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Exception:    ArrowInvalid
Message:      JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 172
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
                  df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
                  return json_reader.read()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
                  obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
                  obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
                  self._parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
                  ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
              ValueError: Trailing data
              
              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 1997, 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 156, in _generate_tables
                  raise e
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, 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 172
              
              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 1029, in download_and_prepare
                  self._download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, 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 1884, 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 2040, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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__label__wiki	0.652907	0.652907	AHS Debaters are IDeA Grand Champions for 2013-2014; Six of Ten Best Speakers are Ateneans AHS Debaters; Photos by Renz Reyes The IDeA Grand Championship is back home. Last 29 March 2014, the Ateneo Debaters won the Interscholastic Debaters Association Grand Championship (IDeA Grands), which was hosted at St. Paul’s College, Pasig. IDeA Grands is the culminating activity of the largest regional conglomeration of high school debate teams in the country, comprised of over twenty high schools in Metro Manila. In order to qualify for IDeA Grands, which only has slots for 16 teams, point totals are accumulated from three invitational tournaments (IDeA 1,2, and 3). Ateneo de Manila High School performed stellarly all school year, with teams A,B, D, and C being ranked as 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th best teams after three invitational tournaments. The maximum number of teams that can qualify from one school is four. The sixteen teams then proceed to a series of knockout rounds until an overall champion is determined for the year. Team AHS A, comprised of Miguel Ventura (4A) and Isaac Lee (4D) won the Grand Final against Immaculate Conception Academy (ICA) on a narrow 4-3 split. They opposed the motion, “That accelerated capitalism is the best way to fight global inequality.” Team AHS D, comprised of Poch Kalagayan and Miguel Guerrero, both from 3A, reached the finals as well, and won a trophy for winning second runner-up. Martin Abis (4B) and Rafa Lapira (3A), and Tres Yap (3B) and Adrian Padilla (3J) debated the Quarterfinal round. Ventura and Lee have made history by putting Ateneo in the solo lead for high school with most IDeA Grand championships. AHS has won IDeA Grands six times (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014). ICA comes in second with five IDeA Grand Championships. Ventura and Lee have also effectively become the only high school students in IDeA’s entire history to win the three types of IDeA tournaments together. They won IDeA Lite (a tournament for neophytes and newcomers) in July 2011, a regular IDeA Invitational (IDeA 2) in December 2012, and now IDeA Grands in March 2014. Individual debaters have also performed remarkably well throughout the year. Among the ten best speakers of the year named, six were from the AHS. Adrian Padilla was ranked 4th, Jim Bulan (4N) as 5th, Rafa Lapira and Martin Abis tied as 6th, while Poch Kalagayan and Miguel Ventura tied as 10th. This also sets a new record for highest number of individuals in the Ten Best Speakers of the Year coming from one high school. Ateneo Debaters Show Solid Performance At LSGH Invitational (IDeA 3) Last 22-23 March 2014, the Ateneo Debaters competed at IDeA 3, hosted by La Salle Greenhills. This was the third and final regular IDeA Invitational of the year. Team AHS A, comprised of Miguel Ventura and Jim Bulan reached the Grand Final and was named runner up to Immaculate Conception Academy. Ventura and Bulan opposed the motion, “That former colonial masters should be obliged to let citizens from former colonies to migrate to their country,” (paraphrased). AHS B, consisting of Isaac Lee and Martin Abis reached the Semifinals, while AHS C and D, comprised of Juniors Rafa Lapira and Adrian Padilla, and Poch Kalagayan and Miguel Guerrero, all reached the quarterfinals of the tournament. Bulan and Padilla tied as the 2nd Best Speakers of the tournament, Abis and Ventura tied as 4th, while Kalagayan and Guerrero tied as 7th Best Speakers. Both Lee and Lapira missed the Top Ten list by 1 point only. The team is coached by Mahar Abrera Mangahas, Henry Fernando, Nick Fortuna, and Daryl Isla. The moderator is Mrs. Fe U. De Jesus of the English Department. The team would like to thank the entire Ateneo High School Community for its support and prayers throughout the year. The Ateneo Debaters have begun their summer training in preparation for the upcoming school year.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line1
__label__cc	0.575791	0.424209	Home » History Slam • Podcast History Slam Episode 155: Cataloguing Culture July 30, 2020 July 30, 2020 No Comments on History Slam Episode 155: Cataloguing Culture http://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/History-Slam-155.mp3 By Sean Graham The Smithsonian Institute bills itself as “the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex.” In an average year, 22 million people visit the 19 Smithsonian museums, galleries, and gardens. The portfolio even includes the National Zoo. These sites can make for great days exploring the history of the United States, but it’s likely that not many visitors ask about how the Institute collects artifacts. And even fewer think about how the information is cataloged and whether that influences the way in which exhibits are presented. Fortunately, there is Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation, a new book by Hannah Turner that explores how categories were used in sorting material culture and the way in which the Smithsonian’s process came to be the standard in national collecting organizations. In doing so, the Institution imposed a colonial structure of classifying, organizing, and naming the millions of artifacts from Indigenous peoples in its collection. As a result, incorrect classifications and terminology made its way into its database and, because of the Institution’s status, that colonial process was replicated in other influential museums. In this episode of the History Slam, I talk with Professor Turner about the book. We discuss the Smithsonian’s collection process, its relationships with the communities from which it took objects, and how its database was built. We also chat about the importance of terminology, the repatriation of objects from the collection, and how museum guests benefit from learning about the museum’s history. Sean Graham is a historian with Parks Canada, an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University, and a contributing editor with Activehistory.ca History Slam, Podcast Cataloguing Culture, colonialism, Data, database, Indigenous material culture, material culture, museums, Smithsonian Institute ← Race Relations, Psychological Testing, and Resistance to Change: The Toronto Police, 1970s-1980s Remember/Resist/Redraw #24: 30 Years Since the Siege of Kanehsatà:ke →	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line4
__label__wiki	0.652356	0.652356	Reverence for Garbage Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 “My life would be worthless without music,” the girl said. And the music came, up from the garbage, through her hands and heart and out to the world. My god, she was playing a violin made out of an old can. A boy was playing a cello crafted with more love and ingenuity than I can imagine, from a used oil drum, old wool and tossed-out beef-tenderizing tools. The brief YouTube video, precursor to a documentary film to be released in January, is called “Landfill Harmonic”; it’s about a children’s orchestra in a Paraguayan village — a slum — called Cateura, which is built on a landfill. Reclaiming and reselling the trash that arrives every day is the residents’ means of survival. Real violins are not to be found in such a place; they’re worth more than a family’s home. “There was no money for real instruments when local musician Favio Chavez started his music school in the barrio,” according to the movie’s website, “so together they started to make instruments from trash — violins and cellos from oil drums, flutes from water pipes and spoons, guitars from packing crates.” Garbage: 1. worthless, useless, or unwanted matter. When I looked at this brief film, I saw the future flicker. The shift in awareness that will let us live sustainably on this planet is not simply a technological fix or some bitter accommodation to austerity. It’s something far more profound and joyous than that: a realization that there’s no such thing as garbage. Some of the planet’s largest obscenities are its dumps and landfills and burn pits. Instead of honoring the gifts of the Earth, we turn them into litter and poison. “The word ‘garbage’ means a resource nobody is smart enough to use yet,” John Michael Greer wrote. Consider the enormity of our unawareness: “The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic,” according to Jacob Silverman at HowStuffWorks.com. “In some areas, the amount of plastic outweighs the amount of plankton by a ratio of six to one. Of the more than 200 billion pounds of plastic the world produces each year, about 10 percent ends up in the ocean.” So we’re killing the ocean with plastic, which doesn’t break down into simpler compounds — i.e., biodegrade — but does break down into infinitesimally small particles of itself, called nurdles (or mermaid tears), which are eaten or absorbed by marine animals. “Over time,” Silverman writes, “even chemicals or poisons that are widely diffused in water can become highly concentrated as they’re mopped up by nurdles. These poison-filled masses threaten the entire food chain, especially when eaten by filter feeders that are then consumed by large creatures.” We’re spreading toxicity around the planet and into the atmosphere not simply by overconsumption, greed and carelessness but also by a fundamental failure to value all of life. Only humans create garbage. This is because only humans divide the world into value and waste, fragmenting the global whole and turning it against itself. We, or at least some of us, not only turn a portion of our natural resources into garbage but consign part of the human race to the same category. And we’re always at war. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Impoverished Paraguayans can pull beautiful music from a landfill. Could there be a better metaphor for what’s possible as we walk the edge of self-created extinction? Watching their brief video suddenly reminded me of Detroit’s Heidelberg Project — two blocks of found-object art on the embattled, bankrupt city’s East Side. This is my hometown, so I hold the project in special awe. The Heidelberg Project is the vision of Tyree Guyton, a native Detroit artist who loved the city even as he watched horrific decay begin consuming it following the 1967 riots. In 1986, he took his stand against this process and started turning the street he lived on — abandoned houses and all — into a work of art. He turned street trash into art and art into hope. “Now in its 27th year, the Heidelberg Project is recognized around the world as a demonstration of the power of creativity to transform lives,” according to the project’s website. “The Heidelberg Project offers a forum for ideas, a seed of hope, and a bright vision for the future. It’s about taking a stand to save forgotten neighborhoods. It’s about helping people think outside the box and it’s about offering solutions. It’s about healing communities through art — and it’s working!” And art is no more than creativity and human spirit. “Sustainability requires a level of creativity and attention to which we’re unaccustomed,” says myth scholar Catherine Svehla. How much attention, for instance, do we pay to cigarette butts? Several trillion of them are tossed away every year, accounting for an enormous percentage of humanity’s annual trash output. A company called TerraCycle, in Trenton, N.J., with the aid of a worldwide cigarette butt collection program, recycles them, melting down the cellulose acetate of the filters and turning them into various products — from industrial pallets to ashtrays. “I want to solve every kind of garbage that exists,” said TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. “My real goal would be that there is no such thing as garbage. Garbage doesn’t exist in nature.” Finding music in a landfill, repurposing cigarette butts, reclaiming a decaying city — these are journeys of salvation. The Heidelberg Project describes itself as “symbolic of how many communities in Detroit have become discarded.” How many people and how many communities are we in the process of discarding? And what is the relationship between discarding the bounty of this planet and discarding, via fear, racism, exploitation and indifference, one another? Let’s learn to make music instead. Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. His new book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound (Xenos Press) is now available. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com, visit his website at commonwonders.com or listen to him at Voices of Peace radio. © 2013 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, INC.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line9
__label__wiki	0.572373	0.572373	-- Web services -- Collections & Datasets The Erosion of Collections-Based Science: Alarming Trend or Coincidence? The post below originally appeared on The Plant Press, October 28, 2014 and is gratefully reproduced here with permission from Vicki Funk and Gary Krupnick. From Plant Press, Vol. 17, No. 4, October 2014. A Curator’s Perspective By Vicki A. Funk* Update: Editor’s Note – The phrase ‘A Curator’s Perspective’ was intended to convey that the opinions expressed below do not represent those of the National Museum of Natural History or the Smithsonian Institution A good model to follow: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, which has recently renovated its herbarium, has imaged about 8 million specimens. All of their herbarium specimens are now stored in new compactors, organized by the phylogenetic system. Over the last few years many visitors have passed through the doors of the U.S. National Herbarium (Herbarium Code: US) bringing depressing news about some of our fellow botanical institutions and research centers. Institutions, which house historic and otherwise important botanical specimens, have been closed. The scientists who study, preserve, and curate them, have been fired, downsized, forced into retirement, or had their focus directed away from taxonomy and systematics. When reasons are given they usually involve budget shortfalls; unfortunately, collections and research are easy targets. But when I mentioned this to one former museum director who was visiting, his reply was, “When I was a director and had a budget shortfall I went out and raised more money, I did not fire my staff!” Is this a trend or a coincidence? Perhaps a more detailed examination of events will provide an answer and so we begin with the Milwaukee Public Museum and continue up to the ongoing recent troubles at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In 2005 Milwaukee Public Museum (MIL; established in 1882; 250,000 specimens) eliminated science and fired most of its staff. If you check the museum’s website it seems they no longer have much of a science presence, just a few collections managers, emeritus curators and adjunct curators who have jobs elsewhere. At the time, most of us thought this was a unique event. How could an institution with 4.5 million objects and specimens, spread over a broad array of departments go out of the research business? How did they think they would keep their collections, exhibits and education programs up to date? But in the nearly 10 years since that event, additional examples of this type of nearsighted administrative behavior has become more frequent as research program after research program has taken the brunt of budget shortfalls; we have become increasingly more alarmed. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTG; established in 1936; 165,000 specimens). Fairchild has long been active in systematic research. The board and administration decided to move to a different model where they would no longer pay the salaries of research staff but rather have Florida International University faculty work out of Fairchild. They currently have only one research scientist working there. Over a period from 2007 to 2009, the emphasis for research seems to have shifted from tropical systematics to ecology and conservation. In fact, you cannot even find the herbarium on the Fairchild website. If you search for it on Google all you can find is the FTG Virtual Herbarium which contains only about half the collections. New York State Museum, Albany (NYS; established in 1836; 279,000 specimens). Most of the research staff was let go a few years ago, including all of the botanists. According to the staff directory, there are four curators, all zoologists, one of which appears to be a state employee. They do have collection managers listed for most collections, including botany, but the herbarium does not appear to have an active research program. Brooklyn Botanical Garden (BKL; established in 1910; 300,000 specimens). In August 2013, Brooklyn Botanic Garden suspended its research program and shuttered its herbarium. All members of the Garden’s Science Department were laid off, except for one herbarium assistant who was transferred elsewhere and a part-time plant mounter. The Science Department’s director was on sabbatical at NSF and she has since left the Garden for a position elsewhere. The Director of Living Collections was made the Director of Collections with the additional responsibility of managing the herbarium. The staff laid off had 60 years of combined experience with BKL. Currently no scientific research is being conducted at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The herbarium, once widely used by scientists especially those doing research in New York City and Long Island, remains essentially inaccessible to the public. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) (INB; established in 1989; 183,000 specimens). In 2011 INBIO announced that it was going out of the collections and research business. The herbarium was rapidly moved into another building because the building built specifically for the herbarium, had been sold. Recently, the entire staff was let go. This important collection is completely databased and available on line and together with the herbarium at the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR; 215,000 specimens) they make Costa Rica the best botanically documented country between Mexico City and Bogota. Fortunately, the Museo has agreed to take charge of the herbarium; although, currently, they do not have the space to incorporate the specimens. So far, there is no guarantee that there will be jobs for the staff. Hopefully, there will be a new building constructed so that both collections can be combined and additional trained staff will be hired to manage it. Field Museum of Natural History (F; established in 1893; 2,700,000 specimens). Staffing for research and collections at the Field Museum had been on the decline for years. Beginning in 2009, between buyouts and staff leaving for other jobs, science staffing took a steep turn downward. Currently, there are only two curators in Botany and three support staff to study and manage the enormous resource. Fortunately there are three emeriti that continue to work. There are no science departments, just one “Action Science Center.” The collections are well maintained because of the dedication of collections staff but there is no real growth. However, the emphasis seems to be on marketable skills and plant taxonomy does not seem to be on the list. There is no announced plan to hire additional staff. California Academy of Sciences (CAS; established in 1853; 2,000,000 specimens). Recently the administration of CAS has decided to shift the focus of the museum. Established scientists were pressured into retiring, new people will be hired but they will have a significant focus on outreach using social media. Oddly this comes after the construction of a new building to house the collections. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K; established in 1759; became a government institution in 1841; 7,000,000 specimens with well over 350,000 types). For months rumors have been in circulation about the drastic changes that are taking place at Kew. Finally enough people have visited and others have passed through US, that we are getting a better picture of what is happening. Kew, long a premier botanical institution for research and collections, is under serious attack. Reports indicate that the Herbarium, Jodrell Laboratory, and Millennium Seed Bank are to undergo drastic administrative changes and a significant reduction in science staff. The major structural change is that these three administrative units will be replaced by six focal areas: Collections, Identification and Naming, Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology, Conservation, Natural Capital, and Biodiversity Informatics. Nine people have been appointed to guaranteed new positions. Everyone else is being forced to apply for open new positions that are made available. When this crisis at Kew started 25 people decided to retire and those positions were lost altogether. That left 200 staff members in the three units. The scientific staff is scheduled to be reduced from 200 to 176 which makes it seem as if only 24 positions will be lost. However this number is misleading—the 176 positions include 12 new positions in Biodiversity Informatics, at least some of which may need to be hired from outside Kew, which would further reduce the number of current Kew staff to be retained. Also, the new positions include 27 ‘Career Development Fellows,’ which are fixed non-renewable term (3-5 years) appointments designed to develop researchers from current Kew staff. These staff members are then apparently expected to seek research positions at Kew, attract independent funding, or simply become redundant and have to leave Kew. Except for the heads of the new focal areas and a limited number of new slots that are very close to existing ones, everyone else will have to apply for one or more of the positions that have been created in the new structure. Any new positions that are not filled by current Kew staff will be opened to a wider pool of applicants. It appears then that at a minimum, 24 current Kew staff members in science will lose their jobs by December 1 but reason suggests that the number could be significantly higher. Taking all of this into account, the total loss of permanent jobs in science at Kew will probably be at least 50 or 25 percent of the current permanent science positions. However, if you include the 25 that took retirement the loss of science positions would be 34 percent. Equally disturbing is the division of the remaining herbarium staff into three areas: Americas, Africa, and Asia. Systematic groups such as the “Legumes” will no longer exist and the leaders and staff of these groups will have to compete for jobs with everyone else. What is striking about this is that most of the world (including Kew scientists) has been moving to synthetic work with a global focus and yet the administration at Kew is choosing to balkanize their research into areas. It is amazing that Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris (P) has just worked hard to break down such barriers while Kew is building them. It makes it difficult for specialists in a particular family to view a plant group from a global perspective. Will we no longer have “world experts” at Kew? In addition, the loss of support staff at Kew will be great and that will mean that curators will have to spend more time doing technical work and less time on science. Those scientists that are able to obtain one of the herbarium positions may very well find themselves overwhelmed with collections work as well as mentoring and teaching and as a result have very little time to do research. Certainly Kew has a budget shortfall but when you balance the budget by gutting research and collections staff you fail to recognize that expertise in a group of plants is built up over many years and cannot be replicated once it is lost. The U.S. National Herbarium will soon begin using a scanner, similar to the one pictured here, to capture images of herbarium specimens. The first project will scan 280,000 fern specimens and 20,000 Onagraceae specimens. Biological specimens are critical for the next frontiers of climate change studies: they provide the evidence of past as well as present distributions. A deeper understanding of life on Earth in the past can help us predict and possibly mitigate the worst impacts of climate change in the future. Such information is not readily available but it is becoming more so. For some collections it is now possible to view their data and images online and this allows us to use advanced modeling techniques to predict which species may survive and which may go extinct. Images alone are not enough. Names of organisms change frequently and these proposed changes need to be evaluated and either accepted or rejected. More importantly, a specimen is only useful if it has a proper identification. Many specimens are misidentified. Insuring that something is correctly identified requires a detailed examination of the actual specimen, usually under a microscope. As a result, all collections require constant curation to make them useful for climate change studies and other biodiversity studies. Collections that are not studied and maintained, even if they are physically well cared for, can become out-of-date and less useful. The utility of collections does not stop with climate change. If you search for “Biological Collections” in Google Scholar, you will find a host of references on the use of such specimens ranging from phenological data to populations trends, utility of vouchers, DNA based phylogenies, biodiversity estimates, and trait evolution. Lastly, the actions of these gardens and museums fail to take into account that to be relevant and useful collections must continue to grow as new discoveries are made. Expeditions to poorly understood areas are critical for filling in holes in our data and for collecting new material in ways that allow the preservation of genome quality tissue for new methods of investigation. It seems that just when the world is beating a path to our door and asking for help and collaboration we are closing our doors and turning them away. Here at the Smithsonian Institution we are not immune. Since I was hired in 1981, our scientific staff has shrunk by about 50 percent and our collections staff even more. The Botany staff at the Smithsonian is concerned about our colleagues and the collections they study, at Kew and around the world. It is troubling that there seems to be an alarming trend in museum and garden administrations to devalue collections and the staff who study and care for them. This is a critical point in time to work toward a world-wide effort to stop and reverse this attrition. * With contributions by many individuals in the botanical community. Collection management, Guest post Most Canadensys participants have dedicated their data to the public domain. All other content on this website is licensed under CC-BY, except for the copyrighted Canadensys logo.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line10
__label__cc	0.626349	0.373651	Learning from Master Chef, Sam's Club serves up members premium lifestyle During the novel coronavirus outbreak, diners were forced to retire to their own kitchens with many attempting to replicate their favor restaurant's dishes, some successfully, others not so. But now, Sam's Club, a membership retail brand, is offering restaurant quality meals and recipes in store. With the resumption of cooking demonstrations, many members are relishing the return of "the good life". ➤Master chef cooks at the club Li Min sprinkles a thin layer of salt over a fresh frozen steak before placing it into a frying pan. The marbling slowly melts as the steak sizzles under high heat. Thirty seconds later, he turns it over, lowers the heat, and sprinkles a pinch of black pepper and adds butter, rosemary and garlic. For the next four minutes, the chef turns the steak every 30 seconds. He then lets it rest for 10 minutes. With the juices locked in, he slices ready to serve. Dark brown and crisp on the outside, tender on the inside; this is the way that an Australian grain-fed Angus rib-eye steak is meant to be enjoyed. You may think he is preparing a dish to be brought to a table at a fine-dining restaurant, but you would be mistaken. Instead, the steak is being served at Sam's Club in Shunyi district of Beijing. Chef Li is a full-time associate at Sam's Club. He cooks on the spot while sharing cooking tips with members. At Sam's Kitchen, members can not only taste the great products from demo, they also want to learn how to prepare an exquisite meal. They want to know which wine to pair with what dishes, and what is the perfect dessert to finish, according to Sam's Club. Li has more than 20 years of experience in cooking management in five-star hotels and is certified by Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in France. In his opinion, the soul of good food lies in the ingredients and Sam's Club always delivers. "The core value of my job is to share my cooking knowledge about premium Western-style food and help our members to use the best cooking method to make the most out of the ingredients to make amazing meals." Li said. "At Sam's Club, the meat is comparable to that served in fine dining restaurants." he added. All beef imported by Sam's Club comes via cold-chained logistics and uses blockchain technology to track its temperature and status every step of the way before it arrives in the country. Salmon fillets caught in icy waters of Atlantic, provide high-quality protein, enriched vitamins, as well as polyunsaturated fatty acid, the company said. In May, Australian brown tiger prawns were introduced at Sam's Club for the first time. With meaty texture and good flavor, they have become popular and they are suitable for people of all ages. Offering its members more than 4,000 quality items, the membership retailer said it wants to promote a premium lifestyle to its customers, encouraging them to "eat different and live different". ➤Key to making a difference By leveraging its global sourcing and supply chain, Sam's Club offers a plethora of products, many of which are offered for the first time or are exclusive to Sam's Club. This includes the fresh food with the private brand Member's Mark representing high quality locally sourced and imported items at great value, and direct imports from over 30 countries. It's all aimed at improving members' lives, Sam's Club said. Andrew Miles, president of Sam's Club China, explained what drives the Sam's Club approach. "If you ask customers what they want, they will only tell you what they already know; the secret is that you need to keep giving customers something they have not thought about," Miles said. "Taking the time to understand the market and customers is one thing. How to find these unexpected things and establish a unique product selection is the key to making a difference." As a pioneer in operating a club model, each Sam's Club has an average shopping area of more than 20,000 square meters, with 9-meter-high ceilings. It welcomes its members and provides them with an exclusive shopping experience. Trial eating stalls can be seen everywhere. The shopping carts are bigger than normal and can seat two kids for members and their families to enjoy shopping. By setting a membership fee, Sam's Club is able to tailor its product range to middle and high-end customers. The Sam's Club app allows members to easily navigate a smooth user interface that is intuitive and available in both English and Chinese. Using the app, members can order most of their ingredients with the click of a button and enjoy same-day delivery. Frozen and fresh seafood ordered online by members are cold-chain transported throughout the process. With the philosophy of pursuing a better life, Sam's Club said it continues to offer its members a shopping experience like no other, from being able to shop for the finest ingredients to learning to cook amazing dishes with star chefs.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line12
__label__cc	0.661742	0.338258	Attending the World Judo Championships Vladimir Putin attended the World Judo Championships at the National Gymnastics Arena in the capital of Azerbaijan. The President was joined in the box for honoured guests by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev Aliyev IlhamPresident of Azerbaijan and Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga Battulga Khaltmaagiin . The World Judo Championships are taking place in Baku on September 20–27 under the aegis of the International Judo Federation. The championships involve over 800 athletes from more than 130 countries who are competing in 15 events. During the break in the competition, Vladimir Putin briefly spoke with the Russian national team. The President said that the athletes demonstrated a commendable performance and, despite being defeated by France, have every chance of winning a bronze medal. The President thanked the coaches. After the meeting, Vladimir Putin posed for a group photo with the athletes and wished them more victories in the future. All news about the visit to Azerbaijan Publication date: September 27, 2018, 13:20 Last updated at September 29, 2018, 18:29	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line17
__label__cc	0.669785	0.330215	Jazz Aviation Named as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People for Seventh Year HALIFAX, Jan. 18, 2019 /CNW/ - Chorus Aviation Inc. ('Chorus') (TSX: CHR) is proud to announce that its subsidiary, Jazz Aviation LP ('Jazz'), was named one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People for the seventh year. "Jazz is honoured to continuously be ranked among the Top Employers for Young People in Canada," said Colin Copp, President, Jazz. "Bringing young people with new and innovative ideas into our company is vital to our growth. We are proud to be a top choice for talented young people seeking fulfilling career opportunities in aviation." Canada's Top Employers for Young People is an editorial competition organized by Mediacorp Canada Inc.'s Canada's Top 100 Employers project. This special designation recognizes the employers that offer the nation's best workplaces and programs for young people starting their careers. Winners are chosen based on the programs and initiatives they offer to attract and retain younger workers. In selecting Jazz, Mediacorp cited several employee programs offered by the company, including the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program, which provides scholarships and direct employment opportunities to students enrolled in pilot programs at various post-secondary institutions. Jazz was also recognized for offering scholarships to students enrolled in Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) programs at local community colleges and for providing mentoring to apprentice AMEs. For further information: Jazz Aviation LP: Manon Stuart, (902) 873-5054, Halifax, NS, manon.stuart@flyjazz.ca; Debra Williams, (905) 671-7769, Toronto, ON, debra.williams@flyjazz.ca	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line20
__label__wiki	0.800113	0.800113	Gallery Delta at 110 Livingstone Avenue The Closure of Gallery Delta at 110 Livingstone Avenue Dear Patrons, Artists and Friends of Gallery Delta, Foundation for Art and the Humanities. I am saddened to write that Gallery Delta at 110 Livingstone Avenue has now closed, having promoted and supported the visual arts and humanities at that premises for 28 years. As previously written, we are indebted to our founders, Derek Huggins and Helen Lieros, and to Paul Paul and Colette Wyles for their support during the past three decades. We also acknowledge the support of the patrons, friends of the Gallery Delta and the artists who have been a part of a history that spans almost 50 years and has played out within a rich period of the Visual Arts of Zimbabwe. Whilst the Gallery Delta at 110 Livingstone Avenue has closed, the Foundation for the Arts and Humanities under the Gallery Delta name remains, though it is inactive at present and for the foreseeable future. I have been honoured to be a part of this institution and am grateful to the Board of Trustees who have served the Gallery Delta Foundation since its creation and thank them for their dedication over the past years. We look forward to seeing what may emerge within the arena of the arts as the future unfolds. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, Gregory Shaw, Harare, 9 April 2022 It is with regret that we announce that the Gallery Delta at 110 Livingstone Avenue will be closing. It has become increasingly difficult, economically, to sustain the effort and to remain true to the vision of our esteemed founders, Derek Huggins and Helen Lieros and we have reached a point where this is no longer tenable. 110 Livingstone Avenue became the second premises from which Gallery Delta operated, from which a large number of prominent Zimbabwean artists formed their careers and took their initial steps. Over the past twenty-nine years, a multitude of exhibitions have been mounted, with the final exhibition, Freedom, paying tribute in part, to the founders of the Gallery Delta, Foundation for Arts and the Humanities. We take this opportunity to acknowledge Derek Huggins and Helen Lieros for their extraordinary effort in the creation and development of Gallery Delta at Livingstone Avenue. We recognise the role played by Paul Paul and Colette Wiles through the Gallery Delta at 110 Livingstone Avenue, where art and history have intertwined, and pay tribute to the great number of artists that have emerged and thrived through the Gallery, to those whose careers have flourished beyond our borders, and to those who have remained and participated from within, contributing to the rich Zimbabwean cultural discourse. We thank the multitude of patrons, donors and sponsors for their role in supporting and nurturing the Arts in Zimbabwe during these years and are synthesis between these parts allowed not only the gallery to breathe, but the arts with all their complexity to exist as a living phenomenon at this space. We know that this closing will leave a considerable hole within the Zimbabwean artistic community and the Zimbabwean Arts in general. Our sadness is tempered with hope. Recent conversations have offered some light to the ongoing plight of the Foundation, and the smallest chance that from the embers of the original vision and ideals of the founders, a new vision will emerge. One that will continue the ideology and ethos of the Gallery Delta, Foundation for Art and the Humanities and take a place within the constantly changing community and rapidly changing world of visual arts. On behalf of The Board of Trustees of Gallery Delta and the Foundation for Art and the Humanities Gregory Shaw A brief history of the gallery Gallery Delta was established by Derek Huggins and Helen Lieros in three small rooms at Strachan’s’ building in Manica Road, and opened on the 17th April 1975, a time of sanctions, conflict and war. The intention from the outset was to provide an exhibition space for contemporary paintings, graphics, textiles and ceramics of the highest standard possible as an alternative to ‘Shona Sculpture’ which, led by the National Gallery, dominated the art scene in the city. Within a year or two the gallery occupied seven rooms around the atrium of the premises, and three on the first floor. The gallery was run on a voluntary, part time basis, and exhibitions were held regularly at a rate of about ten or twelve a year. The courtyard served as a space and setting for other events, such as multiracial theatre and jazz performances. In those years – the 1970’s into the 1980’s – the most promising and experienced painters were Europeans who had undertaken art studies elsewhere. Most African artists were stone sculptors or wood carvers. The experiment of Frank McEwen, the Director of the then Rhodes National Gallery, from the late 1950’s,to find and promote a new form of African art had succeeded phenomenally with promotion and development of ‘Shona Sculpture’ which led to the ‘Great Excitement’ of the 1960’s in which the Western world was a participant. But McEwen’s endeavour to promote an African contemporary painting movement under the auspices of the Workshop School must now, I think, be regarded as a failure. The availability of the stone as a medium, its popularity in its finished form, its fame and lucrativeness, mitigated against the development of a painting movement and it failed to sustain. There were, however, a few exceptions. One was Thomas Mukarobgwa, who, under the umbrella of the National Gallery as an attendant, returned to painting in his latter years. Other painters of merit, for example, John Hlatywayo and Kingsley Sambo, active in the 60’s and 70’s, were promoted by African Art Promotions. Consequently, we looked for young, talented and aspiring Africans who would rather be painters than sculptors. They were almost non-existent. There were few facilities for serious art study. It meant commencing at the beginning to encourage and promote a new movement in painting. One of the ways in which we undertook this was to promote a ‘Young Artists’ exhibition at the beginning of every year but nonetheless few, if any, good African painters emerged at this time. Meantime, during the 1970’s and 1980’s, we exhibited and promoted artists who were to become well known in the art history of the country, for example, Marshall Baron, Robert Paul, Arthur Azevedo, Helen Lieros, Henry Thompson, Thakor Patel, Stephen Williams, Rashid Jogee, Simon Back, Berry Bickle, Richard Jack, Gerry Dixon and others. It was, however, to take some twelve or thirteen years, until towards the end of the 80’s to discover potential amongst young African student painters. This occurred as a result of the establishment of the BAT Workshop under the auspices of the National Gallery by its director Christopher Till in the early part of that decade. The emphasis was on drawing and painting. For us, the key figure to emerge as a promising painter was Luis Meque, a Mozambican refugee, who having been expelled from the Workshop for a misdemeanour, sought help and support. His successful promotion was the catalyst for the beginning of an African contemporary painting movement around Gallery Delta from the late 1980’s and which included his contemporaries George Churu and Richard Witikani. Later, during the 1990’s they were joined by Hilary Kashiri, Fasoni Sibanda, Ishmael Wilfred, James Jali, Lovemore Kambudzi, and others all handpicked from the annual ‘Young Artists’ exhibitions, as they finished their studies, and gradually emerged as important painters. The decade of the 1990’s was active and exciting as these zealous and competitive painters worked and exhibited. Drama, however, struck in 1991, when the new owner of Strachan’s Building was intent to evict all tenants: the cobblers, silk screen printers and tailors from the upper rooms, and Gallery Delta from below. As fortune would have it, Colette Wiles offered the old, dilapidated and in part derelict house at 110 Livingstone Avenue, which had been the home of her father, the painter Robert Paul, for nearly forty years until his death in 1980, as the new venue for the Gallery Delta. There were compelling reasons to use the house as a gallery: its history – it was built in 1894 and it lays claim to being the oldest extant building in the city – its occupancy by a famous artist, and the prospect of its continued use as an art and cultural venue by Gallery Delta. Inherent in all of this, however, was the need for its conservation. This involved a two year project, from 1991 to late 1993, to repair and restore it to its original appearance, and to build an adjoining amphitheatre, all of which was undertaken and completed by Gallery Delta. Significant in this process was the help of Peter Jackson, architect, and many of Gallery Delta¹s friends and supporters. With the exception of a six month break, the gallery maintained its exhibition programme throughout the remainder of the restoration period. Thus, by 1994, the prospects looked brighter. Gallery Delta was well established in a new home and had a host of painters and artists around it, including the group of young African painters. There was much competition, energy and zeal amongst the artists, and the exhibition rate was high, about 15 – 17 a year, together with a large and enthusiastic following of local and foreign collectors and clients. Zimbabwean contemporary painting had come of age. Tragedy, however, was to strike repeatedly during the decade with the deaths of good painters: Stephen Williams (1996), followed by the young painters Ishmael Wilfred, Luis Meque and Fasoni Sibanda, and Henry Thompson (1998), Hilary Kashiri (2001) and George Churu (2002) which impinged severely on the artistic resources available. It takes five to seven years to build an artist through regular exhibitions to enjoy acceptance and recognition. Yet, despite these reverses, the decade of the 1990’s saw much growth and development in contemporary painting, and the search for new artists of talent and promise was constant. Towards the end of the decade the painters Greg Shaw, Cosmos Shiridzinomwa and Lovemore Kambudzi were emerging and the gallery remained active and buoyant. The invasion and occupation of commercial farms at the beginning of the new millennium 2000, instigated and incited by the political leaders, and which continues even today, brought increasing political and economic difficulties to the country. As regards Gallery Delta, in addition to the loss of artists to early deaths, it hastened the emigration of others: Simon Back, Berry Bickle, Gerry Dixon, Richard Jack to name a few, together with local clientele, and resulted in the dearth of discerning foreign visitors and collectors, which, combined with rampant inflation, mitigated against buoyancy and profitability. New young painters, however, were identified in the likes of Patrick Makumbe, Misheck Masamvu, Freddy Tauro and Admire Kamudzengerere who have since become important painters. Along the years, from 1996 to 2003, Gallery Delta produced and published a visual art magazine under the title of ‘Gallery.’ This was a 32 page, four colour, glossy quarterly publication, funded for its latter six years by Hivos, and edited by Barbara Murray, and for a short time by Murray McCartney, and which ran to 31 issues. It is believed this was of the best, and certainly the longest consecutive visual art magazine, ever published in Africa. Copies were distributed free to schools and libraries, and it has become a vital research tool for students and collectors interested in the development of contemporary painting during the period. It fell into abeyance, not for the promise of continued funding, but for the want of a good editor, and writers, against the background of a critical political and economic situation. Presently, as at 2009, the gallery survives and continues to promote art and artists, and to act as an unofficial charitable institution still operating at a nominal 25% commission on sales, and providing its artists with interest free loans and bridging finance so far as it is able to do so. Despite the parlous state of the economy exhibitions of remarkably good standard continue to be organized, mounted, presented and promoted at a rate of about 15 a year plus periodic other cultural events: music, theatre and literature in the amphitheatre. It became clear to the proprietors, however, that Gallery Delta, while debt free still, could not continue indefinitely its work and role without donor and sponsor support on which, little by little, it had become dependent to provide for its survival and continuity. Consequently, the privately owned gallery was given over by deed of donation into trust to create the Gallery Delta Foundation for Art and the Humanities with effect October, 2008. The ultimate responsibility is now vested in a board of trustees. Presently, the Gallery Delta Foundation, embodying Gallery Delta, continues its work and role in the organization, presentation, exhibition and promotion of Zimbabwean contemporary art as it has done for the past thirty four years, while actively seeking international and other funding. The prospect of its survival has, this year, been enhanced by sponsorship for some projects and promotions, including this web site, and in the longer term, with the possibility of meaningful political change being wrought from the new government of national unity. There is need, however, for substantial funding to invest in the visual art and artists of the country. We have been told on countless occasions that Gallery Delta, situated in the old house amongst lawns and wild palms, is a unique place, a creative space, refuge, and source of peace and inspiration, which makes a difference to people’s lives. Please help maintain the activity… Derek Huggins, Gallery Delta Foundation for Art and the Humanities, Harare, Zimbabwe. Art for Art's Sake: the story of Gallery Delta A video by Granadilla Films DEREK HUGGINS The Board of Trustees and the Gallery Delta Community extend their most sincere condolences to the Huggins and Lieros families, on the passing away of Derek Huggins; loving husband to Helen Lieros, brother to Mary and David. Derek was the Co-Founder of the Gallery Delta and instrumental within the artistic community since the 1970s. His contribution to the arts is immeasurable. Derek is best known for his role of founding and running the Gallery Delta, first at Little Chelsea on Robert Mugabe Road (1975-1991), then at Robert Paul’s Old House, 110 Livingstone Ave, Harare (1991 – 2021). He has been integral in the seminal moments of some of Zimbabwe’s most well-known artists, and during the long story of Gallery Delta, maintained professional relationships with some of the beacons of Zimbabwean art; Arthur Azavedo, Cosmos Shiridzinomwa, Helen Lieros, Luis Meque, Masimba Hwati and Virginia Chihota, amidst others. Derek’s writing was included in various publications during the 2000s. His own book, a collection of short stories entitled Stained Earth was published in 2004. He authored the extraordinary book Eleni Lierou/Helen Lieros mural paintings: the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel at Maputo, Mozambique, 1996-2000 (2015) with contributions from Jean Luc Duval and Anna Lazou. It is characteristic of Derek, that his efforts were so often directed towards illuminating Helen’s work. Derek was affectionately known around the Gallery as Sekuru. His relationship with his friends and colleagues was personal and caring, he was a man of gentle humour, unparalleled compassion and kindness. He gave of himself entirely, to the arts and more significantly, to the artist; to none more than his beloved wife, Helen. Integrity, honesty and humility are seldom seen as visibly as they were in Derek. We have lost one of the righteous men of the world, but his example to us lives on, as does his legacy to the Visual Arts of Zimbabwe. Helen Lieros The Board of Trustees and the Gallery Delta Community extend their most sincere condolences to the Lieros and Huggins families, on the passing away of Helen Lieros; loving wife to Derek, Artist, Mentor, Teacher, and Co-Founder of the Gallery Delta. Helen was an inspiration to a great many people, and has been a central pillar within Zimbabwean Visual Arts for over five decades. Her work is held in the Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the Cabinet des Estamps and Centre de la Gravure, Geneva and the Museum of African Arts, Paris, among many others. She was the first recipient of the President’s Award of Honour at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (1990), and the recipient of a National Arts Merit Award. It is perhaps her murals of the Greek Orthodox Church in Maputo that best represent her life and career. A work that transcends cultural, religious, nationalistic and artistic barriers. A work that celebrates both the tragedy and triumph of humanity, that expresses vividly, the artist’s zeal for life, passion for the arts and her great faith. Through the foundation of the Gallery Delta, and her work as a teacher, she has impacted the lives of hundreds of people. For some, it has been an understanding and appreciation of the visual arts, for others the discovery of unseen creativity, and others still, the understanding of what it means to be a great teacher in the fullest sense of the word; to have belief in the people around you. She has been both nurturing and influential in the careers of many of Zimbabwe’s most prominent artists, some who have begun their careers at Gallery Delta, and who in some way, will carry forwards her legacy. We will miss Helen’s passion, energy and force of life more than can be written. She leaves both an impact and a considerable void at this time. Her contribution to the arts will be forever cemented in the Zimbabwean story.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line29
__label__wiki	0.746088	0.746088	Academy Article History Tree Map Encyclopedia of Keywords > Sciences > Academy Michael Charnine ANDRE AGASSI COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY VIENNA ACADEMY PETERSBURG ACADEMY BUDAPEST ACADEMY MAGICAL ARTS MILITARY ACADEMY BRITISH ACADEMY CHINESE ACADEMY This Review contains major "Academy"- related terms, short phrases and links grouped together in the form of Encyclopedia article. Academy was also used very loosely for various commercial training schools for dancing and the like. (Web site) An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The academy is the only recognised institute in the Netherlands that offers training to prepare for the work in the various crew disciplines. This academy is dedicated exclusively to the training of the art of Kathakali, the renowned dance-drama which is so integral a part of Kerala's culture. The Academy is pleased to announce the appointment of Philip Cashian as Head of Composition from September 2007. He studied piano and composition at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and then the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Sullivan became organist at St. Michael's, London, in 1861 and professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in 1866. (Web site) He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, taking viola with the legendary Lionel Tertis, and composition with Frederick Corder. (Web site) At the Academy, he was taught composition by Frederick Corder, the Piano by Tobias Matthay and the Clarinet by Egerton. Since 1996 he has taught piano at the Academy of Music in Basel, Switzerland. (Web site) He continued at the academy, but now concentrated on playing the piano and conducting. (Web site) He started to play the piano and compose at an early age and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music where he won the Liszt Prize in 1947. (Web site) Andrei Kramarevsky was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and began his dance training at the academy of the Bolshoi Ballet at age 9. (Web site) At the age of 11, Li arrived at the Beijing Dance Academy to begin a seven year training regime. On the recommendation of Euler and D'Alembert, Lagrange succeeded the former as the director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. (Web site) Charles was the son of Dr Olinthus Gilbert Gregory a master of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Langlands is the first recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics. (Web site) Born in London in 1944, John Tavener is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music whose music openly embraces Christian spirituality. A graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lange has written seventeen plays and garnered multiple theatrical awards. (Web site) A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, American actor Walter Abel began his stage career in 1919, and made his first film in 1920. (Web site) He is now the manager of an event company (HL Event) based in Belgium, and is due to open a tennis academy in Fès, Morocco, in 2006. Roddick's brother John was an All-American tennis player at the University of Georgia from 1996 to 1998, and operates a tennis academy in San Antonio, Texas. At age 7, Sharapova was brought to the United States by her father to attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Marx was the man who lent Bollettieri $1m to build his tennis academy in Bradenton, Florida, which is now seen as a production line for future champions. At the age of thirteen, Andre was sent to teaching guru Nick Bollettieri 's Tennis Academy in Florida. (Web site) Son of Gabriele Rossetti and brother of Christina Rossetti, he trained at the Royal Academy but vacillated between painting and poetry. (Web site) Grand secretaries, palace ministers and members of the Imperial Academy would come to accompany Qianlong and drink tea, write poetry and make merry with him. (Web site) He was given a post at the Hanlin Academy, which served to provide a source of scholarly expertise and poetry for the Emperor. In 1873 Lastarria founded in Santiago the Academy of science and literature. In Iran the Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a center that evaluates the new words in order to initiate and advise its Persian equivalent. In 1958, Museum was under the authority of the Pushkin Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences. DeRuyter served the previous three years as the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the Air Force Academy. After training in the academy for three years, Anna represented Russia in a Fed Cup (1995) match and became the youngest player ever to win the match. (Web site) By bequest he established the James Craig Watson Medal, awarded every three years by the National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astronomy. (Web site) Beginning his training at the Imperial Academy of Arts with Anton Losenko in 1764, he went to Rome in 1774 and then to Paris in 1779. He became professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and director of the French Academy in Rome. David was allowed to stay at the French Academy in Rome for an extra year, but after 5 years in Rome, he returned to Paris. (Web site) After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1985, DeRuyter served 7 ½ years of active duty in the Air Force. (Web site) In 2359, Ensign Natasha Yar was assigned to the Bellerophon as a junior security officer after graduating from Starfleet Academy. (Web site) Eugene Fluckey was born in Washington, DC in 1913, graduating from the United States Naval Academy with the Class of 1935. Aristotle, a student of Plato at the Academy, identified the rules for logical reasoning. (Web site) At age sixteen, she entered the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Manoug Parikian. A student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Cavalcaselle from early youth studied the art treasures of Italy. (Web site) In 1875, just two years before his death, he founded Brigham Young Academy, which later became Brigham Young University. (Web site) After his death, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences named an award after him, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. (Web site) After the death of Plato (347 BC), Aristotle was considered as the next head of the Academy, a post that was eventually awarded to Plato's nephew. After his death in Paris in 1909, his wife continued to run the academy. Outrage ensued when Paris Is Burning failed to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature that year. (Web site) All this was quite distinct from the astronomical ambitions of the Royal Society or the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The Elegance Scholarship was founded to promote higher education to students enrolled at The Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy. Five years ago, he opened the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a school for at-risk children in Las Vegas. In 2001, Agassi opened the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy[ 55] in Las Vegas, a tuition-free charter school for at-risk children in the area. (Web site) After a year at the academy, Agassi became emotionless and depressed. (Web site) Anita Desai is a Fellow of many prominent literary organizations such as The Royal Society of Literature,London and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Seamus Heaney is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994. Other awards she received included the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Web site) Interlochen Arts Academy is a fine arts boarding high school offering majors in music, theatre, dance, creative writing, film, and visual arts. Visual arts Located near downtown Honolulu, the premier venue for visual arts in Hawaii is the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In 1818 he became a member of the Royal Academy for Visual Arts of Amsterdam. (Web site) Cavalcaselle studied painting at the Academy of Venice and traveled extensively through Italy studying its art treasures. (Web site) Kerala Lalitakala Academy This was established in 1962, the aim of the Academy is to promote the sculpture, painting and visual arts. He spoke of creating an American Academy of Art, and made an engraving of a painting by Philip Pearlstein as an homage. Willi Boskovsky joined the Vienna Academy of music at the age of nine. (Web site) Born in Vienna, he studied composition and keyboard performance at the Vienna Conservatory and in 1945 became professor of organ at the Vienna Academy. His thesis, along with some additional work, was published by the Vienna Academy of Science. He studied conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and later at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Academy of Music. (Web site) In the same year she began to teach at the Vienna Academy of Music. Later he studied with Leopold Godowsky in Berlin and from 1909 until the outbreak of World War I at his master classes in Vienna Academy of Music. It was not unusual for the members of the Academy of Sciences to offer courses at the university. (Web site) In translation they use "university", "school", or "academy". (Web site) In 1904 Pierre Curie was appointed professor of physics at the University of Paris, and in 1905 he was named a member of the French Academy. (Web site) Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences - Information about the Institute and its neuropharmacological research, including psychotropic drugs. The first grant will be made to Professor Vladimir Shkodrov and Dr. Violeta Ivanova of the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. (Web site) Among his many awards is a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Woody Allen has won three Academy Awards and been nominated a total of 21 times: fourteen as a screenwriter, six as a director, and one as an actor. The only actor to win an Oscar posthumously was Peter Finch, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for his role in the movie Network. (Web site) For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award. Miller's adaptation earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay based on Previously Produced Material, his only nomination. Ford received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Witness, for which he also received "Best Actor" BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. (Web site) George Arliss received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 1930 film. Doctor Alexander Borodin, a professor of chemistry at the St. Petersburg Academy of Medicine, was the son of a Georgian prince. In 1884, her son, Nicholas Duke of Leuchtenberg, mounted an exhibition at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts with the Grand Duchess former collection. His dance graduation began some later, at the age of nine, in Imperial Ballet School of the St. Petersburg academy. (Web site) In his childhood he studied under Ilya Repin (in Paris and Moscow) and in the St.Petersburg Academy of arts (1880 - 1885) under Pavel Chistyakov. He also took lessons in painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and studied music with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. (Web site) He grew up working as an Icon Painter and later moved to Petersburg to attend the Petersburg Academy of Arts. He became president of Brigham Young Academy in 1903 when the academy was granted the title of university. (Web site) He became the first President of An Taisce in 1948 and served as President of the Royal Irish Academy. (Web site) Sun also founded the Whampoa Military Academy and appointed Chiang Kai-shek as its president. (Web site) Nominees in major categories for the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. For a full list of nominees, check the Academy of Adventure Gaming, Arts & Design site. Every year, in the countdown to the Academy Awards, Edmontonians are left scrambling to watch the nominees -- if they even get here in time. There Kościuszko briefly studied in the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon realized that the career of a painter was not what he dreamed of. She was a painter and decorator, who graduated from the academy of arts of St. Petersburg in 1905, and settled down in France in 1910. (Web site) Another 18th-century American painter, Benjamin West, set up shop in London and became painter to the king and president of the Royal Academy. In 1885 van Gogh moved to Antwerp on the advice of Antoine Mauve (a cousin by marriage), and studied for some months at the Academy there. (Web site) He studied at Antwerp 's Royal Academy of Fine Arts along with the legendary avantgarde fashion collective the Antwerp Six. He resigned his post to travel and study abroad, and spent time in Paris and at the Royal Academy at Antwerp as well as in England. Maj. Sylvanus Thayer was appointed superintendent in July 1817, the Academy became a vital force in maintaining a corps of professionally trained officers. (Web site) It is the rank bestowed on newly commissioned officers when they graduate from Starfleet Academy. (Web site) Toyama-ryū -- Founded in the late 19th, early 20th century to instruct officers at the Toyama Military Academy. (Web site) The actual location of the Imperial Naval Academy is a military secret, Cadets are only taken to and from the academy by military transports. In 2285 at Starfleet Academy, Admiral Kirk is busy training new cadets. But Bartók died in America, and Kurtág went on to study piano, composition and chamber music with other teachers at the Budapest Academy. In 1967 he joined the staff of the Budapest Academy of Music as professor of piano and later of chamber music. In 1934 he was again appointed director of the Budapest Academy, a post he managed to hold until 1941, having performed all 27 Mozart Piano Concertos. Having been initially a student at the Budapest Academy, Bartk was Professor of Pianoforte from 1907. (Web site) In 1996 Manze was appointed associate director and concertmaster of the London-based Baroque group The Academy of Ancient Music. (Web site) Jeff McBride, voted "Magician of the Year" by Hollywood's famed Magic Castle and The Academy of Magical Arts is a master of the art of stage magic. Paul Dini is also an amateur stage magician, and an active member of the Academy of Magical Arts. She began her career as a child, she has appeared in many hollywood films and earned nominations for academy award for best actress. With eight nominations for Best Director, Wilder is the second most nominated director in the history of the Academy Awards, behind William Wyler. (Web site) Credit for this is often given to cinematographer Conrad Hall, who would go on to win three Academy Awards (and many more nominations) for his work in film. He has won a Golden Globe, as well as BAFTA, a César Award, a Golden Palm, two nominations for the Golden Lion and an Academy Award nomination. (Web site) She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role, along with the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, and numerous critics awards. The presenters include Academy, BAFTA and AFI award winning cinematographers, animators, computer artists, image creatives and technologists. In 1852 he was appointed superintendent of West Point, and during his three years here he carried out many important changes in the academy. (Web site) Most were graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where Lee had been commandant for 3 years in the 1850s. Colonel Robert E. Lee became the Commandant of West Point during Gregg's second year at the academy. (Web site) Winfield Scott, and in 1852 he was appointed superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his alma mater. (Web site) The military academy that Chiang had supervised and developed close personal ties to its constiuents had produce around 500 officers. Together they attended secondary schools in Moscow, then the military academy in St. Petersburg, followed by service in the Russian army. Sponsored by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, the competition seeks to recognize and reward new music by UK composers. In 1995 he received the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship for composers from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Web site) Now $7500 each, Academy Awards are given annually: five to artists, eight to writers, four to composers, and three to architects. In 2007 Fenton was awarded a fellowship of the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters, the academy that presents the Ivor Novello awards. Awards for British songwriters and composers, presented annually by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. In 1984, the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors introduced its annual Jimmy Kennedy Award; the lyricist died on April 6 of that year. (Web site) The National Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. (Web site) He is also founder of PIMRC & ICT. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and fellow member of the IEEE and IEE. (Web site) Accepted position as Professor of Engineering at Starfleet Academy, concluding service on DS9. A joint research project conducted by the Partner Group and the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Institute for the History of Natural Sciences. (Web site) For the institution in mainland China, see Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the winner of the Bay and Paul Foundation's Biodiversity Leadership Award for 2002. 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__label__wiki	0.982207	0.982207	Alec Baldwin’s ‘Angry Birds’ movie character ‘Rust’ blew up in flight By Elizabeth Landau and Ryan Browne, CNN Alec Baldwin’s “Angry Birds” movie character “Rust” kept “blowing up” in Los Angeles and New York, sparking “immature” gun handling, according to a report from the New York Times. The New York Times reports the “Rubber Duckie” character was detected while flying in a propeller airplane on a private JetBlue flight between New York and Los Angeles this week. Several cast and crew members who called the film “The Blonde Princess” but were not named, accused the voice actor of unsafe and inexperienced handling of a firearm during flight. “We know where the shooting place is. We know where they are,” one worker told the Times. “From this movie, I could walk up to them and blow them up.” The Times interviewed dozens of cast and crew members who were also anonymous. They spoke about either witnessing “an actual gun” fired, or watching Baldwin, who also portrays the main character in the film, “pick up and unload a firearm” and “fire once.” They also observed Baldwin, who famously voiced the “Apprentice” President Donald Trump on the NBC show, disrobe from his “rubber duckie suit” and disarm the weapon, the report said. In an interview with the New York Times, Baldwin said a special machine was used to separate the plastic and cardboard beads from the rubber duckie costume to make sure it was safe for passengers to be shown in flight. He denied the accusations he was irresponsible or ill-advisedly handling a gun. “My little rubber duckie has been shot,” he told the Times. “It was on the ground. Everything was cool. I was not responsible for the duck getting shot.” Baldwin’s attorney, Eric George, who said his client has legal training, blamed the news media and said the accusations were nothing more than a “bragging session” among “people who have a lot of animosity for me.” Baldwin was added to the voice cast of the 2016 animated movie “Angry Birds” to voice his “mercifully depressed” Rovio character Rust. The actress Leslie Mann voices the character of the red heron Coster and is an executive producer on the film. Categories us Tags business, influenza, tennis, video recordings, downloads and streaming California man arrested in Australia for kidnapping 4-year-old girl Brands Chase Penalty after Hacking Verstappen, Hamilton and Quintana in Japanese GP	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line34
__label__wiki	0.925391	0.925391	Your search for all items in the catergory trails Pages < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Trail: Description: The City of Bath traces its history back to Roman times when the Romans came to take advantage of and to worship at its hot springs. Description: Stroud's main claim to note has been as a woolen and worsted producing town in the west of England. Description: This Trail has been kindly provided by Leo Baeck College and the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, and is a tour of the Hoop Lane Reform Cemetery in their new booklet, "A History in our Time - Rabbis and Teachers Buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery". Trail: Alderney Holocaust and Slave Labour Trail When the Nazis first occupied Alderney with a small force, it could not have been anticipated at the time that the island would effectively become one giant concentration camp with many thousands of captives culled from countries across three continents, nor that the island would be host to the western-most SS concentration camp in Europe, Camp Sylt. The French Jews who experienced it called it, 'Devil's Island', the 'Buchenwald of the West', or 'Little Auschwitz', such was the suffering and similarity to the conditions in the most notorious of the Nazi camps. Furthermore, the island witnessed great human suffering and death, on a large scale, with monthly death rates of between 4-15%, in many cases, based on the Germans' own statistics and the evidence shows that the majority of prisoners sent to Alderney died or were killed, with the island also becoming a staging post of the Holocaust. Evidence and analysis for this project demonstrates that rather than hundreds, several thousands Jews - perhaps 9,000 Jewish captives were on the island, over the period of Nazi occupation, working and suffering in some of the most abject conditions of all. Some died on the island and others were then sent on to other camps in France, or for extermination in camps in Germany and fresh shipments of prisoners would be brought in regularly to replace those who could no longer work. The project has also shown that the number of prisoners probably exceeded 30,000 over the period of occupation and could even have been higher and that there were significantly more camps on the island than previously recognised and the death rate is likely to have significantly exceeded 50 per cent and been up to 85 - 90 percent. There is a new theory, awaiting full-publication of the evidence, from Weigold and Kemp, that the island was used for secret and sinister VI Rocket projects, with VI rockets, weaponised with Sarin gas, targeting Weymouth to disrupt any Allied invasion, which in their view may have been the prime reason for the occupation of the Island and the cause of suffering on a large scale particularly in the construction of tunnels on the island. There are no known survivors from the tunnelling activities. JTrails research had shown evidence for the presence of planning for VI activities and other possible secret activities, on the Island, as the tunnels were of the same type as the VI tunnels in NW France, prisoner testimony attested to the presence of VI Engineers at the tunnelling project at St Anne's, and the fact that most of the work of the SS Baubrigade on Alderney, when it returned to France, was on VI sites. However, there is no evidence that VI Rockets were ever delivered to Alderney and the chemical weapons theory awaits further validation and the tunnels were used for munitions and stores instead. It is also very likely that another intended purpose of the island would have been to imprison and provide 'special treatment' for the British establishment and key political enemies, should Hitler have successfully invaded England. This is based on the history and presence of special prisoners at Sylt. We believe that Longis Common, the Anti-Tank Wall and the bay should be preserved as a 'Site of Memory' for the slave-workers and that there should be a new memorial to the slave-workers at Longis Common and the cemetery should be appropriately marked, especially as there is eye-witness testimony from 1961, collected by JTrails, stating that some of their remains are still at the cemetery site, but the graves are now unmarked and the remains are not awarded proper respect or recognition. There are also reports that remains of prisoners under the Anti-Tank Wall have been seen after storms have washed away sand. We have been working with islanders and with the Office of the Chief Rabbi and the CPJCE, to help protect several identified and potential burial sites from damage from the FAB Link cable project, which threatens both human remains and to severely damage the World War II historical landscape across the eastern end of the island and urge that the cable is taken on another route. Damage has already been caused by prospecting activity on the common, which has turned up bone (of undetermined origins) near to the Anti-Tank Wall. The proposed line of the cable will pass within 20 meters of the Jewish burial area which we now believe was also the site of a cremation pit and a mass-grave. We also argue that the site has European Heritage Significance for understanding the Nazi slave labour programme, and should receive a European Heritage Label as it has some of the best preserved remains of the slave labour camps system and work sites and should be designated as such. We have also contributed original research to the Alderney Land-Use Plan to facilitate the protection of key heritage features, as the plan recognises the need to preserve key sites and to integrate them into existing visitor activity on the island. Trail: Anne Marcus Description: Southend on Sea, is another less well-known Jewish community by the sea. A few Jews lived in the area during the 18th Century mostly making alcohol and providing other ancillary services. The next group of Jewish residents started to arrive in the late 1800s, when the railway was built to enable Londoners to take day trips and holidays by the sea. Many of those Londoners were Jewish and required Kosher boarding houses, which started to open in the area now known as the Conservation Area of central Southend on Sea. Over time as the London's East End became less desirable more people relocated to Southend increasing the need for formal places of worship and Jewish goods and services and the town eventually attracted a very active Jewish community of around 6,000 at its height in the 1970s, after which it declined, but is still active and has also attracted new Jewish residents from the Charedi community. (Trail by Anne Marcus) Trail: Bangor Jewish Heritage Trail JTrails is delighted to have been invited to host this important trail which introduces an important historic community in North Wales and offers special thanks to Dr Nathan Abrams and his project team of Bangor University, who originated, authored and supported this trail and whose introduction to the trail follows. 'Welcome to this Trail of Jewish Bangor. Here, you will learn about the history of Jews in this city from medieval times to the present day. The first evidence of Jewish presence in the region dates back to medieval times, although we are not sure that any Jews came to Bangor. Jews were expelled from this country in 1290 and were not readmitted until 1665. However, we do not see any Jews in Bangor until the early nineteenth century. Their numbers were expanded by the mass immigrations of the last quarter of the nineteenth century but the figures of those who came to Bangor were never large. The community declined around the 1970s but there are still individuals and families located in Bangor and scattered around in the towns and villages of Gwynedd. I am one of them. Although very little extant traces of their presence survive, Jewish immigrants to Bangor had a significant impact on the civic, cultural, political and economic life of the city and it is this hidden history we aim to uncover in this map. We hope you enjoy it. As project leader, I would like to thank Gareth Roberts of Menter Fachwen for his invaluable assistance on this project, Andy Goodman, Hazel Robbins and Soo Vinnicombe at Bangor University, and Rhys Jones of Locly for transforming our map into this app. This work is supported by the Bangor University ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.' Trail: Basildon Description: Basildon was a small Jewish community established in one of the UK's, 'New Towns', created post-war to provide more housing, opportunities and to receive 'over-spill' population from London. The community was informally active by the late 1950's, with 60-80 Jewish residents, mostly young families. The Saunders family moved to Basildon and was the first to institute regular religious observance on the Sabbath, but the community did not acquire a formal synagogue until the late 1960s, but the first of several. The heyday of the community was in the 1970s, with the community declining thereafter and the synagogue closing in the 1980s, though a small close-knit Jewish community is still present in the town. (Trail by Peter Saunders) Trail: Bedford Description: The Bedford Jewry was a small but fascinating Jewry, with an active medieval Jewish community, who took part in the turbulent history of the times, including resisting the King in the siege of Bedford castle. The modern community was founded in the 18th century, and in the 19th century; the Rabbi of Bedford Synagogue caused scandal by converting to Christianity. Later, in the century, Morris Lissack, fought a successful one-man battle for Jewish education and emancipation in Bedford. At the turn of the 20th century the remarkable Abrahams family took up residence in Bedford and produced two Jewish Olympic athletes, including Harold Abrahams, who Olympic feats were celebrated in the film 'Chariots of Fire'. Trail: Bletchley Park Description: The secret code-breaking activities at Bletchley Park was one of the best kept secrets of the World War II and the intelligence provided by the code-breakers was decisive in shortening the War. Even today it is not appreciated that there was a significant Jewish story at the Park, as there were many Jewish personnel at Bletchley, both civilian and military and their number included many women. Key Jewish personnel at the Park were key figures in breaking the enemy codes and played a decisive part in the creation of the first modern computers that have defined our and created own era. Professor Maxwell Newman (1897-1984), was the architect of the Colossus computer, the world's first computer. The Bletchley Park Trust now preserve the site as a museum and this trail traces the Jewish stories at key huts and buildings. Trail: Brackley Description: Brackley is a very small market town, in rural Northamptonshire, on the main road between Northampton and Oxford. Until after the War, the town was little larger than a large village, with a market place and 2 - 3,000 residents. However, the town has an unexpected and little known Jewish heritage, largely dating from just after World War I, to the end of World War II. It illustrates the unexpected links that Jewish people could often have in deeply rural areas and it is also a particularly good example of the ranges of Jewish war-time experiences as refugees and evacuees in the countryside. Trail: Brighton and Hove Description: We are proud to announce the completion of our Brighton and Hove Trail, with the help of the Brighton and Hove community. This trail illustrates the fascinating and extensive Jewish Heritage of Brighton and Hove and demonstrates that it is among the most important Jewish heritage locations in the country. The trail falls into two linked trails - the Brighton Trail and the West Brighton and Hove Trail. Trail: Bury St. Edmunds Description: A centre of Jewish learning, the community came a cropper when it meddled in medieval politics and was subsequently subjected to a blood libel and brutal massacre in which 57 of its members were killed. Trail: Camp Tibor Holocaust Trail, France Description: In World War II a group of 2252 Jewish men, living in Belgium (some were born in Belgium but many from all across Europe) were stripped of their civil rights by the Germans, then thrown out of work and labelled as 'anti-social elements', and because they were un-employed forcibly separated from this families and deported to work as slave labour on Hitler's Atlantic Wall, in the vicinity of Boulogne and Calais, in July to August 1942. They were sent to some 15 permanent and temporary forced labour camps, mostly along the coast and they were later joined by 650 French Jews who had been deported from camps on the Island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. The Jew from Belgium worked on the Atlantic Wall for three months making bunkers and defences, as well as repairing bomb damage, for Organisation Todt (OT), Hitler's 'super' civil contractor. The camp at Dannes continued to operate throughout the War as the central slave labour camp in the area and administered a network of camps along the line of the coast. The original Jewish cohort was joined and partly replaced by, 'Red' Spaniard and Russian men and boys. At the end of the War it became a German POW camp. Trail: Canvey Island Description: Many people assume that the Jewish population of England is located in the main towns and cities and that remote parts of the coastline would have little appeal to the community. However, there is a history of Jews from London settling in precisely these places. There were Jewish visitors and settlers in Canvey from the 19th Century, who perhaps enjoyed the pollution free air of Canvey and then saw a place where someone with imagination and a little entrepreneurial flair could make their mark and could be an individual. Morris Hartfield was precisely one such figure, who played his part in shaping modern-day Canvey Island and performed an important local philanthropic role. This trend continues until the present day along the Thames Estuary. (Trail by Anne Marcus) Description: Many people assume that the Jewish population of England is located in the main towns and cities and that remote parts of the coastline would have little appeal to the community. However, there is a history of Jews from London settling in precisely these places. There were Jewish visitors and settlers in Canvey from the 19th Century, who perhaps enjoyed the pollution free air of Canvey and then saw a place where someone with imagination and a little entrepreneurial flair could make their mark and could be an individual. Morris Hartfield was precisely one such figure, who played his part in shaping modern-day Canvey Island and performed an important local philanthropic role. This trend continues until the present day along the Thames Estuary. Trail: Chatham and Rochester Chatham and Rochester are worth a journey to explore the Jewish heritage of both adjoined towns. The main interest is the Chatham Memorial synagogue and its adjoining cemetery. The synagogue is an exceptionally attractive and important building with a number of very interesting relics of its past on display. The cemetery is uniquely joined to the shule and has fascinating, some very poignant, memorials. The museum in Rochester contains some additional items of Jewish interest and the Cathedral has medieval sculptures with Jewish subjects. Other than this sites of Jewish residence and commerce of the 19th century can be traced along Chatham High Street with the background of the Georgian Dockyards, the economic dynamo of the 19th century Jewish community. Apart from this Rochester is an exceptionally pretty cathedral town, with its strong Dickensian associations, and an imposing Norman castle close by on the Medway and a very large number of historic and beautiful town houses. Chatham conspires to be less visually compelling but more commercially important. An hour to two hours at the synagogue and cemetery would be well spent, the remainder of a longer afternoon in Rochester would be pleasant though the enthusiastic could also fit in a trip to the Dockyards in a longer day. Trail: Dover Description: The origins of the Dover Jewish community are surrounded in some mystery. The community may have begun in the medieval period, though the evidence is incomplete. Trail: Guildford Description: Are the ghostly goings-on in the cellar of a shop on the High Street, the spirits of members of the medieval Jewish community coming to pray in the ruins of Guildford's 12th century sunken synagogue? Trail: Hastings and St Leonards Description: This trail traces the 150 year history of the Hastings and St Leonards Jewish communities. This Jewish community, like others on the coast, made its living through the opportunities afforded by the growing sea-side resort and the arrival of the railway in the 1850s. Hastings and St Leonards drew Jewish visitors and residents, due to its renown and opportunities as a fashionable health resort. Notable Jews came both to visit, or reside for the longer term for their health. Other Jews opened boarding houses and hotels to serve both a Jewish and general clientele. It was also a location for a notable Jewish sea-side academy. There have been several places of Jewish worship and there is a Jewish cemetery. Today there is still a Jewish community in Sussex who now worship at Bexhill. A number of the former places of Jewish residence, business and worship can still be found in Hastings and St Leonards. Trail: Historical Walking Tour of Jewish Hull Description: The history of Hull as a Jewish centre and transmigration port for Jews is a very important and intersting one. This tour of Jewish Hull has been researched and written by the Hull Jewish Archive Committee over the last two years and was launched as an attractive guide and map. We are very pleased that the Committee has kindly agreed to additionally place their trail on the JTrails web-site for personal enjoyment and research. The trail is copy-right June 2008 to the HJAC and further inquiries can be made to Hull Jewish Archive Committee, 30 Pryme Street, Anlaby HU10 6SH. We hope that many are able to visit the trail while Hull is the official City of Culture 2017. Trail: Jews of the Tower of London Description: The Tower of London, the most popular tourist destination in England and an iconic World Heritage Site, is the best example of 'hidden' Jewish history in the UK. The Tower is one of the most important of all Jewish heritage and history sites in the UK, even though you would not realise it when visiting the Tower. Jewish Blood Money paid for much of the 13th Century fabric of the castle that the tourists come to see today. The Jewish story of England probably started at the Tower, the Jews of England were administered from the Tower, it was place of protection, business and employment. Jews even worshipped at the Tower. It also, a site of great suffering and mass martyrdom for many hundreds of Jews. In 1278 alone, 600 Jews were imprisoned in the Tower and 269 Jews were hanged in a period of 6 months - two and half times as many non Jews as were executed at the Tower in the subsequent 4 centuries! This trail restores this narrative to a national heritage icon. Trail: Keswick - Lake District Description: When we think of the Lake District and its fells we would hardly imagine that it has its own rich Jewish heritage and history. There have been Jews present in the area from the Middle Age. The most outstanding and one of the most remarkable Jewish figures in Anglo-Jewish history, was a medieval Jews, Joachim Gaunse, who came to Keswick from Prague and Augsburg, and became a founding genius of the mining and smelting industry, in the Lakes, South Wales and Cornwall and helped save England from the Armada and then went on and became the first America Jew, when he went on Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to America, in 1585, and settled temporarily at Roanoake Island. The trail also traces the story of 18th Century Jewish graphite smugglers and Jewish pencil makers, the Jewish pedlars and hawkers who wandered the remote valleys and the World War II Jewish refugees and evacuees who all found sanctuary in the Lake District. This is one of our most remarkable and distinctive trails in a out-standing setting. Trail: Leeds Description: The eminent historian of Leeds Jewish history, Murray Freedman has written a history and trail of Jewish Leeds, and details its history from small beginnings in the early 19th century, to its height as one of the leading Anglo-Jewish communities. While Leeds has declined from its pre-War importance, it is still a leading Jewish center in England out-side of London and Manchester. Trail: Lincoln Description: Lincoln was, in the Middle Ages, one of the most important of the English Jewish communities. Trail: Lincoln Cathedral Jewish Heritage Lincoln Cathedral is famed for its great Christian heritage but its unique Jewish heritage and links to the famous medieval Jewish community in Lincoln, is still largely unknown. This Jewish community of Lincoln was one of the most important in England in its time and the names of some of its leading personalities are still celebrated, including the famous scholar Rabbi Berechiah of Lincoln, and Aaron of Lincoln, who helped make the fortune of the Cistercian monasteries in the north and even loaned the money needed to build the Bishop's Palace. This community made a vivid impression on the very fabric of Lincoln Cathedral, which is rich in Jewish associations and influences, shown in its art, architecture, artefacts and hidden symbolism of the Cathedral. Parts of the decorative design of the Cathedral may have direct Jewish influences, while the remains of the Shrine of Little Hugh are still one of the most controversial relics of medieval anti-Semitism in England. This Trail was Featured in Simon Schama's, 'The Story of the Jews' documentary' Trail: Llandudno Description: place holder Trail: London Top 10 Jewish Visits Description: This Trail introduces the Top 10 Jewish visits and activities in London - some very well-known and others less well-known, but all can be the inspiration for a Jewish heritage visit or stay in London! This trail of activities and visits was created by one of London's top Jewish heritage guides, Rachel Kolsky of Go-London and author of 'Jewish London'. Trail: Merthyr Tydfil - South Wales Description: This Trail was made possible by the accidental birth of Gershon Coren in Merthyr, while his parents were on holiday, 100 years ago. There is a rich and important local Jewish history and heritage in Merthyr, once the foremost Jewish community in Wales and its former Gothic synagogue is the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales and one of the most visually outstanding in the UK. The Merthyr Jewish story is especially linked to the industrial story of Merthyr, the iron and steel industries, the production of iron rails sent across the world, and local coal mining. Local Jews had shops and businesses which serviced the needs of the industrial community and there was also an important contingent of Russian Jewish labourers working in the Rail Bank at Dowlais, who experienced a pogrom (before Tredegar) a generally over-looked event. This new heritage trail traces the history and some of the key heritage in Merthyr, as part of a developing new Jewish Heritage Route across the Valleys of South Wales and is well worth a visit. Trail: Nord Pas de Calais Camps Trail of Memory This innovative heritage trail explores Nazi slavery in the Pas de Calais in World War II and the 'Holocaust in Sight of England'. It creates a new European 'Trail of Memory' along the 'front-line' of Nazi slavery in Western Europe in memory of the victims of Nazi slavery. The trail included the 19+ Jewish slave labour camps along the coast created for Jews from across Europe as part of a system of 2300 slave labour camps specifically for Jews and some of the surviving sites of labour and memory associated with their feats of 'super-human labour'. The enslavement of many other groups and nations in the area is part of the trail of memory as well, as many Russians (including children as young as 12) were brought to the area, though at least 27 nations were enslaved in the Pas de Calais and in the Channel Islands, often employed in constructing the giant V-Weapon block houses further inland. The former Jewish camp at Sangatte reminds us that the current 'camp' at Sangatte is not the first and that there is a long history of conflict in the region and that the great international forces of each era pushing marginalized and dispossessed peoples to the fringe of Europe. This trail has a message relevant to the present and future as slavery is still common across the world and takes many forms. Click here to download the trail route Trail: Northampton Description: One of the leading medieval communities in England, Northampton's Jews were given the boot in 1290. However, seven centuries later they would return to give the boot to Northampton. Trail: Oxford Description: Home to some of the most celebrated scholars and academics of all time, since the days of the Domesday Book, Jews have made a vital contribution to both Oxford the university and Oxford the town. Trail: Portsmouth Description: The Jewish community at Portsea, Portsmouth was founded at one of England's principal Naval bases and ports in the 1730s and 1740s and is generally accepted to be one of the earliest Jewish communities established outside of London, if not the earliest. The origins of the community, may well have originated in the commercial activities of pioneer peddlers and hawkers in the town in the 1730s, who traded through the countryside, or aboard ship during the week, only returning to Portsmouth to celebrate the Sabbath together and to settle accounts. The activities of the port and then the Napoleonic War gave great impetus to the community and many were employed as slop sellers and Navy Agents, or supplying watches and jewelry. The community also had special links with the Jamaican Jewish community and a small group of Sephardim were of some significance in the early community. While the community were very Orthodox, there were numerous squabbles, disgraceful scenes and schisms, with breakaway synagogues! For some time the community was the most important Jewish community outside of London and a famous Jewish school was set-up too, Aria College. The community suffered from anti-Semitism and a serious decline in numbers after the Napoleonic Wars, due to the loss of business in the Port. Community numbers rallied by the 1880s as immigrants came in escaping the persecution and hardships of Eastern Europe and almost completely renewed itself and tailoring became very important. The community is noted for several famous figures, including, Lady Magnus (community activist and writer), Marion Hartog (nee Moss), another well-known Jewish woman writer, as well as George Lewis Lyon a journalist and communal worker and community leader Emanuel Emanuel. In the modern era, the community has declined, as have many others. Trail: Ramsgate Description: The story of Ramsgate Jewish community is beyond doubt dominated by the life and memory of one man - a towering figure of Anglo-Jewry. This was Moses Montefiori. While Montefiori did much to place Ramsgate on the Jewish map, and built a synagogue and a college, the Ramsgate Jewish community was already established, before Sir Moses' arrival, and included other interesting and important individuals, such as Benjamin Norden, a notable early explorer of southern Africa, and an exotic contingent of North African Jews, as well as important Jewish educators and scholars. This trail was the first ever Jewish heritage trail of Ramsgate, originally created in 2004. Description: The Montefiori family The story of Ramsgate Jewish community is beyond doubt dominated by the life and memory of one man - a towering figure of Anglo-Jewry. This was Moses Montefiori. Trail: Sheerness and Blue Town Description: The Jewish heritage and history of Sheerness and Blue Town is fascinating and virtually unknown in this still remote part of England. The Jewish community in Blue Town grew up alongside the Naval Dock Yard during the Napoleonic Wars and echos of this past can still be detected in the western part of Blue Town next to the old Dock Wall. Trail: Stroud Description: Stroud's main claim to note has been as a woolen and worsted producing town in the west of England. The town lies quite dramatically on the steep flanks of a valley and is surprisingly remindful of one of the old woolen towns in the north of England. Trail: THE BRADFORD JEWISH HERITAGE TRAIL Description: Bradford has a proud history. It was the wool capital of the world (a trade which originated in Yorkshire in the 14th century, based on the Cistercians and their superior woolly sheep), and part of the cradle of the Industrial revolution - a city full of 'Yorkshire grit'. These are some of the titles that apply to Bradford. However, at first glance the Jewish connection to Bradford seems a strange one. Trail: The City of Bath Description: The City of Bath traces its history back to Roman times, when the Romans came to take advantage of and to worship at its hot springs. While the medieval inhabitants of Bath made some use of its springs, the main medieval trade was in cloth. The city was to come into pre-eminence - a veritable renaissance - when the continental spa craze swept the country, and the waters of the town became foremost in Britain in the 18th century. Trail: The City of London London has always been the center of Jewish life in this country and is the oldest place of Jewish settlement in England. The Jews of England arrived first of all in London in the wake of William of Normandy's conquest of England. It is thought they arrived shortly afterwards, though the first documented reference to a Jewish quarter in London, only comes in c.1127, when they had arguably been there for some 50 years or more. Initially they were probably only a small group, only reinforced in numbers with Jews fleeing from the Rouen pogrom in 1096. Trail: The International Dr. G.W. Leitner Trail Dr G. W. Leitner had an extraordinary life, which was played out across three continents. He was an explorer, linguist, philologist, archaeologist, art-collector, museologist, with many books and publications to his name. He was a profound student of religions, an inter-faith figure, before the inter-faith movement, a pioneering and campaigning editor of numerous publications and journals for both learning, and social and educational reform, the founder of many schools in India, promoter of education for girls, a College administrator, the founder of Lahore University, a library, and not least, the founder of the 'Oriental College' in Woking, and the first purpose built Mosque and Muslim cemetery in the UK. He may be forgotten today, but he is a person for our times. 'The trail was developed in collaboration with the Jewish Country Houses project, with support from the KE-Seed Fund at the University of Oxford' Trail: The Jew's Road (Chemin des Juifs) Description: This trail focuses on the experiences of David Shentow, one of the only survivors of the Belgian Jewish slave labourers, and his story of forced labour in constructing a 4km concrete road the 'Chemin des Juifs' (the 'Jews Road') close to Hardelot and Condette and his experiences at one of the main Jewish concentration camps, Lager Tibor, at Dannes. This is one of several trails exploring the little known story of the Holocaust and slave labour along the coast in Nord Pas de Calais not far from Boulogne and shows that the reach of Hitler's slave archipelago reached within sight of England. The start of the trail is 8.5 km south of Boulogne and can be found by proceeding to the village of Condette, taking the signs to Château d'Hardelot (geo-location = 50.647020, 1.612536) and then walking down the Rue de la Source, to the start point of the Jews Road, off the road to the right. (geo-location = 50.646147, 1.608720) Trail: Touring Jewish Canterbury A visit to Canterbury is always well worth the effort and worth a special visit. The city is of exceptional interest, with its rich history, and buildings of national importance - its Cathedral and the ruins of St Augustine's Priory, the Castle and city walls, and a large number of surviving medieval and post medieval buildings in the city centre. Added to this there is a rich Jewish history to be discovered in Canterbury both from the medieval and modern period. The sites of the medieval Jews are readily traceable and there are strong historical associations with more modern buildings such as the County Hotel Trail: Touring Jewish Gloucester Description: Gloucester has an unexpected and fascinating Jewish history linked to the military and port history of the city. There have been two distinctive organised Jewish communities in Gloucester - one established in the 12th century and ended by the time of the general Expulsion of the Jews in 1290, and a second community, established perhaps even as early as 1685. This, if correct, makes it one of the first provincial Jewish settlements out-side of London, after the resettlement of the Jews in England in 1655. There is also a modern Jewish population in modern-day Gloucester, but no organised community life, or synagogue, as most Jews, with a religious affiliation, are members of the nearby Cheltenham Synagogue. One of the leading medieval communities in England, Northampton's Jews were given the boot in 1290. However, seven centuries later they would return to give the boot to Northampton. Read More Nigella Lawson - Read More Steven Fry - Read More David Baddiel - Read More Take a Guided Tour! - Read More Find a UK Tour Guide - Read More	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line36
__label__cc	0.584247	0.415753	You are at:Home»Review»1642. Hitch (2005) 1642. Hitch (2005) By The Mad Movie Man on February 1, 2017 110-119 mins, 2005, 6 - 7.9, Comedy, Feb 17, Movies Of 2017, Review, Romance, United States 7.9 Super slick Starring: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James Director: Andy Tennant Running Time: 118 mins Hitch is an American film about Alex Hitchens, a professional ‘date doctor’, who teaches unlucky men the way to get the women of their dreams. However, when dealing with his latest client, circumstances put him in the same position as so many of the men he has coached. This may not be the world’s most intelligent film, but when you’re looking for something that’s as cool as ice, then Hitch is your best bet. With an amazingly slick performance by Will Smith, the film is a hugely entertaining watch from start to finish, taking a pretty generic romantic comedy story and filling it with both humour and heart. If there is one thing that really makes this film, it’s Will Smith. It’s a similar concept to what Crazy Stupid Love did with Ryan Gosling’s character, but Smith is so slick at almost every moment in this movie that it’s a far better show. In part, his constantly cool and upbeat attitude to everything, as well as his character’s ingenuity when it comes to teaching people about relationships, make him an effortlessly likable presence from beginning to end. But it’s not just because he’s such a smooth operator. A positive of the film as a whole, Smith’s character is a very down-to-earth and loving person. This film isn’t about going with as many women as possible, but rather becoming the right sort of person for them, and that’s something we don’t so see enough on the male side of the romantic comedy genre. Will Smith’s performance makes that whole concept so convincing, and with his sheer coolness, takes away any sense of cheesy romance and replaces it with genuinely likable heart. Going back to the story, it was brilliantly refreshing to see the film have a more heartfelt approach to the romantic comedy genre, focusing more on the characters involved rather than the object of their relationships. What’s more is that the plot, although a little silly in real world terms, is properly entertaining to watch. Yes, it’s brilliantly cool to watch Will Smith swiftly help these men to be with the women of their dreams, but the contrast that you get between his clients’ relationships and his own romance was also very enjoyable to watch, and gave the film yet another level of emotional intrigue. I’m not going to say that Hitch is a piece of cinematic art, but what it does really well is provide an entertaining and interesting watch, something that the romantic comedy genre definitely doesn’t do often. Its central performance is super slick, and its philosophy on romance and relationships is a pleasant break from what we normally see, and that’s why I’m giving Hitch a 7.9. 1775. Welcome To The South (2010) 1750. The Grey (2012) 1554. Arrival (2016) 2079. Me And The Alien (2016) 3336. Adaptation. (2002)	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line43
__label__wiki	0.582245	0.582245	David Bowie – Early Years January 5, 2012 ERTorre 1 Comment Listening to BBC’s Inspirational David Bowie made me think back to my own feelings regarding David Bowie’s albums and career. In all the blog posts I’ve written, I’ve mentioned my favorite Bowie songs, but never really looked at his works album by album. As a mental exercise, I considered several albums and which song I considered the “best” song of said album and which would be the runner up for the best…again, in my opinion. Given Mr. Bowie’s long career and many albums, this is a task that will require more than one post. A couple of rules, first: I’m focusing on the actual albums released under his name and ignoring the voluminous singles (including those released before his first “official” album release), live albums, duets, movie scores, and side projects. I may get to them eventually as there is plenty of good stuff there, but for now, the albums and two best songs (IMHO!) themselves. First up, the three albums from his early years that lead up to the glam era… Mr. Bowie’s first album is Space Oddity. Originally released in 1969, this album, in my opinion, isn’t one of Mr. Bowie’s stronger efforts. Nonetheless, far and away the best song on this album and a terrific piece is the song the album was named after, Space Oddity. Runner up: The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud. David Bowie’s follow up album, The Man Who Sold The World, remains one of my favorite works of his. The best song on that album, far and away, is The Man Who Sold The World. Choosing a second great song from that album is a little harder, but I’d go with the very psychedelic/early metal Width of a Circle. Which brings us to the last of the “early” albums, 1971’s Hunky Dory. Many consider this the first “real” David Bowie album (I tend to think The Man Who Sold The World is). There is little doubt, however, that between this album and the last David Bowie was building up his skills. While The Man Who Sold The World sounded like early metal, Hunky Dory was far lighter in tone and featured the hit single Changes. My favorite song on that album, however, has to be Life On Mars?. The runner up is a tough one. There are several really great songs on this album. If I were pressed to note one above the others, I might just go for the Lou Reed-esq Queen Bitch. Next: The Glam Era Previous PostInspirational David BowieNext PostDavid Bowie – The Glam Years One thought on “David Bowie – Early Years” Pingback: David Bowie – Post Glam Soul & The Berlin Trilogy \| Random Thoughts	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line44
__label__cc	0.530641	0.469359	Excited To Announce The New Zealand Visa Is Now Available For Japanese Citizens We are pleased to announce that the New Zealand visa is now available for Japanese citizens. Our online portals, image management, document storage, file format conversion and other clerical activities are available to help make your transition to New Zealand as smooth and hassle-free as possible. Please visit our website for more information and to apply for your visa today. NEW ZEALAND VISA FOR JAPANESE CITIZENS New Zealand visa is pleased to announce that we are now offering our services to Japanese citizens. Our online portals, image management, document storage, file format conversion and other clerical activities are available to help make your transition to New Zealand as smooth and hassle-free as possible. We look forward to assisting you on your journey. In response to the growing number of Mexican tourists visiting New Zealand, the government has announced a new visa regime for Mexican citizens.Under the new regime, Mexican citizens will be able to apply for a visa online, and will no longer need to provide biometric data or attend an interview.The new visa regime will come into effect on 1 January 2020, and will make it easier for Mexican citizens to visit New Zealand. NEW ZEALAND VISA FOR MEXICAN CITIZENS The New Zealand government has announced that it will be introducing a visa for Mexican citizens. This is in response to the growing number of Mexican tourists visiting the country.The visa will allow Mexican citizens to stay in New Zealand for up to three months. It will also allow them to work and study while they are in the country.This is a great opportunity for Mexican citizens to experience all that New Zealand has to offer. For more information, please visit the New Zealand Visa website. New Zealand is introducing a new visa for Singapore citizens, making it easier for them to apply for a visa online or through a New Zealand visa application centre.This change will make it simpler and quicker for Singapore citizens to visit New Zealand, whether for business or pleasure. New Zealand welcomes over 3 million visitors each year, and this new visa will make it even easier for Singaporeans to become part of that number.Application forms and further information will be made available on the New Zealand Immigration website in the coming weeks. In the meantime, any Singapore citizens wishing to apply for a New Zealand visa should do so through their nearest New Zealand embassy or consulate. The New Zealand Government has announced that, effective immediately, Singapore citizens are now eligible to apply for a visa to New Zealand.This change will allow Singapore citizens to apply for a visa online or through a New Zealand visa application centre.This is a major development for travel between New Zealand and Singapore, and we encourage all Singapore citizens who wish to travel to New Zealand to take advantage of this opportunity. New Zealand is pleased to announce that it will now be accepting visa applications from Portuguese citizens. The process has been streamlined for ease and convenience, and all the necessary information and resources are available on our website. We look forward to welcoming more visitors from Portugal to our beautiful country. New Zealand Visa, a provider of visa services for Portuguese citizens, has announced the launch of their new website. The site offers a streamlined application process, complete with all the necessary information and resources needed to successfully apply for a New Zealand visa.The site is completely bilingual, making it easier than ever for Portuguese citizens to navigate the application process. New Zealand Visa also offers support services to help with filling out the application and checking accuracy, completeness and spelling.With the launch of the new website, New Zealand Visa is committed to helping Portuguese citizens obtain the visas they need to travel to New Zealand easily and without hassle. Company Name: New Zealand Visa Application Contact Person: Bajaso Thompson James Website: https://www.new-zealand-visa.co.nz/visa/	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line48
__label__cc	0.640266	0.359734	REBLOG: How To Write A Bestseller With Western Writer Scott Harris: Mile 8: First Or Third? Hit Western Author Jim Burnett Pays Tribute To Those Brave Peace Officers With His Latest Novel Why Now, Now, NOW! Is The Right Time To Believe In Your Western Novel What a tremendous year so far! With great success seemingly around every bend in the road, there’s a great feeling of optimism in the Western book business. A whole genre that was pronounced dead a few years ago—a genre that has currently found itself in a state of rebirth with brand new books, brand new movies, brand new ideas—heck, a brand new lease of life. That life has allowed readers around the world to discover the wonder and awe of the history of the United States of America. Take an author like Cherokee Parks. Cherokee, one of the finest Western writers of today, has been having one helluva year. With millions of pages of his Westerns read, he has been at the forefront of this rebirth. Authors like Robert Hanlon, GP Hutchinson, Randall Dale, David Watts, Mike Hundley, Paul L. Thompson, Scott Harris, C. Wayne Winkle, M. Allen, Mark Baugher, D.L. Bittick, and a shed load more have been leading this spearhead of achievement. But what has made this rebirth possible? Three things, friend. Three things. The first has been the quality of books made available to the public by the talented writers, editors and cover designers of the Western genre. The second has been the influence of brand new Western publishing houses that have revolutionized the way Westerns have been presented and promoted, reaching new readerships and allowing readers to be educated about the new releases heading onto, and currently dominating, the market. The third essential ingredient has been the new and exciting way promotion has been developed to fit the genre. This includes the time-tested promotional techniques such as forewords and author association, but some new techniques such as super optimization and “creep and peep” promotion. The way Westerns are promoted today is both the best of the past and the very latest, tied together with string and called sales success. These traditional and futuristic promotional ideals have scored hit after hit for authors. But the authors need to write the stories readers want before any of this works. So if you feel you have a Western readers will enjoy, and you’re willing to work for success—why don’t you get your book out there and give it a chance? I think you may be very surprised at the number of readers who will enjoy your book. Get that book out there, and I’ll look forward to seeing you on the bestseller charts! Take advantage of the new, exciting strides being taken within the genre and use them—use them to allow your book to be seen and read by the world! Now, as always, if you have questions just contact me through the form below. Furthermore—I have a question for you. What’s your favorite book of all time? I’ve been trying to catch up on all the great novels out there and would love your suggestion. Feel free to get in touch—anytime!	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line49
__label__wiki	0.833616	0.833616	Board Of Supes OKs Plan To Apply For Grant To Build $290 Million New Jail Board of Supervisors Eric Mar jail Ross mirkarimi sheriff's department by Bay City News \| October 22, 2013 8:37 pm \| in City Hall \| 1 The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today authorized the city to apply for a state grant to help build a new jail adjacent to the current Hall of Justice building. San Francisco is proposing to build a new $290 million jail to replace the facilities currently housing roughly 600 inmates on the top two floors of the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant St., and is eligible for a state grant of up to $80 million to finance the project. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and other proponents of the plan say the current jail is in a seismically unsafe building and has an antiquated design that allows little space for rehabilitative programs and allows for only intermittent supervision of inmates. The new jail would be built several years from now on a site directly east of the Hall of Justice. However, opponents of the proposal, including District Attorney George Gascon, said the city should instead focus on programs that reduce the number of inmates in San Francisco jails and explore moving the Hall of Justice inmates to a city-owned jail in San Bruno. Supervisor Eric Mar said today that he was among those skeptical of the need for a new jail before he recently took a tour of the Hall of Justice site with Mirkarimi. Mar said the city needs “a more humane, modern facility that addresses rehabilitation.” Supervisor David Campos said he was still skeptical about “whether or not the current proposal reflects the needs of the city.” Campos said, “If we can have alternatives to incarceration, I advise for them.” He said the city should also consider the cost of the project after debt financing is taken into account. City Controller Ben Rosenfield told the supervisors that the new jail could end up costing more than $500 million after interest is paid over the coming decades. Board president David Chiu, who spoke in support of the proposal, noted the project would end up reducing the total number of jail beds in the city once the jails at the Hall of Justice are shuttered. He said the seismic issues at the current jails “pose a substantial risk to inmates and staff,” while other proponents noted there would be high costs and security problems with transporting inmates from a jail in San Bruno to their court cases in San Francisco. The supervisors ended up voting unanimously in support of applying for the potential grant, which would come from a pool of $500 million authorized by Senate Bill 1022 to be dispersed by the State Public Works Board to counties around California. Chiu noted that the actual jail project still is in the planning stages and would also have to be approved by the city.	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line54
__label__cc	0.67264	0.32736	Home » Middle East » Brucellosis up 83% in Israel, called a ‘Third world epidemic’ Brucellosis up 83% in Israel, called a ‘Third world epidemic’ The number of human cases of the zoonotic infection, brucellosis, has increased in parts of Israel by 83 percent, prompting one physician to call it a “Third world epidemic”. Israel/CIA The Jerusalem Post reports the surge in cases in centered around Beduin inthe South and other Arabs in eastern Jerusalem, Nazareth, Acre and elsewhere in the North. MK Ahmad Tibi, a physician said, “Just in the last six months, 217 cases were reported. There is no excuse for this negligence, because Israel has a very high level of medical and agricultural know how.” In addition, hospitalizations for the infection are up 30 percent compared to last year. Health officials say that experts have been sent to teach the public about how to make milk safe; however, they note, “but they don’t cooperate and listen, and they even hide the products from us, even though we have made it clear that they are causing themselves to get sick.” Brucellosis is one of the most serious diseases of livestock, considering the damage done by the infection in animals. Decreased milk production,weight loss, loss of young, infertility, and lameness are some of the affects on animals. The Brucella species are named for their primary hosts: Brucella melitensis is found mostly is goats, sheep and camels, B. abortus is a pathogen of cattle, B. suis is found primarily in swine and B. canis is found in dogs. The Middle East and North Africa are considered high-risk regions for brucellosis. There are two common ways people get infected with brucellosis. First, individuals that work with infected animals that have not been vaccinated against brucellosis. This would include farmers, slaughterhouse workers and veterinarians. They get infected through direct contact or aerosols produced by the infected animal tissue. B. abortus and B. suis are most common. The second way is through ingesting unpasteurized dairy products. Brucellosis is also an occupational hazard to laboratory workers who inappropriately handle specimens or have an accident or spill. Brucella is highly infectious in the aerosolized form. There is no vaccine available for humans. If someone gets infected with Brucella, the incubation period is about 2-3 weeks, though it could be months. Fever, night sweats, severe headache and body aches and other non-specific symptoms may occur. Acute and chronic brucellosis can lead to complications in multiple organ systems. The skeletal, central nervous system, respiratory tract, the liver, heart, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts can all be affected. Untreated brucellosis has a fatality rate of 5%. Yemen dengue outbreak: Rep. Dingell sends letter to Sec. John Kerry urging a negotiated solution to the conflict Polio: The lowest number of cases ever reported in first 6 months of 2015 Sindh Naegleria fowleri death toll reaches a dozen in 2015 2 thoughts on “Brucellosis up 83% in Israel, called a ‘Third world epidemic’” Pingback: Jordan: Shigella outbreak sickens 80, hummus believed to be the source \| Outbreak News Today Pingback: The state of infectious disease in Israel – Touro University California in Israel XekLFLK says: Pills information. What side effects can this medication cause? ... Likuk Spincasino.games says: As long as he is not shy to speak English, his speaking... When he practices his reading, he shows a better understanding of the...	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line57
__label__wiki	0.740914	0.740914	Home » News » Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Breaking Benjamin, Killswitch Engage and more to play first-annual LAS RAGEOUS Festival Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Breaking Benjamin, Killswitch Engage and more to play first-annual LAS RAGEOUS Festival Posted by Staff on Feb 1, 2017 in News \| 0 comments This year marks the debut of Las Rageous, a two-day music festival taking over two square blocks in downtown Las Vegas on Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22. Created by Live Nation, Las Rageous will feature performances from Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Anthrax, Coheed and Cambria, Killswitch Engage, Breaking Benjamin, and more with two stages in the heart of iconic downtown Las Vegas. Charlie Benante of Anthrax stated, “We are looking forward to playing the Las Rageous festival, planning on making this first-time festival memorable.” Benjamin Burnley of Breaking Benjamin said, “We’re really excited to be a part of Las Rageous in April. We love playing Vegas and are looking forward to being a part of this new festival.” Amanda Moore of Live Nation explained, “Bringing an annual rock festival to this city has been a dream ever since we opened the Live Nation Las Vegas office. Rock and metal music have a rich history here in Sin City; from the bands it has fostered, to its wild and loyal fans, to KOMP – one of the oldest and most respected rock stations in the country.” The lineup for Las Rageous is as follows: Friday, April 21: Godsmack, Anthrax, Coheed and Cambria, Killswitch Engage, Of Mice & Men, The Devil Wears Prada, with more announcements to come. Saturday, April 22: Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Mastodon, Eagles Of Death Metal, All That Remains, Escape The Fate, with more announcements to come. With only 10,000 tickets available for purchase, Las Rageous offers the rare opportunity for fans to enjoy a festival experience in an intimate outdoor setting. Located just off Las Vegas Boulevard at Third and Carson Streets, Las Rageous will take over two city blocks of the historic downtown area. All ages are welcome and doors open at 4 p.m., with headliners taking the stage at approximately 10 p.m. The festival will also feature a collection of wandering freak show performers, a KOMP-sponsored showcase of local rock and metal bands, and a Vegas scene foodie-focused Food Truck Village. Pre-sale tickets will be available Thursday, Feb. 2 from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. PT. Pre-sale passwords can be obtained by signing up for the Las Rageous email list at http://www.LasRageous.com or from radio partner KOMP-FM. All tickets available for purchase are two-day festival tickets for both Friday and Saturday. An initial allotment of two-day festival tickets will be available for $99 each, for a limited time only. Fans are encouraged to purchase their tickets early, as the specially-priced $99 tickets are expected to sell out quickly. VIP tickets are also available and include private viewing from a platform and onsite parking. For more information on Las Rageous, please visit: http://www.LasRageous.com http://www.facebook.com/LasRageous http://www.twitter.com/LasRageous Suscribe to our YouTube channel © TheFrontRowReport	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line58
__label__cc	0.60523	0.39477	Be your own hero through learning self-defence In NewsPosted Jun 19, 2019 “Tonight, we want you to walk out of this women’s self-defence class, feeling empowered, having tapped into your fighting spirit,” Ron Amram, Co-Director of Combat Arts Institute of Australia (CAIA) said as he begun the class with seven women at the dojo in Leederville on Tuesday night. Ron said it was important to acknowledge that the class was not a fitness class, and women should not have to run a marathon to be able to defend themselves. “Women live in a constant state of fear – is someone following them, are they safe at night, are they wearing the right clothes – nobody should have to live like that; it’s just not fair. I have a 14-month-old daughter and I want her to grow up without that fear,” he said. Chatting to one of the instructors, Michaella Mansilungan before the class, she said that it was important for the women to face real-life scenarios so when they are panicking, they can slow down and breathe and remember what they need to do. “Many of the women who attend the class can find it quite cathartic, especially if they have been in a violent relationship. It’s a way they can end that chapter of their life,” she said. “We need to help women build confidence and give them the permission to act if they end up in a threatening scenario.” “We can make them fight like hell and know exactly what to do to defend themselves, if they ever need to.” Michaella Mansilungan Ron said the self-defence class focused around Adrenal Stress Scenario Training (ASST) and tapped into the ‘fight or flight’ reflex. “Fight or flight is good because it prepares your body for a fight, but it can also be very bad, as you can completely shut down in a stressful situation,” he said. “The goal for the class is to get the women stressed and teach them how to react.” Throughout the two-hour class there was a progression of building up from self-awareness and observing very basic aggressive body-language in staged muggers, and assessing the surroundings, to asserting confidence, physically and verbally, and basically empowering the women to kick butt. Pictured: Michaella with the ‘muggers’, looking at various types of aggressors The class looked at different types of aggressors and what that could look like but also how it could make them feel too as they explored different kinds of boundaries. Both physical and emotional. The techniques employed were simple enough to apply in a stressful and threatening situation, but what made this different was the psychological connection to what the women were doing, and the real-life scenarios that were staged in the class. This element of realism made a big difference in how the women responded. Throughout the class, the transition of the women was evident. From beginning so gently as they introduced themselves to the group, they then were able to embrace their fighting spirit. According to findings from the Department of Communities’ ‘Key Issues for WA Women’, 28% of WA women avoided walking alone after dark in the last 12 months because they felt unsafe. Michaella said that women should choose to be their own hero. “Nobody is going to rescue you – you need to rescue yourself,” she said. Pictured: One of the class participants, fighting off a ‘mugger’ Co-Director of CAIA, Noah Greenstone said that feeling unsafe can colour a person’s entire perception of life and the world around them, especially in terms of domestic violence. “When violence occurs on a regular basis in the home, it can create lasting damage that takes a long time to learn how to deal with,” he said. “Repeated violence in the place where someone should normally feel safe, loved and protected can imbalance our understanding of reality, and strip away the joy in life.” Noah Greenstone Noah said the ultimate goal of self-defence was self-empowerment. “Now that society is becoming more evolved and people regardless of gender are being recognised as equals in our society, self-defence as a tool of personal power is exceptionally important for everyone – not as a tool for aggression, but as a vehicle for establishing self-confidence and empowerment in every situation,’ he said “At a base level, humans need to know they are safe in order to thrive, and it’s about time that more women felt that.” The women’s self-defence classes are currently being held monthly in Leederville. Groups can also make a booking separately if they would like to do some team-building activities. Find out more on CAIA’s website. If you or anyone you know needs help contact: Women’s Domestic Violence Line on 9223 1188 or 1800 007 339 (country) Men’s Domestic Violence Line on 9223 1199 or 1800 000 599 Crisis Care on 9223 1111 1800 Respect on 1800 737 732 Beyond Blue on 1300 22 46 36 Learning Respect at Sevenoaks Teens – we need to talk about domestic violence	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line63
__label__wiki	0.87386	0.87386	Surrey Towns » Bagshot Bagshot History Bagshot was originally part of the manor of Windlesham and is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086. It is first recorded as 'Bagsheta' and 'Bacheseta', meaning 'Bacga's sceat or angle of land' in 1164. Bagshot was described by Daniel Defoe in the early 18th century as 'not only good for little but good for nothing'. Perhaps he was frightened by the reputation of Bagshot Heath, where highwaymen and footpads lurked. Fortunately, Bagshot has changed a great deal since Defoe's time and was described by the architecture writers, Nairn and Pevsner, as being situated 'in a landscape of rhododendrons and holly bushes'. Charles I was lodged at Bagshot in 1648, when he was being brought to London under heavy guard on his way to his trial and execution. His son, Charles II, was also visited the village. He was always short of funds and it was here in 1660 that he dreamt up the money making idea of opening his private postal service to all and sundry. The result was the establishment of the Royal Mail. In the 18th century Bagshot found itself ideally placed on the main turnpike road heading west from London to Bristol. It is said that upwards of thirty coaches passed through each day and business at the village's inns and alehouses must have been brisk. Bagshot was part of the parish of Windlesham and did not have its own church until St Anne's was opened in 1884. In 1877 Bagshot Park was built for the Duke of Connaught, one of Queen Victoria's sons. The railway came in 1878 and with it came building expansion, but Bagshot has still managed to retain its village atmosphere. Copyright © SurreyProperty.com Ltd. All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions \| Privacy Policy \| Acceptable Use Policy	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line66
__label__wiki	0.816057	0.816057	Andrew Porter practices real estate law and commercial litigation in Chicago. Fred Eychaner Becomes First Chicago Casualty Of The Supreme Court’s Expansion Of Eminent Domain. September 13, 2017 Andrew Porter The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation.” But what constitutes a “public use”? Is there a limit to eminent domain power? In Keno v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), the Supreme Court held that the term “public use” should be broadly construed, reflecting a long-standing deference to legislative judgments in the field of eminent domain. In Keno, the City of New London initiated condemnation proceedings against a series of landowners whose homes stood in the way of a proposed economic revitalization project. The cynics spun the project as a concession to Pfizer and played up the interests of the individual landowners, who were being tossed out of their legacy waterfront homes. Although the Supreme Court acknowledged that a municipality may not exercise its eminent domain powers simply to transfer real estate from one private party to another, it ruled that non-blighted property could be condemned and transferred to a development company as a part of an “economic development plan” believed to provide “appreciable benefits to the community, including — but by no means limited to — new jobs and increased tax revenue.” Writing for the Court, Justice Stevens (a native Chicagoan with family roots in the real estate business), concluded that, given the “comprehensive character of the plan, the thorough deliberation that proceeded its adoption, and the limited scope of our review,” the City of New London’s revitalization campaign “unquestionably serve[d] a public purpose. The Court’s decision was highly controversial and created strange bedfellows. Vocal critics, including the Libertarian Party, the NAACP, and the AARP, saw their views articulated by the Court’s more conservative wing, which included Justices O’Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas. The dissenters argued that all private property was now unsafe and subject to condemnation for the benefit of any private person or corporation, particularly those with connections and influence that translate into legislative power. As Justice Thomas wryly observed: “Something has gone seriously awry with this Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Though citizens are safe from the government in their homes, the homes themselves are not.” The fallout has now reached Chicago, claiming entrepreneur and philanthropist Fred Eychaner as its first victim. The story begins in 1999, when the city proposed the creation of a Planned Manufacturing District (PMD) in the Chicago-Halsted corridor for the alleged purpose of protecting 2,800 industrial jobs, preventing residential encroachment, and encouraging manufacturers to invest in their facilities. The proposed PMD included, among other property, the Blommer Chocolate Company factory and a parcel of land two blocks away owned by Fred Eychaner. Blommer objected to its inclusion in the PMD, noting that new residential development was approaching from the south, that neighbors would inevitably complain about traffic, noise, and smell, and that, if ever forced to sell, it would be “hard to imagine [that] another manufacturing concern would be interested in buying [its] property only to inherit [its] neighborhood problems.” Before long, however, the city and Blommer reached an understanding that Blommer would drop its objection to inclusion in the PMD and the City would help expand Blommer’s industrial campus in order to remove its truck staging from the main roads and thus alleviate complaints about traffic and noise. The city enticed Blommer by agreeing to pursue the creation of a tax-increment financing district (TIF) to help finance public infrastructure improvements and “potential acquisitions.” Accordingly, in September 2000, the city council passed an ordinance adopting the PMD. In the same month, the city’s community development commission accepted for review the proposed plan for the River West Tax Increment Financing Redevelopment Project Area (aka, the River West TIF). In connection with the proposed TIF, the city retained a private firm to conduct an “eligibility study” and prepare a report. The study recited the litany of issues associated with the “residential renaissance” of downtown Chicago, highlighting creeping gentrification, lot sales to “high-bidding residential developers,” and the continuing complaints of traffic and noise as forces pushing industrial users out. It paid heed, therefore, to the city’s “critical” interests in land use balance, local employment, a growing tax base, and protection and enhancement of remaining industrial areas. Needless to say, in early 2001, the City Council adopted the River West TIF. Shortly thereafter, Blommer submitted a redevelopment proposal to the city in which it proposed acquiring 4.2 acres of land around its factory, including a parcel owned by Fred Eychaner at the southwest corner of Jefferson and Grand Streets. It specifically noted that its proposal would create and retain jobs, increase tax revenue, ensure its continued presence in Chicago, and create a “buffer zone” between itself and the adjacent residential developments. In February 2002, Blommer offered to purchase Eychaner’s land for $824,980 — an offer that Eychaner declined. Next, the city got involved. It notified Eychaner that it was considering taking his property. In May 2002, the Community Development Commission held a public meeting regarding the proposed taking and, over the objections of Eychaner, recommended an exercise of eminent domain. In July 2002, the City Council passed an ordinance authorizing the taking of Eychaner’s land, finding the taking to be consistent with the objectives of the River West TIF. In August 2005, only weeks after the Supreme Court decided Kelo, the city filed a complaint to condemn Eychaner’s property. After some lengthy pretrial wrangling, the case went to trial on the issue of just compensation, and the jury awarded Eychaner $2.5 million. But Eychaner didn’t want the money. He wanted his property. On appeal, therefore, he argued that the city could not constitutionally exercise its eminent domain power to acquire a non-blighted property and transfer it to another private party merely in the name of economic redevelopment. The court of appeals disagreed. In an opinion authored by Justice Michael Hyman, the court started by noting that, although the taking of private property must be for a “public purpose,” the public purpose is not defeated merely because the condemned property is transferred to another private owner. It also observed that “possessory use by the public is not an indispensable prerequisite” to the lawful exercise of eminent domain power. A government may take property in the name of economic redevelopment, the court stated, so long as “members of the public are the primary intended beneficiaries of the taking rather than private businesses.” The court then examined the proposed taking for evidence of an illegitimate purpose. In doing so, it was keen to emphasize that deference ought be accorded to the legislative findings. Nonetheless, it recognized that discerning the difference between a valid public use and a sham “can be challenging.” For example, in Southwestern Illinois Development Authority v. National City Environmental, LLC, 99 Ill. 2d 225 (2002), the Illinois Supreme Court held unconstitutional an exercise of eminent domain power in which 148.5 acres of land belonging to a recycling company was taken and transferred to a racetrack for use as a parking lot. Although the development authority justified the taking in the interest of decreased traffic, better public safety, and the reduction of blight, the Illinois Supreme Court was nonplussed. It held that, in the absence of a “thorough study” or the formulation of an “economic plan,” it had no choice but to conclude that the development authority was merely assisting the racetrack in meeting its expansion goals by acting as a makeshift land broker. It concluded that, while the authority’s actions were undertaken “in the guise of carrying out its legislated mission,” its “true intentions were not clothed in an independent, legitimate governmental decision to further a planned public use.” Relying on Kelo and Southwestern Illinois Development Authority, the court explained that “a telling feature of sound public use in the context of economic redevelopment is the existence of a well-developed, publicly vetted, and thoughtful economic development plan.” As far as the City of Chicago is concerned, it was all downhill from here: The court examined the process behind the creation of the PMD and the overlapping TIF district and found that the city jumped through all the necessary hoops before acting and that there was no evidence of a “sweetheart deal to help Blommer avoid paying full price for Eychaner’s land.” Although the court of appeals affirmed the finding that the city’s exercise of eminent domain was not unconstitutional, it found procedural errors relating to the computation of fair compensation and remanded the matter to the trial court. 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__label__cc	0.523767	0.476233	second most dangerous city in america Shutterstock 10. St. Louis earned the title of deadliest city in America with a murder rate of 60.9 per 100,000 in 2018. Detroit Located in the Michigan State, Detroit is ranked America’s second most dangerous city to live in. Oakland. However, there are exceptions: New Jersey, home to five cities in the top 100, and Illinois, home to three (including #98 Chicago) have very strict gun laws. Per violent crime rate average, per 1,000 people, police adequacy, population >= 10,000. On this list, we find Memphis, Tennessee (#1), Baltimore, Maryland (#3), and St. Louis, Missouri (#6), mid-sized cities plagued perennially with gun murders and other violent crime. However, there are some surprises, as well, including Baton Rouge, Louisiana (#10), Anchorage, Alaska (#4) and Minneapolis, Minnesota (#8). Both robbery and assault are problems in Baltimore. St Louis St. Louis is arguably the most dangerous American city. Some of the best systems include ones by ADT, FrontPoint and Vivint. Then we created a ranking based on Violent crime rate 2017. It has been theorized that a major contributing factor to the rise of crimes in the city is a high poverty rate together with increasing unemployment. With a violent crime rate of 2,082.3 per 100,000 people, St. Louis is the … Is this the most dangerous city in America? Although mass shootings are becoming increasingly common in American life, the violent crime and prevalence of gun murders plaguing America’s most dangerous cities aren’t best explained by lax gun laws, rates of gun ownership, or one-off rampages (although, these do have an effect), but rather, by income inequality. Many of these smaller communities have violent crime rates similar to the most dangerous neighborhoods of the larger cities they are adjacent to, and in many cases, they border these neighborhoods. The aggravated assault rate in Stockton is particularly high, at 2,962 per 100,000 people. The difference is that the larger cities also have more affluent, low crime areas that lower their overall violent crime rates, while their smaller satellite cities do not.. Alarms.org is Copyright 2019 The National Council For Home Safety and Security. Table 5 is an interesting way to look at cities with violent crime issues from a different perspective, by averaging a city’s violent crime rate with its increase in violent crime over the last year of available data. On Alarms.org, consumers will find important research, articles, reports, and everything else they need to know about home security and safety. St Louis. 2 of 20. Baltimore ranks third with a violent crime rate of 2,027 violent crimes for every 100,000 people. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed violent crime rates among the nation’s cities … 3. The Crime Score is the index that combines Normalized crime rate and Police adequacy. St. Louis is notable for having the highest murder rate in the country at 66 homicides per 100,000. St. Louis has the maximum murder rate nationally, and it’s risen in recent decades as gun violence from other big, high… Instead, mid-sized cities in the Pacific Northwest and California dominate the ranking. This allows us to examine cities with already serious crime issues while taking stock of their potential for further crime increases in the future. In 2009, the number of violent and property crimes in … Chicago, the third most populous metro area in the country, is seen as the most dangerous, with 53% of Americans saying that the city is 'unsafe' while only 33% say it is 'safe'. The data is made available for the public to view, download and analyze. Oakland Jonathan Gibby/Getty Images. Kansas City is the fifth most dangerous city in the United States and the second entry on this list from Missouri. . Detroit, Michigan, has the second-highest violent crime rate in the United States with 2,056.7 violent crimes per 100,000 people. More attention is paid to the events of a large city from outside that city. Detroit is the most populous of the 11 most dangerous cities and has a correspondingly high volume of crimes. Baton Rouge, LA (#16), Louisiana’s capital city, is the outlier here, with a population of 227,715. If it is positive, that means the crime rate went up; in some cities, the crime rate increased more than other cities; the rank captures which cities have the highest increase in crime rates. Gun violence and the prevalence of violent crime in the United States remain hot button issues in American society. Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. This may indicate that the overburdened police forces in these cities encounter a higher amount of crime than they are capable of policing. The following are the 5 highest crime rate cities in America in 2017. The number of murders and homicides in the city have been lower than previous years, with 267 homicides in 2018. Unfortunately, much of the crime in Baltimore has been linked to illegal drug trafficking and a stubborn poverty rate. If you’re stuck in one of the most dangerous cities, there are a few ways you can still keep yourself safer then most. According to the FBI website, “Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Some of the most common crimes in the city are aggravated assault, assault with a deadly weapon, rape, armed robbery, murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Population >= 100,000. Yesterday, for the second year in a row, Camden, which has had 48 homicides so far (not going this morning), was named the 2nd most dangerous city in America according to the 2011 CQ Press City Crime Rankings.Flint, Michigan, which has appeared in more than one Michael Moore documentary, came in first, with Detroit, St. Louis and Oakland not far behind. According to CNNMoney who publishes the annual report, Oakland’s police department has been … The violent crime rate is 1,072 incidents per 100,000 residents. The following 50 cities have the highest murder rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people, and all relevant data available online. -- A report citing research of FBI crime report statistics has named Tukwila the second most dangerous city in America, coming in behind Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Detroit is the 2nd Most Dangerous City in America September 27, 2016 / Michael Sauter, Samuel Stebbins and Thomas C Frohlich [jwplayer jN4wLTK1] The FBI reported Monday that 1,197,704 violent crimes were committed in 2015, up 3.9% from 2014. Alternatively you can put up a home security camera. Between 2012 and 2014, it was reported that the murder rate in Indianapolis increased by nearly 50%. This year, the data from 2013 shows that Oakland dropped a couple spots on the list to fourth-most-dangerous city in America. The violent crime rate is 1,072 incidents per 100,000 residents. Four Washington cities appear in the top ten, as well as Billings, Montana (#3) and Portland, Oregon (#9), also in the region. The criminal activities began in Kansas right after the American Civil War. Next, we combined the two scores to create a score for each city. In smaller cities, it only takes a few violent crimes to lend a significant boost to the crime rate. Undoubtedly, the US has remarkably high rates of violent crime compared to other developed nations in Europe and Asia, especially in certain regions, but what is the underlying cause behind these numbers? Consider installing an alarm system in your home. In the first part, we analyzed data as reported by agencies from cities – mostly police departments from cities. Many of them work directly with your phone to alert you when there is movement. St Louis is ranked as the most dangerous city in the US with a violent crime rate of 1,817.10 per 100,000 residents. 2. The crime rate in 2017 minus the crime rate in 2016. St. Louis, Missouri - 2,082.3. Infographic: map showing the 10 most dangerous cities in the world. Business Insider writes that Newark had 42.8 violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2017. Despite the high violent crime rates plaguing these cities, there is evidence that, overall, the violence is lessening, and will continue to do so. By Faraz Haider on January 14 2021 in World Facts. Property crime is especially high in Albuquerque. What is the Difference Between the Vatican City and the Holy See. Below is a list of cities in the United States with the highest violent crime rates, which could be called the country's most dangerous. Some cities are tied because of the same average of two ranks. Rather than just consider the violent crime rates of these cities, we also factored in a “police adequacy” score, which is the total number of crimes divided by the number of police officers servicing the city. Image Courtesy: fabuloussavers.com. In that year, 186 were slaughtered in the city of a population of about 318,000. The 10 Most Dangerous U.S. Cities. Its violent crime rate is 1556.8 incidences for every 100,000 people. In 2016 there were 36 murders per 100,000 Newark residents which was about three times higher than any other city in New Jersey and the fifth highest in the country, at the time. St. Louis, Missouri tops the charts in almost every measurement or analysis of dangerous American cities. 8. 82.7% of the total population is African American whereas only 10.6% of the total population is from the Caucasian race. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed violent crime rates in major U.S. cities from the FBI’s 2017 Uniform Crime Report. With 309 recorded homicides in 2018, Baltimore is easily one of the most violent and dangerous major cities in America. While the trend of declining violent crime across the board offers up some hope for American cities besieged by violence and murder, many of them have deep-seated issues that have plagued their neighborhoods for decades, and it is not entirely clear where the solution lies. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims. Nevertheless, with beautiful weather and recreational places Kansas is a beautiful city. At the same time, city officials and a study with the Shelby County Crime Commission insists crime has gone down. Since the 1990s, crime in this Missouri city had been steadily increasing, but in recent years, crime does seem to be decreasing slightly. Stockton, California ranks as the eighth most dangerous city in the United States, with 1,414.6 violent crimes committed for every 100,000 people. Newark, New Jersey. Cape Town, South Africa, the most murderous city in the world by death toll. In America’s 10 most dangerous cities, there were more than 1,300 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. Unfortunately, recent history is something the city’s residents likely want to forget, as Baltimore continues to rank as one of the country’s most dangerous places. Caracas, Venezuela , the most murderous city in South America. This is a two-part study. Annual rankings, based on FBI crime statistics and population statistics, offered up the most dangerous cities in handy list form. The 10 Most Dangerous U.S. Cities. The data used for this research are the number of violent crimes reported to have occurred in each city, and the population of each city. St. Louis. Let’s look at the two communities that top the list: Anniston, AL (#1) and Bessemer, AL (#2) (see table 1 below). Could it be the nation’s lax gun laws and the ease of acquiring a firearm, or is there another explanation? Newark is a new addition in the 2020 list. This may be an artifact of our information system. In essence, it is the smaller cities that actually may have the greatest ongoing risk of violent crime. Looking at the cities with the highest increase in violent crime (Table 3), we do not find booming megalopolises, but rather smaller communities just breaking the population threshold. All data is from the FBI's complete 2018 crime report. It’s also listed as one of the most dangerous cities in the world because of its high murder rate.. There’s a positive trend though with crime decreasing in general, although the crime rate as much higher than the US average. #2 Detroit, Michigan – Detroit, Michigan is the second most dangerous city in the US with 2,057 violent crimes reported per 100,000 persons. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as those offenses that involve force or threat of force. Texas' two largest cities, Dallas and Houston, are seen as being safest. Crime in Milwaukee is higher than the US average, giving it a ranking as number four on the list of the country's most dangerous cities. Last year, Oakland was named the second-most-dangerous city in the US. With a violent crime rate of 2,082.3 per 100,000 people, St. Louis is the most dangerous city in the United States. Located along… Many of the communities in Table 1 are relatively small, with most having populations hovering in between 10K and 30K. 3. The New Mexico city of Albuquerque has a violent crime rate more than four times the US average. The final ranking that combines the worst violent crime worst increase in overall crime rate is shown in the last column. Let’s look at the two communities that top the list: Anniston, AL (#1) and Bessemer, AL (#2) (see table 1 below). check out our best medical alert system page. Like many other cities battling violent crime, problems like high unemployment, rampant poverty, and urban decay have all influenced Cleveland's high crime rate. — A new study ranks Memphis as the second most dangerous city in America. Its total population is 713,777. View All. Although Milwaukee ranks lower than the national average for rates of aggravated assault, other crime rates such as homicide, rape, and robbery are all higher than average in the city. All Rights Reserved. The high rate of violent crime in Kansas City can be partially attributed to its homicide rate, which is higher than other cities of its size. We assigned twice the weight to Violent crime than Property crime. These results tell a different story than what you usually encounter when hearing about the crime problem in America, but the issue is complex and multi-faceted. California cities, located all over the state, account for a whopping 28 positions on the list. From 24/7 Wall St., based on the FBI Uniform Crime Report, the cities on the following pages are the 10 most dangerous cities in America. It is also the second most dangerous city in America. #3 Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore, Maryland is third on the list of most dangerous cities according to the violent crime statistic from the FBI. In addition, even if ranked among the “worst” trends for larger cities, many of these cities still have negative crime trending (reduced violent crime over time). Law enforcement agencies from cities, metropolitan areas, counties, universities, state, tribal and other agencies across the country submit crime data to the FBI using their Uniform Crime Reporting system. These cities aren’t the first to be mentioned when discussing American cities with severe crime issues, but are brought up in the ranking by their significant increases in violent crime in the past year, and may get more national attention in coming years. Detroit's violent crime rate is 1,965 incidents per 100,000 residents. The top 10 most dangerous cities are: 1. Marketwatch posted a piece today listing the American cities where violent crime is most prevalent. The spot with the highest unemployment rate … The location with highest risk for natural disasters was deemed to be Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and least in Dover, Denver. St. Louis Robert Cohen/MCT/Newscom. Next, we wanted to look at the most dangerous large cities in the United States, so we excluded all communities with a population less than 100,000. The American communities suffering the hardest at the hands of violent crime are also some of the most impoverished in the country, with some of the highest unemployment rates, to boot. St. Louis beat out last year’s chart topper, Camden, NJ, though Camden is still pretty crime-y at number two. We consider that smaller Police adequacy statistic is, safer the city is. Although only around a quarter of the state's population lives in the city, its crime rates represent nearly half of the state's total. Small cities’ events tend to not be propagated as far in the media. 3. Detroit overtook St. Louis as the nation's new most dangerous city. Violent crimes include murder, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault. It is important to note that crime in Detroit, in general, has been decreasing over recent years. The “surprise” is that cities of such size make up a minority of the 100 cities with high violent crime rates. This rate is still far behind the most dangerous cities in the world, which can have a murder rate of over 100 per 100,000. Detroit, MI remains in the … Not too far away is the city of Newark, New Jersey, one of the most dangerous cities in America. Now, Anniston and Bessemer are plagued by unemployment rates significantly higher than the national average, while the service industry jobs that have replaced manufacturing jobs in these communities often don’t come close to providing a decent living wage. ”. Finally, if you have elderly family who don’t have a caretaker, they should probably check out our best medical alert system page. View All. The crime rate in 2017 minus the crime rate in 2016. 2. Indianapolis, the largest city in Indiana, is the tenth most violent city in the United States. Population >= 10,000. New York City has a violent crime rate of 538.89 per 100,000 people, which is considerably lower than the entries on this list. We used FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting tool to collect data for the year 2017. Texas' most populous city is also its most dangerous. A list of the safest cities in the United States is available here. The strictness of gun laws seems to play a role in violent crime rates, as the states with well over their share of cities in the top 100 (Table 1), like Florida, Michigan, Georgia, and Alabama, all have rather lax gun laws. (See our review of simplisafe for a good no install system). Employing these calculations yields some surprising results, with few of the usual suspects like Detroit, Chicago, or Baltimore appearing on the list. It is located in the Missouri in the Midwest. Los Angeles, the second-most populated city in the country, has a violent crime rate of 761 per 100,000 inhabitants according to the FBI. All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions © 2021 worldatlas.com, Most Dangerous Cities In South and Central America. Cleveland ranks seventh on the list of the United States' most dangerous cities. We created a ranking based on Change in crime rate between 2016 and 2017. Over recent years, the city has seen a leap in homicide rates. Then we transformed the Total crime rate variable using x’ = log(x+1) so that the skewness is reduced. Both are small cities in Alabama that boasted bustling economies in decades past but have since fallen on hard times following the phenomenon of deindustrialization in the late 20th century. Overall, data from 8,793 law enforcement agencies that represented more 193 million of the US population helped us draw interesting insights between the size of the police force and the incidence of crime. Per violent crime rate average, police adequacy, population >= 100,000). According to a 2020 study, Detroit, MI is the most dangerous city in America with a violent crime rate of 20 per 1,000 citizens. There is an average of 1,654 violent crimes per 100,000 people in Kansas City. See which cities made the top 25 list. If it is positive, that means the crime rate went up; in some cities, the crime rate increased more than other cities; the rank captures which cities have the highest increase in crime rates. Nationwide, the violent crime rate fell 0.9%, overall, despite rises in the cities found in Table 4. Our research reveals the 100 most dangerous cities in America with 25,000 or more people, based on the number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents. We transformed and normalized Police adequacy also, resulting in a crime score between 0 and 1. It may be surprising to note that some of the country's biggest cities are not on this list. New York City is the seen the second most dangerous, followed by LA and DC. Most American communities experienced a net decrease in murder rate and violent crime. The homicide rate of Kansas City sits at around 23.5 murders per 100,000 people, much higher than the country's average of 5 per 100,000. In 2016 there were 36 murders per 100,000 Newark residents which was about three times higher than any other city in New Jersey and the fifth highest in the country, at the time. Not too far away is the city of Newark, New Jersey, one of the most dangerous cities in America. Then we normalized it using x’/max(x’) transforming the final number to a score between 0 and 1. While the violent crime rate average for the country was around 611 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1997, today the number sits in the 300s. The set of rankings uses a larger weight to Violent crime than Property crime. In the second part of the study, we analyze data submitted by the university and campus police departments of universities and colleges across the country. 3 of 20. In 2012, Mexico had a murder rate of 21.5 per 100,000 people. If you don’t want a complex installation, there are a number of wireless systems as well . For the past ten years or so, Memphis has been ranked among the most dangerous cities in the country. As crime is a social problem, many of the motivations behind crimes committed can include things such as lack of access to basic necessities, poverty, gang-related violence and more. They are all located in either Mexico, Venezuela or Brazil. However, there are still some cities that face a higher than average crime rate. Bessemer was once a hub of manufacturing and ore mining activity and home to a large Pullman Standard railroad car manufacturing factory, but as these industries dried up and/or moved elsewhere, unemployment rose, and with it, violent crime. There are two broad classifications of crimes: violent crimes and non-violent crimes. Population over 100,000. See Table 1 for a summary of coverage. After the 2008 conflict with Russia, this is one part of Georgia where there is a consistent growth of public unrest complete with violent acts and rising crime rates. We averaged the two ranks. Number four on the list is Memphis, Tennessee, with 2,003 violent crimes per 100,000 people. However, many of these communities are adjacent to larger metropolitan areas, such as #4 McKeesport, PA (population: 19,731), which is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, and Florida City, FL falling just outside of the Miami border. According to the FBI, violent crime rates in cities within the United States are generally decreasing. Tbilisi is a major city in Georgia which is known as the second most dangerous city in Europe today. It's the second most dangerous city in the state of Texas for drivers. The Motor City tops the list of America's Most Dangerous Cities for the fourth straight year thanks to a stubborn problem mostly with gang-related violence. 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__label__wiki	0.531996	0.531996	Tag: europe Answele releases his first official EP “In Control” (Prod. by Young Pow x Ghetto Youths International) Answele shows the World his skills with the release of his first official EP “In Control”. Of course we have the Grammy Winning Producer Young Pow at the production. He followed Answele’s career from his first steps in the musical business. We had the pleasure to find out about this young and gifted singer in 2017. Then we had the opportunity to work in association with Young Pow to bring him on tour in Europe in 2018 as I-Octane open act Artist traveling in Countries as Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland. Continue reading “Answele releases his first official EP “In Control” (Prod. by Young Pow x Ghetto Youths International)” Interview with J Written: “People have the power every day to change the way they look at themselves” Today we have interviewed a new rising star from Jamaica: J Written. The young Artist Jason Rasheed Wright, stage name J Written, was born in 1994 and he was destined for musical prowess from an early age. Growing up with his mother, father and two sisters, J Written’s life was blighted by financial instability and constant moving around various areas of Kingston, Jamaica. “I was unable to socialise with my peers because of my parent’s fear of negative influences,” says Written. “I was forced to stay inside the house with my sisters. This is how I found out writing and reading was an easy way to escape the grey reality. I wrote daily journals and personal articles on the wall of my homes.” Writing poems, speeches and essays helped sharpen the tools he uses today. He joined the debate team at his high school Bridgeport High, which gave him the confidence he needed power. Continue reading “Interview with J Written: “People have the power every day to change the way they look at themselves”” Posted on September 17, 2020 May 31, 2021 Interview with Nerry: “I’m the voice of the oppression we faced from the Government for years.” Hailing from Westmoreland (Jamaica) Nerada Brissette, known with the stage name of Nerry, has been around since the mid-90s and performed at most of Jamaica’s major music festivals. Nerry not only sings, he’s also a player of various instruments. But there is no other instrument close to him than the “bass”, according to Nerry’s personal opinion. He’s currently working on his first album, which he is producing as his solo debut entitled “Call Me Nerry”. The singer toured in Europe, to be exact in Germany and Austria, back in 2008 with Freddie McGregor. He’s been touring the USA since the beginning of the pandemic early this year. Nerry is the perfect representation of reggae music and its demands. He maintains an authentic sound and never fails to captivate his audience. His soulful, smooth and raspy vocals are rarely heard those days. His last single “Babylon have the nerve” featuring Gentleman and Freddie McGregor is actually getting a great forward all over the World. We have interviewed him. Gege Vibes: How did u approach to your musical journey? Nerry: Music is in my blood as long as my father is also a singer and a player of instruments. It all started singing in church, where I also learnt to play different musical instruments. In the high school I sang with a group called “Soul 4 Soul” then I started singing at the hotels and at the end in the concerts. Continue reading “Interview with Nerry: “I’m the voice of the oppression we faced from the Government for years.”” Posted on July 23, 2020 May 31, 2021 Interview with I-Taweh: “My dream is to live long and healthy to see the unification of this human race” Donavan I-taweh Cunningham was born in the hills of St. Ann, the same parish in Jamaica where the great Marcus Garvey, Burning Spear and Bob Marley all rise from. Like most successful artists, he comes from humble beginnings. Raised in the farming community of Prickly Pole, he spent most of his childhood farming alongside his father and four brothers. As a young child he played music on handmade instruments crafted together from bamboo and sardine tins. It was the move to Kingston in 1992 that jump-started his musical career. Living between the communities of Mall Road, Grants Pen, Portmore, Rockfort, and Duhaney Park, I-taweh found comfort in the ghetto at the Community Center of The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari. This was extremely influential for his music and his mission, where he was amongst some of the greatest musicians in the industry including Dizzy Johnny Moore, Earl Chinna Smith, Nambo Robinson, and Bongo Herman. During this time he was rarely seen without his guitar, and was given the nickname Danny Gitz. Along with the name, his skills and reputation as a musician began to grow, until the legendary Sugar Minott took him under his wing as his guitarist and harmony singer. Continue reading “Interview with I-Taweh: “My dream is to live long and healthy to see the unification of this human race”” VALENTINE’S DAY RELEASE/ “Lovers” – Christopher Martin – Prod. by Soundbank music Christopher Martin, one of the most sensational vocalists from Jamaica, released his new single titled “Lovers” today 14th of February which matches perfectly with Valentine’s day. The single produced by Soundbank Music, based in Stockholm (Sweden), is available on all major digital platforms worldwide and distributed by The Orchard/SwingKids. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWLzPzjR-jg	cc/2023-06/en_head_0050.json.gz/line74

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