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__label__cc	0.562677	0.437323	Submit Rights Deal 3D Consumer Camera, Russia Bans YouTube, EU Lobbied on Privacy In Tech Digest by Hannah Johnson July 29, 2010 By Hannah Johnson Welcome to the first Tech Digest roundup of noteworthy links about new technology, digital developments, social media, cool gadgets, and more. Without further ado, here is today’s digest: Amazon Announces New Kindle As everyone predicted this week when they saw the Kindle was out-of-stock, Amazon has announced a “smaller, lighter, faster” Kindle. It looks like Amazon is following the iPad pricing model: A wi-fi only Kindle will be $139 (£109) and the 3G model is priced at $189 (£149). The new Kindle will launch in the USA and the UK on August 27. Read more from Engadget and ZDNet. Panasonic Unveils First 3D Camera for Consumers If you’ve ever wanted to shoot 3D footage of your kids biting each other or your really hungry cat, now you can! But this also begs the question, can you really expect people to put on those ridiculous 3D glasses just to watch your home videos? Read a quick overview on Techradar or the full technical description from Panasonic. Price has yet to be announced. Russia Bans YouTube Another country joins the YouTube-hating bandwagon, which currently includes “China, Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates”, according to Mashable. A Russian court demanded that YouTube’s ISP be banned in the country because of a video called “Russia for Russians” which the court deemed racist and extremist. So you might want to consider moving your book trailers to Vimeo. US Tech Companies Confront EU on Privacy Regulations The Wall Street Journal reports that US technology companies are pushing the EU to unify its privacy laws regarding consumer data storage. Currently, each EU member state has set its own limits on how long private companies can store consumer data. For foreign companies operating in Europe, they need to keep track of multiple and “sometimes contradictory” regulations. Hannah Johnson Hannah Johnson is the Publisher of Publishing Perspectives. Before joining PP in 2009, she worked as Project Manager at the German Book Office New York. Tags: 3D, European Union, Kindle, Panasonic, privacy regulations, Russia, UK, USA, YouTube Sign up to get our FREE email edition, Monday to Friday! Browse Popular Topics Bookselling Browse Countries / Regions Publishing Perspectives \| 30 Irving Place, 4th Floor, New York NY, 10003 \| +1-212-794-2851 \| newsletter@publishingperspectives.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1528
__label__wiki	0.679722	0.679722	Home > Geography home > Research > Profile > Publications > The hidden geographies of religious creativity The hidden geographies of religious creativity : place-making and material culture in West London faith communities. / Gilbert, David; Dwyer, Claire; Ahmed, Nazneen ; Cuch, Laura; Hyacinth, Natalie. In: Cultural Geographies, Vol. 26, No. 1, 01.01.2019, p. 23-41. Accepted Manuscript Accepted author manuscript, 142 KB, Word-document David Gilbert Claire Dwyer Nazneen Ahmed Laura Cuch Natalie Hyacinth The Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities Religious activity, particularly as associated with what might be called everyday organized religion, has been unconsidered in recent discussions of the geographies and policies relating to creativity, and has been almost absent in the discipline of Geography’s recent ‘creative turn’. We argue both that religion has been given little or no attention in academic discussions of vernacular creativity, while arts policy as it developed in the UK in the post-war period has had a strongly secular focus. This continues in more recent policies and initiatives that have sought to promote the amateur and voluntary arts sectors. We explore the reasons for these absences, before turning to examples of strongly creative practice in a range of case studies, focused in a small area of suburban west London. These show a remarkable diversity of creativity including the design, construction and transformation of buildings and spaces for religious worship, but also in ritual, performance and the everyday practices of making sacred space. Our case studies include examination of performance and material culture in a Tamil-speaking Hindu temple, and in Roman Catholic, Anglican and Pentecostal churches. These include changes to architectural form, stained glass art-work, community craft projects, and musical performance and composition. We suggest that religious creativity has a hidden significance that has become more important in the UK’s increasingly diverse cities and suburbs, and that significant population groups are marginalized in creativity debates and policies that focus on the secular arts. We also suggest that there are distinctive characteristics to what we describe as ‘devotional creativity’, particularly in different understandings of space, practice and experience. Cultural Geographies Published - 1 Jan 2019 Design, material culture and popular creativity in suburban faith communities	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1532
__label__wiki	0.94761	0.94761	Photos: Global March for Elephants and Rhinos Princeton Rally 2014 Ben Segal of the PHS Protect The Tusk selling t-shirts at the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos Princeton Rally on October 4. PHS Protect The Tusk raised $838 during the rally that will be donated to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. Photo credit: Beth Dietz. Students from Princeton High School and Hopewell Valley Central High School organized the 2014 Global March for Elephants and Rhinos Princeton Rally that was held on Hinds Plaza in Princeton Saturday. More than 100 people attended the rally. People in more than 130 cities worldwide marched in the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos, an advocacy event to raise awareness about the plight of the animals. An elephant is killed for its ivory approximately every 15 minutes. A rhino is slain for its horn every nine hours in Africa. There are fewer than 400,000 elephants and less than 18,000 rhinos left in the wild in Africa. Speakers at the Princeton rally included Nitin Sekar of Princeton University, David Angwenyi of Hopewell Valley Central High School and Global Connections Kenya, and Ellyn Ito of Seeds To Sew, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing educational and economic opportunities for women and girls in compromised areas in the developing world. Students rallied for a complete ban on commercial and domestic trade in ivory internationally. mandatory destruction of all ivory stockpiles including confiscated ivory, funding for border force training regarding wildlife crimes and increased port security, stronger laws regarding wildlife crimes, and more resources to combat wildlife crimes. Ben Segal and Sanjay Kanduri, co-presidents of the Protect The Tusk organization at Princeton High School, started their club last year after their biology teacher gave them a lecture about the crisis. They have sold more than 250 t-shirts, held their school’s first annual spelling bee as a charity event, and host a benefit band called “elephant in the room.” All proceeds from the Global March 2014 are going to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The students have raised more than $2,000 since they began the club. For more information about the rally visit the group’s Facebook event page. Mia Mummert, senior at Hopewell Valley High School and president of the Global Connections Kenya club, at the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos Princeton Rally on October 4. Photo credit: Kim Robinson. Dr. David Angwenyi and students from Hopewell Valley High School at the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos Princeton Rally on October 4. Photo credit: Kim Robinson.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1538
__label__cc	0.684459	0.315541	Masala Grill in Downtown Princeton to Close Krystal Knapp2 min readMay 4, 20168 comments The oldest Indian restaurant in downtown Princeton will close its doors this month. Masala Grill opened at 19 Chambers Street more than two decades ago. The owner of the restaurant said the landlord raised the rent too high. She was then given a month’s notice to close. “It’s been a shock. We haven’t even really had enough time to wrap things up here,” said owner Suchitra Patel. “We posted a sign about the closing yesterday, and regulars have been coming in to see us all day and have been sending emails. Our customers have been so nice to us during this sad time.” The last day of normal eat-in lunch and dinner service is Friday, May 13. An open house will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15. Patel said Masala Grill will still continue to sell food after the closing, just not at a sit-down restaurant. Masala Grill will offer carry out, deliver and catering at a new location in West Windsor after the Chambers Street location closes. Delivery will be free in Princeton, and Patel hopes to find a Princeton location for pick ups as well. She also plans to have booths at local festivals and other events. “To the friends I will miss dropping by and having a chat with, please don’t be a stranger,” Patel said. “I very much value your friendship and hope it will continue even if our meeting spot may be gone.” For email updates from Patel and Indian cooking tips, sign up at the Masala Grill website. To place an order for delivery or pick up after the restaurant closes, you can still call 609-921-0500 or email masalagrill@msn.com. FreshAir says: A visiting family member went this weekend and brought us a Masala Grill feast… curries, biryanis, etc. were all excellent & everyone around our table loved everything. No complaints. The take-out food from Masala Grill is STILL great, even though the place may look closed already! Pat Palmer says: Thanks for that information. I do wish them well and regret the closing very much. There are few good vegetarian options in restaurants in this area. The owner has a terminally ill family member… a development that surely wasn’t in her/their plan. It’s difficult enough to get adequate support as a woman business owner in our society, going it alone, without that added challenge. Princeton rental rates surely made it harder. I really wish her well as she moves on to a new situation that’s more workable. Overall the owners meant well & did their best, but life happened. Thomas Rooney says: Not sad. I was given a dirty plate on one visit and had a fly in the water on the second and last visit. Actually, since this is a fair question, I’ll be more explicit. I remember clearly the first time I went to this restaurant, and instead of finding a soup of rasam, sambar or mulligatawny (the classic Indian soups always there before), there was no soup. When soup finally came out, it was yellow, unrecognizable and not very good. The fried vegetables also were not crisp and not kept warm. There was no lentils (to eat with rice–a stable for us vegetarians, and available in MOST Indian restaurants). I started paying attention, and that’s when it became clear the the cooks were no longer Indian–and clearly did not know how to cook Indian food very well. I thought they would figure this out over time, but it didn’t happen. So the decision to employ these particular cooks and not train them adequately was IMO a poor business decision. It may not be the main reason for closure, but I stopped going there as often after that. I did still go, but just saying it wasn’t what it formerly was. The food was still palatable, but not AS good–and not as Indian. The food no longer tasted like Indian food, and often Indian meal staples such as lentils were not even available. The soups were definitely no longer Indian soups. If a restaurant claims to offer Indian food, then it should. Anyone can read up and learn–but they didn’t. so people of certain ethnic groups don’t know how to cook? I’m sad about it closing. It formerly was one of my favorite lunch brunch places, until the food quality fell off. The cooks were no longer Indian (guess which ethnic group, if not?) and the food was neither authentic nor particularly healthful any longer. I loved the place but it had become a shadow of itself. I must also say that landlords are pricing businesses out of existence all over town. The trend worries me. Greed run amok.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1539
__label__wiki	0.793418	0.793418	Seeking Office News Vanpoli Vancouver Politics Municipal Mayoral Election Seeking Office « » Greens Vote for Subway Extension to UBC By CiTR 101.9FM. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers. From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver. On January 30th, Vancouver City Council voted to extend the Broadway corridor subway line all the way to UBC. Veteran city hall reporter Frances Bula explains the significance of all three Green Councillors voting in favour of this massive transit project and how it makes sense that only the most right-wing and the most left-wing councillors opposed the project. 36 episodes available. A new episode about every 10 days . A Mansion Vs. Expensive Rental From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On June 25th, council voted down a townhouse re-development application at 4575 Granville Street. In the wake of council's decision, the applicant has indicated that they plan to build a large house on the lot in ...… Increase in Renter Protections, Sort of From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On Tuesday June 11th, Vancouver City Council unanimously passed several measures designed to improve renter protections. In a tweet that same day, Mayor Kennedy Stewart described the measures as, “Canada's broade ...… Charlie & Lina From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.The Bloedel Conservatory turns 50 this year. Perched at the highest point in Vancouver, this triodetic dome is home to hundreds of tropical birds and plants. In this special episode of Seeking Office, a woman nam ...… Pete Fry on the 2% Property Tax Shift From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On Monday, April 29th, Vancouver City Council narrowly voted to shift 2% of the tax burden from businesses to residential property owners. Green Councillor Pete Fry was vocal about his uncertainty over whether or ...… Selina Robinson on B.C. Housing From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.After an SFU housing panel on Tuesday, April 23rd, B.C.'s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Selina Robinson, speaks with CiTR reporter Alex de Boer about how her government is attempting to de-commodify ...… 1805 Larch Street From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.In Kitsilano, residents are fiercely protective of neighborhood character. Many say a five-storey apartment set to be built at 1805 Larch Street threatens that character. The project is being proposed under the C ...… We Run the City From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.Do city councillors or city staff run Vancouver? This episode examines recent tensions between councillors and the City Manager, and looks into how much, if any bias guides staff when advising council.… The Councillor's Dilemma From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On February 26th, City Council passed a Rental 100 development at 1906-1918 West 4th Avenue. Initially, an amendment to add vacancy control to this development was added and passed in a 6-5 vote, but then a re-vo ...… Disruption at Clark & 1st Public Hearing From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.Following a two-day public hearing, Vancouver City Council unanimously approved a rezoning application that will allow the construction of a detox centre and mixed-rate rental housing on a on a block of land betw ...… Two Perspectives on Rental 100 From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.Since the 1960s, the development of rental housing in Vancouver has been in decline. Vancouver's Rental 100 policy is a response to that decline. Since its implementation in 2012 there has been a notable increase ...… New West Passes Bylaw to Deter Renovictions From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On Monday, February 4th, New Westminster City Council unanimously passed an innovative new renter-protection bylaw. City Councillor Jaimie McEvoy explains why this bylaw is the next best thing to vacancy control ...… From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office—At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On January 30th, Vancouver City Council voted to extend the Broadway corridor subway line all the way to UBC. Veteran city hall reporter Frances Bula explains the significance of all three Green Councillors votin ...… Rental 100 From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office — At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On January 15th, Vancouver City Council passed two new developments at 2230 Harrison Drive and 3532 East Hastings. The project at 3532, was passed under a housing policy known as "Rental 100." Rental 100 incent ...… Vancouver's 2019 Property Tax Increase From CiTR's News Collective, this is season two of Seeking Office — At-Large. Bringing you innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.Vancouver City Council approved the $1.5 billion 2019 budget on Tuesday, December 18th, as well as a capital project budget of $371 million. The City's 2019 draft budget included a proposed 4.9% property tax ra ...… Why the Greens Voted to End the Provincial School Tax From CiTR's News Collective, this is At-Large — innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On Wednesday, December 12th, Vancouver City Council passed a motion to request that the provincial government withdraw a tax on properties valued at over three million dollars — currently referred to as the "School Tax." In this episode, City Councillor ...… Protecting Tenants from Renovictions and Aggressive Buyouts From CiTR's News Collective, this is At-Large — innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On Tuesday, December 4th, Vancouver City Council voted on a motion put forward by COPE City Councillor Jean Swanson. The motion — which aimed to enhance renter rights — passed unanimously, but with significant amendments. The passed motion was interpret ...… Councillor Swanson Tables First Two Motions From CiTR's News Collective, this is At-Large — innovative storytelling from Metro Vancouver.On Wednesday, November 14th, the News Collective went to Vancouver City Hall to cover a rally in support of Councillor Jean Swanson's first two motions before council. The motions propose to end renovictions and support the construction of 100% social h ...… What Happened to the Year of the Independent? Vancouver's 2018 municipal election results are in. Besides mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart, not a single independent candidate was elected to Council, Park Board or School Board. Additionally, eight seats of our ten seat city council have been filled by women, but only one of our ten councillors identifies as a visible minority.So what happened to ...… UBC Students for City Council Many UBC students live in Vancouver and will be eligible to vote on October 20th. So what are the issues that matter most to them? In this episode students at UBC's Point Grey campus share their perspectives on Vancouver's 2018 municipal election. And two of those students — Taq Bhandal and Abubakar Khan — are doing more than voting. Find out w ...… The Power of Polls Polling done by Research Co. finds that Kennedy Stewart is winning in the race to be Vancouver's next mayor. In second place is the NPA's Ken Sim and in third is independent candidate Shauna Sylvester. With Stewart and Sylvester both positioned centre-left, there is concern that progressive Vancouverites are feeling pressure to vote for Stewart ...… Justin McElroy on Why UBC Residents Can't Vote for Mayor On October 20th, Vancouverites from every neighborhood head to the polls to elect ten at-large councillors and one mayor — every neighborhood except one. West of Blanca street, there are 15,000 permanent residents and 12,000 students who can’t vote for park board, city council, or mayor. The CBC's Justin McElroy draws from his own reporting to ...… OneCity Endorses Kennedy Stewart for Mayor Vancouver municipal party OneCity, has endorsed independent candidate Kennedy Stewart for mayor. OneCity council candidate Christine Boyle explains some of the subtle differences between her party and Vancouver's other left-most party COPE, as well as why OneCity chose to endorse Kennedy Stewart, rather than run their own mayoral candidate.… Why Greens & Independents Surge in Vancouver Council Election with Mario Canseco The most recent poll published by Research Co. found that Vancouverites have more confidence in the Green Party and independent candidates than any other party or group. We discuss how these results relate to B.C.'s new campaign finance limits and the past decade of Vision Vancouver rule with Research Co. president, Mario Canseco.… Econ 101 with Hector Bremner & Kevin Milligan Will increasing supply solve both Vancouver's housing crisis and its social woes? Yes, Vancouver's Hector Bremner thinks so. With reporting from Yes, Vancouver's July 28th Candidate Selection Meeting, we put Hector's fiscally conservative, socially liberal strategy to UBC economics professor Kevin Milligan for comment.… Elections BC on Third Party Advertisers There's been a lot of buzz about the new billboards promoting Hector Bremner. And mysteriously, the group who paid for them, hasn't been answering phone calls or emails.What level of transparency are third party advertisers required to provide to the public? And what defines a "third party"? In this episode we discuss the significance B.C.'s ne ...… An Overview of Vancouver's Municipal Election with Ian Bushfield Average-citizen-turned-election-expert Ian Bushfield has been graphing and tallying Vancouver's municipal parties and candidates through open-source information sharing and public survey. In this episode, Ian talks about his participatory research methods and provides an overview of Vancouver's increasingly complex, 2018 civic election.… How We Got Here: Part 2 Vancouver's Civic GovernmentVancouver isn’t like other major Canadian cities. Unlike the majority of Canada, Vancouver has political parties at the local level and elects councillors to the city at-large, as opposed to specific wards, or geographic areas. And both of these unusual civic features relate and perpetuate one another. So why is Vanc ...… Jean Swanson of COPE Jean Swanson recently served four days in prison for breaking a court injunction on Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby tank farm facility. Jean speaks with CiTR's News Collective about her run for city council with Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE), as well as how she plans to follow in Harry Rankin’s footsteps as an “activist-councillor.”… Peter Labrie & Coalition Vancouver Wondering what Wai Young's Coalition Vancouver wants to do besides remove bike lanes? The News Collective gets a preview of this new civic group's housing plan and learns about its self-described centrist values from Coalition Vancouver president and former NPA board member, Peter Labrie. This episode also contains a five minute bonus interview ...… Live Interview with David Chen of ProVancouver This interview was originally broadcast as part of Democracy Watch on CiTR 101.9 FM. It has been edited for clarity.This April, ProVancouver joined an already crowded race for office in Vancouver's 2018 civic election. ProVancouver, lead by mayoral candidate David Chen, aspires to build strong communities, increase rental housing and improve tr ...… A History of Vision Vancouver It’s 2018—election year. For the past decade, centre-left party Vision Vancouver has held a majority on council and the mayor’s seat. This term, Vision is running a new slate of young and diverse candidates, with few incumbents. It’s clear that Vision is changing. But aside from becoming more diverse, what are they ...… Vancouver's Randomized Ballot In advance of Vancouver's municipal election, a motion passed in council to randomize the order of candidates listed on voting ballots. This episode features political scientist and University of Calgary professor Jack Lucas who argues that rather than making voting fairer, Vancouver's newly randomized ballot actually creates a new set of advan ...… Green Party Nomination Meeting This is an original report from Vancouver's Green Party election nomination meeting on June 27th. It includes an interview with incumbent Green city councillor, and potential de-facto mayor, Adriane Carr. This segment was originally broadcast on June 28th as part of CiTR's Democracy Watch.By CiTR 101.9FM. Kennedy Stewart & Demovictions in Burnaby-South Kennedy Stewart is Burnaby-South's NDP Member of Parliament. He's also running to be Vancouver's next mayor. Although Stewart is leading in the polls, he has received repeated criticism for his failure to speak out against mass demovictions happening in his own federal riding. CiTR's Alex de Boer speaks with Burnaby affordable housing activist ...… Start listening to Seeking Office on your phone right now with Player FM's free mobile app, the best podcasting experience on both iPhone and Android. Your subcriptions will sync with your account on this website too. Podcast smart and easy with the app that refuses to compromise. POLITICO's Off Message POLITICO takes you behind the scenes with Washington's power players to uncover what's really driving politics and policy in the nation’s capital. The Skepticrat Covering politics from the far center Can He Do That? Donald Trump’s historic presidency is unlike any other that’s come before it. From a record-setting staff turnover rate to unpredictable policy decisions to an ongoing investigation into his campaign, each episode of this podcast focuses on one aspect of Trump’s time in the White House that raises the question: ‘Can He Do That?’Led by host Allison Michaels, the podcast features Washington Post reporters and experts to illuminate the ways Donald Trump can reshape the presidency. And what that ... Pienaar's Politics John Pienaar shares his keen political observations, with news and interviews from key political figures in Westminster Discussion and analysis of UK politics from the Financial Times' political commentators and correspondents. Presented by Sebastian Payne. FT World Weekly Each week, we focus on one of the major international stories making headlines, drawing upon the Financial Times's team of foreign correspondents and analysts to make sense of world events. Presented by Gideon Rachman and produced by Hannah Murphy.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1541
__label__wiki	0.728222	0.728222	World Lutheran News Digest from KFUO Radio Religion Christianity Kfuo Lutheran News Digest Featured FM Society World Lutheran News Digest from KFUO Radio « » The Bladensburg Cross Case --- 2019/06/12 By KFUO Radio. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers. The United States Supreme Court is pondering whether a war memorial in the shape of a Celtic cross on public property is constitutional. Jeremy Dys, Esq., Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty Institute and host Kip Allen discuss the implications on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. Read about this case at firstliberty.org/cases/bladensburg. 176 episodes available. A new episode about every 10 days . Stifling Pro-Life Voices on Social Media --- 2019/07/10 Guest Alison Centofante, Director of Strategic Communication with Live Action, and host Kip Allen talk about social media’s bias against pro-live voices on this episode ofWorld Lutheran News Digest. End-Of-Session Supreme Court Decisions --- 2019/06/26 The U.S. Supreme Court is finishing its session, and some of its rulings are affecting religious liberty. Tim Goeglein, long-time Washington observer and Focus on the Family Vice President, joins host Kip Allen to examine those decisions on this episode ofWorld Lutheran News Digest. Aftermath of the Fall of Constantinople --- 2019/06/05 Christendom suffered one of its worst defeats 566 years ago with the fall of Constantinople to the Islamic armies of the Ottoman Empire. Dr. Timothy Furnish and host Kip Allen discuss it’s significance on this episode ofWorld Lutheran Digest News. Ministry to the Armed Forces --- 2019/05/29 Chaplain Craig Muehler, Director of LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces, discusses the significance of Memorial Day to Lutherans with World Lutheran News Digest host Kip Allen. Learn more about LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces at lcms.org/armedforces. Inequality of the Equality Act --- 2019/05/22 Is the proposed ‘Equality Act’ really equal? Greg S. Baylor, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is the director of the Center for Religious Schools, is Kip Allen’s guest on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. Learn more about ADF at adflegal.org and read about the Equality Act at adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/alli ...… Declining Church Membership --- 2019/05/08 The Rev. Dr. Mark Wood, Director of Witness & Outreach, and Revitalization for the LCMS, and host Kip Allen discuss the ongoing trend of declining church membership. Learn more about LCMS re:Vitality at lcms.org/revitalization. Attacks on Places of Worship --- 2019/05/01 Are all attacks on places of worship religiously motivated? Not necessarily, according to Dr. Timothy Furnish on this episode of World Lutheran News Digest. Unplanned: Real Life Story of Abby Johnson --- 2019/04/10 Joe Knopp, producer of UNPLANNED, talks about the inspirational movie about Abby Johnson’s journey from Planned Parenthood’s Employee of the Year to an outspoken defender of life on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. Find information about the film at unplannedfilm.com. Media Silence on Christian Deaths --- 2019/04/03 Why was the world so appalled at the murder of 50 Muslims in New Zealand, but silent on the killing of more than a hundred Christians in Nigeria? Islamic and Arabic history expert Dr. Timothy Furnish discusses this with host Kip Allen on World Lutheran News Digest. The Equality Act --- 2019/03/27 A bill titled ‘The Equality Act’ was introduced in the House of Representatives, stated “To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.” Its content means anything but equality regarding religious freedom. Read the full text of the bill at congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-b ...… Cross-Shaped Memorials on Public Land --- 2019/03/13 The Supreme Court will decide if cross-shaped memorials on public land have to go. Jeremy Dys, Esq., Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty Institute, discusses the court case on this episode ofWorld Lutheran News Digest. Read more about this case at firstliberty.org. Photojournalism in Papua New Guinea --- 2019/03/06 Erik Lunsford, managing photojournalist for the LCMS, travels around the globe, capturing photos of Lutherans in remote places. His latest adventure was to the nation of Papua New Guinea. Erik talks about his sojourn with World Lutheran Digest host Kip Allen. Undercover Videos of Planned Parenthood --- 2019/02/27 The legal case of the undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress of Planned Parenthood officials discussing selling aborted baby body parts is moving ahead. A recent ruling by a judge changes how the case will proceed. Peter Breen, Vice President and Senior Counsel of the Thomas More Society, discusses the case with host Kip Allen on ...… State of the Union --- 2019/02/13 Washington observer Tim Goeglein of Focus on the Family unpacks the president’s State of the Union speech with host Kip Allen on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. The Truth about Late-Term Abortion --- 2019/02/06 David French, senior writer for National Review, joins host Kip Allen to discuss the truth about late-term abortion on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. Potential Victories for Religious Liberty --- 2019/01/30 Mark Rienzi, President of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, discusses five potential religious liberty victories this year with host Kip Allen on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. Learn more about Becket at becketlaw.org. Sanctity of Life and the LCMS --- 2019/01/09 Host Kip Allen discusses the role of the LCMS in the Right To Life movement with representatives from the Communications Department and also the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, President of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. The Christmas Blues --- 2018/12/12 Rev. Will Weedon, LCMS Director of Worship and International Center Chaplain, joins host Kip Allen to discuss fighting the ‘Christmas Blues’ on World Lutheran News Digest. Standing for Life --- 2018/12/05 Students for Life of America presented the Trump administration with a five-point plan to defund Planned Parenthood. Kristi Hamrick, SFLA’s Media Strategist, joins host Kip Allen to talk about this plan and what Students for Life stands for. Learn more about Students for Life at studentsforlife.org and follow them on Twitter and Facebook @Stude ...… Missionary Service in the Dominican Republic --- 2018/11/28 Deaconess Cheryl Naumann, who serves as a missionary in the Dominican Republic along with her husband, the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Naumann, talks about the challenges and rewards of her mission work in the Dominican Republican with World Lutheran News Digest Host Kip Allen. Learn more about their work at lcms.org/jonathan.naumann and follow the work ...… Veterans Day --- 2018/11/14 Chaplain Craig Muehler, Director of LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces, discusses the meaning of Veterans Day, as we've passed the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day. Find more about Ministry to the Armed Forces at lcms.org/armedforces. Capturing the World --- 2018/11/07 Erik Lunsford, managing photojournalist for the LCMS communications team, shares his recent experiences on this week’s World Lutheran News Digest. View many of his images at photo.lcms.org and in the Lutherans Engage magazine at engage.lcms.org. Religious Liberty in Small Business --- 2018/10/31 Michael Berry, Deputy General Counsel and Director of Military Affairs for First Liberty Institute, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, an Oregon-based custom bakery shut down for refusing to create a special cake celebrating a lesbian marriage. Read more at firstliberty.org/news/this-one-takes-the-cake.… Values Voter Summit --- 2018/10/24 Brent Keilen, Director of FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council, joins host Kip Allen to discuss the Values Voter Summit issues onWorld Lutheran News Digest. Learn about FRC Action and find voting resources at frcaction.org. Keep Kids First --- 2018/10/10 Keep Kids First is a recently formed organization designed to protect faith-based adoption and foster care agencies from discrimination. Host Kip Allen discusses the new organization with Matt Sharp, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom and director of the Center for Legislative Advocacy, on World Lutheran News Digest.… The Johnson Amendment --- 2018/10/03 The Johnson Amendment prevents non-profit organizations, such as churches, from addressing certain issues. What the Johnson Amendment does and does not do is the topic of discussion between host Kip Allen and David Christensen, Vice President of Governmental Affairs with the Family Research Council. Preserving the Sanctity of Life --- 2018/09/26 The federal government is contracting with a company that is under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for selling aborted baby body parts for profit. David Daleiden, citizen journalist and head of the Center for Medical Progress, talks about this with host Kip Allen on World Lutheran News Digest.… Pro-Life on Campus --- 2018/09/12 Students for Life of America Media Director Matt Lamb talks about preparing for the new school year for pro-lifers in today’s World Lutheran News Digest with host Kip Allen. Learn more about Students for Life of America at studentsforlife.org, or on social media at twitter.com/StudentsforLife, facebook.com/studentsforlife, and instagram.com/stu ...… Religious Liberty Victory --- 2018/09/05 Chaplain Army Major Scott Squires and his assistant, Staff Sergeant Kacie Griffin, are cleared of “dereliction of duty” charges. Mike Berry, Deputy General Counsel and Director of Military Affairs with First Liberty Institute, discusses the case on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. Politics and Religious Liberty --- 2018/08/29 The New York Times recently published an editorial criticizing the administration for having the State Department convene a conference on the subject of international religious liberty. The editorial, titled “A Too-Narrow Vision of Religious Freedom,” struck an anti-Christian tone. Commentator Jonathan S. Tobin wrote a response in National Revi ...… Standing Firm in the Faith --- 2018/08/22 Host Kip Allen interviews Lori Wagoner, a woman who recently learned she has only months to live. Lore says she’s sustained because of God’s love for her. As she puts it, “I’m a winner. I know God.” International Religious Freedom --- 2018/08/08 Nearly two years ago, Presbyterian Pastor Andrew Brunson was arrested by Turkish authorities who accused him of associating with terrorists. American authorities, including the president, vice president and secretary of state, say it’s a matter of persecution. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is closely watching t ...… New Media and the Gospel Message --- 2018/08/01 Host Kip Allen discusses New Media and the Gospel Message with LCMS Social Media Manger Peter Slayton and KFUO Radio Digital Media Specialist Sarah Gulseth on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. Supreme Court Nominee --- 2018/07/25 Focus on the Family Vice President Tim Goeglein, a long-time acquaintance of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, discusses the president’s choice on today’s World Lutheran News Digest. LCMS Rear Admiral is Chaplain of the Marine Corps --- 2018/07/11 A new man has been selected as the 20th Chaplain of the Marine Corps. Rear Admiral Gregory N. Todd, a ordained LCMS minister, has served in the military for 32 years. Director of the LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces Chaplain Craig Muehler attended Todd’s promotion ceremony in the nation’s capital. World Lutheran News Digest host Kip Allen spea ...… Religion of Secularism --- 2018/07/04 Can secularism be a religion? One Lutheran scholar not only believe it can, but has become the unofficial state religion of the United States. Guest Russel Dawn, Associate Professor of History and Political Thought and Director of the Pre-Law Program at Concordia University, Irvine, joins host Kip Allen to discuss this issue and how it affects you.… Planned Parenthood, Protecting Abusers --- 2018/06/27 Guest Alison Centofante, Director of Strategic Communication with Live Action, speaks with host Kip Allen about a report exposing Planned Parenthood’s failure to report child sexual abuse, human trafficking and statutory rape. Learn more about Live Action at liveaction.org. Cakes and Religious Freedom --- 2018/06/13 Jeremy Dys, Esq., Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty Institute and host of the First Liberty Briefing, discusses the case of Sweet Cakes by Melissa. As with Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Sweet Cakes owners, Aaron and Melissa Klein, balked at creating a special wedding cake for a lesbian couple. Because of their stand, the state o ...… Masterpiece Cakeshop --- 2018/06/06 The United States Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop. He is the baker who refused to make a wedding cake celebrating gay marriage. Guest attorney David French, senior fellow with the National Review Institute, joins host Kip Allen to talk about what the decision actually means, what it didn’t settle, and w ...… U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem --- 2018/05/30 The United States this month moved its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the ancient city of Jerusalem. Israel has always claimed Jerusalem as its capital, and the American Congress called for placing our embassy there since 1995. Israel hailed the move, as did many Americans, but there was condemnation from other corners. What are the politic ...… Controversial Gift of Adoption --- 2018/05/23 Placing children in loving homes for adoption should be non-controversial. Unfortunately, some LGBT forces have decided to attack faith-based adoption agencies for following Biblical teachings. There is a movement in Congress to protect these agencies and children. Family Research Council’s Director of the Center for Religious Liberty Travis We ...… Matters of Life and Death --- 2018/05/09 Mandatory, involuntary euthanasia has happened before, and it’s happening again. Host Kip Allen discusses this frightening development with Wesley J. Smith, Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Learn more about the Discovery Institute at discovery.org/human and follow @DiscoveryInst1.… Pro-life students on campuses across the nation are creating displays exposing the horror of abortion. Pro-abortion students react by vandalism, destruction and intimidation. Students for Life in America is helping the cause. SLA Western Regional Director Reagan Barklage joins host Kip Allen on today's episode. Follow SLA at facebook.com/studen ...… Faith in the Midst of Combat --- 2018/04/25 Faith in God has sustained many soldiers through the ordeal of combat. This is especially true of those who have been captured by the enemy. However, a display honoring the faith of POW/MIA is under attack by an atheist group. Chaplain Craig Muehler, director of the Ministry to the Armed Forces discusses the situation with host Kip Allen.… Faith-Based Adoption Agencies Under Attack --- 2018/04/11 1+ y ago Faith-based adoption agencies are under attack by those claiming they discriminate against same-sex couples seeking adoption. Sexual politics resulted in various states and cities canceling contracts such agencies, adding thousands of children to already-overburdened state service agencies. Attorney Autumn Leva of the Family Policy Alliance dis ...… Made Up Facts --- 2018/04/04 Abortion was legalized 45 years ago, and nearly 60 million babies have been aborted since that time. One statistic that abortion-rights advocates used in support of legalizing abortion is the number of women who die from undergoing illegal abortions. However, since the 1973 ruling, those figures have been disproved as false. Guest Carole Noviel ...… The Case of Compelled Speech --- 2018/03/28 Guest Michael Farris, president, CEO, and general counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), joins host Kip Allen to talk about the case of National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) vs. Becerra. This case, recently heard before the Supreme Court, involves compelled speech and whether pro-life crisis pregnancy centers can be for ...… Obey God Rather Than Men (Rebroadcast) --- 2018/03/14 Host Kip Allen speaks with Kim Davis, former Rowen County, Kentucky, county clerk. 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__label__cc	0.648129	0.351871	Altitude Development joint venture with Japan’s Creed Group Home /PROPERTY/Altitude Development joint venture with Japan’s Creed Group PROPERTY \| Launch “Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra” targeting Millennials and young entrepreneurs in the up and coming area of Talat Phlu Launch of Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra. From left: Mr. Takashi Eguchi, Vice President, Creed Group; Mr. Toshihiko Muneyoshi, Founder and Managing Director, Creed Group; Mr. Chayaphon Hunrungroj, Chief Executive Officer, Altitude Development; and Mr. Kwanchai Yingchareonthawornhai, Managing Director, Altitude Development. Altitude Development and Creed Group join forces to develop Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra, a high-rise condominium in Talat Phlu, worth 2.4 billion baht. Talat Phlu is an up-and-coming lifestyle area near the CBDs of Bangkok conveniently accessed by the BTS Green Line, and Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra is connected by skywalk direct to Talat Phlu BTS Station. Condominiums start from 2.19 million baht. Speaking of the company’s strategic plan, Mr. Chayaphon Hunrungroj, CEO of Altitude Development Co., Ltd., said, “Our current and future focus is on high value strategic development sites, in particular those located in the city center and close to Bangkok’s mass transit systems. To support our growth we will partner with leading international property professionals.” In this regard, Altitude Development have signed a joint venture agreement with Creed Group, a company with a strong track record of developing real estate in Japan. Since 2012, Creed Group have experienced solid growth in Japan and other Asian countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Laos and Bangladesh, and its Gross Development Value (GDV) is over US$800 million. Creed Group are looking to further expand their real estate investments in Southeast Asia and Thailand is a priority market. “The partnership between Altitude Development and Creed Group is the beginning of a new joint investment strategy and business expansion for both parties. We will grow together by increasing the values of each of our own property businesses as well as sustainably growing our revenues and profits,” Chayaphon added. Mr. Toshihiko Muneyoshi, Founder and Managing Director of Creed Group shared, “We have successfully developed real estate projects in a number of countries and Thailand is a strategic market for us to grow our regional presence. We will focus on premium condominiums in upcoming locations, outstanding developments with comprehensive facilities, and Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra fits this perfectly and is our first development, together with Altitude Development, in Thailand.” This joint venture company is Altitude Creed Talat Phlu Co., Ltd. in which Altitude Development holds 51% of the total stock and Creed Group holds 49%. Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra is set to be the first and flagship development, it will cater to market needs and leverage the city’s expansion along new BTS lines. Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra is a 34-storey high rise condominium connected to Talat Phlu BTS Station by skywalk, offering unrivaled convenience for residents. Located on 2 rai of land, the development comprises 711 units in four different types, including: One Bedroom, with the unit area of 23.64 – 24.53 sqm; One Bedroom Plus, with the unit area of 36.98 sqm; One Plus One Bedroom, with the unit area of 39.08 – 57.78 sqm; and One Plus One Bedroom Loft, with the unit area of 57.01 – 69.28 sqm. Unit prices start from 2.19 million baht. Construction is scheduled to start in Q3/2019 and is expected to be complete Q3/2021. Mr. Kwanchai Yingcharoenthawornchai, Managing Director of Altitude Development Co., Ltd., commented, “Talat Phlu has become a new business district in Bangkok and Altitude Unicorn Sathron-Tha Phra is the company’s flagship development. It will inspire a new way of living and targets the new generation who prefer to live near CBDs such as Siam, Silom or Sathorn. Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra is located in the heart of this prime area with convenient connections. Linked to the BTS, residents can travel to other parts of the city and be at their workplaces within minutes, and we are also within easy driving distance of areas such as Silom, Sathorn and Siam.” Altitude Unicorn has a clear ethos; to create a space for its residents where they can relax and reboot. The development’s modern architectural style and unique facilities, with co-creation at the heart, fits the ideals of Millennials and start up entrepreneurs who wish to be successful in both their private life and business. Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra offers a comprehensive range of facilities including an intelligent co-working space with auditorium; reception and service bar designed by Fallabella – a meeting place, which offers coffee and tea during the day and cocktails in the evening; co-creation kitchen; mini theatre; and an e-sports room. The Grand Canyon-inspired swimming pool offers a place to relax and unwind while the fitness centre – which comes complete with climbing wall, yoga area and even a boxing ring – is a space where residents can focus on their health. Stressing the development’s prime location and connectivity, Kwanchai added, “We expect Altitude Unicorn Sathorn-Tha Phra to be a hit with young professionals and entrepreneurs. Our convenient skywalk access to Talat Phlu BTS Station on the Green Line provides easy access to city center stations like National Stadium (in front of MBK), as well as Siam, Ratchadamri, Silom, Sathorn, Saphan Taksin and more. 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__label__wiki	0.536582	0.536582	Tag Archives: visually pretty The Dark Knight Rises: I Was Born In It… Sorry I’m a bit late on the uptake with reviewing this movie, but I did see it, so I do need to review it. This movie, as the whole series does, holds a lot of mixed feelings with me. People moan and complain about the past Batmans (never had nipples, I get it), and rant and rave about how this series is the end all be all of Batman fandom. That’s great, neat-o. People have all different kinds of preferences when it comes to comic book Hello there, Mr. Batman (in a Sean Connery voice). heroes and the types of ways that they’re represented, but get off my back when I say I am a bit more nostalgic and partial to the original Tim Burton films. Jesus… But, that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy these movies. We all must remember that these are movies about fictionalized characters from comic books made mostly for the demographic of children to teenagers. Being in college, I can claim, just on the border, that it still applies to me. And hell, these movies only apply to people my age they’re so damn dark these days. I never read The Dark Knight series, and I don’t plan to (not a big comic person). Christopher Nolan can do what he wishes, but just because he made Memento that film kids orgasm over, doesn’t mean he’s the best director and visionary of all time. A worthy, catlike foe. And therein lies where my grudge starts. I enjoyed Batman Begins for its iconically classic cheesy action lines and origin story. For a lot of other fans, that movie is shit in comparison to The Dark Knight. Sure, in hindsight, any movie is better than its predecessor (very rarely). But please, respect the originators. The Dark Knight was good as well. Great story, not the best film of all time, because remember, only dramas and artsy films win Oscars, and as much as I would like that to be changed, it won’t. So stop pretending that this movie deserved Oscars, it ain’t gonna happen Nolan. And then, it all started. Nolan made Inception. The stupid dream within a dream jokes started. This film may be visually pretty, but in lacks when all the hype built around its release left it wanting something. And then, as if to pay homage to a film that has nothing to do with the Batman series, to service the fans, Nolan does something I find strange and deplorable. He puts Marion The Dark Inception Rises? Cotillard, Tom Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt all into the Batman series. With plenty of other candidates out there to try out, he did that whole in-circle movie inclusion thing. All I’m saying is, if I were a director, I would want to work with lots of varying talent and not stick the same old actors into every movie. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Nolan replaced Christian Bale with DiCaprio… Now that my rants over, let me start a conflicted review about The Dark Knight Rises that people probably won’t read because I’ve already forced out everyone who lives and dies for this series anyways… So, I gotta say this movie was really hit or miss for me. I love Christian Bale. Plain and simple. His depiction of Batman is Christian Bale, may you never change. satisfactory, and one of the only things that keeps me watching these movies. Sure, he does the whole deep voice thing, but isn’t that to entirely mask his identity from other people? He messes up once in the movie by continuing to do the voice although Catwoman knew who he was. But maybe it’s just a mentality thing. The other thing that made me watch this movie, an amazingly and surprisingly good performance from Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. I’ve loved her ever since The Princess Diaries, and this movie solidifies that she is an actress of all genres. She’s witty and sensual in a way I didn’t know she could be, but not a pushover or bimbo as some comic book villainesses are depicted. A perfect counterpart and conflicted villain of Robin Hood status for this movie. The only other reason I liked this movie? My adoring nature for She even makes the orange look classy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I’m talking Brick, even throwbacks to when I used to watch 3rd Rock From The Sun occasionally. The Lookout, 50/50, his hits just keep rollin’ on. He was one of those sleeper actors that, once given the chance, showed he could do great things. And his twist reveal at the end of this movie was worth waiting for. Now come the hang-ups I had about this film. First off, it was too long. I don’t know what makes Christopher Nolan pack so much material into a movie I felt could be 2 hrs tops, but he exhausts every single thing he can thing to put in a script and doesn’t understand the meaning of “edit”. Once it hits Batman in the prison of doom, I started to fall asleep. After the last battle, I woke up for the unnecessarily long wrap up ending. Do you see the likeness, brother? Bane. Plain and simple, the way Bane is represented in this movie. It’s a big step up from the poison addled Bane of the Clooney times, but it ends up amount to little better than a lackey. I had a friend tell me all about how Bane was so smart and could beat Batman physically as well as mentally in the Dark Knight Series. What do I find out? Bane is a pawn in a much bigger game. And what’s with that voice? Did Sean Connery get a Vader mask and forget to go through puberty? This comically funny voice ruined any chance at making him a legitimate contender for good villain in this movie. Cillian Murphy’s appearance again as Scarecrow in this movie was more entertaining and evil than Bane was. Sad. Marion Cotillard. Her twist ending as yet another villain biatch in a Christopher Nolan film saddened me. It felt like an unnecessary cop out and exhaustive effort on the writer’s part to make this a cyclical film. Even if this is how the Dark Knight comics went, change it. It sucked. Throw in a bunch of unnecessary explosions that would make Michael Bay proud and you have a fireworks ending to this There’s a lot of debris in this movie… film with a cliffhanger stuck on for good measure. (Seriously, people complain about how explosions take over substance in Bay’s films? Nolan should take a quick peek in the mirror.) That’s not to say the movie wasn’t entertaining. As most action films for me (and this is nothing more than a “psychological” action film) there are good and bad parts. This was really divided down the middle for me. I would watch it again, and it would become one of those classic movies me and my roommate quote to pass the time. I don’t mean to over emotionally disrespect on anyone who really liked this movie. It may have just hit me at a bad time. Only time truly will tell. But, as for the overall delivery of this movie, in all its components, I’ll give it a 6.6 out of 10. 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__label__wiki	0.890623	0.890623	1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS Type: 904 Carrera GTS Serial No. 904 018 1966cc twin overhead camshaft flat-four, air-cooled engine mounted midship, 180 hp at 7000 rpm In the opinion of many an aficionado, the 904 was the greatest road-going Porsche of all. It certainly set the pattern for a whole generation of racing Porsches, but its beauty cloaked the fact that it wasn’t as aerodynamically perfect as it might have been, and it was overweight, too. Moreover, as caution dictated that the intended but untried 911-based engine be scratched, it used the aging but reliable 180 horsepower Carrera fourcam unit. The 904 was undeniably tough, with its svelte glass fiber body bonded to a sheet steel double-box chassis, and it was certainly effective enough a performer to put Porsche back in the hunt for two liter class domination. The 904 made its racing debut at Daytona in February 1964, where a single car finished sixth overall and won its class. Another 2-liter prototype class win at Sebring followed, though this time the 904 – the actual car shown here, driven by Briggs Cunningham and Lake Underwood – came ninth overall. Homologation as a GT class racer followed, once the obligatory 100 units were produced. A 2-liter flat-eight prototype 904 appeared at the Le Mans test weekend, and a few weeks later led the Targa Florio for three laps of the 45-mile Piccolo Madonie circuit. But its suspension failed, and a four-banger 904 driven by the Sicilian Baron Pucci and Colin Davis, son of Bentley Boy Sammy, crossed the line in first place, with another 904 second. In all, the standard 904 notched up an encouraging total of class wins and overall placings during the remainder of the 1964 season, taking the two liter GT Championship for Porsche. The 904 had a lot of untapped potential, said its designer “Butzi” Porsche, but the 1964 launch of the 911, whose completely new six-cylinder engine and modified MacPherson Strut front suspension represented a clean break with Porsche tradition, rendered the 904 obsolescent. By 1966, it had been swept out by Porsche cousin Ferdinand Piëch and his Carrera 6. Our 1914 Simplex in the collection once belonged to Barron Gift Collier. Learn more	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1552
__label__cc	0.533011	0.466989	Mahindra launches class-leading autoSHIFT Transmission developed with Ricardo Home page/ News and media / News and Press / Mahindra launches class-leading autoSHIFT Transmission developed with Ricardo Mahindra – one of India’s leading automakers, and a company with a growing international reach – has chosen the prestigious Delhi Auto Expo to reveal a brand new state-of-the-art five-speed automated manual transmission; the result of a technology and engineering collaboration with Ricardo. The new Mahindra 5-speed autoSHIFT transmission represents a significant step forward in transmission technology within the Indian automotive sector. Designed specifically to improve the driving experience and fuel economy in the urban environment, the unit incorporates the key efficiency advantages of a manual transmission while providing the smooth comfort and convenience of an automatic. The Mahindra autoSHIFT incorporates some extremely advanced technologies resulting from the collaboration with Ricardo. These include an advanced electronic control and hydraulic actuation system that senses driver demand and initiates gear changes automatically based on a highly optimized shift map that delivers the best possible fuel efficiency. The new autoASHIFT has been launched for the first time in the 2014 model year Mahindra Quanto compact SUV. Driving the autoSHIFT provides a rewarding experience, with the ability to switch between automatic and manual mode with just a tap on the lever. As a driver you are now under full control of the vehicle making your own decision to hold on a gear or make quicker or delayed shifts as you might wish, without the need to operate the clutch pedal. “We are extremely pleased to be able to reveal the brand new Mahindra autoSHIFT 5-speed automated manual transmission, which has been developed through our longstanding and highly successful collaboration with global technology leader Ricardo,” commented Rajan Wadhera, chief executive – technology, product development and sourcing for Mahindra. “The Mahindra autoSHIFT is undeniably a first for the Indian automotive sector in that we have captured the best globally available skills and technologies and created a truly innovative product to be manufactured from the outset, here in India. Developed in partnership with Ricardo, the Mahindra autoSHIFT transmission promises our customers an exceptional automatic driving experience with superb fuel economy – and a fully capable manual mode where demanded.” “Ricardo is proud to have been able to work with Mahindra on this impressive new autoSHIFT transmission system,” added Ricardo India president Mayank Agochiya. “Ricardo and Mahindra share an ethos of deploying excellence in engineering skills and technology to create highly innovative and market-leading products for customers that set new benchmarks for quality. We are grateful to Mahindra for revealing our involvement in the autoSHIFT transmission and look forward to continuing our collaboration with this leading Indian automaker, and helping to further its strong international ambitions.” Press release text: Mahindra launches class-leading autoSHIFT Transmission developed with Ricardo	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1554
__label__cc	0.746094	0.253906	Digital Transformation and Leadership Training Today’s complex and dynamic business world requires companies to change their leadership and management paradigms. Previously, leaders operated in a hierarchical and formalised structure, but now they operate in flat, fluid and interconnected environment. How does an organisation adapt to these changes? Digital transformation necessitates a high degree of change management as well as new strategies, skills, and behaviours.To achieve success in the digital age, companies need to revisit and rethink the concept of leadership, revolutionise the way they operate and interact, and look to cultivate a new generation of leaders for the future. This two-day training is targeted at talented women who possess several years of management or professional experience in an industry that utilises digital technology. Afterwards you will be able to determine which new skills are required from a digital leader and which strategies they should employ to engage their management and employees. You will also understand the strategic and ethical choices that are demanded of leaders in today’s digital world and be equipped with strategies that can be used by digital leaders to overcome unconscious bias in their organisations and bring out the best in their people. Schedule, price and venue Digital Transformation and Leadership Training will be held on 13 February and 3 March 2020 at Drakenburg. The price is € 1.495 excluding VAT and accommodation. It includes study materials and catering. Did you know that you can either sign up for this training separately or attend as part of our Digital Leadership Programme? Want to sign up? Learn which new skills are required from digital leaders and which strategies they should employ! 13 February and 3 March 2020 Core lecturers Kay Formanek Kay Formanek is a guest lecturer at INSEAD and an expert in digital leadership, diversity and performance. Jeroen van der Velden Dr. Jeroen van der Velden is an associate professor of strategy and the director of the Strategy Centre at Nyenrode Business University. Read his Story Back to Academy Get updated with our latest news and sign up for our newsletter. Prins Hendriklaan 6 3701 CMZeist Email: geke.rosier@rightbrains.nl Mobile: +31 (0)6 45752310 Copyright © 2019 RightBrains Terms and Conditions Privacy Notice	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1559
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__label__wiki	0.571062	0.571062	No Barriers to Play April 3, 2018 / No Comments Universally Accessible Playgrounds in Sacramento By Lauren Ivy Chiong If you are a parent of a special needs child, you might feel the playground options in Sacramento are few. Yet there are several universally accessible playgrounds in the area, hidden gems that will delight children of all abilities. One has a solar-system theme and special play panels featuring Braille. Another has a magical forest theme, and the third features a wheel-chair accessible swing. All of these playgrounds facilitate and celebrate play, guaranteeing hours of fun while encouraging kids to use their imaginations, and enabling them to develop fine and gross motor skills. Mahany Park in Roseville \| 1545 Pleasant Grove Blvd., at the corner of Woodcreek Oaks and Pleasant Grove Boulevard This park started with a request by two local moms for an accessible swing for their community. According to Tara Gee, Park Planning & Development Superintendent of Parks, Recreation & Libraries for the City of Roseville, community interest quickly grew, and grassroots fundraising began. “Project Play,” which sought to provide access to play for all abilities, soon took shape. The universally accessible playground at Mahany Park is the result. (Maidu Regional Park is also part of “Project Play.”) The two local moms, Jackie DeMuth and Laurie Newton, ultimately received the Champion of the Community Award from the California Park & Recreation Society for their efforts. “‘Project Play” at Mahany was a once-in-a-lifetime project,” explains Gee. “The community-based project raised over $1.7 million in funds. To make this project universally accessible, it cost more than four times the amount of a typical playground. We had great partners not only in the fundraising, but with the designers and contractors.” Gee stated that a typical playground, while meeting standards and requirements of accessibility, is not universally accessible. “‘Universal accessibility means ‘no barriers at all’. We designed the playground to touch all of the senses: sound, sight, mobility, and touch,” Gee said. The enriching experience for kids of all ages and varying abilities features an inviting magical forest theme in an adventure area for older kids, a wheelchair-accessible hollow log for exploring, and a toddler play area. Kloss Park in Elk Grove \| 6501 Laguna Park Drive, next to Foulks Ranch Elementary School Updated to a universally accessible design in 2007, children of all abilities will love this neighborhood playground featuring children’s favorites such as bowl spinners, sand/water play, and a kid-sized model of an ambulance for exciting “let’s pretend” games. The playground’s most outstanding feature, however, is its wheelchair swing. Paul Mewton, Chief of Planning, Design & Construction at the Cosumnes Community Services District Parks and Recreation Department, explained that it is one of the few of its kind in the area. “This was something that some local parents and activists asked for during the planning of the playground,” said Mewton. “Including pieces that provide movement and are safe for kids with disabilities is a challenge, and this particular swing, which comes from Australia, was one of the few pieces available at the time that allowed kids who had never had the experience of swinging the opportunity to fly through the air, just like their more able playmates.” Southside Playground in Downtown Sacramento \| 2115 6th Street near U Street This popular playground in the heart of downtown Sacramento encourages the inquisitiveness of children with a solar-system theme. The 16,800-square-foot playground accommodates different age groups with three distinct play areas: a play section with a rubber surface for babies and toddlers under two, a tot lot for preschoolers (age two to five), and an adventure play area for children age five to twelve. The adventure and preschool play equipment feature multiple levels with numerous access ramps and handrails. The Southside Playground is especially focused on creating sensory experiences for young children. The preschool play area has play panels featuring opportunities to learn Braille and a slide with a tactile surface. This aesthetically-pleasing playground boasts therapeutic gardens as well as unique artwork in the form of tiled mosaics on a decorative wall, and a sun pattern in the paving enhances the galaxy theme. Afterschool Activities, Around Town, School Age, Special Needs ← Know Your Child’s Learning Style Getting Your Kids to Fall in Love with Reading →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1568
__label__wiki	0.540922	0.540922	search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsModern Language Quarterly About Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Search Results for locke Journal Article (569) Cultural Studies (10) European Studies (5) Globalization and Neoliberalism (1) World History (2) Literature and Literary Studies (561) Literary Criticism (559) Literary Theory (558) Pedagogy and Higher Education (1) Postcolonial and Colonial Studies (1) Theater and Performance (2) Theory and Philosophy (12) Postcolonial Theory (1) Modern Language Quarterly (569) Research Article (334) 1-20 of 569 Search Results for Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen Vera Nünning Modern Language Quarterly (1 December 2005) 66 (4): 551–554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-66-4-551 ... 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Carnochan DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-25-1-5 ... character of his age, which had cast some serious doubts on the possibility of defining man at all, at least in his essential nature. The real essence of any species, says Locke, is beyond our knowledge: “it is evident, that we sort and name substances by their nominal, and not by their real... Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death Catherine Gimelli Martin ... pivotal maneuver through a wide variety of texts culminating in the writings of Thomas Hobbes and in John Locke’s highly equivocal chapters on slavery and conquest in his Two Treatises on Government . This material is fascinating in its own right but also in its startling critique of contradictions at... 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Fast-forward to Locke, and we see how things have changed. By insisting that individuality precedes social arrangements, Locke moves away from the earlier notion that... Auxiliary Verbs A Review of Two Books on Sterne John Traugott ... way he does away with linear se- a “A Parodying Novel: Sterne’s Tristram Shandy,” in Laurence Sterne: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. John Traugott (Englewood Cliffs, 1968), pp. 66-89. JOHN TRAUGOTT 115 quence) or Locke (“men know... One Relation of Rhyme to Reason Alexander Pope W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. ... to the Seventeenth Cen- tury (Leipzig, 1889), pp. 31-33. Mead gives Chaucer’s Canterbury Prologue a percentage of 10.7 unstopped lines against 5.41 for the Rape of the Lock. But he does not take into account the various degrees of end-stopping nor the difference between stopping... Situations of Identity in the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Robert A. 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__label__cc	0.561493	0.438507	Saturday Night Open Thread – Fantasy Bucket Lists Posted on August 22, 2009 by nls It’s Saturday night. Time to unwind. Summer was pretty much a bust weather-wise and so I’m looking forward to the colorful hues of the Fall. I’m also thinking about my “Bucket-List.” You know, that “things to do before I die” list? I’ve been checking things off recently and I figure that I better add a few new ones because I’m not sure what happens when the list runs out. Right now, remaining on my “bucket list” are the following: 1) Travel to Australia and hug a koala bear 2) Go whale-watching in Cape Cod Now it appears that we may be going to Cape Cod for next year’s vacation so that means my bucket-list is close to the end. I really need to beef it up. S0, what’s on YOUR Bucket-List? Maybe I can steal some ideas; or better yet, what have you checked off your bucket list? Share your stories. For your relaxation, Rico has whipped up a batch of his killer Appletinis, but of course the bar is open and your liquid refreshment wishes are granted for the price of a generous tip. Tonight’s live entertainment is Michael Buble’ accompanied by David Foster on the piano. Enjoy! Please Digg!!! Share!!! Tweet!!! Add to: Facebook \| Digg \| Del.icio.us \| Stumbleupon \| Reddit \| Blinklist \| Twitter \| Technorati \| Furl \| Newsvine Charter schools, Standardized Tests and the Tianamen Square Effect Posted on August 22, 2009 by riverdaughter Parent facing down the Educational Establishment Vastleft’s post on the NEA’s response to Obama’s education plans reminded me of piece I had seen in the NYTimes last week just before I went on vacation. In Dangling Money, Obama Pushes Education Shift, the Obama agenda on education starts to crystallize as an increase in charter schools and an emphasis on standardized tests. Now, before I get into this further I want to make three things absolutely clear: 1.) I’m no Obama fan because he doesn’t make policy based on principle so what is he up to? 2.) I am a strong supporter of teacher’s labor unions. 3.) I don’t like No Child Left Behind for many reasons, the main one being that it seems to be designed to make public education unpalatable so that many of us don’t want to support it anymore. That being said, Obama’s plans are pretty reasonable as long as they don’t undermine the strength of the teacher’s labor unions and I’ll tell you why. But first, an antecdote. During my brief tenure as a school board member (I only ran for one term), my personal mission was to change the curriculum of our school district. My district is about 10 miles from Princeton but it definitely couldn’t compete with Princeton or the school district I had recently left, West Windsor-Plainsboro, which is where many Princeton people live. Central Jersey is chock full of high tech, pharmaceutical and academic types. But what is really interesting is what you will find in graduate level classes at universities like Princeton and Rutgers, especially in the hard sciences. Almost everyone is asian. This is not a biased remark. It is simply reality. In fact, my brainiac #2 child took a 5 week algebra course at Rutgers Prep this summer and was the only caucasian in the class. We noticed it at work as well. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, labs across the state got an influx of Chinese scientists. I called it the Tianamen Square Effect. Many of these Chinese students came after the failed uprising. The lucky ones got out and came to the states to study. They told us stories about what education is like in China. It’s grueling. There are standardized tests, high stakes standardized tests, constantly. Those tests determine whether you will be able to go to a good school and study or whether you will end up making widgets in a factory somewhere. It is really important to do well and parents push their children hard. So, back in my days on the school board, I brought this up to the curriculum supervisors and asked why we weren’t performing at least at the same level as Princeton and West Windsor-Plainsboro where there was much more rigor and a more challenging curriculum in math and science? The attitude I was met with might be described as, “So what? They just do “drill and kill”. Chinese students aren’t creative. They just imitate everything we do. We Americans have nothing to worry about.” (Education propaganda is about as difficult to kill as the stuff that emanates from Rush Limbaugh.) Educators seem all too willing to believe what other educators tell them but easily dismiss what people who work in the real world tell them. I’ll tell you why we have to worry. While their billions of children were clawing their way up the academic ladder, ours were coddled to the point of being completely useless to anyone but the finance industry. Oh sure, we educate a lot of future accountants and teachers but future researchers of America who can use the scientific method or think rationally? Not so much. It is the sheer numbers of well educated Chinese and Indians that should be alarming to us. Their populations are much bigger than ours, therefore the number of hard science graduates they have is also much bigger. And those so-called imitative automatons are beating the pants off us in the world of outsourcing. Why should American companies hire expensive American scientists when Indian PhDs are a dime a dozen in Hyderabad? And yes, these same American companies don’t think twice about giving those PhD’s the boring, tedious work that used to be done by scientists with four year degrees. So, if the US wants to re-establish its innovative bona fides, we have got to get crackin’ or send our kids to China for 12 years so they’re ready to compete when they get to college. It won’t be long before those Chinese and Indian scientists are inventing the next internet. So, I was pained to see the NEA come out against charter schools. I understand it but it still shows that they just don’t get it. Or they get it but they’re in denial. There is a HUGE problem with the US education establishment that will become a serious obstacle to any change in policy. It is not unionization. It is preparation. Our teachers are simply not equipped to teach world class math and science. I think this is part of the resistance to standardized testing. It is very hard to teach standards which you do not understand. Most teachers can handle the early grades fairly well. It’s when children hit the intermediate grades that we have problems. Here’s how the problem plays out in NJ: Every child in our school district takes a statewide stadardized test called the NJASK. A child is ranked partially proficient, proficient and advanced proficient based on the NJASK and is supposed to put into a class based on their score. So, partially proficient kids should get extra help, proficient kids are the vast majority of students. But what about the advanced proficient kids? As I said before, in the early grades, teachers can differentiate their curriculum a bit. But once they hit middle school, the advanced proficients meet the K-8 teacher certification limit. At this point, teachers aren’t required to teach anything more than algebra I and most aren’t required to do that anyway with the vast majority of students taking pre-algebra. So, if a kid scores at the top of the advanced proficiency range, there may not be enough room for him/her in the single class of 21 kids that gets the benefit of the single teacher in the school that is qualified to teach them advanced algebra I and geometry. This is what happened to Brook last year. She’s at the top of the advanced proficiency range and does very well on her math tests. But she refused to do her homework. So she ended up repeating pre-algebra. (For some reason, teachers are convinced that every child has to do the same homework, whether they’ve mastered the material or not. I’d give them homework on stuff they don’t already know but that requires a different curriculum and it’s so much easier to blame the kid and reinforce bad study habits. Ok, the kid has an attitude problem too but I digress…) What we do with these advanced proficients who don’t show zealous attention to their homework is we hold them back in 7th and 8th grade. We slow them down so they don’t peak in algebra too soon, leaving them nothing to do for 2 years. In the meantime, these kids start hating the subject matter. It’s goes too slowly and it’s too easy. They develop poor study habits. We level them off to the same proficiency as their peers. Wonderful. But it doesn’t stress the teachers and that seems to be the point. We can reward teachers for taking continuing education credits and getting masters degrees but these classes seem limited to learning new pedagogy, not content. And some curriculum supervisors admit that their teachers are afraid of science and math, especially in the lower grades. They want pre-digested lesson plans and packets that can you can just add water and serve. Nothing too stressful. It’s not that these teachers are incapable of learning math and science to world class standards. It’s just that we don’t make them do it. We fall victim to the “guide on the side, not sage on the stage”, “drill and kill” and “we shouldn’t be teaching to the test” propaganda, but these memes are just smokescreens. Take the last one for example. We are talking about standardized tests. That means that standards were to be taught. If a teacher’s class hasn’t been learning the standards all year that are expected by local, state, and the national authorities, what the f^*) has the class been learning? NO teacher should be cramming in the weeks leading up to a test. The standards are there to be used as guidelines as to what is expected to be learned. If teachers do not like the standards or are incapable of teaching them, they can always go into finance. I personally don’t like New Jersey’s standards because they are fuzzy and indistinct, but by golly, the NJASK is a hard test so somebody better know how to teach this stuff. What frosts my crockies is that many parents like myself and my internationally trained colleagues can’t afford to live in Princeton. So, we’re stuck in these suburban school districts were “all of the children above average”. And that’s it. There is no pushing limits. Teachers act as gatekeepers to the tiny number of slots in the enriched classes and the selection process appears to be subjective. Many of my colleagues resort to sending their kids to Saturday Chinese schools or summer programs at local prep schools. The local schools simply refuse to accommodate accelerated math and science programs for their middle schoolers. If that’s the case, why shouldn’t we, the taxpayers, choose to allocate some of our hard earned money to a charter school, staffed by union teachers but teaching curriculum at a world class level? What exactly is the problem? That diverting some of the money from the general population would be a detriment to the students? When we expect our children to perform at the level of our Asian counterparts, maybe they will have made a case. But right now, we ask far too little in order to compete at an international level. It’s time we asked more of our teachers. For starters, let’s ask them to stop holding back our best students. Teachers, educate yourselves. Please Digg!!! Share!!! Tweet!!!!! Filed under: education \| Tagged: charter schools, education, K-8 certification, No Child Left Behind, standardized tests \| 83 Comments » Your Breakfast Read, Saturday Edition Posted on August 22, 2009 by mablue2 Health Care Pseudo-Reform Should we (Liberals and Progressives) worry even more than before about the health care legislation? Sure Tom Daschle knows how to navigate the Senate but the noises he has been making about the type of legislation have been unpleasant. Oval Office Visit Hints at Daschle’s Role As Obama’s health-care agenda teeters in Congress, the White House listed the private meeting on the president’s public schedule, sending a signal that Obama is still consulting Daschle on his top domestic policy priority. An assiduous student of health policy and an adept creature of the Senate, Daschle was Obama’s first pick to oversee his reforms, but a firestorm over Daschle’s failure to pay about $146,000 in taxes on time prompted the South Dakota Democrat in February to withdraw his nomination to be secretary of health and human services. The unbearable senselessness of the health care “bipartisan” committee. New Splits Emerge in Health-Plan Talks Republicans are pressing to reduce the size of tax credits for families with incomes that are below three times the poverty rate. They would also like to trim back insurance coverage mandates in hopes of lowering premiums that would have to be subsidized. But the three Democrats believe savings can be found without going to the heart of the bill. “There are not going to be significant changes to coverage,” said one Democratic aide familiar with the talks. “We’re finding other ways to bring down the cost.” Why aren’t more people up in arms about this? Why was the Senate HC bill taken out of the committees where such bills are usually handled? Why did the Democrats relinquished the majority they won at the polls. This is not a 50/50 Senate. Who made that decision? Why the Gang of Six is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us We have a Democratic president in the White House. Democrats control sixty votes in the Senate, enough to overcome a filibuster. It is possible to pass health care legislation through the Senate with 51 votes (that’s what George W. Bush did with his tax cut plan). Democrats control the House. It’s not even as if the gang represents America. The three Dems on the gang are from Montana, New Mexico, and North Dakota — states that together account for just over 1 percent of Americans. The three Republicans are from Maine, Wyoming, and Iowa, which together account for 1.6 percent of the American population. So, I repeat: Why has it come down to these six? Who anointed them? Apparently, the White House. At least that’s what I’m repeatedly being told by sources both on the Hill and in the Administration. Being a resident of MA, I have always thought our health care model was not as bad as some people make it out to be. The model, with its successes and failures offers a good basis on how the national health care system could be fixed. (Masslib, what say you?) The Massachusetts model How does the state’s health plan work? In an effort to achieve universal coverage, Massachusetts essentially requires every resident to obtain health insurance—either through their employer, a private plan, or, for low-income residents, a subsidized state program. Has it succeeded? In one important respect, unquestionably. Massachusetts now enjoys the lowest percentage of uninsured in the nation—2.6 percent, compared with 15 percent nationwide. More than 400,000 residents have health insurance for the first time, either because their companies began offering coverage or subsidies made the premiums affordable. So it was a slam-dunk? Hardly. The program has proved a lot more expensive than was anticipated. What can be learned from Massachusetts? The Massachusetts experiment shows just how difficult fixing the health-care system may be, for both political and logistical reasons. Guaranty Bank Shut; 10th Largest Failure Ever Guaranty Bank, a big Texas lender that succumbed to losses on loans to homebuilders and mortgage-tied securities, was shut down by regulators Friday and most of its operations sold to a major Spanish bank. It was the second-largest U.S. bank failure this year and the 10th-largest in U.S. history, expected to cost the deposit insurance fund an estimated $3 billion. The transaction approved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. marked the first time a foreign bank bought a failed U.S. bank. Is the global economy really out of its tailspin? At least things are starting to look up. World Economy Emerging From Worst Recession Since World War II The global economy may be coming out of the worst recession since World War II as record-low interest rates and trillions of dollars in fiscal stimulus spur demand. Sales of existing U.S. homes jumped in July to the highest level since August 2007, and German service industries expanded this month for the first time in almost a year, reports yesterday showed. The Japanese economy grew for the first time in five quarters, according to a report earlier this week. Economy Is ‘Leveling Out,’ Bernanke Says Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke rendered his most positive assessment of the economy yet in a speech Friday and gave credit in part to his own institution’s handling of the worst economic crisis in decades. The world economy has stopped shrinking. That’s the end of the good news Damien Hoffman takes an axe to Nouriel Roubini Is Nouriel Roubini a False Prophet? Wall Street has a laundry list of such charlatans. They tend to capture the spotlight during the heat of emotional peaks in the markets because emotion and reason tend to maintain an inverse relationship. During times of crisis we need something, sometimes anything, to reduce our pain and restore order to an uncomfortable new chaos. During the height of the most recent economic crisis, the media offered the center-stage spotlight to NYU Economics Professor Nouriel Roubini to comfort us with his soma. At the peak of the crash, Roubini was as ubiquitous as Coca-Cola and cellphones. He was the go-to guy because his PR team branded him as “The Prophet of Doom.” A perfect fit when you need someone to call at an overwhelmingly bullish place like Wall Street. What are you going to believe? The truth or the bunch of lying thugs that unfortunately ruled this country for 8 years? George W. Bush vets dismiss Tom Ridge claims Top officials from the George W. Bush White House are disputing claims in former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s coming book that they pressured him to adjust the terror threat level for political gain. “We went over backwards repeatedly and with great discipline to make sure politics did not influence any national security and homeland security decisions,” former White House chief of staff Andy Card told POLITICO. “The clear instructions were to make sure politics never influenced anything.” Come on Andy Card! You can dispute what Tom Ridge is saying, but don’t insult us. Convicted US soldier apologises for My Lai massacre The only US Army officer convicted over the 1968 massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he went on trial. William Calley, who has long shied away from publicity and routinely turned down journalists’ requests for interviews about My Lai, broke his long silence after accepting a long-time friend’s invitation to speak at a meeting of a local community club. Are we ever going to get to the bottom of this? Report reveals CIA methods As the Justice Department considers whether to investigate alleged harsh interrogation practices sanctioned by the Bush administration, sources say a soon-to-be-released report by the CIA’s inspector general reveals that agency interrogators conducted mock executions of terror suspects. I hope Rupert Murdoch lands on his nose with this one. Paid Content: The Days of the Internet Free Lunch Are Numbered Media billionaire Rupert Murdoch wants to start charging online readers of his newspapers a fee. His decision has launched a fierce debate over the future of the culture of free content on the Internet. It has also posed a difficult question for publishers: How much are we worth to readers? The prosaic professor (h/t TC commenter laurie) When Mr Obama came to office, most Washington insiders believed he would make up for his lack of governmental experience by continuing to be the best political salesman of his generation, as he had on the campaign trail. But as president, his ability to sell his most important policies – particularly on healthcare reform, the centrepiece of his domestic agenda – has proved much weaker than expected. Instead of electrifying the country with the case for reforming America’s expensive and highly exclusionary healthcare system, he has too often appeared to be reacting to other people’s characterisation of his plans, however misleading those might be. As a result, Mr Obama is going through something of a nightmare August. Hitler Is a Conversation Stopper Midway through the month’s town hall meetings on health care, it seems the shark has jumped the shark — and even Hitler must be sick of himself. The terrible tyrant can’t get a rest these days. For eight years, he was George W. Bush. Now he’s Barack H. Obama. We just can’t quit the monster with the fur lip. Masters and Slaves of Deception President Obama made a huge mistake in pursuing health care reform. He tried to be hands-off when he needed to be knee-deep. Boy I hate to concede a point to Chuck Krauthammer The Truth About Death Counseling Let’s see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I’ve got nothing against her. She’s a remarkable political talent. But there are no “death panels” in the Democratic health-care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate. We also have to tell the defenders of the notorious Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 that it is not quite as benign as they pretend. To offer government reimbursement to any doctor who gives end-of-life counseling — whether or not the patient asked for it — is to create an incentive for such a chat A Public Option That Works TWO burning questions are at the center of America’s health care debate. First, should employers be required to pay for their employees’ health insurance? And second, should there be a “public option” that competes with private insurance? Answers might be found in San Francisco If Switzerland Can … The deal struck between the United States and Switzerland last week to provide the names attached to 4,450 secret accounts held by Americans at the Swiss banking giant UBS is a blow for fairness. If Switzerland lives up to its commitment, it may well be a watershed: the beginning of the end of international tax cheating. This is just provocation, but that should be expected: We are dealing here with a certifiable nutball. Ahmadinejad Nominee Is Wanted in ’94 Bombing The man nominated to serve as Iran’s defense minister is wanted by Interpol in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires (…) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated Ahmad Vahidi on Wednesday to serve as defense minister when he submitted his list of 21 nominees to Parliament. Mr. Vahidi was the head of the secret Quds Force, an arm of the Revolutionary Guards that carries out operations overseas. He was one of five Iranian officials sought by Interpol on Argentine charges of “conceiving, planning, financing and executing” the 1994 attack, which killed 85 people and wounded hundreds, said a statement issued by the Anti-Defamation League condemning the nomination. This is truly outrageous and the Scottish government ought to bury itself into a never ending shame. US fury grows over release of Lockerbie bomber The White House last night vented its fury over the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber when it described the triumphalist scenes greeting his homecoming at Tripoli airport as “outrageous and disgusting”. Oh noes! Not again. Karzai, Abdullah both claim victory in Afghan election The top two candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential race both claimed to be on their way to victory after Thursday’s vote. Meanwhile, the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has received roughly 150 official allegations of election fraud and expects a significantly larger number to arrive in the coming days. With preliminary vote-count results days away, each camp is working to influence public perceptions and gather legal ammunition for appealing a possible loss. If you french kissed a woman who had consumed cocaine, could be accused of taking drugs? Apparently this is what happened to a French world class tennis player who got subsequently banned. Richard Gasquet’s cocaine-kiss claims supported by forensic tests They met in a Miami restaurant — he a handsome tennis player, she a pretty waitress — and spent the evening smooching at a nightclub. Little did they know that the kisses they exchanged would spark a controversy that has gripped France all summer amid lawsuits and wrangles before international doping tribunals What Do You Know Are you up to speed with what’s going on in the news? There’s a panoply of information source but how much do you really know? Test yourself and tell us how you did. Don’t cheat because I’m watching you. The Smart Quiz In the digital age, the flood of information can often be so overwhelming that even hardcore news junkies may be surprised by what they missed. If you master this extra-hard current events quiz, then you officially know your news. Best newspaper correction ever. For the record (via tvnewser) TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s “Jackass” show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” should have been listed. Have a terrific weekend!!! Please Digg!!!! Share!!! Tweet!!!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1585
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__label__wiki	0.906059	0.906059	Rock Features: Best Free Downloads of 2012 100 Best Classic Rock Songs Hottest Rockstar Wives Rockers Who Died at 27 Epic Stage Dives 3 Doors Down Announce Co-Headlining Tour With Daughtry and Special Guests P.O.D. Universal Republic Get ready to rock! Multi-platinum rock bands Daughtry and 3 Doors Down are excited to announce their joint 19-date first ever co-headline U.S. tour. Special guests will be Southern California rockers P.O.D. The upcoming tour will start November 17 in Tunica, MS and continue into the middle of December. The highly anticipated tour will see Daughtry playing new single “Start of Something Good” from its new album gold certified Break The Spell along with a plethora of smash hits and fan favorites including “Home,” “It’s Not Over,” “Feels Like Tonight” and “No Surprise” from platinum-selling Leave This Town and its blockbuster-selling and record-breaking self titled debut. As Daughtry finishes touring in Europe with rock stalwarts Nickelback and prepare for an exciting round of co-headlining dates with 3 Doors Down, Chris Daughtry says the excitement continues. “Its an honor to be able to go on the road with 3 Doors Down,” says the lead singer. “We are excited to give fans an energetic rock show every night sharing songs from both our catalogs…we can’t wait to hit the road to share it with our fans.” 3 Doors Down will be releasing its first ever Greatest Hits package, featuring 9 #1 songs remixed and re-mastered. Smash hits like “Kryptonite,” “It’s Not My Time,” “When I’m Gone, “Here Without You” plus new tracks “One Light” and “Goodbyes” make this upcoming tour and new hits album (in stores November 19th) a must-have for both longtime fans and newcomers alike. 3 Doors Down have earned a hard-fought pedigree as one of Rock’s most exciting and authentic radio icons and log scores of sold-out shows over a growing global terrain that is nearing forty countries. Brad Arnold, lead singer and founder of 3DD adds “We’re very excited to hit the road with our friends, Daughtry. It’s an honor to be a part of this tour. I’m looking forward to this more than any tour we’ve been a part of in a very long time. I believe the fans will see more than two great rock bands on stage. The comradery of this tour will, no doubt, shine through night after night. We want to give the fans more than they came to see. We want them all to leave knowing they’ve just witnessed something special.” P.O.D. will not be appearing November 27 – December 3. Opening Act for those dates to be named shortly. November 17 Tunica, MS The Better Life Foundation Event November 18 Springfield, MO O'Reilly Family Event Center November 20 San Antonio, TX Illusions Theatre November 21 Laredo, TX Laredo Energy Arena November 23 Belton, TX Bell County Expo Center November 24 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete Street Amphitheater November 27 Pikeville, KY Eastern Kentucky Expo Center November 28 Huntington, WV Big Sandy Superstore Arena November 30 Asbury Park, NY Convention Hall December 1 Binghamton, NY Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena December 3 Huntington, NY Paramount Theater December 4 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center December 5 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre December 7 Champaign, IL Assembly Hall December 8 St. Paul, MN The Myth December 9 Chicago, IL Akoo Theatre December 11 Broomfield, CO 1st Bank Center December 13 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center December 15 Anaheim, CA Theatre at the Honda Center Categories: Rock Carbon Blogroll 4 Killed, 16 Injured in Shooting at Fort Hood Skeletonwitch to Tour With Ghost Warbringer Commemorate Fifth Year Anniversary of Debut Album ‘War Without E… 2019 Rock Music Report is part of the Loudwire Network, Townsquare Media, Inc. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1591
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__label__wiki	0.794157	0.794157	Home > Rare and Unique, Specimens > Rare and Scarce Stocks / Bonds > Marshall Field & Company Gold Bond - Illinois 1925 Marshall Field & Company Gold Bond - Illinois 1925 Product #: newitem94158590drbs Our Sales Price: $395.00 (You Save: 20%) Beautiful engraved RARE Gold Bond Specimen certificate from Marshall Field & Company dated in 1925. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman next to a globe. This item is over 82 years old. Certificate Vignette Marshall Field (1835-1906) was the wealthiest man in Chicago of his time, worth an estimated $100 million when he died. Originally working as a clerk for Potter Palmer, he saved half of his $400/year salary, and in 1865 with his partner Levi Leiter bought Palmer's dry-goods store. Field and Leiter eventually became "Marshall Field and Company", which is now one of the most successful and widespread department-store chains in the world. On Sept. 20, 2005, Federated Announces Strategic Decisions to Integrate May Company Acquisition; Company to Focus on Building the Macy's and Bloomingdale's Brands While Increasing Profitability Federated Department Stores, Inc. today announced a series of strategic decisions to build its nationwide Macy's and Bloomingdale's brands and reduce costs. These moves will help stimulate long-term growth in sales while taking full advantage of integration opportunities created through the merger of Federated and The May Department Stores Company, which was completed on Aug. 30, 2005. "To better serve our customers in this highly competitive retailing environment, we must concentrate on our best national brands and reduce costs so we can deliver outstanding value to shoppers," said Terry J. Lundgren, Federated's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We believe that continuing to build Macy's and Bloomingdale's aggressively across America will accelerate our comp store sales performance and increase profitability, thereby driving shareholder value. "By announcing these decisions now, we can begin more specific planning for the future. This includes discussing potential career opportunities within Federated for May Company employees and ensuring new merchandise assortments are in place as soon as possible in stores acquired from May. We will begin buying and planning Macy's assortments this October so goods are in-store during the third quarter of 2006," Lundgren said. All stores, offices and operations will remain in place through the 2005 holiday selling season. The company reiterated its pledge that there will be no workforce reductions or job eliminations as a result of the merger prior to March 1, 2006. All decisions announced today are consistent with Federated's previously announced estimates to realize approximately $175 million in cost synergies in 2006 and $450 million in annual cost synergies in 2007 and beyond. Expenses associated with corporate and division consolidations and nameplate changes are included in the previously announced estimate of approximately $1 billion in one-time costs spread over three years beginning in 2005. Marshall Field's Nameplate Conversion All Marshall Field's stores will convert to the Macy's nameplate in fall 2006. This includes 62 locations in Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio and South Dakota that will continue to be operated by the Minneapolis-based division that will become known as Macy's North. "From a shopping standpoint, customers will have the best of both worlds in major markets like Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit. They will continue to benefit from regional buying that remains attuned to local preferences and lifestyles, plus enjoy the distinctive merchandise and shopping experience that's part of the Macy's brand," Lundgren said. "We have great respect for the legacy and traditions of Marshall Field's, and we carefully researched customer preferences and studied alternatives before making this decision to incorporate Marshall Field's into the nationwide Macy's brand," Lundgren said. "While the store's name will change, much of what customers love will stay the same, including Marshall Field's traditions and its outstanding record of community and charitable giving. As part of this name change process, we will do everything we can to honor the Marshall Field's heritage, particularly in its Chicago birthplace." About Specimens Specimen Certificates are actual certificates that have never been issued. They were usually kept by the printers in their permanent archives as their only example of a particular certificate. Sometimes you will see a hand stamp on the certificate that says "Do not remove from file". Specimens were also used to show prospective clients different types of certificate designs that were available. Specimen certificates are usually much scarcer than issued certificates. In fact, many times they are the only way to get a certificate for a particular company because the issued certificates were redeemed and destroyed. In a few instances, Specimen certificates we made for a company but were never used because a different design was chosen by the company. These certificates are normally stamped "Specimen" or they have small holes spelling the word specimen. Most of the time they don't have a serial number, or they have a serial number of 00000. This is an exciting sector of the hobby that grown in popularity over the past several years. 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__label__wiki	0.792422	0.792422	Scuttlebutt Europe #4253 - 14 January • 2019 Tornado Worlds - Aussies take the win • Solid victory for Giles Scott at Ronstan Australian Finn Championship • Turks triumph over Monegasques in closely-fought Optimist Team Race • 18ft Skiffs NSW Championship, Final • British solo yachtsman Robin Davie located • PixelBoat: Nearing the Equator • Press and Hay undisputed 12ft Skiff Interdominion champions • French Canadian Team Take the Spoils in Kraken Cup • Jeff Martin • Featured Brokerage • The Last Word: Enzo Ferrari 2019 Tornado Worlds - Aussies take the win The final day of racing for the 2019 Tornado World Championships Powered by Candida Stationery ended on a high with Olympic Gold and Silver medalist Rex Sellars, sailing with his son Brett, took the win for race 10, a great way to end the regatta. But it wasn't enough to get them on the podium, missing out on third place by just one point. Australian duo Brett Burvill and Max Puttman claimed the overall title, the first time that this team have won the event. Second overall went to the Swiss team of Jorg Steiner and Michael Gloor, in their first regatta sailing with each other. Third overall, first youth and first mixed team went to 16 year old helm Estela Jentsch from Germany and her Australian crew Daniel Brown. This is the second time the team has finished on the podium at a Tornado World Championship event. Final top ten: 1. Brett Burvill / Max Puttman, AUS, 19 points 2. Jorg Steiner / Michael Gloor, SUI, 32 3. Estela Jentsch / Daniel Brown, GER, 48 4. Rex Sellars / Brett Sellars, NZL, 49 5. Alan Gamble / Kim Nicholls, AUS, 66 6. Dave Lineman / Karl Taylor, NZL, 74 7. Marcus Betz / Nicholias Betz, GER, 78 8. Zdenek Pavlis / Michaela Pavlisova, CZE, 84 9. Wayne Limbrick / Lewis Kidman, NZL, 96 10. Jared Eyles / Suzanne Eyles, AUS, 93 www.tornado-class.org Solid victory for Giles Scott at Ronstan Australian Finn Championship Giles Scott wrapped up a great week's sailing with two more race wins to take the overall victory at the Ronstan Australian Finn Championship in some spectacular Black Rock conditions. Nicholas Heiner secured second place, while Jake Lilley took one point off Ed Wright to move up to third, and also successful defended his Australian National title. It had been a tough week in Black Rock with solid sea breezes for most of the races challenging the physical preparation of the 40 sailors who took part. Many sailors were visibly tired, with sore legs, heading out for the final day, which looked like being the toughest of the week. The final two races were scheduled to start at the earlier time of 12.00 and on the water, the southerly change had blown through in the early morning to bring in a solid 15 knot breeze and a 5 minute sail to the start line. The forecast predicted a 15 to 20 knot southerly with a sea breeze coming over the top and building later in the day. Final top ten results(10 races) 1. Giles Scott, GBR, 14 2. Nicholas Heiner, NED, 28 3. Jakos Lilley, AUS, 42 4. Ed Wright, GBR, 43 5. Henry Wetherell, GBR, 49 6. PieterJan Postma, NED, 52 7. Oliver Twedell, AUS, 52 8. He Chen, CHN, 89 9. Jock Calvert, AUS, 93 10. Lewis Brake, AUS, 94 Turks triumph over Monegasques in closely-fought Optimist Team Race For a decade the Yacht Club de Monaco has hosted an original team race contest for under-14 sailors from all over the world, with 16 teams representing 16 nations: a regatta without borders, organised by the Club with the support of FxPro, Eventica, Fon and technical clothing supplier SLAM. Organised as duels for teams of four Optimists, supplied by Erplast, it highlights the tactical skills of these budding young sailors, many of whom could go on to represent their countries in future international competitions. At the end of a Round Robin totalling 120 matches to ensure all teams met each other, the 4 teams in the semi-finals were Team USA, 2017 World Champions; KSSS (Sweden), 2018 European Champions; the Turkish ARM Urla Sailing Club; and the Yacht Club de Monaco who finished at the top of the qualifying stages with one defeat in 15 matches. In the final stages, it took 2 wins out of 3 matches in each of the finals to decide between the teams, with each match going down to the wire in the last 10 metres. In the end, last year's finalists, ARM Urla Sailing Club, faced the Monaco club who created the event's big surprise with a young team not very experienced in the tricky tactical skills required for team racing. It was a close-run finish with victory going to the Turks (2-1), and the Swedish and Americans sharing 3rd place. Also competing was a Chinese team, selected at a qualifying regatta organised in the autumn in Sanya with the Visun Royal Yacht Club, a La Belle Classe Destinations member. For the second year, YCM partnered with Peace and Sport for this event. The date is already set for the 11th edition: 9-12 January 2020, meanwhile the YCM gears up for Act 4 of the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series (18-20 January) for J/70s and the one-design 35th Primo Cup - Trophee Credit Suisse (7-10 February 2019). Monaco Optimist Team Race podium for 2019: 1st: ARM Urla Sailing Club (TUR) 2nd: Yacht Club de Monaco (MON) 3rd: KSSS - Royal Swedish Yacht Club (SUE) 3rd: Team USA www.yacht-club-monaco.mc/en/home-en/ 18ft Skiffs NSW Championship, Final Sydney Harbour: The Asko Appliances 18ft Skiff team becaome the 2018-2019 NSW champions after scoring a win and a second placing in the final two races of the championship which were sailed in a 15K SSE wind on Sydney Harbour today. Skipper James Dorron and his crew of Harry Bethwaite and Steve Thomas proved too consistent on the day for their main challengers for the title and Asko Appliances deserved the win as the team was the only two race winner of the five=race championship. Asko Appliances finished the championship with a total of 9 points. Finport Finance (Keagan York, Matt Stenta, Charlie Gundy) was runner-up on 13 points, followed by Smeg (Michael coxon, Ricky Bridge, Mike McKensey) on 14 points. John Winning's Yandoo was fourth on 20 points, followed by Bing Lee (Micah Lane) on 27 and Vintec (Kirk Mitchell) on 30 points. The Australian 18ft Skiff Championship begins next Sunday (January 20 when two races will be sailed on Sydney Harbour. The championship will be sailed over nine races and will conclude on Sunday, February 17. Live streaming is available on 18FootersTV The JJ Giltinan Championship will be sailed on Sydney Harbour from March 2-10. == Frank Quealey, www.18footers.com British solo yachtsman Robin Davie located Three days after the UK Coastguard first broadcast an 'All Ships Alert' for British solo yachtsman Robin Davie, the 67-year old sailor made contact late Friday night to say that all was well onboard. He expects to reach Falmouth, his home port, later today. Davie, who has completed three solo circumnavigations and is preparing to enter the 2022 Golden Globe Race, was three days overdue on a 300 mile solo cross-Channel voyage from France back to Falmouth. British and French Coastguard services have been broadcasting an 'an all ships' alert since Wednesday morning. Davie made contact with rescue authorities at 22:00 on Friday saying all was well aboard his 36ft yacht C'EST La VIE and gave his position 25 miles south west of the Scilly Isles. "This is fantastic news" said Robin's brother Rick Davie who had begun to fear the worst. "I am so greteful for all the help and publicity provided by the Coastguard services and the media for publicising this. Details remain sketchy, but it appears that faced with very light head winds, Davie decided to take one long tack out into the Atlantic well out of radio range and the main shipping routes. rather than zig-zag upwind on the direct route north to Brest and across to Falmouth. -- Barry Pickthall www.pplmedia.com PixelBoat: Nearing the Equator This is the first mailshot since Alex left for his solo, non-stop, round-the-world sailing record attempt on New Year's Eve. Most updates can be found here: my.yb.tl/alexalley or via the link on the website. We encourage you to follow the Tracker if you don't mind getting hooked on 'dot watching'! You can see Alex's progress every two hours and read the regular blogs and everyone's comments. If you zoom in, you can even see the underwater volcanoes that Alex sails over, for instance around the Cape Verde islands which he has now passed. His start date and time was 31 December 2018 at 14h 31mins 09 sec, 'subject to ratification by the WSSRC'. If he is to beat the current World Record set by Guo Chuan, (and he has to beat it by at least one minute), then his deadline is to cross the line again going the other way, on 18 May 2019 at 10h 32mins 06 secs. PROGRESS towards the notorious doldrums Bearing in mind, Alex waited nearly two months for the right weather window across Biscay, he enjoyed perfect conditions and zipped across in under two days. He then experienced a couple of days of calm off Portugal before getting into the Trade Winds and he is now sailing at a good 8 - 10 knots most of the time towards the Equator where there will be very mixed conditions. Having three technical challenges in the first week of setting off - the wind instruments, the water maker and the hydrophone, Alex and Pixel Flyer have settled into a happy routine. Crossing the ITCZ will be the next challenge... alexalley.com Seahorse January 2019 First came the CFD (or at least first came all the pretty pictures) and then came the simulation - with Emirates Team New Zealand leading the way - and now comes the simulator. Plus the remarkable Dr Stuart Walker, breaking an Ultime from one who knows, first days with the Mule and ‘going back to San Francisco’. Jack Griffin, Adrian Thompson, Malcolm Page, Terry Hutchinson, Dobbs Davis Unprecedented Remarkable as it is the 2018 Route du Rhum marked the first time in recent memory that Francois Gabart lost a major ocean race. But losing to Francis Joyon can sometimes feel like an honour... as he tells James Boyd Going native Another Imoca, yes, but the new Charal signifies a wholesale change in design philosophy. Paolo Manganelli and Katia Merle Man and dog Peter Harken Watching the show Places to be (and not to be). Rob Weiland Press and Hay undisputed 12ft Skiff Interdominion champions The Geotherm crew of Brett Hobson/Jeremy Jones were the undisputed winners of the final race, but NSW sailors Nick Press/Andrew 'Noddy' Hay (Sydney Sailmakers) have decisively won the Your Move Conveyancing 12ft Skiff Interdominion, hosted by the Sydney Flying Squadron this past week, their names to be carved on the Silasec Trophy again. Competing against 34 other crews on Sydney Harbour, this was Press' eighth Interdominion title, a record number for a skipper and a co-record for a skipper or crew. It was Hay's second win (his first was with Press in 2017). He and Hay are in fine company, with some big names on the previous winners list of this prestigious event: John Chapple (NZL), Dave Porter (NSW), Bruce Farr (NZL) - yes, the famous yacht designer, John Winning (NSW) and Iain Murray (NSW) among them. Alex Vallings, the defending champion from New Zealand, has also won eight titles, two as crew for Tim Bartlett and six as skipper of his own boats. Bartlett himself has won the title six times. He continues to race competitively as the skipper of Frankenskiff (NZL) and finished just outside the top ten this time. Representing Lane Cove 12ft Skiff Sailing Club, Press/Hay won five from 10 races, only straying outside the top three twice. They won the title from Geotherm by four points, the latter getting off to a flying start, claiming the first two races and winning the last, sailed in a beautiful nor' easter of 10 to 12 knots. They led from go to whoa by a good margin. The weeklong event on Sydney Harbour gave competitors everything from perfect summer nor' easters, to a stiff southerly and moderate winds from the south and south-east – something to please all. Thanks go to the Sydney Flying Squadron for making all feel welcome and to the volunteers; no event is successful without them. -- Di Pearson Full results: skiff.org.au French Canadian Team Take the Spoils in Kraken Cup This week on the 8th January saw Team Village Monde crossing the finish line as winners of the Kraken Cup (sponsored by Garmin) one of the World's most adventurous, yet basic, sailing races. Whilst most of us were nursing hangovers, New Year's Day in Zanzibar saw an international field of 22 teams (made up of 66 sailors), set sail in the Kraken Cup, which, in the modern age of fibreglass hulls and carbon fibre sails, strips things back to basics. The Cup tests the seamanship of sailors to the max as it races in Ngalawas, traditional African fishing boats whose hulls are carved by hand from mango trees and outriggers lashed on. To add to the adventurous spirit of the race, the course, which is made up of a series of compulsory checkpoints, includes a of couple 'free-sailing' sections. Sailors not only have to contend with the challenges of sailing ngalawas but also find somewhere to sleep for the night - roughing it on uninhabited islets, camping on islands with inquisitive locals or staying in a traditional fishing village. Racers are encouraged to 'bring a hammock'. The sixth edition of the Cup wound its way 500km around the coast of Tanzania, between the Zanzibar Archipelago and the stunning Lindi region. The route takes in some of best sailing in the Indian Ocean and, for the first three days of the race, it appeared some of the calmest sailing too, with little wind and still seas. Then things changed dramatically, with ferocious gusts and big swells rolling in. The change in weather resulted in numerous capsizes and battered and broken boats and crew, and with one team diverting course to help rescue three local shipwrecked sailors, with only 13 teams remaining in the main race on the final day. It was Team Village Monde, made up of Canadians Charles and Bastien Mony, a father and son pairing from Quebec, and Gilles Lamire from Brittany in France, who managed to make the most of the treacherous conditions. Their ability to handle the primitive boats in rough waters resulted in them crossing the line as victors, ahead of Team Southern Exposure from the USA, who just pipped British team Krakin' Up for second place. www.theadventurists.com It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jeff Martin on 11 January 2019 while on a ski holiday with family and friends. Jeff acted as chairman of the World Sailing Classes Committee and sat on World Sailing's Council for many years and was a respected and valued committee member. Jeff's dedication to the sport of sailing was unparalleled, having served as the Executive Secretary of the International Laser Class Association for 40 years. Jeff was a cornerstone of Laser events, having worked at every Laser Open World Championship except the first one in 1974 where he was a competitor. Jeff's dedication and contribution to the sport of sailing will live on in our memories. The loss of Jeff Martin will be keenly felt throughout the sailing world and our deepest condolences go out to Jeff's family and friends. www.sailing.org 2008 GP42 - SILVA NEO. 250,000 EUR. Located in Hamble, UK. Extremely competitive 40 ft IRC and ORC contender. Full inventories for both rule and has had extensive refits over the past two years. 2013 Botin 80. 1,550,000 USD. Located in San Diego, CA, USA. CABRON is now for sale. Formally known as BEAU GESTE, this Botin 80 lacks for nothing. All North sails, B/G wind gear, container FULL of spare gear, she is turn key Call for the massive details 1995 Yachting Developments S&S Maxi. 320000 EUR. Located Nr.Naples, Italy. Extensively refitted beautiful boat with great sailing performances combined with easy handling. The yacht was designed by S&S for offshore racing and cruising in IMS Regulation. She had a major stern modification in 1997, new keel 1997, and new carbon rig 1997. GRABAU INTERNATIONAL Lead broker - Michele Antonini Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. -- Enzo Ferrari ADVERT CODE HERE	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1598
__label__wiki	0.893672	0.893672	A collection of films that will make you want to call your mom. Co-presented by Seattle Pro Musica and TrikoneNW In this program THE SUNFLOWER CHILD Directed by RJ Siu A young Chinese American woman becomes pregnant and struggles with her decision to keep the baby in the face of disapproval from her family and community. AN AMERICAN FAMILY Directed by Kieu-Anh Truong An African American mother, her teenage son, and their immigrant Filipina tenant form an unorthodox family over quiet moments in their shared kitchen. SALAMAGAN Directed by Elisa Oh Ana’s biggest fear is coming out to her Filipino Catholic mother. But when they need help cleaning a hoarder’s house, Ana enlists her secret girlfriend for the job. Directed by Katherine Tolentino Ann has spent her life devoted to her husband Charles. A loyal and religious woman, she takes pride in putting his needs before her own and finds genuine fulfillment as a housewife. But now in their old age, Charles’ ailing health has created more work than she can handle. When their son suggests placing Charles into a nursing home, Ann must evaluate whether to give up her role as caretaker… and face the question of what becomes of her once he’s gone. SUNSET, SUNRISE Directed by Bruce Hsin-Ta Chiu Lily, a traditional Chinese woman, will do anything to change her son, Bao, from being gay. But her drastic measures may cost her more than just her relationship with her son. When her daughter goes missing, a Vietnamese mother struggles to cope despite the best efforts of her remaining children. Directed by Dawn Suhyun Shim After 30 years of indifference, an estranged mother decides to participate in her daughter’s passion for photography in an attempt to bridge the 6,000 miles between them. KHOL (OPEN) Directed by Faroukh Virani When his father passes away, Vijay is forced to return home after a ten year long estrangement and open up to his mother about his sexuality. PLEASE TRANSLATE Directed by Kelsy Lua For an immigrant Chinese mother and her American daughter, the language barrier that keeps them apart can also be the catalyst for bring them closer together. Directed by Sam Chung A quiet Korean American boy must face his insecurities and others’ doubts as he is unexpectedly thrust into a major role in his school’s play. No showtimes available.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1601
__label__cc	0.602438	0.397562	Exploring new ideas in SciFi, “Maniac” by Netflix takes you to a place never explored before Sci-Fi’s Most Controversial Figure: Harlan Ellison New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Released November 2017 The Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for 2017 That Has Everyone Buzzing Mark Hamill’s Heartbreaking Post on the Death of Carrie Fisher Scifant Science Fiction and Fantasy website. Comics, Movies, Books, TV Shows Star Wars: The worst thing ever for the science fiction genre? Posted by: Richard Paul November 30, 2014 0 126 Views (CNN) — Now that the trailer for the seventh “Star Wars” movie is out, you can imagine the anticipation among the millions of fans of the film franchise. And why not? The six “Star Wars” films have been enormous successes: they have grossed over $2 billion domestically at the box office, spawned scores of books, comic books and merchandise (how many kids have their own light saber?) and made household names of characters like Darth Vader, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker. They’ve also been the worst thing ever for the science fiction genre. I say this as someone who has been a devoted sci-fi reader since childhood. I was so blown away by the first “Star Wars” film when I saw it in 1977, I went back two more times the same week to wallow in its space age fantasy. But here’s the thing: George Lucas’ creation, basically a blown-up Flash Gordon adventure with better special effects, has left all too many people thinking science fiction is some computer graphics-laden space opera/western filled with shootouts, territorial disputes, evil patriarchs and trusty mounts (like the Millennium Falcon). “Star Wars” has corrupted people’s notion of a literary genre full of ideas, turning it into a Saturday afternoon serial. And that’s more than a shame — it’s an obscenity. CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THIS CRITICAL PIECE ON CNN Do you agree with Lewis? Post your comments below! Avid Science Fiction & Fantasy Lover. Big fan of comics as well. Prefer the dark side to the light. That’s just how I roll. http://scifant.com Science Fiction Star Wars 2014-11-30 Previous: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser Trailer – I Think I Just Wet My Pants Next: Guest Post By The Author of “MARSHALL ANKARA – A CELESTIAL ODYSSEY : REVENGE” Does Luke Skywalker have a son? The Force Awakens Already Got One Big Thing Wrong Where does everyone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Stand at the Start of Phase 3? “The Devil’s Fingers” / “The Dead Ringers” – Holy Rewatch, Batman! Holy Cow! Batman vs Superman Hits Record $82 Million Opening 18,000 Volumes of Science Fiction donated to the University of Iowa Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Rand Tribute A Conversation With Hell \| Runnin Off at the Mouth…. on About Us Richard Paul on About Us F. P. Dorchak on About Us eric sanders on Is Kylo Ren the New Darth Vader? T.J.Dipple on We are looking for writers to join our family! Agnents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Games & Figurines Scifant Hero Posts in Pictures 2018 © Scifant All Rights Reserved	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1612
__label__cc	0.555661	0.444339	Lazy Unions [Advanced - Optional] Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming Стэнфордский университет Курс 3 из 4 — Алгоритмы Специализация The primary topics in this part of the specialization are: greedy algorithms (scheduling, minimum spanning trees, clustering, Huffman codes) and dynamic programming (knapsack, sequence alignment, optimal search trees). Spanning Tree, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Algorithm Great learning experience!!!\n\nI love dynamic p the most.\n\nAssignment 4 is so challenging that it takes me a week to finish the program and debug it!!! I love Tim's excitement for algorithms. He really stands out as a quality teacher in his selection of content, explanations and enthusiasm. Kruskal's MST algorithm and applications to clustering; advanced union-find (optional). Lazy Unions [Advanced - Optional]10:03 Union-by-Rank [Advanced - Optional]12:23 Analysis of Union-by-Rank [Advanced - Optional]14:55 Path Compression [Advanced - Optional]14:39 Path Compression: The Hopcroft-Ullman Analysis I [Advanced - Optional]9:26 Path Compression: The Hopcroft-Ullman Analysis II [Advanced - Optional]11:39 The Ackermann Function [Advanced - Optional]16:07 Path Compression: Tarjan's Analysis I [Advanced - Optional]14:10 Path Compression: Tarjan's Analysis II [Advanced - Optional]13:45 Tim Roughgarden So, welcome to this optional sequence of videos on state of the art implementations of the union to find data structure. Now as advanced in optional material, let me make a few comments before we get started. So the first comment is I'm going to assume that you're in a particularly motivated mood. Now, no one's forcing you to take these algorithm courses, so I'm always assuming that you're very motivated individual, but that's going to hold even more true than usual in these advanced videos. And the way that plays out is while I'm going to hold myself to the same exacting standards of clarity that I usually do, I'm going to ask a little bit more of you, the viewer. I'm going to perhaps dot a few less Is, cross a few less Ts than I usually do. So you may find yourself periodically needing to pause and think through some of the details that I'm glossing over. The second comment is I'm going to give is sort of short shrift to applications of the union find data structure. That's not because there aren't any, there's plenty of applications of this data structure but for these videos we're really just going to immerse ourselves in the beauty and the depth of ideas behind the design of the data structures and especially the analysis of their performance. The final comment is to keep in mind that this is some seriously next level material. It is totally normal that the first time you see this stuff, you find it confusing. You find it difficult to understand. So confusion should not discourage you. It does not represent any intellectual failing on your part. Rather, keep in mind, it represents an opportunity to get even smarter. So, with those comments in mind, let's go ahead and proceed to a different approach to the Union-find data structure via lazy unions. So let's have one slide with a quick review of what we already know about the Union-find data structure. Recall we discussed this in the context of a fast implementation of Kruskal's minimum spanning tree algorithm The raison d'etre of a union-find data structure is to maintain a partition of a universe of objects. So in the context of Kruskal's algorithm, the objects were the vertices, and the groups we wanted to maintain were the connected components with respect to the edges we committed ourselves to so far. The data structure should support two operations. No prizes for guessing the names of those two operations. First is the find operation. This is given an object from the universe return the name of that object's group. So for example if X was in the middle of this square that I put on the right representing the universe capital X we would return a C3. The name of the group that contains X. So in the context of Kruskal's algorithm, we use find operation to check for cycles. How did we know whether adding a new edge would create a cycle with respect to the edges we've already chosen? Well, it would be if and only if the end points of that edge were already in the same connected component. That is, if and only if the two find operations returned the same answer. In the Union Operation you're given out one object but you call them x and y, and then the responsibility of the operation is to merge the groups that contain x and y. So for example in the picture y was in C4, x was as before in C3. Then your job is to fuse the groups C3 and C4 into a single group. In the context of Kruskal's algorithm, we needed this operation when we added a new edge. This fused together two of the existing connecting components into one. So that was exactly the union operation. So we all ready went through one implementation of union and find. That was order to get a blazingly fast implementation of Kruskal's algorithm. So let's just review how that works. With each group, we associated a linked structure, so each object had one pointer associated with it. And the invariant was in a given group, there was some representative leader object. And everybody in that group pointed to the leader of that group. So for example, on the right I'm showing you a group with three objects, x, y, and z, and x would be the leader of this group. All three of the objects point directly to x, and that would just be the output of the find operation, the leader of the group. We use that as the group name. Now the part which is cool and obvious about this approach is our find operations take constant time. All you do is return the leader of the given object. Now the tricky part was analyzing the cost of Union operations. So the problem here is that to maintain the invariant that every object of a group points to its leader. When you fuse two groups, you have to update a bunch of the objects' leaders. We'd only have one leader for the one new group. The simple, but totally crucial, optimization that we discussed was when two groups merge you update the leader pointers of all objects in the smaller group to point to the leader of the bigger group. That is the new fused group inherits the leader from the bigger of its constituent parts. If we do that optimization, it's still the case that a single union might take linear time fade event time but a sequence of n unions takes only big o of n log in time. And that's because each object endures at most a logarithmic number of leader updates, cause every time it's leader pointer gets updated the population of the group that it inhabits doubles. So in this sequence of videos we are going to discuss a different approach to implementing the union find data structure. And let's just go all in and try to get away with updating only a single pointer in each union. All right, well how are we going to do that? Well, I think if we look at a picture, it'll be clear what the approach is going to be. So let's look at a simple example. There's just six objects in the world and currently they're in two groups. One, two, and three are in one group with leader one. Four, five, and six are in the second group with leader four. So, with our previous implementation of union find and the two groups have equal size, so we pick one arbitrarily to represent the new leader. Let's say four is going to be the new leader. And now we update objects one, two, and three so that they point directly to their new leader, four. And so the new idea is very simple let's just sort of as a short hand for re-wiring all of one, two and three to point to four, let's just re-wire one pointer to point to four and then it's understood that two and three as descendants of one also now have the new leader four as well. So as a result, we do again get a directed tree afterwards, but we don't get one with just depth of one. We don't get as shallow, pushy a tree. We get a deeper one that has two levels below the root. So, let me give you another way of thinking about this in terms of an array And here I also want to make a point that why conceptually it's going to be very useful to think of these union find data structure in terms of these directed trees. You're actually implementing this data structure this is not how you'd do it. You wouldn't bother with actually pointers between the different objects. You'd just have a simply array indexed by the nodes. And in the entry corresponding to a node i you would just store the name of i's parent. For instance if we reframe this exact same example in an array representation before we do the union what do we got? Well objects one, two, and three all have parent one. Objects four, five, and six all have parent four. So in the array we'd have a one. In the first three entries and a four in the second three entries. So in the old solution we have to update the parent pointers of objects one two and three, they're all going to point directly to four, so that gives us an array entirely of fours. Whereas in the new solution the only node whose parent pointer gets updated is that of object one, it gets updated from itself to four. And in a particular objects two and three still point to object one not directly to object four. So that's how union works so in simple example. How does it work in general? Well, in general, you're given two objects, each belongs to some group. You can think of these two groups conceptually as directed trees. If you follow all the parent corners, all parent corners lead to the root vertex. We identify those root vertices with the leaders of these two groups. Now when you have to merge the two trees together, how do you do it? Well, you pick one of the groups and you look at its roots currently it points to itself. You can change its parent pointer to point to the other groups leader. That is you install one of the two roots as a new child of the other trees root. So I hope the pros and cons of this alternative approach to the union find data structure are intuitively clear. The win, the pro, comes in the union operation, which is now very simple. Now you might be tempted to just say union takes constant time, because all you do is update one pointer, It's actually not so simple, right? Because remember you're given two objects, x and y, and in general you're not linking x and y together. They might be somewhere deep in a tree. You're linking roots together. So what is true is that the union operation reduces two two indications of find. You have to find x's root. R sub 1, you have to y's root r sub 2, and then you just do constant time linking either r1 to r 2 or vice versa. Now the issue with this lazy union approach is that it's not at all obvious, and in fact it's not going to be true, that find operation takes constant time. Remember, previously when we actually did this hard work of updating all these leader pointers every time we had a union it guaranteed that whenever there is a find boom, we just look in the field, we return the leader pointer, we're done. Here, parent pointers do not point directly to roots rather you have to traverse in general a sequence of parent pointers from a given object x to go all the way up to the root of the correspondence tree. So because of these trade offs. These pros and cons, it's really not obvious at all whether this lazy union approach to the union find data structure is a good idea. Whether it's going to have any pay offs. So that's going to take really some quite subtle analysis which is the main point of the lectures to come. It's also going to take a couple of optimizations and the next video will start with the first one. You might be wondering, okay, so when you do a union and you have to install one root under the other, how do you make that choice? So the right answer is something called union by rank. That's coming up next.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1613
__label__cc	0.710657	0.289343	Hypothalamus-Posterior Pituitary Axis Введение в физиологию человека Университет Дьюка In this course, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems. Metabolic Pathways, Biology, Organ Systems, Medicine I gained a deeper understanding and greater appreciation for how my body works. Thank you to the Teams at Duke and Coursera for making such a wide body of information available to the motivated. Lectures are very concise. This course can help you grasp the most important core concepts and key woking mechanisms of human physiology. But I don't know why it do not have the immune system. The Endocrine System IIn this module, we return our attention to the endocrine system and its role in the maintenance of homeostasis. In particular we consider the hypothalamus-pituitary axis, which integrates signals from the nervous system and from the blood to regulate most homeostatic functions, including growth, ion balance, fluid balance, response to stress, and energy use. The first lesson gives an overview of the hypothalamus-pituitary axis and its actions in regulating growth of the body. In later lessons we consider how this complex negative feedback loop governs the body’s energy use and its response to stress. Then, later in lesson 3, we turn our attention to the simple reflex loop by which the endocrine pancreas regulates metabolism in both the fed and fasted states and the failures of this system (diabetes mellitus). The hypothalamus-pituitary axis and its control of reproduction in both males and females are considered in the next module (Module 9). The things to do this week are to watch the 6 videos, to answer the in-video questions, to read the notes, and to do the two problem sets (endocrine system and fuel homeostasis). Please note that each module can stand alone, however, it will be most effective if you do the first two videos (H-P-axis) before any of the others. The notes provide a more detailed summary of each topic and again we encourage you to use the resource (videos and/or notes) that works best for you. Please do try the problems sets for self-review. Both your understanding and retention will increase with application of the new learned information. Hypothalamus-Anterior Pituitary Axis- GH23:38 Hypothalamus-Posterior Pituitary Axis9:40 Jennifer Carbrey Emma Jakoi Associate Research Professor Выбор языкаАнглийскийКитайский (упрощенное письмо) Greetings. Today we're going to talk about the POSTERIOR PITUITARY, and the posterior pituitary is the one that is going to govern our blood pressure as well as the osmotic balance within the body. The posterior pituitary remains connected to the brain through a, through the region which is called the infundibulum, and that's shown here. So we have neurons, which are going to extend their axons from the hypothalamus and down through this, through this neck region and into the posterior lobe and, such as this. These neurons their axons are going to terminate on the capillary beds which are perfusing all of the, all the region of the posterior lobe. These, this is being fed by the inferior hypophyseal artery. It, it enters, breaks up into a capillary bed, and then it's going to drain by a vain to the systemic circulation. The cells which were of interest to us are, are in the hypothalamus, come from two seperate lobe sides. One's called the parventricular nucleus and the second, the suproptic nucleus. These suproptic nucleus and the parventricular nucleus are going to secrete two types of neuro peptides. And the neuropeptides are going to be oxytocin and vasopresin. So this area then is going to secrete two peptides into the systemic circulation. The first of the neuropeptides that I want to discuss is called oxytocin. Oxytocin has been a peptide that people have thought was pretty boring, because oxytocin is a peptide that is secreted, by the suckling of the, of the infant at the breast, so it's a mechanical stimulation. Of the tissue, which causes a release of oxytocin, and then in turn causes the myoepithelial cells to contract, and when they contract, then the milk is expelled. It's also being secreted at the time when we have delivery of the baby and we have stretching of the cervix and at this and of the birth canal. And as this occurs, this mechanical stretching, again causes release of the Oxytocin. Oxytocin will cause restriction or contraction of the smooth muscle of the uterus, and it helps to expel the baby. So it's been known for many years that this is what oxytocin was doing. The only problem was that it was a conundrum, and that was, is that males also secrete oxytocin. And so why would a male be secreting oxytocin when clearly Human males do not give birth, and they, to live young. And secondly, they also do not breastfeed the young. And it was about five years ago that they started to look into what is actually happening with oxytocin in the male, and what they found was is that oxytocin is released in high amounts at the time of orgasm, that is at sexual climax. And this is occurring in both the males and in the females. So oxytocin then is the bonding hormone, and it's the hormone that actually is is causing you to bond with your partner during the sexual act. And oxytocin is also a bonding hormone for the, for the mother and the father to the baby, as they stroke the baby, or cuddle the baby, or hold the baby then the oxytocin levels increase. See that oxytocin then is our love potion or our bonding hormone, and when I first told this to, to my class a couple years ago, one of the students came up to me and asked me if this was available commercially. What happens if we don't have oxytocin? If we don't make enough oxytocin, then we, we see that the mother actually rejects her baby. She is, these are the individuals where they give birth to the child, but then have no have no interest in feeding the child, taking care of the child, tending to the child in any way. So very low oxytocin levels then, there's no bonding then to the offspring, by the mother. So, eh, so this is be a pathological, situation. So that's oxytocin. So what about vasopressin? So vasopressin is secreted also to two different stimuli. Vasopresin is regulated by osmotic, stimuli, and by a volume stimulus. The osmotic stimulus is that if we have a very high rise or even a very small rise in osmolarity, and this would be the concentration of sodium which is within the bloodstream, within the plasma, then the vasopressin is released. In addition, vasopressin is released when there is a decrease of about 10% or more of blood volume. So a loss in blood pressure or in particularly, a loss in blood volume will cause release of antidiuretic hormone or vasopressin. Those are the same entity. Vasopressin, or antidiuretic hormone, works in the kidney, on the collecting tubules of the kidney, where it moves water from the filtrate. That would be the presumptive urine back across the ephithelia cells which are lining these tubules into the capillaries and into the bloodstream. So vasopressin then is increasing blood volume by moving water from presumptive urine back into the, into the blood. By doing so it also dilutes the osmolarity of the blood, so vasopressin then is just moving water across this region of the body. So what is our pathology? So the pathology for vasopressin is called diabetes insipidus. many, many years ago the Greeks would recognize individuals who were drinking a lot and peeing a lot, as having some type of pathological condition. And what they would do is they would taste the urine that was coming from these individuals, and if the urine tasted sweet it was called diabetes mellitus. This was urine that had glucose in it. these are individuals who, who were secreting glucose from the body. As well as water. In the individuals where the urine had no taste they call this diabetes insipidus. Insipidus because it has no taste. And that's the pathology that we see here, if there's a problem with the vasopressin or the anti-diuretic hormone. We can have two separate problems. One would be if there is a central problem, and that is that there's a lesion which is occurring where we've had trauma so we can't get secretion from the posterior pituitary. Or there is a tumor constricting the release from the posterior pituitary. Under these conditions you would have very low levels of vasopressin or anti-diaretic hormone. The individual is not able to concentrate their urine and inconsequently, they are secreting or excreting from the body 18 liters of urine per day. The second type of, of pathology actually is found within the kidney, and this is called a nephrogenic problem or a nephrogenic lesion. These, there can be two separate problems. One is where we have a receptor resistance. We have a defective vasopressin receptor present on the principal cells, which are lining the collecting ducts. So if the receptor is absent or not active, then vasopressin is present, the cells, the target cells, cannot recognize that the vasopressin is there, and they don't respond. So this would be receptor resistance. And the second type of defect that can occur, is that the aquaporin2 channels are defective. What, what vasopressin is doing in these cells, is that it's moving aquaporin channels, or water channels up to the luminal surfaces of the cells. and in, in, it is inserting these aquaporin channels into that plasma membrane. In the presence of aquaporin, water can move across these cells and into the blood. In the absence of aquaporin, no water can move from the lumen of these tubules, to the blood. So one of our general concepts, so the general concept, if you recall, that the pituitary then has two distinct lobes, anterior and posterior. They have different embryonic origins. They're regulated separately. And they produce different hormone products. The posterior pituitary has got two products, oxytocin and vasopressin. The anterior pituitary is regulated by these negative feedbacks from hormones from the target cells and we said there are four major feedback loops. The posterior pituitary secretes neural endocrines in response to changes in osmolarity of the blood, or the volume of the blood. Also to mechanical stimulation. So, the osmolarity and the volume we're going to be secreting vasopressin and to mechanical stimulation we'll be secreting oxytocin. So, the major feedback loops are not mediated by hormones coming back to regulate the release of these two neuropeptides. But instead, that the, that the feedbacks are either, by changing the osmolarity, changing the volume of the blood. Or by changing, by actually change, by stopping the mechanical stimulation, um,either at the breast, or within the birth canal. Okay. So the next time we come in, then, we're going to start talking about the hypothalamus-pituitary axis and how it regulates energy or basal metabolic rates within the body. So see you then.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1614
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(Some accounts date the original text to be over 6000 years old, but rather than being overly concerned about a precise date, let us focus our attention on the meaning of this glorious mantra and how it can enrich and illuminate our life here and Meaning of Gayatri is gaya: vital energies trayate: preserves, protects, gives deliverance, grants liberation The word Mantra means instrument of thought, sacred text, or a prayer of praise. So, the two words “Gayatri Mantra” might be translated as: a prayer of praise that awakens the vital energies and gives liberation. And indeed, this is such a prayer. In his book Sadhana, Sri Swami Shivananda wrote: “Of all the mantras, the supreme and the most potent power of powers is the great, glorious Gayatri Mantra. It is the support of every seeker after Truth who believes in its efficacy, power and glory, be he of any caste, creed, clime or sect. It is only one’s faith and purity of heart that really count. Indeed, Gayatri is an impregnable spiritual armor, a veritable fortress that guards and protects its votary, which transforms him into the divine, and blesses him with the brilliant light of the highest spiritual illumination. … It is universally applicable, for it is nothing but an earnest prayer for Light, addressed to the Supreme Almighty Spirit. … This single mantra repeated sincerely and with clear conscience, brings the supreme good.” The Invocation: Chanting of the Gayatri Mantra is often prefaced with either a short invocation or a long invocation and is often followed with a closing. Short Invocation: This invocation is acknowledging and joyously celebrating that Om is bhur, Om is bhuvas, and Om is suvaha, Om is everything. The terms bhur, bhuvas, suvaha (maha vyahritis) are invocations to honor the planes of our existence and to call to our aid the presiding deities of the three planes in which we live our ordinary life: the physical, astral and mental planes. The three lokas (bhur, bhuvas, suvaha) are the bija (seed) mantras of the devatas called Agni, Vayu and Aditya who are being invoked to assist in our transformation. (See Chandogya Upanishad (IV, xvii, 1-3) and (II, xxiii, 3)). Then Prajapati reflected on the three lokas and from this reflection was born OM. As veins pervade all leaves, so Om pervades all sound. Verily all this is Om! Verily all this is Om! The short preamble is simply these four words: bhur bhuvas suvaha Long Invocation: As with the shorter version, this invocation is a recognition that there are many worlds, all empowered by the nameless, formless, birthless, deathless which is symbolized by om…. om is everything. These seven lines of the long invocation are the seven lokas, or planes, of existence, and are used not only to recognize and honor the planes of existence, but also to call the presiding deities of those planes to aid in our transformation and realization: om bhuhu om bhuvaha om suvaha om mahaha om janaha om tapaha om satyaM The seven lokas, may be briefly described as: bhuhu – earth, the physical world bhuvaha – astral/desire/breath, the world of becoming suvaha – mental, the world of thinking mahaha – causal, silent mind, the world of emotion janaha – world of creative generation tapaha – world of intuition satyaM – world of Absolute Truth This recital of the lokas begins with the gross, physical world filled with separation and differences and then each, in sequence, becomes more refined, more transcendent, more unified, more all-encompassing. The recitation of the lokas, done with intent and clarity, prepares one for the chanting of the Gayatri Mantra by harmonizing and attuning one with all the worlds. Body of the Gayatri Mantra: The body of the Gayatri Mantra is written as: The transliterated text is: om tat savitur vareNyaM Swami Shivananda’s translation of the Gayatri Mantra is: Here’s a simple word-by-word translation: Om – Om (Brahman, the One, the Godhead, Supreme Deity) tat – that (referring to Savitri, Paramatma, God) savitur – (mw1190) – Savitri, the Spiritual Sun (that from which all is born), the One Light, the all-pervading Consciousness O nourishing Sun, solitary traveller, controller, source of life for all creatures, spread your light and subdue your dazzling splendour so that I may see your blessed Self. Even that very Self am I! Isa Upanishad (16) vareNyaM – most excellent, adorable, fit to be worshipped, venerable, worthy of being sought bhargo – (mw748) – radiance, effulgence, splendour (the light that bestows understanding) devasya – divine, of the deity dhimahi – we meditate upon… or may we meditate upon, reflect upon, be devoted to dhiyo – prayer, noble thoughts, intuition, understanding of Reality (buddhis) yo – he who, the one who nah – our, of us prachodayat – may he energize, direct, inspire, guide, unfold… or he who energizes, directs, inspires, guides, unfolds Short Closing: bhur bhuvas suvar om Long Closing: Om apo jyoti rasamrita brahma This beautiful closing pays tribute to the myriad forms of the One. A simple translation is: Om, the Water, the Light, the very Essence in which we exist, the Absolute, the physical world, the astral realm, the mental realm, all are Om. Daily spiritual practice: The beautiful rhythmic patterns, soothing ancient sounds and powerful intent make the Gayatri Mantra a magnificent part of daily spiritual practice. The Gayatri Mantra combines the effects of mantric sound with the effects of a deep and profound prayer, resulting in a combination which is exceedingly potent. As with all spiritual practices, this is a vehicle for intent. The stronger and greater the intent, the stronger and greater the results. All Gauri Shankar Rudraksha represent this powerful Gayatri mantra. Download Gayatri mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Ganesha, commonly known as and easily recognized as the Elephant-God, is one of the most popular deities of the Hindu pantheon. The Son of Parvati was given the name Ganesha by Shiva. The word Ganesha is made up of gana (followers of Shiva) and isha (lord), as Shiva appointed him the lord of his ganas. Ganesha is known as one who removes all obstacles. He is considered to be the god of wisdom, prudence and prosperity. He is the personification of material‚ universe in all its various magnificent manifestations. His names are repeated first before any auspicious work is begun and before any kind of worship is begun. He is the God of power and wisdom. He is the eldest son of Shiva and the brother of Skanda or Kartikeya. Ganesha has many names. The main ones are GANAPATI (lord of the tribe or attendants), VIGNESHWARA (controller of all obstacles), VINAYAKA (the prominent leader), GAJANANA (elephant faced), GAJADHIPATI (Lord of elephants), LAMBKARNA (long eared), LAMBODARA (pendant -bellied) and EKADANTA (having one tusk), GAJAVADANA (the elephant face), SHOOPRA-KARNA (winnowing pan like ears), CHATURBHUJA (four hands) three of them carrying Pasha (a rope), ANKUSHA (a spear-like weapon curved at one end) and MODAKA (a pudding like sweet dish). Birth of Lord Ganesh to Parvati. Once while Parvati was going for her bath, she rubbed off the dust and oil from her body and out of it created the figure of a young boy. She infused life into the figure and told him he was her son and should guard the entrance when she went to bath. Soon after, Shiva came to see Parvati but the young boy blocked his way and would not let him in. Shiva, unaware that this lad was his son, became furious and in great anger fought with the boy whose head got severed from his body in the ensuing battle. Parvati, returning from her bath, saw her headless son and in aggrieved anguish threatened to destroy the heavens and earth. The Gods and Shiva pacified her and the latter sent out his ganas, or hordes to bring the head of the first living being with his head towards the north (the auspicious direction associated with wisdom). The first living creature they found sleeping with his head to the north was an elephant. They brought the head of this animal and Shiva placed it on the trunk of Parvati’s son and breathed life into him. Parvati was overjoyed and embraced her son, the elephant-headed boy whom Shiva named Ganesh, the lord of his ganas “Ganpati”. Story: Shiva and Parvati used to play with their two sons, Ganesh and Kartikeya. The gods had given them a marvelous fruit. Each boy wanted to get it for him alone. Their parents explained them that the nectar of the Supreme Knowledge and of Immortality was hidden in that fruit. To get the fruit, both had to compete. The winner should run three times around the world and come back first. Kartikeya left at once. Riding his peacock, he flew in the sky stopping at every sacred place on his way, praying and worshipping the gods. Ganesh was fully aware of his stout body; it slackened off him badly. The rat, his vehicle, was rather slow and would not be able to beat Kartikeya. But his wisdom suggested him the right solution. He turned round his parents, Shiva and Parvati, showing a deep devotion. When they asked him why he did not start his journey around the world, he replied: “My parents Shiva and Shakti are the Whole Universe. In them is located the World. I do not need to go further”. Of course, he won the contest, and the fruit. This legend emphasizes the importance of cleverness which is always the best against force, speed or physical strength. Ganesh Chathurti (festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesha) is a very popular festival celebrated by Hindus all over India. This Ganesh Chathurti is celebrated as one of the important festival all over India. His grace, we receive the grace of all. He removes any potential obstacles and enables our endeavors to succeed. Sri Ganesha Gayatri Mantra Om Ekadanthaya vidmahe Vakrathundaya dhimahi Tanno danthih prachodayat. Meaning of Mantra : We devote our thoughts to the One Tusked Lord We meditate upon Him who has a Curved trunk May the tusked one guide us on the right path. Download Lord Ganesha Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lord-Ganesh-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Narasimha, the fourth incarnation of god Vishnu, is half-lion half-human. This incarnation is to to alleviate the sufferings of devotees symbolizing fight against evil and tyranny. Lord Narayana is considered to be the origin of the other transcendental forms of God. From Narayana, Vasudeva is manifest, and from Vasudeva, Sankarsana is manifest (Agni-purana 48.13). And according to the scriptures, Lord Narasimha is an expansion (amsha) of Sankarsana. Lord Narsimha Himself is recognized in the scriptures by a variety of forms, distinguished by the arrangements of weapons in the hands, His different postures, or other subtle distinctions. Of these more than seventy-four forms, Nine are very prominent (Nava-narasimha): Ugra-narasimha – or Ahobila Narasimha in fierce form Vira-narasimha Kopa-narasimha Kruddha-narasimha Vilamba-narasimha Yoga-narasimha – who blessed Lord Brahma Aghora-narasimha Sudarsana-narasimha Lakshmi-narasimha – Malola-narasimha or Prahlada-varada Narasimha (with Lakshmi on His lap and blessing Prahlad) The most popular form of Narasimha is Lakshmi Narasimha Story of Lord Narasimha Hiranyakashipu (the brother of Hiranyaksha who was killed by the Varaha Avtar) wanted to take revenge on the Devatas and in particular on Lord Vishnu. He wanted to become the master of all the three worlds – Heaven, Earth & Pathala. He went to Mount Mandarachala and began penance which continued for years. Due to the intensity of Penance, Lord Brahma appeared before Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyakashipu asked for immortality as boon. Brahma, however, declined, saying “All living beings must face death Hiranyakashipu. You can, however, choose your death wish.” Hiranyakashipu then asked for three conditions, as his death wish, “‘O Brahma, let not death come to me either by man or beast, nor devil, nor god shall cause my death by day or by night with steel or stone or wood, indoors or outdoors, or earth or in sky. Grant me undisputed lordship over the world”. Brahma agreed and Hiranyakashipu got his death wishes granted. Thus he became practically immortal. After securing such a boon Hiranyakashipu conquered the worlds and became a tyrant. He banned all poojas on Vishnu and declared himself as God. The Devtas approached Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu asked them to be patient and said, “Hiranyakashipu’s son Prahlad is a devotee of me. When Hiranyakashipu seeks to kill my devotee I will slay him.” Hiranyakashipu’s wife Kayadhu gave birth to Prahlad in the Ashrama of Narada who told Prahlad about the glory of Lord Vishnu. Prahlad grew up and became an ardent devotee of Vishnu. Hiranyakashipu, however, wanted his son to be the king of the Asuras, strong and ruthless. Realising that Prahlad always prayed to Lord Vishnu, Hiranyakashipu took his son to Shanku and Amarka, the sons of Shukracharya, for schooling. All their efforts to inflence Prahlad failed. Hiranyakashipu ordered his servents to kill Prahlad if he refused to accept the supremacy of his father. They tried to kill him by throwing down a mountain, drowning, poisoning, burning etc. and failed in all attempts since Lord Vishnu saved him from all the attempts. The king got angry on hearing the reports about Prahlad. One day the king challenged his son in the open court: “Prahlad! Is my enemy, whom you worship, present anywhere here?”. Prahlad replied, “Vishnu is omnipresent. There’s not a single place where he’s not found” Hiranyakashipu’s fury was at its climax. He got an iron pillar heated and asked Prahlad, “Can you embrace this pillar if your Vishnu is in it also?” Prahlad did not hesitate even for a moment but rushed towards the pillar and embraced it. The heated iron did not burn him. The king got up from his throne in fury and hit the pillar with his mace. And to his surprise! The pillar cracked with a thundering sound and Vishnu appeared there in the form of Narasimha. One half of his body was of a lion and the other half of a man. He had matted hair on his head, large moustaches on the face and terrible teeth in the mouth. His paws had terrible nails on them. Hiranyakashipu remembered his first death wish, “To be killed by some one who is neither human nor beast.” It was also the twilight hour, neither day nor night, the second death wish. The demon king hit Narasimha with his mace but Narasimha brushed it aside swiftly. It was twilight and Narasimha caught hold of the demon Hiranyakashipu. He sat on the threshold of the court room, placed the body of the demon on his thighs, and pierced his nails into the body of the demon and broke open his stomach. The demon was killed on the spot in a moment. The place was neither inside nor outside. This was Hiranyakashipu’s third death wish. Lord Narasimha was furious and roared. However, he was pacified when Prahlad touched his feet and goddess Lakshmi also tried to cool him. Lord Narasimha then made Prahlad the King. Sri Narasimha Gayatri Mantra Om Narasimhaya Vidmahe Vajra Nakhaya Dhimahi Tanno Narasimhah Prachodayat. Meaning of Mantra Om, let us meditate the half-man and half-lion form of Lord Narasimha. May this great God with his diamond nails piercethe veil of ignorance and his fierce sharp-tooth destroy the demon of darkness and illuminate our mind and understanding. Download Sri Narasimha Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lord-Narasimha-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Saraswati Goddess Saraswati is the Goddess of wisdom and learning. Saraswati is the one who gives the essence (sara) of our own self (swa). She is considered as the personification of all knowledge – arts, sciences, crafts and other skills. She has a beautiful and elegant presence, is pure white in colour, clad in a white sari, seated on a white lotus, representing purity and brilliance. She has four hands representing four aspects of human personality in learning; mind, intellect, alertness and ego. She has the sacred scriptures in one hand and a lotus (a symbol of true knowledge) in the second. With her other two hands she plays the music of love and life on the veena. Goddess Saraswati is the consort of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. Scripture says that when Brahma resolved to create this world, he went into deep thought. In the course of his contemplation, there appear a hollowed mark on his forehead. After a few moments there is a girl emerged from that celestial sign. Lord Brahma asked: “Who are you? “The girl replied: “My birth has been from your contemplation. Pease give me work.” Lord Brahma asked her to live on the tongue of people and regulate their speech as “Vageshwari”, the goddess of speech. While Brahma is the lord of creation, Saraswati is the goddess of creativity.She is the personification of wisdom, learning, intelligence, music and art. As the incarnation of speech, she presides over knowledge. The Rigvedic hymns dedicated to Saraswati mention her as a mighty river with creative, purifying, and nourishing properties. Veda says that the path of knowledge has the power to dispel ignorance of what is permanent and what is passing. Celebrating Saraswati is a call to the higher mind, the beginning of a deep desire to understand the purpose and meaning of life. Goddess Saraswati is often depicted as a beautiful, white -skinned goddess, dressed in pure white often seated on a swan (carrier) or on a white lotus. She is mainly associated with the color white, which signifies the purity of true knowledge. She is not adorned heavily with jewels and gold, dressed modestly – representing her preference of knowledge over worldly material things. Saraswati depicted wearing white cloths. because the colour white is a symbol of the purity of true knowledge which she bestows on the seeker. Similarly, her association with the swan and the peacock too stress the wisdom aspect. The swan is said to have the ability to separate milk from water and drink milk only, which is a metaphor of the way a seeker has to continually discriminate between what is real and permanent and what is transient. The peacock’s vanity at its own beautiful plumage is a reminder of how a true seeker of knowledge has to learn to detach himself from the body by understanding the transitory nature of physical appearance. Sri Saraswathi Gayatri Mantra Om Vakdeviyai cha Vidmahe Virinji Pathniyai cha Dhimahi Tanno Vani Prachodayat. Om, Let me meditate on the goddess of speech, Oh, wife of Lord Brahma, give me higher intellect, And let Goddess Vani bestows the devotee with the memory, Knowledge and the power of speech. Download Sri Saraswathi Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sri-Saraswathi-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Shiva, the destroyer, is one of the three supreme gods in Hindu mythology. The other two are Brahma, the creator, and Vishnu, the preserver. Shiva’s destructive powers are awesome, but they also have a positive side in that destruction usually leads to new forms of existence. A glance from the third eye in the center of his forehead has the power to destroy anything in creation, including humans and gods. In the Vedas, a collection of ancient sacred texts, Shiva is identified with the storm God Rudra. According to one myth, Shiva first appeared when Brahma and Vishnu were arguing about which of them was more powerful. Their argument was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a great blazing pillar whose roots and branches extended beyond view into the earth and sky. Brahma became a goose and flew up to find the top of the pillar, while Vishnu turned into a boar and dug into the earth to look for its roots. Unsuccessful in their search, the two gods returned and saw Shiva emerge from an opening in the pillar. Recognizing Shiva’s great power, they accepted him as the third ruler of the universe. Shiva is a complex god with many roles and powers. In his destroyer role, he often haunts cemeteries, wearing a headdress of snakes and a necklace of skulls. A band of terrifying demons, hungering for blood, accompanies him. Yet despite his destructiveness, Shiva can be helpful to humans and other gods. He acts as a divine judge who shows no mercy to the wicked. He gains spiritual strength from periods of meditation deep thought in the Himalayas. When he dances, he represents truth, and by dancing he banishes ignorance and helps relieve the suffering of his followers. According to one myth, Shiva saved the gods and the world from destruction by swallowing the poison of Vasuki, a serpent the gods used to produce the water of life. Drinking the poison made Shiva’s neck blue, and he is often shown that way in art. One of Shiva’s greatest services to the world was to tame the sacred Ganges River, which flows from the Himalayas. At one time, the Ganges passed only through the heavens, leaving the earth dry. After a wise man changed the course of the river, it became a raging torrent and threatened to flood the earth. Shiva stood beneath the river and let its waters wind through his hair to calm its flow. Shiva is believed to be at the core of the centrifugal force of the universe, because of his responsibility for death and destruction. Unlike the godhead Brahma, the Creator, or Vishnu, the Preserver, Shiva is the dissolving force in life. But Shiva dissolves in order to create, since death is the medium for rebirth into a new life. So the opposites of life and death and creation and destruction both reside in his character. The extra eye represents the wisdom and insight that Shiva has. It is also believed to be the source of his untamed energy. On one occasion, when Shiva was distracted in the midst of worship by the love god, Kama, Shiva opened his third eye in anger. Kama was consumed by the fire that poured forth, and only returned to life when parvati intervened. He is also often portrayed as the supreme ascetic with a passive and composed disposition. Sometimes he is depicted riding a bull called Nandi decked in garlands. Although a very complicated deity, Shiva is one of the most fascinating of Hindu gods. Since Shiva is regarded as a mighty destructive power, to numb his negative potentials he is fed with opium and is also termed as ‘Bhole Shankar’, one who is oblivious of the world. Therefore, on Maha Shivratri, the night of Shiva worship, devotees, especially the menfolk, prepare an intoxicating drink called ‘Thandai’ (made from cannabis, almonds, and milk) sing songs in praise of the Lord and dance to the rhythm of the drums. Lord Shiva Gayatri Mantra Om Tat Purushaya Vidmahe Mahadevaya Dhimahi Tanno Rudra Prachodayat “Om. Let me meditate on the great Purusha, Oh, greatest God, give me higher intellect, and let God Rudra illuminate my mind.” Download Lord Shiva Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lord-Shiva-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Lakshmi Lakshmi is the auspicious goddess of wealth and fortune, whether it is material or spiritual. The word ”Lakshmi” has been derived from the Sanskrit word Lakshay, meaning “aim” or ”goal”. Goddess Lakshmi suggests the aim of life, which includes all worldly and spiritual success. Lakshmi is the divine consort of Lord Vishnu and provides with wealth for the maintenance and preservation of the creation. Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth, luxury, fertility, fortune, purity, beauty, power, generosity and auspiciousness. She is claimed to fulfil the promises of material, wealth and contentment. According to the Hindu mythology, the sacred name of Lakshmi is ”Shri”. Whether in written or verbal form, ”Shri” always suggests presence of goddess Lakshmi in it. ”Shri” is written at the top of most of the documents. It is usually spoken before addressing a god, or any revered individual. The usage of ”Shri” itself evokes grace, affluence, abundance, authority and auspiciousness. The word ”Shri” is spoken or written, an aura of holiness is established. Sri is associated with the material side of life, just like the word ”Om” is associated with the spiritual side of life Generally, Lakshmi is portrayed as a beautiful lady with golden complexion, dressed in red color attire and adorned with precious jewels. Lakshmi has four hands representing the four ends of human life, Kama(desires), and death. She holds lotus bud in two of her hands, which stands for beauty, purity, spirituality and fertility. She sits on a fully blossomed lotus, a seat of divine truth. Cascades of gold coins are seen flowing from her hands, illustrating that she blesses people with wealth. The constant effort of two elephants is often shown standing next to the goddess and spraying water. It denotes that, in accordance with one’s dharma when governed by wisdom and purity, leads to both material and spiritual prosperity. The personal charm of Lakshmi is considered par excellence. An aura of divine happiness, mental and spiritual satisfaction, and prosperity always exists around her. Lakshmi resides in a place where virtue, righteous- ness, truth and compassion prevail. Goddess Lakshmi is considered to stay at a clean place. Wealth is required to meet the basic needs of life. People worship Lakshmi for the well being and prosperity of the family. On the auspicious night of Diwali, Hindus worship Lakshmi ceremonially at home, pray for her blessings. It is believed that on this night the goddess herself visits the homes and replenishes the inhabitants with wealth. Lakshmi is the goddess of beauty, wealth and good fortune in the Hindu Mythology. Goddess Lakshmi is one of the most popular goddesses among the Hindus. Maha Lakshmi is the divine consort of Lord Vishnu and assists him with wealth for the maintenance of the universe. Lakshmi fulfils all the wishes of her sincere devotees. Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped to attain wealth, beauty and good luck. Sri-Lakshmi’s nature two general meanings seem apparent. First, the lotus is a symbol of fertility and life which is rooted in and takes its strength from the primordial waters’ The lotus symbolizes vegetative growth that has distilled the life-giving power of the waters into embodied life. The lotus, and the goddess Sri-Lakshmi by association, represents the fully developed blossoming of organic life. At the macrocosmic level the lotus might be taken as a symbol of the entire created world. The lotus growing from the navel of Vishnu marks the beginning of a new cosmic creation. The frequent use of the lotus in Tantric mandalas also points to the lotus as a symbol of the entire created universe. The lotus suggests a growing, expanding world imbued with vigorous fertile power. It is this power that is revealed in Sri-Lakshmi. She is the nectar (the rasa) of creation which lends to creation its distinctive flavour and beauty. Organic life, impelled as it is by this mysterious power, flowers richly and beautifully in the creative processes of the world. The second meaning of the lotus in relation to Srl-Lakshmi refers to purity and spiritual power. Rooted in the mud but blossoming above the water, completely uncontaminated by the mud, the lotus represents spiritual perfection and authority. A common motif in Hindu and Buddhist iconography is the lotus seat. The gods and goddesses, the Buddha’s and bodhisattvas, typically sit or stand upon a lotus, which suggests their spiritual authority. To be seated upon or to be otherwise associated with the lotus suggests that the being in question-god, Buddha, or human being-has transcended the limitations of the finite world (the mud of existence, as it was) and floats freely in a sphere of purity and spirituality. Sri-Lakshmi thus suggests more than the fertilizing powers of moist soil and the mysterious powers of growth. She suggests a perfection or state of refinement that transcends the material world. She is associated not only with royal authority but with spiritual authority as well and she combines royal and priestly powers in her presence. Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra Om Mahalaxmiyei Vidmahe Vishnu Patniyai cha Dhimahi Tanno Lakshmih Prachodayat. Om, Let me meditate on the greatest goddess, Who is the wife of Lord Vishnu, Give me higher intellect, And let Goddess give the wealth and prosperity. Download Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lakshmi-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Durga Goddess Durga is the embodiment of the divine force of the Almighty. The word Durga, in Sanskrit means “the invincible”. Durga Devi represents power, strength, morality and protection. Maa Durga is the destroyer of sin and protector of morality. Goddess Durga is also known as Shakti (Power). Durga is known as the Mother of the Cosmos with infinite power to protect her devotees from all kinds of destructive forces. Goddess Durga has many names like Sati, Parvati, Gauri, Ambika, Amba, Shakti, Bhavani, Bhadrakali and Kalika and symbolises Mahamaya, Maha meaning Great and Maya meaning illusion. The Cosmic manifestation is interpreted as Maya or illusion of the entire universe or all that is created and that is not easily understood by mortals. The combined creative energies of Consciousness (Lord Shiva) with the supreme truth praised as Shakti (Power) Devi Durga, in Sanatan Dharma, have been given a feminine attribute due to its creative aspect and is extended to it and hence the power or energy is worshipped in a female form, a Mother who is responsible for the entire Srishthi or Cosmic creation. Mahishasura who was the king of Asuras for many years were granted a boon by Lord Brahma that no man or god can kill him. This gave him the power to fight and rule the entire world. He started attacking heaven and urged his battalion of asuras to kill people and take away their wealth. Even gods were driven away from heaven and Mahishasura took the throne. The gods did not have any other way out of this terrorism and requested Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva for help. To solve this issue the three lords combined their divine energy into a feminine form that illuminated the heaven. From this glow Goddess Durga Devi emerged as a beautiful woman with ten arms riding a lion. Durga was born to kill the demons and so she was completely armed in each of her ten arms with divine weapons of each god and sent against Mahishasura for a fierce battle. When Mahishasura disguised as buffalo Devi beheaded the buffalo and then Mahishasura emerged in his original form. Then Devi Durga pierced his chest and relieved the world from evil power. She is always busy destroying evil and protecting mankind from all pain and suffering. She is also seen as demon fighting version of Lord Shiva’s wife, Parvati. She is depicted as having eight or ten hands which represents eight quadrants or ten directions of Hinduism. She appears with three eyes where the left eye represents desire, the right eye represents action and the central eye represents knowledge hence the name ‘Triyambake’. Mother Durga rides over a lion which symbolizes her mastery over the qualities of power, will and determination. She possess different kinds of weapons in her arms like mace, sword, disc, arrow and trident which conveys that one weapon cannot be used to destroy all kinds of enemies, but different kinds of weapons has to be used. She has the sacred conch which emanates the sound of creation ‘AUM’. Durga Puja during the Navaratri festival is the main festival associated with the Goddess. Durga Pooja is the biggest Hindu festival celebrated throughout India. This falls in the month of September – October and the goddess is worshipped in nine forms these days. The goddess is dressed each day as a different devi like Goddess Saraswati, Goddess Parvati, and Goddess Lakshmi. On first day she is Shailputri, second day Brahmacharini, third day Chandraganta, fourth day Kushmanda, fifth day Skanda Mata, sixth day Katyayani, seventh day Kalratri, eighth day Mahagauri and ninth day Sidhidatri. The eight day of Navratri Festival is known as Durgashtami and weapons of Goddess Durga are worshipped on this day. The day of Durga’s victory is celebrated as Vijayadasami. There is also an elemental ritual of immersing the idol of Goddess Durga into the holy river of Ganga which points to cyclical regeneration. Goddess Durga is believed to be the power behind the work of creation, preservation and destruction of the world. She is the divine mother who protects mankind from all evils and miseries and also destroys selfishness, jealousy, prejudice, hatred, anger and ego. Thus Goddess Durga represents a united front of all Divine forces against the negative forces of wickedness and evil. Durga Gayatri Mantra Om Giri-jayai cha vidmahe Sivapriyayai cha dhimahi \| Tanno Durgih pracodayat \|\| “Om. Let us meditate on Girija Devi, Daughter of the Mountain. May that beloved of Lord Shiva inspire and illumine our mind and understanding.” Download Durga Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Durga-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Kartikeya The story of Lord Kartikeya’s birth is given in Kumar Sambhavam. Sati, the consort of Shiva immolated herself at the site of the Daksha Yagna, which was later destroyed by Shiva. Sati was reborn as Uma, or Parvati the daughter of the mountain king Himavaan (the Himalayas). Shiva withdrew himself from the universe and engaged himself in yogic meditation in the Himalayas. In the meanwhile, the demon Surapadma ravaged the earth and tormented its beings. It was realized by the gods that only the son born of Shiva and Parvati could lead the gods to victory over Tarakaasuran, Surapadman and their demon companions. They plotted with Kaama, the lord of desire, to shoot a flower arrow at Shiva, as he sat in meditation, so as to make him fall in love with Parvati. When Kaama aimed his arrow at Shiva, he opened his third eye and burned him to ashes instantly. Upon hearing the pleas of Kama’s wife Rati, he brought back Kama to life, in flesh and blood for her sake, and in a formless state for others. His penance disturbed, Shiva fell in love with Parvathi. However, the sparks of the fiery seed of Shiva were unbearable; even the fire God Agni could not bear them; this fire was then transported by the river Ganga into the Sara Vana forest, where Sara Vana Bhava (Kartikeya) was born. He was raised by the six Kartika damsels. Parvati combined these six babies into one with six faces, ie. Shanmukha. In south India Lord Kartikeya is very popularly known as Murugan. The other names of Kartikeya, as breast-fed by six KRITTIKA deities he is called ‘KARTIKEYA’. Since he has six faces, he is SHANMUKHA Because of his omniscience, he is ‘SUBRAMANYA’ as he gathered a huge army to kill the demons, he is also called ‘ MAHASENA . Since he captained the army of the gods in the fight with the Rakshasas, he was given the title of SENANI or ‘Commander’. Since he was born out of the life-source that slipped (Skanna) from Shiva, he is named SKANDA. With the peacock as his mode of transport, he is SHIKHIVAHANA. This term also means that he is one who kills evil persons. He represents a person of perfection. He is the war God, the Hindu equivalent of Mars and Aries. He was created by all the Gods to lead the heavenly hosts and destroy the demons. He is the most masculine and fierce of all the Gods. While Ganesh removes all obstacles, Skanda bestows all spiritual powers, particularly the power of knowledge. He is worshiped for all problems related to Mars, especially Mangala dosha or Kuja dosha. Subrahamanya Gayatri Mantra Maha Senaya Dhimahi Tanno Shanmugah Prachodayat.” Om, let us meditate that Supreme lord who is the Supreme General of the great Deva Army, Lord Shanmukha or Muruga. May He enlighten us and lead us to be one with him Download Lord Kartikeya Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Kartikeya-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Brahma Lord Brahma is part of the Hindu trinity, which includes Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. Brahma was born from a (kamala) lotus springing from Vishnu’s navel and created the world through his daughter Saraswati. According to Manu Smriti, the self- existent Lord manifested to dispel the darkness enveloping universe. He created the waters and deposited a seed that became a golden egg from which he was born as Brahma. He divided the egg into two parts to construct the heaven and earth, and created the ten Prajapatis, mind-born sons, who completed the work of creation. The Lord separated himself into two parts, the male and the female after dividing the golden egg. From him sprang Viraja and from him Manu. Ramayana states that Brahma sprang from the ether and that sages Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Narada, Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatkumara, Sanasujata and others are his manasa putras (mentally conceived sons). From Marichi sprang Kashyapa from whom sprang Vishwavata who created Manu, the procreator of all human beings. Thus, Manu is Brahma’s great grandson. Brahma and his consort Saraswati, represent the vedas, their spirit and meaning. They form the subject of many tales in Hindu literature. All knowledge, religious and secular emanate from them. Brahma, created all knowledge, sciences, arts, music, dance and drama. He also officiated over the wedding of Shiva and Parvati. Brahma’s icon has four heads (chatur mukha brahma) facing the four quartem. They represent the four Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sama, Atharva), the four yugas (krita, treta, dwapara, kali) (epochs of time), the four varnas (brahmana, kshatriya, vaisya, sudra). The faces have beards with eyes closed in meditation. There are four arms holding up different objects, akshamala (rosary), kurcha (kusha grass), sruk (ladle), sruva (spoon), kamandala (water pot) and pustaka (book) and in different poses representing the four quartem. Their combination and arrangement vary with the image. Akshamala symbolizes time; Kamandala, the waters of all creation. The implements kusha, sruk and sruva, denote the system of sacrifices used by creatures to sustain each other. The book represents religious and secular knowledge. Hand postures (mudras) are abhaya (protector) and varada (giver of boons). The icon may be in standing posture on a lotus or in sitting posture on a hamsa (swan). Hamsa stands for wisdom and discrimination. Brahma is also shown riding a chariot drawn by seven swans, representing the seven worlds. Temples dedicated to Brahma show his Viswakarma aspect with four heads, the four arms holding the rosary, the book, kusha and kamandala and riding his swan. Temples of Shiva or Vishnu have a niche in the northern wall for Brahma as a parivara devata and his image receives daily worship. Brahma Gayatri Mantra Om Chathur mukhaya Vidmahe Hamasaroodaya Dhimahi Tanno Brahmah Prachodayat. Om, Let me meditate on The God who is the soul of Vedas, Oh God, who holds the entire world within you, give me higher intellect, And let the Lord Brahma illuminate my mind. Download Lord Brahma Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lord-Brahma-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Shri Hanuman, the greatest of all devotees of Lord Rama, is beyond any doubt the world’s most strongest avatar(incarnation) of Lord Shiva. We are familiar with the great epic Ramayana and aware of Shri Hanuman’s selfless role as a devout follower of Shri Rama. Hanuman Often known as PavanPutra, Maruti, Anjaneya, Bajrang Bali, Mahabali, Sankat Mochan, Ramdoot, KesariNandan, Mahaveer, Hanuman the half ape, half human form, born out of the great Divine Maya of the Supreme Being, is knowledge personified and is a Jnani, one who is complete in transcendental enlightenment of the word. As a devout disciple, he has merged with his Lord, Shri Rama, in his own being, and is able to perceive his Lord in everything as well as everyone. Hanuman is a symbol of devotion and dedication. Lord Hanumana is a provider of courage, hope, knowledge, intellect and devotion. He is usually pictured as a strong monkey holding a gada (mace) which is a sign of bravery and having a picture of Lord Rama on his chest which is a sign of his devotion to Lord Rama. Hanuman was born in the Treta Yuga, to Anjana, a female vanara and Kesari, a strong vanara .This birth was planned by the Supreme lord with a perfect idea in the mind. The combination of Vanara and the celestial gave Hanuman strength, divinity and quick wits his main characteristics. Being Anjana’s son, Hanuman is also called Anjaneya, which plainly means “arising from Anjana”. The divine nature of Hanuman is beautifully explained by Shri Valmiki, where one cannot but appreciate the super human personality, moulded by determination, power of celibacy, unconditional faith, humility, loyalty, commitment to serve the Divine cause as well as bravery. Mata Sita found in Hauman a devout son and loyal servant while Rama found in him the loyal devotee and messenger. He is the very symbol of pure Bhakti, sacrifice and the absence of ego. Hanuman is worshipped for his strength, agility and valor. The worship of Hanuman, symbolizes the worship of the Supreme Lord, for acquiring knowledge, physical and mental strength, truthfulness, sincerity, self-sacrifice, modesty, loyalty, and profound devotion to the Lord. Sri Hanuman was blessed by Sri Rama with immortality (chiranjeevi). Every temple of Sri Rama contains an idol of Hanuman. Worship of Hanuman is considered mandatory to complete the worship of Lord Rama. Shri Hanuman is one of the most popular and beloved Avatars of the Hindu pantheon of Gods known as Kimpurushas, or mystic beings who have manifest themselves upon Earth as half -human and half – animal. A powerful symbol of mega human strength, a symbol of selfless devotion to his Supreme Lord Shri Rama, the King of the Solar race who is popularly known as Maryada Purshottam – the perfect Man. Hanuman was born to Anjana and Vayu, one of the 5 elements of nature. Blessed by Lord Shiva, Hanuman possessed great prowess and was endowed with unlimited powers. Cursed by a Brahmin Rishi, Hanuman would forget his inner born super human strength, but would only gain it back when repeating the Holy name of Shri Rama. Shri Hanuman, the son of the wind God Vayu, is the very energy of breath that unites Rama and Sita. Though Hanuman is half ape, he proves to us that through selfless unconditional devotion and control of the mind and senses, he too has been able to excel in becoming a great Yogi, and by gaining the inner spiritual strength through concentration as well as discipline, he accomplishes just that in helping Shri Rama defeat the powerful king of Lanka. Through amazing feats of strength, he was able to assist Shri Rama in overcoming Adharma when defeating the armies of the egoistic Ravana. While Shri Rama personifies the destroyer of the Ravana within us, Shri Hanuman symbolically represents the ignorant nature of human beings, which through great service and devotion to the Supreme can be highly transformed into enlightenment of the Self. Om Aanjaneya Vidmahe Maha balaya Dhimahi Tanno Hanumatah Prachodayat. Om, Let me meditate on the son of Anjana, Oh, son of Vayu Deva (God of air), give me higher intellect, And let Hanuman illuminate my mind. Download Lord Hanuman Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lord-Hanuman-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Kubera Kubera is the Lord of wealth and the god-king of the semi-divine Yakshas in Hindu mythology. He is regarded as the regent of the North (Dik-pala), and a protector of the world (Lokapala) His many epithets extol him as the overlord of numerous semi-divine species and the owner of the treasures of the world. Kubera is often depicted as a fat man, adorned with jewels and carrying a money-pot or money-bag, and a club. Originally described as the chief of evil spirits in Vedic-era texts, Kubera acquired the status of a Deva (god) only in the Puranas and the Hindu epics. The scriptures describe that Kubera once ruled Lanka, but was overthrown by his demon stepbrother Ravana, later settling in the city of Alaka in the Himalayas. Descriptions of the “glory” and “splendours” of Kubera’s city are found in many scriptures. Kubera is often depicted as a dwarf, with fair complexion and a big belly. He is described as having three legs, only eight teeth, one eye, and being adorned with jewels. He is sometimes depicted riding a man.The description of deformities like the broken teeth, three legs, three heads and four arms appear only in the later Puranic texts.Kubera holds a mace, a pomegranate or a money bag in his hand. He may also carry a sheaf of jewels or a mongoose with him. In Tibet, the mongoose is considered a symbol of Kubera’s victory over Nāgas—the guardians of treasures. His name Kuvera is also split as ku (earth), and vira (hero). As the son of Vishrava (“Fame”), Kubera is called Vaisravana and as the son of Ilavila, Ailavila.Vaisravana is sometimes translated as the “Son of Fame”.Once, Kubera looked Parvati with adoration and SHiva destroyed his eye. But later forgave him when he realised his intentions were not malicious. Kubera also enjoys the titles “king of the whole world”, “king of kings” (Rajaraja), “Lord of wealth” (Dhanadhipati) and “giver of wealth” (Dhanada). His titles are sometimes related to his subjects: “king of Yakshas” (Yaksharajan), “Lord of Rakshasas” (Rakshasadhipati), “Lord of Guhyakas” (Guhyakadhipa), “king of Kinnaras”(Kinnararaja), “king of animals resembling men” (Mayuraja), and “king of men” (Nararaja). Kubera is also called Guhyadhipa (“Lord of the hidden”). Both the Puranas and the Ramayana feature the half-blood siblings of Kubera. Vishrava, Kubera’s father, also married the Rakshasa (demon) princess Kaikesi, who mothered four Rakshasa children: Ravana, the chief antagonist of the Ramayana, Kumbhakarna, Vibhishana and Soorpanaka.The Mahabharata regards Vishrava as the brother of Kubera, so Kubera is described as the uncle of Ravana and his siblings. It records that when Kubera approached Brahma for the favour of superseding his father Pulastya, Pulastya created Vishrava. To seek the favour of Vishrava, Kubera sent three women to him, by whom Vishrava begot his demon children.Ravana, after acquiring a boon of Brahma, drove Kubera away from Lanka and seized his Pushpaka Vimana, which was returned to Kubera after Ravana’s death. Kubera then settled on Gandhamandana mountain, near Mount Kailash — the cosmological abode of the god Shiva—in the Himalayas. Sometimes, Kailash itself is called Kubera’s residence. His city is usually called Alaka or Alaka-puri (“curl-city”), but also Prabha (“splendour”), Vasudhara (“bejeweled”) and Vasu-sthali (“abode of treasures”).There, Kubera had a grove called Caitraratha, where the leaves were jewels and the fruits were girls of heaven. There is also a charming lake called Nalini in the grove. Kubera is often described as a friend of Shiva in the epics. The Padma Purana says that Kubera prayed to Shiva for many years, and Shiva granted him the kingship of Yakshas. A description of Kubera’s magnificent court appears in the Mahabharata as well as the Meghaduta. Here, Gandharvas and Apsaras entertain Kubera. Shiva and his wife Parvati often frequent Kubera’s court, which is attended by semi-divine beings like the Vidyadharas; Kimpurushas; Rakshasas; Pishachas; as well as Padma and Shankha; personified treasures (nidhi); and Manibhadra, Kubera’s chief attendant and chief of his army. Like every world-protector, Kubera has seven seers of the North in residence. Alaka is recorded to be plundered by Ravana once, and attacked by the Pandava prince, Bhima once. Kubera’s Nairrata army is described to have defeated king Mucukunda, who then defeated them by the advice of his guru Vashishta. Shukra, the preceptor of the demons, is also recorded to have defeated Kubera and stolen his wealth. The Mahabharata calls his wife Riddhi (“prosperity”) and Nalakubara his son. The goddess of wealth Lakshmi is sometimes described as his consort. As the treasurer of the riches of the world, Kubera is prescribed to be worshipped. Kubera also credited money to the god Venkateshwara (a form of the god Vishnu) for his marriage with Padmavati. In remembrance of this, the reason devotees go to Tirupati to donate money in Venkateshwara’s Hundi (“Donation pot”), is so that he can pay it back to Kubera. Kubera is worshipped with Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth during Diwali, which is primarily dedicated to her – usually on the Dhanteras day. Kuber Gayatri Mantra “Om Yaksha Rajaya vidmahe, Vaishravanaya Dhimahi, Tanno Kuberah Prachodayat.” “We meditate on Kubera, the king of the Yakshas, and son of Visrava , Grand son of Lord Brahma…May that god of wealth inspire and illuminate us.” Download Lord Kuber Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Kuber-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Bhumi Devi is the divine wife of Varaha, an Avatar of Vishnu. She is the representative goddess, Mother Earth. According to Hindu mythology, the divine saint Andal is a form of her. The demon Narakasura is her son.She is the mother of Sita. According to the uttara-kanda, when Sita finally leaves her husband Rama, she returns to Bhumidevi. Bhumi Devi is also believed to be one of the two forms of Lakshmi. The other is Sridevi, who remains with Narayana. Bhudevi is the Goddess of Earth, and the fertility form of Lakshmi. She is Daughter of Kashyap Prajapati and known as kasyapi.She is Satyabhama, wife of Sri Krishna in Dwapara Yuga. Several female deities have had births similar to Sita. Alamelu Mangamma or Sri Padmavathi Devi of Tiruchanur had a similar beginning, being found in a ploughed field by Akasa Raja. She is depicted in votive statuary, seated on a square platform which rests on the back of four elephants representing the four corners of the world. When depicted with four arms, she holds a pomegranate, a water vessel, a bowl containing healing herbs, and another containing vegetables. When shown with two arms, she holds a blue lotus known as Komud or Uttpal the night lotus, in the right hand.The left hand may be in the Abhaya Mudra – fearlessness or the Lolahasta Mudra which is an aesthetic pose meant to mimic the tail of a cow. Bhumi Devi Gayatri Mantra Om Vasundharaya vidmahe Bhutadhatraya dhimahi Tanno Bhumih prachodayat “Om. Let us meditate on Bhumi Devi, the One who provides all , bless us with abundance.” Download Lord Bhumi Devi Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bhumi-Devi-Gayatri-Mantra-1.mp3 Lord Sudharshana Sudarshana is the holy wheel which Lord Vishnu uses as his chief weapon. There is a story that the daughter of Viswa Karma, who was the architect of the God’s, was married to the sun God and she left him because of his immense heat. It seems Viswa Karma put Sun God in a cage and churned him to reduce his heat. The heat was reduced and Sudarshana Chakra, Trishoola and Shakthi, respectively the weapons of Lord Vishnu, Shiva and Subrahamnya were born out of the churning. Sudarshana Chakra is given the status of God by the followers of Ramanujacharya. He being a prime devotee is called the Chakrathazhwar, Sage of the wheel, and worshipped by Vaishnavas. Vishnu’s Sudarshana Chakra came into existence. The asuras, or demons, were extremely bad. They always tortured the cosmic gods. At one time, the cosmic gods were suffering so much from the attacks of the demons that they went to see Lord Vishnu. They wanted to seek his help in defeating the demons. Vishnu said to them, “I do not have enough power to defeat or destroy the demons. I must seek help from Shiva. I will ask him to give me a special weapon that will help me defeat the demons.” When Vishnu went to Shiva, he found Lord Shiva in trance. Vishnu did not want to disturb Shiva’s meditation, so he started praying and praying to Shiva with the hope that one day he would come out of his trance. After many long years, Shiva came out of his trance. Vishnu’s joy knew no bounds. He ran to gather one thousand lotus blossoms so that he could worship Lord Shiva and ask for a special boon. Shiva had already decided that he would grant Vishnu the boon, but first he wanted to play a trick on Vishnu. He secretly went to the spot where Vishnu had placed the lotus flowers and stole one flower. Now there were only 999 flowers. After making all his preparations, Vishnu began to worship Shiva most devotedly. One by one, he offered the lotus flowers and chanted Shiva’s name. When he came to the end, he realised that one flower was missing. He had only counted 999. That meant he had to go and find one more lotus. Instead of doing that, he immediately plucked out one of his eyes and placed it before Shiva. When Shiva saw that Vishnu had such devotion for him, he said, “I will grant you anything that you ask for.” “Please give me something that will help me to conquer the asuras,” said Vishnu. Shiva replied, “I give you this round disc. It will help you to conquer all your enemies. No matter how many demons come to attack you and the other gods, you will be able to defeat them all with this disc.” When Lord Krishna took incarnation, Vishnu gave him this chakra, because Krishna was the embodiment of Vishnu. Krishna could immediately use the chakra at any time it was his own property. Sri Chaitanya also used the Sudarshana Chakra a few times. He was able to invoke it and it would come to him. When he wanted to kill Jagai and Madhaihe invoked it. These two ruffians saw it coming from Heaven and became extremely frightened. Before it reached them, they surrendered to Sri Chaitanya. The Sudarshana Chakra is not thrown. With will-power it is sent against the enemy. It rotates very, very fast after leaving the finger and chases the enemy and returns back to the owner. The chakra itself is round and has something like the points of arrows all around its edge. It has tremendous occult and spiritual power to destroy everything. Nobody can stand against the Sudarshana Chakra. Sudharshana Gayatri Mantra Om Sudharshanaya Vidmahe Maha Jwalaya Dhimahi Tanno Chakrah Prachodayat. “Om. Let me meditate on the holy wheel of Sudharshana, Oh, Wheel which has great brilliance, give me higher intellect, And let the wheel illuminate my mind.” Download Sudharshana Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sudharshana-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Kamadeva Kamadeva the god of love is very fair and handsome and the best looking among the gods. He carries a bow made of sugarcane and strung with a line of humming bees. He shoots with his bow the five flower-tipped shafts of desire. He is accompanied by his wife Rati (passion) and his friend Vasanta (spring), who selects for him the shaft to be used on the current victim. Kamadeva’s vehicle is the parrot. Generally described as the son of Lakshmi and Narayan, he is also said to be the son of Brahma. Surrounded by beautiful nymphs (Apsaras), he loves to wander around specially in springtime, loosing his shafts indiscriminately, but with a preference for innocent girls, married women and ascetic sages. Shiva burned him to ashes as punishment for disturbing his deep meditation, but Kamadeva’s shaft had gone home and Shiva could not obtain peace until he had married Parvati. During all this time Kamadeva lay dead and love disappeared from the earth. At length Shiva allowed him to be born as the son of Krishna by Maya or Rukmini. in the form of Pradyumna. The bow of Kamadeva is made of flowers, with a string formed of bees. The five arrows are each tipped with the blossom of a flower, which is devoted to and supposed to preside over a sense. Kamadeva is lord of the Apsarasas. He is called the god of desire or the mind agitator or the in flamer or the destroyer of devotional tranquillity. Kama Deva is also described as the god of sexual love. Kamadeva Gayatri Mantra Om Kamadevaya Vidmahe Pushpa Banaya Dhimahi Tanno Anangaha Pracodayat Om, Let me meditate on the God of love, Oh, God who is the forest of flowers, give me higher intellect, And let the God of love illuminate my mind. Download Kamadeva-Gayatri-Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Kamadeva-Gayatri-Mantra-1.mp3 Lord Narayan represents the aspect of the Supreme Reality that preserves and sustains the universe. Although there are variations in images and pictures of Lord Narayan, He is generally symbolized by a human body with four arms. In His hands He carries a conch (shankha), a mace (gada), and discus (chakra). He wears a crown, two earrings, a garland (mala) of flowers, and a gem around the neck. He has a blue body and wears yellow clothes. The Lord is shown standing on a thousand-headed snake (named Shesha Nag), and the snake stands with its hoods open over the head of the Lord. The four arms indicate Lord’s omnipresence and omnipotence. The two front arms signify the lord’s activity in the physical world and the two back arms signify His activity in the spiritual world. The right side of the body represents the creative activities of the mind and the intellect. The left side symbolizes the activities of the heart; that is, love, kindness, and compassion. A conch in the upper left hand indicates that the Lord communicates with His devotees with love and understanding. When blowing His conch, He reminds his devotes to live in this world with kindness and compassion towards all living beings. A chakra in His upper right hand conveys the idea that the Lord uses this weapon to protect His devotees from evil. The mace denotes energy and a mace in the Lord’s left lower hand signifies that He sustains the manifest world by the energy that He holds in Himself. His front right hand is depicted bestowing grace on His devotees. The snake denotes the mind and the thousand heads of the snake signify innumerable desires and passions of an individual. Just as a snake destroys its victim by its venom, an uncontrolled mind destroys the world by the venom of its possessiveness. The Lord has controlled all desires, and this is symbolized by showing Him seated on the two coils of the snake. When a sincere devotee of the Lord controls his desires, the Lord fulfils the devotee’s genuine desires and helps him on his path. The blue sky in the background of the Lord suggests that He pervades the entire universe. The blue color symbolizes infinity. The blue body of the Lord signifies that He has infinite attributes. He is nameless, formless, and immeasurable. The color yellow is associated with earthly existence and the yellow clothes of the Lord signify that He incarnates Himself on this earth to uphold righteousness and destroy evil and unrighteousness. A flower garland around the Lord’s neck is a symbol of the devotee’s adoration for the Lord. A gem decorating His neck signifies that the Lord fulfills all genuine desires of His devotees and provides for their needs. The crown is a symbol of the Lord’s supreme power and authority. The two earrings signify the dual nature of creation, such as knowledge and ignorance, happiness and unhappiness, and pleasure and pain. The worship of Lord Narayan is very popular among Hindus, especially among the followers of the Vaishnava tradition (Vaishnavism). He is the second member of the Hindu Trinity, with Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva as the other two. Lord Narayan is also known by other names, such as Vasudeva and Narayana. Narayana Gayatri Mantra Om Narayanaya Vidmahe Vasudevaya Dhimahi Tanno Vishnuh Prachodayat. “Om. Let us meditate on Sri Narayana, the Lord who dwells in all beings, and is known as the Sovereign of the world. May that Sri Vishnu inspire and illumine our mind and understanding.” Download Narayana Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lord-Narayana-Gayatri-Mantra-1.mp3 Lord Krishna is one of the most popular and worshipped deities of the Hindu religion. Krishna is considered as the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu, the divine. Shri Krishna is the very embodiment of love and divine ecstasy that destroys all pain and offense. Lord Krishna took birth over five thousand years ago in Mathura, India to Devaki (Sister of Cruel Demon-King Kansa) and Vasudeva in the prison cell of the tyrant Kansa. The sage Narada had predicted that Kansa would be killed by his nephew, so the king killed Devaki’s first six children. The Seventh, Balarama escaped and the eighth, Krishna was clandestinely exchanged for a cowherd’s daughter. The word “”Krishna”” means “”the one who attracts all””. So, Krishna is that aspect of God that represents all bliss (Ananda) in the universe. In His fullness He lends joy. He is also known by other names, such as Venkateshwara, Srinivasa, Panduranga, Vittala, Vasudeva, Hari, Kesava, Purusottama, Narayana and Badrinarayana. Krishna was greatly attached to his foster mother, Yashoda. The lord had immense love for cows being nurtured in the cowherd’s family. In his childhood, he was really fond of Makhan (butter) and there are many famous mischiefs regarding this love. Later Krishna loved to play flute and used to seduce the village girls. His favourite was Radha who is claimed as the love of Krishna. And this is one of the famous love stories of Hindu mythology. The Lord is usually remembered and worshipped as Radha-Krishna. The pair symbolizes the eternal love between people and god. Krishna is recognized as the god of Hasya or humor and a messenger of peace. Sri Krishna is the naturally loving and Sweet aspect of Vishnu, Lord of Srimati Radharani and center of the spiritual abode. Krishna is the defender of sacred utterances. Krishna is a trickster and lover, a mastermind of all forms of knowledge and born to set up the religion of love. He is also known for his bravery in destroying evil powers throughout his life. The word “”Krishna”” means “”the one who attracts all””. So, Krishna is that aspect of God that represents all bliss (Ananda) in the universe. He love playing flute. Krishna is the embodiment of intellectual and spiritual glory. When God is invoked as Krishna, devotees are blessed with joy and knowledge. Krishna enjoyed the dance of love (rasa-lila) with the gopis many of whom are expansions of His own internal energies. The supreme gopi known as Srimati Radharani is the object of Krishna’s highest devotion. This beautiful dance would occur in the autumn season at night under a full moon when Lord Krsna would captivate the young gopis with the extraordinary music of His flute”. Krishna Gayatri Mantra Om Dhamodaraya Vidmahe Rukmani Vallabhay Dhimahi Tanno Krishnah Prachodayat. Om, Let me meditate on the god whose belly was tied by a rope, Oh, consort of Rukhmani, give me higher intellect, And let God Krishna illuminate my mind. Download Krishna Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lord-Krishna-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Lord Katyayani “The origin of Katyayani the sixth manifestation of the goddess Durga is closely linked to the bloodline of the famous sage kat who begat the saint katya as his son. Eventually the famous saint Katyayan was born in this line. A devotee of the Devi it was his desire after year of intense devotion that the goddess be born in his house as a daughter. The goddess pleased by his devotion consented. The world meanwhile was reeling under the tyrannies of the demon mahishasur. The great goddess was appealed to buy the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiv. Born on the forth navratra the goddess accepted the ritual worship of the sage Katyayan for three days on the tenth day Durga slew the demon Mahishasur. Whether the goddess was born as daughter in his house or was autogenous I origin Durga adopted the name Katyayani for her sixth manifestation as a mark of recognition conferred upon her great devotee. She is the harbinger of blessings and fulfiller of desire. She is depicted as a four armed goddess astride a lion she hold a sword in one had a lotus in another and the remaining two hand are composed in mudras of blessing of the mudra of fearlessness the blessing extended to all of Katyayani’s devotees. She is the form that give shape to the wild and unruly energy that the goddess Durga will release in another guise to vanquish her foe. Katyayani is the gathering and focusing of that Adi shakti in a form that is comprehensible to mortals. As a potent force and fact of the female energy. Katyayani claims as her own the Ajna or Agya chakra. Symbolized by a lotus with two petals, this chakra is also known as the third eye chakra. As is implicit from the name the third eye is focal point of a concentration of energy that is traditionally released with terrible impact. But in times of lesser peril, the third eye is connection point of tremendous power and energy. It is said that in ancient scriptures all the unmarried gopis in Vrindavana used to daily worship goddess Katyayani early in the morning after taking bath in the river Yamuna. Katyayani is another name for goddess Durga. The goddess is worshiped by preparing a doll made out of sand mixed with earth from the bank of the Yamuna. The worship of Maa Durga as Goddess Katyayani on 6th day of Navratri has its very importance. Yogis & Sadhaks penance on Agya Chakra on this day. Human offer everything to Maa while worshiping on this day. She gives blessing to her devotee”. Katyayani Durga Gayatri Mantra Om Katya yanaya Vidmahe Kanya Kumari cha Dhimahi Tanno Durgih Prachodayat. She who was born in the hermitage of Sage Kathyayana, the omnipresent,the one who is the “princess” give us the strength to meditate we bow before you Goddess Durga, give us blessings and inspiration. Download Katyayani Durga Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Katyayani-Durga-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 Dakshinamurthy or Jnana Dakshinamurti is an aspect of Shiva as a guru (teacher) of all type of knowledge, particularly the jnana. This aspect of Shiva is his personification as the supreme or the ultimate awareness, understanding and knowledge. This form represents Shiva in his aspect as a teacher of yoga, music, and wisdom, and giving exposition on the shastras. He is worshipped as the god of wisdom, complete and rewarding meditation. Dakshinamurthy is one of the forms of Shiva who sat facing south side to give us the knowledge that is why he is known as Dakshinamurthy. Shiva formed this special form when Sanat Kumar visited Brahma, Vishnu & Mahesh and found all were busy with their respective Maya/Wife, Shiva created this form at that time. Sri Dakshinamurthy Gayatri Mantra Om dakshinamurthye vidmahe Dhyanasthaya Dheemahi, Tanno dhisha: prachodayat Download Sri Dakshinamurthy Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Sri-Dakshinamurthy-Gayatri-Mantra.mp3 The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra also called the Tryambakam Mantra. This great mantra dedicated to Rudra as Mrityunjaya is found in the Rig Veda. It is called the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra, the Great Death-Conquering mantra. It is a mantra that has many names and forms. It is called the Rudra mantra, referring to the furious aspect of Shiva; the Tryambakam mantra, alluding to Shiva’s three eyes; and it is sometimes known as the Mrita-Sanjivini mantra because it is a component of the “life-restoring” practice given to the primordial sage Shukra after he had completed an exhausting period of austerity. The Maha Mrityunjaya mantra is hailed by the sages as the heart of the Veda. Along with the Gayatri mantra it holds the highest place among the many mantras used for contemplation and meditation Word Meanings: AUM: Absolute reality. Tryambakam: Trya means three. Ambakam means eyes. Three eyed Lord Shiva. Yajamahe: We rejoice in meditation on all of this, sing in His praise Sugandhim: Means fragrance. Pushtivardhanam: Means that which nourishes all. Urvarukamiva: Urva means big. Arukam means deadly disease, which are like the death of Wisdom or physical untimely death. Bandhanan: Means bound down (e.g. bound down to the ignorance and untruth) Mrityor: Means untruth or physical death Mukshiya: Means liberation from the cycles of physical, mental, and spiritual death. Maamritat: Means please give me rejuvenating nectar( Amritam ), so as to have this liberation, like the process of severing the cucumber from the creeping vine without any pain. Mahamrityunjaya Shiva Gayatri Mantra Aum Haum Joom Sah Aum Bhur Bhuvah Swaha Aum Tryambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim Pushti-vardhanam \| Urva – rukamiva Bandhanan Mrtyor – muksheeya Maamritat \|\| Aum Swaha Bhuvah Bhuh Aum Sah Joom Haum Aum “We worship The Three-Eyed Lord Shiva who is naturally fragrant, immensely merciful and who is the Protector of the devotees. Worshipping him may we be liberated from death for the sake of immortality just as the ripe cucumber easily separates itself from the binding stalk i.e. “By your Grace, Let me be in the state of salvation (Moksha) and be saved from the clutches of fearful death and calamities”. Remembering Lord Ganesha and then Brahmrishi Vasishta who has given us this mahamantra, before beginning the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra will give us ENHANCED RESUTS.” Download Sri Mahamrityunjaya Shiva Gayatri Mantra http://rudraksha-ratna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mahamrityunjaya-Shiva-Gayatri-Mantra-1.mp3 Pashupatinath Lord Shiva is known by many different names and Pashupati is one of them. Pashu means leaving beings, and Pati means Master. In other words Pashupati is the master of all living beings. Pasha also means “Bondage” and He is the God that releases being from the bondages meaning earthly attachments of this birth. This is how lord Pashupati is eulogized in the Vedas and Upanisada. Pashupati was originally applied to the Rigvedic storm god Rudra. In the Vedic period “siva” was an epithet for Rudra meaning “auspicious one.” Siva or Shiva became the name of the deity, and “rudra,” meaning “roarer,” became his epithet. Shiva, the god of destruction and cosmic dissolution, is one of the most prominent Hindu deities. His main forms are a great yogi and Nataraja, Lord of the Cosmic Dance. As a yogi, he is depicted sitting in a meditative pose with a snake around his neck and a trident in his hand. As Nataraja, he is depicted with four arms holding his various emblems and dancing on the back of a prostrate demon. Lord Pashupathinath Temple is very famous on the edge of Bagmati of Kathmandu in Nepal. The Bagmati River which runs next to Pashupatinath Temple have highly sacred properties. There are 108 Siva temples around this area. Lord Shiva in the form of Jyotirlinga was covered with earth over the years, and soft green grass sprouted over it. A cow used to come here mysteriously every day and offer her milk to this holy but hidden Linga of Lord Shiva. When the owner saw that the cow had stopped giving milk since the last few days he started keeping eye on her; and finally came across the place where the cow used to offer her milk. With a natural curiosity to know the importance of the place, where his cow used to make offering of her milk, the owner dug the place and found the Jyotirlinga of Lord Shiva. After this, number of cow owner gathered to worship this Linga according to religious conformity, starting the tradition of worshipping this Linga. As the time passed Lord Pashupatinath started gaining more and more popularity and reverence of the devotees as a guardian spirit and gradually the temple of Lord Pashupatinath became a great place of pilgrimage. Pashupatinath Shiva Gayatri Mantra Om Panchavaktraya Vidmahe Tanno Rudraha Prachodayat “Om. Let us meditate on the great Lord with five faces. 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__label__cc	0.722198	0.277802	Walter Scheel Walter Scheel in 1974 President of Germany (West Germany) 1 July 1974 – 30 June 1979 Gustav Heinemann Karl Carstens Chancellor of Germany 7 May 1974 – 16 May 1974 Vice Chancellor of Germany 21 October 1969 – 16 May 1974 Hans-Dietrich Genscher Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Vice President of the Bundestag Thomas Dehler Liselotte Funcke for West Germany 1 July 1956 – 20 November 1961 Member of the Bundestag (1919-07-08)8 July 1919 Solingen, Weimar Republic 24 August 2016(2016-08-24) (aged 97) Bad Krozingen, Germany Free Democratic Party Nazi Party (1942–1945) Eva Charlotte Kronenberg (m. 1942–1966) Mildred Wirtz Barbara Wiese Simon Martin Andrea-Gwendoline Walter Scheel (8 July 1919 – 24 August 2016) was a German politician (FDP). Biography[change \| change source] Scheel was born in Solingen. During World War II, he became a member of the Nazi Party and served in the Luftwaffe, the last years of the war as a Radar operator on a Me 110 night fighter. He was federal minister of economic cooperation and development (1961–1966), but he persuaded the FDP to leave Ludwig Erhard's coalition government in late 1966. This forced elections in Germany, and Kurt Georg Kiesinger became chancellor. In 1969 his party formed a new coalition with the Social Democrats. He became Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor. With Willy Brandt his foreign policy meant the Federal Republic of Germany promised not to try and get back the parts of Germany given to Poland and the USSR. The treaty with Poland actually defined the western border of Poland, not the border between Poland and Germany. It is the same thing, but meant Poland could sign a treaty with West Germany that described the border of East Germany. When Brandt resigned on 7 May 1974, Scheel, was acting chancellor, for about a week, until Helmut Schmidt was elected Chancellor. Walter Scheel with Jimmy Carter A few weeks later, Scheel was elected Federal President of West Germany, a post he held from July 1974 until June 1979. Like most ex German presidents, Scheel retired from political life term ended. He sometimes appeared on political talk shows or events. At the funeral of the murdered businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer in October 1977, Scheel gave a speech entitled shame. Death[change \| change source] Scheel died on 24 August 2016 following a long illness.[2][3] Having lived to 97 years, 47 days he holds the record as the longest-lived German head of state, either imperial or elected.[source?] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Walter Scheel. ↑ "Walter Scheel (1974–1979)". German Federal Presidency. Retrieved 13 July 2013. ↑ "Früherer Bundespräsident (1974-1979): Walter Scheel ist tot". SPIEGEL ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 24 August 2016. ↑ "Ehemaliger Bundespräsident Walter Scheel ist tot". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 24 August 2016. Presidents of Germany Reich President (Reichspräsident): 1919-1945 Federal President (Bundespräsident): 1945- Weimar Republic (1919–1933) Friedrich Ebert · Kanzler Hans Luther (acting) · Judge Walter Simons (acting) · Paul von Hindenburg Nazi Germany (1933–1945) Paul von Hindenburg · Adolf Hitler (as Führer and Reichskanzler) · Karl Dönitz Germany (since 1949) Bundesratspräsident Karl Arnold (acting) · Theodor Heuss1 · Heinrich Lübke · Gustav Heinemann · Walter Scheel · Karl Carstens · Richard von Weizsäcker2 · Roman Herzog · Johannes Rau · Horst Köhler · Jens Böhrnsen (acting) · Christian Wulff · Joachim Gauck · Frank-Walter Steinmeier 1 President at the time of unification with the Saar 2 President at the time of unification with East Germany Chancellors of Germany Reich Chancellor (Reichskanzler): 1871-1945 Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler): 1945- German Empire (1871–1918) Otto von Bismarck · Leo von Caprivi · Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst · Bernhard von Bülow · Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg · Georg Michaelis · Georg von Hertling · Max of Baden Friedrich Ebert · Philipp Scheidemann · Gustav Bauer · Hermann Müller · Konstantin Fehrenbach · Joseph Wirth · Wilhelm Cuno · Gustav Stresemann · Wilhelm Marx · Hans Luther · Otto Geßler (acting) · Wilhelm Marx · Hermann Müller · Heinrich Brüning · Franz von Papen · Kurt von Schleicher Adolf Hitler · Joseph Goebbels · Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk Konrad Adenauer · Ludwig Erhard · Kurt Georg Kiesinger · Willy Brandt · Walter Scheel (acting) · Helmut Schmidt · Helmut Kohl · Gerhard Schröder · Angela Merkel Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Scheel&oldid=6515681" Former members of the German Bundestag Government ministers of Germany Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany People from Solingen Politicians from North Rhine-Westphalia Politicians of the Free Democratic Party of Germany Vice Chancellors of Germany Articles with unsourced statements from February 2017	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1622
__label__wiki	0.522383	0.522383	Now ECG on your apple watch in 30 seconds anytime , anywhere Cardiac Sciences, Cardiology Update, Editors Pick, Medicine, News FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (EKG) technology, today announced FDA clearance of KardiaBand in the U.S., allowing Apple Watch users to discreetly capture their EKG anytime, anywhere in order to quickly detect normal sinus heart rhythms and atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common heart arrhythmia. The first FDA-cleared medical device accessory for Apple Watch, KardiaBand can record an EKG in 30 seconds with just a touch of its integrated sensor. Results from the Kardia App are displayed on the face of Apple Watch. AliveCor is also introducing SmartRhythm, a new feature within the Kardia app for Apple Watch. SmartRhythm uses artificial intelligence in concert with inputs from Apple Watch’s heart rate and activity sensors to continuously evaluate the correlation between heart activity and physical activity. When SmartRhythm detects that heart rate and activity are out of sync, the device notifies users to capture an EKG with KardiaBand, or with KardiaMobile, AliveCor’s popular, portable EKG reader. “KardiaBand paired with SmartRhythm technology will be life-changing for people who are serious about heart health,” said Vic Gundotra, CEO, AliveCor. “These capabilities will allow people to easily and discreetly check their heart rhythms when they may be abnormal, capturing essential information to help doctors identify the issue and inform a clear path of care to help manage AFib, a leading cause of stroke, and other serious conditions.” Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), is the most common heart arrhythmia, and a leading cause of stroke. AFib affects more than 30 million people worldwide, and one in four people over the age of 40 are at risk for developing it. Millions of people around the world are unknowingly living with AFib. Yet, two out of three strokes are preventable when AFib is detected and treated appropriately. “This is a paradigm shift for cardiac care as well as an important advance in healthcare,” said Dr. Ronald P. Karlsberg, MD FACC, Board Certified Cardiologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Heart Institute and David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA. “Today, EKGs are available only in offices and hospitals, using complex equipment, and usually only after a life threatening event, for example a stroke. With an EKG device on the wrist, AFib can be detected wherever the patient is, 24 hours a day. In randomized research trials, KardiaMobile, the first AliveCor EKG device, proved to be superior to routine care provided by physicians. Today, KardiaBand is a giant leap in personalized health care.” As a medtech leader, AliveCor uses advanced artificial intelligence, mobile, cloud and micro-electrode technology to change the dynamic in cardiac care. AliveCor empowers people worldwide to proactively manage heart health and to vastly improve the quality of care in the fight against heart disease. AliveCor’s KardiaMobile and KardiaBand enable people and their care teams to easily, quickly and inexpensively detect and manage possible abnormal heart rhythms. KardiaBand is available starting today for $199 and requires subscription to AliveCor’s Premium service for $99 a year. The combined system includes SmartRhythm notifications on Apple Watch; unlimited EKG recordings; automatic detection of Atrial Fibrillation or normal sinus rhythm; the unlimited ability to send EKG readings to anyone via email; unlimited cloud history and reporting of all EKGs ever taken; weight and medication tracking; and a mailed monthly paper report on readings taken each calendar month. DR M Y SHAREEF December 2, 2017, 4:08 pm Great information. In addition to EKG, can it also record the BP at that moment ? Is this variant of apple watch available in Indian market ? Informations would be highly appreciated. Thanks.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1626
__label__wiki	0.741657	0.741657	MLB rumors: Giants, Cardinals talking Will Smith trade before deadline Dalton Johnson NBC Sports BayArea July 11, 2019, 11:50 PM UTC Will San Francisco and St. Louis make a deal for closer Will Smith before the trade deadline? Giants reliever Will Smith could be the hottest name on the market before the July 31 MLB trade deadline, and one team reportedly has had their eyes on the left-hander. San Francisco and St. Louis were "engaged in serious discussions" during the offseason regarding a Smith trade, MLB Network's Jon Morosi reported Thursday. The Cardinals will again pursue the reliever before the deadline, according to Morosi, if they remain in contention. At the All-Star break, the Cardinals are 44-44, good for third in NL Central, but only two games behind the first-place Chicago Cubs. They're also two games behind the Phillies for the second NL Wild Card spot. Smith seems like a perfect fit for the Cardinals, too. St. Louis lost closer Jordan Hicks when he tore his right UCL late last month, and Smith is a perfect 23-for-23 in save opportunities for the Giants this season. While starter-turned-reliever Carlos Martinez has three saves and a 1.38 ERA since becoming the Cardinals' closer, they badly still need a lefty. The Cardinals signed Andrew Miller to a two-year, $25 million contract this past offseason. At the time, it seemed like a steal. That hasn't been the case, however, as Miller is just 3-3 with a 3.81 ERA over 39 appearances this season. [RELATED: Dodgers interested in Smith, if Giants will do deal] Smith, on the other hand, is 1-0 with a 1.98 ERA. Left-handed hitters are batting a lowly .176 against him with a .265 slugging percentage. The Cardinals have plenty of intriguing young outfielders who could fit the Giants, and Smith clearly fits a glaring hole on the Red Birds' roster. This is a pairing to watch in the coming weeks. MLB rumors: Giants, Cardinals talking Will Smith trade before deadline originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1631
__label__wiki	0.947883	0.947883	Hospital chiefs ‘risking patients to hit targets’ Bed ‘boarding’ exposed in St John’s inquiry 24/12/2017 sharmilachowdhury Leave a comment Mark Macaskill December 24 2017 The Sunday Times Whistleblowers have revealed information about a West Lothian hospital PETER BYRNE/PA WIRE Scottish ministers have been urged to investigate the extent of “boarding” in the NHS, after a whistleblower warned that the controversial practice occurs routinely at a hospital that is under scrutiny over waiting times. Health boards were urged eight years ago to stop boarding, whereby patients are transferred from specialist wards to other areas of the hospital to free up beds, amid evidence that the practice can distress patients, hamper recovery and spread infection. It has emerged, however, that staff at St John’s Hospital in West Lothian were ordered to “escalate” boarding a year ago to cope with accident and emergency (A&E) admissions. A key target set by the Scottish government is for patients to be admitted to hospital, if necessary, within four hours of arrival at A&E. A whistleblower claims that in the past year, boarding has been rife at St John’s because senior managers are “hellbent” on meeting the target. It is claimed that one dementia sufferer was so traumatised after being moved from her ward that she stopped eating and drinking and “lost the will to live”. “Tremendous pressure has been exerted on staff to board patients because the management is hellbent on meeting the four-hour target,” said the whistleblower. “The practice is positively harmful.” Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour’s health spokesman, said: “These are deeply troubling reports that will concern patients across NHS Lothian and beyond. SNP ministers must investigate whether this is a one-off, or more prevalent across Scotland. NHS staff across Scotland are overworked, under-valued and under-resourced.” The disclosure follows an investigation ordered by Shona Robison, the health minister, into evidence that waiting times at St John’s have been misreported. Staff at the hospital have raised concerns over boarding with Professor Derek Bell, from the Scottish Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, who is conducting the probe. In 2009, a report commissioned by the Scottish government urged health boards to “eliminate” boarding as a solution to bed capacity problems, particularly during winter. A study on boarding by Dundee University in 2013 warned that changes in environment can increase the risk of falls and delirium among patients, raising the risk of serious injury and death. Yet in December 2016, senior managers at St John’s issued an order to ramp up boarding to free up beds in the hospital’s medical assessment unit (MAU), which receives admissions from A&E. An internal memo stated that people with impaired cognitive function were not exempt. It read: “Ideally we aim not to board. However, when acute beds in MAU are not available because of downstream beds being full, it is safer to board established admissions than new admissions. With increasing pressure there needs to be an equitably applied escalation policy.” Bell has also been told that patients in the MAU are subjected to “degrading” treatment because of pressure to move people out of A&E within four hours. The unit has gender-specific bays but it is claimed that men and women are routinely forced to share bed space and toilets. “It is degrading for patients and happens on a regular basis,” the whistleblower said. Dr Tracey Gillies, medical director at NHS Lothian, said decisions to board patients were risk-assessed and agreed with clinical teams. “We work hard to ensure that more vulnerable patients, including older people and those with dementia, are not moved unless it is absolutely necessary.” On gender mixing, Gillies said there were “rare occasions” when patients of the opposite sex were treated in the same bay, adding that “this is only done in extreme circumstances and they are moved to a more appropriate ward or bay as a matter of urgency”. A spokesperson for Shona Robison: “We recognise that peaks in demand may require use of beds flexibly at times, however we are working to ensure that NHS boards are managing their capacity and ensuring that patients are admitted to the right beds at the right time with the right staff.” NHS Lothian admits that its acute hospitals have “under- reported” patient treatment times. According to the latest weekly figures, 77.3% of patients were dealt with within the four-hour target. « ‘Appalling’ treatment of NHS whistleblowers must be investigated: Staff ostracised by hospital bosses demand independent inquiry after ‘whitewash’ Francis Report The ambulance never came. »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1636
__label__cc	0.573984	0.426016	Chapter 66 Such Days Without Fighting (2) The sun had begun to set. Under the dusk coloured sky, sitting on a bench in the central park, I shivered from the cold. The cold here isn’t as severe as in Japan but it was still winter right now. It’s still pretty cold. I tried to bear the cold by covering myself with my mantle but it didn’t seem to be very effective. If it was going to be like this, I should have kept at least Mururu or Solnea with me. After all, it would have been much warmer if even a single person was with you. You can also talk with them, and walk with them. As I sighed feeling lonely after separating from my comrades, who had been with me till a while ago, a voice resounded in my head. [Why are you sighing now?] “Nothing. It’s just so cold.” [Well, it’s winter after all.] That’s all my partner said. I wish she’d try to keep the conversation going a bit more. That’s very like her but it also made me feel cold and ,lonely again. I know these are such cheap troubles but I can’t do anything about it either. While sitting on the bench, I began observing the people passing by. Kids with their parents, or lovers, holding arms with each other, an old couple, young brothers, and men who were waiting for someone, like me. Everyone were laughing, worrying about what to eat for dinner, hurrying back home; everyone had a different expression. While I continued gazing at this wave of people, a familiar person walked towards me from the crowd. And due to the cold wind, she was holding her robe close to her body and holding down her hair from swaying too much. She looked to be even colder than me. “Sorry, did I make you wait too long?”(aya) “Nah, I got here just a while ago as well.” [Really?] Ermenhilde destroyed my try to make a normal greeting instantly. Even Aya looked at me with a difficult to explain expression. Since Aya was pretty tall, and I was sitting, she was looking down towards me making it all the more awkward. Hmm, making such a voice I stretched my stiffened body only to see Aya start laughing. “What?”(renji) “It’s nothing, don’t worry.”(aya) She said that but her expression seemed to be really cheerful and happy, and due to my partner who can still never read the mood, I dropped my shoulders feeling slightly embarrassed. Maybe she noticed my feelings as Aya cleared her throat and combed back her slightly disarrayed hair due to the wind. “Well then, let’s go, shall we?”(aya) “Hm? Ah, yeah.” Even as I stood up, once again, It really is cold, eh? I spoke up When I said that, she agreed and started walking beside me. A few gazes gathered towards us inside the park. And every gaze was that of a young man, because that’s how attractive Aya’s appearance was. “So, has Rin-san returned already?” “Kudou? Nah, her house was locked.” I recalled the house made of stone and concrete. It was on a whole different scale, making me feel amazed at how she didn’t mind living there. She didn’t even try to slightly blend in with the surroundings like Toudou’s restaurant. It was clearly a house from a different world. “……..You sure she wasn’t just asleep?”(aya) “No, Mururu said that she couldn’t sense any human presence, so it must be true.” “fuumu, I see.” [What, did you need Rin for something?] ‘Ah, yeah. Well not really. I was hoping we could get her help for the Griffin subjugation as well.”(aya) For something she spoke so casually, the matter wasn’t that simple. It’s not something you should be talking about at a perfect date spot and in the evening, right? Well, I’d be troubled if she started talking about romantic things as well though. “What, did you accept a request or something?”(renji) “No, not really but I was hoping to prepare beforehand so we could move as soon as the request comes.” […….Right, Aya is really diligent after all.] It’s almost as if you’re implying that a certain someone isn’t diligent in his work? Well, not that I actually think of myself to be diligent though. Dagram was the one gathering the necessary people required but true, it’d be more relaxing if Kudou was here as well. Even as the [Item Creator], she has more physical ability than me and is also good at making decisions on the fly. She’d be fine even when fighting on the front lines against an Arch Griffin. But then, I’d totally look like nothing more than a burden though. But I guess that’s usual as well. How sad, or should I say, pathetic. Even though I have already abandoned any hopes to actually be a Hero, I still can’t let Aya or Kudou fight alone. “A Griffin likes corpses of animals and……….what was it, it was a weird named grass.” I should ask Feirona and other elves and Dwarves in Merdiore about it. Since Griffins have a good nose, you can lure a Griffin with the smell of blood and that peculiar grass. It’d be easy to get it trapped as well. Since it’s a bird, it’s also easier to take one in the dark as well. While recalling the methods of dealing with Griffins I had been taught, I decided to be of use by using my brains more. “Oh right, where are Mururu and others?”(aya) “I had them both go back to the inn.” “Is that so? I thought it’d be fine to introduce them to Enomiya-kun as well.” [Yeah, but Renji bought Solnea a chess board so they had to go back.] “Eh? Chess?” Why are they related? Aya tilted her head in confusion. “Ah, I had her play chess during noon and she seemed to be interested in it so I bought her a set due to which she became interested in playing it with Ms Francesca as well.”(renji) While I was giving her a tour, she asked me multiple times if Ms Francesca would come to the inn or not. Still without any expression though. She never directly said that she wanted to play but I’m pretty sure that was what she meant. It probably was not my imagination that her footsteps looked light as she walked back towards the inn with Mururu. “Oh is that so…”(aya) I didn’t do it without any intent behind it that could make me feel guilty and purely out of good will, hoping she could truly enjoy this world, but Aya didn’t seem very convinced. Well, I know she isn’t that narrow minded but somehow her words still felt a bit cold. Or could it be? That she was anxious that I gave only Solnea a present? Looking at her, she was looking at me suspicious half open eyes. Even her walking speed rose and it ended with me walking slightly behind her. The setting sun cast a shadow behind her as she walked with her hair swaying at every step she took. It looked so much like a good painting that I wondered how many people were there in the world who had such a disposition. “I want her to come to like humans and learn to enjoy all sorts of things, you know?”(renji) “Fuun. Oh really?” To my excuse, Aya replied without turning back towards me. I’m sure she was pouting right now. As she walked while joing her arms near her waist, she really looked like a sulking child. While finding it pleasant, I thought of how to fix her mood. Now if this was Mururu or Solnea, buying a skewered grilled meat would suffice though. While thinking of such rude things, I continued walking. [If you’re going to meet Yuuichirou, how about buying at least a few flowers first?] Since we were in a great date spot, there quite a few flower vendors in view. She heard Eremenhidle as well as Aya stood beside me silently and looked at the flowers. Looks like even if the world is different, it’s still common sense to give flowers to your lover or offering some at a person’s grave. In Japan though we use chrysanthemum but in this world, they tie small lovely white flowers together in a bundle when leaving some at a grave. Since white was close to silver, and silver was the symbol of the Goddess, it was meant to lead the souls of the dead to the Goddess apparently. Getting a bundle of flowers from the florist, I paid the expenses. After finishing buying, the florist looked at me and Aya with a knowing gaze. She must be letting her imagination run wild in his head I guess. The florist was young girl after all. She must really enjoy love talk. Looks like that doesn’t change in any world as well. “Now then, we got this as well, let’s get going.”(renji) It really must be my imagination that her voice still sounded flat. Did she want some flowers as well? I thought but to travellers like us, flowers don’t have much meaning. Even if you decorate it somewhere, you don’t know when you might have to leave again after all. And for the same reason, it’s useless trying to grow some by yourself as well. But still wanting flowers is, I guess, what makes her a woman. In our previous world, giving flowers as a gift might be acceptable but in this world, gifts to an adventurer need to be more practical and pragmatic………or am I the only one who thinks that? While gazing at Aya who was walking slightly ahead of me while sulking, I ended up smiling. It’s very adorable to see her like this when she’s usually more Adult-like, or maybe this was more like her. In any case, I prefer this Aya more I think. “Aya, don’t sulk so much.” “I’m not really sulking or anything.” I am sure she enjoys such time as well. She was pouting as if angry but her voice sounded really happy. Adventurer. Monster hunts. After getting summoned here, she received inhumane power and abilities. Yet, we still don’t know when we might die. We never think that we’ll die, living our life till the very end of our life span and it’s doubtful that we’d get to die happily lying on a bed. That’s why, such small things are so precious to both me and Aya. [You two sure get along well.] “When Eru says it, it feels more like sarcasm though.”(aya) She turned around to say that but her lips were still pouting but her expression looked more fed up than angry. This’d be fine if Ermenhilde had an actual body, but she’s just a medal. I end up as the one taking her gaze. “You were with Renji-san alone for a whole year after all.”(aya) [I felt more like a babysitter though.] I had no words for my partner who replied with that instantly. I don’t recall causing so much trouble but, it must be true if she says it. Looking at me blankly for a second, Aya burst into laughter. Seeing her smile warmed my heart and even though I had been just told something heartless by my partner, I still ended up smiling. “I told you when we were travelling to Merdiore as well but I really did spend the last one year just relaxing after all.”(renji) “But that’s fine, isn’t it? As long as we can talk and laugh like this. Even though we may still be very far from true peace, it’s still a peaceful time right now.”(aya) “………I guess so.” I didn’t deny her. I just couldn’t. Because I feel the same. As long as we can laugh, while relaxing like this, I’m sure, that’s the happiest thing to ever exist. Without the threat of monsters, demons or the Demon God, if I could travel around this beautiful and rich world,—–I’m sure that was what Eru’s wish was as well. That’s why, when I also laughed at her words, Aya looked at me blankly again. And then gave a truly happy smile. As we continued walking while talking like that, the crowd became slowly lesser and lesser. The number of buildings also reduced and instead, barren trees with leaves fallen on the ground as per the season came more and more into our view. Along the side of the path, which was most probably a flower bed, there were no flowers growing right now. This path with only withered trees around gave a quite desolate feeling. Going further ahead, we reached a place surrounded by an iron fence. Probably because this place was at a point even higher than the residential area, you could clearly see the sea from here. It was a cemetery truly fitting one that would exist in a port town, you could say. It wasn’t that big and the number of graves were less than even hundred. Rarely is a body left intact after losing to a monster and most of the times, that body is often taken away by the monsters as food anyway. There are many cases where not a single piece of body is found and you have to treat them as missing. But, after a battle……..if you can’t find someone even after a few days, the chances of them actually living are considered very low. Such corpse-less individuals only have their names carved on the gravestone. “It should be obvious but, it’s such a melancholic place.” Answering Aya’s mutterings, I saw a figure standing at the cemetery gates. Thinking it might be Yuuichirou, I looked at the figure but their height was shorter than Yuuichirou’s. It’s been a year since I’ve seen him but I’m sure he was at least 170cm but the figure in front of me was maybe even lesser than 160cm from what I could tell. For someone who came to visit a grave, it’s weird that the person is standing at the gates. Were they waiting for someone? Thinking that we walked closer when the person gave a bow. Reflexively both me and Aya did the same as well but I didn’t sense much friendliness from the person. Just a formal greeting. With dark purple semi-long hair and a dignified expression that felt somewhat cold, she was wearing a tunic and a ankle-length long skirt. As we headed into the cemetery while I confirmed her appearance with a sidelong glance, my side got elbowed. “Mouu.”(aya) “What, I was just confirming who that was!”(renji) [Oh I wonder about that.] How much o they distrust my relationship with women? Oniisan will get really sad, you know? While talking stupidly inside my head, we headed inside the cemetery. Knee high graves had been made in a uniform pattern and all were very well maintained as well. And as if surrounded by the numerous stone graves, under the setting sun, a single man dressed in all black was holding something like a long broom stick and was cleaning a grave. Even though the sun’s setting, he really must be a zealous man. And in front of him was a big grave. Bigger than both me and the black clothed man, it was a grave meant for all the ones who didn’t have a corpse and the black clothed man seemed to be just staring at the grave in a daze. “Yo, Yuuichirou.”(renji) To the black clothed man’s back, I called out. His clothes were black, the long coat he was wearing was also black. And his boots and gloves as well. Even his tanned skin looked on the blacker under the setting sun. And among all this black, only his grayish hair stood out. In the past one year, his hair really have grown a lot. It was long before as well but right now its as long as a woman, while tied very simply behind his back. But his body looked much smaller than even us. The reason was Yuuichirou’s left arm. He didn’t have one. In a battle long ago, he had completely lost it. The empty sleeve swayed in the wind. Reacting to my voice, the man turned around. He really must have grown accustomed to living peacefully in Merdiore as he didn’t sense even after we came so close to him. It’s something that would have been unimaginable before. With a slightly surprised voice, his violet eyes opened slightly wide. “Huh? Yamada-san and Aya-chan, why are you guys here?”(yuu) And with a leisurely, almost stupid sounding voice, he tilted his head in confusion. “Long time no see Yuuichirou. We are on a journey and have made a stop here. How are you? Been doing well?”(renji) “It’s been a long time, Enomiya-kun.”(aya) “Un. Yeah, it’s been a long time both of you. You two seem to be doing well as well.”(yuu) With a smile, he gave his greetings as well. That gesture of his looked much more mature than a year ago. “Have you been visiting the grave everyday?”(renji) “No way, not everyday. Right now, I come only once a week.”(yuu) “…….I see.” Saying that, I stood beside Yuuichirou and placed the yellow flowers we bought a while ago. As I joined my hands to pay respects, Yuuichirou gave his thanks. Here lie everyone of those who had no corpse left to bury. People attacked by monsters, adventurers who never returned after going ona job. And travellers who got lost forever mid journey. Among those, Yuuichirou’s lover, Celestia-san was also included. She travelled with us, and died. And we…….couldn’t bring her body back with us. “But still, it’s rare to see both of you together here like this. Did something happen?”(yuu) “About that, let’s talk about it later in detail Enomiya-kun.”(aya) “Sure. How’s Souichi?”(yuu) “Way too energetic. Renji-san is the same as well.”(aya) [umu. He was staring at women even at the cemetery entrance.] Even though we met after such a long time, is that really what you want to talk about? Yuuichirou laughed seeing getting slammed by both Aya and Ermenhilde. And after some time passed with me getting teased like that, Yuuichirou took deep breathes to stop himself from laughing too much. “Are you guys in Merdiore for a while?”(yuu) “Yeah. We’ll be heading to Elfreim soon though.”(renji) By the time we stopped talking, the sky had already gotten quite dark. The air became colder and Aya shrugged from the cold. Looking at her, both me and yuuichirou exchanged glances. “Well then, I’ll come see you guys next time.”(yuu) “Don’t mind it. We’re totally free so we’ll come again.”(renji) “Sure. Next time, let’s properly sit down and talk.”(yuu) [Yeah, that sounds nice.] Another cold wind blew. Aya’s robe and skirt blew up and she gave a small shriek. Since we’re close to the sea, the wind is pretty strong here. I think in summers the wind would feel really nice. And the scenery is incredible as well. Though I doubt the cemetery is a good place to be enjoying the scenery. “Now that I think about it, it’s rare to see you two alone with each other like this.”(yuu) Was it really? Being told that, I tilted my head in confusion. I recall quite a lot of instances where I was alone with her though? During the journey, we did spend a lot of time as night guards together. We went buying stuff together many times as well. Well, I think what he means is probably it’s rare since Aya became more conscious of me. Back then, I think she didn’t really mind the differences between men and women. “Well, I guess.”(aya) Before I could say anything, Aya spoke that puffing her chest with pride. Even though she was blushing like crazy when getting teased by those drunks about this, she seemed fine when Yuuichirou says the same thing. In a way, she’s gotten used to it perhaps? Afetr a slight gap of silence, Ahem, I cleared my throat. Well that doesn’t mean she doesn’t get embarrassed anymore. Unlike her previous pure smile, her current proud expression looked really amusing. ………when I thought that, Aya stomped on my foot. Since it didn’t hurt I guess she held back. And Yuuichirou laughed again. Seeing him like that, it feels like he’s laughing a lot more as compared to a year ago. And he also seemed to have gotten used to laughing as well. And it’s not a deceiving or secretive smile either, it’s simply a bright pure smile. Recalling Celestia-san, his thoughts always seemed to go towards the negative. But still if he can laugh like this right now, looks like he’s settled matters with his heart as well. Or maybe he’s trying to move on ahead. Aya also gave a laugh and wiped the tears welling in her eyes. Those tears are probably not because of laughing to much but due to being happy to see Yuuichirou laughing happily like this. At that moment, a rustling sound came to us. “Yuuichirou-san.” Before I could turn to look, a calm voice came to us. Looking towards the source of the voice, the woman who had been standing at the entrance of the cemetery was standing their silently. “Cela-san.”(yuu) Calling her name, Yuuichirou gave a curt bow. So her name is Cela. I looked towards Yuuichirou asking to introduce us when Yuuichirou’s expression was not the cheerful one from before, instead he was giving a more mature looking smile. And then, he walked towards her side. And she didn’t seem to mind that as if it was a very natural action. In fact, she seemed to step in a little closer to Yuuichirou. “This is Seravi Gernia. Celes-san’s younger sister.”(yuu) “……..Nice to meet you.” And she gave a bow again. Seeing her, both me and Aya exchanged glances for a second. I had never heard of her having a younger sister and she seemed very different from Celestia-san as well. Celestia-san was lively, vigorous, always leading and pulling us along with her. But her younger sister standing in front of us seemed silent and slightly gloomy. Maybe that made her expression look slightly dark as well. It might sound really rude, but she was nothing like her older sister. Since Celestia-san always left such a strong impression, I ended up comparing the two. I do feel that it’s bad of me to do that and I know it’s very normal for sisters to have completely opposite personalities. “We are currently living together.”(yuu) But the next words made my heart almost jump out from surprise. I was lost for words and Aya looked at Yuuichirou with a black expression. The boy called Yuuichirou is a very quiet and calm boy. Introverted, he rarely speaks up his own thoughts. It might sound bad but he’s the type that gets flown around by his surroundings…….that’s the kind of boy he is. He would sometimes agree with someone even though he’s of the completely opposite opinion and then would get stressed about it as well. And the one who encouraged and lifted him up was Celestia-san and Yuuichirou was captivated by her and worked hard to change so that she might come to like him as well. And hearing that he was now living with Celestia-san’s younger sister honestly surprised me. It’s not like falling in love again is bad or anything. In fact, I feel like really supporting him if he’s trying to move ahead. But, I always thought that Yuuichirou preferred lively women like Celestia-san that’s all. Also, there’s also a rude part of me thinking that he was a late bloomer. “Nice to meet you, Seravi-san. My name is Renji Yamada.” “Oh my, how very polite of you. I’m Seravi Gernia. Yuuichirou has told me a lot about you.” “Eh, um, Nice to meet you as well, I’m Aya Fuyou.” Greeting each other, we three gave a bow. It might look really surreal from Yuuichirou’s point of view who was still standing. “Are you done with your work and talk?”(sera) “Un. Sorry to have kept you waiting Sera-san. What will you two be doing? If you like, we can take dinner together…….”(yuu) “Ah, no, no. We’ll pass for today. Right, Renji-san?”(aya) “I guess. Yeah.”(renji) “Really? Then since you’re in Merdiore, we’ll invite you again some other time. Then, let’s go home, shall we Sera-san?”(yuu) Saying that, both of them gave a bow to us, who stood there stiff, and left together. She stood to the left of Yuuichirou and seemed to walk as if supporting his now nonexistent left arm. “Renji-san, did you know?”(aya) “Nope, I didn’t.” I pinched my cheek but yeah, it hurts. This isn’t a dream. In this world women have a strong sense of virtue and it’s almost taboo for a woman to show her skin before marriage. It was the same for cohabitation as two people who were neither family were children living together would be seen by the society as having ‘that kind’ of relationship. And since it’s not just Yuuichirou who is from our world, and also a woman who is originally from this world………..i’m pretty sure they are in that kind of relationship. The one between man and woman. It’s a happy thing to be honest but the fact that none of us knew that made it complicated. He could have told us beforehand geez. Well, in this world where there’s no internet or phones, it could take months for just one letter to reach and it’s impossible to write a letter to someone who’s always travelling so I can’t really complain. “Yuuko-san, did she not know as well……….” Her voice seemed as if she was muttering to herself and even my own reply seemed to lack the strength in my voice. That’s how shocking that was. Yuuichirou. THAT Yuuichirou was living together with a woman! That kid, though this might sound really rude, but he’s too naïve when it comes to thing concerning romance. He’s the type who’d forget to tell his own feelings because he couldn’t say it once. [Why the hell are you grinning like that. Looks disgusting.] “……….You really show no mercy, do you?” Now that I think about it, I forgot to tell him about the Griffin subjugation in the end. Yes accuse Renji of flirting in a graveyard. Its not like the Avenger is there. Thanks for the chapter! 😃 Thanks for doing this chapter! 😆 Seems most of the other male heroes already paired up. Or on the way to. While I continued gazing at this wave of people, a familiar person walked towadrs me from the crowd. Minor spelling error “I told when we were travelling to Merdiore as well but I really did spend the last one year just relaxing after all.” I feel like a word is missing here, maybe ‘you’ Man, the hero called ‘Avenger’. I feel like there’s a some grimmer stuff that was implied and skipped there. On the other hand, despite the implied past sorrows and remaining gloom, I’m glad to see that the person titiled ‘Avenger’ is shown as currently having a happy life. That is, instead of dwelling in edginess, ‘woe is me’ and stuffs, what we got was a sense of ‘bad things happened, but people moved on regardless’. This is why this story is great. 🙂 Now I finally know who all of the 13 heroes are. Leave a Reply to goblinrou Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1643
__label__cc	0.57051	0.42949	Several People Are Typing Blog @ Slack Slack for Android 2.0 We’re proud to announce the release of a better, faster, and all around Android-ier Slack for Android! We’ve been hard at work on this new app for… By Slack Team, June 3, 2015 We’re proud to announce the release of a better, faster, and all around Android-ier Slack for Android! We’ve been hard at work on this new app for many months and we’re so excited to share it with you all! The update will be rolling out throughout today and tomorrow. What took us so long? Glad you asked. Here’s a full run-down of the magnificent changes that have gone into Slack for Android 2.0. The first thing you’ll notice is that we’ve updated the way you find your way around: The left and right drawers have been dropped in favor a simpler tabbed navigation. Tabs provide quick access to all your channels, direct messages, starred items, and mentions. Know exactly where you want to go? Quickly “Jump to…” any channel, group, or direct message. Constantly switching between teams? Simply select your team from the top dropdown and off you go. A much refined notification experience, with notifications grouped by team. A shiny new button floats attractively in the bottom right corner of the channels list for quickly locating or creating channels, DMs or groups. Search functionality has been greatly improved with the ability to open search results in a new “archive viewer” so you can see the full context of a message result. We’ve heard your feedback regarding the slowness of switching channels, switching teams, and generally navigating around the app. This is our first release to offer substantially better experience when you’re not connected — all the messages that loaded last time you were connected can be read, and you can move much faster from place to place. It’s a bit better now, but it will be even better in the future. Promise. We’ve also taken a cue from Google’s Material Design guidelines and updated the app accordingly: New icons, some new transitions, and a generally more pleasant experience on most devices. We’re also happy to say that full message _formatting_ is now supported on `Android`. In addition to this, we now respect your emoji preferences set via the web. What this actually means is… Android emoji! Give it a try! It’s swell. But that’s not all! We completely rewrote Slack for Android from the ground up so that we’d be able to provide more advanced Android features, quicker updates, and a greatly improved experience in the future. Since this is a fresh start, there will be some bumps along the way. We’re working on making performance on low memory devices better and optimizations around initial load time, for example. This isn’t the end. We’re just getting started. The Slack for Android Team P.S. Like what you see here? Come work on the Android App! Keep reading: Related @ Slack Stories Attention, London and Tokyo: Frontiers Tour is coming to you Join us and explore new ways to do your best work in Slack What’s next for Spec, our conference for builders Here’s (almost) everything you need to know about our annual developer event, which returns October 22–23 to San Francisco to say thank you... Stay updated with Slack by signing up for our newsletter View Slack's Privacy Policy. Slack is the collaboration hub, where the right people are always in the loop and key information is always at their fingertips. Teamwork in Slack happens in channels — searchable conversations that keep work organized and teams better connected. Atlassian Migration	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1645
__label__wiki	0.519152	0.519152	Small Farmer’s Journal Small Farmer’s Market BOOK CLEARANCE SALE! Crops & Soil Farming Systems & Approaches How-To & Plans Ask A Teamster Cultivating Questions Farm Drum Fjordworks LittleField Notes Starting Your Farm The Milk & Human Kindness About Making and the Use of Rivets A New Arrival Givens, Failures and Moving Forward Warm Poultry Houses Mean Winter Eggs Cindy’s Curds & Whey by: Kathleen Mulroy from issue: 33-4 Fresh, pasteurized milk coming from the dairy, to be cooked down into curds & whey. Artisan Cheese-Making in North Idaho by Kathleen Mulroy of Sagle, Idaho Having donned a hairnet, tied on a clean plastic apron, slipped on rubber shoes, and washed her hands thoroughly, Cindy Burgess is ready to do something she loves: Make artisan cheese! About a year ago, Cindy, her husband Vince, and two young-adult sons moved from Chewellah, Washington, to a 112-acre dairy farm complete with 100 head of dairy cows. The couple’s two married children and four young grandchildren visit regularly. Vince had been in the dairy business for over four decades, but he’d always dreamed of owning his own farm. So when an opportunity in North Idaho arose, the couple decided to go for it. Located in the lush, quaintly-named Hoodoo Valley, not far from the popular resort town of Sandpoint, Idaho, the property included a cheese factory which hadn’t been used for a few years. Cindy says she and Vince planned that “one day” they would produce artisan cheese as well as milk. But the national economic downturn pushed “one day” to “right now,” as milk prices dropped from $16 per hundredweight in November ’08, then to $13, and finally to the current, all-time low of $9. The Burgesses figured they could just make a living by selling milk at $14 per hundredweight, but below that price, running a full-scale dairy farm just wasn’t feasible. So, sadly, they made the decision to sell most of the animals through a government-sponsored herd-reduction program. About five months later, their 13 heifers had freshened and would produce enough milk to start Cindy’s artisan cheese-making business. Cindy checking the consistency of the curds during the cooking process. Cindy was well-versed in the business side of dairy life, having been married to Vince for nearly 30 years. And, she says, they have “always been 4-H parents, along with helping out with Future Farmers of America. It got so that county and state fairs were our family vacations!” But Cindy didn’t have any training in cheese-making; her formal education had been in the field of social services. Having enjoyed working with nursing home patients for over 10 years, she was comfortable with talking and listening to people from all walks of life. Those people skills would definitely help out when it came to marketing “Cindy’s Curds & Whey.” First, though, she would have to learn how to make cheese! During the winter of ’08-’09, Cindy taught herself the art and science of this ancient craft. All it took was lots of research, countless hours of experimentation, plenty of milk, and, she grins, “Lots of praying!” It was nearly six months before she had products that she felt were ready to be sold at the Sandpoint Farmer’s Market. Fortunately, she says, “I didn’t lose a lot of batches, though there were a few that went to the pigs!” She adds, “Every time I go through this process, I learn something.” The first cheese Cindy made – using two gallons of milk – was cottage cheese. According to Wikipedia, this is a cheese curd product with a mild flavor; drained but not pressed, so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose. Also according to the online encyclopedia, The term ‘cottage cheese’ is believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually made in cottages, from any milk left over after making butter. The term was first used in 1848. Curds and whey – made famous in the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme – is a similar dish. Dry chipotle mix, prior to being stirred into curds. To get the cheese-forming process underway, a starter – Cindy prefers fresh cultured buttermilk – must be added to the milk. The starter converts the lactose in milk to lactic acid, which produces controlled ripening. Next, a coagulant called rennet is added. Available to home cooks in the form of junket tablets, rennet can be purchased at drug or grocery stores, often in the pudding section. One fresh tablet will coagulate five gallons of inoculated milk. There is also a liquid extract for larger-scale operations, available only from cheese-makers’ supply houses. Cindy spreading fresh, warm curds on a flat “colander”. Rennet’s properties were discovered long ago, when, presumably, the first cheese was produced by accident. After milk had been stored for about a day in a bag made from the stomach of a young goat, sheep or cow, the milk would curdle, yielding solid chunks (curds) and liquid (whey). When the ancients discovered that the curd-chunks could be separated out and dried, they realized that milk – an extremely perishable food – could be preserved for later use. The addition of salt preserved these dried curds for even longer periods. Until 1990, rennet was produced the old fashioned way, either from calves’ stomachs (abomasums) or from various “vegetables,” some of which include the microorganism Mucor miehei. Homer suggested in The Iliad that the Greeks used an extract of fig juice to coagulate milk. Other possibilities include nettles, thistles, mallow and Creeping Charlie. These days, rennet is often produced from genetically engineered bacteria. Vince Burgess shoveling curds into a bin. Now that she’s making cottage and regular cheese on a larger scale, Cindy has switched to vegetable rennet. She says, “Many health-conscious folks prefer it, and, of course, vegetarians require it.” “I was astonished by how much science and math is involved in producing cheese!” Cindy says. When she started the process for getting the factory certified, she admits to being “a little overwhelmed by the mechanics – not being particularly mechanically inclined!” But she overcome these obstacles, and today she and Vince sell several artisan cheeses: Farmstead (“Made on the Farm”) Plain Cheese; Chipotle, Gallant Garlic, Farmer in the Dill and Lil’Jack -LottaHear Cheeses; plain curds; and Farmsted cottage cheese. Hand-cutting cheese. Eventually, Cindy would like to make raw milk cheddar, which takes two months to age. But for that she’ll need more time, a different type of shelving for aging, and special brushes. Why brushes? In order to stop the cheese from molding while it’s aging, each day one must gently brush the outside of the cheese with soft brushes. Eventually, a rind forms where the cheese has been repeatedly brushed. During their first long, snowy winter in the Hoodoo Valley, besides learning how to make cheese Cindy and Vince were kept busy caring for heifers and getting their farm up to speed. They even had to be on-the-spot plumbers when, “Nearly every pipe on the farm broke because of the low temperatures. We spent plenty of time and money at hardware stores last winter!” The Burgess dairy farm and cheese factory are sustainable operations, meaning that nearly every by-product is re-used or recycled. For example, the usually-discarded whey goes to feed their own pigs, producing an exceptionally tasty, lean pork. Whey is the liquid portion of milk that develops after the milk protein has coagulated, and contains water, milk sugar, albuminous proteins, and minerals. Lots of hot water is used in the factory, and it’s recycled to the dairy operation. Why so much hot water? Well, as Cindy says, “It’s all about cleanliness in a cheese factory.” Pausing, she grins, “Which is funny, because cheese is all about bacteria!” Since the Sandpoint Farmer’s Market ended in late-October, Cindy has been spending the fall months traveling around North Idaho as a “sample lady” – sharing her cheeses and cottage cheese with the curious and the hungry. She says, “For some reason, most people who taste my products are amazed that I’m both the owner of the business and the cheese-maker. I love the interactions with people; especially seeing how much they like our products!” Fortunately, Cindy took copious notes while perfecting her cheeses, making it relatively easy for Vince to step in as head cheese-maker when she is traveling. Vince & Cindy. Cindy and Vince hope to be able to sell their products on-line soon. In the meantime, if you live in or travel to the Inland Northwest, look for Cindy’s Curds & Whey in supermarkets and natural food stores. If you’re interested in making your own cottage or fresh cheese, Cindy suggests reading “Home Cheese Making” by Ricki Carroll. But be prepared to spend many hours in your kitchen! ©1976 - 2019 Small Farmer's Journal Small Farmer's Journal Sisters, Oregon 97759 agrarian@smallfarmersjournal.com Mon - Thu, 8am - 4pm PDT	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1650
__label__wiki	0.63164	0.63164	The University of Sydney - Faculty of Science You are here: University of Sydney / Faculty of Science / People / Our Staff / Academic Staff / Dr Abdus Sadeque Schools & Disciplines Faculty History Faculty Handbooks Science Hall of Fame Find an Academic Dr Abdus Sadeque Postdoctoral Research Associate - Plant Breeder School of Life and Environmental Sciences Member of Sydney Institute of Agriculture E12 - Plant Breeding Institute Narrabri Telephone +61 6799 2233 Abdus Sadeque received BSc Agriculture (Hons) degree from Bangladesh Agricultural University and started his career as an agronomist with Farming Systems Research at Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute. He moved to Australia in 1997 as a skill migrant and obtained his Masters in crop science and PhD in plant breeding from the University of Sydney. The main objective of his PhD dissertation was to investigate the genetics of polyphenol oxidase activity in wheat and evaluation of the efficiency of introgression of null polyphenol oxidase and disease resistance into hexaploid wheats. After obtaining PhD in 2008, Dr Sadeque joined NSW Department of Primary Industries in pulse improvement programme at Australian Cotton Research Institute. He has been working in agronomy and breeding of faba bean for the cropping systems of Northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. In July 2011, Fababean Breeding Programme has moved at the University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Narrabri NSW. Since then, he has been working with University of Sydney. Agronomy and breeding of pulses and cereals Pulse and cereal grain quality Cropping systems Understanding of how environmental change affects in productivity and sustainability of crop yield. Muktadir, M., Ijaz, U., Merchant, A., Sadeque, A., Adhikari, K. (2018). Physiological Approaches for Faba Bean Breeding in Drought Prone Environments. In A K Srivastave and Yogranjan (Eds.), Climate Risks Management: Sustainable Pulse Production, (pp. 183-203). New Dehli: Daya Publishing House. Sadeque, A., Turner, M., Khan, A., Ahmed, N., Adhikari, K. (2018). Identification of quantitative trait loci markers using diversity arrays technology for polyphenol oxidase activity in hexaploid wheat. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 46(3), 243-253. [More Information] Sadeque, A., Turner, M., Bariana, H., Bansal, U., Khalil, I., Adhikari, K. (2017). Molecular mapping of rust resistance genes in a doubled haploid population of wheat. SABRAO Journal of Breeding and Genetics, 49(3), 258-269. Adhikari, K., Zhang, P., Sadeque, A., Hoxha, S., Trethowan, R. (2016). Single independent genes confer resistance to faba bean rust (Uromyces viciae-fabae) in the current Australian cultivar Doza and a central European line Ac1655. Crop and Pasture Science, 67(6), 649-654. [More Information] Sadeque, A. (2015). Details description of variety PBA Nasma (IX220d/2-5). Plant Varieties Journal, 27(4), 114-116. Sadeque, A. (2012). Details description of variety PBA Warda (IX114/1-16). Plant Varieties Journal, 24(4), 108-110. Sadeque, A., Turner, M. (2010). QTL mapping for plant height in hexaploid wheat doubled haploid population. Thai Journal of Agricultural Science, 43(2), 91-96. Sadeque, A., Turner, M. (2010). QTL mapping of flour color in a hexaploid wheat doubled haploid population using diversity array technology. Thai Journal of Agricultural Science, 43(2), 103-108. Sadeque, A., Turner, M. (2010). QTL Mapping of Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) Activity and Yellow Alkaline Noodle (YAN) Color Components in an Australian Hexaploid Wheat Population. Thai Journal of Agricultural Science, 43(2), 109-118. Begum, F., Sadeque, A., Khatun, F., Alam, M. (2007). Suitability of Different Cultivars of Wheat and Maize for Cultivation in Coastal Area of Noakhali. Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 42(3), 361-365. Adhikari, K., Zhang, P., Sadeque, A., Hoxha, S., Trethowan, R. (2015). Is Australian Faba Bean Industry Vulnerable to Rust (Uromycles Viciae-fabae). 2nd International Plant Breeding Congress And Eucarpia - Oil and Protein Crops Section Conference, Antalya, Turkey: Akdeniz University, Turkey. Sadeque, A., Turner, M., Khan, A., Ahmed, N. (2006). Genetic Control of Null Polyphenol Oxidase Activity in Doubled Haploid Populations of Wheat. 56th Australian Cereal Chemistry Conference. To update your profile click here. For support on your academic profile contact . © 2002-19 The University of Sydney. Last updated: 11 April 2013 Authorised by: Dean, Faculty of Science.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1654
__label__wiki	0.710848	0.710848	HomeBoard - Europe Board Trust/Fund/REIT Maven Income and Growth VCT 6 appointed Gregor Logan to its Board as Non-executive Director Maven Income and Growth VCT 6 appointed Gregor Logan to its Board as Non-executive Director February 11, 2015 By Talent4Boards Team Comments are Off Board - Europe, Board Trust/Fund/REIT – UK, London – Maven Income and Growth VCT 6 PLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Gregor Logan as a Non-executive Director with effect from 10 February 2015. Mr Logan will also serve on the Company’s Audit, Management Engagement, Nomination, Remuneration and Risk Committees. Mr Logan is an external member of the investment committee of Family Investments Friendly Society; a member of the investment advisory group to Nutmeg, an award winning on-line discretionary investment manager; honorary investment adviser to the Incorporated Society of Musicians and a trustee of the Fenton Arts Trust. He is a non-executive director of Skiplex Ltd and a former non-executive director of Sidonis Limited. In his early career, Gregor trained with W&J Burness Solicitors before joining Fidelity Investments as a portfolio manager. He then joined the board of MGM Assurance as Investment Director, moving on to be chief investment officer at Pavilion Asset Management and then New Star Asset Management. This appointment is the first part of a succession plan, announced on 18 July 2014, through which it is intended that Stephen Barclay and Jonathan Carr will stand down respectively at the Annual General Meetings to be held 2015 and 2016 in order to allow new Board members to be appointed. Mr Logan will be subject to re-election by Shareholders at the first Annual General Meeting following his appointment and confirmation of any further changes to the constitution of the Board will be communicated fully to Shareholders in due course. Maven Income and Growth VCT 6 announces Fraser Gray to its Board as upcoming Non-Executive Director Maven Income and Growth VCT 2 appoints Peter Linthwaite to its Board as Non-Executive Director Maven Income and Growth VCT 3 announces David Allan to its Board as Non-Executive Director Miramar Labs Engagio EQT Corporation Blount International	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1656
__label__wiki	0.955605	0.955605	Russia accepts IOC plan to retest Olympic doping samples Home » Russia » Russia accepts IOC plan to retest Olympic doping samples FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015 file photo, the then Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko holds a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said Saturday Dec. 10, 2016, the country will accept an International Olympic Committee plan to retest all drug test samples given by Russian athletes at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file) MOSCOWCopyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will accept an International Olympic Committee plan to retest all drug test samples given by its athletes at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said Saturday. "The IOC has now decided to retest all the samples; let them retest," Mutko, who was sports minister at the time of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics, told Russian state agency R-Sport. He added that Russia will keep a careful eye on the process. The IOC's declaration Friday followed the publication of a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren. This alleged that more than 1,000 Russian athletes, including medal winners at the London and Sochi games, had benefited from a state-backed campaign of doping and drug test cover-ups. Mutko, whose brief as deputy prime minister covers sports policy, also suggested that he does not expect Russia to be barred from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. He said the IOC set a precedent when it decided against a blanket ban for Russia from this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. "I think that the IOC has chosen its direction, that there should be no collective responsibility in this situation," he said. If a specific athlete is found to have committed an offense, "then let's punish him" rather than excluding the whole Russian team, Mutko said. Mutko repeated the Russian government's claim that it has never given state support to doping and that there was no widespread doping of the Russian team at the Sochi Olympics. Mutko did not address allegations in McLaren's report that he directed so-called washout testing — unofficial internal tests before major competitions to ensure banned substances would not be detectable when doped athletes later gave samples at the event.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1667
__label__cc	0.60056	0.39944	Mike Lee Torches Planned Parenthood: 'Their Real Adversary is the Truth' Posted: Aug 05, 2015 8:45 PM Dan McLaughlin flagged this speech on Monday, but I'm just now getting around to watching and blogging it. Powerful, thoughtful stuff from Utah's junior Senator -- well worth your time, even if it's a few days late: To date, only four of the promised twelve undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officers and facilities have been released. And to be sure, Mr. President, in coming months there will be more revelations about Planned Parenthood’s profiteering violence and fraud. There will be congressional investigations, to cut through the obstructions and obfuscations already undertaken by Planned Parenthood’s lawyers, spokespeople, and friends in the media. There will be criminal investigations into whether physicians altered procedures – in violation of the law and medical ethics – to maximize the prices they could charge for the remains of their victims. And inquiries into Planned Parenthood’s army of clerks, lawyers, and bookkeepers who turned barbarism into commerce. There may well be civil litigation brought against Planned Parenthood by former patients who did not realize their harrowing personal ordeals were being exploited for profit by people they thought they could trust. So it will be some time before all the facts come out about the full scope of Planned Parenthood’s moral and financial corruption. But the revelations exposed just in the first four videos - all by themselves – are more than enough to disqualify Planned Parenthood from continued taxpayer support. After all, nobody is entitled to taxpayer money. Recipients have to continually demonstrate their worthiness for public support. I think we can all agree that it’s not too much to ask that our women’s healthcare grants not finance a criminal conspiracy against American women and children. So of course we should pass Senator Ernst’s bill. It doesn’t cut any funding. It just transfers Planned Parenthood’s grants to other women’s and community health centers. This is a no-brainer. Incidentally, the fifth video in the series confirmed Planned Parenthood's illegal abortion practices designed to produce "intact fetal cadavers." Seven more to come, potentially including 'racially-charged' material. Back to the speech. Lee's passage exposing the unholy alliance between violence and deceit was especially arresting: For all the political spin, at the end of the day, Planned Parenthood makes its money doing things any child could tell you is indefensible. That’s why those things are almost never actually defended – including on this floor today. Defenders of Planned Parenthood offer instead gauzy rhetoric about “care,” and “access,” and “choice,” which are totally irrelevant to Senator Ernst’s thoughtful, focused compromise proposal. On the other hand, the shocking words at the heart of this scandal – abortion, organs, price, “crunch” – are carefully avoided. That’s what you do when forced to defend the indefensible: you distract, you confuse, you talk about anything else besides the facts at hand. For in this debate, Planned Parenthood’s defenders’ true adversary is not the Center for Medical Progress, or the pro-life movement, or the millions of even pro-choice Americans outraged by the scandal. Like all defenders of institutional violence, their real adversary is the Truth. The pro-life movement today may love different sinners and hate different sins than previous social reform movements. But they fight for the same Truth: that not only are all men created equal, but that all human beings are, in fact, human beings. Abortion-on-demand survives today – as other peculiar institutions once did – violating a universal moral principle by disguising a biological fact. Such is the nature of violence… Mr. President, the day will come when – in an act not of reckoning but of love – America finally sets these things right in full. That day is not yet here. For now, even though Planned Parenthood apparently breaks some laws, its lucrative business remains protected by others. So even when we do pass the Ernst bill – and we will, one day soon - Planned Parenthood will nonetheless continue - at least for while – in its grisly work. But not in our name. And not with our money. Senate Democrats and Illinois Republican Mark Kirk successfully filibustered Joni Ernst's legislation, preventing a debate and up-or-down vote on the measure. The bill in question wouldn't have cut one dime from women's health funding; it merely redirected existing funding to qualified providers -- and away from the late-term abortionists and human organ traffickers of Planned Parenthood. Two Democrats, Joe Donnelly and Joe Manchin, joined every Republican (except for Kirk) in voting to move the bill forward. Though they failed to reach the 60-vote threshold, there has been positive movement on this issue in Congress' upper chamber in recent years: In 2011, cloture to defund PP got 42 votes. This time it got 53 (55 if you add Graham who skipped to campaign &McC) https://t.co/baKYQYb9jN — John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) August 3, 2015 All of this was very upsetting to outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer, one of Congress' most radical abortion warriors. As if to prove Lee's point about deflection and deception, she went the cheap, 'don't mansplain pregnancy to me' route during the floor debate: Boxer blithely ignores that the bill's primary sponsor was a woman and mother, that every female Republican member of the Senate voted to advance the legislation, and that American women are more opposed to late-term abortion than men. No matter. The goal is always to generate a fog of indignance, confusion and distraction to obfuscate the core issue, which they prefer not to discuss. Whereas Lee, Ernst and other pro-lifers offered sharp, thoughtful, and moving pro-life messaging in support of this bill, another prominent Republican stumbled badly yesterday: "I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues," Jeb Bush says at Southern Baptist Convention. — Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) August 4, 2015 Jeb's record is actually quite good on the life issue, but that's one hell of a soundbyte to drop in the middle of a heated national debate. Abortion defenders are desperate to cast the issue as nasty Republicans trying to slash "women's health" funding, while Planned Parenthood's critics are trying to keep the spotlight fixed on the organization's ghastly practices. Jeb's quote -- which might as well have been scripted by Cecile Richards -- (a) yanks the party off-message, (b) adopts Planned Parenthood's euphemisms, (c) tosses the Left a lifeline by directly playing into their counter-narrative, (d) and undermines Republicans' meticulously-messaged assurances that Ernst's bill doesn't reduce funding. The Bush campaign eventually clarified his remarks, following a botched attempt to do so. That's all well and good; as I said, he's solid on the overall issue. But video of his offending soundbyte will live on -- an unforced error that raises more questions about Jeb's preparedness to run a smart, disciplined general election campaign. Part of his establishment cachet is that he's the safe, reliable, experienced, "electable" pick. This episode doesn't exactly buttress that narrative. Editor's Note: A version of this item is cross-posted at HotAir.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1673
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__label__cc	0.71391	0.28609	Sign makers london arent all just vinyl signs, some produce hand painted & gold leaf signs like for this art gallery in Ladbroke Grove. A new art gallery opening in Ladbroke Grove on a road off of Portobello Road, heading towards the infamous Trellick Tower. The clients liked the effect that gold leaf brings & the longevity of it once its on the surface. Its a sign of quality & class. The Clients originally requested the wording have a spacing between the letters of 90mm but also for the entire wording to fit between the measurement of the window to the left of the premises. It was felt that the spacing would mean that the letters would have to be a lot smaller if the whole wording was to fit within the same space. It was suggested to them that this would not only reduce visablity but would also reduce the impact the gold’s natural shimmer in the sunlight & night light. The original thoughts I assume was down to seeing the shop next door having a similar spacing, but their lettering is much larger & spans a lot more of the fascia. On top of this, having 2 similar looking next to each other would look a little odd. The pounced layout & a few of the letters gilded. A 3hr size was used but the weather was so warm, but yet breezy that so was drying after each letter was painted, so the letters were gilded one at a time. Once the lettering was completed the contrast between the gold & black background made for such a professional & classy look. The surface was cleaned after the gilding to remove the powder that covers the area to prevent any unwanted gold sticking to areas other than where the size was applied to. A nice crisp look for their new frontage & just the professional appearance they were after. They were pleased & its the clients who pay & keep the completed work, so thats the most important thing. Traditional Signs of London hand painted sign makers london Traditional & Contemporary sign writing	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1675
__label__wiki	0.730332	0.730332	Easter's Ever-Changing Date and the People Who Tried to Fix It Three women holding armfuls of large Easter eggs, circa 1925 By Lily Rothman This year, Easter falls on April 5 — but, as those who celebrate the major Christian holiday will know, the day doesn’t stay in one place for long. Easter is one of the “moveable feasts,” a holiday that falls on a different calendar date each year. It’s calculated as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox. Though the beginning of spring generally happens around the same time every year — the church uses March 21 as the date — the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar don’t match up, which means the timing of the full moon can change quite a bit. (This year, that full moon came on April 4.) Easter thus has about a month’s worth of time in which to move around. That system worked for hundreds of years, but as Easter became not only a religious holiday, but also an occasion for sales, shopping and parades, the mobility of the fête began to cause a problem. Stocking Easter goodies and planning projected profits is difficult to do when the calendar moves around, and even more so if you use Easter to mark the start of the whole shopping season. So in 1926, a group of storekeepers came up with a solution: fix the date. Not fix as in “make better”; fix as in “fix in place.” As TIME explained on Feb. 1 of that year: This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited, springtime surge of joy, light and purity felt by celebrants. People have stepped from decorating their altars to decking their bodies, until the Easter Sunday “parade” of fashionables and fops gets more notice in the lay press than does the sanctity of the holiday. This display of clothes and flowers and jewels and carriages, wily merchandisers have gloated over. None the less they have peered with squinted eye at the fluctuating date of the festival, even as they touted a robe as “hot from N’ York, lady,” or “new from Paris, madame.” Last week the Manhattan Merchants’ Association stepped into the clear; advocated a constant Easter; stated in a bulletin that the second Sunday in April “will be” the date it believes will be adopted; said further: “A late Easter often proves disastrous to sellers of many lines of merchandise because it shortens the spring season, thereby reducing the volume of business, while the lengthened winter season is of little benefit. With the adoption of a fixed date, all such difficulties will disappear. The church’s response to the proposal? “Clergymen,” TIME reported, “were vexed.” Nearly 90 years later we know that there was no need for such vexation: Though TIME didn’t follow up on the story, Easter is still moving around the same way it always has. The Most Surprising Photos of Pope Francis The wind lifts Pope Francis' mantle as he delivers his speech in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, on Sept. 26, 2015. Tony Gentile—AP Pope Francis looks at the Statue of Liberty from the window of a helicopter on his way to the John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York City, on Sept. 26, 2015. A Pope Francis mannequin rides around in a car in Times Square as New York City waits for the arrival of the Pope to the city, on Sept. 24, 2015. Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty Images Kaydn Dorsey, 4, and Lionel Perkins, 4, draw on a coloring sheet bearing the image of Pope Francis as they wait for him to arrive on a visit to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington in Washington, on Sept. 24, 2015. David Goldman—Reuters Nuns with the Hospitaler Sisters of Mercy in Pleasantville, N.J., pose for a selfie with a cutout of Pope Francis, at the World Meeting of Families conference, in Philadelphia, on Sept. 22, 2015. Matt Rourke—AP Pope Francis blows out the candles of a birthday cake to celebrate his 78th birthday during a general audience at the Vatican on Dec. 17, 2014. Osservatore Romano/AFP/Getty Images Paying the bill at Rome's Domus Internationalis Paulus VI hotel, where Pope Francis stayed as a cardinal before entering the conclave and being elected pope. Osservatore Romano/AP Welcoming Pope emeritus Benedict XVI as he returns to the Vatican from the pontifical summer residence of Castel Gandolfo. Holding a disabled child after celebrating Easter Mass. Alessandro di Meo—ANSA/Zuma Press Pope Francis masks in a factory in Brazil, where the Pontiff took his first overseas trip. Christophe Simon—AFP/Getty Images Leading the Worldwide Eucharistic adoration at the Vatican. Alessandra Benedetti—Corbis A gust of wind blows the pope's mantle. Alessandra Tarantino—AP Attending the opening of the Pastoral Convention of the Diocese of Rome. Stefano Rellandini—Reuters Leaving a welcoming ceremony at Guanabara Palace in Rio de Janeiro. Ricardo Moraes—Reuters Greeting the weekly General Audience. Pointing to the statue of Our Lady of Aparecida from the balcony of the Aparecida basilica in Brazil. Domenico Stinellis—AP A Catholic faithful in Brazil bears a sticker of Pope Francis on his forehead. Ueslei Marcelino—Reuters Images of Pope Francis projected onto screens at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. Paulo Whitaker— Reuters Departing Rio de Janeiro. A stray dog walks across the stage near the altar where Pope Francis celebrates the World Youth Day's closing Mass on the Copacabana beachfront. Victor R. Caivano—AP Listening to confessions of young people in a park in Rio de Janeiro. L'Osservatore Romano—EPA Posing with youths in Saint Peter's Basilica. Greeting the faithful on a rainy day during the General Audience. Fabio Frustaci—Eidon Press/Zuma Press Arriving to lead his General Audience in a firefighter's helmet. A quiet moment after meeting with Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at the Vatican. Max Rossi—Reuters Marking the 110th anniversary UNITALSI, a Catholic organization dedicated to helping the sick. Francesco Zizola—NOOR for TIME A private Audience with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Keeping warm during a General Audience. Comforting a disfigured man at the end of his General Audience. Claudio Peri—EPA Blessing a sick man with deformed facial features. Evandro Inetti—Zuma Press Visiting the parish of the Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori during the Epiphany day. L'Osservatore Romano—AFP/Getty Images Reacting to devotees at a weekly General Audience. Alessandro Bianchi—Reuters A seagull attacks a dove released during a prayer conducted by Pope Francis. A scarf is tossed at Pope Francis by a faithful. Tony Gentile—Reuters Italian artist Mauro Pallotta's superhero rendering of Pope Francis in a street near St. Peter's Basilica. Blowing a kiss to pilgrims gathered at Saint Peter's Square. Vincenzo Pinto—AFP/Getty Images Meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the private library of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Vatican Pool/Contrasto/Redux With Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at the Vatican. Alessandra Benedetti—Vatican Pool/Corbis A wind gust lifts Pope Francis's mantle as he arrives at the traditional Washing of the Feet during Holy Thursday. Alberto Pizzoli—AFP/Getty Images Kissing a man's at the traditional Washing of the Feet. Visitors take photos of Pope Francis as he speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Michael Sohn—AP Write to Lily Rothman at lily.rothman@time.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1678
__label__wiki	0.614037	0.614037	Research has shown a direct correlation between the increase in national economic growth and positive female workforce participation. From a business perspective, research of Fortune 500 companies found that those with at least one female board member experienced significantly higher returns on equity (53 per cent), better sales (42 per cent), and a two-thirds greater ROI than those with all-male boards. “Creating an inclusive and diverse work environment makes good business sense. Data clearly shows organisations that have more inclusive environments perform better and have stronger financial results,” said Deloitte Malta diversity and inclusion leader Caroline Cassar Reynaud. Deloitte Malta has created a culture of trust and acknowledges its commitment to diversity and inclusion through various programmes and initiatives, including more support for working parents who return from maternity or paternity leave and the increase in paternity leave for male staff members who become fathers. Research shows having a flexible approach increases productivity. More recently Deloitte is also conducting a review of its salary scales to establish whether any gender or nationality pay gaps exist within the organisation with a plan to mitigate any disparities that may exist. “Ultimately, if we want to be an employer of choice we recognise that we must deliver on what we promise as we all stand to benefit,” Ms Cassar Reynaud added. Deloitte Malta also celebrates International Women’s Day annually, promoting its commitment to gender equality, a reminder that organisations must strengthen efforts to support the elevation of more talented women to leadership positions. Deloitte Malta organises focus groups to reflect on the achievements of women and to discuss the challenges faced around the world towards making gender equality a reality. Deloitte has also reinforced its commitment to “maintaining an organisation where everyone has equal opportunity to grow, develop and succeed – an ‘all-in’ strategy. www.deloitte.com/mt/diversity	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1679
__label__wiki	0.920999	0.920999	The Latest: Hourslong power outage in New York City resolved by timroot / Sunday, 14 July 2019 / Published in Business Screens in Times Square are black during a widespread power outage, Saturday, July 13, 2019, in the Manhattan borough of New York. Authorities say a transformer fire caused a power outage in Manhattan and left businesses without electricity, elevators stuck and subway cars stalled. Michael Owens The Latest on a power outage in New York City (all times local): New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio left the presidential campaign trail in Iowa amid a massive power outage in Manhattan. Press secretary Freddi Goldstein tweeted just before 10 p.m. Saturday that de Blasio was on his way back to New York City. Con Edison officials say a substation caused the power failure that began at 6:47 p.m. and affected 73,000 customers for more than three hours in midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side. De Blasio tweeted emergency management updates and lauded New Yorkers for responding to the blackout “with that trademark NYC grit and toughness.” He was in Waterloo, Iowa, at the time of the blackout, appearing alongside other presidential candidates at a “Passport to Victory” fundraiser. He was scheduled to appear at the Progress Iowa Corn Feed on Sunday. A massive power outage on a hot Saturday night packed the streets of Manhattan with people using cellphones as flashlights amid bumper-to-bumper traffic and a cacophony of sirens and honks. Con Edison officials say a substation caused the power failure at 6:47 p.m., affecting 73,000 customers for more than three hours along a 30-block stretch from Times Square to 72nd Street and Broadway, and spreading to Rockefeller Center. An investigation will determine the exact cause of the blackout, which New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called “unacceptable.” The energy utility said power was restored to customers and businesses in midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side was restored by about midnight. The pre-sunset outage shut down restaurants and Broadway shows and had people scrambling outside in search of waning daylight. About timroot Film captures the loss of black San Franciscans Cavs owner Dan Gilbert suffers stroke, remains in hospital Premera Blue Cross pays states $10 million over data breach The team of the Timworld Washington DC breaking news monitors the most relevant and important Washington, DC local news, so that you are always aware of incidents and events in the criminal, political and public life spheres in our city. With Timworld.info you will always know what, where and when it happened or is planned to happen in Washington, District of Columbia. Daily and especially for you – the most relevant information!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1680
__label__wiki	0.741391	0.741391	DEMOCRATIC PARTY REBOOT; CHANGES NAME TO REPUBLICAN PARTY ANIMALS WASHINGTON DC. Stung by another loss and searching for a message that resonates with voters besides “We’re Not Trump,” the Democratic Party announced today that it has changed its name to the Republican Party Animals. “You want stupid, we got stupid!” exuded Democratic Party Chair Tom Perez, announcing the new party’s new slogan. Republicans were quick to denounce the move. “They think they’re stupid?” said former RNC former chair Reince Priebus. “We deny science, cling to debunked economic theories, and wear silly hats. Bring it on, Jack.” Political experts call the move shrewd. “On most ballots the full name won’t fit, so voters will be confronted with two Republican Party choices.” said an expert. “In the worst case, they’ll win half the ballots, and in the best, where it does fit, I mean, who doesn’t want to vote for party animals?” How the name change resonates with the party faithful remains to be tested. Meanwhile, the party is yet to confront the dustbowl-like migration of millions of disenchanted Demies to California, attracted by the state’s offer of forty acres and a pinata. “There’s a line of Volvos and Priuses stretching as far as the eye can see.” said Nancy Pelosi. TeeFurry.com ← KEN DOLL REPLACED WITH DONDON AND BARBAR; PENCE DOLL SHELVED SENATE TRUMPCARE LEVELS THE FIELD: HEALTHY TO GET POLLUTED AIR, WATER →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1682
__label__cc	0.719471	0.280529	The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2019/05/pack-266-cubs-cross-over/) Pack 266 Cubs Cross Over By Lester Smith \| May 1, 2019 More on Organizations Subscribe to Organizations Photo by Lester Smith Hayden Gibson, center, is surrounded by Boy Scouts who replaced his Cub Scout neckerchief with one for Troop 260. From the left: Matthew Tini, Bryce Klaus, Alex Cremins, John Cremins. When Cub Scouts complete their career in the early years of the overall Scout program, those who want to continue – and almost all of them do – “cross over” to become Boy Scouts in a very nice ceremony held in the Cub Pack’s annual Blue & Gold Banquet. This year a large crowd of proud parents and friends gathered on March 16 in Father Ted Hall at Sacred Heart Church, and 15 Cubs of Pack 266 received their “Arrow of Light,” symbolizing their successful completion of the Cub Scout program. Fourteen of them crossed over to join one of the town’s two Boy Scout troops, 66 or 260. The ceremony began with appropriate recitations, including a meaningful candle-lighting procedure. After being introduced to the audience, each boy crossed the symbolic bridge set up on the stage, and one of the Boy Scouts present shot an arrow into a hay bale target. Each boy’s Arrow of Light was handed to him in an attractive setting made by one of the Cub fathers, and the new Scout was welcomed by Boy Scouts and leaders from the two troops. A slide show of Pack 266 activities followed, and a buffet dinner was enjoyed by all. SFES Gala Rocked! The Suffield Foundation for Excellent Schools hosted Fire and Ice, a rollicking…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1691
__label__cc	0.523858	0.476142	Home»Videos»Tommy Robinson: “I’m Prepared To Die For Free Speech In The UK!” Tommy Robinson: “I’m Prepared To Die For Free Speech In The UK!” Tim Brown / July 6, 2019 / 449 Ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has been found in contempt of court for his Facebook Live broadcast of Muslim rape gang member defendants. In the wake of that ruling, Infowars had Tommy Robinson on to talk about what is going on to silence him in the face of Muslim tyranny in the UK. Robinson said that he was prepared to die for free speech in the UK, and sadly, that just may be the case. Take a look at the interview. As I said in my previous report, Brits are outraged, but apparently not outraged enough, but they are definitely at the tipping point. Consequently, the very people the Robinson was reporting on with publicly known information were set free. Pamela Geller has put together these two reports: UK: Police told not to pursue Muslim child rape gangs “told to wind necks in” UK: Hundreds more Muslim child rape gang cases discovered; authorities still hiding them for fear of islamophobia charges Additionally, we know the UK prisons are full of Muslims intent on murdering Robinson, which was cause for many to be concerned in his previous incarceration. In fact, I confess that I am amazed he made it out alive and with all his anatomy intact. Yet, that is what happened and he is unwavering in his stance. In fact, it is clear that the assault upon his free speech by the British tyrants and the British Gulag have done nothing but embolden Robinson in his quest to make the truth known to Britain. RELATED: Hillary Clinton “Deliberately and Blatantly Lied” about Running Guns to Syria When is Britain going to wake up? Probably when their collective heads are being sawn off and their women raped by the followers of Muhammad. But it will be too late then. Article posted with permission from Sons Of Liberty Media Adrenochrome, Child Protective Services & The Business Of Trafficking, Killing & Selling The Blood Of Our Kids Florida High School Principal: ‘I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual historical event & kids don’t have to learn about it’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1692
__label__cc	0.603834	0.396166	The Reality of the “Lesser Evil” When Chris Floyd is at his best, as he is below, he puts things in perspective for readers that they otherwise never confront. Obama has won reelection, and his supporters think that somehow things are going to be different. Fat chance. What is it with Americans and sex? Why is an illicit affair the ONLY reason for removing someone from political office? Why is it that government officials, presidents and vice presidents included, can violate US statutory law and torture people, spy on Americans without the necessary warrants, murder US citizens without due process, confine US citizens to dungeons for life without evidence and due process of law, start multi-trillion dollar wars on the basis of contrived allegations that have no basis in fact, murder civilians in seven countries, overthrow legitimate governments, and all of these massive crimes against humanity can be accepted as long as no one in Washington gets any sex out of it? Is this feminism’s contribution to American morality? Has the United States, the hero of the cold war, become in its behavior and motivations the enemy it overcame? Why does Washington want hegemony over the world? Why does Washington want this hegemony so badly that Washington is willing to murder women, children, aid workers, husbands and fathers, village elders, anyone on earth including its own American heroes? What is the evil that drives Washington? How can the evil that drives Washington be contained, stamped out, prevented from destroying the human race? What does the world do when it confronts unbridled evil, which is what Washington is? Is This Child Dead Enough for You? ~ Chris Floyd To all those now hailing the re-election of Barack Obama as a triumph of decent, humane, liberal values over the oozing-postule perfidy of the Republicans, a simple question: Is this child dead enough for you? This little boy was named Naeemullah. He was in his house — maybe playing, maybe sleeping, maybe having a meal — when an American drone missile was fired into the residential area where he lived and blew up the house next door. [http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/photos-pakistan-drone-war/?pid=999] As we all know, these drone missiles are, like the president who wields them, super-smart, a triumph of technology and technocratic expertise. We know, for the president and his aides have repeatedly told us, that these weapons — launched only after careful consultation of the just-war strictures of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas — strike nothing but their intended targets and kill no one but “bad guys.” Indeed, the president’s top aides have testified under oath that not a single innocent person has been among the thousands of Pakistani civilians — that is, civilians of a sovereign nation that is not at war with the United States — who have been killed by the drone missile campaign of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Yet somehow, by some miracle, the missile that roared into the residential area where Naeemullah lived did not confine itself neatly to the house it struck. Somehow, inexplicably, the hunk of metal and wire and computer processors failed — in this one instance — to look into the souls of all the people in the village and ascertain, by magic, which ones were “bad guys” and then kill only them. Somehow — perhaps the missile had been infected with Romney cooties? — this supercharged hunk of high explosives simply, well, exploded with tremendous destructive power when it struck the residential area, blowing the neighborhood to smithereens. As Wired reports, shrapnel and debris went flying through the walls of Naeemullah’s house and ripped through his small body. When the attack was over — when the buzzing drone sent with Augustinian wisdom by the Peace Laureate was no longer lurking over the village, shadowing the lives of every defenseless inhabitant with the terrorist threat of imminent death, Naeemullah was taken to the hospital in a nearby town. This is where the picture of above was taken by Noor Behram, a resident of North Waziristan who has been chronicling the effects of the Peace Laureate’s drone war. When the picture was taken, Naeemullah was dying. He died an hour later. [http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/photos-pakistan-drone-war/?pid=998] He died. Is he dead enough for you? Dead enough not to disturb your victory dance in any way? Dead enough not to trouble the inauguration parties yet to come? Dead enough not to diminish, even a little bit, your exultant glee at the fact that this great man, a figure of integrity, decency, honor and compassion, will be able to continue his noble leadership of the best nation in the history of the world? Do you have children? Do they sit your house playing happily? Do they sleep sweetly scrunched up in their warm beds at night? Do they chatter and prattle like funny little birds as you eat with them at the family table? Do you love them? Do you treasure them? Do you consider them fully-fledged human beings, beloved souls of infinite worth? How would you feel if you saw them ripped to shreds by flying shrapnel, in your own house? How would you feel as you rushed them to the hospital, praying every step of the way that another missile won’t hurl down on you from the sky? Your child was innocent, you had done nothing, were simply living your life in your own house — and someone thousands of miles away, in a country you had never seen, had no dealings with, had never harmed in any way, pushed a button and sent chunks of burning metal into your child’s body. How would you feel as you watched him die, watched all your hopes and dreams for him, all the hours and days and years you would have to love him, fade away into oblivion, lost forever? What would you think about the one who did this to your child? Would you say: “What a noble man of integrity and decency! I’m sure he is acting for the best.” Would you say: “Well, this is a bit unfortunate, but it’s perfectly understandable. The Chinese government (or Iran or al Qaeda or North Korea or Russia, etc. etc.) believed there was someone next door to me who might possibly at some point in time pose some kind of threat in some unspecified way to their people or their political agenda — or maybe it was just that my next-door neighbor behaved in a certain arbitrarily chosen way that indicated to people watching him on a computer screen thousands of miles away that he might possibly be the sort of person who might conceivably at some point in time pose some kind of unspecified threat to the Chinese (Iranians/Russians, etc.), even though they had no earthly idea who my neighbour is or what he does or believes or intends. I think the person in charge of such a program is a good, wise, decent man that any person would be proud to support. Why, I think I’ll ask him to come speak at my little boy’s funeral!” Is that what you would say if shrapnel from a missile blew into your comfortable house and killed your own beloved little boy? You would not only accept, understand, forgive, shrug it off, move on — you would actively support the person who did it, you would cheer his personal triumphs and sneer at all those who questioned his moral worthiness and good intentions? Is that really what you would do? Well, that is what you are doing when you shrug off the murder of little Naeemullah. You are saying he is not worth as much as your child. You are saying he is not a fully-fledged human being, a beloved soul of infinite worth. You are saying that you support his death, you are happy about it, and you want to see many more like it. You are saying it doesn’t matter if this child — or a hundred like him, or a thousand like him, or, as in the Iraqi sanctions of the old liberal lion, Bill Clinton, five hundred thousand children like Naeemullah — are killed in your name, by leaders you cheer and support. You are saying that the only thing that matters is that someone from your side is in charge of killing these children. This is the reality of “lesser evilism.” [http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/to-honor-value-of-single-life-first.html] Before the election, we heard a lot of talk about this notion of the “lesser evil.” From prominent dissidents and opponents of empire like Daniel Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky and Robert Parry to innumerable progressive blogs to personal conversations, one heard this basic argument: “Yes, the drone wars, the gutting of civil liberties, the White House death squads and all the rest are bad; but Romney would be worse. Therefore, with great reluctance, holding our noses and shaking our heads sadly, we must choose the lesser evil of Obama and vote accordingly.” I understand that argument, I really do. I don’t agree with it, as I made plain here many times before the election. I think the argument is wrong, I think our system is so far gone that even a “lesser evil” is too evil to support in any way, that such support only perpetuates the system’s unconscionable evils. But I’m not a purist, not a puritan, not a commissar or dogmatist. I understand that people of good will can come to a different conclusion, and feel that they must reluctantly choose one imperial-militarist-corporate faction over the other, in the belief that this will mean some slight mitigation of the potential evil that the other side commit if it took power. I used to think that way myself, years ago. Again, I now disagree with this, and I think that the good people who believe this have not, for whatever reason or reasons, looked with sufficient clarity at the reality of our situation, of what is actually being done, in their name, by the political faction they support. But of course, I am not the sole arbiter of reality, nor a judge of others; people see what they see, and they act (or refrain from acting) accordingly. I understand that. But here is what I don’t understand: the sense of triumph and exultation and glee on the part of so many progressives and liberals and ‘dissidents’ at the victory of this “lesser evil.” Where did the reluctance, the nose-holding, the sad head-shaking go? Should they not be mourning the fact that evil has triumphed in America, even if, by their lights, it is a “lesser” evil? If you really believed that Obama was a lesser evil — 2 percent less evil, as I believe Digby once described the Democrats in 2008 — if you really did find the drone wars and the White House death squads and Wall Street bailouts and absolution for torturers and all the rest to be shameful and criminal, how can you be happy that all of this will continue? Happy — and continuing to scorn anyone who opposed the perpetuation of this system. The triumph of a lesser evil is still a victory for evil. If your neighborhood is tyrannized by warring mafia factions, you might prefer that the faction which occasionally doles out a few free hams wins out over their more skinflint rivals; but would you be joyful about the fact that your neighborhood is still being tyrannized by murderous criminals? Would you not be sad, cast down, discouraged and disheartened to see the violence and murder and corruption go on? Would you not mourn the fact that your children will have to grow up in the midst of all this? So where is the mourning for the fact that we, as a nation, have come to this: a choice between murderers, a choice between plunderers? Even if you believe that you had to participate and make the horrific choice that was being offered to us — “Do you want the Democrat to kill these children, or do you want the Republican to kill these children?” — shouldn’t this post-election period be a time of sorrow, not vaulting triumph and giddy glee and snarky put-downs of the “losers”? If you really are a “lesser evilist” — if this was a genuine moral choice you reluctantly made, and not a rationalization for indulging in unexamined, primitive partisanship — then you will know that we are ALL the losers of this election. Even if you believe it could have been worse, it is still very bad. You yourself proclaimed that Obama was evil — just a bit “lesser” so than his opponent. (2 percent maybe.) And so the evil that you yourself saw and named and denounced will go on. Again I ask: where is the joy and glory and triumph in this? Even if you believe it was unavoidable, why celebrate it? And ask yourself, bethink yourself: what are you celebrating? This dead child, and a hundred like him? A thousand like him? Five hundred thousand like him? How far will you go? What won’t you celebrate? And so step by step, holding the hand of the “lesser evil,” we descend deeper and deeper into the pit. Chris Floyd is an American writer based in the UK. His blog, “Empire Burlesque,” can be found at http://www.chris-floyd.com. The post American Immorality Is At A Peak appeared first on PaulCraigRoberts.org. You’re currently reading “The Reality of the “Lesser Evil”,” an entry on Truth11 November 16, 2012 / 2:33 pm 1. 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__label__wiki	0.917508	0.917508	Martin Winkler and Virgilio Marino in Opera Australia’s 2018 production of The Nose at the Sydney Opera House. Prudence Upton Barrie Kosky’s nose for the inventive and surreal makes for an outstanding production of The Nose February 22, 2018 12.12am EST Michael Halliwell, University of Sydney Michael Halliwell Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney Michael Halliwell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Dimitri Shostakovich’s The Nose, with its chorus line of large, tap-dancing noses, has something to appeal to the most jaded operatic palate, which might have over-indulged in too many Bohemes, Butterflies and Toscas. The phallic, Freudian connotations of its title whet the appetite. Based on a short story by Gogol, set in St Petersburg, the opera describes the macabre situation of a public servant, Kovalev, who wakes up to find his nose has disappeared. A chorus line of large, tap-dancing noses in the Opera Australia production. Prudence Upton He sets out on a bizarre quest to recover the missing organ, seeking the help of a newspaper and the police along the way. Meanwhile, the nose has literally taken on a life of its own, increased markedly in size, and is having a whale of a time. A series of increasingly surreal events finds Kovalev finally re-attached to his nose, but without its pimple on the left side. Confused? Sure. The accident of birth can scarcely have played a more important role in the life of any great artist than that of Shostakovich. Born in St Petersburg in 1909, early musical talent saw his admittance at 13 to the Petrograd Conservatory - the name change indicative of recent seismic political changes. Like many artists, he was forced to navigate the increasingly treacherous political waters of the Soviet Union, often forced to compromise. The most notorious, and potentially career-ending incident was a damning review of his opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District that appeared in the Soviet newspaper Pravda in 1936. The review was unsigned; a strong suspicion has always attached to Stalin who attended a performance. Shostakovich fell in and out of favour until his death in 1975. Although his early career was comparatively unclouded by politics, The Nose (1929), his first opera, perplexed and even enraged many. Against the composer’s wishes, it was given a concert performance in June 1929, and vehemently attacked by the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians; its stage premiere in January, 1930 was similarly met with hostility and incomprehension. Probably the most unashamedly modernist of all his works, strongly reflecting the Zeitgeist, it has remained a fascinating challenge for innovative directors and opera companies. Expatriate Australian director Barrie Kosky and The Nose seem made for each other. Kosky has always revealed a surreal, scurrilously confronting, but highly inventive and vivid vision of the world - not for him a quotidian, routine approach. Chief Director of the Berlin Komisches Oper, a company celebrated for not playing it safe, Kosky has a particularly European operatic sensibility in its most imaginative and creative sense. Alexander Lewis, Martin Winkler and chorus in Opera Australia’s 2018 production of The Nose at the Sydney Opera House. Prudence Upton Discussing The Nose, he argues that the opera “defies genre: I wouldn’t say it’s a comedy, and I wouldn’t say it’s serious. What Gogol wrote is a fairy story and, like all fairy stories, there are very, very rich levels underneath the story, but you have to present the piece for what it is, which is a fantastic, surreal, grotesque tale.” Shostakovich’s music is indeed kaleidoscopic, revelling in a bewildering range of idioms and styles. Kosky’s outstanding production, restaged by Felix Seiler for Opera Australia, has played in Berlin and London, and is sung in an expressive English translation by David Poutney. The production fully exploits all the potential farce and scenic mayhem inherent in the opera. It is naturally over-the-top at times, but fully within the madcap spirit of the work and its often bizarre world view. The sets by Klaus Grunberg and Annie Kuhn provide a vivid backdrop for a cast let by Martin Winkler’s expressively rich baritone as Kovalev, particularly moving in his lachrymose lament for his lost nose that ends Act One. He is matched by the renowned bass, Sir John Tomlinson, as the doctor and other roles. The great Wotan here relishes the comedy of several wonderful scenes with Winkler. The rewowned bass Sir John Tomlinson and dancers in The Nose. Prudence Upton Alexander Lewis reprises his role as the tenor Nose itself, which he has also sung to acclaim at the New York Met in the much more conservative William Kentridge production, recently seen in a HD broadcast. There is a huge cast of many of Australia’s most talented singers - the score calls for 78 singing and nine speaking roles - far too many to mention here, but Sian Pendry, Jacqueline Dark, Kanen Breen, Eva Kong, and Virgilio Marino in particular stood out. The chorus deal with this challenging music with aplomb while the orchestral forces are led with often wild energy but always complete control by Andrea Molino. The costumes are a riot of colour and styles, and the choreography by Otto Pichler must be applauded - the tap-dancing noses brought the house down. It’s certainly a strange work, but as a character observes at the end: “whatever you may say, these things do happen in the world - not often - but they do”. The Nose is at the Sydney Opera House until March 3. Opera review Jake Arditti (Nero) in Coronation of Poppea: the production is a haze of drug-fuelled violence, erotic drive, and dog eat dog power plays. Brett Boardman Pinchgut’s Poppea plays hedonism, violence and passion to the hilt Shutterstock/KamilMacniak Bye-bye ‘luv’: how to write a northern opera Want this view? EPA When VR meets reality – how live concerts could be enhanced by 21st-century opera glasses Opera is treated differently to other artforms in Australia. AAP Image/Tracey NearmyAAP Image/Tracey Nearmy Does opera deserve its privileged status within arts funding?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1706
__label__cc	0.726635	0.273365	The Upstart Crow Theater Company Presents As You Like It by William Shakespeare BUY NOW MAR. 14-17 – “All the world’s a stage” in Shakespeare’s enduring and endearing tale of family, friendship, humor and melancholy. The court is in turmoil. The old duke and followers take refuge in the enchanting Forest of Arden to “fleet the time away carelessly, as they did in the golden world.” When the duke’s daughter Rosalind leads a new group of exiles into the woods, each will see their identity tested by the tranquil chaos of nature. AS YOU LIKE IT is a powerful journey of personal discovery, identity and exigency. Name-Your-Price-Nights: Thursday nights. No reservations accepted. First come, first serve. Opening Night: Friday, March 15. Tickets include a free drink ticket and a reception at intermission Talkback: Saturday, March 23. Stay after the show for an informal conversation with the cast. Season Ticket Reservations: Season ticket reservations must be made directly through The Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Reservations cannot be made with the Dairy Arts Center Box Office. We cannot guarantee seats will be available unless contacted by 12 noon the day before the performance you wish to attend. Contact us online at theupstartcrow.org to receive an email confirmation with the date of attendance and the number of reserved seats. Reserved tickets can be picked up the night of the performance at the Box Office of the Dairy Arts Center under Will Call. https://tickets.thedairy.org/Online/TheUpstartCrow The Upstart Crow Theater Company info@theupstartcrow.org http://www.theupstartcrow.org/ Carsen Theater « Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality Friday Night Weird: Daisies »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1709
__label__cc	0.631492	0.368508	Fire Marshall Shuts Down Womb New Year Freak Out with Emek, New Fumes, Stardeath and White Dwarfs – Moved to Farmers Market TheFutureHeart 29 Dec 2011 30 Dec 2011 All Posts As explained by Womb organizer and co-owner Rick Sinnett in the first minute of the above video, the psychedelic art gallery he runs with The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Jake Harms had big plans for New Year’s weekend. Acclaimed “thinking man’s” poster artist Emek was scheduled to kick-off the festivities Friday night with his final Poster + Retrospective & Book Signing of 2011. New Year Freak Out festivities all weekend long were set to culminate with a NYE After Party featuring “electric symphonies until sunrise” by New Fumes and Stardeath and White Dwarfs in the wee first hours of 2012 – open to all of the 1,500 fans at The Flaming Lips/ Plastic Ono Band concert. But as shown from about the one minute mark in the video above until the end – plans went awry when the Fire Marshall shut down space on Thursday, December 29th…. There have been no reported incidents at previous parties and gallery openings The Womb has hosted since opening this past summer so Coyne’s initial reaction was understandably confident, “We can work it out“… http://twitter.com/#!/waynecoyne/status/152539255363735553 http://twitter.com/#!/ROCKworth/status/152548322677231616 UPDATE At 10:40 am on December 30th, The Flaming Lips were still optimistic enough about the opening going ahead to retweet @WombGallery’s new video of the last minute preparations. http://twitter.com/#!/theflaminglips/status/152791181892399104 Fire Chief Keith Bryant told News OK, the gallery at 25 NW 9 was inspected “after an inquiry by the police department, which was responding to an anonymous complaint about the party…We looked at it from a fire code perspective… the building they plan to hold it in, doesn’t meet current fire codes in terms of public assembly. It’s still listed as a garage. It still needs a sprinkler system, alarms and exits. We visited the building, found out there was a lot of work being done, but no permits pulled out from the city, no permits for a special event.” Fire Department spokesman Chief Mark Woodard told OK Gazette “They have not applied for a special permit or contacted us to have an assembly there or anything and that’s why the order was issued…a lot of people assembled there, and this building does not meet the code requirements for public assembly.” http://twitter.com/#!/AlstonDavid/status/152514486467706880 Bryant is scheduled to meet (met) with City Manager Jim Couch and Councilwoman Meg Salyer on Friday morning to discuss the violations, says NewsOK. “We’ll be discussing any possible alternatives and whether there is any way to do it and make sure we have comfort in ensuring public safety.” UPDATE – Friday morning, December 30th Apparently the meeting with Couch and Salyer has occurred. Just eleven minutes after the above optimistic tweet from @theflaminglips, the verdict was implied by a sour twitter update from @waynecoyne: UPDATE – Friday early afternoon, December 30th Rick told The Oklahoman plans are being made to move the after party and art opening to Farmers Market, 311 S Klein. Directions and info on the market is here. UPDATE – Friday mid-afternoon, December 30th “Womb Gallery relocates the Emek nonstop art show and the Flaming Lips New Years Eve party to the Farmers Market at 311 S. Klein Ave in Oklahoma City 73108-1431 The Emek nonstop art show is at 7pm Friday Dec 30. The Womb’s Flaming Lips NYE after party begins immediately after the show on New Years Eve (duh).” http://twitter.com/#!/irreversibility/status/152853715563446272 Previous Download/ Stream Recent Wilco Shows Next Occupy Wall Street Film Raises Funds with Music Collectors Items – Thee Oh Sees Vinyl, Original Painting by Kyp Malone, Gummy Skulls Autographed by Coyne, more PsychExFutureHeart says: http://twitter.com/#!/stevelackmeyer/status/152798415187746816 http://twitter.com/#!/FutureHeartDay/status/152792686653480960 They hope to move it! The party must go on! http://newsok.com/article/3636160 Thanks Nancy. I updated that and added a few other bits as well… http://twitter.com/#!/nicolemhill/status/152818482495500289 http://twitter.com/#!/NathanPoppe/status/152800845048725505 http://twitter.com/#!/mzmartincoyne/status/152814135082614784	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1711
__label__wiki	0.923067	0.923067	White House 'reviewing' Fed pick Moore's resurfaced comments on women By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 04/29/19 12:02 PM EDT The White House is "reviewing" comments about women made by Stephen Moore, President Trump Donald John TrumpPompeo changes staff for Russia meeting after concerns raised about top negotiator's ties: report House unravels with rise of 'Les Enfants Terrible' Ben Carson: Trump is not a racist and his comments were not racist MORE's pick for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board. "Certainly we're reviewing those comments and when we have an update on that front we'll let you know," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sarah Elizabeth SandersBiden pledges return to daily press briefings as president Sarah Sanders: I will walk out of the White House 'with my head held high' Trump directs Pentagon to develop policy allowing service academy athletes to go pro right away MORE Sanders told reporters on Monday. Several columns that Moore wrote for the National Review in the early 2000s were unearthed by CNN's KFile last week, and in one of them Moore suggested women should have no role in men's college basketball. "Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer vendors, no women anything," he wrote in March 2002. He made similar comments and defended the March 2002 comments in other columns. Moore said on Sunday that he was "embarrassed" by what he had written. But he also said he has no plans to withdraw his name from consideration unless he becomes a political "liability" to Republicans. When asked by The Hill to comment on Sanders's remarks, Moore responded with a statement saying, “This is a normal part of the vetting process for any nominee to any government agency.” Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow Lawrence (Larry) Alan KudlowMORE said Monday that the White House continues to back Moore for the position. “We’re still behind him, and he’s going through the process of vetting,” Kudlow told reporters at the White House. Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain withdrew himself from consideration for a spot on the Federal Reserve Board last week after bipartisan pushback. Republican critics said he was unfit to serve because of resurfaced misconduct allegations, which derailed his 2012 White House bid, and his outspoken support for Trump. The Federal Reserve has traditionally been independent of political influence when it comes to setting monetary policy. --Updated at 4:43 p.m. Tags Sarah Huckabee Larry Kudlow Donald Trump Federal Reserve Board Trump nominee Women Fed Federal Reserve	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1715
__label__wiki	0.7169	0.7169	Automakers fight Trump’s auto emissions rollback By Timothy Cama - 10/29/18 05:21 PM EDT Major automakers are pushing the Trump administration to abandon its plan to roll back climate change rules for cars. Companies had emphatically encouraged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) to undo the Obama administration’s plans to ratchet up greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency rules for cars through 2026. But now they’re trying to stop the agencies from going too far in the other direction and freezing the standards in 2020. In a filing made with those agencies Friday — the deadline for comments — General Motors Co. said the Obama administration standards are “not technologically feasible or economically practicable,” and would increase vehicle costs at the expense of jobs. But the Trump administration’s plan to completely stop those rules “is not the answer to these regulatory challenges,” GM added. “Rather, we prefer standards through 2026 that continue improving the fuel economy of gasoline powered vehicles at historic rates and policies that support American leadership in zero emissions vehicles.” American Honda Motor Co., the U.S. unit of the Japanese conglomerate, wrote in its comments that freezing the standards in 2020 “jeopardizes benefits for consumers and society.” Honda went on to say the plan, which would include revoking California’s authority to set its own greenhouse gas standards for cars, “invites litigation and regulatory uncertainty, stalls long-term strategic industry planning, puts at risk American global competitiveness, exacerbates climate-related environmental impacts, and slows industry readiness for a widely acknowledged — but extremely difficult to implement — transition to vehicle electrification.” Ford Motor Co. told the agencies that it supports “fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards that increase year-over-year,” while Toyota Motor North America said it opposes the administration’s proposal. “Toyota supports continued improvements in vehicle fuel economy performance and GHG reduction,” the company wrote. “This is what society and our customers expect from us, and aligns with our overall long-term corporate direction.” While the deadline for comments was midnight Friday, agency officials were still sorting through the comments and posting them on the web Monday. As of Monday afternoon, more than 110,000 unique comments had been posted, a total that doesn’t include some mass-comment campaigns. The Trump administration unveiled its proposal, dubbed the Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, in August, saying that the Obama administration rules threatened consumers and highway safety. The agencies said it would save 12,000 lives and $500 billion. The automakers who weighed in on the proposal said they want rules that cover cars made through 2026 to increase in stringency, but they want the agencies to take into account factors like low gasoline prices and consumers’ fears of electric vehicles when formulating them. While the agencies said their "preferred alternative" would be to freeze the standards from 2020 through 2026, they also floated eight other possibilities of increasing stringency, including keeping the Obama standards, which would result in about a 4.4 percent increase in efficiency. They also said the EPA and DOT should expand opportunities for “flexibility” in complying, like using credits for selling alternative-fuel vehicles or improving air conditioning efficiency. In addition to the automakers, Shell Oil Products US, a unit of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, registered its opposition. “The proposal’s own analysis of the proposed roll backs acknowledge that the changes will increase emissions,” the company wrote. “Shell does not support this roll back in the standards.” It called the proposal to revoke California’s independent authority “a step in the wrong direction.” Shell would stand to benefit from a rollback of the rules, since lower efficiency would increase fuel sales. Outspoken opponents of the rollback also used the comment period to reiterate their longstanding opposition to any efforts to weaken standards. A coalition of 20 states and six cities, led by California, said the proposal is “unlawful in multiple respects,” while adding that it doesn’t meet the legal standards that the agencies are held to. “If adopted, the proposed rollback would increase (not decrease) vehicle ownership costs,” they wrote. “It also would increase emissions of GHGs and other air pollutants, which, in turn, would exacerbate climate change and harm human health. Finally, contrary to the agencies’ representations, it will not make Americans safer.” A coalition of environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice and the Sierra Club, called the rule “unlawful.” “Perhaps cognizant of the overwhelming evidentiary basis supporting the augural and existing standards, the agencies market the rollback as necessary to save lives: They brand it the ‘SAFE’ rule and assert that it will prevent thousands of fatalities,” the groups wrote. “This is nonsense. The projected fatalities are artifacts of the agencies’ flawed technical analysis. The current standards do not make real‐world vehicles less safe or real‐world driving more dangerous.” But the comments also show that the administration has strong defenders. A group of eight Republican state governments, led by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), said the rule will help consumers. “The SAFE Vehicles Rule provides realistic fuel economy goals that will conserve energy and further protect the environment without stifling the market economy or forcing consumers’ hands. Moreover, by establishing a nationwide, realistic fuel economy standard, the SAFE Vehicles Rule will make cars more affordable.” Dozens of individual commenters echoed the arguments from the GOP and other rule supporters that by allowing California to set its own standards — which numerous states can then follow — the Obama administration let the Golden State effectively decide the nation’s rules. “One state should not be able to effectively dictate fuel economy standards, tailpipe emission requirements, and mandates for zero emission vehicles (ZEV) for the entire nation where Congress has set a clear policy favoring a single federal standard and no compelling air quality concern exists that is unique to that state,” wrote Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), joined by the GOP attorney generals of five other states. Some conservative groups took their support a step farther. While they applauded the rollback, they argued that the administration should set standards even lower. The Institute for Energy Research said it “would argue for an actual roll back of the unnecessarily high Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) mandates from the previous administration. However, in the absence of such full relief for American consumers, the proposed path of the NPRM is an acceptable partial relief.” The EPA and DOT must now analyze the comments before it can make the rule final in some version. The agencies are legally obligated to respond to substantive objections in its final rule. Any party that sues the agencies to try to stop the rollback can only bring up in court the arguments that it makes in the regulatory comments.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1716
__label__cc	0.536701	0.463299	Added on April 6, 2019 KI News Several tribal villages in Budgam’s Arizal reeling under darkness BY: ISHFAQ MAJEED BUDGAM, April 05: Several tribal villages in Arizal area of central Kashmir’s Budgam are reeling under darkness since almost a month due to official apathy. The residents of Kharian village told Kashmir Images that they are reeling under complete darkness since last month. “The transformer had damaged due to heavy snowfall and the department is yet to repair it. We are using traditional lamps and candles during the nighttime,” they said. The irked residents claimed that they have requested the higher authorities several times to redress the issue but to no avail. They appealed Governor’s administration to look into the issue and threatened to boycott upcoming elections if their problems are not redressed soon. When contacted Executive Engineer PDD Budgam, Mohammad Hussain Shah, he was busy in a meeting. ''I am busy in a meeting, will get back to you tomorrow,'' he told this reporter. KI News Kashmir Images is an English language daily newspaper published from Srinagar (J&K), India. The newspaper is one of the largest circulated English dailies of Kashmir and its hard copies reach every nook and corner of Kashmir Valley besides Jammu and Ladakh region.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1720
__label__wiki	0.849802	0.849802	Reverb Features Dining Events Drink Events The Denver art scene’s newest hotspots may be right up your alley — literally Two just-opened Denver galleries — Park Hill’s Minerva Projects and Lincoln Park’s Georgia — are set up in converted backyard garages. By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post Nov 15, 2017, 4:49 pm Visitors enter Georgia through the alley behind Sommer Browning’s house in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. (Daniel Tseng, Special to the Denver Post) The most interesting things in the Denver gallery scene aren’t happening in galleries right now, they’re taking place in garages — real garages, located off of alleys that are tucked away in residential neighborhoods. On the east side of town, in Park Hill, critic and curator Yasmeen Siddiqui is operating Minerva Projects, a new space that will show local and international artists, while offering them residencies and the opportunity to publish their work in book form. On the way west side, in Lincoln Park, poet Sommer Browning has started up Georgia, where she’ll display local talents in shows that will be concentrated over occasional weekends. The exhibits, three-day pop-ups really, kick off with Friday receptions that feature video screenings and live music. Georgia’s second offering, artist Katie Caron’s “Simulations,” begins Friday, Nov. 17. The galleries are different kinds of characters. Minerva’s program is structured and the space is architecturally forward. Georgia is more about pulling the car out of the way for a couple of days so that some high-quality art can take over. But they’re both informal, community-centered places that bring art into spots where it didn’t exist. And visiting them — everyone is welcome — feels like simply dropping into a neighbor’s house rather than entering the usual tidy, white-cube dealership. The two galleries are small, and not likely to challenge the art business status quo right away, though they do immediately enrich it, adding a bit of backyard charm while remaining artistically credible. They’re a welcome addition in a city where serious galleries and project spaces are relatively rare and people are accustomed to seeing art in more formal, often stilted, settings. The Georgia gallery opened in September with a show by artist Joshua Ware. (Daniel Tseng, Special to the Denver Post) An international perspective Siddiqui describes Minerva Projects as an incubator providing “new criteria and frameworks for narrating and contextualizing the work of some very interesting artists.” Alternative spaces, by their nature, open themselves up to alternative artists, she believes, “many of whom are women, some are people of color, or other maligned groups.” Minerva’s first exhibit was a terrific example of how it can bring different creative energy to Denver. “Fixed Point Perspective,” curated by the respected critic Hrag Vartanian, explored studio photography from the Ottoman Empire and its overlooked legacy on contemporary art. The work, new and vintage, featured a varied lineup of artists with roots around the globe, including Aram Jibilian, Hrair Sarkissian and Gariné Torossian. These aren’t names (or frankly the kind of names, ethnically speaking) that we often get a chance to see here. An odd — and entertaining — couple: Amber Cobb and Mario Zoots join forces at Understudy Adorable babies and surgical instruments: Exhibit delves into what it means to be female Denver-based artist Darrell Anderson helping children be “Ready To Go” Two dueling Clark Richert exhibitions explore the career of one of Colorado’s biggest painters 10,000 tiny paintings, and just as many reasons to marvel at the way we value art Vartanian’s show is part of his 10-year project exploring this studio photography subject matter, and it has a level of academic rigor that will hold up in the traveling show that Minerva Projects will arrange and tour and the book of images and essays it will publish around his discoveries. But the exhibit was also an entertaining array of colorful, and sometimes comical, images that came off in a most relaxed way at Minerva. Siddiqui renovated her garage for the project; it now has a sleek, glass folding door, a custom-made plywood desk, track lighting and a freshly poured concrete floor. But there’s no escaping the fact that the very same address is the place where Siddiqui lives with her husband, three kids, a cat and a dog. That makes Minerva quirky and 21st century cool. There’s art in the backyard, but also playground equipment, and a large wooden picnic table where people can sit and discuss Middle East photography — or what’s happening at the nearby middle school. Siddiqui, who is Canadian and came to the United States in 2002, and who has a long résumé of arts writing and curatorial work, plans to mix up her fare. She’s particularly interested in work that “draws from multiple cultures and histories,” as she puts it, and artists whose output can be a challenge to appreciate in traditional galleries. Next up is Denver artist Daisy Patton, followed by Israeli-born artists Tamy Ben-Tor and Miki Carmi, who work together via painting and performance art. “The artists that have the most to gain from Minerva Projects are those who require a prismatic lens for understanding their work,” Siddiqui said. Minerva Projects opened with the show “Fixed Point Perspective.” Soon to come is an exhibit of work by Denver artist Daisy Patton. (Stefan Hagen, Provided by Minerva Projects) Not just a garage Over at Geogia, Sommer Browning has a different approach. A full-time librarian and writer, she’s published several collections of her poetry and is a well-considered figure in the region’s literary and live reading scene. The gallery allows her to explore her own evolving fascination with visual art, which she describes as “the new media that can say everything and anything.” Browning spent months visiting and researching galleries, and when she wanted to open one of her own, the nearest and most affordable space was her “one-and-a-quarter car” garage. Georgia’s first show, a three-day pop up in September, featured large-scale collages by her pal, the poet and emerging visual artist Joshua Ware. Georgia, named after Browning’s young daughter, opened with a surprising splash and an interesting conceptual sideshow at Counterpath, the gallery and performance space in East Denver. In recognition of the notion that Browning, a performance artist, was turning her garage into a gallery, Counterpath transformed itself into Browning’s garage: The entire contents of her garage, including her car and storage boxes, went on display at Counterpath. Curator Hrag Vartanian during a talk at the opening of Minerva Projects. (Stefan Hagen, Provided by Minerva Projects) Video from Counterpath’s exhibit was streamed live to Browning’s Friday night opening in Lincoln Park, an event that drew a large crowd, including neighbors, friends and a variety of folks from the established gallery and museum scene. The gallery had quiet daytime hours on Saturday, when more people dropped in. “I could really talk to them and the artist was there,” said Browning. “We were able to have really productive engagement” with visitors. Before closing Sunday afternoon, Georgia hosted a panel discussion with other artists and curators currently exploring alternative places to exhibit work. Georgia’s follow-up kicks off Nov. 17 with a more established name, Katie Caron, who teaches at the Arapahoe Community College Art & Design Center and shows regularly at art spaces across the region. She’s on the roster of the high-end William Havu Gallery in the Golden Triangle. Caron is known for transforming a variety of materials — everything from rubber to ceramics to discarded plastics — into “illusionary environments that engage the natural world, technology, biology, and human perception,” as Georgia’s accompanying text puts it. Her work tends to be engaging and entertaining and, from an ecological perspective, big-picture, and it promises to both complement and ground Georgia’s temporal nature. She’ll show existing pieces and create an installation for the exhibition, and the opening reception will again feature video and live music. And fitting for a gallery named for a 5-year-old, there will be some children’s programming connected. On Nov. 18 at 11 a.m., Edwina the Great and Her Amazing Traveling Flea Circus perform. The event is pay-what-you-can and seating is limited. Georgia gallery will present “Simulations,” an exhibit of work by Katie Caron Friday-Sunday. The address is 952 Mariposa St. but enter from the alley behind. For info or to reserve seats for the flea circus, email GEORGIAartspace@gmail.com. Minerva Projects is currently between exhibitions but welcomes drop-ins. It is located in the alley behind Dexter Street, between 25th and 26th avenues. Info at minervaprojects.org. More about the neighborhood: Denver Post tags: gallery exhibit Ray Mark Rinaldi, A&E Critic Denver Post fine arts critic Ray Mark Rinaldi is a veteran journalist covering classical music, visual art, opera, dance and more. Last hit: River Run Park on the South Platte has improved life for fish and surfers Up next: Garden of the Gods cracked TripAdvisor’s top 10 hottest fall attractions. Here are some of the popular destinations it beat. 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__label__wiki	0.752914	0.752914	Women voters certainly won’t trust a party that doesn’t trust women News National Women voters certainly won’t trust a party that doesn’t trust women 10:22pm, Mar 8, 2019 Updated: 10:12pm, Mar 8 Senator Penny Wong, Senator Michaelia Cash and Julie Bishop. Photo: AAP Paula Matthewson “If you are a supporter of gender equality you are a feminist. So say it with pride.” Thus tweeted one of the Labor opposition’s most senior women, Penny Wong, in response to the departing Liberal Julie Bishop’s latest refusal to call herself a feminist. If you are a supporter of gender equality you are a feminist. So say it with pride. https://t.co/SfcsnbYoza — Senator Penny Wong (@SenatorWong) March 6, 2019 Ms Bishop had declined the description during a media interview this week, saying she preferred “to be judged on what I do in pursuit of gender equality, rather than how I may self-describe”. Senator Wong’s cheap political shot was certainly popular, but it missed the obvious point – it really doesn’t matter if Liberal (or any other right-of-centre women) call themselves feminists, what matters is if they are genuinely doing something to advance the rights of women. Because, as we’ve seen, there’s a credibility chasm between what Liberals say they’re doing to eliminate disadvantages for women, and what they’re actually doing. The Liberal women who reject the word ‘feminist’ do so because they equate it with the word ‘activist’. They see activists as noisy and aggressive disrupters who rally in the streets, rather than those who strive to bring about change from inside the system – as they do. As conservatives, who support the status quo, many Liberal women feel threatened by feminists’ claims that women are suppressed by the patriarchy, or that society is structured against them, for they have learned to survive and thrive (to an extent) in this environment. They therefore reject any suggestion that women are ‘victims’ of men or that a revolutionary act such as ‘smashing the patriarchy’ is needed to set them free. The glass ceiling is ‘invisible’ to them, as Ms Bishop once admitted in yet another explanation to the media of her need not to embrace that word. Even so, Ms Bishop smashed into that ceiling during the Liberal leadership contest in August last year when her moderate colleagues tactically voted for Scott Morrison instead of her to prevent Peter Dutton from becoming prime minister. It’s difficult to conceive that a man with the former deputy Liberal leader’s experience, qualities and yes, even her flaws, would have been similarly dismissed and despatched. The unrest that this event unleashed among Liberal women has been rumbling within the party ever since. Most would not be prepared to call themselves feminists (although there are notable exceptions), but these women took unprecedented action in an attempt to arrest and reverse their party’s descent into toxic masculinity. Acts of intimidation and bullying were called out. Retirements from Parliament were announced. And in one spectacular case, a defection to the parliamentary crossbenches occurred. It was a great start, even if not quite revolutionary, but since then, the rebellion has mostly gone quiet. Which is perhaps why the PM and Liberals more broadly were all over the shop this week, while trying to put on a brave face for International Women’s Day. So. Many. Women. Scott Morrison with Liberal cabinet ministers Melissa Price, Michaelia Cash and Linda Reynolds. Photo: AAP The week started with the promotion of Linda Reynolds to Minister for Defence Industry, bringing the number of women in cabinet to an all-time high of seven. PM Morrison committed to promoting Senator Reynolds even higher to the role of Defence Minister if the Coalition is re-elected, and to maintaining that number of women in the cabinet. Senator Reynolds’ promotion is a plus and a minus for Liberal women. The ex-Army Brigadier and former deputy federal director of the Liberal Party is eminently credentialed for the role. But as a cabinet minister she will have less freedom to speak out and agitate on issues such as women’s representation, as she has done in the past. Meantime, Senator Reynolds’ colleagues in the conservative-dominated WA Division of the Liberal Party spent the week leaking unfavourable information to the media to thwart the preselection of a moderate female contender, describing it as a “good hit” to one reporter. This follows their preselection last month of the only male candidate in a field of five to run for the reasonably safe Liberal seat of Stirling. In contrast, a senior member of the PM’s ‘soft right’ faction, Alex Hawke, argued early this week that the low number of female Liberal MPs was a huge problem and that the party needed to get past its resistance to (and obsession with resisting) quotas to address the issue. Mr Hawke might like to whisper this advice into the ear of his good friend, Scott Morrison, who boasted last weekend that “since I have become prime minister, 18 women have been selected in either Senate or House of Representatives seats”. The PM omitted to mention that only 10 of those women are expected to win, with the rest likely to be cannon fodder in the Labor rout. Liberal candidates who are not in safe seats or the first two positions on the party’s Senate tickets are unlikely to be elected at the upcoming election if the swing to Labor is as strong as anticipated. Come polling day, Australian women won’t cast their ballots according to the female Liberals who are ‘proud’ enough (or not) to call themselves a feminist. Women will vote for the politician or party they trust most – or distrust the least. Women voters certainly won’t trust a party that doesn’t trust women enough to put them in safe seats or leadership positions. The Ferguson Report: Innocuous inoculations inspire incoherent inanities	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1728
__label__wiki	0.547591	0.547591	Why Incubator Temperature Differs From Egg Shell Temperature Hatchery management 10 July 2006, at 12:00am By Dr. Marleen Boerjan, Embryologist, Pas Reform - The most critical factor in commercial incubation is the temperature that the developing embryo experiences. Why Incubator Temperature Differs From Egg Shell Temperature - By Dr. Marleen Boerjan, Embryologist, Pas Reform - The most critical factor in commercial incubation is the temperature that the developing embryo experiences. Embryonic development is a continuous process that can roughly be divided into three different phases: (1) differentiation; (2) growth and (3) the maturation. Figure 1. Relationship between average egg shell temperature (dotted lines: n=30 eggs) and the incubator set point (lines) in a commercial incubator. Typically, differentiation of organs occurs in the first days of incubation. The growth and the maturation of the organs occur in the later phases of development. Each of these phases requires specific incubator conditions. As the embryo grows, its metabolic rate increases and this is accompanied by increased heat production. Consequently, the natural pattern of the embryo and eggshell temperature shows an increase towards the end of incubation. In the incubator we must differentiate between the temperature set point at which the incubator operates and the temperature of the air at the level of the eggs, which determines the temperature of the egg and embryo. At the start of incubation the embryo produces little heat and eggs must be warmed. This means that the air temperature must be higher than the egg temperature. As the embryo grows, metabolic heat production increases and to prevent overheating the air surrounding the eggs must be cooled such that heat is removed from the eggs. In figure 1, a typical incubation program for a broiler embryo is summarized. Figure 1. Summary of the relationship between average egg shell temperature (dotted lines: n=30 eggs) and the incubator set point (lines) in a commercial incubator. The red line represents an incubator temperature program resulting in an average egg shell temperature between days 5 and 10, which was lower than the desired egg shell temperature of 100 ºF. The average eggs shell temperature increased to the desired level when set point was adjusted by 0.2 ºF (green line). For optimum development in the incubator, the eggshell temperature should be within a range of 37.6-37.9 ºC (99.7- 100.2 ºF) during the first two-thirds of incubation and 38.1- 38.8 ºC (100.6-101.8 ºF) during the last days in the setter. Source: Pas Reform - June 2006 Pas Reform How to... assess crop fill in parent stock A guide to determinining appetite development and how to ensure all chicks have feed and water. Farming in focus: Harm Langen 25 Jun 2019 Sponsored Harm Langen, CEO of Pas Reform, spoke with The Poultry Site at IPPE 2019 and shared his reflections on the company's 100 years of hatchery innovation technologies. The Chicken Whisperer: what went wrong with my hatch? The Poultry Site has partnered with The Chicken Whisperer and National Spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Avian Health Program Andy Schneider to bring poultry podcasts and expert insight to help you bett…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1731
__label__cc	0.524496	0.475504	You are here: Home » Community » Karen’s dancing raises more than £23,000 for charity Friday, August 3, 2018 \| Last updated about 5 hours ago Karen Thorne, centre, with the cheque for £23,567 which is going to Chailey Heritage Foundation thanks to her taking part in a Strictly Come Dancing style competition. Karen’s dancing raises more than £23,000 for charity More than £23,000 has been presented to Chailey Heritage Foundation thanks in part to the efforts of accountant Karen Thorne who took part in a Strictly Come Dancing type competition. Karen, and her partner Stuart Dawes, earned a standing ovation when they performed their dance routine at the Hilton Brighton Metropole in June. They had spent months rehearsing and Karen said afterwards the performance was a memory she would cherish forever. Now they have learned that more then £74,000 was raised on the night – through tickets sales, auction donations and bids, a giant raffle, and more – and the share going to Karen’s chosen charity, Chailey Heritage, is £23,567. Karen is “absolutely delighted” and so are her colleagues at C J Thorne civil engineers in Uckfield where she runs the finance department. Read more about Karen’s performance with Stuart Dawes, from Brighton Academy, here in another Uckfield News story: Standing ovation for Karen Thorne in dance challenge. Lives at risk after Uckfield defibrillator stolen Uckfield restaurant phasing out single-use plastic Job vacancies: Weekend working at	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1735
__label__wiki	0.782199	0.782199	Data Driverby David Ramel NHibernate Update Offers Preview of LINQ Provider A new release of NHibernate, the open source .NET port of the Java Hibernate object relational mapping tool, is now available. NHibernate 2.1.0, which went GA last week, is comparable to Hibernate 3.2.6/3.3.1 in terms of features, according to a posting on the Soureceforge site, where developers can download the new release. "It’s a wide array of little things rather than any one big thing," said Stephen Bohlen, one of the NHibernate contributors and organizer of the New York City ALT.NET user group. Among them, the upgrade features a decoupling of the dynamic proxy engine that was previously hard coded to only work with Castle Windsor's dynamic proxy engine, Bohlen told me. "That was changed so it was possible for adopters to swap in whatever dynamic proxy engine they want, whether that be one from Spring.NET, among others." The new release also introduces a refactoring process that will lead to the introduction of the LINQ to NHibernate provider that will ultimately appear in a subsequent release, probably NHibernate 3.0, Bohlen said. "A lot of the syntax parsing for how it actually takes the object model and turns it into executable SQL that gets sent to various different databases, is now configurable in the engine," Bohlen said. "So you can use the older parser if you need to for compatibility reasons but the newer parser is also available as a configuration choice so you can begin to get familiar with how that new parsing engine is going to work with LINQ to NHibernate." That doesn’t' mean that LINQ to NHibernate is in this release, he cautioned, but it does mean a lot of the reshaping of the way the code works is able to actually support that now, he said. "So it's kind of a foundational work for what will eventually be in 3.0 for LINQ to NHibernate." So what is the significance if LINQ to NHibernate? There are two core ways to structure queries in NHibernate and the two that are supported in the application today using HQL, the Hibernate Query Language. HQL is a text based language usually assembled using strings in the same way a developer would assemble SQL strings in any other data environment. "The advantage of HQL is its query is stated in terms of your objects rather than in terms of your database," Bohlen said. "But it is still text based and therefore in a text based query language, meaning there's an opportunity to get the syntax wrong. In Visual Studio, there is no IntelliSense support for writing HQL queries." The second way NHibernate developers can structure queries today is using the Criteria API, a set of operations and methods on the criteria class that enables using methods to construct queries. "The advantage of using methods of course is that it's strongly typed and you get IntelleSense support and it's much easier to construct those things," he said. The problem with the Criteria API, he said, is it comes with a learning curve. LINQ to NHiberate will be a LINQ provider that will enable developers to use what is starting to become a familiar skill sets in terms of writing LINQ queries, whether people are using LINQ to Objects or using LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entities or even the ADO.NET Entity Framework, he said. "As more and more people know how to structure the queries using LINQ, once LINQ to NHibernate is constructed, that will enable someone to write queries against the NHibernate object model using standard LINQ syntax, the same standard LINQ operators that people are familiar with in today writing LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities or the Entity Framework. They will be able to use the right queries against the NHibernate object models. "You still won't be writing database queries in the sense that you won't say 'select from table so-and-so' but you will be saying 'select from this collection of objects where the following values are' and so on." So that begs the question, will LINQ to NHibernate make NHibernate more appealing as an alternative to Microsoft's own offerings including the Entity Framework? In terms of structuring queries, it will bring it into parity with the learning curve of an object relational mapper, according to Bohlen. "There's obviously a whole host of things that you have to get as a new adopter to ORM technology to get your head around, but certainly the query language supported by the object relational mapper is one of those areas," he said. "Once LINQ to NHibernate is actually fully baked, I think there will be a much greater parity there in terms of once you've mastered the LINQ query language you'd be able to apply those skills directly to NHibernate in the same way that today to a degree you are able to apply those skills directly to Entity Framework." Many question how many enterprise developers will favor NHibernate over the Entity Framework once Visual Studio 2010 and the Entity Framework 4 ship next year. That release adds POCO support, template-based code generation and LINQ to Entities improvements, among other features. Nevertheless Stephen Forte, director of technology at Telerik, which itself offers an ORM tool, wonders how quickly developers will use the Entity Framework, even though it is being baked into the .NET Framework 4. "If you look at all these new features and say 'oh that sounds cool, but when do I use it, why should I move from ADO.NET or why should I move from LINQ To SQL," Forte told me. Microsoft still needs to make the case for that, something he is hopeful will happen around the PDC 2009 timeframe in November. Forte had more to say on all these ORM and data access technologies during a recent .NET Rocks interview. Are you partial to either ORM technology, do you see using a hybrid of both, or are you sticking with ADO.NET and/or LINQ To SQL? Drop me a line and let me know what you think at jschwartz@1105media.com. Posted by Jeffrey Schwartz on 07/29/2009 at 1:15 PM	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1736
__label__cc	0.526556	0.473444	Desmond File Visual Studio 2010 Goes SP1 For many Microsoft products, the first service pack is a right of passage. Many dev and IT managers don't consider a new OS or application mature until it has been updated with its first major service pack. By that metric, the release today of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is big news. As ever, Microsoft cites customer feedback as the driving force behind this latest service pack. Features like extended IntelliTrace support for 64-bit and SharePoint development projects, an improved Help Viewer and fully integrated tooling for Silverlight 4 were all requested by Visual Studio customers, according to Microsoft's Jason Zander. There's also now unit testing support for Visual Studio 2010 projects targeting .NET Framework 3.5. The list of updates, improvements and changes is long and definitely worth a look for anyone using, or thinking of using, Visual Studio 2010. You can find a detailed rundown on the Microsoft Support site. What's interesting about Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is that it's not one of those "put out the fire" service packs that Microsoft has scrambled to produce in the past. By most accounts, Visual Studio 2010 has been impressively stable. As Directions on Microsoft Analyst Rob Sanfilippo told me the other day: "VS 2010 has been a solid, successful release. It has delivered on its promises and has been a stable environment, without the requirement of any major patches since it shipped." Jason Beres, director of product management at component maker Infragistics, says his company has been doing design time testing with the SP, and that it fixed "some visual issues" that reduced the productivity of some developers. Will you be updating to Service Pack 1? I'd like to learn what you find out when you do. Email me at mdesmond@1105media.com, or provide comment below. Posted by Michael Desmond on 03/08/2011 at 1:15 PM	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1737
__label__cc	0.621734	0.378266	PCB announces 15-member Test squad against New Zealand November 10, 2018 \| Filed under: Sports,Today in News \| Posted by: VoV Web Desk Lahore – The National Selection Committee headed by Inzamam ul Haq after consultation with Captain Sarfraz Ahmed and Head Coach Mickey Arthur has announced the 15 member Test squad for two Test matches against New Zealand. The three-match Test series will commence from November 16-20 in Abu Dhabi. The first two matches will be played in Dubai from November 24-28, whereas the last match of the series will be played in Abu Dhabi from December 3 to 7, 2018. The team has been selected keeping in mind the conditions of the UAE, where Shahdab Khan and Fakhar Zaman have been rested from the Test matches and have also been advised to undergo training at the NCA. “Shaheen Shah Afridi has been included in the squad keeping his current form. Saad Ali included in the side after performing in domestic cricket and recent Pakistan ‘A’ series in the UAE,” concludes Chief Selector Inzamam ul Haq. The selected players are: Muhammad Hafeez, Imam Ul Haq, Azhar Ali, Haris Sohail, Asad Shafiq, Baber Azam, Saad Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmad ( captain), Yasir Shah, Bilal Asif, Muhammad Abbas, Hassan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Faheem Ashraf, Mir Hamza	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1739
__label__wiki	0.63163	0.63163	dubwiki Our Interview with Ayah Marar Ayah Marar is a name you should know; dubbed ‘the queen of UK bass’ and with a loyal following of ‘bunheads’, Ayah has been putting in the work for years. She’s collaborated with Calvin Harris, Camo & Krooked, DJ Marky, Toddla T, Total Science and many of the finest bass music producers around. 2011 and 2012 have been massive for Ayah, so we caught up with her and asked her – How it all got started, How 1 million views on Youtube feels? and Who she plans on working with in the future. 1: Hello Ayah! You have been dubbed the “queen of UK bass music”. Tell us how it all started for you and why you got into music? Hello there! I started out helping to run a D&B night at university, which progressed on to running a D7B label, Lucky Devil Recordings. I had a 4 year DJ residency at Herbal, worked at a record shop, Uptown Records, for a while, and went on to start recording vocals for dance tracks and it all progressed from there. Now I own and run my own label, Hussle Girl. 2: What do you feel was your big break in your career? I don’t know if there was one defining moment. Going on tour around the world with Calvin Harris definitely helped me build profile, and so many DJs and producers along the way who have taken the time to involve me in their projects, it’s a steady rise as opposed to one big thing, I think. 3: You’ve collaborated with Calvin Harris, Camo & Krooked, DJ Marky, Toddla T and Total Science. Which of these artists did you enjoy working with the most? I had better hope none of them are reading this, eh? To be honest, they’re all my boys, and they’ve all taught me different things, so I couldn’t single out one of them. I also love working with Chemo, Tenku and the man behind THE REAL, Will Simms. 4: The Cutline Remix of “Mind Controller” has now received over 1 million views on UKF on Youtube. How does that feel? Mental. Aboslutely mental. Who would have thought it? 5: Your new single “Unstoppable” was produced by Camo & Krooked. How was it working with them and where did the inspiration for that track come The guys are amazing. Reini is upfront and honest and has a very keen ear for mixes, and Markus is a lovely ball of energy, and together they’re truly a force to be reckoned with in drum and bass, that’s for sure. 6: Are you planning on working with some more Dubstep artists? If yes, please tell us and if not, who would you like to work with? Yes most definitely! I plan to do some more work with Funtcase, Caspa, Cutline and more, I’m a big fan of the scene. For more on Ayah visit: http://ayahmarar.com/ Stay connected with MyDubstep: 0 I like it 0 I don't like it Tags:ayah mararcutlineInterview with Ayah Marar Satcha – Rascal Chords of Truth – Tune Your Mind (Venumb Spookstep Remix) Synthetic Symphony by Dysphemic & Miss Eliza (Free Download) #1 Dubstep Music Fan This interview was great, it was really interesting hearing what Ayah had to say! Nice job as always, MyDubstep.net !! :)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1741
__label__cc	0.729309	0.270691	Exploring best practice and research in sexual violence. A loud voice in the fight against victim blaming. Written and Managed by Jessica Eaton, Doctoral Researcher in Forensic Psychology Why I stopped encouraging women to disclose to police or doctors after rape jessicapsych Abuse, child abuse, Feminism, Psychology, Sexism, Sexual, Sexualisation January 17, 2019 January 17, 2019 12 Minutes Written by Jessica Eaton Aye. Not shy of a controversial topic or two on this blog, are we? It’s true. Over the years, I stopped encouraging women to talk to their doctor or to the police if they had been raped. When women asked me what to do, I stopped advising them to report to the police and I stopped advising them to go to their GP for support. I want to talk about why I made this decision and why I still do not encourage women to report to police or disclose to doctors that they have been raped or sexually assaulted. Some people might be surprised to read this. Others who know me well, know what’s coming in this blog: We have to talk about the way disclosure and reporting sexual violence can make the situation much worse for women. This year, I have been working in sexual and domestic abuse for nine years. That includes years spent managing vulnerable and intimidated witness programmes for sexual, domestic and physical violence trials, manslaughter, trafficking and homicide cases. In addition to another few years managing rape centre services for women and men. And a few more years working in child sexual exploitation. Over the years, I noticed the same pattern emerging everywhere: we were advising women to disclose and to tell people what had happened to them, but they were not benefiting from that disclosure. In fact, lots of women I worked with were negatively impacted by disclosing or reporting rape. Those of you who work in these services will know what I mean: – Women who report to the police only to be questioned for hours about what they were wearing, why they were drinking and whether they were telling the truth – Women who report to the police to be asked why the didn’t report sooner – Women who report to the police, initially believing they were not to blame, leaving the station convinced it was her own fault – Women who try to report to the police but are told their evidence was not good enough or that their complaint would go nowhere – Women who reported to the police but had their case NFA’d (no further action) because she was not ‘credible’ enough – Women who reported to the police but were told they were not reliable enough because they have autism, mental health issues or addictions – Women who go to their doctor to disclose abuse or rape and are met with a GP who has absolutely no idea what to say to them because no one has trained them in how to support a disclosure – Women who go to their doctor about trauma responses to abuse or rape and get told they have mental health issues and are prescribed anti-depressants with no other assessment – Women who tell their doctor that they were raped or abused and are asked intrusive and judgemental questions – Women who disclose to their doctor that they are having flashbacks or trauma responses to abuse and are told they need to ‘get over it’ The reality is, in the UK, when a woman is raped or abused, we hear the same two ‘routes’ to care advised over and over again: “You must report it to the police” and “I’m sorry you feel that way, have you spoken to your GP?” But what if those two routes are causing further harm? What if the people in those routes don’t have the right training to be the first response to rape and abuse disclosures? What if our systems are not set up for women and are instead penalising them for disclosure? What if women were better off not reporting the rape at all? What if women were better off not speaking to a GP about sexual trauma? Case Study 1: Dina Dina was sexually abused by her parents for many years but has only recently come to understand what happened to her. She is a 36 year old female with two kids and a husband. She has been feeling low, distant, erratic and having a number of physical and psychological symptoms of trauma. She talks to her friends who tell her to go to her GP for help. She goes to the GP after weeks of building up the courage. When she gets to see her GP, she uncomfortably tells them how she is feeling and some of the thoughts she has been having. The GP looks disturbed and asks her why she has only just remembered. The GP asks Dina why she has never told anyone before. Dina doesn’t know what to say. The GP asks her some standard questions about her low mood and suggests that she is suffering from anxiety and depression and prescribes 25mg Sertraline. Dina leaves the surgery to get the prescription and goes home. Do not be fooled. This case study is so common, people reading this blog will identify with it straight away. This is an example of the way trauma is medicalised and trivialised by untrained and unsupported medical practitioners who have not had decent, trauma-informed training. Women are often labelled, medicated and sent on their way. Sometimes, if severe, they will be referred to a mental health team who will further label and medicate them. True trauma-informed approaches that would look deeply at the sexual trauma, the memories and the context of her symptoms is lacking in the UK, so thousands of victims of sexual trauma will simply be told they are mentally ill and medicated for many years with no access to decent support or therapy. In this case, was this really the best outcome we could have provided for Dina? No. There was no discussion of the memories, the trauma, the responses, the fact that her feelings are normal. There was no explanation of the psychosomatic and physiological manifestations of trauma that would have helped her understand why her body and brain are feeling different now she has remembered the abuse. Instead, she is labelled and medicated with a standard dosage of a massively over prescribed anti-depressant and sent on her way. Case Study 2: Rachel Rachel was told to seek support from the local mental health team for her feelings and thoughts after she was raped. She spoke to a Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) a few times over a period of weeks. This week she has been told they think she has borderline personality disorder. Rachel was sure that her feelings were because she was raped by her ex-partner, but this professional has just explained to her that she actually has a personality disorder that is making her think and feel differently about herself and others. Rachel is now flagged at her GP surgery, by the police and by the A&E department as having a personality disorder which means people are less likely to believe her and more likely to assume her reports or behaviours are due to, or affected by, a personality disorder. She is likely to struggle to ever get the incorrect diagnosis removed and it may affect her employment, education and opportunities in the future as it is so stigmatising. Again, extremely common. Women and girls are 7 times more likely to be diagnosed with BPD than boys and men (Ussher, 2013). Also, it is a very common catch-all diagnosis for women with histories of abuse and trauma. Borderline personality disorder and the newer ’emotionally unstable personality disorder’ are well known to practitioners working with women and girls who have been abused or raped, because they often have been diagnosed with these terms instead of trauma. In fact, you may be interested to know that the criteria for BPD and EUPD is very similar to the old criteria from DSM II for ‘hysteria’ (Ussher, 2013). That’s right. Personality disorder in women has the same criteria as a sexist old diagnosis of ‘hysteria’. Hysterical women. Crazy, mad, angry women with mental health illnesses caused by their crazy wombs. With Rachel, our professional or personal advice was for her to speak to the mental health team in her locality – but was that really in her best interests? Did Rachel need support or a psychiatric diagnosis? Why did we tell her to go to the mental health team in the first place? Isn’t trauma after rape normal? Case Study 3: Lisa Lisa was raped on her way home from drinks with work colleagues. It was around 7:45pm and she was in familiar streets walking home. She says that a man came out of nowhere and attacked her, dragging her up the street before pushing her over. She says there must have been witnesses because the street was full of people walking home in the light summer evening. After she was raped and the man ran away, she rang 999 and waited for the officers. She was feeling hopeful, because she had been raped before when she was a teenager and because that happened in a relationship with no witnesses and no evidence, the case was closed. She thought, this time, she would definitely be taken seriously and she knew it was not her fault. The police arrived and took her to the station and to the SARC for examination. It was when she was giving her interview that the officers asked her questions that made her question herself. They asked her if she had been drinking because she smelled of wine. They asked her why she was walking home alone after drinking. They told her they knew she had reported rape before and ‘it had come to nothing’. They asked her why she couldn’t remember what he was wearing. They asked her why she didn’t fight him off or scream for help. Lisa explained she had mental health issues she was currently seeking help for and then realised that was making her sound even less credible. Lisa started to cry and realised, she was not the ‘credible’ victim she thought she was. The case was NFA’d three weeks later and nothing was done to apprehend the offender. As much as this might read like a ‘worse case scenario’ for women reporting rape, it really isn’t. It’s common. It’s happening everywhere. Women are scrutinised from the moment they report. Everything is considered: their behaviour, their character, their mental health, their background, their criminal history, their sexual activity, their story, their intoxication, their appearance and their body language. We know this to be true. We know the research has been telling us consistently for the past 40 years that women who report rape to the police blame themselves more and wish they hadn’t reported at all (Campbell et al, 2009; Ullman, 2004; Eaton, forthcoming). We also know that only around 13% of people (men and women) who are raped ever report to police (CSEW, 2017). We know that the research explains this trend clearly: victims are measuring themselves against rape myths and stereotypes to consider whether they will be believed or not (Campbell et al., 2009; Sleath, 2011). Even research from University of Bedfordshire (2015) showed that girls who had been sexually exploited in childhood who were encouraged to report and then go through a criminal prosecution process in court had worse outcomes, worse mental health and much higher rates of trauma. So why do we keep telling women to report to police? When the CSEW is reporting that 510,000 women were sexually assaulted or raped in 2017 but only 2991 offenders were convicted – that gives women a 0.5% prospect of conviction of the person who sexually assaulted or raped them. So why do we keep putting women and girls through the process of questioning, interviews, evidence collection, trial, waiting and agonising for sometimes 12-18 months? Is this in their best interests? Is reporting to the police really the best thing for them as a victim? No. It isn’t. Is it good for society? Supposedly, but if the conviction rate is anything to go by, then no. Will it protect others from being raped? Probably not. So I got to the point after working with hundreds, maybe thousands of women and girls who have been raped (and the thousands of women and girls who write to me about their experiences of this too) – where I just stopped encouraging women to report to police or disclose to the GP. And trust me when I say, I know I am going to get backlash for coming out and publicly saying this. I know people are going to argue that I am being irresponsible. But riddle me this, if women disclosing to their GP is resulting in them being stigmatised, labelled and medicated instead of being supported – and reporting to the police is causing women to blame themselves or become more traumatised than before – in whose interest is this advice? What if we started being honest with women when they were raped? What if we told them that if they went to their GP and disclosed rape, exploitation or abuse, there is a high chance they will be met by someone who has no training in how to support them, has no idea how to explain sexual trauma to them and is likely to either medicate them or refer them to a mental health team who will medicate them too? What if we told women the truth about what happens when they report a rape, how it might make them feel, how waiting 12 months for a trial date might impact their lives, how being made to relive their experiences 18 months later in a courtroom when they were just starting to feel okay again, might affect them? What if we told them about the conviction rate? What if we told them about the way justice actually feels when an offender gets a suspended sentence but you live with the memories of the rape forever? What if we suggested something else entirely? What if we actually advised women and girls based on what was in their best interests? Not our best interests. Not the state’s. Not the professional’s. Their best interests. The interests of the woman. I no longer advise women to report to the police and I no longer advise women to go to their doctor. Neither are supporting female victims in the way they should, and the evidence is consistently showing us that these routes cause further trauma. So what do I advise them? Well, it’s simple really: – Seek out women’s centres and specialist, third sector rape and sexual violence services – Use helplines to talk anonymously and confidentially about how you feel without having to commit to a service – Seek free mental health support from third sector organisations and research them to check they use approaches you agree with – Report anonymously to Crimestoppers if you would like to – Read lots of reports and research to inform yourself before making a decision to report to the police about abuse or rape – Seek advice from experienced women’s centres and sexual violence services about reporting without any pressure or bias – Make a decision based on what is best for you, and do not think about anyone else. Be selfish. Do what you want to do. – You are not responsible for the offender’s actions or next victims, reporting them is highly unlikely to stop them from abusing others long term – Decide whether you are ready to disclose at all, there is no pressure and no rush. Talk to people you trust and who love you and care about you – Seek trauma-informed advice and therapy to learn about your body and brain after sexual trauma without being diagnosed as mentally ill – Talk to other survivors and victims if you would like to, to learn and to find some common ground with others – Use reflective techniques to process your memories and feelings such as writing, art, singing, reading and learning – Look after yourself and do something nice for yourself every day – If you do want to report, seek support and don’t go alone – If you do want to go to your Doctor about concerning health symptoms you need advice with, take someone with you and prepare what you are going to say and what answers you want and don’t want. You are in control of your health. If you do not want a medical response (medication and diagnosis), tell your GP you are looking for therapy or support and ask for referrals or signposting. In reality, there are many more routes to recovery and support than two systems that are failing women right now. Until the services are staffed by people who are fully trained and until responses to women with sexual traumas are reformed and redesigned to stop scrutinising, medicating and blaming women for rape, women are better off avoiding them all together. There are better, more woman-centred, trauma-informed, strengths based approaches out there. Let’s put victims first, not systems. What’s in their best interests? Can we do better? Jessica Eaton http://www.victimfocus.org.uk Email: jessica@victimfocus.org.uk Tweet: @JessicaE13Eaton Short, tongue in cheek disclosure: Yes, I know this happens to men too. Yes, I know there are some great police officers. Yes, I know you might have a great GP. No, your anecdote does not trump years of research and real experiences of women and girls. Published by jessicapsych Psychologist specialising in victim blaming and self blame following sexual violence. International independent specialist researcher and writer for www.victimfocus.org.uk - Founder of VictimFocus, The VictimFocus Charter and VictimFocus Academy. Founder and Chair of The Eaton Foundation, the first male mental health centre in the UK. Known to some as 'that woman with the fringe who talks about victim blaming and feminism all the damn time'. View all posts by jessicapsych Previous Post I analysed the searches people used to read my blog and it’s not good news for women Next Post Women: How to be the perfect victim of sexual violence 36 thoughts on “Why I stopped encouraging women to disclose to police or doctors after rape” Thanks for writing this, Jessica, you do such wonderful work. My own way of dealing with it is to keep quiet. My ex-husband was angry with me when I told him what had happened to me in the past and the fact I had not reported it. It was brought up occasionally in arguments, he basically couldn’t deal with it. I could. I wouldn’t tell anyone again, no matter how close I was to them. Great read and made lots of sense. Absolutely genius article Jessica – It couldn’t be more accurate. It’s the sad truth. Every GP and police officer should read this. Fannie Bentleg says: A database of offenders names/details available would be useful. If the same rapist keeps offending, and keeps being logged it’d surely be easier to have a group of women with similar stories reach a successful conviction. The offenders know they’re going to get away with it with our current system. A system where history can catch up with the offender is a far bigger deterrent, IMO. Toni Hargis says: To be listed as an “offender” presumably the rapist must be arrested, charged and found guilty of rape – which in most cases, isn’t happening. Karolina says: Since 0.5% is convicted it would not make a difference. I agree. Something warning other women. Like they did with that circulation of “shitty media men”. Are there any victims out there of UK police officers? Matthew Smith says: Sad fact is a lot of GPs are useless. A lot are doctors who could not handle the hospital culture for one reason or another or who want a part-time but well-paid job. Increasingly we are seeing small surgeries peter out in favour of the large practices where there are several GPs and it’s the luck of the draw which one you get. I’ve had GPs who could not wait to get me out of the door, one who slipped in a whole lot of other tests without my consent when I went for a routine yearly thyroid check (and then tried to put me on statins when I was 30), and one who didn’t pass on my referral request until I called him up, two or three months after the consultation, to remind him. So, I understand the logic of not recommending a GP visit for something this sensitive unless you know who their GP is and that they’re educated on this and sympathetic. BTW: another concern about approaching the police is that they might be more interested in your immigration status than in the crime you’re reporting. Has happened more than once with domestic violence. I am being pressured by social services and family to report ex partner or risk being seen as not removed enough from ex partner, this article validates how I feel as after over a year of trauma in the family courts, police and social services involvement no way do I feel ready for more court and police, i am healing and part of amazing support womens groups, I know I can be an amazing mother and I shouldn’t have to prove that by pressing charges but that is what everyone is pressuring me to do. I am going to print this article out and bring it with me to show my parents, family, social workers, legal teams etc. do you have any of the research/stats to make it more legit in the professionals eyes? Thank you, you have given me reassurance to keep doing the right thing for my emotional and mental well being, you are a blessing. Where I agree with you in some aspects of not disclosing I think it is wrong to assume that all victims of either rape/sexual abuse/domestic violence etc who disclose for various reasons may come away more damaged for doing so. I was raped by my father from the ages of 11yrs until 21yrs. Often up to x4 daily. He got me pregnant twice and attempted his own DIY abortion on me. He broke me literally, broke my jaw, battered me, broke my spirit, stole my childhood and most of my adulthood. In May 2018 he got a 20year prison sentence. My life is just starting, I’m pleased I disclosed, it wasn’t easy going through the trial but I wouldn’t be here now if I hadn’t disclosed and done something about it. No matter what training you have you can not and must not coerce people into doing what you feel is right. You can guide and give advice. The victim has to do what they feel is right for them. This is from someone who has suffered and experienced various emotions, someone who would not be alive now had I not disclosed and seen it through. I did what was right for me. Seren says: Thank you so much for writing this. It took me several years to come to terms with the experience of being interviewed by police for (historic) child sexual abuse. I assumed there must be something very wrong with me, because I believed – deeply – that going to the police was empowering, would seal me as a truly healed survivor, gold star. In fact the experience I had caused me harm, and went no way to keeping the perpertrator of my abuse away from other children. I had very good support from the state healthcare sexual violence service, but to add to your list of what service providers like you can do for survivors I would say, don’t make the policies of the medical and legal institutions the survivor’s problem. I think my counsellor thought it was helpful for me to hear what best practice involves, but at the time that was just confusing to me – I didn’t have a sense of myself as one instance of a kind of case that should be dealt with according to this or that set of policies, I was just me, suffering. (I don’t mean that best practice policies and procedures aren’t important to research and apply, from the institutional / service provider perspective, just that it didn’t mean anything to me as a service user, and conversation about them wasn’t helpful). I would also recommend Germaine Greer’s recent writing on this to people – I realise it’s controversial, and if it doesn’t help you it doesn’t help. But her ideas around pursuing civil action and other alternatives to what we currently expect of survivors of rape and sexual violence – I think they can kick off some very important conversations. I was raped, and I even got a recorded phone call where he said “I’m sorry I hurt you” and admitted to persisting even after I told him No and that I had a boyfriend. The cops assigned a rookie to the case and he claimed it wasn’t enough evidence and “at least he apologized to you” and used the guy being an ex against me. The guy deliberately got me shitfaced, and he was supposed to be my best friend. Smdh. I have found other women (for the most part) to be the most sympathetic. Nimue Brown says: Also, if you report, you may be made to repeat what happened to you, in great detail, to many different professionals, over and over – because each one will want to hear the story and judge you. Police (usually multiple interviews) doctors, social workers, Cafcas, your own solicitors, you can end up having to say it a lot of times over a long time frame. And if you’re traumatised, about the worst thing to do is have to re-vist the memory of the trauma in extreme detail. That the professionals may be indifferent through to pretty hostile doesn’t help much either. A Nonny Mouse says: Not to mention the fact that CPS guidelines demand that we who are traumatised must remain suitably so, in order to be credible. I’m in the middle of reporting my historic abuse, and I’m waiting for a decision, either way. That decision (to prosecute, or not) will then mean that I can actually begin the detailed de-sensitisation trauma work. I cannot start that before then, because if I do, my therapist will be called as a witness in the trial, and it would jeopardise my case. Because heaven forbid we actually provide support and healing to women – they need to be broken and miserable in order to be good witnesses. Everyone I’ve dealt with so far has been brilliant, and I can still see the gaping flaws in the system. Lori S. says: “Women are scrutinised from the moment they report. Everything is considered: their behaviour, their character, their mental health, their background, their criminal history, their sexual activity, their story, their intoxication, their appearance and their body language.” The police can and do even force victims to reveal their social media history. So if you ever said anything on FF, for example, that showed confusion about what happened, or a past relationship with the attacker, or if you were amicable with the attacker on FB after the assault, even out of fear, your case is dismissed. The word “scrutiny” doesn’t even begin to cover how victims are treated. It’s a witch hunt, complete with a total stripping of privacy and dignity. As a survivor of an assault that took place when I was fifteen years old, the choice I made that I regret the most was going to the police. The male chief of police called me names, threatened to charge me for filing a false police report if I persisted with the charges, and had inappropriate semi-nude or nude (too traumatic, can’t recall properly) photos of me, bent over his police desk, taken of me. The photos scare me the most. I have no idea if they are on the internet, or which child sex pests or perverts may be using them as gratification or encouragement to commit real life child sex offenses. When I was raped when I was 24, I didn’t report it at all, because I didn’t want to be treated like that ever again. We must have laws that mandate that rape victims have a paid advocate that lobbies for them in the police departments and prosecutors’ offices. Rape victims should never have* to be alone with a male police officer or male medical staff immediately after a violent attack. If we can improve the system, maybe we can make it safer for women and girls to report. Rose Johnson says: A brilliant piece of writing. I think this could equally be applied to those of us who have experienced domestic abuse. I didn’t report to the police but did talk to mental health professionals. I was traumatised by ongoing emotional and psychological abuse by an ex-partner. I was incredibly naïve and genuinely believed that if I told the truth I would be believed, get some support and my children would be protected. I was labelled as ‘over-sensitive’, not communicating effectively with my abuser and a bout of depression from decades earlier was dragged up. Anti-depressants and sleeping tablets were pressed upon me. I found the whole experience, the lack of empathy, understanding and knowledge about the dynamics of abuse from the very people I believed would be the best informed, even more traumatising than the abuse. The abuse continued for years. I didn’t speak about it again, not wanting to risk not being believed or pathologised further. Many years later I was finally diagnosed with PTSD. SJ says: I wish this wasn’t true, but it is. I was raped twice, as a teenager and a young college student. I reported the second rape to the police in my college town. And yes, I was questioned about my dress, if I’d been drinking etc. The police never even interviewed the rapist, even though I knew who he was. The police went to his house once, he wasn’t there, and the case was closed. They had the gall to tell me that my injuries could have been due to “rough sex”. I didn’t have mental health issues or any other issues that should have made my story hard to believe, I was an honor student in good standing at the university, and yet I was not believed. I don’t necessarily regret reporting the rape, but nothing good came out of it for me or anyone else, and it made things a lot worse for me for a long time. Really sad to read this but can’t say I’m surprised. Out of interest, would there be a way to be medically assessed and evidence collected after a rape without having to report it to police? My concern would be that by not having a medical exam immediately after you would lose physical evidence that could help you in the future, if you decided prosecution was the right thing for you. Hi, you can make a self-referal to a SARC to have forensics taken but this depends on being able to physically attend a centre. In Scotland we have one SARC. Samples are held for six months giving survivors time to consider their options. As a third sector ISVA I can, sadly, relate to this, as will most of my clients… I spend so much of my time trying to manage expectations of not only reporting but the whole sorry state of the CJS when it comes to rape and sexual abuse. There is NFA after NFA and I can barely remember the last time there was a guilty verdict. This is the shit part of my job…but the best part is giving my clients the opportunity to tell their story…to help them understand the impact of the trauma they have experienced and to help them understand everything they feel is normal, physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically…it is the ‘this is normal’ that always has the biggest impact… I recently received a wonderful letter from one of my clients to thank me for my input as a ISVA (her case was NFA’d). The letter reduced me to tears, as she wrote, so very eloquently, what I did to help and support her, as an ISVA. It clarified why I do my job and why I love my job… Your blog hits the nail on the head and I applaud you for it… Please do get in touch should you need anymore feedback… I think you are wonderful.., jknappfeet&pedaladventures says: Thank you for your article. It has given me much food for thought. I have pondered a number of years now on disclosing my rape but all you have mentioned, added to the violation of social media and text messages, the fact it was in a relationship and he was a police officer have made me feel my only justice is the moving on with a happy life. The law needs some major changes and then we may see the reality of the situation, when women feel enabled to come forward. No one prepares you for the mental trauma (it comes and goes, and sneaks up on you at the worst of moments). It is this, in addition to the physical trauma that is completely misunderstood. Anyone who tells you to ‘get over it’ is neither helpful or a friend. pabev says: Borderline personality disorder is real, and dangerous to other people. Borderline personality disorder are psychopaths, which will use any means to hurt other people, including false rape accusations. Just because somebody complains that had been told that has borderline personality disorder does not makes that person innocent. jessicapsych says: Borderline personality disorder is the most contested psychiatric disorder in history. It’s sexist, it’s stigmatising and it is generally diagnosed in girls and women after abuse and trauma. It has absolutely no basis in reality and is utter and complete claptrap that causes the views you hold. Johanna Stadler says: Why is it claptrap because more women are likely to be diagnosed with it? So you’re suggesting that BPD, a disorder that has the same criteria as ‘hysteria’, that only seems to be diagnosed in traumatised females, that has no evidence based whatsoever, that even lists being bisexual as a symptom, is totally legitimate? agentmarmalade says: Having borderline personality disorder and being a psychopath are not the same thing. What are you talking about?! The SPF Editors USA says: The “great” police officers and judges need to confront the evil in their ranks. Otherwise, they are complicit. Are you daft? GPs are not therapists why would they start psychoanalysis if that’s not their area? And what do you even think psychiatry is? There are no tests or assesments. You literally prattle of your symptoms and they write you a script. Are you serious? Amelia Simpson says: This is something I’ve thought a lot about. I was sexually abused as a child and went through the horrible ordeal of a trial as a 10 year old. And even though I was protected from most of the process, it was traumatic. In the end my abuser was found not guilty because of lack of evidence. I know now as an adult that I would never report a rape if it happened again because as someone labelled BPD I would never be believed. A year and a half ago I also had a close friend who was raped and many people told her she should report but I didn’t encourage it because I knew just how harrowing it would be for her. She’s just now starting to feel better, but if she had reported she might STILL be in the court process. I’ve been lucky to have had counselling with a third sector sexual abuse and rape centre. I’ll always recommend that over reporting to police. Maiia Bakhova says: Dealing with rape survivors is extremely difficult, and I myself was able to start to talk my rape as a child only when I grew up. Even then I could talk only with people whom I trusted. I needed years of professional help to be able to share my experience publicly. So yes, I understand problems here. Nevertheless offering rape survivors silence do not help with the rape epidemic. Research shows that the most helpful here is working with boys and young men. Pingback: We must be better! – Bikes, Balls and Wellbeing thesoddensoberista says: Thank u for this article. I’m only now starting to deal with being raped when I was 13. I’m now 40. I had not wanted to come forward back then as I knew I wouldn’t be believed as I was drunk and passed out. But I also didn’t get any treatment which led me down a road of using alcohol to medicate. I’m now seeking help from third sector and counselling. Thank god for these services! tilliemom says: Yes. This. For myself, I never reported to police because I instinctively knew I wouldn’t pass scrutiny on what a good ‘victim’ looks and behaves like. I did years later, when suffering PTSD and flashbacks, disclose to my GP. The prescription pad came out in a matter of seconds. I was lucky to eventually find a good therapists, well versed on abuse trauma. Disclosure will always be a sticking point for me. I’ve had negative experiences disclosing to some friends, partners and family members. I’ve learned to trust my instincts about who and what situations are ‘safe’ for disclosure. They are few, but they’re also incredibly affirming and helpful. Thank you for writing this and for your blog in general. All the best. H. HarryS says: Be very careful here as many of these organizations and individuals have agendas for which they will use an assault victim to further the purposes of their organizations rather than putting the victim’s interests first! Consider reporting not rape or sexual assault but instead the non-sexual aspects: punching, beating, choking, cutting, robbery. These are much more straightforward than rape and specifically sexual assault as no one presumes that a victim of brutality consented to or invited being punched, beaten, choked, cut or robbed. “Simple” non-physically injurious rape differs from consensual sexual activity by the attitude (consent) of the recipient. While a rape victim may hope for satisfaction in getting a perpetrator labeled “rapist” and “sex offender,” the object of police and prosecutors is to obtain convictions. Of anything they can. Not sympathizing with victims. Not soothing injured feelings. Isn’t a, say, 90% chance of a conviction for aggravated assault, assault and battery, and the like better than a 1% chance of a conviction for rape? Cory westing says: I completely agree with much of this, the police do drop the ball with people who have conditions like eupd, which is itself often brought about by abuse, thus compounding trauma. There most certainly needs to be more sympathy for ALL victims of sexual violence. My ex partner was raped in rehabilitation after a head injury. She was treated like it was somehow her fault, and had to cope alone with no support after being discharged. I wasn’t with her when this happened. But I saw the aftermath. It’s very painful to see someone who has just about relearned talking and walking having the extra pain of that. She’s a braver person than me. 5 ways we are encouraged to blame women and girls for being raped and abused Council Estate Academics: Take Pride in Your Roots New Zealand gave me the strength to keep fighting 7 reasons why I don’t support police checking victims’ mobile phones in sexual violence cases Jessica Eaton granted a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts jher1992 on Why I don’t want women t… Dreaming Life on Why I don’t want women t… Helena Wojtczak on 5 ways we are encouraged to bl… מ on 5 ways we are encouraged to bl…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1742
__label__wiki	0.81027	0.81027	Infectious Diseases News Niger Globally, since 2010, vaccination coverage with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) and one dose of the measles vaccine has stalled at around 86%... Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa Global collaboration and sharing data on public health emergencies is important to fight the spread of infectious diseases... By Moses John Bockarie 8 Jul 2019 The three big studies pushing at the frontiers of HIV prevention There are an estimated 5,000 new HIV transmissions every day. Around 70% of the 37-million people living with HIV globally are in sub-Saharan Africa... By Glenda Gray 14 Jun 2019 Ebola outbreaks may be more common than we think The best defence against Ebola outbreaks is early detection. If detected early enough, an outbreak can be prevented with targeted, low-tech interventions, such as isolating infected people and their contacts... What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria To consider that Nigeria, infamous for anti-vaxx campaigns leading to polio outbreaks, has any lessons for Americans may be shocking... By Shobana Shankar 7 Jun 2019 Decolonising healthcare Colonialism's influence is everywhere from board rooms in Geneva, Switzerland, to Ebola treatment wards in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Stronger health systems will boost the fight against infectious diseases The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that 13-million people die from infectious diseases each year... Tips from Nigeria on teaching teens about breast and cervical cancer Empowering young women with information in high school can help ensure that certain cancers are caught early... The app that tracks diseases and saves lives in Africa What if a mobile phone could prevent a health epidemic? It may sound like science fiction, but the WHO polio geographic information system (GIS) technology is doing just that in 43 countries in Africa. Guinea pigs cured of Ebola with antibodies, raising hopes for treatment in humans The Ebola virus outbreak of 2014 in West Africa caused more than 11,000 deaths. At the time, scientists were working on several experimental vaccines and treatments but none were licensed for use in humans... By Pramila Rajil & Alain Townsend 4 Apr 2019 WHO report: 630-million years of healthy life lost in Africa Nearly 630-million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to the diseases afflicting the population across the World Health Organisation's (WHO's) 47 member states in Africa... Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus Since August last year the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been facing its 10th Ebola virus disease outbreak. As of early March this year, 907 cases and 569 deaths have been reported... By Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019 Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes The World Health Organisation (WHO) has emphasised that an experimental vaccine is playing a major role in controlling the spread of Ebola... By Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019 Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost All organisms are unique. Each having a set of genetic instructions for their build-up and maintenance. This set of genetic instructions is contained in genes that makeup a genome... By Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1746
__label__cc	0.670848	0.329152	The Drowned Town A FREE mini novella Blasting along a deserted stretch of highway in a battered car rattling with empty vodka bottles, a young woman is apprehended by the police. With her, she carries a stack of books written in long-dead languages, a fantastically expensive fur coat, and a loaded gun. And what everyone—including the woman herself—wants to know is what she’s doing in middle-of-nowhere Texas, long after midnight, hundreds of miles from home. Surging from an insular religious community hidden in the heart of New York City to a vast estate overrun by a powerful family of criminals to a lost town buried under a lake, this mini novella is flooded with suspense, unexpected twists, and dark humor. Get the FREE ebook here > False Memoir: Based on an Untrue Story Journalist Katherine Luck was writing a book about a serial killer. She never expected to get caught up in a terrifying mystery. Veteran crime reporter Jack O’Lies became notorious for his disturbingly perceptive articles about an unidentified murderer who was terrorizing Seattle…one who eventually murdered Jack’s wife. Twelve years later, another killer is stalking the city. Jack, an alcoholic with a violent temper who’s one drink away from being fired, is obsessed with finding out who he is. But this time, Jack is the one in danger. To save himself, Jack must share his darkest secrets with someone. And the person he chooses is Katherine. But that might be the worst mistake he’s ever made. And writing this book might be the worst mistake she’s ever made. Read False Memoir here > It’s summer in the little town of Somwärin, Texas, where the most anticipated event is a wrestling match between a man in a bear-suit and a bear in a man-suit. To Ruby Bejou, it looks like just another boring summer. And when Ruby’s bored, she makes trouble. But this year, things are different. Her daddy accidentally starts a cult for long-haul truckers. Her big sister is on a mission to win a cutthroat beauty pageant and won’t let anything get in her way—except maybe her enormous boobs. Her little sister is out to destroy the town bully, even if it sparks an international diplomatic incident with the entire nation of Sweden. And Ruby? She’s determined to stay out of trouble. With the help of a psychic newspaper editor, a tooth witch who transforms coins into teeth, and a forbidden library guarded by the entire town, she just might cure her summer boredom for good. Read The Cure for Summer Boredom here > A young woman is found bleeding to death after her husband learns of her secret affair with his brother. Is it attempted suicide? Or attempted murder? Flynn is a former army intelligence operative, dishonorably discharged for revealing forbidden secrets. Hired to protect this vulnerable young woman, Flynn is driven to delve into her past. But exposing her carefully guarded secrets might destroy both a powerful family and an unimaginably damaged woman. And Flynn might get caught in the crossfire. Read In Retrospect here>	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1747
__label__cc	0.741252	0.258748	Impact Figures Testimonials Reports Supporters Invested in Our Community Founded in 1959, we are the longest-standing arts commission in the state of Ohio. We keep Toledo vibrant with innovative programs and by maintaining more than 80 works in the City's public art collection. A Wise Investment The Ohio Arts Council reports that creative industries contribute more than $41.4 billion to Ohio's economy annually. Ohio Arts Council, 2017 Growing and Building Arts-related, creative and cultural businesses currently produce an economic impact of $3.84 billion annually in Northwest Ohio, up from $2.4 Billion in 2007. From the Arts and Regional Prosperity II: Economic Impact of the Creative Industries in Northwest Ohio, 2015 Artful Employment The creative economy employs 12,065 people in Toledo and supplies more than $466 million in wages and proprietor income. Ohio's Creative Economy Report: The Economic Impact of Arts and Creative Industries, 2018, Ohio Citizens for the Arts Extending Our Reach Since 2009, The Arts Commission has partnered to secure more than $3,000,000 in arts investment in Toledo from national sources. Julie Beckert TAC Board Member "The arts are the personality of the community in which we live. The art may be developing student artists, encouraging art as a career, enhancing the community with sculpture or other art forms, or partnering with other organizations to create growth and enhance our image. Take a moment and imagine what our city would be without any of these things. Without public arts, whether visual, literary or performing, a city will not thrive, and people will not come there to live, be entertained, work or grow. The public art of our community is a direct reflection on what we value; it is our heartbeat." Natalie Lanese Merit Award Winner, 2017 "My community arts project with The Arts Commission encouraged me to answer questions I’ve asked myself for a long time, such as: Who is the artwork for? Who will see it? Who do I want to see it? How can it affect a community and a city? And the more I think about Toledo’s neighborhoods and landscape, I’ve redefined something I’ve always wanted—for my work to be accessible and enjoyable to everyone, no matter their age, education, or interest in art.” David Ross Young Artists At Work Alumnus and Creative Placemaking Strategist “Sometimes I am speechless by the honor of working with The Arts Commission. I sit back and think to myself: I’m with an organization that goes into neighborhoods, builds community, brings resources and then tops it off with some glitter and vibrancy before the artwork is done. Mental health, medical health, violence, poverty, disadvantage, and conflict are not issues we choose to avoid, because creativity does not start with a solution; it starts with a problem.” Jules Webster Owner, Art Supply Depo "The Arts Commission's public programming has enabled me to create financial and creative capital in a myriad of ways that keeps growing and growing; leading to the creation of bigger and better community art related projects, and more money in my pocket as well as money in the hands of the community." Learn about The Arts Commission's 50 year history. Read The Arts Commission's 2016 Annual Report Inspiring a Vibrant Toledo Healthy communities need art The Arts Commission thanks ProMedica for its understanding and support, embracing the idea that healthy communities include access to arts, entertainment, and culture. Through local art commissions and investing in programs like the Art Loop, ProMedica inspires a vibrant Toledo by making our daily lives more fun, creative, and interesting. Visit ProMedica Featured Supporters The Arts Commission Instagram Feed THE ARTS COMMISSION 1838 Parkwood Ave 419-254-ARTS (2787) Art Loop All content on this site is presented in support of Toledo's creative community and is made available as such. Select your favorite social media icon below to stay connected! 1838 Parkwood Avenue, Suite 120 Toledo, Ohio 43604	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1750
__label__wiki	0.601841	0.601841	What Arsenal could learn from Sutton United Written by Stefan Vasilev on Tuesday 21st February 2017 11:30 AM Arsenal are through to the FA Cup quarter-finals following a comfortable 2-0 win over non-league club Sutton United yesterday. The result hardly nullified the embarrassing defeat at the Allianz Arena as the same symptoms resurfaced, only against a more forgiving team. Sutton played spiritedly, applying pressure high up front, putting men behind the ball and defending well. They were a whisker from a goal on several occasions too as former Gunner Roarie Deacon drew applause for half the chances. In the end, the result was predictable, but the five-tier difference between the two teams made some conclusions even more glaring. For Arsenal, going down the tiers must have felt like a strangely invigorating, badly planned holiday. Arriving in Sutton to see a cone with a sellotape-glued note with the handwritten ‘Arsenal bus parking space’; entering the dressing room to find everything all too ordinary, with barely any space to put the kit on and a shitty-brown wall-paint mocking the corporate world they have grown accustomed to. Even Wenger admitted the value of this place, unspoiled by briefcases of cash. “The changing rooms for me were fantastic – the closer you are [literally], the more untied you are when you go out there.” He said. Perhaps, it was their pill for their lack of unity of lately. Perhaps the obsession to perform and to adhere to strict diets have stripped the Emirates dressing rooms of that camaraderie you often find in the lowest tiers where the pressure of money has still not intertwined with the enjoyment of stepping onto the ‘grass’, where beer tastes sweeter before, during and after a match and the banter is humbling in its brutal sincerity. But there was a lesson waiting on the pitch too. What we saw was a team of 11 non-league players playing the game of their lives: mustering all the energy from the pre-match burgers and crisps to put the pressure on Arsenal. And, for 90 minutes, it worked more often than not. Sutton were in great shape despite the extra calories. No doubt, they keep fit in their own way, but it was their passion on the pitch stole the show. The underdogs, united, charged, with nothing to lose, played with freedom and flow against a technically better team. And that, in itself, might have been a scream in the face for Arsenal players. Had Arsenal played in a similar way against Bayern Munich, the result would surely been different. On the contrary, a pinch of underestimation showed in Sanchez, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Walcott’s attempts to play alone rather that involve teammates. Nonetheless, leaving the corporate Emirates and immersing into the real world of grass-root football might have struck a few romantic souls. The routine 2-0 victory for the professional team was unable to conceal the spirited and curious efforts of the ‘lesser’ team to explore the unexplored. And that is an example worth taking in. If Walcott had felt awkward for not preparing a pennant to give to Sutton captain Jamie Collins at the start of the match, then surely he must have felt a bite of inspiration at the end, spurring him to enter Sutton’s dressing room and mix in with the players. The Arsenal fan base would hope the experience has struck a similar chord with the rest of squad too. If you liked the article, please subscribe to our notification system, just click on this sentence.. About the Crabble Ground Dover Athletic’s home ground since the club’s foundation has been the Crabble Athletic Ground. The word Crabble, which is also found in the name of a local corn ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1752
__label__wiki	0.641079	0.641079	Lucas Parker Changes Regions Brian Pyfferoen Lucas Parker has been a mainstay on the Canada West and West Regional leaderboards for the past five years. That will all change in 2017. Parker has signed up in the Canada East region for the Open, which means he will be competing alongside Mat Fraser, Patrick Vellner and Alex Vigneault. Parker is not the only Games veteran to move to the East Regional this year. Two-time Games Veteran and Misfit Athletics athlete Jordan Cook moved to Portland, Maine, to train with at Misfit HQ late last year. Parker’s home gym is now listed CrossFit NCR in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Parker’s girlfriend has lived in Ontario for the past year so that appears to be the motivation behind the move. Parker is now training at the same gym as Paul Tremblay. CrossFit Open Jordan Cook Lucas Parker	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1753
__label__wiki	0.952998	0.952998	Home Buzz ‘Indecent’ Moves to Broadway With Entire Cast Intact ‘Indecent’ Moves to Broadway With Entire Cast Intact Daryl Roth, Elizabeth Ireland McCann and Cody Lassen, the producers of Indecent — the newest work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) — have announced that the entire original Off-Broadway ensemble will travel to Broadway when the production begins previews at the Cort Theatre on April 4, prior to its official opening night on April 18. The Broadway cast of Indecent has – not unlike the theater troupe depicted in the play itself – been performing the play together for more than two years: during its development with the Sundance Theater Institute and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, followed by productions at Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse and the Vineyard Theatre, where Indecent had its New York City debut last summer. A new play with music, Indecent is inspired by the true story of the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance about a Jewish family that lives above a brothel, hoping to gain respect by having their daughter marry into a prestigious family. Called “superbly realized and remarkably powerful” by The New York Times and hailed as one of the best plays of the year by critics, Indecent charts the journey of an incendiary drama and the artists who risked their lives to perform it. Created by Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman (Stage Kiss), Indecent is set at a time when waves of immigrants were changing the face of America and offers a riveting look at an explosive moment in theatrical history. ‘Indecent’ Moves to Broadway With Entire Cast Intact was last modified: February 9th, 2017 by Matthew Wexler indecentpaula vogel ‘The Great Comet’ Invites Fans to Sing on Cast Recording Andrew Lloyd Webber Celebrates 4 Shows on Broadway Don’t Miss: Boy’s Night at Cirquelesque A World of “Summer Nights” Company XIV Returns With a Sexy New Season Exclusive: Broadway & Beyond with GoLocalProv 2015 Tony Award Nominations Movie Mixtape: An Evening with The New York Pops 70th Annual Tony Award Winners Don’t Miss: Broadway Cares Benefit at Don’t Tell Mama Review: “Kerrigan and Lowdermilk Live at NYMF” The Fred Ebb Foundation Awards	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1755
__label__cc	0.675122	0.324878	Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by McClatchy, J. D. 40 New from $5.96 2 Rental from $15.00 Provider: CitiSports Contact Ships From: Saint Louis, MO Provider: Better World Books Contact Ships From: Mishawaka, IN Comments: Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! Rental Length Semester Quarter Your due date: 11/20/2019 Provider: Txtcorner Contact Ships From: BEEBE, AR Comments: Used books don't have access codes, ships from U.S.A. Revised, Expanded Paperback good used book, ships very fast!!, choose expedited for quicker shipping. Publisher: Random House Inc McClatchy, J. D. J. D. McClatchy is the author of five collections of poems:Scenes From Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments,andHazmat.He has also written two books of essays:White PaperandTwenty Questions. He has edited many other books, includingThe Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Poets on Painters,andHorace: The Odes. In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since 1991 he has edited The Yale Review. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.McClatchy, J. D. is the author of 'Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry', published 2003 under ISBN 9781400030934 and ISBN 1400030935. 2 from $15.00	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1758
__label__cc	0.637345	0.362655	Fallout 4 PS4/ Xbox One 1.3 Patch Not Coming This Week, Might Be Released Early The Next By Francesco De Meo Earlier this week, the Fallout 4 1.3 patch has been released for the PC version of the game following its beta testing phase, introducing plenty of gameplay and quest fixes, additional features and more. The patch was scheduled to release this week for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, but it seems like this won’t be happening. A few hours ago Bethesda’s Global Community Lead has confirmed on the Fallout 4 official forums that the game’s 1.3 patch may be released early next week. Nothing has been set in stone as of now, but we should hear more about the matter soon. We should have more info on the 1.3 release soon. Could push to early next week, but we’re working through it now. More fixes for Fallout 4 have come only yesterday thanks to the AMD Driver 16.1.1 hotfix. This hotfix offers an official solution to the Fallout 4 AMD Crossfire issues that have emerged following the release of the 1.3 patch. Being an open world role playing game, Fallout 4 is a truly massive game. And it would have been even more massive if all the cut content would have been included in the game’s final release. Last week new details have emerged on what seems to be a cut quest thanks to the game’s audio files for Holt, Alexis and Tina. Fallout 4 is now available in all regions on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. We will let you know more about the 1.3 release on consoles as soon as possible so stay tuned for all the latest news and updates. Xbox Ultimate Game Sale Offers Discounts on Sea of Thieves, Far Cry 5, Hundreds More Nathan Birch • Jul 19, 2018 Fallout 4 Northern Springs Is A Big Fan-Made Free DLC Available Now Alessio Palumbo • Jul 15, 2018 Fallout 4 Visceral ENB Mod Makes The Game Look Better Than Ever Francesco De Meo • Jul 5, 2018 Steam Summer Sale 2018 On Now, Includes The First-Ever Discount on PUBG and Much More Nathan Birch • Jun 21, 2018 Fallout Miami Mod Gives A Look At Post-Apocalyptic Florida Francesco De Meo • Apr 27, 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1763
__label__cc	0.526534	0.473466	Pathway Preschool Pathway Preschool meets during the school year in the lower level of our building to offer children and families a private 3-year-old preschool and a public 4K program, focused on school readiness. Pathway’s goal is to encourage curious, happy, and confident children who are more prepared for success in school and life! For more information, please be sure to check out our FAQs About Pathways Preschool. If You Have A Child Who Will Be 3 Or 4 Years Old By September 1, Please Contact Nikki Soto, Program Director, For More Information By Emailing Below, Or By Calling 608-314-7687. Email Nikki Tagged: preschool, Evansville, Pathway Preschool Evansville Ecumenical Care Closet The Care Closet is a collaborative ministry of St. John’s Lutheran Church, St. Paul Catholic Church, Congregational United Church of Christ, Oak Grove Church, Evansville United Methodist Church, and Cooksville Lutheran Church and is located at: 206 S. Madison St Evansville, WI 53536 The Care Closet offers a food pantry and re-sale store of gently used household items and clothing. All people are welcome to shop in the store, and customers may use the food pantry once a month for assistance. Financial contributions and donations of items and clothing help to support this ministry. Tagged: Care Closet, Ecumenical Care Closet, food pantry, thrift store Meals on Wheels is an important community service that provides area shut-ins with at least one meal each day. The Meals on Wheels volunteers deliver the meals daily and area churches work together to coordinate the effort so that our most needy senior citizens can meet their dietary needs. St. John’s participates in this effort by taking that responsibility over for 2-3 months of each year. Please contact Glenace Smelcer (882-5726) to volunteer your services. She’ll be happy to hear from you! Tagged: Meals on Wheels, meal delivery, senior citizens, community Acts 29 Mission Ministry We have named our mission ministry Acts 29. What is Acts 29? If you look in the New Testament, you will find the book of Acts has only 28 chapters. Chapter 29 hasn’t been written yet! God’s story is still being written, and St. John’s mission work is part of the story. We have traveled to Minot, North Dakota, to help with the recovery from flood damage, and to Moore, Oklahoma, which was devastated by a tornado. If you are interested in participating in a future Act 29 mission, please contact our office! Tagged: Acts 29, mission trips, mission work Lutheran World Relief (LWR) has been responding to emergencies and disasters for over 60 years. It works to create a world where each person and every generation lives in justice, dignity and peace. LWR engages in international relief, development, advocacy, and social responsibility in collaborative ministry with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, and others. St. John’s has been a contributor to LWR for many decades. Our church sends the following items to LWR: Bars of soap Health kits Through sale of some quilts and a Sunday offering, money is also sent to LWR to help ship these projects to wherever in the world they are most needed. Loading LWR quilts and kits for shipping. This congregation has been very generous to those in desperate need! Thank you to all of the quilting ladies who tirelessly make the quilts at church throughout the entire year. Thanks to those who work from home sewing quilt tops or school bags, or knitting sweaters for the layettes. Also, thanks to those who purchase items for the various projects. Contact the LWR Coordinator Deanna Jeans at 608-882-5829 or by email. Email Deanna Tagged: LWR, Lutheran World Relief, charity, outreach, disaster relief As members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), we seek to grow the life-changing, life-sustaining ministries of this church, they can do so through “Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA.” The five-year comprehensive campaign is the first ever for the ELCA. A goal of the campaign, overwhelmingly approved by the voting members of the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, is to raise $198 million to help sustain and grow the ministries of this church. The additional resources will provide the ELCA with opportunities to deepen relationships and expand ministries that serve communities in the United States and around the world. “Through this campaign, ELCA members have the opportunity to share God’s love in meaningful and life-changing ways,” said Eaton. “Together we can save a child’s life, identify and prepare leaders in our church and among our global companions, start or renew congregations, and help people and communities break the cycle of hunger and poverty. That’s what this campaign can do. That’s what we can do. And, we get to do this in Jesus’ name.” Approved during the ELCA’s 25th anniversary year, the campaign goal of nearly $200 million represents a significant increase in designated funding for existing and new ministry initiatives. Through several priorities, the campaign seeks to: Renew and begin new congregations End hunger and overcome malaria Identify and train new leaders and engage young people in church life Expand the ELCA’s disability ministries Grow this church’s capacity to serve globally, support ELCA missionaries and women leaders among global companion churches. “This campaign gives us all the chance to reach out locally and globally in new ways that will make a difference not only today but well into the future,” said MaryAnn Anderson. Information about “Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA” is available at www.ELCA.org/Campaign. Tagged: ecla, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Skaalen Home The Skaalen Home The Skaalen Home is located in Stoughton, WI. It provides daily care for our senior Lutheran brethren. St. John’s church members are called to volunteer there periodically. For more information, please contact Vonnie Hatlen (882-4707). 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__label__wiki	0.923038	0.923038	Russell Miller Russell Miller is the front-of-house/monitor engineer for Red Gate Sound & contributes reviews and an occasional snarky op-ed here at UNDERGROUND PRESS. If the music has a strong melody, a drive, or ambition chances are that it’ll have my attention. Knowledge. Follow Russell on Twitter and InstagramCheck out his tunes at SoundCloud RED GATE SOUND: Our Facebook \| Writer/Contributor: Underground Press \| Engineer/Producer: Arkayem Productions Website URL: http://soundcloud.com/arkayem Review: Black Pistol - 'Sins of the Father' It pays to turn off the brain and just live through the moment and take in the raw energy that is rock and roll. It doesn’t take much to sit back and let the intensity of a good headbanger take over and wash you away. Cape Town rockers BLACK PISTOL are leaning on that sentiment with their latest offering, Sins of the Father. Roan (guitarist) and Jacques (bassist) are veterans of the local music scene who’ve added on vocalist Stiaan Bruwer and drummer Daniel Louw to take the Band to the next level of intense 80s inspired rock and roll. Drawing heavy inspiration from classic elements of hard rock is often a risky proposition but these guys are determined to deliver the goods regardless. You will not find many people who relentlessly complain about how polished and close to perfect any given artist sounds; no one fails to sell music for sounding too good. That said, bands earn rabid and loyal fan-bases with a relentless dedication to authenticity no matter how “packaged” they may sound or how raw and unpolished they may be. With that said the question remains just how raw is “too raw”? BLACK PISTOL opens Sins of the Father with Nowhere to Run and with it asks, “how about this?” The track is tight, raw, nasty, opens with a drum pattern that sounds like it has been strangled half to death with the first compressor the band could find in Jo Ellis’s Blue Room Studios. Just like that the album signals just how down and dirty it’s willing to get. Everything in each and every track is unabashedly in your face and throwing everything including the kitchen sink into the feel and aggression BLACK PISTOL revels in. Lead single and album closer Preacher exemplifies and embodies the “don’t give a damn” attitude BLACK PISTOL approaches. Aside from some lyrics about Jesus (that would surely make American TV personality Megyn Kelly angry), the track is a pure adrenaline rush. It is an angry and aggressive social commentary put to music in the only way that makes sense. By far the crown jewels of this record are the vocals. Stiaan Bruwer brings a convincing performance on every track whether it is the snarl in Down the Hatch or the reserved contemplative crooning in Heaven and Hell, Stiaan proves he can change gears effortlessly and maintain energy when it is called for. All around the musicality is solid and is tailor-made for a good time at any concert or festival setting. At times the lyrics may fall into the “too on-the-nose”, some tracks recycle riffs from others, the drums can feel like they’re too claustrophobic, but these are small blemishes on what is overall a decent listen. The album is due out on the 12th July 2019. You can pre-order the album here. Follow BLACK PISTOL: Facebook \| Instagram Review: Fleche 'Do Not Return Fire' What would be the perfect way to soundtrack a relaxing drive down the expressway with the sun in your face and the wind in your hair? If you said FLÈCHE, you would most definitely be right! These gentlemen are set to release their second full-length album ‘Do Not Return Fire’ and we got our hands on a copy. The French indie rock quartet looks to emphasise the rougher aspects of their sound which contrasts their flashier and more atmospheric releases in the past. A six-month break between recording sessions presenting a cohesive collection of music as intense as these guys intended a daunting task but they have something going on here. From start to finish, you know exactly where FLÈCHE is going and you’re there more or less fifty seconds into pretty much every track (‘Invincible’ actually wastes zero time getting to the point). Don’t let that dissuade you from taking the journey however; the album convincingly avoids being one-note and exhausting by providing varied paces and soundscapes to shake it up. For instance, ‘Wait, Sit, Listen', and ‘Not a Single Thing’ introduce themselves with humble emotive lyrics over clean guitars that set the stage for the listener to be swept away by the contrast in density as the chorus blasts its way in. By contrast album opener ‘Gold and Black’ and ‘Pretend/Forget’ spend time in an bounce you would find in the catchiest 80s rock, then crash head first into that familiar flying chorus packed to the gills with distorted guitars and layered vocals a combination that doesn’t happen enough in the album to be frank. FLÈCHE released four singles in the lead up to the release of ‘Do Not Return Fire’. Each of those singles features one thing in common and that is the bombastic high flying chorus section that will more than likely have you shouting along at the top of your lungs. Listen to 'Gold and Black' below! 'Bad For Me' by Roars Hunter Reaches Over 80 Thousand Views After the release of his brand new single, 'Bad for Me', in June 2018 ROARS HUNTER has truly set out to define a new genre that is truly lacking in the industry. HUNTER is certainly turning heads with his new single, 'Bad for Me'. ROARS, a newcomer to the scene has already released 3 videos and is not planning to stop anytime soon. With a debut EP due out in March/April 2019. The Grammies came, saw, and conquered absolutely no one’s expectations with its usual “hand wringing” approach to the music industry changing beneath its feet, its inability to be culturally or generationally relevant and, despite Mrs. Keys’ best efforts, wasn’t very filling from an entertainment standpoint. Pop music’s Super Bowl of self-congratulatory pomp is one reason acts like Britain’s ROARS HUNTER earn currency with their unique approach and honest presentation as heard in their lead single, ‘Bad for Me’. The blandness of the Grammys may have left a less than desirable aftertaste in your mouth so maybe a palate cleanser is in order. Hailing from London, ROARS HUNTER is a singer-songwriter who made his bones busking –competitively- and winning awards along the way. HUNTER is a genre-bending artist who does not shy away from brewing up a musical mixture of low fidelity drum grooves, gritty sawtooth synths, dark melodies and a haunting aesthetic. His journeys have taken him from being a finalist in London’s biggest busking competition to recording at the acclaimed Planck Music studios where he recorded all of his tracks. The lead single ‘Bad for Me’ has an ambitious nostalgia about it that is sure to catch the ear of those who crave sounds that are off the beaten path. If this track is any indication, his future debut EP, and trajectory as a major player in the industrial/punk-electric music realm could be a force to be reckoned with. Watch the 'Bad For Me' video below! Follow Roars Hunter: Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| SoundCloud \| YouTube Currently, at the time this was written was still 2018, if you’ve already crossed over to 2019 (…or beyond); 1) Greetings from the past, 2) There’s some music that you left back here! By now everyone has published their “Top (X) of 2018” lists filled with everything you’ve already seen and/or heard but we do it a bit different around here. Yes, UNDERGROUND PRESS has remained vigilant and has scoured the “interwebs” for under-the-radar albums, and buried songs from 2018 and placed them right here in absolutely no order for all of you future dwellers…have a listen! GEM: The tracks ‘Urban Wilderness’ & ‘Prelude For You’ from the album Bloom South Africa’s EMERGER busted onto the scene with their debut ‘Bloom’ way back In May of 2018 and with it a music video for lead single Hindsight and awards for ‘Break & Fall’. Don’t let that distract you from digging a bit deeper into this little set of songs. ‘Urban Wilderness’ and ‘Prelude for You’ are two tracks that absolutely need your ears. The tracks feature some of the duo’s strongest melodies and overall songwriting. Listen below! GEM: The Album ‘Chime’ American rapper DESSA’s album ‘Chime’ features some of the most indelible and substantive lyrics that will likely go vastly underappreciated. The Minneapolitan turn New Yorker tackles issues pertinent to not only an artist but female hip-hop artist who is fearless in her endeavours. ‘Fire Drills’ is one of the hardest hitting songs on the album but from top to bottom Chime is as wide as it is deep with a bounce here and there to keep even the most mundane hip-hop head hooked on her every syllable. Listen below! GEM: The standalone single ‘Fiasco’ There is no doubt that hip-hop has been boosted by the many beefs and battles between rappers over the years. In fact, “beef” is to hip-hop as is apple pie is to America. Brooklyn rapper PATH P ditches that formula with this homage to one of his primary lyrical inspirations LUPE FIASCO. The track itself is a standalone single tied to a music video featuring sprawling vistas depicting the rapper's hometown, Brooklyn, New York. Sometimes all we need is a little love… ...you know? Watch below! - Video Produced by Arkayem GEM: The song ‘Faithless’ from the Dirge EP Perhaps 2018 wasn’t as loving and left you with a bitter aftertaste instead. Let DURGE provide you with that much needed cathartic cleansing as you embrace this New Year. The track ‘Faithless’ dials up all the right dark emotions that embody a previous year gone wrong and does it in spectacular fashion. DURGE leans on their heavy instrumentation a dark aesthetic all across Dirge, but this track that increases the emotive potency by a considerable factor. The desperation, depression, and crippling certainty of helplessness are on full display. Check out the track and the album for yourself below! GEM: The track ‘Silk’ from the album Reminiscence RIAAN NIEUWENHUIS has put in a lot of work throughout the years. Picture, in your mind the opening intro to a throwback crime show, or a montage of towering skyscrapers or sweeping shots of an inner city over a listen to ‘Silk’. The track is a nostalgic minimalistic trip-hop instrumental piece off of RIAAN’s most recent release that should age like a fine wine even as it already sports an “urban classic” feel to it. Listen here! GEM: The track ‘Luminace Forever’ from the album 'Leave the Bones' Last but certainly not least, ring in this New Year with the nuclear warhead of a track that is ‘Luminace Forever’. WIRE LOVE delivers an absolutely massive sound on their latest release Leave the Bones, and this track brings it with gusto. The bass tone has a freakishly menacing fuzzy overdrive that probably shook Europe during the recording session but the rest of the band doesn’t wither in its wake. If you’re down for a screamo or post-hardcore revival in 2019, make sure to keep this track in your playlists. Listen Here As always stick with UNDERGROUND PRESS for new artists and new music from all genres and every corner of the earth, but especially South Africa’s immensely deep music scene! Published in Features Review: Emerger – 'Bloom' Does pop music even pop bro? EMERGER provides their answer with the recently released 'Bloom', an ambitious serving of alt-pop draped with a hyper-modern aesthetic that is nothing short of dazzling. At eight tracks in length, 'Bloom' showcases the production and song-writing talents Emma de Goede (vocals/piano) and Gerrit Matthee (producer/multi-instrumentalist) honed while studying music at the University of Cape Town. Uniformity and familiarity is the name of the game for this collection of tracks. Take, for instance, the album opener ‘Hindsight’ and the title track ‘Bloom’. The two tracks bookend the album-proper with the former being a shimmering upbeat number and the latter being a trip-hoppy soundscape. Bother have a similar feel with refrains that will induce an involuntary head bop or two, tight hummable melodic leads, and drum patterns with just the right amount of pep. Listen to 'Bloom' below! To buttress the memorable point, one would be remiss in not noting vocalist Emma de Geode’s contribution on that front. The vocals soar in lock-step with each songs crescendo and pull back with appropriate emotive finesse as evidence in the epic business of lead single ‘Break & Fall’ and the more intimate ‘Prelude for You’. Emma knows where she is going melodically as her melodies dance atop perfectly complementary chord progressions. On the first listen, Bloom may seem too cold and rigid for those who are predisposed to approach “pop music” with skepticism. That said there is enough here to loosen a few obstinate music tastes. Each track is connected sonically and does well to glue the group together for an easy listening from start to finish. It is safe to say that the EMERGER crafted each song with an incredible attention to detail with a simultaneous gentle hand as to not sacrifice musicality. 'Bloom' is available now at iTunes and all major streaming services. Follow Emerger: Website \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| SoundCloud \| YouTube Follow @UndergroundPres REVIEW: Wire Love – 'Leave the Bones' If the human condition and the certainty of uncertainty that accompanied it were a motion picture, WIRE LOVE’s latest effort 'Leave the Bones' would be the soundtrack. Hardcore-rock music often falters when it comes to blending musicality and intensity and presenting a cohesive (and more importantly edifying) listening experience. It often results in a seasonless soup of distorted bedlam, aimless screams with no real definition and start-stop patterns almost entirely void of anything resembling groove. This is not that, and Germany's hardcore scene would do good to exalt what this group has on offer. From a production standpoint, Leave the Bones has a lot of meat on its bones. The guitars and bass lock in tight together with a less-is-more approach to distortion and overdrive that provides clear definition without sacrificing weight; in other words, WIRE LOVE is heavy…really heavy. The album opens with a delayed punch in the face with ‘Symmetry’ and ‘Red Dress’, the latter of which opens with an eerily beautiful preamble that is way too short because continuing with a brutal onslaught of a groove that should maintain the energy of any mosh-pit. From then on the barrage is maintained at a clip that is as unforgiving as it is dynamic. What truly makes this collection of tracks is its ability to maintain its intensity even when it drops its density. ‘Shadow’, for instance, sports an entire passage in a melancholic haze bookended by relentlessly heavy grooves with screaming lead lines everywhere. The succeeding ‘Luminace Forever’ then turns them up to eleven with a vengeful ferocity and there is no turning back from there. Take the infectious grooves of GLASSJAW, the relentless energy of early ATREYU, with a splash of BOTCH and you will get WIRE LOVE. If this album is any indication, Germany’s post-hardcore scene is in for a revitalisation that only comes around once in a blue moon…watch out for these guys. You can order your copy from iTunes today. Review: Glory Fades – 'Everything Is Lost' Angst, anger, scorn, longing; emotions that were a mainstay of an early to mid-2000’s (as well as its revival a decade later) movement that brought forth acts such as BRAND NEW, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, WEEZER and the like. While the subject matter isn’t a one-to-one ratio, the energy and sentiment are with ‘Everything is Lost’, the latest offering from alt-rockers GLORY FADES. The wave of nostalgic resuscitation that has reinvigorated mainstream appeal in many genres has not spared what has at times been affectionately termed “emo” or “pop-rock”. GLORY FADES has been at this since their debut with ‘Late in the Day’ back in 2017 and look to continue their journey into the heart of every millennial longing for a return to the days of yore. Hailing from Wolverhampton, England the five-piece has a remarkably noticeable American emo hard-core aesthetic on the surface. Each song features riffs that work, drums that provide enough “oomph” and “pizzazz” to keep things interesting, and vocals that do well to bring everything together. Underneath the hood, the band touches on the cliché emo subject such as heartbreak and all things bleak for much of the album. That said, there are some highlights on this record that warrant giving the band a few, repeat listens. ‘Growing Apart’ which features guest vocalist Amy Wyatt is a step away from what the album serves up with its very power chorus and silky chorused clean guitar licks. The high-energy ‘Angels with Filthy Souls’ not only features some of the strongest vocal melodies but also a rather strong commentary relating a certain world superpower and its “leader” whom shall remain nameless. There is not much in this record that hasn’t been done before, but it is executed well enough to be infectious and surprisingly “earworm” worthy. One thing is for sure, the energy much of these songs contain is tailor-made for the gig experience. There is no way that the entire not be found mouthing the entirety to ‘18 Years’ and that is all GLORY FADES needs for this album to be worth a listen. Review: Medicine Boy - 'Lower' Music as an art form is removed from the limitations of perceived reality with regard to the aural experience of what is beyond the “real world”. In the case of MEDICINE BOY’S latest offering, 'Lower', the dream noise duo acknowledges this with a collection of songs that explore and reflect what is beyond and beneath what we believe to be our known universe. This album marks the duo’s Fuzz Club Records debut (though the second release overall) and seeks to stay true to their patented sound bouncing between a dreamlike distortion and a bed of spacious reverb and echoes dancing about. Listen to 'Lower' While you read on! ‘Lower’ does not rush at you with a big opening number, nor does MEDICINE BOY seek to overwhelm you with a barrage of high octane appetizers. Instead, opener “Bottom of the Blue” seduces with LUCY KRUGER guiding our initial descent into MEDICINE BOY’S depiction of the underworld. With a third of the song left ANDRE LEO’S menacing crooning seeps in just underneath the surface effectively setting the stage for the drift into the co-lead single “Water Girl”. There is a push-pull feel that is woven into the passage of one song to the next that feels purposely aimless yet feeds the fluidity of the listening experience. Across the album both Kruger and Leo trade responsibilities as the vocal anchor for whatever amount of Bedlam or tranquillity transpiring beneath their respective dynamic performances. What stands out with MEDICINE BOY, and the album as a whole is the duo’s ability to convey what they need to convey as one cohesive unit as opposed to two vocalists singing together. Both Kruger and Leo possess ample ability to carry passages of songs on their own, but it is when the two come together where the magic is strikingly apparent. One prime example of this is “Diamonds” a song that also features an abrupt change of pace that feels disturbingly normal. It should be noted for the record that the artistry on this record is remarkable. Whether it is the elegance of poetry in “Lovely Heart” or the abrupt intimacy of the last line in “One Hundred Bodies”, it is evident that from top to bottom this album is a testament to MEDICINE BOY’S artistry and musicality. The Fuzz Club Records roster boasts a robust collection of artists that dabble in the experimental side of rock music. MEDICINE BOY could well prove to be a flagship stable with their arrival to the UK-based label as ‘Lower’ is an experience to behold. Endless Daze 2018 has just announced their final line up and MEDICINE BOY is one of their featured acts. Check out the mastery of ‘Lower’ live! Review: Riaan Nieuwenhuis – 'REMINISCENCE' Two years removed from his last effort 'Collaborator', RIAAN NIEUWENHUIS offers 'REMINISCENCE', a collection of previously unreleased material. NIEUWENHUIS is a veteran of South Africa’s music scene and is a veteran of the music community who possesses a girth of talent with a seemingly limitless capacity for composing music. DELTA BLUE, THE VIOLENT FREE PEACE, AMAFIST, are just a few of the many projects that this virtuoso has been connected to. That said it stands to reason that NIEUWENHUIS would be in possession of some pieces that have escaped the opportunity to be heard by the public…until today. 'Reminiscence' is effectively a musical experience that is comprised of three acts and an epilogue. Each section when taken in together provides a summation of the musical diversity NIEUWENHUIS exemplifies and has become synonymous with. Act I opens the album with a lo-fi aesthetic that incorporates a trip-hop vibe with each of the first three tracks contributing a unique flavour. ‘Silk’ is the first track on the list that is energetically ambient and bounces with an infectiously crisp “boom-bap” rhythm that dressed to the nines in a slick urban couture. ‘Cruising’ follows with a darker tone that moves into the first act’s closure in ‘The Point’. Act II sheds much of the trip-hop aesthetic but maintains the ambience, space and musicality. ‘Summertime Afternoon’ and ’22-6’ present two stark contrasts in sound with the former a lush desert rock downtempo number and the latter bearing a more abstract veneer. ‘First Out’ closes the middle act in exotic fashion with a delectable Eastern influenced acoustic flourish that flows into a rock trot with ease. Act III maintains the ambience but adds an edge that is unforgiving but musically edifying. The act opening of ‘Paracaida’ is menacingly beautiful, brooding, but open and spacious. Lead single ‘The Black One’ adds an angst that spices the album up and fits perfectly before the act closing ‘Indurate’ which could have easily been a cut from 'Collaborator'. Closing the album is a bluesy solo piano number by the name of ‘Namib Blues 2’ a direct nod to an earlier piece that would be familiar to fans and followers of RIAAN NIEUWENHUIS. NIEUWHENHUIS has an artistic vision that’s woven into the very fabric of his works and influences every facet of this record in particular. Obviously these songs would have placed themselves amongst prior releases from NIEUWHENHUIS but one of the defining and endearing aspects of compiling them here is the experience of placing these tracks within the timeline of prior releases. 'Reminiscence' is a testament to a mind rapt with appreciation and love for the art of music and will be an immediate classic and favourite for those who share this conviction and even for those who don’t. Please join the Facebook Event where we'll be announcing the album launch today! Review: Basson Laubscher & The Violent Free Peace – 'Testify' The blues-rock revival is in full effect with 'Testify', the latest effort from BASSON LAUBSCHER & THE VIOLENT FREE PEACE. Typically, modern music increasingly relies on the formulaic and repeatable approach. It is not uncommon to hear a track littered with synthetic sounds that are meant to mimic their real world counterparts. With LAUBSCHER and company the MIDI-triggered sampled drum kit, the in-the-box guitar tone, etc. are all M.I.A with this collection of tunes. In their place are tones that have travelled from the fingertips (and throat) of four experienced musicians, through a recording console to preserve and right into your ears for as true an organic listen as possible. Title track ‘Testify’ opens up with a plunging musical baptism with its chorus of horns, guitars, and sermonic delivery of LAUBSCHER’s vocal performance. As fierce and as bombastic the opener is the following ‘Lost’ purifies the ear with a peaceful acoustic offering. The relationship between these two tracks is emblematic of the tonal balance of Testify. Whether the objective is to overwhelm with the sheer might LAUBSCHER and company are capable of or draw in close with intimacy the album maintains its equilibrium. That is to say, no matter the peak or valley the album feels even from track to track. Watch 'Testify' in the media box Below! That said 'Testify' is a testament –pun intended- to the organic rock music production. Due to the authenticity of the albums recording, the listener is in the room, on the other side of the campfire, front-row in the arena, whatever the setting, the listening experience just puts you…there. Each track wraps itself around the listener in an embrace of lush tones. From the fluffy but rugged overdriven rhythm guitars, smooth chorale organ and pads, to the simplicity of the knock of the kick drum against its room ambience; Testify is a beautiful listening experience. ‘Make It Right’ proves as much when moving from its riffy passages to an open atmospheric instrumental break. All said, this is an album that doesn’t get lost in itself. The strength and lasting quality of this record is that Testify does not seek to blow you away with all that a modern record could blow you away with. LAUBSCHER & THE VIOLENT FREE PEACE paid unique attention to preserving the authenticity of the blues rock performance. The lack of over the top embellishments is the feature in a world that treats it as a bug and that is what Testify leans on in a macro sense. The resulting experience is what LAUBSCHER and company intended it to be; a bombastic listen that stays true to its nature with a few twists and turns to keep your attention. For fans of the golden age of classic rock, blues and the like, there is more than enough meat on bone here. Get the album on iTunes today! The blues-rock revival is in full effect with Testify, the latest effort from BASSON LAUBSCHER & THE VIOLENT FREE PEACE. Typically, modern music increasingly relies on the formulaic and repeatable approach. It is not uncommon to hear a track littered with synthetic sounds that are meant to mimic their real world counterparts. With LAUBSCHER and company the MIDI-triggered sampled drum kit, the in-the-box guitar tone, etc. are all M.I.A with this collection of tunes. In their place are tones that have travelled from the fingertips (and throat) of four experienced musicians, through a recording console to preserve and right into your ears for as true an organic listen as possible. That said Testify is a testament –pun intended- to the organic rock music production. Due to the authenticity of the albums recording, the listener is in the room, on the other side of the campfire, front-row in the arena, whatever the setting, the listening experience just puts you…there. Each track wraps itself around the listener in an embrace of lush tones. From the fluffy but rugged overdriven rhythm guitars, smooth chorale organ and pads, to the simplicity of the knock of the kick drum against its room ambience; Testify is a beautiful listening experience. ‘Make It Right’ proves as much when moving from its riffy passages to an open atmospheric instrumental break. Save The Date: Special Market Day In Celebration of Art In Paarl Carl Weber’s Bloem Boykie Diaries is back at GrandWest by popular demand David Devo Oosthuizen Interviews ALESTORM John Wick 3 To Hit Local Cinemas This Weekend NEIGHBOURGOODS NIGHT MARKET FIRST THURSDAYS REIMAGINED 3.0 Where's The Party At? by DJ Blade Review: Josh Middleton - 'Never Give Up' No Images or Users ID and Access Token incorrect	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1769
__label__wiki	0.927291	0.927291	Home / chile / Health \| Mad cow disease \| Warning that this deadly evil can recur in people Technology and Science Sciences Health \| Mad cow disease \| Warning that this deadly evil can recur in people Technology and Science Sciences chile July 11, 2019 chile Scottish scientists have warned that more cases can still be detected in humans Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease, in connection with the outbreak "crazy cows" which happened three decades ago. In the documentary that broadcast the BBC Network, it was said by Scottish neurologist Richard Knight there are people who would be infected with this pathology, although his infection would have been "silent" and had not yet manifested itself. [Arenavirus \| Causas y síntomas de un virus que ha puesto en alerta a Bolivia][Las cucarachas se están volviendo invencibles: ahora son resistentes a casi todos los insecticidas] The documentary shows that the British government failed to prevent infected beef cattle spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as disease of "crazy cows"will enter the food chain of people. Since 1996. 177 people died after catching Creutzfeldt-Jakob, while more than four million cows were slaughtered. Experts have indicated that this pathology is Progressively attacks the brain, but it can remain inactive for decades, which is why thirty years after the first case of crazy cows in the United Kingdom was discovered in 1989, Maybe there are still people who are infected. Despite the fact that there have been decades of research,Pathology remains incurable and there is no way to determine if a person is a bearer. "One of the things that is not clear is how many people in the UK are infected without knowing it, and any predictions we have suggest that there will be more cases– said Knight. Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Edinburgh Colin Smith said it should not generate a "big alarm"it is possible that decades later people who were exposed to "contaminated foods in the late 1980s or early 1990s" began to pose "symptoms of the disease". It is estimated that it is a scandal Mad cows cost the British public health service more than a billion pounds (more than 1113 million euros /1250 million dollars) and had a very significant impact on the British beef industry. The last case crazy cow – the first one discovered in the decade – occurred at the Scottish farm in October last year, but the authorities reported it the sick animal did not enter the food chain and that this was not a threat to human health. Source: EFE In the Bio Bio region, more than 2,500 people live with HIV The professors will conduct a new consultation to define the continuity of unemployment Catalina Pulido takes a voice after arrest and shift: "I screwed up, I gave the juice and I guess it was" All fuel on Thursday raises its prices Neymar appears in the orbit of another European giant Iphone 6, which is just filled, exploded in the hands of a teenager and caused serious harm to her home Society	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1773
__label__wiki	0.523906	0.523906	If it's about food...it's about pesticides, money and politics. Good Job, Humans: Bees Are Making Nests Entirely Out of Plastic In a huge embarrassment for humankind, scientists found a bee nest made out of plastic bags in Argentina. According to the researchers, the plastic nest resulted in a lower survival rate for the bees. 3-year-old beekeeper is doing his part to help pollination and it’s sweeter than honey An adorable 3-year-old beekeeper named Cooper buzzes around his own little beehive and it’s sweeter than honey! It’s Not Just Bees That Are Disappearing, It’s People... Rural life is dying in Spain and much of Europe. The disappearance of bees is a reality, but also a metaphor. Many of them, like the people, are moving to the cities. Popular Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs Wild bees, such as bumblebees, don't get as much love as honeybees, but they should. They play just as crucial a role in pollinating many fruits, vegetables and wildflowers, and compared to managed colonies of honeybees, they're in much greater jeopardy. Nesting Aids Make Agricultural Fields Attractive For Bees Farmers are facing a problem: Honeybees are becoming ever more rare in many places. But a lot of plants can only produce fruits and seeds when their flowers were previously pollinated with pollen from different individuals. So when there are no pollinators around, yields will decrease. This common herb will keep bee pollinators buzzing in your garden The most widely grown and appreciated garden favorites, of course, are those with attractive flowers. And there is a common assumption that those plants which delight human eyes will also be the most attractive for bees and other flower-visiting insects. Research at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of Sussex can give a more empirical take. Controversial pesticide stops bumblebee queens from laying eggs and could spell the end for the species, research finds A controversial pesticide can potentially wipe out common bumblebee populations by preventing the formation of new colonies, research has shown. The neonicotinoid chemical thiamethoxam dramatically reduces egg-laying by queen bumblebees, say scientists. Predictions based on a mathematical model suggest this could result in the total collapse of local populations of the wild bees. Bee hotels are open for business A new kind of hotel is opening for business around the world. Its guests are wild bees. Built by people, these hotels are going up in rural farmlands, in suburban backyards — even on city rooftops. They don’t offer maid service, but they do give bees a place to nest. 10 Things You Can Do to Help Save the Bees There are better ways of dealing with pests – especially biological controls. Modern pesticides are extremely powerful and many are long-lasting and very toxic to bees and other insects. Removing all unnecessary pesticides from the environment is probably the single most important thing we can do to save the bees. Bee Study Author Fights Back Against Bayer and Syngenta Accusations The lead author of a major study which found that neonicotinoid pesticides harm honey bees has hit back against criticism from the chemical companies that part-funded the work. Maryland Becomes The First State To Ban Bee-Killing Pesticide Honeybees are among the most fruitful and amazing creatures. Though their brains are fairly small, they engage in a complicated geometric “waggle dance” to communicate the location of food sources to members of their hive. As pollinators, they play an indispensable role in sustaining crop production and the food chain. When Stores Make Their Plants Bee-Friendly, It Makes a Difference Conservationists have been warning about the negative impact pesticides are having on bees for years and have urged people to help them and other pollinators out by not using them in their gardens. Unfortunately, in our effort to help, we’ve actually been unwittingly contributing to the problem by buying flowering plants and trees that are pre-treated with them. Minnesota Is Cracking Down on Pesticides in Order to Save Bees When it comes to protecting bees in the US, Minnesota is way ahead of all the other states. Last week, Governor Mark Dayton ordered the implementation of a range of protections that are intended to protect the lives of bees. FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: BUZZ KILL Bees and other pollinators are the backbone of our food system — essential for nutritious crops such as apples, almonds and blueberries. The portion of our food supply dependent on pollinators has grown by 300 percent in the last 50 years and $577 billion of annual global food production relies on direct contributions by pollinators. However, pollinators are dying at an alarming and unsustainable rate. IATP: New U.N. Report Calls for Transformation In Agriculture Transformative changes are needed in our food, agriculture and trade systems in order to increase diversity on farms, reduce our use of fertilizer and other inputs, support small-scale farmers and create strong local food systems. IN THESE TIMES: A Deadly Disorder at the EPA Bayer asked EPA officials to allow clothianidin on the market—before tests on the pesticide’s environmental impact had been completed. The EPA agreed. And thus began another chapter in the EPA’s sad history of protecting not the environment, but corporate interests. HARVEST PUBLIC MEDIA A senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint on Wednesday accusing the federal agency of suppressing research findings that could call into question the use of a popular pesticide class that is a revenue powerhouse for the agrichemical industry. FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: USDA Scientists' Research Compromised Environmentalists, beekeepers, farmworkers, farmers, fisheries, and food safety advocates sent a letter to the USDA Inspector General and the co-chairs of the White House Task Force on Pollinator Health today, urging an investigation into recent reports that USDA scientists are being harassed and their research is being censored or suppressed, especially research related to neonicotinoid insecticides -- a leading driver of bee declines globally. - PEER: USDA URGED TO SHIELD ITS SCIENTISTS FROM HARASSMENT Agency Scientific Integrity Policy Riddled with Gags, Gaps and Loopholes RINF: They Profit, We Die Toxic Agriculture and the Poisoning of Soils, Human Health and the Environment TRUTHOUT: Monsanto Is in Hot Water - Again It's been a tough few weeks for Monsanto. If you’ve been waiting to finally see Monsanto – one of the most hated companies in the world – to pay for its ecocide, knowing harm of human life, and devastation of our pollinators, then you won’t have to wait much longer. Natural News: Judge throws out lawsuit by Bayer While Germany's Bayer CropScience spokespeople maintain that their pesticides, Calypso and Lizetan formulations, are not toxic to bees, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) says that just the opposite is true. BUND feels that the products, which contain the neonicotinoid thiacloprid, are harmful to bees and, as such, has been involved in public awareness efforts. Mother Jones: Here's the Real Problem With Almonds The nut apologists missed some important facts. Mother Jones: Are Your Delicious, Healthy Almonds Killing Bees? What do almond trees have to do with honeybees? It turns out that when you grow almond trees in vast monocrops, pollination from wild insects doesn't do the trick. Each spring, it takes 1.6 million honeybee hives to pollinate the crop—about a million of which must be trucked in from out of state. Altogether, the crop requires the presence of a jaw-dropping 60 percent of the managed honeybees in the entire country, the US Department of Agriculture reports. Birds, Bees, and Aquatic Life Threatened by Gross Underestimate of Toxicity of World's Most Widely Used Pesticide New Report Charges EPA Ignored Staff Warnings, Approved Widespread Use of Dangerous Pesticides KEYCODE BAYER 401 Bayer managers have known the risks which neonicotinoid pesticides create for the environment since the early 1990s. The company downplayed the risks, submitted deficient studies to authorities and viewed the massive decline of honey bees and pollinators in many parts of the world as 'collateral damage'. EARTHJUSTICE.ORG: The Case of the Vanishing Bees Pesticides & The Perfect Crime: In The widespread bee die-offs, bees often just vanish. One Beekeeper calls it the Perfect Crime -- no bodies, no murder weapon, no bees. What's happening to the bees? CNBC: Bee activists swarm Home Depot and Lowe's Home Depot and Lowe's are under fire for selling pesticides that some believe are partly to blame for killing billions of honeybees.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1776
__label__wiki	0.538862	0.538862	Hispanic Heritage Month: Joe Kapp Tag Archives: Arian Foster Top Ten Running Backs Going Into 2013 Season July 25, 2013 by The Chancellor of Football As the NFL has evolved into more of a passing league, it seems that the importance of the running back position should wane. However there is nothing more powerful than a rushing attack to wear down your opponent or take time off the clock. What we have seen is the evolution of the type of back in most instances. Gone is the huge bruiser to lean on the defense and he has been replaced with a smaller, shiftier type of back. The type to take a handoff in a stretch running play whether the quarterback is under center or from the Pistol and Shotgun formations. Do you realize Jamaal Charles has rushed for over 1,000 yards 3 times in a 5 year career?? The best can operate in multiple sets as well as run routes to catch the ball in space. However there are a few throwback types who smash into the line and come off traps, sweeps, and multiple tight end sets as well. Each team needs to adapt their offense to the type of running and passing plays suited to their back’s ability. To make this list, running backs need to be able to break the first tackle. Well here we are with the Taylor Blitz Times best NFL running backs coming into the new season. 10. Maurice Jones-Drew – Jacksonville Jaguars: Although he’s led the league in rushing with 1,606 yards in 2011, Drew is coming back from a major leg injury where he missed most of 2012, and has carried a heavy load the last four years. He has been the Jaguars offense and could be on the verge of possibly burning out as Michael Turner did. This year we’ll have to watch if he’s able to slip tackles and power through arm tackles as he has over his 7 year career. It’s those 954 runs between 2009-2011 that worry us about burning out. He should be good for 1,000 yards this year but we’re keeping our eye on him. 9. Chris Johnson-Tennessee Titans: Did we say gamebreaker?? Well CJ2K is still on the launch pad down in the volunteer state. With a head coach who is a Hall of Fame lineman in Mike Munchak, it’s expected the Titans will come together on the line. This former 2,000 yard rusher stands on the launch pad destined for another big year, yet the vision of that coming is beginning to wane. However he did flash his explosiveness with a 94 yard touchdown last year. In all he ran 276 times for 1,243 yards and 6 TDs. Spiller could be the Buffalo Bills second 2,000 yard rusher behind OJ Simpson. 8. CJ Spiller-Buffalo Bills: Last year he burst onto the scene as the electrifying talent Bills brass and fan base had been expecting. The team needs to quit with Fred Jackson and give the ball to this game breaker 25 times a game. He was on his way to bust status after two years of flashes once he got onto the field. However an injury to Jackson left Spiller as the only runner in town and he exploded for 1,244 on just 207 carries. That is 6.0 yards a crack!! The same average as Peterson who ran for 2,000 yards. This year it should be his year and his team as he shows 2012 was no fluke. He also accounted for 43 receptions for 453 yards and combined for 8 touchdowns. 7. Alfred Morris-Washington Redskins: A surprise rookie performance was turned in by Morris, who was a fourth round draft choice. His 1,613 yards and 13 TDs were among the best in football but let’s ask a fundamental question: Was his performance indicative of his talent or was he the beneficiary of RG III carrying out read option fakes?? He was the second option when it came to rushing the football in many a defensive coordinator’s game plan. Year two will be interesting to watch how teams play him. Yet you can’t underscore he was a tough durable low center of gravity back that thrived in the Redskin’s offense. He’s shifty enough, he seldom took a real big hit with most of the plays being stretch type runs. It reciprocated in holding linebackers honest and allowed Griffin III to rush for another 815 yards and 7 more TDs. He did disappear in the playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks once Griffin III went down. Would he be nearly effective if he played with another quarterback?? 6. Frank Gore-San Francisco 49ers: One of the last of a dying breed, the do everything power back. One huge beneficiary of the new Pistol offense is Frank Gore. There are still running plays where the 49ers line up in power formations but in large part Gore isn’t facing downhill charging linebackers. The Pistol forces teams into 4-2-5 or 3-3-5 nickel variations where the linebackers are a step behind on the front side of the read option. They are not attacking the run lanes like they do in a traditional sense and this will lesson the wear and tear on a running back entering his ninth year. For the first time in many years, Gore looked fresh the entire season. He started all 16 games while rushing for 1,214 yards 8 TDs while averaging 4.7 yards per rush. His carries will be split between Kendall Hunter and LeMichael James to keep him fresh for the stretch drive. So expect his totals to be a little less also. NFL Network dubbed him “The Muscle Hamster” as he has shown tackle breaking power in his first season. 5. Doug Martin-Tampa Bay Buccaneers: A shifty power runner in an Emmitt Smith type roll yet he has a better downfield burst. If you’re new to the Taylor Blitz Times, we have touted him as an NFL ready back and produced an article on his Heisman Trophy legitimacy before his senior season at Boise St. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201301120den.htm His rookie campaign saw him rush for 1,454 yards 11 TDs while catching 49 passes for another 479 yards and a touchdown. Last year it started when he burst onto the NFL scene with a national televised game against the Vikings. That night he ran for 137 yards with a touchdown while catching 3 passes for another 79 yards and a touchdown. He had a 41 yard run and a 64 yard touchdown on a screen. Just when folks began talking about him he breaks out with his masterpiece. He showed there was another runner on the field that night along with Adrian Peterson. The following week out in Oakland, in front of his bay area family, Martin ran for 264 yards with 4 touchdown runs of 67, 70, and 41, and 1 yards. For much of the fourth quarter Fox was airing his exploits to all other games since he was so close to the all time record. Walter Payton, Eric Dickerson, Jim Brown, OJ Simpson, nor Corey Dillon had ever run that far as a rookie in a game. No SEC back including Bo Jackson has ever run that far in an NFL game period. Only Adrian Peterson as a rookie ran farther. We’re talking all of NFL history here. He will be a candidate for 1,500 yards again down in Tampa. 4. Jamaal Charles-Kansas City Chiefs: The most underrated running back in football. We have heard former Chief now analyst, Bill Maas proclaim he is a smallish type back. The saving grace for the Chiefs offense last year was former Texas Longhorn Jamaal Charles. Last year he ran with enough power to break tackles and have a Pro Bowl season with 1,509 yards. He had a whopping 5.3 yard average and don’t forget he was a Pro Bowl performer in 2010, when he rushed for 1,467 yards and an even better 6.4 yard average. This is no fluke. He’s only going into his sixth season. Now with Alex Smith and a good passing combo, he should keep up the pace set last year. Texans Super Bowl hopes ride with Foster. 3. Arian Foster-Houston Texans: Going into his 5th season, the Texans couldn’t be more solid at running back with Arian Foster leading the charge. Next to Adrian Peterson, no back in football has been more productive than Foster’s 4,264 yards and 39 TDs over the last three years. He is not the flashy runner breaking the huge play like CJ2K or Adrian Peterson, but he’s a steady performer that churns out important first down after first down as the Texans closer. 2. Marshawn Lynch-Seattle Seahawks: No runner sets the tempo for his football team like Lynch. He brings a physicality and attitude to the Pacific Northwest that is infectious and goes over to a swarming defense. He has been the lightning rod ever since his famous 67 yard touchdown run to oust the defending champion Saints in the 2010 wildcard game. Although he’s entering his seventh season, he doesn’t have a lot of wear and tear on him. In 2009 & 2010 he only carried the ball a combined 320 times as he played for both Buffalo and Seattle. Last year he thundered for 1,590 yards and 11 TDs as he powered the Seahawks into the playoffs. This is the only running back in the game today that raises the level of the entire football team with his play. Expect another 1,500 yard season easily. Peterson is the best in the game today and is already a Hall of Fame talent. 1. Adrian Peterson-Minnesota Vikings: The 21st century version of Eric Dickerson is absolutely a Hall of Fame running back. Yes you read that correctly. He’s a Hall of Fame runner already. Less than 7 months from damaging his MCL and ACL, he burst for 2,097 yards in a season where the Vikings eased him in. In year’s past we had Jamal Lewis and other runners who tore their ligaments and came back, but they had nearly a full season they sat out or eased themselves into the game first. Not Peterson. What’s startling is this is the season he’ll hit full stride and should break Eric Dickerson’s record of 2,105 yards. Last year he broke breathtaking runs when he was the Vikings only legitimate offensive weapon. Now with quality receivers on the outside in Greg Jennings, Cordarrelle Patterson, and Pro Bowl TE Kyle Rudolph, defenses can’t key on him. You do realize that he already holds the all time rushing record of 296 yards which is also the rookie record as well. When he get’s to Dickerson’s 2,105 yards, he will be the only back in league history to have two 2,000 yard seasons. There have been only 2 runners who have held these records at the same time. Both OJ Simpson and Jim Brown made the Hall of Fame along with Eric Dickerson. Peterson is already among that group. Another 2,000 yard season will cement it. Next: Washington Redskins 2013 Preview Posted in 2013 Team Previews. Tagged 2012 top ten nfl running backs, Adrian Peterson, alfred morris, Arian Foster, CJ Spiller, Doug Martin, football, Jamaal Charles, Marshawn Lynch, NFL Players 2013 Houston Texans Preview – The Time Is Now April 7, 2013 by The Chancellor of Football JJ Watt was a finalist for the Taylor Blitz Times Defensive Player of The Year When you think of the 2012 NFL season, most football fans thought the Houston Texans were an imposter when asked if they were a legitimate Super Bowl contender. Although they had rushed out to an 11-1 record, they failed to capture the imagination of fans or pundits outside Houston. Sure they had defeated the eventual champion Baltimore Ravens 43-17 in week 7. However mind numbing losses to Green Bay (42-24), and a Monday night massacre in New England (42-14) late in the season, cast doubt on their Super Bowl legitimacy as the playoffs neared. They did finish 12-4 winning a Wild Card game before losing in the AFC Divisional round to the Patriots. Yet the question remains… Who are the Texans?? Are they a team moving up to elite status or are they beneficiary of the AFC as a conference becoming weaker?? Texans QB Matt Schaub will turn 32 this season. Quarterback: Caught in that same identity vortex is quarterback Matt Schaub. Twice in the last four years he has been a Pro Bowl performer yet he leaves you wondering. Coming into last year the team and it’s fans were buoyed with optimism after backup TJ Yates led the team to a Wild Card win the year before. The overall feeling was if they could make it this far without Schaub, they should be able to compete for a title with him being healthy for the playoffs. The fact that they didn’t advance any further raises doubt if they can win it at all with Schaub at quarterback. Make no mistake this team is better with Schaub at the helm but this may be his make or break year with the Colts coming on strong. In 2012 he completed 350 of 544 passes (64.3%) for 4,008 yards 22 TDs with only 12 interceptions. The perception was he didn’t perform when he faced the league’s elite. To that there is some truth but early in the season he carved up the Denver Broncos with 4 TD passes in a 31-25 victory on the road. He had his chance to show the nation when they lost to New England on that December Monday Night 42-14. In that game he looked disengaged, not the leader you’d want at quarterback, and couldn’t make a play to turn the momentum. For most, he sits in that abyss of good quarterbacks that aren’t thought of as championship signal callers. Right where Joe Flacco was last year and where Matt Ryan sits this year. This is Schaub’s make or break year. This will be his 7th season as quarterback of the Texans and 11th overall after coming over from Atlanta. Its ironic that he and Ryan are both in the same position. Had Schaub not signed with Houston, he would have taken over the Falcons after Michael Vick’s dog fighting conviction. Yet he’s still a good quarterback that has to prove he can be a championship one. The nucleus of this team is aging and at 32 when the season starts, Schaub will be right there with them. Houston is playoff calibur at quarterback until proven otherwise. Arian Foster has been among the best running backs in football. Offensive Backfield: Going into his 5th season, the Texans couldn’t be more solid at running back with Arian Foster leading the charge. Next to Adrian Peterson, no back in football has been more productive than Foster’s 4,264 yards and 39 TDs over the last three years. He isn’t the flashy runner breaking the huge play like CJ2K or Peterson, but he’s a steady performer that churns out important first down after first down as the Texans closer. This is a running back in the prime of his career and has a solid back in Ben Tate (4.3 yards per carry in 2012) to back him up. The offense runs through the one cut and go running game Foster brings to the table. In 3 of the Texans 4 losses last year, Foster failed to rush for 50 yards. Part of it was Coach Kubiak abandoning the run once they fell behind. The Texans are Super Bowl quality at running back and should get a 1,300 yards from Foster this season. Receivers: A fascinating study is Andre Johnson. When you’re watching him on game film, he doesn’t look as quick as he did a few years back. He seems to only be explosive in spurts now and really gets by on guile.You do realize he’ll also be 32 years of age when the season kicks off. He was the prime target in this offense gathering 112 passes for 1,598 yards, yet only caught 4 touchdowns. What’s missing now is the big play element from the offense with Johnson and TE Owen Daniels (62 rec. 716 yds 6TDs) as the intermediate threats. With 818 receptions for 11,254 yards in his career, Johnson’s numbers are approaching all time great status. It looks as though the Texans realize this and released WR Kevin Walter who was the intermediate receiver across from Johnson. What they need is exactly what they let go in 2011, a Jacoby Jones. Right now this offense is missing a home run hitter that can take the Safeties deep. Houston anointed 2nd year wideout Keshawn Martin to the starting line-up to be the X receiver but he’s unproven. Look for the Texans to add this element in the draft or a free agent signing to compete with Martin. If they can address this they can upgrade their ranking. As it stands they are playoff quality because teams know they can’t get deep and clog the routes 20 yards or under. Offensive Line: In today’s NFL, the offensive line is measured by how well they can protect the passer by most pundits. However here we grade beyond that. This group allowed only 28 sacks last year which was good enough for 7th best in the NFL. Left Tackle Duane Brown was an All Pro while making the Pro Bowl with Center Chris Myers and Guard Wade Smith. However Smith and Myers will each be 32 by the time the season kicks off. They’re young at the tackles but older on the line’s interior. One aspect of the game they could use some improvement is run blocking. How can we say that about a group that had 3 Pro Bowl members and a 1,000 yard rusher?? Very simple. Foster isn’t a back that dances. He takes the ball on “Belly” and “Stretch” plays, makes a cut and then goes up-field. However they are 30th in negative rush plays to the strong side with 20 and 31st to the weak side with 28. Further evidence is when it’s 3rd or 4th and goal or less than 2 yards, this group only converted 57% of the time to the strong side which was 20th in the league. This team could only run up the middle where they did convert 75% of the time in obvious power situations. So it’s obvious they struggle with younger more athletic defenders. This will only get worse over time and lowers their ranking to average. Defensive Line: This group begins and ends with JJ Watt who is the premier defensive lineman in the game. The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year had a career season with 81 tackles, 20 1/2 sacks, 4 forced fumbles, and 16 defensed passes. Sixteen?? That is an obscene number. One thing they should do is move him around more so he can’t be game planned out of being effective. That is what New England did and he wasn’t a factor in the playoff game or the 42-14 loss. In Houston’s 3-4 the interior linemen are primarily space eaters to clog the line and allow the linebackers to make the tackles. The Texans were 7th in defense overall and 7th against the run. Earl Mitchell held down the point at Nose Tackle and weakside Defensive End Anthony Smith did move crash the pocket for 7 sacks. In this 3-4 he’s limited from a lot of outside moves because Defensive Co-ordinator Wade Phillips likes to send linebackers like he did with the departed Conner Barwin. Because of Watt’s presence this is definitely a Super Bowl caliber group. Twenty seven and a half sacks from a 3 man line?? Come on now… If Cushing can have a bounce back year….watchout! Will he be inside or outside?? Linebackers: We just mentioned the loss of Connor Barwin who signed with the Philadelphia Eagles. This team can hopefully get a healthy year out of Brian Cushing who could be moved back outside. In fact last year’s infirmary list included Cushing, Darryl Sharpton, Tim Dobbins, and Barrett Ruud missing a combined 27 games last year. This was the Achille’s Heel of the defense but that is understandable when you’re playing second string all year. Bradie James was the leading tackler on this team with 76 stops and had 1/2 a sack. With so many players injured it’s almost impossible to gauge how effective this group will be. They do have pieces in place and we’ll have to see if they are going to draft an outside linebacker or what we believe… Brian Cushing will go back outside. If they can get their linebackers on the field we think they can be good. However since we haven’t seen them hit the field yet we have to grade them as below average. If Ed Reed can hold up this season, he can transform this defense from a good one to a great one. Secondary: With a stout pass rush that produced 44 sacks and 11 forced fumbles, this group should have had more than 15 interceptions. CB Kareem Jackson was the leader in that department with 4, and Jonathon Joseph went to the Pro Bowl with 2 picks. The Texans needed to desperately improve their secondary that ranked 20th against the pass. They needed a spark… Enter Ed Reed. We’ll see if Reed will make a huge difference. Had this been 2008, we’d immediately say yes. With him going into his 12th year, we’re taking a wait and see approach Last year’s Free Safety Glover Quinn was second on the team in tackles with 85 yet intercepted just 2 passes. Now you know why the Texans went after Ed Reed. SS Danieal Manning will come up and make a hit but these guys are limited cover guys. This group is playoff caliber if Reed plays like he did in Baltimore. The Chancellor would like to see more out of this group when it comes to coverage. Could see another draft pick used on corner and safety as well. They need some insurance to keep coverage on slot receivers. With the addition of Reed this is now a playoff caliber group. Overview: This team is on the verge of having to retool on the offensive side of the ball. They are at a collective age where a crash could happen at any time. Schaub, Johnson, and the center of the offensive line all being over 32 years of age?? Tight End Owen Daniel will turn 31 in November. You better believe the time is now for this group. They couldn’t pull past the Colts while Manning was there and now they have to put up with a completely new Colts regime. One that gained confidence beating the Texans in the finale last year 28-16. In reality this has been the AFC South’s best team since 2010 yet they couldn’t get that landmark win to push themselves to the top of the conference. The Chancellor’s crystal ball sees more of the same as they won’t make it past the divisional round of the playoffs and may actually be a wildcard entrant. Look at the relative age of this team. Just remember the NFL is a long season for all these thirty somethings. This will be their last year as a playoff team as well… Taylor Blitz Times new logo!! Posted in 2013 Team Previews. Tagged American football, Andre Johnson, Arian Foster, Houston Texans, JJ Watt, Matt Schaub, NFL Preview, sports 2011 AFC South Previews and Predictions September 7, 2011 by The Chancellor of Football With the NFL season a few days away, the Colts are starting to realize what life will be like without Peyton Manning. His inability to recover fully from neck surgery has given the front office a gaze into the near future when he will not be under center. The Colts spent a majority of this year’s draft improving the offensive line, it’s a given he will take some shots as this line develops. The images of an aging Brett Favre taking hit after hit have to be dancing in Coach Caldwell’s mind, and Manning has been placed as doubtful on the injury report for week one against the Texans. Just in the nick of time too as Texan linebackers Mario Williams and Brian Cushing were going to come screaming at him off the corners. It seems as though the Colts are after one last hurrah where a division rival from Texas has grown in leaps and bounds. Last year they fielded the NFL’s leading rusher in Arian Foster. His 1,616 yards and 16 TDs to go along with the production of perennial Pro Bowl wideout Andre Johnson, should make this the best offense in the division. Coach Kubiak is on the “hotseat” and hopes new defensive coordinator Wade Phillips can improve his defense. These developments are happening at just the right time in our eyes. Circle week 4 when this team hosts the Pittsburgh Steelers to find out if they are for real or not. 2011 AFC SOUTH PREDICTIONS Houston Texans 10-6 * Indianapolis Colts 9-7 Tennessee Titans 5-11 Jacksonville Jaguars 3-13 For the first time since they moved from Houston in 1996, the Tennessee Titans will be moving in a new direction without Jeff Fisher. The team he left behind has some pieces but made a mistake in not retaining Kerry Collins. He could have provided some continuity as the team develops #1 draft pick Jake Locker. Now he will help shape the Colts (when Manning returns) gameplan when they face his former team. Furthermore the contract renegotiation for the services of RB Chris Johnson are over, yet the subsequent holdout normally mean hamstring problems. Something to watch as this team brought in Matt Hasselbeck to be the transition quarterback. Now we have the swan song for Jack Del Rio coming up. It looked like his team had been regressing since that playoff loss to New England a few years back. If you remember, Coach Rio in a stunning move, cut starting QB Byron Leftwich and handed the keys over to David Garard to generate more offense. that was 2007, so what does that have to do with 2011?? Lets just say same time same channel. As we went to press yesterday, Del Rio released starting quarterback David Garard. This time there is only rookie QB Blaine Gabbert to handle the offense. He’s simply lost it with this move. In his defense, the last time he made this bold move, Garrard had provided a second half spark in many games during the previous season. Maurice Jones Drew will see mammoth 8 man fronts and will see a long season. The Titans were picked to finish last when this move came across the wire. Looks like a recipe for disaster. As for the Colts, this looks like the end of a remarkable run. This team won 115 games during the 2000’s which included a Super Bowl triumph in the 41st edition. As time has gone on they have drafted low for many years and now the team is devoid of any star power outside of Manning. Even if he is healthy, he masks many deficiencies. Yet with the loss of defensive sparkplug Bob Sanders there is a lot to overcome. With the emergence of the Jets and re-emergence of the Ravens with superior secondaries, the Colts deficiencies at receiver have shown up in their last few playoff losses. Each of which have come in the first round…only this year the Colts won’t make it that far. Hope you enjoyed and share the article. Next up: AFC North Posted in 2011 Team Previews. Tagged AFC South, Andre Johnson, Arian Foster, Brian Cushing, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Mario Williams, Peyton Manning, Tennessee Titans	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1782
__label__cc	0.685811	0.314189	Op-Pieces Press E-commerce Firms Must Look Beyond the Electronic Transaction Bill Following the rise in the electronic commercial activities in Nigeria and its contributions to the growth of the economy, stakeholders have long been agitating for policies and regulatory frameworks that can aid orderly conduct of electronic transactions in a manner that is fair especially to the customers. It was against this background that the Electronic Transaction Bill was passed by the last National Assembly. The bill is currently raising concerns among e-commerce businesses who anxiously await its passage into an Act. However, reacting to this development, the Media Officer of Supermart.ng, Oluwatayo Alofun has said that the while the bill is a welcome development that will be instrumental in bringing order to e-commerce in Nigeria, there is need for e-commerce firms to look beyond seeing regulations as the compelling factor for rendering quality services to consumers. Citing the example of Supermart.ng he said “at Supermart.ng, we already promised our customers to deliver groceries to them in as early as three hours of order. . We understand that a customer’s time is very precious to him so we make it a goal to deliver on that promise against any logistics challenge. This has not being easy but we owe it to make life easier for households in Lagos by saving them three to six hours through our delivery system” The Electronic Transaction Bill is expected to regulate the e-commerce sector and protect consumers. To this end, some of the key issues highlighted in the bill are non-disclosure of full information on products and services, deceptive advertisement, improper description of products, delivery of defective products, poor informal dispute settlement procedures, double payments and poor customer service. Speaking on highlights of the bill, Alofun said “when you look at the key issues highlighted in the bill, they all go down to conscious efforts on our part as e-commerce business operators to put our customers interest first in our dealing, this is what Supermart.ng has been doing since inception-putting customers first. Take customer service as an instance, when we employ delivery men, they are professionally trained to be able to talk to customers, they are equipped with smart phones to be able to provide up to date information to customers and as well as update the Supermart.ng system. We leave nothing to chance in our customer service process which makes it almost impossible for us to fail on our promises” Alofun however expressed hope in the possibility of the Bill to improve the state of e-commerce business in Nigeria and to boost consumer’s confidence in the electronic transaction system. He therefore urges the executive arm of the government to consider the Bill for assent into an Act. #alofun#electronic transaction bill#supermart.ng More from Press WorldRemit launches new product for business payments to emerging markets Leading digital money transfer company WorldRemit has launched WorldRemit for Business, a new service that enables small and medium-sized business … Itanna set to invest $300,000 in Tech Startups: Call for entry to Itanna Accelerator Programme 2019 Itanna, the Venture Capital investing platform backed by Honeywell Group, has today announced the commencement of this year’s Accelerator Programme. … New NBA Africa YouTube Channel to Broadcast Live Primetime Games Each Week and Celebrate Africa’s Impact on the NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) and YouTube today announced the launch of the NBA’s first YouTube channel dedicated to fans in …	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1785
__label__wiki	0.871565	0.871565	Read Next: 'The Perfect Date,' 'Always Be My Maybe' Draw Big Crowds on Netflix February 28, 2013 7:30AM PT AOL Taps Susan Lyne Former ABC Topper to Be Chief Exec of Global Brand Group By Leo Barraclough Leo Barraclough Senior International Correspondent @https://twitter.com/LeoBarraclough FOLLOW Leo's Most Recent Stories Carice van Houten’s ‘Instinct’ Picked Up By Films Boutique (EXCLUSIVE) Greek Director Syllas Tzoumerkas on the Need for Defiance Sony Pictures Classics’ Dylan Leiner on Getting Filmmakers and Distributors on the Same Page AOL has tapped Susan Lyne, one of its board members and the former president of ABC Entertainment, as chief executive of its global Brand Group. Lyne, who also ran Martha Steward Living Omnimedia and most recently online retailer Gilt Groupe, will oversee all aspects of the brand growth strategy, including increasing traffic across properties, partnerships with advertisers and publishers and attracting top talent, with a particular focus on content, design, programming and product. “Susan has a proven track record of brand building and aggressive growth,” said AOL topper Tim Armstrong. “I know she’ll bring that same drive and growth-oriented mentality to our Brand Group. AOL ended 2012 growing revenue for the first time in eight years, and we expect Susan to help build on this momentum and take our brands to the next level.” Lyne said that in “three years as an AOL board member, I have partnered with Tim Armstrong and my fellow directors to help drive the company’s transformation, and have seen AOL make great strides as it continues to innovate, grow and evolve.” Lyne will remain vice chairman of Gilt. As ABC Entertainment prexy, she oversaw the development of “Desperate Housewives,” “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” Moment Factory Quinn Taylor Susan Lyne Tim Armstrong More Digital Netflix Insists It Won't Move Into Selling Advertising Netflix wants you to know: It doesn’t have any plans now or in the future to start running commercials on its streaming service. Company execs have have regularly explained that being ad-free is a core part of Netflix’s attractiveness to consumers, and the strategy has been a standard part of its “Long-Term View” mission statement [...] Netflix to Launch Lower-Priced Mobile-Only Plan in India Following several months of testing, Netflix is getting ready to officially launch a mobile-only plan in India. Priced significantly below its regular subscription plans, the new plan is meant to help the company better compete with local players like Hotstar. Netflix announced the step in its Q2 2019 earnings letter to investors Wednesday, writing: “We [...] 'The Perfect Date,' 'Always Be My Maybe' Draw Big Crowds on Netflix Rom-coms are working for Netflix: “The Perfect Date,” a romantic comedy starring Noah Centineo from the company’s hit movie “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before,” has been viewed by 48 million subscriber households in its first four weeks on the service, Netflix revealed Wednesday. And “Always Be My Maybe,” starring Ali Wong and Randall [...] Netflix U.S. Subs Drop in Q2 After Price Hikes, Company Blames Global Forecast Miss on Content Slate For the first time in eight years, Netflix lost subscribers in the U.S. — dropping a net 130,000 for the second quarter of 2019 — and added nearly 2 million fewer international customers than expected, sending the stock tumbling. Paid subscribers grew by 2.7 million, including 2.83 million internationally, almost half that of Netflix’s previous [...] First Look Media's Topic Plans to Launch Subscription VOD Service (EXCLUSIVE) Can Topic execute a solid pivot into premium video? The digital storytelling outlet of Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media thinks it can put together a niche Netflix-style subscription-video service curated to appeal to young “culture cravers.” Topic plans to launch the subscription VOD service in the fourth quarter of 2019, stocked with hundreds of hours [...] This New Podcast Lets You Take a Peek Into Celebrities' Fridges (EXCLUSIVE) Comedian Dan Ahdoot wants to show you a side of celebrities you haven’t seen before — which is why he is having them open up their fridges. Anyone appearing on Ahdoot’s new podcast “Green Eggs & Dan,” which was launched by the podcast network Podglomerate Wednesday, has to bring along a photo of the inside [...]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1795
__label__wiki	0.556045	0.556045	John Derbyshire On Race-Whipped Conservatives And The Stigma Of “Racism”—Or: Robert VerBruggen Loves Big Brother! Robert VerBruggen’s piece “The Stigma of Racism” at RealClearPolicy.com has been widely noted on the race-realist websites, mainly for purposes of mockery. The topic of the piece is a study conducted by a Harvard professor on people’s willingness to admit having noticed race. The setup for the study is: A screen showing twelve faces, six white and six black. Volunteer X, who silently selects one face from the twelve. Volunteer Y, who has to discover which face X selected by asking X a series of yes-no questions. By asking “Is the person black?” Y could eliminate half the faces right away. However, most Ys did not ask this question, nor mention race at all, especially when X was black. Yet that majority of Ys who did not mention race were more likely to be perceived as racist by X—more likely, that is, than the minority who did mention race. [The Costs of Racial “Color Blindness”, by Michael I. Norton and Evan P. Apfelbaum, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2013] So far, so good, although nothing very surprising. As VerBruggen says: [Many whites] place so much importance on demonstrating that black people don’t make them nervous that black people make them nervous. But he then goes on to tell us that this is a jolly good thing: Going from Jim Crow to white people who refuse to utter the words “Is the person black?”—often categorically, but frequently in deference to a nearby person of color [sic]—in 50 years is a remarkable accomplishment for the civil-rights movement, both as a social force and as a driver of government policy. As I said, the piece drew some mocking responses. The Countenance blog was particularly scathing: So, a knave who . . . praises as “a remarkable accomplishment for the civil rights movement” the fact that we have gone “from Jim Crow to white people refusing to utter the words” is all of a sudden upset when white people self-censor and engage in informal affirmative action. AmRen posted an edited version of VerBruggen’s piece which generated a long comment thread. Several commenters stated the obvious thing: that the “remarkable accomplishment for the civil rights movement” that VerBruggen [Twitter] rhapsodizes over consists in having instilled justified fear in nonblacks—the fear that they will lose their jobs if they venture outside the narrow bounds of approved discourse by so much as a millimeter. By that criterion, the greatest social “accomplishments” of the 20th century were those of Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Kim Il Sung, and Pol Pot. Chuck at glpiggy.net noted the piece but eschewed mockery, only adding an anecdote of his own. I was in 4th grade—9 or 10 years old. I was asked to explain latitude, as in the east-west running lines on a map or globe. I tiptoed around the best explanation I’d heard up to that point which was that latitude rhymes with fatitude and the latitude lines at the equator on a map look like the waist line of a fat person. But I avoided saying ‘fat’ because there were some chubby kids in my class. So I stammered around and made up some other explanation. It’s a nice anecdote, but not really relevant. Pointing out a fat person’s fatness might hurt his feelings, a thing polite people are naturally reluctant to do. I have childhood memories—no doubt we all do—of being scolded by parents for staring at people who were hunchbacked, birthmarked, one-armed, or physically abnormal in some other way. “It’s not polite. He can’t help it . . .” I can’t see how this relates to blackness, though. A hunched back, a birthmark, or a missing arm are all pitiable conditions. So, at a slight stretch, is obesity. What’s pitiable about being black? I’m assuming that Robert VerBruggen has left National Review, where we used to meet around the editorial table on alternate Mondays. (He hasn’t posted there since June, and his byline says he’s “editor of RealClearPolicy.”) I have retained no very strong memory of him, but that’s no reflection on his character. He was a rather quiet and unassuming person, and my memory isn’t very good. I do vaguely recall thinking that VerBruggen was sound on Second Amendment issues, but unsound—from the point of view of a traditionalist conservative—on others. A couple of data points: At one editorial meeting he waxed indignant about “bullying” in schools, an issue then beginning to be promoted by the Cultural-Marxist left. I said that the “bullying” fuss was cover for a campaign by homosexualists to normalize buggery among high-schoolers. VerBruggen was profoundly shocked. Plainly my dart had landed well wide of his personal Overton Window. I can’t remember what he said, but I remember the tone of muted outrage in which he said it. The tone expressed something like: I have never in my life heard anyone say anything so shockingly disgraceful. It was he that was editor for my February 2011 diary at National Review Online. The diary as submitted included a segment on the scuppering of that year’s American Renaissance conference by the Mayor pro tem of Charlotte, North Carolina. Knowing how race-whipped National Review is, I strove to present the issue in terms that would be acceptable to them, as a matter of free speech. My efforts were in vain. When the diary appeared on NRO’s website, that segment had been excised. Whether VerBruggen dropped the segment on his own initiative, or whether he sought a ruling from further up the NRO chain of command, I don’t know. Reading VerBruggen’s piece, and the race-realist responses to it, my first thought was that the gulf here is generational. VerBruggen (pictured right) is a young fellow—hardly more than thirty, I would guess. If that’s right, his key educational experiences were in the 1990s, when Cultural Marxism was settling on the U.S. educational system like poisonous ash from a volcanic eruption. My own kids, born 1993 and 1995, were only a few years behind that, and I saw how intensely they were schooled to pretend not to notice race. I recall one dinner-time conversation when my daughter was in high school. Mrs. Derbyshire mentioned some family we knew very slightly—call them the Blanks—whose son had been accepted into Columbia University. Me: “Good for him. The Blanks . . . They’re Jewish, aren’t they?” My daughter: “Da-ad! Really! You’re terrible!” I can’t honestly remember whether she left the table in disgust, but she was in a mood to. You’re not supposed to notice. To a person of my generation and background, such things are interesting features of the social landscape, with no particular emotional coloring. They’re Jewish . . . He’s black . . . She’s a lesbian . . . That kid’s adopted . . . Sam should really lose some weight . . . These are things we notice about persons, and bring up in conversation, without any intent to commit violence against those persons, nor even to strip them of their civil rights! To most people of less than middle age, however, there is something morally suspect about noticing any person’s racial, sexual, ancestral, or physical characteristics other than the most innocuous. The minefield begins somewhere not far beyond: “He’s pretty tall.” These exquisite sensitivities seeped down from the media and educational systems across the closing decades of the last century. Twenty years ago they had still not infected many ordinary citizens. I told the following story in Chapter 6 of my worldwide bestseller We Are Doomed: I came home from work on the Long Island Railroad one day in December, 1993. My train was right behind the one in which Colin Ferguson went berserk and shot 25 people. We were held up for a long time, and there were no cell phones. My poor wife was at home, watching news of the shooting on TV. For all she knew, I might have been among the dead. Kind neighbors came round to keep her company. Telling me about it afterwards, she remarked: “They kept saying the same thing: ‘It must be a black guy. If it was a white guy, they would have told us . . .’” I don’t think so many people would say nowadays what my neighbors said in 1993. The indoctrination is now more nearly complete. We love Big Brother. Robert VerBruggen sure does. The campaign to stigmatize anti-black racism—the most corrosive force in this country’s history—has been remarkably successful. In fact, while we love to talk about this or that as “the last acceptable prejudice,” it would be more accurate to say that racism and sexism are the only prejudices that are thoroughly unacceptable. The definitions of “racism” and “sexism” VerBruggen has in mind there are presumably the ones in current use, the first as defined by Ed West in the book I noted here: Today the term racism has come to mean almost any recognition of race . . . and of difference (or average differences) between groups. The phrase “anti-black racism” therefore means any verbal attention to negative group characteristics of blacks. Suppose for example I say the following thing: Among European whites, the portion that is dumb, feckless, anti-social, and inclined to violence—call them the DFASIVs—is 10-15 percent. This is small enough that the rest can “carry” the DFASIVs, given a modest collective investment in social welfare, law enforcement, and feelgood make-work. Among blacks, the DFASIV portion is much larger, 40-50 percent. The good news there is that most blacks—50-60 percent—can function perfectly well as useful, law-abiding citizens of a stable nation. The bad news is that the DFASIV portion is too big for the majority to “carry.” That’s why all-black polities are failures. I guess I just committed an act of “anti-black racism,” even though my negativity is aimed at only a minority of blacks (along with a minority of whites). I guess my utterance needs to be “stigmatized.” But what if the thing I just said is true, as I believe to be the case? If there actually are average differences between inbred human groups of different deep ancestry, then what has been stigmatized by that “campaign” VerBruggen applauds are true facts about the world. And of course there are such differences. It would be biologically astounding if there weren’t. Those differences are the origin of species. Thus a truth has been stigmatized and a lie permitted to prevail; and Robert VerBruggen is fine with that. There you see the poisonous, suffocating effects of all that volcano ash. Noticing things is basic to intelligent thought. If you school yourself not to notice things, you become stupid. Worse yet: If you school yourself to pretend not to notice things, while some lower region of your brain none the less does notice them, and acts on its noticing, then you are not merely stupid, you are a stupid hypocrite. For a look at one aspect of the stupid hypocrisy into which the Western world has sunk, I commend to your attention the brilliant historical survey of residential segregation at Those Who Can See, posted a few days ago. These are the depths we have sunk to, even the intelligent among us. Moral preening and wishful thinking are celebrated; true and obvious facts are stigmatized. Out of petty fears we enstupidate ourselves; for social applause and careerist opportunities, we become liars and hypocrites; and Robert VerBruggen is fine with it all. “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.” John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him. He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. His most recent book, published by VDARE.com com is FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle).His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com. Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1796
__label__wiki	0.786574	0.786574	The Coddling Of College Hate Crime Hoaxers: Case Of The Oberlin Blanket Klan American college campuses are the most fertile grounds for fake hate. They're marinated in identity politics and packed with self-indulgent, tenured radicals suspended in the 1960s. In the name of enlightenment and tolerance, these institutions of higher learning breed a corrosive culture of left-wing self-victimization. Take my alma mater, Oberlin College. Please. This week, the famously "progressive" college in Ohio made international headlines when it shut down classes after a series of purported hate crimes. According to the Oberlin Review (a student newspaper I once wrote for), anti-black and anti-gay vandalism/"hate speech" have plagued the campus since Feb. 9. "'Whites Only' was written above a water fountain, 'Ngger Oven' was written inside the elevator, and 'No Nggers' was written on a bathroom door" at one dormitory, according to the publication. Swastikas and epithets were drawn on posters around the school. Activists implied the incidents were tied to Black History Month. The final straw? A menacing presence on campus who allegedly donned a "KKK hood" and robe near the segregated black dormitory known as "Afrikan Heritage House." Oberlin President Marvin Krislov and three college deans ostentatiously published an "open letter" announcing the administration's decision to "suspend formal classes and non-essential activities." The campus body immediately jumped to conclusions and indulged in collective grievance-mongering. TheNew York Times, Black Entertainment Television and The Associated Press all piled on with angst-ridden coverage of the puzzling crimes at one of the first U.S. colleges to admit blacks and women. Oberlin alumna Lena Dunham, a cable TV celebrity who starred in a pro-Obama ad likening her vote for him to losing her virginity, took to Twitter to rally her fellow "Obies." The Associated Press dutifully reported Dunham's plea as news: "Hey, Obies, remember the beautiful, inclusive and downright revolutionary history of the place you call home. Protect each other." But what the AP public relations team for Dunham and the Oberlin mau-mau-ers didn't report is the rest of the story. While Blame Righty propagandists bemoaned the frightening persistence of white supremacy in the tiny town of Oberlin, city police told a local reporter that eyewitnesses saw no one in KKK garb—but instead saw a pedestrian wearing a blanket. Yes, the dreaded Assault Blanket of Phantom Bias. Moreover, after arresting two students involved in the spate of hate messages left around campus, police say "it is unclear if they were motivated by racial hatred or—as has been suggested—were attempting a commentary on free speech." Color me unsurprised. The truth is that Oberlin has been a hotbed of dubious hate crime claims, dating back to the late 1980s and 1990s, when I was a student on campus. In 1988, giant signs reading "White Supremacy Rules (Kill All N*ggers)" and "White Supremacy Rules, (Fuck (slashed out and replaced with 'Kill') All Minorities)" were hung anonymously at the Student Union building. It has long been suspected that minority students themselves were responsible. In 1993, a memorial arch on campus dedicated to Oberlin missionaries who died in the Boxer Rebellion was defaced with anti-Asian graffiti. The venomous messages—"Death to Chinks Memorial" and "Dead chinks, good chinks"—led to a paroxysm of protests, administration self-flagellation and sanctimonious resolutions condemning bigotry. But the hate crime was concocted by an Asian-American Oberlin student engaged in the twisted pursuit of raising awareness about hate by faking it, Tawana Brawley-style. Segregated dorms, segregated graduations and segregated academic departments foster paranoid and selective race-consciousness. While I was on campus, one Asian-American student accused a library worker of racism after the poor staffer asked the grievance-mongering student to lower the blinds where she was studying. Call the Department of Justice! A black student accused an ice cream shop owner of racism after he told the student she was not allowed to sit at an outside table because she hadn't purchased any items from his store. Alert the U.N. Commission on Human Rights! In 2006, I went back to Oberlin to confront the campus with the hate crime hoax phenomenon. As I told students back then, liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks. I documented case after case of phony racism by students and faculty, from Ole Miss to Arizona State to Claremont McKenna, and contrasted it with the vitriolic prejudice that tolerant lefties have for minorities who stray from the political plantation. The response from "students of color"? They took offense, of course, and characterized my speech as self-hating hate. Just as their coddling faculty and college elders have taught them to do. I repeat: Mix identity politics, multicultural studies, cowardly administrators and biased media—and you've got a toxic recipe for opportunistic hate crime hoaxes. Welcome to high-priced, higher mis-education, made and manufactured in the U.S.A. Michelle Malkin [email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores . Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild and Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies. Lena DunhamHate Hoaxes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1797
__label__cc	0.559652	0.440348	Home » Business & Finance » Ahead of 2-year anniversary,… Ahead of 2-year anniversary, MGM National Harbor gambling still growing Jeff Clabaugh \| @wtopclabaugh December 7, 2018, 11:22 AM After what was a record month for Maryland casino gaming revenue in October, gambling revenue eased in November, though two of the state's three largest casinos saw healthy gains in year-over-year gambling. WASHINGTON — After what was a record month for Maryland casino gaming revenue in October, gambling revenue eased in November, though two of the state’s three largest casinos saw healthy gains in year-over-year gambling. The state’s six casinos generated $140.1 million in gaming revenue in November, down from a record $158 million in October but still up 7.3 percent compared to a year ago. The state of Maryland gets $57.4 million of that, including $43 million for the state’s Education Trust Fund. MGM National Harbor, which opened in December 2016, accounted for 41 percent of all gaming revenue last month, at $57.3 million, up 13.2 percent from a year ago. MGM National Harbor is MGM’s 5th-highest revenue generator MLB strikes deal with MGM as legal gambling expands in US Live! Casino & Hotel at Arundel Mills had $48.7 million in November gaming revenue, up 12 percent from November 2017. Baltimore’s Horse Shoe Casino stumbled in November, with $19.5 million in gaming revenue, down more than 14 percent from a year ago. Gaming revenue was mixed for the state’s three smaller casinos. Hollywood Casino Perryville had $5.4 million in November gaming revenue, down 5.9 percent from a year ago. Rocky Gap Casino Resort had $4 million in gaming revenue, down 2.7 percent. But Ocean Downs Casino’s $5.2 million in November gaming revenue was up 34.3 percent from a year earlier. Maryland Lottery and Gaming regularly posts monthly and year-to-date contributions from the state’s casinos online. Business & Finance Local News Maryland News gambling jeff clabaugh mgm mgm national harbor Rocky Gap Casino Washington Business Journal » DOD removes Turkey from the F-35 program, cancels 100 jet sale Nestle unveils new KitKat bar even as it's the target of ire for two senators PX cocktail bar closing this month First look at D.C.'s proposed new Banneker Academic High School Stock tanks as Senseonics sets out to raise $105M through debt, public offerings	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1798
__label__cc	0.555133	0.444867	Mobile ⋮ Rumor Nokia 9 PureView Might Get an Upgraded Variant Featuring a Snapdragon 855 With 5G Support The Nokia 9 PureView has seen repeated delays and there is no release date in sight. Surprisingly, HMD Global is allegedly already working on a successor to the unannounced phone, and it might see the light of the day in August. Apparently, the Nokia 9 PureView successor will have all the makings of a 2019 flagship, something the Nokia 9 itself will lack. The Nokia 9 PureView Successor Expected to Be a True 2019 Flagship, Sporting a 2K OLED Screen With the Best Hardware for a Premium Android Phone The report comes from a Twitter account called Nokia_Leaks, but since it was created only recently, we aren’t sure about the validity of the claims. According to a Tweet posted by the account, the Nokia 9 PureView successor will be underpinned by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset and it will be a 5G ready device. Related All HMD Devices Are Now Running Android Pie As of Today The phone is tipped to arrive in August 2019. Other notable features of the device include the Penta-lens setup of its progenitor, but it will apparently have a larger image sensor to provide better image quality. Apart from that, the handset will reportedly sport a 2K display with minimum bezels and it might also feature an in-display camera at the front. Keep in mind that all of these are speculations at this stage, so take this info with a pinch of salt for now. Nokia 9 PureView successor with Snapdragon 855 planned tentatively in August 2019. 5G support, Penta-Lens camera, 2K display true edge-to-edge display with camera hole. @Nokiapoweruser #Nokia #Nokia9PureView — Nokia_Leaks (@LeaksNokia) January 2, 2019 However, the rumor might have some substance to it. This is because it makes sense for HMD Global to push out a Nokia 9 PureView successor sometime soon because apart from the Penta-lens setup, the phone will be nothing to write home about due to its previous-generation Snapdragon 845. If a Snapdragon 845-powered Nokia 9 flagship is sold for a high price, it might stop all momentum riding with HMD Global to finally release that elusive flagship. An upgrade of this kind could help HMD Global compete with the likes of Huawei, Samsung, OnePlus, and LG, all of which are expected to max out on their upcoming flagships. For now, we are waiting for HMD Global to announce the Nokia 9 PureView, which would be the first phone with Penta-lens camera. Although HMD Global hasn’t revealed a launch date yet, it will most likely hit the stores in late January, and since it will be a high-end device, we think its price could start from $800. Source: Twitter (Nokia_Leaks) Some Nokia 7.1 Units in Norway Caught Sending Data to China Nokia 9 PureView – a Closer Look at the Flagship’s Quintuple Camera Setup and How It Could Raise the Bar for Smartphones Omar Sohail • Mar 9, 2019 Nokia 9 PureView Officially Goes on Sale in the U.S. – More Freebies and Discounts Included With Your Purchase Nokia 9 PureView Arriving to the U.S. On March 3, With Early Adopters Getting a $100 Discount, No Questions Asked Omar Sohail • Feb 28, 2019 Nokia 9 PureView Goes Official With 5 Rear Cameras, Snapdragon 845, Wireless Charging and a Surprisingly Competitive Price Microsoft Begins Auto-Installing Windows 10 1903 on 1803 Machines That Are “Likely to Have a Good Update Experience” All iPhone 11 Dummies Shown in Latest Hands-on Video, Revealing Camera Placements and Other Visible Changes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1805
__label__wiki	0.604156	0.604156	Author: Meyer, W. You may also wish to search for items by Meyer. 24 matching references were found. Keil, M.; Kramer, H.-G.; Kudell, A.; Baig, M.A.; Zhu, J.; Demtroder, W.; Meyer, W., Rovibrational structures of the pseudorotating lithium trimer [sup 21]Li[sub 3]: Rotationally resolved spectroscopy and ab initio calculations of the A [sup 2]E[sup ´´]<--X [sup 2]E[sup ´] system, J. Chem. Phys., 2000, 113, 17, 7414, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1308091 . [all data] Kramer, H.-G.; Keil, M.; Suarez, C.B.; Demtroder, W.; Meyer, W., Vibrational structures in the A<--X system of the lithium trimer: high-resolution spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1999, 299, 2, 212, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0009-2614(98)01256-1 . [all data] Meyer, W.; Keil, M.; Kudell, A.; Baig, M.A.; Zhu, J.; Demtroder, W., The hyperfine structure in the electronic A [sup 2]E[sup ´´]<--X [sup 2]E[sup ´] system of the pseudorotating lithium trimer, J. Chem. 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__label__cc	0.502257	0.497743	Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, April 29, 2016 through September 18, 2016 (Image: DIG_E_2016_Disguise_prelim_01_PS11.jpg Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2016) Disguise: Masks and Global African Art DATES April 29, 2016 through September 18, 2016 ORGANIZING DEPARTMENT Arts of Africa COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa By putting on a mask and becoming someone else, the artists in this exhibition reveal—and reinvent—the hidden truths of the world around us. Masks stop you in your tracks. In masquerade everyday concerns, and everyday rules and power relationships, fall away. The artists behind the masks use these moments of temporary reversal to reveal deep truths. By becoming someone or something else, they suggest new possibilities. For many African artists, masquerade has historically been a catalyst for public engagement with the key issues of their time. Masquerade has also served as a platform for artistic creativity, as both sculptors and dancers regularly invent new genres and interpret existing ones to speak to the issues of the moment. However, where masks have been separated from the physical fact of performance, where they have become collected objects divorced from their performers (and often their costumes), their larger critical and artistic messages have often been lost. This exhibition features some twenty-five artists from Africa and beyond who, by responding to the history of African masquerade, work to reconnect masks and bodies with performance in order to address twenty-first-century issues. Rooted in, and often informed by, historical mask traditions, the artists assembled here tackle key questions of our current moment—the potential and limits of cross-cultural understanding; women’s agency; and queerness, among others—while inviting us to the sort of heightened awareness that masquerade provides. In so doing, they also remind us that some of the apparent innovations of Western modern and contemporary art, such as the trends away from pictorial representation toward assemblage and abstraction, or performance and participatory practice, have considerably deeper, African roots. Finally, the artists and their work reveal the extent to which “Africa” is truly global. Becoming Artifacts Now fragments, these museum objects were once contemporary art, responding to the very specific needs and concerns of their time. African masks are more than just sculptures in wood under plexiglass. They cannot be fully understood without reference to the costumes, dances, music, and audiences that once accompanied them and transformed their performers into beings beyond themselves. Sometimes sacred, sometimes secular, masquerade in Africa is always a platform for popular culture, yet one that is intended to affect the world and its inhabitants. It is a performance art of action. Given these elements, each performance is a unique event. Masks have always been invented and reimagined in response to both local needs and a global network of ideas and pressures. This creative process is, in fact, typically rooted in movement and dance—the sculpting of a mask is often the last step in its development. Yet once African masks became commodities, their original dynamism and innovation disappeared. Not only were the ephemeral dance, music, audience, and often the costumes accompanying them gone, but the identities of their performers and sculptors were typically lost as well. Nevertheless, these museum objects came from particular times and places; they were once contemporary art, responding to very specific needs and concerns. Today, they stand to remind us that even the most futuristic-looking artworks in the galleries that follow have preexisting, global, African roots. Becoming Another Body Covering the body can transform one into a figure capable of revealing and affecting the world around us. Emeka Ogboh’s Egwutronica soundtrack invites us into the masquerade moment, an instant in which ordinary time and everyday concerns are set aside to consider, observe, and partake in something far grander. The works in this section begin the process of restoring African masks to their fuller, original performance context. They also remind us that a mask is incomplete without both costume and performer. Two magnificent costumes from the Brooklyn Museum’s African collection—one made of raffia; the other, of textile fragments—illustrate the centrality of the body in masquerade. While now worn by mannequins, they both stand as signifiers for the performers who originally gave life to them. One, the Yoruba egungun, reminds us that a “mask” need not mean a wooden covering for the face at all. The contemporary works in this section, in turn, each play with the relationship between costume and the body. Together, they demonstrate how covering the body can transform one into a figure capable of revealing, and affecting, the prejudices and expectations of the world around us—whether in moments of heightened reality like masquerade, or in everyday life. Becoming Controlled Disguise can be a tool for policing bodies, for revealing and often reinforcing society’s structures. While disguise can be liberating, offering the possibility of becoming someone else, it can also be used to express social limits. Like any performance genre, masquerade is fundamentally open-ended. Through disguise, a performer can become an archetype, a symbol who stands for a larger idea or belief. Masked archetypes in performance occur throughout many cultures, from ancient Greek theater to some of the African masquerades (Igbudu, Okobuzogui) seen earlier. In all cases, the performer’s role is focused, at least in part, on teaching a lesson designed to impart rules for proper behavior and how to live an ethical life in contemporary society. Disguise can be a tool for policing bodies and taking control, quite directly. The power necessary to control people in this manner depends, in large part, on the extent to which the masked person is physically marked and differentiated from others. The masks used, from towering Bamum wooden headdresses to depersonalizing police riot helmets, are powered by their terrifying, not-quite-human, expressions. These disguises are an expression of power in which society’s structures are revealed and reinforced, showing the world not as it could be, but as it is. Becoming Another A nonhuman being can sometimes make it easier to understand a truth about human nature. By concealing the identity of the performers, masquerade invites participants to a deeper and more universal understanding of what it means to be human. By dancing with a mask, a performer can, in collaboration with the audience, bring new types of not-quite-human beings into existence. Through the intervention of a nonhuman being, it is often easier to understand a truth about human nature. Like the Mossi masks encountered earlier, the hybrid characters that follow combine the traits of a variety of different features from both the human and natural worlds. In so doing, they offer visions of transcendence, reflecting the concerns of the current moment while also connecting them to forces and histories beyond living memory. In this section, Nandipha Mntambo and Walter Oltmann, two South African artists—one black, one white—play with disguise as a way to explore what it means to be truly human. Saya Woolfalk, in turn, takes another approach, inventing an entire artistic world filled with characters reflecting her own compound identity. These characters invite viewers to become clients of a futuristic corporation selling identity-altering experiences, and to try on the new, hybrid selves on offer. While all of the artists in this section speak to universal truths by being “nonhuman,” they nevertheless do so in highly distinct manners reflective of their uniquely individual personalities and perspectives. There are, it seems, as many ways to be “nonhuman” as human. Becoming Again Masquerade is continually reinventing itself—each performance is an act of innovation. Even subtle innovations can have radical consequences. Masquerade is a genre that is continually reinventing itself. We have already seen (and will continue to see) new types of masked performances invented by artists in response to the current moment. Yet masks and masked performance can also change gradually—until, as in the case of the Bobo and Senufo masks at the beginning of this exhibition, they appear to have become something altogether new. Two women, Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Zina Saro-Wiwa, both of Nigerian descent, dominate the next section of the exhibition with their provocative and politically charged reinventions of long-standing historical masquerade genres. Through the use of digital video in particular, both artists invent new ways to extend and expand the participatory nature of masquerade. They also move into traditions previously closed to women, using subtle gestures of experimentation to create masquerades with radically new meanings. Becoming Political Masks can support the status quo, or try to upend it. Masks are a rich metaphor for political leadership. They can suggest the suspicion that leaders sometimes present different faces to different people, moderating their performance to suit their audience. Behind the mask, they are depersonalized and removed from a given situation, a step many leaders find essential in making difficult but necessary decisions of life and death. On the other hand, as many street protests have demonstrated, masks are also an effective tool for heightening and extending one’s message, turning a specific critique into a grander drama. You may have already encountered examples of each. The artists who follow engage primarily in the second vein of political masquerade, offering pointed critiques of a variety of institutions. Gerald Machona challenges governmental corruption in his native land (Zimbabwe) and the disappointments of his adopted homeland (South Africa), while William Villalongo and Brendan Fernandes take on disciplines and institutions like art history and even museums. Becoming New These artists push the limits of what masquerade can be by creating works that look towards the future while also reflecting African masquerade’s rich past. Masquerade is innovation. It responds to new needs, new problems, and new ideas with new dances, new costumes, and new masks. You have already encountered several examples of new types of masquerade created to respond to new needs. As happens in many masquerade performances, this exhibition closes with a nod to the future. In their respective works, Jakob Dwight and Sam Vernon offer novel ways to think about the very limits of what masks are, and can be. In each of their works, masks are reflected and refracted through their own unique artistic lenses. While their proposals will not replace the lived traditions of global African masquerade, both artists offer testaments to the enduring creative agency of masquerades. Masks make things happen: they can protect a community, change a person’s status, or inspire an artist to create something new. These artists take us to the limits of the genre and, like traditional masquerade performances, remind us how slippery the lines between future and past can be. ChimaTEK BETA LAUNCH On behalf of ChimaTEK Corporation, welcome to the historic launch of our trademarked hybridization products in Brooklyn. When used as a comprehensive system for self-transformation, these technologies offer clients access to a chimeric virtual existence. Exploding physical limits, blurring psychocultural boundaries, ChimaTEK’s tools prepare individuals and organizations to engage more empathetically with the post-humanist, hybridized populace of our networked, globalized age. Originally developed by the Institute of Empathy (IoE), a nonprofit research society founded by the Empathic community, ChimaTEK’s patented system makes our interspecies and intersubjective hybridization available to all. Our revolutionary process starts in the fluorescence mines of Sterling Hill, New Jersey. There we extract and refine a previously untapped natural resource which, in combination with the fungus found in ancient No Placean bones, produces a gaseous fuel that makes human hybridization possible. By breathing in this vapor through ChimaTEK’s specially designed glass Combustion Chamber, humans prepare their biology and psychology for alteration and reintegration. The next step towards your chimeric experience can begin at home or at a properly equipped sponsor institution with our deluxe Hybridization Machine. This phase gently remixes the user’s already existent traits, ultimately wiping them clean with an array of colors, shapes, and soundscapes that permeate and illuminate the corporeal and transcendental bodies. ChimaTEK is proud to partner with cultural institutions that seek to make a particular set of identity positions available for exploration and incorporation by their audiences. Three of our most recent such projects are on view in this gallery. STEP ONE: THE ChimaTEK STORY—LIFE PRODUCTS BY ChimaTEK This short video provides you with an explanation of the excwlusive process of mining and extracting the essential ingredients that begin to allow you to choose, manipulate, and enhance identity components in order to inhabit various combinations of cognitive, cultural consciousness mapping. STEP TWO: ChimaTEK VIRTUAL REALITY STATION In the bright blue corner, you may witness a demonstration of the effects of the home version of our deluxe Hybridization Machine. The chimeric existence is the result of a process that gently remixes the user’s already existent traits, ultimately wiping them clean with an array of colors, shapes, and soundscapes that permeate and illuminate the corporeal and transcendental bodies. STEP THREE: ChimaTEK VIRTUAL CHIMERIC SPACE OR VCS Commissioned for this exhibition, this space is presided over by a trio of Empathics and two Chimabots. These masked Empathics have been able to join the ChimaCloud, giving them new vitality by their transformation through the ChimaTEK process. Their images have been uploaded into the cloud, which enabled them to access a state of expansive cultural memory, including muscle memory that gives them the vocabulary for movement. An oasis or reflecting pool is positioned in the center, where an empathic dancer will come and periodically activate the space. ChimaTEK meditators are also expected to appear in this gallery to check in on how this space is functioning and occasionally offer instruction. For a schedule of their visits, please check the museum’s website. CAN I TRY BEFORE I BUY? This is a ChimaTEK showroom. You are welcome to sit and partake of the atmosphere that the Empathics have prepared for you. Because several components of the system are still awaiting formal approvals, we are still testing the effects of psychic cleansing and remixing via breathing techniques. However, we are confident that even just this taste of the potential effects will assure you that ChimaTEK is right for all your future self’s needs. Inspired by Mende Women Saya Woolfalk, the artist who created the immersive environment installed here, was particularly inspired by the form and spiritual roles of masks such as these, produced by the Sande societies of the Mende people of Sierra Leone and western Liberia, women’s associations that initiate girls into adulthood. The ceremonies of the Sande society are the only occasions in Africa when women customarily wear a sculpted wooden mask and costume that completely hides the masquerader’s identity. The masks displayed here embody the society’s guardian spirit, known as ndoli jowei, which represents Sande at all major public occasions, including the initiation of young girls into Mende womanhood. Ndoli jowei instructs young girls as part of a set of rituals that mark their development into women. Near the end of their period of seclusion, the Sande mask will lead the young female initiates to a river or pool, in a ritual of washing. Each ndoli jowei has an individual name, which connects the mask to a wide range of Mende ideas and values, though these have almost never been recorded in Western collections. Helmet Mask (Igbudu) Egúngún Masquerade Dance Costume (paka egúngún) Ogoni Elu Mask with Hinged Jaw Bolo Mask early 20th cenutry Senufo Mask (Kponyugu) late 19th or early 20th century Adejoke Tugbiyele Homeless Hungry Homo Mask (Nyanga) Ngbandi Bamum; Tikar Funerary Headdress (Tugunga) Kuba (Lele subgroup) Karanga Mask Vani Sona; Mende Sande society mask (sowei) Wan-pesego Mask Bamana Headdress (Ci-wara Kun) Gelede Body Mask Horizontal Mask (Okobuzogui) Chewa 'Elvis' Mask for Nyau Society Helmet Mask (Gbetu) with Raffia Costume early to mid 20th century Temne Mask for the Ode-Lay Society	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1810
__label__wiki	0.559215	0.559215	Mekaal Hasan Mekaal Hasan Band at the Cedar, Minneapolis (26 Aug 2015) Chaap Tilak Sayon Bandeya Chu Kunum Dilamoar Asthqui Andholan Nami Danum Ranjha Ya Ali Guitarist Mekaal Hasan is bringing his Indo-Pakistani band Mekaal Hasan Band to the Cedar Cultural Center next Wednesday, August 26th. If you like world music, you definitely need .... India/Pakistan band Mekaal Hasan Band (Mekaal Hasan on guitars, Mohammad Ahsan Papu on flutes, Ibrahim "best looking drummer in Pakistan" Akram on drums, Amir Azhar on bass, and Sharmistha Chatterjee on lead vocals) recently made a rare appearance at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis last night. What is unique about Mekaal Hasan Band is that they have members from Pakistan and India, and they play something called sufi rock (a fusion of rock music with Pakistani classical music). Their songs are sung in either Farsi or Punjabi. As described by band leader Mekaal Hasan, they have released three albums, with their early materials were too "dense and cerebral". What he is referring to is the more jazz rock style on "Bandeya", with emphasis later in the song with some really heavy bass. Their later songs, particularly on their latest Andholan and untitled upcoming record, their music is more up-tempo and more "groovy" as Hasan puts it. As previously described, the Pakistani style really shines through with various flutes by Mohammad Ahsan Papu and Sharmistha Chatterjee's traditional Pakistani singing style. However, the guitar-driven and drumming puts the music in a different direction... sometime sounding like something you would hear on a Metallica song, but with crazy Bollywood vocals. It's trippy and psychedelic - especially when the band played their epic set closer "Ya Ali" medley into "Mahi" with flickering color-changing lights at the end. Mekaal Hasan Band's Lux Style Awards-nominated album Andholan is out now. Aug 30 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub Sep 5 - Los Angeles, CA -The Markaz Mekaal Hasan Band at the Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (26 Aug 2015) vu (vu@weheartmusic.com) ♥ weheartmusic.com ♥ twitter.com/weheartmusic ♥ itunes.apple.com Posted by W♥M on Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 12:00 AM in Cedar Cultural Center, Mekaal Hasan, Minneapolis, Pakistan, Vu, World Music \| Permalink \| Comments (0) Minneapolis: August 26 to August 31, 2015 When they told pioneering guitarist Mekaal Hasan, the first Pakistani to attend Berklee, in jazz harmony class that you shouldn’t add certain notes to certain modes, he immediately .... We are closing out the rest of August 2015 with some of these shows, events, concerts in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. MEKAAL HASAN BAND Wednesday, 08/26/2015, 7pm ($20) Guitarist Mekaal Hasan is bringing his Indo-Pakistani band Mekaal Hasan Band to the Cedar Cultural Center next Wednesday, August 26th. If you like world music, you definitely need to check out the band on their first ever North American tour (which started at SXSW 2015). Band members: Mekaal Hasan - Guitars, Composition, Mohammad Ahsan Papu - Flute, Gino Banks - Drums, Sheldon D'Silva - Bass, and Sharmistha Chatterjee - Lead Vocals. Upcoming tour dates: Aug 21 - Bloomington, IN - Player's Pub Aug 26 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center The Minnesota State Fair is the largest state fair in the United States, based on average daily attendance. With this year's attendance as the highest it's ever been (new record of 252,092 people on August 30th, 2014) … “You wanted the best, you got the best!”, so is the classic stage intro for Kiss, who come to town alongside fellow hard rock legends, Def Leppard. At least two of the best anyway, as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons .… at Minnesota Fair Grounds 08/27/2015 - 09/07/2015 ($12 to $67) mnstatefair.org Despite my protests, we end up going to the Minnesota State Fair every year. This is the "Great Minnesota Get-together", where everyone goes to enjoy eating something on a stick. I think it can get really expensive, so I recommend buying a coupon book and splitting it with some of your friends. Your food options will be somewhat limited, but at least you save a couple of bucks. Already legendary hard rock band Def Leppard sold out their MN State Fair appearance.... but not to worry, I know the band will be back in town soon. Also, I don't think there's been a replacement for the Meghan Trainor yet, she had to cancel her remaining tour because of a throat surgery. NOTE: In order to see the Grandstand concerts, you'll have to pay the MN State Fair's entrance fee in addition to the Grandstand prices. Grandstand shows: • Aug. 27: Def Leppard with Styx and Tesla • Aug. 28: Keith Urban with Kelsea Ballerini • Aug. 29: Carrie Underwood with Native Run • Aug. 30: Alan Jackson with Brandy Clark • Aug. 31: The Turtles with Flo & Eddie • Sept. 1: Meghan Trainor (canceled) • Sept. 2: Pattie LaBelle with the Commodores • Sept. 3: Lynyrd Skynyrd with Collective Soul • Sept. 4: A Prairie Home Companion • Sept. 5: The Avett Brothers • Sept. 6: Amateur Talent Contest • Sept. 7: Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson with Sturgill Simpson If you're a cheapskate like me, the Fair does offer some great free shows. We usually attend the Leinie Lodge Bandshell shows: Aug. 27 - 28: Gaelic Storm Aug. 29 - 30: Terri Clark Aug. 31 - Sept. 1: Andy Grammer Sept. 2 - 3: Lou Gramm "The Voice of Foreigner" Sept. 4 - 5: Reel Big Fish Sept. 6 - 7: Home Free For the uninitiated, or for nostalgists such as myself, this compilation serves as either a great introduction or a great recap of one of the finest careers ever in the punk/pop genre. In case you don't already know, X were a … at Mill City Nights Saturday, 08/29/2015, 8pm ($20) millcitynights.com The original Los Angeles punk band (and impossible to Google) X will be in town on August 29th. I'm not entirely sure if their guitarist and X co-founder Billy Zoom will be joining them on this tour, as he is undergoing some bladder cancer treatment, thanks to the $50k plus donation and T-Shirt campaign of "Support Billy Zoom – Nice guy, punk legend". If anything, I'm sure you can pick up the Billy Zoom shirts at their upcoming show to show support. Dead Rock West to open the show. 08/28/15 Milwaukee, WI Juneau Park 08/29/15 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights 08/30/15 Des Moines, IA Wooly's 09/01/15 St. Charles, MO Bottleneck Blues Bar 09/02/15 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill's Duck Room 09/04/15 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues 09/05/15 Birmingham, AL Saturn 09/06/15 Nashville, TN City Winery Nashville 09/08/15 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre 09/09/15 Atlanta, GA Terminal West 09/11/15 Annapolis, MD Rams Head On Stage 09/12/15 Hopscotch Music Festival 09/19/15 Del Mar, CA Kaaboo So starting sharply at 7:30pm was Chelsea Wolfe. Wolfe's band played in complete darkness for about half a minute before Wolfe made her grand entrance.… at Triple Rock Social Club Monday, 08/31/2015, 8pm ($14) triplerocksocialclub.com We previously caught Chelsea Wolfe at Roy Wilkins in 2014 (with Queens of the Stone Age), and at Fitzgerald Theater in 2014 (with Eels)... so we're pretty familiar with her work. Wolfe's currently headlining a tour in support of her new album Abyss, which came out August 7th on Sargent House. Denver's Wovenhand (aka David Eugene Edwards) also on the bill. US tour dates: 08/27/15 Las Vegas, NV Backstage Bar 08/28/15 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge 08/29/15 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater 08/31/15 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock 09/01/15 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall 09/02/15 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop 09/03/15 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace 09/04/15 Montreal, QC Théâtre Fairmount 09/10/15 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts 09/11/15 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall 09/14/15 Atlanta, GA Aisle 5 09/15/15 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge 09/17/15 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks 09/18/15 Houston, TX Rudyard's 09/19/15 Austin, TX The Mohawk 09/20/15 Dallas, TX The Kessler Theater 09/22/15 El Paso, TX Tricky Falls 09/23/15 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad 09/24/15 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar 09/25/15 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theater 09/26/15 San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom 09/28/15 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre 09/29/15 Seattle, WA Neumos 09/30/15 Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw Theatre 10/02/15 Bellingham, WA The Shakedown Posted by W♥M on Monday, 17 August 2015 at 12:00 AM in Chelsea Wolfe, Dead Rock West, Def Leppard, Mekaal Hasan, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Minnesota State Fair, Vu, Wovenhand, X \| Permalink \| Comments (0)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1813
__label__cc	0.6118	0.3882	‘Cue Pig Out with NYC’s Best Texas Style BBQ at Fette Sau in Williamsburg With my Texan girlfriend leading the way and teaching me everything there is to know about true Texas ‘cue, I’ve become a bit of a barbecue aficionado, as regrettably also a bit of a snob. I’ve had enough experience consuming the real stuff to know what makes good and bad BBQ and NYC has plenty of each. I’ve travelled around NYC, throughout the boroughs, to Cochon 555, and The Big Apple Barbecue Festival a number of times. Hell, I’ve even been to a barbecue head-to-head event where many of NYC’s top BBQ producers go to show off their chops. I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on what’s what in the New York BBQ world. There’s been much written lately about the booming NYC barbecue scene, but I’ve often found myself disappointed with many of the most highly-regarded, hyped, big-name places. But there also really is some incredible barbecue to be had around NYC. I’ve written previously about my love for Mighty Quinn’s and I think that Danny Meyer’s Blue Smoke is pretty phenomenal, but I think the best of the best might be at the old Brooklyn mainstay Fette Sau in South Williamsburg. Fette Sau’s name means “Fat Pig” in German and that’s exactly how you’ll feel after indulging in a meat-tastic gorge-fest there. Real Deal Texas Barbecue Burrito Bowls in NYC at Tres Carnes Over the past few years NYC has been going through a sort of Texas style barbecue renaissance. With many new massive traditional smokehouses popping up, the competition is fierce and some will obviously succeed where others fail. While most of the places serving ‘cue are in the traditional format of counter, line, butcher paper, and meat by weight, Tres Carnes takes a completely different approach. Their menu consists mostly of tacos, burritos, and burrito bowls which get loaded with authentic Texas smoked meats like brisket and pulled pork in a Chipotle-esque construction line. At Tres Carnes, the smoker is helmed by pitmaster Mike Rodriguez who has a pedigree that includes the very famous Salt Lick in Austin. This guy knows what he’s doing.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1817
__label__cc	0.640349	0.359651	icon-comments 1 A beginner’s guide to debt in higher education David Kernohan - in conversation with Marc Finer of KPMG, Ian Robinson of HSBC, and Karel Thomas of BUFDG - offers an introduction to the realities of HE sector borrowing. David Kernohan David Kernohan is Associate Editor of Wonkhe. University borrowing, for the most part, is one of those “moral panic” stories that the higher education sector is beset with. Somewhere deep within the Calvinist soul of the nation there seems to be a conflation of debt with sin: any story splashing on “irresponsible” or “unsustainable” borrowing has the same effect on people as headlines about austerity or living within our means. Despite this, household debt continues to rise, as statistics regularly show. Most people’s frame of reference is personal or household finance. Paying down debt, or borrowing the least amount of money for the shortest possible time, is seen as prudence, anything else is seen as profligacy. Just as a household might want to own the bricks and mortar they live in, or drive a newer, more reliable car, universities sometimes borrow to support growth, a change in strategic direction, or a new initiative. Borrowing, after all, can be a form of investment. As Karel Thomas, Chief Executive of BUFDG, put it: “Borrowing is part of life, for individuals, governments and businesses. Debt is not always bad, as long as it is affordable and well-managed.” Marc Finer, Director and Head of Higher Education Debt Advisory at KPMG, told me that, “There’s a perception that debt is in and of itself a risky thing, but lenders themselves are risk averse. Lenders will offer finance for a fixed period of time and fixed rate of return. Relatively low rates in the sector reflect that lenders don’t feel like they are taking a high risk bet. Lenders aren’t running around writing cheques – they are very selective.” Types of funding We need to start with an understanding of where institutional funding comes from. Most income, be it from student fees or funding councils, is directly linked to a particular segment of activity. Research grants are supposed to cover the cost of conducting and administering research. Student fees are generally expected to cover the cost of tuition. All of this funding is recurrent rather than capital, almost all of it spent in year. But universities also incur one-off costs, most often linked to estates or equipment Finer summarised: “A lot of the borrowing done by universities in recent years has been driven by estates investment. But this doesn’t just mean shiny new buildings. It may also be about clearing backlogged investment in the current estate, anything from repairing leaking flat roofs or removing asbestos through to retrofitting energy efficient windows.” One-off costs are generally covered by capital. In the past a lot of this has come from funding council allocations linked to teaching or research. One of the great untold stories about recent university funding is the near disappearance of capital grants from funding councils. In England, for example, HEFCE allocated £738m of formula capital funding in 2008. Fast-forward to 2017 and this same allocation has shrunk to £104m from OfS and £183m from Research England, distributed across many more institutions. But buildings still need to be developed, repaired, or replaced. Equipment still needs to be updated and maintained. So institutions now look to other sources of funding. Types of borrowing Generally, there are three sources of external finance available to institutions: Public bonds are primarily for access to very large (£200m+) amounts of money for long periods. They require an investment grade credit rating (from an agency like Moody’s). Institutions often work with banks to identify prospective pools of lenders. However, not all universities will be able to access the bond market – generally institutions of longer standing with income diversity (teaching, research, and industry) will be eligible. Bank finance sits at the other end of the scale. Borrowing is easier and finance is more flexible (a revolving credit facility being a common example). Institutions generally build up a relationship with their bank, which will often know a great deal about their finances and planning, and will be able to offer a facility that meets these specific needs. Private placements is the term used to describe non-bank borrowing that is not a public bond. Very liquid investors (often US pension schemes) seek reliable low-risk returns and will often approach individual institutions with offers directly. Some flexibility is available (though banks can be more flexible) and there is no requirement for an investment grade rating. With each of these options, lenders are keen to see that institutions are able to service the loans they take. Due diligence and risk assessment ensure that there is little risk of lenders losing their money. As public-sector linked bodies, often with long histories, UK universities are currently attractive to investors during a period of high liquidity, with the cost and availability of finance generally reflecting this. Ian Robinson, Director of Public Sector and Education at HSBC, explained how a bank might approach these decisions. In making lending decisions we would start with a in-depth understanding of the institution, their strategy and their drivers as well as the robustness of their projections and viability of their plans. We look at both financial and non-financial metrics – including things like rankings, student number trends, operating cash flow, and surplus-deficits. All this helps us to understand the ongoing sustainability of an institution. Thomas told a similar story from the perspective of a university financial director Finance Directors are usually very prudent by nature, sometimes to the point where they could be accused of being over-cautious. To make sure that they are neither recklessly over-optimistic nor so cautious that they stand in the way of progress, there are checks and balances before decisions to borrow even reach the ultimate decision-making body, the governors. Those checks involve robust business cases, independent evaluation of proposals by lawyers and debt advisers, scrutiny of figures by lenders and auditors and sign-off by internal committees. At every stage, questions are asked and asked again, so if a university borrows money, the community of the university has to be convinced that it is a good idea and lenders have to be convinced they will be repaid. Neither party sets out to fail. That said, not every HE provider is the same. All lenders will make an assessment of an institution as a part of this– but every financial relationship proceeds on the basis of a business plan. Increasingly, lenders will question assumptions of perpetual growth as the outlook for HE – given demographic pressures, pensions liabilities, Brexit, Augar – looks less rosy. “We’ve seen changes in institutional behaviour – terms have shortened to provide flexibility and reduce costs, and changes in the educational landscape in terms of numbers has had an impact on the way that universities borrow,” said Robinson. Strangely one message that doesn’t appear to have cut through is the apocalyptic warning from Michael Barber that the OfS will not “bail out” institutions. Banks and other lenders are savvy enough to see this message as being aimed at institutional planners rather than the financial markets – there remains an assumption that some institutions are too important to lose, and that other mitigations short of a bailout (mergers for instance) will play a part. But really, no lender would offer finance to an institution based only on the idea that it would not be permitted to fail. This idea gives the information-rich decisions that underpin finance little credit. How is borrowing changing? Finer described the way the wider marketplace is shifting. There’s lots of liquidity in capital markets, so these days private placements are similarly priced to bonds. Direct conversation with private placement lenders makes it easier for HE institutions to tell their story. For this reason the balance of long-term borrowing has shifted to private placements in the last two years. The demise of student number controls and capital grants happened pretty much simultaneously in the early part of this decade. The combination made borrowing more necessary and more available – institutions had both the capacity and the will for student number growth. Higher fees meant that, for the first time in a long time, the majority of teaching could be financially self-sustaining. The visible evidence of borrowing – new campuses, new buildings, and new facilities – is all around us. But a big part of borrowing-supported activity has been less visible – campus maintenance and refurbishment, IT infrastructure upgrades, and software underpinning new teaching methods and research processes. But this era is in the past. With a gloomier outlook, many HEIs are actively planning to shrink – with lower student numbers prompting retrenchment and restructure. The loss of a subject area is at the extreme end of such planning but many institutions are considering specialisation, or refining their course portfolio. Others are looking at raising entry grades. Such is the logic of marketisation – clearly not every institution can grow, and not every institution can be fully comprehensive. As Robinson explained: Some universities are planning to shrink – some have expanded very rapidly when caps were removed, others are reducing student numbers strategically to ensure they bring in a higher level of acceptance grade. Finer said that: Lenders are asking more questions these days – about student growth projections, about what could go wrong, about how universities will find additional cash to cover risks. There’s more due diligence. Last summer we saw concern over university access to bridging loans under former HEFCE rules. Now that these are forbidden, we might have expected to see a rise in the demand for such support from banks. But this has not happened. Bridging loans differ from other forms of finance by having a very short term. You could compare them to a payday loan. But the general quality of institutional financial planning is good, so this state of affairs is a rarity. An institution would only have approached HEFCE for such a loan if a bank couldn’t offer one – another very unlikely scenario. Finer said that institutions shouldn’t worry unduly, but should plan realistically. I’m not convinced that there’s a credit crunch coming for universities. Some institutions may have taken on debt when it was available even where there wasn’t an immediate need for the cash, because their long-term sustainability and ability to service the debt was never thought to be in any doubt. But in a market where conditions could get tougher and plans could change, the institutions with more flexibility in their debt arrangements are likely to be more resilient. Capital structure needs to be planned properly and appropriate to each institution’s own situation. Robinson expected this period of change to continue. The landscape of borrowing has changed significantly in HE and will continue to change as the sector evolves. We’ve seen significant changes in recent years – an appetite for shorter terms and more flexibility is linked to the uncertainties that the sector faces. But every provider is different, as Robinson reminded us. For a university to find the most appropriate form of borrowing, careful assessment is needed to get best value debt and to reducing risk in refinancing debt. We prefer to build a strategic relationship with universities to help best meet their needs One response to “A beginner’s guide to debt in higher education” Feb 15 2019 at 10:08 am Interesting that “US pension schemes” are ‘apparently’ simply seen as investors. In our direct experience they are also predators seeking to use financial leverage gained by such investment to ‘encourage’ Universities to close non-USS grade staff local pension schemes and hand the money, staff pension pots and future contributions, over to them to manage and make profit from. The converting from ‘defined benefits’ to ‘defined contributions’ pensions being part of the process. That they also buy into the public bonds as well to spread their influence especially where they have failed to place a private loan has also been noted. Are we gambling with students’ futures? Financial health in HE – does a calm sea conceal dangerous currents? HESA institutional finance 2019 release: KFI is going to rock you A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling A beginner’s guide to university estates by Jane White A beginner’s guide to the T level reforms Policy Watch A beginner’s guide to post-qualification admissions Let’s go fly a kite: The higher education landscape by Marian Hilditch	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1820
__label__wiki	0.934091	0.934091	LEVEL 2 THE ANNEX 41 SHORTLAND STREET AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND Dispute service helps 1000 Kiwi families By Wright Communications The service, run by Presbyterian Support Northern (PSN), was launched last April after being chosen by the Ministry of Justice as one of two Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) suppliers in the upper North Island. Since then, well over 1000 separated or separating mums and dads have contacted the service for the support they need to achieve the best outcomes for their children. The FDR mediation service was introduced in March 2014 following a review of the Family Court. It is designed to help separating couples agree on child arrangements without having to go to court, reducing the strain on the court system and potentially saving parents thousands of dollars in legal fees. FDR can also spare families the stress of the court process, which can be particularly difficult for the children involved. Presbyterian Support Northern General Manager for Development Wendy Hoskin says FWRS has performed well and achieved good results for families in its first year. "In some cases the Family Court is necessary, but most families don't want to have to go to court and the process can inflame existing tensions," she says. "The FDR service empowers separated families to work together to come to an amicable arrangement on parenting that both parents can agree to. This is better for the children and the parents." FWRS manages the three components of the FDR process, including assessment of an individual's and family's suitability to participate; preparatory coaching for those who need it; and mediation. One part of its service is offering Parenting through Separation courses, which help separating or separated parents to create parenting plans and talk to other parents about how children are affected by separation. "The new FDR service is a great fit for PSN as it adds to the services our Family Works division already provides to children and families on a daily basis," Hoskin says. "At Family Works we champion children and families, and offering a FDR service means we can help children and their families even more." FWRS is managed from a call centre at the Support Office in Epsom. Families can contact the service by calling 0800 RESOLVE (0800 737 6583) or by using the online enquiry form on the Family Works website: https://northern.familyworks.org.nz/ Family Works supports at-risk children and their families to help them address complex issues like violence and conflict. Our services include counselling, social workers in schools, budgeting advice, emergency food parcels, family dispute resolution and group programmes for women and children affected by family violence. We're part of Presbyterian Support Northern, a charitable social services provider which works alongside children and families in communities across the upper North Island. Peddle Thorp-designed Bledisloe Quarter selected as finalist in World Architecture Festival Awards Peddle Thorp's design of the Bledisloe Quarter for the Auckland Waterfront Consortium, incorporating the proposed waterfront stadium, ‘Arena Aotearoa’, has been selected as a final… Toyota New Zealand welcomes transport emissions consultation Toyota New Zealand says the Government’s planned consultation on clean car standards and discounts is an encouraging step towards reducing New Zealand’s automotive carbon emissions… Opportunity for public sector to tell wellbeing stories For the fourth year running Fire and Emergency New Zealand tops the Colmar Brunton Public Sector Reputation Index. Tourism New Zealand and Maritime New Zealand both jumped three an… Give us a call, send us a message or call in and see us. We’d love to hear from you. Please fill out the required fields shown below to send your message P +64 9 366 0040 We are centrally-located, close to ferry, bus and train services. If you are bringing a car into the city, the closest car park is The Chancery - Secure Parking on Bacons Lane. NZ Affiliate	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1824
__label__cc	0.736227	0.263773	Cindy Reads & Writes Cindy Roesel's Blog – Book Spotlights & Reviews & Much More From Beautiful Miami, Florida LITTLE BROKEN THINGS by Nicole Baart … interview & giveaway 20 Dec 2017 20 Dec 2017 ~ Cindy Roesel IT’s the book everyone is talking about … Nicole Baart’s new novel, LITTLE BROKEN THINGS (Atria) is an engrossing and suspenseful novel about a wealthy suburban family whose carefully constructed facade starts to unravel with the unexpected arrival of an endangered young girl. “I have something for you.” When Quinn Cruz receives that cryptic text message from her older sister Nora, she doesn’t think much of it Quinn hasn’t seen her sister, Nora, in months. When she shows up unexpectedly with a young girl named Lucy, Quinn is full of questions. They remain unanswered, however, when Nora hurriedly departs again, leaving the girl behind. Nora’s last statements ring in Quinn’s ears. “Promise me you’ll keep her safe…. “ Quinn struggles to honor her sister’s request and care for the scared Lucy, she fears that Nora has gotten involved in something way over her head—something that will threaten them all. But Quinn’s worries are nothing compared to the firestorm that Nora is facing. It’s a matter of life and death, of family and freedom, and ultimately, about the lengths a woman will go to protect the ones she loves. Lake is a small, close-knit town where secrets are hard to keep, so it’s not long before Quinn’s mother, Liz, discovers Lucy hiding in the cottage Quinn and her artist husband are renting for the summer. Although somewhat distant and estranged from both her daughters, Liz becomes Quinn’s reluctant ally as they race to discover the truth about the little girl with the stone-colored eyes and cornsilk hair who’s landed in their lives. Points of view shift between Nora, Liz and Quinn for a slow unveiling of the story behind Lucy and her mother, Tiffany, a high school friend of Nora. The tension continues as more details about the four women and the various men in their lives are added to the twisting plot line that spans a four-day period. Baart shows how these women have been affected and changed in subtle and large ways by the men, who carry the burden of some stereotypes, yet are distinguishable as individuals with their own sets of problems. Amazon \| Books-A-Million \| Barnes & Noble About Nicole Baart Nicole Baart is the mother of five children from four different countries. The cofounder of a non-profit organization, One Body One Hope, she lives in a small town in Iowa. She is the author of seven previous novels, including, most recently, THE BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER. We were fascinated to learn that Nicole has five children from four countries, so we sent her some questions about the traditional American family and she gladly shared her answers. CR: How has the traditional family changed over the years? Decades? NB: Oh goodness. This is such a loaded question for me. I know that there is an ideal of the “traditional family,” but I’m not convinced that there is such a thing. The whole concept of a mom, dad, two kids, cute dog and a white picket fence doesn’t ring true for most (if not all) of the families I know. We have all been touched in some way by death, divorce, illness, abuse, addiction, loss, and so much more and I don’t necessarily think things that tear us apart are as different today as they were years or decades ago. My heart is for people and I consider so many sweet people my family! We don’t necessarily share blood or even a last name, but they are my brothers and sisters, my parents, my children. In my opinion, love makes a family CR: How do you explain to your children how diversity forms a family? NB: We embrace the fact that we come from different countries and a wide array of backgrounds. Our home is filled with artwork and music and traditions from all the countries represented. (United States, Canada, Ethiopia, Liberia and even the Netherlands – my husband’s parent were Dutch immigrants to Canada). We love diversity and consider ourselves global citizens with heart and passion for every corner of the planet. And while we embrace our differences, we also highlight our similarities. We love camping together, watching football and being active. We have dinner together every evening and spend time talking about everything from religion at the school lunch menu. We’re a pretty tight-knit group. CR: What holidays do you celebrate? Does everyone have a common faith? Or celebrate various ones? NB: We do have a common faith. My husband is the Dean of Chapel at a small, liberal arts Christian college in the Midwest. Our kids are passionate about their faith and we are very plugged into our church and community. As for holidays, we celebrate the big ones! Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, the 4th of July … but we sprinkle in holidays from all over the globe. Cinco de Mayo is a great reason to eat tacos and listen to mariachi music. Timket (an Ethiopian holiday celebrating the Epiphany or the baptism of Jesus) is something we observe when we remember it’s happening! And, of course, my kids love to draw for Halloween. CR: Please explain the international adoption process. Is it difficult? NB: International adoption is a very long and difficult process – and it should be. These kids deserve a stable, loving home and it simply takes time to establish that the families seeking adoption can provide the right environment for them. A family who is interested in international adoption will first fill out an initial application form. This form (and fee) will be processed by the adoption agency the family would like to work with. If the family is approved, they can begin the formal process. The first step is completing a home study through a social worker or adoption agency. This requires several face-to-face meetings, a psychological evaluation, and home visits. It can take weeks or months. Then the family will take several more weeks (months) to collect all the necessary documents for the dossier. The dossier includes original birth certificates, marriage licenses, background checks, FBI clearance, and so much more. Our dossier fits inside a 2-inch, 3-ring binder. When the dossier is approved it is sent to the country where the child is waiting to be adopted. I’m not entirely sure what happens there, but all the paperwork must be scrutinized before the family is approved to adopt. As for the child, it must be established that he or she is indeed an orphan in need of a loving home… All of this takes months, if not years. And when everything is finally done, the family must travel to bring their new child home. It’s a long, sometimes heartbreaking, agonizing process! By the end result is worth every year. CR: Thank you so much Nicole. Your love, positive energy and absolute acceptance jump off the computer. Expect me, along with my bags to arrive on your front door in a few days. Thanks to Nicole and Lisa at TLC Book Tours, we have one copy of LITTLE BROKEN THINGS to giveaway. Just tell us what family means to you. We’ll announce a winner soon. Nicole appreciates hearing from her readers. Connect with Nicole for each post < Previous ANN GARVIN, author & TALLEST of the TALL POPPIES … giveaway Next > PRESIDENT’S DAY by Seth Margolis, Interview & Giveaway 32 thoughts on “ LITTLE BROKEN THINGS by Nicole Baart … interview & giveaway” Melissa Borsey says: What a great interview! Nicole sounds as fascinating as her novel. Family is about being together through absolutely everything! Happy Holidays! Marjorie Roy says: Family is everything to me. Unfortunately we are spread across the country. I have the best memories when all us kids were together. Kristi Lewis says: I really enjoyed your interview with Nicole Baart.I look forward to reading Little Broken Things. Wishing everyone a wonderful 2018! Nicole Baart says: Thank you so much for hosting me today, Cindy! Happy Holidays! Cindy Roesel says: Nicole, Thank you for EVERYTHING you did to make this post extra special. Have a blessed Holiday season. Warmly, Cindy Family to me is loving each other unconditionally & being there for each other through everything, good or bad. Family is a treasure that is special and moreso when you have grandchildren who are wonderful. susieqlaw says: My family means everything to me. I love them. So blessed! Melissa A says: Thanks for sharing this book! Family is the people I love most in the world, even if they’re not blood-related. Loved the interview. Family is everything to me. My three grown boys are scattered around the state but we always make sure we see them as much as we can . Bonnie Franks says: To keep it simple…family means everything. Kelley Blair says: Family is being there for each other until the wheels fall off!! Just a Thought says: Being a family means seeing each other through the good, bad, and the ugly. 🙂 Karina Thibodeau says: Nicole and Cindy what a wonderful interview. Nicole your family sounds wonderful. We also have 2 nieces that were adopted from China and my other niece was adopted from Korea. Family is eveything to me it is being there for each other through good and bad. Loving each other even though you are all spread out. Knowing you have someone to count on all your life. My brothers are all I have left and they are the best. We live one in NY one in CA and me in MN but all it takes is a call and we are all together. Thank you for the chance. Family is really important to me. I moved out of state when I got married, so I make a lot of trips to Michigan to celebrate holidays and birthdays, etc. Book sounds like a great read. Thanks for the chance. Bonnie K. says: Family means everything to me. Although we may have disagreements and different beliefs, I’m fiercely protective of my family. We used to have large family reunions, but it has fizzled to smaller gatherings. I miss that. Julie Busa says: Family is unconditional love and people you can count on no matter what. Family is love. Diana Rae Fahrenbruck says: I love my family, but family can be hard at times. It is loving them even when they aren’t acting great. It is accepting them with their flaws and loving them when they mess up. I will always love my family and friends❤️❤️ Margie Shaw says: What a great interview! Family to me is not always about those blood related. It’s about those people that come together and are there for each other. Those who really care about each other is family in my opinion. Dawn Harrington says: Family is everything to me. Family is unconditional love and forgiveness, its happiness and sadness. Judi Burns says: Thank you for this opportunity. I appreciate it. sallycootie says: Great interview. Family is where you can always go whether you feel good or you feel bad This holiday we are having some special little family members come to visit – 4 great-grandcooties – and a couple of granddaughters. Can’t wait! Lori Frazier says: Family means everything…my sons x2 and husband are why I work and want only for their happiness. walkingcorpse11 says: Family is very important to me. I have a very close family. Savings InSeconds says: Oh, family….people who love you without reason or condition, yet can also be the most angry at you because they KNOW what your real potential is! Bookish Forever says: Family is everything and the most important. rook3034 says: Family is why we continue passing on our beliefs, traditions and love. It’s so exciting to see our family grow from just me and my husband to then include our own children and now our grandchildren. It’s a special kind of love and bond you would do anything for each other. Thanks for a great giveaway offer 😊 dholcomb1 says: Family is important–both the ones related by blood and those we choose as friends. mbradeen says: Family means having people you can count on no matter what. Happy holidays! mbradeen@yahoo.com Peggy Clayton says: I made the mistake of telling my husband 14 years ago that I would move to Ia I thought I would be flying to Ca every 6 mo or so to see my family well that isn’t happening little did I know that he is laid off for 3 mo during the winter. Now I am happily married and miss my family so much I guess in life it’s one or other sometimes! Family is unconditional love and always being there for each other. Leave a Reply to Melissa A Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1825
__label__wiki	0.850736	0.850736	Johann George RauhutAge: 62 years1798–1861 Johann George Rauhut Johann George Birth March 8, 1798 (Ventose 18, VI) 25 Haus No. 40, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen, PREUSSEN Note: gemäß Heiratsurkunde: Kubamuehle Christening March 11, 1798 (Ventose 21, VI) (Age 3 days) Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen, PREUSSEN 1798-03-11 b Johann George Rauhutt Zduny9.jpg Schäferknecht Yellow Fever Epidemic between 1793 (I) and 1798 (VI) Note: More than 4,000 Philadelphia residents died from yellow fever - http://goo.gl/4c1Pp5 Birth of a brother Johann Gottfried Rauhut December 23, 1800 (Nivose 2, IX) (Age 2 years) Bestwin, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen, PREUSSEN Christening of a brother Johann Gottfried Rauhut Godmother: Anna Rosina Vielstich — Relationship Godfather: Gottfried Jacob — Relationship Godmother: Anna Maria Elisabeth Schepe — Relationship 1800-12-28 b Johann Gottfried Rauhut Zduny150.jpg 1800-12-28 b Johann Gottfried Rauhutt Zduny40.jpg Birth of a brother Andreas Rauhut October 6, 1803 (Vendemiaire 13, XII) (Age 5 years) Haus No. 3, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen, PREUSSEN 1803 (XI) (Age 4 years) Note: Napoleon Bonaparte agrees to sell 828,000 square miles of land to the United States for $15 million - http://goo.gl/yH4MPB 1789-01-12 X Jean Pierre Maupille et Francoise Livet 10 NUM 35612 199 - FOUGERES - greffe RILLE 2-11.jpg Christening of a brother Andreas Rauhut Ev. Kirche, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen, PREUSSEN Witness: Anna Maria Jacob — Relationship Witness: Gottfried Pluntke — Relationship Birth of a sister Christiane Rauhut December 18, 1805 (Frimaire 27, XIV) (Age 7 years) Kubamuehle, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen, PREUSSEN Christening of a sister Christiane Rauhut December 22, 1805 (Nivose 1, XIV) (Age 7 years) Birth of a sister Johanne Caroline Rauhut Christening of a sister Johanne Caroline Rauhut August 4, 1808 (Age 10 years) Christening of a brother Carl August Rauhut November 18, 1810 (Age 12 years) Birth of a sister Johanne Rauhut Note: War of 1812 between the Americans and the British. The Creek (or Red Stick) War in Alabama had different origins, but it coincided with the war of 1812, and the U.S. treated it as a part of the larger war, with Jackson and his forces also in charge of defeating the Creeks - http://goo.gl/cu6BNB 1896-1949 John William Rauhut.jpg Christening of a sister Johanne Rauhut Death of a father George Rauhut before June 27, 1824 (Age 26 years) Marriage Anna Rosina Wezorreck — View this family Type: Religious marriage Note: Sohn, älteste Tochter 1824-06-27 X Johann George Rauhut und Anna Rosina Wezorreck Zduny 13S159.jpg #1 Anna Christine Rauhut Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen, PREUSSEN Christening of a daughter Anna Christine Rauhut Ev. Kirche, Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN #2 Johanna Dorothea Rauhut Christening of a daughter Johanna Dorothea Rauhut #3 Anna Caroline Rauhut Indian Territory, Oklahoma, USA Note: The Trail of Tears is a name given to the ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory in eastern sections of the present-day state of Oklahoma. The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831. In 1831 the Choctaw were the first to be removed, and they became the model for all other removals. After the Choctaw, the Seminole were removed in 1832, the Creek in 1834, then the Chickasaw in 1837, and finally the Cherokee in 1838. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears 1682-12-16 b Samson Roger 10 NUM 35162 122 - LOUVIGNE-DU-DESERT 12-17.jpg Christening of a daughter Anna Caroline Rauhut July 1, 1831 (Age 33 years) Cholera Epidemic New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Note: Cholera killed 4,340 people in New Orleans & over 3,000 in New York City - http://goo.gl/0602J7 #5 Johann Friedrich Rauhut October 4, 1833 (Age 35 years) Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN Christening of a son Johann Friedrich Rauhut ev. Gemeinde, Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN The Texas Revolution between October 1835 and April 1836 (Age 37 years) Note: The Texas Revolution (or Texas War of Independence) was fought from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836 between Mexico and the Texas (Tejas) portion of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. The Texas Revolution erupted in 1836, after Texas declared its independence from Mexico. Mexico responded by invading Texas, where General Santa Anna won decisive victories in the battles of the Alamo and Goliad. The war ended at the Battle of San Jacinto (about 20 miles) east of modern day downtown Houston) where General Sam Houston led the Texas Army to victory in 18 minutes over a portion of the Mexican Army under Santa Anna, who was captured shortly after the battle. The conclusion of the war resulted in the creation of the Republic of Texas - http://goo.gl/4B84q9 1789-01-12 X Jean Pierre Maupille et Francoise Livet 10 NUM 35612 45 - FOUGERES - commune RILLE 2-12.jpg #6 Juliana Beata Rauhut Christening of a daughter Juliana Beata Rauhut Death of a daughter Juliana Beata Rauhut Death of a daughter Anna Caroline Rauhut Death of a daughter Anna Christine Rauhut from 1846 to 1848 (Age 47 years) Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://goo.gl/dGxJ1k 1783-06-12 X Pierre Couyer et Anne Therese Maupille 10 NUM 35610 40 - FOUGERES - SAINT-LEONARD comm 25-53.jpg Death of a brother Johann Gottfried Rauhut before 1859 (Age 60 years) Influenza Epidemic Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://goo.gl/XVwD6F Marriage of a child Johann Friedrich Rauhut — Charlotte Brunsch — View this family September 15, 1861 (Age 63 years) Age: 28/24 Note: Evangelische Gemeinde in Kobylin, Eintrag 8 / 1861 between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 63 years) Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://goo.gl/ETtxkC 1743-01-13 + Julienne Michel MAUPILE Fleurigne G 2-4.jpg The Alaska Purchase Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://goo.gl/Gz2kHh 1783-06-12 X Pierre Couyer et Anne Therese Maupille 10 NUM 35610 210 - FOUGERES - SAINT-LEONARD greffe 26-55.jpg Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://goo.gl/iiduRH Transcontinental Railroad completed Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://goo.gl/Xafdg5 1674-05-29 X Jacques MAUPILLE et Anthoinette de MOYTAUX 10 NUM 35610 220 - FOUGERES - SAINT-LEONARD greffe 9-22.jpg Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://goo.gl/9lEiEH between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 100 years) Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://goo.gl/AZzZyH 1674-01-16 X Jullien LEGRAND et Francoise ROCHUSLE s F+Pierre MAUPILLE 10 NUM 35611 126 - FOUGERES - SAINT-SULPICE 23-27.jpg Death of a wife Anna Rosina Wezorreck before 1909 (Age 110 years) Smolice, Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN Death of a son Johann Friedrich Rauhut March 22, 1909 (Age 111 years) Age: 76 Murkingen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen, PREUSSEN 1909-03-22 + Friedrich Rauhut Murkingen.jpg Death between 1861 and 1909 (Age 62 years) Schmidtschen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen, PREUSSEN Christiana Pilz Johann Rauhut Anna Rosina Rauhut Johann Gottfried Rauhut Andreas Rauhut Christiane Rauhut Johanne Caroline Rauhut Johanne Rauhut George Rauhut Birth: Baschkow, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen Death: before June 27, 1824 — Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen Marriage: 1794 (II) — Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN Beata Stolze Anna Christiane Rauhut Johann Friedrich Rauhut Anna Beate Rauhut Johanna Dorothea Rauhut Johann Gottlieb Rauhut Johann Wilhelm Rauhut Johann August Rauhut Birth: about 1794 (II) 21 Birth: July 15, 1795 (Messidor 27, III) 22 — Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN Anna Rosina Wezorreck Anna Christine Rauhut Juliana Beata Rauhut Anna Caroline Rauhut Birth: March 8, 1798 (Ventose 18, VI) 25 — Haus No. 40, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn) Death: between 1861 and 1909 — Schmidtschen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen Johanna Hinke Carl Rauhut Caroline Rauhut Friedrich Rauhut Ernst Wilhelm Rauhut Birth: December 23, 1800 (Nivose 2, IX) 27 — Bestwin, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen Birth: October 6, 1803 (Vendemiaire 13, XII) 30 — Haus No. 3, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn) Johann Braedel Birth: December 18, 1805 (Frimaire 27, XIV) 32 — Kubamuehle, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn) Birth: July 30, 1808 35 Johanna Streubel Carl Gottlieb Rauhut Christening: November 18, 1810 37 — Ev. Kirche, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn) Birth: May 16, 1813 40 Family with Anna Rosina Wezorreck - View this family Birth: about 1800 (VIII) — Baschkow, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen Death: before 1909 — Smolice, Kobylin, Posen Marriage: June 27, 1824 — Ev. Kirche, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen, PREUSSEN Charlotte Brunsch Johanna Emilie Rauhut Friedrich Wilhelm Rauhut Marie Pauline Rauhut Marie Ernestine Rauhut Bertha Rauhut Marie Louise Rauhut Birth: October 4, 1833 35 33 — Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN Death: March 22, 1909 — Murkingen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen Birth: April 2, 1827 29 27 — Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen Birth: November 13, 1825 27 25 — Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen Death: September 29, 1842 Birth: June 11, 1836 38 36 — Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen Death: June 20, 1836 Birth: July 1, 1831 33 31 — Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen Birth: September 1, 1830 32 30 — Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen gemäß Heiratsurkunde: Kubamuehle Sohn, älteste Tochter Rembichowo,Posen,Preussen Image dimensions: 1,024 × 717 pixels Image dimensions: 952 × 467 pixels Johann George Rauhut, schäferknecht, son of George Rauhut and Christiana Pilz, was born on March 8, 1798 (Ventose 18, VI) in Haus No. 40, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn) and died between 1861 and 1909 in Schmidtschen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen. He married Anna Rosina Wezorreck, daughter of Andreas Wettschorke, on June 27, 1824 in Ev. Kirche, Zduny, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn). She was born about 1800 (VIII) in Baschkow, Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen and died before 1909 in Smolice, Kobylin, Posen. Children of Johann George Rauhut and Anna Rosina Wezorreck: Johann Friedrich Rauhut (1833–1909) Johanna Dorothea Rauhut (1827–) Anna Christine Rauhut (1825–1842) Juliana Beata Rauhut (1836–1836) Anna Caroline Rauhut (1831–1836) Anna Caroline Rauhut (1830–) Johann Friedrich Rauhut, schäfermeister (in 1896), son of Johann George Rauhut and Anna Rosina Wezorreck, was born on October 4, 1833 in Kobylin, Posen, PREUSSEN and died on March 22, 1909 in Murkingen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen at the age of 75. He married Charlotte Brunsch, daughter of Samuel Brunsch, on September 15, 1861 in ev. Gemeinde, Kobylin, Posen. She was born in January 1837 in Lissa (Lezno), Lissa (Lezno), Posen. Children of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch: Johanna Emilie Rauhut (1861–) Friedrich Wilhelm Rauhut (1863–) Marie Pauline Rauhut (1866–) Marie Ernestine Rauhut (1868–) Friedrich Wilhelm Rauhut (1872–1872) Bertha Rauhut (1875–) Marie Louise Rauhut (1879–) Johanna Dorothea Rauhut, daughter of Johann George Rauhut and Anna Rosina Wezorreck, was born on April 2, 1827 in Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen. Anna Christine Rauhut, daughter of Johann George Rauhut and Anna Rosina Wezorreck, was born on November 13, 1825 in Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen and died on September 29, 1842 at the age of 16. Juliana Beata Rauhut, daughter of Johann George Rauhut and Anna Rosina Wezorreck, was born on June 11, 1836 in Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen and died on June 20, 1836 at the age of 9 days. Anna Caroline Rauhut, daughter of Johann George Rauhut and Anna Rosina Wezorreck, was born on July 1, 1831 in Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen and died on July 11, 1836 at the age of 5. Anna Caroline Rauhut, daughter of Johann George Rauhut and Anna Rosina Wezorreck, was born on September 1, 1830 in Rembichowo, Posen (Poznań), Posen. Johanna Emilie Rauhut, daughter of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch, was born on December 21, 1861 in Smolice, Kobylin, Posen. She married Samuel Ernst Matschke, son of Anna Auguste Maria Matschke, on May 16, 1909 in Murkingen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen. He was born on September 27, 1859 in Grune, Lissa (Lezno), Posen. Friedrich Wilhelm Rauhut, son of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch, was born on December 3, 1863 in Smolice, Kobylin, Posen. He married Anna Clara Auguste Wagner, daughter of Hermann Heinrich ... Wagner and …, on May 3, 1892 in Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg. She was born on September 27, 1860 in Sprottau, Schlesien, PREUSSEN. Marie Pauline Rauhut, daughter of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch, was born on June 27, 1866 in Schmidtschen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen. Marie Ernestine Rauhut, inhaberin einer Wasch- und Plättanstalt (in 1896), daughter of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch, was born on December 18, 1868 in Schmidtschen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen. She married Julius August Henkel, son of Friedrich Henkel and Justine Ipach, on September 28, 1896 in Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg. He was born on October 21, 1872 in Gumbinnen, Schmiegel (Śmigiel), Posen. Friedrich Wilhelm Rauhut, son of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch, was born on May 20, 1872 in Lissa (Lezno), Lissa (Lezno), Posen and died on August 29, 1872 at the age of 3 months. Bertha Rauhut, plättnerin (in 1897), daughter of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch, was born on March 3, 1875 in Schmidtschen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen. She married Otto Wilhelm Paul Krage, son of August Krage and Anna Sophie Ulrich, on August 21, 1897 in Schöneberg, Berlin, Brandenburg. He was born on December 22, 1874 in Baiersburg, Lebus, Brandenburg. Marie Louise Rauhut, daughter of Johann Friedrich Rauhut and Charlotte Brunsch, was born on March 7, 1879 in Schmidtschen, Lissa (Lezno), Posen. She married Karl Rudolph Wilhelm Rösler on August 26, 1899 in Lissa (Lezno), Posen, PREUSSEN. He was born on December 14, 1865 in Lissa (Lezno), Posen, PREUSSEN and died on February 16, 1941 in Sprottau, Schlesien, PREUSSEN at the age of 75. Last change May 21, 2018 – 12:48:08 Family with Anna Rosina Wezorreck Andreas Wettschorke Johann George Rauhut(1798–1861) Anna Rosina Wezorreck1824 Johann Friedrich Rauhut(1833–1909) Johanna Dorothea Rauhut(1827–) Anna Christine Rauhut(1825–1842) Juliana Beata Rauhut(1836–1836) Anna Caroline Rauhut(1831–1836) Anna Caroline Rauhut(1830–)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1829
__label__cc	0.643708	0.356292	KEY INSIGHTS ABOUT THE RESEARCH ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE Energizing global growth How companies can achieve high business growth in slow-growth economies. Changes in consumer behavior are changing the world. Those changes are driving massive growth across industries. And they hold the promise—if business recognize and capitalize on the opportunities—of lifting the entire global economy. The vast majority of consumers today are networked. They are almost always “on”—never far from an Internet connection that will put them in contact with companies; sometimes to buy, sometimes to offer advice, sometimes to praise or to criticize. They are also quick to use the tools of social media to connect with companies from which they buy. Furthermore, consumers are increasingly independent. They may want products that have been customized to meet their specific desires. They often prefer renting to buying, or second-hand luxury to first-hand average. Consumers are also more conscientious than ever before, expecting businesses to actively protect the environment and to promote social causes. Why does this matter to business leaders today? Because it points to the truth that companies cannot be content to focus on the “where” and the “who” of selling. They must give new attention to the “how” and the “why” of consumption. The networked consumer is the new “how,” and the independent and co-operative consumer is the “why.” In order to help achieve high business growth in many of today’s slow-growth economy, companies need to recognize how consumer behavior is changing and create strategies to capitalize on new opportunities. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT [PDF] DOWNLOAD OUR CASE STUDIES [PDF] READ HOW TO STAY A STEP AHEAD OF THE CHANGING CONSUMER IN ACCENTURE'S OUTOOK DOWNLOAD INFOGRAPHIC DOWNLOAD VIDEO TRANSCRIPT (PDF, 110 KB) Accenture undertook extensive research to understand how companies can achieve high business growth in a slow-growth economy. The answer lies in recognizing how consumer behavior change is generating significant growth in a wide range of industries. Armed with that knowledge, business leaders can create the toolkit, mindset and organizational structure that companies need to succeed in meeting expectations—including their own—for rapid growth. As part of this study, Accenture surveyed 600 business executives and 10,000 online consumers in 10 countries across the world. We found: Market expectations of company growth (as shown by enterprise value multiples of the S&P Global 1200) have returned to pre-crisis levels. Non-financial companies in the S&P Global 1200 need to achieve US$5 trillion of revenue growth every year to meet analysts’ growth expectations. Eighty-two percent of executives are confident in their business’s ability to grow profitably over the next two to three years, but 44 percent of the world’s 3,000 largest listed (non-financial) companies failed to grow both revenue and net income over the last three years. More than four in five executives (83 percent) recognized the opportunity in responding to changing consumer behavior, but nearly equal numbers (80 percent) said their companies were not fully taking advantage of those changes. Fast-growth companies (those whose revenues grew by six percent or more in the last year) are more likely to see business opportunity in changes in consumer behavior Emerging-market business leaders possess greater belief in their understanding of consumer change On the whole, the extent of changes in consumer behavior is greater in emerging markets than developed markets. Forty percent of business executives said that the “inherent unpredictability” of consumers is the main barrier to understanding them better. Business executives cite the slow internal pace of change as the most likely barrier that prevents them from realizing growth opportunities, with more than one-third (35 percent) stating that this is the case. The market size for industries associated with consumer behavior change is projected to more than double from 2012 to 2016 (from US$2 trillion to US$4.5 trillion). For further insights read: THRIVING WITH THE CROWD: MARKETING WITH (AND AGAINST) THE NEW INFLUENCE PEDDLERS (IVEY BUSINESS JOURNAL) ATTRACTING CONSCIENTIOUS CONSUMERS (ROTMAN MANAGEMENT) [PDF] CONVERTING THE NONSTOP CUSTOMER INTO A LOYAL CUSTOMER (STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP) DON’T DESPAIR: GROWTH FROM CONSUMER BEHAVIOR CHANGE IN DEVELOPED-MARKET ECONOMIES (THE EUROPEAN BUSINESS REVIEW) Out of the 3,000 largest listed companies worldwide, Accenture identified those companies whose median revenue growth most exceeded their industry peers: the “industry growth leaders.” By focusing on the set of highly successful companies that had succeeded in markets built on significant changes in consumer behavior, we were able to identify three common elements that kept them closer to changing consumers and enabled them to achieve dramatic growth. Our analysis shows that industry growth leaders: Use technology to observe and respond to changes in consumer behavior: Leaders use powerful new technologies to identify and bridge gaps between their businesses and consumers through better understanding. For instance, the analytics program of a leading media-rental company enables it to recommend movie and TV titles based on an individual consumer’s preferences and rental history. Recognize and exploit market disruptions to enhance their business models: Leaders approach disruption as an opportunity rather than a threat. First movers proactively shape their industry’s long-term direction, instead of merely reacting to it. For example, global car-rental company replicated the business model of new players offering hourly rentals. By meeting disruption head-on, the company has been able to use its scale and scope to reduce the threat of new competition while improving customer service. Organize to scale their responses to consumer insight rapidly: Leaders rapidly scale offerings after identifying a driver of consumer change. For example, a US-based grocer understood at an early stage consumers’ growing emphasis on healthy living and carried out numerous mergers and acquisitions to become a global leader in natural foods. Our research comprised four individual studies. Each study was designed to answer critical questions that started with the individual consumer and ended with implications for the global economy: Is consumer behavior really changing—and if so, what patterns or trends can we discern to help businesses grow? Are business leaders aware of these changes, and if so, how are they responding? What are the best examples of companies that are capturing the benefits of changing consumer behavior, and what can other companies learn from them? What do changes in consumer behavior mean for the global economy as a whole, and can higher growth be stimulated by greater understanding of these changes? For the global consumer behavior survey, Accenture surveyed 10,000 online consumers from 10 countries—Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States—to assess and quantify the extent of consumer behaviour change. We conducted a factor analysis on the results of this survey to derive the 10 dimensions of consumer change discussed in this report. For the global executive survey, Accenture surveyed 600 business executives from the same 10 countries, across many industries. Approximately half of these respondents were C-level executives; the remainder were directors and other senior managers. In our industry growth leaders analysis, Accenture assessed the world’s top 3,000 listed companies by market capitalization and identified those that had achieved the greatest median revenue growth compared to their industry average over three-, five- and 10-year periods. Accenture conducted a macroeconomic analysis in conjunction with Oxford Economics to assess the impact of changing consumer behavior, identifying the effect of an increase in consumer expenditure on the economy as a whole. In addition to the four studies listed, Accenture conducted interviews with client account teams and technology specialists. The Accenture Institute for High Performance develops and publishes practical insights into critical management issues and global economic trends. Its worldwide team of researchers connects with Accenture’s business leaders to demonstrate how organizations become and remain high performers through original, rigorous research and analysis. C-Suite Themes Discover new and practical insights into the biggest issues facing C-level executives throughout the world. Redefining Competitiveness Global Operating Model Workforce of the Future Get the latest content from our global research teams in six key areas, with a focus on digital transformation of the organization. Enterprise Competitiveness and Customer Experience Geo-economic Competitiveness Impact of Technology on Performance Industry Competitiveness, Government and Society Innovation and Risk Management Leadership, Management and Workforce Excellence Paul Nunes Global Managing Director Joshua Bellin Thought Leadership Research Fellow Samuel Yardley Former Strategy Manager Accenture Management Consulting About Accenture Cookie Policy Site Map Privacy Policy Terms of Use Careers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1830
__label__cc	0.600353	0.399647	Hitachi Capital UK to accelerate business finance growth with franchise acquisition Hitachi Capital UK has significantly strengthened its business offering with the acquisition of Franchise Finance Ltd, a specialist financial services provider to the franchising industry. The transaction boosts Hitachi Capital UK’s lending base to SMEs and franchisees, bringing considerable senior consultancy experience to the Group and helping to build a profitable portfolio within an underserved market. The acquisition also enables Hitachi Capital UK to truly diversify its offering, by utilising Franchise Finance’s expertise in business planning and training within the SME marketplace, to create a new product offering amongst a wider UK audience. Franchise Finance Ltd has demonstrated considerable strength in educating and training SMEs through its Business Training Academy, which offers workshops focusing on a variety of key business areas. The business operates UK-wide with more than 140 franchisors and their franchisees, showing particular strength in the hotel, leisure, business services, personal services (such as fitness and domiciliary care) and transport sectors. Over the last five years, the company has completed more than 700 deals, worth more than £32m. The acquisition marks a major move into the franchise industry for Hitachi Capital UK, providing the business with an opportunity to grow in a franchise market, which has seen growth of almost 50% to £15bn in the last decade alone. Robert Gordon, CEO of Hitachi Capital UK, said: “Hitachi Capital UK has delivered significant organic growth for almost a decade by ensuring we provide current and prospective customers with relevant products and services across our business units. “Franchise Finance Ltd is a natural fit for Hitachi Capital UK. With a strong market share and a well-established business training offering, the deal provides a real opportunity to enhance our offering to both existing and new customers. “This acquisition enables us to grow and diversify our business further, reaching new customers within a franchise market that is consistently providing growth opportunities. We’re excited to bring the team into the Hitachi Capital UK group and use their expertise to accelerate our growth within the SME market.” Stuart Walsh, Managing Director of Franchise Finance Limited, said: “Hitachi Capital UK is a highly respected company, with which we share a common culture of integrity and dedication to excellent customer service. This deal will enable Franchise Finance to grow the reach and value of the fantastic expertise we have in the franchise market, providing Hitachi Capital UK’s current and prospective customers with specialist knowledge and funding that could prove crucial to their business or franchise success.” Share this article on social media: Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare on PinterestShare on Reddit Previous Post The 2018 Influential Businesswoman Awards Press Release Next Post IRIDEOS Acquires Enter By Patrick Doherty YFM Equity Partners completes £230m of deals and raises £100m of new funds in H1 2019 Empowering Traders Daily World Wellbeing Week: Women in the workplace Subscribe to Acquisition International Search our articles	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1833
__label__cc	0.59751	0.40249	‘GMA’ Producer: ‘The Bar Is High for What Will Air’ By Nancy Lazarus “The TV moment that people will think about afterwards” helps determine what will appear on talk shows, according to Patty Neger, coordinating producer at Good Morning America. She was a panelist at the Publicity Club of New York event on Thursday about pitching morning and daytime TV talk shows. Neger advised thinking of “the visual ways to tell stories in terms of videos, photos and graphics, since it’s not just talking heads.” The GMA anchors are also active on social networks, so she suggested including social media tie-ins with the pitch. GMA is interested in “informative, buzzy, interactive content,” Neger noted. For example, in a story this week on the impact of the extreme heat on people’s health, their medical editor went to a sauna. He was weighed before and after the visit and ended up losing a couple pounds. In a spring segment, they dressed the male crew in skinny jeans, or ‘jeggings’. Having famous clients is the ticket to appearing on the other shows featured on the panel since they are celebrity based programs. These include The Wendy Williams Show, Live with Regis & Kelly, and The Rachael Ray Show. Rena Popp, senior producer at The Wendy Williams Show, said celebrities factor in to nearly all of their content, whether the topic is current events, cooking or fashion. Popp noted that occasionally other guests appear on the show, as they did during their Kim Kardashian look-alike contest. She is also open to last-minute guests filling in for cancellations during bad weather such as snowstorms. Other pitches she would be receptive to revolve around their theme weeks, such as Cinco de Mayo, or the eighteen-city nationwide bus tour Williams is embarking on this summer. Kelly Burkhard, senior talent booker at Live with Regis & Kelly, said the show also does demos, such as music, cooking or outrageous topics, though these are booked a few months in advance. She reminded the audience that Regis is leaving in November. The panelists also cited pitching techniques to avoid based on pitches they received this year. The first no-no is reciting your press release verbatim in a voicemail message. Another mistake is pitching immediately following a major news event such as the death of Osama Bin Laden. The final faux pas is sending twenty-four JPEG attachments along with an email. As they mentioned, extreme examples such as these may actually result in a quick reply, but not the intended one. http://adweek.it/2kMXSf6 Monrovia Nursery Company Azusa, California	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1836
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Founded a decade ago by brother-sister team, Max and Sophie, their love of this iconic French drink was literally written into their genes, thanks to the family estate in the Cognac region with over three generations of family history. Today the website has a global readership numbering into the hundreds of thousands, and is a place where Cognac lovers can discover more about their passion, communicate with others of a similar interest, and purchase Cognac from the heart of the region to be delivered anywhere around the world. Follow Cognac-Expert on social media: Instagram @cognacexpert Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cognacexpert/ Twitter @cognac-expert https://twitter.com/cognac_expert Colleen Newvine Colleen Newvine is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist and marketing consultant with a passion for great cocktails and farmers' market produce. 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Dorothy Hernandez Chicago native Dorothy Hernandez is an editor and writer who is eating and drinking her way through her adopted home of Detroit. She has written for numerous online and print publications, including the Chicago Tribune's RedEye edition, The Detroit News and patch.com. Her love of exploring the best food and drink a city has to offer led her to co-found Epic Brew Tours, which specializes in craft brewery tours in Michigan. facebook.com/epicbrewtours twitter.com/epicbrewtours Connect with her on Twitter at @lennie7vk. Dy Godsey Dy Godsey is a published mixologist, consultant and bartender currently working in Wisconsin. More Low-ABV cocktails can be found on her website, www.funbehindbars.blogspot.com Emma Criswell Emma Criswell is head of the "Grain Team" at Deussen Global Communications, a sales associate at Frankly Wines and a freelance marketing consultant for wine, spirits and culinary brands. 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Jens Kerger Jens is a freelance bartender in Dresden, Germany who decided he'd rather be a good host, than a mechanical engineer. As of the moment he mainly does guest shifts, spreading the knowledge he acquires and learning with each new bar he gets to "blow up," while seeking a position outside of the country. He also a brand ambassador for Absyntheum Absinthe in Germany. George Koutsakis As a half Greek Scotsman, who previously lived and worked in Japanese whisky industry for years, George Koutsakis is a spirits writer specializing in Japanese whisky, world whisky, and spirits. Aside from Alcohol Professor, he currently writes for Liquor.com, Saveur Magazine, Wine Enthusiast, Distiller.com, and acts as head of content for Dekanta. Haley Forest Having worked in the Hospitality sector for nearly 15 years, Haley Forest has experienced first hand the blood, sweat, tears, and manic joy that comes with it. After being involved in almost every aspect of the industry, from chef to bartender, vendor to general manager, she now is a writer and consultant, traveling around the world exploring bar communities and helping the industry progress as a whole. Follow the adventure at @HCForest. Hannah Walhout Hannah Walhout is a writer, editor, and eater in New York City. When she isn't busy writing, she enjoys cooking, eating shawarma, traveling, and wondering whether or not the obscure beverages she buys during her travels will be confiscated at the border. Follow her on Instagram at @lunchtime_somewhere. Jackie Armstrong Jackie is a freelance writer and blogger. She is the founder of One Girl's Dish, a blog dedicated to food and drink events in New York. Jackie Summers Jackie Summers is the founder of Jack From Brooklyn, and the creator of Sorel Liqueur. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @TheLiquortarian. Jake Emen Jake Emen is a spirits, food and travel writer currently based in Washington, D.C. His drinks coverage has been published in Whisky Advocate, Eater Drinks, Tales of the Cocktail, Washington Post Express, Distiller, The Whiskey Wash, Tasting Table, and a range of other outlets. He also runs his own site, ManTalkFood.com, and can be followed on Twitter, @ManTalkFood. John Pomeroy John Pomeroy is the epitome of balance â€“ in life and in his cocktails. Bitten by the hospitality bug in high school and continuing through college, he used his skills to move ahead when others may have thrown in the towel â€“ literally. John went from dish washer, to busser, to waiter before finding his stride at the bar. He worked as a bartender through college at the award-winning Montrio in Monterey, CA. It wasnâ€™t long, though, before he was recruited to open the Bernardus Lodge in Carmel Valley. Here he had the opportunity to work with and learn from world-renowned chef Cal Stamenov, and sommelier Mark Jensen, formerly of the Highlands Inn. He then went on to graduate school at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he earned his Masters in Education, as well as the credentials he needed to be an English teacher. His passion, interest, and curious nature about food and spirits remained powerful influences. While developing his knack for identfying flavors on the plate he excelled when it came to working with spirits from distillation to the creation of cocktails. Today, he is able to blend his educational training and passion by working as a spirits advocate and educator, consultant, brand ambassador and journalist. His work has been featured in several magazines, and he recently wrote the cover story for Bar Business. With his active participation in the United States Bartenders Guild, New York Chapter (USBGNY) he has spent the past four years developing and solidifying relationships in the industry, affording him the opportunity to work with many of the most respected names in the business. In addition to working closely on many of New York City's best cocktail programs, he has also consulted Las Ranitas, an eco-resort in Tulum, Mexico, as well as several other venues around the United States. Additionally, his work with Purity Vodka as their national brand ambassador has garnered him even more respect and credibility within the industry, and he regularly contributes to seminars and trainings sessions at cocktail events the world over. Josh Powell Josh Feldman and Peter Silver Karan Nagpal Kaya Johnson Kaya Johnson is a professional interpreter from Yorkshire, UK, who is fond of writing and traveling. She enjoys sharing articles on various topics and dreams of writing a bestseller one day. She hosts this website. Keith Allison Keith Allison is a freelance writer, traveler, and professional imbiber raised in Kentucky and living in New York City. His goal in life is to be Nick and Nora Charles. He’s also the author of the book Cocktails and Capers: Cult Films, Cocktails, Crime and Cool. Kelly Magyarics, DWS, is a wine, spirits and lifestyle writer, and wine educator, in the Washington, D.C. area. She can be reached through her website www.kellymagyarics.com or follow her @kmagyiarics. Kenneth Haynes Kenneth Haynes is a Molecular Gastronomist and also a Content Creator who loves to approach the matter of social, artistic and technical aspects of food and drinks. You can read more of his articles on TodayTopReviews.com, a review site that focuses on three niches: wine, beer and cheese. Kevin Gibson Kevin Gibson is a Louisville, Ky.-based writer who writes about breweries, restaurants and the great city he calls home. He loves the Green Bay Packers, loathes cucumbers and once interviewed Yoko Ono (pissed her off a little, too). He also is author of "Louisville Beer: Derby City History on Draft" and other books, and plays in a band called the Uncommon Houseflies. When he isn't running around town chasing stories or poised at his trusty laptop writing, you can often find him at one of the local breweries or chilling on his couch with his trusty sidekick Atticus. Check out KevinGibsonWriter.com to find out more about his books and why he does what he does, or feel free to call him names on Twitter: @kgramone. Laren Spirer New York Contributing Editor Laren Spirer is yet another lawyer (and freelance writer) obsessed with food and drink, who also blogs at Sweet Blog oâ€™ Mine and tweets at @sweetblogomine. She has written for Gothamist, Serious Eats, Time Out New York and Tasting Table. LeNell Camacho Santa Ana LeNell Camacho Santa Ana once boasted the world's largest American whiskey selection in a retail store in her eponymous Brooklyn shop. She plans to get her brag on again--this time back home in Bama. Lincoln Chinnery Lincoln C. Chinnery III is a freelance cocktail journalist who has written for Edge Publications, AM New York, Metromix and VODA. Lincoln enjoys all the major spirits - Bourbon, Whiskey, Rye and is never too far from his next drink. He's a reader of all thngs related to cocktails and comic books.You can read his bar and liquor reviews at have http://haveglasswilldrink.blogspot.com/ and reach out to him on Twitter @Lincolnwrites. Madeline Blasberg Madeline Blasberg is a Certified Wine Consultant currently working for Etching Expressions (http://www.etchingexpressions.com/) as Official Wine Commentator & Reviewer. She has spent time living in Mendoza, Argentina where she was surrounded by wine, both personally and professionally. Maggie Kimberl is a bourbon writer focusing on bourbon culture and tourism in Louisville and Kentucky. When she's not covering the bourbon beat you can find her browsing through vintage vinyl with her kids or tending to her homegrown tomatoes. Follow her on Twitter, Instagram and check out her blog. Manny Gonzales Manny Gonzales is General Manager and Beverage Director at Foundry on Elm and Saloon in Davis Square, Somerville Massachusetts where he has created one of the most compressive whisk(e)y menus in the North East. When he is not hiking with his family or planning spirit classes at his restaurants he can be found by his fireplace sipping drams of Scotch or Mezcal finding inspiration for his blog Life by the Drop http://blog.saloondavis.com. Mark Marnell Mark Marnell, is a semi-retired Chemist who left the corporate life for a far more rewarding endeavor, Beer Journalism. As a Freelance Writer, Hudson Valley NY Craft Beer Columnist and Beer Blogger, he is discovering the rest of his life, one sip at a time. When not writing about beer or drinking it, he is selling his first ever Craft Beer Crossword Puzzle Book. His motto is Cheers, Beers and New Frontiers! Catch him on Twitter at @MarnellBeer or on his website at www.marnellbeer.com. Marnie Ann Joyce Mary Charlotte Elia Mary Charlotte Elia works at The Birch Bar, (http://www.thebirchbar.com/), in Norfolk, VA when she's not otherwise writing curriculum for Sunday school, singing recitals of 19th century German art songs, or presenting papers on 3rd century heretics. She blogs at Water Into Beer and tweets at @CharlotteElia. Marysa Mitch Marysa Mitch is a freelance writer focusing on spirits, beer, and wine. She shares her love for all things food and drink related on her blog, limerence + liquor. You can also follow her on Twitter at @msmarysa. Matt Archambault Matt Archambault is a beer enthusiast based in NYC. With over 15 years of experience behind a bar, Matt is the Amazon.com of beer - if you like this, you may also like... Join him in his own personal journey of exploration and discovery on Untappd (https://untappd.com/user/mattarchambault). In his spare time, Matt has driven a mini-van off a cliff, endured water-boarding, and once appeared on Good Morning America as part of an elaborate prank. Follow him @supercasz. Matthew Callahan Matthew Callahan is a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he earned a B.F.A. in Theatre and had a wonderful eight-year career as a stage and film actor. Eventually, his passion for writing, technology, and web design got the better of him and he dove head-first into a career in geek services. In 2011 Matthew founded Digitalimit, a design and marketing agency specializing in helping entrepreneurs and small businesses find their voice online. From time to time, he also enjoys freelance writing -- especially on the topic of good drinks. Matthew lives in New York City with his wife, and their two wonderful MacBooks. Follow him on Twitter @_thinkertinker. Meg Roebling Mike Groener Trying to intersect culinary innovation with the art of distillation. Let's disambiguate the industry of alcohol and share the research. Program manager, distiller, and creator. Follow Genius Gin @geniusliquids. Neal Bayless Nicole del Rosario Nicole del Rosario is a beer and spirits enthusiast based in Leipzig, Germany. Training to be an actual professor by day and an alcohol professor by night, she spends most of her mornings pondering Kantian ethics at the university and her evenings drinking her way through Europe. Don't be shy and come say hi on Twitter: @happyhegelian. Nora McGunnigle Nora McGunnigle is a beer, food, and travel writer based in New Orleans. Follow her adventures on Instagram at @beerfoodtravels or her website, beerfoodtravels.com. Pamela Wiznitzer Pamela Wiznitzer has a true passion and zest for the industry that is seen and tasted in every drink she serves. Since 2006, Pamela has been working throughout NYC and currently can be found shaking things up at The Dead Rabbit in the Financial District. She has earned honors from her industry peers such as winning Tyku's 2011 Sake challenge, selected as one of the 20 Diageo World Class 2012 Contestants, a finalist in Pama's 2011 Beyond the Glass. Pameladevi Govinda Pameladevi Govinda lives in Brooklyn. She has worked at a number of wine shops in New York City. She is also wine, spirits, food and travel writer with a taste for Muscadet, and a penchant for curry. Her work has appeared in Imbibe, Vibe, CITY, IN New York, Serious Eats, Brooklyn Based, Diner Journal and more. Her previously published work and blog can be viewed at www.gajakattack.com. Follow her on Twitter @PamGovinda. Paul Senft Paul Senft is a Spirits Writer and Reviewer based in Metro Atlanta. His work has appeared in Got Rum? Magazine, Chilled, Distiller, as well as other publications covering a range of subjects related to Spirits, Travel, and the fun world of Tiki. He founded www.RumJourney.com and can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/paul.e.senft. Phil Galewitz Phil Galewitz has been writing about the the craft brewing industry in the Mid-Atlantic states since 2011. He lives in Washington D.C. and South Florida. Twitter: @philgalewitz Instagram: Philmorebeer. He visits over 300 breweries a year across the United States. Philip Kampe Philip S. Kampe is a veteran wine journalist who contributes to several print and online publications, moderates wine events nationwide and judges competitions. He is a member of the distinguished Wine Media Guild and resides in the both the New York metro area and the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Robin Goldsmith A British freelance food and drink writer who has a WSET Advanced Certificate in Wines and Spirits and is a member of CAMRA (The UK Campaign for Real Ale). Robin reviews food and drink products for individual companies and he regularly writes reports on trade events, such as wine tastings or food and drink shows. Additionally, he has written detailed commercial reports for trade publications and many of his articles have been published on respected industry websites, such as the drinks business, Speciality Food Magazine and hostelbookers. Web : www.thewritetaste.co.uk Twitter : @robthefoodie Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TheWriteTaste Robin Robinson Robin Robinson is a consultant to the craft spirits industry, where he helps small brands identify their unique narratives to penetrate and activate the marketplace and implement sales and marketing strategies. Prior to that, Robin was instrumental in helping to build the Compass Box Whisky Co. in the United States as its U.S. Brand Ambassador and Brand Manager over 34 markets, where he was responsible for distributor management, sales, retail and consumer education. He is the creator of the long running "Whiskey Smackdown" educational series at Astor Center NYC. More information at his website www.robinrobinsonllc.com Ryan Stevens From his first sip of wine to the last Scotch tasting, Ryan has loved the craft and the journey behind the bottle. Detailing the experience that goes into each libation and telling the stories that go into every glass, fuels a passion quenched only by words. As a Contributor for The Oregon Wine Press, Busted Wallet, and Ask Men, he has found his niche showcasing the nuances behind the vices that make life a celebration. Living in Oregon provides a rich canvas filled with vibrant flavor profiles and vivid fermented nuances that, with his family by his side, Ryan paints a picture of the delicious possibilities. Follow him on Instagram @BlankGlass Sara Gorelick Sara Gorelick spends her time in the world of spirits, working as an Account Director at Colangelo & Partners by day and a freelance writer by night. Her work has been included on ShakeStir.com, Examiner.com, BarNoneDrinks and other hospitality-related outlets. When Sara isn't working, reviewing or writing, she can be found laughing with family and friends or taking long walks with beagle Bailey. Follow her at @smgorelick. Sarah Annese Sarah Annese is a freelance writer based in New York City with a focus on craft beer. She co-founded, edits and writes for www.beerunion.com, a website about beer news in NYC. Follow her on twitter @sarahbeerunion or @beerunion. Sara Havens is a Louisville, Ky-based freelance writer and editor who pens the popular nightlife column The Bar Belle. On Twitter and Instagram: @TheBarBelle Sharyn Foulis Sharyn Foulis is a wine educator and retail consultant working in Sydney, Australia. She gets out of bed every morning to find new ways of helping people find wines they will love. Thea Dwelle Thea Dwelle is the creator and editor of Luscious Lushes, a wine, food, and travel blog. For more than 7 years, she has been writing about wine, travel and technology, focusing on the story behind the wine. When not pursuing vinous pleasure, she works in technology and is an amateur mixologist. Follow her on Twitter @Luscious_Lushes Tom Riley is a veteran journalist, writer, and editor who left a career in education in 2010, to study and write about wine. He holds an Advanced Certificate with merit from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, London UK (WSET), and is currently pursuing their Diploma. In addition to The Alcohol Professor, he writes for the Bay Area News Group (San Jose Mercury, Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune), AmericanWineryGuide.com and Berkeleyside.com's online food and wine supplement, Nosh. You can follow him at his blog The Grape Belt or on Twitter @grapebelt. Tim Miner Tim has been tending bar in New York City since 2003. Currently he can be found mixing drinks at The Long Island Bar in Brooklyn, New York and at The Eddy in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a cocktail bartender who loves creating new drinks. Some of his creations have been featured in such publications as: The New York Times, AM New York, The New York Post, The Spir.it, Refinery29, Becomingbklyn, and Shakestir! Tim has taught cocktail classes and consulted on cocktail programs, most recently designing the cocktail menu at French Louie in Brooklyn. He won The annual "Bring Your Bartender to the Opera Contest and was a U.S. Finalist in the 17th Annual Calvados Nouvelle Vogue International Competiton. When he's not behind the bar, you can find him on twitter @_tim_miner. Tracy Weiss Tracy Weiss had her first glass of Manischewitz at age 11. She found it horrendous but knew someday (when she was of legal drinking age), sheâ€™d seek out better vino. At her alma mater Michigan State University, Tracy took advantage of half-off bottles on Wine Wednesdays. With clarity found from sampling different varieties, she began to mock girlfriends sipping Booneâ€™s Farm Strawberry Hill. An oenophile is born. This paired well with a violent cheese obsession and further motivated her to eat her way through life. Blending her passion for the finer things with a Midwestern upbringing, Tracy likes to pair fabulous wines with Dominos Pizza and crappy Chinese food. In a flurry of Parisian triple crÃ¨mes, Napa cabs, and pinxtos in San Sebastian, a decade of toiling in television and talent management flew by. Abandoning the entertainment business to write (and eat) full time, Tracy now focuses her culinary and wine interests closer to home splitting time between Manhattan and the North Fork of Long Island. She currently freelances for food, wine and lifestyle publications while working on her upcoming website www.northforkd.com and first book. When not scribbling, Tracy enjoys oysters, all things pumpkin, cult television shows and bubbly from any region. Trevor Hagstrom Trevor Hagstrom and Maggie Rosenberg (who snaps the photos for his stories) are food and beverage impresarios and content creators whose work and information on future projects can be found at www.tandmworks.com. Warren Bobrow is the Food and Drink Editor of the 501c3 non profit Wild Table on Wild River Review located in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the cocktail writer for DrinkUpNY, Foodista, The "Fabulous" Beekman Boys and has written over 300 articles on food, wine and spirits. His first book, Apothecary Cocktails- will be released by Rockport/Quayside Publishing in November 2013. He was one of 12 journalists world-wide, and the only one from the USA to participate in the FÃªte de laGastronomie- the weekend of September 22nd. 2012 in Burgundy. He attends Tales of the Cocktail, WSWA, The Manhattan Cocktail Classic and the Boston Cocktail Summit. Warren was born and raised on a Biodynamic farm in NJ. You can follow him on Twitter @WarrrenBobrow1. William Schragis Will Schragis has been busy trading jobs in as a Retail Buyer, Sommelier, Bartender, and Bourbon Distiller. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut with a Liberal Arts degree in the wonderfully vague discipline of American Studies. Zachary Feldman Bitters, Old Men founder Zachary Feldman's origins can be traced back to the Venezuelan soldier who first told Angostura founder Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, you should really bottle this, dude. Mike Gerrard Mike Gerrard is an award-winning writer who specialises in travel writing and writing about spirits. He combines the two in his website, Travel Distilled. He lives half the year in Cambridgeshire in England and the other half in Arizona, and you'll find him on Twitter as @Mike_Gerrard, @TravelDistilled, and @The_Vodka_Guy. Elly Blanchard Elly Blanchard is a freelance writer with a passion for traveling. When not exploring the world or hunting around for new cuisines to try - you will find her relaxing in the garden with her head in a good book. Nickolaus Hines is a food and beverage writer based in New York. His work has appeared in Atlas Obscura, Men's Journal, Supercall and more. He's always on the lookout for his next favorite drink and he will never hesitate to pet your dog. You can see what he's drinking now on his Instagram and Twitter, and see more of his work on his website.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1841
__label__wiki	0.86149	0.86149	Veterans honored throughout Hawaii, state prepares for same-sex marriage, schools lag on digital learning, Kauai hit by invasive bingabing trees, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands Soldier at Pohakuloa Training Area @2013 All Hawaii News Events across the state have been planned for Monday to celebrate Veteran's Day and honor the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces. Hawaii News Now. Today, on Veterans’ Day, we recognize the 110 thousand veterans in Hawai’i. Most are living happy productive lives, but service providers here say housing is the biggest challenge. The U.S. Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs, Eric Shinseki, has set a goal of ending homelessness among veterans by 2015. Hawaii Public Radio. The late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye will receive another tribute on Veterans Day -- this time for his service with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. On Monday, the U.S. Postal Service will introduce a new format, the prestige folio: 20 stamps of the Medal of Honor in a four-page design, with the first page highlighting historic photographs of the last 12 living recipients of the Medal of Honor. The two center pages list the names of all 464 medal recipients. Star-Advertiser. With the state Senate poised to send a marriage equality bill to Gov. Neil Abercrombie's desk Tuesday, the Department of Health says it is ready and willing to implement the law by its Dec. 2 effective date. Dr. Alvin Onaka, the state's registrar of vital statistics, said Friday that his agency, which manages marriage certificate applications, won't need to do too much to enable same-sex couples to apply because of changes that were required when civil unions became legal Jan. 1, 2012. Star-Advertiser. Garret Hashimoto of the Hawaii Christian Coalition is asking opponents of same-sex marriage to give money to the attorney handling a lawsuit against the state should Senate Bill 1 become law. Civil Beat. With the state Legislature poised to pass the controversial same-sex marriage bill, gay and lesbian couples are beginning to line up at wedding podium. Hawaii News Now. The head of Hawaii’s Senate judiciary committee said Saturday he expects an amended bill legalizing gay marriage to pass easily in the Senate next week, with no changes to the measure passed by the House Friday night after two grueling floor sessions and a lengthy public hearing. Senate approval would send the bill to Gov. Neil Abercrombie for his signature. He is expected to sign after calling the lawmakers into special session and saying he approved changes to the bill made by the House. Associated Press. Same-sex marriage legislation is expected to smoothly pass the Hawaii Legislature Tuesday and head to Gov. Neil Abercrombie for his expected signature. Clayton Hee, chairman of Senate Judiciary and Labor and the key legislator behind Senate Bill 1, told reporters Saturday that he did not expect a drawn-out Senate floor session along the lines of what happened this week in the Hawaii House of Representatives. Civil Beat. Eager to avoid the loud and lengthy protests over same-sex marriagethat disrupted the Hawaii House of Representatives this week, the state Senate may act swiftly on Senate Bill 1. Senators are considering accepting the House's amended version of SB 1 that expands religious exemptions, removes language concerning parental rights and changes the effective date to Dec. 2. Civil Beat. New House Majority Floor Leader Under Scrutiny for Campaign Spending Violations, After Legislator She Replaced Resigned for Similar Problems. Hawaii Reporter. Eight schools were selected in July to pilot a digital device program that could eventually put laptops in the hands of all public school students, but students at only two of the schools are learning on the devices. The state Department of Education bought more than 6,700 devices for students and teachers at all eight schools, but teachers at the remaining six schools requested additional time for training before their laptops are delivered. Star-Advertiser. As the Army re-evaluates its warrior transition units for wounded soldiers nationwide, five members of Congress have raised alarm at plans to downsize Schofield's Warrior Transition Battalion. Star-Advertiser. Tommy Tanaka of the Military Order of the Purple Heart congratulated Sgt. 1st Class Takumi Abe of the Hawaii Army National Guard's 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team after Abe received a Purple Heart during a ceremony Sunday at the 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Headquarters at Kalaeloa. Star-Advertiser. The Honolulu Police Department wants to draw $4.2 million in unspent money from a variety of its accounts to help pay for recruit classes this year. Police Chief Louis Kealoha, in a letter to the City Council earlier this month seeking approval of the transfer, said the move is necessary "due to insufficient salary funding for police recruits" and "shortages due to lump-sum vacation payouts for personnel." Star-Advertiser. At 102, Pahoa resident Gerald Booken may well be the oldest veteran living on Hawaii Island. Tribune-Herald. Monday is Veterans Day — a time to take a moment to stop and not only thank, but honor and remember America’s military personnel for their service and sacrifice. West Hawaii will host several services this year to commemorate those who protected the nation during war and peace. West Hawaii Today. The Marine Mammal Center of Sausalito, Calif., is on track to open the first phase of its $3.2 million hospital for monk seals in Kona by the end of the year. Star-Advertiser. The state Department of Transportation is moving forward with plans for $133 million in improvements at Kawaihae Harbor. West Hawaii Today. Veterans now have a place to call their own with the opening of a resource center at the University of Hawaii Maui College, providing a venue to study, be tutored, network and - best of all - a place to bond with buddies. Maui News. The state Department of Health has notified the Maui County Department of Water Supply that it has violated drinking water regulations for the presence of E. coli bacteria, the water department announced Saturday morning. Maui News. State Highway personnel officially broke ground on Phase 1 of the Kahului Airport Access Road, which was designed as a traffic mitigation measure to meet continuing growth in use and demand at the Kahului Airport, enhance traffic circulation, and alleviate congestion. Maui Now. Safeway affiliate Property Development Centers said Friday that it has completed the purchase of a 24.5-acre parcel of land in Maui that will be the site of the Target-anchored Puunene Shopping Center. Pacific Business News. Plans for the Maui Medical Plaza hatched nearly eight years ago when doctors sought help from Montana multimillionaire and part-time Wailea resident Ben Brown Sr. Maui News. Life goes on after a solider leaves the service, and some don’t know which way to turn once they hang up their helmets. Garden Island. The Kauai Invasive Species Committee has a new, and rather large, problem on its hands. More than a dozen Bingabing trees — an invasive, large-leafed plant that chokes out nearby vegetation and can reach heights of up to 30 feet — have been discovered growing on several properties near the mouth of the Hanalei River. Garden Island. 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House passes amended same-sex marriage bill, Senat... Tune in today to Hawaii House debate on gay marria... Drama in Hawaii as House advances gay marriage bil... Hawaii House: How they voted on gay marriage bill Same-sex marriage advances in Hawaii, police boss ... Filibusters delay gay marriage vote, SHOPO chief w... Gay marriage special session resumes today, Hawaii... More than 5k want to testify on Hawaii's gay marri...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1844
__label__wiki	0.69263	0.69263	Home-grown & hungry Academy announce new players signed up AFC Wimbledon’s academy has been busy signing up emerging talents for the future and we’re delighted to announce new players for next season’s squads. Rob Tuvey, Lead Foundation Phase Coach (9-12 years) and Michael Hamilton, Lead Youth Phase Coach (13-16 years) take us through those players who have earned an opportunity to shine. Foundation Phase (Under -9s) We would like to welcome our new intake of Under-9s for 2014/15. These boys have been with the club’s pre-academy to learn good habits in preparation for the new season. Having worked with the boys, we are extremely excited about the prospects for these boys and hope they can have a successful first season in academy football. The boys in this squad are as follows: Ben Littlefair, Maddox Beckwith, Michael Golding, Nathan Myers-Johnson, Kai Jennings , Henry Russ , Leo Young, Tom Wilson. Under -11s We would like to welcome Levi Francis-Hume to the club. Levi has progressed through the club’s development centre at Kingston. Levi has shown he has fantastic qualities, especially when showing off his one-on-one attacking skills. We hope that Levi continues to impress throughout his time with AFC Wimbledon. During his trial period, James has shown he is a very versatile player with a great understanding wherever he has been asked to play. We are delighted to announce that Sam Tutt and James Street have agreed to join the club for the following season. Sam is a left-sided player who brings great energy and creativity to his game. Sam has shown he is a great learner and has fitted into the squad very well so far. James joined from local league side Bedhead FC. Rob Tuvey said: “All the boys mentioned above have received one year contracts for the next season and we feel they all have exciting futures with AFC Wimbledon. With our programme we believe they can continue to develop and improve. We wish to welcome all the boys to the club and wish them all the best in the coming season.” YOUTH PHASE: : Goalkeeper who has shown great promise and put in some promising performances.Callum Coulter : Dynamic player who is comfortable in numerous positions across the midfield and strong in attacking one-on-one scenarios.Sian Forsythe Central midfielder who has a great eye for a pass and regularly on the score sheet. Joined us for the latter part of last season and has made a great impact already.Anthony Hartigan: Ronan Harpin: Previously with Wycombe Wanderers and Aldershot. Composed centre back who has put in some very consistent performances and shown a great attitude to improve. Joined us from Fulham. Creative playmaker who is always looking to make things happen. James Parker:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1845
__label__cc	0.523236	0.476764	Home Reviews Honor 20 review: Scraping the bar Honor 20 review: Scraping the bar AndroidAuthority There aren’t many Android OEMs out there that deliver superb, flagship quality phones in an affordable package quite as consistently as Honor. At a glance, that hot streak looks all set to continue with the Honor 20, which crams four rear cameras and a top-tier processor into a sub-400 euro phone. However, with competition as stiff as ever in the mid-range, including from its own hot-rodded sibling, the Honor 20 Pro, and questions still lingering about its parent company’s trade purview, is the Honor 20 still worthy of a recommendation? Find out in Android Authority‘s Honor 20 review! About this review: We tested the Honor 20 for just over a week on the EE mobile network in Bristol and London, U.K. It was running Magic 2.1.0, based on Android 9 Pie, with build number 9.1.0.107. Honor provided the review unit to Android Authority.Show More Honor 20 review: The big picture The Honor 20 is the middle child of the Honor 20 series, sitting between the pricer Honor 20 Pro and the cheaper Honor 20 Lite. However, with the premium model stuck in a bizarre release limbo outside of China, the Honor 20 is currently the de facto N-series flagship for 2019 in the U.K., across Europe, and India. The best Honor phones in 2019 – budget, mid-range and flagship models Honor has a number of great offerings out there that cover all ranges of phones and budgets. From low-end phones, to flagships that make your mouth water, Honor is killing it. There’s also a little … Priced at 499 euros, £399 in the U.K., and 32,999 rupees in India, the Honor 20 finds itself competing with different caliber phones in different regions. In the U.K., the Honor 20 butts heads with the Google Pixel 3a, Samsung Galaxy A70, Nokia 8.1, and Xiaomi Mi 9 SE. Meanwhile, in Europe, the 499 euro price pits it against 2019’s no-holds-barred flagship killers like the OnePlus 7, Asus Zenfone 6, Xiaomi Mi 9, and Oppo Reno. Honor likes to market its phones to a younger audience, but its handsets are capable no matter your age. That doesn’t apply for buyers in North America though, as Honor hasn’t launched the phone in the U.S. or Canada. That’s hardly surprising, given the long-standing tensions and litigious back-and-forth between the U.S. government and Huawei, of which Honor is a sub-brand. Huawei SuperCharge 22.5W charger USB-C cable 3.5mm headphone adapter Aside from the actual phone, there’s nothing all that exciting lying in wait inside the Honor 20 box. Even the box itself is fairly bland. The plastic case is perfectly functional, but the only other notable extra is the 3.5mm adapter. I wonder why we’d need one of those? Our review unit came with a screen protector already applied, but that may not be the case for a retail model. 154.3 x 74 x 7.9mm, 174g Side-mounted fingerprint sensor The Honor 20 shares the same “glass sandwich” build as the Honor 20 Pro, albeit without the latter’s depth layer within the rear glass. The Honor 20’s glass also has marginally less pronounced curvature. It still looks plenty flashy though, even the muted Midnight Black model, which shimmers between black, white, and gray shades at different angles. The Sapphire Blue colorway looks just as good, though it’s a shame the crisp Icelandic White model is exclusive to China. When I reviewed the Honor 10 last year, I noted that it was one of the slipperiest phones I’d ever tested. The Honor 20 is still a slippery customer, but far less so than its predecessor, mercifully. Yet while it’s less likely to slide off a table, the phone won’t ever rest easy on a flat surface due to the protruding camera bump. If you like to use your phone while it rests on surfaces then you’re fresh out of luck, as the Honor 20 will wobble around with each tap. The selfie camera, meanwhile, sees Honor again adopting the punch-hole approach it first introduced with the Honor View 20. The circular cut-out is reasonably small and ensures the rest of the phone has minimal bezels. Speaking of bezels, the tiny “forehead” contains a small earpiece that also features a handy notification LED to the left of the grill. Notification lights are becoming far less commonplace on phones, but it’s still a useful feature, especially for phones that don’t have always-on displays. Another design choice that feels like a bit of a throwback is the fingerprint sensor, but the Honor 20 is all the better for it. Instead of opting for a hit-and-miss in-display sensor, the Honor 20’s power button doubles up as a fingerprint reader. I’d never been a fan of side-mounted fingerprint readers like those found on Sony phones, but this one has absolutely changed my mind. It’s lightning fast, easy to find with your (right) thumb, and had a 100 percent hit rate across my entire time with the phone. In-display readers may be far more elegant, but you can’t argue with those results. The Honor 20 has one of the best fingerprint readers ever to grace a smartphone. There’s also face unlock support if you’d prefer, but be mindful that it’s camera- and software-based and isn’t quite as secure as other options. Overall, the Honor 20 feels far more premium than its pricing suggests it should. However, on a final sour design note, I have to mention the haptics. They are terrible. You can both hear and feel the vibration motor whirring away inside the phone whenever it activates. Typing with keypad vibration turned on is downright unpleasant. At least you can turn it off. 6.26-inch IPS LCD 2,340 x 1,080 pixels, 412ppi 19.5:9 aspect ratio Punch-hole If you were hoping to see Honor make the jump to OLED then the Honor 20 will come as a disappointment. Honor phones have traditionally featured LCD displays, with the only recent exception being the more experimental Honor Magic 2. The Honor 20 doesn’t rock the boat here, but it’s a capable LCD at least. Overall brightness and viewing angles are decent enough, though if you’re outside on a sunny day you’ll be looking for some shade to check your notifications. This is par for the course for LCD displays, as is the obvious lack of always-on display support. The Honor 20’s LCD display can’t compete with OLED rivals. The Honor 20 slightly oversaturates colors out-of-the-box, but you can easily switch from the Vivid preset to the more natural Normal mode or use a color gamut selector. You can further switch between three color temperature presets (Default, Warm, and Cold) and even set a schedule for temperature changes. Yet despite all the optional tweaks, this is still an LCD panel while its competitors — including the cheaper Google Pixel 3a — sport objectively superior OLED displays. As far as flagship SoCs go, the Kirin 980 is getting a little long in the tooth. It’s still a top-tier processor that provides the Honor 20 with the kind of premium power you’d usually expect from a phone twice its price. Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs Exynos 9820 vs Kirin 980 (Video) Three major smartphone SoC designers have now detailed their next-generation designs, which will power smartphones throughout 2019. Huawei was first with its Kirin 980, already powering the Huawei Mate 20 series. Samsung followed, announcing its … Instead of the 256GB storage and 8GB RAM found on the Honor 20 Pro, the vanilla model drops to 128GB ROM and 6GB RAM. This is more than enough for a mid-range phone, though the lack of a microSD card slot stings. For general use, the Honor 20 zips around with no issues whatsoever. There’s a Performance mode option but there’s no real-world advantage to using it. You’ll just hamstring the battery for no tangible benefit. Gaming performance is also smooth and lag-free for Play Store games. The shortcomings of Mali graphics begin to show for emulated 3D titles, but this is more forgivable at this price point and for a handset that isn’t being marketed as a gaming phone. The Honor 20’s solid performance tallies with benchmark tests, which are about where you’d expect for a Kirin 980 phone. The Honor 20 delivered a respectable 1:54.854 time in SpeedTest G. 22.5W fast charging The Honor 20 consistently hits around 6 to 7 hours screen-on time, which is fairly standard for a mid-range phone. However, the super efficient Kirin 980 set-up and above-average 3,750mAh cell work in tandem to stretch the Honor 20’s battery life as far as possible. The phone frequently ended the day with between 30 to 40 percent charge in the tank. Providing you don’t have YouTube running at full brightness for several hours a day, you can expect at least a day on average, or even a day and a half for low usage. Related: Best phones with wireless charging capabilities in 2019 Refilling the battery is also a breeze. The Honor 20 supports 22.5W fast charging, which takes the phone from empty to 50 percent in 30 minutes. There’s no wireless charging, but this is understandable for the non-Pro model. Of course, the Honor 20 Pro doesn’t have it either. Awkward. 48MP primary, f/1.8, AIS, PDAF 16MP super wide, f/2.2 2MP depth, f/2.4 2MP macro, f/2.4 32MP selfie camera, f/2.0 Triple camera set-ups are becoming less of a rarity in the mid-range, but the Honor 20 goes one better with four cameras. Not that you’d know it from a glance. The main shooter has the same 48MP IMX586 Sony sensor found on the Honor 20 Pro and almost every would-be flagship killer in 2019. The only difference is the aperture, which is much wider on the Honor 20 Pro (f/1.4). Dive deeper: What is pixel binning? Everything you need to know By default, the Honor 20 shoots 12MP pixel-binned images. You can dial this up to the full 48MP resolution or a 48MP “AI Ultra Clarity” mode, which Honor says will capture more detail in well-lit areas. Regardless of which mode you choose, the Honor 20 produces decent photos, but the results are far from spectacular. The camera has a tendency to slightly overexpose images and the white balance can get thrown off when brighter colors are in the mix. Pixel-binned photos offer plenty of detail, but the AI Ultra Clarity mode has a habit of softening edges which leaves you with blurrier images. Honor 20 Auto 12MP Honor 20 48MP AI Ultra Clarity Blueprint for the future of photography — computational photography We’re into our second week of the #ShotOnSnapdragon photo competition and with it another closer look at how platforms like the Qualcomm(R) Snapdragon( ) 855 Mobile Platform improve the capabilities of your smartphone’s photography. If you … Things get really ropey at night, as the Honor 20 camera really struggles in low-light scenarios. With only AI Image Stabilization (AIS) to reduce handshake blur, the Honor 20 instead resorts to overly aggressive smoothing and noise removal. I also had problems getting the camera to focus on the foreground in the evening, as seen in the cat statue image in the gallery below. Honor’s answer to this low-light problem is AI Super Night mode, but shots still suffer from excessive noise and the softening seen in the AI Ultra Clarity mode also creeps back in. It also takes around 6 to 7 seconds to actually capture and process images this way, during which time you have to remain perfectly still. Honor 20 Auto low light Honor 20 AI Super Night mode Unlike the Honor 20 Pro, the regular Honor 20 doesn’t have a telephoto lens, instead you’ll have to make do with 2x zoom shots that are cropped from 48MP images, or up to 10x digital zoom. In its place is a depth sensor that helps with capturing portrait photos with bokeh-style effects. Portrait shots are solid, with only the occasional hiccup with edge detection. You can even tweak the background blur via a dedicated aperture mode. The remaining sensors are a wide-angle shooter and a diminutive macro lens. The latter is unique to the Honor 20 series and in theory is a fantastic use of a fourth camera. Unfortunately, the 2MP resolution is far too low to reliably produce detailed shots and the 3- to 5-cm window for taking close-up shots is irritatingly narrow. It doesn’t help that the macro mode is hidden away in a sub-menu in the Honor Camera app, which is as busy as it’s ever been. HDR and Pro modes are also hidden away in here. Considering the Honor 20 takes decent HDR shots, it’s a shame there isn’t an auto option and that it languishes in a side menu when Huawei’s mediocre Google Lens clone, HiVision, takes pride of place in the main camera screen. One area that the Honor 20 camera suite does excel is selfies. The front camera produces detailed shots and also supports both portrait and night modes, and a bunch of beauty and artificial lighting features if that’s your thing. There’s also an AR lens feature with 3D Qmoji, which are a poor impersonation of Apple’s Animojis. On the video front, the Honor 20 maxes out at 4K resolution at 30fps with software stabilization. There’s also a slo-mo video mode that caps at 960fps in 720p, upscaled from 480p. Overall the video quality is solid and even at 4K the stabilization does a decent job at keeping videos steady. If the Honor 20 had been released in 2018, or even just three months ago, it would’ve set the bar for budget camera phones. Thanks to the Google Pixel 3a, however, a good camera is no longer good enough. While the Honor 20 is more versatile, the overall inconsistency leaves a sour taste. Full-size images taken with the Honor 20 are available in this Google Drive folder. Magic UI 2.1 Honor has abandoned Huawei’s EMUI for the Honor 20 series and all of its future phones. In its place is Magic UI, which for the Honor 20 is based on Android 9.0 Pie. Despite the branding change, however, there’s very little that separates Magic UI from Huawei’s original OS skin. The Honor 20 has a bespoke app for almost everything — a web browser, email, calendar, notepad, file manager, calculator, weather, contacts, music, video, gallery, and countless more. With access to Google’s apps no longer a guarantee for future Huawei and Honor phones, that’s probably a good thing. However, for the Honor 20, which is guaranteed official Android updates until at least Android Q, it makes the phone feel a little cluttered unless you do some spring cleaning. Magic UI is EMUI in all but name. There are also some pre-installed apps like Booking.com, Amazon shopping, Amazon Alexa, and a Fortnite installer that add to the initial mess. This is nowhere near as bad as some Chinese Android skins, but it still leaves a poor first impression. This is a real shame, as aside from the glaring lack of a system-wide dark mode, Magic UI is leaps and bounds beyond the bloated, convoluted skins seen on previous Honor phones. There’s very little you can’t change thanks to the vast number of customization options, though finding them can be tricky among the seemingly endless menus and sub-menus in Settings — just use the search bar. The optional navigation gestures are essentially a preview of what gestures will be like in Android Q and they work great. I was also really happy to see Honor is using the excellent Google Discover as the homescreen feed when you swipe to the right. The many flavors of Android: a look at the major Android skins One of the best things about Android is how customizable it is, letting users enjoy a whole host of different flavors. Some prefer their Android clean and stock-like. Others like phone manufacturers to come up … It’ll be interesting to see where Honor takes Magic UI and if it can differentiate it further from EMUI — especially now we know that Huawei has a custom OS almost ready for prime time. As it stands, Magic UI is leagues above Oppo’s ColorOS and Xiaomi’s MIUI, but still a far cry from the stylish OxygenOS, Motorola’s useful build, or the clean, clear ethos of Android One and Google’s Pixel software. No headphone jack Single speaker Bluetooth with aptX The Honor 20 does not have a headphone jack. When I questioned the omission at a briefing before the Honor 20 series’ launch, an Honor spokesperson cited industry trends towards a more streamlined design and that removing the port made the Honor 20 look better from a marketing perspective. We’ve already published several articles detailing why this is a terrible idea here at Android Authority, but this is especially egregious in the mid-range where headphone jacks are commonplace. The atrocious excuse given for its removal just makes it worse. The best phones with a headphone jack (April 2019) Trends are made for bucking, and no trend calls for more bucking than the disappearance of the headphone jack. There are so many headlines these days about phones losing their headphone jacks, courtesy of the … The single bottom speaker is nothing to write home about. It lacks the depth of stereo speakers and blows out completely at full volume, but it gets loud enough and is relatively clear at more reasonable volume levels. As a bonus, Magic UI has a feature called Histen. This AI-powered equalizer can be set to four different modes that alter the sound stage. While interesting in principle, most of the 3D effects sound like you’ve stepped into a tunnel. Honor 20 specs Display 6.26-inch IPS LCD 2,340 x 1,080 Full HD+ Processor HiSilicon Kirin 980 2.6GHz + 1.92GHz + 1.8GHz octa-core 64-bit, 7nm Storage 128GB MicroSD No Battery 3,750mAh 22.5W Honor SuperCharge No wireless charging Cameras Rear: Primary: 48MP Sony IMX586, f/1.8, AI Ultra Clarity mode, 4-in-1 Light Fusion (1.6μm pixels), AI Image Stabilization, phase detection auto-focus, AIS Super Night mode Wide angle: 16MP sensor, f/2.2, 117-degree FoV, supported by distortion correction Depth: 2MP sensor, f/2.4 Macro: 2MP sensor, f/2.4, 4cm macro 32MP sensor, f/2.0, 3D Portrait Lighting IP rating No Sensors Proximity sensor Hall-sensor Connectivity Wi-Fi 2.4GHz: 802.11b/g/n, MIMO Wi-Fi 5GHz: 802.11a/n/ac Cellular: 4G LTE TDD: B38/B40/B41 (2545 – 2655MHz) 4G LTE FDD: B1/B2/B3/B4/B5/B7/B8/B18/B19/B20/B26/B28 3G WCDMA: B1/B2/B4/B5/B6/B8/B19 2G GSM: B2/B3/B5/B8 Security Side-mounted fingerprint sensor Software Android 9 Pie Dimensions and weight 154.3 x 74 x 7.9mm Colors Midnight Black, Sapphire Blue, Icelandic White Value for the money Honor 20 with 6GB RAM and 128GB of storage — 499 euros The Honor 20 has competition within its own immediate product family with the Honor 20 Pro and Honor 20 Lite. We’ve yet to put the Honor 20 Lite through its paces, but if you want to save some money at the cost of raw power, the Lite range has traditionally been a solid choice. Read more: Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro specs Things are a little easier when comparing to the Honor 20 Pro as these are fundamentally the same phone. The camera is slightly better, but unless you truly can’t live without a zoom lens there’s not much separating the two aside from a marginally larger battery. “Pro” perks like wireless charging and waterproofing are missing on both phones, so you might as well walk away with that extra 100 euros still in your pocket. The problem with recommending the Honor 20 is that for £399 it’s directly competing with the Google Pixel 3a, which may well be the best mid-range phone ever made. The Honor 20’s advantages are that it has a more powerful chipset, a flashier design, and a technically more versatile camera suite. I say technically because I’d trade all of the extra lenses on the Honor 20 for the Pixel 3a’s Night Sight and point-and-shoot supremacy in a heartbeat. You also get a headphone jack, Google’s stellar software, and a gorgeous OLED display. That’s the situation in my home region here in the U.K., at least. Unfortunately things get even worse across the rest of Europe and India, where the respective 499 euro and 32,999 rupee price tags see the Honor 20 entering even more fiercely contested territory. Best phones under £500 in the UK (June 2019) There are a lot of great phones on U.K. store shelves today, but many either cost £700 or more to buy outright or are tied to expensive two-year contracts. That might be a way to … The OnePlus 7, in particular, is a much safer bet with better software, a quality OLED display, and even more processing power. The Asus Zenfone 6 and Xiaomi Mi 9T are also a step above the Honor 20 in almost every category. Factor in the Honor View 20 frequently going on sale below the Honor 20 asking price, and the increasing quality of lower budget phones such as the Samsung Galaxy A70, Xiaomi Mi 9 SE, Motorola One Vision, and the stalwart Pocophone F1, and it becomes really hard to recommend the Honor 20 to anyone but die hard Honor fans. Honor 20 review: The verdict Contrary to what it may sound like from the many criticisms in this review, the Honor 20 is not a bad phone. It’s lightning fast, has an elegant design, and a battery that just keeps on going. It sports one of the best fingerprint readers ever to grace a smartphone. The Honor 20 is not a bad phone, but it isn’t good enough. Based purely on its own merits, the Honor 20 may come with more than a few pain points — most notably the overstuffed, undertuned camera, the missing headphone jack, and the merely average LCD display — but Honor’s pedigree still shines through. Yet, the bar for what constitutes a truly great mid-range phone has been irrevocably raised by Google’s achievements with the Pixel 3a. The Honor 20 may have just scraped over the bar this time, but in a post-Pixel 3a world it comes very close to falling underneath. Buy Honor 20 at Amazon Previous articleUber driver becomes unwitting getaway driver for a gas station robber Next articleDigiTimes Says Apple AR Glasses Have Reportedly Been ‘Terminated’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1848
__label__wiki	0.603707	0.603707	Deep Listener at the Serpentine Gallery A History of Exhibitions in its Becoming Apocalisse dell’ora The Light of Malaysia Under the Sign of Fragility The City of Broken Windows MARIA LAI. Holding the Sun by the Hand Inside Shu Lea Cheang’s ‘Inspection House’ The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize Home News focus ArtFutura. Digital Creatures by Michela Ruggeri “Since it began in Barcelona in 1990, ArtFutura has taken as its starting point the thesis that art can no longer be understood apart from digital technology”. With these words the New York Times not only expresses the substance of the ten-year-old Artfutura project, but also gives a snapshot of the digital age we live in, where art is closely tied to technology. This is a relationship that has undergone rapid evolution, multiform and changing over time, not only eliminating the distance between two apparently distant worlds, but also bringing a hybridisation in the roles of practitioners: graphic designers who are also film directors, mathematicians who are sculptors, hackers who are performers. Belonging to these categories are the six adaptable professionals occupying centre stage in ArtFutura. Creature Digitali, until 10 September at the Ex Dogana of Rome. Mutants like the creatures they create – almost like modern Dr Frankensteins – using singular devices and original materials to evoke a futuristic universe populated by monstrosities and phobias, interpretations of reality and new digital visions. And so, what happens if a British scientist by the name of Paul Friedlander attempts to turn light into a malleable material? He creates “kinetic light sculptures” which, in Spinning Cosmos, are part of an installation in which the intangible appears, changes shape and moves in a large dark space. Rays of light, moving or projected onto lightweight rotating spheres, suggest a striking and magical interpretation of sculpture which abandons the hard solidity of matter to make spirit-like aesthetics appear. Meanwhile, Argentinian artist Esteban Diácono presents a series of animations that embody – the use of the term is in itself a contradiction – the absurd, the surreal and fear for the future. His digital creatures are humanoids who walk, dance, bounce and shatter, sliced and spread against a white background. It’s a powerful comment on the humanisation of the digital and the digitalisation of the human, leading the viewer to recognise beings they’d really like to distance themselves from as human. The result is highly expressive and clearly effective, as evidenced by the artist’s millions of Instagram followers. An aspect which makes us reflect on the relationship between artistic expression and social media, and thus on the transition from the showcase of the web to the physical museum. Also talking to us about the future and the web is Can Buyukberber, whose installations and interactive digital sculptures involve the visitor and internet user in the dynamic nature of his works by underlining space-time interconnections and designing moving geometric landscapes. More dynamic sculptures are those of Sachiko Kodama, whose work explores the properties of ferrofluids or liquid metals. Her artworks are unprecedented forms created by invisible forces such as gravity and magnetic fields, which act magically and precisely on the material thanks to a sophisticated computer-controlled system. Digital sculptures, fluid and, ultimately, mechanical. At Artfutura Chico MacMurtrie exhibits a series of Organic Arches: inflatable arches of various sizes which are animated by a jet of air to change shape several times a day. The system of ‘muscles’ and ‘bones” is also activated by movements in the space surrounding the installation. The exhibition concludes with British collective Universal Everything, whose video series Screens of the Future is a collection of propositions and visions. The monitors arranged on the walls are like windows that open onto fantasy views made of pixels, spellbinding when they retain the figurative real-life element and evocative when they spill over into futuristic abstraction. The collective render the image-creating power of a near future whose full possibilities are as yet undefined – including that of conceiving objects and situations originating in the human imagination. Technology, therefore, accomplishes the miracle of making the countless products of imagination appear before our very eyes, without boundaries and using every possible means. With its tangle of wires and devices, technology hides itself behind the amazement of the observer, who – since “our work, our actions, our friendships, our emotions: all increasingly belong to the digital universe”, as affirmed by curator Montxo Algora – cannot help but acknowledge himself or herself to be a digital creature, the result of a choice made at the dawn of the 21st century. ArtFutura. Creature digitali, curated by Montxo Algora, Ex Dogana, Rome, 29.04 – 10.09.2017 images: (cover 1 ) Universal Everything – Screens of the Future, 2017. Multiple Screen Installation. Demos of our near future (2) Paul Friedlander – Spinning Cosmos, 2017. Light and Sound Installation. Kinetic Sculptures,Mirrors, Videoprojections and Holographic Curtains (3) Can Buyukberker – Muse San Francisco (4) Sachiko Kodama – Protrude Flow, 2008. Magnetic Ferrofluid, Computer, Microphone, Videocamera (5) Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works. Organic Arches, 2014. Inflatable Installation. Undergoes an organic metamorphosis several times a day (6) Universal Everything, Screens of the Future, 2017, multiple Screen Installation. Demos of our near future Donato Piccolo.Liquid Thoughts VIDEO POST > I am sitting in a machi Michela Ruggeri by Elena Giulia Rossi by Antonello Tolve Call > Performance in Rome with Francesca Arri	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1857
__label__wiki	0.56858	0.56858	vegas Tag Events, Industry, News EDC Las Vegas announces dates for 2020 edition Insomniac has just announced the dates of EDC Las Vegas 2020: May 15th to 17th. Electric Daisy Carnival remains a flagship EDM festival for many reasons, a stellar lineup, fairy tale setting with a carnival theme, and a special neon The Chainsmokers perform on Good Morning America The Chainsmokers continue to be unstoppable, taking over the world with their unique blend of pop and electronic. Having just recently dropped their 'Sick Boy Steve Aoki and Céline Dion perform remix at Las Vegas Benefit Steve Aoki surprised fans at the Omnia Las Vegas benefit concert this week with special guest vocals from none other than the legendary Céline Dion. The French Canadian queen belted out her iconic track 'My Heart Will Go On' in Hardwell reveals brand new residency in Las Vegas Dutch superstar DJ Hardwell has consistently cemented his place as one of the most prolific pioneers of the dance music industry over the years. As his career evolves, he continues to prove his worth selling out venues, drawing in huge JETFIRE push dance music in the right direction with their innovative approach For electronic music, 2016's visionary ideas have laminated the scene as a staple in today's commercial music spectrum. Introducing fans to DJ aliases, intricate stage designs, and endless support for genre-freeform, the sky's been the limit for those who dare a career in this inflating Electro House, Featured, Free Downloads, Genres, News Alvaro x Lil Jon x JETFIRE – Vegas (JETFIRE Trap Remix) Remaining at the top of Spinnin' Records most sought after releases this summer, trio Alvaro, Lil Jon, and JETFIRE have accumulated over 240K plays in a matter of two weeks with their colossal big room single, "Vegas". The 3 minute track highlights each artist's Death At EDC Day 2 Las Vegas Metro Police have released their statistics for the Electric Daisy Festival's second day, confirming the death of a 24-year-old man.The 135,000 festival-goers on Day 2 battling temperatures over 100 degrees and the toxicology report expected to take 4	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1859
__label__wiki	0.73066	0.73066	Westlake Legal Group > Pompeo Report: Trump said of aides, “These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting” in Bolton, Iran, missile, News, Pompeo, Press Releases, The Blog, Trump, Uncategorized, War You realize Tucker Carlson’s going to be NSA by the end of the year, right? And Hannity will be so jealous. President Trump bucked most of his top national-security advisers by abandoning retaliatory strikes in Iran on Thursday. In private conversations Friday, Mr. Trump reveled in his judgment, certain about his decision to call off the attacks while speaking of his administration as if removed from the center of it. “These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting,” Mr. Trump told one confidant about his own inner circle of advisers. “We don’t need any more wars.” No, no, just kidding. I think Trump has Tucker lined up for Secretary of Defense. Then, next year, he’ll start trash-talking him on Twitter for being too wimpy. Seriously, I don’t know why he persists in staffing up with people like Bolton who he seems to regard as reckless warmongers. It’s true that doves aren’t easy to find in the Republican natsec establishment, but just because he’s stuck choosing among hawks doesn’t mean he has to hire farking superhawks who are destined to irritate him with their penchant for aggression. It’s not just Bolton: Supposedly two of the candidates whom the White House has considered in the past for Secretary of Defense are … Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, arguably the two most ardent interventionists in the U.S. government. It’d be one thing if Trump were going for a “team of rivals” dynamic where he insists on having hawks around him to challenge his own foreign policy inclinations, but the quote excerpted above eliminates that theory. You shouldn’t put someone in your cabinet whose views you find “disgusting,” period. In fact, Trump’s rhetoric about Bolton et al. sounds a bit like Iran’s. Ideally having a dove as president and a superhawk as NSA keeps Iran and other U.S. enemies off-balance by leaving them to wonder who’ll prevail in matters of war. Will the inexperienced president assert himself, or will the very experienced advisor persuade him to be more aggressive? It’s a game of good cop/bad cop — ideally. Realistically, notes Graeme Wood, the differences between Trump and Bolton are something Iran and others can exploit to undermine the president’s confidence in his advisors. And weirdly, thanks to Tucker Carlson, their message is being reinforced on Fox News: If the national security adviser has no heart, and the president has no brain, their adversaries will play their respective deficits off each other, appealing to the heart when the brain says no. Bush and Bolton were at least in general agreement, and the North Koreans’ hope of splitting them was just that—a hope. Presidents have disagreed with their national security advisers before. Now, however, the split is real and visible. National security advisers have, in the past, had confidence that their presidents would at least approach international security issues consistently, so that threats bore the proper menace, and enemies could not respond by waiting around for the boss to change his mind. Bolton never changes his mind, but Trump changes his mind constantly, so who cares? The Iranian strategy is, as Mike Doran notes, to convince the president that his government is captured and controlled by maniacs, who are whispering bloodthirsty advice to him from within the White House… Whatever Bolton’s faults—and they are considerable—he is one of the only senior national-security officials to have worked on this sort of crisis before, and to wedge him away from the president is to increase the chaos in an already wild administration. Carlson even repeated, on the air and apropos of nothing, a statement of Persian cultural supremacy: “Iran is a sophisticated country,” he said, and its cities “not at all like Riyadh or Dubai,” the seats of Gulf power friendly to Trump and unfriendly to Tehran. I like the poetry of Hafez and Rumi as much as the next person, but it is nonetheless startling to hear Iranian propaganda repeated on Fox News. A few days ago Carlson referred to Bolton as a “bureaucratic tapeworm,” the sort of interventionist parasite who “live[s] forever in the bowels of the federal agencies, periodically reemerging to cause pain and suffering but never suffering himself.” Dehumanization of a political enemy is strong stuff even for cable news. To watch it happen to Trump’s handpicked national security advisor (and a former colleague of Tucker’s at Fox to boot) on Trump TV is astonishing, particularly knowing how closely Trump follows Carlson’s show and that he and Carlson have spoken privately about Iran policy. Both Iran and Fox primetime are warning the president that he can’t trust his own aides to have his and America’s best interests at heart. And if the quote reported by the Journal up top is accurate, Trump seems to agree. To his credit, Trump apparently didn’t let Iran off scot-free for bringing down a U.S. drone. This is a potent nonlethal response: President Trump approved an offensive cyberstrike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches, even as he backed away from a conventional military attack in response to its downing Thursday of an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone, according to people familiar with the matter… “This is not something they can put back together so easily,” said one person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. My only question is whether that was a one-off or a strike that can be replicated if and when it needs to be. Iran will learn something from it and will create new cyberdefenses in response. If we need to disable their missile defenses next time — in advance of actual airstrikes — presumably it’ll be harder. But then, Trump incurred the same risk with conventional military assets when he ordered military strikes on Thursday, allowed U.S. ships and planes to be pre-positioned, and then called off the attack in the final hours. Iran likely learned something about U.S. capabilities and tactics from that positioning too. “He basically called them up and told them what he was going to do,” complained a retired lieutenant colonel afterward. By the way, reporting from various media sources, from the Journal to the Times to WaPo to the Daily Beast, now seems to agree on the general facts of what happened on Thursday with Trump calling off the attack. POTUS made it sound afterward as though he hadn’t realized until the final few hours how many Iranians might be killed in America’s “limited” strikes. Not true, say the reports. He was briefed in the morning on possible casualties (“dozens,” claims the Daily Beast) and gave the order to attack anyway, with his top natsec advisors all in favor but Gen. Joe Dunford a bit more cautious, and remained “supportive of military action throughout the day,” per WaPo. By early evening, however, he began asking more questions about casualties. What caused that change of heart? Was he simply deliberating on it or did some dovish friend influence his thinking in the interim? The figure of 150 potential Iranian casualties which he cited supposedly was based on an assessment produced by a Pentagon lawyer — but that was on the high end of projections, a likely death toll if the U.S. attacked in the middle of the day while the targets were fully staffed. In reality, the U.S. was planning to attack before dawn. And an official who spoke to the WSJ says it wasn’t a Pentagon estimate at all but rather one generated by the White House itself, adding that the Pentagon’s estimate wouldn’t have been that high. Anyway, here’s Bernie Sanders with a cute line about Trump’s restraint: He helped start this fire by tearing up the nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions, and now he wants credit for putting it out? "He was just doing a limited strike" says the 'Face the nation' host “Oh…just a limited strike!" @BernieSanders quipped, "Oh, I’m sorry, I just didn't know that it's okay to simply attack another country with bombs. That’s a limited strike? That’s an act of warfare,” pic.twitter.com/JgbLkkakX7 — Currie Dobson (@Ventuckyspaz) June 23, 2019 The post Report: Trump said of aides, “These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting” appeared first on Hot Air. Trump: I called off the Iran strike 10 minutes before it began because I didn’t want a disproportionate response to a drone shootdown in attack, Bolton, Iran, News, Pompeo, Press Releases, The Blog, Trump, Uncategorized, War This was judicious, but it’s hard to resist the temptation to taunt a guy who’s so given to taunting others for their perceived weakness. Couldn’t he switch parties for just a day so that righty media can spend a few enjoyable hours calling him the Ultimate Cuck? I mean, that’s what he’d be doing on his own Twitter feed right now if Obama had wimped out 10 minutes before go time after an American UAV was shot down. I guess we’ll have to content ourselves with the fact that the president declined to order a massive new war in the Middle East. For now. ….Death to America. I terminated deal, which was not even ratified by Congress, and imposed strong sanctions. They are a much weakened nation today than at the beginning of my Presidency, when they were causing major problems throughout the Middle East. Now they are Bust!…. ….proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting & more added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD! “An age of wonders,” said Michael Brendan Dougherty in response. “A moral and spiritual reprobate articulates a classical Augustinian just war argument. And conservative Christians hate it.” Well, hawkish Christians, but yes, that’s most of them. My solution to this quandary: Let Tucker and Hannity karate-fight live at 9 p.m. on Fox tonight. Winner gets to set U.S. Iran policy. Theories are kicking around on social media about the strange timeline in Trump’s tweets. Theory one, the Trump-friendly theory: It was an orchestrated “head fake,” as described by Jazz earlier today. Trump didn’t change his mind about the attack at the last minute; it was a bluff from the jump aimed at frightening Iran by convincing them that we’re now thisclose to war. I’m skeptical, though. If all Trump wanted to do was head fake, he could have arranged for a leak from the White House that he was about to give the order for a massive attack — and had a change of heart at the last second. According to the Times, however, he actually did give the order. Planes and ships were in position and “military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike.” That’s a long way to go for a bluff, and fantastically risky given that someone down the chain of command could have potentially moved a few minutes too soon, launching the attack before Trump could call it back. Theory two, the hardcore anti-Trump theory: The guy was out to lunch, as usual. He may have ordered the strike and then only realized a few minutes before it began that lots of people were about to die, which would all but guarantee an Iranian reprisal in which lots of Americans in the region died too. Then he’d have to escalate further. How did that not occur to him before? Did his staff not even brief him on expected casualties until 10 minutes before launch? What the hell’s going on in that building? Theory three: It was an ego trip. Never can count out that possibility when it comes to Trump. A source told me 30 minutes ago that Trump was pleased with his own performance last night, loved being in command by ordering the strikes and by then ordering the stand-down. And the president just… tweeted it. https://t.co/tUPSym7inn — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 21, 2019 Theory four, the prosaic explanation: As always, he’s indecisive and changes his mind a lot. He seemed to change it publicly yesterday, in fact. Probably he was briefed about casualties from the start but (per the Times) Bolton, Pompeo, and Gina Haspel were all recommending retaliation to him, no doubt warning him that failure to act would amount to “provocative weakness” inviting another Iranian escalation. That might have sold Trump — temporarily. But as he thought further, weighing the casualties and the prospect of having the next 18 months consumed with managing a huge war that directly contradicted his pledge to keep America out of the Middle East, he decided against it. What Trump clearly has always wanted with Iran is a great big beautiful diplomatic deal that will outshine the one brokered by his nemesis, Barack Obama. Lefties were asking on Twitter this morning why Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran if he’s so reluctant to go to war with them, since that’s the logical end result of escalation. The obvious answer is that it’s a leverage play aimed at new negotiations. This is how a real-estate mogul processes stalemates: Walk away from the table, rattle one’s saber, then hope/expect that your opponent will cave and ask for negotiations on terms that are more favorable to you. He’s fully expecting that this standoff ends with Iran requesting an unprecedented summit with the White House. In fact, according to Reuters, he had that message relayed again to Iran last night in the hours before the big (canceled) attack: Earlier on Friday, Iranian officials told Reuters that Tehran had received a message from Trump warning that a U.S. attack on Iran was imminent but saying that he was against war and wanted talks on a range of issues… “In his message, Trump said he was against any war with Iran and wanted to talk to Tehran about various issues,” one of the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. “He gave a short period of time to get our response but Iran’s immediate response was that it is up to Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei to decide about this issue.” I’m not sure how effective a leverage play can be when it’s increasingly clear that Trump, not Iran, is the party that’s more desperate to negotiate. Just like I’m not sure how intimidating Trump’s “madman” persona really is to America’s enemies at this point if he’s on Twitter wringing his hands about “disproportionate” attacks. The point of the “madman” strategy in foreign policy is to convince your rivals you’re apt to do something crazy and disproportionate if they don’t bend to your will. Now here’s Trump saying the opposite, that he cares too much about Iranian lives to pull the trigger. Given his obvious reluctance to go to war and his insistence on talks, it’s Iran that momentarily has the leverage and controls the field of play. If they want to escalate further, they can by attacking another American interest. What’s Trump supposed to say if they shoot down six more unmanned American drones tomorrow? If they want talks, they can have those too. If they want to just forget this whole thing happened and go back to leaning on Europe to provide them with relief from U.S. sanctions, they can also do that by refraining from any further attacks. Very clearly, though, Trump’s preference is talks and a renegotiation of the Obama nuclear deal. And given his track record in renegotiating other deals, like NAFTA and the USMCA, the new Trump nuclear deal would likely end up looking verrrrrry similar to the old Obama nuclear deal. I’m surprised Iran hasn’t realized that yet. If they want sanctions lifted, just meet with Trump, agree to re-christen the Obama nuke deal the Trump Disarmament Protocols or whatever, and they’re done. Personally, I think Trump pulled back because he knows that war with Iran would be jarringly discordant with the tone of the reality-show world we all now live in, which he’s created for us. It’d be like an episode of “Jackass” where someone gets murdered. The Trump presidency isn’t supposed to involve wars, it’s supposed to involve him feuding with Bette Midler on social media. If the Iranians want his attention, they should start trolling him on Twitter instead of doing crazy things with bombs and missiles. Here’s Brian Kilmeade all but calling Trump a wimp on “Fox & Friends” this morning. Given the freakishly outsized influence Fox programming has on Trump’s thinking, someone needs to tell this guy to shut his mouth before we end up in World War III. Brian Kilmeade is against diplomacy with Iran: "Why would we talk to them? Blowing up tankers of our allies, then they blow up our drone, and then we'll talk to them? Makes us look so weak!" Says that Trump was "giving them an out" by calling the shootdown a mistake. pic.twitter.com/fRUHJS3kUs — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) June 21, 2019 The post Trump: I called off the Iran strike 10 minutes before it began because I didn’t want a disproportionate response to a drone shootdown appeared first on Hot Air. Bernie: No, I don’t believe Trump and Pompeo when they say that Iran attacked those oil tankers in Bernie Sanders, Bolton, Independent, investigation, Iran, Iraq, Japan, News, Oil, Pompeo, Press Releases, The Blog, Trump, Uncategorized Another reminder of how strange it is that an anti-war conspiracy theory is circulating in respectable-ish wings of American politics and not only is Donald Trump not a proponent, he’s the head of the government that’s being targeted by it. Bernie’s British counterpart, Jeremy Corbyn, also questioned Iran’s culpability in the tanker attack recently and got ripped for it by the Tory foreign secretary: Pathetic and predictable. From Salisbury to the Middle East, why can he never bring himself to back British allies, British intelligence or British interests? https://t.co/8JyGz7T4Yx — Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) June 15, 2019 Sanders won’t be so easily shamed. He came to his MSNBC interview today armed with the proverbial receipts for his position, the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Saddam WMD fiasco, and he enjoys some unlikely support for his skepticism among top U.S. allies. In particular, the Japanese government is reluctant to spoil its friendly relations with Iran by accepting American claims that Iran bombed the tankers without further proof: But Japanese government officials remain unconvinced, the sources said. “The U.S. explanation has not helped us go beyond speculation,” said one senior government official. Japan has been seeking more concrete evidence through various channels, including Foreign Minister Taro Kono who is likely to have made the request during a call with his counterpart on Friday, the sources said… If having expertise sophisticated enough to conduct the attack could be a reason to conclude that the attacker was Iran, “That would apply to the United States and Israel as well,” said a source at the Foreign Ministry. Iraq is on their minds too: “We can’t make any statement based on a presumption,” said the senior diplomat, adding that the U.S. government should disclose more information on the Hormuz incident. Another government source referred to the Iraq war, which the United States initiated after intelligence analyses of Iraq falsely pointed to the country possessing weapons of mass destruction… A former Cabinet member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party even suggested the possibility of a U.S. conspiracy behind the tanker attacks. Angela Merkel has been more diplomatic about it, claiming that she takes the United States’s allegations about Iranian culpability “very seriously,” but she’s noncommittal too. Germany’s more worried about what remains of the nuclear deal falling apart if Iran doesn’t get some relief from U.S. sanctions soon. Siding with Trump on the tanker incident might rupture relations between Tehran and Europe, raising tensions in the Gulf further, risking a U.S.-Iran war, and possibly leading Iran to attempt a nuclear “breakout.” As Ed noted earlier, Trump himself is attempting to find a path between his hawkish advisors on the one hand and his interest in some sort of grand bargain with Iran on the other. He’s siding with U.S. intelligence (this time) in accusing Iran of bombing the tankers — but he’s downplaying the incident, calling it “very minor,” certainly not grounds for war. That’s one thing that makes Bernie’s false-flag insinuations here ring hollow: There’s little evidence that Trump himself wants a military conflict, in which case the alleged “false flag” with the tankers is supposedly a pretext for … what, exactly? Presumably Sanders would say that he’s less concerned about Trump’s appetite for war than about Bolton’s and Pompeo’s, but Trump’s advisors haven’t led him around by the nose on foreign policy. His two summits with Kim Jong Un doubtless made his hawkish deputies’ skin crawl, but they happened anyway. CNN is reporting this afternoon, in fact, that Trump has warned his staff recently that “he isn’t interested in wading into another conflict in the Middle East” and “regime change should not be in the cards.” To my mind, the best argument for believing that Iran really is behind the tanker attacks is how “very minor” they were. An enemy power looking to frame Iran for the bombing wouldn’t have an incentive to go small; they should have wanted to go big, making the attack as devastating as possible. The more blood and oil spilled in the explosion, the more ruthless and renegade Iran would appear. In reality, the mines that exploded on the tankers’ hulls not only didn’t do much damage, they were placed safely above the water line seemingly to ensure that the ships wouldn’t be flooded. The bombings smacked of a symbolic gesture, something calibrated to send a message without damaging the ships so heavily that a military response would be required. That’s exactly in line with Iran’s goals. They wanted to signal their impatience with U.S. sanctions and to suggest to their European friends that they might close oil commerce in the Gulf if they don’t get economic relief soon, but they didn’t want to risk a conflagration from it. So they took a couple of potshots at the tankers. Point made, no harm done. Who else in the region would have that same incentive? The post Bernie: No, I don’t believe Trump and Pompeo when they say that Iran attacked those oil tankers appeared first on Hot Air. Pompeo: Iran is responsible for today’s tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman in attack, Iran, News, Pompeo, Press Releases, The Blog, Uncategorized, War Maybe those reports last month about an elevated Iranian threat in the region weren’t the product of John Bolton’s febrile imagination after all. BREAKING: Sec. Pompeo says the US blames Iran for the attacks on 2 tanker ships in the Gulf of Oman today. https://t.co/WzJJ6PwPRj pic.twitter.com/W34CH78hHt — NBC News (@NBCNews) June 13, 2019 Read Ed’s post from this morning if you haven’t yet. The attack on the tankers is confounding considering that each had business with Japan and came at a moment when … Shinzo Abe was in Tehran for the first trip by a Japanese head of state in decades. The White House is trying to isolate Iran’s regime internationally, if only to pressure them into talks; Iran obviously wants to avoid isolation, which is why it took the meeting with Abe. Why would it risk blowing up its own international diplomacy with a new tanker provocation? Afterwards, Iran’s foreign minister described the attack on the tankers as beyond “suspicious,” a dark insinuation that either the U.S. or an ally — the Israelis? the Saudis? — was responsible. But, as Ed asked, how easy would it be for a saboteur to hit a pair of tankers in the Gulf of Oman and then vanish without Iran detecting it? CBS has a key detail from Pentagon sources: A U.S. defense official told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin that the U.S. has video of a small boat coming alongside one of the tankers that was attacked and removing an unexploded “limpet” mine — a type of explosive that can be stuck manually to the side of a vessel. It is the same type of weapon U.S. officials say Iran used to attack four oil tankers off the nearby Emirati port of Fujairah last month. A defense official also told WaPo that he suspected limpet bombs were used, and that the attack was perpetrated “by Iran or forces under its influence.” Normally a country might follow a “closed fist” or “open hand” diplomatic approach, but maybe Iran’s trying some of both. The open hand was extended to Abe out of politeness, to hear his pitch about talks with the U.S. and to show European governments caught between Trump and Iran that Tehran wants good relations with the rest of the world. The closed fist was the attack on the tankers, done with enough plausible deniability that Iran could claim to Abe that it wasn’t responsible but with enough of a signature that the U.S. would get the underlying message — that Iran doesn’t want talks and will continue to punish the international oil industry if the U.S. doesn’t back off on sanctions. (“Analysts say that whoever was behind the recent attacks may be trying to make the point that there is no way around the gulf routes,” as the NYT notes.) Iran didn’t want to risk sending that “closed fist” message directly to the White House by attacking an American tanker and risking war, so it sent the message indirectly instead. Sounds like the message was received too. We don’t really want talks, Trump tweeted afterward, not very convincingly: While I very much appreciate P.M. Abe going to Iran to meet with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, I personally feel that it is too soon to even think about making a deal. They are not ready, and neither are we! Here’s Khamenei rebuffing the idea of diplomacy with the U.S. during his meeting with Abe. The post Pompeo: Iran is responsible for today’s tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman appeared first on Hot Air. Pompeo: We’re ready to talk to Iran — without preconditions in Iran, negotiations, News, nuclear, Obama, Pompeo, Press Releases, Switzerland, The Blog, Trump, Uncategorized Lots of agita about this yesterday on social media. Didn’t America’s right wing have a collective aneurysm in 2007 when Obama said at a Democratic primary debate that he’d talk to Iran without preconditions? We sure did! Our Republican Secretary of State has embraced the Obama position. Important footnote, though: The Obama position also happens to be the Trump position. Don’t the people freaking out about Pompeo remember that POTUS said the same thing last year? .@POTUS to Iran: "They want to meet? I'll meet – any time they want…It's good for the country, good for them, good for us, and good for the world." https://t.co/fD6NHuNMvG pic.twitter.com/plUaUhL6J4 — Fox News (@FoxNews) July 30, 2018 You can play the “What if Obama did it?” game to gauge righty hypocrisy with virtually every outre thing Trump does, but I do think it’s possible to have opposed talks with Iran in 2008 and to support them in 2019 for reasons other than rank partisanship. Time does matter in a situation like this. I can remember feeling incensed at reports circa 2008 that the U.S. wanted to talk to the Taliban to see if the two sides could feel their way towards some diplomatic resolution in Afghanistan. We were less than a decade removed from 9/11 and already we were looking to accommodate the jihadi enemy? Unthinkable. Outrageous. Eleven weary years of stalemate later, the choice has narrowed to talks with the Taliban or unilateral withdrawal and outright forfeiture of the country to the bad guys. What do we have to lose by hearing them out? Same goes for North Korea, although in that case the options have narrowed not to “talks or defeat” but to “talks or nuclear war.” A decade ago, it was possible to believe that sanctions might grind down the regime before it managed to build a nuclear ICBM. In 2019 it’s no longer possible. As gross as it was to see the president of the United States reward Kim Jong Un for his brinksmanship with a face-to-face summit, I grudgingly supported Trump on it just because the alternative is unthinkable. He tried something bold diplomatically to avert cataclysm. It’s hard to fault him for it. Although it’s easy to fault him for all the vomit-generating warm words he’s wasted on Kim since then. Talking to Iran without preconditions is reluctantly defensible along the same lines. We’ve been waiting a long time for the Great Pumpkin of regime change to arrive there. We expected that the Iraq war would frighten them into a more modest regional role. We hoped that jettisoning the nuclear deal would force them to the table for fear of new sanctions by the United States. It may be worth following that last strategy for awhile longer but eventually, and maybe sooner than we think, Iran will reach the point that North Korea has in developing a nuclear weapon with intercontinental reach. What then? I’ll repeat what I said last year too after Trump’s comments, that “talks without preconditions” is more digestible when you’ve worked to improve your bargaining strength. One of the things that alarmed righties about Obama calling for talks as a candidate was that it played into the fear that he’d be a pushover as a commander-in-chief. He hadn’t even taken the job yet and was already seemingly inviting Iran to the Oval Office. In Trump’s case, though, he’s torn up the nuclear deal, bombed Iran’s client in Syria twice, hugged Saudi Arabia’s crown prince as tightly as he can, and most recently ordered a naval build-up in the Gulf to deter possible attacks by Iran on U.S. interests there. He’s not pitching “talks without preconditions” so much as he’s pitching “talks without preconditions or else.” If U.S. muscle-flexing ends up frightening Iran into conciliation, talks may be worth holding. In lieu of an exit question, a trip down memory lane. The post Pompeo: We’re ready to talk to Iran — without preconditions appeared first on Hot Air. Tucker Carlson: For John Bolton, war with Iran would be like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and his birthday rolled into one in Bolton, bomb, Iran, News, Pompeo, Press Releases, The Blog, Trump, Tucker Carlson, Uncategorized, War Weird but true: Given the president’s devotion to watching Fox News and the dearth of dovish voices around him, Carlson may have more influence in keeping America out of war with Iran with his commentaries than anyone else in the United States. Even weirder yet also true: If the U.S. and Iran were to start firing at each other tomorrow, Fox’s 8 p.m. guy and its 9 p.m. guy would find themselves poles apart on this issue. And despite nationalists’ apprehensions about intervention abroad, there’s zero question which side of that dispute Fox’s audience would take. Tucker would suddenly find himself a lonely figure as a right-wing critic of America’s newest assault on the Axis of Evil. His guest in the clip below is over the top in questioning whether Bolton is trying to engineer a Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify war with Iran but, as best as the NYT can tell, it’s true that the evidence of a growing Iranian threat is thin. Even some U.S. allies aren’t seeing it. Intelligence and military officials in Europe as well as in the United States said that over the past year, most aggressive moves have originated not in Tehran, but in Washington — where John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, has prodded President Trump into backing Iran into a corner. One American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential internal planning, said the new intelligence of an increased Iranian threat was “small stuff” and did not merit the military planning being driven by Mr. Bolton. The official also said the ultimate goal of the yearlong economic sanctions campaign by the Trump administration was to draw Iran into an armed conflict with the United States… Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s efforts this week to recruit European countries to back the administration’s steely posture on Iran are being received coolly… Privately, several European officials described Mr. Bolton and Mr. Pompeo as pushing an unsuspecting Mr. Trump through a series of steps that could put the United States on a course to war before the president realizes it. A top British commander in the western effort to defeat ISIS says he’s seen “no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq or Syria.” Iraqi intelligence officials are also reportedly skeptical of U.S. claims that the Iranians are plotting something. It’s possible, obviously, that the intel which the U.S. has is sturdier than the Times sources realize and/or that naysayers are downplaying it for political reasons, because they oppose an attack on Iran for prudential or ideological reasons. In particular the bit about Bolton and Pompeo leading an “unsuspecting” Trump around by the nose seems aimed at playing upon Trump’s vanity, knowing how much he detests being seen as a catspaw of his deputies. Carlson’s commentary here complements that, starting with a reminder that the president commands the U.S. military, not John Bolton. If you don’t trust POTUS to oppose a major war with Iran on the merits, appeal to his vanity. Or maybe show him this poll and remind him how politicians who supported the last major war in the Middle East have fared in recent presidential elections. (2004 worked out okay for Dubya, of course.) But it’s also possible that the intel really is thin and that the hawkish faction led by Bolton is being opportunistic in citing it as a reason to turn the long cold war between the U.S. and Iran hot. It may be Bolton’s misfortune in this matter that the recent plot to oust Nicolas Maduro by having his top advisors desert him en masse failed so miserably a few weeks ago. Had the intelligence behind that plot been borne out, Trump naturally would have more faith in the intel detecting an Iranian threat to U.S. proxies in the Middle East. As it is, having been burned by the failure in Venezuela, he’s destined to be more skeptical now. The failure in Caracas may have foiled the plans for Tehran. Exit quotation from citizen Donald Trump, November 29, 2011: “In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.” The post Tucker Carlson: For John Bolton, war with Iran would be like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and his birthday rolled into one appeared first on Hot Air. Tucker Carlson on Venezuela: When was the last time we successfully meddled in another country? in military, News, Pompeo, Press Releases, The Blog, Tucker Carlson, Uncategorized, Venezuela If you can’t think of an answer, let Trump and Mike Pompeo know as soon as possible. And I do mean as soon as possible. “The President has been crystal clear and incredibly consistent. Military action is possible. If that’s what’s required, that’s what the United States will do,” Pompeo said on Fox Business Network. “We’re trying to do everything we can to avoid violence. We’ve asked all the parties involved not to engage in the kind of activity. We’d prefer a peaceful transition of government there, where Maduro leaves and a new election is held. But the President has made clear, in the event that there comes a moment — and we’ll all have to make decisions about when that moment is — and the President will have to ultimately make that decision. He is prepared to do that if that’s what’s required.” What sort of developments on the ground would “require” the U.S. to act? An all-out attack by Maduro on Venezuelan civilians? Ironically, that’d be a reprise of Obama’s justification for assembling the coalition against Qaddafi in Libya, that members of the United Nations have a responsibility to protect vulnerable populations from war crimes committed by their own government. Trump endorsed intervention in Libya in 2011 on humanitarian grounds then predictably ran away from it after the post-Qaddafi period proved violent and chaotic. Currently he’s rooting for the country’s new Qaddafi-esque military strongman to march on the U.S.-backed government in Tripoli. Don’t look to POTUS for consistency on any of this. He’s probably gung ho to take out Maduro for no grander reason than that dealing a famous socialist a bruising defeat would be sweet symbolism for 2020 and would get all the kooks on the far left of the Democratic Party yelling at him. Tucker’s going to yell at him in the meantime, though: “Would the overthrow of [President Nicolás] Maduro make Venezuela a more stable, prosperous country? More to the point, would it be good for the United States?” Carlson said, specifically pointing to calls for intervention from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). “Before the bombers take off, let’s just answer a few quick questions, starting with the most obvious: When was the last time we successfully meddled in the political life of another country? Has it ever worked? How are those democracies we set up in Iraq and Libya and Syria and Afghanistan?” Carlson further claimed sanctions against the South American nation hurt America’s middle class by increasing gas prices. If pro-interventionists “are indeed good people, why do they seem to care more about Venezuela than they care about this country, the one they run?” he said. He can beat up on Rick Scott all he wants but Scott knows who his constituents in Florida are and knows what they want to hear. Even Democrats in Florida are siding with Juan Guaido, realizing that they’d have a political problem with both Cuban expats and Venezuelan expats if they backed a Castro-supported cretin like Maduro. (The White House continues to emphasize Cuba’s role in propping up Maduro in public pronouncements, which is both true and good politics. Pompeo’s even taken to noting that Cuba has essentially invaded the country.) Tucker knows who his constituents are too, though: He’s pitching to an audience of one here, Fox News’s most loyal viewer. What happened to the isolationist Donald we all thought we knew from the Republican primaries? Why is General Haftar’s attempt to impose “stability” on Libya praiseworthy while Maduro’s attempt to impose “stability” on Venezuela worthy of U.S. military intervention? He gets too cute with his own argument at points, though. It’s true that interventionists routinely demagogue isolationists as callous towards war crimes but Carlson demagogues interventionists when he accuses them of caring more about Venezuela than about the U.S. (Although, full confession, this Onion quickie yesterday did make me laugh.) And he’s missing the point when he says that U.S. intervention would cause a massive refugee crisis. One reason that Trump has been sold on confronting Maduro, I’d bet, is the belief that U.S. intervention might actually stave off a protracted civil war and prevent a refugee crisis. Interventionists have spent the better part of 10 years claiming that if America had jumped into Syria early and aggressively Assad might have been dislodged and a “political solution” brokered that would have spared the country from years of havoc. Because it didn’t, the war became a maelstrom and Europe was left to find sanctuary for fleeing Syrians. Whether U.S. intervention really would have made the war better or worse is unknowable — and its unknowability is part of Carlson’s point, that interventionists always think they know how the script’s going to go and they never, ever do. But Tucker himself is claiming a weird degree of certainty in believing that U.S. intervention can only make the refugee problem worse. What if we stay out, the Venezuelan military splits, Maduro hangs on as stubbornly as Assad did, and we get a 10-year civil war anyway with enthusiastic Russian and Cuban participation? The post Tucker Carlson on Venezuela: When was the last time we successfully meddled in another country? appeared first on Hot Air. Pompeo: Maduro was ready to leave Venezuela this morning — until the Russians talked him out of it in News, plane, Pompeo, Press Releases, The Blog, Uncategorized, Venezuela If it’s a lie, it’s a lie in service to a good cause. Guaido’s supporters and members of the military who are loyal to him might take heart from it. Maduro’s supporters and military loyalists will denounce it as Yanqui propaganda but maybe with a quaver in their voices. Imagine being a Venezuelan officer trying to decide whether to stick with Maduro and hearing that he might be preparing to bug out, abandoning you to your fate. The fact that Pompeo blames the Russians for convincing him to stay is interesting too. It’s very far removed from the Resistance’s working theory that Trump is a Putin stooge. And it’s gratuitous: He could have omitted that detail if he’d wanted to. He didn’t. “We’ve watched throughout the day, it’s been a long time since anyone’s seen Maduro,” Pompeo said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.” “He had an airplane on the tarmac, he was ready to leave this morning as we understand it and the Russians indicated he should stay.” “He was headed for Havana,” Pompeo said. The Secretary of State refused to say whether Maduro would be permitted to safely depart for Cuba, instead saying that “Mr. Maduro understands what will happen if he gets on that airplane.” Assume it’s true. What did Putin offer Maduro to convince him to stay and risk becoming South America’s answer to Assad? There are in fact Russian troops in Venezuela as we speak, although reportedly only a small contingent. They may be there to ward off military action by, well, us: VOA reported yesterday that the Russians are probably tasked with operating Venezuela’s aging Russian-made S-300 air-defense missiles in case Trump decides to authorize a bombing run or a no-fly zone in support of Guaido. Two months ago John Bolton explicitly invoked the Monroe Doctrine to justify U.S. interest in seeing Maduro ousted and the unrest in Venezuela end. Where do we stand Monroe-wise on Moscow putting a thumb on the scale for Venezuela and deploying troops to the country? Pompeo’s insistence on blaming Russia for Maduro’s continued presence is a brushback pitch, I assume, a warning that Trump’s interest in rapprochement with Moscow will sour if they make trouble for him in Venezuela. Civil war would mean a refugee crisis in the making for Central America and eventually the United States, which I’m sure makes it that much more appetizing for Putin. A refugee crush fueled by Syria’s civil war contributed to the immigration crisis that destabilized European governments, weakened Merkel, and led to the rise of Putin-friendly right-wing parties there. He probably believes that turning Venezuela into Syria would do something similar regionally and maybe have secondary effects in the U.S. by deepening the split between America’s left and right over immigration. In the meantime, any opportunity he has to project power abroad reinforces perceptions back home that he’s restored Russia to true “great power” status, the equal of the United States. Flouting the Monroe Doctrine and operating in Venezuela would make that perception that much more vivid. Trump’s less focused on Russia than on Cuba, which by some estimates has 15,000 military and intelligence operatives on the ground there. That feels a bit like Syria too, with Cuba playing the Iran role as a regional power rushing to the aide of an ideological ally partly in solidarity and partly to protect its own influence by beating back revolutionaries whose success might eventually threaten it too. ….embargo, together with highest-level sanctions, will be placed on the island of Cuba. Hopefully, all Cuban soldiers will promptly and peacefully return to their island! We already have a comprehensive economic embargo on Cuba and Trump undid many of Obama’s measures relaxing certain U.S. policies towards the Castro regime two years ago. I assume he means a return to the full pre-Obama status quo ante if Cuba doesn’t pull out. But they’re not going to pull out, as seeing Maduro fall might give freedom-minded Cubans funny ideas about Castro departing too. What does Trump do if both Castro and Putin ignore him and begin prosecuting a war for Maduro against Guaido? Here’s Pompeo on CNN. Bolton warned Russia today not to meddle but I don’t think they’re listening. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was preparing to leave his country, but was talked out of it by Russia pic.twitter.com/yWEMebxKcv — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 30, 2019 The post Pompeo: Maduro was ready to leave Venezuela this morning — until the Russians talked him out of it appeared first on Hot Air.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1860
__label__wiki	0.579784	0.579784	Westlake Legal Group > Posts tagged "Uncategorized" (Page 10) Obama-Era Homeland Security Officials Lambast the Dems’ New Wave of Open-Border Candidates: ‘It’s Going to Hurt Them’ in Featured Story, Front Page Stories, News, Press Releases, Uncategorized [Screenshot from ABC News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=218&v=XCz6KI3594A] Among 2020 Democratic candidates, open borders seems to be the hip new thing. You want enforcement? Nerd! The new class of left-wing congresspeople seem way past the old folks’ oppressive laws. And it pays to be cool. But some veterans of the Department of Homeland Security are speaking out against the move toward a borderless world. Speaking to The Daily Caller, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan had the following to say about left-wing Oval Office hopefuls after their first two debates: “Everything they said about decriminalizing illegal entry, offering medical care for illegal aliens, they are talking about abolishing ICE, all of this rhetoric from the Democratic presidential candidates – it’s not going to help the crisis at the border. The last thing they should be doing is offering more incentives to come here.” There’s a problem, and the country needs a solution: “I didn’t hear one idea how they’re going to figure the border. I didn’t hear one idea how they’re going to fix the system. It’s all about ‘What more can we do for those here illegally. What more can we do for those who violate our laws and enter the country illegally.’ They are definitely on the wrong side of this issue and I think it’s going to hurt them.” Some Democrats appear to believe that the problem is the suggestion that there’s a problem. Julian Castro wants to provide healthcare to illegal immigrants, decriminalize sneaking into the U.S., and end deportation. Yet, when George Stephanopoulos asked the former Obama cabinet member on ABC’s This Week whether his positions equate to open borders, he offered this: “There’s no way that we can call that open borders.” It should also be noted, though, that Julian recently claimed men have a right to federally-funded abortions (here). So he may be having some…problems. Cory “Farticus” Booker (here) proclaimed that, as president, he’d “virtually” eliminate detention at the border and stop treating those tiptoeing across as criminals — with an executive order. Thomas isn’t the only former DHS staffer speaking out against such positions. Jeh Johnson — the Democratic Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama — also thinks it’s hogwash. He told The Washington Post: “That is unworkable, unwise and does not have the support of a majority of American people or the Congress, and if we had such a policy, instead of 100,000 apprehensions a month, it will be multiples of that.” A 30+ year Customs and Border Protection veteran spoke anonymously to the Daily Caller News Foundation, also downing the Dems’ new wave: “I believe that decriminalizing illegal entry would mean that the U.S. moves to open borders. Then what comes into play is the idea that these minor offenses are not considered as reasons for deportation.” As reported by TDC: The official said he once considered himself a lifelong supporter of Democrats, but has since left the party over its support of more liberal immigration policies. There’s a revolution within the Democratic Party. The young have staked their claim. They’re here to replace the old (on late-term abortion, too — see here). And with new blood comes new ideas. One of those seems somewhat at odds with the idea of an America: As Donald Trump once pointed out, “If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.” If you don’t have Borders, you don’t have a Country! Find all my RedState work here. And please follow Alex Parker on Twitter and Facebook. Thank you for reading! Please sound off in the Comments section below. For iPhone instructions, see the bottom of this page. If you have an iPhone and want to comment, select the box with the upward arrow at the bottom of your screen; swipe left and choose “Request Desktop Site.” If it fails to automatically refresh, manually reload the page. Scroll down to the red horizontal bar that says “Show Comments.” The post Obama-Era Homeland Security Officials Lambast the Dems’ New Wave of Open-Border Candidates: ‘It’s Going to Hurt Them’ appeared first on RedState. Detroit Music Festival Charges All People $10 – Except Whites, Who Owe $20 for the Sake of ‘Equity’ A music festival in Detroit is taking a novel approach to ticket prices. And also to race. The young folks’ AfroFuture Fest is offering tickets to “persons of color” — that would be, all human beings who aren’t white — at half the cost of tickets for pale partiers — that would be “non-persons of color.” So the event’s decided that Martin Luther King was wrong after all — people should be judged according to the color of their skin. And segregation was right, as it turns out — everyone is either white or colored. For early bird purchases, whites can get in if they fork over $20. Everyone else can slide with 10. After July, white walkers will have to cough up 40 Big Ones, whereas the rest of the planet only has to pay half. Check it out — and no, this isn’t from The Twilight Zone (which is an AMAZING show, by the way): OFFICIAL LINE UP For Afrofuture Fest IS HERE We’re activating the BLACK farm grounds of FEEDOM FREEDOM(866 Manistique) & YES, this is happening on BLACK Detroit’s Eastside Early Bird POC Tickets are $10 & $20 for NONPOC’s & on sale until JULY 17thhttps://t.co/IAiMD22dRy pic.twitter.com/EUgf50EgqN — Afrofuture Youth (@AFYDet) July 4, 2019 In response, popular ticketer Eventbrite announced that the festival will be taken off its site if the pricing policy isn’t changed: “Our mission is to bring the world together through live experiences. We strive to provide a platform that enables people to gather for their chosen purpose, and that reflects diverse viewpoints, so long as they don’t violate our Terms.” Eventbrite isn’t fond of race-based discrimination: “We do not permit events that require attendees to pay different prices based on their protected characteristics such as race or ethnicity. In this case, we have notified the creator of the event about this violation and requested that they alter their event accordingly. We have offered them the opportunity to do this on their own accord; should they not wish to comply we will unpublish the event completely from our site.” As told to the Daily Caller News Founder by a spokeswoman for Detroit’s own Jillian Graham, the rapper — known as Tiny Jag — pulled out due to the pay gap: “Tiny Jag wants everyone to understand the effort to black empowerment is a mutual goal but not at the expense of morale.” Jillian explained to the Detroit Metro Times that there’s whiteness in her own family: “I was immediately enraged just because I am biracial. I have family members that would have, under those circumstances, been subjected to something that I would not ever want them to be in … especially not because of anything that I have going on.” sorry ily guys pic.twitter.com/MfhuQeEX0U — TINY JAG (@tinyjaguar) July 2, 2019 Here’s AfroFuture’s explanation for its pay plan from the official Eventbrite page: Why do we have POC(people of color) and NONPOC(white people) tickets? I’m glad you asked! Equality means treating everyone the same. Equity is insuring everyone has what they need to be successful. Our ticket structure was built to insure that the most marginalized communities (people of color) are provided with an equitable chance at enjoying events in their own community (black Detroit). Affording joy and pleasure is unfortunately still a privilege in our society for people of color and we believe everyone should have access to receiving such. Guess they haven’t known poor white people or seen statistics on Asian Americans. We’ve seen too many times orgasmic events happening in Detroit and other POC populated cities and what consistently happens is people outside of the community benefiting most from affordable ticket prices because of their proximity to wealth. This cycle disproportionately displaces black and brown people from enjoying entertainment in their own communities. As an AfroFuturist youth lead initiative the voices of our youth inform our resistance. Here’s what they have to say: “If you don’t see my blackness, you don’t see me. Periodt!” As I said, they’ve decided MLK was wrong. So cough it up, you CrazyRich crackers. Thank you for reading! Please sound off in the Comments section below. The post Detroit Music Festival Charges All People $10 – Except Whites, Who Owe $20 for the Sake of ‘Equity’ appeared first on RedState. Justin Amash; In The Name Of God—GO! in Allow Media Exception, democrats, donald trump, elections, Featured Story, Front Page, Front Page Stories, News, Politics, Press Releases, republicans, Uncategorized In the Name of God…Go! During a House of Commons debate on the debacle of the French-British expedition to liberate Norway from the Nazis, a member of Parliament hurled the following at then Prime Minister Chamberlain, “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” —Leo Avery, MP As history recalls, 3 days afterwards, Germany thrust its armored dagger into the heart of France and the Low Countries. Shortly after that Winston Churchill became Prime Minister and led Great Britain through the rest of World War II. Congressman (newly Independent) Justin Amash deserves much the same invective. Not satisfied with the pusillanimous act of deserting his party, he just had to show it was all about him by publishing a self righteous OpEd and of course the de rigeuer appearances on the Sunday shows. On CNN’s State of the Union Show, Amash alleged that he had been contacted by other Republicans, some who were senior officials. These folks supposedly thanked Amash for what he was doing, claiming they supported his impeachment comments regarding the President. At first blush, this would appear to be bad news for President Trump and the Republicans as a whole. Not so fast. In a recent poll, it would appear that the voters recognize a self aggrandizing turncoat when they see one. Amash has a primary opponent, State Rep Jim Lower, who appears to be giving him a run for his money. In a June 5-9 Practical Political Consulting (PPC) and MIRS survey of just 360 likely GOP voters announced Tuesday (though not yet available online), Lower thumped Amash in a head-to-head matchup, 49 percent to 33 percent. One poll, such a small one at that, means little or nothing in the long run. This poll also did not take into account the late entry into the primary, Alabama National Guardsman, Tom Norton. Amash is toast. He thinks he is going to be able to leave Congress and become a “tame Republican,” on the liberal talk show circuit. He likely believes the current flattery from the left over his decision to leave the Republican Party. He’s also floated the idea of running for President. Good Luck with that. Justin Amash is about to learn the hard way that disloyalty doesn’t pay. He just might continue receiving flattery and a few lucrative speaking gigs. Like Benedict Arnold however,he will soon find out that no one trusts a turncoat—even the beneficiaries of his pusillanimity. His constituents should use the upcoming primary to forcefully tell him, “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” Mike Ford, a retired Infantry Officer, writes on Military, Foreign Affairs and occasionally dabbles in Political and Economic matters. Follow him on Twitter: @MikeFor10394583 You can find his other Red State work here. The post Justin Amash; In The Name Of God—GO! appeared first on RedState. Newt Gingrich Obliterates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She’s ‘Vicious, Cruel & Dishonest’ and Despises America in Allow Media Exception, Congress, democrats, Featured Story, Front Page Stories, Government, Illegal Immigration, immigration, News, Newt Gingrich, Press Releases, Uncategorized, washington D.C. Donald Trump smiles at left as Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talks to media after their meeting in New York, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Ever wonder what former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is up to? Well, he was recently tied up with ripping into freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 29-year-old’s been on a roll lately, calling detention centers “concentration camps” (here and here) delivering a stunningly dramatic performance at the border, and railing against the U.S. on Independence Day (here). Newt isn’t a fan. Therefore, in a July 5th op-ed for Fox, he stated the following: It took Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s visit to the border – and her dishonest comments afterward – to help me understand how profoundly vicious, cruel and dishonest she is. When you look at the larger picture, it is clear that Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is eager and determined to undermine and destroy America as we have known it. Newt went on to assert that such radical goals require lies. And that “when you despise American values and find the American people ‘deplorable’ and contemptible, lying is perfectly natural.” The erstwhile Republican representative insisted that “the American immigration system is profoundly broken,” and that AOC and likeminded politicians are in part responsible for a man and his daughter drowning while trying to sneak into the country (here): The tragedy of Ocasio-Cortez’s type of vicious, deliberately dishonest politics is it sets the stage for innocent people to die. The poignant, heart-wrenching picture of the father and his daughter who died trying to get into the United States illegally should serve as a moral condemnation of every Democrat trying to use the border as a political weapon against Trump. Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow left-wing activists continue to send signals to desperate and ambitious people around the world that they can (and should) enter the United States illegally. Alexandria’s fellow spotlighted Democrat, Beto “I’m a privileged millionaire who will destroy privileged wealth” O’Rourke, sees things quite differently; he believes those tragic drowning deaths are your fault (see here). Back to Newt — he pointed out the difference between immigration then and now: It is important to remember that during the late 19th century when we had enormous immigration, it was still tightly controlled. Immigrants were processed in an orderly way. If they had infectious diseases, criminal records, were anarchists – or even showed signs of low morals – they were denied entry and sent back to their home countries. The modern left-wing idea of opening the borders as wide as possible would have been thoroughly rejected in any previous era. Mr. Gingrich closed with a scathing final review of AOC, Pelosi, and other members of the House Left: Every day that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Ocasio-Cortez radicals block reforming the immigration system, the House Republicans should take special orders and show the pictures of those who died the day before in a system the Democrats helped ruin – and refuse to reform. Furthermore, Ocasio-Cortez should be called out for the viciousness, destructiveness, and dishonesty of her words and actions. It is time for decent people to stand up to her and ask: “Have you no shame? No uncertain terms there. Will any of his words reach Alexandria? I’d say it’s doubtful. But even if she’s made aware of them, I expect she’ll continue down her current path. Hopefully, where it concerns the big business, government-monopoly catastrophe of socialism, America won’t follow. Relevant RedState links in this article: here, here, here, here, and here See 3 more pieces from me: AOC’s Chief Of Staff Echoes ‘Concentration Camps,’ Compares Dems Supporting Humanitarian Aid At The Border To Jim Crow Jon Voight Responds To Alyssa Milano’s Castigation Of Him As An ‘F-Lister’: ‘Ignorance Doesn’t Scare Me’ Police Report: Wisconsin Man Murdered His 5-Year-Old Son For Eating His Father’s Day Cake The post Newt Gingrich Obliterates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She’s ‘Vicious, Cruel & Dishonest’ and Despises America appeared first on RedState. Political Discord? The Left As Russian Agents in Front Page Stories, News, Press Releases, Uncategorized Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a question at a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the ongoing scandal around U.S President Donald Trump sharing classified intelligence with Russian officials as “political schizophrenia.” (Yuri Kadobnov/ Pool photo via AP) Perhaps the most befuddling aspect of Trump’s foreign policy is his cozy relations with international strongmen like Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un. They are befuddling because while Trump plays “good cop” with words, in the more important action realm, he has played “bad cop.” To recap, let’s look at some of Trump’s tangible actions: he is the first President to put muscle behind a nuclear-free North Korea; sanctions and credible threats against North Korea brought them to the table; Trump has extended or kept in place crippling sanctions against Russia; Trump has pushed back against Russian influence in the Middle East, especially Syria; Trump has placed pressure on Iran, Russia’s key ally in the Middle East; Trump has sent lethal weapons to the Ukraine, something Obama refused to do; Trump ended the policy of surrendering Syrian airspace to Russia, and; in a direct skirmish with Russian mercenaries in Syria, the US wiped them out. In terms of Russian influence in our electoral process, including 2016, every head of Trump’s intelligence community has confirmed that fact and insist Russia will continue to do so as part of Putin’s international strategy. They have also confirmed that other countries like China, North Korea and Iran are engaged in covert operations against our electoral system. That should come as no surprise- it is what covert operations are all about and we do it also. Despite the narrative of the Democratic Left and their willing patsies in the media, we are, through sanctions and covert operations, taking steps to counter these foreign influences. The Left tries to disconnect these actions by these departments and agencies for political talking points. Yet, they are nevertheless the actions of the Trump administration and Trump appointees. We can question the motivation behind the “good cop/bad cop” game, but it is apparent that Trump is not allowing America to be a patsy to our adversaries. Since the 2016 election, there is the general consensus that Putin and Russia was and continues to be a meddler in US affairs. The reason is to breed dissension, discord, and eventually electoral chaos. Some have come to the conclusion that Putin has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. The politics of the present are being blamed for Chinese recalcitrance in trade talks and intellectual property theft. It is blamed for North Korean slow-walking denuclearization. It is blamed for Russian forays into Venezuela. If Putin wanted to breed dissension, then he has succeeded, but who is to blame? The prevailing narrative among Democrats, the Left and the sycophants in the media place the blame on one person- Donald Trump. It is the radical Left and their known allies who is breeding the dissent, Trump’s alleged bromance with strongmen notwithstanding. The election of 2016 sent shock waves through the ranks of traditional liberals like Hillary and the far Left folks like Bernie. Along the way, it made the media look like fools. So what did the Democrats do? They reached back to 1860 and began a campaign against Trump much like they did in 1860 against the election of Lincoln. Then, they started a war. Now, they do Putin’s bidding. While Obama used the usual platitudes and wished the country well under Trump, the Left was mobilizing through the media, labor, and academia to oppose Trump at every turn. It was constant negativism motivated by a belief that nothing should be done to normalize the Trump presidency. Put another way, the battle cry of the Left and their allies in the Democratic Party was to create political chaos at all costs. It was designed to disrupt Trump from performing his presidential duties and putting into his place his policies which voters wanted. At the high end of their hopes was a Trump resignation or impeachment, something many still hold out for. At the lower end, it was designed to make his reelection a tougher effort than 2016. Looking at these objectives of the Left, we find they dovetail nicely with the objectives of none other than Vladimir Putin. Unlike Putin, they have succeeded in not only undermining Trump, but the presidency itself. Unlike Putin, they have access to the federal court system where they shop for friendly Obama-appointed judges to thwart every policy Trump enacts. Unlike Putin, who had to buy about $100,000 worth of Facebook ads, they have a willing media to go along with the narrative. And unlike Putin, they have Congressional subpoenas at their disposal. Since the 1960’s, the Left has had an authoritarian anti-American strand that is growing more influential as we speak. You have dopes like Ilhan Omar in Congress who blame the failures of socialism in Venezuela on the United States. You have morons like Rashida Tlaib in Congress who blames Israel for a barrage of 700 Hamas rockets aimed at Israel. You have imbeciles like AOC comparing Obama-era detention facilities to Holocaust concentration camps. The American news media like CNN, with their international reach, interprets every Trump action and word in the most negative of lights breeding resentment in foreign countries. They carry Putin’s message to the world. If political chaos and disruption were the goals of Putin and Russia as virtually everyone with an ounce of functional gray matter in their skull concedes, the Leftist Resistance movement deserves a huge thank you card from Putin for doing his bidding. Putin has gotten one helluva bang for his buck. If you are truly concerned about Russian interference in US elections, there is a surefire way to thwart their efforts. Instead of working against Trump, try working with Trump. But, too much hatred has been invested in efforts by the Left to go back now. They are, for lack of a better phrase, a squadron of Russian agents. The post Political Discord? The Left As Russian Agents appeared first on RedState. An American Soldier Protests Nike’s Betsy Ross Sneaker Recall in a Very Special Way As I covered previously, Nike recently recalled a shoe that’d already been sent to stores after former professional football player Colin Kaepernick suggested the Betsy-Ross-flag-adorning footwear could be considered unwokefully racist (here). So history, ya gotta go. But one military man is protesting the protest. Appearing on Fox & Friends, retired marine Johnny “Joey” Jones told the hosts: “You don’t get to control the narrative on everything that is a symbol to this country.” “Colin Kaepernick presented this opportunity to me on a silver platter,” he explained. That “opportunity” was the chance to immortalize the famed Bugs-Bunny-featured flag…on his bicep. The two men do have one thing in common. As reported by The Wallstreet Journal: After images of the shoe were posted online, Mr. Kaepernick, a Nike endorser, reached out to company officials saying that he and others felt the Betsy Ross flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery. As indicated above, Joey considers it a symbol, too: “That flag is absolutely a symbol. It’s a symbol of what people can do in this country. Even in times when they feel oppressed, they can rise above, have a direct impact.” #NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/1vNAFf03HA — Johnny (Joey) Jones (@Johnny_Joey) July 5, 2019 It wasn’t Joey’s first time on Fox — enjoy the segment below, on why veterans loved candidate Trump. And don’t miss Bugs. Relevant RedState links in this article: here. Wow: Tucker Carlson Calls National Security Advisor John Bolton A ‘Bureaucratic Tapeworm’ Woman Fearful For Her Life Turns Over Her Estranged Husband’s Guns To The Cops. She Gets Arrested For Grand Theft President Trump Warns Iran: War Would Bring ‘Obliteration Like You’ve Never Seen Before’ The post An American Soldier Protests Nike’s Betsy Ross Sneaker Recall in a Very Special Way appeared first on RedState. ‘Magic Mike’ Star: Our Son Came Out of the Closet to Us – as Straight in Allow Media Exception, Culture, Entertainment, Featured Story, Front Page Stories, Hollywood, homosexuality, LGBT, News, Press Releases, Television, Uncategorized [Screenshot from RuPaul, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ocag4VqXIU] Here’s something you don’t hear every day. Magic Mike star Matt Bomer is married to a man. And the couple have three sons, the oldest of whom — Kit — is 14. Amid an appearance on RuPaul’s talk show, the usually-private actor opened up. And RuPaul — who’s a super nice guy, by the way — asked Matt: What if his kids were to come out to him…as straight? As it turns out, Kit has indeed done that very thing. Matt told Ru: “Our oldest came out to us as straight. He’s 14. He said, ‘I love and respect that you guys are who you are. I’m straight, that’s how I identify.’ And it was a big, nice, sweet moment.” Ru jokingly replied, “Give him time, Matt. Give him time.” Matt added that, as for their 11-year-old twins, Henry and Walker, “We would be there with open arms” regardless of their sexual identity. Matt came out as gay in 2008, though he already had a family at that point. Times are certainly changing. In days past, straight was considered the default. Now it seems there’s a bit more of an attitude of “either way, just as likely.” Apropos, MTV’s dating show, Are You the One? recently changed its format to a bisexual free-for-all — see much more here. We’re not in 1990 anymore, Toto. South Carolina Woman Gets Pulled Over For Driving Drunk – In A Bad*** Toy Mini-Truck Women’s Olympic Medalist Battles The IAFF In Court – The Planet’s Largest Sports Governing Body Insists He’s A Dude Trump Releases An Absolutely Epic Trolling Video. Brace For Internet Explosion The post ‘Magic Mike’ Star: Our Son Came Out of the Closet to Us – as Straight appeared first on RedState. Ridiculous Roundup: the Media Filled Its Pants Over America’s 4th of July Celebration. Before It Even Happened [Screenshot of MSNBC from Fox News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr1A9Ix3OCo] How ’bout a roundup of ridiculousness? Some among the Left acted a fool over the 4th of July celebration in Washington. If the display had come courtesy of a Democratic leader, I’d say there’s more than a fair chance those among the partisan media would’ve considered it a patriotic salute in the capital and kept the president’s name out of every sentence of discussion. But given their desire to perpetuate a narrative of the spit-fanged dictator losing his mind with mad power as he dashes toward murderous world domination, it wasn’t a parade; it was his parade. It wasn’t a commemoration; it was his commemoration. It wasn’t an atrocity; it was his atrocity. It didn’t honor America; it honored him. To hear them talk, one might assume the planes and tanks and uniforms were covered in those same things with which the bottle rockets painted the sky — our fearless dictator’s name and likeness. On MSNBC, Joy Reid offered this: “What is the message Donald Trump is trying to send by rolling tanks down Constitution Avenue? Who is that message to? It’s certainly not to tyrants, because he likes tyrants. He loves tyrants. … Is it to our friends? Is it to Western democracies — who he doesn’t particularly like. Or is it to us? Is it to the Resistance in this country? ‘I got tanks. I have this military armada.’ The message is a threat.” Yes — someone on the planet actually spoke those words. On TV, no less. As she rolled forward, others on the panel nodded or hummed in agreement. And again I ask: Why must political players make such absurd statements? Why not go with something in the realm of the real? She went on: “[I] hate to say that, but I think that Donald Trump styles himself a tyrant, not a defeater of tyrants.” And she wasn’t alone. Attorney — and chief of staff at both the U.S. Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency under Obama — Jeremy Bash submitted a rather perplexing offering: “[T]his is nauseating…because this isn’t just obnoxious tackiness; this is actually dangerous. Because it’s fundamentally unAmerican.” The whole parade is somehow a show of, not love for America, but Donald Trump’s most personal military might as Mr. BigMan. And Jeremy believes The Donald thinks world leaders see him as weak: “Clearly, Donald Trump wants to transmit a message of his strength because he perceives himself as being seen as weak around the world. Which he is.” If he’s so weak, then how is he dangerous?? From CNN: “This was what — something that the President saw — it was about bolstering himself up. Looking like a dictator from another nation.” It’s incredible how often the talking heads on the boob tube tell us about Donald Trump’s inner thoughts — his intentions, his motivations. That alone is breathtakingly dumb. But dumber still is that those components are so frequently jaw-droppingly sinister. Such dripping evil, from the eccentric billionaire who was loved by the media and sainted in rap songs — until he added an “R” to his name and became an Oval Office contender. Yet many people won’t be aware of all that. They’ll just hear in passing that our leader is a bloodthirsty maniac who may never step down. And their goofiness is marching on. Oh — and did I mention that all of those things were claimed before the parade had even occurred? I’ll write that again: They said all of those things before the celebration had even happened! Enjoy the video above. And check out Gret Gutfeld’s monologue in response the ludicrous characterization of the then-upcoming parade. Conversations between pundits are interesting insofar as they bring different perspectives to the goings-on of the world. But could those across the aisle at least discuss stuff happening in the real world? That seems much more fruitful. As it stands, for some, their fruit is rotten. The post Ridiculous Roundup: the Media Filled Its Pants Over America’s 4th of July Celebration. Before It Even Happened appeared first on RedState. On the Media’s Collusion with Antifa <em>Promoted from the diaries by streiff. Promotion does not imply endorsement.</em> If you had a suspicion that members of the corporate media are actively working to support the actions of Antifa’s more violent members, this story should confirm what you already suspect. Today, conservative activists held the Demand Free Speech Freedom Rally in Washington, D.C. and true to form, Antifa showed up to protest the rally. The hard leftist organization — whose operatives are known for physically assaulting conservatives — descended on Freedom Plaza and some of its members attacked rallygoers in the streets. It is not yet known how much violence occurred at the event, but to those who follow the news, their conduct is not surprising. But what might be surprising to some is the fact that Antifa has managed to obtain the support of the press. Julio Rosas, a reporter, working with The Washington Examiner, revealed that members of the organization barred journalists from taking pictures unless they agreed to the group’s rules. He tweeted a picture of Antifa’s guidelines that laid out the guidelines reporters were expected to follow. While some of the rules were mandates to which journalists already adhere. But the group also requested that journalists, “avoid publishing any potentially incriminating photos or video footage and be prepared to maintain your journalistic integrity if your raw footage, unpublished photos, or notes are sought through subpoena.” To be clear, it is standard ethical practice for journalists to refrain from exposing their sources; some have done so even when threatened with prison. But it is not standard practice for a reporter to actively protect an individual by not publishing pictures that could show them committing a crime. Of course, it is the choice of the particular journalist to decide whether or not to publish pictures or statements made by an individual, but the fact that Antifa directed them not to put out images that could incriminate a member of the group who engaged in politically-motivated violence is disturbing given the fact that the organization is known to have members who physically attack their political opposition. The notion that a member of the press would agree to cover for individuals who deliberately cause harm to those who disagree with them politically should concern Americans on both the left and the right. But it is only the latest indicator that some news outlets are in bed with the group. When right-leaning journalist Andy Ngo was viciously assaulted by members of Antifa, the legacy media was largely silent. But individual reporters working with outlets like The New York Times made their opinions known on social media, many claiming that Ngo deserved his beating. Some even accused him of orchestrating the attack despite the lack of evidence that he was pulling a Smollett. To their credit, CNN made the surprising decision to interview Ngo and host Brian Stelter condemned Antifa’s actions. Unfortunately, they appear to have been the only mainstream left-leaning news outlet to do so. In a piece written for Quillette, an online magazine, author Eoin Lenihan discussed the result of a study in which he and his partner analyzed the relationship between mainstream reporters and Antifa. They found that many members of the press support the extremist group in various ways: “Of all 15 verified national-level journalists in our subset, we couldn’t find a single article, by any of them, that was markedly critical of Antifa in any way. In all cases, their work in this area consisted primarily of downplaying Antifa violence while advancing Antifa talking points, and in some cases quoting Antifa extremists as if they were impartial experts.” There are plenty of examples demonstrating how the corporate media runs cover for Antifa’s antics, and it is only granting validity to these actions. To be fair, there are people in the organization who do not support political violence, and it is likely that many of these individuals would rather not be associated with those who embrace violence. But even if this is the case, these folks will never get the attention of either conservative or leftist media. Unfortunately, the objective of the current media establishment is to influence, not inform, the American public, so it is unlikely that we will see this situation get resolved anytime soon. Hopefully, nobody gets killed by the time this happens. What do you think? Will political violence continue to worsen? If you want to connect, reach out to me on Twitter: @JeffOnTheRight The post On the Media’s Collusion with Antifa appeared first on RedState. Sign the Petition to include the Citizenship Question! There has been a petition established on the White House site just today, to include the citizenship question for the Census. Click on the link below, fill out the form. You’ll get a verification e-mail. click on that link and you’re done! I’m not an attorney and it’s been quite a while since I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, but it would seem that if the petition meets the threshold, then President Trump could then go back to the spineless Chief Justice and say the following: Mr Chief Justice, you’ve opined that the question is constitutional, but you just didn’t like the reasoning. Fine. Here’s (number of petition signers) reasons. Mic Drop. Here’s the link Hat tip to Dr Thomas Lifson over at American Thinker. 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The mandatory training applies to companies with 50 or more employees, we have nine women and four men on staff. Nevertheless we decided to do the training. Both managers and employees are required to participate in these training courses. The product is very good and a great value if you’re a member of the CalChamber. During the course of the training classes it occurred to me of just how much of a “nanny state” this state is becoming. Nanny state is a term of British origin that conveys a view that a government or its policies are overprotective or interfering unduly with personal choice. The term “nanny state” likens government to the role that a nanny has in child rearing. An early usage of the term comes from Conservative British Prime Minister Iain Macleod who referred to “what I like to call the nanny state” in the December 3, 1965 edition of The Spectator. Yes, mandatory sexual harassment training and sick leave…it’s all just more state mandated requirements…make no mistake – its getting tougher and tougher to be an employer in this state and many that are able …are packing up and leaving. WSTA/AADT Employment Notices in breakroom area. There are now so many requirements that small businesses need to hire a full-time HR manager to keep up with all of it! If there is a good example of how out of control this has all become it’s in our office breakroom and is called a 2016 California & Federal “Employment Notices.” I find it both interesting and disturbing that the large paper notices that employers must post in a general access area of the office are getting not only bigger in size (we’re running out of wall space) but because laws are changing all the time these have to be replaced two or three times a year. It’s ridiculous! At our staff meeting prior to the sexual harassment training, we discussed the sick leave program problem we now have. The state and its dysfunctional democratically controlled legislature – much like the book “The gang that can’t ever shoot straight” (A funny Jimmy Breslin book from 1969 and movie which followed) is a modern metaphor of “political incompetence”! As well intended as it tries to be, this state’s legislative party in control inevitably screws-up virtually everything it gets involved with. Last year the state implemented (effective this year) a mandatory 3 day or 24 hour sick leave policy that is so confusing it takes legal counsel to figure it out. Companies such as ours which were offering all employees up to 9 sick days a year have to change their program entirely. We are now forced to track and maintain a “California sick leave program for 3-days” and a separate other “3-day” sick or PTO program. The bottom line is that in the end we are going to cut 3 sick days out of the program…..typical unintended consequences. Instead of exempting any company that already offered three or more sick days from the program, now all those companies are being forced to do something far more burdensome and like us I’ll bet are cutting back. Great job you morons! California lawmakers continually try to control what their constituents can eat, drink, play and work. But the data shows Americans and Californians don’t want to be nannied. Hopefully, lawmakers would ease up and understand this! AB 2405 (Asm. Mike Gatto, D – Burbank/43rd Dis.) As I was finalizing the article on Nanny State issues, wouldn’t you know it, a “new” bill AB 2405 popped up in the Assembly Labor Committee with a support vote of 4-2! This bill would give parents 3 paid days off for attending events associated with their children’s education. For now the bill would only apply to businesses with 25 or more employees. Opponents aren’t arguing with the intent of the bill, the California Chamber of Commerce said companies are already struggling, as many don’t currently have a paid leave policy. Businesses are already struggling to comply with three days of paid sick leave and numerous other forms of protective leave. California is one of 11 states that provide up to 40 hours of unpaid leave for school activities. Employers Claim LA City 6-Day Sick-leave Measure is a Job-Killer! City based businesses and groups reacted angrily to a law tentatively passed April 19 by the Los Angeles City Council that would allow employees (of all business located there) in the city to take six paid sick days a year, twice what the state requires. The new policy comes months after the city passed one of the highest minimum wages in the state. California’s very confusing law mandates employees can take up to three sick days, but with Tuesday’s vote, workers in Los Angeles would be allocated six days. Smaller businesses of 25 workers or less will have an extra 12 months to implement the sick-day policy, which is expected to go into effect later this year. Opponents say it’s a job-killer and is another of many business-unfriendly policy decisions passed by the City Council, which also backed a $15 minimum wage last year. The City Council voted 13-1 for the new law, with City Councilman Mitch Englander casting the lone “no” vote. The law, which now will be written by Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer must return to the council for a final vote. Los Angeles joins several other cities in setting its own sick-leave policy. Philadelphia, for instance, requires five days of sick leave a year. More than 650,000 workers in Los Angeles are expected to be impacted by the law, according to a 2015 study by the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Supporters argue the policy helps struggling families. Employees shouldn’t have to “choose between caring for a sick child and showing up for work,” said Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian. Port of Oakland Stake Holder Letter – 6/21/2019June 22, 2019 - 4:28 pm Letter Opposing SB 210 Unless Amended – 05/22/19May 25, 2019 - 5:17 pm Letter from Port Commissioners, Howard Terminal – 5/15/2019May 23, 2019 - 5:11 pm Article Post by Month Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm (PST) 334 N. Euclid Avenue Upland, CA 91786-6031 Public Works Contractors: Renew Registration Starting May 1April 24, 2019 - 1:32 pm I’m Independent Coalition – 4/13/19 UpdateApril 16, 2019 - 1:24 pm © Copyright 2019 Western States Trucking Association (WSTA). All Rights Reserved Certifications Can Help Grow Your Business DIR Newsline: DIR Posts Prevailing Wage Changes for Public Works Projects That...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line1862

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