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Error code:   DatasetGenerationError
Exception:    ArrowInvalid
Message:      JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 81
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 145, in _generate_tables
                  dataset = json.load(f)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
                  return loads(fp.read(),
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
                  return _default_decoder.decode(s)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
                  raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
              json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 4078)
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
                  for _, table in generator:
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 148, in _generate_tables
                  raise e
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 122, in _generate_tables
                  pa_table = paj.read_json(
                File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
              pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 81
              
              The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
                  builder.download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
                  self._download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
                  self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
              datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationError: An error occurred while generating the dataset

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__label__wiki	0.503536	0.503536	Tag Archives: preschool Meet Our Candidates: David Schapira for Superintendent of Public Instruction Posted on April 30, 2018 by Elizabeth Hannah The time to fight back — and fight forward — for reproductive justice is fast approaching. The stakes are high in this year’s state election, with candidates for governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and other races on the ballot. The Arizona primary election will be held August 28, 2018, and voters need to be registered by July 30 to cast their ballots. Reproductive health has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona has endorsed candidates who put our health and our rights first. Get to know them now in our series of “Meet Our Candidates” interviews, and make your voice heard in 2018! [D]avid Schapira is not a newcomer to education or politics in Arizona. A passionate educator and lifelong Arizonan, Mr. Schapira has advocated for public education as an elected official for more than a decade. He has served in a diverse array of roles — ranging from the Tempe Union Governing Board to the state Senate — and this November he will challenge Republican incumbent Diane Douglas for the office of superintendent of public instruction. Sexual and reproductive health care education are critically important to the overall well-being of Arizona’s students. Our state’s current laws regarding sex education fail students by limiting access to medically accurate information, disingenuously promoting abstinence above other contraceptive methods, and actively perpetuating homophobic myths about HIV. Our next superintendent of public instruction should be someone who will help guide Arizona out of the Stone Age and into the modern world, where young women and men are empowered to make informed decisions about their bodies and their futures. “If your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and abortions, then the best way to accomplish those two goals is to have comprehensive sex ed.” Mr. Schapira has a track record that speaks to his support for reforming Arizona’s outdated sexual education statutes. As both a member of the Senate and a member of Tempe Union’s Governing Board, he spearheaded campaigns to include LGBTQ students in anti-bullying and anti-discrimination protections. He has also volunteered for Planned Parenthood since childhood, and played an integral role in the 2014 overhaul of Tempe Union’s sex-ed curriculum. If elected, Mr. Schapira says he will work to restore respect to the teaching profession, which he believes has eroded as a result of the Arizona Legislature’s animosity toward public education. His open support for the #RedForEd movement stands in stark contrast to that of his opponent — Diane Douglas — who on April 24 threatened punitive action against teachers who participate in a walkout. Douglas’ stance reflects her general disdain for traditional public education, which continues to be starved by her ongoing efforts to funnel public funds into private and charter schools. Continue reading → Posted in Elections \| Tagged #RedForEd, abstinence, abstinence only, achievement gap, age-appropriate sex education, anti-discrimination laws, Arizona, Betsy DeVos, bullying, Cathi Herrod, Center for Arizona Policy, charter schools, comprehensive sex ed, comprehensive sex education, comprehensive sexuality education, counselor, David Garcia, David Schapira, Diane Douglas, discipline, discrimination, education, gender expression, gender identity, harassment, HIV, homophobia, House Education Committee, LGBT, medically accurate sex education, Meet Our Candidates 2018, No Promo Homo, Planned Parenthood, preschool, private schools, public education, public school, public schools, Red for Ed, SB 1042, sex education, sexual orientation, suicide, superintendent of public instruction, teacher, teen pregnancy, Tempe Union High School District, transgender	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line2
__label__wiki	0.78093	0.78093	Smartphone Fanatics The written musings of a long-time Apple //e and Macintosh tech nerd. Opinions are my own. android, chrome os, google, verizon Verizon and Google Working on a Tablet Barron’s Tech Trader Daily is reporting that Verizon Wireless and Google are collaborating on a new tablet-based computer. “Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam told the Wall Street Journal that the company is working with Google on a tablet computer. “We’re looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience,” he said.” You can read the full article, with links, on the Tech Trader Daily blog. [Via Barron’s Tech Trader Daily…] By Alan Grassia HTC EVO 4G Arrives on Sprint June 4th HTC Droid Eris Android 2.1 Begins Rolling Out Today Alan on Mastodon Follow @alanmgrassia Archives Select Month January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 April 2020 March 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 July 2019 November 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 July 2017 June 2017 March 2017 January 2017 December 2016 October 2016 September 2016 July 2016 April 2016 March 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 All content © 2023 Grassia Network Solutions. This blog is not affiliated with the companies we write about.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line4
__label__wiki	0.569924	0.569924	Special Sale/Gallery About Billie Ruth Sudduth Résumé Artist Statement Basketry is actually Billie Ruth Sudduth’s second career. She spent almost twenty years as a school psychologist. In 1983, after a particularly demanding year, her boss suggested she do something for “fun” over the summer. Knowing of Billie Ruth’s love of baskets, it was suggested she take a basket making class at the local community college. The four Monday night sessions cost twenty dollars but totally changed her life. After fifteen minutes in that class, she knew she had found her life’s work. The early years were demanding because she maintained her professional career, was a wife and mother of two sons, (which included soccer, cub scouts, children’s theater, baseball and such.) Sixteen hour plus workdays became the norm and cooking and housework became extinct, indeed arts lost in favor of a new art form. (She is now the grandmother of nine). Adding Math to Basketry In 1989, Billie Ruth left her career to pursue basketry full time. It is appropriate that her baskets became mathematically based, having spent her professional career with testing, measurements, statistics, and math. Ironically, as a high school and college student, she hated math. She met Fibonacci, a thirteenth century mathematician, while teaching a “Math in a Basket” class in a middle school. Incorporating Fibonacci numbers and the Nature Sequence in all her baskets created a style that was immediately identifiable and captured the attention of museum curators and collectors alike. Fibonacci discovered that the same proportions occur in spirals throughout nature, whether it is the spirals in seashells, flower petals, the caps of acorns, or pineapples. The distance between the numbers in the proportion theory approximate the golden mean or the golden ratio, which has unified design since ancient Greece. This discovery had a profound impact on the world of art, music, and architecture. Michelangelo used the proportions in creating the statue of David; Bartok used the numbers and ratios in his music, and Frank Lloyd Wright in his architecture. Billie Ruth Sudduth uses the proportions, ratios, and numbers in her baskets. When responding to her work, you are responding to the same proportions that occur throughout nature. The weaving uses a mathematical structure of spiral growth found in nature to create baskets with a rhythmic, naturally flowing design. She does not separate herself from nature but through her weaving affirms being a part of it. Billie Ruth is currently pursuing chaos theory, fractals, and sacred geometry and incorporating that research into her basketry. Living Treasure Medal, 1997 As the saying goes, the rest is history. Billie Ruth’s baskets are now in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, Charles A Wustum Museum of Fine Art in Racine, Wisconsin, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama. They are also included in corporate and private collections. Her highest honor came in 1997 when she was named a Living Treasure by the State of North Carolina. This award, presented to one craftsperson every other year, is the state’s highest honor in the field of crafts. She was the tenth recipient of this award and the first female to be honored. In 2002, she was awarded the Alumni Achievement Award by her alma mater, Huntingdon College, and in 2005, The President’s Medal for Achievement. In 2004-2005, she was awarded an Individual Visual Artist Fellowship by the North Carolina Arts Council. In 2008, Billie Ruth was honored by being named to the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest honor awarded by North Carolina Governors. She was invited to be Honor’s Day speaker at the University of Alabama (where she received her master’s degree). She was selected to exhibit at the prestigious Smithsonian Craft Show for thirteen years. Teaching Basketry Order of the Long Leaf Pine, 2008 Billie Ruth has extensive basket teaching experience at Penland School of Crafts; John C. Campbell Folk school, and Arrowmont as well as conducting numerous workshops throughout the country. In October 2005, she was the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the North Carolina Association of Educators in Art. She is a charter member of the North Carolina Basketmaker’s Association and the National Basket Organization. She is an exhibiting of the American Craft Council, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Piedmont Craftsmen, and Carolina Designer Craftsmen. Truly Handmade Baskets Over the past 34 years, Billie Ruth has experimented with all the basic techniques of basket making but quickly discovered a love for twill work and hand shaping cat’s head forms. No molds are used in any of her work as she explains the excitement for her is creating the shapes and never quite knowing what it will look like until the piece is completed. Her favorite dyes are all natural–iron oxide, henna, and madder. The reds are combinations of the above with the magic of her well water, a 300 foot well in mineral rich Mitchell County, just over the ridge from Penland School in the Western North Carolina Mountains. Her materials of choice are European Cut reed that is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Billie Ruth feels one of her contributions to the field has been getting baskets off the floor and onto pedestals. She describes her baskets as being made to hold your interest, not your objects. Her passion for basket making is as strong as it was when she made her first basket 34 years ago. She still spends 10 plus hours a day in her studio making baskets, collects them, and writes about them. JABOBS – an acronym for Just A Bunch Of Baskets, is the name of her business. HGTV and CBS Sunday Morning have featured Billie Ruth’s baskets as well as several PBS features. American Craft, American Style, and The Smithsonian Magazine have shown her work numerous times as have dozens of other publications, magazines, and books. She is the author of four books on basketry with Baskets – A Book for Makers and Collectors being translated into German with the title Korbe Design. Below, we invite you to enjoy a video produced by UNC-TV that features Billie Ruth and her craft. Copyright ©2003-2023 JABOBS. All rights reserved \| Site design by Pegasus Creations. Read our Privacy Policy	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line6
__label__wiki	0.560301	0.560301	Gift to Support Research into Links between Hearing Loss, Isolation and Dementia By Katie Ismael Qualcomm Institute research scientist Harinath Garudadri, center, is leading the Open Speech Platform (OSP) project, which offers a suite of open-source technologies to hearing health researchers. Coprincipal investigators are Electrical and Computer Engineering professors Bhaskar Rao (left) and Patrick Mercier (right). From developing the first portable cell phone technology to establishing the first cell phone service to meet the needs of seniors, wireless technology pioneers Arlene Harris and Martin Cooper have always innovated technology and technology-enabled solutions to connect and serve people around the globe. The pair continues their mission to use technology to help improve quality of life with a generous gift to UC San Diego through their foundation, Wrethinking, the Foundation, to study the links between the social and physical isolation associated with hearing loss and dementia. Technology to improve hearing aids and strengthen social interactions With a price tag in the thousands of dollars and limited to no coverage by insurance providers, effective hearing aids are out of reach for many people. As a result, they may avoid social situations with family and friends. An increasing body of research points to possible links between the loneliness that stems from hearing loss-related isolation and cognitive decline. The gift supports the expansion of The Open Speech Platform (OSP), a project led by Qualcomm Institute research scientist Harinath Garudadri that offers a suite of open-source technologies to hearing health researchers, giving them the ability to share findings and spur innovation through collaboration. The OSP is supported by the Qualcomm Institute, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. With Harris and Cooper’s support, Garudadri and his team are extending OSP hardware tools including the processors, microphones and motion sensors as well as a full stack software including innovative signal processing algorithms to help doctors and scientists quantify a patient’s verbal interactions and physical activities during daily living. The result is the recently launched Project Psi-Fi that builds upon OSP for an integrated physiological and psychological health benefit to patients. Psi-Fi is now also funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. “There isn’t a platform that currently enables researchers from different disciplines to study what we call multifactor ailments—ailments that often have more than one cause,” Garudadri said. “Project Psi-Fi will build on our work with OSP to look at physical activity, as well as sensory, motor (physical) and cognitive impairments, independently and in combination with one another. That by itself is an engineering accomplishment.” A multi-disciplinary research approach Project Psi-Fi is a collaboration between researchers across UC San Diego, including doctors and specialists at the School of Medicine, as well as data scientists and engineers with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and the Jacobs School of Engineering. Significant among these collaborations is joint work with Rajesh Gupta, a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and director of UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI). OSP’s multi-sensor hearing aids, peripheral “The OSP opened up a new programming platform for the researchers to devise new algorithms and embedded software such as unikernels to experiment with ways to adapt hearing aid to individual needs. Psi-Fi vastly improves the platform to enable dynamic feedback and adaptation to physiological and cognitive needs in changing environments,” Gupta said. “What’s really wonderful about this project is it is an outstanding example of finding ways to take breakthroughs in one field, say the processors that run our smartphones, and use them to advance another field and help many people in the process.” said Ramesh Rao, director of the Qualcomm Institute. “It’s also important to note the cross-disciplinary nature of this project, which is why it is very much at home within the research and engineering communities at UC San Diego.” Dr. Eric Granholm, a professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, said, “There is emerging evidence that hearing loss may contribute to limited social interactions, reduced physical activity and ensuing perception of loneliness—a risk factor for Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders. Yet, assessment of social activity and perceived loneliness is challenging, as retrospective self-reports are not accurate. OSP would provide new objective metrics to monitor the amount and quality of social interactions and perceived loneliness using ecological momentary assessments.” “This collaboration between Qualcomm Institute, the School of Medicine and HDSI will build a talent pool of students and researchers for a new generation of devices, software, machine learning algorithms and clinical protocols that vastly improve quality of life,” said Gupta. This gift contributes to the Campaign for UC San Diego—a university-wide comprehensive fundraising effort concluding in 2022. Together with philanthropic partners, UC San Diego will continue its nontraditional path toward revolutionary ideas, unexpected answers, lifesaving discoveries and planet-changing impact. To learn more, visit the Campaign for UC San Diego website. OSP’s hearing aids research platform built with smartphone chipsets	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line7
__label__cc	0.534104	0.465896	Design Day - MSU College of Engineering Schedule & Building Maps Department Schedules Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE 480 Senior Design is required of all electrical and computer engineering majors at MSU. The following were the project sponsors and projects for Fall 2019: MSU Solar Racing Team: BEV Level 2 On-Board Charging Module The Michigan State University Solar Racing Team is a student-led organization that designs and builds full- sized solar electric vehicles. Beginning in Fall of 2017, the team started designing a two-person solar car to compete in the cruiser class of the 2020 American Solar Challenge. A previous version of the vehicle went to competition this past summer as a practice run before the main competition. To prepare the car for the long-awaited American Solar Challenge, all multi- occupant style vehicles must be equipped with an On-Board Charging Module (OBCM) to allow the vehicle to charge its battery at US level 2 electric charging stations. Our team was tasked with developing an effective architecture and working prototype OBCM that will allow charging of the battery pack on the team’s current car, Aurora. The module takes 240 AC voltage from a level 2 BEV (Battery-Electric Vehicle) charging station and converts it to the proper charging voltage and current to charge our pack. This feedback charging loop was designed using the Constant Current – Constant Voltage (CC-CV) method, intended for lithium ion batteries. Reliability, shock-resistance, optimal thermal cooling and power effifficiency were key benchmarks for the design. The success of this design will provide a path for continued development of the OBCM, eventually leading to the fabrication of a reliable and upgradable system for future generations of the Solar Racing Team. Team Members (L-R): Gabriel Romzek, Stephen Pietras, Shubham Shedge, Evan Charles, Jacob Randall MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB): Wide Bandwidth Differential Oscilloscope Probe The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University is a scientific user facility for the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC). FRIB enables scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society in order to support the mission of the Office of Nuclear Physics in DOE-SC. FRIB is the nation’s premier center for rare isotope research. As a complex, interdisciplinary enterprise embarking on the exploration of the mysteries of nuclear structures and the cosmos and making discoveries for a better world, FRIB scientists utilize a wide variety of electronic devices and signals for testing. These devices may operate with very low amplitude signals (i.e. approaching the noise floor) at signal frequencies ranging from extremely low frequency to ultrahigh frequency radio waves and microwaves. In order for scientists to accurately monitor the behavior of these devices under testing, in use cases like noise spectrum analysis and monitoring of differential logic signals, FRIB requires a safe, high-performance differential oscilloscope probe. Typical oscilloscope probes are single-ended probes which are vulnerable to common mode noise, have signal fidelity and measurement repeatability issues at higher frequencies and are difficult to use for ‘floating’ measurements. In order to overcome these challenges and meet the needs of FRIB scientists, our sponsors at FRIB tasked our team, with the design, building and characterization of a differential amplifier circuit for use as a differential oscilloscope probe which performs with a reasonably flat gain over a wide bandwidth, high input impedance, relatively large differential input range, BNC connector output to interface to an oscilloscope and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection system. While these types of probes are typically quite expensive (costing roughly $5000 USD), we aim to produce this probe for less than $500 USD. With this probe, scientists at FRIB will be able to safely and accurately monitor critical electronic devices during their journey of discovery and leadership. In order to meet the functional requirements of our project, the probe will have multiple distinct subsections including an input probe tip, a buffer stage, a power-stabilization stage, Transient-voltage-suppressors (TVSs), and a differential circuit. Team Members (L-R): Abdulla Alrashdi, Manuel Pedro, Bebek Kharel, Abdulrahman Asayidi, Ramzy Samara MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB): Broadband GHz Microstrip Matching Network for Beam Diagnostic Test Stand The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), funded by the DOE-SC, Michigan State University, and the state of Michigan, will assist scientists in making discoveries in nuclear physics. These discoveries will help scientists understand the properties of rare isotopes that are short-lived and not typically found on Earth. With a greater understanding of the properties of these rare isotopes, scientists will be able to apply this knowledge to applications in nuclear energy, society, medicine, homeland security, and industry. Our team has been asked to work with FRIB at Michigan State University to design a microstrip matching network for the facility’s beam diagnostic test stand. The purpose of the facility’s test stand is to replicate the velocity and electromagnetic fields of a non-relativistic beam. The test stand needs to calibrate beam diagnostic devices for non-relativistic effects. The microstrip matching network that our team will be designing must be broadband to replicate the beam and match the helix impedance. Team Members (L-R): Arshdeep Kohli, Owen Lee, Alex Popovich The City of St. Johns, Michigan: Detection of Buried Lead Water Pipes Following the recent lead contamination problems in Flint, the City of St. Johns aims to locate and remove all water service lines that contain lead and can possibly cause harm right now or in the near future. Due to insufficient record- keeping in the past, the materials of many service lines are unknown. The team has been given the task of designing and implementing a solution to differentiate materials and detect lead in water service lines. The goal is to do this in a non-destructive way, without excavating the service lines. Multiple methods, such as measuring impedance or using a bobbin coil to create a magnetic field, will be tested in order to determine the most successful solution. Team Members (L-R): Sydnee Nessel, Jacob List, Zac Andrews, Devin Weerasinghe, Karletta Hammond, Mario Macioce, (Not Pictured) Jake Pruitt MSU RCPD/MSU Bikes: Intelligent Defense System (IDS) In recent years, cycling has begun to be a better alternative for transportation due to the busy traffic and the air pollution in the cities. The number of distractions while driving an automobile has increased as well. As a result, every year the number of cyclist injuries and fatalities due to car collisions has increased. Our team has been asked to help create a means of preventing cyclist injuries and fatalities due to vehicles on the road. The goal of the project is to design an affordable alert system which can detect the oncoming vehicles approaching from behind the cyclist. The team decided to use a camera to sense oncoming vehicles, alerting the cyclist and driver via a series of LEDs. The sponsors and the team believe the low-cost, affordable intelligent defense system will prevent thousands of injuries and fatalities per year to cyclists. Team Members (L-R): Drake Rider, John Lanzi, Trey Ebinger, Saim Turhangil, Jordan Stross Orphans International Helpline (OIH)/MSU RCPD OIH (Orphans International Helpline), is a non-profit company that was created to help orphans in Haiti. It was founded in 2003, and since then they have provided shelter, medical care, clothing, food and education about Christianity for many children. Due to many natural disasters in the region, it is very difficult to maintain and control the basic needs such as electricity and water. There is currently a hospital being built in Haiti through 100% donations, and the idea involves being self-sustainable in terms of energy. It will be powered by solar panels, wind turbines, generators, and will use lithium batteries to store the energy. Our team has been challenged to design and build a Battery Management System, which can translate and store the power collected through different sources. Also the system needs to have the ability to detect, balance and manage the voltage of each battery and take appropriate action in different situations. The result of this project needs to be very simple so that the people in Haiti are able to build the system themselves by following given instructions. In order to meet the functional requirements of the project, the Battery Management System will be connected to the battery pack to charge and discharge voltage, show the battery status and different power sources to provide power to the hospital. Team Members (L-R): Wenbo Jiang, Zeliang Ye, Fawaz Alghool, Wentai Liu, Huiyu Zhao, Altair Veiga, Hongxu Song MSU ECE Smart MicroSystems Lab: Automated Winch System for Underwater Sampling The Michigan State Smart MicroSystems Lab (SML) is dedicated to enabling smarter, smaller, and more integrated systems by merging advanced modeling, control, and design methodologies with novel materials and fabrication processes. The SML has authorized the Automated Winch System for Underwater Sampling project. The objective of this project is to develop a winch system that can lower sensors down to any desired underwater depth based on the feedback it receives from a pressure sensor. This work will set the foundation for the SML to eventually automate fish tracking and other underwater surveying. Team Members: Top Row (L-R): Nick Alfano, Philip Schmitz, Yacer Mirza, Funakoshi Silva Bottom Row (L-R): Parwesh Rallapalli, Adam Chapman, Paul Hanvey MSU ECE Smart Microsystems Lab: Snake Robot for Inspection of Small Diameter Pipelines Pipelines are designed to last a long time so that limited maintenance work must be done on them. Over time, however, constant use can begin to wear down pipes and create deformities in them that limit the amount of fluid that can travel through them. Detecting these errors in pipelines is tough, as it is hard to pinpoint the exact location of the defects and reasoning behind their placement. This leads to large amounts of work only to find a small deformity that could take much less time to fix. Our team has been assigned the task of creating a pipeline inspection robot that can fit within four-inch diameter pipelines. It will be able to capture images of the inside of these small pipelines while personnel assess the deformities and find solutions to fixing them. A user can control the robot with a handheld controller and can make selective turns through complicated pipe systems. The focus is to design an easy-to- use, accurate robot that will assist greatly in saving time when fixing pipelines. Team Members (L-R): Erik Coman, Ali Abedi (ME), Brett Roginski (ME), Jameel Mirza, Jabreel Naser MSU ECE Robotics Lab: Robotic Crop Weeder Weeds have been a problem in the agricultural industry as they negatively impact the growth of surrounding crops. These weeds occupy the crop’s surroundings and steal the nutrients that are a necessity in the growth and development of these crops. The overall effect is a decline in crop production which impacts not only the farmers, but also the consumer. The current solution of controlling the spread of weeds is through manual deweeding and using chemical products. The problem with this is that it can be tedious to the laborers, and the chemical products can cause damage to both the crops and the people that consume the crops. Recently, the agricultural industry is implementing technology and autonomy as it helps decrease the manual labor and is a cost-effective solution. This year, our team is continuing to add on to the robotic crop weeder prototype that the previous two semesters’ teams have designed. The previous teams have been able to develop a robotic cart that can be manually driven, containing a robotic arm and camera, which allows the weeds to be detected and pulled. This year, our team is working with Dr. Tan to implement a z-axis manipulator to allow for more accurate deweeding as well as a torch to ensure the weeds do not come back after they have been eliminated. Team Members (L-R): Greggory Adams, Jacob Reinauer, Jamie Mortensen, Kristopher Canty, Anthony Doan, Devon Thompson MSU Offices of the Executive VP For Administration: Smart Hotel Cart System Daily housekeeping service is standard in every hotel, but many of these services have key inefficiencies relating to the flow of information. One such example is in The Kellogg Conference Center and Hotel, where data regarding late arrivals, do not disturb, and cleaning status must be collected using multiple different systems by the front desk. Once at the front desk, cleaning instructions must be printed out on paper and handed to housekeeping personnel, and changes to this information are difficult to share effectively. Additionally, the staff must knock on a door to tell if a room is occupied and have no way of logging this information or sharing it with other personnel. Our team seeks to reduce these inefficiencies at The Kellogg Center with the development of a Smart Hotel Cart System. This system will use an electronic tablet as well as an occupancy sensor to streamline the flow of housekeeping information and provide real-time updates. Team Members (L-R): David Osinski, Jon Spight, Natalie McQuade, Ryan Mulka, Shelby Webber, Mitchel Loe MSU Offices of Executive VP for Administration/Office fo the VP for Auxiliary Enterprise: Automation in the Dining Hall Dish Rooms The Michigan State University dining hall dish rooms provide necessary functions to all on-campus MSU dining halls. Many of the tasks performed in the dish rooms are repetitive and time-consuming. The dish room staff have asked for help designing a process to increase productivity and speed of certain menial jobs. Our team has been tasked with designing a system to process and sort dining hall utensils which will help increase efficiency while reducing the cost of manual labor. The focus for this system is to create a process which utilizes object recognition to detect silverware on a conveyor line, then sort the silverware into the proper storage units based on the type that was detected. The system will be designed to function in environments of high heat and humidity, while also having the capacity to operate for long periods of time. For full functionality, the silverware must successfully pass through each phase of the above design. The key is proper visual recognition and timely removal of silverware from the belt into the appropriate bin. Team Members (L-R): Daniel Roehl, Tyler Peterson, Spencer Scott, Josh Ward, David Zhang, Nick Brandt CANVAS SOAR – AutoDrive Challenge: Data Logging and Diagnostic System The AutoDrive Challenge is a collegiate level design competition created by General Motors and SAE International. As part of the competition, the MSU AutoDrive Team has been provided with a Chevrolet Bolt EV and is converting the vehicle into an SAE level 4 automated vehicle. This is an eight-university competition, and the team is currently in their third year. A key need the AutoDrive team has identified is an automated data logger and diagnosis system to give engineers insight into vehicle health and performance issues. As a result of issues faced at the 2019 AutoDrive Competition, our team has been tasked with developing a low power, embedded computing system to log and analyze vehicle data. This data comes from the vehicle’s 10-gigabit ethernet, from the in-vehicle CAN bus, and from inertial sensors around the car. Ultimately, the system will publish frequently monitored data streams to a web server and will provide the AutoDrive Team with an effective way to diagnose future issues. Team Members (L-R): Mitchel Rockwell, Amanuel Tesfamichael, Connor Yergin, Cole Nelson, Andrew McGrath, Sai Katta, Nicolau Esteves CANVAS SOAR – AutoDrive Challenge: Sensor Synchronization In 2018, SAE International and GM partnered together to sponsor the AutoDrive Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to produce a Level 4 autonomous vehicle by 2020. Level 4 indicates that the vehicle is able to operate on its own, even to the point of moving through urban areas. If a driver misses a warning, the vehicle will take the safest course of action, such as pulling over at the earliest opportunity. The vehicle currently has five lidar sensors and six cameras, which are being used for basic autonomous driving. The team has been challenged with developing a method of synchronizing each lidar sensor and camera so that they do not interfere with each other during operation. Lidars operating out of sync can cause discrepancies in scanning and can provide difficulties in interpreting the data. For example, objects could appear multiple times in an image set or scanned area. A printed circuit board and software package will be designed to meet the required specifications from the customer. The PCB will provide power to the numerous lidars on the vehicle and take data from multiple sensors. The software package will synchronize the timing signal sent to the sensors. Team Members (L-R): Derek Troxell, Joe Friedland, Michael Pui, Wendy Fogland, Ben MacNeill, Brandon Harris MSU CSANN Lab: Deep Neural Network-based Navigation Rovers for Sound/Video Classification The deep neural network (DNN)-based methods are the dominant ways to solve image- and video-related classification and recognition. The DNN techniques are extensively applied in a variety of fields and subjects. Thinking and solving DNN engineering problems are becoming more and more popular. As long as big data can be collected and acquired, appropriately trained DNN modules accomplish classification fast and accurately. Our team was tasked to implement the DNN modules on a proposed project. Two DNN modules will be applied on a human object recognition and hand gestures classification. Based on those, the picture will be taken and the background will be changed according to recognized hand gestures. Team Members (L-R): Zonglin Li, Dachuang Zhang, Jinxian Deng, Chen Dai, Xintong Xie, Wei Jia Shi MSU Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Lab: Motorized, Waterproof X-Y Manipulator The MSU Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) lab contributes to creating sensors and systems that allow them to monitor and evaluate the structural integrity of parts and components using multiple test methods. Currently, they are using ultrasonic evaluation to conduct inspections and take measurements underwater. A manual X-Y manipulator is being used at the moment, which is time-consuming when trying to find the optimal position for ultrasonic evaluation. Our team has been tasked with creating a motorized, waterproof X-Y manipulator in order to automate the ultrasonic evaluation process by sweeping the test area in order to scan for the best signal. The main focus of this project is to be able to motorize the X-Y manipulator while still maintaining a small footprint. Team Members (L-R): Jorge Mateus, Ryan Motyka, Zhiqi Hao, Runyu Wang, Luke Schuler Executive Partner Sponsor Directing Partner Sponsor Supporting Partner Sponsors Copyright © 2023 Design Day – MSU College of Engineering. All Rights Reserved. \| Decree by Catch Themes	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line9
__label__wiki	0.50583	0.50583	Historical 90s and 2000s book series In Their Own Words THE REAL EMINEM N.W.A: The Aftermath The Reasonings of Buju, Bounty & Sizzla The Real Diddy The Real Destiny’s Child Cash Money: Home of tha Soldiers The Real 213 The Real MC Eiht: Geah! New York State of Mind 1.0 Hot Boys & Cash Money Millionaires A riveting historical account of how two hustlers invested everything in one 10 years old and changed the music business, forever! buy B&W paperback now Learn more buy iBooks buy Kobo buy Kindle buy COLOR paperback buy Google Play Lil Wayne records sold Estimated value of Cash Money Records Estimated Cash Money Records albums sold Estimated net worth of Birdman Magnolia Home of tha Soldiers, the 9th book in the series, is a look at how Cash Money Records produced some of the iconic stars of the last two decades, and continues to cash in on the day. I'm An Untamed Guerilla B.G. Shit I Kick Be Real I Don't Get Caught In The Mist I'm Gonna Live and Die In This Here Mannie Fresh This Year I Got A Space Shuttle Parked Out Around The Corner I Look At It We Got To Hustlin' Godfather Slim I Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Else Guide Our Destiny Raw and real Slim, Turk, Mannie Fresh, B.G., and Juvenile revelations. Image and audio excerpts of Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers Excerpts of Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers Get raw and real Lil Wayne, B.G., Juvenile, and Turk revelations of their teen years. Learn how Mannie Fresh created all Cash Money Records music. Unmask the mystery of CEO “Slim” and discover the keys to success in an ultra rare enlightening interview. Choose a Page Chapter 2 - I'm An Untamed Guerilla Chapter 3 - Shit I Kick Be Real Chapter 4 - I Don't Get Caught Chapter 5 - Live and Die in This Chapter 6 - Space Shuttle Parked Chapter 7 - We Got To Hustlin' Did you grow up in this area of the Magnolia? Turk: I’m in Kenner right now. I grew up around Robinson Street in front of the school in the Magnolia Project. What did you do coming up? What an average Black man do; hustle. You got to put food on the table.Get it how they live. How important is hustlin’ to the whole Project? My momma at the time she was strugglin’. My daddy, he was an old wino. He ain’t do nothing for me, and I didn’t want to see us … We had two … There was three of us, it was hard for my mom, and by me being the oldest I felt like I had to what I had to do, so I started hustlin’. Is that how you ran into everyone else in the crew? No. One day they came around here at a DJ. Call it a DJ, everybody get together. Niggas would be playing outside and they popped up, and Magnolia Shorty, a female artist they had a year, two years ago, she introduced me to ‘em and I went up to ‘em, they gave me a card. I kept calling them, bothering them, told me to come to the studio. I got on one of Juvenile’s albums he was doing his album. I got on about three songs and the rest history, the new Cash Money. Magnolia Shorty – Monkey On Tha Dick https://youtu.be/YR7VbTbeIzI What’s life like as B.G.? B.G.: It’s all good. I ain’t really want for nothing. I ain’t hurtin’. I got money, I got hoes, my family’s straight, travelin’, ya dig. Platinum albums, see what I’m sayin’? It’s just all good. How do you keep your mind on the music when all that shit is going around you? That’s my life. That’s all I know. That’s all I got. I dropped out of school in tenth grade, so I can’t get no job. They don’t hire you without no High School diploma, but I’m in the process of getting my G.E.D. now. Rap, that’s all I got, that’s my life. I write everyday. I stay ’cause I know what’s gonna give me pay, and Rap is gonna take me to the bank. Why are your lyrics so deep? What’s going on in your mind? I’ve been through it all. I’ve been through it all a juvenile to go through. From hustlin’, to jackin’, stealing cars, jail, whatever. I’m in the ghetto. I’m in the streets day for day. Even though I got money that still don’t change me. I see what’s going on around me, so I give niggas what they can feel, and all hoods the same. All ghettos the same all across the world. That’s why niggas respect my mind and know it ain’t no fantasize. Shit I kick be real. How ill does it get in the Magnolia? Juvenile: It ain’t the Projects, it’s the people in it. It can be a motherfucker off the outside come in here and commit a murder. Murder is murder no matter where it happen at. This Project is cause for crime because it’s so many poor people. People broke, man. Motherfuckers struggling. If you gave everybody in this Project a million dollars a piece I don’t think you would have crime back here. It’s a money thing and everybody trying to get it. If you have at least $20 000 and the next man don’t have it, and you out there with it and maybe he feel like he can take it to do what he got to do, he gonna do what he got to do, so that’s life. No matter how hard you work for your money there’s ten guy working harder to take if from you. Yeah, but that was as far as the money is concerned. It ain’t so much of the money. Motherfuckers just want to be seen. Motherfuckers want to be in that spotlight, even if it means being in the spotlight for a minute. They’ll put they life on the line to be in the spotlight, and I’ve been through it. I feel they pain. Motherfuckers struggling. What have you seen growing up here? Shit, I seen everything. That type of shit I’d rather not even talk about what I’ve seen. I would be a Rat if I sit here and tell you what I seen. I’ve seen a lot. I’ve done did things and all that, but that ain’t nothin’ to be saying in an interview. Who came first, you or No Limit? I don’t want to discuss that. Go to the next question. What is the game? Lil Wayne: Run or get ran over. What happens if someone crosses Lil Wayne? They get crossed out, and that’s if they cross me they better cross me out. If you gonna get in my way, push me down to make me fall to where I never get up ‘cause if I get back up I’m a move you. Like I say, I was taught never give up and anything in your way move it. How do you stay ahead of everyone else? There’s a lot of people who think like that but your actions and reactions put you over. Live by it and die by it. Live by what I was told. A lot of people think like that. A lot of people don’t mean that. I mean that, feel me. Has it ever come to that? Many a time. Do you get any free time? Mannie Fresh: Nah, not really, not really. I’m in the studio late tonight. I don’t really … I ain’t happy unless I’m in the studio anyway, so it don’t really matter. What kind of stuff are you coming up with lately? Lately, I’ve been doing some 80s type stuff like I’m on some … Plus I’m on some old Disco type stuff, ya feel me? I’ve been doing Disco shit plus that 80s type sound shit just to kind of get away from what everybody is doing but I’m still incorporating it my way. I listen to a lot of songs and do it my way. What is the Mannie Fresh way? You know, that Bounce feel to it, that dance feel to it, that energy. The shit that just gets you up and make you bob your head. I try to produce tracks from a DJ perspective like the type of music that will get the crowd crunk, that will get it up and running. What about “Fuck The World” on the ‘Lil Wayne album? It’s kind of a slow jam in a way and not Bounce. That was his thing. That song was more-so made out of him than me, and I just met him like 90-percent of the way in doing the song. It was something that he wanted to get across, so it wasn’t nothing that I really could do my way. And it’s some real shit that he’s spittin’, so I felt like I owed him out of respect to do it that way. Lil Wayne – “Fuck The World” https://youtu.be/1qlKkIw_meY How much control do you have over the artists? 100% is mandatory. I don’t look at it control, that’s a business term. I look at it we got to hustlin’, we hustlin’. Control ain’t the word. You don’t control no man. We have Chiefs and Indians out here. How do you and your brother divide up the duties of running the business? It’s an easy divide ‘cause it’s two of us. I don’t find this shit really being hard. The only hard thing was for me fucking with this movie ‘cause it was a challenge to me. I was doing movies, doing concerts and recording and that shit, that was kind of like a challenge for me. You’re an artist as well with Big Tymers. What’s that all about? Game spittin’ without a doubt. Chapter Overviews An inside look at Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers Magnolia Home of tha Soldiers is a very real account of being a young Black man hustling to put food on the table while fighting for his place in the music scene. It gets the answers you want, from a group of young artists who have had to fight and struggle every day to get what they wanted and to be where they are. Cash Money Records was in full bloom in the summer of 1999. From the fall of 1998, through the summer of 1999 the label had sold millions of albums. Juvenile’s 400 Degreez led the charge on the strength of monster singles “Ha” and “Back That Azz Up”; B.G. dominated the spring with certified classic “Bling Bling”; and Hot Boys heated up the summer with “I Need A Hot Girl”. Back to back to back to back hits, that placed them on the tip of everyone’s tongue. B.G. was born Christopher Dorsey, September 3, 1980. B.G. was the original Hot Boy signed to Cash Money Records. His father died when he was young. Cash Money Records owners are Ronald and Bryan Williams stepped in as “big brothers” and played a major role in his life helping his mother to raise him. Dubbed Lil Doogie, He was paired up with Lil Wayne, then known as Baby D, and together the duo recorded their first album True Story for Cash Money Records as the BG‘z. Lil Wayne was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., September 27, 1982. Lil’ Wayne entered the Rap game at the age of 9 and signed with Cash Money Records at 10. An only child living in the Projects, life moved at a rapid pace as his responsibilities increased. Though he excelled in school and became an Honours student, to care for his mother his after-school program placement was hustlin’ on the block. He recorded his first Cash Money Records album, True Story, at the age of 12, when he went by Lil Doogie, in a group called the BG’z with B.G. In an unfortunate accident, he shot himself in the chest with his mother’s 9 mm at the age of 12, and shortly thereafter took an extended leave of absence from the music business. He marked his return to Cash Money Records at the age of 14 and then dropped out of school in 1996 to pursue a music career full-time. “Godfather Slim” was born Ronald Williams, May 23, 1967. Ronald “Godfather Slim” Williams is the CO-founder of Cash Money Records. He and his brother, Bryan “Birdman” Williams, came up with the Housing Projects of New Orleans hustling before starting the label in 1991 and built its foundation one seed at a time. Not much is known about Ronald "Godfather Slim" Williams. He likes to stay behind the scenes and let his brother, Bryan "Birdman” Williams, bask in the limelight. The number of published interviews with him can be recorded on one hand. Who is Harris Rosen? Father. Son. Brother. Author career and biography Harris Rosen is the author of N.W.A: The Aftermath, The Real Eminem: Broke City Trash Rapper, and other Behind The Music Tales books. For twenty years, he self-published the national lifestyle magazine Peace! He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his son, Louis. Feel free to contact us with any questions in regards to Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers or upcoming editions from the Behind the Music Tales series. QB-Spadina-Fort-York, Toronto, Canada info@behindthemusictales.com Join the Reader's Group 2019 Behind the Music Tales by Harris Rosen - All rights reserved.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line12
__label__wiki	0.983444	0.983444	WTF-ITF0 Taekwondo deal to allow North Koreans to compete at Olympics Taekwondo governing bodies have reached a breakthrough agreement paving the way for North Koreans to compete in the sport at the Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday. Following years of talks, the Seoul-based World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) and the North Korea-led International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) reached a memorandum of understanding last Thursday, WTF Spokesman Kang Seok-Jae told AFP. “The agreement paved the way for North Koreans and other ITF-affiliated athletes to compete at the Games, as early as at the 2016 Rio Games,” Kang said. The WTF is the only international taekwondo body sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, and previously only athletes from WTF member countries could compete at the Games. The agreement between the two governing bodies was reached on the sidelines of the Youth Olympics in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, Kang said. The WTF’s South Korean chief Choue Chung-Won and ITF president Chang Ung of North Korea signed the deal, with IOC President Thomas Bach in attendance. “With this agreement, the WTF will do its upmost to ensure that every taekwondo athlete has the opportunity to compete at the Olympic Games,” Choue said in a statement released by the governing body. Chang said: “This is only the beginning of our cooperation and there will be more to achieve together.” Bach called the signing “a historic step for taekwondo”. “With common roots and a common history, the two federations belong to the same family and it is great to see such an accord,” he said. Under the agreement, WTF and ITF athletes will be free to compete in each other’s competitions, but they will have to observe the host’s competition rules. masTaekwondo.com Team	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line15
__label__wiki	0.808513	0.808513	Ontario’s new PC leader creates committee to advise on possible carbon tax Offer would appear to endorse an agenda from Unifor and possibly labour standards in Ontario Toronto’s new Progressive Conservative leader, Doug Ford, has announced that the head of the province’s largest public sector union… Offer would appear to endorse an agenda from Unifor and possibly labour standards in Ontario Toronto’s new Progressive Conservative leader, Doug Ford, has announced that the head of the province’s largest public sector union will chair a special committee to advise on creating new legislation to better protect jobs in the automotive sector. Ford has named Jerry Dias, the national president of Unifor, to head a task force that will consider addressing non-compliance by employers with labour laws, including minimum wage laws and collective bargaining agreements, according to a news release announcing the appointment. Ford is an outspoken supporter of scrapping Ontario’s provincial carbon tax as part of his jobs and growth platform, but at the same time his immediate predecessor, Kathleen Wynne, has also backed a national carbon tax as a way to combat climate change. Ontario’s next premier will have to start shaking up the system Read more For Ford to reach his stated goal of creating a “wonderful place for both young people and families”, the task force will likely look closely at the potential effects a national carbon tax would have on the automotive industry and agree upon a direction that will work best for the province. On Friday, Ford also announced his intention to seek to dismantle Ontario’s cap-and-trade system, which was introduced under the Wynne Liberals and which is overseen by Ontario’s climate change minister, Glen Murray. Murray has played a role in overseeing the rollout of the carbon tax and cap-and-trade systems in other provinces. The province’s second-largest province, Ontario has been one of four in Canada that has implemented such a scheme and saw its production of greenhouse gas emissions drop almost 12% between 2016 and 2017, according to a report by the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. Opinion polls show that the Progressive Conservatives have a chance of winning Ontario’s provincial election, expected to be held in June, 2019. Ford announced in March that he would seek to oust Wynne from the top job. Wynne made no mention of the task force on Friday, but she also did not directly respond to Ford’s position regarding the national carbon tax. “I’m going to concentrate on the things I can control, which is doing my best every day to actually engage with business, improve the province’s economy, create jobs,” she said. Wynne said that the province plans to ramp up efforts to promote clean energy like wind and solar power as a way to mitigate climate change. “I’m not backing down on tackling climate change,” she said. “[That] is the right thing to do for our children and our grandchildren, but I will also be asking the businesses that are here and have a stake in our economy that they make every effort possible to look at how they can continue to drive change and improve climate change in our province, as well as in the rest of the country.” Reacting to the news on Twitter, Dias said he was “honoured” to be working with Ford on a clean economy agenda and that the task force will focus on measures that will eliminate problems for workers and businesses. Unifor said it believes that repairing the regulatory and taxation system will increase Ontario’s competitiveness, create jobs and help businesses invest in growth opportunities. “Ontario’s economy could be even more successful and create more jobs if we all made it a priority to grow and innovate,” Dias said. Ford’s news release said the cabinet would be briefed on the committee’s recommendations when it meets on Monday. Categories national Tags boxing, business, chemistry, nobel prizes, science and technology New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant pulls funding for forum for union contracts Cardi B Talks Canceled Grammys Performance, Giving Birth and More In Memorable Miami Performance	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.96687	0.96687	50 Former Pens Players, Coaches and GMs to Celebrate Final Regular Season Game at Mellon Arena The final regular season game at Mellon Arena is very close at hand and the scheduled events for that evening are coming into the focus. Mellon Arena - Pittsburgh The final regular season game at Mellon Arena is very close at hand and the scheduled events for that evening are coming into the focus. The “Fan Appreciation Night” will go on as scheduled, but the team has a special pregame presentation scheduled. They will be bringing back 50 former players, coaches and general managers to celebrate the memories that they all played a part in creating over the past decades. Here is the official release from the team… MORE THAN 50 FORMER PENGUINS RETURN APRIL 8 TO CELEBRATE FINAL REGULAR SEASON GAME AT MELLON ARENA Hockey Hall of Famers Mario Lemieux, Paul Coffey, Bryan Trottier, Craig Patrick, Larry Murphy and Andy Bathgate will join Jean Pronovost, Syl Apps, Dave Burrows, Bryan Watson, and Ron Schock as more than 50 former Pittsburgh Penguins celebrate the final regular season game at Mellon Arena Thursday, April 8 vs. the New York Islanders. The special guests include former players, coaches and general managers who played such a huge part of Penguins history at the old arena – which was known as the Civic Arena when the team made its NHL debut in the 1967-68 season It will mark the 1,667th and final regular season game played at the Arena before the Penguins move across the street to the sparkling new Consol Energy Center next season. Six Penguins who were here for the team’s first game, a 2-1 loss to Montreal at the Civic Arena on Oct. 11, 1967, will be on hand – players Ken Schinkel, Les Binkley, Gene Ubriaco and Bathgate, along with coach Red Sullivan and general manager Jack Riley. More details will be provided in the coming days. April 8 also will be Fan Appreciation Night, and the current Penguins players will give 20 lucky fans the “Shirts Off Our Backs” following the game. In addition, the Penguins announced that the team’s annual awards ceremony will be held before the Saturday, April 3 game against Atlanta at Mellon Arena. Game time on April 3 is 1 p.m. Tagged: consol energy centermellon arenaNHLPenguins Robbie Brown confirmed he will be there on the Fan this afternoon. So there’s one…. Malkin Expected to Miss Saturday’s Game Against Flyers; Gonchar Questionable Live at Mellon Arena – Penguins v Flyers	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line26
__label__wiki	0.65647	0.65647	All Day, All Season? Poll TEST AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall The Burdened Walk Tiger Woods and the weary pursuit of Jack Nicklaus's record by Charles P. Pierce on August 12, 2013 I remembered that, once, he had looked as though he walked on air. He had looked as though his feet never touched the ground. He had looked as though his club managed to strike the ball perfectly within a private reality. Even his divots had looked cleanly cut as they sailed through the clear air. You could have used one of them for a welcome mat. Once upon a time, I remembered, Tiger Woods had looked as though he played golf in a self-contained universe that he carried around with him. I remembered all this as I crouched behind the green on the 13th hole of the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, on Sunday afternoon, and watched Tiger Woods, who was standing in the shade a little ways down the fairway and rotating his upper body to the left and to the right, stretching his back muscles. Jesus, I thought to myself, that’s something I do. In fact, I always do it before I swing a club. I don’t know that it does me any good. Very often, I do it as a distraction and, perhaps, as a kind of preemptive alibi; that way, when the ball goes where it’s not supposed to go, which is very often, I have established that I have termites eating my spine or something. Now there was Tiger Woods, who used to look as though he were made of electrified wire, cranking up the sacroiliac the way that I do. And, yes, he’ll be 38 this December, but there was a time in which he was so young that he looked ageless, a time in which the future blended so seamlessly with the present that the future looked as inevitable and predictable as the past. I met him then, and the aftermath was somewhat unusual, and this was the first time we’d been in the same area code since the afternoon we had spent together, and he’d had his picture taken, and he’d told some jokes, and had wondered whether or not women followed basketball players because they thought black men had larger penises, and now he was down under a tree, doing the same back exercises that I do. He knocked it a little ways past the hole, drained a putt coming back, and ground out another par. “Having a chance on the back nine on Sunday, I can live with that,” he said later, after flogging an even-par 70 out of the course and finishing even for the weekend, another major championship slipping away. And Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 major championships, which once seemed so easily within his grasp, now slips a little deeper into the mists of an uncertain future. “It’s always frustrating going out there, and I’m 3 over today, got to 7 [over], and I’m grinding my tail off coming in just to shoot even par for the day. And I’m nowhere in it.” It was Woods himself who made the pursuit of Nicklaus’s 18 majors the Mount Everest of his career, so it’s hard to muster up much sympathy for him if he’s getting a bit winded in the middle of the North Col. He has won five times on the Tour this year, most recently burying the field just a week earlier. He is the no. 1 player in the world. None of those things matters because the PGA Championship is a major, and he did not come close to winning it, and that is going to be the way his career will be defined no matter how many times he tears it up in Southern California or rural Ohio. (The cynics in the audience wondered why Tiger couldn’t just join the rest of the golfing world and pretend that the PGA Championship isn’t really a major but, rather, a John Deere Classic jumped up with historical resonance. Walter Hagen, as the story goes, once left the Wanamaker Trophy in a taxicab and it went missing for years. That was the last remarkable thing that happened at a PGA Championship.) He walks a burdened walk now, even when it is going well. He walks the same way, above par or below, birdie or bogie. He birdies and he tips his cap, but his head is down. He talks to the ball more when it is in flight — “Get right!” “Down, DOWN!” — than he once did. By contrast, on Saturday, Phil Mickelson had a round so bad he should have been escorted off Oak Hill by the EPA, and he looked like he was having more fun than most of the gallery was. His steps were light and his smile was easy. He did not walk the burdened walk. But he did blow town quickly. Of course, Mickelson won the British Open a couple weeks ago, and he’s not the guy who defined his career success by how many majors he won. Woods was never effervescent, even in the glorious heart of his young career, but he didn’t look the way he does now, coming up the fairway toward the green like an aging farmer coming to work in fields he knows are burnt and fallow but remembers with fondness and with pain the verdancy they once had. I am not one of those people easily bored by excellence. I do not find the remarkable tedious just because it happens more than once. I still love the dunk contest at the NBA All-Star weekend because, frankly — call me crazy — watching human beings fly is still a class act to me. I never rooted against Tiger Woods when he was winning all the time just because he was winning all the time. People asked me if I did, because of our odd collision back in 1997, when a magazine profile I wrote became one of those Media Things just as the country’s taste for those Media Things was beginning to turn into an addiction. Tiger and his people — and his father, Earl, whom I adored and still miss — said some things about the article that were transparently bogus, but that was all right with me, too. That was the way Media Things worked, as we moved swiftly into the age of the Internet, and Drudge, and Monica and Bill, and as communication accelerated in so many directions that our internal information management circuits all burned out and died. I never rooted against him. I never speculated, as a lot of silly people did, that his success was somehow “bad for golf,” that he hit the ball too far and too accurately for the courses he was playing. Let the game catch up to him, I thought. Let the other golfers catch up to him. (And, it should be noted, it has and they have.) I wanted him to win because I am not easily bored by excellence. In fact, lost in all the noise about the profile was the fact that I predicted in that same piece, and with considerable confidence, that he would go sailing past Nicklaus’s record. I thought his athleticism seemed boundless and his confidence unassailable. He hit shots designed to cut the hearts out of the competition. He hit shots in April the mere memory of which would destroy other players in August. I didn’t think he could fashion himself a mountain that he couldn’t climb. Over the years, when his life began to go sour and he seemed incapable of achieving the goals he set for himself, people came to me for answers, and I really had none. Some people write profiles and then live with the subject, one way or another, for the rest of their lives. I am not one of those people. I drifted through his life under extremely circumscribed circumstances one weekend in 1997. What came out of it was a moment in time. He was very young. He was extraordinarily gifted. He did not yet walk the burdened walk. At the Masters this year, Jack Nicklaus opened up just a little bit on the subject of the task that Tiger Woods set himself all those years ago, and about the difficulty of chasing a figure like Nicklaus, and how that differed from his own career, when he had no Nicklaus to chase. (Nicklaus piled up his majors without thinking about it. All he ever wanted to do was kick Arnold Palmer’s ass.) “Obviously the older he gets and if he doesn’t win, it makes my record move out further,” Nicklaus said. “But I’ve said it, and I continue to say it, that I still expect him to break my record. I think he’s just too talented, too driven, and too focused on that … From this point, he’s got to win five majors, which is a pretty good career for most people to start at age 37. You know, I still think — still he’s got to go do it. He’s played very, very well this spring. I think if he wins here, I think that it would be a very large step toward regaining the confidence that he has not won a major in, what, three and a half years?” (Actually, Nicklaus was reminded, it has been five years since Woods won a major championship.) “Really? A bit further away. I mean, it’s been a while. He’s going to have to figure it out. But I think if he figures it out here, it will be a great boost for him. If he doesn’t figure it out here, after the spring he’s had, I think it will be a lot tougher for him.” It is compelling in its own mad way to watch Woods have a weekend like he had at Oak Hill, saving pars all over the place, as though, for this weekend, that is the sum of his gifts now. He saved some miraculous pars, and even picked up two crisp birdies on the 14th and 15th when he briefly regained his putting stroke. (It was a long slog of a round, largely because Brooks Koepka, his playing partner, saw more of upstate New York than General Burgoyne did.) He closed it out playing 3 under par on the back nine, his best sustained stretch of the weekend, and finished the tournament tied for 40th. At the end of it, he talked about the majors, because that’s all that’s really left for him to talk about. He won five times this year. He is the no. 1 player in the world. That is a career for most players. But most players did not build themselves the mountain to climb that he has. “Yeah, I was close in two of them,” he said, smiling easily at the notion. “I was right there, and I certainly had a chance to win the Masters and the British this year. The other two, I just didn’t hit it good enough. That’s just the way it goes … As I said, I was there in half of them, so that’s about right. If you’re going to be in there three-quarters or half of them with a chance to win on the back nine, you just have to get it done.” He is not the way he was when I first saw him. The galleries, still vast, do not buzz the way they once did. (There is even the occasional joker like the guy who hollered at him as he was walking toward the parking lot, “Hey, Tiger, remember to buckle up!”) They walk the burdened walk with him, whether he’s winning, the way he did at Bridgestone, or losing, the way he did at Oak Hill this weekend. He is the no. 1 player in the world, and he was done by 2:30 in the afternoon Sunday, gone from the last major he had a chance to win this year, no closer to the top of the mountain. The sweet twilight hours of the tournament would belong to someone else. Filed Under: People, Tiger Woods Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for Grantland and the author of Idiot America. He writes regularly for Esquire, is the lead writer for Esquire.com’s Politics blog, and is a frequent guest on NPR. More From Charles P. Pierce The Legacy of the NFL Sin-Eaters October 28, 2015 Snap Judgment: The Pats Deflate the Colts in Indy October 19, 2015 It’s Time to Stop Being Stupid About Sports Gambling October 14, 2015 Beatdown: The Cubs Keelhaul the Bucs in Pittsburgh October 8, 2015 The Death of Evan Murray September 30, 2015 See all from Charles P. Pierce Grantland Dictionary: NHL Edition January 14, 2014 NFL Lessons Learned January 10, 2014 The Trouble With Rog January 10, 2014 Titus’s Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings January 8, 2014 The Playoff Gambling Suggestion Box January 5, 2014	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line27
__label__wiki	0.705811	0.705811	President Buhari and Four Other Nigerians Make it to the African Energy Chamber’s (AEC) TOP 25 Movers & Shakers List for 2021 President Buhari The presence of so many Nigerians on the list confirms that what happens in Nigeria affects the rest of the industry across the continent. As many as five Nigerians have made it to the top 25 list of the African Energy Chamber’s TOP 25 Movers & Shakers Watch List for 2021, released earlier this week. Published every year, the list identifies the leading African and international figures whose work and decisions have a direct impact on the African energy industry and the way Africans access and consume energy. H.E. Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the first listed for his direct involvement in the possible passing and signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in 2021. If the President manages to carry through this substantial wave of reform in the country next year, it could unlock billions of dollars of investments and significantly boost the country’s recovery and West Africa’s overall attractiveness for business. His ability to compromise and define the sector will be tested in the 1st quarter of 2021 when his governments expects to get the all-important and long-awaited Petroleum Bill to be adopted by the National assembly. Similarly, Mele Kolo Kyari, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) also made it to the list for the first time. As the NNPC embarks on several strategic programmes and projects to boost refining capacity, cut upstream operational costs, develop energy infrastructure and unlock Nigeria’s gas potential, Mele Kolo Kyari’s actions and decisions can profoundly impact the short and medium-term outlook for Africa’s biggest oil & gas producing country. A veteran of the National oil company, he has been able to make his mark quickly since nomination, strengthening corporate reporting and aggressively pushing the removal of fuel subsidies for refined products. As LNG becomes more and more important for African markets, Tony Attah, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria LNG is also listed for his piloting of the NLNGSevenPlus project. His ability to oversee the project’s execution and local content impact will be central to support Nigeria’s economic recovery and capacity building efforts. His presence is yet another indication of the rising role of gas as a driving force for the future of the Nigerian and West African’s hydrocarbons industry. Finally, two key figures of the power and electricity industries have also made it to the prestigious list: Seun Suleiman, new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Nigeria, and Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. Seun Suleiman is notably expected to become an increasingly influential executive as Siemens executes the Presidential Power Initiative in Nigeria in order to upgrade the country’s transmission and distribution systems and increase the overall national system’s capacity from 5 to 7 GW first, before ramping up to 11 GW and ultimately 25 GW. This notably puts Suleiman and the German equipment giant in the fore when major decisions are being made on how to solve Nigeria’s energy sector problems. On her side, Damilola Ogunbiyi has taken an increasing role in leading the global energy transition conversation and bringing a true African voice to the fight against energy poverty. Her work in off-grid solar or LPG access notably has the power to transform the way Africans access and consume energy. The presence of so many Nigerians on the list confirms that what happens in Nigeria affects the rest of the industry across the continent. These five key figures of the industry will be instrumental in shaping up the recovery everyone expects in 2021, and in building a sustainable and inclusive energy sector that work for all Nigerians and Africans. *Africa Energy Chamber Oil Industry keeps an eye on Angola with Top 25 Movers and Shakers to Watch list A Ridiculous Obsession for African Pastors with US Elections Coronavirus – Africa: COVID-19 impacts driving up acute hunger in countries already in food crisis Africa’s mineral wealth: A blessing or a curse? Zambia: Lusaka’s water point ambassadors turn the tap to protect residents from Covid-19 Ghana mourns former Vice President Amissah Arthur Mozambique to ship first LNG cargo soon Airstrike kills 12 people including children in south Niger Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) announces Mozambique as host of 2019 U.S.-Africa Business Summit Rwanda:Paul Rusesabagina gets 25-year jail term for terror related crimes. Nigeria: National Conference and “the fierce urgency of now!”	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line32
__label__wiki	0.559071	0.559071	Week 62: American Rust Home/Uncategorized/Week 62: American Rust Week 62: American Rust Book Review Since his debut novel was published in 2009, Philipp Meyer has been likened to Steinbeck and Salinger, Faulkner and Hemingway. In 2010 the New Yorker rated him one of the 20 best novelists under 40. The accolades are appropriate, keeping in mind that Meyer, writing at the tail end of the Great American Dream, has a different take on what drives us to be who and what we are. I wouldn’t call him cynical, exactly, but his unsentimental clarity makes for a pretty grim read. American Rust takes place in what used to be the industrial heartland of America. The fictional town of Buell was once a thriving Pennsylvania steel town; now, like communities throughout the northeast, its old stone houses are boarded up and abandoned, its shops are empty, its factories shut down. Many of the residents have fled, hoping to find work in other parts of the country. Those who have jobs, even minimum wage ones like those on offer at Wal-Mart, are lucky. Others live on welfare, deal drugs, or both. Still others go back to the bush, living much as hunter-gatherers did hundreds of years ago. The whole town, for the most part, is on “the other side of the tracks”. “The work was all in the Midwest now, taking down the auto plants in Michigan and Indiana. And one day even that work would end, and there would be no record, nothing left standing, to show that anything had ever been built in America. It was going to cause big problems, he didn’t know how but he felt it. You could not have a country, not this big, that didn’t make things for itself. There would be ramifications eventually.” These are the thoughts of Billy Poe, former high-school football star currently in jail, waiting to appear in court for a crime he didn’t commit. In a stream of consciousness style reminiscent of Faulkner, Meyer presents the narrative from several points of view, alternating between Poe, his friend, Isaac English, Isaac’s sister, Lee, Poe’s mother, Grace, and Bud Harris, the town’s police chief and Grace’s sometime boyfriend. Each of these characters, vividly drawn and intensely real, gives us insight into what happens when market forces drive a community into the dirt. The book opens with 19-year-old Isaac heading out of town, on his way, he thinks, to California. Recently graduated from high school, Isaac is a mathematical genius and should, under normal circumstances, be studying at one of the Ivy League colleges, like his older sister, Lee. But 5 years ago his mother committed suicide, his sister left for Yale, and Isaac chose to stay home to care for his father, who is confined to a wheelchair after a workplace accident. Now Isaac is on the road, like Kerouac, with $4,000 in his pocket – stolen from his father’s desk. His plan is to ride the rails west and become a student of physics at UCLA Berkeley. Before you start feeling sorry for his dad, you need to know that Henry English is by no means an ideal father. He treats Isaac much as he did his wife, which was not well, favouring his daughter and putting her needs and aspirations well above those of his son. And while Isaac loves his sister, he resents the fact that she was able to leave so easily while he felt compelled to stay. On the way out of town, Isaac stops at the trailer where Poe lives with his mother, and urges his friend to come with him. The two boys were best friends in high school, although they were an unlikely combination: Isaac was small, skinny, all brains, Poe was handsome, twice the size of Isaac, and a natural athlete. A few years ago, Poe saved Isaac’s life. After his mother’s suicide Isaac went out to the frozen lake where she drowned and jumped in. Poe risked drowning himself, diving under the ice and rescuing his friend. Now, however, Poe has given up. Having turned down offers of college football scholarships, he sees no future for himself, and lacks the ability to leave and make a go of it somewhere else. And so he lives with his mother, drinks heavily, and gets into fights. Grudgingly, he agrees to accompany Isaac as far as the train yards. By nightfall they arrive at an abandoned car factory and decide to bed down for the night. Poe gets a fire going and they settle in, only to be interrupted by three homeless men who have made the factory their temporary home. A fight breaks out and Isaac ends up killing one of the men, a large Swede named Otto. The boys flee, leaving behind two pieces of telltale evidence: Isaac’s backpack, which he stashed in a nearby field, and Poe’s high school football jacket, which bears his name and player number. When they try to go back the next day to retrieve the jacket, they find Bud Harris and his partner, Steve Ho, waiting for them. Harris has already found the jacket, and recognized it as belonging to Poe. He’s helped the boy before, as a favour to Grace; now, as much as he wants to avoid hurting Grace, he believes Poe, who has a history of violence, killed the Swede and will have to pay the price. He drives the boys back to town, advising them to stay inside for the next few days. “Stick around,” he says, “where I can find you.” Isaac is sure he’ll be charged with murder. Even though it was mainly self-defence – one of the men was holding a knife to Poe’s throat – it was Isaac who threw the rock. He retrieves his pack from the field where he left it, and heads east towards Pittsburgh. In the meantime, Lee returns to Buell hoping to get her father into a care home and take Isaac out of there. She and Poe rekindle their high school sexual relationship; during a night of love-making Poe tells her it was Isaac, not him, who killed the man. He refuses, however, to tell the authorities, and when he’s arrested and put in jail he stays silent. He knows he could save himself by telling the truth, that it was Isaac who killed Otto, but he won’t. Poe’s taken to a maximum security prison where every murderous cliché you can imagine is firmly in place. Simply staying alive means walking an impossible tightrope between rival gangs of convicts. Unwittingly, he manages to anger just about everyone in the prison, and is attacked and almost killed. He wakes up in hospital, hooked up to an IV, tubes sticking out of him, in a great deal of pain. “After a minute it occurred to him: I am alive.” Lee, having been told the truth, is torn between her love for her brother and her moral imperative to do what is right. She is, after all, a law student. In the end she swallows her guilt, deciding to sacrifice Poe to save Isaac. Grace, who loves her son, believes she’s made all the wrong decisions. If she’d left Buell when she’d had the chance, none of this would have happened. Harris, who wants to wash his hands of the boy, is conflicted as well. He loves Grace, and knows this is going to destroy her. In the end, he makes a decision to go against everything he stands for and save her son. Some judicious editing might not have been a bad thing. American Rust is heavy on introspection and there are times when you want the characters to stop thinking and just move on. But all that deep thinking has a purpose: Poe comes to see that he’s not the coward he thought he was. He saved Isaac once before – by keeping silent, he will save him again. As for Isaac, after spending two weeks in the wilderness, battling the cold, near starvation, and hostile strangers, he knows he cannot allow his friend to take the fall for something he did. He makes his way back home to Buell, resolved to turn himself in and accept the consequences. But when he goes to the police station, Harris refuses to hear his confession. Before Isaac can say anything, Harris tells him that the men who witnessed the murder are dead – the implicit message being: they were bums, they won’t be missed. Poe will be set free; Isaac, who killed a man, will not have to suffer the consequences. Harris watches Isaac leave and thinks about the fact that Poe had been stabbed and nearly died, but refused to tell on his friend. And Isaac, who might have got away scot free, came back to confess. “Both of those boys were worth saving, he thought. That is something you wouldn’t have known.” Yes, American Rust is “relentlessly pessimistic”, to quote one reviewer, but then so is The Grapes of Wrath. Meyer, though, has no Tom Joad in his story. The time for moral heroes has come and gone – in a deteriorating society, everything can be rationalized. Even murder. Harrow Road – Available Now! Enjoy what you’ve read? Get a copy of my latest book Harrow Road. Now available on Amazon.com. “A moving and convincing account of a promising young woman’s descent into poverty in 19th century London, Harrow Road tells the story of Annie Taylor who finds herself in workhouse with three young children in tow after being abandoned by her husband. This novel really underlines the vulnerability of women in society and the cruel criminalization of poverty as a moral failing, both still realities in our world. Yet Annie is a strong, positive and empathetic woman who finds a way to rise up above her desperate situation, with the help of the many other compelling characters who she meets along the way. Harrow Road really stayed with me.” By margietaylor\|2018-09-03T20:17:19+00:00August 21st, 2018\|Uncategorized\|2 Comments About the Author: margietaylor Miss Brill, by Katherine Mansfield For Such is the Kingdom: Chapter 6 My top 15 favourite online historical research sites – and a new one Joan Baril August 21, 2018 at 10:16 pm - Reply Great work Margie. I thought Phillip Myer’s novel, Son, was one of my best books ever. This is a fine review. margietaylor August 23, 2018 at 2:25 am - Reply Thanks, Joan. You’re always a step ahead of me 🙂 I haven’t read Son but will get hold of it thanks to your recommendation.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line33
__label__wiki	0.87716	0.87716	Absalon managed hectic voyage nicely It has been a hectic autumn for the support ship Absalon. It participated in escorting the chemical material that has been removed from Libya. Five commanders in the Army visited the ship before it sailed for Denmark. At midnight the night between Monday and Tuesday Absalon left the role of the Danish contribution to Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) and is expected back in Denmark in early December. Before the participation in SNMG 2 the ship participated in escorting chemical material from Libya. The ship and its crew, both the main crew and the additional staffing, in the form of a maritime helicopter, Lynx, with personnel, a number of MPs apart from doctors, nurses, language officers and a priest, has been on the road non-stop since the beginning of September. To thank them for that and to recognize the crew's good work under difficult conditions there was a special visit to the ship, which has made a stop in Malta to stock up before the ship continues homewards. No fewer than five commanders in the Army visited the ship and thanked them for the good efforts. The defense chief General Peter Bartram said his thanks on the helideck for the entire crew to hear. He was accompanied by the chief of the operations staff, Major General Flemming Lentfer, the chief of naval staff, Rear Admiral Frank Trojahn, Head of flying Staff Major General Max Arthur Lund Thorsø Nielsen and Head of 2nd Squadron, Commander Carsten Fjord Larsen, who also thanked the crew for effort. The purpose of Absalon's voyage has been two things: The first part of the trip saw Absalon take part in escorting chemical material that was being removed from Libya for destruction in Germany. In the second part of the trip Absalon acted as the Danish contribution in SNMG 2, which is part of NATO's presence in the Mediterranean, including Operation Active Endeavour and Danish participation in cooperative exercises with other NATO countries. Absalon is expected back in Denmark in early December. Source: Forsvaret / Maritime Denmark	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line34
__label__cc	0.742303	0.257697	DFDS profit dropped 59 % in Q3 DFDS passenger business was severely hit by COVID-19 travel restrictions in Q3. However, the result is better than originally expected, as the freight businesses of both Ferry and Logistics were above last year’s Q3 results. “Our freight network is as expected proving to be very resilient. We continue to adapt operations to market changes and Brexit. I am pleased to see that all the hard work of our people has helped position us well for the future”, says Torben Carlsen, CEO of DFDS. The operating profit was DKK 846 million, which is DKK 349 million less than last year’s third quarter operating profit. On 23 October 2020, the outlook for 2020 was raised as dfreight volumes have developed more positively than expected during and after Q3. EBITDA before special items is expected to be DKK 2.5-2.7bn in 2020 up from the previous outlook of DKK 2.2-2.5bn included in the Q2 2020 report. Uncertainty remains elevated and the outlook and its assumptions can still change significantly in the rest of the year. Source: DFDS	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line35
__label__cc	0.714031	0.285969	Tags: Aaron Burr, Addison Mizner, Al Hunt. Albert Coombs Barnes, Albert Einstein, Alexander Haig, Alexander Hamilton, Amelia Earhart, American Friends Service Committee, Anne Moffo, Anthony Wayne, Aztec Club, Barack Obama, Barry Goldwater, Ben Hogan, Benjamin Franklin, Bert Bell, Bill Clinton, Bill Graham, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Bobby Jones, Boyz II Men, Brian De Palma, Brian Williams, C. Everett Koop, Camille Paglia, Carlos Santana, Charles Laughton, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Thomson, Charles Willson Peale, Christopher Morley, Chuck D, Colonel George Washington, Congressman James Madison, Daniel Berrigan, Daniel Ellsberg, Dave Barry, David Brooks, deBenneville Bell, Dick Clark, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Dolley Payne Todd, Don McLean, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dylan Thomas, Eadweard Muybridge, Ed Bradley, Ed McMahon, Ed Sabol, Edward Albee, Edward Bok, Eldridge R. Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emily Greene Bache, Flavor Flav, Ford Madox Ford, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Frank Furness, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, George H.W. Bush, Glomar Explorer, Guion Bluford, Harry S Truman, Haverford College, Henri Matisse, Henry Harley Arnold, Henry Lee, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herbert Hoover, Howard Pyle, Hubert Humphrey, Huddie Ledbetter, J. Edgar Hoover, J. Presper Eckert, Jackson 5, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jake Tapper, James Boylan, James H. Billington, James Michener, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jenny Lind, Jerome David Salinger, Jessie Willcox Smith, Jim Croce, Jim McKay, John F. Kennedy, John Kerry, John Lennon, John Quincy Adams, Joseph Segel, Justin Rose, Kasie Hunt, Katharine Hepburn, Kobe Bryant, Leadbelly, Lee Daniels, Lee Trevino, Lieutenant Arthur Ashe, Live Aid, Louis Kahn, M Night Shyamalan, Marquis de La Fayette, Marshall Herskovitz, Martin Luther King, Mary Cassatt, Maxfield Parrish, Meriwether Lewis, Michael Steele, Mike Douglas, Mike Mayock, Muhammad Ali, Nancy Meyers, Norman Schwarzkopf, Old Ironsides, Owen Wister, Patricia Nixon, Patti LaBelle, Pervez Musharraf, Pete Conrad, Peter Stuyvesant, Phil Mickelson, Phillip Berrigan, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Pope Pius XII, Professor Woodrow Wilson, Quita Brodhead, Robert Tyre Jones, Robert Venturi, Ronald Reagan, Rufus Jones, Rupert Murdoch, Rutherford B. Hayes, Salvador Dali, Samuel Clemens, Sean McManus, Second Continental Congress, Sitting Bull, Stacey Snider, Steve Burke, Steve Sabol, T.S. Eliot, Teddy Pendergrass, Theodore Dreiser, thirtysomething, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Godfrey, Thomas Mann, Tiger Woods, Tina Fey, Vice President Richard Nixon, Violet Oakley, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter Annenberg, Warren G. Harding, Warren Rudman, Warren Zevon, Wharton Esherick, Will Smith, William Clark, William Davidon, William Howard Taft, William Jefferson Clinton, William S. Paley	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line36
__label__cc	0.684198	0.315802	Attaining zero defects within the UK's building schools for the future programme : stakeholders' perceptions BOOTHMAN, C. and HIGHAM, Anthony (2014). Attaining zero defects within the UK's building schools for the future programme : stakeholders' perceptions. In: SMITH, S. D. and AHIAGA-DAGBUI, D. D., (eds.) Proceedings 29th Annual Association of Researchers in Construction Management Conference, ARCOM 2013. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 1027-1036. Until its demise in July 2010 The Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme represented the biggest single UK government investment in school buildings for more than 50 years. One of its key goals was to ensure that pupils learn in high quality 21st-century facilities that are designed or redesigned to allow for educational transformation in historically underperforming schools whose pupils were often enmeshed in depravation and social exclusion. This represents a major challenge to those involved in the delivery of the new or refurbished schools. This paper explores the extent to which schools completed under the umbrella of BSF lived up to the UK government's ideology of 'value for money' a key parameter of which is the delivery of high quality buildings. Drawing on an embedded case study methodology based around one local authority that completed nine secondary schools under the BSF funding model between 2006 and 2010 the findings portray the many challenges faced by constructors in the pursuit of zero defect construction. Critical to this, the authors argue, is the approach used by stakeholders to define and measure the presence of a 'defect'. Analysis of exploratory interviews undertaken with four key project stakeholders give evidence of the very different views each professional holds of both quality and what constitutes a defect. By highlighting a lack of consensus between industry stakeholders as to what constitutes a 'defect', how that is to be measured and at what point in the project this should be formally recorded, the research findings raise important questions about the construction industry's ability to deliver projects free from defects. Built Environment Division Research Group Hilary Ridgway	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line39
__label__cc	0.578897	0.421103	Edward Gustely gustely@penidacap.com m +62.813.1684.7854 Penida is led by its Managing Directors with over 50 years of combined emerging market experience in Indonesia and Asean. Edward Gustely is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Penida Capital Advisors, Ltd. He has over $30 billion of emerging market experience involving infrastructure and the digital economy, capital restructurings and business turnarounds, and has advised on $7.5 billion of securitization issues including the successful launch of Indonesia’s maiden 30-year global bond. He has played a pivotal role in building Indonesia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and its Infrastructure Finance Agencies, and is the chief architect of the Indonesia Green Investment Fund launched by Indonesia’s President for supporting the country’s low-carbon growth plan. Edward’s extensive international career has primarily focused on the emerging markets. He has co-founded several start-ups and private equity partnerships and served as the Managing Director of Goldhill International where he was responsible for growing it’s corporate finance and restructuring practice from $2 million to over $4.2 billion. Edward began his professional career with IBM in Germany and the U.S. as a systems engineer and industry executive. His public sector engagements include serving as the cabinet-appointed U.S. Senior Advisor to four-Indonesia Finance Ministers (three awarded Euromoney’s ‘Finance Minister of the Year’), and to the U.S. Treasury. An Ohio native, Edward holds an MBA in International Finance & International Management from Baldwin Wallace University graduating at the top of his class. He earned his Latin American Studies and BSc.BA degrees from The University of Akron, Ohio. Edward is based in Jakarta. Dewi Sri Umi dewi@penidacap.com m +62.811.977.288 Dewi is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Penida Capital Advisors, Ltd. She has over 30 years of executive experience in the underwriting of greenfield investments and cross-border acquisitions. She has been publicly recognized as one of Indonesia’s Top 75 Executives. During her career, Dewi served as President to a select group of corporate finance and valuation firms where she led assignments on over $12.6 billion of M&As, IPOs, asset disposals, and risk management reviews for investment banks, private equity, multinationals, and government agencies. Her professional engagements span property, infrastructure, natural resources, energy, manufacturing, and telecommunications. Dewi is a Licensed and Registered Valuer & Appraiser with the Indonesia Ministry of Finance and the Financial Supervisory Agency. She serves as the Secretary General of the Asean Valuers Association and as the Vice-Chair of the Indonesian Valuers Association comprising over 4,000 members. In addition, Dewi serves as Chairperson to several cabinet-appointed advisory and policy working groups including Finance, Housing, Land, Audit, and Tax. Dewi holds an MBA in International Finance & International Management from Baldwin Wallace University. She earned her Degree in Economics from the University of Indonesia and her Degree in Accounting from Jayabaya University. Dewi is based in Jakarta.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line42
__label__wiki	0.696559	0.696559	Pray Now Be a Catalyst Pray for Africa https://vimeo.com/75410090?loop=0 For reconciliation through Christ's love after 40 years of civil war. For safe removal of millions of landmines still killing many especially children. For desperately needed Christian workers to hear God’s call to serve. For partnerships between foreign agencies and Angolan ministries. For God to meet the needs of mission agencies serving in Angola. For Bible distribution initiatives and translation efforts. Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Namibia and Democratic Republic of the Congo 26 655 513 (2017 est.) Roman Catholic 41.1% Protestant 38.1% none 12.3% (2014 est.) INTERNET USERS 5 951 453 (2017) Sent: 360 Received: 2200 LEAST REACHED PEOPLE GROUPS KEY CITY Population of the city: Urbanization Rate: 4.97% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) Major religion in the city: We Pray... Father, as we pray for Angola, we pray for reconciliation through Christ's love after 40 years of civil war. We also pray for the safe removal of millions of landmines still killing and maiming many, especially children. Lord of the harvest, we pray for desperately needed Christian workers to hear Your call to serve. Father, we pray for loving partnerships between foreign agencies and Angolan ministries to lead the way forward. We also pray for mission agencies that are surrounded by need and are requiring wisdom and resources. Lord, we pray for Bible distribution initiatives and translation efforts and we ask that you will establish programmes that will enable many Angolans to read the Bible. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen. The Angolan constitution protects religious freedom. The country is seen as a secular state, separating church and state. However members of society criticized the Catholic Church for having close connections to the ruling party. The Church is growing, but many of the churches mix Christianity with traditional beliefs. The Angolan church also has great financial needs. Many churches have to pay its local missionaries to sustain its aggressive evangelistic program. The church also plays a huge role in rehabilitating those who have lost everything in the war. There has been little accounts of persecution. Most cases happening in the northern villages. There are two stories to take into consideration before understanding the situation in Angola. Story 1: At the end of WW 2 Russia and America found each other in a stalemate. But why were they fighting? And more important why is it relevant to Angola. The cold war was a competition between Russia and the USA to see who would dominate the world. Both countries thought that their ideology of government and economics was best and should become a standard for world politics. Both countries knew that the other had access to weapons of mass destructions. Therefore they did not settle things on the battlefield, instead they took another route. They went to the third world to see who would get the most countries to conform to their ideology. Before Angola received independence from Portugal there were two main rival parties. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the group the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The MPLA became the governing party and UNITA became a rebel group after independence. Now this is where the stories merge. The MPLA received support from Russia and Cuba, both belonging to the communist ideology. Fearing that communism spread, the US and RSA backed UNITA to stop Soviet influence in Africa. The war lasted 16 years, with the aftermath reaching much further than Angola itself. In 1992 a peace deal led to elections, but was rejected by UNITA and they resumed the war. This led to more peace talks. Stability finally came after the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi. Today Angola, a country rich in resources like oil and agricultural soil, is littered with landmines and ruins of war. They are gradually rebuilding the infrastructure, retrieving weapons from its armed civilian population and resettling many people who fled the fighting. African Prayer Initiative: Pray Africa INcontext ministries – http://incontextministries.org/ Atlas of Global Christianity – Todd M.Johnson & Kenneth R. Ross (Published by – Edinburgh University Press) (Missionaries and national workers: Africa 2010, page 267) Prayercast – http://prayercast.com/ Unreached people groups – http://www.joshuaproject.net The voice of the Martyrs – http://www.persecution.com/ Jul-Dec, 2010 International Religious Freedom Report – http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2010_5/index.htm Operation World – http://www.operationworld.org/african-countries Based in Africa, serving the continent! contactus@prayer.africa Powered by MovingIntoAction.co.za © 2023 Prayer.Africa.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line45
__label__wiki	0.651428	0.651428	Yet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don't Work Written by Ryan McMaken Although advocates for covid-19 lockdowns continue to insist that they save lives, actual experience keeps suggesting otherwise. On a national level, just eyeballing the data makes this clear. Countries that have implemented harsh lockdowns shouldn’t expect to have comparatively lower numbers of covid-19 deaths per million. In Italy and the United Kingdom, for example, where lockdowns have been repeatedly imposed, death totals per million remain among the worst in the world. Meanwhile, in the United States, states with with the most harsh lockdown rules—such as New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are among the states with the worst total deaths. Lockdown advocates, of course, are likely to argue that if researchers control for a variety of other variables, then we’re sure to see that lockdowns have saved millions of lives. Yet research keeps showing us this simply isn’t the case. The latest study to show the weakness of the prolockdown position appeared this month in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, authored by Eran Bendavid, Christopher Oh, Jay Bhattacharya, and John P.A. Ioannidis. Titled “Assessing Mandatory Stay-at-Home and Business Closure Effects on the Spread of COVID-19,” the authors compare “more restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions” (mrNPI) and “less restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions" (lrNPI). More restrictive interventions include mandatory stay-at-home orders and forced business closures. Less restrictive measures include “social distancing guidelines, discouraging of international and domestic travel, and a ban on large gatherings.” The researchers compare outcomes at the subnational level in a number of countries, including England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. This is then compared against countries with less restrictive measures, primarily Sweden and South Korea, where stay-at-home orders and business closures were not widely implemented. The conclusion: We find no clear, significant beneficial effect of mrNPIs on case growth in any country….In none of the 8 countries and in none out of the 16 comparisons (against Sweden or South Korea) were the effects of mrNPIs significantly negative (beneficial). The point estimates were positive (point in the direction of mrNPIs resulting in increased daily growth in cases). That is, the more restrictive lockdown measures pointed to worse outcomes. This data suggests that the theoretical underpinnings of the lockdown philosophy are wrong. As summed up by Bendavid et al., The conceptual model underlying this approach is that, prior to meaningful population immunity, individual behavior is the primary driver of reductions in transmission rate, and that any NPI may provide a nudge towards individual behavior change, with response rates that vary between individuals and over time. lrNPIs could have large anti-contagion effects if individual behavioral response is large, in which case additional, more restrictive NPIs may not provide much additional benefit. On the other hand, if lrNPIs provide relatively small nudges to individual behavior, then mrNPIs may result in large behavioral effects at the margin, and large reductions in the growth of new cases. Translation: mild measures encouraging caution on exposure to others probably lessen the spread. Therefore, more stringent measures will surely do an even better job of limiting the spread! But this doesn’t appear to be the case. Rather, the authors suggest those areas with lower covid mortality are areas where the public pursued low-hanging fruit in terms of slowing the spread. This included canceling large, crowded events and limiting travel. More stringent requirements on top of this appeared to produce no beneficial effect, and, if anything, had the opposite of the intended effect. This study, of course, is just the latest in a long line of similar studies calling into question the assumption—for it is only an assumption—that harsh lockdowns lower mortality. For example, back in May, researchers at The Lancet concluded that “hard lockdowns” don’t “protect old and frail” people, nor do they decrease mortality from covid-19. Later, a July study in The Lancet stated: “The authors identified a negative association between the number of days to any lockdown and the total reported cases per million, where a longer time prior to implementation of any lockdown was associated with a lower number of detected cases per million.” In an August 1 study, also published by The Lancet, the authors concluded, “Rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people.” A June study published in Advance by Stefan Homburg and Christof Kuhbandner found that the data “strongly suggests” that the UK lockdown was both superfluous (it did not prevent an otherwise explosive behavior of the spread of the coronavirus) and ineffective (it did not slow down the death growth rate visibly). In fact, the overall trend of infection and death appears to be remarkably similar across many jurisdictions regardless of what nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are implemented by policymakers. In a paper published with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), authors Andrew Atkeson, Karen Kopecky, and Tao Zha found that covid-19 deaths followed a similar pattern “virtually everywhere in the world” and that “[f]ailing to account for this familiar pattern risks overstating the importance of policy mandated NPIs for shaping the progression of this deadly pandemic.” Refusing to be daunted by these holes in the official narrative, lockdown advocates often insist that lockdowns must be tolerated because “it’s better to be safe than sorry.” But this is a highly questionable notion as well. Lockdowns and other forms of mandated isolation bring with them a host of health problems of their own. As Bendavid et al. note, restrictive NPIs: Includ[e] hunger, opioid-related overdoses, missed vaccinations, increase in non-COVID diseases from missed health services, domestic abuse, mental health and suicidality, as well as a host of economic consequences with health implications—it is increasingly recognized that their postulated benefits deserve careful study. Perhaps not surprisingly, data on excess mortality during the covid-19 pandemic suggests only two-thirds of excess mortality can be medically connected to covid-19. As explained in a study in JAMA: “Some people who never had the virus may have died because of disruptions caused by the pandemic,” says Dr. Steven H. Woolf, the director emeritus of the Virginia university’s Center on Society and Health and first author of the study. “These include people with acute emergencies, chronic diseases like diabetes that were not properly cared for, or emotional crises that led to overdoses or suicides.” Increases in dementia deaths were especially notable. And these effects can also be felt in the long term. As I showed in an April 30 article, unemployment kills. Economic crises, such as this one that was made worse by mandatory shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, leads to countless “years of life lost” through more suicide, heart disease, and drug overdoses. Moreover, given the nature of the shutdowns and who is affected, this has lopsidedly affected women and especially Hispanic women, who are heavily represented in the workforce behind the service industry businesses shut down by government-imposed business closures. The cumulative effect can be quite large. In a new study from Francesco Bianchi, Giada Bianchi, and Dongho Song from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the authors conclude that the economic fallout—in terms of unemployment and its effects—will lead to nearly nine hundred thousand deaths over the next fifteen years. Of course, not all of the economic pain that coincided with the covid-19 panic of 2020 can be blamed on forced shutdowns. Many people would have likely minimized contact with others voluntarily out of fear of the disease. This would have indeed caused economic distortions and greater unemployment in some sectors. But, as Bianchi, Bianchi, and Song admit, the lockdowns “contributed to further reduce economic activity” above and beyond normal voluntary reactions to covid-19. Combining these facts with what we know from the new Bendavid et al. study—namely that voluntary measures accomplished the bulk of mitigation—suggests the “further reduction” in economic activity produced no additional health benefits. That is, the portion of economic destruction wrought by forced shutdowns was inflicted upon the public for nothing. Prior to 2020, of course, this was common knowledge. In a 2006 paper in Biosecurity and Bioterrorism called “Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza” by Thomas V. Inglesby, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, Tara O’Toole, and D.A. Henderson, the authors conclude: The negative consequences of large-scale quarantine are so extreme (forced confinement of sick people with the well; complete restriction of movement of large populations; difficulty in getting critical supplies, medicines, and food to people inside the quarantine zone) that this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration. Yet, “public health” bureaucrats suddenly decided in 2020 that decades of research was to be thrown out the window and lockdowns were to be imposed on hundreds of millions of human beings. Mandatory Lockdowns vs. Voluntary Social Distancing It should be noted that none of these researchers questioning the lockdown narrative express any problem with voluntary measures to reduce exposure to disease. Few are even likely to oppose measures like avoiding mass indoor gatherings. But those sorts of measures are fundamentally different from mandated business closures and stay-at-home orders. The problem with mandatory lockdowns—in contrast to voluntary social distancing—is highlighted by the fact that they indiscriminately rob vulnerable populations of the services and assistance they need. And by “vulnerable populations” I mean anyone who is vulnerable to any life-threatening condition. Although we're being conditioned to believe that deaths from covid are the only deaths worth noticing, the fact is that the world includes people who are vulnerable to suicide, to drug overdoses, and to economic ruin—which comes with countless secondary effects in the form of health problems. By denying these people the freedom to seek an income and secure the social and medical support they need, we are essentially saying that those people are expendable and it's better to tilt the scales in favor of covid patients. But as the mounting evidence discussed above suggests, the lockdowns don't even produce the desired effects. So vulnerable people suffering from depression, untreated cancer, and other life-threatening conditions were forced to simply suffer unaided for no justifiable reason. This was done to fit a political narrative, but it was based on a batch of bad assumptions, half-baked science, and the arrogance of politicians. Reprinted with permission from Mises.org.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line46
__label__wiki	0.700725	0.700725	For Appointments Call (318) 212-3610 or Services & Treatments Mark C. Callanan, Jr., MD Specializing in Sports Medicine Surgery Click the play button to watch video profile Mark C. Callanan, Jr., MD is a board certified (American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery) orthopedic surgeon with fellowship training in sports medicine. In addition, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. He treats musculoskeletal conditions resulting from injury, overuse, and arthritis, specializing in arthroscopic and minimally-invasive surgical techniques, which reduce post-operative recovery time and allow for an earlier return to work and play. He is also trained in cartilage restoration procedures, and the use and application of biologics to aid in injury recovery. Dr. Callanan completed his undergraduate studies at Michigan State University with a degree in Human Biology. Following his undergraduate work, he spent 2 years completing his master’s degree at Boston University while actively working in the renowned Harris Orthopedics Biomechanics and Biomaterials Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital focusing on hip arthroplasty research. He further continued his education at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in Grand Rapids Michigan, where he was an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He went on to complete his residency in orthopedic surgery at the prestigious Harvard Combined Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program where he was selected to be chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital his final year of training. He then completed his formal education with a Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Fellowship at the Andrew’s Institute in Pensacola Florida where he trained under the renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews and his highly skilled partners. The fellowship provided him with an immersive experience in operative and non-operative treatment of musculoskeletal conditions in many professional and collegiate athletes. His team physician experience included coverage of Auburn University football and athletics, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos AA Baseball Team, as well as some of the local area high schools. Dr. Callanan has published numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is actively involved in several ongoing studies. He has authored a book chapter, presented his research at national and regional meetings, and has received awards related to his research and academic pursuits including the prestigious John Charnley Award. He currently resides in Shreveport with his wife and their two dogs. He enjoys powerlifting, physical fitness, fishing, hunting, and most outdoor activities. J. Scott Bicknell, MD Cambize Shahrdar, MD Milan Mody, MD John Ferrell, MD Edward Morgan, MD Jason Kinkartz, MD Diego Miranda, MD Henry Hilario, DPM Advanced Practitioners 7925 Youree Drive, Second Floor Located on the campus of WK Pierremont Health Center in the WK Portico Center. Click here to map our location using Google Maps. Copyright © 2023 The Orthopaedic Clinic. All rights reserved.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line51
__label__cc	0.740938	0.259062	About Alice I am an Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, & Decisions at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to arriving at The Wharton School, I completed my PhD in Social Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on judgment and decision making research, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research. I started my academic journey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I received my B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Mathematics, and worked at Stanford University as a research lab manager.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line57
__label__wiki	0.837094	0.837094	Media release: ThinJack employee reaches finals of prestigious awards AN employee of Aberdeenshire-based ThinJack has reached the finals of a prestigious industry award. Michael Smith has been named as a finalist in the Young Technician of the Year section of the 2010 Oil & Gas UK Awards which celebrate the people and businesses which make an exceptional contribution to the industry. The winners will be announced during a dinner at Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre on November 4th. Caithness-born Michael completed a three-year apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering at Dounreay and worked on the decommissioning of the nuclear power station for a further two years before moving to Invergordon as a rigger on the refurbishment of semi-submersible drilling rigs. Michael’s diverse career has also included time as a gamekeeper and a butcher. He joined ThinJack in the role of mechanical technician in December 2008. Westhill-based ThinJack has created an international track record for its revolutionary technology. ThinJack is a steel envelope which can be inflated with up to 2,500 bar of hydraulic pressure to exert hundreds of tonnes of force, making it an ideal separating and jacking solution in hazardous, difficult or restricted areas. The bespoke service is primarily used for the rig less separation of seized well flanges and is also used to remove concrete weight coat from pipelines. The company is headed by Guy Bromby and Alastair MacDonald and is based at Arnhall Business Park, Westhill. ThinJack employs five people and has recently completed service operations offshore Angola, the USA, The Netherlands and the UK North Sea. Commenting on reaching the finals of the 2010 Oil & Gas UK Awards, Michael said: “I am delighted to have been considered for the Award and excited at reaching the finals. “I’ve had lunch with the two other finalists, from BP and Shell, and we had some great discussions. “This is an adventure for me and reinforces my fascination with all parts of the oil and gas industry”. ThinJack director, Guy Bromby, added: “Michael has worked tirelessly during the last two years in both offshore operations and improving our systems, including calculating our system designs and installing them into a computer aided design software package. “His contribution significantly enhances the company’s efficiency and he is well respected by clients, colleagues and suppliers. “Reaching the final of the Young Technician of the Year Award is a well deserved achievement for a likeable and modest person who practices a range and depth of skills in his work.” For further information, visit www.thinjack.co.uk or call (01224) 330645. MEDIA RELEASE posted by Granite PR. You too can most media releases (aka press releases) on allmediascotland.com. For more information, email here. Contact: Lesley Eaton Email: lesleyeaton@granitepr.co.uk Website: http://www.granitepr.co.uk By brettabz · October 6, 2010 at 13:59 · Comments Off Granite PR · Energy · Scotland-wide	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line58
__label__wiki	0.858021	0.858021	Romancing the Stone (1984) dir. Robert Zemeckis Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny Devito “Romancing the Stone” is an important film for both Michael Douglas and Robert Zemeckis. Michael Douglas, whose greatest success as an actor was still the 1970’s cop TV show “The Streets of San Francisco”, had yet to break out as a leading man on the big screen. His rugged adventureman character Jack Colton won over hearts of female audiences and elevated him to the A-List. As for Mr. Zemeckis, it was his first big budget action film, and the film which would catapult him to an A-list director and ready him for his next outing, “Back to the Future”. Despite this pedigree it’s still just Indiana Jones-lite. A romance novelist finds the man of her dreams while on a quest to bring a lost treasure map to a nasty group of Columbian kidnappers. Mediocre adventure, mediocre comedy and a pretty decent romance are the ingredients of this fluffy Indiana Jones knock-off of the 80’s. Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is a romance novelist, who is first seen typing the last words of her latest novel and then weeping at the romantic finale she's created. While her characters are wistful ladies of love and adventure, her own life is uneventful and boring. She's single and lives alone in a small apartment in NY. But when she gets a call that her sister has been kidnapped in Columbia and the only way to save her life is to bring her captors a lost treasure map to the jungles of South America in exchange for her life, suddenly Wilder's in one of her own adventures. She's a fish out of water in Columbia and sticks out like a sore thumb. When her bus is ambushed by a nasty Columbian thug, Wilder is dramatically rescued by the handsome Jack Colton (Michael Douglas), an American wanderer with a machete and a shotgun. He's the type of man she's been writing about for years and now they're combing the jungles of South America for buried treasure. Along the way they get into a number of adventures with corrupt officials, Columbian drug lords and Danny Devito. For fans who want to see the seeds of a great director for he became big time, there’s little evidence of the ambitious Zemeckis would become famous for. His direction is unflashy, and instead lets the chemistry of his stars command the screen and move the film forward. If anything it's a hallmark of Zemeckis' gift with comedy and action, but with both in unimpressive doses. A crutch on the film is some surprisingly dated 80’s cringe-music from Alan Silvestri. Silvestri’s music sounds like a mix of Harold Faltermeyer synth with sickening saxophone solos. On the new Blu-Ray edition this music plays over the main menu screen, certainly a disincentive to click play and watch the film. The technical aside, "Romancing the Stone" was always meant to be a vehicle for its stars. And Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner make a great on screen romantic pairing. Turner, one of the 80’s screen goddesses, is a plain Jane in this film. She’s dressed down, wearing little make-up, yet her charming affability and sultry husky voice shines through. Sadly she didn’t have a long career as a leading lady, but in the 80’s there were few more desirable. Michael Douglas, who produced the film as well, found for himself the ideal vehicle to turn him into a leading man. His Jack Colton is manufactured with the exact same Indiana Jones-like charm, toughness and mystery. Colton is supposed to be part hero, part con man and Douglas has enough untrustworthiness to sell us both these qualities. A series of roles after “Stone” and it's sequel "Jewel of the Nile" would lead up to his Oscar win for “Wall Street” solidifying his place equal to his father in cine-history. "Romancing the Stone" and "Jewel of the Nile" aren't bad films, but they certainly hasn't added any lustre added to it since 1984/85. These films serves best as nostalgia-pieces of 80's romance and adventure in the time of Indiana Jones. Enjoy. "Romancing the Stone" and its sequel "Jewel of the Nile" are available on Blu-Ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Labels: 'Alan Bacchus Reviews , 1940's , Action , Comedy , Robert Zemeckis , Romance THE POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANY BOY-A Toronto After Dark Film Festival: MIRAGEMAN Toronto After Dark Film Festival - LET THE RIGHT O... MOTHER OF TEARS HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE RACHEL GETTING MARRIED INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL THE NEW CENTURIONS THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL TELL NO ONE FLASH OF GENIUS THE ANDERSON TAPES DRAGONWYCK	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line65
__label__wiki	0.627421	0.627421	Home / Bonk's Mullet / Transcript of Jason Spezza's Interview with the Team 1200 Transcript of Jason Spezza's Interview with the Team 1200 Unknown Wednesday, August 07, 2013 by Bonk's Mullet Jason Spezza sat down with the Team 1200 to discuss Alfie's departure, Bobby Ryan's arrival, being left off Team Canada, and his increased motivation coming into to next season. Here's the full audio of the interview, but I've provided a transcript below for the hard of hearing. My thoughts are in bold. I was lazy to transcribing the questions, so forgive me on that one. I also removed almost every "y'know, I think" and giggle from the interview. Team 1200: Were you as shocked as the average fan when you first learned that Daniel Alfredsson would not be coming back? Spezza's reaction to the Alfie news. Spezza: Alfie called me the day before free agency and we had a good talk. I was really surprised to hear he was going to move on. I respect his decision as a player and I think that he wants to have a chance to win and he wanted to go somewhere else and see what was out there. I really respected him calling me and explaining his reasoning and I wish him nothing but the best and there will be no ill will held towards Alfie. He's taught me a lot and he has done great things for our team and the community but we'll move on and I think we have a real good club too. Team 1200: Could you see a little bit of it coming? Spezza: No. To me, completely out of the blue. You'd have to talk to him at a later date probably to see if there was thought throughout the last year, but to me it was completely out of the blue. I knew he was going to come back and play because he had felt pretty good all year, but to me it was more of a decision that if he was going to come back and play, and he did, that it was inevitable it would be with us. But that's sport, and that's hockey, but we respect his decision. Team 1200: Do you think the fact that it was a unique year in free agency where teams could talk to guys in advance of free agency influenced Alfie's decision? Spezza: I have too much respect for Alfie to get into our conversation and his reasons, he'll map out why he made his decision over the course of time... Only Alfie knows why his decisions were made. I wouldn't feel comfortable talking what we talked about. I think the free agency period is good for guys, it's good for teams to be able to talk to guys, and it gives guys a few more days to think about things instead of making rash decisions. Didn't help Toronto. Spezza: But as for Alfie making his decision, he's the only one who should speak upon it. Team 1200: Alfie thinks Detroit has a better chance to win the cup. Is that extra motivation for the Ottawa Senators? Spezza: We feel like we have a really good team. I don't think I agree with the assessment that they're in a much better position than us to win. We've made some good acquisitions and his decision was made based on what he felt was best for him personally. Does Spezza think Alfie made the right decision? Spezza: We feel strongly about our group here and we've made some big strides. With all the injuries last year, guys have had a chance to step up and play in a bigger role than they would have normally last year. That coupled with us coming back healthy, that hopefully we can take the next step as a group. Every year is a new challenge and you really can't rest on a good season last year. Team 1200: What would it mean to you to be named captain of this team? Simulated reaction to being named Captain. Spezza: If you ask any player, you'd love to have the distinction of being captain of your club. I pride myself on being a leader in our room. We've always led as a group leadership core and I think it will continue that way. Whether it's me or someone else who's captain, I feel like I'm one of the leaders on our team who has to be good night in and night out, make sure things are running smoothly in the room, and take a lot of responsibility with how I'm playing too. If it does happen, I don't think there's much in the way that I handle myself that'll have to change and that maybe couldn't have been 5, 6 years ago. But we'll see what happens. We don't make those decisions, but it's definitely something I'd love to have the chance to do. We've always leaned on each other. Myself, Alfie, Philly, Chris Neil, giggles Erik. We've all been together for a long time, especially me, Philly, Alfie and Neiler. Not much will change in our room. We'll see where it goes, but you have to lead as a group within a dressing room. There's so many personalities and there's not one guy that can ever be the sole leader of the team. I think we have a great NUCULUS(!) and a great leadership group and you hear Mac refer to it all the time: when we have meetings, it's not 1 on 1, Mac and the captain, it's 5 or 6 of us that get together and bounce things around. Hear that Alfie? We didn't need you anyway. Team 1200: Bobby Ryan? (I promise they asked actual questions, but this seems easier) Spezza: He's a heck on an addition to our club. When I saw that, I was pretty excited. He'll bring a different element to our team that maybe we haven't had in a few years. To get a guy at his age in the prime of his age that I think maybe feels like he has a little more to give... I talked to him and he's really excited about coming. I think there's a lot of things that I could probably help him along with to make him a better player. If we get a chance to play together that would be great, if we don't there's still a lot of great things in his game that he can bring to our team. I'm excited, and I hope I get a chance to play with him, and he's a great acquisition. "If we don't play together." There's about as much chance of that happening as Spezza playing on a line with Kassian. Team 1200: Stanley Cup? Spezza: I don't think you ever want to get too far ahead of yourself in this league, but we have a team that I feel should make the playoffs this year and if you get into the playoffs and things are going well, then everybody has a chance. So you're saying there's a chance? Spezza: We're in a tough division right now, but I feel like we've got a great team. We made a lot of strides 2 years ago, and we made more strides last year. If we can keep building our foundation, we've got a chance to contend. You've got to get in the playoffs first, and that's no easy task. Team 1200: Injuries? Spezza: I feel great. The only impact it's had on my training is making me really motivated to make sure I'm coming to camp in great shape and excited to go. Awww cute. Spezza: I can't remember having the excitement I have coming towards the season like I have right now for a long time just because of the time I've missed. I'm feeling good. I've been able to train fully. I started skating probably 3-4 weeks earlier than I normally would. I've been skating 3-4 times a week. I missed so much time that I want to make sure I'm getting the proper reps in so it's no surprise to my body come training camp. It's been a fun summer for me. I haven't had to worry too much about the injuries. So yes, Spezza does even lift, bro. Spezza: With a back, you never really cast it aside and expect never to hear from it again. It's something that's going to be a career long thing where I make sure I'm doing the proper maintenance, but I feel good right now and I'm ready to go. Spezza's expect to have extra lingering back pain after the knife Alfie put through it. Team 1200: Team Canada? Spezza: They phoned me before they released the list. I was a little bit surprised, and as these are, you don't control how they pick these teams. After break up calls from Alfie and Team Canada, Spezza has probably developed a serious fear of picking up the phone. Spezza: Like I said, I was pretty motivated going into this season because I missed all last year, I would say this definitely added to it a little bit. "Ottawa....I am uhhh...ALSO coming in hot" - J. Spezza — WTYKY (@wtyky) August 7, 2013 Team 1200: Did the call ease the pain of being rejected? Spezza: I'm not really worried about it. If I have a great season with the Ottawa Senators and we win a lot of hockey games and I'm a big part of it, then if they feel like making room for me...then great, if not, I've played for Team Canada a lot, you can't control how they pick these teams. Spezza's an independent woman who don't need no national Olympic team. Spezza: My goal is to help our team and get better and be a leader on our club. I expect to have a real good season this year. I've pushed myself this summer. I missed the whole year last year and I feel like I have a lot to give. I was making big strides in my game, and I'm not going to led a development camp get in the way of my goals. My closing thoughts It sounds like Spezza is chomping at the bit to get back on the ice. After Spezza hung up, Steve Lloyd said what we were all thinking and said there's no chance this man isn't the captain of the Ottawa Senators next year. After years of criticism from fans for his rash decision making on the ice and goofy presence off of it, it's clear that Spezza has the maturity to be the next captain of this team. Expect to read sentences like the preceding one about 10,000 times before and after he's named captain of the team. ▼ August ( 9 ) Ottawa Senators Training Camp Preview All Hail Dear Leader Eugene Melnyk Sens Collectors: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Puck Daddy Summer Feature: Ottawa Senators, Nation... 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__label__wiki	0.598705	0.598705	Ben Sasse: The Insider Denier The Anti Media There is a new Republican rock star arising from the fields of Nebraska and his name is Ben Sasse. Unsurprisingly, however, this rising Republican star comes more from the halls of Ivy League universities and government than any corn field remotely near the state of Nebraska. Currently, Sasse is the Republican candidate seeking to gain the US Senate seat that was vacated by former Republican incumbent Mike Johanns. His opponents are Democrat David Domina and Tax Wall Street Party candidate Dan Buhrdorf. Considering the massive amounts of money and support from establishment Republicans and Neo-Con/Reactionary organizations, it is quite likely that Sasse will be able to pull out an easy victory in Nebraska, especially since money almost always equals success in American politics. However, there is much more to Ben Sasse than meets the eye, especially in terms of how he is portrayed by the mainstream media. Indeed, both his private as well as his government jobs should raise the eyebrows of any potential supporter. For instance, in the private sector, Sasse was formerly employed by McKinsey and Company, a global management consulting firm that once employed Chelsea Clinton. The firm serves as an adviser to both governments and private businesses and has produced more CEOs than any other company. Sasse was also employed with Boston Consulting Group, another global management firm, considered to be in the “Big Three” of such institutions. BCG alone advises 2/3 of the Fortune 500 hundred list. Readers may remember that BCG also once employed Mitt Romney. Indeed, it was during his tenure at BCG that Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly first met and developed a long lasting connection and friendship. Sasse later sailed into a position as President of Midland University in Nebraska in 2009, making him one of the youngest Presidents of any American university at the age of 37. It was during his tenure at the university that Sasse was responsible for hiring Jason Dannelly as Athletics Director, a man who went on to face charges for terroristic threats, pandering, and solicitation of prostitution when he threatened an 18 year old college student with physical violence if she refused to have sex with him. Dannelly also faced a separate but similar charge when he was accused of attempting to pay a 20 year old student $300 to have sex with him. Still, Sasse’s government jobs, however, seem to be a bit more interesting and tainted with controversy. It is thus not surprising that Sasse would tout himself as an “outsider” in government and Republican circle not only because that style of rhetoric tends to be popular amongst the Republican base, but also because any light shed on his inside work may very well create a controversy that sinks his political career. From 1996 to 1998, Sasse worked as a tutor and one of four proctors with the U.S. House of Representatives Page Program where his job entailed the responsibility for the safety and welfare of the pages who were enrolled. However, it was during this period that much of the sexual molestation of Congressional pages took place, with Represenatives Mark Foley and Jim Kolbe being implicated in the scandal. Foley resigned from his seat in 2006 while Kolbe, though cleared in the investigation, decided not to run again. Of course, there is ample evidence that the Congressional Page scandal is not merely the revelation of the depravity of a few perverted Representatives. Indeed, the Page scandal seems to simply be a window into the world of pedophilia that weaves in and out of the halls of government, banking, business, and other powerful institutions and secret societies. It is thus quite concerning that Sasse would find himself in the thick of not one but two sex and sexual molestation scandals in his relatively short career. Nevertheless, Sasse moved on to work for the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy, during the years 2003-2005. These were critical years for both the country as a whole and the DOJ as an office because it was during this time that the infamous “torture memos” were crafted by the DOJ and the Attorney General’s office. According to Wayne Madsen of the Wayne Madsen Report, Sasse was instrumental in coordinating the torture policy with none other than John Yoo, the Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel. Madsen writes “It is inconceivable that Sasse did not have direct input on the policy that concluded that detainees of the U.S. government, including U.S. citizens, could be subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques," or simply, torture.” Yet, as Deena Winter writes for Nebraska Watchdog, Sasse was not only involved in crafting torture policies but also in “intelligence sharing between the FBI and CIA.” Although little is actually known regarding Sasse’s exact duties in this regard, it appears that he was working as a liason between the two agencies, a quite sensitive and important role for someone who calls himself an outsider and desires to be seen as such. After leaving the DOJ, Sasse began his work at the Department of Homeland Security where he worked for a very short period of time. From 2007-2009, Sasse served as a “principal advisor” to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding policy development. Sasse was also a principal advisor to Secretary Michael Leavitt and Chief of Staff for Nebraska Representative Jeff Fortenberry. In more current news, however, it is important to point out the source of much of Sasse’s political contributions for his 2014 Senate campaign. A brief look at the Federal Election Commission’s website reveals that Sasse is the beneficiary of significant amounts of money from Club For Growth, a major donor to so-called “conservative” political campaigns that is also tied to Koch Industries (Koch Brothers) and anti-union, pro-austerity policies. Indeed, the CFG, coupled with the Senate Conservatives Fund, is responsible for the majority of Sasse’s campaign funds. In addition, Sasse has also received an endorsement of support from Freedomworks, the right-wing organization tied to reactionaries, Zionists, and warmongers. Predictably, Sasse has received large amounts of money from large corporate funding as well. Yet for all of his reactionary credentials Ben Sasse may share more in common with Barack Obama than with any Republican. The growing attention being showed to Sasse from the Republican establishment, the Tea Party, and even some “Liberty” quarters in addition to the fawning support given to him by Conservative and mainstream media outlets will only serve to boost Sasse’s meteoric rise to fame in a fashion that is reminiscent of Obama’s rise to power and prominence seemingly out of nowhere. Indeed, Sasse appears to be one of the few Consensus Candidates in the Republican field due to his ability to unite both Tea Party Republicans and Business Republicans. Sasse is also likely to pull the votes of many Libertarians and Conservatives who fall prey to clever talking points and crafty rhetoric. In addition to uniting the Republican base, however, Sasse is also able to shake certain negative aspects of the Republican party in the eyes of the general public. For instance, Sasse is careful to portray himself as “just another guy” and a blue collar worker straight out of the Nebraska corn fields as opposed to the Business Republicans who smell of wealth and privilege like Mitt Romney or the rigid corporate stench of Mitch McConnell. At the same time, however, Sasse is adept at painting himself as more of an intellectual and theoretician than Republicans such as Chris Christie who bask in thuggery and stubbornness. Sasse, a relatively young candidate like his counterpart Obama, is thus attempting to follow the same path that Obama blazed in his own journey to the White House – the relatively easy victory of a US Senate seat, followed by a few years of mediocre performance in the position and subsequently a Presidential run. Sasse is in place to follow the same blueprint, even as early as the 2016 Presidential elections. If Sasse is able to gain the US Senate seat, he will be able to follow the not so secret roadmap to a successful Presidential campaign based on zero experience – a short presence in the Senate, no controversy, and an early run. Like Obama, Sasse might give the occasional rhetorical speech regarding an issue over which his base is largely agreed upon while voting “present” on any issue that is remotely controversial. If Sasse can make it through the first year of his Congressional tenure without vastly angering voters, then he is likely to be able to launch a legitimate bid for the Presidency using the Obama model. Clearly, the Ben Sasse that is presented to the general public through the mainstream media as an average guy who is simply “one of the people” and a Washington outsider is far from the truth. It is also clear that very powerful people are attempting to boost Sasse to even more prominent positions. In addition, those positions he has already held are often the kind that often serve as very handy blackmail chips to be cashed in if a Presidential puppet ever wanders off script. It thus imperative that we investigate Sasse and do whatever we can to prevent the second coming of Obama – a young, charismatic, candidate who was groomed by the intelligence apparatus from the start – from gaining the office of the Presidency. Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 350 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. Labels: Ben Sasse, Brandon Turbeville, BrandonTurbeville.com, Dan Buhrdorf, Intelligence Agencies, Intelligence Liason, Nebraska, Pedophilia, Sex Scandal, Tax Wall Street Party, The Anti Media Truth on the Tracks with Brandon Turbeville - June... Brandon Turbeville on Before The First Cup - June ... Brandon Turbeville on Truth Traveler with Erin Dak... Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Decline Of The US And The... US Claims Syria Launches Airstrikes In Iraq ISIS In Iraq and The Path To Iran ISIS In Iraq To Be Used To Justify Invasion In Syria ISIS Terror Group Controlled By Saudi Royal Family The Clandestine Reasons for ISIS Taking Over Iraq Ground Zero Coalition Plans Street Action for 9/11... Truth on the Tracks with Brandon Turbeville June 9... 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__label__wiki	0.694976	0.694976	Bloody wimmin. IT'S that 0.27 per cent of the year when females are recognised as not being too mad, naggy, annoying or hormonal. An International Women's Day, just for little ol' us? Wow. Thanks. That blessed 24-hour period when it's all right to say 'Huzzah for girls!' and the men in charge of stuff say things like 'Afghanistan, yeah, dreadful isn't it? What shall we do?' before they go back to trading women's rights for a political deal with the Taliban. Let's get this straight. I am a woman, and I am amazing on more than just the one day a year. I am frequently an idiot as well, but usually not for too long, and in this country people like me form 52 per cent of the population. Elsewhere in the world the figures are different, not least because females are killed, abused, sidelined, abandoned, and generally treated in a rather offhand manner to such a large degree that 100million women who should have been born seem to have disappeared. Regardless of that, we are not a minority. We are not a pressure group, a campaign, a token or something anyone ought to be having a sit-in for. We are 49.76 per cent of the world's population and if all of us who were born had the same medical treatment and social chances we'd be a superpower. We'd be the gender equivalent of China. You don't like what we do? Well, Fuk Wu. That's not to say that taking a day every year to point out the iniquities of the world is a bad idea. It's the only way some of those issues are ever going to get in the papers or on the main news bulletins, so it's worth doing even if it is offensively tokenistic to your average European female who can hold a driving licence and own property without anyone's by-your-leave. But then there's the hypocrites who hand-wring over wimmin's stuff when it's March 8 and go back to screwing them over on March 9. Step forward, Prime Minister Dishface and Mini-Me Clegg. Today these two middle-aged numpties are going to announce plans for a law against stalking. They're not going to mention the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 which is supposed to do that already, but which is rarely exercised properly by the police or courts and is more often used to stop journalists asking questions of people who'd rather they didn't. And no-one's going to say that your average stalker is too deranged to give a tupenny-ha'penny for what the law says about anything. The politicians are certainly not going to admit that in recent months support for them among that 52 per cent of the population has dived off a cliff. Whether it's public sector job cuts, benefit reforms, the recession or pension changes, it's women who are losing the most, and the polls are showing that they have rather gone off Dishface and Cleggy as a result. So what they're also going to do today is announce that Britain is going to sign up to the Council of Europe's Convention on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. Yay for the girls, yay for the boys who like girls, please vote for us again next time. This convention is an interesting thing. Firstly it was produced in May last year, so we're a little slow in getting around to it. It's been signed by only eight member states so far which is pretty poor, and Germany says it won't apply to asylum seekers. And I'm not sure that Dishface and Cleggy have read it all the way through. There's plenty of pledges which are prime examples of hope triumphing over expectation - Article I promises to eliminate all violence against women for example. But it also says that signatories should devote financial resources to combating violence and ensure adequate rape crisis support and refuges for women. Article 20 says: "Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that victims have access to services facilitating their recovery from violence... services such as legal and psychological counselling, financial assistance, housing, education, training and assistance in finding employment.... access to health care and social services and that services are adequately resourced and professionals are trained to assist victims." Except Britain's women's refuges are turning people away and closing beds because of the cutbacks. Housing benefit is being cut, jobs are going part-time, JobCentres and training services are being reduced, and the NHS is being turned inside out. So we're flouting the convention before we've even signed it. Sod the women, let's buy off the bankers. The convention also promises to provide civil law remedies for women against their abusers. Only, oh yes, massive reforms of the Legal Aid system make that impossible unless you're rich. And for final proof that 'Calm down, dear' Dishface doesn't give a monkey's cuss what the convention says, we need look no further than Article 40 which says: "...any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment, is subject to criminal or other legal sanction." Except when you're in the House of Commons, when you can say whatever you like. Whoopsy! Although it says stuff the world should already be doing the convention really matters in many important ways, and if the men who sign it don't believe in it or act on it then they can still be held to account by it. So I'd just like to say - sign away, boys. Pat yourselves on the back, and forget about it all tomorrow. But don't for a moment think that those bloody wimmin have gone away. Man on left: "We need to do something for women." Man on right: "We've got pink flowers. What more do they want?" Labels: Dishface, ffs, international women's day, Nick Clegg Hark! The first cuckoo of spring. Women 1, world 0. D'oh! Priceless. Welcome to my world. Not dead yet. The truth hurts. Everything must go. She... Petition (n.): A respectful or humble request. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr...? Being good is bad for you. Deja friggin' vu. Fox'll fix it. Good news for some. A man worth listening to.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line78
__label__wiki	0.606619	0.606619	"4 Your Eyez Only" Album Review In my opinion, J. Cole is honestly one of the most relatable rappers in the game today. Throughout his career, he has shown he has delivery, wit and bars! His best body of work (in many people's mind) was "2014 Forest Hills Drive." This album went 2x platinum with no features. Knowing that, people began to wonder what his next album was going to sound like. Well, if you're expecting another "2014 Forest Hills Drive," you may want to think again. Cole is a storyteller who always has a song that seems to hit close to home for most of us. Although we may not have partaken (in the activities he speaks of), we usually know someone who has. Just from listening to "4 Your Eyez Only," it sounds like this entire album is a story about a man's life and the important decisions he is forced to make. The delivery of the album, in typical J. Cole fashion, was in the form of a great story. Some people tend to forget about Cole's storytelling abilities and that's exactly why I felt "4 Your Eyez Only" is great. It catches you the same way a way a movie could. Even though songs like False Prophets are not on the album (like we thought it would be), the album is still a great listen and I recommend it to everyone. I am a huge J. Cole fan and I would say if you listen to this album with an open ear, you will love it just as much as I do. Stay up-to-date on our featured geniuses, columns, and shop items! Markus Saint-Jean Doing my best to find new, underground songs to open your ears and art to open your eyes.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line80
__label__cc	0.651402	0.348598	Two Jane Cromwells Almost every day I look at the traffic sources for my blog. I can see what search words were used to find my site. One name which keeps cropping up is Jane Cromwell Pickering. I had written a blog post about Giles Cromwell of Newbury, Massachusetts in which I talk about his background and why he is not Giles Cromwell son of Sir Oliver Cromwell. This gross error is to be found everywhere on the internet, and especially on Ancestry.com. Although Jane is not in my family tree, and since I had so much trouble with the family, I decided to check her out. What I found was the same nonsense written about my Cromwells. And not to beleaguer the point, if you would just do a little independent research, instead of taking everything as gospel, you would reach these same conclusions. So here are two Jane Cromwells. Horatio Pallavicini Jane Cromwell, daughter of Sir Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bromley, married in All Saints Huntingdon, on April 24th, 1606 Toby Pallavicini, the same day her sister Catherine married Henry Pallavicini. Jane was 11 years old and her husband was not quite 13. In effect, two very young sisters married two equally young brothers. The brothers were the sons of the girls' step mother, Anna Hooftman Pallavicini Cromwell. Sir Toby became fantastically wealthy when he inherited both his father's and his brother's estates, but squandered his money and ended up in the Fleet prison for debtors in 1637. His wife Jane died 23 March 1637, at the age of 42 and is buried in the church of St. Martin, Chipping Ongar, Essex, England. Her son Horatio Pallavicini, Esq. is also buried in this church. I am willing to state that Jane Cromwell Pallavicini never set foot in Newbury, Massachusetts and never lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Period! My second Jane of this blog is Jane Cromwell Pickering, her name seems to be frequently googled. Jane was the daughter of Thomas and Anne Cromwell of Wiltshire, England. The family lived in Malmesbury in the northwest corner of the county of Wiltshire. This family is not connected in any way with the Cromwell's of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, this includes the family of Oliver Cromwell the Protector and his uncle Sir Oliver Cromwell. Thomas' parents were John and Edith Cromwell. He was a Burgess in the town. John died in 1639, dividing his estate between his wife and sons, Thomas, Richard and Phillip who was "out" of the country. He left money to Phillip's son John, in the care of his grandmother Edith. Phillip seems to have abandoned his family and he was admonished in the Colony for not living with his wife. Thomas and his family emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1652, they brought with them Phillip's son John. Thomas was a tailor by trade and he set up shop in Salem. His brother Phillip was a butcher. By 1652, Oliver Cromwell, the Protector was in complete control of England. This was a period of reverse migration of staunch puritans from Massachusetts back to England. Those who continued to emigrate to the Colony probably did so for economic reasons. Market Cross, Malmesbury, England Jane, born about 1649, was baptized on 4 July, she was only about 3 years old when her family sailed for America. She married Jonathan Pickering on March 19, 1663 in Salem. Her father Thomas died in March of 1686. Her mother Edith lived with Jane and her husband. Jane became a full member of the Salem church in August of 1694. Jonathan her husband died in 1729. There is one website in particular that seems to promote the idea that all Cromwell's in America must be related to Sir Oliver, and I won't name them but I will tell you what they said when I asked why, despite obvious evidence to the contrary, do they continue with these assertions. Their answer was "because it gets people to my site and it's good for business". How's that for dedicated genealogy! George Ruggle, Ignoramus: Comoedia St. Martins Church, Chipping Ongar website William Harvey, The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563, Vol 2 The Builder, The Church of Chipping Ongar, July to Dec 1904, page 146 Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol 39, page 368 The Pickering Genealogy, Vol 1 Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol 13, page 398 Labels: Myths sandmason said... I found some fake Cromwells last night, that's how I found your blog. Mine is in my Schenck/Wycoff Dutch line, a Margaret Cromwell b 1638 married a John Obediah Winter b. 1636 in New Jersey, probably from Plymouth. Their parents are bogus and after that it gets worse. So for now I just delete the parents and do my own research, if I ever get around to it again. Three generations later a Mary Winter married a Schenck, probably the only English person in the entire line of Dutch. They really stuck together! Who IS the father of Captain John Cromwell 1579-1639, father of Thomas Cromwell, father of Jane Cromwell Pickering? Lyndsey My research suggests that Captain John was Jane's grandfather (married Edith Alice Haire). Jane's great-grandfather was Henry "the Golden Knight" Williams Cromwell 1520-1603, who also I'm finding, is Oliver Cromwell's grandfather through Robert Williams Cromwell of Huntingdon 1562-1617. So, if I'm connecting the dots correctly, Oliver is Jane's second cousin, once removed. Jane Cromwell Pickering is my 9th great grandmother. John, what source have you used to determine that "Jane's great-grandfather was Henry "the Golden Knight" Williams Cromwell 1520-1603"..? I have searched and searched, but I can find nothing to corroborate it. Please let me know as this particular connection is turning me in circles. Thx. Reuben Whittier and Mary Flanders of Salisbury, Ma... Nathaniel Whittier and Mary Stevens Osgood John Stevens of Salisbury and John Stevens of Andover Thomas Whittier Whiteparish, England to Haverhill,... Joseph Flanders of Salisbury, Massachusetts Stephen Flanders, Jr. and Abigail Carter of Salisb... Stephen and Jane Flanders of Salisbury, Massachusetts	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line85
__label__wiki	0.971699	0.971699	Afghan Taliban publish Mullah Omar biography The Afghan Taliban have published a surprise biography of the reclusive Mullah Mohammed Omar, to mark his 19th year as their supreme leader. The 5,000-word biography on their main website clarifies disputed facts about his birth and upbringing. It lists his favourite weapon - the RPG 7 - and says he leads a simple life and has a "special" sense of humour. It says Mullah Omar, whose whereabouts are unknown, "remains in touch" with day-to-day Afghan and world events. The US state department has a $10m bounty on Mullah Omar, who has not been seen since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. It was Mullah Omar's backing for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden that sparked the campaign. 'Factional fighting' It is unclear why the Taliban have chosen the 19th anniversary of his supreme leadership to publish the biography but some analysts say it may be an attempt to counter the growing influence of Islamic State in Afghanistan. Commentators and Taliban watchers have been unable to agree on many facts about Mullah Omar, including his birth and heritage. The biography says he was born in 1960 in the village of Chah-i-Himmat, in the Khakrez district of Kandahar province, in the south of the country. It refers to the supreme leader as Mullah Mohammad Umar "Mujahid" and says he is from the Tomzi clan of the Hotak tribe. It says his father was Moulavi Ghulam Nabi, a "respected erudite and social figure" who died five years after Mohammed Omar's birth. The family moved to Uruzgan province. The biography says Mullah Omar abandoned his studies in a madrassa school after the Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan and became a jihadist "to discharge his religious obligation". It lists his military feats fighting the Russians between 1983 and 1991, saying he was wounded four times and lost his right eye. In 1994 Mullah Omar took over leading the Islamic mujahideen to tackle the "factional fighting" among warlords that followed the collapse of the communist regime in 1992. Then in 1996 he was conferred the title "ameer-ul-momineen" (head of the pious believers), the biography says, becoming supreme leader. After taking Kabul and establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the biography tells of the "arrogant infidel powers of the world" who "could not tolerate Sharia law" and launched a joint military invasion. In a section on his "charismatic personality", the biography says Mullah Omar is tranquil and does not lose either temper or courage does not own a home and has no foreign bank account is affable, has a special sense of humour and never considers himself superior to his colleagues In a section entitled "His daily activities in the present circumstances", the biography says: "In the present crucial conditions and regularly being tracked by the enemy, no major change and disruption has been observed in the routine works of [Mullah Omar]". It says he "keenly follows and inspects the jihadi activities against the brutal infidel foreign invaders" adding: "He remains in touch with the day-to-day happenings of his country as well as the outside world." Some analysts believe Mullah Omar may be operating along or across the border in Pakistan.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line86
__label__cc	0.64766	0.35234	The Steinbrenners spent nearly half a billion dollars this past offseason to secure three big-name free agents for the first era of the new Yankee Stadium. I feel like I say this every year, but there's no doubt in my mind that this is the best team the Yankees have opened up with in at least five years. For the first time since the late '90s, pitching, not hitting, is the best asset of the team. Here's my outlook on the Yankees' 2009 season. Starting rotation: The Yankees have geared up their starting staff for 2009 and are looking to do some damage. Featuring two huge offseason additions in CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, the Yankees' rotation is unmatched amongst the rest of the majors. Retaining Andy Pettitte worked out beautifully, and he will be a steady No. 4 starter. Chien-Ming Wang's bizarre injury last season was just a blip on a blossoming career. I expect nothing short of 18 wins and groundballs galore from him. Plus, people don't talk about how his strikeout numbers were increasing before he got hurt. His breaking pitch has developed into a strikeout pitch, and is a very nice addition to his tumbling sinker. Last but not least, the emergence of Joba Chamberlain over the past two seasons is something the Yankees have been searching for for a very long time. There is nothing better than a homegrown starting pitcher. I mean that. Bullpen: The Yankees' bullpen was a major concern a few years ago. Now, the team has an overflow of arms and young talent. Mariano Rivera still has a couple seasons left in the tank, and will continue to be the leader of the pen for as long as he wants. Although the Yanks don't have a pure setup man, I believe having a lefty and a righty pitcher splitting the job is actually better than just one guy. Not only does it allow for better matchups, but it also gives the pen more depth. Brian Bruney's put up better numbers in pinstripes than Damaso Marte has, but Marte's stuff is plain nasty. The rest of the pen is made up of hard-throwing strikeout pitchers: Jonathan Albaladejo, Jose Veras, Edwar Ramirez and Phil Coke. This spring, the four combined for 43 2/3 innings. They only gave up six runs and struck out 45 batters. Hitting for average: In the last four seasons, the Yankees' team batting average has been ranked in the top four of the American League each year. Last season, Johnny Damon lead the team in batting with a respectable .303 average. More importantly, the Yankees had four other everyday players batting above .294. With Jorge Posada healthy and Robinson Cano in shape, I expect four to six Yankees to bat at least .290 in 2009. Weaknesses: Run producing: Going into last season, experts were projecting the Yankees to total 1,000 runs. They ended up with 789. The sad thing is, the Yankees could have reached the 1,000 plateau if they had came through in the clutch a little more. The Yanks batted just .261 with runners in scoring position last year. If you listened to John Sterling's radio broadcasts last year for the games, you already know how many times the Yankees failed to score a runner from third with less than two outs. The Yankees need to play small ball in tight games, and play unselfish baseball. The addition of Mark Teixeira should help the team in this category, but unfortunately he is known for his slow starts. Besides Brett Gardner, the Yankees have hardly any speed in their lineup. Players that were once speedsters are now getting older and older. I can't count on Damon and Derek Jeter for 20 steals any more. Hideki Matsui, Cano, Posada, Xavier Nady and Cody Ransom combined for three stolen bases last season. Gardner has a chance at 50 steals this season, but he needs to get on base in order to utilize his weapon. Overall, the Yankees' defense is not bad, it is just sub-par. Jeter has a tough time ranging for balls up the middle, and Damon's arm is one of the worst in all of baseball. And don't count on Posada to hold runners on very well this season coming off shoulder surgery. The only bright spots are Gardner's coverage in center, and the newly added glove of Teixeira's at first base. Tex can also turn the 3-6-1 double play, unlike Giambi. Red Sox: The Red Sox added a plethora of veteran free agents this offseason, including: Rocco Baldelli, Brad Wilkerson, Brad Penny, John Smoltz and Takashi Saito. However, Baldelli and Wilkerson are both backups, and Penny and Smoltz are at the back end of the rotation - if at all. The Red Sox still have a good team because they have brought back all of their key players. The Yankees barely have the edge in the rotation and bullpen, but the Red Sox probably have the better lineup (at least until A-Rod gets back). It will be a tight battle all the way through. But in the end, the Yankees' pitching depth will win them the race. Rays: The defending AL champs are not as strong as they were last season. Firstly, they will not be taken for granted by any team. Last season, those players came together and looked like they were going to win it all. But when they got to the World Series, their bats were silenced by good pitching. The Rays' rotation is not as good as it was last season, and their lineup is essentially the same. The only major move they made was replacing Cliff Floyd with Pat Burrell. Bottom line, the Yankees and Red Sox carry too much pitching to be slowed down by the Rays. My only worry is Evan Longoria. He is the real deal, and is an MVP candidate already in my books. Final prediction: The Yankees will have a good start for once, as the players will thrive in the new stadium. Sabathia will lead them past both AL East rivals, and back into the World Series. If they can avoid the Dodgers in the World Series, they should be in good shape. Labels: 2009, Season Outlook Gee I'm ready to buy my World Series tickets! Here's how I see the two major uncertainties (1) The New Guard - will Sabathia, Burnett, Texeira play up to their potential or will they wilt under the NY spotlight, and (2) The Old Guard - How much do Rivera, Posada, Pettitte, Jeter have left in the tank? And I might as well throw in another one - A-Rod. All in all, I can't wait till Monday! Lenny Neslin said... I can't wait until tonight! Lou Pinella and the Cubs. YES Network 7 p.m.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0037.json.gz/line88

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