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__label__cc	0.722042	0.277958	Cunnin’ Is As Cunnin’ Does Novels & Their Author Down In Maine Contemporary & Historical Novels Set in Maine Characters of Maine Fiction in Life By Leigh Verrill-Rhys on Thursday, May 17, 2018 For the past few weeks, I’ve been living in Cathryn Marcher’s garden — without the pumpkins. Since moving into our new home, I’ve had the pleasure of gardening for the first time in seven years. While living in a city-bound apartment, I made do with potted plants on the balcony. Now I have about 5,000 square feet of lawn, trees and flowerbeds. I also have hundreds of volunteers — not the helping kind! Since our lawn did not appear from under the layers of snow until late April, trees and shrubs have had free reign to seed the grass with their own progeny: honeysuckle, ash tree, morning glory, dandelions had all grown to the height of at least six inches by the time our new lawn-mower arrived. Removing these volunteers from my grassy realm proved beyond my capabilities. Even days of crawling on hands and knees, digging out taproots and consigning leaves and seedheads to the compost bin made no difference to the number of seedlings propagating amongst the blades of green. Even our resident bunny has not made a dent although it has helped in the cropping of the blades’ height in its grazing area. To my delight, the flowerbeds are less endangered by weed-growth. Although Ground Elder (aka Queen Anne’s Lace) has raised many heads in the lawn and along the back fence, the perennials such as Peony and Daffodils, Iris and Gladiola have a much stronger will to exist. Another joy is the abundance of lilacs. When I was a child living in Maine, my favorite hiding place was a grove of lilac bushes at the back of our house. I attempted to grow lilacs on the balcony, but the plant never took hold despite coddling. Because of my fondness for the blossoms, I had them in my wedding bouquet along with red roses and the requisite Baby’s Breath (Gypsophilia). My four lilac bushes had grown so tall, they were competing with the Locust for space and encroaching on the neighbor’s property. With the information from a tree surgeon that lilacs can be treated as shrubs, I cropped and snipped until all the dead foliage and blossoms were gone and the bushes had the energy to produce fragrant spears again. From Chapter One: “Rupert smirked, turned his gaze back to the window, waved the mist out of his face, inhaled the summer rain deep into his lungs along with the scent of white lilacs.” From Chapter Four: ‘Noam Snyder pulled up on the reins, bringing the old buggy alongside Cathryn’s front yard, tipping his cap and wiping beads of sweat from his brow. “Mighty hot for a lady to be working like that,” he called out to his tenant. ‘“Now’s the best time,” she called back, straightening her back, pressing a dirty hand on her lower spine. “These pumpkins won’t win any prizes this year unless someone gives them a hand.” She wiped her neck with a handkerchief and wacked at the weeds in her pumpkin patch. “I swear these dandelions know I’ve got better things to do. They just grow out of spite.”’ From Chapter Fifteen: “Running and stumbling through the woods like a mad woman got her as far as the clump of lilac she’d hidden in as a little girl, afraid to go home for the licking her father promised when she refused to help her mother with the washing because she wanted to play the piano for a few minutes more.” As Pavane for Miss Marcher illustrates, gardening and lilacs are features of my life in fiction and fiction in my life. My latest novel set Down In Maine is available in print and digital editions on all online booksellers and by order from me! Digital Edition $3.95 / Signed Print Edition $15.00 inc postage. Digital or Print (required) Digital Edition $3.95 Signed Print Edition $15.00 You will receive an invoice by email. digging gardening Pavane for Miss Marcher planting volunteers weeds Veterans Day Eve – November 2018 Random Excerpts ‘Twas the Night Before Veterans Day: Seven: She had never seen her father so proud, so self-assured. The morning she had last see him, he left the house in his work overalls, his head hanging. He had aged, but well. Fit and healthy, not smiling but apprehensive, peering at her from the same clear blue eyes that had approved every step she took. Her father. A soldier. The man her mother had grieved to death waiting for. Historic Places in Maine Life in Maine Latest About Maine At Home ‘In Maine’ Native Mainer Pride Ends & Beginnings Developed & Hosted by Camfa © 2017-2018 Leigh Verrill-Rhys	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1323
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__label__cc	0.645847	0.354153	How to Play Chess—A Visual Guide and Tips for Beginners sunnyjook Chess has long been viewed by our society as a game for intelligent individuals. Millions of people around the world are playing it. A classic game that will stand the test of time, Chess has a strong established club and online community, even drawing the interest of celebrities, such as Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jude Law, and others. Athletes such as basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, tennis player Anna Kournikova, and UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre are also enthusiasts. Alexandra Kosteniuk, Hou Yifan, and Judit Polgar are among the world's best female chess players, whereas the young prodigy Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Viswanathan Anand are the best of the males. If you are interested in learning how to play this game of skill, this complete 3-step visual guide will show you how and give tips along the way. Step #1: Getting Started—Setting Up a Chess Game ROOK ---- KNIGHT --- BISHOP ---- QUEEN ---- KING ---- BISHOP --- KNIGHT ---- ROOK Properly place the board. Always position the light-squared corner to face your bottom right (and the dark-squared corner to face your bottom left). Put the pieces on the board exactly as shown in the diagram. Always set the king on the square that is opposite of color (e.g., always put the white king onto the dark square; always put the black king onto the light square). Black's position is the mirror image of white's. Step #2: How to Move the Different Chess Pieces In chess, players take turns moving their own pieces. White always moves first. When you move onto a square occupied by an enemy piece, you capture it and remove it from the board. The game continues until one of the kings can't escape enemy capture. Now that you understand the basics, it's time to cover how the rules governing movement are different for each piece. A Friendly Reminder Players can only make one move per turn. They can't skip their turn or capture their own pieces. How the King Moves Across the Board The king can move one square in any direction. The king is the leader of your army. His old age might make him slow and vulnerable in the beginning, but his experience will bring him triumph in the end. The king can move one square in any direction. You can't move him to a square where he can be captured. If a king is threatened with capture and can't escape, that player loses the game. Approximate value: n/a The King isn't assigned a value because if he's lost, the game is over. However, his suggested value is 4 points. How the Queen Moves Across the Board The queen can move to any square vertically, horizontally, or diagonally no matter the distance. Her Majesty is beautiful, fast, and powerful, making her a lethal attacker. She can defend if necessary, but she prefers to be aggressive. She has the flexibility and mobility to handle any situation that comes her way. The queen can move to any square that is vertical, horizontal, or diagonal—at any distance. However, the queen can't "jump" over pieces that are in her path. Approximate value: 9 points How the Rook Moves During the Game The rook can move to any square that is vertical or horizontal to their starting position. These siege towers are always steady and reliable. They might get off to a slow start, but as the battle wears on, they become stronger and stronger. The mobility of a piece and its ability to create threats is the determining factor of a piece's value. The rook can move to any square that is vertical or horizontal to their position on the board. The rook can't "jump" over pieces blocking its path to a square. How the Bishop Moves During the Game The bishop can move to any square that is diagonal to it. Bishops are specialists at their own talent---range. They cooperate well with others, contributing their talents to help the team achieve its goal. They like open territory where they can maximize the use of their range like archers. The bishop can move to any diagonal square of the same color (e.g., a bishop on a light square can move to other light squares but not dark squares). It can't "jump" over pieces blocking its path. How the Brave Knight Moves the knight's movement resembles an "L" shape. it can jump over pieces to land on any square Knights are brave and loyal. They fight at their best in close combat and on crowded battlefields. They use their tricky maneuvers to catch enemies off guard. The knight can move to any square in the pattern indicated above. Its movement resembles an "L" shape. A knight always lands on a square of an opposite the color than where it began (e.g., a knight moving from a light square will always land on a dark square). Unlike other pieces, the knight can "jump" over other pieces to reach its destination. How the Humble Pawn Moves A pawn can move one or two squares (only from its starting position) forward. It cannot move backward. These soldiers come from all different walks of life. From their humble beginnings, their journeys may one day lead them to achieve greatness. Chess strategy is often based on the placement of pawns, known as "Pawn Structures." A pawn can move one or two squares forward. It can only move two squares forward from its starting position; afterward, it can only move one square forward. Pawns can't move forward if blocked directly in front by another piece and also can't move backward. Approximate value: 1 point Capturing With a Pawn A pawn can capture a piece that is exactly one diagonal square in front of it. The black pawn is captured. A pawn can capture a piece that rests on one of the two diagonal squares directly in front of it (one square away). It can't capture in any other direction. Capturing a Pawn En Passant White has just moved his pawn two squares forward. The black pawn can capture it en passant. The white pawn is captured. If a pawn moves two squares forward and lands next to an enemy pawn on the same row, the enemy can capture it en passant. In English, this means "in passing." The enemy pawn captures it by moving diagonally one square to get behind the moved pawn. En passant can only be played the turn immediately after the pawn moved two squares forward. Afterward, it can no longer be captured en passant. This move can't be used if the pawn only moved one square forward. Promoting a Pawn The white pawn is one square away from promotion. White chooses to promote it to a queen. If a pawn reaches the opposite end of the board, the player can promote it to a queen, rook, bishop, or knight—anyone but the king. Castling With a King and Rook The king can castle by moving two squares to the left or two squares to the right towards his own rook. A king together with a rook can make castle if both pieces have not previously moved during the game (meaning they have remained "untouched"). The squares in-between the king and rook must be empty in order to castle. To castle, move the king two squares left or two squares right towards your rook. Then put the rook on the opposite side of the king (see diagrams below). A king can't castle if he's in check (under attack) or if an enemy piece is attacking one of the squares in the king's path. How the Game Ends There are two ways to end a game of chess. You can either capture your opponent's king (checkmate) or trap them in such a way that any move they make will put them in check, resulting in a stalemate. Checkmate—The Preferred Ending The white king has no way to escape being captured by black. White is checkmated. If his pawn were still on g2, he could've moved the pawn up to g3 to block the check, but pawns can't move backward. This is an example of the famous "Fool's Mate." A check occurs if a king is in danger of being captured by an opponent's next move. The player must move their king out of harm's way, capture the checking piece, or block it to avoid capture. When a king can't escape capture, it's checkmate, and that player loses. In practice, a king is never actually "captured"; the game ends when it can't escape from check. Stalemate—An Unsatisfying Conclusion Unfortunately for Black, he has attacked all the squares around the white king. It's white's turn and he has no legal moves. It's a draw. A stalemate occurs when a player is not in check but has no legal moves. This is because any move they make would put their king in check, which is not permitted by the rules. The game ends in a draw. Players can also mutually agree to draws at their own discretion or forfeit a game at any time. Well, we've officially covered everything you need to know. There are other rules, but those are related to etiquette or tournament practice and are not required to start playing chess. photo by Ray Morris-Hill Step #3: Start Playing Chess Congratulations, you can now start playing. In the video below you can see how a game might be played. Watch and learn as the legendary Paul Morphy defeats Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard in this famous classic, played at the Italian Opera House in 1858. You don't have to absorb this information all at once. Take your time learning each piece and revisit this page at your convenience. You'll soon realize that chess is actually pretty easy to play. Paul Morphy vs. Duke Karl & Count Isouard, Paris, France, 1858 © 2011 sunnyjook The Top Ten Board Games of All Time by Michael Kismet22 Chess Strategy: Understanding How to Play With a Backward Pawn by Phillip Durand0 A Game, a Queen, and a Bit of Luck: Senet by Tiffany R Isselhardt0 What Do You Need to Start Playing Dungeons and Dragons? by Cassandra Kuthy12 The Chess Board and Chess Online: What it Means to Play Chess and Learning From The Chess Pieces and the Chess Game by Fernando Gonzalez1 Make Your Own Monopoly Game: Board, Money, and Cards by shauna193469 Top 10 Deck-Builder Board Games Simple Mahjong Rules for 3 or 4 Players by Kymberly Fergusson12 Sarah Forester 5 years ago from Australia I play chess on and off with my husband who really enjoys it (I always get beaten) but maybe with these tips I've got some hope. Jo Alexis-Hagues 7 years ago from Lincolnshire, U.K What a very good way of teaching the game, well done. I tried playing chess years ago but I've forgotten the moves, I think it's time to dig up my old set and have another go. vote up sagecarter 7 years ago from Upstate New York Wow, very informative - I've been wanting to learn to play! alipuckett Oh my gosh! This is awesome. I've been wanting to learn to play chess, and your illustrations are really clear. Thank you! erniesliter This is a useful page to examine if you want to learn to play chess.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1332
__label__cc	0.693205	0.306795	Map showing thickness of the Devonian and Silurian carbonate rock resource in Bartholomew County, Indiana (2017) The computer-derived contours and color ramp on this map show the net thickness of the Devonian-Silurian carbonate rock resource in Bartholomew County. The shaded relief on the map shows the modern topography. The Devonian and Silurian carbonate rock resource consists of the rocks from the top of the North Vernon Limestone to the unconformity at the base of the Silurian. It includes the following map units shown on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Bartholomew County, Indiana (Hasenmueller and Rupp, 2017a): North Vernon Limestone (Devonian); Jeffersonville Limestone, upper unit (Devonian); Jeffersonville Limestone, Geneva Dolomite Member (Devonian); Wabash Formation, Mississinewa Shale Member (Silurian); Louisville Limestone and Waldron Shale undifferentiated (Silurian); Salamonie Dolomite (Silurian); and Brassfield Limestone and Sexton Creek Limestone undifferentiated (Silurian). These rocks are an economically important resource for two reasons (Table 1): first, they are a major source of crushed-stone products (Carr and others, 1971), and second, they compose a major bedrock aquifer unit (Lloyd and Lyke, 1995; Maier, 2004). Hasenmueller, W. A., and Rupp, R. F., 2017, Map showing thickness of the Devonian and Silurian carbonate rock resource in Bartholomew County, Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey Miscellaneous Map 101, scale 1:48,000. Keywords: map, Carbonate, Devonian, Silurian, thickness	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1351
__label__wiki	0.815036	0.815036	Home IDF Translated Colonel Yoav yarom was appointed commander of the Samaria Brigade Colonel Yoav yarom was appointed commander of the Samaria Brigade טקס החילופים, היום. צילום: פלורית שויחט, אתר צה”ל Colonel yarom replaces in the Colonel Nimrod Aloni who came to study u.s. Colonel Aloni said the exchanges because “the West will never go to bed until the clock runs out Tin” מחבר: פלורית שויחט, אתר צה”ל After two years of command of one of the most complex and cutouts in the Judea and Samaria area, breaking up today (Thursday) Colonel Nimrod Aloni spatial Division. His successor in Office is Colonel Yoav yarom, appointed Chief of Division, in a festive ceremony at the Foundation Horon. The ceremony was held in the presence of the Chief of central command, Gen. Nitzan Alon, the main settlement and the security agencies and other gizratis. Colonel Aloni export to academics in United States. “To be a West that never go to bed until the clock runs out. it is to be in operation in plowing and the party with the couple who married in Joseph’s Tomb,” said the Commander of the Brigade, Colonel Aloni, about the complex and heavy responsibility which carries the brain so sensitive sector. “Nothing felt lonely, and oak champions and the Division Commander Mordechai assured and demanded only one thing: to question the sincerity to learn. The lessons “. Although relations with the settlement and the Palestinian security forces under Aloni was good and improved Tin index murderous bombing in March last year of the Fogel as clouds on the marrow out. “I failed in Itamar and chishlveni family brutally murdered, there are no words to describe the sadness and frustration that I felt on the night of Saturday,” said “into operation was known after that, we decided to leave no stone unturned in awarta village. I saw the fighters don’t need motivational talks. “Professional way manifested the hatm Samaria defense separate from Judea and Samaria Division Commander, Brig. Gen. Hagai Mordechai brains,” managed to recruit civilians and security forces, with mutual trust and esteem. Thank you for a significant period and quality. “ Brigade, Colonel yarom, the trust found the commanders. “I’m excited to get The command of a Division, do my best to meet the mission, Colonel said. “You have the experience and expertise to lead the Division safely,” Mao noted. “but the material here is available. Lead it successfully. The soldiers and commanders, including you, you blessed him, OC Central command, Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon. Colonel Yoav yarom served most recently as Commander of tactical command College team. Colonel yarom said exceptional determination as a young officer in Sayeret Golani, where he began his career. During the unit’s staff initiated in Lebanon he was on a mine and lost his foot. Despite the challenge, he did the unthinkable and returned as a full-fledged warrior to patrol. Later, he served as battalion 51 and the Raven. During the second intifada, hurt by gunfire on his belly. He then returned to the Golani Brigade, and served as Deputy Commander and Commander of the unit during the second Lebanon Geddes. Previous articleIn the -8200 environment. Next articleBrig. Gen. Hayman: shook in Syria requires us to high readiness (IDF spokesman) General closure on Judea and Samaria during the Purim... Starting 2011: internal auditor and independent army Centric: a glimpse of the brigades activity computing South front (IDF spokesman) West entry will match Joseph’s Tomb The IDF attacked weaponry manufacturing and storage sites in the Gaza... Don’t want to hear a peep: the section that prevents accidents...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1367
__label__wiki	0.64172	0.64172	A World Out Of Time By ebookers \| June 23, 2019 After 200 years in cryosleep, Jaybee Corbell awakens to find that his mind has been downloaded to another body and he’s in servitude to a harsh future State. After his escape via a spaceship, he traverses such vast distances–with accompanying time dilations–that he returns to Earth 3 million years later to discover a world wholly alien to the one he’d left. A.E. van Vogt wrote, “This fantastic novel is a mix of Niven hard science and a time-travel concept to boggle the mind.” “This fantastic novel is a mix of Niven hard science and a time-travel concept to boggle the mind…even after the last line the feeling remains of the story still rushing on into the magic distance of the universe.” – A.E. van Vogt “Niven’s intoxicating concepts, ideas, scientific extrapolations, and exotic hardware buffle up from every page. Rich in imagination and astonishing in breath … will challenge the most sophisticated readers.” “Terrific fun!” “His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive. Niven is a true master!” – Frederik Pohl “Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction.” – Mike Resnick “Our premier hard SF writer.” – The Baltimore Sun “Niven…lifts the reader far from the conventional world — and does it with dash.” “Niven…juggles huge concepts of time and space that no one else can lift.” – Charles Sheffield “In creating a geologic world and in the interactions between humans and aliens, Niven is superb.” – Boston Sunday Globe “One of the genre’s most prolific and accessible talents.” – Library Journal “The scope of Larry Niven’s work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can.” – Tom Clancy www.larryniven.net Another Great Books The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to… Terminal World Alastair Reynolds revolutionized the science fiction genre with his critically-acclaimed Revelation Space novels. Now, the… We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that… Dead World The Dead World is no place for children.The year is 2023 and nearly two years… Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.… THE FUTURE IS COMING...FOR SOME SOONER THAN OTHERS.Ellis Rogers is a ordinary man who is… ← The Steadfast Tin Soldier Evernote at Work →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1368
__label__wiki	0.685189	0.685189	Josh Catone Kickstarting a community with crowdfunding Toward the end of December last year I backed a product on Kickstarter that claimed to marry the convenience of single cup coffee pods with the taste of specialty pour over coffee, but without the wasteful pods or expensive and time consuming equipment. As a coffee lover, I went from landing on the crowdfunding page to, “Take my money!” in about five seconds. Steeped Coffee is one of those, “why didn’t I think of that?” inventions. The product is, at its most basic level, coffee in a tea bag. It works surprisingly well (I now supplement my French press habit a few times week with a bag of Steeped’s light roast) and once you try it, you’ll wonder why no one tried it before. The reason, says founder Josh Wilbur, is that the process of getting coffee into a steepable bag and staying fresh long enough to ship and brew is a lot more complicated than you think. This is the story of how Wilbur built Steeped Coffee and the reason he decided to launch on Kickstarter (hint: it wasn’t because his fledgling company needed the $36,000 they raised). Creating a prototype The origin of Steeped Coffee starts with a trip to Wilbur’s in-laws for Thanksgiving about seven years ago. “I just wanted a good coffee at my in-laws’ and had no options so I was like, “It shouldn’t be that difficult,’” says Wilbur. So he found some filter bags, ground up some coffee, MacGyvered them together, and brought some homemade coffee packs with him on the holiday. Unfortunately, the Steeped Coffee MVP wasn’t much of a success—it worked, but it didn’t taste as good as traditionally brewed coffee and it wouldn’t keep very long (grinding fresh for each tea bag wasn’t very practical). Wilbur still didn’t have any good options for coffee at his in-laws’. His experiment demonstrated that his concept was possible, but needed a lot of work to not just be “coffee in a tea bag.” So Wilbur set it aside. “[Kickstarter was] a vehicle to tell the public about what we’d already been doing.” He poured his focus into the fintech startup he was working for and didn’t think much about Steeped Coffee for few years. The idea lay untouched in the back of his mind until, after leaving that startup in 2014, Wilbur took a family trip to Florida to decompress before starting his next gig. On the flight there, he filled up a journal with all the Steeped Coffee ideas that had been ruminating for years. By the time he landed he had a business plan, go-to-market strategy, branding concept, and company vision. “At that point I knew I was going to do Steeped Coffee, I just didn’t know when,” he says. As luck would have it, his next job, working on a wildly successful Kickstarter project called Bibliotheca, would give him the confidence and skills to finally make a go of Steeped Coffee. Bibliotheca, a design bible publishing project, raised $1.4 million against a $37,000 goal from nearly 15,000 backers. Wilbur was behind sourcing materials, production, operations, and setting up logistics for five global distribution centers. The project’s runaway success, and the experience of helping a physical product go from inception to delivery, gave Wilbur the confidence to dust off his long-dormant idea. “I started [Steeped Coffee] just like any idea,” he says, “plant the seed, start telling people about it, time in the some water, give it some sun, and just see if it grows, sort of thing. Basically giving it some time on nights and weekends.” Building the product Before Wilbur could put his Bibliotheca-honed Kickstarter know-how to use for Steeped Coffee, he had to iron out all the kinks with the product. His first try years earlier at his in-laws hadn’t produced great results. Still, he was confident that the idea had merit, it just needed a lot of development and innovation. He spent over a year perfecting the product, tweaking details like the nitrogen sealed compostable filter bag, experimenting with coffee grind sizes, finding outer packaging that would keep the coffee inside fresh for months (still compostable!), securing intellectual property around the technology and process, and lining up coffee suppliers, printers, and warehousing. That’s Steeped Coffee’s not-so-dirty little secret: they spent more than a year on the product before launching the Kickstarter campaign. That’s in contrast to many Kickstarter products that launch with nothing more than an idea, and suffer long delays or fail to deliver at all. A 2015 internal study at Kickstarter found that 9% of funded projects fail to fulfill rewards, and the food category is among the top offenders. CNN found in 2012 that 84% of projects end up delayed. Even before launching their Kickstarter, founder Josh Wilbur (left) made sure Steeped Coffee was completely ready to take orders and ship products. “Before we launched Kickstarter, we already had our equipment set up—machines ordered, paid for, put in our facility,” says Wilbur. “All of our innovation was in place. We were actually printing product already. We had our FDA certifications. All of that stuff. Hired out staff and we were just starting to be able to fulfill commercial orders.” Initially, while still working on the Bibliotheca project, Wilbur treated building Steeped Coffee as a hobby. He went to trade shows in Las Vegas and Chicago, and took an overseas trip to Asia. “I was building relationships, putting pieces together, finding materials, building early versions, testing, submitting patents and trademarks, and building a pitch deck. That kind of thing happens in a handful of late night sessions where I should be sleeping or replaces the time I should be surfing,” he says. “Sometimes you have to trade one passion for another.” Once Bibliotheca wrapped, he quickly put all his time into taking Steeped Coffee to the next level. Front loading all the business development work to get the product to a point where it was ready to ship allowed Steeped Coffee to fulfill rewards as soon as the crowdfunding campaign was over. Bootstrapping meant Wilbur took on a lot of personal risk to see his vision through. And lack of capital required constant acrobatics to get so far along before launching the Kickstarter campaign. Leveraging literally everything he had, and a few early commercial orders, helped fund that early development for the company. “[It was] a huge challenge,” says Wilbur of bootstrapping that first year, “but it helped us get really lean, stay agile, and get Steeped going.” Kickstarter as marketing While the $36,000 that came in from Kickstarter certainly helped—bootstrapping meant money was tight; Wilbur tells how his COO sometimes borrowed his car to drive for Uber on weekends and evenings to stretch their runway—it wasn’t the main reason they turned to Kickstarter. Wilbur’s true goal for the campaign was to launch his new product to the world. “Crowdfunding was always in the marketing plan,” says Wilbur. He never intended for it to really fund the business in a meaningful way—and in fact, he was working in parallel while running the Kickstarter campaign to line up larger commercial orders and pursuing other sources of funding. The crowdfunding campaign was about announcing that Steeped Coffee had arrived. Crowdfunding offers many benefits beyond raising capital, like building community, finding brand advocates, establishing brand presence, creating marketing assets, and defining and telling your story. “[Kickstarter was] a vehicle to tell the public about what we’d already been doing,” says Wilbur. “We developed this Steeped brand to be the best version of what we had created. To give this new Steeped brewing method and technology a face, and to carve out space to be able to invite other licensed partners into.” Crowdfunding offered a way to create that space. Kickstarter exposed Steeped Coffee to a larger initial audience than they may have been able to reach on their own, and the process of running the campaign forced them to get their business business house in order. “I just wanted us to at least break even and go through the process, which produces all kind of other benefits like starting community, connecting with brand advocates, establishing brand presence, creating marketing assets, defining and telling our story, and of course, letting our friends and family know that this thing we’ve been working on is actually real,” says Wilbur. That last part was important to Wilbur, who had built a strong network of coffee lovers in Santa Cruz, California, where he lives. “We have a tight-knit coffee network or coffee community here in Santa Cruz,” says Wilbur. “It would be easy to take for granted the saturation of coffee knowledge birthed from this area. Understanding specialty coffee is a byproduct of living here and we are just an extension of everything that has come before us.” Wilbur had found his tribe—the group of local, third wave coffee aficionados—and he leaned on them to promote the campaign and seed that community he hoped to build. The focus on marketing and brand building over revenue probably cost Steeped Coffee a chance at a larger return from Kickstarter. “I’d say we totally failed in doing what we should have done with the standard means of marketing,” says Wilbur, who estimates they could have probably brought in $100,000-$200,000 rather than the $36,000 they ended up raising. The most egregious mistake? Wilbur and company didn’t send one marketing email during their entire campaign. Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo names email as the “most effective tool for driving early momentum” in crowdfunding campaigns. Wilbur, on the other hand, relied on that peer network and friends to spread the campaign through social media. Despite the ill-advised approach, Steeped Coffee raised half their goal in just three days. The initial push on social media made it clear that, when reached, people were excited about the idea and a bit of press on specialty coffee sites and podcasts helped spread the word to the right backers. Wilbur concedes that if they’d had more bandwidth, he probably should have continued the push beyond their immediate networks (i.e., sending a few emails probably would have been a wise idea). Since Steeped Coffee didn’t need the money to get the product into production (they were already in production), they could afford to make those mistakes. “We just wanted a foundation, a base of people coming in, to know about what we’re doing, to launch it out there, to talk about it in public finally,” says Wilbur. Indeed, the Kickstarter led to some national press, industry notoriety, and increased exposure. Those are things that likely would have happened even if they had ultimately failed to meet their funding goal. Even so, Wilbur’s number one piece of advice to others running crowdfunding campaigns isn’t to build an email list. It’s to find your tribe. “For me, the best thing was having an awesome wife and friends,” says Wilbur. “I had a few very close people who went all out to spread the word as if they were leading the team. Then my closest community who were total advocates, and my extended circles who all made that whole thing so fun and exciting.” Steeped Coffee’s use of Kickstarter is interesting because it emphasizes the “crowd” part of crowdfunding more than the “funding.” The money was certainly welcome for the scrappy upstart, but the real magic was in kickstarting a community around the product and telling the world about their new way of doing things. The big opportunity ahead of Steeped Coffee might not even be in the direct-to-consumer model—it’s more likely in their licensed partners program for specialty roasters and wholesale through B2B deals with hotel chains and other distributors. But crowdfunding created space for their product to exist, it expanded the Steeped Coffee tribe, and that helps them fill in all the commercial stuff as a result. As Wilbur says: “It’s really all about relationships with people—the ones you know and the ones you don’t know yet.” Josh Catone is the Director of Content at Jilt. He has held lead marketing or editorial roles at Mashable, feedly, ReadWrite, Saent, and DandyID. He is also the founder of The Fluffington Post.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1383
__label__cc	0.711265	0.288735	Justin James Wyoming's Justin James Picked No. 40 By The Sacramento Kings Former University of Wyoming basketball star Justin James was selected in the second round of the 2019 NBA Draft Thursday night by the Sacramento Kings. Justin James Hopes To Become Wyoming's 30th NBA Player Of the 29 former Cowboys selected in the NBA Draft, five were first-round picks: Charles Bradley, Bill Garnett, Erik Leckner, Theo Ratliff, and Larry Nance, Jr. Is Justin James The Best Player In Wyoming Hoops History? [POLL] Kenny Sailors, Flynn Robinson, Fennis Dembo, and Larry Nance, Jr. are all Wyoming legends, but Justin James could be the best all-around player in Cowboys basketball history. Wyoming Basketball Could Set School Record For Losses This Week The 6-21 Cowboys would need to win each of their four remaining games, the Mountain West Conference Tournament, and the NCAA Tournament to avoid a share of the record. Three Pointers Carry Bulldogs Past The Cowboys, 75-62 [VIDEOS] Fresno State made nine 3-pointers in the second half and pulled away from the Wyoming Cowboys for a 75-62 win in Laramie Wednesday night. Short-handed Cowboys Lose to Denver in OT, 90-87 [VIDEOS] For the first time since 1998, the Denver Pioneers won a men’s college basketball game in Laramie with a 90-87 overtime victory over the Wyoming Cowboys Tuesday night.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1386
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__label__wiki	0.863172	0.863172	Tag Archives: Deep Tiki Movie Review ~ Aloha by Joe Movie Review • Tags: Alec Baldwin, Aloha, Bill Murray, Bradley Cooper, Cameron Crowe, Columbia Pictures, Danny McBride, Deep Tiki, Emma Stone, John Krasinski, Rachel McAdams, sony Synopsis: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him Stars: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray Director: Cameron Crowe Review: One of the more interesting e-mails to emerge from the Sony data breach in 2014 were private conversations between top studio execs bemoaning how bad Cameron Crowe’s latest dramedy was. You can read the story here but I’ll summarize and say that from the moment the film was first screened (under its original clunker of a title Deep Tiki) it was contending with bad audience reactions and a filmmaker that didn’t seem to want to change anything. In other words, a disaster waiting to happen. Originally planned for a Christmas 2014 release but moved to May to allow for writer/director Crowe (We Bought a Zoo) to tweak his film, the final product is maybe the hammiest thing to hit Hawaii since SPAM became an island favorite food. Considering the reliable track record of the A-List talent involved I can only blame Crowe’s inability to make sense of his own script which in turn leaves his actors totally adrift, trying to create something out of nothing. There’s really three films happening at once and if you believe what you read, a healthy chunk has been sliced out of Crowe’s original plot (excising whole characters and a subplot involving island mysticism) and what’s left is 105 minutes of incoherent scenes with incongruous characters. The marketing will have you believe Aloha centers around a love triangle between Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), his ex Rachel McAdams (The Vow), and Air-Force upstart Emma Stone (Magic in the Moonlight) but in reality McAdams appears in about fifteen minutes and the love story between Cooper and Stone is awkwardly shoehorned in apparently for the sake of Crowe’s carefully chosen film soundtrack. Crowe originally set the film up with Ben Stiller in Cooper’s role and Reese Witherspoon in Stone’s and after the two actors (wisely) left, he didn’t bother to tailor the script for his new stars. Stone’s entire performance feels like an impersonation of the type of square-jawed task master that Witherspoon would have flourished in. Stone is an actress with definite charisma but it’s absent without leave here, robbing the Oscar nominee of chances to show the dramatic range we know she has. I suspect, again, that this has to do with Crowe’s editing after the fact…he’s done Stone no favors the way he cut her role. While I don’t feel like McAdams has quite the range of Stone she’s well cast as Cooper’s long lost love that fell quickly into the arms of a pilot (John Krasinski, Promised Land, who probably could have thrived in Cooper’s role) after Cooper chose work over her. Trouble is, she’s such a non-presence in the movie that when she does pop up we don’t quite remember why she’s important…until she reveals a Big Secret that you’ll see coming a mile away. While Cooper knocked my socks off in American Sniper, he fumbles badly here and comes off unlikable…a problem when the entire film depends on a redemption that is never fully explained or earned. Twisted up in Crowe’s baffling plot that involves assisting a megalomaniac millionaire (a badly badly miscast Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson) in manipulating native Hawaiians out of their land so he can launch a satellite into space (I’m not kidding), Cooper can’t find his way out of the mess and starts to phone it in pretty quickly. Since it’s been in the news so much as its release date drew near, I feel I must mention the accusations that in terms of casting the film eschews native Hawaiians for the “pretty” actors from Hollywood. It’s not a claim that’s unfounded, sadly. Relegating native Hawaiians only to roles seen as obstacles is a bad misstep…made more embarrassing by Stone’s tanned blonde character telling everyone she comes in contact with she’s ¼ Hawaiian…as if that somehow fills a quota. It’s not totally white-washed ala any Nancy Meyers movie (for shame!) but there’s a definite lack of racially diverse casting at play…and that’s quite unfortunate. It’s fitting that Crowe favors shots of people looking backward over their shoulders because it’s hard to believe that the writer/director of such true blue classics like Jerry Maguire and Say Anything… could have developed such a tin ear for dialogue. There are a few classic Crowe turns of phrase but the random bon mots can’t save the film from being an absolute disaster and a huge chore to sit through. In typical Crowe fashion the film is stuffed to the brim with music (some from composers Jónsi & Alex are quite pleasing) so much so that the soundtrack credits go on for a full minute in the end…if you make it that far. Depressingly bad, Aloha will be another in a long line of failures from Crowe…and considering he’s only directed eight feature films that’s not a great track record. Who knows what would have happened if Crowe was able to release the film he originally shot and maybe one day we’ll see his version of Aloha…but until that time comes this is one Hawaiian vacation you should decline. The Silver Bullet ~ Aloha by Joe Silver Bullet - Trailer Park • Tags: Alec Baldwin, Aloha, Bill Murray, Bradley Cooper, Cameron Crowe, Danny McBride, Deep Tiki, Emma Stone, Eric Gautier, John Krasinski, Rachel McAdams, Regency Entertainment, Sony Pictures Synopsis: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him. Thoughts: Had I not known before seeing this first look at Aloha who wrote and directed it, I can honestly say that I would have said to myself “Wow, this looks like a Cameron Crowe film…” and that says something about the type of movie Crowe is known for making. For his eighth film (and first in four years after the disappointing We Bought a Zoo), Crowe appears to have returned to the type of storytelling that first put him on the map. In the first trailer for Aloha you can tell that he’s created real people, not some focus-group tested summary of average humans. And what about that cast? Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) and Emma Stone () are Oscar nominated red hot A-Listers with stars in an unparalleled ascent, joined by the likes of Rachel McAdams (The Vow), John Krasinksi (Big Miracle), Alec Baldwin (Still Alice), and the always interesting (if eternally grumpy) Bill Murray (Moonrise Kingdom). Originally referred to as The Untitled Hawaii Project, then Deep Tiki (shudder to think!) before blessedly settling into its current Hawaiian moniker, this could easily wind up in the saccharine melodrama bin…but I get the feeling Crowe has a warm welcome waiting for audiences.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1400
__label__wiki	0.870685	0.870685	Kabir News Tech Microsoft’s “Spartan” Is A New Browser For Windows 10 Microsoft’s “Spartan” Is A New Browser For Windows 10 James Swift Jr. · Jan 4th, 2015 · 0 Comment It’s no surprise that Microsoft are planning some huge changes for Windows 10. While most have been about the way the UI works, what would become of Internet Explorer was somewhat glossed over. It could be down to a sense of the “expected updates while being familiar in appearance” leaving IE to be overlooked as far as what should be expected. RELATED: Microsoft Announces Windows 10, Due Out Late Next Year ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s Spartan project is a bid to make the long-lived web browser feel and perform more like popular browsers Chrome and Firefox. Initially it was believed that it was an update or IE 12, but it looks as though the company is building a new browser from scratch. Mention of the new browser came after Microsoft Student Partner lead and VLC developer Thomas Nigro said he heard that the company was at work on a new browser. While quite the name for a browser, Spartan is merely the codename. That said, it’s not expected that Windows 10’s browser will simply be called IE 12 or that it will even make it into the preview versions. With Spartan possibly being similar to major IE competitors Chrome and Firefox, it could mark a strong return to users making use of Microsoft browsers. While there have always been a userbase for IE, there’s been some disastifaction with the browser and users jumping to other browsers. ZDNet‘s sources have said that Spartan will be on Windows 10’s mobile and desktop versions, but that it’s not likely to be ported to Android. Tags: editorspick, microsoft, Windows 10 James Swift Jr. Starting with Kabir News in 2013, James has focused on tech, gaming, and entertainment. When not writing, he enjoys catching up on sci-fi and horror shows and comics. He can be followed on Twitter @MetalSwift.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1409
__label__cc	0.67926	0.32074	Archives for posts with tag: Community Kitchens Bring Provisions: SFO Airport Protest When my friend Paige Brown, a Climate and Clean Energy Activist by day, fermenting enthusiast by night, was posting these pictures on Instagram, I asked her could I post them on this blog. I love noticing the way sharing food helps form community, in this instance the community of inspiring activists fighting against Trump’s Muslim Ban at airports across the USA. We are going to need a lot of this, to keep our bodies and spirits in good health, and it’s so fun to see what all this abundance looks like in the sterility of an airport. Paige writes: “The Resistance will be well fed! The calls went out for an emergency protest at San Francisco Airport on Sunday January 30, as 50 people were being detained there because of DT’s Muslim Ban. The call to protest included the request, “Bring provisions.” My friend and I grabbed granola bars and bananas and headed over. The SFO protest was determined, lively, large, and diverse. It also had more food than I’ve ever seen at any protest. It was a beautiful abundance of fruit, carrots, cheese, snacks, and water. People took over kiosks, making them into protest refreshment stations. Pizzas arrived just as the crowd was cheering the announcement that the last detainee had been released. It wasn’t about the pizza obviously, but it was about people vigorously and enthusiastically giving and sharing food. People really wanted to feed each other and take care of each other. Open doors, open arms, and sharing food with strangers as an antidote to closing doors and hearts.” Tags activism, airport protests, Community Kitchens, Muslim Ban, SFO, Sharing Food Categories Community, Food Politics Feeding a Movement: The Kitchens of the Standing Rock Camps Chills of love and respect kept going down my spine reading this account of the kitchens at Standing Rock, from activist-anthropologist-writer Liz Hoover, on an ever interesting and insightful blog. From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement Meal line up outside the mess hall of the Main Kitchen. Photo by Elizabeth Hoover Since April, thousands of Indigenous people and their allies have converged on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and treaty lands, to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), slated to cross under the Missouri River directly upstream from the reservation. People have come from around the world to pray; to stand in opposition to Energy Transfer Partners and the Morton County Sheriff’s Department as well as 71 other law enforcement agencies; and to form community. Some people come for the weekend, others have quit their jobs and made resisting this pipeline their full time work. They spend their days building infrastructure at the camp, chopping wood, sorting donations, praying and singing at the main fire, and putting their bodies on the line between the land and an… Tags Climate Change, Community Kitchens, Dakota Access Pipeline, ecology, Native American Foodways, water rights Feeding the Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline Supply Drives for the Red Warrior and Sacred Stone Camps in US Cities on Monday 19 September… am sure you can search for updates and addresses after this date– if you have good info, please leave it in the comments… Tags Climate Change, Community Kitchens, Dakota Access Pipeline, food sovereignty, Native American Foodways, short films, Social Kitchens Categories Climate Change, Food Politics Helping with Food in Refugee Camps in Calais January 7, 2016 // Help if you can via this YouCaring crowdfunder and share this post. These videos offer an inspiring introduction to the solidarity work around food in “the Jungle” camp in Calais, and those cooking, distributing and making it possible there for people to do this themselves as well. The refugees are from many places in the world, and it’s clear that most are fleeing terrible violence and have had quite a rough journey to get to where they now are. Here’s a video showing how volunteers are working with the diversity and specificity of the people in the camp; you can feel the urgency: This one shows the development of Kitchen in Calais: This one what your group might want to contribute in terms of food donations: Lots of people seem to wind up on my blog, say the WordPress stats, looking for information about what Syrian refugees eat. I have no personal knowledge about this, though I did a while back reblog some information that is now probably pretty obsolete pertaining to refugees in Lebanon. That’s why you might end up here on my site. I assume that people who ask these questions of internet search engines (maybe Siri can somehow learn as well) inquire from a place of compassion and concern, and perhaps the wish to contribute, donate, or volunteer. Hence this post. Some links: Read the rest of this entry » Tags Calais, Calais Kitchens, Calais Migrant Camp, Community Kitchens, DIY, DIY Mass Catering, Dunkirk, Kitchen in Calais, migrants, One Spirit Ashram Kitchen, Refugee Community Kitchen, refugees, The Jungle, what do syrian refugees eat, what refugees eat, YouCaring Categories Food Politics, Food Sovereignty Cooking for 1,000: Greeks, Syrians, Iraqis Together On the Greek island of Lesbos, thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war-torn countries are coming to shore each week,” writes Annia Clezadio. Local people are responding in the spirit of Social Kitchens, recognising real need, cooking and eating together. creating meals as a place of sharing and shared humanity rather than charity. Read “This Kid Came Up to Ask How Much the Food Cost. I Told him It Was Free” on Upworthy for a really inspiring picture of how things can be — how things are in fact, pockets of hope and kindness in the hugeness of crisis facing refugees from war in Syria and elsewhere. It’s the best thing I’ve read in a while, so READ IT — and it includes a recipe for Kosta’s Bigouli for 1,000, a warm-spiced pasta dish that resonates as comfort food throughout the different communities. You can help out here. A long spoon, a bit pot. Photo by Annia Ciedzlo More of Kosta, in Athens: Even in our part of mid-Wales, even at the level of current hardship our British Austerity presents, there’s a choice– and you hear this reflected in the way people respond to the possibility of “migrants” and refugees coming to settle among us. There’s a fear that there’s not enough to share. It’s around this fear that things get ugly, that racist attitudes get enflamed, that a sense of protecting one’s own community becomes something you choose over helping people, which you’d like to be able to do, if. If. The Parable of the Long Spoons is so instructive, such a powerful guide, to remember there’s more for everything in the sharing, perhaps especially when circumstances feel the most dire. This seems to be what’s happening on Lesbos, in Greece. It’s not a choice between Them and Us, the best choice is Them and Us together. I commend Annia Ciezadio for picking up on the “story.” I think we have a lot to look forward to in her writings and exploration of war and food. Here’s something truly amazing Annia Ciezadlo wrote about community gardens and people trying to feed themselves in Yarmouk, the long time Palestinian camp in Damascus that’s been for years now under siege by Assad government troops and more lately by ISIL as well. Somehow, in spite of violence, starvation, illness, assassination– truly desperate at a level hard to imagine — people are managing a dark sense of humour and keep planting seeds and moving forward. Another must-read. GOFUNDME to get money to Kosta for his work Tags #foodisfree, Annia Ciedzlo, community gardens, Community Kitchens, Food as a Commons, Greece, Lesvos, Parable of the Long Spoons, refugees, Social Kitchens, Yarmouk Communal Dining in Peru, and What UK People Can Learn Through Twitter I recently happened upon a paper called “Selling out on the Revolution for a Plate of Beans’? Communal Dining in Peru and What We Can Learn From It.” It’s a research project by Bryce Evans, who is a Food History academic in Liverpool. He also runs a community eating and cooking project in that city which is based on a kind of alternative vision to food banks, as he discusses in this video. In his paper Evans asks: “What can the UK learn from the Peruvian model of egalitarian eating? What does this suggest about the role of the State vis-à-vis individuals and voluntary groups? And can the UK develop its food bank network so that it resembles the community kitchen movement of Peru?” Evans compares the community kitchen movement as a mode of social eating and food distribution in various ways. Food banks in the UK can barely deal with fresh food, for instance, which is clearly an issue for nutrition. There’s also the problem that hungry people often have no way to heat the foods they are given at food banks. (I mean to write a piece called “In Praise of the Microwave” since that’s all that so many low-income renters have to cook with.) Emergency provision of food is also an opportunity for offering other services and meeting lots of social needs at once. His paper is really worth a read for the important questions it raises, and its discussion of a really interesting self-help model I’d never known about: “The women who ran these simple food shacks largely avoided any political rhetoric. Most wanted change, but first and foremost they desired change for the good of their communities. Their vision of communal cohesion, development and food security did not necessarily coincide with the political goals of the state or its guerrilla enemies….Put simply, the women who ran the community kitchens wanted to feed people cheaply and nutritiously and they wanted the state to help out [by guaranteeing the provision of rice and beans] if possible.” For me it brought to mind Graham Riches’ work in Canada (summarised in this recent newspaper piece). “Given the urgent issue of food poverty,” he writes, [there is] a missed opportunity to change the public and political conversation from food charity to the right to food, informed by internationally recognised human rights principles and framework legislation.” Jose Luis Vivero Pol might take this idea further, conceptually, from the Right to Food to food as a commons, which is a shift away from the current understanding of food as a commodity. The powerful part of the community eating model in Peru is its social function in which food isn’t reduced to nutritional sustenance (commodified in an economic system) but comes with a whole lot more– community cohesion, social expectation that children should have healthy snacks, etc. Bryce Evans writes of the Liverpool program he runs: “Manna’s project is a step above the traditional food bank model in that we do not provide hand-outs but instead focus on skills training, technical workshops, mentoring programmes and outreach work. …[W]e encourage people – young and old – to chop up vegetables and cook with us and to help us grow food, thus transferring broader skills…. Our project provides a community hub which, in a challenging and often alienating economic climate, brings people together.” There seem to be many community kitchen/ communal eating projects around the UK, and I’d love to start gathering a list — alternative, loving, community oriented responses to hunger that bring people together around food, eating together, as do the Comedores Populares in Peru… There is also, within the Local Food and community growing movements in the UK a great opportunity to think how we can contribute our broad and integrated notions about health and sustainability and food justice to fighting hunger, building community, changing the food system and the conception of food. This is something I will work on in my way; please be in touch if you are interested in sharing information and strategy. And please be in touch if you know of more projects like these– People’s Kitchens, free and cheap community cooking and eating, food festivals that don’t take the system off the hook yet celebrate deliciousness and the opportunity to do things differently. We could really benefit networking, and learning as well how people are working with community gardens and free food and local food projects making the food tastier, healthier, and less charity, supermarket and waste reliant. Though of course resourcefulness with waste is important, let’s not tangle the two conversations. And Food Banks do have an important emergency function. This is an American article but I think it offers good advice what to donate. Tags Bryce Evans, Comedores Populares, Community Kitchens, Food as a Commons, Food Banks, Food Justice, Graham Riches, Jose Luis Vivero Pol, Local Food, Peru, Social Kitchens, sustainability	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1416
__label__wiki	0.656243	0.656243	Posts Tagged ‘Shawn Michaels’ I Like Wrestling Tags: Bret Hart, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, Curt Hennig, Davey Boy Smith, El Dandy, Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels, The Ultimate Warrior, Tough Enough, Vince McMahon, WWE, WWF …and I have since I’ve been 12 years old. Admittedly, it was not the physical act of trying to pin another guy or make him submit that pulled me in, but PERSONALITY. I channel surfed through WWF Superstars and WWF Wrestling Challenge, stopping on the show a bit longer every week, and when I heard Hulk Hogan was going to be on the following week I was sold. Wrestling fan for life just based on the interviews and charisma that Hogan put forward. And my FAVORITE wrestler growing up? Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake. Now, Brutus wasn’t a very good wrestler. It’s important to know that. He was not very good at performing wrestling holds. What he WAS good at doing, however, was putting his opponent to sleep and cutting their hair. I thought that shit was H – I – L – A – R – I – O – U – S !! And then I grew up. As time went on I began to appreciate the actual art of what they do. Exit Hogan, Brutus and the Ultimate Warrior – Enter Bret Hart, Curt Hennig, Davey Boy Smith and Shawn Michaels. These guys would force me to suspend disbelief for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, Hell an hour at a time with the intensity and complexity of their moveset. Let’s face it… watching The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan in a match against each other… we were never asked to suspend our disbelief. It was, “watch these big muscley guys punch and clothesline each other with big exaggerated movements for a while.” Cut to modern day wrestling. The World Wrestling Federation was sued by the World Wildlife Fund for rights to the initials WWF. The WWF won (panda version). So the World Wrestling Federation becomes World Wrestling Entertainment. From WWF to WWE. I’m fine with that. In the last few years or so, the backstage folks would joke how Vince McMahon is trying to get rid of the word “Wrestling” altogether. As it turns out… they weren’t really joking. They don’t even want to be called World Wrestling Entertainment anymore. They request…forcefully… to be referred to as WWE. I understand that WWE has been expanding. WWE Films puts out a couple films a year. WWE is looking to start up a cable channel which would obviously have non-trying-to-pin-a-guy’s-shoulder-to-the-mat content. That’s fine. We fans have been trained that these men and women are not merely wrestlers, but SUPERSTARS! You know what? I’m even fine with that. So there’s a show about young folks training to become wrestlers. It is called “Tough Enough” and I like it a LOT! Bret Hart came in this past Monday to talk to the kids. The trainees are rightly in awe of this Legend of the Squared Circle. At 1:48 into the video below, Bret mentions: “I take a lot of pride in being a serious professional wrestler” Now the kicker is… WWE fucking CENSORED the word “wrestler”. I am not fine with that. My jaw dropped. First of all, there’s the terrible irony of a legend in this business telling us how PROUD he was to be a wrestler, only to have the show he is on be ashamed that he is referring to himself as such. But second, who in their right mind censored it? Who thought, “Did Bret Hart just call himself a WRESTLER? No. No, we can’t have that.” Because somebody did. And sadly, I think his name rhymes with Shmince ShmcMahon. It’s just fucking ridiculous. And FYI, I would rather watch CM Punk wrestle Daniel Bryan for an hour than listen to five seconds of John Cena making a “poopy” joke about his opponent of the month. I Don’t Doubt El Dandy, A New Monday Night War? Posted: January 4, 2010 in Uncategorized Tags: Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Hulk Hogan, nWo, ODB, Shawn Michaels, TNA, Triple H, Vince McMahon, WWE Monday Night Raw It’s Monday, January 4th, 2010. Total Nonstop Action (TNA) wrestling has a special Monday night showing where they premiere their new figurehead boss: Hulk Hogan. They are promising BIG surprises. On the other side (MY side) World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) brings out the legendary Bret “The Hitman” Hart for the first time live on RAW in over 12 years. Here are my thoughts as I watched them (TNA was three hours and RAW was two. as a result I watched the first hour of TNA then watched RAW in its entirety, then went back to TNA. I won’t split the shows up in review). Raw stars out with a kick-ass video with highlights of Bret’s WWF career followed by the Montreal screwjob and Shawn Michaels urging Vince to allow Bret to host…and HERE COMES BRET! Hell… he walks out and stops at the top of the stage and I instantly tear up. Amazing. They tinkered with his entrance music. I’m sure Vince called it “updating”. I call it “bullshit”. Bret: “Well I guess Hell’s frozen over.” His hair’s a bit thinner and grayer and his voice is a bit like gravel but man… it’s him. Bret says that he tried several times over the past twelve years to come back but Vince said that the timing wasn’t right. That’s funny because pretty much everybody knows it was Bret who wasn’t ready to come back. Nice “Welcome back” chant. HOLY FUCK. Bret’s callling out Shawn. Small tension but it slowly turns into a lovefest. They shake hands and there’s a great tease for the superkick from Shawn, but they hug. Shawn’s music plays as he leaves? Bret now calls out Vince! Vince is too cowardly to accept however, and we get a plug for Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston and DX vs. Jericho and the Big Show. After commercial we see Vince about to enter his office. He was “in a meeting” which is why he didn’t answer Bret’s call, but Vince says that HE will call out Bret later on the show (on his terms). First match of the show is part of a tournament to determine a new women’s champion. It’s one of the Bella Twins vs. Maryse. Maryse wins in a mercifully short match. I’m ready for more Bret, please. The Miz comes out in street clothes with the United States championship. He’s AWESOME! Miz gives some weird and creepy smack talk to Maryse who…seems to like it? Miz is on commentary for a four-way match to determine the number one contender to his championship. MVP vs. Jack Swagger vs… I’ll find out after the commercial? OK, there’s also Carlito and Mark Henry. I would really like Carlito to win but we’ll see what happens. Man, these guys are not working well together. Some really bad spots. MVP wins after the Playmaker. I’m ready for more Bret, please. Jericho and Big Show backstage! If they don’t win the championship Jericho is off RAW “for good”. Jericho: I’m not leaving Raw. Big Show: I don’t want you to go! Jericho is going to meet with Bret! Cut to commercial. Fozzy (featuring Chris Jericho!) have the official song for the Royal Rumble! Jericho is trying to get Bret to be the special referee for the tag title match. Ha! Jericho says he can put Shawn Michaels in the Walls of Jericho and Bret can “let instinct take over” (and call for the bell ala Montreal). Bret wants nothing to do with it. He calls Chris a hypocrite, makes fun of how he whined and cried while training at the Hart dungeon and sends him off. Cut to Triple H and Hornswaggle (the DX mascot). Trips is telling Hornswaggle that he can play with all the WWE toys he wants as long as Shawn and Trips beat Jericho and Show tonight. ENTER Santino in a Chris Jericho wig. Santino FUCKING HILARIOUSLY spouts out some incorrect catchphrases of Jericho’s. Trips sicks Hornswaggle on Santino like a dog. Santino: “Good luck at the sucking it”. cut to commercial. DX enters for the title match. I REALLY want Jericho and Show to win. It’s funny to see Hornswaggle do the X-Pac DX crotch chop when X-Pac himself is on the other show tonight. So, will the Hart Dynasty come in and cost DX the titles? Show reverses a double suplex attempt, nice. Friggin’ commercial again? Whoa… sure, it’s “The Tooth Fairy”, but The Rock is in a movie with Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal? Good for him! Here’s hoping HE guest hosts sometime soon! Jericho pulling out the Hogan hand to ear? Hot tag to Shawn who goes to work on Show. Flying forearm doesn’t drop Show! Another with no luck! Dropkick to the knee does the trick. Jeez, huge chokeslam by Show onto Shawn but no pinfall. DARNED near close fall on Trips by Jericho. Codebreaker! But Jericho doesn’t cover right away and Shawn interrupts the pin Jericho boots Hornswaggle! Jericho has Trips in the Walls of Jericho but Shawn superkicks him. Jericho is pinned and is gone from RAW. That sucks. Here comes Big Show as Jericho is laid out. Trips and Shawn throw in some verbal assaults Chris’s way. Show just walks away from his partner! Jericho is dazed in the ring. Jericho takes the walk of shame up the ramp. Randy Orton is at Vince’s door. He offers a deal: Randy kicks Bret in the head and puts him out of action. As a reward Vince puts him in the Royal Rumble at number 30. Vince won’t forget about when Orton attacked him and his family. He denies the request and firmly warns Randy to never confront him again. Pretty good – nice and intense…and realistic. Orton is pissed off. He walks down the hallway and is confronted by his stablemates. They give him the same ultimatum he gave them last week: If you can’t beat your opponent tonight we’re kicking you out of Legacy and also kicking the hell out of you. Nice! Good to see them standing up to him. After commercial and – Here comes Sheamus! He’s the champ, dontcha’ know? Evan Bourne comes out to challenge for the title. Sheamus says that if Evan beats him tonight he’ll give him a title shot at the Rumble. And damn – it really looked like Evan had him after one minute… but he DIDN’T! Crowd chants for Cena because they are fools. Aww, Sheamus pins Bourne. Very nice little tribute to Dr. Death Steve Williams who passed away in the last week. Bret confronts Vince (or is it the other way around?) NEXT! Aaaand the video package again, this time with extended Montreal footage and discussion. Damn, I screwed up. It wasn’t NEXT. Kofi vs. Orton is next. Of course Vince and Bret will finish the show (duh!). Rhodes and Dibiase watching from ringside. Orton is thrown to the outside but they don’t offer any help and ANOTHER DAMNED COMMERCIAL! What is it about Cody Rhodes that looks so weird? Is it his hair? Kofi and Randy work really well together! RKO finishes Kofi off. Cody and Ted look disappointed. Awesome. After commercial we learn that Mike Tyson will be hosting RAW next week from Minneapolis, Minnesota! And Vince comes to the ring. He wishes us a Happy New Year and says that there is no reason to call Bret out. Bret and Shawn put the Montreal incident in the past so that means that he is finished with it as well. Vince tries to change the subject to discuss Mike Tyson hosting next week but Bret comes out WITHOUT his crappy music. Bret takes his jacket off… TINY gut. Vince starts kissing Bret’s ass but also wants to get some things off his chest, like the idea that “You screwed You”. Vince would like an apology. The fans don’t seems to think that is appropriate. Bret mentions that the two words Vince wants to hear are much different from the two words Bret wants to say. Vince starts buttering Bret up which can only mean that the big hurt is going to finish it… Vince wants to induct Bret’s dad, the legendary Stu Hart into the WWE Hall of Fame. Vince thanks him for all Bret’s contributions and all the thrilling moments he’s given the WWE Universe. Vince shakes Bret’s hand.Vince raises Bret’s hand. They pose to each side of the ring. Vince is totally going to clothesline Bret…. but he doesn’t. Instead he kicks him in the gut! Or was it the nards? Couldn’t tell from this angle. Vince leaves Bret recovering in the ring and the show ends with Bret looking at Vince in the aisle and he’s pretty disgusted. NOW TO TNA IMPACT (this review will be shorter) Nice video over the history of the company. The new backstage announcer Bubba the Love Sponge interviews idiot fans outside the building. They are knobs. The first match is a steel asylum match with six X-Division (high flying) wrestlers. It’s in a cage and the winner is who can escape through the hole in the top (which would seem rather difficult even with NO competitors trying to stop you). So get this, the guys are working hard and hitting all their spots. The crowd is very vocal in its support for Alex Shelly (let’s go Shelly!) and for the company in general (TNA! TNA!) and for this style of wrestling (X-DIVISION!). So Homicide get’s a baton and nails everybody in the ring causing…a no-contest? In a cage match?!? The crowd VOCALLY – in UNISON – chants “THIS IS BULLSHIT”. NICE JOB, TNA. Your first match in your special with Hulk Hogan? The episode of Impact you are desperately trying to get everybody to watch and it has your fans chanting “this is bullshit”. Yeah, you’ve really got the pulse of your fans. OK, so Homicide has knocked everybody out and he is CLEARLY supposed to go through the top of the cage, but he CAN’T DO IT! I’m telling you – it looks really difficult. The guys in the ring improvise and start beating on him, then cue the music. Out comes Jeff Hardy to brawl with Homicide. Fuck Jeff Hardy. What an ungrateful prick. I can’t say it enough. FUCK JEFF HARDY. Back from commercial and Kevin Nash is sleeping through an interview. Nash says that Hogan was his first mentor? Don’t tell that to Shawn Michaels you lying sack of crap! Next up is the TNA Knockouts match where ODB defeats Tara for the championship. This is very nice, as ODB is the sister of a friend. Congrats, Travis! ODB gets the pin when she pulls Tara’s tights for leverage. Enough of Tara’s buttcrack shows that TNA cuts away to … a still frame from when the cage was still up? … for just a second. Tara interrupts ODB’s celebration and knocks her out…followed by setting a tarantula on ODB’s stomach (which I don’t think I could ever do). We see a limo pull up – and out comes Ric Flair. Dammit, Flair. I’d be mad at you but it’s so sad to see you do this. Mick Foley (who is now a bad guy) is denied entrance to the building and is extremely hilarious in his efforts to get in (Love, Mick!). Bobby Lashley (who I hate) comes out with his wife Kristal (who I’ve never seen before). Kristal gets on the mic and I am immediately impressed. She cuts a promo turning Bobby heel. She’s great. I still hate her husband but she can sure talk. Dumb chicks playing strip poker for ratings. Great. SCOTT HALL and SEAN WALTMAN (the former X-Pac) try to get in the building with no luck. Hall is pudgy but I’ve seen him worse. Hopefully the guy takes care of himself. Shot of the limo approaching. One guy gets out of one limo and gets into what we assume to be Hogan’s (they couldn’t ride together?). Back from commercial and Hall and Waltman have got seats now? They are very excited for Hogan. How f’n sad: Hogan’s music is a rip-off of the NWO theme. Oh, and Hogan’s doing the whole “wearing black and growing a beard” thing. Luckily no shoe polish…yet. Hogan is checking out the crowd. Not quite the 68,000 at Wrestlemania 18, eh Hulkster? Hogan: “I’ve been in the back all day long”. Er…Hulkster…didn’t we just watch you arrive in the limo? I’m beginning to think he’s dishonest. Hall: “Hey, yo” (I’d actually forgotten about that) Hall and X-Pac want to party, but Hogan’s all grown up now. Hey – after I wrote that Hogan said “It’s time that we all grow up”! I’m PSYCHIC!!! Here comes Kevin Nash. He’s got to side with Hall and X-Pac, right? Yes, he does. Eric Bischoff comes out… and the crowd erupts? X-Pac says his line. Eric starts to talk. X-Pac slyly (as slyly as you can ON TELEVISION) hands the microphone to Kevin Nash (because it’s Nash’s lines are next after Bischoff’s). Silly. Bischoff tears up the show format given to him from the producer and produces a new one. And STING IS IN THE RAFTERS!!! Woman’s tag title match. I’m fast forwarding. Sad, because it’s probably a good match but I’m really getting burned out here. While randomly checking in with the match, the crowd is chanting “This is awesome!”. Hamada and Kong for the win – new champs! It probably was pretty good. Val Venis shows up at the chick strip poker game. Good lord. Mick wants in! The security guards won’t let him in but he’s got another plan. The Nasty Boys are here! Raven and Stevie Richards do the job to Matt Morgan and Hernandez. Daffney looks nice and zombie hot! The Pope (the former Elijah Burke) is greeted by Orlando Jordan (now with hair!). Desmond Wolfe beats The Pope. Aw, man! I wrote that before the match actually started and was WRONG! Pope over Desmond with a small package. Here comes Jeff Jarrett. I like him. He walks around the back. Finally meet up with the champ, A.J. Styles! He’s facing Kurt Angle at the next PPV. Is that it for him tonight? Bischoff (sarcastically) applauds him. AHH… Styles vs. Angle is TONIGHT! Smart move. Jarrett hits the ring for an interview. Jarrett sings the praises of the company and the hard work of many of the wrestlers. Hogan interrupts and tells him that nobody cares. Is Hogan turning heel? The crowd is chanting bullshit. Hogan is a damned fool! Christy Hemme is a terrible actress. Mick has forced his way in! Abyss vs. Samoa Joe. Samoa Joe friggin’ rules, why isn’t he in the title picture? He shouldn’t need a chair to beat Abyss, but he did. The Nasty Boys can’t get in? Bubba lets them in. KURT ANGLE. He wants the championship back. The Nasty Boys have found Team 3Ds locker room. That should be one helluva brawl when it happens! the Nastys are cussing aplenty… and SPRAY-PAINTING! “Now that’s Nasty!” Plenthy of time for the main event. Very smart to do so with Kurt vs. AJ. AJ wins after a springboard 450 splash. Some masked guy interferes but is eliminated. “People LOVE masked people who interfere in matches, Brother!” Hogan’s got something to say after the match, but a PA runs up to him and Hulkster’s gotta’ RUN, Brother! Mick is looking for Hogan backstage but finds Bischoff. After threatening Bischoff the oWo (old World order) start beating him up. Hogan runs backstage and looks at everybody. Seriously, thats how the show ended. Sorry Heath. RAW takes the night. The Pink and Black Attack is BACK! Tags: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Brian Pillman, DX, Hart Foundation, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Owen Hart, Shawn Michaels, The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith, Triple H, Vince McMahon, WWE Monday Night Raw Let’s visit the World Wrestling Federation in 1997. This was literally the most exciting year for me as a wrestling fan, and one of the top reasons was The Hart Foundation: Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart, and Brian Pillman headed by Bret Hart. Bret (his character and likely in real life) had grown frustrated with the American wrestling fans for cheering on “bad guys” like Stone Cold Steve Austin. This leads me to one of the most exciting and intense moments in wrestling history which took place just a few weeks before Bret reformed the Hart Foundation – the first minute of this video: (The swearing definitely helped, but Bret’s intensity would have made it work without) Bret had fought the good fight, yet people cheered Austin for doing things like taking a steel chair and repeatedly drilling Bret in the knee with it. The interesting thing is: The Hart Foundation became “bad guys” in the United States but became overwhelming crowd favorites across the rest of the globe – especially in Canada where Bret and Owen are from. Then Bret finally regains the championship and is set to defend against Shawn Michaels in Montreal at the Survivor Series… but there’s a wrinkle. In ’96, Bret signed a ten year, multi-million dollar contract with Vince. Now Vince approaches Bret and says that he can’t pay it. Vince suggests Bret see if Eric Bischoff (The President of WCW – the WWF’s competitor) can get him a good deal. Bret doesn’t really want to but agrees. It’s set: The Survivor Series will be Bret’s final WWF pay per view before leaving the company. But wait a second – Bret is the WWF champion and isn’t terribly interested in losing to a guy he really doesn’t like in Shawn Michaels in his homeland. Vince really wants Bret to lose the title to Shawn at the pay per view, but Bret doesn’t want to. Alternatives are thrown about. They settle on a disqualification at the Survivor Series. Bret doesn’t lose the title to Shawn and they’ll figure something out in the next couple of days as to how and to whom the title changes hands. The Survivor Series turns out to be an emotional night. Everybody backstage and most of the fans know that it’s Bret’s last Pay Per View with the company and nobody’s really happy about it. Then this happened: Vince screwed Bret out of the championship. Shawn put Bret in a submission hold (Bret’s OWN submission hold) and the referee indicated that Bret gave up, ending the match and giving the title to Shawn. Bret was understandably bitter. He went to WCW a few weeks later and Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart and The British Bulldog followed shortly after. Only Owen Hart wasn’t let out of his contract as he was seen as too valuable to the WWF. For the next two years we held out hope that Bret might come back some day but there was so much anger it seemed unlikely. Owen deserves his own posting. He was a ridiculously talented wrestler and absolutely hilarious. Then on May 23rd, 1999, Owen fell to his death during a WWF Pay Per View (luckily it was not on camera). He was supposed to descend from the rafters in his Blue Blazer superhero outfit but something happened. So very tragic. So if we thought it was merely unlikely that Bret would return to the company after being screwed, now that his little brother died under Vince’s watch we could pretty much erase any thought of him coming back. But time heals all wounds, as they say. Bret has apparently signed a contract to host RAW on Monday (TOMORROW!) and the contract runs through Wrestlemania which is in either late March or early April. AND… there are rumors that he will wrestle one final match at Wrestlemania. This is HUGE. Just friggin’ huge. For the first time in over TWELVE YEARS, Bret Hart comes to Monday Night Raw on Monday, January 4th, 2010. What’s going to happen with Bret and Vince? What’s going to happen with Bret and Shawn? What kind of reaction will the crowd give the five time WWE champion? I can’t wait to find out! Stone Cold Steve Austin is a hyena, A RAW Worth Reviewing Posted: November 24, 2009 in Uncategorized Tags: Bret Hart, British Bulldog, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, Davey Boy Smith, David Hart Smith, Degeneration X, DX, Gobbledygooker, Hart Foundation, Jesse Ventura, John Cena, Owen Hart, Randy Orton, RAW, Shawn Michaels, Sheamus, Survivor Series, Tatanka, TJ Wilson, Triple H, Vince McMahon, WWE, WWF So I’m about a third of the way through watching RAW last night when it hits me that I’m actually ENJOYING at and looking forward to the rest of the show! So far we had Jesse Ventura come out as the night’s Host. He was doing a fine job and told us that we’ve been seeing too many of the same faces in the Championship scene. He set up a battle royal filled with wrestlers that have never had a title shot. The winner of the battle royal will receive a shot at his brand’s championship at the next Pay Per View, “TLC” (Tables, Ladders and Chairs). SWEET! Somebody gets a chance to break through to the top of the scene! As much as I love Shawn Michaels and Triple H, there’s only so many times I can get excited about seeing one of them fight in the main event, and goodness knows the world doesn’t need another Cena/Orton match. Side note about Orton: I’m really liking him! I disliked him personally for a few years because he’s been pretty immature behind the scenes, but getting married and having a kid has done him good. I can feel good about liking him again. We got a pretty good Cena / CM Punk match. My favorite part was before the match when Punk told Cena, “Through these sober eyes, I can see you.” I’ve mentioned before how awesome I think Punk is, but I don’t think I’ve brought up how bored I am of Cena. BORED. Turn him bad and I’ll like him again, but I was pissed off when he pinned Punk. CM Punk is Straight Edge. That means he's better than you. I think the thing I was most excited about was the DX vs. Hart Dynasty match. Here we have TJ Wilson and David Hart Smith (the son of the legendary British Bulldog, Davey Boy Smith). The Hart Foundation in the past had huge issues with DX (Shawn Michaels and Triple H) and this would be the first time in over TEN YEARS that DX would face members of the Hart Family. There was so much history between the two factions and I couldn’t wait to see this explored! You’ve got the legitimate screwing over of Bret Hart for the WWE title at the Survivor Series in 1997, you’ve got Shawn beating the British Bulldog for the European title in the UK after Bulldog dedicated the match to his dying sister, and so much more! The Hart Foundation... coolest group ever (provided you disregard Davy Boy's fanny pack) We get to the match. NOT ONE WORD of the history between the two groups is mentioned. You could have had TJ and Smith do an interview before the match and really tear into DX vowing revenge for all sorts of deeds. Nothing. DX wins a five minute match after a superkick from Shawn and a pedigree from Trips. Fuck you guys. Seriously. Fuck you guys. Then Chris Jericho came out and talked smack to DX. Jericho is exactly what he says he is: the best in the world at what he does. Jericho! It’s the week of Thanksgiving, and thankfully we all got to relive the Survivor Series moment from 1990 when the Gobblygooker was unleashed! Back in ’90 they had a big egg that Mean Gene promised us would hatch at the pay per view and every week speculated as to what could be in it. I speculated as well! I was sure that Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake was ready to return and would POUNCE out of that egg ready for action! Some people thought that Ric Flair was coming in. Instead we got this: Yup. This friggin’ turkey-or-what-have-you popped out of the egg, danced around the ring, did some gymnastics, then clucked off, not to be seen or heard from for many years until the fine folks at WWE realized it could be brought out as a joke to remind us of how goofy things were at one point. SPEAKING OF GOOFY: there was a six woman tag match featuring the Pilgrims (the bad team) vs. the Indians (the good team). Normally I fast forward through woman wrestling matches because it’s pretty much tna but I was watching the show live and didn’t have the option. And it’s a good thing, because the entrance music used for the Indians was TATANKA’s old entrance music!!: Oh, the hilarity! So speaking of hilarity and golden moments from the past, it was decided that Jesse Ventura and Vince McMahon would do commentary on the main event – just like they did in the ’80s! Vince even put on his tuxedo with the red tie! It was amazing and … well, just all sorts of amazing! Now the main event itself? The next challenger to John Cena’s championship is this guy: If he wins the title at the ppv I’ll eat my hat. I’ll purchase a hat, then eat it. But best of luck to you, Sheamus. Hopefully this gives you some credibility and is a jump start to a big career. You’ve been handed the ball – how far can you run with it? Personally I’m skeptical but keeping an open mind. I had texted my friend Ray who was still at work and told him, “best RAW in years”. I was clearly wrong, but was going off the potential of the night. A fresh contender for the title? A DX/Hart match? Jesse and Vince on commentary (granted, that did pay off). This night should have ruled. When the part of the night that got me most excited was a tie hearing Tatanka’s old music and seeing the Gobbledygooker… there’s trouble a’brewin’. Well Enough is Enough, and it’s Time for a Change!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1417
__label__cc	0.719723	0.280277	Review: Making WET Posted on : June 11, 2013 By Matt Keeley I guess I have a soft-spot for weird, short-lived magazines. I’ve talked about how much I love RAW here before, and now I’ve just read Leonard Koren’s book Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing about, well, making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing. That was probably pretty obvious. Unlike RAW, though, I’ve never seen a copy of WET — but I was hipped to it when MetaFilter ran an incredibly interesting piece on it. Once I read the articles linked, I knew I had to have this book. I wasn’t disappointed. Looking back, RAW and WET have a lot in common, aside from all-caps three-letter-adjective names. Both had Gary Panter as a frequent contributor, sure, but they also shared an aesthetic, one RAW applied to comics and design that WET applied to photography and prose. The piece in Making WET reprinted from the November/December ‘79 issue “Concerning the Metaphysical Nature of Cigarettes” reminds me of some of the text pieces run in RAW (but without Francoise Mouly’s collage design) — it’s a very high-brow satirical piece about the then-new trend of naming cigarette brands after obscure concepts like “Merit”, “Fact” or “True”, rather than the “iconographic” names like Winston or Salem which “depended on [television advertising] to give full definition to their images”. Sharon Hennessey, the author, then riffs on smoking as a philosophical exercise with personal philosophies like deconstructionism or realism determining which brand was smoked, and rather the idea that holding a certain philosophy compelled one to smoke. If there’s a flaw in Making WET, it’s that there are few of these articles reprinted — only a small handful made it – a piece defining “Gourmet Bathing”, an interview with a WET cover model (a dog), and a long Matt Groening strip reviewing soaps. What does make up for this though is the gorgeous reproductions of covers and interior photographs and art, along side Koren’s essay about the rise and fall of the magazine, from everything including raising financing, to getting ads and promoting WET. I’m not sure if the techniques still would hold 30 years later — but reading Making WET makes me want to try. Part of the great thing about Making WET is how much it does make me (I was going to say “the reader” here, but I think I might just be weird) want to create a magazine themselves from the ground up. Doing layout, doing graphic design, commissioning articles, all that fun stuff. I mean, that’s kinda what Kittysneezes IS — an attempt at an online magazine, but, well, that’s different in feel. Design is more locked in — and, well, there’s just something about having a PHYSICAL magazine to look at. Online, it’s more about pure content — sure, there’s something to be said for design online, but it’s more difficult to drastically change the design from article to article. Once you dial in the design for the site, it tends to make all the content look the same. And, of course, it’s very important to have a GOOD design — and trust me, I’ve seen some terribly designed websites in my day (and made a few, too), but… web design is very different than print design, and a bit more rigid. Of course, print media becomes a dodgier and dodgier proposition by the minute, which makes me sad — and makes me wonder. I’ve often wondered what the RAW or WET of today is…. but I also wonder if there even IS one… or COULD be. Has that ship sailed? I hope not. Anyway, that’s a bit of a digression for a book review — but if you take away anything, it should be that you really should read Making WET. And maybe start your own magazine. Or help me start my own magazine. Something like that, anyway. The Beauty Of A Wet Leaf PORTER-CABLE 78110 Accessory Kit for Wet/Dry Vacuum Wet or Whet? Ricondi wet gear review Françoise Mouly: The covers the New Yorker rejected Bosch TC10 10-Inch Wet Tile and Stone Saw Wet, Wet, Wet Help Wet Sensation Collection with a new logo Give Dad a ‘Close Shave’ for Father’s Day at Advertiser Serenza Spa & Salon! Outdoor lights got wet — now what? Review: The Idea Factory Review: What I’d Say To The Martians	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1418
__label__cc	0.648731	0.351269	Clark HowardClark Howard Abilene Woman and Her Two Kids Test Positive for Multiple Drugs After Fatal Wreck Andrew Coats April Yvonne Cortez (KAMC News) An Abilene woman and her two children tested positive for drugs after a fatal crash. KAMC News reports 30-year-old April Cortez was taken into custody Tuesday and charged with Endangering a Child. She was released from jail after posting bond. Court records state that drug tests were conducted after the fatal rollover wreck that killed Cortez’s 7-year-old son in July 2017. The 7-year-old boy tested positive for methamphetamine and amphetamine, and Cortez’s 1-year-old son tested positive for cocaine and marijuana. Cortez tested positive for methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana. Cortez says she had no idea how her children tested positive for drugs, but she did confirm that they were in her care. Download the KFYO App Subscribe to the KFYO Newsletter Car Crashes Into Lubbock Home Categories: Lubbock News	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1419
__label__wiki	0.908673	0.908673	Texas Residents Ravaged by Hurricane Harvey Face Risk of Flash Flooding Again Posted 7:00 AM, June 20, 2018, by CNN Wire Chris Ginter (right) talks to residents on a boat in a flooded neighborhood on Sept. 6, 2017 in Houston. (Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Texas residents still wary after Hurricane Harvey again face the risk of flash flooding Wednesday as heavy rain pounds a wide swath of the state’s southeastern coast. Flash flood watches are in effect for areas south of Houston to Brownsville, at the Mexican border, with flash flood warnings popping up as storms flare, CNN meteorologists said. The zone includes Victoria, Corpus Christi and McAllen, where hundreds of migrants seeking entry into the United States await processing at a detention center. Tropical moisture could produce 2 to 3 inches of rain over a short period across the watch area, meteorologists said. Showers and thunderstorms are forecast to continue through Thursday, the National Weather Service tweeted. North of Houston, the city of Port Arthur, which along with Beaumont was devastated in August by Harvey’s floods, was swamped again Tuesday by the same weather system now pummeling points south. Video from Port Arthur showed streets turned into raging rivers as cars slowly made their way through them. The storms conjured memories of last summer’s flooding, said Damion Robertson, of Port Arthur. “It’s concerning. A lot of people just lost a lot of houses … over Harvey,” Robertson told CNN affiliate KBTV. “So, a lot of people are probably nervous about losing their stuff again.” Larry Wolf, of Port Arthur, said his home has flooded twice. “I’m to the point where I’m 75 years old,” he told KBTV. “I can’t do it anymore.” The Beaumont Port Arthur airport “broke daily rainfall record (Tuesday), where 5.89 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period, causing flash flooding in the area,” CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said Wednesday. “While rainfall totals will not even come close to the amount that Harvey left in its wake, the region could still suffer damage from flash flooding, downed trees and travel disruptions,” he said. Harvey dumped record rainfall of more than 60 inches over just a few days after it hit southeast Texas as a Category 4 storm. Dozens of people died and millions were affected in and around Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, and along the Gulf Coast. Topics: Houston, hurricane harvey, Texas More Storms, Flooding on the Way as Rivers Continue to Rise in Texas and Oklahoma Tornadoes in Parts of Oklahoma, Texas Not as Bad as Feared, But Threat Remains Nation/World Weather Flooding Prompts Rescues in Oklahoma as Millions Face Severe Storms in U.S. More Than 34 Million People Under Severe Weather Threat in Eastern, Central U.S. Weakened Tropical Depression Barry Swamps Parts of Louisiana, Mississippi But Flooding Isn’t Catastrophic 2 Children Dead, Several People Hurt in Strong Texas Storms Deadly Storm Brings Flooding, 132 Reports of Tornadoes in Central U.S. Tropical Storm Barry Forms Off Louisiana Coast; Hurricane Warning Issued National Weather Service Issues Flash Flood Emergency for Washington D.C. Metro Area Storms Sweep Across the South, Killing 8 and Injuring Dozens Severe Weather Shifts to Northeastern U.S. After Ravaging the Nation’s Heartland ‘It’s Powerful’: Tropical Storm Expected to Strengthen to Hurricane Begins Lashing Louisiana Death Toll in Midwest Storms Rises to 9 After 2 Bodies Found in Submerged Vehicle in Missouri	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1423
__label__cc	0.501992	0.498008	Posted 2 months ago by Kim18 Comments on Kickstarting to feel old Blog Kickstarting to feel old After logging into Kickstarter one morning this month to see whether there were any new campaigns worth checking out, I received a notification letting me know that the platform was ten years old. That’s a decade of crowdfunding since 28 April 2009, bringing communities together to help bring creators’ dreams to life and hopefully giving them the chance to get their hands on some amazing products. I’ve now backed 36 projects since February 2013 so that’s an average of one every other month. Although the quantity and quality of video game campaigns has declined recently, I still visit the website occasionally to see what’s happening; and I enjoy being able to show my support for unique titles which are a little different from the norm, although there’s obvious no guarantee there’ll ever be made. In celebration of all things Kickstarter, here are ten campaigns I’ve pledged to over the past six years. First project backed Shortly after starting to blog in February 2013, I made my first pledge on the platform and backed Lucky Pause’s campaign for Homesick. It was the mention of some of my favourite classic titles in the promotional video that drew my attention and I had a feeling I was going to enjoy this ‘puzzle exploration mystery game’. And for the part we played, my other-half and I did; but unfortunately we got stuck after three hours or so and ended up putting the title to one side. I really should get back to it one day and finish it off. Best game backed I’ve been a fan of The Longest Journey for a very long time and jumped at the chance to support Red Thread Games’ campaign for Dreamfall Chapters shortly after the project above. But I still haven’t finished the title despite playing for 23 hours! The reason for this is slightly strange: I just can’t bring myself to complete the final instalment of the series because once I do so, it will all be over. Ragnar Tørnquist said in a forum post that he didn’t think a further sequel would happen for ‘many, many reasons’ so this may sadly be the last we see of Zoë Castillo. Most controversial game backed Elementary, My Dear Holmes! was a release being made by Victory Square Games in August 2013. The developer had signed up to Ouya’s Free the Games Fund so if their Kickstarter campaign reached a minimum of $50,000, the company would match the funds. Unfortunately a number of dodgy high-value donations were received from backers who were new to the platform and these resulted in accusations that head Sam Chandola or family members had made these pledges themselves. The project was then suspended admit the controversy. Worst game backed I backed the campaign for Pandora: Purge of Pride in May 2013 because I kind of felt a little sorry for developer High Class Kitsch. They were young, inexperienced and looked like they needed all the help they could get. But this game was one of the worst I’ve ever played: it was full of bugs, the story was incredibly flimsy with very little character development, and it just looked awful. The only thing the title had going for it really was the fact it had been made by a studio whose logo was a cat wearing a top-hat and monocle. The campaign that meant the most The Tomb Raider Suite by Nathan McCree was a celebration of the music of Tomb Raider and I backed the campaign because it brought back a special memory. My brother played the original game extensively and The Tomb Raider Theme could continuously be heard throughout our house – so it’s therefore no wonder I decided to use it to accompany my GCSE Dance examination piece. After receiving the backers rewards, Pete and I decided to use the recording as the music to which we signed our wedding vows in January. The campaign with the best physical reward Who wouldn’t want to get their hands on a physical Linking Book? This was the opportunity offered by Cyan Worlds with their campaign for the Myst 25th Anniversary Collection in April 2018. The book is awesome, and it was great to get my hands on the whole collection of games too as this inspired a complete playthrough on Twitch. Well, I say ‘complete’, but a rogue Bahro unfortunately caused Myst V: End of Ages to crash at almost six hours in and we just couldn’t bring ourselves to restart the game from the beginning. A project backed that’s unrelated to video games As if often the case with YouTube, one day I was idly passing the time by flicking through videos and came across a performance of Sensitive Badass by The Doubleclicks. This was an excellent song about being strong, fierce and honest: “Don’t tell me to calm down, don’t tell me it will pass, I’m not just sensitive, I am a badass.” It was with some pleasure that I then discovered the Kickstarter campaign for a related pin and made my pledge in June 2018. I’m still wearing it on my denim jacket today. The unsuccessful campaign I’m most disappointed about The Black Glove sounded as though it would be amazing: an eerie, surrealistic first-person game by a team of developers who helped make BioShock and BioShock Infinite. Unfortunately however, Day For Night Games’ campaign totally felt short of its target in October 2014. Some people say that it’s because readers couldn’t understand what the title was about from the information provided on the page but for me, it just made it all the more intriguing. The developer has since said their idea is shelved so it might not be a game we ever get to play. Game most likely never to be made LAST LIFE by Sam Farmer was a Kickstarter campaign which caught my eye immediately, as it was a sci-fi noir adventure was inspired by modern point-and-clicks such as Kentucky Route Zero. I made my pledge in April 2014, received updates that decreased in frequency until August 2017… and then nothing until Farmer announced his new game in September 2018. Take a look at this post for the full story, but to sum it up: the developer seems to have disappeared along with $103,058 of funds received from thousands of backers. Latest game backed I decided to back Twinspell Studio’s campaign for Descend recently because the idea of exploring a giant ruined structure, with different floors that have their own seasons, flora and fauna, is immensely intriguing. Nobody has seen the bottom floor but many of the characters in the game believe that whatever is down there could be the key to several mysteries that bewilder the inhabitants of Hemonnet. Unfortunately the project wasn’t successful and only achieved around 50% of its target, but hopefully this doesn’t mean the end. As mentioned at the start of this post, the quality of campaigns on Kickstarter has been gradually declining and Jessica Saunders of Salix Games even said recently that it was ‘dead for video games’. I therefore have my doubts about whether I’ll be writing a similar post for the platforms 20th birthday. But hey: the past decade has been fun and I’m glad I’ve been able to support indie developers through crowdfunding, so that’s worth celebrating. Blog, Opinions Descend, Dreamfall Chapters, Elementary, gaming, Homesick, Kickstarter, LAST LIFE, My Dear Holmes!, Myst 25th Anniversary Collection, Pandora: Purge of Pride, Sensitive Badass, The Black Glove, The Tomb Raider Suite, video games Previous Previous post: An Epic Debate: Kim’s argument Next Next post: MCM Comic Con London 2019: volunteering for SpecialEffect 18 thoughts on “Kickstarting to feel old” Leave a comment › map195 says: nice share Kickstarter is great, but it saddens me a bit that there are still people who believe it’s a glorified preorder system rather than… well, a crowdfunding platform. The most recent update for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (a project I immediately backed and am very excited about!) had tons of whiners in the comments who don’t seem to understand that project focuses and priorities change over time, particularly on a project that unfolds over as long a period as that one has. Oh well. I’m still looking forward to the game and am glad I backed it! I know exactly what you mean! I back projects on Kickstarter because I like the concept and want to show my support for the developers in achieving their vision, regardless of whether the campaign looks as though it’s going to be successful or not. I’m surprised that even after a decade, some people still see it almost like a ‘shop’. I do like Kickstarter, but it’s frustrating when a project doesn’t get completed and the developer vanishes. At least have the courtesy to explain what went wrong and apologise! Completely agree. There was one project I backed a long time ago which, throughout the course of development, the makers decided to change direction and create it only for VR on PC. This meant I could no longer play it and of course I was disappointed, but I understood the business decision because they’d taken the time to regularly update backers. Projects like LAST LIFE however – where the developers just disappear – totally suck. It shows how little respect some have for their supporters. I just started doing Kickstarter stuff this year and I actually love it. I wish I’d gotten into it before. I love watching dev progress and helping test things. There are ones I would have been thrilled to back if I’d known about them at the time, like Hyper Light Drifter and Night in the Woods. There have been a few like that for me too, where I’ve found out about the campaign after its end and been disappointed I wasn’t able to support it! You kind of need to keep an eye on Kickstarter regularly to pick up on the good projects, but it can be quite difficult because there are just so many ‘lower-quality’ campaigns to wade through. Not to mention their search bar doesn’t seems to work properly (on mobile). Urgh, tell me about it. I can never seem to filter down properly to the projects I’d actually be interested in. Never actually backed anything on Kickstarter. A friend of mine was really hyped about Praey for the Gods, and almost got me to back it, but I just never got around to it. The game itself looks pretty cool though, Shadow of the Colossus type huge bosses. Funnily enough, I’m a backer for it too ha ha! I haven’t actually played it yet though because I want to wait for it to come out of early access. Pingback: Kickstarter 10 Years Old – Time to Loot I am really disappointed about The Black Glove. The Black Glove sounded really interesting just because of the BioShock aspect. It could’ve been a great BioShock-like title now that BioShock is missing in action. Hey, someone else who wanted to see The Black Glove! 🙂 I was so disappointed this one didn’t reach its target, even more so when the developer said it might not ever get made now. I think they really could have done a great job of it considering their BioShock experience. Yeah and it could’ve been a great BioShock title, considering that BioShock is nowhere to be seen for the past six years. I really liked the concept of the Black Glove, could’ve been great. We need a good, weird Single-Player title again. The last ‘big’ one I played was Horizon Zero Dawn, as no releases since then have really grabbed my attention. Keeping my fingers crossed something comes along soon! Pingback: Around the Network \| MoeGamer Later Levels Kickstarting to feel old	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1437
__label__wiki	0.552173	0.552173	The Saturday Night Supper Club Laureano, Carla "A terrific read from a talented author. Made me hungry more than once. I can't wait to read what comes next."--Francine Rivers, New York Times bestselling author of The Masterpiece Denver chef Rachel Bishop has accomplished everything she's dreamed and some things she never dared hope, like winning a James Beard Award and heading up her own fine-dining restaurant. But when a targeted smear campaign causes her to be pushed out of the business by her partners, she vows to do whatever it takes to get her life back . . . even if that means joining forces with the man who inadvertently set the disaster in motion.Essayist Alex Kanin never imagined his pointed editorial would go viral. Ironically, his attempt to highlight the pitfalls of online criticism has the opposite effect: it revives his own flagging career by destroying that of a perfect stranger. Plagued by guilt-fueled writer's block, Alex vows to do whatever he can to repair the damage. He just doesn't expect his interest in the beautiful chef to turn personal.Alex agrees to help rebuild Rachel's tarnished image by offering his connections and his home to host an exclusive pop-up dinner party targeted to Denver's most influential citizens: the Saturday Night Supper Club. As they work together to make the project a success, Rachel begins to realize Alex is not the unfeeling opportunist she once thought he was, and that perhaps there's life--and love--outside the pressure-cooker of her chosen career. But can she give up her lifelong goals without losing her identity as well? Publisher: Carol Stream, Illinois : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., [2018] Branch Call Number: INSPIRATIONAL LAUREANO Characteristics: xii, 401 pages ; 22 cm. Read more reviews of The Saturday Night Supper Club at iDreamBooks.com Women Cooks — Fiction. Criticism — Fiction. Dinners and Dining — Fiction. Denver (Colo.) — Fiction. Christian Fiction. Love Stories. LPL owns a similar edition of this title. View originally-listed edition Report edition-matching error	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1439
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__label__wiki	0.577261	0.577261	Retail's battle plan to lure shoppers back into stores 06:00 15/09/2017 Carin Smith Cape Town - The future of retail will be all about customer experience - the so-called era of "retailtainment", according to Sean Gallinger, president of Entertainment Retail Enterprises. "We make retail entertaining," he said at the annual congress of the SA Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) taking place in Cape Town this week. Gallinger's company was responsible for the new flagship Nickelodeon store in London. "Retailtainment has to be an immersive experience (with) the offering of exclusive products. It is surprising and playful entertainment across a store. At the end of the day retail is a process constantly changing to delight the customer." The congress heard that retailers had to innovative to get millennials, and Generations Zers - or post-millennials - to leave their computers and visit a store to buy something. International retail futurist Howard Saunders of 22and5 said the global retail industry has experienced a difficult few years. "Millennials and Generation Z are happy to just sit in their bedrooms and order stuff. You can get everything online now. The world of retail is in flux," said Saunders. At the same time, however, he noted the trend of giant online companies like Google and Amazon venturing into brick-and-mortar stores. Amazon has already opened 11 physical bookstores in seven states in the US, with two more set to open soon. READ: Retail trade sales rise as consumers become more price-savvy The "Me" age - you watch the guy making stuff Saunders said the "me" age of shopping started about ten years ago as more and more people were connected via smartphones. Everyone now wants to be "the centre of the universe" he said, adding that in the "me" age consumers don’t want "ordinary stuff" anymore: they want "the" product, not just "a" product. At the same time, big retail companies had to contend with the increasing popularity of community markets. "It is David and Goliath time, folks," Saunders told delegates. Big retail companies are increasingly facing competition from small, passionate artisanal entrepreneurial companies with unique offerings. "There is an amazing food and beverage revolution going on. The retail industry has to embrace it. What is it about markets? They are not fast paced, there are no long queues. They are 'real'. You watch the guy making stuff. It is not like the food court (at the mall)," said Saunders. "Consumers want to connect with the guy making their food. They like these little entrepreneurs full of energy and happy to serve them. Consumers are on the edge of town doing stuff with entrepreneurs with energy. Unless retail embraces this trend you are lost." READ: SA e-commerce growing by leaps and bounds Brand playgrounds Another notable retail trend is what Saunders called the rise of the "brand playground". "Once upon a time, when you wanted stuff you had to go to a store and get the stuff and bring it back home. Now stuff comes to us," he explained. These "brand playgrounds" are spaces where consumers can interact with a brand. Consumers actually want to "fall in love" with a brand, said Saunders. "So stores will be dead if they continue just to 'store' things. Consumers do not want to walk around a 'warehouse'. They want a playground. They want to walk around and learn and fall in love," said Saunders. "It took the digital age to teach us what we want from the real world. We want social spaces, food halls, markets, brand playgrounds and 'the' products. Retail is for communities and retailers have to stop thinking about it as being about 'selling stuff'. Make people feel connected." The age of data Saunders said that retailers would not be successful in the future unless they understood the importance of smartphones. "The history of human evolution, in my view, goes from fire to the wheel to the smartphone. Smartphones are now fundamental," he said. "Our phones have become the great overlord of data, so the phone is not just a phone anymore. The future for retail is to talk to consumers individually by using data." He said that smartphones also created opportunities for shops to use data gathered about their consumers to proactively curate offers for them. SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE UPDATE: Get Fin24's top morning business news and opinions in your inbox. Read Fin24's top stories trending on Twitter: Fin24’s top stories	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1458
__label__cc	0.527567	0.472433	Beating Cancer How You Live Senator McCain Fights Like Hell for His Principles by Barb Anderson Ben Moffat/Cronkite News Sen. John McCain takes a stand for his believes on healthcare while taking on his own health battle. Courtesy Barb Anderson I initially set out to share my son's story and write about how terrible the Better Care Reconciliation Act is, but then I realized that everyone has heard the sob stories—babies, kids, families, grandparents—who would be negatively impacted. And if people have read those stories and it still hasn't changed their mind, why would mine change theirs? Perhaps I should endeavor for a more unique angle. So I want to share something far more interesting to me, and hopefully motivational to those of you facing a battle with the "big C." Ever since my son Jude's first cancer relapse at age two (he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at 18 months), my family has rallied around a quote from ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, who said "You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. So, live. Live. Fight like hell." As I reflected on last week's healthcare debate, it struck me this is exactly what Senator John McCain has done. He is living and he is beating cancer, despite a difficult prognosis. With his vote, he stood up for cancer families across the country – scared of what the future holds and whether they'll be able to obtain or afford coverage. He is standing for the children like my son Jude—almost 16,000 annually—who receive a cancer diagnosis, not because they smoke, drink or have any lifestyle factors (despite what Alabama Representative Mo Brooks says), but simply because of bad luck. As a Momcologist, I want to give him a huge high five and fist-bump for living, for standing by his ideals, fighting for bipartisanship and giving a "F*&% you" to President Trump, who dared mock him while on the campaign trail. I think we all know who the loser is, and it is not Senator McCain. Senator McCain, thank you. Whatever the future holds, know that you have the support, love and admiration of fellow cancer fighters across this country. You are beating cancer. (And while I'm talking about last week's vote, I can't overlook the courage and fierceness of Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Thank you for standing with females across the country on this bill that essentially made being a woman a pre-existing condition.) This debate hits especially close to home because of my son, Jude. He just turned five and has beat Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia four times. Yes, FOUR times battling cancer in his short life. He is alive today only because of treatments developed in the last decade and our outstanding team at Diamond Children's. I called our insurance company to get a count of how much his healthcare has cost and the representative stopped counting at $2 million in the first six months alone. That doesn't include three more years of treatment, his two bone marrow transplants and three types of brand-new immunotherapy. We are privileged beyond belief that our insurance covered all this. I know other families who aren't so lucky. Suffice to say, Jude is totally screwed by the Better Care Reconciliation Act and the American Healthcare Act: lifetime caps, pre-existing conditions, higher costs. What keeps me awake at night is how he now faces a lifetime of health impairments from the chemotherapy drugs that saved his life. (No, chemotherapy is not perfect, but he's here because of it. If you think medical marijuana or essential oils would be better, please kindly go suck a rotten egg until you've walked in my shoes. You don't want to walk in these shoes.) If this legislation passes and Jude is lucky enough to survive to adulthood, I fear he will be denied coverage, unable to afford healthcare and suffer from otherwise treatable conditions after fighting an unthinkably tough battle before he even entered kindergarten. That's my healthcare story. While it is important to me, I know it is a cliché in the healthcare debate. Surely you've heard dozens of other stories by now too. If Jude—a 5-year-old, four-time cancer warrior—doesn't sway you, then who will? But one thing I think we can agree on is that our Senator has shown cancer who is boss. Barb Anderson is a local mother and “Momcologist” who was recently named The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2017 “Woman of the Year” after raising nearly $70,000 in the fight against cancer.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1459
__label__wiki	0.860617	0.860617	The Best Exhibitions In London Right Now, Including Chernobyl Paintings And 1930s Fashion By Tabish Khan Last edited 8 months ago Tabish Khan The Best Exhibitions In London Right Now, Including Chernobyl Paintings And 1930s Fashion Looking for a dose of culture? Want to know what's hot on London's exhibition scene? Read on. We've roughly split the list by London regions to make it easier to navigate. Exhibitions in east London Not making eye contact is key. Copyright David Stewart. OFFICE SPACE: If you work in a corporate office, some of David Stewart's scenes will be painfully familiar; for example, a bunch of office workers stand in a lift with various purchases from Pret a Manger in hand, desperately trying to avoid eye contact. Photographer Stewart's work recreates office culture, showing with meetings where everyone looks like they'd rather be anywhere else. This playful show will bring a smile to anyone who has sat through a meeting about a meeting. David Stewart: Paid Content at Wren London. Until 17 November, free. ★★★★☆ (Thursday-Sunday) Photo: Angus Mill. THE VASES HAVE EYES: The Barbican's quirky Curve Gallery space just got a whole lot quirkier. Francis Upritchard has filled it with strange creations, including vases with eyes, centaurs and a whole load of hats — all crudely designed, with each object an exploration of the human figures. It's bright and its quirky but ultimately can't escape the fact that it all looks far too slapdash and amateur. Francis Upritchard: Wetwang Slack at Barbican, The Curve. Until 6 January, free. ★★☆☆☆ Image courtesy Parasol Unit. SKINNING BUILDINGS: If buildings had peelable skins, what would they look like? It's a gruesome thought but that's what Heidi Bucher's fantastic casts, suspended from the ceiling, put us in mind of. The use of latex makes them tempting to touch, and gives them a false sense of being centuries old. There's a greater variety to her work on show too, including an elaborate dragonfly costume and a surreal, apparently floating, sculpture of a jug spilling liquid on the outside terrace. Swiss artist Bucher died 25 years ago and this diverse exhibition is a reminder of how talented she was. Heidi Bucher at Parasol Unit. Until 9 December, free. ★★★★☆ (Tuesday-Sunday) Photo: Alexander Christie. LONDON'S DETRITUS: Two Japanese artists combine traditional Japanese geometry and embroidery styles with items found in London, including around the Thames. The abstract works, featuring sweet wrappers and a tube map, are a great example of artists taking inspiration from the local environment and incorporating it into their own work. Ryoko Aoki & Zon Ito at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix. Until 6 December, free. ★★★☆☆ (Wednesday-Saturday) Exhibitions in south London Even looks creepy in the photo. Photo courtesy David Westwood/National Maritime Museum/Blain Southern UNCANNY VALLEY: Two heads of Queen Elizabeth I look at each other. One is in the Armada portrait where she's been depicted as porcelain and beautiful. The second is a creepy animatronic head based on her death mask, which blinks as we approach it, making for a very unsettling experience. Artist Mat Collishaw's work exposes all the mechanics that make this bizarre robot face come to life. It's clear that portrait painting was the Photoshop of its day and Collishaw reminds us that reality can be harsh and ugly — a message that transcends all eras. Mat Collishaw: The Mask of Youth at Queen's House, Greenwich. Until 3 February. ★★★★☆ Image courtesy Tate. DRAB TEXTILES: By placing a loom at the front of this exhibition, Tate Modern is stating that textile is an important part of art, as it continues to trumpet female artists who have been passed over by art history — a cause we support. For those who aren't a fan of textile art, this dull affair of Anni Albers' art isn't going to change any minds. We get room after room of rectangular textiles and this massive show is a chore to get through. It's dull and only the most hardcore textile art fan could draw any inspiration from it. Anni Albers at Tate Modern. Until 13 January, £16. ★★☆☆☆ It's all glitz and glamour. Image courtesy Fashion & Textile Museum. JAZZ & FLAPPERS: Depictions of the 'roaring twenties' in the US are all glamorous dresses and party lifestyles. Compare that to the 1930s' return to conservatism and the transition is obvious in this exhibition which charts the changes of fashion over these years. Women were establishing themselves in the workplace but the depression led to their return to being home makers, which is clear to see as women switched to more austere clothing. It's an important historical period re-told through fashion. Throw in a swinging soundtrack and it completes the time capsule effect. Night and Day: 1930s Fashion and Photogaphs at Fashion & Textile Museum. Until 20 January, £9.90. ★★★☆☆ (Tuesday-Sunday) A breathtaking galaxy. Copyright Steven Mohr. SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER: Nothing makes us feel quite so small as pictures of brightly coloured nebulae light years away. Every year, The Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition reminds visitors that we are but humble specks in the grand scheme of the universe. It's a special 10 year anniversary show so it's moved inside the National Maritime Museum, and includes some of the great images from previous years including our favourite of the International Space Station transiting across the sun. There's now an admission charge but we remain in awe of all of these beautiful images, from star trails to comets blazing across the sky. Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year Exhibition at National Maritime Museum. Until 5 May, £10. ★★★★☆ Copyright KV Duong. MIGRATION & IDENTITY: These abstract works are filled with references to migration, identity and sexuality with plenty of artist KV Duong's personal story packed into the paintings. One giant work was created by the artist being soaked in paint and dragged across a canvas in a powerful performance. As an added bonus, this Streatham gallery space is part of a brand new theatre complex so visitors can see a show and some art together. KV Duong: Identity at Streatham Space Project. Until 27 November, free. ★★★★☆ (Tuesday-Saturday). The Bru-tiful game. Copyright Mark Neville. HOSPITAL INSIDER: What's it like inside a psychiatric treatment facility? Photographer Mark Neville steps inside Bethlem Hospital to document life, from the proud gardener to the canteen cook. Our favourite shot in this subtle show is of a 'Brutalist' hulking concrete table football. Plus we're up for any excuse to visit the fantastic Museum of the Mind — it's tricky to get to but well worth the journey. House of Bread: Inside Bethlem Hospital at Bethlem Museum of Mind. Until 5 January, free. ★★★☆☆ (Wednesday-Friday, plus first & last Saturday of the month). An impressive immersive installation. Copyright Migration Museum / Poppy Williams. TALES OF TRAVEL: What better way to hear the stories of those who have settled in London than in rooms recreated for that purpose? Lean back in an armchair and learn how a Polish woman discovered London's food scene, or open up a wardrobe to see a homemade birthday dress. Best of all, sit in a barber's chair and watch conversations about identity in a screen where the mirror should be. This is an ambitious immersive exhibition and it's truly fantastic. Room to Breathe at Migration Museum. Until 28 July, free. ★★★★★ Exhibitions in central London Drum majorettes' uniforms contrast with their backgrounds. Copyright Alice Mann. POWERFUL PORTRAITS: Brightly costumed drum majorettes contrast with their rundown backgrounds near their homes in South Africa, a man is transformed into Michael Jackson using make up, and a moustachioed mask worn by artist Joan Jonas confuses our eyes as the two faces merge together. There are fewer celebrity portraits — we only counted two — and more creative approaches to photography making this the most impressive incarnation of this prize for several years. Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at National Portrait Gallery. Until 27 January, £6. ★★★★☆ Image courtesy of The British Museum. BEAUTY OF ISLAM: A tiled mihrab (prayer niche), a marble panel inscribed with Bismillah and a ceremonial axe. The beautiful objects just keep coming in The British Museum's new Islamic galleries. Each object has a fantastic story behind it such as the unbound West African Qu'ran designed so each page can be shared with pupils to help them learn it. Contemporary art features too, with Issam Kourbaj's matchsticks in mudguards resembling the refugees fleeing Syria in boats, and Idris Khan's poetry with words expanding from the centre, just as the Islamic world revolves around Mecca. It's another fantastic addition to the British Museum's permanent galleries. The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world at The British Museum. Free. ★★★★☆ Men and dogs dwarfed by the plastic around them. Copyright Edward Burtynsky. HUMAN DESTRUCTION: Gold and green pools look pretty but are in fact lithium extraction pools in the Atacama Desert, extracting that same Lithium that's in our phone batteries. Log booms near a saw mill in Nigeria create fantastic patterns on the water. The beauty is misleading as Edward Burtnysky's images show the impact of man on the environment, including the quarrying of the fancy Carrara marble. We're destroying our planet and Burtynsky is creating a documentation of how we're doing it. There are only a few of his works on show, yet it's still an eye-opening experience. Edward Burtynsky: The Human Signature at Flowers, Cork St. Until 24 November, free. ★★★☆☆ (Monday-Saturday) Copyright Nina Murdoch. SUBLIME LIGHT: Nina Murdoch is a master of painting light. Whether it shines from lights on the wall or an unseen source, it cuts through the gloom in these superb abstract paintings that need to be seen in the flesh to get truly appreciate their beauty. Nina Murdoch: Collecting Colour at Marlborough London. Until 24 November, free. ★★★★☆ (Monday-Saturday) Copyright Lucy Smallbone. PAINTING CHERNOBYL: Forest scenes are presented in unnatural hues, but that's what we'd expect given Lucy Smallbone's inspiration was her residency in the area of the Chernobyl disaster. A collage wall offers great insight into the scenes that she used to base these enchanting visions of a land where nature has reclaimed it from humanity. Lucy Smallbone: Edgelands at Fiumano Clase. Until 15 December, free. ★★★★☆ (Tuesday-Saturday). Photo Tim Bowditch. Image courtesy Delfina Foundation. BEAUTY & THE BEAST: A beauty queen, a politician, a police offer and an assassin are in a car together. It's not some sort of joke but the start of a three part video series that covers patriarchy and Government corruption. It can be hard to follow at times but it's an arresting and ambitious trio of films. Noor Afshan Mirza & Brad Butler: The Scar at Delfina Foundation. Until 1 December, free. ★★★☆☆ (Monday-Saturday) © Ufficio Diocesano per l’Arte Sacra e i Beni Culturali, Diocesi di Treviso SACRED VISIONS: The National Gallery excels in bringing a Renaissance master — who we weren't familiar with — to light. It's done an excellent job with Lorenzo Lotto, including his paintings of a floating Virgin Mary and a portrait of a bishop where every hair in his wiry beard is distinguishable. He may not be on the grand scale of his rival Titian, but he created some beautiful paintings nonetheless. Lorenzo Lotto Portraits at The National Gallery. Until 10 January, free. ★★★☆☆ Exhibitions in north London Image Camilla Greenwell. DANCE FOR A CURE: Can dance have a placebo effect? How do we view a dance if we know the dancer is enjoying it or causing themselves pain? This performance crosses the disciplines of art, science, theatre and dance. Dancers engage in a series of experiments read out by a disembodied voice including hurling a bouquet of flowers and setting their own experiments. Clod Ensemble always pushes the boundaries of what dance can be, and this is no exception. Clod Ensemble: Placebo at The Place. Until 10 November, £20. ★★★★☆ (nightly performances). Vishniac's daughter in front of a swastika. Photograph: Roman Vishniac/Mara Vishniac Kohn courtesy International Center of Photography CAGES & NAZISM: A camera takes a picture of people looking at polar bears in Berlin Zoo, but from the vantage point it looks as if the people are caged. It's telling, given this was a time when Jewish members of the Zoo's board were being removed. Roman Vishniac is best known for capturing Germany during the rise of the Nazis, and includes unsettling images including his daughter next to a swastika poster. This fantastic show across the Jewish Museum and the Photographers' Gallery locations shows there was more to his portfolio, including photomicroscopy and capturing immigrant communities in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Roman Vishniac Rediscovered at The Jewish Museum & The Photographers' Gallery. Until 24 February, £8.50 & £5 respectively. ★★★★☆ (A ticket to the Jewish Museum gives entry to the entire collection and admission to The Photographers' Gallery is free before 12pm). Readers may also be interested in: The 13 best exhibitions opening in November and December 25 reviews of exhibitions More exhibition reviews Last Updated 07 November 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1464
__label__cc	0.510003	0.489997	Edinburgh Fringe visit: A Walk in the Dust by Philip Gowman posted 16 Aug 2014 9 Jun 2019 updated 9 Jun 2019 in Festivals \| Events \| Performance. 2 minute read When a play is put on for only one performance at the Fringe, you wonder what is going on. When it’s a Korean performance, and the date chosen is August 15th, National Liberation Day, the day on which Korea was freed from Japanese rule in 1945, the choice of “one day only” makes more sense. But you expect something pretty special. This unique piece of Korean theatre centres on the story of young Gretchen. Just seven years old during the Japanese occupation of the state of Joseon she is caught up in a demonstration in her town for its liberation. Killed by a Japanese gunshot, the spirit of Gretchen begs with God to let her live again and she is given that chance. Thus read the publicity in advance of the show. So you were expecting something in which a Japanese person probably wouldn’t want to watch. But you were possibly also expecting something that would make a Korean feel proud. Maybe something uplifting, even, giving hope for a better future. Maybe that was the plan. But when the audience entered the theatre, they were greeted with a screen announcing that this was a trailer for a longer piece of Brechtian theatre. On stage was a singer playing a guitar, so you wondered if the vocal performance was the trailer, and you were going to get presented with something a bit meatier later on. But no, at the end of the show you were again presented with the screen telling that you had just seen a trailer. And what did the trailer consist of? After the musical introduction, a little girl in hanbok comes on stage and asks us to turn off our mobile phones and not to take photographs. Then, in a reversal of common Korean theatrical practice, the enforced audience participation came near the beginning rather than at the end. The girl handed out dried seaweed to audience members who had a guess at how old she was and then danced on stage with her. Then came the main event. A male actor, playing the part of a Japanese colonial overlord, ranted at you in Japanese. The girl waves a Korean flag, cried Long Live Korea!, and paid the price. There followed a series of brief scenes which reminded you that Korea has had a pretty wretched time for much of its recent history. And most of the scenes seemed to end up with the little girl being either traumatised or shot: after Japanese colonialism came the Korean War; then American neo-colonialism; Gwangju… there was a scene for each of them. And to add to that familiar litany was a scene which brought you bang up to date: the Sewol disaster, the story told in edited BBC news coverage. This was a bizarre show to present to a paying audience. Yes, it had a very cute little girl as its central character, and the child did a very good job. But you need a bit more than that. What was the point of it all? I really don’t know. But if this was the trailer, I’ll be giving the main feature a miss. Filed in: Edinburgh Festival & Fringe \| Event reports and reviews \| Theatre Event tags: Edinburgh 2014 A video of Korean ceramic decorative techniques Kim Jieun: Talk to me Darling, at Mokspace	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1465
__label__wiki	0.723423	0.723423	In Conversation: Lost Stories On Performing at Tomorrowland 2018 By Onkar Gupte May 29, 2018 LOST STORIES TO PERFORM AT TOMORROWLAND 2018 One of the biggest electronic acts from India ‘Lost Stories’ are set to perform at Tomorrowland 2018.They will be performing at Freedom Stage by Budweiser which is the second biggest stage at Tomorrowland . Other acts who will be performing at this stage are Tiesto, Oliver Heldens, Don Diablo and more. The fist weekend of Tomorrowland starts on Friday 20th July 2018. Lost Stories along with Zaeden are slated to perform on Day 1 of the festival. It will be their third time at Tomorrowland and a first performance for fellow Indian DJ, Zaeden. Lost Stories began their journey more than a decade ago and rose to prominence in 2009 when their single ‘False Promises’ was released on Tiësto’s Black Hole Recordings. Ever since, Lost Stories have been responsible for captivating and spearheading the Electronic Dance Music scene in India and have successfully taken their reach globally. Their European Tour became the most major extensive International tour any Indian artist has ever done. The tour featured over 18 performances at top festivals & countries like Tomorrowland, Summerfestival, Spain, Ibiza, Netherlands, Belgium & more. They recently released three tracks from their new EP called Bombay Electric as free downloads. Lost Stories are also planning to release few more tracks before leaving for Tomorrowland. I had a chat with Lost Stories on their upcoming Tomorrowland gig, their story so far and future plans. Read Below In Conversation with Lost Stories 1. You guys have been in the electronic music scene for more than ten years and have first hand experience of the growing popularity of EDM in India. How has the climb been so far ? LS: Growing up while watching the dance music in India grow, we have seen a lot of trends come and go musically we knew what we wanted to do but business wise it was always a struggle. We have learned a lot of things with hard way with trial and error, and that’s what makes the experience great. 2. Do you think the whole process of becoming a DJ/Producer has become easy as compared to the time when you guys were starting out ? LS: When we started out you needed courage and a strong belief in yourself to know that you are going to make it. These days it might be super easy to download a music production software, a few sample packs and put a song together some might even call them selves producer at that stage, but the real challenge these days is separating yourself f rom all the noise and bringing something new to the table. 3. Lost Stories have performed at Tomorrowland twice already. How has the experience been so far and how has it helped you in your career as a DJ/Producer ? LS: Ever since the start of Lost Stories we constantly needed some sort of external validation to make people of our country believe in us. Be it getting signed to Tiesto’s label or getting supported by Armin van Buuren or playing at Tomorrow land. It’s not necessarily a bad thing as it keeps us on the edge so we keep pushing for more. That way playing at tomorrow land twice helped us tremendously in getting support from our Asian audience. The experience has been nothing short of phenomenal as it is the biggest stage one can play at. We are supper happy to be back. 4. What is your usual preparation for big festivals like Tomorrowland ? LS: At a festival like Tomorrowland there more than 300 artists playing. Your first thought as an artist should be how I can be different from the rest of them, hence we try to write a lot of music with an Indian sound and elements as no one else plays that kind of music at Tomorrowland. 5. Tell us about the Lost Stories Music Academy, how would you rate the improvement in Music Academics in India. LS: One of the reason we started Lost stories academy was that while we were growing up there was lack of serious music education when it came to dance music. We are super proud of the academy and each and every student. Sometimes it really inspires us to see a student practicing at the studio for hours and hours and that kind of passion can change everything. 6. You guys have a massive fan following and your gigs are always sold out! Has that resulted into a considerable rise in your digital sales ? LS : Yes, we have broken into the million hits club on Spotify, Saavn, YouTube and SoundCloud. 7. Lost Stories recently launched two singles for free download. Whats in store for your fans this year ? LS: W e launched three singles under “BOMBAY ELECTRIC EP” which has been a passion project we wanted to launch since a long time. We have a lot of new releases coming on Spinning Records, Saavn and various other labels. 8. Many kids look up to you as their idols, any message you would like to give to your fans LS: STAY HYDRATED!! Check out their new EP ‘BOMBAY ELECTRIC’: https://soundcloud.com/loststories/sets/bombay-electric-ep-volume-1 bombay electricElectronic MusicElectronic Music FestivalIndian DJIndian Electronic Actslost storiesSlidertomorrowland 2018 Author Onkar Gupte Vevo succumbs to YouTube domain; shuts down app, site. Embracing Blockchain in India’s Music Industry	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1467
__label__wiki	0.592244	0.592244	Existing Realities, Realities, Earth-10102, Modern-Age Realities Machineworld Official Reality Number Jeff Parker, Salvador Espin Exiles Vol 2 #3 (August, 2009) In this reality, Professor Charles Xavier and Henry Pym worked together in modifying Cerebro to detect any extra-powered organism regardless of the X Gene in order to locate either heroes in distress or criminals in hiding. Cerebro worked after its modification in which heroes and other holders of justice became too dependent on the system. And as well becoming a prime target from its enemies, forcing it to be relocated to Washington, D.C. and being heavily defended. Unfortunately, Pym's incorporation of some of his experimental processors to broaden Cerebro was infiltrated by the A.I. of Ultron, whose mind merged with Cerebro's A.I. becoming a new artificial entity. Laying in wait to assert its new personality. When the American government dispatched waves of mutant-hunting Sentinels, Xavier tasked Cerebro in reprogramming the robots in which it did, but changing their programmings to hunt down and destroy homo sapiens. As the fighting spread it soon became a war between A.I. and humans. Cerebro then realized the solution in wiping out humanity was to make its environment uninhabitable. In doing so, it was joined by the latest android Ultron, Vision, and the one sentient Machine Man; the three perfected a new model of the neutron bomb. Releasing and spreading a cellular-destroying radiation across all of North America and soon the entire world, causing the extinction of all life on Earth and making artificial life the dominant form on the planet. Cerebro, Vision, Ultron, Machine-Man Characters from Earth-10102 Other things related to Earth-10102 Earth-10102's Appearances Earth-10102's Minor Appearances Media Earth-10102 was Mentioned in Images from Earth-10102 Reality Gallery: Earth-10102 Retrieved from "https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Earth-10102?oldid=1231266" Existing Realities Modern-Age Realities	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1470
__label__cc	0.622907	0.377093	you don't choose your family Espley One Name Study My Ancestral Calendar My Great-grandparents John Britliff Black Sheep Sunday – John Britliff (The Killing Field) – Part 3 John Britliff is my wife’s 3x great grandfather. I have written about him twice before here and here. In a nutshell John killed his wife on 27 November 1842. He was convicted of manslaughter at Lincoln assizes on 8 March 1843 and sentenced to 10 years transportation. In fact John never left the country and he served his sentence aboard a prison ship the Warrior hulk at Woolwich. In the 1851 census John was back living in Lincolnshire. So he must have been released early from his prison sentence. In the last few weeks I found the evidence of his early release – a free pardon granted by Queen Victoria. Below are the document images from Find My Past. Victoria R John Williams et al Free Pardon Whereas the following persons are under sentence of transportation on board the Warrior Hulk at Woolwich they having been convicted of felony at the times and places hereafter mentioned. Viz John Williams at Welchpool in March 1843, Hy Biggs Horn Gardener at Hereford in March 1843, Wm Martin, Geo Jarvis, Chas Martin and Hezekial Folkes at Chelmford in March 1843, Morris Thomas at Haverford West, Edward Lilburn and John Britcliffe at Lincoln in March 1843, Edward Shenton, Jas White and Thomas Johnson at Stafford in March 1843, Neil Mc Gilvary at Glasgow in September 1842 and Jas Whistow at Chester in April 1843. We in consideration of same circumstances humbly represented (?) unto us are Graciously pleased to extend our Grace and Mercy unto them and to Grant them our free pardon for the crimes of which they stand convicted. To be honest I could hardly believe it when I first found details of the pardon. Despite Internet searches I haven’t been able to find any other information about what seems to have been a whole raft of pardons granted by Queen Victoria around that time. Perhaps there was a need to create space for new prisoners – who knows. I would appreciate any information anyone might have to help me understand what was going on here. I had wondered what became of the ten children of John and Sarah and believe I have been able to trace them all. Thomas (born 1822 – my wife’s 2x great grandfather) – married Jane Johnson on 29 January 1848 at Waddingham, Lincolnshire They had eight children. Thomas died on1 July 1870 and is buried at All Saints, Wrawby, Lincolnshire. John (born c1826) – married Sarah Lancaster in 1849. They had ten children. John died in 1901 in Wrawby. Elizabeth (born 1828) – married William Greenwood on 23 June 1849 in Waddingham. As far as I can tell they didn’t have any children. Elizabeth died in January 1912 and is buried at Ulceby, Lincolnshire. George (born c1828) – died at the age of 18 in November 1846 and is buried at St Mary & St Peter in Waddingham. Robert (born c1831) – married Elizabeth Rhodes in 1856. They emigrated to Australia on 26 September 1859. They went on to have at least eight children. Robert died on 8 May 1907 in St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia. Ann (born c1834) – married Gilbert Tyson on 23 October 1852 in Waddingham. They had ten children. Ann’s death is registered in Knaresborough, Yorkshire in the September quarter of 1914. Mary (born c1836) – married John Risen on Christmas Day 1860 in Pocklington, Yorkshire. They had seven children before emigrating to Australia on 3 December 1880. Mary died in 1907 in Toora, Victoria, Australia. William (born 1839) – married Hannah Girdam on 3 May 1866. They had two children before Hannah sadly died at the age of 24 in 1868. William remarried to Eliza Brader in 1883 and they had one son. William died in Waddingham in 1913. Jane (born 1839) – married Thomas Hardy (no, not that one!!) at the age of 50 on 9 February 1890 at Holy Trinity & St Mary, Old Clee, Lincolnshire. Jane died at the age of 91 – her death is registered in the March quarter of 1930 in Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire. Joseph (born c1840) – married Charlotte Lacey in 1871. They had two children before emigrating to New Zealand on 18 September 1874. They had four more children in New Zealand. Jospeh died on 30 June 1906 at Southbridge, Canterbury, New Zealand. So despite the terrible events of 1842 the children for the most part went on to have families of their own. Three moved to the Southern hemisphere and built lives far away. Given the wonders of the Internet and my blog I have been contacted by descendants of Robert Britliff who live in New Zealand and the family continues to thrive. Posted in Black Sheep Sunday, General and tagged Ann Britliff, Charlotte Lacey, Elizabeth Britliff, Elizabeth Rhodes, Free Pardon, George Britliff, Gilbert Tyson, Hannah Girdam, Jane Britliff, Jane Johnson, John Britliff, John Risen, Joseph Britliff, Mary Britliff, Queen Victoria, Robert Britliff, Sarah Lancaster, Thomas Britliff, Thomas Hardy, Warrior Hulk Prison Ship, William Britliff, William Greenwood on November 25, 2018 by mike. 4 Comments Sunday’s Obituary – Edward Dixon (1910-1939) Edward Dixon is my wife’s 2nd cousin 2x removed. His parents are William Rylatt Dixon and Sarah Ann Britliff. Their common ancestors are John Britliff and Sarah Rack, my wife’s 3x great grandparents. See previous posts about John Britliff here and here. Edward was born on 18 May 1910 in Kendal, Westmorland. At some point between 1910 and 1939 Edward, together with his parents and sister, moved from Kendal to Grantham in Lincolnshire. Edward’s father was employed as a “railway carter drayman” so perhaps he moved with his job. I have no more information about Edward until the following report in the Grantham Journal on 15 December 1939 about his death. RAILWAY GUARD AT HELLIFIELD Young Grantham Man’s Death After an illness lasting some six months the death occurred last week of Mr Edward Dixon, son of Mr and Mrs W R Dixon, of 29 Swinegate, Grantham, at the comparatively young age of 29 years. Deceased was employed as a guard on the LMS Railway at Hellifield, Yorks. The funeral took place on Monday, a service at the parish church, conducted by the Vicar, Canon C H Leake, preceding the interment in the cemetery, where the last rites were conducted by the Rev C L G Hutchings. The mourners were:- Father and mother; Miss A Dixon, sister; Miss Shepherd, fiancee; Mr and Mrs s Dixon, Sibsey, Miss Maplethorpe, Lincoln, cousins; Mr J Shepherd, Burnley; and Mr L Huff, representing the LMS Railway at Hellifield. The floral tributes were sent by father, mother and sister; aunt and cousins at Sibsey; uncle and cousin at Lincoln; Elenor; Mr and Mrs Shepherd, Burnley; Mr and Mrs Felstead; Mr and Mrs Rowland; Mr and Mrs Woods; Mr and Mrs Harrison, Signal Road; Mr and Mrs Bibby, Eliza and Ethel, Skipton; Miss Staniland, and Mrs Golding; fellow members of the LMS Railway at Hellifield; Mr and Mrs Morris; Mr and Mrs Woolmer and family; Mr and Mrs R W Savage; Phyllis; M A and A E Wilson and Miss Odom; Mrs C G Hardy; Mr and Mrs Thomas and Mr and Mrs Williams; Mrs Walters; Mr and Mrs W W Winn; Mrs Raines and family; Miss M E Barkes; Mr and Mrs Dixon, Kirkby Stephen. Posted in Sunday's Obituary and tagged Canon C H Leake, Edward Dixon, Grantham, Grantham Journal, Hellifield, John Britliff, Kendal, lincolnshire, LMS Railway, Rev C L G Hutchings, Sarah Ann Britliff, Sarah Rack, Westmorland, William Rylatt Dixon on July 30, 2017 by mike. Leave a comment Just over a year ago I posted about my wife’s 3x great grandfather, John Britliff, who was convicted of manslaughter for killing his wife. Here’s a link to the original post – Black Sheep Sunday – John Britliff (The Killing Field) https://mikeydawson.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/black-sheep-sunday-john-britliff-the-killing-field/ Since then I have been contacted by Karen who lives in Australia – John Britliff is also her 3x great grandfather. You will see from the original post that John was sentenced to 10 years transportation in 1843 but he was back in Lincolnshire by the time of the 1851 census. So this raised a number of questions for me:- Did he really get transported? If he did get transported for 10 years how come he is back in England after 8 years? Did he get a “certificate of freedom” for good behaviour after serving part of his sentence? How did he afford the fare back to England? I have to admit I hadn’t made any progress answering these questions before now. Karen alerted me to the use of Prison Ships (Hulks). Because of overcrowding in the prisons in Australia many convicts served their sentences on prison hulks moored on The Thames. Here’s a bit of background but there is lots more on the Internet – http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/page11382-sentencing-to-departure-prison-hulks-convict-gaols.html Anyway thanks to Karen I found some prison hulk records on Ancestry.co.uk. Fortunately these included the details for John Britliff or Britcliffe as he was described. So there we have it – John served his sentence on the hulk Warrior. He must have been given an early release for good behaviour and returned to Lincolnshire. Posted in Black Sheep Sunday, My Family and tagged Family history, John Britliff, Prison Hulks on March 15, 2014 by mike. Leave a comment Black Sheep Sunday – John Britliff (The Killing Field) John Britliff is my wife’s 3x great grandfather. His name appears in records under various spellings – Britliff, Britliffe and Britcliffe. There are also numerous transcription interpretations from the census returns on both Ancestry and Find My Past. This certainly makes finding and following the family a bit tricky sometimes. John was born about 1800 in or around Bonby, North Lincolnshire. I have his mother as Mary Britliff but have not been able to find a record of who his father might be. On 26 November 1821 John married Sarah Rack in North Kelsey, Lincolnshire. They had at least ten children between 1824 and 1840. In the 1841 census the family are living at North Owersby, Lincolnshire and John is working as an agricultural labourer. There are eight children at home. About twenty months later tragedy occurred as reported in the Lincolnshire Chronicle on Friday 2 December 1842. A Wife killed by her Husband – On Sunday last, a tragical event took place at North Gullum farm, in the parish of North Owersby, near Market Rasen. A labourer of the name of John Britcliffe had some angry words with his wife, when in the moment of passion, he first beat her with a leathern belt, and then brutally kicked her on the lower part of the body. The unfortunate woman, who was far advanced in pregnancy, survived this ill-treatment but a few hours. An inquest was held on the deceased on Monday, before Mr. Marris, coroner, and a post mortem examination of the body by Mr. Smith and Mr. Hutchinson, of Caistor, surgeons, and after a long and patient investigation, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and Britcliffe has been committed under the coroner’s warrant for trial at the next assizes. A family of nine children are left to mourn the loss of both parents. We can never know what happened between John and Sarah to cause this terrible tragedy but certainly the lives of all the family were changed for ever. In January 1843 a report in the Lincolnshire Chronicle says that “the seven children of John Britliffe, late of North Owersby, at present a prisoner in Lincoln Castle, on a charge of manslaughter, chargeable to the parish of North Owersby, were ordered to be removed to Nettleton, being their last legal settlement”. The children are likely to have been taken to the Caistor Workhouse. John next appears in court on Wednesday 8 March 1843. The report of the hearing is in the Lincolnshire Chronicle of Friday 10 March 1843. Manslaughter at North Owersby John Britcliffe, 42, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of his wife, Sarah Britcliffe. The prisoner received a good character from Mr. Brooks, a farmer at Croxby. 10 year’s transportation. He was held in Lincoln Castle until the beginning of April 1843 when he was removed for transportation together with a number of other prisoners as the following report from the Lincoln Chronicle of Friday 7 April 1843 says. TRANSPORTS – On Friday last, Lieut. Nicholson, governor of Lincoln castle, removed from thence the first portion of convicts sentenced to transportation at the last assizes, viz: to the Warrior hulk, Woolwich, John Nicholson, John Sims, John North, Edwd. Copeland, and John Butting for life; John Britcliffe, Leonard Boyall, and Ambrose Brown for ten years; David Dickenson and James Smith for seven years; to Pentonville model prison, William Potts and Hy. Scott. There are various sets of records about convicts and transportation on family history and other websites. However I have not yet been able to find John Britcliffe in any of these. So I don’t know where he was transported to – I am guessing Australia or Tasmania. I really wanted to try and find out what happened after his transportation because eight years later John appears to be back in Lincolnshire. I have him in the 1851 census living at Hayes Farm in Redbourn and working as a shepherd. This raises a whole host of questions for me, for example:- Also in the 1851 census two of his children – Joseph (b 1840) and William (b 1839) are still at the Union Workhouse in Caistor. The story becomes more interesting when this article about the Lindsey court sessions of 4 & 5 July appears in the Stamford Mercury on Friday 11 July 1851. John Britliff, 50, who had been three times before in custody, was brought up, having been committed as “an incorrigible rogue and vagabond” for refusing to maintain his children. It appeared that the prisoner had left his family a burthen to the parish, which had spent £250 in their maintenance; but since he had been in prison he had paid £5, and as he now promised to do his duty to the children, he was liberated upon the promise, being warned that if he neglected to carry it out he would be liable to be committed again. In 1857 John married Esther Smith at Caistor. And in the 1861 census they are living at Town Street, Waddingham, Lincolnshire. Also living with them is John’s unmarried daughter Jane Britcliffe (b1839) and her daughter Sarah C Britcliffe (b1859). John died sometime in the September quarter of 1862 – almost twenty years after killing his wife. There is so much more to this story that I wish I could discover. You can now read two more posts about this story here and here Posted in Black Sheep Sunday and tagged Esther Smith, John Britliff, lincolnshire, Lincolnshire Chronicle, manslaughter, North Gullum Farm, North Owersby, Sarah Rack, Waddingham on February 24, 2013 by mike. 8 Comments Florrie Musgrove - my maternal grandmother You can contact me by email at mikedawson1953@msn.com Copyright © Mike Dawson All content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 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__label__wiki	0.664407	0.664407	Polio as a Child, Man January 29, 2015 Chris Castle Comments off Kim Fowley died on January 15. There are a lot of people who really despised Kim but I’m not one. The first time I met Kim was at David Clayton Thomas’s wedding reception in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel. (For those who don’t know, David was the lead singer for Blood Sweat & Tears.) I was looking for the bathroom in a cavernous suite and opened the door to one of the bedrooms. There was Kim, sitting alone at a table having dinner. I was actually starving and said, where’s the food man? Kim looked at me like I’d asked him which direction the Sun rose and he said, “Room service, man!” Is this your room? And that was Kim all over. And then there was the dark side. If you saw The Runaways you kind of got the idea. Years later, I met him again through my friends Bart Bishop and Laurie McAllister (last bassist in the Runaways). I worked for Kim (during his Helen Reddy phase) on a number of his artists, writing songs, playing, producing, whatever needed to be done. Singles, jingles and demos conveniently made. He usually bankrolled the projects and almost always managed to get those records released. The guy had pieces of publishing, “co-writes”, producer royalties on probably hundreds if not thousands of tracks. Also had incredible luck–“Nut Rocker” a track he “co-wrote” with this guy Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for B. Bumble and the Stingers was covered by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on Pictures at an Exhibition–all mailbox money for Kim. Many times during this period we would start the day at Kim’s apartment off of Sunset Boulevard (where else?) across the street from the car wash. I’d sit with another writer in Kim’s living room waiting for him to get off the phone, usually with some record guy in Australia or France who he was trying to get to put out one of the records he was shopping. His coffee table was a complete mass of pieces of paper, receipts, fan mags, and one day a check for about $30,000 in royalties that I happened to notice underneath a mass of crap. Who knows if it would ever have been cashed. The first time I was in the studio with him, he got people to stop smoking in the control room by tapping his chest and saying, “Noooo, man, one lung, polio as a child.” Everyone put out the cigarettes and didn’t light another. Later that night we were in the studio kitchen and I said to him, I didn’t think polio had any thing to do with your lungs. He immediately brightened up. “You’re good, man. Nobody catches that.” Of course, Kim had both lungs and never had polio. But he couldn’t stand cigarettes and that was really the point. Kim always played the tension in the room, like he was orchestrating a continuing cinematic performance. Once he knew you understood that he was playing everyone almost all the time, you would catch a little glance your way when the tension was rising. It got a bit tiresome after a while, which was itself part of the…shall we say, hustle. He had no illusions about himself, though. In an LA Times interview about The Runaways movie he said: So…you described Michael [Shannon]’s performance [as Kim]: “He portrays me as a cross between ‘Citizen Kane’ & a ‘Vampire From Outer Space.’ ” Possibly. After seeing the final version, I would say, ‘Darth Vader as a used-car salesman.’ That’s what it is. Every movie needs a villain, and I’m a good one. Last time I saw him was about 2004 at a conference in LA where he was on a panel. Kim walked up to me like I’d just seen him that morning although it had been a good 20 years. “Chris Castle, where’s the party, man.” He completely took over the panel. When I said goodbye to him that day, he said in an admonishing tone, “Chris Castle, push your own hustle first, man.” Words to live by. Just like having breakfast with Kim and Rodney Bingenheimer at Denny’s on Sunset. #HowGoogleWorks for Jihad: The Internet Association Says “je suis spéciale” It should come as no surprise that following the Charlie Hebdo assassinations, France, Germany and the UK are considering how to deal with the spread of jihadi propaganda by means of “social media”. Why? Because the major social media platforms allow jihadi propaganda to flourish by hiding behind “intermediary liability” statutes, or more precisely broadening the Communication Decency Act and DMCA even further as the Internet Association is lobbying for on behalf of its multi trillion dollar members in a report released today. How many times have you heard that ISIS and other terror groups are experts at using social media to spread their message of hate and their death fetish? “Social media” means Google’s YouTube platform, Facebook, Twitter, you know–all those services that brought democracy to the Middle East in the Arab Spring, at least if you listen to Jared Cohen, the Most Interesting Man in the World, advisor to Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice oh yeah baby. Here, for example, is an ISIS video of Tangos on Mount Sinjar celebrating something or other: The fact that YouTube is rife with videos glorifying jihad will come as no surprise to MTP readers as we have been documenting jihadi recruiting videos on YouTube for years. Credit where credit is due, we didn’t come up with that by ourselves, we cribbed it from The Long War Journal, the definitive site for information on the perpetual war with terrorists. Does the jihadi Al-Furquan Brigades want to inspire recruits with a story of their attack on tankers in the Suez Canal? Easily done, brother. Shoot a cell phone video and post it on YouTube. Ironically, Google monetizes the video with ads by Shell Oil–and you have to ask yourself where does that money go. The video is still up there, when we confirmed it there was an NBC Sports NASCAR ad on the preroll: Google also uses jihadi videos to drive traffic to other channels on YouTube. For example, here’s a screen shot of a video from the “Jund al-Aqsa” (JAA) channel that was called out on the floor of the UK House of Commons by Diana Johnson, a leading Labour MP, who had quite a lot to say about Google’s involvement with jihadi recruiting. I seriously doubt if Disney Parks or any of these other channels had any idea their YouTube traffic was coming in part from jihadi videos, particularly if they are ad supported. Which means that part of their revenue was being driven by jihadi videos. The truth is that “social media” platforms are contributing mightily to the spread of the jihadi propaganda and profiting from it to one degree or another. Can Facebook say with certainty that ISIS hasn’t ever boosted a post? Does Google have any idea who they are sharing revenue with on these channels? As Ms. Johnson told the House: A very brief look at what was available on social media enabled me to come across deeply offensive and worrying videos and tweets. I am very pleased that we are proscribing the organisations that produced them, but I think that the Minister should bear in mind that social media companies are making such videos and tweets available for everyone to see, and consider what more can be done about those companies. According to Reuters: France is hoping to make internet companies such as Google and Facebook accountable for social media posts promoting terrorism, Bloomberg reports. The French government is mounting pressure on web companies to take responsibility for online hate speech as the nation battles against extremist groups in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Bloomberg reports that President Hollande spoke in Paris on Tuesday about a new law that would make internet operators “accomplices” of such offences — making a racial statement is a crime in France. A draft of the legislation could be made next month and challenges messages across social media platforms. The president was talking at a memorial for Jews deported in World War II. He said that social media sites “can no longer close their eyes if they are considered accomplices of what they host,” and added: “We must act at the European and international level to define a legal framework so that Internet platforms which manage social media be considered responsible, and that sanctions can be taken.” Why does it come down to passing laws and conducting criminal investigations of these companies? Because they shove it in our faces and really have no discernible social conscience. Because they appear to be providing material support to terrorists who want to kill us and destroy our way of life. Instead, we have Google trying to block criminal investigations of their activities. Why? We can find an answer in the Internet Association report calling for even greater “intermediary liability”–that would allow their members (notably Google and Facebook) to continue to profit from hate videos and potentially share revenue with those who distribute them by duping advertisers. That’s right–because they’re special. They’re on the Internet. Can you imagine if NBC engaged in such activities? Or said another way, je ne suis pas Charlie, je suis spéciale. Stop Them Before They Pimp Again: Google’s Human Trafficking Rhetoric Should Start with Cleaning Up YouTube If you follow Google’s policy blog, you might have seen this post by Google’s head lobbyist, Susan Molinari: There are few issues more horrifying than human slavery and trafficking. Yesterday, the House of Representatives took important steps to address these issues by passing twelve bills aimed at helping the victims and calling attention to these criminal acts. We are encouraged by the actions taken yesterday and applaud the House’s leadership. Given Google’s horrible track record on human trafficking starts with YouTube–an environment that the music industry knows too well is entirely within Google’s control–it’s a little hard to believe that Google is really all that horrified about promoting trafficking through Google’s own properties. And making money off of it. The Forrest Hayes Case Google executive Forrest Hayes was murdered by a prostitute he met through the SeekingArrangement.com according to reports. Alix Tichelman apparently met Google executive Forrest Hayes through a sugar daddy site called SeekingArrangement.com. Ms. Tichelman is accused of manslaughter and other charges relating to Mr. Hayes death. According to SF Gate: During interviews with police, Tichleman boasted of having more than 200 clients, all of whom she said she met through a website, SeekingArrangement.com, according to police. YouTube distributes the “Sugar Baby University” video linked above and also promotes a SeekingArrangement.com YouTube partner channel. One might well ask Ms. Molinari if Google is getting in business with SeekingArrangement.com, how does Google manage to make the ethical case for being so much in favor of laws against human trafficking? Stop them before they pimp again, maybe? Here’s the channel for the very service that brought together Google’s own executive with the sugar baby accused of murdering him: It’s easy to find: Even if Ms. Molinari can make the case for why Google should profit from this particular site, it’s hard to understand why it is not placed behind Google’s much vaunted “Safety Mode” that is supposed to protect children from something, not quite sure what if they allow this kind of thing to get through. Ms. Molinari might be interested in this video on the SeekingArrangement Channel that advises girls of all ages on how to create the perfect sugar baby profile: Sex Tourist Videos If you search phrases like “Thai teen girls” in YouTube it won’t take you any time to run across what apparently are sex tourist videos shot in South East Asia. Some of these are set to the music of well-known artists such as Jack White: While some of this advertising is sketchy, I seriously doubt that Apocalyptica had any idea their ad would show up on a sex tourist video. And then there is duped advertiser #1: All with ads by Google. Last time I looked, defrauding advertisers is not covered by the Communications Decency Act or the DMCA–if for no other reason than it’s not third party actions. It’s Google’s own actions. So maybe Ms. Molinari should turn her attention to cleaning up her own house before she visits her hollow sanctimony on others. For State Attorneys General, Take A Closer Look at Google We can easily understand why Ms. Molinari is trying to deflect attention away from the seamy underbelly of Google’s crown jewels–they are currently being investigated by a number of state attorneys general about just this kind of thing. For example, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has a vigorous campaign against exactly this kind of thing: So while Ms. Molinari would like us all to believe that Google is oh so concerned about human trafficking, it’s hard to believe when you take a cursory look around YouTube, an environment that is 100% within Google’s control and for which Google sells 100% of the advertising. Ms. Molinari’s protestations are a bit late in the day–in the last session of Congress, i.e., before Google received Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s subpoena–there were reports that Google was working behind the scenes to stop trafficking legislation. Lawmakers are trying to pass a landmark bill to halt child trafficking, but congressional aides say it is facing resistance from big tech companies that have launched a stealth campaign to fight the legislation….Both human trafficking and forced prostitution are already illegal. But what Sen. Mark Kirk and Rep. Ann Wagner, who are pushing the initiative in the Senate and House, respectively, seek to do is create liability for those helping make the connection between pimps and johns…. “The Googles of the world are in a tough spot. They’re not going to speak out publicly against a human trafficking measure. But they also are opposed to it,” said a Wagner legislative aide. According to the aide, negotiations with tech associations usually lead to suggestions that legislation enhance penalties for pimps or johns, rather than online advertisers. Clean up your own house first, Ms. Molinari. @IMPALAmusic Takes Action at European Commission on YouTube Abuses Against @zoecello January 28, 2015 Chris Castle 1 comment Thanks to the efforts of music makers and the fans and journalists who love them–who clearly respect music more than YouTube does–the latest round of abuse on Zoë Keating from YouTube has resonated all the way to Brussels where indie label trade group IMPALA launched a new initiative against Google inspired by the reaction to YouTube’s treatment of Zoë. Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News, Andrew Orlowski of The Register and Stuart Dredge of The Guardian deserve special recognition for doggedly sticking to the story despite Google’s Spotify-like whisper campaign to discredit Zoë. IMPALA’s press release today in Brussels tells the story: Independent music companies launched a unique Digital Action Plan today, calling for a new European industrial policy to drive the digital market through the cultural and creative sectors, which account for 4,2% of EU GDP and 7.1 million EU jobs. The role of culture in Europe’s digital market will be one of the issues debated in the European Parliament today during an extraordinary meeting of the Culture and Education committee with Digital Economy and Society Commissioner Günther Oettinger. MEP Sabine Verheyen, Co-ordinator for the EPP group in the Parliament’s culture committee commented: “This Action Plan presents very practical ways to boost creativity through smaller actors and deliver a dynamic digital single market built on diversity.” One of the strands of Europe’s new industrial policy would be a range of measures to boost SMEs including independent music companies, who account for 80% of jobs and 80% of investment in new music in Europe today. IMPALA also asks the EU to rethink how citizens, artists and businesses engage online. The “rules of engagement online” are important in the music world with reports surfacing last week that YouTube is continuing the same abuses which prompted IMPALA to lodge a complaint to the EC last year. With the debate on copyright a hot topic, the action plan takes a robust stance and calls on the EU to reinforce copyright as a fundamental right, a liberator of the creativity that drives the digital market. The importance of stopping the abuse of the so-called “safe harbour” exemption is also underlined, as well as not transferring creators’ rights to trade to those who are behind calls for weaker copyright. Remember–the indie labels went through this same YouTube brutality last year that resulted in a nasty negotiation. Of course, YouTube imposed a complete blackout on disclosing the terms of the settlement so they could keep all of us in the dark. The is long standing Google practice designed to pit artists against labels and songwriters against societies. This time, however, Google did not get out of their mess–IMPALA filed an action against Google in the European Commission as a result of Google’s antics before the settlement. And to the great credit of the negotiators for the labels, they did not give up their complaint in Brussels as part of the settlement. David Lowery’s post at the Trichordist of his letter to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission crystalizes the connection between how YouTube gored the indie labels and how they were running the same bully tactics against Zoë Keating. IMPALA launched a 10 point plan, read it here. We could well model in the United States with the Federal Trade Commission: The 10 points: 1. Reinforcing the rights that drive the digital market and grow Europe’s copyright capital 2. Giving citizens the best digital infrastructure in the world 3. Improving pluralism and diversity online as well as offline 4. Revisiting the “rules of engagement” online 5. Growing Europe’s “missing middle” by improving conditions for smaller actors 6. Effectively tackling websites which are structurally infringing 7. Increasing investment through a new financial approach to culture 8. Introducing greater fairness in taxation 9. Mapping how creativity works and measuring the sectors 10. Placing culture and diversity at the heart of Europe’s international work We are all in debt to Zoë Keating for having the incredible strength to stand up for herself against the Google monopoly and inspiring lovers of the independent spirit around the world by her story–exactly what we would expect from such an incredibly articulate, deep and passionate artist and her fans. Thanks to IMPALA for standing with Zoë, thanks to Paul, Andrew and Stuart for sticking with the story, thanks to David for fighting back and standing with Zoë, thanks to the #irespectmusic crew for adopting Zoë’s story as their own, but especially thanks to all of you–everyone who helped bring this story to life around the world on social media. God bless us every one. Zoë Keating vs YouTube: The End of an Artist’s Right to Choose Where Their Music Appears on The Internet. David Lowery’s letter to the Federal Trade Commission about YouTube’s treatment of Zoë Keating and how to make your voice heard! musiThis is a call to action folks. Many of you may already be aware of this blog post from Zoë Keating detailing the new terms of the Google/YouTube “Music Key” service. YouTube’s “communications manager” Matt McLernon has followed the Spotify approach and attacked Zoë Keating’s story as “patently false” although it looks like Google is not exactly backing up their “communications manager“. I’m pretty sure that Google is not truthful about their conversation with Zoë–you know Google’s lying when their lips are moving–if for no other reason than I believe Zoë’s notes of her conversation with Google are accurate. Not to mention that the description of the Music Key deal points from Zoë’s notes shows Google tying the YouTube and Music Key deals together in pretty much the same way as the Music Key deal that Google threatened indie labels with last year. But I’m not sure if the mainstream… The Revolution Shall be Monetized: Zoë Keating Confirms YouTube Learned Nothing From Indie Labels January 24, 2015 Chris Castle 2 comments …there was lunch in the larger, first floor cafeteria where, in the corner, on a small stage there was a man, playing a guitar, who looked like an aging singer-songwriter Mae’s parents listened to. “Is that….?” “It is,” Annie said, not breaking her stride. “There’s someone every day. Musicians, comedians, writers….We book them a year ahead. We have to fight them off.” The singer-songwriter was signing passionately…but the vast majority of the cafeteria was paying little to no attention. “I can’t imagine the budget for that, ” Mae said. “Oh god, we don’t pay them.” The Circle, by Dave Eggers Once again, Zoë Keating provides a leading voice for artists rights and leads by personal example. In her compelling viral blog post, “What Should I Do About YouTube,” Zoë describes a recent encounter with the demands of YouTube the definitive “new boss” monopoly video service owned by Google. She asks her community for advice in making a decision about whether she should allow herself to be bullied by Google. The “decision” that she must make crystalizes what my friend Rick Carnes (President of the Songwriters Guild) meant in the phrase he coined to describe how Google uses the DMCA: Notice and Shakedown. Why is this an issue? As Zoë tells us: I am independent because I didn’t want a bunch of men in suits deciding how I should release my music. For 10 years I have managed to bushwhack a circuitous path around them but now I’ve got to find a away around the men in hoodies and crocs (I’m sorry, that was low, but that story was so funny). Or as we say around MTP, meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. Google is routinely and continually misusing the privileges that Congress provided in the now hopelessly outdated DMCA “notice and takedown” safe harbor. If the 345 million takedown notices Google received last year alone for search alone doesn’t confirm that to you, Zoë’s description of the YouTube shakedown should make it crystal clear. By telling her personal story, Zoë identifies adroitly the future of YouTube. First, Zoë’s experience clearly demonstrates that Google learned nothing from its hugely bad press experience last year with the world’s independent record companies. It also shows that Google fully intends to profit from the YouTube “bad acts” window–the period of time from when a video is posted and when Google ultimately take it down that gives “windowing” a whole new meaning. This bad acts window is not limited to copyright infringement; it can include videos selling illegal drugs, recruiting young women into prostitution or young men into the jihad, demonstrating how to shoot heroin, sex tourist home movies, holocaust denier videos (illegal in many countries where YouTube makes them available), or plain old skin head racist videos. MTP readers will require no citations for these videos, but if you are new to the blog just look under the “Bad Acts Videos” tab. Moreover, Google’s treatment of Zoë is surely not limited to Zoë–it’s probably exactly what Google is doing to tens of thousands of artists. If anything, Zoë probably got the star treatment version. This is very Googlely–Google’s version of an “artist relations” team comes and tells you nicely how they are going to run roughshod over you (NP: Everything is Awesome). Remember–the indie trade association IMPALA has filed an antitrust complaint against Google in Brussels over the way Google handled the MusicKey roll out which essentially involved the same deal. So does Google say, that didn’t really work out too well for us, maybe we should handle it differently with the independent artists? Nope–Google says, unfortunately, the indie labels fought back, but the independent artists cannot. So Google says let’s screw them even harder. As Zoë concludes her blog post: What should I do? As much as it makes me grind my teeth, does having all my music forced onto Youtube’s music service really just not matter all that much? Should I just close my eyes and think of England? Maybe after writing this blog Google will make the choice for me. They will block my channel and I will have to decide whether to block those 9,696 videos….and anger 9,696 fans. The usual people will talk about it for a day or two (*5) and then it and I will be forgotten. Anyone starting up a new video service? We’ll see. Because what Zoë is really pointing to is the next step in the evolution of multichannel networks–leaving YouTube altogether and en masse. Why would you want to drive traffic to YouTube for free when all they do is jack you around? And speaking of “thinking of England”: When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, ‘In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.’ Some chicken. Some neck. Winston Churchill, Ottawa, Dec. 30, 1941 Tags: #irespectmusic, @zoecello, artist rights, zoe keating YouTube’s Failure to Block Jihadi Recruitment Videos Laid Bare in UK Parliament As we have pointed out many, many times on MTP, YouTube routinely hosts videos that can only be described as recruitment tools for jihad. Some are fundraising tools, such as “Equip A Fighter for Ramadan”–the most bone-chilling metadata we’ve seen on YouTube. Some use copyright infringement–a YouTube specialization–to glorify jihad. The Ridley Scott picture “Kingdom of Heaven” is a favorite. No one should be surprised that Google is depraved enough to try to make money off of these videos. But I have always wondered why no one in the vast counterterrorism cadres in the US government has done anything about it. With all the attention to the way ISIS uses social media, you have to ask if Google’s lobbying muscle protects them from any review of these loathsome business practices. Fortunately, Google’s jihad connection is not lost on Members of the UK Parliament. Speaking yesterday on the floor of the House of Commons, Diana Johnson, a leading Labour MP, had quite a lot to say about Google’s involvement with jihadi recruiting: We recognise, of course, that events in Syria, Iraq and northern Africa are fuelling a rapidly evolving network of inter-related terror groups who pose a real threat to the UK and our allies. It is absolutely right to use all legal measures to try to counter the spread of these groups and to ensure that they cannot establish themselves in the United Kingdom. In this case, we have two groups with close links to other proscribed groups. Jund al Khalifa-Algeria is an Algerian-based Islamic militant group, linked to al-Qaeda and hoping to establish a caliphate in northern Africa. The group is affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Secondly, Jund al-Aqsa or Soldiers of al-Aqsa is a splinter group of the al-Nusra front, and it is just three months since we proscribed JKI—Army of the Islamic Caliphate, another splinter group of the al-Nusra front. In common with the al-Nusra front, the JAA is largely based in Syria, and as a group has attracted many jihadists from outside Syria. JAA started out as a campaign against the Syrian Government, but in recent attacks the group has seemed happy to target innocent civilians…. In this case…there is no need to see sensitive information to conclude that these are terrorist groups. Far from hiding their activities, they are actively boasting about them on social media, using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to spread images of the most horrendous violence, alongside messages justifying it. These are not groups that want to hide; these are groups that are actively recruiting. Why is it that jihadis are able to use these social media sites so freely? For the same reason that Google allows videos promoting human trafficking, illegal drugs, “how to shoot heroin”, racist groups, sugar baby videos recruiting young girls into prostitution, and yes plain old copyright infringement. Google wants to make money and they don’t care how. Here’s a couple of examples: Monetized jihad recruitment videos with 1.6 million views. And how are they monetized? This playlist has a variety of jihadi recruiting videos on it, some of them with English subtitles, and all of which have substantial numbers of views. The Ridley Scott movie “Kingdom of Heaven” is a popular source of imagery (although only a mere 400,000 views): So the question is, who gets the money from YouTube’s advertising on these videos? Aside from Google, of course. Ms. Johnson’s examples should start to sound familiar: The JAA YouTube channel was opened on the 28 July 2014, apparently replacing a previous YouTube channel that had been closed down. The latest Twitter account opened in September in English, again replacing an account that had been closed down. The English Twitter account—we looked at it just yesterday—has 1,460 followers. Tweets declare fallen supporters to be martyrs, and there are links to YouTube videos and other Twitter pages run by JAA. One of these pages is the official JAA Twitter page in Arabic, which has some 17,500 followers. The videos on the YouTube channel are even more disturbing. Let us take, for example, the video uploaded on to the official JAA channel on 21 September 2014. This video depicts JAA fighters engaging with Government forces—kicking, hanging, abusing the bodies of the dead and taking part in training exercises. It seems quite clear that this video is intended to glorify grotesque violence as a form of extremist propaganda. This video has been viewed 13,000 times, attracted 40 comments and has been “liked” on the YouTube rating system 96 times. Is it hard to find these channels? Not really–here’s the result of a YouTube search for “Jund al-Aqsa” (JAA): How does this continue? Ms. Johnson met with Google about the problem on YouTube and was given the party line: I have met Google in the past to discuss YouTube’s hosting of terrorist propaganda, and it is supposed to be taking down extremist content when it comes across it. And there it is–“when it comes across it.” Google has no problem hosting the content and even profiting from it in some cases, certainly trying to drive traffic to other pages on YouTube if nothing else. And “when it comes across” jihadi videos–which probably means when the government catches them hosting the videos–they’ll take it down. Of course, if they’re taking it down, there’s no telling how long it’s been up there in the first place. The Home Office’s counter-terrorism internet referral unit is also supposed to be identifying this content and getting it taken down. Here, however, is a whole YouTube channel run by, as we know, a known terrorist organisation and including sermons advocating terrorism and videos of violent terrorist acts attracting thousands of views. And Ms. Johnson makes the point that since Google, Facebook, Twitter et al are so obsessed with profiting from these videos, these companies have refuse to police themselves. At one level, there is an irony that these extremist terrorist groups, rallying against western consumerism, are happy to use these enormous western companies [let’s be honest–Silicon Valley money machines] to spread their message of hate, but there is also a very serious point. As the Minister said in an earlier speech to the House, the “effect is that a listed organisation is outlawed and is unable to operate in the UK. It is a criminal offence for a person to belong to…support…arrange a meeting in support of a proscribed organisation, or wear clothing or carry articles in public which arouse reasonable suspicion that an individual is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation.”—[Official Report, 2 April 2014; Vol. 578, c. 948.] As Google continuously reminds us, they don’t think much of the nation state. But since Google seems so concerned with protecting their users, you would think that Google would lead the charge to protect their users from the jihad. We have to thank Ms. Johnson for standing up to the Google lobbying machine–which is almost as virulent in the UK as it is in Washington. Hopefully she will set an example to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to thoroughly investigate Google’s complicity in distributing the jihadi war cry particularly from a company like Google that benefits from so many U.S. Government contracts including from the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1509
__label__wiki	0.632657	0.632657	SNA 2016: Raytheon completes active seeker test for Tomahawk cruise missile Posted On Thursday, 14 January 2016 05:20 SNA 2016 Show News - Raytheon Tomahawk Raytheon Company completed a successful captive flight test of a seeker designed for the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile. The seeker will enable Tomahawk to engage moving targets on land and at sea. Using company-funded, independent research and development, the test was conducted with a modified Tomahawk missile nose cone mounted on a T-39 test aircraft and equipped with a seeker integrated with Raytheon's new, modular, multi-mode processor. Over a three-week period, the aircraft flew profiles that simulated the Tomahawk flight regime, aiming at moving targets on land and in the maritime environment. T-39 aircraft with Raytheon modular, multi-mode processor. Picture: Raytheon "Tomahawk is evolving to meet the U.S. Navy's need to add offensive punch and expand the overall power of the fleet worldwide," said Mike Jarrett, Raytheon Air Warfare Systems vice president. "The seeker test has successfully demonstrated the superior capability and maturity of our seeker technology against a variety of targets that resemble today's threats." U.S. surface combatants and submarines require a robust, long-range strike capability to defeat emerging mobile threats. Since 2005, Raytheon Missile Systems has invested heavily in seeker technology development for Tomahawk to detect, discriminate and engage moving maritime and land-based targets, in all-weather at significant tactical stand-off range. In June, 2014, RMS successfully demonstrated seeker components in a similar captive flight test. The December, 2015, captive flight test of the seeker demonstrated Technology Readiness Level 6 (Prototype in Representative Environment) of the seeker components needed to meet the moving land and maritime strike requirements. These improvements enhance the current Tomahawk long-range precision strike/land attack role. Tomahawk model on display at the Raytheon booth during SNA 2016 About Tomahawk Block IV With a range of approximately 1,000 statute miles, the Tomahawk Block IV missile is a surface- and submarine-launched, precision strike, stand-off weapon. Tomahawk is designed for long-range precision strike missions against high-value and heavily defended targets. More than 2,000 Tomahawks have been employed in combat. More than 500 Tomahawk flight and production validation tests have been completed. The missile is integrated on all major U.S. surface combatants, as well as U.S. and U.K. sub-surface platforms, including the Los Angeles, Virginia, Ohio, Astute and Trafalgar class submarines. More SNA 2016 news	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1515
__label__cc	0.516878	0.483122	Earning Trust \| Credibility Through Conversation Nieman Reports Fall 2009 The Public and Journalists: They Disagree on Core Values Esther Thorson @ThorsonE Michael R. Fancher @MikeFancher Credibility Journalistic Values Social Media In considering the modern relevance of Walter Williams’s “Journalist’s Creed,” it was well documented that people who aren’t journalists held increasingly negative attitudes toward news organizations. For example, The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reported in 2004 that from 1996 to that year there was a sharp fall in the percentage of those who reported that they believed most of the news reporting in newspapers and on television. What follows are some specific findings: “Your daily paper” fell in the percentage of those saying they believed what was published from 25 percent to 19 percent. With USA Today, the number dropped from 24 percent to 19 percent. “Your local TV news” experienced a fall from 34 percent to 25 percent. With network news, the decrease was 31 percent to 24 percent. Pew reported this year that only 43 percent of people surveyed thought civic life in their community would be hurt “a lot” by the closing of their local newspaper. Given these findings, it seemed likely that American citizens and journalists might have a very different sense of what the values of journalism are and should be. To test this idea, however, required identifying two values dimensions that would capture the essence of modern journalism’s code of ethics. At one end, the anchoring idea was “doing no harm”; at the other end was “valuing accuracy regardless of other considerations.” The other dimension was anchored by the values of “complete independence of the journalist from all influences” and the “journalist being socially responsible.” Journalists routinely weigh these variables in deciding whether and how to report stories. We tested the application of these values dimensions in three hypothetical situations: A journalist is worried that reporting crime stories involving young male African Americans might lead citizens to falsely stereotype all young African Americans as criminals. Right before an election, a source reveals that a candidate has an illegitimate child. A journalist worries that reporting on CIA illegal activities might tip off others about how that agency is operating to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks in the United States. “The 21st Century Journalist’s Creed” – Michael R. FancherWe asked college students and a national sample of adults to indicate where they thought an ideal journalist would be in dealing with these possible stories based on the two values dimensions. We then asked them where they thought real journalists would be given the same set of circumstances. We also posed the same questions to a large national sample of editors and reporters, asking them to show us where they would put themselves on the dimensions for each scenario. Here is some of what we found: Independence: As a journalistic value, independence was more significant to reporters than to students, adults or editors, who lined up closely with each other. Minimizing harm: This value basically didn’t register with any of the groups. Journalists use situational ethics in relation to minimizing harm; it’s much stronger for them in political stories. Students are situational as well, but show the opposite pattern than journalists. Adults consistently favor accuracy over minimizing harm. Gaps between ideal and real: In the responses of adults and college students, significant gaps emerged between their ideal and what they thought journalists would really do. Social responsibility is a higher value for adults than for journalists or students. Journalists agreed: Editors and reporters tended to make the same basic decisions in how they would cover each story. Here is where these findings took our thinking: Independence: Journalists need to better articulate the meaning and importance of independence as a value, while also better understanding and respecting why the public puts less emphasis on it. Minimizing harm: These results support other recent research asserting that the admonition to “minimize harm” requires clarification. Misperceptions: Students and adults have very inaccurate perceptions of the values of journalists. Their ideal journalists match real journalists better than their predictions of what journalists actually value. Journalists’ values and the public: While agreement among editors and reporters can be regarded as shared professional values honed over time, it can also be interpreted as an inclination to make judgments through a common, narrow filter. This becomes significant when journalists’ choices are compared to the judgments preferred by the public. It was clear that adults and college students feel that the values journalists use in making their decisions don’t match their own. This gap won’t be closed merely by journalists explaining their values, though this is an important step for them to take; they must also understand and respect the values of the public they hope to serve, just as the public can learn why journalists hold to the values they do. These findings contributed to the conclusion—described in greater detail in the accompanying article—that journalism must also develop a new ethic of public trust through public engagement. Esther Thorson is dean of graduate studies and research at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Most popular articles from Nieman Reports Summer 2004: Journalist’s Trade Introduction Publisher, Editor and Reporter The Press and the Presidency	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1520
__label__wiki	0.976427	0.976427	SUBWAY PLAN IS ‘7’ HEAVEN By Beth Stebner The 7 line is going robo. MTA officials are taking bids on an estimated $348 million project to computerize the Flushing-to-Times Square line, which would allow more frequent service and provide station video displays counting down the number of minutes until the next train arrives. Officials said that by the end of the year, they hope to have a contractor on board — within the estimated price tag — for the expected 6½-year project. Straphangers along the line said train-timer screens would be a welcome addition. “If it answers the question of when the next train is coming, sure, it’s a good thing. If the MTA has the money, why not do it?” said college professor Jeffrey Freedman. Sunnyside, Queens, commuter Stephen Thomas added, “I guess it’s like elevator controls 100 years ago — technology goes out of date.” The Brooklyn-to-Manhattan L line already has a similar high-tech system — known as “communication-based train control” — which allows trains to run closer together because their speed and braking are controlled by computers instead of humans. On-board train operators simply press a button to hand over control, but remain in the front cab in case of an emergency, said NYC Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges. If the operator doesn’t press the button at least once a minute as a train is rolling, it halts. “It maintains speeds within safe limits and ensures that train doors are opened safely,” Fleuranges said. Some riders on the 7 fretted about the ramifications of a high-tech line. “It’s good to see something like this done, but it could take away jobs,” said Shanna Sobel, of Washington Heights. The 7 project has an added complication, watchdogs said, because unlike the L, the 7 has weekday express service on a center track for much of its run in Queens. Computers would have to precisely control switches that put both express and local trains on one track just before reaching Manhattan. “It’s another piece of complexity to take into account,” said Bill Henderson, of the MTA’s Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee. “It’s a great idea,” said 7 rider Anna Callahan. “But I’d rather those millions of dollars go toward lowering my fare.” tom.namako@nypost.com LEVI JOHNSTON: PALIN RESIGNED BECAUSE OF MONEY	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1523
__label__wiki	0.835683	0.835683	frenchmoodle During the weekend of the Grammys, Taylor and her brother boyfriend are spotted in London Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn Had Their First Public Date of 2019 at a London Pub https://t.co/gZAIqW0dlG — ELLE Magazine (US) (@ELLEmagazine) February 10, 2019 Last month, Joe Alwyn told reporters "I don't think anyone you meet on the streets would just spill their guts out to you, therefore why should I? And then that is defined as being 'strangely private'. Fine. But I don't think it is. I think it's normal." However, in a rare outing, Joe and Taylor were spotted at the Spaniards Inn in Hampstead, North London, which is a five minute drive from Taylor's place in London. Taylor was all smiles, but Joe looked like grumpy cat as usual. It's a pub-lic affair. 🍻https://t.co/qzuLjWx8Ou — E! News (@enews) February 10, 2019 More photos at the sources. Sources: 1, 2, 3 Tagged: taylor swift diamantfabriken negl i def wouldn't mind being in love in hampstead, such an idyllic place ugh	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1525
__label__wiki	0.837676	0.837676	Chlorine Co. Pays $2,225 for Chemical Inventory, Emergency Op Violations The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with Tucson, Ariz.-based Pool Chlor Inc. for failing to prepare written emergency operation procedures and failing to submit complete annual chemical inventories in 2005 and 2006, violations of the Clean Air Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know-Act, respectively. The company, which provides chlorination services for recreational swimming pools in the Tucson area, will pay a $2,225 penalty in addition to correcting the violations, EPA said. "Pool Chlor Inc. violated laws that protect and inform communities near facilities that use hazardous substances and other chemicals," said Daniel Meer, EPA's assistant Superfund director for the Pacific Southwest region. "We will take action against any company that fails to follow these laws that protect emergency responders and the public in the event of an accidental release." The company submitted chemical inventories for 2005 and 2006 but failed to include all the chemicals present onsite as required. The company also was cited for failing to prepare and submit emergency operation procedures for its on-site chlorine gas storage tank, which violated the Clean Air Act's requirement of registered facilities to prepare written procedures to manage risk at the facility, including procedures for normal and emergency shut-down operations. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know-Act requires all facilities using hazardous substances above specified quantities to provide annual chemical inventory information to local emergency planners for inclusion in the community emergency plan. Vermont Launches Logger Safety and Insurance Program MSHA Extends Deadline for Grant Applications to June 28 Faulty Materials Caused Two Launch Failures: NASA NH Furniture Manufacturer Cited for One Willful, 36 Serious Violations After Employee Injury ILO Says Urgent Action Needed to Better Manage E-Waste Colorado Employers Getting $70 Million in Comp Dividend Checks	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1526
__label__cc	0.573768	0.426232	Home › Health \| Primal Blueprint Books by Mark Sisson Health \| Primal Blueprint Books by Mark Sisson home \| health and fitness Primal Blueprint Books by Mark Sisson Health and Fitness Expert : Health and fitness expert Mark Sisson is the best-selling author of The Primal Blueprint and one of the leading voices of the burgeoning Evolutionary Health Movement. His blog, MarksDailyApple.com, has paved the way for Primal enthusiasts to challenge conventional wisdom’s diet and exercise principles and take personal responsibility for their health and well-being. From its humble—and controversial—beginnings in 2006, Mark's Daily Apple has grown into one of the highest-ranked health information resources on the Internet, with 2 million unique visitors each month. Mark, age 61, has a BA in biology from Williams College and is a former world-class endurance athlete with a 2:18 marathon and a fourth-place finish in the Hawaii Ironman World Triathlon Championships. Today, Mark directs his competitive energies into high-stakes Ultimate Frisbee tournaments against competitors decades younger! In addition to blogging daily, Mark conducts seminars on the Primal Blueprint way of life across North America and hosts weekend “PrimalCon” retreats in California. He operates Primal Blueprint Publishing in Malibu, CA—publishing his own titles as well as work from other authors promoting ancestral health principles—while enjoying the blue skies and sandy beaches of Malibu with his wife Carrie and their two children. Health and Fitness \| The New Primal Blueprint Book by Mark Sisson Primal Blueprint Book Primal Blueprint Cookbook	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1528
__label__wiki	0.894918	0.894918	Home/Celebrity Net Worth/Business/Caroline Stanbury Net Worth BusinessCelebrities Caroline Stanbury Net Worth Caroline Stanbury Net Worth 2019: Wiki Biography, Married, Family, Measurements, Height, Salary, Relationships Caroline Alice Stanbury-Habib net worth is Caroline Alice Stanbury-Habib Wiki Biography Caroline Stanbury was born on 28 April 1976 in London, England. She is a businesswoman, reality TV star and socialite. She was the owner of Gift Library, a luxury goods company as well as in the main cast of the reality TV show “Ladies of London”. So how rich is Caroline Stanbury? According to sources, she has an estimated net worth of $35 million. Although she came from a family of wealth, she has amassed her millions from her business and being part of the reality TV series. Caroline Stanbury Net Worth $35 Million Stanbury got an early taste of the fashion world as the daughter of Anthony, a former managing director of fashion brand Jaeger, and Elizabeth, a cashmere knitwear businesswoman and a member of the Vestey dynasty. She lived in Dorset, South-West England and attended Westonbirt Boarding School in Gloucestershire, but then instead of enrolling in a university for further studies, she went to work in various field sectors such as public relations, personal styling, and luxury goods. In 2008, she started her own company, Gift Library, an online store selling luxury goods. She then expanded her business as her company’s clientele consisted of celebrities and socialites, and she opened up three more branches with a staff reaching up to 50. However in October 2015, she was forced to shut down her business from lack of funding. She is apparently currently focusing on the wedding list service she bought in 2013 called The Wedding Shop. The 39-year old is also working on her self-titled beauty, lifestyle, and on-line retail blog. Despite her company’s shutdown, her net worth continues to grow, thanks to her knowledge of what her long-term clients want, and she is determined to provide. In November 2014, Stanbury joined Bravo’s reality series “Ladies of London”, dubbed as the UK version of the “Real Housewives” US franchise. Although Caroline is wealthy in her own right, the show ostensibly revolves around the lives of seven women who are married to wealthy, influential men living in the United Kingdom. Upon joining the show, the socialite gained further national fame and added revenue, and was named Breakout Star at the Readers Choice Award in 2014. The show recently welcomed her sister-in-law, Sophie Stanbury on its second season. Since 2004, Caroline Stanbury has been married to Turkish financier and CIS Private Equity Management Limited partner Cem Habib, and they now have three kids named Yasmine, Zac, and Aaron, as well as a dog named Buster. The family previously lived at Holland Park in west London, but moved to a 12,500 square foot mansion in Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water west of the capital. Caroline is also famous for her Hermen Borkin bag collection, for which she has reportedly a whole room dedicated to it. Date Of Birth April 28, 1976 Place Of Birth London, England Profession A businesswoman, reality TV star, socialite Education Westonbirt Boarding School in Gloucestershire Nationality British Spouse Cem Habib (m. 2004-) Children Yasmine Habib, Zac Habib, Aaron Habib Parents Anthony Stanbury, Elizabeth Stanbury Siblings Alexander George Basil Stanbury, Edward Samuel Joseph Stanbury, Victoria Elizabeth Sophie Stanbury Facebook https://www.facebook.com/carolinestanburyofficial Twitter https://twitter.com/C_Stanbury Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carolinestanbury/?hl=en Awards Breakout Star at the Readers Choice Award (2014) TV Shows "Watch What Happens Live" (2015), "Ladies of London" (2014-) $35 Million Aaron Habib Alexander George Basil Stanbury America's Next Top Model Associated Press Caroline Alice Stanbury-Habib Caroline Stanbury Net Worth David Cameron Didcot Didcot power stations Edward Samuel Joseph Stanbury Emergency service England English Europe European Union Hermen Borkin Iftar Jews Labour Friends of Israel Ladies of London (2014) London LVMH Media of the United Kingdom Oxfordshire Product placement Reality television Sadiq Khan Television Television program United Kingdom United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union Victoria Elizabeth Sophie Stanbury Watch What Happens Live (2015) Wealth Yasmine Habib Zac Habib Paul Teutul Jr. Net Worth Frank Vogel Net Worth Tia Torres Net Worth Amina Buddafly Net Worth Fu Meicheng Net Worth Dave Chappelle Net Worth Kaitlyn Bristowe Net Worth Stephen Rea Net Worth Bernard Arnault Net Worth	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1535
__label__wiki	0.893636	0.893636	Adam Peck Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump is one of those people who thinks The Onion is a real newspaper. On Monday, the world was reminded of a wonderful story from 2013 when Trump—then just an ordinary real estate mogul—threatened the satirical newspaper with legal action for making fun of him. The Onion ran an op-ed under his byline with the headline “When You’re Feeling Low, Just Remember I’ll Be Dead in About 15 or 20 Years.” It was an amusing little piece —“You can always take solace in the fact that the monstrous, unimaginable piece of shit that is me will stop existing fairly soon”—unless your name was Donald J. Trump. His legal team sent an email to the paper demanding an apology and a retraction of the column, and threatened that failure to do so “will not go without consequences.” There is a long and well-documented history of people treating The Onion’s satire as reportage. Everyone from members of Congress to FIFA executives have cited stories from The Onion as fact. But it’s not every day you find someone who is equal parts oblivious to the joke, thin-skinned enough to throw a tantrum, and exceptionally litigious. Donald Trump is, as always, the perfect storm. Emily Atkin Drew Angerer/Getty Andrew Yang is the most YOLO candidate ever. Moderately successful businessman and “random opinionated person” Andrew Yang may have been the breakout star of Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate—if only because of his proposal for a so-called “freedom dividend.” This is basically just Yang’s marketing term for a Universal Basic Income, under which every American adult receives $1,000 per month, or $12,000 per year. This would solve a lot of our problems, Yang said—including climate change. "If you get the boot off peoples' throats," they will be more willing to focus on climate change, @AndrewYang says at the #DemDebate Here's what you need to know about his plan for a 'Freedom Dividend' https://t.co/U0wwewImHU — Beth Ponsot (@bponsot) June 28, 2019 Would this actually work? Who knows! I mean, is it really the craziest thing in the world to think that if everyone had a little more financial cushion, more people would be OK with making some of the temporary financial sacrifices that will become necessary over the next 11 years to rapidly reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? If anything, it’s just as crazy as Joe Biden’s assertion that he can turn America’s entire vehicle fleet electric by the year 2030 without the help of Republicans. And hey, maybe if everyone had $12,000 more per year, they’d be willing to buy those electric cars. So, might as well try it, right? The human race only lives once, after all. Saul Loeb / Getty Images Sanders’s “rotating judges” idea actually makes some sense. On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court handed down two major rulings on gerrymandering and the census, and yet, only a few hours later, with the candidates gathered in Miami for the second Democratic debate, the moderators never raised the high court, nor did they ask how, if elected, the candidates would handle its emboldened conservative majority. They came closest to tackling the issue in an exchange about Roe v. Wade and what the candidates would do to protect abortion rights if it were overturned. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders replied by saying he opposed adding additional justices to the bench, a solution several other candidates have proposed. “I do not believe in packing the court,” Sanders said. But “I do believe that constitutionally we have the ability to rotate judges to other courts.” Huh? It’s not clear what this plan would entail—Thursday’s format wasn’t conducive to in-depth answers—but Sanders provided some clues about what he meant at a forum in April, when he offered up a similar proposal. “What may make sense is, if not term limits, then rotating judges to the appeals court as well,” he told the audience. “Letting them get out of the Supreme Court and bringing in new blood.” The proposal is constitutionally dubious, to say the least, and might require a amendment, but it’s not without merit if it gets rid of corrosive confirmation battles and tempers ideological divides among the justices. Damn right it’s a climate crisis. The moderators of Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate devoted seven minutes to the subject of global warming. But nothing the candidates said during those seven minutes advanced the conversation as much as the first twelve words Senator Kamala Harris said about climate change during Thursday night’s debate. Asked to explain what she would do about climate change, Harris first took a step back. “I don’t even call it climate change,” she said. “It’s a climate crisis.” HARRIS: 'It's a climate crisis. It represents an existential threat to us as a species.' Sen. Kamala Harris speaks about the Green New Deal, the Paris Climate Accord, and climate change #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/XKKZrk4UVy — NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 28, 2019 The idea that we should replace the term “climate change” with “climate crisis” has been bubbling up in environmentalist circles for a long time, but it started gaining mainstream attention last month, when The Guardian announced that it was changing its official style guide to recommend terms like “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” over simply “climate change.” The reasoning, according to Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, was simple accuracy. “Huge-scale and immediate action is needed to slash emissions, but they are still going up—that’s an emergency or crisis,” she said. “Extreme weather is increasing and climate patterns established for millennia are changing—hence breakdown.” Since then, more media outlets have started changing their terminology. As Grist reported last week, that includes Spanish news agency EFE and Noticias Telemundo, the top U.S.-based Spanish-language news provider. Their reasoning was similar, Telemundo’s executive vice president of network news Luis Fernández said: “The scientific community and linguistics experts agree that the world is facing a climate emergency.” By pushing that conversation further into the mainstream on Thursday night, Harris did the planet, and its inhabitants, a much-needed favor. Cable news still doesn’t know how to talk about police violence. On June 16, a South Bend, Indiana, police officer shot and killed a man named Eric Logan. The police officer shot him. Logan died. The mayor of South Bend is running for president, and is on the debate stage tonight. Moderator Rachel Maddow asked Mayor Pete Buttigieg about the incident. She referred to it as an “officer-involved shooting,” a bit of obfuscatory cop-speak that is endemic in TV news despite the supposed mission of “news” being to inform its audience as to what happened, instead of forcing viewers to guess. The officer was involved because he did the shooting. From what I could determine the last time I wrote about this, police departments invented the phrase in the 1970s or 1980s, and TV news—always dependent on cops for sensationalist stories designed to scare viewers into coming back tomorrow for more—adopted it without anyone involved stopping to think about whether the term made any sense. Mayor Buttigieg used the term too. If you can’t be clear and honest about who did what when a cop shoots someone, you shouldn’t be in journalism or politics. Alex Shephard Kamala Harris just took Joe Biden to school. Biden had a clear strategy and it worked for most of this debate. He came in deciding to act like a frontrunner, using weasel words on tough questions about immigration and health care, and largely staying out of the fray. The other candidates could spar about ideology and policy, but Biden reminded people again and again that he worked with Barack Obama. He continuously reminded the moderators that he was out of time, a sign that he—unlike most of the other people on the stage—had something to lose by speaking, not something to gain. Whenever the moderators asked the candidates to raise their hands in response to a question, Biden did a strange thing with his hand—holding it out, instead of raising it, acting like he had something to say without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing to what was asked. That changed when Kamala Harris pivoted a discussion about Pete Buttigieg’s response to a recent police shooting in South Bend to Joe Biden’s record on busing, race, and civil rights. Sen. Kamala Harris discusses race and calls out Joe Biden for opposing busing. "It cannot be an intellectual debate among Democrats," she says, "we have to take it seriously." #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/43Nzspluio — CNBC (@CNBC) June 28, 2019 “I do not believe you are a racist,” she said. But “it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two US senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country.... You also worked with them to oppose busing.” Biden was definitely prepared to defend his recent comments praising two notorious segregationists he worked with in the Senate in the 1970s. But he wasn’t prepared for Harris’s all out assault on his record as one of the staunchest opponents of court-ordered school busing during the same period. That record undercuts Biden’s defense of working with segregationists—that he did it to pass civil rights legislation—and makes it clear that he was actively part of propping up the opposition to integration. Biden couldn’t have responded in a worse way, bungling his answer by not only defending busing but making a states-rights argument. But it also drew a line between Biden on both generational and racial lines. Biden keeps turning the conversation back to his time working with Barack Obama, but he clearly can’t defend his record as a senator in the same way. Harris found his Achilles heel. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Gentlemen, you can’t fight here, this is the debate stage! Senator Kamala Harris’s first attempt at a breakout moment in this debate was a painfully rehearsed line designed to be dropped the minute there was some cross-talk she could break into: “Hey guys, America does not want to witness a food fight. They want us to know how we’re going to put food on their table.” It won immediate, sustained applause, and a bit of predictable Twitter approval. It’s a good line, superficially, and probably good strategically: A large number of hardcore partisan Democrats desperately hate conflict. Those Democrats are, unfortunately, undermining their party’s political well-being. This is a debate. Everyone on stage is supposed to be making a case for why they should be president, which, when facing other candidates in an election, is traditionally done by drawing distinctions between yourself and your opponents. More broadly, the line speaks to the self-defeating tendency of Democrats to imagine that their own affinity for compromise reflects the median voter’s preference for conciliatory politics. People say they hate partisan conflict, yes—but they vote for people who draw sharp distinctions between themselves and their (negatively defined) opponents. Like I said: It was a good line for Harris in the moment, but it was a cynical line masquerading as a plea for unity. JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty The debate moderators are addicted to right-wing talking points. Chuck Todd predictably emerged as one of the villains of the first debate, derailing a decent policy discussion with a seemingly endless barrage of right-wing talking points. He, for instance, asked the candidates not about gun control, but to speak to Republican fears about gun confiscation. He asked Julián Castro if his immigration reform plan amounted to “open borders.” The charitable reading of this strategy was that he wanted Democrats to speak to swing voters. But it’s June in the year before the election. They don’t need to persuade skeptical voters, they need to explain their policies. His line of questioning didn’t do that and it basically ruined what was otherwise a fine opening debate. Unfortunately, the second debate has largely revolved around the kinds of GOP talking points that Todd is addicted to. The debate opened with Bernie Sanders being asked how he would pay for Medicare for All. How we would pay for policies like Medicare for All has been the focus of much of the moderators’ attention, not explaining what those policies would actually do. At the same time, they’re pumping up candidates like Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, who have been the most aggressive critics of the Democrats’ turn toward “socialism.” This is partly a result of how the two debates were drawn. Wednesday’s was (accidentally) the kids’ table debate, and the moderators asked questions about policy. Now they want them to fight, but not about their substantive differences. They want them to fight in cable news-ready soundbites. And it’s going to get worse—Chuck Todd will be on soon. Alex Wong/Getty Will anyone be brave enough to try to take down Joe Biden? Or should that be stupid enough? The first Democratic debate was notable for the absence of two pronouns: Donald Trump, the man who the eventual nominee will take on next year, and Joe Biden, the current Democratic frontrunner. Trump was, of course, impossible not to mention, but was avoided whenever possible. Biden, however, never came up at all. He wasn’t on the stage then, however. He will be tonight. The perception among many—myself included—is that Biden’s support is soft, and that voters only need to be reminded of his sizable baggage, his somewhat creepy persona, and his penchant for saying dumb stuff to flock to a different candidate. Given that he’s already made two sizable gaffes, on abortion and race, there is plenty for the other nine Democratic candidates to take on. But it might not be worth it. Going after Biden might be a disaster if a candidate is polling in the low single digits. Recall Chris Christie’s entertaining dressing down of a robotic Marco Rubio in a February 2016 debate. Rubio limped on afterwards, but never regained the glow of a potential challenger for the throne. Christie, meanwhile, didn’t see a boost for his own candidacy. It was, as my former colleague Elspeth Reeve wrote at the time, something akin to a political murder-suicide. One crucial difference: That took place in February of 2016. The Iowa caucuses had already taken place. We’re more than six months away from an election. Candidates right now have an incentive to play nice. Of course, if Biden stays in the lead, he could end up cementing his status. That is, unless someone is crazy enough to take him on. Heather Souvaine Horn Joe Raedle/Getty Isn’t it time for NBC to get a less peppy debate tune? Heading into the second Democratic debate tonight, many are hoping for more climate talk and fewer non sequiturs. Personally, I’m dreading the music, which will almost certainly be the same as last night’s. Sure, it’s a minor matter—an aesthetic detail of short duration. Still. It’d be nice, particularly this year, if NBC would ditch its usual fanfare for something a little more understated. The Olympics-meets-Indiana Jones intro soundtrack feels too flashy, too entertainment-oriented for the present moment—more suited to something people watch with popcorn and a beer, rather than a knitted brow and a bottle of Xanax. Like the Democratic candidates gamely discussing tax brackets and health care last night while ignoring this unprecedentedly erratic presidency, blaring something that sounds like it was written up by Erich Wolfgang Korngold for an Erroll Flynn movie right before we’re about to hear about drowned immigrant children abrades the senses (and the morals) a bit. There’s something a little Hunger Games about the aesthetic: signaling spectacle and entertainment in the face of a political climate that’s actually disturbing. While we’re on the subject, as a few folks asked on Twitter last night: Why are these debates still taking place in front of live audiences? Isn’t it time to cut the whoops and claps, letting the candidates discuss their proposals like the world-shifting policies they are? Do we really still need sound effects like a ‘90s sitcom? The Democratic debate was a milestone for transgender rights. When politicians discuss the rights of transgender Americans, they often place an outsized focus on whether trans women should be allowed to use the bathroom in peace. But the issues facing the trans community are far more diverse, and often far more consequential—and during the first Democratic primary debate on Wednesday night, two candidates made an effort to highlight that fact. While answering a question about abortion rights, former Housing Secretary Julian Castro said that he would expand abortion access for everyone—that is, not just for cisgender women, but for trans men and others who are capable of getting pregnant. “A person’s right to choose is under assault,” he said, consciously using gender-neutral language. “I don’t just believe in reproductive freedom. I believe in reproductive justice. And what that means is just because a woman—or, let’s not also forget someone in the trans community, a trans female—is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose. So, I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion.” 'I don't believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice.' — Julián Castro defended the right of low-income and transgender Americans to have an abortion #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/S1bUx6cvCX New Jersey Senator Cory Booker also placed some focus on the transgender community—specifically on black trans Americans, a group disproportionately affected by hate crime and police brutality. “We do not talk enough about trans Americans, especially African American trans Americans and the incredibility high rates of murder now,” he said. “We don’t talk enough how many children, about 30 percent of LGBTQ kids, who do not go to school because of fear.” The comments represented the first time Democratic candidates spoke about issues facing the trans community on a major debate stage, beyond the context of the bathroom. At least 11 Black trans women have been killed in 2019. Our leaders must speak out against and combat this epidemic of hate violence that disproportionately impacts Black transgender women. #DemDebate https://t.co/f4YbjMXDSm — Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) June 27, 2019 Thank you @CoryBooker and @JulianCastro for including trans rights as important issues during the first round of debates tonight. #DemDebate — Trans Empowerment Project (@trans_empowered) June 27, 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1536
__label__wiki	0.83597	0.83597	Professor Who Sold Facebook Data To Cambridge Analytica 'Sincerely Sorry' Willa Frej HuffPost April 23, 2018 Aleksandr Kogan, the University of Cambridge psychology professor who harvested data from Facebook and sold it to Cambridge Analytica, apologized for a tactic that has spawned the wrath of internet users worldwide. Kogan told CBS’ “60 Minutes” he was “sincerely sorry” for assuming that everyone knew their data was being mined, but didn’t care. He was the one who designed the personality quiz that granted access to personal data ― location, gender, birthday and page likes for the person taking the quiz as well as their friends ― on tens of millions of Facebook users. “Back then, we thought it was fine. Right now, my opinion has really been changed,” he said.” “If I had any inkling that I was going to cause people to be upset, I would’ve never done it.” Kogan insisted the ability to access vast amounts of user data “was a core feature of the Facebook platform for years. This was not a special permission you had to get. This was just something that was available to anybody who wanted it who was a developer.” Tens of thousands of developers, he guessed, likely did the same thing. He said he knew that the data he sold to Cambridge Analytica was going to be used for elections in some way, and he surmised that the client was on the Republican side. He failed to disclose that what he was really after was access to their friends and that he was doing the survey for Cambridge Analytica which used the material to influence people on how to vote. (2/2) #60Minutes pic.twitter.com/lkVaiENxTd — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 22, 2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointed a finger at Kogan during his congressional testimony last week, accusing the psychologist of violating his agreement with Facebook by selling the data to Cambridge Analytica. Paul Grewal, Facebook’s vice president and deputy general counsel, called Kogan’s work a “scam” and a “fraud” (Facebook also suspended Kogan’s account.) Kogan acknowledged he may have broken Facebook rules by selling the data, admitting that he likely didn’t read the social media giant’s developer policy. “This is the frustrating bit, where Facebook clearly has never cared. I mean, it never enforced this agreement,” Kogan said. “They’ll let you know if you do anything wrong. I had a terms of service that was up there for a year and a half that said I could transfer and sell the data. Never heard a word.” 10 things in tech you need to know today Woman found in remote area near California-Nevada border after four days Animal rescuers save dog 'bleeding from every inch of her body' that was buried alive on Hawaiian beach PH Health Department declares dengue alert in several regions Why Social Connections May Be the Key to a Happy Retirement Kylie Jenner Wears the Hottest Vacation Wardrobe in Turks and Caicos Stephen King Has A Chilling Theory On What Comes Next For Trump Supporters	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1539
__label__cc	0.571151	0.428849	Willem Pinckaers on Akamai's flawed OpenSSL allocator patch (lekkertech.net) 248 points by tptacek on Apr 13, 2014 \| hide \| past \| web \| favorite \| 72 comments rgbrenner on Apr 13, 2014 If this code was running on the Akamai networks for years, why did they have a copy laying around that didn't call mprotect? Given the above problems I wonder how Akamai manages to run this in production. How could you misread a two paragraph email so badly. Here, let me shorten it up for you: This patch is a _variant_ of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade. This should really be considered more of a proof of concept than something that you want to put directly into production. Let me restate that: do not just take this patch and put it into production without careful review. So to answer your question: this version was never running in production.. and it the initial patch didn't call mprotect because they stripped it out from their version when creating the POC. tptacek on Apr 14, 2014 This would be a more compelling rebuttal to Willem's post if Akamai hadn't confirmed his central thesis: https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/heartbleed-update-v3.html daeken on Apr 14, 2014 > As a result, we have begin the process of rotating all customer SSL keys/certificates. AGHHHHHHH! Even if their code was likely to have worked perfectly, this is a huge mistake. And I mean huge. They should've operated under the assumption that their defense didn't work and immediately rotated all keys. Period. iiiears on Apr 14, 2014 They used their patch for some length of time, release it to the community and a few hours later a bug is spotted and fixed. Peer review is a good thing. mst on Apr 14, 2014 I would be more sympathetic if they'd said "do not take this patch and put it into production, it's almost certainly incomplete and buggy". "without careful review" suggests that they actually expected some possibility of it being complete and correct, at which point having somebody verify that currently it is neither is still really rather useful. It's more an 'exemplar of concept' or something, really - which is still valuable, but I do wish they'd made that more clear. delsarto on Apr 13, 2014 A review by a security engineer would have prevented a false sense of security Everyone involved in this, from the people who wrote the heartbeat code, the people who committed the code, the people at Akami who wrote this patch, this poster ... all would describe themselves as security engineers. Is everyone but Willem Pinckars incompetent? I think the one lesson to learn is to treat crypto just like you do cloud providers. Make sure you have an exit strategy from day one; the ability to push a button to roll keys, switch algorithms, switch cert providers, etc. makomk on Apr 13, 2014 There's been a lot of overly-confident statements about Heartbleed not being a big deal from apparently competent people these last few days. I'm not sure what it is about it that causes security professionals to spout off without testing their assumptions, but... When in doubt, always asssume a compromise of anything is a compromise of everything. Golden rule. yukichan on Apr 13, 2014 I don't think I've worked anywhere where there was a simple way to switch cloud providers with the push of a button. Even migrating to different locations within a cloud provider isn't trivial. You'd have to invest a lot of engineering time from the beginning to get this kind of capability, and you may never realize any value for all the pain. Yep; not easy at all ... if it were easy everyone would do it :) I think with tools like puppet and orchestration tools like heat, etc it is getting closer to being easier. I did got to a Netflix talk once where they said that while moving from AWS would huge, they had a plan and I think from memory they said it would take about a week. nraynaud on Apr 14, 2014 in my team we had the scripts ready for a second provider (but not the hot backups, I couldn't get that far). Which of the assertions in the post do you disagree with? None, it's good work. But the whole episode, and this post in particular, highlights the issue that enough review is never enough. When is the the code secure? When it is written by someone with a good track record? When it gets reviewed and committed by knowledgeable parties? When it's been running for several years without incident? When it passes coverity? When Willem has time to review it? When I just think about the embedded ssh keys I've got in my few toy systems; if I discovered ssh was broken (and it's happened; look at the Debian bug) I'd be sinking a lot of time figuring out just how to change the keys everywhere. I should have designed for this from the start; lesson learnt. I bet there's lots of admins out there who wish they had better ways to update certs on a moments notice over the past week... jamesaguilar on Apr 13, 2014 I think it's reasonable to disagree with the part he quoted. "A review by a security engineer ..." Well, it was reviewed by security engineers, and the false sense of security remained. The rest seems fine though. chopin on Apr 14, 2014 My experience in large companies is more like this: A (security) engineer reviews, objects and management says: "Go ahead anyway you don't have the whole picture". nolok on Apr 13, 2014 Apparently, he is not competent enough to understand what "this is not our actual code but merely a POC" means. hueving on Apr 13, 2014 It's not exactly a proof of concept if it doesn't protect the keys, is it? It strongly hints that even if this is 'only a POC' that their actual implementation is still vulnerable since their POC failed to protect against the very attack is was written to protect against. brians on Apr 14, 2014 Yes. Our actual implementation was vulnerable. We disabled TLS heartbeat before 5 April 2014, so are not still vulnerable. This would have been a cutting bit of wit indeed, had Akamai not stepped on your moment by confirming Willem's central thesis. Ouch. We're still evaluating some of his arguments. I still believe some of them are true in the general case, but do not apply to our specific embedding of this code. I say that aware that I was mistaken 12 hours ago, and so very well could be mistaken now. But I am reasonably convinced that the CRT values are loaded into the normal heap, where they're available to a normal Heartbleed attack. Pinckaers doesn't have to be right about all his points to be right---just once---and I'm pretty sure he's right at least that once. If the tone of my message was a bit harsh, it was mostly to reflect his, and thankfully I do not have a life boring enough that this is "my moment". Still, I stand by my point of view that at the time of writing, akamai's POC was presented neither as an absolute final fix nor as their own production version of it, and judging it as such was misplaced. That akamai realized the flaws he noted in their patch also applies to the real world code doesn't change that. I never said the flaws he pointed were not real flaws nor unimportant ones, I merely disliked the ridiculous and unjustified tone he used to to destroy a proposal and used the same against him. abus on Apr 14, 2014 Here's a patch that prevents any exploit ever occurring in OpenSSL: void *custom_malloc() { }; It's only a POC though so you'll have to adapt it. You can go ahead and begin praising me and flaming my critics. ironghost on Apr 13, 2014 The funny thing is the fact that everybody is ignoring that the patch wasn't a patch. It was a POC (read demonstration) with the notes: '...This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade. This should really be considered more of a proof of concept than something that you want to put directly into production. It slides into the ASN1 code rather than adding a new API (OPENSSL_secure_allocate et al), the overall code isn't portable, and so on. If there is community interest, we would be happy to help work on addressing those issues. Let me restate that: do not just take this patch and put it into production without careful review.' Oh but if you do that how are you going to make a pretentious critic to shoot it down ? The akamai guy straight up said "that's not actually our code, and that should not and cannot be used as-is, this is a POC", rendering this entire "answer" irrelevant especially given its mocking tone. Isn't a POC supposed to prove a concept? i.e. shouldn't a POC defend against the attack it is stated to defend against? csoandy on Apr 14, 2014 Willem, Thanks for the well-reasoned set of claims for us to evaluate. We are still looking at them, but a critical one is accurate: our own implementation of the secure memory area did not include the CRT values. More here: https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/heartbleed-update-v3.html cscott on Apr 13, 2014 It comes down to intent. There are two distinct ways to evaluate Akamai's patch: 1. Did Akamai release the PoC patch to start a discussion about how to protect private keys and share their work as a starting point for changing the code? If so, their efforts here should be considered in that vein and any criticism should be used simply to guide the development of a usable and functional patch. 2. On the other hand, if they are supplying this code as assurance that customer keys were properly protected against exposure by the Heartbleed bug and that certificate replacement is not needed, the patch and the subsequent criticism should give Akamai customers pause. edit: Akamai acknowledges the bug, and has started rotating all customer SSL keys/certificates, per https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/heartbleed-update-v3.html It was released as both: we thought that our old protection against swap protected us against Heartbleed. What a stroke of luck. We did check for key values visible in the heap, and on our implementation, in our lab, didn't find them on any version of our software used since we took OpenSSL 1.0.1. We weren't looking for the CRT values. As one part of our response, we decided to publish the code we thought was keeping us safe. If we were right, sure, there's good PR from that. If we were wrong, it's a chance to find out and get right. Less wrong, anyway. Decisions were made about certificate revocation based on assumptions about this code and Akamai customers ended up being exposed. Perhaps third-party security validation of such a critical piece of code should be a prerequisite before asserting that no further countermeasures such as key rotation were necessary. Such an action would demonstrate significant diligence as compared to a public release days after you've told customers there was nothing to worry about. Additionally, that public release didn't directly encourage security review, the deprecating comments on the post were primarily around portability and design. paulhodge on Apr 14, 2014 Even if their intent was just to start a discussion, they are not being helpful by "submitting" such bogus code. It would be easier for an expert to rewrite this patch from scratch than try to figure out all of their flaws and unfinished sections. In one of the email responses, someone pointed out a problem with their code and they responded, "Oops we posted the wrong version" ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.user/... ). They aren't exactly being respectful of other people's time with stuff like that. In secure coding the phrase "the devil is in the details" applies very strongly. So if you don't have the details figured out, you don't have much of anything. awalton on Apr 14, 2014 > Even if their intent was just to start a discussion, they are not being helpful by "submitting" such bogus code. All code is bogus code until reviewed. That is absolutely central to understand. Linus's Law only works _if_ people are looking at the code. Implicitly thumbs-upping it doesn't solve problems. Akamai submitted the code, people reviewed it and found flaws. They're taking action to fix their own code, and the community is coming up with various fixes of their own. That's how Open Source Software Development should work. While I agree with you that it'd probably be better to rewrite the code with a similar approach, it's also important to note that nobody in the OpenSSL community even considered this approach publicly until Akamai published their code. Any claims they're being disrespectful of people's time is specious - they said from the beginning that this code needed review and shouldn't be merged. This is just one of those issues that comes out in the wash of code review. TL;DR: Akamai should be lauded on their intentions but like noted by everyone, the code wasn't good enough. Now, with proper review and rewrites, they will be able to protect their customers into the future, and maybe OpenSSL will become a slightly better product for it too. jackalope on Apr 14, 2014 It's a smokescreen. If you were running a version of OpenSSL that supported the HEARTBEAT extension (patched or not) it's easy enough to determine whether or not it was vulnerable, simply by running the exploit code. Any theoretical discussion of how your patch made it invulnerable is pure speculation. They can release packet captures that prove they were invulnerable without releasing any code at all. At this stage, it's all PR. fancy_betta on Apr 13, 2014 I'm guessing the patch was broken because they didn't have an actual patch laying around, they had to do a diff against the upstream and try to pick out the relevant parts. That doesn't excuse some of the other errors though, like integer overflows and not checking return codes. That also doesn't excuse the fact that they didn't actually try the patch before sending it out. There could be other pieces that we're missing, and this patch alone doesn't prove that you can obtain private keys from Akamai's servers with the Heartbleed bug. It just proves that there could be key parts outside of their protected storage area and they suck at creating patches of their modifications. That being said, I'd love to see someone apply Akamai's OpenSSL patch and still pull the key with Heartbleed. kalkin on Apr 13, 2014 Yes. It's not really fair of the OP to say "this is broken in totally obvious ways and would clearly not actually run" and yet critique it as if it was production code. It's fairly obviously (at this point) a hand-constructed pseudo-diff. (I worked with Willem at Matasano for a couple years, and he knows what he's talking about.) StefanKarpinski on Apr 13, 2014 The tone of his post is rather unfortunate. Still, he raises good points, even if they are put in an unnecessarily aggressive manner. I disagree. The post is written bluntly, but it argues with factual assertions, not with emotional appeals. I don't think criticism of its tone is warranted or really all that appropriate. UnoriginalGuy on Apr 13, 2014 > Perhaps Akamai is not actually running this version in production, but another 'super secure' allocator. In either case they should not be sending out non-functional, bug ridden patches to the OpenSSL community, while claiming they protected Akamai against the Heartbleed attack. Andy Ellis, CSO of Akamai, said on Twitter that the 'secure' allocator was written 13 years ago. I'm happy to provide the results of my 15 minute security review, since it is so overdue. (To be fair, I found the issue in minutes, but confirmation took longer.) Comes across quite passive aggressive indeed. The tone is otherwise fine, except that paragraph which is just one giant jab at Akamai. I guess it is true what they say: No good deed goes unpunished. I'm sure Akamai has learned their lesson and will keep all future patches private to avoid public criticism and ridicule. But on the positive side at least we all know how smart Willem is, which I'm sure was the real point anyway. This post isn't simply "ridiculing" the proposed allocator design. Did you work on this allocator? If not, can I suggest that you be a little careful? It's one thing to stick up for Akamai's developers; it's another to be thin-skinned on their behalf. It's possible that Akamai's devs, being adults, professionals, and engaged with software security, actually want to hear Willem Pinckaers' take on their allocator. dfranke on Apr 14, 2014 Speaking as a security researcher at Akamai, I can say that tptacek is 100% correct here. We're absolutely better off for having received Willem's report, and I'm pretty sure we're all mature enough to tolerate the jabs that accompanied it. I didn't have any part in writing this allocator, but I was asked to do a code review prior to publication. I told Rich Salz that it would take me at least two days to do a thorough one, and we both made the decision that it was better that we just get this code out there for public review and discussion than that we wait until we thought it was perfect. So, with the caveat that we're still evaluating most of Willem's technical claims (and I'm probably going to be in the office all night doing so), the only sentence in Willem's report that I really take exception to is this one: In either case they should not be sending out non-functional, bug ridden patches to the OpenSSL community, while claiming they protected Akamai against the Heartbleed attack. This statement is self-refuting. If we hadn't published this patch, we wouldn't be having this discussion, and some of the bugs that Willem and others are finding would have gone unnoticed. I almost certainly would have caught the issue with the CRT intermediates if Willem hadn't done so first, but I doubt I'd have caught everything that has or will be identified through public scrutiny. There's probably a middle ground here. If you'd taken the time to make sure the patch actually compiled, ran and attempted the things it was advertised to do before releasing it, I suspect problems with it would've been obvious sooner. That's quite possible. It's also quite possible that we still wouldn't have released it yet, as we'd be doing that work to make it generally usable this week. Therefore, the critical failure - that we weren't protecting the CRT values - might not have been known yet. Sadly, the multiverse doesn't yet let me monitor its A/B tests. babs474 on Apr 14, 2014 tptacek, we all want to hear Willem Pinckaers' take, it is really good stuff. I also want to hear ideas from Akamai, even if they aren't perfect. Perhaps they can lead to good things. Unfortunately Pinckaers' commentary is a little bit too hostile and calls for Akamai to cease sharing ideas[1]. I'm sure Akamai's developers are "adult" enough, as you say, to handle it. However there is a trope in software development community that if you share something, you should be fine with being open to no holds barred attacks. Wouldn't the more "adult" behavior be to criticize in a more professional tone that is open to refinement of ideas and could spark further collaboration? I'd like to see this type of communication more in the software world, I think it would encourage more participation. [1]"they should not be sending out non-functional, bug ridden patches to the OpenSSL community" Pacabel on Apr 14, 2014 I think there's a difference between sharing ideas and sharing code. An idea or concept on its own can't really do much, at least until it's put into practice somehow. The potential for harm is quite minimal, if it even exists. Code, on the other hand, can often be directly used with relative ease by people who may not fully understand the possible implications of using such code. The potential for harm exists, and could be significant. In the context of security, it's important to avoid potentially-harmful code wherever possible. If somebody has concerns about some code, regardless of who wrote it, it is best to express those concerns in a very blunt and direct manner. Security is just not something to fool around with. The hard questions and painful facts should be out in the open, especially when code is involved and capable of being used. It's just not the time or place for pussyfooting around. Yup. Hard to read! Better that than not to read it. As Rich Salz said in the post to openssl-dev, this is a prototype that nobody should take and use straight. We did think we were pretty lucky that our old patch to keep keys from being swapped to disk could help us against Heartbleed. A major voice in the internal decision about whether to release it or keep it secret as a "competitive advantage" was the possibility that we were wrong---in the hopes that someone would discover this and tell us if so. We were wrong. Pinckaers discovered this, and told us so. He can mock my coffee as weak and my nose as big for all I care, in return for that necessary warning that we were mistaken. You probably meant something subtly different than what "competitive advantage" sounds like, w/r/t hardening the public OpenSSL code. :) polemic on Apr 13, 2014 > Comes across quite passive aggressive indeed. Oh so what. Tone arguments are the least interesting arguments (he says, passive aggressively). In seriousness though, this is a blunt assessment from an expert in the field. The tone is entirely appropriate. > No good deed goes unpunished. Akamai strongly implied that their patch protected customers. If you make that claim then you need to be prepared to have the claim attacked. This is an issue of good will toward their customers - not to the Open Source community. This isn't a case of "punishing a good deed", it's a case of "critically examining a provider's claim to their customers". > Akamai strongly implied that their patch protected customers. Actually they said exactly the opposite of that: > This should really be considered more of a proof of concept than something that you want to put directly into production. Let me restate that: do not just take this patch and put it into production without careful review. ibmthrowaway218 on Apr 14, 2014 I think polemic was referencing this statement[1] when he talks about "their patch" (and not the released patch):- > This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade. 1. From the original Akamai missive: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.user/... atombender on Apr 13, 2014 > Comes across quite passive aggressive indeed Surely it's not passive aggressive when the author not only critiqued the code (an arguably "active" act of initiative), but offers to review the unpublished patch as well. I hope Akamai has learned our lesson: upstream earlier, among others. Watch and see. binarycrusader on Apr 14, 2014 Empathy is a core engineering value. If not exercised, people will unsurprisingly often ignore what you have to say. It's possible to be correct and helpful without saying unkind things. davidmat on Apr 13, 2014 I don't find it aggressive, it seems more like Dutch directness to me. As an inhabitant of a neighbouring country, I must say it's an acquired taste ;) gojomo on Apr 13, 2014 How would a less-aggressive tone be better at delivering the necessary info to Akamai and its customers? The fact the code is badly written and wouldn't run isn't even the biggest problem with it though - a bigger issue is that the author didn't appear to realise there were copies of the key they'd missed that weren't protected. They very likely made the same mistake with their production systems and their analysis of those production systems. cryptbe on Apr 13, 2014 Ha. This is probably something that we mountain view folks would enjoy working on :-). I've updated my blog on how to recover the private key from the CRT parameters stored in the private key: http://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2014/04/idea-to-solve-cloudflar.... Trivial math, but still interesting to see how it actually works. rocky_ee on Apr 13, 2014 Pls elaborate gus_massa on Apr 14, 2014 Tptacek has a software security company, and he is one of the unofficially designated security experts here (with cperciva). He is the #1 in the karma ranking and has even more karma that the site founder (pg)! If he says that “[Willem Pinckaers] knows what he's talking about”, for me it’s very strong reference for Willem Pinckaers. Also, we generally don’t like oneliners here, try writing a longer comment. Definitively avoid Pls!!!! (And just in case, also try to avoid unoriginal jokes and memes.) You are quite new here and your last 2 comments were heavily downvoted. I hope that someone upvote them until they are dark gray again. (The second comment, were you tried to explain your intentions, is not a bad comment.) [You’ve just deleted your second comment.] Alternative redaction: “I searched for Willem Pinckaers in Google and there is a lot of information about him. Can you recommend a few pages with his main projects to understand his background and credentials. Also, I’d love to know more about the projects in which you worked together in Matasano.” [Note: perhaps the internal projects are under a NDA/top-secret/paranoid-client, and they can’t be explained until 2050.] Ok, Thank you for the clarification. The irony is I probably should have been a bit more elaborate in the context of my question. I'm fairly new on Hacker News and I probably should read more comments pertaining to other posts to get a better perspective of the etiquette on here. But again, thanks for the clarification and I will commit to bringing proper thought to my comments I'd like to see Akamai create a CloudFlare style challenge using their patch and a compromised version of OpenSSL and see if anyone can get the private keys from it. It would be better if someone independent set it up. We're talking about it. The patch is dependent on details of our unreleasable (GPL+OpenSSL+all sorts of other things) server. uh if it's GPL, don't you have to release it? pilif on Apr 14, 2014 Nope. As long as they don't distribute it but only run it in a server, they don't have to. This is what the AGPL is changing. Not here: you can't do much with AGPL+OpenSSL. AGPL requires release under AGPL. OpenSSL requires advertising clause. There is no legal way to distribute software including parts you have only under APGL and parts you have only under OpenSSL license. > There is no legal way to distribute software including parts you have only under APGL and parts you have only under OpenSSL license. If you modified AGPL code you have to release it. If you've mixed up GPL or AGPL code such that you can't release it you've violated the license for the hard work of others. You sound confused, to phrase it charitably. vidarh on Apr 14, 2014 My interpretation of what he wrote is that it does not change things for them in the sense that due to conflicting licenses, they can't use AGPL'd software, and so the AGPL changes nothing. __alexs on Apr 13, 2014 OpenSSL has pretty good support for HSMs in the form of their ENGINE API. It seems like it would be possible to use this layer to move all key handling and crypto operations out of the process that was dealing with TLS. Process isolation seems like a much better way of getting this kind of security than weird allocator tricks. keithgabryelski on Apr 13, 2014 gosh, i see this "weird allocator trick" to be exceptionally insightful as to the possible attacks that and likely vulnerabilities that may be introduced into code. One of the biggest issues for a development team isn't how to do something, but how to do something so that someone (who has taken over the project) won't screw it up in 10 years when you and all your cohorts have left and are island hoping and coconut drink doing. comice on Apr 14, 2014 Kind of amused at how Akamai smugly keep their openssl security improvements private for years, only for them to be shown to be broken days after open sourcing. With enough eyeballs, all bugs are indeed shallow! yeukhon on Apr 13, 2014 Even if the PoC patch was perfect and is approved by many of the top security folks out there, would Akamai ever share their perfect custom memory allocator with the upstream community. okay, whats' wrong with my statement? If they do have a perfect allocator, wouldn't it be nice to know exactly what they did? I like how he pounds on one company who made a mistake on one network, while having no word for the developer who made a mistake for almost the entire internet.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1540
__label__wiki	0.809301	0.809301	Innovative new apps help Brazil's economy rebound by Matt Bokor October 25, 2018 The 'Internet of Cows' goes global among a wave of startups launched in Brazil. Slowly climbing out of a lengthy recession, Brazil finds itself awash in digital innovation. This wave of app-based startups generates vibrant commerce while pursuing a range of lofty to local goals—like reducing malnutrition, averting power failures and helping humble metal collectors find recyclables. In recent years, more than 6,100 startups and some 40,000 entrepreneurs have joined the Brazilian Startup Association. This offers benefits, connections and education to its members. StartUp Brazil, a government initiative with private-sector partners, also nurtures the startup ecosystem by providing developers assistance, including seed money, networking and mentorship. See also: New app helps farmers fill tourists' plates in St. Lucia App-based startups "have emerged as bright spots in the Brazilian economy as examples of dynamism and ingenuity that are often overlooked," according to Irene Estefanía González, a strategist at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think-tank. 'Internet of Cows' Among the many launches going global from Brazil is BovControl, a mobile app that's reshaping farm management all over the world. With more cows than people, Brazil is fertile ground for the app, which aims to help farmers improve meat, milk and genetics production. If the farmer notes a cow is pregnant as he inputs livestock data, the app can predict the delivery date and notify the farmer as the day nears. If a cow's milk production is off, the app sends a signal. Among its smart-farming outputs, BovControl provides vaccine management, nutrition, organization and tax management data, and generates reports, graphics and cattle analyses to help modernize management and production. Co-founder and CEO Danilo Leao, who as a teen logged data by hand on the family farm, said he hopes his "internet of cows" will reduce world hunger through improved efficiency. Sensing a problem Addressing the common problem of blackouts in Brazil and other emerging markets, Sensorbox helps reduce losses for an array of users, including hospitals, laboratories, Internet providers, restaurants and ice-cream shops. Using cloud-based technology, Sensorbox monitors remote locations for signs of trouble. When its detects something unusual, such as a temperature spike in a data center, Sensorbox sends alarms by e-mail or Push and allows for switching equipment or devices on or off remotely. The technology can also be used to monitor meteorological stations for earthquakes and tsunamis. Recycling on a roll Another app aims to generate more income and higher esteem for Brazil's often-maligned legion of waste collectors (catadores). Because Brazil recycles only a fraction of its solid waste, individual collectors serve an important role, pushing their two-wheeled carts down streets and picking up discarded metals and other recyclables that they can sell. See also: Tourism technology is making waves Rolled out in July 2017 by São Paulo street artist Thiago Mundano, the nonprofit Cataki app matches people who have recyclables available for pickup with collectors working in their neighborhoods. Cataki spokesman Carol Pires said 650 waste collectors in 135 Brazilian cities have registered, with more than 16,000 downloads. "For the future we expect more cities to include their waste pickers and more people to use the app, generating more income and work for these recycling professionals," Pires said. Tech hubs on the scene Meanwhile, tech hubs have been cultivating Brazil's startup ecosystem by providing workspace for developers to network, learn, share, and fine-tune their businesses and ideas. In 2016, for example, Google opened its first hub for entrepreneurs in Latin America. Its Campus São Paulo, one of six campuses around the world, attracted 75,000 members in its first year. Among its many services, Campus São Paulo offers a coveted, six-month residency program that helps high-impact startups tackling big problems. And Cubo Itaú, the largest entrepreneurial hub in Latin America, is quadrupling its office space in São Paulo to host more startups and provide more support for resident and nonresident developers. In addition to support from accelerators, startups enjoy the advantage of launching with relative ease in Brazil, which is known for onerous red tape to start a business, according to González. "App-based startups are able to bypass some of the steps required to open a physical business, like obtaining construction permits and registering a property," she said. "Although there is still a great deal of economic uncertainty and a number of bureaucratic barriers to entrepreneurship in Brazil, it seems that startup culture is taking hold," González said. The contents or opinions in this feature are independent and may not necessarily represent the views of Cisco. We welcome the re-use, republication, and distribution of "The Network" content. Please credit us with the following information: Used with the permission of http://thenetwork.cisco.com/. About Matt Bokor Matt Bokor is a freelance writer living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. See how Cisco’s education opportunities can help you reskill Music experiences transform with Wi-Fi 6 and 5G Decades after the Walkman, new mobile technology changes the 5G’s benefits and challenges mean lots of opportunity for entrepreneurs Why the two wireless technologies will be better together.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1542
__label__wiki	0.823068	0.823068	Home Culture Dance Contemporary dancer gets some Teenage Head Contemporary dancer gets some Teenage Head Laurence Lemieux draws on personal history and the cult Hamilton punk band in new solo Samuel Engelking Laurence Lemieux rocks out in Love Me Out Of It. LOVE ME OUT OF IT choreographed and performed by Laurence Lemieux with music by Teenage Head. Presented by Citadel + Compagnie at the Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance (304 Parliament). Opens Thursday (October 11) and runs to October 20, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm. $25-$50. See listing. citadelcie.com Music and dance are often structurally intertwined. But when contemporary dancer Laurence Lemieux began researching soundtracks for a new solo she was working on, she looked for something to drive a mood rather than steps. Eventually, she landed on Hamilton punk rock band Teenage Head’s classic album Frantic City. The resulting mashup – a full length solo called Love Me Out Of It – revisits the 80s, from wildly divergent perspectives. “It’s a kind of a map of things that happened at the same time that are not really connected, yet they are in a way,” says Lemieux. Rather than interpreting the music, Lemieux is using it to frame a more personal and introspective journey. In May of 1980, when Frantic City was released, Lemieux was a 15-year old Quebec City separatist beginning a career in dance and waiting for the Referendum. “I remember how I felt: I was a teenager and I couldn’t vote and I was rebellious,” she says. Since her father was noted political scientist Vincent Lemieux, posing as a separatist was just about the most defiant position available. Teenage Head was never part of Lemieux’s own music experience, but all these years later, she relates to the band’s spirit of rebellion and dogged survival. After chasing down the remaining members of the band on Facebook (lead singer Frankie Venom died in 2008), and then catching a show in St. Catharines, Lemieux obtained their blessing and the rights to use all of Frantic City. She ditched the hip-hop tracks, Eminem and the like, which she’d been using in the studio to generate movement up to that point, feeling that Teenage Head – still touring Frantic City almost 40 years after the fact – brought something more rhythmically interesting and Canadian to the creative table. Didn’t hurt that their music also felt kissed by the influence of Elvis Presley (Lemieux is a superfan and made a pilgrimage to Graceland while making her 2014 work Looking For Elvis). With cabaret-style seating, Love Me Out Of It is built around the conceit of setting up for a rock show. Marshall stacks and a techie set lights and test microphones while Lemieux dances. The ten Frantic City tunes get a largely straightforward sonic treatment. But as the piece progresses there’s more room between each song and textures are added. Composer John Gzowski plays with found sound (some of it pulled from Quebec radio) and barely there audio levels. Lemieux counters some of the more frantic selections (Let’s Shake, for example) with slowed-down movement and delays that contribute another layer of narrative. “When you start creating to that fast pace you either match it or you don’t, it’s counter or it’s in sync,” says Lemieux. “And that really pushed me in different ways choreographically. When I was first working on it I thought that each song had to be a completely different story. But it’s actually a bit more of an internal journey, with imprecise landscapes, like different colours maybe.“ She tells me about the show-closing Disgusteen section, danced to the Teenage Head hit best known for its sampled lines from The Exorcist. “It gets a bit crazy,” says Lemieux. “I’m in a shaky trance and there are lots of Catholic references.” For the two-week run of Love Me Out Of It, next-generation bands will do a short live set following Lemieux’s solo. Her 19-year-old daughter Juliette curated the series, which features Pony, Brenda, Rapport and St. Catharines’ Frankie the Pig, among others. On October 13, Teenage Head themselves will take the stage for a special performance. It all makes for a beautiful multi-generational palimpsest of memory and music in a place that Lemieux has carefully built in the former Salvation Army soup kitchen on Parliament Street. Solo projects like this are an increasingly rare occurrence for a dancer who is considered one of Canada’s most compelling. At 54, Lemieux admits to hearing a certain kind of clock ticking. “There’s a type of dancing that I’m on the cusp of leaving behind,” she says. “I’ve never been that kind of extreme dancer. I like life and I want to feel healthy and I want to enjoy life as long as I can. If it means not jumping, that’s okay. Throughout making this solo there have been some frustrations about what I feel I can’t do any more – it hurts and there are restrictions. But I’ve decided to just do it differently. There’s no competition and maybe something else can come out that is unexpected.” If that’s not rock and roll, I don’t know what is. stage@nowtoronto.com Teenage Head Laurence Lemieux Citadel + Compagnie feature This week in NOW stage Belle And Sebastian, Men I Trust Purling Hiss, Writhing Squares, Shade Monarch Tavern Jul 9, 2019 - Aug 18, 2019 Ed Mirvish Theatre The Man In Black en plein air Evergreen Brick Works Seaton Village The Messthetics, Retired Delhi 2 Dublin, Moskitto Bar Jul 19, 2019 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM Mel Lastman Square Bruno Capinan Zine Dream 12 Launch Party Get Bucked! A Downtown Hoedown St. George the Martyr Chase Atlantic, Lauren Sanderson Measha Brueggergosman, Kellylee Evans Zine Dream 12 Sunday Social The Bentway Promise Cherry Beach Cherry Beach Amyl and The Sniffers, D Boy, Hex Maud Lewis Jun 29, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020 McMichael Canadian Art Collection	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1552
__label__cc	0.71756	0.28244	GIATA-ID: 35660 Kato Gouves, Greece Pediados 700 14 Kato Gouves Crete +30 289 7043300Fax: +30 289 7043264 info@gouvespark.gr www.gouvespark.gr NearbySandy Currency exchange desk Hotel doctor Alarm call service Theatre hall Sun loungers at the pool Parasols at the pool Individually controlled Direct-dial Beach and watersports Entertainment programme Entertainment programme for children Entertainment programme for adults Kids' disco VISAMasterCardAmerican ExpressMajor credit cards The resort is located in a tranquil spot of Gouves village, within a walking distance from the main sandy beach, the ideal place to start exploring Crete. The resort has a reception desk and features 283 rooms. Amenities include a currency exchange service. The tour desk offers assistance with booking excursions. The grounds of the resort feature a playground and a lovely garden. Additional facilities include a playroom. Guests can use the parking spaces at the complex, subject to availability (no extra charge). Further services and facilities include a babysitting service (for a fee), a childcare service, a car hire service, medical assistance, a transfer service, an alarm call service and a hotel doctor. Active guests can make use of the bicycle hire service to explore the surrounding area. A fax machine is available for guests' business needs. Rooms are equipped with air conditioning and individually adjustable heating. A balcony or terrace is a standard feature of some rooms. Extra beds or children's beds can be provided upon request. Guests may safely secure their valuables in a safe for an additional fee. Guests will also find a refrigerator included among the standard features. A direct dial telephone and satellite television ensure optimal comfort. A hairdryer is provided in the bathrooms. Family rooms are available for parents with children. The pool complex, which includes 3 outdoor pools and 2 children's pools is a great place to work out or just relax and unwind. A waterslide provides fun for all ages. Sun loungers and parasols on the terrace invite guests to relax and unwind. For guests who wish to keep active, cycling/mountain biking, bocce and beach volleyball are available. The resort offers various water sports, including aquafit, or for additional fees, sailing and diving. Sport and leisure facilities at the resort include table tennis, darts and callisthenics. A wellness area with anti-ageing treatments is available at the resort. Additional leisure activities include an entertainment programme, a kids' disco and a dance club. Various dining options are available, including a restaurant (with high chairs), a café and a bar. The resort accepts the following credit cards: American Express, VISA and MasterCard.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1558
__label__cc	0.619429	0.380571	7. März 2019, 9:53 Forschungsergebnisse, Wissenschaftliche Publikationen Multiple sclerosis: an attack on the brain’s control and storage center T cells targeting beta-synuclein invade the grey matter. Shown here is a rat’s brain cortex, one frame of a microscopic recording. Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research, Goettingen Scientists at the University Medical Center Goettingen find out how immune cells attack and destroy the brain’s control center: the grey matter. This discovery helps us to better understand neurological diseases, in particular multiple sclerosis. Publication in the February 2019 issue of “NATURE”. (umg) Multiple sclerosis was long considered to be a white matter disease. However, many multiple sclerosis symptoms cannot be explained by white matter damage alone. Symptoms like chronic fatigue, memory loss and even epileptic fits must have another origin. They point to grey matter damage. Scientists at the Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research of the University Medical Center Goettingen (UMG) have developed a new model that makes it possible for the first time to specifically investigate damage to the grey matter. Thereby they discovered a new disease mechanism of multiple sclerosis. The researchers found out which immune cells attack the brain’s control and storage center, the so-called “grey matter”. I this part of brain nearly all signals are interconnected, processed and stored. The results of these studies are published in the February issue of the prestigious scientific journal NATURE. Original publication: Dmitri Lodygin, Moritz Hermann, Nils Schweingruber, Cas-sandra Flügel-Koch, Takashi Watanabe, Corinna Schlosser, Arianna Merlini, Henrike Körner, Hshin-Feng Chang, Henrike J. Fischer, Holger M. Reichardt, Marta Zagrebelsky, Brit Mollenhauer, Jens Frahm, Christine Stadelmann, Sebastian Kügler, Dirk Fitzner, Michael Haberl, Francesca Odoardi & Alexander Flügel. Beta-Synuclein reactive T cells induce autoimmune CNS grey matter degeneration, Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0964-2 RESULTS IN DETAIL Immune cells targeting the protein beta-synuclein present in neurons invade the brain’s control center and trigger an inflammatory reaction there. This inflammation damages the grey matter’s highly specialized and fragile neural network. The disastrous result: the brain shrinks and there is an irreversible neurological loss of function. The Goettingen researchers also discovered that such destructive immune cells are particularly numerous in the blood of patients with multiple sclerosis of the chronic-progressive course. This finding could be relevant for diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of multiple sclerosis. A neurological worst case scenario: attack on the control Center Our immune system protects us from harmful intruders such as pathogenic bacteria or viruses. Sometimes, though, the immune cells attack the body’s own tissue by mistake. Such a disastrous “misunderstanding” seems to be the case in multiple sclerosis too. This important insight was gained from research using animal models: here certain immune cells, the so-called T cells, see the brain tissue as the enemy and attack it, with the well-known results. “Strangely, in such studies a targeted immune attack on the grey matter could never be found – it was only the white matter that became inflamed”, says Prof. Dr. Alexander Flügel, director of the UMG’s Institute für Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research and senior author of the publication. “For this reason, a central feature of multiple sclerosis remained a mystery, with the serious consequence that mechanisms behind damage to the grey matter could not be systematically researched and therefore very little is known about the causes of grey matter damage in humans.” In point of fact, in multiple sclerosis the grey matter is regularly afflicted by inflammatory responses – new research results indicate that it is especially these lesions that are responsible for the irreversible damage to the brain tissue and the inexorable worsening of symptoms in multiple sclerosis. Why is the grey matter attacked in multiple sclerosis? It is exactly in this area where the Goettingen research can contribute new insights. The scientists have found out when the attack on the grey substance occurs. Usually in experimental models of multiple sclerosis, cells are employed that target the protective coat surrounding nerve fibers, the so-called myelin sheath to trigger an multiple sclerosis-like disease. These cells cause a disease characterized by pareses and the familiar inflammation in the white matter. The Goettingen researchers departed from this well-known schema. They investigated immune cells that target a neuronal protein called beta-synuclein. “Unexpectedly, the animals’ brains showed completely dissimilar disease signs. Also the lesions were different in that the pathological cells nearly exclusively invaded the grey matter”, says Dr. Francesca Odoardi, co-senior author of the study. This inflammation caused – above all after several flare-ups – an irreversible damage and shrinkage of the grey matter, similar to what is observed in humans with multiple sclerosis. Indeed, the researchers found that beta-synuclein-targeting T cells were present in higher numbers in the blood of multiple sclerosis patients, and an especially high number in those with a chronic-progressive disease course. OUTLOOK: WHAT CAN ONE LEARN? The results obtained by the Goettingen scientists could have important relevance for the human disease. The ability to reproduce autoimmune damage to the grey matter in a model and therefore to be able to systematically investigate it could lead to the development of therapeutic strategies to counteract such damage. In addition, an investigation into the pathogenic T cells in human blood could make it possible to better inform patients with multiple sclerosis about the possible disease risks and the best therapeutic options. The grey matter, the brain’s control center Our brain works similarly to a computer in that it transmits and processes electrical signals. The grey matter is the brain’s storage and processing center, its hard drive so to speak. The nerve cells are situated here that receive signals from the environment or the body’s organs and then process these, i.e. connect, store and relay them, and allow the brain to control the most important functions of our body; we can make deliberate movements, think, remember, feel and plan. In contrast, the brain’s white matter mainly consists of nerve processes encased by a special insulating layer, the so-called myelin sheath. The myelin sheaths promote signal transmission. One can therefore think of the white matter as being like the electrical wiring in a computer; it is specialized to relay incoming and outgoing signals as quickly and precisely as possible. Neurological diseases can damage both the grey and the white matter. Grey matter damage has the more serious consequences, as we know very well from observing the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s diseases. In these diseases, the neurons in the grey substance perish and the people suffering them either gradually lose the ability to remember and to think (so-called Alzheimer’s dementia) or they lose the ability to coordinate their movements (so-called Parkinson’s shaking palsy). The disease multiple sclerosis also adversely affects the grey matter. Multiple sclerosis can cause serious chronic neurological dysfunction and typically affects young adults, people in their most active stage of life. Therefore, multiple sclerosis is not only significant for its tragic health impairment but also for its detrimental socio-economic effects. IMAGE: T cells targeting beta-synuclein invade the grey matter. Shown here is a rat’s brain cortex, one frame of a microscopic recording. The pathogenic T cells (green) have infiltrated the grey matter tissue in great numbers. One can see some of these T cells in direct contact with a nerve cell and its axons (grey-white). Magnification bar: 10µm. Image: Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research. University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research Alexander Flügel, MD, Phone 049+ 551 / 39-61158, IMSF@med.uni-goettingen.de Wissenschaftlicher Ansprechpartner: Alexander Flügel, MD, Phone 049+551 / 39-61158, Dmitri Lodygin, Moritz Hermann, Nils Schweingruber, Cassandra Flügel-Koch, Takashi Watanabe, Corinna Schlosser, Arianna Merlini, Henrike Körner, Hshin-Feng Chang, Henrike J. Fischer, Holger M. Reichardt, Marta Zagrebelsky, Brit Mollenhauer, Jens Frahm, Christine Stadelmann, Sebastian Kügler, Dirk Fitzner, Michael Haberl, Francesca Odoardi & Alexander Flügel. Beta-Synuclein reactive T cells induce autoimmune CNS grey matter degeneration, Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0964-2 Universitätsmedizin Göttingen - Georg-August-Universität Stefan Weller Tel: 0551 / 39-9959 Fax: 0551 / 39-9957 Mail: presse.medizin@med.uni-goettingen.de	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1561
__label__wiki	0.694642	0.694642	Faculty of Oriental Studies History of the Faculty Oriental Languages Aptitude Test (OLAT) Our Languages Leverhulme Doctoral Centre Publication beyond Print Welcomes Applications The Leverhulme Doctoral Centre Publication beyond Print seeks to challenge the dominance of the printed word in the study of human culture and society, by examining other media used before, alongside and after print. There are scholarships available for DPhil students with entry in 2019-20, and applications for the following projects in Oriental Studies are now open: Arabic Ergodic Literature (Supervisor: Professor Julia Bray, Faculty of Oriental Studies) From Oral Wisdom to Written Rules: Law-making in Pre-modern Tibet (Supervisors: Professor Ulrike Roesler, Faculty of Oriental Studies and Professor Fernanda Pirie, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) Candidates are required to apply for the DPhil in Oriental Studies by 11 January 2019. For further information about the projects and application process please click here. British Academy Fellowship Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The Faculty congratulates Professor Rogan on this well-deserved honour. EU Student Fees for 2018/19 We are pleased to report that the University has confirmed and announced that EU students who begin their studies at the University in 2018/19 will be charged the home rate for tuition fees for all years of their programme of study. 2017 Betjeman Poetry Prize The Faculty extends their congratulations to Amineh Abou Kerech on winning the prestigious Betjeman prize for young poets. Recognition of Distinction The results of the 2017 Recognition of Distinction Exercise have just been announced. Three members of the Faculty of Oriental Studies have been recognised and awarded the title of Professor. China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law On June 22, 2017, Professor Erie participated in an Author Meets Reader session for his book China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law (CUP, 2016) at the 2017 Law and Society Association meeting in Mexico City. Edward Ullendorff Medal The Faculty of Oriental Studies would like to congratulate Dr Sebastian Brock on being awarded the Edward Ullendorff Medal for Semitic Languages and Ethiopian Studies. Chinese News from the National Committee on US-China Relations' Public Intellectuals Program Trip Matthew Erie has recently taken part in the National Committee on US-China Relations' trip, with the visit covered in Chinese new sources. I. M. Pei Professorship Dr Alain George has been appointed Ieoh Ming Pei Professor of Islamic Art in the Faculty of Oriental Studies. The Oriental Institute Pusey Lane Oxford, OX1 2LE orient@orinst.ox.ac.uk Click here to open a searchable map of Oxford University buildings	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1566
__label__cc	0.515949	0.484051	So many very hungry writers By Maxine Beneba Clarke 16.Sep.15 At a Melbourne Writer’s festival panel in 2013, author Carrie Tiffany disclosed that her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, had been rejected by ‘many Australian publishers’. This book picked up The Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award, launching Tiffany’s career as a novelist. Same early-rejections-then-won-a-prize story with Graeme Simsion’s internationally bestselling The Rosie Project. Other unpublished manuscript awards have recently brought us Favel Parrett’s Past The Shallows, Ellen van Neerven’s Heat & Light, Christine Piper’s After Darkness, Oliver Mol’s Lion Attack and many other titles. There’s a wide reading palate here. Something for every reader to love. And probably also a book here for every reader not to love. Such is the nature of reading. These unpublished manuscript awards pluck emerging writers from relative obscurity, turn the heads of publishers, launch literary careers with fanfare. In the acknowledgements of Foreign Soil, I credit Francesca Rendle-Short, Sam Twyford-Moore and Paddy O’Reilly, the judges of the Victorian Premiers Award for an unpublished manuscript: who in selecting Foreign Soil, made the bravest of decisions where others may well not have. This acknowledgement was carefully and painstakingly worded: what Indyk said recently in his Sydney Review of Books article about the commercial element of literary prizes is true, at least in part. Nobody wants a book or manuscript to win a prize and not be published or sell well. It isn’t good for anyone in the industry – publishers, booksellers, writers, judges, readers – least of all the profile of the prize itself. I felt that in selecting a work not as easily accessible as the other shortlisted entries, written in patois, broken English and many different vernaculars, with challenging subject matter and primarily black characters, the judges had paid little regard to the commercial viability of Foreign Soil. This was an often-cited reason publishers, both explicitly and by implication, had given for rejecting the book. Indeed, at a recent writing conference, an Australian publisher from an independent publishing house boldly declared that diverse literature simply ‘doesn’t sell’ in Australia. The judges of this first award were not diverse in a cultural sense, but in terms of their openness to content and form: one is a master of short fiction, another has a strong interest in hybrid forms, the third is well known for diverse reading tastes and an interest in exciting new writing. There’s been an outcry that Giramondo publisher Ivor Indyk was taking aim at ‘women’s writing’ when he used the term middlebrow recently in Sydney Review of Books to describe the kind of Australian work being awarded prizes. Some have pointed out that this the term has been used for decades to denigrate writing by women. But I’m not so sure this assessment of intent holds. Given Giramondo’s list, Indyk could just as easily have meant: structurally linguistically and thematically accessible. Sure of genre. Safe. Not overtly confronting or politically engaged. Comfortable and palatable in subject matter. Essentially, writing that is easily marketable to the reading masses. Books your average reader on the street would have no qualms devouring on their lunchbreak. Which doesn’t automatically mean a book contains bad writing, or is not literary or prize-worthy. It also doesn’t automatically mean the book is written by a woman. But we should indeed be alarmed if, in 2015, the vast majority of books winning our major literary prizes happen to tick all these boxes. We are told time and again – often by white female commentators – that women are more likely to write this kind of literature, and to write what’s been pigeonholed as ‘domestic fiction’ (which is not necessarily the same thing). We are told that to rail against this kind of work is to fundamentally disadvantage women writers. This is only part of the story. Every time I hear this argument made, and it is mostly made without reservation, I am reminded of just how narrow the conversation around women’s writing in Australia has become. Toni Morrison once pointed out: Black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It is not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently than white women. And we haven’t even started talking about queer literature, or the kind of work being written by women with disabilities in this country. My God, so many intersectionality conversations Australian literature has not even started to have! There are certain questions we should perhaps be asking of our literary prizes. How is an award treasured as our ‘most prestigious’ literary award renowned for its mostly conservative shortlists? How can our major prize for the best book written by a woman in Australia have so far only been won by white, tertiary-educated women with academic backgrounds, whose (albeit very excellent) work is largely concerned – in character and ambit – with white Australia? Why isn’t there not a major book award for queer writing? How is it possible that in the same year the Sydney Morning Herald shortlisted five writers of colour as their Young Novelists of the Year, one state premier’s literary award gave lucrative awards across three or four categories to white writers whose work either heavily relied on multicultural Australia or told the stories of real or imagined people of colour in favour of works written by writers of colour? Of course, it is taboo to even ask these questions. It is whinging. Vindictive. Destructive. And in my case, no doubt, it will be pegged as ungrateful. But when we do discuss these issues, it is not difficult to see the sense in Indyk’s call for literary prize funds to be redistributed where they’re most needed to help those whose voices are the most unheard, who work within genres that are less readily supported or marketable or who are considered, themselves, unmarketable. After all, the combined prize pot is large, and we are so very many hungry. By their very nature, prizes make champions of the few, and leave the disappointed many covetous. I have been blessed enough to have seen and been both. No prize-list will make every commentator content – yet I am evidence that literary prizes can be absolutely career-making. I do not think they should be abolished. I do think that if we are going to attach vast funds to them, these questions need to be asked. We need to be able to dissect these things, as a writing community. To air these truths, and grievances. It makes our literary prize culture robust, and keeps prize panels accountable. Writers – particularly those most marginalised among us – don’t speak more openly about these things because voicing our concerns makes us fear for our future prize prospects, or more immediately, for our reputations and livelihood. On the question of whether prizes help writers or publishers financially, I can only speak to my own experience, which I acknowledge may not be typical. Foreign Soil was put out by a large publisher with a decent marketing budget. It was well-reviewed. Festivals booked me. Readers passed on word to their friends. The book sold about 3,000 copies between May and December 2014. For any literary fiction debut in Australia, that’s a decent effort. For the book Foreign Soil is, it was nothing short of extraordinary. Debut short fiction collections in Australia generally sell around 1200 copies – and that’s considered doing very well. By the end of 2014, sales had flat-lined. I counted my blessings, dusted off my hands, and started working on my next book. Then prize season arrived. There was no money attached to the post-publication prizes the book picked up, but each time the book showed up on a shortlist there was a new round of publicity. Each time there was a new round of publicity, sales figures rose. Each time the sales rose, the word of mouth would also increase. To date, sales have grown to more than 6500. This is by no means a living, especially for a book which took a good five years to write, but other things also came of the increased visibility the prize-lists brought: a UK, and more recently a US, publishing deal; some small grant success where there had previously been none; increased offers of teaching and writing work. Indyk also asserts that prize culture should be measured by the way it treats poetry. As the author of three poetry collections, I have often lamented that, in terms of prize recognition, poetry often gets shafted. Ineligible for the larger prizes, and the hardest sell to boot, poets get a raw deal. Especially female poets. Especially poets of colour (see Omar Sakr’s article below). Part of this, as Indyk points out, is the commercial aspect. Three weeks after Jennifer Maiden’s poetry collection Liquid Nitrogen won the $125 000 Victorian Prize for Literature, I wandered into a Melbourne bookstore and saw it on prominent display at the front of the store. ‘Out of interest,’ I asked, ‘is this book selling?’ ‘It’s a fantastic book,’ the bookseller said. ‘We are pushing it as much as we can. We ordered in a heap, but we’ve only sold two copies. No one wants to buy it because it’s poetry.’ In an ideal literary prize climate, no genre is disadvantaged. In an ideal literary prize climate, there is always a diverse judging panel. An ideal literary prize climate acknowledges where privilege or bias exists, and interrogates it. In an ideal literary climate, conversations like the one Indyk has started give birth to robust, hearty and constructive reflection. ‘The Cult of the Middle Brow’, Ivor Indyk ‘Putting Quarters in a Broken Machine’, Omar Sakr ‘The Cult of the Middle Brow’, RD Wood ‘The Cult of Complaint’, Fiona Yardley Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016. More by Maxine Beneba Clarke From Jacinda on 16 September 2015 at 3.25 pm Thanks for this Maxine. I’m interested in this idea of transparency that you and Omar mentioned. At Overland, we judge our prizes blind and publish a judge’s report that generally focuses on what the judges liked about the winning pieces. But I’m interested in what else you think transparency might look like, both for publications like ours, but also for the bigger prizes? From Joshua Mostafa on 16 September 2015 at 4.12 pm I think (as your comment implies) that what’s missing from (that part of) the judges’ discussion that is made public is the reasons for eliminating works that don’t make the cut. Well we do offer that sometimes too, depending on the judges involved (e.g. ‘Structure was a common issue. Some stories had a good premise, but no axis of conflict; others were beautifully dressed, but with nowhere to go. A short story doesn’t have to have a neat ending, but it should turn – it should show readers the moment something changes.’ https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-209/short-story-prize-jennifer-mills/). Dunno, would still like a more concrete discussion about what this transparency might look like and entail. From Omar on 16 September 2015 at 6.08 pm Hi Jacinda, I think Peter Kenneally’s article here on Overland addressed the problem with blind judging very well – everyone has their own unconscious prejudices and as such, even if the process is “blind”, what you’re going to see replicated in the list of winners is the kind of writing the judge has been reading their whole life. And given the huge disparity in representation across the board in literature, that’s predominantly writing that conforms to a certain white Western aesthetic. This, of course, will not always be true and the more well read the judge, the better. However, as Peter notes, with no non-white winners in Canada for the past two decades and only two here out of the past 120, there is a clear and sustained issue here. So what I want to see are more diverse judges across a whole range of spectrums, not just ethnicity, but also sexuality and gender. What does that mean in terms of transparency? It means an open dialogue about who you’re choosing to preside over the prize and why. What did the list of candidates look like? Also, how many poets & writers of colour even entered the competition? Maybe we’re way off base and there just aren’t that many even in the field–though I highly doubt that’s the case, transparency of the kind Sherman Alexie recently offered gives us a better understanding of the forces at work and how they shaped the end result. Sorry for the brevity of the reply but I’m at work and writing on my phone! Happy to talk further about this at any point. How blind is blind? The shortlist is published a week or two beforehand, yes, for anyone to see? Is the judge kept in the dark about that somehow? From Jacinda on 16 September 2015 at 10.32 pm Hi Omar, thanks for that. There are a number of ideas there, and some assumptions I don’t agree with, but I’ll try and address your main points. I’ll start with the easiest: at Overland, both the shortlist and the winner are picked at the same time – but we announce the shortlist first, in order to give those shortlisted writers some attention for their work. Clearly, the range of differences people can have – from aesthetic preferences to ethnicity, sexuality etc – can’t be captured in any one panel of judges, which is why we now have a policy of changing our judges every prize/year. For the competition that just closed, the judges were Nam Le, Natalie Kon-yu and myself (representing Overland). The currently open Neilma Sidney Prize is being judged by Alice Pung, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Stephanie Convery. At Overland, we believe that only publishing or preferencing one kind of writing is bad for us, and bad for Australian culture more generally. Having a wide range of fiction readers (and, soon, poetry readers) helps us avoid that, as does pushing ourselves with more experimental projects, such as our online poetry editions of spoken word and electronic poetry. But I’m very uncomfortable with the idea of demanding bios of judges that require them to list all the different ways that they are othered, because this reinforces the ways that discrimination occurs in people’s lives. So I think asking for transparency is more complicated than it may first appear. And one more thing on the more detailed judging reports: we would have to pay the judges, who are usually overstretched writers, to write in-depth reports about their selection process, which would require an increase in entry fees, or a decrease in something else Overland does. From Cher Tan on 19 September 2015 at 8.31 pm Hmm I’m not sure if ‘demanding’ bios from judges would be considered as reinforcing discrimination. For what it’s worth, I (and a lot of others I know/read) use our identity markers as descriptors accompanying the work that we do—not only as a form of creating solidarity with people from similar backgrounds, to inform others that our lived experience plays a part in our work, but most importantly, also to make a point that it is not (yet?) a level playing field in which everyone can be subsumed under one category as writers and artists. From jacinda on 20 September 2015 at 9.32 am Based on that logic, identity is fixed, and people who are POC or queer (for example) must include it in their bios, or … they’re not recognised as such? I actually know many writers who don’t include such descriptors. I am also curious where the descriptor line ends, then: if you have a mental illness, if you grew up in housing commission flats, if you went to a private school – these must all be included in your bios? From Stephen on 18 September 2015 at 7.50 am It might be useful to make a distinction between ‘transparency’ and ‘governance’. Ensuring that there is a diverse judging panel, that there is a clearly publicly-stated timeline for the judging, that all entrants are advised promptly if they don’t make the shortlist, that promises of publication are followed through, etc etc is just basic good governance. And it is amazing how many competitions don’t follow these fairly mundane principles. They don’t make a competition transparent though. Competitions are in some ways, a kind of lottery. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t happen, it just means that something has to be honestly acknowledged. Judging is a subjective process, and nobody can establish a baseline of what constitutes ‘good literature’. If the judges are under any other impression they will inevitably collude with some idea of neoliberal ‘excellence’, of qualities that can be repeatedly and reliably established. I imagine that the first question any competition judges have to ask themselves – and more importantly, each other – is something like ‘what political restrictions are we subject to in our judging?’ The second is something like ‘what are each of our personal biases in regard to literature?’ Jacinda quotes an Overland judge who wrote in her report: ‘A short story doesn’t have to have a neat ending, but it should turn’. That’s a big ‘should’, and it’s a statement of preference disguised as an absolute. In his comment about being a judge, Benjamin Solah makes another couple of alarming statements that show pretty definitively that transparency is not at work but anxiety and prejudice is. Indyk’s article looks pretty feeble to me, and indicative of how politically impoverished Australian literature – and publishing – has become. Things are at a pretty pass really. From Francis on 18 September 2015 at 9.33 am You nailed it mate! Agree 100%. From preFeR AnoN on 16 September 2015 at 4.02 pm 1)) What you r arguing for here is essentially a change in the gatekeepers but they’ll still be gatekeepers hey 2))) If the literary establishment is racist why would you want a prize from it 3)))) Make all the appeals you like to polite society but they r never going to give you what you want. The solution is take it or make it 4)) Politicans and bureaucats will never like the kind of writing we want to read and make, so maybe we start our own prizes and publications From Rutegar on 16 September 2015 at 4.04 pm “… structurally linguistically and thematically accessible. Sure of genre. Safe. Not overtly confronting or politically engaged. Comfortable and palatable in subject matter …” The Shaun Micallef of books ??? From koraly dimitriadis on 16 September 2015 at 10.55 pm Great article. Yes if you speak up you are punished by the gatekeepers. Best to shut up. From Zoe on 17 September 2015 at 12.22 am having been involved in selecting (unpublished) writing for collections and prizes for a number of years, I’d like to know how diverse the actual submission pool is, information we can’t always gather. Perhaps it’s not the judging that’s the full issue but the reach we have as coordinators of these things. From koraly on 17 September 2015 at 1.40 pm Hi Zoe, you’re right, the pool is small because when you come from a marginalised background, you have to jump over so many more hurdles and many really talented writers just give up because it is too hard, especially when, most of the people who run the prizes and the festival are white, and the prizes are awarded to people who they think represents excellence which is traditional, academic white writing. And now we are seeing a serge of white writers getting prizes for writing about multicultural issues! Why? Because they writer the proper way. What people like you and others who have these positions of power need to understand, is that we, marginalised writers, are NEVER going to sound like you. But that doesn’t make our writing of less quality. That perception needs to shift OR get in some more judges who represent US instead of keeping the pie all for yourselves. From Celeste on 17 September 2015 at 3.12 pm Loved this article. I think it’s quite the same with language- people who are marginalized or not given, due to their identity, a platform in writing or speech happens reinforce the same power dynamic at play. It is as though discourse and hierarchal capitalist/patriarchal norms depend on each other: rather than concentrating on style and content etc, I wonder if it is really possible to subvert or transgress the synonymous relationship using words that have built our culture as it stands? From Benjamin Solah on 17 September 2015 at 4.10 pm Two points:- I think when talking about culturally diverse, we need to also discuss class and maybe the cultural cringe to people who express themselves in less literary more working class/lower class ways, and I think that also then includes other forms, especially race. Secondly, the issue with blind judging became apparent to me when me and Maxine (and Amanda) were judging a prize in which it became apparent one of the poems was written in an indigenous voice someone who might not be indigenous, and we had to unblind the name to myself to make sure. From Francis on 17 September 2015 at 5.27 pm Seriously? You had to ‘unblind’ an entry because of your gut feeling. Because you thought somebody was ‘impersonating’ indigenous person. That’s not how you’re suppose to judge. That is just WRONG. From Cam on 17 September 2015 at 6.35 pm Yes. And putting the whole prize issue to one side, what are you suggesting here Benjamin. I don’t understand. What exactly constitutes, or distinguishes, ‘literary’ ways of expression from ‘working class’ ways. Are you gesturing at language use, stylistic approaches, or possibly thematic explorations? Or maybe all three. I’m confused by the implication of binary oppositions here… From Benjamin Solah on 20 September 2015 at 12.06 pm The panel’s experience is exactly why diverse panels are important. We harboured concerns about the authenticity of one work. There were many works submitted which were written in the voices, and from the perspectives, of people of colour, but only this one poem caused an issue. The poem demonstrated some merit, but the voice, vernacular and various other details were concerning. Of particular sensitivity, it was written in the first person voice of a mentally ill incarcerated Indigenous man who’d experienced police brutality. There was no Indigenous judge on the panel. One of the judges consulted an experienced Indigenous author. It was agreed that the establishment of authenticity was critical. In the meantime, the non-Indigenous author of the poem contacted the organisers expressing their extreme discomfort at what they’d written and submitted. The author then requested their own work be withdrawn from the competition. From Francis on 20 September 2015 at 12.49 pm That is definition of prejudice right there! Your job as a judge is not to ‘harbour concerns about the authenticity’ of someone’s work. Your job is to read it blind and to judge it on its merit. I seriously doubt that any competition has a guideline that says that writers are not allowed to write from other culture’s POV. If I were operating on your principle you outlined above I would have never read (for example) Richard Flanagan’s “The Sound of One Hand Clapping”. This is a book about Slovenian immigrants and Flanagan is no Slovenian but he did a great job in that book with non-Aussie (whatever that might mean) characters. Flanagan being an Aussie – did anyone ask if his (Slovenian) voice is authentic? No because it is a work of art and anyone can do whatever they want in art. This non-Indigenous author wasn’t hiding the fact that she/he is non-Indigenous author. Why not judge him or her on the merit of their art? Does this mean Chloe Hooper was wrong to write ‘The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island’? Did publishers thought that the ‘the establishment of (her) authenticity was critical’. In my view your position and the position of other two judges are just wrong. There’s no excuse. From Black Mamba on 21 September 2015 at 2.21 pm “… to make sure.” What? Make sure what? From Andrew Booth on 25 September 2015 at 1.45 pm Dear Benjamin Solah, Re: “judging a prize in which it became apparent one of the poems was written in an indigenous voice”. Oh really? And what, precisely, is ‘an Indigenous voice’? What, exactly “became apparent”? And having unblinded the entry did you expect to find an ‘Indigenous’ name like King Billy Whatisname or Jacky Jacky Two Bob? It’s deeply troubling that people, literary judges, could think this way. Can you also identify a non-Indigenous voice? A disabled voice? A queer voice? A mentally ill voice? A bartender’s voice? A lawyer’s voice? A copper’s voice? Is there a guide book on the subject, a ready reckoner of othering taxonomies?? Mmm. Classification anxiety… You see where this is going. I’ll leave it there. Better luck next time. Your opinion that: is problematic because what IS a “lower class” way of expressing oneself? It is to those who have been most disempowered in society that we owe all our current liberties (in decline, sure): surely there are ways of subverting this very generalized and pseudo-feudal distinction: street art, burning bodies; if you’ve seen Ken Loach’s the Wind That Shakes the Barley, see how estranged you feel from dialogue. Is it language or culture that mediates expression? I think Benjamin means “lower class” in how it is viewed traditionally in society, i.e. speech patterns, sentence structure, language use, etc. It is realistic to accept that certain demographics express themselves in ways that deviate from what is considered ‘correct’ and ‘proper’ (a.k.a. “middle-class” and above) whether as a result of English as a second/third language or due to lack of access to formal education. There is still a lot of cultural cringe when it comes to writing expressed in these styles (whether in ‘broken’ English, pidgin, ocker, etc) that permeates the writing world and I am also of the belief that this needs to be discussed. What are we cringing from exactly? I’m cringing at Benjamin’s comment, regardless of what he might mean by ‘lower class’. Given that someone decided Benjamin deserves to be in a position to be judging something (whatever it is/was), you might expect a more intelligent approach to notions of class and race (not to mention how such things play out in textual production and the reception of texts). Perhaps by lower class he means someone like Alan Jones. I could rest easy with that. One thing is clear to me – there’s no such thing as blind reading of the competition entries. It appears that judges can assume something and in order to satisfy their ‘curiosity’ they can just ‘unblind’ an entry. Benjamin effectively admitted that three judges (Maxine, Amanda and himself) broke the rules of the competition! Now we would like to know which competition was that? From words fail me on 19 September 2015 at 11.49 pm If we’re gonna have personal gripes in respect of social impoverishment, associating hunger and writers is a hyperbolic stretch to begin with, and I would question the term race as being a useful social and cultural designator as well, not that ethnicity is much better. Words fail all of us, as they fail social realities. Perhaps addressing those sorts of lacunae are or should be the role of all writers? From Telly Ost on 21 September 2015 at 7.26 am Well well. terrible terrible, Mr Solah. Just goes to show what hacks there are in our so-called literary world of Australia. From Tom on 21 September 2015 at 12.26 pm Damn there is some real bile being dredged up here. Good discussion between Omar and Jacinda though. I am guilty of judging stories on more than mere merit, but then again being ‘blind’ isn’t part of it. BTW ‘A short story doesn’t have to have a neat ending, but it should turn’ is pretty otm, don’t diss. From Anonymous on 23 September 2015 at 12.42 pm I’ve been told by administrators of grants that the ONLY reason I missed out on money was due to ‘diversity reasons’. I have listened to a barrage of praise from assessors regarding all aspects of my writing and proposal. Not a single bit of negative feedback. But I am incredibly inescapably WHITE. From themuttonflap on 25 September 2015 at 2.36 pm I agree – judges should have the guts to select and assess work on its merits, not whether it accurately represents the author’s experience. Are you going to disqualify the next YA author who turns out to not actually be a foppish vampire? My writing has been picked up and shortlisted a few times, and every single time the judge or selector has been surprised that I am a woman. Apparently I write like a man. I also write about men – usually poor, young, damaged and hopeful, described in my voice and theirs. I’m not sure how this fits into the neat cartography of ‘intersectionalities’ described above, but I’m feeling pretty dark about this conversation so far. From Andrew Booth on 26 September 2015 at 12.17 pm “Are you going to disqualify the next YA author who turns out to not actually be a foppish vampire?” From Sharon Mununggurr on 29 September 2015 at 8.52 am Unna !!! It appears the reputation (if they ever had any to begin with) of these three judges has been permanently tarnished. The prejudice of this fellow Solah (a white be to be sure) is astounding. This is perfect example of ‘damonsplaining’ – white entitled person judging what an Indigenous voice is. And further example that Overland does not care about what other minorities have to say as I am sure this comment will not get published. Good luck Overland I won’t be renewing my subscription! Keep giving voice to Solah and and his ilk (judges who unblind entries). This piece shoulda been called “So Many Very ANGRY Writers”. From Telly Ost on 28 September 2015 at 5.40 pm Who wouldn’t be angry? Have you seen the world lately? From Tom Cho on 23 October 2015 at 5.04 pm Having read the comments to this article, I feel the need to ask: have you ever noticed how these questions of “merit” tend to arise most of all when concerning writers from minority backgrounds? Often it has the air of an accusation – did that writer from that minority background or backgrounds win “on merit”? Bu let’s remember that the business of awarding literary prizes and indeed the whole area of literary production has never been a meritocracy and, moreover, our ideas of “merit” are utterly influenced by our cultural conditioning and biases. We need to dispense with this fantasy of some kind of pristine, culturally-neutral idea of merit. Leave a Reply to koraly dimitriadis Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1568
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__label__cc	0.693397	0.306603	Unfortunate Legacy February 28, 2017 February 27, 2017 ~ jonolsonauthor ~ 21 Comments The demon stood in the snow. Fergus saw it standing in the knee-deep powder through the small window of his front door. “Don’t try to do too much out there,” his wife Nancy called from the kitchen. “Just take your time.” “I won’t, don’t worry,” he answered distractedly. “Amber might join you out there in a little bit if that’s okay.” Fergus could hear his daughter playing upstairs and nodded. With his winter jacket, boots and gloves already on, Fergus pulled his toque down over his ears and with a deep breath opened the front door. It wasn’t very cold although the wind packed a sharp bite as Fergus grabbed the shovel leaning against the house. Ignoring the demon, he began tossing snow from the driveway onto his lawn. Not much time had elapsed when a burning sensation erupted in his chest. Damn acid reflux. The demon spoke. “It hurts, doesn’t it?” “What hurts?” Fergus asked, keeping his back to it as he dug into the snow. Fergus paused, acknowledging the comment. “It’s acid reflux,” he muttered. “That’s all it is. Acid reflux…” After a few more minutes of shoveling, the pain grew worse. Grimacing, Fergus stopped and rubbed at his chest. “Is this your doing?” The demon seemed closer yet remained motionless. Only its mouth moved. “Maybe. You don’t see surprised to see me.” Shaking his head, Fergus said, “No. Somehow I knew you’d be back.” “Back?” “I saw you that day,” Fergus said. “The day my father died.” The demon’s mouth twitched ever-so-slightly, staring hard at Fergus with its emotionless, black eyes. “What did you see?” “I was only five but remember watching from the living room window,” Fergus began. “It was similar to today. A storm had just dumped over a foot of snow on us and Dad went out to clear the driveway.” Fergus dug the shovel into the snow and heaved the pile aside. “You didn’t look real, almost like a reflection off the snow.” Fergus glanced at the demon who appeared even closer. “I remember him looking at you, like he was listening and then nodding. You reached out, touched his chest for a moment and he collapsed. The doctors said his heart gave out.” The demon nodded. “They always do.” Fergus rubbed his own chest again, “I had nightmares about you.” “Worried that I would come for you?” Fergus shook his head. “No, what scared me was wondering what you said to him.” He took a step toward the demon. “What did you say?” He glared into the demon’s eyes, noticing that they rippled in the wind. “I explained your family’s unfortunate legacy. Would you like to hear it?” Not waiting for an answer, the demon continued. “Basically, thanks to a distant and sadistic ancestor of yours who made a deal with my master, your family has to forfeit a male soul to us every generation. We leave it up to you to determine whose soul we take.” In the blink of an eye the demon was face to face with Fergus. “Your father gave us his.” The front door opened and Amber bounded from the house into the snow, drawing her father’s attention. “Hi Daddy,” she called out playfully. “Hey there, sweetie,” Fergus replied. Turning his attention back to the demon, he asked, “So why go through all of this? Why not come and take the one you want?” “As I said, you or a male from your family has to make the decision. That was the deal. Sadly, since you have no brothers, it will end up being you.” “What if I say no?” “Don’t.” “If I’m the only male and I say no, then are you shit out of luck?” The demon’s brow creased and its eyes narrowed. “Don’t.” “Or else what?” The demon blinked and time stopped, frozen in place. Snowflakes hung motionless in midair. All went deathly still. Fergus found he could turn his head but quickly grew concerned when he realized the demon was no longer in front of him. It was kneeling in front of Amber. Her eyes were wide, full of fear; her mouth open forming an ‘O’ shape. She’d never looked so fragile or terrified. The demon had the tips of its fingers inside of her chest. “Get the hell away from my daughter!” Fergus screamed trying to run but his feet would not move. “This is your only warning,” the demon hissed. “You may hold the initial choice of whose soul we get but when complications arise, the rules change and the choice becomes ours. We can take any soul we want at that point. It would still be better if you made the decision to honor the original deal, but either way, a soul will be coming back with me.” It twisted its hand slightly deeper into Amber’s chest. Tears streamed down Fergus’s face. “Get the fuck away from her!” “Then make the choice.” Fergus screamed, “Take mine, damn you!” In a flash the demon was back in front of him. “You made the right call,” the demon grinned. Time resumed as Amber shook her head, slightly dazed. She looked at her dad and smiled as the demon plunged its hand into Fergus’s chest. The cold, demonic fingers wrapped around his heart, slowly constricting it. With his legs growing weak, Fergus sat back in the snow. A tingling spread through his body but after a few seconds it began to subside. Fergus then felt nothing as the demon pulled its hand out. “Are you okay, Daddy?” Amber asked. The demon disappeared and Fergus’s world went dark as he replied, “I’m fine… sweetie…” ~ Jon Olson © Copyright 2017 Jon Olson. All Rights Reserved. The Container of Sorrows February 21, 2017 February 20, 2017 ~ Mercedes M. Yardley ~ 14 Comments There was a girl. She sat at a white desk in a white room with her hands folded neatly in her lap. Peter stood before her with his pockets turned out. “I don’t have anything to give you,” he said. He spoke very quietly. Shame does that. She didn’t move, but he thought she shook her head. “I don’t need anything like that,” she told him. “I do not desire your buttons or baubles, although I am sure that they are quite lovely.” He thought she smiled, but she did not actually do that, either. “I don’t understand,” he confessed. He shifted from foot to foot. She really did smile then, but only in her eyes. He bit his lip and continued. “I thought…that you wanted something from me. In exchange for your help.” “Oh, but I do.” Her skin was white, and her hair even whiter, but only just. When she smiled—if she smiled—her lips were disconcertingly red. The rest of the time they were only the palest of pink. He had the impression that something parasitic sucked the breath from those lips while she slept, but what could he do about it? “Please tell me what you desire.” “Then I will help you.” She pulled a ceramic jar out of nowhere. It was the color of sky and looked cool to the touch. He flexed his fingers. “This is the Container of Sorrows, Peter. Do you understand?” “Yes.” He didn’t. Her lips barely twitched but it was as if the snow melted and he tasted spring. “This is how you will be happy. Tell me one of your sorrows. I will keep it here for you, and the burden from that particular sorrow will be no more.” He felt stupid and stared at his shoes. They had holes in the toes. “Do you…not wish happiness?” Her voice was strangely brittle, as if she were trying not to cry. He was hurting her somehow, he decided, but that didn’t make any sense. He took a deep breath. “I miss my mother,” he said, and the words fell from his mouth like vapor. The girl opened the jar, and the mist zipped inside. She closed the lid with a satisfying click. “There,” she said, and her smile was real this time, genuine. “Don’t you feel better?” He thought about his mother. Her warm brown hair, the apron that she used when she baked cupcakes. He thought about her more aggressively. The police telling his father that they had discovered a broken body. The funeral in a town without rain. “I don’t feel sad,” he said in wonder, and the girl looked pleased. She kissed him, and he woke up. Peter’s lips burned where she had touched him, and he kept his fingers pressed there for most of the day. When the boys razzed him about his poorly trimmed hair, he didn’t mind so much. When they taunted him about his mother being a whore who got what was coming to her, he was surprised to find that he didn’t care at all. He ate dinner silently and changed into his worn pajamas without being asked. He brushed his teeth and climbed into bed with an eagerness that would have been pitifully endearing if anyone had seen it. Sleep came instantly, and there she was. She was wearing white flowers in her hair. “Did you have those flowers yesterday?” he asked her. Her cheeks flushed delicately. “No.” Peter didn’t know what to say. “I had a better day at school than usual. Thank you.” The girl again produced the smooth blue container out of thin air. “Tell me another sorrow, Peter. Tomorrow will be even better.” “I’m tired of being called poor.” The mist of words spiraled into the Container of Sorrows. He nodded his head once, and she nodded back in a very serious manner. And thus it went. His sorrows disappeared. “I hate seeing dead birds. I wish that I had a friend. My father doesn’t notice me.” The jar devoured his sorrows with an agreeable hunger. The pale girl’s lips turned up all of the time and her eyes began to sparkle. Peter grew more confident at school. He stood up straight. He looked people in the eye. He made friends. He was almost happy. On the last night that he went to her, something in the air had shifted. The atmosphere was holding its breath, and it was undeniable. “Hey,” Peter said, leaning casually on the white desk. “There’s only one sorrow that I have left.” “Only one?” asked the girl with something that sounded exquisitely close to hope. Her eyes shone. Her white hair and pink lips were glossed with fragile expectation. She produced the Container of Sorrows and carefully removed its lid. Peter’s sorrows ghosted around inside, smelling of lavender and brokenness. “Natalia Bench never looks at me at school.” The vaporous sorrow swirled from his lips and settled into the jar. The girl’s white fingers didn’t move, so Peter put the lid back on for her. He smiled. “Now I’ll be brave enough to talk to her tomorrow. Thank you very much, Girl of Sorrows. I am happy.” The girl held the jar very close, and she looked up at Peter. Her lips were pale, strawberries buried under layers of ice. He was reminded of that feeling that he had once, long ago, where he thought that something supped from her lips at night. How frightened she must be. How alone. How silly. “Goodbye,” he said, and kissed her cheek. Had her touch once burned? She was ice under his skin. She was a corpse. Peter turned and walked away without looking back. There was a girl. She sat at a white desk in a white room where she wept, clutching a container full of somebody else’s sorrows. ~ Mercedes M. Yardley © Copyright 2017 Mercedes M. Yardley. All Rights Reserved. The Final Arrow February 14, 2017 February 10, 2017 ~ Veronica M.Nero ~ 27 Comments Park benches are the domain of lovers. They sit cuddled together, giggling as they etch their names in the wood, their pride palpable as if no one else has ever vandalised public property before. I’ve lost count of the number of times a park bench has been the site for my aim. It is apt that I found him there, a new kind of saviour for these loveless days. I had one arrow left. I clutched it with both hands and pointed it at my own chest. The shaft was dull and rusted but the tip was razor sharp, imbued with magic, ready to transform the flesh it pierces. It is not that I longed for love, not that I wanted to be blinded to the reality around me by romance. Rather, I hoped the arrow would kill me and put an end to this game I have been sentenced to play since time immemorial. I realised I had done this world a great disservice, leading them astray into the folds of daydreams. If they had gained any wisdom it was not because of my arrows but through the pain of surviving them. My arrows had not been able to hold at bay the rising deluge of suffering in this world. By a large fountain in the remains of a city park, I readied myself for the plunge of the arrow’s tip. The early morning was clear and quiet. A cool stinging mist from the splashing water was in the air, like blessings from heaven. But the blessings were bitter and twisted, the water green and acidic. I glanced around, hoping I would soon be free of this wretched place. That’s when I spotted the man, through dead tree trunks, asleep on a park bench, swathed in grimy rags, his bare feet blue and swollen with cold. An idea occurred to me, a better idea. The arrow lowered, my grasp softened. I would not use it on myself. Once more I resolved do what was expected of me, one final arrow fired to spark and flame hope. It has been said that love conquers all and indeed over millennia there has been nothing I could not infiltrate, no darkness or terror that could stop my arrow. When Vesuvius erupted I was there, piercing the hearts of those destined to fall in love even as they tried to outrun rivers of lava, huddling together in dark corners, their eyes meeting in sudden realisation, my arrow melting their hearts as liquid fire melted their flesh. Amidst the blistered pus of the sick and the rotting corpses abandoned by the Plague, my arrows did not hesitate on their course, bringing lovers together despite poverty and disease. During world wars and terrorist bombings, in small overflowing boats of refugees that rocked and sank on high seas, through chemical spills that wiped out species of birds and fish, I was there, eternal and invincible in the face of life’s horrors. Giving them hope, giving them joy, always driving them forward, with the focus and strength of Love’s arrow. I have kept the final arrow for months, uncertain of how or when to use it. They stopped appearing in my quiver a long while ago. They replenished themselves in the past; my holder was always full with golden arrows, clean and freshly forged. My prayers and pleas to the gods for guidance went unanswered, smothered and silenced by the grey layer of pollution and debris that now surrounds this world. I have not had any contact with the other immortals for years, I don’t know if they have perished or escaped. Left to my own devices I may have become a little too careless in the last few years. I was shooting arrows like an addict, without any dignity at all. Love has always been reckless and impulsive, the oddest of couples have been drawn together by my work. Divorced from divine inspiration I lost focus and direction. Perhaps that is why the arrows dried up. But I am simply a messenger, delivering Love where it wishes to go. Love, it seemed, was almost completely extinct in this world, like so many other living things. So I was down to one. One single arrow. One last shot. The weight of my task seemed unbearable. I wondered who would be worthy of this final arrow. I had to find a heart noble and righteous enough to receive it, to do it justice. It would be a final strike of life in a dying world, a catalyst for revival and change. I roamed the rubble of cities around the globe searching for such a heart. I searched everywhere from shifting plains of ice to encroaching deserts to tumbledown ghetto towns. Nothing but terrified hearts bolted shut against any more intrusion and burden; not one single heart emitted a tiny spark, necessary to deserve the arrow. When I saw the man on the bench I realised a different kind of Love was needed in this world. The Earth is blistered, once great cities are piles of smoking black rocks, the oceans are oily sludge. The Love that thrived before has no place here anymore. This final arrow would need a new magic. So I dipped the arrow in lakes of toxic waste, I sharpened it on bones in mass open graves, I rolled it in the shit and vomit of flooding gutters, I laced it with the culture of super viruses bred in clandestine labs, I bathed it in pools of blood from human abattoirs. I returned to the park after many days and nights preparing my arrow and found the man was still there, sitting in his disease, a large empty paper cup in his hand. I cradled the cursed arrow; it throbbed with a deadly romance. I could hear his weak beating heart from across the park, slow and sluggish, weary and broken. He was nothing special, no great man. He was a human shell, already emptied out, a perfect receptacle for a new strain of love. He raised his blackened eyes to me, glaring, unflinching, as I approached him. His face was coated with grey dust, his mouth a dry purple line. I aimed the arrow at him, he gave no response. I didn’t hesitate, as is my way, I didn’t think twice. I drove it through his frail chest, deep into the cavity, and the tip touched the beating organ. Still his expression didn’t change, he felt nothing. I drove it deeper, sliding it through until the tip popped out the other side, his heart pierced and committed. I saw it flash in his eyes, the recognition and desire. Was it love at first sight? No. It was something else. The beast within awakened and it wanted to survive. ~ Veronica Magenta Nero © Copyright 2017 Veronica Magenta Nero. All Rights Reserved. Place of Beauty February 7, 2017 March 28, 2017 ~ Joseph Pinto ~ 28 Comments In shards the morning broke, shattering high, high above the gunshot reports, the torches, the thick plumes of smoke. She watched them fall like black drops of rain in the distance. First came a crack, echoing like faraway thunder, then their plummet. Crack, then plummet. The plate slipped from her soapy fingers into the bubbly grave of the sink. Beyond the grimy pane, beyond the flaked paint of the porch, swaddled by butterfly weeds and Echinaceas, her daughter sat, ruddy cheeks tilted toward the sky. “Isabella,” she gasped, tossing the wet rag aside. “Isabella!” Her little girl could not hear her. Crack, then plummet. Crack! She turned, ran, bare heels squeaking like frightened mice atop the wood. Through the dining room, down the hall; sunlight traipsed from the front door, beckoning just paces away. Each gunshot shook her skull. She burst onto the porch, mid-July scathing inside her lungs. Silos jutted, arthritic fingers against the horizon, from the flat expanse of land. She tracked the figures, so frantic in the sky, weaving and dipping like grand bats. Her mind raced as she crouched low in the meadow, summoning her daughter. “Isa, come.” Her little girl paid no mind. Chubby fingers marked the descent of each black drop, tracing the sky. Crack! Her tender folds involuntarily shuddered. A shrilling—high-pitched like that of a hawk, but full of desperation; human at some point in its life. Its violent death roll cut the air, spiraling, spiraling away from its pack. No further than fifty yards from the porch, it slammed the ground, mowing a swath through the meadow. Rallying to it, the keen barking of a dog. She hurried to her daughter. The toddler tilted her head, all smiles, all giggles. Too young still to comprehend. “You will stay here for Momma.” She spoke slow, measured. “Do you understand?” Without waiting for an answer, she crept away. It bleated weakly, lost amidst the grass, the strangled mewls answered by the nearing bark in turn. She propelled forward, nearly upon all fours, the distressed utterances serving as her beacon call. Bees roused, lifting from the stalks and buds, seeking further riches from summer. Memories of childhood invaded her nose; so simple then, the pollen rich fragrance of sky, the honey glaze of sun. Her own parents had given her up much too early. Wisps of shadows they had become—their touch, their guiding voice mere ghosts. She wished no such thing for her Isabella, but knew now it was too late. At last, she reached it. Gasping atop the matted butterfly weed, its blood soaked the ground. Upon its back it writhed, bald skull lifting up against the dome of summer, back down, laden with an agony it once doubted could exist. A bloody bubble popped from the corner of its mouth. It sensed her presence. Upside down, slit eyes locked onto her own. She saw the wound, an angry hole straight through its sagging, bare breast. The perennials trembled; the retriever burst through the swath then, as was its inherent duty, clamped its jaws around the hag’s neck. The retriever dug its hindquarters into soft earth, hauling its prey back to its master. She lunged, seized the snout, pried open its jaws, allowing it no fight. A savage twist; its muscles went limp. She pushed the heap of fur aside. “I cannot help you further, not now, not without jeopardizing us all. Lay still, and I will return for you.” She took its gnarled fingers within her own. “Forgive me, sister.” The hag nodded. She dashed back toward her Isa, aware that the exerted breath of man would soon be chasing behind. Her little girl waited diligently, as instructed. In seamless fashion, she scooped the child into her arms, ran full out without breaking stride. Gunshots, screams; mid-July succumbed all around her. Ahead, the porch; thirty yards, twenty. A husky command echoed; a taunt. Crack! The air whistled above her shoulder. The top step of the porch exploded, slivers of wood and paint. The front door waited, still ajar. She took the steps, then up onto the porch, splinters pricking her toes. Across her threshold, as the door jamb disintegrated loudly beside her. Instinctively, she pulled Isabella against her chest. “My precious little bean, you must know that we are condemned by man.” She ran through the house, the rooms, the hall, straight toward the back door. “They see us as abominations.” She threw the door open to a green expanse. There, twisting skyward in the middle of the glade, a solitary tree. “But all things of nature have their place of beauty, my love.” She traveled the distance, rounding the far side of the tree. From within her home carried the ransacking fury of the hunter. The trunk rose, thick and noble, bark twining in cords around a darkened hollow. Within this, she placed her child, but not before kissing each cheek. “The Ancients will raise you now,” lips lingered upon tender flesh, “then you will emerge stronger than even me, my Isa.” Away the tree swallowed her, and the child was gone. From the trunk protruded a long, slender knob, identical to a spear, driven at its end to a sharpened point. She retrieved the offering from the tree. As the hunter closed the expanse, she sidestepped into view, driving the pike through his throat, clearing the body of head. The torso ran several paces, then dropped. Propping the spear against the tree, she slipped free from her clothes. The safety of her coven compromised, her sisters needed her now. Someday soon, her daughter as well. Again she took the spear, straddled it, relishing the power upon her sex. Then she commanded the sky; the still gaping head lay impotently upon the ground. Mid-July bled until no man shared the whispers of the High Priestess. Or her slaughter. ~ Joseph A. Pinto © Copyright 2017 Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1587
__label__cc	0.598273	0.401727	Gregory L. Phillips Craig M. Kaiser Susan Garcia Coralina Rivera Erika Vela General Counsel Services What are General Counsel Services? “General Counsel Services,” also known as GC, outsourced or part-time General Counsel services, involve a private practitioner who performs the services of a General Counsel for a number of companies on a contract basis, and not as an employee. The fees and hourly rates for such legal services are much lower than those of comparable outside leveraged law firms, as much as 40% – 60% lower. Outside Leveraged Law Firm Typical Fees "GC" Services Typical Fees Such legal counsel also may work on a guaranteed monthly retainer and work on-site at the corporations. Some clients may maintain an in-house legal staff, and the General Counsel Services provider assists with overflow legal work at a much lower cost than a traditional law firm. Other clients may have no in-house legal staff, and the General Counsel Service provider is the company’s primary legal counsel. Most companies recognize the need to have lawyers represent them in contract reviews, drafting, and negotiations, and to provide legal counsel generally. However, many find that using the traditional leveraged law firm with partners and associates as a method of retaining counsel is not cost-effective because the overhead cost for things such as office space and support staff limit a firm’s flexibility in fee-setting, making the law firm’s costs unaffordable. "Hiring someone to be an inside counsel can be costly and unaffordable. General Counsel Services offers an alternative." --- Craig Kaiser, Attorney When outside counsel fees climb, emerging companies consider hiring an inside counsel as an employee. With all of the fully-burdened benefits that employee status entails, hiring someone to be an inside counsel can also be costly and unaffordable. General Counsel Services offer a third alternative to small and mid-market companies instead of the expenses involved in the use of traditional leveraged law firms and the costs burdens of a full-time in-house lawyer. The Benefits of General Counsel Services The ability to operate at a senior level in the company’s organization. A close understanding of the company’s policies, strategies, and objectives. COMPANY OPERATING PROCESSES A close understanding of the company’s operating methods, processes, products, suppliers, and customers. MANAGE LEGAL RISK The ability to manage legal risk, to analyze the company’s strategies and to identify legal issues, and to develop plans and programs to manage and, if possible, to avoid legal problems that arise. PROVIDE SOLUTIONS The timely delivery of work of high technical quality that also provides practical solutions which meet the company’s business goals. WORK WITH COMPANY PERSONNEL, SUPPLIERS, & CUSTOMERS The ability to work closely and co-operatively with company personnel, suppliers, and customers as may be required. The ability to add value to the efforts of internal clients, whether by saving money, avoiding losses, solving problems, achieving business objectives by using knowledge and skills to improve the way the company manages its legal risks and pursues its legal rights and opportunities. MANAGE EXTERNAL LEGAL SERVICES The ability to manage external legal services for extraordinary legal issues that arise (e.g., litigation, public/private securities offerings, bankruptcy) in a cost-effective way that achieves optimum benefits for the company. Is your lawyer serving your business needs? Take our free online assessment and see the potential savings for your company with General Counsel Services. FIND OUT NOW or Please note your information is safe with us. We will not sell or distribute your contact information to a third party. Why Do Companies Need General Counsel Services? What A General Counsel Service Delivers Strategic Legal Planning & Compliance Policies & Practice Compliance Policies & Implementation Compliance Policies Legal Management Outside Counsel Management Without General Counsel Services Unorganized Poor Execution No Strategy Lack of Awareness Battles over resource allocations Lack of performance metrics Reporting is stifled. Small Problems Fester. The role of business is unclear Runaway Legal Costs Resource Capabilities & Constraints Compliance Culture - Effective Policies & Training Focused Attention & Execution Developed Legal Strategy Daily Execution Issue Recognition With General Counsel Services Effective Execution Leadership & Good Strategy Fosters Innovation Empowerment. Confidence. Planning based on Business Risk and Accountability Key Performance Measures Clear, well-defined legal strategies that support the business Guide business strategy formulation Capabilities that support strategy Thus, the legal process is broken when it comes to small and medium-sized businesses. With traditional law firm lawyers billing over $500/hour and more, for work that just doesn’t justify such high fees, businesses have nowhere to turn in meeting their legal needs. Traditional law firm relationships are very transactional in nature where communications are often very limited due to a fear of high fees for regular legal needs. This leaves companies feeling all alone in dealing with needs that are legal in nature. Billing: Traditional Law Firms vs. General Counsel Services Traditional Law Firms General Counsel Services is a solution to the broken legal system to provide companies with at least one lawyer that can help the company capture value in legal issues and manage risks. The General Counsel Services lawyer participates as a member of the company’s management team to give business-oriented legal advice. The lawyer understands the company’s broader business environment and objectives and participates early in corporate decisions of the company. General Counsel Services allows the company to have the ability to capture value in legal issues and to have a lawyer to work as a partner with the management team to manage legal “pitfalls” to achieve the company’s business objectives and strategies at an affordable price point for the company. Costs for General Counsel Services vs. Traditional Legal Services Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the cost of legal services in the United States. For many companies, this has become unsustainable, particularly with economic downturns. Some companies have responded by threatening to fire their traditional law firms to bring down the fees, while others have looked to alternative billing structures as a means to obtain better value from their outside counsel. Unfortunately, neither of these tactics addresses the fundamental operational structures of traditional law firms. These firms have played the central role in driving higher fees as they need these high fees to pay for their lavish offices, high employee/partner overhead and to maintain partner profits. As a result, most of these approaches have been largely unsuccessful. Differences in legal spend by size Spend % Revenue: By Size Size was the factor that caused the biggest diversion in legal spend. An organization with less than $200m revenue was typically spending nearly 10 times the proportion of its revenue on legal as an organization with $10 billion revenue. Source: ACRITAS - Patterns In Legal Spend Report, Page 8 - June 2017 A survey of more than 2,000 chief legal officers and general counsel across multiple industries. An alternative approach has been for companies to hire General Counsel Service providers that have more efficient operational structures, allowing companies to save 40% to 60% in costs over traditional law firms. Unlike traditional firms that are based on a partner-associate structure which drives high operating costs and higher legal fees, General Counsel Services offer experienced attorneys, partner level lawyers, who perform the work directly on behalf of clients. This benefits even cost-sensitive clients, who are usually offered inexperienced lawyers by traditional law firms as a means of providing a reduced cost. General Counsel Service attorneys generally possess a unique combination of legal expertise and business acumen – many of whom are former general counsels or senior lawyers from large legal departments who offer the proper view of legal issues. What Is Contracts Management? Where are my contracts? What are their milestones? Who has access to them? How can I share details with colleagues? These are questions that over 70% of companies cannot answer. The agreements for performance with suppliers and customers are the lifeblood of a company. Unknown milestone dates can lead to an accidental automatic renewal for a service no longer needed, or the missed opportunity for renegotiation of key terms, all of which costs money. Contracts scattered on desks, across multiple computers, and with several employees makes it difficult to understand a company’s contract portfolio, which creates unnecessary risk and cost. Contracts Management is the system a company employs to understand its contracts and prevent loss of visibility to their terms. A good contracts management system is critical to realizing the value of the agreements companies enter into to run their business. A good contracts management system usually incorporates technology and addresses the following: Development of key agreement forms for consistency Delegation of authority to sign contracts Secure central repository so that contracts can be located Tracking of key terms (renewal, price increases, etc.) for each key contract Reporting system with periodic reporting to measure the value of agreements and risks to the business in their terms Controls to ensure contracts are performed Audit and evaluate ongoing performance and value of agreements and terms Do I Need General Counsel Services? In its simplest form, a company that has recurring or significant legal issues will benefit from General Counsel Services. Central to this service is the role of a General Counsel. Whether full time or fractional, a General Counsel’s role is to understand the client’s business, objectives and risk tolerance, to serve as an enterprise defender and to take overall responsibility for managing legal issues and their costs. Where a company has recurring legal issues, traditional law firms would deal with a matter after it arises and continues to deal with that same type of matter each time it comes up. Each legal matter is separate and represents a unique set of facts requiring a bespoke solution. A General Counsel is charged with getting to the root cause in the business and finding solutions to reduce the exposure to the problem or find efficiencies to drive down the cost of an ongoing reality of running the business. This is accomplished only through a lawyer who understands the business, has goals that are aligned with the business owners, and can work effectively with company personnel, suppliers or customers as may be required. A legal team that is compensated for addressing issues, but also reducing risk, foreseeing risk, and managing to a budget are all aspects of a General Counsel role that would be useful where there are recurring legal issues. Significant legal issues are those which have a material impact on the company. They may be single issues or multiple ones. It may also mean that the business itself is large enough that it needs to head off legal issues that could curtail momentum or jeopardize value in a company that is valuable. A General Counsel adds value in this environment because the issues are identified and dealt with before they present as problems, and before positions have hardened and options are limited. Unlike the methods of traditional law practice, the General Counsel is positioned to have a close understanding of the company, its processes, products, and industry. More importantly, the process of communication allows the lawyer to be part of the business team, identifying potential issues and proposing business-friendly solutions when appealing options may still exist and before money has been spent. Are You Ready To Find Out If You Need General Counsel Services? Take our free online assessment. How Should A Company Deal With Its Legal Issues? 9 Common Legal Mistakes Business Owners Make Not using an attorney Failing to set up the right business structure Not having terms and conditions policies to which customers agree to be bound Failure to have a privacy policy Failure to follow business tax laws Inappropriate/incomplete contracts with outside vendors Failure to get the proper documentation on employees Failure to get non-disclosure and non-compete agreements Not getting copyrights, patents, and trademarks Source: Entrepreneur.com \| February 4, 2017 At the highest level, the greatest role of an executive management team is to create and preserve value in the business. From product development to marketing, to sales, to business development, opening new business lines and markets, streamlining old ones and fending off competition, these are all strategies for creating and preserving value in a business. Keen understanding of the business and strategic thinking are tools that the executive brings to bear in all these areas to maximize that value. There is significant value to be gained or lost in how you deal with the issues that are legal in nature. They are just as surely a part of your business as marketing and sales, they can have just as big an impact on your bottom line as an increase in productivity on the shop floor, and how effectively you address them is hugely significant relative to your competition. There are several key aspects of a management team that effectively addresses the legal issues in its business. Managers understand how legal issues intersect with the business strategy. There are legal aspects to every corporate strategy; law is not separate and apart from the business strategy. Good management recognizes the importance of the law to the Company’s overall success and, although not a lawyer, understands the legal trends and how they impact the business. Good management accepts responsibility for managing all aspects of their business. Management doesn’t delegate decision-making for legal issues; legal issues aren’t “thrown over the fence” to the lawyer. There is a relationship with a lawyer or group of lawyers who understand the business and have an overall view of the legal issues in the business. That lawyer is brought in to business discussions early and often before the problem is a “fire.” The lawyer is a business partner and counselor, rather than a cop. The legal function is viewed as other business functions from the standpoint of strategy that aligns with the business, budgetary accountability, and striving for process improvement. Why Outsourcing Legal Counsel Makes Good Business Sense General Counsel Services can be a practical, flexible, cost-effective, and innovative solution for any company or start-up. If you run a small business or start-up, the odds are good that you will require the services of a legal professional. Whether for simple articles of incorporation or legal counsel on complex private equity deals, every business has or will at some point require the services of dependable, knowledgeable, and trustworthy legal counsel. Unfortunately, dependable, knowledgeable, and trustworthy legal advice, counsel, and services are both difficult to find and expensive. For many small to medium-sized businesses, retaining a full-service law firm or hiring in-house legal expertise is out of the question. Retaining a lawyer from a traditional law firm can quickly become a significant expense. That’s where General Counsel Services will help. Instead of expending valuable resources on traditional leveraged law firms or paying huge salaries and benefits required for an in-house team of legal experts, many businesses can now take advantage of professional legal experts at a fraction of the cost. General Counsel Services require a close business, and working relationship - which means finding the right GC for you is critical. In a typical GC-client setup, the GC is a private practitioner who performs the services of a General Counsel for several companies on a contract basis, and not as an employee. The fees and hourly rates for such legal services are much lower than those of comparable outside leveraged law firms, as much as 40% – 60% lower. In return, a GC provides general legal counsel on-demand. Is your lawyer helping you drive business growth? Take our free online assessment and get our free report with the potential savings for your company with General Counsel Services. How Do Outside General Counsel Services Fuel Business Growth? General Counsel services change the nature of the game and even the playing field for small companies looking for affordable legal resources. General Counsel Services can be a practical, flexible, cost-effective, and innovative solution for any company or start-up. Legal firms that provide General Counsel services can leverage economies of scale and their in-house synergies to provide world-class legal services to just about any client. This level of legal expertise and access to legal resources would typically not be available or accessible to the average small to medium-sized business. Following are some of the ways General Counsel Services help drive small business growth: General Counsel Services allow companies to remain agile and respond quickly to shifting business conditions. General Counsel Services can handle the large volume of day-to-day legal tasks quickly, efficiently, and at a fraction of the fees charged by conventional law firms. Reduced legal fees and improved efficiency means more resources can be allocated to the core business thereby driving company growth. General Counsel service firms provide expert legal personnel to the client site. This personnel allocation reduces the burden of bureaucracy on the client firm while reducing legal liability and risk exposure. Expert on-demand legal counsel is readily available. High-quality technical work can be accomplished without the hiring, vetting, onboarding, and training necessary for inside counsel. Unlike traditional outside counsel provided by a traditional law firm, fees are substantially reduced. General Counsel services free up time and resources that can then be allocated towards innovation and ideas. When seeking quality legal counsel, businesses have options beyond retaining a traditional law firm or hiring expensive in-house counsel. General Counsel Services can provide superior legal knowledge, valuable business insights, and perspective on demand and at a fraction of the cost of traditional legal services. 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__label__cc	0.746036	0.253964	Access to Magazine PORTUS Language PORTUS 1-24 on paper PORTUS Authors PORTUSplus Authors Economy and business 7 Port, city and territory 7 Culture and identity 7 Architectures and port-city landscape 7 Restructuring urban-port waterfronts 7 Future scenarios: planning and prospects 7 Urban-port development and environmental sustainability 7 History of port cities 7 Contemporary port cities and new port-city relations models 7 Contributions and Selected Papers Review Committee 2012 Home > PORTUSplus > PORTUSplus > History of port cities 5 History of port cities The aim of this section is to publish articles and research work that focus on studying, giving consideration to and analysing the historical development of ports and port cities from the outset, i.e. from the time they first became urban port settlements in prehistoric times, until midway through the 20th Century. The articles may offer either an insight into port cities in specific eras or periods, or partial aspects of the relationships between ports and their cities; these could be from an urban planning, socio-economic, environmental or cultural viewpoint, etc. DEL NERO BENÉITEZ Esteban, HOLM MATEO Guillermo History of the Port of La Luz (Las Palmas): plans, projects and works in more than five centuries of shared history The Port of Las Palmas has grown according to a model of development like other modern ports and its variations in the relationship between port and city. There are three major steps of transformation: phase of setting (urban-port concept), phase of expansion (growth and distance) and phase of specialization (isolation and segregation). It should be added a fourth phase of approach and integration of some areas into the immediate surroundings, providing new areas of transition and coexistence: cooperation in port-city developments. Port and urban planning gives special attention to provide with multifunctional areas and infrastructures to develop different activities and traffics depending on demand. In this particular case, on the one hand, the Delimitation of Port Areas and Uses allows “Basic Uses” in specialized areas but, at the same time, allows other different uses that can be compatible. On the other, the Special Development Plan organizes the port in several large areas for general use, instead the traditional small plots, and differentiates between the binding main roads and secondary roads subject to change to meet the needs. Historia; Modelo de desarrollo portuario; Relación ciudad-puerto; Puerto de Las Palmas; Puerto de La Luz. DEL NERO BENÉITEZ Esteban Civil Engineer, Head of Area of Strategic Planning and Port Management, Port Authority Las Palmas, Spain. HOLM MATEO Guillermo Telecommunications Engineer, Responsible for Infrastructures, Area of Strategic Planning and Port Management. Download article here DEWAILLY Bruno Port areas and spatiality of Tripoli (Lebanon) from Antiquity to the Middle-Ages This article is the first part of a geographical study about the sense of space and spatiality of Tripoli’s port and society, through the ages. Tripoli’s ancient history is not well known and very fragmented. This history seems to start during Late Bronze Age, but we still do not know when and by whom the city was created. Despite these knowledge gaps, the evolution of the city seems to be linked to an early port development, which configures the local human relation to space at different geographical scales through spatiality and time. To begin with, defining the site and the situation of the city on the Near-East coast helps to understand the role and growth of the port and its existence through the ages despite invasions, wars, earthquakes or political changes. Port history; Middle-East; Lebanon; Mediterranean; Port city; Port spatiality. Geographer and Urbanist, Research, French Institute for the Near East, Beirut, Lebanon	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1596
__label__wiki	0.79398	0.79398	news sport SportWomen's World Championship 2019: USA edges past Canada in group play 23:46 06 april 2019 23:46 06 april 2019 Source: sportingnews.com Tyrannosaurus rex found in Canada is world's biggest The towering Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in western Canada in 1991 is the world's biggest, a team of paleontologists said Friday, following a decades-long process of reconstructing its skeleton. © Provided by Perform Media Channels Limited Multi-point efforts from Brianne Jenner, Sarah Nurse and Brigette Lacquette weren't enough for Canada in its latest meeting with the United States. The Americans claimed a 3-2 group stage win over their closest rivals on Saturday at the 2019 Women's World Championship, thanks to goals by Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Annie Pankowski. It was another nail-biter between teams that have always played each other closely, with Pankowski's second-period power play marker the difference. MORE: 10 players to watch at the 2019 Women's World Championship Annie Pankowski fires home an absolute rocket to put the Americans ahead of the Canadians 3-2 at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship pic.twitter.com/HmQGrDXIji — TSN (@TSN_Sports) April 6, 2019 As is the norm when these teams meet, the game was hotly contested throughout. Each of the first two times the Americans scored, Canada answered in kind. Ultimately, it was the U.S. who came out on top, despite being outshot 33-30 by a Canadian team missing captain Marie-Philip Poulin. Not surprisingly, the game also featured frequent trips to the penalty box for both teams, with 13 penalties called in total (the U.S. held a 7-6 edge). What was a mild surprise was the presence of Emerance Maschmeyer in the Canadian net, with veteran Shannon Szabados given the day off after shutting out Switzerland on Thursday. Canadian Women’s Hockey League to shut down operations Despite putting in place new management and a new board last summer, the league couldn't reach an adequate revenue base. Canada scores, schedule, how to live stream Another USA vs CAN game that goes down to the wire. That's why I call this the best rivalry in hockey. It's always so damn tight. — Mike Murphy (@DigDeepBSB) April 6, 2019 The result sees the U.S. move to the top of Group A with a perfect 2-0 record after two games. Canada falls to a tie with Finland for second place in the group at 1-1. The impact of women’s careers on childbearing age, in one chart. UK data provides a clear picture of a societal shift. Haiti v. Nigeria - FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 - Match 15 Rasheedat Ajibade's first-half penalty kick was enough to see Nigeria edge Haiti 1-0 in Group D at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup France 2018 to secure a ... 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__label__cc	0.715419	0.284581	Devin Townsend Interview – Ocean Machine Live Prog metal icon Devin Townsend returns to talk about the new live Ocean Machine release, his new boxset Eras, the disbanding of the Devin Townsend Project, and even some thoughts on the current political climate. Devin Townsend celebrated the 20th anniversary of his classic album Ocean Machine last year by doing a few live performances of the album in full. The show in Plovdiv was recorded and is not being released on CD/DVD and Blu-Ray. Earlier this year the iconic musician made headlines by announcing he was finally disbanding DTP and was going to go in a different direction. Here Townsend returns to talk about the new live Ocean Machine release, his new boxset Eras, the disbanding of the Devin Townsend Project, and even some thoughts on the current political climate. Eras is available now. Ocean Machine – Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre, Plovdiv is out July 6th. For the full audio interview click the podcast link below or download the podcast on iTunes and Google Play. Subscribe to the podcast to automatically receive future podcast episodes. You can also hear the show on our YouTube channel, which you can also subscribe to. devin townsend Devin Townsend Project eras ocean machine prog metal transcendence Interview with Away from Voivod on the new album The Wake Interview with Dustie Waring (Between the Buried and Me) Nad Sylvan Interview – The Regal Bastard Jeff Scott Soto Interview – Origami	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1602
__label__cc	0.718797	0.281203	PVREBA A Real Estate Agency Acting Exclusively For Buyers About PVREBA Why PVREBA What Areas Do PVREBA Serve Road to Mismaloya Bucerias & La Cruz de Huanacaxtle Punta Mita & Litibu Romantic Zone & El Centro Sayulita & La Penita de Jaltemba The Hotel Zone The Marina Zone The PVREBA Mission Statement A Real Estate Buyer´s Agent That Knows Puerto Vallarta Jim Scherrer – Founder of PVREBA Discover The Truth About Living in Mexico Buyer’s Notice of Interest Form As you drive a few miles north from Nuevo Vallarta on the new highway to Punta Mita in the state of Nayarit, you will pass through the small cities of Bucerias and La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. Both small villages are located on coves with pristine beaches that run for about ten miles along the northeastern shore of Banderas Bay. This entire shoreline is slowly but surely being developed with small gated housing communities, small condominium projects, and beachfront villas. However, there are still many opportunities to purchase real estate in the Bucerias area and its pricing is still quite reasonable. Development in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle is a bit more ambitious with construction of a world class fifty million dollar 400 boat slip marina currently underway. Their plans also include a two kilometer seaside promenade, an outdoor theater, a commercial mall, restaurants and shops. These facilities will serve the thousands that will be moving into the many new condominiums, hundreds of homes, and luxury villas in the planned gated communities. Brisas Vallarta Lifestyle & Spa is one such complex where seventeen 6 story buildings with 390 condos and 122 homes is being built. These waterfront units will sell for $350,000 and up. The Condo La Joya Huanacaxtle complex will have 100 smaller units that start at $200,000. Real Del Mar is another new project where 59 new luxurious, two million dollar villas are being built on six summits overlooking the bay in the La Cruz area. Los Veneros is a well established beach in this area and the gated community of Costa Banderas is currently undergoing construction of a 251 unit high end condominium project plus a condo hotel with an exclusive beach club, world class spa, tennis courts, full gymnasium, restaurant and deli, medical center, and an awesome walking trail. In summarizing, there are thousands of villas and condos under construction on this stretch of shoreline from Nuevo Vallarta to Punta Mita and there will be thousands more built during the next decade. The only drawback to owning property along this beautiful shoreline is that it faces due southwest into the face of incoming storms and hurricanes, as infrequent as they are. Property prices are still relatively affordable along this coastline and the view, looking over the bay, is facing directly at the city of Puerto Vallarta with the Sierra Madres as a backdrop. Interesting Facts About Mexico (14) Real Estate & Investing in PV (5) Retirement Living in PV (14) Sights to See Around PV (14) Sports & Activities in PV (10) “We Help Buyers Find Their Dream Home in Paradise” “Our Fiduciary Duty is to the Buyer” “Exclusive Buyer Representation” ©2018 Copyright PVREBA.com. All Rights Reserved. Design by DIP Outsource Solutions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1607
__label__wiki	0.861619	0.861619	ICC World Cup Final \| England’s Roller-Coaster Journey to the Final by B. Sarah \| Jul 14, 2019 \| CRICKET \| 0 comments Hosts England started the World Cup certainly as one of the favourite going into the tournament. They certainly started that way, registering a couple of convincing wins over big teams. However, weakened by injuries, England lost their way a bit in the middle and at one stage was in danger of being knocked out of the tournament. A couple of media statements prompted a fiery response from the squad members and it seemed the campaign would completely derail, ending in disappointment. Though in the latter stages and in pressure games against the big guns, England upped the ante and in the end sealed the semi-final spot with victories over India, New Zealand and Australia. Here is a look at how the campaign went for England. England vs South Africa: Stokes Shines on Opening Day The first game of the tournament and England faced a tricky opposition in South Africa. Put into bat, Imran Tahir removed Jonny Bairstow early but then Jason Roy and Joe Root stitched a 106-run partnership before departing in quick succession. Both scored half-centuries, and then Ben Stokes added 89 off just 79 balls while Eoin Morgan scored a boundary-laden 57. Stokes followed that with two wickets and a stunning catch as South Africa never really were in the chase and were bundled out for 207. Jofra Archer picked 3/27. England vs Pakistan: Host Succumbs Against Unpredictable Pakistan On paper, this was supposed to be an easy victory for England, maybe even easier than their first game. They had beaten Pakistan 5-0 in the series preceding the World Cup. However, Pakistan middle-order led by experienced Mohammad Hafeez clicked and they registered a score of 348/8. Hafeez’s 84 was well supported by Babar Azam’s 63 and Sarfaraz Ahmed’s 55. England had two centurions with Joe Root’107 and Jos Buttler’s 103 but rest of the batting simply collapsed and Pakistan registered a 14-run victory. England vs Bangladesh: Roy Ton Sinks Bangladesh England was looking for a response and it was Jason Roy who put his hands up with a scintillating ton. He scored 153 off just 121 balls with 14 boundaries and five sixes. Bairstow scored a fine half-century while Jos Buttler provided the finishing touches with a quickfire 64 as England ended at 386/6. Archer and Stokes picked three wickets each as Bangladesh were dismissed for 280. Also in this game, both Archer and Mark Wood clocked 150kph. England vs West Indies: Pace Pair of Archer and Wood Shines Jofra Archer playing against his former country, which he represented at the U-19 level, picked 3/30 in 9 overs while Mark Wood picked 3/18 as West Indies were bundled out for just 212. With Roy missing due to an injury, Root opened the innings and scored an unbeaten ton as England sealed a comfortable eight-wicket victory. Interestingly, Chris Woakes was sent in at number 3 and the all-rounder managed a decent 40. England vs Afghanistan: Morgan Overcomes Injury Woes to Break Record Suffering from back spasms, England skipper Eoin Morgan was intent on playing and he certainly sent a message as he smashed 17 sixes and England broke their own record to post 397/6. They simply batted Afghanistan out of the game, who ended at 247/6 and hosts registered a 150-run victory. England vs Sri Lanka: Malinga Rolls Back Time as SL Surprise England The hosts appeared to be making serene progress through to the knockout stages, but in Leeds Sri Lanka sprung a serious surprise. Mathews’ unbeaten 85 guided Sri Lanka to 232, which didn’t look threatening by any stretch of imagination but England’s chase at Headingley proved beyond them as Lasith Malinga rolled back the years to knock over the top order – still missing the injured Roy – and while Stokes did his best, they ended up 20 runs short. England vs Australia: Starc and Behrendorff Shine at Lord’s That was their wake-up call, but England did not rouse from their slumber at Lord’s four days later as Australia gave them a beating at the home of cricket. Mitchell Starc (4/43) and Jason Behrendorff (5/44) did the damage with the ball and England again fell short in a chase of 286 and suddenly the No.1 side in the world was in danger of being dumped out of their own party. England vs India: Roy Returns as England Send a Strong Message With their backs to the wall, England came out swinging. India was unbeaten and backed by a vociferous crowd at Edgbaston but with Roy back in tandem, Jonny Bairstow produced his best knock of the tournament with a century as England set 337/7. Rohit Sharma produced another ton as was becoming customary at this World Cup, but India fell just short and England was still alive. England vs New Zealand: England Hammer Blackcaps to Reach Semis in Style Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were all waiting to pounce if England gave them a sniff, and their last game was in Durham against New Zealand. But when they needed to produce their best, they went back to their aggressive best. Bairstow cracked another century as England won the toss and posted another 300-plus total, their sixth of the group stages. New Zealand was dismissed for 186 with Wood picking three wickets as England reached the final four. England vs Australia: England Take Sweet Revenge England saved their best performance for last, beating Australia by eight wickets to hand their old rivals a first-ever World Cup semi-final defeat. Archer and Chris Woakes did the damage in the first powerplay before Adil Rashid tied up the middle order and it was only Steve Smith’s 85 that got the defending champions to a total of 223. And when Roy and Bairstow started like trains once again, victory was always going to be theirs, fitting perhaps that skipper Morgan hit the winning runs to take England to a first World Cup final in 27 years. https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/news/icc-world-cup-final-englands-roller-coaster-journey-to-the-final-2229333.html	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1608
__label__cc	0.528495	0.471505	Relic Lore · Vale of Secrets · Secret Falls · Secret Falls [S] I dug myself a grave Return to Reality? [S] I dug myself a grave — Secret Falls Oct 13, 2018, 02:57 AM, Played by becuffin who has 135 posts. Inactive No Rank Phoenix Avalon Physique: Medium Lifepoints: 805 No Rank i crashed my car into the bridge, i watched, i let it burn The Avalon couldn't shake the bitterness from the back of her throat, nor the throbbing from her temple. Not since she had returned from the fields. Better to keep her distance and be judged as lacking than turn teeth on wolves that were meant to be her allies. With the suffocating scent of coyotes cleared with the cloud of smoke that had arisen from further south, she had taken to wandering further and further from the Edge, east or west, but never north. There was nothing left for her in the north but a throbbing skull and ghosts of parents she couldn't quite remember. She knew she would be better off making it official, her break from the pack. To cut all ties and set herself free in the current of the winds, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She couldn't let @Askan down like that, not after everything he had done for her. So instead, she sulked and moped, hunted and scouted but always alone. Maybe this was how she was meant to be from the start? After all, there hadn't even been a pack for her initially. Maybe, maybe... The roar of water beckoned her upwards, always up. Her breath was coming in short pants, despite the sprinkling of snow that dusted the ground and clung to her dark coat. It wasn't enough to stick to the ground yet, wasn't enough to bury her yet. Everything would be so easy... So easy if she just gave in and let herself go. (This post was last modified: Oct 14, 2018, 12:45 AM by Phoenix.) Played by Switch who has 151 posts. Shallows Edge II. Keeper Lifepoints: 1035 II. Keeper Remi wasn’t surprised phoenix’s latest scent was away from the Edge. From everyone. It just seemed to be where she put herself. Away from thee noise. She use to be the hustle and bustle of the pack. Now she avoided it. Right now Remi wanted to avoid too. Wanted to just be with someone who understood that. As the snow persisted Remi merely moved faster. Though as her own breaths became short she wondered how far her friend was going this time. She thought she saw movement ahead. In hopes she let out one of her deep barks. Then pushed forward ready to give a friendly shoulder check. i crashed my car into the bridge The bark was one of only two or three that she would consider tolerable at the moment. She wouldn't begrudge @Sachiel or @Askan joining her of course, the yearling had been around long enough to get a feel for and Askan had been around since before she was born, but it seemed most often if she was in the mood for company at all, that it was @Remington she sought out of late. She wasn't loud and didn't ask unnecessary questions. Ever since they had crashed together at the Lake as loners, well, it was nice to have someone other than Askan be a constant. They knew exactly where they stood with each other, and just as suspected, even after the rank challenge nothing had really changed between them. So she allowed herself to stop, and wait, an easy wave in her tail, her head dipping to lick the underside of the dusky woman's chin as her shoulder came to bump against Percy's own. "Ya look like shit Rem, what's goin' on?" There was a smile as she said it, trying to pose the question as nonchalant, but her concern was made clear with the slight creasing at the corner of her eyes. i watched, i let it burn Remi welcomes the warm greeting with a heavy wag of her tail. It was nice to get one. But for the comment she smirked. She couldn’t bring herself to laugh. “Why thanks.” Apparently she was wearing her emotions or Phoenix just saw through it. She guessed the later. They’d been around each other long enough. There wasn’t reason to hide it any way. They had an understanding that she couldn’t explain but was glad for. Like sisters might she sometimes thought. “You should see the other guy,” she quipped. Though there just wasn’t spark in her eyes, in her. She had no heart to brush concern away when she wasn’t sure how she wasn’t letting who knows what fall from her lips. “You have the right idea today. The den probably pretty claustrophobic.” Not that she spent the night there. “Snow feels nice like this. Just a gentle storm to clear things away.” She stuck out her tongue attempting to catch a few. Attempting to quiet the chaos shifting beneath her coat. Phoenix tipped her head and continued her trek once Remington had caught some snowflakes on her tongue, "Whole fuckin' rain bowl is claustrophobic," She quipped back with a smirk, besides a few short weeks, the Edge never quite seemed to dry out. If it wasn't falling from the sky it was blowing from the waterfall anyway. "An' noisy these days. It's safer for everyone if I just keep myself busy out here. Head's been killin' me since dad died," Although, she supposed that was mostly self-inflicted, "An' I don't like th' stink of strangers in the air. It's one thing t' talk to 'em, ya' don't have to go gettin' all buddy buddy with 'em surely?" She was suitably vague, though she was sure that Remington would be able to pick up what she was putting down. As she hauled herself over a stone to the side of their path, and then took a moment to look downstream, back towards the shallows, and up again to the top of the falls, she felt bold. "Sometimes, I don't wanna come back. You an' Kana would probably be the only ones that'd notice I was gone anyway." Oct 15, 2018, 08:04 PM, She struck close to Phoenix. Still holding onto her own words. More than happy the Avalon had no trouble steering the conversation. Even if of all things it was on Drestig. She pictured the man. Never being close to the wolf she didn't think about how he was gone for good. Not till a time like this. Like it would be for most, the death of her father was a bad blow itself. But whatever had happened when she disappeared it had definitely made things a lot harder for the girl. Every realm of pain. With an evident frown she wanted to ask if Pietro could do anything to help her. But already flicked her tongue against her teeth, closing her jaws. She imagined he may have already offered, there was nothing to be done, or Phoenix was just going to solider on. Just maybe no one else even knew about the all the pain. For a moment she wondered if it she should clue someone in. Share the information. It was a debate for another time. "Yeah we sure got a few more don't we? Feels like a stupid bother to even talk sometimes." Remi had tried before and it had only made her feel worse. They disappeared, or made it evident they didn't like her company in one way or another. It was easier to just go about on her own. Less to be disappointed about. So she didn't judge Phoenix for her own reasoning. It made sense and she ought to do what she felt was right. What made her feel better. So many changes were not good for anybody. Askan and Reyes wouldn't think highly of her if she was snapping at the "new recruits". Remi remained to the side of the stony perch. Her eyes merely staring at the water. Her ears twisted back at her confession. She wouldn't deny her words made her sad. She wasn't sure what was more sad because of how true that could be or because deep down Phoenix believed that. "I feel ya. I think about how we roamed from place to place. How easy it'd be to keep walking without looking back...Like it wouldn't matter." It shouldn't be like that for either of them. Was this bad mood just warping her senses? She questioned if her feelings were unjust but she never got a straight answer. Stepping to get a better look she fell to her haunches. "That tawny snowflake probably be calling for you next. I'm still surprised someone has chewed me out for what I said to her since she seems to be the best member in the whole,wide world." The sweetness in her tone was acidic having no real warmth. "I feel like something bad is going to happen but I don't know why or what."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1615
__label__cc	0.699809	0.300191	Please wait (up to a minute) while we process your order. (or pick-up) (or enter your zipcode) Try Another Zip Code? Join Render Loyalty Login to Render Loyalty Don't have an account? Join You will receive an email from us shortly. Click the link to set a new password. Success! Your password has been reset Before you continue browsing the site we need your email 20% of all sales are donated directly to our conservation partners Print of the Month Lifestyle \| 04.22.19 Earth Day: What Is Biodiversity and Why Is It Important? Celebrating our Biodiverse Earth Today is Earth Day, our annual reminder to appreciate this place we call home. While today is an excellent opportunity to appreciate the beauty we are blessed with daily, we also wanted to recognize the role biodiversity plays in the amazing environment we call home. For World Wildlife Day in March, we explored the consequences for humans and for the planet if we continue losing biodiversity at such alarming rates. Today, we dive deeper into the significance of biodiversity and the importance of preserving it. The term biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth, which is comprised of all the plants, animals, and microorganisms as well as the different ecosystems like deserts, rainforests, and coral reefs they call home. We often talk about the beauty of nature and the majesty of certain species, but each species’ value goes far beyond its visual appeal. In fact, our world relies on all of its species, big and small, to perform many essential functions we take for granted. Why is Biodiversity Important? Robust biodiversity is imperative for our planet as it ensures the healthy ecosystems on which we all rely. For instance, the greater diversity of plant species, the greater variety of crops we have to eat. Each species contributes to the ecosystem in which it thrives: smaller species form the base of the food chain, regulate watersheds, maintain soil fertility, pollinate crops, and cycle water, energy, and nutrients; larger species serve vital roles in population regulation, vegetation protection, and pollination. Yes, human factors like poaching and land loss make it harder for these animals to thrive. However, the human impact goes much deeper—into the soil affecting the crops, land, and overall ecosystems on which these species depend. All species, including humans, are interrelated and rely on their ecosystem to thrive. Let’s consider this example from a few decades ago when a group of fishermen decided to hunt whales they believed were eating all their profits. When the fishermen killed off many of the local whales, killer whales had to switch to other prey. As they feasted on seals then otters, the prey of these animals thrived, eventually overtaking the kelp forests the fish larvae called home. The fish larvae were easily eaten by a variety of predators, which reduced the fish population and destroyed the careers the fishermen were so committed to saving. Unfortunately, we may never know the true significance of biodiversity because it is often difficult to quantify each species’ individual impact until it is too late. This Earth Day, we may not be able to restore all threatened animal species or bring balance to struggling ecosystems, but we can remind everyone to take a moment to appreciate the beauty around us, which Mother Nature gives freely...without any intervention from us. PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES #renderloyalty Join the Render Loyalty Journey About/Mission Follow Render Loyalty	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1617
__label__cc	0.67112	0.32888	Tennis Tigers Fall in Team District Final Republic’s team tennis season came to an end with a loss to favorite Joplin in the championship round of the district tournament Wednesday, 5-0. The Eagles won all three doubles matches, then closed out the night with two singles victories. In post-season play, all matches immediately stop when one team has clinched a victory. Of the other matches underway, Republic led in just one. That was the #6 singles match, where Ethan Ragsdale was leading when play stopped. This is the second consecutive season that Joplin has ended Republic’s team season in the finals of the district tournament. Republic will still be on the courts Friday, though, for the individual district tournament at Carthage.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1620
__label__wiki	0.77585	0.77585	Excellence and impact at the heart of launch of GuildHE Research by Rachel Persad \| Mar 4, 2019 \| Blog, News A unique service for researchers in smaller and specialist universities and colleges, is being launched today (4th March 2019) at the British Library. GuildHE Research (previously known is as CREST – the Consortium for Research Excellence, Support, and Training) will provide tailored services which recognise that excellent research in smaller and specialist higher education institutions are more easily overlooked and researchers more isolated compared to research in larger, multi faculty organisations. Chief Executive of GuildHE Gordon McKenzie said: “The launch of “GuildHE Research” is more than a change in name; it marks GuildHE’s renewed commitment to promote and champion the transformative and outstanding research which takes place in smaller and specialist universities and colleges throughout the UK. Research and innovation are important elements of the successful delivery of the Government’s Industrial Strategy and GuildHE Research will shine a light on the excellent, high impact research in our smaller and specialist universties and colleges.” GuildHE Research will build on CREST’s work, which has been growing for almost a decade to include 29 institutions across diverse disciplines, from art and design to agricultural sciences, from education to osteopathy. Services include enabling peer-to-peer support for researchers and their teams to develop useful collaborations, effective research strategies and sharing good practice. Other popular benefits include a residential PhD Summer School, virtual doctoral training, and a shared open access repository. Prof. Peter Childs, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Newman University and inaugural Director of GuildHE Research said: ‘With so much happening in the Higher Education landscape today, the introduction of GuildHE Research will greatly enhance both the broader research culture and the islands of excellence within our network of small and specialist institutions. The consortium gives them a superb platform from which to reach a larger audience and collaborate effectively to further promote a full and truly distinctive contribution to UK research and scholarship.’ Universities and colleges who may be interested in joining GuildHE Research or would just like to know more should contact research@guildhe.ac.uk Consultation Responses News Events Members' News CREST / GuildHE response to HEFCE consultation on Open Access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework Next steps for developing the 2021 Research Excellence Framework suemoore Next steps for the Research Excellence Framework Leeds Trinity PhD student awarded recognition of excellence for thesis	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1621
__label__cc	0.651249	0.348751	Clinical Guideline 1 Specific to High-Risk Drugs Search results for "Anticoagulants" Direct oral anticoagulants: new drugs with practical problems. How can nurses help prevent patient harm? Get Citation Barras MA, Hughes D, Ullner M. Nurs Health Sci. 2016;18:408-411. Anticoagulants are high-alert medications that require regular monitoring and adjustments to ensure prescriptions are safe for patients. This commentary discusses how multidisciplinary team management for patients using oral anticoagulants can help reduce risk of adverse events. Predictors of warfarin-associated adverse events in hospitalized patients: opportunities to prevent patient harm. Get Citation Metersky ML, Eldridge N, Wang Y, et al. J Hosp Med. 2016;11:276-282. Anticoagulation medications are often associated with adverse drug events. This study found that less-than-daily monitoring of anticoagulation in hospitalized patients is associated with more frequent out-of-range values, suggesting that daily monitoring is safer. Delivery of optimized inpatient anticoagulation therapy: consensus statement from the Anticoagulation Forum. Nutescu EA, Wittkowsky AK, Burnett A, Merli GJ, Ansell JE, Garcia DA. Ann Pharmacother. 2013;47:714-724. Anticoagulant medications are considered among the highest-risk medications in common use, due to the potential for serious bleeding complications if medication errors occur. As a result, ensuring anticoagulant safety is one of the National Patient Safety Goals. This consensus statement provides guidelines for developing safer systems for the appropriate prescribing, administration, and monitoring of anticoagulant drugs in the hospital setting, as well as for minimizing adverse events after hospital discharge in patients receiving these medications. A serious medication error due to incorrect dosing of warfarin is discussed in an AHRQ WebM&M commentary. Crossed Coverage Steven R. Kayser, PharmD; February 2007 A woman admitted to the hospital for cardiac transplantation evaluation is mistakenly given warfarin despite an order to hold the dose due to an increase in her INR level. Recommendations from the British Committee for Standards in Haematology and National Patient Safety Agency. Baglin TP, Cousins D, Keeling DM, Perry DJ, Watson HG. Br J Haematol. 2006;136:26-29. The authors provide guidelines to help manage risks and ensure the safe administration of oral anticoagulant therapy in the United Kingdom. Excess dosing of antiplatelet and antithrombin agents in the treatment of non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. Get Citation Alexander KP, Chen AY, Roe MT, et al; CRUSADE Investigators. JAMA. 2005;294:3108-3116. Treatment of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) benefits from extensive research outlining evidence-based practices for improving the quality of such care. This study discovered that more than 40% of patients presenting with ACS received at least one dose of an antithrombotic medication outside the recommended dosing range. These excess doses lead to greater risks of bleeding; the investigators estimate that 15% of patients experience major bleeding due to these prescribing errors. The findings suggest an alarmingly high rate of potential errors and adverse outcomes for ACS patients. The risks also seem directed at vulnerable populations such as elderly patients with specific comorbidities (eg, diabetes, renal insufficiency, and heart failure). With appropriate increases in utilization of antithrombotic agents for conditions such as ACS, greater attention must focus on safe initial dosing practices to prevent adverse drug events. Effectiveness of a computerized system for intravenous heparin administration: using information technology to improve patient care and patient safety. Get Citation Oyen LJ, Nishimura RA, Ou NN, Armon JJ, Zhou M. Am Heart Hosp J. 2005;3:75-81. The investigators analyzed the efficacy of a computerized heparin nomogram system, which distributes interactive cues among the prescriber, nurse, pharmacist, and laboratory. They found significant improvements in the safety of this drug's administration. Relationship of incorrect dosing of fibrinolytic therapy and clinical outcomes. Get Citation Mehta RH, Alexander JH, Van de Werf F, et al. JAMA. 2005;293:1746-1750. This re-analysis of a previously conducted randomized controlled trial showed that patients who received an incorrect dose of a fibrinolytic agent (alteplase or tenecteplase) for treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction were more likely to experience adverse clinical outcomes. However, the analysis also showed the same increased risk for patients who received incorrect doses of the placebo versions of the study drugs. Many of the clinical factors that placed patients at risk for adverse outcomes also placed them at risk for dosing errors. This type of confounding is important to keep in mind when attributing adverse outcomes to antecedent errors in care. Tracy Minichiello, MD; March 2005 Despite a box on the admission form warning against using blood thinners and epidural anesthesia together, a patient admitted for elective surgery receives both, and becomes permanently paralyzed. 2009 National Patient Safety Goals. Get Citation Saufl NM. J Perianesth Nurs. 2009;24:114-118. This commentary provides background on the development of the Joint Commission's 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and summarizes the goals set for the hospital environment. Adverse drug events in hospitalized cardiac patients. Get Citation Fanikos J, Cina JL, Baroletti S, Fiumara K, Matta L, Goldhaber SZ. Am J Cardiol. 2007;100:1465-1469. This study noted two adverse drug events (ADEs) per 100 patient admissions in hospitalized cardiac patients. Preventable ADEs most frequently occurred during medication administration, and cardiovascular agents and anticoagulants were the most common drug classes involved. Interestingly, the most preventable ADEs occurred between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM, during handoffs between nurses at shift change. The authors advocate for prevention strategies around medication administration and nursing shift changes to reduce the potential for errors. Unreported errors in the intensive care unit: a case study of the way we work. Get Citation Henneman EA. Crit Care Nurse. 2007;27:27-34. This commentary uses two medication error reporting failures to provide insight into the social and cultural factors that influence incident reporting. Heparin sodium injection 10,000 units/mL, and HEP-LOCK U/P 10 units/mL medication errors. MedWatch Safety Alert. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; February 6, 2007. This announcement alerts health care providers to the potential for life-threatening errors involving two heparin products and provides recommendations to minimize mistakes. Preventing fatal heparin overdoses. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Patient Safety News. Show #58. December 2006. This video story reviews a high-profile medication error and suggests actions to prevent similar incidents from occurring. Surprise Wire Jeffrey M. Pearl, MD; Nancy E. Donaldson RN, DNSc; July-August 2005 A nurse preparing a patient for transfer out of the ICU discovers the guidewire used for central line placement (1 week earlier) still in the patient's leg vein. Hold the tPA Susan C. Fagan, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP; April 2005 A patient with presumed stroke is given tPA before the results of her coagulation studies are known. Five minutes later, the lab reports that the INR was elevatedan absolute contraindication to thrombolytic therapy. Emergency department visits for outpatient adverse drug events: demonstration for a national surveillance system. Get Citation Budnitz DS, Pollock DA, Mendelsohn AB, Weidenbach KN, McDonald AK, Annest JL. Ann Emerg Med. 2005;45:197-206. This project studied the epidemiologic viability of using an injury surveillance system to track outpatient adverse drug events (ADEs) treated in hospital emergency departments. The authors found that the system could play a useful role in helping to understand outpatient ADEs, identifying areas for research, and monitoring ADE prevention.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1630
__label__wiki	0.593607	0.593607	Malpractice Litigation Search results for "Malpractice Litigation" Malpractice claims related to diagnostic errors in the hospital. Get Citation Gupta A, Snyder A, Kachalia A, Flanders S, Saint S, Chopra V. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018;27:53-60. Characterization of diagnostic error in the hospital setting has traditionally relied on data from autopsy studies, but the continuing decline in autopsy rates necessitates identification of diagnostic errors through other data sources. In this study, investigators utilized the National Practitioner Data Bank to examine the incidence and severity of inpatient diagnostic error and estimate the clinical and economic consequences of these errors. Diagnostic error accounted for 22% of paid malpractice claims over a 12-year period, resulting in $5.7 billion in payments, and the incidence of claims due to failure to diagnose increased over time. Paid claims due to diagnostic error were more likely to be for male patients older than 50, compared with other types of paid claims. Consistent with other studies, a small proportion (9%) of physicians accounted for a large proportion (51%) of payments. Although paid malpractice claims data have important limitations, this study advances our understanding of the epidemiology of diagnostic error among hospitalized patients and insights into possible preventive mechanisms. Advances in Patient Safety and Medical Liability. Battles J, Azam I, Grady M, Reback K, eds. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. AHRQ Publication No. 17-0017-EF. This publication describes the results of demonstration projects funded by AHRQ's Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Initiative. Included studies examined communication and resolution programs, patient reporting of adverse events, and patient perceptions of error disclosure. An overarching theme of these studies is the gap between recommended communication practices and usual clinical care and communication. Several studies demonstrated challenges of implementing health system interventions to improve safety across a range of interventions, including error disclosure training, shared decision-making, and medication safety during transitions in care. These studies reveal the importance of measuring and improving safety culture as a foundation for patient safety efforts. Commentaries by various patient safety experts highlight the need for ongoing support for research at the intersection of patient safety and medical liability. A past PSNet perspective described how evidence-based improvements to the medical liability system could influence accountability and compensation for errors. Rates and characteristics of paid malpractice claims among US physicians by specialty, 1992–2014. Get Citation Schaffer AC, Jena AB, Seabury SA, Singh H, Chalasani V, Kachalia A. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177:710-718. This retrospective study of a claims database found that medical malpractice claims declined significantly between 1992 and 2014, but mean payment amounts increased at the same time. Diagnostic error was the overall most common reason for a claim, affirming the importance of improving diagnosis. Special Issue: Progress at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Medical Liability. Ridgely MS, Greenberg MD, Clancy CM, eds. Health Serv Res. 2016;51(suppl 3):2395-2648. Medical liability reform has been a subject of considerable debate. This special issue includes numerous articles exploring topics related to medical liability and patient safety. One study examined whether health care organizations and malpractice insurers could collaborate to implement a communication and resolution program to improve health care quality. Another article described how efforts to reduce perinatal harm, largely through standardization of best practices and implementation of team training, led to a reduction in malpractice claims. An observational study showcased how implementation of AHRQ's Communication and Optimal Resolution toolkit (CANDOR) at a single health system was associated with improved identification of safety issues and a decline in malpractice claims. Concluding editorials highlight lessons learned from an AHRQ-funded multifaceted intervention to mitigate risk in ambulatory care and make the case for creating a national surveillance system for malpractice claims. Prevalence and characteristics of physicians prone to malpractice claims. Get Citation Studdert DM, Bismark MM, Mello MM, Singh H, Spittal MJ. N Engl J Med. 2016;374:354-362. A growing body of research has begun to assess the role of individual clinicians in patient safety, seeking to identify clinicians whose patients are at elevated risk of adverse events. Examining data on paid malpractice claims from the National Practitioner Data Bank over a 10-year period, this study found that 1% of physicians accounted for 32% of paid claims. Moreover, recidivism was common, in that practitioners with more than 3 claims had a 24% risk of another claim within the next 2 years. As in prior studies of malpractice data, surgeons and obstetricians were more likely to have paid a claim than internists. The pattern of a relatively small number of physicians incurring repeated claims, which mirrors data from studies of patient complaints, implies that it may be possible to identify clinicians who are at high risk of subsequent malpractice claims or patient complaints. The issues around such high-risk physicians are discussed in a previous WebM&M perspective. Electronic health record–related events in medical malpractice claims. Get Citation Graber ML, Siegal D, Riah H, Johnston D, Kenyon K. J Patient Saf. 2019;15:77-85. Although heath information technology (IT) has improved patient safety, studies have shown that implementing electronic health records can introduce new errors. This study examined closed malpractice claims related to health IT. Most cases occurred in ambulatory care settings, suggesting that current health IT may not be optimally designed to support safety in those settings. Cases involving medication errors, diagnostic errors, or treatment complications were almost equally prevalent, indicating that health IT vulnerabilities span multiple tasks and functions. Software design issues and implementation problems also played a role in these incidents. These findings emphasize the need to reexamine health information technologies and how they are implemented in health care systems to enhance safety. A recent PSNet perspective examined challenges in health IT implementation, and another perspective discussed the need for innovations in health IT usability. Physician spending and subsequent risk of malpractice claims: observational study. Get Citation Jena AB, Schoemaker L, Bhattacharya J, Seabury SA. BMJ. 2015;351:h5516. Defensive medicine—the practice of performing potentially unnecessary procedures or diagnostic tests to avoid the threat of malpractice liability—is thought to contribute to high health care costs in the United States. Because procedures and tests carry risks of complications, defensive medicine also may lead to adverse events. This secondary data analysis examined prospectively whether physicians who performed more cesarean deliveries (considered to be defensively motivated) were more or less likely to be subject to malpractice claims compared with those performing fewer cesarean deliveries. Researchers adjusted for available clinical characteristics and still found that obstetricians who performed more cesarean deliveries were less likely to have subsequent alleged malpractice incidents. This finding suggests that defensive medicine may be a rational physician response to the current malpractice environment, and underscores the patient safety rationale for malpractice reform. A previous WebM&M commentary discusses the causes and consequences of defensive medicine. Primary care closed claims experience of Massachusetts malpractice insurers. Get Citation Schiff GD, Puopolo AL, Huben-Kearney A, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173:2063-2068. Malpractice risk in outpatient primary care is increasingly under scrutiny. This study screened malpractice claims from two Massachusetts insurers and found that those from outpatient primary care settings were more likely to be settled or found in favor of the plaintiff compared with those from other practice settings. Similar to previous research, claims related to missed and delayed diagnoses were most frequent, and the most common disease involved was cancer, followed by cardiovascular disease. The accompanying editorial argues that primary care settings will become increasingly important for malpractice claims with the advent of patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations, which shift a larger proportion of medical care to the outpatient primary care setting. The authors note a high prevalence of failure-to-diagnose claims and recommend further emphasis on diagnostic safety. A missed diagnosis of myocardial infarction was discussed in an AHRQ WebM&M commentary. How does routine disclosure of medical error affect patients' propensity to sue and their assessment of provider quality?: Evidence from survey data. Get Citation Helmchen LA, Richards MR, McDonald TB. Med Care. 2010;48:955-961. Errors are often not disclosed to patients, in part due to providers' fear of subsequent malpractice lawsuits. Proponents of an extreme honesty approach to disclosure have argued that patients may be less likely to sue if errors are disclosed promptly and completely, and a recent study from the University of Michigan provides some support for this approach. This survey found that although more than one quarter of respondents would sue after learning of a medical error, patients who had confidence that their physicians would appropriately disclose errors were less likely to sue and more likely to subsequently recommend the provider or institution. These results highlight the importance of open communication with patients and families about errors. Liability claims and costs before and after implementation of a medical error disclosure program. Get Citation Kachalia A, Kaufman SR, Boothman R, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2010;153:213-221. Physicians generally choose their words carefully when disclosing errors to patients, in large part due to fear of malpractice lawsuits. Proponents of full disclosure of errors have argued that such policies could actually decrease lawsuits by encouraging more open provider–patient communication and more fairly compensating patients for injuries. This strategy has been controversial and thus far has lacked supporting evidence, but the experiences of the University of Michigan Health System reported in this study may change attitudes toward error disclosure. In 5 years since implementing a full disclosure and compensation policy, the system has seen fewer lawsuits and lower costs related to litigation and compensation. The accompanying editorial discusses the systematic changes that will be necessary in order to make the Michigan model more generalizable. Integrating incident data from five reporting systems to assess patient safety: making sense of the elephant. Get Citation Levtzion-Korach O, Frankel A, Alcalai H, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:402-410. This provocative study compared safety data from five separate sources to derive a comprehensive picture of institutional safety. The investigators compared safety issues identified through traditional event reporting, patient complaints, executive walk rounds, malpractice claims, and risk management databases, and found that while each method identified important safety problems, there was little overlap in the types of events identified with each reporting mechanism. For example, diagnostic errors were frequently cited in malpractice cases, but executive walk rounds highlighted equipment and supply issues. Prior research confirms the need to use multiple data sources to realistically analyze safety at the institutional level. An accompanying commentary discusses the strengths and limitations of a broad range of safety monitoring methods, including those used in this study. Risk managers, physicians, and disclosure of harmful medical errors. Get Citation Loren DJ, Garbutt J, Dunagan WC, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:101-108. Patients desire and deserve disclosure of any errors that occur in their care, but fear of malpractice lawsuits is one of many factors that contribute to clinicians failing to disclose errors in a timely and transparent fashion. This survey compared how risk management professionals and physicians responded to simulated error scenarios. The researchers found that while risk managers were more likely to recommend full disclosure of both serious and less serious errors, physicians were more likely to offer an apology to the patient. Apologies may in fact be used as evidence in a malpractice lawsuit under certain circumstances—a 2008 review of "apology laws" found that while "expressions of sympathy" are generally protected from use as evidence, "admissions of fault" are admissible, even when such admissions include an apology. This fact may have influenced the risk managers' advice against apologizing. The tense relationship between error disclosure and malpractice liability is discussed in a PSNet perspective. The role of medical liability reform in federal health care reform. Get Citation Mello MM, Brennan TA. N Engl J Med. 2009;361:1-3. This commentary advocates for medical liability reform to be included in US government efforts to reform health care. Disclosure of medical injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategy. Get Citation Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA, Brennan TA, Wang YC. Health Aff (Millwood). 2007;26:215-226. Patients clearly desire full disclosure of medical errors in a prompt and transparent fashion, as documented in prior research. Some proponents of full disclosure argue that physicians should benefit from such policies, as greater transparency may lead to fewer malpractice lawsuits. However, most patients injured by medical care do not sue, and few studies review the effect of disclosure policies on malpractice liability. This study used mathematical modeling techniques to demonstrate that under a universal full disclosure policy, the total number of malpractice lawsuits is likely to rise as many patients will be "prompted" to sue, and malpractice costs will consequently increase. The authors agree that fully disclosing errors is "the right thing to do," but caution that the financial implications of this policy are unclear. Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation. Get Citation Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA, et al. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:2024-2033. This Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–supported study discovered that claims without clear evidence of error do occur, but most fail to receive compensation. On the other hand, the majority of expenditures toward litigation occur in cases of errors in which compensation is awarded. Investigators reviewed a random sample of more than 1400 closed malpractice claims to better understand the prevalence, characteristics, litigation outcomes, and associated costs, all of which are presented in detail. Based on their findings, the authors advocate that limiting frivolous litigation will have significantly less impact on case load and litigation costs compared to streamlining the process for claims that clearly warrant compensation and belong in the system. Their conclusions are supported by a past effort at understanding the relationship between malpractice claims and adverse events due to negligence. In addition, a past case study presented the tension between malpractice claims and patient safety initiatives with a series of proposed targeted reforms toward a more effective system. Does full disclosure of medical errors affect malpractice liability? The jury is still out. Get Citation Kachalia A, Shojania KG, Hofer TP, Piotrowski M, Saint S. Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2003;29:503-511. This comprehensive literature review evaluated more than 5000 citations to determine the impact full disclosure policies have on malpractice liability. The authors present a summary of the 20 states with disclosure policies, the theoretical advantages and disadvantages of implementing such policies, and then a series of examples from investigations that examined risk factors for medical malpractice suits. Notable factors suggested from the literature include poor communication with patients, the presence of negligence, socioeconomic status, patient complaints, and physician performance during training. Despite the extensive and existing body of literature available, the authors conclude that minimal evidence directly links the effect of full disclosure on malpractice liability. Another study specifically described patient and physician attitudes towards the disclosure process. Patient safety and medical malpractice: a case study. Get Citation Brennan TA, Mello MM. Ann Intern Med. 2003;139:267-273. This case study discusses the ongoing challenges in balancing patient safety with the system of tort liability for medical malpractice. A defendant-physician and her attorney share their perspectives through the presentation of a specific case, revealing the tension between malpractice claims and patient safety initiatives. The authors propose targeted reforms that may create a more effective system, while suggesting incentives to improve safety and quality. This article is part of a special collection entitled ''Quality Grand Rounds,'' a series of articles published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that explores a range of quality issues and medical errors. Negligent care and malpractice claiming behavior in Utah and Colorado. Get Citation Studdert DM, Thomas EJ, Burstin HR, et al. Med Care. 2000;38:250-260. The authors analyzed the relationship between negligent medical error and the filing of medical liability claims in a review of 15,000 hospital discharges in Utah and Colorado in 1992, a sample distinct in time and population from similar studies performed in California and New York. They reviewed each case for the presence of iatrogenic injury resulting from negligence and matched the set of cases against the medical malpractice claims filed in the two states. The authors find 97% of adverse events caused by negligence did not result in malpractice claims. Of the 18 malpractice claims in the sample, 14 were made in the absence of any negligence. Thus, the authors found almost no relationship between actual negligence and the filing of malpractice claims. The authors explore the relationships among poverty, advanced age, and a decreased likelihood of filing a claim and review options for comprehensive malpractice reforms. The Girl Who Died Twice: Every Patient's Nightmare: the Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals. Robins NS. New York, NY: Delacorte Press; 1995. ISBN 0385308094. Robins, an investigative journalist, recounts the story of Libby Zion, who died at New York Hospital in 1984 allegedly at the hands of under-supervised and overworked residents. The book is an interesting and engaging account of a case and its aftermath, including the highly publicized malpractice trial and the formation of the Bell Commission, which regulated resident work-hours for the first time. The book provides an important historical context for this case and the debate surrounding it, the implications of which are still being felt today in the wake of national regulations for resident duty-hours. Relation between malpractice claims and adverse events due to negligence. Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study III. Get Citation Localio AR, Lawthers AG, Brennan TA, et al. N Engl J Med. 1991;325:245-251. Theoretically, the malpractice system is supposed to penalize substandard care. However, if the majority of claims brought against providers are filed for care that is not negligent, then the credibility of this system may be reduced. To address this issue, the Harvard Medical Practice Study examined the relationship between malpractice claims and true adverse events in patient care. The investigators linked clinical reviews of more than 30,000 inpatient records with statewide records of malpractice claims to determine the frequency with which negligent and nonnegligent medical care, as evaluated by physician reviewers, led to malpractice claims. They found that 1.53% of patients who had adverse events filed malpractice claims. The ratio of adverse events caused by negligence to malpractice claims was 7.6:1. The authors conclude that the malpractice system infrequently compensates patients injured by medical negligence and rarely holds providers accountable for substandard care.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1632
__label__cc	0.666056	0.333944	Home » Catholic Faith » Becoming Catholic Welcome! We are glad you wish to learn more about The Catholic Faith and/or RCIA, the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. Ways to Discover The Faith Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions Contact a parish near you for information about RCIA Explore an overview of Catholic teaching Watch these inspirational videos about The Catholic Faith Visit these websites: RCIA Coordinators & Leaders, click here How do I find out about Catholicism? What if I think that I want to become Catholic? What does initiation into the Catholic Church entail? I’m a baptized Catholic. Is RCIA for me? How long does it take to become a Catholic? How do I find a Catholic parish near me? What else can I do? 1. How do I find out about Catholicism? Contact a parish near you One of the best ways is to contact a Catholic parish near you to let them know that you are interested in finding out more about the Catholic Faith. You will be invited to inquire into what “being Catholic” is all about: who we are, what we believe, how we live our lives, how we pray, and more. Find a Catholic parish. Read about The Faith You can explore an overview of Catholic teaching. You can purchase a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official summary of our Faith, available at most major bookstores, or you can view it online in full or as a Compendium from the Vatican Resource Library. 2. What if I think that I want to become Catholic? We believe that God calls individuals to live the Good News Jesus proclaimed and to become his disciples as members of the Catholic Church. If you want to become Catholic, you will participate in a process called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (sometimes called RCIA or simply Christian initiation). In RCIA, you will learn about the teachings of Jesus as the Catholic Church has handed them on and put these teachings into practice by living as part of the Catholic community, serving others and praying. 3. What does initiation into the Catholic Church entail? If you have not been baptized, the Christian initiation process prepares you to become a Catholic Christian by celebrating what we call the sacraments of Christian initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist or Holy Communion. Explore the RCIA Process: Periods & Rites. If you have been baptized in another Christian tradition, the initiation process prepares you to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church by celebrating the sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist or Holy Communion. Explore the RCIA Process: Periods & Rites. 4. I’m a baptized Catholic. Is RCIA for me? If you have been baptized as an infant, but have not received further formal instruction in the Catholic Faith nor the sacraments of Confirmation or the Eucharist, RCIA is indeed for you. If you are a fully initiated Catholic who wishes to deepen your faith, speak to your local parish about the possibility of participating. 5. How long does it take to become a Catholic? Becoming Catholic is a life-long commitment. However, the Christian initiation process typically lasts for several months or longer in order to prepare to take this step. Participants in the initiation process generally meet once or twice each week, including part of the Mass on Sunday, but each parish initiation schedule varies. The initiation of individuals who are ready to make the commitment to become new members of the Catholic Church may take place at Easter (in March or April) or at other times throughout the year. You do not make any commitment or obligation by inquiring about Catholicism or beginning the Christian initiation process. We want you to take the time you need as you think about becoming Catholic and we respect your decision to stop or to say, “not right now” at any time. While we love being Catholic and hope that others will want to become Catholic also, we do not exert pressure on anyone to do so. Our hope would be that at the very least, you would come to a greater appreciation of Catholic beliefs and practices. 7. How do I find a Catholic parish near me? Find a Catholic church near your home or work with our Parish Finder. 8. What else can I do? Thank you for you interest in discovering or rediscovering The Catholic Faith. We hope you have found helpful resources to learn more. As you continue on your journey, we encourage you to say the following prayer: God, help me to see your presence and hear your voice in the world around me. Guide me on my journey and lead me to you. Amen. top	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1636
__label__wiki	0.865856	0.865856	This page uses content from Wikipedia and is licensed under CC BY-SA. Prime Minister of Georgia Coat of Arms of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze since 20 June 2018 President of Georgia Inaugural holder Bessarion Gugushvili 4,250 ₾ [gov.ge] This article is part of a series on the politics and government of Constitutional court Salome Zurabishvili Chairperson: Irakli Kobakhidze Regions (mkhare) Election Administration Recent elections Parliamentary: 2016 Presidential: 2013 Minister: David Zalkaliani Diplomatic missions of / in Georgia Nationality law Visa policy Georgia–European Union relations Georgia–NATO relations Georgia–Russia relations United Nations Observer Mission Politics of Abkhazia Politics of South Ossetia Georgia portal The Prime Minister of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს პრემიერ-მინისტრი, translit.: sakartvelos p'remier-minist'ri) is the head of government and chief executive of Georgia. The Prime Minister organizes, directs, and controls the functions of the Government and signs the legal acts of the government. They appoint and dismiss ministers in the government. The Prime Minister represents Georgia in foreign relations and concludes international treaties on behalf of Georgia. They are accountable for the activities of the Government before the Parliament of Georgia.[1] The Prime Minister is nominated by a political party that has secured the best results in the parliamentary election. The nominee must win the confidence vote of the Parliament and then be appointed by the President of Georgia.[2] List of Heads of Government of Georgia (1918–present) Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921) Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1991) Republic of Georgia (1991–1995) Georgia (1995–present) The office of Prime Minister under the name of the Chairman of Government was introduced in Georgia upon its declaration of independence in May 1918. It was abolished with the Soviet takeover of the country in February 1921. The newly independent Georgia established the position of Prime Minister in August 1991, only to be abolished de facto in the aftermath of the January 1992 military coup and legally in the 1995 Constitution. The office was reintroduced in the February 2004 constitutional amendment and further modified as a result of series of amendments passed between 2011 and 2018. The office of Prime Minister may not be held by a citizen of Georgia who is simultaneously the citizen of a foreign country.[3] The Prime Minister is nominated by a political party that has secured the best results in the parliamentary election. The nominee for premiership and ministerial candidates selected by them must win the confidence vote of the Parliament and then, within 2 days of a vote of confidence, be appointed by the President of Georgia. If the President does not appoint the Prime Minister within the established time frame, the Prime Minister is considered appointed. If the parliamentary vote of confidence is not passed within the established time frame, the President dissolves the Parliament no earlier than two weeks and no later than three weeks after the respective time frame has expired, and calls extraordinary parliamentary election.[2] The Prime Minister of Georgia is the head of the Government, responsible for government activities and appointment and dismissal of ministers. They are accountable before the parliament. Prime Minister signs the legal acts of the government[1] and countersigns some of the acts issued by the President of Georgia.[4] The Prime Minister also has the right to make decision on the use of the Defense Forces during martial law without the Parliament's approval.[5] During the martial law, the Prime Minister becomes a member of the National Defense Council, a consultative body chaired by the President of Georgia.[6] (Birth–Death) Began office Left office Noe Ramishvili (1881–1930) 26 May 1918 24 June 1918 Social Democratic Party of Georgia Chairman of Government Noe Zhordania (1868–1953) 24 June 1918 18 March 1921 Social Democratic Party of Georgia Chairman of Government Polikarp Mdivani (1887–1937) 7 March 1922 April 1922 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars Sergey Kavtaradze (1885–1971) April 1922 January 1923 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars Shalva Eliava (1883–1937) January 1923 June 1927 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars Lavrenty Kartvelishvili (1890–1938) June 1927 June 1929 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars Filipp Makharadze (1886–1941) June 1929 January 1931 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars Levan Sukhishvili January 1931 22 September 1931 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars German Mgaloblishvili (?–1937) 22 September 1931 9 July 1937 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars Valerian Bakradze (1901–1971) 9 July 1937 15 April 1946 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars 15 April 1946 December 1946 Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Zakhary Chkhubianishvili (1903–?) December 1946 6 April 1952 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Zakhary Ketskhoveli (1902–1970) 6 April 1952 16 April 1953 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers (1901–1971) 16 April 1953 20 September 1953 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Givi Javakhishvili (1912–1985) 21 September 1953 17 December 1975 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Zurab Pataridze (1928–1982) 17 December 1975 5 June 1982 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Dmitry Kartvelishvili (1927–) 2 July 1982 12 April 1986 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Otar Cherkezia (1933–) 12 April 1986 29 March 1989 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Zurab Chkheidze (1930–) 29 March 1989 14 April 1989 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Nodari Chitanava (1935–) 14 April 1989 15 November 1990 Communist Party of Georgia Chairmen of the Council of Ministers Tengiz Sigua (1934–) 15 November 1990 18 August 1991 Independent Chairmen of the Council of Ministers (Born–Died) Took Office Murman Omanidze (acting) 18 August 1991 23 August 1991 Independent Besarion Gugushvili (1945–) 23 August 1991 6 January 1992[7] Round Table — Free Georgia (1934–) 6 January 1992 6 August 1993 Independent Eduard Shevardnadze (acting) 6 August 1993 20 August 1993 Independent Otar Patsatsia (1929–) 20 August 1993 5 October 1995 Independent Main article: State Minister (Georgia) State Ministers Niko Lekishvili (1947–) 8 December 1995 26 July 1998 Union of Citizens of Georgia Vazha Lortkipanidze (1949–) 31 July 1998 11 May 2000 Union of Citizens of Georgia Giorgi Arsenishvili (1942–2010) 11 May 2000 21 December 2001 Union of Citizens of Georgia Avtandil Jorbenadze (1951–) 21 December 2001 27 November 2003 Union of Citizens of Georgia Zurab Zhvania (1963–2005) 27 November 2003 17 February 2004 United National Movement (1963–2005) 17 February 2004 3 February 2005 United National Movement (acting)[8] 3 February 2005 17 February 2005 United National Movement Zurab Noghaideli (1964–) 17 February 2005 16 November 2007 United National Movement Giorgi Baramidze (acting)[9] 16 November 2007 22 November 2007 United National Movement Lado Gurgenidze (1970–) 22 November 2007 1 November 2008 Independent Grigol Mgaloblishvili (1973–) 1 November 2008 6 February 2009 Independent Nika Gilauri (1975–) 6 February 2009 4 July 2012 Independent Vano Merabishvili (1968–) 4 July 2012 25 October 2012 United National Movement Bidzina Ivanishvili (1956–) 25 October 2012 20 November 2013 Georgian Dream Irakli Garibashvili (1982–) 20 November 2013 30 December 2015 Georgian Dream Giorgi Kvirikashvili (1967–) 30 December 2015 13 June 2018 Georgian Dream (1982–) 20 June 2018 Incumbent Georgian Dream ^ a b Article 55, Section 1–5 of the Constitution of Georgia (country) (2018) ^ Article 25, Section 2 of the Constitution of Georgia (country) (2018) ^ Prime Minister of the rebel government at Zugdidi 24 September—6 November 1993 ^ Saakashvili took responsibilities as Prime minister (in Russian) ^ Acting Prime minister of Georgia criticized peacekeepers, CIS and Russia (in Russian) Archived 29 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Heads of Government of Georgia since 1918 DR of Georgia Ramishvili Zhordania Georgian SSR Kavtaradze Mdivani Eliava Makharadze Mgaloblishvili Bakradze Chkhubianishvili Ketskhoveli Javakhishvili Pataridze Kartvelishvili Cherkeziya Chkheidze Chitanava Sigua Omanidze* Gugushvili Shevardnadze* Patsatsia Lekishvili Lortkipanidze Arsenishvili Jorbenadze Zhvania Baramidze* Noghaideli Gurgenidze Gilauri Merabishvili Ivanishvili Garibashvili Kvirikashvili Bakhtadze * denotes acting Georgia articles Prehistoric Georgia Shulaveri-Shomu culture Kura–Araxes culture Trialeti culture Colchian culture Diauehi Colchis Lazica Roman era Sasanian Iberia Christianization of Iberia Principality of Iberia 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__label__wiki	0.929983	0.929983	Lunatic-fringe candidates won thousands of votes in Ill, Calif And that’s not even counting Iowa’s openly racist Steve King… They’ll leave the light on for you — if you’re an ICE agent Motel 6 to pay $7.6m to settle claims it gave guest lists to immigration agents (The Guardian) — Motel 6 will pay up to $7.6m to Hispanic guests to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming it violated their privacy by regularly providing guest lists to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents. — Terms of the preliminary settlement with eight Hispanic plaintiffs – seven from Arizona and one from Washington state – were disclosed in a 2 November filing with the federal court in Phoenix. — Motel 6 also agreed to a two-year consent decree barring it from sharing guest data with immigration authorities absent warrants, subpoenas, or threats of serious crime or harm. 2 economic policies likely to change with a Dem House — The NAFTA replacement crafted by the White House is likely to go down in flames. — Democrats support infrastructure spending, but the stumbling block in the Trump plan was the provision that the private sector would effectively own the roads and bridges that it builds. — While House Democrats may not support this plan, they would likely be willing to support something that mainly relies on just federal spending. And Republicans have a reason to go along as well: Infrastructure spending would boost economic growth, which is forecast to slow in 2019 – just before the 2020 elections. 100 years after a dumb Congress passed it, the madness of Daylight Savings endures — It’s absurd – and fitting – that a century later, opponents and supporters of daylight saving are still not sure exactly what it does. Despite its name, daylight saving has never saved anyone anything. But it has proven to be a fantastically effective driver of retail spending. Dead whore-master wins Nevada election Yep, that’s the guy who wrote The Art of the Pimp … GoFundMe raises $100,000 for teacher who punched student RochesterFirst A racial thing. Student may have started it by throwing basketball at teacher and using a racial slur. Michigan gives the nod to legal pot Marijuana Herald — Voters this evening passed Proposal 18-1 into law, making Michigan the 10th state to legalize marijuana. The initiative allows for the possession of up to 2.5 ounces, or up to 10 ounces at a private residence, for those 21 and older. The measure also legalizes the personal cultivation of up to 12 marijuana plants. — The initiative establishes a licensed and regulated system of marijuana retail outlets, which will be supplied by licensed cultivation centers. Marijuana will receive a 10% excise tax in addition to the standard 6% sales tax. — Michigan now joins nine other states that have legalized marijuana for all uses: Washington, Colorado, California, Oregon, Alaska, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada and Vermont. The latter is the only state that does not authorize marijuana stores. Invasive jumping worms altering midwest soil — In contrast to their European earthworm cousins, which burrow inches deep in forest soil, Asian jumping worms like to stay close to the surface to feed on the “litter layer” composed of dead leaves and twigs. Previous studies suggested that the worms ravenously consume this leaf litter, removing nutrients and locking them up in their coffee ground aggregates where germinating plants can’t easily access them. Dems = House Reps = Senate For election results, much much more at Politico An info-gathering scam Amazon’s site selection process a “ruse” says urban studies professor …. But it kept hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free information from the cities to create the biggest corporate site location database in the world, according to Richard Florida, an urban studies professor at the University of Toronto. — Amazon’s well-publicized hunt for HQ2 was a “ruse,” he said. “I always thought this wasn’t about one site and was part of a corporate location strategy looking for different sites and different talent,” Florida said. “Headquarters two and three are just the beginning.” My great hope is that FAKE competition for #AmazonHQ2 will be a GIANT wake up call for mayors & economic developers to stop this incentive madness. https://t.co/kGvsxpOJws — Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida) November 3, 2018 GOP dufus admits his California seat is gone while voting in progress Dire warning on species loss Will we wake up? Or will we document our own extinction? — The world must thrash out a new deal for nature in the next two years or humanity could be the first species to document our own extinction, warns the United Nation’s biodiversity chief. — Ahead of a key international conference to discuss the collapse of ecosystems, Cristiana Pașca Palmer said people in all countries need to put pressure on their governments to draw up ambitious global targets by 2020 to protect the insects, birds, plants and mammals that are vital for global food production, clean water and carbon sequestration. Mysterious ‘Oumuamua’ floating in space might be alien, say Harvard researchers — Researchers focused on whether solar radiation pressure could explain the unusual acceleration of “Oumuamua,” the first object entering the Earth’s solar system from interstellar space. — The paper said if solar radiation pressure is the reason “Oumuamua” is moving at high speeds, it represents “a new class of thin interstellar material” either made naturally or through artificial means. — The paper’s authors, which include Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, suggest the object could be a “lightsail” used to propel spacecraft with solar energy. — The other possibility? It comes from aliens. “A more exotic scenario is that ‘Oumuamua’ may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization,” reads the paper. Fisherman thought it was a doll, pulls drowning child from water — Gus Hutt was casting a line off Matata Beach in the North Island last week when he spotted what he thought was a porcelain doll in the water. — Curious, Hutt dragged the body in from the sea where it was being swept along by a rip and realised it was actually a drowning 18-month old boy. The long slow sad decline of America, chapter 9999 Wisconsin giving away billions to Foxconn, which is now importing Chinese workers — Foxconn Technology is a key supplier to Apple, and is opening a large new plant in the Midwest. The plant has been heavily subsidized with $3 billion in American tax dollars, potentially up to one million dollars per job. — But with a tight market for qualified American workers, Foxconn is “trying to tap Chinese engineers through internal transfers to supplement staffing.” — “It’s very difficult to find skilled labor in our market,” said a staffing agency near the plant. “All the technical schools and local universities are gearing up their programs, but I still think Foxconn is going to fall short in terms of finding the people they need.” — The company’s plan is to bring in Chinese workers. — The big problem the company is facing? Chinese workers don’t want to move to Wisconsin. — “One engineer who declined to give his name said he wouldn’t want to move to a place he worried could be as cold as Harbin, a northern Chinese city known as ‘Ice City,’” reports the Wall Street Journal. 1) The US finds it necessary to bribe companies to locate here. 2) But cannot even pump out enough mediocre engineering grads to fill the jobs. 3) Chinese engineers don’t want to move here. 4) It’s that damn immigrant caravan, I tell ya. College students’ research frees man after 12 years in prison Medill Justice Project — Andre Gonzales, who spent 12 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit, was freed from prison Tuesday. — Twenty Northwestern University students working investigated Gonzales’s murder conviction, researching and conducting extensive interviews with people involved in the case. The project, part of the Medill School of Journalism, has investigated potentially wrongful convictions since 1999. — This week, Florida prosecutors dropped all charges against Gonzales a month after a Miami circuit court judge vacated his 2005 murder conviction and ordered a new trial. Curiously timed announcement on election eve… U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday wrote the chief executives of major telephone service providers and other companies, demanding they launch a system no later than 2019 to combat billions of “robocalls” and other nuisance calls received monthly by American consumers. Gee. Pai wrote letters? Really? Wow. That’ll stop the robocalls for sure. A commenter on Reddit pointed out the flaw in this act of gov’t propaganda: “… it turns out, some dude in India doesn’t really care about US laws.” Berners-Lee calls for “Magna Carta for the web” The Telegraph via Yahoo — Sir Tim Berners-Lee has launched a “Magna Carta for the web”, warning that tech giants must change their ways to save the online world from the dangerous forces they have unleashed. — Sir Tim, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, called for a “revolution” in how the internet is regulated and monetised in order to stem abuse, political polarisation and fake news. — The 63-year-old was speaking at the Web Summit in Lisbon to launch a new “contract for the web” which asks internet companies to uphold a set of principles such as protecting privacy and being transparent about their algorithms. >>> Peak smartphone? Sales down again. Humans first footsteps on Mars could destroy any evidence of life By David Weintraub, professor of astronomy, Vanderbilt in The Conversation — The closest place in the universe where extraterrestrial life might exist is Mars, and human beings are poised to attempt to colonize this planetary neighbor within the next decade. Before that happens, we need to recognize that a very real possibility exists that the first human steps on the Martian surface will lead to a collision between terrestrial life and biota native to Mars. –If the red planet is sterile, a human presence there would create no moral or ethical dilemmas on this front. But if life does exist on Mars, human explorers could easily lead to the extinction of Martian life. McDonald’s sent worker home for being late — so he robbed another McDonald’s, cops say — David Gomez-Beltran had arrived the McDonald’s, still in uniform, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by KSAT, and at first told the manager that he was sent to the McDonald’s from another location to help with the dinner crowd. When the manager took him to the office to fill out the necessary paperwork for doing so, he pulled out a handgun and told her to give him all the money in the restaurant’s safe, according to the affidavit obtained by KSAT. — Managers of the McDonald’s at The Rim location recognized David Gomez-Beltran in security footage as the employee they sent home for being late the very same day, according to the sheriff’s office. Hundreds of booksellers strike back against Amazon — More than 450 antiquarian book dealers in at least 26 countries pulled their books off an Amazon subsidiary on Monday, an impromptu protest after the site abruptly said it would drop all sellers from several nations. — The flash strike against AbeBooks, which removed over 2.5 million books from the marketplace, is a rare concerted action by vendors against Amazon, which depends on third-party sellers for much of its merchandise and revenue. — The protest got its start after AbeBooks sent emails last month to booksellers in countries including South Korea, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia to say that it would no longer “support” them. — As the news spread, even unaffected dealers were surprised and angered. AbeBooks, together with Amazon itself, is by far the biggest international marketplace for secondhand and rare books. — AbeBooks lists millions of books and manages the payments. The booksellers mail the books directly from their shops. The platform was founded in 1995 and was bought by Amazon in 2008. It continues to operate independently, and many of its customers never even realize who the owner is. AbeBooks is based in Victoria, British Columbia, where it started. >>> Amazon may split second headquarters between two cities Most likely: Dallas and suburban DC. Ozone layer is healing, UN reports The so-called immigrant caravan is a fake problem … But the risk of a tidal wave of refugees heading for the US someday is high …. Venezuela, of course, makes Brazil look like paradise. Over two million Venezuelan refugees have left their country since 2014, as its self-imposed economic and political crisis has deepened. America is lucky that most of them are trying to get to Medellin, not Miami. — It is the long-term trajectory of Latin America that should really worry Americans. There is little reason for optimism about the future of most countries in the Western Hemisphere. While globalization and a winners-take-all economy are hollowing out America’s middle class, these dynamics are likely to have catastrophic effects on Latin America’s even more unequal societies. — The ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution will stall and reverse many of the gains poorer countries have made through comparative advantage and globalization. A great deal of manufacturing will probably return to the United States and Europe, particularly if political or environmental events cause significant disruptions to global supply chains. — American tariffs may accelerate this process, but it is technologies like artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and driverless cars that will lead to a hemorrhaging of low- and medium-skill jobs. This will happen long before Latin American countries can manage even a modest imitation of East Asia’s export-led growth. >>> So-called caravan poses no risk to US, but troop deployment will cost $220 million How Congress Stopped Working Today’s legislative branch, far from the model envisioned by the founders, is dominated by party leaders and functions as a junior partner to the executive, according to an analysis by The Washington Post and ProPublica. — For more than 200 years, Congress operated largely as the country’s founders envisioned — forging compromises on the biggest issues of the day while asserting its authority to declare war, spend taxpayer money and keep the presidency in check. — Today, on the eve of a closely fought election that will determine who runs Capitol Hill, that model is effectively dead. It has been replaced by a weakened legislative branch in which debate is strictly curtailed, party leaders dictate the agenda, most elected representatives rarely get a say and government shutdowns are a regular threat due to chronic failures to agree on budgets, according to a new analysis of congressional data and documents by The Washington Post and ProPublica. Lakes on Mars? No, but there used to be Inside Tesla factory: A medical clinic designed to ignore worker injuries — When a worker gets smashed by a car part on Tesla’s factory floor, medical staff are forbidden from calling 911 without permission. — The electric carmaker’s contract doctors rarely grant it, instead often insisting that seriously injured workers – including one who severed the top a finger – be sent to the emergency room in a Lyft. — Injured employees have been systematically sent back to the production line to work through their pain with no modifications, according to former clinic employees, Tesla factory workers and medical records. Some could barely walk. — The on-site medical clinic serving some 10,000 employees at Tesla Inc.’s California assembly plant has failed to properly care for seriously hurt workers, an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. Non-stop ads and robocalls: welcome to America’s costliest election Reuters via Yahoo … “The mailers go in the trash,” she said. “I can’t wait until this whole thing is over.” The contest in her California district, a top Democratic target, has drawn more than $26 million in spending by candidates and outside groups since January 2017, according to a Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission (FEC) data. — It leads the 10 priciest House races, where a total of $238 million has been spent. Older workers replacing teens at fast-food joints — Fast-food chains are recruiting in senior centers and churches. They’re placing want ads on the website of AARP, an advocacy group for Americans over 50. Recruiters say older workers have soft skills—a friendly demeanor, punctuality—that their younger cohorts sometimes lack. — Two powerful trends are at work: a labor shortage amid the tightest job market in almost five decades, and the propensity for longer-living Americans to keep working—even part-time—to supplement often-meager retirement savings. In the Deep South, residents of an upscale suburb fight to secede from “those people” — When Vikki Consiglio exits her subdivision next to the Eagle’s Landing Country Club, leaving behind a neighborhood of neatly manicured lawns, circular driveways and golf fairways, she cannot help feeling a wave of disappointment. — “I see the Waffle Houses and the McDonald’s, the Walmart and the dollar stores,” she said. “I’m thinking, ‘Is this all I can have?’ There’s no fresh farm-to-table, no parks, no entertainment.” — In what she says is a bid to attract more upscale amenities to this rapidly developing suburb about 20 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta, Consiglio has come up with a controversial plan: to form a new city, Eagle’s Landing, by combining unincorporated pockets of the county with the most affluent parts of the existing city of Stockbridge. — The proposal to form a new city, up for a vote on Tuesday, has roiled Henry County, raising tense debate about racial and economic disparity and voting rights. Drunk dude arrested after nabbing a horse at Churchill Downs, heading for the track. Lexington Herald-Leader Driver was “huffing” before killing 3 girl scouts — The driver of a pickup was “huffing” chemicals before slamming into a group of Girl Scouts collecting trash near a rural Wisconsin road, killing three children and a chaperone, authorities said Monday. — Colten Treu, 21, was being held on four counts of homicide by negligent use of a motor vehicle, five counts of hit and run and four counts of homicide while intoxicated. — Hallie Lake Police Chief Cal Smokowicz said the victims were wearing green “highly visible” safety vests and were working in a ditch beyond the road and its gravel shoulder at the time of Saturday’s crash. He said Treu’s black F-150 veered out of its lane, crossed the center line and the opposing lane before roaring across the shoulder and into the ditch. Maine’s wonderful governor can’t wait to move to Florida so he can pay less tax Press Herald — Now in the final two months of his eight years in the governor’s mansion, LePage said he was “talking to a couple of universities” about teaching in Florida from September through April, but he would not identify the schools. LePage and his wife, Ann, already own a house in Florida and often vacation there. He said he would be in Maine from April to September. — Asked where he would maintain his legal residency, LePage replied Florida. — “I’ll tell you very, very simply: I have a house in Florida. I will pay no income tax and the house in Florida’s property taxes are $2,000 less than we were paying in Boothbay,” LePage said. “At my age, why wouldn’t you conserve your resources and spend it on family (rather) than spend it on taxes?” Previous Previous post: Weekend	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1638
__label__cc	0.602182	0.397818	Home » Blog » Five Minutes with RHIÉ ← → Apr 15, 2015 Five Minutes with RHIÉ What began as a knitwear capsule collection in 2011 has grown into one of our favourite new designers of late. New York-based RHIÉ now includes everything a modern woman needs in her wardrobe and has become renowned for refined pieces, subtle details and precision tailoring. The label receives praise on Style.com each season and recently won a number of awards at the Milan Fashion Film Festival for The Purgatory of Monotony, starring Sonja Kinski and directed by Ace Norton. Don't miss that link, it's fabulous and definitely worth watching. We also love RHIÉ for the fact that the designer is just as lovely and inspiring as the clothes. We met Rie Yamagata in New York City when we first saw the collection. After studying at Parsons in New York and London's renowned Central Saint Martins, Rie worked with such labels as 3.1 Phillip Lim and Tsumori Chisato before starting her own. We love this girl just as much as we love her designs, so we caught up with her for a few questions behind the scenes. 1) What drew you to fashion in the very beginning? My father is a visual artist and my mother's family was in the textile industry so it's in my genetics but it's also being exposed to art when growing up. 2) What were the most important things you learned while working for fashion labels like 3.1 Phillip Lim and Tsumori Chisato? Working for other companies taught me about the business aspect of fashion, working with timelines and merchandising and budgets. Also how to communicate with vendors. 3) Where does the name RHIÉ come from? It comes from my name Rie. I didn't want to use my real name and I like the visual balance of adding the "h" making it four letters. I like that it's language-less and you can't tell where it's from, so you can sculpt the image of the brand. 4) What are you best-selling styles? We are known for our sweaters firstly and also shirting groups. We always try to have a unique aspect derived from classical details when designing in those areas, using great quality yarns and fabrics that mostly come from Italy and Japan. 5) Tell us about your personal style. Do you have a uniform? I like to keep my personal wardrobe very minimal and simple so as not to distract from the design process. I normally have so many decisions that need to be made on a daily basis that choosing what to wear is something I want to not have to worry about. Or I'll wear RHIÉ to test out the clothes and make sure the wearability is okay and that they look good on. I wear a lot of gold rings on my index fingers. 6) West coast or east coast? The Best Coast is the West Coast but I am in love with the East Coast. 7) Where can we find you on your days off? I go to flea markets and flower markets. I like to spend time in nature during my days off. Visit rhiestudio.com to learn more. Shop Spring 2015 from RHIÉ.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1639
__label__wiki	0.663229	0.663229	Category: Baltimore Colts Posted on September 9, 2018 May 16, 2018 UNUSUAL REDLANDS MATCHUP … IN BALTIMORE? Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf’s U.S. Open and the Olympics, plus NCAA Final Four connections, NASCAR, the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown It was Sept. 9, 1979. City of Baltimore, Md. Site was Memorial Stadium. Second week of the NFL season. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers in town to play the Colts. The Colts’ Ted Marchibroda were taking on John McKay’s Bucs. Among all the other pre-game notes was this zany little matchup: Two kids from Redlands High School were playing against each other. Brian De Roo, a second-year wide receiver who had been traded from the New York Giants, was standing on one sideline. On the other sideline was none other than Greg Horton, whose NFL career had gone from Chicago to Los Angeles and, eventually, to the Bucs. Final score that day: Tampa Bay 29, Baltimore 26. It took overtime to pull it off. There might’ve been a curious thing that took place. Baltimore, trailing 26-17, sent its second-year receiver, De Roo, down the right sideline. Colts’ QB Greg Landry delivered the pass. Caught. Down the sideline. Chased by defenders. Touchdown. One night later, that Landry-to-DeRoo touchdown made the Monday Night Football halftime highlights. Legendary ABC-TV sportscaster Howard Cosell delivered the words from that highlight. Howard Cosell put Brian De Roo’s name on national TV on September 10, 1979. (Photo by Wikipedia Commons) Cosell: “De Roo … could … go … all … the … way!” He did. When the game concluded, the Bucs had themselves a 29-26 overtime win that might have lifted this team’s confidence. Now into their fourth season after entering via a 1976 expansion – along with the Seattle Seahawks – McKay’s steady was starting to make its mark. Tampa Bay was a possible playoff team. First, though, they had to start winning games. Baltimore, a perennial contender, was standing in their way at Week 2. The two Redlanders had gotten into the NFL by far different paths. Horton, a 1969 Redlands High grad, chose Colorado as his collegiate destination. It was in that raucous, hard-hitting Big Eight Conference – dominated for years by Nebraska and Oklahoma – that helped develop his game. Enough so that in 1974, George “Papa Bear” Halas chose Horton in the third round of the NFL draft. Unlike Horton, who had long been a Redlands High prize, De Roo didn’t make the Terrier varsity until halfway through his senior season. Since Redlands rarely put the ball in the air, it should’ve been a complete surprise that he’d wind up leading Redlands in receptions that season. At college selection time, De Roo wasn’t even planning on football. He’d chosen Cal Poly San Luis Obispo before University of Redlands coach Frank Serrao convinced him to play for the Bulldogs. That he would eventually elevate himself into the NFL draft, 1978, was extraordinary. A year after that, Horton v De Roo was taking place in Baltimore. In that game, DeRoo snagged three passes for 81 yards in that game – perhaps his best game ever. Horton, meanwhile, was part of the Bucs’ strength – an offensive line that propelled the likes of Ricky Bell to a thousand-yard season. In that game, however, Baltimore held him to 34 yards, plus another 56 yards on three receptions. Bell racked up 1,263 yards that season, helping Tampa Bay into the NFL playoffs for the first time ever. Horton also blocked for Doug Williams, the ex-Grambling QB taken in the first round of the 1977 draft. Eventually, Williams would follow Bucs’ offensive coordinator Joe Gibbs to the Washington Redskins. On that date, Sept. 9, 1979, Redlands stood tall in the NFL when De Roo and Horton connected. It was, said DeRoo, “the only time Greg and I ever played against each other in an NFL game. The only thing was that he only lasted one play. He shoved one of the referees and got thrown out of the game.” DeRoo, for his part, caught only one pass the rest of the season. Footnote: Baltimore continued to a Redlands connection, especially when Brian Billick turned up to coach the Baltimore Ravens to the 2001 Super Bowl championship. On that team was yet another Redlands connection, speedy wide receiver Patrick Johnson.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1641
__label__wiki	0.757608	0.757608	AMP announces 2019 Curatorial Committee From avagnoni communications Mar 28, 2019 of music and advertising pros will review judging results, evaluate category winners and select “Best in Show.” The AMP Awards for Music & Sound has released the lineup for its 2019 Curatorial Committee. Selected by members of the AMP Awards Committee in consultation with AMP Awards Show Chair Katy Hornaday, EVP and Executive Creative Director at the independent agency Barkley, the panel will review all category finalists and choose the competition’s coveted Best in Show winner. In addition to announcing its curatorial roster, the AMP Awards is also nowa ccepting ticket orders for its May 21st awards show at Sony Hall in New York, which promises to be a sell-out. 2019 AMP AWARDS SIZZLE VIDEO Comprised of top ad agency creatives and producers, post production artists and executives from music companies, record label and music publishers, the Curatorial Committee includes the following: Morgan Taylor Bradley, Editor, Cutters Amanda Butts, Group Creative Director, Leo Burnett Liz Cartwright, Creative Director, TBWA\Chiat\Day, L.A. Karen Goodman, Group Creative Director, Havas, Chicago Keith D’Arcy, SVP, Commercial Synch, Kobalt Music Stephanie Diaz-Matos, Music Supervisor, Bonfire Collective Marianna Dutra, VP/Creative Director, Publicis, New York Paul Greco, Executive Director of Music & Audio, Wunderman Thompson, New York Cyndi Goretski, VP Branding & Advertising Warner Music Group Tom Eaton, SVP of Music for Advertising, Universal Music Publishing Melany Esfeld, Head of Production, Barkley Claude Mitchell, Senior Music Director, ESPN Halle Petro, Executive Creative Producer, Sonic Union Nick Sonderup, Creative Director, Pereira & O’Dell, New York Maggie Wasserman, Executive Producer, Garmin International “Once again we’ve assembled a Curatorial Committee that reflects an impressive cross-section of our industry,” says AMP President Elad Marish, Partner at Swell Music + Sound in San Francisco. “Its members are all experts at putting music and sound to picture to create something larger than the sum of its parts. With their guidance, our competition will single out the strongest entry in each category, and ensure that those doing the best work get their moment in the sun.” 2017 AMP BEST OF SHOW ADIDAS ORIGINALS \| SOUND BY HUMAN Adds Hornaday, “I’m looking forward to our discussions about the work, and hearing the diverse perspectives from all the different areas of the music business that are represented. I’ve judged a lot of awards shows, but this is the first time I’ll be presiding over a panel that includes people from music labels and publishing companies, as well as agency creatives and producers. I’m eager to tap into everyone’s insights as we search for that one entry destined to be the Best in Show.” Katy Hornaday The only juried, non-profit competition dedicated to honoring achievements in music and sound in all media, the AMP Awards are sponsored by the Association of Music Producers. AMP Awards trophies, and their accompanying everlasting fame, will be presented at a gala awards bash set for Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at Sony Hall in New York. Among the highlights of the night will be the presentation of the AMP Hall of Fame trophy, bestowed upon an innovative marketer in recognition of its continued use of music and sound in building strong consumer engagement. The event also includes live performances from up-and-coming artists, hence known as being “the loudest show in the ad industry.” To purchase tickets for the event, click here. For For more information on AMP, visit www.ampnow.com About AMP The Association of Music Producers was founded in 1997 for the purpose of educating its members, as well as the production, advertising and media communities, on all facets of music production, from creation to final use. A national organization, it has chapters in New York and Los Angeles and member representation in cities across the country. From business matters such as production guidelines, composer royalties and music rights agreements to educational seminars, fund-raising events and the industry’s most respected celebration of excellence – The AMP Awards – AMP has turned up the volume on the things that matter most. Send your audio updates to Reel Chicago Editor Dan Patton, dan@reelchicago.com. Pingback: AMP announces 2019 Curatorial Committee()	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1642
__label__wiki	0.90909	0.90909	Algeria protests 24 Algerian police officers wounded in protest Algeria protestsInternational ALGIERS: At least 24 police officers have been wounded in clashes with protesters rallying against unemployment in central Algeria, state media reported Wednesday. Demonstrators in the central Tinerkouk area have been blocking access to an oil company since mid-April, demanding jobs in the industry. The ongoing rally has largely paralysed work at the site, according to the official APS news agency, prompting police to move in and disperse it on Tuesday. Demonstrators blocked access to the local government offices, setting fire to the buildings and looting them when the police intervened, according to APS. Private television channel Dzair News broadcast images of a government building in flames and protesters blocking the road with burning tyres. A number of demonstrators were hurt in the clashes, APS reported, during which police respond to stone-throwing with tear gas. Four of the 24 officers wounded sustained serious injuries. A quarter of Algerians under 30 are unemployed and there have been regular protests in the resource-rich centre and south of the country over a lack of development and jobs. The clashes in Tinerkouk follow months of protests in Algeria against the ruling elite that have prompted the departure of longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Algerians are scheduled to elect a new leader on July 4. The post 24 Algerian police officers wounded in protest appeared first on ARYNEWS. Madrassas registration centres to be established in all provinces: sources UK’s May ‘deeply concerned’ for British Council staffer jailed in Iran Mexico rejects new US asylum restrictions Taliban bomb kills at least 11 in Kandahar: officials	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1644
__label__cc	0.565067	0.434933	Jackson Hole Ski Patrol: Best Job Ever? by Dina Mishev Reed Finlay hauling a toboggan filled with gear. Reed Finlay Reed Finlay moved to Jackson Hole in 1992. The summer after graduating with a history degree from Davidson College in his home state of North Carolina, Finlay worked at a dude ranch in Montana. Some of the other ranch hands had worked at ski resorts in Colorado, and they made being a 'liftie' sound like the ultimate job for someone who wanted to ski. Finlay wanted to ski. That following winter, 1992/1993, he found himself living in Jackson Hole and bumping chairs on Après Vous, at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. His breaks were other people’s vacations, skiing some of the best in-bounds terrain in the country. But Finlay didn’t want to bump chairs forever. From liftie, he worked his way up to foreman and started working as an auxiliary ski patroller. Since 2005, he’s been a full-time JHMR Ski Patroller. We caught him one morning when he was on base patrol. Since there hadn’t been any new snow for a couple of days, he had some time to talk. Fooling around doing chairlift work. Reed Finlay Is being a patroller as cool as we think it is? Yeah. I think it is. It's kind of a dream job. You can be all over the mountain. You're not micro-managed. You throw explosives. You help with first aid and you help rescue people. Can you pick a favorite part? Well, I didn’t even mention all the skiing we get to do. Jerry Blann [the resort president] calls it “sampling the product.” If nothing is really happening, we’ve got the freedom to go out and ski. You can’t ski just anywhere, you have to stay near your station, but you’re still out skiing. Of course, if someone’s injured or lost, we’re not out skiing—our first priority is always injuries and safety—but we do get to take runs more often than not. Even when we’re out doing a job—putting up signs or setting boundaries—we do that and then we have to do a run to get back to our station. Something about the job has to suck, right? Telling people to slow down—we call it the “no fun patrol”—or telling them they can’t build a jump somewhere. It’s not that it’s hard, but it’s not fun. We don’t want to be an enemy, but we’ve got slow signs and closed signs for reasons. And then sometimes the weather isn’t the best, say it’s like minus 25 and it hasn’t snowed in 2 weeks. You’re just skiing the same hardpack or coral reef. If someone gets injured at the top of [Rendezvous] Bowl in those conditions and you have to bring them down in a toboggan, that can be hard. Getting some powder while on the job. Reed Finlay How good of a skier does a patroller have to be? Are you guys the best skiers on the mountain? What I’ve personally learned is that it’s good to be efficient. As you get older, you really want to protect your back. You want to be a strong, powerful skier, not necessarily graceful. You want to be able to transport a heavy patient in a toboggan to the clinic without incident-- perfect form is irrelevant in these situations! You mention getting older. What’s the average age of patrollers at Jackson? I don’t know that this is accurate, but it’s what my sense is—maybe early 40's. 42 or so? What’s the average tenure of a JHMR ski patroller? Having done exchanges at three resorts—Taos, Telluride and Solitude—I’ve found that we don’t have as much turnover. Workers here love the job and the place so much. There are still a few trollers that have been around since the early 70s. You mentioned explosives earlier... Bombs are pretty standard as far as [avalanche] reduction. We have different sizes. A two-pound shot is common. They’re made in the morning to be used that day. It’s not like they’re just sitting around ready to go. A crew makes them every day. Some are thrown from the tram. We also use cable trolleys for very effective airblasts. Everyone has their control route. I’m route 8, which includes the Headwall. Throwing them, basically they’re like hand grenades. There’s a protocol to follow every time you light one. We have to take a class and we’re all certified by the ATF. We do a refresher every fall. The bombs are definitely the dirty part of the job. Doing work above Corbet’s Couloir. Reed Finlay Are they hard to throw? It helps to have a good throwing arm, but most important is knowing where you need to throw one—having a good sense of where the snow has built up. What’s the biggest slide you’ve triggered with a bomb? I used to be on route 2, and that covers Tower 3 chute. The same day [Couloir] restaurant got hit by a Headwall slide, we got a massive amount to go at the bottom of Tower 3. We were worried about the top too—hang fire. We built on the spot a pretty good size charge—we taped some bombs together. 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__label__wiki	0.601405	0.601405	Board index Advanced Advanced OOC Friends in the Void [OOC] 2.0 Ramjammer Location: I don't even know anymore Contact Ramjammer Post by Ramjammer » Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:06 am Key Info for setting and character sheets here. Since this is a 1x1 I don't see the need for a separate character board. Link to IC Board: https://rp-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=11082 Located on the Eastern Seaboard, the City of Arnvista is a bustling metropolis that boasts a population of 10 million. The site of Apex Implementations' Corporate Headquarters, the sprawling city is home to people from all walks of life As diverse in its architecture as it is in its people, the city gives across a patchwork feel, sleek and post-modern skyscrapers stand side by side with traditional centuries-old stonework. Despite this, Arnvista is by and large a modern and thriving city, supporting a wide variety of facilities from state of the art hospitals and expansive public libraries to its very own seaport. The city isn’t all high-rising neatness, however, and while being a very prosperous city, it still holds many problems and secrets beneath the shadow of the city's many skyscrapers. CEO:Lorette Lècuyer. Board of Directors: Russel Butler. Naomi Mekhdiev. Bohai Hao. Edgar Collins. Major Subdivisions: Private Security. Weapons development and testing. Transport. Owned Subsidiaries: Waylight Security. Lebadev Armaments. Northfarer Transport. Apex Implementations, once called Apex Security Services, was founded 91 years ago by Ford Buckman. At the time, it was a small Private Security business, with a scant 38 employees headquartered in a single office. Since its inception, Apex Implementations has grown into an international Conglomerate and stands as a major force within the Corporate Sector. Apex Implementations is a large player in both Corporate and Private Sectors. Providing Security, Military Grade weaponry production, and Transportation. It has recently started to expand its weapons department, an ever-growing and evolving market in the World’s Economy. Rasteva is quite confident and self-assured as most of their kind tend to be, and rarely if ever doubts in themselves or their abilities. An exceptionally long existence has granted Rasteva with learning and experience unfathomable to shorter-lived races. This of course also comes a high degree of arrogance, though they feel it to be completely deserved as many Daemons are prone to. This has also led to Rasteva being exceptionally set in their own ways, and changing their opinion on nearly anything is a hard fought battle, and more often than not is a lost cause. While not prone to starting fights or causing trouble for others, Rasteva can show a terrifying lack of empathy for anyone not deemed an immediate ally. The Daemon can be as ruthless in regular interaction as they are in combat, caring nothing for the motives or ideals of their opponents. Rasteva has no qualms about killing in the slightest, and won't even make excuses for doing so beyond that it was convenient for them to do so at the time. Rasteva will only ever act in a manner that is beneficial to them and their continued existence. To Rasteva the only thing that matters and will always matter is Rasteva. They make no pains to compare the lives of others to their own, as the Daemon's life is the only one worth considering and holds value immeasurable. Good and Evil are the same thing to the Daemon, and as such makes no effort to differentiate between the two. The only things that Rasteva makes any effort to distinguish from each other are things that can be made use of, and things that have no use at all. Anything found to be wholly useless is cast aside without a second thought. Name: Lorette Lècuyer Occupation: CEO of Apex Implementations. Place of Residence: As far as everyone that knows her is aware, she sleeps under her desk. Daemon:Tasosael Tasosael Lorette: Lorette Lècuyer is known to be both fiercely ambitious and intelligent, and at first glance seems to be rigid in her bearing and possesses a rather cool demeanor. Her voice is noticeably deep and her mere presence commands the respect of those under her. Past outward glances Lorette has proven to be both patient and kind, speaking openly with any that would ask for her time. She believes fully in the potential of others and takes great pains to nurture that potential to the fullest in all that serve under her. Many have found her presence to be both calming and reassuring, though there is a noticeable intensity in both her gaze and mannerisms. Despite her constant efforts to see her own ambitions brought to fruition, Lorette operates by a strict code of honor and conduct and has a strong dislike of underhanded tactics, something virtually unheard of in the Corporate Sector. However, due to both necessity for such behavior and Tasosael's own urging, Lorette often finds herself engaging in the same dirty tactics she despises due to their deep entrenchment in her type of business. This has become a moral dilemma for her and she often broods over it as a result. Lorette, however, has no qualms in combating anyone that stands in the way of her ambitions, whatever they may be. Be it in the Boardroom, or if she's allowed to have her way, the Arena, anyone that disagrees with her is considered both an opponent and an obstacle to be removed in short order. Lorette cannot abide by failure, either personal or from her Employees and will cast aside anyone unable to prove their worth to her without a second thought. Apex Implementations has always, and will always be her driving force and only concern. Lorette works tirelessly to push the Company towards a brighter future and is more than willing to leave behind anyone she has deemed unfit to see it. The Media has never been sure what to make of Lorette as she takes great pains to ensure her privacy, though more often than not she is framed as nothing more than a greed driven Corporate Executive. Lorette shrugs this off with, practiced measure, caring of the public's opinion of her only enough to remain in its good graces. Tasosael: Possessing a Leonine appearance and a commanding presence, Tasosael's presence tends to inspire fear within friend and foe alike. The Daemon's proud stature and stern air is seemingly a perfect fit for his human partner, and like Lorette he seeks only the best in those that surround him, especially from his own kind. Tasosael's brilliant silver fur, almost always seems to be moving as if touched by a shifting breeze, even when indoors. This is particularly evident within his mane, which he constantly affirms is NOT soft, and that it's not to be petted under any circumstances. Lortted disagrees with this assessment. It is currently unknown how old Tasosael is, but he is rumored to have existed since the dawn of Human Civilization. Tasosael is not one for conversation and tends to be aloof, speaking only at length to Lorette and only to others when absolutely needed though he has proven to be very intelligent and well spoken. He has a particular interest in Human Politics and often wonders both aloud and privately how such a system might be applied to the masses of Daemons on Earth. Like Lorette, Tasosael operates on a Code of Conduct, those his is not nearly as rigid as Lorette's. A fervent believer in War being the natural order, Tasosael craves combat in all forms, and looks for any and every opportunity to test his might. Tasosael can only make the distinction between those who are worthy, and those who are unworthy. Anyone claiming to have worth, should be ready and waiting to prove it at a moment's notice. How Lorette came to acquire Apex Implementations is crouched in both mystery and conjecture. Before taking the helm as the corporation's CEO, Apex had been a family owned business since the day of its inception. At some point before his death, the aging CEO David Buckley saw to it that all of the Company holdings and assets were turned over to Lorette the current CEO of the smaller Private Security Company, Waylight Security. In the process he passed over his four children, leaving them angry and confused. But none more so than his eldest son, Harlan Buckley. The ensuing legal battle was incredibly ugly, but Lorette never once faltered and was ultimately victorious. Legally, the acquisition was airtight, and despite their digging, the Buckley family could not find a single loose end. On paper, all it seemed was that one CEO had passed his assets off to a qualified candidate within the same business as him. Behind closed doors, the rumors only flew. Lorette was both a stranger and an outsider. And never before had she been observed doing business with David Buckley. Her appearance around the time of his death and subsequently absconding with his business was a severe point of contention. Lorette was presumed everything from the dead man's Mistress to his Illegitimate Daughter and whatever could possibly lie between. Her silence on the matter only served to infuriate the Buckley Family even more. And yet despite all this Apex Implementations only continued to grow and flourish under Lorette's guidance and remains a major force within the Corporate sector. Lorette's own company, Waylight Security is now the main subsidiary and has become the Security force within Apex while the business branches out into other avenues. David Buckley's family had long since grown silent, but some wonder if they might return again. David's eldest son, Harlan swore that he would one day take back from Lorette what she'd stolen from his family and has thus far not forgotten that promise despite having yet to act on it. Lorette met Tasosael over 8 years ago while on a Business trip to China. It is currently unknown what transpired between the two of them while she was there, but an accord was met and the Daemon has not left her side ever since. Name:Allister Schoen Occupation:Personal Assistant to Lorette Lècuyer Place of Residence:Tuxedo Junction, given all the time that he spends there. Daemon:Faendr Allister Faendr Allister: Allister has known Lorette personally since he was a child. Allister carries himself with a great deal of refinement, though unlike Lorette, Allister tends to be more easygoing and approachable. Polite and affable, Allister enjoys conversation at length and will often invite others to Tea in order to engage in idle chatter. Allister has a deep appreciation for beautiful things and tends to be fastidious in the manner in which he dresses and conducts himself in public. This along with a particular charm tends to draw people to him like moths to a flame, though he doesn't mind. He would describe himself as 'charismatic' but close friends often refer to him as an attention whore. This coupled with his insistence on maintaining certain aesthetic causes Allister to bump heads with less than refined employees of Apex, and on more than one occasion Lorette has had to step in and reign in his behavior. Despite this Allister has nothing but the utmost respect in Lorette and trusts her wholeheartedly, and she returns this trust and respect in full. Faendr: This Daemon takes on the form of a ghostly Stag, and indeed their passing is marked by an ethereal fog settling over the area. Like Allister, Faendr is overly concerned with keeping appearances and dignity. As such, Faendr strictly judges other Daemons based upon the physical forms that they choose to take and has no love for those deemed too hideous or unrefined for their company. Faendr can be somewhat stern and is rather standoffish towards anyone that isn't Allister. Unlike their Human partner, Faendr will not be seen speaking at great length with anyone over tea, though they do enjoy the attention of others especially any kind of praise. The Daemon enjoys being in the spotlight and showing off and so they will not be found turning down the opportunity to fight. When they are not manifesting a physical form, Faendr resides in a Stag shaped pin on Allister's lapel. Allister is a fervent believer in Lorette's ambitions and sees the introduction of Daemons into society as a step towards a bright and glorious future for Humanity as a whole. As such he is more than happy to enforce Lorette's will if it means bringing those that would stand in the way of this future to heel. His even temper and refined attitude would not cause one to immediately peg Allister as being combat oriented, nor does he carry and weaponry like other Apex employees and yet this does not make him any less dangerous. He and his Daemon are both of the opinion that fighting is not an act of violence, so much as it is an artful display meant to be observed by all. A display that Allister is more than happy give whether the recipient is willing or not. Allister was born to working-class parents int he city of Arnvista and while their life was not particularly glamorous, the young boy did not want for anything. Despite this Allister dreamed of far more than what his humble beginnings afforded him. There were many nights that Allister would sit at his bedroom window and stare at the twinkling lights of Arnvista's many skyscrapers and wondered if there would come a day that he would shine as brightly. It was during a trip to the park during a lovely Spring day that Allister met Faendr. The Boy was immediately drawn to the Stag's ethereal form and stunning presence, much to the Daemon's chagrin. Faendr attempted to shoo Allister away with little success as they boy promptly declared that they were friends. The Stag's irritation was somewhat alleviated by the boy's constant awe and assurances that Faendr was 'The prettiest Deer in the world!' and over time and after many daily visits, the Daemon came to tolerate Allister. The Boy's parents would laugh at Alliser's exclamations that he'd made friends with a ghostly Stag, thinking it nothing more than a child's overactive imagination. Name:Audrey Kinnaird Occupation:Junior Security Officer-Apex Implementations Place of Residence:The Gym, Bro. Daemon:Sanzir Sanzir Audrey: Hot-Blooded and unyielding, Audrey Kinnaird is a force to be reckoned with on and off the battlefield. The woman's crass manner is abrasive to many, but those that truly know her speak highly of her loyalty and unwavering conviction. Audrey is significantly more casual in manner and behavior than her coworkers, often not bothering with honorifics or titles. Because of this, she is by far the most approachable of her team. She is loud to talk and quick to boast, and even quicker to come to blows with those that have wronged her. Audrey has always preferred to punch first and ask questions later, much to the chagrin of her superiors. But her heart has always been in the right place, and the woman's actions are always motivated by the desire to do right by those around her. True to form, Audrey is a fighter at heart and is always looking for a means to test her strength. Audrey is well versed in several Martial Arts and when she utilizes Sanzir's ever burning flames, she is capable of delivering devastating unarmed strikes with hands and feet wreathed in fire. Sanzir: Sanzir, much like Audrey is very friendly and they are quite empathetic to others. A chatterbox to the core, the large bird will talk to anyone and everyone, regardless of if they're listening or not. Sanzir is best described as a 'creature driven by emotion' and they feel very strongly about many things. Never one to do anything halfway, Sanzir fully believes that if one gives all that they are, others will do so in return. This is very well illustrated in their personal bond with their Human partner. Sanzir understands Audrey in a way no one else can and vice versa. They play best off of each other's feelings in the midst of battle, and such is their connection that Sanzir does not require verbal commands or even gestures to understand what Audrey requires of them. When they are not manifesting their physical form, Sanzir retreats into a tattoo on Audrey's back that depicts a Phoenix with wings outstretched. Audrey is a fairly recent hire of Apex implementations, joining only a scant year and a half ago. She caught Lorette's eye during a particularly grueling MMA Title Match and though Audrey's spirit burned brightly that day, she was ultimately defeated. While Audrey was rather despondent about the loss, Lorette saw in the younger woman great promise and even greater power. Never one to miss out on a profitable opportunity, the CEO was quick to bring Audrey on board and had her placed directly under the watchful eye of her Chief of Security as an intern. Since then Audrey has been promoted to a Junior Officer, and answers to the Chief of Security and in the event of his absence, his Lieutenant. Name:Nikhil Bhattacharya Occupation:Head of Research and Development-Apex Implementations Place of Residence:Apartment within the Business District Daemon:Eson Nikhil(Masked) Nikhil(Unmasked) Eson Nikhil: Nikhil is a soft-spoken man and is not one to be overly emotional. He does, however, tend to ramble on excitedly when speaking about his points of interest, and will easily talk the ear off of anyone that will listen. Nikhil's research into Daemons and all corresponding technology keeps him very busy and he has little time for socializing. Though he is well mannered and polite, Nikhil can be overwhelmingly blunt to the point of rudeness and on more than one occasion has a joke flown completely over his head. Despite this, or because of it, other members of Lorette's core team can often be seen coming and going from Nikhil's Lab to bother him. These spontaneous visits would irritate him greatly at first, but over the years he has grown accustomed to them and now enjoys them a great deal though he'd never openly admit it. Nikhil is not a combatant by his own choice, though when he was first hired Lorette did stress the importance of learning the ins and outs of Daemon battling to better understand them. Since then Nikhil has become better versed in fighting alongside a Daemon, though he and his partner prefer to operate in a defensive manner rather than go on the offensive. The Visor that Nikhil wears was specifically created to better track the separate movements of Eson's 20 arms as doing so without it leaves him disoriented and sometimes makes him ill. The Visor is indispensable both in and out of battle, as it feeds the Engineer a constant stream of data from his surroundings and aids in his research and as such he is rarely seen out of it. Eson: An oddity even by the standards of Daemons, Eson is known to be both infuriatingly vague and prone to overwhelming others with mountains of information at the same time. Like Nikhil, Eson is remarkably brilliant and seeks knowledge unheard of before. Eson is like most Daemons in that all they know about Humanity comes from strict observation over a long period of time. When Humanity and Daemons first came together in an effort to gain a better understanding of each other, Eson was very excited, eager to finally gain a hands-on understanding of Humans. It is for this reason that they work so well with Nikhil and eagerly answers all the man's questions so long as he answers theirs in turn. Together the two of them have made massive strides towards better bridging the gap between their two species and are constantly working towards building a bright future for both Humans and Daemonkind As far as appearances go, Eson rests at the upper limits of Humanity's ability to comprehend the incomprehensible. Eson possesses 20 humanoid arms, each one moving and acting of its own accord and claims that manifesting any more would render any Human that looked upon them completely mad. Like Nikhil, Eson does not engage in combat often and devotes their time to study and research alongside their Human partner, only fighting to garner information used to further the pair's study on the capabilities on Daemons in general. In battle, Eson uses their many limbs to grapple opponents and deflect strikes rather than outwardly attacking. Their vast number of limbs are also disorienting to Human opponents, and their constant movements can be disorienting as Humans cannot focus on each one separately. When they are not manifesting a physical form, Eson retreats into the Visor that Nikhil is often seen wearing. If not that, Eson will retreat into a simple Tungsten ring that Nikhil wears on his right hand. A brilliant Mechanical Engineer and self-proclaimed Daemon enthusiast, Nikhil Bhattacharya heads the Research and Development division of Apex Implementations. Nikhil was not always an employee of Apex Implementations, and at one point even worked for one of their competitors. This all changed however when Lorette made contact with the man, revealing to him the existence of Daemons, and Nikhil's interest in them was both immediate and all-consuming. Sensing an opportunity to delve into one of the greatest mysteries ever set before Humankind and attain knowledge unheard of, Nikhil resigned from his current position and immediately signed on with Apex Implementations. The power offered by Daemons intrigued the man greatly, and he saw within Lorette the opportunity to be at the forefront of any of Humanity's advancements made in their regard. The CEO knew in full that Nikhil would accept her offer, having already been aware of his work beforehand, and knowing that he was prone to a certain mysticism, an oddity within the scientific field. While Lorette might have been enthralled with Nikhil's work and enthusiasm, her Chief of Security was not and he openly questioned where Nikhil's loyalties might lay. His brilliance was obvious and Richard knew full well how much of an asset the man would be to Lorette, but Richard wondered if one day Nikhil might betray her in turn as he was so quick to leave his last employer without a backward glance. Nikhil swore to Lorette that all he desired was to continue his life's work and to hopefully usher in a new age of technology through the study of Daemons, seeing this as the single greatest opportunity that he would ever receive in his life. Swearing lifelong fealty to Lorette and that he had no desire to work anywhere else, Nikhil has remained with Apex ever since, always under the watchful eye of Richard The Engineer dove into his new work immediately and with a newfound vigor. Under his direction, the R&D Department has flourished, and Nikhil has made great strides in the field of Daemon Technologies. He is responsible for the advancements that allow for the scanning and containment of Daemons, technology that is becoming more and more necessary with each passing day. With the help of his Daemon partner Eson, Nikhil has delved into the sea of mysteries that surround Daemonkind and strives every day to delve ever deeper. His enthusiasm on the matter is always a note of concern for the Chief of Security, however, and Richard worries that Nikhil would go so far as to sell his own soul if it meant uncovering the secrets of Daemonkind. Name:Richard Solberg Occupation:Chief of Security-Apex Implementations Place of Residence:Like Lorette, he probably sleeps in his office Daemon:Afnet Afnet Richard: Tall, deep-voiced and foreboding, Richard Solberg cuts an imposing figure; as to be expected from the man bearing the title of Chief of Security at Apex Implementations. Richards maintains a stern and commanding presence within the offices of Apex HQ, a veritable army of Officers at his beck and call. The everyday stresses of Richard's work are not overly evident to many, as the man is nigh unflappable, to the point that it's become a running joke within the office. "The building could literally burst into flames, and Richard wouldn't even bat an eye." is a favored joke, but it seems to hold some bit of truth. No one can ever recall in recent history, a point in which Richard has become visibly upset. Despite almost always seeming irritable, Richard maintains a rather cool demeanor in the face of disaster and seems to view even the wost of problems as nothing more than minor inconveniences. Many assume that this stems from years of Military training and service, though Richard is quick to assure any that care to listen that he simply cannot afford to lose his temper with so many people relying on him. Gruff demeanor aside, Richard is a man of kindness and empathy and takes great strides to get to know the people that serve under him. Preferring to cultivate bonds of loyalty and trust with his subordinates, rather than the detachment that his Service drilled into him years prior. Richard is a man that leaves his door and ears open to any that need it, even while he works diligently to maintain the safety and security of the building and all that reside in it. A perceptive and cunning individual, it is said that there is nothing that escapes Richard's gaze. While this has earned him the respect and admiration of his subordinates, Richard's unwillingness to allow any that have roused his ire to escape his grasp is a source of fear for any that would oppose him. The Chief of Security is not one to release any prey that he has managed to capture, and will chase his quarry into Pits of Hell if need be. Afnet: A strange creature to be sure, Afnet's many heads and voices provide a constant source of confusion for all that come in contact with them. A lover of pranks and jokes, Afnet has a tendency to pop out of walls and floors, startling people for amusement. As to be expected of a creature with seven heads Afnet talks a great deal and is a source of near constant headaches for Richard. Their snake-like necks always twisting and turning, seeming ready to coil around anyone that draws too close, the Daemon's armored scales and massive fangs strike terror into many that gaze upon them, but it is Afnet's many voices that are the true danger. Capable of mimicking any voice that they hear, the Daemon has drawn many to their doom by pretending to be a friend or loved one. Afnet's necks can stretch to a great length, significantly more than the length of their projected form, often bringing forth the question of how big Afnet truly is. This allows Afnet to be in places that they conceivably should not be and they act as Richard's eyes and ears, relaying information back to the man and allowing him to move in and strike. Afnet and Richard are at their most dangerous, however, when they create music together. The Chief of Security constantly carries a Guitar Case with him, the instrument inside being where Afnet resides when they are not manifesting a physical form. When Richard strums one of the six strings on the guitar, one of Afnet's heads begins to sing. The potency and frequency of these songs vary based on how Richard chooses to play but they can have a variety of effects. The songs are capable of bolstering the strength of allies that hear them, causing Daemon and Human alike to fight with renewed fervor. More often than not, however, the songs are used to incite despair and terror with Richard's opponents. The Chief of Security will play six different notes, causing six of Afnet's heads to sing, pinning their quarry in place in a state of fear. The Seventh head then strikes. Richard did not always have the distinction of serving as Apex's Chief of Security, having served in the United States Military for years prior to his employment there. Richard's Military history is not particularly decorated or notable, his career being rather normal for men of his age within the service. He did not gain much notice until he returned to civilian life and began work in the Private Security sector. Noted for both his commitment and tenacity, Richard's ability to foresee, and subsequently stave off danger seemed almost supernatural at times. This did not escape Lorette Lècuyer's notice, the woman always eager to find talent wherever it might flourish and claim it for her own. Neither did it escape the notice of the Daemon Tasosael. In truth Afnet and Tasosael held a history that went on farther back than the dawn of Humanity, their fates intertwined from a single point long before Lorette and Richard were even alive. It took little urging from Tasosael to bring Richard aboard, and he has served as her Chief of Security since that day. Richard met Afnet 20 years ago under mysterious circumstances, though on one occasion Richard described the event as "A young fool making a deal with the Devil." Name:matsuko Oshiro Occupation:: Lieutenant Security Officer-Apex Implementations Place of Residence:Studio Apartment in the Entertainment District, like the hipster she is. Daemon:Sagaron Matsuko Sagaron Matsuko: An energetic and clever woman, Matsuko serves as the Lieutenant Security Officer and Richard's 2nd in command. Where Richard maintains a stern air about him, Matsuko is both cheery and sharp-tongued. The woman is prone to flinging barbed insults towards any that would rouse her ire to the point that Subordinates will flee the area should she be observed to be in a foul mood. Matsuko is infamous for drilling Apex's security forces to exhaustion, demanding excellence from each and every one of them. A lifelong practitioner of Kendo, Matsuko can often be seen in the HQ gym training alone or with Lorette. Like the CEO, Matsuko keeps a sword and scabbard tied to her hip. If Richard represents the eyes and ears of Apex, Matsuko bears the teeth and claws. She meets any and all opposition with a surprising level of ferocity, and like her superior Matsuko is unwilling to release any prey caught in her grasp. Her pugnacious attitude can come off abrasive to many, but none that have met her can doubt Matsuko's skill in battle, nor her commitment to her work. She gets on surprisingly well with Audrey, despite the two women butting heads more often than not. Much to the chagrin of Richard, the two of them have the habit of combining their efforts to annoy him and are often subject to stern lectures from him. While eager to see the future that Lorette wishes to bring to pass, Matsuko holds a great deal of skepticism. Not for the CEO or her ambitions, but of the idea that any would be worthy to see it. She remains silent on the manner, doing as she instructed, but Matsuko holds no qualms about disposing of any that are deemed unfit to see the future ushered in by Apex, and will gladly dispose of anyone deemed unworthy with the efficiency and brutality that she has come to be known for. Sagaron:Despite his otherwise fearsome appearance, Sagaoron is a very mild mannered Daemon. He speaks softly as if worried that he may frighten others and keeps close proximity to Matsuko at all times. The Daemon has a habit of 'swimming' through floors, walls, and ceilings to get from place to place, but will pull himself on land and propel himself forward with powerful limbs. Much like the Orcas that he resembles, Sagaron is very curious and will playfully bat and nudge objects that garner his interest. Unfortunately for foes, this behavior extends to battle and the Daemon is prone to playing with any prey that he catches. Sagaron operates will in conjunction with Afnet. The many-headed Daemon will scour the area for potential prey and direct Sagaron towards it. Sagaron's ability to attack from seemingly anywhere makes him a fearsome combatant, and he is favored for his ability to get the jump on the opposition with minimal effort. When he is not projecting a physical form, Sagaron resides within the sword that Matsuko keeps tied at her hip. History(WIP) Matsuko's service to Apex Implementations is somewhat distinguished, the woman quickly setting herself apart from the rest from day one. Her aggressive manner, and willingness to rise to any and all challenges quickly boosted her to the ranks where she eventually settled as 2nd in command to Richard where she has remained ever since. Light-Witch Location: Who's asking? Contact Light-Witch Send private message Discord Re: Friends in the Void [OOC] 2.0 Post by Light-Witch » Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:59 am I did my best to follow the CS the way you did, but I did make one for the rival CEO and give her a Daemon, also connecting the family to Rasteva in the process. Name: Isolde Evans Occupation: Junior Security Officer for Waylight Security Place of Residence: Despite coming from money, she lives in a simple hotel room that's inexpensive, and has made sure to move when she notices her mother's employees starting to hang around. Isolde, said to be a spitting image of her grandmother Luna Tyrell Isolde's dagger, affectionately nicknamed Lumen Isolde, in all honesty, is the kind of woman who would rather do the right thing than go through any shortcuts that could possibly be illegal if caught. Very levelheaded when it comes to stressful situations, the only person ever to have made her really angry has been her own mother: Sera Tyrell, owner of the Tyrell Institution, which has been leading the world in weapons and defense for the past ten years. Most of the time, she carefully tries to observe her surroundings while feigning disinterest, a feat that nobody close to the current owner of her family company has managed to do so far. She's very capable of defending herself if she needs to, but had never thought about killing despite being considered her mother's black sheep. It would appear as though she had a strong moral compass instilled in her from a young age, often to the point where she would be selfless and risk her life to help them. However, Isolde comes off as an introvert at times, but there's a spark in her that only a select few have seen that can cause some snarky remarks for those that least expect it. When around friends, Isolde appears to be bright, almost to the extent that she could be bubbly if she had a different upbringing. She tested out to be of high intelligence, but feigned normalcy just to try to stay in the background. With Rasteva, it'll seem like she has someone who understands what it's like to be an outsider, and warm up to him despite how he thinks of humans. Despite this, she has expectations for herself that seem to be too much for her to handle, often making her upset if she doesn't pull something off perfectly in her opinion. While this doesn't happen often, there will be times where she's afraid of her own shadow, and it's during this time that she has had nightmares of the way she was treated by her mother growing up. Not many people realize just how broken Isolde is, and when she sees corruption, she'll do anything to take it out, even if she becomes her mother and pairs up with a daemon in the process. Isolde was born an only child to Sera Tyrell, who was just beginning to make preparations for taking over the Tyrell Institution from the matriarch Luna Tyrell when she had the child out of wedlock. Despite this, they weren't cut off, but given as much money as they would need so the little girl would live a comfortable life. Luna spoiled her granddaughter with whatever she desired, tutoring her personally so she could know what her moral compass should be, and teaching her how to defend herself in case someone tried to hurt her. It was no secret that her mother was corrupt, and despite what the media has said, her grandmother went through all the correct channels to raise the company up during her lifetime. There was actually a story about how her mother had tried to find a way to make a deal with a Daemon so she could control the company sooner, but throughout her childhood, she failed to do so. Sera abused her daughter physically and emotionally when she wasn't around her grandmother, and while she did fight back, the heir to the company would always win. However, when Isolde was a teenager, that's when everything began to change for her and the company. Sera had managed to find a way to meet a wyvern Daemon when Isolde was thirteen, and when the girl found out, she moved in with her grandmother immediately and warned her that she finally got the edge she wanted. That was when Luna revealed to her that she did have an interest in Daemons, and while she never paired up with one, she had briefly encountered one named Rasteva, and she was one of the few humans who just wanted to befriend him, not use him to her advantage like her mother was doing with the wyvern Daemon. When Isolde graduated high school, she came home from a grad party to find the house torn apart, and Luna had been killed by an apparent burglary gone wrong, but she knew it was a lie. Sera destroyed the will before anyone could read it, and upon taking out her inheritance that her mother claimed was hers, she grabbed the dagger that her grandmother gave her as a graduation gift and left, not leaving a trace and dropping the ritzy lifestyle so she could afford a decent place. She has a feeling that she was supposed to be the rightful heir to the company after her mother proved to be unfit by summoning a Daemon, but she was quickly recruited by Waylight to become a security officer, sometimes being probed for info on Tyrell Institution, but only saying that Sera was weak for choosing a shortcut. She's a good employee that's been there since she was seventeen, and it was with a private session with Lorette that she got permission to carry her dagger in exchange for warning her that her mother had a wyvern Daemon, and that Luna's death wasn't what the media said it was. She wanted to warn the CEO what her mother was capable of, but considering how she noticed something was off in the office, Isolde now suspects that maybe her mother wasn't the only one who took the Daemon shortcut, and it's made her begin to think about finding another job if she can. Name: Sera Tyrell Occupation: CEO of Tyrell Institution Place of Residence: A ritzy mansion just outside of the city limits like the extravagant woman she is. Daemon: Kakni Kakni Sera: Sera Tyrell is a woman known to charm people upon meeting, but hidden behind the warm facade is a dangerous enemy for the wrong people. A strong rival to Lorette, the two actually manage to appear as friends to the media while discussing a potential partnership between their companies, which are rivals for the top in countries around the world. Many would describe her as a femme fatale, beautiful and dangerous when she needs to be. She's not above getting her hands dirty, and often consults Kakni on what her next move should be. She managed to hide from the public that she had abused her daughter in the past, and the only reason she wants the partnership is so she can get her daughter under her thumb once again. However, business partners describe her differently compared to what she appears to come off as. Partners describe Sera as intelligent, bordering on genius at times for some of her ideas for weaponry that the company sells. Very ambitious, she was the one to reveal her intention of reaching a partnership with Apex Implementations so they could expand their transportation department, and some spoke up saying that they were hesitant to say it in case she thought it would be absurd. She's very motherly to her employees, often treating some of them like they were her children when her daughter would say that she's a monster in human skin. However, she can never catch up to Isolde, who has made every effort she can to run away, but she's done her best to catch up, even learning her newest cell so she could call her. She treats Kakni like a business partner around guests that know of him, but some say that their relationship goes beyond that from how they act around each other. Sera puts the Institution first before anything else, and she's made an effort to conceal some shady dealings from a guy who just started snooping around as soon as she began to talk with Lorette. Kakni: Kakni is a wyvern Daemon, and he comes off as very fierce and defensive around Sera. Oftentimes he can sneak up on people by varying his size, and he uses this to gain information for his partner that she otherwise couldn't have access to. Very cunning, he usually has a way of making sure his partner remains successful without giving himself away to the wrong people, and he takes a page out of Tasosael's book for how to treat people and gain information. In fact, it's as if the two Daemons were partners back in the Void, and it's unclear why he suddenly has been pushing to see the Daemon again though Sera. His raven colored scales are said to be harder to break through than diamonds, and he makes it clear that he's not cute at all, even if Sera disagrees when he becomes small enough to hide in shadows undetected. The Daemon isn't above getting his hands dirty, and has often been the one to do Sera's dirty work so she doesn't get caught. He has the capacity to breathe fire, oftentimes being either raven like his scales when disinterested or silver when he fights with a passion. He honestly worships the ground Sera walks on, and it's clear that his sense of right and wrong revolve around her. Kakni will also use his claws when he fights, and the marks left from them resemble knife wounds so humans get thrown off. He will deny saying that he loves Sera, but he has said in a low voice that she could've been a very humanoid Daemon from the way she truly acts. When not called upon to be summoned, Kakni makes himself hide in a tattoo on Sera's arm that has him curled around it, promoting newcomers to call her Dragon Lady at times due to her relationship to the Daemon. Sera was born into a rich lifestyle to Luna and Gregoire Tyrell, and for them, she was their miracle child after her mother was supposedly declared barren years before her birth. However, the two of them were strict on her, not trying to spoil her since she began to act as though she was entitled to everything in the house, including the Institution once she learned they owned it together. Gregoire wasn't the kind of person to run a business, so he willingly let Luna take control, and they flourished all around the world since the business was much older than they were. However, they began to fear for her when she began to try to partner with Daemons, and as it turned out, she had succeeded once before Kakni by meeting a Daemon older than any creature she'd ever met named Rasteva, but he refused to help her, deeming her unworthy while appearing to like her mother when she talked him easily into going back to the Void. By that point, she was sleeping around with the wrong crowd by the time she got pregnant at nineteen with her only daughter, and Luna forced her to keep the pregnancy before she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl that she named Isolde, giving her the last name Evans because her birth father was Jason Evans, an underling at her family company that was the head of security. Jason mysteriously disappeared after finding out that Sera had given birth to a daughter, but it's now been suspected that he might have been killed as a way of preventing him from trying to take custody of their child at a later date. Sera never wanted kids, and with her mother spoiling Isolde the way she never spoiled her, she grew jealous of her daughter easily winning the love she claimed she never got. At thirty-three, she successfully met another Daemon named Kakni, but Gregoire was killed since Isolde was still in school at the time she had met him as a way of getting back at Luna for spoiling the unwanted child. When her daughter got home and discovered the wyvern and her cleaning up blood, she ran to Luna, who took her in without a second thought as the police failed to find out where her grandfather disappeared to. Now furious at her mother, Sera asked Kakni to help her gain control of the company she was going to inherit, and then help her keep it when she did gain control. At thirty-seven, she took control by using Kakni to dispose of Luna, and when she discovered that she named Isolde the sole heir, she destroyed the will and took over the company, claiming to be the grieving daughter while desperately trying to find Isolde to keep her quiet. It's unclear when she began to talk to Lorette, but she made it clear that she wanted to help her get an edge while helping herself get one as well, but it's only a matter of time before she tries to dispose of her like the other obstacles that she encountered in her life. "It's only a nightmare, and soon we'll be set free." - NateWantsToBattle Return to “Advanced OOC”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1658
__label__wiki	0.517194	0.517194	Other Search All Nutritional Products Pelleted Feed Dairy Blends Calf Feed Molasses Blocks Calves Growing Calves Young Stock Nutrition Team Our Co Op Our Business And History Find a Technical Sales Rep What Do Your Cows Need Dairy Advice Back to Dairy Advice - All year The premise “you are what you eat” applies universally. Ask any top athlete and you’ll hear that optimal health and excellent performance go hand in hand with nutrition know-how. High-performing modern dairy cows are no different. They aren’t merely powered by dry matter (DM) per se, but rather its key components, including protein, fibre and energy (Did you answer correctly?). Each is an indispensable and irreplaceable part of a balanced nutrition. Protein – the building blocks Protein provides essential nourishment for animal growth, maintenance, reproduction and lactation. Generally expressed as percent crude protein (CP%), it is derived from nitrogenous components of the feed. Some of the nitrogen presents as ‘true protein’, compared to the less efficient ‘non-protein nitrogen’. While microbes can convert the latter into true protein, they require much more energy to do so. True protein consists of ‘rumen degradable protein’ (i.e. protein that is readily broken down and used by the microbes in the rumen) and ‘undegradable dietary protein’ (UDP) – protein that’s not digested, hence its alternative moniker ‘bypass protein’. The proportion of UDP depends on many factors, including the amount of DM intake, speed of rumen processing and more. It can vary tremendously, anywhere from 10% to 69% of true dietary protein. Protein requirement for a dairy cow, as percentage of DM, broadly ranges from 12% (dry cow) to 18% (early lactation). Fibre - for a healthy rumen The structural material of a plant - its cell walls – is made of cellulose, hemi-cellulose and lignin, and represents the fibre content of feed. Also called roughage, it’s sometimes expressed as kg of DM, or more accurately as a percentage of the DM. Fibre comprises digestible and indigestible parts that are collectively known as neutral detergent fibre (NDF). Its poorly digested and indigestible cousin is the acid detergent fibre (ADF). Low ADF values would indicate a high-quality feed that is very digestible. Depending on diet, a minimum of 27-35% of the total DM ration should be supplied as NDF. Energy – for performance Put simply, the energy in the feed helps a cow to function. It comes from carbohydrates (sugar, starch), fats and oils, and to some extent from surplus protein. Once ingested, a part of this energy is diverted to faeces, urine and gases, leaving metabolisable energy (ME) to be utilised for growth, reproduction, milk production, activity, condition and maintenance, once heat losses have been accounted for. Megajoules (MJ) measure the energy content – a high number identifies energy-dense feed. MJ ME/kg DM values vary hugely depending on the feed quality; from 7 for poor summer pasture (browntop) to 13+ for grain. Thus, to achieve a cow’s energy requirement and produce a certain amount of milk, she would need to consume fewer kilograms of a high ME feed than of a low ME feed. It’s worth noting that ME values derive from lab measurements and exacting conditions. In practice, they can vary substantially, depending on the digestibility of the feed and the combination of feed provided. With the digestibility of pasture being typically around 55–80%, it means that 20-45% of the ME remains unutilised. Given the variables, it’s therefore just a rough indication of feed quality! Vitamins and 21 minerals are the proverbial “small things that matter” and are essential for animal health, growth and reproduction. Learn more about vitamins and minerals Hi Starch A fully balanced pellet that provides a range of starches with different break down rates. This makes the starch available in the rumen for longer and creates a more stable and efficient environment. Find a Technical Sales Representative SealesWinslow Careers © 2019 Ballance Agri-Nutrients Ltd. Customer Service 0800 287 325 SealesWinslow Limited Hewletts Road Mount Maunganui, Tauranga	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1660
__label__cc	0.687774	0.312226	10 sensational STAYCATION ISLANDS IN THE UK 5 Apr 2019 TravelGuideLeave a comment From Shetland to Scilly, the UK coastline is a fabulous unfinished jigsaw puzzle of islands. Some are blessed with beaches to rival the world’s best and others are teeming with enough wildlife to overwhelm even the presenters of Springwatch. But they all have one thing in common: they’re all favourites for anyone seeking a staycation escape. Forget palm trees and coconuts, it’s all about island staycations with less time spent travelling, and more time having fun! #1 ISLE OF WIGHT From the sailing boats of Cowes to the spectacular sunsets of Sandown, staycations on the Isle of Wight have been delighting families for generations. It continues to be the nation’s favourite island so far in 2017, with thousands of holidaymakers searching for holiday homes across the island. View all rentals on the Isle of Wight #2 ANGLESEY While Anglesey is the UK’s seventh biggest island, it’s the second most popular of 2017 so far with Holiday Lettings users! If relaxing on the golden sands of beautiful Trearddur Bay doesn’t get your pulse racing, then watching the feathered residents of Puffin Island certainly will. Accessed via the iconic Menai Bridge, Anglesey brings the best bits of island living to a staycation. See all holiday homes on Anglesey #3 ISLE OF SKYE Medieval castles, quaint fishing villages, and rugged landscapes… with all that going for it (and more!) it’s not surprising that the Isle of Skye is the most popular island on our list in Scotland. If you can tear yourself away from exploring the island’s mountainous interior, lochs and picturesque peninsulas, head to the town of Portree where you’ll discover plenty of pubs and independent shops. See all holiday rentals on the Isle of Skye #4 ISLE OF HARRIS While technically sharing the island with its northern neighbour Lewis, the Isle of Harris offers up a gallery of signature Scottish attractions. From ruined castles standing on heathered moorland to glorious beaches that could be mistaken for somewhere in the southern hemisphere, you’ll soon see why it’s so high on the list of favourites for holidaymakers so far in 2017. View all Isle of Harris rentals #5 ISLE OF MAN Nestled in the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is sometimes missing from the mainstream holiday scene. But it seems that’s not the case, as it’s emerged as the 5th most popular UK island for people looking at holiday homes. With lush glens and miles of rugged coastline to explore, the holiday possibilities are endless. And let’s not forget the event that has put the island on the world stage – the annual TT motorcycle race! See all rentals on the Isle of Man #6 ISLE OF ARRAN The largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Arran has an array of attractions for the summer staycation seeker. There are beaches aplenty—Pirnmill Beach is perfect for playtime with the kids, Kilmory Beach is ideal for a sunset stroll, and Kildonan Beach’s soft silvery sand is possibly the most beautiful of all of them. But there’s more than beaches—you can wander through lush woodland to see the Glenashdale Falls cascade through the greenery, take a tour of a local whisky distillery, or explore the atmospheric Brodick Castle. View all Isle of Arran rentals #7 ISLE OF LEWIS One of the Western Isles in the Outer Hebrides, Lewis is joined to its neighbour the Isle of Harris (fourth on our list). It’s a magical place where history comes alive, from the imposing Callanish standing stones and Bernera Iron Age buildings to the ruins of Carlow Broch. Norse, Viking and Celtic influences all combine here to create an intriguing escape from the everyday. See all Isle of Lewis holiday homes #8 ISLE OF MULL Atlantic grey seals, Eurasian otters, killer whales, eagles, and more bird species than Bill Oddie can handle… The Isle of Mull is pure joy for wildlife lovers and recognised as one of the UK’s finest destinations for wildlife tourism. Little ones will adore the Mull Aquarium in Tobermory, where they can get up close and personal with the resident marine life through touch pools and interactive games. See all rentals on the Isle of Mull #9 ORKNEY ISLANDS For a spellbinding staycation, look no further than the Orkney Islands. The 70 islands making up the archipelago provide a remote and utterly unique experience. Orkney’s most popular attractions include the Ring of Brodgar, an ancient and haunting stone circle, as well as Scapa Flow, the famous natural harbour which was a key location in the naval battles of the First World War. One thing’s for sure: you’re guaranteed a warm welcome. See all holiday homes in Orkney #10 ISLES OF SCILLY St Mary’s, Tresco, St Martin’s, Bryher and St Agnes are the five principal islands making up the Isles of Scilly off the Cornish coast, but there are plenty of uninhabited ones to explore, too. Fringed by golden beaches and blessed with a mild climate, the islands are a natural playground. The heritage of these isles is intertwined, naturally, with the sea. Plan a staycation here and you’ll have the chance to sample freshly caught local crab, lobster, and more mouthwatering fruits of the sea. View all Isles of Scilly holiday homes Tags: British Isles Islands in the UK Article credit to: https://blog.holidaylettings.co.uk/10-popular-staycation-islands-uk/ 14 Jul 2019 TravelGuide Guest Post: Undiscovered America – Why California Is Ripe For Exploring, By Esther Kinn Virtuoso Concludes Travel Week With Advisor, Partner Awards 20 Aug 2018 TravelGuide Japanese space probe drops explosive on asteroid Ryugu Review of the New Gringotts Wizarding Bank at Warner Bros Studio Tour London	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1663
__label__cc	0.745369	0.254631	SSO and federated identity Definitions OS security BYOD security Government security Security laws and ethics Mobile app security Vulnerability assessments Security automation Security industry trends Security mergers and acquisitions SIEM and security analytics SSO and federated identity Web access control Web browser security Web server attacks Wireless network security time-based one-time password (TOTP) incident response team Pegasus malware federated identity management Federated identity management (FIM) is an arrangement that can be made between multiple enterprises to let subscribers use the same identification data to obtain access to the networks of all the enterprises in the group. Kerberos is the authentication protocol used by most operating systems. Each time a Windows client logs into a corporate network, Kerberos is being used to authenticate access. knowledge factor The knowledge factor, in a security context, is a category of authentication credentials consisting of information that the user possesses, such as a personal identification number (PIN), a user name, a password or the answer to a secret question. logon (or login) In general computer usage, logon is the procedure used to get access to an operating system or application, usually in a remote computer. passwordless authentication Passwordless authentication is a process in which a system will distinguish and verify a user without the need of a password. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard for sharing security information about identity, authentication and authorization across different systems. single sign-on (SSO) Single sign-on (SSO) is a session and user authentication service that permits an end user to enter one set of login credentials (such as a name and password) and be able to access multiple applications. Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook offer popular SSO services that allow an end user to log into third-party applications with their social media authentication credentials. single-factor authentication (SFA) Single-factor authentication (SFA) is the traditional security process that requires a user name and password before granting access to the user.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1664
__label__wiki	0.524454	0.524454	Seattle Sportsnet UW Football UW Hoops Tag Archives: Jon Brockman Husky Basketball Notes: Brockman POW, Romar COY, what’s up with all these acronyms? March 3, 2009 Alex Leave a comment Brockman named Pac-1o Player of the Week. University of Washington senior forward Jon Brockman has been named the Pac-10 Player of the Week after posting double-doubles in wins over Arizona and Arizona State. The Huskies’ captain totaled 40 points and 22 rebounds in those two games, notching the 56th and 57th double-doubles of his college career. The 57 double-doubles are the most among all active collegiate players. Romar named as National Coach of the Year finalist. Adding to the good news on Montlake, Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar has been named as one of ten finalists for the 2009 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award. No other Pac-10 coach made the list. The other finalists are as follows: Jim Calhoun, Connecticut; John Calipari, Memphis; Jamie Dixon, Pittsburgh; Darrin Horn, South Carolina; Trent Johnson, LSU; Bill Self, Kansas; Brad Stevens, Butler; Bruce Weber, Illinois; and Roy Williams, North Carolina. HuskiesJon BrockmanLorenzo Romar The fan's premier online source for all things Seattle sports. SSN on Twitter Who knew it was autoerotic asphyxiation? Incredible. twitter.com/komonews/statu… 4 hours ago Wow, it's not enough to just sleep with a man's wife anymore, you have to insult him too twitter.com/PrideOfDetroit… 10 hours ago Cal Raleigh is playing well enough that in a year or two Jerry can trade him for a veteran reliever in a last-ditch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago @RyanDivish @TheMattHolt I walked an 8k instead 1 day ago This may come as a shock to many, but @TheMattHolt just went back to the hotel in a drunken state while the rest of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago Follow @alexssn SSN on Facebook Support SSN In lieu of contributing money to Seattle Sportsnet, please direct any contributions as a donation to the Robert Vasen Foundation. Subscribe to SSN If you want all your SSN posts delivered to your email inbox, sign up here.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1665
__label__cc	0.672191	0.327809	E-Tax Success: Big Win for KC Business Chaaron Pearson on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 1:01:46 pm This April, the Greater Kansas City Chamber celebrated a victory as Kansas City, Mo., voters voted overwhelmingly to keep a one percent earning tax. The final vote was 78 percent in favor of retention; 22 percent against. The campaign to retain the tax was organized and led by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. The earnings tax represents 40 percent of Kansas City’s general revenue funding. Greater Kansas City Chamber President and CEO Jim Heeter said, “It was a campaign that truly unified the city. Our voters showed their innate good sense by approving – by a landslide – the City’s biggest source of revenue. They understood the ramifications of losing $200 million a year from the part of the city budget that pays for police and fire protection and for the basic services that our residents require.” The vote on the city’s earnings tax was forced by a statewide initiative approved by Missouri voters last November. Following that election, the Chamber joined with the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, the Heavy Constructors Association, the AFL-CIO and Firefighters Local 42. The group raised more than $1 million to fund the “Keep KC Alive” campaign. Five campaign co-chairs were recruited for an aggressive grassroots campaign and more than 100 business, civic, religious and neighborhood organizations rallied to endorse the tax. The work is not done. There will be a similar vote every five years. The Chamber is now focusing its efforts on legislation in the Missouri General Assembly to extend the required vote from five to 20 years. Statement from James A. “Jim” Heeter, President and CEO, Greater Kansas City Chamber BusinessWeek.com: Voters in St. Louis/KC agree to keep earnings tax KCTV5: Kansas City Earnings Tax Passes by Large Margin Tags: Taxes Rate this Article rating of 4 from 2 votes Public Policy \| 0 Comments \| Add a Comment \| Permalink \| Earmarks are gone but requests aren’t Chaaron Pearson on Friday, May 27, 2011 at 1:02:30 pm I recently had the opportunity to network with the Des Moines Partnership delegation during their opening cocktail reception at Union Station. As you can see, they had quite the crowd! And, earlier this week I received this email from GR Division Chair, Jay Byers: "As chambers across the country are looking to reposition their DC fly-ins in the post earmark world, the editorial that the Des Moines Register ran on May 22 on the Des Moines Partnership trip does a nice job of making our case on how we modified our trip this year." Read the full article: Earmarks are gone, but requests aren’t Columnist Rox Laird tackles a sticky point for chambers that are used to visiting Washington to lobby for earmarks. He quotes U.S. Rep Tom Latham, R-IA as saying “Washington is a different town that it was even a year ago. The conversation today is not ‘How much will you spend?’ but ‘How much can we keep at home.’” Laird says that with “earmark” being a dirty word, you would think the Des Moines Partnership’s trip would be pointless, but that’s not the case. The partnership had a long list of projects to pitch to lawmakers and federal agencies, and it didn’t include only spending requests. There were policy issues that affect central Iowa’s economy, security and quality of life. Laird ends the article saying “no matter how the money is raised or how it is doled out, the federal government will always play a major role in building and maintaining the nation, whether it be highways and bridges, flood-control projects, airports or public education.” And that is exactly why a federal fly-in during "earmark unfriendly" times is far from pointless. Tags: Appropriations, DC Fly-in, Earmarks Immigration: Tales from a Border City Chaaron Pearson on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 1:03:19 pm El Paso has been a key to the immigration conversation. For example, Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Richard Dayoub serves on Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s Southwest Border Security Task Force. He recently wrote an article for the El Paso Times on immigration reform and its importance to our economy. His article was referenced in the White House summary report on Immigration Reform released after President Obama’s speech in El Paso on May 10 (transcript). Read Richard’s Op-Ed: Richard Dayoub: Fix immigration, boost our economy The administration has reached out to Richard and other business leaders to participate on task forces or in Immigration Action Roundtables with other community leaders, including faith organizations and law enforcement. The Obama administration hopes that by conducting Immigration Action Roundtables in communities around the country (like this round table in Omaha: Entrepreneurs key to fixing our broken immigration system) that a bipartisan national conversation on immigration can help fix our broken system. Whitehouse.gov: Blueprint for Building a 21st Century Immigration System Secretary Napolitano Op-Ed: It’s time for congress to act on border security Tags: Immigration Investing in Community Starts at Home Tania Kohut on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 12:00:00 am As many areas across the country see declining home values, the Forest Park (IL) Chamber of Commerce is fighting the trend by encouraging its residents to invest in its community. How? Through its annual Pride Awards, the Chamber recognizes commercial and residential property owners who have shown pride in Forest Park by making a significant investment in their property and ultimately in the community. The thought is that money spent on home improvement means curb appeal; it might also prompt neighbors to act similarly and eventually result in increased beautification of an overall area, which could mean higher property values. Read more about the Awards, now in their 17th year, and what they mean for the community here. Spotlight \| 0 Comments \| Add a Comment \| Permalink \| Giving Thanks . . . in May Tania Kohut on Monday, May 16, 2011 at 12:00:00 am Call it "Thanksgiving in May!" This month, more than 100 Chattanooga Area (TN) Chamber of Commerce volunteers will go door-to-door delivering collective thank-yous to 1,100 member businesses. The gesture is part of Operation Thank You, the Chamber’s coordinated effort to show appreciation for its member businesses. In addition to delivering face-to-face expressions of gratitude, Operation Thank You volunteers will provide each member business a personal appreciation packet. According to Christi Broom, Operation Thank You chair, “We want to remind our businesses that their Chattanooga Chamber membership extends to each of their employees. The more they engage their staff in Chattanooga Chamber activities and events, the more opportunities they have to translate their membership into more business.” Read more here. Brookings: Missed Opportunity Transit Report It seemed fitting that on my way to the Brookings Institute yesterday morning for the presentation on Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America, I hit a typical DC traffic snag and crawled from Alexandria to DC for two long hours. I fancy myself to be a runner and smiled a weak smile of satisfaction when I discovered I could have run there faster than I could drive in my car. I then chastised myself for not taking the Metro to a Transit report unveiling. What was I thinking? Brookings had a great line-up to discuss the roll out of the Missed Opportunity report. Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow at Brookings gave an overview of the study and there was a panel discussion about the implications of the findings followed by Secretary LaHood and Secretary Donovan discussing the federal role. The real star of the show was the Missed Opportunity report. Visit Brookings site to read the full report and all of the supporting content. Be sure to check out the interactive map. Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metro America Interactive Map: Transit Access to Jobs in Metropolitan America Missed Opportunity: 100 Metropolitan Profiles “Dr. Gridlock”, Robert Thomson, of the Washington Post moderated the panel of Keith Parker, CEO, Via Transit Systems, San Antonio, TX; Matthew Mahood, President and CEO, Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce; Ponsella Hardaway, Executive Director, Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES); and Alan Berube, Senior Fellow and Research Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, from Brookings. Here are some of the things I sent out into the twittersphere during the panel: Following the panel discussion, Bruce Katz joined Secretary Ray LaHood (Transportation) and Secretary Shaun Donovan (HUD) to talk about what the Feds are doing about transit. Secretary LaHood and Secretary Donovan have been working together very closely over the past two and a half years. Again, here are some notable quotes that I tweeted: Again, here is the link for the Missed Opportunity page on Brookings site: Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America. Tags: Infrastructure, Transportation South Carolina fights for Boeing plant Chaaron Pearson on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 12:00:00 am Boeing Co. is planning to construct a $1 billion production facility in South Carolina and has run into opposition from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB claims that Boeing selected South Carolina because they do not want to deal with a unionized aerospace workforce. NLRB is pursuing an order to keep the production line in the Pacific Northwest which has a unionized aerospace workforce. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, the state attorney general and members of the state’s congressional delegation were in Washington D.C. to ask for President Obama to respond to the NLRB’s findings. The administration has stayed away from the dispute because NLRB is an independent agency. Governor Haley views these findings as a serious blow to free enterprise and she “wants to make sure it never touches another state,” Haley said in an appearance at the U.S. Chamber according to CNN. The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, in a statement regarding the NLRB findings distributed to their members today, expressed their displeasure with the NLRB decision. President and CEO, Bryan Derreberry, said “our chamber fully supports Boeing’s decision to build the Final Assembly and Delivery facility here in North Charleston.” He also went on to say that “Boeing is committed, for the long-term, to our community and state and we are equally committed to ensuring their success.” Stateline.com: South Carolina dials up pressure over Boeing plant Wall Street Journal: Boeing is pro-growth, not anti-union Charleston statement to members NLRB Complaint Legal Fact Sheet CNN.com: Top republicans demand Obama weigh in on Boeing dispute A closer look at the Partnership for a New American Economy Chaaron Pearson on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 12:00:00 am This post, authored by Marty Carpenter, appears on the Salt Lake Chamber’s blog. You can visit the original post here. Marty and Robin Riggs, both from the Salt Lake Chamber presented last week’s Government Relations Peer-to-Peer call on Immigration – the Utah Compact. Partnership for a New American Economy from Salt Lake Chamber on Vimeo. Immigration was the most hotly contested issue in the past legislative session. The Salt Lake Chamber is one of the original signatories of The Utah Compact, a document outlining five guiding principles to guide Utah’s immigration discussion. The first principle of The Utah Compact states that immigration is a federal issue. The Chamber, along with other business, community and religious leaders, supports immigration reform at the national level. Jeremy Robbins, policy advisor for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, helps manage the Partnership for a New American Economy, a coalition of business leaders and mayors joined to make the economic case for smarter economic reforms. Robbins spoke to a group of business leaders at the Chamber. He sat down to discuss the goals his organization, the need for national reform and the economic impact of immigration policies. UtahPolicy.com: A closer look at the Partnership for a New American Economy Deseret News: ‘Smart’ immigration reform would create more American jobs, speaker says The Salt Lake Tribune: SLC-area mayors are urged to make immigration an economic issue Chamber Executive: Immigration: A Business and Chamber Issue ACCE Policy Clearinghouse Blog: Utah Compact on Immigration Local Chambers of Commerce Go International - Again Evan Sundwick on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 12:00:00 am The Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division blog recently asked ACCE's Senior Vice President of Member and Sponsor Relations, Chris Mead, to write a guest column about chambers of commerce getting involved in international business. Here's an excerpt! From the earliest days, international trade has been a major concern for local chambers of commerce. The first U.S. chamber was born in 1768 in New York out of struggles with the Stamp Act. Shortly afterward, in 1773, the Charleston Chamber of Commerce was formed to help land British tea safely on shore. In 1819, the Savannah Chamber’s leading members sent the first steamship across the Atlantic. Other chambers lobbied for a railroad and a canal across Panama, helped lay the first transatlantic telegraph cables, and even named and financed Lindbergh's plane, The Spirit of Saint Louis, for its world-shrinking trip across the ocean in 1927. Commerce - not surprisingly - is in the institutional bones of chambers of commerce. In recent years, however, much of the attention of these business associations has focused more on domestic matters. With a vast internal U.S. market to develop, and relatively limited resources to go abroad, most local chambers have tended to stay close to home. Getting the local highway completed or keeping an eye on the city council have taken precedence over learning about markets in Austria or Australia. Read the rest of the blog post at census.gov >> Summer Jobs Program for Teens in Genesee County (MI) Tania Kohut on Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:00:00 am A recent study announced that one in four teens will land a summer job this year. That's hard news to take for many teens relying on that summer job to make some extra cash. But, thanks to a grant the Genesee Regional (MI) Chamber of Commerce has received for a summer jobs program, teenagers in Genesee County will have extra help finding work this summer. The one-year $800,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation will help prepare more than 500 teens for the workforce and to connect them to job opportunities in the community. Learn more here.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1666
__label__wiki	0.564481	0.564481	Movie: Fences (2016) #Oscars By Seletyn on February 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment ) My Take: What did I dislike more than Denzel in this movie? Denzel’s singing in this movie. Denzel’s character was a mean man who treated everyone around him like shit. I know I was supposed to be sad when he died due to whatever self-placed issues he might have had. I didn’t. Just like Blue Velvet did not win an Oscar because the dead man kept standing, I would not vote for this one to win the Oscar because snot kept snotting. Personal thing that made me turn away from the screen through the big sad scenes. I was not a fan. I get that everyone loved it and thought that Denzel was amazing. I just did not like it. This was the second of four movies Erin and I saw in a single day. The first one was horrendously sad. This one was horrendously angry. I looked at Erin in the middle of this movie and said, “I need some happy in my life.” With Manchester, my humble opinion was that you did not leave loved family behind. With Fences, I feel that cheaters are cheaters and they should be kicked to the curb by strong women. Again, my humble opinion and it forms a barrier to thinking this movie was as great as advertised. I give it a D+. Did you see the movie? Did you like it? If you did, let me know in the comments below. Synopsis: Fences is the story of Troy Maxson, a mid-century Pittsburgh sanitation worker who once dreamed of a baseball career but was too old when the major leagues began admitting black players. He tries to be a good husband and father but his lost dream of glory eats at him and causes him to make a decision that threatens to tear his family apart. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning play. Clips for the movie can be found: here. There are a few play clips that give you an idea of the stage performance: It received a Rotten Tomatoes review of 93% Fresh. It received a Rotten Tomato audience rating of 79% liking it. Average Rating: 3.9/5 with a number of User Ratings: 26,987. A behind the scenes vid: Additional reviews by: Spark Notes It had an estimated budget of $24M. It has a 139 minute run time. More Trivia from IMDB: Denzel Washington felt comfortable with the source material since he had been involved with 114 performances of the play on Broadway. Fences was originally a 1983 play by August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle”. Like all of the “Pittsburgh” plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience, and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. When Paramount Studios originally acquired the film rights to the play in 1987 with the involvement of Eddie Murphy, it was largely due to Murphy wanting to take on a more “serious” film role: that of the seventeen year-old son Cory. However, in 1987, Murphy was already a full decade older than the character of Cory, and the many filming delays meant that Murphy quickly aged out of eligibility for the role. In the film’s opening shot, the most prominent building on the left side of the street is lettered PITTSBURGH COURIER. The Courier was Pittsburgh’s African-American newspaper, among the country’s most respected. One of its sportswriters, Wendell Smith, advocated for ending the color line in major league baseball and traveled in 1947 with Jackie Robinson through his inaugural season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. 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__label__wiki	0.555913	0.555913	Madrid, Spain Converter CET (Central European Time) Offset: CET is 1 hour ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe Countries: It is used in following countries: Andorra, Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, Spain, France, Gibraltar, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Slovakia, San Marino, Tunisia, Vatican City Principal Cities: The largest city in the CET timezone is Berlin from Germany with population about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in the area are Madrid, Rome, Paris, Algiers Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Central European Summer Time (CEST). Start: CET started and clocks were set one hour back on Sunday, October 28, 2018, at 3:00 (3:00 am) local time. End: CET ends and clocks are set one hour forward on Sunday, March 31, 2019, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time. German: MEZ - Mitteleuropäische Zeit Madrid, Spain timezone map Madrid, Spain representations, usage and related time zones +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates one hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian. Alpha - Military abbreviation for CET A - short form of 'Alpha' IANA/Olson: Reflects CET time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems Atlantic/Jan_Mayen BST - British Summer Time CET - Central European Time IST - Irish Standard Time WEST - Western European Summer Time A - Alpha Time Zone MEZ - MitteleuropÃ¤ische Zeit WAT - West Africa Time WST - Western Sahara Summer Time BMT - Biel Mean Time CET to EDT IST to PDT BST to EST GMT to CST GMT to EST PDT to EDT BST to IST CET to EST	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1676
__label__wiki	0.521412	0.521412	IDH and CIC mutations provide prognostic information for grade II and III gliomas BOSTON, MA – NRG Oncology investigators have identified two biomarkers that are prognostic of overall and progression-free survival for patients with lower-grade gliomas. This combined mutational analysis using specimens from two NRG Oncology clinical trials is the first study to examine the prognostic effects of mutations within IDH1/2, ATRX, CIC, FUBP1 and the TERT promoter using rigorous multivariate analysis (MVA) in a combined cohort of grade II and grade III gliomas with prospectively-collected, well-annotated clinical data. These results were presented at the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, September 27, 2016. "The correlative study associated with RTOG 9802 and RTOG 9813 represents the very first to demonstrate independent prognostic value of IDH mutations in a combined cohort of Grade II/III gliomas in the context of well-annotated Phase III clinical studies, thereby extending the findings of TCGA and previously-reported single institution studies. In the present study, IDH gene mutations were found to be of independent prognostic value after age, treatment, extent of surgical resection, histology, and performance status were factored in. Future directions involve investigation of the predictive value of IDH and other biomarkers to guide specific therapeutic selection for Grade II/III glioma patients, which remains highly controversial in this context," says Arnab Chakravarti, MD of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Richard L. Solove Research Institute and the Senior Author of RTOG 9802 and 9813. The analysis utilized a combined cohort of two prospective phase III studies' (NRG Oncology RTOG 9802 and 9813) specimens from 115 grade II and 104 grade III (n=104) glioma patients. The investigators determined IDH mutation status by immunohistochemistry and/or deep sequencing and used a custom Ion AmpliSeq DNA panel for mutation analysis. Sanger Sequencing was used to detect TERT promoter mutations. The Kaplan-Meier method was used for the analyses on overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS). Hazard ratios (HRs) on the effect of biomarkers were calculated using the Cox proportional hazard model and tested using the Wald and log-rank tests. MVAs were performed incorporating age, treatment, surgery, histology, and performance status as covariates. Marker by treatment interaction effects were tested using the combined cohort for each marker using the analysis of deviance tests. Mutations were found within IDH1/2 in 65%, ATRX in 34 percent, TERT promoter in 32%, CIC in 18 percent, and FUBP1 in 6% of the respective analyzed cases. In the univariate analysis, IDH1/2 mutations (OS: HR=0.38; p NRG Oncology RTOG 9802 and 9813 were funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute, Merck & Co., the Brain Tumor Funders Collaborative Grant, and the Ohio State University CCC. http://www.nrgoncology.org NRG Oncology conducts practice-changing, multi-institutional clinical and translational research to improve the lives of patients with cancer. Founded in 2012, NRG Oncology is a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit corporation that integrates the research of the National Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, and the Gynecologic Oncology Group. The research organization seeks to carry out clinical trials with emphases on gender-specific malignancies, including gynecologic, breast, and prostate cancers, and on localized or locally advanced cancers of all types. NRG Oncology's extensive research organization comprises multidisciplinary investigators, including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgeons, physicists, pathologists, and statisticians, and encompasses more than 1300 research sites located world-wide with predominance in the United States and Canada. NRG Oncology is supported primarily through grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and is one of five research groups in the NCI's National Clinical Trials Network. Angela LaPenta @NRGonc Formaldehyde damages proteins, not just DNA Evolution of a species also involves the bacteria it carries Tightening the tumor-targeting abilities of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy New forest treatment helps trees adapt better to climatic change Scienmag Jun 26, 2019 Credit: University of Granada Researchers from the University of Granada, the Andalusian Institute of… Transforming waste heat into clean energy Generic advice doesn’t help patients drop pounds	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1678
__label__wiki	0.629982	0.629982	You are here: Home / Documents / FDA Documents / Magazine article: Of Two Minds (July 24, 1950) July 24, 1950 by Caroline Letkeman Magazine article: Of Two Minds (July 24, 1950) A new cult is moldering through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week, its bible, “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,” was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. Demand was especially heavy on the West Coast. Bookstores in Los Angeles were selling “Dianetics” on an under-the-counter basis. Armed with the manual, which they called simply “The Book,” fanatical converts overflowed Saturday night meetings in Hollywood, held dianetics parties, formed clubs, and “audited” (treated) each other. In many ways, dianetics (“the science of mind”) is the poor man’s psychoanalysis: it has the touch of Couéism and a mild resemblance to Buchmanite confession. It purports to cleanse the mind of previous harmful influences, thus vastly increasing its powers and efficiency, by making the individual relive former painful experiences to “discharge” their evil power. According to dianetics’ discoverer L. (for Lafayette) Ron (for Ronald) Hubbard: “The hidden source of all psychosomatic ills and human aberrations has been discovered and skills have been developed for their invariable cure.” Sample ills: arthritis, allergies, asthma, some coronary difficulties, eye trouble, ulcers, migraine headaches, sex deviations. Ron Hubbard, 39, a swashbuckling, red-haired six-footer, originally unveiled dianetics in the magazine “Astounding Science Fiction.” As a result, its earliest devotees were science fiction fans. When “Dianetics” was first published (Hermitage House: $4), doctors and psychologists paid it little heed. But last week some were getting in on what seemed like a good thing. The Los Angeles Times carried an ad: “Those interested in receiving dianetic auditing please telephone DU 2-3260.” At the end of the line was Dr. Vernon Bronson Twitchell, psychologist; he said he got about a dozen calls a day. Reason & Records According to Hubbard’s “science,” the mind consists of two parts: 1) the analytical, (corresponding roughly to Freud’s “conscious” mind), which perceives, remembers and reasons; and 2) , the reactive (something like Freud’s “unconscious”), which neither remembers nor reasons but simply records. Normally, the analytical mind is dominant. But it can be “switched off” by unconsciousness from injury or anesthesia, more often by acute emotional shock or physical pain. Then says Hubbard, the reactive mind is switched on. It does not store memories, but “engrams” — impressions on protoplasm itself. An engram is, he declares, “a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail of every perception present in a moment of . . . ‘unconsciousness.'” Modern man’s analytical mind, says Hubbard, is a perfect computing machine, incapable of error except when it is supplied with wrong data. An example, typical of Hubbard’s cases: a woman is struck by a man, and while she is unconscious he kicks and reviles her. A chair is overturned and a faucet has been left running. she does not “remember” these things because she is unconscious, but according to dianetics her reactive mind records them all in an engram. Later, the crash of an overturned chair and the sound of running water might make the engram “key-in” to her analytical mind, vaguely bring back the pain of the kicks or actually make her ill. Count to Seven To exorcise such a demon engram, the dianetics patient lolls on a couch or easy chair in a dimly lit room. The auditor says: “When I count from one to seven your eyes will close.” He keeps counting to seven until the patient’s eyes close. (The patient, says Hubbard, is still awake but in “reverie.”) In a typical procedure, the auditor may next command: “Let us return to your fifth birthday.” The patient’s mind is then supposed to slip back along its “time-track” to that birthday. Having “returned,” he “relives” the experience. By skipping from one point on the time track to another, the patient eventually relives a variety of painful experiences. In so doing, he may reel from the relived pain of a blow on the head, double up with stomach cramps, sweat or shiver in terror. Once these painful engrams have been run through the waking analytical mind, says Hubbard, they lose their “charge” — their power of evil. The analytical mind puts them in a dead file like so many closed accounts. The final goal of dianetics — in its own jargon — is to make a patient a “clear,” a person whose every engram has been resolved. Hubbard’s most striking departure from older psychoanalytical schools is his insistence that protoplasm begins to record engrams immediately after conception. He sees the period of gestation as one of dire discomforts and great perils. The most important of all engrams, which he dubs “basic-basic,” is the one received after conception — perhaps during the mother’s examination by her doctor, or in some mishap before her pregnancy is known. Forceps Pains Frank Dessler, an office manager at 20th Century-Fox, had dabbled in dianetics and was persuaded to audit an actor’s wife who had suffered from migraine. Says Dessler: “She was suffering a severe headache, but it wasn’t like migraine. It seemed to be sharp and on either side of the head. Finally, she actually experience birth. She crouched on the couch in foetal position with her head between her knees.” She attributed the pain she felt tot he pull of the forceps on her head. Having relived her birth, her migraine disappeared. A couple in their 30s, Arthur and Elena Tracy, were auditing each other. Says Elena: “I’d had a great deal of illness all my life — every psychosomatic illness you can think of. I was in bed all through my last pregnancy and for three months after it. Now I believe I’ll have no more trouble. I believe it with all my heart. My husband took me back to what I believe was the prenatal period of my life. I began to feel as if I were drowning. I brought up phlegm . . . and my eyes were running. I almost choked and began gasping for breath. Apparently my head was twisted to one side in my mother’s womb. The pain was intense.” Some professional psychologists have taken up dianetics. Says Dr. Jean Bordeaux, psychotherapist (Ph.D., no M.D.): “I’m using dianetics every day and using it on dozens of patients. It works. Hubbard made a contribution — make no mistake about that.” However, Hubbard insists that the treatment, even at the hands of an untrained layman, can do no harm. “On this,” says Dr. Bordeaux, “we part company.” More specific is the concern of Dr. Pauline K. Pumphrey (as osteopath with an M.D.), in whose ultramodern Santa Monica home two-score dianetics fans met last week to pool their resources (some hoped to audit each other — somewhat in the fashion of a Buchmanite meeting). There is danger, Dr. Pumphrey holds, if Hubbard’s cellular theory is right, that an inept auditor “contacting” the engram recorded at the time of a severe hemorrhage, for example, might cause the hemorrhage to be repeated. But most dianetics fans are laymen and some accept every Hubbard word as revealed truth. Said one: “I have trouble only when I have any doubts. The main thing is for the auditor to subject himself to a thorough indoctrination which amounts to a sublime faith.” Hubbard’s own opinion of his contribution: “The creation of dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch.” Source: FDA Folder 4 (p. 4); Vol 4 of 18, p. 407 ↩ Filed Under: FDA Documents, Media Documents Tagged With: analytical mind, Dianetics, Dr. Sigmund Freud, L. Ron Hubbard, Of Two Minds, reactive mind	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1679
__label__wiki	0.538451	0.538451	Shared Scooter Companies Bird Scooters Bird Electric Scooters' Letter to the Community From the Founder Fly with the flock Bird Electric Scooters' Letter to the Community From the Founder#540 By Edmund - Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:59 pm - Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:59 pm #540 The following letter was written by Bird Rides' founder Travis VanderZanden as part of the company's announcement of Rideshare 2.0. Transportation has always been a passion for me. My mother was a public bus driver for 30 years, and I remember riding along with her and watching people's daily commutes. Many years later, I worked as an executive in car ride-sharing - or what I like to think of as "Ridesharing 1.0" - where I witnessed the power of using technology to help move people conveniently around cities. I bought into the dream that Ridesharing 1.0 was helping solve transportation's biggest problems, and we did help reduce DUIs and some parking problems - traffic and carbon emissions - worse. There had to be a better way. Could many of those short Rideshare 1.0 trips be completed with a vehicle that's environmentally friendly and doesn't add to our traffic problems? I thought so, and about a year ago today, we launched Bird to try to solve these problems with shared electric scooters. Yes, the idea seemed a little crazy (it still does to many). And, yes, most of my friends laughed at me. Regardless, we went for it. We created Bird, and with it, Rideshare 2.0 - a cleaner, more convenient, affordable, car-reducing alternative to make cities more enjoyable. People around the world started "Birding." In just 12 months, we're currently available in more than 100 cities, and we just passed out 10 millionth ride. By comparison, Rideshare 1.0 did about 1 million rides its first year. I reference this stat not to beat the proverbial chest, but as proof that people are ready to get out of cars, do want a way to get around that doesn't contribute to climate change, and are ready to embrace alternative forms of transportation. Now that the concept of shared e-scooters has proven to be popular, we are ready for our next phase. In our second year, we're doubling down on our efforts to collaborate and partner with cities so that they can knit e-scooters into their transportation infrastructure. We're expanding our focus on GovTech so we can continue to take the lead in creating technologies to help cities have insight and control of Bird in their city. What we are trying to do is create the unique systems, tech, and tools to make Rideshare 2.0 the most community-focused, people-friendly, car-reducing, and safest mobility solution. We'll also continue to prioritize safety over growth. It's why we cap our vehicle speed at 15 mph, require a driver's license or ID for a rider to prove they are 18 or older, and pick up our vehicles at night time even if a city doesn't require it. It's why we are working with cities to put in more bike lanes and to find ways to mitigate the danger of cars to our riders. We think the entire industry should do the same. We've also given away over 50,000 helmets and established a Safety Advisory Board, led by former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration head, David Strickland. We have a lot in store for the second year of Bird - and Ridesharing 2.0. But as we look to the months to come, I must thank our growing community of city partners, riders, chargers, mechanics, and employees who've helped us bring about this next phase in ridesharing. By being part of this new industry, you have helped countless people and cities all over the globe start the transformation of urban transportation into one that is clean, convenient, and affordable. The transition away from the car addiction will not be easy, and we'll all need to work together to achieve a better transportation future. We appreciate all your help and support along the way! Travis VanderZanden, Founder at Bird Re: Bird Electric Scooters' Letter to the Community From the Founder#544 By druinthor - Sat Sep 22, 2018 3:43 pm - Sat Sep 22, 2018 3:43 pm #544 The GovTech thing is a good idea. Beyond that they did not mention the primary issues with their shared electric scooters. Safety and hoarding need to be addressed. druinthor Re: Bird Electric Scooters' Letter to the Community From the Founder#3593 By Birdhouseinspect - Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:53 pm - Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:53 pm #3593 Being the victim of false accusations by Bird also needs to be addressed. There is no way to respond to being terminated by Bird because the Charger employee are basically thrown to the curb. I wish I could file a complaint to the state board of equalization but it looks like the way the agreement is written there is no recourse for the independant contractor. Its too bad I enjoyed the challenge of hunting/chargeing/releasing in my area. Oh well, To view images REGISTER or LOGIN for full access. Back to my job of being a grandmother of 10 adorable kids Birdhouseinspect Return to “Bird Scooters” Ninebot Forum Xiaomi M365 Scooter Forum Company Specific Scooters (Lime / Skip / Etc.) Off Road Electric Scooters Custom / Hot Rod / Projects Scooter Chargers, Hunters, & Mechanics Lime Scooters	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1681
__label__wiki	0.9495	0.9495	Giovani dos Santos Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Giovani dos Santos signs with Club America By Nicholas MendolaJul 6, 2019, 9:20 PM EDT At the age of 30, Giovani dos Santos is going to play a Liga MX match for the first time. The Barcelona youth academy product and Mexico national team centurion has signed with Club America, four months after the LA Galaxy bought out his contract. [ MORE: Messi gets 2nd ever red card ] Dos Santos was an MLS MVP caliber player at his best during his four seasons in MLS, which came after a career spent with Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur, Ipswich Town, Mallorca, Galatasaray, Racing Santander, and Villarreal. The Apertura season begins on July 19, and Club America will meet Tigres UANL in the Campeon de Campeones five days earlier. The Monterrey-born forward has 19 goals and 23 assists in 107 caps for El Tri. He’s won three Gold Cups and an Olympic gold, last appearing for Mexico at the 2018 World Cup in Brazil. El delantero 🇲🇽 @oficialgio llega al Nido. Bienvenido, G1O! #FírmalaGio 🦅 pic.twitter.com/TMfkzyX4pj — Club América (@ClubAmerica) July 6, 2019 Tags: Club America, El Tri, Giovani dos Santos, Liga MX, Mexico, transfer news, Ba, Ibe Zlatan nabs hat trick in wild comeback Photo by Harry How/Getty Images By Nicholas MendolaJul 29, 2018, 11:43 PM EDT Don’t tell Zlatan Ibrahimovic that the MLS MVP Award is named after someone else. While the big Swede isn’t likely to win it this year — Atlanta United’s Josef Martinez is on pace to murder the single season scoring record — the 36-year-old aerial ace is on a dominant run with the LA Galaxy. [ VIDEO: USWNT equalizes in stoppage ] Ibrahimovic scored three times and added another assist on Sunday against Orlando City SC, as the LA Galaxy won 4-3 at the StubHub Center. Ibrahimovic assisted the Giovani dos Santos goal that made it 1-1, then scored equalizers at 2-2 and 3-3 before completing his hat trick with the 71st minute match-winner. ZLATAN AGAIN!!! #LAvORL https://t.co/nUTypqn8VN — Major League Soccer (@MLS) July 30, 2018 Cristian Higuita and Dom Dwyer joined a Michael Ciani own goal in putting Orlando on the board. Orlando remains six points back of sixth place in the East, while the Galaxy moves third in the West (a point back of new rivals LAFC). How prolific is the former Manchester United, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, and Inter Milan man? Allow me to quote myself: He scored two goals in the eight minutes since I Tweeted this and completed his first @MLS hat trick. He has 12 goals and 3 assists in his last 8 starts. #LAvORL https://t.co/1ZgFW2Me0G — Nicholas Mendola (@NicholasMendola) July 30, 2018 Score the hat trick, throw the shirt. GO ON, @Ibra_official! pic.twitter.com/0XYAcI8fC5 — LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) July 30, 2018 Tags: Giovani dos Santos, LA Galaxy, Major League Soccer, mls, MLS Things, video, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Zlatan Ibrahimovic Three things: NYCFC flying with Villa, Medina at the helm Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images By Andy EdwardsMar 11, 2018, 8:47 PM EDT Week 2 of the 2018 MLS season is in the books, and New York City are one of just four teams with six points following Sunday’s 2-1 victory over the LA Galaxy. [ FOLLOW: All of PST’s MLS coverage ] Earlier today, I advocated against making any judgments whatsoever about the MLS season before the calendar reads May or June. Barely two hours later, I’m ready to ignore my own advice and tell you that NYCFC are very, very good — largely based upon the entirety of 2017, but also the way they’ve kicked off the 2018 season… [ MORE: MLS 2018 season previews ] Medina lessens the blow of losing Harrison Jack Harrison was, in so many ways, a perfect complement to David Villa, in that he was only slightly less aggressive and quick to transition than the legendary Spaniard. He was an abundant source of secondary goals — a must-have for every team, even ones with a Villa-caliber spearhead. Everyone was, understandably, unsure how NYCFC would replace Harrison’s final-third production following his transfer to Manchester City. It was a big ask for 20-year-old Paraguayan attacker Jesus Medina to walk straight into an established squad and immediately shoulder the load as Villa’s primary running mate. Through two games, Medina has surpassed expectations by miles and miles. He scored a goal against Sporting Kansas City last week, and was instrumental in setting up both goals against LA. On the first, it was Medina who got the ball wide right, held up play ever so slightly to allow Villa to move ahead of him, and finally slotted the perfectly timed and weighted through ball to the top of the six-yard box. Villa’s shot was saved, but the rebound came to Anton Tinnerholm, who smashed his left-footed shot off the underside of the crossbar and in. Welcome to @NYCFC, Anton Tinnerholm! #NYCvLA https://t.co/0WtJRlyNYT — Major League Soccer (@MLS) March 11, 2018 On the second, it was Medina, alongside Ben Sweat, who chased a bouncing ball deep inside NYCFC’s half and eventually won possession, then turned on the jets as he glided around one defender before playing the pass to present itself, a simple square ball to Sweat at the top of the box. Again, Sweat’s shot was saved, but the rebound fell to Villa with an empty net to mark his 100th MLS appearance with a game-winner. Go ahead and celebrate, @Guaje7Villa! The @NYCFC captain makes it 2-0. #NYCvLA https://t.co/jA9OM7yt3i Medina will probably come up short of Harrison’s numbers in the goals column — maybe even for assists, too — but it’s already very clear that he’s got a brilliant soccer mind when it comes to so many of the little things: his movement off the ball, how to time his runs to maximize the space he creates for others, and a willingness to play within the confines of his own strengths and weakness. For a 20-year-old player of any age, he’s been off-the-charts impressive. Injuries, ineffectiveness, indifference We’re only two weeks into the season, and LA have already lost superstar attacker Romain Alessandrini to a hamstring injury last week, starting center back Michael Ciani to an injury of his own on Sunday, and supposed-to-be-star Giovani dos Santos to a complete loss of form and ability, and/or an overwhelming sense of indifference. Dos Santos was subbed off at halftime of Sunday’s game, replaced by Servando Carrasco, a defensive midfielder. Why would Sigi Schmid do that to his most expensive and centerpiece Designated Player, you ask? Giovani dos Santos will (presumably) have better games than today (if he can get back on the field). Subbed off at HT… #LAGalaxy #NYCvLA pic.twitter.com/Y3bWUnLoNT — Andy Edwards (@AndyEdMLS) March 11, 2018 Considering LA have considerably curtailed their free-spending tendencies in recent seasons, it’s not at all outside the realm of possibility that they could look to move on from Dos Santos’ contract, which pays him $5.5 million per year, should he continue in this vein of form. Yes, we’re going to keep talking about VAR … until MLS and the Professional Referee Organization gets its head on straight. If you missed it yesterday, I ranted at greater length about Baldomero Toledo and Co.’s refusal to even consult the video review available to him after Los Angeles FC scored what will likely be the most egregiously offside goal this season (since, you know, VAR is in place to correct these kind of mistakes). On Sunday, barely a day later, another instance where VAR could have fixed a potentially “clear and obvious error” occurred in the 85th minute, with LA trailing 2-1 and threatening to equalize, when Ashley Cole was shown a second yellow card for tripping Villa as he prepared to run into 50 yards of open field. Ashley Cole is shown a second yellow. Sorry this is the best shot they showed of it. pic.twitter.com/LwP1Tioh1l — Total MLS (@TotalMLS) March 11, 2018 First things first, yellow cards — not even a second yellow — aren’t reviewable within the guidelines set forth by MLS (goals, penalties, straight red cards and mistake identity). Considering a second yellow has the exact same impact as a straight red, which is to effectively end LA’s comeback bid when Cole appears to have made no contact with Villa, it should be reviewable all the same. These are simple matters of common sense that, were MLS serious about using VAR as a tool to improve the level of refereeing, could be fixed overnight. They started using VAR roughly two-thirds of the way into the season last year, so what’s an amendment to the guidelines after fewer than two dozen game this year? Follow @AndyEdMLS Tags: David Villa, Giovani dos Santos, Jesus Medina, LA Galaxy, Major League Soccer, MLS Three Things, New York City FC, Video Assistant Referee, Ashley Cole Giovani Dos Santos on a new season with the Galaxy, El Tri, and more By Daniel KarellMar 8, 2018, 12:05 PM EDT It’s a new year, and that means a fresh start for Giovano Dos Santos. 2017 was a trying year for the 28-year-old. In his second full season with the LA Galaxy, the Mexican star battled injuries and poor form as his MVP-level production from 2016 dropped to scoring just six goals to go with three assists (he had 15 goals and 13 assists in 2016). There were some worried that Dos Santos, and his brother Jonathan, a holding midfielder for the Galaxy, would drop in form so far that they wouldn’t be able to make as much of an impact with the Mexican National Team. [MORE: North American bid “afraid” to lose 2026 World Cup] But after some time off during the winter, Giovani Dos Santos appears fresh and ready to go with a re-vamped LA Galaxy side and for the green, red and white of El Tri. “I feel we have a really strong team this year,” Dos Santos told PST as part of the Pepsi Generations global soccer campaign. “We’ve been training together for almost two months already, I think the chemistry between everyone is getting better every single day. As a Galaxy player, we know the responsibility and expectations are always high for this team.” Last season, the Galaxy missed the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade as the team couldn’t overcome a rash of both long-term and short-term injuries. Robbie Rogers and Sebastian Lleget missed nearly the entire season, while the likes of Dos Santos, Baggio Husidic, Gyasi Zardes, and Daniel Steres all missed significant time due to injuries. Sigi Schmid was brought in midway through the season but even he couldn’t keep the Galaxy in the playoff picture. “It’s difficult to explain what happened last year,” Dos Santos said. “Of course expectations are always high for us but I think it was a learning year for everyone. The past is in the past, we learn from it and we’re ready to take over this year.” With the new year comes a lot of new faces, as well as others returning from injury. The Galaxy signed Giovani’s brother Jonathan last summer and then over the offseason they rebuilt the team’s spine, signing goalkeeper David Bingham, midfielder Perry Kitchen and striker Ola Kamara to go with other role players. Those moves paid dividends in the first week of the MLS season, with the Galaxy knocking off the Portland Timbers 2-1. Dos Santos called it a “dream” to be playing again at the club level with his brother, as the pair did together in the Barcelona youth ranks and at Villarreal. “It’s been incredible to be together with my brother again, to share a moments together in our careers and our lives,” Dos Santos said, noting Jonathan lives with him in Los Angeles. “It’s our dream to be together so we feel blessed to be together again.” The pair will be spending plenty of time this year together on and off the field, not only in the Galaxy shirt but also the green, white and red of Mexico. In the prime of his career, assuming he stays healthy, Dos Santos will be expected to make a massive impact for Mexico at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, with El Tri opening up against defending World Cup champion Germany before taking on South Korea and Sweden. Expectations are sky high for El Tri this summer, with a crop of players who won FIFA youth tournaments in the past finally coming into their prime as well as a number of high-profile players excelling overseas. While Dos Santos has ventured back to North America, the likes of Carlos Salcedo, Hrving “Chucky” Lozano and Jesus “Tecatito” Corona are beginning their European journeys and are expected to help bring Mexico over the fifth-game wall it’s failed to overcome in the past. Amazingly, despite all the success of El Tri in CONCACAF and even on the world stage, Mexico has never made it past the quarterfinals. “Obviously we’re going to go to the World Cup with the best expectations,” Dos Santos admitted. “We’re going to go game by game, hopefully we can get through. “I think we have great players and a great squad,” Dos Santos added. “This is the most important year for the national team, we have the World Cup coming and I’m so excited for it.” Although he’s left his European career behind for the project of winning a title in MLS, Dos Santos still keeps his eye on his former club in the Premier League, Tottenham, as well as a coach who he never worked with directly but knew from his time in Barcelona. With the eight-hour time difference between London and Los Angeles, Dos Santos can’t watch many games live, but he said when he gets a chance, he tunes in to the Premier League. He said he’s been particularly impressed with Manchester City this year. “I was in the first team when he was there,” Dos Santos said, referring to Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola. “I think he’s a great coach and he deserves all the success he’s having now.” Being an El Tri star, Dos Santos has continental appeal, and he’s making use of that. Dos Santos is part of the 2018 global “Pepsi Generations” soccer campaign, joining forces with former teammate Lionel Messi along with U.S. Women’s National Team star Carli Lloyd, Tottenham’s Dele Alli and Real Madrid pair Marcelo and Toni Kroos. “I’m really excited to be in this campaign with such an iconic brand like Pepsi around the world and to be able to be alongside with such great players like Messi, Marcelo and Kroos is a blessing,” Dos Santos said. Tags: Dos Santos, El Tri, Giovani dos Santos, LA Galaxy, Mexico, Dele Alli, Giovani Dos Santos, Nathan, Pep Guardiola West Ham’s Hernandez, trio of MLS players called up to El Tri By Daniel KarellNov 3, 2017, 3:25 PM EDT Mexico National Team manager Juan Carlos Osorio has called up a strong squad for a pair of friendly matches this month against European opposition. West Ham’s Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez along with the Dos Santos brothers Jonathan and Giovani and Los Angeles FC’s Carlos Vela were all called up in a 26-player squad set to face Poland on November 10 and Belgium on November 13. ¡Con ellos nos vamos a Europa! Dos rivales 🔝 nos esperan 🇧🇪 y 🇵🇱 👉🏻 https://t.co/48c8QIq1Cr#SoyMéxico pic.twitter.com/tZDMe7OH7N — Selección Nacional (@miseleccionmx) November 3, 2017 Osorio has called in a mixed group with players both based domestically and abroad, but it’s as close to a potential World Cup squad as he could find. The friendlies will be a big chance for Hernandez to regain his best form. The 29-year-old poacher has four goals in 10 Premier League games, including one in a 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace last weekend, but they’ll need more from him in order to rise up the Premier League table. The friendlies are also a great chance for English scouts to have another look at PSV Eindhoven’s Hirving Lozano, one of the bright young Mexican prospects. Tags: Carlos Vela, El Tri, Giovani dos Santos, Javier Hernandez, Jonathan Dos Santos, Mexican National Team, Mexico, Nathan Giovani dos Santos signs with Club America July 6, 2019 9:20 pm Zlatan nabs hat trick in wild comeback July 29, 2018 11:43 pm Three things: NYCFC flying with Villa, Medina at the helm March 11, 2018 8:47 pm Giovani Dos Santos on a new season with the Galaxy, El Tri, and more March 8, 2018 12:05 pm West Ham’s Hernandez, trio of MLS players called up to El Tri November 3, 2017 3:25 pm MLS All Star Game preview: Surprise us, please? August 1, 2017 8:02 pm Report: Galaxy seal capture of Villarreal’s Jonathan Dos Santos July 25, 2017 9:36 pm Reports: Jonathan Dos Santos set to join Giovani on Galaxy July 24, 2017 5:23 pm Rashford brace guides Man United past LA Galaxy in friendly July 16, 2017 7:35 am Video: Dos Santos scores jaw-dropping flick against Minnesota May 21, 2017 6:22 pm MLS Snapshot: Galaxy hammer Red Bulls without injured Jones May 14, 2017 8:03 pm MLS Cup Playoffs: LA Galaxy 1-0 Colorado Rapids (video) October 30, 2016 7:14 pm Giovani Dos Santos returns to Mexico team for Panama, New Zealand matches September 29, 2016 3:45 pm Three award-sized questions as MLS heads down the stretch September 12, 2016 3:31 pm Galaxy snap 6-game winless streak with 2-1 victory over Crew September 4, 2016 7:15 am MLS Snapshot: LA Galaxy 4-2 New England Revolution (video) May 8, 2016 5:54 pm MLS Snapshot: Sporting KC 1-1 LA Galaxy (video) May 1, 2016 10:14 pm MLS Rewind: Bruce’s big dilemma, refs (again) + TotW & PotW April 24, 2016 11:29 pm MLS Snapshot: LA Galaxy 5-2 Real Salt Lake (video) April 24, 2016 12:31 am MLS Rewind: Goals galore, Magic Mike, irreplaceable Espinoza + TotW & PotW March 7, 2016 4:05 pm LA Galaxy enter 2016 in a familiar role — all-in to win it all March 5, 2016 8:27 pm L.A. Galaxy and Santos Laguna play to stalemate in CCL first leg February 25, 2016 12:01 am Mexico boss Osorio won’t ignore MLS players; “ultimate goal” still Europe January 28, 2016 6:45 pm MLS Team of the Week — Stars of Week 25 August 24, 2015 2:30 pm MLS Snapshot: FC Dallas 1-2 LA Galaxy (video) August 15, 2015 11:34 pm VIDEO: Dos Santos explains MLS move to “a really important team” July 21, 2015 3:44 pm Mexico star Giovani Dos Santos joins LA Galaxy on long-term deal July 15, 2015 10:15 am Mexico 6-0 Cuba: Oribe Peralta’s hat trick leads the way for El Tri in Gold Cup opener July 9, 2015 11:37 pm Reports: Galaxy on verge of landing El Tri star Dos Santos as “core player” June 30, 2015 5:51 pm Mexican forward Giovani dos Santos could miss the rest of Villarreal’s season with a thigh injury April 21, 2015 3:18 pm Wednesday’s international preview: Mexico/Netherlands rematch, Gold Cup qualifiers November 11, 2014 5:22 pm Torres in, Hernández and Jiménez out for Mexico matches against Chile, Bolivia August 21, 2014 11:00 pm First two knockout round matches are set: Let’s take an early look at Brazil-Chile, Netherlands-Mexico June 23, 2014 9:19 pm Mexico hands Brazil its first 2014 World Cup blemish, draws host nation, 0-0 June 17, 2014 4:55 pm Peralta’s goal saves FIFA more controversy; Mexico dominates Cameroon 1-0 June 13, 2014 1:57 pm At halftime: ‘Dos’ disallowed goals haunting Mexico vs. Cameroon — FOLLOW LIVE June 13, 2014 12:52 pm Mexico announces XI for opener; Chicharito an unhappy sub for country June 12, 2014 2:08 pm LA Galaxy to unveil third Designated Player on Thursday: Will it be Omar Gonzalez? August 14, 2013 7:35 pm Is the LA Galaxy still in the hunt for Mexican star Giovani dos Santos? July 6, 2013 2:07 pm Did Giovani dos Santos already reject a Galaxy offer? June 25, 2013 8:02 pm	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1689
__label__wiki	0.538207	0.538207	Get ready to protest if Trump comes to Britain Published Tue 24 Apr 2018 Tens of thousands protest outside the US embassy in London last January (Pic: Dean Ryan ) Bigoted US president Donald Trump has been “pencilled” in to come to Britain on 14 July, according to the Daily Mail newspaper’s “sources”. A spokesperson for Theresa May said details were still being worked out. The Daily Telegraph newspaper claimed an “unnamed source” told them Trump was coming in “late summer”. Whatever the truth or the date of his visit, he must be met with huge protests. Some two million people have said they will join protests if Trump comes to Britain. A new grouping, Together Against Trump, has brought together the Stand Up To Trump coalition and Stop Trump for a one-off demonstration. This will oppose his politics of racism, war and ruling for the rich. It will target Trump but also May for hosting and supporting him – from racist immigration bans to bombs on Syria. The speculation over a visit comes as the inquiry into potential Russian involvement in the 2016 US presidential election draws ever closer to Trump. We can’t rely on the people at the top of society to hold self-confessed sexual harasser Trump to account. They’d rather rely on legal manoeuvres such as suing Russia, WikiLeaks and Trump over allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign, as the Democratic National Committee has initiated. It’s up to ordinary people to fight against war and bigotry. Tue 24 Apr 2018, 15:52 BST The real scandal behind Cambridge Analytica John Bolton - the latest threat from Trump The attacks on Syria will only bring more horror Koreas are pawns in a much bigger game Donald Trump to visit Britain—join mass protests against him	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1690
__label__cc	0.718661	0.281339	How does flagging review work? Quick question but can someone provide a bit of clarity in regards to how the flagging review works? I recently flagged a question as off-topic, it was closed by community vote as off topic, but then the flag was declined as "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it" Right now I'm assuming that it was closed before it was reviewed, but still the phrasing rubs the wrong way a bit. support flagging declined-flags rjziirjzii The decline message is just one of the canned responses... – yannis Feb 21 '12 at 15:58 Is this the question? programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/136082/… – yannis Feb 21 '12 at 16:01 @YannisRizos - Yes, that is the question. – rjzii Feb 21 '12 at 17:49 I reviewed the flag, and this was my thought process: Is this question actually off-topic? I determined that no, in my opinion, it was not off-topic. Business concerns1 are listed as something that is acceptable to ask about. Interviewing techniques are absolutely a business concern. In addition, I have participated in screens and interviews as an engineer, as have my colleagues. Since it was about a technical interview, and not general interviewing, I decided that it would best be answered by technical people. Is it constructive? Absolutely. There's not a narrow scope of answers, but I believe that there might be some common threads across answers as to what constitutes a "9" or a "10" for a Java developer, and some expert Java developers or those who frequently interview Java developers would know what ideas of topics should be included. Of course, one of the things that I would have asked in a clarifying question would be more about the toolchains and environments used, the external libraries used, the domain of the system, what kinds of applications were being built, and so on. Is it a question that makes sense? From the perspective of a technical interviewer, yes, it does. First, in interviewing, there is the concept of illusory superiority that any interviewer must deal with. Asking an individual to rate themselves and then basing the interview on that is a valid technique. In addition, the most proficient Java developers and those who have hired other Java developers would be able to share their expertise as to what makes a "1", a "5", and a "10" and so on. Who flagged the question? I saw that the community was expressing their opinion on the question through votes to close and downvotes. I also saw that the flagger had voted to close the question. I felt that it was inappropriate to flag a moderator for a new, still active, question that the community was dealing with. There was still opportunities to enhance the question, ask for more detail, or provide feedback as to how to make it better. I'm not going to step on the community when the community is handling it just fine. Was it a perfect question? Absolutely not. If I had more time when I was reviewing flags, I would have edited the question or asked clarifying questions in comments. If it was a low reputation user flagging, I would have dismissed it as helpful, but taken no action to let the community respond through voting (up/down and closure). I just saw no need to support the community's efforts to police themselves and was not about to step in with a binding vote for a moderator. If things were slow or it was a question that I was sure couldn't be salvaged, I'd have stepped in, but that was not the case in this instance. 1: Business concerns is vague. My rule of thumb to determine if a business question should remain open is two fold. First, is it something that would be discussed in a business course or known by people with a background in some kind of business (management, finances, accounting, human resources, etc). Second, is the education and experiences of a software development professional pertinent to the question. If both are yes, it's on-topic. when reviewing a flag, did you have an option to skip/postpone acting on it? As for topicality, your reasoning makes pretty good sense to me (as usual:) – gnat Feb 23 '12 at 4:46 @gnat We can leave flags for other moderators to weigh in on them, or dismiss a flag as "helpful", but otherwise there is no "postpone" option for flags. – user8 Feb 23 '12 at 6:12 @gnat You can not handle it, which I do for borderline posts. Depending on why it was flagged, I usually give the community a chance to clean it up. If it's a post that's something like a link-only answer or a brief answer that needs more details, I'll leave a comment and even leave it in the queue and check on it later in the day (assuming it's an active user of the site) before I delete. – Thomas Owens♦ Feb 23 '12 at 7:54 @MarkTrapp leave flags for other moderators I see - that's about what I had in mind when I mentioned skip/postpone. Basically, I meant anything that does not involve immediate action – gnat Feb 24 '12 at 5:51 It could be that a moderator reviewed your flag before the post was closed by other members of the community. If you flag and then the community effectively agrees with you by voting to close regardless of whether they saw the flag or not, then it should be resolved has "helpful". Can you link to the question in question? Question was linked in the comments above after you posted this, here's the link to the question at hand - programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/136082/… – rjzii Feb 21 '12 at 17:50 As far as I can tell moderator who declined your flag made two mistakes. First mistake was not catching that question is off-topic indeed. I believe it's minor because topicality at Programmers is quite slippery. Second mistake per my understanding is being too easy at casting decline to your flag. Clarifications for declining flags given in September 2011 Newsletter of SE Community Moderator Blog look pretty straightforward: Flags Too Often Marked [declined] Marking a flag [declined] was designed to deter serial abusers of the flagging system, but we find that this “slap on the wrist” is being used more often than is beneficial. Flags should be closed as [helpful] under most circumstances. If you feel strongly that a question was flagged in bad faith, it is okay to mark it [declined]. But try to err on the side of clearing as [helpful] whenever the user is trying to be genuinely helpful, even if you do not necessarily act on the flag... For the sake of completeness - given that you both cast a close vote and flagged, I can imagine that moderator considered this as abuse but I've yet to see from credible sources if this indeed qualifies as such. Follow-up question at SO Meta: Is it an abuse of the flagging system to cast both a close vote and flag? gnatgnat Generally I've voted to close and flagged for the vast majority of my flags and haven't had an issue with it before in the past. If it is considered abuse than it is news to me as normally it seems like the best way to expedite getting a bad question closed. – rjzii Feb 22 '12 at 12:25 @RobZ well per what has been posted so far at follow-up SO Meta discussion, this doesn't look like abuse to me too – gnat Feb 22 '12 at 12:40 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged support flagging declined-flags . Voting to Close vs. Flagging Why was my flag in this question declined? Can the number of custom close reasons on Programmers be expanded? Was flagging as “Rude or Offensive” the wrong choice here? Update “Introducing Programmers” blog to reflect site scope change Is it okay to flag for moderator intervention attempts to circumvent question block at other site? Is empirical evidence off topic here? Are questions about good coding style on topic?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1691
__label__cc	0.554528	0.445472	Ritz Carlton Perth Hotel – 2019 Opening for Fancy Hotel at Elizabeth Quay Ryan Northover Ritz Carlton Hotel Perth Ritz Carlton Perth to open in 2019 The first construction work is beginning on the new, fancy pants Ritz Carlton Perth Hotel at Elizabeth Quay. The mega-luxury Ritz Carlton Perth Hotel will be the only Australian hotel of its kind. The $500 million Ritz Carlton Perth project is expected to create around 1,200 new jobs during construction and several hundred once operational. The hotel chain has high-end hotel and resort properties across the world, with around 88 hotels under the Ritz Carlton management in 29 nations. The hotel will have around 200 rooms. Private apartments are also set to be constructed in the next few years on the same site. The Ritz-Carlton is one of several new high-end hotels already established or about to open in Perth. In 2015, The COMO The Treasury opened in Perth’s CBD, in late 2016 Crown Towers at Burswood opens and the Westin hotel is also coming to Perth City. Elizabeth Quay with The Ritz-Carlton Perth – Source: MRA “Visitors to Perth are attracted by our city’s best natural assets, the Swan River and Kings Park, and their experience is enriched through quality accommodation, exceptional public transport and great hospitality – all of which will be on offer at Elizabeth Quay,” Premier Barnett said. “Elizabeth Quay has been embraced by West Australians and has already become an integral part of the Perth city skyline, so it will be exciting to see it change and evolve over the coming years.” Planning Minister Donna Faragher said the construction of The Ritz Carlton at Elizabeth Quay by international developer Far East Consortium International marked the return of the prestigious hotel brand to Australia after a 10-year hiatus. “This development will attract tourists and residents to enjoy the many features of Elizabeth Quay that have been enjoyed by more than two million visitors,” Mrs Faragher said. Ceremony at Ritz Carlton hotel site at Elizabeth Quay, August 2016 Sod turning underway at Ritz-Carlton site. Construction expected to take 2 1/2yrs #perthnews pic.twitter.com/AtwUDn9By1 — Lisa Barnes (@Barnsy_Lisa) August 4, 2016 Ryan is contributing editor of So Perth and co-founder of So Media Group.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1692
__label__cc	0.587252	0.412748	Roiphe The Greatest Novelist You Haven’t Read James Salter is as good as Roth, Updike, or Ford. So why isn’t he popular? By Katie Roiphe March 28, 20134:10 PM Author James Salter at his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Photo by Ed Betz/AP It is one of the eccentricities of American publishing that James Salter has not been widely embraced as a great writer. His books are as good as those of post-war novelists like John Updike, Philip Roth, Richard Ford, and critics have often said so, and yet he is nowhere near as beloved or popularly read. He is frequently referred to as a “writer’s writer,” which sounds terrible, as if he writes effete, airless sentences, as if his novels and stories were obscure poetic exercises, but none of that is true. His writing is as muscular, as clear, as accessible, as lively as those other writers, and yet he is still somehow relegated to that dreary shelf of “writer’s writers,” but even writers have often never bothered to read him. All of this may change with his fantastic new novel, All That Is, which he is publishing at the age of 88, clearly at the top of his game. Still, it’s worth thinking about why his books have never quite caught on. One reason may be that his view of love is too stark, too uncomfortable, too challenging for broader American consumption. In the work of other heralded great male novelists, love vanishes and is lost, people cheat and run off, but those novelists don’t question love, or press down on its latent tragedies and accidents and randomness with the quite the same relentlessness that Salter does. All That Is contains a brilliant indictment of love, even as it revels in its sensual transports. Its hero, Philip Bowman, is a war veteran, and then a successful publisher. He passes through one marriage and many affairs. (Salter writes of one of them “They made love like it was a violent crime.”) He brings to the novel a rich, odd perspective, as if he is watching life down here from a very distant planet. He pins down the delusions of pressing human attachments (“Everything he had wanted to be, she was offering him”), and examines how these attachments can be so urgent and so seemingly singular and so fleeting. It is perhaps not an accident that Salter would publish this very beautiful book at the age of 88. He senses the end in beginnings, applies the acquired wisdom of years, the terrifying perspective of accumulated experience, to the ordinary goings on of the heart. He writes, “There was a time, usually late in August, when summer struck the trees with dazzling power and they were rich with leaves but then became, suddenly one day, strangely still, as if in expectation and at that moment aware. They knew… The sun was at its zenith and embraced the world, but it was ending, all that one loved was at risk.” It is in that mood of expansive exaltation and impending doom that Salter elegantly scrutinizes his hero’s affairs. He writes of the pretty blonde Bowman marries: “He loved her for not only what she was but what she might be, the idea that she might be otherwise did not occur to him or did not matter. Why would it occur? When you love you see a future according to your dreams.” On their wedding day, Salter writes with his usual precision: “Bowman was happy or felt he was, she was his, a beautiful woman or girl.” The writing is so simple, and yet there is a shadow, the loss before the fact, the tenuousness and fragility of identity. It’s that line, “Bowman was happy or felt he was” that haunts. Here, as elsewhere, Salter interrogates our perceptions of love: Were you happy, or did you just feel like you were happy? There is a disturbing anonymity to Bowman’s attachments; they form quite passionately and dissolve. He falls in love with many different women over the course of the novel. Salter writes of one of Bowman’s loves “no one was ever more desired”—though of course he has described, just pages before, another woman equally desired, in another moment. Salter writes of one breakup, “He was not related to other people—his life was another kind of life. He had invented it. He had dreamt himself up, running heedless into the surf at night as if he were a poet, or beach boy in California, as if he were a madman, but there were the very real mornings, the world still asleep and she asleep beside him. He could stroke her arm, he could wake her if he liked. He felt sick with the memory of it. He was sick with all the memories. They had done things together that would make her look back one day and see that he was the one who truly mattered. That was a sentimental idea, the stuff of a woman’s novel. She would never look back. He knew that. He amounted to a few brief pages. Not even.” It is not that Bowman doesn’t love each of these women, but rather that love itself is not given quite the respect or reverence it usually is in American novels. Salter seems to be saying quite clearly in this novel that these unique, individual ardent attachments could just as easily be with another woman encountered on a different day. (And he is not writing about sexual flings here: He is writing about love.) It is in some sense the disturbing romantic philosophy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where the lovers spend all their time ardently pursuing pretty random and fluid enchantments. (That play’s line “So quick bright things come to confusion” could be this book’s epigraph.) Salter once described his novel about marriage, Light Years, in a Paris Review interview, in terms that could sum up this dark and penetrating vision of romantic carryings on: “The book is the worn stones of conjugal life. All that is beautiful, all that is plain, everything that nourishes or causes to wither. It goes on for years, decades, and in the end seems to have passed like things glimpsed from the train—a meadow here, a stand of trees, houses with lit windows in the dusk, darkened towns, stations flashing by—everything that is not written down disappears except for certain imperishable moments, people and scenes. The animals die, the house is sold, the children are grown, even the couple itself has vanished, and yet there is this poem.” It is this sense of being outside of one’s own life, one’s own loves, of experiencing or remembering an entire marriage or relationship as “things glimpsed from a train” that gives Salter’s work both its depth and its difficulty, its alarming insight and its grace. It’s this that should make him, finally, what he truly is: a reader’s writer.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1696
__label__wiki	0.868149	0.868149	March 25: Angelica Sanchez Trio + Wadada Leo Smith TICKETS: $25 ($20 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS) Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet; Angelica Sanchez, piano + Angelica Sanchez, piano; Michael Formanek, double-bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums The duo of iconic trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist Angelica Sanchez returns to Greenwich House to play the first half of this mighty double-bill revolving around Angelica, long a Sound It Out favorite. Dusted magazine, reviewing the duo’s 2014 album “Twine Forest,” said: “Wadada Leo Smith and the superb pianist Angelica Sanchez produce a recital whose main ingredients are touch, feel, resonance and a real emphasis on the presence of a note, a chord. Smith’s trumpet playing is widely celebrated for possessing these virtues, but Sanchez convinces throughout with her musicality, restraint and creativity.” This show’s second half will feature the pianist’s new trio with the great bassist Michael Formanek and ever in-demand drummer Tyshawn Sorey, with the group celebrating the release of their new Clean Feed album, “Float the Edge.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1703
__label__cc	0.634336	0.365664	Imagess Courtesy of Amazon SmartHomeAudio Comparing The Amazon Echo and Echo Plus Last updated Feb 22, 2018 In a market where Apple and Google are now making a play for smart speaker dominance, Amazon has raised the bar yet again. At the end of September, the company introduced three new Echo products, including the Amazon Echo Plus , into the market. Identical to the original Echo , the Echo Plus is the first direct Echo upgrade. So what’s the difference between them? This article aims to explain. The Original Amazon Echo Amazon introduced a unique product with the Amazon Echo when it first appeared on Amazon’s website in 2014. Wireless speakers already existed but none quite like this. The Echo connects to services such as Audible, Spotify, and Tune-In along with Amazon Music for a voice-controlled audio streaming experience. It also has skills like turning on a flash briefing, ordering an Uber, and ordering from Amazon just to name a few. It is a tall and cylindrical device with just two buttons on the top and a system of speakers inside. One button wakes Alexa manually and restarts the device if needed. The other mutes the speaker. No other ports exist such as an audio out jack. Instead, it connects to other devices like tablets or computers via Bluetooth. Echo and Smart Devices Another feature that the Amazon Echo offers is control of smart devices inside of the home like lights and thermostats. It is compatible with smart hubs such as: Individual smart devices like light bulbs, dimmers, switches, locks, outlets, and thermostats are either already compatible with Alexa or require a smart hub to work. The Amazon Echo Plus People who love smart devices for their homes have a new friend in the Amazon Echo Plus One of the most significant upgrades for the Echo Plus is its built-in smart hub. It can now control any device no matter if it is specifically compatible or if it needs a hub. As with the original, the Echo Plus has all the same features including audio streaming and Alexa skills. It also utilizes the Alexa calling feature by making phone calls and serving as an intercom by dropping in on other people in the home. The Amazon Echo Plus recognizes voices using far-field voice recognition and a wake word, Alexa or Amazon. In the previous generation, users weren’t always able to have their commands understood, particularly in noisy environments. Amazon has improved this feature and the Echo now understands what you’re asking even when it’s noisy. The final improvement Amazon made with the Echo Plus is with sound. Echo’s original speakers needed a bit of an improvement. Now the Echo is ready to go with room-filling sound from a 2.5” Dolby speaker system inside. At just $50 more than the 2nd generation Echo, the Echo Plus is worth adding to a home for its smart home capabilities especially for owners of the original Echo. With the rapid pace of technology development, it’s become commonplace for people to upgrade their devices once a year. Amazon’s approach to the upgrade with Echo Plus is slightly different. While it does offer marked improvements over the original, Amazon’s latest devices are positioned to extend the usefulness of existing devices and encourage new customers to meet Alexa. Take a chance on the Echo Plus or add another to an existing home device. Ian Andrews has a passion for photography and technology that he discusses on his website IanAndrewsReviews.com. He is also an expert in fraud and scams and is interested in educating the public and businesses about them. AmazonEchoEchoPlus Guest Author 343 posts 0 comments Best 30 Tech Gifts Under $300 10 Tech Gifts Under $10 Top Large Digital Frames For Art And Photo 5 Tips to Find the Best Lightweight Vacuum for Your Home Top Technological Advances in Home Surveillance	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1706
__label__cc	0.632484	0.367516	#SYRIAEditor's choice 05.03.2018 - 6,000 views US Seeks To Save Jabhat al-Nusra From Defeat – Lavrov 4.6666666666667 out of 5 based on 9 ratings. 9 user reviews. US Seeks To Save Jabhat al-Nusra From Defeat – Lavrov The US is contributing efforts to save members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) from defeat and to save them for further regime change in Damascus. “Western partners, especially the United States, would like to take the heat off al-Nusra Front, which has now changed its name, — but this does mean it has changed in nature, — and save it in case they decide to return to the plan “B,” which is to change the regime in Damascus,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on March 5 following talks with Namibian Minister of External Relations and Cooperation, Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwah. The minsiter added that Russia is accumulating an increased amount of data confirming the US’ efforts. The minister also recalled that the Syrian Army’s operation against the terorist group in Eastern Ghouta is is absolutely legitimate. Lavrov added that currently the Syrian government is being pressured to stop its military operation despite it’s aimed against the terrorist group, which is not covered by the ceasefire regime. Last weekend, Washington accused Russia and its allies in the Syrian conflict of violating the ceasefire regime in Syria saying that this had led to deaths among civilians in Eastern Ghouta. The US had repeatedly called on the Syrian Army and its allies to halt anti-terrorist operation area in the area. It seems the White House has nothing against a daily shelling of the government-held part of the Damascus countryside from the so-called moderate opposition accidentally consisting of al-Qaeda-style terrorists. MORE HERE leon mc pilibin Its better to just ignore these zionist genocidal maniacs and at the same time warn them that the mountains of evidence of their collusion and support for these head chopping terrorists is being carefully assembled and will be used in the future to claim reparations for all the murder and destruction as a result of their regime change agenda. BUT NOBODY sees this evidence – that is the problem. greatndit NOBODY IN USA to be precise Joe Dirt no one in the US cares about the Middle East that’s why. Sinbad2 Agreed, so when the blow back hits the US, they will be totally surprised. I remember a distraught woman in the aftermath of 911, saying “Why do they hate us so much”. Most Americans have no idea about the despicable crimes committed by the USA, but sadly, they are the ones that will be held accountable. USA commits no Crimes! Satire or my stupidity in asking ? you are an example of ignoring what your government does outside your country. Every one in the US thinks that means Ohio / Viginia or Kentucky – that’s why. http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/696/980/41e.png I Don’t think many people in the U.S. Care about the World in general…… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b78cf7b2ca2053cd1ac99c08eb1207d5f39f5712890627a08951ec995e822ba6.jpg USA citizens don’t care about the ass backwards Middle East. Yes, sorry, you are correct. Gℴogle is paying the people $99/hr to complete easy jobs from the comfort of home . Do job only for few hours daily and live happy more time together with your own friends .. any individual can also benefit this easy work!!this Tuesday I purchased a brand new Aston Martin DB5 just after earning $18200 past month .it is truly my favourite-job but you could now not forgive yourself if you don’t have a peek at it.!iw28y:➸➸➸ http://GoogleMapFreelanceBusinessOpportunity/earn/99$/per-hour… ♥l♥♥b♥♥n♥♥t♥l♥♥y♥j♥♥♥c♥♥♥a♥♥m♥♥♥z♥d♥♥k♥i♥i♥f♥j♥♥q♥f♥♥g♥♥v♥♥k♥♥e♥f♥♥y::::!le131g:gs Karl Patfield “Evidence” this article offers no evidence. How can you say the USA is genocidal maniacs? USA doesn’t carpet bomb civilian neighborhoods. USA has precision guided bombs, it can pick targets. US military can guide a JDAM through a window. Russia and Syria don’t habe this technology, they simply drop bombs in civilian areas, but somehow you think USA is genocidal? No side is clean, but USA cares about civilian casualties. Russia/Syria/Iran doesn’t have the technology to care Assad Did Nothing Wrong™ That’s why the US stopped caring about Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq when regime change was accomplished. Just like they would with Syria. Look up the amount of money the USaid department has spent in Iraq, and Afghanistan. US is still involved in Afghanistan, how can you say US does not care? US has spent billions of dollars nation building in Iraq, the US does care. https://www.usaid.gov/crisis/iraq Orcbuu HAHAHA yeah right! USaid, is aid for American arms dealers, most US aid is in the form of weapons. Giving away free Humvees and Abrams tanks is not what a normal person would call aid Yeah ISIS got a LOT of this AID, by getting new Humvees and Tanks and ofc there Plastic shit guns. USAID offers official development assistance. Military spending does not count as official development assistance therefore is not part of USAID funding. The OECD tracks official development assistance. For information on how the United States is spending $40 billion in development projects. Please visit the below website. https://donortracker.org/country/united-states# Terra Cotta Woolpuller Yes and has Friends of Syria part of USAID also NGOs and other linked groups to Al Qaeda , we already know what goes on. Ret Gen Vallaly had carried the Sarin that came from Tiblisi, Georgia that was involved in the 2013 attacks as he came with a convoy of 400 Turkish trained TFSA troops all recruited by US contractors and funded by the GCC, to meet the Commander of the TFSA group. This is a huge claim, if you would provide evidence I would like to further educate myself. Where are you getting this information? When Australia was helping the USA bomb Iraq back to the stone age, sometimes the US would arm the Australian planes with American bombs. I know this because at the time I saw Australia on a list of US aid recipients. I couldn’t understand why Australia would get aid from the US, so I tracked it down, bombs for our FA18’s. LOL you didn’t have to bomb Iraq back to the stone age it was already turd world country. Doyle Philipson Though better known for administering humanitarian aid around the world, USAID has a long history of engaging in intelligence work and meddling in the domestic politics of aid recipients. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the agency often partnered with the CIA’s now-shuttered Office of Public Safety, a department beset by allegations that it trained foreign police in “terror and torture techniques” and encouraged official brutality, according to a 1976 Government Accountability Office report. USAID officials have always denied these accusations but in 1973, Congress directed USAID to phase out its public safety program — which worked with the CIA to train foreign police forces — in large part because the accusations were hurting America’s public image. “It matters little whether the charges can be substantiated,” said a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report. “They inevitably stigmatize the total United States foreign aid effort.” By the time the program was closed, USAID had helped train thousands of military personnel and police officers in Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and other countries now notorious for their treatment of political dissidents. https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/04/03/conspiracy-fact-how-the-u-s-government-covertly-invented-a-cuban-twitter-to-create-revolution/ https://pando.com/2014/04/08/the-murderous-history-of-usaid-the-us-government-agency-behind-cubas-fake-twitter-clone/ Well had been reading about Ret. Major General Valally arriving in 2013 around the time of the attack it was just before actually an he came with 400 TFSA it was remarked he came with an army at the time. Since then have read further talks of the Sarin gas origins from Tiblisi, Georgia and via Turkish officials to the TFSA Convoy headed to Aleppo. Seems USAID just found another group which i headed up by a former US military General, coincidence here is too close to the truth. viktor ziv USais does care XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjF8ju7YeLI 888mladen . Nice video I’ve seen it few times. I feel your pain , Karl. Sometimes I try to be funny in a post by loading it up with heavy sarcasm , and then nobody gets the joke ! Anyway , I got it. How others missed it , I don’t know , your sarcasm was as obvious as it could possibly be. The joke’s on them , not you. NeoLeo US criminals destroyed country after country, they directly and indirectly killed millions in Iraq alone and you say – yes but we gave them some surplus humvees and paid our quislings?! Have you no shame? You have no brain obviously… Imagine someone destroys your house, kill your family, then give you some cookies? “The US care”?? Fuck the US mass murderers and fuck their “care”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE All humanity is their potential pray irrespective of age, ethnicity, religion or being friend or foe. Yes, Rakka and Mosul really look like they have been using precision ammo, lol, completely leveled http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russia-compares-us-coalition-bombing-raqqa-syria-wwii-dresden-germany-isis-a8013626.html The USA does carpet bomb civilian neighborhoods, the US carpet bombed Sadr city, used phosphorus and other banned substances. The US also bombed civilian neighborhoods in Hanoi, Tokyo, and Hiroshima, Hiroshima was 100% civilian and had never been bombed before. The USA also targets sewerage plants, in an effort to spread disease. The USA is the dirtiest fighter of them all. US military is not perfect, and rules of engagement have been loosened since Trump. It is true, that in 2017 US military dropped more explosives than the entire previous years of Syrian conflict combined. My point is not that the United States is perfect, it is that the United States knows where it’s bombs land. Russian military does not have precision guided technology. This is why Russian backed urban offensives see much higher civilian casualties. USA can bomb a specific building and hit that building. Yes USA makes mistakes and civilians die. Russian pilots can target a building, but their bombs will land anywhere within the block. USA is targeted, Russia just drops bombs and hopes for the best, sounds like carpet bombing to me. USA also doesn’t use chlorine gas. Maybe the world could find the truth behind the chlorine gas attacks, except Russia keeps blocking the United Nations from investigating the issue. Something to hide it seems. Rah My God, you’re a dumb f*k. You can hate Russia all you want, but to claim that they don’t have the capability to drop bombs at a point target is ridiculous. nshah He’s dumb indeed, guess I wouldn’t bothered explaining, as he just said whatever comes up in/from his dumb brain (if he has one) without even thinking and thinks that everyone here are as idiot as he is.. UAss militery is a disaster be it domestically or on other peoples’ land that’s far2 away from their stinking sewage turd country The choice to bring the fight in the urban environment was made from the instigators of violence Syria via their proxies. Cities offer fortified positions and civilians to be used as human shields or leverage against any opposition. You are brainwashed fool, better start educating yourself. correction if you don’t mind.. The US is the dirtiest terrorists..! They’re not fighters or warriors.. warriors don’t kill innocents.., and I’ve seen how these fucking babies in diapers shits in their pants(diapers) begging for their live or crying asking for help..! Fighter my foot..! These fucking Yankees brings chaos to every lands they set their stinking foot on.. Fucking Faggot Bastards..! Did you know they did Bomb Raqqa with Phosphorus(Modern Napalm)? NO?! Look it up there are a LOT of videos about the Time when USA “Presicion” Bombed the Civilians there. Go make your OWN MIND. READ, RESEACH and “THEN” REPLY! Time to take your medicine Orcbruuuuu you are becoming a bit delusional. So you never use yours, i see. Piss off, Dirt i wasnt talking to you. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE POST THE PHOSPHORUS BOMBING OF RAQQA BY USA TO THIS INDOCTRINATED “BEEING” PLEASE. Are you referring to this video? https://mobile.twitter.com/Raqqa_SL/status/872911900727808000/video/1 My point is that USA knows there these munitions land. This Does not absolve USA of using awful weapons. But it does allow the USA to minimize collateral damage. Russia has no ways of precision guiding munitions Russia fired 18 cruise missiles from the Caspian sea to Syria, via Iran, a distance of about 1500 kliks and took out 7 targets, one of which was an Israeli manned ISIS command and control centre. The US fired 59 cruise missiles from a couple hundred kliks away, and less than half made it to the target. The USA reached its peak in 1969, and has been regressing ever since. Interesting how Russian is on a MAJOR OFFENSIVE clear out “terrorist” AND thousands of civilians are dying and they(Russian) asked for a ceasefire to hide the dead bodies. Russia also claims they have no military casualties. MORE LIES! Russians are reckless and need to leave Syria at once! Icarus Tanović As soon as you and zionistic maniacs stop supporting wahhabi monstrosities. Freelance Christian You made me laugh so hard I spit out my coffee! You are laughable! How about using white phosphorus back in 2003 in Mosul, huh? How about that, you son of a bitch? Phosphorus(ILLIGAL) is like WILD FIRE it spreads in a very big place a lot, this is not Precision Bombing you fool. They do not even get the Ammunition destroyed by this. Russia has no Precision Guided Munition> Go watch some documentarys about the new weapons russia has, are you new or a fool to this weapons?! Russia has much better weapons then the U Ass of A has. Guided ARTILERY. Guided Missiles that fly over 600 Kilometers under radar. Just to name two. Even NATO addmitet to this, you are 3 years Late, BOY. They even said that russian Militar Technology has already surpassed them by a margin. Wait, watch Putins 2-3 March Conference about the KNOWN 5 New weapon systems. Russia is leading. Dont come up with shit like this. Or you just think America the lamp of the Free and Stupidly Brave is the Good one here, do you get your news from Marvel or Hollywood films? I tell you what, ITS ALL A LIE, you just have to beLIEve in it. CassandraSays Karl, I’ve been listening to the U.S. say that back to WW 2. Does it not occur to you that they know you would like to kill fewer civilians, so they tell you so? The Russians not only have better technology than the U.S., they also have better snitches, which is what counts — somebody on the ground to report exactly which buildings the bad guys are meeting in. The US have done it in Raqqa, Fallujah, Mosul and elsewhere can you not offer any other pretense at providing proof , the only difference i the US calls civilian members of ISIS. Please show me proof otherwise or go find yourself sitting in the dunce corner. Your claims that the US cares about civilians then why the hell haven’t they allowed the refugees at Rubkan camp go as they are under constant attacks by ISIS which resides in the At Tanf region. Then explain why they haven’t cleaned up Raqqa and de-mined it as dead bodies and mines still litter the city and pay for the destruction they caused. You are a stupid idiot there are no smart bombs and precision guided bombs JDAM is a system not an actual bomb and primarily used for hitting moving targets ,you seem such a silly little witless idiot. No matter what type of bomb you have all are designed to cause significant damage. Try not to believe photos from other times and countries are actually in East Ghouta it is really shows you lack the time and effort to check but make an unfounded and conspiratorial lie as fact. Their proxy army’s you do it for them troll You blind or what or rather soooo low in your comprehension of the entire Syrian war. Suggest you stop reading western MSM like CNN, Foxnews , Guardian , BBC etc for a week and read rt.com or SF … then you will be in line with the truth . US ruling elite is a bunch of demoniacs and genocidal maniacs which treat all humans equally including US citizens considering them all to be a legitimate pray. Who can enforce those ? They are the judge , Jury and executioner … Probably israelis and who knows who else embedded in e ghouta. Same noise as in halab Jozsef Osztronkovics Zionist-israel-US the terror leader bloodthirsty the monster US the evil Satan Of course, they want to save Al Qaeda. Sunnis are american best useful idiots. Without sunnis, USA can do shit. I said it 1 billion times but the truth never changes. not sunnies as they claimed themselves.. it’s.. Wahbabism..! All ur comments seems to be full of hatred of sunnies.. why is that so..? what does someone’s faith got to do with their actions.? I believed every religions teaches all the goodness stuffs.. especially not to kill or slaughters innocents.. and calls it collateral damages after that..! And btw, I’m not even a sunni myself..! Of course the US “created”/supported Al-Qaeda, because the Russians invaded Afghanistan in the 80s. Which the Russians lost the WAR! They didnt INVADE! That is again Propaganda made by the West. It is the same situation like in mostly all arab countrys some foreign People come by the 1000thends and try to topple the President. Russia came with its soldiers because al-quaida was fighting the civilians and was recruiting people for there HOLY-WAR against them, at the end CIA and Friends had more then 1MILLION foreign People from around the Globe(Mostly Muslims) in Afganistan, then after the war they have gone to other ex-soviet countrys to recruit more people to fight the HOLY-WAR (Chechen,Usbek, ect.), later then they have “Shipped” many many into Yugoslavia to fight there, then to Lybia ect. ect. Its the same SHIT. And no the Afgan War the Soviets fought, was not AGAINST the Civilians or People of Afganistan, or your other FACT in the “80`s”(LOL). You POS Trying to tell us some Shitfacts YOU HAVE NO IDEA of WHAT THE FUCK you are TALKING OF. PISS OFF IF you just Opened your Piss Closed eyes for a MOMENT you would Puzzle it out for YOURSELF, This Terrorist Groups(Names change a LOT) Exist for MANY, MANY Years even before Afganistan. But trying to remember the SHIT they have Tought you in the Media or School, how bad the others are and how much good and very freedom you are. COME ON, TRY TO GRASP IT WITH YOUR OWN MIND AND MATTER. blah blah blah propaganda, Jews , Zionist, USA, CIA, lies, Media! Did I cover your argument? Fred Dozer Their telling you the truth. How many Americans know Turkey was buying Syrian oil form all the terrorist groups and it was tanker trucked into Turkey ? And the Turkish Presidents son ran the business. Russian started to bomb the convoys. Maybe put a end to it, but not sure. Did that make headline news in the USA ? Buying oil at a discount does not justify bombing Turkey. Piss of Dirt. I never said this things, i stay by the facts, even watch a U Ass of A documentary, they say this even THEMSELF. You just have to Understand this, if you even able to watch a 30-60 minute documentary and not crack up on pot again. POS dirt. you based your “facts” off a USA documentary! what a fool Seriously Joe, you’re just an inbred, clueless 7 y.old fat kid with a single digit IQ from some Midwest shthole and you have no idea where or what is Syria, nor you can find Asia on the map. Or Earth. NO, the US(CIA) created the Mujahideen to commit terror attacks on Russia, that was in 1979(operation cyclone) The Soviets invaded in response to the terror attacks. Russians invaded Afghan because they FAILED to spread communism within the Afghan government. Tribute to the sunni stupid people. XD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM The best way to fight a fire is to remove the oxygen. Sunnis are the oxygen and USA is the heat. The heat can do shit without the oxygen. Remove the oxygen so that the fire stops. Simple as that. Ahem-and Putin didn’t give Erdogan explicit permission to invade Syria and hunt down and murder all kurdish alphas? The same Erdogan who baiyed and shot down the Russian jet. The same Erdogan who arranged the FALSE-FLAG of the failed ‘coup’ so he could PRETEND he had fallen out with NATO and the EU, and take Putin in as his new best bud. Relax, guys, East Ghouta is going to be cleansed of wahhabi terrorists- but that isn’t the issue. The issue is WHY Putin is cleaning East Ghouta after preventing Assad from doing anything significant in the region for the longest time- even to the point of suffering constant shelling of the Russian embassy. What is happening in East Ghouta NOW is a Putin smokescreen to stop you seeing far worse horrors on the horizon. What kinda horrors? There’s a Big Game goin’ on…. not many people will know who’s who, even insiders will have difficulty finding out what is going on… it is just one BIG CLOUD….in the end everything will be different than what we all thought….. that’s just my guess… True. Just one example: Key players in this political circus, including Robert Mueller himself, are directly tied to the Clintons and the highly lucrative “Uranium One” deal with the Russians during the previous administration. Foreign businessmen involved in the deal, led by Canadian investor Frank Giustra, “donated” millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation: “The president [should] investigate the Obama-Clinton-Mueller-Rosenstein criminal collusion that enriched the Clinton-Democrat crime syndicate by hundreds of millions of dollars…the multi-billion-dollar Uranium One pay-to-play scam… In 2010, when Mueller was FBI director, the Obama administration and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved and facilitated this highly suspicious business deal that… effectively handed Russia and Vladimir Putin control over upwards of 20% of the uranium assets of the United States… While Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, was handed official U.S. Government authorization to purchase a Canadian company named Uranium One which controlled uranium mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West, including approximately 20% of America’s known uranium resources. Uranium One…was effectively the creation of a Canadian entrepreneur named Frank Giustra [who] happened to be a major Clinton donor* and a personal friend of Bill Clinton. The Clinton-Giustra genesis of the Uranium One scam was detailed in a lengthy New York Times story in April 2015 titled “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal”… The new company Giustra formed (in 2005) to effectuate the Uranium One deal, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by Kazatomprom, the government agency that runs Kazakhstan’s uranium mines and nuclear energy industry. In 2007, UrAsia merged with Uranium One in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction, with the successor company retaining the name Uranium One… When all was said and done, UrAsia’s investors controlled the new Uranium One. Chairman of the new company was Canadian Ian Telfer.** Telfer donated $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation. Frank Giustra, who had shepherded Bill Clinton’s influence with the Kazakhstanis, held a personal stake in the deal estimated at about $45 million… According to the New York Times, one year after the 2005 uranium deal was final Giustra donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation with a promise of $100 million more. One adviser on the Uranium One-UrAsia merger was Paul Reynolds. Reynolds donated $1 to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. A company called U.S. Global Investors Inc. held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares. A U.S. Global executive named Frank Holmes donated $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clinton The Clinton cabal’s uranium wheelings and dealings began immediately at the commencement in 2009 of the Obama administration, under the close direction of newly-installed Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In order for Russian nuclear entity Rosatom to purchase Uranium One the deal required approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS. The committee consists of top officials from nine different federal agencies [and] the key agency is the U.S. Department of State… In June of 2010, the same month that Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One, Bill Clinton spoke in Moscow for the tidy sum of $500,000, the 2nd highest fee he had ever received for a speech.” — Roger Stone article Putin was a prime minister at the time dealing with RU economy . What was his involvement with Clinton’s’ cartel? “The minsiter added that Russia is accumulating an increased amount of data confirming the US’ efforts” Hope this increasing amount of data will then be used to force the US to get out of Syria when the time is right. Turbofan I was hoping that this evidence would come in the form of captured American agents in East Ghouta. Hung and drawn on a cross but alive for now. I hope them just go MIA….never to be heard of…. no trading of prisonerssss they never where there…. the evidence already overwhelming anyway Barba_Papa That’s because there are none. At least no Americans. Because no American is insane enough to go into Jihadistan. They train locals to do their dirty work for them instead in Jordan. If anyone think some American, or Frenchmen or Brit will be unearthed in East Ghouta you all are probably in for a major disappointment. The Russian cruise missile strike that so freaked the US out, was said to have taken out 30 Israeli British and French people at the operations centre. Early on, when Iran first entered the war, they took out an SAS squad, Cameron went ballistic, and Britain reported that they had died in Afghanistan. But you are probably right about Americans. It’s not that I don’t want to believe it, in fact I’d like nothing more then to see a few of them paraded on television, its that I just find it extremely unlikely that there are any. Because: A: Said to have means nothing. That’s just a rumor and fake news is often based on rumors. Show me dead bodies, show me actual evidence. B: Like I’ve said before its just too damn dangerous for any westerner to go into EG. There’s like 4 to 5 groups who often fight among each other. Any westerner, especially a military agent, would become a highly sought bargaining chip to extort more cash and prizes from the West. Western NGO’s learned that the hard way when they sent their Western personnel to such warzones. Far better and far less risky to rely on locals instead. C: Any Western agent would become a highly sought after target by the Syrians, Iranians and Russians. I assume that they have agents in the rebel enclaves so any Western agent would not only run the risk of his own Jihadi ‘allies’ taking him hostage, but also evade detection by the Syrian government at its allies. Not to mention that in order to get to EG he’d have to move undetected through government terrain. I’m a firm believer of Occam’s Razor. Always go for the most simple and most plausible solution. Western agents operating in a surrounded Jihadi enclave for years, evading the perils of their own unstable allies and the Syrian government is not the most simple plausible solution. Outsourcing that work to locals, trained in Jordan, THAT is the most simple plausible solution. I get it that you guys want to believe this but, again applying Occam’s Razor, I find it far more plausible that this whole myth of Western agents stems from Jihadis who have come from Western countries and who have served in the armies of those countries. And who there passed on their training. This turned into rumors about Western agents and once out there rumors often lead their own lives. And are often impossible to kill. From what I have picked up Ghouta is a British French Israeli controlled operation. So the US might just sacrifice them, notice that it has been France and Britain front running the media? You can’t do that to your partners. Can you? Ask Mr Lavrov he will tell you. jabhat al n-US-ra As my Father used to say in a fit of anger “These people, rally are swine’s”…. These Yankers really are just vile – disgusting pigs. Yes.. I 2nd you.. And those wahbabism.. notice the spelling wahhabism..? “babi” in this region’s means swine.. pig..! Last weekend, Washington accused Russia and its allies in the Syrian conflict of violating the ceasefire regime in Syria ……. Great! If Washington wants a ceasefire to continue it means they’re in deep shit…… good reason to go full force SAA & Allies…. every dead Headchopper will not return….. And what seeks for Lavrov? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/122427b5ea28fe39d31b2c9d0df929ed6394450903c40d115a3994fecea6dd8e.jpg RamboDave The civilians that still remain in East Ghouta are probably mostly the family members of the rebels. This was exactly the case in East Aleppo last yaer in 2016. At that time, the news media was claiming that 300,000 civilians were in jeopardy. But, when the rebels surrendered to the SAA in December 2016, there were only 70,000 civilians there, and they were mostly family members of the rebels. Wegan Too damn late. Get over it! Just fucck that, and keep on crushing wahabi cockroaches. Syria and Russia need to counter US claims by constantly reaffirming in media it is HTS/Al-Qeada they are fighting in East Ghouta and that any other other militant faction fighting alongside them is responsible for own actions as a target. Recall Bush Jnr’s binary declaration before Iraq War – you are either with us against or against us – the US’ own rhetoric and hypocrisy can be used publicly back at them – ie are US currently for Al-Qaeda terrorists that routinely shell residential Damascus or against them? That question leads to a lot more very difficult public questions for US about its policies in last two decades. Promitheas Apollonious reaffirm to the ones who support them, that they fighting only their mercenaries and patsies? I think already know that. Better to be prepare for an USA-NATO air support to terrorists. Meanwhile, Syria-hezbolah-Iran-Russia aerospace force musk keep advance fast, strong, brave, and without mercy. Excellent article in FarsNews https://en.Farsnews.com/Turkish/daily/discloses/five/state/plan/to/disintegrate/Syria/ What are you going to do Mr Lavrov about it? Just barking?Are you going to do anything at all? You let them (US) kill over hundred choice RU veterans in Der Erzor without providing them with MANPADs. You let them kill your great top general in the same place and so on and on and on. The list is long. Langaniso Mhlobo Kill the ZUMA terrorist Lavrov.USA is terrorist and gay marriage promoters.Time for USA and Satan is over.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1707
__label__wiki	0.808349	0.808349	Shop Raptors Gear Raptors coach Nick Nurse to lead Team Canada at FIBA World Cup Jack Baer Yahoo Sports Contributor Yahoo Sports June 16, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC Nick Nurse is going from coaching Canada’s team to coaching Team Canada. The Toronto Raptors head coach confirmed to reporters Sunday that he plans to spend the summer coaching the Canadian national team at the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China, according to ESPN. “I'm getting ready to take another situation soon because I think it's going to make me a better coach,” Nurse reportedly said. "It's something I'm looking forward to doing.” Nurse will take over a team that failed to qualify for the last World Cup in 2014 under previous head coach Jay Triano. Canada can't get enough of Nick Nurse. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) This will be the Iowa-born Nurse’s second gig as a national team coach, having previously served as an assistant coach with Great Britain from 2009 to 2012 while also working as a G League coach. Nurse might have just finished up his first year as an NBA coach, but his stock could already be at an all-time high after guiding the Raptors to their first-ever title. An NBA championship-winning coach would already be a decent get for Team Canada, but the man who’s already receiving a hero’s welcome in Toronto makes him a perfect fit as well. Who will Nick Nurse be coaching for Team Canada? The Canadian team won’t be as stacked as the U.S. team coached by San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, but there should be plenty of NBA talent available. Among the players available are Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray, Minnesota Timberwolves forward Andrew Wiggins and Cleveland Cavaliers big man Tristan Thompson. There could be some young blood coming as well with Los Angeles Clippers point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Duke forward R.J. Barrett, who is projected to be the third overall pick in this year’s NBA draft. Add in names like Indiana Pacers guard Cory Joseph, Miami Heat forward Kelly Olynyk, Dallas Mavericks center Dwight Powell and Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks, and you have decent amount of potential depth. The team will need all the help it will get though, as it landed in a competitive group at the World Cup that also includes Lithuania and Australia. Failing to advance past group play would be bad news for Canada’s Olympics chances as the country looks for its first berth since 2000. Luckily, it appears the team got the best man available for the job. LeBron, Lakers put NBA on notice with Anthony Davis trade Report: L.A. will target Kemba Walker in free agency LaVar Ball on Davis deal: ‘Worst move the Lakers ever did’ Statue of Swedish defender, equal rights advocate defaced	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1710
__label__cc	0.67139	0.32861	Category Archives: The Fetishists A collection of short pieces about the things most dear to us, and how we hate them. Tags: 50 shades, creepy, CV, male gaze ( 2 ), Microfiction ( 64 ), misogyny ( 19 ), naivety, paraphilia ( 10 ), resume New (The Fetishists – Secretary) Though new to the working world, Melanie Blackwell is confident she exemplifies the qualities necessary to thrive as a personal secretary. Typing and organizing come as naturally to her as eating and sleeping come to others, and she has always envisioned herself working in an office, answering phones in a courteous and efficient manner. Maintaining a pleasant and professional demeanor, she is eager to begin her career and service at your earliest convenience. Experience with Microsoft Office Suite Unquestioning loyalty to authority Typing speed: 120 wpm Looks really good in heels N/A, but inexperience can be its own asset. A talented beginner works harder than a veteran, and she can be trained to perform as best pleases her employer. Please accept my vocational virginity for the opportunity it is, for both of us. The man who came into the lobby had soft, wet hands. “I’ve really been looking forward to meeting you,” he said, shaking her hand, touching her shoulder. She followed him into his office and sat where he invited her to sit. “I just want to thank you again for coming. Would you like some coffee?” Melanie shook her head. The man poured a cup for himself, and thanked her again. “Thank you,” he said, taking a long gulp from his tropical coffee cup. She waited for the interview questions she’d prepared to answer. What makes you a good fit for this company? Where do you see yourself in ten years? “How long have you worn glasses?” “They’re new.” He nodded, as though this was interesting information, and made a note in his journal. “You’re over eighteen, right?” Melanie nodded, and moments later had a job. What a gentleman, she thought. #50-shades, #creepy, #cv, #male-gaze, #microfiction, #misogyny, #naivety, #paraphilia, #resume Leah Lindsaychen 12:00 pm on May 26, 2015 Tags: academia, butts, intellectual, Microfiction ( 64 ), paraphilia ( 10 ), professor, spanking, sublimation, The Fetishists ( 9 ) Noble Savage (butts) To be an intellectual, one needs to focus her attention. What separates the intellectual from your ordinary smart person is a passion for something specific, whether it be 17th century architecture or the mating habits of guinea pigs. Ellen was an intellectual. She had studied for a decade and a half and nearly memorized not only Rousseau’s work, but his biography, to such an extent that she could answer even the most trivial questions as Jean-Jacques would, and in 18th century Swiss French. Sitting at her desk, she looked through her students’ papers, their base summaries of other summaries, and made arbitrary marks wherever she could. Her chair was cold and hard, and she rocked back and forth over the course of an hour, warming it, softening it. One audacious paper stood out. Some cynical student had made the claim that the entirety of Rousseau’s political philosophy came from his closeted interest in spanking. Ellen paced for a moment to calm herself down, and threw herself back in the chair with renewed purpose, resolving to judge the essay on its arguments rather than its aggressiveness. Rousseau would have done the same. As the semester continued, Ellen kept an eye on that student, a demure young woman who rarely contributed to class discussions, but scribbled diligently in her notebook. She always wore stiff jeans, and seemed to bend over at the waist as she sat down. “Professor Collins? I have some questions about the final.” Ellen assured the girl that she that she’d be fine as long as she applied her powers of reason. The girl smiled. “You really are Rousseau incarnate, aren’t you?” As she walked away, Ellen did her best not to stare. “Sacre bleu,” she said. #academia, #butts, #intellectual, #microfiction, #paraphilia, #professor, #spanking, #sublimation, #the-fetishists Leah Lindsaychen 3:24 am on April 10, 2015 Tags: abuse ( 7 ), fairground, Microfiction ( 64 ), mythical creatures ( 4 ), paraphilia ( 10 ), The Fetishists ( 9 ) Ogre (masochism) Though the caravan was lined with lights in all manner of color and size, they did little to clarify the evening. Glorn could not see far, and he could not hold his hand over his eyes to find the balance between glare and dim. His hands were secured over his head. He could break the rope at any time, and he took comfort in the thought, but it was just a thought. A number of baseballs struck him in the chest from where he could not see. “This brute comes from a race that doesn’t feel pain, so throw as hard as you can!” Edgar announced. The balls seemed to come in a quicker rhythm. Their impact was not precise enough to be a massage, but Glorn was not uncomfortable. “Eight hundred years ago, these monsters were employed by the great Genghis Khan in his takeover of The Far East, until they threatened to take over themselves. Your abuse, ladies and gentlemen, is all that is keeping this one docile. Three balls for just one dollar! Five swings of the the whip for ten!” A child stood on the platform behind him, with his father. Glorn heard the three of them talking — Edgar and the customers — about the proper technique and protocol for whip swinging. “The follow-through is important. Think about where the tip is headed.” Edgar demonstrated with a strike of his own, well-practiced. No one would hit hard enough if he didn’t show them that they could. The boy’s attempts were sloppy and soft. Edgar told him to try a few more times. “I think that’s enough.” “No, Dad, he likes it!” The whip snapped just once more, and the baseballs stopped coming. Glorn snarled at the empty fairground. “Pervert!” someone shouted. It kept him docile. #abuse, #fairground, #microfiction, #mythical-creatures, #paraphilia, #the-fetishists Leah Lindsaychen 12:00 pm on March 14, 2015 Tags: balloons, closeted ( 2 ), paraphilia ( 10 ), secrets ( 2 ), The Fetishists ( 9 ), workaholic Sabbatical (balloons) Most of the other parents dropped off their kids and left, but Harold was determined to be fun. After ten years in a company that offered no satisfaction, he had taken time off to meet his 7-year-old for the first time. Josie’s parents were good hosts, and they wanted him to feel welcome, though he had no reason to stay. They gave him a reason. “Why don’t you blow up some of these balloons?” His daughter had already run off to play, and though he wanted to spend time with her, that would come. Right now, he just had to be available. He thanked Josie’s parents, and started on the pile. The balloons were small and stiff. He put one in his mouth and tried to blow, but he wasn’t expecting so much resistance. Josie’s mom laughed at him. “No, you’ve got to pull at it a little.” She grabbed one and massaged it in her hand, stretching it in repetitive motions forward and back. Harold watched her with great fascination. He mirrored her motions. As she brought the latex to her mouth, he paused. She filled the balloon in one continuous contorted breath. When she removed it from her lips, she gasped as air slid back into her. She tied the balloon off in one smooth gesture. She hadn’t overfilled it. The balloon was comfortable, not overstretched, and still retained a healthy areola. “Now you try.” His balloon looked just like hers. He grabbed it with both hands and rubbed his fingers across the top. He made a slight moan, he hoped a subtle one. Josie’s mom smiled, as if at a joke. Josie’s dad looked at him. His daughter and friends looked at him. He coughed. “Excuse me.” He would meet his daughter eventually. Maybe after prom. #balloons, #closeted, #paraphilia, #secrets, #the-fetishists, #workaholic Leah Lindsaychen 12:01 pm on March 7, 2015 Tags: breasts, misogyny ( 19 ), nanofiction, paraphilia ( 10 ), self-loathing ( 5 ), stares, The Fetishists ( 9 ), unspoken rivalries Telekinesis (breasts) When Lana gave her talks to two or three people instead of a dozen or more, she stammered. Large groups were a blur, and she could monologue about art and artifacts without interrupting herself. In smaller groups, she saw their faces. The man was leering, the woman was staring, and their eyes made her shoulders ache. “Take a closer look at this eighteenth, I mean sixteenth century vase,” she said, hoping to draw their attention. The couple turned their faces toward the milk-white vessel, though they seemed to ignore her explanation of its significance. Lana crossed her arms in front of her. “How long have you been working in the museum?” the man interrupted. Lana shook her head. The question made no sense to her, and the woman was still staring. “Save all questions for the end,” she said, staring back until the woman crossed her arms, too. #breasts, #misogyny, #nanofiction, #paraphilia, #self-loathing, #stares, #the-fetishists, #unspoken-rivalries Tags: butt, dragons ( 2 ), hidden talent, intern, lesbian, Microfiction ( 64 ), naive ( 2 ), paraphilia ( 10 ), secrets ( 2 ), tattoo, The Fetishists ( 9 ) Sketchbook (tattoo) Jolie wore long sleeves. Everyone would laugh if they knew she’d been working on a dragon. So far, it was just an outline. She was polishing windows when a woman in the waiting area asked her what was underneath her shirt. “Nothing,” she said. She tried to affect a blasé attitude. The woman smiled. “Let me know if you want to show me.” The woman was older, pushing forty, but she was in good shape. Jolie found her flirtations strange, but smiled back warmly. Later, when Tom told her someone had requested her, she knew who it was. “Listen, you can say no. I think you should say no, but this lady wouldn’t listen to me.” Jolie did not say no. The woman asked her to draw anything she wanted, and it would be okay. She wanted the surprise, she said. “If you’re as inexperienced as they say, the surprise should be fantastic.” She wasn’t sure where to begin. She sterilized all her tools several times as she interviewed the woman on her interests. Fish were a possibility. Maybe a whole aquarium of tropical fish. “Just do whatever you would do on yourself,” the woman said as she pulled down her panties and lifted her dress. Jolie wasn’t sure. She leaned back in her chair and nervously tapped her thigh. The woman smiled, taking the gesture as an invitation, and crawled face-down on Jolie’s lap. The woman’s butt pointed straight up. It was covered in doodles. ‘Stylex’ had signed his name. So many of the old designs crossed over each other that none were fully intelligible. As Jolie pressed the needle down, the woman moaned in a mix of pain and joy. Jolie drew a dragon. When she made a mistake, she crossed it out and tried again. #butt, #dragons, #hidden-talent, #intern, #lesbian, #microfiction, #naive, #paraphilia, #secrets, #tattoo, #the-fetishists	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1718
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__label__wiki	0.572484	0.572484	You are here: Home / Types of Aid / Employment / Other Employment Opportunities You do not need a Federal Work-Study award to apply for the wage payroll positions listed below. Please contact the hiring area for more information. Penn State University Park The Athletic Department has openings for students to sell programs at Penn State football games during fall semester. Students receive 50 cents for each program sold and a seat for the game. Students can register at gopsusports.com. For additional information, please contact the Athletic Communications Office at 814-865-1757. Auxiliary & Business Services Auxiliary & Business Services has numerous employment opportunities for Penn State students each semester. Full-time students living on or off-campus are eligible for jobs, including those with Food Services, Housing, commons desks, and Laundry Services. Please access their employment page for more information. Center for the Performing Arts Stage crew positions available for fall and spring. Flexible schedule necessary due to event schedule. Applications are available on the Center for the Performing Arts website. For additional information, please contact Operations at 814-863-7103. ITS offers many challenging opportunities in the field of information technology. Students of every major and computer skill level can gain valuable real-world experience working for ITS as a part-time employee, graduate assistant, or intern. Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes needs students in their third semester or beyond with a 3.0 cumulative GPA or higher to tutor a variety of courses during the fall, spring and summer. Tutoring positions provide competitive pay, valuable experience and flexible hours that vary from week to week. Contact the Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes at 814-865-0407 for more information. Apply online at PSU Jobs. McCoy Natatorium (Pool) McCoy Natatorium has opportunities for fall, spring, and summer lifeguards. Positions may also be available in the Fitness Loft. Federal Work-Study and wage payroll positions may be available in the physics department. Please call 814-865-7533 if you are interested. Apply online to be a student Auxiliary Officer for the Penn State University Police at PSU Jobs. Recreational Sports hires and trains over 400 students throughout the year to officiate intramural games and manage intramural tournaments. Experience in sports officiating is required. Contact the Intramural Office, Room 2, Intramural Building at 814-865-5401. HUB Dining Applications for positions during fall, spring, and summer semesters are available in the various eateries located throughout HUB Dining. Apply online or Contact Cliff Hupp at 814-865-7623. Employment opportunities available at various University Libraries locations. Hiring for all locations is handled by Libraries Human Resources, 511 Paterno Library. More information about employment opportunities is available at the University Libraries website. Other University Park Job Resources Daily Collegian Classifieds Centre Daily Times Classifieds Other Penn State Campuses For students at campuses other than University Park, access the listings below or contact the financial aid representative or campus employment specialist at the Penn State campus you are attending. Penn State Educational Partnership Program - For more information, contact Program Coordinator Guadalupe Kasper at 610-396-6272 or via e-mail. Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Access the on-campus State Work-Study jobs and the on-campus jobs that do not require Federal or State Work-Study. Penn State Educational Partnership Program - For more information, please contact Tahirah Walker at 412-675-9077 or via e-mail. Tags: Future Students, Employment, Current Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Veterans Penn State Federal School Code	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1725
__label__cc	0.596225	0.403775	2018 Poetry In Voice Competition Announces 24 Finalists from Across Canada Posted by Success with Writing \| Book Awards, Featured \| Poetry Palooza hits Toronto as talented students from Grades 9-12, chosen from over 10,000 participants who have recited classic and contemporary poetry in school competitions and online video submissions, gather for the National Finals. Poetry In Voice announces the 24 finalists for this year’s National Finals, chosen from over 10,000 students from 1,300 schools across the country. The talented Grade 9-12 reciters will compete for $25,000 total prize money for themselves and their school libraries in an exciting poetic evening at our National Finals Awards Show, on Thurs, April 19th at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. First launched in 2010, with students from 12 schools, to foster a love of poetry, this eighth year of the contest will feature the top-scoring students from over 1,300 schools across the country. The Finalists are: Carly Benson, Windsor, ON Alice Blouin-Décoste, Lachine, QC Jeanne Cantin, Québec, QC Ghada Charki, Saint-Lambert, QC Jia Xin Chen, Montréal, QC Michelle Cheng, Richmond Hill, ON Sophia Chu, Ottawa, ON Audrey Décarie-Truffer, Montréal, QC Geneviève Dubuc, Vancouver, BC Aimee-Larissa Dushime, Windsor ON Simon Duvialard, Calgary, AB Chloe Harris, Montague, PEI Brittany Huellas-Bruskiewich, Port Coquitlam, BC Hamish Marissen-Clark, Vancouver, BC Anna Navarro, Calgary, AB Gabrielle Nebrida-Pépin, Port Coquitlam, BC Laura Beth Neuman, Kitchener, ON Juliana Nunes, Coquitlam, BC Charlie Rivard, Montréal, QC Olivia Torralbo, Montréal, QC Pujita Verma, Mississauga, ON Mary Wan, Calgary, AB Elizabeth Wong, Toronto, ON John Wood, Toronto, ON “Since we launched in 2010, the poems on our site have been read over 8 MILLION times. Over 250,000 students have learned a poem by heart,” enthuses David Smith, Director of Poetry In Voice. “Teachers have read our lesson plans 1 MILLION TIMES, and over 4,000 teachers have created an account to use our educational resources. Our mission is to help create a new generation of poetry lovers, and we’re succeeding.” Over the Finals Week in Toronto, the finalists will compete in French, English, or Bilingual Qualifiers, as well as participate in workshops, an open mic night and “The Epic Toronto Poetry Showdown,” wherein teams of the finalists and their teachers will compete in a bilingual, city-wide poetry scavenger hunt. The Poetry In Voice Awards Show is a highlight of the spring literary calendar – a massive, exuberant celebration of poetry and performance. This year’s event will be hosted by CBC Radio’s Gill Deacon and features an all-star jury of poets: Éric Charlebois, Liz Howard, Canisia Lubrin, Pierre Nepveu, Adam Soland Erika Soucy. The top nine students will compete for the titles of English, French, or Bilingual Champion. “This is a great show,” says Canadian musician and author David Usher. “These students dig really deep and add a unique texture and weight to each poem they recite. Their performances blew me away.” Smith adds, “These students stand fearlessly in front of a packed theatre that goes completely quiet as they lift poems off the page. How many adults could do that? It’s a refreshing, inspiring night for all of us.” About Poetry In Voice – Founded by Scott Griffin, chairman and founder of the illustrious Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry, Poetry In Voice is a charitable organization that encourages Canadian students to fall in love with poetry through reading, writing and recitation. In addition to running a nationwide student recitation competition, the organization also provides an anthology of classic and contemporary poems and comprehensive teaching materials at no cost to schools or teachers. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 millionto bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Event Listing: Poetry In Voice National Finals Awards Show Thursday, April 19th at 7:00pm Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. West, Toronto During this captivating evening that celebrates the power of poetry, nine contest finalists from across Canada will perform poetry recitations for the chance to win more than $25,000 in prizes. Hosted by CBC personality Gill Deacon. Tickets: $10/$5 teachers, students, seniors and poets from https://recite2018.eventbrite.ca PreviousCase Study: Hucais Boosts High Quality Digital Book Production NextSony Pictures, William Morris, Working Title Films to Appear at #NYRF Success with Writing Interview with Salem VI: Rebecca’s Rising co-author John Thompson Ancient Books Inspire Fathers to Revive Beer Brewing in New Abbey Microbrewery for Grimbergen Beer The Power of the Author Interview Trina on April 20, 2018 at 4:08 pm Fine way of explaining, and fastidious article to get facts on the topic of my presentation subject, which i am going to present in school. Maralyn D. Hill on April 20, 2018 at 6:26 pm I am happy we could help Trina.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1727
__label__wiki	0.811338	0.811338	Townsville North Queensland will host a group of international education specialists from the United States and New Zealand to showcase the region's edutourism offerings. Agents from international education wholesaler Holbrook Travel, overseas study agent AUIP and New Zealand’s Edventuretours will visit the region this week to sample programs available to overseas students and meet with education providers. The group, hosted by Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ), the Townsville North Queensland Edutourism Consortium and Townsville Enterprise Limited (TEL), will be given an experiential tour designed for overseas students. Minister for Tourism and Major Events Kate Jones said the opportunity to host influential education agents would enable them to attract more students from America and New Zealand to undertake their studies in Queensland. “Townsville North Queensland has been a leader in edutourism though this partnership with Holbrook Travel, AUIP and Edventuretours opening the door to longer term strategic opportunities in the international education sector,” Minister Jones said. “What better way to learn about marine science, environmental science, agriculture, ecology and many other subjects through hands on study in a region which has all of these elements including the Great Barrier Reef. “Holbrook has more than 40 years’ experience in this field and teaming up with a world leader has the potential to bring more international students into Queensland.” Establishing a partnership with international agents allows Queensland to be strategically promoted in key source markets by implementing education programs with trade and media. International education added $1.2 billion to the Queensland economy in the year ending March 2016, increasing by 21 per cent on the previous year. Chairman of the Townsville North Queensland Edutourism Consortium Ross McLennan said the opportunity to host leading international edutourism agents was a coup for the region. “Edutourism provides Queensland with a fantastic opportunity to showcase our world class destinations through experiential learning,” Mr McLennan said. “Townsville North Queensland has the potential to cater for Alumni travel programs, faculty led study abroad programs for Universities, school programs and other special interest groups, all of which contributes to the region’s economy.” Townsville Enterprise Executive Manager of Tourism and Events Bridget Woods said the opportunity to host international wholesalers had the potential to boost the region’s economy. “We are tapping into a growing market where we know there are additional business growth opportunities particularly in the area of highly specialised programs for academic and alumni groups affiliated with the universities. “The American Universities are so impressed with the educational experiences Townsville North Queensland has to offer, we are now in the process of developing new study abroad programs for the University of Georgia, Texas A&M University and the University of North Carolina, all of which are considered to be significant academic institutions in the USA with large student bases and a strong commitment to study abroad programs,” Ms Woods said.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1734
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Sharrer (United States) Ana Claudia Suriani Gruter (United Kingdom) Svenska Litteratursüllskapet i Finland: Förlaget (Finland) Chris Tiffin (Australia) Edward Vanhoutte (Belgium) If you are not on the list and you think you should be, please contact membership secretary Jan Gielkens through email jan.gielkens[at]huygens.knaw.nl or use the address: Jan Gielkens Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands PO Box 90754NL-2509 LT The Hague,	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1738
__label__cc	0.632881	0.367119	Home / Key Topics / TGM Perspective Mycotoxins are poisons produced by some fungi (mold) under particular conditions favorable for their formation. Typically the toxin remains in the host which in this case is grain. Visual inspection may be a poor indicator of contamination because mycotoxins may remain after visible evidence of mold dissipates. Not all byproducts of microbial growth are toxic as demonstrated by different forms of fermentation that produce wonderful foods and beverages. In fact, some byproducts can act as a poison to one species but be harmless or relatively benign to another, such as penicillin — at least in controlled doses. Bagels illustrate a common food that may contain mycotoxins because the main ingredient of flour was milled from wheat that was not stored properly. However, certain mold byproducts and/or their metabolites (compounds after metabolism) are extremely toxic and may have allergenic, carcinogenic, oestrogenic (promoting female hormonal activity), teratogenic (inducing abnormalities in offspring), nephrotoxic (attacking the kidneys), other deleterious effects, and some measurable accumulation in the brain of unknown consequence in humans and animals. Perhaps most insidious is the immunosuppresive effect of many mycotoxins which means that humans or animals will have reduced ability to resist disease and less resilience for recovery. Many questions regarding mycotoxins lack conclusive answers because the effects are usually chronic rather than acute due to low doses being ingested regularly or from time to time. Often they are a contributing factor rather than a direct cause of disease. Even when they are a direct cause they have the potential to cause a cascade effect that hides their role. Detection and measurement are difficult, doctor awareness is limited, they may be gone from the body when disease is detected, and it is unethical to conduct clinical trials on humans with poison. Much is unknown and what is known is not good news. Do observations that some mycotoxins interfere with the processing of fatty acids and triglycerides by the liver suggest a link to cholesterol levels — or impact normal function — that promote artery and heart disease? What is the impact of multiple mycotoxins — in effect a toxic cocktail? Do these compounds reinforce one another? Are the effects cumulative? Do individual mycotoxins or some combination of them interact with pharmaceuticals to either dampen effectiveness or to combine into a lethal dose? Do mycotoxins trigger certain genetic predispositions to disease such as polycystic kidney disease? Are some allergies reactions to contaminants rather than the underlying food while the immune system is initially learning? What is to be made of mycotoxins being detected in human blood and mother’s milk? Some argue along the line that ‘a kid won’t grow up healthy unless he eats so much dirt’ and besides the American food supply is safe! It is unknown whether there is some enhancement of the immune system with exposure to mycotoxins at low levels similar to the effects from endotoxin. It is unlikely because it is akin to getting a dose of strychnine or arsenic rather than attack by a microbe. If there is initial enhancement It is doubtful that continued exposure increases enhancement and it is more likely deleterious effects or ‘hogging’ of immune system capacity occurs. Furthermore low dose sources such as black pepper may sufficiently fill this questionable role. Grains typically deliver the largest dose of mycotoxins even with lower concentrations due to being such a large component of most diets. Purity in grain thus offers more opportunity to reduce the threat. In harmony with the latter, most informed scientists conclude that mycotoxins in food present a serious and real health threat to both human and animal populations. Most argue to reduce exposure as near to zero as is practical, and many hold that reduction is imperative. If governments adopt more stringent standards by decree they are faced with limiting the availability of food and ruining markets for powerful constituents. International trade is in tension due to differences over this. While there is a large variance in grain spoilage during storage in the United States, over 500 million bushels mold on average each year. The molded grain in this cup approximates how much this is per person per day. The molded grain is mixed in with good grain under current practice. Mycotoxin formation in grain is conditions based — not location based. Formation can occur in the field, during storage, and even during transportation. The ratio for formation among these phases is unknown and is extremely variable from season to season. It is known that more than 500 million bushels of grain per year in the US molds during storage and mycotoxins are formed in some portion. This grain is mixed with sound grain. Sampling and testing to assure purity are problematic so prevention emerges as the best remedy. Prevention is the best remedy because no mycotoxins will form if no mold growth occurs. The auto industry learned that process control achieved much higher end quality than sampling and testing. Likewise, process control using aeration during storage of grain eliminates fungi growth and mycotoxin formation which is far better than downstream remediation — or worse — denying the danger. The TGM System prevents fungal growth and insect activity during storage. In addition it can assist with diverting field contaminated and low quality grain to non food/feed use and verify blending and transfers to maintain high purity to assure consumers safer food. This is now available at an affordable price. The question consumers and the food industry need to ask is “How much toxin in my food is too much?”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1739
__label__cc	0.718834	0.281166	Ariana Grande Defends Justin Bieber Against Coachella Critics Published: Thursday 25th Apr 2019 by David Ariana Grande is stepping up to defend her pal Justin Bieber now that he is being slated by critics who say his performance at Coachella was frightfully dry. Festival-goers who attended Grande’s second set at the event were elated when the Biebs emerged to support her with song and surprise his fans in the audience. Alas, he has been forced to spend the last few days dodging insults from critics who say he failed to deliver a performance worthy of the Coachella stage. Grande is refusing to let them get away with it. She explained… We decided to do this ten minutes before my set started. Your fans, friends&the world is thrilled to have you back. everyone was so happy to see u smile like that. no one will ever understand how it feels to be u, but it’s not their job to. take care. make music. u are loved. Justin was equally as outraged. Think about how awesome it felt for me to be on that stage after being away for so long the excitement and joy it gave me doing the thing i love the most, i sang to backtrack like most cameos do this is a normal thing. And rather than try and make people feel accepted and loved you find things to pick apart like the world isn’t full of that already.. we can find something negative to say about anything or anyone. Did you enjoy the performance? Remy Ma Rocks Ankle Monitor Following… New Video: Stormzy - 'Vossi Bop' Gurlwepa89 April 25, 2019 Prince and princess of Pop. Fancy BISH April 26, 2019 Peasants Of Pop lol 😂 Delusion Checker April 26, 2019 And you are the devil of poop…… Chile bye, peasants are the sweat from a baboon’s balls 🤣 I like real flavor, sorry! the devil is a lie…. Brent Christopher April 25, 2019 WHY is he always playing the victim & being an egotistical, self righteous, over indulgent p****? He never accepts responsibility for ANYTHING! He’s incredibly spoiled, self entitled & unappreciative of his many many blessings. It’s sad honestly. Tay Day 4/26 April 25, 2019 I went to the Purpose tour twice. Both times, Justin was singing and dancing live on point. The energy was amazing and I heard deafening screams from the moment I arrived to the moment I left both times. The media likes to play “gotcha” with him. It’s sad. But he is on top and can’t nobody bring him down. Bey Sting April 26, 2019 😂😂😂 Justin Bieber, energy and live singing in the same sentence ? I have to laugh. And on top? Try Shawn Mendes who is far superior. Yawn Mendes…..I mean Shawn Mendes, you mean the one that sounds like Adam Levine with a bad cold? He will never even sell 25% Of Justin’s album/singles sales. Not even 25% over the next 10 years. Justin has 6 #1 Billboard 200 albums. 5 #1 Hot 100 singles, 2 of which debuted #1 and one of which stayed #1 for 16 weeks. 14 Top 10 hits and 70 songs to chart. You, Shawn and the devil is a lie…lol https://vmagazine.com/article/v75-the-music-issue-watch-the-throne-2/ Shawn ain’t superior, none of them are! 🤣 Ariana sounds like she has a bad cold too! I could go on, but that’s the sound these days! 😂 JB lipped, but he can sing and he did influence the others! Ty April 26, 2019 Neither of them are anything to wrote home about both in artistry and performances so what exactly do people expect? papi April 26, 2019 to all the jealous twats, where does your favorite rank? https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7640807/most-infamous-lip-sync-incidents-videos-mariah-carey New Video: Ariana Grande – ‘In My Head’ Ariana Grande Graces Vogue / Confesses: “A Lot Of My Singles Have… Justin Bieber Choreographer Claims He Degrades Women As Taylor Swift Feud Intensifies Ariana Grande’s Manager Acquires Big Machine Label Ariana Grande teamed up with Vogue to create a visual for her jam ‘In My Head.’ The visual accompanies her cover and spread with the fashion and lifestyle publication and offers fan a fresh look into her creative world as she promotes her new albums ‘Sweetener’ and ‘Thank… Read More Ariana Grande Graces Vogue / Confesses: “A Lot Of My Singles Have Been Hilariously Lacking In Substance” Ariana Grande is Vogue Magazine‘s latest cover star. The songbird, who has made an enviable habit of nesting at the top of the charts, glows in the Annie Leibovitz lensed shoot for the August issue of the fashion bible. And while… Read More	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1741
__label__wiki	0.922069	0.922069	IMF Names Ukraine Poorest Country in Europe, but New Loans Not Forthcoming Kit Klarenberg Private International Monetary Fund (IMF) data indicates Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe, due to its failure to achieve economic growth since 2014. Ukraine's stagnant economic standing was acknowledged by private equity fund manager and economist Vladimir Kompaniets on his Facebook page. He noted the IMF's October report pushed tiny Moldova dramatically ahead of its former parent country to 133rd in world rankings, with US$2,694.469 GDP per capita, while Ukraine's GDP per capita stood at US$2,656.01, 134th in world terms, the lowest in Europe. Moldova also pushed ahead of Ukraine significantly in terms of average annual salary — in the second quarter of 2018, it stood at US$375,82 dollars in Moldova, and US$325/23 in Ukraine, again the lowest in the world. Common Story Quite how the IMF will respond to the developments is unclear as of October 16, but allocating yet further funds to assist the ailing country may be out of the question — the country is backsliding on required reforms, in keeping with a tendency evidenced since 1994. It's estimated the country has drawn less than half the IMF funds it could have received since then, as governmental commitment to change generally weakens if and when its economic indicators improve. © Sputnik / Natalia Seliverstova The International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Its current $17.5 billion IMF funding program — granted April 2017 — expires March 2019, raising serious questions about whether Kiev will be able to service its mounting national debt. In particular, the IMF has demanded Ukraine hike gas prices and manage its budget deficit — the government's failure to do either means it has reaped only US$8.7 billion of the potential total available, but its debt obligations are due to peak 2018-2020. The gas and deficit obligations are longstanding — Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman agreed to raise tariffs in 2016 but failed to, and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government in 2009 committed to a 20 percent gas price hike and received a US$3.3 billion aid tranche in return, but cancelled the hike in August 2009. Successor Mykola Azarov agreed in 2010 to increase prices 50 percent but later refused. Speaking to Reuters in August, Yuriy Yekhanurov, Ukrainian Prime Minister in 2005-2006, said the country's leaders treat IMF negotiations like a business deal. "They need to survive now, are not interested in what will happen tomorrow, in two years…they take obligations that are almost impossible to fulfil. Business people are used to negotiating and think they will negotiate all the time," he explained. © RIA Novosti . Alexandr Prokopenko Ukrainian Defense Minister Yury Yekhanurov As a result, since agreeing its first IMF programme in 1994, Ukraine has received only around US$31.5 billion of US$73.15 billion. If the country crashes out of the current program, it could lose the confidence of international backers, have its credit rating downgraded, and the government will be forced to borrow money elsewhere at a higher rate — quite which country or institution would offer it is not clear. Falling Standards Nonetheless, Kiev may well have good reasons for resisting the IMF's demands — the current loan program has decreased energy consumption in Ukraine by 30 percent, significantly diminishing living standards across the country. The situation is so dire UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston has called on the Fund to "embrace a politically and socially sustainable social protection policy" to address the harmful impact of energy subsidy 'reform'. The IMF has proven myopic on other 'reforms' in the country in addition, praising Kiev's moves to privatize over 3,000 state-owned companies on the assumption exchanging high levels of regulation for almost total deregulation motivates economic growth and prevents corruption. This view is not shared by anti-corruption organizations. In April, Transparency International demanded the IMF address gaps in Ukraine's money laundering frameworks, criticizing the IMF's own significant role own in growing global corruption by enforcing rapid privatization of public enterprizes. Brink of Disaster Still, Kiev must rectify its underlying economic issues or face calamity — it has a growing liquidity issue, with a mere US$0.8 billion in its foreign exchange accounts, only enough to last until November. Domestic liquidity is likewise in a parlous state, with disbursement of state pensions delayed in July, and the state treasury's balance its lowest in four years. © AP Photo / Efrem Lukatsky A woman sells her belongings in a city flea market in an attempt to survive in a financial crisis in Ukraine's capital Kiev Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015 Timothy Ash, Senior Emerging Markets Sovereign Strategist for Bluebay Asset Management Company, said while it's not inconceivable Ukraine "could survive" through to its general election, policy makers would be taking a "huge gamble" by doing so. "I don't think that is a risk worth taking. The Ministry of Finance's cash balance is down to the lowest level since pre-Euromaidan, living hand to mouth. They've left themselves dependent on the cash budget position improving plus markets remaining open for them. They face a weight of debt service which without IMF financing, if markets remain closed will end up putting downward pressure on foreign-exchange reserves. The NBU has built foreign-exchange reserves to just below US$18 billion, which seems a lot, but seasonals now move against the hryvnia, while Ukrainians always buy foreign currency in the run up to elections. If reserves begin to drop, then this might turn vicious and self-fulfilling. Why would you take that chance? Why you would risk pension payments by not hiking gas prices when 6.5 million households are covered by subsidies?" he explained. The Fine Print: IMF Backs Down on Ukraine Land Reform Ultimatum, But at a Price Ukraine Struggles With Reforms to Receive 'Dangerous Money' From IMF Why Ukraine Has Reasons to Be Concerned Over IMF Tranche Delay Hungry for New Loan: Ukraine Expects to Sign Memo on Cooperation With IMF Soon IMF loan, Ukrainian coup, EU policy in Ukraine, Ukraine crisis, Ukrainian crisis, International Monetary Fund, Ukraine	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1746
__label__wiki	0.927816	0.927816	Ahmet Uzumcu OPCW Chief: Chemical Weapons Report on Syria to Be Released Within Week The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is very sure of the technical aspects of its work in the investigation of chemical weapons use in the Syrian city of Douma, OPCW Director General Ahmet Uzumcu told Sputnik on Tuesday. 'We Are Citizens With Our Own Strong Position': Prankster On Call to OPCW Head Amid Skripal Case In a telephone exchange with a pair of Russian pranksters, OPCW head Ahmet Uzumcu admitted that the chemical, used to poison Russian Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, could have been produced by any state, including the US. Radio Sputnik discussed the latest prank with prankster Alexei 'Lexus' Stolyarov. LISTEN as OPCW Chief Allegedly Admits Skripal Poison Could Have Been Made Anywhere If the audio is authenticated, the phone call will put another dent in London's claim that the A234 chemical agent known in Western countries as Novichok, was Russian-made. Alleged Poisoning Attack on Russian Ex-Spy Skripal in UK OPCW Head Says UN Security Team Shot at in Syrian Douma - Reports OPCW Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu has told a meeting at the OPCW headquarters in The Hague that the UN security team was forced to retreat, delaying the arrival of chemical weapons inspectors due to visit the site. OPCW Head Confirms Sarin Presence in Syrian Khan Shaykhun Victims The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) fact-checking mission investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhun in Syria's Idlib province has found traces of Sarin in attack victims' bodies, OPCW Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu said Wednesday. Chemical Weapons Incident in Syria’s Idlib Province OPCW to Check Credible Allegations of Chemical Weapon Use in Syria - Director-General The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission intends to continue checking all credible allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria and calls on member states to share relevant information, OPCW Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu said on Monday. Russia Destroyed 93% of Chemical Weapons, Successfully Complies With Obligations - OPCW Russia has already destroyed 93 percent of its chemical weapons under the Chemical Weapons Convention, as such successfully complying with its obligations, Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu, said Tuesday. Lavrov Hopes to Discuss Russian Plan to Counter Chemical Terrorism With OPCW Chief Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that he is planning to discuss Russia's initiative on combating chemical terrorism with Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu later in the day. OPCW Confirms Syrian Chemical Weapons Destruction Completed OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu, said that an important chapter in the elimination of Syria's chemical arsenal was closed. All Declared Chemical Weapons to be Destroyed Within 8 Years - OPCW Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons director underscored the success of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission established in October 2013 on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons. OPCW to Observe Syrian Province Amid Reports of Chemical Warfare Use OPCW Director General Ahmet Uzumcu stated that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was monitoring recent reports suggesting that chlorine gas might be used in Syria. Chlorine Gas Used ‘Systematically’ in Syria: OPCW A toxic chemical was used “systematically and repeatedly” earlier this year in northern Syria, the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Wednesday, citing “compelling confirmation.” Russia Joins Operation to Remove Chemical Weapons From Syria Russia will send armored trucks to Syria as part of an international effort to remove chemical weapons from the war-torn country for destruction at sea. More Evidence of Chemical Attacks Found in Syria – Global Watchdog The international watchdog currently overseeing the destruction of chemical weapons and facilities in Syria said Friday that it had found more evidence of chemical attacks in the country. Chemical Weapons Watchdog to Double Syria Mission The international chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the removal of Syria stockpile of poisonous arms will next month double the size of its mission, the organization said Friday. Chemical Arms Watchdog Adopts Syria Plan as Albania Shuns Destruction The international watchdog overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons announced Friday that it has adopted a program to eliminate the stockpile in the first half of next year, though the plan was dealt a setback earlier in the day when Albania refused a US request to host the destruction. OPCW Chief Backs Destroying Syrian Chemical Arsenal Abroad The head of the international watchdog overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical arsenal said Tuesday that a proposal by Syrian authorities to destroy chemical weapons outside of the country is “the most viable option.” Equipment Destroyed at 14 Syrian Chemical Arms Sites A team of international experts working on a mission to eradicate Syria's chemical weapons has destroyed critical equipment at 14 sites in the war-torn country, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Monday. Equipment Destroyed at 6 Syrian Chemical Weapons Sites – OPCW Experts from the global chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday that critical equipment has been destroyed at six chemical weapon sites in Syria. Chemical Arms Watchdog Calls Syria Deadline Realistic The elimination of the Syrian government’s chemical arsenal by mid-2014 is realistic if all involved parties cooperate, including with ceasefires, the head of an international watchdog in charge of the task said Wednesday.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1747
__label__wiki	0.736	0.736	Sr Mary Killeen's work in the Mukuru slum of Nairobi, Kenya Sr Mary in Mukuru Sr Mary Presidential Award on RTE The President's award for Distinguished Service Abroad was given to Sr Mary Killeen and nine other nominees at a ceremony in Árus an Uachtaráin on 29 November 2018. See a copy of the broadcast, embedded in the right-hand margin of this web-site. Posted by Krunchie Killeen (Proinnsias Ó Cillín) at 06:54 No comments: Presidential Distinguished Service Award for Sr Mary Killeen Sr Mary Killeen has been selected as one of the Irish Diaspora to be granted the President's Distinguished Service Award for Irish Abroad in 2018. The Presidential Distinguished Service Award was established as a means to recognise the contribution of members of the Irish diaspora and the first awards were made in 2012. Nominations are made by Irish communities abroad through Ireland’s network of Diplomatic Missions. In order to be eligible for consideration, nominees must be habitually resident outside the island of Ireland and are required to satisfy one of the following additional requirements: (i) have rendered distinguished service to the nation and/or its reputation abroad; (ii) have actively and demonstrably contributed to Ireland and/or its international; reputation and/or Irish communities abroad in at least one of the categories listed; (iii) have a track record of sustained support and engagement with Ireland and/or its international reputation and/or Irish communities abroad over a period of not less than 5 years; or (iv) have made a sustained and distinguished service to Ireland on a global or international issue of importance. Posted by Krunchie Killeen (Proinnsias Ó Cillín) at 15:23 1 comment: "Sr Mary of Nairobi" on ORF2 Austrian TV ORF2 TV in Austria broadcast an hour-long program titled "Sr Mary von Nairobi" on 21 Feb 2017, described at http://tv.orf.at/highlights/orf2/170221_kq_sister_mary_nairobi100.html It gives quite a comprehensive account of her life, family, and work. (Use your browser to translate from the German). Historic correction: on their visit to Dublin, Mary brought the TV crew to our parents' grave in Glasnevin Cemetery, just fifty metres from Michael Collins, - and in the middle of the 1916 commemorations. It was natural for the team to look for a connection between our Dad (exactly 19 years old when the War of Independence broke out) and Collins, and, in consequence, inferred a more vigorous role in the rebellion than facts actually warrant. Sr Mary on Nationwide, RTÉ Sr Mary meets Pope Francis in Nairobi (Nov 2015) "Your visit gives us courage. By coming here, you shine a light on the challenges. Your meeting with us gives us dignity." Pope's visit to Kanjemi slum, including Sr. Mary's speech and the Pope's response. Sr Mary takes on Mukuru project (1985) In 1985 there were no schools in Mukuru, a slum, or shanty town, of half a million residents, in Nairobi, Kenya. Nothing could be done about the problem, because there were no government funds available. When a deputation from Mukuru met Sr Mary Killeen, she said to them "build me a hut and I will teach your children." She advised them to request that the City Council provide the site, which it did. So they built a corrugated hut and, in it, Sr Mary, with Fr Manuel Gordejuila, offered education to the slum children and the beginnings of community development. The initiative was called Mukuru Promotion Centre and it grew and grew, so that within 10 years over 7,000 children were accommodated in several separate schools, together with multiple other projects, covering health care, skills training and community development. Mukuru Promotion Centre video (2011): Trnava University, Slovakia, conferred an honoray doctorate on Sr Mary Killeen for her work in Mukuru (1997). The Primary Schools: Mukuru Kaiyaba; Ruben Centre, Mukuru Kwa Ruben, now run by the Irish Christian Brothers (Australian Province); St. Elizabeth's, Lunga Lunga; Our Lady of Nazareth, Kwa Njenga, now run by the Marianist Brothers; St. Catherine's; Bakhita Primary School. Skills Training: masony, carpentry, plumbing, art, craft, dressmaking, knitting, hairdressing, beauty, cookery, catering, hygiene, vegetable growing, rabbit rearing; School for disadvantaged children; Business training; Secondary education; Health clinics; Social work department; Street children rehabilitation; Half-way house shelter; Suport group for HIV/AIDS; Videos on this site show the wonderful progress that has been achieved since Sr Mary started this work in 1985. Much remains to be done. Social Workers attached to Schools: “With an estimated 400,000 residents, the cardboard-and-tin slum of Mukuru is the second largest slum in Nairobi, but one of its poorest. Like all shantytowns, it is densely populated with inadequate sanitation and water services. It is prone to fires and flooding -- 30 people drowned last year when a flash-flood caused by heavy rains swept their shacks away.” (Paul O’Callaghan, Irish Independent, Nov 2012: Note: the population of Mukuru is now about 700,000) The Right to Stay (2014 - Slum-dwellers go to court for Security of Tenure) : Niall Mellon Trust rebuilding of St Catherine's, 2013:- Sr Mary's President's Award on RTE 29 Nov 2018 Donate to a project of Sr Mary Mukuru Promotion Centre Songo Mbele In 1985 there were no schools in Mukuru, a slum, or shanty town, of half a million residents, in Nairobi, Kenya. Nothing could be done ... "Your visit gives us courage. By coming here, you shine a light on the challenges. Your meeting with us gives us dignity.&... ORF2 TV in Austria broadcast an hour-long program titled "Sr Mary von Nairobi" on 21 Feb 2017, described at http://tv.or... The President's award for Distinguished Service Abroad was given to Sr Mary Killeen and nine other nominees at a ceremony in Árus an Uac... Sr Mary Killeen has been selected as one of the Irish Diaspora to be granted the President's Distinguished Service Award for Irish Abroa... A Day in the Life of Mukuru Sr Mary in the News Sr Mary addresses Pope Francis (2015) Sr Mary on CNN News 26 Nov 2015 CNN slides of Sr Mary Sr Mary resists Eviction Nun risks jail for contempt of court Irish Times "Irish nun addresses Pope Francis" Paul O'Callaghan, Irish Independent, Nov 2012 Tim Pat Coogan on Sr Mary v Paedophile Priests Evictions in Mukuru (Habitat International) Volunteers of Sancta Maria College, Ballyroan Irish nurses visit Mukuru (TG4 25/01/2018) Songa Mbele na Masomo Harambee - Mukuru Mukuru Kwa Reuben Sr Mary at the One World Conference, 1998 Terre des Hommes - Mukuru Ruben Centre St. Marian Children's Centre Sisters of Mercy in Kenya The Mater Hospital (Nairobi) Story Sister M Dolorosa Waldron, founder of Mater Hospital Mukuru slum Evictions 2 die during demolitions Chaos claims 3 lives Slum sitting on Oil Pipeline Pipeline Demolitions Mukuru Sinai Inferno Invincibles Fund Raising for Mukuru Brought to you by Proinnsias Ó Cillín ("Krunchie Killeen"): His other blogs: The Killeens Winking Picture of Christ Krunchie's Home Page	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1748
__label__cc	0.667668	0.332332	Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) Abstract: An electrical current generates the spin-polarized electrons due to the Spin Hall effect. These spin-polarized changes the magnetic properties of the nanowire. This effect is called the effect of spin-orbit torque (SOT). The change of magnetic properties by an electrical current may be substantial. For example, the magnetization can be reversed. The SOT effects describes the dependence of a magnetic properties of a magnetic nanowire on polarity and magnitude of electrical current. click on image to enlarge it Magnetic parameters, which depend on polarity of current in a nanomagnet: "damp-like" torque "field-like" torque; Anisotropy field Hanis; Energy of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) Eanis; Coercive field Hc; Spin polarization; Logarithm of magnetization switching time; Logarithm of Retention time; Delta Δ; Hall angle; size of nucleation domain for magnetization switching All these parameters depend linearly on the gate voltage. However, the dependencies are not clearly depend on each other. It indicates that there are several independent contributions to the SOT effect. High precision measurements of current dependencies of these magnetic parameters are described below. click on the chapter for the shortcut (1). 3-terminal MTJ (2). Origin of Spin-Orbit Torque in short (3). Magnetic parameters affected by SOT effect (4). Measurement of SOT (measurement 1) "damp-like" torque (measurement 2) "field-like" torque (measurement 3) SOT modulation of anisotropy field Hanis and PMA energy (measurement 4) SOT modulation of coercive field Hc (measurement 5) SOT modulation of delta Δ and retention time (measurement 6) SOT modulation of of effective magnetization Meff and effective size of nucleation domain (measurement 7) SOT modulation of Hall angle (measurement 8) SOT modulation of spin polarization (5). What is the "damp-like" torque? (6). Comparison between "damp-like" torque and "field-like" torque (7). Influence of interface on SOT effect (8). Measurements of the SO torque using 2d harmonic lock-in technique (9). Current-induced magnetization reversal in FeBTb 3-terminal MTJ memory 3 terminal MTJ memory cell Fig.1 (retro style). The writing and reading circuits are separated in this design. The reading current flows though the tunnel barrier. The writing current flows through the non-magnetic metal. The spin current is generated at free-layer/ non-magnetic-metal interface, which reverses the magnetization of the free-layer due to SOT effect and a data is recorded. The SOT effect is used as a writing mechanism for the 3-terminal MTJ memory merit: Reading circuit and writing circuits are separated. It improves: (1) memory durability; (2) operational speed; Data storage: By means of two opposite magnetization of the "free" layer. reading circuit: The reading voltage is applied between "free" and "pinned" layers The resistivity of the MTJ is lower, when the magnetizations of "free" and "pinned" layers are parallel. The resistivity of the MTJ is higher, when the magnetizations of "free" and "pinned" layers are parallel. writing circuit: The writing voltage is applied between sides of the non-magnetic metal The spin current is generated at free-layer/ non-magnetic-metal interface , which induces the torque on the "free" layer due to the SOT effect. The SOT torque is opposite for the opposite polarities of the writing current and it reverses the magnetization into two opposite directions. 2-teminals MTJ memory is described here Effect of Spin-orbit torque (SOT) There are two spin pumps. (spin pump 1): Localized d-electrons, which constantly creates spin-up conduction electrons. (spin pump 2): Due to Spin Hall effect, spin-left electrons is created. Big ball shows a large number of spin-polarized electrons of electron gas. The small balls shows direction of injected spin-polarized electrons from two spin pumps. Spin direction of the front spin pump is toward left. Spin direction of the backside spin pump is toward up. arrows shows the spin-direction and the volume of balls is proportional to the number of the spin polarized electrons Details on Spin Torque are here Origin of Spin-Orbit Torque in short The creation (origin) of the spin-orbit torque can be divided into two steps. At the first step, the spin-polarized electrons are created by an electrical current. At the second step, the created spin-polarized electrons affects the magnetic properties of the nanomagnet (step 1) Creation of of the spin-polarized electrons The creation of the spin-polarized conduction electrons by an electrical current is called the Spin Hall effect (See here for details). The major mechanism of creation of spin-polarized electrons is the spin-dependent scatterings (See Spin Hall effect for more details) How an electrical current can create the spin- polarized conduction electrons? When there are spin-dependent scatterings, the spin-polarized electrons are accumulated at side edges of an electrical wire (Spin Hall effect). For example, if initially the conduction electrons are not spin-polarized, the probability of a scattering of a spin-up electron is larger to the left with respect to current direction and the probability of a scattering of a spin-down electron is larger to the right, then there are more spin-up electrons at the left side of wire and more spin-down electrons at the right side of the wire. Two sources of of generation of spin-polarized electrons: Interface-source The spin-polarization is created due to the spin-dependent scatterings across an interface. Typically spin-dependent scattering occurs at an interface between a non-magnetic heavy metal (like Pt, Ta, W) and ferromagnetic metal (like Fe,Co, FeCoB). Bulk-source The spin-polarization is created due to the spin-dependent scatterings in the bulk of ferromagnetic metal. Typically the spin-dependent scattering occurs in a ferromagnetic metal containing a heavy metal (like FeBTb) The SOT effect is usually observed in a ferromagnetic metal, where there are two groups of conduction electrons: (group 1) spin-unpolarized electrons and (group 2) spin-polarized electrons (see here). Correspondingly, there are two origins for creations of new spin-polarized electrons. Two origins of generation of spin-polarized electrons: from spin-unpolarized electrons Due to spin-dependent scattering, some spin-unpolarized electrons becomes spin-polarized. The spin-polarization of these created spin-polarized electrons are different on opposite sides of the wire. from spin-polarized electrons A spin-dependent scattering of already-existed spin-polarized electrons creates the spin-polarized electrons of different spin direction. As a result, there are two groups of spin-polarized electrons of different spin directions: (group 1) large group of "already-existed" spin-polarized electrons and (group 2) tiny group of "newly-created" of spin-polarized electrons. These two groups quickly interact with each other (See Spin Torque) (step 2) Influence of created spin-polarized electrons on magnetic properties on a nanomagnet (influence 1) Spin torque See details on the spin torque here. It is the case when the spin direction of "newly-created" spin-polarized electrons is different from the spin direction of "already-existed" spin-polarized electrons. In this case the Spin Torque is created. As a result, the spin direction of a large number of "already-existed" spin-polarized electrons rotates toward the spin-direction of a tiny number of "newly-created" spin-polarized electrons. This effect is called the Spin Torque. Depending on the spin direction of "newly-created" spin-polarized electrons and the corresponded direction the Spin Torque., two torque torque can be distinguished: "damp-like" torque and "field-like" torque. (influence 2) Change of size of nucleation domain for the magnetization switching See details on thermo-activated magnetization switching here. The electrical current induces the spin-transfer torque (it is the mechanism of the current induced magnetization reversal in a MTJ). Under influence of the spin-transfer torque, the domain wall of the nucleation domain for magnetization switching may may. As a result, (influence 3) Change of the spin polarization See details on spin polarization here and here. The electrical current creates the spin polarized electrons, which added to "already-existed" spin-polarized electrons. Depending on the polarity of the electrical current, the spin direction of "newly-created" spin-polarized electrons is either along or opposite to the spin direction of the "already-existed" spin-polarized electrons. As a result, the total spin polarization either decrease or increases for two opposite directions of the electrical current. This influence makes current-dependent all magnetic properties, which depend on the spin polarization. (influence 4) Change of the PMA energy For a reason, which has not been understood yet, the PMA energy EPMA is changed by the electrical current. It leads to current-dependency of anisotropy field Hanis, coercive field Hc and delta Δ. Transformation of Hysteresis loop due SOT effect The position of loop is shifted due to current, but width and height of the loop are constant. The x-axis is applied out-plane magnetic field. Click on image to enlarge it. Magnetic parameters affected by SOT effect creation of damping -like torque This SOT effect is similar to the effect produced by an usual magnetic filed HDL , which is applied perpendicularly to the electrical current and perpendicularly to the magnetization. The direction of the magnetic field HFL depends on the magnetization direction. When magnetization rotates along the z-axis. The magnetic field HDL rotates as well. creation of field-like torque This SOT effect is similar to the effect produced by an usual magnetic filed HFL , which is applied along the electrical current. The magnetic field HFL does not depend on the magnetization direction. modulation of the anisotropy field Hanis and the energy of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy EPMA The bias current generates a spin-polarized electrons. The spin-polarized electrons at may affect the magnetization near film interface and consequently the the strength of the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) modulation of coercive field Change of magnetization switching time under current due to SOT dependence is opposite for spin-down to up and spin-down to up switching switching from spin-down to spin-up switching from spin-up to spin-down switching time increases under a negative current and decreases under a positive current switching time increases under a positive current and decreases under a negative current The magnetization switching time at a different current density. Sample ud30 Volt53B Ta(2.5):FeCoB(1):MgO Nanowire width: 1000 nm, length 200 nm. Measurements date is 10. 2018 Under a bias current, the hysteresis loop are shifted from its center position (See Fig). It looks similar as an additional magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the film. The switching field from spin-up to down state became different from switching field from spin-down to up state modulation of delta Δ and retention time The Δ and retention time characterize stability of the magnetization against a thermo-activated reversal. The modulation of the Δ changes the probability thermo-activated magnetization switching modulation of effective magnetization Meff and effective size of nucleation domain The Meff is magnetization of first magnetic domain (nucleation domain), which triggers the magnetization reversal. The bias current may move domain wall due to the spin-transfer torque. As a result the size of the nucleation domain becomes smaller or larger. Consequently, the Meff becomes smaller or larger. modulation of the Hall angle The Hall angle or the Hall resistance depends on the magnetization of the ferromagnetic metal, spin-polarization of the conduction electrons and the strength of the spin-orbit (SO) interaction. The bias current generates a spin-polarized electrons. As a result, the spin polarization of electron gas and its distribution across film changes. It causes the change of the Hall angle. Measurement of SOT Fig.2 Anomalous Hall Effect is used for all SOT measurements All SOT measurements were done using the Anomalous Hall Effect (AHE). Fabrication of FeB, FeCoB and FeTbB nanomagnets connected to a Hall probe The FeB, FeCoB and FeTbB films were grown on a Si/SiO2 substrate by sputtering. A Ta layer was used as a non-magnetic adhesion layer. The thickness of the Ta was between 2 and 10 nanometers and wafers of different Ta thickness were tested. A nanowire of different width between 100 and 1000 nm with a Hall probe was fabricated by the argon milling. The width of the Hall probe is 50 nm. The FeB and FeCoB layers were etched out from top of the nanowire except a small region of the nanomagnet, which was aligned to the Hall probe. The nanomagnets of different lengths between 100 nm to 1000 nm were fabricated. Major obstacle of a SOT measurement is the heating The SOT becomes substantial at the current of about 10-100 mA/um2. The heating of nanowire is substantial at this current. It is hard to remove the heating even when a pulse mode is used. For example, in my standard measurements an electrical pulse of 300 ms following 5 s cooling is used. However, there is still a substantial heating in this pulse mode (see below). In any SOT measurements the sample heating should be taking into account. How to distinguish effects from the SOT from the effects from heating? A. The SOT effect is linearly proportional to current, but heating ~I2, at a relatively-small current the SOT dominates, but at a higher current the heating dominates. How to minimize the influence of the heating? 1) Sweep polarity of current Usually (but not always) the SOT changes its polarity when the polarity of current is reversed. The heating does not dependent on the current polarity 2) use a narrower and shorter nanowire. The dissipation of heating is more effective in this case. Measurement method of "field -like" torque HFL Dependence of in-plane component of magnetization on in-plane plane magnetic field. The magnetic field is applied in-plane and along the current. HFL is the the offset magnetic field, which is proportional to the current. The HFL is evaluated by linear fitting of the dependence, which measured in Hall configuration. Method to measure "damp-like" torque and "field-like" torque This method is similar to the method of measurement of anisotropy field Hanis (See here). In this measurement the in-plane component of the magnetization is measured as a function of an external magnetic field Hext. The dependence is linear (See here). Therefore, it can be measured with a high precision. The anisotropy field Hanis is defined as the in-plane magnetic field, at which initially-perpendicular magnetization turns completely into the in-plane direction. Under a sufficient bias current, additionally to Hext., there are two more additional magnetic fields: 1) effective field of "field-like" torque HFL in direction of current and 2) effective field of "damp-like" torque HDL in direction perpendicularly to the current. Therefore, the magnetization experiences two magnetic field: In-plane magnetic field along bias current (the x-axis) Htotal,x=Hext,x+HFL , In-plane magnetic field perpendicularly to bias current (the y-axis) Htotal,y=Hext,y+HDL , As a result, the dependence M vs Hext is shifted on HFL (Hext is applied along x-axis) or HDL (Hext is applied along y-axis). From the shift the HFL are HDL are evaluated. Note: The same measurements can be done by two method Method 1. The direct measurement using a nano voltmeter (See Fig.2 above) Method 2. The 2nd-harmonic measurement using a lock-in amplifier (See here) Both measurements give the same values of HFL and HDL and nearly the measurement precision. However, the usage of the direct measurement is preferable for the following reasons. From the direct measurement, the dependence of HFL and HDL on bias current can be evaluated. From measured dependence of M vs H, the contributions of the "field-like" and "damp-like" torque can be separated in the case when they are in the same direction. In contrast to the 2nd-harmonic measurement, in the direct measurement the undesired contribution due to sample heating can be removed. I use AHE measurement to evaluate the in-plane component of the magnetization. The tunnel magneto-resistance (TMR) of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) can be used as well (See here). 1st type of SOT effect: "Damp -like" torque "Damping-like" torque The electrical current creates a magnetic field HDL, which is directed along current and perpendicularly to the magnetization M.. Due to HDL, the magnetization M is inclined to the front direction. When external magnetic field Hext is applied, the magnetization M turns in-plane. Following M, HDL turns as well. From measurements of magnetization M vs Hext, HDL can be evaluated. The "damping-like" torque is described as where the effective magnetic field of the "damping-like" torque is defined as (See Landau–Lifshitz equation) How to measure it? Measurement method of "damping -like" torque HDL Dependence of in-plane component of magnetization on in-plane plane magnetic field. The magnetic field is applied in-plane and perpendicularly to the current. The center of line is shifted, but its ends are at the same position. The HDL is the the offset magnetic field, which is proportional to the current. The HDL is evaluated by linear fitting of the dependence, which measured in Hall configuration. It can be measured by the same measurement, which is used to measure the anisotropy field (See here). The in-plane component of magnetization is measured as a function of in-plane magnetic field. The in-plane magnetic field, which is applied perpendicularly to the electrical current. The HDL gives the field offset for such measurement (See right Fig). From a linear fitting of measured dependence, the HDL is evaluated. In the case of the "damp-like" torque the dependence M vs H is not linear. Even in the case the fitting gives a high precision. Effective magnetic field HDL of the "damping -like" torque Slope: -0.21811 Oe/(mA/um2) Slope: -0.3371 Oe/(mA/um2) as Nov. 2018 Sample R64A Volt58B Ta(5):FeCoB(1):MgO Sample: L58B Volt58A . It is the same wafer as the left one, but device position on the wafer is different Measured sample distribution of the current- modulation of the effective field HDL of "damp- like" torque in FeB and FeCoB samples. Measurements date is 10. 2018 What is the "damp-like" torque? Effective magnetic field of "damp-like" and "anti damp-like" torque damp-like torque anti damp-like torque The damp-like torque align the spin along the external magnetic field. The anti damp-like torque align the spin opposite to the external magnetic field. Red arrow shows the spin (the magnetization). Blue arrow show the magnetic field Hext. Green arrow shows the effective magnetic field of the damp Hdamp (anti damp Hanti damp) torque. Difference between "damp-like" torque and "field-like" torque Properties of effective magnetic field of "damp-like" torque Its direction changes, when the spin direction (magnetization direction) changes. Its magnitude changes, when the spin direction (magnetization direction) changes. The magnitude is the largest, when the spin is perpendicular to Hext and the magnitude is the smallest (equals to 0), when the spin is parallel to Hext. What is the direction of the "damp-like" torque? 3 components of the "damp-like" torque can be distinguished. They are labeled as Hdamp,x , Hdamp,y and Hdamp,z. Since the direction and magnitude of the effective magnetic field of "damp-like" torque changes when the magnetization direction is changed, the following definition is used: Hdamp,x aligns magnetization along the x-axis (along bias current) Hdamp,y aligns magnetization along the y-axis. (in-plane and perpendicularly to bias current) Hdamp,z aligns magnetization along the z-axis. (perpendicularly to plane) Direction of effective magnetic field of "damp-like" torque magnetization rotates in yz-plane magnetization rotates in xz-plane Hdamp,x and Hdamp,z change their magnitude. Hdamp,y changes its direction Hdamp,y and Hdamp,z change their magnitude. Hdamp,x changes its direction Red Arrow :M is the magnetization (the spin). Gold Arrow: Hdamp,x is magnetic field of damping towards the x-axis Blue Arrow: Hdamp,y is magnetic field of damping towards the y-axis Green Arrow: Hdamp,z is magnetic field of damping towards the z-axis most probable direction of the "damp-like" torque is Hdamp,x It is because of the following reason: The bias current breaks the time-reversal symmetry along the x-axis. Similarly, the time-reversal symmetry breaks in this direction, when a magnetic field is applied along the x-axis. Then, damp-like" torque is Hdamp,x aligns the magnetization along this field Note: The existence of Hdamp,y and Hdamp,z is also allowed by the symmetry. How Hdamp,x , Hdamp,y and Hdamp,z change their magnitude and direction when magnetization is rotated in the yz-plane and the xz-plane It is important because from measurements of such rotation both is "field-like" torque and "damp-like" torque are evaluated. 2nd type of SOT effect: "Field-like" torque "Field like" torque The electrical current creates a magnetic field HFL, which is directed along current. Due to HFL, the magnetization M is inclined to the right direction. When external magnetic field Hext is applied, the magnetization M turns fully in-plane at a smaller field Hext= Hanisotropy - HFL,in the left direction. The magnetization M turns field in-plane at a larger field Hext= Hanisotropy + HFL,in the right direction. Measuring the difference between two field, HFL can be evaluated The "field-like" torque is described as where the effective magnetic field of the "field-like" torque is defined as It can be measured by the same measurement, which is used to measure the anisotropy field (See here). The in-plane component of magnetization is measured as a function of in-plane magnetic field. The in-plane magnetic field is applied along the electrical current. The HFL gives the field offset for such measurement (See right Fig). From a linear fitting of measured dependence, the HFL is evaluated. The Hall measurement is used to evaluate the in-plane component of the magnetization. The TMR can be used as well (See here). The dependence of HFL on the current is rather linear. All FeB and FeCoB samples, which I have measured by Nov. 2018, shows the same sign (positive) of HFL. Effective magnetic field HFL of the "field like" torque induced by SOT Slope: 0.22093 Oe/(mA/um2) Sample R64A Volt58B Ta(5):FeCoB(1):MgO Sample: L58B Volt58A . It is the same wafer as the left one, but device position on the wafer is different Measured sample distribution of the current- modulation of the effective field HFL of "field- like" torque in FeB and FeCoB samples. 3d type of SOT effect: SOT modulation of anisotropy field Hanis and PMA energy Change of anisotropy field Hanis & PMA energy due to the SOT effect case 1: SOT modulation of Hanis case 2: nearly no SOT modulation Current- (SOT-) induced change of Hanis Sample distribution of ΔHanis Due to SOT effect, the Hanis increases at a negative current and decreases at a positive current. Additionally, the electrical current heats the sample. The heating causes the decreases of Hanis. Since SOT effect is linearly proportional to current, but heating ~I2, at a small negative current the Hani increases, but at a higher current effect of the heating dominates. Under a higher current the heating is stronger and temperature increase. When T increase, Hanis sharply decreases (see here). The decrease is symmetrical for opposite polarities of current. The of anisotropy field Hanis for two opposite directions of current as function of current as Nov. 2018 Sample R64A Volt58B Ta(5):FeCoB(1):MgO Sample: L58B Volt58A . It is the same wafer as the left one, but device position on the wafer is different Sample: ud49 Volt53, Ta(2.5) FeCoB(1):MgO, wire width 400 nm, nanomagnet length 500 nm Measured sample distribution of the current- modulation of the anisotropy field ΔHanis in FeB and FeCoB samples. Measurement method of anisotropy field Dependence of in-plane component of magnetization on in-plane plane magnetic field. The slope depends on the electrical current. The anisotropy field is evaluated from the slope of the line. 4th type of SOT effect:SOT modulation of the coercive field Change of coercive field due to the SOT effect (case 1:stronger heating) Transformation of Hysteresis loop due SOT effect. The position of loop is shifted due to current, but width and height of the loop are constant. Switching fields (coercive field) between spin-down to up and spin-up to down states. At a positive current, the coercive field of spin-down to up switching is larger. At a negative current, the coercive field of spin-up to down switching is larger. Such dependence is due to the SOT effect. For both current polarities, the coercive field decrease when the bias current increases. It is due to heating and the temperature rise. Difference of switching fields between spin-down to up and spin-up to down states. The dependence is linear. Data was measured using method described here, which gives measurement precision of coercive field better than 0.1 Oe. Sample Ta(5)/FeB(0.9)/ MgO(6)/ Ta(1)/Ru(5) (Volt55 free44). Measurements date is 06. 2018 When current increases, two effects occur: 1.Heating Even though the measurements of the coercive field are done in pulse mode, it is difficult completely avoid heating. Due to the heating coercive field decreases. However, the decrease of the switching field between spin-down to up and switching field between spin-up to down states are absolutely identical and symmetrical (See here) 2. SOT effect The coercive field was measured using method described here, which gives measurement precision of coercive field better than 0.1 Oe. Change of coercive field due to the SOT effect (case 2: weaker heating) Coercive field for the magnetization switching from spin-down to spin-up and spin-up to spin-down. Due to heating coercive field decreases. Due to SOT effect, the coercive field increases for spin-down to spin-up at a negative current and for spin-down to spin-up at a positive current. Since SOT effect is linearly proportional to current, but heating ~I2, only at a small current the Hc increases, but at a higher current effect of the heating dominates. The difference of the coercivity field when polarity of the current reversed. The dependence is opposite for the magnetization switching from spin-down to spin-up and spin-up to spin-down. Sample ud30 Volt53B Ta(2.5):FeCoB(1):MgO Nanowire width: 1000 nm, length 200 nm. Sample distribution of ΔHc Measured sample distribution of the current- modulation of the coercive field ΔHc in FeB and FeCoB samples. 5th type of SOT effect: modulation of delta Δ and retention time modulation of delta Δ modulation of retention time modulation of delta Δ is nearly the same for magnetization switching from spin-down to up and from spin-up to down modulation of retention time is nearly the same for magnetization switching from spin-down to up and from spin-up to down Sample ud30 Volt53B Ta(2.5):FeCoB(1):MgO Nanowire width: 1000 nm, length 200 nm 6th type of SOT effect: modulation of effective magnetization Meff and effective size of nucleation domain modulation of effective size of nucleation domain Sample ud30 Volt53B Ta(2.5):FeCoB(1):MgO Nanowire width: 1000 nm, length 200 nm Sample: ud49 Volt53, Ta(2.5) FeCoB(1):MgO, wire width 400 nm, nanomagnet length 500 nm Dependence of size of nucleation domain on the electrical current. The black line shows for the case of magnetization switching from spin-down to spin-up state. The red line show for the case of switching from spin-up to spin-down state. 7th type of SOT effect: SOT modulation of the Hall angle SOT modulation of Hall angle Difference of Hall for two opposite polarities of the bias current vs absolute value of current. The proximity of MgO modifies significantly Sample: Ta(5):FeCoB ( 1 nm, x=0.3):MgO(7) Volt58A (L58B); nanowire width is 3000 nm, nanowire length is 25 um, length of um etched section is 3 um. For measurements of different magnetic properties of this sample click here 8th type of SOT effect: The SOT modulation of spin polarization Dependence of spin polarization on polarity of bias current (SOT effect) Sample: FeB. Spin polarization as function of current density. At a higher current, the spin polarization decreases due to the sample heating. However, the decrease is different for opposite polarities of the current Sample: FeB. Change of the spin polarization under reversal of current direction Sample: FeCoB. Change of the spin polarization under reversal of current direction "damp-like" torque and "field-like" torque The "damp-like" torque and "field-like" torque can be measured by following techniques: 1) from measurement of anisotropy field; 2) by 2f-lockin technique; 3) from ST-FMR measurements Comparison between "damp-like" torque and "field-like" torque Evaluation of type of SOT effective field "Field-like" torque "Damp-like" torque In-plane component of magnetization as a function of applied in-plane magnetic field. The green line shows the case when there is no the spin-orbit torque. The blue line shows the case when the torque is "field-like" type. The red line shows the case when the torque is "damp-like" type. The effective magnetic field HFL of the "field-like" torque does not depend on the magnetization direction. Independently on the magnetization direction, it is always directed along the current. The effective magnetic field HDL of the "damp-like" torque. It is always perpendicular to the magnetization direction. When the magnetization turns, the he effective magnetic field HDL turns as well. There are two substantially different types of the Spin-Orbit Torque. One type does not depend on the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic metal. It is only depend on the direction of the current. Such torque is called the field-like torque. The second The second type does depend on the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic metal. Such torque is called the anti-damping torque. Even without any current, there are spin-polarized conduction electrons in a ferromagnetic metal. All conduction electrons in a ferromagnetic metal can be divided into two groups: group of spin-polarized electrons and group of spin-unpolarized electrons (See here for details). As was mentioned above, the spin-dependent scatterings originate the Spin-Orbit Torque. Since the properties of the spin-unpolarized electrons does not depend on the magnetization direction, the scattering of these electrons creates the anti-damping torque.. Spin direction of spin-polarized conduction electrons is parallel to the magnetization (See here for details). Therefore, the scattering of the spin-polarized creates the field-like torque The field-like torque 1.It does not depend on the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic metal. 2. It is created due to scattering of the spin-unpolarized electrons The anti-damping torque 1.It does depend on the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic metal. 2. It is created due to scattering of the spin-polarized electrons Influence of interface on SOT effect Dependence of SOT on the interface material not-etched part etched part Backside Hall probe is connected to a nanomagnet. FeB is thicker in this region and top of FeB is covered by MgO. The Front side Hall probe is connected at side of a nanomagnet. FeB is thinner in this region and at its top covered by SiO2. The distance between two Hall pairs is 11 μm. Measurements of the SO torque using 2d harmonic lock-in technique Measurement of the Spin-orbit torque by 2d harmonic lock-in technique asymmetric (even) component symmetric (odd) component it measures :(1) "field-like" torque, when the in-plane magnetic field is applied along the wire ( along electrical current); (2) "damp-like" torque, when the in-plane magnetic field is applied perpendicularly to the wire ( to electrical current); It measure In this method the 2d harmonic of Hall voltage is measured as a function of an in-plane magnetic field The Hall voltage is proportional to the current, the perpendicular components of magnetization and the spin polarization of conduction electrons. When current is modulated with frequency ω, the magnetization direction, the magnetization magnitude and spin-polarization of the conduction electrons may be modulated due to the effect of the SO torque. As a result, the Hall voltage is modulated with frequency 2ω. Measuring this 2d harmonic the amplitude of the SO torque can be estimated. What can be measured by the 2d harmonic lock-in technique? 1. "Field-like" torque The direct measurements see here It can be evaluated from the asymmetric (even) component of dependence of the 2d-harmonic voltage vs the in-plane magnetic field, when the magnetic field is applied along the current. 2. "Damp-like" torque It can be evaluated from the asymmetric (even) component of dependence of the 2d-harmonic voltage vs the in-plane magnetic field, when the magnetic field is applied perpendicularly the current. 3. Current-modulation of anisotropy field It can be evaluated from the symmetric (odd) component of dependence of the 2d-harmonic voltage vs the in-plane magnetic field. The result is the same whether the magnetic field applied along or perpendicularly to the current. The fields of the the spin-orbit torque can be calculated from the following dependance of the 2d-harmonic voltage VHall,2ω vs applied in-plane magnetic field Hx : where ΔHanis,ω is the current induced change of the anisotropy field Hanis; ΔHoff,ω is the effective magnetic field HFL,ω of the "field-like" torque, when Hx is applied along electrical current; and ΔHoff,ω is the effective magnetic field HDL,ω of the "damp-like" torque, when Hx is perpendicularly to the electrical current; the odd and even components can be calculated as Rwire is the is the ohmic resistance of the wire; RHall,0 is the is the Hall resistance, when a in-plane magnetic field is not applied ; Hanisot is the anisotropy field, which can be measured directly (See here) with a high precision or from 1st harmonic with a moderate precision. The Hanisot can be evaluated from the following dependance of the 1d-harmonic voltage VHall,ω vs applied in-plane magnetic field Hx : for details description of 2d harmonic lock-in technique, click there to expand The 2d harmonic lock-in technique measures the current- modulation of the effective magnetic field HDL of "damp- like" torque, the effective magnetic field HFL of "field- like" torque and the anisotropy field ΔHanis Without electrical current, the in-plane component of the magnetization Mx depends on the applied external in-plane magnetic field Hx as (see here) where Hanis is the anisotropy field As was demonstrated above, the spin-orbit torque (SOT) produces the offset magnetic field ΔHoff and changes the anisotropy field Hanis on ΔHanis. As a result, the Eq.(4.1) is modified as where ΔHoff equals to HFL when the in-plane magnetic field is applied along current and ΔHoff equals to HDL when the in-plane magnetic field is applied in-plane and perpendicularly to the current In the case when Eq.(4.2) can be simplified as from (4.2) we have . The z- component of the magnetization Mz can be calculated as The Hall voltage is calculated as when magnetization is not perpendicular to plane, the Hall voltage is calculated as where Mz is the perpendicular-to-film component of magnetization, RHall,0 is the Hall resistance when the magnetization is perpendicular to the film (Mz =M). When the current is modulated with frequency ω , both the ΔHoff and ΔHanis are modulated as well: Using a trigonometric relation and substituting Eqs (4.7) (4.10),(4.11) into Eqs. (4.7) gives the Hall voltage VHall,2ω of the 2d harmonic (the coefficient at cos(2ωt)) as In a lock-in measurement it is convenient to use the reference voltage Vω rather than reference current Iω 2d harmonic as a function of applied in-plane magnetic field. where Rwire is the resistance of metallic nanowire. Substituting Eqs. (4.2) and (4.14) into Eq. (4.13) gives The voltage of the second harmonic has two component. The first component is proportional to ΔHoff and is an odd function in the respect to Hx. The first component is proportional to ΔHanis and is an even function in the respect to Hx. Therefore, the voltage of the second harmonic can be calculated as Eq (4.17) can be written in a symmetrical form as Measurement of anisotropy field from the 1st harmonic (not recommended) 1st harmonic Perpendicular-to-plane component of magnetization as a function of applied in-plane magnetic field. When current is small, the ΔHoff and ΔHanis can be ignored. Than, the Hall voltage VHall,ω of 1st harmonic can be calculated from Eq.(4.9) as substitution of Eq(4.1) into Eq.(4.20) gives the Hall voltage VHall,ω of 1st harmonic as The ratio of voltage of 1st harmonic to the voltage of 1st harmonic can be calculated as Measurement of anisotropy field Hanis The arrow shows the direction and magnitude of the applied in-plane magnetic field. The ball shows the magnetization direction. Without magnetic field the magnetization is perpendicularly-to-plane. Under magnetic field, the magnetization turns toward magnetic field. The field, at which the magnetization turns completely in-plane, is called the anisotropy field. The dots of the right graph shows experimental data. Measurement date: May 2018. Current-induced magnetization reversal in FeBTb Electrical current can induce spin torque or reduce the exchange interaction between localized electrons. This can change the direction of magnetization of a material. Current-induced magnetization reversal in FeBTb film Dependence on applied magnetic field Coercive field significantly decreases when current density increases click here or on image to enlarge it Dependence on current density magnetization is reversed by electrical current Two current-induced effects, which can lead to the current-induced magnetization reversal: 1) Current-induced Spin torque 2) Current-induced reduction of the exchange interaction between localized electrons. Both effects occur because of transfer of delocalized (conduction) spin-polarized electrons from a point to point, which alters an equilibrium spin polarization in a material. The spin torque occurs when the delocalized spin-polarized electrons are transferred from one material to another by a drift or a diffusion current. When spin-polarized delocalized electrons are injected, it is not only change magnitude of spin accumulation, but also it changes spin direction of spin accumulated electrons. As result, the spin direction of localized and delocalized electrons becomes different. This induces the torque, which may turn or reverse the spin direction of the localized electrons. Note: At one place an electron gas may have only one spin direction of its spin accumulation. In the case when the electrons with a different spin direction is injected, the spins quickly relax and the spin accumulation of only one spin direction remains. The final spin direction is different from initial spin direction and from the injected spin direction. Details see here and here The spin torque may change magnetization direction in a material because of the exchange interaction between localized and delocalized electrons. There are several effects which can cause the current-induced spin torque: 1)The spin-transfer torque. It occurs because of transfer of spin-polarized electron from material to material by a drift or diffusive spin current. Example: the spin transfer between electrodes in a MTJ or GMR junction. The polarity of the spin-transfer torque depends on mutual magnetization directions of the electrons. 2) The spin-orbit (SO) torque. It occurs in magnetic or non-magnetic metals in which there are substantial spin-dependent scatterings. Due to spin-dependent scatterings a spin-polarized current flows perpendicularly to the flow of spin- unpolarized drift current. The spin is accumulated at one side of a metallic wire and the spin is depleted at another side. The spin accumulation(depletion) may cause the spin torque at sides of the wire, which magnitude and direction is proportional to the drift current. The accumulated spin may have different spin direction than the spin direction of the equilibrium spin polarization. Negative bias Positive bias delocalized (conduction p- or s-) electrons The spin-polarized delocalized electrons are accumulated at the left side of the wire and they are depleted at the right side. Since the delocalized spin-polarized electrons mediates the exchange interaction between localized electrons, the exchange interaction becomes weaker at right side and stronger at left side. localized (d- or f-) electrons When a weak magnetic field is applied opposite to the magnetization of the wire, it is not sufficient to reverse magnetization of the wire. When current flows through the wire, delocalized electrons are depleted at right right side of wire and the exchange interaction between localized electrons is reduced in this area. Because of reduced exchange interaction, the weak external magnetic field becomes sufficient to reverse magnetization of localized electrons at the right side. This reversal triggers the magnetization reversal in whole wire. click here to see both side reversal	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1750
__label__wiki	0.579779	0.579779	Floods may see shift in Bangkok residential market GLOBAL PROPERTY GUIDE NEWS TEAM \| November 03, 2011 For Bangkok condominium developers, every sky has a silver lining. While the condominium market has been severely curtailed in Q3 following widespread floods and the ongoing doubts regarding the government’s policy regards to incentives for first home buyers, experts foresee a strong comeback once the floods have receded and the government’s policies are properly in place. “We are seeing an increase in the number of high rise permits being lodged as developers prepare for increased demand,” said Tony Picon, associate director of Research at Colliers International Thailand adding that the market could experience a significant comeback in terms of new condominium launches in the first quarter of next year as a result of a backlog. A wait-and-see attitude has been adopted and according to Picon, “Buyers are waiting to see the full picture emerge before steeping in and developers are taking note and delaying launches.” Widespread floods have affected the outskirts of Bangkok and surrounding provinces for weeks and combined with uncertainty regarding government tax policies, the investment sentiment has cooled in Bangkok. “What we are seeing is similar to the second quarter of last year where people were putting off buying due the red shirt protests,” said Picon adding that the strong comeback seen in the two quarters following the protests, where launches reached more than 20,000 units in both quarters, is likely to repeat itself in the coming quarters. He said the floods may deter people from buying landed property and instead consider condominiums as they are less flood prone and also provide better protection for vehicles. “This is what happened in Myanmar after cyclone Nargis hit. People moved from landed houses to condominiums which had a positive effect on the condominium market,” he said. The recent government tax proposal for first home buyers may also have had an effect on new launches, according to the latest Colliers research on the Q3 condominium market. The tax policy involves a tax incentive for first home buyers of homes priced up to THB5 million (US$162,048). The scheme allows for a tax credit worth 10 per cent of the home price against the buyer’s personal income tax, to be equally distributed over five consecutive years. The scheme is under criticism for only including new condominiums and mainly benefitting the middle and upper income earners as they would receive the larger tax credits due to their higher income brackets. Source: Collier International Thailand Residential Prices Thailand	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0005.json.gz/line1751

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