aspirin, clopidogrel (Plavix) and apixaban (Eliquis), so called triple antithrombotic therapy. The patient is an 89- year old frail men with an extensive atherosclerotic vascular history including femoral artery stenting for PAD, PCI, hypertension and vascular Parkinsonism complicated by multiple aspiration pneumonias. End stage kidney disease is caused by an atherosclerotic shrinkage kidney on right side. A double J-stent was inserted at the left together with a bladder catheter for urinary retention caused by BPH (benign prostate hypertrophy) and levodopa use to maintain GFR at 20ml/min/1.73m2. J-stent and bladder catheter changes were mostly complicated and led frequently to traumatic bleeding under the use of clopidogrel and aspirin. few weeks ago, a new admission for an aspiration pneumonia complicated by rapid atrial fibrillation and subsequent NSTEMI with new PCI for an occluded old coronary stent was necessary. According to the present guidelines and consensus apixaban 5mg 2 times daily was added to acetylsalicylic acid 100mg daily and clopidogrel 75mg daily, establishing modern triple antithrombotic therapy thereby. After a new admission 1 week later for traumatic bleeding following a complicated J-stent change under general anesthesia of 3 hours the patient went home. Restarting full antithrombotic therapy at home led to gross hematuria within 2 days. Following the GP and urologist advice clopidrogrel and Eliquise were stopped and he was advised to drink a lot of water. Urine became blank after 2 days and stayed blank also for 2 days after reinstituting clopidogrel. When Eliquise was taken again massive urinary catheter occurred within 24 hours. All antithrombotic agents were stopped temporarily for a few days and apixaban will not be restarted again. Acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin) and clopidogrel (Plavix) are platelet aggregation inhibitors used in the treatment of NSTEMI, unstable angina pectoris, ACS, STEMI/ACS, TIA, PAD (peripheral arterial disease, CVA and atrial fibrillation (A-fib). The risk of hematuria is between 0,1%-1,0%. Both prolong bleeding time. Apixaban is a NOAC that inhibits directly factor Xa (FXa) and reduces the generation of thrombin and thereby attenuates its thrombotic effects. Bleeding under Eliquis can be reversed by a 2-hour infusion of Andexxa, a recombinant human FXa, when bleeding is life-threatening or doesn’t react on stopping apixaban [2]. Although triple therapy with acetylsalicylic acid, clopidogrel and apixaban is tricky with an accumulated risk of bleeding of 15% this treatment can be indicated and necessary in patients with an ACS and PCIs [3]. Following percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) antiplatelet agents are required to prevent-in-stent-thrombosis which has a mortality rate of 50% to 70%. Additional atrial fibrillation may also require therapy with a NOAC as apixaban [4-6]. Although the benefits of triple antithrombotic therapy in selected patients seem greater than the bleeding risk, the balance of this cocktail remains very delicate in the elderly. Maintaining this treatment for the advised 6-12 months can be very difficult, especially in elderly patients with urinary catheters or double -J ureter stents or both as this case report shows. Steffel J, Verhamme P, Potpora TS, Albaladejo P, Antz M, et al. (2018) The 2018 European heart rhytm association Practical Guide on the use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation. Eur Heart J 39(16): 1330-1393. Siegal DM, Curmutte JT, Conolly SJ, Lu G, Conley PB, et al. (2015) Andexanet alfa for the reversal of factor Xa inhibitor activity. N Engl J Med 373: 2413-2424. Sorensen R, Gislason R (2014) Triple antithrombotic therapy: Risky but sometimes necessary. Rev Esp Cardiol 67: 171-175. Janardan J, Gibbs H (2018) Combining anticoagulation and antiplatelet drugs in coronary artery disease. Austr Prescr 41(4): 111-115. Beneivenga L, Komici K, Gorbi G, Cittadini A, Ferrara N, et al. (2018) The management of combined antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: A particularly complex challenge especially in the elderly. Front Physiol 9: 876. O Riordan M (2018) New consensus statement: NOAC and clopidogrel for most A-fib patients treated with PCI. tctMD/The Heartbeat. © 2018 Michael AB Naafs. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1166
__label__wiki	0.843324	0.843324	Archive for Tom Stoppard “Maintain Visual Contact!” Posted in FILM, literature with tags Albert Finney, Daniel Bruhl, David Strathairn, Edgar Ramirez, George Nolfi, Joan Allen, Julia Styles, King Lear, Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, Peter Brook, Robert Ludlum, Scott Glenn, Scott Z Burns, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Holcroft Covenant, Tom Stoppard, Tony Gilroy on May 16, 2018 by dcairns Some computer-jockey actually yells that in THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM. He’s having a laugh: director Paul Greengrass is going all-out this time to stop his enemies, the audience, from getting a fix on what the hell is going on in his violently unstable frame. He apparently went so far as to tell his camera operators that if they ever felt like violently reframing a shot, looking at something else, or just messing up the composition, they should do it. A producer opined to me that camera operators, as a breed, if empowered to do whatever they want, will tend to offer up a stable, eloquent and graceful composition, so I think there’s a sense that Greengrass is nudging them towards this chaotic approach pretty sharply. What makes the idea dumb is that you can TELL the operator is edging around, not to get a better view, but to get a WORSE view, so unlike in THE IPCRESS FILE, we don’t get a feeling of covert surveillance, but one of filmmakers mucking about. He doesn’t go THIS far very often, thankfully. This reminds me of Peter Brook’s back-of-the-head shots in his KING LEAR, intended to fill in spaces whe”re the text is enough,” and any imagery would be too much. A pathetic idea, I always thought, an abdication of the filmmaker’s job, which is to find the right image the way a writer chooses le mot juste. Brook’s choice, like Greengrass’s here, has one main effect, which is to make the viewer wonder what’s gone wrong. Having said that, I enjoyed this film more than its predecessors. It has a number of completely joyless, garbled fights and chases, but towards the end also delivers the best punch-up and the best car chase in the original trilogy (which has since sprouted two more films). The sequence of Bourne leaping from window to window in Tangiers, crossing streets a storey or more above ground level, is slightly absurd but very dynamic, with the abrupt changes of angle and movement forcing the eye to work hard but not quite defeating our ability to make sense of what we’re seeing. Was Robert Ludlum obsessed with The Guardian newspaper? John Frankenheimer and George Axelrod’s gloriously ludicrous film of Ludlum’s THE HOLCROFT COVENANT has Anthony Andrews as a journalist who writes “brilliant but mysterious articles on international finance for the Guardian.” Here we have Paddy Considine as a hapless hack who gets in over his head and becomes for Bourne the equivalent of the Act 1 Girl in a Roger Moore Bond film, fated to be unceremoniously offed to create a bit of jeopardy and establish the baddie’s credentials. There’s also David Strathairn, Scott Glenn (moving sideways from NASA and the FBI to the CIA), Daniel Bruhl, Albert Finney, and the return of Julia Styles and Joan Allen. Edgar Ramirez, so striking in CARLOS, is almost invisible here as a thug, as the talented Karl Urban was in the previous film. Regular series scribe Tony Gilroy is credited with “screen story,” making me wonder what the source novel contributed, and various other hands (Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi, an uncredited-as-usual Tom Stoppard) make this the film with the best dialogue and plot twists too. There’s also a furious amount of retconning — the second film already changed Bourne from a man who refused to be an assassin, to one who actually completed several missions, and now we find out he volunteered to be brainwashed in the first place. The flashbacks, shot with a deliberately malfunctioning camera, make the brainwashing look like waterboarding, adding “contemporary relevance,” which is commendable I guess, but left me unconvinced that drowning someone is good training to set them up for a career in homicide. Plus we learn that Julia Styles was Bourne’s lover before he chose to be brainwashed by Daddy Warbucks (Finney’s mishmash accent contains stray bits of John Huston) — so this is basically THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND with added punching. Three Three Mens Posted in FILM, literature, Television with tags Adrienne Corri, David Tomlinson, Edmund Breon, Eric Williams, Graham Cutts, Hanging a PIcture, Jerome K Jerome, Jill Ireland, Jimmy Edwards, Ken Annikin, Laurence Harvey, Lisa Gastoni, Michael Palin, Percy Shelley, PG Wodehouse, Shirley Eaton, Stephen Frears, Stephen Moore, The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Three Men in a Boat, Tim Curry, Tom Stoppard on May 26, 2017 by dcairns To say nothing of the dog. So, the first of my book fair purchases to be consumed was Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat, which proved extremely rewarding. I love the film of JKJ’s THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK, and this has some of the same peculiarity. As with a lot of literary works one hasn’t read, perhaps especially comic novels, one forms a false impression of what to expect. Here, the slapstick, bickering, stupidity, falling-in-the-water stuff and the good-old-days Victorian atmosphere do make up aspects of the book, but there’s a lot of surprising material alongside it, and anyway the expected content isn’t quite how you expect it: the novel was a contemporary work, so the period detail, in a sense, isn’t; and the slapstick, being delivered by words, gains subtlety. None of the boating mishaps seem like they’d be particularly amusing to actually watch, it’s all in the telling. And the film adaptations bear this out, dreadfully. I haven’t been able to see 1915’s HANGING A PICTURE, produced by and starring one Eric Williams, which adapts one episode of the book, nor the 1920 full adaptation, which seem interesting chiefly because they’re so close in period to the novel. As with Wodehouse, making a lot of effort to create a period look seems antithetical to the easy charm of the source. (I’m not certain if either of these films survive.) So the 1933 film, directed by Graham Cutts, Hitchcock’s old bête noir, has a certain advantage. As the opening images unspooled — a phantom ride floating down a sun-dappled Thames — I thought, “Well, this is the right mood.” That lasted as long as the credits. In the spirit of the misbegotten JEEVES films starring Arthur Treacher, which turned Wodehouse’s super-brain into a bumbling duffer, Cutts’ film proceeds to get everything perfectly wrong. The actors are sort of capable, but the decision has been made to make one of them the straight man hero type, always having the horse-laugh on his pals. Which isn’t like the book, but also isn’t an appealing dynamic. Jerome, democratically includes himself in most of the acts of silliness in the novel, and though he regards himself as less fatheaded than his pals, a lot of his humour is about reading between the lines, so that he can show that he’s capable of being just as foolish as his travelling companions, and also that they each have the same false sense of superiority. This is so much more wittily ironic than the movie’s approach. The novel has no plot save its journey. The film tries so hard to have a plot, it forgets to have a journey. The hapless holidaymakers basically park their boat, get out, and have misadventures with a pretty girl, her bad-tempered uncle, the local constabulary, and the truculent locals. This all makes a liar out of the title. In fact, there isn’t much to recognise from the novel — a man sits in butter and has to have it scraped from the seat of his trousers, and there’s the bit where three fishermen claim credit for a big trout hung on a pub wall. And there’s a dog, but it’s the wrong breed, belongs to the wrong man, and is used for cuteness. The disreputable Montmorency of the book, a memorable literary dog, is nowhere to be found. The language is interesting: George (Edmund Breon — never heard of him) says “You arse” and “stop arsing about.” When he and Harris (William Austin — nope) get on their faces, the charming leading lady (Iris March — I know, there shouldn’t BE a leading lady) says they look “like nigger minstrels.” The N word does appear in the book once, also, in one of those moments that makes you pause a bit. Purely because it’s 1933, which nobody involved really deserves credit for, this terrible film feels a bit more “right” that Romulus Films’ 1956 version, directed by Ken Annikin. The choice of composer, John Addison, is the smartest thing about it. Let’s state the obvious: to film Three Men in a Boat, first choose your three men. With care. So here we have Jimmy Edwards as Harris, which is the wrong man — George is the fattish one. But that doesn’t really matter, except — WHY CHANGE IT? But Edwards had his own handlebar moustache, and a sort of music-hall tang, and looks good in a blazer and straw boater. He’ll do. David Tomlinson is cast as Jay, which again is the wrong person for him to play. He can play the silly ass just as well as Edwards, and might have made a good Harris. But he can’t suggest Jay’s soulfulness, he can’t suggest that this man might write this book. The film “solves” this by removing the book’s strangeness (the bits that mark it out as by the same author as The Passing of the Third Floor Back), its historical asides, its poetry. Everything that leavens the dicking around in boats, in fact. And then, because it’s a Romulus production, and producer James Woolf was hopelessly in love with him, we have Laurence Harvey. Maybe the worst piece of casting in history. I can actually imagine Harvey as Jay, underplaying the soulful bit. But here he’s George, no longer fat, now an unreformable babe-hound (and the film supplies a roster of babes — Jill Ireland, Lisa Gastoni, Shirley Eaton and Adrienne Corri), and he overplays horribly, as he was wont to do when the material was unsuitable. Chasing girls is very much not a theme of the book. Both these movies regard that as a problem to be solved. And so here’s Shirley Eaton stepping from a bath, offering a peekaboo glimpse of her sodden fleshings. You couldn’t go anywhere in Britain in the late 50s/early 60s without tripping over Shirley’s damp body stockings or her gilt breast-cones from GOLDFINGER. All of which gives hammy Laurence even more to get excited about. So there’s a lot of shouting with these three (the book has a restful feel of “perspiring bluster recollected in tranquillity”), and a repeated tic of having them DESCRIBE whatever supposedly funny thing has just happened (“You’ve DROPPED it in the WATER!”) that certainly doesn’t help anything. And although this one reproduces several of the events of the novel, it misses the tone completely, and although unlike the 1933 film it DOES centre on a journey into the Heart of Lightness, Annikin pretty well forgets to drift downstream — that opening shot of the b&w movie is never evoked by his stodgy, static, Cinemascope shots. (In fairness — the 1933 MEN survives only in a very jumpy, spliced print, while the 1956 one can be seen on Youtube but in a wretched pan-and-scan, which certainly can’t help.) The best English-language adaptation (there’s a 1961 German transposition which sounds pretty bad) is certainly the 1975 BBC version, scripted by Tom Stoppard, directed by Stephen Frears, and starring Tim Curry (Jay), Michael Palin (Harris) and Stephen Moore (George). They should have chased up Vyvyan Stanshell, I feel, but this is a fine trio. Best of all, they’re all deadpan — Curry plays it like Brideshead Revisited, Palin plays it like Ripping Yarns — and he’s a marvellous actor for using the frame in comic ways, as scene in the Hampton Court Maze scene, staged properly as a flashback here. He’s also the best at falling over, and he makes sure to do this a lot. One of the few laughs in the Annikin film is the pineapple tin bit, reproduced from the novel, but this limply rendered, based solely on the idea of three idiots without a tin opener trying to get at the sugary fruit with blunt instruments. JKJ gets FAR more comic value out of it than that ~ We beat it out flat; we beat it back square; we battered it into every form known to geometry — but we could not make a hole in it. Then George went at it, and knocked it into a shape, so strange, so weird, so unearthly in its wild hideousness, that he got frightened and threw away the mast. There’s this odd pre-Lovecraftian sense of the uncanny in English comic writing — think of Bertie Wooster’s reaction to the cow-creamer. And Stoppard goes still further, setting up the slapstick with a set of wonderfully precise tributes to the desirable qualities of tinned fruit ~ “Nothing quite like tinned pineapple.” “Puts fresh pineapple in the shade.” “It’s the juice.” “It’s more of a syrup, really. It’s not exactly sweet. It’s not exactly bitter.” “It’s the way it’s not exactly crunchy, and yet it’s firm, and clean-tasting.” “Where’s the opener?” Poignant! The TV version isn’t perfect. It truncates a few things that would only have really worked if done whole, includes a few things it could have done without, and of course has to leave out lots. But it’s sensibly short, at just an hour — plotless things being trick to sustain for longer. And Stoppard is the only one of the various writers to have tackled the book who can not only adapt ready-made bits, but make up new material that feels JKJ-ish (while also being pure Stoppard, as when the careless heroes collide with an anachronistic Percy Bysshe Shelley). And of course he includes some of the strange bits of poetry and tonal shifts. It’s pretty well worth watching, but not so much as the book is worth reading. It was a glorious night. The moon had sunk and left the quiet earth alone with the stars. It seemed as if, in the silence and the hush, while we her children slept, they were talking with her, their sister — conversing of mighty mysteries too vast and deep for childish human ears to catch the sound. They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear. We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god the have been taught to worship but know not; and, standing where the echoing dome spans the long vista of the shadowy light, glance up, half hoping, half afraid to see some awful vision hovering there. And yet it seems so full of comfort and of strength, the night. In its great presence, our small sorrows creep away, ashamed. The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone. Posted in FILM with tags Adelaide Clemens, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brazil, For Maddox Ford, Jonathan Pryce, Parade's End, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Rufus Sewell, Suzanna White, Tom Stoppard on August 15, 2014 by dcairns We really enjoyed Parade’s End, a big prestige heritage BBC thing, which probably shows how middle-aged we are becoming. It gets off to a shaky start, mind you — we found it genuinely hard to make sense of the tone, which fluctuated between broad, uncomfortable comedy and serious drama. By the end of the fifth part, this confusion has vanished, however, and director Suzanna White, scenarist Tom Stoppard and the cast can whisk you from stark WWI tragedy to a kind of CATCH 22 comedy of insanity, a transition as stark as the crosscutting between trench warfare and opulent dinners in country houses. The going is tricky at first, though. Rufus Sewell, as a mad vicar, is creepily funny and sad, but some inappropriate comedy music nudges the scenes of British social awkwardness — the reverend is apt to shout out obscenities at the most inapposite moments — into really misguided terrain. And for a long time star Concordian Bumblethatch Bomberduck Kennydutch Benedict Cumberbatch seems quite miscast, not heavy and stolid enough to embody the wise, stout, painfully honorable protag. This leads Cumberbatch to adopt a Churchillian lower lip thrust which sits oddly on his face, making him look a bit like Beaker from The Muppet Show. Since at least the time of the TV Our Mutual Friend, directors have felt obliged to show how modern they are when doing BBC “mastepiece theater” stuff, and White is guilty of some inexplicable optical effects creating a kaleidoscope of refracted images — this echoes the show’s title sequence, but otherwise feels unmotivated and show-offy. Everything else is very effective, except for a cut to a sweeping crane shot at the end of Ep. 1, which yanks us away from an affecting bit in which Cumberbatch weeps on a horse. I was just getting ready to feel all moved, and then the director had to get in the way. Rebecca Hall, as the ultimate bitch goddess, tormenting wife to Cumberbatch, is magnificent from the get-go, and that’s what kept us interested. We came for Hall and stayed for Hall and everybody else. Roger Allam is extremely funny as a buffoonish general — remember how good he was as, basically, Christopher Hitchens in V FOR VENDETTA? And Adelaide Clemens, one of those Australians who can do anything, is a delight. Rupert Everett is great — the beard suits. Everyone’s great. And the kaleidoscope effects are mainly discarded and we get one of those epic dramas that really uses its sweep and runtime to get deeper into the characters, or at least give them more body and duration and call on our affections. The miniseries might be the best form for doing this outside of the novel. Long series always end disappointingly, but minis are sustainable — somebody can cram the whole story into their head and see that it actually works. Not having read Ford Maddox Ford, original author, I wondered how much Stoppard invented. I expect it’s pretty faithful. But one striking bit seemed to chime with an earlier TS project. Around episode 4 the hero is truly shafted — a series of incidents and misunderstandings and gossip and false reports have seen him blamed for pretty much everything that’s gone wrong for everyone in the story — he’s supposed to be a serial adulterer with a love child and two mistresses and dubious loyalty to his homeland. Absolutely none of it is true, but the pieces of his ruin have been carefully hidden in previous episodes. I remembered BRAZIL, how at the story’s end, Sam Lowrie (Joanathan Pryce) appears in the eyes of the authorities as a dangerous terrorist, all due to a series of administrative errors and misunderstandings. I wonder if Stoppard actually borrowed the idea from FMF. It’s beautully done, anyway.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1167
__label__wiki	0.810408	0.810408	HomeDCN EventsSan Diego Comic Con 2017Season 4 of THE FLASH Is Amping Up “The Fun”! San Diego Comic Con 2017 /JC Alvarez /SDCCseason 4The CWthe Flash Season 4 of THE FLASH Is Amping Up “The Fun”! share on:FacebookTwitter Tumblr After running circles around his adversaries for three seasons, when THE FLASH returns in the fall the series’ producers are promising to tone down the threat level agenda and get back to some fast times with more fun! After engaging audiences and reconnecting with their fanbase at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, true believers dedicated to keeping up with The CW hit action series The Flash were promised that the biggest change coming in Season 4 will be to “Have fun again”! Certainly after dealing with consequences of “FlashPoint” and the godlike menace of Savitar, an arc which concluded with the demise of one of the team’s inner circle, it would be great to get back to the humor and heart that engages viewers week after week. Just how the showrunners will manage to pull that off, especially with Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) making the ultimate sacrifice and assume a place of penance inside the Speed Force at the end of Season 3 — but that’s what happens when you mess with space/time — will be an interesting launching point for the show when it returns in the fall. Todd Helbing the show’s executive producer revealed at SDCC that the first episode entitled “Rebirth” will set a clear tone. “Last year,” Helbing said in an interview at SDCC, “we showed Iris die in the future, to keep up that doom and gloom, it becomes a burden.” The storyline which featured Barry’s confrontation with his own future-self, a godlike being who becomes Savitar and murders Iris West (Candice Patton) provided the series with one of its most daring arcs yet, but still took the narrative to a very dark place. “That’s about as dark as I ever want to with the show,” Helbing insisted. Coming into Season 4, the team will be dealing with Barry’s absence and will be working to keep The Flash’s legacy alive — at least until the Scarlet Speedster returns! It’s already being teased that once Barry gets back he’ll have a fresher outlook and new understanding of what he can do with his super powers, an insight that will make him a changed man! Hopefully it will be enough to deal with Central City’s newest threat, a villain called The Thinker! The villain has already been cast and will be played by actor Neil Sandilands and will be a match for The Flash as he races to outwit our hero. This season The Flash will also welcome another DC Comics favorite with the announcement that The Elongated Man will be joining the team. If the show’s creators are looking to lighten things up around S.T.A.R. Labs between Vibe (Carlos Valdes) and Ralph Dibny there should be plenty of one-liners dropping left and right! The Flash returns Tuesday, Oct 10 at 8pm ET/PT on The CW and stars Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes, Tom Cavanagh, Jesse L. Martin and Keiynan Lonsdale. Tags:SDCCseason 4The CWthe Flash share on: FacebookTwitter Tumblr DCUA 10th Anniversary Review – Superman/Batman: Apocalypse Justice League Reshoots Spawning Headache And Rumors JC Alvarez A native New Yorker and avid comic book fan, JC Alvarez is a pop-culture enthusiast engaged in chronicling the diverse perspective of entertainment, genre fandom, and celebrity culture. Happily engaged in the ever-constant speed force! DC Is Offering Limited-Edition Variants at SDCC DCN Events The DC Universe Explodes at San Diego Comic-Con	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1168
__label__cc	0.576684	0.423316	Present: Caitie Eck, Sheila Pastor, Ann Martindale, Artis Henderson, Terry Leary, Donna Ellswick (phoned in) Absent: Jordan Parrott, John Podczerwinsky, Brad McGrath Guests: Erik Schaum, Michelle Nugent, Bob and Judith Andrews Call to Order by the President – Caitie Eck Report of the Nominating Committee –Ann Martindale (a) Proposed Directors: Caitlin Eck, Donna Ellswick, Artis Henderson, Terry Leary, Ann Martindale, Brad McGrath (Historic Preservation Commission representative), Michelle Nugent and Sheila Pastor. (b) Proposed Officers: President-Caitlin Eck, Vice President-Sheila Pastor, Secretary-Artis Henderson and Treasurer-Ann Martindale. (c) Proposed Honorary Directors: Pearl Moulton (2013), Tom Veal (2014), Jordan Parrott (2018) and John Podczerwinsky (2018). Election of Directors by 2017-2018 Board of Directors. The proposed Directors were elected unanimously. Election of Officers by Newly Elected Board of Directors. The proposed Officers were elected unanimously. Approval of minutes of meeting of last meeting (Nov. 14, 2017). The minutes were approved. President’s Report. Caitie Eck reported that Triangle decorating last weekend was a little sparsely attended, but a success. The Lawn Party was a success. Christmas decorations look good. Treasurer’s Report. Ann Martindale submitted the Treasurer’s reports filed with these minutes for Fiscal Year Sept. 1, 2017 – August 31, 2018 and for Fiscal Year 2018 – 2019 to date. Report of Historic Preservation Commission Representative. (a) Amendments to Chapter 114 – Historic Preservation: In Brad’s absence, Ann advised that the City Council will consider these amendments on Jan. 7th and at a Feb. 4th public hearing. These have already been approved by HPC and the Planning Board. Ann thinks the draft recently presented to the Planning Board does not reflect editing requests made at previous meetings. She also noted that the City has not been putting up agenda packages on the City website in recent months and will check into both these issues. The issues she’s concerned about right now: the effect of FEMA requirements on building heights. Her concern is that the regulations say the height of a new building in a historic district should be reasonably similar to the neighborhood, but how do you measure height? From ground floor or as viewed from the street? Another issue: there should be buffer zones around historic districts to keep height restrictions in check. (b) New Design Guidelines for Historic Districts: HPC to consider Jan. 24. Ann was the only one at meeting, and she spoke. Old Business: (a) Property at 2610 Providence Street. Michelle advised they there are signs up trying to rent the apartments for $1100 a month/ 2 bedrooms. “They look nice. They did a nice job,” she said, adding that the new owners have painted the outside and resurfaced the parking lot. (b) Warehouse at 2801 Michigan. The owners rejected an offer from a group of Dean Park residents last spring. Michelle said she talked to a developer who said it would be a small project and that it won’t work for someone to pay their price. (c) Dean Park Events for 2018-2019. Artis reported that the next event is the Progressive Dinner in January. Michelle will send out information and start working on it. A $10 per person charge will cover the wine for the dinner and a personalized souvenir glass per person. A date was set for BBQ and Blues — April 13, 4-7 p.m. (d) Status – deanpark.org. Ann said, “I think it’s a great thing to have, and people like it.” (e) Community maintenance. The Board discussed putting together a Dean Park Help Squad which could, if it chose, offer maintenance help to residents of Dean Park unable to maintain their yards and also help maintain public spaces. Ann: “I think we should be results-minded rather than punitive or thinking people will take advantage. What’s good for Dean Park?” We start off by announcing that that a Help Squad exists and we’re ready for projects. If people need help, they can contact us. Artis will design a flyer announcing the Dean Park Help Squad “If you need help or you’d like help.” We’ll create an anonymous gmail account. New Business (a) Bylaw Amendment to permit Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. Ann requested that this item be postponed. (b) Community initiatives – Dean Park projects. The Board discussed other community initiatives, including fund-raising options. (c) Formation of Committee for Dean Park Centennial Celebration in 2020. A committee was formed to include Caitie, Sheila, Michelle, Artis, Ann and Terry. (d) Adoption of Budget for 2018 – 2019. Ann agreed to amend the draft budget for review and adoption at the next meeting. (e) Other new business. Michelle brought up the idea of banners on street posts for the 100th anniversary celebration. She said they would be professionally done, very nice. “We’d ask the city to put a little money into us.” She said brackets would not be that expensive, $100 a piece, possibly on the budget for next year. Ann said she may not be in favor of having banners up all the time is a residential neighborhood, that she associates banners with commercial areas. Next Meeting Date: The next meeting is set for January 23, 2019. Respectfully submitted, Artis Henderson, Secretary	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1170
__label__wiki	0.657583	0.657583	Captain Magneto Wild Wheelchair Ride Bullet-Brain Do What I Say, Not What I Do Tight Wad Gun Safety Nonsense Medieval Flambe The Bigger the Better Stupid Car A Salty Tale Volunteer 'Fire' Man (Summer 2003, England) I am a key Intensive Care staff member in Buckinghamshire. One summer day a patient was brought in, sirens screaming. The 38-year-old was obviously the victim of an explosion, with shrapnel wounds and gunpowder burns on his face and abdomen. His thigh and groin had also sustained serious injury, although his testicles were intact. We removed a three-inch section of twisted pipe from his abdomen, repaired his large intestine, and sealed ruptured vessels to control bleeding. After five hours of surgery, the patient was admitted to ICU on a ventilator and blood and plasma expanders. The police thought he might be a terrorist whose bomb had detonated prematurely, and they placed a media restriction on him. Due to the restriction, the full details never appeared in the press, but the story started to emerge when we spoke to the man's brother-in-law. The victim was not a terrorist at all, but an unemployed van driver. During a family get-together, he took his 13-year-old nephew down to his brother-in-law's garden shed for a fishing lesson. To catch fish at the local quarry, he planned to teach the boy a technique he had pioneered in his youth: tossing homemade explosives into the lake and collecting the stunned fish that floated to the surface. This clever fisherman cut a section of 5-cm scaffolding pipe and hammered one end closed. Then he packed it with a pad of cotton, rammed home with a smaller section of steel pipe. On top of this he poured a substantial amount of gunpowder taken from bootleg Chinese aerial fireworks, which are illegal in the UK. His plan was to place another cotton pad on top of the gunpowder, and seal the whole bundle with a plug of wood. Considerable hammering and noise was required to get a "tight wad." As it was Sunday, the brother-in-law was worried that the neighbours would complain about the noise. Twice, he asked his relative to cease and desist, and finally took his son and proceeded back toward the house. Meanwhile, this Darwin candidate continued to ram home the pipe's contents while holding the device between his legs for stability. As the gentleman explained to me some weeks later, "My big mistake was when I used the steel pipe to pack the tube, instead of the end of the wooden hammer-handle." Indeed. The brother-in-law and his son were 30 feet from the shed when a spark ignited the gunpowder. The pipe bomb shot the wooden plug into his eye orbit, whilst the body of the pipe unwrapped like a cardboard tube, and launched itself into the gentleman's abdomen. The blunt lateral force stopped the pipe from ejecting from his body, but the impact lacerated his bowels, while the shock force and shrapnel caused massive haemorrhaging. The candidate lost a major part of his thigh, but the upward force of the explosion protected his testicles from injury, so his genes were not lost to humanity. He survived the incident, and has therefore not quite fulfilled the full Darwin Award criteria, although the facial disfigurement may yet ensure that his genes are not propagated. One comment made the Trauma team's day. The surgeon displayed a 3 inch metal fragment from the man's abdomen and announced to all and sundry, "Who's going to contact the Darwin Awards, then?" All four doctors, three nurses and and two technicians cracked up laughing. Medical humour! Submitted by: Ches Whistler	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1173
__label__wiki	0.976179	0.976179	Red Sox Beat Astros 10-3, Avoid Elimination In ALDS Game 3 Filed Under:ALDS, Boston Red Sox, houston astros, MLB BOSTON (AP) — Hanley Ramirez waved a “Believe in Boston” flag during pregame introductions, drawing cheers from a Fenway Park crowd fearful of a second straight postseason sweep. Then he gave the Red Sox exactly what they wished for: more October baseball. “I just tried to wake everybody up,” Ramirez said after delivering four hits and three RBIs to lead the AL East champions to a 10-3 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the AL Division Series on Sunday. “I think that’s my job: Find a way to come through in big situations,” the designated hitter said. “It’s the playoffs. It’s go time.” David Price pitched four scoreless innings after another Boston starter faltered, and 20-year-old Rafael Devers hit the go-ahead homer to help the Red Sox snap a five-game postseason losing streak. Mitch Moreland had three of Boston’s 15 hits — matching its combined total from Games 1 and 2, a pair of 8-2 losses. Jackie Bradley Jr. hit his first postseason homer, a three-run shot in a six-run seventh that put the game away.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1177
__label__wiki	0.802225	0.802225	North Texas Dillard’s Accused By Customers Of Illegal Searches By J.D. Miles January 5, 2018 at 5:23 pm Filed Under:Collin County Sheriff's Department, Dillards, Fairview Police, illegal searches, Local TV, shopping bags FAIRVIEW, Texas (CBS11) – Videos obtained by CBS11 show hundreds of customers at a Collin County department store may have unknowingly been subjected to illegal searches. Some of those customers are outraged and demanding answers from a Dillard’s department store as well as Fairview Police and the Collin County Sheriff’s Department. Ed Thayer started recording video inside the Dillard’s department store in Fairview on Monday. Dillard’s in Fairview (J.D. Miles – CBS11) That’s after the former law enforcement officer saw armed, off duty Fairview Police officers and Collin County Sheriff’s deputies, hired by the store, going through shopping bags of customers before they were allowed to leave. “There was a line of people probably 30 deep waiting to get out of the store,” he says. “No one could get past the officers unless they had the receipt in their hands and open their bags.” Thayer questioned one of the deputies outside the store who told him the store manager ordered the bag searches. Fairview Police say the store misled them and should never had put its officers in that role. “As law enforcement we don’t have the authority to check someone’s things without probable cause,” says Ofc. Whitney Belcher, Fairview Police Department. In a letter to a customer, Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner says the “…enforcement of Dillard’s house rules was unacceptable…” and terminated it’s off duty work agreement with the store. Thayer complained to a Dillard’s manager who he says brushed him off. “My initial feeling in my history law-enforcement was that was an abuse and I didn’t feel that sworn officers should be in that role,” says Thayer. “I would say it was intimidating.” Dillard’s hasn’t responded to our multiple requests for an interview or statement. Receipt-checking at the door isn’t uncommon at wholesale clubs but customers consent to that as part of their membership agreements and the search is only done by store employees. Thayer says after he complained and started recording video, the off duty officers stopped searching bags. “I’m not going to give up my civil liberties for Dillard’s bottom line,” says Thayer. Thayer filed a complaint against a deputy who followed him out of the store after he refused a search. That complaint is being addressed according to the sheriff’s office. J.D. Miles More from J.D. Miles	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1178
__label__wiki	0.80839	0.80839	by Sishuwa Sishuwa on 15 Jul 2019 by Sishuwa Sishuwa on 4 Jul 2019 by Sishuwa Sishuwa on 19 Jun 2019 by Sishuwa Sishuwa on 24 May 2019 by Sishuwa Sishuwa on 4 Mar 2019 by Sishuwa Sishuwa on 7 Jun 2019 Articles by Sishuwa Sishuwa Home / Articles posted by Sishuwa Sishuwa About Chibamba Kanyama Open Letter to Minister of Higher Education, Prof Nkandu Luo By Sishuwa Sishuwa on June 7, 2019 Dear Minister Luo, On 29 April 2019, News Diggers published the most recent public comments you have made on the continued closure of the Copperbelt.... China, Confucius institutes and the capture of Africa’s future By Sishuwa Sishuwa on May 12, 2019 The first building that one comes across when entering the University of Zambia, which sits on the terraces of a busy motorway to and from.... 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The real reasons why Nkandu Luo is taking students’ meals off the table By Sishuwa Sishuwa on February 25, 2019 On 6 February 2019, Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo announced that her ministry had with immediate effect stopped disbursing the stipend, popularly known.... Bad losers losing badly: Lessons from Sesheke Last Tuesday, the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) scooped the Sesheke parliamentary by-election after defeating the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and two other.... The real reasons why Lungu won’t fire Chitotela Last week, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested Minister of Infrastructure and Housing Development Ronald Kaoma Chitotela on suspicion of corruption. Chitotela, 46, was subsequently charged.... Let the looting continue! 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Class of 2018: Zambians who inspired last year By Sishuwa Sishuwa on January 7, 2019 Across 2018, Zambia experienced no shortage of disappointments and setbacks. Yet there are some individuals whose courage and principles made them inspiring figures in the.... The dialogue games: with a third term all but assured, Lungu agrees to play By Sishuwa Sishuwa on December 1, 2018 Zambians were recently surprised to learn of the commencement of a secretive dialogue process between President Edgar Lungu and Hakainde Hichilema, leader of the main.... Why are we so good at choosing bad leaders? By Sishuwa Sishuwa on September 8, 2018 (Editor’s Note: This article was first published on 18 December 2017 and is being republished here only as a flashback to show how the questions.... Why President Lungu’s threats to the judiciary mark a new phase in Zambia’s slide to authoritarianism The Constitutional Court has concluded its hearing over the eligibility of President Edgar Lungu to stand for another term in 2021 and judgement in the.... A parting word, for now By Sishuwa Sishuwa on June 18, 2018 A weekly column such as this one does not exist on its own. It requires the support and interest of readers, the understanding and permission.... Daniel Munkombwe’s political life: what do we learn from it? After being at the centre of national politics for over half a century, Daniel Chibbwalu Munkombwe joined, in 2015, the very short list of Zambian.... Understanding the outcome of the Chilanga parliamentary by-election Last Tuesday, the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) scooped the Chilanga parliamentary by-election, defeating three other opposition parties: the United Party for National Development (UPND), National.... Has the Law Association of Zambia finally been captured? Until recently, the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has been a rare bright spot amid Zambia’s increasingly inactive and ineffective civil society movement. Under the.... Last Friday, 25 May 2018, marked Africa Freedom Day. Like every year, our political leaders and foreign dignitaries gathered at State House to offer platitudes.... Why Lungu is truly the President we deserve: he is a symptom of Zambia’s sickness Last week, Zambians woke up to revelations that President Edgar Lungu owns an enormous piece of land in a prime area of eSwatini, as the.... An open letter to President Edgar Lungu over human rights Dear President Lungu, I am writing to you today regarding the serious matter of the continued and unjustifiable incarceration of one of our fellow Zambians..... What would the world miss about Zambia if we simply vanished tomorrow? 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By Sishuwa Sishuwa on 9 Apr 2018 Last Friday, Hakainde Hichilema, leader of Zambia’s main opposition, the United Party for National Development (UPND), accused United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in.... FLASHBACK: Lungu needed Commonwealth to downplay treason humiliation On 16 August, opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema walked to freedom after spending four months in detention. This moment was.... Motion impossible: understanding the UPND’s attempt to impeach Lungu On 23 March 2018, the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) filed in Parliament a notice of motion that seeks to impeach President Edgar.... A matter of conviction: a response to my critics By Sishuwa Sishuwa on 26 Mar 2018 As many correctly guessed, the minister serving in President Edgar Lungu’s Cabinet who inspired last week’s column, ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’, did not respond to my.... Crisis? What crisis? Ifintu filifye bwino mucalo cesu icaZambia! Last Friday, I met a minister serving in President Edgar Lungu’s Cabinet who, upon seeing me, insisted that contrary to my recent observations, given at.... Ailing from a weak Constitution: how can Zambia be cured? On 7 March 2018, Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini wrote to the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) entreating it to hold a by-election.... What explains the PF’s revived interest in constitutional reform? Last week, Minister of Justice Given Lubinda condemned Zambia’s current Constitution as ‘an extremely talkative’ document that was poorly ‘drafted by laypeople’ and contains several.... Munali and Lusaka Central: the appeal cases that reveal a court system in crisis By Sishuwa Sishuwa on 26 Feb 2018 Given that there are relatively few cases before it, what explains the continued delay by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in determining the election appeal cases.... 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__label__cc	0.71933	0.28067	The release of US diplomatic cables by the Wikileaks website is making headlines around the world. Here are the links from the five major newspapers which received the documents. Articles are in Spanish, German, French and English. There are also some additional links about Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. “The electronic archive of embassy dispatches from around the world was allegedly downloaded by a US soldier earlier this year and passed to WikiLeaks. Assange made it available to the Guardian and four other news organisations: the New York Times, Der Spiegel in Germany, Le Monde in France and El País in Spain. All five plan to publish extracts from the most significant cables, but have decided neither to “dump” the entire dataset into the public domain, nor to publish names that would endanger innocent individuals. WikiLeaks says that, contrary to the state department’s fears, it also initially intends to post only limited cable extracts, and to redact identities.” – source: The Guardian “Beginning Sunday, WikiLeaks intends to publish this archive on its Web site in stages, with each batch of documents related to a particular country or topic. Except for the timing of publication, the material was provided without conditions. Each news organization decided independently what to write about the cables.” – source: NYTimes Headline Article The Decision to publish Diplomatic Documents Sample Cable with redactions Interactive Map of leaked material The Data Deluge (video) El intercambio de documentos y las zonas calientes del planeta Browse the Cables Pourquois Pourquoi “Le Monde” publie les documents WikiLeaks US candid views on world leaders Julian Assange Wikipedia Entry Julian Assange Google News Critical Thinking, Data, Media Literacy Comments Off on Wikileaks « I.B.M.’s Watson 2010 in review »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1182
__label__wiki	0.914745	0.914745	Oil tankers attacked in Gulf of Oman off Iran; US Navy responding June 13, 2019 7 Views 0 Comments World News Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. believes Iran is responsible for attacks that damaged two oil tankers near the Persian Gulf Thursday. Pompeo said the attacks are part of a “campaign” of “escalating tension” by Iran. (June 13) An attack Thursday on two international oil tankers off the Iranian coast, which left one ship billowing black smoke and forced crews of both to abandon ship, was the work of Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. “This is only the latest in a series of attacks instigated by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its surrogates against American and allied interests,” Pompeo said. No nation or group claimed responsibility for the attack, the second on oil tankers in the region in a month. Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei expressed “concern and sorrow” over the incident, saying other nations would benefit from instability in the region. The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet said it received two distress calls and sent the guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge to the scene. “Twenty-one mariners from the M/V Kokuka Courageous, who abandoned ship, were rescued and are currently aboard Bainbridge,” the Navy said in a statement. Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency initially claimed its nation’s search-and-rescue teams picked up the 21 sailors aboard the Kokuka Courageous and the 23 from the Front Altair and evacuated them to the nearby Iranian port of Jask. Iranian TV later aired video of some sailors gathered in a room watching TV. Two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz were damaged in suspected attacks on Thursday, an assault that left one ablaze and adrift as sailors were evacuated from both vessels and the US Navy rushed to assist. (June 13) Inside Iran: Anger, weariness, wonderment as Trump reimposes sanctions Frontline, the firm that operates the Front Altair, said an explosion caused the fire. Its crew of 23 was safely evacuated to the nearby Hyundai Dubai vessel, it said. BSM Ship Management said the Kokuka Courageous sustained hull damage. Japan’s Trade Ministry said the vessels had “Japan-related cargo.” The incident took place as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wrapped up a visit to Tehran aimed at improving relations between Iran and the United States. Pompeo said Iranian officials refused Abe’s overtures, then attacked ships carrying goods. Jamal Abdi, president of the Washington-based National Iranian American Council, urged Iran, the United States and other nations to show restraint while the investigation unfolds. “The fact that the sabotage occurred amid Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state visit to Iran underscores that the likely motive of the attackers is to prevent any easing of tensions and block off exit ramps to war,” Abdi said. James Piazza, a Penn State political science professor specializing in the Islamic world, told USA TODAY that although hard-line elements in Iran could be involved, Iran-allied rebels in Yemen are also among suspects. “I think what the alleged attacks underscore is the vulnerability of petroleum resources in the Gulf and, by extension, global economic stability,” Piazza said. The United States and Iran have been lobbing threats, fighting proxy wars, and imposing sanctions for decades. USA Today looks at over 60 years of this back-and-forth. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY Oil prices reacted immediately – benchmark Brent crude spiked more than $3, to more than $62 a barrel, as word of the attack spread. The price began to go down later in the day. Smoke billows from a tanker in the Gulf of Oman on June 13. (Photo: Handout Image, IRIB TV/AFP/Getty Images) Last year, President Donald Trump withdrew from an accord between Iran and world powers aimed at limiting Tehran’s nuclear capabilities. The White House has repeatedly claimed that Iran threatens American forces and facilities in the Middle East. Last month, Trump dispatched the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the region. BSM Ship Management, owner of the Kokuka Courageous, said it launched a “full-scale emergency response following a security incident.” One crew member was slightly injured, the company said. The Courageous, stranded 16 miles off the coast of Iran and 80 off the United Arab Emirates, was in no danger of sinking, BSM said. Taiwan’s state oil refiner CPC chartered the Front Altair, which carried 75,000 tons of the petrochemical naphtha, when it was “suspected of being hit by a torpedo,” Wu I-Fang, CPC’s petrochemical business division CEO, told Reuters news agency. The attack Thursday drew parallels to a similar attack last month off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia said in May that four oil tankers were sabotaged, which caused “significant damage” to the vessels. One of the ships was en route to pick up Saudi oil to take to the USA. “It’s going to be a bad problem for Iran if something happens, I can tell you that,” Trump said after that incident. “They’re not going to be happy.” An investigation blamed explosive sea mines, and Saudi Arabia and the United States blamed Iran. Iran denied involvement, although Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen have launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. Contributing: The Associated Press ‘No preconditions’: Pompeo says US prepared to talk to Iran with ‘no preconditions’ Iranian foreign minister: US ‘cannot expect to stay safe’ because of ‘economic war’ Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/06/13/oil-tankers-attacked-gulf-oman-off-iran-us-navy-responding/1441787001/ ← The Latest: Japan PM: Iran doesn’t intend to possess nukes It might take a while to warm up to, but once you do ‘Outer Wilds’ is quite an adventure → WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People Philippines Hits Back at Call for U.N. 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__label__wiki	0.661727	0.661727	Dodge Charger in limbo I guess our friends from down under will have to drive on the correct side of the car. LOL! Article from: By Mark Hinchliffe AUSTRALIA could soon be saying Hey Charger! Remember the popular and catchy 1970s advertising campaign? Well, Chrysler Group Australia managing director Gerry Jenkins would like to think we could see a return to that catchphrase by introducing the new Dodge Charger. However, he'll have a fight on his hands. Chrysler Corporation international product senior manager Kevin Tourneur from headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, said the Charger was made only in left-hand-drive and Australia was the only right-hand-drive market that wanted the car. "Charger is sold primarily in the US and around the world in US spec," he said. "Japan is interested, but they can bring it in in limited numbers in left-hand-drive and it's a bit of a status symbol in Japan to have a left-hand-drive." But Jenkins, who hails from the hallowed Michigan halls of Chrysler power, still has hopes he can change some minds when production plants are moved next year. "You'd be surprised how things change," he said. "I'm still an optimist." And Jenkins doesn't want just the standard Charger, either, but the 253kW Street and Racing Technology version. "There is definitely a market for a mid-sized sports vehicle like this," said Jenkins, who likened it to the confronting macho presence of the Dodge Nitro. "We can't get enough Nitros," he said. "It's pretty aggressive styling. "It's always a gamble growing volume, but all of a sudden people wanted the Nitro. "I haven't seen this type of demand since the 300C was introduced. "We really didn't pre-market it (Nitro) and the dealers started ordering them." Jenkins believes the aggressive and macho styling cues of the four-door Charger, and to a lesser extent the upcoming two-door Challenger, will appeal to Australians. "Dodge is an in-your-face brand and unapologetic. It's like a Harley-Davidson thing; it's an emotional thing. "Japanese cars are very elegant, but ours are all about emotion." 1 Bad Mirada RE: Dodge Charger in limbo i love when they talk about these senior execs and how much they know about the automotive world...theyre financial analysts. they know about making money, and approval ratings. id like to see one of them change a camshaft...or maybe adjust a carb at a dragstrip to get rid of a launch hesistation. then maybe i would have some faith in their assumptions about the automotive industry. there is, after all, a reason that all of the american automotive companies are in severe financial trouble... Send a private message to 1 Bad Mirada Find More Posts by 1 Bad Mirada Forgive me but I'm not understanding the "limbo" part of the title of this post... from the article quoted, the Charger is seemingly in very much demand in Australia, and even the Japanese seem interested in it. Seems like the Charger is anything BUT "in limbo"... unless "limbo" means something else in Australia [sm=wtf.gif] Send a private message to Yankee Find More Posts by Yankee Location: China Grove NC. Jeremiah, I believe you hit the hammer on the nail. I really could'nt put my finger on it. But the Harley statement is so true. Dodge has for the most part ( Charger, Challenger) been an in your face kind of car. Australians are so car crazy, so much like the US. They like big cube power houses just like we do. They are unlike the Europeans, who want to use small displacement and some kind of VVT or compressor to make up the difference. Nothing wrong with that! Just saying that the Aussies and the Yanks have more in common than most other nations when it comes to cars. But the Harley reference is spot on. If you drive a Charger, Challenger then you are running in a different pack. We see the styling different than the GM and Ford boys. Send a private message to lear4406 Find More Posts by lear4406 They would be fools not to sell the Charger in Australia. In fact, I would say that Chrysler should have Australia come up with most of the muscle ideas for over here. The Aussies love muscle cars even more than we do. They have consistently had muscle offerings even in times when we didn't. Yankee.....let me help you. Charger was made only in left-hand-drive and Australia was the only right-hand-drive market that wanted the car. In other words, unless Chrysler makes a right handed car Charger, Australia will not be seeing this car. That is what "limbo" means......kinda of like "up in the air". Thanks lear4406. I put Harley's, Challenger, Cudas, and Chargers all in the same boat that were "bad to the bone". You see a Harley biker guy, you don't walk close to him for fear of chewing you up and spitting you out. [IMG]local://upfiles/17/21722CF24D4A4B1AB6B174911BEB30EB.jpg[/IMG] The thing that confuses me is don't they already make a right-hand drive 300 for Europe? If so why is this such a problem as the interior is practically the same between the two, except the gauges and some of the options. Does the exterior really need a lot of changing that would be a problem? If this was such a problem I would just take the interior of the right-hand drive 300 and put it in the Charger and sell it in Australia. Better to sell it and make money than pass up on an almost guaranteed market. Also, I agree with you Jeremiah on the "bad to the bones" image of many of Dodge's models as they are like Harley Davidson in this sense. They are the most brutual performance brand currently. Thanks Jeremiah, guess the "limbo" part was a little misleading (on my part I guess...) RLSH, the only "European" market that is right hand drive is the U.K. - the rest of Europe drives on the right side of the road like the rest of us. Jeep makes a RHD Liberty and Grand Cherokee (and Wrangler too, if I'm not mistaken), but I don't know of any LX-platform car that is RHD. Not that they couldn't make one if they wanted to, guess Chrysler will have to decide if there's a big enough market for it. Sure seems like there is, and I think Chrysler would be a damn fool not to take advantage of it. I think that the mechanical linkages for steering and pedals and the holes in the firewall would have to be machined. Re-routing master electrical harnasses or redesigning them would have to be done also. Quick Reply: Dodge Charger in limbo	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1189
__label__wiki	0.964842	0.964842	Final Fantasy 8 Remaster PS4 release confirmed to have one important PlayStation feature Back at E3 2019, Square Enix finally announced that a Remaster of Final Fantasy VIII will be coming to modern consoles this year. 2019 will see the launch of Final Fantasy VIII Remaster which will overhaul the 12-year-old game and make it more acceptable-looking on modern systems. As news started to circulate from the trailer after its announcement, there were players that started to get a little concerned: it was becoming increasingly obvious that the game was built on the PC release of the game that released in 2000 (a modified version of which was added to Steam in 2013). Thing is, that version of the game came with MIDI compositions of the score, rather than the rich 32-bit enabled soundtrack that originally featured on the PlayStation version of the game. It took away a lot of the atmosphere and feeling from the game and – in our opinion – made the PC version sound cheap and jarring. Luckily for us, then, Dotemu (the company working on the remaster with Square Enix), confirmed that the developers are using the original PlayStation soundtrack for the 2019 release, rather than the PC version. Phew. As excited as we are to be able to play this game again (it's very much this writer's belief that this game is the best Final Fantasy, broken or not!) we don't think the MIDI-backed version of the game does it justice. We can see from the trailer below and the article we posted about the game's graphical upgrade that Square Enix and Dotemu are taking great care with the port, and are giving the game the care and attention it deserves. "Coming in 2019, FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered marks the 20th Anniversary of its original release with a new visual refresh and brings the games beloved story to modern platforms: Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. "With overhauled visuals, see your favorite characters come to life like never before!" reads a press release from Square Enix. The remaster will launch some time in 2019. Here's a bit more information on what we know about the Final Fantasy 8 Remaster that's due to arrive on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch later this year: The remaster will come with improved Read More – Source Fortnite 9.30 Leaked Skins Update: New Season 9 Skins and styles coming to Battle Royale AMD says its Ryzen 3000 isnt just cheaper—its better This ancient Greek ship is the oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered By Current Affairs October 24, 2018 Germany to Zuckerberg: There wont be Holocaust denial on German Facebook By Current Affairs July 22, 2018 Social media sites urged to remove ‘like’ button By Current Affairs April 16, 2019 Sea section of Russias Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline is 60% complete In Weinstein Co. Bankruptcy, Viacom And Spyglass Reach $11M Scream Settlement Huawei to move 1,000 jobs from US to Italy, plus a $3 billion investment to boot Trump doubles down on xenophobic tweets Louvre Abu Dhabi abused migrant workers - said campaign The Current Affairs Online UK The Current Affairs Online is UK based news website interested in the UK and European affairs, economy, politics and trade. The website relies on Rss Feed from other UK and European news agencies plus articles and opinions written by our columnists and reporters. The website offers PR services for companies and news websites. Current Affairs Online	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1195
__label__cc	0.687522	0.312478	On the Come Up On the Come Up by Angie Thomas – Spoiler Free Review Title: On the Come Up Author: Angie Thomas Publishers: Balzer + Bray Goodreads Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he hit big, Bri’s got big shoes to fill. But now that her mom has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and shutoff notices are as much a part of Bri’s life as beats and rhymes. With bills piling up and homelessness staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it—she has to make it. On the Come Up is Angie Thomas’s homage to hip-hop, the art that sparked her passion for storytelling and continues to inspire her to this day. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; of the struggle to become who you are and not who everyone expects you to be; and of the desperate realities of poor and working-class black families. Angie Thomas has this way of creating a world so vivid that you feel like you are literally sitting on the hood of a car listening to Bri rap. She incorporates so many touchy subjects in her books but handles them in way that is real & also respectful. Same with the diversity she brings into her stories. Even though she isn’t own voices for all of the diverse characters she writes, she handles those diversities in a super respectful & tactful way. She doesn’t pretend like she knows what it’s like, but incorporates them in a way that works. I absolutely adore her writing and she has become and auto-buy author for me. Seriously, she could write a guide to polishing furniture and I would read it. The main issue that I usually have with contemporary books is that I get bored. 100% not the case with Angie Thomas. The plot is gripping and action packed but in a realistic way. She doesn’t just through crap at the main character simply to create interesting points. Everything just flows & makes complete sense to what is going on. Now Bri actually isn’t my favourite person. She did frustrate me at times as she was very hot headed, stubborn & would jump into things without thinking of the consequences. But I appreciate that she was meant to be that way and I enjoyed her as a character, just not as a person. Really there isn’t a character in the book I can fault as a character. Yes some are horrible people, but that is the point & they were written amazingly. I friggen loved this book! Not quite there compared to THUG but still amazing. I would give THUG a 5 stars & OTCU a 4 3/4 stars if I could. They are both amazingly written, deal with important topics really well, have amazing characters & amazing diversity. I can’t fault this book at all. You can purchase a copy for yourself at any of the links below. You could also use my affiliate links for Book Depository, Booktopia or Angus & Robertson. Hardcover / Paperback (Alternate Cover) Amazon (Aus) Hardcover / Paperback (Alternate Cover) / eBook	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1206
__label__cc	0.667894	0.332106	Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting by Biel ucja;Engberg Jan;Martin Ruano M. Rosario;Sosoni Vilelmini; Author:Biel, ucja;Engberg, Jan;Martin Ruano, M. Rosario;Sosoni, Vilelmini; , Date: July 12, 2019 ,Views: 39 Author:Biel, ucja;Engberg, Jan;Martin Ruano, M. Rosario;Sosoni, Vilelmini; Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM) 3 Outline of the study The aim of this chapter is to describe the self-positioning of a professional court interpreter and its influence on the court interaction. Since discourses are not produced without context and can not be understood without consideration of the context (Titscher et al. 1998, p. 181), the study has been triangulated through ethnographic methods: an observation of the trial, a post-interview with the interpreter, and a survey among the participants in the proceedings. By doing so, not only is the linguistic dimension of the interpreter’s actions taken into account but also the dialectical relationship between the interpreter’s role behaviour and the institutional and interactional framework. The core of the study is the analysis of a trial at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters in Vienna, in which a Polish interpreter was involved. The subject of the hearing was a dangerous threat and resistance to state authority. The trial was audio-recorded. The agreement of all participants was obtained at the beginning of the hearing, and the interpreter was contacted by telephone before the appointment. The trial was transcribed using EXMARaLDA according to the HIAT-method (Ehlich and Rehbein 1976). The peculiarity of the “semi-interpretive work transcription” (in German HIAT) lies in its notation convention, namely the score notation (cf. Rehbein et al. 2004, p. 6). Each interaction partner is assigned his/her own action line – a score. In addition to a verbal and a translation track, the transcripts contain several annotation tracks, in which non-verbal communication, way and speed of speaking, volume and actions of the communication partners are recorded. The transcription should be a detailed, “natural” reproduction of the recorded interaction, in which such aspects of oral communication as hesitation, thinking aloud, self-corrections, and dialectal formulations are depicted as accurately as possible (see “literary transcription”, Rehbein et al. 2004, p. 11).5 All utterances in Polish were translated into German. All names and personal data were replaced by cover names, numbers or a description. Each speaker was assigned an abbreviation derived from their function: Judge = J, Defence Counsel = DC, Prosecutor = Pr, Defendant = D, and Interpreter = I. The role perception of the court interpreter involved was investigated by a semi-standardised guideline interview following the hearing. The guideline consisted of open questions and included several thematic areas, i.e., career, conception of one’s own role, and norms of professional ethics. In order to examine the participants’ expectations of the court interpreter, a qualitative questionnaire was carried out after the hearing. Through a series of open and semi-open questions, the first part of the questionnaire examined the participants’ expectations and their perception of the interpreters’ role. In the second part, a selection of tasks and functions of court interpreters was presented to them for evaluation of their importance on a four-point scale. The study results are only valid for the case under investigation and they cannot be generalised to the entire court action context. There is no claim to representativeness of the data. Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting by Biel ucja;Engberg Jan;Martin Ruano M. Rosario;Sosoni Vilelmini;.epub	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1212
__label__cc	0.529926	0.470074	Town of Glocester, RI Providence County Part 1: Administrative Legislation Ch 9 Courts Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification Ch 27 Meetings Ch 35 Police Department Ch 40 (Reserved) Ch 48 Town Road Map Part 2: Boards, Commissions and Committees Ch 56 Budget Board Ch 59 Building Code Board of Appeals Ch 63 Canvassing Authority, Bipartisan Ch 68 Community Resource and Wastewater Advisory Commission Ch 74 Conservation Commission Ch 78 Economic Development Commission Ch 82 Housing Board of Review Ch 87 Juvenile Hearing Board Ch 95 Land Trust Trustees Ch 106 Planning Board Ch 113 Recreation Commission Ch 118 Safety Commission, Advisory Ch 120 Veterans Advisor Part 3: General Legislation Ch 130 Adult Entertainment Ch 145 Building Permits Ch 148 Buildings, Numbering of Ch 151 Camping and Travel Trailer Parks Ch 157 Disorderly Conduct and Indecency Ch 162 Drainage Ch 166 Earth Removal Ch 173 Entertainment Licenses Ch 174 Entertainment - Special Events for Liquor Establishments Ch 177 Erosion and Sediment Control Ch 181 Excavations, Holes and Wells Ch 185 Fees and Fines, Payment of Ch 190 Hawkers and Peddlers Ch 195 Historical and Archaeological Burial Sites Ch 197 Hydronic Heaters and Wood Boilers, Outdoor Ch 199 Licensing Ch 203 Lighting, Outdoor Ch 208 Mobile Homes and House Trailers Ch 212 Motor Boats and Water Craft Ch 217 Noise Ch 221 Parks and Recreation Areas Ch 223 Pascoag Reservoir/Echo Lake Dam Management District Ch 226 Poles and Wires Ch 230 Private Detectives, Licensing of Ch 232 Public Nuisances on Foreclosed Abandoned, Vacant Properties Ch 234 Recycling Ch 243 Stormwater Management Ch 247 Taxation Ch 251 Trees § 251-1 Purpose. § 251-2 Title. § 251-3 Definitions. § 251-4 Tree Board. § 251-5 Tree Warden. § 251-6 Standards for pruning trees. § 251-7 Protection of public trees. § 251-8 Planting of trees upon public property. § 251-9 Emergencies. § 251-10 Moving large objects. § 251-11 Permits required. § 251-12 Registration of tree experts. § 251-13 Interference with Tree Warden. § 251-14 Appeals. § 251-15 Violations and penalties. Ch 263 Vehicles, Parking and Storage of Ch 266 Victualing Ch 279 Yard Sales Part 4: Land Use Ch 286 Affordable Housing Part 5: Policies Ch 355 Capital Projects Policy Ch 361 Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Ch 364 Fair Housing Policy Ch 368 Fee Schedule Ch 373 Hazardous Materials Response Policy Ch 387 Public Records Access Ch 392 Rules of Procedure for Boards and Commissions Ch 399 Sexual Harassment Policy Ch 406 Town Hall, Policy for Use of Ch A423 Historic District Commission Rules and Regulations Derivation Table Ch DT Derivation Table Town of Glocester, RI / The Code / Part 3: General Legislation Chapter 251 Trees [HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Glocester 4-15-1999, effective 5-13-1999 (Ch. II, § 6, 2-06-04, of the 1991 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.] Earth removal — See Ch. 166. Excavations, holes and wells — See Ch. 181. Parks and recreation areas — See Ch. 221. Subdivision of land — See Ch. 300. This chapter regulates the protection, maintenance, removal and planting of trees in the public right-of-way, parks, and all public property within the Town of Glocester and on private property endangering the public and/or public property, establishing the Glocester Tree Board which, together with the Town Tree Warden, shall recommend for Town Council approval the establishment of regulations relating to the protection, maintenance, removal, and planting of trees in the above-mentioned public and private places, providing for the maintenance or removal of trees on private property when the public safety is endangered and prescribing penalties for violations of its provisions, as amended. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all property within the Town of Glocester. This chapter will serve to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Glocester by regulating tree management activities. The protection of this valuable natural resource will serve to enhance the community in the following ways: Aid in the prevention of air, noise and visual pollution. Aid in the stabilization of soil. Enhance property values. Provide glare and heat protection. Enhance the aesthetics and general quality of life of the Town. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Glocester Tree Ordinance." For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future and words in singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory. A person who is applying for a license or permits required by this chapter. Written assent from the Glocester Town Tree Warden pursuant to a duly executed application for approval made on a form promulgated by the Town of Glocester. Diameter at breast height, at 4.5 feet (1.37 m) from the ground level. Includes any Town public spaces designated for recreation and/or conservation. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind, including public utilities and Town departments. PROPERTY LINE The boundary between private and Town-owned land. The person owning such property as shown by the records of the Recorded Deeds of the Town of Glocester. PUBLIC PLACE Includes any other ground owned by the Town. PUBLIC TREES Includes all trees now or hereafter growing on any street, park, or any other public place. STREET or HIGHWAY The entire width of every public way or right-of-way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. TOWN TREE WARDEN The Municipal Arborist, Town Tree Warden, Landscape Architect, Director, Division of Grounds Maintenance Services, Supervisor, Community Forestry Operations, or other qualified designated official of the Town assigned to carry out the enforcement of this chapter. Any living, self-supporting woody plant that has a well-defined stem(s) with a caliper of at least 1 1/2 inches (3.81 cm) at DBH at 4.5 feet (1.37 m) from the ground level and capable of reaching a height greater than 16 feet. TREE LAWN That part of a street or highway not covered by sidewalk or other paving, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic. Includes any act that will cause a tree to die within a three-year period. TREE WELL Opening in the ground area surrounding the base of the tree trunk not covered by sidewalk and paving. The Glocester Tree Board, hereinafter referenced to as the "Board," shall be the Glocester Conservation Commission and shall act in an advisory role to the Tree Warden over all forestry functions, including the planting, care and removal of trees, shrubs and other plants on the properties for which it is responsible. It shall do all acts necessary and develop tree planting specifications and tree care guidelines to insure the proper care, management, improvement, maintenance and protection of the public parks and street trees under its jurisdiction. The duties of said Board shall be interpreted to include, but not be limited to, an advisory role to the Tree Warden on the protection, maintenance, removal, and planting of trees on public property, and to make such recommendations from time to time to the Town Tree Warden to desirable regulations concerning the tree program and activities for the Town. Appointment and qualifications of the Town Tree Warden. The Town Tree Warden shall be appointed by the Glocester Town Council. Said person shall have training and experience in arboriculture, and shall have passed the Rhode Island Arborist exam.[1] Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I). Duties of the Town Tree Warden. The Town Tree Warden shall affirm and endorse the purpose and intent of this chapter and shall cause the provisions of this chapter to be enforced. The Town Tree Warden may, with the advice of the Glocester Tree Board and the approval of the Glocester Town Council, prepare and enact a Systematized Tree Management and Annual Tree Planting Program for the Town of Glocester, which may be prepared as an integral part of a Master Systematized Tree Management and Tree Planting Plan. The Town Tree Warden is further charged with keeping informed of environmental and technical changes that could affect the Town's public and protected trees. It shall also be the duty of the Tree Warden, with the assistance of the Tree Board, to implement such rules, regulations, and permit and penalty procedures as are deemed necessary to carry out the intent and enforcement of this chapter. The Town Tree Warden shall communicate and work with all civic and public interest groups interested in or devoted to tree care, preservation or planting. Authority of the Town Tree Warden. The Town Tree Warden shall have the authority and jurisdiction of regulating and enacting the maintenance, removal, and planting of public and protected trees to insure public safety, preserving the aesthetics of public sites with regard to trees, and protecting the value and health of Glocester's community forest as a whole. The Town Tree Warden shall consider the existing and future utility and environmental factors when recommending a specific species for each of the streets and other public sites and when issuing permits for tree work, removal, or planting. The Town Tree Warden shall have the responsibility of regularly updating the Master Systematized Tree Management and Planting Program. The Town Tree Warden shall have the authority to review all requests for permits for any planting, removal, pruning, and/or trimming or cutting of trees in any public area, with the exception of an historic or protected tree. He shall also have the authority to grant or deny and to attach reasonable conditions to all permits with the exception of those specifically exempted herein. The Town Tree Warden shall enforce such rules, regulations and permit and penalty procedures as are deemed necessary to enforce the intent of this chapter. Authority of the Town Tree Warden to remove and trim trees endangering the public and/or public property. The authority of the Tree Warden to enter upon private property to deal with trees endangering the public and/or public property is set forth generally in R.I.G.L. § 2-14, Tree Wardens, and in particular in R.I.G.L. §§ 2-14-5, 2-14-8, 2-14-9, and 2-14-10. It shall be the duty of person(s) owning or occupying real property bordering on any public street or thoroughfare, upon which property there may be trees, to prune in such manner that they will not obstruct or shade street lights, obstruct the passage of pedestrians on sidewalks, obstruct vision of traffic signs or obstruct the view of any street or intersection so as to pose a threat to pedestrian or vehicular safety. The minimum clearance of any overhanging portion thereof shall be eight feet (2.44 m) over sidewalks, and 12 feet (3.65 m) over all streets and thoroughfares and/or at the discretion of the Town Tree Warden; During development, redevelopment, razing or renovating, no trees shall be cut, damaged or removed except by specified permit. All trees removed, destroyed, or severely damaged shall be replaced as specified in the permit at the expense of the permittee. The total caliper of all trees planted in the course of restoration shall in no event be less than the total DBH of all trees removed. Replacement shall be made with two-and-one-half- to four-inch-caliper trees and/or as directed by the Town Tree Warden. If sufficient tree planting locations are unavailable within the contract area, the replacement trees shall be planted within the Town as determined by the Town Tree Board. All trees within 30 feet (9.1 m) of any excavation or construction of any building, structure, or street work shall be guarded through the length of the project with a good substantial fence, frame, or box not less than four feet (1.2 m) high and eight feet (2.4 m) square, or equivalent. All equipment, building materials, chemicals, dirt, or other debris shall be kept outside the barrier at all times. Road maintenance, reconstruction, and resurfacing done by or under the direction of the Glocester Department of Public Works are excluded. No person shall intentionally damage, cut, carve or transplant any tree; attach any rope, wire, nails, advertising posters, or other contrivance to any tree; allow any gaseous, liquid, chemical, or solid substance that is harmful to such trees to come in contact with them; or set fire or permit any fire to burn when such fire or the heat thereof will injure any portion of any tree without first obtaining a written permit from the Town Tree Warden. No person shall deposit, place, store, or maintain any stone, brick, sand, fill dirt, concrete, or other materials that may impede the free passage of water, air, and fertilizer to the roots of any tree growing therein, except by written permit of the Town Tree Board. Road maintenance, reconstruction, and resurfacing done by or under the direction of the Glocester Department of Public Works are excluded. No person shall preclude the percolation of water or nutrients and gaseous exchange vital to a tree's survival by the placing any impervious materials (asphalt, macadam, and concrete) within the confines of the tree well opening. Road maintenance, reconstruction, and resurfacing done by or under the direction of the Glocester Department of Public Works are excluded. Any person desiring to plant a tree upon any public street or public place must first obtain a permit from the Town Tree Board. Any permit shall be granted to a date certain and shall include consideration of appropriateness of species, location, size, and public safety. Should the planting(s) be performed by persons other than the Town Tree Warden or his agents, the proposed method and workmanship for planting as prescribed by the Town Tree Warden shall be adhered to. A planting plan is required where more than six trees are to be planted. Any person desiring to plant more than six trees on public streets or on public places shall, in addition to applying for a permit, submit a plan or written statement in duplicate to the Town Tree Board, which shall return one copy to the applicant and keep one copy on file with the Town. The Town Tree Warden shall consult with the Glocester Tree Board prior to issuing a permit to plant. All planting plans shall show accurately: The proposed park or public place site, or proposed street width, with any curbs, parking strips, driveways, sidewalks and adjacent structures defined to scale; The proposed location of each proposed tree, together with the location of each existing tree within the proposed site in scaled relation to the other features of the plan; The species of each and every tree proposed to be planted and of these already existing within the proposed site, either indicated on the plans or referenced with a number with a key list. The requirements of this chapter may be waived by the Town in the case of emergencies as declared by the Town Council, Public Works Director or Safety Committee, such as windstorms, ice storms, or other disasters, so that they, in no way, shall hinder private or public work to restore order in the Town. This work shall follow maintenance standards as outlined by the Town Tree Board. No person shall move any building or any other large object that may injure public or protected trees or parts thereof, without first obtaining the written approval of the Town Tree Board and abiding by its requirements. A permit shall be a written document that authorizes the bearer thereof to perform the proposed work as outlined on such permit. The permit shall be issued only by the Town Tree Warden or his/her representative. A permit shall be obtained by filling out an application. Upon approving the application, the Town Tree Warden or his/her representative shall issue said permit. A permit shall be required for planting, spraying, pruning, cutting above ground, removing, or otherwise disturbing any public tree on any street, park or other public place. Road maintenance, reconstruction, and resurfacing done by or under the direction of the Glocester Department of Public Works are excluded. The Town Tree Warden shall issue any permit provided for herein if the proposed method and workmanship shall be of a satisfactory nature and the project shall be consistent with this chapter. Any permit granted shall contain a definite date of expiration and the work shall be completed in the time allowed in the permit and in the manner as therein described. Any permit shall be void if its terms are violated. The Town Tree Board shall be notified by the bearer of said permit upon satisfactory completion of designated work. Plantings. The application required herein shall state the number of trees to be set out or planted on public places, the location, grade, species, cultivar or variety of each tree, the method of planting, and such other information as the Town Tree Warden shall find reasonably necessary to a fair determination of whether a permit should be issued. The Town Tree Warden shall have the right to make the final determination as to location, species, cultivar or variety of each tree and the method of planting before issuing said permit. Maintenance. The application required herein shall state the number and kinds of trees to be sprayed, fertilized, pruned, or otherwise preserved; the kind of treatment to be administered; the composition of the spray material to be applied; and such other information as the Town Tree Warden shall find reasonably necessary to a fair determination of whether a permit should be issued. Removal, replanting and replacement. Wherever it is necessary to remove a tree in connection with the paving of a sidewalk, or the widening of the portion of a street or highway, the Town shall require the party responsible for the paving or widening to replant the tree or replace it as deemed necessary by the Town Tree Board. This requirement will be satisfied if an equivalent number of trees of the same size and species as provided in the Arboricultural Specifications and Standards of Practice are planted within the Town. No person shall remove a public tree for the purpose of construction or any other reason, without first filing an application and procuring a permit from the Town Tree Warden. The Town Tree Warden may require replacement of a removed tree as a condition to the issuance of a permit. Such replacement shall meet the standards of size, species and placement as provided for in a permit issued by the Town Tree Warden. The person or property owner shall bear the cost of removal and replacement of all trees removed. To protect the public, the Town shall require any person who removes or maintains trees on public property as a business to be: Properly licensed to perform such work. Certified by State of Rhode Island or any other agency that regulates arboricultural practices. Covered by Workers' Compensation to the extent required by Rhode Island law and Public liability and personal property insurance in minimum amounts hereinafter mentioned adequate to cover and save harmless the Town of Glocester and its agents from all suits, claims, or actions of every class and nature for or on persons, or property damage caused or claimed to be caused, directly or indirectly, by the conduct of the work contemplated, or by acts of strangers, or any conditions due to the elements or any defects or insufficiencies in any method, material, ways, machinery, equipment or apparatus used in connection with the work. Public liability insurance with limits of not less than $500,000 shall be carried. Bonded. Insured (medical). No person shall hinder, prevent, delay or interfere with the Town Tree Warden or any of his assistants while engaged in carrying out the implementation of this chapter; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed as an attempt to prohibit the pursuit of any remedy, legal or equitable, in any court of competent jurisdiction for the protection of property rights by the owner of any property within the Town. Appeals of the Tree Board's findings may be appealed to the Town Tree Warden. Any adjustment of the standards required by this chapter or an appeal of a decision of the Town Tree Board shall be taken to the Town Tree Warden. The Tree Warden, upon receipt of such request, on forms provided by the Town Tree Warden, shall have the authority and duty to consider an act upon the request. This application shall clearly and in detail state what adjustments or requirements are being requested, reasons such adjustments or requirements are being requested, reasons such adjustments are warranted, and shall be accompanied by such supplementary data as is deemed necessary to substantiate the adjustment. The Town Tree Warden may approve, modify, or deny the requested adjustment, based upon protection of public interest, preservation of the intent of this chapter, and possible unreasonable and unnecessary hardships involved in the case. The Board shall act on the application as expeditiously as possible and shall notify the applicant in writing within five days of the action taken. Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to court action and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of up to $1,000 and/or the value of the trees removed or damaged. In addition, the person shall replace the tree and/or repair damage with a size and species permitted by the Town Tree Warden. Each tree affected by noncompliance with this chapter shall constitute a separate violation. Violation of the chapter shall be the basis of withholding a final inspection permit until such violation is corrected to the satisfaction of the Town Tree Warden and/or Tree Board.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1213
__label__wiki	0.814352	0.814352	Home Personal Financy Iran reportedly frees 4 U.S. prisoners, including journalist, ex-Marine, pastor Iran reportedly frees 4 U.S. prisoners, including journalist, ex-Marine, pastor (CNN) Iran has freed four prisoners from the United States, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency reported Saturday, citing Tehran’s prosecutor. Senior U.S. administration officials confirmed the release as part of a prisoner swap involving seven Iranians held on sanctions charges. The deal comes after more than a year of secret negotiations, the officials said. According to FARS, Iran freed Rezaian, Marine veteran Amir Hekmati and Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, who had been held on various charges. FARS identified the fourth prisoner freed as Nosratollah Khosrawi. Details of Khosrawi’s case were not immediately known. Who is Jason Rezaian? “Based on an approval of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and the general interests of the Islamic Republic, four Iranian prisoners with dual nationality were freed today within the framework of a prisoner swap deal,” FARS quoted the office of the Tehran prosecutor as saying. The announcement comes on a day when the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog is expected to announce whether Iran is in compliance with a July deal to restrict its nuclear program. If the International Atomic Energy Agency certifies that Iran is in compliance, some international economic sanctions against Iran are expected to be lifted. Rezaian was detained by Iran in 2014 and eventually charged with espionage and other crimes, according to the Washington Post. He was the newspaper’s Tehran bureau chief. The newspaper and the United States have called the charges “absurd.” Supporters say he has been denied proper legal representation. The Post released a statement Saturday saying that, “While we are hopeful, we have not received any official word of Jason’s release.” Rezaian’s brother Ali also said he had no immediate confirmation of the news. Hekmati was detained in 2011, weeks after arriving in Iran to visit his grandmother, according to his family’s website. The former Marine infantryman and Arabic and Persian linguist was accused of espionage and other charges in 2012. He appeared on Iranian television and said he was working for the CIA in a confession her mother and the U.S. State Department has said was forced and fabricated. He was later sentenced to death. The punishment was later overturned, but Hekmait was later convicted of “cooperating with hostile governments” and sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to a website set up by his supporters. During his imprisonment, he has suffered from health problems, including weight loss and breathing difficulties, according to his family. Abedini, an Iran native and convert to Christinanity, was arrested in 2012 and convicted the next year on charges of attempting to undermine the Iranian government. He had been sentenced to eight years in prison. His arrest came three years after he had been arrested by Iranian authorities and later released after agreeing to stop organizing churches in homes. His 2012 arrest came during a trip to help build a state-run secular orphanage. The American Center for Law and Justice, a Washington-based group dedicated to protecting religious and constitutional freedoms, reported that Abedini has endured torture during his imprisonment and was beaten by fellow prisoners in June. He suffered injuries to his face during that incident, the center reported. The releases appear to leave unresolved the fate of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent and CIA contractor who disappeared after visiting Iran in 2007. 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__label__cc	0.630845	0.369155	ILLUSTRATION - A plastic construstion worker stands next to a one euro coin in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa/archive ILLUSTRATION - A plastic construstion wo […] Europe's Workforce, Infographic EU reports wide disparities in unemployment across bloc The EU statistics agency Eurostat released its 2018 report showing extremely diverse unemployment rates across Europe. A man casts his ballot during the European Parliament elections on May 25, 2014 at a polling station in Saint-Cloud, outside of Paris. Photo: Fred Dufour /AFP A man casts his ballot during the Europe […] European election, Infographic Falling turnout at European elections: the reasons Voter turnout at European Parliament elections has dropped steadily over the years, hitting a record low of 43 percent at the last poll in 2014. Les députés européens participent à un vote, le 26 mars 2019 au Parlement européen à Strasbourg Les députés européens participent à […] European election, Migrants, Infographic European Parliament: votes highlight east-west split Three votes by the European Parliament in recent years have exposed deep divisions between EU members from the wealthier west and the previously communist east of the bloc. A migrant kneels outside a tent in a make shift camp in the vicinity of the former 'Jungle' camp site, near the northern French port city of Calais on February 18, 2019. Photo: Philippe Huguen / AFP A migrant kneels outside a tent in a mak […] European election, Migrants, Infographic, Photo, Video Migration is burning issue in EU election campaign Migration is resurfacing as a hot topic in the election campaign for the new European Parliament after sowing discord across the EU throughout the outgoing legislature's five-year term. Food and agriculture, Video EU launches billion-euro loan plan for young farmers The European Union has launched a plan to give up to one billion euros in cheaper loans to young farmers, who are often turned away by banks. (L-R) Spanish conservative Popular Party (PP) leader Pablo Casado, far-left Podemos party leader Pablo Iglesias, PM and PSOE candidate Pedro Sanchez and centre-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) leader Albert Rivera wait for the start of a televised debate in Madrid on April 23, 2019 ahead of this weekend's general election. Photo: Javier Soriano / AFP (L-R) Spanish conservative Popular Party […] Election year, Populism, Infographic, Photo Spanish election: Five things to know A third general election in less than four years, the emergence of the far-right, the Catalan crisis... Here are five things to know about Spain's early polls taking place on Sunday. Flags of the European Countries in front of the European Parliament. Photo: Rolf Haid/dpa Flags of the European Countries in front […] European elections: The EU’s Trump moment or business as usual? EU officials worry that the European elections in a month's time could open the door to a new wave of populist, anti-EU politicians hell-bent on wrecking the bloc's modus operandi. But the populists' success will depend on their ability to work together. Leader of The Finns Party Jussi Halla-aho (R) and Party Secretary Riikka Slunga-Poutsalo attend a parliamentary election party in Helsinki, Finland on April 14, 2019. Photo: Vesa Moilanen / Lehtikuva / AFP Leader of The Finns Party Jussi Halla-ah […] European election, Populism, Infographic, Video Finland’s far-right fires new warning ahead of EU polls The strong performance of the far-right in Finland's elections has mirrored the strength of anti-immigrant parties across the continent, just over a month before European parliament elections. Climate change, Energy, Environmental pollution, Infographic, Video Germany opens massive Baltic wind farm German Chancellor Angela Merkel opens a wind farm in the Baltic Sea and hails its "national significance" for the country's "energy transition" towards renewables. Members of the European Parliament take part in a vote. The majority of the EU member states including Germany have voted for the EU copyright reform package on Monday. Photo: Jean-Francois Badias/AP/dpa/archiv Members of the European Parliament take […] EU member states approve contested copyright overhaul The majority of the EU member states have voted for the EU copyright reform package on Monday in order to ensure that artists and publishers are compensated for their work on the internet.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1220
__label__wiki	0.938131	0.938131	Tech directors battle it out: Office 365 or G Suite? Written by Emily Tate When it comes to cloud and classroom management services, school districts are firmly divided — they either favor Microsoft’s Office 365 or Google Apps for Education (G Suite). A panel of five experienced technology directors clashed over the two edtech software programs at ISTE’s annual conference in San Antonio. Each side, loyal to its platform, dove into details for an audience of IT specialists who are either using one of the services now, balancing a combination of both or trying to decide which to adopt. The Office 365 and G Suite platforms share many common features —they’re both cloud-based, free, device-agnostic and offer nearly unlimited storage, online applications and collaboration capabilities. So the panelists — all hailing from schools in Michigan’s Macomb County — described what gives their service an edge over the other. The winner? Well, there really wasn’t one. Both platforms have strong — and similar — offerings, but here’s what their loyalists had to say. The interface is user-friendly, tile-based and allows administrators to control which applications their students can see. For example, in panelist Sarah Monnier-White’s school, the Chippewa Valley Schools, K-5 students don’t have access to emails — a setting determined by administrators. “There are many different apps available — it’s totally customizable to your district,” Monnier-White said. The learning tools have evolved in recent years to become highly sophisticated, too, she said. Many, like speech-to-text software, have replaced services they previously had to bring in from outside. “A software that our school used to pay for to support students with special needs is now built in,” she said. Microsoft’s training resources are especially valuable in helping new tools resonate in an educational setting, Monnier-White said. They helped her learn how to utilize Sway, Microsoft’s presentation program, in the classroom. “It’s not just about how do I use Sway, it’s how do I use Sway in my classroom to support teaching and learning,” she said. “It’s about 21st century learning.” In addition to redesigning OneNote, Microsoft recently launched Microsoft Teams, its chat-based workspace, for Office 365 Education users. This tool will make it easier for teachers to manage different classes and use a single interface for sharing and editing documents, said Craig McBain, another tech director at Chippewa Valley Schools. The Teams function “is really exciting,” McBain said. “We’re dying to try it out when the school year starts.” Like its Microsoft counterpart, the G Suite for Education is highly customizable. Different grade levels and school staff will have varied access to apps within the G Suite, so their screens will all look slightly different. If you have less access, you will have less to manage. “It makes it easier for [students] to identify things,” said David Tchozewski, who recently left his IT director role in Macomb County to work for Discovery Education. For him, one of the biggest draws to Google is its Team Drives. “It solves the headache you have when you have a staff member leave the district,” Tchozewski said. If each teacher keeps his or her own documents, when that teacher leaves, the IT department can’t archive an account without losing all of the resources and information included in those documents. With Team Drives, documents are added and shared with multiple users — they’re not owned by one individual. “So when someone leaves the district, you will not lose access to those documents. That is huge,” he said. Another perk of G Suite is the ease of hosting meetings on Google Hangouts. Michael Antoine, a tech director at Roseville Community Schools, said he holds monthly technology meetings with building representatives. In lieu of orchestrating an in-person gathering, they use Hangouts, which is more convenient for their busy schedules and scattered school locations. The competitive panel did not declare a clear victor, but it did have two main takeaways. First, the panelists advised tech leaders in the audience to pick just one of the classroom management services rather than a piecemeal combination of both. “We’ve cautioned away from using both,” said Nick Pitrone, a panelist from Warren Consolidated Schools. “We really want to foster one spot for all students and staff to share files within a district.” And second, Pitrone, who uses Office 365, said the constant back-and-forth between Microsoft and Google — and the “passionate” exchanges between Office 365 and G Suite supporters — is actually a great thing for IT departments and educators. It urges both companies to keep innovating. “They really help each other out in the long run,” Pitrone said blended learning, computer science, edtech, education IT News, Google Apps for Education, G Suite, ISTE 2017, K-12, Macomb County, Microsoft Office 365, OneNote, STEM, Team Drives	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1221
__label__cc	0.612241	0.387759	‘The Black Box’: New Egyptian Initiative Supporting Local Artists Mirna Abdulaal Improtaza performing in The Black Box (Photo: Nada Mawsouf) How many of us have felt that our daily lives or full-time jobs are holding us back from producing and performing our own art, whether it be film, theatre, dance or music? While there are many companies that merely target full-time artists, there is still no space for other independent artists to gain exposure and share their own original work. ‘The Black Box’ is a wonderful new initiative in Cairo that aims to offer the opportunity and space for these artists. Its main objective is to provide a platform where theatre practitioners, musicians, dancers or other artists can practice, exhibit and experience their art on stage and screen without the burden of marketing and having to rent out a venue. Karim El Alfy, Sarah El Shazly, Reem Shaeed and Laila Ghoneim, the team behind ‘The Black Box’, were initially part of a theatre group as students before they decided to take their own initiative and become their own producers. “As a business major, I wasn’t really involved in the art field until later on when I started to join the university’s theatre production, where I usually performed under the guidance and directing of our professors. After that, Sarah and I began to be more involved in directing, and in the last semester, we were able to become the first students to direct an entire play,” El Alfy told Egyptian Streets. “Directing as students was something not warmly welcomed by everyone, and it took a lot of effort, pushing and convincing for it to happen. So we started to think of having our own platform to showcase our monologues and theatre productions, and this developed to having our own venue and stage to practice our art form.” Without the hassle of renting out a theatre stage, Sarah and Karim opted for more casual venues to provide a much more comfortable and cozy atmosphere for the artists and the audience to experience the art. “The problem is that when most students graduate, they get so occupied with other jobs or finding a job that it becomes harder for them to find a place to show their art to an audience; especially for actors who spend months going into auditions and finding directors, we wanted to provide that opportunity and space for young aspiring artists,” El Alfy notes. AUC Theatre students performing in The Black Box (Photo: Nada Mawsouf) “It is based on three aims: to practice, exhibit and experience. Simply put, it offers a space for artists to practice their art on stage, to showcase in front of an audience and get good good exposure, and lastly for the audience to experience an enjoyable and artistic show,” El Shazly adds. Still a young initiative, The Black Box has impressively already produced two original films and reached over 200 audience members for their third event, helping dozens of talented artists and musicians get exposed. For each monthly event, an application form is put out for the public to submit their monologues, short plays, films, scenes or live musical performances. The latter is reviewed and rehearsed in order to maintain the quality of the performance and shows. “We’ve also exhibited art galleries before, as we realized that people have a number of different talents that are not just confined to theatre and acting, and so we decided to expand our inclusion and allow these artists to also get this opportunity,” El Alfy states. The Black Box also champions independent and original work, ensuring that none of the artists are chained to or constrained by certain boundaries that would inhibit them from exhibiting their own work. “Our motto has always been ‘Do it Yourself’, meaning that there is no producer or director guiding your performance, but instead, you are presenting your very own monologue and film to the audience,” El Alfy notes. Other than presenting and showcasing talents, The Black Box also has other ambitious plans to develop into a theatre company and create professional events for a community of artists to communicate and provide constructive feedback for their work through workshops, talks and discussions. Their next event will take place on Saturday, 22 June in KMT House, Maadi, with a diverse lineup of monologues, scenes, short films, and live music performances. To follow their other works and events, follow their page here. Quick Summer Health Guide From Health Coach and Yoga Instructor Farah Nofal New Eco-Friendly Egyptian Fashion Brand Designed for the Modern-Day Woman Related Itemsartartistscultureegyptfeaturedfilmthe black box Nicki Minaj to Perform at Jeddah Music Festival Beloved Egyptian Actor Ezzat Abou Ouf Passes Away Fayoum Mudbrick ‘Lahun’ Pyramid Open to Public Egyptian StreetsJune 30, 2019 ‘StoryLab: Aswan’: a Nomadic Project Builds Community and Cultivates Creativity Arts & CultureJuly 5, 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1228
__label__wiki	0.976119	0.976119	Home NEWS 15 More Parties to Register 15 More Parties to Register By KYAW THEIN KHA Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Fifteen more parties have confirmed that they will register to take part in this year's election. Fifteen parties have confirmed that they will register for this year's election. The parties will join two other political organizations—the Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics (formerly known as the Union of Myanmar National Political Force) and the 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar)—that registered on Monday to contest the election. Four of the parties planning to register previously belonged to the National Political Alliance (NPA), a group consisting of nine small political parties that was formed after the Burmese junta announced its election law on March 8. Under the law, all parties must register by May 7. Two of the four former NPA members, the Demo NLD and the Reconciliation Research and Analysis Study Group, will register together as the United Democratic Party. The new party plans to contest nationwide. The two other former NPA members will contest the election regionally. The Nationalist NLD (which, like the Demo NLD, includes former members of the NLD) will contest in Mandalay Division and the Union of Myanmar National Force Arakan State will contest in Arakan State. So far, nine parties have told The Irrawaddy that they will contest nationwide, while another six parties say they intend to run in their respective regions. The following parties have registered or plan to register to contest the election nationally: Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics (registered) 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar) (registered) National Unity Party National Political Alliance Union Democratic Alliance Union Solidarity and Development Association (expected to form more than one party) United Democratic Party Peace and Diversity Party A party formed by Phyo Min Thein (the name of the party hasn't been announced yet) A party formed by self-described “Myanmar Bengalis” (the name of the party hasn't been announced) The following parties will contest regionally: Kachin State Progressive Party The Union of Myanmar National Force Arakan State Mon National Democratic Front Karen People's Party Nationalist NLD Scientific National Politics Party, based in Maymyo (Pyin Oo Lwin) The following parties contested in the 1990 election but have not yet registered for this year's election: National League for Democracy Shan National League for Democracy Union Pa-o National Organization Shan State Kokang Democratic Party Mro or Khami National Solidarity Organization Lahu National Development Party Union Karen League Kokang Democracy and Unity Party Wa National Development Party The NLD will decide on whether to register or not on March 29, but the party's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has already stated that she is not in favor of the move. The NUP, which ran as the main junta-backed party during the 1990 election, said it has decided to contest the election and will register next week.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1232
__label__wiki	0.501832	0.501832	Venezuela: illuminati suicide bomber Maduro about to FULLY detonate Started by MattMarriott , Aug 05 2015 02:20 PM Venezuela Maduro suicide bomber illuminati oil bankrupt theater hoax election rigged #1 MattMarriott The whole illuminati economy is based on oil. To get why Venezuela, one of the oil richest countries in the world, "is basically bankrupt again", start with this: "Venezuela first lady runs for congress; spouse's foe blocked". For dummies: yet another bomb by illuminati suicide bomber Maduro detonated as parallel reverse script, to have human cattle get who in this simulated reality is the good and the bad guy. Side note: at the end of the show, guys are replaced with women, from Taiwan to Brazil, in a parallel script to half-sisters Angela, and Hitlery, first women chancellor of Germany and president of the US. Maduro is an illuminazi agent transferring Venezuela's oil almost for free to his illuminati master. Every government of oil producing countries is executing the illuminati script of dumping oil prices, to create endless deception before the end of the show. In fact at this point Venezuela is one of only four countries exporting more than a million barrels a day where production costs are below $50 a barrel. Stage is now set for Maduro's full detonation as suicide bomber: "Venezuela prepares for elections, opposition could win majority" for dummies: Despite all previous Maduro bombs, the election still will have to be rigged to produce the scripted result. The theater "Venezuela vs US" is terminated by his successor, the openly pro-US "opposition". August 5 - Venezuela is basically bankrupt again http://www.washingto...bankrupt-again/ August 3, 2015 - Venezuela first lady runs for congress; spouse's foe blocked http://news.yahoo.co...-182547147.html August 4, 2015 - Venezuela prepares for elections, opposition could win majority http://www.upi.com/T.../2271438608193/ For suicide bombers start with this: Boeing 777 downed in Ukraine's wing to be found in Reunion Island, Indian Ocean - Human cattle mocked to the utter limits. Two gangs of illuminazi suicide bombers in action: - "Putin" and the fake rebels, used to stage MH17 in July 2014 and blame it on the real rebels while pretending to blame it on Ukraine government. - "Netanyahu" and the rest of Israel's government, used to stage the resurrection of Obama Bin Laden with a 9/11 remake at Jerusalem, again with pixels used to simulate the "missing" Boeing 777 crashing on Temple Mount. http://end-of-show.b...d-mh17-not.html Parallelism agenda ranges from supporting psy-op techniques to fulfilling the "in plain sight" commandment of the illuminati religion. Examples at: http://parallel-and-...d.blogspot.com/ For Hitlery Clinton: To what lengths german illuminazis mocked americans. The 44th US president by the last antichrist - the real story. United States since 2008: What REALLY happened - read it again days after Obama's staged arrest, 2015 Obama's full detonation, stripped "first black president" with Hillary Clinton as successor of GW Bush: from countless dedicated actors to veterans Bill Cosby and Al Sharpton. http://last-antichri...y-happened.html http://illuminati-su...y-detonate.html Edited by MattMarriott, 05 August 2015 - 02:50 PM. "Pablo Escobar" is a photoshop job to suggest Maduro. Other than the general agenda "" the association psy-op is part of Maduro's full detonation as suicide bomber. Photo at "Pablo Escobar shows how much power he had" http://finance.yahoo...-151700713.html Mind control techniques: Psy-ops to Destroy logical reasoning: Heliocentrism to fake germanwings crash http://mind-control-...illuminati.html Maduro: suicide bombs at the end of the socialist show set milestone for this type of self-mockery. Venezuela: from no money to self-print to must have self-generators Apr 15, 2016 - "Venezuela to ration malls, change clocks, to save power" This episode is part of the series mocking the simulated reality "anti-imperialist Venezuela regime". More precisely just before the full detonation of suicide bomber playing president Maduro. Note jokes beyond the headlines such as "socialist government says the El Nino weather pattern is to blame for Venezuela's water and power problems." Mockery used to pass subliminal messages This goes beyond the same type of mockery as the "El Nino" punch line: "Maduro also said that from May 1, he planned to change Venezuela's time scheme as another way to save electricity. "I'll explain that in the next few days," said Maduro, whose predecessor Hugo Chavez famously put Venezuela's clocks back half an hour in 2007 to allow children to wake up in daylight." What these lines tell: - to the human cattle: the socialist show is over. Reminder: May 1, the international worker's day, is the deadline; the time scheme that changes is the same as months earlier in Argentina. - about illuminati scripts: even such details are most of the times scripted years in advance. "clocks set back half an hour by Chavez in 2007" part of the message passed with this Maduro bomb now. One week earlier: End of Show milestone for Venezuela and beyond As grotesque as this episode is, it's stil no match for what iwas not only the climax of this series but also sets an "end of show" type of milestone for the detonation of suicide bombers: "Venezuela Is So Broke It Can’t Even Print Its Own Money". Simulated reality at the End of Show: Consequences of pushing its self-mockery this far The article "Venezuela to ration malls, change clocks, to save power" does mention a previous episode of the same series: "The president had already ... raised eyebrows by urging women to cut usage of hair dryers." But why does it omit any mention of ""Venezuela Is So Broke It Can’t Even Print Its Own Money", the climax of this series, that had just been released ? Because there are limits for adding the same type of extreme mockery, as even the human cattle can start questioning this "reality". Suicide bombs served as "news": article illustrate two types of limits set to prevent human cattle from computing 1+1 sums 1. Quantitaive limits, all "ones" in the sum are of the same type. The climax for mocking the simulated reality "socialist Venezuela" was omited. In other words: the "ones" include "must-have self-generators" and "cut usage of hair dryers" but NOT "don't have money to self-print it". 2. Qualititative limits, the classic one, served with about EVERY "news": omiting the member that leads to a logical conclusion questioning the whole story. In other words: the "ones" nclude the jokes about "Venezuela's energy problems" (in fact what the headlines are about) but NOT that Venezuels is one of the world's largest oil producers. Related note: this could exceptionally be included in the same type of "news", i,e, related to Maduro's suicide bombs, but this would always be ommited: oil "prices" are about half of the production costs for shale oil in the United States. Apr 7, 2016 - The Venezuelan Government Has an Outstanding Debt of Over $71 million to Its Printer The world’s most renowned banknotes, coins and paper printing house, De La Rue, based in England, demanded that the Central Bank of Venezuela pay up US$262,647,997 in fees for printing money and passports, among other goods. In a letter last month,De La Rue Director Ruth Euling told Director of the BCV José Khan that being a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange, the institution has an obligation to declare their financial position “if at any time it deviates from expectations.” https://panampost.co...ke-print-money/ Apr 15, 2016 - Venezuela to ration malls, change clocks, to save power President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday punitive electricity rationing would be imposed on 15 shopping malls and drought-hit Venezuela's time zone would also be modified to save power. Many of the South American OPEC nation's 29 million people are suffering daily, unscheduled water and electricity cuts as levels recede at the Guri dam complex providing nearly two-thirds of power needs. Maduro, 53, whose popularity has suffered amid a national economic crisis and stuttering public services, said some major shopping centers had failed to supply their own generators despite being told to do so five years ago. "The time has come to take a drastic rationing measure against a group of about 15 malls who did not obey the law and are consuming without conscience at a critical moment due to the 'El Nino' phenomenon," he said, without giving further details. The socialist government says the El Nino weather pattern is to blame for Venezuela's water and power problems. But critics insist the state is also responsible for inadequate preparation, investment and diversification of electricity sources. Maduro also said that from May 1, he planned to change Venezuela's time scheme as another way to save electricity. "I'll explain that in the next few days," said Maduro, whose predecessor Hugo Chavez famously put Venezuela's clocks back half an hour in 2007 to allow children to wake up in daylight. In a further bid to save energy, Maduro also decreed Monday a holiday, on top of a Tuesday national anniversary. The president had already given public workers Fridays off, and raised eyebrows by urging women to cut usage of hair dryers. https://www.yahoo.co...-002148870.html Reminder from Last Prophet's words from Aug 2015: Kirchner, Roussef, Morales, Maduro, suicide bombers transferring national assets to central illuminati safes dressed as "leftists": ALL will now FULLY detonate. For a start: Argentina: Crisitna Kirchner blows herself up weeks before Maduro in Venezuela. Millions protesting in Brazil against Dilma is paradoxically the major obstacle to the script. Venezuela is the ultimate example for treason, as expected from the BIG LIE framework, The "globalized" economy is based on oil. To get why Venezuela, one of the oil richest countries in the world, "is basically bankrupt again", start with this: Basic facts about human cattle - self explains why reading it won't have you weep about yourself The one that is relevant in this context: #6: Almost no limits to what it will digest each time it's fed with "news". In other words: human cattle will recognize neither mockery nor contradiction let alone take the right conclusions while consuming "news", even when this is reduced to only one article or report. This inability to compute 1+1 sums upon facts, real or true, even when presented in the same article, also means: almost no limits for serving any script as "news". http://human-cattle....hy-reading.html Oil "market" even more extreme than Hamburgers and the rest of fast food, where more than 90%, from McDonald's to Burger King, served by one and the same entity, the illuminati. Fake oil market: Control of oil production, fake oil prices: OIL wells, rigs, platforms: worldwide only Idlib, Syria, Mosul, Iraq and East Timor not controlled by the illuminati Why oil price is half of its average production cost in the USA: - for dummies Two main reasons: 1. From "Putin" to Venezuela, from Saudi Arabia to Iran, from Nigeria to Angola: ALL illuminazi puppets transferring as much oil as they can to illuminati depots. 2. The oil futures currently being traded are not meant to be actually supplied. http://good-economic...l-below-us.html End of Show: Differences to all other shows, self-named (business, reality, real Truman) or not http://end-of-show.b...med-or-not.html Illuminati suicide bombers: black "Obama", "Putin", FIFA's Blatter, IAAF's Coe Illuminati suicide bombers: One of the longest detonations, ongoing since the 1975 coup: Israel government destroying Israel from within. Full detonations: past: from "Nixon's resignation after Watergate" to "Ukraine's Yanukovich fleeing to Beijing". coming: from "black Obama confessing the most sophisticated conspiracy in the History of Politics to Oprah" to "Putin fleeing Moscow to Beijing". Part of the same BIG BANG series as - "Pope Francis confesses the most sophisticated conspiracy in the History and Religion and Pedophilia" - "evil jews of the Federal Reserve confess the most sophisticated conspiracy in the History of Finance" http://illuminati-su...ers-basics.html All in Blog http://good-economic...ey-to-self.html Same as this example illustrated by two other suicide bombers, pope and Morales, who is casted in the same "leftist South America" series as Maduro- see what is highlighted in red. Side note: Sanders, same as "pope Francis", casted in the container series "socialist show", has the exact same leading role paving the way for Clinton as Maduro for the coming "pro-american" president. Ecuador hit by major earthquake as its president still at the Vatican and pope Francis already at Lesbos. Apr 18, 2016 - On the 110th anniversary of the BIG ONE at San Francisco. Last Prophet explains below what happened in the last days, under headlines found nowhere else. Apr 15, 2016, Three illuminati suicide bombers playing socialists visit the "socialist Vatican" Sanders comes together with two visitors from the cast of the series "leftists control South America" now turning into "leftists replaced by pro-american governments". As served in the Daily Mail article, a newspaper that reads like an illuminati set of tarot cards: 1. Old "jew" Bernie Sanders, democratic presidential candidate Casted in the illuminati joke "Pope becomes a key player in the US election: after attacking Trump he now endorses Sanders". Mockery is served with the photo's caption replacing "Sanders takes the campaign to the Vatican" by "Vatican draws Sanders away from the campaign": Reminder: Sanders has the leading role of having human cattle accept "Hillary Clinton elected president" with yet another impossible result: "66 million votes" while diisliked by 98%. 2. Bolivia's president Morales, former coca producer He appears n the first photo together with Sanders. The punch line of his previous meeting with the pope was scripted as milestone for illuminati jokes of the type "offers accepted by a fake pope": the communist crucifix. Unmatched by the punch line this time: "an eyebrow raising gift: three books on the health benefits of coca leaf, the raw material of cocaine that is chewed throughout the Andes as a mild stimulant and an antidote to altitude sickness." Yet the second photo is not about the punch line this time let alone the milestone joke, which is not even mentioned but rather a diversion: "a handcrafted bust of Bolivia's indigenous leader Tupac Katari". 3.Ecuador's president Correa. http://end-time-sign...-visits-to.html Edited by MattMarriott, 19 April 2016 - 09:27 AM. #5 Shura Are you sure you are OK Matt? Maybe you should see a shrink #6 Nemesis Guy is nuts. Maduro is carrying on the Bolivarian Revolution from Hugo Chavez and is under attack, like BRICS, from ameriKKKan imperialism. There must be thousands Spanish speaking CIA agents in Venezuela, by now trying by hook and by crook to derail social reforms of Chavez #8 wirehaired wirehaired The Reich has alredy started the attack on Brazil,there are many quislings in Brazil and Venezuela,thats how the Reich works,they will buy a few top Generals and Politicians if that doesn't work they go for the Syrian option of naked Terrorism,when we are dealing with such people you have to be brutal at times,Yanukovych paid the price for being too soft. WELL THEY MANAGED TO KILL CHAVEZ AND CHE, MAYBE THEY WILL SUCCEED IN KILLING MADURO, BUT IT IS UP TO VENEZUELANOS IF THEY WANT TO GO BACK TO BEING THE SLAVES OF THE RICH OR NOT! #10 baltoga baltoga Venezuela is falling into the sewer without their oil $$$. Good news Miami, FL has booming real estate compliments of the Chavez-nomics policies. #11 Shura Yeah sure Miami is now becoming a sewer of either super rich or dirt poor, which one are you? I'm rich in culture and see the world from all viewpoints. Miami is a fun city for all! #13 Radio1 Speaking of oil, Kuwait’s oil workers end 3-day strike over pay cuts that nearly halved output https://www.rt.com/n...oil-strike-ends Over 7,000 oil and gas workers have ended a three-day strike to protest government plans to cut wages and benefits, according to local newspaper reports. The strike has cut Kuwait’s oil production by almost half. The labor union said on Twitter that the strike succeeded in sending a clear message to the government. According to the statement, the workers were able to show that they are the backbone of the economy, as oil output dramatically suffered. “In honor of His Highness the Emir, on the basis of the principle of love and loyalty to His Highness, we decided to cancel the strike,” the statement concluded. The end of the strike was announced just hours after Kuwait’s acting oil minister, Anas al-Saleh, refused to negotiate until the workers had returned to their jobs, adding that oil production would continue. “We cannot sit down at the negotiating table with the unions during a strike. We will achieve the impossible to continue to operate the oil sector despite the strike,” Saleh told Kuwaiti TV channel al-Rai. Thousands of Kuwait oil workers go on strike against pay cuts https://t.co/T01fUQU90tpic.twitter.com/ucrYKxbi92 — RT (@RT_com) April 17, 2016 Oil and gas workers were striking against government plans to reduce salaries and benefits, as well as layoff staff. Meanwhile, non-Kuwaiti employees continued to work. “The overall number of workers exceeds 13,000, and here we have 7,000 [taking part in the strike],” TASS quoted the oil workers’ union chief, Saif al-Qahtani, as saying at the beginning of the strike. Kuwait is OPEC’s third largest oil producer, with deposits amounting to eight percent of the world’s reserves. The cut in Kuwaiti oil production has boosted crude futures on the commodity market. The walkout capped Kuwait Oil Company’s (KOC) output at 1.1 million barrels per day, down from a normal level of about 3 million barrels per day. By Tuesday, production had already been bumped up to around 1.5 million barrels per day, however. Also tagged with one or more of these keywords: Venezuela, Maduro, suicide bomber, illuminati, oil, bankrupt, theater, hoax, election, rigged Forums → Main Forum → Venezuela recent news Started by grog , 28 Mar 2019 Venezuela preparations to invade Venezuela Started by grog , 28 Feb 2019 Venezuela Ivan88 Coral Springs FL School shooting hoax & illuminati icon Ronaldo 6 weeks from Obama Bin Laden's resurrection Started by MattMarriott , 15 Feb 2018 Coral Springs, School, shooting and 7 more... 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__label__wiki	0.6212	0.6212	US-China Tech Cold War Puts Europe in the Middle By root Last updated Jun 4, 2019 US China Tech Cold War Puts Europe in the Middle But President Trump and other U.S. officials should seize the opportunity to strengthen transatlantic ties. A decade ago, a European scholar asked a Chinese scholar, “What does China-European strategic partnership look like?” The Chinese scholar responded: “We hope that when China goes to war with the United States, Europe will at least remain neutral.” The looming “tech cold war” between the United States and China may now provide an initial test of that proposition. In May, Google became the first of many U.S. tech firms to announce its split from Chinese telecom giant Huawei in compliance with a new U.S. Commerce Department regulation. If implemented stringently, the regulation—which prohibits U.S. firms from doing business with Huawei without a government license—would shake the tech and telecom industries worldwide, potentially delay Europe’s 5G rollout plans, and begin to decouple the U.S. and Chinese tech sectors in the name of national security. Stuck in the middle will be Europe. Europe is emerging as the telecom battleground in the new U.S.-China technology Cold War. For Google, the Commerce rule means that Huawei phones – which constitute roughly one-quarter of the European market – will no longer carry the licensed Android operating system or Google’s suite of apps including Gmail, YouTube, and Chrome. For U.S. microchip firms that supply Huawei, it means cutting ties. Even if Huawei finds alternatives to U.S. hardware, ultimately European consumers could face a stark choice: cheap Huawei phones or YouTube. Moreover, the blacklisting of Huawei attempts what Trump administration pressure in Europe over the last four months has failed to do: slow down the integration of Huawei into Europe’s 5G networks. The House intelligence committee made its views clear back in 2012: using Huawei-made components in critical networks poses an unacceptable national security risk. But U.S. diplomats, who have offered neither a viable 5G alternative nor convincing risk assessments, have failed to convince key European allies. Receive daily email updates: Subscribe to the Defense One daily. Be the first to receive updates. Related: A New Consensus Is Emerging On How to Handle The Risk from China’s 5G Related: The US-China Tech War Is Being Fought in Central Europe Related: Cyber Deterrence Done Right: The Coordinated Actions Against Huawei The new blacklisting is a far more aggressive tool. (Though it still lacks a 5G plan.) Huawei smartphones and wireless infrastructure rely on U.S. telecom components, from processors and modems to programmable and switching chips to high-performance radio frequency parts. In the wake of the announcement, Spanish firm Telefonica (who works with Huawei on 5G) has said that it is reviewing the order for its implications. UK’s Vodaphone and EE pressed pause on using Huawei handsets in 5G network launches. Beyond Europe, Japanese mobile carriers Y! Mobile and KDDI have delayed sales of new Huawei smartphones due to security concerns. Europe has been thrust in the unenviable middle because of its deep economic ties with China. If it stays there, there will be profound and dangerous implications for security. Huawei’s economic embedding in Europe has all but taken the smart national security choice off the table. For the UK and Germany to invest in secure 5G infrastructure, it would mean rejecting the cheaper Huawei alternative. In some cases, it would also mean voiding political promises of national connectivity tied to rural economic development. Extricating Huawei from European 5G networks is an enormous financial and political undertaking. To avoid more costly security risks in the future, it is a necessary one. The speed with which companies announced their withdrawal from Huawei following the Commerce department restriction serves as a reminder of the power of government policy to influence corporate behavior—even in the world of high-tech, where it sometimes feels impossible. The United States now has an opportunity to wield that power to strengthen its transatlantic ties, give Europe an alternative economic choice on 5G, and in so doing invest in collective security that pulls Europe out of its middling state. For one, we can drop the “us-versus-them” mindset when it comes to our allies and support the development of European advanced technology industries—telecom and artificial intelligence most critically. Joint funding arrangements, translational capacity-building that takes innovations from the lab (which Europe excels at) to the market (which it doesn’t) or DARPA-like models that look to the future would be a start. Second, the United States needs a 5G plan – or even a 6G plan – that it can sell to its allies in place of the Huawei model. There will be financial costs and likely delays in rollouts. But if rejecting Huawei in 5G networks is a bitter economic and political pill that needs to be swallowed (and it does), our allies need a path forward. This week, President Trump personally relays the anti-Huawei message across the Atlantic: Intelligence sharing over 5G networks that are one security update away from sending information to the Chinese Communist Party are not viable means of communicating U.S. national secrets. He should couple that admonition with a plan that takes both the United States and Europe forward economically and technologically.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1239
__label__wiki	0.697341	0.697341	Epic Rap Battles of History News Season 6 - When Will ERB Return? Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd released a cut-throat rap battle venting their internal issues with each other. Showing the real battles behind the scenes are personal. If you haven't seen the last episode yet, make sure you watch the season 5 finale to see what we mean: https://youtu.be/0mbGUld2w-s But does that mean the series is over? Let's take a look at an interview quote from Lloyd Ahlquist, "About the popularity of Epic Rap Battles – it’s awesome to be recognized from that. But I wanted to see what else I can do and where else I can go.” Lloyd has tried branching out from ERB, not to find more success, but just projects that are more fun, where he has more control over creative direction. Nice Peter seems to be focusing more on his personal life - as he hasn't been as active on social media or his channels. However, the duo have been touring together doing live Epic Rap Battle concerts. But the big questions are: Will they return to create new Epic Rap Battles after the tour? When will the series return for season 6? Will both Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd still create them together? We expect the series to come back for it's 6th season, but not right after the tour. The two will likely take some time for themselves. The first step towards new ERBs will likely be Nice Peter creating content on his own channel, which will likely be sometime later next year. ERB News, ERB Speculation Brad - 09-15-2017 I hope it comes back soon man... Hound - 09-16-2017 please don't be next year NukeL3AR - 12-05-2017 I hope they start soon, this site is dying Frizzzke - 12-23-2017 i think new season must to come 26 december...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1240
__label__wiki	0.945621	0.945621	Home / Film UK / Gladiator 2 with Russell Crowe? A new sequel is in the works By FIN Staff / 12 June 2019 © DreamWorks A sequel to Ridley Scott’s legendary ‘Gladiator’ starring Russell Crowe is in the works according to the original film’s producers. In an interview with Hey U Guys, the producers of the first film speak about the sequel where it would be set 25-30 years after the events of the first movie. The original ‘Gladiator’ movie starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix and Connie Nielsen received numerous awards including the Best Picture Oscar and went on to gross over $450 million worldwide. The sequel is currently being written by Peter Craig (Credits include 'The Town', 'Blood Father') and will be potentially directed again by Ridley Scott who is working with producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. ‘Gladiator’ was released in 2000 and filmed on location in Morocco, Malta and the U.K. The famous opening battle sequence in the original film was shot at the Bourne Woods near Farnham, which in the story was set in Germania AD 180, during Roman times. At the time of its release, ‘Gladiator’ was hailed as a groundbreaking movie with masterful storytelling and is considered one of the best films of all time. Gladiator trailer Will ‘Gladiator 2’ make it to the big screen? Following the events of the last film, it is conceivable that there will be a completely new cast and different set of events however details have yet to be revealed. Would you see a sequel to the original ‘Gladiator’ film? Share your opinion with us: @filminetworkUK William Shatner, Brendan Fraser among stars heading to London Film & Comic Con Stop Cyberbullying Day short film with Chessie King reveals powerful message Hard Brexit will provide Hollywood studios with a 20% tax break Brexit movie producer facing jail for fake earnings scam Shatterhand, not stirred. Bond film title ‘leaked’ Advertise on Film Industry Network Upload press release to the Network James Bond 25 is getting an 'emergency' re-write Hobbs & Shaw first trailer passes 24 million in a day as hype builds ‘Ultimate’ Beatles movie is going into production	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1247
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__label__cc	0.606709	0.393291	over 1042 reasons to be optimistic What’s Our Waste Worth? A Fresh Look a the Value of Our World’s Plastic WasteWhat if we saw plastic waste as a valuable commodity and not just trash? The plastics littering our beaches and streets are an untapped resource just waiting to be explored by creative entrepreneurs around the world. Find out how! Our Phones are Designed to be Addicting. But Here’s How We Can Take Back Control!Want to taste true freedom? Turns out our phones are designed to make us slaves to their allure. Here are the keys to understanding what's going on and breaking free! Turning Plastic Bags into Speakers!Some of the most important innovators of our time are finding ingenious ways to look at waste as a resource. Here's a clever group that has found an artistic and functional way to use single-use plastic bags! Old Cellphones: The Key to Stopping Climate ChangeDeforestation causes more emissions than all of the cars and trucks on our planet combined, so what can we do to stop it? Could the unlikely hero in this story be the old cell phone tucked away in your junk drawer? It is! Read on and you'll see problem-solving at its best! The Playgrounds Encouraging Safer Play by Using Hammers and Nails!Could a playground with hammers, nails, shovels, and building materials actually make play safer? Adventure playgrounds are helping kids develop valuable life skills, letting them experiment with controlled risk, and encouraging creativity, exploration, and self-confidence! How a High School in a Nursing Home is Changing LivesWhat if we saw this new wave of people reaching retirement as a new generation of mentors? Connecting youth and older adults has remarkable benefits for everyone! Heres how one program is helping lead the way for whats possible. Stamford Peace Project: Classroom, Community and the Potential of Youth SportsWhat would our schools look like if we made the most of the amazing untapped potential involving 45 million kids? There is a model for an entirely fresh approach to all youth athletics that would ensure students would leave the system at any level, with a remarkable toolbox of coping skills, character assets, and academic strength to access for the rest of their lives. Now here's what innovation looks like at its best! How Teaching Improv Skills to Scientists Will Change the FutureWhat would the world look like for us all if we could understand each other better? Alan Alda may be best known for his skills as an actor in the hit series MASH but for the past two decades, he has been educating scientists on how they can communicate their important work to all of us. His methods aren't just for Ph.D.'s though, they are skills every one of us can use to become better communicators! This is Day One (On Day Two)What would our world look like if we were all tuned into recognizing and calling out the good in others? Could pride, trust, and potential soar? It is possible, and the fantastic Drew Dudley will help us with it. How to Catch the Winds of LuckWhat if you could have more luck without just wishing for it? Here's a Stanford Professor, with decades of research, pointing to 3 simple ways to start increasing the odds of finding more "good luck" in your life! Ever Wonder How Your Work is Measuring Up? This May Help!Have you ever doubted your ability to finish something you've started? What's inside this article may help you rethink your expectations. Here's an amazing insight about trusting our guts, from one man's journey through a 400-page molecular gastronomy cookbook (whew!) Leon Logothetis is Proving the Kindness of Strangers is Alive and Well!Is it possible to travel the country only relying on the kindness of strangers? The person we're highlighting in this piece proves it is! Take a look at the impact this has on peoples lives and how we can all tap into the kindness all around us. All Thought Leaders SeaLegacy: Celebrating Our Oceans and Saving Our FutureHow do we change hearts and minds to bring people together to save some of the planet's most precious resources? If we were waiting for just the right organization to lead us all to a better future, they may have arrived! Take a look! What if We Celebrated What’s Right with the World?As a National Geographic photographer, Dewitt Jones learned a lot about reframing the way he looks at the world. Here are the remarkable insights he has on what we can do to find what's right with the world and start to see beauty more often. The Simple Secrets to Bring More Joy to Life!Do you want to experience more joy? It's actually pretty easy to make that happen! Joy is a deeply ingrained part of who we are, and there are small actions we can all take to surround ourselves with more of it. Take a look! The Unexpected Place You’ll Find Your Best Creative ImpulsesWhat's the key to getting our best creative impulses to surface? Well, Tim Harford believes that it's waiting for us in the "messes"; the very things that seem like obstacles in the heat of the moment. Here are some ideas on how our frustrations and the unexpected can be exactly what we need to create our best work. Take a look! Education Enrichment An Amazing Journey to the 2020 Olympics: An Underdog StoryWhy do we love a good underdog story? Maybe it says a little bit about the way we connect with others through shared determination and grit. If you love to root for the underdog, prepare to meet the Zambian National handball team; a truly inspiring underdog on a journey to the 2020 Olympics. Happiness & Hope Taking on the Fundy Footpath!Have you ever been inspired to embrace a passion for something and then quickly realized you don't have the training to enjoy it as you imagined? Maybe what we can appreciate is something very different than what we had in mind, and that makes the adventure even better. So, What’s it like to Grow Older?We have something that's going to make you feel a whole lot better about growing older. These masters of aging gracefully and keeping your spirit lively have a few tips for us all! The Warmer the Better! Right?Here's an inspiring way to look at what will actually happen to our individual lives if, as predicted, it gets 4 degrees warmer. But this is a new approach: a refreshing look with a little humor and uplifting thoughts on climate change and how we are all empowered to transform the future. Micro-Preemie Turns 21: A Success Story for Everyone!When life gets difficult there's always something we can learn and use for the rest of our lives. 21 years ago, Dr. Lynda (EWC's founder) gave birth to a 1 pound baby when she was just into the 5th month of her pregnancy. She picked up a few pearls of wisdom in the years that followed—here are 12. Is Happiness Truly Our End Goal?Most of us are running around looking to hold on to this thing called happiness, but these seem to be fleeting moments. Should we be focusing on something else instead? Listen to writer Emily Esfahani Smith's eye opening insight in her TED Talk! Your Dog is Traveling Through Time… With Their Nose! From finding missing people, sniffing out bombs, and even detecting health problems, dogs' remarkable sense of smell continues to impress. But what's actually going on inside those beloved noses? Explore Joy, Wonder, and Insight in an Unexpected Package: Goats!Let's get to know an animal with fascinating adaptations for survival and 10,000-year history beside us! We're going to investigate the world of these split-hooved, 280-degree peering creatures. Join us for a pajama party, a look into what makes a goat a living marvel, and how they can help us innovate! Explore the Unseen Depths of our Oceans on One Breath Around the WorldOften the most extraordinary windows are opened for us when someone takes us on a journey we could never have gone on without them. Here is an extraordinary view of the unseen 70% of our planet. The video feels like a breathtaking freefall into wonder. Here’s What Killer Whales Have in Common with Your Grandmother!Killer whales have more in common with your grandmother than you may think. It's a fascinating story and an opportunity for all of us to easily make the world a little better place today! Turns out, some wise elders of the Pacific Northwest, grandmother killer whales, are at a tipping point for their survival, but we can influence that quickly. This is an amazing story and a chance to be change-makers! Hunting for a Solution to the Damage from Wild PigsWild pigs are one of the most destructive invasive species in the United States. They're devastating ecosystems, destroying agriculture, killing other animals, and costing billions of dollars in damage. But there's something that we can do, and it all ties back to who our species is at our roots. All Creativity How Space Can Heal What Divides Us!Why is it that when astronauts leave this planet they come back humanitarians and artists? Here's a perspective from a filmmaker who has stood next to and interviewed some of the greatest space explorers of our time on how the lessons we've learned from space exploration may help us to be more empathetic, compassionate, and bring us together. Can You Hear the Golden Ratio?Could there really be a universal ratio that unites beauty, nature, and art? The Golden Ratio can be found all over the place if you know where to look. But did you know it's found in music too? Is this coincidence, on purpose, or a creative tool? We'll let you test it out and decide for yourself! Meet the Dancer Combining Sign Language & Hip HopShaheem Sanchez lost his hearing as a child, but now as a professional dancer, teacher, and advocate he is on a mission to make ASL dance a movement. His work points to possibilities all around us, probably hiding in plain sight, if we can just eliminate our assumptions. The Fascinating Story Behind Why We Dance!We seem to be born to do it and it may even be a key to our success as a species! So why was it that dancing became engrained in the fabric of being human? This video clues us in on how dance has shaped human life throughout our evolution. And we can't help but ask: could dance actually help us through difficult times now? Building Futures One Plié at a TimeIn a place where violence reigns, girls are finding refuge in a surprising way—and it's all thanks to one amazing woman. How Music Reshapes Our BrainsHave you ever gotten chills when the right song comes on? What about that feeling of euphoria you experience singing your favorite song at the top of your lungs on a beautiful day? Is this just a quirk of humanity or is there something deeper going on here that connects us to our shared humanity? Science has some pretty remarkable answers to these questions! Bringing the Symphony to the StreetWe have all felt the connective and uplifting power of a great musical performance. But what if you couldn't access to those moments that most feed your soul? Thanks to the work of a remarkable organization, the residents of LA facing homelessness and incarceration, these moments are no longer lost. Alys Beach, the Town Transformed by Color After DarkFor one weekend every year, the entire town of Alys Beach transforms. As the sun dips below the horizon, the walls of their houses are doused in art from around the world. Check out how this unique town is embracing what they have, and giving the world a new way to experience art. Bringing Color Back to our PastWhat stories do images from the past tell us? How might they speak to us differently if we could easily see ourselves reflected in them? Stories Behind the Faces of PowerWhat if we removed the veil of power and could see people at "the top" for who they really are? Here's a photographer whose stories do just that! Here’s How Seizure Detecting Dogs are Changing People’s LivesCan dogs really be life-savers? Meet the dogs that are helping their owners detect seizures up to 45 minutes before they occur! It's a fascinating story. These pups are making life safer and easier for people who suffer from seizures. The Extinction of Silence and the Man Who is Saving ItModern noises find us almost everywhere we go, and it's having an impact on our health! But Gordon Hempton is leading the charge to protect and preserve the places we have left. (Make sure you have your headphones when you pop into this) The Unexpected Ways Surfing is Helping Youth HealLife is tough, but it's a whole lot easier when we're around people who share similar experiences in a no pressure environment. Waves for Change is one of the organizations out there harnessing the power of sport and play to create environments where children are able to open up and heal! Preserving Our Nights Skies: A Mission Beyond the StarsWhen was the last time you gazed up at the stars of the night sky? Imagine if future generations didn't have access to that wonder? Light pollution impacts 80% of humanity, and it can have serious impacts on our health and the planet. Here are the people working to save our dark skies and the easy ways you can make a positive impact too. Happy Birthday Mae Jemison!The story of Mae Jemison's life is one about pursuing your dreams and striving for better. And tomorrow's her birthday! So let's celebrate. Lessons on Being Prepared from One of the World’s Best Extreme AthletesStarting a new job, a new chapter in life, or maybe just doing something you've always wanted to do? Extreme athletes may seem like unlikely sources of inspiration, but their skill at how to avoid panic can be a great example of what we can do in our own lives! #ConspiracyofGoodness: A Movement That’s Changing our FutureWhy don't we know about the awe-inspiring people who are making the world a better place? There is already a movement underway of people working towards a better collective future and you're already a part of it. This is the Conspiracy of Goodness, the movement all around us just waiting to be celebrated! Empathy is the Renewable Resource We Can Tap Into NowWhat if empathy was at the heart of the solution to changing the divisiveness that feels so dominant now? It turns out empathy isn't a set trait, it's something we can learn to develop, and it's super easy to start! Here's how you can easily start making a positive change! Walk Through the City You Didn’t Know You Were Smelling Everyday!Perfume has influenced our lives for more than 4000 years! But did you know many of the perfumes we know best today have their origins in the fields and flowers of one city in France? Let's travel to this city behind some of the most iconic smells in history to learn how perfume has shaped our cultures. Tradition on the TrackSince the invention of the wheel, racing has been a part of life... but why do millions of people come together around car racing? Its appeal, like so many other sports, begins with something simple: community. Mole Poblano Asuncion: The Sauce Made with 3 Generations of LoveWhat tastes like home to you? When we're far from home, food can bring us comfort and make us feel a little less homesick. The three generations of women at Mole Poblano Asuncion are bringing the flavors of Mexico to those who miss it most in New York City. Here's their remarkable story! Tasting Peru: from Sea to Summit, the Andes to the AmazonOur foods and their traditions tell the stories of who we are. And even when we can't seem to find common ground with someone on anything else, we can find common ground around the dinner table! Food is powerful. So we're traveling to one of the most diverse foodscapes in the world to see how they're preserving the legacy of their remarkable culinary culture! How to Sail Around the World Without GPS or Technology — Just Ancient Knowledge!How in the world did ancient mariners navigate the vast oceans before GPS or technology? These techniques were almost a lost art. That is, until 2013, when Hōkūleʻa set sail to travel around the globe. Take a look at this remarkable ship's voyage and how her crew is preserving the Polynesian tradition of open ocean navigation. Celebrating a Global Communi-TEA!Did you know you probably have some fascinating connection to tea? This beverage has reshaped history and cultures around the world and led to many aspects of our lives today. So what does that say about some of the universals of human nature and our shared humanity? Into the Fascinating World of Pop-Ups!There are very few things in life that promise to delight and fascinate us at any age. And it turns out, pop-up books are one of them! They have a fascinating history as a practical wonder and offer a welcomed expansion of our common notions. This is some pretty fun stuff, take a look! What We’ve Learned from 5 Years of Curating the WebWant an antidote for the daily news, without completely abandoning ship? We're celebrating 5 years of publishing "the rest of the story" here at Ever Widening Circles! So join us as we point you to some of the amazing topics we've discovered while curating the web for the insights and innovations being missed by most. Gunpowder, Stars, Art, and… Bigfoot?When you see fireworks, you're witnessing an art form with a surprisingly rich history. How fireworks grew from scaring away a creature of lore to the beautiful spectacle today is an incredible story that will leave you with a little more awe the next time you see the night sky light up. Want to Help Us Create the Antidote for the Daily News?Ever wonder if there is anything you could do, personally, to affect the direction of things? Turns out there is! You can easily help us get the word out that this is still an amazing world and we can actually change the negative dialogue together! Here's how... Saturdays Around the World How Spain’s Human Towers Define CommunityHow do you build a tower of people 50 feet tall and weighing as much as three elephants? Maybe more importantly, why? The castell builders of Catalonia, Spain are, quite literally, the definition of an uplifting and supportive community. Ever Widening Circles is curating the #ConspiracyofGoodness! \| Read More [ Stories ] A Reminder that Good Still Exists Written by Dr. Lynda “I have to say, ever since we met I have really been enjoying EWC. Especially given the last week’s events in our country – your site is a welcome respite and a great reminder of the good that still exists in humanity.” This is a message we received the week after the infamous white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 13, 2017. You may remember that there was nothing but racial tensions in the news for a week! This inspiring comment came from the personal assistant of a world famous thought leader who we visited at his lab just a couple weeks earlier. She and I met and seemed to instantly “recognize” some deeply shared sentiments about the world and possibility. What a gem she is, and how lucky this fellow is to have her taking care of business. Christine echoes a common theme in the comments we get frequently. Namely, we seem to be a refreshing alternative to the 24-hour news cycle. We are delighted to fill that role in the media landscape and that’s why we are so careful about checking and citing our sources. Furthermore, we want to be the trusted and credible place people turn for meaningful insights and wonder. You can learn more about our founding story. Our Story! On a side note: if you’d like to see a fabulous article that will expand your worldview about the troubles in Charlottesville, we happen to have written one some time ago that is suddenly very relevant! 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__label__wiki	0.952949	0.952949	Batman wants to join Team Marvel in Conan O'Brien's Comic-Con parody Conan O’Brien took the Marvel-DC fan feud to new heights in a Comic-Con parody sketch that finds the heroes of both cinematic worlds stuck in the same cafeteria together. With the host of Conan cosplaying as a Batman who yearns for a spot on the Avengers team, the sketch kicked off O’Brien’s residency at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. At the DC table, Workaholics‘ Blake Anderson became Aquaman, You’re the Worst‘s Chris Geere played Superman, and Andy Richter played Robin, Boy Wonder. At the Marvel table, Bob’s Burgers‘ Rob Huebel was Iron Man, Keanu‘s Keegan-Michael Key was Black Panther, Anchorman‘s David Koechner was Thor, and Another Period‘s Riki Lindhome was Black Widow. Both sides fired shots at each other, but it was mostly Marvel dumping on DC. “Come on, guys. DC, Marvel, what’s the difference?” Batman says. “Have you checked the box office lately, Bruce Lame,” Black Panther, the star of a billion dollar-busting movie, quipped. They also spoofed how DC movies tend to be “sad and tortured and always soaked in the rain” (“Is Gotham City in Seattle?”), how “everyone knows” Batman’s origin story, and how there’s a lack of female superheroes in movies. Black Widow knocks out Batman with her signature leg-lock takedown after the Caped Crusader implied women can’t be fighters. EW is live from Comic-Con 2018! Click here to watch interviews with your favorite stars LIVE on Facebook July 19-22. Richter’s Robin got in a few jabs at Marvel, too. He popped in to mock Thor’s “Medieval Times” look, Black Widow’s “S&M spin class” costume, “richy rich” Iron Man’s “iPhone case” armor, and Black Panther’s “kitty cat suit.” “The Fantastic Four sucked,” Robin said as he walked off, even though Iron Man was quick to point out that the Fox movie wasn’t a part of Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe. Watch the skit above. Popular in Events Comic-Con 2018: See all the cosplayers Spot Pennywise in horrifying new version of Cheers opening credits Walking Dead EP Greg Nicotero says Creepshow TV series shoot is 'hardest thing' he's ever done See the stars at EW and Marvel Television’s 'After Dark' party at Comic-Con 2018 Killer clowns are no joke: Inside the battle between Pennywise and the Losers in It Chapter Two Watch EW’s Comic-Con coverage LIVE on Facebook All the movie and TV panels coming to San Diego Comic-Con 2019 Comic-Con 2018: Everything that happened on Day 1 Billy Eichner playing videogames with Conan O'Brien is a hoot: 'Wait for me, I'm gay!' The Losers' Club reunites in exclusive photos from It Chapter Two See the best special edition toys coming to San Diego Comic-Con EW's NYCC panels bring Dark Phoenix star Sophie Turner, visionary directors, and more Supernatural returns to Hall H for final San Diego Comic-Con appearance Marvel's Cloak & Dagger renewed for season 2 at Comic-Con The Walking Dead season 10 will focus on paranoia and PTSD Preacher Comic-Con panel: Watch the show's new trailer Young Justice: Outsiders reunites the team in first season 3 footage Hilary Swank, Jodie Foster, more audition for Batgirl in Conan spoof Linda Hamilton explains why she's finally back for Terminator: Dark Fate All Topics in Events Keegan Michael Key	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0004.json.gz/line1252

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