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__label__cc	0.734023	0.265977	Top » Catalog » Samplers » MAonSA My Account \| Cart Contents \| Checkout [MAonSA] * MAonSA is only available from the MA site. Finally, the third MA Sampler is a reality! However, it is not just any sampler, it is an SACD sampler andÂ since I had been informed that it was possible to put 1 hour and 49 minutes of DSD Stereo on a single SACD disc, as well as 74 minutes on the CD layer, in addition to the fact that I wanted to test the "SACD waters", I decided to attempt history by producing the first 3 hour music disc! We introduced "MAonSA" at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and I was pleasantly surprised to hear from the attendees that I spoke to that many of them own SACD capable players.Â I suppose that some listeners do not know however, that a number of the (perhaps less expensive) Universal players, while they do play SACD, do not actually output DSD sound as the DSD signal is first converted to high-sampled PCM before being output in the analog domain.Â Sound like a farce?Â With THAT in mind, should MAÂ have released a DVD-Audio sampler?Â Well, since SACD is much more popular than DVD-A, we are sort of stuck, I guess.Â But, it still is true that the dedicated, truly HI-END SACD players really do output pure DSD sound. In any case, I thought that, if the SACD format sounded as good as many people think it does, that there should be enough listeners out there that may want to hear MA in a supposedly "better sounding format" than normal Redbook CD.Â There could also be some people out there not yet aware of MA, but who may develop interest because of this sampler.Â So, rather than just release a single album in the SACD format, I thought that the sampler would be the way to go and I would hear from many of you as to your thoughts on the music, the quality of this disc, etc.Â AND, I thought the novelty of being more than three hours long, would be enticing as well. I should perhaps convey however, what I Â feel has "happened" to the newly remastered music on the SACD layer of this disc.Â As far as my aging ears can tell, the music is expressed more delicately, with increased transparency and finesse.Â The low end is still there, while the presentation is more elegant.Â There are little things which I noticed for the first time upon listening to this SACD.Â This is encouraging, to say the least.Â Of course, the presentation will vary, depending on the machine on which it is heard, as well as the other audio components.Â I first auditioned this disc on an EMM Labs/Ed Meitner modified Philips 1000 Universal player which does output true DSD sonics, with STAX 404 headphones and a discontinued vacuum tube driver unit. I have to admit that since the original recordings were all done in the PCM format, this is not a true representation of pure DSD sound. We did however, use what we think is the best gear available, including a DCS 974 Digital to Digital converter, the Rolls Royce (both being from the UK!) of conversion and digital audio in general.Â We used a SADIE Digital Audio Work Station (also from the UK) which both I and mastering engineer Atsuo Fujita feel does little if anything to alter the original sonics of the master source and is therefore the best out there.Â We were also blessed with the full cooperation of Gabi van der Kley, the brains behind and owner of CYRSTAL CABLE in The Netherlands.Â She sent us handcrafted, digital cables to enable us to transfer data from the original master recorders, such as the "D-07A" 96 kHz Pioneer DAT and/or Fostex DV40 DVD-Ram Recorder, thru the DCS 974 and into the SADIE. Of paramount importance to us was the Stereo BNC to 25 D-SUB connector cable linking the DCS 974 to the SADIE.Â Unfortunately, digital audio workstations can be rather large and there is not much room to include true BNC connections on the rear panels; therefore the less than perfect 25 D-SUB connection. All computer workstations, are supplied with, at best, cabling that leaves much to be desired.Â We, on the other hand, had CRYSTAL!Â In any case, we went for "quality" throughout, using the best cables and the best gear we could get our hands on.Â I should emphasize that the "elegance" in the presentation of the music is very likely due to our use of CRYSTAL CABLE throughout the preparation of this disc. As for the tracks themselves, I have chosen not to write here in detail about each one, there being 32 complete tracks in total!Â Rather, the listener will find all the info she or he needs on the MA site, including all the covers, as well as data, etc.Â If there are any of you out there who require more information and input from us, please feel free to inquire via: The microphones shown on the cover of this disc, designed and hand constructed by Japanese audiophile and designer Junichi Yonetani, are unique to MA Recordings.Â Mr. Yonetani has been, over the years, a very enthusiastic supporter of MA, for which I thank him dearly. The microphones are DC powered, running on four 9 volt batteries.Â Differentiating them from the common, low level, phantom power variety of microphone, they are line level.Â Traditional low level microphone cables are done away with completely as they are no longer necessary.Â The outputs of the MA microphones are fed directly to the recording device, or Analog to Digital converter, in the case of digital recording. Of utmost importance are the diaphragms utilized to capture sound waves.Â The MA microphones feature the same diaphragms used in the famous DPA 4003 and DPA 4006 series microphones from Denmark.Â Â (www.dpamicrophones.com) The body of each MA microphone was machined from a solid piece of brass, then plated with rhodium.Â Each microphone weighs 701 grams with the standard DPA silver grid.Â The microphones in the photo are shown with the DPA "Nose Cone" which may be used in place of the silver grid to render the microphones slightly more omnidirectional in character than with the silver grid. Being as heavy as they are, the MA microphones require custom made holders, made from steel pipe.Â In order to make fine adjustments in positioning, the holders are fastened onto miniature balljoints designed for professional photography.Â The ball joints are in turn, placed on an aluminum "stereo bar" which is supported by a professional tripod designed for still photography. The original sampling rates on the DSD layer tracks are as follows: Track 1) M070A/Gitana, from "llama" by Silvia Perez Cruz & Ravid Goldschmidt: 88.2 kHz Track 2) M071A/Improvisation on a Love Song, from "A Night in Budapest" by Kalman Olah and Friends: 88.2 kHz Track 4) M062A/Taquito Militar, from "La Segunda" by Sera Una Noche: 176.4 kHz Track 5) M069A/Prelude - Allemande - Sarabande, from Suite en La mineur, by Marin Marais, performed by Andrea De Carlo: 176.4 kHz Track 6) M068A/Variaciones sobre el "Carnaval de Venecia" de Niccolo Paganini by F. Tarrega, performed by Gzegorz Krawiez: 96 kHz Track 7) M049A/Passos, from "Almas" by Joao Paolo: 96 kHz Track 8) M044A/Ajde da li znaes pametis Milice, from "Krushevo"Â by Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic: 96 kHz Track 9) M052A/Malena, from "Sera una Noche" by Sera Una Noche: 96 kHz Track 10) M045A/Certeza, from "O Exilio" by Joao Paolo: 96 kHz Track 11) M046A/Meu Amor deu um Lenco, from "Senhora da Lapa" by Maria Ana Bobone: 96 kHz Track 12) M026A/Murakkaz Ah Ya Muddasin, from "The Splendour of Al Andalus" by Calamus: 96 kHz Track 13) M025A/Noche Maravillosa, from "Salterio" by Begona Olavide:Â Â 96 kHz Track 14) M043A/Terra Da Esperanca Perdida, from "Sete Ondas" by Mauro Refosco: 96 kHz Track 15) M058A/Vitamin C, from "Old School" by Peter Epstein: 96 kHz Track 16) M029A/Jovano Jovanke, from "Old Country" by Miroslav Tadic & Howard Levy: 96 kHz Track 17) M057A/Esquina, from "Esquina" by Joao Paolo & Peter Epstein: 96 kHz Track 18) M047A/Solace from "Solus" by Peter Epstein: 96 kHz Track 19) Chopin's Berceuse, performed by Gabriella Kafer at Belvarosi Szent Mihaly Templom, Budapest: 88.2 kHz (no release date for this recording) For information about Crystal Cable:Â www.crystalcable.com For information about DCS:Â www.dcsltd.co.uk For information about SADIE:Â www.sadie.com For information about the Hang, the mysterious metallic instrument heard on the first track on the DSD layer:Â www.hangfan.co.uk Todd Garfinkle/MA Â Â CRYSTAL CONNECT IPod CABLE (mini-jack to mini-jack) - Half Meter Just listen to it, you will be addicted For me,it 's more ..	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2376
__label__cc	0.707253	0.292747	Meeting Coverage > AHA AHA: Accident Kills Noted Cardiologist by Peggy Peck Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage Today November 17, 2009 ORLANDO -- A Harvard cardiologist was killed here Monday when he was hit by a car while jogging. Kenneth Baughman, MD, 63, director of the advanced heart disease program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was attending the American Heart Association meeting. Before joining the Brigham, Baughman served as director of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Clyde Yancy, MD, president of the AHA, said Baughman's death left him and other cardologists with "a profound sense of loss. His contributions to cardiology and heart failure were important, and his legacy as a scholar, investigator, clinician, and gentleman will remain." "Ken was a physicians' physician, an exemplar of how you can lead and teach as a model to others," said Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD, a professor of medicine at Hopkins. "Generations of Osler house officers and Hopkins medical residents will mourn his passing." No additional details have been released. More in Meeting Coverage Predicting Alzheimer's Doc, I Think I Might Have CTE Cumulative Cognitive Reserve Tied to Dementia Risk	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2378
__label__wiki	0.664269	0.664269	This Is Exactly How Astronauts Stay in Shape in Outer Space The International Space Station is equipped with three machines to give them a total-body workout By Danielle Zickl Two weeks ago, astronaut Peggy Whitson stepped foot on Earth for the first time in 288 days. Since her first space expedition in 2002, the 57-year-old has spent a total of 665 days in space, a record for the longest total time spent there — and somehow, during this time, she stayed totally fit. Which begs the question: exactly how do astronauts exercise in outer space? Exercise may not be something you think astronauts make a priority, what with all the exploration and research they have to do every day. But working out in outer space is just as important as it is on Earth, maybe even more so. According to Digital Trends, the average space visitor loses somewhere in the range of 11 to 17 percent of their strength, 10 percent of their endurance, and up to seven percent of their bone density. To try and offset these effects, NASA requires its astronauts to exercise for two and a half hours a day. (But for those of you here on Earth looking for a workout program to build up your own strength and endurance, check out Metashred Extreme from Men's Health.) The International Space Station (ISS) is equipped with three machines to give astronauts a total-body workout: a stationary bike, a treadmill, and a weightlifting machine called ARED, for Advanced Resistive Exercise Device. Try this single-leg squat progression next time you hit the gym: Each of these are specifically designed for space, since normal workout equipment would be useless in zero gravity. Take the ARED, for example: if you tried to lift regular dumbbells in space, they wouldn’t weigh anything, and your workout would be pretty pointless. So instead, this machine uses flywheels and vacuum cylinders to create resistance. Astronauts can do exercises like squats, bench presses, and deadlifts. When they use the treadmill, they have to be harnessed in so they won’t go flying. Since adopting these changes, "our crews are coming back in much better shape, they recover much quicker," Richard Scheuring, a NASA flight surgeon told Engadget earlier this month. "Generally, if our astronauts stick to our post-flight reconditioning program and they've worked hard in space, within 30 days of coming back from a six-month mission, we can have them at their baseline numbers for strength flexibility and stamina." So if astronauts can exercise in space, you may be wondering what else they can do that you don’t realize, like have sex. As we reported earlier this year, it’s definitely possible. "There are more dangerous things you can do in space than that," astronaut Mike Massimino originally told Gizmodo. "If you’re looking for sex not to procreate but just to experience it, that’s one thing, but how would a fetus develop in zero gravity? It probably wouldn’t go very well." Danielle Zickl Associate Health & Fitness Editor Danielle specializes in interpreting and reporting the latest health research and also writes and edits in-depth service pieces about fitness, training, and nutrition. More From Fitness Get Fit Fast With This 18-Minute HIIT Workout How Manny Pacquiao Trains After 40 This Dumbbell Abs Series Will Shred Your Core How Improving Your Mobility Can Improve Your Life Blow Up Your Back With This Intense Finisher Grimes Reveals Her Absurd Daily Workout Routine The 12 Best Foam Rollers for Your Tight Muscles 40 Athletes Who Played Well Into Their 40s Follow The Fitness of These MH Pros 3Dconnexion Space Navigator Try This Workout From a USA Olympic Trainer Try Keanu Reeves' John Wick 3 Workout 9 Thoughts Everyone Has on Vacation See Who Won NASA’s Real Space Poop Challenge How Do Astronauts Stay in Shape?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2381
__label__wiki	0.871415	0.871415	“Medicaid doesn’t cover the broken part,” confirms Deidre Gilbert, a social worker at Miami-Dade County Disability Services. “We’ve looked for other help, but we just can’t find any funding.” Ephord has a conventional wheelchair, but pushing himself around with one hand is exhausting. “When my other wheelchair was working, I could go out to the bus, go to the movies, see my friends, apply for jobs,” he says. “Now it’s very hard to leave the apartment unless somebody comes to help me.” What he misses most are his epic video-game battles at the homes of friends who have a PlayStation 2 system. “He taught himself how to play with his feet, and he’s really good,” says his aunt, Latasha Williams. “I can hardly believe the way he can play that thing.” A repaired wheelchair would also allow Ephord to resume his job search, and make him a better candidate in a process that often seems like playing on the wrong end of a stacked deck. “I had a job for a while at Goodwill,” he says. “And I’d like working with computers — I’m really good with computers. But when I go to apply, they don’t want to hire him. They think I’ll hurt myself on the job and it will be on them. I tell them, ‘I can do the work.’ But they don’t want to take the chance.” There is no plaintive tone in Ephord’s soft, sometimes slightly slurry (another product of the cerebral palsy) voice. He is matter-of-fact about a situation he has faced his whole life. It’s a sharp contrast to the animation that lights his face when he’s asked about one of his few passions that can safely be indulged even when confined to his apartment: the Miami Heat. He laughs aloud when asked if the Heat will be as good now that LeBron James has returned to Cleveland, then grows earnest. “I don’t know why everybody’s mad at LeBron,” Ephord says. “He said when he came to Miami it was for one reason only: to win a championship ring. “He did that, he won two rings. He did exactly what he said he was gonna do, and now he’s left. I don’t know why that makes people mad. Everybody has the right to leave.” Consciously or not, Ephord’s eyes have drifted to the broken wheelchair in the corner of his living room — the one that thwarts his own right to leave. Wish Book is trying to help hundreds of families in need this year. ▪ To donate, pay securely at MiamiHerald.com/wishbook ▪ To give via your mobile phone, text WISH to 41444 ▪ For information, call 305-376-2906 or email wishbook@MiamiHerald.com ▪ Most requested items: laptops and tablets for school, furniture, accessible vans Read more at Miami Herald.com/wishbook wish-book Miami Herald Wish Book: Stories that open hearts DONATE: Make a donation to 2014 Wish Book CARL JUSTE MIAMI HERALD STAFF MOBILITY WISH: Ronald Ephord, who is under the care of his aunt Latarsha Williams, has cerebral palsy and is in need of repairs for his electric wheelchair. CARL JUSTE MIAMI HERALD STAFF Little Havana teen with severe spina bifida visits the Miami Seaquarium After this family survived Maria, Miami came to their rescue Little Havana teen with severe spina bifida gets her wish — and a kiss Miami Herald Staff Valentina Corpas, 13, of Little Havana gets a kiss from Bud the sea lion at Miami Seaquarium on Thursday. Valentina was born with severe spina bifida and is usually housebound. Her 2019 Miami Herald Wish Book request was to visit with friends and relatives at the Seaquarium. MORE WISH BOOK Their home was destroyed by a hurricane while they were inside. Miami came to the rescue He was a homeless teenage computer whiz who built a PC. His holiday wish: a laptop This disabled teen can’t even leave home. One thing would help her spread her wings. A mother grieves son’s senseless death, tries to reclaim her life in a safer place A failing kidney and pneumonia won’t stop her from knitting teddy bears for her girl Despite having cerebral palsy, he wants to live on his own. Some furniture would help	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2387
__label__wiki	0.798507	0.798507	Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz Mocked VP Joe Biden Just Days Before His Son's Funeral Four days after Joe Biden's son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer, Ted Cruz mocked the vice president — an apparent Cruz campaign trail tradition. He spoke to a group of Republicans in Michigan on Wednesday night when he ridiculed Biden, just days before his son's funeral. However, the backlash on social media was so drastic, Cruz did what no politician is ever supposed to: He apologized. It started with this joke: Source: Mic/YouTube Shortly after, a reporter asked him what he thought of Beau Biden's death after the event. "Heartbreaking and tragic," Cruz said. "Our prayers are very much with Vice President Biden and with Jill. It's a tragedy no one should have to endure." When the reporter then asked why Cruz made a joke about Biden, Cruz dismissively walked away. The social media backlash quickly ensued, with people expressing their disgust for Cruz's tasteless timing when it came to his dig at the vice president. Shortly after the event, Cruz took to Facebook and Twitter to issue an apology: Much like his remarks, the public was surprised by Cruz's regret given how rare it is politicians backtrack or apologize for remarks. "Politicians, like most human beings, find it difficult to admit their failings. Most have also been told repeatedly by political operatives and strategists that apologies only extend a story, spurring stories about the mistake, the apology, the quality of the apology and the subsequent public reaction," the Washington Post reports. The nation's reaction suggests Cruz's blunder has the potential to permanently mar his image and campaign. Only time will tell how much damage he has done and whether he can recover. Cruz has taken at least one lesson from this: It's never appropriate to ridicule someone during their period of mourning, particularly when a parent is grieving the loss of their child, no matter how politically advantageous it may seem.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2388
__label__wiki	0.850865	0.850865	Arjun Kapoor: Ranveer Singh is the original chocolate boy of Bollywood Published: Jul 09, 2019, 15:45 IST \| mid-day online desk Arjun Kapoor wished his close friend Ranveer Singh a belated happy birthday and tagged him as the "original chocolate boy" of the industry Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor did a film, Gunday, together, and ever since then, their bromance has been at its peaky. Arjun on Monday night took to his Instagram stories, where he shared a photograph of chocolate crepes. The 2 States star captioned it: "Belated happy birthday Baba aka Ranveer Singh (the original chocolate boy of our industry.)" Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor did a film, Gunday, together. Ranveer, who is currently in London to shoot for his upcoming film '83, turned 34 on July 6. He celebrated his birthday alongside his actress-wife Deepika Padukone. Meanwhile, on his birthday, Ranveer had unveiled his look from the upcoming film '83 in which he will be seen playing the iconic cricketer Kapil Dev. With the striking similarity to the 'Haryana Hurricane', the actor completely resembles him while he is the white uniform, thick eyebrows and moustache and all set for bowling. He shared the photo and wrote: "On my special day, here's presenting THE HARYANA HURRICANE, KAPIL DEV @83thefilm (sic)" On my special day, here’s presenting THE HARYANA HURRICANE ðª KAPIL DEV ðð @83thefilm @kabirkhankk @deepikapadukone @mantenamadhu @sarkarshibasish @vishnuinduri @reliance.entertainment @fuhsephantom @nadiadwalagrandson A post shared by Ranveer Singh (@ranveersingh) onJul 5, 2019 at 6:43pm PDT Touted to be the biggest sports film of all times, '83 is being co-produced by Madhu Mantena, Sajid Nadiadwala and Reliance Entertainment. The movie is slated to hit the screens on 10 April 2020. On the other hand, Arjun Kapoor's last outing India's Most Wanted made average numbers at the box office. The film was received well by critics, however, audiences gave a thumbs down to the film, which is based on true events and is about five men who saved the lives of billions of people by hunting down a terrorist, which, the makers have named 'India's Osama'. He will be next seen in Ashutosh Gowariker directorial Panipat. Panipat also stars Kriti Sanon and Sanjay Dutt. It is slated to release on December 6, 2019. Arjun will also appear in Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar alongside Parineeti Chopra. Also Read: Ranveer Singh more than hubby to Deepika Padukone Catch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates arjun kapoorranveer singhbollywood news Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh Groove on Tune Maari Entriyaan at India's Most Wanted screening Dongri building collapse: Bollywood celebs send out thoughts and prayers Arjun Kapoor sure would make for a dashing 80-year-old man; see photo Katrina Kaif stuns in a swimsuit on her 36th birthday; receives wishes Shanaya, Anshula, Arjun with Sanjay and Anil Kapoor's Juhu residence Popular Bollywood and Television celebrities who became parents in 2019 Fans praise Hrithik Roshan's performance in Super 30; check out reactions Gully Boy, Andhadhun, Super Deluxe bag nominations at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards Ayushmann Khurrana joins #SareeTwitter trend to promote Dream Girl; see photo Arjun Patiala song: The Sip Sip song will make you groove	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2390
__label__cc	0.601398	0.398602	Fernand Léger Fernand Léger, Branches, c. 1955 Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) Branches, c. 1955 Saphire 140 Original Color Lithograph 18 1/2 in x 23 5/8 in (47 cm x 60 cm) 20 in x 26 in (50.8 cm x 66 cm) 40 1/4 in x 34 3/4 in (102.2 cm x 88.3 cm) Numbered 50/75 in pencil in the lower left margin; printed on watermarked Arches Script wove paper by Mourlot, Paris, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. This work is hand-signed by Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881- Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) in ink in the lower right margin; also signed 'FL-51' in the stone in black. This work is in great condition, with full margins and bright fresh USD $13,000 GBP £9,750 Putting a new spin on one of his favorite subjects, Léger here depicts tree trunks and logs as objects in space rather than related to the ground. The gnarled branches form an abstract still-life composition, twisting and turning in unanticipated directions. The earthy grey-blues, sienna reds, and light yellows contrast with the bold black outlines. At the center of the composition, branches take on a new form- one that hints at curled and crumpled paper. By suggesting the presence of paper amidst tree branches, Léger depicts logs both in their natural and man-made forms and shows the versatility of the material nature of his subject matter. Created in c. 1955, this work was printed on watermarked Arches Script wove paper by Mourlot, Paris and published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Hand signed by Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881- Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) in ink in the lower right margin and numbered 50/75 (from the total edition of 75) in pencil in the lower left margin. This work is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work). 1. Saphire, Lawrence, Fernand Léger, The Complete Graphic Work, 1978, listed as cat no 140 on pgs 232-33, 285, another example from the same edition illustrated. 2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this work. This work is framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, presented in a complimentary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas. Fernand Léger Lithograph Le Puits (The Well), 1951 Marc Chagall Le Bouquet Bleu, 1974 Fernand Léger (14 available works) Why Fernand Léger? Fernand Léger’s unique Cubism contains its own populist vocabulary. The French artist's monumental figures speak to everyone; his strong color work and graphic sensibility, from cubism to still life, characterize these Léger paintings, lithographs, and sculptures Have one to sell? Sell Fernand Léger fine art with us Sell your Fernand Léger fine art with us. We offer free evaluations. Learn more about selling with us. Alexander Calder: Friendships with Leger and Miro	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2393
__label__cc	0.589993	0.410007	Could Private Jets Be the Future of Commercial Aviation? An extremely smart 25-year-old coder from Moscow thinks so. Terry Ward Arranging a weekend debauch with the boys in Vegas or a spontaneous round of golf at Whistling Straits shouldn’t be harder than figuring out how to get home from the bar. That’s the thinking that led 25-year-old Sergey Petrossov to launch JetSmarter , an app that hooks travelers up with Uber style. That means you can get home after drinking even if home is a thousand miles away. We had a hard time believing it was really as easy as all that, so we called up the Moscow-born boy wonder and asked him about the future of aviation and his plan to make NetJets look like a hassle. Uber for private jets? Seriously? Back in 2009 when I first started flying private fairly regularly, it was mostly for pleasure. I’d get my buddies together and we’d charter a private jet. But the process was really old school, the way the industry worked was archaic. You’d have to call on the phone, talk to a broker, wait hours for them to source something. Then they’d come back with paper contracts. And the information wasn’t always accurate about safety, the interior of the plane – the kind of things people who fly private like to know about. The process with booking a private jet was similar to how you’d have to buy stocks back in the 1970s. Everything was manual, you had to call a broker. What we decided to do is essentially kill the middle-man and give people direct access to air carriers through this app. So how’d you make that jump? I was involved with a few IT projects prior to JetSmarter and, after I sold them, I started flying private a lot. By 2012, I’d developed a relationship with a few of the private carriers I flew with, and I was sitting around with some of my developers from other projects and we were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if there was an Uber for private jets?’ So I connected with some of these carriers and asked for a real time feed of their schedules to see what would be possible. I got live information and made a BETA version of the app in 2012 and showed it to my friends and family who I knew had been flying private. When they plugged in an itinerary and a jet popped right up it was a complete ‘wow’ experience for them. I realized we were on to something great. We raised some money and I invested some of my own. You make it sound easy. So is it only sheiks and their ilk booking with JetSmarter? Well, when it comes to ad hoc and on demand charters – say you can want to charter a 737 from Dubai to London for tomorrow – of course the demographic is fairly exclusive. It obviously depends on how you spend your money but the way we consider it is if you have $2 million of liquidity you’re definitely thinking about ad hoc charter. But we are getting a lot of other individuals trying our one-way flights – empty legs where the plane is repositioning somewhere and we can offer one-way pricing or an affordable rate for an entire six-person jet. So there is actually an affordable component to this plan? Some 30 percent of flights in private aviation are empty – they’re repositioning to another scheduled flight. We are trying to efficiently pair that empty capacity with real time demand. This definitely opens things up the segment to people who earn say, even, $200,000 to $250,000 a year. Your business or first class fliers, in others words, can - every now and then - afford an empty leg jet from Point A to Point B if they’re efficiently using our app. What routes are the most common? Routes like Orlando to Ft. Meyers for example, or New York to DC. Maybe it’s a group of guys going from South Florida to Augusta to golf, or LA to Vegas – we see a lot of those. A lot of Chicago to New York flights, and flight from South Florida to New York City, too. Do you consider major airlines competition? In my opinion, all aviation started as private and should return to its roots. We are a tech company dedicated to solving that problem. Our next step is to take those empty legs and flights and try to make a technology that utilizes crowd sourcing and empty legs. I’m fine with sharing a jet with four or five other people I somewhat know, or don’t even know. We are betting a lot of people are. We’re trying to roll out jet sharing and collaboration and crowd sourcing. We are giving people direct access to these carriers and their information. When you implement jet-sharing with empty legs, we are talking about private flights that could be even cheaper than commercial economy flights on a per seat basis. That’s competing with airlines and that’s open to hundreds of millions of people. What we envision for Jetsmarter is not a service for the wealthy. Our goal here is to democratize private aviation and we want in the next five years to be truly competing with airlines. You must have some good client stories. Sure, lots, though we never tell names. We had an outrageous request for us to transport a ton of gold from Ecuador to Malta. We do Airbus corporate jets and Boeing business jet charters monthly - these planes are VIP-configured for royalty. We have people that are requesting million-dollar flights through our app. I have royalty using our app and top-notch celebrities using our app - and with no help from their personal assistant, either. When they realize it’s so easy to book something they like to do it themselves. You can book a private jet within a minute, paperless and cashless. We’ve done over 50 flights for some celebrities and never even talked to them on the phone. gearappsTechbusinessinternational	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2396
__label__cc	0.73424	0.26576	Faculty Member Wins Rosco Gobo Design Contest Philip Trevino Trevino's winning gobo Trevino's gobo on stage Philip Trevino, Technical Director of Dance, has been selected as the winner of the Rosco Gobo Design Contest. The Rosco Gobo Design contest seeks to discover and highlight the most useful, innovative new gobo patterns benefitting the lighting community. As the winner of the contest, Trevino’s design will be included in the renowned Rosco Gobo Catalog, the world’s largest catalog of gobo patterns and templates for use in any lighting design. Trevino’s design, a “dot grid gobo,” was originally created for a dance piece entitled, DESCENT at Brian Brooks Moving Company. He was looking for a way to “play with the idea of the body in relationship to the floor” and, not finding any suitable existing gobos, created his own by overlaying two lines gobos at a 90 degree angle. The result was Trevino’s “Square Radiant” prototype. Lighting Designer Tapio Rosenius was the judge that chose Square Radiant as a finalist. Though originally designed for dance productions, Tapio felt that the simple geometric pattern of “Square Radiant” would be versatile in numerous contexts, remarking that, “Geometric language like this is open enough for creative exploration.” In addition to being featured in the Rosco Catalog, Trevino will also receive a copy of his winning gobo and an Image Spot ® LED gobo projector to show it off. Congratulations on this wonderful accomplishment! MMC Sophomores Star in “Grease” at Riverbank Theatre Bianca Calisi ’22 and Josh Krol ’22, both studying musical theatre at MMC, star as Rizzo and Kenickie respectively in Riverbank Theatre’s (Marine City, Michigan) production which opened July 12.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2402
__label__wiki	0.79708	0.79708	MoboReader> Literature > Corporal Cameron Chapter 20 A DAY IN THE MACLEOD BARRACKS Corporal Cameron By Ralph Connor Characters: 36374 "What's this, Sergeant Crisp?" The Commissioner, a tall, slight, and soldier-like man, keen-eyed and brisk of speech, rapped out his words like a man intent on business. "One of a whiskey gang, Sir. Dick Raven's, I suspect." "And the charge?" "Whiskey trading, theft, and murder." The Commissioner's face grew grave. "Murder? Where did you find him?" "Kootenay trail, Sir. Got wind of him at Calgary, followed up the clue past Morleyville, then along the Kootenay trail. A blizzard came on and we feared we had lost them. We fell in with a band of Stony Indians, found that the band had been robbed and two of their number murdered." "Two murdered?" The Commissioner's voice was stern. "Yes, Sir. Shot down in cold blood. We have the testimony of an eye witness. We followed the trail and came upon two of them. My horse was shot. One of them escaped; this man we captured." The Commissioner sat pondering. Then with disconcerting swiftness he turned upon the prisoner. "Your name?" "Cameron, Sir." "Where from?" "I was working in McIvor's survey camp near Morleyville. I went out shooting, lost my way in a blizzard, was captured by a man who called himself Raven-" "Wait!" said the Commissioner sharply. "Bring me that file!" The orderly brought a file from which the Commissioner selected a letter. His keen eyes rapidly scanned the contents and then ran over the prisoner from head to foot. Thereupon, without a moment's hesitation, he said curtly: "Release the prisoner!" "But, Sir-" began Sergeant Crisp, with an expression of utter bewilderment and disgust upon his face. "Release the prisoner!" repeated the Commissioner sharply. "Mr. Cameron, I deeply regret this mistake. Under the circumstances it could hardly have been avoided. You were in bad company, you see. I am greatly pleased that my men have been of service to you. We shall continue to do all we can for you. In the meantime I am very pleased to have the pleasure of meeting you." He passed the letter to Sergeant Crisp. "I have information about you from Morleyville, you see. Now tell us all about it." It took Cameron some moments to recover his wits, so dumbfounded was he at the sudden change in his condition. "Well, Sir," he began, "I hardly know what to say." "Sit down, sit down, Mr. Cameron. Take your time," said the Commissioner. "We are somewhat hurried these days, but you must have had some trying experiences." Then Cameron proceeded with his tale. The Commissioner listened with keen attention, now and then arresting him with a question or a comment. When Cameron came to tell of the murder of the Stonies his voice shook with passion. "We will get that Indian some day," said the Commissioner, "never fear. What is his name?" "Little Thunder, Raven called him. And I would like to take a hand in that too, Sir," said Cameron eagerly. "You would, eh?" said the Commissioner with a sharp look at him. "Well, we'll see. Little Thunder," he repeated to himself. "Bring that Record Book!" The orderly laid a large canvas-covered book before him. "Little Thunder, eh?" he repeated, turning the leaves of the book. "Oh, yes, I thought so! Blood Indian-formerly Chief-supplanted by Red Crow-got into trouble with whiskey traders. Yes, I remember. He is at his old tricks. This time, however, he has gone too far. We will get him. Go on, Mr. Cameron!" When Cameron had concluded his story the Commissioner said to the orderly sharply: "Send me Inspector Dickson!" In a few moments Inspector Dickson appeared, a tall, slight man, with a gentle face and kindly blue eyes. "Inspector Dickson, how are we for men? Can you spare two or three to round up a gang of whiskey traders and to run down a murderer? We are on the track of Raven's bunch, I believe." "We are very short-handed at present, Sir. This half-breed trouble in the north is keeping our Indians all very restless. We must keep in touch with them." "Yes, yes, I know. By the way, how are the Bloods just now?" "They are better, Sir, but the Blackfeet are restless and uneasy. There are a lot of runners from the east among them." "How is old Crowfoot behaving?" "Crowfoot himself is apparently all right so far, but of course no man can tell what Crowfoot is thinking." "That's right enough," replied the Commissioner. "By the way, Sir, it was Crowfoot's son that got into that trouble last night with that Macleod man. The old Chief is in town, too, in fact is outside just now and quite worked up over the arrest." "Well, we will settle this Crowfoot business in a few minutes. Now, about this Raven gang. You cannot go yourself with a couple of men? He is an exceedingly clever rascal." The Inspector enumerated the cases immediately pressing. "Well then, at the earliest possible moment we must get after this gang. Keep this in mind, Inspector Dickson. That Indian I consider an extremely dangerous man. He is sure to be mixed up with this half-breed trouble. He has very considerable influence with a large section of the Bloods. I shouldn't be surprised if we should find him on their reserve before very long. Now then, bring in young Crowfoot!" The Inspector saluted and retired, followed by Sergeant Crisp, whose face had not yet regained its normal expression. "Mr. Cameron," said the Commissioner, "if you care to remain with me for the morning I shall be glad to have you. The administration of justice by the police may prove interesting to you. Later on we shall discuss your return to your camp." Cameron expressed his delight at being permitted to remain in the court room, not only that he might observe the police methods of administering justice, but especially that he might see something of the great Blackfeet Chief, Crowfoot, of whom he had heard much since his arrival in the West. In a few minutes Inspector Dickson returned, followed by a constable leading a young Indian, handcuffed. With these entered Jerry, the famous half-breed interpreter, and last of all the father of the prisoner, old Crowfoot, tall, straight, stately. One swift searching glance the old Chief flung round the room, and then, acknowledging the Commissioner's salute with a slight wave of the hand and a grunt, and declining the seat offered him, he stood back against the wall and there viewed the proceedings with an air of haughty defiance. The Commissioner lost no time in preliminaries. The charge was read and explained to the prisoner. The constable made his statement. The young Indian had got into an altercation with a citizen of Macleod, and on being hard pressed had pulled the pistol which was laid upon the desk. There was no defense. The interpreter, however, explained, after conversation with the prisoner, that drink was the cause. At this point the old Chief's face swiftly changed. Defiance gave place to disgust, grief, and rage. The Commissioner, after carefully eliciting all the facts, gave the prisoner an opportunity to make a statement. This being declined, the Commissioner proceeded gravely to point out the serious nature of the offense, to emphasize the sacredness of human life and declare the determination of the government to protect all Her Majesty's subjects, no matter what their race or the colour of their skin. He then went on to point out the serious danger which the young man had so narrowly escaped. "Why, man," exclaimed the Commissioner, "you might have committed murder." Here the young fellow said something to the interpreter. There was a flicker of a smile on the half-breed's face. "He say dat pistol he no good. He can't shoot. He not loaded." The Commissioner's face never changed a line. He gravely turned the pistol over in his hand, and truly enough the rusty weapon appeared to be quite innocuous except to the shooter. "This is an extremely dangerous weapon. Why, it might have killed yourself-if it had been loaded. We cannot allow this sort of thing. However, since it was not loaded we shall make the sentence light. I sentence you to one month's confinement." The interpreter explained the sentence to the young Indian, who received the explanation without the movement of a muscle or the flicker of an eyelid. The constable touched him on the shoulder and said, "Come!" Before he could move old Crowfoot with two strides stood before the constable, and waving him aside with a gesture of indescribable dignity, took his son in his arms and kissed him on either cheek. Then, stepping back, he addressed him in a voice grave, solemn, and vibrant with emotion. Jerry interpreted to the Court. "I have observed the big Chief. This is good medicine. It is good that wrong should suffer. All good men are against wickedness. My son, you have done foolishly. You have darkened my eyes. You have covered my face before my people. They will ask-where is your son? My voice will be silent. My face will be covered with shame. I shall be like a dog kicked from the lodge. My son, I told you to go only to the store. I warned you against bad men and bad places. Your ears were closed, you were wiser than your father. Now we both must suffer, you here shut up from the light of the sky, I in my darkened lodge. But," he continued, turning swiftly upon the Commissioner, "I ask my father why these bad men who sell whiskey to the poor Indian are not shut up with my son. My son is young. He is like the hare in the woods. He falls easily into the trap. Why are not these bad men removed?" The old Chief's face trembled with indignant appeal. "They shall be!" said the Commissioner, smiting the desk with his fist. "This very day!" "It is good!" continued the old Chief with great dignity. Then, turning again to his son, he said, and his voice was full of grave tenderness: "Now, go to your punishment. The hours will be none too long if they bring you wisdom." Again he kissed his son on both cheeks and, without a look at any other, stalked haughtily from the room. "Inspector Dickson," sharply commanded the Commissioner, "find out the man that sold that whiskey and arrest him at once!" Cameron was profoundly impressed with the whole scene. He began to realise as never before the tremendous responsibilities that lay upon those charged with the administration of justice in this country. He began to understand, too, the secret of the extraordinary hold that the Police had upon the Indian tribes and how it came that so small a force could maintain the "Pax Britannica" over three hundred thousand square miles of unsettled country, the home of hundreds of wild adventurers and of thousands of savage Indians, utterly strange to any rule or law except that of their own sweet will. "This police business is a big affair," he ventured to say to the Commissioner when the court room was cleared. "You practically run the country." "Well," said the Commissioner modestly, "we do something to keep the country from going to the devil. We see that every man gets a fair show." "It is great work!" exclaimed Cameron. "Yes, I suppose it is," replied the Commissioner. "We don't talk about it, of course. Indeed, we don't think of it. But," he continued, "that blue book there could tell a story that would make the old Empire not too ashamed of the men who 'ride the line' and patrol the ranges in this far outpost." He opened the big canvas-bound book as he spoke and turned the pages over. "Look at that for a page," he said, and Cameron glanced over the entries. What a tale they told! "Fire-fighting!" "Yes," said the Commissioner, "that saved a settler's wife and child-a prairie fire. The house was lost, but the constable pulled them out and got rather badly burned in the business." Cameron's finger ran down the page. "Sick man transported to Post." "That," commented the Superintendent, "was a journey of over two hundred miles by dog sleighs in winter. Saved the man's life." And so the record ran. "Cattle thieves arrested." "Whiskey smugglers captured." "Stolen horses recovered." "Insane man brought to Post." "That was rather a tough case," said the Commissioner. "Meant a journey of some eight hundred miles with a man, a powerful man too, raving mad." "How many of your men on that journey?" enquired Cameron. "Oh, just one. The fellow got away twice, but was recaptured and finally landed. Got better too. But the constable was all broken up for weeks afterwards." "Man, that was great!" exclaimed Cameron. "What a pity it should not be known." "Oh," said the Commissioner lightly, "it's all in the day's duty." The words thrilled Cameron to the heart. "All in the day's duty!" The sheer heroism of it, the dauntless facing of Nature's grimmest terrors, the steady patience, the uncalculated sacrifice, the thought of all that lay behind these simple words held him silent for many minutes as he kept turning over the leaves. As he sat thus turning the leaves and allowing his eye to fall upon those simple but eloquent entries, a loud and strident voice was heard outside. "Waal, I tell yuh, I want to see him right naow. I ain't come two hundred miles for nawthin'. I mean business, I do." The orderly's voice was heard in reply. "I ain't got no time to wait. I want to see yer Chief of Police right naow." Again the orderly's voice could be distinguished. "In court, is he? Waal, you hurry up and tell him J. B. Cadwaller of Lone Pine, Montana, an American citizen, wants to see him right smart." The orderly came in and saluted. "A man to see you, Sir," he said. "An American." "What business?" "Horse-stealing case, Sir." "Show him in!" In a moment the orderly returned, followed by, not one, but three American citizens. "Good-day, Jedge! My name's J. B. Cadwaller, Lone Pine, Montana. I-" "Take your hat off in the court!" said the orderly sharply. Mr. Cadwaller slowly surveyed the orderly with an expression of interested curiosity in his eyes, removing his hat as he did so. "Say, you're pretty swift, ain't yuh? You might give a feller a show to git in his interductions," said Mr. Cadwaller. "I was jes goin' to interdooce to you, Jedge, these gentlemen from my own State, District Attorney Hiram S. Sligh and Mr. Rufus Raimes, rancher." The Commissioner duly acknowledged the introduction, standing to receive the strangers with due courtesy. "Now, Jedge, I want to see yer Chief of Police. I've got a case for him." "I have the honor to be the Commissioner. What can I do for you?" "Waal, Jedge, we don't want to waste no time, neither yours nor ours. The fact is some of yer blank blank Indians have been rustlin' hosses from us fer some time back. We don't mind a cayuse now and then, but when it comes to a hull bunch of vallable hosses there's where we kick and we ain't goin' to stand fer it. And we want them hosses re-stored. And what's more, we want them blank blank copper snakes strung up." "How many horses have you lost?" "How many? Jeerupiter! Thirty or forty fer all I know, they've been rustlin' 'em for a year back." "Why didn't you report before?" "Why we thought we'd git 'em ourselves, and if we had we wouldn't 'a troubled yuh-and I guess they wouldn't 'a troubled us much longer. But they are so slick-so blank slick!" "Mr. Cadwaller, we don't allow any profanity in this court room," said the Commissioner in a quiet voice. "Eh? Who's givin' yuh profanity? I don't mean no profanity. I'm talkin' about them blank blank-" "Stop, Mr. Cadwaller!" said the Commissioner. "We must end this interview if you cannot make your statements without profanity. This is Her Majesty's court of Justice and we cannot tolerate any unbecoming language. "Waal, I'll be-!" "Pardon me, Mr. Commissioner," said Mr. Hiram S. Sligh, interrupting his friend and client. "Perhaps I may make a statement. We've lost some twenty or thirty horses." "Thirty-one" interjected Mr. Raimes quietly. "Thirty-one!" burst in Mr. Cadwaller indignantly. "That's only one little bunch." "And," continued Mr. Sligh, "we have traced them right up to the Blood reserve. More than that, Mr. Raimes has seen the horses in the possession of the Indians and we want your assistance in recovering our property." "Yes, by gum!" exclaimed Mr. Cadwaller. "And we want them-eh-eh-consarned redskin thieves strung up." "You say you have seen the stolen horses on the Blood reserve, Mr. Raimes?" enquired the Commissioner. Mr. Raimes, who was industriously chewing a quid of tobacco, ejected, with a fine sense of propriety and with great skill and accuracy, a stream of tobacco juice out of the door before he answered. "I seen 'em." "When did you lose your horses?" Mr. Raimes considered the matter for some moments, chewing energetically the while, then, having delivered himself with the same delicacy and skill as before of his surplus tobacco juice, made laconic reply: "Seventeen, no, eighteen days ago." "Did you follow the trail immediately yourselves?" "No, Jim Eberts." "Jim Eberts?" "Foreman," said Mr. Raimes, who seemed to regard conversation in the light of an interference with the more important business in which he was industriously engaged. "But you saw the horses yourself on the Blood reserve?" "Followed up and seen 'em." "How long since you saw them there, Mr. Raimes?" "Two days." "You are quite sure about the horses?" "Call Inspector Dickson!" ordered the Commissioner. Inspector Dickson appeared and saluted. "We have information that a party of Blood Indians have stolen a band of horses from these gentlemen from Montana and that these horses are now on the Blood reserve. Take a couple of men and investigate, and if you find the horses bring them back." "Couple of men!" ejaculated Mr. Cadwaller breathlessly. "A couple of hundred, you mean, General!" "What for?" "Why, to sur-raound them-there-Indians." The regulations of the court room considerably hampered Mr. Cadwaller's fluency of speech. "It is not necessary at all, Mr. Cadwaller. Besides, we hav "Do you know what you did wrong? It's alright if you just wanted to own me. But you should not have helped Molly leave me!" When Brian learns the truth, there is no chance for Hannah to win his heart. Molly, who wants to run away from Brian, seems to be the only one to blame for Hannah's misfortune... e only some eighty men all told at this post. Our whole force in the territories is less than five hundred men." "Five hundred men! You mean for this State, General-Alberta?" "No, Sir. For all Western Canada. All west of Manitoba." "How much territory do you cover?" enquired the astonished Mr. Cadwaller. "We regularly patrol some three hundred thousand square miles, besides taking an occasional expedition into the far north." "And how many Indians?" "About the same number as you have, I imagine, in Montana and Dakota. In Alberta, about nine thousand." "And less than five hundred police! Say, General, I take off my hat. Ten thousand Indians! By the holy poker! And five hundred police! How in Cain do you keep down the devils?" "We don't try to keep them down. We try to take care of them." "Guess you've hit it," said Mr. Raimes, dexterously squirting out of the door. "Jeerupiter! Say, General, some day they'll massacree yuh sure!" said Mr. Cadwaller, a note of anxiety in his voice. "Oh, no, they are a very good lot on the whole." "Good! We've got a lot of good Indians too, but they're all under graound. Five hundred men! Jeerupiter! Say, Sligh, how many soldiers does Uncle Sam have on this job?" "Well, I can't say altogether, but in Montana and Dakota I happen to know we have about four thousand regulars." "Say, figger that out, will yuh?" continued Mr. Cadwaller. "Allowed four times the territory, about the same number of Indians and about one-eighth the number of police. Say, General, I take off my hat again. Put it there! You Canucks have got the trick sure!" "Easier to care for 'em than kill 'em, I guess," said Mr. Raimes casually. "But, say, General," continued Mr. Cadwaller, "you ain't goin' to send for them hosses with no three men?" "I'm afraid we cannot spare any more." "Jeerupiter, General!" exclaimed Mr. Cadwaller. "I'll wait outside the reserve till this picnic's over. Say, General, let's have twenty-five men at least." "What do you say, Inspector Dickson? Will two men be sufficient?" "We'll try, Sir," replied the Inspector. "How soon can you be ready?" "In a quarter of an hour." "Jeerupiter!" muttered Mr. Cadwaller to himself, as he followed the Inspector out of the room. "I say, Commissioner, will you let me in on this thing?" said Cameron. "Do you mean that you want to join the force?" enquired the Commissioner, letting his eye run approvingly up and down Cameron's figure. "There is McIvor, Sir-" began Cameron. "Oh, I could fix that all right," replied the Commissioner. "We want men, and we want men like you. We have no vacancy among the officers, but you could enlist as a constable and there is always opportunity to advance." "It is a great service!" exclaimed Cameron. "I'd like awfully to join." "Very well," said the Commissioner promptly, "we will take you. You are physically sound, wind, limb, eye-sight, and so forth?" "As far as I know, perfectly fit," replied Cameron. Once more Inspector Dickson was summoned. "Inspector Dickson, Mr. Cameron wishes to join the force. We will have his application taken and filled in later, and we will waive examination for the present. Will you administer the oath?" "Cameron, stand up!" commanded the Inspector sharply. With a little thrill at his heart Cameron stood up, took the Bible in his hand and repeated after the Inspector the words of the oath, "I, Allan Cameron, solemnly swear that I will faithfully, diligently, and impartially execute and perform the duties required of me as a member of the North West Mounted Police Force, and will well and truly obey and perform all lawful orders and instructions which I shall receive as such, without fear, favour, or affection of or toward any person. So help me, God." "Now then, Cameron, I congratulate you upon your new profession. The Inspector will see about your outfit and later you will receive instructions as to your duties. Meantime, take him along with you, Inspector, and get those horses." It was a somewhat irregular mode of procedure, but men were sorely needed at the Macleod post and the Commissioner had an eye that took in not only the lines of a man's figure but the qualities of his soul. "That chap will make good, or I am greatly mistaken," he said to the Inspector as Cameron went off with the orderly to select his uniform. "Well set up chap," said the Inspector. "We'll try him out to-night." "Come now, don't kill him. Remember, other men have something else in them besides whalebone and steel, if you have not." In half an hour the Inspector, Sergeant Crisp and Cameron, with the three American citizens, were on their way to the Blood reserve. Cameron had been given a horse from the stable. All afternoon and late into the evening they rode, then camped and were early upon the trail the following morning. Cameron was half dead with the fatigue from his experiences of the past week, but he would have died rather than have hinted at weariness. He was not a little comforted to notice that Sergeant Crisp, too, was showing signs of distress, while District Attorney Sligh was evidently in the last stages of exhaustion. Even the steel and whalebone combination that constituted the frame of the Inspector appeared to show some slight signs of wear; but all feeling of weariness vanished when the Inspector, who was in the lead, halted at the edge of a wide sweeping valley and, pointing far ahead, said, "The Blood reserve. Their camp lies just beyond that bluff." "Say, Inspector, hold up!" cried Mr. Cadwaller as the Inspector set off again. "Ain't yuh goin' to sneak up on 'em like?" "Sneak up on them? No, of course not," said the Inspector curtly. "We shall ride right in." "Say, Raimes," said Mr. Cadwaller, "a hole would be a blame nice thing to find just now." "Do you think there will be any trouble?" enquired Mr. Hiram Sligh of Sergeant Crisp. "Trouble? Perhaps so," replied Crisp, as if to him it were a matter of perfect indifference. "We'll never git them hosses," said Raimes. "But we've got to stay with the chief, I guess." And so they followed Inspector Dickson down into the valley, where in the distance could be seen a number of horses and cattle grazing. They had not ridden far along the valley bottom when Mr. Cadwaller spurred up upon the Inspector and called out excitedly, "I say, Inspector, them's our hosses right there. Say, let's run 'em off." "Can you pick them out?" enquired the Inspector, turning in his saddle. "Every last one!" said Raimes. "Very well, cut them out and get them into a bunch," said the Inspector. "I see there are some Indians herding them apparently. Pay no attention to them, but go right along with your work." "There's one of 'em off to give tongue!" cried Mr. Cadwaller excitedly. "Bring him down, Inspector! Bring him down! Quick! Here, let me have your rifle!" Hurriedly he snatched at the Inspector's carbine. "Stop!" cried the Inspector in sharp command. "Now, attention! We are on a somewhat delicate business. A mistake might bring disaster. I am in command of this party and I must have absolute and prompt obedience. Mr. Cadwaller, it will be at your peril that you make any such move again. Let no man draw a gun until ordered by me! Now, then, cut out those horses and bunch them together!" "Jeerupiter! He's a hull brigade himself," said Mr. Cadwaller in an undertone, dropping back beside Mr. Sligh. "Waal, here goes for the bunch." But though both Mr. Cadwaller and Mr. Raimes, as well as Sergeant Crisp and the Inspector, were expert cattle men, it took some little time and very considerable manoeuvering to get the stolen horses bunched together and separated from the rest of the animals grazing in the valley, and by the time this was accomplished Indian riders had appeared on every side, gradually closing in upon the party. It was clearly impossible to drive off the bunch through that gradually narrowing cordon of mounted Indians without trouble. "Now, what's to be done?" said Mr. Cadwaller, nervously addressing the Inspector. "Forward!" cried the Inspector in a loud voice. "Towards the corral ahead there!" This movement nonplussed the Indians and in silence they fell in behind the party who, going before, finally succeeded in driving the bunch of horses into the corral. "Sergeant Crisp, you and Constable Cameron remain here on guard. I shall go and find the Chief. Here," he continued, addressing a young Indian brave who had ridden up quite close to the gate of the corral, "lead me to your Chief, Red Crow!" The absence alike of all hesitation or fear, and of all bluster in his tone and bearing, apparently impressed the young brave, for he wheeled his pony and set off immediately at a gallop, followed by the Inspector at a more moderate pace. Quickly the Indians gathered about the corral and the group at its gate. With every passing minute their numbers increased, and as their numbers increased so did the violence of their demonstration The three Americans were placed next the corral, Sergeant Crisp and Cameron being between them and the excited Indians. Cameron had seen Indians before about the trading posts. A shy, suspicious, and subdued lot of creatures they had seemed to him. But these were men of another breed, with their lean, lithe, muscular figures, their clean, copper skins, their wild fierce eyes, their haughty bearing. Those others were poor beggars seeking permission to exist; these were men, proud, fearless, and free. "Jove, what a team one could pick out of the bunch!" said Cameron to himself, as his eye fell upon the clean bare limbs and observed their graceful motions. But to the Americans they were a hateful and fearsome sight. Indians with them were never anything but a menace to be held in check, or a nuisance to be got rid of. Louder and louder grew the yells and wilder the gesticulations as the savages worked themselves up into a fury. Suddenly, through the yelling, careering, gesticulating crowd of Indians a young brave came tearing at full gallop and, thrusting his pony close up to the Sergeant's, stuck his face into the officer's and uttered a terrific war whoop. Not a line of the Sergeant's face nor a muscle of his body moved except that the near spur slightly touched his horse's flank and the fingers tightened almost imperceptibly upon the bridle rein. Like a flash of light the Sergeant's horse wheeled and with a fierce squeal let fly two wicked heels hard upon the pony's ribs. In sheer terror and surprise the little beast bolted, throwing his rider over his neck and finally to the ground. Immediately a shout of jeering laughter rose from the crowd, who greatly enjoyed their comrade's discomfiture. Except that the Sergeant's face wore a look of pleased surprise, he simply maintained his attitude of calm indifference. No other Indian, however, appeared ready to repeat the performance of the young brave. At length the Inspector appeared, followed by the Chief, Red Crow. "Tell your people to go away!" said the Inspector as they reached the corral. "They are making too much noise." Red Crow addressed his braves at some length. "Open the corral," ordered the Inspector, "and get those horses out on the trail." For a few moments there was silence. Then, as the Indians perceived the purpose of the police, on every side there rose wild yells of protest and from every side a rush was made toward the corral. But Sergeant Crisp kept his horse on the move in a series of kicks and plunges that had the effect of keeping clear a wide circle about the corral gate. "Touch your horse with the spur and hold him up tight," he said quietly to Cameron. Cameron did so and at once his horse became seemingly as unmanageable as the Sergeant's, plunging, biting, kicking. The Indian ponies could not be induced to approach. The uproar, however, only increased. Guns began to go off, bullets could be heard whistling overhead. Red Crow's voice apparently could make no impression upon the maddened crowd of Indians. A minor Chief, White Horse by name, having whirled in behind the Sergeant, seized hold of Mr. Cadwaller's bridle and began to threaten him with excited gesticulations. Mr. Cadwaller drew his gun. "Let go that line, you blank blank redskin!" he roared, flourishing his revolver. In a moment, with a single plunge, the Inspector was at his side and, flinging off the Indian, shouted: "Put up that gun, Mr. Cadwaller! Quick!" Mr. Cadwaller hesitated. "Sergeant Crisp, arrest that man!" The Inspector's voice rang out like a trumpet. His gun covered Mr. Cadwaller. "Give me that gun!" said the Sergeant. Mr. Cadwaller handed over his gun. "Let him go," said the Inspector to Sergeant Crisp. "He will probably behave." The Indians had gathered close about the group. White Horse, in the centre, was talking fast and furious and pointing to Mr. Cadwaller. "Get the bunch off, Sergeant!" said the Inspector quietly. "I will hold them here for a few minutes." Quietly the Sergeant backed out of the circle, leaving the Inspector and Mr. Cadwaller with White Horse and Red Crow in the midst of the crowding, yelling Indians. "White Horse say this man steal Bull Back's horses last fall!" shouted Red Crow in the Inspector's ear. "Too much noise here," said the Inspector, moving toward the Indian camp and away from the corral and drawing the crowd with him. "Tell your people to be quiet, Red Crow. I thought you were the Chief." Stung by the taunt, Red Crow raised his rifle and fired into the air. Then, standing high in his stirrups, he held up his hand and called out a number of names. Instantly ten men rode to his side. Again Red Crow spoke. The ten men rode out again among the crowd. Immediately the shouting ceased. "Good!" said the Inspector. "I see my brother is strong. Now, where is Bull Back?" The Chief called out a name. There was no response. "Bull Back not here," he said. "Then listen, my brother," said the Inspector earnestly. "This man," pointing to Mr. Cadwaller, "waits with me at the Fort two days to meet White Horse, Bull Back, and any Indians who know about this man; and what is right will be done. I have spoken. Farewell!" He gave his hand to Chief Red Crow. "My brother knows," he added, "the Police do not lie." So saying, he wheeled his horse and, with Mr. Cadwaller before him, rode off after the others of the party, who had by this time gone some distance up the trail. For a few moments hesitation held the crowd, then with a loud cry White Horse galloped up and again seized Mr. Cadwaller's bridle. Instantly the Inspector covered him with his gun. "Hold up your hands quick!" he said. The Indian dropped the bridle rein. The Inspector handed his gun to Mr. Cadwaller. "Don't shoot till I speak or I shoot you!" he said sternly. Mr. Cadwaller took the gun and covered the Indian. In a twinkling White Horse found himself with handcuffs on his wrists and his bridle line attached to the horn of the Inspector's saddle. "Now give me that gun, Mr. Cadwaller, and here take your own-but wait for the word. Forward!" He had not gone a pace till he was surrounded by a score of angry and determined Indians with levelled rifles. For the first time the Inspector hesitated. Through the line of levelled rifles Chief Red Crow rode up and in a grave but determined voice said: "My brother is wrong. White Horse, chief. My young men not let him go." "Good!" said the Inspector, promptly making up his mind. "I let him go now. In two days I come again and get him. The Police never lie." So saying, he released White Horse and without further word, and disregarding the angry looks and levelled rifles, rode slowly off after his party. On the edge of the crowd he met Sergeant Crisp. "Thought I'd better come back, Sir. It looked rather ugly for a minute," said the Sergeant. "Ride on," said the Inspector. "We will get our man to-morrow. Steady, Mr. Cadwaller, not too fast." The Inspector slowed his horse down to a walk, which he gradually increased to an easy lope and so brought up with Cameron and the others. Through the long evening they pressed forward till they came to the Kootenay River, having crossed which they ventured to camp for the night. After supper the Inspector announced his intention of riding on to the Fort for reinforcements, and gave his instructions to the Sergeant. "Sergeant Crisp," he said, "you will make an early start and bring in the bunch to-morrow morning. Mr. Cadwaller, you remember you are to remain at the Fort two days so that the charges brought by White Horse may be investigated." "What?" exclaimed Mr. Cadwaller. "Wait for them blank blank devils? Say, Inspector, you don't mean that?" "You heard me promise the Indians," said the Inspector. "Why, yes. Mighty smart, too! But say, you were jest joshing, weren't you?" "No, Sir," replied the Inspector. "The Police never break a promise to white man or Indian." Then Mr. Cadwaller cut loose for a few moments. He did not object to waiting any length of time to oblige a friend, but that he should delay his journey to answer the charges of an Indian, variously and picturesquely described, was to him an unthinkable proposition. "Sergeant Crisp, you will see to this," said the Inspector quietly as he rode away. Then Mr. Cadwaller began to laugh and continued laughing for several minutes. "By the holy poker, Sligh!" at last he exclaimed. "It's a joke. It's a regular John Bull joke." "Yes," said Mr. Sligh, while he cut a comfortable chew from his black plug. "Good joke, too, but not on John. I guess that's how five hundred police hold down-no, take care of-twenty thousand redskins." And the latest recruit to Her Majesty's North West Mounted Police straightened up till he could feel the collar of his tunic catch him on the back of the neck and was conscious of a little thrill running up his spine as he remembered that he was a member of that same force. Similar Literature Ebooks to Corporal Cameron	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2403
__label__cc	0.615956	0.384044	Top Picks 2019: Mene (MENE) Focus: COMMODITIES CEO and CIO, U.S. Global Investors, Inc. You might not yet have heard the name Menē (Vancouver: MENE), but you could soon enough, especially if you’re in the market for fine jewelry, explains Frank Holmes, CEO & chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors and editor of Frank Talk. Founded in 2017 by Roy Sebag, co-founder of gold financial services firm Goldmoney, and Diana Widmaier-Picasso, granddaughter of — you guessed it —Pablo Picasso, Menē’s mission is to disrupt the gold jewelry market by selling directly to the consumer and pricing its merchandise fairly and transparently. Unlike traditional sellers like Tiffany & Co. (TIF) and Cartier, which sometimes have high premiums, Menē prices its jewelry based on the changing value of gold. It then charges a 15 percent to 20 percent design and production fee on top of that. What also sets the company apart is that its jewelry—from earrings to necklaces, bracelets to charms—is made of 24-karat gold or platinum. No alloys, no insets of diamonds or other stones. That’s done to help the pieces retain their value over time. Here at U.S. Global Investors, we believe gold is money and a timeless investment. Menē, which takes its name from the Aramaic word for “money,” has clearly run with that idea, going so far as to trademark the phrase “investment jewelry.” It’s a business model that seems to have resonated with consumers and investors alike. In its first 10 months of operation, Menē did as much as $7 million in sales in more than 53 countries, as of October 2018. Subscribe to Frank Holmes's Frank Talk here… Related Articles on COMMODITIES Iran, China, Venezuela and Mother Nature are Adding to Crude Volatilit There are a number of fundamental, supply related and geopolitical factors weighing on the crude oil... Grains Enter Full Blown Weather Market as Funds Exit Longs Grain weakness continues as funds abandon long positions, reports Oliver Sloup.... Gold Options Play A recent traded attempting to take advantage of increased volatility in gold, provides an example of... Dude Where’s My Tanker? 07/16/2019 1:12 pm EST While the price risk due to Hurricane Barry is lifting, a new geopolitical factor is creating risk, ... Al Frank Asset Management 30 Enterprises, Suite 210, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2406
__label__wiki	0.951533	0.951533	Gulu leaders complain over delayed transmission lines Tuesday December 4 2018 Mr Selestino Babungi, managing director Umeme Limited walks next to an engineer at the Achwa hydro power project near its completion in Gulu district recently. Achwa hydro power project was constructed at $78m of which the African Development Bank lent $14.3m. PHOTO BY CHRISTINE KASEMIIRE Since energy cannot be destroyed, while the transmission line of 132KV is yet to come on board, the contractor reveals that a Power Purchase Agreement signed with UETCL stipulates that during the period of production in December when the dam is operational, Ugandans will have to pay for the energy that is being produced but not utilised. By Christine Kasemiire “An electricity pole along the road to Kitgum right before the Acwa Bridge caught fire in December last year. Another one shortly after came close to becoming ash, about 6 kilometres from Gulu town as you approach Kampala,” recounts Gulu chairman Martin Ojara Mapenduzi. Pole burning is one of the causes of the constant power outages in Gulu town. The practice he says, usually takes place during the dry season as natives indulge in bush burning sometimes after a harvest. However, one of the power distributors in Gulu, Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) when called during an emergency to the burning timber, were not in office. The chairman believes, UEDCL emergency response needs more effort to reinforce efficient operations. Gulu also characterised by its heavy infestation of swamps creates a challenge for power distributors to efficiently carry out maintenance of the poles. Bomah hotel had over six outrages in just two hours. In all incidences, a stand by generator would go on and off to accommodate the power drifts. However, power challenges are spread throughout the neighbourhood. 19 year-old Ibra Makene starts work at 8am and closes at 5pm to copy music from his computer to his customers. He hopes to earn between Shs30,000- and 40,000 a day especially during the Christmas season. But persistent power outages let him earn Shs15,000 only especially when they last half a day. Impact on investors For investors, that is an intolerable situation. Gulu, which mainly houses medium and small agro processing industries dealing in sunflower and oil processing, among others, has seen factories such as Ari close shop because of lack of competitiveness. About three to four companies have cut their losses even after undertaking feasibility studies to invest because of unreliable power. “An investor intending to make plastic tanks came and was targeting Northern Uganda and South Sudan with over $10m [Shs37b]. After feasibility studies, they said their challenge was power supply,” he expounds. The discussions come on the heels of a protest held by residents of Gulu District recently when they could not stand the power outages any longer. Umeme, which serves Gulu through a line from Lira, arranged a stakeholder engagement last week where all the above issues were raised. Additionally, there was a call for sensitisation of people about the energy sector with a breakdown of all the companies’ mandates by Mr Lyandro Komakech, the Member of Parliament (MP) Gulu Municipality. Responding to the challenges, Umeme managing director Mr Selestino Babungi said that they are cognizant of power challenges and some solutions are being hatched. “We need to step up our game to ensure there is no mismatch between power demand and supply. We have increased resource deployment in terms of technical staff in Lira and Gulu,” he revealed adding that standby emergency contractors have also been deployed. Mr Babungi said government, has gazetted Shs30b for upgrading the lines to boost reliability of power supply in Gulu. “Government committed Shs30b to upgrade and work on the line, the Lira feeder as well as those on the Kitgum line,” he affirms. Achwa hydro power project 2, whose construction commenced in 2015 according to the contractors, is expected to be completed before Christmas. Whereas Gulu has a demand of 5 Megawatts, the dam has a generation capacity of 42 Megawatts. However, Mr Abatneh Enyew, Electromechanical works manager ARPE limited, said the dam will be completed in December but transmission lines to evacuate the power have not yet to been constructed by Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited. However, in a telephone interview, Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL), explained that the delay in establishment of the 133KV evacuation line is due to delays in procurement processes. Ms Pamela Nalwanga, UETCL principal public relations manager, says in addition to acquiring land, they are still awaiting approval of the tenders by the financiers KfW. “It is more about the tender documents because we have not yet hired a contractor because the financiers give us demands on the person we are supposed to hire. KfW has not yet approved,” she reveals. She said that procurement of land for both the line and substation is also yet to be acquired. Mr Babungi revealed that whereas it is not their mandate, Umeme will put up a 33Kilovotts line as a temporary solution to evacuate the power. The line is expected to come on board by December 2019. He affirms that the on boarding of Achwa means power would be evacuated and distributed to Gulu and Kitgum as substitutes in case of instability from the Lira line. Mr Enyew, however, declined to reveal how much Ugandans will pay citing confidentiality agreements. Addressing concerns of the delay in construction of transmission lines, Komakech said they will probe the minister of Energy in Parliament to ensure government is accountable to its people.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2407
__label__wiki	0.899523	0.899523	Search a film or person : ConnectionRegistration Weekly releases at the cinema Monthly releases Films to come Films quotes Films music Rate films Films loved Films liked Films I want to see Persons liked Films saw/average Films hated Films not liked Films I don't want to see Persons not liked Home > All films > Films Drama > Pasolini Pasolini is a french film of genre Drama directed by Abel Ferrara with Willem Dafoe Pasolini (2014) If you like this film, let us know! Technical infos Film quotes Already seen ? Saw (neutral) I hate Want to see ? Add to a movie list Length 1h24 Directed by Abel Ferrara OriginFrance Genres Drama, Biography, Historical Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film Rating57% \");"; var sefjspfok = ' 123457Next page > Go Go Tales (2007) Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama Themes Films about sexuality, Striptease Actors Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Modine, Lou Doillon, Asia Argento, Riccardo Scamarcio Ray Ruby, who manages Ray Ruby’s Paradise, is worried about less tourists visiting the establishment so he decides to hold a lottery to bring them in. Ray is running out of money, but people expect to be paid, including the pole dancers. A landlady by the name of Lillian plans on using the spot for a Bed Bath & Beyond location if she does not receive rent money. New Rose Hotel (1999) Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Erotic thriller Themes Films about computing, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films set in the future, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Erotic thriller films Actors Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, John Lurie, Gretchen Mol Deux amis espions industriels, Fox et X, veulent finir leur carrière en apothéose. Ils engagent donc Sandii, une très jolie chanteuse d'un bar de nuit. Elle est chargée de séduire un généticien japonais, Hiroshi, pour qu'il quitte son entreprise actuelle, Maas corporation, pour entrer dans la Hosaka corporation. Welcome to New York (2014) , 2h4 Origin France Genres Drama, Biography, Crime Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films Actors Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Marie Mouté, Drena De Niro, Paul Calderon, Ronald Guttman In the film, the character Devereaux is closely based on French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn. It tells the story of a powerful man, a possible candidate for the Presidency of France, who lives a life of debauchery and is arrested after being accused of raping a maid at his hotel. The Blackout (1997) Genres Drama, Thriller Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films Actors Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer, Béatrice Dalle, Dennis Hopper, Sarah Lassez, Steven Bauer Matty is an actor and popular film star who is tired of Hollywood life and moves to Miami, where he makes a marriage proposal to his French girlfriend Annie. She is not ready to marry him, and it is revealed that she had an abortion. Depressed because he lost his baby (though it was him who initially asked for abortion), Matty, together with his friend Micky, go out a wild night. At a nightclub, they meet a young waitress also named Annie and in the end of the night Matty passes out. A year and a half later, Matty lives in New York, leads a clean life visiting AA meetings and has a relationship with an attractive model named Susan. He is still obsessed with his former girlfriend Annie, and about the mysterious missing part of his night back in Miami. Matty travels back to Miami to look up some old friends as well as try to find Annie 2 (the waitress) who vanished without a trace. Matty eventually learns that some secrets from his past are best left unanswered. Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality, Serial killer films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films Actors Abel Ferrara A young artist, Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) and his girlfriend Carol enter a Catholic church. Reno approaches an elderly bearded man kneeling at the pulpit. Although Reno seems to recognize the man as his long-lost father, he is merely a derelict. After the man seizes Reno's hand, Reno grabs Carol and runs from the church. The derelict had a paper with Reno's name and phone number and requested a meeting with him. Dangerous Game (1993) Genres Drama Themes Films about sexuality Actors Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Victor Argo, Glenn Plummer, Richard Belzer Utilizing a film-within-a-film format, the overall plot involves New York City-based director Eddie Israel directing actors Sarah Jennings and Frank Burns in a Hollywood marital-crisis drama, Mother of Mirrors, which is about a formerly wealthy but unemployed husband who berates his newly religious wife about what he considers her hypocritical aversion to their sex-and-drug lifestyle. During the shooting of that film, Israel becomes more and more demanding of his actors, growing increasingly obsessive with finding the ugly truths beneath the story's surface. All the while, his own carelessness and bad behavior with his own family begins to erode him and to corrode his marriage to Madlyn (played by Nancy Ferrara, director Abel Ferrara's real-life wife at the time). Bad Lieutenant (1992) Genres Drama, Noir, Crime Themes La corruption policière, Films about drugs, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Portrayals of Jesus in film Actors Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Zoë Lund, Bianca Hunter, Vincent Laresca In The Bronx, the Lieutenant drops his two sons off at Catholic school. After they leave the car, and before he drives to work, the Lieutenant takes a few small bumps of cocaine. His first case is a double murder. He wanders away from the scene to get some coffee, and across the street, he watches a petty thief rifling through the trunks of parked cars, which the Lieutenant ignores. He approaches a group of drug dealers, who run off as he approaches. The Lieutenant follows one dealer into an apartment building and up the stairs. The dealer waits for him in the hallway, and the Lieutenant gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene. The Lieutenant quickly smokes some crack, and then sets aside a portion of the drugs for himself. The thief promises to give him the money he makes from selling the drugs in a few days. At an apartment, the Lieutenant gets drunk and engages in a threesome with two women. Meanwhile, a nun is raped in a church by two young hoodlums. Fear City (1984) Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime Actors Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Michael Vincenzo Gazzo, Rossano Brazzi A serial killer who is an expert at martial arts is preying on strippers in Manhattan's Times Square. Night after night, he visits smoky strip clubs, waiting for his victims. The owners of the largest company of strippers in the city are Matt Rossi (Berenger) and Nicky Parzeno (Scalia). Rossi is a retired boxer who retired after having killed an opponent in the ring. He is now seeing their whole business under threat, at the same time as he fears that the woman he loves might be the next victim. Ms .45 (1981) Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice Actors Zoë Lund, Abel Ferrara, Jack Thibeau While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a mysterious, masked attacker. She survives and makes her way back to her apartment, where she encounters a burglar and is raped a second time. Thana, her name an allusion to Greek god of death Thanatos, hits this second assailant with a small sculpture then bludgeons him to death with an iron, and carries his body to the bathtub. She goes to work the next day, and after encountering working with an iron, watching her boss Albert rip a shirt off a mannequin, she goes into shock, which worries her co-workers. However, when she looks at the trashbin at her office, she decides to dismember the burglar's corpse and throw the parts away in various locations of the city. Henry & June (1990) Directed by Philip Kaufman Origin United-kingdom Genres Drama, Biography, Romance Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films Actors Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Maria de Medeiros, Kevin Spacey, Jean-Philippe Écoffey The story takes place in and around Paris, France in 1931. The story told is one of a love triangle between the Millers and Anaïs Nin. She is in a stable relationship with her husband Hugo, but longs for more out of life. When Nin first meets Henry Miller, he is working on his first novel. Nin is drawn to Miller and his wife June, as well as their bohemian lifestyle. Nin becomes involved in the couple's tormented relationship, having an affair with Miller and also pursuing June. Ultimately, Nin helps Miller to publish his novel, Tropic of Cancer, but catalyzes the Millers' separation, while she returns to Hugo.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2416
__label__cc	0.642997	0.357003	News & Press: President's Corner A Message From The NABJ President- 2/5/16 Friday, February 5, 2016 (0 Comments) Posted by: Aprill Turner Greetings NABJ, The 2015-17 NABJ Board of Directors completed its Winter Meeting on Sunday and I am pleased to announce that we are off to a great start in 2016. Some highlights include: The NABJ Board and staff continue to improve NABJ’s financial position. In recent months, NABJ has raised $400,000 in revenue and developed a 2016 budget based on zero-based budgeting; LSU graduate student Wilton Jackson joined the NABJ Board as student representative, replacing Clayton Gutzmore who stepped down last month. Clayton will remain on the student leadership team as deputy student representative; and The NABJ Board approved a HBCU Task Force and welcomed two new chapters: Savannah, Ga., and University of Central Florida. NABJ 40th ANNIVERSARY Eleven of our esteemed founders and more than 100 members gathered in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 12 to celebrate the association’s 40th anniversary. It was a powerful tribute to the men and women who founded NABJ. Our founders who are also military veterans were honored for the service. After the reception and program, members gathered in front of the White House for a group photo. A special thank you to our friends at Buick for supporting the event as the Exclusive Host Partner. We will continue to celebrate our founders in 2016, and look forward to their induction into the NABJ Hall of Fame at our annual convention in Washington, D.C. MEMBERS FIRST I’ve met with NABJ members from coast to coast. Last month, I was on the West Coast for work and visited with NABJ chapter members during my travels. I served as a guest speaker at the NABJ-LA monthly meeting alongside Region IV Director Marcus Vanderberg. Prior to my visit with the Los Angeles chapter, I met with NABJ members in San Diego for a mixer. Both meetings were great opportunities to discuss industry issues and glean member insights. I worked with staff to initiate a new membership campaign -- #NABJCongrats. Look out for the biweekly eblasts that chronicle the successes of black journalists and media professionals. A big welcome and thank you to NABJ’s five newest Lifetime members: Xavier Dominicis, Tiffany Smith, Wale Aliyu, Kaloma Cardwell and Malena Cunningham Anderson. These five individuals joined as life members in the past 60 days as part of our “40 for 40” campaign in celebration of our 40th anniversary. Thank you to former NABJ Presidents Kathy Times and Herbert Lowe for coordinating the lifetime member campaign. NABJ-LA January 2016 Chapter Meeting TASK FORCES/COMMITTEES I held my first quarterly meetings with the NABJ task forces and committees in January, and I continue to hold monthly calls with the NABJ Founders Task Force. The objective of these calls is to keep NABJ stakeholders up to date on the association’s happenings and progress. Get more involved with NABJ by reaching out to NABJ’s task forces and committee leaders and see how you can help. The 2016 NABJ Media Institute programming kicks off this month. Registration details can be found on NABJ.org. The confirmed spring Media Institute trainings are: Feb. 27 – “The #BlackTwitter Conference” in New York City at Columbia University; April 8-10 – Region III Conference in Memphis, Tenn.; April 15 – Media Institute on Health in Washington, D.C.; and April 30 – Region I Conference at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md. SPREADING NABJ’S MISSION Vice Presidents Dorothy Tucker, Benet Wilson and Marlon Walker are working on advocacy efforts in their respective areas of broadcast, online and print. NABJ will publish their advocacy reports in 2016. I will be representing NABJ at the “World Media Summit” in Doha, Qatar, in March. The trip is being underwritten by the conference. I’m pleased to report to the NABJ membership that the relationship between NABJ and CNN has been renewed. In November, I had a productive meeting with CNN’s senior leadership in New York City. Look out for news about future collaborations between NABJ and CNN in 2016. The strategic planning being funded by the Ford Foundation is under way. The staff is working with members of the committee and our consultants to prepare the association for the next leg in the planning process: collection of stakeholder input. Other board highlights in the past few months include: Tucker attended the University of Missouri’s “Unity Conference” in November alongside MSNBC’s Rashida Jones; Wilson hosted webinars on the Nieman and JSK fellowships, and a student webinar on internships. Walker worked on the 40th anniversary NABJ Journal edition; Secretary Sherlon Christie is working on a Media Institute proposal and has stepped up as the board liaison to the Strategic Planning Committee; Parliamentarian Dave Jordan worked with Region III Director Gayle Hurd to develop criteria for a brand new Special Honor Award -- Journalist of the Year Market 16 and Under; Treasurer Greg Morrison has worked with the NABJ staff and Finance Committee to develop our 2016 budget; Region I Director Johann Calhoun, Region II Director Vickie Thomas, Hurd and Region IV Director Marcus Vanderberg are working inside their regions to expand NABJ’s footprint. Hurd and Calhoun are working diligently to plan their respective regional conferences that take place this spring; and Academic Representative Michelle Johnson launched a Facebook page for NABJ Educators. Our affiliate chapters are up to a great deal of good. I’d like to highlight the work being done by the Wisconsin Black Media Association, which has tapped into the power of mobile. In November, the chapter worked with Alverno College to host a Smartphone Conference. The program included a survey of must-have apps and provided training to ensure members are getting the most from their smartphone devices. #NABJNAHJ16 CONVENTION NABJ has been working closely with NAHJ to plan our 2016 Joint Convention. NABJ’s convention team is led by Elise Durham (co-chair), Melanie Eversley (co-program chair), Greg Morrison and Greg Lee (finance committee). They have been working closely and cohesively with NAHJ’s respective appointees. The workshop program proposal deadline was Jan. 22 and we look forward to the program committee sifting through the 245 panel suggestions. The early bird registration deadline (March 1) is forthcoming. NABJ members who are also chapter members are eligible for a $50 chapter discount if they register by the early bird deadline (March 1) and submit the chapter discount rebate form. Convention attendees may book their rooms once they’ve registered. I visited CNBC with NAHJ President Mekahlo Medina to discuss convention program opportunities. BUILDING A FISCALLY STRONG NABJ The NABJ Board continues to stabilize the association’s financial position by implementing cost-saving measures and ensuring transparency. We have implemented a ‘back-to-basics’ strategy that includes zero-based budgeting, meaning if an event or project is not properly funded, NABJ will not execute the event or project. This strategy has been working well. Also as a cost-saving measure, we have reduced rental expense by half in our national office by renegotiating our contract resulting in a yearly savings of approximately $30,000. The Board of Directors approved the 2016 budget with a unanimous vote at its Jan. 31 meeting. Drew Berry, a lifetime member of NABJ and former general manager and news director, was hired as NABJ’s Executive Consultant in November. He has brought his expertise to help move our organization forward. Many of you may remember that Drew served as our our Interim Executive Director in 2010, when he led a $1 million turnaround for the organization in a single year. Additionally, we’ve implemented a consulting concierge system that serves the needs of corporate partners and brought the booking of travel and registration in-house, which has contributed to keeping costs down. Our momentum continues to build. Our strategy has demonstrated to corporate partners that we are moving in the right direction, evidenced by the support and commitments already received in the past 60 days. 2016 PROGRESS The 2013-15 NABJ Board of Directors informed the membership at the Minneapolis Convention that NABJ was tracking to end the year with a $250,000 deficit. After taking office, the 2015-17 NABJ Board conducted an exhaustive review of NABJ’s finances. I updated the membership in October that NABJ’s projected 2015 deficit was higher than the previous board reported at the 2015 convention, and the projected deficit was going to be nearly $380,000. We learned just before the Jan. 31 board meeting after the books closed on 2015, that the organization finished 2015 with an unaudited $424,324 deficit. This increase was caused by several factors, including uncollectable 2015 convention sponsorships of $25,000, which NABJ will write off. Also, NABJ also had a modest investment loss for the year of about $19,000 plus fees. Fortunately, we have been hard at work to execute our ‘back-to-basics’ strategy, and have taken proactive steps to follow my charge to ensure there is no deficit in 2016. I am excited to report that these steps are paying off. Thank you to our members and corporate partners for supporting NABJ as we execute our plan. We are confident we have the right course of action in place to achieve our fiscal goals in 2016 and beyond. We will continue to pursue further cost-cutting if applicable in tandem with expounding our fundraising initiatives. The NABJ Board and Staff will continue to work diligently to deliver value to our members. The NABJ Board will meet for its spring meeting March 31 to April 3 in New York City to continue rebuilding NABJ and to conduct strategic planning sessions. Details will be posted on NABJ.org. Yours In Service, Sarah Glover NABJ President @sarah4nabj	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2421
__label__wiki	0.513269	0.513269	Stay Healthy During The Holidays By Jan McKenna It's the most wonderful time of the year! It's a time for bringing family and friends together in the joy of the season. However, the season also brings into our homes the potential for hazards if... MRSA Infections: Hospital Or Community? Before antibiotics many infections were fatal. When antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, many believed they were the definitive answer to curing bacterial infections. But within a few years so... Being A Good Visitor To A New Mom By Diane Elliott, RN Becoming a first-time mom is a life-changing experience. You are in a bit of discomfort as well. Your bottom hurts. Your abdomen hurts. You've been sleeping three to four hours at a time. Physicall... New Test & Trial Examine Risk of Recurrence For Breast Cancer By Tara Baney, RN, MS, AOCN Over 212,920 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year in the United States. It is the most common type of cancer among women in this country (other than skin cancer), according to the... Now Is The Time To Think About Getting A Flu Shot With influenza vaccination season upon us, now is the time to think about getting flu shots. The vaccines are generally available for distribution beginning in October and extending into December o... Endurance Training Technique For Competitive Swimmers Can Be Deadly By Jeff Ratner, MD, vice president, medical affairs, Mount Nittany Medical Center The secret behind shallow water blackouts and drownings revealed Over the past several years, an epidemic of drownings has occurred nationwide. The drownings include a surprising population of indi... How To Pack A Power Lunch By Jennifer Fleming, MS, RD, LDN Kids who eat a nutritious lunch are better prepared for a successful school year Come late August or early September, school-age kids all across the country may start their mornings like this: Alar... What Is Acid Reflux? By Lois Hassinger, RN Digestion is the process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed and used by the body. This process is accomplished by the digestive system's breakdown of foods into chemica... Visiting New Moms: Wait Until They're Home! There are certainly a number of energetic women who can birth a baby and never miss a beat. They look great an hour after giving birth and never seem to be tired (I have met maybe three). Some of t...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2422
__label__cc	0.738926	0.261074	2018-19 Stats 2019 HS Basketball Summer League IU-Northwest visit resumes home stretch Fresh off a home-opening 84-75 win over Olivet College of Michigan, Manchester University steps back again on the Stan C. Weller floor honoring Coaches Wolfe and Hoffman court inside Stauffer-Wolfe Arena Saturday, Nov. 21. Game details: Tipoff between the Spartans and visiting Indiana University – Northwest RedHawks is 5 p.m. … Live audio, statistics and video are available via a link at www.muspartans.com, the Internet home of Manchester University athletics. Spartan Shorts: Three MU players wound up in double figures Nov. 18 helping send the Black and Gold to victory. Senior guard Brady Dolezal (Tipton, Ind.) fired in 22 points, which included an impressive 13-of-19 effort from the free throw line; freshman guard Adrian Johnson (Indianapolis, Ind.) continued a strong first week in a Manchester University uniform tallying 17 points to go with a team-high five steals; and sophomore forward/center Enis Becirevic (Fort Wayne, Ind.) came off the bench to total 15 points. Coach Gerad Good's team, improving to 1-1, held a 43-34 edge on the glass, too, with junior guard Blake Brouwer (Elkhart, Ind.) grabbing 12 rebounds to add to a line that included seven points and three blocked shots … In other individual statistical notes, Dolezal recorded his ninth 20-point-plus career effort. It was the second in his last three games dating back to the end of 2014-15, and Brouwer's 12 boards were a personal single-game high and the second time he's grabbed 10-or-more. Along team lines, the 28-of-40 free throw total for the Black and Gold marked the most made and attempted charity shots in a game since the 2011-12 campaign … MU, winning the program's 10th consecutive home-opening game, brought the crowd inside Stauffer-Wolfe Arena to its feet early and often. After trailing 8-4 in the opening moments, an 8-0 run gave the Spartans a lead they would relinquish just once. The advantage expanded to as much as 10 late in the first half before the Comets rallied back and trimmed the margin to four at the break (41-37). Olivet continued to battle in the opening portion of the second half, eventually holding a 66-65 edge with 9:36 to play before the Spartans went on an 11-2 run and didn't look back. Home Stand Finale: The Black and Gold hosts Calvin College out of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tuesday, Nov. 24. Tipoff is 8 p.m. and is part of a doubleheader with the MU and Calvin women's teams. Sat, 02/16 \| Men's Basketball at Rose-Hulman L, 68-59 (Final) RC \| BX \| PH \| V Wed, 02/13 \| Men's Basketball at Bluffton L, 61-44 (Final) RC \| BX \| V Sat, 02/09 \| Men's Basketball at Hanover L, 66-62 (Final) RC \| BX \| V Wed, 02/06 \| Men's Basketball vs. Anderson (Ind.) L, 85-72 (Final) RC \| BX \| PH \| V Mon, 02/04 \| Men's Basketball at Franklin L, 85-78 (Final) RC \| BX \| V	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2426
__label__cc	0.736469	0.263531	You are here: Blog > Pantos and Christmas Performances in Newcastle, Gateshead and North East on Nov 06 2018 Pantos and Christmas Performances in Newcastle, Gateshead and North East In What'sOn,ThingsToDo,Christmas,Events,Winter Panto season is about to burst onto the stage (Oh no it isn’t… no wait, it really is!). Christmas wouldn’t be the same without a trip to the Panto or festive performance. There are classic pantos, new performances, theatre for the kids and shows for the big kids at popular venues across the North East throughout the festive season. Though many of you are creatures of tradition and habit, returning year on year to your favourite places – here is a list to help those of you who are still undecided, find the perfect panto for 2018… Tyne Theatre and Opera House: Cinderella Glad rags at the ready as you shall go to the Ball thanks to Tyne Theatre and Opera House this winter. Cinderella is brought to you by Enchanted Entertainment whose charming performance of the much-loved fairy tale classic will leave you feeling warm and festive. Fri 7 – Sun 30 December 2018. Tickets from £14 Sunderland Empire: Peter Pan You’re never shout of laughs, cheeky quips and panto puns at Sunderland Empire and this year is no different. Get ready for Peter Pan and all his mischievous adventures when panto favourites are brought to life by a glittering cast including Hollyoaks and I’m a Celeb star Jamie Lomas as Captain Hook and one of half of Dick and Dom duo as hapless but loveable Smee. You'll be rolling in the aisles at this show-stopping, larger-than-life panto performance. Fri 14 December 2018 – Sun 6 January 2019. Tickets £10 - £41.50 (plus booking fee). Theatre Royal Newcastle: Goldilocks and The Three Bears Theatre Royal never fail to bring the very best in panto glitz and glam, gags and giggles. This year will be no different to head along to see fairy tale classic Goldilocks and The Three Bears and enjoy the return of comedy trio Danny Adams, Clive Webb and Chris Hayward for another magical performance. Tue 27 November 2018 – Sun 20 January 2019. Tickets from £13. Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children’s Books: Peas vs Penguins Seven Stories’ winter performance this year is slightly more unusual but no less fun! The National Centre for Childrens’ Books bring you Peas Vs Penguins – the ultimate wintry showdown. Get ready for a fabulous experience as their Story Catchers shower you with silliness, seasonal party games and a fun-filled family extravaganza. For any littlies in your family, you may want to try their Mini Peas vs Mini Penguins edition especially for your special ‘minis.’ Peas vs Penguins runs every weekend from Sat 24 November – Sun 23 December 2018. Minis can enjoy their special edition during the week (excluding Mondays) from Tue 20 November. Tickets for both events are £5 per person. Northern Stage: A Christmas Carol Get ready to hear from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future this winter as Northern Stage bring you their imaginative take on an absolute classic – A Christmas Carol. Each year, Northern Stage pull out the stops to bring you a lively, vibrant, all-singing production and this year’s offering promises to deliver once again. Sat 1 December 2018 – Sat 5 January 2019. Tickets from £10 People’s Theatre: Cinderella The People's Theatre's festive offering this year is also Cinderella which has promised to explode onto the festive stage in a “sparkling shower of fairy tinsel.” Sat 8 – Sun 16 December. Tickets are £14.50 for adults and £12 for children and concessions. PLAYHOUSE Whitley Bay: Peter Pan Anthony Costa from noughties boy band Blue will be sailing onto the stage at PLAYHOUSE Whitley Bay to star as the evil Captain Hook in their version of Peter Pan. Panto jokes ahoy, set sail Neverland for some swashbuckling adventures and a barrel full of laughs. Sat 1 December 2018 – Sat 5 January 2019. Tickets from £17.45. Sage Gateshead: The Snowman It wouldn’t be Christmas without a visit to watch The Snowman at Sage Gateshead accompanied by the incredible Royal Northern Sinfonia. This is a truly atmospheric experience. This year get ready to go on a musical bear hunt first. Sat 22 – Mon Christmas Eve 24 December. Tickets from £17.50. intu Metrocentre: Christmas Pantomime with the Metrognomes The days between Christmas and New Year can often be a funny, timeless stretch. If you're popping out to do a little post-Christmas shopping or spending your vouchers - make sure to stop off at intu Metrocentre and experience the Metrognome's live rendition of Peter Pan. Free event. Performances daily from Thu 27 December - Monday 31 December. The Customs House: Beauty and the Beast A tale as old as time is coming to South Shields this winter. Experience Beauty and The Beast at Customs House the panto way. With vibrant costumes and the unique Customs House twist, you're in for a treat. Tue 27 November - Sat 5 January 2019. Tickets from £9.99 Snow White 2 - Appley Ever After at The Stand Newcastle It's a show for everyone, even people who don't like panto! It's a classic panto, with an alternative edge, like nothing you've seen before! Recommended for ages 5+ Tickets available for dates throughout December Pantos and Performances Just For The Big Kids... Newcastle City Hall: Laffs4Kids Possibly the most heart-warming experience you’ll have whilst crying with laughter! This is truly a brilliant event packed with top quality comedy and entertainment which epitomises the spirit of the festive season. You can’t help but burst with joy as you walk into Newcastle City Hall to see the ever-growing mound of Christmas gifts donated as each person arrives which will be given to children as part of Cash 4 Kids this Christmas. Get yourselves along. By the way… this event is definitely for you adults! Sun 16 December. Tickets £5 plus bring a gift for Cash 4 Kids children. The Suggestibles Impro Pantso With no script and no score - what could possibly go wrong?! The Suggestibles bring you their own brand of hilarious panto where you can expect goodies, baddies, fairies and most importantly - expect the unexpected (oh... and leave the kids at home, this is definitely one for the grownups!). You’ll find this raucous bunch at Northern Stage, The Cumberland Arms and Durham Gala to name but a few of the North East venues they’ll be performing. You’ll need to be switched on mind, as you prepare to feed them your ‘creative’ suggestions! Dates throughout December 2018. Prices vary depending on the venue. Christmas Cracker and Mixtape Christmas at Live Theatre Live Theatre have two festive offerings for you this Christmas in the form of Christmas Cracker - a wry, alternative Christmas show, and the return of Mixtape Xmas. Christmas Cracker asks many a question - what happens when a drunken Santa gate-crashes a Christmas get-together, when the festive TV schedule takes over your life, the secret lives of four siblings are unwrapped, and when all that stands between one family and Christmas heartbreak is a pigeon in a chip box? Part comedy sketch show and part music quiz, Mixtape is one of the funniest concepts around. Featuring a mash up of Mixtape favourites from throughout the eras, as well as a stocking load of sketches inspired by classic Christmas tunes. Play in quiz teams to be in with the chance of winning one of the highly coveted Golden Mixtapes. There are festive performances galore and something for all tastes. 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__label__wiki	0.79601	0.79601	Tag Archives: Colin Kaepernick Colin Kaepernick’s jersey will now live at the Smithsonian Colin Kaepernick is making his way to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The veteran quarterback’s decision to kneel in order to highlight the racial injustice in America spread through all sports last year, as athletes in various leagues joined him. At the time, Mowins was only the second woman called upon to do play-by-play for college football games. She went on to call games for the Raiders during the preseason beginning in 2015. Mowins will be working with former Jets and Bills coach Rex Ryan, who will make his NFL broadcasting debut this year as a color commentator for ESPN. Let’s admire how ludicrous it is to lift that amount of weights with your hips. I mean, this shouldn’t really surprise anyone — especially after we learned that Harrison has to wear a sweatshirt while working out because his arms are too big for normal attire. Now that the impressiveness is out of the way, we can giggle at the sounds he makes while working out. It’s rare to have a video that only SOUNDS NSFW and looks totally normal — but here we are. McCourty drew plenty of interest late in free agency after being released by the Titans in mid-April. He’ll bolster a rebuilding Browns secondary that features former All-Pro Joe Haden and versatile first-round draft pick Jabrill Peppers. While several teams had their eye on the veteran, a springtime trip to Cleveland was enough to lure him to a franchise that sported the league’s worst record in 2016. Signing the veteran will help mitigate the loss of rookie Howard Wilson, who was expected to compete for the starting role alongside Haden. Wilson fractured his kneecap during rookie minicamp, leaving players like Jamar Taylor, Briean Boddy-Calhoun, and Marcus Burley as the team’s best remaining cornerbacks. Categories: MLB Baseball Tags: Colin Kaepernick John Lynch: Colin Kaepernick left ‘excited’ after visit Colin Kaepernick has touched base with his employer. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback visited the team’s Santa Clara headquarters on Wednesday, per Matt Maiocco of CSN Bay Area. “I would characterize it as a really positive discussion … Colin left excited,” new general manager John Lynch told KNBR-AM in San Francisco after the visit. The meeting comes one day after Lynch told 95.7 The Game that he and first-year coach Kyle Shanahan planned to “communicate” with the 29-year-old signal-caller, saying: “I think that’s very important for both sides. Like everything else, that process is well in the works. We’ll continue to do that and we’ll be very up-front with him, in terms of what we’re thinking and we’ll want to know what he’s thinking, as well.” Player X Making Strides In Rehab Program is one of the most well-worn offseason tropes in the game. Especially popular is rehab footage of a player — typically in recovery from a lower-body malady of some sort — doing work in the pool. We saw it last month with Cardinals running back David Johnson, who straight-up jumped out of his swimming hole a month after suffering the type of knee injury that would leave you or I on a death bed. Packers running back Eddie Lacy suffered a season-ending ankle injury in October. It would behoove Lacy, a pending free agent, to send a message to the public (read: potential employers in Green Bay and elsewhere) that indicates he is working his way back toward full health. Throw up the AquaBat Signal! Last offseason, Lacy was the subject of another popular offseason trope: Player Y In The Best Shape Of His Life. For Lacy, that narrative began when the beefy running back took part in a series of workouts with P90X founder Tony Horton. Tuesday’s video doesn’t give us much insight into Lacy’s current level of fitness, but let’s go ahead and consider it a positive sign he’s not in the pool with his shirt on. Categories: NFL Football	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2428
__label__wiki	0.974691	0.974691	Massive explosions rock Lake County gas plant MIKE SCHNEIDER and TAMARA LUSHAssociated Press Jul 30, 2013 at 6:10 AM Jul 31, 2013 at 1:31 PM A series of explosions rocked a central Florida propane gas plant, igniting a 200-foot high fireball, and sent the sound of “boom after boom after boom” through the neighborhood around it. Eight people were injured, with at least four in critical condition. TAVARES — After hearing two explosions, maintenance worker Gene Williams looked outside to see a 20-by-20 foot fireball rising above an outdoor storage area at the Blue Rhino propane plant. Moments later, a forklift worker stumbled into the building with flesh hanging off his hands. His legs and face were burned. Exploding 20-pound canisters of propane began raining down around them during the series of explosions late Monday night. Bright orange flames would grow as high as 200 feet, fueled by the exploding canisters that shot through the air like fireworks. Houses nearby shook and residents awakened to the sound of “boom after boom after boom.” No one died, but eight workers were injured, including one worker who was hit by a car on a nearby road while fleeing the explosions. Officials said the damage could have been significantly worse if three 30,000-pound propane storage containers had caught fire at the plant that refills propane tanks for gas grills and other home uses. About 50 nearby houses were temporarily evacuated, though none was ultimately damaged. If the large tanks had exploded, “it would have wiped us out,” said Lake County Battalion Chief Chris Croughwell, one of the first responders to the explosions in the town northwest of Orlando. The cause of the explosion was under investigation by federal and state authorities. Williams said it appeared to begin about 100 yards from the loading dock in an area where some of the plant’s 53,000 20-pound propane canisters are stored on plastic pallets. Tavares Fire Chief Richard Keith said possible causes of the explosion may be either equipment malfunction or human error. Sabotage was not suspected. The plant’s two-dozen workers were preparing to go home when the explosions started Monday night, said Williams, who works the third shift. Based on what the forklift operator told him, the explosion was likely caused by a “combination of human error and bad practices, possibly. I don’t want to speculate any further, that’s what the forklift driver was telling me.” Williams said the forklift driver told him, “‘I did what they told me to do, I did what they told me to do, and then this happened.’” “Something in that area must have triggered it. I don’t know if he did something or something else triggered it,” Williams said. Williams said they were able to remotely shut the valves to the three big tanks. But they weren’t able to turn on water sprays meant to keep the tanks cool during a fire. “It was too violent, too hot, to get in there and turn them on,” he said. Croughwell said the hoses designed to spray water on the large tanks didn’t go off because they had to be manually activated — requiring someone to brave dangerous conditions. “Most sane people don’t stick around for an event like this,” he added. Tavares Mayor Robert Wolfe said Tuesday that he was surprised to learn the hoses at the plant had to be manually activated. If Blue Rhino reopens the plant, Wolfe said he plans to ask that the hoses be activated automatically by computer. “That way, it’s fail-safe,” Wolfe said. “We’re lucky those tanks didn’t explode.” Blue Rhino is a subsidiary of Kansas-based national propane provider Ferrellgas. Spokesman Scott Brockelmeyer said Tuesday he didn’t have specific information available about the safety water hoses but added that the company follows industry standards. “It’s as sobering a situation as you can possibly imagine,” Brockelmeyer said. “We have folks who are injured, and we’ve got Blue Rhino and Ferrellgas employees across the country who are keeping them in their prayers and sending good vibes their way.” Ferrellgas paid a $2,295 fine in November 2011 following an OSHA inspection that found a component at the end of an air hose used in the consumer tank refurbishing process was not present. Brockelmeyer said the company corrected the issue and added that “the process is performed in area away from where the tanks are filled....so no product was being processed in that area.” Four workers were listed in critical conditions at area hospitals. Tavares Fire Department Battalion Commander Eric Wages said five workers walked up to a command center firefighters set up near the plant Monday night with skin hanging off their arms, torso and faces. He said their arms were outstretched and they were in complete shock. The Florida Highway Patrol confirmed that 29-year-old Leesburg resident Kaghy Sam was struck by an SUV driven by 72-year-old Gene Batson on a road near the Blue Rhino plant. A statement from the FHP said that Sam was running on the road “due to a large fire and several explosions” just before 11 p.m. Monday and “ran into the direct path” of Batson’s vehicle. Sam was flown to Ocala Regional Medical Center with serious injuries. No charges were filed in the auto accident. Croughwell said firefighters who responded to the fire had to wait to enter the plant site because conditions were so dangerous. Just as they were finally about to go in, four tractor-trailers parked next to the large propane tanks caught fire. Keith said the explosions shook his house several miles from the plant. “It truly sounded like a car hit our house,” he said. By early Tuesday, the plant’s concrete lot was littered with thousands of charred 20-pound canisters. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched an investigation, as did the Florida State Fire Marshal’s office. About 50 homes were evacuated overnight, but they were allowed to return after four hours. Marni Whitehead, 33, who lives less than a mile from the plant, said she was in bed ready to go to sleep when she heard a loud boom. She ran outside and saw other neighbors outside and then they saw the explosions. cm-bd “We knew right away it was the plant, the propane plant,” Whitehead said. “After that, it was just sort of panic.” Whitehead likened the explosions to Fourth of July fireworks. “And it was just boom after boom after boom,” she said. Associated press writers Kyle Hightower in Orlando and Freida Frisaro in Miami contributed to this report.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2429
__label__wiki	0.960268	0.960268	Adelaide grandma Irene O’Shea takes back world record for oldest skydiver after jump at Langhorne Creek on Sunday Daredevil grandma Irene O’Shea has proven once again that age is no barrier, becoming the world’s oldest skydiver after taking the plunge from more than 14,000 feet. Giuseppe Tauriello The AdvertiserDecember 10, 20186:00am Super Irene - the world's oldest skydiver In front of close to 50 family and friends, the 102-year old from Athelstone completed her landing yesterday afternoon, taking the title from Kenneth Meyer of New Jersey. Born on May 30, 1916, Ms O’Shea turned 102 years and 193 days yesterday — 21 days older than Mr Meyer when he completed his jump last year. Ms O’Shea just before the jump. Picture: SA Skydiving / Bryce Sellick & Matt TeagerSource:Supplied Taking the plunge. Picture: SA Skydiving / Bryce Sellick & Matt TeagerSource:Supplied After landing with SA Skydiving in Langhorne Creek yesterday afternoon, Ms O’Shea said she had no fear heading into her third jump in as many years. “I felt normal, about the same (as previous jumps),” she said. “I was with the same partner (Jed Smith) and the same young fellas were in the plane with me. Irene O’Shea during her jump to retake the record for world’s oldest skydiver yesterday in SA. Picture: SA Skydiving / Bryce Sellick & Matt TeagerSource:Supplied “It was very clear up there and the weather was good but it was very cold up there.” Inclement weather forced a delay to the record-breaking jump, which was initially due to take place last Sunday. In 2016, Ms O’Shea celebrated her 100th birthday by skydiving for the first time, and returned a year later, when she became the world’s oldest female skydiver. She has so far raised close to $12,000 for Motor Neurone Disease, which her daughter Shelagh died from at the age of 67. She’s hoping to raise another $10,000 from this year’s jump. It was a jump from 14,000 feet. Picture: SA Skydiving / Bryce Sellick & Matt TeagerSource:Supplied “I lost my daughter to that terrible disease 10 years ago and I miss her,” Ms O’Shea said. Ms O’Shea lives in the same Athelstone house that she’s lived in since arriving in Australia from England in 1974. She drives her own car and reads without glasses, and apart from some minor issues is in good health. And she is already thinking about when her next jump might be. “Possibly I will jump next year and if I live long enough I’ll jump at 105,” she said. Together with most of Ms O’Shea’s five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, Shelagh’s husband Mike Fitzhenry watched on yesterday, proud of his mother-in-law’s latest achievement. On the ground — a successful jump and back in the record books. Picture: SA Skydiving / Bryce Sellick & Matt TeagerSource:Supplied “I felt inspired by her — the attitude and courage and fearlessness is amazing,” he said. “If I walk up three stairs and then walk back down I get nervous. I would never jump out of a plane.” Irene’s jump in 2017, when she became the world’s oldest skydiver Mr Fitzhenry said his late wife was very much like Irene — independent and full of life. “She was a chip off the old block,” he said. “She was good with languages and the first thing to go when she got motor neurone disease was her speech — it’s terrible for someone who spoke so many languages.” To contribute to Ms O’Shea’s fundraising campaign, visit GoFundMe. Originally published asAmazing Irene is our oldest skydiver — again trending in national Armed man shuts down Clem 7 tunnel in Brisbane Kmart kidnapping: Sterling Free guilty of luring young child Stephanie Scott murder: Twin Marcus Stanford ‘haunted’ over ... Richard Mladenich murder: Police release photos from crime s... MORE IN south australia Second car crash, same spot Man in custody after crime spree in Adelaide’s southwest Man rescued from burning house Fog, low cloud blanketing parts of Adelaide Hills Amanda Duthie to oversee SA film for now Tourism spending in SA smashes $7b mark RSPCA drive helps hundreds of cats find paw-some new homes Police motorcyclist struck by elderly driver	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2430
__label__wiki	0.516073	0.516073	Exposing Cancer’s Metabolic Addictions Real estate is important: where a tumor arises dictates specific metabolic vulnerabilities, identifying potential targets for effective cancer treatments 22-Apr-2019 1:05 PM EDT Credit: Image courtesy of the National Institutes of Health A colorized micrograph depicting colon cancer cells. All Journal News, Cancer, Cell Biology, Nature (journal) Cancer, Precision Medicine, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling Newswise — Cancerous tumors are classified primarily based on their tissue of origin. However, the sequencing of the human genome and the development of powerful and affordable DNA sequencing technologies has ushered in a new era of precision oncology, in which patients are treated with customized therapies designed to target the specific mutations within their tumor. This new treatment approach has yielded some important successes but, recently many cancers experts have begun to suspect that where a cancer arises in the body may influence how specific mutations behave, playing a major role in determining how patients respond to targeted treatments. Currently, the ways in which the tissue environment shapes the tumors genetic makeup are not well understood. In a new paper, publishing April 24, 2019 in Nature, a team of researchers headed by scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at UC San Diego, describe a new set of “rules” that predict how the tissue of origin influences critical aspects of the genetic makeup of tumors, with potentially important therapeutic implications. Focusing on an essential cellular molecule called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), a critical co-factor required for many cellular reactions, including energy metabolism, epigenetic regulation and DNA damage response, the team, headed by senior author Paul S. Mischel, MD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Ludwig member, in collaboration with Bing Ren, PhD, professor of cellular and molecular medicine; Vineet Bafna, PhD, professor of computer science and engineering; postdoctoral research fellow Sudhir Chowdhry, PhD, and others identified a surprising role for tissue of origin in determining how cells make NAD, with important consequences for cancer treatment. Normal cells make NAD by using any of three biochemical pathways. The team discovered that cancer cells behave in a very different way. By analyzing more than 7,000 tumors and 2,600 matched normal samples of 19 different tissue types, coupled with mathematical modelling and extensive studies in cells and in mice, the researchers found that where a cancer arises is the major determinant of how cancer cells make NAD. In contrast to normal cells that can use any of the three pathways if needed, cancer cells can use only one NAD synthesis pathway, rendering them addicted to that pathway and highly vulnerable to targeted pharmacological intervention. Specifically, in certain body organs, an enzyme called nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferease or NAPRT, a key regulator of one of the three pathways, is highly expressed. Cancers that arise from organs that highly express NAPRT include the prostate, ovaries, gastrointestinal tract and pancreatic tissues. They have a high frequency of NAPRT amplification and are completely and irreversibly dependent upon NAPRT for survival. The researchers showed that a drug that targets this pathway is very effective at killing tumors that arise from these organs, while sparing normal tissue, suggesting a promising new way to treat a large number of cancer patients. The study also demonstrate that cancers that don’t arise from these organs become dependent on a different pathway for making NAD, via a change in epigenetic regulation, which indicates that patients who have these other types of cancer need to be treated with a different set of therapies targeting NAD metabolism. “This work — identifying and targeting cancer cell specific pathways of NAD metabolism in multiple different tumor types — lays the groundwork for a new set of specific, selective and highly promising new cancer treatments that spare normal tissue,” said Mischel. Co-authors include: Ciro Zanca, Tomoyuki Koga, Ramya Raviram, Kristen Turner, Huijun Yang, Elizabeth Brunk and Junfeng Bi, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UC San Diego; Utkrisht Rajkumar and Yarui Diao, UC San Diego; Frank Furnari, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and UC San Diego; and Feng Liu, Ruijin Hospital, China. Funding for this research came, in part, from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the National Brain Tumor Society, NVIDIA Foundation, Compute for the Cure, The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, the Ziering Family Foundation, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NIH/NCI T32 CA009253), the NIH Cancer Therapeutics Training Fellowship (CA121938) and the National Institutes of Health (grants NS73831, GM114362, NS80939) and the National Science Foundation (grants NSF-IIS-1318386 and NSF-DB1-1458557). Disclosure: Paul Mischel and Vineet Bafna are co-founders of Pretzel Therapeutics. They have equity in the company and serve as consultants.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2434
__label__wiki	0.728898	0.728898	Open National Review Navigation Large National Review Logo The Democrats Are Done Pretending to Be Moderate By Kyle Smith Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during an event to introduce the “Medicare for All Act of 2017” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 13, 2017. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) They think they’re unpopular because they aren’t left-wing enough. The Democratic love of socialism was for many years the love that dared not speak its name. No more. Now the party is figuratively jumping on Oprah’s couch shouting its love of socialism. You’d have to plug your ears not to hear it. Socialist Bernie Sanders is unquestionably the spiritual leader of the Democratic party, which is radicalizing itself in his image, and on the strength of her blowout Democratic-primary win over liberal incumbent Joe Crowley in the party-ruled NY-14 congressional district, soon-to-be-congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now one of the most prominent faces in the Democratic party. A poll last fall put support for socialism at 44 percent among Millennials, and even more disturbingly, 23 percent of this group agreed that Joseph Stalin is a “hero.” Socialized medicine, i.e., Medicare for all, is the hottest issue on the Left (unless you count hating Trump as an “issue”). In short, Democrats are who we thought they were. They’re just losing their inhibitions about it. As the woke-youth site Vox puts it, “Maybe Democrats should stop being afraid of the left” because “Ocasio-Cortez’s victory is a big sign that Democrats can run on socialist ideas and win.” Talk of revolution flows naturally. After Justice Kennedy announced his retirement, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said, “I tell you, the Democratic base is wired now for a revolt.” It’s become a cliché to compare Washington politics to Wag the Dog (1997) or Idiocracy (2006), perhaps the two most-cited political movies of this era. A forgotten political film from the 1990s, though, deserves more attention for its prescience: Warren Beatty’s Bulworth, which appeared in theaters 20 years ago this spring. (Spoilers follow. The movie is streaming on the Starz pay-TV service.) After a full term of President Clinton’s triangulating leadership, Beatty was fed up with the state of the Democratic party. The California senator he portrayed, Jay Bulworth, was a typical cautious, house-trained, corporate-owned Democrat of the era who decided to abandon all restraint and not only say what he thought, but say so in rap. Yes, in case you were wondering, this is the movie in which Warren Beatty puts on shades and a beanie and goes full Eminem, to roars of approbation. It’s meant to be a comedy. The premise of the story seemed ludicrous at the time: Clinton’s ventures to the left in 1993–94 had proved a debacle that turned control of Congress over to the Republican party for the first time since the 1952 elections. Chastened, he not only abandoned pushing for progressivism but began talking like a moderate Republican. The notion that the cure for what ailed the Democrats was to go hard left seemed suicidal. Indeed, for Bulworth, it was suicidal; in the movie, having lost all hope, he hires a hitman (who turns out to be Halle Berry) to assassinate him so that his daughter can collect the insurance payoff. But when he speaks his mind he is surprised by the strength of the response he gets from voters. When he changes his mind about wanting to die, he gets murdered anyway, not by his designated assassin but by the health-insurance goon squad. (Beatty’s martyr complex is the through-line of his career: His character is also mowed down by malign forces at the end of Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Parallax View, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, and Bugsy.) In the meantime, while expecting to get killed at any moment, he is liberated to speak the truth as he sees it. And his truth is that blacks are suffering unimaginably, that institutions such as public education are broken, that health insurers and corporations are corrupt, and that America needs a single-payer health system. Facing a period of reflection following humiliating rejection by the voters, the Democrats’ reaction is: We lost because we were too much like our opponents. This week proves that Beatty had something dead right about the soul of the Democratic party after Clinton. Facing a period of reflection following humiliating rejection by the voters, their reaction is: We lost because we were too much like our opponents. We must fight the urge to be moderate, temperate, and civil. We must stop mincing words and go full Bulworth. At a peak moment in the movie, Bulworth raps the words, “Socialism! Socialism!” After the 2016 wipeout that put the Republican party in the best position it has enjoyed since the period following the election of 1928, the Democrats have made no effort to moderate their stances to appeal to swing voters. Instead the party derides the voters who rejected it and turns more and more to its base; it speaks only to and for the engaged and fired-up primary voter it thinks represents a typical American. But that base not only thinks Bill Clinton was too moderate, it thinks Barack Obama blew it by being accommodating instead of angry with Republicans. Obama himself wanted to “go Bulworth” and referred to the movie when, according to David Axelrod, he told staffers, “Maybe I should go out there and just let it rip.” When he did so, it manifested in his ceasing to pretend he was against gay marriage, according to Axelrod, and in being openly hostile to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu. Bernie Sanders’s wacky candidacy essentially meant going full Bulworth. And now the Democrats who seek to lead the party want to be like him. Socialism! Socialism! We’ll be hearing that cry more and more. Kyle Smith is National Review’s critic-at-large. @rkylesmith More in Culture Radu Jude’s Barbarians Is the Most Daring Movie of the Year Yet Another Study Finds Trigger Warnings May Be Harmful. It’s Time to Do Away with Them	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2440
__label__wiki	0.563402	0.563402	Title: Sentencing Problem - How Far Is a Fall From Grace? Journal: Cleveland-Marshall Law Review Issue:3 Dated:(September 1966) Pages:587-597 Author(s): H H A Cooper Annotation: A law professor evaluates a British appellate court's decision regarding the appeal of a sentence imposed on a police official convicted of various counts related to misuse of police funds. The case is examined in terms of the legal concepts of retribution, deterrence, and reformation. Abstract: In the case of Regina v. McConnach, McConnach, the former chief constable of Southend on Sea, was sentenced to 2 years in prison for misuse of a discretionary fund under his control for hospitality purposes deemed inappropriate by the court according to specified fund's purposes. In appealing the sentence's severity, the defense argued that the offender's loss of pension through the conviction and his prior unblemished record as a public official and private citizen provided sufficient mitigating factors to warrant a lesser sentence. In upholding the sentence, the appellate court failed to indicate its rationale for deeming the sentence appropriate. An examination of the circumstances of the case does not support the sentence as being either necessary for deterrence or rehabilitation. Loss of job and pension benefits that would have been obtained by the offender in a matter of years, along with the public disgrace that befalls a criminal conviction of a public official, holds sufficient deterrent power to discourage the offender and any person so situated from repeating such an offense. The only rationale for supporting the sentence appears to be a retributive doctrine that maintains that any public official convicted of criminal activity in office should be imprisoned. Since any other first offender convicted of a similar crime would have received probation, the court appears to have created a special class of offenders, public officials and the like, who must suffer greater penalties than other citizens when they violate laws. Twenty-seven footnotes are listed. Index Term(s): Discrimination; England; Judicial decisions; Police corruption; Sentencing/Sanctions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2444
__label__cc	0.701224	0.298776	Title: Search and Seizure Corporate Author: Law Reform Cmssn of Canada Sponsoring Agency: Law Reform Cmssn of Canada Ottawa, Ontario K1A OL6, Canada Sale Source: Law Reform Cmssn of Canada 130 Albert Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A OL6, Language: English; French Annotation: This report by Canada's Law Reform Commission calls on Parliament to reform Canada's search and seizure laws. Abstract: Canada's search and seizure laws are complex and confusing. The fault lies with the proliferation of search and seizure powers contained in many different Federal statutes and in the common law. This must be corrected, so that Canadians can have laws that clearly define their rights and police can enforce the law confident that their searches and seizures will stand up in court. A comprehensive survey of search warrant practices in seven major cities indicates a clear gap between the legal rules for issuing and obtaining search warrants and the realities of practice. The commission proposes that Parliament remedy the problems in a variety of ways. A single comprehensive approach should replace the current array of powers. Search by warrant should be the rule. Warrantless searches in the absence of consent should be limited to exigent circumstances involving searches of persons and vehicles incidental to arrest and searches of persons, places, or vehicles where delay would result in danger to human life or safety. Consent to a search without warrant should be informed. Writs of assistance and other search powers in other statutes should be repealed. Appendixes include sample forms for information to obtain a search warrant and for a search warrant itself. (Author summary modified) Index Term(s): Canada; Commission reports; Consent search; Law reform; Search and seizure laws; Search warrants; Warrantless search Note: Report number 24, includes French and English versions.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2445
__label__wiki	0.716857	0.716857	Chapter 75A - Boating and Water Safety. Article 1 - Boating Safety Act. § 75A-1. Declaration of policy. § 75A-2. Definitions. § 75A-3. Wildlife Resources Commission to administer Chapter; Boating Safety Committee; funds for administration. § 75A-4. Identification numbers required. § 75A-5. Application for certificate of number; fees; reciprocity; change of ownership; conformity with federal regulations; records; award of certificates; renewal of certificates; transfer of partial interest; destroyed or junked vessels; abandonment; change of address; duplicate certificates; display. G.S. 75A-5.1 § 75A-5.1: Repealed by Session Laws 2013-360, s. 14.22(c), effective October 1, 2013. § 75A-5.2. Vessel agents. § 75A-6. Classification; rules. § 75A-6.1. Navigation rules. § 75A-7. Exemption from numbering requirements. § 75A-8. Vessel liveries. § 75A-9. Muffling devices. § 75A-9.1: Repealed by Session Laws 2006-185, s. 1, effective January 1, 2007, and applicable to offenses committed on or after January 1, 2007. § 75A-10. Operating vessel or manipulating water skis, etc., in reckless manner; operating, etc., while intoxicated, etc.; depositing or discharging litter, etc. G.S. 75A-10.1 § 75A-10.1. Family purpose doctrine applicable. § 75A-10.2. Proof of ownership of a vessel. § 75A-10.3. Death or serious injury by impaired boating; repeat offenses. § 75A-11. Duty of operator involved in collision, accident, casualty, or other occurrence. § 75A-12. Furnishing information to agency of United States. § 75A-13. Water skis, surfboards, etc. § 75A-13.1. Skin and scuba divers. § 75A-13.2: Repealed by Session Laws 1999-447, s. 3. § 75A-13.3. Personal watercraft. § 75A-14: Repealed by Session Laws 1999-248, s. 4. § 75A-14.1. Lake Norman No-Wake Zone. § 75A-14.2. Temporary waiver of enforcement of no-wake zones. § 75A-15. Rules on water safety; adoption of the United States Aids to Navigation System. § 75A-16. Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 830, s. 9, effective July 1, 1980. § 75A-16.1. Boating safety course. § 75A-16.2. Boating safety education required. § 75A-17. Enforcement of Chapter. § 75A-18. Penalties. § 75A-19. Operation of vessels by manufacturers, dealers, etc. Article 2 - Local Water Safety Committees. G.S. 75A-20 through 75A-25 §§ 75A-20 through 75A-25. Repealed by Session Laws 1983 (Regular Session, 1984), c. 1082, s. 3, effective July 5, 1984. § 75A-26. Local water safety committees. Article 3 - Boat Hull Anti-Copying Act. § 75A-27 through 75A-31: Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 191, s. 1. Article 4 - Watercraft Titling Act. § 75A-32. Short title. § 75A-33. Definitions. § 75A-34. Who may apply for certificate of title; authority of employees of Commission. § 75A-35. Form and contents of application. § 75A-36. Notice by owner of change of address. § 75A-37. Certificate of title as evidence; duration; transfer of title. § 75A-38. Commission's records; fees. § 75A-39. Duplicate certificate of title. § 75A-40. Certificate to show security interests. § 75A-41. Security interests subsequently created. § 75A-42. Certificate as notice of security interest. § 75A-43. Security interest may be filed within 30 days after purchase. § 75A-44. Priority of security interests shown on certificates. § 75A-45. Legal holder of certificate of title subject to security interest. § 75A-46. Release of security interest shown on certificate of title. § 75A-47. Surrender of certificate required when security interest paid. § 75A-48. Levy of execution, etc. § 75A-49. Registration prima facie evidence of ownership; rebuttal.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2446
__label__cc	0.592225	0.407775	Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale generates $178m in high bids ndivya 17 August 2018 Gulf of Mexico region-wide oil and gas lease sale covered 14,622 unleased blocks. Credit: US Department of the Interior. The US Department of Interior (DOI) has reported that Gulf of Mexico region-wide oil and gas Lease Sale 251 generated $178m in high bids for 144 tracts covering 801,288 acres in federal waters. A total of 29 companies submitted $202.6m worth of bids in the lease sale, which involved 14,622 unleased blocks across the Gulf’s Western, Central and Eastern Planning Areas. These blocks were located 3,231 miles offshore, in water depths ranging from 3m to 3,400m. However, the oil and gas lease sale did not include blocks subject to the congressional moratorium, those near or beyond the US Exclusive Economic Zone and blocks present in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary boundaries. Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt said: “Today’s lease sale is yet another step our nation has taken to achieve economic security and energy dominance. “The results from the lease sale will help secure well-paying offshore jobs for rig and platform workers, support staff onshore, and related industry jobs, while generating much-needed revenue to fund everything from conservation to infrastructure.” "The results from the lease sale will help secure well-paying offshore jobs for rig and platform workers, support staff onshore, and related industry jobs." Lease Sale 251 is the third offshore sale under the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The programme currently has ten region-wide lease sales scheduled for the Gulf of Mexico with high resource potential and industry interest, along with well-established oil and gas infrastructure. Each year, two lease sales will be held for all available blocks in the Gulf’s combined Western, Central and Eastern Planning Areas. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is set to develop and publish a proposed programme for the new National OCS Program 2019-2024 next year. Until the approval of the new programme, the 2017-2022 OCS Program will be continued.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2447
__label__cc	0.645101	0.354899	A Thought On "Progressive" Conservatism. That Young George Is Good! What is Progressive? By Andrew Garib, Campus Progress; http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/23706/ This discussion paper is based on American political culture but with regard to The British scene and George Osborne's speech yesterday, it has valuable points. Most pertinently, it carries perceived definitions. "Progressivism is a non-ideological, pragmatic system of thought grounded in solving problems and maintaining strong values within society.” very much the ideology of The Conservative platform as it exists today. Similiarly "Progressives [understand] that government can be used as a force for good." But progressives don't simply ask "How can government help this situation," but "with the tools we have, both public and private, how can we solve this problem?" Once more I see little to argue against but that this is very Cameron in its implication. A considered read of "The Big Idea for Britain's Future" by David Cameron, published in 2007, might easily be renamed "Progressive Conservatism". So does this mean Oldrightie is out of step? Are old fashioned Conservative ideals incompatible with this new approach? Absolutely not. I see the need to adapt to evolving social changes profoundly important where those changes are for the better. I am beginning to feel more able to reconcile my working class roots with a fairer and more pragmatic course for my beliefs and ideology. What I cannot accept is Labours' and the Lefts hypocrisy and self-righteous pompous "know better attitude". All reasonable argument is dismissed, ignored or vilified, for purely confrontational need. A perfect example of this was Mandleson's rather pathetic and personal tirades around the media brothels for most of today. That Socialists regard "progressive" as their own property is, in itself, typical of my arguments against them. Indeed this Government has been repressive of personal freedom, not progressive; recessive of social mobility not progressive. Like all Labour Governments they readily throw the baby out with the bath water. We as a Nation can only progress with a change of Government. I truly believe that is coming. Well done if you made it to the end! Never had you down as a swot, OR. Nicely done. Norton Folgate 13 August 2009 at 00:37 Just so long as "progessive" doesn't end up being to the conservatives what "new" was to labour. Cameron is in danger of going down the road of doing the wishy washy all things to all men Blair routine. Blue labour will not change anything. Oldrightie 13 August 2009 at 00:42 Hi, NF, I do not remember a book as good as Cameron's ever written by Blair. It is thoughtful and carefully crafted. Not the showy crap Smiley specialised in. Time will tell but let's at least give him a chance? subrosa 13 August 2009 at 00:53 Phew! Just made it to the end! Bedtime now. By all mean give them/him a chance, i just have a dread feeling with the way politics is in this country they just won't have the nerve to do what people really want them to, they will do what is easy and gets them the least bad press. I have to admit to confusion. It's hard for me to be optimistic while, at the same time, being thoroughly convinced that anything - almost-literally anything - must be better than Labour. A large vat of boiled pigs' trotters could run the country better than Brown et al. Not only have they thrown the baby out with the bath-water, they have thrown out the bath, ripped out the plumbing, sold the lead to a pack of pikeys and we'll be left to buy it back, during a recession, with soaring unemployment, fighting a mad war, while being led by people of the calibre of Alan Duncan. Jeez, OR, I wish Cameron all the best: he is going to need it. But is anyone up to such a job? Edgar, I've never liked Duncan and his arrogant fellow travellers, whichever party. With luck, he'll be toast. Demetrius 13 August 2009 at 11:41 It depends on what you mean by "progress", but thats another story. "Nearly a quarter of the biggest companies on the UK stock market will be unable to pay off their pension deficits, a report says." I believe the halting or slowing of our descent into third world status would be progress. Any improvement after that would be a progressive miracle. It is not difficult to highlight DAILY on the left hand side, three Labour failures. Startled Leafletter 13 August 2009 at 12:19 Clarinda 13 August 2009 at 12:49 One of the worst blights that has diseased any attempt to promote a rational debate (progressive or realistic)is the scourge of Political Correctness. It has become a political religion of the quasi (almost rhymes with Stazi!) fascist Labourology and has contaminated those who have a vested interest in 'pretendy socialism'. State-control freakery and Labour's utter contempt (ignorance) for history, culture and national best interests as they lie, deceive and steal, has made the future task of Westminster and the devolved governments a nightmare. In Scotland we have at least won the "starter for ten" with the election of the SNP. The momentum towards Independence is hardly surprising up here as we benefit from a fresh-start political initiative the potential of progressive thought, action and effect. Mr Cameron will have to start the way he means to continue to avoid the charge of hypocrisy. The ingrained anti-intellectualism and corruption, however, of self-serving politics their bureaucratic minions and the global interests of big business will test his nerve more than his intellect. Clarinda, I believe that his nerve has been well tested in opposition and he passed! Ermmmmmm, check the timing of the latest post, my little fellow. As for the ERM, are you aware that it was fully supported by Labour? As for Toffs, how's Mandy's portfolio of Mayfair properties? Finally, you were off topic. Discuss	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2448
__label__wiki	0.500109	0.500109	What is a Leadership complaint? A leadership complaint is a complaint about the conduct of a Leader which breaches the duties and responsibilities of Leaders established under the Leadership Code. Leaders are required to maintain a standard conduct under the Leadership Code that ensures the public remain confident, the Leaders of PNG are free from corruption and continue to work for the benefit of the PNG people. For example, under the Leadership Code: Leaders must not place themselves in a position where a conflict of interest may arise. If a leader does have an interest in a matter, that leader must disclose the interest. Leaders must not use their Office for the benefit of themselves, their family or associates and they must apply public funds as they were intended. Who is a Leader? Members of the Parliament, Provincial Assemblies and Local Level Governments, Constitutional office holders, e.g. Ombudsman Heads of National Public Service Departments, statutory authorities and Provincial Administrators, The Commissioner of Police, Commander of the Defence Force and Public Curator, Ambassadors, High Commissioners and senior diplomatic officials, Personal staff of the Governor-General, Ministers, the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Opposition, CEOs of registered political parties. How do you lodge a complaint? Anybody who is concerned about the actions of a Leader may lodge a written complaint to the Ombudsman Commission. A complainant must: Identify the Leader being complained about, Outline the complaint against the Leader (specify dates and relevant people), Include copies of letters or any other documentation relevant to the complaint. What happens to your complaint? Once a Leadership complaint is identified it is referred to the Leadership Division for investigation. Leadership investigations are confidential; a complainant will not be advised of the progress or outcome of an investigation. Once an investigation is complete, if the Commission finds enough evidence that the Leadership Code has been breached the Leader is referred to the Public Prosecutor, with a recommendation that the matter go to a Leadership Tribunal. The Commission can be contacted in writing, via telephone or at one of the Commission Offices. All written complaints should be addressed to “Ombudsman Commission of Papua New Guinea”.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2450
__label__wiki	0.857943	0.857943	PHOTOS: First responders in Fernie rescue baby owl who fell from nest Phil McLachlan May. 24, 2019 9:20 a.m. Fernie SAR, Fernie Fire Rescue, wildlife rehabilitation volunteers assisted in returning the owl to its nest. Phil McLachlan/The Free Press The mother Great Horned Owl being chased by a murder of crows. Phil McLachlan/The Free Press Firefighter Trevor Fairweather carries the baby owl back to its nest, using their 75-foot extendable ladder. Phil McLachlan/The Free Press Phil McLachlan/The Free Press The juvenile Great Horned Owl before being returned to its nest. Phil McLachlan/The Free Press Firefighter Trevor Fairweather carried the baby owl back to its nest, using their 75-foot extendable ladder. Phil McLachlan/The Free Press Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (OWL) volunteer Nycki Wannamaker shows the underdeveloped wings of the baby Great Horned Owl. Its inability to fly itself back to its nest prompted a rescue by first responders. Phil McLachlan/The Free Press A juvenile Great Horned Owl is now safely back with its family, thanks to the rescue efforts of local first responders. On Friday morning, Fernie Fire Rescue, Fernie Search and Rescue and wildlife rehabilitation volunteers assisted in returning the baby owl to its nest, after it fell and could not return by itself. The owl was uninjured when it fell, but its wings were not yet fully developed, so returning to its family was near impossible. Generally rehabilitation volunteers would simply put the owl in a safe spot off the ground, but as there were no branches close to the ground, they called upon the fire department to assist them. Using their 75-foot ladder, the fire department was able to return the animal to its family. Firefighter Trevor Fairweather said this was an unusual call for them, and for him, this was a first. “That’s the reverse of what we normally do – normally we’re taking animals out of trees,” he said. “But, it’s just as easy to put them back. “He’s pretty happy to be back up there with his little sibling, it felt good to get him back.” A turf war between the owl family and a nearby murder of crows could have caused the baby to fall. As firefighters were returning the baby to its home, the mother Great Horned Owl flew overhead, trailed by a group of angry crows. Fashion Fridays: What to remove from your closet VIDEO: Canadian breaks women’s world record for longest plank	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2457
__label__cc	0.676638	0.323362	Filter: Vestfold Vestfold, Summer Holiday, Scandinavia, Norway, Destinations The Veierland Golf Club sits on the north end of the idyllic Veierland. The course is a 6-hole par 3 training course. Island Hopping Gem Veierland Don’t like reading maps, but feeling adventurous? On the island Veierland, nothing can go wrong. You can cross the island on superb bike trails within an hour! If you’re looking to play some golf in these new surroundings, you've come to the right place. Bring your family and friends on an island hopping adventure; explore the islands and the archipelago in Vestfold in a whole new way. Island hopping by bike is a popular activity for the whole family. Set aside a day of your holiday to visit the exciting and car-free island of Veierland. The island is made for bicycling around to find spectacular views. Here there is a large network of wide gravel roads and narrow forest trails. There are few steep hills on the island so you can rest assured that the whole family can manage a ride around the island. Veierland also has several nice child-friendly swimming areas where you can have a well-deserved, refreshing swim. The café and beer garden Dagros opens in the summer season where you can get a meal, snack, or something to drink. The cafe also has a restroom. On the north side of the island is Veierland church. A few yards off the church’s farm, you’ll find an outside toilet and sink. The ferry "Jutøya" carries people and goods between Veierland and Tenvik on Nøtterøy Island, and Engø in Sandefjord every day. The ferry ride from the mainland takes just a few minutes (see timetable on vestfoldguide.no). If you don’t have time to go ashore, a trip to this cozy ferry can be a great trip in itself, also for children. From the sundeck, you’ll see the beautiful archipelago of Nøtterøy’s western side and the lush countryside of Stokke and Sandefjord's east side. In the northern part of the island, there is a 6-hole golf course. It is both surprising and lots of fun to find a great golf course right in the archipelago paradise. The course is excellent as training for green cards. All are welcome to come along with a person who has a valid green card (see Veierland Golf Club on the web for further info). Veierland has a 17 km land beach line, paths, and gravel roads without car traffic. The burial finds from the late Iron Age show evidence of early settlement here. The island is excellent for outdoor activities, rambling and cycling in these beautiful surroundings. Source: http://www.norway-fjord.com/veierland Tagged: Veierland, Visit Norway, Island Hopping, Travel to Norway Destinations, Norway, Scandinavia, Summer Holiday, Vestfold ARØYENE AND STOKKØYA - VESTFOLD’S SOUTHERNMOST ARCHIPELAGO THE ISLANDS STORE ARØYA, LILLE ARØYA, VESLE ARØYA, AND STOKKØYA ARE VESTFOLD’S SOUTHERNMOST ISLANDS, LOCATED RIGHT ON THE BORDER WITH TELEMARK. THE PHOTO WAS TAKEN FROM BIG ARØYA. LITTLE ARØYA IS TO THE LEFT AND SWEET ARØYA TO THE RIGHT IN THE PHOTO. THE ISLANDS ARE PERFECT FOR ISLAND HOPPING. THE FERRY SKJÆLØY(TO THE RIGHT) TAKES YOU RIGHT OUT INTO THE ARCHIPELAGO – EITHER FRMOM HELGAROA OR LANGESUND. Archipelago on the border of the Telemark coast Vacation Idyll Near Vestfold’s border with Telemark furthest out in the Langesundsfjord, are Stokkøya, Store Arøy, Lille Arøy, and Vesle Arøy. The Arøy islands are together with Stokkøya, the only one of the islands in Langesundsfjord that stands in Vestfold county and Larvik municipality. The four islands are located no more than a few minutes swimming distance between each other. Lille Arøy is the northernmost island with Vesle Arøy to the west, Stokkøya is located east of Store Arøy, which is the southernmost of the islands and is there as a last stand against Skagerrak. The islands are located in a wonderful archipelago in the outer part of the area between Helgeroa and Langesund. Most of the buildings on the islands are summer cottages. There are few permanent residents on the islands, mostly fishermen and some artists. The islands are connected by ferry with Helgeroa and Langesund throughout the year. During the summer, there are a considerable amount of summer visitors using the ferry connections. There is a summer kiosk in the bay at the top of Lille Arøy. This is the only retailer on the three islands. THERE ARE MANY REALLY GOOD SWIMMING UTOPIAS OUT HERE. HERE FROM SANDSTRAND SOUTH ON STOKKØYA. If you’re choosing to take a trip to one of the islands in the summer, you are guaranteed an idyllic trip whether you arrive by boat or ferry from Helgeroa. The islands are located so far out in Vestfold that vacationing anywhere in Vestfold, a trip out here could be described as a day-long trip. It’s also this that makes it so exciting to visit these relatively unknown islands. Although there are many cabins on the islands, there are still much more space without buildings. There are large areas of forest, small sandy beaches, and lots of rocks. Here the clean seawater flows in and the fish bite often. CABIN IDYLL FROM STORE ARØYA’S SOUTH SIDE NOT FAR FROM HELGEROA (BEHIND IN THE PHOTO), YOU’LL FIND A FANTASTIC ARCHIPELAGO WITH STORE ARØYA, LILLE ARØYA, VESLE ARØYA, AND STOKKØYA ISLANDS. On Store Arøya, there is a small campground with tent sites and cabins. The four islands are very suitable for outdoor tours, offering varied scenery and great experiences. On the largest island, Store Arøya, it may in some places have very dense vegetation so that you can hardly see the path, and all the lush vegetation and damp clay soil almost reminds you a little of swamp-like jungle. On Store Arøya, you can actually walk for an hour without seeing the sea, although the sea is seldom farther than 100 meters as the crow flies. On Lille Arøya, there are some great viewpoints where you have a great 360 degree views of Langesund, Porsgrunnlandet, Mørjefjorden, Helgeroa, and Skagerrak. Lille Arøya has an exciting landscape of numerous islets and rocks facing Skagerrak. You can literally "island hop" over the rocks and find your favorite rocks for sunny days. Especially in the southwest part of Stokkøya, there is the large area of open grassland and child-friendly sandy beaches. Yes, Stokkøya is probably the most kid-friendly if you decide to go out on a walk. IF you should just settle on a beach spot with the whole family one day, it really does not matter which of the islands you choose. You’re bound to find great archipelago experiences in any case. WARM SUMMER’S EVENING IN STOKKØYSUNDET The narrow, picturesque strait between Lille Arøya and Vesle Arøya is called Bukkespranget. It is said that the name comes from an observation of a buck that actually managed to jump across the narrow strait of the steep rock walls. Miles of film have been used over the years at this place. SKAGERRAK’S HORIZON SEEN FROM LILLE ARØYA Source: http://www.norway-fjord.com/aroyene-stokkoya Tagged: Arøyene and Stokkøya Lanesundfjorden Norway, Visit Norway, Island Hopping, Travel to Norway Visit Norway, Vestfold, Summer Holiday, Scandinavia, Norway, Destinations HOLMESTRAND Travel to Holmestrand and experience the cozy wharf life, the sight of the trees in green splendor that climb along the black rock wall towards Holmestrand center, which was the architectural style of the 1700s. Go shopping in the city "To Levels", or just enjoy yourself at the town's two scenic beaches. Even better than its reputation Holmestrand has quite unfairly been perceived as a "town you pass by." Many people associate the city of waiting in endless queues, traffic congestion, and tunnel trouble. Earlier the heavy traffic on the E18 went right through Holmestrand’s narrow downtown streets. In 2001, the E18 moved inland, which led to Holmestrand regaining much of its former idyllic feel. It is amazing to think that the otherwise peaceful city was plagued by massive traffic problems before. We hope with this article to correct some of the false and negative impressions many have of this town with the dream location in Oslofjord. Scenic recreational and leisure areas Holmestrand is known as the town under the mountain. The cliff, Veggfjellet, behind the center gives Holmestrand a characteristic profile and creates contrast between the coast and inland. Holmestrand as a municipality is much more than the 11 km narrow coastal strip at Holmestrandfjord. From the bay, Holmestrand creeps up the mountain and extends inland. Here on top of the "mountains" are trade centers, large living spaces, and farmland. The municipality's varied topography and geographical coverage is a good starting point for rich and varied outdoor activities. On the plateau of the center are very beautiful viewpoints with beautiful views of the bay and the scenic islands Kommersøya and Bjerkøya. The plateau behind the town also offers opportunities for great countryside experiences with a large network of trails that wind through forests and deep valleys. Some nice lakes are also along the trails. But there is sun and sea which are natural summer attractions in the coastal town of Holmestrand. 1000 places for small boats and a premiere guest marina in the city center, clean water, and nice swimming spots are within walking distance just north and south of the city center. As so often when it comes to coastal cities, the brewery and the port area serve as the city's major tourist attraction. Here you can eat freshly cooked prawns on the wharf. Enjoy refreshments or a meal on the terrace while watching the crowded wharf and boating in the harbor. You can get up close and personal with the maritime environment and boat traffic. Leisure boats, fishermen, and merchant vessels lie side by side along the quays. Although it is nice and cozy in the harbor, it can be even better. The municipality has made a development plan for the port area and it is now gearing up for a NOK 100 million project which will result in even more magnificent facilities for city residents and tourists. The islands in Homestrandfjord are well adapted for boaters with excellent swimming and recreation areas on the islands. Swim life is combined with plants and fossil studies in the nature reserves. The coastal trail through Holmestrand Municipality is part of the coastal path from Hurum in Buskerud to Borre in Vestfold. Highway 319 winds and meanders along the coastal stretch of Sande and Svelvik. Sometimes down by the water, other times up on high hills and through valleys. The valley you see in the image extends from the highway down to the fjord at Sandvika in Sande. Open your senses for our beautiful adventure in Vestfold’s two northernmost municipalities. Next time you are going to or from Vestfold, we recommend that you travel via Sande and Svelvik. Read why. Reis til Holmestrand og opplev det koselige bryggelivet, synet av løvtrær i grønn prakt som klatrer langs den sorte fjellveggen ned mot Holmestrand sentrum, aristokratiets byggestil fra 1700-tallet, shopping i byens «to etasjer», eller bare rekreasjon på byens to naturskjønne badeplasser. Mye bedre enn sitt rykte Ganske urettferdig har Holmestrand blitt oppfattet som en «by man passerer eller kjører igjennom». Mange forbinder jo byen med venting i endeløse køer, trafikkaos og tunneltrøbbel. Tidligere dundret tungtrafikk på E18 som gikk tvers gjennom Holmestrand smale sentrumsgater. I 2001 ble E18 flyttet innover i landet, noe som førte til at Holmestrand fikk tilbake mye av sitt tidligere idylliske preg. Det er utrolig å tenke på at den ellers så fredelige byen ble forpestet av all biltrafikk tidligere. Vi håper med denne artikkelen å rette opp noe av det feilaktige og negative inntrykket mange har av denne byen med drømmebeliggenhet ved Oslofjorden. Naturskjønne rekreasjons- og friluftsområder Holmestrand er kjent som byen under fjellet. Fjellveggen bak bysentrum gir Holmestrand en karakteristisk profil og skaper kontraster mellom kyst og innland. Holmestrand som kommune er jo mye mer enn den 11 km smale kyststripen ved Holmestrandsfjorden. Fra fjorden kryper Holmestrand opp på fjellet og strekker seg innover i landet. Her oppå «fjellet» finnes handelssentra, store boarealer og jordbruksområder. Kommunens varierte topografi og geografiske utstrekning er et godt utgangspunkt for et rikt og variert friluftsliv. På platået over sentrum finnes svært flotte utsiktspunkter med flott skue utover fjorden og de naturskjønne øyene Kommersøya og Bjerkøya. Platået bak byen gir også muligheter for flotte markaopplevelser med et stort løypenett som snirkler seg gjennom skog og dype daler. Noen flotte innsjøer får du også med på turen. Men det er sol og sjø som er naturgitte sommerattraksjoner i kystbyen Holmestrand. 1000 småbåtplasser og premiert gjestehavn i byens sentrum, rent vann og trivelige badeplasser i gåavstand like nord og syd for sentrum. Som så ofte når det gjelder kystbyer er det brygge- og havneområdet som fungerer som byens store trekkplaster, så også med Holmestrand. Her kan du spise nykokte reker på bryggekanten. Hygge deg med forfriskninger eller spise et måltid på uterestaurant mens du ser på det yrende folke- og båtlivet i havna. Her kommer du tett innpå det maritime miljøet og båttrafikken. Fritidsbåter, yrkesfiskere og handelsfartøyer ligger side om side langs kaiene. Selv om det er fint og koselig i havnen, så skal det bli enda bedre. Kommunen har laget en utviklingsplan for havneområdet og det skal nå rustes opp for 100 millioner kroner som skal resultere i enda flottere fasiliteter for byens innbyggere og turister. Øyene i Holmestrandsfjorden er godt tilrettelagt for båtfolket med ypperlige badeplasser og rekreasjonsområder på øyene. Badeliv kombineres med plante- og fossilstudier i naturreservatene. Kyststien gjennom Holmestrand kommune er en del av kyststien fra Hurum i Buskerud til Borre i Vestfold Riksvei 319 slynger og bukter seg langs kyststrekningen av Sande og Svelvik. Noen ganger helt ned ved vannet, andre ganger opp på høye koller og gjennom dype daler. Dalen du ser på bildet strekker seg fra Riksveien og ned til fjorden ved Sandvika i Sande. Åpne sansene for vårens vakre eventyr i Vestfolds to nordligste kommuner. Neste gang du skal til eller fra Vestfold anbefaler vi at du reiser via Sande og Svelvik. Les hvorfor. Source: http://www.norway-fjord.com/holmestrand Tagged: Holmestrand, Visit Norway, Fjord, Accommodation Sande \| Svelvik Lovely from nature’s side The two municipalities Sande and Svelvik are the farthest north in Vestfold. Sande and Svelvik have excellent conditions for agriculture and the nature in both municipalities is made up of beautiful landscapes, one of Vestfold's longest coastlines, the sea, and beautiful forests that offer many experiences – in both summer and winter. The municipalities have a rich cultural life and high population growth. There is an active forestry operation in Sande and Svelvik which also places great emphasis on facilitating the public so that citizens and tourists find their way more easily into the forest and islands to experience nature. Svelvik and Sande are a special experience by bike when the fruit trees are blooming from about mid-May. Open your senses to a wonderful adventure in Vestfold’s two northernmost municipalities. The Coastal Road on Vestfold’s Northern Riviera Rarely does someone recommend someone to take a route that takes a while longer. Next time you are going to or from Vestfold, we recommend just taking a detour via Sande and Svelvik. You won’t regret it! From Sande (from the south) and Svelvik (from Drammen and north), you can drive the coastal road by car along the northern Vestfold Riviera. Nowhere else in Vestfold can you drive so long on a main road which follows close to the sea like Highway 319 does. The route meanders along the entire coastline of the Sande and Svelvik municipalities is a great attraction and destination just in itself. At several places along the route, there are welcoming picnic areas in both Sande and Svelvik. The village, Svelvik, was granted city status in 1998 and is idyllically situated almost utterly in Drammenfjord. Svelvik is a small village with narrow streets, sometimes called "Norway's northernmost Sørland idyll." Here is Drammenfjord at the narrowest, and the stream at the roughest. The ferry from Svelvik crosses here to the plant in Hurum over the fjord and is actually part of the coastal path. The large ships carrying cars to Drammen harbor, heading into the narrow Svelvikstrømmen, look like they are driving through center of the main street. A beautiful summer day on a bench in the center, while the boats pass by, is quite a special experience. Svelvik is the port for the loading of sand and gravel and the sand hunter used to be a pictorial element in a picture of the fjord. The old port still retains much of the character of the times of sailing ships. It is said that there could be up to 100 ships here. Historical Berger and Fossekleiva If you are interested in the arts, you should take a trip to Fossekleiva in Svelvik. At Fossekleiva center, you can follow the beginning of beautiful glass and decanters. If you’ve take the tour through Berger Museum in Svelvik, you’ll get to experience how people lived in this little industry community when 200 workers were employed on the site’s two wooden mills. The famous Berg blankets are still produced in one of the buildings. The beautiful Berger farm is located on a hill just off the main road and has stunning views over the fjord. Below the farm, there is a sloping landscape of lush meadows and green pastures with grazing cows that extends right down to the fjord. Today the farm is run by the couple Anne Ma Jebsen Holm and Egil Holm. It was Anne Ma’s grandfather Jurgen Jebsen who bought the farm in 1880. Together with his son, they built up the woolen mill that was located just below the Berger farm. An industrial community was created at Berger, which until then only consisted of farms and some smallholdings. The new industrial society was then composed of two plants (Berger and Fossekleiva) and eventually 30 houses with housing for nearly 130 working families as well as banking, an electric power station, hospital, school, post office, and church were established. One worked the laundry, dye, spinning, and weaving; and the two factories and related industries employed usually 300 workers. There continued to be textile production in Berger until 2003. The production has now moved to Latvia. Today, the former industrial area is called Fossekleiva Center and buildings house many new features, such as galleries, shops, offices, homes, café and museum. The coastal path The coastal path from Svelvik town at the head of the Sande bay in Sande is about 25 km long and mostly continuous. The coastal path in the two municipalities includes other older roads and trails, but some stretches are somewhat rough and difficult for those who have leg problems. The beach area is varied with a beautiful coastal landscape which also includes a cultural landscape that has evolved over time. It is highly recommended to take a tour of the aforementioned village, Berger. On your tour of Berger, you’ll take the coastal path, gravel roads, and nice trails. It is on the route from Bjerkøya Pier to Leina and the route at Bjerkøya where the coastal path is the prettiest and most pleasant, as it winds through beautiful natural areas. When you arrive at Bjerkøya by car, you can start at the pier just before Bjerkøya. The walking tour around the island starts on paved road, and eventually goes over the trail. Part of the trail goes through the woods and over the beaches, with some steep and narrow sections. On top of the island to the south, there are stunning views of Langøya, Holmestrand, and the Oslofjord. This round trip on Bjerkøya ends on paved road. During the summer, it’s smart to have swimsuits in your backpack so you can easily take a refreshing dip at one of the many beaches along the coastal path. Making a stop at the pretty arches of Vammen is recommended. The arches were used for storing fishing nets for salmon fishing and on the mountains, there are still traces of yarn drying. Common to both municipalities, the coastal path passes wetlands of Grunnane (Svelvik) and the Sandebukta wetlands (Sande). In both of the wetlands, there are numerous types of birds, vegetation, and other wildlife that are native to the areas. Fruitful Svelvik Old fruit varieties are living heritage and also taste great. Svelvik has a long tradition of growing fruits and has a true diversity of various fruit trees and sorts. Apple blossoms and strawberry fruit are the symbols of Svelvik municipality, which despite its small size is Vestfold’s largest fruit supplier and the country’s 5th largest supplier of apples. Local fruit farmers believe Svelvik is the best place in Norway. Svelvik in Vestfold has a microclimate that is optimal for apple growing. Apples have been grown here since the 1840s and fruit farmers in Svelvik have built up a long history. But over the past few years, apple cultivation has become quite modernized. The trees are nearly 3 meters tall, and they are much closer than before. The same lighting conditions throughout the tree provide favorable growth conditions for each fruit. Nonetheless, the apples from Svelvik are just as juicy and delicious as they always have been. Swimming paradise. The coast of Sande and Svelvik has many lovely swimming areas. Here from Sandebukta in Sande. Krok in Svelvik is an idyllic region by Drammensfjord. Holmsbu at Hurumlandet can be seen at the other side of the fjord. From the fruit blossoming in May. Svelvik is the largest fruit municipality in Vestfold county and the country’s 5th largest. Typical fjord landscape in Svelvik. Here you see Kroksbukta and Kjelleråsen. Berger farm. Watercolor painting by Johs. Torbjørn Rudrud Source: http://www.norway-fjord.com/sande-svelvik Tagged: Sande, Svelvik, Visit Norway, Travel to Norway In Midgard´s Kingdom What a great nature and location! Almost right between Horten and Åsgårdstrand is Borre, the viking´s favorite area. It is not hard to understand why the Vikings chose this area as their home when you look at the beautiful nature going down to the Oslo fjord and the fertile soil everywhere you go. The summer of 2013, the Gildehallen opened, and has become one of Vestfold´s most popular attractions. Midgard historic center and the Borre park At Borre in Horten county is Midgard historic center, which can offer experiences and activites for all ages. Inside, you can visit exhibitions with original items from the Viking era in Vestfold, as well as see relevant, international exhibitions. If you´re tired of spending the time indoors, we recommend visiting the Midgard´s Viking playground. This is where the young ones can play archeologists and excavate treasures from the ground, or practice their balance through a obstacle run. The older ones can test their bow and arrow skills, or try throwing axes. The whole family can play a log game, how about the children vs. adults? If you want to challenge your tactical skills, we recommend playing the viking´s own board game, Hefnatafl. The center has a café with a panorama view of the Borre mounds. You can enjoy vaffles or other temptations in the café or on the outside terrace. Midgard is connected to the Borre park which has North Europe´s largest collection og large mounds from the young iron age (Viking era). The park has seven large mounds, around 40 smaller mounds, three rockeries and two star shaped mounds (“treodder”). It was believed to be all of one family, the Yngling family, that was buried in the mounds, but new research based on DNA analytics, suggests that large grave yards like these usually contains remains from different families. But there are no doubt that there are some very important people of the Viking era buried at Borre. Just one of the large mounds at Borre is completely excavated, which happened in 1853, and this is where the valuable findings at Borre were found. Many of the items found at Midgard can be seen in the exhibition “Borre in the bay, Borre in the world”. Midgard also exhibits great findings from the iron age in the exhibition “Mounded – the viking´s burials at Gulli” and “There are no borders from space”. The Borre park is a favored hiking area for the locals, and is great of picnics and trips in summer time. Maybe a little swim is tempting if the weather is hot? Only a short walk between the park from Midgard is between you and the beautiful Borre beach with a view of the Oslo fjord´s outlet! Explore the Borre park during the Viking era on your iPhone or iPad! Have you ever wondered what the landscape at the Borre park was like during the Viking era? Download Midgard´s app “Borrehallen” to your iPhone or iPad from App store and experience a virtual Viking era where the Borre hall still stand at its original location, and the sea level is 4 meter higher than today. The app is like a window into the past, and you´ll se an almost identical picture of the virtual and real landscape because of the 3D graphics on the screen. Photo text: The Gilde hall Right next to the Midgard historical center is the new kings hall – the Gilde hall. This showpiece of a Viking hall was opened for visitor during the Viking festival, July 6th 2013. The whole building is covered in tree decorated by fantastic carvings. The entrance to the hall is decorated by a carved portal, and inside are four carved poles. The stories are about the Yngling family, born by Gods and giants which in the end takes the throne in their own gilde hall in 822 after Christ. Bjarte Aarseth is an educated carver and works at the Viking ship house in Bygdøy where he recreates wooden Viking art. He constructed and drew the carvings of the gilde hall in Borre. See the Viking era from the Viking road No other place is the memories from the Viking era as rich as here in Vestfold. The Viking road in Vestfold is a road leading to both exciting experiences and knowledge. The Viking road extends from Mølen by Larvik to the Borre mounds and Midgard historical center in Borre, a 37 miles stretch. The memories of the Vikings are everywhere along the Vestfold-ra, the moraine that is left along the coast after the ice withdrew 10.000 years ago. This is where the people settled after the ice disappeared and the land rose. It was easy to cultivate here because of the self-draining soil. It was easy to walk along the moraine, so it became a natural road. It was just as nice to live in Vestfold back then as it is now. The Viking city of Kaupang Between Larvik and Sandefjord is Skiringssal-kaupangen, the trading place that is counted as Norway´s first ever city. Today, there are not many visible traces from the city that is a key area of out Viking knowledge. The area where the city of Kaupang used to be is a part of the idyllic Viksfjord today. The area along the Viksfjord is a favored vacation paradise for the 1000 cabins on each side of the fjord. It is easy to imagine why the Vikings liked it here in the beautiful natural area with great soil and easy access to the open ocean. Between 200 and 500 people lived here during the 800s, and the population could have been closer to 900 in the early 900s. Around year 930, the activates in the area stopped quite sudden, and we don´t know why. After a while, forests grew, and during the medieval ages, the area was used for farming and animal keeping. The Skiringssal-chief probably lived on a farm with a large chief hall at Huseby, a little north of Kaupang. It is believed that Skiringssal was the viking´s name for Huseby. The Viking city must have developed from the protection and control of the chief. Craftsmen and traders lived in Kaupang. Ships came from north and south to unload and load at the dock. Whetstones and soapstone came from the nearby areas, ceramics, glass, amber from Baltikum or Denmark, and pearls from Asia, the Mid-east and the Mediterranean area. No other place has given us such extensive knowledge about the trading ativites during the Viking era as Kaupang. Today, visitors can learn about Kaupang´s history at the Vestfold museum´s exhibition located there. Where is the Viking road? It is the pattern of the mentioned societies we follow when we follow the Viking road. The recent years, the traffic has found new directions, mainly on the inside of the moraine. This is an advantage for those who want to follow the Viking road. The road takes you through coastal nature, beautiful and open culture landscape and an area with little traffic. You can follow the route by car, bicycle, or by foot. The Viking road offers many experiences. You will see large and impressive grave mounds, memories of Norway´s first city, Kaupang, and the places where our most important Viking findings were found. Vestfold county has made an informative brochure about this road that us from Møler, via Kaupang, Istrehågan, Gokstadhaugen, de large grave mounds in Tønsberg, Oseberghaugen and Tønsberg city, before the trip ends in the beautiful Borre park. Picture Text: the Klåstad ship Both Sandefjord and Tønsberg has their own replica of the Gokstad ship and the Oseberg ship that sails along the coast of Vestfold, but it isn´t common knowledge that Vestfold has an original Viking ship exhibited in the county! The trading ship from Klåstad is actually the only preserved ship exhibited outside of Oslo. The Klåstad ship was excavated in Tjølling around 1970, and is exhibited in the Slottsfjell museum in Tønsberg. In the Viking hall inside the Slottsfjell museum is also the history of the Oseberg finding, the grave ship with Europe´s larges Viking finding, found 3 kilometers north of Tønsberg´s center. The original Viking ships, the Oseberg ship and the Gokstad ship is exhibited in the Viking ship museum in Oslo. A battle could begin in different ways. It could be a planned battle where they prepared and made plans before hand, but a battle could also happen by two groups “bumping into each other”. The Borre park Saga Oseberg is a full siza copy of the Oseberg ship from Tønsberg in Vestfold, built in 2011-2012 by the foundation New Oseberg Ship. The construction site was right outside Oseberg´s culture building in Tønsberg. The contruction was done as extensive and detailed as possible, with materials and techniques that were used when the original ship was made in year 820. The Gilde hall is a great contruction, based on the Viking era´s construction techniques. The Gokstad ship and its 23 meters makes the longest Viking ship found in Norway. Here is the copy, Gaia, sailing next to the Vesterøya in Sandefjord. The Viking era was one of the most expansive and innovative eras in the history of the Nordic countries. The plundering and wars lead the Vikings all the way to America, Greenland, and all corners of Europe, and even further. Strategem on the battlefield The Vikings used stratagem on the battlefields. They often split the army in half before they met the enemy. One half were hiding while the others appeared to be weakened. When the fight started, the hidden part attacked the opponents from behind. The culture heritage is brought forward. A meeting of modern Vikings at the Gokstad mound by Sandefjord. In the park, outside of the museum are many activities to chose from. Among those are throwing of axes, shooting with a bow and arrow lead by an instructor. The berserks are referred to as horrible enemies to run into. Is is said that they were so high on the desire to fight that they bit their shields, attacked rocks and trees, and they even killed each other waiting for the battles to begin. Schools often visit the Saga in Oseberg. The viking´s ravages were feared all over the world. No matter how much you practiced, a status as a warrior had to be earned on the battlefield. The Viking ship The ship was the most potent symbol of power, and the most important way of transport during the Viking era. The ship was one of the most important prerequisites of political power and prestige, which in many cases was based on the control of the ocean. The sail revolutionized the Viking ship The use of sails made it possible to sail the open sea, and it opened the way to the countries in the North sea for the Vikings. It is believed that the sail has been used some places from as early as the 600s, and by the mid 700s, it was common in many places. By using a sail, they could get to the countries that used to be out of reach. You can see Gaia (the Gokstad ship copy) sailing between the island of Veierland and Sandefjord´s mainland in the picture. The Vikings had a nice view of the Oslo fjord from the beautiful area we called the Borre park today. The city of Kaupang was an idyllic place next to Viksfjord in Tjølling. The beautiful nature is now used for vacation and cabins. The Viking county of Vestfold All the most famous Viking ships found in Norway, were found in Vestfold. Source: http://www.norway-fjord.com/borre Tagged: BORRE, Gildehallen, VIKINGS, Midgard Visit Norway, Summer Holiday, Scandinavia, Norway, Destinations, Vestfold Horten – a capital of great holiday experiences In the middle of Vestfold, you’ll find Horten with its pleasant gardens, shopping, military past, museums, and last but not least, swimming areas. No matter where you have a cabin in Vestfold, the town is within easy driving distance and it’s not far from Østfold and the Bastøy ferry either. Horten is also a small boat’s town and the guest port has been on the top 10 of Norway’s best guest ports many times. You’ll find a jetty for bathing, restaurants, playgrounds, and the Horten Tourist Office here. Horten Harbor Her finner vi badebrygge, spisesteder, lekeplass og Horten turistkontor. Horten Harbor puts out overnight-buoys in the Horten archipelago, in cooperation with Oslofjord Recreation. Horten is a green town. Horten’s characteristics are small houses in lush, green gardens and large magnificent deciduous trees in the city's many green spaces. Part of what makes Horten so beautiful are the tall canopies bursting with mistletoe. The plant that otherwise is so rare in northern latitudes is found in Horten in large quantities. If you’d like to experience large trees and mistletoe, Lystlunden Park, Horten forest, and the marine station Karljohansvern are places you should definitely visit. Horten was an early ferry hub. There has been a ferry connection between Horten and Moss since 1582, but in 1815, Horten was designated to become Norway's new fleet station, which replaced Fredriksvern in Stavern. Plans for a new Norwegian Navy were large and the fleet port of Stavern was too small. At the time, Horten had a population of about 100 people at four farms and the old ferry landing. Karljohansvern was established in Horten Navy Headquarters by royal decree in 1818, a few years after the signing of the union with Sweden. They needed better defense for Oslofjord. Horten naval base was controversial from the start, and over the years, the naval base endured many setbacks. Work on the fleet station began in 1820, but it wasn’t ready until 1850. The many challenges of a destitute Norway, as well as the conflict between the monarchy and parliament, led to the naval base in Horten never to become what it was going to be. There were plans to build a large fortress at Hortenstangen, but these were shelved prior to 1850. The houses that were built for the workers and soldiers in connection with yard eventually became the basis for Horten city. Horten grew rapidly and developed into a town of over 5,000 inhabitants as Karljohansvern stood ready. In 1963, the Navy headquarters moved to Bergen, but Karljohansvern had lots of military activity and still was the base for the Eastern Norway Naval District. It was the defense’s need for modern technology that led to the research that cared for a number of technology companies and has made Horten a marine electronic center in Norway. Karljohansvern today Today, the old naval base at idyllic Karljohansvern is under conservation protection by the culture center. Over time, the defense limited its military operations here. Several buildings, including the shipyard, have been sold for civilian use. In addition, you’ll find the Marine Museum here, which incidentally is the world's oldest naval museum in operation. Preus museum, which is the national museum for photography, is also worth a visit with its treasure trove of photographs, equipment and photography literature in a historical building. In addition, Karljohansvern offers everything from small specialty stores to large chain stores. Cafés and eateries with and without galleries are tempting with food from all over the world. There is no through traffic on the island. There are beaches, Horten forest and the picturesque Horten Channel that separates Karljohansvern from Horten city. Along the canal, you can walk in peace and quiet, only occasionally interrupted by an occasional silent “snekke,” or picnic boat, that uses this shortcut between the inner harbor and Oslofjord. If you want to find an overview of Horten municipality, you should visit viewpoint "Festningen", or “the fortress,” which is an old military facility from the previous century. Here you can see the entire municipality surrounded by Oslofjord. Explore the Submarine «Utstein» The Mrine Museum in Horten is the oldest of its kind. The Marine Museum is located at the old naval headquarters and now has large collections related to the navy’s history through war and peace. Many items are unique globally. The collection includes vessels and equipment related to the Norwegian Navy, Allied and German equipment, ship models, paintings, and pictures just to name a few. The 45 meter long submarine "Utstein" occupies the land outside the Navy Museum in Horten, and is open to the public. "Utstein" operated at sea from 1964 until 1998. Alfred Berg – Good old-fashioned colonial in Horten On your visit to Horten, you should take a trip to the store of Alfred Berg on Storgata. The traditional, nostalgic store is 115 years old, and gives you the feeling of having traveled far back in time. Everything from the building, style, and products on old shelves is original from back in the day. The store was originally one of the few stores that only included the best ingredients, such as imported Swiss cheeses and healthy juices, and could rightly call itself "prettier colonial". Alfred Berg is up to this day a great colonial focusing on service and quality goods. Exciting Car Museum In traditional Horten Brewery's old beer halls is the Horten Car Museum. Here you can see a large collection of vehicles from 1900 until 1970. The collection includes everything from rare cars to old used cars. The museum went through a renovation period in winter, but opened recently with an upgrade of the exhibition and premises. A model railway of 24 m² is an extra special touch to your experience. Løvøya Slightly north of Horten is the historic island called Løvøya. The peninsula is the western of the three islands originally named Western, Central and East Løvøy. Being merely 0.7 km², Løvøya is a relatively small island. The bedrock of the island consists of lava from volcanoes that were active in the Permian period about 250 million years ago. Previously, it was possible to take boats across the strait between Løvøya and Drasundodden, hence the name Drasundet, or “the Dra sound.” This was practiced until the 1950s. Today, the sound is filled up and a road goes over Drasundet. Løvøya has a nice marina for visitors at the bay Løvøypollen on the east side of Falkensten Bay. The place offers various facilities there including electricity, toilet, washing machine, garbage collection and camping. East of the island is a 200 meter long beach. It's nice to take a dive in the outdoors at Løvøysund. Remember to bring your fishing pole. The area around the strait and the bridge between Løvøya and Mellomøya are considered to be the most popular fishing spots in the region. There is a nice three kilometer long marked trail on the island and there are several sights worth checking out. There was a settlement here in the Viking Age. The Løvøy Chapel Løvøya is perhaps best known for its stone chapel that adorns the landscape when was built in the 1200s from local stone. The chapel is the smallest of Horten Municipality's three medieval churches, and is considered to be the most distinctive of them. The church was in ruins for many years after the Reformation in 1536, and became protected in 1882. Long restoration work started in 1928, and in 1950, the chapel could be reopened to religious use. St. Olav’s Wells on Løvøya According to legend, St. Olav was in contact with higher powers. It was discovered that water sources around the country were associated with Olav the Holy. It was said that the water in the well could cure disease. Adjacent to the chapel on Løvøya we find the holy well of St. Olav. The well was one of the main places in Østlandet of Catholic times. The belief in the healing waters was long lived and it is said that a sailor as late as 1820 went from Stavern to Løvøya and returned with two bottles of spring water to a sick marine captain. Today, the well is bricked up and restored. Robber Cave If you are good at climbing, you can search for caves on the north side of the island, the Veggfjell by Jesus Bay. There are a lot of legends and stories about Røverhulen, or Robber Cave. A legend tells of robbers who abducted a service girl in the neighborhood by the cave. One day when she was sent out to buy food, she was threatened with death if she were to reveal them. The girl did not dare reveal the robbers but was clever enough to cut a hole in a bag of noodles that she brought with her, so she was found. Røver trail runs 200 m along the vertical rock wall. There is also another cave which bears the “røver” name. This cave is difficult to get to, but a long mysterious cave. Bicycling Haven Horten and the surroundings are a paradise for cyclists. On all sides of the city, there is magnificent scenery that ranges from the general surface tension between Åsgårdstrand and Horten to forests and rolling hills and rural landscape on the other edges of the city. Lovely lazy days on Løvøya Shopping in the cozy town center. Next time you go shopping in Vestfold, give Horten a try! The city has a cozy trade center with pedestrian streets, squares, and a large variety of a very diverse range of shops. The three shopping centers along Horten’s new beautiful pedestrian street offer a total of 70-80 stores. You will find everything you need - and you will find that the Horten has a very dynamic and exciting commercial center to offer! The newest mall, Scales Farm, offers the city's "best" parking facility. Easy access - great spots - and very reasonable prices! Free after 4 p.m. and direct access into the Spar supermarket means easy and comfortable access to groceries. Two of the country's leading museums within its genre are located inside the Karjohansvern. The Marine Museum shows Norway naval history and photo art, and you’ll find photographic history at the Preus Museum. Løvøy Chapel. The island was flocked by people of the Catholic world. It was no more than reasonable that a church was built on site. Exactly when this happened is not known, but it must have been in the 1200s. To the right in the picture, you can see St. Olav's well. Horten city seen from the southeast. Source: http://www.norway-fjord.com/horten Tagged: Visit Norway, Horten, Moss - Horten, Karljohansvern	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2458
__label__wiki	0.765936	0.765936	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom English Movie Feature Film \| Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a 2018 English movie directed by J. A. Bayona starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, B. D. Wong and James Cromwell. The movie is produced by Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley and Belén Atienza and the music composed by Michael Giacchino. Release Date: June 7 2018 (India) Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Director: J. A. Bayona Producers: Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Belén Atienza Production Company: Universal Pictures Music Director: Michael Giacchino Plot: When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Star Cast: B. D. Wong Complete Cast & Crew Trailer - 02 Cast Overview: Kevin Layne Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom IN THE NEWS 'Jurassic World' sequel set for June 2018, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard to return - July 25, 2015	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2459
__label__cc	0.611621	0.388379	Home Digital Economy IMDA Singapore announces new innovative initiatives under Retail ITM and launches the Retail Industry Digital Plan The new Innovative Initiatives will focus on creating better customer experiences in both online and offline retailing. in Digital Economy, News, Singapore The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in Singapore announced new innovative initiatives in line with the Retail Industry Transformation Map (ITM). The retail ITM was launched in 2016 and it contains key strategies to support sector transformation, including a focus on innovation and the adoption of new technologies to drive productivity, as well as staying agile and responsive to trends in jobs and skills. The retail industry in Singapore includes about 22,000 establishments, contributing almost 1.4% to Singapore’s GDP and employing approximately 3% of the total workforce in Singapore. Physical Retailers to participate in Omni-Channel Retail and Integrated Digital Ecosystems IMDA and SPRING will work closely with retailers and other industry stakeholders such as wholesalers, logistics companies and e-commerce marketplaces, to create solutions that can enable more traditional retailers to go omnichannel. By equipping retailers with the capabilities to transact online and fulfil deliveries efficiently, they can complement their physical shops with online channels to stay competitive. These solutions will enable retailers to become more visible to consumers that are within their vicinity, thereby increasing the probability of making a sale through superior delivery lead-times and customer familiarity. They will also allow retailers to manage inventory, receive orders and publish products onto ecommerce platforms and expose retailers to new business models by integrating digital platforms. For example, by integrating e-commerce and federated locker platforms, retailers will have the option to house these lockers at their shops to increase customer footfall. From a consumer’s perspective, they will enjoy greater convenience with a wide selection of products to choose from when shopping online from retail shops that are nearby. Consumers will also be able to enjoy faster delivery lead-times and purchase from shops that they are familiar with within a precinct. The 99%SME Collaboration The 99%SME campaign was jointly launched by DBS and Singtel to help SMEs venture into e-commerce through the 99%SME e-marketplace. An MOI has been signed between IMDA, DBS and Singtel to collaborate and strengthen 99%SME as an e-commerce marketplace to help more physical retailers to go onto omni-channel retailing. The MOI aims to do the below: Help more physical retailers go into omni-channel Enable physical retailers to sell products on e-commerce marketplaces and be provided with tools to transact, accept payments and fulfil orders Develop applications to on-board physical retailers onto the e-commerce marketplace, complementing their physical shops to create a seamless omnichannel experience for their customers Drive efforts to develop the 99%SME campaign into a self-sustaining business entity that can commercialise and market its solutions and services to regional countries. Better Customer Experiences at Shops, Malls and Neighbourhoods To enable richer, immersive customer experiences, IMDA and SPRING will focus on the use of digital technologies such as sensors, robotics, augmented/virtual reality and artificial intelligence for greater personalisation for consumers. For example, if customers are unsure of what to purchase, a kiosk or device could suggest what to buy based on a list of questions. This will be done for shops, malls as well as neighbourhoods. For instance, IMDA and SPRING will work together with the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SMCCI) and One Kampong Gelam to co-develop a digital roadmap that will enhance the digital capabilities of merchants in the neighborhood of Kampong Glam, heritage area and transform the visitors’ experience in Kampong Glam, catering to both locals and overseas visitors. Credit: Erwin Soo/ CC BY 2.0 This roadmap is expected to be completed in the next 3 months. An MOI has been signed between IMDA, SPRING, SMCCI and One Kampong Gelam to collaborate to develop a digital vision and roadmap for the neighbourhood. The objectives of the MOI include enhancement of existing IT infrastructure at Kampong Glam to support upcoming technological implementations and empowering retailers in Kampong Glam to go omni-channel, equipping them with technological capabilities to uncover new opportunities and revenue streams. Precinct-level technology solutions will be deployed to transform the visitors’ experience in Kampong Glam, catering to both locals and overseas visitors. Retail Industry Digital Plan The Retail Industry Digital Plan (IDP) for SMEs was released today, alongside the launch of the Industry Transformation Map (ITM) for the Infocomm Media sector. The creation of IDPs under the SMEs Go Digital Programme was announced in this year’s budget by Finance Minister, Mr. Heng Swee Kiat. Earlier this week, the first IDP was released for the logistics industry. The Retail IDP has been developed by IMDA in partnership with SPRING Singapore (SPRING), to guide SME retailers on their digital transformation effort. SMEs can use the guide to assess their digital readiness and identify digitalisation opportunities relevant for their businesses, as well as identify skill gaps to support their digitalisation. The Retail IDP is a living document to be updated over time as digitalisation of the industry progresses and new technologies are introduced and made relevant for the sector. It is meant for local SME retailers in sub-sectors, including supermarkets and convenience stores, fashion and sporting goods, consumer electronics, department stores, jewellery & timepieces and furniture & household products. The Retail IDP for SMEs comprises: 1) An industry digital guide, including a self-assessment checklist; 2) A list of pre-approved digital solutions and various assistance channels; 3) Projects co-created by IMDA and industry leaders to uplift whole sector; 4) A skills framework. The industry digital guide provides a reference on solutions relevant for SME retailers across 3 stages: “Getting Digital Economy Ready”, “Growing in the Digital Economy” and “Leaping Ahead”. In Stage 1, ready-to-go digital solutions will be identified to enable automation of front-of-house operations and promote self-service, At the same time, this will be supported by digitalised back-of-house operations. In the second stage, more advanced digital solutions identified to capture new consumer markets through aggregation platforms. With a high smartphone penetration rate in Singapore, SME retailers can also enhance customers’ self-served experience through their mobile devices, facilitating both in-store and online shopping experience. The final stage involves integration to other digital platforms for the aggregation of industry data, harnessing analytical information to make informed business decisions involving themselves and their business partners in the ecosystem. Exploiting new and advanced digital platforms like omni-channel retailing and digital marketing, retailers can create, grow and protect a global brand and enhance customer reach and experience. A Self-Assessment Checklist will be made available online where SME retailers can assess and identify their digital readiness and the digitalisation opportunities based on a broad understanding of their business operations, current level of digitalisation, and business expansion plans. For a more comprehensive review of their business, SME retailers can approach SME Centre business advisors for free business diagnosis and advice on relevant digital solutions. SME Centre business advisors will also refer SMEs that require specialist advice on more advanced digital solutions, such as data analytics and cybersecurity, to the SME Digital Tech Hub. SMEs requiring productivity tools such as video analytics solutions will continue to receive support through access to pre-approved digital technology solutions. SMEs can visit the Tech Depot for more information on these solutions. The Skills Framework for Retail, which was launched on 4 August 2017, identifies a spectrum of skillsets, career pathways and job roles to cater to this new digital workforce. With the identification of the new skills sets, companies can also tap on WSG’s Adapt and Grow initiatives such as the Professional Conversion Programmes. Concurrently, the TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) programme will support the Retail IDP by offering various programmes to develop ICT manpower needs to help businesses in their digitalisation journey. IMDA’s accreditation programme for Singapore-based tech product companies to expand its scope New measures to safeguard personal data in public sector Malaysia IR4.0 on track with partner NTU: Luminescent probe for early detection of acute kidney failure	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2461
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__label__cc	0.732029	0.267971	Kitchen Remodel Pairs Vintage Charm with Modern Living Rachel Bucci It’s a common conundrum: How best to update a vintage home for modern living without losing the old house character that attracted you in the first place? Solving riddles like this comes naturally to Hannah Hacker of Adapt Design, whose forte is space planning and complicated reconfiguration issues. Case in point: this 1928 home near Multnomah Village. Limited by a floor plan typical of the era and a kitchen measuring a mere 110 square feet, the homeowners turned to Hacker for help. They wanted a more open concept for entertaining, along with a spacious kitchen to accommodate a passion for cooking, canning and preserving, all while maintaining the original charm of the home. “The owners bought the house because they liked the character and details, but the layout just wasn’t working for them,” says Hacker. In order to fit a gourmet kitchen, Hacker completely reimagined the space, combining the former office and dining rooms and moving the kitchen to the back of the house. The living room stayed in the same location, but she opened it up to give it a more connected, great-room feel. The new kitchen not only doubled in size, but its new location opened up beautiful views over the terraced yard and vegetable garden and into the trees beyond. A farmhouse-style sink now overlooks the backyard, while a prep sink on the roomy quartz island provides the perfect spot for socializing, or washing and preparing fresh produce on canning days. An ample pantry cabinet serves as storage for all the canned goods and preserves. The gourmet appliance package includes a 60-inch-wide refrigerator/freezer, a six-burner gas range with pot filler, a warming drawer and built-in microwave. The finishes in the kitchen were selected to complement the era of the home. The island and base cabinets are faced in walnut, while the upper cabinets are painted a fresh white. The doors on all the cabinets were matched to the existing built-ins in the house: a shaker style with beaded trim. The charming chicken-wire-covered pendant lights above the island were found by the homeowner and are a nod to the kitchen’s vintage farmhouse aesthetic. The honeycomb pattern of the wire repeats in the glass tiles on the backsplash. Hacker’s attention to detail ensured that the new spaces blend seamlessly with the old. As walls were moved and reconfigured, the existing oak floors were laced with new hardwood planks and stained a dark hue. New crown molding and millwork details, such as door trim and base trim, were matched to those already in the house, and as many doors as possible were reused. Hacker also repurposed original leaded-glass doors as a design element in a custom built-in for the dining room. Several more pairs of French doors were relocated in the new layout as well. “This type of project – space planning – is really my strength,” Hacker says. “It’s what I enjoy and what I’m really good at: reconfiguring spaces for the unique needs and tastes of my clients.” >> For more information, visit: adaptdesignpdx.com adept design Home Away From Home: Summer Fun with Meredith Lodging Intentionally Green The Connected Home Swanson Home Loans Offers a Holistic Approach to Mortgage Lending The Seat of Sustainability	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2465
__label__cc	0.684116	0.315884	Matthew Oshman Ted Oshman Legal Glossary The Oshman Firm represents clients injured in accidents due to the following: Brachial Plexus Palsy C-Section Errors Dangerous Medication Error Doctor Negligence Nursing Negligence Closed Head Injuries Elevator Accident Eye Injury & Vision Loss Orthopedic Injury Quadriplegia and Paraplegia Swimming Pool Accidents Workplace Accident Birth Defect Drugs Hydrocodone, Oxycodone and Codeine Birth Defects Nexium, Prevacid and Prilosec Tylenol/Acetaminophen Xolair Medical Device Litigation DePuy Hip Replacement Failures Drug-Coated Heart Stents Hernia Mesh Patch Pain Pump Defect Transvaginal Mesh Patch 3M Combat Earplugs Birth Defects and Environmental Causes Creosote Metallosis RoundUp Lawsuits Begin an online Free Case Evalution Here • Personal Injury • Orthopedic Injury • Knee Injury By Ted Oshman Knee injuries can be the result of an injury accident, such as a work-related accident, vehicle accident, sports injury, fall, or other cause of a direct blow or sudden movement. In 2003 alone, over 9.5 million people sought medical attention for knee problems. The function of the knees, the largest joints in the body, is to provide flexibility and stability to the body. To carry out these important functions, the knees contain bones, cartilage, muscles, ligaments and tendons, any of which may be affected by a knee injury. Cartilage works to protect the bones, which form the knee joint, from rubbing against each other. The knee joint is the junction of three bones, the patella (kneecap), femur, and tibia. Ligaments, strong elastic bands of tissue, connect the bones. Tendons, also strong cord-like tissue bands, connect the muscles to the bones. The muscles work to bend and straighten the knee joint. They also help to support and protect the knees. Any of these parts of the knee can be damaged in a knee injury. Common Knee Injuries Common knee injuries can include cartilage or menisci injuries, ligament strains, tendon tears, patello-femoral pain syndrome, and more. Cartilage Injuries and Meniscus injuries Chondromalacia, also called chondromalaciapatellae, is a knee cartilage injury that commonly affects young adults as a result of injury, overuse, misalignment, or muscle weakness. This knee injury involves the softening of the kneecap’s articular cartilage. An injury or blow to the knee, such as in a vehicle accident or sports incident, can cause a small piece of the cartilage to break off or a fracture in the bone.The most common knee injury symptom of Chondromalacia is a dull pain in the kneecap area, which gets worse with downhill walking or walking down stairs.Knee injury treatment for this condition can include low impact exercises (such as swimming), electrical stimulation, and surgery. Meniscus injury: One of the most common knee injuries is a torn or split meniscus. The menisci are strips of cartilage that bolster the kneecap on both sides. Severe impact or twisting, as in a traumatic accident, and weight bearing activities are common causes of menisci knee injuries.Knee injury symptoms of a meniscus injury can include localized swelling, pain, and the inability to straighten out the knee joint. A meniscus injury can range in severity depending on the extent of the tear or split.Knee injury treatment for a meniscus injury will depend on the nature of the patient’s injury. For a minor meniscus tear, muscle strengthening by way of exercise and/or physical therapy may be most effective. For more serious knee injuries, arthroscopic or open surgery may be required. Patello-femoral pain syndrome Abnormal movement, as in a traumatic injury, can result in a condition called patello-femoral pain syndrome, characterized by localized pain behind the kneecap. This pain often increases with long periods of sitting still, walking up or down stairs or hills, and squatting. Patello-femoral pain can come gradually with time. Knee injury treatment for this condition can include rest, the use of anti-inflammatory medications, ice applications at 10 to 20 minute intervals throughout the day, special exercises and physical therapy, knee sleeves or braces, and surgery. Knee Ligament Injuries Stretched or torn knee ligaments are a common source of knee injuries. Two sets of ligaments, the cruciate and collateral ligaments, are responsible for providing stability to the knee. The cruciate ligaments—the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)—are found inside the knee joint, connecting the tibia and femur bones. ACL injury: The ACL can be torn or stretched due to a sudden twisting movement, landing from a jump or fall, direct contact in a traumatic accident, or a rapid change of direction. ACL tears are common knee injuries.Symptoms of an ACL injury may not include immediate pain. Patients often experience a popping noise and/or a buckling of the affected leg. After the first two to twelve hours, swelling and pain may develop.Early treatment may include icing and elevating the knee until you can visit your doctor. ACL injury treatment can be non-operative or operative. Non-operative treatment can include a knee brace and muscle strengthening via physical therapy. Arthroscopic or open surgery, followed by physical therapy, may be required to repair the ACL. PCL injury: A PCL injury, less common than ACL injury, is often the result of a direct blow to the knee because of a traumatic accident or fall. The shinbone may sag backwards due to this injury, compromising the joint’s stability. Non-surgical or surgical treatment options exist for treating PCL injuries, depending on the symptoms and severity of this knee injury.The collateral ligaments—including the medial collateral ligament (MCL) and lateral collateral ligament (LCL)—are located on the inner and outer sides of the knee joint, respectively. MCL injury: The MCL is more easily injured than the LCL. Symptoms of this knee injury can include a popping sound and knee buckling. Physical blows can cause this knee injury. LCL injury: An LCL injury is characterized by knee instability, swelling, and/or pain. High pressure on the knee joint, as in a fall or accident, can cause this knee injury. Treatment for collateral ligament injuries can involve conservative treatments for incomplete tears, including Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation (RICE). A brace and special exercises may be advised. Rehabilitative physical therapy and/or surgery may be required in more severe cases. Knee Tendon Injuries A tendon, which connects the bones and the muscles of the knee, may tear with overuse or a traumatic injury or fall. Tendonitis is another condition affecting the knee tendons. Other knee tendon injuries include Osgood-Schlatter Disease and Iliotibial Band Syndrome. Knee injury symptoms for a ruptured tendon can include a popping sound in the knee, severe pain, bruising, weakness, and reduced functioning and/or mobility. X-rays and an MRI are often used to diagnose a knee tendon injury. Bracing is a non-surgical treatment option for a ruptured tendon affecting the knee. If the tear is complete, surgery will typically be required to repair the torn tendon. Knee muscle injuries Muscle strains in the knee area can also constitute or aggravate a knee injury. The quadriceps and hamstrings, which both connect to the knees via tendons, can be strained, thus contributing to or causing knee injury. Other types of knee injury Other types of knee injuries include arthritis, osteochondritis dissecans, and plica syndrome. Knee injury compensation If you have suffered a knee injury due to an accident caused by another party or a work-related injury, you may be able to obtain compensation for your losses and suffering. Please contact the knee injury lawyers at The Oshman Firm to learn more about your legal rights and options. Contact us today at 1-800-400-8182, or contact us online for a free case evaluation. Our firm utilizes the contingency fee system, where we not only provide free consultations, but never charge a fee unless we are successful in obtaining a settlement or jury verdict on your behalf. Complete this form to learn about your legal rights. All information is held in the strictest of confidence. 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__label__cc	0.551492	0.448508	Browse: Home / Trouble at Mill Trouble at Mill By Lynda on April 30, 2015 As Ken wrote in his diary yesterday, 03 and his mate are now incubating a second clutch of eggs at Site B. The peace and tranquility he described contrast greatly with the dramatic events that have taken place at the nest over the past few weeks. In her latest diary volunteer Lynda Berry recounts her recent shifts – at both Site B and Manton Bay – and the drama that she has witnessed… Monday, 13th April The euphoric bubble in which I had been floating since my shift at Horn Mill yesterday morning, was abruptly burst when Tim Mackrill phoned me. Once the pleasantries were over he asked me ‘Lynda, did you see 03 yesterday?’ I was stunned, ‘Tim, I’ve just posted my diary to be put on the website and it’s mainly about 03 at Horn Mill yesterday!’ Tim then asked ‘But did you see him?’ I started to stutter that I had seen him, but then it dawned on me that I had assumed it was 03 and I hadn’t identified him as such. ‘Tim, he had a very white front but my binoculars are not powerful to be able to see the BTO ring on his right leg, and I wasn’t really looking for it. He flew in from the direction of his nest, behaved in exactly the way we were told he would and flew off in the direction that he came. Why are you asking?’ Tim replied that 03 had not been seen since Saturday evening and had displayed some strange behaviour over that week. He also told me that 51(11) had been at Site B and has been nest scraping. Tuesday, 14th April – Manton Bay I set off along the path and came across a couple who were avidly peering through their scope across the fields, away from the water and I asked if they had seen anything interesting – it was a beautiful hare. Arriving at the hide, Frances and John informed me that 33(11) had brought a trout in during the morning and that everything appeared quite normal. There was a steady stream of visitors during the afternoon and they enjoyed seeing 33 bringing the small tail end of the trout to Maya which she finished off on the T perch. He brought several sticks to the nest, one of which appeared to be a bramble and roughly placed it on her back. She quickly removed it and placed it to the side of the nest. At one stage he flew quickly east toward Lyndon and I thought maybe he had gone to fish again, but he soon returned with yet another twig. Several volunteers visited during the afternoon, it’s far more than a job to us, I know that it almost consumes me each Summer and sometimes through the Winter too. I didn’t notice the exact time, but Kayleigh telephoned me at some stage – 03 was back at Site B and suddenly all was well in the Rutland Osprey world again. I walked back to Lyndon with Paul and had a brief chat with Ken who had been at Site B that afternoon. We all hoped that things would settle down, although of course it would be a waiting game to learn whether the eggs were still viable. Thursday, 16th April – Site B My shift was at Site B from 08.00 until 12 noon and I had invited fellow volunteer, Chris Wood, to join me. I had merrily spent Wednesday assuming that all was well at Site B. I wonder who it was that said ‘the problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth’. I had been wrong to assume once again, as upon arrival at the hide we were told that two Ospreys were seen disappearing into the distance at 5.50am and since then only the female had been present, incubating. At 08.50 an Osprey appeared overhead calling loudly and displaying, his feet dangling. He circled over us and the nest in this manner for fifteen minutes, calling constantly, it was quite a spectacle. He then collected a stick and landed on the nest, it was 51(11). He appeared to be mantling with his back to the female and it was only later in the morning, in conversation with Tim, that I learned that this was part of the display. 51 proceeeded to collect plenty more sticks and almost every time he flew directly towards us and then turned, collecting his sticks from the gateway into the next field and circling back to the nest. He flew so close to us that we could almost read his ring number with the naked eye, it was breathtaking. Several times he attempted to mate with the female but she pecked sharply at him and forced him off the nest. Tim phoned during the morning and we learned that 03 had been battling with 51 at Horn Mill Trout Farm shortly before 6am, continuing for several hours. Apparently 03 had returned to Site B twice the previous day, both times with a fish but 51 had chased him off. The female had not eaten since Tuesday. Tim thought that if 03 was ousted from the nest that he would perhaps stay around Horn Mill for the rest of the season and just fish for himself, having given up the battle. With that sad thought the shift ended and we walked back to my car. I could not believe that perhaps 03 had finally given up on his nest which he had occupied since 2001. Occasionally over the last few years I had imagined how 03’s reign at Site B would end, the most obvious one being that he just would not return one Spring. Never ever had I imagined that he could be ousted, but then of course, being the age that he is, this is the first time that this situation has arisen at Rutland. Wednesday, 22nd April – Manton Bay I arrived at Lyndon and chatted with Kayleigh; she had asked me a couple days ago if I would mind doing another induction, this time with a Trainee Reserve Officer from Egleton, Dale. I like to take a fairly leisurely walk down to Waderscrape Hide so after a while I set off without him. I was rewarded with the sight and sound of a Whitethroat on the wire and further down the track, a Linnet was perched in a tree. As I was chatting with Roger, Dale arrived and introductions were made. He had been lucky enough to spot two Whitethroats on his walk to the hide. At 9am 33(11) flew off towards Lyndon and out of sight. I started to explain to Dale about the log and diary and our job in telling the visitors about the Ospreys. As I was showing him the hide he told me that he had helped lay the floor during the building of the hide in the Winter. We chatted away and he told me that whilst he was at university in Aberystwyth he would take the train from Dyfi Junction to Ynys-hir, past Cors Dyfi and see the Osprey nest there, where several of our female Ospreys seem to like residing. At 9.15 33 landed on the T perch with a small Roach (another part of induction for Dale, fish indentification). He pecked at it for a couple of minutes and then delivered it to Maya on the nest, who immediately took it to the T perch and 33 took over incubation. She had barely made a start on it when she was hassled by a crow and prompted dropped the fish. Obviously feeling disgruntled she chased a few ducks and landed back on the T perch and proceeded to preen. Both Ospreys looking settled on the nest We didn’t see any visitors for the first hour, one of the first was a lady who arrived without binoculars. As I showed her the Ospreys and their nest, explaining that she could use the two telescopes belonging to the project, she told me that she didn’t have much time. The previous night she had been visiting a friend in Wing, a village nearby, and was now on her way to visit more friends near Grimsby. However, she had been unable to ignore the chance of seeing the Rutland Ospreys. She recalled being on holiday in Sri Lanka with her husband six or seven years ago when they had hired a driver to show them the area. The driver had turned out to be an avid ornithologist and had stopped many times to point out various birds. She vividly remembered that he told them that he was saving up to visit Rutland Water – she was totally amazed that he was so singular in his choice of destination, not England or any other country, but Rutland Water specifically. As she left she hoped that he had made it and had been as lucky as she had this morning in seeing the Ospreys. As the morning progressed more and more visitors arrived and Dale and I were busy. I had already asked him to take over the log and diary entries which becomes quite difficult when there are so many visitors, but he had it all in hand. At one stage I heard him and a visitor observing four House Martins flying low over the water and the vistor wondering if the one at the back was in fact a Sand Martin. Buzzards appear to be nesting in the poplars to the right of the nest and we saw one perched in the hawthorn hedge behind the hide. 33 didn’t seem to mind it sitting there but he does seem to be overly protective and we saw him divebombing a pair of Crested Grebes and the omnipresent Cormorants. At 12.08 33(11) flew out of sight and we hoped that he had gone fishing. The morning had flown by and Peter and Di arrived to take over. At 13.25 we were walking along the track when Dale called out ‘Look!’ It was 33 flying along the shoreline with a large fish, on his way back to the bay. I was delighted to leave on a happy note but more importantly that Dale had spotted 33 with a fish; he had never seen an Osprey catch a fish and I suppose this was the next best thing. Friday, 24th April – Site B I left the car and with some trepidation started the walk to Site B. How different things were this year. I couldn’t believe that I had only seen 03(97) once this season and that was at Horn Mill and not at Site B. I had been told that things seem to have settled down at the nest and that 03 was ‘holding fort’ but things can change so rapidly. As I approached the final gate I stopped to observe – this is the place that Ken and I write about so often, a favourite spot to catch our first glimpse of the proceedings, and probably a favourite of all the volunteers who monitor the nest. I could see one on the nest and one on the T perch but could not identify from that distance. I got closer to the hide and was able to see that the female was standing on the nest and 03 was on the T perch eating a very large fish. It was logged in as a large Trout, brought in at 7.35am, however, I learned later in conversation with Jamie Weston from Horn Mill that 03 had visited the trout farm soon after 6am and after two aborted dives, had flown off towards another regular fishing place, Fort Henry. I did mention to Jamie that I thought it strange when watching both Ospreys feed on this fish, that they weren’t eating the skin and he seem to think that maybe 03 had caught a Carp. 03 back at Site B The female was constantly food-begging from the moment I arrived until 03 delivered the fish to her at 8.50 which she took to the T perch and 03 remained on the nest and then hopped on to the perch attached to the nest. I watched the pair, a myriad of thoughts passing through my head but which basically boiled down to two questions, would there be more eggs and would 03 hold on to his nest? At 9.45 03 started chipping loudly and both birds looked over the hide. An Osprey appeared high up, circling over the nest. 03 hopped on to the nest, the female was still on the T perch, and both birds watched the intruder who was soon joined by a Buzzard and they both drifted off high and out of sight. At 9.58 03 joined the female on the T perch, who was still eating, and mating took place. He stayed for a few minutes and then returned to the nest perch. At 10.10 03 began chipping again, circled over the crop between the nest and the hide and returned to the nest. The female returned to the nest and once again they mated. 10.19 The female flew around and landed on the nest and they mated successfully once again. At 10.25 the female few South and out of sight. At 10.40 03 began chipping very loudly and frantically flapped his wings. An Osprey appeared directly over the hide and I quickly tried to capture it in the telescope but to no avail. He circled over the nest where 03 was still beating his wings and then he flew South. The female was still absent. At 10.47 03 flew South too, directly over the hide just like the intruder. A couple of minutes later 03 returned to the nest, chipping and once again the intruding Osprey circled over the hide and then flew South. I was convinced that it was 51(11) but that was pure speculation on my part. At 10.55 I was watching a Red Kite circling to the right of the nest and discovered that the female had returned to the nest to join 03. They watched the Red Kite which was then joined by three Buzzards. They all circled higher and dispersed, 03 and the female remained vigilant. Ten minutes later 03 flew South yet again, directly over the hide. Shortly before midday the female flew to the pruned Ash tree and 03 returned to the nest perch. I chatted which Jenny, my replacement, for a few minutes explaining the morning’s events and then began the walk back to the car. I normally take a final look back to the nest at the first gate, but today I kept glancing back until the final gate just to make sure they were both still there, taking some comfort that for the time being they at least have their nest to share if not their eggs, but knowing that the ‘hostile takeover’ situation is not yet over. I left the car and walked over the cattle grid into the first field. There had been no animals in the field this year since the Osprey season started and I had not needed to carry my stick, I did however consider taking it to 51(11)! As soon as I started walking I spied a couple of horses. I love horses and spend very little time with any these days, I miss their smell and the velvety feel of their muzzle. Years ago my husband bought me a 4 year old failed racehorse, I called her Holly, Holly Berry, well she was a Christmas present. I kept her for 27 years until her heart gave out, I think a little of mine gave out the day she died. To lose an old friend with whom you’ve had fun, excitement and pain is so very sad. We thought we’d lost an old friend a couple of weeks ago, 03(97). Today though there are to be no sad thoughts as I heard the wonderful news yesterday from Tim that the pair are incubating again. So I set off with a spring in my step. It’s a sunny morning, a slight breeze and feeling cold. I reach that final gate and see one on the nest and one on the perch. 03 has fed on a trout which he brought in at 7am, but Janis tells me that the female seems disinterested in it and thinks she could possibly be about to lay another egg. It isn’t until 8.35am that Janis leaves, there is always so much to talk about and each conversation with a fellow volunteer is like another piece of a jigsaw puzzle illustrating the lives of the Rutland Ospreys. Shortly before 9am 03 is hassled by a Crow and delivers the fish to the female which she takes to the T perch and 03 settles down to incubate. At 9.10am I watch as she finishes off the fish and returns to incubation duties. 03 flies around briefly and returns to the nest perch to preen, but the two Crows from earlier start to dive bomb the nest and 03 shoos them away. At 9.40am there is another changeover and the female flies to the top of the pruned Ash, but within minutes a Crow actually forces her off the branch and she returns to the nest. She lets 03 know she wants to incubate and he stays on the nest with her, both of them dozing. Things were certainly back to normal because as I glanced up from writing, I saw that 03 had disappeared, up to his old tricks, just as if he knew I wasn’t looking. Around 15 minutes later he came overhead and was seriously battling with what I presume were the same two Crows. I watched as he did a vertical elevation several feet into the air with his feet dangling, to take himself above the Crows and hopefully into a better position for attack. He eventually landed on the nest and one of the cheeky Crows landed on the nest perch only to be shooed away by 03. I had read back through the diary for the past week and it appeared these Crows had been making nuisances of themselves for days; they must have a nest nearby, possibly with young. A Red Kite circled over the nest but the pair simply watched and a pair of Buzzards appeared in the tall tree behind the nest but there was no reaction from the Ospreys. 10.47 they changed over incubation duties and 03 flew to one of his favourite perches, a branch in the small Oak tree to the left of the nest. I love to see him sitting there and I smiled to myself that things were definitely back to normal but sadly it was short- lived as those pesky Crows forced him off and he returned to the nest. They swapped duties a couple more times but ‘ditto’, the Crows annoyed them and each time they returned to the nest. As I finished my shift the female was incubating and 03 was on the nest perch. I walked away glancing at them until I reached the gate and I looked back at them one final time. I know the pair will cope with the Crows, although of course they will have to be vigilant with the eggs. I didn’t look back again, happy in the knowledge that, fingers crossed, all is well at Site B and they are back in routine. And finally I am going to step off this rollercoaster on which I seem to have been riding for weeks and get back into my own routine. Posted in Rutland Osprey Blog	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2467
__label__wiki	0.872547	0.872547	Tribeca family loses legal battle against photographer who took their pictures without their consent inside their home By Barbara Ross The pictures taken by photographer Arne Svenson were the subject a lengthy legal battle. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) Want privacy? Buy shades. That was the message sent by a panel of Appellate Division judges Thursday when they tossed a lawsuit by a Tribeca family who said a photographer invaded their privacy by secretly taking their pictures for a year and then putting them in an exhibit. Lensman Arne Svenson acknowledged that he snapped the unguarded shots of Martha and Matthew Foster and their young children through the floor to ceiling windows of their loft, which is across the street from his apartment. The judges said Svenson's protracted lurking in the shadows of his darkened apartment was "disturbing" but neither a violation of criminal stalking laws nor a violation of the family's civil rights as state law is now written because Svenson's photos were works of art. The Fosters and their neighbors became aware that they had been photographed when Svenson's pictures were exhibited at a New York gallery in a show called "The Neighbors." The pictures show people in the seven-story modern building in every day activities: taking naps, scrubbing floors, bathing toddlers. Their faces are mostly hidden. In an interview with photography blog PetaPixel, Svenson said he "shot for the tiny nuances of gesture and posture that define who we are, collectively. The subjects are to be seen as representations of humankind, not identifiable as the actual people photographed." In their decision, the appellate judges said that, "Concerns over privacy and the loss thereof have plagued the public for over 100 years." But "the invasion of privacy of one's home that took place here is not actionable ... because the defendant's use of the images in question constituted art work" and were not used for advertising or in trade. The Fosters, who lived in the Tribeca apartment building on the left, said their pictures were taken without their consent. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) "However, disturbing it may be, (it) cannot properly under the current state of the law be deemed so 'outrageous' that it went beyond decency and the protections of the Civil Rights Law," they said. The judges noted however that their decision should not be taken as an indication that they have given "short shrift" to the family's concerns but they said the families should take their objections to the legislature . "In these times of heightened threats to privacy posed by new and every more invasive technologies, we call upon the Legislature to revisit this important issue as we are constrained to apply the law at it exists." The appellate decision upheld an earlier court ruling tossing the suit. There was no immediate comment from the Fosters on the decision. Svenson's lawyer, Nancy Wolff, said the decision "affirms what I have always believed, that photographs are expressive works under the First Amendment and the sale of photographic prints are outside the prohibitions of New York Civil Rights Law." Wolff, who specializes in laws involving digital media, also said she disagrees with the Appellate Division's conclusion that the state's Civil Rights law should be changed. "The statute must balance First Amendment guarantees of free expression against privacy and one's expectation of privacy in a dense urban environment must be factored in," she said. bross@nydailynews.com Copyright © 2019, New York Daily News You've reached your monthly free article limit. Get Unlimited Digital Access 10 FREE weeks; Enjoy full access to nydailynews.com Download our app for breaking news alerts & more Read the eNewspaper, a daily digital edition Already have digital access? Log in Print subscriber? Activate digital access	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2470
__label__wiki	0.97103	0.97103	2018 Battle of the Bay goes to Corona del Mar Corona Del Mar High players carry the trophy after beating Newport Harbor High for the sixth time in a row during the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) By Heather McRea \| hmcrea@scng.com \| Orange County Register PUBLISHED: October 22, 2018 at 12:37 pm \| UPDATED: October 22, 2018 at 12:37 pm Corona del Mar added a sixth victory to its streak over Newport Harbor in the annual Battle of the Bay. The teams faced off last week in a Sunset League match that also settled bragging rights for the year in the cross-town rivalry. Newport Harbor holds the most victories, 38-19, in the 57-year-old meeting of these two teams. Newport Harbor High science teacher Ed Bell watches his team play against Corona Del Mar High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Members of the Corona Del Mar High King’s Krew put up posters against Newport Harbor High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. The King’s Krew are responsible for school spirit at sporting events. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Newport Harbor students Luke Fvie, and Bentley Desh cheer for their team against Corona Del Mar High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Newport Harbor fans fill the stands as their team plays against Corona Del Mar High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Merchandising is big business as Newport Harbor High and Corona Del Mar High play in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) A Newport Harbor High fan watches as Corona Del Mar High is winning the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game for the sixth time in a row Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Corona Del Mar student makeup during the game against Newport Harbor High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) The Newport Harbor High band rehearses during the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Some kids just like to hangout under the stands as Newport Harbor High plays Corona Del Mar High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Corona Del Mar High fans cheer as they play against Newport Harbor High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Walking a fine line, Corona Del Mar High fans Bill and Pam Rush cheer for their grandson, John Humphreys who is playing against Newport Harbor High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. They have had three daughters go to Newport Harbor High and their grandson currently goes to CDM. They flew in from Hawaii for the football season to see their grandson play. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Corona Del Mar’s John Humphreys eludes a Newport Harbor tackler in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Corona Del Mar’s Tristen Troutman returns the ball for a touchdown after he blocked a punt against Newport Harbor in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Corona Del Mar’s Tristen Troutman is congratulated after scoring when he blocked and recoverd a Newport Harbor punt in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Newport Harbor’s Justin Mccoy is swarmed by Corona Del Mar players in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Bill and Pam Rush and their daughters watch Corona Del Mar High play Newport Harbor High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Kerry Peters, a Newport Harbor High graduate in 1971, has been coming to the games against Corona Del Mar with her husband Ken forever she said. Her son, Casey Peters, graduated from Newport Harbor and now plays professional arena football as a quarterback she said. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Grandma Rose Gregory watches her granddaughter Kandice “Max” Pasquarella play in the Newport Harbor band as the team plays Corona Del Mar High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Corona Del Mar fan Mike Elliott, right, hugs his friend, player, Ronin Reid after CDM beat Newport Harbor High in the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. Elliott has flown in from Florida for the last three years to watch this game and watch his grandson, Jack Elliott play. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Newport Harbor High students entertain the crowds at half time during the 57th annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game against Corona Del Mar Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Newport Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Heather McRea Heather McRea is the North Orange County city editor and has been covering communities in that region since 2003.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2471
__label__cc	0.638293	0.361707	Tilia Europaea Euchlora Crimean Lime Caucasian Lime or Crimean Lime an elegant full standard form of this attractive flowering Lime variety Trunk height: 2.2 m Tilia Europaea Euchlora or Crimean Lime was first introduced in 1860 from Germany. This deciduous tree is thought to be a hybrid of Tilia Cordata, native to much of Europe and the rare Tilia Dasystyla from the Crimea. Gardeners can be forgiven if confused as this is another hybrid with many names – it is often simply referred to as Tilia Euchlora and commonly also as the Caucasian Lime or Caucasian Linden. Europaea Euchlora has a dense, oval crown, whose lower branches tend to droop as the tree matures. Young branches are a distinctive green. In late spring the glossy green green heart-shaped leaves, up to 10 cm long, emerge, followed in June and July by hanging umbels of fragrant, creamy-white flowers that have particularly abundant honey – in fact Euchlora is one of the best trees for bees. In autumn, the leaves turn a bright yellow for a vivid show until the end of October. This variety is particularly aphid resistant. Height and Spread of Tilia Europaea Euchlora Tilia Europaea Euchlora will reach a height of 10 metres after 10 years, growing to a mature height of 15-20 metres and spread of 6-10 metres. How Hardy Is Tilia Europaea Euchlora? The Crimean Lime is fully hardy across the UK and northern Europe. How to Use Tilia Europaea Euchlora Tilia Europaea Euchlora is a versatile landscaping tree which can be used in a variety of settings. Planted as a single specimen, it makes an excellent focal point in a lawn, where its glossy leaves, long-lasting flowers, and autumn colour will give a long season of interest. Planted as a row along a roadway or avenue, they will provide shade and act as a buffer from traffic. It is an excellent tree for inclusion in a wildlife or woodland garden, where its nectar-rich blossoms will attract bees and butterflies. Crimean Lime is also suitable for pruning and training into topiary forms such as roof, candelabra, espalier or pleached, for use either as an interesting garden accent or as a living screen. How to Care for Tilia Europaea Euchlora Plant Crimean Lime in full sun or partial shade in an exposed or sheltered position with any aspect, in well-drained soil with a neutral or acid pH. It is drought-tolerant once established, and tolerates heat well. Tolerant of salt and wind, it is suitable for use in coastal regions. It is very tolerant of pollution and paving, making it a good choice in even inner-city locations. Crimean Lime is the most aphid-resistant of the Tilia species, eliminating the problem of messy aphid droppings. The lower branches can be pruned to retain the oval shape of the crown or for an espalier form. Tilia Europaea Euchlora is an excellent landscaping tree which has both attractive foliage and fragrant flowers to recommend it to the UK gardener! Our full standards specimens can be used for above fence screening. Tilia Cordata Greenspire - Small Leaf Lime Tree Prunus Padus - Bird Cherry Tree Morus Nigra Black Mulberry Tree	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2472
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Jeanette Chan and David Lee Speak at IBM Outside Counsel Panel Discussion Jeanette Chan, managing partner of the China practice, and corporate counsel David Lee participated in IBM’s Outside Counsel Panel Discussion. Judie Ng Shortell to Speak at Private Equity & Venture Forum in Beijing Corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell will take part in the Asian Venture Capital Journal’s annual China Private Equity & Venture Forum. Client Alert: Draft Regulations Set to Change Landscape of Investments in Chinese Insurance Companies On December 29, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission released draft measures for the Administration of Equity Interests in Insurance Companies. The measures, expected to be finalized and implemented soon, will affect future… Jeanette Chan Gives Presentation at Women in Leadership Summit Jeanette Chan, Managing Partner of the China Practice, gave a presentation at the Women in Leadership Summit in Hong Kong. Judie Ng Shortell Examines Global Trends Fueling Chinese Deal Activity In a Q&A titled "M&A Madness," corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell discusses the hottest trends fueling Chinese deal activity, solutions to top regulatory issues and vital tips for foreign and domestic M&A parties. Client Alert: Reported Foreign Exchange Restrictions in China Affect Outward Remittances Chinese media have recently reported delays in remittance of funds for outbound direct investment transactions, as well as certain other forms of repatriations of funds out of China due to enhanced enforcement of foreign exchange … Hans-Günther Herrmann Speaks on China’s Foreign Direct Investment Reform Corporate counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann gave a seminar to the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hong Kong on recent trends and developments in China's Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Invested Enterprises reforms. Hans-Günther Herrmann and Jack Sun Co-Author Article on China’s FIE Reform, China Law & Practice Corporate counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann and associate Jack Sun co-authored an article in the November/December issue of China Law & Practice. Paul, Weiss Sponsors 30% Club Boardroom Lunch in Hong Kong Paul, Weiss was a sponsor of the 30% Club's Annual Boardroom Lunch in Hong Kong. The lunch brought together an extensive and growing pool of accomplished and aspiring women directors with chairmen, board members and senior… Jeanette Chan Quoted in China Law & Practice Article on Cybersecurity Law’s Data Rules Jeanette Chan, managing partner of the China practice, was quoted in a China Law & Practice article, titled "Cybersecurity Law: Stricter Rules on Big Data." Jeanette Chan and Judie Ng Shortell to Speak at ALM Corporate Counsel Forum Jeanette Chan, managing partner of the China practice, and corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell will take part in ALM's annual Corporate Counsel Forum Beijing. Christopher Frey to Address FCPA Compliance at ALB Corporate Forum in Japan Litigation counsel Christopher Frey will participate in a panel discussion, titled "Ensuring FCPA Compliance in the APAC Region," at Asian Legal Business' upcoming Japan Corporate Compliance and Governance Forum. Kaye Yoshino to Speak at ABA’s International Law Conference in Japan Corporate partner Kaye Yoshino will take part in the 2016 Fall Meeting of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law. Jeanette Chan to Speak at AmCham China Conference in Hong Kong Corporate partner Jeanette Chan will participate in a panel discussion at the AmCham 2016 China Conference. Paul, Weiss Supports Launch of Women in Law Hong Kong’s Pilot Mentoring Program Women In Law Hong Kong (WILHK), hosted a launch event of the first cross-firm mentoring program for legal professionals as part of its commitment to enhancing the profiles, skills and networking opportunities available to women… Jack Lange and Greg Liu to Speak at Private Equity & Venture Forum in Beijing Corporate partners Jack Lange and Greg Liu took part in the Asian Venture Capital Journal's annual Private Equity & Venture Forum in Beijing. Paul, Weiss Supports International Women’s Day in Hong Kong In support of International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8, the Paul, Weiss Hong Kong office participated in The Women's Foundation IWD gala lunch at the Conrad Hotel on March 4. Paul, Weiss Sponsors The Women’s Foundation Annual Gala Dinner in Hong Kong Paul, Weiss is a sponsor of The Women's Foundation Annual Gala Dinner, which will include a keynote speech by Madeline Di Nonno, CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Client Alert: SEC FCPA Action Against Bristol-Myers Squibb Highlights Importance of Addressing Red Flags On October 5, 2015 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had settled an enforcement action against U.S. issuer Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, in which the SEC alleged violations of the internal controls and… Jeanette Chan Authors Article on China’s Draft Cybersecurity Law for Hong Kong Lawyer Corporate partner Jeanette Chan authored an article in the September issue of the Hong Kong Lawyer. Paul, Weiss Sponsors 30% Club Boardroom Lunch for Aspiring Women Directors in Hong Kong Paul, Weiss is a sponsor of the 30% Club's Annual Boardroom Lunch. The lunch will bring together an extensive and growing pool of accomplished and aspiring women directors with chairmen, board members and senior management from… Paul, Weiss Sponsors Women in Law Network in Hong Kong Paul, Weiss is sponsoring and supporting the launch of Women in Law Hong Kong, a newly established networking platform for private practice lawyers and in-house counsel in Hong Kong. Jack Lange Moderates Panel at IFLR South East Asia Forum Hong Kong partner Jack Lange moderated a panel at the IFLR South East Asia Forum in Singapore on April 25. The panel, titled "Mitigating Risk in M&A and PE Transactions," discussed regional trends impacting deal… Jeanette Chan to Moderate a Panel at IFLR's Asia Women in Business Law Forum Corporate partner Jeanette Chan will moderate a panel at the International Financial Law Review's 2015 Asia Women in Business Law Forum. The panel, titled "Women on boards and partnership," includes participants from… In support of International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8, the Paul, Weiss Hong Kong office participated in The Women's Foundation IWD gala lunch at the Conrad Hotel on March 5. Hong Kong corporate partner Jeanette… Client Alert: China’s Draft Foreign Investment Law to Revolutionize Foreign Investment Regime in China On January 19, 2015, the PRC Ministry of Commerce released a draft Foreign Investment Law (the "Draft Law") for public comment. The Draft Law proposes to replace the current foreign investment regime with a new system and also… Paul, Weiss Celebrates Three Decades in Hong Kong Paul, Weiss celebrated its 30th anniversary in Hong Kong with a cocktail reception at the Hong Kong Club, in the building where its offices are located. Jeanette Chan to Join Women in Law Hong Kong’s Advisory Board Corporate partner Jeanette Chan will be joining the Women in Law Hong Kong’s (WILHK) Advisory Board. Paul, Weiss Ranked 1st in Global Legal Rankings by Bloomberg and Mergermarket Paul, Weiss ranked 1st among U.S. firms and 2nd among international firms for China announced deals, by deal count, in Bloomberg’s 2018 Global M&A Legal Rankings. Jeanette Chan Listed on China Business Law Journal’s 2018 “A List” Corporate partner Jeanette Chan has been listed on China Business Law Journal’s annual "A List" for 2018. Paul, Weiss Deal for HP Wins ALB Korea Law Award HP’s acquisition of Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion, in which Paul, Weiss represented HP, has been awarded the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year at the 6th Annual Asian Legal Business (ALB) Korea… HP’s acquisition of Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion, in which Paul, Weiss represented HP, has been recognized as one of the Asia Business Law Journal’s “Deals of the Year.” Judie Ng Shortell Awarded Commended External Counsel of the Year Corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell was recognized by In-House Community as a “Commended External Counsel of the Year.” Paul, Weiss Wins Three China Business Law Awards Paul, Weiss was recognized by China Business Law Journal as an international law firm winner in the categories of “Entertainment & Sports,” “Private Equity & Venture Capital” and “Technology, Media and Telecommunications” at… Jack Lange Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Chambers Hong Kong-based corporate partner Jack Lange received the 2018 Chambers Asia-Pacific Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his contribution to the Asian legal arena. Jack Lange Elected Chairman of American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong Corporate partner Jack Lange has been elected as the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham) for 2018. Paul, Weiss Transaction Awarded Best Singapore Deal A Paul, Weiss transaction was awarded the “Best Singapore Deal” at FinanceAsia’s annual Achievement Awards. Paul, Weiss and Jeanette Chan Honored with Asia Women in Business Law Awards Paul, Weiss and Jeanette Chan, managing partner of the China practice, have been recognized with Asia Women in Business Law Awards by the Euromoney Legal Media Group. Judie Ng Shortell Named a Top-15 Female Lawyer in China by Asian Legal Business Corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell was recognized as one of the Top 15 Female Lawyers in China by Asian Legal Business. Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Four Asia Women in Business Law Awards Jeanette Chan, managing partner of the China practice, was shortlisted by Euromoney Legal Media Group in the “Best in TMT” category for the 2017 Asia Women in Business Law Awards. Jeanette Chan Wins Dealmaker of the Year at ALB Hong Kong Law Awards Jeanette Chan, managing partner of the China practice, was named "Dealmaker of the Year" at the 2017 Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Five ALB Hong Kong Law Awards Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted by Asian Legal Business, a publication of Thomson Reuters, in five categories in its 2017 ALB Hong Kong Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for “M&A Deal of the Year” at Southeast Asia Law Awards Paul, Weiss was shortlisted by Asian Legal Business, a publication of Thomson Reuters, for "M&A Deal of the Year (Premium)" as part of the 2017 Southeast Asia Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Ranked #1 by Experian in Asia-Pacific Deal Value Paul, Weiss ranked first for deal value in Experian’s legal advisory league tables in the Asia-Pacific region for the first quarter of 2017. Paul, Weiss Ranked #1 by Thomson Reuters and #2 by Bloomberg and Mergermarket in Deal Volume in Japan As noted in The Asian Lawyer, a publication of The American Lawyer, Paul, Weiss was ranked number 1 in deal volume in Japan in M&A league tables published by Thomson Reuters and number 2 by Bloomberg and Mergermarket in the first… Greg Liu Named Top M&A Lawyer in China by Asian Legal Business Corporate partner Greg Liu was named one of 2017’s top 10 M&A lawyers in China by Asian Legal Business, a Thomson Reuters publication. Paul, Weiss Wins China Business Law Award for TMT Paul, Weiss was recognized by China Business Law Journal as an international law firm winner in the "Technology, Media and Telecommunications" category of its 2016 China Business Law Awards. Two Paul, Weiss Transactions Named Deals of the Year by China Business Law Journal The China Business Law Journal has recognized two Paul, Weiss transactions as Deals of the Year. Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Two IFLR Asia Law Awards in Private Equity Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted in two categories as part of the 2017 IFLR Asia Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Wins Asian Lawyer Emerging Markets Award for M&A The Asian Lawyer honored Paul, Weiss with an Emerging Markets Award in the "M&A Deal of the Year: Other Sectors" category for our role in Yokohama's $1.2 billion acquisition of Alliance Tire Group. Paul, Weiss Wins Three China Law & Practice Awards Paul, Weiss was selected for honors in multiple categories at the China Law & Practice Awards, including "Real Estate & Construction Deal of the Year" and "TMT Firm of the Year - International." Jeanette Chan, managing partner … Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Two Emerging Markets Awards by The Asian Lawyer Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted by The Asian Lawyer in two categories in its 2016 Emerging Markets Awards. Jeanette Chan, managing partner of the China practice, was shortlisted by Euromoney Legal Media Group in the "Best in M&A and Private Equity" and "Best in TMT" categories for the 2016 Asia Women in Business Law… Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Six ALB Hong Kong Law Awards Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted by Asian Legal Business in six categories in its 2016 ALB Hong Kong Law Awards. Paul, Weiss was shortlisted by Asian Legal Business for "M&A Deal of the Year (Premium)" as part of the 2016 Southeast Asia Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Five ALB China Law Awards Paul, Weiss has been selected as a finalist in five categories of the 2016 Asian Legal Business China Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Wins China Business Law Award for Private Equity Paul, Weiss was recognized by China Business Law Journal as an international law firm winner in the "Private Equity and Venture Capital" category of its 2015 China Business Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Asia Legal Award The Asian Lawyer has shortlisted Paul, Weiss as a finalist for an Asia Legal Award in the "M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia" category for the firm's involvement in Universal Studios' $3.3 billion Beijing theme park. Jeanette Chan Recognized as “Best in M&A and Private Equity” at Asia Women in Business Law Awards Corporate partner Jeanette Chan was named "Best in M&A and Private Equity" for the second time at the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2015. Paul, Weiss Recognized by Asian-MENA Counsel for Telecommunications, Media & Technology Paul, Weiss received honorable mention as a "Firm of the Year 2015" for Telecommunications, Media & Technology by Asian-MENA Counsel magazine in their ninth annual survey of "In-House Community Representing Corporate Asia… Jeanette Chan and Hong Kong and Tokyo Offices Shortlisted for Asia Women in Business Awards Corporate partner Jeanette Chan was shortlisted by Euromoney Legal Media Group in the "Best in M&A and Private Equity" category for 2015 Asia Women in Business Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Wins Two China Law & Practice Awards Paul, Weiss was selected for two honors at the 2015 China Law & Practice Awards, including "Private Equity Deal of the Year" for our involvement in the take private transaction of Yongye International, Inc. and "Most… Corporate partner Jeanette Chan was named "Dealmaker of the Year" at the Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards. Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Four China Law & Practice Awards Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted as a finalist in four categories as part of the 2015 China Law & Practice Awards. Paul, Weiss Ranked as Tier 1 Media Law Firm in China and Hong Kong Paul, Weiss was recognized as a Tier 1 firm for media law in China and Hong Kong by Media Law International. Our firm is ranked as one of two leading firms for media law in China and three leading firms in Hong… Paul, Weiss Selected for Two China Business Law Awards China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) recognized Paul, Weiss in two practice categories -- Private Equity and Venture Capital and Technology, Media and Telecommunications -- as part of its 2014 China Business Law Awards. Nominations…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2477
__label__wiki	0.970216	0.970216	SAP bundles analytic apps with IQ database The four new product offerings have "very attractive" pricing Chris Kanaracus (IDG News Service) on 24 September, 2012 14:39 SAP on Monday announced a new family of products that marry its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software with the Sybase IQ analytic database and include specialized business content for use by various industries. The four offerings include BI suite, analytics edition; BI platform, analytics edition; Edge analytics edition; and Crystal Server, analytics edition. The latter two are mostly aimed at small and medium-size companies. Along with IQ, the bundles also include SAP Data Integrator for bringing information into the system. In both cases, customers get a runtime-only license, restricting IQ and Data Integrator's use to the analytic applications in the bundle. Overall, however, SAP has come up with "very attractive" pricing for the four editions, with a roughly 20 percent "uplift" for IQ and data integrator added to the base price of the analytics software. said Paul Clark, senior director of analytics marketing. Specific figures weren't available. IQ is typically licensed on a per-core basis, said Tom Traubitz, director of solution marketing. While the runtime license has no restrictions on data storage or the number of users, customers of the two lower-end packages are limited to 16 cores, while the two higher-end options include 32 cores, he said. The downloadable business content is also included in the packages' cost and it will "help customers get a jump-start" using the software, according to Clark. "The way it works is we look at a business use case, based on a particular function in particular industry," such as staff management in health care, Clark said. Then SAP creates content, such as reports and dashboards, to fit the scenario, he added. While the analytics packages being sold for on-premises use, SAP partners will probably offer hosted versions, according to Clark. From a strategic standpoint, the new bundles suggest that SAP remains committed to IQ, which was gained through the 2010 acquisition of Sybase, even as its homegrown HANA in-memory database becomes the company's focal point for both analytic and transaction processing workloads. They also give risk-averse customers an avenue for tackling more complex data analysis jobs, rather than adopt HANA, which is still a fairly new product. Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris' email address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com Chris Kanaracus	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2478
__label__wiki	0.713964	0.713964	LMH to host homeopathy conference over Easter College News News 4th March 2017 27th October 2018 OxStu News Lady Margaret Hall has come under fire from scientific groups for agreeing to host a conference for homeopathy over the Easter Vac. Michael Marshall, Project Director of The Good Thinking Society, attacked the college’s decision to host the conference. Speaking to The Independent, he said “It’s pretty clear the Society of Homeopaths is seeking venues with a connection to science and learning, to academia and prestige. They are using them to add gloss to their pseudoscientific event. “Lady Margaret Hall should think twice before lending credibility to such groups. “We urge them to filter out events that promote disproven and potentially dangerous quackery that run directly contrary to what their college is all about: learning and intellectual rigour.” The Good Thinking Society, a charity set up to challenge dubious scientific arguments such as homeopathy, called on LMH to “think twice” before agreeing to host the meeting. Homeopathy, a practice that involves seeking ‘alternative’ medicines from more natural sources, has some high-profile supporters including Prince Charles and Cher. It has no proven scientific benefits. In 2010 the House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee called for the NHS to stop funding the practice as there was no evidence for its utility beyond a placebo effect. Organisations including the British Medical Association have since followed suit. The conference, an annual general meeting of the Society of Homeopaths, is being held on the 18th of March and will see homeopaths from across the country converge on Oxford. “We urge them to filter out events that promote disproven and potentially dangerous quackery.” One of the headline guests, Alize Timmerman, will – according to the programme for the conference on the Society of Homeopaths’ website – “look at the Orchid family and their connection with vitality and self from a spiritual and sensation perspective,” which she will use to “explain how we can use emotion to lead us, and the patient, back to a place of belonging, and where vitality has no beginning and no end.” The Society – which is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority, the government body that regulates health and social care organisations in Britain – claims to be the largest organisation registering homeopaths in the UK. Mark Taylor, chief executive of the Society, has previously been in conflict with the Good Thinking Society. In September last year they suggested they would bring a judicial review against the Charity Commission after it refused to remove homeopathy-supporting charities from its register. In reaction to this, Taylor said that, “This publicity stunt by the Good Thinking Society contains the usual concoction of half-truths and innuendo. Homeopathy is effective, safe and valued by patients.” A spokeswoman for LMH said: “Lady Margaret Hall, in common with many universities and colleges, occasionally rents space for other organisations for private conferences. This is a purely commercial arrangement. “The act of renting space obviously does not imply that LMH in any way endorses the organisation. We do not lend it ‘credibility.’ “The income from this hospitality business is important to the College to sustain its academic activities. “It is impractical to cancel the booking for the Society of Homeopaths. The Principal, Alan Rusbridger, is happy for our governing body to re-examine our approach concerning the hospitality wing of the College and see whether it needs revising in the light of concerns, but also taking into account the erosion of free speech on university campuses.” Lady Margaret Hall is a former womens-only college in North Oxford. Its current Principal is Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian, and Emma Watson is a Visiting Fellow. Alumni include Nigella Lawson, Michael Gove and Ann Widdecombe. Tagged College conference doctors easter Holiday homeopathy hosting house of commons lmh medicine news NHS Oxford Plants solutions vac Vacation water Oxford named UK’s least affordable city – again Government unveils plans for fast-track degrees Student disappointment as University Council defers decision over fossil fuel divestment 16th March 2015 Jennifer Lee Classical literature “gamified” to encourage children 4th August 2012 6th August 2012 Alis Lewis Oxford Council cracks down on “nuisance behaviours” 24th October 2015 Toby Clyde	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2483
__label__wiki	0.753645	0.753645	If you’d want to drink it, eat it, wear it, ride it, drive it; if it’d be cool to see, listen to or do, we’re writing about it. Walk in the Footsteps of Refugees in Vienna By Stephen Starr • AUG 17 2018 This walking tour of the Austrian capital gives tourists a glimpse into the early weeks there for vulnerable refugees. Immigration. It’s the most contentious issue in Europe today. From the U.K. to Germany to Italy, countries are struggling with an anti-immigrant backlash since more than 2 million people fleeing war and poverty arrived in Europe over the past five years. Away from the political maneuvering, a startup in Vienna is cutting through the hearsay and fearmongering to bring the public face-to-face with the reality of refugee life. Since January, Shades Tours has been running a Flight, Asylum & Integration walking tour, offering visitors the chance to experience refugee life in the Austrian capital. It aims to answer some meaty questions: Why are people fleeing their own countries? What does it feel like to arrive in a place with nothing more than you can carry in your hands? How do Austria’s asylum and integration procedures actually work? Who better to give the tours than one of the 90,000 refugees who’ve been through the process themselves. And who better to give the tours than one of the 90,000 refugees who’ve been through the process themselves? It starts with a short introduction on what’s happening on the ground in the guides’ home countries — Syria and Afghanistan — before participants are taken into Vienna’s central train station. This ultramodern edifice has served as ground zero for refugees exhausted after a dangerous journey through Turkey, the Balkans and central Europe. During just a few weeks in fall 2015, more than 300,000 refugees passed through its doors (with the majority departing again). The tour turns the corner to the east side of the station, which was taken over by civil society groups — people giving out food and clothing, and lawyers offering answers to legal questions at the height of the crisis. Next up is the stunning Henke and Schreieck-designed Erste Bank campus, which served as a temporary accommodation building for refugees. At this point, the possibilities facing refugees are laid out: What happens if they decide to stay in Austria, or move on to Germany, Sweden or elsewhere; what official support they are entitled to should they stay; and what the process of asylum — something that would take up their day-to-day lives for the coming weeks and months — entails. Organizers say most tour participants are keen to partake in a two-way conversation. “The problem we have is that our society is confronted with polarized feelings around refugees. People are afraid of what they don’t know,” says Perrine Schober, founder of Shades Tours, which also runs guided tours by and about homeless people in Vienna. After that, participants jump aboard the city tram to the Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl (Federal Office for Aliens and Asylum), where interviews take place, and asylum is granted or rejected. From there, it’s on to the Rochusmarkt food market for a discussion about the essentials in life, before moving to the tour’s integration leg at the offices of the Austrian Integration Fund, a state authority. Shades Tours founder Perrine Schober (left), Syrian tour guide Hamzeh Laila and tour developer Barbara Koren. Source Stephen Starr Before the tour finishes, the guide talks about the ups and downs of life as a refugee in Austria. “Building contacts with Austrians can be a little difficult for adult refugees because we don’t have the possibility to meet them a lot,” says 26-year-old Hamzeh Laila, who fled Damascus, Syria, and is one of four guides. “But [with this job], I feel responsible to convey the right message, the right impression.” With around 700 people having taken the tour, it’s proving popular. “I thought it was awesome,” says Natalie Brügger, a student from Switzerland, “because it gives an insight into the matter, and because it’s both factual and personal.” GO THERE: FLIGHT, ASYLUM & INTEGRATION CITY WALKING TOUR Where: The tour meets at the main entrance to Vienna’s central train station and finishes at the Wien-Mitte station. Book online at Shades Tours Vienna When: English-language tours, which are two hours long, begin in August. Tours in German are currently held once a week, usually on Fridays. Costs €15 ($18) per person, €10 ($12) for students (ages 14 and up). Pro tip: The wars in Syria and Afghanistan have become evermore complicated, and the tour guides are open to conversing about their experiences. Don’t be shy — use this opportunity to hear firsthand about what’s happening on the ground in these conflicted countries. Stephen Starr, OZY AuthorContact Stephen Starr She's the Sunny Global Emissary of Austria's Far Right When the Austrian Army Saved the Winter Olympics OZYGood Sht Find Out What Success Really Looks Like at OZY Fest Some of the most accomplished people on the planet — from Megan Rapinoe and A-Rod to Malcolm Gladwell and Spike Lee — will be talking success at OZY Fest this weekend. Three 'Daily Show' Comedians Headline OZY Fest 2019 Watch an insanely funny group of young comedians from around the world. Come See These Unlikely Culinary Powerhouses Sizzle at OZY Fest These chefs all had unconventional entry points into the kitchen. And you can watch them cook this weekend. Our 10 Must-Read Stories — the OZY Highlight Reel From Chinese startup secrets to at-home brain stimulation, here is the best of OZY this week. This Stunning Three-Day Hike in Bolivia Is Pretty Much All Downhill The Choro Trek is a cheap, uncrowded and stunning hike through little-changed ancient communities. More from Good Sht	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2484
__label__wiki	0.615889	0.615889	Community Organizing, Justice System Reform Local Community Leaders join Day of Action for Police Accountability at the State Capitol Urge State Legislators to Support AB 931 & SB 1421 Contacts: Akemi Flynn 408-504-8030 Local Community Leaders join Day of Action for Police Accountability at the State Capitol Urge State Legislators to Support AB 931 & SB 1421 WHO & WHAT: PACT grassroots leaders and Santa Clara County community members board the bus to Sacramento to join hundreds of people from across the CA for a Day of Action at the Capitol WHEN: Monday, August 13, 6:00am WHERE: PACT / Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1100 Shasta Ave, San Jose 95126 WHY: Diverse community members across CA need to be able to trust the police. Police transparency and accountability are essential for trust, safety and justice, for both community members and police. PACT has been organizing for many years for increased police accountability in San Jose and Santa Clara County working with the San Jose Mayor and City Council, Santa Clara County Supervisors, Sheriff, Police Chiefs, SJPOA, IPA, other community organizations, and hundreds of community members. Changes at the state level are also needed, so local community members are urging state legislators to support AB 931, which will save more lives and ensure that law enforcement is held accountable when they use deadly force on our loved ones, as well as SB 1421 - Right to Know about Use of Force. There is growing recognition among policing experts that the current law authorizing police officers to use deadly force does not protect against unnecessary loss of life. Under current law, police can use deadly force whenever an “objectively reasonable” officer would have done so under the same circumstances, whether or not there was an immediate threat to life or bodily security, or whether there were available alternatives. As a result, current law authorizes police to kill when it is not necessary, widening the rift between grieving communities – particularly communities of color – and the law enforcement agencies that are supposed to protect them. AB 931 changes California law so that police can use deadly force only when necessary, and requires them to use tactics to de-escalate a situation or use alternatives to deadly force where reasonable. Changing this standard will mean that officers will be trained to use deadly force less often and help protect our families. SB 1421 will help make police transparent and accountable to the communities they serve. The legislation will make available critical information on how the police departments handle the most serious use of force incidents and confirmed cases of misconduct. Keeping records of police misconduct and serious uses of force secret prevents the public from ensuring that law enforcement officers are held accountable for their actions. This disproportionately harms communities of color and others who suffer the most from police harassment and brutality. But California law keeps all investigations and discipline of police officers secret, even for deadly shootings or when an officer’s own department concludes that they committed sexual assault or planted evidence. The majority of other states recognize that disclosure of records of critical incidents is a basic element of peace officer oversight — peace officer disciplinary records are available to the public in some form in 27 states. In California, there is a complete shroud of secrecy over these records that is unique to police officers — complaints against all other types of government employees aren’t kept confidential if the complaint is well‐founded or there’s a strong public interest in disclosure. We’ve seen far too many people killed at the hands of law enforcement to allow police agencies to keep judging those killings in secret. Police have the power to take a life based on a split‐second decision. The public deserves information about how that power has been used and abused. SB 1421 is long overdue. PACT: People Acting in Community Together is a multiracial, multi-faith organization that empowers people to create a more just community. PACT has more than 30 member congregations and partner schools representing 50,000 people in Santa Clara County. PACT is part of PICO California and the Faith in Action international network, one of the largest grassroots community networks in the country. www.pactsj.org http://www.facebook.com/PACTSJ PICO California organize in 73 cities, 35 school districts, and in more than 75% of the state's Senate and Assembly districts. PICO California was established in 1994, bringing together local federations from throughout California to affect meaningful budget and policy change at the state level. Over the past 20 years, our organizing and policy advocacy have resulted in increased investments in education and healthcare, and in programs and services that are critical for working families. PICO CA led the grassroots organizing that won SB 54 - CA Valued Act and SB 953 - Anti-Racial & Identity Profiling Act. PICO CA is comprised of 11 local non-profit organizations made up of 480 congregations and 450,000 families of diverse economic, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds committed to advancing racial and economic justice in California through organizing, advocacy, and voter engagement. Visit www.PICOCalifornia.org to learn more. PICO California and its federations are non-partisan and do not endorse or support candidates for office. Tagged: AB 931, SB 1421 Newer PostAs the Community Loses its Independent Police Auditor PACT Calls on Mayor & City Council, Police Chief & Police Union: Expand Police Oversight Now Older PostCommunity calls on Mayor & City Council: Expand Police Oversight - Don’t Fall for SJPOA Distraction Tactics	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2485
__label__wiki	0.682876	0.682876	Category: Mobile Tips Apple AirPods: 15 tips and tricks to get the most out of your wireless earbuds Subojit Aich April 18, 2019 Apple is on to its second-generation AirPods, which adds to its arsenal an optional wireless charging case (you’ll pay $80 more for it) and always-on voice recognition for summoning Siri. Whichever version you… PUBG Mobile Tips: How Appearance and Outfits can push you one step closer to the Chicken Dinner Anindita Ghosh April 3, 2019 April 3, 2019 PUBG Mobile The appearance of character and outfits are usually ignored by the PUBG players. But if you narrow it down, it will give you a slight competitive advantage.… Samsung Galaxy Note Series Use Banned on Flights: DGCA The incident happened in a Singapore-Chennai IndiGo flight DGCA to summon officials and ban the use of Galaxy Note series on flights Incident happened as Samsung is busy recalling its… Proposed ‘Textalyzer’ Bill May Give US Cops the Right to Access Cellphones A New York bill that would allow police to use a “textalyzer” device to determine whether drivers have been using their phone at the scene of a car accident is… Verizon Seen to Bet on Armstrong, M&A Savvy in Yahoo Bid Verizon Communications Inc is the clear favourite in the upcoming bidding for Yahoo Inc’s core Internet business, according to Wall Street analysts, in large part because the telecommunications company’s efforts… Micromax Opens Manufacturing Facility in Hyderabad Mobile phone manufacturer Micromax on Thursday opened its new manufacturing facility which will have the capacity to manufacture one million mobile phones per month. The unit, which opened at Fab… Sprint Pulls Ad Featuring White Woman Calling T-Mobile ‘Ghetto’ Sprint’s long been embroiled in a battle with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, going so far as unveil a promotion last November offering to halve new customers bills until 2018 while… Google Maps for Android, iOS Now Offers Traffic Alerts in India Google has announced that Maps for Android and iOS in India will now show traffic alerts to users once navigation mode is switched on. The updated Maps app will offer… You Can Now Make Your iPhone SE Look Like The iPhone 6S The new iPhone SE may come with many parts of the iPhone 6S, although the handset has the same design as the iPhone 5S. The guys over at Computer Bild… You Will Soon Be Able To Hide Stock Apps On Your iPhone And iPad Apple’s iPhone and iPad comes with a number of stock applications built in, as the moment there is not way to get rid of those apps from your device even…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2489
__label__cc	0.724811	0.275189	Paul Daly and the Heavy Hitters: Tuesday 30 July With a combined 200+ years of music performance credentials, Paul Daly and the Heavy Hitters can rightfully claim to be one of the best Australian power R&B bands currently performing. If you like your R&B delivered with passion these guys are not to be missed! Dynamic front-man Paul Daly steers the Heavy Hitters through a remarkable range of Chicago Blues hits from Howling Wolf to Paul Butterfield, interspersed with a cluster of R&B originals. The band lineup features the exceptional musical skills of Ace Follington on drums, Roy Daniel on bass and Russell Smith on guitar and vocals. The musical virtuosity of each member of the Heavy Hitters brings a rich and powerful music feast to R&B lovers that is guaranteed to keep the audience boogieing for the band's entire performance. Paul Daly & the Heavy Hitters are supported by The Sleepwalkers (7.30pm) and Love Bites (9.45pm). ENTRY: $20.00 (General Admission) \| $10.00 (Members) The Sleepwalkers Paul & John began playing together when Paul re-located to Australia with his family from the UK well over 25 years ago. Together they formed the blues band Indigo Duck with Jeff Harrison and toured extensively. As a side project they also formed Flying Kazbar Brothers. Now in 2019 re-badging themselves as The Sleepwalkers they are once again bringing acoustic based music to the forefront. Remember the good times? Well, they’re back. Stones flavoured R&B with a twist of rock’n’roll, a dash of blues and a splash of whatever that other ingredient is. Having long since forgotten their vague promise to deliver that fourth chord, they remain in that magical era when bands got up, kicked it around and just had a brilliant time playing a bunch of songs.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2496
__label__cc	0.672851	0.327149	Rituals in Parliaments Political, Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on Europe and the United States Emma Crewe and Marion G. Müller By bringing together three different academic disciplines – anthropology, political science and history – and covering a variety of different parliamentary assemblies, both in Europe and in the United States, this book aims to offer a fresh approach to parliamentary studies. The authors assess the importance of ritual and symbolic communication in different parliamentary settings. The underlying question that each practitioner and scholar addresses is: Do parliamentary rituals really matter? Some of the contributors argue that legislative procedure is more telling of the role and reputation that a parliament has in a given society than its rituals and ceremonies. Others stress the relevance of these ritual expressions for conveying political sense and meaning to the public. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006. 209 pp. Contents: Emma Crewe/Marion G. Müller: Introduction – Marc Abélès: Parliament, politics and ritual – László Kürti: Symbolism and drama within the ritualisation of the Hungarian parliament – Bernard Moreau: The political meanings of military rituals in the French National Assembly – Emma Crewe: Rituals and the Usual Channels in the British House of Lords – Richard Baker: Ritual and ceremony in the United States Senate – Alastair J. Mann: The Scottish Parliaments: the role of ritual and procession in the pre-1707 parliament and the new parliament of 1999 – Werner Patzelt: Parliaments and their Symbols. Topography of a field of research – Marion G. Müller: Parliaments and their Liturgies.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2497
__label__cc	0.736641	0.263359	Personality of 'Beautiful' People More Accurately Rated December 2010 - People identify the personality traits of people who are physically attractive more accurately than others during short encounters, according to a new University of British Columbia study. While previous research showed that people tend to find attractive people more intelligent, friendly and competent than the rest of us, a study, published in the December edition of Psychological Science, confirms that people pay closer attention to those they find attractive, Prof. Jeremy Biesanz, UBC Dept. of Psychology, PhD student Lauren Human and undergraduate student Genevieve Lorenzo set out to determine whether an individual's attractiveness has an impact on others people's ability to accurately discern their personality Around 75 male and female participants were allocated to groups of 5-11 people for three-minute, one-on-one conversations. The participants rated partners after each interaction on their physical attractiveness and five major personality traits: The participants also rated their own personalities. Jeremy Biesanz said that the researchers were able to determine the accuracy of people's perceptions by comparing participants' ratings of others' personality traits with how individuals rated their own traits. He added that steps were taken to control for the positive bias that can occur in self-reporting. Not surprisingly, participants showed an overall positive bias towards the people they found attractive but they also identified the "relative ordering" of personality traits of attractive participants more accurately than others. Participants tended to agree on 'attractiveness' but even when they did not agree they were best at identifying the personalities of people they themselves found attractive. According to Jeremy Biesanz: "If people think Jane is beautiful, and she is very organized and somewhat generous, people will see her as more organized and generous than she actually is. Despite this bias, our study shows that people will also correctly discern the relative ordering of Jane's personality traits - that she is more organized than generous - better than others they find less attractive." People pay closer attention to beautiful people for many reasons, including curiosity, romantic interest or a desire for friendship or social status, according to the researchers. Noting that the study focused on first impressions of personality in social situations, like cocktail parties, Jeremy Biesanz said: "Not only do we judge books by their covers, we read the ones with beautiful covers much closer than others." Social Interactions Are Intense Experiences The most intense positive and negative experiences tend to be associated with social interaction rather than individual accomplishment Rating Others Positively Linked To Emotional Stability Research led by Wake Forest University identified an association between the degree to which individuals perceive others in positive terms and their own happiness and emotional stability. Attractive Women Can Be Disadvantaged Attractive women may experience discrimination when applying for jobs traditionally considered "masculine" and where appearance is not considered important. Rating Personality and Attractiveness Volunteers were able to accurately judge aspects of a stranger's personality by looking at photographs. Rating Facial Attractiveness Women are as complicated as men say they are when evaluating potential mates.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2503
__label__wiki	0.733289	0.733289	issue2.01series 2February 2018 Smart writing Neda GenovaRP 2.01 (February 2018) Sarah Kember, iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). vi+122pp., £45.00 hb., 978 1 13737 484 4 Sarah Kember’s new book positions itself in a field of theory dominated by an often masculinist discourse that privileges conceptualisations of its research objects as things or environments in-themselves, instead of as the conflicted and hypermediated objects-in-time that they are. Im/mediacy is a recurring theme throughout the book, which bears both a political and conceptual charge. In particular, Kember targets the theoretical practices stemming from Object Oriented Ontology (or OOO), arguing that disavowing processes of mediation and problems of subjectivity leads to a disturbing complicity between the media industry and iMedia theorists. Her contention is that if we stop asking the question ‘who writes?’, while positing a flat ontology as the ground on which materials, environments and objects appear as equal, undifferentiated and neutralised, then we run the risk of erasing the structural and epistemological hierarchies which constitute those objects. This negation can do little to counter the current post-political, neoliberal consensus, especially if it goes hand-in-hand with a dismissal of critique as something outdated and redundant. The task of iMedia is to unpack and undo such covert complicities between theory and the post-political. She does this in a skillful, albeit sometimes frenetic manner, by assembling the work of a variety of scholars and storytellers. The book deploys critique, humour and ambiguity to offer a decisively feminist perspective on the stakes involved in mediating and narrativising the ‘i’ in iMedia. Storytelling and writing, as practiced by writers such as Donna Haraway or Hélène Cixous to whom Kember often returns, can become methods for reclaiming territories which are already seemingly lost to the post-political world of the iMedia industry. Writing is deployed as a ‘queer feminist praxis’ and simultaneously as ‘the deconstructive mechanism’ that pertains to movements and displacements, while also being always both mediated and situated. I am wary of attempts to envisage any technique as somehow positioned on a priviliged level of criticality by virtue of its adherence to a supposedly inherently subversive set of practices (in this case, deconstruction). Nonetheless, in the feminist setting within which Kember operates and positions herself, writing can indeed only ever be conceived as a practice. As such, it cannot claim a privileged access to worlds and situations with which it is not already in a tenuous relationship. Instead, it must acknowledge its responsibility in the co-creation of these (i)worlds. Kember performs the heterogeneity and partiality of writing by experimenting with different genres such as the manifesto, the sci-fi novel and the monograph. She inserts disparate fragments into her text, including a somewhat confused debate on an Apple forum, a detailed description of a Corning glass promotional video and a diagram that refigures the conceptual points of the book. These techniques seek to demonstrate that there is no writing in-itself just as there are no objects or environments-in-themselves. Indeed, it becomes apparent that being a skillful storyteller does not necessarily imply an ethical or politicising position. As the case of the materials manufacturer Corning makes apparent: it ‘subsequently reveals its own own effectiveness as a storyteller and how effective stories themselves are at in-forming their audience, writing them into the futures that are told.’ Her intention is to unscrew and loosen the mechanisms that secure this efficacy, a political practice which, Kember insists, can and should be performed by means of writing: ‘this question of “what should we do as citizens” has an answer: “write”.’ The industrial logic that is behind the narrative mode of promotional videos of companies such as Corning and Microsoft demonstrates its preference for neutralised, naturalised and loosely sexed protagonists, at the same time as it reinstates a traditionalist vision of gender roles, offering a vision of the future that looks more like the past. A feminist reading of these stories aims to reclaim the ‘i’ in iMedia, in its necessary ambiguity, and to shift attention towards the processes of constitution and erasure of political subjectivity. According to Kember, glass is the imaterial which most persuasively demonstrates the tension between mediation and immediation, transparency and ambiguity. She argues that glass has always worked ‘towards the endpoint of mediation’, but in the present moment, imbued with its own future fantasies, it is starting to become information technology itself, and, via a ubiquity akin to plastic, now acts as an intelligent skin, becoming one with human bodies. Glass’ transparency and seeming capacity to present ‘the world as if it just is’ is, however, not neutral but complicit with the neoliberal fantasy of an invisible information infrastructure that negates its own ‘contribution to the world’. Here equality is understood in terms of access to the market. As Kember puts it: ‘Glass itself might make everything clear to everybody equally, but its design and architecture, its cultural and technological working is never neutral but rather imbricated in power and social divisions.’ In this discussion, expressions like ‘glass itself’ sometimes give the impression that we are being transported into the realms of ontology. Kember, however, decisively aligns herself here with Ezio Manzini, who underscores that the question at stake is not what glass is, but rather what it does. He consequently argues that what is needed is an onto-epistemology of the material. Cinderella (with her glass slipper) becomes Kember’s way of approaching the problems associated with the gendering of this increasingly smarter material and the ways in which it is co-opted by tales of the iMedia industry about the future. The book is ambitious in its attempts to enter and problematise a number of seemingly disparate theoretical fields and to orient them around its main concern: the question of mediation and subjectivity in iMedia, and the political implications of their erasure or reinstatement. With the exception of Cixous and Jacques Derrida, there is barely a thinker who is not subjected to critical scrutiny by the author. Moreover, the adoption of such a stance is the practice Kember envisions as a means of situating herself in the quest of producing and diffracting iMedia knowledge. The polemical tone of the book, however, sometimes leads to imprecision and obscurity, as in the discussion of the tension between potentia and potential in the end section of chapter three. Kember criticises vitalist feminist thinkers Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz for their reinstatement of oppositionalist logics and utilises their discussion to introduce the question of time as a ground for a feminist political intervention and story-telling. Yet it remains unclear how her own distinction between potential (the ‘finely grained and ingrained clock time that carves out women’s work’) and potentia (‘the life-times of women’s diverse becomings’) can provide an alternative. If Kember’s argument about the politics of time(telling) remains underdeveloped, its charge can nevertheless be retraced by attending to her preoccupation with the way in which the book is crafted and structured. The publication consists of a montage of disparate parts, including a sci-fi novel in progress (in which the implementation of Global Democratic Capitalism has resulted in the perfection of citizenship as defined by people’s actual and potential capacity to consume) and a two-part iMedia manifesto. These different genres convey their own temporalities and velocities, their own fidelities to the contemporary and the future. Perhaps then the book performs its most enigmatic point formally, by navigating different ways of organising and experimenting with time in writing. The book invites its reader to rethink the future of critical praxis and of feminist media theory and to explore their potential to create iWorlds. Their protagonists would actively undertake the task of politically and materially refiguring the current neoliberal, masculinist logic of iMedia theory and industry. It becomes apparent that the politico-theoretical project for a movement towards a post-dialectical feminism as proposed by Kember would go hand-in-hand with the development of a writerly praxis which acknowledges its own responsibility in matters of decision-making or ‘cutting’. It is precisely this commitment to experimentation which transmits a sense of urgency to the reader to adopt practices of threading, storytelling, parody and cutting. Buy this issue in printDownload the PDF Reviewgender, media, media theory, Neda Genova, Sarah Kember Postmodernity, not yet Gender without identities	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2511
__label__wiki	0.82435	0.82435	Tuesday Morning Sports Update 23rd April 2019 Trainer Willie Mullins has finally tasted success in the Irish Grand National. 6 to 1 favourite ‘Burrows Saint’, ridden by Ruby Walsh, won the showpiece at Fairyhouse. It was part of a 1-2-3 for Mullins, as ‘Isle of Hope and Dreams’ was second and ‘Acapella Bourgeois’ finished third. Today is the final day of the Easter meeting at the Meath track, with the first race off at 2.10 and the going good to yielding. There’s also plenty of racing cross channel. Sedgefield starts at 20 to 2 with the going good. Yartmouth is off at 10 to 2 with the going standard. Ludlow is underway at 10 to 2 with the going good-good to firm in places. Lingfield is off at 5 to 5 with the going standard. Wolverhampton starts at 10 past 5 with the going standard Chelsea have missed the opportunity to go third in the Premier League. They were held to a 2-all draw with Burnley at Stamford Bridge. All of the goals were scored in the first half, including a volley by Ireland’s Jeff Hendrick. Chelsea are now fourth, but Arsenal have a game in hand. Tonight, Tottenham, who remain third, will bid to solidify their hopes of playing Champions League football next season when they welcome Brighton to the new White Hart Lane for a 7.45 start. At the same time, Watford host Southampton at Vicarage Road. It was a hectic weekend in the English Championship Leeds now face a huge battle to gain automatic promotion from the Championship after losing 2-nil at Brentford last night. They’re now 3 points behind second placed Sheffield United – after they beat Hull 3-nil. Leaders Norwich need just one more point from their final two games to ensure they go straight up to the Premier League, despite a 2-2 draw at Stoke. Aston Villa’s 1-nil victory over Millwall consolidated their position in fifth. West Brom’s goalless draw with Reading secured them a play-off place – while Derby climbed into the top six with a 2-nil win against QPR. Middlesbrough dropped to 7th following a 3-nil defeat at Nottingham Forest. Dundalk have gone second in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division following their 3-1 victory at UCD yesterday. Waterford and Derry City drew 2-2. St Patrick’s Athletic ran out 2-0 winners away to Finn Harps. And it ended goalless between Cork City and Sligo Rovers. Ronnie O’Sullivan has work to do in the first round of the World Snooker Championship this morning. The Rocket is 5 frames to 4 down to amateur James Cahill at the Crucible, with the first to 10 going through. Burrows Saint Irish Grand National James Cahill Jeff Hendrick Ruby Walsh sse airtricity premier division Willie Mullins Yartmouth	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2513
__label__cc	0.624595	0.375405	Home page > Discover Europe > Turin - Milan Turin - Milan Train Turin → Milan About this journey The average travel time between Turin and Milan is 1h19 minutes. The quickest route is 1h00 minutes. The first train leaving Turin is at 05:35, the last at 19:50. There is an average of 17 trains a day between Turin and Milan, leaving approximately every 1h13 minutes. Departure station : Torino porta nuov (Via Paolo Sacchi, 11 10125 Torino) Lifting the shroud in Piedmont Lifting the shroud in Piedmont Turin is the automotive capital of Italy. And although we may poo-poo the Fiat, the Turinese take pride in their sporty little wheels (The "T" in Fiat stands for Turin.) This industrial city has created more than little engines that could, and is famous for much more than a sacred cloth. Turin is also the birthplace of gianduja –mouthwatering hazelnut chocolate, of lecca lecca – the lollipop, and of Vermouth (hence, also the Martini – although this is up for debate). So why don't more people visit? Famous architect Le Corbusier defined Turin as "the city with the most beautiful natural location in the world." Set in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy and surrounded by the magnificent Alps, this was the perfect setting for the 2006 Winter Olympics. The event helped bring Turin to the tourist forefront of Italy. But with a Eurail Italy Pass or even a Eurail France-Italy Pass (the French border is but an hour away) you can stop for a day or two and soak up the sophisticated, aristocratic atmosphere. And with Trenitalia and Italo train service, it’s never been easier. Both trains get you there in style and comfort. For many, there is one word that defines Turin – and that's "shroud." People wonder, "Medieval Forgery? True image of Jesus of Nazareth?" The intense debate continues. Damage caused by a fire in 1532 was painstakingly restored to this mysterious cloth in 2002. But this controversial "restoration" considerably altered the cloth's appearance. Adding to the authenticity argument, it has been announced that no further scientific examination would be permitted. Every few decades, the "original" shroud is on display. And while it's been put away now until 2025, you can still see a replica at the Museo della Sindone. The on-site museum features the history of the shroud and many photographs, some of which are life-sized and larger than life. Learn more about Turin Fashionable Milan will steal your heart Discover the beauty, fashion, and art of Milan Originally a trading center founded by the Romans in 222 BC, Milan is still THE place the entire world travels to for luxury goods. Boutiques beckon with their fine gauge sweaters and silk ties. Scout out which stores you’d like to window-shop in before committing your entire paycheck away. Learn more about Milan Book your journey from Turin to Milan From $14 $14 1 TORINO PORTA NUOVA 08:00 TORINO PORTA NUOVA Brig - Milan Milan - Brig Milan - Verona	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2515
__label__cc	0.646641	0.353359	This review of Wooden Shjips marks the half way point of the unveiling of some of our top 10 albums of 2013. Stayed tuned for the second half, we promise you won’t regret it! Artist: Wooden Shjips Album: Back To land Label: Thrill Jockey http://www.woodenshjips.com/media/ On ‘Back to Land’, the band delivers a sonic milkshake that smells and tastes definitively like “Wooden Shjips music,” but it’s got a new confidence. Some washes of harder-edged electronic stuff, some happier moments and some darker moments. Miles of guitar solos / fuzz / distortion, of course, and motoric bass and drums. But the mix is heavier and more varied from track to track. You’ll hear them pushing the edges out, loosening the ties. The result is a record that’s more sonically rich than anything that’s come before, and also more accessible. Here, boundary-pushing involves the occasional inclusion of acoustic guitars in a supporting role in the band’s drone-friendly Suicide-meet-’Sister Ray’ stew, as well as tunes that occasionally risk a third chord to supplement the band’s customary two- and single-chord workouts. It’s not like the Wooden Shjips were ever threatening to become a parody of themselves, but they were sticking a little too close to their guns. There’s no worse way to go out than with a dulled point, fading to grey. Here they are, back on top, in glorious Technicolor. Drink it up. -Paul Wain, Music Supervisor EMEA Tags: best of, PlayNetwork, reviews, Top Albums 2013	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2518
__label__cc	0.722354	0.277646	Your search found 12 Results Effective prevention strategies in low HIV prevalence settings. Brown T; Franklin B; MacNeil J; Mills S Arlington, Virginia, Family Health International [FHI], HIV / AIDS Prevention and Care Department, 2001. [41] p. (UNAID Best Practice Key Materials; USAID Cooperative Agreement No. HRN-A-00-97-00017-00) Countries with low HIV prevalence share a set of concerns and challenges regarding their responses to a potential HIV epidemic. Many of these countries also present an opportunity to avert large numbers of future HIV infections if appropriate prevention strategies are chosen and implemented early, greatly reducing future HIV/AIDS-related costs to the country. The purpose of this publication is to identify those challenges and propose a prevention strategy that can maintain low HIV prevalence in the general population, while reducing existing or preventing potential HIV sub-epidemics in population subgroups with substantial levels of risk behavior. Decisions on the strategic placement and targeting of prevention interventions are important to both international agencies and countries planning their prevention response. Both need to make difficult choices regarding geographic and population subgroups to ensure that resources are allocated efficiently. (excerpt) Estimation of the incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections. Report of a WHO consultation, Treviso, Italy, 27 February - 1 March 2002. World Health Organization [WHO]. Department of HIV / AIDS Geneva, Switzerland, WHO, Department of HIV / AIDS, 2002. 26 p. (WHO/HIV/2002.14; WHO/CDS/CSR/NCS/2002.7) WHO in collaboration with the Office of International and Social Health at the Department of Health, Veneto Region, Italy organized a consultation on the estimation of STI prevalence and incidence on 27 February– 1 March 2002 in Treviso, Italy with the following objectives : to determine the strengths, weaknesses and appropriateness of the current WHO approach to estimating the prevalence and incidence of STIs; to identify the STIs or syndromes that are most appropriate for surveillance and the most appropriate methods for deriving estimates of their incidence and prevalence; to identify structural surveillance needs within countries; to determine the utility and feasibility of using specific STI data as indicators of HIV risk behaviour within the concept of second-generation HIV surveillance; and to make recommendations for how the data collected can best be used to prevent STIs and to improve the care of individuals with STIs or their outcomes. (excerpt) FAO / WHO launch expert report on diet, nutrition and prevention of chronic diseases [editorial] Public Health Nutrition. 2003 Jun; 6(4):323-325. This report and the subsequent commitment to a global strategy are extremely important for those of us working in Public Health Nutrition. They provide an important opportunity to promote the benefits of an evidence-based approach to solving major public health problems and raise the profile of nutrition. I have asked Este Vorster and Tim Lang to start off a discussion about the expert report. I look forward to other comments from readers. (excerpt) Who should receive hepatitis A vaccine? Arankalle VA; Chadha MS Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 2003 May; 10(3):157-158. Though a potent vaccine represents a powerful preventive tool, the policy of its use is governed by epidemiological and economical factors. Hepatitis A, an enterically trasmitted disease shows distinct association with socio-economic status, populations with improvement experiencing lower exposure to the virus. With the availability of vaccine, it is pertinent to consider its use in the effective control of the disease. However, with the varied epidemiological patterns and economical constraints in different countries it does not seem to be possible to evolve universal policy for immunization. Though, universal immunization may be the most effective way of control, the same is not practical for many countries. It is proposed that irrespective of endemicity of hepatitis A, high-risk groups such as travelers to endemic areas, patients suffering from chronic liver diseases, HBV and HCV carriers, tribal communities with high HBV carrier rates, food handlers, sewage workers, recipients of blood products, troops, and children from day-care centers should be immunized with hepatitis A vaccine. In addition, for populations with intermediate prevalence, infants, children from affordable families may be immunized. As coupling the vaccine with EPI schedule would be beneficial, use of combined A & B or A, B & E vaccine may be an attractive alternative. (author's) [Health: old and new diseases] La sante: anciennes et nouvelles maladies. Khlat M In: La population du monde: enjeux et problemes, edited by Jean-Claude Chasteland and Jean-Claude Chesnais. Paris, France, Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques [INED], 1997. 435-60. (Travaux et Documents Cahier No. 139) The author clarifies the conceptual framework of the study of populations health in an attempt to understand the notions of demographic transition and epidemiological transition. World Health Organization (WHO) statistics are then noted, followed by the presentation of WHO data on the global health situation. Estimated numbers of all cases of morbidity and mortality worldwide by cause are presented for 1993. Where possible, the prevalence, incidence, and number of long-term handicaps caused by each ailment are presented in addition to the number of deaths caused. According to data collected by WHO, approximately 51 million people died worldwide in 1993, of which almost 24% were in developed countries and 76% were in developing countries. The most important groups of illnesses were infectious and parasitic diseases, and causes of maternal, perinatal, and neonatal mortality, responsible for about 40% of all mortality during the year. 99% of these latter deaths occurred in the developing world. Then, circulatory system diseases, chronic lower respiratory system illness, and cancer were together responsible for about the same number of deaths, with the numbers of such deaths divided almost equally between developed and developing countries. External causes, such as accidents, suicides, and homicides caused near to 4 million deaths, or 8% of the overall total. These causes of morbidity and mortality are discussed, followed by consideration of likely future trends for the world s predominant ailments. Gap in HIV infection widens. Gottlieb S BMJ (CLINICAL RESEARCH ED.). 1998 Jul 4; 317(7150):11. While most industrialized nations and a handful of developing countries are seeing the spread of HIV infection level off or even decline, infection rates are reaching alarming new highs in much of the developing world, according to the first country by country analysis by the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Along with the widening gap in infection rates, the report also reveals a looming divide between countries where rates of new AIDS cases and deaths from AIDS are falling and countries where they are rising as people infected with the disease succumb in greater numbers than before. The major reason is uneven access to newer antiretroviral drugs, which forestall the development of AIDS. Among the report's most striking findings was new information concerning 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where at least 10% of all adults are infected with HIV, with the prevalence in many capital cities 35% or more. Botswana and Zimbabwe have each reached a prevalence of 25%, a new world high. (full text) Tuberculosis control and research strategies for the 1990s: memorandum from a WHO meeting] Estrategias de control e investigacion de la tuberculosis en el decenio de 1990: memorandum de una reunion de la OMS. World Health Organization [WHO] BOLETIN DE LA OFICINA SANITARIA PANAMERICANA. 1993 May; 114(5):429-36. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogenic agent causing tuberculosis, is carried by one third of the world's population. Some 8 million new clinical cases of tuberculosis are diagnosed annually. Pulmonary tuberculosis is the most infectious clinical manifestation, tubercular meningitis is the principal form causing infant death, and tuberculosis may affect various other organs. Untreated tuberculosis has a fatality rate of over 50%. Chemotherapy greatly reduces the rate, but some 2.9 million persons die of tuberculosis each year because of the inadequacy of many national treatment programs. Tuberculosis is the most important cause of death from a single infectious agent in the world. An estimated one fourth of avoidable deaths to adults aged 15-59 in the developing world are attributed to tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is especially prevalent in Africa south of the Sahara and in Southern Asia. Two new obstacles threaten to aggravate the problem: the HIV epidemic and drug resistance. HIV infection is the most serious risk factor yet identified because it converts latent tuberculosis infection into active disease. In Africa almost half of all persons seropositive for HIV are also infected with tuberculosis. Ineffective treatment programs favor the formation of pharmacoresistent strains, and drug resistance has become a major problem in various parts of the world. Effective measures exist to control tuberculosis. Although it does little to protect adults against infectious forms of tuberculosis, the BCG vaccine prevents the most lethal forms. Coverage of infants the BCG is over 80% in the developing world as a whole, but under 60% in sub-Saharan Africa. Chemotherapy can cure almost all cases and convert cases with positive sputum into noninfectious cases, reducing transmission. Normal treatment must be administered over at least 12 months, straining the resources of health services in developing areas. The introduction of a shorter therapy has revolutionized treatment in some national programs, which have achieved cure rates of 80% in new patients. Evaluation of some national programs has demonstrated that well managed short duration chemotherapy is cost effective even under difficult conditions. Progress in controlling tuberculosis has been slower than expected in developing countries because of excessive optimism about the prospects for quick declines as occurred in the industrialized countries, and because of lack of resources. A well organized and vigorous international effort under World Health Organization leadership is required to bring the tuberculosis problem to the world's attention, mobilize assistance on a wide scale, and provide information and direct support to national programs. Research will be needed to adapt proven control techniques to local cultures, develop new drugs, shorten treatment regimens, and encourage greater patient compliance. Histologic types of breast carcinoma in relation to international variation and breast cancer risk factors. WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Stalsberg H; Thomas DB; Noonan EA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 1989 Sep 15; 44(3):399-409. Associations between breast cancer risk factors and histologic types of invasive breast carcinoma were studied in 2728 patients. Lobular and tubular carcinomas occurred with increased relative frequency in most high risk groups. The proportion of these types increased with age to a maximum at 45-49 years and decreased in the following decade. Significantly increased proportions of lobular and tubular carcinomas were also associated with high risk countries, prior benign breast biopsy, bilateral breast cancer, concurrent mammary dysplasia, high age at 1st livebirth, never-pregnant patients compared to those with a 1st livebirth before age 20, private pay status, and length of education. Nonsignificant increases were associated with family history of breast cancer, less than 5 livebirths, less than 25 months total breastfeeding, use of oral contraceptives or IUD, and high occupational class. As a general trend, the higher the overall relative risk, the higher the proportion of lobular and tubular carcinomas. The occurrence of other histologic types also increased breast cancer risk, but to a smaller degree than for lobular/tubular carcinomas. It is suggested that all hormonally related, socioeconomic, and geographic risk factors enter their effect by selectively increasing the number of lobular cells at risk. Family history of breast cancer and age over 49 years did not follow the general trend of parallel increases in the proportion of lobular/tubular carcinomas and breast cancer risk, and may operate through other mechanisms. (author's) Levels and trends of contraceptive use as assessed in 1988. United Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs New York, N.Y., United Nations, 1989. viii, 129 p. (Population Studies No. 110; ST/ESA/SER.A/110) This global review of contraceptive practice was conducted by the Population Division of the Department of International Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Secretariat as part of its regular program of studies of demographic trends. Increasing government interest in and support for family planning programs over the past several decades are reflected in the attention given to this topic in the World Population Plan of Action adopted in 1974 and the resolutions adopted at the International Conference on Population held in 1984. The report contains a comprehensive overview of survey-based data on the level of contraceptive use, types of methods employed, and recent trends in contraceptive practice. It discusses the availability of contraceptives to national populations, drawing on results of recent international studies. Updated global and regional estimates of average levels of contraceptive use and methods are included. 1 new feature is a discussion of the amount of growth in contraceptive use that will be needed if fertility is to decline in developing countries in accordance with UN population projections. A new reference table shows national survey measures of current contraceptive use, by method, for all available countries and dates. Data available through May 1988 are included in the review. Nationally representative sample survey data, which are considered to provide the most comprehensive available information about levels of contraceptive use and methods employed, were available for at least 1 date for 97 countries and areas containing over 80% of the world's population. The concentration of recent surveys in developing countries makes contraceptive practice 1 of the few demographic topics for which data are more timely and more comprehensive for developing regions as a whole than for the industrialized countries. World contraceptive use in 1987 [news] ENTRE NOUS. 1989 Mar; (13):16-17. Worldwide contraceptive use prevalence, methods, and trends are depicted in a UN Population Division chart. In 1987, it is estimated that 51% of the world's couples used contraceptives. Developing country use increased from less than 10% before the mid-1960s to 45% and ranges from a low of 1% to a high of 75%. In developed countries, contraceptive use is estimated to be 70% and ranges from at least 50%-83%. Female sterilization has increased rapidly since the early 1970s. It is wide-spread today except in developed areas and performed 2-3 times more often than male sterilization. Other contraceptive methods and their prevalence are: IUDs--6% in developed and 10% in developing countries; birth control pills--13% in developed and 6% in developing countries; and withdrawal, the rhythm method, or other nonmedical service/supply methods--25% in developed and 5% in developing countries. The prevalence of anaemia in the world. La prevalence de l'anemie dans le monde. DeMaeyer E; Adiels-Tegman M World Health Statistics Quarterly. Rapport Trimestriel de Statistiques Sanitaires Mondiales. 1985; 38(3):302-16. Tables present data on the prevalence of anemia in the world. Anemia may be defined as a state in which the quantity or the quality of circulating red cells is reduced below the normal level. The most common way to diagnose anemia is by measuring the hemoglobin concentration in the blood which is controlled by a homeostatic mechanism. It varies slightly among normal subjects. In 1959, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed levels of hemoglobin concentrations for different groups of individuals that could be considered as the lower limits of normality. Subjects with values below these levels were considered to be anemic. The causes of anemia, which are multiple, include a deficiency of hemopoietic factos, genetic disorders causing hemolytic anemias, infections including malaria, and increased losses of blood caused inter alia by infections such as ankylostomiasis or schistosomiasis. A survey of the prevalence of anemia in women in developing countries was published by WHO in 1982. It estimated the prevalence of nutritional anemia in developing countries (other than China) at 60% in pregnant women and 47% in non-pregnant women. The prevalence of anemia in all women of reproductive age was estimated at 49%. It appears that studies on the prevalence of anemia were conducted regularly during the 1960-84 period, with the exception of studies on elderly people most of which were conducted before 1970. Most studies included from 100 to 300 subjects. Studies on adolescents usually covered fewer than 100 subjects. The tables provide no data on the severity of anemia, i.e., the percentage of subjects with a hemoglobin concentration below a specific level. On the basis of the present review, the total prevalence of anemia in the world is most likely about 30%. Expressed in absolute numbers this means some 1300 million people of the estimated world population of 4440 million in 1980. For the developing regions of the world, the prevalence of anemia is probably about 36% or 1200 million people, and for the more developed regions about 8% or just under 100 million people. Young children and pregnant women are the most affected groups with an estimated global prevalence of 43% and 51%, respectively. The regions with the highest overall prevalence of anemia are South Asia and Africa. With the exception of pregnant women, the prospects for the prevention of iron deficiency anemia in a population are poor at the present time. Iron fortification and the daily administration of an iron supplement present great problems in developing countries, and they will not be resolved easily. Informal Meeting on the Development of a Methodology for the Surveillance of Breastfeeding, Geneva, 2-4 February, 1981. [Unpublished] 1981. 58 p. A fundamental part of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) task of biannually reporting on the steps taken by the organization to promote breastfeeding and to improve infant and young child feeding will necessitate the regular collection of statistical information on the prevalence and duration of breastfeeding in the different Member States. The purpose of this document is to outline the following: the rationale for the collection of breastfeeding data; a summary of the scientific methods by which these data can be collected; a module which can be attached to ongoing surveys; and a protocol which can be used by national field workers in conducting surveys specifically on the subject of breastfeeding. Information on trends in breastfeeding is important because it can be used to provide a valuable insight into a variety of maternal and child health issues and serve as a useful health and social indicator. Changes in the prevalence and duration of breastfeeding reflect the attitudes of mothers toward infant care, their knowledge on infant feeding, their concept of family life, time, and work, and their relative exposure to different sources of information concerning the advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding. There are 2 major ways of collecting epidemiological information--a tool for assessment of breastfeeding practices--surveillance and surveys. Potential sources of information are vital statistics, hospital records, postnatal clinic records, market research, national health/nutrition surveys, and fertility surveys. The core breastfeeding module should contain the minimum number of questions required to assess the prevalence and duration of exclusive and partial breastfeeding along with key demographic questions designed to describe breastfeeding in terms of time, place, and person. Suggested items are listed. The development of a standardized protocol/study design which, with modification, can be adapted to national conditions and needs, will facilitate surveys and permit the comparability of data. 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__label__wiki	0.832347	0.832347	How to Operate a Backhoe You've wanted a backhoe since age 6. So rent one! Here are the basics of the 7-ton behemoth. By Robert Moritz An equipment operator from Windsor, Ontario, Nick Market has been called the "best of the best" of backhoe operators in North America. He was the 2007 Case Backhoe Rodeo Series Champion. "Nobody expected a Canadian to win," he says, laughing. "It was quite an upset." But Market wasn't always a pro operator of the 14,000 lb. behemoth. "My boss told me it'd take me a year to be a good backhoe operator. But I've always been competitive and I was a farm boy so I knew how to handle equipment. I learned it in two weeks. It does take about a year to get comfortable, though. I'm at the point now where I can move the machine like my own body. You'd be surprised how delicate the steering is, they can turn as quickly as a car. A lot of the courses you can take are 6-weeks. You learn about the machines and all of the basics, but you really need a lot of seat time to get good." Step-By-Step: 1. Open the Bucket Sit firmly in the cab and familiarize yourself with the controls. "There are a lot of gears and levers and functions you have to get to know. And you have to make them all work at the same time. It's a lot of hand-eye coordination. The key is to get the feel of the hydraulics," Nick Market says. First, put the stabilizers down to steady the backhoe, and release the boom lock. Push the left control forward to extend the backhoe's stick. Push the right control to the right to open the bucket. 2. Lower the Boom Know where you're digging. "You need to keep your eyes open and be aware of what's around you. A backhoe is a huge piece of machinery and it's easy to back into things. Be especially careful if you're digging around utilities."Push the right control forward to lower the boom. 3. Start to Dig Push the right control to the left to curl the bucket inward, lowering it into the ground to scoop up soil. "It's usually a good idea to go in at an angle," Market says. 4. Lift the Load Pull the left and right controls back at the same time to retract and raise the boom while keeping the bucket curled. "Don't overfill the bucket," Market says. Most backhoes have a reach of 14 feet. A device called an extend-a-hoe adds another 4 feet of reach. 5. Dump the Dirt Push the left and right controls to the right to open the bucket, pull the stick toward the cab and dump the load. "Don't raise the load up too high," Market says. "There's a major tip factor there." He also operates the machine at full throttle. "It's all about precision, control and speed," he says. Hint: Don't be afraid of speed. "When I teach somebody, I have them push the machine full-throttle. if you operate at a low rate, you don't use the machine to its full potential and it takes a lot longer to get the job done. It's all about precision, control and speed." Warning: "It's important to never leave your seat when you operate a backhoe. And never go underneath the machine. Know your safety manual and make sure the machine has been inspected and everything is in good working order. It's a lot of common sense." Extend-A-Hoe: A mechanism that allows the stick on a backhoe to be extended for deeper digging. Most backhoes have a reach of 14 feet. An extend-a-hoe adds another four feet of length. Boom: A swing frame pivotally connected to the main frame of the tractor on a pair of vertical pivots. Stabilizers: Stabilizers prevent movement of tractor equipment while digging. Lodge Cookware Is More Than 50% Off for Prime Day Ring Doorbells Are on Sale For Amazon Prime Day DeWalt Tools Are Up to 50% Off for Prime Day This Tiny Gadget Keeps Your Yard Mosquito-Free The Best Amazon Prime Day Sales These Are the Best Cordless Power Sanders Kanye Is Building Star Wars-Inspired Prefab Homes 9 Lawn Care Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) How to Make Beer (Cheaply, Simply): Step-By-Step Guide The Shkadov Thruster, or: How to Move an Entire Solar System How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!) Don't Panic! How to Recover Data From a Dead Hard Drive How to Make Magazine Nunchucks Don't Be an Idiot: How to Use Any Kind of Ladder Safely	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2523
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__label__cc	0.562638	0.437362	814 Fillmore St -- Beds, 1 Baths, 784 sqft $69,000 (Estimated Value) 814 Fillmore St is a single family residence located in Salisbury, MD 21804. Built in 1935, this property features 1 bathroom, 5,000 sq ft lot, and 784 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 814 Fillmore St is $69,000. For the surrounding community of Salisbury, MD 21804, the average sale price for similar homes to 814 Fillmore St is $54,867. The nearby schools are average and include East Salisbury Elementary, Wicomico High and Wicomico Middle. The overall crime risk for this area is slightly high with 17 criminal and sex offenders residing within 1 mile. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, low tornado risk, and minimal flood risk. $69,000 estimated value Property Details: 814 Fillmore St Home Size: 784 sqft Parcel Number: 05013259 County: Wicomico Subdivision: WILLIAM F CALLOWAY ESTATE Tract: 100 Heating Type: STEAM Cooling Type: YES ALUMINUM Garage Composition Shingle Roof Architecture: CONVENTIONAL 12/24/2003 Sold $45,000 $57 Public Records 2017 $640 (+2.1%) $13,000 $17,500 $30,500 2016 $632 (+2.07%) $13,000 $17,500 $30,500 2013 $607 (+1.9%) $0 $0 $31,900 2012 $918 $0 $0 $54,000 802 Fillmore St, Salisbury, MD 21804 801 Johnson St, Salisbury, MD 21804 This home $69,000 Estimated Value Comparable Sales$54,867 AVG SALES Price The average sales price of homes similar to 814 Fillmore St is $54,867 ($66/sq.ft.) 723 Edgar Dr $82,000 06/28/2019 $95 864 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.8 mi away 1010 Adams Ave Apt 2D $45,900 06/28/2019 $50 918 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 2 mi away 310 Pryor Ave $63,000 06/27/2019 $82 768 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.9 mi away 528 Washington St $20,000 06/26/2019 $23 874 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.5 mi away 1020 Adams Ave Apt 3C $40,000 06/26/2019 $44 918 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.9 mi away 611 Truitt St $28,000 06/18/2019 $37 766 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 0.1 mi away 826 Springfield Cir $50,000 06/05/2019 $53 952 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.8 mi away 2312 Pine Way $58,000 06/03/2019 $80 726 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.2 mi away 109 Clark St $87,000 05/21/2019 $129 672 sq.ft. -- Bed, -- Bath 1.9 mi away 639 Liberty St $58,000 05/08/2019 $64 900 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 0.2 mi away 543 E Lincoln Ave 301 Carey Ave Built in 1935, 814 Fillmore St is in the 21804 zip code of Salisbury, Maryland. A, 1.0-bathroom Single Family Residence property, 814 Fillmore St, Salisbury, MD 21804 sits on a 5,000 square foot lot, in the neighborhood of Wicomico County. As of 06/2019, 31 properties were in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned in the zip code surrounding 814 Fillmore St Salisbury Maryland 21804IF(57\|, and 57 properties were in in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned in Salisbury. 814 Fillmore St is in a state where 8,093 properties were in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned as of 06/2019, while there were 408,640 properties in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned nationwide.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2529
__label__wiki	0.935638	0.935638	New poll by Angus Reid Institute finds Canadian’s opinion of Trudeau has worsened in recent weeks. (THE CANADIAN PRESS) SNC-Lavalin affair takes toll on Liberal government: poll Survey suggests Trudeau trails Scheer by seven percentage points Two-thirds of Canadians believe there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to the SNC-Lavalin affair, according to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute. Should an election be held tomorrow, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals would be fall behind Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party by seven percentage points, according to the poll, released Tuesday. READ MORE: Trudeau partially waives solicitor-client privilege for Wilson-Raybould The Trudeau government is alleged to have put pressure on former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould not to carry out charges of fraud and corruption against the Quebec-based engineering company. The public will soon hear from the former minister after Trudeau announced he will lift attorney-client privilege. Sixty-six per cent of Canadians believe SNC-Lavalin should be fully tried under the Criminal Code, according to the poll. Ninety-five per cent of people who would vote for the Conservatives, should an election be held tomorrow, believe there is a “deeper scandal” in the Prime Minister’s Office, but 72 per cent of people who support the Liberals think the affair has been “overblown.” The poll suggests the prime minister’s approval rating has declined. Sixty per cent of Canadians view Trudeau unfavourably, with 59 per cent indicating their opinion of him has worsened in recent weeks. The majority of Canadians also indicated having unfavourable opinions about other party leaders. Fifty-four per cent do not look highly upon Scheer, and 64 per cent do not favour New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh. Coldest Night of The Year walk raises over $22,000 Members of Red Deer Doula Association heading to Honduras to help out	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2531
__label__wiki	0.842853	0.842853	8 Days a Week: Petty Worship, American Primitivism, and Reproductive Justice ZIG WHILE U ZAG \| A good chunk of today's social innovation and startup culture involves the question of how to stack functions over drinking beer. This evening, at Oxbow's "Beer & Learn" series, join the roofing specialists Sika Sarnafil in a discussion of form and function in green roofing. The AIA-accredited Sika Sarnafil — that's an organization, not a person — cover techniques for waterproofing and proper maintenance of green roofing in this one-hour hang. \| 4-6 pm \| Oxbow Blending and Bottling, 49 Washington Ave., Portland \| FREE \| www.oxbowbeer.com DANCE CHANNELS \| A good idea we hope will continue, tonight's "Body and Soul" dance party gives people a spot to dance to R&B, neo-soul, funk, jazz, and hip-hop in a setting that's aware of the historical appropriation of those and other black-originated genres for the profit of organizations and corporations that systematically exclude people of color from their employ or profits. Ergo, it's a fine idea that One Longfellow Square donate proceeds from tonight's party to the Black Lives Matter movement. \| 6-8 pm \| One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland \| $10 \| www.onelongfellowsquare.com PEEP ON IT \| Right in the heart of the harvest season, Port City Peep Show's coven of dancers revel in the sensual, darkly spiritual themes of divination and sisterhood. This wolfpack of burlesque dancers and artists have decades of collective experience and put on an imaginative, out-there variety show of dance, song, live music, and other surprises. \| 8:30 pm \| Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St., Portland \| $12-15 \| www.portlandhouseofmusic.com NOW ZONING \| The only style of music it's impossible to grow out of is jazz. Book it! True statement! Test that theory the next few decades if you don’t trust me, but if you already do, then jell with the form tonight at SPACE Gallery, where Finnish-born, NYC-based pianist Frank Carlberg performs a suite of music directly inspired by Thelonius Monk, the otherworldly jazz musician who used to get up and run circles around his piano mid-set, or occasionally fall asleep at the keyboard. (The unpredictable Monk is a terrific one to pull inspiration from; though while his eccentric personality was inextricable from his music, I don’t mean to make light of his struggles with mental health.) Carlberg leads a 17-piece ensemble called OURBIGBAND through a devotional program titled "Monk Dreams, Hallucinations, and Nightmares" in celebration of the influential jazz artist's 100th birthday. \| 8:30 pm \| SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland \| $15-20 \| www.space538.org HORROR HOTEL \| Perhaps Damnationland awakened in you an unholy hunger for vintage horror flicks. Perhaps you made a pact long ago to watch all the movies Glenn Danzig named Misfits songs after. Or perhaps celebrating Halloween is an interior condition better triggered by cinema than dressing up and eating trash. Whatever the case, the city's museum readies a weekend of screenings of Night of the Living Dead, a restored version of George Romero's 1968 zombie-horror classic. See it today at 2 and 6:30 pm (or Saturday and Sunday at 2). \| 2 & 6:30 pm \| Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland \| $8 \| www.portlandmuseum.org FRONTLINES \| The GOP's war on women's reproductive health is a sort of scary that transcends seasonal humors. This evening, keep in solidarity with an appearance by Dr. Willie Parker, a Southern Christian OB/GYN working for reproductive justice in Montgomery, Alabama, who has been featured in the documentaries Trapped and Jackson about the effort to preserve access to abortion. In this program called "In This Together," 100 percent of ticket sales benefit "direct patient care" for Planned Parenthood. The evening segues into a dance party benefiting the same cause at 9 pm, helmed by DJ Jay-C, with a $5 cover. \| 6-9 pm \| Aura, 121 Center St., Portland \| $35 \| www.auramaine.com DROP \| The apocalyptic hardcore punk band Leash play their last show tonight. Their crusty, d-beat-driven sound recalls the genre's glory days with artists like His Hero is Gone, Amebix, and Left For Dead, though recordings demonstrate the original flare they brought to the style. They play at Geno's with Baltimore darkwave crew Curse, plus Maine punk acts H.L. and HazelKrust. \| 8 pm \| Geno's Rock Club, 625 Congress St., Portland \| $7 COMMUNICATION SKILLS \| The common talking point that the country is "divided" often sounds wishy-washy, ahistorical and lacking in substantive political understanding. But it's true that many types of public discourse are vitriolic, antagonistic, and exclusionary, and that a lot of Americans are raised with a vocabulary of aggression, competition, and violence. Folks gotta work on it! An appearance by the nonviolent communication trainer Peggy Smith, co-founder of the Maine Center for Nonviolent Communication, helps teach individuals ways to remedy that in their daily thoughts, actions, and interactions. A public school teacher for 32 years, Smith has studied with Thich Nhat Hanh since 1991, and brings a lot of humor to her work. Her one-and-a-half day workshop, titled "Building Connection in Difficult Times," begins Friday night and continues all day Saturday, and fifty percent of profits benefit the restoration of Portland's Abyssinian Meeting House, the third oldest African-American Meeting House in the United States. \| Fri 6:30-9 pm; Sat 9 am-5 pm \| First Congregational Church, UCC of South Portland, 301 Cottage St., South Portland \| $150 \| www.opencommunication.org IN THE FINGERS \| The American Primitive guitarist Glenn Jones once played in the '90s Boston experimental band Cul De Sac, and, meaningfully, studied with the late Fahey, a student, practitioner, and preservationist of guitar-folk traditions from the early 20th century. Now 64, Jones himself is getting to be one of the craft's most experienced teachers, playing guitar and banjo in a lyrical style owing to Fahey and the decades of folk guitar ghosts of history. His wisdom shines tonight at the Apohadion, where he plays a set with Maine folk artist Micah Blue Smaldone opening. \| 8 pm \| The Apohadion Theater, 107 Hanover St., Portland \| $8-10 PRINTWORTHY \| Check our feature section for the full rundown of Halloween events this weekend, with a heavy concentration today, but if you want to carry on a normal, Halloween-free life, keep reading. The artist Demian DinéYazhi' of Portland, Oregon is here, and we're lucky for it. DinéYazhi' makes "radical indigenous queer feminist art" and is the artist behind a line of popular #DECOLONIZEFEMINISM posters, and we're lucky to have him lead a screenprinting workshop today at Pickwick Independent Press. \| 1-4 pm \| Pickwick Independent Press, 522 Congress St., Portland \| $5-10 donation \| www.border-patrol.net HIT THE BARS \| Not really a Halloween-type thing (again, look elsewhere in this issue for that), but the rapper REKS from Lawrence, Massachusetts, teams up with Portland rapper Ben Shorr, fresh off the release of his new album Pyrokinesis, for a rowdy show at Bayside Bowl tonight. The up-and-coming rapper Graphic Melee of Portland also plans to throw down some bars and spin a little, while Zaya HumanNature (of the Kesho Wazo crew), Mike Wing, and Jacobsen have at it too. \| 8 pm \| Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland \| $12-15 \| www.baysidebowl.com THIS GUY \| The songwriter Josh Ritter's been at this two decades now. Having been a pop songwriter and musician in the modern Americana mold, he's also been a New York Times bestselling author for his 2011 novel Bright's Passage. See this popular darling of American life tonight with his Royal City Band at the State Theatre, with the group Good Old War. \| 8 pm \| State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland \| $25-30 \| www.statetheatreportland.com PLAYIN' MAKE-UP \| Halloween being the undisputable best holiday, it's inevitable to imagine a reality in which it lasts all year round. That sounds far-fetched, but then I remember that people into cosplay have essentially already turned that corner, leaving normies like me in their fantastical dust. If you're one of them, or if Halloween is a fantasy you're ready to make a commitment to, poke into the Cosplay Contest at the Portland Comic Expo. The contest is at 3 today, though the convention lasts all day from 10 am to 5. \| 3 pm \| Portland Comic Expo, Portland Exposition Building, 239 Park Ave., Portland \| www.portlandcomicexpo.com I'LL TAKE WHATEVER YOU GOT \| Empire's experimental Monday night programming for the last few months has been something called "The Great Open Mic Challenge," the conceit being that anyone can share or perform anything — poems, comedy, music, a Powerpoint presentation about the mineral content of the rocks in Cape Elizabeth, whatever. It can get pretty loosey-goosey, but tonight's the finals, so the evening's presenters have been vetted by a team of local artists and celebrities to be the cream of the crop. A winner will be crowned and adorned with regionally significant prizes. And then a new idea for how to suffer Monday occurs next week. \| 7-9 pm \| Empire, 575 Congress St., Portland \| www.portlandempire.com SEE A LITTLE LIGHT \| In these days, battered as we are not only by cruel and retrogressive policy proposals but by the economy of outrage traded in by mainstream media and the very real outrage-provoking menace that is the U.S. president and his cabinet, it's been a beacon of light to see the slow-process, relationship-building, justice-driven work of the Southern Maine Workers' Center. The homegrown Portland-based group has been at the forefront of numerous citizen-led movements over the last few years, from their Health Care is a Human Right campaign, the Work With Dignity campaign, and most recently, their Paid Sick Days initiative, which endeavors to close a serious health and equity gap among Portland workers — particularly those working in food service and hospitality — who've grown accustom to going to work sick. The SMWC holds a new member orientation tonight at their location on 56 North Street on Munjoy Hill. If you've been in the dark, see what they're about. \| 6-7:30 pm \| Southern Maine Workers' Center, 56 North St., Suite 100., Portland \| www.maineworkers.org AGAIN IN SONG \| Awkwardly falling on the week's most vanilla day, Halloween-on-a-Tuesday still has a few killer parties worth summoning your inner undead. The return of the silver-throated Lyle Divinsky and his Denver-based funk troupe The Motet is one. Portlanders have stamped his parties bona fide since early last decade. Divinsky's first appearance with the band was on last year's Totem, a full-length album he recorded in the studio after having joined the group six weeks prior. They're unequivocally a good time. \| 8 pm \| Aura, 121 Center St., Portland \| $31 \| www.auramaine.com AGAIN IN SONG \| If you're still stoked from last weekend's Queens of the Stone Age show, you mind find similar thrills in tonight's appearance by The Very Reverend, Portland's hip-swaggering rock band much in the same mold. They drop their debut EP, Gold to a Thief, tonight, with the help of rapper Sarah Violette and Renee Coolbrith. \| 8 pm \| The Apohadion Theater, 107 Hanover St., Portland \| $8 WEDNESDAY 1 GROWTH PATTERNS \| Rabbit rabbit, m'dudes! Tonight marks the tour kickoff show of Portland songsmith Jeff Beam, who drops a corresponding EP single called Something Came From Nothing before heading on the most ambitious westerly tour he's ever wrangled. Beam's been painted with a reputation of one of the hardest-working musicians in the state. It's possible you thought his psyched-out indie jams were a little impenetrable half a decade ago, but his songs are pretty all aboard these days. Single "Something Came From Nothing" has some eerie Tom Petty-meets-Radiohead vibes (read a full review on page 19). Beam's support tonight is none other than despatched local favorites Theodore Treehouse, who've been broke up awhile now but manage to come together on special occasions from time to time, and Fort Gorgeous, an alias of former Portlander Billy Libby. \| 8 pm \| Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St., Portland \| $7-10 \| www.portlandhouseofmusic.com THURSDAY 2 AROUND THE CORNER \| The sudden drop into early winter could come at any time. Next week brings a dynamic comedy performance by stand-up artists/partners Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher (at Portland House of Music and Events), a showing by indie-rock sensations And the Kids (at SPACE), and a workshop about how to build sustainable birdfeeders at Urban Farm Fermentory. 8 Days a Week: Immortal Bird, Lady Bird, and Blade of the Immortal 8 Days: Christmas anxiety, funk medicine, and a river of blood 8 Days: Sonic sculptures, rap heroes, and chances to worship the old Gods 8 Days: Winter folk jams, artsy hang-outs, and charities actually worth your money 8 Days a Week: Noise heroes, mass seduction, and music scene love 8 Days A Week: Beatles' Nights, Funk Nights, Worst Nights 8 Days a Week: Men breaking down, pre-holiday anxieties, and constructive girl talk 8 Days a Week: Cannabis Fighters, Rap Legends, No Mansplainers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2533
__label__wiki	0.872331	0.872331	Links to Legal Help For CLCs, ATSILS and Legal Aid For not-for-profit organisations Provide Pro Bono Assistance For law firms and practices For individual solicitors and barristers For in house lawyers and legal teams For law students Looking for an Expert Witness Information on Pro Bono What is “pro bono”? History of pro bono in Australia International pro bono National Pro Bono Target Target Signatories Government Tender Arrangements Australian Pro Bono News Mission Statement & Strategic Plan National Pro Bono PI Insurance Scheme This past issue of National Pro Bono News (now known as Australian Pro Bono News) was created on our former website. It has been transferred to our new website ‘as is’, for archive purposes. Many of the links may no longer work, including links to our publications and resources (which can now be found in Our Publications). You will also notice that the formatting of this newsletter has not transferred cleanly to our new website. We apologise for any difficulties this may cause you. If you have any queries about the content of this issue please contact us. Issue 95: February 2015 Welcome to the February 2015 edition of National Pro Bono News, from the National Pro Bono Resource Centre. We welcome your feedback/contributions/ideas – please email info@nationalprobono.org.au. In this edition, read about: NEWS: WA’s Law Access pro bono clearing house gets underway at the University of WA CONFERENCE: National Access to Justice and Pro Bono Conference 2015 Program now available SUBMISSION: The Centre makes submission on the consultation draft of the Legal Profession Uniform General Rules 2014 PROFILE: Lieutenant Commander Shannon Richards EVENT: Salvos Legal brings you the Women of the Law BY THE NUMBERS: Partner participation JOBS: For the latest jobs check out Social Justice Opportunities PRO BONO IN THE NEWS: December 2014 – February 2015 WA’s Law Access pro bono clearing house gets underway at the University of WA In a watershed moment for pro bono development in the West, the pro bono clearing house “Law Access” has just opened its doors at new, larger premises generously supplied by the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Australia, a short distance from the Perth CBD. Law Access has existed as a pro bono referral scheme within the Law Society of Western Australia since 1992 but is now soon to be operated by Law Access Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Law Society incorporated in December 2014. The initiative for this development dates back to early 2012 when the WA Public Interest Law Clearing House Reference Group (“Reference Group”) was established by the Law Society of Western Australia and the Community Legal Centres’ Association of Western Australia with representation from across the WA legal profession including pro bono coordinators from a number of WA based law firm offices. With funding from Lotterywest this group commissioned a feasibility study of pro bono models for Western Australia. Kalico Consulting completed a report in August 2013 titled ” Doing the Public Good” that identified a number of constraints to growth, including the absence of a strategic proactive approach to pro bono work which is directed at responding to unmet legal need. See Expansion of WA pro bono clearing house to be explored (National Pro Bono News, Issue 84) for more detail. In November 2013, the Law Society endorsed the recommendations presented to it by the Reference Group and decided to develop a business plan to explore the possible expansion of the existing Law Access Service as a “central pro bono clearing house service”. The decision to incorporate a separate entity to manage the service was made in 2014. Law Access is managed by Dominique Hansen, previously Executive Manager Community Services of the Law Society of WA, working three days a week together with Principal Solicitor Katrina Williams, working two days a week. Both Minter Ellison and the Australian Government Solicitor will continue to provide a secondee to Law Access one day a week and law students from the University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University will also be working in the practice. Law Access will provide merit assessment of applications in-house, referring meritorious matters to the profession. Law Access will also advise applicants where their matters are considered to have no or limited merit. It will continue to develop to meet unmet legal need by liaison with community and community organisations, research and fund raising. Law firm and community legal sector input into its operations will be enabled through a Stakeholder Advisory Committee reflecting the core membership of the initial Reference Group. Law Access will also act as the gateway for the Western Australian Bar Association in relation to requests for pro bono assistance from counsel. The Law Society will continue to have an important ongoing role with Law Access, and will provide back office and other supports for the new expanded service. For new applicants first contact should be through downloading the form on the Law Access page on the Law Society website or by calling 9324 8600. The new telephone number for lawyers , courts and community organisations making a referral on behalf of new applicants is 08 6488 5683. The email address remains the same: lawaccess@lawsocietywa.asn.au. National Access to Justice and Pro Bono Conference 2015 program now available The Fifth National Access to Justice & Pro Bono Conference will be held in Sydney on 18 & 19 June 2015, and will celebrate the 800-year anniversary of the Magna Carta. This conference presents a program of national and international speakers who will reflect on this foundation document and discuss the current challenges and opportunities in seeking to provide access to justice and the important role that pro bono legal work can play. The preliminary Conference program is available on the Conference’s website, at www.a2j15.com.au. Look out for registration details next week. The Centre makes submission on the consultation draft of the Legal Profession Uniform General Rules 2014 The Centre was invited by the Legal Services Council to provide comments and submissions in relation to the consultation drafts of the proposed Uniform Rules to be made under the Legal Profession Uniform Law. The Centre’s submission in relation to the Consultation Draft of the Legal Profession Uniform General Rules 2014 focuses on removing barriers to pro bono legal work. The Centre gratefully acknowledges the assistance of DLA Piper Australia in the preparation of the submission. The submission is endorsed in full by DLA Piper. In particular the Centre recommended that the General Rules should be amended to clarify: that volunteer practising certificates should be provided for free, rather than on a low cost basis; and in relation to professional indemnity (PI) insurance that: PI insurance is made available through the Centre’s National Pro Bono Professional Indemnity Insurance Scheme (Scheme); and the Scheme will cover legal services provided on a pro bono basis where they are undertaken by or supervised by an Australian legal practitioner with an “unrestricted” practising certificate, and it is not necessary to hold and “unrestricted principal” practising certificate. The Centre’s submission is available here Lieutenant Commander Shannon Richards This month we caught up with Lieutenant Commander Shannon Richards about his fantastic work with KidsXpress, a charity dedicated to helping children deal with trauma. Shannon’s work with KidsXpress is covered by the Centre’s National Pro Bono Professional Indemnity Insurance Scheme. The Scheme provides insurance for lawyers and paralegals working on pro bono projects approved by the Centre. Firstly, we asked Shannon to tell us a bit about himself: I have been practising as a lawyer now for 13 years. After finishing law at Sydney University, I worked as an Associate in the NSW Court of Appeal. I then started at Minter Ellison in Sydney as a solicitor in the Banking Litigation team. This is where I was first exposed to pro-bono work. I left Minters after three years and went in-house at an investment bank. I really enjoyed my time at Minters and working in-house as the training I received allowed me to gain the necessary skills as a solicitor. After six years of practice, I decided to join the Royal Australian Navy, which I had always had in the back on my mind. I was really attracted to the sense of national service and working in a military environment. I was commissioned in April 2007 and have been serving ever since. I have been very fortunate in the experiences I have had in the Navy which include working as a Military Prosecutor, deploying to the Middle East, spending three months at sea as the embarked legal officer on Border Protection operations and my current role as the Deputy Fleet Legal Officer at Fleet Headquarters in Sydney. How did you come to be involved with KidsXpress and how have you assisted the organisation? My involvement with KidsXpress started in 2005 as part of the founding team to set up KidsXpress under the leadership of Margo Ward (CEO) and Dr John Hewson (Chairman). I am a Non-Executive Director, Company Secretary and Legal Counsel to KidsXpress. I work very closely with the CEO and other directors. KidsXpress is a dynamic, expressive therapy program that offers a non-threatening and creative environment to children aged 4–14 years who are experiencing difficulty, loss, challenge or trauma. KidsXpress empowers children by providing an opportunity for self-expression through the use of music, art, play and drama therapies. How did you find out about the Scheme? I found out about the Scheme through the Law Society of NSW. If the Scheme had not been available to you would it have been possible for you to obtain PI insurance to enable you to assist KidsXpress? It would have been very difficult for me to undertake the work that I do for KidsXpress without the assistance of the Scheme. KidsXpress and I are both very grateful for the Scheme and the assistance it provides me in my role. You were recently awarded the 2014 Law Society of NSW President’s Medal for your work with KidsXpress. What does this award mean to you and to KidsXpress? The Law Society of NSW President’s Medal is an annual award that recognises significant personal and professional contributions to the betterment of law and justice in the community by a NSW solicitor and member of the Law Society of NSW. It was an amazing honour to receive the award last year. Unfortunately I was away at sea with the Navy at the time but a colleague of mine accepted the award on my behalf. I have received a lot of great feedback from colleagues in the Navy and at KidsXpress and have also been approached by many lawyers asking about the work I do and how they can get involved. What advice would you give to other lawyers interested in getting involved in pro bono legal work? I have always had instilled in me the importance of giving back to and being part the local community. I think we all have a responsibility as professionals to work within the community and to assist charities and community groups in helping those who need our help. It doesn’t matter where you work as a lawyer or the legal speciality, there will always be some person or group or charity that will greatly benefit from your pro bono legal work. Where can we find out more about KidsXpress? More information about KidsXpress can be found at www.kidsxpress.org.au or find us on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. Rear Admiral Stuart Mayer (Commander, Australian Fleet, Royal Australian Navy) presents Lieutenant Commander Shannon Richards with the Law Society of NSW President’s Medal Salvos Legal brings you the Women of the Law On Saturday 14 March 2015 no less than 21 female judges and leading barristers will be presenting on topics that range from solicitors’ liability for negligence and advocates’ immunity to Injunctions and Expert Evidence. Panels consisting of female judges, and leading barristers from each of the NSW Court of Appeal, Federal Court, Supreme Court, District Court and NCAT will present on key topics from their jurisdictions. Salvos Legal operates as a commercial practice in order to sustain the Salvos Legal Humanitarian practice, which is a free legal service that aims to provide access to justice through full-time representation to those who could not otherwise obtain it. It was established in early 2010. The Lecture Series is a fundraising event for Salvos Legal Humanitarian and the registration fees/donations, which may be tax deductible, have been designed to reflect specific attendees’ ability to pay. 5 CPD/CLE points can be claimed for the full day’s attendance or 1 point per single hour lecture. Please visit the Salvos Legal site for the full program and to register. Partner participation in pro bono In the most recent National Law Firm Pro Bono Survey of Australian firms with fifty or more lawyers, the Centre for the first time asked respondents about the pro bono work undertaken by partners at their firm. Perhaps surprisingly, given the perception that the majority of pro bono legal work at large firms is undertaken by junior lawyers, the figures for partners were not far below the figures for all lawyers. Overall, forty percent of partners at respondent firms participated in pro bono legal work – that is to say, that they performed at least one hour of pro bono legal work in the 2013/14 financial year – compared to fifty percent of all lawyers at those same respondent firms. For a comprehensive breakdown of these figures, including by size of firm, please refer to pages 29-30 of the National Law Firm Pro Bono Survey of Australian firms with fifty or more lawyers. For all individual response refer to pages 90-91. For the latest jobs check out Social Justice Opportunities Social Justice Opportunities (www.sjopps.net.au) is not only a practical guide to the steps you need to take to find a job or volunteer position in the social justice sector. It also includes a listing of current employment and volunteering opportunities, in the ‘Latest Opportunities’ section. We could not have been more pleased to hear from Monique Hurley earlier this month, who changed her life and career with the help of the site: Late last year, I was keen to try something new and join the community legal sector and applied for a couple of different jobs that I saw advertised on your website. I have very recently relocated from Melbourne to Darwin to work as a lawyer for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency. It’s been a great experience so far, although it’s still early days! I just wanted to touch base quickly to say that I think the website is great, an excellent resource and that I hope you keep the excellent work up! Whether you are a student, new lawyer or anyone else looking to volunteer or work in the sector, keep an eye on Social Justice Opportunities (www.sjopps.net.au) for useful tips and a listing of current positions available across Australia. To keep abreast of all the latest opportunities you can join more than 1,700 people following @SJOpps on Twitter or join more than 1,200 liking us on Facebook. If you would like to advertise a social justice job or volunteer position on the site, particularly one aimed at law students or new lawyers, please email us for details. It’s easy and free! Please also contact us with any feedback you have, or let us know how the site has helped you! Here’s what’s going on in the Twitter feed right now: Tweets by @SJOpps Articles of interest to the pro bono community from December 2014 to February 2015. Click through to read any news article in full. Salvos lifts its growth target to fund free legal aid [paywall] 20 February 2015 – The Australian The Salvation Army’s wholly owned law firm has delivered about $35 million worth of free legal advice over the past five years, and has unveiled ambitious plans for growth. Salvos provides humanitarian legal work without receiving a cent from the government, instead using the profits from corporate legal services to pay for it. The head of Salvos Legal, former Mills Oakley partner Luke Geary, has plans to grow the firm’s commercial practice by 20 per cent a year for the next five years. Asylum seeker lawyers win ALA award 16 February 2015 – Lawyers Weekly The lawyers who fought to free baby Ferouz and his asylum-seeking family from a detention centre in Darwin have received a prestigious civil justice award in Queensland. This year’s Australian Lawyers Alliance Queensland Civil Justice Award was presented to solicitor Angus Francis from the Refugee and Immigration Legal Service, Maurice Blackburn senior associate Murray Watt, and barristers Mark Steele, Matt Black, Stephen Keim SC and Walter Sofronoff QC. The legal team worked on the high-profile asylum seeker matter on a pro bono basis. Pro bono: Speaking up for asylum seekers 16 February 2015 – Law Institute Journal Class actions can be a powerful vehicle for pro bono lawyers to help improve access to justice for people without a voice. Many lawyers are rightly troubled by the treatment of asylum seekers. There has been a search among public interest lawyers for silver bullet litigation in respect of immigration policies, in particular offshore detention. Raising the Bar for Change: Changemaker 16 February 2015 – Pro Bono Australia Jacob Varghese uses his skills in the field of law to make a difference in the world. Varghese is the Principal in charge of Pro Bono work at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers. He is this week’s Changemaker. Working for a law firm that has made a name for itself for taking on politically sensitive cases for free, Jacob Varghese said he is inspired by being able to make real and tangible benefits to other people’s lives. CBP strikes $1 million pro bono deal with children’s charity 6 February 2015 – Lawyers Weekly CBP Lawyers will provide pro bono services to the value of $1 million over three years to Save the Children Australia. The partnership between the firm and the children’s aid agency was launched today, February 6. Through the CBP Foundation, the firm’s new community practice, CBP Lawyers will do pro bono work for a range of youth services in Victoria, while also supporting Save the Children’s fundraising and volunteering activities. Burnside: lawyers must challenge unjust laws Prominent barrister Julian Burnside AO QC told Lawyers Weekly that Australian lawyers have an obligation to speak out against laws that allow unjustifiable breaches of human rights. “It’s too easy for a system to go badly off the rails if people accept complacently that what’s being done is being done with the authority of law. I think all lawyers, especially, have an obligation to look at law and see whether it is justifiable” Legal program at Newcastle Beach riding a wave of success 29 January 2015 – ABC News A free legal clinic metres from the crashing waves at Newcastle Beach is pushing law students into new learning experiences. What comes to mind when you think of visiting a law firm? The image of suits, briefcases and mountains of paperwork probably springs to mind. But have you ever thought that getting legal advice could involve sitting in a surf club, watching the waves roll in at Newcastle Beach? Making Christmas cards count 29 January 2015 – Lawyers Weekly Instead of sending impersonal Seasons Greetings into the ether like many other law firms, Maddocks decided to do things a little differently last month. Clients who received an e-card were asked to click on a link to activate a charitable donation from Maddocks. “To evolve the traditional Christmas card… into something that has [an] impact on our communities is a really positive thing,” pro bono partner Peter Francis told Lawyers Weekly. “Our clients loved being part of the process.” Australia Day honours: Lawyer John Denton awarded AO for business and social welfare work 26 January 2015 – The Age Hyperactive lawyer John Denton is out of bed each day by 6am at the latest. He has to be, with all the hats he wears: governor of the Arts Centre, chairman of the Australian group for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, a board member of Teach for Australia, founding member of the Australia-China Chamber of CEO round table. Government lawyers lift pro bono hours The number of pro bono hours undertaken by federal government legal service providers has increased in the past year. Time spent on pro bono work grew four per cent in 2013-2014, up to 562,647 hours in total, according to the Legal Services Expenditure Report released by the Attorney-General’s Department. Legal Aid launches review into its family law services Victoria Legal Aid will overhaul its family law services to give more help to people whose first encounter with the labyrinthine legal system occurs when they go to court to get a family violence intervention order. The legal service is considering a raft of changes to try and make its support more accessible to vulnerable people. People who go to the Magistrates Court to apply for family violence intervention orders could be linked with help to solve their other family law problems. For the first time since 1974 the service has launched a comprehensive review, responding in part to the huge increase in people appearing in court on family violence matters. Justice Gap Growing – Productivity Commission Report 6 January 2015 – Pro Bono Australia More than $200 million a year is needed to narrow Australia’s growing justice gap for people facing disadvantage, the Productivity Commission has said in its final Access to Justice Arrangements report. Released recently, the report supports calls by welfare peak body VCOSS, community legal centres and the legal assistance sector for more resources to meet the legal needs of Australians facing disadvantage. Cuts to Commonwealth criminal legal aid funding ‘a risk to national security’ 27 December 2014 – The Sydney Morning Herald Australia’s national security could be put at risk by a shortfall in Commonwealth legal aid funding for cases involving serious federal crimes, including terrorism-related offences, the NSW bar has warned. The Commonwealth and the states jointly fund Legal Aid NSW and its counterparts around the country to provide free legal help to the most disadvantaged people in criminal and other legal disputes. Legal aid restricted as Commonwealth funding dries up 23 December 2015 – Lawyers Weekly Legal bodies have urged the Abbott government to boost its contribution to legal aid funding or risk important trials being delayed or even aborted. The Law Council of Australia, Australian Bar Association and NSW Bar Association have warned that trials will be compromised unless the federal government provides urgent funding to the Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund. Strengthening pro bono legal services 14 January 2015 – The Daily Star A system of pro bono lawyering, as is traditionally prevalent in other jurisdictions, in the form of a separate pro bono practice and specific lawyers designated to conduct such cases, within law firms does not exist in Bangladesh. However, there exists a wide culture of providing legal services free of cost, informally. Poor get better access to justice with legal aid foundation, says Bar president 24 January 2015 – The Malaysian Insider More poor people, including foreigners, now have better access to justice with the National Legal Aid Foundation which has so far represented arrested persons in about 75% of all remand hearings, Malaysian Bar president Christopher Leong said, compared to the lack of access to legal recourse for 80% of those facing trial for criminal cases before this. Saudi lawyers to offer legal help to the poor 15 February 2015 – Gulf News A programme to have all lawyers in Saudi Arabia take up at least nine legal cases annually on a pro bono basis is to be announced soon. Under the programme prepared by the justice ministry, the services will be provided for people with limited income and will include legal assistance, defence and follow up, local daily Al Madina reported on Sunday. Each lawyer will have an online account linked to the ministry through which he records the pro bono legal services. More lawyers buy into spirit of giving 24 December 2015 – The Straits Times ‘Tis the season of giving and more lawyers here have been volunteering their time as the concept of pro bono work gains traction in Singapore. While figures for this year are not yet available, a total of 66,743 hours were volunteered by lawyers last year, translating to an average of 15 pro bono hours a lawyer across Singapore. That is higher than the 53,766 pro bono hours logged in 2012, or 13 pro bono hours a lawyer. Freshfields gives cyber security help on pro bono basis 29 January 2015 – The Global Legal Post Freshfields and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson are giving free advice to start-up entrepreneurs taking a 12-week programme with a new pro bono advice organisation called Cyber London. Cyber London believes it is Europe’s first business accelerator programme in the area of cyber security. Iowa must provide legal aid, Supreme Court says 3 February 2015 – Des Moines Register Iowa attorneys will not be required to pay a yearly fee to support low-income legal services, but the state needs to find more ways to provide representation to its poorest residents, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady wrote in a Tuesday order… the chief justice voiced support for legislators to continue giving money to Iowa Legal Aid and for attorneys across the state to take cases pro bono. Pro bono spotlight: Rusty Mead’s 11 hours of volunteer work helped family get new start 2 February 2015 – The Jacksonville Daily Record In less than 11 hours of work, pro bono attorney Rusty Mead provided a family with the opportunity to live safely and begin a new life. Read how her efforts resulted in positive outcomes beyond measure. What were the basic facts of your case? The case involved a young lady who was served with a supplemental petition asking to have primary timesharing of their minor child filed by her ex-husband… BigLaw firm fights ‘revenge porn’ with pro bono advocacy; suit alleges copyright infringement 2 February 2015 – American Bar Association Journal About 50 lawyers at K&L Gates are volunteering their time to fight ‘revenge porn’ in an initiative called the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project. The pro bono initiative, launched in September, currently represents about 100 victims of revenge porn, in which sexually explicit photos are posted without consent. When the victims’ own photos are posted online, the K&L Gates lawyers are using copyright law to demand the material be taken down and to sue. Law Firm Founds Project to Fight ‘Revenge Porn’ 29 January 2015 – The New York Times … The lawsuit reflects a battle line that is being drawn in an age when it is not uncommon for couples to share nude photos digitally, and just as easy for a jilted lover to find a pornographic website willing to post them online. The litigation is the handiwork of a new initiative by K&L Gates, a Pittsburgh-based law firm. Begun in late September, its Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project has roughly 50 lawyers at the firm volunteering their time. Activism and Advocacy ‘Sans Frontieres’: Mobilizing Lawyers to Champion Development and the Rule of Law (World Bank) 12 January 2015 – Public Sector Development blog (World Bank) The challenge of global development is so vast, and the need to deliver high-impact services is so urgent, that the drive to create a social movement to build shared prosperity must enlist people with every type of skill – marshalling all of the many kinds of expertise that drive the private sector as well as the public, academic, social and philanthropic realms. New Rules Clarify Requirements for Pro Bono Exemptions [paywall] 5 January 2015 – New Jersey Law Journal Rule changes aimed at helping New Jersey lawyers fulfill their annual pro bono obligations kicked in at the start of the new year. The changes were proposed in 2012 by the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Pro Bono Task Force and adopted by the state Supreme Court last July, but had a delayed effective date of Jan. 1. New Jersey has a unique system of mandatory court-appointed pro bono service, but lawyers can claim an exemption from it by doing at least 25 hours of pro bono work for a qualifying organization in the preceding year. It is known as Exemption 88. Pro Bono Hot List 5 January 2015 – The National Law Journal As law firms continue to expand their services globally, so too have their pro bono programs, with lawyers volunteering in 2014 to help with immigration matters, natural disaster relief and human trafficking cases. Last year also brought plenty of pro bono opportunities stateside. Attorneys devoted their time to gun control cases, voter identification laws, free speech issues, abortion rights and same-sex marriage cases. PRO BONO NEWS I am a ...LawyerLaw studentOther For in-house lawyers and legal teams – The Australian Pro Bono Manual – Pro Bono Partnerships & Models: A Practical Guide to WHAT WORKS Other information & resources Walk for Justice on National Pro Bono Day © Copyright 2018 - Australian Pro Bono Centre Subscribe to Australian Pro Bono News https://www.probonocentre.org.au/australian-pro-bono-news/archive/feb-2015/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2537
__label__wiki	0.934366	0.934366	ADM marries grain trading, oilseed units; second revamp in 14 months Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global grains trader Archer Daniels Midland Co said on Wednesday it will consolidate five business units into four in the company’s second reorganization in just over a year as adverse weather and a U.S.-China trade dispute threaten profits. FILE PHOTO: The Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 3, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid ADM will combine its grain trading and oilseeds segments into a new business unit called Ag Services & Oilseeds, effective July 1, in a move that analysts say could better streamline its North American operations and cut costs. The new unit will be led by Greg Morris, former president of ADM’s oilseeds unit. The revamp comes during a particularly challenging period for grain merchants ADM and rivals Bunge Ltd, Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co, known as the ABCD quartet that dominates global agricultural commodities trade. The companies have shifted operations and reorganized management teams as profits have been squeezed by a global grains glut, low crop prices and a prolonged U.S.-China trade war that has stifled global commodities flows. Severe weather in North America has heaped further pressure on the sector, including exceptionally harsh cold this winter and record-breaking spring floods that combined to cut ADM’s first quarter operating profit by $50-$60 million. “They may be getting more aggressive at looking at aspects of the business for cost efficiencies because of those headwinds,” said Bill Densmore, senior director of corporate ratings at Fitch Ratings. ADM last restructured its business groups in March 2018. The company said in April that it is seeking voluntary early retirements in North America and may eliminate individual jobs as part of a restructuring of specific areas. Cargill has been overhauling its corporate structure in recent years following a string of disappointing quarterly results. Bunge revamped its operations three weeks ago for the second time in 18 months. ADM said the new Ag Services & Oilseeds division, which will combine ADM’s global trading, transportation and oilseeds-processing businesses, is “a natural evolution.” “This helps us better integrate the supply and value chains to deliver significant simplification and efficiency to the day-to-day business,” CEO Juan Luciano said in a statement. ADM shares were down slightly in early afternoon trading at $38.42 a share, a three-year low. Reporting by Karl Plume and P.J. Huffstutter in Chicago and Arundhati Sarkar in Bengaluru; editing by Sriraj Kalluvila, Dan Grebler and Sonya Hepinstall	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2538
__label__wiki	0.794159	0.794159	German regulator orders online bank N26 to step up controls against money laundering WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) - Germany’s financial markets watchdog (BaFin) ordered the fintech N26 Bank on Wednesday to step up controls to ensure it is better protected against money laundering. In March the online bank, launched in 2013, made negative headlines when German newspapers reported that a customer’s account had been hacked and emptied of 80,000 euros ($89,000). The episode drew the attention of BaFin, amid wider criticism that N26 - which has secured more than $500 million in backing from investors including Tencent Holdings and Allianz - had neglected security and compliance in its dash for growth. On Wednesday, BaFin said N26 must take measures including reidentifying some existing customers, catching up on a backlog of IT monitoring and documenting workflows. “Furthermore N26 Bank GmbH has to ensure the existence of ... adequate personnel and technical-organisational equipment in order to comply with its obligations under money laundering law,” BaFin said in a statement. N26 said that it took the matter seriously and was working with BaFin to implement the measures. The bank, which plans to launch in the United States, is a leading player on the Berlin fintech scene. After the March incident, media quoted the customer as saying that he tried to call N26’s service hotline but nobody picked up the phone and he was unable to get any help on its chat line. N26, which has more than 2.5 million customers, declined to comment on specific cases at the time but warned against fraud by phishing. “We have also massively expanded our anti-money laundering and financial crime team and this team will continue to grow in the future,” the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. N26 said it will have completed processing all pending transactions identified as unusual or irregular by the end of next week. Reporting by Douglas Busvine and Tom Sims, editing by Riham Alkousaa and Susan Fenton	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2539
__label__wiki	0.964216	0.964216	Thyssen and Kone owners held merger talks on elevator ops: paper FILE PHOTO: Thyssenkrupp's logo is seen close to the elevator test tower in Rottweil, Germany, September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Large shareholders of Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) and Kone (KNEBV.HE) have held talks on a potential merger of the elevator businesses of the two companies, according to a German daily. Handelsblatt reported on Sunday that the Alfried Krupp foundation, which owns 21 percent of Thyssen, and Kone’s largest shareholder Antti Herlin have held talks about a deal. The first conversations took place as early as two years ago, but the proposal was rebuffed by Thyssen’s then-chief executive Heinrich Hiesinger, the paper said. The foundation said it had told Kone that questions regarding the elevator unit should be referred to Thyssenkrupp. It said it had informed Thyssen’s executive board about the talks, and that it was up to the company to make decisions or respond to queries. Thyssenkrupp declined to comment, while Kone and Antti Herlin were not immediately available for comment. Earlier this month, the Alfried Krupp foundation, which has two seats on Thyssen’s supervisory board, said that a break-up of the industrial conglomerate would not happen, following similar remarks from the company’s chairman. Chairman Ulrich Lehner had said that there were no plans to divest the group’s elevator unit, its most profitable business, which some investors and analysts have said would rid Thyssenkrupp’s share price of a large conglomerate discount. By contrast, activist investor Cevian, Thyssen’s second-largest shareholder with a 18-percent stake, has been vocal in calling for a strategic review of all of Thyssenkrupp’s business areas, saying each might thrive better in a different set-up. Speculation about Thyssenkrupp’s future intensified following the recent resignation of Hiesinger, who cited a lack of shareholder support, and who has been replaced for the interim by Chief Financial Officer Guido Kerkhoff. Hiesinger’s resignation came only days after he clinched an historic steel joint venture deal with Tata Steel (TISC.NS) and followed months of shareholder pressure over the company’s strategy. Reporting by Arno Schuetze and Jussi Rosendahl; Editing by Catherine Evans	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2540
__label__cc	0.584102	0.415898	Richmond Harriers Club Space We’re an athletics club based in Richmond, Melbourne. Both men and women, young and less young form the club, ranging from the social to the competitive. The club holds regular training sessions with experienced coaches every week for those interested. During winter, we host our own races which are free to all members. There are also various social events throughout the year. This includes a trivia night, functions etc. Want to come and train? If you are interested in improving as a runner, then each weeknight there is a group which can be tailored to fit your needs. Runners that consider themselves beginners are encouraged to turn up to the club rooms on the corner of Gleadell st and Highett st in Richmond (click for map) on any given Wednesday evening throughout the year at 6pm. On this evening there will be a range of runners of varying ability and there will always be someone to look after you. This is the ideal starting point for all new runners to the club, and then once you have learnt about the various mentors and groups, you can branch out as you improve. For more details, please contact us on Email. Will I be too slow? This is the most common question we get. The whole purpose of the club is to provide an environment where you can improve and develop, no matter what stage you are at. You don’t have to be fast, you don’t even have to be fit. Maybe you did a fun run and liked the thought of running regularly with a group, or maybe you want to get that personal best and need a push in the right direction. Your best plan if this sounds like you is to turn up to the club rooms on a Wednesday evening at 6pm to meet some of the helpers and other runners. Aren’t running clubs just for elite runners? A lot of people seem to think this. While most clubs, including ours, do have some highly talented runners among the membership, the reality is that many of the members are just trying to be the best that they can be. Intermediate/Advanced – Middle – Long Distance This group suits those who would like to join a group of runners who train to achieve high performance in middle distance (from 800 metres) and long distance running up to marathon. Structured training sessions are conducted on Tuesdays and Thursdays from either the Collingwood Athletics track in Heidelberg Road (click for map of Coulson Reserve, Heidelberg Road) or our Clubrooms (click for map of club room) at 5:30. Contact Bill Peterson on his mobile: 0413 537 082 for details or send him an Email at peterson-bill@hotmail.com Distance running group This group has training runs throughout the year. Organised by Joji Mori and Neil Ryan, they focus structured training for long distance runners. This includes anything from 5km and up to half marathon and marathon distance training, at any level. This is an ideal group to start with if you have done a few fun runs and want to improve your training in a measured and controlled way. We meet and start from the clubrooms at 6pm, Monday through to Friday night. Email Joji Mori on joji_mori@hotmail.com for further details. There is also a women’s running group that meet at the Tan every Saturday morning at 8AM near F Gate outside the National Herbarium (click for map). The duration of the sessions is generally around 60 minutes and suitable for a range of abilities and goals. Training is structured towards upcoming events including fun runs. It’s a great way to improve fitness or just enjoy a relaxed group run. Sessions are followed by a social coffee in the Observatory Cafe. Contact Pauline (by email on pal.98420@bigpond.com or phone 0408 464 591) for more details. Twilight Trail Runs – Over the summer months Richmond Harrier’s take advantage of daylight saving and the proximity of the clubrooms to Yarra Bend offering trail runs of 30 to 60 minutes on trails along the Yarra River. These runs are offered on Wednesday evenings at 6pm from the Clubrooms and are a great way to familiarise yourself with the wonderful trails so close to the CBD. Contact Pauline (by Email on pal.98420@bigpond.com or phone 0408 464 591) for more details. Do I have to run in the Athletics Victoria races? No. Many Richmond Harriers do compete for the club in the AV competitions and so is a prominent part of the clubs activities. However, it is worth asking around the membership to determine if it would suit you. There are also many opportunities to come and try, which is a good way to dip your toes in. Who can join and how much is it to join? Please visit the membership page for details on club membership options and costs When and where are the club races? Richmond host races for club members all year round. In Winter, we host cross country and road races, while in summer, we host our own track and field events. The list of races for the upcoming season can be found here The club is based in Citizens Park, located on the corner of Highett and Gleadell St.,Richmond, Melbourne. click for map. Tough as Nails: A History of Richmond Harriers (1913-2013), Roger Trowbridge The Richmond Harriers have been running for 100 years out of Richmond. As part of the centenary celebrations in 2013, Roger Trowbridge authored the book covering the history of the club. Anybody with an interest in the Richmond Harriers, grassroots athletics clubs, or even the history of Richmond would find this book interesting. For a copy of the book, please contact us by email on info@richmondharriers.org.au Need Further information? Contact our us via Email Our postal address is- Richmond Harriers Inc. PO Box 220, Richmond 3121 For athletics gear & advice (shoes, clothes & accessories) visit Runners World in East Kew (click for map) If you are moving to England, we recommend joining the Ranelagh Harriers (click for map) For other non club related information, the Cool Running website is a great resource for runners.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2544
__label__wiki	0.99104	0.99104	Pacific Vanuatu Virgin Australia to resume Vanuatu service 5:55 pm on 6 August 2016 Virgin Australia plane at Sydney Airport. Photo: AFP Virgin Australia will resume services to Vanuatu's capital on Sunday, after the runway in Port Vila was given the all-clear by the airline's experts. Services were suspended suddenly on Monday after a gap opened in the runway, only three months after repairs were completed. In January, Air New Zealand, Qantas and Virgin Australia suspended their services over concerns about the safety of the runway. The announcement saw the country's new government scramble to re-negotiate a World Bank loan to carry out emergency repairs which were completed in April. Those repairs were supposed to last for as long as a year while the government sought a more permanent solution. In a statement, Virgin says it has inspected the runway again and is happy to resume services, although if it deteriorates again services will be suspended. Virgin is the only airline to have returned to Vanuatu since the repairs were completed. Airport chief says emergency repairs didn't last Airports Vanuatu say repairs at Bauerfield Airport have lasted a little more than three months. Virgin halts flights to Vanuatu indefinitely Virgin Australia says it's halting flights to Vanuatu until further notice. Vanuatu says airport repair works completed Vanuatu's government says emergency repair works at the country's international airport should be finished by today. UN hoping greater presence in PNG will improve access to justice Bougainville Referendum Commission asks for possible extension Tourism disturbing whale behaviour in Tonga's Vava'u Top New Zealand Stories Pacific RSS	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2547
__label__cc	0.602027	0.397973	Contests, News, Spooky Nook Spooky Nook Giveaway Contest The Calling -- which I announced last week -- won't be available until April, so for now I present you with a "prequel of sorts" called Spooky Nook. The 10,000-word novelette tells the story of Kevin Parker, a writer whose wife has been missing for eight months, who encounters a familiar old woman with an odd request -- a request that will introduce him to a surprising evil. While Spooky Nook is connected to The Calling, the novelette is meant to be a standalone story. Readers do not need to read one to enjoy the other. However, included after the story is a special sneak preview of The Calling, featuring the prologue and first three chapters. Spooky Nook can be downloaded for $0.99 at the following places: Kindle (US) Kindle (UK) Some fun facts: The term "first novel" is thrown around a lot (many "first novels" are really second, third, even fifth novels), but The Calling is in fact my first completed novel. I originally wrote it back in college and, through the years, have tweaked parts of it here and there. Many writers eventually become embarrassed by their first novels, but I have always had a soft spot for it, and that's why I'm making it available soon as an e-book. Spooky Nook was always supposed to be a "prequel of sorts" to The Calling, the idea being that the novelette could be released a few months before the novel to gain reader interest. Spooky Nook was written in 2005, back before there were Kindles or Nooks, so no, this is not a story about a haunted e-book reader. (Come on, you know you were thinking it.) The novelette's working title was "Anna and Stephen King." That's all I'm saying about that. Except that it now brings me to our giveaway contest. 1st place: Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished by Rocky Wood with David Rawsthorne & Norma Blackburn, published by Cemetery Dance. This oversized signed limited edition slipcased book originally retailed for $75 and is out of print. (Note: this is not signed by Stephen King) Runner-up: Oblivion by Jay R. Bonansinga, published by Cemetery Dance. This is a signed limited edition that originally retailed for $40 and is out of print. Runner-up: She Wakes by Jack Ketchum, published by Cemetery Dance. This is a signed limited edition that originally retailed for $40 and is out of print. Contest rules: To enter, purchase a digital copy of Spooky Nook and e-mail your receipt to robert [at] robertswartwood [dot] com (paying with a Tweet or Facebook does not make you eligible for the contest). This will throw your name into the virtual hat. To increase your odds of winning, you can do the following: Link back to this post via Twitter, Facebook, your blog, etc. The more places, the better. Review Spooky Nook at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Smashwords, and any other suitable place. The more places, the better. Please note this means honest reviews. Mark Spooky Nook as to-read at Goodreads. Review any of my three other e-books -- The Silver Ring, Through the Guts of a Beggar, In Solemn Shades of Endless Night -- at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Smashwords, and any other suitable place. The more places, the better. Please note again this means honest reviews. You do not have to purchase any of the e-books to review them (there are Pay With A Tweet or Facebook badges on each page), but if you feel the undying need to purchase them, feel free. For each of the above, include the links in the comment section of this post. Try to nest all your links together if possible. The contest ends March 31st, midnight EST, and the 1st place winner and two runners-up will be e-mailed shortly afterward and announced here on the site. Good luck, and have fun. Newer PostRegarding Rejection & Spam Older PostMe On eBay	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2549
__label__wiki	0.734273	0.734273	e-mail Robin USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR About Robin Les Anges Series Gabriel's Woman The Lady's Tutor Series The Lady's Tutor The Men And Women's Club Series Scandalous Lovers The Men And Women's Club Cry For Passion Awaken, My Love A Lady's Pleasure Home //Books //The Men And Women's Club Series //Scandalous Lovers Book Series: I can't live knowing that I'm a victim, simply because I'm a woman. A wife at fifteen, a mother at sixteen and now a widow, country-bred Frances Hart does not know how to simply be a woman. Until she accidentally interrupts a meeting of the Men and Women's Club...an elite association dedicated to the study of sexology...and is challenged by widower James Whitcox, a sophisticated London barrister. Her honesty—dangerous in an era when women were dependent upon fathers, husbands and sons for their very survival—tests the convictions of every man and woman in the Club, even as it catalyzes a passionate odyssey of intimate discovery. But Victorian society does not approve of the forty-nine-year-old widow's scandalous affair—and neither does her family. Defying convention, Frances and James sue for a woman's right to love. No one will escape the consequences... He saw through the eyes of a woman. The five-globe gas chandelier. The twenty-foot-long mahogany table. The twelve members of the Men and Women's Club. Doctor. Banker. Publicist. Teacher. Student. Professor. Suffragette. Architect. Philanthropist. Journalist. Accountant. . . . Unerringly he focused on the barrister who sat at the head of the conference table. Silver frosted the crisp chestnut hair at his temples; uncompromising lines radiated outward from cold hazel eyes. The truth forcibly struck him. During twenty-four years of marriage, his wife had been the perfect hostess and mother. And then she had died. Pinned underneath the wheels of a carriage. He had not known the woman who bore his name, and who had borne his two children. He had not known her fears, her dreams, her needs. Staring at the man with the silver-frosted hair and the cold hazel eyes, he realized that this was the man she had seen over breakfast each morning: she had seen a stranger. James Whitcox. Husband. Father. Barrister, Queen’s Counsel. Recognition erupted into an explosion of sound. The mahogany door slamming into a burgundy-papered wall snapped James back into his own masculine perspective. The woman whose pale green eyes he had for one infinitesimal moment stared through, stood frozen in the doorway, hand extended to recapture the brass doorknob that had escaped it. Her face beneath a round straw hat was gently marked by maturity. Vibrant red hair framed her temples. Her green-checkered velvet coat with matching walking skirt and green silk polonaise were unapologetically feminine. She was a woman who did not hide from her sexuality. Clearly she did not belong to the Men and Women's Club. The squeak of a chair slashed through the quiver of vibrating wood. Even as he watched, the mahogany door rebounded off the wall. She had a small hand. It was covered in a tan, kid-leather glove. Any second now that hand would grasp the doorknob, and the woman would walk away. A stranger. As his wife had been a stranger. And he would never know. . . . James snared her gaze. "What does a woman desire?" The harsh words ricocheted off the gas chandelier. His voice was not that of the gentleman he had been raised to be: in public; in court; in bed. It was the voice of a man: commanding; demanding. The chagrin in the woman's eyes blossomed into surprise. At the same time, her gloved hand wrapped around the brass doorknob. "I beg your pardon?" Her voice was clear, the clip of gentility softened by a faint country dialect. She wasn't from London. Her origins were of no consequence. James didn't want a socialite's pardon: he wanted a woman's honesty. "Does a woman desire the touch of a man?" His wife had in the past spoken of the latest on dits, charitable activities, and of their children. The members of the Men and Women's Club had in past meetings discussed the biology, the history, the philosophy, and the sociology of sex. Not once had they acknowledged the existence of simple human need. But James did need. Did this woman? He raked her face with prosecutorial eyes. "Does a woman desire to touch a man?" Shock stunned the members of the Men and Women's Club—men and women who had yet to understand the difference between sexology and sexuality. “Are women repulsed by a man’s sexuality?” Passing carriage wheels shrilled. The faint blare of a German polka wafted up from the street below. Inside the burgundy papered-meeting room, the silence was absolute. "Exactly what is it,” James pressed, “that a woman desires from a man?” Something flickered inside her eyes—something that James had never before seen. "Pray accept our apologies, madam"—masculine censure shuttered her face—"on behalf of Mr. Whitcox. We are in a private meeting, as you see. If I may direct you. . . ." Immediately her gaze skittered away from James and found Joseph Manning, founder and president of the Men and Women’s Club. She opened her mouth— To accept the apology on James's behalf, perhaps. Or to ask directions to the room she had all along intended to visit, a museum exhibition where men would not inflict unwanted masculine needs upon her. "Pray accept my apologies, madam," James ruthlessly intercepted, "on behalf of Mr. Manning. He forgets that the purpose of the Men and Women’s Club is to discuss sexual relations." The woman's gaze snapped back to his. "Doctor Burns"—James indicated the woman who sat to his left with a short thrust of his head—"is a firm believer in Darwin's theory of sexual selection; whereas, Mr. Addimore"—he indicated the accountant who sat to his right—"is more interested in Malthus’s thesis for population control. Mrs. Clarring"—he indicated the philanthropist who sat on the right side of the accountant—"is an expert on erotic composition in still-life paintings." "Mr. Whitcox, this is highly irregular—" “If you had not interrupted when you had,” James ignored the publicist’s sharp reprimand; she was a beautiful woman, but her beauty did not touch him, “I would even now be delivering a lecture on English law and divorce. Are you interested in English law and divorce?" The woman’s small, gloved hand clenched. "No, thank you—" "Are you interested in Mr. Darwin's theory of sexual selection?" "I’m not familiar with Mr. Darwin's theories." Dark rose tinted her cheeks. "I really must—" But James couldn't let her go—not until he knew whether that brief flicker inside her eyes had been a result of feminine need and not the effect of flickering gaslight. "Are you interested in erotic art?" He knew her answer before she opened her mouth—the only answer any respectable woman could rightfully claim. "I have never seen any works of erotic art—" "Would you like to?" The woman's head snapped back. Simultaneously, a volley of "Mr. Whitcox!" rang out. "Miss Palmer." James turned to the thin, anemic teacher who underlined flowery prose in archaic French novels and labeled them erotic metaphors. "Have you ever seen a French postcard?" Her pinched nostrils turned purple. "Sir!" James glanced one by one at the men and women who sat stiffly upright, ten in medallion-backed armchairs, the journalist in a lattice-backed wheelchair. He had investigated each member before joining their circle of five bachelors, five spinsters, and one wife whose husband preferred the oblivion of alcohol over the comfort of feminine arms. "We have discussed sexual symbolism in art"—his gaze slid past the young men in their dark, tailored wool suits that resembled his own, lingered on the young women in their conservative dresses and dark bonnets—"but how many of you ladies have ever seen a painting or photograph whose sole purpose is to arouse and titillate?" Angry red blotching their faces, the women gazed past James's shoulder . . . or at the notes on English law and divorce neatly stacked by his left hand . . . or at the mahogany table . . . anywhere but into his eyes. They knew how to respond to a sexless gentleman. They did not know how to respond to a sexual man. "We are here to discuss sexology, sir," Jane Fredericks curtly rallied; the white feather in her black bonnet pointed to the ceiling like a signpost to heaven, "not pornography." He studied the twenty-seven-year-old suffragette who idolized Josephine Butler, a clergyman's wife who had successfully campaigned to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts on the basis that it enabled men to enjoy sex without suffering. Not once in the seven months that James had been a member of the Men and Women’s Club had he seen inside her eyes a spark of warmth, of need, of curiosity. "Have you never wanted to see what it is that excites a man, Miss Fredericks?" he dispassionately queried. Frigid green eyes stared at the wall behind him. "No." She believed her lie. Seven months earlier James, too, would have believed it. He sought out the woman with the pale green eyes. "What of you, madam? Do you desire to see a French postcard?" James remembered the gold with which he had paid his mistresses, and the jewelry with which he had gifted his wife. Compensations, both, for enduring his touch. "Or do you think that women are naturally repulsed by objects that incite lust in a man?" Red-gold lashes shadowed her cheeks. She had elegant cheekbones. Her gaze seared James's left hand. She stared at his wedding band, a badge of respectability. Marriage had paved the way to political appointments. What had marriage brought his wife? he wondered. Social position? Daughter of the First Lord of the Treasury, she had possessed a privileged place in society before marrying James. What had marriage brought to the fashionably dressed woman who now stared at the lie that circled his finger? She shone with the confidence of knowing a man's protection, but did she enjoy satisfying a man's desire? "I suggest, sir," the woman said finally, calmly; eyelashes slowly rising, her gaze pinned his, "that your wife would best be able to answer your questions." Straw hat screening her face, she stepped back. “My wife is dead.” The words ripped through the chill spring air. She paused, head snapping upward. James's gaze was waiting for hers. "I will never know which of my touches excited her, or which ones repulsed her. I will never know how I failed her, or even if I failed her. I will never know what she needed, because I never asked." The rejoinder was swift. The woman's body remained poised for flight. "Because I was afraid," James said. Feminine gasps greeted his admission: a man could do or say many things as long as he didn't admit fear. "I am still afraid." A masculine protest overrode the feminine gasps. "I say, there—" James ignored the accountant’s objection. "I am forty-seven years old, and I have never experienced a woman's passion." "Mr. Whitcox, sir!" the suffragette sputtered over the hiss of the gas chandelier. "I need to know that it's not too late." The woman with the vivid red hair remained motionless, her expression arrested. "I need to know that men and women share the same needs." A shudder vibrated the wooden table, a door slamming below. “I need to know that there can be honesty between men and women.” A short, urgent shout sounded from the street outside. The solitude that filled his every waking moment stretched out before James. "I need to know that a man and a woman can live in the same house, and lie in the same bed, and be more than two strangers." Low murmurs bounced around the mahogany table, feminine whispers recoiling off of masculine rumbles: "I never—" "—does he—" "—not himself—" "—grief—" "Mr. Whitcox, really, sir," Joseph Manning cut through the jumbled voices, "there’s no need for this melodrama." "I am being honest, Mr. Manning," James riposted, every fiber in his body concentrated on the woman who stood on the threshold. "Are you offended by honesty, madam?" He had no difficulty reading what lurked inside her eyes: uncertainty. "I try not to be." “Are you frightened by your sexuality, or is it a man’s sexuality that frightens you?” It was not truth that she offered him. “Sir, I can not answer for all women.” “I don’t expect you to answer for all women." He only wanted her to answer for herself, one woman to one man. “I’m not certain what it is that you’re asking,” she evaded. James leaned forward, daring her to be a woman of flesh and blood, and not a paragon of feminine virtue. “I am asking if you want to be touched by a man.” Crackling paper underscored his challenge. “I am asking if you are repelled by the thought of a man who needs the touch of a woman.” Her pupils dilated, darkness swallowing light. James did not relent. “I am asking if you lie awake at night aching for the satisfaction that men are told respectable women do not desire.” Desire reverberated inside the room. Sighing wool slid over squeaking leather. Six women leaned forward, waiting to hear a member of their sex acknowledge what they themselves were afraid to admit. "I do not indiscriminately desire a man's touch"—the gently accented voice was quiet, resolute; the woman's chin firmed—"but yes, I do desire to be touched." Emotion squeezed his chest. James recognized it as hope. "Do you desire to touch a man?” he asked. “To give pleasure, as well as to receive it?” The wooden table groaned. Five men leaned forward to better hear her answer, swept up in the masculine compulsion to know a woman. She took a deep breath, green-checkered coat rising—she had full breasts—falling. . . . "I do not believe that all men want to be given pleasure." It was not the answer James had expected. The question she had earlier asked shot out of his mouth: "Why not?" Memory clouded her face. "If it were so, surely a man would not apologize to a woman when he touches her." Pain slashed through James. He had apologized to his wife every time he had come to her bed. He had apologized through his restraint, that he not overwhelm her with his masculinity. He had apologized through his silence, that he not repulse her with labored breathing or an animalistic grunt of completion. Their sexes had touched, but they themselves had not. Every release James had gained had been weighted with the knowledge that his wife did not share it. It had been her duty to submit. It had been his duty to procreate. Their duty had made them strangers. "You are concerned that you did not satisfy your wife," a feminine voice unexpectedly charged. James focused on pale green eyes instead of the past. “There is no need for a woman to lie awake at night, aching with need. Women have hands and fingers." She notched her chin, daring him to judge her. "We do not need a man to give us satisfaction. We are quite capable of satisfying ourselves." A shocked intake of breath shot down his spine. "You said you wanted to know if women have the same needs as men," she continued, as if unaware of the furor she created, a woman publicly admitting to the act of masturbation. "I believe they do." A distant Big Ben bonged the half hour. "I believe there are women who may want more out of marriage than what their husbands are capable of giving to them, just as I believe there are men who may desire more than what their wives are capable of giving. I do not believe either are at fault." The pain James had earlier felt briefly shone in her eyes. "You said you needed to know if there can be honesty between men and women. I believe we have both just now proven that it is, indeed, possible. Good day, ladies"—she curtly bobbed her head—"gentlemen." Having opened the door on feminine desire, she now closed it. "You are afraid of your sexuality," he goaded. The closing door halted; her head snapped upward. "I am forty-nine years old"—laughter abruptly illuminated her face; the soft skin at the corners of her eyes crinkled—"and have been married for thirty-four of those years. I have five children, and eight grandchildren. I assure you, sir, there has been no time to fear my sexuality." Nor had she possessed the opportunity to explore it, she did not need to add. James did not share the laughter she so generously offered. She had married at the age of fifteen; he would have been thirteen, studying at Eton. Silver glinted out of the corner of his right eye, a flash of metal spectacles. Marie Hoppleworth, a perennial student at the age of thirty-six, focused on the enigma that stood in the doorway, and not the leather-bound ledger that lay before her. What was it that compelled one woman to speak honestly before twelve strangers, when the members of the Men and Women’s Club could not speak honestly among themselves? “You are not from London,” he said shortly. One second the woman’s eyes were alight with laughter; the next second they clouded with wariness. “No.” James had been a barrister too long not to recognize the look in her gaze: she was hiding—but from what? Deliberately he used the provocative term for the metropolis that lured like a flame both the young and the old, the poor and the wealthy. “Why did you come to the City of Dreadful Delights?” “I wished to experience a season of entertainment,” she said with obvious reserve, “and amusement.” James’s voice was pistol sharp. “Without your husband?” Had she come to London to find a man who would not apologize for touching her? How could he blame her if she had? She visibly recoiled. “I am a widow, sir.” A widow who did not dress in mourning black. His youth had been filled with ambition. Her youth had been filled with children. Did she yearn to experience all the things as a woman of forty-nine that she had not experienced as a girl of fifteen? Had she heard of the Men and Women’s Club, and—as he had seven months earlier—hoped to learn about passion? "You answered my questions," James said, gaze intently searching her face. "What would you have a man answer?" Her top lip—slightly fuller than her bottom one—quivered, firmed. "I would like to ask one question, if I may." No woman had ever shared her sexuality with him, or asked him to share his sexuality with her. He wanted her to question him. He wanted to be more to a woman than a stranger. "What is it?" James asked softly. . . . Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Weekend Madness and Cyber Monday! Happy Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Weekend Madness AND Cyber Monday! Election Special! Scandalous Lovers is on sale for $.99 thru Nov 10. Women changed history, we'll change the future, too. 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__label__wiki	0.827177	0.827177	THE INFLUENCE GAME: Inaugural is lobbying schmooze In this July 25, 2008 file photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., presides over a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mere hours before Barack Obama is sworn in as president with a pledge to end the grip of special interests on government, a group of lobbyists will be feting Rep. John Conyers, a powerful Democratic committee chairman, at a $1,000-a-head reception. Lobbyists at the influential firm Greenberg Traurig are only a few of the scores of D.C. insiders who are using Obama’s inauguration as a golden chance to schmooze with their clients and government contacts and to dispense political campaign cash to influential players _ even as the president-elect has pledged to limit their influence. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) By ALAN FRAM and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Mere hours before Barack Obama is sworn in as president with a pledge to end the grip of special interests on government, a group of lobbyists will be feting Rep. John Conyers, a powerful Democratic committee chairman, at a $1,000-a-head reception. Lobbyists at the influential firm Greenberg Traurig are only a few of the scores of D.C. insiders who are using Obama’s inauguration as a golden chance to schmooze with their clients and government contacts and to dispense political campaign cash to influential players – even as the president-elect has pledged to limit their influence. The Conyers reception, to be held at Greenberg Traurig’s downtown office on the afternoon before Inauguration Day, is a chance for some of the firm’s top people to highlight for clients their relationship with an early supporter of the new president. The Michigan Democrat, whose political action committee will pocket proceeds from the event, also happens to be the head of the Judiciary Committee – with sway over immigration and intellectual property issues, among others. It’s just one of the ways that lobbyists are using the days around the Jan. 20 swearing-in to spend time with clients, lawmakers, congressional aides, incoming administration officials and others. One constantly updated spreadsheet compiled by a Democratic consultant runs 34 pages and lists well over 100 balls, receptions and fundraisers – and that excludes most of the countless corporate events also being staged. The list ranges from the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s 10 official balls to other gatherings whose sponsors include the Hawaii State Society, the Democratic Governors Association and the Hip-Hop Caucus. “A majority of them would be beneficial to any lobbyist who is interested in cultivating the new administration and meeting people,” said the consultant, Kimberly Scott. The activity underscores that despite Obama’s pledge to restrain the influence of lobbyists – including barring their contributions to pay for official inaugural events – they are still using the occasion to conduct business. Many lobbyists consider it especially important to work hard when a new administration takes over. Lobbyist Patrick M. Murphy likens the impact of a new president to the complexity of a Rubik’s Cube because long-valued contacts take jobs in a new administration, causing a ripple effect of turnover on Capitol Hill and in lobbying and law firms and trade associations in town. “It’s a very important time to see everyone and be seen and find out where everyone’s going next,” said Murphy, a senior vice president with mCapitol Management. Compounding that is the huge turnover in Congress from November’s elections, which propelled more than 60 new House and Senate members to the capital. That has made it especially important for lobbyists to attend receptions to meet new lawmakers and aides. “It’s axiomatic that you want to befriend members as they’re coming into Congress, rather than trying to make that friendship after they’ve been here. It’s always easier to build on a relationship you already have than to start a new one,” said Frank Coleman, spokesman for the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, which represents the liquor industry. Thanks to Murphy, his lobbying firm can provide clients and friends with a highly sought perk: A vantage point off Pennsylvania Avenue to watch the inaugural parade as it wends up that street from the Capitol to the White House. In one measure of how seriously lobbyists view this part of their work, Murphy’s firm has used the clubby Capital Grille to view inaugural parades for two decades because he reserved it for those events when the restaurant was just a construction site in the 1980s. The National Association of Manufacturers and the lobbying firm Butera & Andrews are among dozens of associations, practices and companies that will use their offices overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue for inaugural bashes, letting them showcase their prime real state in a town where an office address carries major significance. It’s also an opportunity for companies to highlight their client lists and relationships with influential people. “They charge us more rent for a Pennsylvania Avenue address. This is just a small benny,” said lobbyist Wright Andrews. For the official inaugural balls held hours after the noontime swearing-in, Obama has forbidden contributions from lobbyists, corporations, unions and political action committees, entities established to make campaign contributions. But unofficial soirees with an Obama draw – such as a ball Monday night put on by his home-state Illinois State Society and one Tuesday thrown by his native Hawaii State Society – are attracting attention from lobbyists and corporate backers. Sponsors for the Illinois ball include Exelon, the energy company, and the electronics firm Motorola. The Hawaii event’s sponsors include Lockheed Martin Corp., the defense contractor. Perennial Strategy Group, a Washington-based lobbying firm, is among the sponsors of both balls. “It’s a place where anybody can talk to anybody,” Micah Mossman, chairman of the Hawaii state ball, said of his event. “A lobbyist might find that an appealing opportunity.” One of Washington’s better-known lobbying firms, BGR Group, is helping promote a Tuesday night ball by the Creative Coalition, an entertainment industry advocacy group, and will host a gathering in its office during the parade. Lawmakers and entertainers including actress Susan Sarandon are expected to attend the ball. “It’s showing a little bravado on the business side,” said BGR spokeswoman Jessica Hoy. “It’s also getting business done by having clients here and letting them network with these people.” 1974 murder victim still awaits burial While researching the case of a San Diego sailing couple brutally murdered on Palmyra Island in 1974, retired L.A. deputy public defender Tom Bucy, made a surprising discovery.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2551
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__label__wiki	0.822692	0.822692	Moderator Lester Holt works to keep control of… Moderator Lester Holt works to keep control of first Clinton-Trump debate Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands Moderator Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News, following the presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, shakes hands with moderator Lester Holt, left, as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump watch at the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, Monday in Hempstead, N.Y. NEW YORK >> NBC’s Lester Holt struggled to keep control of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, learning the dangers of fact-checking in the midst of a tense confrontation being viewed by tens of millions of people. The NBC News veteran was moderating his first general election debate Monday night, making him solely responsible for the questions asked each candidate and for steering the conversation. He asked tough questions on the birther controversy, Donald Trump’s decision not to release tax returns and Clinton’s e-mail scandal. His tensest confrontations came with Trump, and some of the Republican’s supporters rushed to defend their candidate online. At first, Holt let the conversation flow and the candidates go after each other. It’s a strategy many debate moderators prefer but left him vulnerable to criticism that he had lost control of the action. The first subject area that Holt introduced, intended to last for 15 minutes, stretched for nearly 45 minutes. He constantly needed to remind the candidates to stick to time limits, which was tough when they decided to steamroll over him. At one point he said, “20 seconds” when Trump tried to make a point, but it stretched to 55 seconds before Holt could get in another question. Later in the debate, Holt interjected some fact-checking, raising Trump’s ire in the process. That had been a major issue going into Monday evening, with the Clinton campaign arguing that fact-checking should be part of a moderator’s job and the Trump campaign saying it should be left up to the candidates. Holt’s NBC colleague, Matt Lauer, was criticized for not challenging Trump at a forum earlier this month when the candidate said he had opposed the war in Iraq — when there is interview footage from 2002 that shows otherwise. The issue came up again Monday, with Trump saying it was “wrong, wrong, wrong” that he initially supported the war. “I was against the war in Iraq,” Trump said. Replied Holt: “The record shows otherwise.” “The record shows that I’m right,” Trump argued. When Trump advocated for the “stop-and-frisk” police policy, Holt told him that it was declared unconstitutional in New York largely because it singled out black and Latino young men. “No, you’re wrong,” Trump said, adding that he believed the court decision would have been overturned on appeal. Holt later brought up the issue of Trump’s questioning whether President Barack Obama had been born in the United States, and asked him what made him conclude this month that Obama was indeed a legitimate citizen. Trump twice did not address the question, and cut Holt off when he tried a third approach. “What do you say to American people of color…” Holt started asking. “I say nothing,” Trump replied. Republicans criticized Trump after the debate for bringing up more issues that were damaging to Trump and ignoring issues that would have reflected more poorly on Clinton. “Lester Holt clearly heard cries of his colleagues in the liberal media to be tough on Trump and ease up on Hillary loud and clear,” tweeted Brent Bozell, president of the conservative media watchdogs Media Research Center. In an interview after the debate, however, Trump said he thought Holt “did a really good job. I thought it was great.” He said he thought a lot of good and important topics were brought up. One media observer, columnist Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, tweeted that “Lester Holt has done a fine job as moderator. Not too intrusive, moving things along, fact-checking when necessary.” In a reflection of the attention paid to Holt, his voter registration became an issue last week. “Lester is a Democrat,” Trump said in a Fox News Channel interview. “It’s a phony system. They are all Democrats.” Holt, however, is a registered Republican, according to New York state voting records. Asked about the misstatement on Monday, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC that it wasn’t a lie because Trump didn’t know Holt’s voter registration. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz will team up to moderator the second presidential debate, with Chris Wallace of Fox News in charge of the third. Rodent infestation, no hot water: Restaurant closures in San Bernardino County, July 5-11 Needles effort to become gun sanctuary follows successful early adoption of cannabis 5 men charged in San Bernardino slaying of Mexican Mafia member’s wife	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2558
__label__wiki	0.522698	0.522698	Timeless Classic - Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Time: Jan. 20, 2016 From: SCDKey Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 story immediately Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Players need to buy Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Steam CD-Key to the game. Price, Soap and Nikolai came to Dharamsala, India, rest. There, they encountered a Makarov sent ambush team, so he began to flee. Here players will play Nikolai's friend Yuri. Then, the story came to New York. Russian is along the Hudson River to the Big Apple this attack. Players will play Delta Force member Frost, destroying the roof of New York Stock Exchange under the command of Sandman interference tower. Players will take a Blackhawk helicopter to the site. First off game called "Black Tuesday." Picture of a turn, six months later. At this time the player will play the guards on the Russian plane. Russia and the United States was going to sign a contract. However, Makarov who hijacked Russia. After that, we saw the Soap and Price. This time they are meeting with a provider in South America. Originally, Makarov became interested in chemical weapons. Subsequently, the screen jumps to Europe. The players play the British SAS soldier, went to Hong Kong to London organized proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In London Underground stations will occur chase, subway tunnels exploded in front of the British Parliament also exploded a truck, releasing a deadly virus. Most European cities will be affected, the same time the Russians have launched the attack. Price found that the original South American suppliers to deceive him, and he went to Somalia, the probe that Makarov and his men in Paris. Then the camera cuts to Hamburg. SCDKey.com thinks that players at this time to play American tanks hand, against Russian tanks attack. After World War II Germany, and he returned to Paris. Players play AC-130 gunner. After an investigation of the original Makarov is Prague. So the player has to play Yuri, and Soap Makarov, who prepared ambush. But it was too late, Makarov had fled the Czech mountains. Russia says there are clues daughter is Berlin. So a pedestrian protection and rushed to Berlin's daughter. Players play Frost, he found his daughter and escorted her to flee the war-torn Berlin, but failed Frost, Russia's middle daughter was stolen. The final scene came to Dubai. Price, Yuri Makarov and Sandman will expand the final battle. The campaign finally killed Makarov. Last News: Bioshock Series Will Continue Indefinitely Next News: For Hearthstone Legendary Career Field - Dreadscale Speed Hunt Card Set	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2559
__label__wiki	0.693954	0.693954	Don't Call Me Son (Mãe Só Há Uma) NR, 1 hr.22 min. Directed By: Anna Muylaert In Theaters: Nov 2, 2016 Limited On DVD: Feb 13, 2018 Dezenove Som e Imagem Don't Call Me Son (Mãe Só Há Uma) Reviews J. R. Jones Engrossing. Tom Long Detroit News Imagine the shock, imagine the adjustment, imagine not wanting to adjust. "Don't Call Me Son" imagines all that and more while calling into question the nature of bonding, blood and close ties. Full Review \| Original Score: B Robert Abele It revs up, makes its spirited mess of issues, maintains its complicated humanity, then ends. That may not make it everybody's cup of tea, but hey, Muylaert seems to be saying, what movie or person is? A hazy drift through vast subjects - the fluidity of adolescence and the fragility of family - Anna Muylaert's Don't Call Me Son works best when it goes small. Godfrey Cheshire Indicates a filmmaker of remarkable range, subtlety and intelligence -- a Brazilian talent who's deservedly gaining a place on the world stage. Stephen Holden The narrowness of its perspective and its relatively brief 82-minute length disappoint. Yet "Don't Call Me Son" still manages to be a fascinating, sympathetic portrait of a lost boy abruptly thrown to the wolves. Sergio F. Pinilla Cinemanía (Spain) Don't Call Me Son is an uncomfortable, difficult to categorize, film... [Full review in Spanish] Armond White Out Magazine This portrait of how human beings adapt makes Don't Call Me Son altogether queer and trans and humanist. Ray Pride Newcity Nothing in Don't Call Me Son is everyday, and yet everything is presented as such: that's the beauty of Muylaert's contemplation, her embrace of the power of suggestion. It's refreshing that Pierre plays in a band, and is uninvolved in drag culture. Who knew that not all boys who defy gender expectations dream of lip-syncing Cher?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2563
__label__cc	0.62223	0.37777	Rockford man charged with cocaine, weapons violations Ken DeCoster Staff writer @DeCosterKen ROCKFORD — A federal grand jury has indicted a Rockford man on three counts of distributing cocaine and three counts of illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. Brian Kotlienthong, 32, is charged with distributing cocaine three times in Rockford in December of 2017. The indictment also alleges that Kotlienthong, who has a previous felony conviction, possessed two pistols and a rifle. Each count of distributing cocaine carries a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison. Each count of illegally possessing a firearm carries a maximum penalty of up to ten years in prison. Kotlienthong is in custody pending a detention hearing set for April 22 in federal court in Rockford. Ken DeCoster: 815-987-1391; kdecoster@rrstar.com; @DeCosterKen	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2564
__label__cc	0.658406	0.341594	&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;img height="1" width="1" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1420873894639245&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ev=PageView &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;noscript=1"/&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Close Offcanvas Menu Hilltop History Salisbury At A Glance Faculty Staff Directory Get Connected To @SarumKnight Hilltop Happenings Careers at Salisbury Become A Knight Why Salisbury? Visit; Discover Salisbury for Yourself The Post Graduate Year Living on the Hilltop International Life Clubs, Activities & Just Plain Fun Dining at Salisbury Diversity And Inclusion At Salisbury School Programs of Distinction Economics & Entrepreneurship Phinny Library Rudd Center for Learning and Academic Growth Book Buy-Back AP & Summer Assignments Livestream Action Armory Gear The Salisbury Fund The Sixth Form Gift Reunion Weekend 2019 Sixth Form Gift Spring Family Weekend 2019 Educating Boys - It's What We Do! Take a closer look at our most recent student-centered programming here on the Hilltop. The Salisbury faculty know and understand young men, and celebrate what it means to be a boy. As a school designed for boys, our emphasis on relational learning enables Salisbury faculty to build authentic relationships with each student. When a student feels known and valued, he is empowered to persevere through challenges and stay actively engaged. Our distinctive course offerings are carefully designed to prepare students for the rigors of college and to think independently. The all-boys classroom nurtures the confidence to take risks and inspires growth. Numerous resources are available to guide students while accomplishing his goals and reaching his full potential. In the classroom and on the field, Salisbury transforms a young man's character to graduate confident, spirited, curious, and loyal gentlemen and brothers. On June 5th, nine students and three faculty members traveled to Ghana for ten days for Salisbury’s second trip to this fascinating country. This year’s team was based in the town of Ho, Ghana and spent each morning working on a service project in a local school. When we weren’t working with the kids and teachers, the team was able to visit the Right to Dream Academy, Hearts of the Father orphanage and tourist sites throughout the region as we came to know the people and culture of this amazing West African country. The Salisbury team consisted of nine students: Seth Gelwarg ’20, Peter Gottseggen ’21, James Jadick ’22, Ryan Mohyeddin ’22, Brandon Roughly ’20, Mateo Rufo ’19, Drew Vernali ’20, Raleigh Wynot ’19, and Thomas Yegbor ’20. The team leaders were faculty members Ian Johnson, James Simboli and Kirk Hall. Hosted by Cross Cultural Solutions, an NGO with programs hosting teams like ours all over the world, we were able to visit and work in St. George Anglican Primary School by building shelves and basic furniture for their everyday use. At a school of 336 students and 18 teachers, the time was also spent getting to know the students, teachers and the educational system in the Volta region. By the end of the stay, we were able to dedicate three enclosed, lockable book chests and bag hangers to that community on behalf of Salisbury and the ongoing relationship between our two schools. When it was not working directly with the local school, the team had a variety of opportunities to learn more about Ghanaian life and culture. We enjoyed a lesson on traditional drumming and dancing where Thomas Yegbor ’20 jumped in to the amazement of the instructors, tried the local cuisine and heard more about the educational system in Ghana. We traveled to the highest waterfall in West Africa, a monkey reserve more tame than Payson Dorm and we traveled all the way to the Cape Coast Castle for a powerful experience standing where many African slaves last touched their home soil. We also had the chance to visit Hearts of the Father orphanage, started by John and Libby Moritz, from Sheffield, MA, after their own children died in a car accident. The home continues to expand through a new school on campus that will serve the members of the orphanage as well as the local community. The highlights for many members of the team were our two visits to the Right to Dream Academy. Not only was it fun to learn about this incredible program that offers opportunities to young, aspiring Ghanaian soccer players, it was amazing to reunite our own Thomas Yegbor ’20 with his friends and family after three years at Salisbury. We are always grateful to our hosts at Right to Dream for their hospitality and work. After ten days, the team was ready for a long flight home and forever changed through the new relationships with one another and their new Ghanaian friends. Please view our Ghana trip photo album through SmugMug. -Reverend Kirk Hall '90 In the week leading up to Graduation, a group of seniors, faculty members Curtis Rand and Jon Siff, and former faculty Hugh Cheney took a week-long trip to Wyoming to explore Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park. The purpose of the trip was to expose our students to field-based studies in forest ecology and fire, geology, wildlife, and the effects of global climate change in all of these areas. This trip was made possible with the generous funds made available to our science department through the Kleberg Foundation. Salisbury firmly believes in the value of experiential-based learning, where the outdoor environment is the classroom. Hugh Cheney reflects on the trip: "It is a wonder to observe the boys open up in these surroundings. Their curiosity blooms, their questions abound. This was a particularly good group of boys who were engaged, bright, and did not utter a word of complaint in spite of the raw, wet, snowy weather we had while camping. We learned a great deal, observed spectacular landscapes and the iconic wildlife in the parks. One early morning in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone was particularly memorable when we observed a sow grizzly and her two cubs prey on an elk calf." Our boys thoroughly enjoyed their time in Wyoming and the life-long learning experience that they shared in together. To view photos from the event, please see our SmugMug album. Student spotlight: max lampe '22 1. What have you learned in your time on the Hilltop that's been most useful to you and has had the most impact on your life thus far? While at Salisbury, I have learned the importance of Brotherhood and the true meaning of respecting others. I have really been enjoying my time at School thus far, and I hope to have equally fun times as the years go on. I have also learned to appreciate true sportsmanship. America is a country of sports and you can really understand that when you attend a football or soccer game where all students come out dressed in jerseys and cheer their lungs out. I think the best sportsmanship experience I encountered this year was at the Hotchkiss football game, where we were all chanting and cheering every time we got an interception or scored one of our many touchdowns. After winning, we all started singing the Sarum Hymn as we rushed the field and took back the trophy. 2. What's your favorite place on campus and why? There are so many places that I love being on the campus of Salisbury. There are some amazing views that I witness from outside my window. I think that my favorite spot on campus is probably the Media Lab. I really enjoy technology, and having a class with Mr. Johnson and the other five students. This was probably my favorite class because it was so innovative and interesting. Almost every class, we would go outside with cameras and try to take the best pictures with a specific task. We would later upload them to our designated computers and sometimes make an innovative project with them, like a fading canvas going from green colors, to yellow, and reds. This was the first time I had ever used a camera like this before and I would gladly take the class again if I have the opportunity. 3. What's your favorite activity and why? I think that the class I enjoy the most, other than digital photography, is probably Spanish. Before coming here, I had taken Spanish during two years in middle school and I was always interested in it. Because I fluently speak French, learning another Latin language comes fairly easy. When I arrived to Salisbury, I was put in Spanish II, but quickly moved up to Spanish IV. This class was one of my favorites because I got to meet many interesting students. I also think this class was very useful as we moved beyond the basic stages of verbs and conjugation and worked on reading comprehension, conversations and more. I think that at Salisbury, cross country is my favorite sport. I started running cross country in 7th grade and I have always enjoyed it. My father is also a big runner and he is the one who got me started with running. When we were young, I used to ride my bike when he was running around Paris. We would always do a long trip on Sundays to the Seine because the roads were closed to cars, and he would run in front of me during a good hour and a half. At Salisbury, running is more of an intense sport for me as I prepared all season for the New England championships. Cross country is really an individual sport because depending on how hard you train will depend on how well you perform at a race. I think that this really trains you to become more independent because your training will reflect on improvement. The extracurricular activity that I enjoy the most is mountain biking. Every week, I usually go out about twice a week on the many trails we have on campus. I really enjoy biking because it is a sport where I can free my mind from the stress and activities that are going on. I go out for two hours and I am alone with myself in the woods. The wind flying by me as I race down the mountain helps me leave behind the tensions going on. Over Parents Weekend, I went on the biking trip to Vermont with some of my friends. This was a very fun trip and I got to meet a lot of new bikers and learn about the bike team. Next year, I hope to be able to ride with the team on Saturdays and Sundays to discover new trails and have fun as a team. 251 Canaan Road. 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__label__wiki	0.506769	0.506769	Ordering > Comparison Chart > SALT 18 Research Software and PDF Reference Book SALT Research for Windows® 10/8/7/XP or Mac OSX v10.11-10.14 expands the Clinical version with the addition of a variety of tools designed to save time and increase accuracy when working with large data sets. The Research software license is for a single user. The software may either be installed on one shared computer, e.g., in a lab or shared office space, or on up to two computers used only by one person, e.g., home and office. If it is installed on a network, controls must be in place to restrict access to one user at a time. A PDF copy of the Assessing Language Production - 2nd Edition book is included with your software purchase. A printed copy of this book is available as a separate purchase. SALT 18 Research Software SALT Research for Windows® and Mac expands the Clinical version with a set of research tools designed to analyze large sets of transcripts. Export data from SALT in a format that can be read by other programs such as SPSS®, SAS®, Excel® and Access®; explore sets of transcripts to search for utterances or words that are of special interest to you; generate lists of words and codes across a set of transcripts; and build your own reference databases to use for comparison. SALT was developed as Windows software. To provide a version of SALT which run on Mac computers, we partnered with CodeWeavers, Inc. Using Code Weavers' CrossOver software, SALT for Windows is installed inside a virtual Windows environment. This version looks and runs a lot like any other Mac program alothough you may notice a slight delay when it starts up and you will notice a difference in the file system. But the best news is, there's no Windows license required; everything you need is included with the software. PDF copy of SALT Reference Book The SALT Reference Book provides the conceptual background of language sample analysis, practical guidelines for using SALT, and extensive appendices for quick reference to all the database protocols, transcription conventions, special coding, and more. A PDF copy of this book comes with the software. A printed copy of this book is available as a separate product. Software and PDF Available for Immediate Download Shortly after purchase, you will receive an email with the product key for the software, and download links for both the software and the reference book. The software is licensed for a single user. It may either be installed on one shared computer, e.g., in a lab or shared office space, or on up to two computers used only by one person, e.g., home and office. The PDF copy of the book is also licensed for a single user. What research tools are built into the software? Rectangular Data File Export data from SALT in a format that can be read by other programs such as SPSS®, SAS®, Excel® and Access®. Select from all of the SALT analysis variables as well as from the frequency of any word, morpheme or code. Any number of transcripts may be included. The variables you select are calculated for each transcript independently. The results are displayed as a rectangular data file with one row of data for each transcript. This data may be printed or saved as a fixed-width, comma-delimited or tab-delimited text file which can then be imported into most spreadsheet, graphic, database and statistic programs. Expanded Explore Options Use the Explore menu in SALT to search for utterances or words that are of special interest to you. Look for specific words or codes, or analyze all the utterances that contain features such as omissions or pauses. Although all versions of SALT allow you to locate, view, and print the utterances and words you select, the Research version also allows you to code them automatically or save them as a separate transcript for further analysis. The Research version also includes options for locating, viewing, counting, or coding selected words and utterances across a set of transcripts. Generate Word Lists, Bound Morpheme Lists and Code Lists Generate an alphabetical list of all the words, bound morphemes or codes used across a set of transcripts. Each item is listed with number and percent of transcripts containing it and the total number of occurrences. Use this tool to study an individual's total vocabulary or to study the vocabulary used by a group of subjects during a specific sampling context. Summarize codes across transcripts and look for misspelled or unusual codes. Check for Errors Check a set of transcripts for transcript-entry errors and warnings. This option is useful for cleaning up an entire set of transcripts prior to analysis. Build Your Own Reference Databases Use the "Build Profile Database" tool to build your own reference databases from language samples you have collected. Your databases can then be used for comparison instead of, or in addition to, the SALT reference databases. The Research software license is for a single user. The software may either be installed on one shared computer, e.g., in a lab or shared office space, or on computer(s) used only by one person, e.g., home and office. If it is installed on a network, controls must be in place to restrict access to one user at a time. Windows® OS Windows® 10/8/7/XP Hard disk with 560 MB of available space Mac OS X v10.11 - 10.14 Story Retell Elicitation Kit Expository & Persuasion Elicitation Kit Frog Story Elicitation Kit Assessing Language Production Using SALT: Clinician's Guide - 2nd Edition	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2575
__label__wiki	0.859813	0.859813	Emmanuel Jal and Xavier Rudd want their new musical team-up to spread love and kindness. Jal, a South Sudanese-Canadian hip hop artist, activist and former child soldier, and Rudd, a socially... Hip Hop Artist Emmanuel Jal Among Winners Of 2018 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent Sudanese-Canadian hip hop artist and former child soldier Emmanuel Jal is one of three recipients of the 2018 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent, established in 2012 by the... Ex Child Soldier Turned Musician Rallies The World Former child soldier Emmanuel Jal, now an internationally renown musician and peace activist, is hoping the worldwide peace rallies taking place the past couple of days at Sudanese Embassies and... Former Child Soldier Emmanuel Jal To Speak at Canadian Schools, Release Album On Universal By Luther Mallory \| www.samaritanmag.com Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier now 31, is making a name for himself as a conscious rapper on a global scale. The new album, See Me Mama, will be released in Canada in September via his own...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2576
__label__cc	0.720968	0.279032	Susan Leigh Brown Jason R. Church David James Eagles Mary A. Mahoney Patrick K. McGlinn Khara Lynnae Moody Matthew N. Morrow Carmen Moyer Burton H. Schwartz Jay A. Schwartz Jennifer Werbling LGBTQ Adoption Rights of Unmarried Parents Michigan Property Division Lawyer Legal Help With Asset Division in Divorce Division of marital property and debt has been the focus of many noteworthy court cases. A knowledgeable family law attorney must stay up to date on precedent-setting cases as well as knowing relevant statutes inside-out to be prepared to represent clients well. Creditors will pursue the person whose name is on the loan. Schwartz Law Firm works to ensure the protection of your credit even after the Judgment is entered by providing for creative enforcement remedies in the Judgment. One of the first steps that a family law attorney will take when beginning the process of divorce for a client is to evaluate any existing prenuptial or postnuptial agreements. Is the agreement valid? Is there any indication that the agreement was signed under pressure or duress? A second step to take in the area of property division is to determine which assets are included in the marital estate. Spouses may have kept some property owned before the marriage, such as inheritances or business revenue, as separate property — or they may have commingled assets to the point that what was once nonmarital property has become community property that must be accounted for in the division of marital property. Separate Property Versus Marital Property Generally, what you owned before the marriage is considered separate property unless you commingled it with marital assets. Separate property may be awarded if the other spouse contributed to it or if the invasion of separate assets is necessary for the support of the other party. Gifts that each spouse received during the marriage, including inheritances, may be considered separate property if they were not commingled or otherwise shared. Your attorney will help you analyze the marital estate to determine the best course of action. How Do Family Law Courts Determine Equitable Distribution of Assets? Family law courts consider a number of factors when deciding how to divide property in a divorce including the length of the marriage, age and health of the parties, and the ability of each spouse to support himself or herself after the breakup. In the case of business property or parties with extensive assets, valuations can be complicated. Financial experts may need to be hired to provide credible information on the value of the assets. Tax attorneys, CPAs and economists may come into the property division picture. Debts should be accounted for in a property settlement agreement; however, creditors have the right to go after either spouse even after the divorce decree is issued. Holding an ex-spouse accountable will then become a matter of enforcement of the divorce decree. Division of Retirement Accounts in Divorce Pensions, IRAs, 401(k)s and other retirement vehicles are divisible upon divorce. The division of these assets, however, requires execution of very specific documents called Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs). These documents must be specially drafted to ensure accurate division and distribution of these assets, as well as acceptance (also known as qualification) by the Plan Administrator. If these documents are not drafted correctly, the consequences can be significant and may affect your own retirement plans. Schwartz Law Firm works closely with an expert to ensure that these documents are properly drafted and entered. Getting to Know QDROs: An Important Acronym in Divorce Cases Property Division Options in Divorce Common Mistakes Made in Michigan Divorces To Merge or Not to Merge: How to Handle Your Property Settlement Agreement Schwartz Law Firm Is Here to Help With Property Division Since 1972, Schwartz Law Firm has been providing practical, workable legal solutions to residents of Michigan in a variety of legal practice areas. Our family law attorneys are knowledgeable, experienced and insightful. We are here to help you achieve your goal of equitable distribution of assets, including retirement benefits requiring QDROs (qualified domestic relations orders). Contact us in our Oakland County law offices to schedule a free initial consultation with a Detroit-area divorce lawyer. Serving Detroit, Farmington Hills, and all Michigan communities. © 2019 by Schwartz Law Firm. All rights reserved. Disclaimer \| Site Map	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2581
__label__wiki	0.897078	0.897078	Name: FILM SCORE MONTHLY Number: FSM0509 No. Tracks: 34 The Prodigal (1955) Limited Edition of 3,000 Copies. Composed by: Bronislau Kaper View CD Page at FSM Site (More Details) Released by Special Arrangement with Turner Classic Movies Music. Bronislau Kaper (1902-1983) was a splendid and widely admired Golden Age film composer who succeeded on a variety of films, from comedy (1937's A Day at the Races) to science fiction (1954's Them!) to the unique and broadly appealing Lili (1953), for which his song "Hi Lilo, Hi Lo" won the Academy Award. Born in Poland, he got his start as a songwriter in the European film industry and graduated to full scores at M-G-M in Los Angeles, where he was under contract for most of his career. He worked on two versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (the 1935 production with Clark Gable and the 1962 remake starring Marlon Brando) and tackled films like The Swan (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Lord Jim (1965) and Tobruk (1967). In 1955 Kaper provided an ornate and gorgeously melodic, symphonic score for The Prodigal, a gargantuan biblical epic starring Lana Turner. The film recounts the Parable of the Prodigal Son, in which a wealthy young Hebrew trader, Micah (Edmund Purdom), throws away his fortune and freedom in pursuit of a pagan priestess, Samarra (Turner), eventually returning home to the forgiveness of his father. Kaper provided a rich, reverent theme for male chorus for the Hebrew people; a seductive theme for female chorus for Samarra and her following, alternately a siren song and pagan march; uptempo action music for fights and chases; Middle Eastern source cues; and elegant, tuneful scoring under dialogue, often favoring woodwinds. It has all the pomp, glory and choral reverence collectors expect from the biblical genre. FSM's CD of The Prodigal is the premiere release of this important score by Bronislau Kaper. The work is presented in complete, chronological form, including alternate versions, which are explained as always in the liner notes. The M-G-M orchestra was conducted by the legendary Andre Previn. Click on track TIME for MP3 sound clip. Click on track title (selected tracks only) for Real Audio. The Prodigal Music Composed by Bronislau Kaper, Conducted by André Previn Main Title/Chase 3:15 Spear 0:56 Eli 1:36 Ruth/Tent/Samarra 6:56 Window/When Daylight Comes 1:22 Departure 3:06 Farewell/Nubian/Bosra 6:37 Hunger 1:09 18 Pieces of Silver/Beard 0:54 One Piece of Silver 2:11 Terrace of Heavens 1:58 Micah's Exit/Prayer/Micah's Party Part 1 2:44 Micah's Party Part 2 1:34 I'll Break Him 0:53 Bosra's Party 2:10 She Is 1:10 Deal 0:27 Wedding 0:43 Granary/Fanfares 1:27 It's Micah 2:01 He Is Dead/Invocation 2:30 Sacrifice 1:43 Pearl/Beth 3:20 What Is Wrong 1:14 Elissa's Death 1:36 Message 3:02 Miracle 1:07 Vultures 1:44 Full of the Moon 1:42 Fight 3:59 Storm 0:47 Samarra's Death 1:01 My Son/Celebration/End Title and Cast 4:17 Celebration/End Title and Cast (alternate) 2:48 Real Audio may be required for audio clips. Download it for free! THE SEVENTH SIN QUENTIN DURWARD THE NAKED SPUR: CLASSIC WESTERN SCORES FROM M-G-M	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2585
__label__wiki	0.760015	0.760015	Issue 7: Blank Faces A Call for Papers for a special issue of Semiotic Review You gaze at a face. Something is missing – the eyes are closed, the mouth is covered, the nose has ended up in the barber’s bread. This issue of Semiotic Review works to uncover semiotic ideologies of the face by analyzing what happens when people obscure, strip away, omit or overlook features. Reckoning the significance of faces, real and represented, requires a range of approaches, including those from scholars of art, media, anthropology, and face-to-face interaction. In this issue, contributors will interrogate what happens when a face – or part of it – goes absent, whether through masks or screens, erasure or enclosure. We examine faces as ideas and as technologies, as sites of sociality and of self-fashioning. The face lives a dual life: as pinnacle of artifice and deliberate control, and as the supposedly natural outlet for micro-expressions and “real” emotion. We invite scholars to reflect on presuppositions of authenticity and duplicity, immediacy and vacancy, which have informed studies of the face. From peek-a-boo to one-way mirrors, the politics of non-reciprocal face-work can help us revise assumptions about the roles of the face in social exchange. Beyond what the face shows, we will also probe what blankness means or achieves. Distinctions among faces and their features depend on social norms stratified by ability, gender, race, and class. When does facial perfection become suspiciously artificial? How do people use or accuse others of masking, in rituals or in everyday encounters? We encourage scholars to consider the roles of suspicion and abjection in making sense of achieved or imputed facial qualities. How are bodily channels mobilized or frozen to achieve social effects? How might the face express more or less than an agentive self? What kind of contact do faces enable or prevent? An inquiry into the blank face gives purchase on the central role that the physical and metaphorical face plays in models of interaction, deception, and apprehension. Guest editors Meghanne Barker and Perry Sherouse invite essays, articles, and book review essays for this special issue on blank faces. The issue will remain open to new essays and interventions, with no final deadline, as we will continue publishing new contributions in an ongoing dialog. Issue 6: Vegetal Ontologies: A Stroll Through the World of Plants and People A Call for Papers for a special issue of Semiotic Review on Phytosemiotics With the recent animal and multispecies turns in critical theory and philosophy, everything from cats and dogs to microbes and mycorrhizal fungi have become vital allies against anthropocentrism, yet plants have been largely ignored. This is a call for papers that consider the importance of plants as contributing thinkers and actors within multispecies interactions, landscapes, and worlds. We begin with the path breaking insight of Martin Krampen (1928-2015): that the study of plant life cannot be reduced simply to mechanical descriptions of efficient cause, but must account for phytosemiotics, or sign use and interpretation by plants. Like other life forms, plants are autonomous subjects with their own, meaning- laden life worlds, from which those of human and nonhuman animals emerge. The role of plant cultivation in human civilization, from the rise of the state to the green revolution, is well known. But recent botanical research shows that plants also respond to and communicate about their surroundings, not only by exchanging chemical signals through the air, but also by sharing and stealing nutrients via symbiotic networks underground. In climate change policy and practice, furthermore, plants are leading indicators of, and countermeasures deployed against, the dawning Anthropocene. Plants lack nervous systems that mediate between life worlds and experience, which means that they are characterized by a degree of immersion in their habitats that other creatures depend upon, and may come to dread or desire for ourselves.1 The activities of “individual” plants give rise to multi-species collectives, including forests, swamps and jungles, of which animal subjects are living thoughts.2 For Krampen, the fact that all animal bodies and behaviors must establish correspondence with the “vegetative rules of endosemiotics” (1981: 208), places an ethical demand on us to know and care for plants lest we asphyxiate ourselves and destroy the planet we share with them. We seek contributions from various disciplinary perspectives that will consider: How we know plants as organisms and subjects. How we care for them—as aesthetic objects, as sustenance, as biocapital—as well as the lives they lead for themselves, indifferent to us. For whom plant thinking matters, or for whom should it matter, and why? What stands in the way of plants thinking their own thoughts, of our thinking their thoughts, of their ability to think ours? How could this be overcome so that we might become better for and with plants? Editor Kane X. Faucher and guest editor Joshua O. Reno invite essays, articles, and book review essays for this special issue on phytosemiotics. We plan to review the first set of papers in February 2016, and the issue will remain open to new essays and interventions, with no final deadline as we will continue publishing new contributions in an ongoing dialog for at least a year. 1 Marder, Michael. 2013. Plant Thinking. Columbia University Press, Press, p. 12.↩ 2 Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How Forests Think. University of California Press.↩ Issue 5: Semiotics of food-and-language “There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.” (M.F.K Fisher) This special issue of the Semiotic Review will look at food as a signifying medium through which humans negotiate their material and spiritual existence. We seek to complicate the well-established tradition of using language as a semiotic analog of food—from Levi-Strauss and Douglas to beyond—by calling for works that look at how food and language are semiotically interconnected in new ways. While such interconnections may appear to develop naturally out of the shared orality of food and language or their spatial-temporal contiguity, it is clear that these interpolations take various forms across diverse social and cultural contexts. Numerous studies suggest the fruitfulness of considering food and language as embedded within the same semiotic frame: research on language in use often incidentally includes data about the production, distribution, preparation, representation, and consumption of food, while many studies of food depend on linguistic data such as, for instance, words for food, utterances organizing its production, genres surrounding its preparation, and pragmatic routines for accessing and sharing it. However, the intrinsic simultaneities of food and language have rarely been explicitly theorized nor their interdependencies made into specific objects of analysis. For this issue, we invite papers that address this lacuna by examining: 1) discourse about food (from discussions of how it is procured to how it tastes), 2) discourse around food (how social interactions frame and elaborate acts of hunting, marketing, cooking, eating, etc.), 3) discourse through food as a semiotic resource (the communication of emotional, social, and cultural meanings via discursive or other semiotic systems involving food itself as a semiotic medium), and/or 4) discourse as food (the representation of talk as a necessary form of human nourishment). Papers need not take a traditionally linguistic approach (i.e., no need to analyze phonemes, morphemes, transcribed turns at talk, etc.), but should explore the semiotics of food from any new vantage point that considers food and language as mutually constitutive semiotic media, interrelated in sometimes coherent and sometimes contradictory ways. Semiotic Review's editor, Paul Manning, along with guest editors, Jillian Cavanaugh and Kathleen Riley, invite essays, articles, and book review essays for this special issue on the semiotics of food-and-language. There is no final deadline as we will continue publishing new contributions in an ongoing dialog for at least a year Issue 4: Im/materialities Over the past decade, scholarly interest in the material characteristics and qualities of human worlds has developed apace. Under the heading of ‘materiality’ scholars have emphasized the effects of the material world on meaning, and the dynamic relationships that exist between people and things. This focus on materiality has been positioned by many writers as a move that goes beyond visions of the material world as a passive constraint on meaning. Rather, materiality has been held out as a means to undercut dualistic divisions into subjects and objects, culture and nature, people and things. It is said to do this through drawing attention to the relationships between humans and nonhumans, and to their mutually entangled and constitutive nature. Related to this is an emphasis on “material agency” and a questioning of the status of objects as non-human actors (here drawing largely on the work of Bruno Latour and Alfred Gell). Most recently this impetus has been associated with a broader questioning of accepted ontological frameworks and a search for alternate ontologies, again often positioned as move that pushes back against questions of representation. Here we’d like to question this recurrent rejection of semiosis as a legitimate subject of inquiry, arguing that the very emphasis on materiality (or ontology in its most recent framing) reveals its limitations as a way to work through or undercut dualist divisions. It amounts to little more than a re-centering of a dualist perspective, which slips between a focus on non-humans and a focus on relations between humans and non-humans. This becomes particularly apparent in the way in which questions of representation, subjectivity and semiosis are often ignored or devalued. Instead, indexical relations are privileged as somehow “beyond” or aside from meaning. The papers in this thematic issue aim to reframe this debate, refusing an opposition between materiality and meaning; not only do we advocate expanding the terrain of semiosis to include the material, but we also search for ways to explore and tease out different im/material semiotic modes. This then is about finding ways to maintain the material and the immaterial within the same analytical frame. We suggest that a Peircean semiotic approach is particularly fruitful for this endeavor, given that it partitions the world in ways that cannot be reduced to traditional binary relations. In this issue we explore different dimensions of Peirce’s semiotic, as a route for thinking through questions of materiality, focusing in particular on the material in terms of semiotic process rather than as static sign vehicle. Some questions to consider are: What does a Peircean approach offer for a reframing and reconfiguring of subject/object, agent/structure, and material/immaterial dualisms? How might the self-organization encompassed in Peirce’s concept of “habit” provide a more productive way to think about material agency? How are human worlds created and understood by being brought into semiotically mediated relationships with objects and others? The Editors of Semiotic Review, along with guest editors, Alexander Bauer and Zoe Crossland, invite essays, articles, and book review essays for this special issue on the semiotics of im/materiality. The issue will remain open to new essays and interventions, with no final deadline as we will continue publishing new contributions in an ongoing dialog for at least a year. Issue 3: Open Issue Semiotic Review publishes two kinds of issues: thematic issues (often proposed and edited by guest editors) and a single non-thematic “open” issue (issue 3) which collects those contributions that are not submitted for thematic issues Like the “thematic” issues, the “open” issue is an ongoing issue that accepts new papers and publishes them on an rolling basis so that new material will continue to be added to them indefinitely. Issue 2: Monsters This issue of Semiotic Review explores the intersections of the monstrous/grotesque and the semiotic. In a manner similar to the fetish, the monster, a figure of radical alterity or difference, can be viewed as a semiotic figure which collects and foregrounds a series of sign relations at the boundaries of semiosis. The Latin etymology of the term which connects the term to indexicality (monstrare ‘to point’) already underlines the semioticity of the monster. Monstrosity and the grotesque occupies an aporia in historical, cultural, and semiotic contexts, and the monster therefore serves as a figure of the variousness and heterogeneity of semiosis: As a sign of portent or omen in the ancient world, as an impossible chimerical sign vehicle standing at the limits of licit representation, for the ineffability of God or the impossibility of the Idol, in the form of ‘monstrous races’, forming a set of inversions of the normal that define the exotic lands of the East as spaces of radical alterity, as a wondrous sign of the absolutely singular, novel or exotic exhibited in curiosities from far-flung voyages and on woodcut images on pages of early newspapers, as a sign of a playful animate Nature which creates preternatural exceptions to its own orderly categories in the Early Modern period, to the scientific and epistemic practices that sought to rationalize monstrosity in its myriad forms into clinical schema in the modern period, to the playful proliferation of monsters in contemporary media mixes. We invite scholarly contributions that make monstrosity and the grotesque the central pivot of sign relations, including papers that explore the semiotic aspect of monsters and monstrosity and other comparable forms of radical alterity, to papers which explore the category of monstrosity and comparable forms of radical alterity as ethnosemiotic categories: is there a universal category of the monster or does it denote a changing semiotic category of specific cultures? The editors of Semiotic Review call for submissions that explore any of these themes or similar ones. Like all thematic issues, this issue will remain open to new essays and interventions, and there is thus no deadline for submission. Issue 1: Parasites This issue of Semiotic Review looks to multiple sites of parasitic action, considered here both as the study of the parasitic as well as a reflections on parasitic encounters, methods and theories. For example, the recent turn to animal studies has highlighted the interdependence of humans and nonhumans, from dogs to mushrooms, bees to yeast, cheese cultures to intestinal bacteria. But it has also revealed the relationship of humans to their nonhuman world to be one of oscillating internalizations and externalizations. In both cases, the relations of the parasite to its host unsettles our ontological assumptions about whose world is inhabited by whom, of who is the parasite of whom. Focusing upon the parasite helps us to move beyond the anthropocentrism often inherent in our theoretical conceptions of the world: parasitism is vital to life across distinctions of domain – animal, plant, bacteria, alien, machine, and onward. The figure of the parasite provokes ruminations on the external that turn out to be internal after all, or that, at any rate, call into question the identity or the ontology of the host. So: let us ask after the parasite that inserts material into the host, that colonizes the host, that transforms the host, and think thereby about scholarship as a parasitic practice that makes and remakes its worlds through its imbrications in the very capacities of life. This issue of Semiotic Review is unified in its interests in a process, not an object. Parasitism over the parasite. The editors of Semiotic Review, and the Guest-Editor Matthew Wolf-Meyer, call for submissions that explore any of these themes. Like all thematic issues, this issue will remain open to new essays and interventions, and there is thus no deadline for submission. © Semiotic Review, 2013-2019.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2588
__label__wiki	0.941872	0.941872	5 unique Shreveport-Bossier pizzas to try When you want more than the traditional pepperoni and cheese pizza, these local restaurants offer a diverse array of Italian pies. 5 unique Shreveport-Bossier pizzas to try When you want more than the traditional pepperoni and cheese pizza, these local restaurants offer a diverse array of Italian pies. Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/07/30/5-unique-shreveport-bossier-pizzas-try/818576002/ Sarah Crawford, Shreveport Times Published 4:32 a.m. CT July 30, 2018 \| Updated 12:59 p.m. CT July 31, 2018 PizzaRev will open on Line Avenue in late-July/early August. Check out the renovations of the former Anvil Bar & Grill as it transforms into a pizzeria. Tiana Kennell/ The Times Johnny's Sweep the Kitchen pizza(Photo: Johnny's Pizza) When you want more than the traditional pepperoni and cheese, these local restaurants offer pizzas with a diverse array of unique ingredient combinations that you'll be hard-pressed to find elsewhere. The Sweep the Kitchen Where: Johnny’s Pizza Eight locations in Shreveport-Bossier City Hours of operation (most but not all locations): Sunday-Thursday: 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday: 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. See a menu: johnnysph.com/menu With 11 toppings all on one pie, the Sweep the Kitchen at Johnny’s Pizza is basically a household name throughout north Louisiana. These ingredients — almost every topping Johnny’s has to offer — are piled on the pizza: mozzarella, pepperoni, mushroom, ham, black olives, anchovies, onions, sausage, hamburger, bell peppers and jalapenos. The Hick Chick at Smitty's Pizza (Photo: Smitty's Pizza) The Hick Chick Where: Smitty’s Pizza 9375 Mansfield Road, Shreveport Monday-Saturday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. See a menu: www.facebook.com/smittyspizzashreveport/menu Founded in 1995, Smitty’s makes its pizza sauce and dough fresh every day. One of its specialty pizzas is the Hick Chick, made with chicken, onions, breakfast bacon, green peppers, jalapenos and Sweet Baby Ray's barbecue sauce. The pizza is made with a traditional soft crust, homemade pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese. In addition to a number of other specialty pizzas at Smitty's, you can get hot wings, Stromboli, the “Stuffaletta” and pizza logs — pepperoni and mozzarella rolled up like an egg roll, baked. Frank’s Pizza Napoletana (Photo: Sarah Crawford/The Times) The Fig & Pig Where: Frank’s Pizza Napoletana 6950 Fern Ave., Shreveport Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. See a menu: frankspizzanapoletana.com Well known for its wood-fired pizzas, Frank’s offers up plenty of traditional style pies to enjoy on the patio with a craft beer. But for a unique combination of sweet and salty tastes, try the Fig & Pig, which features port-glazed mission figs, panna, Pecorino-Romano, Italian fontina and Gorgonzola cheeses with Prosciutto di Parma and white truffle oil. According to the Frank’s menu, this pizza is inspired by the “Notorious F.I.G.” from The Secret Stash in Crested Butte, Colorado. The Chicken Pazzetti Pizza from Pop n Pizza. (Photo: Courtesy Pop n Pizza) The Pazzetti Pizza Where: Pop n Pizza 504 East Kings Highway, Shreveport Tuesday-Saturday: 9:59 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. (Yes, you read that right. That's when they open, according to the restaurant's website and Facebook page.) Sunday-Monday: Closed See a menu:www.popnpizza.com This take-out and delivery pizza place combines two traditional Italian dishes to make a very non-traditional meal. If you love spaghetti and pizza, the Pazzetti Pizza is for you — spaghetti and garlic bread you can eat together with your hands. Pop n Pizza offers up three variations of the Pazzetti — chicken, sausage and meatball. The Chicken Pazzetti Pizza features spaghetti noodles, creamy white sauce, mozzarella cheese and chicken, with garlic butter on the crust. Pop n Pizza also offers a variety of unique pizzas with names like Spinach Salad, the Beast, Chicken Fajita and Jalapeno Popper. Get your pizza with a side of injected bread sticks or pizza fries. The Fennel & Sausage The Fennel & Sausage pizza at PizzaRev. (Photo: PizzaRev) Where: PizzaRev 6301 Line Ave., Shreveport Sunday-Thursday: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. See a menu:pizzarev.com/menu PizzaRev allows you to design your own pizza from numerous toppings — everything from spicy pepperoni to grilled chicken to bacon to pineapple to sun-dried tomatoes — or select from one of its “Our Way” pizzas. That includes the fennel and sausage pizza, which features olive oil, mozzarella with buffalo milk, ricotta, sweet fennel sausage and fennel seeds. Read or Share this story: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/07/30/5-unique-shreveport-bossier-pizzas-try/818576002/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2594
__label__wiki	0.600408	0.600408	Loyola boys roll past Erath Flyers advance to Division III quarterfinals with victory. Loyola boys roll past Erath Flyers advance to Division III quarterfinals with victory. Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/02/07/loyola-boys-roll-past-erath/318419002/ Shawn C. White, Special to The Times Published 10:01 p.m. CT Feb. 7, 2018 \| Updated 7:25 p.m. CT Feb. 8, 2018 Stay on top of the latest news, sports and entertainment Shreveport Times Loyola advanced to the Division III boys quarterfinals on Wednesday.(Photo: Shawn C. White/Special to The Times)Buy Photo The Loyola Flyers advanced to the Division III quarterfinals by overpowering the Erath Bobcat 6-0 at Messmer Field on Wednesday night. The Flyers struck with a strong first-half performance and never looked back. Although Loyola won heavily, coach Trey Woodham would have liked to have seen a stronger second-half performance from his squad. “I’m pretty pleased with the result,” Woodham said, “I would have like to have seen a better second half. The emphasis was the quick start and take the fight out at the beginning.” The Flyers struck with a hat trick by Carson Berry and two goals and an assist by Felipe Palmieri. The Flyers outshot Erath 18-4. Loyola’s stingy defense barely allowed the Bobcats on their third of the pitch the entire game. More: Loyola girls fire multiples at Lafayette Christian goal The Flyers began quickly and fired shot after shot, rarely giving the Erath goalkeeper a break. Loyola finally struck gold with a long pass that led to a breakaway to Palimieri who fired a shot into to the back of the net in the 11th minute to give the Flyers the early 1-0 lead. Loyola’s backline continued to be a wall and cleared any chance the Bobcats might have had to get to their third of the pitch. The Bobcats fell victim once again to the long pass as Bruno Palimieri connected with Felipe Palimieri for his second goal in the 19th minute. Loyola continued to throttle the offense as a cross from Ben Tuttle to Berry increased the lead to 3-0 just a minute later. Erath picked up the pace, but Felipe Palimeri passed to Eli Cooper whose shot at goal deflected into the goal against the Erath’s goalie leg in the 26th minute. More: Byrd boys edge Loyola The pace and solid defense were stifling the Bobcats. A handball in the box in the 33rd minutes resulted in a penalty kick by Berry to take the Flyers into halftime with a 5-0 lead. The Flyers didn’t slow down on defense into the second half. The defense began to frustrate the Bobcats and caused them to create costly errors. A second handball in the box resulted in another penalty kick by Berry to get his third goal of the night and Flyer 6-0 lead in the eighth minute. Erath received its first yellow card in the 21st minute. The physical play by Erath desperately trying get to a shot resulted in a second yellow card in the 29th minute. Erath finally got its first shot in the second half at the 31st minute. Erath grabbed another shot but none could find the back of the net as Loyola pitched the 6-0 clean sheet. Loyola will play the winner of the St. Louis and Pearl River matchup. If St. Louis wins, the Flyers will have a rematch at Messmer Field against the team that eliminated them last year. If Pearl River wins, Loyola will have to travel down south almost six hours for the matchup.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2595
__label__wiki	0.881204	0.881204	Bhima Koregaon violence: TDF protests against arrest of activist Varavara Rao Last Updated: Mon, Nov 26, 2018 10:03 hrs Hyderabad: The Telangana Democratic Forum protested at city's Dharna Chowk against the arrest of activist Varavara Rao in connection with the Bhima Koregaon Violence case. Rao, who was under house arrest at his flat in Gandhinagar in the Hyderabad city, was arrested by the Pune police on 16th November, in a case relating to his alleged involvement in Bhima Koregaon Violence. Expressing anguish over Rao's arrest, Women Activist Sandhya told the news agency ANI, "This protest is against violation of human rights. In Bhima Koregan case there are many intellectuals, writers and advocates who are arrested and illegal cases are filed against them. We wanted to register our protest in this context. Protests are going on around the country. But still, Modi government is unable to listen to democratic voices. Modi government has become intolerant towards human rights." She also attacked both central and state government and blamed them of being fascist and anti-democratic. She said, "Prime Minister Modi and Telangana caretaker chief minister KC Rao, both these leaders ruling is anti-democratic and fascist. We want to send a message to people that this is an inhuman rule and people should come forward to protest against them. On the name of urban naxals, they want to confine everybody who raises their voice against them. In the long-term process, they want to illegally confine them with a fake allegation, which is against the constitution." On November 19, Rao was taken to Sassoon Hospital after he complained of difficulty in breathing. Rao was arrested at the end of his house arrest on November 17 for his alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon violence case. A Sessions Court in Pune had sent the activist to police custody till November 26 in connection with the violence that broke out in January this year during an event organised to commemorate 200 years of the Bhima Koregaon battle. talking point on sify news Rebel MLAs can't be forced to attend assembly, says SC Cartoon: Karnataka trust vote How Team India lost? Karnataka govt is on the verge of collapse! Sunny Deol appoints his representative!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2597
__label__cc	0.705926	0.294074	Review Summary of the 2017 Ford Explorer Your Southern, CA Ford Dealers couldn’t agree more with the experts at Edmunds who point out that the 2017 Ford Explorer “has evolved from its long-ago roots as a body-on-frame SUV into the comprehensively modern three-row crossover that it is today”. Now offering three engine types plus available Trailer Tow Packages and intelligent 4WD with Terrain Management the all-new Ford Explorer is at the top of its game. Don’t just take our word for it though, check out what both the experts and a few of your peers are saying about Ford’s powerful SUV. As Edmunds Editor Jason Kavanagh also points out “the 2017 Ford Explorer has a lot to offer. Its outstanding quietness and quality cabin trimmings elevate this practical do-all crossover to the front of the segment. Depending on trim level and options (and how deep your pockets are), the Ford Explorer can be downright luxurious.” The automotive specialists at The Car Connection also agree that the all-new Explorer provides “an excellent ride and handling for an SUV. The Ford Explorer is best when considered a front-wheel-drive (or all-wheel-drive) family wagon—not a rough-and-tumble SUV. To its credit, Ford doesn't boast much about the SUV's potential beyond "Snow" mode. It can, when properly equipped, tow 5,000 pounds, seat up to seven, and boast interior amenities befitting a luxury ride. Do we miss the DIY locking hubs of Explorers from yesteryear? Not even a little bit.” Even the automotive whizzes at Kelly Blue Book say that “Ford’s midsize SUV for 2017 is hard to beat. Thanks to the Explorer’s advanced all-wheel drive (AWD) system Ford’s midsize SUV is more off-road capable than a Honda Pilot or Mazda CX-9. When it comes to horsepower, Ford’s 2017 seven-passenger Explorer SUV also delivers at every level. From the standard 290 HP V6 to the fuel-efficient 280 HP turbo 4-cylinder available in the base.” Along with comfort, Kelly Blue Book experts are also impressed with how peaceful each ride in this upgraded SUV really is. “Ford has done an excellent job keeping road, engine and wind noise out of the cabin, and all but the rearmost occupants felt the seating was both comfortable and supportive.” While not often mentioned in most automotive reviews, the 2017 Ford Explorer is also the most preferred midsize SUV among female buyers. In fact, according to data from IHS retail registrations to female buyers soared to over 8 percent since 2015. Women have also provided 40 percent of Explorer sales in the United States for the first half of this year, which is up 37 percent in the first half of 2016. So, why all this feminine fanfare? Like fan and automotive blogger Hannah Elliott said after her trek around New Jersey in the all-new Ford Explorer Platinum, “Would I buy the Ford Explorer Platinum if I were in the market for a new car? My own character prefers the soul-affirming, road-hugging performance of a coupe rather than an SUV, and my child-free life in Manhattan means I usually don’t need anything more than two seats. I like to travel light. But I can’t deny how much fun I had with my friends on our Jersey excursion—and the fact is, it would have been severely dampened in something less spacious and capable. And trying to fit all that booze I bought into a sports car? Forget about it.” So, what are you waiting for? Get to one of our many Southern California Ford Dealers today to form your own opinion about the latest and greatest in powerful Ford SUVs.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2605
__label__cc	0.697923	0.302077	Home Issue 32 Choose an issue Issue #32 featuring Vladik Scholz, Gabriel Engelke, Cameron Markin, Yann Horrowitz, Charlie Munroe, Vans in Tunisia, and many more. Get the mag in our shop Vladik Scholz – Different Times Vladik lives in Cologne. I lived there till last year as well, and we became friends over time. Doing interviews with friends is somewhat difficult because you know them too well, so I thought about another way. A friend suggested doing it while celebrating the Cologne Carnival together, which is a major week-long street festival. I’ve always stayed away from it for as long as I lived there, but now I traveled to Cologne especially to take part in it. Turns out, this idea didn’t work at all, but at least we spent a weekend together and did some talking. Vladik Scholz - Backside Nosebluntslide \| Foto: Dennis Scholz Le Cube by Scott Oster Besides maybe his Bianca Chandôn guest board, I think the younger generation doesn’t know this man. Recently, people accidentally could have found his part from the Santa Cruz video Risk It while trying to google Tom Knox (the young one) footage and only finding Tom Knox (the old one), who also has a part in Risk It. In a way, Scott might represent the quintessence of skateboarding’s early street style which was inspired by surfing. You can easily recognize his style – it’s like an aggressive cruising, being able to use every shape of concrete itself, and a signature layback powerslide in bowls. His past in skateboarding, surfing and living in the early days of the Venice Beach scene influenced his architectural view and the way he designed this sculpture. Victor Campillo - Kickflip \| Foto: Thibault Lenours Cameron Markin Portfolio Started as a European magazine, Solo has managed to cover every continent of the world by now – except Australia (and yes, I know about Antartica, but come on…). You could say now, “Of course, after all, Australia doesn’t even exist. It’s just an invention of the lizard people and all Australians are just actors,” but even if I repeat myself… come on! So there was this blind spot, and suddenly, Cameron Markin sent us a bunch of photos from down under. We didn’t know his name, but we liked his pictures. First, we wanted to meet on his trip to Europe, which unfortunately didn’t work out. Then he just kept on sending photos, and at some point, we managed to collect a great selection. We also tried to do the interview on the phone, but the connection was so bad that the call mostly sounded like, “C-c-c-can you hear me?” This Australia seems to be far away indeed. In the end, it still worked out somehow and the bit we talked was enough to see that Cameron is a funny guy. Before that, we only knew that he was good at taking pictures – with these people claiming to be Australians, on a continent that doesn’t exist. Aidan Ouma - Wallie Lipslide Fakie \| Foto: Cameron Markin Cafe Aquarelle We (the French Vans team) tried to escape a cold January by flying to Tunisia. Not really the first place that comes to mind for a skate trip, but the country surprisingly has a fair amount of spots to offer and the local population is exceptionally welcoming to tourists. There’s a huge skate scene there composed of about 20 guys who helped in every way possible to make our stay a nice memory. We started in Tunis but also explored other cities like Hammamet, Monastir, and Sousse. I also want to give a shout-out to Sam Partaix because he did a perfect job for his first trip as a team manager. His cosmic personality mixed with experience and a 24/7 good mood let him handle everything perfectly, and he gave us quite a few golden quotes: Val Bauer - Fakie Shove \| Foto: Clément Le Gall Gabriel Engelke embraces the new Thanks to skateboarding, this autodidact has been part of my life for more than 15 years. We’ve hung out all over Europe, faced weird situations, enjoyed many moments in unusual places, and all these sessions!!! His energy, creativity, frankness, and commitment to living make this human being special through his unique youth education and eagerness to learn. Nothing is impossible with him. Now, we are grown up men, family caught us, but I am waiting for the next session. Time is flying by and while we’ve had good ones, I am waiting for the next 15 ones cause I am sure it will be even more tasty. Thanks Gabriel for being BEEB! Let’s meet with your tribe somewhere soon. Juju [Julien Bachelier] Gabriel Engelke - Flamingo \| Foto: Fabien Ponsero In Search of the new in Cape Town In most cases, skateboarding means hitting the streets and rolling away – no matter where you are. However, it actually makes a difference whether you’re in your hometown or out on vacation or on a tour in a foreign city for a couple of days, especially when it comes to getting photos. That’s why we sent Cape Town local photographer Sam Clark together with British visitor Charlie Munro, and afterwards, Berlin-based Dennis Scholz, who was on vacation in South Africa, together with the local Yann Horowitz (you may know him from the recent Chakalaka video) to the same spots to see what kind of different perspectives would emerge. What new ways did the locals find, what unexpected tricks did the visitors pull off? What view of a city does an outsider have and which angles do only the insider know? Yann Horowitz - Frontside Crooked Grind to Fakie \| Foto: Dennis Scholz Other Issues View all	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2606
__label__wiki	0.640987	0.640987	PUBLISHED: 09:00 20 June 2014 Potter John Leach prepares to fire his pots in Muchelney The sun may be out but the struggles faced by those living and working in flood affected areas on the Levels must not be forgotten Famous potter John Leach watched helplessly as the floods invaded his home and business for the second time in 14 months. Marooned in Muchelney, John and wife Lizzie, were rescued and the pottery, which has been in the village since 1965, closed for nine weeks. Now their shop is open again and they are back in production. John says the floods galvanised the community into action with plans for a bund or flood bank to surround vulnerable properties. “It’s important that we all work together and sing from the same hymn sheet when trying to be constructive about the future water and river management of the Somerset levels and Moors.” During the crisis, Langport café owner Clare Aparicio and her staff Jessie Elliott and Abby Cox started to raise money for the people living in the stricken areas of Thorney and Muchelney. Today the Much Thorn Wings fund has topped £16,000 and includes a £5,000 boost from Richard Branson’s charity Virgin Unite. Clare, who runs the Parrett Café, has been named an ITV Flood Hero and received a Points of Light award from the Prime Minister. This is a close knit community and Clare says at one point the residents felt they had the backing of the whole of the UK. But Clare, who along with fellow traders in the Langport Business Group is keen to promote the town to visitors, says the important thing is not to forget what has happened here. “When you drive along the moors now the hawthorn is a beautiful green, the tide marks are fading, the swans are nesting and the beauty of the landscape becomes apparent. The flood is like a trauma which you try and shut out of your conscious but you know it was there.” Help support the local communities this summer at the following events: 15 June: Green Scythe Fair, Thorney Lakes, 11am, greenfair.org.uk; 5 July: Party by the Parrett, 2pm, partybytheparrett.co.uk; 19 July: Taming of the Shrew, Muchelney Abbey, 7.30pm, tauntonthespians.org.uk; 24-27 July Lowland Games, thelowlandgames.org.uk; 9 August: Music by the Lakes, Thorney Lakes; 26 August: Muchelney Village Fete. Last Friday of the month: Langport Market.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2607
__label__cc	0.637432	0.362568	Welcome to my podcast. I explore a wide range of different topics with various people. I hope you find something that catches your interest! Podcast and Blog Sep 16 Who leads culture and branding in the digital era? culture, business, networks, fashion Image sourced from Shutterstock on 16 September 2018. Created by ESB Professional. How many people feel that they can create culture? In fact, how many of us even think about it? I think many of us simply accept things the way they are, as it is what most educational systems teach us to do. From hipster secret to household name I’ve recently listened to this episode from the Household Name podcast (https://apple.co/2wNd2YM) about Starbucks. It takes a while, but something really struck me about the discussion. Starbucks started off in Seattle as what we’d call a “hipster”-type place as of 2018. The podcasts outlines how as the firm grew to a corporate monolith, people’s perceptions of it changed markedly. It lost the early adopter crowd, and became part of the mainstream. Bryant Simon was part of the podcast because he wrote a book about Starbucks called “Everything But The Coffee” back in 2004. At around the 9:20 mark of the podcast, Simon mentioned that knowing something about coffee helped to make people feel like special “insiders”, and that the customers who had the strongest need to belong the would order the most complicated drinks. At this stage in the mid-to-late 1990’s, Starbucks had some level of prestige (and 3500 stores). So, how did it go from being cool…to being part of the mainstream? Well, the owner of Starbucks aimed (and achieved) growth to 20,000 stores. As such, by definition, it couldn’t be edgy and new by around 2006. Now, on the face of it, turning something corporate will (of course) mean it becomes standardized. But did the brand aim for this outcome, knowing that it would lose some of its image in the process? And how many firms have actually successfully managed this transition? The next podcast guest, Noreen Malone, then describes a connection between the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte (#PSL) and a “basic bitch” meme/concept that was going around online in roughly 2009. This meme shows up again around 2013, this time in two ways. First of all, the use of Snap Chat and Instagram allows people to share pictures of #PSL to express their excitement. Secondly, this digital activity spawns a lot of satire. At 22.20, the basic premise here is outlined (not that it is anything new)…some people are looking down upon others for their suggested lack of taste. One of the last things the podcast mentions is that the PSL is “not really that creative”. I think that this might be a major, somewhat hidden, aspect to this discussion. I wonder if, in the digital era, creativity has really gained in terms of cultural importance. And as such, in a world continually thirsty for novelty, the social leaders are now those people who create on various levels? The flip side to this perspective could be that those people who don’t create are, quite literally, followers – not just in the social media sense, but also the broader social sense. What’s interesting about all this is that we have a pre-Internet brand (Starbucks) suddenly showing up in Internet culture – without the brand trying to do so itself. This is the biggest shift between the analogue and digital eras. Despite Starbuck’s size, and their branding messages, no amount of money is going to keep people’s perceptions under the corporation’s control. As the podcast mentions, if the “Basics” move away from Starbucks (in part because they are aware of the meme, and don’t wish to see themselves as associated with it) what happens to the firm – and how quickly? But I think that there are bigger questions for business here, especially luxury brands: Who decides what is “cool” in the Digital Era? I ask this because it appears to me that cool appears to vary depending upon one’s social status, and who one considers to be one’s peers. Is something cool because it is unique, and hard-to-find, or is it cool because everyone is talking about it? How do you stay “cool” if your goods are available everywhere? Does opening stores around the world actually reduce the prestige of some goods, because getting them no longer requires a trip to London, New York, or Tokyo? Likewise, what happens to the prestige of these cities themselves as destinations if people perceive them as one of many cities, rather than head and shoulders above the rest? How do you appeal to luxury consumers if they are so wealthy they can buy virtually anything? What if coolness, in the digital era, lies in being virtually (and digitally) invisible? Maybe part of what is driving this is that those who are better off and more educated have more control over their decisions; or at least, they want to feel that they do? What if some of this is about ownership of stories? That we own the stories we write about our own lives, and that of our businesses, brands, and even our towns and cities? What if it’s all about attitude? What if the definition of coolness now occurs in opposition to whatever brands try to say about themselves? Maybe, for cultural leaders, the very idea of branding is dead. That what they think, to paraphrase an Australian politician, is that “we will decide what is cool and the circumstances in which it occurs”? Perhaps this attitude is stemming from the idea that we are not merely consumers. That we don’t need to follow the crowd - and that it’s OK for us to be who we wish to be at any given time? This is a big topic, with a lot to digest. Tell us what you think in the comments field below. culture, business, branding What unites a truly diverse Australia? Oct 5 Why does storytelling still matter? Aug 14 Four Weddings and a Funeral - a look at Carrie Sep 3 Digital era policy questions for Australian politics Aug 28 How does deep culture work in the digital age? Feb 23 Can an understanding of design help people to adapt to the Digital Era?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2609
__label__cc	0.537017	0.462983	10-Year-Old Boy With Rare Genetic Condition Becomes Fort Worth Police Officer He even got to give his mama a speeding ticket! By Meghan Overdeep Facebook/Fort Worth Police Department Dakin Lovelace has always wanted to be a police officer. "I just like them," the 10-year-old explained to NBC DFW. "He's been a police officer several times for Halloween," his mother Devon Thomas, told the local news station. "He had handcuffs and he made me handcuff myself in an aisle of Target...this has always been his big thing." Unfortunately, a rare genetic disorder that affects Dakin’s muscles and confines him to a wheelchair stands in the way of his dreams. But that didn’t stop the Fort Worth Police Department from recruiting him. During a recent visit to the Fort Worth area for medical treatment, Dakin, who lives with his family in East Texas, met a Fort Worth police officer. When the officer learned about his love of law enforcement, he promised Dakin that when got out of the hospital, he could come be a junior officer for their department. WATCH The Son Of A Fallen Houston Police Officer Was Escorted To Kindergarten By 100 Officers: On Monday, the Forth Worth Police Department held up their side of the deal by hosting a swearing-in ceremony just for the brave youngster. They also gave him a tour of their headquarters, introduced him to other recruits, and even let him go out onto their practice track so he could pull his mom over and write her a speeding ticket. As if that weren’t enough to make his entire year, Dakin also received an official proclamation from the City of Fort Worth and a special certificate from Congressman Marc Veasey. They told the beaming boy that they wanted this to be the best day of his life. Based on his smile alone, it seems like they accomplished their mission. "It's huge," Dakin's mom told NBC DFW. "It's absolutely huge. This has been his dream his whole life. I think he's actually a little shell-shocked right now." Vivian Howard Embarks on Culinary Tour of the South in New PBS Series WATCH: 5 Signs You're a Chick-fil-A Superfan Seaweed Could Be Worse Than Ever This Year Thanks to Growing 5,500-Mile Patch of Sargassum WATCH: Couple Plans Surprise Hospital Wedding so Groom’s 100-Year-Old Granny Can Attend These 25 Vintage Names Are in Danger of Going Extinct 103-Year-Old Baton Rouge Resident Aces 2019 National Senior Games WATCH: West Virginia Police Officers Save 5-Year-Old Boy’s Birthday Party After Nobody Shows Up	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2612
__label__wiki	0.652519	0.652519	Fitzroy Crossing Boosted With New Courthouse Posted on 21 July 2012 . Tags: Courthouses, Western Australia Western Australia Attorney General Michael Mischin Western Australia Minister for Regional Development Brendon Grylls New Courthouse For Fitzroy Crossing $3.9 Million for new court facility Project funded through Royalties for Regions Judicial and Police services in Fitzroy Crossing will be significantly boosted, with the State Government building a new courthouse at a cost of $3.9 Million. Attorney General Michael Mischin and Regional Development Minister Brendon Grylls today announced the court facility would be built next to the new Police station. Mr. Mischin said Fitzroy Crossing was one of the fastest-growing communities in the Kimberley and in need of improved judicial services. “The existing courthouse has succumbed to a lot of wear and tear, with major shortcomings such as poor security and an overall lack of space.” Mr. Mischin said. “The new building will have a courtroom, interview rooms and office accommodation for the circuiting magistrate and support staff.” “Having the Police station and courthouse next to each other will also improve the timing and safety of prisoner transfers.” Mr. Grylls said the new facility would increase the justice operations in the region beyond the next 25 years. “The complex will allow Police and the courts to work together to improve law and order services at Fitzroy Crossing and increase community safety in the Kimberley region.” WA Minister for Regional Development Brendon Grylls Architects are currently working on the design for the courthouse, which is expected to be completed in mid-2014. New courthouse to be located on corner of McLarty and Fallon roads $3.9 M allocated from Royalties for Regions New Regional and Statewide Initiatives fund	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2613
__label__wiki	0.686727	0.686727	✓ Chapter 3 Our Planet - Earth Jupiter's south pole 07/20/2016 Juno Spacecraft and Instruments 07/05/2016 Artist concept of Juno 07/05/2016 Buzz Aldrin EVA Selfie 03/29/2016 Machu Picchu 02/02/2016 Mars sunset 10/01/2015 Blood Moon September 2015 09/28/2015 Supermoon Lunar Eclipse in Progress 09/28/2015 Geometry of a Lunar Eclipse 09/28/2015 Supermoon Lunar Eclipse 2015 09/28/2015 Hurricane Kilo 09/18/2015 The Atmospheres of the Solar System 09/10/2015 Conical mountain on Ceres 08/26/2015 Elephant Rock in the cliffs 08/18/2015 Fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon 08/05/2015 Benagil Cave 08/04/2015 Hubble Image of Pluto 07/31/2015 New Horizons - Silhouette of Pluto 07/31/2015 A Year In The Life Of Earth's CO2 02/23/2016 Comet ISON model 08/12/2013 Daylight Hours Explorer 01/07/2014 Sun Moon Scope Powers of Ten 07/06/2012 Nasa - Make a Mission 09/19/2011 Plate Tectonics 09/12/2012 Perpetual Ocean 05/29/2012 Juno: Mission to Jupiter 360 Video Hawaii's Lava Flow Is a Mesmerizing Force New Horizons - Flying over Pluto New Horizons - Ready to Explore Pluto? New Horizons - Pluto in a Minute Earth images from Alexander Gerst in 4K A colorful view of Mercury The Solar System--our home in space Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth The History and Future of Everything--Time Plate Tectonics Earth's Water Cycle How Do We Measure the Distance to Stars? How fast are you moving right now? Reading rock strata in the Grand Canyon Lithosphere and asthenosphere A guide to the energy of the Earth Introductory Geology: Mass Wasting How Do Astronomers Measure Distance? How Do Astronomers Find Exoplanets? Juno: Mission to Jupiter 07/13/2016 19 Mission to Pluto 02/01/2016 23 Supermoon Lunar Eclipse - Sept 27 09/29/2015 15 Hurricane Isaac 09/05/2012 41 Lesson: Saturn Educator Guide 09/05/2012 Lesson: Currents 09/19/2012 Lesson: Ocean Geological Features 09/19/2012 Lesson: Population Policy 04/16/2012 Lesson: Follow that Hurricane 08/29/2012 Lesson: Spatial Journal 04/12/2012 Hurricane Life Cycle PDF 08/29/2012 Storm Surge PDF 08/29/2012	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2614
__label__cc	0.742209	0.257791	Javier Ignacio Aquino Carmona Nationality Mexico Tigres UANL 2015 - present Rayo Vallecano 2014 - 2015 (loan) Villarreal 2013 - 2015 Cruz Azul 2010 - 2013 Javier Ignacio Aquino Carmona is a soccer player playing for The Mexico national football team. Aquino was shown a red card after 87 minutes in Rayo Vallecano vs Getafe - Mon, 11 May 2015 18:45:00 +0000 Aquino was shown a yellow card after 84 minutes in FC Barcelona vs Rayo Vallecano - Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:00:00 +0000 Aquino was shown a yellow card after 63 minutes in Rayo Vallecano vs FC Barcelona - Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:00:00 +0000 Aquino was credited with an assist in the 73rd minute of Deportivo vs Rayo Vallecano - Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:00:00 +0000 Aquino was credited with an assist in the 40th minute of Deportivo vs Rayo Vallecano - Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:00:00 +0000 Most Popular Soccer Players Ricardo Kaka Ronaldo de Assis Moreira	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2616
__label__wiki	0.700636	0.700636	MILF demands due process, won’t surrender member allegedy involved in death of 19 soldiers in Basilan GMA News Online reports that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) "rejected calls from government to surrender MILF deputy commander Dan Laksaw Asnawi and his men, who allegedly killed 19 soldiers in a clash in Basilan on October 18. MILF vice chairman for political affairs Ghadzali Jaafar told reporters: "We cannot surrender him. Asnawi is accused of something criminal he did in the past. In the principle of justice, it means that he is presumed innocent until proven guilty. That means that there must be due process." According to the GMA News Online, Asnawi is also wanted for his alleged involvement in the beheading of Marines in 2007. Jaafar questioned government's motive in "forcing the issue," pointing out "the lack of a court decision on Asnawi’s case." He added that the MILF will cooperate with the government "once the guilt of Asnawi and his men has been established." For more on this story, log on to GMA News Online. Milf Basilanclash (UPDATED) RJ Revilla, Ramona Revilla tagged as suspects in their brother Ram Revilla’s murder Kim Kardashian files for divorce after being married for only 72 days	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2617
__label__cc	0.599037	0.400963	PCC & Policies Services & Sacraments Eucharist and other services Recitals & Concerts Robed Choir Our robed choir currently comprises 4 men and 4 women who lead the singing at the Parish Eucharist, our main Sunday morning service. The choir rehearses on Sundays from 9.25 to 9.45 before the service. The robed choir is directed by our Director of Music, Alan Winstanley. Our worship group is made up of around 15 singers and instrumentalists. They mainly contribute (though not exclusively) to the All Together Eucharist on the 2nd Sunday of the month and together with occasional evening services. The group meets to rehearse and spend time together on Monday evenings. Justin Stretch is the co-ordinator for the Worship Group. Click here to listen to the song Testimony, composed and sung by Justin. The children’s choir rehearse after the 10.00 Eucharist during term time. They sing at the All Together Eucharist and occasionally at the Parish Eucharist. The Children’s Choir is not currently operating as we review our pattern of ‘after church’ commitments, but please watch this space! Laurence Singers Under Alan’s direction, and sometimes accompanied by our Organ Scholar, Elizabeth Bowman, the Laurence Singers are a group of singers who like to assist with the music at Laurence’s on an occasional basis. They rehearsal for specific services (often special occasions, Christmas, Easter etc). They sit in the congregation normally and come out to sing at a specific point in the service. Occasionally they lead the whole service and recent services include Pentecost Evensong and the Eucharist on the Feast of Our Lady. © St Laurence's Church, Chorley 2018 \| Designed by Steffany \| Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2626
__label__cc	0.641815	0.358185	SuuntoDive FINDING THE LAST MISSING GERMAN WW2 U-BOAT IN THE GULF OF FINLAND “For those who love adventure and exploration, the fraction of a second when you realise that you have actually rewritten the history or confirmed something that has only been speculated on before, is an unforgettable moment,” says underwater explorer Immi Wallin. Immi Wallin and her Subzone team discovered a missing German U-boat off the Estonian coast in August. Here, Wallin tells the story for the first time. “The secrets of the seas, with its hidden lost ships, do not reveal themselves easily. To find these secrets, you sometimes need perfect weather, plotting information from the archives of sea charts and then checking a mysterious marking on your chart, which you do not remember how and why you put down in the first place. On August 12th, about a month ago, I went to check a marking on my sea chart with side scan sonar together along with my colleague. The marking had bothered me for some time because I did not remember what it was and it seemed to be next to a mine row and in a patrol area of a still missing German U-boat. U679’s closed hatch and periscope U-679 gave a weather report on December 27th 1944 while in the Gulf of Finland. She had rendezvoused at sea with U-637 and U-745 in the evening of December 26th. U-745 had delivered encrypted communication. On January 9th, Soviet MO-124 detected a submarine four miles northeast of the Pakri lighthouse and dropped eight large and 20 small depth charges. The Germans assumed that MO-124 had sunk U-679, but the Soviets did not believe it because they didn't find any evidence of a destroyed submarine in the area. Nevertheless, the cause for disappearance of U-679 that was recorded in Western literature was depth charge attack by MO-124. The fact that U-679 did not reply to a message sent on January 10th, 1945 supported this theory. Depth, poor visibility, hydrogen sulphide, hypoxia and trawl nets made the dive a challenge Back to August 12th 2015. I decided to survey the whole mine row laid in January 1945 that was plotted next to the marking I had on my sea chart. When reaching the marked spot on the chart, something happened on the screen of the side scan sonar. The moment I saw a submarine image appearing on the sonar screen was exactly the fraction of a second that I will remember forever. The image showed a Type 7C German submarine – already recognizable from the image. There was only one that had not been found yet – U-679. That same night the Estonian National Heritage Board was informed about the discovery. The first dive to U-679 was conducted on September 10th. Due to the depth, 90 m, we needed a flat sea and a team of deep divers, support divers and boat handlers. The aim for the dive was to document the wreck’s condition. The video material was provided to the authorities. Conditions were good at the surface, but more challenging in the water. There were slight horizontal currents all the way from the surface to the bottom. The most challenging part was the visibility that worsened towards the depths. We passed several white cloud layers and just about 10 m above the bottom the visibility got very bad and I could smell the hydrogen sulphide typical for a sea bottom with hypoxia. The shape of the submarine’s conning tower became slightly visible in the light we carried with us. The shot line was in the middle of the conning tower, so we decided to shoot video around the conning tower having possibility to find back to the shot line. U679’s 37mm antiaircraft gun The video camera, once again, could see much more than our eyes. We could confirm what was visible already on the side scan sonar image. The conning tower was type IV, having 3.7 cm anti-aircraft gun on the lower wintergarten and two 2 cm zwilling anti-aircraft guns on the upper wintergarten. The hatches were closed. U-679 was lost with all hands, so the wreck is also a war grave for 51 men who lost their lives serving their country. The wreck will be respected as these men’s final resting place and as a historical monument of the war event. U-679 is now under state protection set by Estonian Heritage Board.” #SuuntoDive / jul 7, 2019 5 inspiring coral reef restoration projects #SuuntoDive / jun 13, 2019 The Baltic Unveils Treasured Secrets with The Help of Suunto Divers #SuuntoDive / jun 12, 2019 Underwater videographer Patrick Dykstra is taking over @suuntodive Instagram for a week 150918_Ueli_Nuptse Suunto Dream Traverse	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2629
__label__wiki	0.712805	0.712805	The Vampires of Van Helsing Watch Latest Episode Van Helsing News Van Helsing Showrunner Q&A: Season 1, Episode 3 Bryan Enk Friday, September 30, 2016 - 23:00 Share Van Helsing Showrunner Q&A: Season 1, Episode 3 on Facebook Share Van Helsing Showrunner Q&A: Season 1, Episode 3 on Twitter Julius goes from diminutive junkie to vampire overlord, John's wife gets tortured and shot, Flesh preaches the Gospel of Vanessa and Doc gets her humanity back ... what an episode! We spoke with Neil LaBute about the many memorable characters and moments from Z Nation Season 1, Episode 3: "Stay Inside." Okay, so Julius is amazing. So pathetic pre-Rising, and so powerful from the second The Rising starts. What inspired his creation? I don't remember who or what exactly gave birth to the idea of Julius but I know very early on we were interested in various levels of vampires in the series: the lowly ferals who were feeding off animals and birds and therefore degenerating into something akin to those creatures, along with a violent tribe led by Julius and an older, more mindful and devious group led by Dmitri, his sister Antanasia and the dangerous and lethal Rebecca. Somewhere in the crazy and wonderful world that is the writers’ room, Julius and these other vampires were born and then we simply followed our instincts to create stories to flesh out their details, backstories and futures. The torturing of John's wife Wendy is especially harrowing. Were there any previous incarnations of this scene that were either a little bit or radically different? That was a scene that was always going to be a bit tricky. It had to be there to make John as a character work but torture porn isn't really my thing, either, so I didn't want to focus or dwell on it. Always better to leave things to the imagination anyway and so we did a bit of both — shot it only from the distance that John would've watched it from (or through Axel's scope on his weapon) and then in quick flashes that made us fill in the blanks. I think it was the right choice but a hundred different directors or showrunners would've done it a hundred different ways. Axel needing to go underwater to get a part for the generator was very tense, even more so because we stayed on dry land with Vanessa the entire time. Was there ever the consideration of doing underwater photography with Axel, or was the idea to always stay with Vanessa during this moment? Once again, what you don't see is often more frightening than what you do see — very Hitchcock to focus on the little tugs on the rope and a few air bubbles rather than go underwater and see exactly what's happening (which not even Vanessa gets to see). Better to hang with her and push her buttons, put her to the test and rachet up the anxiety as best we could. Again, others would do it differently but i think it was the right choice — director Michael Nankin is brilliant at taking a situation like that, which could be a real time-killer and money pit as far as a scene goes and making not just the best of it but the most of it (all while remaining cool and collected on the set). Very admirable traits ... Flesh is an interesting creature. Without giving too much away, can you let us know if we're right in our assumptions that he's not to be trusted? I don't really want to make you feel one way or the other about Flesh as he's one of my favorite characters on the show and played by one of my favorite actors. Vincent Gale has a kind of an Alec Guinness ability to disappear into a role and I love the work he does on the series as Flesh returns back to being human but with many difficult transitions along the way. I think you'll be surprised where he ends up by the time we reach the final episode of Season One. Doc turning human again was incredible! Rukiya Bernard nailed that moment and then some. What more can you tell us about that scene? You said it first — the moment and scene says it all. The look on her face at the end of the episode, the utter sense of transformation and transcendence, is a thing of beauty (coupled with a fantastic musical choice by the director and our amazing music supervisor, Natasha Duprey). For an episode filled with running around and vampires and lots of blood and anger, this quiet moment at the end of the episode is a real thing of beauty. What was your favorite scene in this episode, and why? Right up there would have to be Doc's return to life as a human but a number of moments by actor David Cubitt stand out for me. It's hard to pick favorites in this cast as they are all so great and specific, but the character of John is one I really enjoyed watching come to life. He could've easily been a garden-variety asshole (which I can write very easily) but in David's hands he became a desperate, sad and angry man who lashes out at many people but slowly, steadily grows a heart while reaching out for a little human contact. I think audiences will find that David's John is something special and well worth keeping an eye on throughout the first season. Bloody Good News! Van Helsing Gets Renewed for Season 4 Caption This! 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__label__wiki	0.950852	0.950852	Frank Lampard's possible Chelsea return too soon, says ex-Blues captain Dennis Wise Former Chelsea captain Dennis Wise says he is worried it could be too soon for Frank Lampard to return to the club as head coach Former Chelsea captain Dennis Wise says he is worried that it could be too soon for Frank Lampard to return to the club as head coach. Lampard is Chelsea's record goalscorer and is the strong favourite to replace Maurizio Sarri, who left for Juventus last week. The Blues are expected to approach Derby for Lampard's services, but Wise believes he and his assistant Jody Morris, who is a former Chelsea player, lack the necessary experience. He told Sky Sports News: "Is it too soon for him? I think it is. I look at the staff he may bring in as well. Jody may come alongside him and he's a bit inexperienced in a coaching capacity. Jody Morris works alongside Lampard at Derby, and was previously a coach with Chelsea's youth sides "If Frank does come in, he probably needs to bring someone with a bit of experience. There probably will be some changes, because he'll want to bring his own staff in. "Chris Jones, who was there [at Chelsea] before, is at Derby with him. He's the fitness guy and he's got good experience. But on the coaching side of things I worry. Derby contacted over manager position Transfer Talk: Is Lampard right for Chelsea? Fans allocated 5,000 Super Cup tickets Chelsea turn down £35m Willian bids "Frank, from a playing and personal point of view, everyone loves him at Chelsea, but he hasn't been long in coaching, and neither has Jody. It worries me a little bit, but if they get it I wish them all the luck. "It's going to be tough for them, but fingers crossed they do the right thing for Chelsea." 'Brewster reminiscent of Fowler and Rush' Rashford: Greenwood ability 'frightening' Pep expects Sane to stay at City Azpilicueta: Hudson-Odoi will be key Arnesen: Right moment for Lampard Lampard: I don't need new players Lampard: I hope Hudson-Odoi stays Transfer Target: Mason Mount	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2635
__label__wiki	0.933809	0.933809	Slant Magazine Blu-ray Review: Showgirls Review: Cassandro, the Exotico! 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Stratton’s The Wild Bunch Eric Henderson Gleefully inspiring audiences everywhere to challenge conventional definitions of “good” and “bad” cinema, Showgirls is undoubtedly the think-piece object d’art of its time. It is Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas’s audaciously experimental satire-but-not-satire, an epically mounted “white melodrama” (to borrow Tag Gallagher’s description of Sirk’s early, less mannered, and more overtly humanistic comedies of error) and also one of the most astringent, least compromised critiques of the Dream Factory ever unleashed on a frustrated, perpetually (and ideologically) pre-cum audience. Many things to many people, and absolutely nothing to a great deal more, Showgirls’ proponents and detractors still square off, digging nine-foot trenches in the sand (some planting their heads therein instead of their feet) and lobbing accusations of elitism and anti-pleasure. It is perhaps one of the only films to bridge that critical gap between Film Quarterly (which hosted a beyond extensive critical roundtable on the film last year) and Joe Bob Briggs. It is a film that will continue to bend brains and drain dicks long after the golf-clap (and Clap-free) cinematic “excellence” of your Jane Austen bastardization of choice is long dismissed. It is the very definition of the term “essential.” Okay, I’d probably be a lot more worried about the possibility that I’m overselling Showgirls if it wasn’t already patently clear that most people have already closed themselves off to the pleasures the film has to offer. Unimpressed that Joe Eszterhas cribbed copiously from All About Eve and 42nd Street, viewers don’t even stop to address the notion that he and Paul Verhoeven—who most of the auteurist crowd have given a pass to by this point, but it doesn’t matter because Showgirls exists outside of and beyond auteurism—are directly commenting on these “Star is Born” pipe dreams and their culpability in force-feeding the American Dream to an audience of pop junkies. (I’d love them to try to digest the notion that a third major influence is Jean Renoir’s French Cancan.) Showgirls establishes its structural patterns so quickly that it seems ludicrous that one could spend more than 10 minutes ruminating on the obvious narrative parallels. Nomi Malone, an aspiring bon vivant and full-time cheeseburger consumer, arrives in Las Vegas with dreams of stardom. Her hitch-hikeé distracts her with casino tokens and the promise of a job interview before running off with her luggage. (Actually, the blunt cut between Nomi celebrating her beginner’s luck at the slots and her inevitable crap-out is definitive of the film’s high-low mood.) From there on, Nomi rides the roller-coaster of ambition and success as she climbs the ladder of showgirl notoriety, moving from the sleazy, low-rent Cheetah club (which the film depicts as squalid but honest) to the Taj Mahal of the Miracle Mile, the Stardust and its sensational “Goddess” floor show. But to get her name in lights, she’ll have to lie and/or backstab everyone she meets: Molly, the sweet girl who discovers Nomi vomiting in the street after having her luggage stolen; James, the club bouncer who recognizes Nomi’s burning “talent”; and, ultimately, Cristal Connors, Vegas legend the current “Goddess” headliner. As quickly as Eszterhas introduces characters, Verhoeven introduces generic devices and archetypes: sexhibition, backstage musical, screwball farce, self-actualization melodrama, diva worship. The constant push-pull effect of mixing genres, tonal shifts and paradoxes in the name of political incorrectness masks some of Verhoeven’s most sincere directorial choices. Showgirls is a catalogue of professional, cinematic grace notes. The song Nomi dances to at the Cheetah that entices Cristal for the first time is Prince’s “319,” which turns out to be the number of Cristal’s hospital room late in the film (the tables have turned, but the seduction is still ongoing). At the beginning of the film, it’s Halloween and an utterly down-and-out and French-fry-tossing Nomi is sans costume (read: identity). When Nomi steps outside after her first night as a member of the “Goddess” dance troupe, literally reborn as a woman in charge of her destiny, it’s unsurprising to see that it’s Christmas in Las Vegas. Verhoeven’s unheralded earnestness (the same that undoubtedly inspired him to personally accept his Razzie for Worst Director) also applies to his canny casting perception. Everyone pays lip service to how “ironic” it was for Verhoeven to cast Saved by the Bell’s Jessie Spano in the very physical role of a seemingly bipolar hooker-cum-dancer. This admittedly fabulous stunt casting ends up leading most to shortchange Berkley’s equally internal portrayal of Nomi’s transformation from fallen woman to, well, re-fallen woman (see the evil, lowered-eyelid geisha shtick she develops). On the other hand, no one ever seems to comment on how perfectly Gina Gershon was cast as her brash, Bette Davis rival and how she embodies her role in an entirely forthright, non-snarky manner. Gershon’s blousy performance is miraculous, one element from which even Showgirls’ biggest detractors can all find some worth. Like Berkley, Gershon acts with her entire body, but exudes a certain comfort within her own frame that Berkley, with her thick lower half and puckered nipple buds, clearly envies to the point of full-on imitation. Gershon’s cockeyed grin is, in its own special way, every bit as luridly indecent as every last bare breast. And her centipede-leg-perfect wave of the hand and husky-voiced “I’ll think about it” brusqueness turns the scene where she compares her nails with Nomi’s into a galvanizing chamber drama, the culmination of Nomi and Cristal’s ongoing power struggles. Likewise, Verhoeven stocks the rest of his cast with actors who embody their roles fully and embrace their prototypes: Ungela Brockman as the volatile, standoffish showgirl Annie; Lin Tucci as the vaudevillian Henrietta with the jack-in-the-box bosom; and especially Patrick Bristow as the albino, nebbishly queeny choreographer Marty. Even those who are willing to look at Showgirls without falling back on espousing its patently obvious camp charms (which need no defense from us, so go ahead and insert your favorite Eszterhas couplet of choice here) end up acknowledging that the film is an outlandish, albeit obvious, satire of Hollywood/America. (“In America, everyone’s a gynecologist!”) It’s not necessarily an incorrect stance to take toward the movie, but it doesn’t fly too well with those who only see Verhoeven and Eszterhas as getting the rocks in their collective sac off, as opposed to the ones in their collective head. There is, of course, more going for the movie than splashy sadism and contempt. The filmmakers’ real target isn’t Hollywood or American crassness in and of themselves, but rather the morally bankrupt “Star is Born” tales. The film’s vulgarity isn’t reflected in its anarchic rejection of the rules of cinematic good taste because it’s making the claim that it’s those very rules that are corrupt and ideologically facile. Offended critics (to reference Adrian Martin’s wonderful essay that opens with a Showgirls example) are reacting not to the fact that they’ve been punished for wanting titties (after all, the titties are there and they are spectacular), but that they’re being more slyly punished for wanting Nomi to succeed (or fail, as the case were) specifically because it will fulfill their preconceived notions of the archetypes of wish fulfillment. Anyone who’s found their “in” with the film by means of settling for the pungent sexuality of its cast and its equally voluptuous cinematography (Showgirls rivals Suspiria for sheer, eye-popping color rush) or enjoying the film for its unabated “badness” inevitably reaches an impasse once Eszterhas reminds hedonists of the existence of rape. When Molly, Nomi’s second banana, meets her rock star sexual fantasy (earlier in the film she squealingly strokes his billboard image and jokes about not being able to hold a needle straight from how many times she’s masturbated thinking of him) and follows him into his hotel room and the gang bang waiting inside, it’s a rude interruption for those who haven’t managed to work up any empathy for anyone in the film up to that point. The scene is suitably horrifying, doubly so considering it’s the moment that she realizes her own fault in creating a sexual fantasy that can’t exist in a shitty star-struck caste system in which she’s nothing more than a seamstress. (Lars von Trier only wishes he could dream up a rape scenario with as much political and psychosexual mindfuckitude.) What is even more problematic is the porny vigilante sequence that follows, because it asks us to accept a very contradictory set of terms of engagement: (a) that Nomi uses the fantasy structures of Las Vegas royalty (already clearly defined as corrupt) to exact a tidy, “let the punishment fit the crime” revenge, and (b) that her experience, her win ends up validating that corruption, simply by virtue that she succeeded in gaining the upper hand. But not so fast. Verhoeven and Eszterhas use this sequence, what with Berkley’s pussy-who-swallowed-the-canary smirk of satisfaction, as the means by which to set up the final scene’s “punchline,” where we learn that Nomi hasn’t learned a thing at all. This ending, by the way, strikes me in the same way as the finale to A.I. in how their tonal discord lead viewers who aren’t emotionally invested in the films down the absolute wrong path. It’s not “funny” that Nomi is going to make the same mistakes all over again. It’s crushing that despite the fact that the Myth has been revealed time and time again for the ugly bastard it is, she is still seduced by it after the small shred of “victory” she attains. When Rena Riffel (so good-natured and winningly ditzy as the Cheetah’s new girl “Penny”) showed up in David Lynch’s La-La Land masterpiece of female martyrdom, Mulholland Drive, it was almost as heartbreaking to see her portray a strung out, worn out shell of used sex appeal, the logical outcome of Penny’s character arc; and Lynch seemed to cunningly use her iconography to channel some of the Elizabeth Berkley mystique. (That Berkley’s career had to—make that needed to—fail in order to lay the groundwork for Showgirls to be “reborn” as a camp classic is undoubtedly one of the most damning pieces of evidence in the case for holding the film’s subsequent audience in contempt.) Just as the coda of A.I. mistakenly led people to believe Spielberg was rejecting Kubrick’s penchant for pessimism in favor of suburban bliss, the zinger at the end of Showgirls was read by far too many viewers as an absolution of their own culpability in sealing Nomi’s dire fate. As a result, the film is now often celebrated for its campy excesses, but unfortunately not as widely celebrated for what seems a very clear, conventional, and humanistic sensibility. Ultimately, Showgirls is one of the most honest satires of recent years because, as Noël Burch wrote in the aforementioned FQ roundtable, it “takes mass culture seriously, as a site of both fascination and struggle. And it takes despised melodrama seriously too, as indeed an excellent vehicle for social criticism.” Unfortunately, the critical and public brickbats thrown at Showgirls (to say nothing of the hosannas foisted upon those concurrent Austen travesties) demonstrates that most prefer satire when it’s dealing with the distant past to the extent that one can feel morally superior to the subject of ridicule without recognizing oneself in the mix. I can’t decide whether it’s a sad comment on the vapidity of pop culture or merely a reflection of business-as-usual that VH1’s “I Love the 90s” series studiously ignored including the film in its year-by-year roundup (it certainly inspired as big a shitstorm as the Snapple Lady, for God’s sake). But it’s an understandable omission, since Showgirls is truly one of the only 90s films that treats pop culture as a vibrant field of social economics and cerebral pursuit, and not merely tomorrow’s nostalgia-masturbation fodder. Image/Sound It looks better than a 10-inch dick and you know it. I hesitate to say the image has been cleaned up, per se, because…well, you know, newly visible snail trails and all. Plus the previous DVD edition of the movie was pretty sparkling. But a double check proves there’s no comparison. As Robert Christgau once wrote about Janet Jackson’s janet., “the difference between hearing it on a cheap box and a booming system is the difference between daydreaming about sex and having somebody’s crack in your face,” only swap “booming system” for “state of the art 1080p display.” Conversely, the sound will have you sticking your crack in someone else’s face. At less than $30 retail, this Blu-ray’s got low self-esteem, baby. It’s a fantastic fuck. However, the extra features are merely sloppy seconds. Good thing they were so memorable the first time around. I share Ed’s reservations about David Schmader’s “so bad it’s good” read on the movie, but I can’t say I’d honestly rather listen to someone like, oh, me jaw on about postmodernism, auteurism, and the Dream Factory in Schmader’s stead. Not while Rena Riffel is visibly thanking her lucky stars she wasn’t handed the line requiring her to spell “MGM” backwards. Ultimately, Schmader’s stance on the movie is exactly what a definitive video release needs. However, there’s a fine line between sleaze and skeeze, and I’d argue the beyond-generous footage of the “world-famous” Scores girls stepping off to Elizabeth Berkley’s pole cred crosses it. Everything else that was previously served up on the V.I.P. Edition makes a repeat performance here, aside from the treasure chest of shot glasses, pasties, and other gag gifts. That’s fine. I think we’ve all grown up enough that we can take in Showgirls without the use of toys. The surgically enhanced Blu-ray edition of Showgirls is so good I can hardly thread a needle. Cast: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, Gina Ravera, Lin Tucci, Greg Travis, Al Ruscio, Patrick Bristow, William Shockley, Michelle Johnston, Dewey Weber, Rena Riffel, Melissa Williams, Ungela Brockman, Melinda Songer Director: Paul Verhoeven Screenwriter: Joe Eszterhas Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment Running Time: 131 min Rating: NC-17 Year: 1995 Release Date: June 15, 2010 Buy: Video We’re committed to keeping our content free and accessible—meaning no paywalls or subscription fees—so if you like what we do, please consider becoming a SLANT patron: DVD Review: Close-Up DVD Review: When in Rome Blu-ray Review: David Lynch’s Blue Velvet on the Criterion Collection Review: Giant Little Ones Understands the Complexities of Sexual Desire Review: High Flying Bird Takes Swing at the Exploitation of Black Men in Sports Dumont’s philosophical tragi-comedy receives a gorgeous 4K digital restoration and insightful range of contextualizing interviews. Clayton Dillard If Bruno Dumont’s La Vie de Jésus is something of a horror film about the failure of empathy, L’Humanité is its comedic B-side, taking an equally horrific scenario and examining it through the perspective of a bumbling police force. Yet as is typically the case with Dumont, his sense of comedy isn’t straightforward. When police inspector Pharaon De Winter (Emmanuel Schotté) rejoices after receiving a hug from his friend and secret crush, Domino (Séverine Caneele), the man sits in a chair rattling his fists up and down after she leaves the room—a spectacle that doesn’t suggest a moment of triumph so much as a fit. That this scene occurs not long after an 11-year-old girl is found raped and murdered in a nearby field demonstrates part of Dumont’s dissonant sensibilities. The oddity of Pharaon’s behavior coexists in a world with unfathomable brutality, something the film views less as a contradiction than a defining feature of human nature. Dumont’s filmography is practically a study of faces, and that fixation is especially prominent here. The characters in L’Humanité wear blank or neutral expressions, and Dumont’s camera lingers on these visages as if waiting for people to remove their skins and reveal their true selves. It’s a visual choice that can be understood as a commentary on the characters’ alienation. Since Dumont works with non-professional actors with highly distinctive facial features, close-ups complement the viewer’s contemplation of these lonely souls rather than gauging a character’s reaction to someone or something in their immediate surroundings. L’Humanité opens with a wide shot of Pharaon running across the Bailleul countryside, and as in La Vie de Jésus, the rural setting projects an image of innocence about to be upended by violence. Sex also factors into this film’s equation. Shortly after greeting Domino and her lover (Philippe Tullier), Pharaon walks in on the couple having intercourse on the floor, staring at them in expressionless silence. When Domino later reprimands him for “getting an eyeful,” it’s less out of anger than conviviality. While Dumont consistently awakens a Hitchcockian dimension within his work as it pertains to the pleasure of looking, ready-made psychological explanations for such behavior remain out of reach to both characters and viewers. Like Pharaon, Domino also likes to watch. Indeed, one of L’Humanité’s indelible images is a recurring close-up of Domino casting her eyes onto something or someone within eyeshot. While at a beach, she’s introduced to a handsome male friend of Pharaon’s wearing Speedo trunks. As Domino’s eyes move toward the man’s groin, the camera catches him noticing her stare. Once Domino realizes he’s aware of her gaze, she averts her eyes. To what extent Domino is either aroused or absent-mindedly looking at the man remains ambiguous, but it’s nevertheless clear that L’Humanité makes a thematic drumbeat out of its characters’ preoccupation with staring. While this at times comes to feel redundant, Dumont’s refusal to give his characters reducible motivations is as mysterious as it is refreshing. In one of the film’s most obtuse depictions of people staring, Pharaon becomes entranced by the large, reddened neck of his police commissioner (Chislain Ghesquère) while the pair drive across the countryside. Whatever Pharaon’s interest in the man’s body, the close-up reveals his skin as an abstract, nearly indiscernible image. In this instance, all we see, in effect, is blood covered by a thin layer of flesh. These grotesque implications reducing human beings to meat might recall the paintings of Francis Bacon, particularly 1936’s Abstraction from the Human Form. That Pharaon is a descendent of the 19th-century painter Pharaon De Winter—and even lends some of De Winter’s paintings for an exhibition to a nearby gallery halfway through the film—makes explicit the linkage between L’Humanité and artifice. Because Pharaon stares at these paintings with the same expression he offers to the world, we’re further made aware that we’re not merely, as viewers, gazing upon the lives of real people. Dumont reconciles each character’s personal desire through his own cultural and artistic means, something the natural world, in all its incomprehensible vastness, cannot afford them. Criterion’s Blu-ray release of L’Humanité boasts a clean image abundant in striking details. Outdoor shots evince vibrant colors, with the smallest of nuances, such as the individual bricks of buildings, appearing well-detailed way back into the farthest reaches of the frame. While the DTS-HD surround track is a tad muted overall, the classical music at the start and close of the film is forcefully mixed, and dialogue is clear throughout. As on Criterion’s La Vie de Jésus release, the extras here largely consist of interviews with Bruno Dumont from across the past 20 years. In the newest one, conducted this year by Criterion, Dumont discusses how the conclusion of his prior film inspired him to write L’Humanité. In fact, he had intended to have the same actor, Jean-Claude Lefebvre, who played a police inspector in La Vie de Jésus, reprise his role here, and when he declined, Dumont revised Pharaon De Winter around Emmanuel Schotté, who would go on to win best actor for his performance at the Cannes Film Festival. The second interview, conducted by film critic Philippe Rouyer in 2014, is a deeper dive into the film’s production history. Here, Dumont explains how he collaborates with his actors to significantly shape his characters’ behaviors, all the way down to the use of groans and sighs. The pair also discuss how Dumont approaches character psychology from a visual perspective. And the final interview is a segment from a 1999 French television news program, with Dumont walking the streets of Bailleul and explaining how he shoots. Rounding things out is a segment from a 2000 episode of Tendances featuring actress Séverine Caneele, a trailer, and an essay by critic Nicholas Elliott that, among other things, traces some of the film’s art-historical references. This Blu-ray of Bruno Dumont’s philosophical tragi-comedy boasts a gorgeous 4K digital restoration and insightful range of contextualizing interviews. Cast: Emmanuel Schotté, Séverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier, Ghislain Ghesquère, Ginette Allègre Director: Bruno Dumont Screenwriter: Bruno Dumont Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 148 min Rating: NR Year: 1999 Release Date: June 18, 2019 Buy: Video This package is the perfect opportunity to revisit a paragon of mid-aughts mumblecore cinema. Nick Schager and Derek Smith Andrew Bujalski’s best attribute as a filmmaker isn’t his much-heralded ability to reproduce the idiomatic lingo of his stuck-in-neutral twentysomething subjects—who, to these ears, sound a bit too self-consciously aimless and uncomfortable to pass as authentic—but, rather, his knack for unearthing subtle insights about interpersonal relations from meandering, semi-improvisational dialogue. A modest step up from Bujalski’s breakthrough 2002 film Funny Ha Ha, which is acknowledged as the first mumblecore film, Mutual Appreciation reveals discerning truths about post-college anomie through a carefully arranged narrative structured around casual ellipses and sly symmetries, whether it be the juxtaposition of one evening’s dissimilar drunken parties or its pair of gender-role-reversal scenarios (one involving a man reading a woman’s short story, the other marked by some sloshed cross-dressing). Though often compared to Cassavetes—an association reinforced by Mutual Appreciation’s bargain-basement black-and-white 16mm cinematography—Bujalski makes films that simmer rather than seethe. His sweet, stuttering protagonists are based on, and played by, friends—all defined by their lack of direction, fear of obligation, and refusal to grow up. Reticence is the predominant tone struck by this tale of indie-rocker Alan (Justin Rice, co-founder of the band Bishop Allen), who, having moved from Boston to Brooklyn to jumpstart his career, develops a reciprocated crush on Ellie (Rachel Clift), the journalist girlfriend of his grad school buddy, Lawrence (Bujalski). As for the talkative action, it’s dominated by a sense of people willfully muting emotional expression in order to evade confronting potentially troublesome truths. Articulations of genuine feelings are coded within rambling discussions about everything and nothing. As such, when something meaningful is stated—as in Alan arguing in favor of creating a community of kindred spirits “willing to do stuff” for each other, or Ellie confessing that “the problem with Lawrence is that he’s not the master of his own destiny”—the respite from the characters’ usual avoidance tactics is bracing. Throughout, Bujalski seems to self-reflexively comment on his own stylistic quirks, from Ellie overtly addressing a particular “long, awkward pause” to Alan saying, in an apparent jab at Mutual Appreciation’s peculiar rhythms, that he hates math rock’s “weird beats and time signatures.” Yet solipsistic as it may occasionally be, Bujalski’s sharp sophomore effort—courtesy of its perceptive, heartfelt humanism—ultimately makes such self-infatuation more infectious than off-putting. The new 2K restoration, from which this transfer is sourced, offers an image quality with far more depth and sharpness than what’s typically afforded to home-video releases of the low-budget, mumblecore films of the aughts. A good deal of grain remains from the 16mm negative, preserving the film’s raw integrity. There’s also a nice balance in the contrast between blacks and whites, with exterior scenes looking neither too bright nor blown out and interiors never overly dark. The sound is clean and evenly mixed and the dialogue is easy to understand even when characters trip over their words or talk over one another. In an appropriately low-key, clever commentary track, parents of various cast and crew members offer up an array of observations, complaints, and dad jokes. Very much in the spirit of the film, these off-the-cuff comments abound in charmingly awkward attempts at humor and amateurish stabs at interpreting Mutual Appreciation. There are moments of genuine insight, but it’s primarily a light-hearted addendum to the film, with some choice moments of parental disappointment, whether it’s a bit actor’s parents complaining about how the framing leaves their son off screen for most of his 20-second appearance to another parent declaring, “Well, this, we know, is just solipsistic masturbation.” A 30-minute interview with Andrew Bujalski provides insight into his working process and the ways it did and didn’t change as he began to work with bigger budgets and stars in the years since Mutual Appreciation’s release. The disc also includes Bujalski’s 2007 short film People’s House, which serves as a companion piece to this film, essays by Damien Chazelle and singer-songwriter Will Sheff, and, in an unexpected nod to Elvira, a low-def, tongue-in-cheek intro by “Vampira.” Arbelos Films’s sturdy 2K transfer and a scrappy assortment of extras present the perfect opportunity to revisit a paragon of mid-aughts mumblecore cinema. Cast: Justin Rice, Rachel Clift, Andrew Bujalski, Seung-Min Lee, Pamela Corkey, Kevin Micka, Ralph Tyler, Peter Pentz, Bill Morrison, Tamara Luzeckyj, Mary Varn, Kate Dollenmayer Director: Andrew Bujalski Screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski Distributor: Arbelos Films Running Time: 110 min Rating: R Year: 2005 Release Date: June 11, 2019 Buy: Video Kino’s Blu-ray brings the film’s shoestring-budget beauty to life with an exceptional new transfer. Jake Cole Much has been said of the overwhelming ingenuity of Jean-Luc Godard’s early films, but less so about just how well the director knew how to work around budgetary limitations. Alphaville, a dystopian sci-fi noir set in an Orwellian world of omnipresent surveillance run by a malevolent artificial intelligence, sounds at first blush like a large-scale work filled with the sort of macro world-building one typically sees in blockbusters. But Godard, working with next to no resources, captures the oppressiveness of totalitarian government through the claustrophobic conditions of repressed citizens. Ordinary Parisian streets and buildings are captured as they are, though in inky shadow, so that a certain kind of present-day dilapidation comes to suggest futuristic social decay. Godard takes private detective Lemmy Caution and illustrates the film’s themes of social tension and incipient fascism by demolishing the man’s image. Godard secured Eddie Constantine, who had already played Caution in a number of films as a James Bond-esque rake whose chauvinism was portrayed as roguish and charming. Here, however, Constantine plays Caution as a somber has-been, a caustic loner in his twilight whose pathetic weariness is further emphasized by Godard forbidding the actor to wear makeup, preferring to capture every wrinkle and blemish on his face. When Godard does nominally adhere to the tropes one might expect from a Caution caper, the filmmaker does so in the most parodic of ways, as in an early action scene in which a hitman springs out of nowhere in Caution’s hotel room, leading to a brutal scuffle where all diegetic sound drops out and is replaced by elegant, lilting classical music, until noise comes crashing in as the would-be killer and hero are sent through a series of glass doors. It’s a gag worthy of a Jerry Lewis film. In mixing elements of noir and science fiction, Godard doubles down on the existential horror of both genres, emphasizing their common emotional detachment through a narrative involving a supercomputer, Alpha 60, that rules over a realm, Alphaville, in which human emotions like love are punishable by death. That premise anticipates future tech-noir features like Leos Carax’s Mauvais Sang, and the rapport between Caution, so grizzled but still full of longing, and a thoroughly brainwashed, deadpan young woman, Natacha (Anna Karina), has the same kind of mutually dispassionate but compelling quasi-romance that Harrison Ford and Sean Young shared as androids performing love in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. One of the least energetic of Godard’s New Wave films, Alphaville nonetheless evinces his puckish wit and allusive modernism. Caution frequently engages in conversations with Alpha 60, which articulates its thoughts through a growling voice box and decries human illogic while also largely reciting lines that Godard cribbed from the work of Jorge Luis Borges. In one scene, rebels who refuse to live in a world without love are executed by firing squad next to a pool where swimmers calmly perform laps below the machine-gun fire. At its heart, though, the film’s tension between emotion and logic epitomizes the early internal conflict of intellectualism and love that suffuses Godard’s early work. And, in one of the supercomputer’s Borges quotations, the film lays out the thesis that would undergird all phases of Godard’s search for unified truths: “Sometimes reality can be too complex to be conveyed by the spoken word. Legend remoulds it into a form that can be spread all across the world.” Kino Lorber’s disc, sourced from a 4K transfer, is a revelatory presentation of a film that often seemed one of the least visually dynamic of Godard’s early career. Raoul Coutard’s cinematography, shot under incredibly difficult lighting conditions, has always appeared heavily grained and crushed on home video, but here the full beauty of his images is on fabulous display. Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina’s faces are rich with texture, blacks sink into abyssal levels of darkness without crushing, and outdoor location shot boast a healthy distribution of grain that never compromises detail. The robust-sounding audio is so clear that it’s now easier than ever to understand Alpha 60 supercomputer’s musings. An audio commentary track by novelist and film historian Tim Lucas provides ample details about Alphaville and its place among both Godard’s filmography and the series of Lemmy Caution films, but Lucas’s dry, fact-based approach skirts a deeper, more formal analysis of Godard’s methods. A brief interview with Karina finds the actress recounting her memories of working on Alphaville. Most memorable is her amusing recollection that Coutard was so anxious about shooting in such dark lighting conditions that he couldn’t bear to look at the film’s dailies. An introduction by critic Colin McCabe provides a cursory but probing look into some of Godard’s techniques while not giving too much away. Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi curio is a fascinating outlier in his New Wave period, and Kino’s Blu-ray brings its shoestring-budget beauty to life with an exceptional new transfer. Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff Director: Jean-Luc Godard Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard Distributor: Kino Lorber Running Time: 99 min Rating: NR Year: 1965 Release Date: July 9, 2019 Buy: Video These films are as elegant as they are expansive, acutely perceptive and operatic in their high emotions. Niles Schwartz Photo: Paramount Pictures In approaching his adaptation of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola has said that he saw the story as “the tale of a great king,” Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), who passed the best and worst of him to his three sons: passionate and aggressive Sonny (James Caan); sweet, childlike Fredo (John Cazale); and intelligent and cunning Michael (Al Pacino). Coppola’s archetypal sensibility is the hook that makes The Godfather trilogy so compelling, an emotional buttress that registers deeply through the thorny convolutions of each film’s narrative. Indeed, one of the remarkable things about The Godfather—commensurate with Brando’s marble-mouthed performance—is how the emotional clarity of this one family’s story so powerfully emanates through the soup of business and politics. The Godfather sees the Corleone clan struggling to hold ground on a battlefield peppered with memorable antagonists: narcotics entrepreneur Virgil Sollozzo (Al Lettieri), corrupt police Captain Mark McCluskey (Sterling Hayden), duplicitous rival mafioso Emilio Barzini (Richard Conte), stubborn Hollywood producer Jack Woltz (John Marley), ruthless Las Vegas high roller Moe Greene (Alex Rocco), to say nothing of the sundry turncoats within the Corleone family. The film’s canvas is a crowded one, and at its center is a rite of passage: the aging Don Vito handing the reins of the family business over to the reluctant Michael, the black sheep who wants nothing more than to be part of the great American melting pot. During the film’s opening, which depicts the wedding of Vito’s daughter, Connie (Talia Shire), Michael is introduced to us in military fatigues, with his blond-haired, WASPy girlfriend, Kay Adams (Diane Keaton), on his arm. And by the film’s end, he’s embraced the shadows outside of bourgeois American life. As he says at the beginning of The Godfather Part II, officially sanctioned politics and nefarious organized crime are both part of the same hypocrisy. Throughout Connie’s wedding, the vividness of Coppola’s characterizations allows us to quickly understand how this particular family learned to thrive in a distinct American subculture. Meanwhile, consigliere (and adopted Corleone son) Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) exists to fill us in on the ins and outs of how New York’s crime families negotiate power. The gestures, glances, and tonal registers between siblings position The Godfather as a primal story of love and devotion between a father and his children, and how siblings square off with each other in trying to live up to their father’s regality. And as Caan’s ferocity plays off of Duvall’s lawyerly reason and Pacino’s exacting coolness, we’re effortlessly swept up in the intimate emotional currents that flow beneath the power machinations of a dynastic family. Partly set in 1958, The Godfather: Part II amplifies this complicated interplay as Michael secures his criminal empire in Nevada’s casinos and works toward setting up operations in Havana. In a memorably winking scene, old-time capo Frank Pentangeli (Michael V. Gazzo) requests tarantella music to be played at the Corleone Lake Tahoe compound during the celebration of Michael’s son’s first communion, but the band instead plays “Pop Goes the Weasel.” Senator Pat Geary (G.D. Spradlin) gives a speech thanking Michael for his contributions to the state. Kay is pregnant with their third child, and Michael aims to have a family as propitious as his father’s. But there’s a revolution brewing in Cuba, and political committees are cracking down on the mafia. More intimately, Kay is distressed about bringing more children into an apparatus strewn with corruption. Dancing with Michael, she brings up a conversation they had in a scene from the first film. “You told me in five years the Corleone family would be completely legitimate. That was seven years ago.” Michael’s conflicts in The Godfather: Part II are connected to the past as much as to the present. The burden of history is represented by the avuncular though treacherous Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg), who did business with Michael’s father, and Frank, who’s uncomfortable with how Michael is straying from the family’s Sicilian roots. Also at the heart of the film is the story of the younger Vito (Robert De Niro), who finds himself embroiled in a war with the governing mafia chieftain Fanucci (Gastone Moschin) after arriving in America. Throughout, Michael’s spiritual entropy is intercut with Vito’s ascendancy 30 years earlier, and while both men act to preserve their families, it’s telling how Coppola contrasts the father’s warmth with the son’s sclerotic obtuseness (ironically akin to the patriarchs with whom Vito does battle). By the end, Vito’s power is secured, his fall into criminality established as the means by which he protects his family. Michael also secures his power, but at the cost of his brother Fredo’s life, as the latter unwittingly betrayed Michael by colluding with Roth. The Godfather: Part II is as elegant as it is expansive, acutely perceptive and operatic in his high emotions. Its story is more complicated than that of the first film, almost to the precipice of becoming a muddle. For one, it’s never really made clear what exactly is going on between Fredo and Roth’s organization, other than securing some information about Michael’s compound for an assassination attempt, or what’s the backstory of Frank’s relationship to Roth’s malevolent partners, Tony (Danny Aiello) and Carmine Rosato (Carmine Caridi). But such muddiness doesn’t matter in a film so magnificently constructed, where the tenderness of De Niro’s Vito seems to linger through the conspiracies and betrayals woven by Michael, the now-dead father hanging over Michael’s final confrontation with Fredo, a scene where Cazale’s tremulous id almost bursts through the man’s forehead, voicing his demand for respect with an afterglow of understanding his own inadequacies. Michael looms and Fredo struggles to stand up for himself while still inextricably tied to his chair, and Coppola orchestrates one of the most dramatically compelling scenes in American cinema. Released in 1990, The Godfather: Part III may be considered a tragi-ironic commentary on the cultural clout of the first two films, which influenced how the public thought about the mafia but also how the mafia thought about itself. Set in 1979—or a few years after the first two films were released—Coppola’s trilogy caper emphasizes a performativity in everyday life that was absent from the more authentic dramas of its predecessors. The story begins with a sham Catholic ritual for Michael, now a billionaire businessman, being given a papal pin “for his charitable work,” which in actuality relates to a shady transaction with Vatican bankers, and concludes with a staggering half-hour sequence in an opera house, with Coppola magnificently cutting between action off and on stage to the music of Mascagni. Reality and performance grandly intersect throughout The Godfather: Part III, with the actors posturing like performers on a stage, as if they were indeed characters in an opera. Take the the grandiose gesturing between Shire’s Connie and volatile Corleone heir Vincent (Andy Garcia) as he takes her hand with gusto and kisses it. Or the “bella figura” Gotti-like Joey Zasa (Joe Mantegna) and how he loves to cavort in front of photographers and reporters, contributing to the spectacle of himself. Eli Wallach’s performance as the duplicitous Don Altobello may initially feel strenuously affected, but his theatrical magniloquence comes to feel more than apt; Coppola shows Altobello in his opera box singing and pantomiming along with the performers on stage, as if to say that there’s no demarcation between life and theater for this two-faced crook. Reconciling with Kay, Michael brings a knife to his throat and says, “Give me the order!” It’s then that Kay, the one figure who sees through Michael’s fronts, grimaces. He drops the knife and chuckles apologetically, “We’re in Sicily. It’s opera.” The way Coppola and his actors approach performance brings up the controversy of Sofia Coppola’s casting as Michael’s doomed daughter, Mary. Her line readings are sometimes flat, and at other times awkward. But in contrast to the other players, she’s startlingly pure, her unseasoned candor making her tragic function in the story more heart-wrenching. There’s an unexpected feeling of truth as she delivers her last line (“Dad?”) on the steps outside the opera house, breaking up the theatrical masquerade over which Michael has presided. Coppola gives his tragedy a twist that goes beyond King Lear, one of his film’s models. Michael, unlike Lear weeping at the death of his beloved Cordelia, doesn’t die of grief. Rather, it’s implied that he lingers on for years, alone in the company of despair and sorrow. Michael kneels at his slain daughter’s corpse and finally cracks, raising his head and howling his sorrow before passing out. The unchecked emotional nakedness is out of step with the rest of the trilogy, almost breaking the fourth wall. Keaton, Shire, Garcia, and George Hamilton’s characters suddenly break from their grieving and look at Michael with what feels like baffled surprise. Coppola’s trilogy begins by observing the charade of American ideals and institutions. He ends it outside a theater, the horror in Michael’s scream breaking apart the compound of lies and artifice this arch American criminal has built around his heart. In this one moment, the opera is over and the consequences of reality are made manifest. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Trilogy: Corleone Legacy Edition is now available on Blu-ray from Paramount Home Entertainment. Criterion resurrects one of the great debut features of the last 25 years with an impressive 4K transfer and informative extras. Bruno Dumont’s La Vie de Jésus provides the occasion to contemplate how approaches to kindness and justice work on a philosophical level. As Paul Bloom explains in his 2016 book Against Empathy, the “morally corrosive” influence of empathy sometimes prompts an immediate action that overlooks the long-term effects of said action. Dumont creates scenarios that are farsighted in their scope; the basic story of Freddy (David Douche), an epileptic teenager harboring racist resentment toward Kader (Kader Chaatouf), his North African peer, prompts us to see how empathy fails at getting to the root cause of what precipitates Freddy’s violent acts. It’s not that Freddy lacks the ability to see Kader as human; it’s that the cultural foundation of Bailleul, a small French town, is shackled by the strictures of racial and sexual repression. Not that Dumont is shy about depicting sexual contact. In fact, Freddy’s relationship with Marie (Marjorie Cottreel), another local teenager, is steadily reduced to an entirely physical state of being. This culminates in a close-up of Freddy’s erect penis thrusting in and out of Marie’s vagina; in this moment, the hardcore sex act is offered by Dumont not as an empty provocation, but a commentary on bourgeois skittishness over representations of sex. When Kader and Marie start seeing each other, Freddy irrationally targets Kader for violence. Like the murderous brother in Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers, Freddy only knows physical cruelty as a response to being threatened by his own desire because he cannot articulate his response in any other manner. While Dumont allows Freddy’s precise feelings to remain mostly unspoken, the implication is that Freddy’s been conditioned by his community to be ashamed of his sexual impulses. When shame meets anger, violence ensues. Dumont’s debut feature draws upon conventions of neorealism and documentary by employing non-professional actors in all of its roles, but its stylistic traits are closer to the formalist cinema of Robert Bresson, also known for working with first-time actors in nearly each of his films. Like Bresson, Dumont stages shots to highlight their flatness and the base elements of any given action. These visual choices create the sensation that we’re encountering more a tableau of reality than anything approaching documentary realism. This is especially evident in Dumont’s depiction of Freddy’s mother, Yvette (Geneviève Cottreel), who owns a local pub and seems to do little more than watch the news on a small television set. Early in La Vie de Jésus, the woman sees what appears to be a dead body in an unspecified African location. “What a shame,” she mutters, expressing nominal concern when faced with the evidence of global catastrophe that she believes has no immediate impact on her life. Later, she musters a similar response when Freddy goes to see Cloclo, a friend who’s dying of AIDS. Yvette only approaches the point of outrage when reprimanding Freddy for not having a job. Dumont is foremost concerned with depicting how the nagging worries of quotidian life steadily contribute to the absence of culture, the death of art, and abuses of power that, above all, leave the impoverished destitute. Yet, despite viewing Yvette through a critical lens, Dumont isn’t blaming her for the violence her son will soon commit; rather, he’s juxtaposing the people of Bailleul against a series of problems, whether local or global, that seem to have no immediate solution. This approach has been deemed by some critics as lacking in compassion, but Dumont’s intent is to soberly reflect on the complex ways that hate is fostered by collective forms of ignorance. Dumont demonstrates, too, how passivity maintains tradition as a form of oppression. Freddy and his friends, who effectively patrol the countryside on their motorbikes, also mock Kader and his family under their breath with religious chants and racial epithets inside a café without reprimand. Later, after Freddy and his friends have committed a heinous act, a police officer (Alain Lenancker) questions the boy, asking if he doesn’t like “Arabs.” Dumont stages the exchange to amplify its procedural nature, with the officer’s back to Freddy throughout the interrogation. Freddy, inarticulate and surrounded by authority figures who are themselves relying on a limited vocabulary to define criminal acts, is the product of a culture that has neglected to discover the essence of its own existence. Criterion presents La Vie de Jésus in a pristine 4K digital restoration. The wide outdoor shots boast vibrant colors and detail-rich depth of field; as Freddy rides his motorcycle throughout the countryside, the surrounding trees and grass intensely radiate green. Scenes set in indoor spaces also boast significant clarity and excellent focus. Given how important faces are to Dumont’s style of filmmaking, this transfer is especially notable for how close-ups reveal the pores of actors’ faces. The monaural soundtrack is clean and clearly audible throughout. The bulk of the extras consist of interviews with Dumont from different years since the film’s release. In the most recent one, conducted by Criterion in 2019, Dumont explains how his background in industrial films prepared him to make La Vie de Jésus. He also spends ample time considering the philosophical basis for his filmmaking, saying that he views his work as “metaphorical representations of the inner experience of human nature.” The filmmaker also discusses the failure of popular cinema to become anything more than a product for mass consumption. The second interview, a lengthy talk with critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014, sees Dumont digging even deeper into how he tries to reconcile “the coexistence of different sets of values.” And the final one consists of excerpts from two 1997 episodes of the French television program Le cercle de minuit, during which Dumont talks about society being racist and how his job as a filmmaker is to “rattle the cage.” Rounding things out are the film’s trailer and an essay by critic Nicholas Elliott on Dumont’s distinctive visual style. Criterion resurrects one of the great debut features of the last 25 years with an impressive 4K transfer and an informative grouping of supplements. Cast: David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Kader Chaatouf, Sébastien Delbaere, Samuel Boidin, Geneviève Cottreel, Alain Lenancker Director: Bruno Dumont Screenwriter: Bruno Dumont Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 96 min Rating: NR Year: 1997 Release Date: June 18, 2019 Buy: Video Criterion offers what should prove to be a definitive transfer of a pivotal and still overwhelmingly intimate David Lynch film. Chuck Bowen The most direct metaphor in David Lynch’s canon arrives early on in his 1986 landmark film Blue Velvet. After an opening credits sequence set against blue velvet curtains and accompanied by Angelo Badalamenti’s swooning score, Lynch offers up a montage of iconic images of Americana, including gleaming white picket fences, a fire truck with a dog, and roses that gleam with a feverish red hue. Bobby Vinton’s version of the title song serves as the soundtrack to these images, and, with this song, Lynch signals both his yearning for and disbelief in this idyllic world—a conflict in emotions that would drive his subsequent film and television productions. In case this conflict is lost on viewers, Lynch ends his montage with a father collapsing from a malady as he waters his front yard, and the camera homes in on blades of grass, pressing further into the ground until we can see black insects festering underneath the surface. It’s too simple to say that Lynch yearns for a society that could be likened to that of The Andy Griffith Show’s Mayberry, even though much of his work is a viscerally textural paean to vintage American manners and artifacts. The 1950s-era puritanism that partially drives Blue Velvet and its TV offspring, Twin Peaks, would most likely bore Lynch on its own. Lynch is attracted to duality, to the contrast of the sweet and sour textures of purity and perversity, and Blue Velvet was the filmmaker’s first pure articulation of this desire. The film is also one of the definitive explorations between the cultural links of the ‘50s and ‘80s. In the ‘80s, American horror cinema was mining the communist paranoia of the ‘50s, indulging in violence that at one point could only be implied. These films now play as a reaction to how President Ronald Reagan exploited America’s yearning for a return to a golden age, a dream version of an earlier time cleansed of various atrocities, such as internment camps and hate crimes. Reagan was selling a fantasy while committing his own atrocities, such as ignoring the ravages of AIDS on the gay community, while Lynch and other directors, such as John Carpenter and David Cronenberg, were telling a kind of truth. Of course, Lynch voted for Reagan, which perhaps testifies to the intense pull of the sunny-side-up portion of his fantasy world. And, indeed, Lynch has always understood a primordial and insidious human quality: the satisfaction of conformation—of successfully following social rules regardless of their potential implications, and committing to a mythology of country. In Blue Velvet, this idea is most beautifully embodied by the scenes between Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) and Sandy (Laura Dern). Jeffrey is a college student who returns to the small, woodsy town of Lumberton following his father’s hospitalization, and Sandy is a high school senior with a father (George Dickerson) in law enforcement. Investigating the mystery of a severed ear that Jeffrey discovers in a field, the couple regularly meets at a diner, drinking sodas and, in Jeffrey’s case, eating what appears to be a grilled cheese and fries. The pleasure that Lynch takes in the old-fashioned-ness of all this, with Jeffrey and Sandy playing a variation of the Hardy Boys, is palpable. (These scenes are so overwhelmingly earnest that certain critics missed the point, describing them as shrilly satirical.) With his father, Tom (Jack Harvey), immobilized, Jeffrey confronts his blossoming adulthood, and so Sandy partially represents his yearning to return to the simplicity of high school, which suggests the longing for an idealized dimension that drives, at large, this production that’s so resolutely set in a timeless dimension and abounds in obsessive fairy-tale imagery that suggests an X-rated Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger production. Yet Jeffrey’s also a man now, and most men need more than nostalgic puppy love. Drifting away from Sandy, the ear leads Jeffrey into an underworld, to Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rosellini), a tormented lounge singer who’s the plutonic ideal of the male fantasy of the experienced older woman, who’s forced to sing “Blue Velvet” over and over in a club with an ardor that rivals Vinton himself. Where Sandy is gorgeous in a trim, blonde, idyllic “prom queen” way, Dorothy is a bruised brunette with ripe red lipstick (it matches the roses from the film’s first scene), a chipped tooth, and a sensual fleshiness that knocks the film off its naïve axis. Dorothy’s apartment, which is of course on the wrong side of the tracks, is one of Blue Velvet’s many masterpieces of irrational set design. Primarily represented by the oval shape of a living room that segues into a small kitchen, the apartment abounds in deep reds, blues, and blacks that are morbid as well as titillating, explicitly suggesting a strip club’s back room while subliminally representing a womb. This set somewhat prepares us for the film’s audacious tonal U-turn. When Jeffrey wanders into this apartment, the sense of danger is intense, yet Lynch surpasses all expectations with what is still the wildest set piece of his career. Peeping on Dorothy from behind the wall of her closet, after she’s already caught him, threatened him with a knife, and explored the possibility of going down on him, Jeffrey watches as this woman is tortured by Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), who beats her and calls her “mommy” before getting high on gas and stuffing a blue velvet sash in each of their mouths and savagely fucking her. Though the scene is symbolic—as Robin Wood stipulated, the sash suggests an umbilical cord, while also echoing the lost innocence of the Vinton song—it’s also unhinged, exorcising fantasies that Lynch can barely keep a handle on. Sex in mainstream cinema has rarely felt this intimate and defiant of what we’re supposed to find erotic, which is why Blue Velvet was controversial upon its release, and would probably be even more so were it to first be seen in 2019. To an extent, Dorothy gets off on Frank’s abuse, and she subsequently attempts, in her affair with Jeffrey, to assume a Frank-like role, taking control of their sex and goading Jeffrey to tap his inner reservoir for violence. When Jeffrey eventually beats Dorothy, Lynch films the action in extreme slow motion, with what sounds like animal roars on the soundtrack. Lynch dramatizes a fissure in Jeffrey’s sense of who he is, as he plumbs his propensity for darkness. The film is, at its root, a coming-of-age tale that’s unusually connected to the dirtier and messier implications of self-knowledge. There’s almost nowhere for Blue Velvet to go after the scene between Dorothy, Jeffrey, and Frank in Dorothy’s apartment, which also suggests a fulfillment of the fantasies implicitly driving, say, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, where an ambiguous male hero also peeped in on imperiled women. This sexual-violent stand-off is what Lynch has been building to throughout Blue Velvet, as he’s bringing to the fore the damage, allure, rot, exploitation, and sick hunger that exist under Lumberton’s tableaux of neat, asexual domesticity and under much of vaguely sexualized pop culture at large. The film subsequently follows what is a fairly straightforward mystery-thriller template, though ecstatic details and images continue to pop up, and there’s one other extraordinary scene. Frank and his goons kidnap Dorothy and Jeffrey and take them to the inner sanctum of Ben (Dean Stockwell), a terrifyingly fey and polite gangster who dances and lip synchs to Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams,” enjoying the kind of expressive catharsis that appears to be impossible for Frank, a frustration that’s probably at the center of his insanity. Many critics have commented on the inverse relationship between Sandy and Dorothy, the respective women of day and night who would initiate an ongoing Lynch obsession, but Frank also suggests an inverse of Jeffrey: a man-child who never reckoned with his desires, until they erupted out of him in a torrent of cruelty and obscenity. Even one of Ben’s prostitutes enjoys a moment of lonely grace, dancing on top of Frank’s car outside of a factory as “In Dreams” is reprised. Blue Velvet’s mixture of pop-cultural fetishizing and extreme and occasionally ironic brutality would prove to be monumentally inspirational to cinema, as there’s a weird kick to Lynch’s mixture of banality, kink, and tragedy. Quentin Tarantino’s films, particularly Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, would be unimaginable without Blue Velvet, which would also serve as a roadmap for Lynch’s own career. Lynch is still obsessed with sexual perversity, with men’s historic torment of women, with various mystic and generic totems, and with the underbelly that secretly powers pop culture. After Blue Velvet and the first season of Twin Peaks, Lynch drifted away from traditional narrative, blurring plot points and character identities. He doubled down on his own brand of American surrealism, emphasizing beauty and decay as two halves of one coin. Blue Velvet’s happy ending—in which Sandy’s dream of robins casting evil away is realized—is deliberately unconvincing. Faced with a truth about himself, Jeffrey retreats to childish illusion, though Lynch continues to wrestle with his and our madness. Per the disc’s liner notes, this new transfer was created in 16-bit 4K resolution from the 35mm A/B negative and was supervised by David Lynch. The results are spectacular, with radiant colors and a purposefully soft grittiness that intensifies the film’s luridly dreamy feeling. Most important, though, is the profound weight and materiality of surface textures in this image, which is important to Lynch’s fetishistic aesthetic. All of Lynch’s pet obsessions—lamps, drapes, lipstick, food, smokestacks—practically pop off the screen. Two sound mixes are included here, a 5.1 and a 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio track, and, though I didn’t discern many major differences between them, they both have extraordinary depth, balance, and dimension, with an operatic level of attention paid to diegetic sounds. (When Jeffrey flushes a toilet, imperiling himself, the thing gurgles so magnificently as to suggest a moaning whale.) The most notable supplement here is a 54-minute collection of deleted scenes, which have been assembled by Lynch more or less in chronological order, suggesting an entire omitted opening act of Blue Velvet. The cut footage fleshes out Jeffrey’s reasons for returning to his hometown from college, and offers many more scenes of his aunt and mother (played by Frances Bay and Priscilla Pointer, respectively). These moments are fine on their own, and anticipate the purplish tone of Twin Peaks, but a three-hour cut of Blue Velvet that conventionally explored Jeffrey’s conflict over his sick father might’ve been disastrous, killing the narcotic pull of the film as it presently exists. There’s also an alternate introduction of Sandy that’s so tossed-off that it’s nearly banal, which is a significant contradiction of her iconic entrance in the final cut. One moment—in which Jeffrey and Dorothy ascend the roof of her apartment—is pure Lynchian poetry, though these scenes otherwise offer a primer on how a filmmaker whittled a rough cut down into something stark, mysterious, and essential. Also essential is “Blue Velvet Revisited,” an 89-minute documentary by director Peter Braatz that uses free-associative editing to offer a one-of-kind portrait of the film’s production. Braatz includes stock footage, intimate still photos, such as of Lynch taping the word “Lumberton” onto an ice truck, and uses interviews as a form of narration. (Isabella Rossellini’s thoughts on making the film should serve as a definitive refutation of Roger Ebert’s absurd and condescending review, in which he essentially implied that Rossellini was Lynch’s victim.) Meanwhile, “Mysteries of Love” is a more conventional archival documentary, with interviews with most of the film’s principal players, and a recording of Lynch reading from Room to Dream, the 2018 book he co-wrote with Kristine McKenna, includes stories that will probably be familiar to Lynch obsessives. An interview with composer Angelo Badalamenti, a look at the sets and props of Blue Velvet, and a booklet with an excerpt from Room to Dream round out one of Criterion’s strongest packages of the year. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, George Dickerson Director: David Lynch Screenwriter: David Lynch Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 120 min Rating: R Year: 1986 Release Date: May 28, 2019 Buy: Video, Soundtrack Bob le Flambeur, Le Doulos, and Leon Morin, Priest on Kino Lorber Blu-ray Kino’s Blu-ray releases help chart the crystallization of Jean-Pierre Melville’s distinctly rigorous style. Photo: Rialto Pictures From his first film, Le Silence de la Mer, Jean-Pierre Melville displayed a remarkable control of both atmosphere and pacing, generating suffocating dramatic tension with the most limited of means. His following two films—Les Enfants Terribles, an interesting, albeit misguided, collaboration with Jean Cocteau, and When You Read This Letter, a little seen romantic melodrama that the filmmaker disowned—are quite different. At one time, they almost suggested that Melville could have gone on to become a skilled journeyman, bouncing from genre to genre across his filmography. But the glimpse at the austere style Melville introduced in his debut would be re-introduced, and further chiseled and honed, once he began working in the genre he would master: the crime film. In Bob le Flambeur, Melville’s gaze shifts to the crime-ridden pockets of Paris that were often overlooked in French cinema. Serving as the predominant milieu of his films from this point forward, this seedy world—populated by crooks, prostitutes, drunks, and degenerates—is rife with ambiguities that blur the traditional lines between good and evil, with cops and criminals often co-mingling, even co-conspiring. Moral certitude is lost amid the ever-present clouds of cigarette smoke that fill the cheap bars where these nightcrawlers congregate. With Bob le Flambeur, Melville’s breezy weaving of location shooting and improvisational acting into the hardboiled tropes of American gangster films from the 1930s and ‘40s laid the groundwork not only for his evolving representation of film noir, but for the early classics of the French New Wave, most notably Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. But it’s Melville’s foregrounding of the role of fate in Bob le Flambeur, soon to become the most commonly recurring theme in the director’s canon, that marks the film as a truly distinct transition into the next phase of his career. From Bob’s (Roger Duchesne) first roll of the dice, the audience understands that the suave, smooth-talking gambler is, unbeknownst to him, reliant upon forces outside of himself for survival. He’s an ex-con who can only get his kicks with games of chance, yet, despite his addiction, he holds tightly to his moral code of “honor amongst thieves” and a view of the underworld that is as black and white as the checkered patterns that adorn both his apartment floor and the walls of the casino where he soon begins to hemorrhage money on a regular basis. Melville meticulously ratchets up the tension just as Bob’s luck begins to sour and his stringent code and icy demeanor brush up against the more lax approaches taken by the younger crop of hoods with which he’s now working. Before Bob’s last big heist plays out, the narrator dryly declares, “Now Bob will play his last hand and destiny will play out.” This feeling of impending doom renders the suspense both nerve-wracking and unusual, particularly because the audience, given knowledge of various betrayals, is all but certain that Bob’s plan will fail and is left to helplessly root for him to jump ship before it’s too late. Bob is a consummate professional, but he doesn’t realize the game’s being played with a stacked deck. Such is fate in Melville’s films. By his next Parisian-set noir, 1962’s Le Doulos, Melville’s aesthetic had crystallized into a more rigid, emotionally restrained and visually precise style. The jazzy, buoyant energy of Bob le Flambeur is replaced with an asceticism akin to that of Robert Bresson, with narrative and compositions alike stripped of all excess, leaving every gesture and line of dialogue to carry with it a potentially deadly weight, ultimately delivered unceremoniously from the barrel of a gun. Our heroes are no longer gamblers down on their luck, but stone-cold killers provided with only one choice: to “die or lie.” And in this film, people do both quite regularly. Where the machinations undergirding Bob’s fate in Bob le Flambeur are made clear even before the film’s big heist is set in motion, Le Doulos offers no such transparency, keeping nearly everyone’s motives and loyalties shrouded in ambiguity, hidden beneath deep, angular shadows that cut harshly through the screen like a knife. The characters’ pasts are mysteries, and who they are in the present can only be gleaned from the machinations on the job or the elaborate deceits they cook up as a means of survival. As for their futures, more often than not we know that these characters are on a collision course toward an early death. Le Doulos’s narrative is perhaps Melville’s most labyrinthine, weaving an intricate web of deceit, betrayals, and misdirections that reveals new layers of subtext and psychological complexity with every twist and turn. Jean-Paul Belmondo’s Silien stands as one of Melville’s most enigmatic creations: a charmer with the police when he needs to be and a ruthlessly efficient crook whenever the occasion calls for it. And he remains a cryptic figure to his former cohort, Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani), who struggles to confront the possibility that Silien was the rat who set him up and landed him in the joint. In Melville’s previous film, Leon Morin, Priest, Belmondo also plays a man who intentions are difficult to read. Only here, Leon’s (Belmondo) potential duplicitousness isn’t in service of self-preservation, but for the supposed eternal salvation of the various women he comforts, sometimes with a sexual flirtatiousness that makes his attempts to convert them to Catholicism all the more disingenuous. The film is a bit of an outlier in this middle period of Melville’s, yet its spareness and intense focus foresee the increasing minimalism that would take hold of the director’s style from Le Doulos through to Le Samouraï. Its questions of faith return us again to the role of fate, but the cold, unfeeling criminal world of Melville’s other ‘60s films is replaced with a quintessential struggle between the spirit and the flesh. And questions of honor and professionalism play out not through an elaborate heist or murder, but rather a series of tête-à-têtes between the attractive young priest, Leon, and the bisexual atheist, Barny (Emmanuelle Riva), he coyly tempts. Where professionalism in the face of certain demise is a driving force in Melville’s crime films, in Leon Morin, Priest, the uneasy and inevitable intermingling of faith and desire yields a tension every bit as biting. If Bob le Flambeur and Le Doulos find men using their expertly honed criminal skills to keep their predestined fates at bay for as long as possible, Leon Morin, Preist sees a man who uses the means at his disposal—his natural charms and sex appeal—to instead rewrite the fates of the women he sees himself as protecting. That he’s successful because, rather than in spite, of his very unprofessionalism makes this film all the more intriguing as a counterpoint to Melville’s many exercises in noir. Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le Fambeur, Le Doulos, and Leon Morin, Priest are now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Kino Lorber. Blu-ray Review: Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace on the Criterion Collection Audiences at home can now experience the visual and audio impact of Bondarchuk’s masterpiece as it was intended. If one were to judge the history of cinema solely on the basis of scale and ambition, Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace might well be considered the greatest film of all time. A seven-hour-plus adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic doorstopper, Bondarchuk’s film was by far the costliest production in the history of the Soviet Union, and it certainly looks it. Priceless artifacts, countless military weapons, thousands of lavishly costumed extras, and a menagerie that includes hundreds of horses, rare wolf-hunting borzois, and a beer-drinking bear are swept before our eyes in a constant stream of ecstatic stimulation. Maximalist in every aspect, War and Peace is, like the novel on which it’s based, a work that wants to contain as many thoughts, emotions, and perspectives as possible. And Bondarchuk goes about accomplishing that by utilizing every wild cinematic technique he can think of. In contrast to Hollywood epics of the era like Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra and William Wyler’s Ben-Hur, which are marked by long, static processions of extras marching around expensive sets, Bondarchuk never simply shoots for coverage. His camera instead darts and dashes through grandiloquent interiors and hellish battlefields, roving through burning buildings and flying through the air like a cannonball. Where another director might have resorted to a simple wide shot or close-up, Bondarchuk gives us a sweeping helicopter aerial, a complicated superimposition, an expressive split screen, or a camera that seems to float above a ballroom just as Mikhail Kalatozov’s did over the streets of Havana in I Am Cuba. Bondarchuk often seems here to be attempting to synthesize the entire history of epic historical filmmaking into a single work. He borrows the pioneering split-screen technique of Abel Gance’s Napoleon, the legendary crane shot from Gone with the Wind, and the eerily majestic iconography of Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, to name just a few, while also anticipating at various points the hallucinatory combat sequences of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and the idyllic poeticism of Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line. All this restless innovation and titanic ambition, however, has a tendency to deaden the senses at times, particularly early on in War and Peace, when Bondarchuk’s experimentation comes off as little more than amateurish noodling. The filmmaker’s woozy sonic effects and blurry camera filters come off as dated and distracting, while the use of an off-screen narrator to translate French dialogue in the very first scene is downright confusing. The film can sometimes seem over-eager to impress: Never content to simply allow us to feel the emotional weight of a relationship, Bondarchuk is constantly intervening as a director—underlining, amplifying, and bludgeoning us with heavy-handed visual metaphors. Bondarchuk’s restless approach often causes him to obscure Tolstoy’s complicated narrative and its vast, inter-connected familial relationships. The film essentially condenses the novel’s sprawling, digressive narrative into a murky love triangle between the socially awkward misfit Count Pierre Bezukhov (Bondarchuk), his friend and philosophical opposite, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Vyacheslav Tikhonov), and the idealized, waif-like woman, Countess Natasha Rostova (Lyudmila Saveleva), with whom they both fall in love. Of the three, only Natasha leaves much of an impression, thanks in large part to Saveleva’s radiant performance. A trained ballerina, Saveleva flits and flutters through War and Peace like a butterfly, imbuing her scenes with a litheness and effulgence that provides stark contrast to the portentous philosophizing that Andrei and Pierre are prone to. If Bondarchuk struggles to convey the story’s gradual shifts in relationships and psychology, he nevertheless demonstrates the ability to give cinematic life to Tolstoy’s rhapsodic depth of feeling. In one of the film’s more emotionally resonant techniques, Bondarchuk jarringly cuts between two scenes with wildly different emotional tenors—a joyous dance and a man dying, for example—emphasizing one of Tolstoy’s great themes: the simultaneity of human experience. While one person is suffering, another is celebrating; while one man is enjoying a banquet in St. Petersburg, another is engaged in bloody combat against Napoleon’s armies. Bondarchuk’s War and Peace is in some ways less a straightforward adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel than a symphonic representation of its themes—its sense of drama, portent, and grandeur. That’s never truer than in the film’s astonishingly stirring set pieces, which find Bondarchuk variously capturing the buzzy excitement of a ball, the calamitous anxiety of battle, and, in the film’s most haunting passage, the wrenching pain and despair of a city under siege. Bondarchuk’s delirious rendering of the French army’s brutal invasion of Moscow, during which Napoleon’s forces burned the city to the ground, represents the most sustainedly apocalyptic vision of war’s madness and cruelty this side of Elem Klimov’s Come and See. War and Peace couldn’t possibly do justice to every aspect of Tolstoy’s mammoth tome, but at the very least, it captures the essence of the author’s scornful description of war: “an event … opposed to human reason and to human nature.” From its initial American release, for which it was dubbed into English and cut down by an hour, to an atrocious DVD release from Kultur that reduced its 2.30:1 aspect ratio to 1.33:1, War and Peace has rarely been seen in its intended form in the United States. But thanks to Criterion’s meticulous transfer, which is sourced from a Mosfilm restoration, audiences at home can now experience the visual and audio impact of Sergei Bondarchuk’s masterpiece as it was intended. The film’s moody interiors, sprawling battle vistas, and intricate trick shots all sparkle with a crystalline intensity. Everything looks almost impossibly sharp; there’s no evidence of motion shudder during the film’s whip-fast camera pans, and depth of field is breathtakingly clear throughout. The film’s complex, six-channel soundtrack has been remastered from the original elements in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio, providing an appropriately titanic aural experience that’s equally adept at handling subtle dialogue scenes as it is with overwhelming combat sequences. There’s no commentary track or information about Mosfilm’s grueling and expensive restoration process. The most useful extra here is a program with author Denise J. Youngblood that gives a broad overview of the film’s cultural context and difficult production. Two archival making-of documentaries, one from Germany and another from Russia, provide behind-the-scenes glimpses of the film’s making, while a 1967 documentary on Ludmila Savelyeva made for French TV offers a breezy look at the actress and her life in Moscow. New interviews with cinematographer Anatoly Petritsky (one of several who worked on the film) and Bondarchuk’s son, Fedor, provide some personal reminiscences about the notoriously imperious director. Rounding out the package is an insightful essay by critic Ella Taylor that stresses the importance of War and Peace as a work of Russian nationalism. While not exactly skimpy, Criterion’s offering of supplementary materials doesn’t quite match up to the monumental nature of the film itself. Cast: Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Zakhava, Anatoli Ktorov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Antonina Shuranova, Oleg Tabakov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Irina Skobtseva, Boris Smirnov, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Kira Golovko, Irina Gubanova, Aleksandr Borisov, Oleg Efremov, Giuli Chokhonelidze, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Angelina Stepanova, Nikolay Trofimov Director: Sergei Bondarchuk Screenwriter: Sergei Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Solovyov Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 421 min Rating: NR Year: 1966 Release Date: June 25, 2019 Buy: Video Blu-ray Review: David Mamet’s House of Games on the Criterion Collection Mamet’s first, best, and most influential film receives a sturdy transfer that could nevertheless use a bit more refurbishing. In his 2000 book Theatre, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet vaingloriously celebrates the writer as the god of drama, and sees directors, set designers, and method actors as often detracting from the purity of the text. After the psychological thrashing of, say, method exploration, Mamet says that one still must eventually get down to the task of blocking a play and saying the lines. This is a deliberately gross simplification of how plays and films are staged, but such sentiments reveal something about the appeal and the limitations of a Mamet production. Mamet has a fetishistic attachment to neatness: to structural symmetry, to dialogue that pulsates with succinct clarity, to characters who’re understood to be constructs. When a Mamet production catches fire, one revels in the profound sense of authorial control, but when whey stall, there are no spontaneous textures to offer refuge from the author’s hermetic self-consciousness, because spontaneity is precisely among the sources of his contempt. A poker player and admirer of jiu-jitsu, Mamet has turned drama into a similarly high-stakes game, in which there are concrete rights and wrongs of aesthetic. The 1987 film House of Games, Mamet’s debut as a filmmaker, is the best justification of Theatre’s dubious propositions. The actors here speak with such pointed stiltedness that one recognizes the device to be an increasingly resonant joke—an acknowledgement that we are all playing various roles in our lives, “saying our lines.” The House of Games that psychiatrist Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) discovers is a nest of con men, but it’s also essentially a theater troupe of middle-aged men who invite an audience—i.e., the marks—into a lair to ensnare them in a fiction. That’s the inner House of Games, which is rhymed with the performative dramas of Margaret’s therapy sessions, while the outer House of Games is the film itself, with actors who seduce us with the con of storytelling, for which we pay with the price of an admission ticket or of this new Blu-ray. Nesting transactions are the film’s very soul, as Mamet leeches the plot of the flowery emotions that drive most melodrama. As in many other films and plays, Mamet wants us to feel the distance between the actors’ lines in House of Games, and the pauses become an exhilarating negative aural space. Occasionally, it’s freeing to revel in the fakeness of Mametese, as it offers a music that’s not usually available in “realistic” writing and acting. Mamet refines his trademark, in which characters say straightforward words with a hard, repetitive rhythm that poetically lifts the lines above their literal meanings. One responds less to the words than to the force with which the actors utter them, especially Joe Mantegna as Mike, the crook who fools Margaret with the oldest trick in the book, openly owning up to his deceptions as a way of proffering a deeper lie. There is, though, an irony to the film, as its absence of traditionally involving emotions is itself moving. The allegiance these characters feel to the rules of conning and implicitly to the rules of theatrical plotting suggests entrapment—a willful suppression or denial of their interiority, which would interfere with the perfection of the con and of the filmmaker’s art object. The web of constrictions governing the film is most explicitly acknowledged in two startling moments: Margaret opening her notebook to reveal descriptions of Mike and the House of Games that are formatted like a screenplay, and Mike later saying, “The things we think, the things we want, we can do them or not do them but we can’t hide them.” Rather than hide their desires, the characters seek to obliterate them, though Freudian slips—such as saying “pressure” in place of “pleasure”—allude to reservoirs of uncertainty and pain. House of Games is mostly mired in the cons that Mike and his men perpetrate, with Margaret evolving from mark to witness to participant to master of her domain. The film’s twists will not be surprising to fans of crime cinema, especially now, given the influence House of Games has accrued over the years. And this lack of surprise fosters a sense of inevitability that is, of course, the point. In the first con, involving a poker game, Margaret is the mark, and though the inner workings of this trick are revealed to her, she falls for a grander version of the same trick later on. Mike has Margaret figured: A doctor specializing in obsessive compulsives, she herself is drawn to danger and is willing to pay for a tour of the underworld. By the film’s end, Margaret has grown not only into a master actor, but a kind of playwright who originates her own cons, who requires neither figurative director nor co-stars, who possesses her own weight. Which is to say that House of Games, by its own logic, has a happy ending. The image has plenty of grit and softness, which gives the film a vintage look that’s appropriate to the classic crime-film subject matter. Colors receive a notable uptick, though, as they’re quite bright and intense, and the shadows really pop off the screen, especially in the House of Games setting. The soundtrack is crisp, rich, and healthy, with exacting attention paid to the minute sound effects that play an important role in the narrative. The supplements here have all been ported over from the 2007 Criterion edition of House of Games. The highlight is the audio commentary by filmmaker David Mamet and actor, magician, and flim-flam master Ricky Jay, which offers a remarkable amount of insight and detail about the construction of narratives, cons, and how the two often intersect. Another highlight is the essay included with the booklet, by Mamet, in which he discusses his initiation into filmmaking and how Sergei Eisenstein’s writing helped him to refine a lucid, direct, and uninflected visual style. Interviews with Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna discuss the actors’ respective backgrounds with Mamet, while another featurette offers a breakdown of a con that was discussed but not used in House of Games, so that Jay could protect friends in the trade. Rounding out the package are an archive documentary about the making of House of Games, an essay by critic Kent Jones, and the film’s theatrical trailer. David Mamet’s first, best, and most influential film receives a sturdy transfer that could nevertheless use a bit more refurbishing, with perhaps a new supplement or two to boot. Cast: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Ricky Jay, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh, William H. Macy, Jack Wallace, Steven Goldstein Director: David Mamet Screenwriter: David Mamet Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 101 min Rating: R Year: 1987 Release Date: May 14, 2019 Buy: Video First Name: Carmen, Détective, and Hélas Pour Moi on Kino Lorber Blu-ray These excellent releases attest to the sumptuous beauty of Jean-Luc Godard’s cerebral middle-period work. Photo: JLG Films Jean-Luc Godard’s First Name: Carmen, Détective, and Hélas Pour Moi are all linked in style, if not theme. Throughout these films, which consist of mostly static takes that evince a meditative sense of composition, the jagged momentum of Godard’s New Wave work is sublimated into a more complex and thematically pointed use of contrast between sound and image. The effect of this refined experimentation is stately in comparison to the films that made Godard an internationally renowned name, yet, if anything, even the breeziest of these works feels more formally and kinetically overwhelming than his first features, including his 1960 feature-length debut as a director, Breathless. In the spirit of 1982’s Passion, which mingled Godard’s fragmented analysis of cinema with painting, 1983’s First Name: Carmen subjects music to constant breakdown and rearrangement. A loose adaptation of the opera First Name: Carmen, the film amusingly jettisons Georges Bizet’s score in favor of Beethoven’s late quartets, which are practiced by a group of musicians in rehearsals that are regularly injected among the more story-oriented scenes featuring an incompetent robber, Carmen (Maruschka Detmers), falling for a hapless prison guard, Joseph (Jacques Bonnaffé). The quartets are weaved into a larger experimental soundscape of dialogue and sound effects chopped and arranged in semi-musical counterpoints that are themselves employed in larger dialectical fashion with the images. With First Name: Carmen, Godard links countless works featuring femme fatales, parodically boiling down the misogyny of such films across scenes that see Carmen walking around her apartment nude as Joseph both fawns over and comes to resent her. First Name: Carmen is one of Godard’s most formally assured features, making gorgeous use of both natural lighting and stylized chiaroscuro, yet that precision belies a film that metatextually foregrounds its lack of narrative cohesion. Godard even appears on screen as a parody of himself: a washed-up filmmaker struggling to upend the film industry from within and casually admitting that even he doesn’t know what some of the film’s more baffling aspects mean. Godard’s fixation with deconstructed noir is made far more explicit in 1985’s Détective, the closest that any of his post-1967 work ever came to replicating the style and methods of his early films. Confined to a hotel and populated with noir archetypes of gumshoes, mafia enforcers with cigarettes perpetually dangling from their mouths, and molls hanging on the arms of bosses, the film reflects Godard’s ability to expand on the thematic and formal aims of his early films with far fewer financial resources. The filmmaker uses the cramped spaces of the hotel to emphasize mood, from the whimsical affection that blooms between Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday’s characters whenever they occupy the same area, to the claustrophobic intensity of other characters coming to spy on the detectives who spy on them. And just as the pointedly pointless nudity in First Name: Carmen poked at misogynistic tropes in cinema, so, too, does Godard use Détective to subtly call out the inherent sexism of crime movies that he once perpetuated through his own work. Compare the sullen, cramped atmosphere of scenes where older mobsters take their young paramours to their rooms to the far more energetic scenes of those women alone in the same areas and you’ll sense the director devoting more care and interest to the lives of women he used to treat as objects. The puckishness of First Name: Carmen and Détective is also present in Hélas Pour Moi, but the intervening decade between features can be felt in the more sober, ruminative quality of this 1993 film. Godard’s cleverness is evident right away in the title, which translates to “Woe Is Me” but also plays on the similarities of “Hélas” and “Hellas,” the ancient word for Greece. It’s a fitting connection for a film that loosely recapitulates the myth of Alcmene and Amphitryon. Hélas Pour Moi is a puzzling film, and not only because star Gérard Depardieu dropped out before the production wrapped, forcing Godard to restructure the film without its star. The film’s obtuse nature stems mostly from the ambition of Godard’s attempt to reckon with seismic questions of faith and belief, be it religious or secular, and Hélas Pour Moi marks the possible start of the director’s twilight phase, in which he has concerned himself with zealous obsession to determine if cinema can be trusted to reveal higher truths. Whether updating his youthful cinephilic deconstructions or pursuing deeper moral and epistemological questions, Godard has devoted the second half of his career to rigorously analyzing, revising, and occasionally countering his prior opinions and aesthetic approaches, producing ever more convoluted work even as his restless desire to push cinema forward reveals more of the earnestness beneath his polemics. Hélas Pour Moi in particular points the way to the director’s current era, in which the man who once said that “cinema is truth 24 times a second” has openly despaired over just how much the camera lies. All three films have been previously released on home video, but Kino’s Blu-rays represent a significant upgrade across the board. There are no discernible scratches or other blemishes on display, and all three discs are enriched by warm cinematography, most striking in the rich use of blues. The deliberate compression and wild fluctuations in audio fidelity in the films’ soundtracks aside, the lossless audio track on each disc lacks any discernible flaws, and even the loudest moments display a clarity that was wholly lacking on previous releases. All three films come with audio commentaries: full-length tracks from critics Samm Deighan (for Hélas Pour Moi) and Craig Keller (for First Name: Carmen), and select-scene commentary for Détective by film programmer James Quandt. All of the tracks provide copious information on the films and Godard’s knotty thematic and formal ruminations. Similarly, each disc comes with a booklet containing critical overviews from writers Jordan Cronk (on Hélas Pour Moi), Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (on First Name: Carmen), and Nicolas Rapold (on Détective). First Name: Carmen also comes with 1982’s Changer d’Image, one of Godard’s many short films to compress his heady themes into just a few dense minutes. His shorts are every bit as essential as his features, and it’s always a pleasure to see one appear on home video. Keller even contributes a second commentary track for this rare short. Jean-Luc Godard’s First Name: Carmen, Détective, and Hélas Pour Moi are now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Kino Lorber. Film6 days ago Review: The Lion King Remake Finds Its Place in the Circle of Consumption Books7 days ago Review: Crawl Is Fun and Economical but Lacks Go-for-Broke Inventiveness Music16 mins ago Theater58 mins ago Film4 hours ago Features6 hours ago Enter to win DVDs of Sauvage, Broad City: The Complete Series, a Pet Sematary prizepack, and more Our preview section is your best, most complete guide for all the films, big and small, coming your way soon Copyright © 2001 - 2019 Slant Magazine	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2636
__label__wiki	0.832784	0.832784	This pub has been named the best in in the county - find out the other winners in the Taste of Staffordshire Awards Eateries and retailers from Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands all received praise The crème de la crème of Staffordshire's food and drink businesses have been recognised at an awards ceremony. Pubs, tea rooms, restaurants and specialist retailers from Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle and the Moorlands picked up accolades at the 2018 Taste of Staffordshire Good Food Awards. The winners were announced during a ceremony held at Uttoxeter Racecourse, hosted by BBC Midlands Today’s Joanne Malin. The Roebuck in Leek - which the judges said was 'renowned for its welcoming atmosphere and great selection of cask ales' - was crowned Public House of the Year, with The Lymestone Vaults in Newcastle getting second prize and The White Star in Stoke coming third. The Roebuck in Leek has been named Best Pub in Staffordshire. Pictured from left are head chef Lawrence Sharp, sous chef James Warman, manager Nick Bradstreet and commis chef Andy Arthurs Nick Bradstreet, manager at The Roebuck in Derby Street, said: “We are very pleased and over the moon. This is a massive achievement for the pub. “All the staff have worked hard for this award and everyone is so happy. We could not have achieved this award without the support of our customers.” In Stoke-on-Trent the Wedgwood Tea Conservatory came second in the Afternoon Tea of the Year category, while emerging business Seed Chocolate was named Specialist Food and Drink Retailer of the Year. Moorlands takeaway crowned king of the curry - and it's now planning an expansion Run by James Walter from a micro-factory at his Longton home, it is the only 'bean to bar' chocolate maker in Staffordshire. James, who started the business 14 months ago, said: "We were shocked and surprised to win. "I was really proud just to be in the top three - there were so many amazing businesses at the awards, it was an honour to be there. I'm over the moon." The Kirk family, who run The Three Horseshoes Inn, near Leek, collect their award. Pictured from left are Wendy and husband Mark, his brother Stephen and wife Katie, and Mark and Stephen's parents Jill and Bill. The Staffordshire Moorlands cleaned up in the hotly-contested Tea Room or Coffee Shop of the Year category, with The Cottage Kitchen at Winkhill clinching the title, ahead of The Ramblers Retreat at Alton and the Roaches Tea Room at Upper Hulme, near Leek. This pub is back open after TEN YEARS lying derelict - and it has been totally transformed The Three Horseshoes Country Inn at Blackshaw Moor was named Casual Dining Restaurant of the Year for the second successive year, while the Alton Bridge Hotel in Alton bagged third place. Mark Kirk, who runs The Three Horseshoes with brother Stephen, said: “We would like to thank our dedicated hard working team that have pulled together during the last two years, both the front of house and the team of chefs, along with all our staff. Things to do at half term - activities, events and free stuff in Staffordshire “We have invested heavily in the establishment during the last few years and it is so rewarding to all that we have won this great award.” The 2018 Taste of Staffordshire Good Food Awards winner Afternoon Tea of the Year 1. Essington Farm, Essington, near Wolverhampton; 2. Wedgwood Tea Conservatory, Barlaston; 3. Netherstowe House, Lichfield; Casual Dining Restaurant of the Year 1. The Three Horseshoes Country Inn, Leek; 2. The Red Lion, Bradley, Stafford; 3. Alton Bridge Hotel, Alton; Independent Restaurant of the Year 1. The Boat Inn, Lichfield; 2. The Moat House, Acton Trussell; 3. Delhi 6 Restaurant, Little Aston, Lichfield; Farm Shop of the Year 1. Denstone Hall Farm Shop, Denstone; 2. Essington Farm, South Staffordshire; 3. Bradbury’s Farm Shop & Butchery, Lichfield; Tea Room/Coffee Shop of the Year 1. The Cottage Kitchen Country Café, Leek; 2. Ramblers Retreat Country Tea Room, Alton; 3. Roaches Tea Room, Leek; Public House of the Year 1. The Roebuck, Leek; 2. The Lymestone Vaults, Newcastle-under-Lyme; 3. The White Star, Stoke; Drinks Manufacturer of the Year 1. Buzzards Valley Vineyard, Tamworth; 2. Clive’s Wines, Burntwood; Food Processor, Producer or Distributor of the Year 1. Calcott Turkeys, Tamworth; 2. Suncream Dairies, Tamworth; Specialist Food & Drink Retailer of the Year 1. Seed Chocolate, Longton; Judges Choice Award – Special Achievement 1. Denstone Hall Farm Shop, Denstone The Taste of Staffordshire scheme provides accreditation to the food and drink businesses that have been independently inspected and verified. Its Good Food Awards take place every year to recognise the best eateries and retailers in the county.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2645
__label__wiki	0.732721	0.732721	Gerrie Nel in court over judicial inquest into death of former Rwandan Head of Intelligence Feb 5, 2019 \| Private Prosecutions Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, today appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in a judicial inquest into the death of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the former Head of Intelligence in Rwanda. The magistrate will give judgement on Monday 21 January 2019 regarding AfriForum’s application that the judicial inquiry be stopped. Karegeya, who sought asylum in South Africa after fleeing Rwanda, was found strangled in a hotel room in Johannesburg in 2013. According to the police docket, Karegeya visited a former colleague and friend in the relevant hotel. After the death of Karegeya, three Rwandan men (including the friend) left South Africa within hours. There are allegations that the Rwandan embassy picked up some of them outside the hotel and flew them to Rwanda. After five years of inaction, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has now decided to submit the matter before the Magistrate for a judicial inquest to be held into the death of Karegeya. This follows after AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit was approached on behalf of Karegeya’s family and other parties to determine why his death was not proficiently investigated. “We however regard this judicial inquest as an abuse of legal proceedings, as well as the ‘cover-up’ of an abhorrent crime, which resulted from the NPA’s unwillingness or prohibition to prosecute and/or to direct an in-depth and proficient investigation. A judicial inquest is not the suitable legal route in this case and the NPA’s decision is inexplicable based on the contents of the docket,” says Adv. Nel. A judicial inquest should only be held to determine the following: The identity of the deceased; cause and date of death; and whether the death was brought about by any act amounting to an offence on the part of any person. The answer to all four questions is apparent. The NPA also did not apply for mutual legal assistance from the Rwandan government, nor for the extradition of the relevant individuals. Adv. Nel and his team have therefore requested the convocation of a pre-trial meeting with the presiding Inquest Magistrate, during which they would have raised their concerns. This however never materialised and Nel raised these concerns at the commencement of the inquest hearing. The proceedings will be used to show that the legal system failed the victims of this crime, as there were no attempts to find and arrest any of the known suspects. AfriForum trusts that our Government would never allow South Africa to be used by assassins as an arena to hunt down and terminate targets, whether politically motivated or not. That is why Adv. Nel and his team are assisting Karegeya’s family in this matter. View a video with feedback from Advocate Gerrie Nel here. Misapplication (15) State capture (3) Private Prosecutions (17) Successes (5) © 2017 Stop Korrupsie. Alle regte voorbehou. HOME NEWS CONTACT US REPORT CORRUPTION Our newsletter is monthly. Teken in op ons nuusbrief Sluit aan by ons poslys om die nuutste nuus en opdaterings van ons span te ontvang. Jy het suksesvol ingeteken!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2646
__label__wiki	0.986119	0.986119	TPG's speeds and coverage lag behind rivals: Study TPG started its free 12-month service trial in December 2018 and is expected to launch commercial services later this year. About 200,000 users have signed up for the trial.PHOTO: REUTERS http://str.sg/oF7R But 4th telco confident its network service will improve as it progresses to commercial launch Telco TPG Telecom has vowed to improve its network service ahead of its impending commercial launch, after a study out yesterday showed its download speeds and network coverage to be lagging behind rivals Singtel, StarHub and M1. TPG general manager Richard Tan said the company is still in its trial phase and has not enabled all network features or completed overall network optimisation. "We are confident on improving the results as we move closer to commercial launch," added Mr Tan. TPG started its free 12-month service trial last December and is expected to launch commercial services later this year. About 200,000 users joined the trial. Its average download speed from February to May was 26.1Mbps, significantly slower than Singtel (42.5Mbps), StarHub (39.5Mbps) and M1 (36.1Mbps), the study by international mobile analytics firm Opensignal found. Its upload speed of 5.1Mbps also trailed its rivals by some distance, with M1 at 13.4Mbps, Singtel at 12.7Mbps and StarHub at 12.4Mbps. But the biggest difference, the study noted, was in the time customers spend without a mobile signal. TPG users were found to have spent 4.5 per cent of the time without a signal compared with Singtel's 1 per cent, StarHub's 1.2 per cent and M1's 1.6 per cent. The 4.5 per cent figure might seem small, but that is without factoring in how most people spend a large part of their time at home or at work, where they are likely to enjoy good network coverage, said Opensignal vice-president of analysis Ian Fogg. "These small differences will be considerably more significant when users are moving around Singapore, especially on the MRT, where users are accustomed to good mobile service," he added. But TPG did match the other three telcos in mobile video-streaming experiences, which "shows that no operator in Singapore can afford to be complacent", Mr Fogg noted. TPG user Davin Tan, 28, said he has experienced spotty network coverage when on the MRT and in some residential areas. "I often have to download files on the go for work too, so slower download speeds will hold me back a bit," said the IT support engineer. "As a free service on trial, that's OK, but not as a paid service." TPG won the licence to be Singapore's fourth telco in 2016. A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 13, 2019, with the headline 'TPG's speeds and coverage lag behind rivals: Study'. Print Edition \| Subscribe	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2648
__label__wiki	0.551865	0.551865	Cherry made a visit to LSU this past weekend and obviously liked what she heard and saw. Nikki Fargas is in her sixth season as the head coach at LSU with a record of 93-71. The 5-foot-8 guard averaged 14 points, 19 rebounds, six assists and five steals per game as a junior for Pascagoula. She averaged 13.1 points as a sophomore. Cherry is a two-time member of the Sun Herald All-South Mississippi team. Cherry is an advanced ball handler, determined rebounder and strong passer. Auburn, Georgia, TCU, Arizona, Florida and Colorado are among a long list of schools pursuing Cherry. Sophomore highlights for Biloxi football star Elijah Sabbatini St. Martin baseball has emotional end to season Who was the Coast’s Boys Athlete of the Year in 2018-19? Vote now. The 2018-19 high school season on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was loaded with impressive athletic performances. Fans can vote the Coast’s Boys Athlete of the Year. Candidates are from Biloxi and Gulfport. Who was the Coast’s Girls Athlete of the Year in 2018-19? Vote now. Coast coaching carousel continues as former prep baseball star lands job	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2652
__label__cc	0.700226	0.299774	Definition - What does Data Storage mean? Data storage is a general term for archiving data in electromagnetic or other forms for use by a computer or device. Different types of data storage play different roles in a computing environment. In addition to forms of hard data storage, there are now new options for remote data storage, such as cloud computing, that can revolutionize the ways that users access data. Techopedia explains Data Storage One common distinction between forms of physical data storage is between random access memory (RAM) and associated formats, and secondary data storage on external drives. Random access memory is stored in integrated circuits for immediate use, while the data stored on hard drives, disks, flash drives and new solid state data storage units is archived for event-based access or research activities initiated by an end user. New technologies and tech theory promote the continual expansion of data storage capability. New solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device, enabling various kinds of new applications for many industries, as well as consumer uses. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device. RAM Disk Storage Service Provider (SSP) IP Storage (IPS) Storage Area Network (SAN) Database Column How to Optimize Your Enterprise Storage Solution Digital Data: Why What's Being Collected Matters The 6 Things You Need to Get World-Changing Results with Data Data Warehousing 101 Cloud vs. Local Backup: Which Do You Need? What is the difference between big data and data mining? What is the difference between big data and Hadoop? Data ManagementTechnology TrendsBig Data	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0027.json.gz/line2657

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