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__label__wiki	0.704178	0.704178	Frasers Tower 182 Cecil Street Office Sale Home/Office/Frasers Tower 182 Cecil Street Office Sale Frasers Property is Planning to Sell Frasers Tower Singapore @ 182 Cecil Street The office property is boasting 93% tenant occupancy while the rents being demanded are in the range of S$11 to S$13 per month. Frasers property stated on Thursday that the issue of selling Frasers Tower is being discussed with certain parties who have expressed their interest in buying Frasers Tower office building situated at 182 Cecil Street. In response to queries from Bloomberg, it was stated that there is no surety that there is no guarantee of a financial deal following from such discussions. Frasers property further added that they are continuously reviewing the available opportunities for them in order to increase their shareholder value. It includes the possible opportunities to cooperate with the new investors and also diverting their attention to the assets and projects. “For the review of such concern, we might get into discussions with several parties for making potential investments in or the divestment of the interest in certain assets and projects,” it was stated. As per the reports generated by the media, the symbolic price will approximately increase to settle just around $3,000 psf while giving the building a projected value of USD $2 billion. Frasers properties higher authorities have declined to confirm this figure. Major Tenants at Frasers Tower Frasers Tower has recently welcomed Uber into its premises along with the giant venture American ride-hailing which is moving their Asia-Pacific hub to the tower while occupying almost 2000 square meters for housing 165 of its employees. During its construction before January 2018, Frasers Property made the announcement that they have two anchor renters for their property. One is Microsoft Singapore and the other one is French integrated gas and oil cooperation Total Oil while lodging a shared area of 232,200 square feet. Frasers Tower’s other tenants include Arup, Pacific Life, The Executive Center, Sumitomo organization and Fonterra. Frasers Tower Floor Plan Frasers Tower owns a net lettable area (NLA) of almost 663,000 square feet; among this, around 22,000 square feet, NLA is specified for retail. The building is comprised of 38-floor Grade-A premium office areas with a three-floor cascading retail platform having a roof garden as well. The building also features a park and a restaurant located inside the park having a 3-floor car parking in the basement. Frasers Tower building ideally fits in most of the luxuries at one place. The huge building of Frasers Tower has an exclusive green mark platinum rating. Frasers has raised previously S$1.2 billion in the form of syndicated secured green loan for Frasers Tower further development work. As per the previous reports, Frasers Tower key contract was presented to Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company for an amount of almost S$287 Million. Frasers Tower was the design of DP Architects while carrying out the joint marketing leasing activities through the agents JLL and CBRE. Frasers Property made a payment of S$924 million or S$1,112 psf for a single plot ratio of 82,841 square feet commercial site of leasehold for a time duration of 99 years. 2019-04-15T02:11:21+00:00April 15th, 2019\|Office\|	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2594
__label__cc	0.709196	0.290804	Moira Macdonald Taut and terrifying, ‘A Quiet Place’ creates an eerie relationship with sound Originally published April 4, 2018 at 2:02 pm Updated April 5, 2018 at 1:39 pm John Krasinski's “A Quiet Place,” the story of a family under siege whose survival is due to the family members' ability to live on their rural farm in silence, creates in its audience a fascinating relationship with sound. Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4. Seattle Times arts critic After viewing “A Quiet Place,” I very much needed a quiet place; one where everything was calm and nothing jumped out at me and Emily Blunt wasn’t lurking in dark rooms looking utterly terrified. Which means, it should go without saying, that the movie worked just fine. Please do not make any sudden movements near me this week. Thank you. OK then. “A Quiet Place,” directed by John Krasinski (and yes, you may need to settle down by bingeing episodes of “The Office” after viewing), is the story of a family under siege. It is the near-future (2021, according to a crucial gravestone), and mysterious creatures have terrorized a region, leaving streets eerily deserted and stores abandoned. One family — a father (Krasinski), mother (Blunt, who’s married to Krasinski off-screen) and their children; I don’t think we ever heard anyone’s name — remains, and we quickly learn that the family’s survival is due to their ability to live on their rural farm in silence. They speak in sign language and the faintest of whispers; they walk barefoot; they eat off lettuce leaves rather than clanking plates. Why? These monsters, we learn with a shiver, are triggered by sound. The logic of all of this is questionable; this is one of those movies subject to what Alfred Hitchcock called the “icebox trade” — those who go home from the screening, take out some cold chicken from the fridge, and dissect all the inconsistencies of the movie they just saw. (Alas, I had no cold chicken.) But it doesn’t matter a whit in the moment. “A Quiet Place” is brief, taut and often quite terrifying. And it creates in its audience a fascinating relationship with sound: the vibrating quiet outdoors, where wind and grass whisper; the flat, empty silence experienced by the family’s deaf daughter (Millicent Simmonds, of “Wonderstruck”); the eerie, slippery on-and-off score by Marco Beltrami; the deafening noise of a waterfall; the sudden, breathless hush, trembling in the air, as a finger is brought to lips. Brr. I’ll say no more. ★★★½ “A Quiet Place,” with Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe. Directed by Krasinski, from a screenplay by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski. 90 minutes. Rated PG-13 for terror and some bloody images. Several theaters. Moira Macdonald: mmacdonald@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @moiraverse. Moira Macdonald is the Seattle Times arts critic.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2597
__label__wiki	0.73016	0.73016	Apprentice french connection The Apprentice: the French connection By: Rachel Miller Missed the eighth episode? Catch up here. It’s the overseas trip. The call comes in telling them to pack an overnight bag and meet at St Pancras International station. The candidates are excited at the prospect of going to Paris. Meanwhile, the viewers are looking forward to an episode full of dodgy accents and cultural misunderstandings. They won’t be disappointed. The teams have to sell two British products to retailers in Paris. They are shown ten items, several of which are “transformers” — in other words they are innovative because they do this and they do that. So, there’s a child’s beanbag sofa that turns into a bed, a pop-up postcard that turns into a box of cress, a child’s booster car seat that becomes a rucksack and a bone china teapot that thinks it’s a light. Ta-da! Is this what passes for innovation nowadays? Each team has to select two products and take them to Paris where they will pitch to retailing giant, La Redoute and also set up their own appointments with other retailers. This is how it all shakes down: On Venture, Helen, Jim, Zoe and leader Susie select the booster seat and a universal gripper device for mobile phones. On Logic, Melody, Leon, Natasha and leader Tom select the pop-up postcard and the teapot light. The best bits This week is all about strong women — Melody and Helen. Both stand out but for very different reasons. Melody is incredibly aggressive. She know that individuals are going to be judged on their sales performances and once she has set up eight appointments for her team, she refuses to let anyone else do the pitches — and tells team leader Tom that he can make his own appointments. Eventually, she grudgingly gives Tom one of her appointments — probably because she hasn’t got time to do them all herself. But while she’s strong, she’s also very wrong. Firstly, it’s her that persuades Tom not to take the booster seat — the product that goes on to win a massive order. And she fails to do her homework on La Redoute — despite being asked to do just that — which leaves the team floundering at the pitch. Helen, meanwhile, does do her homework and she is a complete tour de force at the La Redoute pitch — articulate, persuasive, charming. The worst bits All these weeks, I’ve been wondering if Little Susie had hidden depths. This week the answer comes across loud and clear. Here are just a few of her witless remarks: “Are the French very fond of their children?” “Do a lot of people drive in France?” “I honestly know nothing about the French and their culture.” You don’t say. As Karren Brady says, “That really is beyond stupid.” The winners and losers The winning team is Venture. Led by Susie, she is totally eclipsed by Helen who outshines everyone with her assured pitch to La Redoute — bringing in an order for a staggering €214,000. The losing team is Logic. Tom’s in charge, supposedly, but he is totally bulldozed by Melody who has clearly chosen this week to make a play for the limelight. Despite Melody’s mistakes, her approach impresses Lord Sugar. You can tell he’s got a soft spot for her when he says: “She is ruthless. She’ll walk over and tread over anybody. She’ll eat them up and spit them out for breakfast. That’s what I like about her really.” So Lord Sugar has to choose between Tom and Leon — both of whom, it is agreed, need to man up. Tom has failed to assert himself and Leon has excused himself from the task completely — on the grounds that he doesn’t speak French. After an impassioned speech from Tom about his real-life business success, Leon gets the finger, so to speak. The ones to watch Helen is surely the front-runner now. Melody will undoubtedly continue to take no prisoners. The question is, will Tom toughen up? One thing’s for sure, Little Susie’s days are definitely numbered. Business lesson Do your research before any pitch — know the company, their products, the market they’re in and also work out your own numbers beforehand. If you don’t, you not only look stupid, but you are actually insulting the people that have given up their valuable time to meet you. Leon: “I can’t be selling cress all day so I’m going to sell the teapot.” (Do you think you might have chosen the wrong products Leon?) Missed this episode? Watch it on BBC iPlayer. Profitometer This week Lord Sugar made orders of £240,404	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2598
__label__wiki	0.972849	0.972849	Higuain nets two as Juventus beats Napoli to reach Cup final Gonzalo Higuain silenced the Napoli fans with two goals on Wednesday as Juventus reached its third successive Italian Cup final. NAPLES, Italy (AP) Gonzalo Higuain silenced the Napoli fans with two goals on Wednesday as Juventus reached its third successive Italian Cup final. Marek Hamsik, Dries Mertens and Lorenzo Inisgne gave Napoli a 3-2 win in the return leg of their Italian Cup semifinal. But Juventus progressed 5-4 on aggregate and will face Lazio in the final, which is scheduled for June 2. Higuain's every touch was greeted with whistles and jeers by his former fans, as it was in Sunday's 1-1 draw in Serie A between the two sides. Watch: Suarez bicycle kick, Messi double stuns Sevilla in Barcelona rout The Argentina forward is now despised by Napoli fans following his move to bitter rival Juventus for an Italian-record 90 million euros ($100 million) after scoring 36 goals last season to break a 66-year-old Serie A record. Higuain was largely anonymous on Sunday. But with his team leading 3-1 after the first leg of the Cup, he fired Juventus into the lead on the night with a precise 20-meter (yard) shot into the bottom left corner in the 32nd minute. Moments earlier, Tomas Rincon had blasted over the bar undisturbed, failing to take advantage of a woeful backpass by Napoli defender Vlad Chiriches. Napoli had its chances and it leveled in the 53rd. Insigne found Arkadiusz Milik in the area and a rebound fell to Hamsik, who curled the ball into the right side of the net. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has the best reason for not listing himself among EPL's top strikers However, Higuain restored Juve's lead five minutes later after he was left unmarked to smash Juan Cuadrado's cross into the back of the net from the center of the area. Milik was replaced by Mertens on the hour and the Belgium international scored after just 11 seconds following a horrible mistake by Juventus reserve goalkeeper Neto, who failed to control a throw-in. And Napoli took the lead for the first time in the match in the 67th when Jose Callejon dribbled into the right side of the area and pulled the ball back for Insigne to slot into the bottom right corner. Neto almost gifted Napoli another goal 10 minutes later as he slipped when he attempted to clear the ball and it came off Napoli forward Leonardo Pavoletti but it rolled wide. More Planet Futbol	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2603
__label__wiki	0.700159	0.700159	Napoli President Contacts Romelu Lukaku's Agent to Discuss Striker's 'Future Prospects' Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has contacted the agent of Romelu Lukaku to discuss the Manchester United striker's future prospects with uncertainty still clouding his future. The Belgian netted 12 times in 22 league appearances last season but fell out of favour at various points, with Marcus Rashford often preferred up front by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The 26-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to Inter and has openly admitted his desire to join up with Antonio Conte and play in Serie A. OLI SCARFF/GettyImages United are holding out for £75m as they look to recoup the money they spent to buy the player from Everton. However, Inter have been unable to meet the valuation as of yet and as the deal has stalled, Lukaku will likely have to join up with the rest of the squad for pre-season. As a result, Napoli have now entered the race to sign the forward, according to Radio Marte cited by Calciomercato. The report claims Napoli club president De Laurentiis has contacted Lukaku's agent in order to discuss a potential transfer for the player and his future prospects. He would add reinforcement up front as I Partenopei try to reduce the gap between themselves and Serie A champions Juventus next season. FRANCK FIFE/GettyImages Inter remain keen on the Belgium international but they are yet to offload Mauro Icardi and are struggling to fund a deal for the player. Lukaku's agent has previously claimed Inter are going 'all out for him' but for now the move remains a 'complicated dream.'	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2604
__label__cc	0.717375	0.282625	sorry, interactive map is not available at this time Crescent SpringsErlanger, KY 41018 $615,000 Commercial Prime Industrial Land! 4.4 +/- Acres (per the GIS) Zoned Industrial Park-1Frontage on Crescent Springs Rd & Fronts on I-75 for Premium ExposureNext to Tewes Poultry Farm- Across from New UDF PlantExcellent Opportunity for High Demand Warehouse SpaceBusiness wanting High High VisibilityEasy Access to I-75/I-275Property is Level to Gentle Slope towards I-75! Currently a Wonderful Colonial Home/Barn/PasturesHome Could be Converted to Business SpaceCall for Details! Directions to this Listing: 275 to Exit 83 (Dixie Highway)South on Dixie HighwayR. Kenton Lands Rd-turns into Crescent Springs Rd*Property is on the Left across from UDF Plant 4.4 +/- Acres Composition, Membrane Lifestyle in Erlanger, KY Erlanger is third-largest city in Kenton County with a population of 18,000+ residents. The area was settled around 1807 with a log cabin. The community grew through time and was originally called Timberlake, then Greenwood and Silver Lake. The city was finally named after the Parisian family bank of Emile d’Erlanger that helped finance the town’s development. Erlanger is called “The Friendship City” and as one of the older communities in the area, it is predominately a residential area with many old family businesses and new enterprises lining the two major highways running through the city. Older homes of all sizes and styles can be found in this community. Also, new development is still available offering a variety of home styles. Erlanger is situated in the middle of the Northern Kentucky area bordering on I-75 and I-275. T.A.N.K. buses serve Erlanger at about 20-minute intervals. Donaldson Road leads off Dixie Highway to the I-75 interchange. Driving time to Cincinnati is about 15 minutes. The Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport is is located in Hebron, Kentucky and is a short drive away. St. Elizabeth West is on Turfway Road in Florence. St. Elizabeth South is on Dudley Road in Edgewood. Hospitals are 10 minutes from Erlanger. There is also an Erlanger Rescue Squad available through the Erlanger Police. Children's Hospital is located in Cincinnati. There are several shopping centers in the area including Crestview Hills Town Center in neighboring Edgewood, which offers more than a dozen restaurants and 50+ retailers. The spacious Florence Mall, with two-level shopping, offers approximately 125 stores. Restaurants are only a few minutes away. Activities for youths include little league baseball, knothole baseball, and pee wee football. Roller skating and bowling establishments are in the area. Other activities convenient to the area are golf, tennis, and dancing. The public library is on Dixie Highway. The Silver Lake Recreation Center offers fitness and exercise equipment, gymnastics, youth programs, senior programs and an aquatic center. There are 12 parks in Erlanger: "Center Street and Locust Parks" are across the street from each other and offer a basketball courts and play areas. The "Railroad Depot Park" is the home of the Erlanger Historical Society and the Depot Museum. Also find a play areas, grass field and a picnic shelter there. "Flagship Park" has a climbing wall volleyball court, play areas, unpaved walking trails, grassy areas, picnic shelter and a fishing pond. "Stetter Park" has a basketball court, swingsand a grassy field. "Locust Street and Mistry Creek Park" both feature a basketball court and swings. "Rainbow Park" offers a basketball court, picninc area, practice soccer field,and a climbing center. "Sherbourne Park" has a climbing area and swings. "SilverLake Park" has two basketball courts, play areas, tennis courts, sand volleyball court, soccer and baseball fields, picnic areas and is located near the Silverlake Rec Center. "Spring Valley Park"has a walking/bike path, baseball and soccer field, play area and is near the Nature Park. "Maywood Park" features a basketball court. "The Glades of Erlanger Park" is a nature trail park. Erlanger hosts quite a few community events throughout the year including Valentine’s Day, Easter, Heritage Day, Halloween and Christmas. There are also many events throughout the warmer months including concerts. https://www.sibcycline.com/Listing/NKY/528516/Crescent-Springs-Erlanger-KY-41018 save notify share hide notes This listing courtesy of, Realty Executives Select . This listing courtesy of Cindy Cahill (859) 331-7400, Realty Executives Select 859-344-0800 Home > KY > Erlanger > Crescent-Springs-Erlanger-KY-41018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2606
__label__cc	0.669822	0.330178	Wonder Woman to TV? Rumors are now popping up that Wonder Woman may be headed to the small screen. The CW Network (formerly the WB Network) has had Superman going for 10 years (ten years, people! That's crazy!), but the season which began last week is the final season of the program. Word on the street is that Warner Bros. quite likes the money Smallville has generated and has been looking for a replacement once Clark puts on the cape and flies off into the stratosphere (the Big Bad for this season, btw, is Darkseid. This should be... interesting.). Will Wonder Woman work on the small screen? Ladies and gentlemen, my argument FOR a televised Wonder Woman I own the complete run of the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series on DVD, so I am pretty sure I'm not the right guy to ask. The interesting thing about Wonder Woman is that there's such a flexible mythology to the character that the writers could muck about quite a bit and even the fanboys would barely bat an eye. I know what version I prefer, but... you know, if you start with a young enough Wonder Woman, and basically have her oppose her mother in order to leave the island, you're most of the way there as far as cannon goes. Wonder Woman doesn't even always have a secret identity, and I sort of prefer the version that doesn't have a secret ID, but I don't see that playing terribly well on TV. Unless it does, and then, there you go... But as I was previously pondering, Wonder Woman has a pretty bizarre bunch of arch-nemeses. But I think if you had the weekly format to build on, especially with her ties to Greek mythology, you could possibly build up a unique world for Wonder Woman to deal with. Anyway, we'll see. But I'm betting they adjust the costume. Posted by The League at 10/01/2010 10:37:00 PM 2 comments: Links to this post Labels: television, Wonder Woman Happy Start of the Halloween Season, Guys and Ghouls Dr. Acula checks for swollen glands Hey, Signal Corps! It's that magical time of the year when swamp creatures, vampires, mummies, werewolves and things that go bump in the night invade our consciousness. I'm thinking on a blog-wide participatory venture to celebrate the season. If you've got any ideas, send 'em in. Posted by The League at 10/01/2010 12:36:00 PM No comments: Links to this post Is the DC Universe too Weird to Make it in Movies? I've been thinking lately about the supposed upcoming slate of movies from DC Entertainment/ Comics. In the summer of 2011, the Green Lantern (and-all-that-that-implies) is going to hit cinemas everywhere. Hal Jordan, a cocky, brash test pilot will be given an alien artifact that will enable him to... not fight crime or overcome a mad scientist... but to become a patrolman of Sector 2814, one of thousands of green-long-johned spacecops. Last night I was watching part of 2002's Spider-Man feature, and its all so straight forward. Guy gets bit by radioactive spider, is more than human, realizes he has a responsibility to use his power for others, beats up thugs and bank robbers, and eventually fights a mad-scientist. Repeat in Spider-Man 2. And when they didn't do that in Spidey 3? It kind of fell apart. Even the X-Men films boiled down to superheroes vs. Mad Scientist, and Iron Man 1 and 2 both made sure that was the case. Green Lantern is not this. I think we'll see some elements of this in the movie, but in the comics, it isn't usually Hal Jordan v. Mad Scientist. Except that the major villain is Hector Hammond, the lone mad scientist I can think of in Green Lantern's rogues gallery. And, yeah, he's in the movie. That said, unlike the masked Green Goblin or the straightforward mecha suits of Iron Man (or Magneto is his dandy maroon finery), DC's heroes and villains tend to tilt a bit more... odd. Hammond may have started off a mad scientist, but for a while, he's been a guy with an giant, immobilizing head that enables him to read minds and project thoughts. But he has a great personality While I have no doubt that DC will take a page from Nolan's take on superheroes and try to find some areas where the costumes and suits will look like something somebody might actually do... how does one bring Gorilla Grodd or Ultra-Humanite to the screen and expect for anyone but a kid (or those of us already bought into the idea of Ultra-Humanite) to take the idea seriously? There's a reason that with multiple movies under his yellow belt and countless hours of TV, too, that Superman's rogues gallery has been largely presented as beginning and ending with Lex Luthor. After all, Lex, unlike Brainiac, isn't a green guy in a pink leotard with USB ports on his head. Fact: Brainiac is an intergalactic jerkface But the real issue to me is that Brainiac's deal in the comics is that he goes from planet to planet shrinking cities until they fit in a bottle, stealing all their data (or copying it, Napster users), and, in some versions, he then blows up the planet. Because Brainiac is a real big jerk. Brainiac is a villain in his own right, but his original primary function was to bring Kandor, the shrunken, microscopic, Kryptonian "city in a bottle" into the comics. And then you have to talk about Kandor, and just the concept of Kandor is so... well, us Superman fans think its awesome, but everyone else just finds it kind of... weird. Silver Age villains are always really happy about their evil schemes Now, does this make sense as a movie? I... don't know. There's a certain level of zaniness you have to embrace in the DCU proper, and when you start to strip that away, sometimes the pieces don't necessarily work together so well anymore. But I think there are some pretty concrete reasons Superman's movie nemesis is a guy a bit too obsessed with real estate rather than, say, Terra Man. is America ready for the menace of a cowboy from space and his flying horse? Terra Man is an actual Superman villain, btw There's an inherent problem in that: Would Green Lantern still be interesting if all he did was fight street crime, like Spidey or Batman? When people say they want a gritty, "real" Superman, have they really run the numbers of what that might look like? How interesting is it really going to be watching Superman take out bank robbers for two hours or liquifying people with a single punch? It's not that Marvel doesn't have weird villains. It most certainly does. Have you heard of my pal, MODOK? Also a big, giant head. MODOK, btw, = Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. Again, I am totally not kidding. Now, given the opportunity to make a whole bunch of movies, Marvel didn't immediately say "hey, let's put MODOK out there as a villain!". They could have, and they didn't. Because, seriously... look at that guy. And when Marvel made a movie about Galactus, they did literally everything they could not to show my favorite Marvel villain of all time. This they turned into a cloud with no lines in FF2. One of 1,378 cataloged things wrong with the movie. But somehow running with this sort of thing and believing that everyone thinks stuff like Batmite (Batman's 5th dimensional fan) and Bizarro (I mean, Bizarro... for @#$%'s sake...) are perfectly cromulent ideas is sort of DC's thing. If the villain doesn't look like something your five-year-old niece scribbled on a Denny's children's menu, then they have a background that sounds completely crazy to a lay audience. Oh, hell go read up on Reverse Flash (aka: Professor Zoom) on your own, and then come back. Read it? That's sort of The Joker for The Flash. This guy is in the comics all the time. Now put that in your movie. The changes that would be required would essentially water Zoom down so much, he wouldn't be the same character anymore. And that's kind of okay. Comic fans get all giddy and they really want to see Brainiac and Reverse Flash and whatnot, but when it comes down to it... I'm not sure you can do this in two hours and not get some puzzled looks from audiences. This is why a Flash movie, by its nature, is going to have a hard time putting someone against Barry Allen. All of the Flash's villains, while awesome on the comics page, are completely ridiculous. The Pied-Piper? Captain Cold? The Trickster? Mirror Master? And what sort of bag of madness do you introduce with Grodd and Gorilla City? And that's just The Flash. I haven't covered Wonder Woman's slate of bad-guys, such as Egg-Fu and Giganta (an attractive red head who can grow to enormous sizes, and who used to be a gorilla, btw). The secret to those gorgeous curls? A strong potassium diet. In the 1980's the audience for comics began aging, growing up with comics that had a feel that previously had come only from movies and tougher TV shows and novels. The grittier content allowed by the Direct Market began giving comics a bit of credence as a medium that you didn't need to give up on just because you'd finished middle school and had it in mind to talk to girls. Certainly DC looked at its slate of comic characters circa 1985, and with Crisis on Infinite Earths relaunching their entire universe decided to clean house to continue to appeal to the readers by insisting that these same characters who once had adorable sidekicks and who were buddies with police chiefs could also be rebels, outlaws, antiheroes and as tough as the criminals older readers must know exist. And, to an extent, in order for comics to make it to the big screen where they wouldn't be rejected as content for little kids and the mentally deficient, Superheroes have always shed the wackier aspects of their mythos. Certainly you don't see Beppo the Supermonkey showing up in the third reel of Superman 2.* I look forward to Christopher Nolan's dark take on the Legion of Super Pets. Also: Telepathic horse (sort of. That's the least complicated part about Comet the Superhorse.) In the past five or six years, however, on the comics side DC has sort of begun to realize that they were running in place continually because they kept trying to find reasons to do everything BUT use their major characters and the zaniness associated. And in the past five or six years they found out: their readership actually likes this stuff. But that's comics. If DC is going to bring their characters to the big screen without just making up new villains and environs for their heroes... they're going to need to go about this whole thing very, very carefully. It doesn't just make the characters easier to understand when you don't clutter them up with nonsense, it also means that critics aren't quite as likely to immediately dismiss your movie about the man in bat ears punching poor people and mental patients. Marvel's heroes have the advantage of feeling somewhat more grounded in reality.** Buying a teenager putting on tights as Spider-Man works to an extent because for the first part of the film he's a smart but normal teenager, and then becomes extraordinary in an ordinary world. And then his villain is extraordinary, too, and... blam. Fight. And I think because so many villains in Marvel's U are sort of warped mirror opposites of the hero, it never feels that odd on the big screen. Its Rocky vs. Ivan Drago. But if we start with "oh, he's the king of Atlantis"... suddenly an Aquaman movie sounds much harder to grasp. When Green Lantern is finally released, I'll be curious to see how/ if people bite. An interstellar police force run by creepy blue guys on a distant planet is quite the pill to swallow, but its also been one of my favorite comic concepts since middle school (which is why I was so bummed that just after I learned about GL, DC went about mucking with the basics of the GL Corps for 20 years). But he will be on Earth for at least part of the film, and he will have his mad scientist to fight. So... there you go, mass audiences. although this would be, categorically, awesome that is until Thor is released as a movie Posted by The League at 9/30/2010 11:07:00 PM 9 comments: Links to this post Labels: DCU, movies Tony Curtis Merges with the Infinite Actor Tony Curtis has passed. Labels: passing In November, I'm Going to Pay Money for the Chance to see Billy Dee Williams This November, Austin is hosting a fairly sizable convention, ostensibly a comic book convention, at our Convention Center. Longtime comic nuts (both of you out there, I can hear you breathing) will perhaps tremble when I state that this convention is a Wizard World convention, and all that that implies. Wizard World Cons sort of play off the goodwill garnered by San Diego Comic Con International (or whatever its calling itself these days) and as misinterpreted by the befuddled mainstream press (ie: non-comics press). But whereas CCI-San Diego is a geek Mecca, the Wizard World cons are sort of the cheap, imitation knock-offs, the Big Lots! discount bin of comic conventions. It is true that there will be comics-related talent at the convention, but it is also true that this particular con will feature: Jake Lloyd (this appears factual) The cast of "The Human Centipede" Buck Rogers and Wilma Dearing from the 70's-era Buck Rogers TV show a Brady "Suicide Girls" One of the suitcase girls from "Deal or No Deal" (I've never seen the show, so this is blowing my mind) numerous people I've never heard of before who seem to be responsible for comics nobody has ever actually read a few people of note from the comic industry such as Paul Levitz (seriously. Levitz.) a whole mess of washed up wrestling stars and a whole bunch of women with enormous... talent who are part of the pro-wrestling circuit Lou Ferrigno, a man who needs no introduction The dad from Teen Wolf Mimi Rogers ...and many, many more. I have absolutely no idea what to expect, but from looking at the floor map, it looks roughly like the equivalent of a people zoo. You walk past tables and stare at people you saw on TV once or twice, and for a few clams, you can get an autograph. So I've talked Jamie into going for the day one of the three days of the convention. I will probably not ask her to join me whatever day I actually do stand in line to see if I can get Paul Levitz's autograph. Yes, that's me... in a room full of models and actors, I'll be lining up to see if I can meet a 60'ish guy in a tie because I like his Legion comics. There is something sad and wrong with me. I sort of thought that by now the show runners would have put out more of a schedule. Oh, well. If anyone is interested in joining us from The Signal Watch at the Austin Wizard World Texas Comic Convention and Human Zoo, please drop me a line. 90's me is very excited about seeing Ms. Rogers. She really makes a spacesuit work. Things Return to Normal at the PCL A quick follow-up to yesterday's post. I think I can safely say that by 10:30 this morning, things were back to normal. Today happened to be my co-worker's birthday, so between 10:00 and 10:30 we had a doughnut or three, sang happy birthday, told our little part of the story, and went back to work. What is odd is how many people seem to have just decided to shrug the whole thing off. Perhaps I'm a sensitive soul, but... a guy with an AK-47 could have done damage that would have been remembered for generations. He didn't, but he could have. I haven't seen any new reports yet discussing any why's-and-wherefore's. The family of the shooter seems as genuinely shocked as anyone else. My guess is that its going to pass as one-of-those-things. You can read the story at the site for the Austin American-Statesman. But I was correct. Doors were open, and when I walked in with my box of Krispy Kremes for the team, there were all the usual folks doing their usual things. Sheila was at the reference desk and I saw Drew in the hallway. The gaggle of student workers were checking out books. Labels: news, personal Gunman at the PCL You may have heard that there was an armed shooter today at the Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas. This happens to be the building where I, my office mates, and many of my colleagues and friends work. The PCL (as its called, or "Pickle" as its called less often) is also a place open not just to students and the UT Community, but to the public at large. Being open and public, I should say, is exactly what libraries do. They're a public service, and the people who work in your local library believe in the right to openness of knowledge and availability of all their resources with a true conviction I find admirable. I wasn't supposed to be at work today, at least not at the PCL. Today I was slated to be back in Waco, but as I was getting in my car I received the first UT Emergency text, a system which was set up for exactly this sort of situation. Sadly, university staff are all too aware of the potential for campus shooters. Shortly after the UT emergency text, my Blackberry began chirping with requests for data from friends, family and colleagues. Unfortunately, I was driving, which made texting impossible (and illegal), but a former co-worker actually called me and agreed to help me out by calling my office mates. We found one another fairly quickly, and I believe by 9:00 everyone was accounted for. I was already headed north, so I routed myself to my office mate's house and parked on her sofa for a few hours watching the news and figuring out what to do next. Let me be frank: we got very lucky today. The UT campus is squarely in the middle of Austin, a very safe city (a ridiculously safe city, really). Crimes usually involve stolen bicycles or some B&E on west campus. Masked gunmen with AK-47's don't usually fit into that picture, and especially not at the PCL. But we do receive emergency texts about "suspicious characters", etc... with such frequency that I admit that I didn't take the initial warning very seriously. But the all caps "UT CAMPUS IS ON LOCKDOWN" text left no ambiguity. And those minutes between receiving the second text and knowing exactly where my office mate was were a bit nerve-racking. As of this moment, and I think nothing will change, there is no second shooter, and the single gunman seems to have caused a lot of havoc and killed himself, but nobody else seems to have been shot. As of this moment, the campus has been given the all-clear, but everyone has been asked to evacuate. I didn't go to Waco. For what seemed like a very long while, I didn't know the status of my officemates or the folks I talk to on the stairwell or in the foyer of the library every day. While the building has three or four different ways the folks in my office could exit if a fire were to break out, I am well aware that this is a different and uncontrollable situation. Standing up to do a presentation this morning was just not going to go well. It appears that the UT Community handled the situation well, and the APD, Sheriff's Department and UT Police appear to have handled the entire incident amazingly smoothly. But you still think about everything that could have happened today. Every time I walk out the door of my office, I look up at the top of the UT Tower, and while the ghost of Charles Whitman still haunts campus, the bells chiming in the carillon or the tower splashed in orange light after a football or volleyball win is what pops to mind when I think of the Tower. I don't think too much about the 14 dead and 30-odd wounded from that hot summer of 1966. Except when I do. And, for me, that's pre-history. The idea of walking into my building tomorrow knowing that, in the end, it was just a miserable end for someone, and that at least he took nobody with him... that's something, I suppose. My building won't be the one to bear the brunt of another tragedy like the one on the South Mall that people still speak about in code when they're on campus. Libraries have long lives. They need for their doors to always be open to the public. One gunman can't and won't change that, and the first people to tell you that will be the librarians who might have been in the path of fire. We'll do what public works always do: we'll keep the doors open. Why the gunman picked the library, I have no idea. Its hard to imagine he had any connection to the library more than any other building. At 8:00 AM, the populace is a collection of random students, student workers, librarians and other staff spread across the six sprawling floors of the library. My guess is that more information is revealed, the building will have been picked for no real particular reason other than its accessibility and, maybe even that its at the bottom of the street he was reportedly seen walking down, gun in hand. Anyway, I am now home. Tomorrow I'll walk back in the doors of PCL, and head down to the basement to my office. The gunman picked the top floor to turn the weapon on himself, and I'll be glad that I'm not walking past taped-off areas to get to my desk. But mostly I'll be glad to walk into my building and know all the faces will still be there. God damn, but did we get lucky. Daily Texan Online So here's kind of what's happening Hopefully my return will not include revelations about a child I was unaware I'd fathered So I get these emails from a company called "Blog2Print" that's selling me the opportunity to buy bound copies of my blog(s) as a book. You don't run a blog for as long as I ran Vol. 1 of League of Melbotis without the same sort of ego it takes to want to spend a few clams putting those volumes on the shelf for future generations to discover and enjoy. But I'm also cheap, so I haven't actually done much but run the process to see what getting a full run in print would cost (and, sister, it ain't cheap). But in looking at Ye Olde Blogge, I got a little misty-eyed. Gone were the days of reader contests, pointless pet updates, personal commentary, stories of The League's employment, and all the stuff that made League of Melbotis a fun little clubhouse tucked in the boughs of the interwebs. We used to wrap that stuff up with waxing rhapsodic about The Man of Steel, the comic reviews, movie pondering, etc... and I guess, more or less, that seemed to work. But that's not what we were doing here at The Signal Watch. Here we decided, I think, that social media and my own growing concerns regarding broadcasting my private life to the internet made what we'd been doing at League of Melbotis no longer viable, and so maybe we'd dial it back a bit and have just a media-focus to the site. But to my mind... things just never gelled (I blame myself. And Randy.). While the sort of "personality blogging" that League of Melbotis represented has become generally considered passe, if not a bad idea, in this age of kids and their Tweeter and The Face Book, oh, hell... none of that seems to be working super well, either. And I don't mean just for me. What today's bloggers are supposed to do is find a niche and say "here's my focus, I'm going to cover (fill in blank)", so you wind up as a comics blog, a movie blog, a political blog, what-have-you. This is supposed to draw attention to your blog, and I believe increasing your readership to the triple digits and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee. In its first incarnation, League of Melbotis (ie: I) never focused on any one thing very well (the downside of ADD), and while we're not embarrassed about what we did at The Signal Watch to date, all this fixation on keeping it semi-impersonal never really worked. Some of you have been with us for a while, and I think I can be honest with you people: This week I watched The Pixies play through an album I bought at age 14 and then became quite excited by the return of Elvira to the cable spectrum (she showed Night of the Living Dead last night and it was a lot of fun. She's still got it.), and these things got the hamster running on the old brain-wheel again. Sometimes you can look at what used to work and you can try to do it again. Sometimes Coke Classic is where its at. That's not to say that this always works. For every Star Trek: The Next Generation there's a The All-New WKRP in Cincinatti. So, who knows? maybe three or four weeks of this, and I'll be apologizing to everyone as I shut up shop once again. But... ...as an experiment, we're going to try to go back to League of Melbotis-style blogging for a little while. (Yay...?). I know it sounds kind of wacky to not want to return to the old melbotis.com URL, but that's the way its going to be. If I'm a little weird about that, well... sticking with The Signal Watch is my way of moving forward. We hope you'll stick with us. We're at a very different place today than we were at in 2003 in many, many ways, but so are all of you. I don't plan to blog every day, by the way. So, I suggest you prime your RSS reader or look on Facebook for links both back to this site and our official wacky links site. But I think I still remember how to do this, so let us give it a shot, shall we? We've got some stuff to look forward to! A Green Lantern movie is set to come out a Flash movie is in pre-production there's a Jimmy Olsen feature in Action Comics (which is really good right now, by the way) UT football is off to an inauspicious start Colbert is being summoned to Capitol Hill Jamie is occasionally producing some videos Lucy has learned how to drive** and much, much more I will be talking a bit about comics themselves, so... be forewarned. Anyway, we hope you'll come by and set a spell. A special thanks to Randy (aka: RHPT) for keeping the homefires burning with his always-excellent contributions to our sister site, Zee... Zee... Zee... *this is not necessarily true. Labels: elvira, maintenance Happy Start of the Halloween Season, Guys and Ghou... Is the DC Universe too Weird to Make it in Movies?... In November, I'm Going to Pay Money for the Chance... (Matthew McConaughey Voice) The New IT CHAPTER TWO Poster Is All White, All White, All White	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2608
__label__cc	0.641522	0.358478	Peter Mayhew Has Merged With The Infinite Peter Mayhew during filming of Star Wars Peter Mayhew, actor who brought Chewbacca to life, has passed. I was just over two years old when I saw Star Wars in the theater, and - like everyone - I loved Chewbacca. How could you not? A giant with a heart of gold, a loyal best pal, a co-pilot and a strong right hand - Chewie was the ideal buddy in a galaxy where you needed someone you could trust at your side, watching your back. The scene I probably remember best from Star Wars as a kid was realizing how tall Chewbacca was when he was in shackles beside Han and Luke in the Death Star, and realizing the man inside that yak-hair suit was pretty much that tall, too. I recall being about seven and measuring out how tall he would be with a ruler against my friend's bedroom wall while we stood on chairs (I have no idea how or where we got the figure for Chewbacca's height). The other scene I recalled was Chewbacca and pretty much everything about the trash compactor. Even as a wee kid, I found that bit terrific. Ford and Mayhew had their schtick down pat. In 2000 I saw Peter Mayhew for the first time in person - he was signing autographs in a longline at a Disney theme park where Jamie and I were honeymooning. I didn't stand in line then, and I regretted it later. Flash forward to about four years ago, and the same happened at a comic convention in San Antonio - and as I walked out, regretted I hadn't jumped in line. That I didn't wait is odd, in retrospect - when The Force Awakens was announced, I was possibly more excited to see Chewbacca and R2 back on the screen than General Leia or Han Solo - they would be the aged versions of themselves, but Chewie could be ageless, walking through these movies, one after another, no silver showing up in that fur. But, of course, the man who brought Chewbacca to life was now not a kid himself, and I was aware his large frame had aged hard - I'd seen him in a wheelchair, and gravity is a bear for us over-six-foot-humans. I was not surprised when I heard he had a stand-in for all the walking scenes and was mostly the one playing the seated bits. But I still figured Peter Mayhew would be online, a pleasantly upbeat and chirpy presence - that he'd put on a tux jacket for a premier somewhere in LA. and maybe I'd see him at some other con and get his signature this time. I'm genuinely sorry he's gone, but I am grateful that he spent the last few decades as a genuine celebrity, knowing his face and name meant (almost) as much to Star Wars fans as the fellow he brought to life, and that he got to be a part of it all over again in both the Prequels and the latest trilogy. My understanding is that Peter Mayhew was an orderly in a hospital before being cast as Chewbacca in Star Wars. It's funny how a single casting call and some luck can change everything. Labels: movies, passing, star wars PODCAST: "Avengers: Endgame" (2019) - Avengers Kinda Chronological Countdown w/ Jamie & Ryan Watched: 04/25 & 26/2019 Format: Alamo Slaughter Lane/ South Lamar Viewing: First/ Second Decade: 2010's Jamie and Ryan went to see "Avengers: Endgame" twice in two days. We talk the epic conclusion to the first ten or so years of Marvel Studios, what worked for us, what challenged us, and how it fits in with the world of comics from which it sprang. Don't listen in if you're avoiding spoilers - because we've got plenty. Portals - Alan Silvestri, "Avengers: Endgame" OST Labels: 2010's, avengers, Captain America, First viewing, GotG, Iron Man, Marvel, movies, movies 2019, podcast PODCAST: "Avengers: Endgame" (2019) - Avengers Ki... The GOOD BOYS Swear It Up In Another Red Band Trailer 14th Blog Anniversary!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2609
__label__cc	0.615674	0.384326	Evolutionary Leaders The Source of Synergy Foundation is a 501c3 not-for-profit educational organization whose purpose is to synergize individuals, organizations and efforts by tapping into the infinite source of collective consciousness, creativity and potential for the common good. The Source of Synergy Foundation recognizes that our essence is Source: a single, universal field out of which everything emerges, where we are united as one. From this place we create opportunities for Synergy that spirals out creating, expanding and deepening connectivity and synergistic engagement. Our Foundation is built upon exploring, utilizing and awakening to our innate qualities and capacities as conscious, evolving expressions of the Source of all that is, all that was and all that ever will be. Our intention is to support the release of synergistic energy that will exponentially expand and create a global ripple effect in planetary consciousness. 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__label__cc	0.665534	0.334466	The spruce green #AHS3504 Austin-Healey 100 S was built in February of 1955 for the 12-hour Sebring race for movie star, Jackie Cooper. Cooper had raced a standard 100 with some success on the east coast in SCCA races and was a close friend of Donald Healey. In a memo Cooper writes,” In Sebring faulty wiring caused battery failure and I had to push the car over a mile! Actually, I had more success with a stock 100 and a personally modified 100 in 1954. Ferrari came out with a 2.80 in our class in 1955 and whipped our ass.” This now famous racer was restored in 1989 by Healey specialists Four In Tune in Wisconsin for then owner Bill Woods. The Cooper car has changed hands several times since its restoration but is still raced regularly. Press run – 25, from $145 – $195 Austin-Healey 100S 3504 Specifications Low resolution proofs furnished at no additional cost Austin-Healey SPL227 In 1953 Donald Healey wanted to promote his new sports car and it was decided a great way to make a splash would be to break the speed and endurance records for production cars. The team from Warwick spent a goodly amount of time developing a streamlined version of what would eventually become the 100S […] Austin-Healey 3000 Works Rally Only three works rally cars were built in Abingdon for the 1964 racing season. The factory-built competition cars featured three-Weber carburetters (rather than the standard dual S.U.s) and competition side exhaust that helped improve the notoriously low ground clearance of the big 3000. Vented front wings were fitted to help improve brake cooling and a hardtop was […] Austin-Healey 100S Perhaps the most legendary of the Austin-Healeys, the 100S was the quintessential British race car of the mid-50s. These exquisite and highly detailed illustrations are based on Gerry Coker’s original line drawing, from the unique (for the time) 4-wheel disc brakes to the twin SU fuel pumps the 100S has been faithfully and beautifully rendered. The ultimate […] Austin-Healey 100S NOJ 393 The 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans would go down in history as one of the worst tragedies in the annals of motorsports. The NOJ 393 Austin Healey, driven by Lance Macklin, swerved to avoid a Jaguar D-Type that was braking heavily for the entry to pit lane putting Macklin directly into the path of a Mercedes-Benz […] Limited edition illustration of Austin Healey 100S, AHS 3504, previously owned and raced by Hollywood child-star, the late Jackie Cooper. 24″ w/o Coker signature, 24″ with Coker signature, 36″ w/o Coker signature, 36″ with Coker signature Be the first to review “Jackie Cooper AHS 3504” Click here to cancel reply. Select your print size and option* 24" print36" print Please choose your background* Black gradient with Sebring scriptNone Categories: Austin Healey, Limited Edition Prints, Race and Speciality Tags: 100S, AHS 3504, Austin Healey Decals, Jackie Cooper, Limited Edition Illustration, race car prints, Sebring	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2622
__label__wiki	0.987998	0.987998	European paper talk: Antonio Conte linked with Roma, Cristiano Ronaldo to miss Best awards? By James Piercy, Football Whispers Former Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has been linked with Roma The transfer window may be closed until January but Europe's biggest clubs plot their next moves year-round. Our friends at Football Whispers have scoured the continental media to bring you the latest news from around Europe. Eusebio Di Francesco has two games to save his job as Roma coach with former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte and ex-Swansea boss Paulo Sousa lined up as his replacements. The Giallorossi have won just one of their opening six Serie A and Champions League matches and Di Francesco's side face Frosinone on Wednesday before the Rome derby against Lazio. Conte is the "dream" appointment but Sousa, manager of China's Tianjin Quanjian, the more realistic option. (Corriere dello Sport) Cristiano Ronaldo will snub FIFA's The Best ceremony in London tonight to focus on Juventus' Serie A match with Bologna on Wednesday. Ronaldo is nominated for The Best men's player along with former Real Madrid team-mate Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah but is not favourite to win the award for a third straight year. Ronaldo also skipped the Champions League group stage draw in August in Monaco. (Tuttosport) Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly set to miss the FIFA Awards ceremony Lyon's Lucas Tousart is emerging as a January transfer target for Inter Milan with the club determined to sign a defensive midfielder. Inter sporting director Piero Ausillo has recommended the 21-year-old, who has also been scouted by Manchester City and Tottenham. Ausillo believes Tousart will be perfect for Luciano Spaletti's 4-2-3-1 system and will cost the Nerazzurri around €35m (£31.5m). (Calciomercato) Hatem Ben Arfa is considering taking legal action against former employers Paris Saint-Germain. Rennes winger Ben Arfa left PSG this summer following an unhappy spell in the capital in which he failed to play a competitive match in 15 months. Ben Arfa was fined after failing to attend PSG's winter training camp in Qatar in January, and saw various bonuses cut, but lawyer Jean-Jacques Bertrand has drafted a document accusing PSG of weekly harassment of Ben Arfa and will seek an employment tribunal. (Le Parisien) Lille president Gerard Lopez hopes to extend the contract of coach Christophe Galtier following Les Dogues strong start to the season. Lille are second in Ligue 1 having lost just one of their opening six games and Lopez is keen to tie former St Etienne coach Galtier down to a fresh deal having appointed him in December 2017 amid interest from Crystal Palace. (Telefoot) Florentino Perez insists Real Madrid's new stadium will generate an extra €150m in income despite the project costing €525m and forcing Los Blancos into a 35-year loan. Perez won the support of 92 per cent of the members who attended the club's meeting over the weekend to redevelop the Santiago Bernabeu. Madrid had originally secured funding from the Abu Dhabi-based IPIC but that investment was pulled last December and Perez has instead had to take out a loan which will cost the club an estimated €25m for the next 35 years. (El Pais) Florentino Perez appointed Julen Lopetegui in the summer Former Liverpool transfer target Mario Gotze has revealed his frustration at a lack of playing time at Borussia Dortmund under Lucien Favre. World Cup winner Gotze is yet to feature in the Bundesliga and wasn't even part of the squad for the 1-1 draw against Hoffenheim on Saturday. Just 24 hours after former teammate Kevin Grosskreutz recommended him to join Liverpool in January, Gotze said: "It's a challenge, I cannot hide it." (Kicker)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2631
__label__wiki	0.995377	0.995377	Unai Emery apologises for kicking bottle in Arsenal's draw with Brighton Emery also says Mesut Ozil's half-time substitution was "tactical" Unai Emery apologised after kicking a bottle towards Brighton fans in Arsenal's 1-1 draw at the Amex Stadium Unai Emery has apologised after appearing to accidentally kick a bottle at a supporter during Arsenal's draw at Brighton. The Gunners manager showed his frustration late in the game as he turned and booted a bottle towards the stands. He immediately apologised after seeing the bottle had gone into the stands and seemingly hit a supporter. Brighton 1-1 Arsenal 'Arsenal were there for the taking' Asked about it afterwards, Emery said: "I said to them apologies because I kicked the bottle after a disappointing action for us in the last minutes. "It wasn't hard, but it touched one supporter. I said to them I'm sorry." Arsenal had started the match brightly, taking the lead through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the seventh minute. Watch highlights from Brighton's 1-1 draw with Arsenal However, they failed to score again and Brighton levelled before half-time and then had the better of the second half. "I think the key today was the first 45 minutes," said Emery. "We controlled the match like we want, we scored and had two good chances from Aubameyang to get the second - but their keeper saved. "But then they equalised. From then, it gave us the second half to try again to control the match, create chances and be able to win - but we didn't do that. Christmas is for football Get Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Football for just £18 a month "Good control with the possession but not good creating chances against them. We didn't concede a lot from them, but it wasn't enough today in the 90 minutes to win the three points." Emery also said he didn't regret the decision to take off Mesut Ozil at half-time. "No. It was only tactically. We did it before in other matches to also change the idea from the first half with other players. And today I did it with Mesut, that is only tactically, not another problem. "I wanted to control better the positioning on the pitch, but in the second half we couldn't do our ideas on the pitch to impose. We created less chances in the second half." Rashford: Greenwood ability 'frightening' 'Brewster reminiscent of Fowler and Rush' Transfer Show: Arsenal fans want action Kroenke: Arsenal fans should be excited	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2632
__label__wiki	0.954727	0.954727	Fulham in talks to sign Bordeaux's Youssouf Sabaly Youssouf Sabaly could be on his way to the Premier League Fulham are in talks to sign Bordeaux right-back Youssouf Sabaly, according to Sky sources. The 25-year-old Senegal international was close to joining Napoli in the summer. Sabaly, who played at the 2018 World Cup, can also play at left-back but has struggled for games at Bordeaux this season. Claudio Ranieri admits Fulham must sign players in the transfer window if they are to avoid relegation He has made just seven Ligue 1 appearances and four in the Europa League. Fulham boss Claudio Ranieri admitted last week that on-loan right-back Timothy Fosu-Mensah is free to return to Manchester United after struggling to make an impact at Craven Cottage.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2633
__label__cc	0.636834	0.363166	Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 6 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs and is the author of The Smashing … More about Cameron Chapman … Web Design Industry Jargon and Web Terms: Glossary and Resources Design, Useful, Web Design, Glossaries There are specialized terms referring to all sorts of aspects of web design. For someone just getting started in web design, or someone looking to have a site designed, all the technical jargon can be overwhelming. Especially the acronyms. Below is a guide to industry terms that should get you well on your way to understanding what web designers are talking about. In addition, we’ve provided some resources for each term to give you more in-depth information. Accessibility. Basically, this is the ability of a website to be used by people with disabilities, including visually impaired visitors using screen readers, hearing impaired visitors using no sound, color blind people, or those with other disabilities. A website with low accessibility is basically going to be impossible for those with disabilities to use. Accessibility is particularly important for sites providing information to those with disabilities (healthcare sites, government sites, etc.), though it is an important aspect to consider when designing any site. There are specialized web terms referring to all sorts of aspects of web design. For someone just getting started in web design, or someone looking to have a site designed, all the technical jargon can be overwhelming. Especially the acronyms. Below is a guide to industry terms that should get you well on your way to understanding what web designers are talking about. In addition, we’ve provided some resources for each term to give you more in-depth information. Basically, this is the ability of a website to be used by people with disabilities, including visually impaired visitors using screen readers, hearing impaired visitors using no sound, color blind people, or those with other disabilities. A website with low accessibility is basically going to be impossible for those with disabilities to use. Accessibility is particularly important for sites providing information to those with disabilities (healthcare sites, government sites, etc.), though it is an important aspect to consider when designing any site. Resources on Accessible Web Design from the University of Washington. An Introduction to Accessible Web Design from Sitepoint. Stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX is typically used for creating dynamic web applications and allows for asynchronous data retrieval without having to reload the page a visitor is on. The JavaScript on a given page handles most of the basic functions of the application, making it perform more like a desktop program instead of a web-based one. Developing Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues Why AJAX Isn’t Enough The text a link uses to refer to your site. This can make a big difference in your site’s search engine results. See also: Backlink. Anchor Text Explained from AssociatePrograms.com Anchor Text Optimization from WebProNews Backlink Anchor Text Analysis from webconfs.com Automagically A portmanteau that combines “automatically” and “magically.” Generally, it refers to something that has a complex technical process that’s hidden from users, so that something almost appears to work by magic. If you think about it, many modern internet-based technologies could be classified as “automagical.” Automagical from Wiktionary What’s the Origin of Automagically? from Feld Thoughts The back end of a website is the part hidden from view of regular website visitors. The back end generally includes the information structure, applications, and the CMS controlling content on the site. Building the Back-End of a Photo Site from Nettuts+ Backlinks are links from other sites back to your own. They’re sometimes also referred to as “trackbacks” (especially on blogs). Backlinks have a huge impact on your sites search rankings. Lots of backlinks from high-ranking sites can greatly improve your search engine results, especially if those links use keywords in their anchor text. Why That Site with 50 Backlinks Beats Your Site with 1000 Backlinks from Jim Boykin’s Blog. The Importance of Backlinks from webconfs.com Bad Neighborhood A “bad neighborhood” refers to the server where your site is hosted. A site hosted on a server that hosts other sites that spam or use black-hat SEO practices can end up penalized by search engines solely because of their proximity to those sites. In other words, be very careful about which web host you choose, what their terms of service are, and how strictly they enforce those terms if you want to avoid being penalized because of what your neighbors are doing. Linking to sites in bad neighborhoods can also have a negative effect on your search rankings. Is Your Site Living in a Bad Neighborhood? from RSS Pieces Text Link Checker Tool from Bad Neighborhood Bandwidth can refer to two different things: the rate at which data can be transferred or the total amount of data allowed to be transferred from a web host during a given month (or other hosting service term) before overage charges are applied. It is generally referred to in term of bits-per-second (bps), kilobits per second (kbs), or other metric measurements. Lower bandwidth internet connections (such as dial-up) mean data loads slower than with high bandwidth connections (like cable or fiber). Speed Test from Speakeasy Bandwidth Explained from FindMyHosting.com This term is a carry-over from newspaper publishing days. In newspaper terms, “below the fold” means content was on the bottom half of the page (below the physical fold in the paper). In web design terms, “below the fold” refers to the content that is generally going to be below the point first viewable to the average website visitor in their browser (in other words, viewers would have to scroll down to see the content). Scrolling Research Report V2.0—Part 1: Visibility and Scroll Reach from ClickTale Blasting the Myth of the Fold from Boxes and Arrows Below the Fold: Why Scrolling Isn’t a Bad Thing from Build Internet! A website’s bounce rate is the percentage of people who leave the site from the same page they entered the site, without clicking through to any other pages. This can be a good indicator of how good a website’s navigation is, as well as an indicator of the quality of the site’s content (a very high bounce rate doesn’t bode well for either of those things). What is Your Bounce Rate? from Lunartics What Your Bounce Rate is Trying to Tell You form FutureNow’s GrokDotCom Breadcrumbs are the bit of navigation elements that generally appear near the top of a give web page that show you the pages and subpages the appear before the page you’re on. For examples, on a blog, the breadcrumbs might look something like: Home > Category > Year > Month > Post (or they might be a lot simpler that that). The breadcrumbs term comes from the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.” Breadcrumb Navigation from Web Design Practices Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful from Jacob Nielsen’s Alertbox Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices from this site. Browser refers to the program a website visitor is using to view the web site. Examples include Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer. BrowserShots lets you check cross-browser compatibility of any site Accessible Design Guide from Viewable with Any Browser Cache/Caching Cached files are those that are saved or copied (downloaded) by a web browser so that the next time that user visits the site, the page loads faster. Caching Tutorial from mnot.net How Caching Works from HowStuffWorks Web Caching and Content Delivery Resources on web-caching.com Also referred to simply as CSS, Cascading Style Sheets are used to define the look and feel of a web site outside of the actual HTML file(s) of the site. In recent years, CSS has replaced tables and other HTML-based methods for formatting and laying out websites. The benefits to using CSS are many, but some of the most important are the simplification of a site’s HTML files (which can actually increase search engine rankings) and the ability to completely change the style of a site by changing just one file, without having to make changes to content. Cascading Style Sheets from Web Design Group CSS Basics from splashpressmedia CSS from the Ground Up from Webpage Design for Designers Client-Side Client-side refers to scripts that are run in a viewer’s browser, instead of on a web server (as in server-side scripts). Client-side scripts are generally faster to interact with, though they can take longer to load initially. HTML5 Cheat Sheet for Beginners Understanding Client-Side Scripting from PCMag.com Also known as a CMS, the Content Management System is a backend tool for managing a site’s content that separates said content from the design and functionality of the site. Using a CMS generally makes it easier to change the design or function of a site independent of the site’s content. It also (usually) makes it easier for content to be added to the site for people who aren’t designers. OpenSourceCMS lets you try out different CMSs without downloading or installing. List of Content Management Systems from Wikipedia 10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS from this site In web design terms, a comment is a bit of information contained in a site’s HTML or XHTML files that is ignored by the browser. Comments are used to identify different parts of the file and as reference notes. Good commenting makes it much easier for a designer (whether the original designer or someone else) to make changes to the site, as it keeps it clear which parts of the code perform which functions. There are different comment formats for different programming and markup languages. HTML Cheat Sheet See Cascading Style Sheets. A CSS framework is a collection of CSS files used as the starting point to make XHTML and CSS web sites quickly and painlessly. They usually contain CSS styles for typography and layout. Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them from Speckyboy Design Magazine Blueprint: A CSS Framework Guidelines for Developing Your Own CSS Framework from W3Avenue Deprecated code is code that is no longer included in the language specifications. Generally this happens because it is replaced with more accessible or efficient alternatives. Deprecation from Wikipedia Deprecated Tags and Attributes in HTML Disabling Deprecated HTML Using CSS from David’s Kitchen Stands for Dynamic HyperText Markup Language. DHTML fuses XHTML (or any other markup language), the DOM, JavaScript (or other scripts), and CSS (or other presentation definition languages) to create interactive web content. DHTML/CSS Tutorials from JavaScript Kit DHTML Explained from HTMLSource Dither In GIF and certain other image formats, there is a limited color palette used for each image. Because of this, not all colors in an image are presented. Dither is used to approximate these colors by combining pixels of different colors side by side. Color Dithering in GIF Images from Web Developers Notes Dithering GIF Images: Optimizing GIF Files from Webdesign.About.com Stands for Domain Name Service (alternately Domain Name System or Domain Name Server). Basically, it’s the thing that converts IP addresses into domain names. DNS servers are provided with the IP address of your web server when you assign your domain name to those servers. In turn, when someone types your domain name into their web browser, those DNS servers translate the domain name to the IP address and point the browser to the correct web server. How Domain Name Servers Work from HowStuffWorks The doctype declaration specifies which version of HTML is used in a document. It has a direct effect on whether your HTML will validate. Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE! from A List Apart Choosing a DOCTYPE from Web Design Group Dom, The Stands for Document Object Model. It’s a language-indpendent, cross-platform convention for representing objects in XML, XHTML, and HTML documents. Rules for interacting with and programming the DOM are specified in the DOM API. DOM (Document Object Model) Reference from JavaScript Kit The Document Object Model Dissected from Web Developer’s Virtual Library The domain is the name by which a website is identified. The domain is associated with an IP address. Domains can be purchased with any combination of letters, hyphens (-), and numbers (though it can’t start with a hyphen). Depending on the extension (.com, .net, .org, etc.), a domain can be anywhere up to 26 to 63 characters long. Domain Name Information from 4 Creating a Website ICANN stands for “Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” Choosing the Domain Name for Your Blog from ProBlogger Stands for Document Type Definition. DTD is one of several SGML and XML schema languages. It provides a list of the attributes, comments, elements, entities, and notes in a document along with their relationships to each other. XML DTD - An Introduction to XML Document Type Definitions from XMLFiles.com Document Type Definition (DTD) Tools from Stylus Studio Short for electronic commerce. It’s the buying and selling of goods online, through websites. Products sold through e-commerce can be physical products that require shipping, or digital products delivered electronically. E-Commerce Resources from Inc.com The Art of eCommerce Web Design from Sitepoint 25+ Magento Templates For Your E-Commerce Business from this site 5 Universal Principles For Successful eCommerce Sites from this site 35 Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates from this site Elastic Layout An elastic layout is one that uses percentages and ems for widths paired with a max-width style to allow the site layout to stretch when font sizes are changed. It’s ability to flex to accommodate the browser width and reader’s font preferences are where it gets its name. Elastic Design from A List Apart The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS from Jon Tangerine Archive for Elastic Layout from CSSGlance Gallery In XML, an element is the central building block of any document. Individual elements can contain text, other elements, or both. XML Element from tizag.com The Basics of Using XML Schema to Define Elements from IBM Em is a unit of measurement for sizing fonts and other elements within a web page relative to the item’s parent element. A 1em font is equal to the point size for the font already defined in the parent element (2em would be twice the current size; .5em would be half the current size). How to Size Text Using Ems from Clagnut The Amazing Em Unit and Other CSS Best Practices from InformIT Effective Style with em from Monday By Noon Embedded Style An embedded style is a CSS style written into the head of an XHTML document. It only effects the elements on that page, instead of site-wide as a separate CSS file does. Style in an embedded style sheet will override styles from the linked CSS file. Embedded Style Sheets from Quackit.com CSS Embedded Styles from htmlite Ex is a measurement for font height or size relative to the height of a lowercase “x” in that font family. The CSS ex Unit from Web Matters Em Units Versus Ex Units from MozillaZine Otherwise known as XML. XML is a markup language used for writing custom markup languages. In other words, XML describes how to write new languages (it’s sometimes referred to as a “meta” language because of this). It also serves as a basic syntax that allows different kinds of computers and applications to share information without having to go through multiple conversion layers. A Technical Introduction to XML from XML.com XML for the Absolute Beginner from JavaWorld External Style Sheet This is a CSS document that is written in a separate, external document. The biggest advantage to using an external style sheet is that it can be linked to by multiple HTML/XHTML files (which means changes made to the style sheet will effect all the pages linked to it without having to change each page individually). How to Use External Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on Web Pages from Webdesign.About.com Using External CSS Style Sheets from Tech-Evangelist Favicons are tiny (generally 16x16 pixels, though some are 32x32 pixels), customizable icons displayed in the web address bar in most browsers next to the web address. They’re either 8-bit or 24-bit in color depth and are saved in either .ico, .gif or .png file formats. favicon.cc is an online favicon generator FavIcon from Pics creates a favicon from an image How to Create a Favicon.ico from PhotoshopSupport.com Fixed Width Layout A fixed width layout has a set width (generally defined in pixels) set by the designer. The width stays the same regardless of screen resolution, monitor size, or browser window size. It allows for minute adjustments to be made to a design that will stay consistent across browsers. Designers have more control over exactly how a site will appear across platforms with this type of layout. Creating a Fixed-Width Layout with CSS from TechRepublic CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic. from Beast-Blog.com Fixed-Width CSS Layouts from Search Engine Friendly Layouts Fluid Layout See Liquid Layout The focal point of a web site is the spot on a web page that they eye is naturally drawn to. This could be an image, a banner, text, Flash content, or just about anything else. You want to make sure that whatever is acting as your focal point is the most important part of your site. Create a Focal Point for Web Designs - Before and After Web Page Redesign from Webdesign.About.com The Focal Point is the Most Important Design Element from Stylish Design The fold is a term carried over from newspaper design and pagination (where the fold referred to the physical fold in the paper). The fold in a website is the point on the webpage that rests at the bottom of someone’s browser (in other words, to see anything below the fold, they would have to scroll down). There are varying opinions on how important the fold is in web design. Infatuated with ‘Above the Fold’ Web Design? from 360innovate Blog Font family is a group designation for defining the typefaces used in CSS documents. The font family tag generally lists multiple fonts to be used, and usually ends with the generic font category (such as “serif” or “sans-serif’). How to Decide Which Font Family to Use from Webdesign.About.com In CSS, the font style refers solely to whether a font is italic or not. CSS Font Style from Hscripts.com Font Weight The font weight refers to how thick or thin (bold or light) a font looks. font-weight from Mozilla Developer Center The front-end is basically the opposite of the back-end. It’s all the components of a website that a visitor to the site can see (pages, images, content, etc.) Specifically, it’s the interface that visitors use to access the site’s content. It’s also sometimes referred to as the User Interface. Ten Usability Heuristics from Useit.com Writing an Interface Style Guide from A List Apart Graceful Degradation Graceful degradation refers to a website’s ability to have elements that may take advantage of the capabilities of newer browsers done in a way that allows users with older browsers to still view the site in a manner that at least allows access to basic content. It also applies to making sure that if one small portion of your site doesn’t work in someone’s browser, it doesn’t break your entire site for them. Graceful Degradation from Dan’s Web Tips Graceful Degradation from Viewable with Any Browser Graphical User Interface Also referred to by its acronym: GUI. A graphical user interface uses an input device (like the mouse) and visual representations of how the user is able to interact with a web application. In other words, it’s all the front-end stuff you see on a web application. It’s purpose is to allow you to interact with a web application without having to enter code. Graphical User Interface from Wikipedia A Summary of Principles of User-Interface Design Also referred to a “hex” numbers, they are a base-16 numbering system used to define colors online. Hex numbers include the numerals 0-9 and letters A-F. Hexadecimal numbers are written in three sets of hex pairs. Because screen colors are RGB (Red, Green, Blue), the first pair defines the red hue, the second pair defines the green hue, and the third pair defines the blue. The Hex Hub is a chart to help choose hexadecimal colors 500+ Colors from cloford.com Color Charts from Webmonkey Contrary to popular belief, a hit does not represent a single visitor to a website. A hit is actually a request for a single file from your web server. This means one page can actually generate multiple hits, as each page generally has more than one file (an html or other base file, a css file, multiple images, etc.) and each one is requested from the server whenever the page is loaded. Some marketing people like to quote hits to unknowing consumers as the number makes their site sound like it’s getting a whole lot more traffic than it actually is. The Difference Between Hits, Visitors, Visits, and Page Views from Opentracker Hits Explained from MediaCollege.com The .htaccess file is the default directory-level configuration file on Apache servers. They are also known as “distributed configuration files.” Configuration directives contained in the .htaccess file apply to the directory in which the file is placed as well as all of its subdirectories. Within the .htaccess file things like authorization and authentication, rewriting of URLs, cache control and customized error responses can all be specified. Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess from JavaScriptKit .htaccess Cheatsheet from The Jackol’s Den Htaccess Tools gives tools to generate an .htaccess file Stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It’s the primary language used to write web pages. HTML is primarily intended as a way to provide content on websites (with CSS handling the layout and stylistic options), though it can also be used to determine how that content is displayed. HTML Code Tutorial provides comprehensive HTML tutorials HTML Primer from HTML Goodies HTML Tag Also referred to as an HTML element, an HTML tag is the bit of code that describes how that particular piece of the web page it’s on is formatted. Typical tags specify things like headings, paragraphs, links, and a variety of other items. HTML Tags from Webdesign.About.com HTML Tags from HTML Dog HTML Tag Quick Reference Guide from DevX.com Stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTTP is a set of rules for transferring hypertext requests between a web browser and a web server. HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol from W3C HyperText Transfer Protocol from Web Developer’s Virtual Library Similar to HTTP, HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol over SSL (Secure Socket Layer) or, alternately, HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure. Like HTTP, it’s a set of rules for transferring hypertext requests between browsers and servers, but this time it’s done over a secure, encrypted connection. HTTP Secure from Wikipedia Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer from Freebase A hyperlink is a link from one web page to another, either on the same site or another one. Generally these are text or images, and are highlighted in some way (text is often underlined or put in a different color or font weight). The inclusion of hyperlinks are the “hyper” part of “hypertext.” Creating Hyperlinks from Iron Spider How to Create a Hyperlink in Dreamweaver from Webdesign.About.com Hypertext is any computer-based text that includes hyperlinks. Hypertext can also include presentation devices like tables or images, in addition to plain text and links. Hypertext from Wikipedia The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept from Cyber Arts Web Short for Inline Frame. An iframe is used to display one or more web pages within another normal web page (one that isn’t a frameset page). Scripting iFrames—Tutorial and Examples from Dynamic Web Coding Remote Scripting with IFRAME from Apple Developer Connection An image map is used in XHTML to allow different parts of an image to become different clickable elements (and can also allow some portions of the image to have no clickable element). How to Make and Image Map from HTML Code Tutorial How-To: Creating Image Maps from Elated CSS Image Maps from Frank Manno In CSS, elements that don’t have a pre-defined style will take on the style of their parent element within the document tree. Inheritance and Cascading Styles in CSS from Web Design from Scratch Cascading Order and Inheritance in CSS from David’s Kitchen CSS Cheat Sheet: Inheritance, Cascade, Specificity from Community MX Elements with CSS written directly around the element it affects, instead of in a separate style sheet or header style. Inline Style Sheets from Quackit.com Css Tutorial—Inline Style from Howtocreate.co.uk Stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or sometimes Perl or Python), and is referring to the specifications of a web server (defining the operating system, web server, database, and scripting language, in that order). One of the advantages of LAMP setups is that the software used is all free and open source. Building a LAMP Server from LAMP How To LAMP (Software Bundle) from VisWiki A landing page is the page where a visitor first enters a website. Oftentimes, a special landing page is created to elicit a specific action from the new visitor (usually in connection with an advertising or marketing campaign). Landing Page Tutorials and Case Studies from Copyblogger 11 Ways to Improve Landing Pages from Digital Web Magazine 14 Instant Landing Page Upgrades from Conversation Marketing A link farm is any website setup specifically to increase the link popularity of other websites by increasing the number of incoming links to that site. While some link farms are single pages listing unrelated links, others consist of networks of sites that contain multiple links back and forth to one another. Search engines can generally recognize these types of schemes and often remove link farms from their directories and penalize the sites linking to and from them. Promotion Tip: Link Farms Grow Spam from NetMechanic What is a Link Farm? from Webdesign.About.com Link Farm: What It Is and How You Can Identify It from SEO for Blogging Liquid Layout A liquid layout is one that is based on percentages of the browser window’s size. The layout of the site will change with the width of the browser, even if the visitor changes their browser size while viewing the page. Liquid layouts take full advantage of a person’s browser width, optimizing the amount of content you can fit onscreen at one time. Liquid Layouts the Easy Way from Max Design Create a Simple Liquid Layout from .net Magazine The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout from Matthew James Taylor Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins from A List Apart This refers to the coding applied to a text document to change it into an HTML, XML, or other Markup Language document. Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup from Sitepoint Markup as a Craft from Digital Web Magazine Markup Guide from Mezzoblue Meta data is the data contained in the header that offers information about the web page that a visitor is currently on. The information contained in the meta data isn’t viewable on the web page (except in the source code). Meta data is contained within meta tags. META—Metadata from Web Design Group A meta tag is an HTML tag used to include meta data within the header of your web page. How to Use HTML Meta Tags from Search Engine Watch Meta Tag Generator from AddMe.com Navigation refers to the system that allows visitors to a website to move around that site. Navigation is most often thought of in terms of menus, but links within pages, breadcrumbs, related links, pagination, and any other links that allow a visitor to move from one page to another are included in navigation. The 8 Types of Navigation Pages from User Interface Engineering Basic Principles of Web Site Navigation from Web Developer’s Journal CSS Menus from 13styles Nesting refers to putting one HTML element within another element. When this is done, the elements have to be closed in the reverse order from how they were opened. Nesting from Dan’s Web Tips Grouping and Nesting from HTML Dog Non-Breaking Space A non-breaking space (also referred to as  ) is a white-space character that isn’t condensed by HTML. It’s primary function is to hold open table cells or add spacing between words (or a the beginning of paragraphs if an indent is desired). In HTML, What is a Non-Breaking Space? from Indiana University’s University Information Technology Service Knowledge Base Non-Breaking Space on Wikipedia Open source refers to the source code of a computer program being made available to the general public. Open source software includes both web-based and desktop applications. Open source programs are generally free or very low cost and are developed by teams of people, sometimes comprised mostly of volunteers. Open Source Initiative The Open Source Web Design Toolbox: 100 Web Design Template Sources, Tools and Resources from Design Vitality 30 Useful Open Source Apps for Web Designers from Six Revisions A pageview is a request for an entire web page document from a server by a visitor’s browser. In other words, for each page view your site had, someone (or a search engine spider) looked at that page. Pageviews are Obsolete from Evhead Page View Metrics? Bah, Humbug! from Matt Cutts Tyranny of the Page View Nearly Over? from ReadWriteWeb Short for “permanent link.” Generally used only on blogs, a permalink is a link that is the permanent web address of a given blog post. Since most blogs have constantly-changing content, the permalink offers a way for readers to bookmark or link to specific posts even after those posts have moved off the home page or primary category page. What is a Permalink and Why Do I Need It? from Blogging Basics 101 Using Permalinks from the WordPress Codex A plug-in is a bit of third party code that extends the capabilities of a website. It’s most often used in conjunction with a CMS or blogging platform. Plug-ins are a way to extend the functionality of a website without having to redo the core coding of the site. Plugins can also refer to bits of third-party software installed within a computer program to increase its functionality. 22 Firefox 3 Plugins Web Designers Can’t Live Without from Design Reviver Designing Plugins for Reuse from Intellectual Cramps Writing a Plugin from the WordPress Codex Progressive enhancement is a strategy for web design that uses web technologies in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, using any browser or Internet connection, while also providing those with better bandwidth or more advanced browser software an enhanced version of the page. Understanding Progressive Enhancement from A List Apart Progressive Enhancement with CSS by Aaron Gustafson Progressive CSS Enhancemen by John Resig Pragmatic progressive enhancement - why you should bother with it by Christian Heilmann Property is a CSS term and is roughly equivalent to an HTML tag. Properties are what define how a style should appear on a given web page. CSS Properties from HTML Dog CSS Properties Index from Jens Meiert Complete CSS Guide—Properties Introduction from Westciv Pseudo-Element A pseudo-element is an element used to add a special effect to certain selectors. Learn CSS, Part 7: Pseudo Elements from Dev Articles Understanding Pseudo-Elements from Snook.ca Pseudo Class Like pseudo-elements, pseudo classes are used to add special effects to certain CSS selectors. Learn CSS: Pseudo Classes from Dev Articles Pseudo Classes from HTML Dog Really Simple Syndication Also referred to as RSS. RSS is a standardized XML format that allows content to be syndicated from one site to another. It’s most commonly used on blogs. RSS also allows visitors to subscribe to a blog or other site and receive updates via a feed reader. What is RSS? RSS Explained from whatisrss.com RSS 2.0 Specification from RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law What is RSS? from Software Garden Refers to the physical number of pixels displayed on a screen (such as 1280x1024). Unlike in print, display resolution does not refer to the number of pixels or dots per inch on a computer screen, as this can be changed by changing the resolution of the screen (which, of course, does not change the physical size of the screen). The resolution of an image, however, is often referred to in terms of pixels per inch, though this has very little effect on how the image is displayed on screen. Display Resolution from Wikipedia Monitors: Resolution from thescreamonline.com Generally, a schema is an XML document used in place of a DTD to describe other XML documents. Practical XML Schema from JavaWorld XML Schema Tools (XSD) from Stylus Studio Generally refers to a portion of code on an HTML page that makes the page more dynamic and interactive. Scripts can be written in a variety of languages, including JavaScript. PHP Tutorial: Writing Your First PHP Script: Feedback Form Script from thesitewizard.com HTML Scripts from tizag.com Basic JavaScript from HTMLSource In CSS, the selector is the item a style will be applied to. Selectutorial CSS Selectors from Max Design Performance Impact of CSS Selectors from High Performance Web Sites Blog CSS Advanced Selectors—Functional and Design Specification from Adobe Open Source Semantic Markup In semantic markup, content is written within XHTML tags that offer context to what the content contains. Basic semantic markup refers to using items like header and paragraph tags, though semantic markup is also being used to provide much more useful context to web pages in an effort to make the web as a whole more semantic. Writing Semantic Markup from Digital Web Magazine Explaining Semantic Markup from Robert’s Talk The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs from Pearsonified Server-Side Server-side refers to scripts run on a web server, as opposed to in a user’s browser. Server-side scripts often take a bit longer to run than a client-side script, as each page must reload when an action is taken. Stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language. It’s a markup language used for defining the structure of a document. SGML isn’t mentioned very often, but it’s the markup language that serves as the basis for both XML and HTML. Standard Generalized Markup Language from Wikipedia A Gentle Introduction to SGML Stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. It’s an XML-based protocol exchanging information across the internet to allow an application on one site to access an application or database on another site. Simple Object Access Protocol from scottnichol.com SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol from Web Developer’s Virtual Library A specification is a document that offers an explicit definition and requirements for a web service or technology and generally includes how the technology is meant to be used, along with the tags, elements, and any dependencies. List of Web Service Specifications from Wikipedia W3C—Worldwide Web Consortium develops specifications for any internet technologies A tag is a set of markup characters that are used around an element to indicate its start and end. Tags can also include HTML or other code to specify how that element should look or behave on the page. See also HTML Tag. HTML Tags / Codes / Web Page Design from Web Source Tag List from davesite.com Overview of All Tags from Web Design Group A template is a file used to create a consistent design across a website. Templates are often used in conjunction with a CMS and contain both structural information about how a site should be set up, but also stylistic information about how the site should look. Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Use Templates to Manage Your Website in Dreamweaver CS3 from thesitewizard.com Making a Template in Photoshop from voidix Stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A site’s URL is its address, the item that specifies where on the Internet it can the found. Uniform Resource Locator from Wikipedia Uniform Resource Locators from W3C Usability refers to how easy it is for a visitor to your site to use your site in its intended manner. In other words, are navigation, content, images, and any interactive elements easy to use, functioning the way they were intended, and that your intended target visitor will not need any special training in order to use your site. Website Design from Usability First 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design from this site 25-Point Website Usability Checklist from User Effect Valid web pages are those that return no errors based on the type of HTML/XHTML specified in the doctype declaration at the beginning of the file. In other words, the code used on the page conforms to the specifications for that version of HTML/XHTML. This can be checked through various validation services, most commonly the one from W3C. W3C Markup Validation Service Validating a Website from the WordPress Codex How To: Validating Your Website The Easy Way—Part 1 from Blog Ingenuity A web page is a single document, generally written in HTML/XHTML, meant to be viewed in a web browser. In many cases, web pages also include other coding and programming (such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, or ASP). Web sites are generally built from multiple interlinked web pages. Web Page from Wikipedia How Web Pages Work from HowStuffWorks A web server is a computer that has software installed and networking capabilities that allow it to host web sites and pages and make them available to internet users located elsewhere. There are a few different setups that can be used for a web server, including the LAMP setup mentioned earlier. How Web Servers Work from HowStuffWorks Geek to Live: How to Set Up a Personal Home Web Server from Lifehacker The Apache Software Foundation provides the open source Apache web server software Standards are specifications recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium for standardizing website design. The main purpose of web standards is to make it easier for both designers and those who create web browsers to make sites that will appear consistent across platforms. Web Standards from The Motive Web Design Glossary What Are Web Standards? A Comprehensive Explanation of What is Comprised in the Term from Robert’s Talk Web Standards Checklist from Max Design Stands for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. Basically, XHTML is HTML 4.0 that has been rewritten to comply with XML rules. XHTML Reference XHTML Explained from HTMLSource XHTML Tutorial from Quackit.com Stands for Extensible Markup Language. XML is a specification for creating other, custom markup languages. It’s an extensible language because it allows for the user to define the mark-up elements. XML from Wikipedia XML.com from O’Reilly Media About.com’s Web Design Glossary Defines tons of different web-design related terms. The Motive Web Design Glossary Offers a very complete guide to different web terminology.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2635
__label__wiki	0.977427	0.977427	Trove of Rare Stephen King Books Destroyed in Flood The author said he was ‘horrified’ to hear about the loss (TOBIAS HASE/dpa/Alamy Live News) By Brigit Katz In what will surely come as frightful news to horror fans, a cache of rare Stephen King books, manuscripts and memorabilia was destroyed when a burst pipe flooded the basement of a shop in Bangor, Maine. As Emily Burnham of the Bangor Daily News reports, the Gerald Winters and Son bookshop lost “tens of thousands of dollars” worth of merchandise in the flood, which affected several businesses in King’s hometown. The store specializes in rare King memorabilia, but also boasts signed copies of books by the likes J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin. Gerald Winters, the shop’s proprietor, told Burnham that around 2,000 books were destroyed, as were seven original King manuscripts for novels like Eyes of the Dragon and Dolan’s Cadillac. Winters has spent the past 20 years collecting King works and memorabilia, and in 2016, he fulfilled his dream of opening a rare bookshop in Bangor. He told Burnham that he had recently moved the bulk of his inventory to the basement while reorganizing the store. When the flood hit, there was nothing he could do to save his collection. "I looked down the stairs and I saw the water level rising up to the stairs,” Winters said in an interview with WGME. “I would have drowned in the water if I tried to have gone down." On Facebook, Winters shared photos of the havoc wreaked by the burst pipe: boxes strewn amid the muck, waterlogged pictures of King and a poster of Pennywise, the terrifying clown from It, slathered in grime. “I am here 20 hours a day alone, trying to recover as many Stephen King and Tolkien pieces as I can,” he wrote in the post. “Several original manuscripts have been recovered last night and I am still looking for more.” King told Burnham of the Bangor Daily news that he was “horrified” to hear about the flood and wants to lend a hand. “As a book lover, my heart goes out to him,” the author said. “I will eventually reach out and see if I can help in any way.” About Brigit Katz Brigit Katz is a freelance writer based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including NYmag.com, Flavorwire and Tina Brown Media's Women in the World. Read more from this author \| Follow @brigitkatz Books Collecting Horror Does the Moon's Phase Cause Earthquakes? In Stellar Tribute, Astronauts Teach "Lost Lessons" From Educator Who Died on Challenger It's commonly known that a single asteroid set off the dinosaurs' extinction. Even more destructive than its impact was the chain of events it set into motion. How a Single Asteroid Wiped Dinosaurs Off This Planet (1:14) In 1992, Christopher McCandless set off to test if he could survive alone in the wilds of Alaska. It didn't go as planned. What Happened to Chris McCandless? (3:38)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2636
__label__wiki	0.988218	0.988218	Jaure speaks after leaving Zambian club Soccer24 on 22 Aug, 2018 Patson Jaure says he is now looking for a new club after leaving BuildCon FC early this month. The former Ngezi Platinum defender who joined the Zambian team this year terminated his contract after failing to get enough game time. In an interview with H-Metro, Jaure said he is not regretting his decision to return to Zimbabwe. “I am back in the country, and I am not attached to any club yet. I left BuildCon because I wasn’t getting enough game time and for me, game time is more important than money,” he said. “My career can only go forward if I play, and if I don’t then my future is not secure. “I left Zambia on a mutual agreement, and I am not regretting the decision.” Jaure’s former team-mate at BuildCon, Devon Chafa also left the club and is now on the verge of joining FC Platinum. Jaure : Warriors need to use home advantage Jaure signs for Ngezi Platinum Five talking points on Warriors squad to face Swaziland Players and coaches implicated in match fixing scandal PreviousBosso striker out for six weeks NextCLPSL Match-day 23 Preview	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2639
__label__wiki	0.992787	0.992787	Chipperfield on fire with hat-trick for FC Basel Qantas Socceroo coach Pim Verbeek may have to re-think where he plays Scott Chipperfield for the national team, after Australian left fullback blasted a hat-trick for FC Basel overnight. Qantas Socceroo coach Pim Verbeek may have to re-think where he plays Scott Chipperfield for the national team, after the Australian left fullback blasted a hat-trick for FC Basel overnight. Chipperfield, plays predominantly at left full back for the national team, but plays in a more advanced role for FC Basel, scored two first half goals, before adding a third early in the second half in the 5-0 rout of FC Vaduz. The former Wollongong Wolves star, has been a consistent goalscorer for Basel this season, but has found a niche at left full back for the national team, although with David Carney an option at left fullback, Chipperfield goalscoring exploits has given Verbeek the option of considing pushing the inform Chipperfield up in a more advanced role. Chipperfield wasn-t the only player to star for his team overnight, as the national team comes into camp during the week for the World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan, with Mark Schwarzer receiving special praise in Fulham-s shock 2-0 win over Manchester United at Craven Cottage. Fulham took advantage of Manchester going down a man early with Paul Scholes send off, but Schwarzer came to the fore in the second half, producing a string of terrific saves to keep Manchester out. His manager Roy Hodgson praised Schwarzer after the match, saying: "I thought in the second half United came out very well. They took the game to us even though they had a man less. They pressurised us so much better in the second half and we have got goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer to thank. "He made three good saves, one from a Cristiano Ronaldo header and a fantastic double save. We've got him to thank because had they equalised at that time then who knows what would have happened? "They had us against the ropes.” Good news for Verbeek was that Carney played a full game for Norwich, as they continue to battle to get out of the relegation zone. Norwich drew 1-1 away at Birmingham City. Elsewhere in The Championship, Mile Sterjovski came on after 82 minutes, as Derby County struggled to a 0-0 draw at home against Barnsley, while Adam Federici and Nick Carle both stayed on the bench for Reading and Crystal Palace respectively, when they clashed at Selhurst Park. Lucas Neill played a full game for West Ham in a 1-1 draw with Blackburn Rovers, while Jason Culina and Luke Wilkshire also played full games in PSV and Dinamo Moscow-s respective wins. Michael Petkovic also played a full game, as Sivasspor drew 1-1 with Besiktas in Turkey. The major concerns for Verbeek, are the non-appearance of Tim Cahill in Everton-s 2-1 loss at Portsmouth, while Josh Kennedy still remains on the outer at Karlsruhe, despite the team remaining bottom of the table after a 1-0 loss to Bayern Munich. Six more of the national team squad play on Sunday, while Carl Valeri and Michael Beauchamp are both not playing till Monday. The Qantas Socceroo squad will come together on Wednesday, with the match against Uzbekistan a week later at Stadium Australia* in Sydney. Tickets are still available for the important clash, with a win taking Australia to almost inevitable qualification for its second successive World Cup finals appearance. To purchase your tickets, go to www.ticketek.com.au or phone on 132 849 or they can be purchased from all Ticketek outlets.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2640
__label__cc	0.567178	0.432822	Home Event The 5th Annual Cattleman’s Dance to Benefit The Sunrise Theatre Christina Nickerson Dust off your cowboy boots, polish your spurs and get ready to have a rip-roaring good time at the 5th Annual Cattleman’s Dance at Adams Ranch in Fort Pierce on Saturday, March 9 from 6-10 pm. In previous years,… Comedy Corner Presents: Comedian Frankie Paul Featuring Paul Jensen & David Aguliar HEADLINER IS FRANKIE PAUL! Seen on Fox, Comedy Central and opener for the Beach Boys! Frankie Paul is fast becoming a prominent force in the world of comedy! Frankie has a unique knack for taking a typically unnoticeable situation to… A Night in Tunisia Presented by Sunrise Jazz Combo Anne Satterlee "A Night in Tunisia at the Black Box Theatre" is a show of modern and classic jazz, presented by Fort Pierce's very own student-lead ensemble, the "Sunrise Jazz Combo." The young ensemble has performed, and won first prize, in several… Get Your YaYa’s Out – An Evening With Stones Clones Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out with Stones Clones, a dynamic musical and theatrical tribute to The Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Band! This high energy show will include ALL the hit songs plus some rare cuts, done to musical perfection… Comedy Corner Special Event Jimmie J.J. Walker SPECIAL EVENT CASEY N SPAZ 7 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW w/ JIMMIE J.J. WALKER Saturday January 12th 8:30 Tickets $30 in advance $35 at the door HEADLINER IS THE LEGENDARY JIMMIE J.J. WALKER “KID DYN-O-MITE!” Seen on CBS Good Times, “The… An Evening With Tony Bennett Back By Popular Demand! Multiple Grammy® Award Winner No one else in popular American music has recorded for so long and at such a high level of excellence as Tony Bennett. In the last ten years alone… Comedy Corner Headlining Erik Myers Featuring Sara Geimer HEADLINER IS ERIK MYERS! Seen on Showtime, Comic’s Unleashed, Gotham Live! For over 17 years, national headliner Erik Myers has been entertaining audiences with his high- energy, machine-gun delivery and trademark voice. His accounts of bad nights, bad jobs, bad… BlueBird Productions Presents: Nick Schnebelen Band Nick Schnebelen has quickly built a reputation as killer lead guitar player and impassioned vocalist.As founding member of the award winning popular family band Trampled Under Foot ( TUF), Nick has traveled the world playing festivals such as Notodden, Montreal,… Southeast Florida Honor Flight Presents: Frank & Dean… Together Again Big band tribute to the American Songbook All proceeds benefit South Florida Honor Flight Missions, Sending WWll, Korean and Vietnam War veterans to Washington, D.C., for a day of honor, memories, and gratitude. RCSSL Presents: DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST "Be Our Guest!" as The Academy Award-winning film comes to life in this romantic and beloved take on the classic fairytale live at the Sunrise Theatre! Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's modern classic, Disney's Beauty and the Beast,… How the local community helps support Sunrise Theatre through memberships Learn Why Volunteers Ushers Are The Unsung Heroes of The Sunrise Theatre See the true impact your gift to local theatre can have on your area Website Design, SEO Optimization & Hosting By Media Giant	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2648
__label__cc	0.539989	0.460011	HistoryMission Statement Sunset Cinema SUNSETS AT PIER 60 Sunsets at Pier 60 Daily Festival on Clearwater Beach operates 364 days a year from two hours before until two hours after sunset, weather permitting. The nightly sunset celebration features artisans, crafters, street performers, and our world famous Pier 60 sunsets. Festival Hours 6 - 10 PM ***Starting 5/27/2019 6:30 - 10:30 PM email Email Us 10 Pier 60 Drive 2/16-3/10: 4:30-8:30 p.m. 4/13-4/22: 10 a.m-10 p.m. 4/23-5/24: 6:30-10:30 p.m. © 1999-2019 Sunsets at Pier 60 All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2649
__label__cc	0.591109	0.408891	How to disable sharing of your Wi-Fi password with contacts on Windows 10 Posted Date: 14 Aug 2015 \|Updated: 14-Aug-2015 \|Category: Windows 10 \|Author: Juana \|Member Level: Gold \|Points: 40 \| The Windows 10 upgrade has certainly generated a lot of buzz among Windows users. Among the new features that come packed with the new OS is the "Wi-Fi Sense" feature. The featured article provides insight on why it could be harmful to a user and how it can be disabled With the Windows 10 upgrade in full swing among the users of old versions like Windows 7 and 8.1, there has been a lot of talk about the plethora of features that have been borrowed from the Windows Phone platform. Surely, the one feature that has raised the eyebrows of internet security experts is the Wi-Fi Sense. For those uninitiated, Wi-Fi Sense is a feature that allows users to share their Wi-Fi information with their friends. The app does a scan through the Facebook and Outlook accounts of the user and shares the username and password with friends. Why Wi-Fi Sense does not make sense When you take into account the nature of the contacts you have on Facebook and Outlook, you may even have people you have not even met before. If anything, you certainly do not want to share your Wi-Fi credentials with complete strangers. Security experts are pointing this out as a potential disaster. Microsoft responded by making a statement in defense. They stated that the Wi-Fi information is shared over an encrypted network and to top that, the passwords themselves are encrypted too. Apart from that the company claims that a device that is logged into a network does not have access to other connected devices. Access to open networks However, this is just one aspect of the problem. The other issue is how it connects to open Wi-Fi networks. Leading internet security firms such as AVG have repeatedly warned users about the potential problems associated with connecting to an open Wi-Fi network. AVG explained that when you access the internet through such hotspots, you stand open to the threat of your traffic being intercepted by an attacker who could wreak havoc with your personal information. Also Read: Things to Do after Installing Windows 10 The problem with this feature is that Windows 10 has it enabled by default on your device. However, it is easy to disable the feature. All you need to do is: Go To Settings Manage Wi-Fi Settings Disable the feature This will give you the opportunity to disable all unnecessary features. Modify your settings to suit your privacy preferences. The Wi-Fi Sense feature is actually a pretty bizarre feature and it really cannot be put into practical application unless you have a separate account on Facebook and Outlooks dedicated to sync with your Microsoft account. All said and done, the fact that this feature is set as default raises concerns about security and privacy flaws that may be incorporated into the OS. Article by Juana Juana is a freelance writer publishing with Constant Content and sister sites of Techulator. She writes on a variety of subjects that interest her. She is a voracious reader and that helps her keep abreast with the latest in technology. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Eng. Lit, is a mom, a wife, a homemaker and a qualified teacher. Follow Juana or read 101 articles authored by Juana Keyboard shortcuts to shutdown, lock or restart Windows 10 Are you looking for the keyboard shortcuts to shutdown, lock or restart Windows 10? Find out the complete list of all keyboard shortcuts related to shutdown and restart your Windows. How to solve the 0x803F7003 and 'Device limit reached' errors on the Windows 10 The featured article points out the salient bugs encountered by users trying to install preferred apps from the Windows Store following the Windows 10 Update. The article also provides effective solutions to counter them enabling hassle free downloads How to create bootable USB to install Windows 10 Do you like to install Windows 10 from a USB device? Learn how to make a bootable USB device to install Windows 10 on your laptop or desktop. How to disable the Start screen and switch to Start menu on Windows 10 Do you want to disable the Start screen and switch to the traditional Start menu on Windows 10? Read step by step instructions to enable the Start menu on Windows 10. How to enable Hibernate option in Windows 10? Is the Hibernate option missing in your Windows 10? Learn how to enable this option and the Hibernate option to your Power menu. More articles: Windows 10 Tips Windows 10 issues	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2651
__label__wiki	0.530727	0.530727	The Advantages of Overhead Projectors By: John Lister If you think of an overhead projector as outdated primitive tech compared with its digital counterpart, you might not be seeing the bigger picture. The simpler format brings many benefits such as lower running costs, fewer technical hassles and more flexibility during a presentation. Close-up of a woman placing a transparency on an overhead projector credit: Thinkstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images Simple Technology The beauty of an overhead projector is its simplicity. There are no software issues to worry about during a presentation, and the projector contains no moving parts other than a cooling fan, so any breakdowns are likely to be rare and easy to diagnose. Setting up and using an overhead projector requires minimal skills, which are easy to learn, and once you know how to use one overhead projector you should have no trouble with other models. This contrasts with digital projectors where the connectivity options and settings controls may vary across different set-ups. Transparency Film The transparencies you use for material to show on an overhead projector offer great flexibility. You can print from computers onto transparency sheets that are suitable for most ordinary printers, including color models. Because the sheets are transparent, you can easily create a series of sheets that overlay one another and build up an image, which can be useful for explaining a complex process in single steps so that the audience can see how the steps fit together. Real-Time Annotations As long as you have a wax or grease pencil, you can make annotations on a slide during a presentation, for example in response to a point raised by an audience member, then easily remove them later so you can reuse the transparency in another presentation. This can be quicker than trying to edit a document on a computer hooked up to a digital projector, and avoids the risk of mistakenly saving changes and permanently changing the document if you don't have a back-up copy. It's also usually easier to write on the flat horizontal surface of a projector than on the vertical surface of a whiteboard, blackboard or flipchart. Bulb Costs Overhead projectors require bulbs with more illumination power than ordinary household bulbs, but otherwise the technology is largely the same: depending on the projector you'll need a fluorescent, halogen or incandescent bulb. The lifespan is certainly much less than a household bulb, but then you usually only need it for a limited period. In contrast, digital projectors normally need a mercury bulb which is considerably more costly and must be properly disposed of when it expires. Some models of overhead projector can house two bulbs, with one acting as a back-up, removing the need to interrupt a presentation for a new fitting if a bulb fails. Definition of a Projector By: Steven Melendez How to Troubleshoot an NEC Projector By: Michael J. Scott What Is a Projector? How to Print on Transparent Paper By: James T Wood How to Connect a Toshiba Laptop to a Projector By: Jeff Grundy A Beginners Guide to 3D Printing By: Melissa J. Perenson	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2652
__label__wiki	0.899271	0.899271	Windows 8 tablet demo rumored for June A Microsoft source claims that the company will show off its design by the end of the company's fiscal year. Jared Newman (PC World (US online)) Windows 8 tablets are definitely on the way, but a taste of the finished product could be coming sooner than you think. An unnamed source at Microsoft told Business Insider that the company plans to show off its design for Windows 8 tablets by the end of its fiscal year in June. The person said Microsoft will borrow from the "Metro" interface of Windows Phone 7 while also taking inspiration from Apple for its interface design. We've heard rumblings about the Windows Phone 7 aesthetic appearing in Windows 8 tablets before. In January, Paul Thurrott reported a rumor that Windows Phone 7's live tiles could be part of a secondary interface for Microsoft's next operating system. That makes sense given that the tile aesthetic is starting to show up in other Microsoft products, including Bing and the Xbox 360. As for the timing, I'm a little more skeptical. Slashgear has reported a rumor that a developers' beta won't be ready until September. ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley reported that Windows 8's next big milestone is on track for the end of July, which, judging by Microsoft's timeline for Windows 7, would lead to a public preview a few months later. Here's what we know for sure: Microsoft is building Windows 8 to work with ARM chips, allowing the company to "bring to market the widest possible set of PCs and devices, from tablets on up," according to Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division. There's no question that Windows 8 will accommodate tablets. But right now, the tablet field is becoming crowded with Google's Android, HP's WebOS, Research in Motion's Blackberry PlayBook and of course Apple's iPad. The idea that Microsoft wants to play show-and-tell before the fall seems plausible. Follow Jared on Facebook and Twitter for even more tech news and commentary. IDG Sites: PC World \| GoodGearGuide \| Computerworld Australia \| CIO Australia \| CSO Online \| ARN \| CIO Executive Council	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2653
__label__cc	0.585412	0.414588	Adriatic Region SAS Institute d.o.o. Detelova 2 SAS Institute d.o.o. podružnica Zagreb Damira Tomljanovića Gavrana 13 Predstavništvo SAS Institute Programska oprema d.o.o. u Beogradu Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 165G Healthy Nevada Project Health breakthroughs driven by DNA analysis Artificial intelligence enables researchers to improve population health. Personalized health care for healthier communities Healthy Nevada Project achieved this using • SAS® AI solutions Community-based genetics study uses SAS® machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve population health in Nevada Heather Allen’s health was deteriorating by the day. A young mother and high school math teacher, Allen was experiencing inexplicable symptoms, including fatigue and hard-to-fight infections. Doctors searched for answers, but nothing seemed to work, leaving them perplexed by her changing symptoms and conditions. Heather Allen, Healthy Nevada Project participant Then one night everything changed. The previous year, Allen was one of 10,000 Nevadans to sign up for a groundbreaking health and genetics project called the Healthy Nevada Project. A recent breakthrough in the project allowed for further DNA testing, and soon after, her genetic results came in. Allen learned she has a high propensity for Alpha-1, a genetic condition that causes lung and liver disease. Tests confirmed the DNA results and made an official diagnosis, and soon the mother was on a path to monthly treatments. “If not for the Healthy Nevada Project, I believe I’d be dead,” Allen says. Reversing poor health outcomes with analytics The Healthy Nevada Project, developed by Renown Institute for Health Innovation (Renown IHI), is one of the first community-based population health studies in the United States. By combining genetic data, environmental data and individual health information, researchers and physicians are gaining new insight into population health, enabling personalized health care while improving the health and well-being of entire communities in Nevada. The Project comes at a time when the state continues to struggle with poor health outcomes and excess costs. Nevada ranks near the bottom of overall health rankings in the U.S. and suffers from high mortality rates for chronic conditions like heart disease, cancer and chronic respiratory disease. “This was our call to action,” says Dr. Anthony Slonim, President and CEO of Renown Health. To address Nevada’s most complex population health problems, investigators started by collecting data. Working in tandem with experts in environmental data at the Desert Research Institute, Renown Health fuels the project with de-identified electronic health care records, and supplements this with data from the Environmental Protection Agency and others. “Everyone tends to focus on the genetics, but what we’ve created is a large data warehouse that has genetic data, clinical data, environmental data and social data,” Slonim says. “We know that clinical care is responsible for only 20 percent of your overall health status, with those other factors making up the rest.” To see exactly how those other factors come into play, data scientists apply machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to the DNA results generated by personal genomics partner, Helix. This forms connections between participant genetic information and varying environmental factors, such as air and water quality, to see who might be predisposed to certain conditions. This could allow analysts, for example, to identify people prone to breathing problems and notify them to stay indoors when air quality is poor. “We’re working to understand how environmental factors can help predict who may be at risk, allow for quicker diagnoses, and encourage the development of more precise treatments,” says Jim Metcalf, Chief Data Scientist of the Healthy Nevada Project. “The modern statistical and machine learning methods, along with the intuitive data visualizations made possible by SAS, have been critical elements of our success to date.” The modern statistical and machine learning methods, along with the intuitive data visualizations made possible by SAS, have been critical elements of our success to date. Jim Metcalf Chief Data Scientist Healthy Nevada Project The Healthy Nevada Project benefits citizens and researchers alike. For citizens, the project is one of the first broad genetics studies in the nation to return clinical results. Consenting study volunteers are learning of their risks for many serious genomic conditions including: Familial hypercholesterolemia, which has a genetic tie to high cholesterol. BRCA ½, a hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome. Lynch syndrome, which is tied to endometrial and colon cancers. For researchers, the project offers a unique opportunity to study pathogenic mutations and alert the people who have them. Recently, Project staff identified 90 people with FH, hereditary high cholesterol that’s related to increased risk for heart disease and not always diagnosed with cholesterol tests. With this information, administrators can contact these people and suggest they speak with a doctor. “If we understand why people are at risk for certain diseases because of their DNA, we actually might be able to do something about it,” Dr. Slonim says. “We can give them the information, help them change their behavior and understand how to address those preconceived risk factors.” Insight from the Healthy Nevada Project also helps Slonim with resource allocation. By knowing that a significant percentage of the population has a certain condition, he can implement prevention programs and hire doctors with the skills to treat those patients in five to 10 years. “This is the ultimate strategic planning process for our community,” Slonim says. “If we can uncover things that put people’s health at risk, our health care providers can do appropriate screening and, ultimately, take better care of our people.” Moving from patient health to community health is a large step that takes a lot of analytical power. “The flexibility in SAS allows us to ask for something in these reams of data and get an answer within 15 minutes,” says Slonim. Metcalf agrees. “We’re living inside virtually all of the machine learning and AI procedures that SAS has. We are going to be solving some big problems in models with hundreds of variables. And so the ability for SAS to scale is crucial.” Healthy Nevada Project – Facts & Figures participants (and growing) 10-year health predictions connections with machine learning Aspirations for a healthier America Slonim aspires to make Nevada the country’s healthiest state, and one day use the Healthy Nevada Project to power a Healthy USA Project. More than 35,000 northern Nevadans have already donated their DNA, and soon the project will expand into southern Nevada and other health systems around the country. “If we bring on just one major health system per state, this could really advance the work needed from a national perspective to get a grip on chronic disease,” Slonim says. The health system President and CEO welcomes those seeking advice on similar projects. “Come to us,” he says. “We’ve acquired a lot of knowledge over the years. We’ve hardwired the consents. We’ve hardwired the institutional review board approvals. We’ve hardwired the reports. Don’t recreate the wheel. Let us help you do it. And let us help you evolve.” The mission is personal for Slonim, a cancer survivor who credits early intervention for saving his life. “I’m a believer in this and this is what personally for me drives the project. I believe we can make large communities, large states and perhaps even America healthier if we use these tools for the benefit of good.” Why SAS Analytics The results illustrated in this article are specific to the particular situations, business models, data input, and computing environments described herein. Each SAS customer’s experience is unique based on business and technical variables and all statements must be considered non-typical. Actual savings, results, and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual customer configurations and conditions. SAS does not guarantee or represent that every customer will achieve similar results. 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__label__wiki	0.951953	0.951953	Envirodevelopment AvidConnect All-purpose ‘super park’ to shine at Savana A unique bespoke ‘nature based’ park featuring a fort, jungle gym, and an amphitheatre has been revealed as one of the community focal points for AVID Property Group’s Savana community in Wyndham Vale. The sizable park was designed to incorporate the wonders of the natural world into an all-purpose community space and is scheduled to open early 2019. The park also pays homage to the area’s Kulin Nation Aboriginal people and was planned so as not to disturb the area’s sacred sites. Principal Landscape Architect at Tract Consultants, Nigel Parker, said the park will challenge and stimulate children’s minds while providing parents with the facilities to sit close by and relax. “We have ensured the playground and its equipment provide children with the opportunity to explore their own imagination and decide what they want the space to be – whether that be a boat, a castle or perhaps a spaceship, it’s up to them,” Mr Parker said. “We wanted the park to be unique and a space that offered residents and the wider community the opportunity to sit back and enjoy. “Savana’s park has been designed to incorporate plenty of open green spaces for people of all ages, whether that be for cricket, throwing the frisbee or kicking a ball around.” Mr Parker said one of the focal points will be the distinctive fort that was built to make the best of the existing quarry. “We created each element to incorporate a reflection of the landscape and what was originally there,” he said. AVID Property Group Victorian Development Manager Peter Vlitas said the park was a milestone and would give future residents something tangible to get excited about. “There’s a lot of interest in this development and seeing the park coming to life will give our future residents a small vision of what this great community will look like,” Mr Vlitas said. “This is just the first of many community spots for Savana and we can’t wait to see the community anticipation swell as projects are completed.” Construction on the park commenced last month and is due to be completed early next year. Contact AVID House and Land Terms and Conditions Land Terms and Conditions © 2019 AVID Property Group	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2661
__label__wiki	0.941214	0.941214	Chile Volcano Eruption Sends Residents Fleeing, Causes One Death A long-dormant South American volcano's awakening is the latest example of the planet letting off a little steam (not to mention ash, lava and smoke) By Larry Greenemeier, Adam Hadhazy on May 6, 2008 Lava began to flow today from Chile's Chaitén volcano, chasing remaining residents out of a nearby town and putting the government of the affected Palena Province on high alert. The country had already been on edge following the volcano's initial eruption this past weekend, spewing hot ash, gas and smoke into the air for several days, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,200 residents and leading to the death of a 92-year-old woman who suffered a heart attack aboard a navy boat as she was being taken to Puerto Montt, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of the volcano. No lava flow, however, had been reported until Tuesday. Volcanoes are openings, or vents, in Earth's crust through which magma—formed when the planet's upper mantle and lower crust melts—and gases are discharged. Once the magma percolates to the surface and begins to flow from the volcano, it is called lava. Ash, more than six inches (15 centimeters) thick in some places, had already coated houses, vehicles, trees and water supplies. The eruption came as a surprise, given how long the volcano had been dormant—various news reports state that the volcano's last eruption was anywhere between 400 and 9,000 years ago. The eruption was the first for Chaitén volcano in recorded history and followed two days of unusual seismic activity in the zone, The Patagonia Times reported Monday. Chile's volcano woes come just weeks after Colombia's Nevado del Huila volcano—located about 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Bogotá—forced the evacuation of up to 15,000 people. This was Nevado del Huila's first eruption in 400 years. Even after the eruption, dangers such as avalanches and mud flows continued to be a concern. Earlier this year, Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's largest island piped up with explosive eruptions and toxic sulfur dioxide emissions, sending U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists scrambling to predict the volcano's next move and whether neighboring villagers would be in harm's way. Predicting when an eruption will occur requires measuring a number of parameters, including earthquake activity and gas emissions at the volcano. The methods are far from foolproof, so scientists are experimenting using lasers to examine changes in carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide, which might signal an influx of carbon dioxide from magma either building under or rising through the volcano. Larry Greenemeier Larry Greenemeier is the associate editor of technology for Scientific American, covering a variety of tech-related topics, including biotech, computers, military tech, nanotech and robots. Phone Hacking Fears and Facts IKEA-Building Robot Conquers Touchy-Feely Challenge How Cryptojacking Can Corrupt the Internet of Things Adam Hadhazy What Makes Michael Phelps So Good? Misdirected Vengeance Can Still Feel Just A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap Rebuilding a Volcano August 1, 2005 — Krista West What Causes a Volcano to Erupt, and How Do Scientists Predict Eruptions? November 29, 1999 — Attila Kilinc News Bytes of the Week--Smoldering Hawaiian volcano an ongoing geologic hottie March 28, 2008 — Larry Greenemeier, Nikhil Swaminathan and JR Minkel Silent Volcanic Quakes Could Portend Tsunamis February 28, 2002 — Sarah Graham Scientific Nature: Researchers Use Volcanic Eruption as Climate Lab January 5, 2007 — David Biello Magma On The Move Beneath Yellowstone March 2, 2006 — David Biello	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2666
__label__wiki	0.870824	0.870824	SciFind Science Fiction \| Horror \| Fantasy \| WTF \| Tabletop Games Posted on May 5, 2018 May 10, 2018 by Brian Edwards Batman Ninja Feature Prepare to witness the Dark Knight, alongside many of his most famed allies and infamous foes, in an eye-popping anime display like you’ve never seen before. Batman Ninja takes a journey across the ages as Gorilla Grodd’s time displacement machine transports many of Batman’s worst enemies to feudal Japan – along with the Dark Knight and a few of his allies. The villains take over the forms of the feudal lords that rule the divided land, with the Joker taking the lead among the warring factions. As his traditional high-tech weaponry is exhausted almost immediately, Batman must rely on his intellect and his allies – including Catwoman and the extended Bat-family – to restore order to the land, and return to present-day Gotham City. The visually stunning Batman Ninja is the creative result of a trio of anime’s finest filmmakers – director Jumpei Mizusaki (Opening Animation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure), writer Kazuki Nakashima (Gurren Lagann), and character designer Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai) produced the original movie with Warner Bros. Japan. The script was then reinterpreted and rewritten for English-language distribution by award-winning screenwriters Leo Chu and Eric Garcia (Supah Ninjas, Afro Samurai). Benjamin Melniker and Michael Uslan are Executive Producers. Roger Craig Smith (Batman: Arkham Origins) and Tony Hale (Veep, Arrested Development) lead an impressive cast as the voices of Batman and the Joker, respectively. Grey Griffin (Scooby-Doo franchise) and Tara Strong (Batman: The Killing Joke) supply the voices of the antagonist & protagonist’s closest allies – Catwoman and Harley Quinn, respectively – while Fred Tatasciore (Family Guy) provides the gruff-yet-sophisticated tones of Gorilla Grodd, a villain who must team with Batman to achieve his own personal agenda. Other voice actors include Bat-family members Yuri Lowenthal (Ben 10: Omniverse) as Robin, Adam Croasdell (Reign) as Nightwing and Alfred, and Will Friedle (Boy Meets World) as Red Robin, and the Rogue’s gallery also features Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) as Penguin and Eric Bauza (The Adventures of Puss in Boots) as Two-Face. Doing double duty is Tatasciore as Deathstroke, Strong as Poison Ivy, and Friedle as Red Hood. “Batman Ninja is an absolute feast for the senses, a stunning spectacle of anime wrapped around a thrill ride of a Batman story,” said Mary Ellen Thomas, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Vice President, Family & Animation Marketing. “Our partners at Warner Bros. Japan have conjured an impressive addition to the Dark Knight’s canon of entertainment, taking Batman and his friends and foes in an altogether new direction. We can’t wait for fans to see this film.” BATMAN NINJA ENHANCED CONTENT Blu-ray™ Steelbook, Blu-ray™ and Digital “East / West Batman” (Featurette) – Batman meets the anime medium, as this documentary looks into some of the Western tropes and archetypes, meshed into the world of feudal Japan. East meets West, swords, samurai and giant robots, all playing into the clash between Batman and his Rogues gallery. “Batman: Made in Japan” (Featurette) – To make a special film about Batman requires just the right artist to bring the mix of style and energy that is unmistakably anime. The filmmakers discuss the Japanese character models, influences and design create a fusion experience into this hyper real world. “New York Comic Con Presents Batman Ninja” – Meet the talented filmmakers behind Batman Ninja as they discuss their inspirations and challenges in bringing an anime version of Batman to life during a panel discussion unveiling Batman Ninja during New York Comic Con 2017. BATMAN NINJA, out now on Digital and available on Blu-ray™ Steelbook, Blu-ray™ and DVD May 14. CategoriesNews TagsBatman, Ninja Previous PostPrevious Roll out the red carpet – the Teen Titans are heading to Hollywood! Next PostNext Star Trek Vs Transformers! Search for SciFi Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 TV Adaptation comes to Shudder Stephen King Getting Comic Book Makeover The Journey to The Rise of Skywalker Starts Here Get Involved With Cops and Monsters: Uprising! Fighting Fantasy Fest 2019 – Preview Get Latest Scifi News, Competitions and Offers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2667
__label__cc	0.658162	0.341838	Go to our main page on Sustainable Food Systems to find resources for impacts on soil, the environment, and health, campus food, and more. Also see: Healthy Food for Healthy Communities Recent tests show that much of the food sold in stores, fast-food places, and high-end restaurants is contaminated with glyphosate, a toxic pesticide that is the principal ingredient in RoundUp. The best way to avoid it is to buy food that is raised organically. Glyphosate is known to be toxic, carcinogenic, and an endocrine disruptor. It has been classified as a toxic … [Read more...] about Is your food contaminated with glyphosate? Peter: ‘Campus Food — look at Toronto’s example’ I think these schools have a way to go, but they're still doing a lot better than most colleges & universities in the U.S. NOW 2 August 2017 Where to find healthy and local food options at eight Toronto colleges and universities The lowdown on cafeterias and campus eateries putting sustainability at the top of the menu by Adria Vasil Tired of … [Read more...] about Peter: ‘Campus Food — look at Toronto’s example’ Coming Soon—A Guide for Teaching About the Food System August 3, 2017 posted by Peter Crownfield Student interns are working with Peter Crownfield to complete a guide and resources for teaching about the food system in the classroom. The guide is designed for K-12 teachers & students, and will include a guide to the history of our current food system, what a better & more sustainable food system would look like, and ideas for activities to engage students. (It … [Read more...] about Coming Soon—A Guide for Teaching About the Food System Nancy Walters: ‘Food Recovery and Respect’ October 8, 2015 posted by Nancy Walters On September 24, the LV Food Policy Council had its launch with an inaugural meeting in Allentown. The organizational structure was presented and committees were set up to address food security and thriving food systems, as well as the structure of the Policy Council itself, including public relations, outreach and education. One of the committees which will meet this month … [Read more...] about Nancy Walters: ‘Food Recovery and Respect’ Peter Crownfield: ‘Time for Regeneration!’ I think the author of this essay has done a good job of setting out some of the many reasons why we need to promote regenerative organic agriculture and eliminate the destructive practices and products of the industrialized food system—including disruption of our climate, health, and the ecosystems on which all life depends. This should no be news to anyone: hundreds of years … [Read more...] about Peter Crownfield: ‘Time for Regeneration!’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2670
__label__cc	0.620168	0.379832	VS Sections The Fun Room Welcome to Take Five! We're happy to have you here. If this is your first time visiting T5, then feel free to browse our forums. But if you see something you want to reply to, you will need to register before you are able to respond. Please acquaint yourself with the site's rules and if you have any questions feel free to contact us. Ultionem Crystallis: Final Fantasy This is a sticky topic. Previous 1 13 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 33 38 template Next Blackrose smiled at the captain's remark. In her mind: a steady spiral into madness. Snapping out of her distraction she caught the book, skimming through it. "Oooh! That's a gimme. I'll take it." She put it away. kotWARKski Alistair just stood there, dumbfounded by absolutely everything that was happening right now. Hellfish and Blackrose's bickering seemed to never end, but at least it was refreshing in the face of the danger they had faced. He turned his attention to the strange newcomer that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. He stared for a moment, studying her form as well as the cloak she bequeathed to Blackrose. He immediately recognized her as the statue they had passed earlier. He placed a hand on Hellfish's shoulder as he voiced his concerns in the most subtle manner the pirate could muster. "I do not believe she is a threat, friend. This isn't our first meeting after all. She was the statue we passed when we entered the chamber. You can tell by her cloak. She is telling us the truth. We we initially killed the beast, her petrification must have wore off and this she was able to spring back to life." Regardless of the circumstances, she had saved their lives and he thought a proper introduction and a thank you were in order. "Milady." He greeted her with short, but respectful bow. "You did a great deed in dispatching the necromancer. If not for you ending his life and dispersing his spell, I'm afraid we may not have survived much longer. You have my gratitude. I am Alistair, a humble ranger. I have provisions if you are in need. Fresh food and water. It is the least we can do to thank you for your help. " Meanwhile, Ravayaath had been tending to the grievously injured Ju-Long. He had taken quite a blow before being turned to stone, but when the petrification wore off he began bleed profusely. She had cast many low level cure spells but they could not completely close the wound. As such, if he is to survive, they needed to make haste. She tugged on Alistair's cloak and directed his attention to the warrior, who was still unconscious. The wound would need to be packed and bandaged before they could move him, something Ravayaath didn't have the supplies or ability to do on her own. "My apologies, it seems I am needed." He sat a pack with water and rice down in front of Serapha, gave a curt nod, then walked away to assist the white mage in preparing Ju-Long for transport. Tyler_D Noob-a-roni Digging through the rubble for several minutes, Kriss finally managed to retrieve his magical axe. He turned to join the group when he was caught off guard by what he witnessed. A young-looking female Ljósálfr; an Elf. One of the mortal beings closest to the gods! They were said to be gone from the world of man, at least in his culture. She was as they were described, fair and slight. Allegedly possessing an eternal youthfulness and innate magical ability. What was one of the old races doing in this cave? Did none of the others realize what she was? She seemed to stand idly by as Blackrose and Hellfish argued and exchanged a small punch to the breast. She was conversing in the Imperial language... how did she know it? Kriss decided it would be better to act as if she was anyone else for now and made his way over as Alistair walked away. ”Greeting, Ljó- er, young woman! I am Kriss Fjelløve! I was unaware there were any others in this cursed cave!” Amazin' Though she had not heeded it before, Serapha did indeed have a terrible hunger in her stomach and a fierce thirst that tore at her throat. She thanked Alistair, then saw the severely wounded man. Before she could offer her help, the one who had been retrieving his axe stepped forward to introduce himself. "Ah - good day to ye, good sir. My name is Serapha. Yes, I've probably been here for decades if not more thanks to a petrification. Er..." She glanced over at the injured man again. He was bleeding terribly despite the efforts of the young mage. "...Is he going to be alright?" Serapha asked the group quietly. She did not wish to worry the man Alistair and the mage were trying to help. Originally posted by Kajin_Style Completely denouncing every bit of evidence I present WITHOUT any counter evidence to point to the contrary is not logic; it's outright denial. I'm sure you'll come up with some debunking excuse. OrganizationXV Shardbinder "He might be, if we stop the bleeding and find a better place of healing," Cirrus said, looking over their most injured companion. He really didn't like the looks of those injuries, and despite his confidence in their resident white mage... He liked to think there was going to be a happy ending to this story. It wasn't going to happen in this cave, though. "I'll start scouting these tunnels," The dragoon said, walking away. Finding an exit is an important part of leaving, after all. Originally posted by Wade We can't be supreme while also supporting inclusiveness Post-Crisis Shob Banned from Heaven Originally posted by Helly View Post OI--aren't yeh knife-eared witchy types supposed to have fancy heal spells??? Hellfish doesn't know dick about magic. But he's pretty sure red mage elves learn heal spells. "What am I, chopped liver? I have health potions." Blackrose took one out and went over to J-lo, feeding it to him. She was feeling kind of shitty but at least wanted to still be useful. "That should at least help until we find better aid." Song of the Moment Kingdom Hearts - Dearly Beloved 2017 Kyle Landry [Plot Progression] Alistair thanked Blackrose for her potion and sent her back to the group. It wouldn't be any more effective than the cure spells were, but it showed a sense of compassion that he hadn't really known she had and it made him thankful to know he and Ravaayth weren't the only two concerned. Ju-Long had done and sacrificed much for all of them, they owed him their lives. The ranger would be damned to hell before he let the warrior die in a dark, damp cave in the middle of the forest. He worked quickly on the fallen warrior, sterilizing scraps of cloth in alcohol and packing it into the massive hole in Ju-Long's torso. He wasn't a doctor, but just from the area he could only guess that a lung was punctured, several ribs broken, and a whole host of muscles were torn apart. Fortunately, the spike didn't go clean through or else there'd surely be no hope. When he finished packing he made a mixture of dirt, water, and alcohol to pat over the entire opening before removing his cloak and wrapping it as tightly around Ju-Long's chest as he could manage. The captain's heavily armored back wouldn't do very well for detecting large amounts of blood loss, so he gestured the viking over and asked if he'd be willing to carry Ju out of the cave. Kriss was more than agreeable and he hoisted the warrior onto his back. "Everyone." Alistair addressed the entire group together just as Cirrus was making his way back from the caverns alongside Fenrir, it seemed the two had found a path out, and now they needed to quickly follow it. "We will still have a day or more's walk until we get out of the forest. We'll have to travel fast if there's any hope for our friend's survival. The white mage and I will do our best to keep him stable, but his condition isn't good. Without proper treatment, he won't make it more than a few days. We won't be able to stop and rest until we arrive at Puerto de Plata. It'll be a long and tiresome journey, but there will be rest by the end of it." With the dragoon leading the way, the group made their way out of the chamber and back into the tunnels, leaving Serapha standing behind. Alistair gestured to her as well. "You're free to follow us out, milady. It wouldn't do my conscience well to leave you here alone when there's a caravan of misfits to travel amongst." He gave her a warm smile before turning and following the rest of the group. Song of the Moment Pt.2 The Sunleth Waterscape It only took an hour or so before they emerged from the caverns and what they saw was a completely different sight than what they left when the fell into the caves. The mist that had permeated much of the forest had dispersed and the eerie quiet was replaced by a chorus of chirps. Birds flew through the trees and small animals scurried across the ground. It seemed that most of the animals had merely succumb to the petrifying mists and now that the Hydra was slain, they were free from the curse. It made the journey much more pleasant than it had been to this point, there were also no signs of the basilisks that had stalked them up until now. The day went quickly and as night set in, the group grew wary but still determined. Even as the forest grew quiet, save for the occasional howl, they kept trekking forward only stopping for the occasional meal break. During those times Alistair and Ravaayth spent their short break tending to Ju-Long, who remained unconscious. Once they finished changing his dressings they were back on the move. By the midnight hour, they were met by a glorious sight, an end to the trees and beautiful, flat plains that glowed softly under the full moon. Unfortunately, they still had quite a ways to go. Alistair pulled out his map and tried his best to place features as he talked through their path. "We've got to find the river to the east and follow it until we make the bridge here. Maybe two hours, pending on breaks." He points to a section of the map showing a bridge crossing the river and then moves his finger upwards."If we stay close to the river after crossing and follow it to the mouth, Puerto de Plata should be only a short walk from that." He looked upwards to the stars and noted their positions before continuing. "I think we can make it by nightfall tomorrow. Hopefully that would be fast enough." And so they began moving again, sticking to the riverside and only having to fend off small beasts, something Grigor was easily able to do. And soon they came upon the bridge, a massive stone structure that stretched several hundred feet across the roaring river. There were several merchants around it, men and women who knew this was the only safe point to cross the river at and took advantage of the traffic. They gathered around the group, trying to pitch all manner of wares at exorbitant prices. True piracy, Hellfish might have noted before he let loose a loud roar that sent the cretins running. After successfully crossing the bridge, the group followed the bends northward. The sunrise came and went, the sun tracked steadily across the sky, and by sunset the ocean finally came into view. As the last drops of light faded from the land and the sun set below the horizon the group spotted a soft glow to the northwest. Lights from the Port of Silver, they were almost there! Their spirits lifted and their exhaustion vanished knowing they were within sight of the town. As the grew closer and close the sounds of the port's famous nightlife grew more intense. "I know that sound well lads." Hellfish spoke up. "The only things more famous than the city's reputation for lowlifes be it's reputation for drunken brawls, beautiful wenches, and all manner of lustful sins." And the captain wasn't wrong. Upon passing through Puerto de Plata's gates, they were greeted by the sight of a rather large brawl with at least a dozen men beating the hell out of one another in a drunken stupor. As the others watched the fight unfold, Hellfish lead Alistair, Kriss, and Ravaayth to the city's only apothecary. "This be the healer's place" he stated as he pushed open a large, wooden door. The group took Ju-Long inside and was immediately met by a middle-aged man in green robes. He took one look at Ju-Long as shook his head. "Another southern Ignotian on the verge of death? What is with these Eastmen and their propensity to death? They're even wearing the same insignia!" Alistair's eyes narrowed as Kriss laid Ju-Long down on a table and the apothecary went to work removing the mess of blood and cloth from the wound. "This other man... What does he look like?" The doctor shook his head "Short, dark hair and brown eyes. Came in wearing a tattered brown cloak, blue martial arts uniform, and had these gloves with steel on the knuckles. Must have been a fighter, but he wasn't good enough. Showed up half dead with multiple stab wounds! Worse shape than this one, I'd imagine. He's in the next room. You think you know him?" Alistair nodded, he turned around and Hellfish had already turned the corner and was walking back. "Aye, it's 'em. He's in rougher shape than a ship bilged on her anchor." "Get well soon J-lo! Hey while we're here I'm gonna go do some sins." Blackrose said as she gave Ju-Long a light hug to avoid hurting him and then left the building. She sneaked up on some guy in a crowd who was cheering on a brawl and then grabbed his drink, chugging it all before he turned and threw a punch, yelling "EY STEP OFF YA RAT BASTARD" and she ducked under his fist, then rose to kiss him and knee-kicked him in the balls. Some big dude went up to her, pulling back for a punch when she threw the elf's shawl at his face, blinding him for a moment. When he took it off he had a face full of foot as Blackrose pulled off a jump-spinning kick and knocked him down. And, that's when everyone was staring at her. "Oy, who's this bitch going tits out in a brawl?" some guy asked. "Who cares?!" someone else answered, "She's tits out in a brawl!" From that point Blackrose spent the night enjoying drinks and fights and hung out with the guys. Killer Loli Illya-Chan The Autistic Right Head Several minutes into the fight, one thug grabbed a wooden stool from a table and smacked it into another thug, who would be sent flying into a table, occupied by only one guy, who had a wooden mug filled with tea. This lone person was well muscled blonde haired man with a strange tattoo of what appeared to be a bird. When the thug hit the table, it made the tea mug fall from the table and onto the floor, spilling its contents. The blonde haired man took a deep breath and got up, as a small few bar thugs, excluding the one who thew the thug at this persons table, would have a look of fear and ran away, hoping not to feel the new combatants wrath. The blonde guy spoke, in a calm, yet serious Tone, eyes closed, which alerted the other thugs, "I was hoping today would not end with having to put a stop to another bar fight, for yet the third time this week...... Yet if you really need me to discipline all of you once again," He opened his eyes, and the thugs closest to him flinched, expressions or shock, as the blonde person said, "Then I will make it to where you wish you never drink in the first place!" The person then ran into the crowd of thugs, and would throw a punch at one thug in the throat. That thug gaged and fell down, out cold. The rest of the thugs ran at him trying to overwhelm with numbers. It was 50 to 1, as the blonde person vanished from sight, and struck them down one by one, with his fists and feet, before reappearing on the other side. The thugs fell all at once, as the blonde guy then took a breath. "That was too quick." He spoke, before looking around to see if there were any more thugs, but there were only the shocked servers, a scared civilian, and people in a group he hasn't seen before. He would then bow down, and apologize to the servers for his violent course of action. during the trip up to Puerto De Plata, Cirrus found himself getting more and more antsy. He kept stealing glances over to the grievously injured Ju-Long, and he couldn't help but keep pacing around anytime the group halted. Ju-Long couldn't die! But what if he did? These two thoughts kept circling each other, round and round in Cirrus's mind, for the entire trip. He didn't say a word to anyone until they made it into town and the Hellfish pointed out the town doctor. Then, his only words were "Is he going to be all right?" At the revelation that Xu-Shen was under the same roof, and just as injured, a feeling of dread washed over Cirrus. What happened to the others? Where were they? Who attacked him? Cirrus decided that he would take point here and wait for Xu-Shen to wake up. Especially since those wounds were inflicted by humans. He didn't want any more surprises. The Poster Formerly Known as Teal Trade Prince Don was inside the tavern in which a small altercation began. The details were unknown to him -- some drunk imagines a slight to their honor and they must avenge it immediately, and often times, indiscriminately. While he inwardly lamented the lack of civility, "I mean, come on." he was never one to not recognize opportunity. In the crowded confines of a bar, physical contact is guaranteed. A brushed shoulder, a pat on the back or a seemingly legitimate stumble. Don employed all manner of calculated missteps in his misdirection. With the pressure of a palm on a back or a shoulder against another, no one notices a finger or two on the stone of a ring or beneath a necklace chain. After pocketing several small trinkets and items of value in this fashion, Don decided to really begin working. He picked a target he could probably fight if something went wrong -- a frail, elderly fisherman. The old man along with most other patrons were cheering and drinking with their attention on the small scuffle. Positioning himself tactically behind the old man, Don shoulder-checked him hard enough to send him sliding into a burly patron. Don deftly retreated through the crowd, expertly avoiding any physical contact this time. He then ducked down slightly to enjoy the show. The old fisherman's rough bump into the large man and subsequent beating set off several other small fights. Thrown elbows, shoves, the occasional assault with a weapon soon turned into a full-on whirlwind of alcohol-fueled violence, one which drifted out into the streets due to the cowardly or sober participants trying to escape. Don, behind the tail end of the brawl, began to pocket various items from the table tops such as money and other valuables being used mid-wager. Once adequately stocked up he decided to make his exit. He made his way to the front but was deterred from proceeding. In addition to some blonde-haired monster with a bird tattoo still inside beating several of the indoor brawlers, Don reasoned the authorities would be there any moment given the now quite public commotion. With that he promptly about-faced and darted out through the back exit, fleeing the scene of the ongoing disturbance. He circled back to the main street, several buildings down from the tavern and peeked around the corner to quietly observe the fallout from a safe distance. Last edited by The Poster Formerly Known as Teal; November 15th, 2018, 02:57 AM. Blackrose, accompanied by a new group of ruffian friends, was sitting in one of the bars having a good time, drinking and socializing and exchanging stories. This was after the previous series of fights, where she'd won some as well as lost some, which was indicated by a black eye and a bloody nose and various other bruises. She was among her kind of crowd. A bunch of fucked up rabble rousers. She was showing off her various treasures and letting guys do body shots off her chest if they bought her drinks. Originally posted by Henry the Slowbruh View Post "OI! Whats all this 'discipline' and 'never drink' crap!? We gotta loosin' yeh up, ya tight-arsed goldilock!" Hellfish saw the entire fight. Hellfish has been drinking--heavily, even by his standards. Not brawling though. Hasn't seen anyone who looks worth a damn in a fight to throw hands at; at least not until witnessing the lean, blonde brawler do his thing. Hellfish gives Lynncher a forceful shove and hunkers down into a sturdy stance. "Helluva scrap, lad. But ya know damn well piss-ant tavern rats ain't gonna give men like us a proper fight. Name's Hellfish. Captain Hellfish. Hit me hard enough, and I might take a shine to yeh." The jolly drunk pirate challenges. The blonde Fighter turned towards the drunk who pushed him, and gave him a glare that would make most thugs run. He didn't expect any drunks still at the bar, nor expect that this drunk in particular wanted to test his luck on him. He had to admire the courage this guy had, even if he himself doubts that the drunk could match him in combat. He took a stance, with fists up and one knee slightly bent, as he would say, "You better not disappoint me. My name is Volt. Volt Lynncher." As he would then wait for his opponent, named Hellfish, to make the first strike. "Lynncher, eh? Yer a scrappy one. Waitin' for me to throw the first punch, are yeh?" Hellfish backs out of melee range. Picks up one of the 50 thugs Lynncher has just knocked unconscious. Lifts him like a bale of hay. And tosses him at Lynncher as a makeshift projectile weapon. "I GOT 49 MORE OF THESE WHORE-SONS!" Hellfish guffaws, bellows, and lifts another one. "YER MOVE, GOLDILOCK!" #456.1 Chara commented God I love the captain xD Volt would shift his stance and put his hands out to catch the unconscious thug. He would then kneel down and put the thug down quickly, but carefully, before getting back up and walking towards Hellfish, calm looking as he would say with a slight Tone of threat, "You shouldn't be throwing unconscious people around like rocks. Someone might get hurt." Volt did not like anyone who disrespects those who can't fight. Of course they were thugs, but they were knocked out, and that isn't right if someone takes advantage of it. With a breath, he then said, "You wish to try that again?" Blackrose was in the same bar watching Hellfish and the new guy face off. "KICK HIS GOODY GOODY ASS FISH MAN!" She yelled drunkenly, waving a bottle in the air. Arriving in town with Ju-Long on his back, Kriss and the party headed straight for the nearest doctor. The doctor remarked that another Eastman was in the room and, peering behind the divider curtain, Captain Hellfish remarked, “Aye it’s ‘em. In rougher shape than a ship bilged on her anchor.” Alistair have a deep sigh, clearly being the default battlefield medic had started to take its toll, and this news probably wasn’t helping. Before he got a word out, Hellfish stormed out of the doctor’s office and straight towards the nearest rowdy pub. “Poxy, bloody doctors can stuff it! Just medicate meself over a few dozen pints...” He grumbled on his way out. Following Hellfish out of the room, Blackrose gave the unconscious Ju-Long a small embrace on her way out. Barefoot, in tattered leggings, and wearing an old cloak I’ll-fitted for her sizable chest, Blackrose boldly strode toward the same pub Hellfish headed to rather than, well, literally anywhere else. Kriss, knowing that the other Eastman was leading the party Jack was in, became interested in what Xu-Shen had to say. “Will I be able to ask this man some questions? He inquired to the doctor. ”Not for a while, I reckon. I had to anesthetize him in order to perform surgery. He had pretty intense organ damage. From the looks of this one, I’ll have to put him under, too.” Kriss grew concerned, “Did he come here with a group of others?! Where would they be?!” ”No, no. It was just him, and no one else. I’m honestly shocked he managed to make it here at all. If he was this bad... well, I’m not sure what to say about any others that might’ve been with him. If they are here, I imagine they’d still be in town.” Kriss thanked the doctor and started out the door to find out if anyone else from the desert party had made it into town. Last edited by Tyler_D; November 15th, 2018, 10:59 PM. Alistair quickly dropped a small bag of coins on the table beside Ju-Long, "thank you for looking after both of our friends. If this doesn't cover your troubles, please let me know when I return. If their condition changes, can you please send word?" The gentleman nodded as he ushered the group out so he could begin working on Ju-Long, Alistair gave a curt bow and followed behind Kriss. "If you're looking for Jack, please allow me to accompany you. I'm concerned for his whereabouts as well." The ranger patted the leather of his cuirass a couple times as he continued speaking. "We might check a few of the shops, first. I feel quite naked without my cloak and I do not feel like the one I left with the doctor will be very useful when all is said and done." Kriss nodded as the two walked out onto the streets and headed back towards the chaos of the main street. Alistair wasn't too surprised to see the captain was already involved in a fight, facing off against a tall fellow with blond hair and a strange tattoo. And of course Blackrose was there too, bare chested again, and cheering him on. He thought about intervening but then thought better of it, Hellfish had a wide grin on his face and seemed to be enjoying himself, best to let the Captain be himself for the time being. The two walked into the armorer's shop, no sign of Jack, Gregory, or any of the others. But there was a rather fetching green cloak, pretty similar to what he had but with some brown accents. He also spotted a black leather vest that seemed like it would just fit Blackrose's ample bosom. The ranger quickly made the purchase of both items, tossed the cloak on himself, and followed Kriss back out into the street. He asked Kriss to wait for a moment and he approached Blackrose in the crowd of people, handing her the leather vest. "You draw a lot of attention like that, milady. Please do consider covering yourself in the city at least. You may also want to get yourself a new pair of leggings and some boots for the rest of the journey. Kriss and I are searching for Jack and the others, please let everyone know what's going on when you're finished here" He walked back to the viking and stood beside him, hand on his chin. "Where would you expect Jack to go? You knew him better than I did." Last edited by Cid; November 15th, 2018, 11:55 PM. -- Take Five Omniwhatever Brothar Bookface - T5 Politics and Religion - Redge (by Mr. G) Dark Orchid	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2672
__label__cc	0.745364	0.254636	Chancellor Osborne pledges a Budget for business 18th March 2014 \| News Chancellor, George Osborne has pledged to deliver a Budget which backs UK businesses, with survey data indicating that the economic recovery is continuing to gather pace. Mr Osborne moved to reassure business critics this weekend that Wednesday’s Budget 2014 would provide the additional stimulus needed for long-term recovery. Business leaders have been stepping up the heat on Osborne to broaden financial support for businesses, particularly with the general election just 15 months away. “We have a balanced recovery. The message in the Budget is that our economic plan is working but the job is very far from done,” said Osborne. “That means addressing long-term issues. We don’t export enough, don’t build enough. We need to boost exports to new emerging markets and support investment.” The EEF and business advisors, BDO, have released their most optimistic manufacturing survey yet, indicating that manufacturers are benefitting from strong growth in both home and export markets. Their survey data displays output and orders are approaching record levels along with increased employment and improved investment intentions. John Cridland, director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), is keen to see a Budget which provides long-term stimulus otherwise the Chancellor risks putting the brakes on the recovery. “We are at the early stages of a vital, but not inevitable, rebalancing of the economy,” said Cridland. “Whether we do this actually depends on whether we choose to do it. There’s nothing inevitable about it.” Mr Osborne is confident that this week’s Budget will provide the framework for sustained economic recovery with additional investment in industry, research and development and housing. As yet, the Chancellor has failed to provide adequate relief for firms saddled with high energy bills but is hoping to reform carbon taxes and continue to freeze fuel duty to help ease the burden.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2676
__label__wiki	0.54766	0.54766	Support Techdirt Why We Don't Need To 'Think Of The Artists': They're Doing Fine As We Complain About SOPA & PIPA, Don't Forget The DMCA Already Has Significant Problems Colbert Takes On SOPA from the can-we-get-some-internet-policement dept Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 10:16am — Mike Masnick By the way, I wanted to embed the clips of Colbert's show in this post -- as is clearly allowed by the site. But because Viacom is crazy, they appear to set the embeds to autoplay as soon as you load up the page. And that's freaking annoying. I tried to find hidden variables to stop the autoplay... and nothing worked. So, sorry, no embeds. Meanwhile, Colbert: please, please, turn off autoplay, or at least make it an option. Thankfully, a few folks sent over the secret code to make it work... Want to see just how mainstream the issues of SOPA and PROTECT IP are becoming? Last night they made it on to The Colbert Report, where he had a bit of a debate about SOPA, between record label owner Danny Goldberg and Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain. It kicked off with a short segment, where Colbert explained the issue. As a content provider, I am wholeheartedly against the infringement of copyright... so much so that I had that phrase trademarked and then I had it emblazoned on a Mickey Mouse doll Which, of course, he then shows to the audience. But the awesomest part? He quotes the famous $200 to $250 billion in losses claim that always gets thrown around... but then immediately says: That is a shocking number. Especially when you realize the FBI admits it has "no record of source data or methodology for generating the estimates and that it cannot be corroborated." Now folks, that's what happens when the FBI buys bootleg reports off a card table in Chinatown. Honestly, this might be the first time I've seen mainstream media -- and a Viacom-owned property, no less -- call out the bogus numbers for being bogus. He finishes by pointing out that YouTube, Twitter and Facebook could be in trouble under the law, and that people uploading infringing videos may face problems as well. From there, he went into the debate. In his typical satirical way, he introduces Zittrain by claiming he was here to "defend thieves & pirates," and asks him "why do you want artists to starve?" Zittrain did a great job: "I want artists to thrive. The internet allows artists to find their audiences. When Justin Bieber started singing his favorite songs on YouTube, he got discovered because of the internet. And the odd thing is, under this law, SOPA, the behavior of Justin Bieber, singing his favorite songs, without authorization, over the internet, could make him a felon, in jail for three years." It's actually five, but close enough. Goldberg, of course, says this is all an exaggeration, and then claims (incorrectly) that the bill only targets foreign sites. Zittrain did note that there were different parts of the bill (but leaves out that many of them target US companies), but then makes the second key point, about how this law uses the same mechanism that China & Iran use to censor the internet there. To which Colbert replies: "I don't know about Iran, but China is kicking our ass in business right now. Wouldn't it be good for American business? Because if we shut down parts of the internet, won't people at work actually do the work they were hired for?" Goldberg continues to play the "but something must be done" line, leading Colbert to make his alternative proposal: "What if the artist gets something from the company stealing from them? An eye for an iPod?" to which Goldberg says "it's a good line, but..." and Colbert points out, "it's an excellent line, not a good line" and then threatens to sue anyone who "steals" it. Wasn't expecting much for an under 5 minute interview, but overall Zittrain did a great job, and got in a few key points. The Bieber point is a little exaggerated, because Bieber would have to do a few more things (such as embedding the videos on his own site), but the overall point he's getting at is clear: the bill is overreaching and will harm legitimate activities which artists rely on today. Filed Under: copyright, danny goldberg, jonathan zittrain, justin bieber, pipa, protect ip, sopa, stephen colbert Companies: viacom If you liked this post, you may also be interested in... Congress Moving Forward With Copyright-For-Censorship 'Small Claims' Act Three Years Later: 1st Amendment Challenge Over DMCA's Anti-Circumvention Provisions Can Move Forward YouTube Begins Blocking Stream-Ripping Sites Nickelodeon Is Opposing A 12 Year Old New Zealand Girl's 'Slime' Trademark For Some Reason Facebook Takes Down Post Critical Of Indian Film For Copyright Violation, Even Though It Was An All-Text Post View by: Time \| Thread Anonymous Coward, 3 Dec 2011 @ 1:33am Reasonable copyright? The problem with any "reasonable" copyright reform is that an attempt to curb infringement is going up against privacy and freedom of information. Any modest or reasonable copyright reform must as minimum include a blanket exemption for any noncommercial use, abolition of service provider liability, getting rid of DMCA style circumvention provisions, and abolition of all moral "intellectual property" rights and shortening of copyright to 10 years. What's commercial vs. noncommercial infringement? Most copyright maximalists and even many copyright reformists aren't willing to grant a blanket exemption for noncommercial use -- copying without direct financial gain. But if all noncommercial use were exempted from copyright law, it would to a large extend ameliorate the privacy, freedom of information and due process concerns. The only part of copyright I find acceptable is prohibition on direct commercial gain without the creator's permission. And after 10 years, even commercial use without creator's consent should be completely legal. Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? Register here Subscribe to the Techdirt Daily newsletter this is for spambots, do not use this Comment Options: Use markdown. Use plain text. 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__label__cc	0.68684	0.31316	Mobile GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 specs reportedly revealed By Tim Schiesser on July 21, 2016, 8:30 Last month it was revealed that Nvidia's latest Pascal GPUs would be coming to gaming notebooks largely unchanged from their desktop variants. Due to the superb energy efficiency and low TDPs of these powerful GPUs, it would be relatively easy to transition Nvidia's desktop parts to power- and heat-constrained laptops. Now, thanks to a series of leaks from BenchLife, PurePC, and VideoCardz, the potential specifications for the mobile GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 have been revealed through GPU-Z screenshots. The GeForce GTX 1070 will reportedly feature a slightly higher CUDA core count in the mobile variant (2048) than the desktop card (1920), an increase of 128 cores. This could be to offset a slight reduction in clock speeds, which has allegedly decreased from 1506/1683 MHz (base/boost) in the desktop card, down to 1443/1645 MHz in the mobile part. The memory configuration is expected to be the same: 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit interface providing 256 GB/s of bandwidth. The mobile GTX 1060 appears to be mostly unchanged from the desktop variant. CUDA core counts remain the same at 1280, with clock speeds getting a slight reduction from 1506/1709 MHz in the desktop card, to 1405/1671 MHz. One again, the memory configuration is the same: 6 GB of GDDR5 on a 192-bit bus, providing 192 GB/s of bandwidth. For now, the specifications of the flagship mobile GeForce GTX 1080 remain unknown; although, judging by what has been revealed, we can expect a similar core count with reduced clock speeds. All three GPUs are expected to be seen in new laptops in the coming months. Intel unveils Pohoiki Beach: a chip cluster that mimics the human brain AMD poaches Alienware co-founder Frank Azor to be new head architect of gaming Apple put a slower SSD in the 2019 MacBook Air to trim costs 4 comments 34 interactions Sony unveils the Vaio SX12, a small laptop that's packed with ports AMD losing CPU share to Intel, Windows 10 cements top OS spot Load Comments 4 User Comments: 4 Why is my keyboard typing wrong characters Fresh build, everything powers like it should except no display at all on monitor The Best Monitor Want to build a non-gaming Home Office Computer Epson XP610 won't turn on after cleaning	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2685
__label__wiki	0.96804	0.96804	Reach & Traffic› Share of internet users who visited Groupon in the U.S. 2018, by age Share of American internet users who visited Groupon in the last month in 2018, by age by Alexander Kunst, last edited Jun 21, 2019 This statistic illustrates the share of American internet users who visited Groupon in the last month in 2018, by age. In that year, 20.36 percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 years stated that they visited Groupon in the last month. September 24 to October 24, 2018 U.S. residential online population Panel survey The original question was: Which of the following internet sites or apps have you used in the past month? (check all that apply) India: number of Facebook users 2015-2023 India: number of social network users 2015-2023 Total retail e-commerce revenue in India 2017-2023 India: social network penetration Q3 2017 Statistics on "Internet usage in India" Online audiences Digital population in India as of January 2018 (in millions)India: digital population as of January 2018 Number of internet users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions)India: number of internet users 2015-2023 Percentage of population using the internet in India from 2000 to 2016India: internet penetration 2000-2016 Distribution of internet users in India in 2016 and 2020, by age groupDistribution of internet users in India in India - by age group 2016-2020 Distribution of internet users in India in 2016 and 2020, by genderDistribution of internet users in India - by gender 2016-2020 Number of internet users in India from 2017 to 2019, by region (in millions)Number of internet users in India - by region 2017-2019 Number of social network users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions)India: number of social network users 2015-2023 Social network user penetration in India from 2017 to 2023India: social network penetration 2017-2023 Penetration of leading social networks in India as of 3rd quarter 2017India: social network penetration Q3 2017 Number of Facebook users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions)India: number of Facebook users 2015-2023 Most popular brands on Facebook from India as of October 2019, by number of fans (in millions)Leading brands on Facebook from India 2019, by number of fans Number of mobile phone internet users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions)India: mobile phone internet users 2015-2023 Mobile phone internet user penetration in India from 2015 to 2023India: mobile phone internet user penetration 2015-2023 Share of mobile data traffic across India in July 2017, by operator Share of mobile data traffic in India - by operator 2017 Total number of mobile wireless subscribers in India from 2010 to 2017 (in millions)Total wireless subscribers in India 2010-2017 Most popular smartphone activities in India as of January 2018India: mobile activities as of January 2018 Leading online stores in India in 2017, ranked by net e-commerce sales (in million U.S. dollars)E-retailers: e-commerce sales in India 2017 India: retail e-commerce revenue forecast from 2017 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)Total retail e-commerce revenue in India 2017-2023 Annual retail e-commerce sales growth in India from 2017 to 2022Retail e-commerce sales growth in India 2017-2022 Digital travel sales in India from 2016 to 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars)India digital travel sales 2016-2021 Average retail e-commerce revenue per user in India from 2017 to 2023 (in U.S. dollars)Retail e-commerce ARPU in India 2017-2023 Share of online sales in India in 2016, by categoryShare of online sales in India - by category 2016 Share of American internet users who visited CNN.com 2018, by age Share of internet users who visited ESPN.com in the U.S. 2018, by age Share of American internet users who visited the Huffington Post 2018, by age Internet households with users who visited last.fm in the last month in the U.S. 2018 Share of internet users who visited MTV.com in the U.S. 2018, by age Share of internet users who visited UFC.com in the U.S. 2018, by age Internet households with users who visited Yelp within the last month in the U.S. 2018 Share of internet users who visited MLSsoccer.com in the U.S. 2018, by age Share of American internet users who used Uber online 2018, by age Reach of fashion blog websites in Great Britain as of August 2013, by age and gender Ranking of domestic e-commerce sites in Sweden 2017, by number of visitors Ranking of international e-commerce sites in Sweden 2017, by number of visitors Chile: monthly food delivery website traffic 2016-2017 Monthly visits of gamereactor.dk 2018-2019 IPO underwriting fees paid by Groupon Reach and website traffic in the United Kingdom (UK) Digital population in India as of January 2018 (in millions) Number of internet users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions) Percentage of population using the internet in India from 2000 to 2016 Distribution of internet users in India in 2016 and 2020, by age group Distribution of internet users in India in 2016 and 2020, by gender Number of internet users in India from 2017 to 2019, by region (in millions) Number of social network users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions) Social network user penetration in India from 2017 to 2023 Penetration of leading social networks in India as of 3rd quarter 2017 Number of Facebook users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions) Most popular brands on Facebook from India as of October 2019, by number of fans (in millions) Number of mobile phone internet users in India from 2015 to 2023 (in millions) Mobile phone internet user penetration in India from 2015 to 2023 Share of mobile data traffic across India in July 2017, by operator Total number of mobile wireless subscribers in India from 2010 to 2017 (in millions) Most popular smartphone activities in India as of January 2018 Leading online stores in India in 2017, ranked by net e-commerce sales (in million U.S. dollars) India: retail e-commerce revenue forecast from 2017 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) Annual retail e-commerce sales growth in India from 2017 to 2022 Digital travel sales in India from 2016 to 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars) Average retail e-commerce revenue per user in India from 2017 to 2023 (in U.S. dollars) Share of online sales in India in 2016, by category Share of American Internet users who visited CNN.com in the last month in 2018, by age Share of American internet users who visited ESPN.com in the last month in 2018, by age Share of American internet users who visited the Huffington Post in the last month in 2018, by age Share of American internet users who visited MTV.com in the last month in 2018, by age Share of American internet users who visited UFC.com in the last month in 2018, by age Share of American internet users who visited MLSsoccer.com in the last month in 2018, by age Share of American internet users who used the Uber app or website in the last month in 2018, by age Do you visit fashion blogs regularly (once a week or more often)? Ranking of domestic e-commerce sites in Sweden in 1st quarter of 2017, by number of visitors (in 1,000s) Ranking of international e-commerce sites in Sweden in 1st quarter of 2017, by number of visitors (in 1,000s) Average monthly food delivery website visits via desktop and mobile devices in Chile from 2nd half 2016 to 2nd half 2017 (in millions) Number of visits of gamereactor.dk from September 2018 to May 2019 (in 1,000s) Fees Groupon paid to the underwriters of its IPO (in million U.S. dollars)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2686
__label__cc	0.62825	0.37175	Home / Discipline e prodotti / Urologia / Banca dati bibliografica / blog / Banca dati bibliografica / San Juan J et al, 2017: Variation in Spending around Surgical Episodes of Urinary Stone Disease-Findings from Michigan. San Juan J et al, 2017: Variation in Spending around Surgical Episodes of Urinary Stone Disease-Findings from Michigan. Martedì, 27 Marzo 2018 San Juan J, Hou H, Ghani KR, Dupree JM, Hollingsworth JM. Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. PURPOSE: To help rein in surgical spending, there is growing interest in the application of payment bundles to common outpatient procedures like ureteroscopy (URS) and shockwave lithotripsy (SWL). However, before urologists can move to such a payment system, they need to know where their episode costs are concentrated. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using claims data from the Michigan Value Collaborative, we identified patients who underwent URS or SWL at hospitals in Michigan (2012 to 2015). We then totaled expenditures for all relevant services during these patients' 30-day surgical episodes and categorized component payments [i.e., those for the index procedure, subsequent hospitalizations, professional services, and post-acute care (PAC)]. Finally, we quantified variation in total episode expenditures for URS and SWL across hospitals, examining drivers of this variation. RESULTS: In total, 9,449 URS and 6,446 SWL procedures were performed at 62 hospitals. Among these hospitals, there was three-fold variation in URS and SWL spending. The index procedure accounted for the largest payment difference between high- and low-cost hospitals (URS: $7,936 vs. $4,995, P<0.01; SWL: $4,832 vs. $3,207, P<0.01), followed by payments for PAC (URS: $2,207 vs. $1,711, P<0.01; SWL: $2,138 vs. $1,104, P<0.01). The index procedure explained 68% and 44%, and PAC payments explained 15% and 28% of the variation in episode spending for URS and SWL, respectively, across hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: There exists substantial variation in ambulatory surgical spending across Michigan hospitals for urinary stone episodes, most of which can be explained by payment differences for the index procedure and PAC services. J Urol. 2017 Nov 24. pii: S0022-5347(17)77983-9. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2017.11.075. [Epub ahead of print] Hans-Göran Tiselius il Martedì, 27 Marzo 2018 13:56 This economic analysis is based on data from a large number of hospitals in the Michigan area. The recorded payment for the index patient varied considerably but was higher for patients treated with URS than for those treated with SWL. There was approximately similar spending on acute care after the two procedures. The results are discussed by the authors and the advantages and disadvantages of bundled payments considered. It is important to note that such a system requires correct coding of the surgical treatment. My personal view is that in the computer-era, the payment should be based on detailed costs for every procedure that has been carried out. Such a system, however, needs patient files that in a standardized way account for every individual cost. This economic analysis is based on data from a large number of hospitals in the Michigan area. The recorded payment for the index patient varied considerably but was higher for patients treated with URS than for those treated with SWL. There was approximately similar spending on acute care after the two procedures. The results are discussed by the authors and the advantages and disadvantages of bundled payments considered. It is important to note that such a system requires correct coding of the surgical treatment. My personal view is that in the computer-era, the payment should be based on detailed costs for every procedure that has been carried out. Such a system, however, needs patient files that in a standardized way account for every individual cost.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2691
__label__wiki	0.689576	0.689576	Stoutner A web browser that respects your privacy Privacy Browser Changelog and Downloads Core Privacy Principles Blocklists UltraList UltraPrivacy Common Settings F-Droid’s Forum Mobile and Desktop Versions of Websites Preventing Crashes Searx URL Modification Privacy Browser Settings Format GitWeb Security and Privacy Canary Programming Humor Privacy Browser is an open source Android web browser focused on user privacy. It is released under the GPLv3+ license. The source code is available from git.stoutner.com. The standard version is available on F-Droid, Google Play, XDA Labs, and the Amazon Appstore. The free version has all the features of the standard version with the addition of a banner ad across the bottom of the screen. It is available on Google Play, XDA Labs, and the Amazon Appstore. Privacy Browser has two primary goals. Minimize the amount of information that is sent to the internet. Minimize the amount of information that is stored on the device. Most browsers silently give websites massive amounts of information that allows them to track you and compromise your privacy. Websites and ad networks use technologies like JavaScript, cookies, DOM storage, user agents, and many other things to uniquely identify each user and track them between visits and across the web. In contrast, privacy sensitive features are disabled by default in Privacy Browser. If one of these technologies is required for a website to function correctly, the user may choose to turn it on for just that visit. Or, they can use domain settings to automatically turn on certain features when entering a specific website and turn them off again when leaving. Privacy Browser currently uses Android’s built-in WebView to render web pages. As such, it works best when the latest version of WebView is installed. In the 4.x series, Privacy Browser will switch to a forked version of Android’s WebView called Privacy WebView that will allow for advanced privacy features. Warning: Android KitKat (version 4.4.x, API 19) ships an older version of OpenSSL, which is susceptible to MITM (Man In The Middle) attacks when browsing websites that use outdated protocols and cipher suites. The Git repository can be cloned by running the following command: git clone git://git.stoutner.com/git/PrivacyBrowser.git There is also an Android.mk repository for integrating Privacy Browser into ROMs. Pandalov says: Why there is no option to disable WebRTC? Soren Stoutner says: Information about WebRTC can be found at https://www.stoutner.com/webrtc/. i made a page for your browser on alternativeto.net https://alternativeto.net/software/privacy-browser/ Thanks for doing that. Bruce Turlish says: Many android browsers allow for a standard/wide viewport choice. See Habit, Atlas and Naked browsers as examples. I have a personal website with personal bookmarks that works best with a standard viewport. Also, the ability to turn off style sheets can be of use, as the seattletimes.com website won’t allow browsing if javascript is turned off. Turning off the style sheets does the trick, however. Further, having the Home and Clear and Exit icons right at the top of the left hand drop-down menu would improve convenience, IMO. Your browser is very good, and I am glad I discovered it. Keep up the good work. You have achieved something worthwhile. I have added a feature request for disabling the wide viewport at https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/399. Once https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/181 is implemented, users will have the ability to block CSS for any website they desire. I have added a feature request for moving Clear and Exit to the top of the navigation menu at https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/400. 4t4v1c says: Much needed effort! This browser needs more feedback, support and promotion. Thank You. Sjdbfjfksnsnf says: Dude you have got to add fingerprinting protection. Like the Canvas Defender add on for firefox. This could be the best browser there is if youd just add this and also allow the logged connections on a site to be interactive. Sorta like uMatrix but your own design. This browser is so fast and minimal permissions. Desperately need fingerprinting protection my man. Canvas fingerprinting does not work unless JavaScript is enabled. https://browserleaks.com/canvas. So, using Privacy Browser with the default settings will protect you from canvas fingerprinting. Disabling canvas fingerprinting when JavaScript is enabled will require Privacy WebView and is planned for the 4.x series. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/232. Dhdhhdd says: Can’t use it until you add fingerprinting protection like Canvas Defender for FF. And have a uMatrix like panel. Once you at least add FP protection your browser will be by far the best. See the reply to the previous comment for some information about canvas fingerprinting. Making the requests activity interactive will also require Privacy WebView, which will be added in the 4.x series. I have added a feature requests to track development of this feature. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/405. Jones smith says: Hi is it possible to add an all black theme for nav bar and settings on amoled displays? Thanks for the great browser..all the others are garbage. There is a dark theme that can be enabled in the settings. This changes the color of all of Privacy Browser’s controls, but leaves the web pages with their natural colors. There is a separate night mode that adjusts the colors of the web pages. Hi, I wonder if one can search text within web pages. Is it possible? I couldn’t find that. It is hiding under Layout in the Options Menu. It is a little hard to find, but I haven’t been able to think of a better place to put it. Got it! Thank you! 🙂 Hi, thanks for your work. I’m trying to use it as my daily browser since it supports tab. I do have a question : I don’t get which settings I should allow on trusted websites to keep my logins active? Logins typically require first-party cookies. Also, many websites that use logins also require JavaScript to be enabled, but that is not, strictly speaking, necessary for a login system. You might also take a look at the section of the website that lists settings that work with various specific domains. For example, https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser/common-settings/google/. Am I missing where to put bookmarks? Can’t wait find them. Thanks for a great browser. Bookmarks are available by swiping from the right edge of the screen. There are instructions for using bookmarks in the Guide included with Privacy Browser, but it isn’t always apparent to people where to find them. Perfect, thanks. How can I throw a donation your way? You’re welcome. There are donation methods listed at https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser/contributors/. The browser seems to have some problems with sideways scrollable pictures. The scrolling ist VERY slow, only a few pixels per finger swipe. Changing the user agent doesn’t solve this. This bug is described at https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/415. It will be fixed in the 3.1 release. Pmage says: Are there any plans to add hide-ad or element picker? (like present in Ublock-origin) Reading articles without using an element picker is difficult. Either they require JavaScript to dismiss (disabled by default or annoying if you clear data frequently). When enabled–night mode– then sticky elements like navigation bar among other follow the page taking precious screen space. Also could there be an option to hide the android’s status bar? I prefer reading articles full screen. The design and the amount of user controls are awesome! Keep that up! I have created a feature request to modify page elements via blocklists. This will require Privacy WebView in the 4.x series. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/442 Based on what happens with Google’s addition of a night mode to WebView, it may be possible for me to remove the current requirement for JavaScript to be enabled for night mode before the 4.x series. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/193 There is already an option to enable full screen mode by double tapping. It can be found in the settings. kaz says: how can open new tab on backgroud? this is a great browser, but I don’t found this option.. That is a good idea. I have added a feature request. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/462 Nokia808 says: Please add build in switcher to use i2p. Currently you application has option to switch to Tor via Orbot. It will be so useful if you add option for i2p. I2P support is a planned feature. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/355 Mr.Blue says: I love this Browser, very good Job. Thank you Soren Stoutner. Stoutner, Proudly powered by WordPress.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2692
__label__wiki	0.528133	0.528133	10+ Best Card Battle Games for Android Soccer Spirits Soccer Spirits is a very unique game that combines soccer with the battle of evil versus good. It’s a fantasy soccer game that will task you with assembling the galaxy’s best soccer team so that you can take on and defeat the League of Evil. It features dynamic sound effects and over 30 different voice actors to give the game a realistic feel. It’s a story that combines fantasy soccer with space. Hearthstone Heroes of Warcraft Hearthstone is a game you need to try, but before we say anything else, it should be mentioned that it only works on screens that are or larger than 6-inch. It’s a deceptively simple yet insanely fun game in which you’ll have to play out a tactical and strategic battle by building a powerful deck and unleashing the wrath of your destructive character cards. This game combines fantasy RPG with the collectible card genre to deliver a game that is truly fascinating and immersive. Fantasy Warlord lets you gather your own powerful guardians and build alliances with other players. You can even collect the souls of the guardians and combine different guardians to make more powerful ones. You can battle with your friends and socialize with other Fantasy Warlord players. Kung Fu House-english Kung Fu House is one of the first with 3D technology in card collection game genre on Android. The game takes you into a world of Kung Fu strategy battles and martial arts. Besides 3D technology battle mode, the game also features do-it-yourself maneuvering, own variety of unique Kung Fu gameplay, original stories and fate special. Cast & Conquer When it comes to card battle games, Cast and Conquer is the game that takes a unique and fresh look at the genre to give us something interesting and immersive. Cast and Conquer is all about collecting powerful cards and waging war against the computer or online players. You get to choose between four powerful classes, all of which come with a unique set of abilities, so pick wisely. Skylanders Battlecast A free-to-play card battle game for Android, Skylanders Battlecast is a game that every fan of the card battle genre should try playing at least once. It lets you interact with the Skylanders using the unique power of augmented reality so that you can complete your quests and unlock cards as you brace yourself for the ultimate battle. Skylanders Battlecast is one of the best card battle games of 2016. Devil Maker: Tokyo This game is so unique because it lets players create their very own and unique devils. You can collect, raise, and customize powerful devils and enjoy the evolved and interesting card battle game that is Devil Maker. It comes with a battle system that is immersive and a story that lets you enjoy the game without getting bored. Tactics: Conqueror’s War The Conqueror’s War is a card battle game that draws its inspiration from the Greek mythology of Odin and Valhalla. The card game lets you play a strategic game to capture castles and forts that are scattered across the map. As you build your battle deck with powerful character cards, you’ll be able to prove your worth for feasting in the hall of Sessrumnir with the gods. Sounds interesting, right? Trouble With Robots Trouble with Robots is a popular card battle game that has received praise from game designers as well as reviewers. It’s a game that is all about action and strategy. In this collectible card game, you get to build the perfect deck of cards so that you can damage your enemies, buff up your allies, and weaken your foes with your powerful and overwhelming strategies. Legend of Dragon-HD The most classical amine which has been popular all over the world for 30 years. If you’re a fan of card battle and card collectible games, you’ll definitely be a fan of card games that involve dragons. Dragon Legend is a fantastic game that you need if you’re looking for a game that poses tactical challenges and various quests that you can only master with a perfect combination of cards. The game is interesting, immersive and free to play, so give it a try. Eredan Arena – PVP battles Eredan Arena’s gameplay is simple yet fun. Choose your 5 heroes team among more than 120 different heroes to battle in the arena! Throw dices to trigger a hero’s ability to attack your enemies. This gameplays show a balance between strategy and luck, which makes it very fun to play. Cards and Castles brings forth an interesting combination of strategy gaming and collectible card gaming to your Android devices. In this game, you have to build a powerful deck of cards so that you can play these cards and win battles by controlling units, spells, and so much more. It’s a game with an immersive story and challenging gameplay that will demand you to create combos and strategies. Posted in Mobile Apps \| Tagged Android Games, Android RPG Games 9 Best Drinking Games for Android How to Play Pokemon GO on PC	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2693
__label__cc	0.746617	0.253383	TLR at a Glance We are Republicans, Democrats and Independents from across Texas. We are small business owners, homemakers and community volunteers. We are lawyers who want the civil justice system in Texas to be efficient and fair. We are plant managers who want our companies to continue to grow and to create even more jobs for Texans. We are consumers who oppose the wasteful “tort tax” applied to products and services when frivolous litigation is prevalent. We are ranchers and teachers who have anguished over needless lawsuits. We are doctors and nurses who have seen colleagues abandon their chosen professions because of the emotional and financial toll imposed by legal assaults. We are the citizens of Texas who want a better future for ourselves and our children. We’re the faces of Texas… more than 16,800 individual supporters in 900 towns and cities, representing 1,255 different trades, businesses and professions. What Texans for Lawsuit Reform Strives For, And Why TLR’s objective is to keep litigation in its traditional and appropriate role in our society. A lawsuit takes a heavy emotional and financial toll on participants, and therefore should be the remedy of last resort to resolve disputes between parties. A lawsuit should not be used to obtain “windfall” riches for a lawyer and his client. TLR has been working for 25 years to create a civil justice system that discourages non-meritorious lawsuits or outrageous claims for damages. We seek to encourage quick and efficient dispute resolution. We want injured parties to be made whole by the party causing the injury at the earliest possible time. We envision a litigation system purged of intimidation and extortion, allowing plaintiffs to be fairly compensated and defendants to get a fair day in court. TLR strives for a trial environment in which the outcome is based solely on the merits of each party’s case. To meet our goals, TLR is active in political campaigns (through the TLR Political Action Committee), in research, in legislative advocacy, in public relations, in judicial selection and in the development of case law. TLR will continue to be fully engaged in legislative elections and in legislative advocacy to both preserve the tremendous gains that have been achieved and enact additional much-needed reforms. The Texas Legislature enacted comprehensive tort reform in its initial 1995 session and has passed reforms in virtually every legislative session since. The cumulative reforms of each legislative session over the past 25 years have made Texas a model for the rest of the country and started what has now become known has the Texas Miracle. It is little surprise that Chief Executive Magazine ranked Texas the best place to do business for the 14th year in a row in 2018. Elements of the trial bar tenaciously try to reverse these gains each legislative session. Opponents of tort reform continually redouble their efforts to defeat pro-reform candidates at the polls. Support of TLR is an investment in the future of our law, our economy and our society. We hope you will join us in this effort. Recent Advocate For more than a decade, Texas lawyers have filed thousands of lawsuits against insurers every time a severe weather event impacts the state. To calm the surge in storm-related litigation, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 1774, affording insurance companies a chance to resolve a disputed claim by requiring policyholders to give insurers notice 60 days prior to filing a lawsuit. Read and share: bit.ly/2XC7Oi2 ... See MoreSee Less Storm attorney Eric Dick loses Hurricane Harvey trial against Houston insurance company SVIC tortreform&period;com For more than a decade, Texas lawyers have filed thousands of lawsuits against insurers every time a severe weather event impacts the state&period; To calm the surge in storm-related litigation&... The fact that a judge under indictment for accepting bribes can run for higher office and win should be a major red flag for Texans. But unfortunately, many Texans simply don’t have enough knowledge about the candidates for judicial office to make informed decisions. Many voters cast their votes for judges based on party affiliation or name recognition, since they have no knowledge of the relative merits of the candidates. Read and share the latest TLR blog: bit.ly/32v2Gv6 ... See MoreSee Less The fact that a judge under indictment for accepting bribes can run for higher office and win should be a major red flag for Texans&period; But unfortunately, many Texans simply don’t have... In case you missed it: We all know better than to double dip. It is the epitome of bad manners. Highly frowned upon. And if you’re a county official in Texas, it’s also illegal. But that didn’t stop one county attorney. Read and share TLR’s blog: bit.ly/2Z7RnGF ... See MoreSee Less TLR@lawsuitreform· Want to make a difference in the fight against lawsuit abuse? Join the TLR team today! Get Involved - Texans for Lawsuit Reform Texans for Lawsuit Reform has thousands of supporters from across Texas who are committed to a fair and balanced civil justice system. TLR works to promote a civil justice system that discourages unnecessary lawsuits. Learn more: About - Texans for Lawsuit Reform TLR's objective is to restore litigation to its traditional and appropriate role in our society. A lawsuit takes a heavy emotional and financial toll ... For more than a decade, TX lawyers have filed thousands of lawsuits against insurers every time a severe weather event impacts the state. The #txlege passed House Bill 1774 to calm the surge in storm-related litigation. Read & RT: #lawsuitreform For more than a decade, Texas lawyers have filed thousands of lawsuits against insurers every time a severe weather event impacts the state. To calm t...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2700
__label__cc	0.641228	0.358772	Why Booze Makes You Poop By Sarah Anderson Published On 01/06/2017 @sarah_jfa By Sarah Anderson @sarah_jfa Published On 01/06/2017 Daniel Fishel/Thrillist Alcohol is great. Alcohol is fun. Alcohol also, quite brutally, gives you the runs. Most people have experienced the feeling of waking up after a particularly rowdy night out, head throbbing, then making a desperate break for the bathroom. And let's be honest: This ain't your average No. 2. All those drinks that seemed like such a great idea the night before suddenly want to leave your body at the speed of light, which, naturally, isn't all that pleasant. So what's up with this gut-wrenching reaction? We talked to Dr. Urvish Shah, gastroenterologist in Lansing, Michigan, to find out. Why your body is making you suffer Remember last night when you had to pee, like, a billion times? "Alcohol is a diuretic," explains Shah. "When you have a drink, it enters the bloodstream immediately and it also causes the pituitary gland in the brain to inhibit the production of vasopressin." Vasopressin regulates the body's water retention and constricts blood vessels. Without it, the kidneys send water straight to the bladder and you straight to the line for the bar bathroom. It's not pee you're worried about the next morning. According to gastroenterologist Dr. Kathlynn Caguiat, "Alcohol can increase gut motility and it doesn't get broken down before it reaches the colon, where bacteria feast on these, resulting in bloating and diarrhea." Those bacteria love the alcohol you feed them, and they repay you with extra gas and crap. What's more, increased gut motility means everything's moving more rapidly than usual. That in turn means the colon has less time to absorb any water, which can result in watery stool and diarrhea. And the worst offenders are… "The more concentrated the alcohol, the worse the reaction will be," Shah warns, which explains the severe reactions whiskey can provoke the next morning. Liquors will produce the worst booze craps, in other words. But beer won't exactly be your friend either. This is because the body produces enzymes to assist in breaking down the complex carbohydrates found in your favorite suds as they travel to the small intestine. When you're slinging high-carb options like beer down your gullet fairly quickly -- and ethanol is speeding up the digestive process, remember -- some of the carbs will make it to your large intestine without breaking down. The bacteria in the large intestine start fermenting those carbs, resulting in gas, cramping, loose stool, and diarrhea. How to (un)soften the blow Pay attention to what you're drinking! If beer seems to be the most likely culprit, try switching to wine or clear liquor. Everyone is affected differently, so it's going to be a personal call. Shah's best advice? "If you want to stay out of the bathroom, stop drinking so much!" Fair enough, Dr. Shah. And he doesn't want you to forget to eat, either. "Alcohol increases the acid content in your stomach, which can easily irritate the lining and trigger stomach and digestive problems." Having food in there often helps reduce alcohol's abrasive effect on the intestines. An empty stomach means more alcohol is moving to the small intestine and getting absorbed by the blood, which can affect other organs like the colon, causing loose stools and diarrhea. Food acts as a protective mechanism by slowing the process of gastric emptying. Are you going to die? Despite what your hangover may be telling you, probably not. Although not extremely pleasant, looser stool and diarrhea after drinking isn't usually a big deal. But if you find yourself sprinting to the bathroom upwards of 10 times a day, or if your booze poops last more than 24-48 hours, see your doctor. You could have a more serious bowel issue at play. Sarah Anderson is a former Thrillist employee and current law student. She can't wait to share these findings on her next big night out. Follow her @smileforsarah and @sarah_jfa.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2705
__label__wiki	0.500888	0.500888	Events Location Date Tickets Citi Open Tennis Tournament: Session 1 - Qualifying at Washington on 7/27 Fitzgerald Tennis Center 7/27/2019 10:00 AM View Citi Open Tennis Tournament: Session 3 - Main Draw at Washington on 7/29 Fitzgerald Tennis Center 7/29/2019 1:00 PM View Citi Open Tennis Tournament: Session 6 - Main Draw at Washington on 8/1 Fitzgerald Tennis Center 8/1/2019 1:00 PM View Citi Open Tennis Tournament: Session 7 - Quarterfinals at Washington on 8/2 Fitzgerald Tennis Center 8/2/2019 2:00 PM View Citi Open Tennis Tournament: Session 9 - Semifinals at Washington on 8/3 Fitzgerald Tennis Center 8/3/2019 2:00 PM View World Team Tennis at Las Vegas on 8/3 Orleans Arena - The Orleans Hotel 8/3/2019 4:00 PM View Citi Open Tennis Tournament: Session 10 - Semifinals at Washington on 8/3 Fitzgerald Tennis Center 8/3/2019 7:00 PM View Citi Open Tennis Tournament: Session 11 - Finals at Washington on 8/4 Fitzgerald Tennis Center 8/4/2019 12:00 PM View Rogers Cup Womens Tennis Canada: 1st Round - 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__label__wiki	0.804126	0.804126	Game of Thrones: This is the cheapest way to watch it Maisie Williams knows the end to Game of Thrones Game of Thrones locations Game of Thrones star conquers world Sophie Turner has a celebrity matchmaker by Matthew Dunn 17th Jul 2017 12:43 PM THE wait is over and Game of Thrones season 7 will be premiere in Australia Monday morning. If you are looking for the cheapest way to legally watch the latest season, here are your options: FOXTEL NOW Gone are the days of needing 12-month Foxtel contract to watch Game of Thrones, with the company's upgraded streaming service offering a cheap alternative. Foxtel Now has no lock in contracts and offers a two-week free trial to new customers, meaning you can potentially get the first two episodes without even paying a cent. At just $15 per month, Foxtel Now's 'pop pack' is the cheapest way to watch GoT season 7 on the service. WANT MORE THRONES? RECAP: Game of Thrones s7 ep1 - Dragonstone [Spoiler alert] Spoil Game of Thrones? Police are on to you Missing pieces in GoT you must know A new teaser has been released for Game of Thrones season 7. Contributed The package will stream every episode at 11am, with an encore playing at 8:30pm - or you can watch it on demand after the initial airing. With Foxtel now allowing simultaneous streaming on two devices, you could split the cost with roommate or family member and pay just $7.50 per month. As there is no lock-in contracts, you can also cancel your subscription after the last episode airs, meaning you only have to pay for a couple billing cycles. Foxtel also has all the episodes from seasons 1-6 if you're in the mood for a refresh. ITUNES AND GOOGLE PLAY While Foxtel has exclusive rights to Game Of Thrones for the duration of the season, once the last episode screens it will be become available to rent or purchase online from Google Play and iTunes. For season six, the cost iTunes has of the full season in SD and HD for $24.99. This option has the added benefit of being able to binge-watch the whole season in one go, although if you are a big fan, you will have to avoid two months of spoilers on social media. Good luck with that. Yes, some people still buy DVDs and Blu-ray and getting Game Of Thrones season 7 on physical media will offer the benefit of a physical collectors edition and an array of exclusive special features - if you wait 10 months after the final episode airs. Based on the pricing of season 6, you can expect to pay $24.98 on DVD or $29.98 for Blu-ray, with the later offering the most premium audio and video quality of any format. BE CAUTIOUS OF PIRACY While many might be quick to claim availability options are too limited in Australia, it must be pointed out that customers in the US face the same structure. In the states customers would need a subscription for HBO Now as it holds exclusive rights, like Foxtel does in Australia. With such an investment into the show, HBO has recently become for active in its fight against Game of Thrones pirates. Yara and Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones. Foxtel Last year, HBO's anti-piracy partner IP Echelon sent thousands of warnings to ISPs, calling for them to take action against alleged pirates of Game of Thrones season 6. "As the owner of the IP address, HBO requests that [ISP] immediately contact the subscriber who was assigned the IP address at the date and time below with the details of this notice, and take the proper steps to prevent further downloading or sharing of unauthorised content and additional infringement notices," the warning read, reported TorrentFreak. Legally, ISPs are not obligated to forward these emails, but don't be surprised if you receive one in your inbox. HBO and Foxtel have also been aggressive in getting piracy sites blocked, with the most popular torrents removed shortly after they appear online. News Corp, the publisher of this website, is a 50 per cent owner of Foxtel. RECAP: Game of Thrones s7 ep1 - Dragonstone The Game of Thrones scene fans can't stomach Game of Thrones a record breaker for Foxtel NETFLIX: The most streamed shows of 2017 foxtel game of thrones	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2710
__label__wiki	0.521312	0.521312	‘Happy memories, incredibly grateful’: Prince William’s parting words to Canada Heartfelt thank you, touching farewell as Royal tour ends for Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Oct. 1, 2016 3:00 p.m. The Duke of Cambridge gave a heartfelt thank you to Canadians for welcoming the Royal couple and their children so warmly. Prince William’s speech came during the final day of the week-long visit to B.C. and Yukon with Kate, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. “Catherine and I are incredibly grateful to the people of Canada for the warmth and hospitality they have extended to our family over the last week. We have loved our time in British Columbia and Yukon and will never forget the beautiful places we have seen and the many people who have been kind enough to come to welcome us in person. “We feel very lucky to have been able to introduce George and Charlotte to Canada. This country will play a big part in the lives of our children and we have created such happy memories for our family during this visit. “Canada is a country of optimism, generosity and unrivalled natural beauty. I hope we have helped all Canadians celebrate what makes this country great. We will see you again soon.” Well-wishers were enthralled by the sight of the waving children, Prince George and Prince Charlotte, from the floatplane dock before beginning their journey home to Kensington Palace. Thousands of onlookers cheered and clapped as the royals walked along the floating dock to board their flight. Prince George, 3, wearing red shorts and a sweater, waved both hands enthusiastically at the spectators. He was greeted by flower boy Daniel Brachman, 11, of Victoria. But the young Prince did not exchange high-fives with Brachman. Prince George also refused to high-five Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week. Princess Charlotte, wearing a red sweater and a dress, walked along the dock holding her mother, Kate’s, hand. The family faced the crowd and waved before boarding the float plane. And Princess Charlotte waves goodbye to the #RoyalVisitCanada pic.twitter.com/dll51LGFl4 — Arnold Lim (@arnoldlimphoto) October 1, 2016 PHOTO SLIDESHOW FROM FINAL DAY [View the story “Royal Farewell” on Storify] ‘Grow Local BC’ province’s latest community contest Individual goes off-roading on Port Edward properties	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2714
__label__wiki	0.622364	0.622364	Open burning a decade-old problem in Johan Setia, Klang Wednesday, 1 Aug 2018 by elan perumal A concerned citizen R. Pathmanathan from Bandar Parkland inspecting an open burning site where waste dumped at Kampung Johan Setia is burned. OPEN burning activities in Kampung Johan Setia in Klang has continued to pollute the air, much to the anger of thousands of residents living around the peat soil area. Kota Kemuning, Bandar Bukit Rimau, Bandar Puteri, Taman Sentosa, Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Bandar Botanic and as far as Bandar Parklands have been affected by the haze caused by the peat fire. The residents claim that the haze problem affecting the townships due to the open burning activity at Johan Setia has not been resolved since 2008. There have been many promises by politicians including state assemblymen, MPs and the state government but there has been no permanent solution. In a proactive move, the residents have even set up a Facebook page called “Stop The Burning at Johan Setia” in a bid to pressure the authorities to resolve the issue. A check by StarMetro revealed that open burning in Johan Setia, which comprises plantations as well as farm land occupied by small holders, and several housing estates, was committed mainly by residents themselves. An illegal dumping spot with smouldering smoke due to open burning activities in Kampung Johan Setia. Due to lack of surveillance from the enforcement authorities, including the Department of Environment (DoE), the check also showed that unscrupulous individuals, including waste contractors, were dumping and burning waste in the area. Numerous open burning activities were sighted while smouldering fire was obvious at various isolated spots. Environmental activist Lim Teck Wyn, who is a member the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), said residents were fed up with the haze caused by the open burning in Johan Setia. He said the battle against open burning had been going on for too long and it was time the authorities acted against those found guilty of committing the offence. “The issue is ongoing for decades. We were given a lot of hope by the state government when they announced that various drastic measures were introduced to prevent farmers from conducting open burning, but it was all in vain. Fire rages on in numerous parts of Kampung Johan Setia resulting in haze shrouding the Kesas Highway. “There has been a lot of talk at the state government level and even at the Federal level as the matter has been raised in parliament by Klang MP Charles Santiago, but all that have not changed anything,” said Lim, who lives in Kota Kemuning. State DoE director Siti Zaleha Ibrahim said the department was working closely with the local authorities and the Klang Land Office to handle the open burning issue in Johan Setia. Numerous fines have been issued against those caught conducting the illegal activity, she said, adding that court action had also been taken against repeat offenders and those caught red-handed conducting open burning on a large scale. “We are unable to do anything once the fire is lit, but we can act against the culprits if we have information on the activity and those who commit the offence. “We rely on the public to provide us information with photos, including the vehicles involved in carrying out the illegal activity,” said Besides the open burning conducted by the farmers, Siti Zaleha said the DoE also identified contractors who illegally dump waste. “Any form of open burning is an offence under the law. “I believe we will be able to reduce open burning activity if the public can play a positive role by feeding DoE with crucial information at the right time so that we have sufficient time to nab the culprits,” she said. Besides placing notice boards to warn against open burning, she said DoE’s enforcement team had also been conducting daily patrols, including weekends and public holidays, at various hotspots in the state including Johan Setia. Tags / Keywords: Central Region , open burning , Johan Setia , Klang , pollution	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2719
__label__wiki	0.969124	0.969124	Cathay to mine personal data to tailor to premium flyers Tuesday, 19 Mar 2019 by kyunghee park The data analysis is helping Cathay “understand what people like and what they don’t like”, Hogg said. “It’s everything that will make that journey comfortable.” — Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd is doubling down on mining customer data. The airline is logging the travel habits of lucrative business-class flyers, such as when they want their seat laid flat, in a bid to individually tailor flights for them, chief executive officer Rupert Hogg said in an interview in Singapore March 18. Cathay seeks to track 23 categories of behaviour and aspirations, 12 of which are particularly important, he said. The data analysis is helping Cathay “understand what people like and what they don’t like”, Hogg said. “It’s everything that will make that journey comfortable.” The efforts are part of Cathay’s three-year transformation programme started in 2017 when Hogg assumed the top post. The carrier is seeking to strengthen its financial health after taking a beating from competition from China to the Middle East. Still, the plan comes months after Cathay revealed it became the victim of a hack that exposed personal information on 9.4 million passengers, the biggest data breach ever in the airlines industry. Mining client data enables precision and is what any consumer company is doing, according to aviation analyst Mohshin Aziz of Maybank Investment Bank Bhd. “By doing this correctly, you can have repeat customers,” said Mohshin. Cathay’s recent security breach shouldn’t affect the company’s analysis, Mohshin said. The airline was the target of a sophisticated hack on its computer system last year, the largest such violation in the airline industry. Separately, the Hong Kong flagship carrier plans to introduce a new product in its business-class cabin in the second half, Hogg said, without offering details. After cutting jobs and slimming down its operating structure, the airline posted its first full-year profit in 2018 following two straight annual losses. As part of the overhaul, the carrier also added international routes and lured customers with improved service offerings and meals for premium fliers. Echoing the passenger reach of rival Singapore Airlines Ltd, whose operations range from budget to premium customers, Cathay has also changed its view about the low-cost-carrier business. Operating a budget airline was something that Hogg ruled out two years ago at the start of the transformation program. 'Unique segment’ “It’s a unique segment to the market,” Hogg said in a Bloomberg Television interview with Yvonne Mann and Rishaad Salamat Monday. “It’s a stimulatory type of model and it’s changed a lot.” The airline said this month that it’s in “active discussions” to buy shares in Hong Kong’s only budget carrier from debt-laden Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. A successful acquisition of Hong Kong Express Airways Ltd would fill a hole in Cathay’s product offering, according to Rahul Kapoor and Chris Muckensturm, analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence. Cathay has added 31 of the more fuel-efficient Airbus SE A350s to help start new destinations, and has also cut its overall fuel consumption, Hogg said. The carrier is making WiFi available on its widebodies used for long-haul flights by 2020, and thereafter on its narrow-body aircraft operated by its Cathay Dragon unit. “We’re really focused on productivity rather than cost cutting because productivity is about doing things smarter,” the executive said. As for concerns following two fatal crashes involving Boeing Co’s 737 Max aircraft, which Cathay’s fleet doesn’t include, Hogg said safety has always been the first priority for the industry and always will be. Currently, it also operates 777s and ordered the 777-9X from the US planemaker. “It’s important that people get to the root cause, really understand it, and then we learn from that and the whole industry learns,” he said. – Bloomberg	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2720
__label__wiki	0.899733	0.899733	Kristen McCauliff: She 'hit the jackpot' in moving to Muncie Kristen McCauliff felt an instant connection to Muncie when she visited to interview for a job at Ball State University. Kristen McCauliff: She 'hit the jackpot' in moving to Muncie Kristen McCauliff felt an instant connection to Muncie when she visited to interview for a job at Ball State University. Check out this story on thestarpress.com: https://tspne.ws/2NMz87G Audrey J. Kirby, Muncie Star Press Published 10:10 a.m. ET Sept. 17, 2018 \| Updated 1:24 p.m. ET Sept. 20, 2018 Twenty award recipients were honored for their achievements during the annual 20 Under 40 banquet at Cornerstone Thursday evening. Jordan Kartholl / Star Press, Kristen McCauliff. 20 under 40 2018. (Photo: Jordan Kartholl / Star Press, )Buy Photo Nine years ago, Kristen McCauliff and her husband, Drew Shermeta, moved to Muncie from Georgia. The new city didn't exactly speak to McCauliff at first when she applied for her current job at Ball State University, but after visiting when she interviewed for the position, McCauliff felt an instant connection. She called her husband after the interview and told him she would take the job if she was offered it. "There was an effervescence surrounding the people I met (in Muncie)," McCauliff said. "Since we've had our kids, we've found this is such a wonderful place to raise a family." McCauliff was one of 20 people to be recognized by The Star Press and M Magazine in this year’s 20 Under 40 program, which honors people under the age of 40 making a difference in the community. Now, as an associate professor of communications studies, as well as acting assistant provost, she builds connections with prospective employees. As a self-proclaimed "Muncie evangelist," she said she encourages them to see what Muncie has to offer. She is passionate about empowering them to leave their mark when they get here. Our 2018 20 Under 40 recipients answer the question, "why do you love Muncie?" Muncie Star Press Part of that process, she believes, means bridging the gap between her university and the city surrounding it, an initiative she said has come to fruition with new Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns and the Better Together forums. She said she sees Ball State and the city of Muncie as partners. McCauliff plays her part in this. Though she is employed with the university, she is involved in other community organizations. She works with the Muncie Action Plan and United Way's capital campaign, and encourages young community members to vote as part of the League of Women Voters, helping with voter registration drives at each high school in Delaware County. She also advocates for Planned Parenthood programming. She also ensures her family attends staple Muncie events. One of their favorites is the Muncie Symphony Orchestra's annual Festival on the Green. She jokes it's because she takes the themed picnic table contests very seriously, but honestly, she just loves that these events will help form hometown memories her children will cherish. All of this has made it quite simple for her to share why she loves the city in which she currently thrives. It reassures her how excited she is to see where Muncie is nine years from now. "It's so easy to talk about why I live in Muncie," McCauliff said. "There is so much room to do good, and so many other people to do good with. I feel like I'm my best self in Muncie. "I feel like I hit the jackpot." What she says: What is your favorite spot in Muncie: "When I'm with my kiddos, Minnetrista. If I'm by myself, with my husband, Savage's." How would you describe yourself: "I see myself as someone who is energetic and committed." Where are we most likely to find you on a Saturday morning: "Going for a run at Minnetrista, then eating breakfast at The Cup and going to the Farmers Market with my family." What is one unusual thing in your work space: "The round windows in my office at the third level of the yellow building on campus." Who has been a big influencer in your life: "I've been so fortunate to have strong women in my life: my mom, grandmother and sister. But also I've been advised by women in my career that have influenced me." Read or Share this story: https://tspne.ws/2NMz87G Delaware County man held in molesting probe Police: Muncie mom found traveling with meth, baby One killed in Ind. 67 accident east of Daleville Sunday's Delaware County arrest log City responds to questions about EMS plan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2721
__label__wiki	0.872028	0.872028	https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Faking-bad-Woman-arrested-for-allegedly-lying-12643423.php Faking bad: Woman arrested for allegedly lying about cancer Published 12:00 am CDT, Thursday, August 7, 2014 TROY — A Troy woman was arrested Thursday after allegations she sought donations from several churches, individuals and charitable organizations to help in her and her son’s false fight against cancer. The Troy Police Department announced Thursday the arrest of Melissa D. Barton, 26, of Troy on the Class 3 felony of Theft by Deception. Troy Police Chief Brad Parsons said the arrest occurred on Aug. 6. “It’s a shame that someone would claim to have cancer just to receive money,” Parsons said. “Troy is a community that will come together to help each other when it’s needed. It is acts like this that make people more hesitant to assist those that really need the help.” According to the TPD, early in June officers were notified that Barton was possibly deceiving people and organizations for cash assistance. An investigation revealed that Barton was telling people she had cancer, that her son had leukemia, and she was asking for cash assistance. It was determined Barton was asking for and receiving cash from religious organizations, individuals, and from online donation websites such as youcaring.com and wepay.com, a release from the TPD said. On Aug. 5, investigators with the TPD filed for a felony warrant for Barton. An arrest warrant was issued and Barton was subsequently arrested. Barton has also used alias names of Melissa Dawn Pruett Barton, and Missy Barton Pruett. The TPD release said this is an ongoing investigation and detectives are continuing to investigate leads. Anyone who recognizes Barton and feels they may have been deceived by her is urged to call 618-667-6731. The public is reminded that all arrested persons are merely accused of the charges against them and are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2722
__label__wiki	0.726238	0.726238	Letter From a Teacher: Dear Parents — Your Expectations of Your Children’s Teachers Should Match Your Commitment as Moms and Dads Charlene Lake: Why American Companies Must Engage in Training the Youth of Today to Build the Workforce of the Future Finn: Apollo Moon Landing Marked a ‘Giant Leap’ for Mankind — and Education. Moonshot for Kids Could Launch the Next Leap Forward Stewart: Hey, Bill de Blasio, I Was Once a Charter School Parent — and I Don’t Deserve Your ‘Hate’ King: A Tribute to Don Stewart, an Education Giant Who Helped Countless Black Students to and Through College Innovative Idaho School Ahead of the Pack in Rethinking High School Transcripts — and At Least Some Colleges Are Glad Excerpt: An Insider’s Account of How the Charter School Idea Became a National Movement — Day One at New Jersey’s North Star Academy A Mom’s View: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Says He ‘Hates’ Charter Schools. We Need Less Hate and More Hope for Our Kids’ Education McKenna: My Upscale NJ District Is a Pipeline to the Ivy League. So Why Do So Many Parents Suddenly Want Alternatives to a B.A.? Marc Morial: National Urban League Marks 30 Years Nurturing Young Leaders, Defying At-Risks Odds for Black Children When Success Is Not Enough: Charter Schools Delivering Better Outcomes for Low-Income Students Still Target of Progressive Ire Green: California Senate Bill Would Move State Backward on Literacy and Teacher Qualifications. That Would Be a Disaster for Our Kids Ashton: While 5G Is Coming to Our Cell Phones, Our Schools Are Stuck in 2G. 3 Ways to Help Give Our Kids a Cutting-Edge Education Edelin: D.C. Charter Students Are Locked Out of a Million Square Feet of Available School Space. New Campaign Aims to Change That Gaulden: The 100G Evergreen National Education Prize Supports the People Who Support the Students. Application Deadline Is July 12 Williams: The 2019 Democratic Debates, Where No One Argues for Fixing America With Better Schools Rees: At This Year’s National Charter Schools Conference, We Must Start Reinvigorating the Charter Movement. 3 Things We Need to Do Walsh: School Choice Is Not a Zero-Sum Game — How a Texas Superintendent Championed District-Charter Partnerships to Help All Kids Succeed Whitmire: As School Districts Collaborate With Top Charters and Foundations, We’re on the Cusp of a Breakthrough in Guiding Low-Income & Minority Students to a College Diploma Opinion: The U.S. Doesn’t Have Enough STEM Teachers to Prepare Students for Our High-Tech Economy. 4 Steps Toward Addressing That Shortage By Melissa Moritz and Emily Weiss \| April 11, 2018 Photo credit: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images 4 steps toward ending the shortage of qualified STEM teachers in America’s schools More than half of U.S. public school districts — including 90% with large minority populations — have trouble recruiting and retaining qualified STEM educators Inequities in access to STEM education limit career opportunities for African-American and Latino students Now more than ever, a high-quality STEM education matters. The STEM fields cultivate curiosity and creativity while preparing students to reach their highest potential in work and life. They are also critical for personal and national prosperity: In the next decade, almost all of the 30 fastest-growing occupations will require intermediate or advanced knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics. Unfortunately, access to a high-quality STEM education is deeply inequitable, limiting opportunities for students while they are still in high school. A quarter of high schools with the highest percentage of African-American and Latino students don’t offer Algebra II — a prerequisite for many higher-level STEM courses — and a third of these schools do not offer chemistry. Given the existence of these STEM deserts, it’s no surprise that people of color are significantly underrepresented in the growing STEM workforce. One reason schools struggle to provide access to STEM courses is a shortage of effective STEM educators. More than half of U.S. public school districts, including more than 90 percent of districts serving large populations of African-American and Latino students, report difficulties recruiting and retaining certified, knowledgeable STEM teachers. Those shortages make the focused development of future STEM educators critical. The National Math and Science Initiative has widely replicated the UTeach program, an initiative at the University of Texas at Austin to help students pursuing undergraduate degrees in math and science also secure teacher certification. As of spring 2016, more than 60 percent of educators certified through the UTeach Expansion program were working in school systems that serve high proportions of African-American and Latino students. But there is more to do. Without a great STEM teacher in every classroom, we will continue to fall short — depriving students of opportunities and hindering economic progress. So what can we do? Over the past several months, Education First and the National Math and Science Initiative have been working on a strategy for how to best address this issue. Although our work isn’t complete, we’ve learned a few lessons: 1 Teacher shortages must be understood — and addressed — at the local level. Though the STEM teacher shortage is a national issue, it disproportionately affects students in low-income urban and rural communities. Often, local teacher shortage numbers are artificially depressed by the lack of STEM offerings in schools. For instance, if a high school doesn’t offer calculus — and half of our nation’s high schools do not — the school is not counted as lacking a calculus teacher. We should dig more deeply into local data to identify specific shortages and their causes, and then craft tailored strategies to address them. 2 STEM majors need better incentives to become STEM teachers — and stay in the classroom. Graduates with STEM backgrounds typically have many career options that are higher-paying and perceived as more prestigious than teaching. Increasing salaries in subject shortage areas and creating flexible, high-quality paths to teacher certification for STEM professionals could help recruitment efforts. Additionally, more opportunities for expert teachers to learn from and collaborate with one another through programs like Math for America would enable STEM teachers to grow in their expertise and could help schools retain strong STEM teachers. 3 STEM teacher preparation programs should focus more on content-specific pedagogy and match production goals to local needs. Learning to teach well looks different across content areas, grade levels, and localities. Yet many STEM teacher preparation programs don’t focus on the development of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge — the skills to effectively teach a specific subject — leading many to struggle in the classroom. Furthermore, many teacher prep programs don’t encourage and recruit candidates to train in subject areas that are in demand locally, causing an overproduction of teachers in certain grades and subject areas and leaving key shortages unaddressed. Supporting teacher prep programs in STEM deserts to work more closely with local districts could help. 4 Organizations must work together to increase awareness of this urgent shortage. Though the causes and manifestations of the STEM teacher shortage differ across localities, the impact on students in low-income communities and students of color across the country is widespread and pernicious. Key players, including teacher prep programs, school districts, policymakers, industry leaders, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropies, should come together to tell this story in a compelling way to inspire strategic action. Recruiting and retaining effective STEM teachers, especially for traditionally underserved communities, isn’t easy. But with a strengthened internal strategy, and with support from policymakers, educators, and advocates, we can move forward. Melissa Moritz, former deputy director of STEM initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education, is vice president for strategic initiatives at the National Math and Science Initiative. Emily Weiss, former deputy chief academic officer at the New York City Department of Education, is a principal at Education First Consulting. Melissa Moritz and Emily Weiss Melissa Moritz, former deputy director of STEM initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education, is vice president for strategic initiatives at the National Math and Science Initiative. contributors@the74million.org Emily Weiss, former deputy chief academic officer at the New York City Department of Education, is a principal at Education First Consulting. Sign Up for the T74 Newsletter SEL in the House: Democrats Approve Millions in Landmark Federal Funding for Social-Emotional Learning in Bill That Now Faces Test in Senate The Mentor: One Year, Two Teachers and a Quest in the Bronx to Empower Educators and Students to Think for Themselves The Mastery Transcript Consortium Has Been Developing a Gradeless Transcript for College Admissions. This Fall It Gets Its First Test 74 Interview: Pulling All the Levers — Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson on Getting More Students to and Through College This Week’s ESSA News: Indiana Resolves Dispute With Feds Over Funding Struggling Schools, New Legislation to Ease the Teacher Shortage, Refocusing the Funding Conversation & More No Exceptions: New York, Washington, Maine Abolish Religious Exemptions for Measles Vaccine, California Looks to Limit Medical Exemptions You might have missed...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2726
__label__wiki	0.932954	0.932954	Pesky seagulls wreak havoc at Springboks' training ground SEAGULLS caused havoc at the Springboks' training ground by pelting the ground with poo, it has emerged. Now the birds have even been blamed for the South African team’s shock defeat to Japan. The team used Eastbourne College’s pitch at the Memorial ground to train for the match at the Amex on Saturday. But groundstaff had to call a pest control company after getting inundated with the birds before the team arrived. Jon Whitehead, a director at Clean Kill Environmental Services, told The Argus: “I got a phone-call from the head groundsman. “They had spent quite a lot of money on preparing the ground to host the South African team, and the seagulls found this a nice place to rest. “I think they were looking for worms to eat or something like that and they were creating a mess on the pitch. “So they asked for some help and advice. “We were able to tell them that when you get a large flock what you can do by introducing a hawk to the area is disrupt their feeding patterns.” The Croydon-based company did a trial flight with a hawk before the team arrived and was put on standby in case needed again, Mr Whitehead added. Head groundsman Richard Maryan said: “At one time we had more than 100 gulls on the pitch after we had cut the grass and they were making an horrendous mess.” Two-times world champion South Africa lost 34-32 to underdogs Japan on Saturday, one of the greatest upsets in Rugby World Cup history. Twitter account TheatreAfrica, which has 11,000 followers, wrote: “Seagulls plague South African Springboks training ground with POO. Now I know why we lost.” Another fan wrote, according to a national newspaper: “Thanks a lot, seagulls. How can the players be expected to train in these conditions?” The Rugby World Cup organising body visited Eastbourne College several times to conduct detailed pitch inspections. Eastbourne College headmaster Simon Davies said: "The excellent work of the Eastbourne College grounds team in preparing training pitches for our Springbok guests and George the Hawk’s efficacy as an ethically sound pest deterrent has in fact been foully defamed by ludicrous claims that ‘seagulls on the pitches’ had anything to do with the South Africans’ performance at the Amex stadium (where, I note, the Seagulls play all their home matches; very suspicious?). "In fact the Springbok Team Manager Ian Schwartz said the training facilities they had at Eastbourne College ranked among the best they’d ever used. "In the days they trained here they didn’t even see a single seagull! "Having the Springboks in our wonderful town gave a great amount of joy and excitement to the people of Eastbourne – young and old."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2727
__label__wiki	0.885434	0.885434	Fey/Poehler vs. MacFarlane: The Golden Globes One-Up the Oscars Kevin Fallon The 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation stars will bring a warmer, hipper brand of comedy to awards-show stage compared to the no-longer-cutting-edge snark of the Family Guy creator. Did the Golden Globes just beat the Oscars at its own game? Thanks to of the shrewd hiring of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as hosts of its 2013 ceremony, it might have. High-fiving a million angels! The Motion Picture Academy's ceaseless struggle to produce an Oscars telecast that appeals to younger viewers while still maintaining some traditional pomp and circumstance is, by now, a point of ridicule. First there was the parading of a Tiger Beat troupe made up of High School Musical stars and Miley Cyrus onto the broadcast. Then, the fateful hiring of Anne Hathaway and James Franco as hosts. Last year featured the tremendous crash-and-burn of the Brett Ratner/Eddie Murphy "edgy" producing/hosting team. Yet the Academy recently announced it was making another attempt at reaching the 18-24 demo, booking Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy, Ted, and nearly nothing that a majority of the aging Academy members have ever heard of, to preside over this year's telecast. Oscars 2013: Our Very, Very Early Predictions for Next Year's Contenders It was a risky choice, and one that might have ended up seeming wise in the long run. That is, until the Hollywood Foreign Press ruined everything by landing what may be the most perfect combination of awards-show hosts that there has ever been: Fey and Poehler. The Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, in recent years at least, seem to want what the other has. The Globes crave the Oscars' legitimacy and respect; the Oscars, the Globes' currency and coolness. The respective ceremonies' new hosts represent those competing desires. But with Fey and Poehler, the Globes may just succeed in getting what it wants, while MacFarlane seems destined to go down as yet another failed Oscar experiment. The two bills represent competing strains of comedy. MacFarlane's humor is very referential. Family Guy, Ted: Their jokes are snarky, crude, and often mean. As popular as that brand of comedy is in some sets—Family Guy is still a hit and Ted did gangbusters at the box office—it's also not new, closely tied to a comedy movement that was at max freshness about a decade ago. The crassness, the use of the word "retard" as a joke, the punchlines about bong hits, boobs, and porn—it's in line with the rise of the Frat Pack and those Will Ferrell/Vince Vaughn/Adam Sandler movies that are having a harder and harder time finding audiences. While it's unlikely that MacFarlane plans to stage a three-hour episode of Family Guy at the Oscars, surfacing this type of humor at the event seems as appropriate as sending Daniel Tosh to do his most shocking 10 minutes at a nursing home. See, "modern" doesn't have to mean "raunchy." Fey and Poehler still represent a type of humor that is very of-the-moment, and even a little cutting-edge. More importantly, it's comedy that's far more suited for this type of event. They're playful and empathetic, but their jokes still carry a sharp bite. Look to any Saturday Night Live skit, or Mean Girls, and especially Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock—two shows that Poehler and Fey, respectively, write for as well as perform on—for proof of that. The self-deprecating humor Fey displayed in her memoir Bossypants and while playing Liz Lemon on 30 Rock is now the Internet's most popular meme, with Tumblrs like "What Should We Call Me" and webseries like "Shit Girls Say" proving that we're still finding new and clever ways to laugh at ourselves—which is actually often more fun than laughing at other people. Awards-show co-hosts should make an audience feel as if they are attending a dinner party thrown by best friends. Fey and Poehler already are friends, and have proven time and again their natural chemistry. Their dinner party is going to be a riot, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association deserves credit for recognizing that. Ever been to a party thrown by hosts who didn't know, or, worse, didn't like each other? It's exceedingly uncomfortable—a bit like watching James Franco sleepwalk across the Kodak stage while Anne Hathaway mutates into a whirling dervish of theater-girl energy to compensate. That same notion applies to the tone of the ceremony. Emcees like Neil Patrick Harris, Jimmy Fallon, Hugh Jackman, and Ellen DeGeneres are so well received because they play their gigs as if they're hosting a fun party. The mean-spirited "roast" approach favored by the likes of Chris Rock or Ricky Gervais causes party guests to squirm and even dread the event entirely—am I the next to be skewered? Yes, everyone loves some good-natured ribbing. Fey's six-season long digging at NBC's failures proves that she can strike the necessary "it's all in fun" balance. She and Poehler, as they did on SNL for years, will be able to tease without being mean. But anyone who's watched the scathing-though-funny insults fly in an episode of Family Guy or seen MacFarlane serve as master of ceremonies at a Comedy Central roast can predict that he may have a trickier time toeing that line. An awards-show audience should be thrilled when the the evening's host is announced and first takes the stage. Fey and Poehler are almost incomparably beloved by Hollywood and viewers; within minutes of news breaking about them yesterday, the widespread reaction was indeed excitement. An awards-show audience should not be thinking, "Oh, so that's what he looks like," when the host walks out, as a large percentage will be when MacFarlane makes his entrance. Fey and Poehler embody everything that the Academy presumably wants in its hosts. They're known, cherished, hip, and even more current than MacFarlane is. They have established chemistry. But the Golden Globes nabbed them. There may be good business reasons for that: The Globes air on NBC, which also airs 30 Rock and Parks and Rec, and Fey and Poehler are more known for their TV work, which the Globes also award, than their film resumes. But at the same time, MacFarlane has exactly one film under his belt, and in it he appears as a pot-smoking teddy bear with a voracious sexual appetite. Game, set, match: Globes. Kevin Fallon is a reporter for the Daily Beast. He's a former entertainment editor at TheWeek.com and former writer and producer for The Atlantic's entertainment channel.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2728
__label__wiki	0.918753	0.918753	5 Urban Farms Reshaping the Food World in New Orleans Tracie McMillan When a city is as food-obsessed as New Orleans, it's natural that urban farming would go high-profile, too. And just as the city has more in its culinary repertoire than red beans and rice, its efforts to grow food boast a richer history than is apparent at first glance. Community gardens first took root here in the 1980s, spurred by economic decline that saw oil companies moving operations to Houston. Those gardens numbered more than 150 at their peak—and nearly all of them were used to grow food, says Jean Fahr, executive director of Parkway Partners, the nonprofit that coordinated those efforts. As in most cities, development pressures in the 1990s gobbled up much of that land; but here, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina more than tripled the number of vacant lots, which now number 66,000. Enter the next generation of urban farmers, most of whom operate through the New Orleans Food and Farm Network (NOFFN). NOFFN had launched prior to Katrina, planting its first food gardens in NOLA's Hollygrove neighborhood days before the storm. Post-Katrina, the dire lack of food in the city compelled NOFFN to switch gears; the group made national headlines with its DIY food maps of the city in the weeks after the storm. More recently, the group has gotten its hands dirty in the Big Easy's soil: planting farms, launching markets, and even training new farmers in the business of urban gardening. There are so many folks growing food in the city, in fact, that NOFFN is hard at work on a comprehensive guide to the city's food gardens, profiling more than 100 city growers. "The history of urban agriculture in New Orleans is very far-reaching," explains Ariel Wallick Dorfman, an urban agriculturalist at NOFFN. "But I would say the last five years is really when urban agriculture went beyond community gardens." Here are five examples of how New Orleans is taking city-grown food from farm stand to standing resource: 1. Hollygrove Market and Farm: Bringing the Next Generation of Urban Farmers to Market Size: One acre Managed by: Carrollton Hollygrove Community Development Corporation Location: Carrollton / 8301 Olive Street If there's one New Orleans farm that stands as a flagship for up-and-coming urban farmers, it would be Hollygrove Market and Farm. NOFFN first planted crops in the neighborhood in late August 2005—not long before Katrina made landfall. Two years ago, the local community development corporation laid claim to an acre of land off Carollton Avenue, a major thoroughfare. Half the land is dedicated to master gardener and community plots, with an outdoor oven and chicken coop along the periphery. In the center sits a shaded stage designed by local architecture students that does double duty as water catchment and presentation space, alongside a market structure where neighborhood residents can buy regionally and city-grown produce. But the crown jewel may end up being what sits on the other half: two sprawling plots handed over to experienced urban farmers who will be teaching New Orleanians how to farm city soil as a business enterprise. Macon Fry, dubbed the "Greens Guy," already has a solid business in microgreens, while Ronald Terry, a retired social services worker, is cultivating muscadine grapes, blackberries, kumquats and satsumas to bring to market later this year. Training classes have yet to start, though, so Fry keeps busy by working his land. A recent weekday morning had him on his hands and knees clearing out a row of arugula that had already been harvested. Business is so strong, he said, that he plows through three or four beds a week. "It's a really right rotation," he said, shaking the dirt from an arugula root. "I have to replant right away." NEXT: Eating within a 10-block radius 2. Little Sparrow Farm: Eating Within a 10-Block Radius Size: 30 by 100 feet (typical city lot) Managed by: Marilyn Yank Location: Midcity, South Cortez Street and Cleveland Avenue Marilyn Yank wasn't looking to start an urban farm, but when the Ruby Slipper restaurant opened up shop in her Midcity neighborhood, the opportunity was too good to resist. The restaurant brokered an arrangement for Yank to begin farming a vacant lot across the street, and soon Yank was supplying the kitchen with what's become a common urban crop: microgreens. But the more Yank grew greens, the more she felt tugged in the opposite direction. "It felt like my household suffered," says Yank, who found herself growing more for market than her own kitchen. "I wanted to go back to diversity." So this fall—the beginning of NOLA's growing season, since summer is too hot for much to grow—Yank launched a city-based CSA, recruiting four families to buy shares of the bounty from her single city lot. As a founding member of the New Orleans Food and Farm Network, Yank—who'll be carefully measuring the amount of food she produces—is hoping the endeavor will help build the case for urban food production. Right now, she says, "there's no real data about how much food gets produced on a city lot in New Orleans." By the end of the growing season, she adds, "I can say, 'Look, four or five households can eat off this.'" NEXT: Bringing Rust Belt genius to the South 3. Our School at Blair Grocery: Bringing Rust Belt Genius to the South Size: 2/3 of an acre Managed by: Nat Turner, Our School at Blair Grocery Location: Lower Ninth Ward, Benton Street and North Roman Street Some proponents of urban agriculture aim to capitalize on the newest tech solutions to the challenge of growing in limited space. And then there are growers like Nat Turner. Turner first came to New Orleans in the wake of Katrina as a volunteer, bringing down busloads of students—he was a teacher—from New York City. Before long, he decided to relocate and, after being handed a scholarship to learn commercial urban agriculture from Will Allen, the Milwaukee-based Macarthur "genius," he started looking for land. Turner settled in the Lower Ninth Ward, leasing a ruined former grocery store, still surrounded by weeds that reached the roofline, to use as a schoolhouse. By 2008, Turner had founded a miniscule, five-student charter school, Our School at Blair Grocery, focused on the urban farm he'd launched. It features several of Allen's trademarks: It is low-cost, low-tech, and turns waste into bounty, à la worm composting. Students earn a stipend for their contributions to the farm's business of selling its sprouts and greens to the city's restaurants. Today, the school's three greenhouses sit amid banana trees and compost piles—and generate sprouts and greens that average around $2,000 in sales each week, says Turner; he's aiming for $3,000. Staff are experimenting with another Allen favorite—aquaponics—and hope to eventually raise catfish on site. Students recently built a microgreen garden out of plastic hanging baskets. Indeed, Our School is set to get big, fast. This fall the USDA awarded the group a three-year, $300,000 grant under its Community Food Projects program, which will augment the stipends paid to students and help the school acquire additional land and open a community kitchen. In the meantime, Turner and his staff are expanding their work while navigating their place in the neighborhood fabric, an endeavor that can sometimes be "a mess," Turner says. And with a grin that suggests he's used to such things, he adds, "It's all going to work out just fine." NEXT: Making urban ag work 4. Covenant Farms: Making Urban Ag Work Size: Five sites, varying from one to five lots in size Managed by: Covenant House Location: Treme and Midcity There's one thing about farming that is indisputable: It's hard work. That alone made urban farming a good candidate to add to Covenant House's existing jobs and social enterprise programs for homeless youth. But there's a stealth objective too, says Michael Kantor, who oversees the group's urban agriculture program: Getting the young adults, most of whom are parents, to develop a taste for healthy food. "We want to get these kids to be able to go to the grocery store and pick out herbs and vegetables and know what to do with them," Kantor says. That's not to say they don't focus on business when it comes to farming. Youth in the program learn the life cycles of different crops, how to deal with composting and soil fertility, how to plan a garden and how to manage it; some go on to earn horticulture licenses, freeing them up to work in the landscaping industry. Much of what they grow ends up on high-end restaurant tables, of course, but it also trickles down into students' meals. In September, when the season's first vegetables came in, everyone sat down to grilled pizza featuring herbs, fruits, and vegetables from the gardens. It may well be working. "I ain't never had pizza with fresh herbs and fresh vegetables, not like that," said James Williams, 20, about the cookout. Though he's worked in restaurant kitchens, Harris said the meal taught him something new about creative ingredient pairings. "We even had a pear pizza, too, a sweet pizza with some goat cheese. It was good." NEXT: Cleaning up Katrina's mess 5. Sun Harvest Kitchen Garden: Cleaning Up Katrina's Mess Size: 65' by 86' Managed by: Pam Broom Location: Central City, 1237-1241 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Contaminated soil is always a concern for urban farmers—and in post-Katrina New Orleans, where floodwaters spread toxins far and wide, the worry has been particularly intense. But with work done at Sun Harvest Kitchen Garden, in the city's Central City neighborhood, growers are starting to relax thanks to one simple thing: sunflowers. In 2008, segments of the plot now housing Sun Harvest Kitchen Garden posted a range of lead levels that topped out at 1200 parts per million—triple the level allowed by law. After successive plantings of sunflowers, the levels dropped as low as 136 ppm. (Dr. Lovell Agwaramgbo, the Dillard University chemist who tested the site, cautions that the reduced levels could in part reflect that the soil had been tilled, and thus distributing toxins more evenly; he's currently conducting further research.) The garden is now overseen by Pam Broom, one of the city's top advocates for urban agriculture and an experienced urban farmer in her own right. She's gearing up to begin real food production—she needs a fence first, to keep out animals—with the goal of selling herbs and vegetables to a nearby nonprofit restaurant, Café Reconcile. For now, though, she's not too concerned about the site's financial prospects. "Somebody came in and helped themselves to the leeks, and I thought, 'That's so sweet.' I figured somebody needed it," she says. For now, she added, "I'm using this as a demonstration of what's possible." Tracie McMillan is a freelance journalist whose work focuses on the issue of access to good food, particularly within middle- and lower-income communities. Her first book, The American Way of Eating, examines food and class in America.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2729
__label__cc	0.719814	0.280186	in Environment, Mumbai For These Mumbai Students, Cleaning Beaches is The Perfect School Reunion! Starting with a core group of 24 team members, the Beach Please drive now gets around 100 volunteers every week, who come down to the beach and pick up trash. by Tanvi Patel February 21, 2018, 4:53 pm For a few former students of the Dadar Parsee Youths Assembly school, a high school reunion goes beyond meeting over coffee and reminiscing about school days. They don’t wish to turn back time to the good old days but hope to turn these meetings into a worthy social cause. And so, they decided to clean up the Dadar beach and dispose of the plastic and other trash which was thrown around irresponsibly. This clean-up, however, was not a onetime impromptu drive—it was the vision of a young student who observed that the beach is overflowing with plastic waste, which is tearing down its natural beauty. Malhar Kalambe, a Chartered Accountancy student, started ‘Beach Please’ after his trip to Indonesia. “After returning to Mumbai, after the Ganeshotsav, I was shocked to see the disturbing state of our beaches. I rewound to my trip and thought of the clean beaches in Bali and then our own. After comparing the two, I realised that we are doing something seriously wrong. Due to the overuse of plastic and its irresponsible disposal, the seashore is accumulated with plastic waste. I decided then that I have to do something about it,” Malhar told The Better India. The beach covered in filth. Courtesy: Malhar Kalambe. Starting with a core group of 24 team members, the Beach Please drive now gets around 100 volunteers every week, who come down to the beach and pick up trash. “In the past 24 weeks, we have managed to remove 85,000 kg of trash from the shore. Out of the total waste collected, 90% was noted as plastic waste. Every Sunday, after noting down the time of low tide, we set to Dadar beach to collect the plastic, flowers and other waste for about 2.5-3 hours,” Malhar said. You may also like: Good Work Mumbai! 1400 Volunteers Clean Up Versova Beach After Ganesh Visarjan Although initially, only Malhar funded the campaign, the core members now contribute Rs 500 every month from their pocket money for Beach Please. They buy gloves and first aid materials for their volunteers from this money. “We invite different colleges, schools and groups for the clean up every week where we provide them with gloves, water and first aid and other necessities. Before the cleanup, we brief them about its necessity and the consequences we may have to face if we don’t act now.” The team gets a briefing before they start the clean-up. Courtesy: Malhar Kalambe The collected trash is disposed of responsibly with the support of MCGM (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) which provides them with tractor trolleys and JCBs. Beach Please aims to sensitise people about the consequences of their thoughtless actions. It also strives to bring to light how beaches are degrading due to the dumped plastic while cleaning the seashore in process. The team in action. Courtesy: Malhar Kalambe “Every Sunday, we see that the amount of waste that we collect and dispose of the previous week somehow makes its way back to the beach. Unfortunately, only a handful of people cannot change this scenario. For this, the youth of our country should participate as much as they can. If we avoid the usage of plastic and segregate the dry waste from wet, then the question of cleanliness on the seashore would surely be a thing of the past,” Malhar told TBI. “I have cleaned my bit, have you?” he signs off. Featured images courtesy: Malhar Kalambe NEW: Click here to get positive news on WhatsApp!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2731
__label__wiki	0.634344	0.634344	Biggleswade Labour party PUBLISHED: 11:08 10 February 2006 \| UPDATED: 09:37 06 May 2010 Is celebrating the fact that the Labour Party has been in existence for 100 years this month on Saturday with a display of local and national photographs, documents, artefacts and memorabilia going back 80 years and recorded memories from the late respect Is celebrating the fact that the Labour Party has been in existence for 100 years this month on Saturday with a display of local and national photographs, documents, artefacts and memorabilia going back 80 years and recorded memories from the late respected colleague Tec. Chambers will be available. The Labour Hall in Crab Lane will be open from 10am - 4pm with refreshments available throughout the day, Kelvin Hopkins, MP for Luton North will open the display at 10am, everyone is welcome and admission is free. Latest from the The Comet Hitchin undone as Broxbourne put on batting masterclass Kennedy set to go under the knife as injury woes cause Maamria concern Runners test themselves by the sea, in Europe and on Britain’s oldest path Preston stay top thanks to Balcombe brilliance and ruthless bowling attack Driver in critical condition after two vehicles overturn in A505 crash	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2733
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__label__cc	0.648127	0.351873	What’s in Print Equipment & Parts>Trailer Components ZF’s no-touch supply chain: From the factory floor to the DC to the Last Mile, sensors and algorithms are taking over logistics Kevin Jones \| Sep 05, 2018 Friedrichshafen, Germany. At global automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG, “See-Think-Act” isn’t just a corporate marketing slogan, it’s the basic blueprint for product development. The company recently hosted ZF Technology Day—a biennial media event to preview the wares on display at next month’s IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hannover—to demonstrate the scope of its R&D prowess, organized around the theme “Smart Logistics.” With sales of more than $40 billion in driveline, chassis, and safety technology last year, the chances are good these ZF innovations will become the building blocks for the next-generation of electrified and automated offerings from the world’s passenger car and commercial vehicle OEMs. For anyone in the transportation equipment business, it’s a look at future products. And for some, especially large manufacturers, it’s a look at future production processes as well. In his introductory remarks, ZF CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider outlined the current challenges and opportunities in transportation, and the company’s coming solutions. Despite popular press accounts and public enthusiasm, Scheider—like many of those responsible for actually developing the technology—contends that automated driving systems will see “wide use” in commercial vehicles “much earlier” than in passenger cars. “We believe autonomous technologies will become standard in areas where they increase operational security and reduce operational costs,” he said. “Here the fruits are hanging lower because of the immediate total cost of ownership benefit and less complexity.” Such technology will be deployed first in “clearly defined fields of application” such as mining, farming, and freight yards—where the advantages will be seen “very soon.” Indeed, with a couple of innovative solutions demonstrated in action around its own facilities, ZF shows what direction logistics could take at intermodal hubs and distribution centers. Specifically, the vehicles could autonomously maneuver swap bodies or trailers to their respective destinations. This enables the logistics sector to improve efficiency while reducing accidents and avoiding damage; and driverless vehicles help counter the ever-growing shortage of skilled workers. The ZF Innovation Truck and the Terminal Yard Tractor offer just such future-oriented solutions to the central challenges faced by fright handlers. “Autonomous vehicles that, thanks to our technologies, can see, think and act are turning the idea of consistent smart logistics into reality, at depots and other specified areas,” said Fredrik Staedtler, head of ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Technology Division. “These vehicles can prevent maneuvering damage and downtimes, which gives logistics companies a competitive advantage. The functions presented in our current innovation vehicles are therefore applications that are in high demand and pay off quickly.” When maneuvering in the depot, challenging tasks such as lifting, shifting and stacking containers—meaning unloading freight from one truck and loading another—are the ones that tie up driver resources the most, cost time, and often lead to accidents and expensive damage. In contrast, the ZF Innovation Truck—a hybrid truck based on a heavy six-wheeler—carries out these tasks without a driver. As demonstrated, as soon as the driver has entered the premises, he can get out, activate the autonomous driving mode and then take a break. The truck will find its way to the target position driving autonomously and electrically. Likewise, without a driver, the ZF Innovation Truck then loads a new container. Controlled by the central computer ZF “proAI,” the ZF Innovation Truck manages this quickly, precisely, and with the maximum possible safety. In addition, neither stress, fatigue, distractions nor darkness or adverse weather conditions can influence the truck. While ZF proAI is the Innovation Truck’s brain, other ZF technologies enable it to act: among others, the active electrohydraulic ReAX commercial vehicle steering system and the TraXon Hybrid automatic transmission system. The latter features a modular integrated electric motor that allows locally emission-free driving. To give the ZF Innovation Truck its orientation and vision, the company selected a cost-effective, camera-based and laser-supported sensor setup, completing it with a GPS system. The extended sensor set additionally enables the Terminal Yard Tractor to keep an eye on its surroundings. This enables this shuttle vehicle to take the trailer from the truck and autonomously maneuver it to the ramp for loading and discharging. Once this has been completed, it takes the trailer back to the truck. An intelligent and dynamic routing system tells each innovation vehicle where to go, when to go, and what to do there. The routing constantly checks and considers, for example, the vehicle’s current position and the routes of other vehicles on the premises and immediately adjusts the vehicle’s own routing when necessary. Thanks to a sensor set in the vehicle and a routing system on the work premises, drivers are shown on their tablets how to approach and pick up the respective swap bodies quickly and smoothly. In the factory Since August 2017, ZF has been retrofitting a section of Plant 2 at its Friedrichshafen location with intelligent systems in order to streamline delivery logistics and internal production material flows. This project has been dubbed the ZF Model Factory. ZF hopes to simultaneously satisfy two of its technology challenges: First, by developing and marketing practical solutions for intelligent transport systems, such as trucks and yard tractors. Second, by contributing to other autonomous driving development activities. Modern industrial production is all about the turnover of goods. About 70% of the movement of goods during the production process consists of materials transport before the materials can be further processed by machines or other assembly equipment as part of the value-added chain, according to ZF. Manufacturers who organize the delivery and transport of components to workstations see substantial improvements in productivity with this connection. “We want to combine the various areas of expertise in the ZF Group, including electromobility and autonomous driving, as well as commercial vehicle and industrial technology,” Ilker Sari, head of the factory, said. “Our pilot projects are like display windows of the future.” In addition to optimizing internal production processes and interconnecting Industry 4.0 and smart logistics approaches, the company uses the pilots as support in targeting the commercial vehicle and industrial technology markets. “Autonomous driving has strong potential—not only on public roads but also within private compounds,” added Sari. “We want to leverage the benefits gained from developing autonomous driving functions within the commercial vehicle and industrial technology markets, showing that we are a leader in these sectors.” This is not just about conventional driverless transport systems, as they have been used successfully in factories for decades; those vehicles are operated primarily on defined and partially blocked-off routes to perform simple transport activities. “For us, it’s about vehicles that interact with their environment, using smart sensors and an intelligent control system linked to the inventory management system. These vehicles are flexible and can adapt to actual demand,” said Sari. The autonomous transport systems in the ZF Model Factory can master a multitude of new functions: They can overtake, avoid obstacles and search for alternative routes when roads are blocked. Thanks to intelligent control systems and interconnected guidance systems, material transport can be prioritized and controlled, improving lead times, increasing availability and, therefore, improving buffering in production. Of course, in many production arenas the trick is to have the incoming material arrive at the same time as the person—or autonomous vehicle—responsible for receiving it. Currently, waiting times at the gate and incoming goods area are normal and transport papers must be entered manually into the materials management system. The ZF Model Factory team is working together with supply chain experts on a tracking system that keeps ZF, as the goods recipient, informed of the location of the delivery truck at all times and can predict its arrival time down to the minute. It also records whether the driver has to maintain break times after delivering the goods. Unloading times are therefore scheduled to coordinate with the driver’s break times. The trailer also can be disconnected prior to entering the company’s grounds and be moved to the incoming goods area by autonomous transport systems. BLE tags (active RFID) record digital data about possible shocks or other events during the freight transport. This data as well as information from the shipping documents can be transmitted digitally to the materials management system. As soon as the delivery truck approaches the company’s premises, the necessary forklift trucks are assigned to the unloading area—reducing truck idle and unloading times, and eliminate long wait times at the gate. The same coordination of material flow continues to the production floor. Every day, several hundred assembled ZF commercial vehicle transmissions leave Plant 2 in Friedrichshafen. These transmissions consist of up to 1,000 individual components. With over 100 large shipments per hour, the logistics process comes together in the final assembly area. For ZF, as for any manufacturer, coordinating the logistics for the assembly processes is critical. At the ZF Model Factory the delivery of material to the assembly stations, including preparation, is being done autonomously. The starting points are today’s “milk-run trains,” or shared-route cart systems, that bring the goods to assembly in the precise production sequence (“just-in-sequence”). Material distribution and milk-run trains are controlled manually. The ZF Model Factory has completely done away with these. Instead, autonomous transport systems directly supply the containers storing the pre-assembled parts to the assembly area. With this approach, logistics processes can be better and more precisely controlled. In order to optimize the set-up of these processes, the material flow logistics planners from the ZF plant are directly involved in the Model Factory. Additional initial use cases will be implemented throughout the year and then continuously developed. In the meantime, ZF customers in passenger car and commercial vehicle sectors will also benefit: Experience from the model factory is directly incorporated into advanced engineering for autonomous driving functions. Increasingly, consumers prefer to determine when and where they receive their parcels. The electrically driven Innovation Van utilizes ZF’s expertise in automated driving to the requirements of the logistics sector—using a smart algorithm that takes into account customer requests in real time and calculating the most efficient delivery route. A mammoth task for delivery services: A daily ratio of 200 parcels is nothing unusual for couriers. On average, they have two and a half to three minutes to make each delivery. This includes time for parking the vehicle, walking to the front door and waiting for the door to be answered before physically delivering the parcel—every additional action counts. In 2016, ZF’s future study had already identified the issue of last mile logistics and took a closer look at the challenges couriers face during the last mile to the customer. The Group is now unveiling a concept vehicle for logistics service providers. “Our Innovation Van is an extensive solution tailored to the requirements of the delivery sector,” said Gerhardt Gumpoltsberger, head of Innovation Management at ZF. “In order to meet the wide range of challenges of inner-city deliveries, we called upon our entire range of competencies—from autonomous driving and electromobility right up to networking within a smart support system.” The Innovation Van is equipped with level 4 autonomous driving functions. The delivery truck is designed to independently maneuver through urban surroundings, stay on course even if roads do not have lane markings, recognize both traffic lights and road signs and react to sudden hazardous situations. In addition, it can recognize and avoid obstacles such as vehicles double parked. The tablet-based remote control is particularly helpful for a courier: If two addresses are so close that the best delivery route is on foot, the Innovation Van follows the courier as if on a virtual leash. If there is no parking available outside an address, the courier can send the vehicle ahead to the next stop, where it will look for a parking space on its own. The entire ZF sensor set, consisting of camera, radar and lidar sensors, helps to ensure that the delivery truck is completely aware of its surroundings at all times. The ZF proAI central computer is capable of assuming control, processing the data generated by the sensors and enabling the vehicle to react appropriately to complex situations. In addition, intelligent mechatronic systems, such as the electric power steering and the integrated brake control (IBC) can reliably carry out the central computer’s instructions. The electric axle drive system for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles is responsible for the purely electric and locally emission-free drive. To be able to find the most efficient delivery route at any time, the Innovation Van accesses a cloud-based support system. Data for each package on board the vehicle is stored, such as destination and preferred time of delivery, along with other information, such as the shelf life of perishable goods. “The algorithm takes this information, adds parameters such as traffic conditions or energy consumption and calculates the ideal delivery sequence in real time,” explained project manager Georg Mihatsch. “Basically, the parcel itself finds the best way to get to the customer—and the vehicle follows.” The parcel courier receives this information via mixed reality smartglasses. This allows them to review all relevant data. The consumer also benefits from the support system in the cloud: The app not only enables them to track the parcel’s route, but also to change delivery data at short notice. This allows consumers to easily redirect parcels to a particular neighbor at any time, or to push delivery time back if they are delayed by something unexpected. This benefit is also of value to the courier: Instead of waiting in vain for the doorbell to be answered and possibly having to come back the next day, the courier can move on to the next delivery. Too much, too soon? While the ZF Technology Day demonstrated that these automated systems are certainly within reach, significant barriers—both in terms of public and regulatory acceptance, to say nothing of a demonstrated business case—are a counterweight to the sometimes unrealistic expectations of supporters. How does ZF weight the opportunities and risks? CEO Scheider points to the partnership with German startup e.GO to build a Level 4 people mover, a driverless bus concept (also on hand for the demo day) that will incorporate ride-sharing technology as well. “This partnership is thrilling, because we are challenging ourselves. We have a great opportunity to learn—it give us a development environment that’s very unique,” Scheider said—but he also noted that ZF, as a closely held corporation, has the freedom to explore while also investing in improving existing technologies. “We have an ownership that doesn’t require us to build our strategy based on [investment] analysts’ opinions, but only on our business model. And that is next-generation mobility. “On the other hand, we still see a lot of potential in products that are evolutionary, such as our transmissions. We have an advantage to be free in our decisions to just do the things we consider right.” For more information on ZF Friedrichshafen AG, click here. TecNiq introduces T15 low-profile LED vehicle lighting Diamond C Trailers switches to axles from Lippert Components Krone acquires moving floor specialist Knapen Trailers WARN Industries supplying winches for Kalyn Siebert	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2740
__label__wiki	0.660211	0.660211	Events Affecting CTA Service Beginning Weekend of December 21-23 NOTE: CTA will operate on a normal weekday schedule on Monday, December 24?Christmas Eve. CTA will operate on a Sunday/Holiday schedule on Tuesday, December 25?Christmas Day. Single Track in Effect on Red Line This Weekend A single track will be in effect between Roosevelt and Grand on the Red Line from midnight Friday, December 21 until 4 a.m. Saturday, December 22. Northbound Red Line customers at the Roosevelt, Harrison, Jackson, Monroe and Lake stations must board and exit trains on the southbound side of the platform. Customers are advised to allow extra travel time. Southbound Red Line service is not affected. Daytime Reroutes on Red and Brown Lines From 6 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, December 22 southbound Brown Line trains will be unable to stop at Wellington due to construction work. Customers who wish to board at Wellington should ride a northbound train to Belmont and board a southbound train back to Wellington. Customers who wish to exit at Wellington must ride to Fullerton to board a northbound train to Wellington Northbound service is not affected. Customers are asked to allow extra travel time. Due to construction work associated with the Fullerton, Diversey and Belmont stations, southbound Red Line trains will be rerouted to operate on the southbound Brown Line tracks at Belmont from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Wednesday, December 26 through Friday, December 28. Southbound Red Line customers at Belmont will board and exit trains on the southbound Brown Line side of the platform. Northbound Red Line Trains Temporarily Reroute at Sheridan Northbound Red Line trains will operate on the northbound Purple Express tracks from 7 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 22 and again next week from 10:50 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day from Wednesday, December 26 through Friday, December 28. During these times northbound customers at Sheridan will board and exit trains on the Purple Express side of the platform. CTA customers are advised to allow extra travel time. Southbound Red Line service is not affected. Red Line Wilson Main Station Entrance Temporarily Out of Service This Weekend The main entrance on Broadway to the Red Line's Wilson station will be temporarily out of service from 10 p.m. Friday, December 21 until 4 a.m. Monday, December 24 while construction crews make repairs. Customers can access the station through the entrance on the south side of Wilson Avenue. Single Track in Effect on Brown Line Sunday Due to construction work, a single track will be in effect between the Merchandise Mart and Sedgwick stations on the Brown Line from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. Sunday, December 23. Northbound customers boarding at the Chicago and Sedgwick stations must board and exit trains on the southbound platform. Customers are advised to allow extra travel time. Southbound service is not affected. Late Night Single Track in Effect on O'Hare Branch of Blue Line From 11 p.m. on Thursday, December 27 until 4 a.m. Friday, December 28 a single track will be in effect between the California and Belmont stations on the Blue Line. Northbound customers at Logan Square must board and exit trains on the southbound side of the platform. #19 United Center Express Serves Sporting Events and Concert CTA will operate its #19 United Center Express buses for the following dates and times: Friday, December 21 at 7:30 p.m. " R. Kelly Concert Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 p.m. " Bulls versus Houston Rockets Sunday, December 23 at 6 p.m. " Blackhawks versus Edmonton Oilers Wednesday, December 26 at 7:30 p.m. " Blackhawks versus Nashville Predators Buses will leave every 12 minutes from Michigan and Superior starting two hours before event time until 30 minutes before the event begins. When the event ends, #19 buses will depart the United Center approximately every 15 minutes for one hour. #19 buses will make all stops on Michigan from Superior to Washington, and on Madison from Wabash to Clinton. From Clinton, #19 buses run express to the United Center. After the game, #19 buses will await customers on the north side of the United Center eastbound on Madison near Gate 3. On the return trip, #19 buses operate through downtown east on Washington to Wacker, then head south to Monroe and east to Michigan, making all stops from Jefferson to Michigan before turning north on Michigan and making all stops from Randolph to Chicago. CTA Provides Service for Bears versus Green Bay Packers Game The Chicago Bears host the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field on Sunday, December 23 at noon. The #12 Roosevelt, #128 Soldier Field Express and #146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express are convenient travel options for fans heading to the game. More frequent service will operate on the #12 beginning at approximately 6 a.m. and on the #146 beginning at 9:30 a.m. #128 Soldier Field Express buses operate non-stop between the Ogilvie Transportation Center, Union Station and Soldier Field. Service will operate from 9:45 a.m. until approximately 12:30 p.m. After the game, buses will leave Soldier Field every few minutes for one hour. The fare for #128 buses is $1 for full-fare customers and 50 cents for reduced-fare customers. The exact cash fare is required. LaSalle Bridge Closed The LaSalle Street bridge over the Chicago River will be closed from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Friday, December 21. Northbound #156 LaSalle buses will travel over the regular route to Wacker then will operate via Wacker, Dearborn, Hubbard then return to LaSalle and resume the regular route. Southbound buses will travel over the regular route to Hubbard then will operate via Hubbard, Clark, Wacker then return to LaSalle and resume the regular route. Customers are advised to allow extra travel time. Red Line Subway Reconstruction at Grand/State During the Red Line Subway reconstruction at Grand/State, the following bus stops are affected through 4 p.m. Friday, January 11, 2008: #29 State The southbound far side service stop at State and Grand has been eliminated and a new southbound near side service stop has been created at State and Illinois. #36 Broadway The northbound near side service stop at State and Grand has been relocated to a new northbound near side service stop at State and Ohio. The southbound near side service stop at State and Grand has been eliminated and a new southbound near side service stop has been created at State and Illinois. #65 Grand The westbound near side service stop at Grand and State has been eliminated. There is an existing westbound near side service stop at Grand and Dearborn. Holiday Hours in Effect on #10 Museum of Science & Industry Bus Route With the exception of a few select dates, hours of operation on the #10 Museum of Science & Industry route are extended through Sunday, January 6, 2008. During this time, the Museum of Science & Industry will open at 9:30 a.m. Closing times will vary. Service on the #10 will begin operating at 8:55 a.m. from Chestnut/Lake Shore Drive each morning and the last bus will depart from the Museum of Science & Industry approximately 40 minutes after the museum closes. The museum will be closed and there will be no service on the #10 route on Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25. The #10 will not operate from Wednesday, January 2 through Friday, January 4. Buses Reroute Due to Construction Westbound #70 Division buses will undergo reroutes until Friday, March 21 due to street repairs at Division and Kolmar. Buses will travel over the regular route to Kostner then will operate via Kostner, Augusta, Cicero then return to Division and resume the regular route. Dorchester Closed for Construction Dorchester continues to be closed between 60th and 61st streets through 3 p.m. Monday, January 7 due to construction. Eastbound #59 59th/61st buses will travel over the regular route to 61st then will operate via Cottage, 60th, Dorchester, Midway Plaisance, Stony Island to 60th. Westbound buses will operate via 60th, Dorchester, Cottage Grove then return to 61st and resume the regular route. <# # #	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2741
__label__wiki	0.977686	0.977686	2012 ITU World Cup season hits Huatulco by Merryn Sherwood on 30 Apr, 2012 11:51 • Español The ITU World Cup season hits Huatulco this weekend for the fifth consecutive year. In that time, it’s become one of the athletes favourites with its tough bike course and run. Mix in some oppressive heat and Huatulco is one of the toughest stops on the ITU calendar. This year it’s the final ITU World Cup event to offer Olympic qualification points, and therefore there is plenty on the line. Elite Women’s Preview An intriguing women’s field will start in Huatulco, while there isn’t any ITU World Championship or World Triathlon Series winners in the field, there are two previous ITU World Cup winners, Yuliya Yelistratova (UKR) and Vendula Frintova (CZE), and a host more medallists who are after their first win. But perhaps most importantly, those Olympic qualification points are on the line. While Gillian Sanders has secured a place for South Africa thanks to her African title, she’s one to watch for the podium after her fourth place in Ishigaki and will wear the No.1 in a World Cup race for the first time. For athletes like Yelistratova, Frintova, Line Jensen (DEN), Flora Duffy (BER), Claudia Rivas (MEX), Pamela Oliveira (BRA), Elizabeth Bravo (ECU), Agnieszka Jerzyk (POL), Fabienne Saint Louis (MRI), Mateja Simic (SLO), Margit Vanek (HUN), Lydia Waldmuller (AUT), Alexandra Razeranova (RUS), Radka Vodickova (CZE) and Katrien Verstuyft (BEL), this result could be crucial in their Olympic campaigns. All of them currently sit either just on or off the edge of Olympic qualification simulation right now, and a good result in Huatulco could help seal that berth for their National Olympic Committee (NOC). On the course that favours strong cyclists, keep an eye on Duffy, Oliveria and Simic. This race could also have an impact on the NOCs who can send a maximum of three athletes. The seesawing battle between Switzerland and Germany for who gets that eighth and final spot will not change again, as neither Kathrin Muller or Daniela Ryf – their NOCs third-placed athletes are racing here. But the NOCs just above them could move further ahead. Currently Spain sits in sixth place, courtesy of Marina Damlaimcourt and New Zealand in seventh, with Debbie Tanner as its third athlete. While the current the difference between Dalaimcourt and Tanner is miniscule, just six points, a top 10 result for Damlaimcourt could help secure Spain’s three places as neither Tanner or Nicky Samuels will race in Huatulco. Damlaimcourt also can’t be discounted in Huatulco, it’s where she claimed her maiden World Cup medal with bronze last year. Click here to view the women’s start list Elite Men’s Preview Argentina’s Gonzalo Raul Tellechea will wear the No.1 for the first time in an ITU World Cup and is in form, coming off his first career podium in Ishigaki. He put Argentina in the Olympic picture with that podium, just like Italy’s Davide Uccellari, and both are backing up in Mexico. The Mexican team at home could also be dangerous, in particular Crisanto Grajales and Arturo Garza, while Brazil is sending a strong team that includes Pan Am Games gold medallist Reinaldo Colucci and Diogo Sclebin, and it’s hard to look past Spanish veteran Ivan Rana. But just like in the women’s, this World Cup has the chance to be a breakthrough race for athletes. Last year South Africa’s Richard Murray claimed his first World Cup podium in Huatulco, so keep an eye on fellow South African Erhard Wolfaardt to see if he can repeat it, and Bermuda’s Tyler Butterfield who is coming off his career best World Cup result in Ishigaki. Portugal’s Bruno Pais is also one to watch on the podium, after his bronze medal here last year, while his countryman Joao Pereira is still chasing those important points to keep Portugal in with a chance to send three men. In the hotly contested race to see who can send the maximum three men to London, Ivan Vasiliev‘s incredible April has meant that Russia rocketed from ninth to fourth in the space of three weeks and New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Portugal are fighting it out to fill places sixth through eight. Both Pereira and New Zealand’s third man, Ryan Sissons, are on the start list in Huatulco and will be looking to move further ahead of Australia and Canada, who are in eighth and ninth respectively. Click here to view the men’s start list The racing gets underway when the women’s elite starts at 8:00am (local time) on Sunday 6 May, followed by the men’s race at 10.45am. Live timing and text updates will be available on www.triathlon.org/live, and the full wrap and video highlights will be at www.triathlon.org after the race. Article tags world cup marina dalaimcourt ivan rana huatulco gonzalo raul tellechea gillian sanders crisanto grajales Article gallery Related Event: 2012 Huatulco ITU Triathlon World Cup 06 May, 2012 • event page • all results Results: Elite Women 1. Flora Duffy BER 02:13:17 2. Pamella Oliveira BRA 02:13:47 3. Claudia Rivas MEX 02:13:53 4. Alexandra Razarenova RUS 02:14:11 5. Line Jensen DEN 02:14:27 Results: Elite Men 1. Simon De Cuyper BEL 02:02:34 2. Ryan Sissons NZL 02:02:50 3. Danylo Sapunov UKR 02:02:54 4. Tyler Butterfield BER 02:03:04 5. Carlos Javier Quinchara Forero COL 02:03:07 Olympic Qualification Update post Eilat and Ishigaki As the official Olympic Qualification period is about to head into its final month, we take a look at what Eilat and Ishigaki meant for the rankings, and what to watch for in Huatulco and San Diego 11:42 - 25 Apr, 2012 France's David Hauss comes from behind to claim debut World Cup win in Ishigaki France's David Hauss had to come from behind to claim his career first ITU World Cup win in Ishigaki on Sunday. Italy's Davide Uccellari and Argentina’s Gonzalo Raul Tellechea also made the podium in Japan. Canada's Kathy Tremblay scores debut World Cup victory in Ishigaki Canada’s Kathy Tremblay credited her first ITU World Cup win to a new mindset, after she beat Aileen Morrison and Sarah-Anne Brault to the 2012 Ishigaki ITU Triathlon World Cup title in Japan on Sunday. Australia's Erin Densham dominates season opening ITU Mooloolaba World Cup Australia's Erin Densham put in a career best swim, and an unbelievable run leg, to claim her second ITU World Cup career win in Mooloolaba, ahead of Switzerland's Nicola Spirig and New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt. 05:27 - 25 Mar, 2012 Laurent Vidal sprints to first ITU World Cup win in Mooloolaba It all came down to an electrifying final finishing chute rush, but France's Laurent Vidal sprinting strategy paid off with his first ITU World Cup win ahead of Brad Kahelfeldt and David Hauss in Mooloolaba. Team ITU set for Mooloolaba and Huatulco in 2012 After celebrating its 5-year anniversary in a highly successful 2011 campaign, Team ITU is back for 2012 with several athletes targeting the London Olympic Games. This year the programme will compete in Mooloolaba and Huatulco 12:31 - 17 Jan, 2012 Chrabot comes from behind to take Huatulco title Matt Chrabot staged an incredible comeback victory to take his second career World Cup title in Huatulco today. South Africa's Richard Murray broke through for his first World Cup podium while Bruno Pais took the bronze 10:16 - 09 Oct, 2011 Juri Ide runs away with Huatulco World Cup title Japanese women continue their win streak in Huatulco after Juri Ide ran away with her second career World Cup title in Mexico today. Italy's Annamaria Mazzetti took silver while Spain's Marina Damlaimcourt rounded out the podium	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2743
__label__wiki	0.88058	0.88058	John Goodman plays Rex Tillerson on 'SNL' Bill Hader as Anthony Scaramucci, Alex Moffat as Anderson Cooper and John Goodman as Rex Tillerson during a parody of "Anderson Cooper 360" on "Saturday Night Live" on March 17. Photo by Will Heath/NBC March 18 (UPI) -- Roseanne star John Goodman played outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on this weekend's edition of Saturday Night Live. Goodman's appearance came at the top of the episode as a sendup of CNN's talk show Anderson Cooper 360. It featured current SNL cast members Alex Moffat as Cooper and Kate McKinnon as U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, guest host/SNL alum Bill Hader as former White House spokesman Anthony Scaramucci and ex-SNL player Fred Armisen as author Michael Wolff. The clip has gotten more than 350,000 views since it was posted on YouTube. "It's just crazy how one day you're the CEO of Exxon, a $50 billion company, and the next day you get fired by a man who used to sell steaks in the mail," Goodman as an emotional Tillerson said, squeezing a water glass so hard it smashes into pieces all over the news desk. "Rex Tillerson, obviously, still processing this," Moffat as Cooper said, turning to interview Hader's Scaramucci and Armisen's Wolff about the atmosphere in President Donald Trump's White House As the trio speculates about who might get fired next, Tillerson exclaims, "Trump is a moron! Laughing, he added: "Sorry. I just blurted that one out. Feels nice to say what I want. Call Jurassic Park because the Rexie is loose." "Yeah, well, that was very startling," Anderson said. Melissa Joan Hart in talks for 'Clarissa Explains It All' revival Starz greenlights 'The Spanish Princess' series 'Patrick Melrose' to premiere on Showtime May 12 USA Network orders second season of 'The Sinner' Rex Tillerson	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2752
__label__wiki	0.915105	0.915105	Kuznetsova makes Warsaw semifinals WARSAW, Poland, May 4 (UPI) -- Three-time runner-up Svetlana Kuznetsova Friday beat Venus Williams in three sets in the quarterfinals at the J&S Cup Tennis Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. The third-seeded Kuznetsova, who will try to make her third straight trip to the final Saturday, rallied to beat the five-time Grand Slam champion Williams, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. "I was fighting a lot and I think that was the key today," Kuznetsova said. Also, top-seeded Belgian Justine Henin downed Italy's Mara Santangelo, 6-2, 6-1, fourth-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic was leading No. 6 seed Anna Chakvetadze of Russia, 7-6 (7-1), 3-1, when Chakvetadze retired because of a right shoulder injury, and Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine was leading compatriot Julia Vakulenko, 6-2, 3-1, when Vakulenko had to quit that match with a right wrist injury. Thursday, Vakulenko beat defending champion Kim Clijsters in straight sets. In Saturday's semis, Henin plays Jankovic, and Bondarenko faces Kuznetsova. Anna Chakvetadze Julia Vakulenko Justine Henin Mara Santangelo P&G gives $529K to U.S. women World Cup champs for pay gap Golden Tate: Matthew Stafford better than Russell Wilson, Carson Wentz Former Patriots receiver Cordarrelle Patterson says Super Bowl win is meaningless Robbie Gould agrees to long-term deal with 49ers Fantasy football tight end rankings: Zach Ertiz, Travis Kelce lead top 25	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2753
__label__wiki	0.701669	0.701669	Office of Equal Employment Opportunity DoD Civilian Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program USU Civilian Equal Employment Opportunity Program EEO Policies Right to File a Complaint of Discrimination USUHS Equal Employment Opportunity Policy President's Statement on Prevention of Sexual Harassment Mandatory Annual Training Prevention of Sexual Harassment EEO Policies and Procedures Contact the EEO Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799 Room E-2016 Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Misson USUHS EEO strives to accomplish its mission by promoting an environment free from personal, social or institutional barriers that could prevent USUHS faculty, staff and students from rising to their highest potential. USUHS policies are in place to ensure the organizations conduct their affairs free from unlawful discrimination and sexual harassment. The policies also provide for equal opportunity and treatment for all individuals irrespective of their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, genetic Information or disabilities. EEO Complaint Process Procedures for processing individual complaints of discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, genetic information (GINA), LGBT, disability or reprisal. EEO Complaint Processing Procedures Discrimination & Sexual Harassment Hotline The DoD Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Hotline are available 24 hours a day. You can reach the hotline by calling (877) 995-5247. USU Disability Program Manager Ms. Polly Saddler is the point of contact for Equal Opportunity issues. Contact her via email or (301) 295-9732. Director - Polly Saddler (301) 295-9732 EEO Assistant - Edmund Burke (301) 295-9692 Edmund Burke (301) 295-9692 Cathy Hemelt (301) 295-4371/3339 Celestine Vaughan-Thompson (301) 295-1977 Araya Amdetsyon (301) 295-1147 Special Emphasis Observances African American History Month (FEB) National Women's History Month (MAR) Asian American/Pacific Islander Month (MAY) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Month (JUN) Hispanic Heritage Month (SEP) Disability Month (OCT) Native American Month (NOV)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2756
__label__wiki	0.990974	0.990974	LeBlanc takes state crown Mar 1, 2009 at 12:01 AM Mar 1, 2009 at 1:04 AM Morrisville-Eaton senior Ryan LeBlanc punctuated a remarkable high school wrestling career with an exclamation point Saturday night when the Indiana University recruit captured a second straight 160-pound title at the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Wrestling Championships at the Times Union Center in Albany. A 4-2 victory over David Kohlbach of Windsor in the finals of the Division II tournament was the 200th win for LeBlanc, who finished his career on a 73-match winning streak. Only one other Section III wrestler in Division I or Division II, former state champ Kyle Crisafulli of Phoenix, reached Saturday night’s finals and he lost to Tonawanda’s Kyle McGregor 2-0 at 112 pounds. Section III champion Dan Fruscella, the Holland Patent senior who placed second in the state last season, lost two of his three 189-pound matches Saturday – he was beaten by eventual state champ Chris Nocchi of Waverly in the semifinals – and placed fourth in Division II. Adirondack Central’s 112-pound senior Ken Eaton, a fifth-place finisher in last year’s states, also finished fourth in Division II, and Morrisville-Eaton senior Alex Meyers was fifth at 215 pounds. LeBlanc beat Taylor Robichaud of Hoosick Falls 12-1 in Saturday morning’s semifinals. In the 160-pound final, he led Kohlbach 2-1 after one period and was leading 4-1 before giving up a third-period escape. LeBlanc, third in the state as a sophomore, finished 43-0 this season and 200-18 in his career. Morrisville-Eaton’s first two-time state champion accepted a scholarship offer from Indiana University last fall, choosing the Hoosiers over Minnesota, Virginia Tech and Cornell, among others. Last week, LeBlanc was named Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Section III Division II championships after winning a third section title at the Utica Memorial Auditorium. His father, Duane LeBlanc, is the longtime coach at Morrisville-Eaton. Brother Treavor LeBlanc also won three section titles, placed in two state tournaments, and had a school-record 212 wins at Morrisville-Eaton. Brother Paul LeBlanc, a two-time section champ and a place-winner at two high school state tournaments, is a senior at Cortland State, where he is a two-time Division III All-American. At Morrisville-Eaton, Paul had 201 wins and at Cortland, he has won a school-record 125 matches entering next weekend’s NCAA Division III Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In a showdown of first-team All-State football players, Fruscella fell behind Waverly’s top-seeded Nocchi 4-1 after the first period of their semifinal match Saturday morning. A second-period takedown tied it at 4-4, but Nocchi – a two-time Section IV champ who was fourth in the state last year – scored a reversal and pinned Fruscella in 3:33. Fruscella then edged Lansing’s second-seeded Jon Glennon 10-9 in the wrestlebacks before losing to Nick Gwiazdowski of Duanesburg 5-3 in overtime in the third-place consolation match. Fruscella, who last year won a school-record 49 matches, finished 47-4 this season. He also is the Golden Knights’ all-time wins leader, finishing his career with a 155-38 mark. After splitting his first two matches Friday, Adirondack’s Eaton won three times Saturday before losing in the third-place consolations. Eaton edged Brian Traub of Petrides 6-4 in overtime, got by Section III rival Dom Giacolone of Cato-Meridian 3-1, and beat Kyle Conrad of Bath 4-0 before losing 8-5 to Penn Gotfried of Ardsley. Eaton, who won his first 41 matches this year, finished the season with a 45-3 mark. He had a 141-18 career record. Section III champ Dylan Kavanaugh, a sophomore from Vernon-Verona-Sherrill who was a state runner-up last year, split two matches Friday. On Saturday, he won 11-0 and then was pinned. Kavanaugh finished 38-4. Holland Patent junior Matt Rees was knocked out of the 215-pound wrestlebacks when he lost 6-5 in double-overtime to Noah Sibley of Windsor. Rees finished 43-8. Morrisville’s Meyers won 7-0 and 7-6 decisions Saturday before losing 5-1 to Julius Anglikas of Southampton – the same wrestler who beat him 18-8 in Meyers’ first match Friday. Meyers came back to beat Tyler Leavine of Saranac 7-0 in the fifth-place consolation match. Meyers finished 40-5 this year and 135-28 in his career. Holland Patent senior Glenn Garrett, 1-1 on Friday, was pinned in Saturday’s 285-pound wrestlebacks. He finished 20-5. In Division I, Section III champ Mike Sardo of Whitesboro won 11-6 in Saturday’s wrestlebacks, but he lost to Tim Schaefer of Lancaster 3-1 and did not place. Sardo finishes the season 32-6. In Division I wrestlebacks at 145 pounds, Oneida’s Matt Harp was pinned in the second period. He finished his season with a 30-5 record.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2757
__label__cc	0.687547	0.312453	Home Top News ASEAN travel associations work towards a closer partnership The ASEAN Tourism Association (ASEANTA) Board has made an unusual move of bringing together several travel industry associations at ATF 2018 to facilitate a... What’s left of Swiss hotel chains when Movenpick goes to Accor? Once they were arch-rivals. Privately, Swissotel called the other one “that ice-cream hotel chain”, while Movenpick Hotels & Resorts, older and bigger, found Swissotel... Amadeus redefines ‘distribution’, builds new open travel platform Amadeus has dropped the word ’distribution’ in its lexicon, in favour of ‘travel channels’, and is building a new Amadeus Travel Platform to tap... Smart hotels on the rise in Singapore Recent initiatives by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) are spurring technology take-up in the hospitality sector at an unprecedented rate, with hotels in the... Mt Agung update: Bali industry steps up care for stranded passengers Amid mounting flight cancellations and an extended airport closure, Indonesia's tourism minister Arief Yahya is urging the travel industry in Bali and Lombok to... Fate of Malaysia Airlines hangs in balance The Malaysian government will be conducting a study to decide the fate of ailing national carrier, Malaysia Airlines (MAS). National sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional... Paradise in limbo as state of emergency extends in Maldives It was supposed to be the idyllic resort destination, welcoming an influx of visitors particularly during the Lunar New Year period, but tourists are... Former Shang EVP in new startup selling hotel ancillaries Former Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts’ executive vice president South-east Asia Cetin Sekercioglu has laid down his corporate suit and is developing an online platform... SIA’s premium passengers get free Wi-Fi Singapore Airlines (SIA) has introduced complimentary Wi-Fi to passengers travelling in first and business class, as well as its Suites cabin, joining several other... Lombok urges tourists to come back as it begins post-quake recovery As Lombok begins picking up the pieces following the recent string of devastating earthquakes the trade is adamant to show that most parts of...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2758
__label__wiki	0.725632	0.725632	Contact: sales@vadria.net SI +386 1 810 70 60 \| HR +385 1 670 01 51 \| RS +381 Heimdal Security Awingu.com Securing the workspace with Awingu & Barracuda Expectations of our “workspace” are evolving. The age-mix of businesses is shifting with a much bigger concentration of ‘millennials’. A study from PWC suggests 50% of the global workforce will be constituted of millennials (pdf). These millennials bring whole new expectations in flexibility, mobility, and BYOD – and these come on top of the overall business dynamics in the 21st century, resulting in the adoption of cloud services, AI-based. In parallel, businesses are constantly under pressure of cyber attacks. Clearly, the way we secured our business and workspaces yesterday, will not be suitable for tomorrow (or today). It will require a new mix of tools and way of working. When Awingu and Barracuda announced their partnership in 2017, this is what they had in mind: help businesses create a secure workspace environment. It doesn’t end in the network, or with end-point security. It’s a holistic approach that must enable flexibility, mobility, BYOD, cloud, and much more in the most secure way ever. Let’s zoom in on a number of angles: Secure network access The network is core. It’s the connection between applications, data, and devices. Securing the network has been a top priority (almost) since the day of its conception. This is where the Barracuda WAF and CloudGen Firewall come into place; preventing users with malicious goals to get or break access (e.g. via DDoS attacks). But these days, your network is also accessed at remote locations, via unsecured networks, by people that are not employees, from devices that are not managed nor trusted on the network. Using classic VPN solutions is an option but might not be sufficient. Awingu goes beyond VPN usage: end-users login via their browser after a secure Multi-Factor Authentication. The connection between the end-user device and the back-end is fully encrypted. There is no local data ‘trailing’ on the device itself. There is never access to the back-end network as such, only to a selection of application servers. So even if the end-user device is compromised, the risk of getting access to data or applications is heavily reduced. Work in your cloud of choice, including hybrid Whether it’s SaaS services such as Microsoft Office 365 or IaaS/PaaS platforms as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, “public cloud” is slowly but surely becoming a default part of many businesses IT architecture. This transition comes with architectural challenges to optimize costs, manageability, and security. Thinking of a workspace, Awingu is, and remains, the single pane of glass via which end-users access their applications behind one single login. It remains to be so, independent of where the applications and desktops are running. This reality is often hybrid; for example with applications running partly in Azure and in an on-premise data center.Barracuda’s CloudGen Firewall can help enable these hybrid connects thanks to a “zero touch” configuration. “With Awingu, Barracuda and Microsoft Azure it’s easy to set up a hybrid cloud scenario for businesses that also want to move their legacy apps to the Cloud. They are filling a need for workspaces with zero-touch implementations, high-performance security and multitenancy architecture” ~Jochen Maertens, Founder & CEO at Synergics. Secure your email access Still today, email is the #1 communication mechanism in business. The many benefits in TCO, speed, compatibility… come at a cost: it’s also one of the most targeted tools for hackers. It might have started with simple spam and virus infected email. From there it has evolved to things like phishing and CEO fraud attacks. These attacks must be protected at the source. That’s exactly where Barracuda Essentials comes in the picture with a comprehensive email threat protection. It combines behavioral, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to protect against zero-hour, phishing and ransomware variants like Locky and CryptoLocker. Want to find out more on how Barracuda and Awingu can help your business evolve to a secure, flexible, mobile workspace? Contact us here. Get the details. Vadria.Net d.o.o., Tehnološki park 20 VAT ID: SI40028569s Bank account: SI56 2900 0005 1621 996 SWIFT: BACXSI2X (Unicredit Banka Slovenija, d.d.) @:  sales@vadria.net T:  +386 1 810 70 60 2018 © all rights reserved. Webdesign by pasadenagenerator.com. Terms of Service	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2761
__label__cc	0.503505	0.496495	Home Science More data in favour of the relative safety of HnB products More data in favour of the relative safety of HnB products The independent Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) reviewed the two "heat-not-burn" tobacco products that are sold in the UK, and found them to be less risky than regular cigarettes. The COT reviewed PMI’s IQOS and British American Tobacco’s iFuse. The evidence gathered by the committee indicated that the products still pose a risk, but despite not being able to quantify the exact level, the COT said that this risk is less than that from smoking. “The evidence suggests that heat-not-burn products still pose a risk to users. There is likely to be a reduction in risk for cigarette smokers who switch to heat-not-burn products but quitting entirely would be more beneficial.”Prof. Alan Boobis, Chairman, COT “The evidence suggests that heat-not-burn products still pose a risk to users,” said COT chairman Professor Alan Boobis. “There is likely to be a reduction in risk for cigarette smokers who switch to heat-not-burn products but quitting entirely would be more beneficial.” The COT said that it even recorded a reduction in risk to bystanders when comparing second hand vapor to second hand smoke, but added that the risk to unborn babies from pregnant women using these products is difficult to quantify. “The committee expressed concern over the potential for non-smokers to take up these products because they are not without risk.”Prof. Alan Boobis, Chairman, COT Inline with what public health experts have been saying, Boobis insisted on the fact that non-smokers should not take up these products. “The committee expressed concern over the potential for non-smokers to take up these products because they are not without risk,” he said. These risks need to be also compared with those from e-cigs The CEO of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Deborah Arnott concurs, “COT concluded that while heat-not-burn products are lower risk than smoking they are not risk-free, so quitting tobacco use completely is still the healthiest option.” However, she added, this study is incomplete as it did not analyze vaping products, hence did not compare risk levels with those from such products. “The COT review did not examine the evidence on e-cigarettes, so was unable to compare the two. This is needed to help provide reassurance to the public and Ash recommends COT be commissioned to carry out such a comparison.” Read Further: Birmingham Mail What you need to know about Heat-not-Burn (HNB) cigarettes ASH Deborah Arnott COT study on HnB HNB vs cigarettes Professor Alan Boobis Previous articleUKVIA calls for TPD repeal, while USA publishes fire statistics Next articleNNA joins the case against the EU snus ban	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2762
__label__wiki	0.736781	0.736781	Interesting Changes on Software Boards and Management Teams: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Intuit & Many Others The software industry is witnessing rapid transformation – from increasing shareholder activism to more diverse boards, from geographic expansion to acquisitions - the following board and leadership moves reflect all these trends. Here are the major changes from July 28th to September 23rd, 2017. Board Moves Activist Investor Not to Seek Re-Election to Microsoft Board; PepsiCo CFO to Join as Director - Microsoft board member D. Mason Morfit, 41, ValueAct Capital’s President and Chief Investment Officer, will not seek re-election. The board has appointed Hugh Johnston, 55, as Director. Johnston is vice chairman and CFO of PepsiCo. Salesforce Gets Influential Health Care Exec to Board - Bernard J. Tyson, 58, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, joined Salesforce’s board. Charles Giancarlo Resigns as ServiceNow Director - In connection with his appointment as CEO of Pure Storage, Charles Giancarlo, 60, resigned from the Board of ServiceNow. Former Avaya CEO. Red Hat Announces New Chairman - Narendra K. Gupta, 68, co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners and long time director named as Chairman of the board. Succeeds retired U.S. Army Gen. H. Hugh Shelton, 75, who recently retired as chairman. Constellation Software’s New Board Member Comes with Corporate Governance, Corporate Culture, And Corporate Law Preeminence - Constellation Software’s newest board member is Lawrence Cunningham, 55, Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor at George Washington University Law School. Digital Media Talent Moves: Facebook, GE, Kroger & Many More Facebook CAO Decides to Resign; Company Appoints Former NBCUniversal Information Chief Jas Athwal notified Facebook of his decision to resign from his position as the company’s Chief Accounting Officer after nearly nine years with the company. Athwal will continue to serve as the company's CAO until the company completes its year-end audit and file its Annual Report. Women Appointed to Large Boards: Palo Alto Networks, Shopify & Others Palo Alto Networks Appoints Mary Pat McCarthy to Board of Directors Palo Alto Networks appointed Mary Pat McCarthy to the company's board of directors. McCarthy brings more than 34 years of experience to this position. She most recently served as Vice Chair of KPMG. Saturday, 19 November 2016 04:42 Women on Tech Boards: Palo Alto Networks, First Data & Others Cisco Announces Board Changes Cisco reported the appointment of Amy L. Chang, CEO and founder of Accompany, to its board of directors. Chang, is CEO and founder of Accompany, a relationship intelligence platform company. Tech Board Changes: Qualcomm, ServiceNow & More Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jae-Yong Lee Joins Board Samsung Electronics approved the nomination of Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong to the electronics giant's board of directors. The approval enables the 48-year-old Lee, the only son of the ailing Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, to more actively participate and take formal responsibility in the company's important decision-making. The younger Lee joined Samsung Electronics in 1991.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2766
__label__cc	0.704414	0.295586	> AAA Tips > How Much Should You Tip Around the World? How Much Should You Tip Around the World? Know when to tip—and how much—no matter where you are in the world. Photo: Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock While tipping etiquette varies across the globe, it's common to leave a little something for housekeeping each day wherever you go. Planning a trip abroad can be stressful. There's so much to think about—what is the exchange rate between U.S. dollars and Thai baht or what is the Greek word for "thank you"?—that it's easy to forget one important factor: How much do I tip in the country I'm visiting? It's a question that inevitably seems to elude me before almost every trip. In Germany, I've sheepishly left a single Euro on the table post-meal, then rushed out feeling as embarrassed as if I'd failed to pay all together. In L.A., I tried unsuccessfully to convince my dad that we could add a little something for the Uber driver later, after the ride (if at all). In both cases, I was purely going on instinct: Is it common to simply round-up the bill in Germany, or should I have left something more substantial? What exactly is Uber's tipping policy these days? Thankfully, there are basic rules for tipping that travel well wherever you go. Don't overtip. Even if the exchange rate has you feeling like you're the Sultan of Brunei (or at least wealthier than you are at home), curb the urge to pass on your perceived riches. Not only does it toss a wrench in the local economy, but it also spreads the notion that Americans have excess money to throw around and can often seem like charity. If you feel like you've received exceptional service and want to add a little more money to your tip, give it discreetly and directly to the person who assisted you. Whenever possible, always tip in cash. According to guidebook guru and TV personality Rick Steves, lots of European countries consider tips to be their drinking money. It often takes a few days for servers to receive their credit card tips, if at all in some places. But cash assures that they have money to spend on a few fizzy cocktails, and may even be able to purchase a round or two for friends. Tip in the local currency. Although some countries may prefer tips in U.S. dollars for the exchange rate, many residents may find it to be more of a hassle than a boon. Tipping in the local currency also allows you to keep better track of your spending as a whole, and eliminates any uncertainties. Do a little extra research when it comes to all-inclusive tours. Find out if tipping is included and if so, whether this includes everyone from the tour guides to hotel housekeeping. Unfortunately, “all-inclusive” sometimes leaves certain service individuals overlooked. If you'd like to show your appreciation in the moment, a few extra dollars (or their equivalent) can go a long way. Check whether a service charge has been added to your bill. While countries from Sweden to Switzerland are known to tack on service fees that takes the place of traditional tipping, it's also occurring in countries where tipping is uncommon: for example, South Korea's high-end hotels. Avoid double-tipping by always checking first. In countries where tipping isn't expected, tourist areas and urban centers often follow their own set of rules. Expect to leave a few extra pounds if you're in London, but not when you visit the Cornwall countryside. Similarly, in countries where tipping isn’t common practice, tipping your tour guide is the exception—their expertise goes a long way toward making your trip memorable. The equivalent of $8-$10/day (and $2/day to the driver, if it's a bus tour) is typical. The universal rule: While tipping etiquette varies across the globe, giving a dollar or two to hotel porters and leaving a little something for housekeeping staff is the overall norm wherever you go. Not sure how much to tip when traveling abroad? This guide will help you sort it out. How Much to Tip in the U.S. Remember, the U.S. is the gold standard when it comes to tipping. Almost no other country's service industry relies so heavily on tips for a livable income, and while some places—such as San Francisco's Zazie restaurant—are doing away with tipping entirely, it remains a huge part of our culture. With so much fluctuating info, it's sometimes difficult to known how much to tip the pizza delivery person or whether to tip your Uber Eats courier. Here's a handy tipping guide to make things easier: Restaurant servers: 15-20 percent of the bill (though 18 percent and above is increasingly standard). Many U.S. servers make $2.13 an hour and depend on tips for their livelihood. If they show you some love, reciprocate. Bartenders: $1 per drink is standard when ordering at the bar (though if that cocktail you've ordered is complex—say, with muddled mint or frothed egg white—put down $2), or 15-20 percent of the overall tab. Baristas: A few coins for a simple coffee or snack, a dollar and up for more complex orders. Spa services (hair-stylist, massage therapist): 15-20 percent of the total service. Taxi driver: 15-20 percent of the total fare. Uber & Lyft drivers: While tipping Uber drivers was originally discouraged, both services now allow riders to tip in cash or via their apps for a limited time post-trip (saving folks like my dad from that “what to do” agony). The amount remains up to you, but consider tipping the same as taxis: 15-20 percent. For short trips, this equates to a dollar or two at most. The same goes for Uber Eats, where tipping is not required, but appreciated. Pizza and other restaurant deliveries: 15 percent for standard service. Take out: Tipping is not expected, but some customers like to leave a dollar or two. Movers: $10-20 per mover for lighter, half-day moves; $40 per mover for a full-day. With multi-day, long-distance moves the tip is often incorporated into the overall fee, so check beforehand. Hotel porters: $1-2 per bag. Hotel housekeeping: $2-5 per night, left each morning with a note and/or in an envelope so that the intended person receives it. Hotel concierge: $5-10, depending on the service. Valet: $5-10 at pick-up. Up Next: How to Keep Your Money and Credit Cards Safe While Traveling Traveling in Warm Climates Five ways to stay cool, comfortable, hydrated, and rested when traveling in warm climates. Car Clutter: Reduce for a Safe Ride Help make your ride cleaner—and safer—with these organizing tips. Prep Your Car for Cold Weather Here are four tips to help you avoid the dangers of driving in winter. Distracted Driving: The Latest Facts New research says our minds wander for nearly half a minute after a hands-free call or text.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2768
__label__cc	0.732078	0.267922	Personal Chef Services in Costa Rica Vacation Rentals Relax and kick back in the comfort of your luxury Costa Rican vacation rental, take a dip in the private pool or head outdoors for an eco adventure tour. You won’t worry about cooking up a feast; the Escape Villas Chefs will ensure your Costa Rica vacation is hassle free and packed full of delicious dishes that are sure to delight all the family. The Escape Villas Chef Service offers a menu with a vast array of tasty treats and traditional Costa Rica dishes that will make your tropical vacation relaxing and unforgettable. The expert team of Escape Villas chefs has compiled a diverse and appetizing up to the minute menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner for lucky vacationers staying at their Costa Rica vacation rentals. The Benefits of Escape Villas Chef Services The accomplished Escape Villas Chefs work with you to define a personalized menu to ensure everyone’s tastes are considered. Chefs will shop for the produce, arrive to prep the meal and serve at the time you request. You’re the one that gets to decide what’s on the menu and with an expert Chef by your side, this is the perfect opportunity to sample authentic quality cuisine using the best produce available. What better way to enjoy your Costa Rica vacation? Many families agree that the Escape Villas Chef Service is a lot cheaper than dining out every night. You’ll be able to plan your days out and about with the comfort of knowing that a warm home cooked meal is waiting for you at your Costa Rica vacation rental. Special dietary needs or food allergies? The Chefs will be able to work with you to define what ingredients need to be substituted in their recipes. Children in your party? The Escape Villas Chefs will cook up tasty treats that even the fussiest eaters won’t be able to turn down. Reviews of Escape Villas Chef Services Marilynne Leadon: Review of the Escape Villas Chef Services Party of four – Two adults and two children aged 14 and 16. One week stay at the Escape Villas Costa Rica Vacation Rental, June 2011. Casa Carpe Diem in Manuel Antonio, Central Pacific, Costa Rica. Escape Villas Chef – Chris Thebault We chose the Chef Service for a number of reasons. First, eating out at restaurants takes a lot of time and money. We wanted to be able to relax in the morning and evening after our excursions. I cook a lot at home (we eat home-cooked meals at least 6 nights a week) and love cooking, but I wanted a vacation as well! I didn’t want to spend time grocery shopping and cooking; I wanted to have fun with my family. It was more convenient, and elevated our experience to a vacation and not just a trip. Chef Chris was the most wonderful man to our family. He and I met after breakfast each morning and created the menu for dinner that night and breakfast the next day. Then he went shopping and put the groceries in the kitchen. He came back in the afternoon to prep the food and then served us when we were ready. He put fresh flowers on the table every day. He gave me a standard list of what he could prepare, but we generally just talked about what was fresh, in season, and good in the grocery store. I had a blast creating menus with him and then I didn’t even have to cook, just eat! We loved Chris’s marinated Ahi tuna salad, his mashed potatoes, and his traditional Costa Rican breakfast. Chris met our requests. When we met in the morning to discuss menus, we agreed that if something we had in mind didn’t look good at the grocery store, he would choose something else. Or, if he was at the store and was inspired by some other thing, he could do that too. I tried to let him be creative so that he could enjoy the experience, and being flexible also meant we would be eating the healthiest and freshest choices. Would I recommend this? Absolutely. I am going to look into having a chef service for our next overseas trip! Most Requested Favorites – The Ultimate in Costa Rica Dining! Check out a sample menu of our Chef Service In Manuel Antonio. These menus can be tailored to your every need. Professional, Friendly and At Your Service - Meet the Escape Villas Chefs Head Chef Stéphane De Pascali Graduated from the Culinary School Bonnevaine in Marseille, France Worked in countries around the world including France, England, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Corsica, the Caribbean islands of St. Barthelemy and St. Martin, the Dominican Republic and North African luxury cruises. Specialty is fusion of European and Asian cuisine with its delicious taste and vibrant colors. “My interest for cooking started when I was young. I was born in France and there cooking is part of the culture. I had the opportunity to learn from my grandfather who was a luxury cruise chef and I have followed in his footsteps,” said Head Chef Stéphane De Pascali He continues, “The best thing about being the Head Chef at Escape Villas is that you get to meet different clients and cook in the different vacation rentals every week. You get to experiment with different ingredients according to the clients taste. I recommend the Escape Villas Chef Services in Costa Rica vacation rentals because it allows you to enjoy your vacations without having to worry about food shopping. It is cheaper than going to a restaurant and as you are the one deciding on the ingredients you will always enjoy the meals we prepare.” Chef Chris Thebault Studied in the culinary school of Le Nôtre in Paris, France and at the Zen Culinary Center of San Francisco. Worked in a variety of highly rated restaurants including El Châteaux D’Artigny, El Florian and also worked as a personal chef for the Ministry of Transport and Tourism in Paris. He then began to broaden his horizons, travelling to Ibiza to work as a private chef for the jet set that arrived to this small but vibrant Spanish island. He has additionally traveled to India, Thailand, Cambodia. His diverse experience with cuisine from around the world enables him to offer a range of delicious dishes. Based on the strong foundations of French cuisine Chef Thebault fuses Mediterranean, Asian and Latin American ingredients. “I first became interested in cooking over 20 years ago; I found it to be such an unlimited alchemy of aromas, colors, flavors, temperatures and textures. I also thought that culinary arts would be a great opportunity for me to travel, which I did years later.” “Healthy food is what matters to me, cooking with simplicity and awareness that food is part of our health. It’s also a great way to have a great time!” I would recommend the Escape Villas Chef Service because you are guaranteed the best service in the best vacation rentals in the best places in Costa Rica. Chef Guido Saenz Godinez An accomplished Costa Rican Chef with a career spanning 16 years, Chef Godinez developed his culinary arts working alongside the best chefs in the best restaurants in the region. Chef Godinez specializes in BBQ dishes and only works with fresh herbs and ingredients. He frequently researches the latest culinary advances on line which he considers to be one of the best tools available. “I enjoy being a Chef at Escape Villas simply because I am part of one of the companies that offer the best personalized service in the area.” Chef Leopoldo Cruz Farias Guzman “I have always been interested in cooking, my mother and grandmother taught me to cook when I was just 12 years old.” Studied, trained and worked in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero in Argentina. And as a true Argentinean, Chef Farias specializes in the creation of delicious roasted and succulent BBQ choice cuts. “I enjoy working as a Chef at Escape Villas because it gives me the opportunity to be diverse and creative.” Escape Villas Destination Wedding Catering Services If you are planning a Costa Rica Wedding the Escape Villas concierge team will be happy to coordinate your catering for your special day. Want to find out more about the Escape Villas Chef services? Any questions? Contact Escape Villas on 1-888-771-2976 or email info@villascostarica.com for more information about the Escape Villas Chef Services in Costa Rica Vacation Rentals. Photo Credit – Chef Chris Thebault Cuisine Photography.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2772
__label__wiki	0.98047	0.98047	17 Dead in Afghanistan Mosque Blast By Ayaz Gul Afghan policemen inspect a mosque after a blast in Khost province, Afghanistan, May 6, 2018. ISLAMABAD - A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded mosque being used as a voter registration center in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 17 worshipers and wounding 33 others. The attack came hours after unknown gunmen in a northern Afghan region kidnapped seven engineers, mostly Indian nationals. The mosque bombing occurred in Khost province, which borders Pakistan. Provincial Afghan police chief Abdul Hanan confirmed the death toll to VOA, saying he anticipated the death toll to rise. Hanan said initial probe suggested the blast was caused by a planted device, though initial reports said a suicide bomber carried out the attack. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the deadly violence. The Taliban has denied involvement. Late last month, a suicide bomber detonated his vest at a voters’ identification card distribution center in Kabul, killing nearly 60 people and wounding over 100 others. Islamic State claimed claimed responsibility for that attack. Indian engineers kidnapped Afghan officials said that six Indian engineers along with their local colleague went missing Sunday morning near Pul-e-Khomri, the capital of restive northern Baghlan province. The abductees were working at an electricity substation and were traveling to work when “armed men” ambushed them and took them away, a provincial police spokesman, Zabihullah Shuja, told VOA. The victims were employees of an Indian company that runs the substation. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the incident in an Afghan province where Taliban insurgents contest several districts. Transmission lines and installations in Baghlan are used to supply electricity imported from the neighboring Central Asian countries of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to northern Afghan provinces, including Kabul. Last month, the Taliban destroyed a key tower during fighting with Afghan forces, plunging the national capital and a vast area in northern Afghanistan into darkness for several days. Afghan forces retake northern district Meanwhile, officials in nearby northern Badakhshan province confirmed Sunday that Afghan security forces, backed by airpower, have retaken a district from the Taliban. The insurgents had last week overrun Kohistan, which borders Pakistan after several days of intense clashes. A provincial government spokesman said the retreating Taliban suffered heavy casualties, but he gave no numbers. The Islamist insurgency announced its annual spring offensive last month, leading to an intensification in violence across Afghanistan. Officials also confirmed a roadside bomb struck a passenger vehicle in northern Faryab province, killing seven people. The victims were shopkeepers on their way to market. Saturday, three heavily armed suicide bombers attacked a house belonging to Abdula Razeq, the powerful police chief of the southern Kandahar province. One assailant blew himself up at the entrance of the building while the other two were gunned down by Afghan security forces. Razeq later told VOA that neither he nor his family members were present at the house when the attack occurred in the town of Spin Boldak on the Pakistani border. The police chief has a fearsome reputation fighting the Taliban and has survived many assassination attempts. Afghan Forces Retake District From Taliban; Fighting Spreads Afghan forces backed by air strikes have retaken a district in the northern province of Badakhshan that was seized last week by Taliban insurgents, officials said, as fighting continued across Afghanistan.Provincial police spokesman Sanaullah Rohani said Kohistan district, which fell to the insurgents Thursday, was retaken by army and police forces backed by air support Saturday. New Alliance Formed Ahead of Afghan Elections Eligible voters across Afghanistan are registering for upcoming parliamentary and provincial elections while politicians try to shore up their alliances in preparation. Afghan Second Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a prominent Afghan… By Mohammad Ahmadi Taliban Capture Remote Northern Afghan District Afghan Taliban fighters captured the remote Kohistan district in northern Afghanistan after a fierce fight with Afghan police forces that left five police and militiamen dead. A local member of provincial council said the Taliban then set fire to a court building and fired rockets at a police building, destroying it. “Unfortunately, Kohistan district of Badakhshan came under control of enemy yesterday’s evening and we retreated,” Javid… Afghan President Launches Controversial National ID Card Afghan President Ashraf Ghani launched long-delayed electronic citizen ID cards Thursday, but his governing partner, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, boycotted the ceremony and questioned the legitimacy and timing of the process.The president and first lady Rula Ghani, along with several top officials, received their ID cards, locally known as “e-tazkiras,” marking the formal rollout at a special ceremony in Kabul.The existing national ID cards are made of… Ayaz Gul	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2776
__label__wiki	0.968498	0.968498	Hepatitis Home Hepatitis Overview Related to Hepatitis Hepatitis Vaccine More Related Topics Foods That Help Your Liver Hepatitis 'C' Cures Now Common Existing Treatments Eradicate Hepatitis C Virus By Salynn Boyles May 21, 2007 -- A new report shows that patients with hepatitis C infection can not only be successfully treated by the best available drug therapies, but they also can be cured. Up to seven years after treatment, 99% of close to 1,000 successfully treated patients showed no evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Hepatitis C is caused by the hepatitis C virus, which is transmitted from contact with infected blood. HCV infection is the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver cancer, and liver transplants in the United States. Roughly 4 million Americans are infected, but only about a quarter of them know they have the virus, hepatitis treatment expert John Vierling, MD, tells WebMD. “We have to start identifying infected people earlier so they can be treated earlier,” he says. “It is true that about half of patients can be cured with the treatments available now.” ‘Virus Won’t Come Back’ Those treatments include a long-acting version of the drug interferon, known as pegylated interferon, and the antiviral drug ribavirin. The long-term follow-up study included 997 patients who achieved sustained virologic responses with pegylated interferon with or without ribavirin, meaning they had no evidence of the virus in their blood six months after treatment. All but eight of the patients were still free of the virus an average of four years after treatment. Some patients were followed for as long as seven years. Two of the eight patients showed evidence of a second HCV infection, and it was not clear if the remaining five relapsed or were reinfected. Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center chief of hepatology Mitchell Shiffman, MD, presented the follow-up data Monday in Washington at Digestive Disease Week, an annual meeting of liver and gastric disease specialists from around the world. “When we achieve sustained virologic responses, less than 1% of patients will get the virus back,” he tells WebMD. “We know the virus will not come back in a year or two or three. These patients are cured.” Not All Respond But between 45% and 50% of patients treated in the United States do not respond to treatment or have incomplete responses, according to Shiffman. He adds that roughly 70% of infected Americans have genotype 1, a genetic type of the disease that tends to be less responsive to treatment than other genotypes. Bruce Bacon, MD, of St. Louis University, tells WebMD that specialists know much more now than they did a few years ago about individualizing interferon treatment. Patients who respond very quickly may not need to be treated for as long, while those who respond slowly may need a longer course of treatment -- as long as 1.5 years for very slow responders. Bacon, who directs the division of hepatology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, says many patients -- and even their primary care physicians -- still do not understand that HCV infection can be cured. “The overwhelming perception is that this is a disease that can be controlled, but not cured,” he says. “That is why infected people are often hesitant to even consider treatment.” Better Treatments to Come The message, the experts agree, is that a cure is possible, even for people who already have liver damage and for those with conditions like HIV co-infection. They also agree that highly anticipated new treatments could improve cure rates in the years to come. Phase II trials of highly specific drugs that target HCV are now under way, and Bacon says they could be approved within two to three years. Vierling says he has high hopes that a multidrug approach to HCV treatment, similar to the approach that has turned HIV from a uniformly deadly to largely manageable disease, can improve treatment outcomes for a larger number of patients. “New drugs may allow us to use existing treatments at lower doses or for shorter periods,” he says. “The future looks bright.” WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD on May 21, 2007 SOURCES: Digestive Disease Week, Washington, May 21, 2007. Mitchell Shiffman, MD, professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; chief of hepatology and medical director, Liver Transplant program, VCU Medical Center. John Vierling, MD, professor of medicine and surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; immediate past president, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Bruce Bacon, MD, director of the hepatology division, Saint Louis University School of Medicine. © 2007 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved. Take the Liver Test Hepatitis: Who Is at Risk? Side Effects of Hepatitis C Treatments How Hepatitis C Affects Your Body When to Get Your Liver Function Tested A Visual Guide to Hepatitis Slideshow: Visual Guide to Liver Problems Information on Liver Failure Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Liver? What Is Alcoholic Hepatitis? What Is the Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score (CTP)? Liver Disease and Failure Topics What is Hepatitis? Types, symptoms and treatments. What Does Your Liver Do? Myths and facts about this essential organ. What Hepatitis Looks Like on Your Skin Your face, eyes & hands can show it. How Hepatitis C Is -- and Isn't -- Spread How Much Do You Know About Your Liver? See What Happens When Your Liver Fails Hepatitis: What Puts You at Risk Fatty Liver: Hepatitis C Complication When a Liver Transplant Is Needed Anatomy: See and Learn About the Liver Do You Have Liver Lesions? Hepatitis & Other Adult Vaccines See What Your Liver Looks Like Why Be Tested for Hep C? How Not to Wreck Your Liver What Is Fatty Liver Disease?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2780
__label__cc	0.629514	0.370486	Jenny Kush added to Arrest Angel wall of those killed by DUI drivers Patricia Calhoun Patricia Calhoun \| December 26, 2013 \| 9:02am It was one of the most sadly ironic events of the year: On Labor Day weekend -- when the heat was on to catch drunk drivers -- cannabis activist Jenny Kush was killed by one of those drink drivers, as related in our September cover story, "The life and tragic death of Jenny Kush." Now her death has been added to Arrest Angel, a site that chronicles DUI deaths across the country, and asks drivers to "think twice" before driving drunk. According to Arrest Angel's "think twice" page: Every day in America, aproximately 25 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes. We would like to bring awareness to the world of the tragedies that effect everyone involve in a DUI. The bottom line is nothing good ever comes from drinking & driving. DUI Arrests and Deaths Ruin Lives.. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, 1,321 people were arrested over a nineteen-day stretch between August 16 and September 3 of this year for suspected driving under the influence. One of them was 27-year-old Rebecca Maez, who was driving a borrowed vehicle the wrong way in an HOV lane on I-25 when she crashed into the car driven by Jenny Kush's boyfriend. Maez's next court appearance is Jan. 9, 2014. As part of his reporting on the story, William Breathes tried to break down the 1,342 DUI arrests into those drivers pulled over for driving under the influence of alcohol, and those who were under the influence of marijuana. It proved to be a trickier task than he'd thought, as he detailed in a follow-up story, "Under the Influence." *An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Maez's court date. For more from our marijuana archives, read Patricia Calhoun's "What's in Store for Colorado on January 1?" Have a tip? Send it to patricia.calhoun@westword.com. Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing. Twitter: @calhounwestword	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2784
__label__wiki	0.658199	0.658199	Lowest temperatures in decades can hardly be global warming now, can it? by Cameron Slater on May 11, 2018 at 11:30am Australia is in for record lows, but expect the warmists to say, it’s just weather: Quote: SYDNEY is set to be hit with two icy winter blasts as a chilly Melbourne braces for a month?s worth of rain in three days. The first polar blast will send a chill over the NSW capital by Friday afternoon, with a second trough from the low pressure system moving through on Sunday when icy winds are forecast to strengthen to 90km/h. Sydneysiders can expected a frosty Friday?with forecasts predicting the coolest day since November 2017. Temperatures are currently about five degrees above the averages for May, sitting at 25C. While Sydney will be spared heavy rain during the chill, Melbourne is facing a month?s worth in three days ? the wettest period so far this year. Today and tomorrow?s expected 13C maximum for Melbourne will also be the coldest two days this early in autumn since 1978. The heaviest of the rain is predicted for tomorrow when at least 20mm is expected to fall on the state. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for large parts of Victoria, including for Melbourne, which is bracing for heavy rainfall. Usually warm?Queensland will also feel the cold?when temperatures in Brisbane drop by about 7C this weekend. A stray low pressure system with a polar air mass behind it moving north from the Southern Ocean is responsible for the cold front, bringing rain, chilly air, thunderstorms, small hail and even snow. Between 20-40cm of natural snow is predicted for the alpine region until Sunday. Snow is also expected to fall in central and western Victoria and over the Central Tablelands in New South Wales on Friday. Canberra is due to cop its coldest day in almost two decades. Sky News Weather chief meteorologist Tom Saunders told news.com.au Canberra would hit a high of 9C tomorrow which is the coldest May day in 18 years. ?For this early in the year it would be the coldest day in 48 years,? he said. End quote. Looks like the global warming bubble is popping. With a new solar minimum that is reportedly likely to be worse than the Maunder Minimum it looks like all the alarmism is also out the window. So far so-called climate science has failed to deliver a single prediction that has come true, nor a model that matches reality. Watch the alarmists though claim victory for reducing temperatures as people shiver with no power because oil and gas exploration ended our self-sufficiency. Cameron Slater As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats. They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners. He is fearless in his pursuit of a story. Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him. To read Cam’s previous articles click on his name in blue. http://whaleoil.net.nz « Photoshop of the day View from your window »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2787
__label__cc	0.685221	0.314779	Trump-Macron tree faces at least 2 years in quarantine Presidents Trump & Macron The oak sapling that was a gift to President Donald Trump from French President Emmanuel Macron is facing at least two years in quarantine. WASHINGTON (AP) - The oak sapling that was a gift to President Donald Trump from French President Emmanuel Macron is facing at least two years in quarantine. The leaders planted the tree on the White House lawn during Macron's state visit in April. But a mystery was spun days later when journalists noticed it had been removed. Macron's office later said the tree was quarantined like other plants or animals brought into the U.S. Macron gave Trump two trees and both are in isolation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said this week that at least two years of monitoring and testing may be required before the trees can be planted. The agency says quarantine is necessary because pathogens like fungi aren't as easy to spot as insects. (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) 5/25/2018 4:49:12 PM (GMT -5:00) Macron calls Trump's tariffs decision 'illegal' Melania plans first state dinner for Macrons Spotting hazardous trees Christmas tree farmers combat popularity of artificial trees Man breaks probation conditions; faces 10 years in prison Guardrail coming to Cherry Tree Road in Gurley after 19 wrecks in 3 years Under the Christmas Tree Market kicks off Nationwide shortage of Christmas trees impacts Huntsville How to safely secure your Christmas tree	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2791
__label__cc	0.688025	0.311975	Nigeria’s Glo launches in Ghana Nigerian-owned telecommunication giant Glo Mobile launched its services in Ghana on 29 April, becoming the sixth mobile provider to operate in the country after MTN, Vodafone, Tigo, Airtel and Expresso. Since it secured its operating license from Ghana in 2008, the company has failed repeatedly to begin its service, resulting in it being fined $200,000 by industry regulator, the National Communications Authority (NCA), for missing its latest rollout deadline on 20 April. Some 1.5 million subscribers reserved their 023-3 numbers after Glo's "Reserve Your Number" campaign began in January, and these numbers are active from 30 April. The company has also launched a 023-5 number. Currently Glo covers about 85 per cent of land mass in Ghana and has plans to install a further 1,400 base stations by the end of 2012. This would give it a total of 2,300 base stations, giving it the largest network coverage in Ghana. Glo claims that is has invested some $750 million in installing network equipment, establishing 25 world call centres nationwide and hiring some 600 staff. Glo is the title sponsor of Ghana’s premier football league and the senior national football team, the Black Stars. Website www.gloworld.com Previous article Tesco eyes Ethiopian market Next article Tesco eyes Ethiopian market Faster internet for Addis Ababa Cape Town to provide free Wi-Fi in public buildings Cape Town makes progress with internet plan Nairobi switches to digital television Ethiopia signs major broadband deal Major new technology park for Addis Ababa Seacom cable restored to full capacity Broadband for Cape Town townships Nairobi to switch from analogue to digital Nairobi hosts inaugural pan-African technology summit Mozambique to ban import of analog radio and tvs Ethiopia clamps down on the internet	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2792
__label__wiki	0.706474	0.706474	ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.wardsauto.com/sites/all/themes/penton_subtheme_wardsauto/images/logos/footer.png\nWards Auto is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC\nWardsAuto Intelligence\n10 Best Engines\n10 Best Interiors\n10 Best UX\nMagazine Renewal\nSkoda Building New Urban CUV\nDon’t let global complexity slow down your automotive supply chain\nAre Suppliers Meeting Powertrain Challenges of 21st Century?\nFCA Prepping Italy Plant for Fiat EV\nCorsa-e to Kick Off Opel’s Electrification Drive\nPocket-Size 48V EVs Emerge\nTesla Model 3 Aces European Safety Tests\nAutoline Daily: Top Industry News for July 12\nFord, Volkswagen Deepen Ties Into EVs, AVs\n<p><strong>Buick Avista design team after winning best concept car award in Detroit.</strong></p>\nIndustry>North American International Auto Show\nAvista Buzz Builds Business Case, Buick Chief Says\nThe Avista is not the first concept car to generate build-it-now buzz. In fact, it is not even the first from Buick in recent years to make such an impression.\nJames M. Amend \| Jan 15, 2016\nDETROIT – Buick chief Duncan Aldred admits the General Motors brand may have backed itself into a corner with the Avista concept car.\nEasily one of the North American International Auto Show’s most buzzworthy introductions, clamor already is rising for Buick to build the Avista. The pressure likely will only grow once a wider audience starts getting up-close and personal with the sexy little 2+2 coupe at future international shows such as Chicago, New York and Beijing.\nWinning the Detroit auto show’s prestigious EyesOn Design Award for Design Excellence among concept cars punctuated its premiere.\n“We didn’t bring it here with a view to build it,” warns Aldred, vice president-sales and marketing at Buick-GMC.\nThe idea, Aldred says, was to use the concept as a springboard for promoting Buick’s refreshed lineup, which sees three redesigned or all-new production cars added this year.\n“It was important to remind people that three new models in one year is huge for any brand,” he says, before adding that the popularity of the car does make GM leadership think twice. “The reaction does make us go back and look at it on a global basis and ask what the business case (and) the benefit might be. It gives us serious thought.”\nThe Avista is not the first concept car to generate build-it-now buzz. In fact, it is not even the first from Buick to make such an impression. It comes exactly one year after the ultra-luxurious Avenir opened the Detroit show with a bang. Bits and pieces of that car now are in production with the redesigned ’17 Buick LaCrosse large sedan, due at U.S. and Chinese dealers this summer.\nMedia swarm Buick Avista.\nThat’s usually the outcome for pie-in-the-sky concepts and it’s definitely a possible result for the Avista, mostly because the Regal sedan will need a redesign or replacement by 2018.\nBut the Avista is a slightly different animal. It is underpinned by an existing GM platform used by the Cadillac ATS and Chevrolet Camaro, so there are some economies of scale to lower the product development and manufacturing investment. GM is shifting to modular, global architectures in the coming years, too, which gives the concept car some flexibility in terms of segmentation.\nAs Aldred tell WardsAuto, “It’s not about the money.”\nBuick’s portfolio also is pretty well laid out these days with three sedans and three CUVs, including the all-new Envision CUV and an all-new halo car in the Cascada. The ’17 Cascada convertible comes to market later this spring, but its lifespan is not expected to be lengthy so Buick would need another halo car soon. That might open the door for the Avista.\nClearly, there is room to ask what (options) there might be from a halo viewpoint,” Aldred says. “I’d like a replacement halo, just as we have with Cascada. (Avista) gets us to start looking at it on a global level. The reaction has been so good, I will look at it with my team and kick it around a bit.”\nBuick did the same last year with the Avenir, which also won best concept car in Detroit from EyesOn Design. It was nixed because the LaCrosse was coming and the market was moving away from cars, evidenced by a 2.1% drop in U.S. sales on volume of 7.5 million units last year compared with a 12.7% surge in truck deliveries to 9.9 million.\nCUVs were especially hot, up an industry-leading 17.6% to 5.2 million, according to WardsAuto data.\n“The reason we chose not to pursue that, in the end, was that we had our flagship LaCrosse launching and where the segmentation of the industry was going. It wasn’t a big enough priority for us to build.”\nThe Avista could face the same sort of dilemma. “Avista would have to go in the place of something else,” Aldred says. “That’s when it gets tough.”\nTAGS: Industry\nBuick Surprises Again With Avista Concept Car\nBuick Avista Concept Car\nVW Working Toward U.S. Launch of Upgraded 1.5L TSI 4-Cyl.\nVW Bullish on BEVs But Cautious Just the Same"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2793
__label__cc	0.610292	0.389708	Major Design Shift Involving Dynamic Flow From the updated section on the Construction page regarding electrogravity (under the picture of the B-2 Stealth Bomber), and from the article below this one, based on Townsend Brown's patent on electrogravity, dynamic charge over the hull surface is the motive force that drives the craft. What this means is that in the inner hull space, the top part of the LAU-X4 is charged positive, and the bottom is charged negative, with the Central Accumulator being the "electrical accumulator" or the "electron accumulator." The air in the hull is charged and flows from top around to the bottom where it equalizes its charge, and is pushed back up through the vertical core to the top of the hull where it starts over again. This is the biggest change. But first ... let's take a closer look at a different kind of electrostatic lifter: The video below recognizes evidence of electrical-inertial force, that is NOT ionic wind, but seems to be creating an inertial polarization, and the lifter "falls upward." ... It is demonstrating a reactionless lift, non-Newtonian... or is it? This is a fairly heavy unit as well, but it is also circular instead of triangular, and the power source is very small compared to the massive power supplies some are using for their lifters. This one uses the collapse of an electromagnetic coil to achieve the high volts, and more closely resembles the power supply of Townsend Brown. Everyone else uses complex power systems using big fields, signal generators and large transformers instead of tiny negative-energy fields. Using tiny high volts you don't have that excess big fluffy energy field that causes ion wind. The energy is tight and small and all of the power goes to the work. Ion wind is due to a lack of efficiency in the power supply most people use. He even covers it with a large sheet of paper to show it's not creating "thrust" to levitate it, as well as shows that no wind is blowing the piece of paper he holds underneath. The piece of paper above it however does not mean air is not coming around the edges and turning at right angles to generate lift. Let's take a closer look: So this device in the video below: 1) is circular instead of triangular. 2) uses the collapse of electromagnetic fields for power (tiny high volts; negative energy) instead of using large transformers and signal generators (big positive energy). 3) demonstrates a lack of ion wind as thrust, and instead shows that it is creating an electrical-inertial internalized force, showing non-Newtonian motion (possibly). I want to note that if it were creating a gravity field, then the stick he places on it would levitate over the lifter. But it really doesn't seem to be lifting due to wind or ionized air-flow thrust. We know these things don't work in a vacuum, however. But the question is, if it is not generating a force of ionized air to thrust it up, is the presence of air merely required in a system, and can an airframe be made air-tight to test this in a vacuum? Since he is using flyback voltage to power the craft, there doesn't seem to be the usual force of ion air thrust; then it would seem that there is an ionized air flow that moves from the top wire to the bottom ring (as per how lifters work), but does not continue past the ring to generate thrust. This seems to demonstrate the possibility of an action-reaction against the charge-field created by the top wire itself to lift it, using counter charge of air flow to push against the charged field of the top wire. So fast-moving air may be flowing from the top wire to the bottom ring, and be limited to air flow only in that area. This device is several times heavier than a standard tin-foil lifter. Due to it's instant levitation response time, it is unlikely that air flow is acting to thrust it up, however I understand that air flow is part of the overall requirements. Dielectric and magnetic layers have been reported to work to achieve lift in a vacuum, like the Cannae space drive, which works in the vacuum of space as an electrical engine with no thrust or fuel. In the case of most lifters, air itself is the dielectric material which polarizes and becomes "stressed" in order to produce lift in the direction of polarized current. There isn't much force due to the fact that air has very little mass. But some dielectric materials with some decent mass is how Townsend Brown achieved his famous results, immediately classified by the military after his demonstrations. Unfortunately there aren't very many videos in the public regarding the real good stuff .. The thing about this, is that if you put this in a vacuum, it won't work. So you have to pack your air with you when you go into space. But the good thing is that it's not showing any signs of ionic wind, just electrical and inertial field polarization between the top wire and the bottom ring, which means that it does not require that air moves toward it, and is thrusted behind it -- it doesn't work under such principle laws of motion. All that it requires is that air is merely present in the system, which is why an air space is employed in the LAU-X4, between the inner and outer hulls, to create an internalized circulation field within the craft. To make this device more efficient, multiple rings can be used so that they are smaller and smaller in diameter with a little bit of an air space in between each ring; rings within rings, or a spiral of a piece of metal, in a flat coil. The same with the top wire, directly above each ring, or otherwise spiraled over a wide spiraled "coil" of flat metal. Such a thing would then be able to support the weight of an insulated air frame to be placed around it, maybe made of plastic wrap or shrink wrap that could remain air-tight for a vacuum test. I would suggest not to directly touch the plastic wrap to the top wire, but have the stilts extend past the wire a bit to hold the plastic up off the wire. Furthermore, using spiraled rings or concentric rings within rings (with the top bare wire overhead), and encased in a metal airframe in the case of Townsend Brown systems, only seem to demonstrate air flow over the hull surface . . . see below. Also, this is interesting in that Dr. Harold White of NASA Eagleworks seems to be basing his concepts upon similar technologies, including vortex / Rodin coils ... Whereas in an electrogravity setup actually generates a compression field in front, and an expansion behind the craft (on top and below; front and back denotes movement direction). We do see this type of effect in the Cannae drive, as well as the EM drive, using an electrical inertial force with no fuel, and with no particle thrust. In a large enough setup, any type of electrogravitational system would have to warp time, as per the principles of gravity, so placing a digital clock inside and leaving the system running for days to determine a difference in time frequency would be appropriate. From what I understand of Townsend Brown di-electric material so far, a single dielectric layer with a bottom magnet and smaller upper magnet, run a charge through it, causes lift in a vacuum. However a block of material with layered magnet/dielectric/magnet/dielectric/magnet/dielectric/magnet materials, using conductive magnetic material, run a charge through it at high volts derived from EM collapse is how Townsend Brown's initial tests went. The block of material is alike a capacitor with the magnetic conductive material being the plates, and the dielectric being the insulators. The dielectric material must be of sufficient mass. Regarding the LAU-X4, as long as the bottom OTC-X1 engine is doing its job making a mass reduction field, all it would take is a slight lift to accelerate the craft to high speeds very quickly (taking the craft out of a conventional field of inertia using negative energy). The vertical impeller is serving as that Townsend Brown dielectric and magnetic medium while accomplishing other roles, too. It's lightweight, too (it is not a super-massive block that would interfere with the OTC-X1's ability to reduce the mass of a ship effectively and be too heavy to construct in a lightweight air-frame) and utilizes principles of magnetostatic resonance along with inertial frequency (it spins and spirals, so has a direction of some sort of "directed force"). Even though mass is required for a Townsend Brown concept to work, having too much mass would seem to be counter-productive. In some of Townsend Brown's concepts, a central shaft within the air-frame seemed to comprise the dielectric mass, along with the air frame itself being constructed of layered materials (see the below), but also there is work in Germany involving exotic plasma flows at frequencies which affect a type of superconductive approach, accelerating electrons faster than the speed of light (it's not public research, sorry!), which means that we can make things happen in more elegant ways without having to depend too much on the reaction of crude mass, but can rely moreso on the energy torsion fields to do the job. Let me briefly explain a "torsion field." A torsion field is a concept that Townsend Brown actually used to explain the physics of how his technology worked (you can see Townsend Brown himself actually wrote down the word "torsion" in the diagrams he supposedly drew out by hand, shown below); and torsion differentials are also used in Einsteinean relativity. It is viewed in modern days as "pseudoscience," however, but in any concept of electrogravity or gravity drives, there must be some interaction with spin and gravitational forces and waves, pushing and pulling on the fabric of spacetime, in either action-reaction or reactionless ways. And yes, gravity waves do exist, and have been discovered by the LIGO observatory, and is generally accepted in science these days. In fact, let me share what the warp drive blog article, "Gravity control cells and plasma in ELF" says about torsion fields: torsion fields (fields generated by spinning mass, gravitational in nature; also including spirals and flat disks; torsion = vortex) Here's a quote from the first article in the pdf: "For 20 years, torsion fields and torsion generators have been widely used to create torsion energy sources, torsion transport, torsion metallurgy, torsion systems of data transfer communication, torsion systems of medical diagnostics, etc. [10]. The feasibility and practical effectiveness of torsion fields has been experimentally proved in a number of areas of application. In some fields, that use torsion technologies (such as nuclear waste processing), a scientific foundation has been laid and preliminary experimental results have been achieved. Technological experience has been gained in some areas." A torsion field cannot be a mass-less field if it involves gravity or negative gravitation since mass is required for gravity forces and anti-gravity forces to have a medium to exist. The article above even shows that torsion fields are primarily involving spinning gravitational mass, and spinning electromagnetic fields! The exception to this is a field of negative mass, or zero mass derived by mass in electromagnetic action. Although the gravity wave by itself has no mass, but is nonetheless the result of gravity fields created by mass, which includes electromagnetic frequency as a mechanism to affect gravity fields since mass is a form of electromagnetism; and by changing the time-frequency must therefore change a gravitational field, since time and gravity are DIRECTLY related to electromagnetism. I've never used the word "torsion field" except in this article, and maybe another article, so this is a new terminology to me. I just found out that a scientist named David Yurth (a friend told me about him), who is very prominent was somehow involved in a "torsion field" scam with the Russian Academy of Sciences. Some money was exchanged, and I don't know all the details about that. But it occurs to me that the field of scientific research that boarders on these new things is kinda volatile. I've put forth quite a few ideas trying to put this puzzle together. A lot of it seems like common sense and logic to me. I hear scientists getting killed, imprisoned, etc etc etc.. seems like it's a fine line to walk to just think about stuff and publish some ideas about things........ that's just a note... moving on. I want to share this link: http://www.ovaltech.ca/electrogravity.html Electrical currents do exist in space, and so there must be electron flow involved. However, is space charged, electrically as a rule? Considering that space is conductive, can an object in space lose all its electrons, and permanently become a positively charged electrical object? Electrons are not the fuel of an electric space engine like the EM drive. The EM drive's thrust is just energy that is continually created, as nothing leaves the resonance cavity, because it is sealed like in a Faraday cage. In an atmosphere though, the EM drive may create an exhaust of a sort of ionized plasma, some sources claim. This is also a typical electrogravity aurora that has been witnessed behind various UFO craft. Heat is not an issue with an EM drive apparently either. Microwaved metal will eventually melt and become a conductive fluid (some drive systems use this approach, some sources say). It's not considered that electrons are lost away. Some schools of thought attribute electricity not to the movement of electrons at all, but through the movement of magnetic current. Just as a particle is also a wave, and sometimes both and neither, electricity works in the same way both sometimes as a particle form, and sometimes only as a wave form, like in the EM drive. It is not the movement of air which drives the EM thruster. However basic electrogravity in an atmosphere moves air as a consequence of its actions. The Townsend Brown technology shows a dielectric layer is used with a layer on top that can conduct a magnetic field. But it also shows a vertical dielectric suspended from the top curved hull shape. The dielectric takes the position of the vertical core, if we look at Townsend Brown's patents. See the Construction page, in the electrogravity section. The top hull becomes the charged surface, and the vertical core takes the position of the Townsend Brown di-electric material. Also see "stressing the dielectric" in the Townsend Brown Electrodynamics article at the bottom of this page, below this article. Eric Dollard worked with di-electric waves (parallel electric waves). They are similar to longitudinal waves, but a longitudinal wave moves sideways (in the direction of its flat plane), where parallel di-electric waves move up and down. Gravity essentially is a dielectric wave form. The electrogravity sets the inertia of the object generating it, moving it by moving its gravity. The longitudinal portion of the wave defines the area which actuates dielectric waves. The Cannae drive works thusly. The Townsend Brown technology however is very fast. There is a heat resistance from air friction involved using electrogravity. The craft is not pushing itself through the air; the air gets out of the way, electrically. I might have to change the whole website up at this point due to this new design shift, but I'm not going to. I may add more to this article later, though. There's not enough public support for this technology that I have seen. So it's not worth it to me to change this website all around based on every little new idea or realization or information shared to me. There's no funding. A brilliant acquaintance of mine, Kevin Hay, wants to form his own company involving electrogravity, so there may be a lot more information coming around in the next 10 or 20 years about all of this. This isn't profitable to me. I made this website to validate the technology, and show that it has a leg to stand on in prelude to a book, or series of books about this. Consequentially, I haven't used but a tiny fraction of images or pictures to describe all this mess, because I was saving it for the book. I may just leave things as they are at this point, unless something really spectacular pops up, otherwise I'll just stick to my Tesla tower Ley-line project. Our current level of technology is already beyond the impossible at this point (according to conventional and contemporary physics taught in universities), shown from the inventors in the world such as Eric Dollard, Marko Rodin, John Huchison, and those who recently passed away like John Bedini ... and inventors of the past such as Nikola Tesla and Townsend Brown, but their technology is not able to be marketed due to the fact that the SYSTEM and controlling global elite say "No!" More people need to be involved in building and construction, but also people ought to start networking their websites together, and sharing what they have. In order to not make this website any larger than it already is, I keep reaching impasses, but the whole general concept seems to be okay here, in spite of design shifts and whatnot, although it's truly stretched thin, also. I'd like to keep things as they are for a while, and just finish my Tesla ley-line project. If for some miracle a really good portable electric free energy or overunity engine pops up, then it would be a miracle. The QEG has almost disappeared already. Websites about the QEG have been shut down, over two possibilities (out of every two, there's always a third): either it failed to work, or the website creators became embarrassed and wanted to wipe the slate clean, or it was covered up, shut down, the builders paid off, and they're happily living it up in the Bahamas with QEG girl. I guess, I'll have to promise that if something does NOT work or pan out, or has been disproven or proven beyond a certain extent (the MEG is still good to go, although it may require a special block material to work; those block materialss became unavailable once Tom Bearden reported success with his MEG device), then I will make sure to mention it. The MEG may end up being replaced with the Reactionless Rodin coil .. but, ... both gometries are seen here at this website, although I'm now looking a little more deeply at the Rodin coil. I did consider that for the Outer Ring, but at least the concept is explained, awaiting the development and advancement of certain technologies, and the release of patents that supports the overall LAU-X4 approach. There's over 2 or 3,000 classified patents that president Trump has said he wanted released over a 2 year period of time. That has not yet happened. "Interference" style coils by Daniel Nunez at 1stopenergies.com are a different kind of vortex coil (called a POE) other than a Rodin coil, however both these coils have demonstrated power amplification, and when a spark gap is included on the system, it can run magneto-static energy, AND can REPLACE the MEG units on the Outer Ring. I had suggested before, to make these coils spin against each other, one inside, and one outside, in opposite directions, on the warp drive blog and Construction (downloadables) pages, and maybe on the warp drive engineering page but, maybe not. That's the oldest page. It may have been a downloadable on the home page .. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this before. Full circle. The MEG devices may be questionable, only because there requires a certain type of nano-crystalline block that was rapidly removed from the market after Tom Bearden's public success. However as a field generator, and field expander, it can be good. Some have reported "underground success" so ... However, five good 100 pound 220 amphour deep cycle batteries would yield about (220 amps x 12 volts = 2640 watts x 5 = 13,200 watts of power that can be collapsed through alternating induction coils, and set through a Bedini circuit to the other 5 batteries that cycle the energy back and forth. My point is to not get limited in a power supply. There are commercial power units available using catalyst conversion (may be a type of hydrogen fuel cell) that can last 50 years and output 50 KW. They're VERY expensive, though. One note on the MEG: It can be equipped with a spark gap. When the block is wound with coil, the block is halved. Those halves can be gapped just slightly enough to give it a magnetostatic quality, gapped right above and below the magnet in the middle. Materials make a difference, but energy itself is not hard to understand. A nano-crystalline dielectric ceramic composite layered with magnetic plates is the recipe for electrogravity. Magnetostatic energy taps the quantum vacuum. I have noticed this in my experiments, and Tom Bearden also explains that there exists an active static vacuum as the substance of the energetic living universe. Okay, so I've made a whole lot of updates, recently. Just keep in mind that the B-2 stealth bomber uses the White-Alcubierre principle of compressing the spacetime in front and expanding it behind, in electrogravity fashion, and that concept is not unknown as a style of warp drive -- basic magneto-electrostatic (Construction page). But as an airplane, it lingers in the atmosphere, except for the TR-3B flying triangles, which whistleblowers and some literature included on patent presentations claim it is able to travel at light speed, and uses electrostatic capacitors on the three wing-tips. This is not new either, because people have seen the test flights of crafts zipping around the Earth several times, flying from east to west, then returning around east to west again, etc. This was mentioned on the Promise Revealed website, which has a collage of photos of advanced tech all which can be attributed to anything secret space program related. The speed of the craft mentioned was the speed of electrostatic wave speed (electrogravity as dielectric parallel waves, reported by Eric Dollard and his HAM radio enthusiasts at 220,000 miles per second, which is about 9 times around the Earth in one second). The physics are pretty solid, and the technology is stretching it a bit thin; the technology has not yet caught up with our knowledge . . . which means that the technology does exist, regardless, because of our knowledge, otherwise how would we know, right? LAU-X4 hyperdrive / warp drive spacecraft So according to a model of dynamic hull flow, we can look at this like the B-2 stealth bomber. I don't know why it never clicked, but, ionized airflow is how electrogravity acts in an atmosphere, but since it's electroGRAVITY -- as in, such a phenomena has been observed to make changes to the craft's inertia -- then it should work in the vacuum of space. The air is trapped within the hull space between the inner and outer hulls. The air flows from top of the ship, around to the perimeter and down to the central accumulator, through vents or holes basically in the lower OTC-X1 assembly. The ship's hull becomes the hull for the OTC-X1, while keeping some of its own hull, but perhaps slitting it like a fan for optimal ionization. The air then returns through the open system up through the vertical core to the top Tesla toroid, and cycles back around and down again to the bottom. This may be far more efficient than the way the LAU craft has originally been intended. It's not quite the same as a plasma flow, but in a rarified air state, then the inner hull atmosphere would become plasma in a near vacuum (not a complete vacuum). Powered by massive electromagnetic collapses, the root of negative energy, then a magnetostatic negative energy plasma can be realized (using a spark gap somewhere in the system). Positive charge should be on the top half of the hull, and negative charge on the bottom of the OTC-X1 hull, keeping with electrogravity dynamics. Electrogravity in a vacuum is already proven to exist. The Central Electrical Accumulator accumulates the inertial charge of the electrogravitational movement within the craft. The Vertical impeller draws upon the lower Central Accumulator, because it is the only thing it can act upon. It's effect is to draw or pull the forces up; so the vertical impeller electrically grabs hold of the Central Accumulator and pulls it up, pulling the ship forward, in that manner of internalized inertia. Here are some images from a search on Townsend Brown patent that I wish to share to illustrate this concept, which has been revealed in the research of dynamic plasma flow. Upon the above: The image on the left is from the Starburst Foundation, Townsend Brown’s pulsed DC levitating disc. _ © 2008 Paul LaViolette. Their website is: http://starburstfound.org/advanced-propulsion-electrogravitics/ These images show that a double hull layer is appropriate, as in the LAU-X4, for use in the vacuum of space. High volt positive charge projected up a coil to a Tesla toroid output conductor is easy in a D.C. configuration using the collapse of the electromagnetic field for high volts. The outer hull of the LAU-X4 will be chaged, but also the inside of the outer hull is also charged, which is where the hull space is between the outer and inner hulls of the LAU-X4. The outside edge of the inner hull is charged within the hull air space, but the inside of the inner hull acts as a Faraday cage, because the charge stays on the outside of the inner hull, charging the space between the two hulls (inner and outer). This is a publication of Townsend Brown's own journals, obtained by William Moore: http://www.doctorkoontz.com/Antigravity/Townsend_Brown/Thomas%20Townsend%20Brown%20Scientific%20Notebooks,%20Vol%202.htm The image on the left is taken from this page: http://www.unariunwisdom.com/the-forgotten-genius-of-townsend-brown-and-his-flying-saucer-technology/ The image on the left is incorrect as far as the designation of thrust, should be designated "travel" or "lift," because the craft travels in the direction of the positive charge, and that is proven through electrogravity experiments such as the electrogravity lifters, which are very elaborate in construction these days. The image on the right is from here: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=776.0 Oh just google "Townsend Brown Patent" and click on the images ... The image in the center, just click on it to magnify it so the whole image can be seen. The image in the above center is from Townsend Brown's personal notes. The parts to this are not labeled. This is one of Townsend Brown's patents. There is high voltage going to the spheres at the bottom, to each sphere. The other end of the high voltage circuit goes to electrode 12 in the curved upper disk shape. See: http://www.ovaltech.ca/electrogravity.html for a relation of "stressing the dielectric" where I am assuming that the curved disk is in layers of dielectric and magnetic structure. The magnetic layer is between the positive and negative dielectric layers. It also looks like these layers are coiled within the airframe structure. Here to the left we see something that resembles the OTC-X1 lower hull portion surrounded with the LAU-X4 airframe. This comes from the Townsend Brown family website: http://www.thomastownsendbrown.com/hydro/hydrosb.htm All of these images illustrate dynamic flow pathways. The canopy is the upper electrode, and the lower electrode is something like a wide plate (like the OTC-X1 engine lower hull attached to the LAU-X4). In a contained system, or rather in the vacuum of space, these flow dynamics still apply, electrically activated as the inertial flows of electronic force -- which is basic electrogravity. These concepts are included in the LAU-X4, although I haven't found much information about these things until very recently, which caused a design correction to the LAU-X4 involving the vertical impeller's movements which demonstrate internalized inertia, rather than Newtonian action/reaction. You can see that on this image a little better, which is the type of technology this website is specifically dealing with: Components to this: large vertical coil, smaller outer coils, lower capacitor stack, upper Tesla toroid-shaped conductor. This is further discussed on the article below this one. But at this point it's suffice to say that this completes the plasma flow portion of the LAU-X4 design and physics (with further information in the article just below this one on Plasma Flow Dynamics, and also discussed on the Construction page, whereas the Construction Blog page deals primarily with the OTC-X1). Vertical core and gravity plating: There is one thing that has come up, as seen on the warp drive news page, is that the construction of the vertical impeller may need to be adjusted. The Impeller is designed with Townsend Brown / Tesla dielectric plating of dielectric and magnetic layers, as per the pdf linked in the Townsend Brown section of the Construction page. This should affect a lift/thrust similar to how the Cannae electric space drive works. If we assume that the Cannae drive is not using Newtonian physics, but is setting its electrical inertia, working with internalized inertia, then the impeller may not need any changes. A note about Newtonian physics: On the home page, it is discussed that the ship moves similar to how a gravity wave travels through space. The gravity wave is not pushing against anything to push itself along with a thrust. The gravity wave propagates itself under its own inertia. If the gravity wave were considered a "thing," then it would not obey Newtonian physics, and there would be no action/reaction that causes it to move, it would merely move, based on it's own inertia to do so. This is also why physicists are considering gravity itself as a form of negative energy. The Warp Drive News page discusses this a bit more in depth, up top. For example, when you turn on a flashlight, the light merely travels, without producing thrust behind itself to do so. Using negative mass, as some scientists have discovered with negative energy fluids, they tend to have inertia that is backwards! If you push on it, it pushes back with a wall, in the direction of the force applied. This is what is known as a "reactionless drive," which is of big interest to the military and defense departments, as Marko Rodin found out when he briefly worked with the department of defense (if memory serves; he spoke about it), to explain his reactionless coils. A reactionless space drive makes its own gravity to move itself. This means that if the Cannae is a true electrogravity drive (which is seems to demonstrate the quality of electronic inertia), then is it really pulling itself along, or pushing itself along? All this aside, the air flows up the vertical core, but an electrogravity force may push that air back down the core, like how a lifter works, which moves the ionized air. So, the vertical impeller blades may just have to be made of utron material, instead, and just churn the ionic space within the vertical core, ONLY affecting airflow back up the vertical core to the top of the Tesla toroid static-conductor. It's kind of hard to say at this point but we DO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE -- In case one thing doesn't work, the other thing will. We see that the Cannae electric space engine DOES work, and we see that Townsend Brown electrogravity in an atmosphere DOES work. The only question is: how does these systems perform in a vacuum? We have two options, and both already work, one in a vacuum, and one in atmosphere. A near vacuum to create plasma conditions however, may be another variable to consider, Whereas charged particles can be carried up to the top of vertical core, even with a "downward force" of electrogravity from the charged impeller blades. This is in near-vacuum conditions, to better facilitate a generation of negative energy plasma. When in an atmosphere, the outer hull surface exposed to the atmosphere takes over. When out in space, the inner hull space conducting to the outer hull, and to the outer hull surface, and conducting along the outside edge of the inner hull (confined to the hull space and to the very exterior), would be that mode of flight. The inner hull acts as a Faraday cage to protect the pilots, however the outer hull is layered in dielectric, magnetic, and ceramic layers so that the magneto-static field can conduct to the outside of the hull, magnetically. A magnetostatic field conducts right through insulated wire. The inner hull would not be made of a magnetic layer, or a ferrous layer that could conduct a charged magnetic field to the crew space. Charge in this case is conducted THROUGH the magnetic field, but it must be touching something that can conduct it through it's material inner lattice. This was one of Tesla's concepts for Hull plating, in fact. The only "impossible" thing here, is that a magnetostatic field can conduct to the exterior, and NOT conduct to the interior. You can still feel the static charge from around a glass plasma sphere (like the toys in stores, and props for movies), for example, as it conducts through the dielectric glass layer. If we consider that such a field has electrical inertial and gravitation properties, then it is the vertical core itself which can generate a scalar gravity field within the pilot compartment, however using the same technology as gravity plating to generate an Earth-like gravity field for the crew is also appropriate. The static field would not be harmful without a magnetic polarity. See: the pdf link on the Construction page in the Townsend Brown section. By using an exterior layer that conducts a magnetic field, which is part of the external charged plate systems as the electro-inertial flight/control surfaces to maneuver in an atmosphere, it could very well maneuver in space also, using the electrogravity effect from the dielectric and magnetic layers. The insulative Faraday cage is made with an understanding that electricity travels along the exterior of metallic surface, not penetrating the interior. Without the way to conduct this energy from one side of the hull to the other side of the hull, then one side would be electrified, and the other inert. This reminds me of solid state components, like a transistor or a semiconductor, how the two or three layers, one maybe of a central crystal layer, then energy can conduct through the hull layers, or not, depending upon the "solid state construction" of the outer hull. So .... The vertical impeller is the fail-safe. It moves force. It either moves electro-inertial force, or just air force, up or down, to match the engine dynamics that require such a dynamic transition. Here is the final performance probability: The impeller can direct its inertial gravity force up, so that the impeller pushes down onto the central accumulator, to activate it perhaps, like in a transmission that requires some force to push down onto the central accumulator for it's drive-shaft to engage, also making the electrical connection to the central accumulator, to power the vertical coil. Obviously a separate power source would have to be included (like the outer ring) to engage the impeller blades to push the impeller down and connect the coil. This would easily cause an upward air flow, AND an upward magneto-static flow to the top of the ship, moving the plasma up to the top, and then pushed around the hull space to the outer ring and back into the OTC-X1. This would generate the simulated gravity wave. Air flows up the vertical core, hits the very top of the outer hull which is charged, and then "grounds out" by taking the long path around the hull, because the air will take that path and be accelerated electrically, showing us the path of the scalar energy, by using the air or rarefied air / plasma to light up the dynamic flow circuit... So the dynamic flow is like throwing a punch. The fist moves from where it's at, and accelerates rapidly. The fist is not pushing against the body; the fist moves where one's will and where one's electrical chi desires it to go, wills it to go. A gravity wave does not push back upon other gravity to travel, it anchors into the fabric of space. In space, gravity attracts but sometimes repells, too! If two star systems are gravitationally pulling the space in between them, then it could lengthen their distance from each other, pushing each other away from each other, using gravity, as both a pull and a push. Two distant galaxies were seen recently moving apart faster than light, not because the mass of their galaxies moves faster than light, but because space itself moves faster than light, and expands between them! So if a ship is electrically able to move gravity, and changes its own gravity / inertia to move, then the impeller force from the negative energy charge of the central accumulator (which as discussed on the Warp Drive News page) is acting as a gravitational vacuum, may not be able to budge a negative (mass-reduction) gravity field with a [normal] gravity field -- it's not so right to think gravity can budge it at all, that gravity can move upon a gravitational vacuum, or push a gravitational vacuum around since it would be fruitless to use force against force, when such force would merely be absorbed. Can you push on a negative gravity field (negative inertial mass), and expect it to move, or will it push back upon you with equal force? If the mass of the impeller pushes down upon the central accumulator, it's not necessarily going to push the ship anywhere, like how a guy runs along the deck of a boat and stops suddenly to inch the boat forward, using internal inertia. The impeller in this case continues the force from the bottom of the ship up to the top, and the ship rides that line of force (like riding a beam of light or a gravity wave; having non-Newtonian inertia) which circulates in a magnetostatic field (like a magnetic field) from the top around to the bottom again. Which force moves the craft, the inertial force up, or the external force down? They both move the craft at the same time, in unity. The vertical impeller creates force, carried up from the central accumulator and cycled around the hull back again. This way force is not attempting to move upon a gravitational vacuum; the force of the gravitational vacuum moves like a particle fountain out of a black hole -- projecting its accumulated energy forward making use of its state of zero or negative mass carving out the path that it is filled with the gravitational vacuum -- the wake of the mass that the energy is pulling forward, like falling into a gravity pocket always in front of the ship. Notice how the image on the right of the LAU-X4, the outer hull from the outer ring toward the OTC-X1 intersects at the MIDPOINT of the OTC-X1 central utron/accumulator disk, and at the central zero pole of the peripheral electromagnets. Everything above the equator of the OTC-X1 is off-setting the inertial frequency to create gravitational lift (inertial travel; inertial polarization) in one direction. The bottom hemisphere of the OTC-X1 is not so much acting as a propulsion field, although it can be considered as such according to Newtonian laws of motion; but we do see Newtonian laws of motion and non-Newtonian laws of negative inertia also acting congruently with each other, so that either one can be used to explained why the craft moves; there is no violation of Newtonian laws, when non-Newtonian laws are also acting in harmony in an equal and opposite way. Further, what we have here is a resonance cavity, as the bottom hemisphere of the OTC-X1, similar to the EM electric space drive! The electromagnetic frequency (and microwave is a frequency of electromagnetic energy) is projected sideways, bounced off the central accumulator in a scalar way to produce the special EM drive thrust, which can sometimes create massive auroras in the sky, as people are seeing these days . . . Also the utron spins off aspects of a vortex torsion field as Townsend Brown considered a "downward hydrostatic" flow according to his hand-drawn sketch above that came from his historic notes. The LAU-X4 is FAR MORE Efficient than the OTC-X1, but would not work without the OTC-X1. It is hard to tell if the vacuum force upon the central accumultor or from it, reversing the direction of plasma flow along the hull (if the vertical impeller spins up or down) is the real solution, so both solutions will have to be considered until test results show which way is more efficient. Taking in consideration the success of Townsend Brown electrogravity in the atmosphere, and in the vacuum of space in such engines as the EM drive and the Cannae drive, along with the mass-reduction negative energy field provided by the OTC-X1 and conductively induced along the Outer Ring (the OTC-X1 was proven in the past), then the physics and design are pretty solid at this point. Several entirely different styles of electrogravity craft can be designed and constructed from these physics, too. It DOES SEEM much more powerful using dynamic hull flow with the impeller spinning upward, since there is more surface area along the hull to exert a force (internalized or externalized) which also takes a right-angled change of vector through a movement of exotic matter-plasma, which must be considered. If electrogravity is to be properly understood, it must be understood as a movement, and causing a movement of spacetime, "curving" spacetime as Einstein would consider it; movement is achieved from the other event of the paradox. The rapid vector shift of dynamic flow from the outer ring back to the OTC-X1 also would illustrate how energy squeezes the ship forward, like how one squeezes one end of a pumpkin seed and it shoots out of their fingers. Trying to pull the entire surface area of the upper hull down through its center to the central accumulator would meet some horrible resistance, whereas resistance slows a ship, preventing it from reaching the speed of light. Electrogravity must act in the way of the White-Alcubierre warp drive dynamics, causing a compression upon the spacetime in front of a craft and expanding it out the back, which the impeller flow of bottom to top would demonstrate this dynamic, just the same way that Townsend Brown demonstrated this dynamic. It is the scalar curving of space and time, which is what the airframe / hull shape achieves that moves a ship through the substance of space. The vertical impeller pushing force up compresses the spacetime frequency upon the top, at the output conductor (Tesla toroid), tying into the outer hull, creating a field effect of a bubble rather than a beam effect through the center, ignoring the hull altogether. No airplane flies from just a propeller, but also must have its wings. In any case, this is the nature of the beast, so to speak. How is it creating that gravity pocket that the ship falls into, and is that gravity pocket a dynamic force, or a smaller concentrated force just above the center of the top of the ship? It's going to do one or the other. One way will be more efficient, also. This AT LEAST qualifies the LAU-X4 in it's final design state, as a finished concept. In fact, this may work out not as a conflict, but as a flight mode ! The impeller flow down to the central accumulator could be slow "trolling motor" speed, whereas flowing up can be the fast light-drive speed... OR ... Vice Versa! Those are further advances upon already what is however, and would require a little more engineering to work that vertical impeller properly, but these are the essentials. From just the core design, all the rest can be derived, and can be always evolving... just like a good martial arts system! ... and it wouldn't do anyone any good if folks didn't have at least something to work with, because that is how new ideas come forward as evolutions of older ideas; just as the LAU-X4 has come forward, the crafts afterwards would be more advanced. That and, good physics are not built around solving problems, but upon further evolutions of the questions, that solutions come as a by-product of shooting for the highest goals, but not becoming trapped in the pursuit of them, but having a completion point which is the spark that sets the motor into overunity internal-generating. Considering the force from the impeller: Since tests in a vacuum have seen movement using the Tesla / Townsend Brown style plating, then accelerating that movement may exponentially raise that force, using Newtonian laws of motion. This does seem to parallel the concept of the Cannae electrical space drive, in that the plate materials when charged induces movement. I would say that the air pressure of the engine core would have to be just enough to form a plasma through the high volt negative energy -- at that equilibrium, to match force with force, electrogravitationally. The air flow can also be of a monoatomic hyrdrogen, of which monatomics do demonstrate exotic matter properties. It would become a superconductive exotic matter plasma flow at that point. Maneuvering the ship by counter-charging hull sections upon sections of moving matter-plasma, is similar to how John Searl maneuvered his craft, by shunting the charge along one side of the outer hull, so that the craft traveled in the direction of the charged hull section. This would affect maneuvering at high speeds, allowing for it, whereas before it was not thought it could be obtained ... That is to say at high speeds, the ship can turn on a dime. As a bonus, I edited/updated the "Promise Revealed" article on the bottom of the General blog page, which was unreadable before (I know I really messed up some articles pretty good before I figured things out right) ... so here's the link to TONS OF PHOTOS, A HUMONGOUS RESOURCE of the: Secret Space Programs PHOTO GALLERY ---> http://thepromiserevealed.com/secret-technology-photo-gallery/ ... for your viewing enjoyment ... writing service online link I find it hard when something is connected with Physics. When I was still a student, I was also having a hard time understanding the lesson simply because I didn't grow up loving complicated things. Of course, I also tried several times to love it, but perhaps it is not really for me. There are so many reason why I find this article hard to achieve. But still, I am thankful that you had this one posted here. This is indeed a new knowledge for some people who read this article! 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__label__wiki	0.585634	0.585634	NW Iowa artist painting murals for American Legion Karol Holton By - Associated Press - Monday, March 3, 2014 MERRILL, Iowa (AP) - An artist in the small northwest Iowa city of Merrill says she’s trying to display her love of family and country in four patriotic murals she’s painting for the local American Legion. Karol Holton is painting four murals for the Legion’s meeting room in Merrill, a Plymouth County community of 750 people just south of Le Mars. Holton tells the Le Mars Daily Sentinel (https://bit.ly/1dgOE2h) that after Legion members asked her to paint the mural, she thought about what she wanted the paintings to reflect. She settled on “The Four Seasons of Patriotism.” The work will feature a full sunset scene of soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima, a winter scene from Arlington National Cemetery, a spring image of Memorial Day and a Fourth of July theme for summer. Information from: Daily Sentinel, https://www.lemarssentinel.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2795
__label__wiki	0.772004	0.772004	D-Day Anniversary in Pictures D Day anniversary photo Join the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as they mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings... Seventy years ago today, Normandy’s beaches were a battlefield. Supreme Allied Commander, General Eisenhower had given the go ahead for an early morning amphibious raid, made up of 175,000 Alllied troops and more than 5,000 ships, that would catch the Germans unaware and change the course of the war. By 6pm when Churchill addressed Parliament, the Allies were already well on their way to liberating France thanks to the daring assault. Today, the beaches on the Northern French coast will fall silent as veterans, world leaders and royal dignitaries reflect. Join them as we pay tribute to those who risked their lives in the pursuit of freedom. Many of whom who never came home… Click or tap to zoom into this image This is an image 1 of 18 A personal tribute Commemorations are currently under way in Normandy to mark the seven decades. French Prime Minister Francois Hollande attended a service near Bayeux with US President Barack Obama. He described the 6 June 1994 as a day that 'changed the world' while President Obama said American commitment to liberty was 'written in blood' on the beaches. The Queen has also been paying tribute to the fallen. She laid a wreath at the Commonwealth war graves cemetery nearby. The Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for a very moving morning in France. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to arrive shortly for the rest of the day's events. Earlier today, veterans gathered on the beaches that they fought to liberate one last time. Posing for pictures It's been a busy day already for veterans and visiting dignitaries, with events happening all over Normandy. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will now attend a rememberance ceremony at the Juno Beach Centre, while the Queen joins President Obama and other world leaders at the beach codenamed 'Sword'. An engagement in Paris Today might be the official anniversary of the D-Day landings, but there have been week long commemorations in France. The Queen joined French Prime Minister Francois Hollande in Paris at the beginning of her state visit to pay tribute to the country's war dead and meet veterans of the conflict. Laying a wreath While Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall laid a wreath at Pegasus Bridge in Normandy, where British soldiers touched down on gliders to begin the invasion just after midnight on 6th June 1944. His heartfelt message read: 'In ever-grateful remembrance of your service and sacrifice, Charles.' A quick photo The couple posed for a photograph with veterans and serving soldiers to mark the occasion as the sun shone. A real hero Eighty-nine year old veteran, Jock Hutton, marked the anniversary by reliving his D-Day experience. He parachuted in to the same field he landed in seventy years ago. A royal thank you This time, Prince Charles was on the ground to express his gratitude to Jock for his bravery as he touched down. An easier landing Once he was back on the ground, Jock spoke of the pressure his parachute regiment was under on the day. 'We left the aircraft at about 500 feet - nine of us in each aircraft', he told Sky News. '(We) smashed into the ground ... we had a task to do, that was foremost in our minds. 'You couldn't just reach the ground and sit on your backside. Our main task was to liberate Ranville, which we did before first light.' This is an image 10 of 18 Taking a moment to reflect The commemorations are filled with personal stories. The Duchess of Cornwall pauses on Juno Beach to chat with a veteran. Remembering their sacrifices For many former soldiers, today holds great poignance as it will be the last time they honour their fallen comrades by traveling to Normandy. Paying tribute Those who attended the wreath laying at Pegasus Bridge were also treated to a fly past by spitfires painted in the black and white stripes of D-Day. On the south coast The last surviving veterans gathered on this side of the Channel too for a ceremony in Portsmouth yesterday, marking the preparations made by the British troops to invade Nazi-occupied France on the day before the assault. Princess Anne in Portsmouth Princess Anne presided over proceedings, taking the salute and chatting with those who experienced the event first hand. A sombre affair Between 2,500 and 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives on the beaches in Normandy. Many of whom were British. Showing our affection Southsea played host to a spectacular Red Arrows display yesterday as crowds flocked to the beach to relive a momentous day in history. A very British tribute in the skies over the English Channel, as the Red Arrows smoke turned red, white and blue. Re-enacting a momentous occasion Portsmouth and Southsea beach were the depature points for troops headed to Sword Beach in Normandy. Yesterday, the Royal Marines staged a similar landing on the south coast to show spectators just how difficult that day was. Weekly horoscope: Monday 15th July – Sunday 21st July Harper Beckham is Victoria’s ‘double’ in adorable new Spice Girls post Serena Williams praises pal Meghan Markle for ‘always being positive’ Credit: Celtic Manor Resort Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall stun fans by belting out 80s classic at golf bash Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Virgin Holidays are offering ‘Divorce Packages’ Meghan Markle received this sweet gift for Archie at The Lion King premiere Who lives at Kensington Palace and what’s it really like inside?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2811
__label__wiki	0.940471	0.940471	Sheridan Smith Makes A Triumphant Return To The Stage After Time Away Due To Illness Sheridan Smith Funny Girl ‘Mesmerising’, ‘a triumph’ and ‘pure comic perfection’ are just some of glowing reports of Sheridan Smith’s acting in West End show Funny Girl. And Sheridan gave arguably her best performance yet, as she finally returned to the stage as the enchanting Fanny Brice at the Wales Millennium Center. After pulling out of her nationwide tour when she developed mumps, Sheridan had entrusted her beloved role of Fanny Brice to understudy Natasha Barnes, who previously received critical acclaim as an alternate to Sheridan on the West End. Initially it was unclear whether Sheridan would be reprising the role, and Wales Millennium Centre had previously stated on their website: ‘The producers of Funny Girl cannot guarantee the appearance of any particular artist, which is always subject to illness and holidays.’ However, fans were thrilled to see Sheridan back and taking centre stage in the production this week. Her performance at Wales Millennium Centre was a called a triumph, captivating the audience, and earning the actress a standing ovation at the close of her performance. [twitter]https://twitter.com/avaplowright/status/882502081801854976[/twitter] [twitter]https://twitter.com/ZoeLAdams/status/882357994507444225[/twitter] [twitter]https://twitter.com/FunnyGirl_UK/status/882347661361328130[/twitter] Now, back on her feet and back on the stage after time away, the actress reportedly can’t wait for more fans across the country to experience the show first hand. just really looking forward to bringing a show I love to people who might not have been able to make it to London,” she says. “I think it’s really important for theatre to look outwards and not just be centred round London.” “Fanny Brice was a woman ahead of her time,” says Sheridan. “She broke the mould for female entertainers at a time when it was predominantly male performers. “Not only that, she was a brilliant comic. Her lack of vanity made her unique and very special. “I love researching each character. When you’re playing real life characters, you can prepare for the role more thoroughly: you can research the back story, find examples of how your character behaved, how they thought, moved and even spoke.” Credit: PA Wire/PA Images NHS teams up with Amazon to make your Alexa your new GP This cleansing skincare device that sold out in minutes on Amazon last year will soon be in the sale Duchess of Cambridge took George and Charlotte on a fun day trip to kick off their summer holidays THIS is how often over 50s are having sex, according to a new study The brush that broke the internet is back for good so you can finally get your hands on one Lorraine Kelly's stunning lilac dress costs just £40 - get it here Heartbreaking news for Princess Anne as her mother-in-law passes away	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2812
__label__cc	0.591128	0.408872	South America/ Suriname/ Where is Suriname Where is Suriname? Location of Suriname on a map. What is the capital of Suriname? Located in the continent of South America, Suriname covers 156,000 square kilometers of land and 7,820 square kilometers of water, making it the 92nd largest nation in the world with a total area of 163,820 square kilometers. Suriname became an independent state in 1975, after gaining its sovereignty from the Netherlands. The population of Suriname is 560,157 (2012) and the nation has a density of 4 people per square kilometer. The currency of Suriname is the Surinam Dollar (SRD). As well, the people of Suriname are refered to as Surinamese. The dialing code for the country is 597 and the top level internet domain for Surinamese sites is .sr. Suriname shares land borders with 3 countries: French Guiana, Guyana, Brazil. To learn more, visit our detailed Suriname section. Density 3.6 / km2 ( 9.3 / mi2 ) Language Dutch Independence Year 1975 Capital Paramaribo (Paramaribo) Currency Surinam Dollar GDP 5,298,787,879 (2013 data) GDP per Capita 9,459 (2013 data) Land Area 156,000 km2 (60,232 mi2) Water Area 7,820 km2 (3,019 mi2) Neighbouring Countries Guyana, Brazil Minimum Longitude -58.080 Maximum Longitude -53.980 Mininum Latitude 1.840 Maximum Latitude 6.020 Location of Paramaribo on a map. Paramaribo is the capital city of Suriname. It has a population of 223,757, and is located on a latitue of 5.87 and longitude of -55.17. Paramaribo is also the political center of Suriname, which is considered a Republic, and home to its Executive head of state. Quick Facts About Paramaribo, the Capital Of Suriname City Paramaribo Country Suriname Longitude -55.16682000 Latitude 5.86638000 Elevation 5 meters over sea level Most popular cities in Suriname #1 Paramaribo 223,757 This page was last updated on March 23, 2018. Nearby Countries Featured On WorldAtlas	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2816
__label__wiki	0.795338	0.795338	Oral Transmission of L-Type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Agent among Cattle Hiroyuki Okada , Yoshifumi Iwamaru, Morikazu Imamura, Kohtaro Miyazawa, Yuichi Matsuura, Kentaro Masujin, Yuichi Murayama, and Takashi Yokoyama Author affiliations: National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Ibaraki, Japan To determine oral transmissibility of the L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) prion, we orally inoculated 16 calves with brain homogenates of the agent. Only 1 animal, given a high dose, showed signs and died at 88 months. These results suggest low risk for oral transmission of the L-BSE agent among cattle. The epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle is thought to be caused by oral infection through consumption of feed containing the BSE agent (prion). Since 2003, different neuropathologic and molecular phenotypes of BSE have been identified as causing ≈110 cases of atypical BSE worldwide, mainly in aged cattle. Although the etiology and pathogenesis of atypical BSE are not yet fully understood, atypical BSE prions possibly cause sporadic cases of BSE (1). The L-type BSE (L-BSE) prion has been experimentally transmitted to cattle by intracerebral challenge, and the incubation period was is shorter than that for classical BSE (C-BSE) prions (2–6). The origin of transmissible mink encephalopathy in ranch-raised mink is thought to be caused by ingestion of L-BSE–infected material (7). Although L-BSE has been orally transmitted to mouse lemurs (8), it remains to be established whether L-BSE can be transmitted to cattle by oral infection. We therefore investigated the transmissibility of L-BSE by the oral route and tissue distribution of disease-associated prion protein (PrPSc) in cattle. All experiments involving animals were performed with the approval of the Animal Ethical Committee and the Animal Care and Use Committee of the National Institute of Animal Health (approval nos. 07–88 and 08–010). We divided a group of 16 Holstein female calves, 3–5 months of age, into 4 groups of 2–6 animals each. Each group of calves was orally administered 1 g (n = 4), 5 g (n = 6), 10 g (n = 4), or 50 g (n = 2) of pooled whole-brain homogenate prepared from cattle experimentally infected with L-BSE (3,6) (Table). The endpoint titer of the pooled brain homogenate assayed in bovinized transgenic (TgBoPrP) mice was 106.9 of 50% lethal dose/g tissue (data not shown). As noninfected controls, 3 female calves were obtained at 3–4 months of age and euthanized at 60, 92, and 103 months of age, and samples were analyzed as for the experimental animals. At 88 months after inoculation, 1 of the animals (91 months of age) that had received 50 g of L-BSE–infected brain homogenate was unable to get up. The animal extended her forelimbs and hind limbs rigidly forward but did not show persistent knuckling of her fetlock; she did not have difficulty eating and drinking. Seven days after appearance of clinical signs, the animal was found dead, having shown no characteristic signs of L-BSE, such as dullness, lowering of the head, and overreactivity to external stimuli, which had previously been observed after intracerebral inoculation of animals under experimental conditions (4). Figure 1. Western blot analysis of proteinase K–resistant disease-associated prion protein (PrPSc) in tissue samples obtained from a cow at 88 months after oral inoculation with brain homogenate of L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy... Figure 2. Immunohistochemical detection of disease-associated prion protein (PrPSc) in a cow at 88 months after oral inoculation with brain homogenate of L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent. A) Low amount of PrPSc deposition... Histopathologic examination of tissues from this animal revealed minimal or mild spongiform changes of the gray matter neuropil in the thalamic and brainstem nuclei; however, these changes were not visible in the cerebral and cerebellar cortices, the olfactory bulb, or the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve at the obex. Higher amounts of proteinase K–resistant PrPSc, analyzed by Western blotting with monoclonal antibody T2 (9), were detected in the thalamus, brainstem, cerebellum, spinal cord, and retina (Figure 1, lanes 8–16; Figures 2, panels A, B), whereas PrPSc accumulation was lower in the cerebral cortices and the olfactory bulb (Figure 1, lanes 1–6). The molecular characteristics of proteinase K–resistant PrPSc, such as the molecular weight and the glycoform profile in the brain of the animal, were identical to those observed in the inoculum. The most conspicuous PrPSc finding, obtained by using immunohistochemistry with monoclonal antibody F99/97.6.1 (VMRD, Pullman, WA, USA), was fine and coarse granular deposits in the neuropil of the thalamus, brainstem, and gray matter of the spinal cord, and in the retina. Perineuronal PrPSc staining was conspicuous in the large neurons of the thalamic and brainstem nuclei (Figure 2, panel C) but less common in other brain areas. Fewer PrPSc deposits were dispersed in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve at the obex (Figure 2, panel A). No amyloid plaques were detectable in any brain section. In the extracerebral tissues, PrPSc was lower in most of the samples from the nerve ganglia (trigeminal, dorsal root, stellate, cervical cranial, nodose, and celiac and mesenteric), cauda equina, vagal nerve, optic nerve, neurohypophysis, ocular muscle, and adrenal medulla (Figure 1, lanes 17–33; Figures 2, panels D–H). However, no PrPSc signal was detected in most of the somatic nerve fibers (Figure 1, lanes 25, 26, 29, 30), the enteric nervous system (Figure 1, lanes 32, 33), and any lymphoid organs including the remaining Peyer’s patches (data not shown). The only other animal inoculated with 50 g of L-BSE brain material was alive and clinically healthy as of postinoculation month 94 (December 2016). Calves that received 1 g, 5 g, or 10 g of L-BSE brain tissues showed no clinical signs of BSE and were euthanized and underwent necropsy 51–86 months after inoculation (Table). For all of these animals and the uninfected controls, PrPSc results were negative by Western blot and immunohistochemical analysis. Our results suggest that the risk for oral transmission of L-BSE among cattle may be very low; after 88 months, the only case of transmission occurred in a cow that had been inoculated with a high dose of L-BSE–infected brain homogenate. The incubation period was much longer for cattle dosed orally with L-BSE–infected brain homogenate than for cattle dosed orally with C-BSE–infected tissue (34−74 mo for C-BSE) (10). This finding may suggest that the L-BSE prion requires much longer to propagate from the gut to the central nervous system. In addition, the lack of clinical signs, except for difficulty in rising, may present a genuine clinical picture of L-BSE under natural conditions (11). In most cases of naturally occurring atypical BSE identified so far, the animals were >8 years of age, except for 3 cases: 1 H-BSE and 1 L-BSE in Spain (1) and 1 H-BSE in Germany (12). Therefore, we cannot exclude the possibility that L-BSE developed sporadically/spontaneously. However, this case may not have naturally occurred, in view of the low prevalence of L-BSE in Japan during October 2001–August 2016, which was 0.065 cases/1 million tested adult animals. In our study, the remaining live animal, challenged with 50 g of L-BSE brain homogenate, will provide the further information about the oral transmissibility to cattle. Bioassays of brain samples in TgBoPrP mice are ongoing. The neuroanatomical PrPSc distribution pattern of orally challenged cattle differed somewhat from that described in cattle naturally and intracerebrally challenged with L-BSE (2–6,11,13,14), The conspicuous differences between the case we report and cases of natural and experimental infection are 1) higher amounts of PrPSc in the caudal medulla oblongata and the spinal cord coupled with that in the thalamus and the more rostral brainstem and 2) relatively low amounts of PrPSc in the cerebral cortices and the olfactory bulb. Furthermore, fewer PrPSc deposits in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve may indicate that the parasympathetic retrogressive neuroinvasion pathway does not contribute to transport of the L-BSE prion from the gut to the brain, which is in contrast to the vagus-associated transport of the agent in C-BSE (15). PrPSc accumulation in the extracerebral tissues may be a result of centrifugal trafficking of the L-BSE prion from the central nervous system along somatic or autonomic nerve fibers rather than centripetal propagation of the agent (4,6,9). Consumption of L-BSE–contaminated feed may pose a risk for oral transmission of the disease agent to cattle. Dr. Okada is a veterinary pathologist and chief researcher at the National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Ibaraki, Japan. His research focuses on the pathogenesis of animal prion diseases in ruminants as natural hosts and in experimentally infected animals. We thank Naoko Tabeta, Naomi Furuya, Junko Yamada, Ritsuko Miwa, Noriko Shinozaki, and the animal caretakers for their expert technical assistance. 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__label__cc	0.524872	0.475128	Trump Kills His Administration’s Plan to End Secret Drug Rebates Aura Wants to Take Its $150M and Stock a Consumer Cybersecurity Toolbox Nestlé Sells Gut-Health Test Maker Prometheus Labs, Layoffs Expected Topcon Scoops Up Digi-Star To Grow ‘Precision Agriculture’ Business 3 Tips to Boost Security, Trust With Increasingly Remote Workforce With Yale Tech and $12M, Artizan Aims for Root Cause of Gut Disease Aziz Gilani C. Titus Brown Professor, Michigan State University Kendall Square’s New Rules Tim Rowe @rowe With the events surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing last week, I have found it difficult to think about much else. Xconomy had previously invited me to write about the upcoming transformation MIT is bringing to Kendall Square. When it came time to sit down and write this piece, my first reaction was to pass. But my second reaction was: why? Hey, this is the kind of stuff we should be focused on: strengthening our community and finding ways to do a better job innovating solutions to the world’s problems. So it was very exciting for me earlier this month when the Cambridge City Council voted to approve a landmark set of rules that govern how Kendall Square will grow in the future. These rules will have far-reaching consequences for Kendall Square, but also will serve as a blueprint for other tech clusters around the world. It is not a surprise that the Wall Street Journal saw fit to cover these changes: the world is watching. For readers not familiar with the area, Kendall Square sits at the epicenter of the Massachusetts innovation economy. Massachusetts boasts a lot of venture capital investment—more than California on a per capita basis. So it is saying a lot when you hear that fully a third of that is invested in the small town of Cambridge. And most of that in invested in this little neighborhood of Cambridge called Kendall Square. Kendall Square is undoubtedly the highest-density cluster of innovation on the planet. (Yes, California has more VC investment overall, but nowhere as dense as the blocks around MIT.) The new rules were proposed to the city by MIT. What did they ask for? Some of the elements are pretty standard. A part of this was simply a university requesting permission to build office towers on a part of its campus where it had asphalt parking lots. Another more significant change reflects the changing psychology of the modern research institution. Historically MIT’s “front door” has always been 77 Mass Ave: a building facing… more of MIT itself. MIT was, and to some is, an island—as is the case with many of the world’s leading research institutions. But MIT is also famous for its thirst for applying its inventions. In the past decades, the area around MIT, much of it once parking lots, has become synonymous with the notion of an “innovation cluster.” Large numbers of rapidly growing tech, life sciences, and energy companies now crowd tightly around the school. The result is an emerging model for how to do innovation right: creating density and intensity of commercial activity around a scientific institution. Has this worked? Here’s one measure: a BCG study showed that MIT has nearly five times the concentration of startups around it as Stanford does. Underscoring the importance of the symbiosis of research university and innovation cluster, MIT plans now to build a new, 21st century “front door” at the Kendall Square subway station, facing the center of Kendall Square. When property owners ask for the right to build bigger buildings, there is traditionally a negotiation that takes place with the surrounding community in which the community’s needs are considered, and various accommodations are made. Perhaps a park is built, or a jobs-training program is created. Reading the list of the accommodations that are negotiated in a given project is a means of peering into the soul of a community at a particular point in time. It says something about our values as a community. So what was in MIT’s list? There are indeed park-building and job-training programs contained therein. Importantly, local retail got a nod, with a commitment to have substantial amounts of retail space along with a rule that at least half of that may only be leased to local, non-chain operators. This reflects a growing sense that innovation clusters must be “livable” and that an important part of being livable is being hip, creative, and local. Housing also got a major nod, with the creation of hundreds of new housing units, including some of the trendy new “micro-housing” that is seen as a market-based cure for the climbing cost of housing. Housing and retail go together. They are the building blocks of creating life and energy in a neighborhood. Modern, sustainable transportation—better walking, biking and public transit options—and green buildings are also widely seen as key elements for drawing innovators to an area. So, not surprisingly, the petition requires all the new buildings will meet the LEED Gold standard. And MIT committed to work to resolve an old logjam that has prevented the creation of a bike path along a tantalizingly well-placed railway right of way that runs through Kendall Square: the old Grand Junction Railroad. Notwithstanding all of the above great things, what has really made this new set of Kendall Square rules front-page reading is the requirement to set aside a meaningful portion of the new space for startups—a provision widely seen as a first in the nation. Zoning law has long enshrined the notion of setting aside space for certain categories of use that are important to a community, such as housing and retail. What this zoning does, for the first time, is to explicitly embrace startup space as one of those categories which must be planned for and protected to ensure the healthy overall neighborhood. This provision implicitly acknowledges the innovation lifecycle: an invention or discovery occurs, often at a major university; a small startup spins out, often led by a graduate student with a professor lending a hand; that startup locates as close as possible to the university with a team splitting their time between school and the new project; eventually angel investors and VCs get involved, injecting financial resources that allow the startup to grow and mature; eventually a few of these become an Akamai, Biogen, or Google. These winners create thousands of high-paying jobs and solve problems to the betterment of all. Specifically, the proposal requires that 5 percent of all new office space be set aside as “innovation space,” defined as … Next Page » Xconomist Tim Rowe is Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center. Follow @rowe Why Teenagers Make Great Entrepreneurs East Coast Silicon Valley Immigrants Are the Best of Humanity and the Strength of Our Nation 5 responses to “Kendall Square’s New Rules” @energycleantech Sahir Surmeli says: Thanks for the summary, Tim. Great to see innovation recognized as an important part of our culture that enriches the local comunity. Also – hats off for the requriements for local retail. MITDGreenb says: Well done… and well-written… Tim! reality check says: I think is sucks. The politicians get money behind closed doors while we get more traffic, pollution, flooding, loss of wildlife habitat, noise, headaches, and a bunch of potential terrorists. Great work building without the proper infrastructure. Tim, in 10 years time I went from living on a quiet peaceful street to living in a traffic congested, noise and pollution infested hell hole. Can you tell me what is being done to offset the complete destruction of my quality of life? Very little is the correct answer. I am not able to be outside my home on Third Street for three hours each day due to the traffic backups and pollution. Kendall Square looks pretty but creates something that smells like shit. Excuse my vulgarity, but this is what Kendall Square means to me. Common Sense says: Put your start up elsewhere and you will be able to attract employees for less money and if you have a good product, you will succeed just as well as you can in Cambridge. For those who have commuted into that mess, a chance to work elsewhere is quite welcome. The idea of spending and hour an a half to drive 20 miles is nauseating. Well written, but you really didn’t provide anything to say why a cash strapped startup should spend the money to be in Cambridge.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2823
__label__cc	0.575595	0.424405	East Africa Destinations Lodges & Hotels The Serengeti is one of the oldest ecosystems on the planet, with little having changed here in a million years. Serengeti Safaris Why Travel Here This question seems almost rhetorical in the case of the Serengeti. As Tanzania’s most renowned national park, it’s practically a necessary inclusion in all Tanzania safaris. Much of its reputation rests on the incredible spectacle that is the annual migration, but the Serengeti is far from being a one-trick painted donkey. Serengeti National Park is just one part of the wider Serengeti ecosystem (which also includes Ngorongoro Crater and Grumeti Game Reserve) and itself covers almost 15,000km2. The southern Serengeti, with its endless, treeless plains studded with rocky granite outcrops (or koppies) is quintessential East Africa, and has done more to shape the safari experience in the popular imagination than anywhere else. Witnessing the Great Wildebeest Migration is arguably the most compelling reason to visit the Serengeti, but it’s by no means the only one. Even when the herds have moved on, less peripatetic, resident wildlife can still put on quite a show. The fact that many Maasai continue to practice their traditional herding lifestyle in this area means that authentic, respectful cultural encounters are also possible. As Tanzania’s oldest protected area, the Serengeti has an advanced (but unobtrusive) luxury lodge infrastructure in place, including both fixed and mobile camps. Through The Year Deciding when to visit the Serengeti is often as much about the migration (more of a continuous cycle than a specific event) as it is about the climate. Of course, the two are linked – the herds essentially follow the rains and the fresh green grass they provoke. The climate of the Serengeti in turn largely follows the established East African seasonal pattern, with pairs of seasons (wet and dry, one each) grouped by length. June to October This is undoubtedly peak season in the Serengeti, as they promise lots of migration-related drama. During these months the herds head through the Western Corridor and the northern Serengeti before entering the Masai Mara. The hazardous river crossings en route go a long way towards explaining the popularity of the long dry season with travellers, with the cooler, drier weather also playing a part. Vegetation visibly recedes before the advancing herds, making wildlife easier to see. The shorter of the year’s two rainy seasons sees the herds begin to retrace their steps, moving southwards from Kenya’s Masai Mara and into the northern Serengeti. This part of the national park is dominated by open woodland, and truly comes alive with the rains, as a green flush welcomes the wildebeest back to Tanzania. It’s appreciated not just by the returning herds, but also by the relatively low numbers of travellers who come at this time. December to March The green hues of November begin to fade, and water is at a premium. The southern Serengeti offers an incredible experience as the year turns: the opportunity to be a witness to hundreds of daily births as the wildebeest pause their otherwise ceaseless wandering to attend to the urgent business of maternity. Dry weather and the prospect of intense – if gory – wildlife action as predators take their toll on the new antelope make this a rewarding safari season. April & May The longer rains see the herds and their young migrate northwards through the central Serengeti towards the western Serengeti. Canny safari-goers who have correctly deduced that the high likelihood of afternoon showers is a small price to pay for sharing the Serengeti with fewer other humans will head there too. 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__label__wiki	0.848923	0.848923	LAURIER EXPERT ALERT: BACK-TO-SCHOOL WATERLOO – Ontario students head back to school on Sept. 8. The following Laurier experts are available to comment on a variety of topics related to back-to-school: Julie Mueller, associate professor in Laurier’s Faculty of Education, is an expert on developmental psychology, elementary education, technology in the classroom, teacher education and mobile technology in education. Contact information: 519-572-0092 or jmueller@wlu.ca. Eileen Wood, professor in Laurier’s Department of Psychology, is an expert on developmental psychology, cognitive development, technology in the classroom and sex education. Contact information: 519-884-0710 x3738 or ewood@wlu.ca. Christine Neill, associate professor in Laurier’s Department of Economics, is an expert on the economics of education and Canadian higher education policy. Contact information: 519-884-0710 x2469 or cneill@wlu.ca. David Johnson, professor in Laurier’s Department of Economics, is an expert on the economics of education, school testing and quality, and access to postsecondary education. Contact information: djohnson@wlu.ca. Steve Sider, assistant professor in Laurier’s Faculty of Education, is an expert on special education, inclusive schools, educational leadership and international education. Contact information: 519-884-0710 x2832 or ssider@wlu.ca. Gamification in Schools Scott Nicholson, professor in Laurier’s Game Design and Development program and director of the Brantford Games Network and the BGNlab, is an expert on gamification and game-based learning. He also works in game creation, game jams and Escape Rooms in schools. Contact information: scott.nicholson@wlu.ca. Kevin Crowley, Director T: 519.884.0710 x3070 E: kcrowley@wlu.ca	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2830
__label__wiki	0.683432	0.683432	Front Porch Punditry » The Woodshed » Politics With an Attitude » Had enough yet? » The Latest: Flags on National Cathedral windows targeted spoiler are hidden (show) #1 The Latest: Flags on National Cathedral windows targeted by Cincinnatus 26.06.2015 01:29 This is approaching the level of a mania all out of proportion to the stimulating event. "The dean of Washington National Cathedral is calling for the removal of stained-glass windows that depict the Confederate battle flag. The Very Rev. Gary Hall issued a statement Thursday saying windows in the church honoring Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. Robert E. Lee should be removed. Both windows depict the Confederate flag. The cathedral installed the windows in 1953. Hall says the cathedral's leadership at the time thought recognition for the Confederate leaders would foster reconciliation. But Hall says celebrating the lives of the Confederate generals and flag now does not promote healing or reconciliation, especially for African-Americans. Hall says the Confederate flag has become the primary symbol of white supremacy." http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article...p#photo-8212709 #2 RE: The Latest: Flags on National Cathedral windows targeted by Sanguine 26.06.2015 09:12 It will not end with the Northern Virginia battle flag, nor will it end with the Jefferson monument. EVERYTHING American will be targeted. #3 RE: The Latest: Flags on National Cathedral windows targeted by algernonpj 26.06.2015 11:01 Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2 You are absolutely correct. Rush Limbaugh: The American flag is next By Nick Gass 6/24/15 7:00 AM EDT "The debate over the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina and elsewhere is not really about the banner itself, Rush Limbaugh says. And it won’t stop there, the radio host said during his show on Tuesday. One day, he said, what is happening to the rebel flag will come to pass for the American flag, too. To liberals, he added, the American flag “stands for the United States of America and, as such, everything that’s wrong with it. “The American flag has flown over a slave nation much longer than the Confederate flag did, folks. The American flag has flown over all kinds of atrocities,” Limbaugh told his listeners, calling the Confederate flag “business” an “all-out assault on what the left thinks is a last remaining enclave of solid Republican voters, and that is the South.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/ru...l#ixzz3eB7hItAe (Note: I would substitute constitutionalists for Republicans.) Farrakhan: I Don’t Get Debate Over Confederate Flag, ‘We Need to Put the American Flag Down’ by Ian Hanchett24 Jun 2015 Louis Farrakhan stated “We need to put the American flag down. Because we’ve caught as much hell under that as the Confederate flag” in remarks before the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, DC on Wednesday first reported by DC’s WMAL. Farrakhan said, “White folks march with you because they don’t want you upsetting the city, they don’t give a damn about them nine.” http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/2...ican-flag-down/ Karl Rove: Only Way To Stop The Violence Is To Repeal Second Amendment 9:53 AM 06/21/2015 :Republican strategist Karl Rove said on “Fox News Sunday” the only way to stop gun-related violence, like the Wednesday massacre at Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston S.C., was to repeal American citizens’ Second Amendment rights. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/21/karl-r.../#ixzz3eBEJAR3N The Collectivists have cleverly framed the shooting in Charleston by an evil demented young man as an indictment of traditional American culture, ethcs, and history. A clash between the culture and ethics of collectivists and individualists is being successfully presented a a clash between races. They have been waiting for an event like that. The script was written, the list of things to destroy have been double checked, and all it took was for one demented person to spring the trap. Create your own Forum with Xobor	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2843
__label__cc	0.503627	0.496373	Абилити :: Ясный форум > Ясная практика жизни: Нешкола > Ясный язык Тренинги Ясный язык The word is not the thing In recently playing with the word "linguistics," I found myself making this statement to someone: "The linguistics are not the semantics." Perhaps I made that statement to myself. I've long insisted, even before discovering general semantics, that I say or do things, but just because I say or do the things, I don't necessarily mean the things I've said or done. Hence, "the linguistics are not the semantics." However, more than overwhelmingly, I come up against the belief that things-said or things-done equal or indubitably-mean things-meant, even when such is obviously untrue. I've had a fascination with the seemingly "preposterous" concept that someone can commit murder or some such egregious crime and not have a motive. For example, all of the collected evidence may point to a specific motive for a crime, but it could possibly in the moment have been a thrill kill, a fake killing gone real, or some such manifestation that lies beyond the pattern of evidence before the investigators. The killer may have even had the intention to kill for financial reasons or jealousy reasons, but in the actual moment of the kill, could have just done it because he wanted to see the other guy's blood then and there, a fact that might not show in the evidence. I've run across this tendency toward equating linguistics with semantics repeatedly on another message board I used to frequent. I would say things, clearly to me intended as a joke or silliness, but several readers, whom I "knew" with a degree or so of real-life separation, would interpret what I wrote as something quite intentional. From a more g.s-perspective, these people seemed to react with certainty that what-they-heard must have been what-I-meant, even if there was really a disconnect between the two messages. Subsequently, these people would get very upset and accusatory and judgmental and and and, all seeming to be the result of interpretations THEY made without checking with me about what I MEANT beforehand. "Word was thing." I underscored my intentions strongly and repeatedly--that I'm a rather nice guy, mean very little harm, and rarely outright attack anyone else's perspective. I treat people with respect, even if it's seen or "heard" as otherwise--that the benefit of the doubt probably ought more often to lean toward me than away. Basically, "remember this before reacting strongly and negatively to something I write on that board, because it's more than likely a joke or a statement you don't get yet." Despite my underscoring this perspective, the certain attitudes that what-I-said equaled what-I-meant pretty much without exception spread amongst their friends (presumably with closer degrees of separation between them) on this message board I frequented. More recently, I decided to label the negative behavior directed toward me, particularly without provocation, akin to "hegemony," for people whom I'd never even met had these mean opinions of me and what I'd post on this message board that seemed to sprout more from the observed negative behavior of others toward me than from direct interaction with me. I got pretty depressed by the treatment, let me tell you! One of the more interesting tidbits about that board is it is frequented primarily by long-form improvisers. Long-form improvisers are essentially actors in that they perform scenes and play characters. And they joke a lot--saying charactery things, but obviously not truly meaning the things they said. So usually there is a disconnect between what they would say in their own lives in the context, and their characters' lives in the context of a scene onstage. I find the distinction between "character" and "player" (actor) fascinating, which eventually brings me back to the statement "The linguistics are not the semantics." The medium of the message board made it harder to understand the true intentions of the writer, when I was playing myself or playing a character-of-sorts. You may have had similar difficulty in communicating true intentions, say, in email or other electronic media, where sarcasm is made especially difficult to communicate without using agreed-upon emoticons (and even with those, someone can use them to mask true meaning). Friends tend to get sarcasm that strangers do not, likely because friends better understand your intentions rather than those who've had no contact with you. Time and again, a message board full of improvisers disappointed me that they couldn't recognize when I was "playing a character" (not really meaning/intending what I was saying) and when I was being myself (meaning what I was saying). I would repeat essentially "I did not mean what you interpreted" but such chants seemed to fall on deaf ears, or at least closed ones. To understand this dynamic better, you can look at a scene. A scene, be it traditional drama on the stage or screen or improvised in a comedy show, contains a conflict. In long-form improv you're coached to find the "game" of the scene. In the eyes of a game theorist, games parallel conflicts in structure so one might say that "game" and "conflict" are nearly synonymous concepts, but it would be quite aristotelian to say they are the same-in-all-respects. Games are more like metaphors for conflicts. And scenes are metaphors for real life, their characters metaphors for real people. We can look at the game of chess as a helpful metaphor/model for understanding a scene's structure as well as looking at the relationship between linguistics and semantics. In a game of chess, you have white and black. But you don't just have white and black; you also have the player operating white and the player operating black. So instead of one conflict going on in a game of chess (the conflict between white and black), you have another, somewhat "hidden" layer of conflict going on "simultaneously" (the conflict between the player operating white and the player operating black). Presumably, you may have additional layers of conflict going on--a player may behave one usual way when he's around his chess buddies, but this time he may also be tired from a lack of sleep, nutrition, sickness, etc., from a fight with his wife, co-workers, children, etc. These are essentially "conflicts/games he's playing out still" but may not be sharing with his chess buddies; however, they certainly affect his behavior to some degree. With at least two layers of conflict going on in a chess game, the chess game is not "just about" the conflict between the pieces; the players operating the pieces inform their conflict. They influence it. So you cannot separate the character and the player as the player informs and influences the character; to talk about the character without the player would be to abstract that which exists more intertwined. I developed terminology with the help of game theory to talk about these different layers when I coach long-form improv. "Character-game" refers to the conflict/game going on between white and black, the characters in a scene. "Player-game" refers to the conflict/game going on between the players operating the pieces, the characters. "Player-game" basically encompasses all issues in the lives of the player, from interpersonal issues inside the improv group to issues outside the improv group that might be bearing down on him in the moment (lack of sleep, family crises, etc.). "Character-game" encompasses just the here-and-now visible reality, behavior, movement, and what-was-said-and-done. In long-form improv, the character-game is the conflict going on between the characters, but just because the characters are conflicting doesn't mean the improvisers acting them are conflicting--more than likely, they're actually cooperating with each other while their characters are conflicting! Problems that do develop in the playing of the character-game often can be remedied by attitude adjustments in the player-game from a competitive mindset about the conflict to a cooperative mindset--changing how the players see the scene/conflict/game they're in a wee bit can change how they play their scenes drastically. All this talk for what reason? Well, there doesn't have to be one. :-) Actually, though, all this talk serves as other examples that there does not exist a strict 1:1 correspondence between what-one-says and what-one-means. That there does not exist a strict 1:1 correspondence between map and territory, player and chess side, player and character, "Freudian slip" and actual meaning, action and intention, etc. There can exist a disconnect. Words don't necessarily mean things. But a still common perception I've encountered in my life is that the linguistics "must" correspond with the semantics, that they're pretty much the same thing, that their difference is trivial. Sometimes people say in an argument "That's just semantics," when I think maybe they better mean "That's just linguistics." As simple as it is put, the statement "The word is not the thing" sometimes comes off confusingly to me. Do you find the statement "The linguistics are not the semantics" structurally similar, perhaps parallel in structure, to Korzybski's "The word is not the thing"? Might this alternate phrasing clarify issues more? Ben Hauck My own understanding of "The word is not the thing."parrallel's the opening verse in Lao Tzu's text "The Tao Te Ching" which reads: The Tao that can be spoken is not the Eternal Tao. To take Lao Tzu's verse and put it into Korzybski's phraseology it would be: The Word that can be spoken is not the Eternal Thing. Things = are human inventions of a word that is a pointer to some object/thing that is either pre-human or nonhuman [objects like trees,rocks, stars, etc that have existed before or without any human making, etc., things that have existed before or without any human making], and lastly things that are nonverbal human creations [objects that are human made but are the physical tangible thing, examples : pencils, books, television sets, computers, wires, any and all humanly made objects.] words= human linguistic spoken or written labels for any and all things humans have encountered or imagined. The word/linguistic label is not the same as the nonhuman/prehuman/nonverbal thing. This is what I understand Korzybski and Lao Tzu to be describing in their own way with their own phrases. Another example of the difference between word and thing is I beleive clearly shown when we use Lao Tzu's phrases: the Tao is his word for the Infinite Divine - whatever that maybe, and it is also his word for the label we humans give to the Infinite divine. Thus his phrase becomes : The name we humans give to the Infinite Divine [Jesus, Ayn Sof, YHVH, Allah, Brahman, Zues, Shiva, etc,]is not the same as the actual nonhuman reality of the Infinite Divine in all its manifest glory and being. The name and the human idea of the divine is not the same as the reality of the Infinite Divine. We humans made up many names to describe the Infinite Divine. Just as we humans have made up many linguistic labels for physical, immaterial, imagined, etc objects, things, events. Your "The linguistics are not the semantics." seems to be describing a different kind of mixing up of two things. Mixing an assumed meaning that the listener/reader has with the actual intended meaning that the speaker/writer had. You are correct that there is a disconnect often between the two. This is different than "the word is not the thing". Gary Jaron As you said, all this talk for what reason? There doesn't have to be one. Let me address the joke part where you have said something so completely off the wall that everyone should know it is a joke, and someone takes you seriously. I have embarrassed myself with that kind of situation, and had to explain what I meant. Really ruins the joke. Within the last week the Wall Street journal had an article about stroke victims who lost certain abilities, even though their intelligence seemed to remain. Then the article touched on the premise that a certain part of the brain must funtion properly for people to understand jokes, especially double entendre. Maybe you were dealing with brain damaged people. And as far as the word is not the thing, read about my experience with yogurt in the last Time-bindings. You would think I would have known better. Frank Gastner "Maybe you were dealing with brain damaged people." Ha! I doubt they would see themselves as such! I'm curious how the concept of player-game and character-game (real meaning and joke meaning) might look on the Structural Differential. Words point to things, yes, but what about when those words point to fictitious entities or processes (rather than misinterpreted entities/processes)? Unicorns and characters-we're-'playing' aren't exactly ideas abstracted from the territory ... « Предыдущая тема · Ясный язык · Следующая тема »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2847
__label__cc	0.708928	0.291072	...heroic hearts, /Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Ulysses - Lord Tennyson Seacily - Into the blue Pretty Cefalù, dominated by the Norman Duomo Even if I had any expectations, I have to admit Sicily went far beyond them, like in any other country that sits below a scorching sun, everything there borders the superlative. On the positive and the negative side, true, but exercising an irresistible attraction, maybe also because I have a weakness for ports and islands. We spent nine full days there without seeing a cloud. The sun makes things look brighter, but also blurred, their contours fading in the hot trembling air. A feast of colours and hard to bear heat. Beautiful sea, deep blue skies, the silhouette of Etna with its 3350m dominating it surroundings, delicious food - arguably the best ice cream on the planet, history, art and creativity beyond the wildest imagination. Who would believe there is such a thing as Arabian - Norman architecture? Or that the poets at Norman kings court in the XII century were Arabs, while the administrative language was still Greek, until the immigrants from the continent finally latinized the island? Sicily is more than a border between continents, it is a gate, an interstitial space where the richness of exchanges crosses over centuries reaching our time. Its history is as intricate as the Arab and Byzantine mosaics adorning its churches and cathedrals, as inexplicable as the amazing combination of architectural elements coming from all ages of art. An emirate, then a kingdom, or sitting under imperial powers, a pure mixture claiming its own identity of many cultures. Once part of Magna Graecia, now part of the Republic of Italy, still holding some autonomy, having its own legislative assembly. Sicani and Siculi to start with, then Phoenicians, Puns, Greeks, Romans (Archimedes got killed during the siege of Siracusa), Byzantines, Arabs, Normans (Hauteville/Altavilla) dynasty, even Swabians (Hohenstaufen), the French (Anjou/Angiò), the Aragonese, who brought Catalan as the court language, all ruling for not more than two centuries, fighting continuously for the power. When Aragon and Castilla were joined through marriage, Sicily became a feud of the Spanish Crown, for about three centuries and its sumptuous barocco art easily rivals the one of Spain and its other colonies. Even the Savoia and the Habsburg families took hold of this golden island, so Sicily finally chose to unify with the Kingdom of Naples under los Borbones, a family of French descent that got to rule half of Europe. Detail from La Martorana church All these different nations left their mark on the food, the architecture, the arts, the lifestyle. So traveling there is like taking a trip with a time machine that's also able to overcome space constrictions. Churches and palaces mixing Arab and Byzantine mosaics and cupulas, Romanesque structure and Baroque paintings and marble intarsia. For gourmets without prejudices - calf spleen sandwiches - pani ca meusa or roast intestines of sheep or goat - stigghiola. For seafood amateurs like me - all kinds of fish and shrimps, plus sea urchins, oysters, small conchs and a variety of seashells, ranging from well known mussels to razor clams - cannolichi and big clams - fasolari, culminating with the calamari ink pasta, as delicious as unattractive. A lot of almond paste sweets, including marzipan fruits (frutta di Martorana) and the famous cassata, or pastries filled with fig and citrus jams. I had a delicious watermelon thick jelly flavoured with jasmine and sprinkled with pistachio bits. Pasticceria Scimone in Palermo The first two evenings we went to a symphonic concert at Palazzo Chiaromonte or Steri, then a jazz concert in the garden of the ruined Santa Maria dello Spasimo in the Kalsa district. We were lucky enough to be there in time Wednesday for the Santa Rosalia day, the patron saint of Palermo, extended sometimes to the whole of the island. Beside a popular music and theatre show in the courtyard of Theatre Ditirammu we admired the whole procession through Via Vittorio Emmanuele, made of about 40 colourful caretti siciliani carried by heavily adorned horses and exposing a beautiful girl dressed in white decorated with red roses, the symbol of the saint. To my great pleasure, with the contribution of the Santuzza, I met twice a young Sicilian actor whom I happened to see just a few weeks before acting in Bucharest: Alessandro Romano, Around Palermo we have been to Monreale, worth a visit for its panorama of the Conca d'Oro region and the most amazing Cathedral, from 1174. Then Cefalù, a charming medieval town on the shore, with a swarming beach and enchanting atmosphere. Most of the time we swam in Mondello, with crystal clean waters and fine sand, but far too crowded. The picturesque Sferracavallo fishing village attracted us with great seafood. As I was longing for quite a few years to see Etna, a one day trip there and to the touristy Taormina accomplished my desire and confirmed my disgust for programmed group trips. Nevertheless, it is an unforgettable experience to be on top of an active volcano and see old craters, lava courses and wisps of smoke raising into the thin air. We expected people to be noisy and drive like crazy, so there where very few downsides to the whole experience. One was the shops schedule, including supermarkets, most of them closed daily from 1 to 4pm, on Sunday and Monday mornings. plus the Santa Rosalia celebrations made them close doors for two extra days in the middle of the week. Palermo is not dirtier or noisier than a lot of other cities, including New York for instance, and our bus trips proved very successful. People were very nice, eager to help and answer questions, also curious about where we're coming from and our way of life, willing to share their experiences and knowledge, given that we know Italian. Summing it up, I will definitely go back to Palermo, also eager to see more of Sicilia, there is plenty to learn and discover. I had the same great time with my mother, both sharing the same interest in combining sightseeing with sea swimming and food and wine tasting. I could say it was a complete vacation from all points of view, overwhelming all my senses with a profusion of smells, colours, music, landscapes and buildings all admirable in their own way. I had to admit to myself that Italy still sits comfortably on top of my preferences and makes me feel welcome and at home, offering so many things to my curiosity about the world's ways. Posted by Antoaneta at 12:00 PM 3 comments: Links to this post Labels: Art, cultures, Food, Identity, Italy, lifestyle, Mother, Season pleasures, Summer, the sea, theater, Travel Antoaneta Head in the clouds and feet on Earth, which requires a great sense of balance. Brave, stubborn, fiery, I speak six languages and two quarters, even body language. Passionate reader, animated dancer, energetic walker, aspiring writer. And above all, a lucid dreamer. 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__label__wiki	0.627993	0.627993	Media Gallery\ Videos\ Displaying items by tag: Egypt Egyptian aftershock felt most by Israel Published in Palestine-Israel By Na'eem Jeenah As the Tunisian uprising gained momentum after four weeks of protests and former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was spirited out of the country, questions were being asked about “who next” would face the “Tunisia effect” and whether the North African country was the first of a set of dominoes to fall across the Arab world. We now know that Egypt was next—even if that country’s president stubbornly refuses to go anywhere. But there is no set of dominoes that will result in despots fleeing their countries or being forced into early retirement.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2863
__label__wiki	0.516272	0.516272	Council's Corner AZLRO Council response to formal complaint AZLRO Council 5 months 1 week ago #10000 by AZLRO Council AZLRO Council response to formal complaint was created by AZLRO Council The following is the council's response to a formal complaint filed by Dave Smith on January 23rd, 2019. First of all, the council would like to thank for all you’ve done for the club in the past, including serving on the council, rally committee, and the running the 2018 Rover Revival truck show, all to help AZLRO continue to grow and improve. We appreciate the time and effort you have contributed in the past to making our club the success that it is. Regarding the complaint, henceforth we will refer to involved parties by their names for clarity: Council members Kelly Howard, Bob Kolander, Pierre LeBlanc, and Kyle Winfree (referred to herein as ’the council') of the Arizona Land Rover Owner (AZLRO) Club, have reviewed the complaint Dave Smith filed on January 23rd, 2019, and are bound by the club by-laws in determining the council's outcome. As AZLRO has have never had a formal complaint filed with the council in the club's history, the council has taken this entire process very seriously. Doug Lawyer, current council member who was named in the complaint, recused himself from this process and has not been privy to or included in any of the council’s discussion about this matter, or in determining the council’s remedy contained herein. Both parties in the complaint are receiving this response. The complaint filed by Dave Smith on January 23rd, 2019 is about a disputed remark that occurred at a private event approximately nine months ago (May 2018), where Doug Lawyer was alleged to have made an anti-semitic statement which was relayed to Dave at a later date by another party in attendance at said private event. There is a dispute about what was actually said among the private event attendees. Even so, Doug informed the council that he had apologized via email to Dave, and at the council’s request, both Dave and Doug provided copies of emails the two have exchanged relating to the incident. Regarding the complaint: There are conflicting reports about whether the remark was made. This incident occurred at a private event. Dave was not in attendance at the event. The incident was not addressed at the time it occurred. Dave was a member of the council when the incident occurred. It is disappointing Dave did not bring this to the council during his tenure on the council. Doug apologized to Dave via email in May 2018. To answer questions from Dave’s official complaint: "Are Jews excluded from his (Doug’s) AZLRO trips?" Of course not. AZLRO has never turned away anyone from an AZLRO event based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or nationality. "What about AZLRO events that he (Doug) plans or attends?" It is each individual’s prerogative to attend or not attend events. Dave attended AZLRO’s Thanksgiving Day Parade run led by Doug seven months after the incident. When the council asked Dave about Dave's attendance at the parade, Dave informed the council via email that Doug approached Dave and said to Dave “Glad you could make it,” demonstrating the fact that everyone was civil and no one was turned away. As Doug has apologized directly to Dave for his alleged actions via email (emails both parties supplied to the council), we consider the matter closed. The council would also note that Dave has publicly stated on Facebook the following remarks: - “Drunk, sober, around the campfire or on the trail, its bullshit. I’ll take the high road and leave out the details but with that I say adios AZLRO." - “I quit the local Land Rover club that I loved because of hateful comments by a member.” As Dave has publicly stated he quit the club, the council was surprised to receive this complaint as these statements were viewed as Dave's resignation from the club. Only responses to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will be acknowledged. Council members will not respond to individual texts/emails/phone calls from any party regarding this matter. Council Members Kelly, Bob, Pierre, and Kyle The topic has been locked.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2866
__label__wiki	0.788314	0.788314	Economic Reports Stronger in U.S. U.S. stock index futures advanced yesterday when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he expected to fly to Beijing to resume trade talks. However, optimism on progress towards a trade resolution was limited after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would enable the U.S. to ban American companies from purchasing telecom equipment from “foreign adversaries.” All three U.S. economic reports came in stronger than expected. Housing starts in April were 1.235 million when 1.200 million were anticipated and residential building permits were 1.296 million, the first monthly increase since December, which compares to the estimate of 1.290 million. Initial jobless claims were 212,000 in the week ended May 11 when economists expected 220,000 new claims last week. The May Philadelphia Federal Reserve business outlook survey was 16.6 when 9.3 was expected. My view remains that the global reflation scenario is on track and easier credit conditions from most of the world’s central banks are coming and will be the dominant fundamental that supports stock index futures in the long term. But, first we need to get past the U.S.-China trade hurdle. The U.S. dollar advanced as a result of the three stronger than expected U.S. economic reports this morning. The euro currency is lower even though the threat of U.S. tariffs on autos was pushed back. In addition, there are concerns about this weekend's European parliamentary elections. The Canadian dollar firmed on news that Canada's factory sector recorded its strongest month in March in almost a year. Manufacturing sales climbed 2.1% in March from the previous month, which compares to expectations of a 1.7% rise. U.S. Treasury bond futures advanced to a seven week high in the overnight trade before the stronger than anticipated U.S. economic reports took prices lower. Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari will speak at 11:05. Financial futures markets are predicting there is a 73% probability that the Federal Open Market Committee will lower its fed funds rate by 25 basis points or more at its December 11 policy meeting, which compares to 77% yesterday.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2869
__label__wiki	0.659987	0.659987	Pre-Launch Update: The New Aikido Journal We’re now deep into production on the new Aikido Journal and wanted to provide the community with a pre-launch update. Email is now online: All Aikido Journal email addresses are now active. If you have a support issue or just want to say hi, you can email us here. If you sent an email to Aikido Journal between February and October of this year but didn’t get a response, please email us again now. We’re now able to receive messages and respond. Legacy systems online: A number of community members had trouble accessing the members site and other streaming products after Stan passed away. We’ve now been able to get access to all key systems, fix the problems, and get those products back online. If you still have trouble accessing your paid content, please let us know. Launch Date: In our last post, “The Reboot Begins,” we were targeting a launch date of November 20, 2017 for AikidoJournal.TV and December 20, 2017 for the new AikidoJournal.com website. I’m very pleased to announce that we’ve been able to move up the launch window and we’re ready to launch both AikidoJournal.TV and the new AikidoJournal.com by the end of this month. Our team’s collective problem-solving capabilities and the will to put a ton of time into the project have allowed us to accelerate our progress significantly. Release Content: We’ve been able to transfer all of the articles and interviews successfully from Aikido Journal’s public and restricted members site into our new platform. I was stunned by the sheer volume of content we pulled into the new site. However, we discovered that every article needed to be cleaned up in some way. We’re building a workflow pipeline to clean up and publish this content, but it will take time to make it happen for the thousands of articles in our collection. Because so much of the content and people featured in these stories are truly epic, we really want to make sure we do each story justice by presenting it in a polished and compelling format. We’ll be releasing both the website and the streaming video service with a strong, critical mass of content and will then continue to roll out more content on a regular basis as the articles and videos are cleaned up, tagged, and linked contextually with other articles and videos. Initial content on the new website will include a selection of articles from both the public site and the members site. Launch content will include previously restricted interviews with Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Saito Sensei, a famous sumo wrestler that trained intensively with O-Sensei for a period of 70 days in the 1930s, Professor Rorion Gracie, and a number of others. We think you’ll find these stories fascinating. Members Site Subscribers: If you’re a current subscriber to the members site and want to retain complete access to its content library, please keep your subscription in place for now. Our current plan is to keep the legacy members site online for active subscribers until we’re able to get the vast majority of the currently restricted members’ content available on the new site. We sincerely appreciate your continued support. Without you, this vast library of knowledge would never have been created. Your Launch Team Ben Cave, Community Support Manager Ben is responsible for coordinating support responses, monitoring our social media channels, and routing incoming community requests or feedback. He’s been relentlessly cleaning articles, adding links and tags to our release content, and testing key systems. Setsuko Okumura, Guardian of the Archive Setsuko is the interim “Guardian of the Archive.” She has access to, and has familiarized herself with the Aikido Journal digital archive. She’s been pulling images and data from the archive to supplement and enhance our launch content, as well as translating key videos and texts from Japanese to English. We’ve also begun putting the archive to work. I’ve given Setsuko authorization to grant selective access to portions of the archive to prominent researchers in the aikido world, including Peter Goldsbury, Ellis Amdur, and Christoper Li. We hope they will be able to build meaningful new projects on the information contained in the archives and will create valuable insights we can, in turn, share with the community. Setsuko is testing for her shodan this coming Saturday. Ray Ocampo, User Experience Sensei Ray is a user experience designer at Blizzard Entertainment and has crafted interfaces both for Blizzard’s games and websites – used by tens of millions of fanatical and demanding fans. Ray has provided us with invaluable guidance through our design process. He has saved us countless hours that would have otherwise been wasted making mistakes. He’s unquestionably helped us create a better user experience for the new Aikido Journal. In addition to his formidable UX and design skills, Ray can move pretty well with both a sword and tanto. Mario Sapienza, Graphic Designer Mario, one of the two remote members of our launch team, resides in Buenos Aires. As a professional graphic designer and art director, as well as a passionate aikidoka, he’s contributed his time and expertise to update the Aikido Journal logo and our associated identity design elements. Dave Lee, Web Services Manager Dave manages our server and web infrastructure. He’s also been able to get excellent system design tips from Ed Patterson, a member of the community with deep expertise in online security and network architecture. Joshua Hansen, Legacy Systems Advisor Unquestionably, Aikido Journal would not be alive today were it not for Joshua Hansen. As a long time friend and technical advisor to Stanley Pranin, Joshua has been instrumental in our successful efforts to regain access to an array of legacy systems and migrate content over to our new platform. We sincerely thank you, the community, for your continued guidance, patience, and support. We look forward to sharing the results of our collective efforts when we relaunch near the end of October. We hope you’ll be proud of your new Aikido Journal. Ellis Amdur: The Role of Martial Arts in Modern Society Interview with Shoji Nishio (1984), Part 2 by Stanley Pranin khalil hajlaoui says: Thanks a lot to continue the work of Stanley Pranin, you can count on me to support Aikido Journal and I’m sure Stan will be proud of you Bob Noha says: Great news. I look forward to the release. Bob Noha Ron white says: Thank you for your hard work and keeping the dream alive TDS/JKA Rick Triplett says: Ambrose Merrell says: Brilliant! Thank you so much for all the hard work everyone is committing to this project. Jon Doegey says: I’m totally excited about the whole thing, I can’t wait for it to happen! John Pace says: What a credit to the Aikido community! Ken Clark says: From myself and I feel free to say, the whole Aikido community, thank you for your tireless effort and continued work in getting the Aikido Journal running smoothly again. I will miss my conversations with Stan but it’s comforting to know that his legacy remains for all to share. George Hewson says: I read everything that Stanley made available from the beginning. I am delighted that his legacy will live on. Congratulations and thank you. James Brazell says: Aikido Journal is something I would be willing to pay money for. Jim Brazell Gonzalo says: Gracias por preservar el legado de Stanley Pranin Sensei HERBERT JONES says: ARE YOU PRINTING A MONTHLY MAGAZINE ALSO ? ( I HOPE ) . HOW ABOUT PUBLISHING SOME BOOKS OF AIKIDO JOURNAL ARTICLES IN SEVERAL VOLUMES ie . vol.1 -2-3-4 etc. !!!! Arman says: Thank you very much. It is a great efforts. Thank you very much. It is a great efforts. This is a great idea to continue the Pranin’s work. What an amazing team of dedicated folks!! Thank you all for your hard work! Eduardo Sturla says: Congratulations on assembling a stellar team and on the great work you have performed. You’ll surely keep Sensei Pranin’s legacy for future generations. Mario Suarez says: Josh: Awesome team and introductions. Keep the legacy going – Stanley would be proud. Earl Rogers Jr says: Keep up the good work looking forward to your next email Tushan Fernando says: You are an amazing team and truly honour Stanley Pranin and his legacy. Your actions speak wonders to your commitment to Aikido’s philosophy and its community … you are walking the path! Thank you for your kind words. We are looking forward to launching the new Aikido Journal soon! Dushi Goonetilleke says: Thank you for continuing Stanley Pranin journey. Wish you guys the very best and you have our fullest support. Blessing!!! Thanks to all of you for continuing the legacy of Stanley Pranin; I have not logged into my account since his passing, but it is good to know that the paid content is still available. Please keep up the good work, and i look forward to your efforts. Francisco de los Cobos says: Congratulations on the great work and thanks for maintaining this legacy! You have been busy! It’s great to know that Stan’s hard work won’t be lost, but will actually be added to by the team. Tony Fitts says: Thank you all for your brilliant efforts! ContributedLeadership Aikido’s Branding Problem: Will Aikido Become the Kodak of the Martial Arts? This post is authored by Ron Cicero. Ron has produced branded content and television commercials for a wide range of Fortune 100 companies and their brands over a 20-year career. His work has collected awards from the... FeaturedInterviewsLeadership Philip Lee: How Aikido Took Singapore by Storm Philip Lee Shihan (7th dan) is the founder and chief instructor of the Aikido Shinju-Kai network of dojos in Singapore, comprising 56 training centers and growing. He has been training in aikido since 1971 and is... InterviewsLeadershipPodcasts Podcast: George Ledyard on skill transmission in aikido Will the next generation of instructors be positioned to take on leadership positions when called to do so? Or have problems in skill transmission handicapped them and risked the integrity of future generations of...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2879
__label__wiki	0.58855	0.58855	Build reaction to Education Secretary's speech to British Chambers of Commerce Education summit Build Blog Story added 6th Jul 2017 In a keynote speech to business leaders at the British Chambers of Commerce Education summit, Education Secretary Justine Greening set out her mission to spark the skills revolution needed to help Britain make a success of leaving the European Union. She told business leaders that the country can only rise to the challenge of developing the skills and talents of our young people if government and business work together. This includes developing plans for new T levels, backed by an extra £500 million of government investment per year announced in the budget, which will help build the army of skilled young people that business and the country need. Justine Greening also outlined plans to deliver the huge range of skills needed to make Britain a success, everything from coding to engineering and construction to design, at a time when migration remains high on the political agenda, announcing: - £50 million investment from April 2018 to fund high quality work placements - a key component of every T Level – to help prepare young people for skilled work - £15m to contribute to improvements in further education so we have the colleges and teachers we need to deliver the new T levels - Plans to bolster the role of the current Further Education Commissioner - Richard Atkins - who will take on responsibility for Further Education Colleges and Sixth Form Colleges - Plans for a Department for Education summit with businesses in the autumn to start developing the T level curriculum The full speech is available Phil Chamberlain, Executive Director of External Engagement, said: “We welcome the promise of further investment from Justine Greening today in her speech to the British Chamber of Commerce, and the pledge from the government to raise standards more generally. With a period of uncertainty likely in the next few years as a result of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, it is encouraging that the government recognise the urgent need for a ‘skills revolution’ to help minimise disruption to business and ensure increased career upskilling and retraining initiatives are open to all. Build are well placed to support this agenda, and we hope the Government recognise the role that adult education can play in realising these important ambitions." альпари брокер www.shtory.ua	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2888
__label__cc	0.681332	0.318668	Home Works of art Delporte Charles Delporte - Offerande aan Brasilia Zwinlaan/Camille Lemonnierlaan, Knokke This stretched form –“bronze shrine” - , as the artist calls it, on which softly sculptured women figures with a vacuous look in their eyes clamp on to each other as they gradually jut out, can be compared with the “tree with heads” stemming from the primitive art. Which incantation lies beneath, if one knows that it is dedicated to the ultramodern capital of Brazil. The idea of returning to purity is confronted with the appearance of the shabby creatures, of that “paternoster of souls”, for powers that should be feared more than those of the jungle: the power of industry and money. ”Offerande aan Brasilia” (offering to Brazil) is an arch, or even, a vaulted tower. Like a bended trunk stemming from the jungle, she is the incarnation of civilisation, fighting against the increasingly larger group of the mechanisation, a civilisation trying to secure its own nature, Indian heirdom, right to mystery and right to life. Donated by the artist in 1970 Painter, sculptor, musician and poet. All his work radiates ‘cosmic and fantastic surrealism”. In all his works (paintings, sculptures, texts, music) we can detect a colourful, wavy, twisting and fluent composition. His work is that of a seer who has rediscovered alchemy and has based his work on science. Over 300 of his works can be found in museums and public institutions all over the world. “I have always worked with the same ideal of hope. In my eyes, an artist can be the one who cherishes the hearts and who brings them back to life, takes them with him, so that he might encounter happiness.” Delporte (NL) Museum Charles Delporte (NL) Biography Charles Delporte Works of Charles Delporte (NL)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2891
__label__wiki	0.85582	0.85582	E2KW 2013 Committees 2013 Organizing committee 2013 Scientific Comittee 2013 Call for Papers 2013 Norms 2013 Key Dates 2014 The congress will take place at the Convent of San Pedro Martir, located in the city of Toledo, noted particularly for its splendid Moorish tower and graves and praying sculptures, including those of the Counts of Melito that inspired the legend «The Kiss» by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. Currently, the building houses the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. C/ San Clemente, s/n, 45002. Toledo, Spain. New Interactive Spherical Photo Gallery: San Pedro Mártir, Balcony 1 of 2 San Pedro Mártir, Real Cloister, ground floor Madre de Dios, yard More photos HERE. For further information on how to get to Toledo, please click on the following link: From Madrid Barajas Airport to Toledo Toledo is a Spanish city considered as World Heritage City by UNESCO. A city full of history. In XIII century, the city became one of the few places in Spain where lived Moorish, Christians and Jews in harmony, so the city has special characteristics that still can be seen when you visit the city and contemplate the remains of the churches, synagogues and mosques built during that period. During the Roman occupation Toledo became a fortified city on the route of the Tajo River, around the city, and its strategic location on the peninsula, become in the most important political, economic and cultural center of Spain. The Visigoths named it as the capital and also played an important role during the Muslim occupation. When the Christians reconquered Toledo, became the official residence of the Kings of Castilla until XVI century. The most famous monuments are the Cathedral, Puerta de Bisagra, the Alcázar, the Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes, the Synagogues of Santa María la Blanca and Tránsito, the Mosque of Cristo de la Luz… But Toledo is much more. Its labyrinthine streets, its panoramic views, churches and monasteries, Roman, hammam and Jews baths… are just some of the lesser known treasures of Toledo… …And also its nightlife. Viajes el Corte Ingles can manage your trip to Toledo. Please feel free to contact comercialalbacete@viajeseci.es and they will give you the best advice Toledo Tourist Office Toledo City Council Official tourist guides Toledo PROCEEDINGS E2KW 2016 Deadline for extended abstracts: June 15th Communication acceptance of papers: July 10th Registration limit: SEPTEMBER 7th DATE OF CONGRESS: OCTOBER 28th-29th New Registration Limit: SEPTEMBER 7th The volume "Environment, Energy and Climate Change II" is already announced in Springer The volume “Environment, Energy and Climate Change I" is already announced in Springer congress.e2kw@uclm.es Special Issues in Journals c/ Altagracia 50, 13071 Ciudad Real. Proyecto financiado en el marco del programa del Campus de Excelencia Internacional © 2012. All rights are reserved. Terms of Service \| Privacy Policy � Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Aviso legal. Tfno: 902 204 100 Fax: 902 204 130. webmaster@uclm.es'	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2894
__label__cc	0.585373	0.414627	Letter of Cardinal Dolan, president of the USCCB, to his brother bishops regarding the HHS Mandate: “you now ask the obvious question, “What’s next?” Dear brother bishops: Twice in recent weeks, I have written you to express my gratitude for our unity in faith and action as we move forward to protect our religious freedom from unprecedented intrusion from a government bureau, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). I remain deeply grateful to you for your determined resolve, to the Chairmen of our committees directly engaged in these efforts – Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Bishop Stephen Blaire and Bishop William Lori -who have again shown themselves to be such excellent leaders during these past weeks, and to all our staff at the USCCB who work so diligently under the direction of the Conference leadership. How fortunate that we as a body have had opportunities during our past plenary assemblies to manifest our strong unity in defense of religious freedom. We rely on that unity now more than ever as HHS seeks to define what constitutes church ministry and how it can be exercised. We will once again dedicate ample time at our Administrative Committee meeting next week, and at the June Plenary Assembly, to this critical subject. We will continue to listen, discuss, deliberate and act. Thank you, brothers, for the opportunity to provide this update to you and the dioceses you serve. Many of you have expressed your thanks for what we have achieved together in so few weeks, especially the data provided and the leadership given by brother bishops, our conference staff and Catholic faithful. And you now ask the obvious question, “What’s next?” Please allow me to share with you now some thoughts about events and efforts to date and where we might go next. Since January 20, when the final, restrictive HHS Rule was first announced, we have become certain of two things: religious freedom is under attack, and we will not cease our struggle to protect it. We recall the words of our Holy Father Benedict XVI to our brother bishops on their recent ad limina visit: “Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion.” Bishop Stephen Blaire and Bishop William Lori, with so many others, have admirably kept us focused on this one priority of protecting religious freedom. We have made it clear in no uncertain terms to the government that we are not at peace with its invasive attempt to curtail the religious freedom we cherish as Catholics and Americans. We did not ask for this fight, but we will not run from it. As pastors and shepherds, each of us would prefer to spend our energy engaged in and promoting the works of mercy to which the Church is dedicated: healing the sick, teaching our youth, and helping the poor. Yet, precisely because we are pastors and shepherds, we recognize that each of the ministries entrusted to us by Jesus is now in jeopardy due to this bureaucratic intrusion into the internal life of the church. You and I both know well that we were doing those extensive and noble works rather well without these radical new constrictive and forbidding mandates. Our Church has a long tradition of effective partnership with government and the wider community in the service of the sick, our children, our elders, and the poor at home and abroad, and we sure hope to continue it. Of course, we maintained from the start that this is not a “Catholic” fight alone. I like to quote as often as possible a nurse who emailed me, “I’m not so much mad about all this as a Catholic, but as an American.” And as we recall, a Baptist minister, Governor Mike Huckabee, observed, “In this matter, we’re all Catholics.” No doubt you have heard numerous statements just like these. We are grateful to know so many of our fellow Americans, especially our friends in the ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, stand together in this important moment in our country. They know that this is not just about sterilization, abortifacients, and chemical contraception. It’s about religious freedom, the sacred right of any Church to define its own teaching and ministry. When the President announced on January 20th that the choking mandates from HHS would remain, not only we bishops and our Catholic faithful, but people of every faith, or none at all, rallied in protest. The worry that we had expressed — that such government control was contrary to our deepest political values — was eloquently articulated by constitutional scholars and leaders of every creed. On February 10th, the President announced that the insurance providers would have to pay the bill, instead of the Church’s schools, hospitals, clinics, or vast network of charitable outreach having to do so. He considered this “concession” adequate. Did this help? We wondered if it would, and you will recall that the Conference announced at first that, while withholding final judgment, we would certainly give the President’s proposal close scrutiny. Well, we did — and as you know, we are as worried as ever. For one, there was not even a nod to the deeper concerns about trespassing upon religious freedom, or of modifying the HHS’ attempt to define the how and who of our ministry. Two, since a big part of our ministries are “self-insured,” we still ask how this protects us. We’ll still have to pay and, in addition to that, we’ll still have to maintain in our policies practices which our Church has consistently taught are grave wrongs in which we cannot participate. And what about forcing individual believers to pay for what violates their religious freedom and conscience? We can’t abandon the hard working person of faith who has a right to religious freedom. And three, there was still no resolution about the handcuffs placed upon renowned Catholic charitable agencies, both national and international, and their exclusion from contracts just because they will not refer victims of human trafficking, immigrants and refugees, and the hungry of the world, for abortions, sterilization, or contraception. In many ways, the announcement of February 10 solved little and complicated a lot. We now have more questions than answers, more confusion than clarity. So the important question arises: What to do now? How can we bishops best respond, especially united in our common pastoral ministry as an Episcopal Conference? For one, under the ongoing leadership of Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Bishop Blaire and Bishop Lori we will continue our strong efforts of advocacy and education. In the coming weeks the Conference will continue to provide you, among other things, with catechetical resources on the significance of religious freedom to the Church and the Church’s teaching on it from a doctrinal and moral perspective. We are developing liturgical aids to encourage prayer in our efforts and plans on how we can continue to voice our public and strong opposition to this infringement on our freedom. And the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, that has served the Conference so well in its short lifespan, will continue its extraordinary work in service to this important cause. Two, we will ardently continue to seek a rescinding of the suffocating mandates that require us to violate our moral convictions, or at least insist upon a much wider latitude to the exemptions so that churches can be free of the new, rigidly narrow definition of church, minister and ministry that would prevent us from helping those in need, educating children and healing the sick, no matter their religion. In this regard, the President invited us to “work out the wrinkles.” We have accepted that invitation. Unfortunately, this seems to be stalled: the White House Press Secretary, for instance, informed the nation that the mandates are a fait accompli (and, embarrassingly for him, commented that we bishops have always opposed Health Care anyway, a charge that is scurrilous and insulting, not to mention flat out wrong. Bishop Blaire did a fine job of setting the record straight.) The White House already notified Congress that the dreaded mandates are now published in the Federal Registry “without change.” The Secretary of HHS is widely quoted as saying, “Religious insurance companies don’t really design the plans they sell based on their own religious tenets.” That doesn’t bode well for their getting a truly acceptable “accommodation.” At a recent meeting between staff of the bishops’ conference and the White House staff, our staff members asked directly whether the broader concerns of religious freedom—that is, revisiting the straight-jacketing mandates, or broadening the maligned exemption—are all off the table. They were informed that they are. So much for “working out the wrinkles.” Instead, they advised the bishops’ conference that we should listen to the “enlightened” voices of accommodation, such as the recent, hardly surprising yet terribly unfortunate editorial in America. The White House seems to think we bishops simply do not know or understand Catholic teaching and so, taking a cue from its own definition of religious freedom, now has nominated its own handpicked official Catholic teachers. We will continue to accept invitations to meet with and to voice our concerns to anyone of any party, for this is hardly partisan, who is willing to correct the infringements on religious freedom that we are now under. But as we do so, we cannot rely on off the record promises of fixes without deadlines and without assurances of proposals that will concretely address the concerns in a manner that does not conflict with our principles and teaching. Congress might provide more hope, since thoughtful elected officials have proposed legislation to protect what should be so obvious: religious freedom. Meanwhile, in our recent debate in the senate, our opponents sought to obscure what is really a religious freedom issue by maintaining that abortion inducing drugs and the like are a “woman’s health issue.” We will not let this deception stand. Our commitment to seeking legislative remedies remains strong. And it is about remedies to the assault on religious freedom. Period. (By the way, the Church hardly needs to be lectured about health care for women. Thanks mostly to our Sisters, the Church is the largest private provider of health care for women and their babies in the country.) Bishop William Lori, Chairman of our Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, stated it well in a recent press release: “We will build on this base of support as we pursue legislation in the House of Representatives, urge the Administration to change its course on this issue, and explore our legal rights under the Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” Perhaps the courts offer the most light. In the recent Hosanna-Tabor ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously defended the right of a Church to define its own ministry and services, a dramatic rebuff to the administration, apparently unheeded by the White House. Thus, our bishops’ conference, many individual religious entities, and other people of good will are working with some top-notch law firms who feel so strongly about this that they will represent us pro-bono. In the upcoming days, you will hear much more about this encouraging and welcome development. Given this climate, we have to prepare for tough times. Some, like America magazine, want us to cave-in and stop fighting, saying this is simply a policy issue; some want us to close everything down rather than comply (In an excellent article, Cardinal Francis George wrote that the administration apparently wants us to “give up for Lent” our schools, hospitals, and charitable ministries); some, like Bishop Robert Lynch wisely noted, wonder whether we might have to engage in civil disobedience and risk steep fines; some worry that we’ll have to face a decision between two ethically repugnant choices: subsidizing immoral services or no longer offering insurance coverage, a road none of us wants to travel. Brothers, we know so very well that religious freedom is our heritage, our legacy and our firm belief, both as loyal Catholics and Americans. There have been many threats to religious freedom over the decades and years, but these often came from without. This one sadly comes from within. As our ancestors did with previous threats, we will tirelessly defend the timeless and enduring truth of religious freedom. I look forward to our upcoming Administrative Board Meeting and our June Plenary Assembly when we will have the chance to discuss together these important issues and our way forward in addressing them. And I renew my thanks to you for your tremendous, fraternal support and your welcome observations in this critical effort to protect our religious freedom. With prayerful best wishes, I am Fraternally in Christ, Timothy Cardinal Dolan Archbishop of New York President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I love and pray for Cardinal Dolan. He has a conundrum on his hands. Far be it from me to quibble about the details…but the two ethically repugnant choices are not really choices at all: “some worry that we’ll have to face a decision between two ethically repugnant choices: subsidizing immoral services or no longer offering insurance coverage, a road none of us wants to travel.” Both of these proposed solutions gets executed by subcontracting people to do take actions we will not take ourselves because we know these actions would deprive us of our salvation. Hiring other people to do it compounds does not extricate us from the sin. Rather, both of these solutions compounds our accountability to the sin because we intentionally add another layer of people into the vortex of the sins committed through the abortifacients, sterilizations – etc. Maybe this will help: “some worry that we’ll have to face a decision between two ethically repugnant choices: subsidizing crack pipes or outsource free crack pipe benefits to our employees to a company filled with people don’t know any better.” When you have choices, you can pick one of them. That’s the beauty of the word ‘choice’. Subsidizing or outsourcing immoral/unethical services are not choices. Here are the choices: 1. We can take it court. We can do a big mother of a class action lawsuit. We can try to get a stay while it plays out. 2. If we can’t get a stay or reverse it, we shut down operations of these services. We don’t sell it to them. We don’t hand over our assets. We refuse their takeover proposals. We empty the hospitals, hand out pink slips, we board it all up and let it all rip. These are the choices. There are no other choices.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2899
__label__cc	0.735591	0.264409	Impact of Cleaning Products on Women's Lungs as Damaging as 20-a-Day Cigarette Habit: Study Regular use of cleaning sprays can have as much of an impact on health as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, according to a new study. Scientists at Norway's University of Bergen tracked 6,000 people, with an average age of 34 at the time of enrollment in the study, who used the cleaning products over a period of two decades, according to the research published in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. They found that lung function decline in women who regularly used the products, such as those who worked as cleaners, was equivalent over the period to those with a 20-cigarette daily smoking habit. "While the short-term effects of cleaning chemicals on asthma are becoming increasingly well documented, we lack knowledge of the long-term impact," said Dr. Cecile Svanes, a professor at the University of Bergen in Norway and senior author of the study. http://www.newsweek.com/impact-cleaning-products-lung-health-bad-20-day-cigarette-habit-study-810277 Urinary Phthalate Metabolites Are Associated With ... E-cigarettes leak toxic metals, study finds Impact of Cleaning Products on Women's Lungs as Da... Newly invented eyedrops could replace glasses alto... EHR Time Exceeds Patient Face Time in Family Pract... Health care’s fundamental problem: Your doctor doe... CMS Wants in on Direct Primary Care (Healthcare Bl... The Key to Weight Loss Is Diet Quality, Not Quanti... Advanced glycation endproducts, dityrosine and arg... Acetaminophen Use Alters Sex Hormones, May Cause B... New C difficile Guidelines Refine Diagnosis, Add F... Ketogenic Drinks Improve Glycemia and Insulin Sens... Adult endothelial stem cells can make fully functi... Ultra-processed foods 'linked to cancer' - BBC New... Chemicals in packaging, carpets and non-stick pans... Prescription Opioids Increase Risk for Serious Inf... Inexpensive Technology Can Spot Fake Organic Milk ... Many people take dangerously high amounts of ibupr... Zeroing in on FODMAPs - C&EN Global Enterprise Bacteriophages Plentiful in Women’s Bladders Think Beyond the Bladder for Interstitial Cystitis... Mental health: Living with Borderline Personality ... Food may influence cancer spread - BBC News Largest Animal Study of Cell Phone Radiation and C... Vitamin D improved asthma symptoms and reduced exa... Acetaminophen in pregnancy: Is it really safe? Allergens present in most homes: study The Fragile Generation	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2906
__label__wiki	0.522284	0.522284	WA Legislature---A House Divided While Governor Gregoire's administration calls for more taxation to fix her economy---roughly $1 billion shortfall still remaining to be fixed, she has, with her call for homosexual "marriage," elevated re-defining marriage above the overwhelming economic challenges of the state. Senate Republican Leader, Mike Hewitt, said yesterday that the debate she has signed on to is ill timed given the dire fiscal condition of the state. He also sees a conflict with Murray. He told the press that the marriage debate will particularly create problems because Democratic budget negotiator Sen. Ed Murray is "vested in this personally." Murray is a homosexual who, as a senator, has spent countless hours over the past several years laying the groundwork for this moment when he and others believe they can redefine marriage. Hewitt said, "We should leave the social agenda off the Legislature this year. The last thing we need to do is to be down here in turmoil over social issues." Indeed, there will be turmoil. "Oh no," says Spokane's Democrat Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, "This is the right time to move forward with marriage equality." Gregoire disputes Hewitt's concern, assuring the public that legislators are multitaskers. Capable of many things at once. This, of course, is how the Democrat controlled legislature has been so effective during Gregoire's term. All this affirms that the homosexual agenda is more important to them and their allies than actual education in the public classroom, more important than religious freedom and more important than actually doing the work of the people at the Capitol. Redefining marriage for 1/4 of 1% rather than focusing on the debilitating fiscal fiasco in Washington State. The issue of re-defining marriage cuts much deeper than so-called "marriage equality." When attorney Steve Pidgeon told us in a meeting this week that only one fourth of one percent have taken advantage of the domestic partners law, it became clear that the DP law was not really just about equality. Gregoire, Murray, Pederson and others moved mighty mountains to get the must have DP legislation passed. While re-defining marriage will be wrapped in warm, soft wraps, with emotional human stories, it is much more than that. Homosexual activists told the Associated Press at their "re-define marriage" kick off in Bellevue several weeks ago, "Yes, we have the benefits, but we want the name." "Why?" asked the AP reporter. "Having the name will help erase the stigma" of the behavior they said. And that's a quote. We are encouraging you to call every lawmaker in the state and encourage everyone you know to do the same, however, there may be another action even more important. Take a moment in the face of what will likely be the most fierce battle in the history of the state and ask yourself, "What do I believe? Why do I believe it? What is the basis of my belief?" Do I merely attach my beliefs to the changing, relativist moral climate of our times or are there eternal, enduring principles and truths that I build my life upon? Does a rebellious culture become my moral compass merely because they invert words and call good evil and evil good? Am I conformed to that worldview or am I transformed by the renewing of my mind? Are there absolutes? Are some things right and some wrong---some sin and some not? What is the basis of my beliefs? You will certainly face these issues in the coming days. This issue of marriage will divide not only the Legislature, but the state, communities, churches and even families. Abraham Lincoln reminded us that a nation divided cannot stand. One view will prevail, the other fail. Consequences will follow. Take a moment this weekend. Consider the truth. "Then you will know the truth and the truth will make you free." Be Vigilant. Be Convinced. Be Discerning. Be Prayerful. Oshtur Vishanti 7:57 AM, January 06, 2012 Again, it need take no more than 15 minutes - put it up to a vote without the posturing and delaying tactics that are pointless. It will either pass or it won't. Seriously, the more they whine about it the more time they give to drumming up support for it - put it up to a vote quickly without food dragging is the best strategy for your side. If it passes, you can collect the signatures for a referendum with your mysteriously sourced paid signature gatherers and put it on the ballot. Of course you already told people they were doing one on 'gay marriage' so it might confuse them but you can just tell them 'no no its really about marriage this time' and maybe they will figure it out. This will only be boring, time consuming political theater if Republicans make it that way. It's their choice. (anyone been illegally treated due to the petition releases from the last time you did this? Its been over 4 months - anything?) Anonymous 11:19 AM, January 06, 2012 If jobs and the economy are so much more important than social issues, why does Gary spend so little time talking about jobs and the economy on this blog? Seems to me this blog is all social issues all the time! Does anyone doubt that if the law being proposed were banning marriage equality, such as the ones in North Carolina and New Hampshire, Gary and his cohorts would support them 100% and be completely unconcerned about jobs, the economy and giant holes in the budget - just as his cohorts in those states are currently doing. Check out NOM's website-- apparently it isn't the time to discuss social issues in states like WA where the issue is enacting marriage equality, but it is time to discuss them in states like NH and NC where the issue is blocking or ending marriage equality. Hypocrisy. Blatant double-standards - situational ethics even. Of course Gary has the unmitigated gall to cite Pidgeon in a post whining about how the state should be concerned with education funding instead of social issues. I suppose Gary thinks we should all ignore the hundreds of thousands of dollars the state spent defending against a frivolous and fundamentally dishonest lawsuit (almost every one of the "Doe's" was a public anti-gay activist like Gary and Val Stevens) that at is core was little more than a PR campaign attempting to smear LGBTs as violent. Pidgeon was of course, Gary's lawyer in said frivolous, dishonest suit. Of course the costs of this lawsuit are on top the costs of verifying petitions and conducting an election on Ref 71, Gary's failed attempt to overturn the domestic partnership law. Since Gary and his ilk have already promised another referendum attempt should full marriage equality pass, it couldn't be any clearer that their cries of poor timing, and other higher priorities are nothing more than ruses to avoid having to discuss the real issue, and having their naked anti-gay bigotry exposed for all to see. Anonymous 12:57 PM, January 06, 2012 OK, so there are too many economic issues to deal with so we can't take on marriage equality. Yet, on Nov 3, 2011, Gary wrote a column supporting efforts by Republicans in Congress to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as our country's motto. Such transparent hypocrisy. Anonymous 4:07 PM, January 06, 2012 I'm looking forward to this battle for the "stigma" to remain where it belongs, on those who call evil good. Craig in Lacey The politicians who disturb me the most are the ones who claim to be Christian, but still support the things that are obviously violations of the concepts of natural law and natural rights that this country was founded on (not to mention th...e words of the Bible). What could possibly more of a violation of the "Laws of Nature and Nature's God" than same sex marriage? What could possibly be more of a violation of "the unalienable right to life" than the government subsidized murder of the most helpless and most innocent? Pelosi, Gregoire, and the rest of the so-called religious left are a part of the same "reprobate mentality" that is described in Romans Chapter one. They can claim to be "religious", but I have more respect for atheists than I have for the religious left; atheists are more honest. What could possibly more of a violation of the "Laws of Nature and Nature's God" than same sex marriage? Just about anything. The holy writs of 'Nature's god' are the books on biology, physics, sociology and the like and the improve with the passage of time. Its totally natural for adult humans to be attracted to a particular gender of adult humans. Both men and women have every gene necessary to be attracted to either, we understand how genetic and epigenetic events can result in an adult human that can be attracted to males or females regardless of their own sex. We do know that when that attraction occurs at no time does your body 'look in its genes' to see if you have a Y chromosome or not before hand. Allowing all those with a spouse to license with the state is exactly what Nature's Law requires and Nature's god would want. Since homosexuality occurs at regular and reliable rates throughout most species in nature, homosexuality actually is a 'Law of Nature'. Mark in Tigard "I'm looking forward to this battle for the "stigma" to remain where it belongs, on those who call evil good." And there you have it. Gary danced around it, but Criag but it in simple and straightforward language. For Gary, Craig and their ilk, this battle is about nothing more than nothing less than stigmatizing gays and lesbians. What percentage of those unions produce offspring or a lasting relationship? Ahh, that would be none. Show me one species that mates only with the same gender and I'll show you one that's extinct. They certainly don't "marry" for life. By the way, when did we become monkeys or omebas. You may want to imitate one, but I'll stay a unique creation of God. I talk straight, your "stigma" has always been there, since long before I was born. It'll be here long after I'm gone. As I said in another post, legalizing something still doesn't make it moral, i.e. prostitution or drugs. Oshtur You should know better. Some people are attracted to kids, etc.. A person's being tempted is not immoral, giving into it is. By your definition, why should they not practice there attraction? It's perfectly normal, right? Same sex attraction is the same thing, 5000 years of history has born this out. MARRIAGE = ONE MAN + ONE WOMAN Anonymous poster, you should know better - Jesus made it clear that the temptation IS the sin, as he did with his example of adultery. As far as some people being attracted to children you are referring to your biblical heroes since they had the ages of 12 for girls and 13 for boys as the age of sexual congress. But regardless, we know that men and women attracted to men and women all use the same biological attraction mechanism, and if its legal for one citizen to marry someone who is an unrelated, of age male then they all should, ditto for females. Again simple test: do we allow some citizens to license with a husband? Yes. do we allow some citizens to license with a wife? Yes. do we allow some citizens to license with a child? No See the difference? Marriage equality is about letting all citizens do what other citizens can already do in keeping with our American ideals, not about letting anyone do what no one is allowed to do. Oh and I find it humorous that someone is putting up a petition to change DOMA from male and female to man and woman. Don't they know that the terms are not synonymous - that male and female refer to sex and man and woman refer to gender? Legally what they are saying is that they want to allow a female who has had a gender transition to a man, and a male who has to a woman to now be allowed to license the marriage contract! Who would have thought they would put up an initiative to support trans rights?!!! You're right, Craig, legalizing something doesn't make it moral, even if has been legal since long before we were born. You know, things like slavery, racial discrimination, second class treatment of women or discrimination against gays and lesbians. I was making a point of the silliness of the statement that homosexuality violates the laws of nature. When something occurs in nature at a regular and reliable rate, it is a law of nature. You can argue the efficacy of homosexuality continuing the species, but that's immaterial to its status as a law of nature. btw - no one is advocating same sex marriage as the only option. Our species won't be endangered. Lastly, are you saying that all the species in nature are not 'a unique creation of god'? Are you accepting evolution now???? I googled in the "quote" from Pastor Randall's post above, where a gay activists admits that he wants the name "marriage" to erase a stigma of some kind. But google finds no such quote, other than here at this site and one other political site. But nothing from the Associated Press or any other news source. Pastor Randall, are you making up quotes? Faith and Freedom Staff 10:01 PM, January 10, 2012 Anon. 7:31 No Pastor Randall is not making up quotes. He is quoting the Associated Press as reported by KOMO News. This is the link http://www.komonews.com/news/local/133823588.html Sorry FnF Staff, but the quote Gary presents does not appear in the article you cite. Gary said: "Homosexual activists told the Associated Press at their "re-define marriage" kick off in Bellevue several weeks ago, "Yes, we have the benefits, but we want the name." "Why?" asked the AP reporter. "Having the name will help erase the stigma" of the behavior they said. And that's a quote." The ONLY appearance of the word "stigma" in the AP article FnF staff claims is the source of the quote: "Instead, supporters said, the effort is about erasing the stigma that long-term couples face when they have to introduce their significant others as "my partner," rather than "my husband," or "my wife."" You'll note that the word "stigma" is the reporters and not from any "homosexual activists". At no point does the AP article quote anyone saying "Having the name will help erase the stigma", which Randall assures us a quote. Are Randall and the staff confused about what it means to claim something is a quote? It means that the words presented within quotation marks are the EXACT words spoken by the individual cited. Since the words Randall put in quotation marks do not appear anywhere in the AP story, it CAN NOT be the source of the quote. So the question remains, can Randall or FnF staff cite an actual source for the words Randall makes a point of telling his readers is a quote? Or will they admit that Randall is now simply putting words in his opponents mouths? Hypocrisy. Dishonesty. Oshtur Vishanti 11:34 AM, January 11, 2012 yes but he is quoting the news article's author opinion (or paraphrase), not any 'gay activist'. i.e., the article's author put words into the mouth of the activists. Still considering what we have seen, its close enough. There is a verbal exchange quoted above. Pastor Randall uses quotation marks. He has some gay activist saying ""Yes, we have the benefits, but we want the name." He then has a reporter asking them "why?" and then has the gay activist declaring that it would "erase the stigma". He then asserts that the stigma is a stigma concerning homosexual conduct and further tells us that all of the above is a quote. None of this is in the KOMO link and you can't find it anywhere on Google. The only thing in the KOMO story is one reference by the reporter to erasing a stigma relating not to homosexual conduct but to gay people having to introduce their partners with some euphemism. Pastor Randall was making up quotes and thus should retract the above and apologize. I won't hold my breath as we are still waiting for him to come up with support for his claim that AG McKenna's office was rude, hostile and unprofessional in his deposition. @Oshtur, no it's not close enough, it is an entirely fabricated quote! None of the words Gary placed within quotation marks and even pronounced a quote appear in the AP article that Faith and Freedom staff (Gary perhaps?) is claiming as the source for the quote. It's not even a case of Gary quoting the reporters words, the words Gary presents as quote simply to not appear in the claimed source material. It may be par for the course with dishonesty from Gary, but it simply is not even remotely close enough. John in Seattle	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2909
__label__wiki	0.702099	0.702099	Sauber Junior Team by Charouz signs Ilott for FIA F2 Championship 2019 Sauber Junior Team selects British driver for its first year in F2 Ferrari Academy driver Callum Ilott will step up to the FIA F2 Championship in 2019 with the newly-formed Sauber Junior Team, a partnership between Sauber and Charouz Racing System. Ilott, 20, finished third overall in this year’s GP3 Series, scoring two wins and seven podiums. “Charouz impressed me in 2018, so when Bob Vavřík approached me and outlined the plans he and Fred Vasseur had for 2019, it felt like the right place for me to be,” says Ilott. “Their technical strength, passion and the integration with Sauber has created something different, and it’s great to have earned the chance to be a part of it.” Ilott tested for Charouz at Abu Dhabi at end of last year and was impressed with the Czech outfit that took two victories in its first year in F2 in 2018. “It’s a technically strong team with some familiar faces that immediately made it feel like a good fit. We quickly got to a good baseline and ultimately finished third fastest on day one. F2 is rightly a challenging category; the cars are quick and technical and with pitstops adding more strategy to the races, I can’t wait for the season to start,” adds Ilott. Bob Vavrik, Charouz Racing System managing director said, "We're pleased to confirm Callum as one of our Sauber Junior Team F2 drivers in 2019. His record in motorsport is strong and we kept a close eye on him last year when he was winning races and performing well in GP3. We were impressed when he joined us for the end of season F2 test in Abu Dhabi last year. He was immediately on the pace, setting P7 and P3 times in the sessions with us. We believe he has the ability to be a strong performer during his rookie F2 season." 2019 will see Ilott also continue as a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy (FDA) for a second season. “I am actually in a unique position, benefitting from all the expertise of the FDA’s programme with the advantage of being within the Sauber Junior Team environment too,” continues Ilott. “That’s a pretty good combination and it will strengthen me as a driver. I still have a lot to learn, but I am aiming to repay the FDA’s faith in me by delivering strong performances in the fight for the F2 Championship.” After finishing on the rostrum in his rookie GP3 season, Ilott, selected once again for both the BRDC Superstars and Team UK elite driver programmes this year, is relishing the move up in 2019. “Together with FDA we decided that last year was all about preparing thoroughly for the step up to F2, and GP3 was the way to do it. Learning the tyres and delivering consistency were the goals last year. This year is about showcasing what we can do together to Sauber and Ferrari. Thank you to Frederic Vasseur at Sauber, Antonin Charouz and the Ferrari Driver Academy for giving me this great opportunity to move up the ladder,” concludes Ilott. The opening round of the F2 championship that supports F1 at each of its 12 events takes place in Bahrain in March. BACK A PAGE CALLUM SOCIAL - @callum_ilott - callum_ilott - CallumIlottRacing Tweets by @callum_ilott Photographic Credits to GEPA Red Bull, Thomas Suer, FotoFormulaK, WafeProject and KSP © 2018 Callum Ilott \| Site by: Elate Global \| Official Photographer: James Gasperotti	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2913
__label__cc	0.729258	0.270742	Photo Credit: © WCS Cambodia Since 2001, the Fisheries Administration (FiA) and WCS have worked with communities in the Sre Ambel area to conserve the Mangrove Terrapin (Batagur affinis, also known as Batagurs). These interventions have been guided by a two-pronged strategy that has focused both on protecting in-situ populations in the Sre Ambel river system, as well as raising a captive population in the project's hatchling centre. The main threat to Mangrove Terrapins is posed by increasing levels of human activity and disturbance on the rivers that form the heart of their range. The Sre Ambel river system forms the focus of conservation activities for this species in Cambodia. The Sre Ambel is less affected by human activities than many river systems in the region, although most riparian habitats on the river have been severely degraded. Given the uncertain status of the wild population of Mangrove Terrapins, it is vitally important to devise a coherent strategy for their survival. This must include effective protection for wild populations, as well as a release plan for the hatchlings currently held at the hatchling centre. These individuals represent some of the last remaining individuals of their species. The combination of in-situ and ex-situ conservation activities that are currently implemented by the FiA/WCS Mangrove Terrapin project provide a vital last chance to save this species in the wild in Indochina. Four New Royal Turtle Hatchlings Taken to Conservation Center in Koh Kong 20 Royal Turtles released into their natural habitat The fight against the sand mining brings hope for Royal Turtles! Critically Endangered Royal Turtles on the road to recovery! Over 600 Eggs of Asian Giant Softshell Turtle Discovered in Mekong River A Nest of Critically Endangered Royal Turtle Found in Sre Ambel River System First Asian Giant Softshell Turtle Nest of the Season Located in the Mekong River Inauguration of Koh Kong Reptile Conservation Center Twenty-five Critically Endangered Royal Turtles Return to the Wild Surveying Alternative Sites for the Mangrove Terrapin	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2914
__label__wiki	0.506561	0.506561	Cancer Home > Degarelix Available by prescription only, degarelix is used to treat advanced prostate cancer in men. This medicine works by stopping production of testosterone in the testes, slowing down the growth of prostate cancer cells (which are dependent on testosterone to grow). This injection is given just under the skin of the abdomen (stomach) every 28 days. Hot flushes, fatigue, and weight gain are possible side effects. What Is Degarelix? Degarelix (Firmagon®) is a hormone therapy medication approved for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. It belongs to a group of medications called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists or blockers. (Click What Is Degarelix Used For? for more information on this topic, including possible off-label uses.) Are There Side Effects? Just like any medicine, degarelix may cause side effects. However, not everyone who uses the drug will experience problems. In fact, most people tolerate it quite well. If reactions do occur, in most cases, they are minor and either require no treatment or are treated easily by you or your healthcare provider. Serious side effects are less common. Common side effects of degarelix include but are not limited to: Reactions at the injection site, such as redness, swelling, or pain. (Click Degarelix Side Effects to learn more, including potentially serious side effects you should report immediately to your healthcare provider.) Degarelix Article Continues on Next Page > Degarelix Drug Information What Is Priapism and How Does It Relate to Erectile Dysfunction Medications? What Is Normal Symptom Relief From Erectile Dysfunction Medications Is the Inability to Sustain an Erection Permanent? What Are My Options for Treating Erectile Dysfunction? What Causes Erectile Dysfunction? Can Vitamins Improve Symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction? Is There a Cure for Erectile Dysfunction? What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Erectile Dysfunction Medications? Is It Possible to Treat ED Without Medication? Firmagon [package insert]. Parsippany, NJ: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc.;2009 February. Firmagon Web site. Available at: http://www.firmagon.us/us/us-homep/pcl-homep/accessser/0/225/0/patients-area.html. Accessed July 15, 2011. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Electronic orange book: approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations. FDA Web site. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/. Accessed July 15, 2011. National Library of Medicine (US). Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). NLM Web site. Available at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB. Accessed July 15, 2011. Degarelix Side Effects What Is Degarelix Used For? Degarelix Dosage Drug Interactions With Degarelix Precautions and Warnings With Degarelix	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2915
__label__cc	0.725974	0.274026	In Case You Missed It! The Brits are going to spend a half billion dollars to refurbish Buckingham Palace. I wonder if there aren’t a few people in the Sceptered Isle who think there are better ways to spend money other than propping up a creaky, outdated institution in a house that’s falling down. Researchers in New York City swabbed the keypads of 66 A.T.M.s and found they were covered with microbes from human skin, traces of food and a mold associated with spoiled baked goods. Icky, they said. But not to worry – they’re mostly harmless. Some scientists say that cockatoos are as smart as a 3-year-old human. Example: In Vienna, a cockatoo named Figaro is fond of making tools. When a pebble he was playing with fell outside his cage he used a piece of bamboo to try to rake the stone back in. Terrific! If your 3-year-old did this would you be impressed? In the English Premier League last season’s wonder-team champions, Leicester City, is in 14th place, just ahead of Middlesbrough and a point behind Stoke City. Disappointing but not surprising. Who’s on top? The usual suspects. Order, and money, again rule the day. Staying with sports (laughingly said to be fair competition) an additional 75 athletes in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, mostly from Russia and Eastern Europe, have been found guilty of doping violations. If you are shocked you’ve been living on another planet. Regarding the stories that dominate the news these days, I’ve said I expect the worst and, for now, will shut up rather than comment. I’m stickin’ with my story. Sorting Through the Noise! Sports Respite! Eight More Days! Pissing Matches! Lunacy! Debate #2 Should I Care? Traveling!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2916
__label__wiki	0.661166	0.661166	Sing Me A Cartoon 6: …and What Comes after a Wedding? Disney’s “Robin Hood” on Records Animation History August 14, 2017 posted by admin Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1965 By 1965, the submissions to the Academy’s short branch were clearly more sophisticated than ever before. A new maturity of the artform had been established – no TV cartoons or pilots were entered for consideration. This year also marked an increase in the actual number of short films submitted – and the quality all-around was quite high. The independent and foreign shorts were also becoming something to be reckoned with. In the meantime, Freleng (last year) and Jones (this year) were maintaining the gold standard for the Hollywood home team. The Dot and The Line was the latest – perhaps the best – and absolutely the last of Chuck Jones’ artistic exercises. It was truly deserving of the Oscar – and masterfully combined Jones love of witty writing with clever use of limited animation. It proved that great character animation could be achieved with the simplest of shapes – and in pantomime (all the dialogue is via superb narration by Robert Morley). I’ve come to admire the production design in this film by Maurice Noble (who officially shares the ‘co-director’ credit here), subtle and very effective. I can’t imagine any other team bringing this short story to life with such class. The actual nominees were: CLAY OR THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES Eli Noyes [View] THE THIEVING MAGPIE Giulio Gianini-Emanuele Luzzati [View] And the Oscar went to: THE DOT AND THE LINE (MGM) Chuck Jones, director. [View] On April 18th, 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, presenters Elke Sommer and Don Knotts presented the Oscar to producer Les Goldman and director Chuck Jones. Here’s a video of that presentation: CHUCK JONES: A great deal has been said in favor of the idea that films are bigger than ever; we feel that occasionally some word can be said for films being smaller than ever. Norton Juster’s book, “The Dot and the Line,” we felt was a delightful, small book, and I’d like to particularly thank those people who, against all temptations, fought to keep it small: To Maurice Noble, to Eugene Poddany, and of all things to Robert Morley. Thank you very much. LES GOLDMAN: It’s a rare and privileged time when a major studio goes way out and backs a strange and wild entertainment film like “The Dot and the Line.” And I want to thank the MGM management for being with us all the way, and, of course, all the members of the Academy. Thank you. And so we continue our weekly research into what other cartoons were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration but failed to make the cut. In 1965, there were a lot of entries. Submitted, screened, but NOT nominated were: “A” (Pathe Contemporary) Jan Lenica ALF, BILL AND FRED Bob Godfrey BOILED EGG (Pathe Contemporary) Marc Andrieux, Barnard Brevent A CHILD’S INTRODUCTION TO THE COSMOS (USC) Hal Barwood CLAUDE (UCLA) Dan McLaughlin DRESS REVERSAL (20th Century Fox-Terrytoons) Ralph Bakshi DRIVE ON NUDNIK (Rembrandt-Paramount) Gene Deitch ENTER HAMLET (Pathe Contemporary) Fred Mogubgub THE GREAT DEGAULLE STONE OPERATION (UA/DePatie-Freleng) Friz Freleng, Gerry Chiniquy THE HOFFNUNG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Halas and Batchelor) Harold Whitaker HOW TO LIVE WITH A NEUROTIC DOG (Rembrandt-Paramount) Gene Deitch HOWARD (Stars and Stripes Forever Productions) Len Glasser THE ITCH (Paramount) Howard Post A LEAK IN THE DIKE (Paramount) Jack Mendelsohn, Howard Post THE NOSE (Pathe Contemporary) Alexander Alexieff, Claire Parker THE TOP (Pathe Contemporary) Jimmy Murakami THE WILD CHASE (Warner Bros.) Hawley Pratt WINNIE THE POOH AND THE HONEY TREE (Disney) Wolfgang Reitherman WOOF-WOOF (Zagreb Studios) Boris Kolar CARNIVAL – THE WORLD OF SINE (Specta Films) Jules Engel Here’s the documentation (Note that Assault And Peppered, a mediocre McKimson Speedy and Daffy cartoon, is crossed off as ‘withdrawn’): With these posts we ask that you put yourself in their place – which films would you have nominated? Which cartoon should have won? For your edification and viewing pleasure, here are the cartoons the Academy screened which didn’t make the cut (unfortunately not all of them are online – and with so many entered, my comments this week will be brief). Enjoy the show! A man in his apartment is antagonized by a large letter “A”. After being beaten into submission, the letter ‘A’ leaves. The man starts his daily routine again – only to be visited by an ominous letter “B”. A pen-and-ink style recalling 19th Century engraving, supposedly inspired (or written, uncredited) by avant-garde playwright Eugne Ionesco, “the letter symbolizes invasion of privacy, oppression or one’s own problem.” Interesting to note the music was scored by French film composer Georges Delerue – who gained much fame for his later feature scores (for King of Hearts and Platoon among others). I haven’t seen this one – but this is a little fable about a man (Bill), a dog (Fred) and a duck (Alf) who enjoy bouncing together. When Bill comes into an inheritance he buys everything he wants and squanders his money. At one point he bounces into a hot dog stand, crashing and losing his memory. Alf and Fred save him – and they end up opening an agency to sell “happiness”. The moral of the story: “It’s easier to sell happiness than to buy it.” It’s told without dialogue, with occasional inter-titles. David Carins at Shadowplay.com says, “Its a simple, even twee, rags-to-riches type story, enlivened by a disrespectful approach to style and production values Godfrey creates a style by ignoring or celebrating the clashes of mixed media, and doesnt bother about things looking cheap.” L’oeuf à la coque was produced in 1963, but submitted this year. No video available. Apparently it’s about the misadventures of “an apparently tipsy and over-confident boiled egg”. Boy, I also have nothing on this film – other than it was written and directed by USC student Hal Barwood. This film won several awards, and Barwood himself went on to become a major Hollywood screenwriter (The Sugarland Express, MacArthur, Dragonslayer), and Lucasfilm video game creator (Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, Star Wars: Yoda Stories). If anyone locates a copy, let me know! Claude is a cute 3-minute UCLA student film – made by future head-of-UCLA-Animation-Worksop, Professor Dan McLaughlin. Claude is a small and silent boy who carries around a box to which he keeps adding dials, antenna, etc. His parents are extremely rich, throughout the film Calude’s father keeps telling his son: “Claude, you’ll never amount to anything.” Mother several times exasperatedly asks him: “Can’t you do anything, Claude?”. Claude says nothing but, in the end, he has the last act: he twiddles the dials on his completed box and vaporizes both parents. More about the late Dan McLaughlin and Claude, click here. Another Ralph Bakshi Sad Cat cartoon; this one is not much different than the last – though perhaps a little sadder. This time Gadmouse (the apprentice good fairy) tries to help Sad Cat by giving him slick duds to join his brothers who are being judged as “the best dressed cats in the kingdom”. While en route to the fashion show, Sad Cat crashes into his mean brothers and all their clothes get mixed up. Next thing you know, Sad Cat’s new “beat” look wins first prize. Soon the entire kingdom wants “beat suits” – and Sad Cat has a future as a tailor, producing the suits – unfortunately under the supervision of his mean brothers. Nudnik – who lives in a hole under a moving crane – emerges from his hole and goes about a typical day of everything going wrong. At one point, a bank robber accidentally thinks he hit Nudnik with his stolen car – and runs away from the scene of his “crime”. This leaves Nudnik in control of the car – or so he thinks. Everything goes wrong – from getting trapped in the seat cushions, to totaling the vehicle. In the end Nudnik gets arrested for car theft. ENTER HAMLET (School Of Visual Arts) Fred Mogubgub I’m a fan of Fred Mogubgub. I recall first seeing his name on a series of psychedelic full-tabloid-page drawings that graced the back cover of The East Village Other back in the late 60s. Always thought his funny name was a pseudonym (heck I thought “R. Crumb” was a pseudonym back then too). I later found out he was an avant grade artist and animator who had partnered with Pablo Ferro, made some of the coolest commercials in the 1960s, and later animated with R.O. Blechman. Enter Hamlet is a little delight. You can tell he’s having a good time making this movie. I assume he was teaching at SVA went he produced this (he would would have been 38 in 1965). Maybe not a nominee – but it makes me smile. The first cartoon of DePatie-Freleng’s second series – this one based on the Inspector Clouseau character as featured in The Pink Panther sequel, A Shot In The Dark. Friz directed this one (Gerry Chiniquy received a co-director credit) to set the tone. Using the Mancini Shot In The Dark theme, and dialogue delivered by three of the best – Pat Harrington Jr. as the Inspector and Deux Deux, Larry Storch as the Commissioner, and Paul Frees as two heads of the 3-headed Brothers Matzoriley (“Weft”, “White” and the politically incorrect “Wong”). Again, the studio comes up with a new visual style, unique to this series, based on Tom Yakutis strong designs – and visual gags abound with the shape shifting Matzoriley’s. A strong studio cartoon… personally, I wish it were nominated. One of seven Tales of Hoffnung cartoons produced by Halas and Batchelor for the BBC – these films were based on the drawings and stories of musician, cartoonist and humorist Gerard Hoffnung. A very likable cartoon, with funny drawing and (at times) great animation by Harold Whitaker. Pleasing, but average – and that’s why, I suppose, this film wasn’t nominated. One of the best of the Gene Deitch “How To” films – I’m genuinely surprised this didn’t rate a nomination. Perhaps it compared unfavorably with The Dot and The Line or maybe there was Deitch-fatigue at this point. It’s a very funny concept – especially if you are dog lover. Treacher’s droll narration is spot-on; the situations are hilariously familiar, and the various dog designs are different and contemporary. Can’t find this online. Not even an image. Boxoffice Magazine reviewed it in their 10/4/65 issue: Leonard Glasser, whose writing and directing talents contribute to Ernest Pintoff’s memorable “TThe Violinist” and “The Old Man and The Flower” emerges as a film creator of first rank with this cartoon effort; three men, all named Howard (Voices of Paul Dooley, Anthony Holland and Gene Troobnick) cope with living in an otherwise humanness world. Animation is skillfully executed, Glasser is listed as writer-director. Roberty Staats produced and Vincent Cafarelli supervised the animation. A henpecked man has an itch which sprout into wings, allowing him to fly. Hermione Gingold voices the man’s wife. One of the best of the Paramount cartoons of the 1960s – and the ambition shows. Howard Post directs, inspired by Ronald Searle art, Marty Taras was head animator. Howard Post’s best cartoons (like this) are really good – his bad ones are truly awful. I’d like to think that films like The Itch was where he wished to go during his short tenure as creative head at Paramount – the bad cartoons he directed were just churned out to meet the strict deadlines. The best I can say is: this one was worthy of submitting to the Academy. (Note: the pan background at 2:28 is a reused/repainted Metropolis layout from the Fleischer Superman cartoons). Cartoonist/comedy writer Jack Mendelsohn was one of Howard Post’s best friends. When Post got the opportunity to head the Paramount Cartoon Studio (with the passing of Seymour Kneitel in 1964) he swung a deal to adapt Mendelsohn’s syndicated comic strip, Jacky’s Diary, to several animated theatrical shorts. Here, Jacky narrates the story of Holland and how he saved Amsterdam (“Amster-darn“) from a flood. A Leak In The Dyke turned out pretty well. As with the comic strip, the short is drawn with a primitive, child’s art style, which works with the limited animation and low budgets at Paramount. Animation allows us to create images we can’t otherwise photograph and communicate stories we can’t easily visualize. There is no better demonstration of this than the films of Alexander Alexieff and Claire Parker. Thirty years after their first animated film using the pin screen technique (Night on Bald Mountain, 1933) Alexieff and Parker made The Nose, based on the short story by 19th Century Russian author Nikolai Gogol. I still don’t exactly understand how the pin screen works – but the visuals are amazing, the storytelling compelling. This one might have been ‘above the heads’ of the committee at the Academy – but its a great example of the diversity of voices in animation, which at long last were being heard. Via a plot synopsis from distributor Pathe Contemporary Films: In The Top, a red fuzzy ceiling is made to represent “the top” – what people strive for and what they react to in a variety of ways. The characters are at once funny and tragic. One man pays bricklayers to build a stairway up to the top; once up, he keeps the bricks to drop on people below. Other characters use the top simply to grab money from it and don’t seem to want to stay there. There is no story here, only brief, incisive comments on the ways that people go after “the top”. THE WILD CHASE (Warner Bros.) Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt Warner Bros. immediately had second thoughts after they ceased production of cartoon shorts towards the end of 1962. Producer DePatie and director Freleng had leased the abandoned space on the studio lot a year later to begin their own independent operation – and hit pay dirt with the Pink Panther shorts in 1964. Warner Bros. now found themselves still wanting new shorts – but this time contracting via an outside shop (DePatie-Freleng) at a lower cost. Warners could make due by reissuing classic Bugs Bunny cartoons, but felt they needed more with The Road Runner, Speedy Gonzales and Daffy Duck to build a library that could eventually sold to television. Freleng devised an idea to save further bucks by teaming Daffy and Speedy – so any one cartoon could be sold either as part of a Speedy package or to a Daffy series. I suppose it was inevitable. Pairing the two super-fast characters in one cartoon was genius. Add the Coyote and Sylvester and it can’t miss – except it does. Big Time. What a disappointment. What a bore. Freleng wastes no opportunity to reuse animation from the old Chuck Jones cartoons. The whole thing is lazy – even the ending, which I assume should have had “The End” appear as fireworks in the sky (ala The Three Caballeros), just falls flat. Want to appreciate what Freleng and crew could still do? Watch The Inspector cartoon above. Note in the documentation above that Assault And Peppered, a mediocre McKimson Speedy and Daffy cartoon, was submitted but withdrawn. The equally unworthy Wild Chase made it to the screening. I can only assume the Shorts Committee did what millions of moviegoers did when this came on screen at drive-in’s across the country – they went to the rest-room to take a leak. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is the best of the Disney Winnie The Pooh featurettes, in my humble opinion. It set the stage for all future Disney Pooh shorts, series and features to come. Based on the first two chapters of the first book by A. A. Milne, this was a tasteful, gentle adaptation and – despite some stylistic artistic changes – quite faithful to the tone of the original stories. I’m genuinely surprised this film wasn’t nominated – maybe it got lost in the shuffle, with such a large pool of nominees; maybe the shorts branch still felt some peer pressure to award the “dots” and “lines” of modern progressive animation… regardless, the second Pooh featuette would indeed be recognized a few years later – perhaps to make up for this oversight. I don’t see the whole short online… but here’s a clip: WOOF-WOOF (Zagreb Studio) Boris Kolar In a year of personified dots and lines, this Zagreb short was worthy of recognition. Unfortunately it was not to be. Woof-Woof presents cats and dogs as abstract smudges, animated squiggles and doodles, in a simple (and still timely) plot that asks for unity despite our differences in looks and languages. Woof-Woof, indeed! Hungarian animator Jules Engel – of Fantasia and Bambi fame, later of UPA and Format Films – left Hollywood in 1962 for Paris, to paint and relax. Engel directed a few films during this period – one, an animated short, The World of Sine (aka Carnival), which was based on the print cartoons of Maurice Sinet. I have not seen it – only the clip below – but it looks pretty good. According to Wikipedia, the short was released throughout Europe by Jacques Tati! Engel would return to Los Angeles in the late 60s – and by 1970 would found the Cal Arts Experimental Animation program, influencing animators for decades to come. The earlier posts in this series: 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964. (Thanks to Libby Wertin at AMPAS, The Margaret Herrick Library) Academy AwardsChuck JonesGene Deitch I do personally favor BLUSTERY DAY over THE HONEY TREE (ever so slightly though), but I equally don’t understand why Winnie the Pooh didn’t get nominated this year. Maybe they thought its wide distribution with THE UGLY DACHSHUND would qualify it for 1966 and possibly a second consideration? Actually there were more than enough preview screenings as early as October of ’65, so this is a lame possibility. (Then again, a few others considered this year were in release since 1963 and ’64, so there isn’t a lot of rhyme or reason.) I also wonder if it suffered some backlash from high brow critics at the time who didn’t consider it British enough. The gopher was an obvious Yank addition (since no gophers can be found in the U.K.), but even that character humorously says “I’m not in the book”. Christopher Robin’s voice artist Bruce Reitherman might have sounded too American in the first film as well. Echoes of the ALICE IN WONDERLAND “too Disneyfied” backlash almost a decade and a half before. Ian L. Yeah, I don’t know what they were thinking by submitting “The Wild Chase”. Granted, none of the cartoons that year were GREAT- 1965 was another subpar year for Warner Bros- but “Rushing Roulette” or “Suppressed Duck” would’ve been better choices. Wow! So many submissions and only three nominees? This year’s submissions have a combined running time almost twice as long as those of the previous one. I wouldn’t blame them for not paying attention to some of the cartoons. While The Dot and The Line took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short for 1965, there are two other Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry shorts that, in my humble opinion, should have been considered for nomination for the 1965 Oscar for Best Animated Short: Tom-ic Energy and Haunted Mouse. And, over at Warner Bros, Paramount and Lantz these should of gotten some Oscar consideration as well: It’s Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (Warner Bros) Corn on the Cop (Warner Bros) Boulder Wham! (Warner Bros) Whiz Quiz Kid (Paramount/Famous Studios) Souix Me (Universal/WDP) And for the record, that’s Paul Frees playing the two heads: “Weft” the Boris Badenov type voice, and the Politically-Correct “Wong”. Pat Harrington Jr protrayed “White” (the “American” – but more like a suave “English” voice) of the trio. Later the Brothers Matzoreilys appeared in The Super Six but now Weft has a Irish Broque instead of a Russian Accent, Wright now as a nervous English accent, but Wong still remained the same with his Chinese accent. Both Paul Frees and Daws Butler did the voices in the Super Six version of The Brothers Matzoriley. Vincent Alexander August 14, 2017 11:05:38 am You can watch ALF, BILL & FRED here. It’s Bob Godfrey at his best: https://vk.com/search?c%5Badult%5D=1&c%5Bq%5D=alf%20bill%20bob%20godfrey&c%5Bsection%5D=video&c%5Bsort%5D=2&z=video7794836_164945934 That just takes me to some kind of people finding site. Are you sure the address is correct? Can you please check the address again? The link didn’t work. Maybe try this link? You may need to be signed in to watch it. https://vk.com/video7794836_164945934 Chris Sobieniak Yeah VK is basically a social media site like Facebook or Twitter, you have to sign up to see it if you want. Had I known, I would’ve helped Jerry on locating this film but I didn’t want to bring on the ire of Godfrey’s family since they’re pretty litigious on this sort of thing. Surprised Warners tried to submit “Assault And Peppered”. Not surprised that it got “withdrawn”. As for “The Wild Chase”, I recommend watching it with Paul Dini’s audio commentary on the “Looney Tunes Golden Coleection: Volume 4” set. I think he pretty much summed up everyone’s’ opinion on that short. I’m disappointed that the Academy didn’t submit “Honey Tree”. Interestingly, I had the same theories as JLewis on why it might not have nominated. Fortunately, the Academy made up for it (in a big way) a few years later. What I’m very surprised is that Lantz didn’t submit “Half-Baked Alaska” for a nomination. That was one of their last good cartunes (I have a sort spot for Marcus’ shorts). Kel Crum I remember “Alf, Bill, and Fred” was available on youtube for a short while. All I can say is it was very good. Wish you were there. Yeah I think that might’ve been Bob’s family who put it up initially (or at Vimeo). I think they got cold feet at people freely sharing this films around the net. dbear With such a diverse set of submissions, I’m surprised there were no more than 3 nominations that made the cut. Personally, I find it a shame LE NEZ and HONEY TREE were snubbed (the former because I find the unusual pinscreen technique absolutely breathtaking and worthy of recognition while the latter largely due to nostalgia and charm) ALF, BILL AND FRED is certainly worth seeking out. Oscar-worthy? Probably not, but it’s so delightfully silly it’s hard for me not to consider it as one of Bob Godfrey’s best. For 1960’s, I think “The Rise and Fall of Emily Sprod” and maybe “Two Off the Cuff” are also worth a look (as well as “The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit”). Shane Skekel The Dot and the Line was Jones’ last hurrah. However, his ’60s cartoons were still better than what Hanna-Barbera and Filmation were churning out. Andrew Hagan I believe “How to Live with a Neurotic Dog” was based on Stephen Bakers book of the same name. I haven’t read it in years but after watching the cartoon it seemed awfully familiar. I didn’t see it mentioned in the credits, but the original edition had illustrations by the great Eric Gurney (another former Disney animator and author and illustrator of the equally funny “How to Live with a Calculating Cat”) Regarding the DPF Inspector cartoons,was the Inspector meant to be Clouseau? He was never referred to as Clouseau in the cartoons. Couldn’t DPF use Clouseau’s name from Blake Edwards or the MIrsch Corporation? I remember both The Inspector AND Clouseau appearing in the 90s PInk Panther cartoon series. Charles Brubaker I asked David DePatie about this, and he said that, for copyright purposes, Inspector Clouseau and the cartoon Inspector are considered to be two different characters, something Blake Edwards requested, although he didn’t elaborate why he wanted it that way. There exists an unproduced “Inspector” storyboard where the main character is referred to as Clouseau, with the Commissioner explicitly called “Dreyfus”. Thanks for the reply & info. Am a bit curious why no Pink Panther shorts were considered following THE PINK PHINK’s big win. Was the Inspector enough? I understand that 1965’s crop was decidedly hit and miss, since they were still trying to figure out what worked best with this new super star. What was distinctive of the early entries was a curious emphasis on dialogue and narration, unlike the later films that focused just on music and sound effects (since panther pantomime worked best). Obviously giving him a voice in PINK ICE and fleetingly in SINK PINK was a bit of a No-No, even if the Rex Harrison imitation was quite unique. Yet supporting characters doing all of the talking FOR the panther did make for some belly laugh entries: Paul Frees’ Texas game hunter trying to lure victims for his trophy room with a self-made ark in SINK PINK and Mel Blanc’s drunk in PICKLED PINK are my personal favorites of this year. Nathan Isaacs and for some reasons, “Assult and Peppered” was crossed off as “withdrawn”, Daffy and Speedy Cartoons was the worst Looney Tunes Cartoon ever made in the 60’s. I Hate them so much! Sean Ramsdell December 20, 2017 1:29:31 am Also check out Mogugub’s THE POP SHOW with a young Gloria Steinem if you like ENTER HAMLET February 05, 2018 7:52:57 am The Top in it’s entirety: https://archive.org/details/thetop_20170601 RA Reimer I rather suspect that “The Itch” was influenced by Mervyn Peake’s 1953 novel MR. PYE. That is also about an Englishman who, to his embarrassment, sprouts wings. Leave a Reply to RA Reimer Cancel reply EDITOR: JERRY BECK Jerry Beck is a writer, animation producer, college professor and author of more than 15 books on animation history. He is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon Movies and Disney, and has written for The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He has curated cartoons for DVD and blu-ray compilations and has lent his expertise to dozens of bonus documentaries and audio commentaries on such. Beck is currently on the faculty of Cal Arts in Valencia – teaching animation history. 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__label__cc	0.598824	0.401176	LUCA Awards 2017 For the 4th year running Bookkeepers in Buckingham has been shortlisted for 3 major awards. Large Practice of the Year Employed Bookkeeper of the year – Gemma Griffiths AICB Employer of the year Whilst this year we did not win an award, to be shortlisted again is still an amazing achievement and an attribute to the fantastic status that Bookkeepers in Buckingham now holds in the bookkeeping profession. Bookkeepers in Buckingham (BiB) does it again! For the 3rd year running we have been shortlisted for 2 LUCA awards. On a cold November night team BiB head of to the Lord Mayors House for the annual awards. The winners of the 7th Annual LUCA Awards were announced at the ICB Global Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 29th November at Mansion House, London. The awards were presented by His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent GCVO, ICB Global’s Royal Patron. The winners were: Employed Bookkeeper of the Year: Rahana Iqball-Raffell, Bookkeepers in Buckingham Ltd Rahana, or Rah as we affectionately call her, walked away with the 4th LUCA award that BiB has been awarded in the space of 3 years. Rah has only been with us just over a year but in that time has become fully qualified and is now an invaluable member of our team. WINNERS of the ICB LUCA award Employer of the Year 2015 “We can honestly say that there isn’t anywhere else, or anyone else we would like to work for more.” (Team BiB) WINNERS of the ICB LUCA award Employed Bookkeeper of the Year 2015 This year, clients have been effusive about the services he provides. Mr. S Wood, Company Director at ‘Autofarm’, wrote that Laurie had “assisted us tremendously” with a “smooth transition” to both Sage Line 50 and Dragon accounting software: “The service [he] provided is second to none”. WINNERS of the ICB LUCA award Large Practice of the Year 2014 This much coveted and highly prestigious award was presented to Julie Austen on behalf of ‘Bookkeepers in Buckingham Ltd’ November 2014, by HRH Prince Michael of Kent. For those of you not in the know here are a few words to enlighten you: This is a Luca award for ‘best practice of the year’ representing the Oscars for bookkeepers! The ICB Luca Awards are exclusive bronze statuettes of Luca Pacioli, the Cistercian monk who is credited with inventing the process of double entry bookkeeping. Luca Pacioli’s 1494 book, “Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Pproportioni et Proportionalità” contains the first written record of the process and warns of the need for good record keeping; It quotes :- “If you are in business and do not know all about it, your money will go like flies, that is, you will lose it.” Luca Pacioli Cistercian monk Julie Austen’s Selfless Presentation 23/10/2015 – Bookkeepers Summit At the 2015 hugely successful Bookkeeper’s Summit, Julie Austen, Speaker and Member of ICB, was warmly received by her peers, as they waited eagerly to hear from one of their own.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0023.json.gz/line2920

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