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__label__wiki	0.670706	0.670706	Unite workers vote for offshore industrial action Unite the union has today (22 February) announced that its offshore membership have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action on the Elgin-Franklin, Shetland Gas Plant, North Alwyn and Dunbar platforms. The platforms, operated by Aker and Petrofac, cover over two hundred workers. Unite members on the Elgin-Franklin platform voted by 88.2 per cent for industrial action; Shetland Gas Plant by 95.1 per cent, and North Alwyn and Dunbar platforms by 93.9 per cent. The dispute centres on Aker and Petrofac proposing to change the shift rotation from 2:3 to a 3:3/3:4 rotation, and to reduce the existing terms and conditions at the behest of parent company Total. Unite members have taken the step to retain the 2:3 rota or be compensated for moving to the new rota. Workers have also been frozen out of the existing competency scheme, which means that different rates will be paid for the same job. John Boland, Unite regional industrial officer, said: “Aker and Petrofac, at Total’s bidding, are trying to force our members’ rotas being changed from 2:3 to the hated 3:3 or 3:4. Shamefully, workers are also being frozen out of the existing competency scheme that rewarded members for being more skilled and was a route to progression.” “During this dispute, Aker and Petrofac have tried to split our members by offering uplifts to some but not all. However, Unite members have resolutely resisted these shameful attempts. The resounding votes across all three platforms demonstrates clearly that our members not only want to stay on their existing rota, but if they have to change they want fair compensation, and to retain the existing competency scheme.” Notes to editor: Unite Scotland is the country’s biggest and most diverse trade union with around 150,000 members. The union is led in Scotland by Pat Rafferty.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7476
__label__wiki	0.963652	0.963652	Hong Kong legislators brawl over contentious extradition law Scuffles broke out in Hong Kong's legislature on Saturday between pro-democracy lawmakers and those loyal to Beijing over an extradition law that will extend Beijing's powers over the financial hub.... Source: reuters.com Hong Kong lawmakers brawl over treaty with mainland China Lawmakers in Hong Kong pushed and shoved each other, requiring at least one to be carried off in a gurney, inside the island territory’s parliament. They were brawling Saturday over controversial changes to an extradition treaty with mainland C... Legislation that sparked a brawl in Hong Kong parliament would legalize Chinese kidnapping of Americans, dissidents tell Congress China is pushing legislation that would “legalize kidnappings” of Americans in Hong Kong, a prominent pro-democracy activist warned Congress on Wednesday.... International Pressure Is Growing on Hong Kong Over the Controversial Extradition Bill International pressure on Hong Kong is mounting after police Wednesday deployed tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters opposing a controversial extradition bill that would tighten Beijing’s hold on the semiautonomous territory. The chao... Hong Kong leader condemns 'rioters' for Sunday's violence Hong Kong's embattled leader, Carrie Lam, on Monday condemned the protesters who clashed with police the night previous inside an upscale shopping mall as "rioters" while defending the actions of law enforcement.... Hong Kong Protesters Are Fueled by a Broader Demand: More Democracy Underlying the opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China is public dissatisfaction with a political system that leaves many people feeling shut out.... Riot Police Baton Charge Hong Kong Protesters Fresh political violence broke out in Hong Kong Sunday evening as riot police baton charged protesters in a bid to disperse demonstrators following another massive rally, an AFP reporter on the scene...... 6 Arrested In Protest At Hong Kong's Popular Tourist Area Police arrested six people during a demonstration in one of Hong Kong's most popular tourist areas on Sunday, where thousands of protesters sought to raise awareness among mainland Chinese visitors...... Hong Kong protesters march again, reaching out to Chinese visitors Tens of thousands of protesters marched through one of Hong Kong's most touristy areas on Sunday, trying to gain support from mainland Chinese visitors for the city's opposition to an extradition bill which has caused political turmoil.... 'Fighting for our freedom': protesters flood on to Hong Kong's streets Tens of thousands dressed in black march for full retraction of China extradition lawProtesters are flooding into central Hong Kong again over the postponed extradition bill, calling for a full retraction of the legislation amid fears authorities cou... Hong Kong’s first female leader fights for political life Hong Kong’s first female leader Carrie Lam is fighting for her political life, vulnerable to a public that never truly backed her and a leadership in Beijing eager for an end to destabilizing protests... Hong Kong set for street march, mourns death of protester HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is bracing for another massive protest over an unpopular extradition bill, a week after the crisis brought as many as 1 million into the streets. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Saturday said she was suspending work... Hong Kong protesters take aim at Chinese visitors to explain grievances Thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourism district on Sunday to explain to mainland Chinese visitors their opposition to an extradition bill that has plunged the city into political turmoil.... Hong Kong expects more rallies demanding leader resign Protesters in Hong Kong are demanding the city's leader step down and withdraw an extradition bill. Chief Executive Carrie Lam suspended an unpopular extradition bill and refused to apologize for promoting it.... Hong Kong Is a Rebel Enclave in a Sea of Totalitarianism. Welcome to the New West Berlin President Donald Trump has never been afraid to stir up a tempest, which is why he has already indicated that this weekend he will be discussing the political crisis gripping Hong Kong with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Chinese Assistant Foreig... Activists lay sunflowers at memorial site for Hong Kong protester Hong Kong activists on Thursday lay sunflowers and white lilies at a memorial site for a man who fell to his death during recent protests against an extradition bill that has plunged the former British colony into turmoil.... Hong Kong leader Lam to meet media at 3 p.m. on Saturday: statement Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam will meet the media at 3 p.m. (0700 GMT) on Saturday, a government statement said, amid reports the government will suspend a proposed bill on extradition to mainland China that sparked protests.... Imagine all the Post-its: Hong Kong protesters come together with 'Lennon Walls' During Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement" of 2014, colorful Post-it notes of support covered a wall near where protesters camped in the streets calling for democracy in the Chinese-controlled city, becoming a symbol of the movement.... Protesters and police clash in Hong Kong after peaceful march Police use pepper spray and truncheons after protest about cross-border tradersClashes broke out between police and protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday after thousands took part in a peaceful march in an out-of-town district in Hong Kong.After the en... Hong Kong's first female leader fights for political life Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam steadily climbed her way up bureaucratic ranks to capture the top position in the former British colony, relying on sheer intelligence, ambition, canny networking and an astute deference to authority.... Hong Kong protests approach border of mainland China Thousands protested in a mainland China border town Saturday against China traders, riding on the momentum of weeks of extradition bill protests in Hong Kong.... Breakingviews - Hong Kong chief's humiliating retreat comes late Hong Kong’s embattled leader is beating a belated retreat. Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that a controversial bill allowing extraditions to the mainland was dead, calling the government’s work to amend the law a total failure. The humiliating climbdown ... Hong Kong residents with UK passports seek right to live in Britain Samson Ling may have a British passport, but it offers him no route out of Hong Kong to a life in London as protests grow against an extradition bill that many see as an example of growing Chinese influence in the financial hub.... Hong Kong’s Leader, Faced With More Clashes, Condemns Violence Carrie Lam is scrambling to assert her government’s authority after several increasingly volatile demonstrations and a surge in anti-police sentiment.... Hong Kong police demand better protection ahead of more protests A Hong Kong police officers' union has urged police chiefs to better protect rank-and-file staff as the city braces for rolling protests in coming weeks over a controversial planned extradition treaty to mainland China.... UK warns China of serious consequences if Hong Kong rights not honored Britain warned China on Tuesday that there would be serious consequences if the Sino-British declaration on Hong Kong was not honored, saying Britain stood behind the people in the former British colony.... Clashes break out as Hong Kong protesters escalate fight Tens of thousands rallied in a large Hong Kong suburb on Sunday, driven by abiding anger at the government's handling of an extradition bill. Clashes broke out as protesters hurled umbrellas and plastic bottles at police.... Second Day Of Hong Kong Protests, Activists To Target Mainland Shoppers Hong Kong protesters are set to rally for a second day on Sunday in an area popular with mainland Chinese shoppers as anger over the government's handling of an extradition bill revives other...... Hong Kong protesters target traders from mainland China Thousands of Hong Kongers once again took to the streets in protest, this time to vent out their anger at traders from mainland China who buy goods in Hong Kong and resell them across the border.... Hong Kong Protesters Are Taking Their Message to Chinese Tourists A march planned for Sunday is the first major action since protesters concerned about Beijing’s influence broke into the Hong Kong legislature last week.... Exclusive: President Trump Says Hong Kong Protesters Are Having A ‘Big Impact’ President Donald Trump called the protesters on the streets of Hong Kong “very effective,” but declined to voice support for their specific demands of the Chinese government. “They’re obviously having a big impact,” Trum... UK's Hunt denies he supported violent protests in Hong Kong Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that he had not backed violent protests in Hong Kong after Chinese state media blamed interference by Western governments for unrest in the former British colony.... Hong Kong's leader 'sincerely sorry' after record-breaking protests Hong Kong's leader has issued a rare public apology in the wake of repeated record-breaking protests that called for the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill with China that she introduced and championed.... Hong Kong chief Carrie Lam to address protesters in person Move follows concession in private that extradition bill at centre of protests is deadHong Kong’s embattled chief executive is expected to offer an apology to protesters in person, local media have reported, the day after she said in private that the... The Latest: Hong Kong leader Lam to speak at news conference HONG KONG (AP) — The Latest on protests in Hong Kong (all times local): 3 p.m. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam plans a news conference Tuesday afternoon following massive protests against an extradition bill and calls for her to resign. Lam has become th... Hong Kong Police Make Wave of Arrests After Protests Hong Kong police have arrested and charged a dozen protesters suspected of involvement in antigovernment clashes, as authorities widen a manhunt for others who joined a rampage through the city’s legislature on Monday.... Hong Kong protests fade as activists mull next steps HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s government headquarters has reopened as the number of protesters gathered outside dwindled to a few dozen. The demonstrations persisted into early Tuesday but by midmorning most of the protesters had gone home. A ro... Hong Kong protests show first dent in armour of Xi Jinping Crisis will provide ammunition for his elite enemies inside China’s Communist partyThe most obvious casualty of Hong Kong’s extraordinary uprising against chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her campaign to tie the city more closely to China, will be th... China accuses UK of supporting violent Hong Kong protests Beijing has accused Britain of "basking in the faded glory of British colonialism" and reminded the former colonial power of Hong Kong's status. Foreign minister Jeremy Hunt appeared to back down on previous comments.... Many in Hong Kong, fearful of China's grasp, flee to Taiwan For Hong Kong resident Yung Xiu Kwan, 67, a proposed extradition law that would allow people in the former British colony to be sent to mainland China for trial was the final straw.... "Sing Hallelujah To The Lord" An Unlikely Anthem Of Hong Kong Protests The Christian hymn "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" has emerged as the unlikely anthem of Hong Kong's protests against an extradition bill that have drawn millions of people onto the streets.... Hong Kong leader refuses to step down after mass protests Carrie Lam, the city's chief executive, has said she wants time to "continue to work hard" for the people of Hong Kong. But activists have promised to not back down, with Joshua Wong telling DW: "Now is the time."... Joshua Wong: Carrie Lam 'incapable' of leading Hong Kong Speaking to DW, activist Joshua Wong said the city's Chief Executive Lam must step down following orders to shoot at people protesting the extradition law. Lam's attitude is also symptomatic of China's interference.... UK's Hunt tells China to honor agreement over Hong Kong British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told China that it needed to honor and respect the agreement the countries had made over Hong Kong, as London and Beijing kept up a war of words over the former British colony.... 'Sing Hallelujah to the Lord' an unlikely anthem of Hong Kong protests The Christian hymn "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" has emerged as the unlikely anthem of Hong Kong's protests against an extradition bill that have drawn millions of people onto the streets.... Hong Kong dissident joins protest after prison release Joshua Wong, a leader in Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations, joined protesters gathered near Hong Kong's government headquarters after his release from prison. (June 17) ... Uncertainty looms as Hong Kong protests drag into a new week About 2,000 protesters gathered outside the Hong Kong legislature on Monday, demanding to speak directly to the city's top official Carrie Lam, as protests entered a second straight week.... Hong Kong protesters block major highway near parliament Protesters have gathered near Hong Kong’s main government complex, blocking most of a major city highway. They insist that a controversial law allowing extradition to the Chinese mainland, be scrapped completely.... Hong Kong’s Retreat Chips Away at Xi Jinping’s Iron Image The suspension of legislation to extradite suspects to China was the biggest political reversal of Xi Jinping’s years in power. Will it undermine his rule?... Hong Kong marks anniversary of Chinese rule with protests Large demonstrations were expected to take place on the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule. Embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam led the government's commemoration ceremonies.... Hong Kong marks handover to China with ceremony and protests HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government has marked the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China, as police faced off with protesters outside the venue. A flag-raising ceremony was held under high security Monday morning... What Denise Ho, Jackie Chan and Other Celebrities Think About the Hong Kong Protests For many stars whose careers depend on mainland China, the blacklisting of a Cantopop singer served as a warning that the Communist Party has a low tolerance for political dissent.... Hong Kong Approves Over $9 Million For Cyclone-Hit Odisha: Report The Hong Kong government has approved over $900,000 for relief and rehabilitation work in cyclone-hit Odisha that could benefit around 45,100 victims, China's official media reported on Friday.... The Latest: Hong Kong leader pledges to listen to the people HONG KONG (AP) — The Latest on protests on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China (all times local): 9:30 a.m. Hong Kong’s leader says a series of protests that have rocked her city have taught her that she needs to listen better ... Hong Kong protesters march demanding leader resign Protesters in Hong Kong are demanding that the city's leader completely withdraw an extradition bill and step down. Chief Executive Carrie Lam has only suspended the bill and refused to apologize for promoting it.... 'Sea of black' Hong Kong protesters demand leader step down Hundreds of thousands of people clogged the streets in central Hong Kong on Sunday dressed in black to demand the city's leader step down, a day after she suspended an extradition bill in a dramatic retreat following the most violent protests in deca... Hong Kong protests have sparked a new level of Chinese paranoia Up to 2 million people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong to protest in recent weeks. The immediate trigger was an “extradition agreement” that China had demanded the city’s usually complaisant Legislative Council to pass. The agreement would put... Hong Kong police face off with protesters while trying to clear streets Hong Kong police and protesters faced off early Monday as authorities began trying to clear the streets of a few hundred who remained near the city government headquarters after massive demonstrations that stretched deep into the night before.... Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong released from prison HONG KONG (AP) — Joshua Wong, a leading figure in Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations, has been released from prison. Wong’s release from the Lai Chi Kok Correctional Facility on Monday came as student demonstrators and poli... Hong Kong prepares for more protests on anniversary of handover to China A protest march has been called for Monday, the third in three weeks, this one on the 22nd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997....	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7489
__label__cc	0.713498	0.286502	Landregan Lecture Continuing Ed Registration Catechetical Ministry Catholic School Leadership Executive Youth Ministry Cohort Catholic Biblical School Certificate in Pastoral Ministry Programas en Español Certificado en Ministerio Pastoral Certificado en Teología Pastoral Escuela Bíblica Católica Deacon Formation Rome Program Holy Land Trip Dallas Ministry Conference Continuing Ed. Student Resources Ministry News & Events 2016 School of Ministry News Back to School of Ministry News 2015 Ministry News Archives 2018 Ministry News 7.17.19 \| 7:15am CLE Seminar on Law & Ethics: Merchant of Venice 7.17.19 \| 6:00pm SIE Certification Prep Class RETIREMENT STRATEGY SERIES WITH RODNEY JARRELL Exploring the 'Current Horizons' of Theology Lauren White, MTS ‘16, is a pastoral minister with a passion for teaching. Learn more about her experience both in the classroom and in her compelling work as a lay ecclesial minister. Watching the Gospel Expand: Dan Luby’s 36 Years of Teaching Dan Luby, S.T.L., S.T.D., has taught at the University of Dallas since 1980. After 36 years of dedicated instruction and service, Luby reflects on how education has changed in his time at UD — and how education in ministry thrives with these changes. Landregan Lecture to Discuss Social Justice Medicine, Liberation Theology and Service to the Poor The 18th Annual Landregan Lecture's panel discussion will be based on the best-selling book In the Company of the Poor, which articulates the impact that theology can have outside the Church. Christmas Roots and the Mystery of God The customs and traditions which surround our Christian feast in celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ are drawn from many sources throughout history, be they pagan, classical, Christian or otherwise. Professors Asso, Esposito and Jodziewicz weigh in on the roots of the holiday we now celebrate. Wise Words for an Inspirational Advent O Come Divine Messiah! As we prepare for the birth of our Lord, we delve into the season of Advent with enthusiasm and anticipation. Sr. Yolanda Cruz and professors Marti Jewell, D.Min. and Dan Luby, S.T.L., S.T.D., all weighed in with their advice for living the season of Advent with the utmost devotion. Thanksgiving and Communion: Secular and Sacramental What does the Eucharist have in common with Thanksgiving? Neuhoff School of Ministry Professor of Applied Ministry Jim McGill, M.A., weighs in on what he calls "a kind of secular version of the Eucharist." 11 Changemakers You Might Meet at the Dallas Ministry Conference Here are 11 changemakers (some might even say visionaries) you'll have the opportunity to gain insight from and possibly even meet this week the 10th annual Dallas Ministry Conference (DMC). Looking Back: Ministry Alumna Recognized After receiving a master of pastoral ministry degree in 2007 and a graduate certificate in church management in 2012, Lari Newman-Williams has been recognized by the National Black Catholic Congress for her service to Dallas' African-American Catholic Community. University of Dallas Ministry Conference Renamed Dallas Ministry Conference The University of Dallas and the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, co-sponsors of the University of Dallas Ministry Conference, announced that to better reflect their partnership, the conference will henceforth be known as the Dallas Ministry Conference. The 10th annual conference will be held Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2016, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas. Pastoral Theology Certificate Equips 60 Spanish-Speakers for Catechesis and Evangelization ATLANTA--The first class of 60 students from the Archdiocese of Atlanta has completed a three-year formation program in Spanish through the University of Dallas, earning a pastoral theology certificate. New Technology for the New Evangelization Certificate in Pastoral Ministry Program expands online for Hispanic ministry leaders of the Diocese of Beaumont, TX Recommended Reading: Behold the Man: A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality Known as the "Dynamic Deacon," Burke-Sivers, MTS '00, travels around the country and around the world speaking at conferences, retreats, missions, high schools and youth ministry events. His areas of expertise in marriage and family life, the sacraments, male spirituality, evangelization and more are reflected in his latest book Behold the Man: A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality. One Man's Mission to Serve Christ Spoken-word artist. International mission trip leader. Campus minister. Intercultural ministry specialist. Learn more about how Sammy Argumaniz, MTS '10, uses his many talents to serve Christ. Total Interior Renewal Four years ago, Michelle Stone was still seeing her son through high school and working in a parish in the Seattle area. Fast forward and Michelle has travelled to Rome and studied with students around the world. What convinced her the the Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry was the place to be? UD President Comments on Bishop Farrell's Appointment After serving Dallas Catholics for the past decade, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell (also chancellor of the University of Dallas) has been appointed by Pope Francis as the highest-ranking American clergyman in the Vatican.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7492
__label__cc	0.706768	0.293232	Washington Transect Happily truding from Idaho to Seattle Other People’s Trips Days 6 and 7: How Did We All End Up Here? September 18, 2016 UncategorizedDavid Gedye A gentle drizzle greeted me when I woke on Saturday morning a little east of Cle Elum. Before I pulled out of my snug but unlovely campsite I took this panorama. By 9am I had crossed under I-90, the mechanical river that is my unwitting companion for most of this trip, and made it to Stellas in Cle Elum where I had an excellent veggie scramble and coffee. There I chatted with a woman was there for breakfast. “Nice town, Cle Elum” I ventured. She squinted. “I grew up in Ellenburg and used to drive by Cle Elum all the time” she said dismissively. “Who’d have thought that ten years later I’d be living here” she said with a sigh. “Been here 20 years, but of course the locals still don’t accept me.” With that, she returned to her biscuits and gravy. Stella’s filled up and I felt bad about holding down a table so I went outside to wait for my friend Sonja who was to accompany me on a short walk to Roslyn. The rain picked up a little and I got to try out my $4.95 poncho. Soon Sonja arrived and we set off down the Coal Mine Trail to Roslyn. Coal is the reason that Roslyn exists, and the Coal Mine Trail is what used to be the rail spur that took the coal out the main line. Gotta love these rails-to-trails! Sonja was a great friend to drive all the way from Seattle for a 4-mile hike in the drizzle. It was pretty though. Autumn was coming to the vine maple as we passed by. Sonja and I discussed how much random chance affects our lives. I have lived in America for 30 years and will probably die here mostly because a professor at Berkeley, who I happened to meet in 1985, said “You should apply to the Comptuer Science graduate program with us.” I did; I was accepted; and that was that. Sonja’s husband Steve had a similar experience. Sitting in his high-school counselor’s office, Steve was helping the counselor sort through his mail. A postcard for a scholarship for study abroad in Japan was amongst the mail. The counselor flicked it to Steve and said “You should apply for this.” That trip to Japan opened Steve’s eyes to the world, and changed his view of his possibilities entirely. In Rosyln we checked out the memorial to all the men killed in the mines. There were about a hundred of them over the relatively short life of the mine. We live in a much safer time. We had a great lunch at the Roslyn Cafe while waiting for Chris (known as Mrs. The Walker in this blog). Chris arrived, had her own excellent burger, then we drove Sonja back to her car. Then it was on to our old friends Kelli and Curt at Suncadia. Curt works in aerospace and makes a great business in brokering the launch needs of companies who want to put satellites up with the launch capacity of all the space programs in the world. We discussed Neil Stevenson’s Seven Eves, which features hundreds of pages about orbital mechanics, a topic critical to everything Curt’s company does. Why Stevenson is so fascinated with it is a little beyond me. A delicious meal of quesadillas and baked berry desert, and then it was hiker-bedtime for me. In the morning I kissed my sweetie goodbye again, and Curt escorted me the 2.5 miles to the Iron Horse Trail on the other side of I-90. The trail west from Suncadia stays close to my old friend I-90 for the 10 or so miles into Easton. It was beautiful open grasslands only slightly marred by the roar of traffic close by. After Easton the trail hugs the south side of the valley while I-90 hugs the north, so tranquility ensues. The Yakima is crossed several times, including on this cool new bridge. By 4:30 I had hauled 16 miles and that was enough. I set up camp on a mossy apron beside the trail and took in the sounds of the forest. Today was my last full day east of the Cascades. Western Washington, here I come! ← Days 3-5: People of the Land; People of the Sky Days 8 and 9: Trail Mates and Trail Magic → 3 thoughts on “Days 6 and 7: How Did We All End Up Here?” The Tunnel Light Marathon from Hyak to North Bend was today. If you were a little further ahead you would have had ample company and possibly some free drinks and snacks all the way down to Cedar Falls! –tka David Gedye says: Yes! My friend Herve ran it, and I probably would have too if I wasn’t doing this instead. Much more interesting than Bill Bryson….John Days 10-13: The End of the Beginning Days 8 and 9: Trail Mates and Trail Magic Days 3-5: People of the Land; People of the Sky Days 1 & 2: Dessication and Irrigation Day 0: The Columbia The Adventure Starts Tomorrow To Cross Lake Washington Two walks, not one How to Join Me Carry or Haul? The September 2016 Plan Why Walk The Width? tamara0202 on Days 3-5: People of the Land;… David Gedye on Days 10-13: The End of the… RB on Days 10-13: The End of the… David Gedye on Days 8 and 9: Trail Mates and…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7496
__label__wiki	0.521582	0.521582	By Paul Kalanithi Memoir, Medicine, Neuroscience Published by The Bodley Head ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. “‘When Breath Becomes Air’ is a Renaissance book from a Renaissance man. It is a work of philosophy and morality, a reconciliation of science and religion… ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ tells us what it means to live a good life, by giving us a glimpse into an exceptional one.” Lucy Kellaway, ‘Financial Times’ “A great, indelible book… I guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option… unmissable.” ‘New York Times’ “Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.” The Tidal Zone By Sarah Moss The Gene Mend the Living By Maylis de Kerangal trans. Jessica Moore I Contain Multitudes By Ed Yong By David France	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7503
__label__wiki	0.970475	0.970475	SUI W: Neuchâtel to make Champions League debut with American trio Source: nucvolleyball.ch; Photo: freiburger-nachrichten.ch The Swiss Women’s Volleyball titleholders Viteos NUC (also known as Neuchâtel UC) made several changes in the roster for the next season. After winning their first-ever national title, to which they added the Cup and Super Cup during the season, Neuchâtel started to build up the roster for the 2019/20 season in which they will make their CEV Champions League debut. The latest arrival in the club came from the national championship rivals TS Volley Düdingen. A 32-year-old American middle blocker, who has been playing in Switzerland for eight years, Sabel Moffett decided to join the NLA champions and put her career to an end there. Earlier, Neuchâtel kept the two key players from the last season, both Americans and both outside hitters: Tia Scambray, who finished her first professional season as the best scorer of the Swiss league regular season with 368 points, and Kyra Holt. The setter Léonor Guyot reinforced Neuchâtel from the top division rivals VBC Cheseaux, while the outside hitter Nicole Eiholzer (Switzerland Beach Volley national team member) and libero Romina Schnyder came to the club from Division 2 sides VBC Steinhausen and VBC Glaronia, respectively. Neuchâtel started to shape the roster for the 2019/20 already in the finish of the last season by renewing contracts with five players: middle blockers Martina Halter and Xenia Staffelbach, setter Sarah Trösch, and opposite hitters Julie Lengweiler and Chiara Petitat. As for departures, Neuchâtel decided not to extend the contracts with the third foreigner from the last season, Martenne Bettendorf. The new club of an American opposite hitter is yet unknown. The middle blocker Ségolène Girard, libero Tabea Dalliard, outside hitter Carole Trösch, setter Méline Pierret (TS Volley Düdingen), and opposite hitter Elisa Suriano (VC Kanti Schaffhausen) experienced the same faith as Bettendorf.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7505
__label__cc	0.530751	0.469249	Download Attack on Titan APK – Version 1.1 Attack on Titan: Assault Attack on Titan: Assault is the official video game of the manganime series of the same name. Relive all the original emotions in this action RPG where you can play with all your favorite characters from the original story. You can jump on the skin of Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and many others in your quest to defeat the terrible Titans. The game’s combat systems are quite similar to other rhythm games like Elite Beat Agents. You have to touch different points on the screen at the precise moment in which to inflict maximum damage on the Titans. The more successful your attacks are, the more your special attack skills will be reloaded for your next use. These special abilities will be useful to defeat your enemies as quickly as possible. Between battles, players can visit each city and talk to other characters from the animated series. In fact, each city acts as a common link between players around the world, connecting them with new characters, allowing them to improve their skills and improve their stats. Not only are you experiencing a tremendously rich online world, but in Attack on Titan, you can also play in a variety of different game modes, including PVP and PVE. Parkour Gameplay featuring ODM Gear Perfectly timed strikes Signature Sounds Choose Your Favorite Character Unique Bond System Play Alone or With Your Friends All in all, Attack on Titan: Assault is a great video game that has its own combat version and exceptional graphics. Any Hajime Isayama fan will have a lot of fun with this game, but everyone else can also enjoy this fun title. It’s definitely a unique way to enjoy the intricate world of Shingeki no Kyojin. Attack on Titan has been last updated on April 2019 and available for anyone to download from the Google Play Store: Developer: GameSamba The short gameplay trailer should give you a good idea of what to expect from Attack on Titan: Assault. Check out the trailer below: How to install Attack on Titan APK [Guide] Follow the method below to install the APK file for the game Attack on Titan. You can also install APK files from any browser on your Android smartphone or tablet. action games android games Attack on Titan Attack on Titan apk Attack on Titan: Assault download Attack on Titan play store games Analysis of My Friend Pedro, bullet-time action to the Matrix and a talking banana Download Layton APK – Version 1.0	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7506
__label__wiki	0.510164	0.510164	In the Heat of the moment, Miami wins fourth in a row with an interesting possesion In the Heat of the moment, Dwyane Wade passes Michael Jordan, sets NBA record for blocks by guard in win In the Heat of the moment, the best starting five in the NBA today at each position WWW 2015-16 NBA preview King James scores 61 points in majestic fashion In the Heat of the moment, NBA Finals game one: Golden State Warriors take 1-0 lead over J.R. Smith Donald…Duck! Adam Silver serves lifetime ban to Donald Sterling WWW 2016-17 Miami Heat preview LeBron James on the team, Lakers miss playoffs ... by West Lamy Chris Bosh has Miami Heat No.1 jersey retired, ... In the Heat of the moment, Miami with large lea... In the Heat of the moment, Miami dominates Detr... In the Heat of the moment, Miami wins fourth in... In the Heat of the moment, Dwyane Wade passes M... Never question LeBron’s legacy again The bus stops here in Oakland, California. The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the defending champion Golden State Warriors 93-89 in Game 7 to end a 52-year major sports champio... Don’t miss a Golden State Warriors game even on replay The Golden State Warriors defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road after a game winning 3-pointer from reigning MVP Stephen Curry in overtime. Wait. Let me try this... Miami lost to Golden State but things will only heat up The Miami Heat did not have this matchup circled on their calendar however the local Heat and Golden State Warriors fans did. The Warriors were in town and they are worth... Smell that? It’s a cake straight out the oven celebrating a fresh new NBA season. I love food, but when it comes to desert lets bake a cake. Carrot Cake is my favorite bu... LeBron James staring in this summer’s Trainwreck LeBron James came back home to Akron, Ohio, but fell short of delivering a title again. In a letter last summer via Sports Illustrated’s Lee Jenkins, James closed saying,... Warriors, come out to play-i-ay The Cleveland Cavaliers had a great regular season and an amazing playoff run. Key injuries to Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving started the countdown. With 10.6 seconds remain... Heat barely stay alive for playoff spot with win over Magic. See what had happened was the Miami Heat stayed alive in the playoff hunt with a 100-93 win over the Orlando Magic. Hassan Whiteside tied a career high with 24 points and... Kawhi Leonard leads the Spurs over the Heat The San Antonio Spurs made their first visit to the American Airlines Arena since being crowned NBA champs. The Miami Heat were not the same team from last year, however... Wade carries Heat in nail bitting win over Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers are one of the best out of the West. Dwyane Wade was aware and again turned back the clock and carried his squad to a huge win. Wade scored 15... Heat win over Kings in comeback fashion The Miami Heat were down 16 points to the Sacramento Kings. Dwyane Wade had no fear in leading his teammates. Wade scored 28 points, Tyler Johnson’s cold blooded th... «‹56789101112›	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7507
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__label__wiki	0.535926	0.535926	Home Crime I-65 Attacker Reward Increased to $5,000 I-65 Attacker Reward Increased to $5,000 Franklin Police have increased the reward for information that leads to the identification & arrest of the I-65 attacker to $5,000.00. At about 8:20 Sunday night, a 16-year-old girl pulled over on I-65 S, between Cool Springs Boulevard and McEwen Drive, after her tire went flat. While standing outside of her vehicle, waiting for her dad who was on his way to help, the attacker who resembles this sketch accosted the teen from behind, pulling her down the hill and into the ditch between I-65 S and the back side of the Mallory Lane Sam’s Club. Sketch Released of I-65 Attacker Stranded Teen Driver Attacked in Franklin Along I-65 The victim was able to break free and escape an apparent sexual assault attempt. The suspect fled on foot into the I-65 wood line and remains at large. Police are looking for a tall white male with dirty brown teeth and a medium build. He is believed to be in his late 30s to early 40s. The suspect had a “dirty-blonde” beard, and looked like he had not shaven other areas of his face for several days. The suspect is believed to be about 6 feet tall. He was wearing a black t-shirt at the time of the attack. The victim was treated at the scene for minor injuries. Franklin Police are asking anyone with information to come forward by calling (615) 794-2513. Callers wishing to remain anonymous can do so by calling Crime Stoppers at (615) 794-4000 or clicking here to submit an anonymous eTip. *Cash reward: $5,000* Call Crime Stoppers: (615) 794-4000 or click to submit an anonymous eTip All tipsters will remain anonymous More Crime News Franklin Police Department i-65 attacker Previous articleSuspect Steals Lawn Equipment From Spring Hill Residence Next articleSaturn Parkway/Port Royal Rd Traffic Signal Project to Begin Soon http://www.williamsonsource.com Wilson Bank & Trust Holding Teacher Supply Drive Remember When: Pear Fest in Brentwood	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7513
__label__wiki	0.967698	0.967698	11th potentially explosive device addressed to Sen. Cory Booker Sen. Cory Booker (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) WASHINGTON — Suspicious packages addressed to New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former National Intelligence Director James Clapper — and similar in appearance to pipe bomb devices sent to other prominent Democrats — have been intercepted, the FBI said Friday, as investigators scrambled from coast to coast to locate the culprit and motives behind a bizarre plot aimed at critics of President Donald Trump. The discoveries brought to 12 the total number of devices addressed in recent days to Democratic figures including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. The FBI said the package to Booker was intercepted in Florida. The one discovered at a Manhattan postal facility was addressed to Clapper c/o CNN. An earlier package had been sent to former Obama CIA Director John Brennan in care of CNN in New York. Investigators were analyzing the innards of the crude devices to reveal whether they were intended to detonate or simply sow fear just before Election Day. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that the devices, containing timers and batteries, were not rigged like booby-trapped package bombs that would explode upon opening. But they were uncertain whether the devices were poorly designed or never intended to cause physical harm. A search of a postal database suggested at least some may have been mailed from Florida, one official said. Investigators are homing in on a postal facility in Opa-locka, Florida, where they believe some of the packages originated, another official said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation by name. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, in an interview Thursday night with Fox News Channel, acknowledged that some of packages originated in Florida. New details about the devices came as the four-day mail bomb scare spread nationwide, drawing investigators from dozens of federal, state and local agencies in the effort to identify one or more perpetrators. The targets have included Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN and Rep. Maxine Waters of California. The common thread among them was obvious: their critical words for Trump and his frequent, harsher criticism in return. Trump claimed on Friday he was being blamed for the mail bombs addressed to his critics, complaining in a tweet sent before dawn: "Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, 'it's just not Presidential!'" At a press conference Thursday, officials in New York would not discuss possible motives or details on how the packages found their way into the U.S. postal system. Nor would they say why none of the packages had detonated, but they stressed they were still treating them as "live devices." "As far as a hoax device, we're not treating it that way," police Commissioner James O'Neill said. Details suggested a pattern — that the items were packaged in manila envelopes, addressed to prominent Trump critics and carried U.S. postage stamps. The devices were being examined by technicians at the FBI's forensic lab in Quantico, Virginia. The packages stoked nationwide tensions and fears as voters prepared to vote Nov. 6 to determine partisan control of Congress — a campaign both major political parties have described in near-apocalyptic terms. Even with the sender still unknown, politicians from both parties used the threats to decry a toxic political climate and lay blame. "A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News," Trump said on Twitter. "It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!" Former CIA Director Brennan, the target of a package sent to CNN, fired back. "Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror," Brennan tweeted. "Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. Clean up your act....try to act Presidential." CNN didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment before business hours Friday. The list of bombing targets spread from New York, Delaware and Washington, D.C., to Florida and California. The explosive devices were packed in envelopes with bubble-wrap interiors bearing six American flag stamps and the return address of Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. The bombs seized Wednesday were about 6 inches (15 centimeters) long and packed with powder and broken glass, according to a law enforcement official who viewed X-ray images. The official said the devices were made from PVC pipe and covered with black tape. At the New York briefing, authorities confirmed that at least some of the packages were distributed through the U.S. mail, and cautioned that there could be additional devices in the postal system. They said investigators searching for more suspicious parcels had not found any during the previous eight hours. David Chipman, a retired federal ATF agent and now senior policy adviser for the Giffords Center, said the details revealed telltale signs that could help guide investigators. The tape on the pipe is "an investigator's dream," he said, recalling a case in Texas that was solved because the fibers on the tape were traced to the bomber's dog. He said bombers tend to plot methodically. "This is someone sitting down and spending time thinking about what they're going to do to someone else. And some people like to relish that," he said. The new packages discovered Thursday set off a new wave of alarm. A retired New York police detective working in security in De Niro's Manhattan office called police after seeing images of a package bomb sent to CNN and recalling a similar package addressed to the actor, officials said. The packages addressed to Biden were intercepted at Delaware mail facilities in New Castle and Wilmington, according to a law enforcement official who, like others, wasn't authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Like earlier targets, both Biden and De Niro have been sharply critical of Trump. The actor dropped an expletive insult at Trump at this year's Tony Awards and apologized to Canadians for the "idiotic behavior of my president." Biden said last week that the president may not "know what he's doing" and coddles dictators. Trump has called Biden "Crazy Joe" and "mentally weak." On Thursday, during a campaign trip to suburban Buffalo, Biden said: "We've got to get off this hate machine. We've got to come together." The packages were "clearly an effort to terrorize people politically, to choose people for political purposes and attack them because of their beliefs," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said. The first crude bomb to be discovered was delivered Monday to the suburban New York compound of George Soros, a liberal billionaire and major contributor to Democratic causes. Soros has called Trump's presidency "dangerous." Similar packages addressed to Clinton and Obama were intercepted on their way to Clinton's New York home, where she lives with former President Bill Clinton, and to Washington, where Obama lives with his wife, Michelle Obama. The Secret Service said neither package reached its intended recipient. Other packages were sent to frequent Trump critics Waters, D-Calif., and former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. His ended up at the Sunrise, Florida, office of Wasserman Schultz, who was listed as the return address. A police bomb squad removed the package addressed to Brennan on Wednesday from CNN's New York office, which was evacuated. In response to the events, Trump decried political violence but also joked about moving to more polite speeches. "Let's get along," he said at a Wisconsin rally Wednesday night. "By the way, do you see how nice I'm behaving tonight? Have you ever seen this?" Source: 11th potentially explosive device addressed to Sen. Cory Booker Filed Under: newsletter Categories: National News, New Jersey News, News	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7517
__label__cc	0.523279	0.476721	Hiding your ‘bump’ at work is just the beginning Angela Priestley April 7, 2014 Telling your boss you’re pregnant can be a terrifying experience. It’s similar to that feeling you get when resigning from one job to accept something with a competitor, like you’ve somehow let the team down (you haven’t). I’ve heard many stories of women fearing the reaction: everything from being blamed for not being able to outline their ovulation calendar to indicate a future arrival, to having colleagues resent them and their bump for disrupting their long-term holiday plans. But telling your boss you’re pregnant – which no woman should ever have to feel guilty about – could merely be the first step on a long road of discrimination those who have children can expect to face. The chances are you’re likely to experience discrimination either during your pregnancy, while on parental leave or once you’ve returned to work, with the Australian Human Rights Commission releasing research this week that finds one in two women (49%) experiencing such discrimination. It starts during pregnancy, when 27% of the 2000 mothers surveyed reported feeling discriminated against, continues while requesting or on parental leave (32%) and really hurts when new mums return to work with 35% feeling discrimination at this time. The discrimination can be wide-ranging and include everything from subtle negative comments to reductions in pay, missed training, development and promotion opportunities and outright dismissal. Prue Gilbert, who runs a leadership diversity consultancy, says the problem is so prevalent she actually trains women who’re returning to work after having a child to anticipate and prepare to defend themselves against discrimination. She told me that while she’s “horrified” by the fact women should ever feel they have to learn ways to deal with such discrimination, it’s a simple fact of the conservative business environment she believes we’re in. “If you can address discrimination in the moment then you’re more likely to walk out the room with your dignity intact and preserved.” And while you’d think we might be more aware of the consequences of such discrimination, Gilbert believes it’s on the increase. “One reason for this is that there’s a greater fear around talking about discrimination. People don’t know what they can and can’t say. They skirt around the edges. We’re really still living in the dark ages when it comes to dealing with pregnancy at work.” Meanwhile, there’s the pregnancy discrimination at work we do hear about and the discrimination we don’t – some women, unaware of what constitutes discrimination may believe it’s fair to miss out on a pay rise, promotion of training opportunities due to their pregnancy. They may later believe they have to over-deliver while working part time in order to compensate for the ‘opportunity’ they’ve been given to better juggle work with their new parenting duties. It’s easy to feel like you’ve somehow ‘inconvenienced’ your employer and your colleagues by taking parental leave or requiring more flexible work options once you return. What’s particularly disturbing is that such discrimination is happening to women at what’s one of the most vulnerable periods of their lives – while they’re feeling exhausted, dealing with the challenges associated with being a new mum and adjusting to new financial circumstances. Such vulnerability can leave you picking the battles (eg, getting the toddler to sleep rather than telling the colleague with the snarky comments to shut up) and doing whatever you can to keep your employer onside, knowing just how challenging it is to find a new job that can fit with your caring responsibilities. Recently, I wrote about my own experiences on parental leave and why I believe we should think of it as a ‘maternity transition’ rather than leave, given the word leave implies you’ll be returning to some semblance of your previous life. I didn’t realise such a transition should also involve preparing to confront potential discrimination at work. It’s organisations and their leaders that should be ‘anticipating’ the pregnancy-related discrimination that could affect new parents and dealing with it head-on. If organisations are serious about women’s workforce participation, then they need to acknowledge more than half of those women will have a child at some point – and despite the perceived ‘inconvenience’ such women and their bumps will cause, they will need support during their pregnancy, leave and return to work. As Gilbert says, companies should consider more than the bottom line while pushing the ‘business case’ for gender diversity. “Organisations need to remember they are part of the economic fabric of society. If the community is prospering, then they will be more likely to do so.” Previous ArticlePeaches Geldof dead at 25: Remembering her 'wild, funny, clever and witty' side Next ArticleHow to talk to women about their pregnancy, parental leave and return to work	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7518
__label__wiki	0.608114	0.608114	Socialist Alliance call makes progress in North East Submitted by Newcastle on 16 July, 2009 - 9:20 Several dozen activists in the North East have signed the call issued by Workers’ Liberty for a new Socialist Alliance. There is special interest in the area because of the existence of groupings such as Tyneside Socialist Forum and Teesside Solidarity Network — forums in which socialists from different tendencies and none can come together in common activity and debate. Tyneside Socialist Forum has existed since the old Socialist Alliance, but Teesside Solidarity Network is a new grouping initiated by AWL comrades. Both groups will be discussing the statement soon. Even in areas without existing left unity projects, there is widespread support for the idea of something like a new Socialist Alliance. Do what the comrades in the North East have done — circulate copies of the statement, collect signatures and propose discussions about it in your trade union branch, campaign group or socialist organisation. • www.workersliberty.org/newsocialistalliance NEC slate debates The decision of the Labour Representation Committee, Grassroots Black Left and Red Labour... Matthew Caygill 1955 — 2016 Matthew Caygill, a Marxist historian, left-wing activist and trade unionist, started out... Unity: real steps, or “rebranding”? The Socialist Workers Party has made another call for left unity. Sadly, it seems that the... Unity: from wishing to do Left-of-Labour candidates now rarely present themselves as boldly socialist, or much more... Open letter for revolutionary regroupment, September 1974 Open letter for revolutionary socialist regroupment produced in September 1974 by Workers'... Solidarity 155, 9 July 2009Left unity Socialist Alliance	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7519
__label__wiki	0.683041	0.683041	Vista Unified closes early childhood achievement gaps for career success Excellence and innovation make up the tagline of the Vista Unified School District. With all the leading edge initiatives happening at Vista (see this and this), it isn’t hard to see why these words are merited. With 29 schools serving nearly 22,000 students from preschool to 12th grade, and thousands more enrolled in charters authorized by the district, Vista Unified is the fifth largest school district (out of 42) in San Diego County. To better prepare its diverse population of students for the world of higher education and careers, Vista Unified’s Innovation Department works to promote a future forward mindset for students, teachers and staff so that everyone can collectively create the conditions necessary for optimal learning environments and pathways. The San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) is a key partner with the Innovation Department in two of its initiatives: the P-3 Continuum, which aims to close education achievement gaps by focusing on the prenatal stages to the third grade, and Talent Cities, which infuses career learning in middle and high schools and connects students to work-based learning experiences with local employers, including internships. Vista Unified Assistant Superintendent of Innovation Matt Doyle, Ed.D. convenes district and community leaders to set the agendas, build ownership and develop partnerships that fuel both initiatives. SDWP provides expertise and programmatic support on contract with Vista Unified in both initiatives. The P-3 Continuum aims to close education achievement gaps by helping all young children in Vista access the supports and learning experiences they need to build a strong foundation. The P-3 Continuum changes the way schools and the district interact with families, connects early learning providers with schools in order to foster school readiness and third grade reading achievement and fosters smooth transitions and excellent teaching in preschool all the way to third grade. “Achievement gaps emerge even before kindergarten and lead to income inequality,” said Dr. Doyle. In addition to future earnings, achievement gaps affect graduation rates and health outcomes. However, even universal access to preschool is not enough; more aligned early education and elementary systems are needed to support Vista’s youngest residents, including greater incidences of parent engagement and supporting social and emotional development. Laura Kohn, the director of the Center for Local Income Mobility (CLIMB) at SDWP, serves as a facilitator for the leadership group at the P-3 Continuum. “Laura is really the inspiration and driving force for P-3,” said Dr. Doyle. “We depend on her knowledge and expertise in the field of education research.” Kohn often cites research from Nobel Memorial Prize winner in economics James J. Heckman, Ph.D., an advocate of early childhood development who found that the earliest investments in our future workforce generate the highest and longest lasting returns. This partnership between SDWP’s CLIMB and Vista Unified’s P-3 Continuum strengthens each other’s efforts to prepare very young people for early academic and eventual career success. Similarly, SDWP’s CONNECT2Careers (C2C) and the school district’s Talent Cities are complementary efforts for Vista’s older young adults, primarily high school students. To facilitate career transitions for the district’s high school students, C2C Program Coordinator Kerri de Jager spends much of her time stationed in Vista Unified’s Innovation Center, working with district career technical education (CTE) administrators, work-based learning leaders, teachers and youth to provide job-readiness training and links to jobs for young adults. The goal is to help students connect their strengths and passions with possible career paths, so they can make strategic choices about life after high school graduation. Vista Unified and SDWP also work together on the International Center for Educational Research and Practice (iCERP), a new approach to closing some of the largest gaps in education and society. A partnership between the University of California at San Diego, SDWP and the Vista Unified School District, iCERP is building action research and improvement strategies driven by teacher priorities. Its virtual museum allows visitors to interact with three halls that each feature projects and exhibits that are designed to close a gap: Early Learning, Personal Learning and Relevant Learning. Ultimately, Vista Unified and SDWP believe in a lifelong arc of learning both academics and social-emotional skills demanded by employers. According to Dr. Doyle, “We believe essential skills like being flexible and nimble, having empathy and thinking critically will make our graduates employable, thus leading to success in careers.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7520
__label__cc	0.596851	0.403149	Repair Interview: Steve Eisenbach-Budner on Building Justice with Tivnu By Leah Koenig / November 12, 2012 Steve Eisenbach-Budner was a social-justice minded carpenter working in Portland, Oregon when he had a big idea: what if there were a Jewish service organization that combined carpentry education, affordable housing, and Jewish tradition? From that seed of an idea, Tivnu (which means “we build” in Hebrew) was born: an organization where “you can learn how to use a table saw in the morning, see what an ancient Jewish text has to say about social justice in the afternoon, and celebrate Shabbat in the evening.” Eisenbach-Budner, who is a participant of Repair the World’s technical assistance program, was recently named a Joshua Venture Group fellow, giving him funding and support to take Tivnu to the next level. As of next fall, the organization will launch a gap year program for recent high school grads to live together in a pluralistic Jewish environment in Portland, while learning hands-on carpentry skills and Judaism’s take on justice. Eisenbach-Budner took the time to speak with Repair the World about the influence his father had on his social justice perspective, how Repair the World and Joshua Venture have helped him on his journey of building Tivnu, and the power of building something with one’s own two hands. What is your background with service? I had several experiences growing up that impacted my commitment to service and social justice. Growing up in Manhattan in the late 1970s and 80s, when the current homelessness crisis was taking root, I grew accustomed to seeing people who were homeless. I got involved with Young Judea, which meant friends from other cities would visit for events. While walking with a friend, I stepped near a homeless person without really noticing them and my friend said, “Steve, that’s a person!” I remember that conversation as being my first real awareness of the issue. My father was also a great role model for me – he taught me to see and treat everyone as a human being. In college I was involved in a couple of service programs, though I wasn’t yet looking at the big political stuff. I worked in a sleep-over shelter, working the night shift. I brought meals to elderly people with Dorot – I would visit with them for a while because it seemed like that was almost more important than the food. Did you begin working for a service or social justice organization right after graduating? Actually, I wanted to be a carpenter first. I liked to build stuff and do useful things, so I started working for a contracting company. Eventually I realized that instead of building fancy kitchens and remodeling people’s homes, I really wanted to be helping people who needed it. So I started volunteering in Oregon with Portland Youth Builders, which is part of a national coalition of schools that work with at-risk kids through mentoring and carpentry. The kids work to get their diplomas or GEDs, learn job training and carpentry skills, and build affordable houses for the community in the meantime. I started working as a substitute trainer 10 years ago, then began working there full time 6 years ago. So when did you get the idea for Tivnu? About four years ago, I started to envision something that combined aspects of Youth Builders and Habitat for Humanity with Jewish organizations that work on social justice issues. I tried to ignore it for a while – I have three kids after all! But that didn’t work out very well. So I started talking with different service leaders in organizations like AJWS and Avodah, and the idea seemed to resonate with people. I started doing one day and one week programs – events for people in their 20s or 30s, or for a particular synagogue or community that worked across the age spectrum. And we would also partner with a non-Jewish organization to do the building projects – for example, we worked with the Oregon Farm Workers Union to help build a 2,600 square foot leadership institute. Meanwhile, we had educational programming about farm worker issues, and also Jewish study that focused on relevant topics. What I found was, the programs built relationships within and beyond the Jewish community, and across ages. And because we would bring real construction experience as well as willing volunteer labor, we were able to make a real difference. And now you’re about to pilot a new program, right? Yes, we’ll be starting a gap year program for recent high school graduates in the coming year. The program will start next fall and be based in Portland, Oregon. The participants will live together and work together learning construction, building affordable housing, and studying Judaism’s perspective on what traditionally has been the obligation of a community to help people have a roof over their heads. The Jewish learning will focus on traditional texts, but also more modern texts and literature like Yiddish poetry about tenement living. That program will become Tivnu’s cornerstone, but it will also strengthen our capacity to offer one-day or one-week programs for synagogues, BBYO groups or other community groups. Congratulations on being named a Joshua Venture Group fellow! What will that allow you to do? Until last month, everything I’ve described – putting together the organization, finding a board, running the programs, dealing with legal issues – has happened on the side of my job with Portland Youth Builders. Joshua Venture has helped me go full time with this work and really make it happen at another level. How are you connected with Repair the World? I’m part of Repair the World’s technical assistance program, which means they provide professional support and training to help me do my work better and more effectively. Early on, I attended a logic modeling workshop, which was really helpful and helped me pull together my model for the gap year and have something professional and thought through that I could share with people. Repair the World holds webinars and training phone calls, and is helping Tivnu spread the word about the program. How can people find out more, or apply for the Tivnu gap year program? Applications will be available soon for the coming year. People can learn more on our website and sign up for our newsletter so they’ll be the first to know when applications are out. We’re also on Facebook. Any last thoughts to share? Tivnu is the first domestic Jewish service learning program for gap year participants, and it’s one of the first ones based on the West Coast. Through our programs, whether a day program or the year program, people gain real skills, help others and build community – we are excited to keep moving forward. Find out more about Tivnu at the video below: ajws Joshua Venture Oregon Farm Workers Union Portland Youth Builders Steve Eisenbach-Budner Tivnu Young Judea From The Field (Avodah): Learning from Diversity in the Big Easy Repair the World announces Global Citizen Year scholarships	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7521
__label__cc	0.540722	0.459278	Coquitlam Enters the Craft Brewery Scene with Newcomer Mariner Brewing By Brittany Tiplady It’s risky to open a craft brewery in such a saturated local market. With tasting rooms lining the streets of Vancouver, and Port Moody’s beloved Brewery Row, how does one launch a new craft brewery that we haven’t already seen, and sipped, so many times before? Mariner Brewing found the recipe to do just that. 26-year-old Byron Vallis brought his love of craft beer to his hometown of Coquitlam, just a few blocks from his childhood home. The vision he and his team shared was to bring a unique element to the craft beer scene in the untapped market of Coquitlam, so that folks like him (and girlfriend Lauren Ang, Chief Consumption Officer of Mariner Brewing,) could enjoy doing what they love most, right at home. Mariner Brewing opened their chic and nautical-themed tasting room on August 30th 2017 with four brews on tap, and has been busy serving local customers ever since. And, in offering an eclectic selection of gourmet hot dogs (Vietnamese, perogy, donair, and the classic dog), they don’t let their patrons go hungry. If you’re not a hot dog fan, chow down on the spinach dip – it promises to be like none other. The current lineup of Mariner beers may seem ordinary to the untrained eye, but that is the farthest from the truth. The Northeast IPA is a delight for the senses: tropical, robust, and hoppy but without the notorious IPA bitter aftertaste. The Cream Ale is deceptively golden and pale, paying homage to a traditional lager, but met with a truly creamy finish. The Amber Ale and Sour Weisse also do not disappoint: boasting flavours that could appeal to all beer-drinking palates and preferences. Adorning the main wall reads a poignant quote: “Set no path, never be lost.” WestCoastFood sat down with Vallis and Ang to learn more about the newborn brewery and what they have to offer. WestCoastFood: You are so new! How has your opening been going so far? Byron Vallis: Good, it’s been going really well. We’ve been really busy for the most part and had lots of people coming through the tasting room. We also have two of our beers in cans and we are being served in a bunch of bars and restaurants. WCF: Who is your brewmaster? Vallis: Kevin Wilson is our brewmaster. He was formerly the head brewer at Russell Brewing Co, and we are so lucky to have him here. WCF: Why did you choose to open in Coquitlam? I grew in Coquitlam, just up Mariner Hill, and this has always been my neighbourhood. I was looking at my home brew equipment and really thinking about what it takes to make good beer, and around that time Coquitlam city council was just starting to debate a bylaw amendment that would allow craft breweries, because before that there wasn’t any in the city. So I started looking at the area, and thinking about how my friends and I are going to Vancouver, or Brewery Row, every weekend and it was obvious that there was a loophole in the market. The community response has been great! People have been so excited after getting familiar with the breweries in Port Moody that they finally have one in their own area. WCF: The design concept is gorgeous. Who did you work with? Vallis: Glasfurd & Walker – they did the signage, and all of the merchandise and cans. We spent a lot of time working on the cans, and we are so happy with them. When we were figuring out names, Mariner was on the list because of Mariner Way here in Coquitlam. But we started looking into what exactly a Mariner is, and what would that name mean if we picked that. The name resonated a lot with what we want to do with the brewery. A Mariner is someone who navigates the ship, and explores new areas in uncharted territory and that’s what craft beer is all about for a lot of people. It comes across in a lot of the beer styles we have done, for example, the cream ale, there are only two others in B.C. right now and we wanted at least one of the beers on our lineup to be something unique. WCF: The food looks awesome! Let’s talk more about your menu. The kitchen is an in-house prep-style kitchen. We keep things simple, and there are a lot of good restaurants in the area so we didn’t want to be another pub. For our food lineup, our focus is on the gourmet hot dogs. We are really stoked on them! We have gotten a lot of positive feedback. We worked with [Taryn Wa] of The Savoury Chef to build our menu concept and put together the recipes which was fantastic. The Beers Northeast IPA, available on tap and in cans ABV: 7.5 FG: 1.014 IBU: 67 SRM: 7 “This is by far the most popular beer we have. Northeast IPA’s are also something just catching on, as new IPA’s are coming out, and this is something that really drives our business development. It’s really hazy, and blasted with hops. There are about 10-20 times more hops than usual, so this beer has a really nice tropical fruit aroma. It’s dry-hopped twice and you also get a lot of hops towards the end of the boil of the beer. It’s fairly strong, at about 7.5% – it’s a northeast style, so a bit less better and a smoother finish with more focus on the aroma.” Image courtesy of Mariner Brewing Sour Weisse, available on tap and in cans soon IBU: 5 SRM: 4 “It’s a traditional berliner weisse style. Definitely tarte, but too overpowering. Being in Coquitlam, and introducing our first set of beers we wanted something that was fairly approachable but still unique in flavour and style. Cream Ale, available on tap and in cans ABV: 4.8 FG: 1.01 “Second most popular beer. It’s based on an ale but modelled after a lager. It’s quite light and refreshing, aged gold for about a month, same as a lager, to make it really crisp. We use a variety of hops to create a snappy flavour. “ Amber ale, available on tap and in cans soon IBU: 30 SRM: 12 “It’s our malt-forward beer. We use multi-Canadian malt, and some German specialty malt to get the caramel flavour and colour.” Mariner Brewing H-1100 Lansdowne Drive Coquitlam, BC V3B 5E2 marinerbrewing.ca adult beveragesbeerCoquitlamcraft beerhot dogs 10 Ways to Indulge in Patriotic Fare this Canada Day Feast and Sip Through Scottish “Old Country” in Coquitlam	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7522
__label__cc	0.553551	0.446449	Difference between revisions of "Talk:Main Page" Revision as of 09:51, 3 November 2010 (edit) 95.211.0.84 (talk) (→‎нижнекамск знакомства девушки. сайт знакомств в каневе: new section) Revision as of 12:16, 3 November 2010 (edit) (undo) Fyzixfighter (talk \| contribs) m (Reverted edits by 95.211.0.84 (Talk) to last revision by Zeracles) ==``Hello"== This is just a friendly heads up that edits on this page merely comprising variants of ``hello" will be regarded as spam and reverted, though we welcome contributions here or anywhere else on the wiki of course. If you just want to hang out with your star control friends, the best places are [http://uqm.stack.nl/forum/ here], [http://www.star-control.com/community/ here] and [http://community.livejournal.com/frungylovers/ here]. Looking forward to seeing you on the forums! --[[User:Zeracles\|Zeracles]] 10:28, 18 May 2010 (UTC) == нижнекамск знакомства девушки. сайт знакомств в каневе == коломна секс знакомствазнакомство купиновиды общения знакомствазнакомствабарнаулоленегорск чат знакомств. знакомства женщиналександр брянск знакомствагород знакомств улан удэзнакомства г междуреченсксевастополь досуг знакомства. Revision as of 12:16, 3 November 2010 1 Spoiler Warning 2 Spam 3 Suggestions 4 Nice work 5 The Ur-Quan Quiz 6 I suggest you move 'Main Page' to 'Ultramonicon' 7 Is this wiki still alive? 8 ``Hello" This warning isn't really the "first", "last", nor "only" spoiler warning. -- SvdB 13:24, 27 Oct 2004 (CEST) Then call it The Spoiler Warning of Now and Forever. If you really think it's over the top, you can tone it down, but I think it gets the point accross well. Mmrnmhrm 17:30, 27 Oct 2004 (CEST) What is the status of the data on this page? Can it all be copied over the main wikipedia due to being free license or is it different to normal wikipedia? I would think the folks over at Wikipedia would probably truncate or reject some of our more indepth articles, the logic being that we're the indepth SC2 wiki, and they're the not-so-indepth everything wiki. Aside from that, I would ask the author of the article in question, first. -Luminar 00:53, 26 March 2006 (CET) The top of this discussion page looked a bit untidy. I've added a heading to the above conversation, to push it below the contents. Big Mac 12:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC) As long as the spam is looking to delete the bottom-most section, it might as well be a one that's not so important. It's not that important actually. There's already a link to the copyright page on the bottom of every page here. — SvdB 11:12, 28 January 2006 (CET) I daresay the spam has developed to a more malicious and overwhelming level rather than just petty and annoying. How long has this crap been going on for, and is there any way we can actually prevent or protect against spam before it actually happens, because otherwise all of the work on this wiki is going to be counter-vandalism. I feel kind of bad myself for choking up the change log with pseudo-reversions rather than actual article work. -Luminar 16:58, 9 March 2006 (CET) Perhaps we can implement a bot-defense system such as a captcha (prompting users to type in a random word that appears in an image) on either a per-registration, per-login, or per-post basis. Per-post would be the most effective, but it might be a hindrance to actual contributors. I think the newer versions of mediawiki come with a captcha option... it's certainly worth a try. -Fadookie 07:56, 10 March 2006 (CET) I just noticed that on wikiquote, they automatically detect when you are adding external links to a page and generate a captcha. (Captchas are not generated for normal editing.) If there's any way for us to enable this feature, I think we ought to ASAP. It should help tremendously with hindering spammers, while not getting in the way of day-to-day wiki operations for our editors. -Fadookie 17:25, 14 April 2006 (CEST) I just realized someone had already enabled this feature when I was adding an external link to the music section. That's good then, hopefully it will deter the link spammers. -Fadookie 19:24, 14 April 2006 (CEST) Yeah, on the 11 March. It doesn't so much deter spam as make automated spam impractical. And it's quite noticable. We now only have the occasional manual spammer. — SvdB 12:37, 15 April 2006 (CEST) I suggest putting links to the other SC2-related websites on the mainpage, e.g. Forum http://uqm.stack.nl/forum, sf.net, bug-report-page, etc. -HaJo 22 February 2006 (CET) Well, there is already a wikilink to the Links page down in the lower left. --Fyzixfighter 01:47, 23 February 2006 (CET) Perhaps this page should be protected since it sees a lot of vandalism? --Luminar 21:53, 24 February 2006 (CET) That wouldn't help. They'd just pick another page. This way at least it's easy to see, and it's better that this page is spammed than some article page. — SvdB 05:43, 25 February 2006 (CET) Assertion 1: Ur-quan masters equivalent of Star Control II. Assertion 2: Star Control I and Star Control III are in existence. Assertion 3: Full knowledge of Star Control requires full knowledge of series. Assertion 4: Database identified as Ultronomicon deals exclusively with Ur-quan Masters. Conclusion A: Star Control databases must include information on Star Control I and Star Control III. Conclusion B: Database identified as Ultronomicon is incomplete. Query: Units identified as Humans from Earth are directed to either affirm or negate this argument. Daktaklakpak 00:35, 10 February 2007 (CET) The Ultronomicon is not for SC3 stuff. See your talk page. — SvdB 18:05, 10 February 2007 (CET) Statment: Information reveiwed. Query: Reasons as to ordering. Assertion 1: Wikis allow fanfic articles. Assertion 1 sub a: See Black Spathi Squadron. Assertion 2: SC3 equivalent of fanfic and/or cannon. Conclusion: Exclusion of SC3 equivalent of prejeduce. -An attempt to be logical by Daktaklakpak 22:00, 14 February 2007 (CET) The BSS page is not fanfic. The page does briefly include a reference/meta-information to the use of the BSS in fanfic. In reality, we've tried specifically to keep fanfic out. As SvdB has already pointed out to you numerous times, the Ultronomicon is dedicated to the description of the Star Control universe as intended by TFB (see Canon). The BSS is in that universe, hence the page. SC3 was not created by TFB, therefore none of the mythology, history, or other information of the SC universe it presents will be included in the Ultronomicon. period. This is not prejudice, as those of us of this opinion have likely played SC3, measured it and found it lackluster in comparison to TFB's SC1 and SC2. If you want to add information from SC1 or SC2, please do. Otherwise, please refrain from continuing to flog a decaying equine. --Fyzixfighter 22:38, 14 February 2007 (CET) Daktaklakpak: You'll find that the administrators of the Ultronomicon are on one line regarding this policy. If you want to contribute, there's still plenty to be done. But what you're doing now is just a waste of time. — SvdB 00:04, 15 February 2007 (CET) Query: Ownership of Trademark equivalent of Accolade. -Another attempt at logic by Daktaklakpak 01:20, 16 February 2007 (CET) Hi there. Sorry, this is probably not the best place, but I don't know where else to put my comment. I'd like to see more screenshots of the actual game. I've never played or seen The Ur-Quan Masters or Star Control, and so to fully understand and learn about them I need to SEE something....... I came here from the Wikipedia article about Star Control. Yours interestedly, Gregor --89.196.12.185 12:51, 10 July 2007 (CEST) I haven't really been paying attention to the developments on the Ultronomicon, but I must say it keeps getting better. I'm glad to see that people are still spending time on it. As I see it, the weak points at the moment are the overview pages. In particular the Main Page and some of the pages it links to are pretty bad (mainly the layout). As those are the pages which a first-time visitor will see first, improving them could significally help the general impression people get when they visit the Ultronomicon. — SvdB 21:42, 23 March 2008 (CET) The Ur-Quan Quiz Hey, I just finished a personality quiz based on characters of SC2: http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-urquan-quiz Would this have any place on this site or do you not feature content created by fans? Thanks! Elvish Pillager's Crazy Mod has its own section devoted to it so I guess you could make a wiki page for that. If you want webspace to host that quiz, The Pages of Now and Forever would be a better place to look. --Shiver 05:27, 14 October 2008 (CEST) EP-Mod only has a page devoted to it because it is a major modification. This quiz is just a minor project. This site is primarily for information on Star Control (both the universe and the games). Valaggar 13:51, 14 October 2008 (CEST) I have to agree with Val on this one. IMO it doesn't merit a page, but we could add a link for it at Links#Fan pages. Another good metric (though not a perfect one) for fan-made stuff is how widespread/popular/talked-about it is in the fan community. Just my two cents though. --Fyzixfighter 00:00, 18 October 2008 (CEST) I suggest you move 'Main Page' to 'Ultramonicon' If you move your 'Main Page' to 'Ultranomicon' then it will improve your search engine optimisation and make the way your main page shows up on Google (and other search engines) look a lot better. You will need to do a bit of behind the scenes work, to get the navigation menu to update, but I think it will be worth the effort. Big Mac 12:12, 22 October 2009 (UTC) We're already the top entry on Google for "Ultronomicon". In what way would our main page look a lot better on Google? — SvdB 06:50, 23 October 2009 (UTC) Is this wiki still alive? Yes, it may exist but it seems it's technically dead. (No edits, whatsoever) Please, comment on this and make me think I'm not the only one frequenting this wiki :) It's not finished. Did you try Recent Changes? If you're looking for the broader SC-community, I heartily recommend it; try UQMF, PNF or Frungy Lovers. If you're interested in fan projects, there are a few of those floating around. --Zeracles 08:31, 9 March 2010 (UTC) ``Hello" This is just a friendly heads up that edits on this page merely comprising variants of ``hello" will be regarded as spam and reverted, though we welcome contributions here or anywhere else on the wiki of course. If you just want to hang out with your star control friends, the best places are here, here and here. Looking forward to seeing you on the forums! --Zeracles 10:28, 18 May 2010 (UTC) Retrieved from "https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&oldid=24538"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7526
__label__cc	0.615714	0.384286	AEROFLOT ANNOUNCES Q1 2018 IFRS FINANCIAL RESULTS Moscow, 30 May 2018 – Aeroflot Group (“the Group”, Moscow Exchange ticker: AFLT) today publishes its condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the three months ended 31 March 2018, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. Aeroflot Group financial highlights for Q1 2018 Revenue increased to RUB 111,942 million, up 8.5% year-on-year; EBITDAR reached RUB 10,767 million; The net loss totalled RUB 11,543 million. Shamil Kurmashov, PJSC Aeroflot Deputy CEO for Commerce and Finance, commented: “This is the first time that Aeroflot Group has published its consolidated IFRS financial results for the first quarter of the year. This has been made possible by the Company’s focus on improving its internal accounting systems with the goal of accelerating the closing of the accounting period and submitting its financial reporting. Publishing Q1 financial results will increase transparency for stakeholders, above all shareholders and investors, and will help them deepen their understanding of the Company and its seasonal trends. “The first three months are traditionally weak for the Russian aviation market. This is due to a number of factors, primarily seasonality of demand, as fewer passengers fly during this period. Thus, despite continued growth of the air transportation market, the number of passengers carried in Q1 2018 was 9% lower than in Q4 2017, which can also be considered as a low season for the industry, and 38% lower than the high season of Q3 2017. The seasonal demand effect can also be clearly seen in Aeroflot Group’s results: in Q1 2018 passenger traffic was 7% lower than Q4 2017 and 29% lower than Q3 2017. Lower passenger traffic means a lower passenger load factor, fewer average daily flight hours per aircraft, lower yields and hence a higher share of fixed costs in the overall cost structure. These results should, therefore, be read in the context of seasonal trends. “In Q1 2018, Aeroflot Group carried 11.0 million passengers, a 6.6% year-on-year increase. Yields grew by 3.6%, supported by currency effects, and leading to accelerated revenue growth for the quarter relative to annual rates. Revenue amounted to RUB 111.9 billion, up 8.5%. An increase in leasing expenses due to significant fleet expansion, as well as our initiatives to improve working conditions and increase salaries for cabin crew, led to a decrease in the overall financial result compared to the same period last year. The net loss amounted to RUB 11.5 billion; we plan to compensate for this during the coming quarters. “The major part of the year is still ahead of us, including the high season, when Russia will host the football World Cup. Aeroflot and other Group airlines fly to all 11 World Cup host cities and are ready to provide best service to our passengers. Given the upcoming World Cup and continued market growth, we are expecting high demand for both international and domestic flights. The Group will continue to actively manage revenue and control costs to ensure strong financial results for the year.” Key operating highlights Passengers carried, thousand PAX Revenue Passenger Kilometres, million Available Seat Kilometres, million Passenger load factor, % 0.5 p.p. (1.2 p.p.) In Q1 2018, Aeroflot Group carried 11.0 million passengers, up 6.6% year-on-year. Key financial highlights RUB million, unless stated otherwise EBITDAR[1] 6.8х Loss for the period Passenger traffic revenue - scheduled passenger flights - charter passenger flights Cargo flight revenue In Q1 2018, Aeroflot Group’s revenue increased by 8.5% year-on-year to RUB 111,942 million. Revenue from scheduled passenger flights increased by 10.7% year-on-year to RUB 91,107 million, driven by an increase in passenger traffic. Revenue growth was affected by an increase in yields, primarily on international routes, due to the weakening of the ruble against the euro and the consequent effect of this on FX-denominated revenue. Revenue from charter flights increased by 18.9% year-on-year to RUB 5,789 million, due among other factors to the growth of Rossiya’s charter programme. Cargo revenue rose by 11.8% year-on-year to RUB 3,778 million as cargo and mail volumes grew by 9.6%. Other revenue decreased by 10.2% year-on-year to RUB 11,268 million due mainly to a decrease in the ruble equivalent of dollar-denominated revenues from airline agreements, as well as to a decrease in the maintenance of other airlines’ aircraft. Aircraft servicing and passenger services Staff costs Operating lease expenses Sales and marketing, administration and general expenses Depreciation, amortisation and customs duties Other net expenses Operating costs less aircraft fuel Aircraft fuel Total operating costs In Q1 2018, aircraft fuel costs increased by 24.1% year-on-year to RUB 34,042 million. This was due to a 17.0% year-on-year increase in the average price of aircraft fuel in rubles amid changes in the price of oil, as well as an increase in flight numbers and flying time. Operating costs, excluding aircraft fuel costs, increased by 11.0% year-on-year to RUB 89,496. Expenses related to aircraft servicing and passenger service amounted to RUB 21,908 million, a 3.6% increase year-on-year, due primarily to the growth of passenger traffic and increased airport fares. This item was also impacted by new initiatives aimed at boosting service quality. Staff costs rose 15.1% year-on-year and amounted to RUB 21,404 million, as a result of an increase in salaries for aircraft captains, effective from the start of 2018, as well as due to an increase in the number of staff to support operational growth. Operating lease expenses amounted to RUB 18,499 million, a 24.3% increase year-on-year, due to expansion of the fleet (net increase of 51 aircraft, or 21.1%, on operating leases compared with 31 March 2017), as well as a year-on-year increase in the Libor rate in Q1 2018 (average three-month Libor rose by 0.85 p.p. to 1.93%). Aircraft maintenance costs grew by 3.5% year-on-year to RUB 8,469 million. Maintenance costs were significantly affected by an increase in volumes of technical maintenance carried out inside the Group, which damped growth of this item. An increase in expenses on maintenance works by third parties amid an increase in passenger numbers was partially compensated by the strengthening of the ruble against the dollar compared to the year-ago period. Selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) remained almost flat at RUB 6,160 million, a 0.2% decrease, due to stricter control over expenses. Amortisation and customs tariffs increased insignificantly by 1.7% year-on-year to RUB 3,864 million. Other expenses increased by 16.9% year-on-year to RUB 9,192 million, as a result of an increase in reserves for aircraft maintenance in accordance with accounting policy, bank fees, and expenses on global distribution systems amid increase in passenger traffic. As a result of the impact of these factors, EBITDAR totalled RUB 10,767 million. Non-operating gains and losses Operating loss Profit/(loss) from investments, net Finance income Finance costs Realised hedging result Share of results of associates Loss before tax In Q1 2018, finance income decreased by 12.8% year-on-year to RUB 1,718 million, reflecting lower earnings from exchange-rate differences, as well as an overall trend in Russia for looser monetary policy. Finance costs increased by 35.9% year-on-year to RUB 2,769 million, primarily due to expenses incurred from discounting of insurance deposits on aircraft leases issued in Q1 2018. The increase in finance costs was partially compensated by a decrease in debt in 2017, which led to a reduction in the cost of debt servicing. The realised loss from hedging of RUB 1,293 million was attributable to a realised result related to hedging of USD-denominated revenue through USD-denominated lease obligations. Aeroflot Group’s net loss for Q1 2018 amounted to RUB 11,543 million. Debt and liquidity Loans and borrowings Finance lease liabilities Pension liabilities Cash and short-term investments Net debt / EBITDA 0.6x[2] Total debt as of 31 March 2018 decreased by 11.5% compared to 31 December 2017, to RUB 92,718 million. The reduction was due to adjustments to the valuation of financial leases following the strengthening of the ruble against the dollar as of 31 March 2018 compared to 31 December 2017. As of 31 March 2018, undrawn lines available to Aeroflot Group from major Russian and international banks amounted to RUB 99.1 billion. Investor enquiries: Aeroflot Investor Relations ir@aeroflot.ru Aeroflot Press Service presscentr@aeroflot.ru [1] EBITDAR = EBITDA + operating lease expenses. EBITDA = operating profit / (loss) + depreciation & amortisation + customs duties. [2] Calculation is based on EBITDA for 12 months, ending on 31.03.2018, totalling RUB 49,419 million.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7530
__label__wiki	0.902051	0.902051	Reply to "THE LYNCHING OF BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA" \| AfricanAmerica.org THE LYNCHING OF BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA Reply to "THE LYNCHING OF BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA" sunnubianA1 Parents Keep Fighting For Slain Son On One Year Anniversary [VIDEO] By Hannington Dia Even though Constance Malcolm (pictured center left) and Franclot Graham’s (pictured center right) buried their 18-year-old son last year, after he was shot by the NYPD, the two parents managed to show a powerful resilience on their son’s anniversary, one that proved they were stronger than the tragedy that changed their lives forever. RELATED: Ramarley Graham Update: Cop Who Killed Teen Turns Himself In On Febraury 2, 2013, the one-year anniversary of their son Ramarley Graham’s (pictured above) murder, the duo kept things together for the crowd that showed up to rally for the 18-year old at the home where his life abruptly ended. It was this very house Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit officer Richard Haste chased young Ramarley into. Haste and colleagues were staking out a nearby bodega suspected as a front for drug activity, when Ramarley exited and began fidgeting with what Haste claimed looked like a gun in his waistband. After identifying themselves as police officers, Ramarley reportedly bolted for his grandmother’s second-floor apartment in the three-story house. Cameras show Ramarley calmly entering the home, with Officer Haste frantically running after him and breaking down the front door. Sargent Scott Morris was also at the scene. Watch the surveillance video of the cops pursuing Ramarley here: A brief struggle in the upstairs bathroom between Ramarley and Haste culminated in a gunshot wound to the chest that ended a life full of promise. Perhaps the only crime Ramarley committed was reportedly flushing marijuana down the toilet when he was shot. As is often the case with these types of incidents, no weapon was found on Ramarley’s body. On Saturday, the crowd rallied around the parents at 749. E 229th Street in the Bronx’s Wakefield section to remind them that they weren’t alone in their grief. And as Franclot and Constance lead the group in protest to the 47th Precinct Haste and Morris operate from, they showed that they were committed to getting justice for their son. Constance marched with a sign that read, “NYPD, We Are Tired Of Hearing, ‘I Thought He Had A Gun’” while Franclot chanted, “I Am Ramarley!” Watch video of Franclot Graham and Constance Malcolm marching for Ramarley here: “I miss when Ramarley would go cut his hair and come back and he [didn't] wanna say, ‘Mom, look at me,’” Constance reminisced about her son. “He just [stood] there and [had] his hand brushing the top of his head, like, ‘I’m cute. Look at me.’” “In the morningtime, nobody [got] to sleep in the house because the music [was] blasting because he loved music. These are the things I’m gonna miss. Sometimes I might oversleep now because the music’s not on. I knew once the music came on I had to get up because it was blasting so loud.” Ramarley was also shy around the ladies, a side that his mother had never seen. “We didn’t know he had a girlfriend. She used to call the house, but I didn’t know who she was. And I was like, Why [is] this young girl calling the house when she’s supposed to be in school? But she was actually calling him to walk her to school, which I didn’t know until after he passed.” After leading protests for Haste’s dismissal at the precinct, Constance and Franclot lead the group to Crawford Memorial Methodist Church, where Ramarley’s funeral was held. Here, Ramarley’s parents made it clear that this protest march wasn’t just for their boy. Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. (pictured below center), whose elderly father was shot dead by White Plains officers in his apartment in November 2011, and Juanita Young, whose unarmed son, Malcolm Ferguson, was killed by NYPD officers in March 2000, among others, also spoke out. This wasn’t just a rally to remind people of a kid whose only crime was having marijuana on him, it was for all victims of senseless police violence. RELATED: Marine Kenneth Chamberlain Killed By Cops, Case Goes Before Grand Jury “With the support of the people, [they] keep me going,” Constance said. “Fighting for justice for Ramarley, and not just for Ramarley, for all the other victims and the people [who] didn’t get victimized yet [who] gonna be victimized. Me being out there, talking to people, other family members that’s in the same situation as me — that’s what keeps me going.” “We wanted to remind people not to be sad but to look at this as a turning point in terms of trying to educate other people what to do and what not to do when stopped by the police,” said Khadijah Shakur, a member of the New Black Panther Party. “We had members of the Central Park Five that were here, so it was good that they came here today to commemorate the life and legacy of Ramarley Graham, to let people know that he didn’t die in vain.” “It’s important when families stand up and fight for justice,” Jason Corley, a rally participant from Jamaica, Queens, commented outside the church. But participating in the march was more personal for Corley because police violence has hit close to home. “Back in 1994, a person I went to school with, his cousin, was killed by the police. That same year, a kid that I grew up with was killed by the police — hanged at the 6th Precinct. He was literally hanged in his cell. “They say he committed suicide. They said there was a belt in his cell that was found around his neck. Yet he was wearing loafers, no shoelaces, and his pants didn’t have belt latches; he wasn’t wearing a belt. These incidents made me personally aware of police brutality.” Even after the church speakout ended and people began leaving, Constance’s spirit persevered. “We have the court day, which is March 26th. That’s another hearing, and after that hearing, we[re] gonna get started on the trial,” she noted. “The indictment was last year, but indictment doesn’t mean anything. A conviction is what we want. We are not accepting anything less than a conviction for Richard Haste because of the crime he committed. He was a criminal when he committed this crime. So he should be treated as a criminal.” RELATED: Ramarley Graham: NYPD Officer Indicted On Manslaughter Charges For Shooting Death Of Unarmed Teen	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7531
__label__wiki	0.776275	0.776275	NOMINATING & GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE The board of directors (the “Board”) has four standing committees: the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee, the Finance Committee and the Nominating & Governance Committee. The Audit Committee was established by the Board for the purpose of, among other things, overseeing Accenture's accounting and financial reporting processes and audits of our financial statements and internal controls. The Audit Committee’s primary responsibilities include the oversight of the following: The quality and integrity of Accenture's accounting and reporting practices and controls, and the financial statements and reports of Accenture Accenture's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements The independent auditor's qualifications and independence The performance of Accenture's internal audit function and independent auditors MEMBERS (ALL INDEPENDENT): Paula A. Price (Chair) Jaime Ardila Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala Tracey T. Travis VIEW THE AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER [PDF] The Compensation Committee acts on behalf of the Board to set the compensation of our chairman and CEO and members of our global management committee and provides oversight of Accenture’s global compensation philosophy. The Committee is also responsible for overseeing Accenture’s equity compensation plans, among other things. The Compensation Committee’s primary responsibilities include the oversight of the following: Setting the compensation of our chairman and chief executive officer and members of our global management committee Overseeing Accenture's equity-based plans Reviewing and making recommendations to the full Board regarding Board compensation Nancy McKinstry (Chair) Herbert Hainer Marjorie Magner Paula A. Price Arun Sarin VIEW THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE CHARTER [PDF] The Finance Committee acts on behalf of the Board with respect to the oversight of, among other things, Accenture’s capital and treasury activities. The Finance Committee’s primary responsibilities include the oversight of Accenture’s: Capital structure and corporate finance strategy and activities Share redemption and purchase activities Treasury function, investment management and financial risk management Defined benefit and contribution plan investment planning Major acquisitions, joint ventures or similar transactions Jaime Ardila (Chair) Frank K. Tang VIEW THE FINANCE COMMITTEE CHARTER [PDF] The Nominating & Governance Committee is responsible for overseeing Accenture’s corporate governance practices and processes, among other things. The Nominating & Governance Committee’s primary responsibilities include the oversight of the following: Assessing and selecting/nominating (or recommending to the Board for its selection/nomination) strong and capable candidates to serve on the Board Making recommendations as to the size, composition, structure, operations, performance and effectiveness of the Board Overseeing Accenture's chief executive officer succession planning process Conducting an annual review of Accenture's chief executive officer and non-independent chairman Developing and recommending to the Board a set of corporate governance principles, including independence standards Otherwise taking a leadership role in shaping the corporate governance of Accenture Gilles C. Pélisson (Chair) Nancy McKinstry VIEW THE NOMINATING & GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE CHARTER [PDF] Cookie Policy Site Map Privacy Policy Terms of Use Careers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7534
__label__wiki	0.526968	0.526968	Awards by Topic ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences Sponsor: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Purpose: To recognize significant accomplishments by individuals who have stimulated or fostered the interest of women in chemistry, promoting their professional developments as chemists or chemical engineers. Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. A grant of $10,000 will be made to an academic institution, designated by the recipient, to strengthen its activities in meeting the objectives of the award. Up to $1,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. The Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society will organize the award address. Eligibility: Nominees for the award may come from any professional setting: academia, industry, government, or other independent facility. The award is intended to recognize significant accomplishments by individuals in stimulating women to elect careers in the chemical sciences and engineering, and in generating a broader appreciation of chemistry as the central science. The award will be granted regardless of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, presence of disabilities, and educational background. Deadline: November 1 (annual review). Establishment & Support: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. established the award in 1993. Online Nomination Procedures Awards Office awards@acs.org 2019: Ruth E. Baltus 2018: Rebecca T. Ruck 2017: Judith M. Iriarte-Gross 2016: Carol A. Fierke 2015: E. Ann Nalley 2014: Sandra C. Greer 2013: Heather C. Allen 2012: Yves J. Chabal 2011: Mamie W. Moy 2010: Mildred S. Dresselhaus 2009: Mary F. Singleton 2008: Esther M. Conwell 2007: Bojan H. Jennings 2006: Catherine H. Middlecamp 2005: Geraldine L. Richmond 2004: Margaret-Ann Armour 2003: Madeleine Jacobs 2002: Barbara A. Sawrey 2001: Christina Bodurow Erwin 2000: Valerie J. Kuck 1999: Jeanette Grasselli-Brown 1998: Madeleine M. JoulliÉ 1997: Mary E. Thompson 1996: Nina M. Roscher 1995: Margaret C. Cavanaugh Back to List of Awards 2019 recipient Ruth E. Baltus (center) is presented her award by sponsor representative Matthew V. Tirrell (right), and Bonnie A. Charpentier, ACS President (left). Photo by Loris Guzzetta/ACS Funding —Menu Heroes of Chemistry Technical Division Other ACS Awards Salutes to Excellence Public Service & Outreach Diversity in Chemistry Non-ACS Awards ACS Fellows Program Hach Programs	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7536
__label__wiki	0.644109	0.644109	When is a robocall not a robocall When is a robocall not a robocall? ADA asks FCC for guidance to ensure patients receive dental reminder calls By Jennifer Garvin The ADA supports the Federal Communications Commission’s mission to eliminate illegal robocalls but is concerned that new guidance on call-blocking could inadvertently cause consumers to miss out on important calls from their dentists and other health care providers. The FCC on June 6 approved a declaratory ruling to affirm that voice service providers can protect consumers from unwanted robocalls by allowing them to proactively “block unwanted calls based on reasonable call analytics as long as their customers are informed and have the opportunity to opt out of the blocking,” according to an agency news release. The ruling also said that providers may offer their customers the choice to opt-in to tools that block calls from any number that does not appear on their contact list or other so-called “white lists.” In a June 28 letter to FCC Chair Ajit Pai, ADA President Jeffrey M. Cole and Executive Director Kathleen T. O’Loughlin praised the agency for its attention to robocalls but said ADA member dentists believe calls from dental offices — including automated calls and voice messages — promote oral health by reminding patients to schedule teeth cleaning and other services. “These calls can help lead to efficiency in the dental office, for example, by reminding patients of upcoming appointments and helping to ensure fewer ‘no-shows’ and increased access to care because of less unnecessary empty chair time and fewer underutilized dental care providers,” Drs. Cole and O’Loughlin wrote. The ADA also said that the ruling is contrary to Congress’ longstanding intent that the FCC work to block only illegal calls and not those from legitimate businesses. “When Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1991, Congress stated that it did not intend for the law to ‘be a barrier to the normal, expected or desired communications between businesses and their customers,’ ” Drs. Cole and O’Loughlin said. The ADA pointed out that in May, the Senate passed a bill whose committee report directed the FCC not to “support blocking or mislabeling calls from legitimate businesses” and instructed the agency to require voice service providers to unblock improperly blocked calls in “as timely and efficient a manner as reasonable.” In the letter, Drs. Cole and O’Loughlin said the ADA is concerned that the guidance’s provisions allowing voice service providers to offer call blocking to consumers through an opt-out process could place an unnecessary burden on consumers as these consumers “will likely not realize the effect that this guidance could have on the calls they are used to receiving from their dentist or other medical provider.” In the ruling, the FCC noted several examples of call-blocking programs, including one program that might block calls based on large bursts of calls in a short time frame without giving a definition for “large bursts.” “If a dental office calls 100 patients to remind them to schedule a cleaning that month, would that be considered a large burst? If a dental office has 30 patients scheduled for a particular day, and calls them to remind them about their upcoming appointment, is that considered a large burst?” asked Drs. Cole and O’Loughlin and urged the FCC to issue further guidance that clarifies this and the other definitions mentioned in the ruling. The ADA concluded by saying it appreciated the FCC’s work on white list programs and recommended that “the primary phone number of dental offices be provided to voice service providers for inclusion in the white list.” Follow all of the ADA’s advocacy efforts at ADA.org/Advocacy.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7540
__label__cc	0.739078	0.260922	AirForce Air Rifles on CO2 A great line of air rifle gets even better, now that they can be adapted to run on CO2! I have the best job in the world, because when new stuff comes out, I get to test it. Like the new CO2 adapter for AirForce air rifles - I got to test all three rifles before anyone. I already had a long background with all three AirForce guns from both my times testing them as an airgun writer and the three years I worked at the AirForce plant. But that experience was all shooting with air; CO2 was a new adventure. Knowing its characteristics I knew the velocity would be lower and there would also be more usable shots on a fill of gas. For some shooters, running any airgun on CO2 fed from a large bulk tank is ideal simply because you can shoot forever before needing to top off the tank. But until now, the AirForce guns had never been able to use this gas. A new adapter now allows the rifle to be connected to a CO2 tank. The new AirForce CO2 adapter couples all three sporting rifles (Talon, Talon SS and Condor) to a CO2 tank with no modifications. This adapter lets you operate any AirForce air rifle - the Talon, Talon SS and the Condor - on CO2. No changes are required to the rifle - just attach a CO2 tank and begin shooting. The CO2 is contained in a large tank that replaces the standard AirForce air reservoir, which also serves as the butt of the rifle. The AirForce adapter is long enough to make up for the short length of a CO2 tank, so the length of pull remains the same. You can use any standard paintball tank with this adapter, and Wal-Mart sells filled tanks for under $20. These can be refilled for a small charge at any paintball store around the country. The first step to install the adapter is to screw it onto a full paintball tank, like this 20-ounce tank. The valve in the adapter keeps the gas from escaping. LET'S EXAMINE THE ADAPTER This is not just a simple coupling! It contains an entire Condor valve! Because CO2 operates at one-third the pressure of air, all AirForce models can use this adapter. Even though the Condor valve is huge compared to a standard valve, the lower pressure of the CO2 gas allows the two standard rifles to use it without any alterations. INSTALLING THE ADAPTER ON ANY AIRFORCE RIFLE Connect the adapter to a CO2 tank by simply screwing them together. I put three drops of Crosman Pellgunoil inside the adapter before I put the parts together, so it will get blown into the valve when the gas starts flowing. As the connection nears completion, you will feel it pause just before the adapter pushes open the CO2 tank's valve. A couple turns more and the adapter and valve are filled with CO2 gas. The final few turns are harder, because now there's 850 psi pressing on the CO2 tank's O-ring. Keep turning the tank until it stops. After the adapter is on the tank, attach the tank to the rifle the same as you would a standard reservoir. The adapter is made of blued steel and looks like it will last a long time. After that, there is nothing left but to shoot! The power adjustment wheel doesn't have as broad a range on CO2 as it does on air, but there is a small range of adjustability on all the guns. POWER AND VELOCITY CO2 is a lower pressure gas than the air used by AirForce airguns. Also, the CO2 gas molecule is much larger than the atoms of gases in air. So, the power is lower when operating on CO2. CO2 is also dependent on temperature for its pressure. In warm weather the pressure rises, in cold weather it declines. Operation is not recommended below 50 degrees F, as performance will be slow and sluggish. Here's what to expect from .22 caliber rifles at a temperature of 85 degrees F: Talon SS: 610 f.p.s. on high power/495 f.p.s. on low power Talon: 650 f.p.s. on high power/475 f.p.s. on low power Condor: 734 f.p.s. on high power/685 f.p.s. on low power In case you aren't that familiar with CO2 in other .22 caliber rifles, the Condor is shooting about as fast as CO2 rifles ever do. Only a few wide-open Philippine guns shoot faster, and they're not accurate. The Talon SS on high power is just as fast as the Crosman 2260 and just as accurate as it is when powered by air. The accuracy holds for all the AirForce rifles. CO2 just limits the practical range to 50 yards and less. NUMBER OF SHOTS PER CO2 TANK This is where things get good. CO2 gets many TIMES more shots per fill than air. Where a Talon SS gets 35 powerful shots per air reservoir, with a 20-oz. CO2 tank, the number climbs to well over 1,000! Well over! A 12-oz. tank delivers fewer shots, of course, but the number is still in the high hundreds. As long as you already own a PCP, it doesn't hurt that you can make it into a great CO2 rifle too. And, if you include the MicroMeter tank, there's a third possibility from just one gun! No other air rifle in the world is this adaptable. Most shooters will use high pressure air for hunting, for cold weather and for the longest range shooting (beyond 50 yards). They will shoot CO2 outdoors in the summer because they will get a full day's worth of shooting on a single tank. When the weather turns cold they will bring the CO2 converted gun indoors, where the lower velocity and noise are beneficial. ARE ANY MODIFICATIONS NEEDED? Shooters sometimes ask about adjusting the top hat of the CO2 adapter valve. Don't do it! The adapter uses a Condor valve, which is already set at the maximum spacing for the average gun. CO2 isn't as fussy about clearances as air anyway. Just attach the adapter to a CO2 tank and use it as it comes. Don't worry about the seals of your gun, either. The most important seals are in the valve anyway, and they have been formulated for use with CO2. There are only two additional O-rings in the gun and they just seal the connection between rear of the barrel and the valve. They will continue to work well on CO2, as well as high-pressure air. SHOOTING CONDITIONS The barrels in all AirForce rifles are from Lothar Walther, so that's a great pedigree to begin with. I knew the rifles should be just as accurate on CO2, if somewhat more sensitive to the wind at longer range because of the lower velocity. The day I picked for my test could not have been better. There was zero wind and a light overcast that had been fog an hour earlier. I set an intermediate target at 30 yards to get the scope zeroed, and the real target out at 50 yards for the record shots. I tested the Talon SS and Condor in the interest of time. A Talon, with its 18-inch Lothar Walther barrel will be right in between these two rifles, so not a lot is gained by testing it, as well.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7543
__label__cc	0.730619	0.269381	Care Homes for Dementia Huntington Beach, CA Home > Resources > California > Huntington Beach Dementia Care Facilities in Huntington Beach, CA Pic by WPPilot / CC BY-SA 3.0 AlzheimersNet is your resource to memory care in Huntington Beach, CA. Memory care facilities provide housing and care for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other kinds of dementia. Memory care enables seniors who have memory loss to stay as active and engaged as possible, while living in a dignified, safe and secure setting. Our local Senior Living Advisors understand memory care in Huntington Beach, CA and surrounding areas. After an initial assessment, your advisor will send you a list of memory care facilities that most closely match your loved one's unique priorities for care and living preferences, as well as your family's budget. Memory Care Costs in Huntington Beach, CA Price varies widely depending on location, care required, size of the resident's living space and the level of luxury at the community. The price of memory care in Huntington Beach ranges from $2,000 to $6,295 a month. Cities near Huntington Beach, CA offering memory care options Fountain Valley \| Midway City \| Westminster \| Sunset Beach \| Surfside \| Garden Grove \| Costa Mesa \| Santa Ana \| Newport Beach \| Seal Beach \| Stanton Westminster - $2,500 Garden Grove - $3,343 Fountain Valley - $3,367 Huntington Beach - $3,594 Santa Ana - $4,170 Costa Mesa - $4,366 Pic by Seth Ilys / CC-BY-SA-3.0 Facts about Huntington Beach The official website for the city of Huntington Beach is http://huntingtonbeachca.gov. Huntington Beach is represented by City attorney Joan L. Flynn, City treasurer Alisa Cutchen, City clerk Billy O'Connell, and City council Jim Katapodis. Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. The city is named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington. The population was 189,992 during the 2010 census, making it the most populous beach city in Orange County and the seventh most populous city in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim MSA. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,809. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the southwest, by Seal Beach on the northwest, by Costa Mesa on the east, by Newport Beach on the southeast, by Westminster on the north, and by Fountain Valley on the northeast.Huntington Beach (AKA "H.B.") is known for its long 9.5-mile (15.3 km) stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing, and beach culture. The ocean waves are enhanced by a natural effect caused by the edge-diffraction of open ocean swells around the island of Catalina. Swells generated predominantly from the North Pacific in winter and from a combination of Southern Hemisphere storms and hurricanes in the summer focus on Huntington Beach creating consistent surf all year long, thus the nickname "Surf City". Communities offering memory care in Huntington Beach Alternative Senior Care /Manitoba 18422 Manitoba, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 The Alternative Senior Care /Manitoba is specifically equipped to handle memory care and behavioral issues, respite care is offered, the staff speaks Filipino in the community, this community was built in 1962, and this location was renovated in 2005. Alternative Senior Care /Taylor 7752 Taylor Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 Staff can help residents monitor their blood sugar, transportation is available for additional cost, hospice is an option available at this location, respite care is offered, and the staff speaks Filipino in the community. Best Care Home 6002 Thor Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Vegetarian food is provided, rooms have a private bath, residents who drive will find parking available to them, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and respite care is offered. Cheerful Heart Home Care III 10182 Edye Dr., Huntington Beach, CA 92646 Cheerful Heart Home II 16412 Mark Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 European Loving Care II 17101 Malta Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 Staff can help residents monitor their blood sugar, caregiver employees can deal with any wandering issues residents may have, staff monitors medication and reminds residents when it’s time to take them, full-service medication administration is available, and full tubs are available. Family Choice 1 22201 Cape May Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92646 The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, this property is its own stand alone building, full-service medication administration is available, transportation is available for additional cost, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location. Huntington Terrace 18800 Florida St., Huntington Beach, CA 92648 A visiting dentist helps residents maintain their dental health, caregivers at Huntington Terrace can address potential disorientation presented by residents, complimentary transportation is available to residents, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and respite care is offered. Joy's Open Arms 6942 Dresden Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Rooms have a private bath, high tech wander guards are installed to prevent residents from leaving the property, Joy's Open Arms is trained to handle behavioral issues that residents may have, complimentary transportation is handy for residents, and this community was built in 1980. Meadowlark Gardens 5912 Midiron Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 They serve vegetarian food at Meadowlark Gardens, licensed nurses are on staff to help you, caregivers at Meadowlark Gardens can address potential disorientation presented by residents, trained staff monitors medication and reminds residents when it’s time to take them, and the community is licensed for 6 residents. Meadowlark Gardens II 16412 Wishingwell Ln., Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Nurses are on staff, trained staff monitors medication and reminds residents when it’s time to take them, the community is convenient to local bus lines, full tubs are available, and this location was renovated in 2010. Meadowlark Gardens III 6102 Cornell Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 The minimum allowable age of residents is 60, nurses are on staff, respite care is offered, this community was built in 1965, and the community is licensed for 6 residents. Meadowlark Gardens IV 16351 Saratoga Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 Vegetarian food is provided, licensed nurses are on staff to help you, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, high tech wander guards can prevent memory care residents from leaving the property, and respite care is offered. Meadowlark Gardens V 17342 Zeider Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 They serve vegetarian food at Meadowlark Gardens V, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, full tubs are available, residents can arrange for a room at this community that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become, and the community is licensed for 6 residents. Meadowlark Gardens VI 15522 Pratt Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Nutritious meals are provided to residents, nurses are on staff, caregiver employees can deal with any wandering issues memory care residents may have, aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change, and this community was built in 1968. Merrill Gardens at Huntington Beach 17200 Goldenwest Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 A dentist visits this community regularly, residents can self manage their diabetes, this community has been built specifically for the purpose of memory and dementia care, transportation at cost can be arranged, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location. 4612 Rhapsody Dr., Huntington Beach, CA 92649 Sunrise of Huntington Beach 7401 Yorktown Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 A dentist visits this community regularly, the community is secured for the safety of residents that might be prone to wander, Sunrise of Huntington Beach can handle behavioral issues that residents may have, caregiver staff can deal with any wandering issues residents may have, and staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be dealt with. Meadowlark Gardens on Cornell Healthy meals are provided to residents, licensed nurses are on staff to help you, Meadowlark Gardens on Cornell is close to major bus lines, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and residents can arrange for a room at this community that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become. Meadowlark Gardens VII 9401 Nautilus Dr, Huntington Beach, CA 92646 Nurses are on staff, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, full-service medication administration is available, Meadowlark Gardens VII is close to major bus lines, and wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location. Oceanside Senior Home 9511 Landfall Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92646 An on-call physician is available to help, caregivers at Oceanside Senior Home can address potential disorientation presented by residents, caregiver employees can deal with any wandering issues memory care residents may have, staff is trained to deal with any wandering behaviors that might present themselves handled, and hospice is an option available at this location. Pacific Heaven 16301 Magellan Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Other communities in Huntington Beach Abegail Guest Home VI 20782 Skimmer Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92646 Get pricing in Huntington Beach Alden Lane Cottages 15502 alden ln, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Alternative Senior Care - Freshwater 18072 Freshwater Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 Alternative Senior Care - Shasta 15332 Shasta , Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Alternative Senior Care - Sugar 7736 Sugar Dr., Huntington Beach, CA 92647 9932 Bond Cr., Huntington Beach, CA 92646 Castle Senior Cottages 15502 Alden Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Royal Care II 7792 Liberty Ave., Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Sea Cliff Health Care 18811 Florida St, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 Sealane Guest Home 8041 Mermaid Cir, Huntington Beach, CA 92646 Sunnyville Home II 6431 Bellinger Dr, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Memory care in Mission Viejo, CA Memory care in San Diego, CA Memory care in Fresno, CA Memory care in Torrance, CA Memory care in Anaheim, CA Memory care in Los Angeles, CA Memory care in Sacramento, CA Memory care in San Jose, CA Memory care in Escondido, CA	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7548
__label__cc	0.709727	0.290273	APPEARS IN News Game Small Game & Predators Game Profiles: The Wild Boar by Karen Mehall Philips - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Back in the 1500s, early Spanish settler Old MacDonald had a farm. And on his farm he had some hardy Eurasian pigs. Some pigs escaped and established wild populations. In the 1800s, British settlers introduced more pigs for hunting. Now mass numbers of feral pigs root, wallow and trample pastures, row crops and wildlife habitat relentlessly in search of food, threatening agricultural production, water quality, and native flora and fauna across the United States. This might be the “The End” … if not for hunters. As America’s top conservationists, we recognize that few species need to be managed more than the wild pig. But here’s the trick: This non-native, invasive animal matures at 6 months of age, reproduces at alarming rates (females having two to three litters per year), has no natural predators, eats almost anything and thrives in any habitat. And because wild pigs are mainly nocturnal, by the time they are spotted in an area, the population is already large enough for individuals to find mates and reproduce regularly—at which point they require even more resources to control. In the 1980s in South Carolina, for example, wild pigs were reported in only 26 counties. By 2008, sightings were documented in all 46. Today pig hunting is as much about population control as it is the sport of hunting. In 1900, only a few Southeastern states had significant wild pig populations, but today numbers exceed 5 million in at least 39 states. Texas, the state with the nation’s largest pig population, cites $52 million in agriculture losses each year. States as far north as Wisconsin promote “aggressive removal” wherever pigs are reported. Cooperative Extension Services at Mississippi State, Clemson University and other research institutions have created task forces to address wild-pig management and control. No wonder state fish-and-game agencies broadly classify wild pigs as nuisance animals rather than protected game and permit hunting them year-round with no bag limits and, in some states, without a hunting license on private land. These non-native omnivores are not fussy eaters and compete heavily with native wildlife for a limited food supply—particularly with whitetail deer. Full-grown pigs can weigh 500 pounds but are usually in the 300-pound range. Either way, they’re eating a lot of food. Fortunately, if we know where the food is, we know where to hunt and trap them. Hunters’ best bets include stand-hunting over baited areas or stalking or still-hunting through natural food sources. Places indicating recent pig activity, such as wallows, are also good bets. States such as Florida, which ranks No. 2 in wild pig populations, allows hunting with dogs and issues “gun and light at night” permits enabling night-hunting with a spotlight in areas with excessive crop damage. Of course, one of the first lessons hunters learn is that pigs are tough targets. They feed at twilight or after dark, and those you do glimpse during daylight hours are typically foraging in thick brush. Compared to whitetails or other big game, their vitals are farther forward and tougher to reach. And being crafty critters, they aren’t about to stand around after the first shot. Knowing they’ll spook and split, hunters can quickly gain the upper hand by using a sound suppressor where legal, such as in major pig-hunting states like Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. In addition to the benefit of reducing the sound of a shot to that of a pellet gun, they also cut back muzzle flash on nighttime hunts, making for the ideal companion when you’re sporting night vision. All things considered, the wild pig is quite the quarry. Long tusks and a fierce appearance not only make for an interesting trophy, but the quality of meat can be quite good. What’s more, pigs provide a great offseason challenge while we wait for favorite big-game seasons to start. And then there’s our chance to protect wildlife habitat and America’s No. 1 big-game animal, the whitetail deer. So save a deer: Pop a pig! Stem the tide before increased hunting and trapping is no longer enough to control their populations. Game profiles hunting wild boar Karen Mehall Phillips night hunting pigs pig populations population control wild pig 2019 Women's Innovation Product of the Year: Weatherby Mark V Camilla SCI Puts the 'I' in International at its 2019 Hunters’ Convention NRA President Oliver North Headlines 2019 SCI Show 47th Annual SCI Show is 2019’s Opening Act for Hunters	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7552
__label__wiki	0.554438	0.554438	Intel's Basis announce new health-focused smartwatch, the Peak By David Steele September 30, 2014, 10:53am Intel's Basis have announced a new health-tracking wristwatch called the Peak, which aims to cross the divide between traditional health tracker bands and smartwatches. Basis' previous model is the B1 Band and the Peak represents quite an upgrade to this. However, compared with most of the established smartwatches, the Basis Peak looks rather stylish. Not as stylish as some of Intel's other wearable products, I'd add. The Peak is constructed from anodised aluminum and Gorilla Glass 3, available either as matt black or brushed silver. It has a touchscreen, too, which is an upgrade over the B1 Band. The new product has a faster onboard processor and Basis report that the optical heart rate sensor is as good as a chest strap. In terms of functionality, the Peak has what we've come to expect from health-monitoring wearables. It has a plethora of sensors onboard to allow it to measure steps, skin temperature, heart rate and skin conductance (also known as galvanic skin response, which is a way of measuring the amount of perspiration on our skin). The design is water resistant up to five atmospheres, offers battery life of up to four days and requires either an iOS or Android device to function, via Bluetooth Smart. Basis' technology enables the Peak to automatically determine what activities we are doing including walking, running and bike riding plus sleeping. When it comes to our sleep, the Peak can measure the quality of said shut-eye using its combination of sensors. After observing our habits, the Peak software will be able to make suggestions to help us improve our sleep and activity levels. Check out the video clip below: The Peak will also be able to display notifications from a smartwatch including calls, text messages, email, calendar events and application updates, although these functions are not available at launch and will be rolled out via a free software update. The price for this functionality when it's launched in November? $200 in the US and it's listed as arriving later in the year to both Canada and the United Kingdom. As far as the design, Basis' combination of comprehensive health wearable and smartwatch is encouraging. The Peak looks less chunky than many other smartwatch designs and whilst it doesn't offer the same colour screen and voice control, the payback is in a four day battery life. Indeed, it looks like the Peak is heading to the market before the Apple iWatch STRIKEOUT Watch hits the market and to my eyes, it looks like a better product. Longer battery life, works with both iOS and Android devices and cheaper, too. Source: Recode Subscription Streaming Services Lead To Less Video Piracy, According To Analysts Huawei: Hongmeng OS Is An IoT Platform For Autonomous Vehicles, Not Mobile Phones The FX+ Subscription Service Is Closing Down Google & Other Tech Companies Hit With New Digital Tax In France Prime Video On Android TV Looks Great With Home Screen Channel Support Bravo, E!, Oxygen and SYFY Apps Arrive On Android TV Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 Official Render Leak Confirms Rumors Google Kills the Nest smartwatch app on Wear OS and WatchOS Google Home Chromecast Support Comes To Amazon Prime Video You Can Now Download The USA Network App On Android TV JBL Link Bar With Android TV Magically In Stock & Ready To Ship Federal Court Agrees That Presidents Can't Block Twitter Users AT&T Opts For Uninspired "HBO Max" WarnerMedia Streaming Service Name Nexstar The latest DIRECTV Casualty In AT&T's War On Third-Party Stations FTC Mulls Over Disabling YouTube Ads In Favor Of Kids’ Privacy HTC Posts Impressive Revenue (By HTC's Standards) For June 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7553
__label__wiki	0.58823	0.58823	Sony Announces Android 4.3 OTA Rollout And New Software Features For The Xperia Z1 And Xperia Z Ultra Jeremiah Rice 2013/12/16 8:57am PDT Dec 16, 2013 It's been a busy week or two for Sony fans. First we get a Google Play Edition of the Z Ultra, then the AOSP On Xperia project expands to the low-cost Xperia L, and now owners of Sony's high-end phones are starting to get their long-awaited Jelly Bean 4.3 updates. According to this Sony blog update, both the Xperia Z1 and the enormous Z Ultra should be getting the over-the-air update starting today, at least for unlocked versions. But wait, there's more! Sony's also adding in a bunch of features to its customized build of Android, most notably updating all the Sony apps on both phones to their latest versions. That means refreshed media apps including a Walkman-branded music player and a "Smart Social Camera" upgrade for the Xperia Z Ultra. Sony is also launching "Xperia Themes," a new pack of device UI themes with expandable content downloaded from Sony Select. Unfortunately the company didn't have any screenshots to show off just yet. It may take a while before you see the upgrade come to your hardware. If you're rocking older Sony phones or tablets, the company says the the Android 4.3 upgrade for the rest of the line (or at least those new enough to merit one ) is "right around the corner." If you've got a Z1 or Z Ultra and you're seeing the update, help out your fellow readers by letting them know the details in the comments section. Source: Sony Mobile Blog Greenify Updated With KitKat ART Crash Fix, New Setup Guide For Experimental Features, And More Sprint Expands 4G LTE Availability To 70 New Locations, Bringing Overall Coverage Up To 300 ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7554
__label__wiki	0.653812	0.653812	[Update: Google too] T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon offer free calls to Turkey following Istanbul airport attack Rita El Khoury Update 1: 2016/06/30 1:02am PDT Google has also announced free calls via Hangouts, Hangouts Dialer, and Google Voice to Turkey, but didn't specify an expiration date. It's also putting emergency info cards in Google I wish I didn't have to sit here and write these kinds of posts. I wish we weren't living in times where companies are compelled to offer free calls to countries following tragedies like these (instead of celebrations or national holidays or happy events), especially when they're conducted by fellow man and not inevitable fits of nature. But here we are, mourning another terrorist attack that has taken the lives of 36 persons and injured over 140 in Turkey's Ataturk Airport in Istanbul. As has become custom (what a sad word to say) in such instances, the four major US operators are offering free calls and texts to Turkey to help people get in touch with their loved ones and make sure they are OK. Here is what you should expect from each carrier: T-Mobile is waiving the charges on texts and call from the US to Turkey on its network and various subsidiaries, from June 28 to July 5. Sprint is making calls and texts to and from Turkey free for its users and subsidiaries from June 28 to July 5. This includes roaming charges in Turkey too. Verizon is only offering free calls and texts to Turkey from wireless phones and free calls from landlines on June 28 and 29. AT&T is making calls and text to Turkey, including landlines, free from June 28 to June 30. Stay safe. Google has also announced free calls via Hangouts, Hangouts Dialer, and Google Voice to Turkey, but didn't specify an expiration date. It's also putting emergency info cards in Google Now and Google Search. Image credit: CNN istanbul airport attack Android Pay just added 115 new banks (and no, not Capital One) Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides show comment notifications on Android and Web [APK Download]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7555
__label__wiki	0.781718	0.781718	Episode 31 - Steve Aguilar July 28, 2017 by Mike Sutherland in Podcasts Steve Aguilar joins the show to talk his days with World Tribe, recording his first demos, touring with Everton Blender, and much more. Another Take is brought to you by SKVI premium boxer briefs. SKVI.com July 28, 2017 /Mike Sutherland World Tribe, Mike Sutherland, Jeff Nisen, Steve Aguilar, Tomorrows Bad Seeds, Pepper, Another Take Media, Another Take Episode 29 - Jamie Mitchell Big Wave Surfer, Paddle board Champion and Waterman Jamie Mitchell joins today's episode to talk about his recent injury in Puerto Escondido, winning the Molakai Paddleboard Race 10x, what it's like to surf Ship Stern Bluff, and more. Another Take is brought to you SKVI Premium Boxer Briefs. www.skvi.com Jamie Mitchell, Mike Sutherland, Another Take, Yesod Williams, Jeff Nisen, Surfing, Paddle Boarding Episode 28 - Yesod Williams Yesod Williams last year on the Vans Warped Tour Yesod Williams stops in to talk about his new podcast, how he started playing the drums, his early days in Pepper, what it was like touring for the first time, and more. Podcast, Yesod Williams, Mike Sutherland, Pepper, Rise Against, Tool, Slightly Stoopid, Iration, Disposable Heroes Episode 25 - Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary Jeff and Mike sit down to discuss how they became Beatles fan and their favorite songs on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. They also discuss the death of Chris Cornell and share some of their favorite Chris Cornell tracks. Jeff also introduces his band's (Lose Control) new single, "Tomorrow Called." Recording The Beatles Another Take, Jeff Nisen, Mike Sutherland, The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Episode 24 - Jim Lindberg Pennywise at Groezrock Mike sits down for a one on one interview Jim Lindberg, singer of the punk rock band Pennywise. They discuss what is what like growing up in the South Bay of Los Angeles, the early days of Pennywise, and the death of bass player Jason Mather Thirsk. Another Take, Another Take Media, Mike Sutherland, Jeff Nisen, Pennywise, Jim Lindberg, Fletcher Dragge Episode 20 - Jeff and Mike Write here... Jeff and Mike make this episode the POP episode. They discuss Keith Richards, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and many more. Produced by Mike Sutherland and Jeff Nisen Keith Richards, Taylor Swift, Lou Reed, Another Take, Another Take Media, Jeff Nisen, Mike Sutherland, Katy Perry, Glenn Miller Jeff and Mike sit down and talk Apple Music, AC/DC hopping on the streaming bandwagon, and the new Slightly Stoopid song. Another Take, Mike Sutherland, Jeff Nisen, Another Take Media, AC/DC, Big Business, Pins of Light, Slightly Stoopid, Sublime, Iron MAiden, The Offspring Jeff and Mike - Blaze n Glory Fest Jeff and Mike sit down and discuss the previous weekends shows. They talk about Blaze n Glory Festival, Ice-T's Rap Band Body Count, and Jeff's show Saturday night in Hermosa Beach. They close the show reminiscing about the Lose Control album that Mike produced for the band. Mike's Instagram Mike's Twitter Jeff's Instagram Jeff's Twitter Another Take, Mike Sutherland, Jeff Nisen, Nirvana, Lose Control, Pepper, Rebelution, Body Count, Ice-T Kaleo Wassman and Alex Curry The show opens with Kaleo talking about the new Pepper record, yoga teaching, his musical history, growing up in Hawaii, and George Michael. Next Kaleo talks about the formation of Pepper, the first song he and Bret Bollinger wrote together, the recruiting of Yesod Williams, and the band's move to the mainland. Mike then talks about his involvement with the band through the years, and his career as a sound engineer. The show closes with Kaleo weighing in on Pepper's success, an in depth discussion about music "ownership", Led Zepplin, UB-40 and The Police. Pepper's Website Pepper's Instagram Alex's Twitter Alex's Instagram Another Take, Pepper, Alex Curry, Jeff Nisen, Mike Sutherland, George Michael, Phil Collins, UB40, Led Zeppelin, Sublime with Rome, The Police Jeff and Mike After two busy weeks, Mike and Jeff discuss what they have been up to. Pepper, Another Take, Jeff Nisen, Mike Sutherland, Coachella, Lose Control, Tour Episode 10 - Danny Rivera and Clare Amelino Mike sits down with Danny Rivera and Clare Amelino for a live podcast at Gasser Lounge in Redondo Beach to chat Kings Hockey, Coachella, and much more. Gasser Lounge Podcast, Another Take, Jeff Nisen, Mike Sutherland, Clare Amelino, Danny Rivera, Kings Hockey, Alex Curry Eric Freedman March 30, 2015 by Mike Sutherland in Podcasts Eric starts off the show by talking about his involvement in the Manny Pacquiao documentary, the HBO show THE JINX, and then they discuss a cartoon Eric is developing. Then the guys talk about the difference between touring in a Van and touring in a Bus, Eric's couch surfing when he moved to California, and the first three records Eric owned. Then, Eric tells an Eric Wilson (Sublime's Bass player) story from the studio, the group talks about 90's band Jimmie's Chicken Shack, and the cartoon Bananas in Pajamas. The guys close out the show talking about the different types of personalities in a television pitch and they play and talk about the new Muse song. Eric's Website Engineered by Mike Sutherland March 30, 2015 /Mike Sutherland Another Take, Sublime, Pepper, Mike Sutherland, Jeff Nise, Rage Against the Machine Clay Guida and Yesod Williams Clay, Mike, and Yesod The show opens with Clay talking about how he got into MMA, how his family reacts while he fights, and how living in an RV at the beginning of his career is similar to a young band going on the road. Then the group talks about Clay living in Albuquerque and the city's relationship with the TV show Breaking Bad, how Clay is able to flip a switch when he fights, and the walk out music the two teams in the Super Bowl used. Mike then describes why it's a bad idea to post photos from Pepper's soundcheck after watching a Metallica soundcheck, Clay talks about the last two weeks of training before a fight, and the first album he ever owned. The group closes the show talking about the movie "Whiplash," what it is like to go to a college football game, and how Mike looks like MMA figher Conor McGregor. Clay Guida's Instagram Clay Guida's Twitter Yesod Williams' Instagram Yesod Williams' Twitter Clay Guida, Mike Sutherland, Another Take, Jeff Nisen, Breaking Bad, Pepper, Yesod Williams, Metallica, MMA, Ozzie Ozborne Mike and Jeff The show opens with a discussion about the website besteveralbums.com and how it led Jeff to Elvis Costello. Next Mike and Jeff discuss new music they have been listening to and what websites/streaming services they use. Mike talks about the band Glass Animals and listening to music at work then opens up a discussion about listening to music and how it reminds him why he is in the music industry. Next Jeff talks about the Deftones and draws a Tool comparison. Mike talks about the Deftones bass player who passed away and how the band handled the situation. This opens up further discussion about bands who have lost members. Next Mike and Jeff talk about Imagine Dragons and their new record, followed by a discussion about songs that never get old or "won't die" and "alarm clock songs". After that they discuss the upcoming Kurt Cobain documentary and again talk about bands that lose frontmen such as Sublime. The show ends discussing some prominent music copyright infringement cases with Mike and Jeff proving commentary, opinions, and Jeff plays Stairway to Heaven on guitar. Jeff's Band Lose Control Show Summary by Jeff Nisen Another Take, Mike Sutherland, Jeff Nisen, Deftones, Elvis Costello, Sam Smith, Tom Petty, Imagine Dragons, Marvin Gaye, Robin Thick, Led Zeppelin Moi from the band LIFE The show opens with Moi talking about what his band LIFE has in store, recording an album with his old band Tomorrows Bad Seeds, and a new project called Krooked Trees. Then the guys talk about the use of map apps and their convenience. Mike weighs in on the 311 Cruise and Moi takes a call on the AIR. Moi talks about DJ DIK and discusses his first album ever. Justin Bieber makes his first podcast appearance followed by Elliott Smith. Next the guys discuss some documentaries they've seen recently as well as a brief discussion about House of Cards. The show closes with a discussion of Loveline, some explicit content, Blind Faith, and finally some of their favorite bars and restaurants in Hermosa Beach. Moi's Instagram Moi's band, LIFE Jeff Nisen, Mike Sutherland, Moi, LIFE, Tomorrows Bad Seeds, Pepper, RDGLDGRN, Justin Bieber, Elliot Smith, Rodriguez, Another Take, Podcast	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7559
__label__cc	0.676304	0.323696	Orchestration, You Keep Using That Word April 28, 2014 by Michael DeHaan “Orchestration” is a commonly used word in IT automation. Unfortunately, it is often used to mean many completely different things, reducing the importance of understanding the key concepts. At Ansible, the team has at times said we need a better word, but stopped short of naming it. So let’s look at the word “Orchestration” and some of the ways it is often used, and talk about what Ansible really does – which is really everything people may call orchestration, and then some. Orchestration as a Command Blaster At the most basic level, command blasting means blindly running a “/usr/sbin/reboot” command against tens, hundreds, or thousands of servers. It’s quick and dirty, but there’s nothing to say you couldn’t have used something like a basic parallel SSH script to get this done. This has been done with old school scripting for years. We do that too, but we can also apply resource models in this way (make sure the user looks like this on all these hosts, etc), which takes that up a level. This is not new - I think Func may have applied it first, but it's modules models were less declarative than Ansible, and the idea was then used all over the place. Orchestration as a Configuration Trigger In many cases triggering another management program on many hosts is another way orchestration is used. For instance, if you use a single-purpose deployment tool like Fabric or Capistrano to trigger some legacy configuration management, that might be called “orchestrating X with Y”. In reality, it’s usually just replacing a non-scaling (or hard to order) server solution X with a stand-alone implementation of Y. You’ll lose centralized logging, but you might be able to fix the next problem we’ll mention easier. Ansible can easily do this too. Orchestration as Config Ordering At a slightly higher level, suppose you are using some configuration management software. The idea that you have to deploy a database update prior to enabling new webserver code is an example of common ordering that can be called orchestration. This is basic, and Ansible can easily define these orders in a playbook - but it can also go beyond this pattern to provide more advanced orchestration. Multi-Tier, Non-System Specific Orchestration -- Orchestration like an Orchestra This is what Ansible really excels at - and is often lacking in other solutions. Suppose you are a composer, and you have an orchestra in mind and a basic tune you want the orchestra to play. The word orchestration really means taking a basic melody and chords and adapting it so that a large ensemble of instruments can play it. It is about writing the individual scores for all of the instruments. IT orchestration is a difficult thing to do well - to know how the strings should harmonize with the brass, how the percussion will support the tempo, how the woodwinds will tie it all together. So, to make it all happen, an orchestra must be conducted. It’s not simple enough to say “woodwinds play, then brass” – as is common in some basic configuration systems. Wouldn’t it be sad if the brass could only play once? Instead, you must be able to say, “woodwinds play this movement, then brass plays THAT movement, and then woodwinds play that movement that references the melody of the previous”. And sometimes both play at the same time. This is what Ansible was written to do: Manage complex multi-tier deployments. We don’t just stop at configuration management or application deployment. To really do orchestration, you must do all of those well AND be an outstanding workflow engine. Real world app stacks involve lots of different classes of systems all working in concert. Orchestration in the Real World Suppose I need to deploy a web application stack, but to do that, I need to deploy the database server first. And I need to include on the database server all the IP addresses of the web servers that can connect to it - and also while looping over each server, add that server to a monitored pool of hosts that involves running something on the monitoring server. Suppose I then also need to update a given amount of my infrastructure (say, 10%) at a time, only taking certain hosts out of load balancing at a time. This is the key principle behind achieving zero downtime rolling updates in Ansible. See also this continous deployment guide here. By including a process that first pulls nodes out of monitoring, then load balancing, updating those hosts, and then putting them back in load balancing, and then monitoring, a seamless rolling update can be achieved regardless of infrastructure size. And that’s the kind of thing you can do with a half page of automation code in Ansible. Further, it’s easy to introduce tests. If tests are called before a system is added back to a load balanced pool, it can be possible to not add failing servers back to production. IT orchestration is also about doing things that are not just talking to servers – if we just orchestrated servers, it would be a sad, sad, world. Ansible can also talk to REST APIs (such as using the ‘uri’ module), send chat messages, and pretty much do anything. Increasingly, our applications are not just server centric, but they are services centric. One frequent scenario that may arise is that each server might need to speak to a rate-limited service. With the “serial” keyword in Ansible, it’s possible to define steps where only a finite number of systems may bombard a service in a given amount of time. Another scenario is we might want to wait for a particular port to become open before proceeding, or even wait a given number of seconds – or for human input. Still more related examples of orchestrating services include provisioning new cloud resources, such as deploying compute nodes or adjusting autoscaling policies. Node provisioning and cloud configuration often has to be done prior to even beginning to think about configuration and apps. Orchestration is About Mapping Out Workflow What we believe orchestration is, then, is not just the simple blasting out of commands, or the ordering of what system runs a tool before another, but the definition of a flowchart. While Ansible isn’t a complete flowchart system (there are no gotos and it progresses top down), what it can do is model an arbitrary (and potentially very advanced) IT process, rather than just a basic description of a state. Playbooks can be written for very specific events, and different playbooks used at different times. Many GUI-based expensive enterprise tools try to do the same thing, but can be very hard to use, and can’t be used in DevOps style (text in source control) workflows. Ansible is that system, because it’s simply text based, but also strictly order based, and the steps along the way that it executed can be arbitrarily limited, easily controlled with conditionals, and steps can easily be done on one host on behalf of another. User switching (via su or sudo or direct login) for different steps is also trivial and implemented as a first class concept. Ultimately while we’d like to think systems are modeled by a graph or something pure and theoretical, they really aren’t. We aren’t always just saying, “this system should be the perfect model of X”. Often we have a lot of steps for an arbitrary workflow, and Ansible allows you to do both – define the declarative model if you want, but also define a process of steps – and also things in between. Real IT orchestration is about enabling application of that model, but also about modelling of workflow. Our future is about making that workflow increasingly easier to use, more accessible, and including more tools in the toolbox to make all manner of IT automation tasks increasingly trivial. Ansible can be used with any configuration management system you have. Ansible can be used with other deployment systems, or scripts you might already have. You could also just use Ansible for everything. But either way, it’s an AMAZING conductor that probably has a great place in your environment whatever you are doing. Even if you have a lot of legacy IT automation that you feel you can’t get out from under, give Ansible a try for orchestration. As Atlassian points out, we can play nicely with others. Deploying Highly Available OpenShift Origin Clusters \| Installing and Building Docker With Ansible \| Listen To Your Servers Talk \| Fixing Heartbleed With Ansible \| Ansible Me A Sandwich Application Deployment, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, IT Automation	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7560
__label__wiki	0.663438	0.663438	science math history literature technology health law business All Topics Results for: spinal-cord-injury In Back Neck and Spine , Spinal Cord What is a c2 spinal cord injury? A C2 spinal cord injury is an injury to the 2nd spinal segment in the cervical section of the spinal cord. In Acronyms & Abbreviations , Medical Terminology What does the medical abbreviation SCI mean? Spinal Cord Injury In medical terms, SCI stands for spinal cord injury. 1) Science 2) Spinal Cord Injury spinal cord injury In Spinal Cord What is a high spinal cord injury? It is an injury to the spinal cord in the neck What are the dangers of spinal cord injury? Injury to the spinal cord often causes paralysis. Consequences of a spinal cord injury? A spinal cord injury can result in a loss of sensation and/or loss of function below the area of spinal cord injury. 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The greek for "spinal cord" is myelos, and this term is sometimes used in words describing spinal cord injury (myelopathy.) What is the scientific name of spinal cord? How are the brain and spinal cord protected from injury? The brain and spinal cord are protected from injury by the skull and vertebral column. Around the brain and spinal cord, is a fluid called cerebral spinal fluid which cusions the brain and spinal cord against minor injuries, and from… Full Answer Treatment for spinal cord injury? There are various treatments available for spinal chord injury. If you feel that you have such an injury, consult a doctor. How is the spinal cord protected from injury? The spinal cord is protected from injury by a surrounding ring of bone called the vertebrae. Inside the vertebrae the cord is surrounded by a fluid called cerebral spinal fluid which also helps protect the cord against shocks In Back Neck and Spine What happens if you break your your spinal cord? Damage to the spinal cord can cause permanent paralysis. The paralysis will result in paraplegia or tetraplegia, unless the injury is an incomplete injury, which will result in one of a number of spinal cord injury syndromes. Incomplete injuries, and… Full Answer Spinal cord injury cause and effect? Spinal chord injury could be as fatal as leaving you paralyzed. Can a Injury to the spinal cord can result in paralysis? What happens to the spinal cord tissue after injury? Why is your body paralised when there is a injury in the spinal cord? What does it mean to have a incomplete spinal cord injury? What are the following are signs of a spinal cord injury? Where is the best place for spinal cord injury? There are no "best" places for spinal cord injury. Any injury to the spine has negative results. The most severe injuries and more common ones occur within the lower spinal columns. What is the relationship between spinal cord injury and spasticity? Spinal cord injury prevents the brain from telling the muscle to relax. The result is prolonged muscle contraction or spasticity. In Authors, Poets, and Playwrights What has the author Marcia Hanak written? Marcia Hanak has written: 'Spinal cord injury' -- subject(s): Nursing, People with disabilities, Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injuries, Spinal cord, Wounds and injuries, Spinal cord injuries Can you drive with spinal cord injury? Yes, you can drive with a spinal cord injury. Depending on the severity of the injury, some adaptions may be needed to enable driving, such as hand controls, wheelchair ramp etc. How would a person with a spinal cord injury have muscle spasm below the injury? Can a viral infection of the spinal cord cause paralysis? yes it can, paralysis will appear with any type of spinal cord injury What is the word for AD when it coomes to a spinal cord injury? In relation to spinal cord injuries, AD refers to Autonomic Dysreflexia. Is the spinal cord get protected from the skull? Yes, the spinal cord is protected from injury by the vertebral column. Around the spinal cord, there is a fluid called cerebral spinal fluid which cushions the spinal cord against minor injuries, and from bruising against the vertebral column. Explain how a servere injury to the spinal cord can affect other parts of the body? Nerve impulses pass from the brain down the spinal cord to other parts of your body. Damage the spinal cord, and parts of the body below the injury may be paralyzed. Injure the spinal cord at the neck, you may… Full Answer Why does paralysis occur when someone injures their spinal cord? Spinal cord paralysis is damage to the spinal cord that causes a partial or total loss of muscle and sensory functions. The spinal cord does not need to be severed for paralysis to occur. The location of the spinal cord… Full Answer In Muscular System What is a cause of flaccid muscles? 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__label__wiki	0.950975	0.950975	Handel - Bouree from Music for the Royal Fireworks sheet music Classical Handel Bouree from Music for the Royal Fireworks 2-Flutes-Clarinet version 2-Flutes-Clarinet Classical 2-Flutes-Clarinet Classical 2-Flutes-Clarinet Free Sheet Music Handel - Bouree from Music for the Royal Fireworks Handel - Bouree from Music for the Royal Fireworks sheet music for 2-Flutes-Clarinet Tempo: [Allegro h = c. 80] BPM About 'Bouree from Music for the Royal Fireworks' Artist: Handel, George Frideric ( biography) ( sheet music) Born: 1685 , Halle Died: 1759 , London The Artist: Important composer from the Baroque period who became a British citizen in 1726. He wrote many operas and oratorios, including the popular Messiah. Score Key: D minor (Sounding Pitch) E minor (Clarinet in Bb) ( View more D minor Music for 2-Flutes-Clarinet ) Tempo Marking: [Allegro = c. 80] ( View more music marked Allegro) Instrument: 2-Flutes-Clarinet ( View more Intermediate 2-Flutes-Clarinet Music) Style: Classical ( View more Classical 2-Flutes-Clarinet Music) (all shown in Concert Pitch) Flute 1 2-Trumpets-Trombone 2-Violins-Cello Clarinet Trio Flute Trio Violin Trio March from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Waltz from Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) by Trad. Pavanne by Gabriel Faure In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg Christmas Concerto Op. 6, No. 8 3rd Movement by A. Corelli Items to buy by Handel Messiah "(An Oratorio). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by T. Tertius Noble. For SATB choir (with solos) and piano accompaniment (SATB). Choral. Baroque. Difficulty: medium to medium-difficult. Vocal score. Choral notation, piano reduction, introduc Messiah "(A sacred oratorio). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by Watkins Shaw. For soprano solo voice, alto solo voice, tenor solo voice, bass solo voice, SATB choir and piano accompaniment (Vocal Score). Music Sales America. Baroque, Choral, Christ 45 ARIAS from Operas and Oratorios for Voice and Piano (High Voice) "(Volume I). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by Sergius Kagen. For high voice solo and piano accompaniment (high voice). Baroque. Difficulty: difficult. Collection. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, translations and introductory tex Aria Con Variazioni - Trumpet/Piano "(From 5th Harpsichord Suite). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by trans. Bernard Fitzgerald. Arranged by R. Bernard Fitzgerald. For Bb trumpet (cornet) and piano. Brass - B-Flat Cornet (Trumpet) Solo; Masterworks; Solo. Baroque. Difficulty: 45 ARIAS from Operas and Oratorios for Voice and Piano (High Voice) "(Volume II). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by Sergius Kagen. For high voice solo and piano accompaniment (high voice). Baroque. Difficulty: difficult. Collection. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, translations and introductory te Water Music "By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Arranged by Arthur Campbell. For solo piano. Baroque. SMP Level 6 (Late Intermediate). Collection. Standard notation, fingerings and introductory text (does not include words to the songs). 14 pages. Published by Ed 45 Arias from Operas and Oratorios "(Volume III - High Voice). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). For high voice solo and piano accompaniment (high voice). Baroque. Difficulty: difficult. Songbook. Vocal melody, lyrics and piano accompaniment. Published by International Music Company" Passacaglia - Duo for Violin and Cello (score & parts) By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by Frieda R. Davis and Nathan Stutch. For violin and cello. Baroque. Difficulty: difficult. Set of performance parts and score. Bowings and fingerings. 10 pages. Published by International Music Company Sonata No. 3 (Alto Sax and Piano). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Arranged by Sigurd Rascher. For alto saxophone and piano accompaniment (Alto Sax). Woodwind Solo. Baroque. Difficulty: medium. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out saxophone part 45 Arias from Operas and Oratorios - for Voice and Piano (Low) "(Volume I). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by Sergius Kagen. For low voice and piano accompaniment (low voice). Baroque. Difficulty: difficult. Collection. Vocal melody, lyrics, piano accompaniment, translations and introductory text. 63 p Seven (7) Sonatas and Famous Largo By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). For flute and piano. Woodwind Solos & Ensembles - Flute Collection. Baroque. Set of performance parts. 100 pages. Published by Southern Music Company Seven Sonatas for Flute and Piano (for Flute & Piano). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Arranged by Louis Moyse. For flute and piano (Flute). Woodwind Solo. Baroque. Set of performance parts. 66 pages. G. Schirmer #ED3164. Published by G. Schirmer 45 Arias from Operas and Oratorios "(Low Voice - Volume II). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). For voice and piano (low voice). Baroque. Difficulty: difficult. Songbook. Vocal melody, lyrics and piano accompaniment. Published by International Music Company" Hallelujah Chorus From The Messiah "((from Messiah)). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). For SATB choir and piano accompaniment (SATB). Choral. Baroque, Choral and Sacred. Octavo. 12 pages. G. Schirmer #OC2020. Published by G. Schirmer" Eleven Sonatas For Flute And Basso Continuo "By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by Hans-Peter Schmitz and Terence Best. For flute (alto recorder) and basso continuo. This edition: Urtext edition. Baroque. Difficulty: medium. 2 volume set. Basso continuo, keyboard realization and introduc Passacaglia - Duo for Violin and Viola (Score & Parts). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) and Johann Halvorsen (1864-1935). Edited by Frieda R. Davis and Leonard Davis. For violin and viola. Baroque. Difficulty: difficult. Set of performance parts and score. Bowings and fingerings. 12 page Six Sonatas - Piano / Violin (Violin and Piano). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by A Betti. Arranged by Adolfo Betti. For violin and piano (Violin). String Solo. Baroque. Difficulty: medium. Set of performance parts. Solo part and piano accompaniment. 51 pages. G. Schi Water Music Suites for String Quartet "By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). For string quartet (violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello). Instrumental Ensemble - Strings. A very playable arrangement of the complete suites. Includes 3rd violin part. Baroque. Grade 3. Set of performance parts. Publi HANDEL: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). For violin. Instrumental Solo Part and CD. Published by Music Minus One Ombra mai fu (Voice and Piano). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Vocal Solo. 4 pages. Ricordi #R127487. Published by Ricordi	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7567
__label__cc	0.682182	0.317818	AZ Music Lyrics: Artist (Band): Ashlee Simpson Review The Song (0) Little Miss Obsessive Lyrics Woah, woah, woah (your side of the bed is still mine) Am I the reason why you tossed and turned last night? Everything is such a blur, it didn't come out right All of a sudden it's cold and we're falling apart No this can't be please don't leave me alone in the dark And I guess we're really over, so come over, I'm not over it. Late night you make me feel like I'm desperate, I'm not desperate A little bit possessive, little miss obsessive, can't get over it. I never been a fan of long goodbye's I'm at the finishing line and you're just way too far behind In the morning, I got in the fight with myself I got the bruises to prove it Then I swallowed your words and I spit them right back out Now it's like a fairy tale without a happy ending But then again maybe we are just pretending Why does it have to be so unfair? Tell me that you care. Little miss (woah), little miss(woah), little miss (woah), little miss obsessive Thank you for visiting A-Z-Music-Lyrics.com If you find some error in Little Miss Obsessive Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Review the song Little Miss Obsessive (Notes: Your email will not be published if you input it) Review about Little Miss Obsessive ------ Performed by Ashlee Simpson Type your review in the space below: (To confirm you're a person): Return from Little Miss Obsessive Lyrics to all song lyrics at A Z Lyrics.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7568
__label__cc	0.59243	0.40757	Select a City All Cities Amsterdam Cologne Genoa Halifax Los Angeles Mexico City Münster, Germany New York Paris Pistoia Porto San Francisco Toronto Valencia Venice Washington, D.C. PRINT September 1997 Münster, Germany Ralf Berger Galerie Luis Campaña At first glance the gallery space seemed devoid of art objects, although you could hear an irritating, ear-numbing drilling sound. Turning to find the source of the din, however, you discovered a video monitor hanging below the ceiling. On its screen appeared an image of a jackhammer’s revolving shaft, thundering and shuddering as it sank into a concrete floor; hands, straining to hold the drill, appeared in close-up. Eventually it became apparent that the jackhammer was boring into the floor of the same gallery space, and that the actual floor was riddled with perforations. Ralf Berger has said, “Let every work become an event,” and he believes that every time someone looks at a painted image, or has any sort of encounter with an art object, it constitutes an event. His first exhibition was very much in keeping with this mentality. On a video monitor, you could see him spitting on the — Noemi Smolik	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7572
__label__wiki	0.815658	0.815658	screenhub Australia ArtsHub JOIN + LOG IN > HELP > LOG IN > Jobs (Premium content) JOIN + ArtsHub Australia ArtsHub UK Unlock exclusive industry-focused arts hubs Jobs last 7 days (Premium content) Museum Manager - Central Australia Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) Opinions & Analysis Step up to the ArtsHub Open Mic In the know? Seen a great show? Think you have a better idea? Hit the contribute button now to share your story Upload a Grant Education Jobs (Premium content) Career Advice (Premium content) Student Join Become a Student member Browse Profiles: Join ArtsHub Become an ArtsHub member Search What’s On: Panels, Lectures and Ideas Performances and Gigs Do you want to drive awareness of your event to an engaged audience? Advertise an Opportunity How to handle criticism and naysayers Please prove your humanity Go on prove it :) The Australian Writers' Guild names the contenders for its annual celebration of good scripts and well-placed words. Box Office 15 July 2019 - Mystify, The Third Wife, An Unexpected Love The blockbusters fade slightly, while the small arthouse pictures hunt for a core audience to give them word of mouth. So you want my arts job: Madman Marketing Manager With an enviable CV in film, Madman's marketing manager Lee-Ann Woon demonstrates that landing your dream job is all about talent, persistence and most importantly, kindness. Film Review: Rolling Thunder Revue - A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Great songs, inspired performances and a good digital brush-up make this essential for fans, but is it a doco? asks Adrian Martin. Madeleine Dore For any artist, the sting of criticism is inevitable. Here’s how to distinguish when it’s useful, how to handle it, and when to ignore it. Image via Pexels.com “A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.” – Will Self As artists and creators, there is an increasing pressure to share your work online, show behind-the-scenes peeps at the creative process, continually create new work and build a dynamic body of projects. But all of the above exposes the creator to naysayers on social media, as well as traditional forms of criticism – sometimes constructive, sometimes negative, and sometimes stirring such fear or hurt that it ceases the production of an artist's work. Despite its potential sting, criticism is inevitable and in its best form, an important part of building a robust arts industry in Australia. So how does an artist learn to distinguish what is helpful and constructive, and what is best to ignore? How does an independent creator push past the fear of negative commentary in order to create the work? ‘All criticism is subjective and all criticism is biased,' critic and writer Anwen Crawford told ArtsHub. 'There is no such thing as an objective, unbiased critic, and there is certainly no such thing as an artist having an objective, unbiased reaction to criticism of their work.' ‘The degree to which an artist uses criticism to improve their own work, or ignores criticism of their work altogether, is entirely up to the artist. Some artists will find particular pieces of criticism useful; others won’t,’ she added. Having contributed to The Monthly, The New Yorker, Kill Your Darlings and more, Crawford is a seasoned critic and writer with some straightforward advice to other artists – don’t obsessively Google your own name. It’s a helpful start when it comes to protecting ourselves from criticism we may not be ready to handle, as well as practicing a sense of detachment from our work, and the reponse to it. ‘Of course, perfect detachment is impossible, but it’s important to remind yourself that once a work is out there in the world, it no longer belongs only to you, the maker. The work belongs to the world, and you have no control over how people interpret it or react to it. You will appear thin-skinned at best and bullying at worst if you do try to assert control over the interpretation of your work.’ Crawford also has valuable insights when it comes to defining criticism. ‘I think it’s important to distinguish between a piece of criticism that is productively critical – as all effective criticism should be, even if the overall judgement is “positive” – and a piece of criticism that fails because the critic hasn’t made a good faith effort to understand the work and/or the artist. If your ego is smarting from a critical review, it’s easy to confuse the two, and to think that you’ve been given a critical review because your work has been misunderstood.’ It’s also important to remember who a review or piece of criticism is designed for, added Crawford. ‘It’s not written for the artist; you are not the subject, your work is the subject. If your temptation as an artist is to remove the dialogue between critic, artwork, and audience from the public sphere, then quash that impulse.’ Crawford continued, ‘But I will say again that criticism is a public act, and that those artists who complain loudest about the uselessness or redundancy of criticism are the ones who would, I think, most sorely miss that public attention should it disappear.’ How to engage with a review Whether a review is favourable or otherwise, it’s important to recognise when and how its appropriate to engage with the criticism, without appearing spiteful or rubbing salt in the wound. Co-artistic directors of independent theatre company Elbow Room, Marcel Dorney and Emily Tomlins, have experienced their fair share of frustrating criticism. ‘Both Emily and I experienced, as young artists, what it's like to read some ignorant, agenda-laden bulls**t in Murdoch-sponsored newsprint, and know that your family are feeling hurt and humiliated by it. But it passes,’ said Dorney. What has been most helpful in receiving an undesirable review is to draft a response to both air any frustrations, as well as better understand the criticism. ‘One thing that we've found that helps is to try writing a carefully considered reply, no longer than the review itself, that tries to understand and take into account the frame through which the critic was viewing the work. Under no circumstances do we send it to them. It's just for us,’ added Dorney. ‘This can be weird and painful, but it's also a good exercise in trying to understand how other people see things, the limits – like word limits – they're working with, and whether it's worth trying to reach or convince them with future work. It's also a chance to assess what's useful in that criticism.’ As a rule of thumb, Elbow Room try to take feedback on board when someone outlines a problem for them as an audience, not how to fix it. ‘It's your work; they don't know how it was made. So when they start giving you unsolicited 'professional' advice on how to fix it, you can safely tune that noise out.’ ‘We're really fortunate in Melbourne to have a number of intelligent and strongly opinionated critics, although they're rarely valued properly by their publications. We've had bouquets and brickbats from most of them by now, and they do not agree with one another, which is how it should be. The role of critic is vital, but that role isn't to write 'objective truth' for either the audience or the artist.’ Moving on from an ill-informed review Writer and director Chris Pahlow’s first film received a range of reviews with ‘some people really liking it, some really not liking it, and some in the middle.’ But there was one that was more upsetting. ‘I felt that the criticism was unfair and ill-considered. While any bad review is disappointing, if it's justified then I have to respect it. But some of what was written just did not make sense at all.’ What can sting so profoundly about a “bad” or ill-considered review is how it can feel like years of work can be torn down in a matter of sentences, leaving you feeling angry and powerless. ‘You can pour your heart and soul into something for years and years, trying your best to get things right, knowing that you will fall short on some things but you have to keep trying, only to be called out on stuff that's not even true to what's in the film.’ But as the author of Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, reminds us, ‘It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.’ With this in mind, how do we move forward with our work after receiving an ill-considered or hurtful review? For Pahlow, it’s about deciding as an artist or creator which pieces of criticism or feedback is helpful to take on board, and which isn’t. ‘I think you definitely have to be careful about who you listen to…and I think it's also good to take into account the expertise of the people you solicit feedback from,’ he said. Soliciting feedback at various points in the creative process can be a great way to grow and learn. ‘I think your practice as an artist or crafts-person needs to be a constant process of challenging yourself to improve. So I'm always seeking feedback and attempting to build on my strengths and address my weaknesses.' Collaboration is key when it comes to having a sounding-board for your visio, he added. 'I think shutting yourself off from other people's ideas is a big mistake,’ said Pahlow. ‘I find collaboration incredibly rewarding, and I'm always happy to hear feedback and ideas from other people.’ Creating distance between the art and the person For many creatives or artists dedicating themselves to their craft or a project, it can be difficult to distinguish the person from the art. As Pahlow explained, they feel like their work is them. ‘When someone thinks that their work isn't good or doesn't have value, they can feel like they have no value.’ Pahlow has found it helpful to work on more projects with shorter time-frames. ‘Doing one project over five years was very dangerous for my mental health. But now, working on three or four major projects in a year is a lot easier to bear. If one sucks, oh well, that's disappointing, but I've got three others that hopefully have potential.’ It’s also helpful to channel energy into various parts of your life, added Pahlow. ‘I'm always striving to create better and better work, but I'm not prepared to put my sanity on the line for it anymore. While my artistic work is, of course, one of the main ways I find fulfilment in life, I now make sure I seek fulfilment from other areas of my life too — friends, relationships, hobbies, even jobs I do for money instead of for love or in pursuit of artistic goals... I think increasing my focus on these other areas of my life has helped me to become a more rounded person, and has eased the pressure I feel in my practice.’ ‘Don’t read the comments’ For artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, the majority of negative criticism has come from social media. ‘The main flack I get is from randoms on social media, which was particularly the case when I won the Sidney Myer Ceramic award in 2015.’ Such comments or trolling tend to go beyond criticising the work and instead focus on attacking the individual. ‘When the commentary has tones of racism I’ve often felt quite disturbed. I used to feel the need to respond, but I don’t waste my time these days. People can say whatever they want, I’ll still keep making.’ Sharing the comments with friends and supporters can provide comfort. ‘I usually screenshot the comments and post them on Instagram. They’re often popular posts,’ he added. While the naysayers on social media may be easier to make light of, Nithiyendran sees room for change when it comes to critics engaging with the work of artists who identify as part of various minority groups. ‘I think criticism is good and there should be more of it. I’m a believer in evidence based positions, and well-crafted and thoughtful criticism. I think many writers in this country are apprehensive to critique works from artists – like myself – who identify as being part of various minority groups. But this needs to change.’ For all forms of criticsm, a support network and resilience is key. ‘While art is amazing and fulfilling, it’s also full of disappointment and rejection. If you put your work in the public sphere, you should be prepared for public scrutiny. Although good friends and a strong sense of community always helps with any feelings of hurt,’ said Nithiyendran. What about the internal critic? Sometimes it’s the fear of criticism that gets in our way. In this case, it is our internal critic or ‘fear monster’ that blocks us from starting our creative work, or sharing it with the public. In Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential, Shirzad Chamine explains how our inner critic first developed as a survival mechanism to potential threats – but such a trait may have outlived its evolutionary usefulness. As Chamine explains, 'The inner critic leads you to constantly find faults with yourself, others, and your conditions and circumstances, [which generates] much of your anxiety, stress, anger, disappointment, shame, and guilt.' It can also block you from being 'more discerning, aware, agile, vigilant, creative, decisive, and action-oriented.' To counteract the inner critic, Chamine suggests noticing it and giving it a name or a label – such as "fear monster", or even simply "John". For those who are more visual, drawing your inner critic and placing it in the studio or about your writing desk could also be a helpful cue to push past the fear. ‘Flattery and criticism go down the same drain’ As artist Georgia O'Keeffe once said, ‘I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.’ It can take some time to distinguish when criticism is constructive and when it’s not, but a helpful approach is to become less attached to both positive and negative feedback. ‘Not buying into negativity is important, but not being seduced by praise is equally important. Both can unbalance you, if they become the loudest voice around. Try to move forward with the integrity that made the work happen in the first place,” concluded Dorney. First published on Monday 16 April, 2018 Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, an interview project exploring the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She is the previous Deputy Editor at ArtsHub. Follow her on Twitter at @RoutineCurator Related Film news MIFF and the Australian New Wave Film Review: Booksmart - girls on top with too much chill A booming international movie market is transforming Hollywood Box Office 8 July 2019: Mystify swirls up from the past (locked) Kenyan actor Sheila Munyiva on screening the unscreenable LGBTIQ communities fight to be seen and to be heard. Can the international film community help? New film offers insight into the creative process (locked) 'Never Look Away' is a new feature film inspired by the life of artist Gerhard Richter that sheds light on the creative process. 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__label__wiki	0.816207	0.816207	Remembering Alan Davie: 1920–2014 René Gimpel Alan Davie. Photo: Lukas Gimpel The Scottish artist Alan Davie has died aged 93. The painter, who was recently elected as a Senior Royal Academician and is the subject of upcoming displays at Tate Britain, Alan Wheatley Art and Gimpel Fils in London this month, will be remembered for his vibrant canvases and his love of music. René Gimpel, who has known and worked with Davie for many years, remembers the artist: Little Purply, Alan Davies. Image courtesy Gimpel Fils, London Alan Davie’s career is woven into the history of Gimpel Fils. We started showing him in 1950 and, many exhibitions later, have organised a show of his latest work which is to open later this month. Alan had participated in the selection of work and it is regrettable that he will not be here to enjoy it. Every visit to Alan was an experience to savour. His home and studio, in the Herefordshire countryside, was full of colour. Mostly his paintings, but also the bright walls, his magnificent collection of tribal objects from around the world, the grand piano and other musical instruments given centre stage, stacks of musical scores, art books and catalogues. The studio was the heart and heartbeat of his creative joy, where Alan worked until very recently. Decades-worth of oil paint accumulated on easels, splashed in layers on the floor, left marks all over the walls. Alan could work fast on a painting, then stop halfway through and put it away for a year or longer, while he moved to conjure up another image. His tactile manipulation of paint was almost tangible and only when discussion turned to music – classical or jazz – would the artist be distracted into lengthy disquisitions on the importance of music in his life. Red Horse, Alan Davie. Image courtesy Gimpel Fils, London René Gimpel is the co-director of Gimpel Fils, London. An exhibition of Alan Davie’s recent work opens at the gallery later this month. Gerry Judah’s First World War memorial for St Paul’s Cathedral Judah’s sculptures remember all those affected by war throughout the last century Audio Arts archive published on Tate website Audio cassette magazine Audio Arts has been made digitally available to the public on the Tate website Heirlooms from Northumberland Collection to be sold at Sotheby’s The Duke of Northumberland to sell £15 million of his private art collection to cover the costs of flood damage	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7579
__label__cc	0.715522	0.284478	One Iota (or Relationship vs. Doctrine?) It's a good thing they didn't conduct the Council of Nicaea by text message. That iota would have really confused the predictive type. Theologians can sometimes get a lot of flack, for, while it's generally considered that sound doctrine is a desirable thing, in the eyes of some, theologians just seem to go a bit too far. After all, they ruin all those illustrations people love by pointing out things like the fact that the steam/water/ice analogy teaches Modalism instead of Trinitarianism. Theologians, it would seem, just want to spoil everyone's fun. And in today's social-media-ised world, perhaps the worst way of spoiling people's fun is to hamper relationships; and theologians have a knack for that. After all, we live in an age where "friendships" are made with the click of a button and the great sign of success is to be "liked". When such a light attitude is taken to relationships, it's no wonder that sound theology can be seen by some as an impediment. Recently a somewhat prominent American pastor wrote, 'The nuance of relationship is sadly lost in the world of those who believe doctrinal accuracy (which they have no corner on) is the pinnacle Christian priority.' (James MacDonald). Relationship, for MacDonald, is more important than doctrinal accuracy. But is he right? More to the point, are we even thinking in the right categories? The New Testament doesn't ever use the word relationship. That's not to say that the idea of relationship isn't there; it's just that it's not a fundamental category of thought for the NT writers. When the biblical authors do want to explicitly address something akin to our concept of relationship, they do have a word to use, but a very different word: koinonia. We translate this word in different ways in English; perhaps the most common today is the word fellowship. Immediately we can see that this word has something to do with relationships, but yet it also has something unique. It's a distinctly Christian word. I don't have fellowship with the hairdresser, the bank clerk, or even with unbelieving friends; fellowship is something we have with God Himself, and with other Christians. Yet even the word fellowship can be a bit fuzzy in our minds. The way it's often used it can end up meaning little more than a cup of tea after the Sunday service, or a synonym for a local church. So, perhaps an older way of translating koinonia would be more helpful: communion. Communion is an even more Christian word than fellowship. Immediately it makes us think of one of the greatest acts of Christian worship, the Holy Communion, where believers have communion in the body and blood of our Lord. For some reason communion sounds like a stronger word than fellowship; yet they both translate koinonia. This strength of the word is appropriate however, especially in contrast to the light way relationships/friendships are conceived today. You don't have communion by clicking 'like'. And it's this strong idea of communion rather than the weak 21st century concept of relationship that undergirds the biblical writers thinking on the bonds between Christians. The strength of this idea of communion is seen not only in it's use as an appropriate name for the sacrament, but also in the word we use for the ending of communion. Unlike with 'relationships', communion doesn't simply fizzle out. The end of communion is a big deal; so much so that we call it excommunication - the most severe form of church discipline. Holy Communion and excommunication point out something else about communion: it's doctrinal nature. True communion involves a high level of doctrinal agreement. To be in communion we must hold and cherish the same truths of the the Gospel, otherwise we could not partake of Communion together. True communion involves holding to the true faith once delivered, for heresy leads to excommunication. Acts 2:42 demonstrates the nature of true communion - it is a relationship that takes in shared doctrine and sacraments, praying together, and coming under that governance of the Church (it is, after all, the apostle's fellowship). So, biblically, relationship is very important. But the biblical concept of relationship is somewhat different from our 21st century view. Biblical relationships are all about koinonia. That means you can't drive a wedge between doctrine and relationship. Biblically the two go together. Which brings me back to the theologians and their insistence on doctrinal precision. When theologians are precise, it's not because they want to destroy relationships, but rather, because they care about relationships. While they might not be too interested in being 'friended' or 'liked', they do care about real people and real relationships in the real world. In fact, by their precision they want to 1) grow relationships, 2) protect relationships, and 3) fix relationships. And none of these in the light 21st century sense, but all in the true deep sense of koinonia. 1) Grow relationships The primary relationship theologians want to see grow and help grow through their precision is the relationship between people and God. Not just other people and God, for theologians too should always be growing in their knowledge of and love for God. The more we know about God, about what He is like and what He has done, the greater our love for Him will be and the stronger our relationship with Him will grow. And what from afar may seem like theological nitpicking may end up having a huge impact on our understanding of our gracious God. But it's not only our relationship with God Himself that grows as we grow in our knowledge of and love for Him. Our relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ grow too as we learn together and grow in our common understanding of the mercy of God. 2) Protect Relationships Probably the vast majority of precise theological distinctions have been articulated in order to protect relationships. However, it's not relationships with the teacher of novelties (or heresies) that the theologians were seeking to protect, but the relationships of the ordinary men and women of God. The theologians wanted to protect the flock from being 'tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine' (Eph. 4:14). They wanted to protect their relationships with God and with each other. The relationships of the whole church tended to get prioritised over the feelings of the false teachers. 3) Fix Relationships Good theologians, however, usually don't lack concern even for those who are in the wrong. Their goal isn't to prove how right and knowledgeable they are, but to call those who have wondered from the true faith to repentance and restoration to fellowship. The goal is that the relationships of those who are teaching falsely should be restored, both their relationship with God and their relationship with God's people. But that can only come through confession and repentance. And so, although others may accuse them of nitpicking, theologians have never avoided doctrinal precision, and in so doing, they have not been sacrificing relationships, but rather contributing to true koinonia. And when anyone today worries that the theologians are being too precise, just look to church history to see the importance of precision. In the fourth century fierce theological debate surrounded one letter. A single iota was of such importance that it caused a crisis in the church. The dispute raged over the words homoousios and homoiousios - was Chirst 'of the same substance' as the Father or 'of similar substance'. Homo (the same) and homoi (similar) only differ by one letter, and yet, as we can see so clearly today at a safe distance, the implications were huge. But, the fact is 'homoi' was originally put forward as a compromise word so as not to damage relationships, yet today we remember it as the defining word of the heresy. That debate has long been settled, and so today the church unquestionable confesses that Jesus Christ is 'God of God, Light of Light,Very God of very God,Begotten, not made,Being of one substance with the Father' (Nicene Creed). But one letter can make a lot of difference. Carl Trueman has recently written of those men who fought for the truth in that dispute: 'the foundations for the creedal doctrine of the Trinity were laid by men who thought doctrine was something for which it was actually worth suffering and dying. That someone is willing to die for a cause does not sanctify it; but when you add to this that Nicene orthodoxy has been universally agreed upon as important by millions of Christians of multiple races, nationalities and age profile, through sixteen centuries, surely that should give us pause for thought. The questions asked at Nicea were important and they were asked by serious men, men serious enough to risk death for their faith.' (Carl Trueman) One letter in the wrong place really is a big deal. One wrong word can have eternal implications. Just like at Nicaea, the church today needs serious shepherds who, for the love of Christ and His people, are ready to stand, like Athanasius, contra mundum: serious men willing to risk all for the faith and true koinonia. Tags: church, doctrine, random musings, theology Scary, Vile, But Logical: On Abortion, Infanticide... The Eternal Purpose: The Body, The Head & The Fill... Meanwhile, Elsewhere (29/2/12) The End or the Means? Stone and Woe What is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? Meanwhile, Elsewhere "Illegal and morally wrong", or just the logical o... Creed or Chaos On human rights for dolphins?! (Or the ethics of k... Behold Our God	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7580
__label__cc	0.55676	0.44324	Weird NJ: The ghost of Exit 82 Unexplainable encounters and close calls around Exit 82 at Route 37 in Toms River are attributed locally to the "Parkway Phantom." Weird NJ: The ghost of Exit 82 Unexplainable encounters and close calls around Exit 82 at Route 37 in Toms River are attributed locally to the "Parkway Phantom." Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/1z7ZapP Weird NJ Published 7:22 a.m. ET April 26, 2015 \| Updated 7:24 a.m. ET April 26, 2015 Mile marker 82 on the Garden State Parkway.(Photo: Weird NJ/Mark Moran) Perhaps it's apropos that in our fast moving, highly mobile state, many of our most notable ghosts are seen hanging out at the side of the road, where it is said that they met their untimely demise. These roadside apparitions have been witnessed by countless motorists over the course of several generations. They seem to be content to wander their own stretch of paranormal pavement year in and year out, eternally reenacting their final living moments here on this Earth. Weird NJ: Treasure Hunting for Plug Nickels So could a road as legendary as New Jersey's famed Garden State Parkway not have a highway haunting associated with it? No way! Unexplainable encounters and close calls around Exit 82 at Route 37 in Toms River are attributed locally to the "Parkway Phantom." Ever since the completion of the Parkway in 1955, people have reported seeing a person trying to cross the road, waving his arms. This Phantom appears only at night and only around an eight-mile stretch in the vicinity of Toms River Barracks of the New Jersey State Police. The apparition is described as being very tall with a long topcoat belted at the waist. The strangest thing about this apparition is the way he waves his arms, which is synchronously, both bending from the elbow. It has been described as looking like a strange football cheer. Although the State Police are reluctant to comment, a former state trooper admitted that that section of the highway has seen more than its fair share of auto accidents. Weird NJ: The Brick Midget House of Brick Weird NJ readers share their stories of the Parkway Phantom: An Asbury Park Press article describing a “ghost hunt” at the site. (Photo: ©Weird NJ / Mark Moran) Trying to Get Saved in Toms River We all work as paramedics in Ocean County, and we see a lot of fatal accidents. About five years ago, on a rainy night along the spot on the Parkway where it is also Route 9, there was a guy whose car broke down on the curve. He pulled off to the side and began to walk along the shoulder when a driver hit him, throwing him into the woods and killing him. Weird NJ: Jumping on the Dan Rice bandwagon When the paramedics got there they knew someone had been hit, but due to the darkness and rain they could not find him. They finally did and tried to revive him, but it was too late. Several weeks later the same medic crew was coming back from Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood, heading toward Toms River, when they saw someone on the side of the road waving them down. By the time they were able to pull over and back up to the spot the man was gone, but they noticed it was in the same spot where the man was hit only weeks before. They just blew off the event until another crew reported a similar event in the same area. To date about three teams have seen this. –SeanEms17 Exit 82 on the Garden State Parkway. (Photo: ©Weird NJ / Mark Moran) The Parkway Phantom Way Back When Here's a little news coverage from '59 or '60 of a ghost hunt on the Garden State Parkway near Toms River. Rumor had it that a naked female ghost was seen floating over the Parkway –– who could resist that? Quite a crowd showed up, along with the police. No ghost, or even a naked woman, was seen, but one enterprising youth thought it would be a good idea to put on a sheet and scare a cop. It wasn't a good idea... –Gary Fitton The preceding article is an excerpt from Weird NJ magazine, "Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets," which is available on newsstands throughout the state and on the web at www.WeirdNJ.com. Read or Share this story: http://on.app.com/1z7ZapP 'Close your legs' judge knows he was wrong, will accept any punishment 500-pound pig, weapons, ammo seized in Toms River home Monmouth, Cape May sheriffs defy NJ AG, extend jail contracts with ICE Lakewood schools want voters to hand over another $2.5M in taxes Lawmakers demand removal of judge over remarks in sex assault ruling Neptune crash closes Route 33: Police	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7581
__label__wiki	0.600003	0.600003	SHORE FISHING: Commission could increase menhaden catch Commercial fishermen want an increase in the baitfish catch, but not all want to see it SHORE FISHING: Commission could increase menhaden catch Commercial fishermen want an increase in the baitfish catch, but not all want to see it Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/2auTPP2 Dan Radel, @DanielRadelAPP Published 4:17 p.m. ET Aug. 1, 2016 \| Updated 1:46 p.m. ET Aug. 2, 2016 The catch at the Jersey Shore, July 23-29. By Dan Radel Wochit An osprey flies off with a menhaden it caught on the Manasquan River.(Photo: File Photo)Buy Photo This story has been updated to make a correction. New Jersey's purse seine fishermen have reached their allocation of menhaden. It was incorrectly reported. New Jersey commercial bait fishermen want to see the coastwide catch of menhaden increased nearly 80,000 metric tons. "We're focused on the science. If the science supports an increase, we want to take it," said Jeff Kaelin from Lunds Fisheries, a commercial fishing operation in Cape May. The amount of menhaden fishermen will be able to take from the water next year will be decided Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, when the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meets. ASMFC: Overfishing is not occurring with menhaden The Atlantic Menhaden Technical Committee has given the ASMFC options that would allow the catch to increase by as much as 10,000 to 80,000 metric tons. Only one option is to keep the status quo at 187,880 metric tons. There is no option to reduce the catch. Megan Ware, a coordinator for the ASMFC, said the committee made no recommendations, but the advisory panelists that have weighed in so far are split into two camps. One camp favors the status quo, while the other is leaning toward increasing it to 267,500 metric tons. Along the East Coast, fishermen harvest the small, oily fish for bait. There is one large reduction operation situated in Virginia. Menhaden caught for bait with a cast net. (Photo: File Photo) Kaelin said Jersey purse seiners have been shut out of the fishery since July 4, after fishermen reached their allocation for this year. He said if they had more quota, they could be selling bait to New England lobstermen who are clamoring for bait. If the 267,500-metric-ton option is approved, it would raise New Jersey's harvest allowance from 45 million pounds a year to 65 million. While the ASMFC reports the increase would present zero probability of overfishing, it advises that projections of fish stocks are highly uncertain. Environmental groups, which often clash with fishermen over the harvest, would rather see those millions of fish stay in the water, where they can support a large swath of marine and bird life that forage on the fish. In 2012, they fought for a coastwide catch limit that saw the menhaden catch reduced by 20 percent. It was the first time any catch limits were ever placed on menhaden. That came after the the ASMFC believed data showed menhaden stocks had declined steadily and were experiencing overfishing. However, the ASMFC began to reverse its course after a 2014 stock assessment found menhaden were not overdfished. In 2015, it increased fishermen catches by 10 percent. MORE FISH: Fishery management allows for increased menhaden catch Paul Eidman, who spearheads Menhaden Defenders, a group that advocates for protection of the species, said he believes that if an increase is awarded, the commercial fishermen — especially the reduction boats — will continue to ask for more fish. "Their goal is to get back everything they lost," said Eidman, who as the captain of the charter boat Reel Therapy depends on menhaden for a strong striped bass fishery. "We're not the ones making millions of dollars on the fish. We just want to see a robust stock," he said. Dan Radel: 732-643-4072; dradel@gannettnj.com Todd Frazier donating $50,000 to Toms River Field of Dreams USWNT soccer stars will play in NJ this summer: Here's when you can watch US Women's National Soccer Team: 10 more potential NJ star players Monmouth Park: Ferrer after spill eyes Haskell Day return Phil Murphy is a hypocrite on equal pay for USWNT. What about his own team? Little League: Holbrook captures District 18 championship	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7582
__label__cc	0.707956	0.292044	Top 41 Best-Paying Mobile Ad Networks [2019 Edition] By Joel \| Last Updated on April 9th, 2019 8:51 am Wouldn’t you love to make some money from your app? Or, are you looking for ways to direct traffic to your app? The one answer to take care of both these requirements is – mobile advertising! It may sound a little complicated when you start with it, but once you read this post, you would have 41 options to pick from and start making progress immediately! How to monetize your app using in-app advertising? We did a blog post some time ago where we told you how to make money from your mobile app and the first one we talked about there was in-app advertising! This is super-easy and the most popular way to make money with your app. What happens here is that you allow advertisers to put up ads on your app in exchange for money. As you are the app owner, you would be paid according to these factors below: number of impressions made by the ad, or the clicks they get, and the type of ads you allow on your app. A video ad on your platform would help you earn more as compared to a banner ad. One thing to remember is that you must think about your app users. Would they have the patience to wait for the video ad to finish, before they can get to the real app content? You don’t want to annoy them, do you? So, here, we have for you, a list of best paying mobile ad networks that you can choose to work with and make money instantly! 41 best mobile ad networks to monetize your mobile app! Appy Jump Media.net StartApp Millennial Media Smaato Leadbolt Chartboost Airpush BuzzCity Epom Apps Phunware MobFox Tapjoy Yahoo App Publishing Applovin AdColony AdCash ONE by AOL Ad Recover SmartyAds (+Instagram Ads) Snapchat Ads Apple Search Ads IronSource Appnext Mobusi YouAppi Taptica Vungle MoBrain Fyber Yeahmobi Avazu Bing Mobile Advertising 1. Appy Jump Appy Jump is one of the most popular and effective mobile advertising network for in-app advertising. Whether you are using your mobile app as a revenue channel or not, in-app advertising can be a great way to earn money from your app. A top tier mobile performance network that is known for delivering only top-quality traffic in a massive volume. They pride themselves in offering the highest conversion rates and maximum returns among their competitors. 2. Media.net Regarded as the original creator of the display to search or D2S ad format, Media.net is quite a sophisticated method of monetizing display placements by identifying user search intent and showing relevant search keywords that lead to display of search ads bought by advertisers on a cost per click or CPC model. AdMob is an ad network that comes from the technology giant Google. Like all their products, AdMob is flawless in terms of functionality and is pretty easy to integrate in apps. The real winner here is the fact that their advertising is far less aggressive and intrusive as compared to other networks. 4. StartApp This one lets you implement interstitial advertising. In this kind of advertising, an ad will take over the screen while transitioning from one page or section of the app to another. Though this kind of advertising is a little more intrusive as compared to the conventional banner ads, some have been known to achieve greater revenue rates with it! 5. InMobi InMobi is known for their unique targeting technique, that they call appographic targeting. This effectively increases the chances of exposing the users to exactly the kind of media and apps that they would most likely want to consume. Instead of conventional metrics like demographics or geography, this technique is based on the currently or previously installed apps on the users’ phones. 6. Flurry Acquired by Yahoo! in 2014, Flurry is unique in the kind of analytics it offers by allowing a developer or company to monitor the entire portfolio of applications distributed on different applications distributed on different app stores across platforms. The funnels here measure customized conversion metrics and the gathered data can be categorized by you. When you patiently optimize and test your ad campaign repeatedly, you would definitely find interesting observations that you can act upon. 7. Millennial Media Offering full screen interstitial, video, and image-based formats, Millennial Media is known to provide developers with one of the highest revenue possibilities. Though it is considered a little too intrusive for the end users, but the user feedback and comments indicate high returns on this risk. A mobile-first programmatic ad platform, Millennial Media can easily be integrated into apps 8. Smaato Smaato is quite a popular name associated with real-time bidding and programmatic advertising and one of the stronger players when it comes to high revenues for mobile app developers. This is a Dynamic Demand platform which allows per-impression competition for all advertising sources so that the publishing revenue is maximized. 9. Leadbolt Leadbolt offers some of the most unique features, App Wall among them is the most noticeable one. It lets you integrate Leadbolt advertising into your app without any SDK and you would not have to write even a single line of code. Its analytical capabilities include measuring the users’ engagement to the app allowing the developers to optimize the balance between the app and the ads being displayed. You can also test out different kinds of ads including interstitial and video ads to see which ones work better in different situations and placements. 10. Chartboost This particular ad network specializes and excels in cross-promotion while also holding the post for the most popular mobile-only ad platform, particularly for the gaming apps. Chartboost is a transparent and a data-driven platform which is why the developers who partner with them gain the ability to take intelligent decisions for their ad campaigns. The best part is that the developers get to keep 90-100% of the revenue which is surprisingly high! 11. Airpush One of the most widely recommended mobile ad networks, Airpush is known for their rich portfolio and for serving a massive clientele all across the Android segment. They are one of the most in-demand and highest paying mobile ad networks and that is largely due to their extensive list of advertisers in their credit. It is because they offer rich media advertisements that they generate a high eCPM 12. Unity Ads Since their launch in 2014, Unity Ads has evolved as one of the most widely recognized ad monetization solution for mobile games. It supports both iOS & Android mobile platforms and offers banner, video, and interstitial formats and has a global market to cater to. Some of the leading mobile game companies use Unity Ads to monetize their games and put up video ads. 13. BuzzCity One of the most well-known mobile ad network, BuzzCity is also one of the most competent ones. Used by both, app owners and agencies, the platform is great for promoting products and services, primarily because it includes a much wider base of global mobile advertising network. The reason for their wide popularity is due to some of their unique features, especially their fabulous integration system and a promising fill rate! 14. Epom Apps This is one of the most easy-to-use and in-demand mobile monetization platforms that have especially been designed for Android and iOS developers who are on the lookout for effective ways to generate quality revenue from their apps. The great thing about Epom is that there is no need to worry about managing it, because they take care of it for you. All that is needed is that you, as a developer integrate the SDK and Epom takes care of everything else. 15. Phunware Starting off as Tapit, Phunware has now become one of the best mobile ad network providers. Equipped with immense knowledge in marketing and expertise in the technical arena, they take care of all kinds of mobile advertising networks for publishers, advertisers, and app developers. They have years of expertise and experience behind them and therefore the self-serve marketplace Phunware can bring in a whole lot of benefits for businesses. 16. MobFox For app publishers, app developers, and advertisers, MobFox has established themselves as a leading, result-oriented mobile ad platform. Once properly implemented, MobFox allows you to monetize mobile traffic on different mediums including iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone7. Using this platform, effectively opens up a massive world of advertising for your mobile app. 17. Tapjoy Almost a veteran in their niche, Tapjoy has been around and serving their clients since 2007 and known for their expertise in mobile user acquisition and app monetization. They have served numerous app developers and companies in increasing their revenue. Tapjoy supports mobile platforms like Mobile Web, iOS, and Android and offers various ad formats like Rewards, Offerwall, Interstitial, and Content Lock among others. 18. Yahoo App Publishing With Yahoo App Publishing, you would only have to follow three simple steps to start making money right from your mobile! All it takes is one lightweight SDK to get started with it. It only takes three lines of code to get you going and these very lines (just the three of them) you would gain access to Flurry Analytics as well. Yahoo App Publishing lets you display Banner Ads, Full-Screen Ads, and Native Ads on your app. 19. Applovin It is an ideal mobile advertising platform to help you expand your reach exponentially, while helping you acquire new consumers on mobile. The platform is particularly great in offering marketing automation and analytics particularly for those brands who are planning to expand their reach to new consumers on mobile. 20. AdColony As a mobile ad platform AdColony plays a critical role in driving higher engagement by selectively showing a premium quality ad content. Among their rich offerings for the developers or app owners they have instant play HD technology, innovative monetization technology, and mobile video integration strategies. 21. AdCash This is an all-in-one platform that is connected, quite aptly to some really high-quality supply sources. AdCash is known particularly for letting users manage their online campaigns with great ease for maximum returns! The platform has been around for more than 10 years and has attained the status of a veteran in offering a platform with flexibility and complete control to their users. 22. Oath (ONE by AOL) Previously known as ONE by AOL, Oath is one of the most popular and respected names among the mobile advertising platforms. The new age technology, efficient tools, and unique services make it possible for the advertisers to offer rich viewing experience on the users’ smartphones. The platform offers robust and thoroughly intrusive advertising options for developers to monetize their apps with full-screen interstitial, video, and image-based ad formats. Here, the advertisers and the publishers get complete control of their data, tools they want to include, media, and their business. 23. Ad Recover A near perfect tool for monetization, Ad Recover has consciously put in an effort to find the perfect balance between the advertisers’ goal of reaching the right kind of user base and the publishers’ goal of offering a non-intrusive and smooth user experience. 24. SmartyAds A programmatic advertising company, SmartyAds is one of the few who develop their own cutting-edge, innovative programmatic solutions aimed at maximizing the revenue for the advertisers, developers, and the publishers. They were in fact one of the first ones to implement secure Blockchain-based ad platforms. Powered by innovative ad tech products like real-time protocol, header bidding, blockchain and many such others, the platform today processes more than 300 million daily impressions, supports almost every mobile and web ad format, while ensuring a smooth cross-screen ad delivery. 25. Supersonic Supersonic has proven to be a one stop solution to all the advertising and app promotion needs of mobile app developers and publishers. With a massive network of more than 500 million users, Supersonic helps the advertisers in monetizing their apps with a deep pool of advertisers. The developers they work with, are well known and quite popular, ensuring that the apps and the ads are showcased to the right audiences and that they are encouraged to interact with it. They have a strong ability to segment and target the users. The platform is ideal for the smaller developers who can make use of the platform and self-serve to monetize and promote their apps. 26. Facebook Ads (+Instagram Ads) Today, two of the biggest and the most powerful channels to reach the widest audience on mobile users includes Facebook and Instagram. Both the platforms let you run ad campaigns with effective targeting including location, gender, age, likes & interests, relationship status, education, and even their job. The best part about them is that the ads they serve are showcased in a very friendly and catchy ad display format that work equally beautifully irrespective of the device they are being displayed on or the speed of internet connectivity. 27. Twitter Ads One of the strongest and most responsive social media channels, Twitter serves as a brilliant mobile ad network today. This is one of the rare platforms where not only can you set your goals but can also decide to focus on only those aspects that truly matter to you, letting you choose exactly the right kind of people who you want to expose to your ads. This can be done according to the activity levels of the Twitter users, their interests, and of course their location. A unique advantage here is that you only pay for the action that you really want the audience to take, like, for example if you are promoting your app to increase your app downloads, you can choose to pay only for those incidents where someone downloads your app. 28. Snapchat Ads Social media is the life and blood of marketing and promotions today, no matter what your niche may be. If you have been ignoring Snapchat Ads, it’s time to do a double check, because they really work! This is especially of significance when you are trying to target the younger demographics, particularly GenZ. The platform actually guides you to select the right kind of target audience for your ad and even lets you design it in the best way possible to garner maximum attention. 29. Apple Search Ads It has been some time since Apple, the technology giant launched their ad platform – Apple Search Ads where the developers only needed to pay for the number of downloads, nothing else. This ensures that the app you are advertising with them appears at the top of the search results, thus giving your app download numbers a big boost. The platform lets you choose the keywords, the target audience, set a budget and of course define distinct goals. They aren’t available in the world over though, but have a presence in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and of course United States. 30. IronSource One of the most unique mobile ad platforms, IronSource was launched in 2012. At the core of this unique ad network lies a sophisticated campaign manager solution that comes with multiple ad-unit and campaign type support, creative assets management and advanced reporting. It offers support for the biggest range of platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Cocos, Amazon, and Adobe Air and a variety of ad formats like app wall, interstitial, offer wall, and video. 31. Appnext Appnext – a mobile app discovery company has a platform that operates on the basis of a self-serve CPI. Founded only in the year 2012, the company’s ad solution promises to connect people to exactly the apps and services that they need. They also have a strong community of developers where the new advertisers can interact with fellow developers to valuable suggestions for launching their own ad campaigns. They offer support for iOS and Android platforms and let you showcase interstitial, native ads, notification, rewarded videos and action format ads. 32. Mobusi A leading mobile ad networking company, Mobusi has a strong hold in the entire Europe and in South America but have a wild popularity all over the world for user acquisition and marketing services, particularly performance advertising. They offer support for various ad formats on both Android and iOS formats. Additionally, they also let you target according to country, carrier, operating system, device, browser type, and even connection. 33. YouAppi The focus of this platform lies majorly on user acquisition and on retention. The platform is especially good at studying user behavior and showing them recommended apps depending on their unique preferences. YouAppi offers marketers with tools that have proven to be quite effective for their users. Some of their tools that the users have expressed admiration for are – the real time tools to monitor users’ behavior, tools that help schedule the campaigns, and tools for push notifications. They have some really big brands in their client portfolio and the tools mentioned above have a lot to do with it. 34. Liftoff Liftoff is quite popular among app marketers as a result-oriented cost-per-action optimized mobile user acquisition platform. The platform offers CPI campaigns optimization by tracking post-install events for apps. The platform also offers retargeting features to bring the mobile users who have moved away back to your app. Also, the lookalike feature showcases the mobile apps to the users who are similar to people who already use these apps 35. Taptica A mobile user acquisition platform company, Taptica uses proprietary machine learning algorithms on their ad platform equipping the advertisers with a sophisticated mobile targeting and efficient user acquisition capabilities to eventually deliver a very high return on their ad investment. They offer ad formats like banners, interstitial ads, text, and video on both the leading platforms i.e. iOS and Android. 36. Vungle Vungle is recognized today as one of the leading performance marketing platforms for app advertisers especially in the European, US, and Chinese markets. They are known for their highly engaging video ads to bring in relevant mobile users to the advisers. Vungle has quite a creative optimization technology, effective targeting, and HD video ad delivery which ensures that your ad reaches and acquires only high-quality users from the world over. They offer support for Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and Amazon. 37. MoBrain This is one of the best platforms for those who need to or want to focus on CPI. Their unique ability lies in their proprietary algorithm that can analyze large sets of data and detect any suspicious patterns in activity so that it does not reach and impact your ad campaigns. It supports a variety of display formats including banners, content, interstitial, native, and video which can be showcased on both iOS and Android. 38. Fyber A brilliant monetization platform, Fyber lets the advertisers and publishers carry out quite effective CPM and CPA campaigns. This mobile ad platform was created by the culmination of solutions and capabilities from four different tech companies. One of the most popular and effective features is the automatic optimization of ad revenue sources. Fyber has a massive audience reach which pretty much guarantees strong engagement and a promising number of installs. On this platform, developers can pick and choose whether they want to showcase their ads on iOS, Android, or both, what kind of campaign they wish to run (like engagement, install etc.) or what formats they would like to run their ads in like videos, interstitial or something else. 39. Yeahmobi When it comes to Yeahmobi, the spotlight or the focus stays largely on working directly with advertisers on CPI and CPA trough a variety of campaign types in order to acquire new customers. Though they have a special expertise in Native ads, they do work pretty well with other formats too. If we were to talk about the targeting options, however, the Yeahmobi ads are supported by media platforms which means not only do they help you acquire new users, but also go a long way in helping you maximizing LTV. 40. Avazu Avazu, as a platform was built with the intent of connecting the ad buyers and the publishers from all over the world. The main focus of the platform is to help the customers earn the maximum possible revenue from their campaigns as they only pay per conversion. It is for this reason that the campaigns on this platform are linked to actions like app download, purchase, and such. There is a variety in supported ad formats including banner, interstitial, or text and the audience can be targeted on the basis of device, carrier, or OS as per your unique needs. 41. Bing Mobile Advertising This platform is best suited for those who are looking for a balanced blend of conventional and new-age ways of online advertising. They are a premium advertiser and you as an advertiser and a publisher would appreciate it especially because of the high-quality traffic it would offer you. Bing Ads have a knack for reaching majority of the mobile operating systems along with dozens of OEMs and thousands of models. Not only do they let you create powerful mobile ads and target industry specific customers but also give you access to Bing Ad Analytics helping you tweak and improve your mobile ad strategy. Mobile advertisements work and there is no doubt about it. Whether you are an advertiser, a developer, or a publisher, there is something for everyone in this. When you are an advertiser, you are going to get relevant, quality traffic by opting for the right kind of platform. As the ad publisher, you would definitely get compensated monetarily for showcasing the right kind of ads which are targeted according to the user base your app is catering to. The idea here is to choose the right kind of platform according to the particular needs you have ahead of you. Mobile ad networks basically connect app developers (app owners or publishers) and advertisers. App developers utilize ad networks to monetize their apps by serving ads to the app users, while advertisers promote their products through ad networks. In-App Advertising In-app advertising is one of the most popular monetization strategies, in which app owners get paid to serve ads on their app. Blockchain is the first technology that allows the transfer of digital ownership in a decentralized way. One of the most popular mobile ad formats, interstitial ads are full-screen ads that cover the whole UI of the app. VP, On-boarding at Appy Pie, Joel has a cumulative experience of over 15 years in IT, customer support, & technical support. With strong analytical skills & a broad range of computer expertise, he is great with project management tools, processes, and techniques. Fluent in Spanish & English, Joel is great at cultivating positive relationships with clients and colleagues and is particularly adept at communicating with individuals from diverse cultural and organizational backgrounds with clarity and diplomacy. He is a happy owner of a Boston Terrier - Koko with whom he loves to go on hikes. All That You Need to Know About App Design By Snigdha \| May 16, 2018 How to Use Twitter for Marketing? [A Competitive Guide] By Lalit \| August 13, 2018 Mobile App Development – What we’re doing and where we are headed? 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__label__cc	0.598986	0.401014	Palm Beach County Shooting Sports Park Whilst the Spanish media keeps on filling up their pages with excuses to make their countryman Fernando Alonso from Ferrari Scuderia appear as the best driver in the Formula One, Red Bull Racing Sebastian Vettel keeps on proving them wrong race following race. Not only did he snatched the title from Alonso final season in the grand finale at Abu Dhabi, becoming the youngest champion of all time, but also opened a 99 point gap among them this 2011, year where he has won six races currently, with his most current victory taking place at the European Grand Prix on June 27. The Constructors championship is the only front opened exactly where McLaren could still have a likelihood to win, thinking of that it is based on the sum of each drivers’ benefits. Together Hamilton and teammate Jenson Button have accomplished 206 points, 89 much less than Red Bull’s duo Vettel-Mark Webber, scenario that can only be reverted if McLaren begins to dominate the podium from now on. In the 1930’s there had been nicely more than 2000 well being resorts constructed about cold or hot springs. After the positive aspects of spending time at a spa had turn out to be effectively identified several persons created plans to spend at least some of their getaway time soaking up the healthful waters discovered in the naturally occurring springs that are found in a lot of locations correct here in the U.S. Also named balneotherapy, the well being filled therapy located in hot springs (even cold springs) draw crowds of people today searching for a way to feel greater, maybe to heal sore muscle tissues or more than stressed bones. Physicians suggest spa time to their patients who endure from joint diseases like rheumatism and arthritis since they know of the added benefits to be identified in those magic waters. But there truly is no magic to the springs, they are portion of nature and a organic process of healing the sore and unhealthy. Sea Kayaks are utilised for water sports and have been gaining more recognition these days. There are many kinds of kayaks that are obtainable in the market and you can make a decision primarily based upon your wants. There are diverse kayaks for seas, lakes and rivers. What makes it specific is that a sea kayak can go to quite a few such areas where a standard boat cannot go since of its size. There are lots of causes that make a sea kayak a lot more comfy than a boat. It is compact and also simpler to sit and paddle. 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Sea Kayaks have come to be incredibly popular not too long ago but they are getting utilized considering that around four thousand years. Even though in old instances, they have been produced up of diverse supplies like wood. They are recognized to be made use of by hunters of the Arctic initially. These days, they are definitely produced with considerably sophisticated components like polyethylene and carbon fibre which make it significantly lighter than wood. Due to the fact Greeks 1st found that bathing in particular waters made them really feel significantly greater, followed by Romans who turned the art of the bath into some thing spectacular, bathing in natural spring waters or tidal pools has earned the suitable to claim its wholesome claims. Ancient Greek bath homes 1st identified benefit in the all-natural mud found in and about hot springs and literally covered themselves with the dark viscous material, hoping to really feel far better when eliminating these aches and pains associated with bone and joint discomfort. According to Greek mythology, particular tidal pools and natural springs had been blessed by the gods and would cure ailments. The then established facilities for bathing purposes with the intention of healing and those who desired the support could go there and invest time, soaking in the healing waters. These are employed across the globe for a assortment of purposes. As for Vettel, he will attempt to claim his second victory at Silverstone Circuit, exactly where he won for first time in 2009, but did not run with the very same luck final year, when in spite of of clinching the pole position he ended up seventh quantity. Seven pole positions, winner of six races and runner up in the other two are the numbers with which Vettel has made from this season commence the greatest in F1 history. In the final Grand Prix held at Valencia on June 27, the defending champion showed more signs of his dominance by securing his initial fastest lap of the race with 1:41:852 on lap 53. Read Also – fredericksburg motor sports Palm Beach County Shooting Sports Park – Seven pole positions, winner of six races and runner up in the other two are the numbers with which Vettel has produced from this season commence the ideal in F1 history. PREVIOUS POST Previous post: Allen Sports Association NEXT POST Next post: Freeland Sports Zone	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7585
__label__wiki	0.558904	0.558904	DOT Changing Drug Testing to Address Opioid Abuse Epidemic November 10, 2017 • by David Cullen Image: U.S. Dept. of Transportation The Department of Transportation plans to add four prescription opioids – hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone and oxycodone – to the existing DOT drug-testing panel for screening truck drivers and other "safety-sensitive" transportation workers. The change is part of a final rule to take effect on Jan. 1. “Inclusion of these four semi-synthetic opioids is intended to help address the nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse,” DOT said in its rulemaking notice, which is to be published in the Federal Register for Nov. 13. The agency noted that these four drugs that are “already tested for in many transportation employers' non-DOT testing programs because of their widespread use and potentially impairing effect" and that adding them to the required screening will allow DOT to detect a broader range of drugs being used illegally. The final rule also adds the drug methylenedioxyamphetamine as an initial test analyte and removes the drug methylenedioxyethylamphetamine as a confirmatory test analyte. In addition, the rule does away with the requirement for employers and consortium/third-party administrators to submit blind specimens. The agency said that the revisions to 49 CFR Part 40 will harmonize DOT regulations with revised Department of Health and Human Services "mandatory guidelines" for federal drug-testing programs for urine testing. The rule had originally been proposed in January of this year. DOT said it received 52 comments on the addition of the four semi-synthetic opioids to the testing panel. Of those, 41 supported the revision. The agency said those supporters “generally recognized the need for the department to act consistently with the HHS Mandatory Guidelines and agreed that addressing opioid abuse issues in the context of transportation safety is important.” As for the other 11 comments, DOT said they essentially contended that adding the substances would “increase circumstances in which drivers innocently using opioids (e.g., via a prescription for pain medication) would be unfairly treated as drug abusers, with consequent positive tests harming their careers.” And a few comments suggested adding still other substances, such as methadone or synthetic cannabinoids, to the panel. Related: Report Warns States about Marijuana Legalization Read more about Drug Testing Drugged Driving U.S. DOT Opioids Drivers Safety & Compliance	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7589
__label__wiki	0.615751	0.615751	Home » Featured » Atera Named 2017 Best Channel Vendor by Business Solutions Magazine Atera Named 2017 Best Channel Vendor by Business Solutions Magazine Liron Hanania New York, NY (January 3, 2017) – Atera, developer of the cloud-based IT automation platform that combines Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM), Professional Services Automation (PSA), and remote access into one powerful solution, today announced it was named a 2017 Best Channel Vendor in the Managed Services category by Business Solutions Magazine. This award recognizes Atera for excellence in partner enablement, technology innovation, and market leadership. “We are honored to be recognized by our channel partners who named Atera a 2017 Best Channel Vendor,” said Gil Pekelman, CEO at Atera. “This has been an incredible year, and we remain committed to offering our partners the best platform in the industry. We thank our partners for their trust and advocacy as we continue to provide the technology and support to enable their growth and success.” Atera is helping Managed Service Providers (MSPs) improve their business practices through its RMM software, services, and comprehensive security offerings. Its disruptive technology, transparent pricing, and Business Intelligence (BI) through The Benchmark offer MSPs the tools and technology they need to effectively manage their customers’ businesses and profitably grow. “Our Best Channel Vendor Awards are designed to provide solution providers with insight into the vendor partners that are viewed by their peers as the best-of-the-best,” said Mike Monocello, Editor-in-Chief at Business Solutions Magazine. “We congratulate Atera on being a first-time winner and for earning consistent high marks in all categories and questions in our survey.” MSPs who voted for Atera also offered commentary on their experience working with the company “Atera breaks the glass ceiling of incremental increases in business being eaten away by agent licensing fees. Atera’s structure is much more realistic. Even a great technician can only support so many simultaneous users. This model appears to recognize that and respond to the challenge of trying to increase margins in the Managed Services space.” “Atera is the first true RMM/PSA all-in-one solution. I found it simple to use, saving lots of time, and its development team really listens to customer feedback. Such a refreshing improvement over traditional RMM and PSA vendors who are difficult to deal with.” “After owning or trialing literally every RMM tool out there over the past 10 years, I can finally say I found ‘THE ONE’ in Atera. They have the ‘Goldilocks Effect’ going on! Just enough information, just enough integration, and just enough control that all come together perfectly.” “After two years using an overpriced RMM solution, I was introduced to Atera by a colleague and I immediately loved its simple all-in-one interface, price, performance, and most of all, the staff and their responsiveness. I am often emailed by the president to update me on new features. Now that’s personal service.” Atera makes it fast and easy for MSPs to migrate their customers to the platform. To learn more about Atera, please call (877) 211-4666, or email info@atera.com. For a 30-day free trial, please visit atera.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7592
__label__wiki	0.895904	0.895904	LIONS SNAP UP STARLET JACK Livingston manager David Hopkin is delighted as Jack Hamilton pens his contract. Local lad Jack Hamilton has shown that hard work pays off as he put pen to paper with newly promoted SPFL Championship side Livingston. The young striker, from Coldingham, started playing with Eyemouth from under-7s to under-12s then moved to Leith Athletic and then on to the Lions’ under-20s, where after only one season they wanted him to sign full-time professional terms. His dad, John, said: “We are delighted Jack has signed with Livingston. “He has worked hard to earn the contract with Livingston and hopefully this is the start of something big for Jack. “I’m sure if he shows the same commitment and dedication he has shown so far then he will be a real asset to the club.” Livingston manager David Hopkin is thrilled to secure the services of the youngster, who has also featured for Berwick Rangers in his fledgling career. Hopkin said: “I have seen Jack numerous times this season with our under 20 development team and he has always impressed me. “He also came in for training with the 1st team squad on a few occasions and didn’t look out of place at all. “The lad only turns 17 next Friday, and I’m confident that Jack continuing his development at Livingston is the best choice for both parties. “We will give him full-time training and coach him in a first-team environment. “He did have offers elsewhere but he would have been training in a under 20s environment and I think Jack has more to offer than that.” Lucy Bronze gets silver in Golden Ball World Cup poll!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7604
__label__wiki	0.868078	0.868078	May River football announces 2017 individual awards The May River football team announced its 2017 football awards Thursday, given out to members of the team following the annual fall banquet that took place Tuesday in the school’s auditorium. To go along with the five All Region players nominated – running back Cam Adams, quarterback Ahmad Green, center Gabe Long and defensive end Hunter Brophy – individual awards were handed out to 14 varsity and junior varsity players. Offensive Player of the Year Cam Adams: Adams played a huge role in the Sharks offense, rushing for 960 yards on 184 attempts and 11 touchdowns. His rush total accounted for nearly 50 percent of May River’s yards on the grounds. Hunter Brophy: Brophy recorded 58 tackles on the season and 45 assisted, with 11 tackles for a loss and six sacks. He also forced and recovered two fumbles. Scout Team Player of the Year Benny Jenkins: The scout team mostly consisted of junior varsity players tasked with running an upcoming opponent’s offensive or defensive plays in practice in an effort to prepare. Special Teams Player of the Year Terry Fields: Fields returned three kickoffs for 17 yards and eight punts for 27 yards. He also punted 16 times for 602 yards, including two that were downed at the opponent’s one yard line. Iron Shark Player of the Year Gabe Long and Jordan Barrow Up and Coming Offensive Player of the Year Ahmad Green: As a freshman, Green completed 62 passes on 143 attempts for 783 yards and five touchdowns. He also rushed for 910 yards on 6.6 yards per rush and four touchdowns. Up and Coming Defensive Player of the Year Jayden Void: Another freshman, Void recorded 26 tackles on defense and assisted on another 15. He also had four pass break ups, two interceptions, two forced fumbles and two blocked kicks. GPA Award (varsity) Ridge Dowe GPA Award (junior varsity) Ben Marler Junior Varsity Offensive Player of the Year Sean Morris Junior Varsity Defensive Player of the Year Steffen Gadson Junior Varsity Iron Shark Award Isaiah Cash Junior Varsity Special Teams Player of the Year Jonathon Gatson Bluffton Today ~ 6 Promenade St Ste 1005, Bluffton, SC 29910 ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service Sun Today Jasper County Sun Times	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7611
__label__wiki	0.535211	0.535211	MORE JET. LESS SET. The BMW X6. Driving dynamics highlight Start movie MORE JET. LESS SET.The BMW X6. Max. output in kW (hp) at 1/min (50i) Acceleration 0–100 km/h in s (50i) Top speed in km/h (50i) Luggage compartment capacity in litres (50i) Powerful and athletic. With the presence of an X model and the sportiness of a coupé, the BMW X6 transcends all limits. Its BMW TwinPower Turbo engines are a potent mixture of dynamics and efficiency, and BMW xDrive helps to bring this power to the street. Outstanding equipment such as the Design Pure Extravagance package as well as top-quality materials characterise a vehicle that is sure to take centre stage – and, at the same time, is astonishingly functional. DISCOVER THE BMW X6. Driving Dynamics. Time for you to take control: The BMW X6 is built to move. With energetic, forward-thrusting contours, the BMW X6 exudes irrepressible dynamics and purposefulness. Its broad shoulders and solid stance reflect its X genes, while the coupé-like roof line underpins the unmistakable character of the BMW X6. A combination that makes this Sports Activity Coupé so unique. The striking design of the BMW X6 is truly unmistakable. However, in the end, one factor above all else is absolutely crucial: What does moving this powerhouse actually feel like? The chassis of the BMW X6 sets new standards. BMW xDrive guarantees outstanding traction – whatever the weather, whatever the road surface. This is accompanied by excellent directional stability and an agility that instantly enthralls. Options include adaptive suspension packages – for even more driving pleasure. 330 KW. The top-of-the-range engine for the BMW X6 unleashes its concentrated power of 330 kW (450 hp) in the BMW X6 xDrive50i. With maximum torque of 650 Nm between 2,000 and 4,500 rpm, this engine catapults the BMW X6 from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.8 seconds. The top speed is 250 km/h. The effectiveness of BMW EfficientDynamics technologies is reflected by moderate values of the BMW X6 xDrive50i: Combined fuel consumption is 9.7 l/100 km, with CO2 emissions between 227 and 225 g/km. Discover Efficiency Discover Technical Data THE BMW X6 AT A GLANCE. Discover Exterior Design Discover Interior Design Discover Design Pure Extravagance Discover M Sport package	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7612
__label__wiki	0.769242	0.769242	Overall, women taking the most common birth control pills by mouth were 18 percent less likely to need reconstructive surgery compared to similar women not taking the pill, the study said. That’s an important finding, considering the fact that half of athletes who tear an ACL (which is “extremely common”) can’t return to competitive sports, and anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of those with tears have arthritis within two decades of the injury, researchers said. For decades, women have taken oral contraceptives as a method of birth control and to treat a number of other conditions. Multiple studies have shown that taking the pill is associated with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer. In a new study, Mayo Cl And women are more prone than men: Researchers said the injury is two to eight times more prevalent in girl competitors than in boys, possibly because of elevated estrogen levels. “It’s likely that oral contraceptives help maintain lower and more consistent levels of estrogen and progesterone,” DeFroda said. Researchers concluded that doctors should consider prescribing birth control to “elite high school and college-aged athletes, especially those at higher risk of ACL tears such as soccer and basketball players.” That determination should only be made “after careful assessment of the risks of these commonly prescribed medications,” the researchers said. But other experts said it’s early to recommend the pill for young women athletes. University of Nottingham obstetrics and gynecology professor Jim Thornton said there might be other explanations for the higher rates of ACL tear surgery in women not on the pill, such as the fact that women who exercise extensively may stop menstruating and not take the pill on those grounds, while also being at higher risk of injury because of their frequent physical activity, the Guardian reports. Past research has also tied birth control to a lower risk of ACL tears, but those studies “suffer from critical shortcomings, and don’t prove that it’s the pills that are providing the protection,” according to the Sports Institute at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Researchers emphasized that because the new study was observational, “no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect.” The study was also limited by the fact that it only looked at those who required surgery, and didn’t analyze the activity levels of those studied, which “might explain why some women tore their ACLs and others did not,” researchers said. Those are similar to the shortcomings cited by the Sports Institute in assessing earlier studies. The Brown researchers’ findings could be confirmed by a controlled study following athletes on and off birth control over time, according to the news release. Heart attacks are striking more Americans in their 20s and 30s, new study finds Scientists discover cocaine in every shrimp tested from English rivers, study says $20,000 or more and a 60-hour injection: How a new postpartum depression drug works Can fish evolve to handle climate change? Scientists tested it on these oddball fish Tropical Storm Barry strengthens in Gulf of Mexico R. Kelly arrested again, this time on federal sex charges	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7613
__label__wiki	0.98302	0.98302	Business selected Eurostar defends alcohol limits on trains https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48742530 Eurostar has defended limiting the amount of alcohol passengers can carry on its trains as necessary to "maintain a pleasant environment". The train operator explained its position after customers complained on social media about changes to the policy. It allows one bottle of wine or four cans of beer and no spirits. Previously, there were restrictions on ski resort routes and temporary ones for sporting events. Although Eurostar says it made the changes last year, passengers appear to have only just started to notice. Passenger Claire Tate told the Press Association that the policy was disgusting and she will reconsider using Eurostar in the future. "I think the policy is there for sports fans who come on drunk and disturb other holidaymakers. Something should be in place - like an extra fee - for those types of travellers". Mark Smith, a rail expert who runs his passenger seat61.com website which says it promotes train rather than air travel, tweeted that "Eurostar has quietly changed its luggage policy" which was "completely unnecessary". "Previously its policy was easygoing, it was sort of what you would expect. I'm aghast at the change, it seems draconian," he told the BBC. Mr Smith said the change would make travelling by train "more stressful" for many passengers. Eurostar said the change to its alcohol policy was made last autumn. "This decision was made to maintain a pleasant environment on board for all our travellers. Those that wish to take more with them for consumption at home can do so using our registered luggage service, EuroDespatch," the company said. Its luggage service, EuroDespatch, charges a minimum fee of £30 per item. Eurostar tells customers 'don't travel' Eurostar owner allays Brexit chaos fears Eurostar would not say how many customers had been stopped at security checks with too much alcohol since the limits were put in place. Neither did it say whether there were any restrictions on the amount of alcohol that can be bought on its trains. "All luggage goes through a scanner as it does in the airport and Eurostar reserves the right to confiscate any alcohol over those limits. Alcohol consumption on board is monitored by our team," Eurostar said. Another passenger complaining about the change was Will Roberts who said: "That's crazy. You mean I can no longer bring a six pack of Belgian beer back home in my bag after trip to Brussels? Is there a way to convince them to change?"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7614
__label__wiki	0.924017	0.924017	Monday 9/8c 7 Images 0 Videos Screeners Available Based on his hit YouTube series, BBC AMERICA’s Chris Harris on Cars offers Top Gear fans more time with breakout star and motoring journalist Chris Harris as he takes audiences on a ride across seven episodes throughout July and August. Premiering Monday, July 11, 9/8c, Chris gets behind the wheel to experiment and explore with the… Read More Announced today, the stars of BBC AMERICA’s Doctor Who spin-off series Class – exciting young new talents Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins and Vivian Oparah. They will be joined by Katherine Kelly, as she takes the role of a teacher and powerful new presence at Coal Hill School. These four Coal Hill School students have hidden secrets and… Read More	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7615
__label__cc	0.500807	0.499193	BASSEIN CATHOLIC COOP BANK Bassein Catholic Coop Bank IFSC CodesBassein Catholic Coop Bank Bassein Catholic Coop Bank IFSC and MICR Code: State wise list of Bassein Catholic Coop Bank IFSC code, MICR code and addresses of all branches in India Locate any details of Bassein Catholic Coop Bank branch in India. Select Bank BASSEIN CATHOLIC COOP BANK Select State ANDHRA PRADESH GUJARAT MAHARASHTRA Bank BASSEIN CATHOLIC COOP BANK IFSC code: and MICR code: ; BASSEIN CATHOLIC COOP BANK address : , - ; Branch code is , Contact Number: , BASSEIN CATHOLIC COOP BANK Timings: Monday to Friday: 10 AM to 4 PM, Saturday - 10 AM to 4 PM(Except 2nd and 4th Saturday). Bassein Catholic Coop Bank IFSC Code , Bassein Catholic Coop Bank IFSC Code , IFSC Code Bassein Catholic Coop Bank or Choose State from list below Credit Score of 750 = Easy approval on Loans/Credit Card! Check now in less than 3 min!Check for FREE Bassein Catholic Co-Operative Bank (BCCB) IFSC Code: Indian Financial System Code, also referred to as IFSC code, is an RBI-assigned code assigned to every bank or financial institution in the country by the RBI. These unique eleven character codes help in the identification of the bank’s branches. IFSC codes can be used to electronically transfer funds between two branches of the same bank and even different banks or branches. BCCB IFSC code of Naigaon branch is BACB0000011, with the first four characters representing the bank’s name and the last six it’s branch code. Get your Credit Score FREE in less than 3 minutes! Get it NOW How to Search forBassein Catholic Co-Op Bank (BCCB) IFSC Code? Funds of any amount can be transferred securely from one account to another, irrespective of bank or branch, online. In order to send money using NEFT or RTGS, the account holder should know the beneficiary’s bank’s name, account number, IFSC code. Here’s how the IFSC code of Bassein Catholic Co-Op Bank can be searched: The customer can approach the nearest branch and ask any of the representatives for the IFSC or MICR codes. The bank’s pass book and check leaves also have IFSC code printed on them, for easy access. Bassein Catholic Co-Op Bank’s official website also has details about IFSC and MICR codes of every branch located in the country, along with the branch’s address. There are several third party websites that provide information about the bank’s IFSC and MICR codes . The customer has to visit BankBazaar’s website and click on “Bank IFSC Code”. From the drop down menu, information regarding state, district, city, or branch of Bassein Catholic Bank can be selected for which IFSC and MICR codes are needed. How to Transfer Funds Using Bassein Catholic Co-Op Bank’s (BCCB) NEFT and RTGS? Bassein Catholic Bank offers its customers facilities to send money, through NEFT or RTGS, anywhere in the country. The details on how to transfer funds through the bank’s official portal have been mentioned below: National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) for BCCB: NEFT is a secured mode of transfer where the individual can transfer or receive money within a few hours on the same day. NEFT doesn’t have any cap on the basic transfer. Amount as low as Rs 100 can be sent or received. Bassein Catholic Bank offers NEFT service during the working hours, which are settled as per the transaction time and batch. Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) for BCCB: Bassein Catholic Bank also facilitates RTGS services. This is a third party fund transfer service, when the amount cannot be transferred through NEFT, due to its high value. The minimum cap for this service is Rs 2 lakh. Done on individual basis, RTGS transactions are taken care of immediately within the designated working hours of both the banks - the sender bank and the recipient bank. NEFT and RTGS Charges: Transaction charges for NEFT and RTGS are separately applicable to the remitter. The rates of RTGS and NEFT, offered by Bassein Catholic Co-op Bank, are charged according to the RBI standards. There are no inward charges, which means that no money will be charged to the beneficiary account holder, for any of the transactions, according to RBI guidelines. About Bassein Catholic Co-operative bank ltd. (BCCB): Established in 1918, the Bassein Catholic Bank was established as a credit co-operative society. It was then converted into an Urban Co-Operative Bank in the year 1966 and was made a Scheduled Bank in 1990. Founded by Rev Msgr. P. J. Monis, this bank was established to bring a massive change in education, financial stability, and lifestyle of people. The bank offers all modern products and services to its customers. Branch Details By Bank	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7623
__label__wiki	0.628232	0.628232	China vs Venezuela (Sep 11, 2009) World Baseball Cup - 2009 China vs Venezuela - Composite Box Score Sep 11, 2009 at Regensburg (GER) (Armin-Wolf-Arena) China ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e ZHU 1b 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 DU P 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 DU J dh 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WANG D c 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 PENG cf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 WANG J ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 ZHANG C lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA rf 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 GUO 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 ZOU p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ZHANG p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LI J p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Venezuela ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e CHAVEZ ss 3 2 3 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 CONNEL 1b 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 SANDOVAL 3b 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 BRUZUAL ph/3b 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REYES rf 2 3 2 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LANDAETA dh 4 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 VAZQUEZ lf 4 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SIVIRA cf 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 GARCIA c 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 CABRERA ph/c 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 ROJO 2b 3 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 GUERRA p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Totals 25 17 14 14 3 1 1 10 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 15 7 1 China ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np ZOU Shance L,0-1 0.0 4 6 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 0 0 26 ZHANG Zibo 3.0 7 6 2 4 1 3 0 0 0 16 21 5 2 87 LI Jun-Hui 1.0 3 5 5 4 0 4 0 1 0 5 10 1 1 42 Venezuela ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np GUERRA Junior W,1-0 5.0 3 2 2 2 7 0 0 0 0 18 20 2 5 76 Umpires - HP: CHOI In-Chul (KOR) 1B: WEBER Martin (GER) 2B: CERNY Tomas (CZE) 3B: WAIDER Jens (GER) Scorers: DEL PINO Carlos (CUB), WINKLER Stephanie (GER), GILK Gerhard (GER) TC: SENGELEITNER Christian (GER), GERONNE Philipp (GER) Start: 14:05 Time: 2:06 Attendance: 6100 Game notes: ZOU faced 6 batters in the 1st. LI J faced 4 batters in the 5th. China vs Venezuela China starters: 72/1b ZHU; 10/2b DU P; 30/dh DU J; 20/c WANG D; 63/cf PENG; 51/ss WANG J; 88/lf ZHANG C; 17/rf MA; 16/3b GUO; 22/p ZOU; Venezuela starters: 5/ss CHAVEZ; 9/1b CONNEL; 20/3b SANDOVAL; 7/rf REYES; 30/dh LANDAETA; 8/lf VAZQUEZ; 10/cf SIVIRA; 18/c GARCIA; 11/2b ROJO; 16/p GUERRA; China 1st - ZHU struck out looking (2-2 BBFFFK). DU P struck out looking (0-2 KKK). DU J singled to third base (3-1 BBKB). WANG D struck out swinging (0-2 KKS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Venezuela 1st - CHAVEZ walked (3-1 KBBBB). CONNEL singled through the right side (2-2 KBFB); CHAVEZ advanced to second. SANDOVAL walked (3-0 BBBB); CONNEL advanced to second; CHAVEZ advanced to third. COACHING visit to mound. REYES tripled down the rf line, 3 RBI (3-1 BBBK); SANDOVAL scored; CONNEL scored; CHAVEZ scored. LANDAETA homered to right field, 2 RBI (2-2 BFSB); REYES scored. VAZQUEZ singled up the middle (0-1 F). ZHANG to p for ZOU. SIVIRA walked (3-2 BBBKFB); VAZQUEZ advanced to second. GARCIA grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b (2-2 KFFBB); SIVIRA out on the play; VAZQUEZ advanced to third. VAZQUEZ scored on a wild pitch. ROJO doubled to center field (3-2 BBBKF). CHAVEZ doubled to left center, RBI (0-0); ROJO scored. CONNEL struck out swinging (1-2 KKBS). 7 runs, 6 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB. China 2nd - PENG lined out to ss (3-2 BKKFBB). WANG J struck out swinging (0-2 KSFS). ZHANG C grounded out to ss (2-0 BB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Venezuela 2nd - SANDOVAL reached on a dropped fly by ss (2-2 FBKBF). REYES walked (3-2 BBFBFB); SANDOVAL advanced to second. LANDAETA flied out to 3b (0-0). VAZQUEZ singled to right field, RBI (3-2 SBBFB); REYES advanced to third; SANDOVAL scored, unearned. SIVIRA flied out to rf, SF, RBI (2-2 FBKBF); REYES scored, unearned. GARCIA singled to second base (0-2 FFF); VAZQUEZ advanced to second. GARCIA advanced to second on a wild pitch; VAZQUEZ advanced to third on a wild pitch. ROJO singled to right field, 2 RBI (1-0 B); GARCIA scored, unearned; VAZQUEZ scored, unearned. CHAVEZ doubled down the lf line (2-2 FBFBF); ROJO advanced to third. CONNEL flied out to cf (0-2 FS). 4 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB. China 3rd - MA doubled to right field, ground-rule (0-0). GUO struck out swinging (1-2 KFBFS). ZHU walked (3-1 BBFBB). DU P walked (3-0 BBBB); ZHU advanced to second; MA advanced to third. COACHING visit to mound. DU J reached on a fielding error by 3b, RBI (0-1 F); DU P advanced to second; ZHU advanced to third; MA scored. WANG D singled through the right side, RBI (2-2 FKBB); DU J advanced to second; DU P advanced to third; ZHU scored. PENG grounded into double play 2b to ss to 1b (1-0 B); WANG D out on the play. 2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB. Venezuela 3rd - BRUZUAL pinch hit for SANDOVAL. BRUZUAL flied out to cf (3-1 BBBK). REYES walked (3-1 BBKBB). LANDAETA flied out to ss (1-0 B). REYES advanced to second on a wild pitch. VAZQUEZ singled to left field, RBI (1-0 B); REYES scored. SIVIRA reached on a fielder's choice (0-1 K); VAZQUEZ advanced to second on a throwing error by 3b. CABRERA pinch hit for GARCIA. CABRERA walked (3-2 BFFBBB); SIVIRA advanced to second; VAZQUEZ advanced to third. ROJO reached on a fielder's choice (0-1 K); CABRERA advanced to second; SIVIRA out at third 3b unassisted. 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 3 LOB. China 4th - BRUZUAL to 3b. CABRERA to c. WANG J grounded out to 2b (0-0). ZHANG C grounded out to p (2-0 BB). MA flied out to cf (2-2 KBFBF). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Venezuela 4th - LI J to p for ZHANG. CHAVEZ walked (3-1 BBKBB). CHAVEZ advanced to second on a wild pitch. CONNEL singled to left field, RBI (2-2 KBFB); CHAVEZ scored. BRUZUAL walked (3-1 BFBBB); CONNEL advanced to second. BRUZUAL advanced to second on a wild pitch; CONNEL advanced to third on a wild pitch. REYES singled to first base, RBI (1-1 FB); BRUZUAL advanced to third; CONNEL scored. REYES failed pickoff attempt. LANDAETA grounded into double play 2b to ss to 1b (2-0 BB); REYES out on the play; BRUZUAL scored. VAZQUEZ flied out to cf (0-0). 3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. China 5th - GUO struck out looking (0-2 KSFK). ZHU grounded out to ss (1-2 KBS). DU P struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b (0-2 SKS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Venezuela 5th - SIVIRA walked (3-0 BBBB). SIVIRA failed pickoff attempt. SIVIRA advanced to second on a wild pitch. CABRERA hit by pitch (3-2 KFBB). ROJO walked (3-1 FBBBB); CABRERA advanced to second; SIVIRA advanced to third. ROJO advanced to second on a wild pitch; CABRERA advanced to third on a wild pitch; SIVIRA scored on a wild pitch. CHAVEZ singled to left center, RBI (3-2 KFBBB); ROJO advanced to third; CABRERA scored. 2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB. Venezuela 17, China 2 (Sep 11, 2009 at Regensburg (GER)) China............... 002 00 - 2 3 2 (0-2) Venezuela........... 741 32 - 17 14 1 (2-0) Pitchers: China - ZOU Shance; ZHANG Zibo(1); LI Jun-Hui(4) and WANG Dong. Venezuela - GUERRA Junior and GARCIA Yosnel; CABRERA Ruben. Win-GUERRA Junior(1-0) Loss-ZOU Shance(0-1) T-2:06 A-6100 HR VEN - LANDAETA Luis (1). IBAF 2009	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7625
__label__wiki	0.744816	0.744816	BSC Dornbirn Indians vs Ostrava Arrows (Jun 18, 2015) Qualifier European Cup Ostrava 2015 Ostrava Arrows 6 (4-0), BSC Dornbirn Indians 4 (1-3) - Composite Box Score Jun 18, 2015 at Ostrava (Ostrava Arrows) BSC Dornbirn Indians ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e JAEGER ss 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 2 2 0 SALZMANN 1b 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 8 1 1 THORP c 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 2 1 FRICK cf 4 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 PLAGG 2b 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 THEINER dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 BOATENG dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 STEINKELLNER lf 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 PFISTER rf 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 3 0 0 HAGEN 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 ASTL p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 COLA p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Totals 33 4 9 2 0 0 1 2 2 2 1 1 0 20 0 10 1 24 11 3 Ostrava Arrows ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e KAPLAN cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VYKOUKAL MI rf 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LEE ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 JUNEC 1b 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 DRONG 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 NAVRATIL dh 4 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 PALUCH c 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 1 0 KUBICA 3b 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 GREPL lf 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 SATORIA p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 BELUNEK p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VYKOUKAL MA p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 35 6 11 4 2 0 1 2 4 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 27 7 1 BSC Dornbirn Indians ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np ASTL Paul 4.0 4 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 15 17 1 9 69 COLA Reto L,0-2 4.0 7 5 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 20 21 10 0 54 Ostrava Arrows ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np SATORIA Ondrej W,1-0 6.0 7 1 1 1 11 0 0 0 0 21 23 1 3 91 BELUNEK Matej 0.2 2 3 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 4 6 0 0 21 VYKOUKAL Marko S,1 2.1 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 8 8 0 0 32 Umpires - HP: KOSTINGER Urs(SUI) 1B: BIELECKI Krzysztof(POL) 3B: BREZOWSKY Tomas (SVK) Start: 19:00 Time: 2:29 Attendance: 154 Weather: cloudy Game notes: Scorers - KUCKOVA Romana(CZE), KUCKO Dalibor(CZE) TC - SENGELEITNER Christian(GER) Ostrava Arrows 6 (4-0), BSC Dornbirn Indians 4 (1-3) BSC Dornbirn Indians starters: 4/ss JAEGER; 24/1b SALZMANN; 13/c THORP; 26/cf FRICK; 55/2b PLAGG; 23/dh THEINER; 11/lf STEINKELLNER; 18/rf PFISTER; 77/3b HAGEN; 56/p ASTL; Ostrava Arrows starters: 53/cf KAPLAN; 27/rf VYKOUKAL MI; 19/ss LEE; 22/1b JUNEC; 9/2b DRONG; 1/dh NAVRATIL; 41/c PALUCH; 40/3b KUBICA; 33/lf GREPL; 21/p SATORIA; BSC Dornbirn Indians 1st - JAEGER struck out swinging (1-2 KKBS). SALZMANN singled to left field (1-1 BK). THORP grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b (0-2 KS); SALZMANN out on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 1st - KAPLAN walked (3-1 KBBBB). KAPLAN stole second. VYKOUKAL MI grounded out to 3b (2-2 KFFBB). KAPLAN stole third. LEE singled up the middle, RBI (0-2 KK); KAPLAN scored. LEE failed pickoff attempt. JUNEC flied out to lf (1-1 SB). DRONG grounded out to 1b unassisted (0-2 KF). 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 2nd - FRICK homered to right field, RBI (0-0). PLAGG singled to right field (2-2 KKBB). THEINER struck out swinging (0-2 SSS). STEINKELLNER grounded out to 2b (1-0 B); PLAGG advanced to second. PFISTER struck out swinging (0-2 SKS). 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 2nd - NAVRATIL grounded out to p (2-2 FSFFBFB). PALUCH singled to third base (3-2 BBKFB). PALUCH out at second c to ss, caught stealing. KUBICA struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b (1-2 KBSS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 3rd - HAGEN singled to right field (1-2 SFB). JAEGER struck out swinging (2-2 SBFBS). HAGEN out at second c to 1b to ss, caught stealing. SALZMANN struck out swinging (0-2 KSS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 3rd - GREPL singled through the left side (3-2 BFKBB). KAPLAN reached on a fielder's choice to third base (0-1 K); GREPL out at second 3b to 2b. VYKOUKAL MI singled to right field (0-1 F); KAPLAN advanced to second. LEE grounded out to 2b (1-2 BKF); VYKOUKAL MI advanced to second; KAPLAN advanced to third. JUNEC walked (3-0 BBBB). DRONG grounded out to 2b (0-0). 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 4th - THORP struck out looking (0-2 SKFK). FRICK singled to pitcher (0-2 KKK). PLAGG grounded out to p, SAC (0-0); FRICK advanced to second. FRICK stole third. THEINER struck out looking (1-2 SBKK). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 4th - NAVRATIL out at first 1b to p (0-0). PALUCH grounded out to ss (1-2 BKK). KUBICA grounded out to ss (3-2 FBKFBB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 5th - STEINKELLNER walked (3-2 KBBFBB). STEINKELLNER stole second. PFISTER struck out looking (2-2 FBSFBFK). HAGEN struck out looking (3-2 BKBKBK). ::: Coaching visit to mound :::. STEINKELLNER failed pickoff attempt. JAEGER struck out looking (1-2 KBKFK). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 5th - COLA to p for ASTL. GREPL lined out to ss (0-1 K). KAPLAN singled to shortstop (2-1 KBB). VYKOUKAL MI flied out to lf (0-0). KAPLAN stole second. LEE flied out to rf (1-1 BK). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 6th - SALZMANN struck out looking (1-2 BFFK). THORP fouled out to c (1-0 B). FRICK singled to center field (3-2 BKBFB). PLAGG singled to left field (2-1 BFB); FRICK advanced to second. ::: Coaching visit to mound :::. PLAGG advanced to second on a passed ball; FRICK advanced to third on a passed ball. FRICK out at home p to c, caught stealing. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 6th - JUNEC doubled to left center (3-2 BBBKF). DRONG reached on a muffed throw by 1b, assist by p (0-1 F); JUNEC advanced to third, scored on the error. NAVRATIL homered to right field, 2 RBI (0-0); DRONG scored, unearned. PALUCH singled through the left side (1-1 FB). KUBICA flied out to p, bunt (0-0); PALUCH advanced to second on a throwing error by p. GREPL singled to center field (0-1 K); PALUCH advanced to third. KAPLAN fouled out to c (0-1 K). GREPL stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error by c; PALUCH scored on the error, unearned. VYKOUKAL MI flied out to rf (1-2 BKF). 4 runs, 4 hits, 3 errors, 1 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 7th - BELUNEK to p for SATORIA. THEINER struck out looking (2-2 SBBSK). STEINKELLNER singled up the middle (1-0 B). STEINKELLNER failed pickoff attempt. PFISTER walked (3-2 KBSBBFB); STEINKELLNER advanced to second. HAGEN struck out swinging (0-2 KFS). JAEGER singled to center field (0-0); PFISTER advanced to second; STEINKELLNER advanced to third. SALZMANN hit by pitch, RBI (2-1 BS); JAEGER advanced to second; PFISTER advanced to third; STEINKELLNER scored. VYKOUKAL MA to p for BELUNEK. THORP reached on a fielding error by 3b (2-2 KBKB); SALZMANN advanced to second; JAEGER advanced to third, scored on the error, unearned; PFISTER scored, unearned. FRICK struck out swinging (0-2 KSS). 3 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 7th - LEE flied out to lf (1-0 B). JUNEC flied out to lf (1-0 B). DRONG singled through the left side (1-1 KB). NAVRATIL struck out swinging (1-2 SSBS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 8th - BOATENG to dh for THEINER. PLAGG struck out looking (2-2 FKBBK). BOATENG struck out looking (0-2 KSK). STEINKELLNER struck out swinging (0-2 KKS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 8th - PALUCH hit by pitch (1-0). KUBICA doubled to left center, RBI (0-1 K); PALUCH scored. GREPL struck out swinging (3-2 BBKBKS). KAPLAN flied out to rf (1-0 B); KUBICA advanced to third. VYKOUKAL MI flied out to cf (0-0). 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB. BSC Dornbirn Indians 9th - PFISTER struck out looking (1-2 BSSFFK). HAGEN struck out swinging (0-2 SSS). JAEGER struck out swinging (0-2 KSFS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB. Ostrava Arrows 6, BSC Dornbirn Indians 4 (Jun 18, 2015 at Ostrava) BSC Dornbirn Indians 010 000 300 - 4 9 3 (1-3) Ostrava Arrows...... 100 004 01X - 6 11 1 (4-0) Pitchers: BSC Dornbirn Indians - ASTL Paul; COLA Reto(5) and THORP William. Ostrava Arrows - SATORIA Ondrej; BELUNEK Matej(7); VYKOUKAL Marko(7) and PALUCH Przemyslav. Win-SATORIA Ondrej(1-0) Save-VYKOUKAL Marko(1) Loss-COLA Reto(0-2) T-2:29 A-154 HR AUT - FRICK Joachim (1). HR CZE - NAVRATIL Ales (1). Weather: cloudy Scorers - KUCKOVA Romana(CZE), KUCKO Dalibor(CZE)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7626
__label__wiki	0.86163	0.86163	Littlegreen School academy conversion row: Staff balloted over strike action People opposed to the conversion of Littlegreen School to an academy are due to present their petition to WSCC. Pic Steve Robards SR1827315 SUS-181010-171721001 Joshua Powling Staff at the Littlegreen School in Compton are being balloted for strike action over the threat to jobs and terms and conditions. The school for boys with autism and other special educational needs is due to become an academy run by the Solent Academies Trust after an Ofsted inspection last November gave it an ‘inadequate’ rating. However after a subsequent monitoring visit in July, Ofsted said the headteacher had ‘led decisive action since [her] appointment, and more rapidly since the inspection, to improve safeguarding arrangements and pupils’ behaviour’. Parents have led a campaign against the school’s move to an academy, believing that the conversion will cause disruption for the boys, who are particularly sensitive to change. The National Education Union says it pressed consultants appointed by the Solent Academies Trust for a firm commitment there would be no compulsory redundancies as a result of a planned staff ‘review’ after the transfer. James Ellis, NEU regional officer, said: “The trust have said they will impose a new leadership team in the school which our members simply don’t want. It’s completely illogical, the current headteacher only took over a month before the poor Ofsted inspection which led to the academy order and is now making good progress. “Therefore, we are demanding that West Sussex County Council, as the existing employer, provides an effective guarantee that there will be no redundancies and the existing structure will be left intact.” He added: “The Regional Schools Commissioner has forced an academy order on Littlegreen School which is both unnecessary and not wanted by teachers or parents. “West Sussex County Council has failed to give us the reassurances over jobs and conditions which our members have demanded. After a resounding mandate from our members in an indicative vote, we will now proceed to a formal ballot.” As well as commitments over the staffing structure the union is demanding an ongoing commitment to a nationally agreed pay and conditions framework for teachers and a formal agreement which allows trade unions to consult over any future changes, both of which it says the trust is refusing to agree to. Parent campaigner, Hayley Rose said: “Littlegreen School should remain under the local authority and not become part of a MAT (Multi-Academy Trust) business. It is a small unique school which is progressing well under its current leadership. Our boys do not need to endure unnecessary change. I am delighted that staff are standing up to this unwanted academisation by taking industrial action.” Mr Ellis added: “I have written to the Interim Executive Board of the School to demand that they urgently request that the Regional Schools Commissioner revokes the academy order, as has happened in 29 other schools in the same position, or at least requests a full inspection at the school. Our members terms and conditions are best protected by remaining a local authority maintained special school. The school community and staff are united – they do not want the school to become an academy.” A spokesman for West Sussex County Council said: “We are committed to making sure children at Littlegreen School receive the best possible education. The Ofsted rating in November 2017, by law, means the school has to convert into an academy. We continue to work with the school, the Department for Education and Solent Academies Trust to ensure a smooth transition for pupils, staff and parents. As part of the transition, we are undertaking a thorough and appropriate consultation with staff regarding the arrangements for the transfer.” School gardening club in Climping welcomes donation from Old Barn Garden Centre Campaigners to ‘not give up’ the fight over Littlegreen School academy conversion Fight to stop Littlegreen School academy order ‘over’ Parents fight to stop special school becoming academy Fight against Littlegreen School academisation continues as parents call public meeting	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7627
__label__cc	0.548745	0.451255	Sarah Nicole Prickett THE PHOTOGRAPHS of Jo Ann Callis describe (mostly) misnomered food, bodies, and household objects in stiffly fetishistic tableaux. Collected, they remind me of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Stein: “Dirty is yellow. A sign of more in not mentioned.” Callis: A (woman’s) hand, dredged in flour, nails blackened, rests flat in a yolk of honey on a smooth, eggshell-colored bedsheet. You also glimpse a thigh, and the glint of hairs. Nothing in the image tells you why. It appears halfway through this new volume, which is the first to survey skin in Callis’s work—and, with its funny, silky slippages, exemplifies her dollhouse surrealism. The publication of Other Rooms is excellently timed. There is an international vogue for old-school printed nudity, as well as a furor over nipples on Instagram; the Museum of Modern Art (New York) recently staged a retrospective for Robert Heinecken, whom Callis studied photography with at UCLA. Of the eighty-three images in this book, eighty-two were made in the mid-’70s, when color film was still gaining traction as fine art; seventy-two are in color. All but two contain at least one body part. The bodies are white, slim but not muscular, untouched by scalpel or ink; the decor is self-consciously modest. Jo Ann Callis, Hand in Honey, 1976–77, archival pigment print, 9 1/2 × 12". Callis divorced her first husband during the years she made these photos and married her second soon after. She is familiar with torture. Duct tape functions as sexy code or censor bar: sensibly, over small breasts; nonsensically, over the small of a naked back. Dental floss is used as a harness, white bandages for bondage in a bathtub. In one unnaturally lit scene, a woman reddens her nipples with lipstick. Later in the book, two crude holes in a white sheet reveal nipples that at first blush appear to be bloodstains. Many of her images are absurd like that, like words repeated out loud until they lose their sense. Beetroot tangles with black hair in bed. Toes hold a cigarette. Like that. Stein: “The care with which the rain is wrong and the green is wrong and the white is wrong, the care with which there is a chair and plenty of breathing.” Callis: a dim, sage-colored room; two legs in ladies’ shoes on a wooden chair; a pair of hands (the cuff of a man’s shirt visible) gripping, from behind, the fragile ankles. Marriage: a violent game. Or maybe she’s changing a lightbulb.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7631
__label__cc	0.689381	0.310619	Homepage > Reviews- by Author A-Z > W > Jettie Woodruff > Jaq with a Q by Jettie Woodruff Well, now I know why the synopsis was so brief and gave so little away, it’s because the story had more to say than could have ever been surmised in just a few short sentences. Some have said this was a unique story but aren’t they all in their own way, don’t get me wrong I’m not implying that this wasn’t I just don’t think the word unique does it justice. There was a feel about this story that touch on being ethereal, or maybe that was just the way that Jaq came across, emotionally waiflike. One mistake, one misdialled number and life for both Jaq and Ollie not only changed but found purpose. Ollie has an unwavering need to find and help the girl that he feels he was connected to for a reason, a person that he could make a difference with, a girl that could be his more, his everything. Jaq on the other end, was the girl that had reached end of her road, in her mind, she was better off dead and if hiring someone to carry out that task was the last thing she did, then the universe had bigger plans because despite the fact that she was emotionally fragile, when Ollie is put in her life, it was like a switch had been turned on. Ollie was exactly who Jaq needed, sent almost to show her that the shadows where she lived, the darkness that had eaten its way into her soul could be banished, that her fears could be overcome. He fought so hard to make sure that Jaq saw her worth, her purpose, her light, he put his heart and soul into helping her find her heart and soul in return. There was so much in this book that almost defied reason, circumvented normal feeling and weighed heavily on the right side of being grateful. I was grateful that Ollie took fate’s hand and sought Jaq out. I was grateful that Jaq accepted what Ollie was offering and was willing to open up. I was grateful that together they were able to forge a beautiful friendship that was founded on patience, empathy and consideration. Please don’t expect to finish this book unaffected, heck don’t even expect to finish the first chapter unaffected, because this will leave it mark. A beautiful story that is so much more than unique; it's matchless, distinctive, exceptional and whatever else the dictionary has to offer Topic: Jaq with a Q by Jettie Woodruff Please copy this text: 4e1c51179951	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7633
__label__cc	0.603704	0.396296	Books & Spoons Review & Excerpt with Tasty Book Tours: LINNY'S SWEET DREAM LIST by Susan Schild Willow Hill #1 By: Susan Schild Releasing January 5, 2016 Lyrical Press Set in the off-beat Southern town of Willow Hill, North Carolina, Susan Schild’s moving and witty novel tells of one woman who loses everything—and finds more than she ever expected. At thirty-eight, Linny Taylor is suddenly living a life she thought only happened to other, more careless people. Widowed for the second time, and broke, thanks to her cheating late husband, Linny has no house, no job, and no options except to go back home. There, in a trailer as run down as her self-esteem, Linny makes a list of things that might bring happiness. A porch swing. A job that nourishes her heart as well as her bank balance. Maybe even a date or two. At first, every goal seems beyond reach. But it’s hard for Linny to stay in the doldrums when a stray puppy is coercing her out of her shell—right into the path of a kind, compassionate vet. The quirky town is filled with friends and family, including Linny’s mother, Dottie, who knows more about heartache than her daughters ever guessed. And as Linny contemplates each item on her list, she begins to realize that the dreams most worth holding on to are measured not in worldly success, but in the sweetness of a life lived to the fullest. Linny kept her nervousness at bay with a lawn-and-garden-care palooza. She could manage this man, she decided, sitting on the metal seat of the surprisingly peppy lawn tractor, zipping around the overgrown lawn in ever-smaller circles. She’d tell the whole truth about herself and, in the unlikely event that that didn’t scare him off, she’d insist that they start out as friends for a year or two. Later, if he underwent an extensive physical and his financial records checked out, they’d progress to a slow pace of dating. This was the power of positive thinking that her old friend, Indigo, preached about. She nodded her head to encourage herself. But later, all Linny’s good intentions flew away when she opened the door to the beautiful cowboy. With a stubble of beard, faded Levis, and scuffed boots, Jack’s green eyes sparkled as he gave her a crooked grin. “Evening, Linny.” She drew in her breath sharply as she met his eyes and caught his scent—some heady mix of hay, horses, and Dial soap. Her attraction to him made her weak-kneed and apparently, mute. She opened her mouth and closed it again. She groaned to herself. This was not good. Drawing herself up taller, she sighed, and offered ungraciously, “You might as well come in.” Roy skidded around the corner, a pair of Linny’s rattiest underwear in his mouth, and launched himself at Jack. Gasping, she snatched the panties from the dog and stuffed them in the pocket of her shorts. Feeling her face flame, she mumbled, “His latest trick is stealing clothes from the laundry basket.” Jack grinned, and stooped to scratch the dog. Roy twisted in delight, and gazed at him adoringly. Linny shook her head, thinking of the similarities between herself and Roy. All it took was a little affection, and Jack was the puppy’s new best friend.” An interesting look into a middle aged woman's life, her journey to find herself again, her place, and her happiness. Linny had lost pretty much everything she could, her home, second husband, and now her job. The move to her mother's property, into a run down trailer seems to be the last drop in the bucket. She is down on herself, still recovering from the death of her first husband, and now losing the second one, just to find out what a loser he was, life is pretty rough for Linny. The story gets bumpy and honest with the raw feelings of a woman at the cross roads of her life. Where to go when there's nothing left? Who can you trust when the betrayals go so deep? With a great insight, humor, and wit, the author take the readers into the journey of Linny finding her dreams, getting to know her mother as a woman, and maybe even getting a one more chance at romance. Though even that chance isn't all bed of roses, with the 'devil-child step son'. The characters are lifelike, well built with depth and personality. They make mistakes like any of us would make, they love and protect their loved ones with everything they have, and fight for their rightful place in the world. A slice of life, that makes you smile, sigh, and appreciate the blessing in your own life ~ Four Spoons B & N \| Google Play \| iTunes \| Kobo Susan has a graduate degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has used her work background as a psychotherapist and a business consultant to add authenticity to her characters. Susan is a wife, a stepmother, and a dog lover, Lab Mixes in particular. She and her family live in North Carolina where she is busy finishing up the third novel in the Willow Hill Series. Author Links Website \| Facebook \| Twitter \| GoodReads Tasty Book Tours Thank you so much for featuring LINNY'S SWEET DREAM LIST! Great review!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7634
__label__wiki	0.655852	0.655852	Registration has already begun for the spring season, which is slated to start at the end of February. Visit manatee.baberuthonline.com to register. n n n A beach volleyball tournament is taking place Saturday, Dec. 18, on the Manatee Public Beach on Anna Maria Island. The event is a USA volleyball tournament, and the Manatee Area Volleyball Club is the host. Various divisions will be used for both adults and juniors. The entry fee is $20 for doubles and $15 for 4s or 6s for the juniors. Meanwhile, the cost for adults is $25 for doubles, $20 for 4s and $15 for 6s. For more, contact Nancy Cothron via e-mail at tcothron@tampabay.rr.com. The Manatee County Hockey Club’s Golden Manatees were edged 4-3 on Friday night against Freedom at the Ellenton Ice and Sports Complex. Freedom jumped out to a 3-1 lead. However, the Golden Manatees roared back, knotting the game at 3 apiece behind two Raven Woodring goals. But Freedom’s David Greenberg scored with 1:44 left in the second period, and Manatee couldn’t find the net in the third. The loss drops Manatee to 7-4 with 14 points in the Central Division, which is five behind first-place Newsome Blue. The Golden Manatees return to the ice for a home match against Sarasota on Dec. 17. The Palmetto Trojans are sending two cheer/dance squads to the 2010 Pop Warner National Championships. The competition coincides with the Pop Warner Super Bowl, which started last Saturday and runs through this Saturday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista. The Trojans sent a team to the tiny mite dance division and the junior pee wee (small) division. Both are dance squads. The Manatee East Little League’s Titans won the minors division for the fall season after going undefeated. Team members include: Connor Krug, Jake Krug, Nicolas Hadad, Chase Yniquez, Austin Jenkins, Rylan Buck, Christopher Short, Andrew Huxtable, Logan McGinnes, Carter Chapin and Logan Fielder. A look back at Christmas through the years in Manatee County By Kathryn Rohlwing Special to the Herald The Manatee Village Historical Park’s holiday decorations will be on full display during A Florida Cracker Christmas from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10. This festival will include food, make-and-take crafts, live music and artisans selling their handmade wares. On love, loss and learning: ‘Mema will always be with me’ Little-known women of Manatee: Pharaba Jane Vaughan Cooper Shipbuilding skill is alive and well in Manatee County How Baby became Snooty the manatee and changed a community Check out fan reaction of ‘Claws’ during Sunday night’s premiere At least 20 injured, one dead in London after van and knife ‘terrorist incidents’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7640
__label__wiki	0.909283	0.909283	Trump administration officials defended the need for large-scale enforcement while appearing on Sunday morning TV shows. Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to the president, and Matthew Albence, acting ICE director, delivered similarly vague and combative talking points in interviews with Fox News. “I won’t discuss operational details, and I would push back on even your terminology of raids,” Conway told Chris Wallace of Fox News. “ICE does this every single day. It’s called enforcement actions.” Said Albence: “I won’t speak to specifically anything that’s going on from an operational perspective.... But I will say that I think using the term raid does everyone a disservice.” Spokespersons for U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, South Florida Democrats, said their offices had not received reports of constituents being arrested by ICE agents on Sunday. Local elected officials said they, too, had no details about the anticipated raids. Speaking on MSNBC Sunday afternoon, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was in the dark about the federal government’s plans. “It’s created a lot of anxiety,” Suarez said, “but we have not seen a lot of movement. We have not seen anything massive. Frankly, we haven’t gotten any reports of anything happening yet.” In the absence of the anticipated immigration dragnet, South Florida advocacy groups who had been poised to help those detained instead redirected their efforts to spreading information and awareness of immigrant rights. They knocked on doors in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, canvassed churches and supermarkets, and worked to harness the emotional energy of expected raids into a sustained sense of preparedness. In a Pompano Beach neighborhood about two miles from the Broward Transitional Center detention facility on North Powerline Road, volunteers with the New Florida Majority handed out “Know-Your-Rights” fliers and spoke with residents on their way to work or taking morning walks. The left-leaning nonprofit, whose staff had also fanned out to Hialeah, Doral and Little Havana, informed immigrants on how to respond when interacting with immigration authorities — telling them not to open the door unless federal agents have a warrant signed by a judge. “These moments are not just about fear,” said Carlos Naranjo, an organizer with New Florida Majority. “We’re using this as a type of fuel to communicate to our community that there are many ways to defend ourselves ... We want to respond with love and unity.” Resident Michael Cruz was bicycling to work when Naranjo stopped him to offer tips on what to do if he were stopped by ICE agents. Cruz thanked him and asked for a few extra fliers in Spanish to share with his family. Naranjo said that although they hadn’t heard reports of ICE raids in the neighborhood on Sunday morning, residents in the area had reported regular patrolling in the recent weeks. He added that the group plans to stay alert for enforcement actions through Thursday. At the ICE central processing facility in Miramar, all was quiet. No agents were seen entering or leaving the building before sunrise, and only a single RV was stationed inside the fenced-in center. Also quiet were hot lines set up by attorneys and others who had been anticipating the removal of thousands of immigrants with deportation orders. A few calls came in to the hotline advocates set up, but not to report ICE agents at doors. “We got one or two calls on our hotline with folks asking, ‘Is there anything going on?’” said Melissa Taveras, of the Florida Immigrant Coalition. Taveras likened the mood across the network of activists, civil rights lawyers and immigrants to the anxiety before a big storm. “It’s the same feeling when you wonder, ‘Did the hurricane start?’” she said. “It’s the same stress.” They had not received any calls from immigrants or their families seeking help Sunday morning. Many advocates and attorneys had been awake before dawn Sunday, scouring social media and checking for messages on text or WhatsApp from clients or other colleagues. The frantic morning they had anticipated did not come to pass. “I hope that is a good sign,” said Adonia Simpson, director of family defense for the nonprofit group Americans for Immigrant Justice. Simpson also works with the South Florida chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, or AILA, a voluntary group of attorneys and law professors. The two groups had assembled a rapid response team of more than 50 attorneys ready to field calls and give advice to detained immigrants and their families, many of whom kept in touch and informed through group texts and social media. With Miami expecting deportations, some tips on your rights if ICE knocks on the door In anticipation of ICE raids, advocacy groups and community activists mobilized to open private homes as shelters for those who felt threatened, staff hot lines and hand out leaflets reminding immigrants of their rights when ICE agents show up at their front door. “I can’t help but feel like we are waiting for the other shoe to drop,” Simpson said. “Given the anxiety I have been feeling, I can only imagine the fear our immigrant communities feel this morning.” South Florida immigration attorney Sandy Pineda also hesitated to breathe a sign of relief. Carlos Naranjo aims to educate undocumented immigrants on the rights that they possess if confronted by an ICE agent amid possible immigration raids in South Florida. “It’s still too early to tell,” Pineda said. Others were encouraged that no news was good news. Tammy Fox-Isicoff, who sits on the board of AILA, told the Miami Herald she would “bet this whole thing is a total bust. “When you think about it, this has to be optics,” she said. “Who announces this before execution? Of course they have to expect people to run. “Only Liam Neeson tells someone he’s coming for them,” Fox-Isicoff joked. “We all know he has a special set of skills.” For many, there was nothing special about Sunday beyond their weekly rituals. At La Maison de La Parole, a predominantly Haitian-American church in a Pompano Beach shopping plaza that also includes Brazilian and Dominican businesses, congregants shuffled into the house of worship for the two-hour Sunday service. Outside, a volunteer handed out leaflets with immigrant rights information. Wilna Francois, a member of the church, said she was thankful for the information, though she hadn’t heard much talk about the raids. “I heard something about it in the news,” she said, “but I didn’t know it was that serious, you know?” What to do if an Immigration or Border Patrol officer confronts you Immigration sources said it’s possible that ICE agents had not acquired the warrants necessary to carry out the removals. The enforcement actions promised by President Trump had spread fear among immigrants in South Florida, with some families deciding to flee the state ahead of the expected crackdown. In South Florida, many immigrants come from Central America, South America and the Caribbean, and they make up some of the largest numbers of people with removal orders in the country, according to the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review or EOIR. Immigration reform advocates warned that ICE raids risked breaking up families and separating children from their parents. The EOIR shows Miami has one of the highest numbers of immigrant families facing deportation orders among the 10 cities targeted in Sunday’s raids, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. The agency reported that more than 4,200 families in Miami had been ordered removed since September — second to Houston, where about 5,000 families were adjudicated. Those with removal orders have been through court proceedings and either lost their cases or missed hearings. Hour 7 of ICE raid stakeout in Maryland: it seems to be business as usual in the suburbs with large immigrant populations. People are walking their dogs, selling goods on the side of the road, and attending church. — Julia Boccagno (@juliaboccagno) July 14, 2019 Advocates report that many newly arrived immigrants in Miami have had trouble figuring out their court dates. Many facing deportation orders said they refused to leave their families, while others were needed at work. New York City and Atlanta also have many removal orders, though only New York reported that federal agents had attempted but failed to conduct raids in two neighborhoods on Saturday. ICE agents were rejected by people at the residences because they didn’t have warrants, but planned to return, the Wall Street Journal reported. In suburban Maryland outside Washington, D.C., an area with large numbers of immigrants, residents reported business as usual. Ditto for Atlanta, where residents reported seeing fewer day laborer vans and taxis — signs that immigrants might be staying home to avoid ICE agents — but no raids. Sunday’s enforcement sweep was telegraphed by Trump and anticipated by many South Florida politicians. Trump told reporters on Friday that the roundup would focus on criminals. He had announced a similar raid in June, but it was postponed. A raid planned for New Orleans on Sunday was called off as the region braced for Hurricane Barry to bring torrential rains and worsen flooding the city. So far, ICE Chasers have seen no raids happen in Atlanta. They’ve noticed fewer day laborer vans, less taxi business—signs that Latino immigrants are staying home or changing up their schedules due to threat of #ICEraids. pic.twitter.com/4cOMy4pqOz — Max Blau (@MaxBlau) July 14, 2019 Miami Herald staff writers Alex Daugherty, Joey Flechas, Alex Harris, Amanda Rosa and Martin Vassolo contributed to this report. With word that immigration raids were to start Sunday morning, no activity was seen at this immigration center in Miramar, Florida, on July 14, 2019. Charlie Ortega Guifarro cguifarro@miamiherald.com Hot air balloon falls into crowd during bicentennial festival in Missouri This is how sea turtles hatch By Noah Feit A Clemson University professor got a $750,000 grant from NASA to research turning astronauts’ human waste into hydrogen peroxide to clean inside spaceships and create energy from the poop while on mission. Delta passenger carried off plane ‘in a body bag’ after bathroom overdose, flier says	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7641
__label__cc	0.568774	0.431226	Iran Just Hanged A Man They Claim Was An Israeli Agent Jessica Phelan Iran has hanged one of its nationals, Majid Jamali Fashi, who was accused of spying for Israel and assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist.Jamali Fashi was hanged today at Evin Prison in Tehran, Reuters said, citing local news reports. He was 24. More from GlobalPost: For Israel, attacking Iran is suddenly back on the table He was convicted in August last year of the murder of Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor who was killed in Jan. 2010 by a remote-controlled bomb planted outside his home in Tehran. According to Iran’s state-owned Press TV, Jamali Fashi was also found guilty of “receiving training from Mossad inside Israel as well as $120,000 to assassinate the Iranian scientist.” He supposedly confessed to the charges. At least five Iranian scientists have been killed in the past two years, most recently in January when a deputy director of Iran’s Nantanz uranium enrichment plant, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, was the target of a bomb attack. Iran has blamed the deaths, variously, on Israel, the US and the UK, claiming the Western powers are attempting to sabotage its nuclear program. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said at the time that Professor Mohammadi was not involved in the government’s nuclear activities, Reuters notes. According to the BBC, opposition sources in Iran have accused the government of killing him because he was one of their supporters. More from GlobalPost: Iranian oil industry hit by cyber attack globalpost international-contributor international-us iran israel middle east spies	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7645
__label__cc	0.684942	0.315058	PC Games > Hidden Object Games > Myths of the World: The Whispering Marsh Myths of the World: The Whispering Marsh People have been vanishing in the Whispering Marsh, and the county has enlisted you to investigate. But this is no ordinary missing-persons case... The entire marsh is steeped in myth, with tales of mysterious twinkling lights that can mesmerize their victims and lure them to their doom. What are these lethal illuminations, and who – or what – is controlling them? You'll have to act fast to find out before it's lights out for you, too, in this chilling Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game! Dark Parables: Goldilocks and the Fallen Star Lost Lands: The Golden Curse Nevertales: Legends Chimeras: The Signs of Prophecy Hidden Expedition: The Fountain of Youth Phantasmat: Behind the Mask Myths of the World: The Whispering Marsh is rated 4.1 out of 5 by 19. Rated 5 out of 5 by cejene from Great Game! The graphics are amazing. The VO and music was beautiful. Very good HOS and mini games. Loved this game and it was a good length. The ending was well... ok. (Where was my lantern at the end?) Highly recommended. Rated 5 out of 5 by bErT13 from Whispering Surprise & Happiness RETURNED!!!! THANK YOU EIPIX!!!!!!! You have finally come back to the standard we all expect from ya'll & I for one appreciate it!!! It was a great surprise to be able to understand & make sense of this game all the way thru. The story line was great, the challenge was so much better even if some of the HOS were the same as before ya'll changed them up to include FROGS & silhouettes, put aways & regular HOS & the mini games were really good & the explanations for the games were perfect. I loved the lantern games & enjoyed the fact they got relatively harder each use of the lantern & it was fun as well. I was happy, surprised & excited to play this game once I saw that it was not gonna be like the previous 2 games & how some of ya'lls others turned out. Please keep up the great work you have come back to & I don't care if you only put out 2-3 games a yr as long as they are awesome games that make sense, have a great story line & are not anywhere near what ya'll have been doing lately. Better to put a few great games out rather then many awful games Beginning to end this game was great, graphics were beautiful & well done, & tho I didn't get the CE I think it would be worth it for CEs in all the series except Dark Rose & Heart of Desolation, those 2 games are not even worth getting at all Rated 5 out of 5 by Yanie1020 from Fantastic! This game has everything, including great music! I found the puzzles different and challenging. The HOS's were varied and never boring. Voiceovers were some of the best. Graphics were awesome. I liked everything about this game. Big Fish, you've been offering some great games recently. Please keep it up! Eipix and ERS are still favorites, but Mad Head is quickly catching up! Rated 5 out of 5 by Weenie123 from Loved it !!!!! I found this game to be very fun. Great mix of games and it makes you use your brain,which I enjoy as it keeps us sharp. Yoy really get your moneys worth. Rated 5 out of 5 by denniann2 from another great game in the series. a custom level, an interactive map. you are the county bounder that is brought in to stop the disappearance of the people of the village. when you found out that the weird lights are being controlled by an evil entity then that gives you something to work on. the HO scenes are varied. sequel....i feel sure. Rated 5 out of 5 by smilingsun72 from Spirits! A lantern! A county bounder! Interesting indeed! (SE) Another great game in this series. The story, graphics, and music are great. The puzzles are not overly challenging in regular mode. I did like the lantern puzzles, different twist, and they got more challenging as the game progressed. Rated 5 out of 5 by koitoula from Great! Great Game!I love this games!! Rated 5 out of 5 by vmomahhj from Myths of the World: The Whispering Marsh this was great,but to long. But I did play to the end. Rated 5 out of 5 by pennmom36 from Hold Your Breath There's a legend here in the Whispering Marsh, of a mysterious and frightening man who loathes any form or merriment, they call him the Lantern Man (insert dramatic music). Careless people who laugh and sing or even the foolish who dare taunt the Lantern Man, have disappeared into the foggy marsh, never to return! It is said, that if you can hold your breath when he shines his lantern upon you, your soul will be spared. So many good people have disappeared, prompting an investigation by the County Bounder, surely this legend was created to to frighten misbehaving children, but just in case........HOLD YOUR BREATH! The graphics are fantastic, crisp, and well defined, exactly what you'd expect in a quiet town nestled near an eerie marsh, especially a Whispering Marsh. Top the graphics off with theater quality video cinematics that draw you into the storyline, hook, line and sinker, and you get another superior Myths of the World episode. Many of the inventory items you collect are complex items that require some form of interaction before they can be used, such as combining it with another item. The Collector's Edition has the addition of Achievements to earn, Hidden Acorns to find, and even Morphing Objects within the HOP's! Personally, I love Morphs in the game itself with very slow morphing features that aren't linear, putting an occasional morph into a HOP doesn't thrill me as much. The Hidden Object Scenes are pretty lengthy, some have interactive list finds followed by duel pictures that require you to find the item associated when combines such as a mirror image of a womans silhouette is a mirror. One of my favorite HOP was an extremely interactive and progressive silhouetted shape find where you find the first item matching the silhouetted shape and then use that item in the scene to expose the next item and so forth. There was also one that tasked you with finding 5 birds and 5 keys on a stone mural, which would combine to a pigeon and a large key that is used to eat bird seed and open a lock uncovering a list of items, I enjoyed the variety. There are also small HOP's within zoomed in zones where you find a handful of the same type of item such as 6 petals. Both this Standard Edition and the Collector's Edition offer an alternate game of Mahjong, but the HOP's are really entertaining and way more exciting than a tile matching game. I didn't come across anything new as far as the puzzle or mini games went, I'll list a few of the games that stand out: 1) Navigating through obstacles on a map using a directional compass arrow. 2) Sliding 4 shells to open a bookshelf, some shells also affect others. 3) Matching pairs of symbols by turning over two symbols at a time. 4) Using a lockpick to open 3 different lock tumblers, rotating the top pick until correctly placed and pushing in on the bottom pick. 5) Connecting gears from the top left to the bottom right using chains of different lengths, blue chains connect two fields, red chains connect a single field. 6) Several increasingly difficult Lantern puzzles where you make connections to enclose all of the symbols in a continuous line, however you cannot directly connect two identical symbols you have to alternate them. The Collector's Edition has 13 Achievements, 42 Hidden Acorns, 16 Morphing Objects within the HOP's, 18 Puzzles or Mini Games, an alternate game of Mahjong, a Souvenir Room, Lore Book, 10 Soundtracks, the Making of, Videos, 8 Concept Art pictures, 8 Wallpapers, 16 replayable HOP's, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter, enjoy....... and remember to hold your breath when the Lantern Man shines his lantern upon you! Rated 5 out of 5 by biscuitsmama from IS HE REAL OR A CHILDREN’S FABLE As the County Bounder you certainly have your hands full this time. Are you chasing after a fantasy or is something much worse going on in the Whispering Marsh. Your help is needed because many citizens of the town have gone missing in the forest around Whispering Marsh and now it is up to you to figure it out and to stop the disappearances. But before you even start you have an accident as you are approaching the town. Not only is your carriage disabled, your coachman has now drowned in the marsh. Not a very auspicious beginning to your investigation. Once you reach the town you find there is a curfew and the citizens are in a panic. The sheriff is now among the missing and things seem to be getting worse all the time. You learn that there is a local legend of the “Lantern Man” who whisks away those who enjoy laughter, dancing and merriment. Some say it was a bedtime story to frighten misbehaving children but maybe he isn’t a fable at all. Just beware – you mustn’t laugh or have any fun while playing or you just might go missing too. One look at the devs name on this game and you know the graphics will be excellent. The sound package in the game is quite good with voiceovers that okay but not the best I have heard in a game. Technical Aspects of the game include four modes of gameplay: Explorer, Professor, County Bounder, and the custom mode – Swamp Dweller where you can fiddle with settings so you can play the game the way you like. In the Swamp Dweller mode the hints can be set in a range of 10 to 120 seconds and the skips from 10 to 400 seconds in the custom level you can also turn off the penalty setting for random clicking in the HOPS. : You have an interactive transporter type map that is found very early in the game. Yes there is a gimmick – a lantern that you acquire early in the game. You will use the lantern to drive away the swamp lights but you must charge it by playing a mini-puzzle before it is ready to be used. The HOPS included the standard interactive variety of scenes that we now see in HOPA games so there is nothing new or earth-shaking here. That being said the HOPS are very good with items that are fairly easy to spot. If you don’t want to search for items in the HOP scenes you may choose the option of playing the alternate game of Mah-jongg. In my humble opinion, some of the puzzles seem to be getting better and have a bit more challenge in recent games. I am hopeful that the trend continues in Myths of the World The Whispering Marsh but initially I didn’t encounter any that were too difficult. I know that the puzzles generally become progressively more difficult as a game progresses so I hope that is the case with The Whispering Marsh. Myths of the World is one of my favorite game series and The Whispering Marsh is a game I have been eagerly awaiting. This developer knows how to formulate a great story and this one definitely captured my interest. Even though I couldn’t wait to hit that buy button, as always, I recommend that you at least try the demo to see if this is a game you will like Myths of the World: The Whispering Marsh Reviews - page 2 The twinkling lights in the marsh look pretty, but they hold a mysterious power. Whatever you do... do not follow them!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7650
__label__cc	0.693995	0.306005	PC Games > Hidden Object Games > Mystery of the Ancients: No Escape The Mariaglorum Company presents the next mysterious chapter of their classic Mystery of the Ancients series. A distress call sends you on a road trip to find your missing friends somewhere along a remote country road. A deserted hotel looks promising, but what waits inside that house may be more than you can handle. A mysterious man offers help and small robotic companion, but who is he? Can he be trusted? Find out in this fascinating hidden-object puzzle adventure game! OS: Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10 Grim Tales: The Nomad Bridge to Another World: Gulliver Syndrome Enchanted Kingdom: Descent of the Elders Mystery Trackers: The Fall of Iron Rock Endless Fables: Shadow Within Whispered Secrets: Cursed Wealth Fantasy Mosaics 34: Zen Garden Mystery of the Ancients: No Escape is rated 3.7 out of 5 by 9. Rated 5 out of 5 by pennmom36 from THE MORE I PLAYED THIS GAME, THE MORE I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT! Welcome, weary traveler to the Infinity Motel, It has been anticipating your arrival! But how could anyone have known you just received a distress call from your friends Bob and Sarah? Your gut feeling tells you to run, everything about this scenario is wrong, but these are your friends and they are inside, and they are in serious danger, it's check-in time! Once the door closes, you quickly begin to realize that The Infinity Motel's sole purpose is to find your deepest fears to use them against you, to drive you completely mad! Finding your friends will become the easy part of this personal nightmare, escaping with your sanity intact is a whole different ballgame. There is a Gadget/Helper, a tiny Robot. At first, I didn't like him and couldn't understand why they had to include this feature. After a couple of chapters, however, I came to the conclusion that No Escape has such an interesting storyline and some of the most amazing graphics, that this tiny little helper couldn't possibly ruin the game for me or anyone else for that matter! I felt so bad that I had deducted a star on my review of the CE version for such a minuscule feature, that I contacted Mariaglorum Games to apologize! The Hidden Object Scenes are actually very good and are located in interesting scenes. They are varied each time with Interactive Listed Finds, Multiples of the same Item Finds, Pictured Item Finds, Silhouetted Shape Finds, and Sketched Picture Finds. Two of my favorites was an Interactive-Progressive-Silhouetted Shape Find where you had to find one item that matched the Silhouetted Shape and then use that item within the scene interactively to expose the next object and a Related Picture Pair Find where you had to find two pictures or images on a blackboard that related to the Listed Items shown. This isn't a new concept but I found it to be quite challenging because the images they chose required you really had to think about which items combined would relate to the word. I'm rarely impressed or challenged by HOP's nowadays, so well done @Mariaglorum! The Mini-Games are decent, but they do tend to be on the less complicated side of the spectrum, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Puzzles don't always have to be brain-teasers to be enjoyed. Below are brief instructions of some of the games you'll encounter: 1-Swap tile strips to complete the image. 2-Click to move tiles into place in the correct order on a 4 part puzzle. (loved it!) 3-Scoop fireflies into a jar. 4-Click when lines are within the circle. 5-Guide the girl along every path w/o retracing paths. 6-Drag puzzle sections into the frame. 7-Arrange the trophies according to the labels on the shelf. The Collector's Edition version has 16 Wallpapers, 30 Concept Art Pictures, 24 Movie Video Cutscenes, 8 Music Soundtracks, 5 Re-playable Mini-Games (w/limited re-plays) 10 Achievements to Earn, 7 Character Figurine Collectibles, 23 Hidden Keys, 1 Fresco Jigsaw Puzzle (assemble to earn an achievement) 6 Main Chapters +Bonus Chapter and a Built-in Strategy Guide. Enjoy your lengthy stay, IT only gives you one checkout option! MYSTERY OF THE ANCIENTS SERIES LIST Title*Standard Edition Release DateAverage Rating 1-Lockwood Manor (November 15-2011) 3.8 2-Curse of the Black Water (November 30-2012) 4.6 3-Three Guardians (February 28-2014) 4.6 4-Deadly Cold (March 6-2015) 4.1 5-Mud Water Creek (May 13-2016) 4.0 6-The Sealed And Forgotten (March 31-2017) 3.5 7-Black Dagger (March 16-2018) 3.9 8-No Escape (March 22-2019) n/a by: Mariaglorum Games Rated 5 out of 5 by charlene_lane from DEFEAT BEATRICE - WOW, WHAT A GAME REVIEW FROM COMPLETED GAME AND BONUS Yes, believe the reviews - this game is fabulous and definitely a top contender to be one of the best games this year. Well done MariaGlorum - you rock. There is: Voiceovers (with dialogue); * Casual, Advanced, Expert and Custom modes; * Interactive map; * Robot to help you through the different rooms. The graphics are very well done and scenes are clear and defined. There is plenty of colour and items you need to find are easy to spot. The music is orchestral and very beautiful. The hidden object games are mainly straightforward and finding one particular item - like 50 skulls (yes, 50!). These all had a very good challenge to them and I loved them all. Well, where do I start with the mini-games! There are a huge variety - some are easy and some are very hard. It started with getting the airplane to land which got my thinking cap on. If you love a challenge then there are mini-games in there to put you right into a spin. In some of these I was drinking from the bottle instead of the glass and yelling "I can do this"! So, do you get the CE or SE? In the CE you get a lengthy bonus game, achievements room, 23 keys and 7 figures to find in main game only. All up the game and bonus took me a good 9 hours to do, playing all the mini-games. Overall, this is an unmissable game and so worth putting in your collection. I will be definitely playing this game again - just for the mini-games. Happy playing fishies. This is a gem. Rated 5 out of 5 by biscuitsmama from NO ESCAPE – ONE OF THE BEST GAMES IN THE MYSTERY OF THE ANCIENT SERIES! Mystery of the Ancients returns with No Escape, the 8th game in the series. No Escape is an excellent game that kept me engaged from the very first scene. 2019 seems to be getting off to a great start with several good HOPA games being offered already and Mystery of the Ancients No Escape will most likely be at the top of my list for best game of the year. I’m always excited when I play a HOPA game that grabs my attention with gameplay features that I love and keeps up the pace from the first scene until the game ends. For me at least No Escape is that sort of game! No Escape begins with the usual call from friends who need our help and then when we arrive to find them we must go through the same mundane tasks to get started. Yes, we have seen this scenario over and over again but the difference here is that rather than being a frustrating do this and then that situation, I found the game so well designed that it wasn’t simply boring gameplay to get started. Yes, in many ways the game is the same as others that we have seen over and over again but there is something different about No Escape that sets it apart from run-of-the-mill cookie-cutter games. Even though I generally prefer HOPS over puzzles, I loved the puzzles in No Escape. In fact, I enjoyed the puzzles far more than I did the HOPS. In some of the HOPS many items were so tiny and indistinct that it made the scenes seem tedious more than fun. Although the scenes varied in style and were at times interactive, I found the puzzles to be far more entertaining. There were a couple of Rube-Goldberg puzzles in the game that were more difficult to complete and I admit that I had to reset them to try again. If you enjoy the Mystery of the Ancients series or if you are looking for a top-notch HOPA game to play then I highly recommend Mystery of the Ancients No Escape. For me No Escape is probably the best game in the series although most of the others are good as well. Even though I love this game, as always, please try the demo to see if this is a game you will enjoy. Happy gaming! Rated 5 out of 5 by bonbon663 from It's a buy for me. I finished the demo, and am really impressed by this game. I find the story line interesting, it's something where I want to see where it goes. The puzzles have just the right amount of challenge to them without being overly frustrating. The graphics are impressive, there are small details everywhere that I found interesting. For example, in the "psychologist's" office, there is a clock on the wall where the hands are just moving. Small details make this game. The HOPS are different, not the same old just find things. You have to match in some places, I found it refreshing. Overall, I liked it. Rated 4 out of 5 by deddu from Challenging Mini-puzzles I beta tested this game and could not wait until the SE came out. It has a good story line, typical hidden objects and some really good puzzles. However, I was disappointed in the fact that there was a lot of back and forth in the game. Rated 4 out of 5 by LunaNik from 4½ stars for the storyline, HO scenes, and mini-games. BASED ON COMPLETE DEMO OVERVIEW You receive a distress call from your friends, mysteriously trapped in a deserted hotel on a dead end road. Once you make it inside the hotel, an unknown man contacts you, promising to help. He provides you with a map and a helper...an adorable brass robot that functions as the 'key' to each new room. But this search and rescue mission isn't as simple as it seems, because the hotel can rearrange its rooms and change them at will. WHAT I LIKED • Although the plot revolved around rescuing people—again!—the changeable nature of the hotel, the enigma of the video man, and the reason behind the whole thing inexorably drew me forward, and I can't wait to see what's next! • The production was top notch. Beautiful graphics and animation, realistic textures, gorgeously realistic palette, professional VOs. • The challenge level in both the HO scenes and the mini-games has been upped. Most are a moderate challenge, but there are a few really easy ones and a few difficult ones. WHAT WAS 'MEH' • Generally, I'm not a fan of helpers. However, at least the robot wasn't entirely gratuitous; you actually needed him to open all the doors. WHAT I DISLIKED • Exploration included all the usual HOPA tropes: the mailbox that won't open without its flag, the thorns blocking an item, something obviously buried, the key fallen under the floorboards, things sewn in various cushions...you know the drill. Mariaglorum can do MUCH better than this nonsense, and it was disappointing. HO DETAILS • silhouette sequential find and use (challenging) • storybook multiples (easy) • word and pictorial list (challenging) • find 2 images that create each word on the list (difficult) • find runes on x-ray films (challenging) MINI-GAME DETAILS • open 4 locks by strategizing to move each set of tokens to their goals without blocking other tokens (challenging) • catch fireflies in a jar (throwaway) • guide the girl to the sun, using each path only once (challenging) • match the trophies to the labels (challenging) • recreate the runes by choosing two parts for each (challenging) RECOMMENDATIONS • Overall, this is a much better game than most we see nowadays. And it's a purchase for me. I do recommend you try the demo first, as always. We all prefer different game elements. For me, the storyline is most important, followed by challenging gameplay. I can put up with a limited number of shaped keys and silly tasks if the plot is engaging and the gameplay is thoughtful. • Other excellent games in this series: Curse of the Black Water, Three Guardians, Deadly Cold, The Sealed and Forgotten, Black Dagger Rated 2 out of 5 by Jerryj131 from PJ I did not enjoy this game. The puzzles were way to hard to be fun and the instructions were unclear and difficult to understand. Finally, the game locked up at the last part and we could not finish it. Rated 2 out of 5 by dhoneykids3 from Put Your Walking Shoes On This game sounded fun to me but not too far into it I realized I couldn't wait for it to end. Others were not exaggerating when they said a lot of back and forth! You get sent back for things like a feather for a feather duster so you can clear cobwebs to get a screwdriver, or a corkscrew which the makers must love cause there's a need for a corkscrew around every corner it seems! The game gets into "other worldly" dimensions, which I don't care for with characters that change from good to bad and back again. You have a robot helper which isn't so great and takes forever to do small tasks. Colors are o.k., alot of blues. Music is tolerable, science fiction type. There are alot of mini games, easy to fairly challenging, but they do get tiring after so many. There are instructions for those on the bottom of the screen, just hold mouse on bottom of screen and instructions will pop up. You can skip some mini games but not all of them, and some you will wish you could skip. Example: finding alot of matching weird icons. The h.o. scenes are junk pile, and some objects are very hard to see cause they blend in with the the color of the scene or are very small. You will need to find alot of keys to get into doors, chests, tool chests, gates, etc. If you don't mind alot of puzzles and going back and forth, you might like this game. As for me, I have already uninstalled it....for good. Rated 1 out of 5 by sjoycesam_1997 from This game is extremely hard At first the game was going fine, However, the further I got the harder it became. The mini games have no explanation and you are going back and forth, forever, The game got so bad, I couldn't finish it. Get lost in a haunted house that keeps changing!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7651
__label__wiki	0.769515	0.769515	Biologics News WuXi Biologics Initiates Construction of a Integrated ADC Solution Center in China Biologics \| News \| 0 Comment \| 20 Jun, 2018 WuXi Biologics , a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing, announced today...Read more Researchers develop device to deliver medicine to heart An international team of researchers has developed a new minimally invasive medical device called Therepi that can be placed directly on diseased heart tissue to continuously deliver requir...Read more Rutgers scientists create robotic device for blood testing Scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, US have created an automated blood drawing and testing device that provides rapid results, potentially improving the workflow in hospitals an...Read more New ways to understand how body fights cancer Singapore – Researchers from A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Singapore General Hospital (SGH), National Cancer Centre Singa...Read more WuXi Biologics to invest $60 million for its first overseas site in U.S. WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing, has announced that i...Read more Chinese researchers develop Velcro sensor for cancer cells A group of researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University Third Hospital has developed a new type of sensor that acts like Velcro for prostate cancer cells, sticking the...Read more Scientists to develop portable blood test device to check heart attacks An international team of researchers based at King’s College London is developing a blood test to diagnose heart attacks which could one day be carried out on a simple handheld device...Read more Scientists use nanoparticles to study wound scarring A group of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a new way of seeing when heavy wound scars are forming, and thereby providing doctors the ...Read more Scientists use RFID chips to track biological samples Researchers in the U.S. and Japan plan to use Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips for keeping track of organoids, samples of human tissue that mimic pieces of organs and are grown f...Read more Shuwen Biotech, Bliss pharma unite for companion diagnostics of cancer Biologics \| News \| 0 Comment \| 28 May, 2018 Shuwen Biotech Co. Ltd., an emerging leader in innovative diagnostic products and services has signed a partnership agreement with Bliss Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a biopharmaceutical com...Read more FDA approves Merck’s Drug for most common Lung Cancer type The FDA has approved the use of Keytruda in combination with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for the most common type of lung cancer. Last year, the FDA approved it for lung cancer ...Read more Scientists develop new technique to detect Chikungunya virus Indian scientists have developed a biosensor technique which can be potentially help in detecting Chikungunya virus. According to the scientists, the technique can be used to develop a poin...Read more UK trial approves breath test for cancer detection A new clinical trial by the Imperial College London has validated the use of their breath test as a first-line diagnostic to identify oesophageal and gastric cancer. The test has been desi...Read more Japan approves stem cell based trials for heart treatment A special health ministry panel gave Osaka University the approval to carry out a study involving the use of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to treat heart failure. This would be ...Read more HKBU team develops metal-based probes for detecting cancer biomarkers A team at Hong Kong Baptist University has developed the world’s first iridium (III)-based probes for imaging dopamine receptors in living cells. The discovery has enhanced the under...Read more US researchers develop tool to improve diagnostic accuracy A research team at the University at Buffalo (UB) in the US has developed a new protein analysis tool called IonStar which can enhance the speed and accuracy of disease diagnosis and the an...Read more Researchers develop lens to reduce myopia in children A team of esearchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a lens that may slow down the progress of myopia in children. The team has designed a Defocus Inc...Read more Vyriad signs a contract with IBM to build an oncolytic virus anti-cancer vaccines manufacturing facility Vyriad, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company based in Rochester, Minnesota has announced the signing of a contract to build out its facility in 25,000 square feet of leased space on t...Read more	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7658
__label__wiki	0.628231	0.628231	Brahmin Matrimony > Singapore > Vadama Matrimony Singapore Brahmin Vadama Grooms Prev 123456 Next Caste/Division : Iyer Location : Singa[pre, Permanent Reident, Singapore He was brought up in Thrissur, Kerala, from where he did his basic schooling from. He then did his M.Sc, PhD and postdoc from NTU, Singapore. He is currently working as a scientist in a private company in Singapore. He holds permanent residency over there. His belong to a family of four, mom, dad, sis (married and settled in Coimbatore), apart from himself. They take pride in being moderately liberal towards their outlook in life. He himself is very practical and has a very caring persona. And believes in leading a fun-filled and responsible life. He likes travelling and trying new cuisines, and loves hanging out with family and friends. Location : Singapore, Singapore, Singapore My son is working as a operations product planner in Xilinx. He did masters in Logistics and transportation. He is working in Silicon Valley company (Xilinx) in Singapore.He did his B.E.(EEE) in Sai Ram Engineering College and was selected in campus interview by Infosys Ltd. He woked in Infosys Ltd for three years and after that he did his masters. He is from Joint family, middle class background with Orthodox values. Very social and well mannered. He was working as a consultant in Rolls Royce at Singapore earlier and currently working as AVP for a Swiss Investment bank in Singapore. Location : Singapore Our eldest son is educated in the true sense of the word. He has a keen interest in reading and literature, which has provided him with a wide perspective and progressive thinking. Deeply compassionate and sincere, he brings that attitude to all spheres of his life. A true gentleman, he treats every one around him with courtesy. His passions include travelling and listening to music. Having been nurtured in a combination of traditional and progressive environment, he reflects both the elemnts in his outlook. He has a younger brother who is presently pursuing his studies in Mumbai. Both the children have been nurtured in an atmosphere of spirituality and family values. I am Dr S Hariharan from the Indian Telecommunications Service and have headed many reputed company in India and Abroad. We are palghat brahmins. and my Wife (Lata), who hails from Guntur, is a post-graduate in English and is teaching at the Mother's International School. We have two sons - the eldest presently in Singapore employed with a leading Airlines Company and our second son is graduating in Mumbai. Aditya has studied in Delhi and moved on to Bangalore for engineering. He worked for a while in India with Mahindra Comviva and later completed his MS in Analytics from Singapore Management University. This profile is being managed by my parents and me. 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__label__cc	0.607638	0.392362	All Things Kardashian Oprah Reveals Why She Wouldn't Marry Stedman, Why She's Obsessed With Dogs And Tubs August 15, 2017, 10:41 AM ET We speak your name. By Marianne Garvey Sit down, pay attention, you’re about to understand why Oprah never got married, is nuts about dogs, and is always on the search for the most beautiful tub in the world to soak herself in. If you don’t care then you’re a monster who doesn’t understand the magic of Oprah Winfrey. And that’s unacceptable. Barack Obama Killed the Husband Game on a Baller Yacht With Michelle (and Oprah!) Oprah, who has been with partner Stedman Graham for over 30 years now, says that the only time marriage was discussed was in the 90s—and it turned out to be the only time they ever talked about it. She revealed to Vogue: “Nobody believes it, but it’s true. The only time I brought it up was when I said to Stedman, ‘What would have happened if we had actually gotten married?’ And the answer is: ‘We wouldn’t be together.’ "We would not have stayed together, because marriage requires a different way of being in this world. His interpretation of what it means to be a husband and what it would mean for me to be a wife would have been pretty traditional, and I would not have been able to fit into that.” O said instead of being married, she learned to “Live life on your own terms,” which she certainly has done—she is now one of the richest women in the world. This September, @Oprah will return to broadcast television for the first time since her talk show ended (there was a one-off interview with First Lady @MichelleObama last December on @CBS), joining @60Minutes as a special contributor. But the story of how @Oprah decided to return requires that we first go back to the election of @realdonaldtrump. Two weeks after he won the presidency, @oprahmagazine decided to gather a group of Trump and @hillaryclinton supporters—all women—for a roundtable discussion. Feelings were still so raw that some of the women didn’t even want to sit at the same table. “One said, ‘I’ve never been this close to a Trump supporter,’ ” says @Oprah. “I go: ‘Not that you know of, maybe.’ ” About an hour in, @Oprah could see their guards coming down. “By pressing the conversation in such a way that people could hear each other’s stories without them being politicized, I was able to get those women from different backgrounds to begin to actually hear and feel for each other. By the end of that two and a half hours, I could have gotten them to sing ‘Kumbaya’ for real if I wanted to.” She cracks up. “I really could’ve! OK—everybody hold hands!” Ironically enough, it was the moment when she realized that no one had filmed the discussion that a light switched on: Maybe, just maybe, this is exactly what America needs right now. Tap the link in our bio to read the full interview. Photographed by #AnnieLeibovitz, styled by @phyllis_posnick, Vogue, September 2017. A post shared by Vogue (@voguemagazine) on Aug 14, 2017 at 8:18am PDT Now onto the real loves of her life—her dogs. Oprah explains that while growing up in Mississippi, her father wouldn’t let her have a dog. “That’s why I had eleven dogs at one point: because my father wouldn’t let me have the one dog that I carried from Milwaukee when I was this despondent teenager hiding a pregnancy. My father says, ‘This dog can’t come in the house.’ I was really distraught—and the dog had to live outside and developed mange and all that stuff, so I also vowed, If . . . IIIIIIII . . . evvvvvvvver get some money, I’m gonna have as many dogs as I want. One of the best moments was my father coming into the house in Indiana and the dogs are all over the place, and he says, ‘There’s nowhere to sit in this house! All these dogs!’ And I go, ‘Now, this is their home—you have to ask them if you can sit down.’ She laughs. “That’s how I’ve overcompensated: with dogs and tubs,” she tells the mag. Yes, she loves a good tub. Oprah once wrote a story for her own website called, “What Oprah Knows About Letting Go of Symbolic Possessions,” which was a love letter to her “most prized material possession,” a bathtub “made from one solid piece of onyx hand-carved expressly for me by stonecutters in Italy.” “I loved that tub. Those of you who regularly read this column know that bathing is my hobby. I revel in all things that enhance the experience, which is why, over the years, you've seen so many bath products on ‘The O List.’ Bubble baths, salts, oils, capsules, bath pillows—they delight my senses and help soothe me, body and soul. But she was going through a phase of getting rid of attachments, and was redesigning her house. “As I stood there facing down the design crew, all the lessons I'd ever learned about getting past our attachment to things came coursing through my mind. Why was I putting up a fight to save the tub? I could get a new one. I wouldn't be bathless. So, impulsively (and partly out of sheer frustration), I said to the team with their clipboards and rulers, ‘Okay, take it out. That's it. I'm done. I'm letting it go.’ They cheered. I fled, trying not to cry. I couldn't understand why I was so emotional over a tub…It represented wealth. And ‘I’ve truly made it.’ It made me feel special. Lots of people have nice houses, but not many have a hand-carved-out-of-one-piece-of-onyx tub. And letting it go meant...I wasn't special anymore? Sounds cray-cray. But super freeing to figure out what was behind my attachment. “For sure, the tub had become my symbol of success.” She may have rid herself of that tub, but she’s got more. “I still have a nice bathtub. I major in bathtubs. I spend my time looking for the best possible bathtub a woman can buy. And actually, Stedman’s never been in this one. When I was in Chicago, he would ask for permission: ‘Can I get in your tub?’ And I would say, ‘Mmmmmm. . . . OK,’” she tells Vogue. Why can’t she get over the tub thing? “You know where it came from? I will tell you. Honestly. It came from the fact that I was raised with my father in, like, an 1,100-square-foot house where we all shared the same tub. And when I would go back home, after having been in hotels and seeing that there are nicer tubs in the world, and there’s that little tub with a ring around it, where Comet could no longer clean the ring around the tub—and it was my job to clean it—because it has been permatized, I vowed if I ever got my own place, I was going to get myself a good tub!” She laughs. And she’s owning her tub obsession now. “By the time you hit 60, there are just no . . . damn . . . apologies. And certainly not at 63. And the weight thing that was always such a physical, spiritual, emotional burden for me—no apologies for that either…I don’t know of a person who can honestly, deeply, profoundly speak to the word contentment. I’ve tried to talk to other people about this thing: I have no angst. No . . . nothing. No regret, no fear. I mean . . . just absolute joyful contentment.” Blasphemy! 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__label__cc	0.607501	0.392499	Malaysia Management Team Bridge Data Centres Malaysia Sdn Bhd (formerly known as CSF CX Sdn Bhd) was incorporated on 27 September 2007. Bridge Data Centres Malaysia Sdn Bhd was acquired by Bridge Data Centres Malaysia Holdings Sdn Bhd in November 2017, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of BDC (Malaysia) Holdco Pte. Ltd, Bridge Data Centres is founded by Michael Foust and Kris Kumar who collectively have more than 50 years experience investing in, conceptualizing, designing, building and operating high quality data centre facilities, with best-in-class operating and maintenance procedures to ensure the highest level of uptime and reliability. The Bridge Data Centres team has executed in excess of US$ 10 billion of transactions investing in, and growing data centre platforms and providing resilient and scalable data centre facilities to customers across multiple industry sectors, including financial institutions, technology companies, government and more recently large cloud services providers in Asia Pacific and globally. Headed by a regional management team of industry veterans The Bridge Data Centres management team has significant experience in the data centre industry across all functions from investment to design, build and operations Track record in data centre acquisition & development Deep experience and expertise in investigating and concluding large data centre transactions, site acquisition, authority approvals, design, construction and operations, having invested more than $10 billion in this asset class globally Access to capital and structuring experience Extensive access to investment capital with significant structuring experience to manage investment risk across the asset lifecycle Speed of execution and efficient capital deployment Rapid due diligence of assets and smart conceptualisation of data centre developments, resulting in shortened transaction timelines and optimised capital spend, with a strong focus on the resiliency and reliability objectives of the customer Deep customer insights Decades of experience interacting with customers and end-users across all functions in the data centre industry allowing the team to generate deep foresight into changing customer needs Significant value-add through operations 25-year track record in operating data centres with the ability to set up best-in-class operations and maintenance procedures to ensure the highest levels of uptime and reliability To know more about our solutions © 2018 Bridge Data Centres Malaysia. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7666
__label__wiki	0.981087	0.981087	Paraglider taken to hospital after crashing onto beach at Peacehaven Jennifer Logan Published: 17:28 Saturday 16 February 2019 A paraglider has been taken to hospital after crashing onto the beach at Peacehaven. Crews from South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) and Newhaven Coastguard Search & Rescue Team were sent to the incident, which happened just before 4.30pm today (February 16). Emergency crews at the scene at Peacehaven. Photo by Daniel Moon A spokesman for Maritime and Coastguard Agency confirmed four other paragliders had also landed on the beach between Newhaven and Peacehaven, but all fortunately escaped serious injuries. The spokesman said: “There were two paraglider incidents this afternoon. In the first one a man landed on rocks near Peacehaven. He was taken into the care of South East Coast Ambulance Service. “In the second incident four people landed on a beach between Newhaven and Peacehaven and became stranded. There were no medical issues and they self rescued. “Newhaven Coastguard Rescue Team attended both incidents to assist the casualties. “The Newhaven RNLI lifeboat was launched to carry out a shoreline search for the second set of casualties although all four were accounted for relatively quickly.” Renewed appeal to find £100,000 silverware stolen from University of Sussex The state of play with every Brighton player as they prepare for first pre-season with Graham Potter Brighton star makes surprise admission, Arsenal set to finalise £25m deal, Watford join Newcastle in race for £25m winger - updates on Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton and West Ham Every Premier League and Football League club's average 2018/19 attendance - ranked in order Thursday’s Premier League whispers: Brighton target Liverpool’s £20m attacker and Higuain to West Ham Wednesday’s Premier League whispers: Are Brighton winning the race for Newcastle’s £15m star and Lindelof to Barcelona? More from Brighton & Hove Independent	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7668
__label__cc	0.661474	0.338526	Results: 1-10 Dhaka (History, Definition, & Facts) Dhaka, also spelled Dacca, city and capital of Bangladesh. It is located just north of the Buriganga River, a channel of the Dhaleswari River, in the south-central ... Dhaka (national capital, Bangladesh) - Images Dhaka. national capital, Bangladesh. Media (5 Images). Dhaka, Bangladesh · Buriganga River, Dhaka, Bangladesh · National Assembly Building (Jatiya ... Bangladesh - Education There are hundreds of colleges, most of them affiliated with one of the larger universities, such as the University of Dhaka (1921), the University of Rajshahi ... Bangladesh - Plant and animal life The central zone, covering parts of the country to the north of Dhaka, contains many lakes and supports swampy vegetation; the soil of part of this zone produces ... Jul 9, 2019 ... Its capital is Dhaka. ... miles (1,800 km) of Indian territory. In 1971 it became the independent country of Bangladesh, with its capital at Dhaka. Bangladesh - Images and Audio Dhaka, Bangladesh · Bangladesh · Boat traffic on the Burhi Ganga River, Dhaka, Bangl. Bangladesh: Ethnic composition · Bangladesh: Religious affiliation. Narayanganj (Bangladesh) The chief river port for nearby Dhaka (northwest), the city has steamer connections with major inland ports and Chittagong. Narayanganj is among the. Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh. Boat traffic on the Burhi Ganga River, Dhaka, Bangl. Bangladesh: Ethnic composition. Bangladesh: Religious affiliation. Awami League (political party, Bangladesh) Police detain an Awami League activist during a nationwide general strike, Dhaka, Bangl., April 2006. © Abir Abdullah—EPA/REX/Shutterstock ... Barisal (Bangladesh) Incorporated as a municipality in 1876, it is a trade centre, most notably for rice, jute, and fish. It is linked by ship with Dhaka, about 73 miles (117 km) to the north	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7670
__label__cc	0.739801	0.260199	Robin Denise What is the Book of Memories™? The Book of Memories™ is the most advanced permanent online memorial available for those wishing to pay tribute the memory of a loved one, friend or co-worker and we are pleased to make it available to the families and communities we serve. The lighting of a Memorial Candle provides a gesture of sympathy and support to the immediate family during their time of need; but also illustrates, for future generations, how their loved one brightened the lives of those they knew and loved. The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, "I love thee to the level of every day's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life." When you take the time to light a Memorial Candle in tribute to someone who touched your heart and made a difference in your life, you are leaving a visual record of the depth and breadth of a connection made; a meaningful connection which you will long remember and treasure. If you wish to light a Memorial Candle now, click here. A permanent notice of your tribute will remain on the Book of Memories™. Other features of the Book of Memories™ allow you to share a story, send a message of condolence or print sympathy card, and upload pictures. If you have any questions about how to use any of these many features, please speak to any one of our helpful staff. The Family Interactive features takes the Book of Memories™ far beyond a convenient and informative place to learn about service information at the time of the funeral. This lasting memorial allows authorized family members to securely access their loved one's Book of Memories at anytime to expand and grow their loved ones tribute. Ask your funeral director about the ever advancing features of the Book of Memories™ and how to receive a secure user name and password to this section. Request a Book of Memories™ Memorial Website for a Loved One The Book of Memories™ is made available to all families we serve as well as any family served by any other funeral home in our community. Please feel free to contact us at anytime if you would like to have a Book of Memories™ Memorial Website created for your loved one. My condolences to the Main... (read more) Williams Family The death of Mrs. Robin... (read more) Linda Wren Robin, it's been a few... (read more) I must say even though... (read more) Sheron Windsor Your BFF I will always miss you!... (read more) Renate Kloefkorn You were such a sweet person... (read more) You will be dearly missed... (read more)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7671
__label__wiki	0.685965	0.685965	Find pages with... this exact word or phrase: Then narrow your results by... pages updated: anytime past 24 hours past week past month past year site or domain: terms appearing: anywhere in the page in the title of the page in the URL of the page in the body of the page About 114,903 search results Nature - Woodside National Historic Site https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/woodside/nature Apr 1, 2019 ...A landscape view of the grounds surrounding Woodside National Historic Site. Photo: Kurt Bickell Nature An urban oasis Woodside offers an urban oasis near downtown Kitchener, Ontario. The house is surrounded by a beautiful park with wooded areas, gardens, lawns, and serene pathways. Stop by the lily pond and admire the tulip tree planted by John King over What's new - Saint-Ours Canal National Historic Site https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/qc/saintours/gestion-management/ne May 16, 2019 ... 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__label__cc	0.726642	0.273358	Rachel Hillier Overview Recent work Expertise Credentials Rachel is a corporate and commercial lawyer, advising on a broad range of regulatory issues in the financial services and technology sectors, commercial contracts and transactions generally. A large part of Rachel’s work is in the financial services, information technology and life sciences sectors, particularly FinTech and InsurTech. Her clients include wealth management firms, broker dealers, placement agents, insurers, insurance brokers and SIPP operators. Rachel has acted on the sale and purchase of various regulated companies, advising on FCA authorisation and change of control, regulatory requirements relating to the launch of new products and services, changes to FCA rules, compliance with PRA and FCA rules and EU regulations, contingency planning for Brexit, and drafting and negotiating customer terms of business, KYC and IPID documents, appointed representative agreements, distribution and outsourcing agreements. “Rachel has provided us with the highest level of service for a number of years. We are in a business where agility is demanded and Rachel has responded to our requirements with great pace and skill which has been extremely valuable to Bio.” Bio Trading Limited Advising SIPP operator Hartley Pension Ltd in setting up a new regulated SIPP scheme and in the acquisition of various SIPP assets. Providing on-going corporate, commercial, trust and regulatory advice. Drafting commercial contracts and giving regulatory advice to iXledger in setting up a new broker/insurer platform using blockchain technology. Regulatory advice to various start-ups seeking to raise funds via ICOs. Verifying white papers, giving written advice on the regulatory position of proposed crypto-currencies, drafting pre-seed, pre-sale and sale documentation for the ICO. Acting for an insurance intermediary offering “pay-per-mile” motor insurance using a telematic advice. Giving written advice on FCA regulation, drafting customer terms and conditions, privacy policy and website terms. Reviewing contracts with underwriters. Advising on the effects and implementation of MiFID II and IDD. Reviewing existing agreements to ensure compliance with new regulatory requirements. Regulatory advice for financial services and ICO businesses FCA authorisation and change of control applications Advising on the interpretation and implementation of FCA, PRA and EU regulations Trust law, governance and regulatory advice relating to SIPP and SAS pension schemes. Corporate restructuring of financial services businesses Advising on, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts Transactional work for regulated and technology firms Outsourcing agreements. Senior Associate (2019 – Present) Associate at Capital Law (2017 – 2019) Solicitor at Capital Law (2015 – 2017) Consultant solicitor at David Prosser & Co. (2008 – 2015) Managing partner at Le Brasseurs (2005 – 2008) Solicitor at Le Brasseurs (2003 – 2005) Solicitor at Caporn Campbell (2000 – 2003) Solicitor at Hardmans (1999 – 2000) Trainee solicitor at Hardmans (1997 – 1999) University of the West of England – Legal Practice Course (1996 – 1997) University of the West of England Post Graduate Diploma in Law (1995 – 1996) Canterbury Christ Church University Bachelor of Arts: History, 2:1 (1992 – 1995) The Law Society of England and Wales School Governor at Ysgol y Ddraig M: +44 (0)7469 147 451 r.hillier@capitallaw.co.uk	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7677
__label__wiki	0.852974	0.852974	Isagenix under the microscope It's a popular weight-loss program but there are questions around just how well the claims about Isagenix stack up. By Kate Browne Lose weight, make money? Imagine a company that claims its products can help you lose weight, have more energy and make money at the same time? Getting slimmer while your wallet grows fatter sounds appealing – and these are some of the claims made by Isagenix, one of the latest diet and lifestyle programs to hit our shores. Looking to reduce, maintain or just monitor your body fat? A body fat scale can be a useful tool: see our unbiased body fat scale reviews. But despite the hype, there are questions around just how effective the Isagenix way of life really is. CHOICE investigates. What is Isagenix? The US-based company was founded by Jim and Kathy Coover in 2002 and operates in seven countries worldwide. The company develops and produces products that it says assist with "nutritional cleansing" which can result in "greater health, well-being and weight loss". In a nutshell, the products are a variety of whey protein shakes, bars and herbal supplements, which promise to help you lose weight. And rather than using traditional forms of advertising, Isagenix uses multi-level marketing, which relies on participants to set up distribution networks among friends, and the company pays commissions based on sales by the participants. The Australia and New Zealand arm of the business launched in 2007, and the local website features enthusiastic Aussies giving testimonials on their weight loss and financial gains. (Even Australian Olympian Jana Pittman pops up in one of the company's promotional videos spruiking the wonders of the program.) It depends on which 'program' you choose. The nine-day cleansing program, with products to "support healthy energy and help satisfy hunger", retails for $260, while a 30-day cleanse is $490. There's also a variety of products and product combinations on sale that retail from $29 for a single product to $783.00 for the 'Presidents Pak', which "combines best-selling products with proven marketing tools". If participants choose to take up what is called an "autoship" arrangement they receive a discount and they go on a monthly direct debit arrangement. How does Isagenix compare to similar products? Dr Tim Crowe, accredited practising dietitian and associate professor in Nutrition says the cost of the products is high, particularly in comparison with real food and similar supplements available in chemists and supermarkets. "There's nothing new here," he says. "It's a supplement diet that is basically very low calorie (VLCD) and these have been around for years." A similar product such as Optifast would work equally as well for significantly less money, says Dr Alan Barclay, chief scientific officer with the Glycemic Index Foundation. "You can buy a month's supply of Optifast for just under $150 per month. This would achieve approximately the same weight loss as Isagenix and you would feel equally good." According to Barclay the only difference with the Isagenix products compared to similar meal replacements is the inclusion of the herbal supplements but he says there's little evidence these assist with weight loss. "It's the replacement of two to three meals with the shakes that makes you lose weight – the supplements are just window dressings." Both our experts also said that while VLCD meal replacements can work very well in the short term, they can be difficult to sustain long term for weight reduction. Don't believe the hype There's no shortage of people happy to sing the praises of the program. When we asked people to contact us with their Isagenix experiences many said they'd lost weight and had never felt better. However, according to Barclay this has more to do with weight loss than anything unique to Isagenix. "People often feel euphoric when they consume low-kilojoule meal replacements, due to the rapid weight loss. Losing weight can provide you with the sensation of having more energy – because you have less weight to carry around. It's very subjective though." The other claim is that the program provides "nutritional cleansing" and can "gently rid the body of any potentially harmful impurities". Barclay says this is also likely due to the weight loss and that: "There is no evidence to support detox diets. Our bodies naturally detoxify daily". And despite the testimonials by many who have used the program to achieve significant weight loss – Isagenix Australia General Manager Angus Love has said in a television interview that the average weight loss on the program is approximately 3.2 kilos. Everyone's an expert Multi-level marketing relies on peer-to-peer recommendations, which can be a powerful sales tool – but what happens when the person selling to you is also providing health advice? At CHOICE we were contacted by many people with concerns about health advice being provided by Isagenix sellers on social media. Sophia from Sydney says she saw women who were pregnant or breastfeeding who complained of feeling hungry who were being encouraged to persevere with the low-calorie diet by self-proclaimed "wellness experts" on Facebook who were also profiting from sales of the product (see Sophia's story) while others said they were told the program would help with conditions as diverse as asthma, anxiety and insomnia. Fiona McMillan says she tried Isagenix for a while and despite losing weight quit the program after seeing dodgy health advice provided by what she called the "pushers" on support pages on social media. McMillan, who is a medical scientist, says she was very concerned by the many sellers providing health advice to others who complained of feeling nauseous or breaking out in a rash after using the product, despite having no qualifications. "Any time someone mentioned any type of rash, comments would appear such as 'that's just a niacin rush', 'nothing to worry about', 'I can't wait till I have one of those' – all without knowledge of the user's prior medical history, or what said rash actually looked like. In my opinion, these blind consults are very dangerous." Katherine Vickers from Queensland says she had a health professional try to sell her the products. The physiotherapist she was seeing for a back problem suggested she use Isagenix to lose weight and "change her life". Says Katherine, "I told him I wasn't interested but despite that he keeps emailing me all the information and doing the hard sell". When CHOICE contacted Isagenix Australia a spokesperson said that the company prohibits 'associates' (who are independent contractors) from providing false or misleading information about the products or business opportunities and that it routinely monitors improper claims as well as providing training sessions. "We do not authorise any medical claims or advice with respect to our products." What is multi-level marketing? Multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) have business models that look a lot like pyramid schemes, however the main difference between the two is that with MLMs the income is related to actual products and services. MLMs are often promoted via social media or email – and the big sell is that you can work from home and earn a lot of money. You might have to sit through a long sales pitch or video before you are told exactly what product or service you will be selling. Promoters of MLMs encourage participants to set up distribution networks with their friends or colleagues and they pay commissions based on sales by the participants, by their distributors and by their distributors' distributors, and further down the chain. CHOICE consumer rights adviser Meredith Cridland says that MLM programs are promoted as fun, exciting, friendly, easy ways to make money doing the things that people love. "People are attracted to the idea of working from home with flexible hours and the potential to earn bucket loads of money. The impression given is that you just need a good network of friends and family and wealth will flow," she says. And while some people can make good money she says this is not the norm. "The reality is that there is a lot of hard work involved. Many friends and family are not too keen on being given the big sell. Once you've exhausted your circles of friends and family, it's hard work trying to find others to market to." Despite the shiny, happy people in the promotional material making up to $171k a month, the harsher financial reality is that the majority of members who 'share' the product with family and friends will make "less than $500 a year". A spokesperson from Isagenix Australia says, "Most of our business builders supplement their incomes with a few thousand dollars per year. Only a small percentage earn a full-time income; the vast majority purchase for their own use or sell only to their family and friends". Despite this, there are plenty of Isagenix 'fans' keen to sell, sell, sell on social media. Nikalene Riddle, who runs the healthy eating Facebook group Skinnymixers, says she's been 'bombarded' with Isagenix sellers. "What I dislike about this product and their sellers is they don't post publicly about it, they private message my members. They use this method because they know that advertising in my group is strictly forbidden, and if they promoted such a ridiculous product in a healthy eating group they would have hundreds of people calling them out. So instead they pick off people one by one until someone bites." So why get with the Isagenix program? Despite the high cost of the products combined with the slim chance of making a motza there's no denying some people love the program and all it entails. Isagenix says in just the last 30 days approximately 5771 members have purchased products in Australia and New Zealand. But why is that? While our experts agree that meal replacement programs do work well short term for weight loss and many people contacted us with stories of their weight loss success, why do people buy the costly Isagenix products when similar products could be bought for half the price elsewhere? Former Isagenix customer Megan Moulton says that the power of the social media groups and the communities can be the magic bullet for hardcore fans. "You can become a celebrity within the Isagenix community. Social media can make you feel special and affirmed, and the more you post the more important you can feel. Some people really seem to need that." What you could do for your health for the same cost Sophia – A case study Sophia* from Sydney has been using Isagenix for a couple of months after seeing friends on Facebook posting selfies of their weight loss, with 'cryptic' references to doing a 'cleanse' and asking friends to message them for more info. Sophia says despite knowing this was a classic marketing strategy she was still interested because they were people she knew. She and her husband signed up and after a month he'd lost 10 kilos and she'd lost 5kg, but quickly plateaued. Once she was signed up by her friend she says she was put on the 'autoship' program where her credit card was automatically charged each month, and she was given an account so she could sell the product herself, if she wanted to. While Sophia said she wasn't interested in selling, she became concerned when she was added to a couple of closed Facebook groups – one offering 'support' and one for sales and marketing. It was in these groups she says she witnessed firsthand the level of obsession people have with the products. "As every person who is signed up then has their own business, the person at the top is very keen to get everyone below them selling, because that money flows upwards." As a result she says the groups were full of salespeople doling out health advice with no qualifications. From pregnant or breastfeeding women complaining about hunger and being encouraged to persevere, to another participant dropping down from an already low body weight by another nine kilos and being cheered on by the group. "At what point do ethics come into the sales and marketing? These people are selling 'health' products without any kind of health or nutritional knowledge. It struck me as dangerous," she says. However, she says any criticism falls on deaf ears within these groups. "It's impossible to say anything negative about Isagenix to the 'Clan' because they're all so obsessively patriotic to it, there's almost no point in bringing things up." Despite this, as far as the weight-loss program is concerned Sophia said it was easy to follow although she and her partner plan to transition back onto 'normal' food soon. But she's under no illusion about the program. "Isagenix doesn't work because it has discovered the exact ingredients, potions or pills that make you lose weight. It works because it forces you to eat less. And after spending $400 on a starter pack, you won't be too quick to throw it away." *name changed. Latest Health and body Did the pension changes catch you off guard? Fatbergs and flushable wipes: Kimberly-Clark evades responsibility Do you need a funeral director? How to buy the best hearing aid for you	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7680
__label__cc	0.678017	0.321983	CHRISTIAN LITERATURE FOR AFRICA ASSOCIATION (CLA) Types of Books Needed Prayer and Praise Reaching Africa Through The Written Word Welcome to Christian Literature for Africa Visit us at our Fort Wayne CLA Ministry Center! 4152 Stellhorn Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46815 (Mailing address, PO Box 5524, Fort Wayne, IN 46895) The CLA Ministry Center is open 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Closed on national holidays and the week after Christmas. Christian Literature for Africa Association (CLA) was founded in 1991 by retired missionary, Edna Lochner, who served for 38 years in Swaziland, Africa. CLA's mission is to work alongside established churches and Christian leaders in Africa to provide literature for discipleship, training, and inspiration. CLA works with Literature Coordinators across Africa to distribute Bibles, books and other printed materials to over 40 countries. How Big is Africa? The continent of Africa is large enough that all these other countries could fit within it! In fact, Africa is 38,131 square miles larger than all of these lands combined! Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it." (Matthew 13:44-46) Africa is rich in diamonds, gold and other natural resources. However the continent's greatest resource is her one billion people. Winning them for Christ is worth more riches than we can ever imagine. You can make an eternal difference in the lives of thousands of Africans through Bibles and Christian literature sent through CLA. In the West African country of Benin, Christians worship the Lord with joy. Christian Literature for Africa Association Email: clafrica1@gmail.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7683
__label__wiki	0.980084	0.980084	Mike Duffy trial: Suspended senator's cousin received $500 for media monitoring in P.E.I. One of Mike Duffy's cousins received a $500 cheque for sending the suspended senator articles and emails about political issues and family activities related to P.E.I., though he never asked for, expected it or previously discussed a payment, court heard today. Payments issued by Duffy friend Gerald Donohue remain in spotlight as trial's 3rd week begins Mark Gollom · CBC News · Posted: Apr 20, 2015 5:00 AM ET \| Last Updated: April 20, 2015 In addition to 30 charges of fraud and breach of trust, Mike Duffy is also fighting one count of bribery related to a $90,000 cheque he received from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff Nigel Wright. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) Can't see the live blog? Try here One of Mike Duffy's cousins received a $500 cheque for sending the suspended senator articles and emails about political issues and Duffy family activities related to P.E.I., though he never asked for, expected or previously discussed a payment, the trial heard today. Testimony from Duffy's cousin David McCabe came the same day court heard that Duffy allegedly said that because the Senate budget was tight, he was "going to find another way" to pay for the services of a speech writer and researcher. The payment to McCabe came from Maple Ridge Media, a company then owned by Gerald Donohue, a friend of Duffy's, who, court has heard, sent a series of cheques on behalf of Duffy for a number of services. Analysis: 3 Mike Duffy questions MPs will likely raise as House returns More than 70 Conservative MPs leaned on suspended senator Mike Duffy trial: Inside Courtroom 33 Crown shines light on payments made by Duffy's friend The Crown alleges Duffy set up a slush fund with Donohue for nearly $65,000 to pay for services the Senate would not cover. The RCMP has said Donohue received the money for "little or no apparent work." Last week, the court heard from some of those service providers who received cheques, including a makeup artist and a personal trainer who said they received payments from Donohue, but had no prior relationship with him. Court has also heard from journalist Mark Bourrie, who said he was surprised to receive a cheque after providing Duffy with advice about dealing with internet trolls. Duffy is charged with 30 counts of fraud and breach of trust and one count of bribery related to a $90,000 cheque he received from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff Nigel Wright. Today, on day 10 of the trial, Duffy's cousin testified via video teleconference that he scanned newspaper articles and sent information to his relative since his time hosting a CTV political show up until and after he became a senator. McCabe said he initiated this on his own to keep Duffy abreast of what was going on in the region. Some of those articles, McCabe said, also included assorted clippings of media coverage of Duffy's family. McCabe said he and Duffy never discussed payment and that he had never asked or expected payment. McCabe also stated that he had never heard of Donohue. Under cross-examination by defence lawyer Donald Bayne, McCabe agreed that he was a "pretty valuable resource" in P.E.I. McCabe said he also understood that the payment he received was for providing information to Duffy for political information and not "personal information" relating to his family. "I wanted Mike to be a bigger voice for the Island and if he was missing local things … he should be aware of it." McCabe said he never gave a "kickback" to Duffy from the payment. Meanwhile, court heard from Peter McQuaid, former chief of staff to former P.E.I. premier Pat Binns, who testified that for more than three years he provided services to Duffy that included speech writing and research on regional issues. For the years 2009 and 2011, McQuaid said, he was paid by a government of Canada cheque through the Senate office budget, he said. But for 2010, McQuaid said, Duffy told him that the Senate budgets were tight and that he couldn't pay "through the Senate." "He said to me he was going to find another way to pay it," McQuaid said. McQuaid testified he later received a cheque for $2,887.50 from Donohue's firm Maple Ridge Media Inc. Services parliamentary related But under cross-examination, McQuaid said that the services he provided Duffy were all parliamentary related and of importance to a senator from P.E.I. He agreed with Bayne that there was nothing "sinister" with the way Duffy dealt with the 2010 payment and that he wasn't told to keep the administrative arrangement secret. Former Sun News host Ezra Levant had been expected to testify about two cheques he received for writing speeches for Duffy. But the longer-than-expected questioning of witnesses has delayed his testimony. Levant, who completed the work for Duffy prior to joining Sun's now defunct news network, is expected to deliver his testimony by video link on Friday. Crown prosecutors are expected to ask him about the two cheques, each worth $2,100, he received from Donohue. Levant's cheques were issued in April 2010 and March 2011, court records show. Evidence indicates Donohue issued several of the cheques related to six of the 30 fraud and breach of trust charges against Duffy. Donohue, who is also expected to testify, has not been charged and neither have cheque recipients. Trial tough on Duffy, lawyer says The trial, which will be conducted in two phases, is supposed to end on June 19. But Ontario court of justice Judge Charles Vaillancourt said last week the timeline will depend on how many people are called to testify, and how long lawyers spend on each witness. Bayne told reporters on Friday the trial is affecting his client on a personal level. "This is taking a lot out of him and the worst thing for him is stress. As a multiple open-heart surgery patient, it's hard," Bayne said. "You folks have watched the stress of even two weeks." With files from Kristy Kirkup Live blog replay Mike Duffy trial, Day 10 Mike Duffy trial: 3 questions MPs will likely raise as House returns Duffy dependence: More than 70 Conservative MPs leaned on suspended senator Mike Duffy trial: Crown shines light on payments made by senator's friend Mike Duffy trial: The players so far	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7690
__label__wiki	0.901182	0.901182	How Facebook and Google served up ads for racists and anti-Semites By Dave Johnson Updated on: September 18, 2017 / 3:12 PM / MoneyWatch Racist, anti-Semitic keywords It's hard to overstate how dramatically the internet -- especially search engines like Google and social media like Facebook -- have overhauled the process of buying advertisements to promote products and services. The business of buying and selling ad space has gone from a highly manual process that involves sales reps, rate cards and price negotiations between marketers and publishers to one that's largely self-serve and automated to within microseconds. A stark spotlight was cast on this little-discussed aspect of the online age when the investigative news website ProPublica revealed a fetid world where it's possible to target ads to seemingly any demographic -- even Nazis and self-described "Jew haters" -- on a global platform like Facebook that otherwise seems to value inclusiveness in its terms of service. The problem is that in most online ad sales (whether it's through Facebook (FB), Google (GGLE), Twitter (TWTR) or elsewhere), humans are generally not in the loop. Facebook and Google, for example, rely on a simple form, and anyone can place ads with just a few clicks. One reason for this is scale. A platform like Facebook is different than a traditional magazine or even a typical large website that might generate a few million unique visitors per day. Facebook runs a vast number of ads each day -- generating some $9.3 billion in revenue in the second quarter alone -- making it difficult to vet each and every online sales pitch to its 2 billion users. But there's also a philosophical component: Facebook has long contended that it is not a media company and therefore has no obligation to monitor or censor its content. (In recent months, Facebook has finally begun to walk back from that position. Growing political pressure from Washington may have something to do with that shift.) How groups believed to be linked to Russia used Facebook for election meddling So what are the actual mechanics of purchasing an ad on Facebook and other major sites? It's pretty straightforward: Facebook Ad Manager is a self-serve tool in which you customize the specific demographic your ads will reach. You can specify geographic location, which can be as precise as certain cities, or as broad as the entire world. You can also exclude regions -- so your ad can run throughout Texas, but not in, say, Austin. You can choose the age and gender you want to reach, of course, as well as speakers of designated languages. Facebook's Detailed Targeting options are where things get interesting -- and where the social media service ran into trouble with its anti-Jewish-themed advertising. Detailed Targeting lets you include people with expressed interests in certain kinds of content, behaviors and opinions. This is where Facebook's infamous obsession with data collection comes in handy -- everything you like, share and post on Facebook helps define a profile about you. Advertisers can simply search or browse for whatever attributes they want to target -- dog lovers, car enthusiasts, Democrats, Republicans, and thousands of other audience targets are a few clicks away in the Ad Manager, which makes recommendations based on what terms are typed. Figures include paid advertising only; exclude spending on maintaining a social network presence. Figures for 2018-19 are projections. eMarketer Source: eMarketer In the case of the Propublica story's "Jew Hater" example of targeting, a large enough body of users had entered offensive details in their Employee and Education profiles, such as listing their occupation as "Jew Hater," that this surfaced as a selection in the database. It's important to realize that these demographic options are created algorithmically -- Facebook automatically compiles user interests and adds it to the database with little human interaction, and the depth, breadth and variety of user interests is vast. ProPublica, for example, was able to create ads that targeted people who expressed anti-Jewish sentiments. Facebook said it has since scrubbed the system of those particular options -- try to replicate that same ad today, and you'll find there's no option to add Ku Klux Klan fans to your demographic choices. But it's still easily possible to create ads that target "9/11 Truthers," Flat Earth believers and people who seem to think our world will soon be destroyed by the rogue planet Nibiru. None of these are explicitly as harmful as white supremacists, but it could still make you uncomfortable that it's so easy to target ads to people who live on the fringe of rational society. Hate Rising: White Supremacy in America Facebook is hardly the only online platform that has enabled such malicious advertising; Google's AdWords service, for example, has a similar capability, though the difference here is that advertisers can choose keywords and phrases that are likely to turn up in search results. That, not surprisingly, can result in an even broader range of possible options. Google is now trying to reduce the number of possible offensive ads by restricting the kinds of suggestions the tool makes when you search for keywords. "This violates our policies against derogatory speech and we have removed it," a Google spokesperson told the website BuzzFeed News after it revealed the problematic keywords. The company later added, "Our goal is to prevent our keyword suggestions tool from making offensive suggestions, and to stop any offensive ads appearing." Facebook is taking similar steps. Last Friday, the social network announced: "Our community standards strictly prohibit attacking people based on their protected characteristics, including religion, and we prohibit advertisers from discriminating against people based on religion and other attributes." To that end, Facebook is disabling the ability to target ads based on information that's self-reported in categories that include education and employer. The potential for offensive and disruptive ads has been simmering for years, but online platforms simply can't ignore the recent barrage of bad press that's resulted from incidents like the Russian-based political ads during the 2016 presidential election and more recent offensive keyword targeting. While it's not clear exactly what the outcome will be, it's a fair bet that it will be some combination of smarter keyword filtering and human checks and balances in the ad buying and reviewing process. First published on September 18, 2017 / 5:00 AM © 2017 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved. View all articles by Dave Johnson on CBS MoneyWatch » Dave Johnson is editor of eHow Tech and author of three dozen books, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera. Dave has previously worked at Microsoft and has written about technology for a long list of magazines that include PC World and Wired.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7691
__label__cc	0.680475	0.319525	Om Cedefop Only part of our content is available in the language you selected. See what content is available in Svenska. VET’s role in shaping Europe’s future discussed at European Parliament/Cedefop event Image copyright: © Cedefop, 2019 Findings of Cedefop’s research on vocational education and training’s (VET’s) future role were discussed at a European Parliament event hosted by Anne Sander MEP in Brussels on 27 February. Over 40 participants, including MEPs Michaela Šojdrová and Anthea McIntyre and the Director-General of European Commission’s DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Joost Korte, exchanged views on the subject. In her welcoming remarks, Ms Sander said that she is ‘in favour of moving towards more sharing of good practices at EU level, but also providing more support to Member States willing to develop VET.’ New Regulation The French MEP was the Parliament rapporteur in the reform of Cedefop’s Founding Regulation which dated from the agency’s creation in 1975. The new Regulation came into force on 20 February. Ms Sander highlighted that ‘thanks to this new and reinforced framework, I believe Cedefop can be even more a key actor at European level to develop VET across Europe and to communicate the opportunities offered by this specific learning approach.’ Chair of Cedefop’s Management Board Tatjana Babrauskiene also referred to the new Regulation, arguing that ‘it confirms the agency’s key role at the intersection between education and training and the labour market, and in VET-related research.’ According to Ms Babrauskiene, Cedefop’s research on the future of VET will certainly trigger a debate on how it can provide Europe with future-oriented skills that are relevant to a rapidly changing environment. Cedefop’s Head of Department for VET Systems and Institutions Loukas Zahilas and expert Jens Bjornavold presented the research findings. Starting from the project rationale and the necessity to analyse developments during the past 20 years, they focused on the changes in European vocational education and reflected on future scenarios for 2035. Mr Bjornavold said that there are two competing VET narratives in Europe today: a negative where VET is becoming increasingly marginalised and a positive where VET is expanding to both lower and higher levels. Paradoxically, both are true depending on how we conceive VET. If we are looking at VET as a narrow concept focusing on specific occupation and middle-skilled jobs, then it is really under threat. If we have a broader understanding of VET as vocationally oriented learning, including lower and higher levels, we see it thriving. The three scenarios presented include the ‘pluralistic’ in which VET becomes the standard educational pathway for all, part of lifelong learning and, consequently, higher VET becomes part of the higher education system. In this scenario VET is understood as vocationally oriented learning in various contexts. The ‘distinctive’ scenario sees VET again as the standard educational pathway but remaining a distinct educational sector – a modernised version of VET. In the third scenario, the ‘special-purpose’ VET is understood as skills training for labour market inclusion. Mr Zahilas commented on the strengths and limitations of the scenarios, saying that we are not trying to predict the future but rather seek to illustrate the implications of different choices. Scenarios alert policy-makers to different trends and their consequences and they will never materialise in the pure form. Elements of each one will be found in different countries and different settings. Importantly, scenarios are linked to their history; they are therefore path-dependent and will somehow still reflect their past. Well-timed input A lively debate followed the presentations. In his closing remarks, DG EMPL Director-General Joost Korte expressed his appreciation of the enormous work Cedefop has been doing on the various scenarios – a very well-timed input into the discussion that is taking place: ‘It is important because we have to deal with massive changes in the workplace, often triggered by external factors which we do not control or only very little.’ Mr Korte added that ‘the scenarios depend to a large extent on what we do together, what we decide, what the governments decide.’ He sees this exercise as ‘a call for more cooperation and more sharing of ideas and experiences between the Member States.’ Well-informed decisions need to be based on evidence from research – a very important principle of EU policy-making – and today’s event is a very good example of how we do this, he concluded. On her part, Ms Babrauskiene expressed her pleasure that Cedefop will continue its work to help shape VET’s future: ‘Cedefop’s new mandate provides a strong basis for this undertaking, notably also in close cooperation with the European Parliament.’ She added that ‘the challenges identified by Cedefop’s research clearly call for an inclusive approach where a wide range of stakeholders are fully involved in reviewing, renewing and developing VET systems further.’ REGULATION (EU) 2019/128 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 January 2019 establishing a European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 Future of VET Vocational education and training Changing nature and role of vocational education and training (VET) in Europe Related Event: The role of vocational education and training in shaping the future of Europe Skydd för personuppgifter Tillgång till handlingar Rättsligt meddelande – ansvarsfriskrivning	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7694
__label__wiki	0.902186	0.902186	How tall was Jimmy Stewart Jimmy Stewart's Height American actor best remembered for roles in films such as It's a Wonderful Life, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, Destry Rides Again, The Shop Around the Corner, The Naked Spur and Anatomy of a Murder. In a 1988 article it mentioned "Stewart looks even taller than his 6-foot-3-inch frame. 'I used to be 6-foot-4, but I'm shrinking'" [On trying for the role of Chang, in film The Good Earth] I was 6-feet-3, and I weighed 138 pounds. They must have thought I looked as though I'd just survived a famine. So they slanted my eyes, gave me a bald wig, with a queue, and a pair of Oriental pants. Paul Muni looked at me and said, 'That's a big one for a Chinese.' So I kneeled down in a trench to match Muni's height. But I lost the job, and I haven't tried to play a Chinese since. Classic Hollywood ActorsJimmy Heights 6ft 1 (185 cm) 5ft 6 ½ (169 cm) Add a Comment287 comments Your Guess (Optional) 6ft 16ft 1 ¼6ft 1 ½6ft 1 ¾6ft 26ft 2 ¼6ft 2 ½6ft 2 ¾6ft 36ft 3 ¼6ft 3 ½6ft 3 ¾6ft 46ft 4 ¼6ft 4 ½6ft 4 ¾6ft 5 Average Guess (62 Votes) 6ft 2.82in (190cm) Ian C. said on 10/May/19 Notice that, despite Stewart's great height, no one has ever called him "big." He is in fact a little guy with a long body (135 pounds qualifies as little, I'd say,) although nobody ever called him little either. Are there actors who are not especially tall but whom people call big? Well, let's see: Boris Karloff seems gigantic in Frankenstein, even though he wasn't quite six feet tall. Robert Shaw seems big in From Russia With Love. Oliver Reed seems big in everything. What these guys have is large, strong heads and nasty, violent movie personalities. Arch Stanton said on 19/Mar/19 Nah in looking again it's about 3 inches maybe Arness was 6'6 then. Watching Carbine Williams and James Arness honestly looked about 3.5-4 inches taller. So odd to see somebody markedly taller than him but seeing them together. If Arness was just 6'6 flat Jimmy looked no more than 6'2.5. Could Arness have been more 6'6.5 Rob? Neelasish Send Roy said on 10/Mar/19 He might be 6'3" at peak but in 1942 he was measured as 6'2.5". But in a picture I had seen Stewart is 2 inches taller than 6'1" Errol Flynn& in another photo he looks 1 inch taller Than Basil Rathbone who may be 6'1.6"-6'2" and 2 inches taller than 6'1" Robert Montgomery may Rathbone was 6'2"? Mark Harrison said on 18/Nov/18 Lee Marvin was 6'1". Dave1 said on 2/Nov/18 Stewart was tall and lanky. His thin frame gave the illusion of added height. He was most likely in the 6’2”-6’2 1/2” range. John Wayne was pretty similar. Watch the film .... The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance......Lee Marvin was a verified 6’2”. Wayne & Stewart look maybe 1/2” taller in all scenes. Gary Cooper was also lanky, but a solid 6’3”, perhaps another 1/2” in his prime. Cary Grant was 6’ 1”. Later in life..... 6’. Gregory Peck was 6’3” easy. Robert Mitchum was 6’ 1 1/2 “. Mister lennon said on 20/Oct/18 Less than 6'3 is totally unlikely. Tall Sam said on 17/Oct/18 A lot of co-stars would have to be downgraded if Stewart was only 6'2", I definitely don't see it. wishbone said on 15/Oct/18 One of the greatest actors EVER! James Stewart was 6'2" at best. Many Stewart movies can be considered "requirements" in your video collection,but it was the Dec.15,1963 What's My Line? mystery guest appearance he made what stands out most with me. That night,Los Angeles Dodgers 1960's pitching ace Don Drysdale made a surprise panel appearance and walloped a "game winning" HR nailing Stewart. But Bennett Cerf set the Dodgers pitching ace to nail Stewart when he asked Stewart if he had any World War II expierence. He did. Then panelist Jean Byron asked Stewart if he ever served in the Air Force during World War Ii,which he did as a bomber wing pilot. Then Don said,"Bennett and Jean must be onto something about this Oscar winning actor's World War II Air Force career.James Stewart looked like he was highly decorated and I'll guess it's James Stewart,John." Don cleared the bases with his guess of James Stewart,because he served in the 8th United States Air Force during World War II! A true immortal! Mister lennon said on 16/Aug/18 Stewart was a solid 6'3 guy. Grant a solid 6'1 guy. That was they looked in the philadelphia story Neelasish Sen Roy said on 15/Aug/18 He was never 6'4" tall. He was measured 6'2.5" at 1942.But before it he would be 6'3". In Philadelphia Story if he was solid 6'3" then Cary Grant was 6'2". Iam right or wrong,Rob? Tall In The Saddle said on 6/Aug/18 @Mark Harrison - not challenging you but I am just curious as to what evidence you have seen to indicate that Eastwood was taller than Stewart - I've seen a few pics but at least several that I have seen clearly imply Eastwood to be standing on higher ground IMO - even if Eastwood was taller in some measure he couldn't have held the advantage these pics appear to suggest. I've linked one such pic:- Mark Harrison said on 5/Aug/18 Eastwood was taller than Stewart. Mister lennon said on 3/Aug/18 Maybe 191-192 peak. Tall In The Saddle said on 31/Jul/18 1959 pic of 50/51 yo James Stewart appearing to rock a marked height advantage over boxer Henry Cooper -listed 6'1.5" on this site. Personally I'd give Cooper a touch more than that but even so, with head slightly bowed, anyone afford Stewart at least a 2" advantage over "Enry? The average guess here surprises me because imo, no way was Stewart less than 6'3". berta said on 28/Jul/18 this guy and clint eastwood back to back at peak. who would be tallest? its a hard one. I cant see the average of 190 guess for this guy. i thought he looked 191-191,5 ish peak Willes189 said on 2/Jul/18 Rob is 192cm peak possible? Editor Rob I'm not sure about that 6ft 3.5 barefoot mark for Stewart. Rabindra sankar sen roy said on 15/Jun/18 Jimmy Stewart is solid 6'3.5"/192cm but he is so lean than he seems even taller. Tall In The Saddle said on 5/Jun/18 I like 6'3.5" for Stewart. As a kid I never really thought of his height - just perceived a fairly tall extremely thin guy whose great acting was the focal point. Only later came to realise that he was a bit more than just fairly tall and always felt that he edged Coop. Here's a link to his intro on the Johnny Carson show - IMO nothing substantial to choose between 80/81 yo Stewart and 66 yo Ed McMahon (latter at least 6'3.5" peak imo), both of whom you would assume had lost height by this stage but Jimmy more so. If pressed I might give Stewart the slightest edge over McMahon but can settle for close enough to even. Both guys had nice straight posture well into their later years. Click here - Click Here For perspective, 4 years later, 69 yo McMahon appeared to have about .5" advantage over a less posture perfect 63 yo Clint Eastwood. Tall Sam said on 18/Apr/18 Me as well, I've said several times that Stewart at peak could've well been 192 cm/6'3.25" at peak. berta said on 17/Apr/18 i agree Gonzalo he lokeed like a 192 man to me. Gonzalo said on 4/Apr/18 It puzzles me how people here guess Stewart to be under 1`90. One of the most absurd guesses in this site berta said on 2/Apr/18 i can believe little over 6 foot 3 for stewart Tall Sam said on 23/Mar/18 It's crazy to me these folks guessing him under the 6'3" mark, Stewart could look a bit over it in my eyes not under it. With Gary Cooper, I don't see how people can say Stewart is the slightly shorter one, Jimmy either appears dead even with Cooper or even edges him slightly. Click Here Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 17/Mar/18 I think there's a shred of truth to that 6ft4 claim. Maybe close to it early morning at peak? Ian C. said on 9/Feb/18 In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Jimmy's character knocks John Wayne off his feet with one punch. Wayne must have weighed about ninety pounds more than Stewart. Now I don't mind a middle-aged male movie character winning the heart and hand of a much younger woman, but I draw the line at accepting a human breadstick like Jimmy knocking down a tree trunk like Wayne. Mister lennon said on 1/Dec/17 Well, 6'3 or solid 6'3 is a better choice. Strong 6'3 peak. Ted said on 30/Nov/17 6' 3.5'' on a good day. Richard said on 8/Nov/17 He only looked 6'3" in westerns. His real height was about 6'2". Scoobydoo said on 26/Oct/17 He looks 188 /189cm in "The rope" not more, maybe was a strong 6'2 and in his shoes 6'3... is easy! Joseph said on 17/Aug/17 A guy like Jimmy really don't need to lie of his height...... Bruno said on 12/Aug/17 Saw a docu today on him, came across as a real gent. That poem about Bo the dog had me in tears. Looked at least 2 inches taller than 6' Terry Wogan at 80. James said on 27/Jul/17 How else did a dying Cooper manage to look 4 inches taller than Richard Harris? Mister lennon said on 27/Jul/17 Yeah, everyone wears lifts in your imagination. Cooper died six days after his 60th birthday so he was never seen in his 60s. His last public appearance was for a ceremony honouring his career in February 1961, when his terminal cancer was still not publicly known. Cooper wore lifts in his later films, which is why he looked four inches taller than six foot Richard Harris. Yes,he was. He looked every bit of a strong 6'3 guy at his peak. Boots or not boots. In his late 50s and 60s he looked more in the strong 6'2-weak 6'3 range. Cooper only looked above 6'3" in films because of footwear. He was mainly known for westerns and he wore boots with big heels. No, he wasn't. No,he was a strong 6'3 No, Cooper was exactly 6'3". Cooper was more than just 6'3. About 6'3 .5 or 6'3.75. Stewart was about 6'3 or 6'3.25. Christian-6'5 3/8 said on 23/Jul/17 6'2.5" If Cooper was 6'3" then Stewart was definitely 6'2.5". And gary cooper was a solid 6'3 peak. He was slightly shorter than Gary Cooper. Stewart was a true 6'3 guy. Not less than 6'3. Stewart was 6'2.5". 6'3.25 is certainly arguable. I'm lucky if I watch one film a week at the moment, but be the summer, but don't feel that interested at the moment! James said on 5/Jul/17 Stewart said 6'3.5" in the commentary for "Harvey". He also gave his height as 6'3" in other interviews. Wayne's character in "The Quiet Man" claimed to be 6'4.5". In real life Wayne said he was less than 6'4". paulie said on 3/Jul/17 Jimmy Stewart claimed to be 6'4" 1/2 in the commentary for Harvey. Was Jimmy Stewart lying? John Wayne also claimed to be 6'4" 1/2 in the Quiet Man. I'm pretty sure John Wayne also claimed to be this tall in another film. What's strange is Jimmy Stewart looked taller than John Wayne in both The Shootist and Liberty Vallance RichardSpain said on 21/Jun/17 I think he was a perfect 190cm in peak not more. I think he seems taller in screen because he had a long legs and he was thin but he wasn't 191 or 192 cm in my opinion. Excellent actor and nice blue eyes. Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 20/Jun/17 Cary Grant looks near 6ft2 in that photo. James said on 15/Jun/17 He was measured as 6'2.5" in the air force. Sam said on 14/Jun/17 @Charlie, that was good for a laugh or, if serious, you may need your vision checked. @James, do you have a source? I haven't seen a credible source claims any less than 6'3" for him. Stewart's actual measured height in 1942 was 6'2.5". Charlie said on 10/Jun/17 I want to add one thing that supports my last comment. In the Glenn Miller Movie he approaches his Ben The leader of the Band Glenn Miller was with before he formed his own. Now Ben Pollack plays himself int he movie. Ben Pollack stood no less than 3.5 inches shorter than Jimmy Stewart. Ben Pollack was the shortest Of all his Band Members. I have him pegged at 5.6. All the photo's i came across shows his Band members almost a head taller than him and here i see Jimmy Stewart only 3.5 inches on him. It doesn't add up.Anyhow this supports my 5'10 claim for Jimmy Stewart. If anyone feels differently about my comment please look up Musician Ben Pollack with Jimmy Stewart on Google Image. Ben's head was higher than Jimmy's eyebrows. Another thing in the Movie Harvey Jimmy has a 6' imaginary Rabbit he walks around with. He later tells a Doctor that the Rabbit is more like 6'3. All through the movie you see Jimmy Stewart looking way up at the Rabbit's eyes when hes talking to him. If the Rabbit was 6'3 then the Rabbits eye level would be 5'10 but you clearly see Jimmy looking way up at this Rabbit. Jimmy was most likely 5'10. I just watched The Glenn Miller Story. Now we all know in Europe the average door height is 6'6 and USA and Canada the average door height is 6'8.5. Jimmy Stewart no joke was a good head and 2 inches shorter than the door in a scene where he buys a Trombone from a German Store Owner. The door height in all Retail Stores and Shops are under 6'9. He did not look 6'3 in that movie. Jimmy's head was well under the top hinge and his head was 11 inches shorter than the door. A whole head size plus 2 inches. I measured his head with a piece of Paper and lined it up with his face then i penciled in a little dot where the top of his head was at and a dot where the bottom of his head was at. Then i placed the bottom dot over top of his head and it gave m an idea how tall he was. Now many people do not realize just how tall 6'3 really is. For example i am 5'10. I have been mistaken as a 6'1 person why i will never know. I wake up measure myself back to the wall and i get the same measurements my Doctor gives me 5'10. Peoples perceptions can be way off. Statistics Canada say the average male is 5'9.5. Now in the afternoon i measured myself at 5'9.5 but i seem to tower over mot males. Then one Afternoon is asked Windows 10 Cortana the average Canadian male height and she said 5'7.So with all said i am going to go out here and say Jimmy Stewart was 5'10. In Shoes he was probably 5'11 and a quarter. Editor Rob: 🤔 He was comfortably 6ft3 with a strong chance of measuring just over it. shiva 181 cms said on 2/May/17 6'3.5 is possible only in certain footwear or might have pulled it off with his lanky frame he,s almost 6'3 like he's claimed Unsub 5'10 said on 17/Apr/17 On our merry way( 1948) he really looked 6'3.5 next to Fonda, aprox. 2.75" taller than him, extremely tall, and made Fonda look 6'1", I'd rather say 1.85m. Arch Stanton said on 1/Apr/17 In the 1930s I could really believe 6'3.5. Unsub 5'10 said on 28/Mar/17 Peak height 1.92m, 6'3.5", that's what he claimed. mister_lennon said on 24/Mar/17 Stewart was 6'3 minimum. SonnyboySlim said on 22/Mar/17 I'm still processing 138lbs at 6'3". I'm quite slim (as the name suggests) and I'm 155lbs at 6'1". A weight of 138 is pretty light for anyone over 5'10". James said on 19/Jan/17 I wrote he was 6'2.5", not 6'2". mister_lennon said on 18/Jan/17 He was 6'3 in normal shoes. 6'2 for stewart is just trolling. He was only over 6'3" with cowboy boots. Stewart was a solid 6'3 guy. 191-192. No less than 191 peak. He was 190 at his peak. 191-192 peak Stewart was less than 6'3". berta said on 10/Jan/17 this is one of the guy i think was rounding down instead of up. to me he looked 192 Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 5/Dec/16 Stewart & Cooper: 191-192cm Peck & Heston: 189-190cm James said on 27/Oct/16 Stewart was 6'3" at his peak. Unsub 5'10 said on 26/Oct/16 Stewart was nothing under 6'3.25" Willes189 said on 24/Aug/16 Why is it okey to talk bad about tall and skinny guys, but almost illegal to mention that someone is fat and short? I will never understand this nonsense. James said on 6/Aug/16 Cooper put two stone on later life. Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 2/Aug/16 Stewart and Cooper were both painfully thin for 6ft3 FriendlyNeighborhood6Footer said on 7/Jul/16 Jimmy Stewart is my favorite actor. I have too many favorites of his to list, with Vertigo and It's a Wonderful Life being at the top of the list. I've seen most of his filmography, many of them more than once. I've always pegged him at a little over 6'3". I'd be surprised if he came in at just 6'3" given all the 6'3" actors I've seen him have a hair or two over. Dean Martin should have been the romantic lead in "Rio Bravo". Ian C. said on 24/Jun/16 Middle-aged men successfully courting women a generation younger than they are is practically a movie trope. Think John Wayne in Rio Bravo, for example. He was nearly double Angie Dickenson's age in that one, but nobody really minds much, because he's John Wayne, and we are supposed to close the gap between what he was and what he has become in order to follow the movie. Most male move stars over forty habitually play somebody who is roughly 32. And six feet tall, if they are shorter than that. All Paul Newman's characters were six feet tall. And Kirk Douglas's and Dean Martin's and Humphrey Bogart's. Sometimes I wonder what the typical leading man movie character's I.Q. is. Right around 125, usually. This is probably pretty close to the real I.Q. score of most movie leading men. Clearly smarter than average, but not intellectual. John Wayne did not play stupid men, but he did not play men who read a lot of books either. I don't agree with that, perfect in both Window and especially Vertigo...his characters were more romantic leads in their own middle-aged minds. They rank along with Stewart's best performances along with Mr. Smith, Wonderful Life, Harvey and anything he did with Anthony Mann. Tom said on 21/Jun/16 Stewart was badly miscast in "Rear Window" and "Vertigo", he was far too old to play the romantic lead. Arch Stanton said on 18/Jun/16 OK guys, I'm sure Rob is with me on this, lets talk about Kim Novak in those green shoes now ;-) Editor Rob: lovely shoes indeed! Gonzalo said on 17/Jun/16 Willam Holden appeared shirtless in several movies, such as Picnic (shaved) or The bridge over river Kwai. In the 50`s it was more common to appeared shirtless, meanwhile it was very rare in the 30`s and 40`s, when it only happened in adventure films (Mutiny on the bounty). In the fifties and sixties there are many examples: Holden, Douglas, Hudson, Curtis, Lancaster, Jeffrey Hunter, Heston, Mitchum (Heaven knows Mrs. Allison, Gable (Mogambo), etc. It also had to do with the fact that stars of the 30s and 40s were in his late forties or fifties while the others were in his thirties. The fifties was the beef cake era! Randolph Scott was in bathing suit in My favourite wife; he looked in great shape. Stewart was skinny. Not the best guy to do a beff cake scene. Charles Bronson I think overall had the best physique out of them all, the nearest thing to a modern day MMA fighter/boxer. He was in incredible shape. Hard as nails. Bronson was more of a professional fighter type, whereas Charlton Heston a physique of somebody who spends a lot of time with outdoor pursuits, similar to Laird Hamilton, I'd guess very similar height and weight. Hston looked strong as hell in the 60s, particularly Planet of the Apes. Yes I was going to say what Sam said, Jimmy appears shirtless in Read Window. It was after seeing him that that I could well believe he was just 130 pounds range in younger years, rake thin, unhealthily thin, and by Rear Window he was probably in 155-160 pounds range. Well Sam, if Eastwood is going to take off his shirt in his movies he'd better look good without a shirt. And he's sung in a few movies too. He shouldn't oughta have done that either, as those were also cases of undeserved self-regard. I have seen Rear Window, and that shirtless scene is arguably part of the plot. It is brief, and Stewart lies on his stomach all through it, and doesn't actually display his torso. It isn't in the movie to thrill anybody. And of course his character gets Grace Kelly, which makes my point for me, which is that it used to be that you could be a male lead without looking like that guy on the cover of Men's Health. Sam said on 9/Jun/16 I guess you've not seen Rear Window where Stewart is shirtless for a bit, definitely far from an ideal strapping Hollywood hunk there but he still gets Grace Kelly there...I've not spent as much time contemplating these stars physiques...kinda weird to be annoyed by Eastwood because his bone structure wasn't as good as Heston's or whatever. Ian C. said on 7/Jun/16 Yeah, Arch, I forgot about Lancaster. But he did the muscle display routine only in his action movies, and managed to keep his shirt on in his forays into serious drama. Charles Bronson is also a major contender in the shirtless movie guy competition and he really did look terrific without a shirt on, so you can forgive him. Also, he did it less than half his roles. Eastwood has always kind of annoyed me when he did his shirtless routine because, unlike Bronson and Heston, who really were physically extraordinary, he was just an average guy who lifted weights. His hips are as wide as his shoulders, and he has bad posture. So who was he kidding? Of course Jimmy Stewart (remember him?) would have been laughed at if he gone shirtless in a movie. Stewart was, not a weakling exactly, but certainly less than average in terms of male strength and stamina. And yet he was a successful romantic lead, and sometimes a successful man of action in a few westerns, like Broken Arrow and Bend of the River. Arch Stanton said on 6/Jun/16 Burt Lancaster used to show off his physique a bit, even in Swimmer in 1968 when he was in his 50s! Clint Eastwood didn't take up bodybuilding at 40, he'd lifted weights in his teens and 20s too, there's a few pictures of him. Eastwood did bulk up in the 80s though and must have changed his diet and lifted heavier as in his late 50s he was in 220 pounds range. Yes, Fruit, you've got me there about Flynn and the Sea Haw, but look at how few shirtless scenes Flynn did, when he really did have a terrific body. The larger point is that, for most male leads at that time, taking off shirts in movies to display beautiful torsos was uncommon, and probably regarded as vulgar display. If Sinatra worked out, it wasn't out of physical vanity but professional utility, which is a different thing entirely. Which old-time stars did show off their bodies? Not too many. Charlton Heston couldn't resist, but at the same time vigorously denied that he would ever do anything so crass as indulge in bodybuilding. Paul Newman has a few look-at-how-beautiful-I-am scenes, but in only a handful of his movies. Robert Redford the same. Sean Connery appears shirtless in all his Bond movies, but at the same time you don't get the impression that he had been dieting, or working with a trainer. In Diamonds Are Forever, he is downright paunchy. Clint Eastwood avoided appearing shirtless until he was forty. He took up bodybuilding and then you couldn't keep a shirt on him until he was sixty. Sylvestre Stallone is perhaps the worst offender in the gratuitous shirtless sweepstakes, aside from Arnold Schwarzenegger, for whom muscles are most of his talent. Bruno said on 4/Jun/16 Check this out Ian C. and he was an older man at that stage. Fruit said on 3/Jun/16 Errol Flynn was also shirtless in The Sea Hawk and maybe Captain Blood (not %100 sure about that one). Sinatra did work out, mainly to improve his lung capacity. James B, of course Jimmy Stewart didn't hit any gyms. Nobody in his generation of movie leads did. I'm not sure if John Wayne ever made a movie where he took his shirt off. Or Cary Grant or Randolph Scott either. Errol Flynn has made only one movie where he appeared shirtless (Gentleman Jim) and in that one he played a boxer. Rock Hudson has two, and in one he played a boxer and in the other a Native American. Other leading men like Charlton Heston, who usually had a shirtless scene in any movie he made because he was so proud of his physique, did not work out. Do you think Robert Mitchum ever lifted a barbell or ran a mile? It doesn't seem likely. How about Peter O'Toole? Richard Burton? Lee Marvin? Frank Sinatra? Steve McQueen? Sean Connery? James CoburnÉ Forget it. Marlon Brando? Double forget it after he became a big star, even though much of his initial appeal was based on his physique. Tom said on 5/Apr/16 Cooper was measured as 6'2.5" in 1924. Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 2/Apr/16 Neither of them were under 6ft3. Hard to tell who was taller because it could vary. Cooper could edge Stewart and then vice versa. They were both skinny guys... James said on 24/Mar/16 I said Cooper was measured at just under 6'3", not Stewart. Sam said on 22/Mar/16 I've read quite a bit on Stewart and have never read of a measurement under 6'3" and would doubt it pre-old age height loss. LoganNoll1996 said on 21/Mar/16 Jimmy Stewart - 6 feet 3 inches Gary Cooper - 6 feet 3.75 inches John Wayne - 6 feet 3.75 inches Cooper was never 6'4". He was measured at just under 6'3" when he went to Hollywood. Cooper and Stewart were about the same. Both 6ft3 minimum peak Bruno said on 17/Mar/16 No way Tom peak Coop would edge out Stewart. Tom said on 17/Mar/16 Stewart was slightly taller than Cooper. Stewart was 6'3" and Cooper was 6'2.5". Ya defo Arch, Coop was probably very close to 193 peak. @Bruno, I was citing Rampage's claim#links. Personally I would have thought that at peak Cooper could have edged him out. Cooper could look near 6'4 in the 30s, Stewart never really looked nearer 6'4. jtm said on 12/Mar/16 i wouldn't be surprised if he really was 6'3.5. he was over 3 inches taller than cary grant in a couple of scenes in the philadelphia story. Don't agree Arch, in some Stewart looks taller in other shots Coop looks taller. They were pretty identical in height I'd say. Scroll down to near half the page, Coop looks a bit taller. Arch Stanton said on 8/Mar/16 @Rob, Stewart edged out Cooper, was an inch taller than Walter Pidgeon and 1.5 inches shorter than Rock Hudson. Would 6'3.25 be that unreasonable?? Watch him in some of his earlier 30s films, I think it would be fair Remember that Stewart claimed 6'3.5 himself and is even mentioned in Harvey. He claimed both 6'3.5 and 6'3". Editor Rob: I never thought 6ft 3.5 was as probably as 6ft 3, but then maybe earlier in the day he could have been 6ft 3.5 and still held a solid 6ft 3. I'm ok with the 6ft 3 mark just now but 3.25 isn't impossible. Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 17/Feb/16 Stewart has a slight edge over Cooper in these Tom said on 7/Feb/16 Stewart was about half an inch taller than Cooper. Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 6/Feb/16 Fruit said on 16/Jan/16 6'2" is average nowhere. It's always tall. Male average height in Germany is approximately 5'10". In some very very secluded parts of the world it can actually come in at just over average. But other than that it is legit, stand out tall Rob, is it possible they were both a fraction over this mark? They both edged out Peck and Heston Editor Rob: they may well have fallen into the legit 6ft 3 range and if measured even a little over 6ft 3 wouldn't be rules out for either. Rob, who do you think was taller at peak Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper? Editor Rob: it can be very close to call between them. Tom said on 31/Jan/16 Stewart was slightly taller than Gary Cooper. Thomas6ft1 said on 16/Jan/16 @Moke I know that Germans are tall in general. Most of the time when I feel average height at 6'1", its usually with Caucasian white people. I'm not surprised though as tallness seems to be the most common in white people. However, the world doesn't revolve around Germany or places like Netherlands. Elsewhere, 6'2" and 6'3" are pretty tall heights. Its not average height at all. Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 14/Jan/16 Stewart and Cooper were both 6ft3-3½ range in their prime. A little taller than Gregory Peck and a little shorter than Wayne and Eastwood. Moke said on 26/Dec/15 @Adam 1.88 - Reynolds stands 6'2. @Rusty190cm - My brother weighs around 180 at 6'2.75 and he doesn't strike me as particularly tall, being 6'2 myself. Every third or so young man nowadays stands around that height. Running around at 6'2-3 you just tend to blend in perfectly with crowds in german cities like Hamburg, Berlin or Cologne...In 20 years it very well be the same phenomenon with 6'4... Rusty190cm said on 2/Dec/15 @Rampage Yeah I weigh about 180 lbs at 6'3" and people often guess me 6ft4-5 Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 1/Nov/15 A rail thin 6ft3 guy can be mistaken for 6ft4-5. Adam 1.88 m said on 23/Oct/15 On an interview with David Letterman, Ryan Reynolds guesses Jimmy Stewart's height at 6'4 to 6'5. It's funny how Reynolds underestimates his own height and overestimates on other celebrities. Larry said on 24/Sep/15 Not really Arch, Stewart was far too old to play Lindburgh which is why the film flopped. Of course it was also very controversial given Lindburgh's anti-Semitism and pro-Nazism. Arch Stanton said on 22/Sep/15 The Spirit of St Louis IMO is actually one of his best films and performance. A genuine joy to watch. Stewart was exactly 6'3". I liked most of his films except for "The Spirit of St Louis", as he was far too old to play Charles Lindburgh. Sam said on 30/Aug/15 Bear in mind that 6'3" was like 6'5"-6'6" for his generation, not many 6'6" beanpoles do you see among the top male stars today. Matthew190 said on 4/Aug/15 Stewart was definitely right in around the 6'3" mark. 6'3" is fine for him, I wouldn't even be surprised by 6'3.25". Sam said on 28/Jul/15 I forgot, are you 6'5" or 6'6" Brad? Brad said on 23/Jul/15 Strong 6' 3" peak. I had him by 4 30 years ago at book signing. Cooper and Stewart were pretty dead-even IMO. Both 6'3.25"...LOL Bruno said on 13/Jul/15 Rob, both Stewart and Cooper I think should be upgraded to 6'3.25. I just watched Bend of the River and in one scene Rock Hudson had between 1 and 2 inches on him,. Not a full 2 inches IMO. I'd say it's more like 6'3.25 vs 6'4.75 than 6'3 vs 6'5. I can see I'm wasting my time arguing Stewart and Cooper were over 6'3" flat though LOL. I agree Arch, although I think peak Coop was slightly taller than JS, My guess is JS 191.5 GC 192.5 JW 192.5 All peak estimates James B said on 6/Jul/15 Arch a small built 6'3 man like Stewart should have weighed 12 stone 4 He probably did not hit the gym or had the right diet Excellent quote Rob, well, there we go, there's proof he was almost as low as 135, at least he admits to be being absurdly skinny! 138 and 6 ft 3 is nuts! I used to weigh 155lbs at almost 6ft4 and a lot of people thought I was at least 6ft5. Matthew said on 19/Jun/15 modeus says on 5/Jun/15 "This is what a 6'2" athlete looks like in the high-130s: Click Here" lmfao that is photos hoped lol no it isn't! Here's more photos of him: Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Lorne??? said on 8/Jun/15 ... 140 is not skinny for a 5'7 guy. Lol at Cruise at (supposedly) 147. Agree, slim and skinny are two different things. Stewart was extremely skinny at one point, and clearly was barely 140 to have been rejected by the army.(at 5'8, they said 125 wa acceptable, though borderline.) And to another poster below: 180 is NOT skinny at 6'1, at all. A guy like Matthew Gray Gubler, who is 6'1 range, is quite thin, and at one point weighed around 140.(now could be 150) modeus said on 5/Jun/15 lmfao that is photoshoped Matthew said on 16/May/15 Vladman says on 7/Apr/15 Below 150 pounds of weight? Lol that´s rubbish. I am 6´2" and skinny and haven´t weighted under 170 pounds since I was 18 years young. i have a long torso, short legs and quite a big head and still I am skinny and weigh betwwen 180 and 185 pounds and I am over 40 years old. You can be 6'3" and weigh 150... But the sub-140 stuff at that height, is really extreme. This is what a 6'2" athlete looks like in the high-130s: Click Here JB said on 25/Apr/15 Just watched the documentary "a wonderful life" on youtube and it mentions that he's 6'4" Vladman said on 7/Apr/15 [Editor Rob: at one point he was...he failed army physical because he was 138 pounds.] Sam said on 9/Jan/15 I believe I've read something that stated Stewart was 6'4" before, but I don't believe it was a quote from him. If there was a Stewart quote where he claimed 6'4", would you slightly uplist him Rob? Heightwise, I think he would have been very similar to Sacha Baron Cohen. When you read about the Golden Age stars in their bios, from Bogart to Davis to Grant to Cooper, the consistency is that they were all consumate pros, always punctual, knew their lines and were quietly serious about their work. I think Stewart was the ultimate though, the great directors like Hitchcock, Capra & Anthony Mann knew he was going to deliver every time with minimal direction and that's why he had such fruitful work with them and was in so many classics. Jake: 1.84 m- 1.85 m said on 20/Dec/14 A tad shorter than John Wayne in the timeless, marvelous classic 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'. He was a proper 6ft 3in guy and one of the most endearing Hollywood stars of all time in my opinion. I'm a big fan of Stewart. Sam said on 1/Dec/14 Around the Corner is the perfect blend of romance, screwball comedy and social drama, as they said back then pure Lubitsch. Arch Stanton said on 28/Nov/14 I wouldn't blame anybody for wanting to get out of fighting in World War II. It's not cowardice, it's simply that they want to live a life. The Shop Around the Corner -wonderful film Sam said on 13/Oct/14 Could you add to his known fors?: Destry Rides Again, The Shop Around the Corner, The Naked Spur and Anatomy of a Murder. ...Wickedly difficult to keep it to just 10 films, Stewart had one of the keener eyes for material of any his generation of stars. Realist said on 3/Oct/14 His body type kind of reminds of Nicholas Hoult, absolutely skinny and tall. Most tall guys i meet are heavy like Chris Pratt, the shorter guys like me are normal and mid-range guys skinny. @Crash yup this guy was skinny, abnormally thin in his younger days but by 1950's he had bulked up a little in the Hitchcock movies. Gonzalo said on 29/Aug/14 Millard Mitchell was very tall, over 1`85 for sure Here's a shot of Stewart with Millard Mitchell and Charles Drake and, not the best comparison picture, but he does look a bit taller I think than these two more than six feet guys. Ian C. said on 13/Aug/14 Jimmy Stewart was so thin that he was rejected for military service in World War II the first time he tried to enlist. He had to go an a forced eating diet to make the threshold weight. Think what an amazing man he was to have done that. He could have sat out the War with a legitimate 4-F, but got into combat anyway. Compare this to Frank Sinatra, whose rejection for military service was that he claimed to be anxious in crowds. An odd affliction for a man who performed before large audiences for a living. Crash said on 2/Aug/14 Arch, there is a big difference between skinny and slim believe it or not. Now this guy at 135 was obviously skinny, but saying that at that height anything under 200 is skinny, is a very big stretch. 180 for example would be rather slim for this height but hardly seems skinny. I mean, I'm not all that much shorter at 6'1" but 55lb under 200 (I'm 145) but am definitely not skinny, just slim. A legit 6`3 guy. Always looked that tall in movies. He even could have been a bit over that. One of the best actors ever Mmm in Harvey he looks fractionally taller than Charles Drake. Perhaps Drake was a similar height to Joel McCrea or something and 6'2.5. Harvey's obviously taller than 6'3.5". More like 6'6! He looks up to speak to him in the film! If he was 6'3.5" he'd be looking directly ahead! Oddly looked a tad shorter than 6'2 listed Charles Drake in The Glenn Miller Story! Arch Stanton said on 12/May/14 Actually 135 pounds is quite possible at least in his 20s and early 30s. in Destry Rides Again he's tucking his shirt in and around the waist and his upper torso he was ridiculously skinny. Paper thin build which he often hid with his suit jackets. He really was super thin, nothing of him, and considered he was 6'3" his upper torso is actually more like that of a skinny 5'7" guy with very long legs and arms. I'd guess his waist could have been as low as 27-28 . I think he was telling the truth, as hard to believe as it is. In the 50s though he looked nearer 155-60 pounds to be though. It must have been Wayne's cowboy boots with a little advantage. Wayne still looked very close to 6'4" in the Shootist, his last film and clearly had an easy inch on Jimmy. Although I think Wayne had footwear advantage with cowboy boots. Rob how much height do you think he's have lost on average by 1976? He was pushing 70, an inch? He's looks more 6'2" range next to John Wayne in The Shootist who should have lost the same sort of height! [Editor Rob: on average maybe an inch, but I don't think he lost that much] John said on 6/Apr/14 I could have believed 192cm for JS, he had very long legs and looked really tall even with other tall actors. Naturally, he lost some height with age. Charlton Heston looks to have edged him out in 1987. I'm guessing at peak that Stewart would have been around 0.75 in taller than Heston was. Note how short Robert Wagner looks compared to Heston. long time movie buff said on 20/Feb/14 Jimmy Stewart was 6' 3 and 3/4 in.. Gary Cooper was 6' 3 in. at peak. Arch Stanton said on 8/Jan/14 Ha I guessed John Dall at 6'1" by his proportiond in Rope. And when Jimmy Stewart walks in he has about 2 inches on him so I was right! Mathew said on 24/Nov/13 He's claimed 6'3.5" before. I've seen that shot before, Bruno. In it Stewart is leaning on the bar, so it's hard to tell how they'd compared because Stewart is dropping a couple of inches. Bruno said on 19/Oct/13 I think peak Stewart was 6'3.5'' and peak Cooper was 6'4''. I think both Cooper and Stewart could both look some change over 6'3" but Stewart definitely seems a bit taller in that photo. It is possible that 6'3.5" is a morning height, then again maybe not. Maybe split the difference to 6'3.25"? Arch Stanton said on 12/Oct/13 I dunno, it's possible. I think he could look 6'4" in the 1930s and early 1940s but in films like Spirit of St Louis, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo in the late 1950s I don't think he really looked over 6'3" but I think his peak at some point in the day could have been 6'3.5".Cooper on the other hand could still look nearer 6'4" than 6'3" up until his death. Rob check out 22:55 Click Here He said in the Spirit of St Louis that "I made up my mind I would be 6 ft 3 inches tall and I made it with half an inch to spare". I really think 6'3.5" peak makes a lot of sense. He also claimed it on the Harvey DVD apparently. Why would he say such a thing about that half inch and lie about it in a film? It would be different if he was claiming 6'5" or something! [Editor Rob: or he measured near 6ft 3.5 at 9am one day and drops to 6ft 3? I don't know if he's really taller than Cooper though, hard to tell.] Unless of course Cooper really was 6'2!! Rob, that's interesting you mention his 6'4" claim. Check out Click Here . Taken in about 1948 I'd say, looks like the premiere of June Bride. He's with Gary Cooper and looks a good inch taller in the photo. I've seen a lot of his films and in the Mr Smith Goes to Washington days of the late 30s and early 40s he could certainly look 192. @Sam. I've seen some of his earlier 30s movies and yeah he really was a stick insect and I think he's have been around what he claimed back then. But in the 40s onwards he looks more 150-160 pounds to me. Clearly he got his height from his father then! He could look 192cm like Gary Cooper. Strange. Donna Reed looked near 5'7" in From Here to Eternity but in It's a Wonderful Life she's a full head shorter than Jimmy in two inch heels. Looks more 5'5 in the film. He looks easily 6'3". Sam said on 9/Sep/13 Agreed he might have been an hair over 6'3" at peak. Also, no question he was probably the most diverse male star of his generation, in terms of being comfortable in pretty much any genre, more willing to seem vulnerable or unlikeable if the part required it and committing to acting his butt off rather than modifying his popular persona to fit the script. Xhavier said on 7/Sep/13 Donald Dewey Biography: "Standing at almost 6 foot 4 and weighing only a 130 lbs" --- when he was at Merceberg Academey -- re: him playing football James Stewrat on the Harvey DVD, states, "Well I'm 6ft 3.5in, so I figured Harvey would have to be at least 6ft 8in for me to have to look up to him.". Jimmy Stewart Museum says 6ft 3in. Most biographies say 6ft 3in, or 1 full inch shorter than his 6ft 4in father Alexander. The army said 6ft 3in. Either way he was taller than at least 98% of today's world population (going with 6ft 3in) and he was one heck of an actor. I know he was razor-thin while young but I truly think that at 138 pounds, Stewart would look unhealthy thin, which I don't think he did. Maybe right around 150 lb. When I was a teenager and briefly close to 160 pounds, I looked kind of unhealthy thin. I'm happy with the 180-200 lb range. Arch Stanton said on 28/Aug/13 Actually in Mr Smith Goes to Washington he can even look 6'5" range at times. He really towers above everybody in the film. Rob can you mention You Can't Take it With You, The Philadelphia Story, Winchester '73, The Spirit of St. Louis, and Anatomy of a Murder. You can't won Academy Award for Best Picture and he won best actor for Philadelphia Story opposite Katherine Hepburn. [Editor Rob: he appeared in so many good films it's hard to mention them all. I think the other week I saw a quote by him and he said 'I used to be 6ft 4'] Yes Sam, in my opinion anything under 200 for a 6'4" guy is skinny. I doubt the 135 pounds thing is real. He looks thin but not anorexic thin. I have a hard time believing under 150. More like 6'3" and 155 pounds would fit the bill for his frame and that's dead skinny for 6'3", Brad Pitt was that in Fight Club. He can look 6'4" in Mr Smith Goes to Washington, he's at least a head taller than a lot of the actors in it. In Stewart's earliest movies he seems grasshopper thin, although not necessarily weak. He went on a forced eating program to make the minimum weight requirement for acceptance into the Army Air Corps during World War II. He is probably the only American movie leading man that I could have beaten in a fist fight in real life. Mickey Rooney could have made short work of me. I don't recall the source, but I saw something that stated 160 pounds later in life for Stewart. I'm around an inch and a half taller than Stewart and have been 180 pounds at my lightest in the past few years (often a bit more). I'm considered quite skinny, so Stewart's 138 lb sounds unhealthy to me for his height. Looked a clear 6 ft 3 in Broken Arrow. Strange thing is though he seemed a bit taller than Jeff Chandler (listed at 6'4") and seemed an easy inch shorter than Basil Ruysdael (listed at 6'2")!! I looked up Ruysdael and actually guessed he'd be 6'4" range. Very odd. Looks 3.5-4 inches taller than 5'11 listed om Helmore in Vertigo. Arch Stanton said on 26/Apr/13 I doubt he was 130 pounds, that's lighter than 5'7" Bruce Lee!!!! A skinny 5 ft 7 guy typically weighs 130-140. Funny, but facially he looks like he'd be a big hunky guy. I'm watching Rear Window right now and he takes off his shirt and he was all skin and bone, a very flat chest and stomach, body was wasting away. I can believe 6'3" ad 150 pounds. Jamesy said on 13/Jan/13 6'3.5 6'3.25 said on 9/Jun/12 I used to weigh 135lbs when I was skinnier, it just depends on you're body type; some people are naturally built slimmer. toby said on 5/Jun/12 How on earth can you be 6'3 and weigh under 148 pounds, thats insanely skinny. Richard D said on 11/Feb/12 In a Michael Parkinson interview (see youtube) he says he was 130lbs. That is under the weight regulations but in those days this was not uncommon. I'd say he was6"3 Sam said on 10/Feb/12 He may have had an edge over Gary Cooper: Yeehaw! said on 9/Feb/12 When he was drafted he was 32 years of age. Chances are he had reached his full height. Pete Procrastinator said on 29/Dec/11 Maybe when JS was drafted he hadn't yet reached his full height. Especially so in those days, as they didn't mature as early (on average) as the young do now. Sam said on 12/Dec/11 Rob, what do you think of the 6'3.5" quote? [Editor Rob: it could be possible] sdsds said on 7/Nov/11 It also says in a few of his biographies that Stewart grew to a full 6ft 3in, such that he was exactly 1 inch shorter than his father Alexander, who was 6ft 4in tall. Gonzalo said on 19/Oct/11 He claims to be 6`3.5 and he looks half an inch taller than legit 6.3 Gary Cooper. I think James Stewart should be upgraded at 6`3.5 James Stewart in this pic looks slightly taller than Gary Cooper Mr.V said on 28/Aug/11 Here's a documentary about "Harvey" where Jimmy describes himself as 6'3.5 ( he says it at 2:28 in the video ) : I think he was . ALohaJoe said on 23/Jun/11 I reiterate what was posted below: Anonymous says on 3/Apr/10 According to the curator of the James Stewart Museum, he was exactly 6'3" tall. His military physical would have indicated he was 6'3", since he was 138 lb., five pounds under the 143 required for his draft eligibility. The weight / height requirements for the US Air Force prior to October 1999 was 143 lb. minimum for a man of 6'3". By the late 1950s, he reported that his weight was up to 160 lb. From jimmy.org Stewart's draft number was 310. When his number was called and he appeared at Draft Board No. 245 in West Los Angeles in February 1941, the 6'3" Stewart weighed only 138 pounds, 5 pounds under the acceptable weight level. He was turned down. Some interesting comparison shots. In one, I think Wayne is dropping a little height and the other Stewart is: Bon_ said on 25/May/11 6'3.5 at peak. jake said on 20/May/11 Rob do you think he might've been 6' 3.5" at his peak? [Editor Rob: it is possible.] T said on 28/Apr/11 He could be 6'4.His posture is terrible Mathew said on 25/Apr/11 This guy is an example of a legitimate 6'3". Not as tall as 6'4" though. Sam said on 21/Apr/11 He possibly had a peak height a little over 6'3". There are a few 6'4" reports and he could have easily pased for it rafa said on 12/Apr/11 He was between 6'3" and 6'4", not "reaching a full 6'4" but close I once saw an interview on tv with stewart claiming he was six feet four and three quaters.He said that the three quarters were very important to him in jest. thebad7 said on 24/Feb/11 Another magnificent performer from a long-gone day. As poster Red says: "Solid 6'3" ". He looked to be 6'3" well into his final years. In 1962's THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, and in 1976's THE SHOOTIST, he looks to be a strong 6'3" standing next to The Duke--who was in the 6'3"-6'4" range during this time. Red said on 7/Feb/11 Solid 6'3 Kemp said on 29/Jan/11 I've just saw BEND OF THE RIVER, and Stewart and Hudson look exactly the same height. brunobrowne said on 23/Jan/11 Appears at most 1'' lower than Rock, so JS is nearer to 6'4'' id say. krazy krippled! said on 2/Jan/11 6'5 Rock Hudson was clearly taller than Jimmy in bend of the River, so 6'3 seems about right. Mr. Kaplan said on 30/Oct/10 Rob, he should be upgraded. Jimmy claimed 6'3.5". Mathew said on 29/Jun/09 This is a legit 6'3" man. Anonymous said on 18/Jun/09 The 6ft 3.5 listing was probarbly in shoes which could have made him 6ft 2.5 barefoot. In some of the westerns that would have put him at over 6ft 4. Sam said on 6/May/09 Jimmy was a solid 6 ft 3 in. Buddy Ebsen was 6 ft 2.5 mo said on 18/Apr/09 There's a picture of him with Victor Mature on the Getty images website--both are in their late 70s. And I swear to God, Stewart is at least 3 inches taller than Mature, could obviously be due to Mature having lost more of his head in his late age. There's a picture of him with Victor Mature --both are in their late 70s. Rusty said on 15/Feb/09 How could he possibly weigh only 138, it said he was 160 in 1936 and im 40 years old 6'3" and 170 pounds, which ive been for 20 years, and i am always called thin. adam said on 18/Jan/09 Yes, he was a stick! jake said on 8/Nov/08 wow 6 ft 3 and 63kg is unbelievably thin Anonymous said on 30/Sep/08 James Stewart is the greatest American actor ever even greater than John Wayne Humphrey Bogart Marlon Brando and Cary Grant.His Peak height was a definitely 6'3 or 190 cms. adam said on 5/Sep/08 Jimmy Stewart was one of the greatest actors of all time. Along with Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant and few others they were the best there were and the best there ever will be. Stewart was definitely a solid 6-3 and could have been half an inch taller. rob roy said on 27/Jul/08 one of the greatest hollywood actor that i admire most until now is this lanky, actor, pilot Mr. James Stewart who captivated movie goers during his time and until now. i usually watch his old films specially those paired with the late grace kelly. and his film " vertigo" with kim novack and many more. Anonymous said on 5/Jun/08 Well posted Gonzalo! I am (a bit late) joining you. Gonzalo said on 20/May/08 Happy centenary Mr. Stewart. Thanks for those unforgettable moments you have shared with us. patrick said on 21/Feb/08 I love Jimmy Stewart but I have to admit his height was changing (in appearance) as he went along his career. In 1965, in that movie taking place in the desert, with a plane crashed whose he was the pilot, he definitely looks shorter than George Kennedy by more than one inch for sure. Otherwise, he normally looked very tall and no less than 6'3.5. Moon said on 15/Jan/08 I agree, Scott. I've stopped debating those height/weight charts years ago whenever someone brings them up. Those charts never seem to take into account the notion that a person might have larger than average muscle mass coupled with stocky proportions. Scott B said on 13/Jan/08 You really can't go by the Height/Weight charts. I have been lifting weights for years and weigh 215lbs at 5'10. Rex Tanger said on 12/Jan/08 Grandad met this actor many times through his career. According to my grandad, he looks huge because he's so thin. My grandad said he's never seen anyone with his figure; just about the lankiest guy you could meet. When they spoke about this, Stewart said something like 'shucks, I'm exactly 10 centimeters short of 2 Metres, that's 6'3 and a half.' My grandad never thought about it twice, but he mentioned recently and, being 6'10" and height conscious myself, I realize old Jimmy had it wrong. I remember from when I was growning that 6'3" is 190.5 cm exactly, meaning, if Jimmy was 190, he was half a centimeter shorter than 6'3", and not 191.77, which is 6'3" and a half. You see, its strange, to think he was just 6'3" (who cares about half a centimeter) - to me he's always looked as tall as my grandad, who's 6'5", but my grandad has told me Jimmy's a good two inches shorter, but nobody (including me) notices because he's so damn skinny. That close-cut suit added to the lankiness really makes him seem giant. In one scene in Vertigo, I could swear he's almost my height... what a brilliant effect when you consider he's actually seven inches shorter!!! Richard said on 10/Jan/08 Moon maybe your right im 6 foot 3 and hover around 180lbs to 185lbs im lean but im not lanky or a bean pole, I used to be around 230lbs but I lost the weight, my shoulders are quite wide and when I was 230lbs i was a bit chubby not obese but chubby and overweight so I dont know really. clark said on 8/Jan/08 ..even when he was old he looked tall Anonymous said on 6/Jan/08 Medical recommendation for: 6ft 3in = 152 Lbs to 200 Lbs 6ft 3.5in = 154 lbs to 203 Lbs 6ft 4in cm = 156 lbs to 205 lbs So 210-220 for 6ft 3in is not reccommended Moon said on 29/Dec/07 Not true, Richard. I'm about the same height as Stewart and weigh 270 lbs and have yet to be called fat. At least, to my face ;). Seriously, though, I'm built about like John Wayne (I'm a bit more muscular and my feet are size 14) and unless I want to drop 30lbs to "get ripped" as it were, I stay a consistant 270 (and Im very light on my feet). Depending on your build, it is very VERY easy to hover around 250 or so. Especially for someone like me, whose weight gets evenly distributed throught his/her body. bannarup said on 13/Nov/07 i agree with most people on this site who say that jimmy stewart was 6'3.5 which is what he was and always was. if your 6 ft 3 and 210 to 220lbs you are either muscly or fat. Danimal said on 31/Oct/07 When I was in grade 9, we had a gym class devoted to measuring and weighing each other. We were all around 14 years old at the time. I remember the tallest guy in our class was 6'3" (at the time) and weighed in his 140's and he was a RAKE. Anything under 175 pounds for that height is very scrawny. One should be at least 210-220 pounds if 6'3". Richard said on 30/Oct/07 omg if he really was 6 ft 3 and 139lbs (joining the army) that is crazy skinny, I mean im 6 ft 3 and 180lbs and everyone thinks im too skinny, he must have been bordering on anorexic. JanJ said on 30/Jul/07 James Stewart was 192 cm JIMMY STEWART, CHARLTON HESTON and LYLES Ivan 6'2.25 said on 21/Jul/07 in the rope picture he look way taller but hitchcock was a short man 5'6/7 inches tall. Anonymous said on 11/Jul/07 I notice the discussion of Harvey. Yes in the movie Stewart says that Harvey is 6'3 1/2"; that is correct. However, if one watches the special introduction to Harvey that was done by James Stewart, he says that he himself is 6'3 1/2" and that although the person inside the Harvey suit was 6'1 1/2", he said that Harvey was 6'8" that way Stewart would have to actually look up at Harvey. Gonzalo said on 10/Jul/07 Stewart looking at least two inches taller than 6`1 Ronald Reagan Stewart looking huge next to Alfred Hitchcock. 6`3 is out of the question. The only doubt is 6`3 or 6`3 1/2 DOW said on 7/Jul/07 In his bio it was stated that he was measured at 6'3 1/2 and 139 lbs by the military when he inlisted, and that was to skinny and they would'nt let him in. But they gave him a some time, and he ate spagetti like crazy and gained a few pounds quickly and they let him. Ivan 6'2.25 said on 7/Jul/07 in Vertigo premiere beside hitchcook ,has 8 inches taller that s mean hitchcook where just above his lips. steve nevil said on 13/May/07 I met Mr. Stewartin May of 1989 when I was working with him on the Campbell's Home Cookin' Soup campaign. I'm 6'1" and I remember being introduced to Jimmy by the director. I remember looking up at this movie legend and realizing how really tall he was. I'd say a good 6'3" at least...and I felt like I was four feet and ten years old. He was a truly great actor and, as director George Steven said, he was doing what Brando was doing fifteen years before... Anders Danielsen Lie Angelica Ross Michelle Mylett Morfydd Clark Dexter Darden Karen Blick	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7695
__label__cc	0.544078	0.455922	December 20, 2018 4 minute read 2019 Predictions: What’s coming next? EuropeAsia & OceaniaNorth AmericaLatin AmericaCity / UrbantechnologyEconomics and FinanceLegitimacyArtificial IntelligenceInnovation What's in store for 2019? @CPI_Foundation take a look at what might lie ahead. #2019Predictions Tweet this Govts will embrace devolution, localism & participatory mechanisms that hand power back to citizens, says @_AdrianBrown #2019Predictions Tweet this Protests from citizens dissatisfied with govt will be the new normal - the gilets jaunes in France are just the beginning, says @LenaKuenkel Tweet this Last year had plenty of ups, downs and plot twists. But what’s in store for 2019? It’s that time of year again when the CPI team take a look at what lies ahead for 2019. This year’s predictions cover the move from top-down management to self-management, youth engagement and direct action, voice search, AI, trends in Latin America, and economic development. Dive into our predictions below, do you agree/disagree? We’d love to know what you think is on the horizon for 2019. Adrian Brown, Global People will continue to question the authority of established elites and increasingly demand that power is distributed more evenly in society. For governments, this will mean embracing greater devolution, localism and participatory mechanisms that hand power back to citizens and those working at the front-line of public services. #2019Predictions Danny Buerkli, Global There’s a silent and almost invisible revolution happening in many governmental organizations across the world: they’re moving from managerialism and top-down control to enablement and self-management. My prediction is that we’ll see, hear and read a lot more about this next year. #2019Predictions Nadine Smith, Global We will see more people react in new and surprising ways to incompetence, unfairness and a lack of legitimacy from governments. Many will want to create mass disruption through non-traditional, more direct means of feedback. And with the benefit of social media to create new interest groups, especially among the young and disempowered, they will know they can bring about change without being in traditional party politics at all. #2019Predictions Chris Oladogba, Global The story format on mobile will continue to rise, expect Facebook and Instagram to start placing ads as you swipe through stories. I also expect continued growth in voice search. This is beginning to get real momentum now and soon it’ll become standard to include voice search in your digital strategy and the way companies optimise for search. “Alexa! Explain the Public Impact Fundamentals”. #2019Predictions Katie Rose, Global People will become more and more insistent that their voice is not being heard. This will have consequences for governments all over the world, who will need to think far bigger than just tweaking the edges of the policymaking process to “involve” people. We will start to see political parties and public sector leaders standing for this far bigger change. #2019Predictions Margot Gagliani, Global I think that this is the year where an increasing number of people will cease to hype ‘AI’ and get more specific: what do they mean when they say AI, and what can and can’t the technology do?” #2019Predictions Elena Bagnera, Global In 2019, more public service providers from around the world will take inspiration from the healthcare organisation Buurtzorg to transition to more self-managed and empowering ways of working #2019Predictions Lena Kuenkel, Global Waves of protests from citizens dissatisfied with government will become the new normal – the gilets jaunes in France are just the beginning. In response, governments will start to test new ways of engaging in a more direct dialogue with citizens, hopefully leading to improved relationships. At the same time, right-wing nationalism in Europe continues to grow, a trend that will also become visible in the European Parliament election where an increasing number of seats will be held by populist and Eurosceptic representatives. #2019Predictions Jorge Hargrave, Latin America South America will continue to experience heated political discussions on several fronts (in Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil especially). On the economic side, things will get better, with Brazil and Argentina managing to approve reforms that will boost economic growth and decrease unemployment. #2019Predictions Catarina Caricati, Latin America Current political and economic turmoil will continue in Latin America with even more conflicts between liberal and conservative ideas. Similar to the US, Brazil may threaten to leave many international treaties. #2019Predictions Alison Lands, North America U.S. economic indicators will continue to soften, but employment will remain at historic highs (for the time being). With few skilled workers available, and even fewer levers from which to further stimulate the economy, American policy leaders will face a series of long-overdue conversations about how to promote sustainable and inclusive growth heading into primary season. #2019Predictions Dan Vogel, North America In the U.S., our Federal dysfunction and nasty public discourse will get worse before it gets better – hitting a new “rock bottom” will generate a backlash from Americans wanting more civility and pragmatism from our leaders, leading to the rise of a third political party. 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Less management, more care: a Dutch nursing revolution reaches the UK. Brendan Martin tells us how he plans to spread the Buurtzorg model to the UK and beyond and revolutionise nursing with the enablement mindset. Enablement: how governments can achieve more by letting go. The traditional service delivery model is increasingly being challenged by an enablement mindset The Future of Government. CPI is exploring what the future of government should look like and what it will do. Help shape what comes next. REPORT: Government must be made more human or risk becoming irrelevant – our new report shows how #FindingLegitimacy. Nadine Smith reports on CPI’s new report on finding the human in government Becoming a more human government – five behaviours for greater legitimacy. Magdalena Kuenkel reports on CPI’s new report on how governments can change their behaviour to strengthen their legitimacy REPORT: How to make AI work in government and for people How governments can secure legitimacy for their AI systems. We need to be realistic about the potential of AI. Margot Gagliani explores why it is not a panacea for all the world’s problems in our latest guide “How to make AI work in government and for people” Buurtzorg: revolutionising home care in the Netherlands Tackling corruption in Peru (2010-2018)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7697
__label__cc	0.54721	0.45279	Ultimate Software to Be Taken Private for $11B The pioneer of cloud-based HR solutions is being sold to an investor group that sees it as "an exceptional company with a strong culture." Industrial Firm Colfax Deals Its Way Into Medical Devices Colfax has agreed to buy orthopedic device maker DJO Global from private equity funds managed by the Blackstone Group. Blackstone Invests in Outsourcing Startup TaskUs The $250 million investment comes amid "massive consolidation" in the business process outsourcing industry. Invitation Homes Raises $1.54 Billion in IPO The offering of the home-rental company controlled by Blackstone Group continues the IPO market's strong start to 2017. China’s HNA Group Buys 25% of Hilton for $6.5B The Chinese conglomerate makes its second foray into the U.S. hotel industry in six months, paying a premium of 14.6% for Blackstone's stake in Hilton. Oil Price Slump Creating Opportunities Private investors like Blackstone see value in the high-yield bonds of energy firms and in distressed companies hit by the steep drop in oil prices. SEC Official Sees ‘Positive Change’ in Private Equity Firms "Transparency has improved markedly" at private equity firms, says the commission's head of private funds compliance inspections.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7699
__label__wiki	0.99622	0.99622	Office, retail building soon could replace former village hall in downtown Mundelein By Rick Kambic \| Pioneer Press \| A rendering depicts the proposed development project for the site of Mundelein's former village hall. (Hezner Corp.) A Mundelein business owner is wanting to demolish the former Mundelein Village Hall, which dates back nearly a century, and replace it with a two-story mixed office and retail center. Frank Dziadus, the president of Midwest Masonry Inc. who has been negotiating with Mundelein officials on acquiring the 90-year-old building, recently unveiled conceptual redevelopment plans to village board members alongside his contracted project manager, Scott Hezner, of Hezcorp Construction Services. The proposed development, 440 E. Hawley St., would feature 22,950 square feet and two floors of combined office and retail space, plus a potential for 7,500 square feet of rooftop dining or entertainment space, according to village documents. If Mundelein and Dziadus reach an agreement, the developer would begin working on designs, which is estimated to take three months, according to village documents. Construction on the new building could take an additional nine months. “The intent is to establish an easy to access community destination for dining and shopping, and working and gathering with enough planning and design flexibility to allow for cohesive future development,” Hezner said. Mundelein trustees Kerston Russell and Robin Meier, who were appointed to a negotiating committee, will help decide the terms for exchanging the 0.77-acre site, officials said. But board members mostly expressed support after seeing the conceptual plans earlier in March. Based on project renderings, the two-story building includes a connected walkway above a joint foyer and would be pressed against Hawley Street with parking in the back. Hezner said the site would have wider sidewalks to accommodate more pedestrian and bike traffic. The facade would be similar to the styles used in nearby apartment buildings that were built in recent years, he said. “We did pay close attention to (Mundelein’s) comprehensive plan when we were working out these details,” Hezner said. Trustees expressed minor concerns about the proposed 37 off-street and 18 on-street parking spaces and questioned whether there would be enough parking for a restaurant. Mundelein's former village hall is pictured in the 1920s after Cardinal Mundelein donated a fire truck to the village. (Mundelein Historical Society) “With the new density that’s developing downtown, there really will be more pedestrian traffic and there will be more bike traffic, too,” Hezner said. “When people get home, they wont necessary want to hop back into their car again.” The site is within walking distance of Mundelein’s Metra station, the Cardinal Square residential buildings and open plots on Plaza Circle that Mundelein officials are attempting to sell. [Most read] R. Kelly ordered held without bond on sweeping new federal charges » “I think the building is lovely,” said Trustee Dawn Abernathy. “I think it would be a great start to anchoring downtown.” Russell said he was excited to see a Mundelein business growing and investing in its own community. “I want to point out to the public that this isn’t just a developer. This is a business owner in Mundelein who employs people in Mundelein,” Russell said. “He has an office building here in Mundelein. He’s one of the top three masonry contractors in Illinois, and he has chosen to invest his money in our town.” Latest Mundelein Mundelein man charged with attempted murder after firing gun during confrontation, police say 5 things to do in the Lake County area July 19-21 Column: Mom or dad’s new job might be the best thing to happen to the family Column: To catch a gator, ‘Swamp People’ style 'Effectively dead’: Illinois Tollway puts the brakes on Route 53 extension study through Lake County Trustee Ray Semple expressed optimism about the proposal, but he also address the historical significance of the village’s former village hall. “I’m assuming there’s a negotiating team that will be involved in this, so can we dovetail some sort of plaque or memorialized somehow,” he said. “It’s ways away, so I don’t want to quibble about it.” Hezner and Dziadus both said they were open to the idea. The building was first constructed in 1929 and was added onto or remodeled over the years, according to documents. It housed Mundelein’s original fire engine and served as the village’s headquarters until the new village hall was ready for use in June 2014. After leasing the building to construction contractors, who were widening Hawley Street, Mundelein officials put the building up for sale in September 2017 with an appraised property value of $380,000. The former village hall, 440 E. Hawley St., Mundelein, first opened in 1929. (Rick Kambic/Pioneer Press)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7702
__label__wiki	0.716791	0.716791	News and Updates from Child Neurology Foundation View all news and updates > CNF Earns 2018 GuideStar Platinum Posted on: June 27th, 2018 CNF Earns the 2018 GuideStar Seal of Transparency Child Neurology Foundation today earned the 2018 Platinum GuideStar Nonprofit Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world’s largest source of nonprofit information. By sharing metrics that highlight progress Child Neurology Foundation is making toward its mission, the organization is helping donors, grantmakers, our peers and the media move beyond simplistic ways of nonprofit evaluation. To reach the Platinum level, Child Neurology Foundation added extensive information to its Nonprofit Profile on GuideStar: basic contact and organizational information; in-depth financial information; qualitative information about goals, strategies and capabilities; and quantitative information about results and progress toward its mission. By taking the time to provide this information, Child Neurology Foundation has demonstrated its commitment to transparency and to provide meaningful data to evaluate Child Neurology Foundation. About The Child Neurology Foundation: The Child Neurology Foundation is a national non-profit committed to serving as a collaborative center of education and support for children and their families living with the over 300 neurologic conditions that originate in childhood. About GuideStar Nonprofit Profile: The GuideStar database contains a profile for every tax-exempt nonprofit registered with the IRS and encourages every nonprofit to claim and update its profile at no cost to the organization. Updating allows nonprofits to share a wealth of up-to-date information with more than 8 million people who visit GuideStar to learn more about nonprofit organizations each year. To reach a given participation level, organizations need to complete all required fields for that participation level. The GuideStar participation levels, acknowledged as symbols of transparency in the nonprofit sector, are displayed on all updated participants’ profiles in the GuideStar database.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7704
__label__cc	0.63828	0.36172	-- The Commvault HyperScale™ Appliance provides the County powerful scale-out capabilities with the elasticity, resiliency and flexibility required to drive progressive smart city digital transformation initiatives – -- Becomes the first public sector organization to deploy modern, scale-out data protection with Commvault HyperScale™ Technology -- Redwood City, Calif. and Tinton Falls, N.J. – April 3, 2018 - Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive, and the cloud, today announced that the County of San Mateo has selected the Commvault HyperScale™ Appliance to help replace its legacy data management infrastructure. The Commvault HyperScale Appliance is a turnkey, scale-out data protection solution that tightly integrates compute, storage, backup and recovery, full data lifecycle management, reporting and analytics into a single platform. The County of San Mateo will deploy multiple Commvault HyperScale Appliances to simplify data management in its hybrid cloud environment and secure the resiliency and flexibility it needs to accelerate the implementation of its Open San Mateo County government project, public Wi-Fi project, and other smart city digital transformation initiatives. In doing so, the County becomes the first public sector agency globally to deploy modern, scale-out data protection solutions leveraging Commvault HyperScale™ Technology. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, between San Jose and San Francisco, the County of San Mateo consists of 22 cities with a population totaling more than 760,000 people. Several of the world’s leading technology companies - including Facebook, Oracle Corporation, and Electronic Arts - are headquartered in the County. The County of San Mateo employs 7,600 people and has a total budget for FY 2017-2018 of $2.65 billion. “At the County of San Mateo, we are proud to demonstrate to the world that the benefits of digital transformation are not limited to the private sector,” said Jon Walton, CIO of the County of San Mateo. “We chose the Commvault HyperScale Appliance because it provides efficient functionality in a scale-out design that will let us seamlessly expand as our environment grows. By replacing our legacy data management hardware with an agile, scale-out solution, we are confident we can get the simplicity and performance we need to continue our digital transformation.” Built on Commvault's industry-leading technology, the Commvault HyperScale Appliance will enable the County of San Mateo to significantly decrease deployment time, complexity of storage configuration and cost while increasing both scalability and IT agility. Because Commvault’s HyperScale Appliances are pre-designed, pre-configured, sold and supported by Commvault, the County of San Mateo will save time in hardware acquisition, installation, integration, daily management, patching and updating. In addition, with Commvault’s unique subscription pricing approach, the County of San Mateo will gain economical support over the life of the appliance. “The County of San Mateo is a leader in showing how the hybrid cloud enables forward-thinking government agencies to accelerate the development and deployment of smart city initiatives,” said Scott Little, Vice President of Sales, Americas, Commvault. “We are excited to help [it] continue to succeed in [its] digital transformation. By leveraging the Commvault HyperScale Appliance, [it] can focus even more on the smart city projects that are making The County of San Mateo a model for transparent, tech-savvy government.” The County of San Mateo will use the powerful simplicity of Commvault HyperScale Appliances to reduce the administrative time and costs related to managing, activating and protecting data stored on the County’s hybrid cloud. This cloud includes both an on-premises private cloud and public cloud services, as well as data for the Open San Mateo County project, which makes it easy for residents to access a wide range of County financial, education, geographic, health, and social services data. For example, the Open San Mateo County project features a County Shared Vision 2025 dashboard, providing residents with up-to-date data and statistics on the County’s progress in realizing various community goals related to crime, homelessness, greenhouse gas emissions, resident life expectancy, students’ reading proficiency, student graduation rates and more. In addition, the simplicity of Commvault HyperScale Appliances also frees up County resources to work on other strategic smart city digital transformation initiatives. These initiatives include the SMC Public Wi-Fi Project, designed to create the infrastructure needed to ensure all County residents and visitors have equal access to online resources. They also include the County’s Shared Fiber Services project, designed to improve County government agencies’ access to a high bandwidth, reliable fiber network backbone. About Commvault HyperScale™ Technology With Commvault HyperScale™ Technology, Commvault is bringing a cloud ready, scale-out infrastructure to the Commvault Data Platform. Available as Commvault HyperScale™ Software – a software solution implemented on a hardware platform of the user’s choice in reference architecture approach – and Commvault HyperScaleTM Appliance – a turnkey appliance built, sold and supported by Commvault – Commvault HyperScale™ provides customers deployment flexibility, on-premises simplicity, elasticity, resiliency and scale for managing secondary data. Commvault is a leading provider of data protection, cloud and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate and drive more value and business insight out of their data. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third-party influencers for its technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on-premises, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Commvault employs more than 2,700 highly- skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more about Commvault — and how it can help make your data work for you — visit www.commvault.com ©1999-2018 Commvault Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Commvault, Commvault and logo, the "C hexagon” logo, Commvault Systems, Solving Forward, SIM, Singular Information Management, Commvault HyperScale, ScaleProtect, Commvault OnePass, Commvault Galaxy, Unified Data Management, QiNetix, Quick Recovery, QR, CommNet, GridStor, Vault Tracker, InnerVault, Quick Snap, QSnap, IntelliSnap, Recovery Director, CommServe, CommCell, ROMS, APSS, Commvault Edge, Commvault GO, and CommValue are trademarks or registered trademarks of Commvault Systems, Inc. All other third party brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of and used to identify the products or services of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7707
__label__wiki	0.679633	0.679633	Vol. 5 No. 6 - December 2005/January 2006 Tips on Brushed or Broomed Finishes for Concrete Stenciling Existing Concrete Slip Resistance Guide for Concrete Surfaces Cold Weather Stamping Opaque Epoxy Coatings for Concrete Floors How to Get the Look of Outdoor Tile on Vertical Concrete How to Justify the Price for Decorative Concrete Broaden Your Knowledge with Concrete Techniques Consider a Pressure Washer for Concrete Seamless Floor Coatings Inc., A Family Business Since 1939 Decorative Applications for Pervious Concrete Colored Pervious Concrete Used in Award-Winning Park Manufacturer Profile: Architectural Concrete Looks and Feels Like Stone How did David Jack Corp. produce 480 countertops in just six weeks? Climbing Walls Made of Concrete Thermoplastic Rubber Floors, Pebble-Flex Surfacing System Sprayable Overlay Compound is Part of Stainable Concrete Veneer System Four-Dimensional Stain Cube Stamp Pattern for Concrete Gore Design Co. Countertop and Sink Molds How to Color Concrete Sealer with Metallic Powder Densifiers for Moisture Management: Letter to the Editor Keep Those Broom Bristles Straight! Coloring Techniques for Stenciled Concrete Decorative Concrete Tips: Using Stencils Shiny does not necessarily mean slippery concrete Decorative Concrete Panels Survive Decades of Weathering Concrete Forms and Form Liners for that Natural Look Solvenator Premier Concrete Pump Sprayer William C. Panarese The question of architectural concrete’s durability has finally been answered. A review published earlier this year by the Portland Cement Association documents the performance of 60 typical architectural finishes after 40 years of exposure in the relatively severe Chicago-area climate. Most weathered extremely well, with 93 percent of the panels receiving an “excellent” or “good” rating. The panels were constructed in the early 1960s at the PCA Research & Development Laboratories in Skokie, Ill., and assembled into a circular outdoor display that was unofficially referred to as the “PCA Stonehenge.” The display was for a study that dealt with decorative surface treatments. It described and illustrated methods of obtaining attractive finishes on both precast and cast-in-place concrete. Many of the techniques remain viable today. The panel project was dismantled in 2001 to allow for development of the property, but before removal, the fourdecade- old panels were inspected and photographed before and after a thorough power-wash cleaning. The panels were assigned a performance rating of “excellent,” “good,” “fair” or “poor” both before and after cleaning. All 60 panels in the study were considered durable and structurally sound. Most surfaces also were sound and their appearance relatively unchanged. A slight etching or “softening” of the sharper edges was noticeable on some surfaces, but this was not severe. Though some panels looked better after cleaning, many of them exhibited only minor staining from dirt and pollution sources, and some panels looked about the same as they did when constructed 40 years ago. However, the integrally colored concrete panels showed significant signs of wear. The collection of 60 panels, each measuring 5 feet by 3 feet by 4 inches, was built to demonstrate seven production procedures popular at the time. Section 1. Horizontally Precast Exposed-Aggregate Panels: In this technique the bottom of the forms are coated with a chemical retarder to expose a colorful aggregate in the concrete cast against that surface. This is the most commonly used technique in the precast industry. The results: Of 18 panels, 12 were rated excellent, five good, and one fair. The panel rated fair contained a pink marble that faded, was not as white as was cast 40 years ago, and had dirt streaks still evident after cleaning. In another case where a panel contained a blue pigment in the facing mixture, fading took place. Section 2. Horizontally Precast Panels using Form Liners of Rubber, Plastic and Wood: Today, most of these textures would be produced with plastic or elastomeric form liners. The results: Of 13 panels, three were rated excellent and 10 were rated good. The textures were still sharp after 40 years of weathering, but some minor paste erosion took place on surfaces that were originally cast smooth. There was minor spalling on a few panels, but this was attributed to the power-washing process. Section 3. Horizontally Precast Exposed-Aggregate Panels using Sand- Bedding Techniques: When architectural qualities of boldness and massiveness are desired in exposedaggregate walls, stones ranging in size from 1 inch to 8 inches in diameter can be used with this technique. Also, flagstone can be sand-bedded to produce stone-faced wall panels. The results: Of four panels, two were rated excellent and two were rated good. Two panels experienced debonding of a few embedded aggregates. It was evident that these stones were not embedded deep enough in the sand before casting. Section 4. Integrally Colored Precast Panels. The results: The four integrally colored panels did not weather well. One panel was rated fair, while the other three were rated poor. The fair panel was made with a yellow iron oxide pigment and still retained some of its yellow color after 40 years of weathering, but the other three (black, green, and blue) faded to gray or tones of gray. This study was not a good example of how iron oxide pigments behave in concrete because only one iron oxide pigment (yellow) was used. Today, iron oxide pigments are widely used to produce brown, red, black and buffcolored concretes. Generally speaking though, colored concrete placed outdoors tends to lighten or fade with time. Section 5. Other Horizontally Precast Panels using Sandblasting, Bushhammering, Grinding and Polishing, and Surface-Bonded Sheeting.The results: The eight panels in this section were used to explore other production and surface-finishing techniques. Five were rated excellent and three were good. The four panels treated with a light sandblasting were all rated excellent. The bush-hammered panel was rated good. Of the two panels finished by grinding and polishing, one was rated excellent and the other good. It was found that to achieve a high polish on the matrix section of the surface, the concrete must be of high strength and well cured. The marble tiles used in one of these panels were still shiny after 40 years of weathering. Section 6. Vertically Cast-in-Place Exposed-Aggregate Panels using Prepacked-Aggregate Concrete: In this technique, the aggregate can be carefully placed against the sides of the forms to get a uniform, dense, exposed aggregate surface in the finished wall. Water and external vibration are used to densely pack the aggregate in the form. Then, the panel is grouted from the bottom up with a cement-sandwater slurry mixture that replaces the water in the voids of the aggregate. The results: Over the years the paste turned dark on all four panels, but they all cleaned up very well. Section 7. Vertically Cast-in-Place Exposed-Aggregate Panels using Gap- Graded Aggregate Concrete: With this method, a gap in the gradation of the aggregate is created so that the texture in the finished wall shows predominately one size of coarse aggregate. The results: Four panels were rated excellent and one good. While the bushhammered panel was rated good, it was not considered attractive because of the excess space between coarse aggregate particles, a function of the mixture design procedure, which is critical with gap-graded aggregate concrete. The panels weren’t the only concrete items examined at the checkup after 40 years of weathering. The pea-gravel exposed aggregate walkway and 120 white cement concrete posts supporting the panels were also inspected, although they were not specifically part of the study. The walkway, used by thousands of visitors over the years, behaved very well with no loss of surface facing aggregate, and it cleaned up well. The white concrete posts, which were originally cast with smooth surfaces, experienced a slight erosion of surface paste, possibly due to acid rain. However, this improved rather than detracted from their appearance, resulting in an attractive white exposed-aggregate finish. The conclusion: Concrete for exterior walls is aesthetically pleasing, durable and retains its original appearance, even after decades of exposure in an often harsh North American climate. And concrete requires very little maintenance, proof that architectural concrete is costeffective over the long term. For more information or to obtain a copy of “Performance of Architectural Concrete Panels in the PCA Outdoor Display,” a report co-written by the author of this article, visit www.cement.org. William C. Panarese is a former manager, construction information services, for Portland Cement Association.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7708
__label__cc	0.523344	0.476656	Cybersecurity: The Threat Continues Cybersecurity threats and privacy invasion are daily news with Snowden, Assange, WikiLeaks and foreign hackers breaking into government, political, health, banking and other sites. From the Sony breach to the DNC hacking — cyberpunks aim to steal intellectual property, intelligence and information. Cyber attacks will get more challenging in the always-on Internet of Things (IoT) connected universe. Thousands of new devices vulnerable to cyber attacks are being attached to the internet, many running low-power processors incapable of supporting sophisticated security. And many embedded devices continue to operate for years after their last software patch. In October, traffic at websites including Twitter, Spotify and PayPal was slowed or stopped, because they were flooded with internet traffic. This DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack reportedly used internet-enabled cameras from Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a Chinese electronics component manufacturer. The attackers exploited weak or manufacturer set passwords that hadn’t been reset by users. Malware known as Mirai took advantage of these vulnerabilities by infecting the devices and using them to launch massive DDoS attacks, deluging websites and taking them offline. IoT security poses unusual risks. It is one thing to steal usernames, passwords or intellectual property, but it’s entirely different to gain access to systems that can interfere with people directly. Any connected device can be hacked, including a thermostat, smart appliance, connected wearable or even a child’s Barbie doll that is connected to the IoT. CTA Steps Up Cybersecurity Efforts CTA is working with our member companies on multiple programs to improve cybersecurity. Recent work includes revising CTA-TR-12, Securing Connected Devices for Consumers in the Home, which provides guidance to product designers and managers on how to enhance cybersecurity; developing guidance for product installers to get the best security out of existing devices; and helping develop and launch the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) online assessment tool, which companies can use to gauge how well they’re addressing security in their internal processes and end products. CTA also released a white paper outlining a national strategy to promote IoT growth, including the challenges of privacy and security. Medical device hacking is also a real possibility. So far, these have been confined to scenarios in TV shows like Homeland, which killed off a vice president by reprogramming his pacemaker. Former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that doctors disabled the wireless capability of his heart implant to prevent hacking in a 60 Minutes interview in 2013. Studies have found that drug infusion pumps that deliver morphine drips, chemotherapy and antibiotics can be remotely manipulated to change the dosage given to patients. Bluetooth-enabled defibrillators can be directed to deliver random shocks to a patient’s heart. X-rays can be accessed by outsiders lurking on a hospital’s network; temperature settings on refrigerators storing blood and drugs can be reset, causing spoilage and digital medical records can be altered to cause physicians to misdiagnose or prescribe the wrong drugs. The FDA has issued several alerts concerning the safety of infusion pumps developed by Hospira (acquired by Pfizer). And, Johnson & Johnson warned users that while the probability of unauthorized access is low, its Animas OneTouch Ping insulin pump could be hacked – with possibly fatal results. With connected devices expected to reach 21 billion by 2020, security and privacy are top priorities. While IoT holds infinite potential for doing good – it also presents challenges across healthcare, payments, transportation, industrial, government, manufacturing and M2M. Susan Schreiner Andre Hentz Bob Kolasky	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7714
__label__cc	0.57971	0.42029	How to use iOS 13’s Audio Sharing Lawmakers say Apple only pays lip service to enacting privacy laws Apple Watch bands that please your inner cheapskate Apple teams with VW for self-driving bus project By Buster Hein • 4:02 pm, May 23, 2018 This is the VW van Apple will use. Photo: VW Apple’s self-driving shuttle bus project has finally found a car manufacturer to work with. After being spurned by BMW and Mercedes, Apple has inked a deal with Volkswagen that will allow the iPhone-maker to turn some of its T6 vans into self-driving shuttles for employees. Apple has been researching self-driving car technology for about four years now. The company originally planned to build its own electric car from the wheels up. Those ambitious goals have since been downsized to creating the foundation of a self-driving system. The company plans to build self-driving buses as part of its research. Apple’s self-driving van project is behind schedule, according to The New York Times. Nearly all of Cupertino’s car team is working just on the VW vans project. Apple already has a fleet of self-driving Lexus RX450hs. The company has 55 of the vehicles currently in testing in California, giving it the second-biggest autonomous fleet in the state. After having nearly 1,000 employees dedicated to the project at one point, Apple’s automotive ambitions seem to have shrunk over the last year. Apple CEO Tim Cook described self-driving cars as the “mother of all AI problems.” Hopefully, the company’s team can figure it out quickly. Rivals like Waymo and Uber are already starting to launch self-driving car services. Posted in: News Tagged: BMW, Lexus, Mercedes, New York Times, Project Titan, self-driving cars, Tim Cook, Volkswagen, VW	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7715
__label__wiki	0.89097	0.89097	Jury in Cornwall murder trial told toddler was beaten, poisoned and left to die Eve Leatherland suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs and a split liver, Truro Crown Court heard Eve Leatherland pictured with her father, who is not involved in the court case, when she was a baby (Image: Family photo) A mother and her new partner between them poisoned a 22-month-old toddler in an attempt to cover up a series of beatings which left the child with a fractured skull, broken ribs and a split liver, a jury has been told. Eve Leatherland died in October 2017 at her home in Liskeard, a property she lived in with her mother Abigail Leatherland and her mother's boyfriend of a few months, Tom Curd. A large amount of the strong adult painkiller codeine, a drug that under no circumstances should be given to a child, was found in Eve's system. The trial of both Abigail Leatherland, 26, and Tom Curd, 31, from Watford, got underway at Truro Crown Court on Tuesday (March 12). Both defendants are charged with murder, manslaughter by gross negligence, and causing or allowing the death of a child. Cornwall nurse told of own death in shocking pension letter They both deny the charges and say they were not responsible for the injuries Eve sustained in the build-up to her death or the administration of the codeine. Abigail Leatherland and her boyfriend Tom Curd deny murdering the 22 month old child Opening the case, Sean Brunton QC said: “Eve Leatherland was murdered in her own home. In the few days leading up to her death she was assaulted on at least two occasions, possibly several more, and in the course of those assaults she suffered a fractured skull, several fractures ribs, a split liver and numerous other injuries of varying severity. “She suffered injuries described by medical experts as being the type of injuries most commonly associated with a road traffic crash. “Not only did she suffer a fractured skull and ribs on one occasion but it seems that when she was assaulted again the second assault was sufficiently similar to the first that it re-fractured her skull and re-fractured some of her ribs, tearing apart the young bones as they started to knit back together. “But, ghastly as all that may sound this was not quite the end of it. Because despite these assaults on this young child, or perhaps because of them, more was to befall young Eve. “After these attacks she was then given medication. Not medication kindly given to alleviate her suffering. Not a tea spoon full of Calpol to take the edge off a nasty cold or a banged knee. But rather, she was given so much medication that she was killed by it. “Whether she was given the medication over a few days to try to mask the effects of these various assaults and these terrible injuries upon her, or whether she was given one massive dose in the hours shortly before she died, we cannot precisely say. “Codeine is a strong adult painkiller and one which under no circumstances should ever be given to young children at all. But codeine was given to Eve in such a large quantity that it, possibly in combination with these terrible injuries she had suffered, killer her. “Indeed the evidence would appear to be that the codeine alone, irrespective of the injuries would have been enough to kill her.” Eve Leatherland Mr Brunton described how for the four or five days leading up to Eve’s death, she was confined to the small house with just Abigail Leatherland and Curd. He added: “The inescapable reality is that one or both of these people assaulted that little girl so severely that she was left with life-threatening injuries. “But rather than taking her to hospital, phoning a doctor or doing anything else to try and save her, ultimately she was given a fatal dose of codeine. Obviously had she been taken to the doctor then her very serious injuries would have come to light and difficult questions would have been asked. So for these two defendants, this was not an option.” Mr Brunton said that it is not possible for the prosecution to say who did what, but at least one of the two defendants, in their view, must have beaten Eve with such force that her liver ruptured. He said: “And then at least one of them decided to administer adult medication to her to cover up when they had done and did so in such large quantities that it killer her. “And all the while neither of them did a thing to help her. In fact, they seem to have spent the majority of the time simply watching TV, playing video games, sending each other text messages and chatting to people on Facebook, just feet away from where Eve was weakening and then dying on her bed.” Eve Leatherland died after she was given the strong adult painkiller codeine The Crown Prosecution Service says it’s “inconceivable” in such a small house that they failed to become aware of Eve’s deteriorating condition and that it was their choice to turn a blind eye. Cornwall Courts latest Thug who attacked court staff is jailed Throat cutter waved knife at station Man who stole from mum bullied in jail Menace went on bottle rampage at fair Paedophile told cops rape was release Armed robber manhandled employee Not very good dog kicker jailed Rape victim had hair cut off By the time Abigail Leatherland called 999 on October 5 2017, experts say that Eve had “almost certainly” been dead for many hours, and that when she arrived at hospital after being airlifted to Derriford Hospital rigor mortis had already set in, a process which usually takes several hours. Both Curd and Leatherland deny the charges against them. The trial continues.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7719
__label__wiki	0.643005	0.643005	Cranberry is pulling itself together. But it hasn’t been easy. Back in the day, most of Cranberry’s individual parts – its neighborhoods, office parks, shopping centers, municipal buildings, playgrounds, schools and churches – were developed in isolation. The idea that they might benefit from being connected to one another by sidewalks, particularly in what was then a mostly rural Cranberry Township, must have seemed odd. Cranberry’s first comprehensive plan, in 1977, didn’t even mention sidewalks or trails as priorities. Walking, after all, was what you did in parks; driving was how you got from Point A to Point B. By the ‘90s, however, attitudes had changed. Developments were being built closer together. New residents were arriving from other communities where sidewalks were customary. Developments patterned after traditional small town neighborhoods were becoming popular. Personal fitness had become an obsession. And the Board had installed a new municipal administration. Cranberry’s 1995 plan, for the first time, recommended amending Township codes to require that sidewalks be built in conjunction with new development. Over time, it was reasoned, every parcel of land in the Township would either be developed or re-developed, eventually resulting in a fully connected sidewalk system. But it would take several generations before that goal could be realized. By the start of the new millennium, the concept had been further refined. Accelerating a coherent network of pedestrian and bicycle connections had become a planning priority. Walkable neighborhood designs became a marketplace mantra. Greenways linking public parks to neighborhoods and to one another had emerged as a municipal standard. And Cranberry’s 2009 plan update codified the desire to create attractive streetscapes and enhance the walking experience. But while the broad principle of creating a pleasant and convenient sidewalk network had become widely accepted, some thorny practical issues remained. Who, for example, should be exempt from the requirement? What is the Township’s role in sidewalk and trail construction? Who is responsible for their maintenance, repair, snow removal, and plant trimming? And whose liability is it if someone were injured on a sidewalk? More about winter sidewalk maintenance To address these concerns in the context of a scheduled update to Cranberry’s comprehensive plan, the Township formed a staff committee to take a fresh look at the issues surrounding pedestrian connections. Using maps, diagrams, data sets and other planning tools, the committee attempted to rank the significance of possible improvements, identify sources of potential funding, evaluate utility rights of way, review handicap accessibility concerns, and determine how best to secure public input to the planning effort. One persistent issue involves providing pedestrian crossings on the Township’s major arteries. The most recent example involved a development proposal – since withdrawn – for pedestrians to cross Rt. 19 at Ehrman Road. But it was along a downhill slope with a posted speed of 55, where many people actually do 65 or 70, and no matter what signage or type of crosswalk configuration it involved, it would remain fundamentally unsafe. So the plan was abandoned. The answer, according to Planning & Development Services director Ron Henshaw, lies in the roadway’s slower sections, where speeds are down to 45 miles an hour or less. “We can’t cross people at every intersection,” Henshaw acknowledged. “These slower sections are the areas we’re going to focus on to make sure we are getting people across.” Connecting our Community Winter Sidewalk Maintenance Monday-Friday, 7:30am - 5:00pm	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7724
__label__cc	0.65643	0.34357	Seven Steps to Create a Formal IP Specification by Harry D. Foster Jasper Design Automation, Inc. 100 View Street, #101 harry AT jasper-da DOT com Standardization work is underway to develop assertion languages (for example, PSL and SystemVerilog Assertions) to address the shortcomings of natural language specification. The goal in creating these languages is to give engineers a way to unambiguously specify IP for design reuse—thus providing an automatic path for compliance and interoperability checking in both dynamic (simulation) and static (formal) verification. Yet the approach many engineers are taking in using these languages for IP specification is flawed. This paper reviews the fundamental elements of today’s emerging assertion language standards, and then discusses missing key elements that are necessary for IP specification. Using this foundation, this paper then presents a technique of combining assertions with a modeling language to specify complex behavior in a “high-level requirement.” This technique overcomes today’s flawed approach that attempts to specify IP using temporal constructs from an assertion language. This paper then presents a set of guidelines and steps for creating efficient and effective verification IP for various verification approaches. With the advent of design reuse and IP-based SoC design, two verification challenges have emerged: verifying that the IP complies with its specification and verifying that the IP is interoperable with other compliant devices (that is, adheres to various interface standards). Fundamental to the process of functional verification is the act of specification. And historically, the process of specification has consisted of creating a natural language description for a set of design requirements. This form of specification is both ambiguous and, in many cases, unverifiable due to the lack of a standard machine-executable representation. With the emergence of assertion and property language standards, such as the Accellera Property Specification Language (PSL) [1] and SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) [2], many IP providers are adopting an assertion-based verification (ABV) methodology to provide verifiable forms of IP specification. Adopting an assertion-based specification clarifies ambiguities from the natural language specification and reduces the time spent in verification. And for the IP producer, developing an assertion-based specification for the IP has a collateral benefit—the formal specification process often uncovers misconceptions about the implementer’s original intent. Thus, the time invested in developing the specification is time well spent. And generally, the benefits are realized early in the design and verification cycle, before the IP producer applies any form of verification to the IP [3]. After completing the assertion-based specification, the IP producer can use the formal specification to verify IP compliance and interoperability. For the IP consumer, an assertion-based specification reduces integration time by unambiguously clarifying proper IP behavior under various configurations, while providing a way to verify the SoC’s interoperability with the IP. Finally, for both the IP producer and consumer, assertion-based specification unifies the verification process by creating a single form of specification that can be automatically leveraged across a diverse set of verification tools, such as formal verification, simulation, emulation, and even synthesis [4]. Although data that confirms the benefits of adopting an ABV methodology have been published (for example, HP[3], Cisco[5], IBM[6]), few guidelines exist. Thus, effectively coding an assertion-based specification for IP compliance and interoperability is relatively uncharted waters. And unfortunately, many myths have accompanied the growing interest in using assertion and property languages to specify and verify IP. This paper examines the myths behind assertion languages in the context of solving the IP specification challenge. It begins by laying a foundation with the fundamental elements of today’s emerging temporal property languages. The foundation prepares you for a discussion of their limitations. This paper then offers an alternative approach to IP specification and a set of guidelines for effective assertionbased specification techniques. Following a good set of guidelines is crucial, for when engineers attempt to formally specify IP without proper guidance, it is not uncommon to generate a specification that is: difficult to comprehend through visual inspection, difficult to debug, and not always as compact as expected. Finally, this paper presents an alternative form of specification that visually maps well with a traditional approach that typically describes behavior (for example, illustrating behavior in terms of abstract or conceptual statemachines). When combined with conceptual state-machine modeling, we are in a position to express a simpler set of temporal properties to produce a clearer and often more concise assertion-based specification. Furthermore, this approach lets us express a class of data integrity properties that would not be possible by using the temporal constructs of either PSL or SystemVerilog Assertions alone. 2. FORMAL SPECIFICATION MYTHS Because of the excitement and misunderstanding that surrounds emerging assertion and property language standards, the following myths have materialized. They specifically relate to pure temporal language forms of specifying and verifying IP: MYTH 1: Temporal Properties are easy to write, read, and understand. For simple assertions, this is certainly true. However, for creating an assertion-based specification used to verify IP compliance and interoperability, this is not true. Nonetheless, by combining extra modeling with simpler assertions, you will be able to achieve clarity in your assertion-based specification. MYTH 2: Temporal property languages simplify debugging. Embedded assertions improve observability, which reduces debugging. However, for simple, embedded properties, an assertion language is not required to improve observability (see OVL [4]). Complex assertions can actually increase the debugging challenge since complex assertions themselves often contain errors. Follow the rules this paper presents and strive for simplicity and clarity in your assertion-based specification. MYTH 3: Temporal properties are always more compact than automata. This statement is true for each individual temporal expression. However, often specifying a complex IP block requires creating a set of complex properties. The problem with this approach is that it is not always easy to understand exactly what the block is doing with a large set of properties. For some interfaces, you can reduce a large set of complex properties (involving regular expressions) to a smaller set of simpler properties by combing additional modeling with assertion language constructs. MYTH 4: All functional properties (required for IP specification) can be expressed using only temporal constructs from a property language. This is not true. In fact, this paper shows (during the discussion of temporal property languages) that not all properties are expressible purely within the construct of linear-time temporal logic and regular expressions. Furthermore, properties involving transaction ordering or queuing semantics require information storage from various paths of data, which are then used during future data integrity checks. Hence, this type of specification often requires additional modeling to store the transaction information. MYTH 5: A single form of specification is ideal for all tools (that is, formal verification, simulation, emulation). This is not always true. As demonstrated during the discussion of Step 1, for efficiency in formal verification, it is often desirable to slice the specification in terms of input paths. Furthermore, there are often many properties we might chose to express that involve timeout counters where abstractions are specified on the counter. The key to the form of specification is to identify the target verification process prior to writing the assertion, as described in the first step in formalizing the VIP process. During the discussion in the following sections, this paper dispels each of the myths. 3. SPECIFYING CORRECTNESS This section presents a general overview of today’s emerging assertion language standards.1 It identifies their strengths and limitations and explores ways that they complement each other. It goes on to present a technique of combining assertions with a modeling language to specify complex behavior in a “high-level requirement model.” 3.1. Elements of Assertion Languages Today’s emerging assertion standards are based on a branch of logic known as temporal logic. The advantage of using temporal logic to specify properties of reactive systems is that it enables us to reason about these systems in a simple way. That is, temporal logic eliminates the need to explicitly describe time when specifying relationships between system events. For example, instead of writing the property expression as follows: ∀t.!(grant1(t) & grant2(t)) (which states that for all values of time t, grant1 and grant2 are mutually exclusive), we write the property in a temporal language such as PSL (which implicitly describes time) as follows: always !(grant1 & grant2) (which states that grant1 and grant2 never hold or evaluate to true at the same time). Linear-Time Temporal Logic: Propositional temporal logic is currently the most widely used specification formalism for reactive and concurrent systems. More specifically, lineartime temporal logic (for example, LTL [7]), has emerged as the preferred foundational semantics for many of today’s fledgling assertion-property language standards (including PSL). A linear-time temporal logic strength is that it lets us reason about expected behavior over a linear sequence of states. This form of specification is intuitive to design engineers, since the specification thought process can view the progression of time similar to a simulation trace. For example, using the PSL linear-time temporal operators, we can express the AMBA™ AHB [8] property a transfer of type IDLE cannot be followed by types SEQ or BUSY as follows: assert always (HTRANS==`IDLE) -> next ((HTRANS!=`SEQ) && (HTRANS!=`BUSY)); Given the temporal formulas f, f1, and f2; a few common linear-time temporal operator examples include: !f — f does not hold f1 & f2 — f1 and f2 both hold f1 \| f2 — f1 or f2 or both hold f1 -> f2 — f1 implies f2 f1 <-> f2 — f1 -> f2 and f2 -> f1 always f — f holds in every cycle never f — f does not hold in any cycle next f — f holds in the next cycle f1 until f2 — f1 holds until f2 holds f1 before f2 — f1 holds before f2 holds eventually! f — f1 holds in some future cycle Not all properties we are interested in can be expressed directly using linear-time temporal logic operators. For example, it is not possible to directly express a property that involves modulo n counting, such as: p is asserted in every even cycle. Extended Regular Expressions: Extended regular expressions overcome some of the limitations in linear-time temporal logic’s expressibility. They are a convenient way to define a temporal pattern that can match (or more aptly put, specify) sequences of states. Regular expressions let us describe design behavior that involves counting, such as modulo n type behavior, with the * operator. Hence, regular expressions let us specify properties that cannot be described directly using linear-time temporal operators, such as p is asserted in every even cycle. Sequences of Boolean conditions that occur at successive clock cycles can be described succinctly using extended regular expressions. The advancement of time in a sequence is described by the ## operator in SVA (or “;” in PSL). For example, the SVA extended regular expression: a ##1 b ##4 c ##[2:3] d describes a set of sequences in which a occurs, followed one cycle later by b, followed four cycles later by c, followed between two or three cycles later by d. Obviously, this regular expression would match two unique sequences: a→b→true→true→true→c→true→d a→b→true→true→true→c→true→true→d where the arrow in this example illustrates a clock tick (that is, an advancement in time). Both PSL and SVA support a form of extended regular expressions. Both support various repetition operators ( [ ] ) that concisely describe repeated concatenation of either a Boolean expression or other sequences. For example, given the Boolean expression b and sequence s, we can write: s[* n] —a sequence of n contiguous occurrences of s b[= n] —any sequence containing n occurrences of b b[-> n] —any sequence ending in the nth occurrence of b The single constant n can be replaced by the repeat range m:n (for example, [2:3]). PSL and SVA also support the following repetition operators: s[] —a sequence of zero to infinity contiguous occurrences of s s[+] —a sequence of one to infinity contiguous occurrences of s Sequences can be composed with conjunctive operators, as well as the time advancement operators. For example, given the sequences s1 and s2, in SVA we can create a new sequence by combining them as s1 ## s2, where the sequence s2 would start the clock immediately after s1. To provide a real example, we could specify the following AMBA AHB forbidden sequence: when the master is not performing a burst type of INCR, then a transfer of type BUSY cannot be followed by NSEQ, which can be coded in SVA as follows: property M_busy_and_not_incr; @(posedge HCLK) disable iff (~HRESETn) not ((HTRANS==`BUSY) & (HBURST!=`INCR) ## (HTRANS==`NSEQ)); endproperty Even though regular expressions are a powerful way of describing sequences, they have their limitations; that is, not all properties can be expressed directly using extended regular expressions. For example, the property eventually p holds forever, cannot be directly expressed using extended regular expressions. However, it can be expressed using linear-time temporal logic constructs, for example, eventually always p. Thus, linear-time temporal logic constructs address some of the limitations of extended regular expressions. Likewise, extended regular expressions complement linear-time temporal logic constructs. 1.2. Elements of High-Level Requirements Models Although today’s assertion languages, which combine lineartemporal logic with extended regular expressions, are expressive, there are still many IP-related properties that cannot be directly expressed using this combination. For these properties, we can use a technique that combines lineartime temporal logic constructs, extended regular expressions, and modeling. For example, creating a complete specification for a PCI Express IP bridge requires specifying data integrity properties such as a packet entering from the data link layer could never be dropped, duplicated or corrupted as i t progresses out to the physical layer [9]. Any property involving transaction ordering or queuing semantics requires storing information from various paths of data, which are then used during future data integrity checks. Hence, this type of specification often requires additional modeling to store the transaction information. Note that this process is similar to creating a scoreboard in a simulation testbench. By combining additional modeling with an assertion language, we can specify complex higher-level requirements that would not be possible by using only an assertion language’s temporal constructs combined with extended regular expressions. There are other instances when additional modeling combined with an assertion language simplifies the process of creating verification IP. For example, for some interfaces, such as the Intel PC SDRAM, the textual specification provides a command truth table that defines interface behavior. This form of defining behavior generally lists conceptual states of the interface, followed by valid commands (allowed with the current conceptual state) and the resulting new conceptual states due to the valid commands (that is, the conceptual state transitions). Although extended regular expressions allow us to describe behavior in terms of sequences, attempting to describe behaviors that involve deep sequences that can further split into multiple sequences (describing alternate paths) can become unmanageable and result in less-thanobvious specifications. Since one of the goals of specification is to define behavior to eliminate ambiguities, specifications that are not clear are not desirable—nor easily maintainable. Hence, there are many instances where modeling aspects of the requirement both clarify and simplify the specification process. 4. RULES FOR ASSERTION-BASED SPECIFICATION Although research shows there is little doubt that an ABV methodology is beneficial, early adopters have been forced to take a learn-as-you-go approach to implementation. To address the need for guidelines in this emerging field, this section, based on the experiences of early adopters and power users, lists a set of rules for effectively coding assertion-based specifications. Rule 1: Create a checklist of requirements prior to coding an assertion-based specification. An ad-hoc approach to assertion-based IP specification is likely to yield an incomplete, contradictory, and generally poor-quality specification. Follow the process outlined in the Section 5 to ensure a high-quality complete specification. Rule 2: Express all properties in an IP assertion-based specification in a manner that is clear, concise, and obvious. When reading the formal assertion-based specification, if the design intent is not obvious, then it is highly likely that formal specification is wrong (or incomplete). Even if the specification is correct and complete, a complex assertionbased specification is not maintainable. Do not be adamant about the specification style. For example, attempting to specify properties solely with temporal logic or regular expressions is not possible. Use all means available. Strive for simplicity. Guideline: Partition large, complex properties into a set of simpler properties. Guideline: Partition large, complex sequences (specified using regular expressions) into a simpler set of sequence declarations. Rule 3: Use an FSM model to describe conceptual states defined in the architecture. NOTE: The behavior described in conceptual state-machines should be intuitive. Once described, a simple assertion can then be specified over states contained in the conceptual state-machine with respect to the IP design. Guideline: When the conceptual state-machine becomes too large, try partitioning the FSM into a smaller set of FSMs. The partition should be driven by the properties we want to express. It is acceptable to describe overlapping behavior in the partitioned set of conceptual state-machines since our goal is to provide just enough modeling to simplify assertion specification. Rule 4: For converging datapaths, specify the output behavior of a port with respect to a unique input path For example, in Figure 1, to specify the correct behavior of port C with respect to its inputs, it is better to create a set of assertions. Create one assertion to describe the expected behavior of port C with respect to a specific data item on port A (allowing port B to assume any valid value that is not checked by the assertion). Then, create another assertion to describe the expected behavior of port C with respect to a specific data item on port B (again allowing port A to assume any valid value that is not checked by the assertion). 5. FORMALIZING THE VIP PROCESS One of the most challenging problems when creating assertion-based verification IP is answering the questions: Have I written enough properties? Is my property set complete? This problem is not limited to an assertion-based specification. In fact, this is an inherent verification problem. For example, a similar question is often asked concerning the comprehensiveness of the simulation testbench; that is: Have I written enough checks in the testbench? Is my simulation environment complete? Coverage metrics do not help us solve this problem since coverage measures the quality of the input stimulus and answers the questions: Are we missing a set of vectors required to reach a particular state in the design (or stimulate a line of code)? Although current research in the area of determining the completeness of the property set exists, its focus is on identifying structures in the implementation that are not covered by an assertion (that is, hole analysis)[11][12][13]. These approaches still fail to answer the question, “Is the property set complete?” With the lack of automated means to solve this inherent verification problem, we must depend on a systematic process to ensure high-quality verification IP. This section presents a set of steps that are useful as a process for creating assertion-based verification IP. Step 1: Identify the target verification approach Your first step in developing verification IP is to identify blocks for formal verification and blocks for simulation. Counter to the popularity of Myth 5, a single form of specification is not necessarily ideally efficient or effective for all verification processes. For example, it is generally more efficient in formal verification to specify a property on the output of a block with respect to a single input path through the block than to account for all input paths at once. When there are multiple input paths, it is recommended that you write multiple properties describing each path (input to output) separately. The following discussion should help you decide which blocks are ideally suited for formal verification and which blocks are not. Blocks suitable for formal verification: Formal verification is particularly effective for control logic and data transport blocks containing high concurrency, as illustrated in Figure 1. Figure 1. Concurrent paths The following list includes examples of blocks ideally suited for formal verification: Arbiters of many different kinds On-chip bus bridge Power management unit DMA controller Host bus interface unit Scheduler, implementing multiple virtual channels for QoS Clock disable unit (for mobile applications) Interrupt controller Memory controller Token generator Credit manager block Standard interface (for example, PCI Express) Proprietary interfaces An example of a bug identified using formal verification on a block involving concurrent paths is as follows: During the first three cycles of a transaction start from one side of the interface, a second transaction start unexpectedly came in on the other side of the interface and changed the configuration register. Blocks not suitable for formal verification: In contrast, design blocks that generally do not lend themselves to formal verification tend to be sequential in nature (that is, a singlestream of data) and potentially involve some type of data transformation (see Figure 2). Figure 2. Sequential paths Examples of designs that perform mathematical functions or involve some type of data transformation include: Floating point unit Graphics shading unit Convolution unit in a DSP chip MPEG decoder An example of a bug associated with this class of design includes the following: partition The IFFT result is incorrect if both inputs are negative. Step 2: Describe IP behavior The second step in creating a developing verification IP is to briefly describe the behavior of the block to be verified. The importance of this step cannot be understated. Without clearly articulating what it is you are planning to verify, your assertion-based specification will be hopelessly incomplete. By describing and illustrating the intended behavior, you focus on what is to be verified. In fact, in many cases, errors in the design are identified through the thought process that occurs during this step—prior to any form of verification [3]. This description does not have to be long or wordy. On the contrary, it can consist entirely of a set of block diagrams and interface waveforms that illustrate the expected end-to-end behavior accompanied by a brief description. It is, however, critical that you take this step prior to creating your assertionbased specification to ensure completeness. Step 3: Define the interface for assertion-based specification The third step is to identify the IP block’s interface signals that must be monitored. Create a table that lists the signal names and their functionality. This list of signals will form your assertion-based specification (for example, high-level requirements module) interface. In addition to identifying the requirement's interface signals, this step also describes any special considerations in the cycle timing relationships between the various interface signals that must be checked. Step 4: Create a requirements checklist The fourth step is to create a requirements checklist, which is the list of requirements you plan to formally verify. We suggest that you create a table that lists the specific assertion name that you will code in your high-level requirements model (or verification IP) as shown in Figure 3, along with a description in English of what the requirement checks. In a separate table, list all required assumptions. Figure 3. Assertion-based requirements model When creating an assertion-based specification checklist, focus on what you want to verify versus how you plan to verify the design. This focus contrasts sharply with a traditional simulation-based testplan, which normally describes both what you want to verify (in terms of checks) and how you plan to verify the design (focusing on input sequences or scenarios as stimulus) [14]. Often, you can derive the requirements checklist directly from an existing natural languages specification, such as a microarchitectural specification, a vendor’s specification (for example, the Intel PC SDRAM), or an industry protocol standard (for example, PCI). However, for some blocks (particularly a company’s internal proprietary IP) there might not be (unfortunately) a clear specification. Hence, in those cases, you start the process of creating the requirements checklist in terms of the design's outputs, not in terms of its inputs. Then, you should think about end-to-end requirements versus internal structural or implementation requirements or assertions. Step 5: Formalize the requirements Using the interface signals identified in Step 3, and the set of requirements identified in Step 4, create your assertion-based specification. Encapsulate the set formalized requirements into a high-level requirements model that will monitor the IP’s input and output signals, as shown in Figure 3. When creating your high-level requirements model concurrently during the design implementation phase (as opposed to prior to implementation), do the following: Ask yourself: Which high-level requirement from the requirements checklist should I specify first? Specify the ones that capture the essence of what the block is supposed to do from the micro-architecture perspective. Specify the ones related to the most complete RTL functionality. Step 6: Document verification strategy In this step, you will define the verification plan and proof strategy. For example, you might choose to prove certain requirements by initially applying a set of restrictions (that is, add constraints to restrict the explored behavior to only read-mode transaction, or only write-mode transactions). This approach lets you focus the verification on specific modes of operation, and simplifies the verification process. Once the various modes function correctly, the restrictions are removed and the IP is verified under all modes of operation. In addition, this step lists any verification strategies you might choose to apply during the verification process, such as abstraction or symmetry for formal verification. Step 7: Define coverage goals The final step in formalizing the VIP process is to define a set of coverage goals that must be met during the verification process. For example, to ensure that you are verifying what you think you are verifying, check that constraints on specific states in your requirements model have not over-constrained the states. The checking procedure varies depending on your verification process. For example, in formal verification, you can check to see if specific states in your requirement model are reachable. For simulation-based approaches, you can apply functional coverage to various states or sequences of states in the requirements model. This paper explored a number of myths that have accompanied the growing interest in assertion-based specification for IP compliance and interoperability verification. In particular, this paper highlights the misuse of assertion languages during the specification process. This is predominately due to the lack of good guidelines on how to effectively code an assertion-based specification. Hence, the main contribution of this paper is the process we present as a systematic set of steps we have found useful in developing assertion-based verification IP. [1] Accellera Property Specification Language (PSL) LRM v1.1, June 2004. 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Geist, and O. Grumberg. “Have I written enough properties?”, in 10th CHARME, LNCS 1703, pp. 280–297, 1999. [11] Yatin Hoskote, Timothy Kam, Pei-Hsin Ho, Xudong Zhao, ”Coverage Estimation for Symbolic Model Checking”, in DAC99. [12] H. Chockler, O. Kupferman, R.P. Kurshan, and M.Y. Vardi, "A practical approach to coverage in model checking", In Proc. 13th CAV, LNCS 2102, pp. 66–78, 2001. [13] H. Foster, C. N. Ip, D. Perry, H. Wong-Toi, Formal verification of block-level requirements., DesignCon 2004. 1 This paper does not propose to present a comprehensive overview of PSL or SVA. The goal is to present fundamental elements of these languages. Seven steps to embedded designs made easier with PSoC Creator Using formal verification to create robust IP It's Not My Fault! 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__label__cc	0.68611	0.31389	Until the Kingdom Comes Not counting the 1,561,000,000 evangelized non-Christians in the world, or the 1,362,000,000 professing Christians in the world, there are 1,381,000,000 unevangelized persons in the world who are “unaware of Christianity, Christ and the Gospel” (World Christian Encyclopedia, 1982). Matthew 24:14, “This gospel will first be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will come.” Matthew 9:37-38, “The harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” Matthew 28:18-19, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.” John 20:21, “As the Father has sent me, so send I you.” Until the Kingdom is finally established and there are no more unreached peoples, the local church must be a mission base. Until the Kingdom comes, worship must stoke the fires of love for the glory of a global God. Until the Kingdom comes, Christian education must train the troops for tactical and strategic warfare with the weapon of truth. Until the Kingdom comes, counseling and nurture must be the field hospitals saving the wounded, relieving battle fatigue, transforming the traumas of spiritual war into veteran courage. Until the Kingdom comes, fellowship must have the flavor of camaraderie under siege. Until the Kingdom comes, money must be the currency of combat, not convenience. Until the Kingdom comes, leisure must be re-creation for the cause of Christ. Until the Kingdom comes, marriage must be a partnership in arms (double meaning intended!). Until the Kingdom comes, the family must be an enclave of Christ-centered joy equipping young insurgents to infiltrate occupied territories. Until the Kingdom comes, vocation must be an on-duty outpost, a solitary sortie, and a basic line of support for the war effort. If we love the glory of God, and have compassion for the lost, no other mentality will leave our conscience clear. Strategically, Series Icon Series: Taste & See Articles	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7728
__label__wiki	0.977534	0.977534	Georgia man killed by lethal injection for prison murder as courts refuse to stop his execution - despite him 'having the intellectual capacity of a child' Warren Lee Hill was given lethal injection at facility in Jackson, Georgia Officials confirmed his death at 7:55pm Tuesday Lawyers had claimed mental impairment made him ineligible for execution They claim Hill has an IQ of 70 and the cognitive abilities of a young boy Supreme Court was asked to stay his execution - but did not Hill declined to ask for a particular last meal, so was given the standard Was sentenced to death for murdering an inmate with a nail-studded board Turned on fellow prisoner while locked up for previous slaying of girlfriend By Kieran Corcoran For Dailymail.com The State of Georgia executed an 'intellectually disabled' man for murdering a fellow inmate while in prison. Warren Lee Hill was killed by lethal injection, despite please from his attorneys who said he has the cognitive capacity of a child. Officials confirmed that he died at 7:55pm Tuesday at the state prison in Jackson, Georgia Executed: Warren Lee Hill was confirmed dead at 7:55pm by officials in Jackson, Georgia's state prison Earlier his attorneys asked the Supreme Court to stay his execution on the grounds that his mental impairment made him ineligible for the death penalty. The court refused. His lawyers have claimed Hill had an IQ or just 70, though state lawyers said other tests had given results of 90. Hill was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of Joseph Handspike, a fellow inmate at the prison where he was being held for killing his girlfriend in 1986. According to local news station WBSTV, he attacked Joseph Handspike with a nail-studded board and beat him to death. Protest: Many had gathered in the hope that Warren's execution would be stayed because of his mental condition Argument: Lawyers for Hill tried to get the Supreme Court to intervene - but they did not stay the execution Georgia corrections officials said that Hill declined to request a last meal. As such he was given Shepherd pie with mashed potatoes, and fruit punch to drink. He made no final statement. A statement from his lawyers, issued after the Supreme Court decision but before Hill was killed, said: 'Tonight, Georgia will unconstitutionally execute Mr. Hill, a man with the emotional and cognitive ability of a young boy. This execution is an abomination.' They had brought dozens of witnesses and experts who said Warren was not of sound mind, but say that Georgia's standard of proof for mental capacity are so high that they are impossible to meet in practice. His execution date had been set three times before, but each time the courts issued temporary stays in response to new legal challenges. Georgia's Warren Hill killed by lethal injection as courts refuse to stop execution Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple head to Congress for antitrust hearing as regulators zero in on...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7730
__label__wiki	0.772997	0.772997	Damn right! The secret of success is swearing: How shouting four letter words can help make you stronger Volunteers who pedalled on an exercise bike for 30 seconds after swearing produced 24 watts more power than those who said a 'neutral word' Dr Richard Stephens, from Keele University, said: 'The results consistently showed that swearing was helping, but not in the way we thought it would' By Rosie Taylor for Daily Mail Published: 19:58 EDT, 4 May 2017 \| Updated: 21:11 EDT, 4 May 2017 It could explain why foul-mouthed John McEnroe and Roy Keane were such good sportsmen. Swearing out loud makes you stronger, a study has found. Researchers carried out two experiments which showed swearing improved performance. Researchers at Keele University carried out tests with volunteers and found their physical performance improved when they were swearing In the first test, 29 volunteers carried out an exercise bike test where they pedalled as hard as possible for 30 seconds, once after swearing and once after saying a 'neutral' word. In a second test, 52 participants squeezed a handgrip as hard as they could, after both swearing and saying a neutral word. In both tests, the order in which participants swore or said the neutral word was randomised. Bus driver is forced to intervene as couple with a toddler... What turns respectable women into monsters behind the wheel?... The results showed that the participants produced around 24 watts more pedal power when they swore - an increase of around 4.8 per cent. The second test found grip strength increased by 8.2 per cent when people swore - meaning they could lift around 2.1kg more on average. Dr Richard Stephens said: 'One explanation is that swearing distracts people from pain. Or it might be that swearing makes people more disinhibited - it makes them let go' But researchers found heart rate did not increase with swearing, meaning the act did not trigger participants’ fight-or-flight responses as they had expected. Dr Richard Stephens, from Keele University, said: 'The results consistently showed that swearing was helping, but not in the way we thought it would. 'One explanation is that swearing distracts people from pain. Or it might be that swearing makes people more disinhibited – it makes them let go. 'When you’re not holding back, you’re not worried about what you’re doing, that could enable extra performance.' He added the research could explain why some sportsmen swear. John McEnroe was famous for his foul-mouthed rants on the tennis court and the study shows that his tendency to swear could have helped his athletic performance 'In the case of John McEnroe and Roy Keane, it may certainly explain it somewhat and maybe it helped them. 'I’m not sure it is necessarily acceptable to swear in front of so many people though, so it’s complicated.' The study followed earlier research showing how swearing helps people cope with pain, explaining why it can help to release a string of expletives when you hit your thumb with a hammer. The latest findings will be presented at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society in Brighton today. Shouting swear words can make you stronger, study finds Explore the MOON in incredible 3D map: Interactive module follows footsteps of astronauts to mark 50th... Stunning image reveals the moment the ISS passes in front of the sun's immaculate surface that dwarfs the... Angry birds! 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__label__cc	0.645632	0.354368	Delhi Elections 2015 \| Analysis, Information, Data on Elections in Delhi Delhi Assembly Constituencies Union HRD Minister launches the Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills (SHREYAS) for providing industry apprenticeship opportunities SHREYAS will help the youth to obtain gainful employment and contribute to country’s progress : Shri Prakash Javadekar 5 months Ago Updated Staff Reporter 0 Comments apprenticeship, education, higher, industry, launches, minister, opportunities, providing, scheme, shreyas, skills, union, youth The Minister for Human Resources Development, Shri Prakash Javadekarhas launched the Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills (SHREYAS) for providing industry apprenticeship opportunities to the general graduates exiting in April 2019 through the National Apprenticeship Promotional Scheme (NAPS). Launched in New Delhi today, the program aims to enhance the employability of Indian youth by providing ‘on the job work exposure’ and earning of stipend. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said thatthe education with skills is the need of the hour and the SHREYAS will be a major effort in this direction to make our degree students more skilled, capable, employable and aligned to the needs of our economy so that they contribute to country’s progress and also obtain gainful employment. He informed that SHREYAS is a programme conceived for students in degree courses, primarily non-technical, with a view to introduce employable skills into their learning, promote apprenticeship as integral to education and also amalgamate employment facilitating efforts of the Government into the education system so that clear pathways towards employment opportunities are available to students during and after their graduation. The Minister also informed that SHREYASis a programme basket comprising the initiatives of three Central Ministries, namely the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and the Ministry of Labour& Employment viz the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS), the National Career Service (NCS)and introduction of BA/BSc/BCom (Professional) courses in the higher educational institutions. SHREYAS portal will enable educational institutions and industry to log in and provide their respective demand and supply of apprenticeship. The matching of students with apprenticeship avenues will take place as per pre-specified eligibility criteria. The State Governments are expected to play a major role in securing apprenticeship opportunities, apart from the Sector Skill Councils, so that general degree students passing out in April 2019, gain the option of industry & service sector apprenticeship. Further, the SSCs have identified more than 100 NSQF aligned Job roles/courses in the sectors ofIT, Retail, Logistics, Tourism, Healthcare, BFSI, Electronics, Media, Life Sciences and Management, which the exiting graduates can take up under Apprenticeship program. These courses will be available to them from Academic year April-May, 2019. More than 40 higher educational institutions have already been tied up for taking up embedded apprenticeship courses. During the occasion, Ministry of Human Resources Development andMinistry for Skill Development & Entrepreneurshiplaunched 7 degree Apprenticeship curricula, which are BBA & BVOCcourses, remodelled with apprenticeship embedded in them. 6 Sector Skill Councils ofIT, Retail, Logistics, Tourism, BFSI, Food Processing have taken the lead. More curricula, currently underway, include Healthcare, Electronics and Media sectors. The event also witnessed leading industrial organisations entering into apprenticeship contracts with some graduate students in key sectors namely IT &ITes, Media and BFSI. Following are the details of SHREYAS: Following are the objectives of SHREYAS To improve employability of students by introducing employment relevance into the learning process of the higher education system To forge a close functionallink between education and industry/service sectors on a sustainable basis To provide skills which are in demand, to the students in a dynamic manner To establish an ‘earn while you learn’ system into higher education To help business/industry in securing good quality manpower To link student community with employment facilitating efforts of the Government Operation of the Scheme The primary scheme will be operated in conjunction with National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) which provides for placing of apprentices upto 10% of the total work force in every business/industry. The scheme will be implemented by the Sector Skill Councils (SSCs) , initially the Banking Finance Insurance Services (BFSI), Retail, Health care, Telecom, Logistics, Media, Management services, ITeS and Apparel. More sectors would be added over time with emerging apprenticeship demand and curriculum adjustments. Three Tracks in Implementation in SHREYAS The programme would witness simultaneous implementation along three tracks. 1st Track: Add-on apprenticeship (Degree apprenticeship): The students who are currently completing the degree programme would be invited to choose a job role of their choice from a selected list of apprenticeship job roles given by the Sector Skill Councils of the MoSDE. The apprenticeship programme is normally about (6) months and would be prefixed by basic training regarding the sector (theory). The programme would commence immediately after completion of the degree programme (Starting from May each year). During the apprenticeship period, the student would get a monthly stipend of about Rs. 6,000 per month by the industry. At the end of the apprenticeship period, there would be a test conducted by the Sector Skill Council concerned and successful students would get skills certificate in addition to their degree certificate. 2nd track: – Embedded Apprenticeship Under this approach, the existing B.Voc programmes would be restructured into B.A (Professional), B.Sc (Professional) or B.Com (Professional) courses – which would include not only educational input, vocational input, but also a mandatory apprenticeship ranging from 6 to 10 months depending on the requirement of the skill. For example, a BBA course in Logistics would have one semester of classroom teaching and the next one as apprenticeship. Alternatively, one full semester of an existing degree or B.Voc course would be dedicated to apprenticeship with industry. During the apprenticeship period, the student would get a monthly stipend of about Rs. 6,000 per month by the industry, 25% of which would be reimbursed under the NAPS programme. At the end of the apprenticeship period, there would be test conducted by the Sector Skill Council concerned and successful students would get skills certificate in addition to their degree certificate. The process of embedding apprenticeship & skill content into them, or modify the curriculum of existing degree courses to reduce classroom content and incorporate basic skill training with apprenticeship is currently underway with participation of the Sector Skill Councils and it is expected that these courses would be launched from academic year 2018-19. 3rd Track: Linking National Career Service with Colleges: Under this, the National Career Service (NCS) portal of Ministry of Labour& Employment would be linked with the Higher Education institutions. As of now, more than 9,000 employers have posted requirement of more than 2 lakh vacancies, for which the students can get considered. This would help students in institutions which do not have the facility of campus recruitment and would improve their employment opportunities. Apart from this, the students would be trained in soft skills required by the market. The scheme would be operationalised by coordination of Ministry of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and the Ministry of Labour. The operation would be as given below: The Sector Skill Councils (SSCs) have identified more than 100 areas where they would be able to find apprenticeship opportunities. They along with the colleges concerned (with the help of their placement cells), would identify the industries where the apprenticeships would be provided. Higher Educational Institutions can log-into the SHREYAS portal and express their interest in the skill areas, along with the expected number of students who are expected to opt for it. This demand would be scrutinised by the SSC concerned, who would confirm on portal, the positions available. Based on this confirmation, the HEI would upload the names of the students on the SHREYAS portal. The NAPS would thereupon generate the Contract between the industry and the student. After this, the monthly stipend would be paid by the industry, and 25% of this would be reimbursed by NAPS portal subject to a maximum of Rs.1,500 per month. The SSC would monitor the progress and would conduct the examination at the end of the apprenticeship period, and would give certificate to the successful candidates. These certificates are valid throughout India for seeking employment. Role of the Institutions: The higher education institutions would explain the scheme alongwith various options to the students who are in the final year, and elicit their interest in participation. After collecting interest from various students, the institution would register on the SHREYASportal, duly indicating the skill job roles alongwith likely number of students in each role. Role of SSCs: SSCs would identify industries for apprenticeship, and would also conduct assessment leading to certification. They would be communicated the interest of the students as registered by the HEIs. They would, based on this, arrange and confirm the establishments where the students would be provided as apprenticeships. Based on this, the HEIs would collect and furnish, full details of the participating students.The SSC will enrol them as apprentices and generate contracts between the student and the business enterprise. They will also conduct assessment of the candidate on completion of the apprenticeship and issue certification. Whereas the certification is not a guarantee for placement, it is expected to vastly enhance his choice of securing employment either in the same enterprise or any other enterprises in that sector. Role of MSDE (NSDC): MSDE operates the NAPS programme through NSDC. They would not only monitor the programme, progress of the apprentices, but would finance the programme by disbursing the claims from the business enterprises towards stipend reimbursement as per the NAPS.The ongoing efforts of the SSCs would be monitored by MoSDE, which would also periodically introduce new SSCs into the SHREYAS fold. The entire programme would progress with dynamic interface & information sharing between MHRD and MoSDE. Under the NAPS scheme, Central Government shares 25% of the stipend per month subject to a maximum of Rs.1500 p.m during the period of the apprenticeship. Apart from that, an amount upto Rs.7500 will be met towards basic training cost, where needed. In all the tracks together, it is proposed to cover 50 lakh studentsby 2022. The following would be the proposed timelines: The portal for registration of the institutions will be opened on 15 .12.2018. The institutions desirous of participating would need to register before 22.12.2018 on the portal SSCs together with the placement cell of colleges would check the demand and confirm the possible numbers by 15.01.2019 After confirmation by SSCs the HEIs would upload the details of the students before 05.02.2019. Confirmation of the apprenticeship alongwith allocation of the business/industry would be completedby 28.2.2019. The contracts between the students and the employers will be reached in the month of March 2019. The degree apprenticeship programme will commence from May, 2019. Embedded Apprenticeship programmes of select sectors will commence from July-August 2019 in next academic session. 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__label__wiki	0.665748	0.665748	If you want to have a voice in Palm Springs districting, here are two workshops to help residents The workshops will be held Tuesday at the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center and Wednesday at the Palm Springs Convention Center. If you want to have a voice in Palm Springs districting, here are two workshops to help residents The workshops will be held Tuesday at the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center and Wednesday at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://desert.sn/2LxkqMs Corinne S Kennedy, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 4:08 p.m. PT Aug. 27, 2018 \| Updated 10:10 a.m. PT Aug. 28, 2018 It's National Dog Day! How do you celebrate your best friend? Geraldine Estevez, The Desert Sun FILE - The city of Palm Springs will host two workshops to help residents through the process of drawing their own maps(Photo: David McNew/Getty Images) The city of Palm Springs will host two workshops to help residents through the process of drawing their own maps to show city leaders how they want the city's electoral districts to look. The workshops will be Tuesday at the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center and Wednesday at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Both workshops will be at 6 p.m. The workshops are free and open to the public and Spanish language interpreters will be available. Palm Springs is moving through the process of splitting the city into electoral districts and city officials are encouraging Palm Springs residents to draw their own maps, whether through an online mapping tool or simple pen and paper. At the workshops, city officials will explain how to use the somewhat complex online tool, the legal requirements for drawing district — including how many people should be in each zone — and the importance of "majority minority" districts, in which the majority of the residents of that district come from a minority group. All maps have to be submitted to the city clerk by Sept. 17. The city of Palm Springs will host two workshops to assist residents with drawing suggested maps for future City Council districts. (Photo: The Desert Sun file) More: Here are the Coachella Valley council candidates you'll see on the ballot this election Previously: Palm Springs holds its first public meeting to talk about drawing electoral districts The City Council voted to move away from at large elections and implement a voting-by-district system after being threatened with a lawsuit earlier this year. The move is intended to increase the voting power of the city's Latino population, which makes up a quarter of Palm Springs' population. "Palm Springs has long prided itself on being one of the most welcoming and inclusive communities in the country," city spokeswoman Amy Blaisdell said in a news release. "The City is committed to civil rights and ensuring equity and diversity among elected officials and Boards and Commissions, while maximizing the goals of the California Voting Rights Act." After the map drawing period has concluded, the City Council will conduct public hearings during council meetings to get public input on the submitted maps, as well as some submitted by a demographer hired by the city to assist with the switch to districts. Eventually, the council will narrow the selection to one map, which is expected to be adopted by the end of the year. Corinne Kennedy covers the west valley for The Desert Sun. She can be reached at Corinne.Kennedy@DesertSun.com or on Twitter @CorinneSKennedy Read or Share this story: https://desert.sn/2LxkqMs Disgraced former Beaumont official back in jail; accused of child abuse Larry N. Olinger, vice chair of Agua Caliente tribe, dies Gas line blast kills worker, injures one in Murrieta 'Wave House' personality found in restoration High desert power restored. Thousands warned of cuts It's HOT in the Coachella Valley. The heat wave will break mid-week	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7745
__label__wiki	0.654098	0.654098	OnePlus Selects Dirac Research to Equip All-New OnePlus 6T Smartphone with Advanced Digital Audio Technology UPPSALA, SWEDEN, November 29, 2018 — Dirac Research, the global leader in digital sound optimization technology, today announced that the all-new OnePlus 6T features Dirac Power Sound and Dirac HD Sound – two breakthrough digital audio solutions developed by the Swedish firm that enable the smartphone’s built-in speaker and corresponding headphones to produce a sophisticated, premium listening experience. “The OnePlus 6T is widely viewed as one of the market’s top smartphones, and for good reason,” stated Erik Rudolphi, Dirac’s General Manager of Mobile. “From its all-new OxygenOS to its AMOLED edge-to-edge display, Snapdragon processor, extended battery life, and so much more, OnePlus’ new flagship is simply best-in-class in every respect. As OnePlus considers mobile audio, we’re again honored to be trusted to help deliver a listening experience that’s as premium as the device’s other features.” The OnePlus 6T represents the latest chapter in a three-year relationship that began with the launch of the OnePlus 2 and most recently included the highly-acclaimed OnePlus 6. Key to this sustained success is close collaboration between the companies’ engineering departments, which integrate premium hardware and advanced software to consistently create a new calibre of mobile listening experience. The OnePlus 6T features a high-performance micro-speaker that’s optimized by Dirac Power Sound – a breakthrough digital audio solution that further elevates system performance by delivering clearer, more natural sound with richer details and tighter, more powerful bass. The OnePlus 6T is also the latest smartphone to ditch the traditional 3.5mm headphone port in favor of the new USB-C standard, allowing owners to use the latest and greatest headphones designed specifically for USB-C audio delivery. Dirac and OnePlus also worked closely to ensure the OnePlus Bullet earphones produce a listening experience as refined as the smartphone’s embedded speaker. To elevate the already impressive performance of OnePlus earphone hardware, the company leveraged Dirac HD Sound, a powerful headphone-based digital audio optimization solution that measures and corrects the impulse and frequency response of headphones to improve sound quality and enable the implementation of OnePlus-branded sound characters. “Our continued collaboration with Dirac is a testament to our collective success in redefining the mobile audio experience,” stated a senior OnePlus representative. “As OnePlus 6T customers benefit from our new OxygenOS, a vibrant edge-to-edge screen, integration of a best-in-class fingerprint scanner and inclusion of the latest USB standard, the Dirac-optimized audio experience continues to stand out as a key component of the best-in-class user experience for which we tirelessly strive.” The OnePlus 6T, the company’s most advanced smartphone to date, features a 6.41-inch, 2340x1080 Full Optic AMOLED 19.5:9 edge-to-edge display; Snapdragon 845 CPU; upgraded dual 16MP and 20MP cameras; and up to 256GB storage and 8GB memory. The OnePlus 6T is available in Midnight Black, Mirror Black, and Thunder Purple color options. Newer PostDirac Research to Launch Revolutionary Bass Enhancement Solution for Smartphones and Small Portable Speakers at CES 2019 Older PostDirac Research Appoints Michael Yeom to Country Manager – Korea	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7746
__label__wiki	0.645713	0.645713	_About & FAQs _Britt on CinemaBlend _Movies on Netflix _Must-See Movies _Netflix _Game of Thrones _Television Reviews _TV Movie Reviews _Playlists _Music Reviews _Song Reviews _Top 10 Most-Read _Let's Discuss _Lists _Year-End Lists TV Report Card \| 'Red Widow' Season 1 Review Overview: Red Widow told the story of a woman who has been widowed and must hold her family together after her husband is murdered. It is an American remake of the Dutch television show, Penoza. The ratings for this one were low, so this very well might be the first and last season of the series. Storyline Direction: What great potential for a great show. There was an integral mystery at the center and it propelled each episode rather nicely. The characters were for the most part sympathetic. Lead protagonist, Marta (aka the Red Widow) was one of the rare leads you could actually root for this season. She was warm and tough when she needed to be, a strong woman. As a family drama Marta’s family was also explored with her brother Irwin and sister Kat, along with Marta’ s children. This show would be best described as “Brothers & Sisters” meets a cable-friendly “Sopranos”. All in all, this was a show filled with so much potential and yet there were things that were left woefully unexplored. Luther, Marta’s father's henchmen, went completely ignored for most of the season, while plenty of screen time was wasted on Boris, Marta’s young son, the sniveling antics of a little boy that we’re supposed to care about simply because he is a kid; pushed the patience of this viewer too far and it was detrimental to the pacing of the show. This is an adult show that aired at an adult hour and it needed to focus on just that, adults. As cute as the juxtaposition might’ve sounded in the writer’s room, having the violent mob underworld in contrast to the innocent little face of young Boris, simply didn’t work. There could’ve been more time spent on the backstory of Schiller, Luther, Marta’s father, or just Marta herself. The FBI agent was also a waste of time. The teenagers' storyline also never developed. There was a lot here, more than other shows have as potential and yet, they played it like they needed to rely on filler characters and stories, which they didn’t. Performance Quality: Radha Mitchell led the cast and she was terrific. I’ve been a supporter of hers for years as she had to sit idly as the supporting female role in countless movies. Here the potential that had always shined in those roles was given the chance to really come through and prove why she is worthy of a whole lot more. She filled this role with so many layers, expressing so much through her eyes; so much passion, so much vigor, she was a powerhouse. I really hope the network gives her the chance to anchor another show, if this doesn’t get renewed. Goran Visnjic (Schiller on Red Widow and perhaps best known for his role on ER) was superlative as well. He too was able to hit all of the right notes for his portrayal of a really complicated character. His performance kept us guessing as to whose side he really belonged. Without his performance, Mithchell’s wide eyed Marta would’ve seemed naïve to have been as open minded as she was about him. The two also shared some potential romantic chemistry. Rade Serbedzija (Marta’s father, Andrei) who has been one of film's hidden treasures as a villain was also great; warm one moment and cruel and calculating the next. He has long been underappreciated and it was nice to see him get this kind of role. Luke Goss (Luther) who has been in Jason Statham-like roles in some movies, wasn’t given much to do, having seen him in other roles, it was clear that he was wasted and had a lot of potential that simply wasn’t tapped. He did have some nice moments in the finale but it was too little too late. It should also be said that the teenagers were very well cast. Musical Score: A competent score, foreboding and not at all over the top. Overall Grade: A, so much more could’ve been done with this show; its frustrating waste of a wonderful cast and storyline ultimately contributed to its ratings downfall. It was called the Red Widow, why not be as bold as your signature color? Playing it safe cost this show and when it finally got everything together, it was too late. I do think it deserves another season though. Other shows that possess half the quality (too many too mention) have been on for way too many years and while this show might have some things to learn, it still deserves the chance to prove it can. Posted by Britt Lawrence Labels: Red Widow, Reviews, television, TV Report Card Britt Lawrence Britt is a freelance writer, and entertainment enthusiast with an "eclectic" taste in "pop" culture. As a freelancer, she is currently a Contributing TV News Writer at CinemaBlend. 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__label__wiki	0.654801	0.654801	About CMC Markets Sign up and opt-in to receive a run down of the stories you need to know. Sent twice a week. Your privacy is important to us. We’ll only use your email to send you the weekly Opto update Success! You have successfully signed up. Opto Homepage Boeing share price: is this as bad as it gets? 13 Jun 2019, 01:35 GMT FacebookLinkedInEmail Three months on from the Ethiopian Airlines disaster, the problems engulfing Boeing [BA] have spread from the flawed 737 MAX aircraft to the company’s entire commercial aviation business, and the company's share price has suffered as a result. The aircraft maker’s executives are waiting for the US Federal Aviation Authority to greenlight a software fix for MCAS, the auto-piloting feature whose faulty activation played a part in both March’s Ethiopian tragedy and the Lion Air crash five months earlier. Meanwhile, production issues and the emergence of further manufacturing flaws have plagued other models in the company’s portfolio. Boeing’s share price plummeted 11% in the first two trading days after the Ethiopian crash, and has since fallen another 5.7% to $353.8 as of 10 June. But for the past 30 days, the share price has somewhat steadied, refusing to plummet even after Boeing admitted to finding more design flaws in its 737 models this week. Does this mean the stock has absorbed as much negative news as it can, or could it get worse for Boeing’s shareholders? Boeing 1-year share price performance, CMC Markets, 12 June 2019 Chief executive Dennis Muilenburg is still to provide an update on costs arising from problems with the MAX beyond the $1bn headline figure he gave over a month ago, and has refused to say when production rates for the 737 range, which were dialled down in to 42 aircraft per month in April, will ramp up again. In a CNBC interview on 9 April, Muilenburg flat-out admitted that Boeing has received no new orders for the MAX since the Ethiopian tragedy. In spite of this, at a UBS event last week, he stated he remains committed to eventually ramping up production to 57 a month, as has long been the plan, presenting the production slowdown as an opportunity to fine-tune supply chains before a return to full swing. Market cap £193.55bn EPS (TTM) 17.47 Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) -2.00% Boeing share price vitals, Yahoo finance, 12 June 2019 Adding to production woes was news from the FAA last week that Boeing had identified more design flaws across the 737 family, which could require wing parts to be replaced. Additionally, engine testing issues with the upcoming 777X twin-aisle jets, which are powered by General Electric turbines, could make it even trickier to meet 2020 targets. Airlines fallout The grounding of the MAX has forced airlines to axe swathes of scheduled flights. American Airlines on the weekend said cancellations for its MAX-serviced routes would extend to 3 September – an indirect indication of how long the crisis may last. Over the past month, airlines in China, the Middle East and the US have all formally requested or expressed the intention to request compensation from Boeing for lost business. Ryanair has already secured a multi-million-euro pay-out, the Irish Independent recently reported. The MAX disaster has now begun featuring – with infamy – in analysts’ notes on Boeing customers. Southwest Airlines was “let down by its key partner”, wrote analysts at Evercore ISI last week, as they downgraded the outlook for the US carrier. “Let down by its key partner” - Evercore ISI analysts on Boeing's impact on Southwest Airlines But despite risk that passengers may desert MAX operators, airlines have diverged in their approach to the situation: while Azerbaijani flag carrier AZAL cancelled a $1bn contract for 10 737 MAX aircraft, the chief executive at Poland’s LOT, which already has a (grounded) fleet of five MAXs, said he does not see any reason not to take further delivery. “A timing event” Even as the MAX affair evolves from an episode of bad engineering to a scrutiny of Boeing’s overall corporate culture, the stock may still give reason to be bullish. At a Bernstein event in May, Muilenburg touted the opportunities offered by a “significant wide-body replacement wave coming early in the next decade,” while a UBS survey last week gave airline executives reason to think over 90% of flyers will eventually board the MAX again. It may take some time for these developments to translate to an uplift in share price, though. Boeing is projected to report earnings of $1.81 per share at its next earnings release – nearly a 50% drop from last year. Predicted YoY fall in earnings for the upcoming quarter Meanwhile, its forward P/E ratio of 24.20 looks steep compared to the industry average of 17.03. Its PEG ratio is on the high end, too, currently at 2.19 compared to the current sector average of 1.84. Considering that Boeing’s share price has already fallen by almost 20% since its year-to-date high of $440.62 at the beginning of March, evidence of overvaluation is not a good sign for investors. Despite the numbers, some are confident that holding on to Boeing could pay off. Mark Tepper, chief executive at Strategic Wealth Partner and a Boeing shareholder, told CNBC on Thursday that “cash flow burn right now is just a timing event”. Once the MAX gets back into the air, he added, Boeing will “become a cash cow again”. A new frontier: The 12 energy stocks to watch Continue reading for FREE Get instant access to this article and receive the latest market updates in our newsletter every week Latest from OPTO Investing in AI: the fourth industrial revolution \| Hosted by Anthony Hilton ‘Investing in AI: the fourth industrial revolution’ is the second instalment of OPTO’s Trading Intelligence series. At the event, industry experts discussed the rise of artificial intelligence and ways to gain exposure to this exciting sector. 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__label__wiki	0.680857	0.680857	Compaq speeds storage system controller Compaq Computer has released a higher-speed PCI card that controls RAID (redundant array of independent disks) storage systems, the Houston computer maker said Tuesday. The card supports the new PCI-X input-output standard, which transfers data twice as fast as the top speed of the existing PCI system. The system has battery-powered high-speed cache memory to speed data transfers and protect the data in the event of a power failure. The system costs $1,599, according to Compaq's Web site. Stephen Shankland April 9, 2002 4:19 PM PDT Compaq Computer has released a higher-speed PCI card that controls RAID (redundant array of independent disks) storage systems, the Houston computer maker said Tuesday. The card supports the new PCI-X input-output standard, which transfers data twice as fast as the top speed of the existing PCI system. The system has battery-powered high-speed cache memory to speed data transfers and protect the data in the event of a power failure. The system costs $1,599, according to Compaq's Web site. How to save even more on Prime Day 2019: Think the deals are already good? Here's how to score additional savings. Jony Ive leaving Apple signals the end of Steve Jobs era: From Apple TV Plus to its chief designer moving on, the iPhone maker is becoming a different company. Discuss: Compaq speeds storage system controller Next Article: The Amazon Prime Day 2019: Last chance on these great tech deals	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7758
__label__wiki	0.521745	0.521745	Airbag Recall Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia defective airbag injury and airbag recall lawsuits When designed and installed properly, airbags can save the lives of vehicle drivers involved in a crash or accident. In most vehicles, airbags are a required safety feature. Airbags, when used with seat belts, have saved the lives of thousands of American drivers who have had the misfortune to be involved in an automobile accident. Unfortunately, some airbags are not designed or installed properly, which can put consumers at a risk of catastrophic injury. If you have been injured by a defective or otherwise inadequate airbag, you may be entitled to compensation. At The Cochran Firm D.C., our experienced attorneys provide high-caliber legal representation to injured victims, and their families, who have been injured by defective airbags. If You’ve Suffered an Injury from a Defective Airbag: Schedule a Free Appointment We can help with cases related to: Dodge/Ram Contact an experienced airbag injury lawyer If you or a family member has been seriously injured by a defective airbag, we can help. Our team of experienced attorneys understands the unique issues raised by airbag cases and will handle your claim both aggressively and professionally. Because strict time deadlines apply to airbag injury and recall claims, we recommend contacting us as soon as possible. In recent years, car manufacturers have recalled products and published warnings about defective airbags: In Sept. 2013, Honda recalled 405,400 vehicles over a manufacturing defect in the electronics used in its airbag control systems, which could cause airbags to deploy inadvertently. In 2012, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of Snowpulse Avalanche Airbags, which are used for skiing, snowmobiling, and mountain climbing. Leaks were found in some of these airbags that could result in the airbag not deploying, which could pose a serious risk of death or injury. In Sept. 2013, Suzuki recalled almost 200,000 vehicles to address an airbag sensor defect that could cause airbags to improperly deploy during an accident, which could potentially put the vehicle passenger at risk. In April 2013, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, and GM issue recalls for 1.3 million vehicles for “faulty airbags that could deploy and injure passengers.” In 2011, Ford Motors recalled 144,000 F-150 pickup trucks after a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report found 269 accidental airbag deployments. Airbag Deployment Injury Claims If your vehicle is involved in a moderate to severe accident, your airbag control system should cause the airbags to inflate. Side-impact airbags are supposed to inflate more quickly than front impact airbags because there is less space between you and the side of your car. Airbags deploy very rapidly and serious or even catastrophic injuries can occur if the vehicle’s driver or passenger is too close to the airbag when it deploys. If there is a problem or defect with the electronics in your vehicle’s airbag control system, the airbag may deploy too quickly or to not deploy at all. Both of these possibilities put a vehicle passenger and driver at an unreasonable risk for serious injury. Knowledgeable defective airbag recall and airbag injury law firm If you or a family member has been seriously injured by a defective airbag in Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia, we can help. Because deadlines apply to when you may bring an airbag injury claim, we recommend contacting us as soon as possible.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7761
__label__wiki	0.577135	0.577135	Posts tagged with "Darth Vader #25" Comics With Kenobi #95 -- I See a Red Door and I Want to Paint It Black December 25th, 2018086 The last issue of Darth Vader Vol. 2 was cinematic in its scope, detailed in its delivery and yielded far more questions than answers through the course of its Star Wars homages from the first to final page. In short, it began as it started: Expansive mythology for not just the Sith lord, but Anakin Skywalker, too. As for Solo: A Star... Comics With Kenobi #24 November 4th, 2016065 It's finally here. It took three recording sessions, six World Series games (Spoilers: CUBS WIN!), two trans-Atlantic crossings, one move and MULTIPLE cups of coffee, but episode 24 is ready for your listening pleasure. Listen to the Show here! We've got a special guest, too, a certain Coffee With Kenobi co-founder by the name... Check Out the Latest Comic Book Galaxy from CWK's Dan Z.! November 2nd, 2016051 While there were no new Star Wars releases from Marvel this week, you can still get your fix with the latest Comic Book Galaxy from Coffee With Kenobi co-host Dan Z. This week, Dan looks back at Star Wars #24 and Poe Dameron #7, and takes a closer look at Darth Vader #25, the final issue in that series. Check out a brief excerpt... Check Out the Latest Comic Book Galaxy by CWK's Dan Z! October 19th, 2016046 After a brief hiatus, Comic Book Galaxy is back! This regular feature, written by Coffee With Kenobi co-host Dan Z. for StarWars.com, looks at the latest offerings from Marvel's Star Wars comics. This week Dan looks at the finale of the Darth Vader series, as well as Han Solo #4, and The Force Awakens #5. You can check out an... October 11th, 2016085 Is this thing on? Can you hear us? Are we getting through? YES WE ARE! After a technical snafu delayed Jeff McGee and Matt Moore, the daring duo have roared back into the Dragon Run to give it another go and what a go it was, what with the latest issues of Star Wars, Star Wars: Poe Dameron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. ... Inside DARTH VADER #25 – The Epic Finale! September 14th, 20160104 Your New Look Inside DARTH VADER #25 – The Epic Finale! Oversized Issue Brings Critically-Acclaimed Series to a Close! New York, NY—September 14th, 2016 — It has all been building to this! The epic conclusion to the blockbuster ongoing series! Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s critically acclaimed series comes to a... Marvel Goes All Out for the Now Delayed-by-a-Week Last Issue of Darth Vader, Debuts Several Variant Covers It's no secret that Marvel's Star Wars: Darth Vader series has been among its consistently top-selling titles, finding a home in the monthly top 10 titles since it began nearly two years ago. Now, as August gets underway, the series last two issues -- Nos. 24 and 25 -- will debut, bringing to a conclusion the story of Darth...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0014.json.gz/line7762

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